So who gets to choose what "well dressed" means this week ?
Personally I dress to please myself and I expect other people do likewise. And I simply don't give a fig whether you like what I'm wearing or not. If I told you that I didn't like your attire I'd expect you to tell me to "fuck off because it's none of your business". The only acceptable dress standards should be that your attire is clean and doesn't smell too strongly (and that should include reeking of fucking perfume too)
Since being taken over by an American company we keep getting this cort of crap at my workplace as they keep trying to force some ludicrous corporate clone image on us. But I (and my colleagues) simply tell them to shove it. In summer they said I couldn't wear shorts so I told them either you tell the ladies to come in in trousers only too, also allow me to wear a mini skirt (just like the ladies) or you can put that request in writing and we'll go to court. Suprisingly they stopped bothering me after that.
Sadly "how you look" seems to be the last bastion of acceptable discrimination. You can't discriminate on grounds of race, colour, sexual orientation, size etc. (all good things) yet some fat, bald, middle aged man who has no sense of style (nor ever had one in his youth) can tell everyoine else in the company to dress in the manner he finds acceptable. Bollocks.
People whould grow out of their 18th century "I know best, do as I say" outlook on the world. Regimentation breeds stagnation. There's a whole diverse world of people out there all with different ideas. Learn to listen. Learn to appreciate that diversity instead of trying to homogenise everything.
I couldn't agree with you more. The fact you have to use iTunes is the main reason I'm not interested in an iPod. Any player that requires special management software to load it is a waste of time.
My cheap and cheerful 512Mb "generic" player is, to my mind, far superior. It's simply a flash based storage device and, if you happen to put a file on it which it know how to play, it will allow you to play it. Best of all it only cost £ 30 so should it ever break I'll just get another (which will probably have 10Gb flash memory by then:)
It works on Linux, Windows, Mac or anything eith a USB slot and a file manager.
Well sadly I can't seem to be able to email Sony by using their site - I've had a small try but it's a circular process whereby clicking on "contact us" takes me to a "select a category" page and clicking on a category takes me back to a Flash home page (Sorry I won't install Flash on my computers)
But a quick google did turn up the following feedback form which would appear to be for Sony UK
So if anoyone has a better contact email address for a Sony "bigwig" ? I think a few milllion irate emails from Slashdotters will show them what we think of their evil schemes.
Presonally I'm now boycotting all Sony products 'cause they're "Evil, incompetent, bastards".
When the next disruptive communications technology - the next worldwide web - is thought up, the lawyers and the logic of control will be much more evident
No they won't. The "next web" will be a disruptive technology therefore the effects cannot clearly be foreseen. Lawyers & "logic of control" type people will not even notice what's happening until it's already too late. These people operate strictly within existing mental frameworks.
To be able to forsee what's to come they would need to be visionaries. Visionaries do not become lawyers, nor do they suffer from an unhealthy desire to impose their own will on everything (as do sufferers of "Logic of control" type personality disorders). Lawyers etc. argue over the rights to own and administer the crumbs left in the wake of visionaries.
Look at Tesla, did he focus on business ? No he'd far rather be inventing stuff. Compare this with Edison who only invented stuff with a view to marketing it.
Who made the money ? (Edison) Who was the true genius ? (Tesla)
For further information Google for "Eris Discordia".
Marvellous. So here's how "the bad guys" (tm) will fool the coppers.
1 Buy computer with big hard drive. 2 Get geek to store loads of "nonsense" data encrypted with as strong a key as possible (i.e. shopping lists, lists of birthdays, stuff from encyclopedias) 3 Store "bad stuff" (tm) in head only. 4 Get arrested, claim you "were wondering what all those junk files were" and wait 90 days whilst the forensics bods decrypt the useless data. 5 Get let out. 6 Profit !
(yes I admit it this is a piss poor version of the Slashdot "profit" post:)
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> the new VBA
More users... mostly bloody managers... creating horrible, unwieldy, unmaintainable, unstructured, badly thought out, crappy, "Mission critical", shiteware.
Some Bod: "You people know code, don't you ?". Me: "Er... Yes" Bod: "Can you support this 100,000 line steaming pile of ordure that Mr. Fuckke-Witte knocked up one morning, using only a 'Learn VBA in you Lunch Hour' book, and which now contains all the data required to keep the company afloat."
like the unemployed guy down the street drinking 10 beers before lunch time
Now this sort of paradox is what really bugs me about the world. When I was unemployed I was that guy. But now I've got a job I can't find either the time or the money to drink 10 beers in a day - never mind before lunch.
But when I get laid off again there'll I 'll be. Wandering the streets drinking 10 tins before lunch whether I need 'em or not...
Well all I can say about this story is that the the idea of patenting a recipe is absurd. But "whilst I'm on" I thought I might as well share my favourite coffee related drink recipe.
Take 1 oversize pint glass. Add 1/3 pint Vodka and 1/3 pint cold filter coffee (this should be good quality filter coffee that has been left to go cold) Finally add 1/3 pint lemonade allowing it all to mix well (do it right and a slight frothing will ensue, do it wrong and you;ve got a table covered in froth !). Now add a couple of ice cubes to taste and drink.
It's got a lovely, almost chocolatey taste, gets you boozed up after a few and is far better than this "propietary", IP restricted Nestle rubbish to boot !
Oh but they do. The main difference between them and us is that an old ape can't get thousands of young apes to go and kill thousands of other young apes because the old ape doesn't like some other old ape from a neighbouring territory.
If an old ape has a problem with another old ape they have to fight it out between themselves like humans. It's a real shame we're not clever enough as a species to make our leaders do the same.
So I'd agree that apeas are better behaved but they're not perfect either:)
I block ads because I simply don't want to see advertising. Advertising is, for the most part insulting.
I stopped getting a couple of magazines I used to subscribe to because the amount of ads increased to the point the articles were getting lost. I don't have sky television because it's full of ads which interrupt the programming.
Advertising simply pisses me off. If I'm interested in buying something I go out of my way to find out what's on the market, what looks a good buy etc. etc. and I only buy after weighing up what I really want.
And if you have any conception of the psychology being used you'll know it's plain evil with the majority of adverts being designed to prey on the emotional triggers of the gullible and con them into "consuming" crap they neither really want, need, or can afford in response to the false needs set up by the voodoo advert.
The last time I went in a studio to finish off some tracks (and make use of their excellent producton facilities) we had a lot of trouble with a "rough" vocal track that we wanted to redo.
Sadly despite our best efforts the "rough mix" that we'd captured using a Shure SM58 recorded directly into Logic in my garage sounded better than anything we did using the studios £ 800 plus Neumann mic.
Moral of the story ? As long as the original recording isn't totaly shite then it's all down to the eq really, it's the performance that counts...
And furthermore why does Windows update keep telling me to install updates to IE & Outlook Express ?
Sorry I don't want either of them on my Windows box at all. My only use for IE is to run Winders update and that's only becuase you're forced to.
As for Outlook express I'd rather pull my toenails out with red hot pliers than use that pile of ordure.
It's just a shame the EU focused their attention only on Media player. They should force Microsoft (well at least Microsoft Europe edition:) to be split into an OS company and an applications company. That way there'd be an end to their monopoly practices and their product might actually improve due to real competition.
So whilst I may be forced to have a Window box (to run Sound Forge and Logic Audio) I'll be damned if I'm using Microsofts' wretched tools on it. Every single product Microsoft produces has a superior alternative.
Of course, if you don't need to run a spcific Winders only app, a far superior alternative is Ubuntu...
Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out...
If the client browser IP makes it look like the visitor is from China mark Taiwan as being a province of China.
If not mark it as a sovereign state.
If you can't get the browser IP ask the user which desccription they'd prefer and set a cookie:)
There. Everyone's happy.
Aboriginal saying (paraphrased 'cause I'm too lazy to find the proper text): "Men arguing about who owns territory on the earth are like fleas arguing about who owns the dog they're standing on."
Don't these idiots give a shit about the amount of crap they produce ?
If these awful things don't evaporate in a flash of smoke the minute they've been used then people should get together and mount a campaign to send every single used DVD back to Microsofts headquarters. And then their local waste collection people should make sure they charge them top dollar to dispose of them.
How to stop irresponsible "environmentally unfriendly" crap like this: Make the polluter pay the full costs of disposal/cleanup.
Well having watched that I think it's excellent and just as entertaining as Galaxy Quest ! And really this just shows what can be acheived without a bunch of focus groups and marketing mediocretins dumbing everything down to please the lowest common denominator.
So much kudos to those involved and I think a DVD order will be forthcoming (if only to see those delightful bridge girls in better resolution:)
But I think this is best summed up in the manner of the Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien (well Norway's reasonably close to FInland:)
"Warner Brothers! The Walt Disney Company! Metro Goldwyn Mayer! ! Paramount Pictures Corporation! Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation! Universal City Studios LLLP! MPAA! Can you hear me, MPAA? Your boys took one hell of a beating!"
How about recording yourself saying (in a stupid voice) "Oooh... This is a very good song and I like it a lot" as a WAV file (insert other random daft stuff as you see fit). Now use a WAV Editor to copy & paste this out to about 3 minutes before converting the resulting "meisterpiece" to MP3 (using high quality VBR of course:)
Next copy the resulting file into a shared folder multiple times and call the files things like "Beatles_Yesterday.mp3" (i.e. build up a BIG library of files with "infringing", "illegal" names) Next simply wait for the *AAs threatening letter, go to court and have a good laugh when you play back the offending "songs" to the jury.
Of course you'll also piss off a load of P2Pers but if you name your files after the crappy "manufactured artistes de jour" (i.e. "Britney" etc.) who cares ?
The *AA are idiots. The world has changed and they can no longer control the flow of information. The genie is out of the bottle and is not going back in. Watching their antics always makes me think of King Canute.
My £ 38 (uk) "no name" portable 512 Mb MP3 player has no screen (other than a crappy little LCD character display). Neither does it have a propietary file system nor do you need to have special software to access it.
You simply plug it in to a USB slot and wait for your OS to detect that a removable FAT32 file system has been attached before you copy & paste the tracks you want onto it using whatever file manager you happen to like this week.
If you've copied MP3 files over they show up in the playlist and you can play 'em. If you cop data files they;re available to any other machine you plug the bugger in to.
Sorry, all these Apple style devices are over engineered, finicky, propietary crap. Give me my "cheap & cheerful" generic player any day.
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So who gets to choose what "well dressed" means this week ?
Personally I dress to please myself and I expect other people do likewise. And I simply don't give a fig whether you like what I'm wearing or not. If I told you that I didn't like your attire I'd expect you to tell me to "fuck off because it's none of your business". The only acceptable dress standards should be that your attire is clean and doesn't smell too strongly (and that should include reeking of fucking perfume too)
Since being taken over by an American company we keep getting this cort of crap at my workplace as they keep trying to force some ludicrous corporate clone image on us. But I (and my colleagues) simply tell them to shove it. In summer they said I couldn't wear shorts so I told them either you tell the ladies to come in in trousers only too, also allow me to wear a mini skirt (just like the ladies) or you can put that request in writing and we'll go to court. Suprisingly they stopped bothering me after that.
Sadly "how you look" seems to be the last bastion of acceptable discrimination. You can't discriminate on grounds of race, colour, sexual orientation, size etc. (all good things) yet some fat, bald, middle aged man who has no sense of style (nor ever had one in his youth) can tell everyoine else in the company to dress in the manner he finds acceptable. Bollocks.
People whould grow out of their 18th century "I know best, do as I say" outlook on the world. Regimentation breeds stagnation. There's a whole diverse world of people out there all with different ideas. Learn to listen. Learn to appreciate that diversity instead of trying to homogenise everything.
And if thine eye offends thee pluck it out.
I couldn't agree with you more. The fact you have to use iTunes is the main reason I'm not interested in an iPod. Any player that requires special management software to load it is a waste of time.
:)
My cheap and cheerful 512Mb "generic" player is, to my mind, far superior. It's simply a flash based storage device and, if you happen to put a file on it which it know how to play, it will allow you to play it. Best of all it only cost £ 30 so should it ever break I'll just get another (which will probably have 10Gb flash memory by then
It works on Linux, Windows, Mac or anything eith a USB slot and a file manager.
Anything else is simply overengineered !
Well sadly I can't seem to be able to email Sony by using their site - I've had a small try but it's a circular process whereby clicking on "contact us" takes me to a "select a category" page and clicking on a category takes me back to a Flash home page (Sorry I won't install Flash on my computers)
But a quick google did turn up the following feedback form which would appear to be for Sony UK
http://www2.sony.co.uk/feedback/feedbackform.asp
So if anoyone has a better contact email address for a Sony "bigwig" ? I think a few milllion irate emails from Slashdotters will show them what we think of their evil schemes.
Presonally I'm now boycotting all Sony products 'cause they're "Evil, incompetent, bastards".
All together now...
;)
Fud glorious fud,
Nothing quite like it for stirring the blood.
So follow me follow, down to the press room,
And there let us wallow in glorious fud.
Sorry but I can't be arsed to paraphrase the rest
Google might soon be able to tell Wal-Mart shoppers if better bargains are available nearby.
Don't you just love the way avowed capitalists always start crying and stamping their feet whem somebody else exhibits capitalist behaviour ?
"Let the market decide".. But only when WE control the market.
Wankers.
When the next disruptive communications technology - the next worldwide web - is thought up, the lawyers and the logic of control will be much more evident
No they won't. The "next web" will be a disruptive technology therefore the effects cannot clearly be foreseen. Lawyers & "logic of control" type people will not even notice what's happening until it's already too late. These people operate strictly within existing mental frameworks.
To be able to forsee what's to come they would need to be visionaries. Visionaries do not become lawyers, nor do they suffer from an unhealthy desire to impose their own will on everything (as do sufferers of "Logic of control" type personality disorders). Lawyers etc. argue over the rights to own and administer the crumbs left in the wake of visionaries.
Look at Tesla, did he focus on business ? No he'd far rather be inventing stuff. Compare this with Edison who only invented stuff with a view to marketing it.
Who made the money ? (Edison) Who was the true genius ? (Tesla)
For further information Google for "Eris Discordia".
Praise "Bob" !
Marvellous. So here's how "the bad guys" (tm) will fool the coppers.
:)
1 Buy computer with big hard drive.
2 Get geek to store loads of "nonsense" data encrypted with as strong a key as possible (i.e. shopping lists, lists of birthdays, stuff from encyclopedias)
3 Store "bad stuff" (tm) in head only.
4 Get arrested, claim you "were wondering what all those junk files were" and wait 90 days whilst the forensics bods decrypt the useless data.
5 Get let out.
6 Profit !
(yes I admit it this is a piss poor version of the Slashdot "profit" post
> the new VBA
More users... mostly bloody managers... creating horrible, unwieldy, unmaintainable, unstructured, badly thought out, crappy, "Mission critical", shiteware.
Some Bod: "You people know code, don't you ?".
Me: "Er... Yes"
Bod: "Can you support this 100,000 line steaming pile of ordure that Mr. Fuckke-Witte knocked up one morning, using only a 'Learn VBA in you Lunch Hour' book, and which now contains all the data required to keep the company afloat."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!
VBA... The horror... The horror...
like the unemployed guy down the street drinking 10 beers before lunch time
Now this sort of paradox is what really bugs me about the world. When I was unemployed I was that guy. But now I've got a job I can't find either the time or the money to drink 10 beers in a day - never mind before lunch.
But when I get laid off again there'll I 'll be. Wandering the streets drinking 10 tins before lunch whether I need 'em or not...
Bah !
Well all I can say about this story is that the the idea of patenting a recipe is absurd. But "whilst I'm on" I thought I might as well share my favourite coffee related drink recipe.
Take 1 oversize pint glass. Add 1/3 pint Vodka and 1/3 pint cold filter coffee (this should be good quality filter coffee that has been left to go cold) Finally add 1/3 pint lemonade allowing it all to mix well (do it right and a slight frothing will ensue, do it wrong and you;ve got a table covered in froth !). Now add a couple of ice cubes to taste and drink.
It's got a lovely, almost chocolatey taste, gets you boozed up after a few and is far better than this "propietary", IP restricted Nestle rubbish to boot !
Hic... hic... hic...
And they don't kill each other
:)
Oh but they do. The main difference between them and us is that an old ape can't get thousands of young apes to go and kill thousands of other young apes because the old ape doesn't like some other old ape from a neighbouring territory.
If an old ape has a problem with another old ape they have to fight it out between themselves like humans. It's a real shame we're not clever enough as a species to make our leaders do the same.
So I'd agree that apeas are better behaved but they're not perfect either
And what about all those wretched "Price comparison" sites ?
Compare prices on "bessel functions", "great prices on Quarks".
Those sites are the bane of the internet.
What are you ? some kind of liberal tree hugging hippy ?
3. Hand him a rusty butter knife, freshly covered in dog dirt.
I block ads because I simply don't want to see advertising. Advertising is, for the most part insulting.
I stopped getting a couple of magazines I used to subscribe to because the amount of ads increased to the point the articles were getting lost. I don't have sky television because it's full of ads which interrupt the programming.
Advertising simply pisses me off. If I'm interested in buying something I go out of my way to find out what's on the market, what looks a good buy etc. etc. and I only buy after weighing up what I really want.
And if you have any conception of the psychology being used you'll know it's plain evil with the majority of adverts being designed to prey on the emotional triggers of the gullible and con them into "consuming" crap they neither really want, need, or can afford in response to the false needs set up by the voodoo advert.
Evil, evil, evil voodoo.
Hear, hear.
The last time I went in a studio to finish off some tracks (and make use of their excellent producton facilities) we had a lot of trouble with a "rough" vocal track that we wanted to redo.
Sadly despite our best efforts the "rough mix" that we'd captured using a Shure SM58 recorded directly into Logic in my garage sounded better than anything we did using the studios £ 800 plus Neumann mic.
Moral of the story ? As long as the original recording isn't totaly shite then it's all down to the eq really, it's the performance that counts...
If anyone thinks I'm installing an operating system that has a bloody "My Computer" icon they can think again...
What next ? "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My TextBox", "My DataGrid", "My Little Pony"...
Oh the imagination of these people.
And furthermore why does Windows update keep telling me to install updates to IE & Outlook Express ?
:) to be split into an OS company and an applications company. That way there'd be an end to their monopoly practices and their product might actually improve due to real competition.
Sorry I don't want either of them on my Windows box at all. My only use for IE is to run Winders update and that's only becuase you're forced to.
As for Outlook express I'd rather pull my toenails out with red hot pliers than use that pile of ordure.
It's just a shame the EU focused their attention only on Media player. They should force Microsoft (well at least Microsoft Europe edition
So whilst I may be forced to have a Window box (to run Sound Forge and Logic Audio) I'll be damned if I'm using Microsofts' wretched tools on it. Every single product Microsoft produces has a superior alternative.
Of course, if you don't need to run a spcific Winders only app, a far superior alternative is Ubuntu...
Pah...
Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out...
:)
If the client browser IP makes it look like the visitor is from China mark Taiwan as being a province of China.
If not mark it as a sovereign state.
If you can't get the browser IP ask the user which desccription they'd prefer and set a cookie
There. Everyone's happy.
Aboriginal saying (paraphrased 'cause I'm too lazy to find the proper text): "Men arguing about who owns territory on the earth are like fleas arguing about who owns the dog they're standing on."
Don't these idiots give a shit about the amount of crap they produce ?
If these awful things don't evaporate in a flash of smoke the minute they've been used then people should get together and mount a campaign to send every single used DVD back to Microsofts headquarters. And then their local waste collection people should make sure they charge them top dollar to dispose of them.
How to stop irresponsible "environmentally unfriendly" crap like this: Make the polluter pay the full costs of disposal/cleanup.
People people,
Linus was being asked what he thought about girls with a "secretarial look".
Yeah, yeah I'll get my coat...
Well having watched that I think it's excellent and just as entertaining as Galaxy Quest ! And really this just shows what can be acheived without a bunch of focus groups and marketing mediocretins dumbing everything down to please the lowest common denominator.
:)
:)
So much kudos to those involved and I think a DVD order will be forthcoming (if only to see those delightful bridge girls in better resolution
But I think this is best summed up in the manner of the Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien (well Norway's reasonably close to FInland
"Warner Brothers! The Walt Disney Company! Metro Goldwyn Mayer! ! Paramount Pictures Corporation! Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation! Universal City Studios LLLP! MPAA! Can you hear me, MPAA? Your boys took one hell of a beating!"
Now that gives me an idea...
:)
How about recording yourself saying (in a stupid voice) "Oooh... This is a very good song and I like it a lot" as a WAV file (insert other random daft stuff as you see fit). Now use a WAV Editor to copy & paste this out to about 3 minutes before converting the resulting "meisterpiece" to MP3 (using high quality VBR of course
Next copy the resulting file into a shared folder multiple times and call the files things like "Beatles_Yesterday.mp3" (i.e. build up a BIG library of files with "infringing", "illegal" names) Next simply wait for the *AAs threatening letter, go to court and have a good laugh when you play back the offending "songs" to the jury.
Of course you'll also piss off a load of P2Pers but if you name your files after the crappy "manufactured artistes de jour" (i.e. "Britney" etc.) who cares ?
The *AA are idiots. The world has changed and they can no longer control the flow of information. The genie is out of the bottle and is not going back in. Watching their antics always makes me think of King Canute.
Hello... hello... Earth calling Sandisk... Earth to Sandisk...
FUCK OFF.
This has probably already been said but I'm pissed and am having a casual browse before bedtime....
Sysinternals
If you must use Windows these fine folk are well worth a visit (should be mandatory...)
My £ 38 (uk) "no name" portable 512 Mb MP3 player has no screen (other than a crappy little LCD character display). Neither does it have a propietary file system nor do you need to have special software to access it.
You simply plug it in to a USB slot and wait for your OS to detect that a removable FAT32 file system has been attached before you copy & paste the tracks you want onto it using whatever file manager you happen to like this week.
If you've copied MP3 files over they show up in the playlist and you can play 'em. If you cop data files they;re available to any other machine you plug the bugger in to.
Sorry, all these Apple style devices are over engineered, finicky, propietary crap. Give me my "cheap & cheerful" generic player any day.