I have an old office desk that supports my wife's and my computers. She sits on the right side of the desk, I off to the left, with my feet propped up along the left against an oak printer stand. To my left is an old server tower that is currently a receptacle for drinking containers, but will ultimately become a DNS box, providing I don't spill my drink into it. =^_^=
This seems to be how buzzwords get formed. From the Jargon File v4.3.3, in the overgeneralization section:
Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be verbed", "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm grepping the files". English as a whole is already heading in this direction (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are simply a bit ahead of the curve.
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However, hackers avoid the unimaginative verb-making techniques characteristic of marketroids, bean-counters, and the Pentagon; a hacker would never, for example, `productize', `prioritize', or `securitize' things. Hackers have a strong aversion to bureaucratic bafflegab and regard those who use it with contempt.
QED, geeks are guilty of it too - but it's more of a shorthand in the geek/hacker communities.
While it is certainly true that all nouns can be verbed and vice versa, the bureaucratic bafflegab method that suits and such seem to enjoy using is considered extremely lazy - especially the technique I call "izetizing", which is simply appending the "-ize" suffix as to verb a noun. As demonstrated from a previous post, "monetize" gets some popularity from those who would otherwise mean "liquidate" or "sell", the latter if they just wanted to sound like regular old Joes. (The problem with using regular cut and dry terms like "sell" versus "monetize" is semantics. You "sell" something if you need the money to run the company, but you "monetize" an "asset" if you want to "infuse money" into an "investment". Naturally, both mean the exact same thing. Don't ask how I know this, it's less painful.)
So as such, you can see that suits do this so they sound more important. The Armani isn't enough to make them look important, they have to speak in bullsh*t terms. They're basically very well paid politicians - lotsa hot air and little to show for it other than the ubiquitous MBA, which apparently tells people that they have trained in suitspeak 101 and other courses that show just how to be an idiot while simultaneously making yourself look as wise and sage as the likes of Stephen Hawking.
Mine is Dennis Allen Carr. Middle name was the obvious selection (my father's name (OK, his was Roy Allen, but he went by Allen)), but my father picked my first name by opening to a page in the north Orange County, CA white pages, closing his eyes, and letting his finger fall until he got an appropriate name (IE, not a female or business).
Considering it is the US Constitution that establishes copyright limitations, perhaps our best (or only) bet in establishing the upper ceiling for copyright limit ceiling is a constitutional amendment. Nothing can really override that except for another amendment, if I remember my high school government (and middle school US History) classes correctly.
This is a reprint from a post on rec.humor.funny from about 7 years ago:
Hi-Tech Coasters - Free!
This is a special, limited offer for free hi-tech coasters to place your cups and mugs upon.
Sized and shaped exactly like 3 1/2" high density disks, these durable plastic coasters will provide years of service while keeping your hardwood furniture free of those nasty rings of dried soda and coffee. Order several to leave around the house - for the living room, next to the computer, etc. Coasters can be custom printed with the word "Macintosh" or "Windows" to suit your individual preferences.
Flash! For extra-large mugs, we now provide coasters that are the exact size and shape as CD-ROM's! Be the first on the block to put your mug down on the hippest coaster today!
For your free coaster, call America Online today at (800) 445-6622. Order now!
Think of the connotations though. You say "Hansen's disease" and many of the current generation here in the US of A who has no medical training is likely to think of a bunch of kids that made top 40 radio about 6 or 7 years ago, or perhaps a brand of carbonated beverage or juice, rather than look for the reference in a dictionary. Or at least, that's what the US media would have you believing.
And I'll explain my pessimism. There was an outfit in mid 1997 called the IEMMC - something like the International Electronic Mass Mail Coalition - and had offices in Las Vegas (!). Their bent - you unsubscribe with them, you never get spammed by their members.
They failed in one month due to pressure from the antispam community.
The spammers in short are not going to listen to a list.
Look, if the winds at high altitudes can knock a 747 off course (which can be corrected), isn't it possible for those winds to knock a bowling ball or a shotput or a rock off course?
On the other hand, I suppose if they get a little bit of english on the ball....
Thing is, though, I'm not entirely convinced that this will happen, largely because of what is (not) considered permissable use of the connection by many ISP's.
Most ISP's I see give you a dynamic IP address and schlep everything over PPPoE, which means whe you power down you're probably going to get a different IP address; makes running servers a little difficult, unless you service warez and hang out on IRC to spamvertise your box, and even then a lot of what I've seen has it that ISPs will specifically deny you in their TOS the ability to run any sort of server, which is thinly disguised as a lack of faith in the users' ability to secure their own machines. (They offer business packages for upwards of $120, but the average home geek may not be able to justify the expense just to run their own home box as a webserver/ftp server/bbs/whatever.)
[flame]
OK, maybe that "lack of faith" thing is a little off. After all, if you get your AOLer onto the telco, what are they gonna know about securing their box? Many of them don't even run antivirus software.
[/flame]
So you get people like Speakeasy in there. Static IP, not much speed out, but hey, it's $60 bare minimum, and seems to cater to the geek. In my case, when I first signed on, I was told that I could pretty much run any kind of server that didn't screw with their bandwidth.
Now that I've just finished sounding like a corporate shill, I suppose that if there were more companies out there that offered services similar to speakeasy (who seem to be successful despite all things) despite the higher cost, aside from the side effect of Speakeasy having to compete with more of a niche market, this just might put a cramp in the style of the telcos.
Granted that I'm not much of an economist, but perhaps part of the problem is that dialup service is really a money sink? I'm figuring this because last year sometime, Speakeasy had implemented their broadband bank dialup, where every dollar you pay into a dialup account becomes credit (up to $225, they're no fools) for a broadband connection.
The predicted chain of events according to me
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Giant Sucking Noise
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· Score: 3, Interesting
1) American corporations farm out more labor to other countries. That means local workers here are out of work.
2) People who are out of work cannot buy things made by corps who are farming out their labor to other countries. Companies see a mysterious downturn in profit and are unable to attribute it to the fact that people don't make any money and accordingly can't pay for things they are making money by farming out labor to fourth world countries, whose major export is dirt. Corps who are farming out their labor fold like sheets at a Motel 6 or move to country where their production facilities are. Now more people are out of work locally.
3) No profit! No company!
4) Repeat ad nauseam
Why do you think we are in the world of hurt we're in today? It's called Lowest Bidder. If you as Foocorp can save a buck manufacturing widgets, you'll save that buck because it means more money in your pocket. The downside is that in saving that buck you're going to put yourself out of business.
Wait about ten years. The results will be one of two things: depression to rival 1929 or bounceback as a result of these companies fscking over the US economy. Forget your interest rates, they mean nothing - the lowest bidder is causing our downturn.
I guess this seems a little redundant, but think of it. Person with no nut allergies gets the liver of a person with nut allergies, develops allergies himself. Perrhaps then we can use that ideal to figure that there is something in the liver that triggers the allergic reactions above and beyond the enzymes that cause the reactions unto themselves and thereby having the body turn against itself.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a hack, but it works.
Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be verbed", "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm grepping the files". English as a whole is already heading in this direction (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are simply a bit ahead of the curve.
However, hackers avoid the unimaginative verb-making techniques characteristic of marketroids, bean-counters, and the Pentagon; a hacker would never, for example, `productize', `prioritize', or `securitize' things. Hackers have a strong aversion to bureaucratic bafflegab and regard those who use it with contempt.
QED, geeks are guilty of it too - but it's more of a shorthand in the geek/hacker communities.
While it is certainly true that all nouns can be verbed and vice versa, the bureaucratic bafflegab method that suits and such seem to enjoy using is considered extremely lazy - especially the technique I call "izetizing", which is simply appending the "-ize" suffix as to verb a noun. As demonstrated from a previous post, "monetize" gets some popularity from those who would otherwise mean "liquidate" or "sell", the latter if they just wanted to sound like regular old Joes. (The problem with using regular cut and dry terms like "sell" versus "monetize" is semantics. You "sell" something if you need the money to run the company, but you "monetize" an "asset" if you want to "infuse money" into an "investment". Naturally, both mean the exact same thing. Don't ask how I know this, it's less painful.)
So as such, you can see that suits do this so they sound more important. The Armani isn't enough to make them look important, they have to speak in bullsh*t terms. They're basically very well paid politicians - lotsa hot air and little to show for it other than the ubiquitous MBA, which apparently tells people that they have trained in suitspeak 101 and other courses that show just how to be an idiot while simultaneously making yourself look as wise and sage as the likes of Stephen Hawking.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
I mean, it sounds like something you do with a brand of laundry detergent. "Monetize your shirts!"
At this time our networks does not support IPV6. We have discussed doing this in the future however nothing is in place.
I suppose that Speakeasy is at least talking about it is a start.
Accounting. My checkbook. Nuff said.
My wife also uses Bistromathics.
Two words, sir: Tasty Wheat.
Of course. After all, everything tastes more or less like chicken.
Mine is Dennis Allen Carr. Middle name was the obvious selection (my father's name (OK, his was Roy Allen, but he went by Allen)), but my father picked my first name by opening to a page in the north Orange County, CA white pages, closing his eyes, and letting his finger fall until he got an appropriate name (IE, not a female or business).
OK, seven words.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Considering it is the US Constitution that establishes copyright limitations, perhaps our best (or only) bet in establishing the upper ceiling for copyright limit ceiling is a constitutional amendment. Nothing can really override that except for another amendment, if I remember my high school government (and middle school US History) classes correctly.
Write the word "RED" on a green card (or vice versa) and show it to a geek. They may laugh if they haven't seen it first.
while horse==dead
{
beat(horse);
}
This is a reprint from a post on rec.humor.funny from about 7 years ago:
Hi-Tech Coasters - Free!
This is a special, limited offer for free hi-tech coasters to place your cups and mugs upon.
Sized and shaped exactly like 3 1/2" high density disks, these durable plastic coasters will provide years of service while keeping your hardwood furniture free of those nasty rings of dried soda and coffee. Order several to leave around the house - for the living room, next to the computer, etc. Coasters can be custom printed with the word "Macintosh" or "Windows" to suit your individual preferences.
Flash! For extra-large mugs, we now provide coasters that are the exact size and shape as CD-ROM's! Be the first on the block to put your mug down on the hippest coaster today!
For your free coaster, call America Online today at (800) 445-6622. Order now!
Or, you can just go here and log in if you're already a member. (If not, see the first link and learn how to resolve the second one.)
Think of the connotations though. You say "Hansen's disease" and many of the current generation here in the US of A who has no medical training is likely to think of a bunch of kids that made top 40 radio about 6 or 7 years ago, or perhaps a brand of carbonated beverage or juice, rather than look for the reference in a dictionary. Or at least, that's what the US media would have you believing.
Sort of like... um, socks?
They failed in one month due to pressure from the antispam community.
The spammers in short are not going to listen to a list.
Danger! Danger! Parent is punning! Defenestrate him before he puns again!
On the other hand, I suppose if they get a little bit of english on the ball....
Most ISP's I see give you a dynamic IP address and schlep everything over PPPoE, which means whe you power down you're probably going to get a different IP address; makes running servers a little difficult, unless you service warez and hang out on IRC to spamvertise your box, and even then a lot of what I've seen has it that ISPs will specifically deny you in their TOS the ability to run any sort of server, which is thinly disguised as a lack of faith in the users' ability to secure their own machines. (They offer business packages for upwards of $120, but the average home geek may not be able to justify the expense just to run their own home box as a webserver/ftp server/bbs/whatever.)
[flame]
OK, maybe that "lack of faith" thing is a little off. After all, if you get your AOLer onto the telco, what are they gonna know about securing their box? Many of them don't even run antivirus software.
[/flame]
So you get people like Speakeasy in there. Static IP, not much speed out, but hey, it's $60 bare minimum, and seems to cater to the geek. In my case, when I first signed on, I was told that I could pretty much run any kind of server that didn't screw with their bandwidth.
Now that I've just finished sounding like a corporate shill, I suppose that if there were more companies out there that offered services similar to speakeasy (who seem to be successful despite all things) despite the higher cost, aside from the side effect of Speakeasy having to compete with more of a niche market, this just might put a cramp in the style of the telcos.
Granted that I'm not much of an economist, but perhaps part of the problem is that dialup service is really a money sink? I'm figuring this because last year sometime, Speakeasy had implemented their broadband bank dialup, where every dollar you pay into a dialup account becomes credit (up to $225, they're no fools) for a broadband connection.
2) People who are out of work cannot buy things made by corps who are farming out their labor to other countries. Companies see a mysterious downturn in profit and are unable to attribute it to the fact that people don't make any money and accordingly can't pay for things they are making money by farming out labor to fourth world countries, whose major export is dirt. Corps who are farming out their labor fold like sheets at a Motel 6 or move to country where their production facilities are. Now more people are out of work locally.
3) No profit! No company!
4) Repeat ad nauseam
Why do you think we are in the world of hurt we're in today? It's called Lowest Bidder. If you as Foocorp can save a buck manufacturing widgets, you'll save that buck because it means more money in your pocket. The downside is that in saving that buck you're going to put yourself out of business.
Wait about ten years. The results will be one of two things: depression to rival 1929 or bounceback as a result of these companies fscking over the US economy. Forget your interest rates, they mean nothing - the lowest bidder is causing our downturn.
I just went to United Airlines website last time I scheduled my tickets for a flight to Chicago, and noticed that they're pretty comprehensive.
I guess this seems a little redundant, but think of it. Person with no nut allergies gets the liver of a person with nut allergies, develops allergies himself. Perrhaps then we can use that ideal to figure that there is something in the liver that triggers the allergic reactions above and beyond the enzymes that cause the reactions unto themselves and thereby having the body turn against itself.