Good point. Here's one theory - maybe upon getting your details for the fake kiddieporn-with-no-kiddieporn site, they have 'probable cause' or whatnot, to allow them to investigate you properly? Eg trace bank transactions / internet logs to see if you're a member of a geniune kiddieporn site. Then charge you for that.
+1 insightful, if I had any points. You may well (rightly) claim the first three were better than the new turd, but if anything, I'd say they were camper.
MANY computer users I know simply refuse to install ANY Real products on their computers anymore and even boycott web sites that offer content in Real-only format.
Like me.
Well I dont "boycott" sites with real-only content as in "not visit them at all". I just don't listen to any of their audio / view any of their videos.
I like the way it allows the creation of things for niche markets. For example, tarzan.spoox.org is the most comprehensive online discography for drumnbass, and you can get things which let you search tarzan by track/artist/label, from where the google search is.
Nobody is buying Apple hardware plus {Net/Open/Free}BSD, they're buying an Apple laptop running Apple's OS X. Imho this description is rather a leap from the reality of Apple using a BSD-derived core "deep down in the technicals".
What most people, apparently including you, always seem to miss is that "it does work" for people who are already Stephen King! (or Prince, or whoever).
Realistically, only the globally famous artist can abandon traditional distribution and promotion avenues and sell their music/books/etc on the web. This model is pretty useful for unknowns. How do I know? Well... how many people on/. have ever clicked my sig? I don't know, haven't checked the logs, but how many have bought the cd as a result? Definitely none.
With tobacco firms, I think you'll find its not a case of :
"you told us cigarettes would kill us, but we chose to smoke them anyway, and now we're dying, we're suing you!"
its more a case of :
"you told us cigarettes were GOOD for our health [40s-50s-60s? adverts], when they're actually FATAL, and you even KNEW that at the time, so we're suing!"
which is a bit more sustainable imho. and fwiw- IAAS.
Assume sites X and Y, spammer S that is hired by X (or may be X), user J, and another spammer, T. J is not connected with X, Y, S, or T. A joe job is when S sends mail advertising X, setting the from address to J.
What the original poster is talking about is the case where Y hires T to send spam advertising X. If T sets the return address to J, then that will also be a joe job, but that is not relevant here.
I've just read that about four times and still can't follow it. *stoned*
Pure theoretical communism is nothing to do with the totalitarian/militaristic states we ended up seeing in the USSR et al. In fact, one of the main reasons they ended up that way was because they ended up acting as a crypto-Listian shell.
Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
IIRC, the license is basically for a property, you can several several sets for one fee. Obviously if its a block of flats perhaps each flat becomes the "property" rather than the builing... but one person doesnt pay more than once for having two TVs, I'm fairly sure.
Overall I think Equilibrium shades it; AI was just horrible because it had traces of such amazing potential but ended in disgusting vomit... but Equilibrium has literally no saving graces whatsoever. Terrible script, terrible acting, terrible plot, practically non-existent action/fx, and what little there was - terrible. Not even so-bad-its-funny, me and my mates, who usually gyp loudly and crudely at bad tv|film|music|etc, sat through in stunned silence. Its that terrible.
I'm not sure about your obsession with shinyness. I have XP looking just like 98 and I'd rather eat my own leg than have the awful default theme. OS X does nothing for me either. I want to use my computer, it's not a fucking kaleidoscope or lava lamp or explosion at a candy factory.
But I agree, some "know your enemy" would be good from many members of the linux and slashdot communities. First on the agenda: the BSOD joke. Want to carry on undermining your whole claim? Go ahead and carry on with endless jokes about Windows == BSOD. Fact is, I haven't seen a single one since getting this OS - not even when a hard drive died! That's about 18 months, during which the PC has been in heavy use - it's left online downloading most nights, and I regularly run at 90%+ CPU usage for hours on end using music software of various *ahem* dubious origins. The OS has never once blue-screened, died or crashed on me. Apps - frequently. OS - just doesn't happen anymore.
I'm not USA-bashing in the slightest. I love most aspects of your country (except your current administration *g*) and undoubtedly your technological contribution to the planet is extremely disproportionate to a simple population count.
But considering how much of the worlds "technological advancements" have occured in Europe and Japan/Asia, for example, I don't see why it should be surprising that European and Asian engineers can get a perfectly decent education there, rather than travelling to the US.
Remember, the number of engineers in the world educated in the US is going to be basically equivalent to the number from/in the US (which will roughly follow population - granted, population as a % of first-world nations would be the only useful metric here), plus the number of aliens who made a huge specific effort to study abroad.
In that context I'm forced to agree with the grandparent, I really don't see 6% as all that surprising.
I wish I could agree with you, but to obtain an officer rating in the general business world -- i.e. part of the budgeting process and able to sign for $10K+ acquisitions -- the MBA is still an informal but very real requirement. You either have to have one, or be working towards one, or you will run into a glass ceiling immediately.
Well, that might be true, but I somewhat agree with grandparent post too. I think MBA's are (going) out of fashion. Or, more precise, they're just getting devalued through being too common. As things stand merely being "Joe Bloggs MBA" probably won't impress the HR people deciding these top-level jobs that much. Having an MBA with Distinction and/or an MBA from a top-ranking institution is required to stand out.
In other words, MBAs amongst "officers" are like degrees amongst the rest of us - everyone has one these days, so you need either a really good one, or something extra.
Disclaimer-- IASWWFAIOFTTTMP (I Am Someone Who Works For An Institution Offering Financial Times' Top Twenty MBA Programmes), but this post does not speak for my employer:)
I'm almost identical. Last time I was tested I was 96wpm at 99.4% accuracy - no lessons, no adherence to any norm or system other than my own, which has evolved purely from excessive usage (tbh, the single biggest factor in making me so quick was IRC - you had to get that quick to keep up multiple conversations in several chans:) )
Thanks for clarifying. I have to say I didn't realise this was possible in Linux yet.
From a musician/producer's perspective, I have to say I will never, ever switch to Linux for my DAW work as long as I see things like this: "None of these VST solutions is currently at all easy to configure and build..." (+5 post a little up the page). I find it very hard to find time to write music these days, what with the hated full-time job and the large amount of time I spend organising not-directly-musical things like online sales of my band's album. There's no way I'm going to eat into that using anything requiring conf file editing, compilation, finding obscure libraries and dependencies, or whatever.
If it's not easier and more solid than my current setup, I won't switch. Realistically, if it cant run 90% of my current preferred tools smoothly, I won't switch either ("as good as" doesn't really cut it in this game). I suspect most others would say the same.
Nevertheless I follow Linux audio with interest. I can't wait to jump the Windows ship because the DRM-enabled future Microsoft envisages is somewhere I never, ever want to tread. My only real hope is that Linux becomes a 100% realistic proposition for me before my current XP box needs replacing, because Longhorn looks like something I wouldn't touch with someone else's;)
This is a very, very, very big deal. Does this only apply to VSTis whose manufacturers supply a native linux port (ie, essentially none), or with the wonders of WINE (or similar) can I now run all my favourite gear from Native Instruments, Ohmforce, TC, etc?
I grew up in Cambridge, you can easily cross Cambridge "proper" in 90 minutes on foot. Even including suburbs and walking from the edge of Cherry Hinton to the edge of Chesterton, or whatever, couldn't take more than 3.
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OMG... That was absolutely priceless. Thanks for the laugh.
2:10am -> 11am = 8hr 50m
11am -> 2:10am = 15hr 10m
Good point. Here's one theory - maybe upon getting your details for the fake kiddieporn-with-no-kiddieporn site, they have 'probable cause' or whatnot, to allow them to investigate you properly? Eg trace bank transactions / internet logs to see if you're a member of a geniune kiddieporn site. Then charge you for that.
+1 insightful, if I had any points. You may well (rightly) claim the first three were better than the new turd, but if anything, I'd say they were camper.
Like me.
Well I dont "boycott" sites with real-only content as in "not visit them at all". I just don't listen to any of their audio / view any of their videos.
I like the way it allows the creation of things for niche markets. For example, tarzan.spoox.org is the most comprehensive online discography for drumnbass, and you can get things which let you search tarzan by track/artist/label, from where the google search is.
I can't believe this is at (5, interesting)!
If that many people got fished in by this relatively subtle trolling, it makes me despair for the quality of /. moderation.
PHP was written in C!
Nobody is buying Apple hardware plus {Net/Open/Free}BSD, they're buying an Apple laptop running Apple's OS X. Imho this description is rather a leap from the reality of Apple using a BSD-derived core "deep down in the technicals".
Realistically, only the globally famous artist can abandon traditional distribution and promotion avenues and sell their music/books/etc on the web. This model is pretty useful for unknowns. How do I know? Well... how many people on /. have ever clicked my sig? I don't know, haven't checked the logs, but how many have bought the cd as a result? Definitely none.
"you told us cigarettes would kill us, but we chose to smoke them anyway, and now we're dying, we're suing you!"
its more a case of :
"you told us cigarettes were GOOD for our health [40s-50s-60s? adverts], when they're actually FATAL, and you even KNEW that at the time, so we're suing!"
which is a bit more sustainable imho. and fwiw- IAAS.
Well then.... Israel is next I assume?
What the original poster is talking about is the case where Y hires T to send spam advertising X. If T sets the return address to J, then that will also be a joe job, but that is not relevant here. I've just read that about four times and still can't follow it. *stoned*
Pure theoretical communism is nothing to do with the totalitarian/militaristic states we ended up seeing in the USSR et al. In fact, one of the main reasons they ended up that way was because they ended up acting as a crypto-Listian shell.
-Bertrand Russell
Do bother to view this. It's quite rightly become legendary :D
That should fill you in :)
IIRC, the license is basically for a property, you can several several sets for one fee. Obviously if its a block of flats perhaps each flat becomes the "property" rather than the builing... but one person doesnt pay more than once for having two TVs, I'm fairly sure.
Overall I think Equilibrium shades it; AI was just horrible because it had traces of such amazing potential but ended in disgusting vomit... but Equilibrium has literally no saving graces whatsoever. Terrible script, terrible acting, terrible plot, practically non-existent action/fx, and what little there was - terrible. Not even so-bad-its-funny, me and my mates, who usually gyp loudly and crudely at bad tv|film|music|etc, sat through in stunned silence. Its that terrible.
But I agree, some "know your enemy" would be good from many members of the linux and slashdot communities. First on the agenda: the BSOD joke. Want to carry on undermining your whole claim? Go ahead and carry on with endless jokes about Windows == BSOD. Fact is, I haven't seen a single one since getting this OS - not even when a hard drive died! That's about 18 months, during which the PC has been in heavy use - it's left online downloading most nights, and I regularly run at 90%+ CPU usage for hours on end using music software of various *ahem* dubious origins. The OS has never once blue-screened, died or crashed on me. Apps - frequently. OS - just doesn't happen anymore.
I'm not USA-bashing in the slightest. I love most aspects of your country (except your current administration *g*) and undoubtedly your technological contribution to the planet is extremely disproportionate to a simple population count.
But considering how much of the worlds "technological advancements" have occured in Europe and Japan/Asia, for example, I don't see why it should be surprising that European and Asian engineers can get a perfectly decent education there, rather than travelling to the US.
Remember, the number of engineers in the world educated in the US is going to be basically equivalent to the number from/in the US (which will roughly follow population - granted, population as a % of first-world nations would be the only useful metric here), plus the number of aliens who made a huge specific effort to study abroad.
In that context I'm forced to agree with the grandparent, I really don't see 6% as all that surprising.
Well, that might be true, but I somewhat agree with grandparent post too. I think MBA's are (going) out of fashion. Or, more precise, they're just getting devalued through being too common. As things stand merely being "Joe Bloggs MBA" probably won't impress the HR people deciding these top-level jobs that much. Having an MBA with Distinction and/or an MBA from a top-ranking institution is required to stand out.
In other words, MBAs amongst "officers" are like degrees amongst the rest of us - everyone has one these days, so you need either a really good one, or something extra.
Disclaimer-- IASWWFAIOFTTTMP (I Am Someone Who Works For An Institution Offering Financial Times' Top Twenty MBA Programmes), but this post does not speak for my employer :)
I'm almost identical. Last time I was tested I was 96wpm at 99.4% accuracy - no lessons, no adherence to any norm or system other than my own, which has evolved purely from excessive usage (tbh, the single biggest factor in making me so quick was IRC - you had to get that quick to keep up multiple conversations in several chans :) )
It includes primary education.
From a musician/producer's perspective, I have to say I will never, ever switch to Linux for my DAW work as long as I see things like this: "None of these VST solutions is currently at all easy to configure and build..." (+5 post a little up the page). I find it very hard to find time to write music these days, what with the hated full-time job and the large amount of time I spend organising not-directly-musical things like online sales of my band's album. There's no way I'm going to eat into that using anything requiring conf file editing, compilation, finding obscure libraries and dependencies, or whatever.
If it's not easier and more solid than my current setup, I won't switch. Realistically, if it cant run 90% of my current preferred tools smoothly, I won't switch either ("as good as" doesn't really cut it in this game). I suspect most others would say the same.
Nevertheless I follow Linux audio with interest. I can't wait to jump the Windows ship because the DRM-enabled future Microsoft envisages is somewhere I never, ever want to tread. My only real hope is that Linux becomes a 100% realistic proposition for me before my current XP box needs replacing, because Longhorn looks like something I wouldn't touch with someone else's ;)
This is a very, very, very big deal. Does this only apply to VSTis whose manufacturers supply a native linux port (ie, essentially none), or with the wonders of WINE (or similar) can I now run all my favourite gear from Native Instruments, Ohmforce, TC, etc?
I grew up in Cambridge, you can easily cross Cambridge "proper" in 90 minutes on foot. Even including suburbs and walking from the edge of Cherry Hinton to the edge of Chesterton, or whatever, couldn't take more than 3.