Workers compensation officer: How exactly did you get hurt?
Man: God smote me down
Boss: Don't mind Bob he's still a little shellshocked. He was struck by a meteorite. Or is that meteor. Was it a meteorite once it hit the roof or was it only a meteorite once it hit Bob?
Workers compensation officer: Well then if he can't even tell what hit him, we can't pay him can we?
An upside-down triangle? What does that even mean? I didn't know triangles had a "right " way up. A triangle is simply a triangle, whatever its orientation....and yet I bet you understood exactly what I was saying.
The other poster is correct. It's a matter of convention.
Were you just trying to troll, or were you genuinely trying to make a point? Either way thanks for demonstrating how broken the moderation is around here. You got modded informative.
For those of you that don't understand the reference Tasmania is a state of Australia that is an island and shaped something like an upsidedown triangle. "Show us your map of Tassie" is slang and translates to "show us your pubic hair".
Am I a pirate because I rip my DVDs for portability so that my children can't break the original DVD? Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
Did you have to circumvent anti-copying mesures such as the encryption on the DVD? If so as far as the law is concerned (and certainly as far as the movie studios and distributors are concerned) you are a filthy pirate. Now is this right? I'd argue not, but the law is a different matter and the law is clear.
Anyone not convinced of the harm excessive copyright does to society should read Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants. It's truly saddening to see the direction all this stuff is going.
I'm sorry but I didn't find that story at all engaging and I love sci fi. So not only is this not for "anyone" but I'd argue it's not even for most slashdotters.
Most people won't touch sci-fi with a barge pole and will consider it a geeky propeller head argument. The story would actually turn them off. In fact I'd say asking someone who isn't into sci-fi to read sci-fi for a better grasp of the moral of the story will be put off both sci-fi and the moral you're trying to convey.
If I had a buck for every ask slashdot that basically requested a tutorial on how to do a high level job, I'd be rich. If you don't have the experience or skill to do a job, don't take it on, or at least don't come to strangers with such broad questions. Get an education, get some training, or get a mentor. The last thing you need is a bunch of strangers of varying skill levels and qualifications giving very polarised opinions and telling you how to do your job when they have no stake it in whether you do well.
Or do they weasel their way into spending $1M on anti-"Piracy" propaganda instead? "Look we're spending money educating the children!"
However as I'm sure others will point out, Sony shareholders will only lose pocket money in lost profits (or alternately perhaps the execs can make do with 16 hookers at the corporate retreat instead of 20 this year). Boo-hoo.
Yeah! I didn't read the article or the summary and I can tell you I have the following strong opinion: There's no need for breathalizers for computers because if I pour alochol onto my computer it would short out. Therefore to determine if a computer has had alcohol just try and switch it on. If the power comes on and it boots, it hasn't had anything to drink.
That sucks. I'm glad I have a couple of WRT54GL boxes, because I can easily see the entire range being dumped if the FSF wins. It's a lose lose sort of situation. FSF has talked to CISCO about this repeatedly and there has been no resolution. Now CISCO refuses to talk so the FSF has to persue the matter or else allow the GPL be flouted. If it persues the matter CISCO/Linksys may well just dump the products but if it doesn't there's a very bad precedent set for the GPL being abused, and FSF has no teeth in any similar situtions.
I'd be surprised if the routers aren't simply pulled if the FSF does win. Damn it I love my WRT54GL. Most reliable and flexible router I've owned.
Dude that's a hell of a long time to bear a grudge. If you did the same with all companies I doubt you'd be able to find a single one that you could buy from.
I've made the mistake of dealing with Apple twice more since then.
1. iPods for my wife and I. Hers was scratched when she got it but luckily Apple had just gotten bad publicity for not allowing returns to department stores and the consumer watchdog got involved so she did get a straight replacement. Mine has had a click wheel that works sometimes and doesn't at others. Never bothered to get it fixed again due to repair policies.
The other time I didn't buy, it was my employer and the eMac they bought died after just a few weeks. It was unpleasant dealing with Apple customer support.
People always tell me I've held this grudge too long but Apple has never given me a reason to let it die. Each time I deal with that company I wish I hadn't.
enormity of the technological leap they made from MacOS to OS X
You're taking the Mickey right? It's based on BSD.
But for some people, "cool" and "hip" carry a certain monetary value, and who am I to argue with that.
When people try to convince other people that something is worth more and can do more for them than it actually can, I'll argue.
If some people want to give Steve Jobs their hard-earned dollars then more power to them.
Meanwhile people who buy based on the recommendations of friends are screwed and superior solutions die off as they become unprofitable. People must be allowed to buy what they want, but they must also be given accurate facts to make their purchases on.
C'mon, let's be fair here. They did change, and they did get a hell of a lot better
C'mon, you be fair. What did they really do. Put see through cases on their computers and start designing things that were as thin as possible?
Is the iPod really THAT great? I have a 30gig video model and the wheel has always stuck (warranty repair with Apple being a nightmare I've never bothered sending it in) and as your music collection grows you realize the click wheel interface isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
That has nothing to do with whether or not you create good products, which I will admit some of Apple's are. Can you use a Zune or a Sansa MP3 player instead of an iPod? Sure you can. Can you use a normal cell phone instead of an iPhone? Of course. That doesn't mean that the iPod and iPhone (or OS X or whatever) are not good products, whether they're hyped or not. Look past the hype and make up your own mind.
I have. They are DRM encumbered garbage with battery and radio reception problems. Do I really care about the touch screen if my phone won't act as a fucking phone?
...at which time Apple will either abandon that particular market, or jump on the open source band wagon while Apple fans pat themselves on the back for being flexible and forward thinking. Why would they give up 7 years worth of profit and reverse current trends. Apple have continually tried to close off their hardware. Look at the latest generation of iPods which attempt to prevent users from loading alternate firmware. In any case who knows what will change in 7 years. It'd take them all of 3-6 months to open source if they choose to do so at a later date. For right now I don't see it happening.
Karma be damned. Apple is just not a nice company. I got screwed over in the 1980s when Apple decided to stop selling their software in department stores. My parents had just bought me an overpriced Apple IIe and here I was, a kid who would have to spend hours getting to the nearest Apple dealer to buy software.
People talk about how Apple changed when Steve Jobs came back but I don't see much change. It seems to me that Apple have always been more about marketing and hype than about empowering their users. If you believe the hype everything they do is stylish, bugs are rare, rare events, and the hardware is so reliable that if you have a problem you must be misusing it. The reality I have experienced has been very different.
you can't sue - there is probably no 'standing' as the kids are not full adults and essentially have NO rights when inside schoolgrounds.
She's misinforming the children and publicly spreading falsehoods about his business that are detrimental to it. That is what he can sue her for, not for banning linux in her classroom.
"At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful"
The law isn't just there for assholes to misuse. She's calling him a thief and accusing him of corrupting children. She's also hindering his business and bringing his him into disrepute. I think it would make an interesting case and that it would have merit even if he didn't win.
To the best of my knowledge she's got every right to choose to keep Linux out of the classroom if the laws and regulations of her school, district, state etc. give her that power. However she has no right dictating what software the children use after hours or what their political views should be. So get a parent or two involved as well/
Of course you could use this as an opportunity to demonstrate that she's wrong, but you're not going to win her over, and if you did you'd have won one hell of a prize ally.
There have been two big news items about child porn regulations 'gone wild' recently - this, and that business in the UK about images on Wikipedia. It was hard to trump the UK's absurd regulation, but Australia did it!
Also in the news here in Aus was something even crazier:
Just like Acrobat Reader, the real innovation will be a user interface with options that don't stick, and invasive phone home auto-update technology that is difficult or impossible to switch off. It'll be a time machine allowing you to see just how little Adobe have changed over the years.
Great. And your health care costs will rise commensurately.
Yes, because industries that have been able to automate have had their prices skyrocket. Like the car industry. Nope. Or the toy industry. Nope. Food manufacture. Um, nope. Mining? Nope.
Though I have no idea what you mean with regards to automation in diagnostics? How the heck do you suggest that this happen given that diagnosis is largely a directed interview with a person augmented by a few elements of the physical exam and sometimes a few lab or imaging studies?
I'm talking about expert systems. Not the kind that try to replace a doctor. The kind that asks a few questions and suggests some possible diseases that fit most of the symptoms. If a doctor had guessed similar to the expert system, excellent, he can be confident he's on the right track. If some of the suggestions are rarer or not on the doctor's radar, it's one more thing to consider if they wish to.
I would love the medical Tricorder that they have on Star Trek, but as yet I haven't found that ap for my GPhone.
Funny I thought you were more interested in having a toxic tone and being filled with bile and irony.
And that is easy to work out retrospectively. Not so much prospectively. Getting your turkey sandwich with cheese, tomato, and a side of OJ can kill a dialysis patient. So is delivering the right tray to Ms Smith in 201B rather than Ms Jones in 202B a 'big thing' or a 'petty thing'?
It's a matter of context. There are lots of situations in which diet are critical for a patient. My wife has an anaphylactic reaction to food and you should see the hoops she has to jump through to to the dieticians in hospital that she would rather I supplied her food because they're likely to get it wrong and kill her. (We're not talking about simply avoiding nut products here. Her food allergies are complex and difficult to manage)
So diet in a patient marked with special dietary needs is NOT a petty thing, but for many patients it is. This is true of anything put into a patient's body which is why a patient with allergies gets a nice red wrist band to warn the nurse.
Again the real world may not be simple but it CAN be managed. A defeatist attitude and a ton of sarcasm do NOT help.
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Earth wants its blankie! Elmo can't have it.
Workers compensation officer: How exactly did you get hurt?
Man: God smote me down
Boss: Don't mind Bob he's still a little shellshocked. He was struck by a meteorite. Or is that meteor. Was it a meteorite once it hit the roof or was it only a meteorite once it hit Bob?
Workers compensation officer: Well then if he can't even tell what hit him, we can't pay him can we?
Man: God smote me down, I tell you!
An upside-down triangle? What does that even mean? I didn't know triangles had a "right " way up. A triangle is simply a triangle, whatever its orientation. ...and yet I bet you understood exactly what I was saying.
The other poster is correct. It's a matter of convention.
Were you just trying to troll, or were you genuinely trying to make a point? Either way thanks for demonstrating how broken the moderation is around here. You got modded informative.
For those of you that don't understand the reference Tasmania is a state of Australia that is an island and shaped something like an upsidedown triangle. "Show us your map of Tassie" is slang and translates to "show us your pubic hair".
Jurassic Park, E.T., and Star Wars Episodes I, III and IV. Meesa think your argument not holding water.
Oh yes, people watched these movies for the deep seeded moral of the story, not the action or special effects...
But they you're quoting in an immitation of Jar Jar means you're too far gone to get it.
Next, as a double dare to the Geek community, they'll make Star Trek and Star Wars unrippable! This is war!
Did anyone else initially read "this is warf" or is it because I just woke up?
Am I a pirate because I rip my DVDs for portability so that my children can't break the original DVD?
Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
Did you have to circumvent anti-copying mesures such as the encryption on the DVD? If so as far as the law is concerned (and certainly as far as the movie studios and distributors are concerned) you are a filthy pirate. Now is this right? I'd argue not, but the law is a different matter and the law is clear.
Anyone not convinced of the harm excessive copyright does to society should read Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants. It's truly saddening to see the direction all this stuff is going.
I'm sorry but I didn't find that story at all engaging and I love sci fi. So not only is this not for "anyone" but I'd argue it's not even for most slashdotters.
Most people won't touch sci-fi with a barge pole and will consider it a geeky propeller head argument. The story would actually turn them off. In fact I'd say asking someone who isn't into sci-fi to read sci-fi for a better grasp of the moral of the story will be put off both sci-fi and the moral you're trying to convey.
If I had a buck for every ask slashdot that basically requested a tutorial on how to do a high level job, I'd be rich. If you don't have the experience or skill to do a job, don't take it on, or at least don't come to strangers with such broad questions. Get an education, get some training, or get a mentor. The last thing you need is a bunch of strangers of varying skill levels and qualifications giving very polarised opinions and telling you how to do your job when they have no stake it in whether you do well.
Or do they weasel their way into spending $1M on anti-"Piracy" propaganda instead? "Look we're spending money educating the children!"
However as I'm sure others will point out, Sony shareholders will only lose pocket money in lost profits (or alternately perhaps the execs can make do with 16 hookers at the corporate retreat instead of 20 this year). Boo-hoo.
Yeah I still love that movie. A fairytale for geeks^H^H^H^H^Hcomputers
Good job managing to misread the summary.
Yeah! I didn't read the article or the summary and I can tell you I have the following strong opinion: There's no need for breathalizers for computers because if I pour alochol onto my computer it would short out. Therefore to determine if a computer has had alcohol just try and switch it on. If the power comes on and it boots, it hasn't had anything to drink.
That sucks. I'm glad I have a couple of WRT54GL boxes, because I can easily see the entire range being dumped if the FSF wins. It's a lose lose sort of situation. FSF has talked to CISCO about this repeatedly and there has been no resolution. Now CISCO refuses to talk so the FSF has to persue the matter or else allow the GPL be flouted. If it persues the matter CISCO/Linksys may well just dump the products but if it doesn't there's a very bad precedent set for the GPL being abused, and FSF has no teeth in any similar situtions.
I'd be surprised if the routers aren't simply pulled if the FSF does win. Damn it I love my WRT54GL. Most reliable and flexible router I've owned.
Dude that's a hell of a long time to bear a grudge. If you did the same with all companies I doubt you'd be able to find a single one that you could buy from.
I've made the mistake of dealing with Apple twice more since then.
1. iPods for my wife and I. Hers was scratched when she got it but luckily Apple had just gotten bad publicity for not allowing returns to department stores and the consumer watchdog got involved so she did get a straight replacement. Mine has had a click wheel that works sometimes and doesn't at others. Never bothered to get it fixed again due to repair policies.
The other time I didn't buy, it was my employer and the eMac they bought died after just a few weeks. It was unpleasant dealing with Apple customer support.
People always tell me I've held this grudge too long but Apple has never given me a reason to let it die. Each time I deal with that company I wish I hadn't.
It's now reasonably mature.
It will give them skills they'll be able to actually apply in a few years.
The standard graphics library is good for simple stuff.
It runs on a whole stack of different platforms (even if you end up with write once test everywhere at least its write once)
They could progress to an internship
It'll teach them Object orientation
It's C like and opens up a whole world of C like languages
Once you get over a few bits of syntax like { = begin, } = end, good code is easy to read
enormity of the technological leap they made from MacOS to OS X
You're taking the Mickey right? It's based on BSD.
But for some people, "cool" and "hip" carry a certain monetary value, and who am I to argue with that.
When people try to convince other people that something is worth more and can do more for them than it actually can, I'll argue.
If some people want to give Steve Jobs their hard-earned dollars then more power to them.
Meanwhile people who buy based on the recommendations of friends are screwed and superior solutions die off as they become unprofitable. People must be allowed to buy what they want, but they must also be given accurate facts to make their purchases on.
C'mon, let's be fair here. They did change, and they did get a hell of a lot better
C'mon, you be fair. What did they really do. Put see through cases on their computers and start designing things that were as thin as possible?
Is the iPod really THAT great? I have a 30gig video model and the wheel has always stuck (warranty repair with Apple being a nightmare I've never bothered sending it in) and as your music collection grows you realize the click wheel interface isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
That has nothing to do with whether or not you create good products, which I will admit some of Apple's are. Can you use a Zune or a Sansa MP3 player instead of an iPod? Sure you can. Can you use a normal cell phone instead of an iPhone? Of course. That doesn't mean that the iPod and iPhone (or OS X or whatever) are not good products, whether they're hyped or not. Look past the hype and make up your own mind.
I have. They are DRM encumbered garbage with battery and radio reception problems. Do I really care about the touch screen if my phone won't act as a fucking phone?
...at which time Apple will either abandon that particular market, or jump on the open source band wagon while Apple fans pat themselves on the back for being flexible and forward thinking. Why would they give up 7 years worth of profit and reverse current trends. Apple have continually tried to close off their hardware. Look at the latest generation of iPods which attempt to prevent users from loading alternate firmware. In any case who knows what will change in 7 years. It'd take them all of 3-6 months to open source if they choose to do so at a later date. For right now I don't see it happening.
Karma be damned. Apple is just not a nice company. I got screwed over in the 1980s when Apple decided to stop selling their software in department stores. My parents had just bought me an overpriced Apple IIe and here I was, a kid who would have to spend hours getting to the nearest Apple dealer to buy software.
People talk about how Apple changed when Steve Jobs came back but I don't see much change. It seems to me that Apple have always been more about marketing and hype than about empowering their users. If you believe the hype everything they do is stylish, bugs are rare, rare events, and the hardware is so reliable that if you have a problem you must be misusing it. The reality I have experienced has been very different.
you can't sue - there is probably no 'standing' as the kids are not full adults and essentially have NO rights when inside schoolgrounds.
She's misinforming the children and publicly spreading falsehoods about his business that are detrimental to it. That is what he can sue her for, not for banning linux in her classroom.
"At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful"
The law isn't just there for assholes to misuse. She's calling him a thief and accusing him of corrupting children. She's also hindering his business and bringing his him into disrepute. I think it would make an interesting case and that it would have merit even if he didn't win.
To the best of my knowledge she's got every right to choose to keep Linux out of the classroom if the laws and regulations of her school, district, state etc. give her that power. However she has no right dictating what software the children use after hours or what their political views should be. So get a parent or two involved as well/
Of course you could use this as an opportunity to demonstrate that she's wrong, but you're not going to win her over, and if you did you'd have won one hell of a prize ally.
while(strcmp(image(man),image(god)))
{
free(man);
man=(man_t*)malloc(sizeof(man_t));
}
bless(man);
bless: fatal error 42 - man is null.
What you don't think God would check his return codes?
I would've liked to see it done with triangles... complex polygons just feels a bit like cheating. Not that it isn't super cool
Here it is done with 914400 tiny coloured pixe^H^H^H^Hrectangles:
http://avline.abacusline.co.uk/pictures/jpeg/pics/mona.jpg
There have been two big news items about child porn regulations 'gone wild' recently - this, and that business in the UK about images on Wikipedia. It was hard to trump the UK's absurd regulation, but Australia did it!
Also in the news here in Aus was something even crazier:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/internet-video-nightmare/2008/12/08/1228584709781.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Just like Acrobat Reader, the real innovation will be a user interface with options that don't stick, and invasive phone home auto-update technology that is difficult or impossible to switch off. It'll be a time machine allowing you to see just how little Adobe have changed over the years.
Great. And your health care costs will rise commensurately.
Yes, because industries that have been able to automate have had their prices skyrocket. Like the car industry. Nope. Or the toy industry. Nope. Food manufacture. Um, nope. Mining? Nope.
Though I have no idea what you mean with regards to automation in diagnostics? How the heck do you suggest that this happen given that diagnosis is largely a directed interview with a person augmented by a few elements of the physical exam and sometimes a few lab or imaging studies?
I'm talking about expert systems. Not the kind that try to replace a doctor. The kind that asks a few questions and suggests some possible diseases that fit most of the symptoms. If a doctor had guessed similar to the expert system, excellent, he can be confident he's on the right track. If some of the suggestions are rarer or not on the doctor's radar, it's one more thing to consider if they wish to.
I would love the medical Tricorder that they have on Star Trek, but as yet I haven't found that ap for my GPhone.
Funny I thought you were more interested in having a toxic tone and being filled with bile and irony.
And that is easy to work out retrospectively. Not so much prospectively. Getting your turkey sandwich with cheese, tomato, and a side of OJ can kill a dialysis patient. So is delivering the right tray to Ms Smith in 201B rather than Ms Jones in 202B a 'big thing' or a 'petty thing'?
It's a matter of context. There are lots of situations in which diet are critical for a patient. My wife has an anaphylactic reaction to food and you should see the hoops she has to jump through to to the dieticians in hospital that she would rather I supplied her food because they're likely to get it wrong and kill her. (We're not talking about simply avoiding nut products here. Her food allergies are complex and difficult to manage)
So diet in a patient marked with special dietary needs is NOT a petty thing, but for many patients it is. This is true of anything put into a patient's body which is why a patient with allergies gets a nice red wrist band to warn the nurse.
Again the real world may not be simple but it CAN be managed. A defeatist attitude and a ton of sarcasm do NOT help.