And I competely forgot 'vodcast'. It's just like a podcast but it's video. 'podcast' was bad enough but it was a good enough choice of word to cover the whole concept of packaging up media for your ipod into an automatically downloadable and updatable thing that itunes could work with. It kind of already covers video as well.
Bender does say Ass a lot; but I forgot his least used word. What was that again?
The word 'blog' annoys me, as does 'voip' when it's said as a word (they pronounce it voyp) and not an acronym. Most of the time people saying "voyp" don't even understand what the technology means.
The term 'hacker' bothers me now because it's been usurped by the media to have a malicious meaning.
Actually lots of words annoy me...
'online' is used far too much.
'NAT firewall' is ponied around too much by clueless people who don't realise that NAT and firewall are two separate parts (that happen to be implemented in the same module).
The term 'RAID' bothers me too because now you can get "raid" controllers in commodity PC hardware everyone suddely "has a raid". I had one guy actually tell me "I've got a raid in my computer, doesn't it go so much faster now?" even though he had the same lone crappy disk in it that he'd always had. The difference was the $200 RAID controller card he brought to plug only one disk into.
My numero-uno (un)favourite Internet-era buzzword is 'web app'. What is a web app, exactly? Everything must have a 'web interface' or 'web application component' these days or people aren't interested in it. How does that work? My ADSL router has a 'web interface' and for the most part it's just crappy.
I generally answer with I'M ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST, SO FUCK OFF (note the emphasis) and slam down the phone. That seems to answer their questions quite effectively.
I value communication with my friends and family more than money - and my capped mobile plan with dirt cheap calls to certain numbers means that I can afford to stay in touch with them no matter where in the country (nay, world) I end up this week. I had dirt cheap video calling to my son but his mum decided to change her phone to a crazy phone company that doesn't support any standards so now I don't have that anymore:(
Still, for a couple of cents a minute and a capped cost on the phone I think I'm doing remarkably well; better than using a fixed line phone and I don't have to wait until I get home to call.
You need to try wine. There are three alternatives; red, white and RPM. Depending on the time of year either is acceptable. After several Wines you'll not care about your growing pile of DVDs and be much less stressed. If all that fails Wine will also allow EvilOS software to run on your X86 Linux machine. If you combine Wine in red or white with wine in RPM then you'll not be aware of the shortcomings.
Also, seconded for copying everything to a huge disk and being done with it. If it's that important to you keep it online and backed up to a huge tape library for the (un)likely event that the disks crash.
> Whitelists will prevent > 1. your stranded grandma from calling you
Why she can't call your mum is beyond me! Why is granny your problem?
> 2. friends calling from their friends house
Geeks don't have friends, remember. They have online acquaintances who use IM or VoIP these days. Worst-case they might email you.
> 3. that cute girl you just met
Calls from girls? You're mistaking us for people who actually know how to talk to girls!
> 4. various official phone calls that you really needed to receive
When was the last time you were required to receive a phone call? If it's that important they kick in your door and confiscate your computer equipment using rent-a-cops looking for any music at all.
> Luckily, whitelists will still allow your mom to call from upstairs when dinner is ready.
Damn, the one person I dont' want to call. Mum just doesn't make enough geek food like pizza and she confiscated all my twisties. How am I supposed to write code with broccoli and mash as the fuel?
when someone is kicking in your fucking door, you don't stop to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Mod parent up:) I know here there was a case where a police officer was shot doing just that and the shooter got off because he assumed that it was someone coming in to do him harm. Admittedly he probably still had to face the music for whatever they were kicking his door in for.
It is my experience (been next to a place that was raided one time) that the police generally don't just kick in the front door - they knock and ask to come in first. If you refuse then they use force. If it's the RIAA and you refuse and then they kick in your door then they are trespassing if you refuse them entry; the only people who can get a warrant to enter your property without your permission are the REAL law enforcement officers. A court cannot legally allow somebody access to your property in cases like the RIAA is trying to pull.
*sits back and waits for them to get their asses shot up*
This story is actually about them using REAL local cops (the kind who should be busting drug dealers and burglars) to do their dirty work, not rentacops.
In this case they can use real cops because copyright infringement for commercial gain (selling copies at a flea market for a profit) is criminal, not civil. I don't mind them going after the people who do this and make a profit from it - if you're paying for the junk you may as well just pay the original artists for it rather than some freeloader at a flea market who wants to make a quick buck. I get shitty when the [MAF]IAA goes after joe user for downloading a few songs from this new fangled interdoodle thing.
The only reason they use rent-a-cop for their busting joe home user is because the real police won't touch it; there has been no crime if joe user downloads a song or a movie. In fact, the RIAA should just be filing civil suit in the small claims court, not busting into their house and whooping ass. I'd like to see some of the RIAA rent-a-cops and tossers get their asses shot up one day for busting into some Ilinois Nazi's place.
If it's not real cops and they don't have real warrants wouldn't shooting up their ass come under reasonable force for self-defence?
Tesla invented this technique, plain and simple. And those articles that fail to mention it are doing history a great dis-service.
Tesla invented a lot of things that we take for granted. AC power generation (particularly 3-phase synchronous generation). 3-phase electric motors, wireless anything - he was Marconi's assistant or somesuch for a while and Marconi took the credit. Without Tesla you wouldn't be sitting here reading this!
The reason Tesla isn't credited with as much as he deserves is because at the time large commercial interests couldn't do what he was doing even though they were throwing large dollars at the problem. It was easier to just steal his work (which he nearly always left in the public domain), take credit for it and then profit.
Places like China have been lacking free speech since before the internet existed, and they still lack it.
The article isn't talking about places like China. It is talking about the Chinese idea of blanket censorship spreading to other "free" western nations. It is scary. Here, in the land of tin men and wizards, there was a crazy religious nutter senator in the deep south who tried to impose a bill that would force ISPs to censor content that _he_ deemed to be filth. The bill actually got a lot of debate and IIRC was used as a bargaining tool for and against other legislation. As a result it did get a lot of support, specially from the think of the children brigade.
The idea of censorship for control is alarming and the fact that the Internet has become such a backbone of modern information gathering gives gumbiments the power to control what we (yes, you and me) can and can't see or even to poison what reliable information is out there. It's alarmist and it's paranoid, but it is possible and I guarantee they do think about it!
Unlike some of the people here, I actually have friends and they play music when I visit them. Internet radio often plays random selections, and ignores what is the current "popular". You do hear good music when you're out and about, even though it was never released as a single.
To top all that off, people often go to music stores where they play... whole albums on the PA. Quite often I'll hear a track I like on a $40 current album and then go and ask to have a listen to the rest of it. It's usually that the album is crap bar one or 2 songs and they are the one or 2 songs that would never be popular with the kids so they'll never get released as singles.
So, it's not a matter of being able to hear the music rather than being able to selectively obtain the parts you want to hear again without getting all of the garbage that the MAFIAA wants you to pay for alongside it.
I am not sure whether this is funny, a stupid poster or a troll.
I wish I had mod points or the time to address the post on the merits of all 3 points. I'm going to go with Stupid Poster, because that seems to be a good median place for the ~6bn people on earth!
Um that's why people share files. Most of the RIAA music doesn't sound good for the ears, and we're sick of paying for a whole CD to get the one good track on it that they never release as a single!
Yadda Yadda. It's a damned game already. People care too much. If you don't like it then stop playing. Oh wait, people feel like they have "invested" in the game and it "owes" them. Too bad if they ever decide to discontinue it. I'd hate to hear the outcry then.
My brother plays Eve religiously. He's addicted. He cares. He's a sad little person. The only saving grace of Eve addiction is that it's marginally cheaper than cocaine and at least it doesn't physically rot your insides.
My Macbook fits that bill - built in webcam, ssh/remote desktop for remote admin, iChat does video/audio if she has an account. I think Spype(s/py/ky/) for Mac has video/audio. Best part is that gran can't really break it if you give her a non-admin account.
It's a bit pricey for what you want to achieve, but it's a good all round solution - I'm sure she'll be happy with it if she tries it.
I don't live in Germany, but my son speaks a little German, and can swim, and he's not quite 3. He learned to swim out of fun mostly - he loves water so we spend a lot of time in the pool. I speak a little German round the place (oddly enough, not the rude words either) and he's picked up a few phrases and understands them.
Oddly enough he is very good at giving the impression of understanding without actually understanding at all.
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Slartibartfast would be happy to hear that.
PS, we already know the answer is 42 so why are they bothering?
People are made of hydrocarbons... kind of!
Will this be the new trendy form of cremation?
It is true, old people are often concerned that children are playing on their lawn!
And I competely forgot 'vodcast'. It's just like a podcast but it's video. 'podcast' was bad enough but it was a good enough choice of word to cover the whole concept of packaging up media for your ipod into an automatically downloadable and updatable thing that itunes could work with. It kind of already covers video as well.
Bender does say Ass a lot; but I forgot his least used word. What was that again?
The word 'blog' annoys me, as does 'voip' when it's said as a word (they pronounce it voyp) and not an acronym. Most of the time people saying "voyp" don't even understand what the technology means.
The term 'hacker' bothers me now because it's been usurped by the media to have a malicious meaning.
Actually lots of words annoy me...
'online' is used far too much.
'NAT firewall' is ponied around too much by clueless people who don't realise that NAT and firewall are two separate parts (that happen to be implemented in the same module).
The term 'RAID' bothers me too because now you can get "raid" controllers in commodity PC hardware everyone suddely "has a raid". I had one guy actually tell me "I've got a raid in my computer, doesn't it go so much faster now?" even though he had the same lone crappy disk in it that he'd always had. The difference was the $200 RAID controller card he brought to plug only one disk into.
My numero-uno (un)favourite Internet-era buzzword is 'web app'. What is a web app, exactly? Everything must have a 'web interface' or 'web application component' these days or people aren't interested in it. How does that work? My ADSL router has a 'web interface' and for the most part it's just crappy.
If some marketing person asks me ...
I generally answer with I'M ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST, SO FUCK OFF (note the emphasis) and slam down the phone. That seems to answer their questions quite effectively.
I value communication with my friends and family more than money - and my capped mobile plan with dirt cheap calls to certain numbers means that I can afford to stay in touch with them no matter where in the country (nay, world) I end up this week. I had dirt cheap video calling to my son but his mum decided to change her phone to a crazy phone company that doesn't support any standards so now I don't have that anymore :(
Still, for a couple of cents a minute and a capped cost on the phone I think I'm doing remarkably well; better than using a fixed line phone and I don't have to wait until I get home to call.
You need to try wine. There are three alternatives; red, white and RPM. Depending on the time of year either is acceptable. After several Wines you'll not care about your growing pile of DVDs and be much less stressed. If all that fails Wine will also allow EvilOS software to run on your X86 Linux machine. If you combine Wine in red or white with wine in RPM then you'll not be aware of the shortcomings.
Also, seconded for copying everything to a huge disk and being done with it. If it's that important to you keep it online and backed up to a huge tape library for the (un)likely event that the disks crash.
It almost seems it's time for Pink Floyd to reform and do another playing of "The Wall" in China's server closet...
Except that those red commies don't like the bleeding hearts and the artists and some mad (deceased) bugger's band!
I must admit that one of these things called "girls" did call me twice. Turns out they were both wrong numbers, so that doesn't really count.
> Whitelists will prevent
> 1. your stranded grandma from calling you
Why she can't call your mum is beyond me! Why is granny your problem?
> 2. friends calling from their friends house
Geeks don't have friends, remember. They have online acquaintances who use IM or
VoIP these days. Worst-case they might email you.
> 3. that cute girl you just met
Calls from girls? You're mistaking us for people who actually know how to talk
to girls!
> 4. various official phone calls that you really needed to receive
When was the last time you were required to receive a phone call? If it's that
important they kick in your door and confiscate your computer equipment using
rent-a-cops looking for any music at all.
> Luckily, whitelists will still allow your mom to call from upstairs when dinner is ready.
Damn, the one person I dont' want to call. Mum just doesn't make enough geek food
like pizza and she confiscated all my twisties. How am I supposed to write code with
broccoli and mash as the fuel?
*falls off chair laughing*
when someone is kicking in your fucking door, you don't stop to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Mod parent up :) I know here there was a case where a police officer was shot doing just that and the shooter got off because he assumed that it was someone coming in to do him harm. Admittedly he probably still had to face the music for whatever they were kicking his door in for.
It is my experience (been next to a place that was raided one time) that the police generally don't just kick in the front door - they knock and ask to come in first. If you refuse then they use force. If it's the RIAA and you refuse and then they kick in your door then they are trespassing if you refuse them entry; the only people who can get a warrant to enter your property without your permission are the REAL law enforcement officers. A court cannot legally allow somebody access to your property in cases like the RIAA is trying to pull.
*sits back and waits for them to get their asses shot up*
*still waiting*
This story is actually about them using REAL local cops (the kind who should be busting drug dealers and burglars) to do their dirty work, not rentacops.
In this case they can use real cops because copyright infringement for commercial gain (selling copies at a flea market for a profit) is criminal, not civil. I don't mind them going after the people who do this and make a profit from it - if you're paying for the junk you may as well just pay the original artists for it rather than some freeloader at a flea market who wants to make a quick buck. I get shitty when the [MAF]IAA goes after joe user for downloading a few songs from this new fangled interdoodle thing.
The only reason they use rent-a-cop for their busting joe home user is because the real police won't touch it; there has been no crime if joe user downloads a song or a movie. In fact, the RIAA should just be filing civil suit in the small claims court, not busting into their house and whooping ass. I'd like to see some of the RIAA rent-a-cops and tossers get their asses shot up one day for busting into some Ilinois Nazi's place.
If it's not real cops and they don't have real warrants wouldn't shooting up their ass come under reasonable force for self-defence?
Tesla worked under Edison for a short while.
There, he was an assistant or somesuch as I said. I couldn't remember who off the top of my head!!!
Tesla invented this technique, plain and simple. And those articles that fail to mention it are doing history a great dis-service.
Tesla invented a lot of things that we take for granted. AC power generation (particularly 3-phase synchronous generation). 3-phase electric motors, wireless anything - he was Marconi's assistant or somesuch for a while and Marconi took the credit. Without Tesla you wouldn't be sitting here reading this!
The reason Tesla isn't credited with as much as he deserves is because at the time large commercial interests couldn't do what he was doing even though they were throwing large dollars at the problem. It was easier to just steal his work (which he nearly always left in the public domain), take credit for it and then profit.
Places like China have been lacking free speech since before the internet existed, and they still lack it.
The article isn't talking about places like China. It is talking about the Chinese idea of blanket censorship spreading to other "free" western nations. It is scary. Here, in the land of tin men and wizards, there was a crazy religious nutter senator in the deep south who tried to impose a bill that would force ISPs to censor content that _he_ deemed to be filth. The bill actually got a lot of debate and IIRC was used as a bargaining tool for and against other legislation. As a result it did get a lot of support, specially from the think of the children brigade.
The idea of censorship for control is alarming and the fact that the Internet has become such a backbone of modern information gathering gives gumbiments the power to control what we (yes, you and me) can and can't see or even to poison what reliable information is out there. It's alarmist and it's paranoid, but it is possible and I guarantee they do think about it!
Unlike some of the people here, I actually have friends and they play music when I visit them. Internet radio often plays random selections, and ignores what is the current "popular". You do hear good music when you're out and about, even though it was never released as a single.
To top all that off, people often go to music stores where they play... whole albums on the PA. Quite often I'll hear a track I like on a $40 current album and then go and ask to have a listen to the rest of it. It's usually that the album is crap bar one or 2 songs and they are the one or 2 songs that would never be popular with the kids so they'll never get released as singles.
So, it's not a matter of being able to hear the music rather than being able to selectively obtain the parts you want to hear again without getting all of the garbage that the MAFIAA wants you to pay for alongside it.
I am not sure whether this is funny, a stupid poster or a troll.
I wish I had mod points or the time to address the post on the merits of all 3 points. I'm going to go with Stupid Poster, because that seems to be a good median place for the ~6bn people on earth!
You've got to admit it sounds great to the ears
Um that's why people share files. Most of the RIAA music doesn't sound good for the ears, and we're sick of paying for a whole CD to get the one good track on it that they never release as a single!
Let me be the first to say AC for MS CEO. I really only just wanted to use all those acronyms.
Yadda Yadda. It's a damned game already. People care too much. If you don't like it then stop playing. Oh wait, people feel like they have "invested" in the game and it "owes" them. Too bad if they ever decide to discontinue it. I'd hate to hear the outcry then.
My brother plays Eve religiously. He's addicted. He cares. He's a sad little person. The only saving grace of Eve addiction is that it's marginally cheaper than cocaine and at least it doesn't physically rot your insides.
My Macbook fits that bill - built in webcam, ssh/remote desktop for remote admin, iChat does video/audio if she has an account. I think Spype(s/py/ky/) for Mac has video/audio. Best part is that gran can't really break it if you give her a non-admin account.
It's a bit pricey for what you want to achieve, but it's a good all round solution - I'm sure she'll be happy with it if she tries it.
It is my experience that anyone who recommends C# writes crap code, but that is my experience.
I don't live in Germany, but my son speaks a little German, and can swim, and he's not quite 3. He learned to swim out of fun mostly - he loves water so we spend a lot of time in the pool. I speak a little German round the place (oddly enough, not the rude words either) and he's picked up a few phrases and understands them.
Oddly enough he is very good at giving the impression of understanding without actually understanding at all.