I wouldn't care one bit if the DRM prevented me from doing anything illegal.
However, I was almost cancellation-mad when I discovered that the DRM gets activated by default *when I try to play instant content over my card's HD output* instead of VGA. Cripes, imagine, the nerve of me wanting to watch *movies* on my *TV*.
I've received unsolicited offers for a domain of my own, and I handled it thusly:
I asked the potential buyer to get a domain name appraisal done by an independent organization that does that sort of thing and share the result with me.
They never called back, so I suppose they were dismayed by the number. I wasn't very keen to sell, so I reckon it worked out well enough.
1 - every soldier swears to uphold the Constitution, which flies in the face of this
2 - By that measure, I suppose it means the military can also muzzle our speech, shut down our newspapers, and deny our assemblies; seize our arms; quarter troops in our homes; try us indefinitely until found guilty; forgo meddlesome juries in the aforementioned; sue us without jury; flay us alive; deny all rights to the people; and likewise the States.
I find it particularly galling in the light that these amendments were created to protect us from the civil operations of the military (who, in 1789, would be doing the searching and seizing in the first place? The militia, that's who).
I'll assent if the Administration will also grant that the 8th amendment doesn't apply to lawyers.
Your reply has an interesting dichotomy; either it's bait (in which case it is very narrowly, er, defined), or it's a counterargument that invites the reader to wonder what the counterargument actually is--in which case it could mean almost anything. I wonder which mind you are of--minuscule? Or nebulous?
Another puissant argument against "warrantless wiretapping." If these investigations and programs (and agents) are so poorly supervised by the FBI, it's ludicrous to insinuate that the people ought to trust them to do the Right Thing.
For some reason people on the Internet *love* to do that. A slashdotter once vindictively posted my personal info from my domain's whois to slashdot because I disagreed with him (and others) in an article discussion. On the Internet, where everyone is sortanonymous, revealing someone's personal information is like painting them with a scarlet "A." Except, of course, the decision to do so is made by an individual rather than a community.
I was somewhat disappointed that the physics in HL2 fails realism testing in at least one respect; on the "bridge" level, I had the idea to run a little experiment: I jumped off the bridge, and then used the "toss" fire for a grenade to see if the grenade and "I" would fall at the same rate. That grenade shot up in the air like a balloon, relative to my descent. I wanted SPLAT-->BANG! and all I got was SPLAT. What's up with that?:)
I'd vote Ed, but that's me. For one, all the higher-ed jobs I've worked in have been state jobs, which means the pay isn't great but nobody's exploiting me either. 40-hour workweeks and non-exemption from overtime means I get to have a personal life. Plus, I have a soft spot for academics and academia. I work for a community college now, but when I worked at a University I truly reveled in being surrounded with smart, serious people who liked what they were doing and kept up with the latest. (Here at a CC it's a little more bread-and-butter, but still OK.) Some schools also grant their employees a semesterly class benefit, which is awesome if you like that sort of thing.
I was embittered by working as an IT head in industry--granted, it was a growing regional business, not a top-10 company. Being named 'manager' without any concomitant power (to make me exempt from OT) and then forcing me to work 90-hour workweeks 200 miles from home was for the birds. I'm guessing your offered industry job would pay you well in exchange for your high responsibility, so it all comes down to personality. Me, I'm pretty laid back and so enjoy the educational environment. Good luck!
You make it sound as if most bloggers are wasting their own and everyone else's time. Sure, that's probably true, but what the hell, man? Don't you make your living off people you don't know providing free content for your blog here? If Bill Gates said something like, "Most OSS programs are created by someone you don't know, and often do something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'coding' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even programs about coding such as CVS. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of programming fame," it'd probably make you a little aggrivated, no? Have mercy on the 'upstarts,' o high and mighty Taco.
All the MUDs, MUSHes, MUCKs and MOOs I've ever been on have been communal efforts that still carry out the self-policing the Net of Yore was capable of providing its users.
People on MUDs are well spoken, too. These are worlds made of words, and if you want to be a real character or stick out from the crowd, you have to chat and write well.
Not to mention the general quality of person you find there. I have never once been called 'n00b' or 'fag' or 'looser' [sic] on a MUD.
I enjoy CS and Halo and all (sorry, I've avoided the MMORPGs all these years for time & finance benefits), but not enough to completely counteract the negativity of a bunch of illiterate 12-year-olds trying to out-curse each other with the same five words over and over and over and over... you know?
If James Madison were to answer this shrill, pathos-centric diatribe he'd not only tell him he's dead wrong, but would also rhetorically wipe Jack Thompson all over the floor. What a rediculous thing for Thompson to say.
I remember being a trepedacious teen trying to work up the courage to call a certain girl... and sitting there with my finger against the stop, the last number (a nine) half-dialled, heart pounding.
I haven't thought about that in years. I guess now you could say it was "Obsolete Panic.":D
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I wouldn't care one bit if the DRM prevented me from doing anything illegal.
However, I was almost cancellation-mad when I discovered that the DRM gets activated by default *when I try to play instant content over my card's HD output* instead of VGA. Cripes, imagine, the nerve of me wanting to watch *movies* on my *TV*.
Wesley Willis is the ONLY person capable of utilizing this technology to its full potential.
Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago!
Pontiac: We build excitement.
[Headbutt]
Honest and useful. I approve!
"Aieee, killing interrupt handler" (Linux kernel)
PS, hey, I still have Excellent karma... why no bonus? Now I'm, like, nobody!
"Few users will like an error message no matter how well it is designed."
--Roger S. Pressman, _Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach_
I've received unsolicited offers for a domain of my own, and I handled it thusly: I asked the potential buyer to get a domain name appraisal done by an independent organization that does that sort of thing and share the result with me. They never called back, so I suppose they were dismayed by the number. I wasn't very keen to sell, so I reckon it worked out well enough.
I do not doubt it.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-TJ
1 - every soldier swears to uphold the Constitution, which flies in the face of this
2 - By that measure, I suppose it means the military can also muzzle our speech, shut down our newspapers, and deny our assemblies; seize our arms; quarter troops in our homes; try us indefinitely until found guilty; forgo meddlesome juries in the aforementioned; sue us without jury; flay us alive; deny all rights to the people; and likewise the States.
I find it particularly galling in the light that these amendments were created to protect us from the civil operations of the military (who, in 1789, would be doing the searching and seizing in the first place? The militia, that's who).
I'll assent if the Administration will also grant that the 8th amendment doesn't apply to lawyers.
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
--T.S. Eliot
Then wasn't the "observable universe" just smaller? Or does the term refer to light that could possibly reach us during the age of the universe?
"We can see all the way out to the edge of the observable universe." ...is that so? Amazing.
Your reply has an interesting dichotomy; either it's bait (in which case it is very narrowly, er, defined), or it's a counterargument that invites the reader to wonder what the counterargument actually is--in which case it could mean almost anything. I wonder which mind you are of--minuscule? Or nebulous?
Another puissant argument against "warrantless wiretapping." If these investigations and programs (and agents) are so poorly supervised by the FBI, it's ludicrous to insinuate that the people ought to trust them to do the Right Thing.
For some reason people on the Internet *love* to do that. A slashdotter once vindictively posted my personal info from my domain's whois to slashdot because I disagreed with him (and others) in an article discussion. On the Internet, where everyone is sortanonymous, revealing someone's personal information is like painting them with a scarlet "A." Except, of course, the decision to do so is made by an individual rather than a community.
the gases...that make up a lot of electronics are particularly harmful for the environment
Yet another good reason not to let out the magic smoke.
I was somewhat disappointed that the physics in HL2 fails realism testing in at least one respect; on the "bridge" level, I had the idea to run a little experiment: I jumped off the bridge, and then used the "toss" fire for a grenade to see if the grenade and "I" would fall at the same rate. That grenade shot up in the air like a balloon, relative to my descent. I wanted SPLAT-->BANG! and all I got was SPLAT. What's up with that? :)
I'd vote Ed, but that's me. For one, all the higher-ed jobs I've worked in have been state jobs, which means the pay isn't great but nobody's exploiting me either. 40-hour workweeks and non-exemption from overtime means I get to have a personal life. Plus, I have a soft spot for academics and academia. I work for a community college now, but when I worked at a University I truly reveled in being surrounded with smart, serious people who liked what they were doing and kept up with the latest. (Here at a CC it's a little more bread-and-butter, but still OK.) Some schools also grant their employees a semesterly class benefit, which is awesome if you like that sort of thing.
I was embittered by working as an IT head in industry--granted, it was a growing regional business, not a top-10 company. Being named 'manager' without any concomitant power (to make me exempt from OT) and then forcing me to work 90-hour workweeks 200 miles from home was for the birds. I'm guessing your offered industry job would pay you well in exchange for your high responsibility, so it all comes down to personality. Me, I'm pretty laid back and so enjoy the educational environment. Good luck!
You make it sound as if most bloggers are wasting their own and everyone else's time. Sure, that's probably true, but what the hell, man? Don't you make your living off people you don't know providing free content for your blog here? If Bill Gates said something like, "Most OSS programs are created by someone you don't know, and often do something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'coding' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even programs about coding such as CVS. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of programming fame," it'd probably make you a little aggrivated, no? Have mercy on the 'upstarts,' o high and mighty Taco.
All the MUDs, MUSHes, MUCKs and MOOs I've ever been on have been communal efforts that still carry out the self-policing the Net of Yore was capable of providing its users.
People on MUDs are well spoken, too. These are worlds made of words, and if you want to be a real character or stick out from the crowd, you have to chat and write well.
Not to mention the general quality of person you find there. I have never once been called 'n00b' or 'fag' or 'looser' [sic] on a MUD.
I enjoy CS and Halo and all (sorry, I've avoided the MMORPGs all these years for time & finance benefits), but not enough to completely counteract the negativity of a bunch of illiterate 12-year-olds trying to out-curse each other with the same five words over and over and over and over... you know?
If James Madison were to answer this shrill, pathos-centric diatribe he'd not only tell him he's dead wrong, but would also rhetorically wipe Jack Thompson all over the floor. What a rediculous thing for Thompson to say.
Hey, I warned you!
This study will cause an infinite loop..PLEASE SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY. 0x381F
You might appreciate, then, that Dr. Penrose once said, "It is better to be wrong than to be vague."
I remember being a trepedacious teen trying to work up the courage to call a certain girl... and sitting there with my finger against the stop, the last number (a nine) half-dialled, heart pounding.
:D
I haven't thought about that in years. I guess now you could say it was "Obsolete Panic."