Wait, so every drop of alcohol in the entire state goes through one warehouse, and the state is in charge of running this warehouse?
And this seemed like a good idea?
This of course comes as a surprise to noone under the 5'5" mark.
What's funny, or perhaps expected, is that tall people are, as a rule, blissfully unaware of the advantages their height affords them. They bitch about trivialities like fitting into movie seats while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.
And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.
Easy there little fella. Why don't you cool down, maybe take a walk.
Could ya fetch some coffee while you're up? Us grown-ups have some serious work to do here.
> I understand that/bin/true has been solid since its initial release...
(emphasis mine, of course:)
# uname
HP-UX
# cat/bin/true
# @(#) $Revision: 64.1 $
exit 0
But maybe that's just HP. Let's check the Solaris box instead:
bash-2.05$ uname
SunOS
bash-2.05$ cat/bin/true
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
# All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
# actual or intended publication of such source code.
That is a possibility, but the sad fact of the matter is that advertising doesn't work...at least not to the effect that advertising companies (adcos) think it does.
Pop quiz -- Tell me everything you know about a company called "X10" (found on the web at www.X10.com)
I'd wager you know that they sell cameras. Tiny, wireless-enabled cameras. You may well know that they advertize in seedy fashion, and you may well loathe the pop-under, pop-over, and animated banner ads that they use, but you know them, and know what their product is.
Last I heard, they were making money hand over fist, not from me, and maybe not from you, but they're making it from someone.
I'd say the advertising medium is working for some folks.
Yesterday my (3 year old) daughter spent some time at my office, playing Drol on the Apple//e on the other desk here.
I glanced over at one point and noticed that she'd made it to level two.
I think I've beaten level three a handful of times, FWIW.
As the article says, it will be difficult to track humans, because of their porr reflectivity. But it will probably track tinfoil helmets quite well.
That, my friends, is called irony.
I work as a bench tech for a manufacturer of computers for mobile applications. (snip)
[my boss is quoted as saying] "Anybody I employ either doesnt have the credentals or the skill to get the better job, so I dont listen to anything they say" (snip)
I [know that the person quoting my boss told the truth]. This really was what the Owner thought of his employees (snip)
So to summarize, you work at a place. You learn that your boss thinks you're a moron for working there in the first place.
Your boss proves to you that he really believes this. And you still work there
At work we have a 5 meg drive, with 7 platters. The drive weighs 90 Lbs. it measures about 26" by 19" by 17". We dont know where it came from, but its there, and none of us want to move it.
I have a platter from one of those drives.
It's hanging on the wall in my den, with $5 worth of clock mechanism bolted through the center hole. The four screws that hold the platter in the spindle make great "3-6-9-12" marks.
For a while there, it worked to divide the geeks from the non-geeks as they walked in the door. Non-geeks would say "hey, neat clock" while the geeks would simply start laughing.
Now, it's rare to run into someone who recognizes it. Maybe I'm running low on geeks.
In college we had "distinctive ring" -- multiple phone numbers ring to the same physical line, but with a different ring cadence so you know who's number got called.
I got a call once and the caller asked to speak to the woman of the house. I said "Speaking, how can I help you?" and he hung up.
My roomie and I were laughing about this when his number rang. He answered, then said "yeah, just a minute" and gave the phone to me.
Then I got hung-up on again.
I got 2-3 junk faxes a day. I recycled 'em, but after a while it just bugged me.
I actually just used the opt-out 800-number at the bottom of each one, and within a week I was down to ZERO junk faxes. In the past year, I have had exactly one.
Note that this isn't the same as "attempting to contact the sender" -- the sender couldn't care less. The vendor couldn't care less. But the opt-out system seems to have real impact on the phone number lists.
There ya go. Not nearly as entertaining as the brainstorming of a bunch of geeks, but it's honest, it's legal, and it has worked dandy.
Co-worker walks by, looks at monitor,
Co-worker: "Is that Excel?"
Me: "No, its OpenOffice spreadsheet" (or Gnumeric)
While your answer is completely factual, it makes you sound elitist. It also makes it sound like OpenOffice will take a steep learning curve for your Excel-addicted co-worker. (which probably explains his ultimate reply)
How about any of the following replies instead:
No, but it does the same thing just as well.
It's the equivalent tool, but it's free.
It's the same tool, but without the macro-viruses.
There's a key difference in VoIP -- it is a very small bandwidth requirement, and other (for-pay) services are driving the installation of very high-bandwidth infrastructure.
Analogies are hard to come by because it's an environment without many parallels. Certainly it won't be free to get broadband just to use VoIP, but if Charter is able to bill you $100+ for your ultra-premium digital cable TV with 10M internet access, do you think it's worth the overhead to try to meter and bill for an additional buck or two of VoIP usage each month?
The next thing they'll do is *pay* loud annoying kids as an anti-piracy measure for the soundtrack.
Hmmm... if my kids skip lunch, they're REALLY loud and annoying.
dare I say it?
Back in '82 I found someone throwing out their collection of Apple ][ cassettes. Up the street, someone was tossing a cassette player that still had batteries in it.
My friend and I walked the rest of the way to school with 6502 machine code playing from our impromptu boombox.
As much as I want to support the financial arm of/. (thinkgeek) I couldn't justify the $120 either. So I didn't -- I got one on eBay about a year ago for $105 shipped. The same ones are going for about $85 shipped today.
VERY fun toy. Plainly visible beam up to the sky at night.
I loan mine to a stargazing friend, who uses it to point out constellations. Someday I'll have to take it on a plane when I'm flying after dark and see what it looks like @ 30kft!
Oh, no problem. I'll inform my (contract) employer that they'll have a much faster system when they switch. The only hangup is that they'll need a box with 30 gig of RAM to do it.
Tell me again why this is better than SQLServer using a data file on a RAMdisk?
No, really. Tell me how this is better than a Microsoft solution, 'cause the astroturfing article didn't do it yet.
When they quit making money from local service, they start making money on bandwidth.
But that's losing a market with high margins and a high barrier to entry for competitors, while gaining a market with low margins and many competitors already in place.
It will be a shift of revenue, but it's far from a zero-sum game.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking the same thing, but trying to get modded Funny++ seemed more appealing, for some reason.
And if you ask me, you nailed that target.
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Wait, so every drop of alcohol in the entire state goes through one warehouse, and the state is in charge of running this warehouse?
And this seemed like a good idea?
--
This of course comes as a surprise to noone under the 5'5" mark.
What's funny, or perhaps expected, is that tall people are, as a rule, blissfully unaware of the advantages their height affords them. They bitch about trivialities like fitting into movie seats while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.
And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.
Easy there little fella. Why don't you cool down, maybe take a walk.
Could ya fetch some coffee while you're up? Us grown-ups have some serious work to do here.
So long, Karma. It's been fun
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im sure i could do a study to figure out that brown eyed left handed one legged people make more money than blue eyed right handed two legged people.
can i have a grant now?
That depends. How tall are you?
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(emphasis mine, of course:) But maybe that's just HP. Let's check the Solaris box instead: Hmm...
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That is a possibility, but the sad fact of the matter is that advertising doesn't work...at least not to the effect that advertising companies (adcos) think it does.
Pop quiz -- Tell me everything you know about a company called "X10" (found on the web at www.X10.com)
I'd wager you know that they sell cameras. Tiny, wireless-enabled cameras. You may well know that they advertize in seedy fashion, and you may well loathe the pop-under, pop-over, and animated banner ads that they use, but you know them, and know what their product is.
Last I heard, they were making money hand over fist, not from me, and maybe not from you, but they're making it from someone.
I'd say the advertising medium is working for some folks.
--
Yesterday my (3 year old) daughter spent some time at my office, playing Drol on the Apple //e on the other desk here.
I glanced over at one point and noticed that she'd made it to level two.
I think I've beaten level three a handful of times, FWIW.
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news flash: You don't consume the TV show. The TV show delivers you (product) to the advertiser (consumer) for a price.
Bah. For $129 you get a tripod that lets you slide the camera to a right and left eye perspective.
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As the article says, it will be difficult to track humans, because of their porr reflectivity. But it will probably track tinfoil helmets quite well.
That, my friends, is called irony.
--
I work as a bench tech for a manufacturer of computers for mobile applications.
(snip)
[my boss is quoted as saying] "Anybody I employ either doesnt have the credentals or the skill to get the better job, so I dont listen to anything they say"
(snip)
I [know that the person quoting my boss told the truth]. This really was what the Owner thought of his employees
(snip)
So to summarize, you work at a place.
You learn that your boss thinks you're a moron for working there in the first place.
Your boss proves to you that he really believes this.
And you still work there
--
At work we have a 5 meg drive, with 7 platters. The drive weighs 90 Lbs. it measures about 26" by 19" by 17". We dont know where it came from, but its there, and none of us want to move it.
I have a platter from one of those drives.
It's hanging on the wall in my den, with $5 worth of clock mechanism bolted through the center hole. The four screws that hold the platter in the spindle make great "3-6-9-12" marks.
For a while there, it worked to divide the geeks from the non-geeks as they walked in the door. Non-geeks would say "hey, neat clock" while the geeks would simply start laughing.
Now, it's rare to run into someone who recognizes it. Maybe I'm running low on geeks.
--
In college we had "distinctive ring" -- multiple phone numbers ring to the same physical line, but with a different ring cadence so you know who's number got called.
I got a call once and the caller asked to speak to the woman of the house. I said "Speaking, how can I help you?" and he hung up.
My roomie and I were laughing about this when his number rang. He answered, then said "yeah, just a minute" and gave the phone to me.
Then I got hung-up on again.
--
I got 2-3 junk faxes a day. I recycled 'em, but after a while it just bugged me.
I actually just used the opt-out 800-number at the bottom of each one, and within a week I was down to ZERO junk faxes. In the past year, I have had exactly one.
Note that this isn't the same as "attempting to contact the sender" -- the sender couldn't care less. The vendor couldn't care less. But the opt-out system seems to have real impact on the phone number lists.
There ya go. Not nearly as entertaining as the brainstorming of a bunch of geeks, but it's honest, it's legal, and it has worked dandy.
--
Co-worker walks by, looks at monitor,
Co-worker: "Is that Excel?"
Me: "No, its OpenOffice spreadsheet" (or Gnumeric)
While your answer is completely factual, it makes you sound elitist. It also makes it sound like OpenOffice will take a steep learning curve for your Excel-addicted co-worker. (which probably explains his ultimate reply)
How about any of the following replies instead:
--
There's a key difference in VoIP -- it is a very small bandwidth requirement, and other (for-pay) services are driving the installation of very high-bandwidth infrastructure.
Analogies are hard to come by because it's an environment without many parallels. Certainly it won't be free to get broadband just to use VoIP, but if Charter is able to bill you $100+ for your ultra-premium digital cable TV with 10M internet access, do you think it's worth the overhead to try to meter and bill for an additional buck or two of VoIP usage each month?
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The next thing they'll do is *pay* loud annoying kids as an anti-piracy measure for the soundtrack.
Hmmm... if my kids skip lunch, they're REALLY loud and annoying.
dare I say it?
3. Profit!
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It's no good - these guys are on the do not call list.
But charities are exempt -- ask 'em for a donation for the EFF
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Wow, so I was ahead of my time and a 25-years-behind poser!
Thanks for the link, seems like a visionary guy there.
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Back in '82 I found someone throwing out their collection of Apple ][ cassettes. Up the street, someone was tossing a cassette player that still had batteries in it.
My friend and I walked the rest of the way to school with 6502 machine code playing from our impromptu boombox.
Little did I know.....
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As much as I want to support the financial arm of /. (thinkgeek) I couldn't justify the $120 either. So I didn't -- I got one on eBay about a year ago for $105 shipped. The same ones are going for about $85 shipped today.
VERY fun toy. Plainly visible beam up to the sky at night.
I loan mine to a stargazing friend, who uses it to point out constellations. Someday I'll have to take it on a plane when I'm flying after dark and see what it looks like @ 30kft!
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there is more to it but i don't have time to post.
... 'cause there's someone at the door. BRB.
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Here, I'll do the hard part for you
This is worth an Ask Slashdot?
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Oh, no problem. I'll inform my (contract) employer that they'll have a much faster system when they switch. The only hangup is that they'll need a box with 30 gig of RAM to do it.
Tell me again why this is better than SQLServer using a data file on a RAMdisk?
No, really. Tell me how this is better than a Microsoft solution, 'cause the astroturfing article didn't do it yet.
--
When they quit making money from local service, they start making money on bandwidth.
But that's losing a market with high margins and a high barrier to entry for competitors, while gaining a market with low margins and many competitors already in place.
It will be a shift of revenue, but it's far from a zero-sum game.
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