Laughing my ass off! TWO 30" monitors!?!?!? Where's the company that gives this kind of setup? I'll sign today!
Thank you, Captain Obvious. You've completely ruined my leisurely romp in the GP's fantasy land. Here, let me return the favor. You know all those "interests and hobbies" in pr0n and soft-pr0n mags that the girls always list that are always just ambiguous/common enough to draw some likeness to your interests? They are lies! Their real interests and hobbies include spending their rich boyfriends' money and having sex with people that are not you. Ha! there, how does it feel jackass?
You have to realize though that the Japanese are desperate. While we have plenty of able bodied people to care for elderly, they aren't so lucky. In a matter of decades their work force is going to implode under the strain of an older population.
I can see this as fallout (no pun intended) from WWII really. The US had a baby boom; Japan had to cope with assimilating, through occupation, a new culture. A culture that was somewhat incompatible with their social norms. Now birth rates are falling because what is left of their old culture in their personalities and sensibilities is grinding against their new culture's pace and density. Raising a family is "lame", so nobody is doing it. All this, of course, is gross over-generalization; take it with a giant grain of salt.
If you ask my opinion though, now is the perfect time to start your own Japanese empire.
Move to Japan
Have like 12 kids
Wait a couple generations
...
Profit! (genetically speaking)
Just make sure to save a couple of kids to care for you when you are old and infirm. I seriously doubt this robo-suit thing will pan out.
10k+? A loaded dual G5 with dual 30" displays doesn't even come out to 10k. Apples are a bit more expensive than Wintel machines, but they're not THAT expensive.
Actually, a dual 2.7GHz Powermac with 2x 30" ACDs (and the required 6800) a wireless adaptor, and the standard DVD burning drive costs $9426 (before tax). That's configured with no additional options, from the online Apple Store. That is hardly "loaded". Put in a reasonable amount of ram (2GB) and AppleCare (or your own IT costs for that matter) and you bust 10k easily. Never mind actually configuring a "loaded" machine with lots of ram, HD, gigabit, etc...
THere are people here at work that have 100s in their lists, since they are on my list does that make me cool?
No. RTFM. It only makes you cool if hundreds of people have you on their list. I'm sure the payroll, IT, and PR are the most popular people in your company. Just the ones dumb enough to make their SN public that is.
Just watchout where you get that arctic silver. It can be a real pain to clean up. Though I'm sure for most/.ers they're not gonna care as they'll just replace the whole system in a few months anyways.
Why didn't they opt for the super-slime that they developed under the same program? I see far less potential for abuse as the slime doesn't actively burn you. And when the rioters get home it's not like they'll have as good of a reason to be angry.
"How was the riot?" "We got dispersed." "Did they hurt you? Tear gas? Bean bags? Ray guns?" "Naw, they sprayed us with slime." "Corrosive slime?" "Actually, it was just really slippery so we couldn't stand up." "Those bastards!" "Yeah. Um, I'm gonna go take a couple or three showers now."
Good question. Basically it all boils down to the larger issue of American culture fetishizing violence and demonizing sex.
Why this happens . . . . who knows, but it does serve as more proof that Americans are, in general, completely out of their minds.
Frontierism.
When you are out in the wilderness claiming your Manifest Destiny your priorities become skewed when compared to city life. Kill a man or beat him 'til he's disfigured; nobody's around for miles and miles, nobody cares, the fact that he'll have to live near you only means that now you have the local power. Have unwed sex, and have an unplanned child out of wedlock; nobody's around for miles and miles, all of a sudden, the woman you impregnated can no longer work at 100% AND you have another mouth (that won't be able to contribute for several harsh seasons) to feed with your community's already limited resources.
Considering the US society has only recently stopped it's frontier expansion the whole Violence vs. Sex issue is pretty obvious. In Europe where another child is easily supported by dense urban community its no wonder why Sex is more acceptable.
And another thing, try opening 8 BBEdit windows full of 10pt Monaco PHP, hit expose and tell me how long it takes for you to find the specific window to drop that function reference into.
...It sees that a new Shakespeare movie is opening this weekend, so it alerts me on my cell phone to this fact and asks for permission to go ahead and buy the tickets. ...when it spots somebody offering more than 30% off that price, it goes ahead and buys it (again, or alerts me so I can do it). Even better, it spots it cheap, buys it and then immediately puts it up on ebay at a profit for automatic flipping.
Yeah dude, they're called girlfriends... Oh, wait. Permission? That is a novel,useful idea!
On Mac OS X, we can do this with Exposé. Start a drag, move the mouse to a hot corner, drag over the formerly-obscured window...
Maybe, but under most drag and drop conditions the folding window interface looks to be far faster and more intuitive than the exposé that I use daily. When exposé-ing more than 8 windows it becomes increasingly difficult to track which window I want visually, and I'm running on a fairly decent sized 17" iMac G5. Don't get me wrong, I still think exposé has the edge when it comes to focusing a specific window, but this has drag-drop hands down (even with the thumbswitch exposé on my mouse). Faster by at least a whole second for > 15 windows.
Apprently, they will be replaced by an iPod that transforms into a style-conscious robot. "iKill" will, claim producers, be the first openly gay Transformer.
What about Spike? Oh. Right, he's not a Transformer.
Proven implies that the judgement is made upon facts that are incontrovertible... like the fact that 1 + 1 = 2, arithmetically speaking.
Actually your statement "1 + 1 = 2," here, is an assumption. If you'd like to submit this to the court of/. as a fact, please provide some supporting evidence. Actually, we all know this is pretty much futile.
...Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber who didn't manage to hurt anyone on his airplane but has been annoying travelers ever since. When I join the line of passengers taking off their shoes at the airport, I get little satisfaction in thinking that the man responsible for this ritual is sitting somewhere by himself in a prison cell, probably with his shoes on.
He ought to spend his days within smelling range of all those socks at the airport.
I think, increasingly, that the problem with our system of punishment is the blind compliance with so called "no cruel or unusual punishment" clause. I can think of no situation where any kind of punishment is not "unusual". Crime is supposed to be contrary to proper-functioning social norms (i.e. unusual). We're so concerned with being riteous by definition of the 8th amendment that prisoner reform almost becomes a non-option. Make the criminal do something humiliating? *gasp* We can't do that! That's cruel and unusual! Well, odds are that he's a criminal because normal societal standards didn't/couldn't put him on an honest path; more of the same probably won't either. And I'm not talking about crimes of passion where well adjusted people can, with prison time, repent for something they know they've done wrong. I'm talking about the people who didn't think twice about the morality of what they were doing, the people with utter disregard for others. If I were the sentencing judge for Richard Reid, I'd have him put those sneakers back on and detonate them like he had planned (not on an airplane of course); it is, after all, what he intended to do in the first place. It would then be my cruel and unusual compassion that would keep his miserable existance alive. (Use feet to carry murderous, explosive payload: live life as an multi-amputee; I think that punishment fits the crime.)
Similarly I think that Kevin Mitnick's punishment of tech restriction was fitting (though not necessarily the prison term). The criminal, for lack of a better word, is reformed (no more crime), and can continue to be productive to society (to some extent).
Back to the article, the writer generalizes "hackers" to be basement dwelling teens whose lives revolve around video games. He says that death row will scare the a good many into submission. How exactly will imposing a lasting example of oppression reduce feelings of teen angst against "the man"?
I think a better solution might be to bring back indentured servitude. Send the teen to MS and make him work off his debt to society by finding holes and reporting them to the engineers on the Windows dev team. Make sure he's paid minimum wage minus premiums and interest for his debt of servitude. Keep him at or below the poverty line. No computers outside of his one task of finding the bugs. Non-compete (don't let him use those skills anywhere else). Hell, make it a lifetime obligation. I'm sure the eventual boredom will certainly be "worse than death".
My friends who run OSX all have Logitech 5+ button mice. They'll evangelize apple right up until it comes to buttons - then they stop.
Yep. I'm guilty of that. And might I add that Mac OS X has better multibutton mouse functionality than any other system I've used. Granted, it's not out of the box, but it's pretty easy to find and download.
The technology isn't there to match the dynamics in picking techniques and subtle stylistic interpretations.
Maybe not today, but at this point it is almost inevitable that there will be machines that can out pick Clapton within our lifetime. Just ask Michael Adams.
Maybe we'll see Sharon Apple within our lifetimes too. Just because it can't be done today, doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I can see this as fallout (no pun intended) from WWII really. The US had a baby boom; Japan had to cope with assimilating, through occupation, a new culture. A culture that was somewhat incompatible with their social norms. Now birth rates are falling because what is left of their old culture in their personalities and sensibilities is grinding against their new culture's pace and density. Raising a family is "lame", so nobody is doing it. All this, of course, is gross over-generalization; take it with a giant grain of salt.
If you ask my opinion though, now is the perfect time to start your own Japanese empire.
- Move to Japan
- Have like 12 kids
- Wait a couple generations
- ...
- Profit! (genetically speaking)
Just make sure to save a couple of kids to care for you when you are old and infirm. I seriously doubt this robo-suit thing will pan out.Hey, if there's a chance to see that one-legged DDR guy dances his foot off again, then I'm all for it.
Just watchout where you get that arctic silver. It can be a real pain to clean up. Though I'm sure for most /.ers they're not gonna care as they'll just replace the whole system in a few months anyways.
Why didn't they opt for the super-slime that they developed under the same program? I see far less potential for abuse as the slime doesn't actively burn you. And when the rioters get home it's not like they'll have as good of a reason to be angry.
"How was the riot?"
"We got dispersed."
"Did they hurt you? Tear gas? Bean bags? Ray guns?"
"Naw, they sprayed us with slime."
"Corrosive slime?"
"Actually, it was just really slippery so we couldn't stand up."
"Those bastards!"
"Yeah. Um, I'm gonna go take a couple or three showers now."
When you are out in the wilderness claiming your Manifest Destiny your priorities become skewed when compared to city life. Kill a man or beat him 'til he's disfigured; nobody's around for miles and miles, nobody cares, the fact that he'll have to live near you only means that now you have the local power. Have unwed sex, and have an unplanned child out of wedlock; nobody's around for miles and miles, all of a sudden, the woman you impregnated can no longer work at 100% AND you have another mouth (that won't be able to contribute for several harsh seasons) to feed with your community's already limited resources.
Considering the US society has only recently stopped it's frontier expansion the whole Violence vs. Sex issue is pretty obvious. In Europe where another child is easily supported by dense urban community its no wonder why Sex is more acceptable.
Mofication ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in Mofication?
And another thing, try opening 8 BBEdit windows full of 10pt Monaco PHP, hit expose and tell me how long it takes for you to find the specific window to drop that function reference into.
Yeah. Watch the video; you can fold multiple windows simultaneously.
oops.
- Sit & Spin
which of course is an enhancement to the already-on-the-marketDoes this remind anyone else of "Capacitance Gel" from Demolition Man? That movie keeps getting more and more accurate... Creeepy.
Actually.
Objection, Your Honor!
Grounds?
Stupid!
Similarly I think that Kevin Mitnick's punishment of tech restriction was fitting (though not necessarily the prison term). The criminal, for lack of a better word, is reformed (no more crime), and can continue to be productive to society (to some extent).
Back to the article, the writer generalizes "hackers" to be basement dwelling teens whose lives revolve around video games. He says that death row will scare the a good many into submission. How exactly will imposing a lasting example of oppression reduce feelings of teen angst against "the man"?
I think a better solution might be to bring back indentured servitude. Send the teen to MS and make him work off his debt to society by finding holes and reporting them to the engineers on the Windows dev team. Make sure he's paid minimum wage minus premiums and interest for his debt of servitude. Keep him at or below the poverty line. No computers outside of his one task of finding the bugs. Non-compete (don't let him use those skills anywhere else). Hell, make it a lifetime obligation. I'm sure the eventual boredom will certainly be "worse than death".
You forgot camera. Seriously.
Maybe not today, but at this point it is almost inevitable that there will be machines that can out pick Clapton within our lifetime. Just ask Michael Adams.
Maybe we'll see Sharon Apple within our lifetimes too. Just because it can't be done today, doesn't mean it can't be done.