hummph. I'm a Mac dork that listens to early WaxTrax! industrial and still has a Nader sticker on her bike. Suppose I should break out the granola and just start crunching, I guess.
Ooh, I hate when guys do that! Even more so because it's the we're-too-smart-to-be-sexist guys.
I hauled my invincible Pismo PowerBook around RPI to laptop classes (which, BTW, were Windows-only). They got really annoyed when I was faster, smarter, and better than them on my beloved 'Book (his name is Xtopalopacetl, btw).
The problem in trying to convince Linux geeks that you're hard-c0re yet still using a Mac, is that they don't believe you can do any significant coding on one. The guys in my house stopped giving me shit when they saw the four translucent terms open (one reading a man page, one compiling with gcc, one using mutt, one ready and waiting).
Y'see, some of us *do* get involved in civil disobedience and counter-civil disobedience. It happens on some college campuses all the time. But you see, that's why some of us own shotguns. Assholes threaten your car, you come out on porch with shotgun in hand, assholes run away. Quite simple.
Shrimp in the air conditioning? Never heard that one before. Is that more like firing mashed potato flechette rounds or like stringing toast garland around someone's house?
I'm feeling ranty this morning, I'm sorry in advance for any bruised inner children. I'll send Band-Aids.
copyright will not be able to survive.
Copyright was initially conceived to keep about half of creative works in the private sector, and half in public domain. This was so a company couldn't claim exclusive rights to, say, the works of Shakespeare or Thoreau, and so that when a copyright was up and an author was out of print with their preferred company, that that work could be reprinted by others and enjoyed all over again, not lost to time. If Alexandria had had more liberal copyrighting (or whatever they called it then), think how much further along we'd be because the burning of the Library wouldn't have been so devastating to our knowledge of the world.
Copyright's place today is not really just tomes anymore, it's about ideas. Look-and-feel and whatnot. Copyright for my posters, for example, means that some poor sumbitch can't use my slogans to get himself elected to student government, or gain the ever-elusive street cred. I can hunt him down and explain to him (first with stale toast, then with moderately-priced lawyers) that he should very carefully consider creating his *own* ideas and not just cribbing mine. Only bad managers do that.
Unfortunately, Sonny Bono fucked copyright. We can unfuck it by resetting the copyright limit to a half-and-half ratio. Oh, and shooting Michael Eisner and Jack Valenti. But that's another/. religious war.
The internet is a big leap in human technology, and it's made a lot of our laws unaplicable.
Horseshit.
We don't need new laws. We need new *precedent*. r00ting a server is trespassing, breaking and entering. Piracy is stealing. Using a Debian box when your OpenBSD machine isn't looking is adultery (keeping the two on the same subnet is bigamy.). Pretty simple stuff to me. Now we just need to explain it to the rest of the world.
The broad problem is that Joe Six-Chip is *afraid of computers*. Because this hypothetical Iowan can read a webpage based in Nairobi, he thinks that there's some weird voodoo mystical stuff happening. It's one step away from landing on the X-Files for some people, and two away from devil worship. Spend some time working in-the-flesh tech support and you'll realize this *very* quickly.
Technophobic populaces generally produce technophobic representatives willfully ignorant of the full ramifications of legislating that new-fangled Enternet.
Yeah, but Helms is a vile segregationist butt-monkey who has done more to undermine the UN and general global peace than anyone other tangible thing (I daren't call him human) on this planet. Unfortunately he was an incumbent Republican in a historically conservative state. I don't think most (not all) liberals could spend enough time in his district to meet residency requirements to run against him. The day I meet him in hell, boiling in the piss of his next-door neighbor Strom Thurmond, will be a good day indeed.
okay, i'm done. sorry, i couldn't hold it in any longer.
He's into rap metal now... I had an mp3 (for amusement value only, mind you) of his remake of "Ice, Ice Baby" with his rap metal band. I tried to claw off my ears when I heard it.
Most places, trash is considered 'public domain'. That is, by physically throwing something out, you're relinquishing your ownership of it. Scavenging information by dumpster-diving is technically legal (whether you're breaking and entering in order to dive in said dumpster is another matter), at least where I've been. This is why companies usually have a shredding/incineration policy with their documents.
So, it would seem that to prosecute criminally using *reasonable* laws, one would have to prove that the *network bandwidth* would have been used by something else, since dnetc only uses the 'thrown out' cycles.
The previous incarnations of MacOS had something called Assimilator we used in our computer labs; did beauty-ful disk re-imaging during the time when most people were out for lunch. I have no doubt that there exists an app to do this in OS X as well.
Also: iPhoto only being available in OS X is not that big a deal, because if you really wanted to do serious digital photography, you'd be using Photoshop, and anyone else has probably upgraded to OS X already because there's no good reason not to (Photoshop is the only thing holding me in Classic right now).
Photoshop is the only, and I mean *only*, app I use Classic for anymore. And even then, I emulate Classic while I've got iTunes, Mail, BBEdit, and IE up, and Photoshop won't even look at me funny.
And before you ask, I've got a 500MHz G3 Powerbook I bought in May 2000, not some snazzy uber dual-G4 butt-thwumper of a PowerMac. OS X runs faster on this machine than OS 9 ever did. Including games. Civ 3 *flies* on this machine, especially compared to my roommate's 700MHz Athlon.
Now, if my nearly 2-year-old portable can kick this much butt, think of what these iLamps can do.
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
Uhhm, actually, I've performed the Pepsi/Coke Taste Test on my mother. She commented, "and it doesn't crash?" A damned shame indeed that her work requires her to use Winblows. And why are these 'Word Bird' examples always female, anyway?
Also, on a slightly lesser note, cars can all drive on the same roads.
I think you're referring more to *protocols* here, as in "computers can all figure out TCP/IP." The more important comparison, I think, is to ask whether you can fit Honda parts onto a BMW, or vice versa. No? Does that affect sales of those cars any? The answer is... no. There are billions and billions of after-market parts for every car under the sun. The same is true whether you run x86, UltraSparcs, or *gasp* even Macs.
Now to go drool over a G4 upgrade for my Powerbook...
You may want to get one of the laptop amps that Thinkgeek sells and preamp your iPod before it hits the cassette adapter. Granted, I've only experimented with my boyfriend's POS Subaru tape deck in his car, but we seemed to get very quiet output.
Really? I love mine. They're the first set of earbuds I can wear without feeling like my ear canal is about to blister. The sound is incredible too; I didn't honestly expect to stop lugging around my humongous Sony V700's. But I did. Damn reality distortion field.
yes, but it's grandfathered. that is, if you already have an ID with your SSN on it, you keep it. so older students still get screwed when they sell our names to the telemarketers.
1.apple is like a mercedes jaguar, very elegent but expensive
used to be unstable(jaguar) so to speak until the latest models
To nitpick briefly, Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz are two entirely different companies. Jaguar is British and sucky. Mercedes-Benz makes German cars descended from *Panzers*.
I'd say that both comparisons are pretty fair though. Macs from the mid-90's era (think System 7.1-ish) are Jaguars: expensive, clunky, in the shop 283 days of the year. My Powerbook, however (a Pismo bought May 2000 and *quite* tricked out), is a friggin' diesel S-class TANK.
In reality, those programs pay whatever they deem "appropriate" for the services rendered, which is usually far below what gets charged. In fact, almost all insurance companies run like that.
A hospital in Chicago that I once worked for got a return of 17 cents on the dollar from Medicare and Medicaid. That is, for every dollar it billed, it usually only recouped about 17 cents. Considering that this was a private hospital that was NOT a trauma center, this really bothered me. Just think what county hospitals ever get back.
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*asshat*? i'm not even sure what that means, but it's damn funny!
12345? That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!
hummph. I'm a Mac dork that listens to early WaxTrax! industrial and still has a Nader sticker on her bike. Suppose I should break out the granola and just start crunching, I guess.
Oh, piss. I tested it on my Pismo... while using a USB keyboard.
Hi, I'm a dumbass too. Dock me a clue point or five, please.
Okay, I'll bite the troll.
Look here, dumbass. Took about two minutes. If you'd Google before you formed an opinion, perhaps you wouldn't need to hide behind an AC so much.
Ooh, I hate when guys do that! Even more so because it's the we're-too-smart-to-be-sexist guys.
I hauled my invincible Pismo PowerBook around RPI to laptop classes (which, BTW, were Windows-only). They got really annoyed when I was faster, smarter, and better than them on my beloved 'Book (his name is Xtopalopacetl, btw).
The problem in trying to convince Linux geeks that you're hard-c0re yet still using a Mac, is that they don't believe you can do any significant coding on one. The guys in my house stopped giving me shit when they saw the four translucent terms open (one reading a man page, one compiling with gcc, one using mutt, one ready and waiting).
So what're they doing now? Buying iBooks.
Beige computers will always look like unholy invaders from another dimension.
a woman named john??
CUPS and Cocoa? Wouldn't that mean hot chocolate for every OSX user?
Yes, but beware. They burned it a bit. Thus all the Carbon.
"That's not a moon, that's a space probe!"
*ducks, runs*
Okay, I'll bite the troll.
Y'see, some of us *do* get involved in civil disobedience and counter-civil disobedience. It happens on some college campuses all the time. But you see, that's why some of us own shotguns. Assholes threaten your car, you come out on porch with shotgun in hand, assholes run away. Quite simple.
Shrimp in the air conditioning? Never heard that one before. Is that more like firing mashed potato flechette rounds or like stringing toast garland around someone's house?
Nah, he won't go for anything fancy. Probably just a token ring.
*runs*
I'm feeling ranty this morning, I'm sorry in advance for any bruised inner children. I'll send Band-Aids.
/. religious war.
copyright will not be able to survive.
Copyright was initially conceived to keep about half of creative works in the private sector, and half in public domain. This was so a company couldn't claim exclusive rights to, say, the works of Shakespeare or Thoreau, and so that when a copyright was up and an author was out of print with their preferred company, that that work could be reprinted by others and enjoyed all over again, not lost to time. If Alexandria had had more liberal copyrighting (or whatever they called it then), think how much further along we'd be because the burning of the Library wouldn't have been so devastating to our knowledge of the world.
Copyright's place today is not really just tomes anymore, it's about ideas. Look-and-feel and whatnot. Copyright for my posters, for example, means that some poor sumbitch can't use my slogans to get himself elected to student government, or gain the ever-elusive street cred. I can hunt him down and explain to him (first with stale toast, then with moderately-priced lawyers) that he should very carefully consider creating his *own* ideas and not just cribbing mine. Only bad managers do that.
Unfortunately, Sonny Bono fucked copyright. We can unfuck it by resetting the copyright limit to a half-and-half ratio. Oh, and shooting Michael Eisner and Jack Valenti. But that's another
The internet is a big leap in human technology, and it's made a lot of our laws unaplicable.
Horseshit.
We don't need new laws. We need new *precedent*. r00ting a server is trespassing, breaking and entering. Piracy is stealing. Using a Debian box when your OpenBSD machine isn't looking is adultery (keeping the two on the same subnet is bigamy.). Pretty simple stuff to me. Now we just need to explain it to the rest of the world.
The broad problem is that Joe Six-Chip is *afraid of computers*. Because this hypothetical Iowan can read a webpage based in Nairobi, he thinks that there's some weird voodoo mystical stuff happening. It's one step away from landing on the X-Files for some people, and two away from devil worship. Spend some time working in-the-flesh tech support and you'll realize this *very* quickly.
Technophobic populaces generally produce technophobic representatives willfully ignorant of the full ramifications of legislating that new-fangled Enternet.
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Yeah, but Helms is a vile segregationist butt-monkey who has done more to undermine the UN and general global peace than anyone other tangible thing (I daren't call him human) on this planet. Unfortunately he was an incumbent Republican in a historically conservative state. I don't think most (not all) liberals could spend enough time in his district to meet residency requirements to run against him. The day I meet him in hell, boiling in the piss of his next-door neighbor Strom Thurmond, will be a good day indeed.
okay, i'm done. sorry, i couldn't hold it in any longer.
But who can forget Vanilla Ice?
He's into rap metal now... I had an mp3 (for amusement value only, mind you) of his remake of "Ice, Ice Baby" with his rap metal band. I tried to claw off my ears when I heard it.
Most places, trash is considered 'public domain'. That is, by physically throwing something out, you're relinquishing your ownership of it. Scavenging information by dumpster-diving is technically legal (whether you're breaking and entering in order to dive in said dumpster is another matter), at least where I've been. This is why companies usually have a shredding/incineration policy with their documents.
So, it would seem that to prosecute criminally using *reasonable* laws, one would have to prove that the *network bandwidth* would have been used by something else, since dnetc only uses the 'thrown out' cycles.
As always, IANAL.
The article was on MacObserver, in the column Through Eolake's Eyes.
The previous incarnations of MacOS had something called Assimilator we used in our computer labs; did beauty-ful disk re-imaging during the time when most people were out for lunch. I have no doubt that there exists an app to do this in OS X as well.
Also: iPhoto only being available in OS X is not that big a deal, because if you really wanted to do serious digital photography, you'd be using Photoshop, and anyone else has probably upgraded to OS X already because there's no good reason not to (Photoshop is the only thing holding me in Classic right now).
Photoshop is the only, and I mean *only*, app I use Classic for anymore. And even then, I emulate Classic while I've got iTunes, Mail, BBEdit, and IE up, and Photoshop won't even look at me funny.
And before you ask, I've got a 500MHz G3 Powerbook I bought in May 2000, not some snazzy uber dual-G4 butt-thwumper of a PowerMac. OS X runs faster on this machine than OS 9 ever did. Including games. Civ 3 *flies* on this machine, especially compared to my roommate's 700MHz Athlon.
Now, if my nearly 2-year-old portable can kick this much butt, think of what these iLamps can do.
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
Uhhm, actually, I've performed the Pepsi/Coke Taste Test on my mother. She commented, "and it doesn't crash?" A damned shame indeed that her work requires her to use Winblows. And why are these 'Word Bird' examples always female, anyway?
Also, on a slightly lesser note, cars can all drive on the same roads.
I think you're referring more to *protocols* here, as in "computers can all figure out TCP/IP." The more important comparison, I think, is to ask whether you can fit Honda parts onto a BMW, or vice versa. No? Does that affect sales of those cars any? The answer is... no. There are billions and billions of after-market parts for every car under the sun. The same is true whether you run x86, UltraSparcs, or *gasp* even Macs.
Now to go drool over a G4 upgrade for my Powerbook...
Yeah, I get ear infections about twice a year m'self. Suppose it's small ear canals or something. ;)
Griffin Technology makes an adapter.
You may want to get one of the laptop amps that Thinkgeek sells and preamp your iPod before it hits the cassette adapter. Granted, I've only experimented with my boyfriend's POS Subaru tape deck in his car, but we seemed to get very quiet output.
2. I don't really like the earbuds.
Really? I love mine. They're the first set of earbuds I can wear without feeling like my ear canal is about to blister. The sound is incredible too; I didn't honestly expect to stop lugging around my humongous Sony V700's. But I did. Damn reality distortion field.
yes, but it's grandfathered. that is, if you already have an ID with your SSN on it, you keep it. so older students still get screwed when they sell our names to the telemarketers.
1.apple is like a mercedes jaguar, very elegent but expensive used to be unstable(jaguar) so to speak until the latest models
To nitpick briefly, Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz are two entirely different companies. Jaguar is British and sucky. Mercedes-Benz makes German cars descended from *Panzers*.
I'd say that both comparisons are pretty fair though. Macs from the mid-90's era (think System 7.1-ish) are Jaguars: expensive, clunky, in the shop 283 days of the year. My Powerbook, however (a Pismo bought May 2000 and *quite* tricked out), is a friggin' diesel S-class TANK.
In reality, those programs pay whatever they deem "appropriate" for the services rendered, which is usually far below what gets charged. In fact, almost all insurance companies run like that.
A hospital in Chicago that I once worked for got a return of 17 cents on the dollar from Medicare and Medicaid. That is, for every dollar it billed, it usually only recouped about 17 cents. Considering that this was a private hospital that was NOT a trauma center, this really bothered me. Just think what county hospitals ever get back.