The aim of all this is to make the laws as similar as possible to the laws of that great shit heap some like to call the US congress.
I think most people just do call it "that great shit heap" and not bother to call it the US Congress.
"but when it comes to the protection and well-being of our nation's innocent children, Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to block child pornography from reaching children."
How many kids are online downloading child porn? Don't most kids just do the lo-tech thing and play doctor?
What a tool. If this wasn't an election year, I'd just think story this was one of those idiotic news specials that 20/20 or their ilk run to scare the populous of sheep.
Forget programming, what about electronics?
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The demise of programming is second to the demise of building electronic devices. When I was a kid, you could go to Radio Shack and get electronics kits. There were even stores that carried electronic parts, so that when you needed a 200K resistor, you didn't have to mail order the damn thing.
Nowdays, there are so few places in Silicon Valley to buy new components it's criminal. Nobody seems to be interested in electronics anymore. There used to be a place that was the size of a Circut City or Best Buy, but it's been out of business for at least 20 years.
It makes me wonder where the next breakthroughs are going to come from on the hardware side.
I wasn't either, but it would mean you'd have to wash your car more often.
Of course that does pose the question of how large the spot on your windshield would be as opposed to the usual bevy of insects that you hit while driving.
No good unless your car is pre 2002. I believe that all cars nowdays are required to have a quick release to open the trunk. Unless of course your idea is to have the kids fly out of the trunk while on the freeway...
This fellow claimed 22 years of computer experience. What exactly that entailed, I can't say as he never elaborated in his missives back and forth.
My guess, given his understanding of the problem and the misunderstanding of the solutions provided to him, is that it was on a TRS-80 and he still has a room full of cassette tapes.
I agree. In fact, while we're busy insisting that words can't take on new meaning or have multiple meanings, I wish they'd stop referring to "executing" software unless they were killing it, or "running" it unless the softwere grew legs and ran away.
You're close. You can call it "running" if you have a jockey riding it around a track being chased by 7-8 other programs also ridden by jockeys.
I think Robert Townsend could do a better Blackula.
He probably could.
I still can't believe that anybody in their right mind would remake Mighty Joe Young. That was the first bad old remake I could think of other than Plan 9 From Outer Space, but I think that was sort of covered in the Ed Wood movie. Ah well.
Lucas said the Age of the Blockbuster, $200 million films, is over. I can't really see that. If you spent $200 million making a really incredible picture, it would bring in the audiences and pay for itself many times over. Problem is they spend $200 million on a bad movie.
This just in: Paramount announced today they intend to spend at least $200 million in a remake of Might Joe Young to capitalize on the success of King Kong.
Now if we could just get the Wayans Brothers to do their version of the Blackula series...
Ultimately, they cannot win. Contrary to what you say, we do not need the entertainment industry; until less than 200 years ago, they didn't even exist, yet humanity was doing quite fine. Did Bach, Mozart or Beethoven need the RIAA in order to be able to compose their works? Did Shakespeare need the Author's Guild in order to write? Did da Vinci need, well, whoever in order to pain the Mona Lisa? Not at all.
While I agree with your argument, actually daVinci may have needed some rich person or the church of the time to sponser his works. A lot of the paintings and sculptures from that area were in fact comissioned by the church, and hence the religious themes.
Again, I ask: that's different how? Old computers are still useful, we've just been indoctrinated in this disposable society to think otherwise. I know many less technically-oriented people who make computers last far more than the three years the OP stated.
That's right. I'm still using my Osborne I with good old CP/M. Long live SuperCalc and WordStar.:)
Hell, at 6'5" I'd settle for a car I could fit in. There are probably 3-4 cars that I can actually fit in without my head hitting the roof. One of those is a Touareg. The others seem to be pickup trucks. Oh, unless I want one of those Toyota Land Tanks, but they don't come with any munitions for my daily commute so that's out.
I'd buy an electric car in a heartbeat if I could actually fit in one and not feel like I was in a clown car and have it go more than 60 miles without having to recharge the bugger.
Rather than go to google.com and type shit in to see what comes up, Justice Dept. wants Google to do all the legwork to serve their agenda. Sure, Google isn't a defendant, but it's just as bad. They want to serve a subpeona requiring tons and tons of work on Google's part with no clear benefit to Google or even the American people.
So what is to prevent Google from just sitting on their ass for about 6 months,and just say, "Gee, you know we looked and looked, really really hard, but we just couldn't find anything."? Unless the Justice actually does some of their own research, how would they know?
The bigger question is, if Vista is actually shipped with backdoor by country coding, are you going to be able to go to Hong Kong or Bangkok and find a pirated version *without* the country code backdoor?
I had one too ( still do ). As you say, 24# and if I remember right, $1800 for a portable and another $700 for a dot matrix printer. I even have my brother's as well. Of course my folks got his at an auction after they went out of business. They paid about $200 for his.:p
Oh man, you haven't lived until you've swapped floppies to compile your pascal programs.:)
I remember using JRT Pascal when I was in college to do my work. It came on 3 floppies and you had to swap disks just to compile the damn thing. What a thrill it was when Turbo Pascal 1.0 came out. Just 1 floppy for a compiler! And I lived close enough to Borland at the time that I drove the 20 minutes over the hill to pick up my first copy.
Does this mean that Canadians who use P2P networks are also watching non-Canadian Television, listening to non-Canadian music - or at least more than 20% - and speaking english only in Quebec?
On a more serious note, where does someone sign up to conduct these moronic kind of studies? I'm sure that a lot of/.'ers could use the extra cash. Especially if they're throwing it out for studies like this.
Acutally they've been in contact with the PIAA (Plumbing Industry Association of America) and are working on installing waterproof microphones in showers. That way when you sing in the shower, they've got a whole new revenue source.
However if you're doing something else in the shower, the adult film industry might just join the RIAA to collect royalties there too.
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The aim of all this is to make the laws as similar as possible to the laws of that great shit heap some like to call the US congress.
I think most people just do call it "that great shit heap" and not bother to call it the US Congress.
Better yet, maybe they can train these dogs to sniff out the bad bits of my code. Then you'd have something worth paying for.
How many kids are online downloading child porn? Don't most kids just do the lo-tech thing and play doctor?
What a tool. If this wasn't an election year, I'd just think story this was one of those idiotic news specials that 20/20 or their ilk run to scare the populous of sheep.
Nowdays, there are so few places in Silicon Valley to buy new components it's criminal. Nobody seems to be interested in electronics anymore. There used to be a place that was the size of a Circut City or Best Buy, but it's been out of business for at least 20 years.
It makes me wonder where the next breakthroughs are going to come from on the hardware side.
Of course that does pose the question of how large the spot on your windshield would be as opposed to the usual bevy of insects that you hit while driving.
No good unless your car is pre 2002. I believe that all cars nowdays are required to have a quick release to open the trunk. Unless of course your idea is to have the kids fly out of the trunk while on the freeway...
Does this mean that Microsoft wants people to start trading pirated copies of Linux? Oh wait...
Haven't you seen the latest issue of Make? There's an article on turning your shopping cart in to a WiFi antenna...
My guess, given his understanding of the problem and the misunderstanding of the solutions provided to him, is that it was on a TRS-80 and he still has a room full of cassette tapes.
You're close. You can call it "running" if you have a jockey riding it around a track being chased by 7-8 other programs also ridden by jockeys.
He probably could.
I still can't believe that anybody in their right mind would remake Mighty Joe Young. That was the first bad old remake I could think of other than Plan 9 From Outer Space, but I think that was sort of covered in the Ed Wood movie. Ah well.
This just in: Paramount announced today they intend to spend at least $200 million in a remake of Might Joe Young to capitalize on the success of King Kong.
Now if we could just get the Wayans Brothers to do their version of the Blackula series...
You forgot all the chicks trying to flash the band. Oh wait, that's PalTalk.
While I agree with your argument, actually daVinci may have needed some rich person or the church of the time to sponser his works. A lot of the paintings and sculptures from that area were in fact comissioned by the church, and hence the religious themes.
That's right. I'm still using my Osborne I with good old CP/M. Long live SuperCalc and WordStar. :)
I'd buy an electric car in a heartbeat if I could actually fit in one and not feel like I was in a clown car and have it go more than 60 miles without having to recharge the bugger.
So what is to prevent Google from just sitting on their ass for about 6 months,and just say, "Gee, you know we looked and looked, really really hard, but we just couldn't find anything."? Unless the Justice actually does some of their own research, how would they know?
And apparently sarcasm is not understood...
The bigger question is, if Vista is actually shipped with backdoor by country coding, are you going to be able to go to Hong Kong or Bangkok and find a pirated version *without* the country code backdoor?
I had one too ( still do ). As you say, 24# and if I remember right, $1800 for a portable and another $700 for a dot matrix printer. I even have my brother's as well. Of course my folks got his at an auction after they went out of business. They paid about $200 for his. :p
I remember using JRT Pascal when I was in college to do my work. It came on 3 floppies and you had to swap disks just to compile the damn thing. What a thrill it was when Turbo Pascal 1.0 came out. Just 1 floppy for a compiler! And I lived close enough to Borland at the time that I drove the 20 minutes over the hill to pick up my first copy.
No, actually it's like arresting Stevie Wonder for peeking in your window.
The letter "o" for outdated as most of these "new" things quickly become.
On a more serious note, where does someone sign up to conduct these moronic kind of studies? I'm sure that a lot of /.'ers could use the extra cash. Especially if they're throwing it out for studies like this.
However if you're doing something else in the shower, the adult film industry might just join the RIAA to collect royalties there too.