Eh, my first gaming console was a Dreamcast, and there were a few games on launch day that had manufacturing defects which caused the console to crash.
Actually, if I recall right, there were a few batches that had hardware problems as well.
That was the first and only time I bought any sort of hardware on the day it debuted. Burn me once, shame on you...
"What you are paying for is not the right to attend class and do as you please."
I didn't say you could do as you please, just that you pay for the seat, and as such, as long as you aren't doing any harm, you should be able to keep it. The University provides a service to you, not the other way around.
I truly wish to learn and gain an education. But unfortunately, there is a great deal more jumping through hoops then education involved sometimes.
Higher education is not really a privilege. It is a great deal of hard work, and dedication, but in any situation, it is certainly an opportunity.
As a consumer, one of these fake degrees is certainly not appealing. Since I'm unable to gain entry to or afford certain institutions, as a consumer I must make careful choices about how to spend my resources - namely cash and time.
I worked in retail for seven years before going back to school now. Those "life experiences" have taught me a great deal about how to relate to others, and I certainly would not have traded that for the world.
Something else that troubles me about this, and also about higher education. Most of us going to school are in one way or another, PAYING for our education. Money comes out of our pockets (either directly, as in my case, or most often in the form of a loan, as was my case - yes there are scholarships, but I don't know anyone personally who can afford their entire tuition, fees, and books to be paid by scholarship...) and then goes into the school's pockets to be used for paying professors, heat and light, as well as services the students want to have.
You, the student, are a consumer. If the class is too boring, try a different section. If you surf in class, that's your choice. I despise the idea of kicking out people from a classroom when they paid for the seat in the first place. What they choose to do with it is their buisness, and what I choose to do with it is mine. My school offers wi-fi throughout the campus (it's a small community college) and I don't usually use it during class (but it's a great tool to have between classes, and in those odd moments you need to look something up, it's handy to have wikipedia right at hand) but everyone else's student fees helped pay for the network, so to take it away from them not only seems draconian, but undemocratic and uncapitalist.
My 1541 did beat it self out of alignment every once in a while... I had this little basic program dubbed "reverse knocker" that actually beat the head thirty or forty times in the opposite direction, and the drive would work like a charm afterwards.
Wow that brings back memories...
TACKTACKTACKTACK GRIND GRIND blinking red light blinking red light
sys64760 sys64538 (I think that's right, I used the first one more than I ever did the second... cause if that didn't work, reset button on the accelrator cart baby...)
Holy Smeg! I played with Slack 1 when I was in High School. I spent about a week and a half downloading the entire thing from a local bbs. I learned really early not to fool around too much with the MBR, I had to come in at 6:00 one morning and re-format and partition, and re-install all of the school programs that HAD to be there, and my little linux partition that could got scragged a few times too.
Built in tourniquets? What, they don't think the enemy will try to hack that? For that matter, the enemy will probably try to hack the entire suit... or render it completley usless with some sort of large EMP weapon...
Sometimes being overreliant on technology ISN'T a good thing.
I can't remember the authors name, but he's the guy that wrote "City on the Edge of Forever"... he actually stood up in a sci-fi convention, told the assembled crowd that Star Wars and Star Trek were utter crap, that the only decent Sci-Fi on tv was Dr Who, and he'd take them all on one by one or in a group to support his view. The Dr, at least in recent years, used wit and knowledge to battle ignorance and fear, he didn't blast the crap out of his enemies, he OUTWITTED them. The Doctor is also a complex individual, he never lets us see the whole picture, and at times (Particularly torwards the end, with Ace) will manipulate others to gain his means.
Not to mention the Daleks still send chills down my spine. "Exterminate!" beats the crap out of "Assimilate" any day!
Plastikman - Minimalism at it's best, dark and futuristic. "Consumed" is quite good.
Derrick Carter - I heard Derrick Carter's Cosmic Disco mix CD and absolutley fell in love. I have never heard a more seamless and soulful mixed cd than this one.
Faithless - Faithless are amazing. Look for "Sunday 8 P.M."
Prodigy - But not that new rock and roll crap. Try "Jilted Generation"
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your technological and social distinctivness will be added to our own. Elections are irrelevant. Voting is irrelevant. Pregnant chads are irrelevant. The popular vote is irrelevant. We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile.
Oh, no... not the white male in charge rhetoric. Church Burnings, discrimination in the workplace, wage discrepancy, and mysoginist language - you don't see these affecting you, so they must not exist, right?
And what exactly do you mean by "inborn abilities"? Functioning as a brood mare for the state? Being subservient to your wishes and desires... Cleaning up your crap when you forget to put the toilet seat down?
Resistance is futile. Your internet experience as you have known it is over. From this time forwared your computers and net connections will now service us.
Netscape is irrelevant. Mozilla is irrelevant. Open source is irrelevant. Independent ISPS are irrelevant. Freedom of choice is irreleveant. Click yes to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Slickest little basic program ever. Re-Align floppy drives that got out of alingment from constant knocking (1541's that couldn't find a track would slam their head back in the other direction)... the program just knocked the drive head the other way a little... used sparingly, about once every three months, and your drives stayed good as new!
For all the C-64 hacks, this one was spiffy... Remeber that CBM basic only stored tokens and not the entire words... To illustrate: Kmart (and I always did this on the SX-64 on display): 10 print "kmart sucks! "; 20 goto 10 if you were an efficient basic coder, you typed: 10 ?"kmart sucks! "; 20 gO 10
Or how about the TS-1000's command per key feature... too many damn diffrent cursors in the end...
Slashdot Mirror
User agent switcher is an extension for FireFox that will allow you to fake the "user-agent" string identifying your browser.
"YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 12.345.67.890 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED. Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous."
Anyone else notice that 12.345.67.890 is an impossible ipv4 address?
There used to be PGPhone, but development on it stalled.
Eh, my first gaming console was a Dreamcast, and there were a few games on launch day that had manufacturing defects which caused the console to crash.
Actually, if I recall right, there were a few batches that had hardware problems as well.
That was the first and only time I bought any sort of hardware on the day it debuted. Burn me once, shame on you...
"What you are paying for is not the right to attend class and do as you please."
I didn't say you could do as you please, just that you pay for the seat, and as such, as long as you aren't doing any harm, you should be able to keep it. The University provides a service to you, not the other way around.
I truly wish to learn and gain an education. But unfortunately, there is a great deal more jumping through hoops then education involved sometimes.
Higher education is not really a privilege. It is a great deal of hard work, and dedication, but in any situation, it is certainly an opportunity.
As a consumer, one of these fake degrees is certainly not appealing. Since I'm unable to gain entry to or afford certain institutions, as a consumer I must make careful choices about how to spend my resources - namely cash and time.
I worked in retail for seven years before going back to school now. Those "life experiences" have taught me a great deal about how to relate to others, and I certainly would not have traded that for the world.
Something else that troubles me about this, and also about higher education. Most of us going to school are in one way or another, PAYING for our education. Money comes out of our pockets (either directly, as in my case, or most often in the form of a loan, as was my case - yes there are scholarships, but I don't know anyone personally who can afford their entire tuition, fees, and books to be paid by scholarship...) and then goes into the school's pockets to be used for paying professors, heat and light, as well as services the students want to have.
You, the student, are a consumer. If the class is too boring, try a different section. If you surf in class, that's your choice. I despise the idea of kicking out people from a classroom when they paid for the seat in the first place. What they choose to do with it is their buisness, and what I choose to do with it is mine. My school offers wi-fi throughout the campus (it's a small community college) and I don't usually use it during class (but it's a great tool to have between classes, and in those odd moments you need to look something up, it's handy to have wikipedia right at hand) but everyone else's student fees helped pay for the network, so to take it away from them not only seems draconian, but undemocratic and uncapitalist.
As a result of the early release, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office.
It of course had nothing to do with the track record of the previous two films.
It had nothing to do with the overpricing of the "theater experience."
It had nothing to do with it being a poor film season in general.
It had nothing to do with us having seen most of what we wanted to see of the movie in trailers.
It had nothing to do with people wanting to wait to spend their hard earned cash on the DVD release.
Lets blame all of hollywood's woes on the early release demon!
Mod parent up, please.
While we're there, correcting the original article seems in order.
My 1541 did beat it self out of alignment every once in a while... I had this little basic program dubbed "reverse knocker" that actually beat the head thirty or forty times in the opposite direction, and the drive would work like a charm afterwards.
Wow that brings back memories...
TACKTACKTACKTACK GRIND GRIND blinking red light blinking red light
sys64760
sys64538 (I think that's right, I used the first one more than I ever did the second... cause if that didn't work, reset button on the accelrator cart baby...)
No, not really.
Hey! Both snippets use printf!!!
How would that be, SCO claims ownership of printf?
Holy Smeg! I played with Slack 1 when I was in High School. I spent about a week and a half downloading the entire thing from a local bbs. I learned really early not to fool around too much with the MBR, I had to come in at 6:00 one morning and re-format and partition, and re-install all of the school programs that HAD to be there, and my little linux partition that could got scragged a few times too.
I also learned what happens when you rm ld.so
Frankie.
Built in tourniquets? What, they don't think the enemy will try to hack that? For that matter, the enemy will probably try to hack the entire suit... or render it completley usless with some sort of large EMP weapon...
Sometimes being overreliant on technology ISN'T a good thing.
Frankie
It was Harlan Ellison, and it's in the intro to the American Dr Who novelizations from the 80's.
I can't remember the authors name, but he's the guy that wrote
"City on the Edge of Forever"... he actually stood up in a sci-fi convention, told the assembled crowd
that Star Wars and Star Trek were utter crap, that the only decent Sci-Fi on tv was Dr Who, and he'd take them all on one by one
or in a group to support his view. The Dr, at least in recent years, used wit and
knowledge to battle ignorance and fear, he didn't blast the crap out of his enemies, he OUTWITTED them.
The Doctor is also a complex individual, he never lets us see the whole picture, and at times (Particularly torwards the end, with Ace)
will manipulate others to gain his means.
Not to mention the Daleks still send chills down my spine. "Exterminate!" beats the crap out of "Assimilate" any day!
In no particular order may I humbly suggest:
Plastikman - Minimalism at it's best, dark and futuristic. "Consumed" is quite good.
Derrick Carter - I heard Derrick Carter's Cosmic Disco mix CD and absolutley fell in love. I have never heard a more seamless and soulful mixed cd than this one.
Faithless - Faithless are amazing. Look for "Sunday 8 P.M."
Prodigy - But not that new rock and roll crap. Try "Jilted Generation"
Just my suggestions...
Content.
You can have the flashiest graphics, the coolest sound, the niftiest interface, but if you
don't have anything to say, there is no point.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your technological and social distinctivness will be added to our own. Elections are irrelevant. Voting is irrelevant. Pregnant chads are irrelevant. The popular vote is irrelevant. We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile.
It occurs to the that there's an extension that lets you do that with option-arrows... damned if I can remember what it's called...
Oh, no... not the white male in charge rhetoric. Church Burnings, discrimination in the workplace, wage discrepancy, and mysoginist language - you don't see these affecting you, so they must not exist, right?
And what exactly do you mean by "inborn abilities"? Functioning as a brood mare for the state? Being subservient to your wishes and desires... Cleaning up your crap when you forget to put the toilet seat down?
Next time think before you speak.
Resistance is futile. Your internet experience as you have known it is over. From this time forwared your computers and net connections will now service us.
Netscape is irrelevant. Mozilla is irrelevant. Open source is irrelevant. Independent ISPS are irrelevant. Freedom of choice is irreleveant. Click yes to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Slickest little basic program ever. Re-Align floppy drives that got out of alingment from constant knocking (1541's that couldn't find a track would slam their head back in the other direction)... the program just knocked the drive head the other way a little... used sparingly, about once every three months, and your drives stayed good as new!
And we want source!!!
To illustrate:
Kmart (and I always did this on the SX-64 on display):
10 print "kmart sucks! ";
20 goto 10
if you were an efficient basic coder, you typed:
10 ?"kmart sucks! ";
20 gO 10
Or how about the TS-1000's command per key feature... too many damn diffrent cursors in the end...