As far as I know, oral sex is still illegal in Mass. The problem remains: if something is done privately without directly harming another, how do you stop it?
Even if congress makes this happen, how long will it be before a more anonymous p2p client (a la free net) replaces kazaa as the most used protocol?
I give it two weeks before technology supercedes legality once again.
As for the RIAA and their political lapdogs, I would love to see them try to take their entire consumer base to court:
*envisions some minimum wage clerk getting a 300-page stack of IP numbers*
"now serve subpoenas!"
lol
Just spent 4 years in Computer Arts school. Here's the bibliophile
equivalent:
Creating Motion Graphics (After effects)
Photoshop for Dummies (yea yeah I know, but this one really is well written)
ActionScript: the definitive guide Colin Moock (for programming
interactivity in Flash)
Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color Leatrice Eiseman (Color
theory important)
Flash Math Creativity Friends of Ed
JavaScript: the definitive guide
I would also recommend browsing around your local bookstore's typography
/ design section and just picking up whatever books mirror your aesthetics,
these things are subjective.
And the magazines:
Wired (great graphic design)
Adbusters (same as above, and will make you remember what is fucked up right
now)
So we have the bottom 1% of morality (spammers) feeding off of the bottom 1% of intelligence. If only there were some way to get these two groups together and leave us out of the loop =)
Buying from spammers is almost as bad as spamming.
There is a certain amount of truth to this... I heard somewhere that youth culture is cyclical... perhaps the 2010's will yield more activism. I blame "cool" apathy. That detached generation X-ish look that has been promoted in all media for the last decade.
I blame the uber-PC view: "Be accepting of everyone and everything that is different." We have been trained not to care. No wonder everyone is so detached no one cares, everyone accepts. It's a mandate enforced and reinforced through 12--16 years of societal-normalization camp, err... I mean school... It's fallout from the 60's, and it doesn't taste as good 4 decades later.
Then there's all the messages being broadcast directly into our frontal lobes by large corporate sponsors. "Good consumer... good boy! sit, stay, be happy, buy stuff." Almost all of the urgent messages that bombard us are of no real importance. The real important stuff is mysteriously absent from the news... unless it somehow has to do with 9/11. You have to blow up a building or no one cares. What a sad world.
I wish I could make everyone read No Logo and Fast food nation. At least peruse Adbusters. *sigh*
I can only hope they adopt such measures in the united states. Even my quarrantined e-mail accounts get spam leaks and, like cockroaches, once you see one "Get hard, stay hard!" e-mail there's always more.
I often wonder who these spammers are. What made then see thier souls? I mean no one likes junk e-mails. Did they open thier AOL accounts one day, see the 100+ messages telling them to buy useless shit, get all dowey-eyed, and then have the epipheny that that's their meaning in life?
They have cut on the line to hell, right in front of the lawyers, meter maids, and IRS agents. With the click of a button they waste thousands of man hours and decrease the mood of far more people than they will ever meet.
Well if you don't care about a diploma and just want to learn to do it you can always just buy a fat stack of O'reilly books from amazon. Keep in mind that a BA is a good thing to have, it removes the glass ceiling and gives you a nice header for your resume.
Another option is to get all of your liberal arts out of the way at your local community college, and then transfer to a more prestigious and probably more expensive school to round out your BA requirements and get all your CS classes. (I don't know how it is where you are, but here in CA I think it's something like $5 a unit at a CC)
a vaporizer to preserver her lung capacity. It essentially heats up the cannabis to a high enough temparature to boil off all the THC, but not hot enough to burn out the carcinogens. That means no negative side effects besides the usual slight fogginess
fake id
a combonation locked box to hide all her contraband in. (invaluable in the dorms)
condoms
a good book on sex, it still amazes me how ignorant most people are about the most fun thing you can do, and especially college students. Multiple orgasms are the gifts that keep on giving.
send her the link to the Lycaeum so that if she does decide to experiment with other drugs she is well informed of the effects and conscequences.
a black light and a strobe light
if she is a geek gal, all the o'reilly books you can get your hands on
a computer locking kit to anchor her stuff to the desk so it won't be stolen. They are at most computer stores.
incense + holder
a big fucking subwoofer for the day
headphones for at night
a cart, because the supermarket is never close enough (unless she has a car)
And around finals, send her a case of energy drinks. She will thank you.
That's all I can think of. I'm in my senior year now and these things served me well. I wish this gal a plesant trip through acadamia.
The prices I got were current pricewatch ones. Hardly compUSA prices.
I know MS has made the parts manufacturers "offers they can't refuse," and get deep discounts... However, I think that today's pricewatch prices are quite low compared to wholesale when the Xbox went into production a year or so ago. I guarantee they are not making bank off of those consoles and are probably selling them at a loss. Quite a loss if they're used for number crunching rather than buying Xbox titles.
Still, if you went to build your own boxes with the same specs at any retail chain it would cost substantially more than even the prices I quoted.
Silly misinformed flamer at that...
25 celerons rendering at tandem will be extremely fast...
And as for microsoft, the standard of console design is to sell the hardware at a loss and make
all the money back by forcing you to buy games for a proprietary platform...
Do the math.
$90 GeForce 3 +
$85 733-megahertz (MHz) Intel Pentium III +
$50 (estimate) mobo +
$20 8GB HDD +
$20 NIC +
$20 3D sound card
$30 DVD-ROM
$8 64MB ram
_______________
$323 total. I believe they retail for $199 now
and that's not counting the costs of cabling and controllers... MS will be reamed if modding becomes commonplace... hehe. Score one for the almighty h4x0r.
Brain to wireless networking bridge (as seen in the Matrix
or Ghost in the Shell, but wireless)
I hate how low bandwith spoken language currently is. It takes forever to
upload my ideas into others' heads.
One of those IBM micro-drives with a database interface built in.
never forget a name or face! Play Counterstrike anytime, anywhere.
24/7 net access another perk of the NIC in my nervous system...
an older CPU (celeron perhaps?) Pass advanced calculus in about a week. Older because I don't want
any overheating issues... What's that smell
A vibrating, mildly electrically charged penis because I can.
And Finally... P2P (pleasure to pleasure) protocol. fully compatible with the previous device. Get your bionic babe's
body and mind off at the same time!
On that note, if there are any bionocists in the house please add me to your
waiting list as soon as it's post-beta. Thank you. *g*
Before I start, let me say I'm a little biased. I'm in my last year in the Computer Arts: New Media department at the Academy of Art College.
It's not that computers can't make as much of a visual impact or show the expression or emotion of older media. After all, look at communicative art in magazines, on billboards, or on TV. The most popular media have already chosen the computer.
The problem is that in fine art circles it's all about quantification. Digital art can be reproduced infinatly without any loss, so it will never, ever be as valuable as a Picasso. And if the art itself is not valuable it doesn't fit into the art gallery and patrons model used to sell most fine art. No one will pay for it.
The only way to make money as a digital artist or graphic designer is on comission, and that means ads, layout, and generally selling stuff. Less room for that free expression.
I say that the computer is definitly a tool for art, probably the most versatile. But you probably won't see computer artists producing fine art type pieces any time soon unless your paintings start coming with licencing agreements =)
Slashdot Mirror
I give it two weeks before technology supercedes legality once again.
As for the RIAA and their political lapdogs, I would love to see them try to take their entire consumer base to court:
*envisions some minimum wage clerk getting a 300-page stack of IP numbers*
"now serve subpoenas!"
lol
Just spent 4 years in Computer Arts school. Here's the bibliophile equivalent:
I would also recommend browsing around your local bookstore's typography / design section and just picking up whatever books mirror your aesthetics, these things are subjective.
And the magazines:
The URL's:
*check bitrate, filesize, download from other source.*
Eat it RIAA! w00t!
So we have the bottom 1% of morality (spammers) feeding off of the bottom 1% of intelligence. If only there were some way to get these two groups together and leave us out of the loop =)
Buying from spammers is almost as bad as spamming.
There is a certain amount of truth to this... I heard somewhere that youth culture is cyclical... perhaps the 2010's will yield more activism. I blame "cool" apathy. That detached generation X-ish look that has been promoted in all media for the last decade.
I blame the uber-PC view: "Be accepting of everyone and everything that is different." We have been trained not to care. No wonder everyone is so detached no one cares, everyone accepts. It's a mandate enforced and reinforced through 12--16 years of societal-normalization camp, err... I mean school... It's fallout from the 60's, and it doesn't taste as good 4 decades later.
Then there's all the messages being broadcast directly into our frontal lobes by large corporate sponsors. "Good consumer... good boy! sit, stay, be happy, buy stuff." Almost all of the urgent messages that bombard us are of no real importance. The real important stuff is mysteriously absent from the news... unless it somehow has to do with 9/11. You have to blow up a building or no one cares. What a sad world.
I wish I could make everyone read No Logo and Fast food nation. At least peruse Adbusters. *sigh*
I'm glad Slashdot exists.
I can only hope they adopt such measures in the united states. Even my quarrantined e-mail accounts get spam leaks and, like cockroaches, once you see one "Get hard, stay hard!" e-mail there's always more.
I often wonder who these spammers are. What made then see thier souls? I mean no one likes junk e-mails. Did they open thier AOL accounts one day, see the 100+ messages telling them to buy useless shit, get all dowey-eyed, and then have the epipheny that that's their meaning in life?
They have cut on the line to hell, right in front of the lawyers, meter maids, and IRS agents. With the click of a button they waste thousands of man hours and decrease the mood of far more people than they will ever meet.
If karma exists, it would be legal to hunt them.
Well if you don't care about a diploma and just want to learn to do it you can always just buy a fat stack of O'reilly books from amazon. Keep in mind that a BA is a good thing to have, it removes the glass ceiling and gives you a nice header for your resume.
Another option is to get all of your liberal arts out of the way at your local community college, and then transfer to a more prestigious and probably more expensive school to round out your BA requirements and get all your CS classes. (I don't know how it is where you are, but here in CA I think it's something like $5 a unit at a CC)
- a vaporizer to preserver her lung capacity. It essentially heats up the cannabis to a high enough temparature to boil off all the THC, but not hot enough to burn out the carcinogens. That means no negative side effects besides the usual slight fogginess
- fake id
- a combonation locked box to hide all her contraband in. (invaluable in the dorms)
- condoms
- a good book on sex, it still amazes me how ignorant most people are about the most fun thing you can do, and especially college students. Multiple orgasms are the gifts that keep on giving.
- send her the link to the Lycaeum so that if she does decide to experiment with other drugs she is well informed of the effects and conscequences.
- a black light and a strobe light
- if she is a geek gal, all the o'reilly books you can get your hands on
- a computer locking kit to anchor her stuff to the desk so it won't be stolen. They are at most computer stores.
- incense + holder
- a big fucking subwoofer for the day
- headphones for at night
- a cart, because the supermarket is never close enough (unless she has a car)
- And around finals, send her a case of energy drinks. She will thank you.
That's all I can think of. I'm in my senior year now and these things served me well. I wish this gal a plesant trip through acadamia.I know MS has made the parts manufacturers "offers they can't refuse," and get deep discounts... However, I think that today's pricewatch prices are quite low compared to wholesale when the Xbox went into production a year or so ago. I guarantee they are not making bank off of those consoles and are probably selling them at a loss. Quite a loss if they're used for number crunching rather than buying Xbox titles.
Still, if you went to build your own boxes with the same specs at any retail chain it would cost substantially more than even the prices I quoted.
Actually it's a Pentium 3 733mhz. Even better *g*
And as for microsoft, the standard of console design is to sell the hardware at a loss and make all the money back by forcing you to buy games for a proprietary platform...
Do the math.
$90 GeForce 3 +
$85 733-megahertz (MHz) Intel Pentium III +
$50 (estimate) mobo +
$20 8GB HDD +
$20 NIC +
$20 3D sound card
$30 DVD-ROM
$8 64MB ram
_______________
$323 total. I believe they retail for $199 now
and that's not counting the costs of cabling and controllers... MS will be reamed if modding becomes commonplace... hehe. Score one for the almighty h4x0r.
Damn it... Every time I come up with a good idea, someone else has already done it!
I have been batting around something similar in my mind for a long time...
Do you have any references or url's that we could peruse by chance?
built into my retina
I hate how low bandwith spoken language currently is. It takes forever to upload my ideas into others' heads.
never forget a name or face! Play Counterstrike anytime, anywhere.
another perk of the NIC in my nervous system...
Pass advanced calculus in about a week. Older because I don't want any overheating issues... What's that smell
because I can.
fully compatible with the previous device. Get your bionic babe's body and mind off at the same time!
On that note, if there are any bionocists in the house please add me to your waiting list as soon as it's post-beta. Thank you. *g*
Before I start, let me say I'm a little biased. I'm in my last year in the Computer Arts: New Media department at the Academy of Art College.
It's not that computers can't make as much of a visual impact or show the expression or emotion of older media. After all, look at communicative art in magazines, on billboards, or on TV. The most popular media have already chosen the computer.
The problem is that in fine art circles it's all about quantification. Digital art can be reproduced infinatly without any loss, so it will never, ever be as valuable as a Picasso. And if the art itself is not valuable it doesn't fit into the art gallery and patrons model used to sell most fine art. No one will pay for it.
The only way to make money as a digital artist or graphic designer is on comission, and that means ads, layout, and generally selling stuff. Less room for that free expression.
I say that the computer is definitly a tool for art, probably the most versatile. But you probably won't see computer artists producing fine art type pieces any time soon unless your paintings start coming with licencing agreements =)
GPL that Worhol!