...but I cant resist.
How could they leave out the Frank Grimes episode?
Oh man that had me laughing from start to finish. Some articles have pointed to this episode as the "beginning of the end". The point in time that Homer officially becomes a total boob.
Today's survey has a reference to Grimey. That one was a gem.
I'm a bit offended by this. This form of entertainment for the masses is nothing more than a regionalized extract of speech phrases recorded by some MTV fun boy?!?!?! WTF?!?
Another poster above knows of a common practice of fabricating celebrity interviews by splicing their sound bites with opportunistic questions.
Much of my news (print, TV, and radio) comes with a slant, a spin, or is presented from a single point of view.
Video editing and CGI-annimation have gotten so good it is hard to tell what is real and what is not. This is especially true for big-budget movies, but the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper. Anyone see those Matrix Reloaded trailers? Wow!
It seems as though everything we see and hear is heavily processed/filtered before it gets to our brains. Almost as if the mass-media outlets (and perhaps big govt) don't want us to think for ourselves. I know I've got offtopic here.
It is why I only watch two things on TV anymore.
1. Cartoons. They are fake and obviously so. There is no way I am going to watch a "REALITY SHOW" as seen through my fucking TV screen. This started for me with the MTV show called "Real World". HA! Real? and on TV?!?!
2. Live sports. The only fake or scripted thing about my professional sports is the yellow first-down line they programmatically paint on the field. Sporting events cannot be faked because the events/outcome are corrobated by thousands of attendees. Sure, there is a 7 second delay built into the delivery, but nobody can change the outcome or manipulate the drama.
I am very offended and concerned about this. I don't give a shit about the union filing the complaint. I worry about the things my son will "learn" from this form of brainwashing.
"You're not very sure to arrive," a researcher, Dr. Hugo Zbinden, said about human teleportation.
Even if this is perfected for human "travel", there is still the legitimate question of whether or not the arriving "traveler" is indeed the origianl person, or is instead a copy of the original.
These poor Reallians cloning humans from embryoes... and Dolly the sheep - HA.
Hop into my malfunctioning Brundle-Fly replicator and produce instant clones at the other end. Try it with a twist of insect, or plant species, the combinations are limitless and the result are instant.
I can easily copy files on my computer, why shouldn't I be able to copy tangible, physical objects too?
One of my doppelganger's doppelganger got into a bar fight, now all 612 of us have a fat lip except for the one that jumped "through" the machine with a fish - he doesn't have any lips.
IT professionals still wonder what to expect if they choose to devote their entire career to IT.
Since 1987 I've endured thankless all-nighters and many wasted weekends to satify the insane schedules of inexperienced project managers. I've also had the crushing responsibility that comes with installing and supporting systems that multi-billion dollar companies rely on. I've been shit on as a consultant and exhalted as a savior and treated like a hero. I have experienced a full-spectrum of environments. I am now 35 years old.
But the one thing that has been consistent thoughout this whole time is this: I love what I do. Maddening at times - yes. Mundane - yep. But almost always interresting. If you dont have passion for technology, you wont last.
"You have to keep yourself trained even if management will not pay for it," says Edward Pilling, who participated in the discussion. "You have to have one critical skill set that is in need."
This is what I mean. Learn the new technology. Stay current and informed. Read Slashdot (mod me up now). Take classes. But most of all, stick your nose into it, roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. If you are going to get up each day and drag your ass into work, you might as well enjoy your workload. Sure, most IT jobs pay well, but if you hate computers it will show and you wont survive the influx of new grads and you will fall to the side of the road while the fast pace of technology marches on without you. If you love it, you wont be able to get enough of it, and you will succeed.
That process is called "Entanglement". Quantum entanglement is the anti-thesis to a seamless-whole universe/existence. Quantum entaglement suggests the possibility of "faster than light" travel. The trick is coordinating all the matter that matters. There is alos the dubious question of whether or not the "traveler" is actually the same person, or just a copy, when he/she arrives at a destination...
Live or Memorex?
The Scientific American is a great mag for this sort of thing. IANAPP(Particle Physicist) but I really love this stuff.
Up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm.
The ani-matter stuff they are doing at CERN is outrageous. I hope they dont accidentally manufacture a blackhole or something - sheesh - that would suck. hahaha get it? suck?
Anyway, from the small to the big, from the micro to the macro, there is always the concept of revolutions. Electrons around nuclei. Moons/satelites around planets around suns around galaxies in clusters.
Brian Greene has published some works on sub-atomic string-thoery. Vibrating stings! That is like an orbit when viewed in 2 dimentions.
Speaking of dementia. I gotta go. The pickle needs to be scratched.
the use of Windows CE in the BMW 745i, which apparently occasionally goes nuts.
The "Windows" automagically roll down and the stereo, at volume 11, shouts: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Or maybe the "Windows", including the windshield goes BSOD!.
How about if stepping on the brakes also sounded the horn. Yay. Road rage anyone?
When you roll down the "Windows" the engine stalls.
If you install non-Microsoft gasoline, you cant start your car.
Shooting fish in a barell.
I knew I could boost my karma by trashing Windows;)
By reading the threads in this article it is obvious that:
Microsoft = Bad
Sun/Java = Good
But have you all forgotten that Sun reneged on ISO standardization of Java. Isn't that a bad thing? After promising ISO compliance as a means of getting the developers hooked, shouldn't Sun and Java be looked upon with scorn? All you Java developers are locked into a proprietary platform. How is that any different from riding the Microsoft trolley?
The anti-Microsoft stuff is getting ridiculous. It is just plain pathetic when it becomes hypocritical. Mod me down all you want, troll, flamebait, whatever. Some of you need to take a step back and assess your priorities.
The bottom paragraphs are in foreign laguages sometimes. I can't read/speak french or spanish. I don't know exactly what I'm agreeing to. The english legal-ease is bad enough with all the cryptic layer talk. These ending paragraphs obsfucates the agreement in totality and therefore renders the whole thing unintelligible - to me anyway. Ignorance is not a valid defense in court, so.... ummm.....
Sorry, my brain just turned to mush and slid down my neck hole while contemplating lawyers and their dirty tricks.
I wonder if some guy named "Navin" is sitting in his RIAA office in his bathrobe, writing out check after check after check?... and this chair, and this paddle ball game, and this ash tray, and thats all I need!.... oh wait I need this.....
Seriously though.. It is about time they got nailed for price fixing. For years and years and years they charged us twice as much for a CD as they did a cassette tape. A CD is a round piece of plastic with a hole in the middle. A cassette tape is linear media with moving parts. You tell me which format is easier to mass-produce. We've been getting screwed so bad for so long now, I've kinda gotten used to the rough ass love I've been getting. Goatse style.
Often acknowledged as the inspiration of the cyber-punk movement, William Gibson's Neuromancer has existed as a possible film adaptation for several years. In November 1998, British director Chris Cunningham became attached to the project, though the production of the film seems to have stalled as of late. Neuromancer follows a high-level computer hacker who becomes embroiled in a series of double-crosses. Published in 1984, the sci-fi novel has won several of the genre's top awards.
If it is open sores software then just read the code. Isn't the actual code an acceptable form of documentation? If not, then your whole premise of more secure, more stable, more supportable goes out the window (pun intended).
What good is open sores software if you are unable to interpret the coded statements?
Some of you will say: "I don't need to understand the source code, I just need to be able to recompile my blah blah blah". Well, how is that any different from blindly installing a hotfix on your MS OS? Either way you are just going through the motions on sheer faith.
I don't understand the complaint. Just RTFSC (source code).
I want Louise Woodward to babysit for me. Take Paul McCartney back please. He just ins't fitting in over here. Your idea of good football is a scoreless tie. Why doesn't red mean "go" and green mean "stop", since your driving habits are all backwards. Princess Die was a slut.
Bangers and mash! Bangers and mash!
I dont know about the rest of you....
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But that SciFi channel station-identification-commerical-bookend kid with the wings and bug-eyes and suction-cup finger tips really freaked me out. The greys in Taken had little-to-no-impact, but that freakish kid in the commercial kept me up last night. Ugggh!
The idea that somebody has to have advanced knowledge of computers to use them is absurd
Does your mom drive around at 100 Mph? Does she blow through red lights? What about parking spaces? No? Just pulls right up onto the sidewalk in front of the door? Your mom (our collective moms) don't need to be computer experts, but they should at least have some understanding of the rules of the road before turning the key. Don't absolve idiotic behavior in the name of entitlement. If she thumps through the download warnings, she gets what she deserves - hacked. Same thing as if she runs that red light and get broadsided by a semi. I have no pity for the uneducated. There should be at least some degree of user accountability for their actions.
Face it. Msft has the developer community and it shows. They beat OS/2 not by technical merit, but by software titles. They will beat GNU/linux-or-whatever too. Face it. They own. They won't let it slip away. Switch to Windows now. If not for your own sake, then do it for your children. You want to see them become productive adults don't you? Then why bother compiling your own kernel or whatever you propeller heads to to make your *nix flavors work.
"Anybody remember what that pimply-faced intern did when he recompiled that DLL last summer? Damn what was his name....?"
Of course open sores is going to cost more in some cases (no, not always), But the lack of accountability is what has the PHB to afraid to implement any such nonsense into his datacenter. I wouldn't allow it either. Stay the hell away from my production source code. Better yet - let someone else keep the source code and I'll call them when I have a problem with the binaries. Its all about accountability when your ass is on the line. I don't want undocumented changes to come back and bite me in the ass. I know I know. Strict change control and peer review - right? Yeah sure, and nobody plays the "cowboy" in your IT dept either. LOL
I keep hearing from this crowd that closed-source and protected IP is a doomed business model. I just don't see how you can justify that.
BTW Microsoft PSS support is free (as in beer) if you suffer from a bug in their product. You're only charged $$$ for support when you don't RTFM
This was done on a pick-6 wager. The first four selections were altered after the race had been run, the 5th and 6th races were "all" "all" - playing the entire field in each of the last two races. Thus a "winning" ticket.
We all know the payouts are based on the pool (kitty) divided up by the number of winning tickets (roughly). Since there are far fewer winning pick-6 tickets now that this has been exposed, what happens to the $3 million that should be divided among the legitimate winners?
Someone is getting rich off of this. And it isn't the Amtote hacker(s).
My tax dollars weren't flushed. They were well-spent protecting the population from linux (or GNU/Linux - whatever) infestation. You hippies are cute with your open sores software and cryptic CLI. Why don't you go recompile your OS or something.
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...The washing machines make brew out of priests.
Because I had too.
...but I cant resist. How could they leave out the Frank Grimes episode? Oh man that had me laughing from start to finish. Some articles have pointed to this episode as the "beginning of the end". The point in time that Homer officially becomes a total boob. Today's survey has a reference to Grimey. That one was a gem.
"I AM THE LIZARD QUEEEN!"
I'm a bit offended by this. This form of entertainment for the masses is nothing more than a regionalized extract of speech phrases recorded by some MTV fun boy?!?!?! WTF?!?
Another poster above knows of a common practice of fabricating celebrity interviews by splicing their sound bites with opportunistic questions.
Much of my news (print, TV, and radio) comes with a slant, a spin, or is presented from a single point of view.
Video editing and CGI-annimation have gotten so good it is hard to tell what is real and what is not. This is especially true for big-budget movies, but the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper. Anyone see those Matrix Reloaded trailers? Wow!
It seems as though everything we see and hear is heavily processed/filtered before it gets to our brains. Almost as if the mass-media outlets (and perhaps big govt) don't want us to think for ourselves. I know I've got offtopic here.
It is why I only watch two things on TV anymore.
1. Cartoons. They are fake and obviously so. There is no way I am going to watch a "REALITY SHOW" as seen through my fucking TV screen. This started for me with the MTV show called "Real World". HA! Real? and on TV?!?!
2. Live sports. The only fake or scripted thing about my professional sports is the yellow first-down line they programmatically paint on the field. Sporting events cannot be faked because the events/outcome are corrobated by thousands of attendees. Sure, there is a 7 second delay built into the delivery, but nobody can change the outcome or manipulate the drama.
I am very offended and concerned about this. I don't give a shit about the union filing the complaint. I worry about the things my son will "learn" from this form of brainwashing.
"You're not very sure to arrive," a researcher, Dr. Hugo Zbinden, said about human teleportation.
Even if this is perfected for human "travel", there is still the legitimate question of whether or not the arriving "traveler" is indeed the origianl person, or is instead a copy of the original.
These poor Reallians cloning humans from embryoes... and Dolly the sheep - HA.
Hop into my malfunctioning Brundle-Fly replicator and produce instant clones at the other end. Try it with a twist of insect, or plant species, the combinations are limitless and the result are instant.
I can easily copy files on my computer, why shouldn't I be able to copy tangible, physical objects too?
One of my doppelganger's doppelganger got into a bar fight, now all 612 of us have a fat lip except for the one that jumped "through" the machine with a fish - he doesn't have any lips.
Can I go home now?
IT professionals still wonder what to expect if they choose to devote their entire career to IT.
Since 1987 I've endured thankless all-nighters and many wasted weekends to satify the insane schedules of inexperienced project managers. I've also had the crushing responsibility that comes with installing and supporting systems that multi-billion dollar companies rely on. I've been shit on as a consultant and exhalted as a savior and treated like a hero. I have experienced a full-spectrum of environments. I am now 35 years old.
But the one thing that has been consistent thoughout this whole time is this: I love what I do. Maddening at times - yes. Mundane - yep. But almost always interresting. If you dont have passion for technology, you wont last.
"You have to keep yourself trained even if management will not pay for it," says Edward Pilling, who participated in the discussion. "You have to have one critical skill set that is in need."
This is what I mean. Learn the new technology. Stay current and informed. Read Slashdot (mod me up now). Take classes. But most of all, stick your nose into it, roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. If you are going to get up each day and drag your ass into work, you might as well enjoy your workload. Sure, most IT jobs pay well, but if you hate computers it will show and you wont survive the influx of new grads and you will fall to the side of the road while the fast pace of technology marches on without you. If you love it, you wont be able to get enough of it, and you will succeed.
They should move their operations to the USA where they will be elligible for huge tax breaks.
That process is called "Entanglement". Quantum entanglement is the anti-thesis to a seamless-whole universe/existence. Quantum entaglement suggests the possibility of "faster than light" travel. The trick is coordinating all the matter that matters. There is alos the dubious question of whether or not the "traveler" is actually the same person, or just a copy, when he/she arrives at a destination...
Live or Memorex?
The Scientific American is a great mag for this sort of thing. IANAPP(Particle Physicist) but I really love this stuff.
Up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm.
The ani-matter stuff they are doing at CERN is outrageous. I hope they dont accidentally manufacture a blackhole or something - sheesh - that would suck. hahaha get it? suck?
Anyway, from the small to the big, from the micro to the macro, there is always the concept of revolutions. Electrons around nuclei. Moons/satelites around planets around suns around galaxies in clusters.
Brian Greene has published some works on sub-atomic string-thoery. Vibrating stings! That is like an orbit when viewed in 2 dimentions.
Speaking of dementia. I gotta go. The pickle needs to be scratched.
the use of Windows CE in the BMW 745i, which apparently occasionally goes nuts.
The "Windows" automagically roll down and the stereo, at volume 11, shouts: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Or maybe the "Windows", including the windshield goes BSOD!.
How about if stepping on the brakes also sounded the horn. Yay. Road rage anyone?
When you roll down the "Windows" the engine stalls.
If you install non-Microsoft gasoline, you cant start your car.
Shooting fish in a barell.
I knew I could boost my karma by trashing Windows ;)
By reading the threads in this article it is obvious that:
Microsoft = Bad
Sun/Java = Good
But have you all forgotten that Sun reneged on ISO standardization of Java. Isn't that a bad thing? After promising ISO compliance as a means of getting the developers hooked, shouldn't Sun and Java be looked upon with scorn? All you Java developers are locked into a proprietary platform. How is that any different from riding the Microsoft trolley?
The anti-Microsoft stuff is getting ridiculous. It is just plain pathetic when it becomes hypocritical. Mod me down all you want, troll, flamebait, whatever. Some of you need to take a step back and assess your priorities.
Sorry, my brain just turned to mush and slid down my neck hole while contemplating lawyers and their dirty tricks.
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Seriously though.. It is about time they got nailed for price fixing. For years and years and years they charged us twice as much for a CD as they did a cassette tape. A CD is a round piece of plastic with a hole in the middle. A cassette tape is linear media with moving parts. You tell me which format is easier to mass-produce. We've been getting screwed so bad for so long now, I've kinda gotten used to the rough ass love I've been getting. Goatse style.
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Often acknowledged as the inspiration of the cyber-punk movement, William Gibson's Neuromancer has existed as a possible film adaptation for several years. In November 1998, British director Chris Cunningham became attached to the project, though the production of the film seems to have stalled as of late.
Neuromancer follows a high-level computer hacker who becomes embroiled in a series of double-crosses. Published in 1984, the sci-fi novel has won several of the genre's top awards.
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What good is open sores software if you are unable to interpret the coded statements?
Some of you will say: "I don't need to understand the source code, I just need to be able to recompile my blah blah blah". Well, how is that any different from blindly installing a hotfix on your MS OS? Either way you are just going through the motions on sheer faith.
I don't understand the complaint. Just RTFSC (source code).
I want Louise Woodward to babysit for me. Take Paul McCartney back please. He just ins't fitting in over here. Your idea of good football is a scoreless tie. Why doesn't red mean "go" and green mean "stop", since your driving habits are all backwards. Princess Die was a slut.
Bangers and mash! Bangers and mash!But that SciFi channel station-identification-commerical-bookend kid with the wings and bug-eyes and suction-cup finger tips really freaked me out. The greys in Taken had little-to-no-impact, but that freakish kid in the commercial kept me up last night. Ugggh!
If the http://goatse.cx guy plays TSO and walks around backwards, does the game turn into a freakish version of Pac Man?
The idea that somebody has to have advanced knowledge of computers to use them is absurd Does your mom drive around at 100 Mph? Does she blow through red lights? What about parking spaces? No? Just pulls right up onto the sidewalk in front of the door? Your mom (our collective moms) don't need to be computer experts, but they should at least have some understanding of the rules of the road before turning the key. Don't absolve idiotic behavior in the name of entitlement. If she thumps through the download warnings, she gets what she deserves - hacked. Same thing as if she runs that red light and get broadsided by a semi. I have no pity for the uneducated. There should be at least some degree of user accountability for their actions.
Face it. Msft has the developer community and it shows. They beat OS/2 not by technical merit, but by software titles. They will beat GNU/linux-or-whatever too. Face it. They own. They won't let it slip away. Switch to Windows now. If not for your own sake, then do it for your children. You want to see them become productive adults don't you? Then why bother compiling your own kernel or whatever you propeller heads to to make your *nix flavors work.
Of course open sores is going to cost more in some cases (no, not always), But the lack of accountability is what has the PHB to afraid to implement any such nonsense into his datacenter. I wouldn't allow it either. Stay the hell away from my production source code. Better yet - let someone else keep the source code and I'll call them when I have a problem with the binaries. Its all about accountability when your ass is on the line. I don't want undocumented changes to come back and bite me in the ass. I know I know. Strict change control and peer review - right? Yeah sure, and nobody plays the "cowboy" in your IT dept either. LOL
I keep hearing from this crowd that closed-source and protected IP is a doomed business model. I just don't see how you can justify that.BTW Microsoft PSS support is free (as in beer) if you suffer from a bug in their product. You're only charged $$$ for support when you don't RTFM
Wouldn't you rather have the nipple - clit - track point thingy instead of a scroll wheel?
We all know the payouts are based on the pool (kitty) divided up by the number of winning tickets (roughly). Since there are far fewer winning pick-6 tickets now that this has been exposed, what happens to the $3 million that should be divided among the legitimate winners?
Someone is getting rich off of this. And it isn't the Amtote hacker(s).
My tax dollars weren't flushed. They were well-spent protecting the population from linux (or GNU/Linux - whatever) infestation. You hippies are cute with your open sores software and cryptic CLI. Why don't you go recompile your OS or something.