You can pwn my PC but leave my WRT54GL alone. It's one of the few pieces of hardware I own that's proven to be as reliable as the sun rising in the East. Yes I've installed the Linux bios.
Now when I put on a tin foil hat, and start making rude signs at the sky and gesticulating angrily at random, I'll be able to point out that it's not paranoia!!! I wonder if I'm committed will I be able to obtain a warrant to get images that will prove I'm not paranoid and dillusional? After all if someone's taking the pics I'm not just imaging things am I!?
I have no problem with education. Even about copyright law. So lets educate the kids. Lets teach them what cut of the profits the artist actually gets. Lets teach them the very limits of absurdity that the existing laws can support. Show them that the current laws are unfair not only to the consumer but also to the artist. Oh yeah and gladly take MS' money to do it. Oh they want to CONTROL THE CONTENT. Not a chance. Find another patsy. But we'll take your money happily.
It's an issue because when you take a crap system and say lots of diplomatic things like "performance is poor on a system with 1GB RAM" you can make it sound adequate or even good when in fact it is not. If you want a decent system you have to create an environment where an engineer can actually say "this will not do". Perhaps not "this is a steaming pile of shit" but "the system will cause considerable customer dis-satisfaction due to poor performance and bugs" or even "this piece of the system is so flawed that if we ship it as is it will affect our reputation. We should re-write it". Every MS employee I've ever talked to has been an apologist and a yes-man.
Personally I just wish Nikon still made the D70/D70S. I have 3 of these bodies (started with one, but my wife shoots too and I wanted a backup). Already had the motor and shutter replaced out of warranty on the original D70.
I don't know of any other consumer camera that will give me 1/8000 flash sync (with a hack - taping over contacts on the flash shoe) or even 1/500th (without any hack). The difference to zoo photography is amazing, even in good light. The D80 is a flawed camera so I'm going to have to go up-scale if I replace these D70s. Everyone uses CMOS not CCD so I don't think such high flash sync is even possible with cameras being released now.
Actually one reason I don't love Nikon is the warranty service I repaired on it in warranty. After months of wrangling and 3 trips to the repair center, I ended up with a replacement but only after threatening to take the complaint to the fair trading body here. At the time Nikon weren't doing their own repairs in this part of the world, and the guys were damned rude and refused to acknowledge there was a shutter jam problem after about half an hour's use. I went as far as taking video footage of the issue.
You don't sound as old as you think. I got started into serious hobby photography through an interest in Astronomy and astro-photography. I collected and still have a couple of old Yashica manual cameras and a Nikon (I can't tell you which model without digging it out but it's built like a tank). That was about 6 years ago. I quickly realized how hard astrophotography was and more importantly how easy zoo photography was in comparison.
Do you own a DSLR at all? I wouldn't put off going to digital if I were you. The flexibility is amazing. Worth dealing with the quirks. Even my 6MP cameras give very sharp shots. Not having to worry about some lab screw them up and being able to fiddle with them in RAW software and photoshop is amazing. (I always shoot RAW when it's something that counts, and where camera buffer speed is not an issue)
Commander: They did what? Lieutenant: They fell down and started rolling around, keyboards in hand. Commander: And this was suppose to say what exactly? Lieutenant: They were gibbering something about he who lives by the keyboard dies by the keyboard. I think they thought it was funny or clever. You have no idea what the men have been dealing with. These geeks have no social skills whatsoever. Commander: So I've heard....and they absolutely refused to perform that first strike. Lieutenant: Yes, sir. But it gets worse. They started muttering some inane dialog and sniggering at each other. "Burn the building" and such. We thought they were making threats at first, but then one of them laughed at me for not watching some cult film they all worship. Office Farce or Office Day or something. Commander: I told them this would never work. Damn geeks.
I have Nikon gear though I have no love of the company. I use a Tamron 28-300 for a walkaround lens. If quality matters (any social function, actually shooting landscape or wildlife as seriously as I can) I use the kit lens 18-70DX and 70-300VR. I got the 70-300 plus a decent flash specifically so relatives could use it at the wedding. Very glad I did. I wish I could justify pro glass but I can't so weight's not an issue with the lenses I own.
Good camera gear is so damn expensive and such a hassle though. I hate cleaning the camera sensor - it's such a hit and miss affair with the equipment I use and it takes hours (only to be ruined by a lens change even in a clean environ. I've got a lot of pleasure out of the 5 relatively cheap point and shoot cameras I've owned but you just can't subsitute them for an SLR for wildlife, and lately they've just gone mega-pixel crazy at the expense of terrible noise.
Originally posted as a response to myself as I was in a rush....doh!
By the way I've just taken a look at your portfolio. You're definitely one of the better wedding photographers I've spoken to personally. (I've seen some damn unprofessional behaviour from so called pros who can't take a shot to save themselves). I'm already married and in the wrong country but under different circumstances (and if we could come to terms on details like getting a copy of negatives etc) I'd go as far as saying I'd probably hire you. That's actually quite high praise from me. I had friends and family shoot our wedding because I didn't want to gamble on a pro I didn't know. (Results were very good for the most part - 2 exceptions we got next to no full length shots, and the large group shots weren't taken in aperture so are a little blury. Still we have what we need).
By the way I've just taken a look at your portfolio. You're definitely one of the better wedding photographers I've spoken to personally. (I've seen some damn unprofessional behaviour from so called pros who can't take a shot to save themselves). I'm already married and in the wrong country but under different circumstances (and if we could come to terms on details like getting a copy of negatives etc) I'd go as far as saying I'd probably hire you. That's actually quite high praise from me. I had friends and family shoot our wedding because I didn't want to gamble on a pro I didn't know. (Results were very good for the most part - 2 exceptions we got next to no full length shots, and the large group shots weren't taken in aperture so are a little blury. Still we have what we need).
Thanks for being easy to talk to and not taking my rejection of your advice personally.
Lately the slashdot trolls have been getting to me. It's nice to be able to have a reasonable discussion on slashdot where your own choices are accepted even when there is disagreement.
There are definitely times when shooting like crazy works against you. The other big one apart from storage is that you have to be careful to avoid taking too many pics of people who don't like being photographed (or even being too noisy or in their faces when the occassion doesn't allow it eg. in a church). I'm mindful of these things, but it really is why I prefer nature and wildlife work. Most animals don't mind being photographed (and those that do you can hide from). No sunset has ever complained.
Tell you though I'm itching to get out there with a camera right now. I haven't taken many shots in the last few months. The weather has been bad and my wife is expecting her first child so we're getting ready.
Thanks for the advice. That isn't my style, and I'll never shoot that way. Some photographers that claim to shoot like that get fantastic shots. Others are just lazy.
What I've seen as my skill increases is that the number of good shots I get go up dramatically rather than a requirement to shoot less. I'm not taking so many shots because most are crap. (My mother in law exaggerates with some of this being flattery but she reckons she hardly sees a blurry or badly composed shot in my collection when I show her the raw shoot. She isn't technical but like my wife she's got excellent natural instincts for composition.) A shot of a couple's first kiss will not replace putting on the rings, and will not replace any one of the hugs the bride gives on the way out. They're all different shots. Missing any one isn't acceptable.
Then there's nature and wildlife photography which is what I prefer to weddings (which I only do as a favour and have done as a challenge). Animals are unpredictable. Better to capture 100 mediocre images that miss one pearler.
The only issue with taking so many shots tends to be in managing them. I still wish I had more shots of our own wedding, and we have a couple of thousand.
Come on now. You might as well argue that locking your front door is pointless because there are many ways to pick a lock
What silly comparison is this?
Locking your front door restricts physical access. Your house can't at the click of a button be copied and modified so that the copied house has no front door.
That's worse than the worst car analogy I've seen here. The only similarity is that both are safeguards that try to keep things from being stolen. Beyond that it's apples to oranges.
Keep your DRM music. I don't want it and I don't want to get hooked on your free sample. (One day I may change phones and I'll still want that music). Nice try though.
If you really want to help the industry, buy AMD so that next time you are building a computer, you will still have the option to choose the CPU.
Look I understand the importance of competition, and I like having a choice. However if the AMD CPU is inferior, rewarding the company by giving it money for that CPU guarantees a DECREASE in quality overall even if a choice between 2 players remains. What incentive is there for anyone to make a good CPU if people will still buy the crap one.
Now if AMD put out a product equal to or better than Intel buying it in preference to the market leader would make sense in order to keep competition alive. Unfortunately that's not likely at the moment. AMD dug their own hole on that one.
Yes. The brilliance of Vista. Something like the sudo command without any graphical equivalent su command (sure you can open an admin cmd prompt, but what about the gui?). Accept or deny prompt for every little sub-operation. If it were a case of just putting in the super user password once per action, do you think users would bitch and moan as much???
That isn't the problem. The problem is one of corporate culture. How long do you think a Microsoft employee who thought Vista was crap and said so openly would last?
I'm not a pro photographer, but I've been known to take upwards of 2500 images in a day, and without blowing my own horn too much I believe I've taken some photos that don't stink. I've even photographed weddings for friends and they've been ecstatic with the results (though I did not charge them).
I think this idea is idiotic.
For starters, how hard is it to strip the image of this sort of thing? Hell any tool that will allow you to open the file will be able to save it to a new format sans any digital copy protection mechanism....unless you're willing to do even stupider things like legislate against tools that allow image format conversion, or lock the file in a proprietary format with proprietary tools that you have to buy from the camera manufacturer. No thanks....and then there's issues with the biometrics. What happens if you have eye trouble? How do you prove that's your iris scan embedded.
Except of course that the "human" justice system can vary from a single judge with no accountability deciding a person's fate irrevocably, to a system where multiple people check each other's results according to a system of rules that are as far as they can be made.
Presenting just two black and white choices (1 - justice system or 2 - no justice system) without seeing that there is room for improvement from a system that has its origins in superstitious medieval societies in which people typically couldn't read or write makes you the naive one.
The GP never argued for a perfect legal system or for the abolition of the legal system. He complained that the standards he'd seen in the jury room were shocking to a reasonable man and mean that miscarriages of justice are very likely.
I really do wonder about slashdot moderation when posts like yours get modded up.
Here's the best one for all your local friends to join: The Pub.
But if I go to the local pub then change my mind and decide I didn't really want to go there in the first place, people won't comply with my wishes to remove me from their memory. They may recall who my friends are, who my spouse is or who I went home with when I got sloshed, my childhood stories...everything! Once that information is in place, gossip means that the publican will know everything about me. He may even sell or market that information to others and there's not a thing I can do about it.
There's really only one solution. Never socialize. Ever! I think we should begin by organizing a protest against all pubs right away.
How about we stop talking about artists controlling the work, and start talking directly about compensation? Would you have a problem with a legal system where you were entitled to claim damages or claim your cut of profit, but did not have the right to say who could and couldn't distribute?
Why are so many artists angry at kids in 3rd world countries sharing their music/movies, but at the same time accept that it's the price of business that distribution and marketing take away over 90% of their profit?
I think a lot of artists are seduced by the idea that under the current system there is a chance of becoming rich, no matter how unlikely. Under a fairer system you wouldn't have megastars making megabucks.
I pointed out that it was extremely *unlikely* that someone not even into their teens would have a comprehensive understanding of their family's financial affairs.
Do you have ANY point AT ALL other than to troll?
You accuse me of seeing the world as black and white yet YOU are the one that insists a kid couldn't know their parents finances.
Well I did know my family's finances. I knew what my parents earnt. I knew what they spent on groceries. I knew how much our monthly mortgage payments were. From time to time I'd ask what we had still owing and they'd tell me. My parents fought about finances (amongst other things) so often it wasn't funny. Sometimes it got physical. Sometimes I'd be woken up by my father hurling abuse at me. That some arrogant piece of shit troll insists that what I lived was unlikely and calls me a liar makes me laugh. Buddy until you've walked in my shoes, your pathetic whining is nothing but an insult.
My scepticism is founded in a) experience (most *adults* don't have a good handle on their own finances) and b) your reticence to offer any further clarification on the topic.
You're fucking limited experience of a middle class suburban household that your limited experience offers you is of no interest to me. How you think people ought to behave is neither here nor there. Talk to me when you've been woken by your father holding a knife to your mother's throat.
Is that enough clarification for you asshole?
Call me a liar, indeed. You're a piece of shit troll. Go fuck yourself.
This is going to sound harsh but there's no better way to put it.
I manage Mac in a professional environment. Some new dimwit hated Mac (Microsoft fanboi) and required Windows so he could play with Visual Studio.
I'd re-check the definition of professional, if you're publicly calling your users dimwits. Are you sure he's just playing and that it's not just part of his job?
Before lunch started the install of Windows XP, after lunch the Windows side was in an endless reboot loop. Apparently Windows XP doesn't like startup partitions to be secondary and larger than 32G?
I grant you that such limitations are annoying and silly. However it's your responsibility as the IT guy to know enough about the software you're installing to do it properly. If you're just learning about Windows install limitations then treat this as part of the learning process. How would you react to a guy trying to install MacOS on a non-Mac computer? You're complaining about something almost as bad.
? Tried again, took forever, finally finished up (although Windows set up the firewire network instead of the ethernet during installation)
Sounds like your Ethernet wasn't recognized (did you need drivers). Windows sets up firewire and any Ethernet it recognizes with IP addresses, but without drivers what's it going to do?
Seriously it sounds like the problem is your lack of experience installing Windows. I imagine I'd have similar problems with Ubuntu or MacOs for sheer lack of familiarity.
had to install Visual Studio 2008, 2005, 2003, 6 in that order to get all components (backwards compatibility anyone?) and Office 2003.
Agreed this is silly.
The kicker: now that I showed him how to switch between the environments he hardly uses the Windows side anymore.
Perhaps he had a specific requirement, addressed it, and moved on. You talked about a professional environment. You're there to help him get his job done, not judge him. That's his boss' job.
Americans value the college experience for its education and social worth (bong rips and sex) while people from Asian cultures value college solely as a learning experience. They aren't there to have fun.
Disclaimer: I'm not an American. I'm an Australian by birth and citizenship. I've never taken drugs, I don't smoke and I don't do alcohol at all solely because I can't stand the taste. Sex isn't the focus of my life either but I won't claim I don't enjoy it.
I don't want to live in a world where in order to compete you have to completely give up all things fun and social right at the time when your health and youth makes these things about as good as they get. Studying right through your teens and twenties might make for a better more competitive engineer, but I bet they don't make for a better person. I don't think western countries should be glorifying or trying to emulate cultures which condone working oneself into an early grave. If we claim to value freedom, that's a stupid thing to do. In other words lets find a way to compete without killing off the very things that make our society worthwhile.
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You can pwn my PC but leave my WRT54GL alone. It's one of the few pieces of hardware I own that's proven to be as reliable as the sun rising in the East. Yes I've installed the Linux bios.
Now when I put on a tin foil hat, and start making rude signs at the sky and gesticulating angrily at random, I'll be able to point out that it's not paranoia!!! I wonder if I'm committed will I be able to obtain a warrant to get images that will prove I'm not paranoid and dillusional? After all if someone's taking the pics I'm not just imaging things am I!?
I have no problem with education. Even about copyright law. So lets educate the kids. Lets teach them what cut of the profits the artist actually gets. Lets teach them the very limits of absurdity that the existing laws can support. Show them that the current laws are unfair not only to the consumer but also to the artist. Oh yeah and gladly take MS' money to do it. Oh they want to CONTROL THE CONTENT. Not a chance. Find another patsy. But we'll take your money happily.
It's an issue because when you take a crap system and say lots of diplomatic things like "performance is poor on a system with 1GB RAM" you can make it sound adequate or even good when in fact it is not. If you want a decent system you have to create an environment where an engineer can actually say "this will not do". Perhaps not "this is a steaming pile of shit" but "the system will cause considerable customer dis-satisfaction due to poor performance and bugs" or even "this piece of the system is so flawed that if we ship it as is it will affect our reputation. We should re-write it". Every MS employee I've ever talked to has been an apologist and a yes-man.
Personally I just wish Nikon still made the D70/D70S. I have 3 of these bodies (started with one, but my wife shoots too and I wanted a backup). Already had the motor and shutter replaced out of warranty on the original D70.
I don't know of any other consumer camera that will give me 1/8000 flash sync (with a hack - taping over contacts on the flash shoe) or even 1/500th (without any hack). The difference to zoo photography is amazing, even in good light. The D80 is a flawed camera so I'm going to have to go up-scale if I replace these D70s. Everyone uses CMOS not CCD so I don't think such high flash sync is even possible with cameras being released now.
Actually one reason I don't love Nikon is the warranty service I repaired on it in warranty. After months of wrangling and 3 trips to the repair center, I ended up with a replacement but only after threatening to take the complaint to the fair trading body here. At the time Nikon weren't doing their own repairs in this part of the world, and the guys were damned rude and refused to acknowledge there was a shutter jam problem after about half an hour's use. I went as far as taking video footage of the issue.
You don't sound as old as you think. I got started into serious hobby photography through an interest in Astronomy and astro-photography. I collected and still have a couple of old Yashica manual cameras and a Nikon (I can't tell you which model without digging it out but it's built like a tank). That was about 6 years ago. I quickly realized how hard astrophotography was and more importantly how easy zoo photography was in comparison.
Do you own a DSLR at all? I wouldn't put off going to digital if I were you. The flexibility is amazing. Worth dealing with the quirks. Even my 6MP cameras give very sharp shots. Not having to worry about some lab screw them up and being able to fiddle with them in RAW software and photoshop is amazing. (I always shoot RAW when it's something that counts, and where camera buffer speed is not an issue)
Commander: They did what?
Lieutenant: They fell down and started rolling around, keyboards in hand.
Commander: And this was suppose to say what exactly?
Lieutenant: They were gibbering something about he who lives by the keyboard dies by the keyboard. I think they thought it was funny or clever. You have no idea what the men have been dealing with. These geeks have no social skills whatsoever.
Commander: So I've heard....and they absolutely refused to perform that first strike.
Lieutenant: Yes, sir. But it gets worse. They started muttering some inane dialog and sniggering at each other. "Burn the building" and such. We thought they were making threats at first, but then one of them laughed at me for not watching some cult film they all worship. Office Farce or Office Day or something.
Commander: I told them this would never work. Damn geeks.
I have Nikon gear though I have no love of the company. I use a Tamron 28-300 for a walkaround lens. If quality matters (any social function, actually shooting landscape or wildlife as seriously as I can) I use the kit lens 18-70DX and 70-300VR. I got the 70-300 plus a decent flash specifically so relatives could use it at the wedding. Very glad I did. I wish I could justify pro glass but I can't so weight's not an issue with the lenses I own.
Good camera gear is so damn expensive and such a hassle though. I hate cleaning the camera sensor - it's such a hit and miss affair with the equipment I use and it takes hours (only to be ruined by a lens change even in a clean environ. I've got a lot of pleasure out of the 5 relatively cheap point and shoot cameras I've owned but you just can't subsitute them for an SLR for wildlife, and lately they've just gone mega-pixel crazy at the expense of terrible noise.
Originally posted as a response to myself as I was in a rush....doh!
By the way I've just taken a look at your portfolio. You're definitely one of the better wedding photographers I've spoken to personally. (I've seen some damn unprofessional behaviour from so called pros who can't take a shot to save themselves). I'm already married and in the wrong country but under different circumstances (and if we could come to terms on details like getting a copy of negatives etc) I'd go as far as saying I'd probably hire you. That's actually quite high praise from me. I had friends and family shoot our wedding because I didn't want to gamble on a pro I didn't know. (Results were very good for the most part - 2 exceptions we got next to no full length shots, and the large group shots weren't taken in aperture so are a little blury. Still we have what we need).
By the way I've just taken a look at your portfolio. You're definitely one of the better wedding photographers I've spoken to personally. (I've seen some damn unprofessional behaviour from so called pros who can't take a shot to save themselves). I'm already married and in the wrong country but under different circumstances (and if we could come to terms on details like getting a copy of negatives etc) I'd go as far as saying I'd probably hire you. That's actually quite high praise from me. I had friends and family shoot our wedding because I didn't want to gamble on a pro I didn't know. (Results were very good for the most part - 2 exceptions we got next to no full length shots, and the large group shots weren't taken in aperture so are a little blury. Still we have what we need).
Thanks for being easy to talk to and not taking my rejection of your advice personally.
Lately the slashdot trolls have been getting to me. It's nice to be able to have a reasonable discussion on slashdot where your own choices are accepted even when there is disagreement.
There are definitely times when shooting like crazy works against you. The other big one apart from storage is that you have to be careful to avoid taking too many pics of people who don't like being photographed (or even being too noisy or in their faces when the occassion doesn't allow it eg. in a church). I'm mindful of these things, but it really is why I prefer nature and wildlife work. Most animals don't mind being photographed (and those that do you can hide from). No sunset has ever complained.
Tell you though I'm itching to get out there with a camera right now. I haven't taken many shots in the last few months. The weather has been bad and my wife is expecting her first child so we're getting ready.
Thanks for the advice. That isn't my style, and I'll never shoot that way. Some photographers that claim to shoot like that get fantastic shots. Others are just lazy.
What I've seen as my skill increases is that the number of good shots I get go up dramatically rather than a requirement to shoot less. I'm not taking so many shots because most are crap. (My mother in law exaggerates with some of this being flattery but she reckons she hardly sees a blurry or badly composed shot in my collection when I show her the raw shoot. She isn't technical but like my wife she's got excellent natural instincts for composition.) A shot of a couple's first kiss will not replace putting on the rings, and will not replace any one of the hugs the bride gives on the way out. They're all different shots. Missing any one isn't acceptable.
Then there's nature and wildlife photography which is what I prefer to weddings (which I only do as a favour and have done as a challenge). Animals are unpredictable. Better to capture 100 mediocre images that miss one pearler.
The only issue with taking so many shots tends to be in managing them. I still wish I had more shots of our own wedding, and we have a couple of thousand.
Come on now. You might as well argue that locking your front door is pointless because there are many ways to pick a lock
What silly comparison is this?
Locking your front door restricts physical access. Your house can't at the click of a button be copied and modified so that the copied house has no front door.
That's worse than the worst car analogy I've seen here. The only similarity is that both are safeguards that try to keep things from being stolen. Beyond that it's apples to oranges.
Dear first-hit-is-free music companies.
Keep your DRM music. I don't want it and I don't want to get hooked on your free sample. (One day I may change phones and I'll still want that music). Nice try though.
If you really want to help the industry, buy AMD so that next time you are building a computer, you will still have the option to choose the CPU.
Look I understand the importance of competition, and I like having a choice. However if the AMD CPU is inferior, rewarding the company by giving it money for that CPU guarantees a DECREASE in quality overall even if a choice between 2 players remains. What incentive is there for anyone to make a good CPU if people will still buy the crap one.
Now if AMD put out a product equal to or better than Intel buying it in preference to the market leader would make sense in order to keep competition alive. Unfortunately that's not likely at the moment. AMD dug their own hole on that one.
Yes. The brilliance of Vista. Something like the sudo command without any graphical equivalent su command (sure you can open an admin cmd prompt, but what about the gui?). Accept or deny prompt for every little sub-operation. If it were a case of just putting in the super user password once per action, do you think users would bitch and moan as much???
How the hell can any sane person defend this BS?
That isn't the problem. The problem is one of corporate culture. How long do you think a Microsoft employee who thought Vista was crap and said so openly would last?
I'm not a pro photographer, but I've been known to take upwards of 2500 images in a day, and without blowing my own horn too much I believe I've taken some photos that don't stink. I've even photographed weddings for friends and they've been ecstatic with the results (though I did not charge them).
...and then there's issues with the biometrics. What happens if you have eye trouble? How do you prove that's your iris scan embedded.
I think this idea is idiotic.
For starters, how hard is it to strip the image of this sort of thing? Hell any tool that will allow you to open the file will be able to save it to a new format sans any digital copy protection mechanism....unless you're willing to do even stupider things like legislate against tools that allow image format conversion, or lock the file in a proprietary format with proprietary tools that you have to buy from the camera manufacturer. No thanks.
Except of course that the "human" justice system can vary from a single judge with no accountability deciding a person's fate irrevocably, to a system where multiple people check each other's results according to a system of rules that are as far as they can be made.
Presenting just two black and white choices (1 - justice system or 2 - no justice system) without seeing that there is room for improvement from a system that has its origins in superstitious medieval societies in which people typically couldn't read or write makes you the naive one.
The GP never argued for a perfect legal system or for the abolition of the legal system. He complained that the standards he'd seen in the jury room were shocking to a reasonable man and mean that miscarriages of justice are very likely.
I really do wonder about slashdot moderation when posts like yours get modded up.
No with that kind of mouth the earth girl will be green
http://tcm.health-info.org/Dermatology/Dermatology%20pages/Sexually%20Transmitted%20Disease.htm
"Trichomoniasis
A common STD that affects both males and females.
Females may encounter a frothy, yellow-green vaginal discharge with a strong odor. It also causes irritation and itching of the vaginal area."
Here's the best one for all your local friends to join: The Pub.
But if I go to the local pub then change my mind and decide I didn't really want to go there in the first place, people won't comply with my wishes to remove me from their memory. They may recall who my friends are, who my spouse is or who I went home with when I got sloshed, my childhood stories...everything! Once that information is in place, gossip means that the publican will know everything about me. He may even sell or market that information to others and there's not a thing I can do about it.
There's really only one solution. Never socialize. Ever! I think we should begin by organizing a protest against all pubs right away.
How about we stop talking about artists controlling the work, and start talking directly about compensation? Would you have a problem with a legal system where you were entitled to claim damages or claim your cut of profit, but did not have the right to say who could and couldn't distribute?
Why are so many artists angry at kids in 3rd world countries sharing their music/movies, but at the same time accept that it's the price of business that distribution and marketing take away over 90% of their profit?
I think a lot of artists are seduced by the idea that under the current system there is a chance of becoming rich, no matter how unlikely. Under a fairer system you wouldn't have megastars making megabucks.
I pointed out that it was extremely *unlikely* that someone not even into their teens would have a comprehensive understanding of their family's financial affairs.
Do you have ANY point AT ALL other than to troll?
You accuse me of seeing the world as black and white yet YOU are the one that insists a kid couldn't know their parents finances.
Well I did know my family's finances. I knew what my parents earnt. I knew what they spent on groceries. I knew how much our monthly mortgage payments were. From time to time I'd ask what we had still owing and they'd tell me. My parents fought about finances (amongst other things) so often it wasn't funny. Sometimes it got physical. Sometimes I'd be woken up by my father hurling abuse at me. That some arrogant piece of shit troll insists that what I lived was unlikely and calls me a liar makes me laugh. Buddy until you've walked in my shoes, your pathetic whining is nothing but an insult.
My scepticism is founded in a) experience (most *adults* don't have a good handle on their own finances) and b) your reticence to offer any further clarification on the topic.
You're fucking limited experience of a middle class suburban household that your limited experience offers you is of no interest to me. How you think people ought to behave is neither here nor there. Talk to me when you've been woken by your father holding a knife to your mother's throat.
Is that enough clarification for you asshole?
Call me a liar, indeed. You're a piece of shit troll. Go fuck yourself.
This is going to sound harsh but there's no better way to put it.
I manage Mac in a professional environment. Some new dimwit hated Mac (Microsoft fanboi) and required Windows so he could play with Visual Studio.
I'd re-check the definition of professional, if you're publicly calling your users dimwits. Are you sure he's just playing and that it's not just part of his job?
Before lunch started the install of Windows XP, after lunch the Windows side was in an endless reboot loop. Apparently Windows XP doesn't like startup partitions to be secondary and larger than 32G?
I grant you that such limitations are annoying and silly. However it's your responsibility as the IT guy to know enough about the software you're installing to do it properly. If you're just learning about Windows install limitations then treat this as part of the learning process. How would you react to a guy trying to install MacOS on a non-Mac computer? You're complaining about something almost as bad.
? Tried again, took forever, finally finished up (although Windows set up the firewire network instead of the ethernet during installation)
Sounds like your Ethernet wasn't recognized (did you need drivers). Windows sets up firewire and any Ethernet it recognizes with IP addresses, but without drivers what's it going to do?
Seriously it sounds like the problem is your lack of experience installing Windows. I imagine I'd have similar problems with Ubuntu or MacOs for sheer lack of familiarity.
had to install Visual Studio 2008, 2005, 2003, 6 in that order to get all components (backwards compatibility anyone?) and Office 2003.
Agreed this is silly.
The kicker: now that I showed him how to switch between the environments he hardly uses the Windows side anymore.
Perhaps he had a specific requirement, addressed it, and moved on. You talked about a professional environment. You're there to help him get his job done, not judge him. That's his boss' job.
Americans value the college experience for its education and social worth (bong rips and sex) while people from Asian cultures value college solely as a learning experience. They aren't there to have fun.
Disclaimer: I'm not an American. I'm an Australian by birth and citizenship. I've never taken drugs, I don't smoke and I don't do alcohol at all solely because I can't stand the taste. Sex isn't the focus of my life either but I won't claim I don't enjoy it.
I don't want to live in a world where in order to compete you have to completely give up all things fun and social right at the time when your health and youth makes these things about as good as they get. Studying right through your teens and twenties might make for a better more competitive engineer, but I bet they don't make for a better person. I don't think western countries should be glorifying or trying to emulate cultures which condone working oneself into an early grave. If we claim to value freedom, that's a stupid thing to do. In other words lets find a way to compete without killing off the very things that make our society worthwhile.
I kid! I kid!