Most people are idiots. Regardless of how well they're familiar with a UI, the underlying workings of an OS, or what constitutes a social hacking experience, most peepul out there is dumb.
As Gartner said, the difference between genius and idiodicy is merely action. Most genuises can't be bothered; idiots can't.
Well, I've been deliberately not following the articles/reviews/sales figures.
As with any "new" (yeah, I know it's not new) technology, I've been waiting for a clear winner in the race so far.
Slanted articles? Doesn't matter to me... I didn't read them. Slanted reviews? Same.
I find it interesting, though, that, since HD has been kauptted (is that a word?) and now Blu-Ray is like-wise in so-called trouble, there are those who find it suprising that both formats are suspect.
I always expected this with Beta/VHS, but it didn't materialize. I find it interesting that it's happening now. Meanwhile, my DVD's play just fine, thank you!:-)
A short story:
I met with a client last week, about a score for a video I'm producing for them. The score is original. The music is mine. And, as with all clients, they want some options to choose from.
Their response? "We like the intro from the first song, and the melody [read "theme" or "advent" or some other relevant term] from the second song. We'd like them both, thanks. Please make it so."
Does it matter that the key's of the songs aren't the same? Does it matter that the tempos don't match? Or that the harmonies and emotive feelings don't mix???!!!???
No. Make it so.
I see nothing from this article that is going to mitigate this stupid, irrational response. Music is not software. Music is not cutting and pasting a picture together. [NB: I'm also a graphic artist. I'm not dissing that form of creativity.]
If this type of abusive behaviour is permitted, we're going to be listening to Metallica songs reverse-engineered into some elevator-music version of a Michael Buble ballad, mixed with a Nirvana back-track.
I've already seen the future... and I'm hugging my graphics tablet tight, and I'm about to consign my musical keyboard to eBay.
I wonder how many people out there can't GET a credit card.
I'm not a goofus moron that has no credit, I just choose not to pay exorberant amounts of interest to some faceless bank to use their money temporarily... money that happens to be in my account, and readily available.
Without these options, I guess we purists have no on-line options.
Sad.
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Sorry... that was idiotic of me.
YOU'RE going to blow up the universe. YOU'RE going to end time as we know it.
What YOU won't do is extend your knowledge to any extent. How? We're pretty sure it's due to natural selection.
Have fun with the fungus and the spores...:)
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I agree whole-heartedly, Doug: thus the FUD in my comment. Both the professional and amateur scientific community has been waiting years, with breath bated, for this chance. Does the Higgs exist? Can we find it? What else will we find? (As one physicist commented on some strange particle results: "Who ordered THAT one?!")
I've been following, in an amateurish but knowledgeable way, things in particles since quantum chromodynamics was the buzz word(s) of the day. I've been looking forward to this event for years.
We're not going to blow up the universe, kids. We're not going to end time as we know it. What we WILL do is extend our knowledge of how the universe and nature work. How? We don't know yet. The potential harm? I figure none. If there's some alien particle that, if produced, would end the universe by it's production, I figure Nature would have beaten us to it's production by now.
Odds are, if it was possible, it's been done. We're just reproducing it, and learning from it.
Wow, the FUD effect emerges...
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I for one welcome our new destructive mini-black-hole minions to our ex-universe...
We are already seeing them used in Grow Light applications and other such things all the time. Great. Just what I needed: a way for grow-ops to justify their eco-friendliness. Now they can save the money for their nine-millimeters and gas for their drive-by's.
It's not the first time music has been represemted as mathematical equations, or even as a random events. Hell, even Bach experimented by throwing a pair of dices while composing some of his most popular baroque parts. And the two have what in common?
Mathematical equations are, by definition, not random. I don't see the correlation.
I'm asking: Has anyone else realized that these people are FUCKING NUTS?!
I was around for the Toronto trials, but this shit...? Holy cripes.
I may not be the most stable person, when discussing evolution vs. whatever-the-hell-the-trolls-from-the-evangelical-campuses-are-calling-it-this-week, but this takes the cake, in a SPECTRE/Mission Impossible/I Can't Believe This Is Under The Radar type of way.
Does this mean I need to watch for people on street corners, watching me covertly from behind newspapers? So be it! Bring it on, Tom! I'll kick your ass, Johnny boy!
Gimme a break. Let's face it: Wikipedia is a forum board that's gone "legit", and out of control, with a proprietary fancy interface that doesn't happen to look like VBulletin.
The same problems of moderation, rewrites, bitching, whining, favouratism and hidden motives and agendas... all go on on Wikipedia, just as they do on lesser boards. The problem is, Wikipedia involves "real-world" problems, and affects people in very concrete ways.
I was recently involved in a tussle on a board regarding a female member being stalked by another board member. Through-out, the arguments were wide and ranging, but almost invariably involved the "virtual" world vs. the "real" one.
If people understood the implications of having such a widely-[mis]regarded source cited as a credible fount of information, and the impact that could have on the real world, I think we'd all be better off, and relegate this misbegotten site to its real impact: a forum that has blown to momentusly dangerous proportions, and taken its adolescent behaviour to the masses.
Let's not fool ourselves. It could be porn reviews, or celebrity photos. No... it's Wikipedia.
... cause I don't want something like the Chicago Tribune knowing who the heck I am. I already did the NYT thingy... and spam came out the wing-wang!
I'll do the spam-email thingy with the CT if I have to, but a mirror would be so much less hassle. On-line links to newspapers are getting like porn sites: make sure you have a ditch account somewhere, your firewall up, and your virus scans active. News stories are the porn of the 21st century... except that they screw you.
Open up wide, peeps, and drink it down.
Some people don't like to hear it, but it's true the world basically revolves around the USA.
Doesn't that make the USA sort of a political/social/economical black hole? That we're all about to be sucked into?
Sorry, bud. I, for one, have my firm black boots on firm soil, and shackled to the bedrock of my own country. Snaffle all you want into your own void, Lexx-man... I'll just stay here, and savour the exit.
People who write this kind of journalistic sensationalism by exploiting human tragedy disgust me.
Actually, I feel that "sensationalist" journalists, who happened to be there, witnessing the tragedy, happen to relate my feelings very well. If I could pen the prose that they have written, I'd be doing their jobs. I look to them to encourage us, both to remember, and look forwards. If that's sensationalism, then it's in a good cause.
I remember exactly where I was when this disaster happened: on the couch, home sick from high school, wrapped in a blanket. I was so proud that my country (Canada) was helping in furthering the international efforts in space by their advances and contributions in robotics and remote manipulations with the addition of the Canadarm to the Shuttle fleet's vast array of advanced science. That's why I was watching: to see my country's contribution shear its way into the void; to see evidence that my country was helping to further all of mankind's goals towards further understanding, and greater explorations.
All of that changed. Very quickly.
I remember exactly what I said when the shattering explosion of metal, ceramic and propellant appeared on the television. I remember exactly my thoughts. I recall in detail what the following minutes and hours were like, watching the aftermath of the destruction, on channel after channel of coverage. And do you know what? It had nothing to do with my country's contribution. It had nothing to do with any contact I had as a Canadian to the international achievements and aspirations underway.
The first thing I said was, "Holy fuck, they're dead!"
The first thing I thought was, "Holy shit, they're heroes."
I remember crying as the impact hit me: that seven remarkable people had just given, literally volunteered, their lives, to further the dreams of the entire planet. These men and women had judged that the risks were outweighed by the benefits, and died trying to enlarge our world beyond our blue-green orb, and extend our reach outside our planet's grasp.
I'll never forget them, or what they and their families gave to us, and for us. That's why I posted the story. That's why I wanted us all to remember. I didn't bleed for my own country that day; I didn't mourn for America. I cried for everyone in the world, in every country, every creed, every colour, that has looked up and wondered and yearned skywards, and dreamed any dream that took them beyond our milky atmosphere.
you're going through a proxy filter at work... that's removing the crap before it gets to your machine...
Actually, no. The ads just change. At work, we're back to the peacock with the 50 state names rippling all over its annoying ass. Actually, I think I prefer the blonde with the big wazooms. I'm not buying from either company, so why not have an attractive ad for a change?
...I've been trying to get porn flash ads off MSNBC and Yahoo for weeks now, at home, when at work the sites are just fine. Spyware, right? Well, Spybot, Norton, and AdAware say... a resounding "No". Nothing there. Yet the front page of MSNBC and my Yahoo mail still have ads for some guitar software, daBoink.com, and some fucked-up screensaver rotating with nauseating frequency.
Oh, and before you ask... twice a week virus scans, two noted spyware blockers, and a reliable firewall. How reliable? Shit,/. port-scans me every time I freakin' post!
Okay, now go on and say it... all together now... "Serves... YOU.........."
You're the IT guy at an advertising firm, that deals in multiple levels of security, not only with the ads that are being developed for both pitches and production, but on-going projects dealing with medical-reporting sites and such. (BTW, I was a designer there, too, wearing two hats.)
Now where do you position the office of such a person in a normal office? You have four servers, dealing with everything from firewall to viruses to file-sharing to accounting... in a back room, with a lockable door? In a relatively inaccessable location?
My office wasn't. It was protected from the lobby by a half-height partition that housed the office fax machine and copier, and faced the lobby (due to physical limitations of space) with my monitor facing any and all visitors/intruders/potential clients/even more potential design lurkers that were seated in our gorgeous, but unfortunately limitedly-sized visitor-seating location. The result? What was on my screen was usually what they were looking at, rather that the medical journals scattered on the table before them.
If ANYONE can think of a more insecure location, let me add that the servers were all housed immediately behind me, the routers and switches were in the office kitchen, and if they were coffee-stained only, I counted it a good week, and I was caught between having people see what IT duties I was doing, and what design work I was caught up in. In other words, the workopolis.com "boss-emergency-page" was something I came up with before the site even launched... except it was an "EVERYBODY-emergency-page". I took a screen-shot of/. and used that.
Can someone please tell me how they are going to ensure only those in the UK get it?
Thanks to those ingenious blokes over at MI6, they've developed methods to track... wait for it... IP addresses! Yeah, believe it or not! Oh, and they can target content of their shows based on the last web page you visited, too.
Unfortunately, this relegates most/. readers to watching old re-runs of Benny Hill and The Two Ronnies, but hey! It's web content! Viva la BBC... or bollocks... or something...
I think the IGN folks just joined the likes of the Times, CNN (oh, and our illustrious moderators) in getting news spammed again. There's no Latin in the Flash file, if you go to Origenxbox360.com. If you zoom in, you get the expected pixelated mess that a blown-up raster image embedded in a Flash file results in, not the bumbling screen-shots they have up on their site.
Sorry, but if there's something big coming, it must be the bitch-slapping the IGN idiots will get for trumping up yet another web-screw to the masses. Thanks, guys.
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Most people are idiots. Regardless of how well they're familiar with a UI, the underlying workings of an OS, or what constitutes a social hacking experience, most peepul out there is dumb.
As Gartner said, the difference between genius and idiodicy is merely action. Most genuises can't be bothered; idiots can't.
As with any "new" (yeah, I know it's not new) technology, I've been waiting for a clear winner in the race so far.
Slanted articles? Doesn't matter to me... I didn't read them. Slanted reviews? Same.
I find it interesting, though, that, since HD has been kauptted (is that a word?) and now Blu-Ray is like-wise in so-called trouble, there are those who find it suprising that both formats are suspect.
I always expected this with Beta/VHS, but it didn't materialize. I find it interesting that it's happening now. Meanwhile, my DVD's play just fine, thank you! :-)
Their response? "We like the intro from the first song, and the melody [read "theme" or "advent" or some other relevant term] from the second song. We'd like them both, thanks. Please make it so."
Does it matter that the key's of the songs aren't the same? Does it matter that the tempos don't match? Or that the harmonies and emotive feelings don't mix???!!!???
No. Make it so.
I see nothing from this article that is going to mitigate this stupid, irrational response. Music is not software. Music is not cutting and pasting a picture together. [NB: I'm also a graphic artist. I'm not dissing that form of creativity.]
If this type of abusive behaviour is permitted, we're going to be listening to Metallica songs reverse-engineered into some elevator-music version of a Michael Buble ballad, mixed with a Nirvana back-track.
I've already seen the future... and I'm hugging my graphics tablet tight, and I'm about to consign my musical keyboard to eBay.
To quote: "The horror! The horror!"
I don't believe in credit cards.
I wonder how many people out there can't GET a credit card.
I'm not a goofus moron that has no credit, I just choose not to pay exorberant amounts of interest to some faceless bank to use their money temporarily... money that happens to be in my account, and readily available.
Without these options, I guess we purists have no on-line options.
Sad.
YOU'RE going to blow up the universe. YOU'RE going to end time as we know it.
What YOU won't do is extend your knowledge to any extent. How? We're pretty sure it's due to natural selection.
Have fun with the fungus and the spores... :)
I've been following, in an amateurish but knowledgeable way, things in particles since quantum chromodynamics was the buzz word(s) of the day. I've been looking forward to this event for years.
We're not going to blow up the universe, kids. We're not going to end time as we know it. What we WILL do is extend our knowledge of how the universe and nature work. How? We don't know yet. The potential harm? I figure none. If there's some alien particle that, if produced, would end the universe by it's production, I figure Nature would have beaten us to it's production by now.
Odds are, if it was possible, it's been done. We're just reproducing it, and learning from it.
I for one welcome our new destructive mini-black-hole minions to our ex-universe...
Full disclosure: I'm a Vancouverite.
Post a subject like this, and the adolescents come out of the woodwork.
Thanks for the heads-up, mods. Duly identified.
Ligers and tiggers and fears... (sigh)
Mathematical equations are, by definition, not random. I don't see the correlation.
I'm asking: Has anyone else realized that these people are FUCKING NUTS?!
I was around for the Toronto trials, but this shit...? Holy cripes.
I may not be the most stable person, when discussing evolution vs. whatever-the-hell-the-trolls-from-the-evangelical-campuses-are-calling-it-this-week, but this takes the cake, in a SPECTRE/Mission Impossible/I Can't Believe This Is Under The Radar type of way.
Does this mean I need to watch for people on street corners, watching me covertly from behind newspapers? So be it! Bring it on, Tom! I'll kick your ass, Johnny boy!
Gimme a break. Let's face it: Wikipedia is a forum board that's gone "legit", and out of control, with a proprietary fancy interface that doesn't happen to look like VBulletin.
The same problems of moderation, rewrites, bitching, whining, favouratism and hidden motives and agendas... all go on on Wikipedia, just as they do on lesser boards. The problem is, Wikipedia involves "real-world" problems, and affects people in very concrete ways.
I was recently involved in a tussle on a board regarding a female member being stalked by another board member. Through-out, the arguments were wide and ranging, but almost invariably involved the "virtual" world vs. the "real" one.
If people understood the implications of having such a widely-[mis]regarded source cited as a credible fount of information, and the impact that could have on the real world, I think we'd all be better off, and relegate this misbegotten site to its real impact: a forum that has blown to momentusly dangerous proportions, and taken its adolescent behaviour to the masses.
Let's not fool ourselves. It could be porn reviews, or celebrity photos. No... it's Wikipedia.
I knew there was a reason I moved to print jobs exclusively...
... cause I don't want something like the Chicago Tribune knowing who the heck I am. I already did the NYT thingy... and spam came out the wing-wang! I'll do the spam-email thingy with the CT if I have to, but a mirror would be so much less hassle. On-line links to newspapers are getting like porn sites: make sure you have a ditch account somewhere, your firewall up, and your virus scans active. News stories are the porn of the 21st century... except that they screw you. Open up wide, peeps, and drink it down.
Some people don't like to hear it, but it's true the world basically revolves around the USA.
Doesn't that make the USA sort of a political/social/economical black hole? That we're all about to be sucked into?
Sorry, bud. I, for one, have my firm black boots on firm soil, and shackled to the bedrock of my own country. Snaffle all you want into your own void, Lexx-man... I'll just stay here, and savour the exit.
People who write this kind of journalistic sensationalism by exploiting human tragedy disgust me.
Actually, I feel that "sensationalist" journalists, who happened to be there, witnessing the tragedy, happen to relate my feelings very well. If I could pen the prose that they have written, I'd be doing their jobs. I look to them to encourage us, both to remember, and look forwards. If that's sensationalism, then it's in a good cause.
Actually, yes. Very international.
I remember exactly where I was when this disaster happened: on the couch, home sick from high school, wrapped in a blanket. I was so proud that my country (Canada) was helping in furthering the international efforts in space by their advances and contributions in robotics and remote manipulations with the addition of the Canadarm to the Shuttle fleet's vast array of advanced science. That's why I was watching: to see my country's contribution shear its way into the void; to see evidence that my country was helping to further all of mankind's goals towards further understanding, and greater explorations.
All of that changed. Very quickly.
I remember exactly what I said when the shattering explosion of metal, ceramic and propellant appeared on the television. I remember exactly my thoughts. I recall in detail what the following minutes and hours were like, watching the aftermath of the destruction, on channel after channel of coverage. And do you know what? It had nothing to do with my country's contribution. It had nothing to do with any contact I had as a Canadian to the international achievements and aspirations underway.
The first thing I said was, "Holy fuck, they're dead!"
The first thing I thought was, "Holy shit, they're heroes."
I remember crying as the impact hit me: that seven remarkable people had just given, literally volunteered, their lives, to further the dreams of the entire planet. These men and women had judged that the risks were outweighed by the benefits, and died trying to enlarge our world beyond our blue-green orb, and extend our reach outside our planet's grasp.
I'll never forget them, or what they and their families gave to us, and for us. That's why I posted the story. That's why I wanted us all to remember. I didn't bleed for my own country that day; I didn't mourn for America. I cried for everyone in the world, in every country, every creed, every colour, that has looked up and wondered and yearned skywards, and dreamed any dream that took them beyond our milky atmosphere.
Yeah, I'd say that's international.
...that all of my co-workers were just wasted. I think I liked it better when they were supposedly bonged out. "Sleep inertia" is just boring.
...up my expense account, make it concrete, and then I'll read the fucking article. Otherwise, we mouse-drivers over here ain't holding our breath.
you're going through a proxy filter at work... that's removing the crap before it gets to your machine...
Actually, no. The ads just change. At work, we're back to the peacock with the 50 state names rippling all over its annoying ass. Actually, I think I prefer the blonde with the big wazooms. I'm not buying from either company, so why not have an attractive ad for a change?
...I've been trying to get porn flash ads off MSNBC and Yahoo for weeks now, at home, when at work the sites are just fine. Spyware, right? Well, Spybot, Norton, and AdAware say... a resounding "No". Nothing there. Yet the front page of MSNBC and my Yahoo mail still have ads for some guitar software, daBoink.com, and some fucked-up screensaver rotating with nauseating frequency.
/. port-scans me every time I freakin' post!
......."
Oh, and before you ask... twice a week virus scans, two noted spyware blockers, and a reliable firewall. How reliable? Shit,
Okay, now go on and say it... all together now... "Serves... YOU...
Imagine:
/. and used that.
You're the IT guy at an advertising firm, that deals in multiple levels of security, not only with the ads that are being developed for both pitches and production, but on-going projects dealing with medical-reporting sites and such. (BTW, I was a designer there, too, wearing two hats.)
Now where do you position the office of such a person in a normal office? You have four servers, dealing with everything from firewall to viruses to file-sharing to accounting... in a back room, with a lockable door? In a relatively inaccessable location?
My office wasn't. It was protected from the lobby by a half-height partition that housed the office fax machine and copier, and faced the lobby (due to physical limitations of space) with my monitor facing any and all visitors/intruders/potential clients/even more potential design lurkers that were seated in our gorgeous, but unfortunately limitedly-sized visitor-seating location. The result? What was on my screen was usually what they were looking at, rather that the medical journals scattered on the table before them.
If ANYONE can think of a more insecure location, let me add that the servers were all housed immediately behind me, the routers and switches were in the office kitchen, and if they were coffee-stained only, I counted it a good week, and I was caught between having people see what IT duties I was doing, and what design work I was caught up in. In other words, the workopolis.com "boss-emergency-page" was something I came up with before the site even launched... except it was an "EVERYBODY-emergency-page". I took a screen-shot of
Need I say more?
Um... where I come from, shit only has one "i". Bullshiit? Is that Islamic?
Can someone please tell me how they are going to ensure only those in the UK get it?
/. readers to watching old re-runs of Benny Hill and The Two Ronnies, but hey! It's web content! Viva la BBC... or bollocks... or something...
Thanks to those ingenious blokes over at MI6, they've developed methods to track... wait for it... IP addresses! Yeah, believe it or not! Oh, and they can target content of their shows based on the last web page you visited, too.
Unfortunately, this relegates most
I think the IGN folks just joined the likes of the Times, CNN (oh, and our illustrious moderators) in getting news spammed again. There's no Latin in the Flash file, if you go to Origenxbox360.com. If you zoom in, you get the expected pixelated mess that a blown-up raster image embedded in a Flash file results in, not the bumbling screen-shots they have up on their site.
Sorry, but if there's something big coming, it must be the bitch-slapping the IGN idiots will get for trumping up yet another web-screw to the masses. Thanks, guys.