Man I'm rusty. Haven't posted to slashdot in a long time. Let's see if this message works better using extrans...
What's wrong with that is that the guy who said "use the gray box there" will change his mind and want the box to be blue next week. Then your HTML that says <div id=grey"> will be used to display a blue table. It's not a threat, it's a reality that design changes and it's a shame if you have to change your HTML every time it does. Might as well be using font tags and bgcolors in tds again.
That the angel of death will kill you and your children is also not so much a threat, as a promise. That your boss is never going to change her mind about colors is as likely as you and your children living forever. It may not happen tomorrow, but you cannot argue that death will not eventually happen.
What's wrong with that is that the guy who said "use the gray box there" will change his mind and want the box to be blue next week. Then your HTML that says will be used to display a blue table. It's not a threat, it's a reality that design changes and it's a shame if you have to change your HTML every time it does. Might as well be using font tags and bgcolors in tds again.
That the angel of death will kill you and your children is also not so much a threat, as a promise. That your boss is never going to change her mind about colors is as likiely as you and your children living forever. It may not happen tomorrow, but you cannot argue that death will not eventually happen.
Yeah, but the EURO 500 is for a specific car/laptop/phone and the USD 500 is for any Mercedes with a laptop and phone. A much easier request!
I wonder if he'd take a BMW. It's all I could find with a laptop and phone in it on short notice. I guess people are taking the bus today since it's April Fools Day. A dangerous day to drive.
This isn't as much about lack of basic science knowledge as it is about close reading skills and the psychology behind accepting statements at face value when they come from sources you trust.
I'm sure that, had a few people taken the time to really think about what they were reading they would get it. Dihydrogen Monoxide is the kind of word that people scan quickly without stopping. I'm fairly certain that those council members would know that H2O is water, and even taking a few minutes to really read what they just scanned, could determine that Dihydrogen Monoxide is H2O
It's like that joke: A plane crashes on the US/Canada border and half the people fall to the ground in the US and half in Canada.
Where do you bury the survivors?
Giving an incorrect answer does not mean that you don't know international law, it means that you, like most people, assume the good faith of the questioner and don't pay attention to the details.
But I could be wrong. I mean, if you guys say so, then you're probably right. And since millions of people bought their records, then surely I'm wrong and Hootie and the Blowfish don't suck.
Only two things to add to seraph93's response, which pretty much covered all the bases.
First, I have noticed time and time again that bigoted statements are so often fraught with errors in spelling, grammar, and critical thinking. Thank you for a wonderful illustration on all counts. I almost think you did it on purpose.
Secondly, your last statement shows nicely your lack of ability (or desire) to think critically.
Consider the following scenario:
Person A has a picture on his desk of himself and his wife at the altar on their wedding day. Person B has a picture on her desk of herself and her lesbian partner at the altar on their wedding day.
Question: Which one of these people is throwing their sexuality in your face?
The hack program does not replace the original password, it merely generates a gobbledy-gook password that will also allow you to unprotect the document. The original password is still usable.
I wondered exactly the same thing. For about three seconds. The I RTFA.
2003-11-27, 10:30 UTC Microsoft notified
to: secure microsoft com
2003-11-27 confirmed receipt
from: secure microsoft com
2003-12-03 Note from Microsoft, Form protection "is not intended as a full-proof protection for tampering or spoofing, this is merely a functionality to prevent accidental changes of a document", request additional time to update Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
Targetting beginning of January 2004 for release of this advisory.
from: "Magnus"
2003-12-08 Microsoft has already released the KB article (or added a warning to an existing article). Read the KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822924
from: "Magnus"
So you are saying that I can use the IBM logo as long as I vary the space between the letters by a fraction? I'll give it a shot if you don't mind me calling you from court to come testify in my defense.
Those logo specs are for marketing departments. Legal departments have an entirely eifferent set of standards to determine what is theirs and what is yours.
"few would dispute that the RIAA does in fact have the rights (rightly, or wrongly) to the music they sell. For better or worse, they own them."
I'll dispute that. I'm not sure you know what RIAA is. They don't sell music or own music. They are a trade group that represents the Recording industry.
"As for the RIAA being evil, I'm not so much convinced by how they treat their "customers" - They are a company, and the primary job of a company is to make money. I'm primarily upset by their hypocracy, and their poor treatment of their artists, the very source of their income."
RIAA is not a company, it's an organization of members. They do not have customers, and as far as how they "treat their artists"? Not to flog a dead horse, but they have no artists and they don't treat them in any particular way. I think you might be getting RIAA confused with a recording label. What RIAA does is try to protect the property of recording labels, and by extension, artists (although few artists manage to maintain ownership of their own songs). Some artists support what RIAA does and some don't, but few would argue that working to ensure artists receive whatever pittance the recording label has deemed appropriate, is a bad thing for the artist. It's recording labels who treat artists either well or not-well. RIAA has nothing to do with artists.
Now, I think RIAA is behaving shortsightedly and ignorantly, maybe even acting beyond their bounds. My band used to be on MCA records and, believe me, I have no love whatsoever for the industry.
I download shit now and again and don't feel the least bit guilty. As far as I'm concerned it's a matter of personal morals, not some sort of revenge for an ignorantly motivated hatred of an organization that you obviously don't understand. I just happen to think it's okay for me to steal. It's as simple as that.
Feel how you want to feel about RIAA - you're entitled to your feelings- but don't mistake your feelings for fact. And don't start thinking somehow that you're not stealing from the same artists you claimed to feel for whenever you donwload a song instead of buying it.
"Are you really saying that ambulances, if needed, *wait* at an intersection?
Are you really saying that an ambulance should just smash into any cars not heeding the siren? Yeah, that would probably work great. Then they can send another ambulance for the first one. You have to take into consideration the fact that some drivers may not hear the siren and, while that may be their fault, it's still better for the emergency folks to be safe and ensure that they actually arrive where they need to be.
Here's the law in Ohio, probably similar everywhere:
4511.03 Emergency vehicles to proceed cautiously past red or stop signal. -- RC 4511.03 is affected by Am. Sub. S.B. 123 (149 v --), effective 1-1-2004. See the 2002 Legislative Bulletin No. 4 for the version effective 1-1-2004.
The driver of any emergency vehicle or public safety vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, upon approaching a red or stop signal or any stop sign shall slow down as necessary for safety to traffic, but may proceed cautiously past such red or stop sign or signal with due regard for the safety of all persons using the street or highway.
"Coolness is something that has some barrier to entry (usually cost) to the majority but is still desired by the masses."
Barriers to geekingess:
Money (cost of gear)
Education (for an average person to learn what they need to know to "geek out")
Fashion sense (c'mon, this shit ain't easy. Toughskins are harder to find than they used to be and not everyone's mom will do their clothes shopping for them)
Lingo (takes practive to be able to use multiple acronyms in every sentence)
But seriously, how is this different (to a markeeting firm) than any other lifestyle?
I don't think it would be hard for a savvy marketing company to make geeks cool. When you try to make a lifestyle or personality cool, you don't present all the aspects of that thing, and you certainly are not honest about presenting it.
Nike doesn't spend much time showing us how injuries affect athlete's lives. Or how early in the morning practice is. Or how intensely stressfull that level of competition is and how hard it is on them.
Marketers will probably not focus on the less "cool-able" aspects of geekiness, but in the increasingly tech-driven society we live in I don't think it will be long before geek is cool. You don't have to make average people into geeks, you just have to get them to admire aspects of geeks and aspire to those aspects. Make it look like geeks earn more money than regular people. That's a good place to start.
"geeks might, but we already know they're not the exact epitomy of coolness"
So, if I were in marketing I would start trying to figure out how to make geeks represent cool. I think they already are, it's just too early in the morning to think of any examples.
Those commercials where the geek is trying to explain how the new tech is so cool and nobody understands what he's talking about until he mentions how much money they will save is one that occurs to me. But like I said: too early in the morning.
"Nike is cool because all the sports people ware them, the advertisements just show that they do."
OK. So what do you call "all the sports people ware (sic) them" if not advertising? The athletes are getting paid to wear them. That is advertising.
There is no difference these days between a standard 30 second spot, product placement on a tv show or in a movie, and an athlete wearing a particular brand of shoe. You're getting adtertised to and you don't even know it. That is the ultimate success of marketing. Sucks doesn't it?
So, failure to plan well is justification for copyright violation? Failure to hire people who can work with an appropriately licenced kernel makes it ok to just go ahead and violate the licence.
Cool, that works great for me! I have failed to get a job that pays enough for me to afford all the software and music I need. I'll just download it for free instead!
"It's just not about being able to make great films, it also about expanding peoples minds by placing seeds of doubt about what is real and are we actually in control of our own lives?"
Are you sure you really typed that? Maybe it was just a really, really, really bad dream. No...a REALLY bad dream. Only in a really bad dream could someone, in all seriousness, write something like...
There are different types of malaria, dipshit. I saw a US college student in Kenya die from cerebral malaria in a less than a week because she was unable to get treatment in the first 24 hours or so. "Not as bad as you think?" She didn't have a good time of it as she passed in and out of consciousness, high fever, convulsions, and then coma. But since you recovered so easily, I guess all the disease statistics in the world won't change your mind.
I've known people who did not die of cancer. You gonna tell me that it's no big deal? How about AIDS (the only disease to kill more people worldwide that malaria)? Yeah, no big deal, 'cause I know someone who, with medication, is living with it and staying healthy.
If you're not trolling, you're just ignorant. I've got my own ideas about which is worse.
When you listen to a CD you generally forget it right after you listen to it. You need to keep listening to it to get any real value. It's just sugar.
Wow. You must have really bad taste in music. Or maybe you're ADD? That would explain forgetting music right after listening to it. Or maybe some sort of memory deficit problem? Have you been tested?
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A designer who has only a rudimentary understanding of what can and can't be done using XHTML/CSS is only a rudimentary Web designer.
Quit your griping. If doing a half-assed job isn't reward enough in itself then you're just not trying.
Man I'm rusty. Haven't posted to slashdot in a long time. Let's see if this message works better using extrans...
What's wrong with that is that the guy who said "use the gray box there" will change his mind and want the box to be blue next week. Then your HTML that says <div id=grey"> will be used to display a blue table. It's not a threat, it's a reality that design changes and it's a shame if you have to change your HTML every time it does. Might as well be using font tags and bgcolors in tds again.
That the angel of death will kill you and your children is also not so much a threat, as a promise. That your boss is never going to change her mind about colors is as likely as you and your children living forever. It may not happen tomorrow, but you cannot argue that death will not eventually happen.
What's wrong with that is that the guy who said "use the gray box there" will change his mind and want the box to be blue next week. Then your HTML that says will be used to display a blue table. It's not a threat, it's a reality that design changes and it's a shame if you have to change your HTML every time it does. Might as well be using font tags and bgcolors in tds again. That the angel of death will kill you and your children is also not so much a threat, as a promise. That your boss is never going to change her mind about colors is as likiely as you and your children living forever. It may not happen tomorrow, but you cannot argue that death will not eventually happen.
dialup that you all keep talking about? Your strange ways frighten and confuse me.
I'm keeping the BMW.
I wonder if he'd take a BMW. It's all I could find with a laptop and phone in it on short notice. I guess people are taking the bus today since it's April Fools Day. A dangerous day to drive.
I'm sure that, had a few people taken the time to really think about what they were reading they would get it. Dihydrogen Monoxide is the kind of word that people scan quickly without stopping. I'm fairly certain that those council members would know that H2O is water, and even taking a few minutes to really read what they just scanned, could determine that Dihydrogen Monoxide is H2O
It's like that joke:
A plane crashes on the US/Canada border and half the people fall to the ground in the US and half in Canada.
Where do you bury the survivors?
Giving an incorrect answer does not mean that you don't know international law, it means that you, like most people, assume the good faith of the questioner and don't pay attention to the details.
But I could be wrong. I mean, if you guys say so, then you're probably right. And since millions of people bought their records, then surely I'm wrong and Hootie and the Blowfish don't suck.
Nah, I just asked them. They're only willing to put up $100.
First, I have noticed time and time again that bigoted statements are so often fraught with errors in spelling, grammar, and critical thinking. Thank you for a wonderful illustration on all counts. I almost think you did it on purpose.
Secondly, your last statement shows nicely your lack of ability (or desire) to think critically.
Consider the following scenario:
Person A has a picture on his desk of himself and his wife at the altar on their wedding day.
Person B has a picture on her desk of herself and her lesbian partner at the altar on their wedding day.
Question: Which one of these people is throwing their sexuality in your face?
Hint: It's not about them. It's about you.
The hack program does not replace the original password, it merely generates a gobbledy-gook password that will also allow you to unprotect the document. The original password is still usable.
2003-11-27, 10:30 UTC Microsoft notified to: secure microsoft com
2003-11-27 confirmed receipt from: secure microsoft com
2003-12-03 Note from Microsoft, Form protection "is not intended as a full-proof protection for tampering or spoofing, this is merely a functionality to prevent accidental changes of a document", request additional time to update Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
Targetting beginning of January 2004 for release of this advisory.
from: "Magnus"
2003-12-08 Microsoft has already released the KB article (or added a warning to an existing article). Read the KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822924
from: "Magnus"
So you are saying that I can use the IBM logo as long as I vary the space between the letters by a fraction? I'll give it a shot if you don't mind me calling you from court to come testify in my defense. Those logo specs are for marketing departments. Legal departments have an entirely eifferent set of standards to determine what is theirs and what is yours.
I'll dispute that. I'm not sure you know what RIAA is. They don't sell music or own music. They are a trade group that represents the Recording industry.
RIAA is not a company, it's an organization of members. They do not have customers, and as far as how they "treat their artists"? Not to flog a dead horse, but they have no artists and they don't treat them in any particular way. I think you might be getting RIAA confused with a recording label. What RIAA does is try to protect the property of recording labels, and by extension, artists (although few artists manage to maintain ownership of their own songs). Some artists support what RIAA does and some don't, but few would argue that working to ensure artists receive whatever pittance the recording label has deemed appropriate, is a bad thing for the artist. It's recording labels who treat artists either well or not-well. RIAA has nothing to do with artists.
Now, I think RIAA is behaving shortsightedly and ignorantly, maybe even acting beyond their bounds. My band used to be on MCA records and, believe me, I have no love whatsoever for the industry.
I download shit now and again and don't feel the least bit guilty. As far as I'm concerned it's a matter of personal morals, not some sort of revenge for an ignorantly motivated hatred of an organization that you obviously don't understand. I just happen to think it's okay for me to steal. It's as simple as that.
Feel how you want to feel about RIAA - you're entitled to your feelings- but don't mistake your feelings for fact. And don't start thinking somehow that you're not stealing from the same artists you claimed to feel for whenever you donwload a song instead of buying it.
Are you really saying that an ambulance should just smash into any cars not heeding the siren? Yeah, that would probably work great. Then they can send another ambulance for the first one. You have to take into consideration the fact that some drivers may not hear the siren and, while that may be their fault, it's still better for the emergency folks to be safe and ensure that they actually arrive where they need to be.
Here's the law in Ohio, probably similar everywhere:
Barriers to geekingess:
But seriously, how is this different (to a markeeting firm) than any other lifestyle?
I don't think it would be hard for a savvy marketing company to make geeks cool. When you try to make a lifestyle or personality cool, you don't present all the aspects of that thing, and you certainly are not honest about presenting it.
Nike doesn't spend much time showing us how injuries affect athlete's lives. Or how early in the morning practice is. Or how intensely stressfull that level of competition is and how hard it is on them.
Marketers will probably not focus on the less "cool-able" aspects of geekiness, but in the increasingly tech-driven society we live in I don't think it will be long before geek is cool. You don't have to make average people into geeks, you just have to get them to admire aspects of geeks and aspire to those aspects. Make it look like geeks earn more money than regular people. That's a good place to start.
So, if I were in marketing I would start trying to figure out how to make geeks represent cool. I think they already are, it's just too early in the morning to think of any examples.
Those commercials where the geek is trying to explain how the new tech is so cool and nobody understands what he's talking about until he mentions how much money they will save is one that occurs to me. But like I said: too early in the morning.
OK. So what do you call "all the sports people ware (sic) them" if not advertising? The athletes are getting paid to wear them. That is advertising.
There is no difference these days between a standard 30 second spot, product placement on a tv show or in a movie, and an athlete wearing a particular brand of shoe. You're getting adtertised to and you don't even know it. That is the ultimate success of marketing. Sucks doesn't it?
I suggest the red pill.
Or look at it this way: Re-read the post you replied to. You are just restating exactly what they said.
This bit: "you'd also have to have the masks to make the chips anyways. So they stand to lose nothing by not publishing the source."
Sound familiar?
Cool, that works great for me! I have failed to get a job that pays enough for me to afford all the software and music I need. I'll just download it for free instead!
Thanks for the moral and legal clarity.
Are you sure you really typed that? Maybe it was just a really, really, really bad dream. No...a REALLY bad dream. Only in a really bad dream could someone, in all seriousness, write something like...
Oh, nevermind.
Coincidentally, here is a CNN story from today: The 'forgotten epidemic' killing millions
I've known people who did not die of cancer. You gonna tell me that it's no big deal? How about AIDS (the only disease to kill more people worldwide that malaria)? Yeah, no big deal, 'cause I know someone who, with medication, is living with it and staying healthy.
If you're not trolling, you're just ignorant. I've got my own ideas about which is worse.
I stopped looking for Google on MSN's results after 6 pages. MSN came up on page two of Google's results.
Local story (and the server starts to burn)
From the article: "His mother says he played so much, he ruined screens on three televisions. " (bold mine)
Um...hello? Knock knock knock. Is this thing on? How the hell can you let your kid play a game that much? Is there a Psychologist in the house?
Wow. You must have really bad taste in music. Or maybe you're ADD? That would explain forgetting music right after listening to it. Or maybe some sort of memory deficit problem? Have you been tested?