Really? I actually didn't know that. I've only seen the movie in the theater once, then rented it years later. Didn't check out the special features. Damn, I was trying to be funny and I failed!
I'm sure they would work, but I think that a branded phone has a greater profit potential. I mean, how much would you pay for a Zuck doll, and how many would you buy?
We're really just thinking of the poor. Basically, if people are using less energy from the power companies, their profits will go down. Since they are publicly owned (i.e. they have shareholders, not that they're owned by the govt), profit is the primary goal. As such, they will raise rates for those who are still dependent on their systems because they can't afford solar power.
Basically, solar power is a liberal elite technology for oppressing the poor. Of course, as always, they *claim* it's just the opposite.
Richard Stallman? Feh! I want to know how many people know who Cliff Stoll is?
Personal note: right at the height of his fame following the Morris Worm and the Cuckoo's Egg book, I saw him in a Safeway in Berkeley, Ca. I was behind him in line and wanted to say something, but sure enough, I got celebrity jitters. One of the biggest nerds EVAR and I couldn't bring myself to say something like, "I liked your book."
He was commenting to his girlfriend about how silly it was that the cigarette case showed really happy people smoking, then in tiny print talked about how dangerous it was. He suggested that someone should put up billboards that showed clowns juggling above pits of alligators and burning flames, with headlines that said, "Try it, it's fun!!", and small print that said, "Don't do it, you'll die!" And laughing at his own ridiculousness. Not that I was listening in or anything.
A friend of mine was working in a PR firm some years back, and he was probably the techiest of all of them, including the IT team. They were using Lotus Notes, and he found that he could script links in emails that he sent. This allowed him to send an email to someone that told them to check out an attachment, and when they clicked on it, it looked like nothing happened, but it would actually be sending out an email that he had scripted from their account. He had a few weeks of playing around with it, laughing at all the consternation about people receiving emails that the senders swore they hadn't sent--often many copies--before he decided that he'd better stop before he got caught.
The one I remember was that he had one of his colleagues email the CEO of the company something like, "Jim (not his real name), Chicken pot pie, chicken pot pie, chicken. Chicken pot pie, chicken pot pie, chicken." Since the attachment didn't work, the colleague clicked it 50 times, but didn't make the connection when Jim complained to her that she'd sent him 50 meaningless emails.
Star Wars isn't alone. Lord of the Rings has something like a dozen editions. Blade Runner has so many director's cuts, I've decided Ridley Scott must be schizophrenic. Even Memento has a version where it tells the story chronological order. I don't know why I bought three copies.
They've got 500 million users; even if just 0.2% of those users decide that they love FB so much they need the official phone, that's a million sales. Probably more profitable than if they tried to sell Mark Zuckerberg bobble head dolls.
Hate to say it, but the same could be said of all of us. Finite time on this means that no matter where we are in our lives, we're progressing towards the dirt-hole.
That always struck me about the big dune monster in Return of the Jedi. You know the one that was basically a pit in the sand that they were going to be thrown into? C3PO said that anyone thrown in would die a painful death as their body is digested over a period of 1000 years. I figure if it takes 1000 years for that thing to digest anyone, the digestive acids can't be that powerful; it'd be more like drowning than anything else. And considering that even without drowning, anyone in its gullet would die within a few days of starvation, the whole 1000 years thing is a bit silly.
Well, the guy you "threatened" (I put it in quotes because I'm sure you weren't serious) may or may not be stable. I don't know. I'm just suggesting that those sorts of threats are not only inappropriate, they're dangerous to the person making them.
You may think you affect little through your writings, but you never know. You could have conveyed your message quite clearly without threatening the guy.
Fair enough. But I'm not going to harm you. To be fair, I listed the law as only one of the ways that someone might go about punishing someone who has threatened them.
And you're right; I'm nothing. We all are. But we all care about the little nothings who most closely surround us, which is why I suggested to the GP that his threatening of your family was beyond the pale.
Actually, it's legislating behavior. The law can't prevent you from wanting to kill someone, nor from believing that it would be right to do so. The law can't even completely stop you from acting on those beliefs. But if you do indeed commit the act (or attempt to commit the act), the law can allow for that behavior to be punished if you are caught.
This. Plus HTML5/Javascript. And even that other technology. Flash may be dying as a percentage of the market, but it's dying slowly even from that perspective. And the market is growing fast enough that even "dying" means growth. Hell, Cobol's been dying for 50 years now. Not that I'm suggesting learning cobol.
Point is, web apps don't solve everything, but they do solve some problems very nicely, and they're powerful enough now with Webkit (on iOS and Android and WebOS) that you can even use them to do quick prototyping for a lot of types of apps. I wanted to write an interactive book for my kid as a native iApp as an excuse to learn how to write iApps, and then found myself instead looking to HTML5 and wrote the whole thing, touch gestures and page animating and all, as a web app.
And the boy loves the wBook, by the way. It lets him see the moon gliding across the sky behind all sorts of familiar objects, from buildings to trees to his dog. Of course, I should say he loved it, from ages 6 mo to 18 mo. Now at 18 mo, he's not so fascinated by the fact that his touch animates the moon. Now he's found the home button and if I leave him alone with my iPod for more than a minute, he'll delete every app that he can. He loves the way they wobble...
So better yet, cut all your oil intake, regardless of brand. We can't go cold turkey, but public transit, walking and biking, carpooling and more efficient cars, including but not limited to hybrids, are all options for weaning ourselves.
Me, I work from home; if I drive 7000 miles in a year, that's a huge year for me. I know people who do a couple of thousand per month just on their commute.
Never threaten another person's family, even in jest. It's wrong, and you never know how they are going to adapt to it. They could track you down and have you arrested, or they could decided to take care of your family first.
The rest of your argument isn't really worth writing home about, either. I'm guessing that I actually agree with you, but it's so poorly written that I'm not sure. But really, threatening someone's family is beyond the pale.
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Really? I actually didn't know that. I've only seen the movie in the theater once, then rented it years later. Didn't check out the special features. Damn, I was trying to be funny and I failed!
I'm sure they would work, but I think that a branded phone has a greater profit potential. I mean, how much would you pay for a Zuck doll, and how many would you buy?
I wasn't being ironic, I just always speak in hyperbole. ALWAYS.
We're really just thinking of the poor. Basically, if people are using less energy from the power companies, their profits will go down. Since they are publicly owned (i.e. they have shareholders, not that they're owned by the govt), profit is the primary goal. As such, they will raise rates for those who are still dependent on their systems because they can't afford solar power.
Basically, solar power is a liberal elite technology for oppressing the poor. Of course, as always, they *claim* it's just the opposite.
Of course I instead thought of Warcraft, and wanted to respond: "Zug zug."
Guffaw.
Woosh. It's a South Park reference. Look up "Chewbacca Defense" on the Googles.
Richard Stallman? Feh! I want to know how many people know who Cliff Stoll is?
Personal note: right at the height of his fame following the Morris Worm and the Cuckoo's Egg book, I saw him in a Safeway in Berkeley, Ca. I was behind him in line and wanted to say something, but sure enough, I got celebrity jitters. One of the biggest nerds EVAR and I couldn't bring myself to say something like, "I liked your book."
He was commenting to his girlfriend about how silly it was that the cigarette case showed really happy people smoking, then in tiny print talked about how dangerous it was. He suggested that someone should put up billboards that showed clowns juggling above pits of alligators and burning flames, with headlines that said, "Try it, it's fun!!", and small print that said, "Don't do it, you'll die!" And laughing at his own ridiculousness. Not that I was listening in or anything.
A friend of mine was working in a PR firm some years back, and he was probably the techiest of all of them, including the IT team. They were using Lotus Notes, and he found that he could script links in emails that he sent. This allowed him to send an email to someone that told them to check out an attachment, and when they clicked on it, it looked like nothing happened, but it would actually be sending out an email that he had scripted from their account. He had a few weeks of playing around with it, laughing at all the consternation about people receiving emails that the senders swore they hadn't sent--often many copies--before he decided that he'd better stop before he got caught.
The one I remember was that he had one of his colleagues email the CEO of the company something like, "Jim (not his real name), Chicken pot pie, chicken pot pie, chicken. Chicken pot pie, chicken pot pie, chicken." Since the attachment didn't work, the colleague clicked it 50 times, but didn't make the connection when Jim complained to her that she'd sent him 50 meaningless emails.
Just offer free iPads for people who follow and retweet your tweets. Then set up sock puppet accounts to say, "Thanks for the iPad! It's awesome!"
I've stopped following dozens of people who fall for that sort of crap. I don't want you to retweet that sh*t in my stream.
Follow me if you think I'm funny or insightful, or if you hate me. I don't care. Same ID.
Star Wars isn't alone. Lord of the Rings has something like a dozen editions. Blade Runner has so many director's cuts, I've decided Ridley Scott must be schizophrenic. Even Memento has a version where it tells the story chronological order. I don't know why I bought three copies.
I just LOOOOOOOOVE the fact that I can click anywhere on that site other than the text of the definition itself and find myself at the sponsor's site!
They've got 500 million users; even if just 0.2% of those users decide that they love FB so much they need the official phone, that's a million sales. Probably more profitable than if they tried to sell Mark Zuckerberg bobble head dolls.
Hate to say it, but the same could be said of all of us. Finite time on this means that no matter where we are in our lives, we're progressing towards the dirt-hole.
That always struck me about the big dune monster in Return of the Jedi. You know the one that was basically a pit in the sand that they were going to be thrown into? C3PO said that anyone thrown in would die a painful death as their body is digested over a period of 1000 years. I figure if it takes 1000 years for that thing to digest anyone, the digestive acids can't be that powerful; it'd be more like drowning than anything else. And considering that even without drowning, anyone in its gullet would die within a few days of starvation, the whole 1000 years thing is a bit silly.
oh, shit. my IP address *is* my root password!
Well, the guy you "threatened" (I put it in quotes because I'm sure you weren't serious) may or may not be stable. I don't know. I'm just suggesting that those sorts of threats are not only inappropriate, they're dangerous to the person making them.
You may think you affect little through your writings, but you never know. You could have conveyed your message quite clearly without threatening the guy.
Fair enough. But I'm not going to harm you. To be fair, I listed the law as only one of the ways that someone might go about punishing someone who has threatened them.
And you're right; I'm nothing. We all are. But we all care about the little nothings who most closely surround us, which is why I suggested to the GP that his threatening of your family was beyond the pale.
Actually, it's legislating behavior. The law can't prevent you from wanting to kill someone, nor from believing that it would be right to do so. The law can't even completely stop you from acting on those beliefs. But if you do indeed commit the act (or attempt to commit the act), the law can allow for that behavior to be punished if you are caught.
No, it's an opportunity for sensible debate. In other words, I disagree with you, but I am pretty certain that you're not a Nazi baby killer vegan.
Sounds like someone's been drinking the goog-aide!
This. Plus HTML5/Javascript. And even that other technology. Flash may be dying as a percentage of the market, but it's dying slowly even from that perspective. And the market is growing fast enough that even "dying" means growth. Hell, Cobol's been dying for 50 years now. Not that I'm suggesting learning cobol.
Point is, web apps don't solve everything, but they do solve some problems very nicely, and they're powerful enough now with Webkit (on iOS and Android and WebOS) that you can even use them to do quick prototyping for a lot of types of apps. I wanted to write an interactive book for my kid as a native iApp as an excuse to learn how to write iApps, and then found myself instead looking to HTML5 and wrote the whole thing, touch gestures and page animating and all, as a web app.
And the boy loves the wBook, by the way. It lets him see the moon gliding across the sky behind all sorts of familiar objects, from buildings to trees to his dog. Of course, I should say he loved it, from ages 6 mo to 18 mo. Now at 18 mo, he's not so fascinated by the fact that his touch animates the moon. Now he's found the home button and if I leave him alone with my iPod for more than a minute, he'll delete every app that he can. He loves the way they wobble...
So better yet, cut all your oil intake, regardless of brand. We can't go cold turkey, but public transit, walking and biking, carpooling and more efficient cars, including but not limited to hybrids, are all options for weaning ourselves.
Me, I work from home; if I drive 7000 miles in a year, that's a huge year for me. I know people who do a couple of thousand per month just on their commute.
Never threaten another person's family, even in jest. It's wrong, and you never know how they are going to adapt to it. They could track you down and have you arrested, or they could decided to take care of your family first.
The rest of your argument isn't really worth writing home about, either. I'm guessing that I actually agree with you, but it's so poorly written that I'm not sure. But really, threatening someone's family is beyond the pale.
The saying is, "up like a rocket, down like a feather."
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