Anyone who's ever had to rely in a serious way on their training can tell you this is true.
Say you buy a gun for protection, but you don't practice with it, never think about it. How well do you think you're going to do when you need it in a life threatening situation? Frankly, you'd be better off without a gun at all because as likely as not the assailant would take it away from you and use it against you.
I think "most people's intuition" is that rote learning doesn't work well, not repetition.
We don't have any personal problems today that our ancestors hundreds of years ago didn't.
See: Shakespeare
Also, maybe you're just noticing dreams now that you've always had. Maybe you have so many crazy dreams because you've never dealt with them in the past, probably forgetting about them, and so you got problems just stacked up real high?
When I first starting carrying a firearm, I would have dreams that I was naken in a shopping center with my gun in my hand. Or, that I was clothed but my gun had fallen out onto the floor in same said shopping center.
I had dreams like that many times. As a result, I control my shit very well, because I'm highly motivated for those very unpleasant experiences to happen.
After seeing the RIAA on cnn.com today saying you can't make copies of cd's in any way shape or form, this will indeed happen as these fools start to make their impact felt on Joe Sixpack.
Don't forget libraries should have the right to distribute DRM free electronic copies. I mean, they might as well, right? Or is the Pirate Bay (and it's myriad brethren) not actually there?
I get so offended every time I see how the Houston public library offers electronic books in DRM for a limited time. So fucking pointless.
See, here's how it works. She says something, then you say something. Something NICE. Then she says something else, and you respond again. Repeat. It's not complicated.
Ok. Left click and drag a file from one disk to another on your local machine. What does it do? It Moves the file.
Do it from a network drive to a local drive. What does it do? It copies the file. It does a different thing, does it not? Without telling you? That's a different interface.
MS treats network files COMPLETELY differently from local ones. You're wrong.
I realize the truly open standard isn't widely adopted, either, but at least you can point to a couple northern European provinces which are taking it seriously.
I mean, is there anyone so masochistic that they have actually already adopted OOXML?
All the big ISP's seem to be convinced they can keep people in their own little ecosystem. God knows why. Like, what if one of their users tries to send a file generated by their supercool Bigpond Office software to someone, I dunno, who doesn't use BigPond? And it doesn't work? How useful is that?
Dude. You should know that this is far too arcane for the "average" user.
Frankly, "average" users shouldn't have to go out of their way to get good security. We should be designing it into the systems we create for them to use!
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Anyone who's ever had to rely in a serious way on their training can tell you this is true.
Say you buy a gun for protection, but you don't practice with it, never think about it. How well do you think you're going to do when you need it in a life threatening situation? Frankly, you'd be better off without a gun at all because as likely as not the assailant would take it away from you and use it against you.
I think "most people's intuition" is that rote learning doesn't work well, not repetition.
...and yet you were still foolish enough to actually pay for DRM'ed content?
So do you drink out of bottles with a skull and crossbones on them, too?
Dude...you don't have it right. You haven't cussed at all. Where's the invectives?
I ask you again--WHERE ARE THE INVECTIVES?
Except, of course, that none of us had ever heard of him before this showed up on slashdot.
We don't have any personal problems today that our ancestors hundreds of years ago didn't.
See: Shakespeare
Also, maybe you're just noticing dreams now that you've always had. Maybe you have so many crazy dreams because you've never dealt with them in the past, probably forgetting about them, and so you got problems just stacked up real high?
But then again, I am high.
:-)
When I first starting carrying a firearm, I would have dreams that I was naken in a shopping center with my gun in my hand. Or, that I was clothed but my gun had fallen out onto the floor in same said shopping center.
I had dreams like that many times. As a result, I control my shit very well, because I'm highly motivated for those very unpleasant experiences to happen.
God, you are a lazy bastard. No one else in the world EXPECTS to get paid for the same work for more than one day, let alone years.
This right you speak of is not one. It was an artificial creation of the Constitution. It's a privilege, not a right.
There's a difference!
After seeing the RIAA on cnn.com today saying you can't make copies of cd's in any way shape or form, this will indeed happen as these fools start to make their impact felt on Joe Sixpack.
Don't forget libraries should have the right to distribute DRM free electronic copies. I mean, they might as well, right? Or is the Pirate Bay (and it's myriad brethren) not actually there?
I get so offended every time I see how the Houston public library offers electronic books in DRM for a limited time. So fucking pointless.
Or is the Pirate Bay not there?
Smart. I like it.
That's all I can say. Wow. That's a lot of money...for what?
Why is it I can't find funding for my game? That's what I always think when I read about massive expenditures on nothing, like this.
This is why slashdotters don't get laid.
See, here's how it works. She says something, then you say something. Something NICE. Then she says something else, and you respond again. Repeat. It's not complicated.
bzflag is a good free game, which just goes to show that fancy graphics have nothing to do with how good a game is.
Shall we not computerize the health care industry, then?
We can keep our data very safe if they never input it into computers. After all, there would be no benefit to correspond with the risk, yes?
I find the Apple store quite creepy.
Ok. Left click and drag a file from one disk to another on your local machine. What does it do? It Moves the file.
Do it from a network drive to a local drive. What does it do? It copies the file. It does a different thing, does it not? Without telling you? That's a different interface.
MS treats network files COMPLETELY differently from local ones. You're wrong.
You are Cory Doctorow. There is only one sci fi author I know of who has worked in IT and been on the net since the late 90's. And that's you! :-)
I'd be blown away if IBM managed to pull off a seriously big innovation with this, as free-thinking is not their strongpoint.
They are, however, pretty good at implementation, I think. Maybe.
I realize the truly open standard isn't widely adopted, either, but at least you can point to a couple northern European provinces which are taking it seriously.
I mean, is there anyone so masochistic that they have actually already adopted OOXML?
All the big ISP's seem to be convinced they can keep people in their own little ecosystem. God knows why. Like, what if one of their users tries to send a file generated by their supercool Bigpond Office software to someone, I dunno, who doesn't use BigPond? And it doesn't work? How useful is that?
My personal feeling is that probably many trillions of sentient beings probably died when that jet first hit.
Makes you think.
Maybe it could become popular to do what the people want done, in Congress.
I'm so glad our States are working so hard to remove puzzling choices from our lives.
I can't believe a high ranking member of the Bush administration is so brazenly corrupt.
What next, pigs rain down from the sky? It's as strange as that.
Dude. You should know that this is far too arcane for the "average" user.
Frankly, "average" users shouldn't have to go out of their way to get good security. We should be designing it into the systems we create for them to use!
Dammit!