The playstation version was a little better, but not much. Better to download the hacked translation of Final Fantasy IV Hard Type off the net. THAT'S the real game.;P
Terms such as 'baffled', 'flummoxed', and 'jargon' consfuse the general public.
Techs are confused by general public's Lingo.
Sorry, if you're going to write a story about people being confused by big words, please don't use big words to describe how people don't understand big words. Your target audience is then people who can't understand big words. Don't you know we have to dumb down everything for the uneducated people coming out of our schools?
Oh, wait, where is that contradicting report that says the people coming out of our schools are more tech savvy than ever. But they aren't getting educated gaddammmmit.:P
On a side note, techs don't understand techno-babble either:
"The jig is up!"
no...
"The *gig* is up."
"1.21 Jiggawatts???"
no...
"1.21 Gigawatts????"
So exactly how do we all keep screwing up by saying "Gig" instead of "Jig" when we probably heard it right most of our lives?
They shouldn't be legally required to include it, but we should, as developers, code in such a way to JRE is the only way to go. If M$ wants to use their own Java Virtual Machine, fine, but we need to make sure that they have little choice but to make it compatible with the rest of the world.
I'm personally not going to go out of my way to recode everything so I have to make two seperate binaries, one for windows, and one for everyone else. The whole point of Java is that I shouldn't have to do that.
While I'm a mac user now (was windows, then linux, then OS X) I'd like to see a few more things done to round it out:
Easy VPN setup (mentioned in the article already, but very important..PPTP and IPSec)
Start the user off as a user with sudo privelages, but not as root...touchy I know for user privs, and it starts off a whole load of but "it's not important" but "oh yes it is" all over the place. OSX manages it nicely, I see no reason why Linux can't do the same.
Bundle an office client. It's KDE...KOffice isn't there by default? ???
I think that's about it. Other than of course throwing in a dock and putty a happy mac face on it.:P
(2) educate the general public concerning the privacy, security, and other risks of using the Internet to obtain unauthorized copies of copyrighted works;
Hey, don't touch that! You don't know where it's been!:P
"They're all over me! They're inside of me! Can't get 'em offa me.
I'm covered with....(bacteria)...GERMS!"
That doesn't sound too convincing, ANY file you get off the internet is a security concern, no?
(2) facilitate the sharing among law enforcement agencies, Internet service providers, and copyright owners of information concerning activities described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
The program under paragraph
(1) shall include issuing appropriate warnings to individuals engaged in an activity described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) that they may be subject to criminal prosecution.
Oooooh, scare tactics. Where's Shannon Doherty?
SEC. 4. DESIGNATION AND TRAINING OF AGENTS IN COMPUTER HACKING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNITS.
(a) DESIGNATION OF AGENTS IN CHIPS UNITS- The Attorney General shall ensure that any unit in the Department of Justice responsible for investigating computer hacking or responsible for investigating intellectual property crimes is assigned at least one agent to support such unit for the purpose of investigating crimes relating to the theft of intellectual property.
(b) TRAINING- The Attorney General shall ensure that each agent assigned under subsection (a) has received training in the investigation and enforcement of intellectual property crimes.
More uber-l337 haxxors.
SEC. 5. EDUCATION PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT- There shall be established within the Office of the Associate Attorney General of the United States an Internet Use Education Program.
(b) PURPOSE- The purpose of the Internet Use Education Program shall be to--
(1) educate the general public concerning the value of copyrighted works and the effects of the theft of such works on those who create them;
(2) educate the general public concerning the privacy, security, and other risks of using the Internet to obtain unauthorized copies of copyrighted works;
(3) coordinate and consult with the Department of Education on compliance by educational institutions with applicable copyright laws involving Internet use; and
(4) coordinate and consult with the Department of Commerce on compliance by corporations with applicable copyright laws involving Internet use.
Free brainwashing too! Man, am I *ever* glad to be living in a country where my congressmen love me so much. I think I'll write them a loveletter right now. Or call them even. Where *did* I put those phone numbers?
Warm water breeds all sorts of wildlife. Use waterbed disinfectant in there (or a small amount of bleach) to keep things clean.
The trick then is that the water containment needs to be waterproof sealed, otherwise as the water evaporates, you'll have chemicals floating around in the air of your house.
Yeah, only mine is company fodder. Or at least was supposed to be. They kept telling me I needed a PDA. I told them that I'd split the cost of an iPod with them since it could double as a backup for our XServe if I used Carbon Copy Cloner. Then they decided I could just have it. Nice guys.:P (Translation, they feel guilty because they don't pay me nearly what I'm worth)
IBM is going crush SCO. It's gonna take a few years but they have been marked for death. No licensing, no merger, no buyout. Remember, IBM got into a pissing contest with the Justice Dept. in the 70's. In case you need to be reminded the Justice Dept. is part of the U. S. Government who prints the money. The Justice Dept. does not have to show a profit, IBM does. IBM fought the Justice Dept. to a standstill for over 12 years and still showed a profit every year.
IBM most likely employs more people in their legal department than all of SCO. IBM is going to go into court with SCO and stall, bleeding them dry in the process. The legal fees will bankrupt SCO and IBM will not even break a sweat.
You do realize that this is precisely what is so wrong with our legal system and how corporations abuse it, right? It just happens to be working in our favor at the moment, but what happens why Goliath goes after the little guy and the little guy is right?
The only time he gets going is if the conversation goes into tech.
My fiancee tends to complain about that nuance of myself as well....but that's another story.;P
I see nothing wrong with speaking up and standing up to someone when they are dead wrong, and perhaps a written article doesn't sufficiently express the mood of the meeting as it were. His points were all valid, absolutely. I could also insert a PCI card using a sledge hammer. I wouldn't do so. Some of the n00bs at Best Buy or CompUSA may try that approach however. YMMV..
There is more than one way to get your point across, and I find that 90% of the time accosting the person doesn't have to be the solution.
I won't argue the above remark. Without a doubt it is the truth.
<rant>
But man can he act like an arrogant prick!
I love the products his company makes, and I respect his opinions, but the man needs some serious lessons in humility and respect for others. Servant leadership, lead by serving and showing others, not just by blasting them for being wrong.
"Close this book and burn it. Go buy O'Reilly's elephant book, and learn PERL instead.":P
Seriously, I learned QBASIC, and it had me so brain damaged for so long that it took me forever to grasp PERL, and I've still never quite gotten Java, even though I took a college course on the subject.
Stay faaaaaar away from anything with the word 'BASIC' in it. You've been warned.
It's monday morning. I'm in a bad mood to begin with.
Perhaps I just have a chemical imbalance, or emotional issues, but I swear if I had some sort of automatic weapon available and access to many people at the RIAA....
or perhaps I have a flair for imagination. I'm not violent, but I have a *VERY* low tolerance to pushing around or abusing those with no means to defend themselves.
If you thought that was a troll, I have Karma to burn, so I'll say it again.
Slashdot Mirror
"Not sure if this is very practical, or even if it would be cheaper than buying a changer, but it sure looks cool."
/.'s articles. :)
Ah, that statement could describe well over half of
However, I still need to write this guy and if he's going to tear it down, I want it.
Final Fantasy IV
:P
;P
That translation we got was a pathetic joke.
The playstation version was a little better, but not much. Better to download the hacked translation of Final Fantasy IV Hard Type off the net. THAT'S the real game.
Don't you know that the tower is the MODEM, not the hard drive, for starters.
The monitor is the thing you hold the paper up to for scanning, and that thing label "CD-ROM" is for holding your coffee!
The last two are cliche, but I heard both waaaaaaay too much back when I was a parts jockey for Best Buy (thankfully faaaaar in my past).
In other news:
:P
Terms such as 'baffled', 'flummoxed', and 'jargon' consfuse the general public.
Techs are confused by general public's Lingo.
Sorry, if you're going to write a story about people being confused by big words, please don't use big words to describe how people don't understand big words. Your target audience is then people who can't understand big words. Don't you know we have to dumb down everything for the uneducated people coming out of our schools?
Oh, wait, where is that contradicting report that says the people coming out of our schools are more tech savvy than ever. But they aren't getting educated gaddammmmit.
On a side note, techs don't understand techno-babble either:
"The jig is up!"
no...
"The *gig* is up."
"1.21 Jiggawatts???"
no...
"1.21 Gigawatts????"
So exactly how do we all keep screwing up by saying "Gig" instead of "Jig" when we probably heard it right most of our lives?
MacOS X requires you to mount Buffy and drag it to applications. Gotta love it! :P
What was it....
mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
Now where is that Spike pr0n search plugin?
They shouldn't be legally required to include it, but we should, as developers, code in such a way to JRE is the only way to go. If M$ wants to use their own Java Virtual Machine, fine, but we need to make sure that they have little choice but to make it compatible with the rest of the world.
I'm personally not going to go out of my way to recode everything so I have to make two seperate binaries, one for windows, and one for everyone else. The whole point of Java is that I shouldn't have to do that.
While I'm a mac user now (was windows, then linux, then OS X) I'd like to see a few more things done to round it out:
:P
Easy VPN setup (mentioned in the article already, but very important..PPTP and IPSec)
Start the user off as a user with sudo privelages, but not as root...touchy I know for user privs, and it starts off a whole load of but "it's not important" but "oh yes it is" all over the place. OSX manages it nicely, I see no reason why Linux can't do the same.
Bundle an office client. It's KDE...KOffice isn't there by default? ???
I think that's about it. Other than of course throwing in a dock and putty a happy mac face on it.
Dear Gawd: A Beowulf cluster of THOSE!!!????
(2) educate the general public concerning the privacy, security, and other risks of using the Internet to obtain unauthorized copies of copyrighted works;
:P
Hey, don't touch that! You don't know where it's been!
"They're all over me!
They're inside of me!
Can't get 'em offa me.
I'm covered with....(bacteria)...GERMS!"
That doesn't sound too convincing, ANY file you get off the internet is a security concern, no?
Neither Smith nor Berman seemed anxious to comment on the legislation.
Heh...done like any professional three year-old who just messed in his pants.
SEC. 3. DETERRENCE AND COORDINATION.
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall--
(1) develop a program to deter members of the public from committing acts of copyright infringement by--
(A) offering on the Internet copies of copyrighted works, or
(B) making copies of copyrighted works from the Internet, without the authorization of the copyright owners; and
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(2) facilitate the sharing among law enforcement agencies, Internet service providers, and copyright owners of information concerning activities described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
The program under paragraph
(1) shall include issuing appropriate warnings to individuals engaged in an activity described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) that they may be subject to criminal prosecution.
Oooooh, scare tactics. Where's Shannon Doherty?
SEC. 4. DESIGNATION AND TRAINING OF AGENTS IN COMPUTER HACKING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNITS.
(a) DESIGNATION OF AGENTS IN CHIPS UNITS- The Attorney General shall ensure that any unit in the Department of Justice responsible for investigating computer hacking or responsible for investigating intellectual property crimes is assigned at least one agent to support such unit for the purpose of investigating crimes relating to the theft of intellectual property.
(b) TRAINING- The Attorney General shall ensure that each agent assigned under subsection (a) has received training in the investigation and enforcement of intellectual property crimes.
More uber-l337 haxxors.
SEC. 5. EDUCATION PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT- There shall be established within the Office of the Associate Attorney General of the United States an Internet Use Education Program.
(b) PURPOSE- The purpose of the Internet Use Education Program shall be to--
(1) educate the general public concerning the value of copyrighted works and the effects of the theft of such works on those who create them;
(2) educate the general public concerning the privacy, security, and other risks of using the Internet to obtain unauthorized copies of copyrighted works;
(3) coordinate and consult with the Department of Education on compliance by educational institutions with applicable copyright laws involving Internet use; and
(4) coordinate and consult with the Department of Commerce on compliance by corporations with applicable copyright laws involving Internet use.
Free brainwashing too! Man, am I *ever* glad to be living in a country where my congressmen love me so much. I think I'll write them a loveletter right now. Or call them even. Where *did* I put those phone numbers?
Warm water breeds all sorts of wildlife. Use waterbed disinfectant in there (or a small amount of bleach) to keep things clean.
The trick then is that the water containment needs to be waterproof sealed, otherwise as the water evaporates, you'll have chemicals floating around in the air of your house.
Yeah, only mine is company fodder. Or at least was supposed to be. They kept telling me I needed a PDA. I told them that I'd split the cost of an iPod with them since it could double as a backup for our XServe if I used Carbon Copy Cloner. Then they decided I could just have it. Nice guys. :P (Translation, they feel guilty because they don't pay me nearly what I'm worth)
Sorry. Had my 30GB since nearly the day it came out, and the thing locks up usually once per day.
:)
Hopefully the crash bug is fixed. Allelujah for the improved backlighting.
I'm still waiting on the dev kit so I can make games and even better, code something for direct inputs from the iPod into the Calendar and Contacts.
As usual, the Mac Users get shafted
Browser - The Mystery Machine
Unfortunately, the auto makers have decided to sue the Mozilla team for using their trademarked names. The new names are now:
Buffy - Browser
Dawn - Mail Reader
Willow - HTML Editor
Xander - News Reader
Spike - Porn Search Plugin
IBM is going crush SCO. It's gonna take a few years but they have been marked for death. No licensing, no merger, no buyout. Remember, IBM got into a pissing contest with the Justice Dept. in the 70's. In case you need to be reminded the Justice Dept. is part of the U. S. Government who prints the money. The Justice Dept. does not have to show a profit, IBM does. IBM fought the Justice Dept. to a standstill for over 12 years and still showed a profit every year.
IBM most likely employs more people in their legal department than all of SCO. IBM is going to go into court with SCO and stall, bleeding them dry in the process. The legal fees will bankrupt SCO and IBM will not even break a sweat.
You do realize that this is precisely what is so wrong with our legal system and how corporations abuse it, right? It just happens to be working in our favor at the moment, but what happens why Goliath goes after the little guy and the little guy is right?
The only time he gets going is if the conversation goes into tech.
;P
My fiancee tends to complain about that nuance of myself as well....but that's another story.
I see nothing wrong with speaking up and standing up to someone when they are dead wrong, and perhaps a written article doesn't sufficiently express the mood of the meeting as it were. His points were all valid, absolutely. I could also insert a PCI card using a sledge hammer. I wouldn't do so. Some of the n00bs at Best Buy or CompUSA may try that approach however. YMMV..
There is more than one way to get your point across, and I find that 90% of the time accosting the person doesn't have to be the solution.
I won't argue the above remark. Without a doubt it is the truth.
<rant>
But man can he act like an arrogant prick!
I love the products his company makes, and I respect his opinions, but the man needs some serious lessons in humility and respect for others. Servant leadership, lead by serving and showing others, not just by blasting them for being wrong.
</rant>
Okay then.
"Close this book and burn it. Go buy O'Reilly's elephant book, and learn PERL instead." :P
Seriously, I learned QBASIC, and it had me so brain damaged for so long that it took me forever to grasp PERL, and I've still never quite gotten Java, even though I took a college course on the subject.
Stay faaaaaar away from anything with the word 'BASIC' in it. You've been warned.
I use Fire
It too does all of the above, cocoa native. Much in common with Gaim.
Err, yeah, low caffeine intake today. :P
256 x 256 useable addresses, not addresses x networks. Right idea, wrong numbers. To think I actually *passed* that test too.
Not to mention it's probably far fewer addresses because it's probably been vlsm'ed to death in order to make more money.
For those who aren't ccna: /16 = netmask 255.255.0.0
255 addresses x 255 networks - 2 (network and broadcast) = 65023 IP addresses
That's a whole hunka lotta internet...
Those are the two big questions in my mind. I've submitted a few hints myself.
If there's a PDF version, then it should be searchable, making it FAR more useful.
"But why have billions when we can have.....millions?"
I didn't RTFA and I don't care.
:(
It's monday morning. I'm in a bad mood to begin with.
Perhaps I just have a chemical imbalance, or emotional issues, but I swear if I had some sort of automatic weapon available and access to many people at the RIAA....
or perhaps I have a flair for imagination. I'm not violent, but I have a *VERY* low tolerance to pushing around or abusing those with no means to defend themselves.
If you thought that was a troll, I have Karma to burn, so I'll say it again.
This is just NOT right.