That's why he posted anonymously. He knows if he puts himself out there with a statement like that, it will take some slashdotter about.002 minutes to find a *cough gaping security hole in his code and start fucking with him.
You can also experience this sensation--briefly--by climbing aboard one of those 'Detonator' rides they have at amusement parks. (They also have one atop a tall building in Las Vegas, I believe.)
Basically you're sitting facing outward in a ring of seats, which is fired (pneumatically) up a 5/6-story arm. You rise until gravity stops you, at which moment you float out of your seat for about a second, and then fall back down (caught gently by air cushioning in the arm).
Great fun.. almost made me sick, but I'd do it again.
Hey, if the data was salvagable from the wreck *without* parachutes and dangerous stunt piloting of helecopters, why bother installing them on future missions? Just crash the pod in the desert.. think of the money saved on explosive bolts, parachutes, inflatable cushions.. and hey sell the crash on TV to sponsors, or put it on Letterman.
Actually there's truth in this. Some of my BEST creative work ever has come from wracking my brain for weeks and weeks and coming up with nothing, until the last 24 hours before I was supposed to present design concepts to the client.. and when there is no more time to screw around, brilliance pours forth (somehow), the client is thrilled and I wind up astonished: where the hell did that come from??
I don't know many people who couldn't see the humor in that post some days. We've all had days like that! This was funny. Somebody please mod accordingly.
I think you can get anyone to do anything provided they know they're appreciated at the end of it. I usually get paid, so that's appreciation enough!
The first sentence is very true. The second one, well, I guess that is true if and only if your pay is appropriate to your job's risks/required skill level/experience.
Me, I don't know how much my work really matters at the end of the day. But the fact that my bosses go out of their way to tell (and show) me that they appreciate the job I do, plus admiring remarks from colleagues who also do what I do (Web designer/Webmaster), make it worthwhile to me to get my ass out of bed in the morning.
I think one of the most fundamental needs of the human animal is to be appreciated.
Doesn't bother me either.. my iPod works just fine with my G5, and there's no reason to think it ever won't.
Yet another reason I'm glad I work on Macs. My iPod will always plug in both at work and at home. (If this is modded flamebait, fine. Modding it flamebait doesn't make it less true.)
My point with the "free country" statement is that it should NOT be automatically illegal for a computer user to think of a new way to use his computer and/or software. It's like the HIAA (Hammer Industry Association of America) suing people who use hammers to whack at things besides nails or pry up things other than nails because they "are operating outside the legal bounds of the license agreement" or some such BS.
This guy found some bandwidth--outside the box, so to speak--and believed, correctly, that it was provided for him to use, so he used it. But because he was doing it in an unconventional way (and probably because it involved the internet) this cop decided it must be illegal and made him stop. That's what pisses me off about it.
This is so much bogus nonsense to me. The RIAA and the MPAA have cultivated this paranoia about computer use. I say if a public library's wi-fi network extends outside of the building, then citizens of that public (read as: taxpayer-funded) institution have just as much right to the bandwidth as they do inside the building.
It is not ridiculous to assume that those individuals who configured and created the library's wi-fi network knew that it was not secured. Indeed they set up multiple access points, and did secure others. Knowing this, they made a conscious decision not to secure it and thus to service any and all client machines who wished to "climb aboard". It is public bandwidth paid for by the public's tax dollars. To my way of thinking, this cop is infected by the "it's illegal to be a geek" mindset/paranoia that's permeating our culture, resulting in such ridiculous expressions as "stealing music".
"What? He used his brain and found a way to use his computer that wasn't expressly permitted by policy?" Yeah, folks, last I checked it was a free country.. maybe I'm deluding myself.
On the plus side, the bezel beneath the screen makes a perfect place for sticky-notes.
Apple knows what they're doing. A guy in my office who has a PC at home took one look at this and said he wanted one, because the place where his PC currently is looks cluttered and messy, due to all the cables, the bulkiness of the components, etc... whereas one of these sleek little guys with cordless keyboard and mouse would really open up the available space.
At first blush, I still prefer the old iMac (the "iLamp" design) better, but it may grow on me.
All this conversation about Blade Runner and 2001 is awesome, but there were two other movies listed in the article summary. Neither of these movies are science fiction. They're war/fantasy movies. You can tell almost the exact same story as Star Wars or Empire in pretty much any setting you want, in any time period, even Middle Earth if you wanted. There is no "what-if", no cautionery message, no exploration of technology (what can this thing do) or ideas (what would happen if) evident in any of the Star Wars films.
Just because something happens in space doesn't make it science fiction.
So burn it to a CD and play that on your set-top CD player. Or burn it and then rip it back off the CD. Apple's "DRM" isn't. It's to keep the music labels happy while wink-winking to users who know that, with the merest of applied efforts, the music can be freed from its ersatz "DRM" constraints.
Legal battles are still pending in federal court over whether investors who backed the original Napster sustained the service and helped it cost the music industry a purported $17 billion in lost sales.
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Oops, sorry, this is redundant. Didn't get far enough down the thread before responding. Ignore me.
That's why he posted anonymously. He knows if he puts himself out there with a statement like that, it will take some slashdotter about .002 minutes to find a *cough gaping security hole in his code and start fucking with him.
DON'T google "goatse". I fell right into that trap.
Look it up on Wikipedia first. Then if you really want to see it, you can click the link from there, but at least you'll have been warned.
You can also experience this sensation--briefly--by climbing aboard one of those 'Detonator' rides they have at amusement parks. (They also have one atop a tall building in Las Vegas, I believe.)
Basically you're sitting facing outward in a ring of seats, which is fired (pneumatically) up a 5/6-story arm. You rise until gravity stops you, at which moment you float out of your seat for about a second, and then fall back down (caught gently by air cushioning in the arm).
Great fun .. almost made me sick, but I'd do it again.
Yeah but I added the idea of pimping it out for the entertainment value, so there.
Khan "Then you will transfer all data pertaining the project named.. Genesis!"
Kirk "Genesis??"
Khan "Yes! Genesis! How can you be deaf with ears like that?"
Hey, if the data was salvagable from the wreck *without* parachutes and dangerous stunt piloting of helecopters, why bother installing them on future missions? Just crash the pod in the desert .. think of the money saved on explosive bolts, parachutes, inflatable cushions .. and hey sell the crash on TV to sponsors, or put it on Letterman.
Tell that to Chris Matthews.
Actually there's truth in this. Some of my BEST creative work ever has come from wracking my brain for weeks and weeks and coming up with nothing, until the last 24 hours before I was supposed to present design concepts to the client .. and when there is no more time to screw around, brilliance pours forth (somehow), the client is thrilled and I wind up astonished: where the hell did that come from??
Can't say why this happens, but it does happen.
I don't know many people who couldn't see the humor in that post some days. We've all had days like that! This was funny. Somebody please mod accordingly.
I think you can get anyone to do anything provided they know they're appreciated at the end of it. I usually get paid, so that's appreciation enough!
The first sentence is very true. The second one, well, I guess that is true if and only if your pay is appropriate to your job's risks/required skill level/experience.
Me, I don't know how much my work really matters at the end of the day. But the fact that my bosses go out of their way to tell (and show) me that they appreciate the job I do, plus admiring remarks from colleagues who also do what I do (Web designer/Webmaster), make it worthwhile to me to get my ass out of bed in the morning.
I think one of the most fundamental needs of the human animal is to be appreciated.
Doesn't bother me either .. my iPod works just fine with my G5, and there's no reason to think it ever won't.
Yet another reason I'm glad I work on Macs. My iPod will always plug in both at work and at home. (If this is modded flamebait, fine. Modding it flamebait doesn't make it less true.)
My point with the "free country" statement is that it should NOT be automatically illegal for a computer user to think of a new way to use his computer and/or software. It's like the HIAA (Hammer Industry Association of America) suing people who use hammers to whack at things besides nails or pry up things other than nails because they "are operating outside the legal bounds of the license agreement" or some such BS.
This guy found some bandwidth--outside the box, so to speak--and believed, correctly, that it was provided for him to use, so he used it. But because he was doing it in an unconventional way (and probably because it involved the internet) this cop decided it must be illegal and made him stop. That's what pisses me off about it.
This is so much bogus nonsense to me. The RIAA and the MPAA have cultivated this paranoia about computer use. I say if a public library's wi-fi network extends outside of the building, then citizens of that public (read as: taxpayer-funded) institution have just as much right to the bandwidth as they do inside the building.
It is not ridiculous to assume that those individuals who configured and created the library's wi-fi network knew that it was not secured. Indeed they set up multiple access points, and did secure others. Knowing this, they made a conscious decision not to secure it and thus to service any and all client machines who wished to "climb aboard". It is public bandwidth paid for by the public's tax dollars. To my way of thinking, this cop is infected by the "it's illegal to be a geek" mindset/paranoia that's permeating our culture, resulting in such ridiculous expressions as "stealing music".
"What? He used his brain and found a way to use his computer that wasn't expressly permitted by policy?" Yeah, folks, last I checked it was a free country .. maybe I'm deluding myself.
On the plus side, the bezel beneath the screen makes a perfect place for sticky-notes.
Apple knows what they're doing. A guy in my office who has a PC at home took one look at this and said he wanted one, because the place where his PC currently is looks cluttered and messy, due to all the cables, the bulkiness of the components, etc. .. whereas one of these sleek little guys with cordless keyboard and mouse would really open up the available space.
At first blush, I still prefer the old iMac (the "iLamp" design) better, but it may grow on me.
John Woo's Paycheck was also based on a PKD work.
I like how they named the leading lady "Rachel", and at one point near the end of the film, an order is given to "retire him" (kill him).
I can't help but think these were deliberate tips-of-the-hat to Blade Runner.
All this conversation about Blade Runner and 2001 is awesome, but there were two other movies listed in the article summary. Neither of these movies are science fiction. They're war/fantasy movies. You can tell almost the exact same story as Star Wars or Empire in pretty much any setting you want, in any time period, even Middle Earth if you wanted. There is no "what-if", no cautionery message, no exploration of technology (what can this thing do) or ideas (what would happen if) evident in any of the Star Wars films.
Just because something happens in space doesn't make it science fiction.
Or the prepositional:
The United States roots for spam.
7) PROFIT!!!
Sorry, I had to.
So burn it to a CD and play that on your set-top CD player. Or burn it and then rip it back off the CD. Apple's "DRM" isn't. It's to keep the music labels happy while wink-winking to users who know that, with the merest of applied efforts, the music can be freed from its ersatz "DRM" constraints.
"Eat The Fucking Article" ? Well, it is about Apple, I guess.
Really?
Amusing .. just this afternoon I was Googling "evidence of WMD in Iraq".
Unless it's about Bush or any Republicans, in which case they'll give it the Pulitzer prize.
George Carlin is clearly a moron.
The upper class pays almost all of the taxes, makes the big decisions.
The middle class pays the rest of the taxes, does the heavy lifting.
The poor are there .. because there will always be people not ambitious enough to be middle class.