The "blog post" doesn't have much more meat than the article summary, and all it does is point at the company's website. It certainly seems like they have a lot more testing to do before anything applicable to the real world will be achieved.
No we didn't. Bush had to get a court ruling to get in the first time and the second time he did not have the majority of the popular vote even if he got the electoral votes.
But you can't blame those people for making the laws either because they have no free will and thus could do nothing other than propose such a law. Amirite?
I think the problem is the reps are too stupid to realize that when they look at "$.002" if they want to say that with the word "cents" it would be ".2 cents" -- which is clearly more than ".002 cents". Who knew moving the decimal two places was such a complicated task?
I'm not sure where you got the impression that the poster you're responding to claimed to be a "brave hacker" that really "believes" in open source. I read his post and understood it to be the complaint of a consumer -- either the product I use works correctly, or eventually I will get fed up with it and move on to a product that does what I want it to do. Kindly step off your high horse there.
note that Apple isn't making this product (why would they?). Makes me wonder if a company could sue or otherwise take legal action on another company for making shitty third party devices that make their own device look bad.
From a Wikipedia article on the subject (and I won't go into any debate on credibility of that here):
So far as we know the most common result of this is an illness so minor as to be not worth noticing (and thus little studied). But with the domestication of chickens and turkeys, we have created species subtypes (domesticated poultry) that can catch an avian flu virus adapted to waterfowl and have it rapidly mutate into a form that kills in days over 90% of an entire flock and spread to other flocks and kill 90% of them and can only be stopped by killing every domestic bird in the area.
wasn't much of a tech support call so much as it was a marriage support call. This guy calls in, very polite, and wants to know if it's possible other people have used his computer to browse to porn websites. Pretty unlikely. He starts asking more questions and I'm fending him off with "not really, but maybe..." and I ask him if anyone other than him has access to the computer. He says it's just him and his wife and that they're both good Christians and no one else could have gotten to the computer. Uh oh. Well, I ask him if he's really sure, and he's adamant about it. I hear his wife in the background "oh look here's some more from back in October!" (which was a good 6 months old at that point). The guy's voice is wavering, and I'm trying to help him out, so I suggest some wild stuff about a virus that could do stuff, so I try to ask him if he's noticed anything else weird about the computer, but no, nothing else. I thought I did a pretty good job of trying to come up with reasonable (to a non-tech) things that could have caused this, but the guy just refuses to acknowledge anything.
By the end of the call his I heard his wife saying something about divorce and the guy was openly crying on the phone. I was trying not to laugh. Poor guy, I was trying to help him out but he just wouldn't work with me.
Seriously Chris Crawford cracks me up. "I've been working on this for 14 years and NO ONE has ever done anything like it!"
Apparently the man doesn't know what a MUD is (a real MUD, not one that is all about kill-loot-sell-repeat), and he's never heard of White Wolf either. Seriously, like... wtf. The guy goes ON and ON about rehashing old ideas and recylcing things... people improving but not actually innovating. Look in the mirror, man.
The article doesn't say so, but "Jones" could easily be a pseudonym. Not to mention finding a "Steve Jones" is probably going to turn up hundreds, if not thousands, of hits.
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Your whole family is made out of meat.
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I dunno, you could still be a screenwriter some day...
I can smell the sarcasm off this post, so it makes me wonder what the mods are doing with +Interesting.
You say that as if those students didn't presume that the impact on their life was also negligible.
Of course... because if one guy wins, obviously everyone supports him?
This is an internet site about technology "threats" that about 1% of the populace will ever go to. This is not some government program... settle down.
The "blog post" doesn't have much more meat than the article summary, and all it does is point at the company's website. It certainly seems like they have a lot more testing to do before anything applicable to the real world will be achieved.
No we didn't. Bush had to get a court ruling to get in the first time and the second time he did not have the majority of the popular vote even if he got the electoral votes.
But you can't blame those people for making the laws either because they have no free will and thus could do nothing other than propose such a law. Amirite?
I think the problem is the reps are too stupid to realize that when they look at "$.002" if they want to say that with the word "cents" it would be ".2 cents" -- which is clearly more than ".002 cents". Who knew moving the decimal two places was such a complicated task?
I'm not sure where you got the impression that the poster you're responding to claimed to be a "brave hacker" that really "believes" in open source. I read his post and understood it to be the complaint of a consumer -- either the product I use works correctly, or eventually I will get fed up with it and move on to a product that does what I want it to do. Kindly step off your high horse there.
What I want to know is, will we finally be able to ditch the Illuminati pyramid and eye and get rid of the crazy Latin phrases?
Maybe something more American, like "Either you're with us or you're against us." ha.
note that Apple isn't making this product (why would they?). Makes me wonder if a company could sue or otherwise take legal action on another company for making shitty third party devices that make their own device look bad.
Yea, ever notice how all the DVD commercials these days say "Own it today on DVD!" Ownership implies a bit more than a license.
From a Wikipedia article on the subject (and I won't go into any debate on credibility of that here):
So far as we know the most common result of this is an illness so minor as to be not worth noticing (and thus little studied). But with the domestication of chickens and turkeys, we have created species subtypes (domesticated poultry) that can catch an avian flu virus adapted to waterfowl and have it rapidly mutate into a form that kills in days over 90% of an entire flock and spread to other flocks and kill 90% of them and can only be stopped by killing every domestic bird in the area.
Aside from the fact that Americans won't riot and kill people, right? -American and not outraged at these ads
wasn't much of a tech support call so much as it was a marriage support call. This guy calls in, very polite, and wants to know if it's possible other people have used his computer to browse to porn websites. Pretty unlikely. He starts asking more questions and I'm fending him off with "not really, but maybe..." and I ask him if anyone other than him has access to the computer. He says it's just him and his wife and that they're both good Christians and no one else could have gotten to the computer. Uh oh. Well, I ask him if he's really sure, and he's adamant about it. I hear his wife in the background "oh look here's some more from back in October!" (which was a good 6 months old at that point). The guy's voice is wavering, and I'm trying to help him out, so I suggest some wild stuff about a virus that could do stuff, so I try to ask him if he's noticed anything else weird about the computer, but no, nothing else. I thought I did a pretty good job of trying to come up with reasonable (to a non-tech) things that could have caused this, but the guy just refuses to acknowledge anything.
By the end of the call his I heard his wife saying something about divorce and the guy was openly crying on the phone. I was trying not to laugh. Poor guy, I was trying to help him out but he just wouldn't work with me.
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I knew I should've gone into marketing. Damn it!
Seriously Chris Crawford cracks me up. "I've been working on this for 14 years and NO ONE has ever done anything like it!" Apparently the man doesn't know what a MUD is (a real MUD, not one that is all about kill-loot-sell-repeat), and he's never heard of White Wolf either. Seriously, like... wtf. The guy goes ON and ON about rehashing old ideas and recylcing things... people improving but not actually innovating. Look in the mirror, man.
You're already at +5 otherwise I could mod you up, if I could just get a +1 Amen.
DUH. I mean come on, a former Vice President INVENTED the thing!
When is the last time there was a blockbuster CGI movie whose intended audience was not largely children?
The article doesn't say so, but "Jones" could easily be a pseudonym. Not to mention finding a "Steve Jones" is probably going to turn up hundreds, if not thousands, of hits.
Whatever you say, Carl! :P