No, really: people once claimed & hoped that industrialization would raise productivity so much that we'd all have 20-hour work weeks or some such. Yet here we are, with massively greater productivity than 100 years ago (or even 20), and the so-called "work ethic" handed down from the top-level management sociopaths to everyone else has led to an increase in the average work week among full-time workers. I'm not claiming that we'd solve unemployment by chopping every job in half & increasing our employee count by 100%, but it sure would be nice if a little of those productivity gains came back to us all in the form of something other than, well, the nothing we're getting now.
This started out as pure satire, but now I'm beginning to wonder if it could be done. Consider: it's relatively easy to produce extremely accurate analog electronic waveforms. The disasters strike while trying to convert (nanotubes, rare-earth magnets, cones, electrostatics, or whatever) into a clean pressure wave in air. And all that just to drive a bunch of scilia in the inner ear, which are probably beat to shit from a lifetime of rock concerts, motorcycles, and angry spouses. So let's get going on a direct electrical connection to the otic nerves! No need for conversion into/out of air at all!
I'd recommend you get ffmpeg or a similar converter and turn your old video into some newer filetype. Plus, assuming the conversion works, you'll know for sure exactly what codec the new file is using.
Really -- who here hasn't torrented something which turned out to be in an encrypted zip file or some such, with a little note that said "Just go to www.imasucker.com" and answer the brief survey to get the password to unlock this file" ?
Give the Monsantos of the world enough leeway and it may become difficult to legally grow your own. There are already cases of farmers being sued (successfully) by Monsanto because GM seed contaminated their non-GM seed and the farmer didn't have licensing.
Windup Girl, by Bacigalupi (and several other stories set in the same world)
You can't bypass the lock, but you did activate the hidden Trojan that now will send all your BitCoins to the guys who posted this phony (pun intended) hack.
And there we have a shining example of what happens when you extrapolate a small dataset without regard for externalities. How about this: instead of claiming that PV cell efficiencies will climb to some magical number and simultaneously a massless battery with infinite charge capacity will be invented, try some simple calculations. Pretend that 100% of all solar power (roughly 1kW/m^2) is converted to electricity, calculate the amount of lift required to carry 300 to 350 kg (four medium sized people), and figure out just how large the aircraft's surface area would have to be.
Once again, this is a possibility we've known about for a while, and it hasn't caused people to leave Windows in droves. I think it's something most people just must not care about
Which standard answer would you prefer?
A) Most people are panic-stricken at the thought of change. B) The OS decision at our place of work is made by some C-level IT person who's clueless. C) What compromise in trust? We'll just load up Kaspersky and AVG and Sophos and Defender...
I still read the WSJ in print. My office keeps a subscription and puts it in the break room. Me and a few other folks share sections during lunch, or skim the headlines while waiting for coffee
It's easy to make jokes about charging per-reader for hard copy, etc., but it does make me wonder: what's the ratio of readers per purchased paper copy vs. the percent of online readers who buy a subscription? After all, most office-worker environments do just as quoted, providing a few newspapers in the break room. Similarly, your dentist, doctor, speedy-oil-change, hairdresser, etc. fill their waiting rooms with newspapers and magazines (plus probably CNN on a monitor). I wonder where the real "even trade" point is for online subscribers.
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No, really: people once claimed & hoped that industrialization would raise productivity so much that we'd all have 20-hour work weeks or some such. Yet here we are, with massively greater productivity than 100 years ago (or even 20), and the so-called "work ethic" handed down from the top-level management sociopaths to everyone else has led to an increase in the average work week among full-time workers.
I'm not claiming that we'd solve unemployment by chopping every job in half & increasing our employee count by 100%, but it sure would be nice if a little of those productivity gains came back to us all in the form of something other than, well, the nothing we're getting now.
I mean, they can have my Digi-Comp I when they drag it from my cold, dead fingers.
Same for my slide rule.
they didnt fit satisfaction in there, not buying it.
Guess they.... "couldn't get no..."
No, really old. My grandmother used to break apart chocolate bars to teach fractions to her 2nd or 3rd grade classes back in the 50's and 60's.
Now some self-proclaimed genius has figured out what Tufte has been saying forever: that pie charts suck?
Personally I liken these muppets to the idiots who steal Henry Moore sculptures and melt them down for scrap!
Oh, I thought those people were called "Folks with good taste." :-)
This started out as pure satire, but now I'm beginning to wonder if it could be done. Consider: it's relatively easy to produce extremely accurate analog electronic waveforms. The disasters strike while trying to convert (nanotubes, rare-earth magnets, cones, electrostatics, or whatever) into a clean pressure wave in air. And all that just to drive a bunch of scilia in the inner ear, which are probably beat to shit from a lifetime of rock concerts, motorcycles, and angry spouses. So let's get going on a direct electrical connection to the otic nerves! No need for conversion into/out of air at all!
DIdn't mean that. Complexity is usually a sign of bad design. Actually, most of concepts in CS are pretty straightforward ...
Counterargument: the Rubik's Cube is a pretty snazzy, simple design. Try to solve it.
The Sirens Didn't clean up too well after getting the critical repair part from Earth.
Pretty sure she gets her girlfriend to make the sandwiches, like any proper techie.
Yeah, but does she need to preface her request with "sudo" ?
Lasers, on the other hand, shoot photons.
Yer a frickin' libral. Everyone knows that lasers don't shoot photons! People with a laser shoot photons.
I'd recommend you get ffmpeg or a similar converter and turn your old video into some newer filetype. Plus, assuming the conversion works, you'll know for sure exactly what codec the new file is using.
Really -- who here hasn't torrented something which turned out to be in an encrypted zip file or some such, with a little note that said "Just go to www.imasucker.com" and answer the brief survey to get the password to unlock this file" ?
hold on the receipts at least until you punch'em into your fiance package
that's gotta be one of the better unintentional misspellings I've seen in a while.
To which I can only wonder:
A) Did you never catch on, or did you just figure that a tasty ice cream treat was worth a nap?
B) Nobody should leave a drink unattended in any sort of public place, so good thing you learned that lesson the "easy" way.
My guess: 'nbc' here is short for "NSA Botnet Communicator."
Then again, it might never have been found if they'd been smart enough to name it "svhcost.exe" [sic] or "winupdate475YWHV63275278592,bat"
It's not a copy, it's a derivative work!
In which case, either Newton's or Leibnitz' lawyers want a word with you...
Give the Monsantos of the world enough leeway and it may become difficult to legally grow your own. There are already cases of farmers being sued (successfully) by Monsanto because GM seed contaminated their non-GM seed and the farmer didn't have licensing.
Windup Girl, by Bacigalupi (and several other stories set in the same world)
Somehow the "Electric Spider" sounds like it's right out of an early 80's night club choreography.
(yes, I know there was the Electric Slide, thank you)
I mean, really, couldn't they come up with a "Artificial Intelligence Machine for Enhanced Evenings" -- AIMEE?
If it's gotta be a robot server, it dang well better be a fembot.
(now shutting down my inner sophomore...)
OK so that was a lame joke, but what morons tagged it "flamebait"? "boring" I could understand.
itsatrap
You can't bypass the lock, but you did activate the hidden Trojan that now will send all your BitCoins to the guys who posted this phony (pun intended) hack.
I bet Satan's fun as hell at parties. Now that you mention it, he probably came up with the lampshade trick too.
Well, if you'd please allow him to introduce himself, you'd find he's a man of wealth and taste!
And there we have a shining example of what happens when you extrapolate a small dataset without regard for externalities.
How about this: instead of claiming that PV cell efficiencies will climb to some magical number and simultaneously a massless battery with infinite charge capacity will be invented, try some simple calculations. Pretend that 100% of all solar power (roughly 1kW/m^2) is converted to electricity, calculate the amount of lift required to carry 300 to 350 kg (four medium sized people), and figure out just how large the aircraft's surface area would have to be.
Once again, this is a possibility we've known about for a while, and it hasn't caused people to leave Windows in droves. I think it's something most people just must not care about
Which standard answer would you prefer?
A) Most people are panic-stricken at the thought of change.
B) The OS decision at our place of work is made by some C-level IT person who's clueless.
C) What compromise in trust? We'll just load up Kaspersky and AVG and Sophos and Defender...
I still read the WSJ in print. My office keeps a subscription and puts it in the break room. Me and a few other folks share sections during lunch, or skim the headlines while waiting for coffee
It's easy to make jokes about charging per-reader for hard copy, etc., but it does make me wonder: what's the ratio of readers per purchased paper copy vs. the percent of online readers who buy a subscription? After all, most office-worker environments do just as quoted, providing a few newspapers in the break room. Similarly, your dentist, doctor, speedy-oil-change, hairdresser, etc. fill their waiting rooms with newspapers and magazines (plus probably CNN on a monitor). I wonder where the real "even trade" point is for online subscribers.