There's dumb luck. Especially applicable to playing the lottery, given the odds of winning.
There's the luck of the draw. The circumstances to which you were born falls under this. Or what cards you get when playing poker.
Then there's a lucky opportunity. This takes skill, because one must be able to see the opportunity, and then one must be able to act on it. A lucky opportunity might be one of the above types of luck (or a type I didn't think of to list), but what's important is what one does with the opportunity.
He's got a tremendous ego, at least the match of Steve Jobs. He's a bit of a control freak. But he knows how to get things done, and despite his ego, he does have a more human and compassionate side.
This from a friend that worked on The Benefactor, from his personal contact and from things he heard from other people.
but you know what might work? use a panoramic camera to take the picture, then get your desktop to scroll as you spin in your chair with Amit Singh's AMS hack.
Now, I see lots of reasons this wouldn't work, or would be difficult to implement. The main thing would be holding the laptop exactly right as you spun in place. You'd need some sort of rig to keep the lap top positioned correctly. The other big thing is I don't know how sensitive and accurate the AMS is, so it might be impossible to sync up.
I read it in a more vile and evil way. He's actually managed in his mind to create a group of people ("IT employees") who because they sell their labour to someone, every thought, idea, word, expression and talent that person has at any time is owned by the entity that receives benefit from their labour.
Quick of you to pick up the subtext. I wasn't even looking deeper, but you're right. And it coincides perfectly with the interests of his masters.
But isn't this the viewpoint of a cynical, burned out old whore*? He's so used to selling everything to who ever will pay his price, selling his integrity, selling whatever talent or creativity he might have had, selling his soul, and so forth, that this is how he views ALL individuals. He doesn't understand people who aren't doing it for money, just as the tired old whore thinks that girls that "give it away for free" are fools, that there is no such thing as love, and that every relationship equates to the relationships she has with her Johns.
Rather than vile and evil, it's pathetic and sad.
*My apologies to burned out old whores who still put their hearts into it, and give a good honest screw for someone else's hard earned money. May your silicon never harden.
Actually there were two main subgroups of the FR. One was more careful, and was more interested in intelligence gathering, while the other, which was mostly French Communists, were doing the sabotage and assassinations. The first group didn't like the Communists, because they made the espionage that much more difficult and brought down the heat.
Also, compared to the partisans in Yugoslavia or the behind-enemy-lines guerillas in Russia, the FR really wasn't that effective overall, at least not until right before D-Day.
I'm afraid snopes is not the be all and end all. They're most likely right about the "pluck you" part (which was a joke) and also you'll note that they're discussing the middle finger, i.e., the bird.
If this is an urban legend, it goes back a lot farther than the Tappet brothers. The story was related to me in college by a history professor, and he wasn't pulling our legs.
Come up with a better explanation, or some real research, for the english "reverse peace sign" fuck you gesture, and I'll consider it. Substantiation will aid your cause.
I know a guy who spent big money (coughcough**LK) on an ISDN that hooked up thru the Geoport. Boy was he pissed when Apple dropped it. He still hates Apple.
(Hey, LK, if you read this, I tease because I love. Just not in that way*. =)
*Not suggesting that's how you like it either. Not that there's anything wrong with it.)
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Yeah, the good old days. The reason that AVID went windows (and was pretty much all windows) was because Apple dropped a lot of slots going from the 9600 to the Beige G3 minitower. I think Avid dicked around with the Magma expansion chasis, but I don't think they were very effective.
Well the public neocon agenda isn't a secret, and the unspoken agenda isn't difficult to miss. (Although one could argue that the not-so-secret agenda is due to the overlapping interests of the neocons and certain business interests.)
Anyway, checck out that link, and look for stuff from before Bush was elected. It's more or less all laid out, and it becomes clear (as if it wasn't before) that the neocons were looking for any sort of pretext to invade Iraq; 9/11 was a godsend for them.
Yes, I know about Vichy France, which the U.S. originally recognized before we joined the hostilities. At that point we supported de Gaulle and the Free French, but never whole heartedly, because de Gaulle was such a pain in the ass (from the Anglo-American perspective).
You might note that the Free French 19th Corps participated in Operation Torch. And it's been said that the fight was easier because many Vichy soldiers went over to the Free French side, rather than fight the Allies.
Still, one of the funnier Churchill quotes is, "The heaviest cross I had to bear during the war was the Cross of Lorraine." The Cross of Lorraine was the symbol of Free France, and de Gaulle was Free France.
If criminality was a basis for freindship, you'd think he'd be good buddies with Bush. I guess it's more like rival gang leaders, with tariffs instead of drive by shootings.
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It's kind of cool seeing how even during some of the dark days under shitty management, creative people were doing cool things at Apple, and pretty much keeping it alive.
I do video on the Mac, and I've done it, off and on, since 1992. The AV models were a big step forward in terms of making the technology available at a cheap price. (I still have a Nubus TruVista+ card that I can't bear to part with because it cost so much back in the day. Probably worthless now.)
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There's more than one kind of luck.
There's dumb luck. Especially applicable to playing the lottery, given the odds of winning.
There's the luck of the draw. The circumstances to which you were born falls under this. Or what cards you get when playing poker.
Then there's a lucky opportunity. This takes skill, because one must be able to see the opportunity, and then one must be able to act on it. A lucky opportunity might be one of the above types of luck (or a type I didn't think of to list), but what's important is what one does with the opportunity.
Well, perhaps I should have said arrogant and self-centered. Sosumi.
He's got a tremendous ego, at least the match of Steve Jobs. He's a bit of a control freak. But he knows how to get things done, and despite his ego, he does have a more human and compassionate side.
This from a friend that worked on The Benefactor, from his personal contact and from things he heard from other people.
but you know what might work? use a panoramic camera to take the picture, then get your desktop to scroll as you spin in your chair with Amit Singh's AMS hack.
Now, I see lots of reasons this wouldn't work, or would be difficult to implement. The main thing would be holding the laptop exactly right as you spun in place. You'd need some sort of rig to keep the lap top positioned correctly. The other big thing is I don't know how sensitive and accurate the AMS is, so it might be impossible to sync up.
It's a Sony laptop!
Doh!!!
Why are you suprised that the cat of a Mac user is a poser?
*runs away*
The President of France at the time whas : Paul Reynaud.
That's totally wrong. Reynaud was the French Prime Minister!
I never realized that the French education system was as good (if not better) than the US education system. =)
I read it in a more vile and evil way. He's actually managed in his mind to create a group of people ("IT employees") who because they sell their labour to someone, every thought, idea, word, expression and talent that person has at any time is owned by the entity that receives benefit from their labour.
Quick of you to pick up the subtext. I wasn't even looking deeper, but you're right. And it coincides perfectly with the interests of his masters.
But isn't this the viewpoint of a cynical, burned out old whore*? He's so used to selling everything to who ever will pay his price, selling his integrity, selling whatever talent or creativity he might have had, selling his soul, and so forth, that this is how he views ALL individuals. He doesn't understand people who aren't doing it for money, just as the tired old whore thinks that girls that "give it away for free" are fools, that there is no such thing as love, and that every relationship equates to the relationships she has with her Johns.
Rather than vile and evil, it's pathetic and sad.
*My apologies to burned out old whores who still put their hearts into it, and give a good honest screw for someone else's hard earned money. May your silicon never harden.
I favor your second explanation, that they planned to cancel the thing all along. It fits Jack's M.O.
Well, at least "Virxen" hasn't caught on yet, thank God.
Actually there were two main subgroups of the FR. One was more careful, and was more interested in intelligence gathering, while the other, which was mostly French Communists, were doing the sabotage and assassinations. The first group didn't like the Communists, because they made the espionage that much more difficult and brought down the heat.
Also, compared to the partisans in Yugoslavia or the behind-enemy-lines guerillas in Russia, the FR really wasn't that effective overall, at least not until right before D-Day.
I'm afraid snopes is not the be all and end all. They're most likely right about the "pluck you" part (which was a joke) and also you'll note that they're discussing the middle finger, i.e., the bird.
If this is an urban legend, it goes back a lot farther than the Tappet brothers. The story was related to me in college by a history professor, and he wasn't pulling our legs.
Come up with a better explanation, or some real research, for the english "reverse peace sign" fuck you gesture, and I'll consider it. Substantiation will aid your cause.
I know a guy who spent big money (coughcough**LK) on an ISDN that hooked up thru the Geoport. Boy was he pissed when Apple dropped it. He still hates Apple.
(Hey, LK, if you read this, I tease because I love. Just not in that way*. =)
*Not suggesting that's how you like it either. Not that there's anything wrong with it.)
Yeah, the good old days. The reason that AVID went windows (and was pretty much all windows) was because Apple dropped a lot of slots going from the 9600 to the Beige G3 minitower. I think Avid dicked around with the Magma expansion chasis, but I don't think they were very effective.
Protest all you want, but the dead give-away is that you noticed his shoes in the first place. Not that there's anything wrong with that. =)
I think it was 230 MB, actually. AV rated 1 GB SCSI ran about a grand. I still have a Micropolis 2112 from back then.
It compresses both frequency and time, so you hear it all at once in a one second burst.
Wasn't that "modem" a geoport? Ack!
I wonder when LK will wade in to tell us what he thinks about Geoports. =)
Well the public neocon agenda isn't a secret, and the unspoken agenda isn't difficult to miss. (Although one could argue that the not-so-secret agenda is due to the overlapping interests of the neocons and certain business interests.)
Anyway, checck out that link, and look for stuff from before Bush was elected. It's more or less all laid out, and it becomes clear (as if it wasn't before) that the neocons were looking for any sort of pretext to invade Iraq; 9/11 was a godsend for them.
OK, I didn't get that. Sorry to criticize you for being blase and cynical if you're not.
Yes, I know about Vichy France, which the U.S. originally recognized before we joined the hostilities. At that point we supported de Gaulle and the Free French, but never whole heartedly, because de Gaulle was such a pain in the ass (from the Anglo-American perspective).
You might note that the Free French 19th Corps participated in Operation Torch. And it's been said that the fight was easier because many Vichy soldiers went over to the Free French side, rather than fight the Allies.
Still, one of the funnier Churchill quotes is, "The heaviest cross I had to bear during the war was the Cross of Lorraine." The Cross of Lorraine was the symbol of Free France, and de Gaulle was Free France.
If criminality was a basis for freindship, you'd think he'd be good buddies with Bush. I guess it's more like rival gang leaders, with tariffs instead of drive by shootings.
It's kind of cool seeing how even during some of the dark days under shitty management, creative people were doing cool things at Apple, and pretty much keeping it alive.
I do video on the Mac, and I've done it, off and on, since 1992. The AV models were a big step forward in terms of making the technology available at a cheap price. (I still have a Nubus TruVista+ card that I can't bear to part with because it cost so much back in the day. Probably worthless now.)
Correct. It's only illegal to stream video on the internet without a license from Acacia Technologies.