Let me say, hazza hazza to you and your university. Mine on the other hand is lax at best and pathetic at worst for things like this.
SSN's float arround on EVERY bit of paper that the university issues to you. If you don't want to use your SSN as your student ID, you are required to jump through so many hoops, it makes most students who once cared about privacy just give up.
With amature social engineering skills, it was VERY easy to impersonate a teachers aid and get all manner of things like fees waived, classes opened for additional students, complimentary meals at the dining hall, copies of students records sent off site. The list goes on.
Student working in the IT department meant that I had 'extra' access, as teachers would easily and with little thought give up their passwords to me. All I had to do was mention the IT department and with out showing so much as a badge or name tag or ANY proof there of, I was given access to teachers email accounts, computer logins, and in some cases, their remote access usernames and passwords.
I shutter to think what I might have gotten into had I not spent the MAJOJRITY of my time concentrating on the important things of college life (girls, file sharing, girls, wapping files with girls, ummmm, girls, file sharing, damn). All in all though, without the lax security, I couldn't have impressed nearly as many girls with my ability to get them free lunch and waived late registration fees.
Gates: "Yeah, resting. PC's prefer to knock off standing up. Beautiful ploomedge, the PC."
Customer: "Now look here, I got home and discovered that this PC was not only dead, but that the only reason it was sitting on the desk....was that it had been nailed there."
Gates: "Well I had to nail it down. If I hadn't, it would have muscled up to the window, broke out the glass with it's CD ROM trey, and flew off. Beautiful ploomedge, don't you think?"
customer: "Now you listen to me. This is an Ex-PC! It's bleedin' demised. If you hadn't nailed it to the desk, it'd be pushing up the daisies! It's shuffeled off this mortal coil and joined the bleedin' chior invisibule! IT'S FUCKING SNUFFED IT!"
If you're a pro graphic designer doing 4-color separations, you can afford Photoshop.
I started out doing that EXACT type of work, and I couldn't afford photoshop/rent/food/etc.., all at once, so something had to suffer. Once I made it in the business, and got my footing, I purchased it, but to make a blanket statment that if you're not doing professional work you don't need a professonal product is laughable.
The spirit of 'geekiness' is one that seeks to know how and understand things. I got into professional graphics work because I had fun at it. When I started out, and all I knew was that professonals used photoshop, and that I wanted to know how to use it as well. If I had mucked arround in the Elements version, I would still be making crappy little kid type designs with page curls and lens flares all over the place. (I hate lens flares)
The point is, if you want experiance in something, sometimes you have to take it to learn it. Lead design jobs and Sr. Graphics positions don't go to people who have "extensive Photoshop Elements experiance" writen on their resume. You start with a professinal tool, and use it in very elementry, non-professonal ways, and once you get to know your way arround, then you start doing real work.
Yeah, the iPod does well because it does one thing better than any other player. I have an Archos that does video and music, and I hate it. Clunky interface, heavy, and over all, just poor design.I take my iPod everywhere and I get a TON o use out of it.
If Apple can make a portable image/video player that has the functionality and respnosiveness as the iPod, then I'm in.
After the deal with Steve Balmer and his comments that Microsoft will dominate the convergence market for computer based entertainment, I'd love to see Apple come in and lay down another big seller.
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Let me say, hazza hazza to you and your university. Mine on the other hand is lax at best and pathetic at worst for things like this.
SSN's float arround on EVERY bit of paper that the university issues to you. If you don't want to use your SSN as your student ID, you are required to jump through so many hoops, it makes most students who once cared about privacy just give up.
With amature social engineering skills, it was VERY easy to impersonate a teachers aid and get all manner of things like fees waived, classes opened for additional students, complimentary meals at the dining hall, copies of students records sent off site. The list goes on.
Student working in the IT department meant that I had 'extra' access, as teachers would easily and with little thought give up their passwords to me. All I had to do was mention the IT department and with out showing so much as a badge or name tag or ANY proof there of, I was given access to teachers email accounts, computer logins, and in some cases, their remote access usernames and passwords.
I shutter to think what I might have gotten into had I not spent the MAJOJRITY of my time concentrating on the important things of college life (girls, file sharing, girls, wapping files with girls, ummmm, girls, file sharing, damn). All in all though, without the lax security, I couldn't have impressed nearly as many girls with my ability to get them free lunch and waived late registration fees.
Gates: "Ohh, it's not dead."
customer: "Really?"
Gates: "No, no....it's, umm, it's resting."
custormer: "Resting?!"
Gates: "Yeah, resting. PC's prefer to knock off standing up. Beautiful ploomedge, the PC."
Customer: "Now look here, I got home and discovered that this PC was not only dead, but that the only reason it was sitting on the desk....was that it had been nailed there."
Gates: "Well I had to nail it down. If I hadn't, it would have muscled up to the window, broke out the glass with it's CD ROM trey, and flew off. Beautiful ploomedge, don't you think?"
customer: "Now you listen to me. This is an Ex-PC! It's bleedin' demised. If you hadn't nailed it to the desk, it'd be pushing up the daisies! It's shuffeled off this mortal coil and joined the bleedin' chior invisibule! IT'S FUCKING SNUFFED IT!"
Gates: (shakes desk) "THERE! See, it moved!"
customer: "You shook the desk, I saw you!"
and on and on
when you can just unplug the darn thing?
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If you're a pro graphic designer doing 4-color separations, you can afford Photoshop.
I started out doing that EXACT type of work, and I couldn't afford photoshop/rent/food/etc.., all at once, so something had to suffer. Once I made it in the business, and got my footing, I purchased it, but to make a blanket statment that if you're not doing professional work you don't need a professonal product is laughable.
The spirit of 'geekiness' is one that seeks to know how and understand things. I got into professional graphics work because I had fun at it. When I started out, and all I knew was that professonals used photoshop, and that I wanted to know how to use it as well. If I had mucked arround in the Elements version, I would still be making crappy little kid type designs with page curls and lens flares all over the place. (I hate lens flares)
The point is, if you want experiance in something, sometimes you have to take it to learn it. Lead design jobs and Sr. Graphics positions don't go to people who have "extensive Photoshop Elements experiance" writen on their resume. You start with a professinal tool, and use it in very elementry, non-professonal ways, and once you get to know your way arround, then you start doing real work.
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Yeah, the iPod does well because it does one thing better than any other player. I have an Archos that does video and music, and I hate it. Clunky interface, heavy, and over all, just poor design.I take my iPod everywhere and I get a TON o use out of it.
If Apple can make a portable image/video player that has the functionality and respnosiveness as the iPod, then I'm in.
After the deal with Steve Balmer and his comments that Microsoft will dominate the convergence market for computer based entertainment, I'd love to see Apple come in and lay down another big seller.
I never said I was vulcan. I'm more like a dislexic priest that spends his time serving dog.
and I have bad handwriting.
"... every live comes to an end, when time demands it. Loss of life is to be morned, but only if the life was wasted."
-Volcan Proverb
Hans Bakker's Life was not a waste. My sympathies.