Well, maybe...I did like Ringworld, though. A nice organlegging morality play would go over well as a movie, wouldn't it? Or maybe "Protector", speaking of special effects; spaceships and human-based hyperintelligent monsters, brrrrrr.....
Hmmm, maybe it's time for "Ringworld" to be made into a movie. Special effects should be advanced enough to create a convincing Puppeteer. Of course, it's probably wind up looking like Jar-Jar with two heads or something.
If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. -- Sir Isaac Newton
Actually, he was standing on the shoulders of other men, who were standing on the shoulders of still other men, and so on. Shoulders all the way down.
The same applies to any generation; they see the previous generation's work mostly, not the long chain stretching back to that first guy that set his forest on fire and noticed that he wasn't as cold anymore.
As long as they're still ignorant, I'm still getting paid.
At some point, you'll be unable to get a job because they'll assume you're too old to know about technology.
Actually, from your post I'd bet you're under 30 years old, so don't really know what you're talking about.
Also when you say you know "how ALL of {your) technology works" you're probably talking out your ass anyway, since you probably can't fix your own TV set, or grind the valves in your car, or make asphalt from scratch, or... Nobody knows how ALL their technology works these days.
A House of Representatives committee report prepared in October 1994 emphatically says CALEA's requirements "do not apply to information services such as electronic-mail services; or online services such as CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or Mead Data (Central); or to Internet service providers."
So it sounds like this will only apply to VOIP, not to email, chat-rooms, and so on, as the/. summary states.
We know nothing at all about Book, except he has some upper-level Allience pull somehow.
Book seems to have something hidden about him, something non-shepherdish, like maybe he's an undercover soldier or something. Jubal Early picked this up quickly: "that ain't no shepherd". My guess is that he was sent by somebody to watch over River.
Do you want to own the code, or just be able to use it in the future?
If the latter, maybe they'll just let you put it under some existing open-source license. There are dozens of them here; maybe some well-informed slashdotter (oxymoron? nah...) can suggest the best one for the purpose.
Odds are pretty good that you won't be able to sell your code anyway, not without attracting attention from your (ex-)employer when the stuff suddenly becomes valuable.
In the Creative Muvo player I have, the radio is a piece of garbage (bad static and interference problems). Apple probably didn't want their name on an FM receiver that sounds so terrible.
There seems to be a FUD campaign against Firefox. Why the heck would Symantec care about Firefox when they havent once to my knowledge critiziced Internet Explorer even when it had a critical patch coming out pretty much every day.
Symantec sells security software that covers up Microsoft vulnerabilities.
If everybody stopped using IE and Outlook, half of their business might go away.
Now that global warming is irreversible, we don't have to modify our behaviour! No more Kyoto treaty, I can buy that giant SUV I've always wanted, and it doesn't matter! Yay! No more guilt!
On a tangential note, does anybody else get annoyed by the overuse of the phrase "tipping point"? It's like "perfect storm" was a few years ago, everybody's favorite trite phrase-of-the-moment. It's like we've reached a tipping point of "tipping point" usage, and this perfect storm of "tipping point"s has driven out the "perfect storm" meme.
I'm sure we'll now hear that this poor kid's untapped potential for technical greatness is being stifled. Cry me a river. The kid sounds like a felon-in-training to me.
Maybe during his probation period he should be required to listen to Paris Hilton's commentaries on current events, nonstop.
This sounds like rationalization. If you lose money, does this mean you're not smart enough?
Also, you should look at the other replies to this article that mention collusion among players in online poker games. "Smart" in this case is a euphemism for "dishonest".
I used to work with a "brainy type" who was also a gambling addict. He basically ruined his life with it. See my earlier comment about denial... it's easy to convince yourself that you can beat the game, but the odds are very, very slim that you'll even break even, no matter how "brainy" you are.
I'm reminded of the simplified version of the laws of thermodynamics: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit the game. However, in the case of gambling, law #3 doesn't apply, since you can quit the game.
Most gamblers are in denial about the first two laws, which basically say that the casino comes out ahead but everybody else loses (on average). But some gamblers apparently get mod points, and don't want to hear that they're stoopid to blow money on this stuff.
This kind of BS will drive away companies that have been very supportive of free software, like IBM and HP. Do you think they're really going to renounce their existing software patent portfolios? No way, they'll just use a different license.
"Free as in speech -- as long as you're saying what we want you to say". No way is this going to work.
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That's one of the weaknesses of open-source software; anybody can flock the codebase at any time.
Well, maybe...I did like Ringworld, though. A nice organlegging morality play would go over well as a movie, wouldn't it? Or maybe "Protector", speaking of special effects; spaceships and human-based hyperintelligent monsters, brrrrrr.....
Hmmm, maybe it's time for "Ringworld" to be made into a movie. Special effects should be advanced enough to create a convincing Puppeteer. Of course, it's probably wind up looking like Jar-Jar with two heads or something.
Actually, he was standing on the shoulders of other men, who were standing on the shoulders of still other men, and so on. Shoulders all the way down.
The same applies to any generation; they see the previous generation's work mostly, not the long chain stretching back to that first guy that set his forest on fire and noticed that he wasn't as cold anymore.
At some point, you'll be unable to get a job because they'll assume you're too old to know about technology.
Actually, from your post I'd bet you're under 30 years old, so don't really know what you're talking about.
Also when you say you know "how ALL of {your) technology works" you're probably talking out your ass anyway, since you probably can't fix your own TV set, or grind the valves in your car, or make asphalt from scratch, or... Nobody knows how ALL their technology works these days.
A House of Representatives committee report prepared in October 1994 emphatically says CALEA's requirements "do not apply to information services such as electronic-mail services; or online services such as CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or Mead Data (Central); or to Internet service providers."
So it sounds like this will only apply to VOIP, not to email, chat-rooms, and so on, as the /. summary states.
Book seems to have something hidden about him, something non-shepherdish, like maybe he's an undercover soldier or something. Jubal Early picked this up quickly: "that ain't no shepherd". My guess is that he was sent by somebody to watch over River.
If the latter, maybe they'll just let you put it under some existing open-source license. There are dozens of them here; maybe some well-informed slashdotter (oxymoron? nah...) can suggest the best one for the purpose.
Odds are pretty good that you won't be able to sell your code anyway, not without attracting attention from your (ex-)employer when the stuff suddenly becomes valuable.
bohemoth n: A bohemian behemoth.
I'm visualizing a 300-pound beatnik. ooo, that's nasty...OK, maybe that's a typical slashdot member...
In the Creative Muvo player I have, the radio is a piece of garbage (bad static and interference problems). Apple probably didn't want their name on an FM receiver that sounds so terrible.
Also, the Creative player uses AAA batteries, but the Dell player has a rechargable battery built in.
Symantec sells security software that covers up Microsoft vulnerabilities.
If everybody stopped using IE and Outlook, half of their business might go away.
Oops. I said "meme". That was so 1998. Kind of like "that was so [year]" is uncool now. Uh, oh.
On a tangential note, does anybody else get annoyed by the overuse of the phrase "tipping point"? It's like "perfect storm" was a few years ago, everybody's favorite trite phrase-of-the-moment. It's like we've reached a tipping point of "tipping point" usage, and this perfect storm of "tipping point"s has driven out the "perfect storm" meme.
Maybe during his probation period he should be required to listen to Paris Hilton's commentaries on current events, nonstop.
Just post the text to slashdot, wait for the flames, and do the opposite of what they suggest.
I know I've seen this before somewhere.
This sounds like rationalization. If you lose money, does this mean you're not smart enough?
Also, you should look at the other replies to this article that mention collusion among players in online poker games. "Smart" in this case is a euphemism for "dishonest".
I like it! Same answer as to "Have you stopped beating your wife?".
I used to work with a "brainy type" who was also a gambling addict. He basically ruined his life with it. See my earlier comment about denial... it's easy to convince yourself that you can beat the game, but the odds are very, very slim that you'll even break even, no matter how "brainy" you are.
I'm reminded of the simplified version of the laws of thermodynamics: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit the game. However, in the case of gambling, law #3 doesn't apply, since you can quit the game.
Most gamblers are in denial about the first two laws, which basically say that the casino comes out ahead but everybody else loses (on average). But some gamblers apparently get mod points, and don't want to hear that they're stoopid to blow money on this stuff.
Because I'm not innumerate?
"Free as in speech -- as long as you're saying what we want you to say". No way is this going to work.
Maybe they didn't want to create a second email system; they already have GMail.
Slashdotting: the arrow in the Achille's heel of the thin-client model. :)