I guess blocking entire providers that you know full well have mostly legitimate users and uses is just the lazy man's way of avoiding having to install spamassassin?
Windows users have lots of viruses and trojans and spambots. I'm no longer going to accept email from Windows users. I'll insist that they buy a Mac or install linux if they want to speak with me.
I'd get into making flash games, except for the whole fact that I hate flash and it seems to have a high learning curve. I can't think of any cool uses of flash that I've ever seen. Cool as in "useful", that is. And "useful" as in "couldn't have been done any other, less complex way without a plugin".
It doesn't even matter. According to a recent story, the patent office is considering moving to a "first come first serve" system. In such a system, it wouldn't matter who came up with this style of "interface" (which sounds just like navigating a regular file tree to me) first. All that would matter is who got around to patenting it first.
If that passes reform, I can't wait to see all the businesses getting fucked over by it because someone else beat them to the gun first. Sure, no small guy will be able to afford the process, but it'll be fun to see the big guys slip up and get fucked over by each other.
The only arcade I've seen in the last ten years is Dave and Busters - and I don't think that should even qualify. The last time I went to a Dave and Busters, 90% of the games were giant screens with a gun (to shoot) and a pedal (to duck) and they were all variations of each other. You're a cop. You're killing zombies. You're killing robots. You're killing mobsters. Whatever. Then you have a few other games nobody has really ever heard of...
I was thoroughly unimpressed and wondered where all the fighting games and stuff were. I haven't been back. Plus, in my mind, an arcade should be all ages. Otherwise it's not so much an arcade anymore. Though - granted - it's nice to have a mostly adult place and not have to compete with eight year old kids for a joystick.
Are there any more Games People Play or Wunderlands? I remember paying $4 for admittance to Games People Play and then playing games until they closed. Two of us would go in and stay for twelve hours. And you couldn't get any food or drinks. You had a crappy water fountain in the back to drink from. If you left to get food or something, you'd have to pay another $4... So by the end of the night, you were groggy, exhausted, sick, dry-mouthed, dizzy and starving.
And Wunderland was awesome because, even though you had to pay per-game, it was only a fricking nickel.
Will they have to have wavy blonde hair and wear pink polo shirts and go to Brown College?:P
That's probably one of my bigger pet peeves. People in technology jobs who are not passionate about technology. You see it all the time, unfortunately. You don't have to be passionate about your current job - but you should be passionate about tech.
I mean, you wouldn't go into teaching if you didn't care about teaching, right? (At least, initially).
Why in the hell would you choose a dull career like forensic investigation based on a TV show? That would be like becoming a cop because you want to be like Dirty Harry. How many of these gits go into college for this kind of career, because they think it's going to be exciting and they're going to discover the case-cracking evidence in a few hours, grab their gun and go make an arrest?
Okay, maybe I just work for a rare company, but I wear jeans and a teeshirt to work. I didn't want a long commute, so I moved to within three miles of the office. If I were to take a sweaty method of transportation, I'd just take a shower in the campus gym.
I'm a tech geek in a 40,000 employee technology company. I don't interface in meatspace with clients, so as long as I'm not showing my nuts and disrupting coworkers with my manner of dress, nobody could really care any less. I presume(d) that most of the Slashdot audience falls into such a category.
If most other corporations are as uptight as you describe, I think I'll continue to stick around where I'm at.:)
So showing up to work in a giant 4,000lb gas guzzling, exhaust spewing, parking-space using hung of metal is professional, but a pair of wheels on your feet is not?
This makes about as much sense as those people who judge employees based on whether or not they're married and have kids.
Get to work however the hell you want. If your boss somehow insists that you use one method over another, the fat fucker can pay for it.
As best I can tell, a "podcast" just means "an mp3 that automatically downloads when it's available".
It would be about the same as sticking an mp3 on a server and having cronjobs that automatically downloaded the file every so often. So basically.. a podcast delivers an mp3 that you've subscribe to, when it's available... as long as you're connected to the internet and running the podcasting client in the background... and are too lasty to just punch in a single URL and click on a link to download it manually.
Geektalk was doing "podcasts" years ago with Geeks in Space. *shrug*
Wow. And it isn't an article written by John Markov? I'm shocked!
I guess the government and corporate world should have been paying more attention to what breeches by harmlessly curious teenagers signaled rather than harassing and fining and jailing them for embarrassing them for their own incompetence while letting actual national threats from foreign nations occur.
It's a good thing they turned those 13 little kids from that one school into felons for typing in a password that was obvious and widely available to install stuff on the laptops they were given to use. Today, installing iChat. Tomorrow? - secret highly paid communist spies haxoring into the super elite United States government. OH NOES!
Only if we give it a different, less stupid, name.
I love it.
A frequently updated website is called "blogging" and considered a whole new revolution again after over a decade.
Streaming/downloadable MP3s are called "podcasting" and considered a whole new revolution again after almost a decade.
What's next? Calling online gaming "active fantasy excercise" and claiming it's a new, revolutionary fad, too?
*eyeroll*
Speaking of which, I have yet to find a podcast that is worthwhile. I've tried listening to quite a few and they honestly just flat out suck. And every dipshit has one. Look, I can check my RSS feed in two seconds and see your Engadget news. I don't also need a stupid regularly scheduled podcast from a fricking gadget meme site just so they can jump on the "we're cool and hip" bandwagon.
If podcasting quality stays the same, I hope it fails just like videologging... or... videoblogging... or... vlogging... or blideovlogging.. or whatever the fuck this is called... is going to fail.
I assume you're being funny, but while some people claim he's an indicted pedophile, the BBC claims he was cleared of all charges (which were only made by a British tabloid after he was conferred for knighthood).
If they celebrate open source and free software, they're essentially attacking proprietary and costly software. And if you're not paying for software, you're hurting American business. And if you are hurting American business, you're a terrorist.
Time to attack that piddly nation and that fat lazy western science fiction author!
Very good point. I think people see RMS as some sort of egotistical attention grabber, but you have to remember that GNU is more than just RMS and when he makes statements which may perturb a number of geeks like "It should be GNU/Linux", he's scrapping for attention for all of those developers and other people who help make GNU the success that it is - from gzip to gdcc and gdb.
I don't call it GNU/Linux, but I don't begrudge RMS for doing so and wanting people to do so.
This is nothing more than me saying "I am going to call driving your car to work "spiffing". And then claiming "spiffing is overwhelmingly popular! everyone is doing it!". Bullshit. You've just commandeered somethign that has been around for 20 years and gave it a new name.
What you describe above account for about 99% of the internet. Maybe 95% if you require commenting as a requisite.
So using the word "dick" in a mean way towards someone is somehow a "manhating" statement? And calling someone a "bitch" is an animal hating statement?! What the fuck?!?!
And since when does the word "cunt" not have negative connotations? Go find any random woman - or a girlfriend or wife - and refer to them as a cunt and see if you get any "positive association" vibes from the woman.
That is, if you're still standing by the time the word has left your lips.
Where as you and the rest of the world apparently define a blog as "any website which does not stay static for eternity and has some form of updates or added content over a period of time". You know.. kind of like... oh... A WEBSITE.
Yeah, she's a "reporter" for Judgement Day and sometimes hosts it or something. I think she also hosted an episode of AOTS.
I actually kind of like her. I happened to have watched that season of Real World (it was a long time ago, forgive me) and I have seen some other things about her in the last couple of yeras and I think a lot of people really identify with her, because of the way she was attacked and practically disowned by her family, school and community just for wanting to do normal kid/young adult stuff.
And hey, MTV and G4 and people in general seemed to like her enough that she pops up all over the place these days. Good for her, I say.
Although it still seems really fucking bizarre to be on G4...
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I guess blocking entire providers that you know full well have mostly legitimate users and uses is just the lazy man's way of avoiding having to install spamassassin?
Windows users have lots of viruses and trojans and spambots. I'm no longer going to accept email from Windows users. I'll insist that they buy a Mac or install linux if they want to speak with me.
I'd get into making flash games, except for the whole fact that I hate flash and it seems to have a high learning curve. I can't think of any cool uses of flash that I've ever seen. Cool as in "useful", that is. And "useful" as in "couldn't have been done any other, less complex way without a plugin".
It doesn't even matter. According to a recent story, the patent office is considering moving to a "first come first serve" system. In such a system, it wouldn't matter who came up with this style of "interface" (which sounds just like navigating a regular file tree to me) first. All that would matter is who got around to patenting it first.
If that passes reform, I can't wait to see all the businesses getting fucked over by it because someone else beat them to the gun first. Sure, no small guy will be able to afford the process, but it'll be fun to see the big guys slip up and get fucked over by each other.
The only arcade I've seen in the last ten years is Dave and Busters - and I don't think that should even qualify. The last time I went to a Dave and Busters, 90% of the games were giant screens with a gun (to shoot) and a pedal (to duck) and they were all variations of each other. You're a cop. You're killing zombies. You're killing robots. You're killing mobsters. Whatever. Then you have a few other games nobody has really ever heard of...
I was thoroughly unimpressed and wondered where all the fighting games and stuff were. I haven't been back. Plus, in my mind, an arcade should be all ages. Otherwise it's not so much an arcade anymore. Though - granted - it's nice to have a mostly adult place and not have to compete with eight year old kids for a joystick.
Are there any more Games People Play or Wunderlands? I remember paying $4 for admittance to Games People Play and then playing games until they closed. Two of us would go in and stay for twelve hours. And you couldn't get any food or drinks. You had a crappy water fountain in the back to drink from. If you left to get food or something, you'd have to pay another $4... So by the end of the night, you were groggy, exhausted, sick, dry-mouthed, dizzy and starving.
And Wunderland was awesome because, even though you had to pay per-game, it was only a fricking nickel.
Will they have to have wavy blonde hair and wear pink polo shirts and go to Brown College? :P
That's probably one of my bigger pet peeves. People in technology jobs who are not passionate about technology. You see it all the time, unfortunately. You don't have to be passionate about your current job - but you should be passionate about tech.
I mean, you wouldn't go into teaching if you didn't care about teaching, right? (At least, initially).
So exactly where are they going to put the Street Fighter 4 arcade game? Are there actually any arcades left?
Why in the hell would you choose a dull career like forensic investigation based on a TV show? That would be like becoming a cop because you want to be like Dirty Harry. How many of these gits go into college for this kind of career, because they think it's going to be exciting and they're going to discover the case-cracking evidence in a few hours, grab their gun and go make an arrest?
Okay, maybe I just work for a rare company, but I wear jeans and a teeshirt to work. I didn't want a long commute, so I moved to within three miles of the office. If I were to take a sweaty method of transportation, I'd just take a shower in the campus gym.
:)
I'm a tech geek in a 40,000 employee technology company. I don't interface in meatspace with clients, so as long as I'm not showing my nuts and disrupting coworkers with my manner of dress, nobody could really care any less. I presume(d) that most of the Slashdot audience falls into such a category.
If most other corporations are as uptight as you describe, I think I'll continue to stick around where I'm at.
Afterwords...?
What does anything in the article have to do with a book?
Or did you mean afterward?
Slashdot editors - you fail it again.
So showing up to work in a giant 4,000lb gas guzzling, exhaust spewing, parking-space using hung of metal is professional, but a pair of wheels on your feet is not?
This makes about as much sense as those people who judge employees based on whether or not they're married and have kids.
Get to work however the hell you want. If your boss somehow insists that you use one method over another, the fat fucker can pay for it.
Image a beo.... oh fuck it. Nevermind.
As best I can tell, a "podcast" just means "an mp3 that automatically downloads when it's available".
It would be about the same as sticking an mp3 on a server and having cronjobs that automatically downloaded the file every so often. So basically.. a podcast delivers an mp3 that you've subscribe to, when it's available... as long as you're connected to the internet and running the podcasting client in the background... and are too lasty to just punch in a single URL and click on a link to download it manually.
Geektalk was doing "podcasts" years ago with Geeks in Space. *shrug*
Wow. And it isn't an article written by John Markov? I'm shocked!
I guess the government and corporate world should have been paying more attention to what breeches by harmlessly curious teenagers signaled rather than harassing and fining and jailing them for embarrassing them for their own incompetence while letting actual national threats from foreign nations occur.
It's a good thing they turned those 13 little kids from that one school into felons for typing in a password that was obvious and widely available to install stuff on the laptops they were given to use. Today, installing iChat. Tomorrow? - secret highly paid communist spies haxoring into the super elite United States government. OH NOES!
Only if we give it a different, less stupid, name.
I love it.
A frequently updated website is called "blogging" and considered a whole new revolution again after over a decade.
Streaming/downloadable MP3s are called "podcasting" and considered a whole new revolution again after almost a decade.
What's next? Calling online gaming "active fantasy excercise" and claiming it's a new, revolutionary fad, too?
*eyeroll*
Speaking of which, I have yet to find a podcast that is worthwhile. I've tried listening to quite a few and they honestly just flat out suck. And every dipshit has one. Look, I can check my RSS feed in two seconds and see your Engadget news. I don't also need a stupid regularly scheduled podcast from a fricking gadget meme site just so they can jump on the "we're cool and hip" bandwagon.
If podcasting quality stays the same, I hope it fails just like videologging... or... videoblogging... or... vlogging... or blideovlogging.. or whatever the fuck this is called... is going to fail.
I assume you're being funny, but while some people claim he's an indicted pedophile, the BBC claims he was cleared of all charges (which were only made by a British tabloid after he was conferred for knighthood).
Well, America has about 300 million people and around 70 political parties
If they celebrate open source and free software, they're essentially attacking proprietary and costly software. And if you're not paying for software, you're hurting American business. And if you are hurting American business, you're a terrorist.
Time to attack that piddly nation and that fat lazy western science fiction author!
Then wouldn't he want you to call it Stallman/Linux?
So what you're saying is Stallman's package is too small . . . ?
Very good point. I think people see RMS as some sort of egotistical attention grabber, but you have to remember that GNU is more than just RMS and when he makes statements which may perturb a number of geeks like "It should be GNU/Linux", he's scrapping for attention for all of those developers and other people who help make GNU the success that it is - from gzip to gdcc and gdb.
I don't call it GNU/Linux, but I don't begrudge RMS for doing so and wanting people to do so.
But don't you see the general stupidity of that?
This is nothing more than me saying "I am going to call driving your car to work "spiffing". And then claiming "spiffing is overwhelmingly popular! everyone is doing it!". Bullshit. You've just commandeered somethign that has been around for 20 years and gave it a new name.
What you describe above account for about 99% of the internet. Maybe 95% if you require commenting as a requisite.
The show whose high point was cramming a web server up someone's posterior?
You say that like it's a bad thing . . .
Okay, so I like my humor a little obnoxiously sophomoric...!
So using the word "dick" in a mean way towards someone is somehow a "manhating" statement? And calling someone a "bitch" is an animal hating statement?! What the fuck?!?!
And since when does the word "cunt" not have negative connotations? Go find any random woman - or a girlfriend or wife - and refer to them as a cunt and see if you get any "positive association" vibes from the woman.
That is, if you're still standing by the time the word has left your lips.
Where as you and the rest of the world apparently define a blog as "any website which does not stay static for eternity and has some form of updates or added content over a period of time". You know.. kind of like... oh... A WEBSITE.
Yeah, she's a "reporter" for Judgement Day and sometimes hosts it or something. I think she also hosted an episode of AOTS.
I actually kind of like her. I happened to have watched that season of Real World (it was a long time ago, forgive me) and I have seen some other things about her in the last couple of yeras and I think a lot of people really identify with her, because of the way she was attacked and practically disowned by her family, school and community just for wanting to do normal kid/young adult stuff.
And hey, MTV and G4 and people in general seemed to like her enough that she pops up all over the place these days. Good for her, I say.
Although it still seems really fucking bizarre to be on G4...