You could just as much call Ubuntu's Unity fiasco "pulling a Gnome Shell". Realistically both Unity AND Gnome Shell suck, and suck bad. For the time being I'm still running classic mode. When that option is gone, I'm off to Xfce or KDE - or god help me even Windows 7 before I bother with Unity or Gnome Shell.
It's "pulling a Unity" because both of them took a perfectly fine, valid, and working interface, and screwed it up in the name of "change". Sometimes developers get so attached to the idea that things need to constantly "change" that they start to see anything difference as good, regardless of actual quality or efficiency.
ISS doesn't deserve a romantic end. Bring it back down so that we can piss on it. It was a money sink that did very little of anything valuable, and robbed funds from other far more deserving projects. I'm not even one of those "We shouldn't have manned exploration!" people, but seeing this thing still receive funding while the James Webb Telescope is about to have funding dropped just makes me want to puke.
If we really had wanted to move forward, we should have set-out to create a permanent presence on the moon, not in LEO.
That's a great lesson for you young creative types out there. Careful what you wish for.
With a net worth of $3.2 billion, I seriously doubt George is regretting much these days. The people who say "money can't buy happiness" are typically all poor.
Honestly, I don't see why so many people feel the need to tell every developer that doesn't cater to their particular tastes (or do things like they do it) that they're "doing it wrong". Yes, short, cheap games are popular. I don't personally care for them myself, but I'm not going to jump all over someone for playing Plants Vs Zombies or Angry Birds because they're not playing the right type of game.
They're playing what they like, and that's fine. Is it too much to ask for them to recognize that some people ALSO like big, long-assed narrative based games? If I can't get a decent story and at least 20 hours of gameplay out of a game (30+ is preferable) then I probably am not going to bother playing it. That doesn't mean that EVERY game has to fit that description, but don't jump on the few that DO.
A. Information falls under copyright law, and possession of such things is not legally considered theft. That distinction is absolutely relevant here. B. Actually, it's not so relevant, because the government can't own copyrights - anything they own belongs to the people.
In no way, shape, or form would downloading this amount to possession of stolen goods. As a matter of fact, it's not even a crime. Hacking the computers to obtain the info was a crime. After that the cats out of the bag.
Why is such a selfless motivation necessary? No, he wasn't "saving it from being lost". He saw something cool and saved it FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT, but the reality is that that motivation is what saved this rock from being lost in the first place. In 200 years it will quite possibly still be known and cataloged - long after he's gone. If the government's response is to sue people for doing such things though, then why bother in the first place?
To put it more bluntly: would you rather it be in a private collection or lost completely? Those are your two options.
If you want it quick and cheap: Big Lots. Possibly other similar stores like Dollar General or Family Dollar. I tend to buy things like blank DVD's from the local one as they're always pretty cheap, and they typically have HDMI cables for about $8. Not quite as cheap as the eBay route, but if you need them RIGHT NOW that's the cheapest place I've found.
Yep. I'll honestly say that every HDMI cable in my house (5 or 6 of them now) has been the cheapest $3 shipped from Honk Kong stuff I could find on eBay. I have not had a SINGLE issue with them.
Realistically, if you plug in an HDMI cable and it works - AT ALL - then it's working just as good as any other cable possibly could. You can't slap on any more gold or platinum or any other crap to make the 0's more zeroy or the 1 more oney.
I was always annoyed when my family would be watching a movie and a sex scene would come up, and my mother would fast forward, but she still does it now that I'm an adult and now I realize it would be very uncomfortable to watch people getting it on with my mother in the room.
Same thing here. If the whole family is gathered at my parents watching a movie, it doesn't matter that though the youngest of any of us is now 24, and most are married, my mother still wants to turn the channel if a boob is shown. My dad has this weird thing he does this almost chant thing where he's like "Aya-ya-ya-NASTY-MOUTH!!!!!" every time he hears an F-bomb come from the TV. Strangely enough, he'll say those words himself out in the open without hesitation (he's not a bible thumper or anything) - it's just that there's some weird aversion to such language coming from the television.
To some degree I think its just conditioning. To them the TV was a calm and tamed version of reality. They grew up watching broadcast TV of "The Lone Ranger", "Gunsmoke", "The Waltons", "Highway to Heaven", "Little House on the Prairie", and other such "wholesome" shows. It's almost like they view the television as an entity that was pure and they don't like to see it corrupted.
I remember when I finally left my last dead-end job (7 years ago). It was terrible. We were expected to check voicemail (several times per day), but we didn't have our own phones available, so we had to go to our ego-inflated boss's office each time to ask to use his phone and type in our voicemail codes. I gave them my notice (actually gave them 4 weeks) and was gone. 2 weeks later that boss was calling me up asking if I'd like to work for 4 hours part time in the evenings after I was finished at my new job. Apparently they were having a lot of issues and needed some help. It was about the most satisfying moment of my life to inform him that I really didn't need it, as I was now making more money than he was.
Oh get your head out of your ass. IT people, like every other cog in any corporation, are replaceable. Nothing is going to "fall to shit" just because you're not there.
Unless you've done something wrong, often times "replacable" is irrelevant, as often it's about eliminating a position they perceive as necessary rather than replacing anyone.
Pulling IT people out of a corporation without replacing them (while "saving money" of course) most certainly can cause stuff to "fall to shit".
The question is whether those shots were directed at the police, or were just warning shots over their heads.
"Warning shots" still count as a shot towards the individual, and are NEVER justified. Even for a person legally carrying a firearm and acting in self defense, if it comes time to shoot, you're supposed to aim to hit. Warning shots even in such a situation will, at best, tend to draw an "Illegal discharge of a firearm." charge. Simple reason being that those bullets go somewhere. You are responsible for them. If you're not shooting at a specified target with intentions to hit it then you have no damned business putting those bullets into motion in the first place, as you've just upped the possibility greatly of striking an innocent bystander.
Not anymore than any other vendor I do business with does, but the catch is I have something they want - money. Enough by myself for them to care? Not likely. However, as part of a greater whole that they WOULD care about? That remains to be seen. It's simple business here. Do something that ticks off your customers and it can hurt your bottom line. Do something that pisses off ENOUGH of them and it can REALLY hurt your bottom line.
Quick summary though: I used to use my iPod Touch to do that over wi-fi. One of the main reasons I explicitly got the phone was so that I wouldn't have to do that anymore.
Honestly, if the answer to complaints is "use wifi", then what the hell am I paying for a cellular data plan for?
This isn't the broken window fallacy. Nobody is trying to boost the economy by breaking perfectly good things.
Rubbish. The systems they are targeting are working fine. They are breaking perfectly working things, thus demonstrating that they are BREAKABLE. That's irrelevant. In the broken window fallacy the windows are breakable too. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing to break them and then smugly suggest that the shop owner replace them with steel plates for extra security.
Not to mention that this ass-clowns have not even bothered to try and put for that tired old "we're just trying to demonstrate security holes" excuse. Their whole motto is that they're doing it for the "lulz".
The Frank Abagnale situation has happened precious few times. It's not typically a recruitment method. Most likely, if he's convicted, "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is what awaits, not cushy employment with the FBI.
Wouldn't it be easier (and less damaging to the quality) to just write a script to strip all non-essential metadata (ie, everything except title, album, and artist) out of the file?
I find it funny when people complain and yet dont change their routines/habits to keep their usage low.
As a I referenced in another post - my main reason for getting the phone was for podcast downloads. Previously, I had an iPod Touch that allowed me to do that over wifi. That wasn't sufficient. I bought the phone so I'd have "always on" access to that. If I have to worry about shifting around routines and habits and managing what I do on the phone as if it were a spending account, then it's not worth the hassle to me. I have no desire to pay for such a "service".
Erm, download your podcasts over wi-fi and cache them on the phone for later listening pleasure. There goes 9/10ths of your data usage.
Sometimes they do download over wifi when I'm at home, but realistically I don't want to wait until I get home to download new episodes of things. I got the damned phone so I'd have access to such things at all times. If I was willing to download via wifi I'd have simply kept using my iPod Touch and not worried about getting a smartphone in the first place.
Understand this: I really, really, truly, don't give a damn about their problems. We're not holding hands and figuring out something that will work for the both of us. I'm a customer. They'll make it work at a price I'm willing to pay, or I'm not paying for the service. That's it. Sob stories don't change my viewpoint.
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You could just as much call Ubuntu's Unity fiasco "pulling a Gnome Shell". Realistically both Unity AND Gnome Shell suck, and suck bad. For the time being I'm still running classic mode. When that option is gone, I'm off to Xfce or KDE - or god help me even Windows 7 before I bother with Unity or Gnome Shell.
It's "pulling a Unity" because both of them took a perfectly fine, valid, and working interface, and screwed it up in the name of "change". Sometimes developers get so attached to the idea that things need to constantly "change" that they start to see anything difference as good, regardless of actual quality or efficiency.
ISS doesn't deserve a romantic end. Bring it back down so that we can piss on it. It was a money sink that did very little of anything valuable, and robbed funds from other far more deserving projects. I'm not even one of those "We shouldn't have manned exploration!" people, but seeing this thing still receive funding while the James Webb Telescope is about to have funding dropped just makes me want to puke.
If we really had wanted to move forward, we should have set-out to create a permanent presence on the moon, not in LEO.
That's a great lesson for you young creative types out there. Careful what you wish for.
With a net worth of $3.2 billion, I seriously doubt George is regretting much these days. The people who say "money can't buy happiness" are typically all poor.
Honestly, I don't see why so many people feel the need to tell every developer that doesn't cater to their particular tastes (or do things like they do it) that they're "doing it wrong". Yes, short, cheap games are popular. I don't personally care for them myself, but I'm not going to jump all over someone for playing Plants Vs Zombies or Angry Birds because they're not playing the right type of game.
They're playing what they like, and that's fine. Is it too much to ask for them to recognize that some people ALSO like big, long-assed narrative based games? If I can't get a decent story and at least 20 hours of gameplay out of a game (30+ is preferable) then I probably am not going to bother playing it. That doesn't mean that EVERY game has to fit that description, but don't jump on the few that DO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face
TOR is an end-user decision. Host it on the web and the people downloading it could use TOR, but you don't really specifically distribute via TOR.
What you're talking about is more akin to Freenet.
Think I'm just paranoid?
Yes, yes I do.
A. Information falls under copyright law, and possession of such things is not legally considered theft. That distinction is absolutely relevant here.
B. Actually, it's not so relevant, because the government can't own copyrights - anything they own belongs to the people.
In no way, shape, or form would downloading this amount to possession of stolen goods. As a matter of fact, it's not even a crime. Hacking the computers to obtain the info was a crime. After that the cats out of the bag.
Why is such a selfless motivation necessary? No, he wasn't "saving it from being lost". He saw something cool and saved it FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT, but the reality is that that motivation is what saved this rock from being lost in the first place. In 200 years it will quite possibly still be known and cataloged - long after he's gone. If the government's response is to sue people for doing such things though, then why bother in the first place?
To put it more bluntly: would you rather it be in a private collection or lost completely? Those are your two options.
Pine is text based. If you're not sure why a modern user wouldn't want to use a text-based email client then all hope is lost.
Might is try I is probably not understand comment yours.
If you want it quick and cheap: Big Lots. Possibly other similar stores like Dollar General or Family Dollar. I tend to buy things like blank DVD's from the local one as they're always pretty cheap, and they typically have HDMI cables for about $8. Not quite as cheap as the eBay route, but if you need them RIGHT NOW that's the cheapest place I've found.
Yep. I'll honestly say that every HDMI cable in my house (5 or 6 of them now) has been the cheapest $3 shipped from Honk Kong stuff I could find on eBay. I have not had a SINGLE issue with them.
Realistically, if you plug in an HDMI cable and it works - AT ALL - then it's working just as good as any other cable possibly could. You can't slap on any more gold or platinum or any other crap to make the 0's more zeroy or the 1 more oney.
I was always annoyed when my family would be watching a movie and a sex scene would come up, and my mother would fast forward, but she still does it now that I'm an adult and now I realize it would be very uncomfortable to watch people getting it on with my mother in the room.
Same thing here. If the whole family is gathered at my parents watching a movie, it doesn't matter that though the youngest of any of us is now 24, and most are married, my mother still wants to turn the channel if a boob is shown. My dad has this weird thing he does this almost chant thing where he's like "Aya-ya-ya-NASTY-MOUTH!!!!!" every time he hears an F-bomb come from the TV. Strangely enough, he'll say those words himself out in the open without hesitation (he's not a bible thumper or anything) - it's just that there's some weird aversion to such language coming from the television.
To some degree I think its just conditioning. To them the TV was a calm and tamed version of reality. They grew up watching broadcast TV of "The Lone Ranger", "Gunsmoke", "The Waltons", "Highway to Heaven", "Little House on the Prairie", and other such "wholesome" shows. It's almost like they view the television as an entity that was pure and they don't like to see it corrupted.
Doesn't just apply to after being fired.
I remember when I finally left my last dead-end job (7 years ago). It was terrible. We were expected to check voicemail (several times per day), but we didn't have our own phones available, so we had to go to our ego-inflated boss's office each time to ask to use his phone and type in our voicemail codes. I gave them my notice (actually gave them 4 weeks) and was gone. 2 weeks later that boss was calling me up asking if I'd like to work for 4 hours part time in the evenings after I was finished at my new job. Apparently they were having a lot of issues and needed some help. It was about the most satisfying moment of my life to inform him that I really didn't need it, as I was now making more money than he was.
Oh get your head out of your ass. IT people, like every other cog in any corporation, are replaceable. Nothing is going to "fall to shit" just because you're not there.
Unless you've done something wrong, often times "replacable" is irrelevant, as often it's about eliminating a position they perceive as necessary rather than replacing anyone.
Pulling IT people out of a corporation without replacing them (while "saving money" of course) most certainly can cause stuff to "fall to shit".
Problem with the scenario: people (like yourself) are already saying "For that penalty, it's almost worth it.".
Anytime the penalty is "worth it", it's not acting as the deterrent that it should be.
The question is whether those shots were directed at the police, or were just warning shots over their heads.
"Warning shots" still count as a shot towards the individual, and are NEVER justified. Even for a person legally carrying a firearm and acting in self defense, if it comes time to shoot, you're supposed to aim to hit. Warning shots even in such a situation will, at best, tend to draw an "Illegal discharge of a firearm." charge. Simple reason being that those bullets go somewhere. You are responsible for them. If you're not shooting at a specified target with intentions to hit it then you have no damned business putting those bullets into motion in the first place, as you've just upped the possibility greatly of striking an innocent bystander.
Not anymore than any other vendor I do business with does, but the catch is I have something they want - money. Enough by myself for them to care? Not likely. However, as part of a greater whole that they WOULD care about? That remains to be seen. It's simple business here. Do something that ticks off your customers and it can hurt your bottom line. Do something that pisses off ENOUGH of them and it can REALLY hurt your bottom line.
See:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2256462&cid=36515486
and
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2256462&cid=36514074
Quick summary though: I used to use my iPod Touch to do that over wi-fi. One of the main reasons I explicitly got the phone was so that I wouldn't have to do that anymore.
Honestly, if the answer to complaints is "use wifi", then what the hell am I paying for a cellular data plan for?
This isn't the broken window fallacy. Nobody is trying to boost the economy by breaking perfectly good things.
Rubbish. The systems they are targeting are working fine. They are breaking perfectly working things, thus demonstrating that they are BREAKABLE. That's irrelevant. In the broken window fallacy the windows are breakable too. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing to break them and then smugly suggest that the shop owner replace them with steel plates for extra security.
Not to mention that this ass-clowns have not even bothered to try and put for that tired old "we're just trying to demonstrate security holes" excuse. Their whole motto is that they're doing it for the "lulz".
The Frank Abagnale situation has happened precious few times. It's not typically a recruitment method. Most likely, if he's convicted, "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is what awaits, not cushy employment with the FBI.
Wouldn't it be easier (and less damaging to the quality) to just write a script to strip all non-essential metadata (ie, everything except title, album, and artist) out of the file?
I find it funny when people complain and yet dont change their routines/habits to keep their usage low.
As a I referenced in another post - my main reason for getting the phone was for podcast downloads. Previously, I had an iPod Touch that allowed me to do that over wifi. That wasn't sufficient. I bought the phone so I'd have "always on" access to that. If I have to worry about shifting around routines and habits and managing what I do on the phone as if it were a spending account, then it's not worth the hassle to me. I have no desire to pay for such a "service".
Erm, download your podcasts over wi-fi and cache them on the phone for later listening pleasure. There goes 9/10ths of your data usage.
Sometimes they do download over wifi when I'm at home, but realistically I don't want to wait until I get home to download new episodes of things. I got the damned phone so I'd have access to such things at all times. If I was willing to download via wifi I'd have simply kept using my iPod Touch and not worried about getting a smartphone in the first place.
Understand this: I really, really, truly, don't give a damn about their problems. We're not holding hands and figuring out something that will work for the both of us. I'm a customer. They'll make it work at a price I'm willing to pay, or I'm not paying for the service. That's it. Sob stories don't change my viewpoint.