The Slashdot Cruiser. Wow, I'd forgotten about that. I remember entering that contest. Who won that damn thing? And what did they do with it? Will a search find the answer?
Yeah, it's off-topic. If I didn't occasionally drop my karma down to 48, I wouldn't have anything to live for.
Like you, I've been online forever and I don't mangle addresses - I've just gotten really good at writing filters. I went the whole weekend without checking email. Out of 191 messages late Sunday, 80 were caught as spam and only 5 spams got through to my inbox. Switched to Eudora about a month ago, so I've been busy re-writing them all.
Most of the Chinese/Korean spam you can get rid of by filtering on character codes. I find that almost all the Korean stuff is sent from.kr addresses. Simple enough to filter. Anything that's got 'opt-in' or 'opt-out' in it is likely spam, although you might want to 'and' that with something else. (Funny thing, I had one that got through last week, with what looked like 'opt-out' at the bottom. It didn't get filtered, so I looked closer. They used a zero for the second 'o'. Smart. But it only works once. And I have no recollection of what they were trying to sell, so they failed to grab my attention.)
The thing to do with each spam is to try to determine what this will have in common with all the other ones that will follow. I always try to come up with two unique filters for each spam that gets through. Like 'any gamble-anything in the headers' or 'guaranteed to win' in the body.
I found that I was much happier once I accepted that spam was going to enter my inbox and that I would just have to deal with it, instead of railing against each and every one of them. I send my congress-critters a report at the first of every month that tells them how much spam I get and how I feel about it. I think, long term, that's going to be the only solution. We only stopped getting reams of fax-spams (remember them?) once congress passed a law. Gotta keep the pressure on.
What are you allowed to do with MS's shared source?: Pretty much anything except make money.
You can teach it, write books about it, and experiment with it, but you can't sell any program you write with it. Fine if you're a hobbyist, but some of us have families and stomachs and houses and cars to support.
MS is trying to subsume Open Source and the GPL. The GPL allows you to sell the fruits of your labor. Maybe you aren't good enough of a programmer to ever consider selling anything you write. The rest of us, who make a living writing software, can't afford to do it for free.
Have you ever looked at the license agreements with MS's regular compilers? You can't write: Compilers, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, or anything else that competes with a product that MS writes. And you want to sign on. Go right ahead. The rest of us will be out here, in the FREE world, not locked into proprietary 'shared source' licenses that do nothing except increase MS's market share.
I guess you've given up on making money for yourself and now have turned to making more for MS. How altruistic of you. I'm sure Bill will remember you in his will.
So you're here in Open Source/GPL land, pimping MS, while I sit in corporate America, attempting to get a division of the largest financial institution in the country to use more open source software. Wonder which of us sleeps better at night?
Sheep. I'm surrounded by sheep. Blind sheep, at that.
You've probably got signatures disabled. A bunch (at least 10, or so, but not more than 50) of the biggest whiners on here decided that this week "we" would have a blackout to show those evil, conspiratorial slashdot editors that the aforementioned whiners are a force to be reckoned with and should be listened to. Can't say that I notice anything different today, other than a little less whining.
I think they should extend the whine-out indefinitely and go bug some other online forum. Plastic's still going, right? Or maybe one of them can buy 'imawhiner.com' and start some discussion there.
Anyway. They were all advertising it in their sigs. That's likely why you missed it. Consider it a bonus for all the good kharma you've been racking up lately. Or something.
The obvious next step is to buy a boat, invest in a good telescope with a camera that attaches, then hang out on the river that runs through Bill Gates' backyard. Bill's kids should be about the right age for this sort of thing. I would imagine daddy has bought them a swing of some sort.
The rest is obvious. Except for which lawyer you should employ. I don't know that Johnny Cochran would be right for this.
"If sideways the child swings,
the money must be brought in."
Nope, not quite right.
"If the swing goes side-to-side,
the money is ours to divide."
There's this thing called a volume control. With a good set of speakers (Altec Lansings should be good enough) he can turn the volume knob clockwise, (some go all the way to eleven) and make the sound coming out of the speakers louder. Really, really loud if he wants. I've got a couple of cheap Bose speakers at home and I can't turn the knob above 3 on my stereo (townhouse) without annoying the neighbors. I doubt you'd be able to hear anything short of a gun going off at close range if I cranked it up to around 8 or so.
Seems like his problem is more in finding a good balance between the loudness of the music and people playing the games being able to hear what's going on. I can't remember too many arcade games that require you to hear them, though. In fact, I can't remember any. Of course, I stopped playing them around 1985, so perhaps the later ones required it.
Actually, the article didn't mention how he controls volume. Good question. Never mind.
Verisign offer Tours of their Virginia NOC. Do they take you there blindfolded?
No, but occasionally they move the building (a really big tractor trailer) and a couple of times a year they move Virginia. You probably wouldn't notice if you didn't live there, but I live right next door in Maryland and have noticed that sometimes Virginia seems to be in a different place.
Weirded me out the first time; now I'm pretty much used to it. It's really weird when you're hiking the Appalachian trail. But that's an entirely different story.
Saw an ad for LOTR on TV last night. Starting the 29th, they'll start showing advance previews of Two Towers when you go see Fellowship. The scene they showed on TV looked like Helm's Deep, although it could have been Rohan.
Are you guessing that lawmakers get just as much spam as we do or do you know something? I happen to know that spammers filter out all.gov addresses. For a long time, they also filtered on.net since that was mainly system admin types for a few years and we have a vicious bite. That may have changed. I haven't been a sysadmin for a couple of years now.
Perhaps they get a lot of spam on their home accounts, but how much time does the average lawmaker have for casual surfing? I doubt more than one or two have ever posted to Usenet.
However, now that I think about it, I think I will send my representatives (2 senators and a congressperson) a detailed description of how much spam I get at the beginning of every month, summarizing the previous month's activities. I just switched to Eudora a couple of weeks ago, so it's all fresh in my mind - I get 30-50 spams a day. (2 domains aliased to an email address that's 6 years old. I don't bother spam-proofing. Filters are all that stand between me and insanity. It's a fun game, if you look at it that way - "How do I ensure that I never see any email like this again?" After 2 weeks, I'm down to seeing about 3 new spams a day. In a couple more weeks I should be down to 1 a day. I think that's about as low as I can possibly go.)
I met my wife online a little over 4 years ago. How much more serious than that can you get? What, you're going to die online? Perhaps finding out you got cancer, or that your home town got nuked, or something. I guess that's serious. I dont know about you, but I've been doing serious stuff online for years.
First, it's hypocrisy. Second, there's about 750,000 unique/. readers on any given day. To think that we all have the same feelings about everything is woefully narrow-minded. Thirdly, we can disagree with something and yet still support it.
I disagree with some things the US Government does and yet I still pay my taxes and vote, and at this point have no plans to emigrate. If I disagree enough, I'll write letters or email. The same with the MPAA. I see about 2 movies a year at the theaters and I rent about a dozen (aside from all the ones we get for the 3-year-old.) If they do something I don't like, I let them know. That doesn't mean I should stop giving my money to Ridley Scott or John Waters.
Support the movies/actors/directors that you like. Let your elected representatives hear about your disapproval of them trying to hijack our culture's intellectual property. I watch independent flicks (on Bravo, IFC, Videos, etc.) and I support small-time independent music-makers, especially foreign ones like Wes and Saliif Keita. I don't buy 'produced' bands like N'Sync and such. Support the bands that spent years playing bars before they were discovered. Those are the 'real' musicians.
That's really about all you can do. Boycotting can be an effective strategy, but I don't believe you're even on the radar screens yet. Perhaps if their control measures become more draconian there will be enough of a groundswell of support. Until then, I'll continue to consume in small, carefully regulated dabs of consumerism and let any displeasure be heard by my senators and congresspersons (who, really, actually, do listen, BTW.)
I can't find details on how the score was kept. I played a lot of Asteroids around 1980 or so. Not having a lot of money, it was nice to be able to play for an hour on one quarter, but, the game rolls over every 100,000 points. So, how was a score of 41 million verified?
I'm trying to remember, but it seems like every 100,000 points would take about 20 minutes. Instead of clearing the screen of all asteroids, you would leave one slow one. Then, you would get your ship to fly straight up and down (the screen wrapped) and shoot the little alien ships. These things are 1000 points apiece, and every 10,000 points, you get a new ship. They come out about every 20 seconds, so with shooting time, you could probably kill 2, maybe 3 a minute. If 3 a minute, it would take 33 minutes to get to 100,000 points. 5 hours to get to 1,000,000 points. 200 hours to get to 40,000,000 points.
Maybe they come out a little faster than that. If you kill one as soon as it appears, you might be able to get one every 10 seconds. So it would only take 100 hours of playing.
Anybody else who played it got a better idea of how long this took and how they verified the score? I don't want to throw the bullshit flag, but the fact is, the game didn't keep score over 99,990 and I can't believe anyone played for 100 hours straight. The extra ships pile up, and you can just let the game sit while you eat and go to the bathroom, but I have no clue how you would get this high of a score. I remember reading about some guy who was trying for the high score and passed out after 27 hours. I, myself, could never go more than 2 hours before getting tired. I don't know that I ever even got 1 million points.
It was a good way to while away some time at the Majik Market, though. In a later life, I got good at Missile Command and was able to wrap that at 1 million points. Then all the fighting games started to take over and I got tired of it.
Wow, that's really something. £30 is $45? Man, I can remember when it was 8 dollars to the pound. How far the mighty have fallen.
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We've been talking about this on weblogs for a couple of months now. It's not as bad as it appears.
Imagine you're the patriarch of a clan, and everyone in your clan has a homepage. All of your descendants' home pages have links to your home page, since you're the head dude. Your home page only has one word on it - say it's 'thrombosis'. Since Google bases the relevance of its search results on how many links there are to any page, any search for 'thrombosis' will likely show your home page as the number one search result, because you've got the word on your web page and dozens of links to your home page on other sites.
Once you think about how Google's rankings work, you can easily figure out how to game the system. That's why Dave Winer (token head of all webloggers) is usually the first result of a search on 'Dave'.
As far as googlewhacking is concerned, it's not as easy as it looks. Try 'parrhesia verboten'. I stopped once I found that one, proving to myself that it can be done.:)
Yeah, right. Who could come up with more than a hundred? Unless you start naming them 'blue-black-yellow' or 'magenta-crimson-puce' or something like that. Really, the color wheel is infinite, but common names for colors is very limited, especially in a large server environment - such as one of the largest financial institutions in the country. Ahem.
On a personal note, I've always named my own machine 'Mother Love Bone'. When allowed, that is. RIP, Andrew Wood.
I take issue with this survey. I'm not going to pay the money to see the survey, but I challenge its findings. A phone survey of 3000 people. Statistically, it's relevant, but are the answers? I'm not a professional pollster, but I've been doing computer stuff for over 20 years and I'm going to have to beg to differ.
Asking someone how good they are at stuff is not an accurate way of judging how good they really are. What were the actual questions?
Q1. Do you consider yourself computer savvy?
Q2. Do you know how to make a bookmark in MS Word?
Q3. Given a bunch of components could you put together your own computer and install an OS on it?
These 3 questions measure different things. The guy in Nebraska might have been using MS Word for 5 years and knows it inside out, so considers himself computer savvy, but yet couldn't for the life of him figure out how to do anything else. Do we consider that person knowledgeable?
They did a study a few years ago and determined that people who were truly incompetent didn't know they were incompetent. Also, people who really were competent tended to underestimate themselves.
Call me cynical or a skeptic, but this kind of broad survey is difficult for me to swallow. Were the questions of the "How would you rate yourself" kind, or the "What's an inode" kind. Most surveys I've seen are of the former sort and those are crap, statistically significant number of participants or not.
$21 per gigabyte of storage on mp3 players? Well, you can buy a roopaq without a hard disk, then buy the hard disk separately. Hard for Fujitsu or IBM to know you're going to be putting it in an MP3 player. I would imagine if something similar passes in the US, it won't be long before most MP3 players come without built-in storage. You'll just buy flash cards or hard disks separately.
There's always a way around the draconian measures these idiots come up with. I'm already a criminal, (speeding, jaywalking, ripping tags off mattresses, driving after having a beer with dinner, taping NFL broadcasts without express written permission, etc.) what's one more illegal act?
I can't decide whether this is just the ultimately geeky thing to do, or a ploy to get/. into the national news. Either way, I hope she accepts. Everyone deserves a little happiness. You go, Rob. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day. How womantic.
The Slashdot editors are human. They make mistakes. In addition to which, it's possible for something to be unimportant at one time and very important at a later time. For instance, I believe the world's reaction to Tim Berners-Lee creating the first html document was a big yawn. Look at everyone now.
As someone who's had submissions (that I thought were timely and relevant) rejected, I feel for you. I doubt it's a conspiracy.
Hmmm. I'm going to have to point you to some fetish sites. Not any of them in particular, but in general. There are fetish sites for large women, short women, pregnant women, hirsute women, amputees, double amputees. Need I go on? You just need to point out that a particular webcam points in the direction of a short, bald, grossly overweight, albino grandmother and I guarantee you'll have 20 guys from all over the world glued to the page, hoping to catch a glimpse of some skin. (I won't be one of them, but we won't go into my particular peccadillos at this point in time.)
I can't guarantee that any of them will save all the images but, as we programmers like to say, that's an implementation detail. RCH?
Get a new domain - hotchicksinoffices.com or something like that - set up your cameras as webcams, get every employee to link to that homepage so that Google ranks it high, get a little word-of-mouth advertising via your geekiest employees, then, to coin (and extend) Linus's infamous line: "Let the perverts on the net mirror your images." It might help if you could get your female employees to dress slutty, sometimes. You could have "Dress Slutty Fridays" or "Hooker Thursdays". If you have any good-looking men, you might try the same thing for them. "Lumberjack Days" and "Construction Worker Week" might do well in certain markets.
I don't really know how you would get the correct images back if you need them. Hmmm, maybe a promotion for somebody to win something if they have images with a certain timestamp. Perhaps a date with the cute secretary. Or money, if you have to stoop that low.
Yeah, I thought that this would allow me to read at -1 again, which I used to enjoy. I guess I'll stay at browsing at 0. Wonder if there's a setting I missed...
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You have some very good points. For some reason these terrorists had it in for the World Trade Center and (more obviously) for the Pentagon. If I was a terrorist, I wouldn't have bothered with the Pentagon. I would have taken out a nuclear power plant. Far wider reaching consequences. Way harder to clean up. Much more devastating to the continued health of a nation. (The consequences here would be far-reaching, including what if we decided to get rid of all nuclear plants to remove future threats? Greatly increase our dependence on foreign oil.)
Also, what's the average number of people killed in a plane crash? 100? Here we have 4 planes with 3000 dead. 750 apiece. And if we only consider the WTCs, 1400 apiece. That's 14 of the accidental crashes rolled into one.
We can decrease deaths in a whole bunch of ways: outlaw tobacco; all cars older than 5 years go to the scrap heap (so you always have the latest and greatest safety devices); outlaw all guns (90% chance that if you die by gun, it's someone you know, not some random criminal); mandatory healthy diets and exercise for everyone.:)
It's possible for us to live more safely, but there's a limit to how safe I want to be. Airlines have an interest in making their planes safe. If that 10% improvement comes at the cost of doubling ticket prices, are you willing to pay that? The odds already seem pretty good to me. What about a further 10%? Double it again? Pretty soon only millionaires would be flying in super-safe planes. Although, if it was possible to make super-safe planes, why wouldn't the millionaires have them now? Maybe planes are already about as safe as we can make them.
I think this is bogus. See all the other posts as to why.
The rumor I'm getting is that the big announcement is the 'IDock'. An LCD screen with a keyboard/mouse and a wireless connection back to the PC. Take it anywhere while your Mac sits safely in a closet. Doubt that it's Bluetooth, probably 802.11a[b?]. Could also be a pen driven thingy instead of the keyboard. At least that's what I've heard. Don't know what the limit on range is, but it should take you out to the pool or patio. Sounds pretty sweet.
Along with OS X and the IPod, I'm thinking of going back to Apple. My IIe needs company.:)
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Yeah, it's off-topic. If I didn't occasionally drop my karma down to 48, I wouldn't have anything to live for.
Most of the Chinese/Korean spam you can get rid of by filtering on character codes. I find that almost all the Korean stuff is sent from .kr addresses. Simple enough to filter. Anything that's got 'opt-in' or 'opt-out' in it is likely spam, although you might want to 'and' that with something else. (Funny thing, I had one that got through last week, with what looked like 'opt-out' at the bottom. It didn't get filtered, so I looked closer. They used a zero for the second 'o'. Smart. But it only works once. And I have no recollection of what they were trying to sell, so they failed to grab my attention.)
The thing to do with each spam is to try to determine what this will have in common with all the other ones that will follow. I always try to come up with two unique filters for each spam that gets through. Like 'any gamble-anything in the headers' or 'guaranteed to win' in the body.
I found that I was much happier once I accepted that spam was going to enter my inbox and that I would just have to deal with it, instead of railing against each and every one of them. I send my congress-critters a report at the first of every month that tells them how much spam I get and how I feel about it. I think, long term, that's going to be the only solution. We only stopped getting reams of fax-spams (remember them?) once congress passed a law. Gotta keep the pressure on.
What are you allowed to do with MS's shared source?: Pretty much anything except make money. You can teach it, write books about it, and experiment with it, but you can't sell any program you write with it. Fine if you're a hobbyist, but some of us have families and stomachs and houses and cars to support.
MS is trying to subsume Open Source and the GPL. The GPL allows you to sell the fruits of your labor. Maybe you aren't good enough of a programmer to ever consider selling anything you write. The rest of us, who make a living writing software, can't afford to do it for free.
Have you ever looked at the license agreements with MS's regular compilers? You can't write: Compilers, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, or anything else that competes with a product that MS writes. And you want to sign on. Go right ahead. The rest of us will be out here, in the FREE world, not locked into proprietary 'shared source' licenses that do nothing except increase MS's market share.
I guess you've given up on making money for yourself and now have turned to making more for MS. How altruistic of you. I'm sure Bill will remember you in his will.
So you're here in Open Source/GPL land, pimping MS, while I sit in corporate America, attempting to get a division of the largest financial institution in the country to use more open source software. Wonder which of us sleeps better at night?
Sheep. I'm surrounded by sheep. Blind sheep, at that.
I think they should extend the whine-out indefinitely and go bug some other online forum. Plastic's still going, right? Or maybe one of them can buy 'imawhiner.com' and start some discussion there.
Anyway. They were all advertising it in their sigs. That's likely why you missed it. Consider it a bonus for all the good kharma you've been racking up lately. Or something.
The rest is obvious. Except for which lawyer you should employ. I don't know that Johnny Cochran would be right for this.
"If sideways the child swings,
the money must be brought in."
Nope, not quite right.
"If the swing goes side-to-side,
the money is ours to divide."
There, I like that one.
Seems like his problem is more in finding a good balance between the loudness of the music and people playing the games being able to hear what's going on. I can't remember too many arcade games that require you to hear them, though. In fact, I can't remember any. Of course, I stopped playing them around 1985, so perhaps the later ones required it.
Actually, the article didn't mention how he controls volume. Good question. Never mind.
Weirded me out the first time; now I'm pretty much used to it. It's really weird when you're hiking the Appalachian trail. But that's an entirely different story.
There's your reason to go see it again.
Are you guessing that lawmakers get just as much spam as we do or do you know something? I happen to know that spammers filter out all .gov addresses. For a long time, they also filtered on .net since that was mainly system admin types for a few years and we have a vicious bite. That may have changed. I haven't been a sysadmin for a couple of years now.
Perhaps they get a lot of spam on their home accounts, but how much time does the average lawmaker have for casual surfing? I doubt more than one or two have ever posted to Usenet.
However, now that I think about it, I think I will send my representatives (2 senators and a congressperson) a detailed description of how much spam I get at the beginning of every month, summarizing the previous month's activities. I just switched to Eudora a couple of weeks ago, so it's all fresh in my mind - I get 30-50 spams a day. (2 domains aliased to an email address that's 6 years old. I don't bother spam-proofing. Filters are all that stand between me and insanity. It's a fun game, if you look at it that way - "How do I ensure that I never see any email like this again?" After 2 weeks, I'm down to seeing about 3 new spams a day. In a couple more weeks I should be down to 1 a day. I think that's about as low as I can possibly go.)
I met my wife online a little over 4 years ago. How much more serious than that can you get? What, you're going to die online? Perhaps finding out you got cancer, or that your home town got nuked, or something. I guess that's serious. I dont know about you, but I've been doing serious stuff online for years.
I disagree with some things the US Government does and yet I still pay my taxes and vote, and at this point have no plans to emigrate. If I disagree enough, I'll write letters or email. The same with the MPAA. I see about 2 movies a year at the theaters and I rent about a dozen (aside from all the ones we get for the 3-year-old.) If they do something I don't like, I let them know. That doesn't mean I should stop giving my money to Ridley Scott or John Waters.
Support the movies/actors/directors that you like. Let your elected representatives hear about your disapproval of them trying to hijack our culture's intellectual property. I watch independent flicks (on Bravo, IFC, Videos, etc.) and I support small-time independent music-makers, especially foreign ones like Wes and Saliif Keita. I don't buy 'produced' bands like N'Sync and such. Support the bands that spent years playing bars before they were discovered. Those are the 'real' musicians.
That's really about all you can do. Boycotting can be an effective strategy, but I don't believe you're even on the radar screens yet. Perhaps if their control measures become more draconian there will be enough of a groundswell of support. Until then, I'll continue to consume in small, carefully regulated dabs of consumerism and let any displeasure be heard by my senators and congresspersons (who, really, actually, do listen, BTW.)
I'm trying to remember, but it seems like every 100,000 points would take about 20 minutes. Instead of clearing the screen of all asteroids, you would leave one slow one. Then, you would get your ship to fly straight up and down (the screen wrapped) and shoot the little alien ships. These things are 1000 points apiece, and every 10,000 points, you get a new ship. They come out about every 20 seconds, so with shooting time, you could probably kill 2, maybe 3 a minute. If 3 a minute, it would take 33 minutes to get to 100,000 points. 5 hours to get to 1,000,000 points. 200 hours to get to 40,000,000 points.
Maybe they come out a little faster than that. If you kill one as soon as it appears, you might be able to get one every 10 seconds. So it would only take 100 hours of playing.
Anybody else who played it got a better idea of how long this took and how they verified the score? I don't want to throw the bullshit flag, but the fact is, the game didn't keep score over 99,990 and I can't believe anyone played for 100 hours straight. The extra ships pile up, and you can just let the game sit while you eat and go to the bathroom, but I have no clue how you would get this high of a score. I remember reading about some guy who was trying for the high score and passed out after 27 hours. I, myself, could never go more than 2 hours before getting tired. I don't know that I ever even got 1 million points.
It was a good way to while away some time at the Majik Market, though. In a later life, I got good at Missile Command and was able to wrap that at 1 million points. Then all the fighting games started to take over and I got tired of it.
Wow, that's really something. £30 is $45? Man, I can remember when it was 8 dollars to the pound. How far the mighty have fallen.
Imagine you're the patriarch of a clan, and everyone in your clan has a homepage. All of your descendants' home pages have links to your home page, since you're the head dude. Your home page only has one word on it - say it's 'thrombosis'. Since Google bases the relevance of its search results on how many links there are to any page, any search for 'thrombosis' will likely show your home page as the number one search result, because you've got the word on your web page and dozens of links to your home page on other sites.
Once you think about how Google's rankings work, you can easily figure out how to game the system. That's why Dave Winer (token head of all webloggers) is usually the first result of a search on 'Dave'.
As far as googlewhacking is concerned, it's not as easy as it looks. Try 'parrhesia verboten'. I stopped once I found that one, proving to myself that it can be done. :)
Oh, now that one's funny. What color is #DEADBEEF?
Colors will never run out
Yeah, right. Who could come up with more than a hundred? Unless you start naming them 'blue-black-yellow' or 'magenta-crimson-puce' or something like that. Really, the color wheel is infinite, but common names for colors is very limited, especially in a large server environment - such as one of the largest financial institutions in the country. Ahem.
On a personal note, I've always named my own machine 'Mother Love Bone'. When allowed, that is. RIP, Andrew Wood.
Asking someone how good they are at stuff is not an accurate way of judging how good they really are. What were the actual questions?
Q1. Do you consider yourself computer savvy?
Q2. Do you know how to make a bookmark in MS Word?
Q3. Given a bunch of components could you put together your own computer and install an OS on it?
These 3 questions measure different things. The guy in Nebraska might have been using MS Word for 5 years and knows it inside out, so considers himself computer savvy, but yet couldn't for the life of him figure out how to do anything else. Do we consider that person knowledgeable?
They did a study a few years ago and determined that people who were truly incompetent didn't know they were incompetent. Also, people who really were competent tended to underestimate themselves.
Call me cynical or a skeptic, but this kind of broad survey is difficult for me to swallow. Were the questions of the "How would you rate yourself" kind, or the "What's an inode" kind. Most surveys I've seen are of the former sort and those are crap, statistically significant number of participants or not.
There's always a way around the draconian measures these idiots come up with. I'm already a criminal, (speeding, jaywalking, ripping tags off mattresses, driving after having a beer with dinner, taping NFL broadcasts without express written permission, etc.) what's one more illegal act?
I can't decide whether this is just the ultimately geeky thing to do, or a ploy to get /. into the national news. Either way, I hope she accepts. Everyone deserves a little happiness. You go, Rob. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day. How womantic.
As someone who's had submissions (that I thought were timely and relevant) rejected, I feel for you. I doubt it's a conspiracy.
I can't guarantee that any of them will save all the images but, as we programmers like to say, that's an implementation detail. RCH?
I don't really know how you would get the correct images back if you need them. Hmmm, maybe a promotion for somebody to win something if they have images with a certain timestamp. Perhaps a date with the cute secretary. Or money, if you have to stoop that low.
Yeah, I thought that this would allow me to read at -1 again, which I used to enjoy. I guess I'll stay at browsing at 0. Wonder if there's a setting I missed...
Also, what's the average number of people killed in a plane crash? 100? Here we have 4 planes with 3000 dead. 750 apiece. And if we only consider the WTCs, 1400 apiece. That's 14 of the accidental crashes rolled into one.
We can decrease deaths in a whole bunch of ways: outlaw tobacco; all cars older than 5 years go to the scrap heap (so you always have the latest and greatest safety devices); outlaw all guns (90% chance that if you die by gun, it's someone you know, not some random criminal); mandatory healthy diets and exercise for everyone. :)
It's possible for us to live more safely, but there's a limit to how safe I want to be. Airlines have an interest in making their planes safe. If that 10% improvement comes at the cost of doubling ticket prices, are you willing to pay that? The odds already seem pretty good to me. What about a further 10%? Double it again? Pretty soon only millionaires would be flying in super-safe planes. Although, if it was possible to make super-safe planes, why wouldn't the millionaires have them now? Maybe planes are already about as safe as we can make them.
The rumor I'm getting is that the big announcement is the 'IDock'. An LCD screen with a keyboard/mouse and a wireless connection back to the PC. Take it anywhere while your Mac sits safely in a closet. Doubt that it's Bluetooth, probably 802.11a[b?]. Could also be a pen driven thingy instead of the keyboard. At least that's what I've heard. Don't know what the limit on range is, but it should take you out to the pool or patio. Sounds pretty sweet.
Along with OS X and the IPod, I'm thinking of going back to Apple. My IIe needs company. :)