Maybe a better idea would be to fit your tinfoil hat a little snugger. I never fail to be amazed how many slashdotters are the geeky version of those kids with wallets on chains to keep people from stealing their bus pass.
simply based on the pretention overload in the first paragraph of the article:
James Pennebaker and I developed the method at the University of Texas at Austin at the end of the last century.
Oh you mean FOUR YEARS AGO? Bunghole.
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Yeah, they're of the same breed as the men who whine they don't have any luck with women because they are "nice guys" and not "assholes." The reason they have no luck is that they're wimps who never stand up for what they want (which they mistake for what it is to be 'nice') and nobody - men or women - respects a doormat. They're great to wipe your feet on but you wouldn't take one to bed.
But I think you misidentify it when you call it "playing the social game" though - this assumes it's necessarily frivilous rather than perfectly reasonable. Being agreeable to your cow orkers means they feel free to approach you for assitance. Putting the big boss's requests above other people's demonstrates a respect for the hierarchy (even if s/he doesn't respect the chain of command).
My guess is she's probably sipping mint julips under the cottonwoods enjoying here $$$$ from the book
As someone who has known several real life authors, it's far more likely she sipped A mint juliep she purchased with her royalties and is now back at a day job. It's less "$$$$" than "$/1000000"
The article even states that apple makes essentially no money on music sales, so who cares if Real gets in on it?
When the question is "why" the answer is ALWAYS money. Since it's not sales money (though perhaps they believe they will start to make money if sales continue and less competition will accelerate that timetable) it's likely support money, and although I oppose DMCA action I can see their point here.
If Real's after the fact authorizations screw up, say, 0.5% of the iPods out there in a way that requires a support call, thats 3,000,000 *.005 = 15,000 calls. Even if Apple tells every one of those people "tough break, it's your own damned fault" that's still 15,000 calls times however many minutes each call averages.
All of which misses the big problem for Apple which is that an unsatisfactory experience with an Apple product reflects, for most consumers, on Apple. Even if It Is All Real's Fault. Hell, they might not even have the guts to tell people to FOAD if they screw up their iPods - the beating they took over their idiotic battery policy is probably still fresh in their minds.
"In 1996, the FCC did away with numerical caps altogether and raised the audience-reach cap to 35 percent. This wasn't necessarily bad for Turner Broadcasting; we had already achieved scale. But seeing these rules changed was like watching someone knock down the ladder I had already climbed."
This isn't surprising from TT, he's always been a whacky pseudoHippy.
I went through four sidekicks in six months. Defective screen, permanent lockup, defective keyboard, defective wheel, etc... and reception so lousy that made me take back all my bitching about Sprint, Cingular, and Verizon in the past. ...snip...
If anybody wants it, I have a still-working Black&White Sidekick you can have for $60.
Man you must be the best salesman at your Radio Shack.
The EFF is similarly relying on volunteers -- but without offering rewards. That's a surefire recipe for limited success, said Bradley Wright, a patent lawyer with Banner & Witcoff Ltd. "There are not a lot of people willing to spend free time to research for prior art."
Yeah, may as well expect that people will spend hundreds of hours working on software that they'll give away for free. Hey, maybe they'll even give away the source code! Bwahahahaha, those crazy kids these days.
Like he says on his site, Odeon has refused to do anything about it for 2 years, when they very easily could have. I get the distinct impression that they couldn't give a flying fuck.
Probably exactly right - some design wonk with more interest in pretty than usable convinced them that the small percentage of visually disabled people they turn off are outnumbered by the people who will be wowed by the glory and the glamor
Personally I think that if you can't grab some fool from the secretarial pool (or if you're aiming at a lower iq crowd, a middle-manager) and have them find an answer in less time than picking up the newspaper listings then maybe you should consider shitcanning the design and starting over.
Not in some movie - Cringley wrote about seeing a man walk into CompUSA, plug his 1st gen iPod into a mac there and drag the MS Office folders onto it. The article claimed (I have no idea how true it is/was) that Office will re-establish the system folder items necessary so this amounted to a perfect and complete copy of the software.
That said, certainly the benign uses outnumber the malicious ones. The question is, if you have other data control policies, do you need to CYA by having this ban so you can respond to suspicious activities decisively? I also think comparisons to more easily concealed USB key devices isn't reasonable - I can't fit a large ACT! database of contacts on one of those but I can on a 40g devices.
Your math assumes that I drank that coffee only because I was going to read the book, rather than the more accurate analysis that I am a caffine whore of the highest order and would be drinking coffee somewhere else if I wasn't drinking it in Borders.
... for pricing their books according to their worth and utility, rather than weight. This one, according to B&N, is a full 350 pages - a decent sized book. Despite that, it's a (comparitively?) reasonable $25. I can't count the number of books I've sat in Borders with a cup of coffee and read rather than purchased because it wasn't worth $40 for the chapter that I really needed.
All this complicated nonsense when a simple private/public key system would do. Start a (non corrupt) ICANN organization to handle storing and serving public keys which you have to prove identity for (a la the Paypal credit card verification system), add a X-Sender-Key-ID: to identify yourself and X-Message-Signature: to provide the private key signature for this specific message.
You can still accept messages without those headers... they just get an immediate 90% likely to be spam rating. Verification and validation could happen at the POP/IMAP host or at the client, as well as any relays in between.
... when a class action suit results in a settlement/judgement which is a joke for the plantiffs? The only people who ever get anything worth having out of these things are the lawyers.
When defendants can just clean out their storage locker and use unwanted crap to "pay off" their debts these verdicts aren't even going to serve as a punitive measure and preventative for scofflaw companies.
I can imagine one CEO to another - "Hah, we were going to have to charge off all those crap CDs when we discarded them anyway, all we did was change a description in the budget!"
While the insane legal interpretation may be that you admit the case had merit, that is rarely the case. This is why McDonalds coffee cups now have a printed warning that the contents may be hot. Duh.
It's nothing short of amazing that the case everyone mentions to invoke the image of meritless cases is possibly one of the most just cases in the last 20 years. Stella Liebeck was injured by 180+ degree coffee (over 40 degrees over the temperature which, if you set your water heater to, you are endangering your family's health.) It was an injury which McDonald's negligence had inflicted upon at least 700 people in the preceeding 10 years[see p5 in link], counting only the ones who filed suit, not the probably 10x more who were injured and took no legal action.
Also, Ms Liebeck was initially seeking the exorbinant sum of - wait for it - 20,000 - as compensation for the 8 days of hospitalization and skin grafts she underwent.
Finally, as far as admitting the case had merit, McDonalds never did - they fought, lost initially and finally entered into a secret agreement with the plantiff.
Computers may spit out some questionable chemicals but they pale in comparison to the other more common things that spew chemicals which also have larger surface area and/or mass (meaning more outgassing). The biggest concern, IMHO, is carpet.
You think a computer has a "new" smell? Go in any room with carpet that has been laid in the last month. For allergens and irritants you'll never get out of your computer the things that come from old ductwork. Etc etc. Calling for chemical output reductions in computers seems to me like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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What's all this digital talk? They making fake fingers in addition to retinas?
Maybe a better idea would be to fit your tinfoil hat a little snugger. I never fail to be amazed how many slashdotters are the geeky version of those kids with wallets on chains to keep people from stealing their bus pass.
James Pennebaker and I developed the method at the University of Texas at Austin at the end of the last century.
Oh you mean FOUR YEARS AGO? Bunghole.
But I think you misidentify it when you call it "playing the social game" though - this assumes it's necessarily frivilous rather than perfectly reasonable. Being agreeable to your cow orkers means they feel free to approach you for assitance. Putting the big boss's requests above other people's demonstrates a respect for the hierarchy (even if s/he doesn't respect the chain of command).
As someone who has known several real life authors, it's far more likely she sipped A mint juliep she purchased with her royalties and is now back at a day job. It's less "$$$$" than "$/1000000"
When the question is "why" the answer is ALWAYS money. Since it's not sales money (though perhaps they believe they will start to make money if sales continue and less competition will accelerate that timetable) it's likely support money, and although I oppose DMCA action I can see their point here.
If Real's after the fact authorizations screw up, say, 0.5% of the iPods out there in a way that requires a support call, thats 3,000,000 * .005 = 15,000 calls. Even if Apple tells every one of those people "tough break, it's your own damned fault" that's still 15,000 calls times however many minutes each call averages.
All of which misses the big problem for Apple which is that an unsatisfactory experience with an Apple product reflects, for most consumers, on Apple. Even if It Is All Real's Fault. Hell, they might not even have the guts to tell people to FOAD if they screw up their iPods - the beating they took over their idiotic battery policy is probably still fresh in their minds.
"In 1996, the FCC did away with numerical caps altogether and raised the audience-reach cap to 35 percent. This wasn't necessarily bad for Turner Broadcasting; we had already achieved scale. But seeing these rules changed was like watching someone knock down the ladder I had already climbed."
This isn't surprising from TT, he's always been a whacky pseudoHippy.
The sex in "The Story of O" was WAY hotter.
...snip...
If anybody wants it, I have a still-working Black&White Sidekick you can have for $60.
Man you must be the best salesman at your Radio Shack.
Meaning, you have been TOLD you're going to get one, not that you have gotten one. Check's in the mail and I promise not to *** ** **** mouth.
Whacky, when I preview my message the text (but not the embedded link) has a space in the same place. So much for the seamless backend update...
Yeah, may as well expect that people will spend hundreds of hours working on software that they'll give away for free. Hey, maybe they'll even give away the source code! Bwahahahaha, those crazy kids these days.
No way, patent the process of getting a lame-assed patent. Think of how much money you could make in just the first week of enforcement...
Actually that WOULD be pretty valuable, at least when picking women up in a bar. "Hey baby, you can trust me - I'm on Atkins."
I guess that explains the smell.
Probably exactly right - some design wonk with more interest in pretty than usable convinced them that the small percentage of visually disabled people they turn off are outnumbered by the people who will be wowed by the glory and the glamor
Personally I think that if you can't grab some fool from the secretarial pool (or if you're aiming at a lower iq crowd, a middle-manager) and have them find an answer in less time than picking up the newspaper listings then maybe you should consider shitcanning the design and starting over.
Not in some movie - Cringley wrote about seeing a man walk into CompUSA, plug his 1st gen iPod into a mac there and drag the MS Office folders onto it. The article claimed (I have no idea how true it is/was) that Office will re-establish the system folder items necessary so this amounted to a perfect and complete copy of the software.
That said, certainly the benign uses outnumber the malicious ones. The question is, if you have other data control policies, do you need to CYA by having this ban so you can respond to suspicious activities decisively? I also think comparisons to more easily concealed USB key devices isn't reasonable - I can't fit a large ACT! database of contacts on one of those but I can on a 40g devices.
Your math assumes that I drank that coffee only because I was going to read the book, rather than the more accurate analysis that I am a caffine whore of the highest order and would be drinking coffee somewhere else if I wasn't drinking it in Borders.
Congrats, usually people need a RTFA - you didn't even read the executive summary at the top before asking this question.
... for pricing their books according to their worth and utility, rather than weight. This one, according to B&N, is a full 350 pages - a decent sized book. Despite that, it's a (comparitively?) reasonable $25. I can't count the number of books I've sat in Borders with a cup of coffee and read rather than purchased because it wasn't worth $40 for the chapter that I really needed.
.. computational intensive blah blah.
All this complicated nonsense when a simple private/public key system would do. Start a (non corrupt) ICANN organization to handle storing and serving public keys which you have to prove identity for (a la the Paypal credit card verification system), add a X-Sender-Key-ID: to identify yourself and X-Message-Signature: to provide the private key signature for this specific message.
You can still accept messages without those headers... they just get an immediate 90% likely to be spam rating. Verification and validation could happen at the POP/IMAP host or at the client, as well as any relays in between.
... when a class action suit results in a settlement/judgement which is a joke for the plantiffs? The only people who ever get anything worth having out of these things are the lawyers.
When defendants can just clean out their storage locker and use unwanted crap to "pay off" their debts these verdicts aren't even going to serve as a punitive measure and preventative for scofflaw companies.
I can imagine one CEO to another - "Hah, we were going to have to charge off all those crap CDs when we discarded them anyway, all we did was change a description in the budget!"
While the insane legal interpretation may be that you admit the case had merit, that is rarely the case. This is why McDonalds coffee cups now have a printed warning that the contents may be hot. Duh.
It's nothing short of amazing that the case everyone mentions to invoke the image of meritless cases is possibly one of the most just cases in the last 20 years. Stella Liebeck was injured by 180+ degree coffee (over 40 degrees over the temperature which, if you set your water heater to, you are endangering your family's health.) It was an injury which McDonald's negligence had inflicted upon at least 700 people in the preceeding 10 years[see p5 in link], counting only the ones who filed suit, not the probably 10x more who were injured and took no legal action.
Also, Ms Liebeck was initially seeking the exorbinant sum of - wait for it - 20,000 - as compensation for the 8 days of hospitalization and skin grafts she underwent.
Finally, as far as admitting the case had merit, McDonalds never did - they fought, lost initially and finally entered into a secret agreement with the plantiff.
If you're dissatisfied with the quality of their free service, maybe you should ask for a refund.
Computers may spit out some questionable chemicals but they pale in comparison to the other more common things that spew chemicals which also have larger surface area and/or mass (meaning more outgassing). The biggest concern, IMHO, is carpet.
You think a computer has a "new" smell? Go in any room with carpet that has been laid in the last month. For allergens and irritants you'll never get out of your computer the things that come from old ductwork. Etc etc. Calling for chemical output reductions in computers seems to me like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.