I have a bunch of programs on my computer that are installed because they seemed kind of cool, but that I never used because I'm lazy or they weren't so cool after all. So yeah, Truecrypt is on my PC, but I never used it. Forgot to delete it, thought I might use it one day, maybe. So I don't have a password or anything encrypted.
Why does having the program imply use? I've got a weed-wacker in my garage I haven't used in years. Tent up in the attic, I haven't been camping in decades.
I've got utilities that were going to save me time and money, some of which I even paid for, that I never used beyond the initial install. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
I swear that during the 80's they tried some other name change and people didn't know what to make of it. I don't remember the name, something like TRS or Tandy Stores or something. It didn't stick, so they had to go back to Radio Shack.
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters
Would that I had mod points I'd give you some, but I'll just agree instead. I use Play and Pause, and occasionally drag the little bar across to skip when I might have watched half a show already. So I guess a time display is good too. I rarely even use FF or Rewind, or even Stop.
Of course, I don't play DVDs on my computer, that's what a wide-screen TV and DVD player are for.
> Just because some people overstepped their authority, and were wrong, doesn't mean that the blogger isn't also wrong.
Actually, your "wrong" is subjective. The only thing that counts here is "legal". And I don't think the blogger, given that the details are correct, is wrong at all. In fact, it sounded to me like the ATM cops were "wrong", and the blogger was just hunky-dory. He did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. At all. Fucking rent-a-cops were wrong, and the real cops were wrong, and the store employees were wrong. NOT the blogger.
The rent-a-cops and real cops DO NOT GET TO OVERSTEP THEIR AUTHORITY ever, exactly because they are in a position of power over other people. Exactly because they have guns. For cops, it is "Protect and SERVE". They have to be EXTRA careful not to fuck with "regular" citizens. They just don't get to do that.
Regular people get to take pictures. Regular people get to be snippy, and curt, and say "Piss off". You don't like it, too fucking bad.
A number of "folks" have commented here that the guy was being a dick or jerk or assclown or douchebag. SO THE FUCK WHAT! It is not illegal to be a dick. It's not even illegal to be a dick to the cops. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Like, if they don't LIKE you, then they are allowed to arrest you? Well, tell you what Charlie, fuck that shit. He's allowed to be an anarchist (it doesn't mean what you think it does). He's allowed to take a photo of whatever they hell he wants if it's in a public place. If the store doesn't like it they can ask him to leave, and that's all they can do. He's allowed to be a dick to rent-a-cop ATM repair men. He's allowed to not be fucking detained by the police for no fucking reason.
What people are missing here is that whether the computer is stolen or not DOESN'T MATTER! That's right! It doesn't matter if they guy bought it from Dell, or Guido down the alley, or killed some old lady and took it from her. NONE OF THAT MATTERS! The conversation with Dell should go like this:
Potential customer: "I need part X" Dell: "What's your credit card and where do we send the part?"
The guy wants to pay, they should sell. It wouldn't even matter if he DIDN'T EVEN HAVE the FUCKING LAPTOP. Who cares? Why should they care? Sell him the fucking part. They are not cops. They aren't anything but a computer store.
Any business that makes it hard to buy from should very swiftly go out of said business.
I don't understand why they said that Object oriented code eliminated the need for structured programming. OO isn't any better than structured, just different. It has some good uses, but a lot of overhead and is not the best fit for all problems.
That said, I remember spaghetti code. There was a point when FORTRAN got if/then/else statements. It was obvious in one piece of code that they told the developers to start using them. They had written
If (a.eq. 1) then go to 20 else go to 30 endif 20 continue
Screw you, I'm going to sue you. I own the copyright and trademark for "beacon of light in our troubled forest" and you owe me money for even thinking it.
I can get Verizon FIOS 10/2, TV (~250 channels) and phone (local and LD) for $99 a month here the the DFW area. So this deal doesn't seem like too big a thing to me. I guess if it's cheaper than the going rate, that's a good thing.
Novel by Kevin J Anderson and Douglas Beason. Part of the story sort of unrelated to the main plot was a company using a rail launcher in New Mexico to launch a bunch of satellites into orbit. They beamed the power to a grid on the ground in the desert. Power beamed back had a narrow range of reception so it couldn't accidentally fry anyone on the ground.
That said,/. Is getting really bad about people jumping in and shitting on whatever idea is proposed here. What the fuck is up with that? Almost all of the replies so far are "This will never work", like the people responding are scientists and engineers and have thought it all through, right? Where's your fucking white papers, assholes? "The Infeasibility of Space-based Power Generation Systems." Why don't you people eat shit and die.
I am shocked about this, I tell you, shocked. I was so upset I had to go sit in my La-z-boy recliner and drink a nice, refreshing glass of Lipton iced tea.
Man it's just fucking amazing. The first thing most of the commenters do here is to piss on Greg Bear. He's written a ton of books, won awards, is pretty accessible (he's emailed me back and when I met him at ComicCon a couple years ago he remembered the emails and thanked me for my input).
He's written more stuff that anyone here ever has, and he's a damn good writer, as witnessed by having won awards and selling tons of books. And now he's wanting to make some coin writing on a popular game. Like most other writers - Asimov wrote Fantastic Voyage when the movie was coming out, Clarke wrote at least one book for a movie, Niven wrote for the Saturday morning Star Trek cartoon for fuck's sake.
These guys aren't allowed to make money? They aren't allowed to write in different styles? They aren't allowed to write fan-fic? Is the best comment you can make "does he need the money?" What the fuck, really?
that "Zero Tolerance" policies are absurd. There is a reason why we have judge and juries. Laws do not apply evenly. Regardless of the policy, any reasonable person would see how stupid it was to trust another student's accusations and then harass a student with a good record over one pill of OTC pain relief.
Wouldn't it be easy for someone (better at perl or something than me) to create a "test a bunch of links" script? Start adding sites that could maybe be "forbidden". Run it in Australia and from some other place and see what flies. You'd be able to set up a web page even, and start building the list. Maybe you wouldn't get everything on the official secret list, but you'd come up with a good chunk of it. That actually can't really keep the list secret. Ever. I mean, even at it's most basic, if you try to get to a website in Australia and can't, ask a friend in some other country to try and if they can, boom, it's on the no-no list. I don't understand. "Secret list"?
I have the 770. It is a POS. Battery life is crappy, it's picky about Wi-Fi, slower than anything and shuts off or crashes seemingly at random. I don't even push it that hard. I've had so much trouble with mine, I'd be very leery about trying an 810. But of course, YMMV.
I agree. I tagged a number of my photos with Picasa, and I don't have emails for most of the people so I left that field blank and Google didn't care. My dad and mom are dead, so I don't think they care about directed ads or whatever the OP was worried about any way.
You beat me to it. I was going to say they could come to my house (near Dallas) and I'd be happy to give them all they want. We got layers going back years. Squirrels around here seem happy.
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I have a bunch of programs on my computer that are installed because they seemed kind of cool, but that I never used because I'm lazy or they weren't so cool after all. So yeah, Truecrypt is on my PC, but I never used it. Forgot to delete it, thought I might use it one day, maybe. So I don't have a password or anything encrypted.
Why does having the program imply use? I've got a weed-wacker in my garage I haven't used in years. Tent up in the attic, I haven't been camping in decades.
I've got utilities that were going to save me time and money, some of which I even paid for, that I never used beyond the initial install. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
I swear that during the 80's they tried some other name change and people didn't know what to make of it. I don't remember the name, something like TRS or Tandy Stores or something. It didn't stick, so they had to go back to Radio Shack.
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion;
Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters
Farrah's initials are FF, or maybe FO, since I think she got married the day before. Why's everyone writing MJ?
They aren't holding a lying contest at all. I don't know who told you that but they were wrong. In fact, no one has ever held a lying contest.
Would that I had mod points I'd give you some, but I'll just agree instead. I use Play and Pause, and occasionally drag the little bar across to skip when I might have watched half a show already. So I guess a time display is good too. I rarely even use FF or Rewind, or even Stop.
Of course, I don't play DVDs on my computer, that's what a wide-screen TV and DVD player are for.
> Just because some people overstepped their authority, and were wrong, doesn't mean that the blogger isn't also wrong. Actually, your "wrong" is subjective. The only thing that counts here is "legal". And I don't think the blogger, given that the details are correct, is wrong at all. In fact, it sounded to me like the ATM cops were "wrong", and the blogger was just hunky-dory. He did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. At all. Fucking rent-a-cops were wrong, and the real cops were wrong, and the store employees were wrong. NOT the blogger. The rent-a-cops and real cops DO NOT GET TO OVERSTEP THEIR AUTHORITY ever, exactly because they are in a position of power over other people. Exactly because they have guns. For cops, it is "Protect and SERVE". They have to be EXTRA careful not to fuck with "regular" citizens. They just don't get to do that. Regular people get to take pictures. Regular people get to be snippy, and curt, and say "Piss off". You don't like it, too fucking bad.
A number of "folks" have commented here that the guy was being a dick or jerk or assclown or douchebag. SO THE FUCK WHAT! It is not illegal to be a dick. It's not even illegal to be a dick to the cops. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Like, if they don't LIKE you, then they are allowed to arrest you? Well, tell you what Charlie, fuck that shit. He's allowed to be an anarchist (it doesn't mean what you think it does). He's allowed to take a photo of whatever they hell he wants if it's in a public place. If the store doesn't like it they can ask him to leave, and that's all they can do. He's allowed to be a dick to rent-a-cop ATM repair men. He's allowed to not be fucking detained by the police for no fucking reason.
Being a dick. Hey, fuck the lot of you.
What people are missing here is that whether the computer is stolen or not DOESN'T MATTER! That's right! It doesn't matter if they guy bought it from Dell, or Guido down the alley, or killed some old lady and took it from her. NONE OF THAT MATTERS! The conversation with Dell should go like this:
Potential customer: "I need part X"
Dell: "What's your credit card and where do we send the part?"
The guy wants to pay, they should sell. It wouldn't even matter if he DIDN'T EVEN HAVE the FUCKING LAPTOP. Who cares? Why should they care? Sell him the fucking part. They are not cops. They aren't anything but a computer store.
Any business that makes it hard to buy from should very swiftly go out of said business.
I don't understand why they said that Object oriented code eliminated the need for structured programming. OO isn't any better than structured, just different. It has some good uses, but a lot of overhead and is not the best fit for all problems.
That said, I remember spaghetti code. There was a point when FORTRAN got if/then/else statements. It was obvious in one piece of code that they told the developers to start using them. They had written
If (a .eq. 1) then
go to 20
else
go to 30
endif
20 continue
My brain hurt after reading that.
I liked the "electric friendship gen-or-a-tor". Poor Timmy!
Screw you, I'm going to sue you. I own the copyright and trademark for "beacon of light in our troubled forest" and you owe me money for even thinking it.
Sincerly,
H. Ellison
I can get Verizon FIOS 10/2, TV (~250 channels) and phone (local and LD) for $99 a month here the the DFW area. So this deal doesn't seem like too big a thing to me. I guess if it's cheaper than the going rate, that's a good thing.
The police will be by shortly. I mean, by your own admission:
"Come on now, I own a rifle, ... I shoot people... I ...m... a terrorist"
How much clearer can that be?
Novel by Kevin J Anderson and Douglas Beason. Part of the story sort of unrelated to the main plot was a company using a rail launcher in New Mexico to launch a bunch of satellites into orbit. They beamed the power to a grid on the ground in the desert. Power beamed back had a narrow range of reception so it couldn't accidentally fry anyone on the ground.
That said, /. Is getting really bad about people jumping in and shitting on whatever idea is proposed here. What the fuck is up with that? Almost all of the replies so far are "This will never work", like the people responding are scientists and engineers and have thought it all through, right? Where's your fucking white papers, assholes? "The Infeasibility of Space-based Power Generation Systems." Why don't you people eat shit and die.
I am shocked about this, I tell you, shocked. I was so upset I had to go sit in my La-z-boy recliner and drink a nice, refreshing glass of Lipton iced tea.
Man it's just fucking amazing. The first thing most of the commenters do here is to piss on Greg Bear. He's written a ton of books, won awards, is pretty accessible (he's emailed me back and when I met him at ComicCon a couple years ago he remembered the emails and thanked me for my input).
He's written more stuff that anyone here ever has, and he's a damn good writer, as witnessed by having won awards and selling tons of books. And now he's wanting to make some coin writing on a popular game. Like most other writers - Asimov wrote Fantastic Voyage when the movie was coming out, Clarke wrote at least one book for a movie, Niven wrote for the Saturday morning Star Trek cartoon for fuck's sake.
These guys aren't allowed to make money? They aren't allowed to write in different styles? They aren't allowed to write fan-fic? Is the best comment you can make "does he need the money?" What the fuck, really?
that "Zero Tolerance" policies are absurd. There is a reason why we have judge and juries. Laws do not apply evenly. Regardless of the policy, any reasonable person would see how stupid it was to trust another student's accusations and then harass a student with a good record over one pill of OTC pain relief.
Just say no to zero tolerance.
Wouldn't it be easy for someone (better at perl or something than me) to create a "test a bunch of links" script? Start adding sites that could maybe be "forbidden". Run it in Australia and from some other place and see what flies. You'd be able to set up a web page even, and start building the list. Maybe you wouldn't get everything on the official secret list, but you'd come up with a good chunk of it. That actually can't really keep the list secret. Ever. I mean, even at it's most basic, if you try to get to a website in Australia and can't, ask a friend in some other country to try and if they can, boom, it's on the no-no list. I don't understand. "Secret list"?
"We're talking about a person that a couple total assholes find rude."
I have the 770. It is a POS. Battery life is crappy, it's picky about Wi-Fi, slower than anything and shuts off or crashes seemingly at random. I don't even push it that hard. I've had so much trouble with mine, I'd be very leery about trying an 810. But of course, YMMV.
I agree. I tagged a number of my photos with Picasa, and I don't have emails for most of the people so I left that field blank and Google didn't care. My dad and mom are dead, so I don't think they care about directed ads or whatever the OP was worried about any way.
One problem from the demo seems to be that you need to have friends. I don't know anyone that has the por^h^h^h files that I want already.
Needs more pieces of flair.
You beat me to it. I was going to say they could come to my house (near Dallas) and I'd be happy to give them all they want. We got layers going back years. Squirrels around here seem happy.