Scraping the bottom of the entertainment barrel, are we? 'Snot funny, even to/b/tards; nothin' against it, it just lacks enough humor to qualify as funny. And while it probably wouldn't make a dent, I can half-imagine some little script kiddie saying, "omg/. bork'd rulz wun n tew? imma chargin mah lazorz!" and targeting/. w/ his LOIC...
This questions was actually Slashdot-worthy? Ya know, unlike a certain other board, Slashdot actually was good at some point in the past...
But to answer the last question I'll ever answer here: tattoos are meant to be personal. If you have to ask someone else if/what you should get permanenly marked on your skin, you should probably not be considering getting a tattoo at all. Operating under the assumption that you'll go ahead with it, are there mathematical formulas and/or symbols that actually mean something to you on an emotional level? Those are what you should get.
Seriously, though, don't take any answers from here. If you do, you'll be just like every other tattooed hipster douchebag trying to be socially ironic: permanently stamped with FAIL.
1: You get what you pay for, and these boogers are practically disposable.
2: I got the granddaddy of 'em all, the Eee PC 701, the split-second they hit the market. Aside from some case damage from taking it apart w/o a guide, still runs like a dream.
I applaud you, good sir. I went so far as to read your comment to my wife. Her response: "That's class." You've garnered much respect from us. I understand why you posted as AC, but we wish we knew who you were, that we might boost your sales and readership...
An anonymous peer-to-peer EULA-accepting client! Maybe it could make screencap vids and records your specifically stating that you DO NOT ACCEPT THE EULA.
A guy calls up and says, "Yeah, they told me I need your help. I got this card in the mail, and I need to put an e-file in my modem." Turned out the card was a 3.5" floppy, the e-file was a database update, and the modem was his CPU. The rest of the call consisted of me getting the job done by remote control, all the while ignoring him throwing about tech terms and buzzwords he'd heard somewhere and had no inkling of their meanings.
Glider sounds like nothing more than WinBatch, or VisualBasic's (or any other language's) SendKeys. If software that automates input is truly illegal, how far down does it go? Would this apply to the BIOS (or whatever) that feeds op instructions to the CPU?
If the patents are on the genes themselves, and a significant enough portion of the population carries the genes (i.e. enough to merit a study), then wouldn't the DNA of everyone who carries said genes qualify as prior art and thus be grounds for patent revocation?
Kinda puts an interesting spin on the phrase "Cost of Living"...
Two worst I've seen: 1) While I've chopped patch patch cables in half and turned 'em into crossovers, this one place I toured got a good deal on pre-made crossovers and chopped & spliced them into patch cables for over 50 PCs; 2) Where I work now, a former employee jacked a cable modem straight into a Win9x peer-to-peer network, despite my protests (scary part of that was that he said, and I quote, "Oh, I do this all the time and it's never been a problem before." I spent the next week reinstalling Win98 and software...)
Wrong section of the orchestra, perhaps, but Power Tab (http://www.power-tab.net/) renders guitar tablatures as sheet music. Also imports MIDI. The program's free, but last I checked the legality of most of the guitar tab sites was in question...
The memory of such an apocalyptic event may have made sand-glass gems a desirable symbol, meant to emphasize the pharaoh's heavenly powers."
Or maybe, it's just a pretty sparkly shiny bouble...
with closed eyes. If possible, "step outside yourself" and see the silliness of it.
Of course, im my book ain't nuthin' wrong with a shot and a beer before the test...
At the company I work at, I'd say 90-95% of our manuals consist of screenshots with arrows, and everything's broken up into the smallest possible steps. Our typical users range from "computer-ally ignorant" to "technophobic". The few users who have actually bothered to read the manuals tell us they're the best manuals they've ever read.
Being a geek, I usually don't need manuals, but on the few occasions hell had a cold front go through, I tended to gravitate toward manuals that read more like FAQs.
I kinda get the feeling that this majority might just be afraid to say they mind.
And in the words of Nirvana: "Just 'cause you're not paranoid, don't mean they're not after you."
The Geneva Convention says you can't use lasers to blind people on purpose, but if it just happens to blind people while using it for its primary purpose, it's OK.
A girl I was infatuated with got me hooked on Piers Anthony, specifically his Adept series. Good blend of sci-fi and "girly stuff" (unicorns, chivalry, etc.).
FTFA: Certainly the aging of the Pokémon generation--the first to have widespread exposure to anime at a young age--
When did Speed Racer start airing over here? That was the first anime I ever saw.
I'm all self-taught, so I have my own style which others tell me is impossible to make heads or tails of. The standard is: the boss promises stuff to our clients, and I have to whip it out [snicker] as fast as possible. Doesn't leave much time to make easy on those who would come after me. I jokingly call the mess of code I have to make JOB SECURITY.
I work at a small software company, with international contracts, consisting of 4 people. I am head ot tech support and the only active programmer. The more I can automate, the lighter my workload gets, and the less likely I am to end up in a clock tower with a sniper rifle. Am I the exception to the rule?
I agree with your point, but what I meant (and should've said) is that it's usually in the first 5-15 seconds. I known I'm not going to be instantly good at everything. I guess maybe I'm one of the people things would need to be "dumbed down" for, as I rather expect a chance to actually play the game a little before I take a bullet to the brain.
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Scraping the bottom of the entertainment barrel, are we? 'Snot funny, even to /b/tards; nothin' against it, it just lacks enough humor to qualify as funny. And while it probably wouldn't make a dent, I can half-imagine some little script kiddie saying, "omg /. bork'd rulz wun n tew? imma chargin mah lazorz!" and targeting /. w/ his LOIC...
This questions was actually Slashdot-worthy? Ya know, unlike a certain other board, Slashdot actually was good at some point in the past... But to answer the last question I'll ever answer here: tattoos are meant to be personal. If you have to ask someone else if/what you should get permanenly marked on your skin, you should probably not be considering getting a tattoo at all. Operating under the assumption that you'll go ahead with it, are there mathematical formulas and/or symbols that actually mean something to you on an emotional level? Those are what you should get. Seriously, though, don't take any answers from here. If you do, you'll be just like every other tattooed hipster douchebag trying to be socially ironic: permanently stamped with FAIL.
1: You get what you pay for, and these boogers are practically disposable. 2: I got the granddaddy of 'em all, the Eee PC 701, the split-second they hit the market. Aside from some case damage from taking it apart w/o a guide, still runs like a dream.
I applaud you, good sir. I went so far as to read your comment to my wife. Her response: "That's class." You've garnered much respect from us. I understand why you posted as AC, but we wish we knew who you were, that we might boost your sales and readership...
An anonymous peer-to-peer EULA-accepting client! Maybe it could make screencap vids and records your specifically stating that you DO NOT ACCEPT THE EULA.
A guy calls up and says, "Yeah, they told me I need your help. I got this card in the mail, and I need to put an e-file in my modem." Turned out the card was a 3.5" floppy, the e-file was a database update, and the modem was his CPU. The rest of the call consisted of me getting the job done by remote control, all the while ignoring him throwing about tech terms and buzzwords he'd heard somewhere and had no inkling of their meanings.
Skimmed TFA, and noted the little typo in the summary. And with that it mind, this thing nothing more than souped-up external FireWire drive.
Glider sounds like nothing more than WinBatch, or VisualBasic's (or any other language's) SendKeys. If software that automates input is truly illegal, how far down does it go? Would this apply to the BIOS (or whatever) that feeds op instructions to the CPU?
If the patents are on the genes themselves, and a significant enough portion of the population carries the genes (i.e. enough to merit a study), then wouldn't the DNA of everyone who carries said genes qualify as prior art and thus be grounds for patent revocation? Kinda puts an interesting spin on the phrase "Cost of Living"...
Two worst I've seen: 1) While I've chopped patch patch cables in half and turned 'em into crossovers, this one place I toured got a good deal on pre-made crossovers and chopped & spliced them into patch cables for over 50 PCs; 2) Where I work now, a former employee jacked a cable modem straight into a Win9x peer-to-peer network, despite my protests (scary part of that was that he said, and I quote, "Oh, I do this all the time and it's never been a problem before." I spent the next week reinstalling Win98 and software...)
Wrong section of the orchestra, perhaps, but Power Tab (http://www.power-tab.net/) renders guitar tablatures as sheet music. Also imports MIDI. The program's free, but last I checked the legality of most of the guitar tab sites was in question...
The memory of such an apocalyptic event may have made sand-glass gems a desirable symbol, meant to emphasize the pharaoh's heavenly powers." Or maybe, it's just a pretty sparkly shiny bouble...
with closed eyes. If possible, "step outside yourself" and see the silliness of it. Of course, im my book ain't nuthin' wrong with a shot and a beer before the test...
At the company I work at, I'd say 90-95% of our manuals consist of screenshots with arrows, and everything's broken up into the smallest possible steps. Our typical users range from "computer-ally ignorant" to "technophobic". The few users who have actually bothered to read the manuals tell us they're the best manuals they've ever read.
Being a geek, I usually don't need manuals, but on the few occasions hell had a cold front go through, I tended to gravitate toward manuals that read more like FAQs.
YMMV.
In my mind's eye, I see a samurai named Sony running a katana through his belly...
Ok, I mangled the quote, but point made anyways.
I kinda get the feeling that this majority might just be afraid to say they mind. And in the words of Nirvana: "Just 'cause you're not paranoid, don't mean they're not after you."
The Geneva Convention says you can't use lasers to blind people on purpose, but if it just happens to blind people while using it for its primary purpose, it's OK.
Sounds to me more like Sony didn't have a finger-pointing target, so they created one.
A girl I was infatuated with got me hooked on Piers Anthony, specifically his Adept series. Good blend of sci-fi and "girly stuff" (unicorns, chivalry, etc.).
FTFA: Certainly the aging of the Pokémon generation--the first to have widespread exposure to anime at a young age-- When did Speed Racer start airing over here? That was the first anime I ever saw.
I'm all self-taught, so I have my own style which others tell me is impossible to make heads or tails of. The standard is: the boss promises stuff to our clients, and I have to whip it out [snicker] as fast as possible. Doesn't leave much time to make easy on those who would come after me. I jokingly call the mess of code I have to make JOB SECURITY.
I work at a small software company, with international contracts, consisting of 4 people. I am head ot tech support and the only active programmer. The more I can automate, the lighter my workload gets, and the less likely I am to end up in a clock tower with a sniper rifle. Am I the exception to the rule?
I agree with your point, but what I meant (and should've said) is that it's usually in the first 5-15 seconds. I known I'm not going to be instantly good at everything. I guess maybe I'm one of the people things would need to be "dumbed down" for, as I rather expect a chance to actually play the game a little before I take a bullet to the brain.
Every time I've even attempted to play an MMOG, the first thing that happens is I get my ass handed to me. Is that supposed to be fun?