... after everyone who would steal money from The Great Apple has bought one of these, The Great Apple pushes a manditory OSX upgrade. The upgrade just happens to break functionality with the dongle.
Bah. This all comes down to some micromanaging synergist having no clue as to what the meaning of "work" is.
Teachers get this same crap all the time, too. Not too long ago in Ontario, there was a huge, government-sponsored push to get teachers to "work" more. They went through a teacher's day, and started redefining what they counted as "real work"-- to the point where pretty much anything that wasn't standing by a blackboard and lecturing wasn't "work"
Fortunately that regime was voted out before they did too much damage, but the sentiment of "teachers spend half their day not working" lingered. Whenever someone brings it up, my fiance (a high school science teacher) fires back with an analogy. I think it's pretty applicable here, too.
Imagine you're a line worker at an automobile plant. You're paid to do 8 hours of work a day. Your job is to pick up a bunch of parts from a distribution bin, and then move down the line, applying those parts to the cars being built. Once you reach the end of the line and your parts are all used, you walk back to the start of the line to get more. Repeat.
Now imagine someone follows you around work for a day. At the end of it, they tell you "Well, we noticed that you take 10 minutes picking and sorting the part. Then we noticed that once you are done at the end of the line, it takes you 5 minutes to walk back to the parts bin. That's 15 minutes a round that you are spending NOT WORKING, because your job is to assemble parts. Well, you do 10 of these rounds a day. That's 150 minutes a day you aren't working. As such, we refuse to pay you for those 150 minutes every day.
I think you can imagine how well that assessment would be received.
For a teacher, there's a lot more "actual work" than teaching. Even putting aside the HOURS a day a teacher puts in during their own time, there's prep work, binder organization, classroom cleaning, lab setup-- all of which aren't necessarily "teaching", but they're work
So whenever an article like this comes out that criticizes a profession for not doing enough 'actual work'-- gah. If you have a boss like that, do yourself and your future ulcers a favor and update your resume.
google could redefine a cucumber as a small nocturnal mammal, and the whole world would fall in line. google search is all of our collective recall. it's the 800 pound gorilla of the web.
Excuse me, but I believe you mean "it's the 800 pound cucumber of the web".
How would the State of Kentucky "seize" a domain name registered in the Isle of Man anyway?
Simple. The judge says "I'm teh reel ultimate powerz and my gavel sez I PWN TEHSE NAMES ON THE TUBES!" And since he ordered it, it must obviously happen.
Next up, Judge Orders Construction of Perpetual Motion Machine.
And what happens when a family gets an IP address with a *ahem* "private subnet" that they don't approve of?
Great, I can see the fashion trend now. "And here's Anjolina Jolie sporting her new iPhone that's connected to the Internet using an abandoned IPv4 address she adopted from China."
"And coming up next on IQ Drain, we'll have world exclusive photos of Michael Jackson's new adopted IPv4 address. Ah, here it is-- wtf is that it's wearing?"
Not flaming, but in the interest of my own education, citation please? I've always wanted to know if gravity propagates instantaneously or at light speed (or any other speed), but the only answer I've ever gotten from physics profs and other research is "Probably, but we don't know".
Since gravity is such a weak force, there isn't any reliable way of clocking it. You can detect it fine over a short distance, but then Finish-Start is so small that any time measurements you'll get will be too wild due to measurement errors in your timekeeping devices. Over any distance long enough to overcome the measurement errors, gravity is too weak to detect at the end point (diminishing at an inverse square rate).
Caveat being that the last time I looked into this was about 4-5 years ago. If there has been any new developments in this area, I'd love to read about it.
Windows Must Restart Because the Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Service Terminated Unexpectedly (Windows)
Does Not Compute (Lost in Space, etc.)
The Red Ring of Death (Xbox 360)
Sad Mac (Macintosh)
404 File Not Found (Web)
The Blue Screen of Death (Windows)
And in refernce to the summary:
I chose to limit myself to one fictional error message in this list, but I could go on: If I ever produce a sequel to this story, I guarantee you that "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" will be on it,
You can see examples of this all over the place, not even just user interface design.
An example of this is with the card game Magic. When you put a creature card into play, you can't use it until your next turn. Recently they came up with a game play mechanic that lets you put a creature card onto the table, but out of play, for a reduced cost. On a later turn, it will pop into play by itself. According to the rules, it just "came into play", and as such you shouldn't be able to use is that turn. But the designers found that a majority of playtesters were using the creature anyways. It had been sitting on the table already (as opposed to in their hand)-- so through no mal-intention, it became natural to assume it was ready to be used. Rather than beating the rules into everyone, they instead changed them. Any creature that comes into play using that method CAN be used right away. It's what everyone would be doing anyways, so they designed the game towards the players, and not the other way around
Offtopic, but I had arugula for the first time the other week. It's actually really good. It's like spinach, but slightly more bitter, and with a very interesting nutty flavor. Throw on some tomato and a oil-dressing, and you've got yourself one mean salad. And it was cheaper than lettuce on the day I was in the store.
I don't know. A random stranger's one-line post on Slashdot has certainly convinced me that McCain is teh one. I'll be moving to America right away to vote for him. Wow, what a powerful and influential message that was. Thank God (the one and only) that he came along!
While I completely agree with your point, have you taken any steps to get around the ads? Although you shouldn't have to, you can try one of the following:
Make a backup of the DVD using DVD Shrink/Decrypt (or Mac the Ripper if you're on of those people). Copy only the main movie, or use the "strip out UOPs" options.
As soon as the disc is in, press STOP - STOP - PLAY. On most dvd players, this will hop right to the start of Chapter 1. (It's meant to be a "I lost the remote" mode)
Download an AVI of the movie, and make your own DVD
Again, I think anyone who thought up of unskippable content should be peeing glass-- but them's the cards and sometimes you need to know how to shuffle the deck.
Also, you might want to send Disney a postcard with your demographics and a note telling them there's no chance you'll be buying/watching those titles, for that reason. It's a drop in the bucket, but if enough people let them know their profits are at risk... who knows?
That's when you pick up something like the HDFury. It's HDMI on one end, Composite on the other. It'll do the handshaking for you, and pass on a 1080p analog signal. From there you can hook it up to whatever your TV has.
NewYorkCountryLawyer would have written it, but he's too busy being lawyer, physicist, neurosurgeon, Samurai, rock musician, Jet Car driver, and comic book hero. So he had to sit this one out.
Cover the damn thing in solar collectors, including the massive counterweight at the top. Run a power grid down the ribbon. Power anything that needs it off that, and feed the rest into the terrestrial power grid. Not only do you have a space elevator, but you've also gained an orbital power collected AND have solved the headaches involved in microwaving power down to Earth.
Little typos like that don't matter. I mean, things work just fine whenever I sign into BankFoAmercia.com. Okay, sometimes the initially login fails, and I have to login at BankOfAmerica.com again, but after that things are fine.
Strange, though, I never can seem to make my paychecks last more than a day or two. Hrm.
Are you kidding me? They have the slightly overweight balding guy in an old suit being a PC, and you don't think that's stereotyping? Sure, the Mac commercials went over other things too, but saying there wasn't any stereotyping going on is just silly. Maybe you should read my sig.
As much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft does have a point. I've always hated the Mac/PC commercials, because they never make any real point-- they only throw about strawmen and half-truth non-sequesters. And the entire run of commercials is just one big, poorly-veiled attack ad on Windows. "A PC is gray, therefore ever PC in the world runs slow. Hahahah. Buy a Mac.".
At the very least, the Microsoft ads are trying to define the PC market as more than a homogeneous lump of "gray box that can only do spreadsheets and smells like Grandpa". Unfortunately, at that point they just fall into the same trap as the PC/Mac commercials. A PC isn't a Windows box (as much as Apple or Microsoft would love to have people believe). They're still trying to tie usage of their operating system (which is really what they're selling-- they're trying to sell you on Vista) to a specific demographic of people (ie: "normal" people). They can't sell it on the OS's benefits, or value, or usability, or usefulness-- or anything, for that matter. So they're trying to use peer pressure.
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Not when you compare it against the money these dirty thieves steal by not purchasing the hardware that that OSX DVD was meant to be locked in...
Tell me that won't happen.
Bah. This all comes down to some micromanaging synergist having no clue as to what the meaning of "work" is.
Teachers get this same crap all the time, too. Not too long ago in Ontario, there was a huge, government-sponsored push to get teachers to "work" more. They went through a teacher's day, and started redefining what they counted as "real work"-- to the point where pretty much anything that wasn't standing by a blackboard and lecturing wasn't "work"
Fortunately that regime was voted out before they did too much damage, but the sentiment of "teachers spend half their day not working" lingered. Whenever someone brings it up, my fiance (a high school science teacher) fires back with an analogy. I think it's pretty applicable here, too.
Imagine you're a line worker at an automobile plant. You're paid to do 8 hours of work a day. Your job is to pick up a bunch of parts from a distribution bin, and then move down the line, applying those parts to the cars being built. Once you reach the end of the line and your parts are all used, you walk back to the start of the line to get more. Repeat.
Now imagine someone follows you around work for a day. At the end of it, they tell you "Well, we noticed that you take 10 minutes picking and sorting the part. Then we noticed that once you are done at the end of the line, it takes you 5 minutes to walk back to the parts bin. That's 15 minutes a round that you are spending NOT WORKING, because your job is to assemble parts. Well, you do 10 of these rounds a day. That's 150 minutes a day you aren't working. As such, we refuse to pay you for those 150 minutes every day.
I think you can imagine how well that assessment would be received.
For a teacher, there's a lot more "actual work" than teaching. Even putting aside the HOURS a day a teacher puts in during their own time, there's prep work, binder organization, classroom cleaning, lab setup-- all of which aren't necessarily "teaching", but they're work
So whenever an article like this comes out that criticizes a profession for not doing enough 'actual work'-- gah. If you have a boss like that, do yourself and your future ulcers a favor and update your resume.
Excuse me, but I believe you mean "it's the 800 pound cucumber of the web".
Simple. The judge says "I'm teh reel ultimate powerz and my gavel sez I PWN TEHSE NAMES ON THE TUBES!" And since he ordered it, it must obviously happen.
Next up, Judge Orders Construction of Perpetual Motion Machine.
R, man. Just R.
And what happens when a family gets an IP address with a *ahem* "private subnet" that they don't approve of?
Great, I can see the fashion trend now. "And here's Anjolina Jolie sporting her new iPhone that's connected to the Internet using an abandoned IPv4 address she adopted from China."
"And coming up next on IQ Drain, we'll have world exclusive photos of Michael Jackson's new adopted IPv4 address. Ah, here it is-- wtf is that it's wearing?"
"A feather subnet mask apparently."
Why not just invade Iran? I hear they have lots of IPv4 addresses there. Just tell people that terrorists are using them.
Actually, I believe the term you're looking for is anti anti-missile-missile missile
Not flaming, but in the interest of my own education, citation please? I've always wanted to know if gravity propagates instantaneously or at light speed (or any other speed), but the only answer I've ever gotten from physics profs and other research is "Probably, but we don't know".
Since gravity is such a weak force, there isn't any reliable way of clocking it. You can detect it fine over a short distance, but then Finish-Start is so small that any time measurements you'll get will be too wild due to measurement errors in your timekeeping devices. Over any distance long enough to overcome the measurement errors, gravity is too weak to detect at the end point (diminishing at an inverse square rate).
Caveat being that the last time I looked into this was about 4-5 years ago. If there has been any new developments in this area, I'd love to read about it.
For those who just want the lame list:
And in refernce to the summary:
You can see examples of this all over the place, not even just user interface design.
An example of this is with the card game Magic. When you put a creature card into play, you can't use it until your next turn. Recently they came up with a game play mechanic that lets you put a creature card onto the table, but out of play, for a reduced cost. On a later turn, it will pop into play by itself. According to the rules, it just "came into play", and as such you shouldn't be able to use is that turn. But the designers found that a majority of playtesters were using the creature anyways. It had been sitting on the table already (as opposed to in their hand)-- so through no mal-intention, it became natural to assume it was ready to be used. Rather than beating the rules into everyone, they instead changed them. Any creature that comes into play using that method CAN be used right away. It's what everyone would be doing anyways, so they designed the game towards the players, and not the other way around
And who are the non-humans who calibrate the non-humans who calibrate the systems?
Offtopic, but I had arugula for the first time the other week. It's actually really good. It's like spinach, but slightly more bitter, and with a very interesting nutty flavor. Throw on some tomato and a oil-dressing, and you've got yourself one mean salad. And it was cheaper than lettuce on the day I was in the store.
New motto while still keeping the message of change:
Hey, hey, do the brand new thing!
I don't know. A random stranger's one-line post on Slashdot has certainly convinced me that McCain is teh one. I'll be moving to America right away to vote for him. Wow, what a powerful and influential message that was. Thank God (the one and only) that he came along!
All those answers and more are available right here behind the magic link:
Penny Arcade answers your question
While I completely agree with your point, have you taken any steps to get around the ads? Although you shouldn't have to, you can try one of the following:
Again, I think anyone who thought up of unskippable content should be peeing glass-- but them's the cards and sometimes you need to know how to shuffle the deck.
Also, you might want to send Disney a postcard with your demographics and a note telling them there's no chance you'll be buying/watching those titles, for that reason. It's a drop in the bucket, but if enough people let them know their profits are at risk... who knows?
That's when you pick up something like the HDFury. It's HDMI on one end, Composite on the other. It'll do the handshaking for you, and pass on a 1080p analog signal. From there you can hook it up to whatever your TV has.
NewYorkCountryLawyer would have written it, but he's too busy being lawyer, physicist, neurosurgeon, Samurai, rock musician, Jet Car driver, and comic book hero. So he had to sit this one out.
Cover the damn thing in solar collectors, including the massive counterweight at the top. Run a power grid down the ribbon. Power anything that needs it off that, and feed the rest into the terrestrial power grid. Not only do you have a space elevator, but you've also gained an orbital power collected AND have solved the headaches involved in microwaving power down to Earth.
Little typos like that don't matter. I mean, things work just fine whenever I sign into BankFoAmercia.com. Okay, sometimes the initially login fails, and I have to login at BankOfAmerica.com again, but after that things are fine.
Strange, though, I never can seem to make my paychecks last more than a day or two. Hrm.
... "Because," Saracino continues, "Beer is not the sort of thing people drink at college."
Must have been Firefox's spellchecker hinting that I should be using more open-source software
As much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft does have a point. I've always hated the Mac/PC commercials, because they never make any real point-- they only throw about strawmen and half-truth non-sequesters. And the entire run of commercials is just one big, poorly-veiled attack ad on Windows. "A PC is gray, therefore ever PC in the world runs slow. Hahahah. Buy a Mac.".
At the very least, the Microsoft ads are trying to define the PC market as more than a homogeneous lump of "gray box that can only do spreadsheets and smells like Grandpa". Unfortunately, at that point they just fall into the same trap as the PC/Mac commercials. A PC isn't a Windows box (as much as Apple or Microsoft would love to have people believe). They're still trying to tie usage of their operating system (which is really what they're selling-- they're trying to sell you on Vista) to a specific demographic of people (ie: "normal" people). They can't sell it on the OS's benefits, or value, or usability, or usefulness-- or anything, for that matter. So they're trying to use peer pressure.