One of us has been force fed, I just don't think it's me.
They had a problem with him telling people how to interperet the bible, which was their monopoly.
And therein lies the rub - what happens when an experiment contradicts what's in the Bible? If you discuss your results you are guilty of exactly that.
And I'm a scientist - so let's test that. I'll hold a piano over his head suspended by a pulley and a rope. The Pope can say that he declares gravity to be heresy. I'll let go of the rope.
If he really does define reality, he should be in no danger. I have a theory on how the test would end, though.
The short of it is these people should not be dictating to scientists. Why?
Read up on what they did to Galileo, for daring to suggest the Earth is not the center of the universe - which they just got around to forgiving him for, which took them until 1992 to fucking get around to.
There is no way these people should have any input whatsoever in a scientific context.
The reason why it [the Hitchhiker's Guide] was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.
It says of her on the Mythbusters website: Sculptor, painter, actor and one-time-only backside-model.
I guess that was the airplane toilet episode. I wonder whatever happened to that model Jamie made...
...because we're on Slashdot. We all know what Jamie is saying is true.
But he's near-famous. He has a show that millions of people watch. And he's saying that Vista blows, and why it blows, and that Ubuntu kicks its ass.
And he's saying it in Popular Mechanics. You see those everywhere. My barber has a rack of them by his waiting bench. So does my doctor. You see PM magazines all over a doctor's waiting area.
It's called getting the word out.
A lot of us here on/. complain about how Joe Sixpack has no clue about computer issues. Well - now Joe Sixpack has an opportunity to be sitting in a dentist's office, and see a PM magazine with Jamie on the cover and think "Hey cool - think I'll read that. That's the show where they blow stuff up. It'll be interesting to hear what he has to say."
And suddenly he's exposed to the problems with Vista, and the joys of Ubuntu by a person he respects and likes. Maybe he'll call up his geeky cousin later on in the day on Jamie's recommendation and ask him what this Ubuntu thingy is.
This is how mindshare happens. A war is a million little battles, and we just won one.
How long before something this stupid gets cracked? Let's start a pool on it. I'm in for two weeks and three days after the launch date. Everyone - pick a day.
If you introduced any of these ideas as your own to the average consumer, they'd think you were a genius, and be sure that you invented them.
That's what a patent troll does. Try to pretend that they invented something when they clearly did not, using that exact same methodology.
And FWIW, shouldn't a patent clerk know more than an "average consumer" - seeing as how they're on the receiving end of most of the cutting edge technology in patent form in the first place?
I'd just look for a patent clerk driving a Lamborghini. Why look to stupidity when we have other equally icky human motivations for this?
I'm serious.
This almost has to be the work of bribery. How the hell could anyone not know that people have been putting video on cellphones already? How could you possibly claim that you haven't seen this before? Either it's bribery, or there's a patent clerk out there somewhere who doesn't own a TV and is communicating solely by carrier pigeon.
Isn't the standard procedure for a patent troll to pick the smallest infringing fish, go to court and hope to establish a precedent, THEN go for Sony, Apple, Sprint, etc?
Sorry if that previous post came off as a little grouchy. Thought it was someone else splitting hairs. You had asked a legitimate question earlier, so sorry 'bout that.
Yeah, I'll keep repeating this every time the "OMG stealing music is teh theft!" idiots chime in on an IP issue.
If we could convince the entire world to call all people who commit copyright violation "Fluffy Marshmallow Bunny Liberator of Ideas", wouldn't you think that a senator would have a hard time making a draconian law against that?
Words mean things. The words you choose matter. Ask anyone in advertising if I'm right.
My point is that theft and copyright violation are not the same thing, as the RIAA would have you believe. Why would the RIAA push this particular viewpoint? Because it's easy to despise a thief, that's why. But legally, a copyright violator is something different. So they're trying to spin it so that lawmakers and juries will look at copyright violators and SEE thieves. It helps their agenda to do this.
But they're not the same thing or we wouldn't need a law about copyright violation on the books, seeing as how we already have one there for theft.
The RIAA had his IP address, and traced him. This is like a burglar complaining that the cops investigated a burglary and traced the goods to his house.
This is an example of the RIAA and their tactics, and of what they hope to achieve.
They have convinced this guy that they are the cops. They are NOT.
Please everyone - do your best to not further their agenda by buying into their spin. They are not the cops. People who infringe on copyright are not pirates. Committing copyright violation is not theft.
Within his first day there, I found that he did not know simple commands like "ls" or "grep." But he kept his job. I'm the one who got fired, it was one of the first things he did.
Of course you got fired. You figured out he lied on his resume and interview, and he somehow figured out that you knew. Of course you had to go.
I also forgot another requirement to corporate management positions - naked ambition. The kind that would make Machiavelli blush. And a near total moral bankruptcy. For a fat six figure salary, the guy would probably run you off the road over a cliff if he had to. And sleep like a baby afterwards.
How many of you out there can tell stories where managers prove they're above the law?
My last job had a manager that would park his car up front when he came in. He'd make a big noise going to his office, tell everyone hello. Especially the guys with 3 letters for job titles. Go to his office and lock the door. Then sneak out a half an hour later through the factory, grab the company car and go home. Reverse the procedure at 4:30 pm to make sure we were still all at our desks before he "left for the day", the motherfucker. And if anyone paged him, he had a pair of brown nosing office lackeys that would page him at home so he could dash back and return a call or make a meeting. And what do you know - those two guys always got their vacation requests approved every single time, extra time off, and other perks the rest of us didn't get. How about that?
I could fill a page with stories about this guy, and that one isn't by FAR the worst. How many of us have similar stories to tell?
Management positions attract these little pathological emperors. I count myself very very very fortunate to be at a company that is luckily devoid of those types. I could get a higher paying job somewhere else, but the ulcers wouldn't be worth it.
I think any manager has to be a good bullshit artist. Lie to the customer about schedules, lie to their underlings about deadlines. Lie lie lie. It's like being a used car salesman. You have to lie to do the job efficiently.
That's why every job posting I've seen for a managerial position says "must have X years of managerial experience to apply." They all have that requirement. There is no way into the field unless you lie. It's an acid test. If you can look the interviewer in the face and say "I have 4 years of managerial experience" without breaking eye contact, you are worthy of the job.
The difference you seem to be missing here is that Steve Jobs only occasionally does a boneheaded thing like this against his fan base. Bill Gates only occasionally doesn't.
...for clearly stating what needed to be said. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
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One of us has been force fed, I just don't think it's me.
They had a problem with him telling people how to interperet the bible, which was their monopoly.
And therein lies the rub - what happens when an experiment contradicts what's in the Bible? If you discuss your results you are guilty of exactly that.
"And yet it moves."
And I'm a scientist - so let's test that. I'll hold a piano over his head suspended by a pulley and a rope. The Pope can say that he declares gravity to be heresy. I'll let go of the rope.
If he really does define reality, he should be in no danger. I have a theory on how the test would end, though.
The short of it is these people should not be dictating to scientists. Why?
Read up on what they did to Galileo, for daring to suggest the Earth is not the center of the universe - which they just got around to forgiving him for, which took them until 1992 to fucking get around to.
There is no way these people should have any input whatsoever in a scientific context.
This was the first thing I thought of:
The reason why it [the Hitchhiker's Guide] was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.
I can only imagine what that'd bring on eBay.
...because we're on Slashdot. We all know what Jamie is saying is true.
But he's near-famous. He has a show that millions of people watch. And he's saying that Vista blows, and why it blows, and that Ubuntu kicks its ass.
And he's saying it in Popular Mechanics. You see those everywhere. My barber has a rack of them by his waiting bench. So does my doctor. You see PM magazines all over a doctor's waiting area.
It's called getting the word out.
A lot of us here on /. complain about how Joe Sixpack has no clue about computer issues. Well - now Joe Sixpack has an opportunity to be sitting in a dentist's office, and see a PM magazine with Jamie on the cover and think "Hey cool - think I'll read that. That's the show where they blow stuff up. It'll be interesting to hear what he has to say."
And suddenly he's exposed to the problems with Vista, and the joys of Ubuntu by a person he respects and likes. Maybe he'll call up his geeky cousin later on in the day on Jamie's recommendation and ask him what this Ubuntu thingy is.
This is how mindshare happens. A war is a million little battles, and we just won one.
So I guess I lose my place in the pool then, since the date he cracked this thing is actually in the past.
Thanks for the link - I missed that story the first time around and it's fascinating.
...DVD Jon to the white courtesy phone.
How long before something this stupid gets cracked? Let's start a pool on it. I'm in for two weeks and three days after the launch date. Everyone - pick a day.
The guy who modded that Flamebait was balancing his checkbook at the time.
If you introduced any of these ideas as your own to the average consumer, they'd think you were a genius, and be sure that you invented them.
That's what a patent troll does. Try to pretend that they invented something when they clearly did not, using that exact same methodology.
And FWIW, shouldn't a patent clerk know more than an "average consumer" - seeing as how they're on the receiving end of most of the cutting edge technology in patent form in the first place?
I'd just look for a patent clerk driving a Lamborghini. Why look to stupidity when we have other equally icky human motivations for this?
I'm serious.
This almost has to be the work of bribery. How the hell could anyone not know that people have been putting video on cellphones already? How could you possibly claim that you haven't seen this before? Either it's bribery, or there's a patent clerk out there somewhere who doesn't own a TV and is communicating solely by carrier pigeon.
SCO didn't sue "Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, ATT, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others" - all on day 1.
Isn't the standard procedure for a patent troll to pick the smallest infringing fish, go to court and hope to establish a precedent, THEN go for Sony, Apple, Sprint, etc?
These guys will be smashed into paste by hordes of the highest paid lawyers on planet Earth first thing Monday morning.
Yeah. Good grief, just what I need - 17Gb of pictures of other peoples cats.
But on the plus side, you could head over to Fark and be a LOLCAT GOD.
Sorry if that previous post came off as a little grouchy. Thought it was someone else splitting hairs. You had asked a legitimate question earlier, so sorry 'bout that.
Yeah, I'll keep repeating this every time the "OMG stealing music is teh theft!" idiots chime in on an IP issue.
We'd be crushed to about the size of a pea.
Schwarzchild Radius. Mass of Earth.
1.48×10^27 m/kg * 5.9742 × 10^24 kg = 0.00884 m = 8.84mm = about 90% of a centimeter. Yup. About pea sized.
I just knew after I posted that someone would get cute and want to play some word games. Ok, I'll clarify:
"Stealing" someone's identity is actually called fraud. It is not stealing because you still have your identity afterwards.
"Stealing" someone's secrets is actually called espionage. It is not stealing because you still have your information afterwards.
"Stealing" someone's music is actually called copyright violation. It is not stealing because the artist still has their music afterwards.
Stealing a car can also be called theft. It IS stealing because you DO NOT have your car afterwards.
There. Clear enough yet?
Stealing someone's identity is fraud.
Stealing secrets is espionage.
Stealing music is copyright violation.
Stealing a car is theft.
Turn it around again.
If we could convince the entire world to call all people who commit copyright violation "Fluffy Marshmallow Bunny Liberator of Ideas", wouldn't you think that a senator would have a hard time making a draconian law against that?
Words mean things. The words you choose matter. Ask anyone in advertising if I'm right.
Not the argument I'm making.
My point is that theft and copyright violation are not the same thing, as the RIAA would have you believe. Why would the RIAA push this particular viewpoint? Because it's easy to despise a thief, that's why. But legally, a copyright violator is something different. So they're trying to spin it so that lawmakers and juries will look at copyright violators and SEE thieves. It helps their agenda to do this.
But they're not the same thing or we wouldn't need a law about copyright violation on the books, seeing as how we already have one there for theft.
The RIAA had his IP address, and traced him. This is like a burglar complaining that the cops investigated a burglary and traced the goods to his house.
This is an example of the RIAA and their tactics, and of what they hope to achieve.
They have convinced this guy that they are the cops. They are NOT.
Please everyone - do your best to not further their agenda by buying into their spin. They are not the cops. People who infringe on copyright are not pirates. Committing copyright violation is not theft.
Within his first day there, I found that he did not know simple commands like "ls" or "grep." But he kept his job. I'm the one who got fired, it was one of the first things he did.
Of course you got fired. You figured out he lied on his resume and interview, and he somehow figured out that you knew. Of course you had to go.
I also forgot another requirement to corporate management positions - naked ambition. The kind that would make Machiavelli blush. And a near total moral bankruptcy. For a fat six figure salary, the guy would probably run you off the road over a cliff if he had to. And sleep like a baby afterwards.
How many of you out there can tell stories where managers prove they're above the law?
My last job had a manager that would park his car up front when he came in. He'd make a big noise going to his office, tell everyone hello. Especially the guys with 3 letters for job titles. Go to his office and lock the door. Then sneak out a half an hour later through the factory, grab the company car and go home. Reverse the procedure at 4:30 pm to make sure we were still all at our desks before he "left for the day", the motherfucker. And if anyone paged him, he had a pair of brown nosing office lackeys that would page him at home so he could dash back and return a call or make a meeting. And what do you know - those two guys always got their vacation requests approved every single time, extra time off, and other perks the rest of us didn't get. How about that?
I could fill a page with stories about this guy, and that one isn't by FAR the worst. How many of us have similar stories to tell?
Management positions attract these little pathological emperors. I count myself very very very fortunate to be at a company that is luckily devoid of those types. I could get a higher paying job somewhere else, but the ulcers wouldn't be worth it.
I'm serious.
I think any manager has to be a good bullshit artist. Lie to the customer about schedules, lie to their underlings about deadlines. Lie lie lie. It's like being a used car salesman. You have to lie to do the job efficiently.
That's why every job posting I've seen for a managerial position says "must have X years of managerial experience to apply." They all have that requirement. There is no way into the field unless you lie. It's an acid test. If you can look the interviewer in the face and say "I have 4 years of managerial experience" without breaking eye contact, you are worthy of the job.
We never ever criticize our heroes ever.
The difference you seem to be missing here is that Steve Jobs only occasionally does a boneheaded thing like this against his fan base. Bill Gates only occasionally doesn't.
...for clearly stating what needed to be said. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.