Seriously...I just have to believe salary is for suckers.
you should try working for a university. i get paid good, i get three weeks off a year in addition to two weeks at christmas and a half week at thanksgiving, if i'm ever asked to do anything outside of normal hours that time can be used as additional vacation time and i can hire student workers to do most of the tedious stuff while i read slashdot. oh yea... and i get snow days off too.
salary is for suckers? sure thing bud.
if you killed this dude and tried to take his cross, the hair on his chest would cling to it with the strength of god. if you did, somehow, manage to get it away from him, his nipples would cry tears of oily body goo.
Can't we just modify slot machines to also record votes for the American people? That way everyone knows that the more money you put in, the better chance you have of actually accomplishing something. All the while knowing that everything is rigged regardless.
Microsoft announced today that the Live Mesh servers are going dark on June 1. Any data that users stored in the Opens Fo' So' Live Mesh format will no longer be accessable.
Microsoft would like to remind its customers that its users should begin printing and re-keying any important documents before the g-dark date.
According to the Sony PR department, the name has been re-dubed Blu-Ager. When released to the market, it will come complete with state-of-the-art DRM that will ensure that your Blu-Ager powered bio battery will consistently perform in any qualifying Sony product. The PR rep would not comment on my question about using this battery in any non-qualifying product.
Censorship-empowered governments are fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
If censorship and democracy were truly black and white issues, as your statement seems to suggest, we wouldn't be having this debate. What it comes down to is the fact that some amount of censorship is, in fact, the will of the people. Some material, be it art or propaganda is too explicit for mass consumption. I am including in that statement both children and adults because dividing the two groups at an arbitrary chronological date is, in my opinion, impossible. This opinion of what too-explicit actually is should never be fixed in stone and in a democratic society it never is. Laws are changed and overturned as societies evolve and that is an important and healthy aspect of any democratic society.
If you had a society that completely opposed censorship, wouldn't that society cease to be a democracy since it no longer had the ability to adapt to its people and their desires?
It looks like the MS & Linux war is finally starting to take shape. At least now I have a side to stand on. Someone get me my red hat and a cup of ubuntu, I've got partitions to make.
I actually like the idea of Governments acting to protect its citizens. Ideally, in a democratic government the mass of people empower a small group of people to serve in their best interest. This group uses the power they have been given to do what they think is best. If this means banning books about how to murder people, stopping web sites from displaying child-exploiting material and preventing the distribution of video games that destigmatize violence then how can we blame them for doing what they think is right? Isn't this their job just as it is our job to remove them from power once they no longer serve the will of the people?
I'm running a Win XP PC at home with a hauppage PVR150 in it but instead of running the windows crap for watching TV, I just use gbpvr and I have not had a problem with DRM yet.
MS could come out tomorrow and say that they will be donating $100 million dollars a day to the development and enhancement of Ubuntu as a replacement for the failed Windows Vista and everyone would still be filling up the/. comments sections with "on noes" and ??? > profit! all day long. Not that I would not agree and then wrap foil over my unbuntu distro CDs, I'm just saying it is about time MS just give up and embrace their evilness.
Apparently Mr. Cruise's agent has also made her way onto/.
As I said in our meeting this morning, we are working with the U.S. Senate to have history books re-written to accurately depict the order of events as stated by Mr. Cruise and Mr. Hubbard. As I also mentioned, because many of the Senators are interested in this seeing the truth appear in textbooks and on film, we have generously donated to their upcoming campaigns which all but assures this legislation will take precedence on the Senate floor.
Shall we continue this conversation aboard your spacecraft this evening as originally planned?
Apparently the script for the newest Michael Bay movie has made its way onto/.
Since the cat is already out of the bag, I can confirm that Oprah has signed on to play the Supervolcano and we are currently working out an agreement with Tom Cruise. Like all Holywood movies, we based everything on a ytmnd clip
So let me get this straight... we stop a good product because you can no longer make money selling your services to companies? If there truly no longer is a need for the services you offer, why should we support you?
Screw the public information campaign, if those really worked we would have said good by to drugs, teen pregnancy, drinking and driving and Windows long again. Instead just tax the shit out of incandescent light bulbs and make the idiots who want to cling to the past pay for their nostalgia.
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Someone, quick, alert microsoft. There is still time to get that patent application in!!!111!
Just announced, Microsoft confirms the Plume. It's a phone that's 3 ½ inches thick, runs the full- blown windows vista, plays the new we-promise-it-will-always-play DRM'd music and has 9600 baud dial up modem, and has the ability to take and print pictures with optional ink and paper tray attachment. Welcome to the social, now where is everyone.
Have you listened to those stupid commercials? In case not, here is an official transcript.
Joe Sixpack: "I want a computer."
Dell-Idiot: "Let's build you a custom dell."
Joe Sixpack: "Cool. I want to play games on it."
Dell-Idiot: "Lets upgrade you to a massive 19" flat panel and an intel processor"
Joe Sixpack: "Awesome, that's like totally customized."
Dell-Idiot: "Your super-customized computer will be at your doorstep in just three days"
Joe Sixpack: "I rock."
"most people just want something that works"
Yea, maybe that is true but I find that one factor just as important as working, is working the way I want it to. I'm not sure this falls under the argument of control or not, it falls more under the argument of bloat.
I think the major problem with software is the constant need to release new versions. These new versions are always loaded with new features and these new features always end up breaking something. When they finally get patched, they just end up bogging down my system to the point where my AMD X2 4400+ feels like a turd. Seriously, everything does not need its own service, an icon in the task bar, integration into the shell or a stupid option that checks for updates every ten seconds. This is bloat and I hate bloat, i think everyone hates bloat but people need to sell new versions of perfectly fine apps, so here it comes.
As an example, this is why I use an old version of nero on my machine. I've always loved nero and there was a point where i could not wait to download the next version to see how they've fixed and polished one of my favorite apps. Then there came a point where sifting through the list of crap that it was trying to install became absurd. I just wanted to burn CD's not have a piece of software that could shave my nuts. So i stopped upgrading. All the bugs were gone, the app did exactly what i needed it to do so why keep chasing a ghost?
i think the more technology evolves the more we will see this. Imagine what office 2050 will look like? How many more tools does a word processor need? Hopefully, apps like word, itunes, nero and maybe even firefox will become something like the good old calculator; it does what it is designed to do and nothing more./ramble
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Seriously...I just have to believe salary is for suckers.
you should try working for a university. i get paid good, i get three weeks off a year in addition to two weeks at christmas and a half week at thanksgiving, if i'm ever asked to do anything outside of normal hours that time can be used as additional vacation time and i can hire student workers to do most of the tedious stuff while i read slashdot. oh yea... and i get snow days off too. salary is for suckers? sure thing bud.
if you killed this dude and tried to take his cross, the hair on his chest would cling to it with the strength of god. if you did, somehow, manage to get it away from him, his nipples would cry tears of oily body goo.
someone get me a can of WD40 and a lighter.
"The State Department is apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."
Yea... like the US is in any position to talk these days.
Can't we just modify slot machines to also record votes for the American people? That way everyone knows that the more money you put in, the better chance you have of actually accomplishing something. All the while knowing that everything is rigged regardless.
Microsoft announced today that the Live Mesh servers are going dark on June 1. Any data that users stored in the Opens Fo' So' Live Mesh format will no longer be accessable. Microsoft would like to remind its customers that its users should begin printing and re-keying any important documents before the g-dark date.
At least the heat from the laptop will keep most of them from reproducing.
According to the Sony PR department, the name has been re-dubed Blu-Ager. When released to the market, it will come complete with state-of-the-art DRM that will ensure that your Blu-Ager powered bio battery will consistently perform in any qualifying Sony product. The PR rep would not comment on my question about using this battery in any non-qualifying product.
Each battery is expected to cost $700.
Censorship-empowered governments are fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
If censorship and democracy were truly black and white issues, as your statement seems to suggest, we wouldn't be having this debate. What it comes down to is the fact that some amount of censorship is, in fact, the will of the people. Some material, be it art or propaganda is too explicit for mass consumption. I am including in that statement both children and adults because dividing the two groups at an arbitrary chronological date is, in my opinion, impossible. This opinion of what too-explicit actually is should never be fixed in stone and in a democratic society it never is. Laws are changed and overturned as societies evolve and that is an important and healthy aspect of any democratic society.
If you had a society that completely opposed censorship, wouldn't that society cease to be a democracy since it no longer had the ability to adapt to its people and their desires?
It looks like the MS & Linux war is finally starting to take shape. At least now I have a side to stand on. Someone get me my red hat and a cup of ubuntu, I've got partitions to make.
I actually like the idea of Governments acting to protect its citizens. Ideally, in a democratic government the mass of people empower a small group of people to serve in their best interest. This group uses the power they have been given to do what they think is best. If this means banning books about how to murder people, stopping web sites from displaying child-exploiting material and preventing the distribution of video games that destigmatize violence then how can we blame them for doing what they think is right? Isn't this their job just as it is our job to remove them from power once they no longer serve the will of the people?
of course i didn't report it to apple. i just bitched about it on /. like any good /.'er would do.
then i went and found a fix.
does anyone else get the completely-unusable-font-version of Safari after they install? I had this problem with 3 and now with 3.0.1.
So we should expect to see another knock-off update to IE in about three... two...
I'm running a Win XP PC at home with a hauppage PVR150 in it but instead of running the windows crap for watching TV, I just use gbpvr and I have not had a problem with DRM yet.
252. While at Carhenge, drive the earth into the sun! [1,000,000,000 points; 2 points for effort]
Someone better get homeland security on the phone.
MS could come out tomorrow and say that they will be donating $100 million dollars a day to the development and enhancement of Ubuntu as a replacement for the failed Windows Vista and everyone would still be filling up the /. comments sections with "on noes" and ??? > profit! all day long. Not that I would not agree and then wrap foil over my unbuntu distro CDs, I'm just saying it is about time MS just give up and embrace their evilness.
Apparently Mr. Cruise's agent has also made her way onto /.
As I said in our meeting this morning, we are working with the U.S. Senate to have history books re-written to accurately depict the order of events as stated by Mr. Cruise and Mr. Hubbard. As I also mentioned, because many of the Senators are interested in this seeing the truth appear in textbooks and on film, we have generously donated to their upcoming campaigns which all but assures this legislation will take precedence on the Senate floor.
Shall we continue this conversation aboard your spacecraft this evening as originally planned?
Apparently the script for the newest Michael Bay movie has made its way onto /.
Since the cat is already out of the bag, I can confirm that Oprah has signed on to play the Supervolcano and we are currently working out an agreement with Tom Cruise. Like all Holywood movies, we based everything on a ytmnd clip
So let me get this straight... we stop a good product because you can no longer make money selling your services to companies? If there truly no longer is a need for the services you offer, why should we support you?
Screw the public information campaign, if those really worked we would have said good by to drugs, teen pregnancy, drinking and driving and Windows long again. Instead just tax the shit out of incandescent light bulbs and make the idiots who want to cling to the past pay for their nostalgia.
Someone, quick, alert microsoft. There is still time to get that patent application in!!!111!
Just announced, Microsoft confirms the Plume. It's a phone that's 3 ½ inches thick, runs the full- blown windows vista, plays the new we-promise-it-will-always-play DRM'd music and has 9600 baud dial up modem, and has the ability to take and print pictures with optional ink and paper tray attachment. Welcome to the social, now where is everyone.
I've been waiting for that all day.....
Have you listened to those stupid commercials? In case not, here is an official transcript. Joe Sixpack: "I want a computer." Dell-Idiot: "Let's build you a custom dell." Joe Sixpack: "Cool. I want to play games on it." Dell-Idiot: "Lets upgrade you to a massive 19" flat panel and an intel processor" Joe Sixpack: "Awesome, that's like totally customized." Dell-Idiot: "Your super-customized computer will be at your doorstep in just three days" Joe Sixpack: "I rock."
"most people just want something that works" Yea, maybe that is true but I find that one factor just as important as working, is working the way I want it to. I'm not sure this falls under the argument of control or not, it falls more under the argument of bloat. I think the major problem with software is the constant need to release new versions. These new versions are always loaded with new features and these new features always end up breaking something. When they finally get patched, they just end up bogging down my system to the point where my AMD X2 4400+ feels like a turd. Seriously, everything does not need its own service, an icon in the task bar, integration into the shell or a stupid option that checks for updates every ten seconds. This is bloat and I hate bloat, i think everyone hates bloat but people need to sell new versions of perfectly fine apps, so here it comes. As an example, this is why I use an old version of nero on my machine. I've always loved nero and there was a point where i could not wait to download the next version to see how they've fixed and polished one of my favorite apps. Then there came a point where sifting through the list of crap that it was trying to install became absurd. I just wanted to burn CD's not have a piece of software that could shave my nuts. So i stopped upgrading. All the bugs were gone, the app did exactly what i needed it to do so why keep chasing a ghost? i think the more technology evolves the more we will see this. Imagine what office 2050 will look like? How many more tools does a word processor need? Hopefully, apps like word, itunes, nero and maybe even firefox will become something like the good old calculator; it does what it is designed to do and nothing more. /ramble