Just reading your post is enough to have to send the Seals on a night mission, with only the moon for illumination. Or stock the pond with brown trout. Or dunk the Oompa Loompas at the Chocolate factory. Or make like the Cadbury bunny. Or start construction on my underwater theme park. Or bring the kids to the water slide. Or play the tuba backwards. Or eat a Snickers in reverse. Or deliver packages for UP-ass. Or give the pipes something to think about. Or take Billy Ruben to church. Or work my part-time job at Fanny Farmer. Or recreate Pangea. Or...ok thanks, I'm done.
Wasn't coffee good, then bad for you, then good, then good for battling heart disease, then caused brain tumors, then would help you live longer, then....
I know what the short term effects of coffee are, and right now I like them. I can't keep up with what is in the good and bad columns - I eat and drink pretty much what I want, when I want it. I trust my body to let me know what I need, say when I crave oranges. I'll eat them.
It could be argued that no matter what you do, eat, or drink, you're going to die. I just try for moderation. Except for the smooth taste of Mercury. Oh that silvery stuff is refreshing and irresistable! And what a compliment to Lead!
I saved all my batteries for a couple years and ended up with several pounds of AA,AAA,C,D batteries, not to mention button cells and old nicads. I brought these carefully separated batteries to my local dump and asked one one of the guys who worked there where I should drop them off.
He directed me to toss them in with all the other garbage, rather than doing his job and putting them in the hazardous materials building.
I refused, but it makes me cringe to know that that behavior is probably being repeated a couple of times a day, in hundreds of locations.
I still have these batteries, but I'm waiting until the boss is there, and going to get them put away correctly and responsibly. It was an old guy who didn't want to help me out - I assume he still thinks asbestos makes a great dust mask.
how cool it would be if everyone had a Wireless Access Point on their rooftop, and formed a p2p wireless mini-internet with no bandwidth restrictions and free for all (minus the cost of the hardware).
No restrictions in dense areas such as urban centers, since you could always route around a full AP, and free as in not having to pay some ISP by becoming you're very own.
I currently have the only AP for at least 4-5 blocks, it would be great if I had geeky neighbors who'd like to give it a try.
I'm sure this idea is as old as dirt by now, but it was the first thing I thought of when I read this.
...was acquired by Hitachi who convinced to Apple to use it for the iPod Mini.
Is it:..was acquired by Hitachi who convinced Apple to use it for the iPod Mini.
or
was acquired by Hitachi who was convinced by Apple to use it for the iPod Mini.
Editors should be clearing this up, rather than adding 11 more submissions to the 'Games' catagory. C'mon Timothy - stop playing UT2004 for just a second.
As far as what printers might cost if the ink was negligible, look at what new dot matrix printers go for - roughly 300 to 400 dollars. Of course, new dot matrix printers have a MTBF of 20,000 hours. Current inkjets are just made cheaply as possible, as they are usually replaced with a new computer and not sitting in a dedicated office spot for years. Some of my work printers have been running since the 80s with some maintenance.
I am pretty sure alot of dummies would still buy the cheapy inkjets and pay the extra for ink, as cost over time is less noticeable than cost up front - look at cigarettes for example. How many people would quit if they had to buy a year's worth of smokes at once?
I highly recommend hitting some thrift stores in your area. If you have a Salvation Army, or some such 'reachout' store, you can find some beauties.
I just bought an Epson wide format for 5 bucks that was donated by a place that switched to inkjets (FOOLS!)
They are harder to find now that inkjet and laser are cheap and plentyful, but they are out there. I recall a trip to the Salvation Army warehouse in Minneapolis in the mid 90s where they had a 40+ foot wall of dot matrix printers. They also had pee-stained underwear, I recall with disgust.
Hell, the store in my small town here has two lasers, an inkjet, a dot matrix, and an Apple IIgs with all the trimmings (disks, monitor, and an Imagewriter II - the best dot matrix ever:) The printers are 5 dollars, the IIgs is 30!
You can't go wrong with an Imagewriter.
They also have pee-stained underwear, microwaves with dials, candy from dead people's houses, and what I think may be the world's largest bra.
I have a Lexmark Z23, admittedly one of the cheapest printers they make. The 36 dollar cartriges dry out in a month, it takes about 3 pages of full color to unplug the nozzles, and it has ass-tacular paper handling skills. On the plus side, it continually tries to commit suicide by knocking itself off my desk. (Let today be the day!) Nobody loves you, and you're ugly and worthless. Bad Printer, BAD!
Lexmark, Ink. (pun intended) should be beaten with a rubber hose until they drool on the floor.
I have a old Canon BJ-200, that while the quality is not of Lexmark on its best day, I could plug it in right now and it will work - the carts never dry up. Ever. I am fully confident that the fossil record will show this.
I also have a old Panasonic KX-somthing or other that is noisy as hell but will print my obiturary, I'm sure. Which will most likely be soon, as I can't afford food after buying Lexmark supplies.
Anyhow, if Xerox and Lexmark are using similar carts, that is pretty much a big flag to avoid both companies like a strip bar named 'Fish n' Chips'.
Oh, you might be tempted, but there is something they're not telling you.
I remember having a 5.25 disk with about 20 different dos-es on it. Diversi-Dos, Double Dos, and a pile of others that I can't remember offhand.
They all had different things that they excelled at. Diversi-Dos was fantastically fast and made a little buzzy noise when it was loading, which is why I installed it on most stuff.
There were also ones with 'built in' commands, and other such such hackery.
I wish I had it now, but I accidentally formatted it.
and be forced to surf AOL pages for 2 to 5. Hey Sherrif Mayberry! I hope you don't measure your department with the same yardstick as web designers, otherwise you're going to have every huckster, two-bit con artist, and shoplifter moving to your neck of the woods.
Ugh. And in response to the old 'designer', the only way you'd be getting 3 million hits on some small town sherrif page is if you're posting 'The Strip Search of the Day" gallery. It just doesn't happen.
This is just another in a long line of public battles of idiots, rife with overreaction and failures to communicate.
Just like the internet and small town politics.
Just look at my slashdot history.
on
Guilty By Association
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
You can find out almost everything about me. Since I've posted 1900+ comments, I've ranted about everything under the sun.
It wouldn't be too hard to profile me.
The question remains: How can the cat be put back in the bag? Answer: It can't.
The only reasonable solution I see is to not let *anyone* slip through the net of info (yes, I'm talking about you high ranking government officials, and corporate bigwigs...is that redundant?) and making it freely available to all.
Then, at least, the illusion of privacy is lifted, and everyone can get on with their lives, knowing that everything is open.
Apparently, the only ones with privacy are terrorists. Hell, we can't find a guy on a kidney machine in a desert? (I'm thinking of starting a pool for how close to the election good ol' Osama will pop up. Place your bets!)
Just goes to prove that technology in the hands of people will always be misused. We can't handle the responsibillity.
Just like a tune where all the artists riff off the other. Instead of being a band of 4 or 5, you're seeing 5 or 6 million. You're going to remember the good stuff (or supremely bad) and filter out the rest - you have to, it's the nature of the brain, and you'd go flat foot crazy if you didn't.
Then it'll percolate in that cute little head of yours, and you'll have your own version. Just like witnesses to a crime and snowflakes, baby.
The worst bloggers are going to stand out because they're just like monkeys - they're the trend followers. They like the idea of a blog, but never had to think an original thought in their life. So they do what the other blogs are doing, even when they don't understand the reason. Just like monkeys running around in a cage, see?
Now the best monkeys see the walls and know that they're in a cage, so they figure, 'I'm outta sight and outta mind if I don't get out of here', and they make the leap to bigger and better things, ya dig?
Getting back to the band, the true cream of the crop ain't going to be liftin' the gold stars from their neighbors paper - they're not gonna care what YOU think. They gave at the office, and they're past that.
They got a whole different filter in their head; what goes in must come out, but in ways the regular joe just won't understand. Joe's just gonna take that train and see where it goes.
The best conductors are going to take you for a spin, make the ride entertaining, and leave you right back where you came from with a pocket of souvenirs.
I rarely complain about moderation, but I can't believe this post was 'overrated'.
Out of the problems I mentioned, my 15" PB is sufferring from the creaking hinges, the darkened right side and the infamous white spots.
I don't consider any of those issues to be minor or 'overrated'. Sure, Apple is fixing the white spots, but dammit, I bought this PB to use, not to send right back to Apple. My point is that this stuff shouldn't get to customers. How is that a problem? Now it's going to cost Apple zillions to fix them and ship them, not to mention damage to their reputation.
When IBM drives started failing left and right, you can be sure 'a community' sprung up around that issue. That did more to harm IBM's reputation than anything else I can think of, even after they admitted it.
As far as advertising goes - average Joe thinks exactly that about Macs. Please point out anything that Apple has done beyond their website and keynote addresses to counter that impression. I know, I've recommended macs to alot of people - and those are the responses I get.
I'd appreciate replies, rather than kneejerk moderation. Educate me. Tell me how my new laptop doesn't have white spots, a dark area, and sounds like it's breaking everytime I open it. Or you can just mod this down, and go take your 'Apple is God' shirt out of the dryer.
The 15" AL white spots, power adapters, noisy G5s, creaking screen hinges, battery life, etc.
Those type of things are going to do more to damage Apple than anyting else. Apple users expect and demand the highest quality for their $$$. Opening up your brand new 15" PB and finding that the right side of your screen is darker than the rest pisses off longtime users as well as new 'switchers'.
Apple could also use some more advertising to battle the overwhelming current thought that Macs are only for 'desktop publishing', musicians and elementary schoolteachers.
That's what I was wondering as well - will they lie to you if their 'survival' is at stake? Humans do lots of not-so-nice things to each other, and behave quite differently when backed against a wall.
It would seem to me that coding a survival instinct could be counter-productive at times.
Are these ghosts capable of...murder? (cue spooky music)
AFAIK, holding shift down and clicking refresh in Windows IE, Safari, IE for Mac os9, Mozilla, win and os x Firebird, Firefox, and os 9 iCab all force a cache refresh. Perhaps a little popup menu item that lets you know would be helpful, but it seems that everyone's got this covered.
I did say 'the tools don't matter.' You're right, Word or any other text editor/word processor won't make you a writer, if your thoughts are better expressed with a fountain pen. Photoshop won't give you instant compositional skills.
They are just tools. I can do in Photoshop what it would take me days or weeks to do by hand; my creativity doesn't suffer - it's actually enhanced by the fact I can see almost instantly when something doesn't match my 'mind's eye'.
As far as mr. cummings, I believe he would have eshewed modern tools for his poetry. His idea was to free ideas from the grammatic rules. Or something.:) Closed source Software would have given him the heebe-jebees.
I see people give themselves credit when credit isn't due. I see rich guys buy a vintage Fender guitar and think they're Clapton, ignoring the fact that Clapton could do exactly what he does on the most shopworn Sears guitar.
Pals of mine who have tried to play guitar, invaribly tried to learn on some cheap, mass produced model and gave up, because it hurt their fingers (strings being too high, sharp frets, constantly out of tune). If they had had the opportunity to learn on a more refined instrument, they may have stuck with it. Or not. I learned on the same poor instuments, but I had burning desire to go with my bloody fingers.:)
A better tool won't *make* you a better tool user, but it does make it easier to learn to be one.
Slashdot Mirror
Just reading your post is enough to have to send the Seals on a night mission, with only the moon for illumination. Or stock the pond with brown trout. Or dunk the Oompa Loompas at the Chocolate factory. Or make like the Cadbury bunny. Or start construction on my underwater theme park. Or bring the kids to the water slide. Or play the tuba backwards. Or eat a Snickers in reverse. Or deliver packages for UP-ass. Or give the pipes something to think about. Or take Billy Ruben to church. Or work my part-time job at Fanny Farmer. Or recreate Pangea. Or...ok thanks, I'm done.
I know what the short term effects of coffee are, and right now I like them. I can't keep up with what is in the good and bad columns - I eat and drink pretty much what I want, when I want it. I trust my body to let me know what I need, say when I crave oranges. I'll eat them.
It could be argued that no matter what you do, eat, or drink, you're going to die. I just try for moderation. Except for the smooth taste of Mercury. Oh that silvery stuff is refreshing and irresistable! And what a compliment to Lead!
He directed me to toss them in with all the other garbage, rather than doing his job and putting them in the hazardous materials building.
I refused, but it makes me cringe to know that that behavior is probably being repeated a couple of times a day, in hundreds of locations.
I still have these batteries, but I'm waiting until the boss is there, and going to get them put away correctly and responsibly. It was an old guy who didn't want to help me out - I assume he still thinks asbestos makes a great dust mask.
Yes, I am a dirty hippy sometimes.
No restrictions in dense areas such as urban centers, since you could always route around a full AP, and free as in not having to pay some ISP by becoming you're very own.
I currently have the only AP for at least 4-5 blocks, it would be great if I had geeky neighbors who'd like to give it a try. I'm sure this idea is as old as dirt by now, but it was the first thing I thought of when I read this.
Is it: ..was acquired by Hitachi who convinced Apple to use it for the iPod Mini.
or
was acquired by Hitachi who was convinced by Apple to use it for the iPod Mini.
Editors should be clearing this up, rather than adding 11 more submissions to the 'Games' catagory. C'mon Timothy - stop playing UT2004 for just a second.
I am pretty sure alot of dummies would still buy the cheapy inkjets and pay the extra for ink, as cost over time is less noticeable than cost up front - look at cigarettes for example. How many people would quit if they had to buy a year's worth of smokes at once?
I just bought an Epson wide format for 5 bucks that was donated by a place that switched to inkjets (FOOLS!)
They are harder to find now that inkjet and laser are cheap and plentyful, but they are out there. I recall a trip to the Salvation Army warehouse in Minneapolis in the mid 90s where they had a 40+ foot wall of dot matrix printers. They also had pee-stained underwear, I recall with disgust.
Hell, the store in my small town here has two lasers, an inkjet, a dot matrix, and an Apple IIgs with all the trimmings (disks, monitor, and an Imagewriter II - the best dot matrix ever :) The printers are 5 dollars, the IIgs is 30!
You can't go wrong with an Imagewriter.
They also have pee-stained underwear, microwaves with dials, candy from dead people's houses, and what I think may be the world's largest bra.
Fun for the whole family!
Lexmark, Ink. (pun intended) should be beaten with a rubber hose until they drool on the floor.
I have a old Canon BJ-200, that while the quality is not of Lexmark on its best day, I could plug it in right now and it will work - the carts never dry up. Ever. I am fully confident that the fossil record will show this.
I also have a old Panasonic KX-somthing or other that is noisy as hell but will print my obiturary, I'm sure. Which will most likely be soon, as I can't afford food after buying Lexmark supplies.
Anyhow, if Xerox and Lexmark are using similar carts, that is pretty much a big flag to avoid both companies like a strip bar named 'Fish n' Chips'.
Oh, you might be tempted, but there is something they're not telling you.
They all had different things that they excelled at. Diversi-Dos was fantastically fast and made a little buzzy noise when it was loading, which is why I installed it on most stuff.
There were also ones with 'built in' commands, and other such such hackery.
I wish I had it now, but I accidentally formatted it.
Anyone hear of such a thing?
Thanks for proving my point. BTW, you should dry that shirt on low, otherwise it might shrink.
Wow. Sore eyes indeed.
That girl should turn herself in.
Ugh. And in response to the old 'designer', the only way you'd be getting 3 million hits on some small town sherrif page is if you're posting 'The Strip Search of the Day" gallery. It just doesn't happen.
This is just another in a long line of public battles of idiots, rife with overreaction and failures to communicate.
Just like the internet and small town politics.
It wouldn't be too hard to profile me.
The question remains: How can the cat be put back in the bag? Answer: It can't.
The only reasonable solution I see is to not let *anyone* slip through the net of info (yes, I'm talking about you high ranking government officials, and corporate bigwigs...is that redundant?) and making it freely available to all.
Then, at least, the illusion of privacy is lifted, and everyone can get on with their lives, knowing that everything is open.
Apparently, the only ones with privacy are terrorists. Hell, we can't find a guy on a kidney machine in a desert? (I'm thinking of starting a pool for how close to the election good ol' Osama will pop up. Place your bets!)
Just goes to prove that technology in the hands of people will always be misused. We can't handle the responsibillity.
Then it'll percolate in that cute little head of yours, and you'll have your own version. Just like witnesses to a crime and snowflakes, baby.
The worst bloggers are going to stand out because they're just like monkeys - they're the trend followers. They like the idea of a blog, but never had to think an original thought in their life. So they do what the other blogs are doing, even when they don't understand the reason. Just like monkeys running around in a cage, see?
Now the best monkeys see the walls and know that they're in a cage, so they figure, 'I'm outta sight and outta mind if I don't get out of here', and they make the leap to bigger and better things, ya dig?
Getting back to the band, the true cream of the crop ain't going to be liftin' the gold stars from their neighbors paper - they're not gonna care what YOU think. They gave at the office, and they're past that.
They got a whole different filter in their head; what goes in must come out, but in ways the regular joe just won't understand. Joe's just gonna take that train and see where it goes.
The best conductors are going to take you for a spin, make the ride entertaining, and leave you right back where you came from with a pocket of souvenirs.
At least, that's how I see it.
An extra map? I know not of this map of which you speak.
mmmm...bullets.
Out of the problems I mentioned, my 15" PB is sufferring from the creaking hinges, the darkened right side and the infamous white spots.
I don't consider any of those issues to be minor or 'overrated'. Sure, Apple is fixing the white spots, but dammit, I bought this PB to use, not to send right back to Apple. My point is that this stuff shouldn't get to customers. How is that a problem? Now it's going to cost Apple zillions to fix them and ship them, not to mention damage to their reputation.
When IBM drives started failing left and right, you can be sure 'a community' sprung up around that issue. That did more to harm IBM's reputation than anything else I can think of, even after they admitted it.
As far as advertising goes - average Joe thinks exactly that about Macs. Please point out anything that Apple has done beyond their website and keynote addresses to counter that impression. I know, I've recommended macs to alot of people - and those are the responses I get.
I'd appreciate replies, rather than kneejerk moderation. Educate me. Tell me how my new laptop doesn't have white spots, a dark area, and sounds like it's breaking everytime I open it. Or you can just mod this down, and go take your 'Apple is God' shirt out of the dryer.
Kicking ass and chewing Bubble gum. I think we know what they just ran out of.
Hey Darl, that innocent 'kick me' sign is going to take on a whole new meaning. Say hi to the martian rover.
Those type of things are going to do more to damage Apple than anyting else. Apple users expect and demand the highest quality for their $$$. Opening up your brand new 15" PB and finding that the right side of your screen is darker than the rest pisses off longtime users as well as new 'switchers'.
Apple could also use some more advertising to battle the overwhelming current thought that Macs are only for 'desktop publishing', musicians and elementary schoolteachers.
It would seem to me that coding a survival instinct could be counter-productive at times.
Are these ghosts capable of...murder? (cue spooky music)
AFAIK, holding shift down and clicking refresh in Windows IE, Safari, IE for Mac os9, Mozilla, win and os x Firebird, Firefox, and os 9 iCab all force a cache refresh. Perhaps a little popup menu item that lets you know would be helpful, but it seems that everyone's got this covered.
FireHydrant is a great OS - If only someone would write a web browser for it.
You now qualify for the official Slashdot T-shirt. Well done! And welcome to the exclusive club!
They are just tools. I can do in Photoshop what it would take me days or weeks to do by hand; my creativity doesn't suffer - it's actually enhanced by the fact I can see almost instantly when something doesn't match my 'mind's eye'.
As far as mr. cummings, I believe he would have eshewed modern tools for his poetry. His idea was to free ideas from the grammatic rules. Or something. :) Closed source Software would have given him the heebe-jebees.
I see people give themselves credit when credit isn't due. I see rich guys buy a vintage Fender guitar and think they're Clapton, ignoring the fact that Clapton could do exactly what he does on the most shopworn Sears guitar.
Pals of mine who have tried to play guitar, invaribly tried to learn on some cheap, mass produced model and gave up, because it hurt their fingers (strings being too high, sharp frets, constantly out of tune). If they had had the opportunity to learn on a more refined instrument, they may have stuck with it. Or not. I learned on the same poor instuments, but I had burning desire to go with my bloody fingers. :)
A better tool won't *make* you a better tool user, but it does make it easier to learn to be one.