Being physically ft was not the point of the Jock vs Geek comparison above. I am suprised you thought it was. Physicality has little to do with this. I am, and have known , many athletically fit geeks. I was refering here to those who see sports, and physicality as the end all and be all of their being.
My father was a..yes.. a for real..."Rocket Scientist" working for the Air Force back in the 60s. Back then he said the Officer's Club hated to see him and his work buddies coming and loved the pilots. Why? Because the pilots order Beer by the tanker load. Scientists order one beer and used up all the napkins writing down equations. To any jock, a group of nerds talking must be super boring, but then, that is not a measure of the conversation but rather of the jock mental faculties.
-In a related note to the parent post: How many Geeks are dyslexic?
Is it? and who draws that line? This exact sort of issue has been fought for decades already between the NRA and anti-gun groups. "They kill people; there is no valid use for the product. just ban them!" vs "Oh yes, we have valid sport, self defense, etc, non-illegal uses and..."...you probably have heard this drill.
Vested interests and well funded campaigns exist on both sides. The fight will continues for another decade...
I see a similar situation here, except in this case, it is Sony wanting to come up with a tech fix.. when there isn't one. It would be sort of like Winchester making a "only shoots bad guys" pistol.
And I DO see a hypocrite making noises here. What is the anual sales of blank CDs and DVDs? If by magic "illegal" copies were stopped tomorrow, what impact would this have on the sales of these blanks? I would guess it would almost destroy the market. If Sony was really serious about stopping this use, they would be in the forfront of stoppign the sales of the materials with which this "illegal activity" is accomplished.
Sony has a simple solution: STOP SELLING Sony brand CDRs!! -of course, theirs has such a high error ratio that I usually buy TDK... To use an analogy: if a company sells super fast car engines, then wrings hands about all the terrible speeders on the highway, hypocrisy has found a new watershed.
The photos are also posted with her phone number, address, bank account number, DNA sequence, and Hat size in the chip on her Transatlantic ID card. Don't worry though, the information is required by government agencies and they ONLY will use it to determine her terrorist status .
My iPod is a 5gb gen 1 I swapped some parts for. It had a dead battery so I replaced it. Currently I have it loaded with my collection of old 78RPM tunes, mainly Race Records from the 1920s and 30s and some Southern Blues of similar vinatge. Before that I had Scriaban, Holtz and other strange symphonic pieces. I also use mine as a small hard drive. New Music? I have heard some, surf for more and listen to my younger peer's tastes, BUT I have a strong dislike of paying a monthly stipend to listen to another's idea of "good sounds"; I have my own tastes thank you.. There is plenty of FREE sources of music (not all pirate) to satisfy.
I would see absolutely no use for ANY Satellite Radio paradigm, and I certainly would resist paying a monthly fee for something I would have little use for. My iPod works fine playing the tunes I want. Tunes I ripped and loaded on it. If I want somone else's playlist, complete with a rude and intrusive DJ, and ever so helpful commercials, I can turn on AM Radio...
Would someone please explain it to me? Some years back I went down to the "You-Buy-It Electronics Mart" and bought a new cassette recorder/ player with built in equalizer and FM/AM radio. I tuned in my favorite Country Radio and found out they had Dolly Parton on every half hour. I sure liked that song, so, I slipped a new tape in and ShaZAM! I had a copy of Dolly I could now play in my Pickup Truck!
Some time after that, I went back to the You-Buy-It, and this time they sold me this fancy VHS recorder. Since I work swing shift down at the factory, this was great for recording all my Hee-Haw episodes so I could watch'em when I got off work. I also like to record the games in case the fellows wanna come over for a Coors and see'em again. -My OWN "instant reply" by gum!
Well a year ago, I was back down at the You-Buy-It and the fellers sold me this Corn-puter thing that gets me on that Inter-Net. From there, thanks to this cable modem thing (I wonder what channel it is on?) I found this "Page" they call it, where there is all sorts of Country MP3s I can "download" (See? I am pickin up the lingo!), and record (no wait, they say "Burn"). Now I can play Dolly in my new pickup's fancy CD player.
Now I hear about this "stealing music" thing they keep acusing me of. I don't get it. The You-Buy-It sure didn't strike me as some criminal organization sellin me illegal equipment. And those tapes and disks all had the name brands of big companies on 'em, Companies I see on commercials all the time. Why was it "OK" for me to record Dolly back when, and it ain't now? And, if it IS illegal, then why do they sell me all this fancy stuff when there should be a LAW agin' it? Now I ain't no lawyer, and I ain't no computer geek, Can you please explain the difference in simple words a plain old American can understand?
I removed it from 2 machines today (corporate): I re-imaged them. Took about 1/2 hour each to return them to original state with Ghost then reload the user Profile (oh, P4 boxes running XP Pro). Of course this kills all files on the hard drive, and any local customizations but hey! Just write a procedure: "Do not keep stuff local" and you are fine. -till tomorrow... If you want to remove ALL of MyCoolWebSearch, MySearchBar, Or whatever the crap dujour is with out killing the whole machine and getting ALL of it out of there, I have not found a way. This sort of experience by the way is why during the day I am a mild mannered Windows geek, but at night I fire up a Dual CPU G5. I do NOT need the grief at home!
side 1, cylinder 0, sector 3 -Anyone know why DOS would have its boot sector there? or why 4k of memory is missing and CHKDSK only reports 651,264 free? Ruining a disk is not new under the Sun....
Very good! Nice to see someone was paying attention;) Yesthe 360t would run MFT...or MVT if a DAT box is included on the machine (a 360/67 as vs a 360/65). I know what HASP is. $DMR0,'I USED IT A FAIR BIT' The Houston Automatic Spooling Program was an adjunct to the MFT operating system, but in the 370 world of MVS it became known as JES2 (Job Entry Sub-system ver 2) and was incorporated as a part of the opsys itself. I would have said "MFT" but thought HASP would better illustrate the point. BTW, I posted this twice because/. popped a error that the form was bad the first time and I thought it had not posted.
Roots? the machine is called "Xbox 360". 360? It would seem obvious that it should then run HASP. -and if you are unsure what this means then, you are young in the Force Luke...
Yes, the use of frozen cells seemed to generate nothing but expletives from the researchers. Then in a fit of desperation, he dashed the Petrie dish to the floor while cussing a blue streak. This of course prompted an immediate visit from the FCC. FCC? But of course. He was quite guilty of...wait for it........ Making an Obscene Cline Fall.......
Recently I was attempting to deliver a lecture on "The 50s housewife as a High Watermark in Female Accomplishment" and my follow-on lecture "Feminists: why each man should own at least one" to the Womyn's (Stud)ies program at UCLA.
I could see no possible adverse repercussions from this.
I very clearly expressed the need for this lecture to the director of the department but she seemed hesitant. Specifically I said: "There there li'le Missy. No need to worry your pretty little head about this".
Strangely she became somewhat distressed. I proceeded with the lecture in spite of the department's misgivings. 150 women attended the lectures. I very carefully determined that their fathers or husbands had allowed them to attend. Towards the end of the second lecture, the attendees, and many others who had wandered in, became very aggitated. I was forced, yes FORCED to quit the stage!
Right now I am updating my blog wirelessly from inside a barricaded "powder room" with thousands of enraged feminists outside. This is blatant disrespect for Academic Freedom of Speech and I except the world to rally to my defense! CRASH! -ARGGHH!
I read an article a few months back of a fellow with a high-end Mercedes in Malaysia with a fingerprint lock. He was carjacked. Simple solution: the crooks cut off his finger.
Many years ago, when Internet was a civil place, I would post my email address openly on Usenet posts in groups I subscribed to. Due to work constraints, I still have the same email address. Because of these factors, that address gets an average of 3 to 4 HUNDREDspam daily. I am EXPERT at filters. Even if these grandstanding lawyers, these Weasels in Suits do some good (which I doubt), other spammers will fill the shoes of these loosers. Once "the hack" left the realm of the geek "cool thing "(tm) and was wedded to advertising money, real money, the world changed.
They did. They fired all the workers. Now the managers realized there is no one left to attend meetings, form focus groups, create mission statements and position papers. New blood needs to be hired now or there will be no one around to find fault with in time for the next quarterly review process.
The family of the author should have unlimited and eternal access to funds generated by the author's work. With this in mind, a proper royalty on every mention/ quotation of Aristotle, Aristhophanies, Thales, Socraties, etc. in literature should be collected and paid to the country of Greece, and every other human with a touch of Greek blood. Current rules should show that in time, any control eeventually leads to abuse.
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Being physically ft was not the point of the Jock vs Geek comparison above. I am suprised you thought it was. Physicality has little to do with this. I am, and have known , many athletically fit geeks. I was refering here to those who see sports, and physicality as the end all and be all of their being.
My father was a ..yes.. a for real..."Rocket Scientist" working for the Air Force back in the 60s. Back then he said the Officer's Club hated to see him and his work buddies coming and loved the pilots. Why? Because the pilots order Beer by the tanker load. Scientists order one beer and used up all the napkins writing down equations. To any jock, a group of nerds talking must be super boring, but then, that is not a measure of the conversation but rather of the jock mental faculties.
-In a related note to the parent post: How many Geeks are dyslexic?
Is it? and who draws that line? This exact sort of issue has been fought for decades already between the NRA and anti-gun groups. "They kill people; there is no valid use for the product. just ban them!" vs "Oh yes, we have valid sport, self defense, etc, non-illegal uses and..." ...you probably have heard this drill.
Vested interests and well funded campaigns exist on both sides. The fight will continues for another decade...
I see a similar situation here, except in this case, it is Sony wanting to come up with a tech fix.. when there isn't one. It would be sort of like Winchester making a "only shoots bad guys" pistol.
And I DO see a hypocrite making noises here. What is the anual sales of blank CDs and DVDs? If by magic "illegal" copies were stopped tomorrow, what impact would this have on the sales of these blanks? I would guess it would almost destroy the market. If Sony was really serious about stopping this use, they would be in the forfront of stoppign the sales of the materials with which this "illegal activity" is accomplished.
Sony has a simple solution: STOP SELLING Sony brand CDRs!! -of course, theirs has such a high error ratio that I usually buy TDK...
To use an analogy: if a company sells super fast car engines, then wrings hands about all the terrible speeders on the highway, hypocrisy has found a new watershed.
I need a quick exit from this thread
xyzzy
The photos are also posted with her phone number, address, bank account number, DNA sequence, and Hat size in the chip on her Transatlantic ID card. Don't worry though, the information is required by government agencies and they ONLY will use it to determine her terrorist status .
My iPod is a 5gb gen 1 I swapped some parts for. It had a dead battery so I replaced it. Currently I have it loaded with my collection of old 78RPM tunes, mainly Race Records from the 1920s and 30s and some Southern Blues of similar vinatge. Before that I had Scriaban, Holtz and other strange symphonic pieces. I also use mine as a small hard drive. New Music? I have heard some, surf for more and listen to my younger peer's tastes, BUT I have a strong dislike of paying a monthly stipend to listen to another's idea of "good sounds"; I have my own tastes thank you.. There is plenty of FREE sources of music (not all pirate) to satisfy.
"I can promise you a fair trial this morning, followed by a fair hangin' this afternoon" - Judge Roy Bean, the Law West of the Pecos.
I would see absolutely no use for ANY Satellite Radio paradigm, and I certainly would resist paying a monthly fee for something I would have little use for. My iPod works fine playing the tunes I want. Tunes I ripped and loaded on it. If I want somone else's playlist, complete with a rude and intrusive DJ, and ever so helpful commercials, I can turn on AM Radio...
Ok I am Joe Average and I STILL don't get it.
Would someone please explain it to me?
Some years back I went down to the "You-Buy-It Electronics Mart" and bought a new cassette recorder/ player with built in equalizer and FM/AM radio. I tuned in my favorite Country Radio and found out they had Dolly Parton on every half hour. I sure liked that song, so, I slipped a new tape in and ShaZAM! I had a copy of Dolly I could now play in my Pickup Truck!
Some time after that, I went back to the You-Buy-It, and this time they sold me this fancy VHS recorder. Since I work swing shift down at the factory, this was great for recording all my Hee-Haw episodes so I could watch'em when I got off work. I also like to record the games in case the fellows wanna come over for a Coors and see'em again. -My OWN "instant reply" by gum!
Well a year ago, I was back down at the You-Buy-It and the fellers sold me this Corn-puter thing that gets me on that Inter-Net. From there, thanks to this cable modem thing (I wonder what channel it is on?) I found this "Page" they call it, where there is all sorts of Country MP3s I can "download" (See? I am pickin up the lingo!), and record (no wait, they say "Burn"). Now I can play Dolly in my new pickup's fancy CD player.
Now I hear about this "stealing music" thing they keep acusing me of. I don't get it. The You-Buy-It sure didn't strike me as some criminal organization sellin me illegal equipment. And those tapes and disks all had the name brands of big companies on 'em, Companies I see on commercials all the time. Why was it "OK" for me to record Dolly back when, and it ain't now? And, if it IS illegal, then why do they sell me all this fancy stuff when there should be a LAW agin' it? Now I ain't no lawyer, and I ain't no computer geek, Can you please explain the difference in simple words a plain old American can understand?
I removed it from 2 machines today (corporate): I re-imaged them. Took about 1/2 hour each to return them to original state with Ghost then reload the user Profile (oh, P4 boxes running XP Pro). Of course this kills all files on the hard drive, and any local customizations but hey! Just write a procedure: "Do not keep stuff local" and you are fine. -till tomorrow... If you want to remove ALL of MyCoolWebSearch, MySearchBar, Or whatever the crap dujour is with out killing the whole machine and getting ALL of it out of there, I have not found a way. This sort of experience by the way is why during the day I am a mild mannered Windows geek, but at night I fire up a
Dual CPU G5. I do NOT need the grief at home!
side 1, cylinder 0, sector 3 -Anyone know why DOS would have its boot sector there?
or why 4k of memory is missing and CHKDSK only reports 651,264 free?
Ruining a disk is not new under the Sun....
Very good! Nice to see someone was paying attention ;) Yesthe 360t would run MFT ...or MVT if a DAT box is included on the machine (a 360/67 as vs a 360/65). I know what HASP is. $DMR0,'I USED IT A FAIR BIT' The Houston Automatic Spooling Program was an adjunct to the MFT operating system, but in the 370 world of MVS it became known as JES2 (Job Entry Sub-system ver 2) and was incorporated as a part of the opsys itself. I would have said "MFT" but thought HASP would better illustrate the point. BTW, I posted this twice because /. popped a error that the form was bad the first time and I thought it had not posted.
Roots? the machine is called "Xbox 360". 360? It would seem obvious that it should then run HASP. -and if you are unsure what this means then, you are young in the Force Luke...
it is called xbox 360 so it would seem obvious it should run HASP. -and if you are unsure what that means, you are young in the force Luke......
Yes, the use of frozen cells seemed to generate nothing but expletives from the researchers. Then in a fit of desperation, he dashed the Petrie dish to the floor while cussing a blue streak. This of course prompted an immediate visit from the FCC. FCC? But of course. He was quite guilty of...wait for it........
Making an Obscene Cline Fall.......
Recently I was attempting to deliver a lecture on "The 50s housewife as a High Watermark in Female Accomplishment" and my follow-on lecture "Feminists: why each man should own at least one" to the Womyn's (Stud)ies program at UCLA.
I could see no possible adverse repercussions from this.
I very clearly expressed the need for this lecture to the director of the department but she seemed hesitant. Specifically I said: "There there li'le Missy. No need to worry your pretty little head about this".
Strangely she became somewhat distressed. I proceeded with the lecture in spite of the department's misgivings. 150 women attended the lectures. I very carefully determined that their fathers or husbands had allowed them to attend. Towards the end of the second lecture, the attendees, and many others who had wandered in, became very aggitated. I was forced, yes FORCED to quit the stage!
Right now I am updating my blog wirelessly from inside a barricaded "powder room" with thousands of enraged feminists outside. This is blatant disrespect for Academic Freedom of Speech and I except the world to rally to my defense! CRASH! -ARGGHH!
America has always had the best government money can buy and Spammers have FAR more money then the rest of us. QED
I read an article a few months back of a fellow with a high-end Mercedes in Malaysia with a fingerprint lock. He was carjacked. Simple solution: the crooks cut off his finger.
For all concerned (or unconcerned) here I do believe this whole situation embodies the expression: "Nothing to see here, move on"
No, but they did trade at 3.14159265
When laws are written by outlaws, only outlaws will be lawful.
Many years ago, when Internet was a civil place, I would post my email address openly on Usenet posts in groups I subscribed to. Due to work constraints, I still have the same email address. Because of these factors, that address gets an average of 3 to 4 HUNDREDspam daily. I am EXPERT at filters. Even if these grandstanding lawyers, these Weasels in Suits do some good (which I doubt), other spammers will fill the shoes of these loosers.
Once "the hack" left the realm of the geek "cool thing "(tm) and was wedded to advertising money, real money, the world changed.
They did. They fired all the workers. Now the managers realized there is no one left to attend meetings, form focus groups, create mission statements and position papers. New blood needs to be hired now or there will be no one around to find fault with in time for the next quarterly review process.
The family of the author should have unlimited and eternal access to funds generated by the author's work. With this in mind, a proper royalty on every mention/ quotation of Aristotle, Aristhophanies, Thales, Socraties, etc. in literature should be collected and paid to the country of Greece, and every other human with a touch of Greek blood.
Current rules should show that in time, any control eeventually leads to abuse.