It's interesting to me that you (and apparently others) believe that just because we have found something on Mars that farts, it must be intelligent. You have obviously not met any of my uncles. Not that any of them have ever been to Mars, but they do meet your other requirement for intelligence quite frequently. And most of them prefer to demonstrate their 'intelligence' in public if possible.
In your IQ tests, are those who can successfully execute a 'pull my finger' joke classified as genius?
[Sarcasm generation machine breaks down from being overworked.]
What do you people require from a life-form before you consider it to be intelligent? Farting is not very high on my list. I'd say it's not even on my list, but it does at least imply that something is digesting something, so there is some degree of intelligence there, but I'd have to rate it very very low.
Or to get more detailed, if you search out and find the weak spot in the bank vault's walls, and then advertise a way to get free money and when someone calls on you, you drive them up to that spot and drop them off.
You are not guilty of robbing the bank, but you are an accomplice to be certain. I'm not sure if that would be accessory to burglary, or some other charge, as IANAL. My guess is all they need to prove is that someone viewed copyrighted material through your search engine and you are 'the right way for a smack bottom.' (Yes, I quoted Shrek, so what?)
Perhaps the cake was white when they hid it in their undergarments and all of this attention scared them into changing it's color to yellow?
I know, it's a bad joke. It's been a long day.
"We apologise again for the fault in the Adblock plus software. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked for slowing the Interwebs down with their ads have been sacked."
Usually, a company takes the 'safe' route, and tells all of it's remaining employees that 'so-and-so is no longer with us...' and 'there will be no gossip-talk about the reasons.'
This does no good in a small company like the one I work for. We always no why someone was fired, and we usually talk about it anyways.
I am aware and agree with you on this 'secret of the industry.'
I told my friend to buy the Latitude line if she was insisting on Dell. Alas, my friend called Dell and complained that the business class machine did not come in hot pink like the consumer one, and was then talked into buying the consumer model, hot pink with Vista Home Premium.
We don't buy Dell at work, period. We had terrible issues with their support, and now we are an Apple/HP/Lenovo shop. We have been HP/Lenovo for a while, buy we are migrating to Apple, as we have stopped fighting things that Just Plain Work (TM). Most of our software is either Terminal Service driven or Web-based now anyhow.
How can anyone other than a female cop confiscate an object that is inside a minor's undergarments, and avoid a lawsuit?
It is not socially acceptable for a teacher to retrieve any object from inside a student's undergarments. And that teacher does not have, never has had, and never should have the right to do so. That right is reserved for officers of the law, as long as they follow the proper and pertinent search/seizure and warrant laws.
A person's body is off limits except for very special legal circumstances. When that body belongs to a minor, it's even more so. Very taboo, very morally wrong. IANAL, but I bet there is one lurking who can weigh in on the legal aspects of a school faculty member searching the student's undergarments while he/she is wearing them.
Anyone?
My experience with XP Downgrades is with Lenovo, HP, and Dell.
Lenovo and HP gave me XP downgrades for free (I did have to cover the shipping, like $8 or something.) They said there was no cost, because the Vista Business and Ultimate EULA grants me permission to downgrade without buying an XP license.
Then, I tried to downgrade a Dell that my friend owns. It has Vista Home Premium, and Dell said the same thing - if it was Ultimate or Business, it would be free, since it is not, I have to buy and install a retail copy of XP. Apparently, the EULA is different when it comes to XP Downgrade rights. Dell also told me they do not even make any XP based restore images for their Vista Home computers. All of their Vista Home PCs have to use a retail XP disc if you want to downgrade.
The other thing that Dell told me was that they entered into an agreement with MS in which they will not give away or make available XP downgrades to customers who purchased a Vista PC prior to fouth quarter 2008, and IIRC, this was regardless of which version of Vista was preloaded.
The part that really makes me mad, is that when she bought the PC, she bought it from Dell directly, not through a retail channel of any kind. I advised her to stick with XP, and the Dell salesman talked her into buying with Vista, saying that she can always downgrade later if she does not like it.
Well, those that are non-salaried do. I end up working about 90-100 hours in eight days being salaried, but that is another story.
Many of my friends here are hourly employees and work four ten hour days with every Friday off. They love it. They do not even notice the difference after the first week or two, and they get a three-day weekend every weekend.
Average geeks care about hard numbers like CPU cycles and frames per second.
Really, I switched to Apple because at the end of the day, hell, in the middle of the day, I don't have the time to work on my own computer. I work on other people's PCs all day long, and I need mine to work, No Matter What(TM). I used Linux for a while, but it was not as nice to use for digital media, at least not in those days. (I have not looked at Linux in that arena in a while now.)
As far as innovative to me, you are correct. I like to think of Apple's innovation as 'Not-Just-For-Geeks-Anymore' innovation. They are taking things that used to be only used by geeks and slapping an easy to use/understand UI on them, and giving them to the masses. But there software solutions are also seeming to be much more reliable than the mainstream software that is out there.
And Time Machine has a far more complete feature set than 'tar gzip and crond' backup solutions. Sure it's features were capable of being duplicated before, but the UI and the ease of use is where Apple's innovation comes in.
"What you summarized is exactly what I'm talking about" You followed this with "...I'm not going to explain it again,...you don't even understand,"
How can I summarize exactly what you are talking about, and at the same time not even understand it?
I understand exactly what you are trying to do, I just do not see the benefit. Those who are illiterate when it comes to CAs and trust need a better alternative to the current CA trust methods. Those that know which CAs to trust already are getting by just fine with the current solution. Why redesign it to make it (in your opinion) better for those that it currently works for, all the while making it no better at all for those that it does not work for?
My point is that we really need something that will work for everyone, if such a method can be had.
I see. So your proposal would accomplish the same thing that having default trusted CAs accomplishes now, with the added bonus of being able to trust anyone else that you choose along with anyone that they have decided to trust?
Or do I still not get what you are suggesting?
Don't get me wrong. It would most certainly work for the truly educated IT-oriented person, but the average person could not be trusted with such power. Because the average person does not understand enough to know who to trust. They tell you all of the time, 'Oh, don't worry, I only let my brother's roommate work on my company laptop. He's really good with computers, so it's OK. I am certain that is not why it refuses to boot and has no hard drive inside of it anymore.'
Aside from that, a lot of users are too impatient to stop and truly think about whether they should trust a site or not. Most of them just click on the screen at random shouting 'Go Away! I want to buy this!'.
I really think it would work for the IT crowd, but then again, the FF3 warnings work for us already.
I could see this working only if you had to pass some sort of test to be allowed to connect your computer to the Internet.
Do you have any idea how many 'average' or even 'above-average' users I admin who will click on any pop up window that says they 'might have a virus. click here to check'? Even allowing a sample of these folks to decide which websites I trust sounds like a bad dream I keep having where my boss keeps instructing employees to install Gator and Bonzi Buddy because he wants them to see the 'Purple Donkey Kong' and he is afraid they are missing out on all of the 'good deals' that keep 'blinking' at him on the computer... Oh Wait, that was not a dream, it really happened.
Remember the late George Carlin said 'Think about how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of the people are dumber than that!'
I've learned this to be true as well. I believe that it is due to the fact that the 'Programmer in SysAdmin's clothing' cannot just 'leave it alone'. One of the best qualities of a SysAdmin is the ability to not fsck with it until/unless it needs to be fscked with.
Codeweavers also has a commercially supported version available (called Crossover Mac). We use it in our offices to get our VB/MS SQL custom apps to cross platforms. It is a universal binary, and it is very stable, as well as simple to install.
At the rate that we are evolving, we will see/discover the first babel fish in the next 100 years, and the first improbability driven space ship by the year 2400.
Could this be an evolutionary leap in the old saying "Make it idiot-proof, the world will make a bigger idiot." Now we are making it Neanderthal-proof?
What real world benefits can we obtain by having a computer that can communicate in a Neanderthal's native language? Are expecting to have an intergalactic run-in with a group of Neanderthals from another planet? All of the Neanderthal people on earth are either dead, or work for the return department at Best Buy, in which case they are provided with a computer by their employer.
What's on Slashdot tomorrow? A laptop for every cro-magnon?
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think the word "parody" means what you think it means.
Channeling some Inigo Montoya there, binarylarry?
...intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe...
It's interesting to me that you (and apparently others) believe that just because we have found something on Mars that farts, it must be intelligent. You have obviously not met any of my uncles. Not that any of them have ever been to Mars, but they do meet your other requirement for intelligence quite frequently. And most of them prefer to demonstrate their 'intelligence' in public if possible.
In your IQ tests, are those who can successfully execute a 'pull my finger' joke classified as genius?
[Sarcasm generation machine breaks down from being overworked.]
What do you people require from a life-form before you consider it to be intelligent? Farting is not very high on my list. I'd say it's not even on my list, but it does at least imply that something is digesting something, so there is some degree of intelligence there, but I'd have to rate it very very low.
Or to get more detailed, if you search out and find the weak spot in the bank vault's walls, and then advertise a way to get free money and when someone calls on you, you drive them up to that spot and drop them off. You are not guilty of robbing the bank, but you are an accomplice to be certain. I'm not sure if that would be accessory to burglary, or some other charge, as IANAL. My guess is all they need to prove is that someone viewed copyrighted material through your search engine and you are 'the right way for a smack bottom.' (Yes, I quoted Shrek, so what?)
Perhaps the cake was white when they hid it in their undergarments and all of this attention scared them into changing it's color to yellow? I know, it's a bad joke. It's been a long day.
"We apologise again for the fault in the Adblock plus software. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked for slowing the Interwebs down with their ads have been sacked."
Usually, a company takes the 'safe' route, and tells all of it's remaining employees that 'so-and-so is no longer with us...' and 'there will be no gossip-talk about the reasons.' This does no good in a small company like the one I work for. We always no why someone was fired, and we usually talk about it anyways.
I am aware and agree with you on this 'secret of the industry.' I told my friend to buy the Latitude line if she was insisting on Dell. Alas, my friend called Dell and complained that the business class machine did not come in hot pink like the consumer one, and was then talked into buying the consumer model, hot pink with Vista Home Premium. We don't buy Dell at work, period. We had terrible issues with their support, and now we are an Apple/HP/Lenovo shop. We have been HP/Lenovo for a while, buy we are migrating to Apple, as we have stopped fighting things that Just Plain Work (TM). Most of our software is either Terminal Service driven or Web-based now anyhow.
How can anyone other than a female cop confiscate an object that is inside a minor's undergarments, and avoid a lawsuit? It is not socially acceptable for a teacher to retrieve any object from inside a student's undergarments. And that teacher does not have, never has had, and never should have the right to do so. That right is reserved for officers of the law, as long as they follow the proper and pertinent search/seizure and warrant laws. A person's body is off limits except for very special legal circumstances. When that body belongs to a minor, it's even more so. Very taboo, very morally wrong. IANAL, but I bet there is one lurking who can weigh in on the legal aspects of a school faculty member searching the student's undergarments while he/she is wearing them. Anyone?
My experience with XP Downgrades is with Lenovo, HP, and Dell.
Lenovo and HP gave me XP downgrades for free (I did have to cover the shipping, like $8 or something.) They said there was no cost, because the Vista Business and Ultimate EULA grants me permission to downgrade without buying an XP license.
Then, I tried to downgrade a Dell that my friend owns. It has Vista Home Premium, and Dell said the same thing - if it was Ultimate or Business, it would be free, since it is not, I have to buy and install a retail copy of XP. Apparently, the EULA is different when it comes to XP Downgrade rights. Dell also told me they do not even make any XP based restore images for their Vista Home computers. All of their Vista Home PCs have to use a retail XP disc if you want to downgrade.
The other thing that Dell told me was that they entered into an agreement with MS in which they will not give away or make available XP downgrades to customers who purchased a Vista PC prior to fouth quarter 2008, and IIRC, this was regardless of which version of Vista was preloaded.
The part that really makes me mad, is that when she bought the PC, she bought it from Dell directly, not through a retail channel of any kind. I advised her to stick with XP, and the Dell salesman talked her into buying with Vista, saying that she can always downgrade later if she does not like it.
Well, those that are non-salaried do. I end up working about 90-100 hours in eight days being salaried, but that is another story.
Many of my friends here are hourly employees and work four ten hour days with every Friday off. They love it. They do not even notice the difference after the first week or two, and they get a three-day weekend every weekend.
I spent most of my time in high school with a boner and looking out the window. I turned out OK and with a good career.
And does that career consist of sitting in an office cubicle with a boner, looking at MS Windows(tm)?
Average geeks care about hard numbers like CPU cycles and frames per second.
Really, I switched to Apple because at the end of the day, hell, in the middle of the day, I don't have the time to work on my own computer. I work on other people's PCs all day long, and I need mine to work, No Matter What(TM). I used Linux for a while, but it was not as nice to use for digital media, at least not in those days. (I have not looked at Linux in that arena in a while now.)
As far as innovative to me, you are correct. I like to think of Apple's innovation as 'Not-Just-For-Geeks-Anymore' innovation. They are taking things that used to be only used by geeks and slapping an easy to use/understand UI on them, and giving them to the masses. But there software solutions are also seeming to be much more reliable than the mainstream software that is out there.
And Time Machine has a far more complete feature set than 'tar gzip and crond' backup solutions. Sure it's features were capable of being duplicated before, but the UI and the ease of use is where Apple's innovation comes in.
Ok, I'm seeing how I am sort of a fanboy. ;)
"What you summarized is exactly what I'm talking about" You followed this with "...I'm not going to explain it again,...you don't even understand,"
How can I summarize exactly what you are talking about, and at the same time not even understand it?
I understand exactly what you are trying to do, I just do not see the benefit. Those who are illiterate when it comes to CAs and trust need a better alternative to the current CA trust methods. Those that know which CAs to trust already are getting by just fine with the current solution. Why redesign it to make it (in your opinion) better for those that it currently works for, all the while making it no better at all for those that it does not work for?
My point is that we really need something that will work for everyone, if such a method can be had.
I see. So your proposal would accomplish the same thing that having default trusted CAs accomplishes now, with the added bonus of being able to trust anyone else that you choose along with anyone that they have decided to trust?
Or do I still not get what you are suggesting?
Don't get me wrong. It would most certainly work for the truly educated IT-oriented person, but the average person could not be trusted with such power. Because the average person does not understand enough to know who to trust. They tell you all of the time, 'Oh, don't worry, I only let my brother's roommate work on my company laptop. He's really good with computers, so it's OK. I am certain that is not why it refuses to boot and has no hard drive inside of it anymore.'
Aside from that, a lot of users are too impatient to stop and truly think about whether they should trust a site or not. Most of them just click on the screen at random shouting 'Go Away! I want to buy this!'.
I really think it would work for the IT crowd, but then again, the FF3 warnings work for us already.
I could see this working only if you had to pass some sort of test to be allowed to connect your computer to the Internet.
Do you have any idea how many 'average' or even 'above-average' users I admin who will click on any pop up window that says they 'might have a virus. click here to check'? Even allowing a sample of these folks to decide which websites I trust sounds like a bad dream I keep having where my boss keeps instructing employees to install Gator and Bonzi Buddy because he wants them to see the 'Purple Donkey Kong' and he is afraid they are missing out on all of the 'good deals' that keep 'blinking' at him on the computer... Oh Wait, that was not a dream, it really happened.
Remember the late George Carlin said 'Think about how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of the people are dumber than that!'
I've learned this to be true as well. I believe that it is due to the fact that the 'Programmer in SysAdmin's clothing' cannot just 'leave it alone'. One of the best qualities of a SysAdmin is the ability to not fsck with it until/unless it needs to be fscked with.
Codeweavers also has a commercially supported version available (called Crossover Mac). We use it in our offices to get our VB/MS SQL custom apps to cross platforms. It is a universal binary, and it is very stable, as well as simple to install.
Then again, a Tower of Babel Fishes out in the desert would smell very horrible, I would imagine.
Which is just another way of saying 'That seems improbable.'
Coincidence? I think not?
My thoughts exactly. This is the second 'prototype' of a HHG that I've read about in the past two weeks: http://www.hackaday.com/2008/05/13/pocket-hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-wikipedia-style/
At the rate that we are evolving, we will see/discover the first babel fish in the next 100 years, and the first improbability driven space ship by the year 2400.
And they eat all of our babies! "Git in my belly!"
http://www.alanjohns.fsnet.co.uk/goldmember/fat-bastard.jpg
If their site gets slashdotted, instead of the standard 404, maybe it'll say 'These aren't the droids you're looking for'.
random slashdot news or
really stupid noobs?
I think I'm going with this:
reality sucks nomore!
Could this be an evolutionary leap in the old saying "Make it idiot-proof, the world will make a bigger idiot." Now we are making it Neanderthal-proof?
What real world benefits can we obtain by having a computer that can communicate in a Neanderthal's native language? Are expecting to have an intergalactic run-in with a group of Neanderthals from another planet? All of the Neanderthal people on earth are either dead, or work for the return department at Best Buy, in which case they are provided with a computer by their employer.
What's on Slashdot tomorrow? A laptop for every cro-magnon?
"OpenOffice.org or similar programs will take over once they have their own clippy"
Does this mean Linux will fall flat on it's face as soon as it gets it's first Bonzi Buddy?