True, but the great advantage for the criminal is that you can watch an old lady enter her PIN (many of them mutter the code as they enter it), follow her outside, hit her with a brick, take the card, and empty her bank account.
Well, now, Troy certainly was pretty sucky. But besides that, I think I recently came to understand why Hollywood buys books and amkes completely different films form them - e.g. I Robot, Constantine, etc. etc.
And this epiphany came from reading a review of The Avengers...
The reviewer pointed out that Avengers fans hate the Avengers film, because it can not be the Avengers; no matter how well Finnes and Thurman act, they can never be MacNee and Rigg.
But at the same time, regualar film goers hate the Avengers because it is nearly an Avengers film; they find the cosntant stream of surrealistic stuff too rich for their tastes.
So the film maker, trying to adapt an existing work, will always loose if she tries to copy the source exactly.
So, why adapt at all? Because adapting means that the public will have vaguely heard of it before as something that is "good", and so it might tip them over the edge into seeing it.
Hence "I, Robot"; sure, it pisses over everything Asimov ever taught us, but we were always going to find fault with it; the general public just want to see a film where Will Smith runs some robots over in his car, but for a few quid you can give it a name that might ring a few bells.
So, the correct approach for the new Enders Game film is this:
Don't go and see it, because you will probably hate it. But at least Mr Card gets a pile of cash. (Even if you think Mr Card is broke, don't go see it or buy the DVD, buy a few copies of Enders Game and give them to people who've never read it.)
I used this technique on Mystery Men, and feel a lot better for it. Piece of shit, but a pile of cash for the sainted Bob Burden that hopefully will go to making more Flaming Carrot comics. I worked out how much I would have spent on it, and bought FC comics instead.
Sorry, let me get this straight, this is a new thing because previously people have't been replacing the case with a wooden case, but because they've been covering the case with wood?
Tourist attraction? Saturn's rings, plus the Earth/Moon double planet, might be interesting.
Or art? I always imagined that in the replicator-rich society of Star Trek, original art would be one of the few valuable things left. It's an interesting area of thought, ruined of course by the script writers breaking the replicators every five minutes for plot reasons.
Sounds like a good idea, but of course the point of GNU/Linux is that it is not one product but a zillion products that you glue together to make a computer. So how do you make something new a standard for a zillion applications?
Do the KDA and Gnome people have any insight? How do they make people conform to their standards?
All that can, I guess, be done is for someone to implement a registry framework (including lots of tools to manipulate it for people, and a dev kit to make it trivial to build into your product), enlist a few dozen high profile applications to use it, and then hope that it catches on.
While I of course hate the Grammar Nazis almost (but not quite) as much as I hate the regular Nazis, I feel that, as a great admirer of the pint of plain, I must point out that the word is actually spelt "Guinness".
I suspect there is some ridiculous "methodology" called "Agile" that those silly programmers use to try and make their code less sucky, and the poster wonders if it could be usefully applied to SA work.
Well, unless it involves us learning how to get a job where we can put any misconfigured piece of DHCP request answering shit on someones production network, then go away to play pool on the table that was installed "because we're creative and have special needs", then I don't really want to know...
Processes are bad. "Hey, my account won't let me sign in!" "Yeah man, that new account generation proccess that ensures you get access to the dozen departmental systems that people designed themselves because they know better, that was just too fascist for me man!"
Deliver stuff early when it partially works - yes, we SAs invented that, it's called kludging.
Talking to people in your team is a good way of communicating - yes, also we've heard there's this thing called fire that you can use to heat things up.
Working software is the primary measure of progress - you don't say! Really? I also heard there's this thing called fire that you can use to make cold things hotter.
You should try to make your software well designed and technially excellent - that's where my Perl scripts have been going wrong! I've been trying to make them shit all this time! D'oh!
Motivated people make better programmers - cattle prods are motivating, aren't they?
Do I sound bitter? Well, today I had to spend an hour of my life (that I won't get back again) teaching a perfecty intelligent person how to jump through the stupid hoops needed to make a piece of shoddy software designed by an intellectually challenged monkey perform a simple task for them. Yeah, making all twenty icons look the same, that was good idea. Maximise should show you more of the current document? No way man, it's just a conspiracy - don't let those Micro$oft bastards force you to comply to interface standards.
I disagree, as Mumma points out, by the tie he phones them they have already broken the law; he says himself that removing his addresses does not absolve them from being sued - although he admits it is probably a good idea, as continuing to spam him would be bad.
And he would no doubt argue that he was being helpful by providing them not just with his domain, but with lots of domains that have not opted-in.
He's trying to hire a skilled Linux Admin in his example. If he were trying to hire an unskilled person who he could turn into a skilled admin, that's what he would do. And companies do occasionally do this; provided you have the luxury of not needing them to be productive immediately, hiring an unskilled can have advantages (basically, you can pay them peanuts, and you get to make them in your own image - they have no bad habits to unlearn)
I started by becoming a very low level SA for my university the year after I graduated. That gave me a year of experience, enough to get me a better job for another few years, and that gave me enough experience to get a junior SA role at my current company, where now I'm #2 SA worldwide. So it can be done.
In 2003/2004 the license fee was about $20 a month.
Hmm, the page I got that from had an interesting breakdown of how they spent it:
* BBC One £3.37
* BBC Two £1.45
* Digital television channels £0.98
* Transmission and collection costs £0.98
* BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live £0.99
* Digital radio stations £0.08
* Nations & English Regions television £0.90
* Local radio £0.61
* bbc.co.uk £0.31 Total £9.67
For those not familiar with their work:
BBC one is the mainstream TV channel. This is where Dr. Who would be found. One is a difficult channel for the BBC since they have to work out how much it should compete with commercial TV.
BBC two is for less popular TV stuff. Often programs start on two, gain a following, and transfer to one.
Digital TV - they repeat one and two, and add three (more entertainment), four (more factual), two kids channels, a 24 hour news channel, and a channel showing what parliament is doing. the key on is three, which basically the Govt. forces them to do in order to encourage people to go digital (e.g. they show new series here first) so that it will be easy to turn off the analogue one day.
The national radio stations: one is new popular music; two is non-new popular music, comedy, other music genres; three is classical; four is speech; five is sport and news.
Digital radio is as digital TV; they rebroadcast and add some more channels. Seven is absolutely brilliant as they play their back catalogue of incredible radio stuff.
Regional TV is mostly news, although some of the larger regions make their own stuff. Northern Ireland and Wales especially.
Local Radio is mostly awful except for London and the odd show.
All the radio can be heard on their web page, with most shows available for a week after their original transmission. This alone nearly justifies the license fee for me!
The point is more that your data and applications become disassociated with your hardware.
So you have a laptop, and a desktop, and a desktop in the office, and they all see the same data, as does the screen in the local Starbucks, and the one at the library, and the one in the phone booth, and the one at the client site, and the one built into your car, and the one in your PDA, and the one in your ipod, and the one in your mobile phone.
I think computers should be like stationery. You go to the closet, pick up a terminal, authenticate, bam all your data is there.
Couldn't we save time with an automatic reply to any submitted question that reads:
"Dear $submitter, Thank you for asking slashdot how to do $something.
We've asked around, and apparently only a complete moron would want to do $something. In fact, the goatsce guy has more self-respect than to try doing $something. Did you know that every time someone does $something, a kernel hacker dies?
In short, we suggest you kill yourself messily and see if that helps you with the whole $something thing.
Wouldn't that be easy to write e.g. a perl script to do that? Get a list of the file sizes, work out where to make the split, and shell out to the burner software?
I'll go out on a limb and suggest it is a cable that you can run Ethernet over. This is a broad definition, of course, but that does not make it an invalid one.
For that matter, CAT6E is no good for my friend Ernies ethernet network - the RJ45 doesn't fit his switch's AUI ports no matter how hard I push it in.
Anyone who wants to find a joke about Gay sex in there, I hear Kuro5hin are hiring moderators...
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True, but the great advantage for the criminal is that you can watch an old lady enter her PIN (many of them mutter the code as they enter it), follow her outside, hit her with a brick, take the card, and empty her bank account.
Well, now, Troy certainly was pretty sucky. But besides that, I think I recently came to understand why Hollywood buys books and amkes completely different films form them - e.g. I Robot, Constantine, etc. etc.
And this epiphany came from reading a review of The Avengers...
The reviewer pointed out that Avengers fans hate the Avengers film, because it can not be the Avengers; no matter how well Finnes and Thurman act, they can never be MacNee and Rigg.
But at the same time, regualar film goers hate the Avengers because it is nearly an Avengers film; they find the cosntant stream of surrealistic stuff too rich for their tastes.
So the film maker, trying to adapt an existing work, will always loose if she tries to copy the source exactly.
So, why adapt at all? Because adapting means that the public will have vaguely heard of it before as something that is "good", and so it might tip them over the edge into seeing it.
Hence "I, Robot"; sure, it pisses over everything Asimov ever taught us, but we were always going to find fault with it; the general public just want to see a film where Will Smith runs some robots over in his car, but for a few quid you can give it a name that might ring a few bells.
So, the correct approach for the new Enders Game film is this:
Don't go and see it, because you will probably hate it. But at least Mr Card gets a pile of cash. (Even if you think Mr Card is broke, don't go see it or buy the DVD, buy a few copies of Enders Game and give them to people who've never read it.)
I used this technique on Mystery Men, and feel a lot better for it. Piece of shit, but a pile of cash for the sainted Bob Burden that hopefully will go to making more Flaming Carrot comics. I worked out how much I would have spent on it, and bought FC comics instead.
Sorry, let me get this straight, this is a new thing because previously people have't been replacing the case with a wooden case, but because they've been covering the case with wood?
My dear boy, "bad quality homemade ninja movie" isn't a warning around here, it's a compliment.
In fact, a quick google reveals that this technique has been around since the 1920s.
Cor, 80 years old, just think of how many times this could have been a dupe post...
You could admire the rings or the moon without having to obliterate the human race.
Well, I don't know about you, but when I visit a tourist place I do like to try the local cuisine.
Of course, since the aliens have completely different terms of perception than we do, they probably would prefer clown paintings to Constable...
Sigh... Take a 3 kg weight and lift it off your desk about 3 inches. That was easy, wasn't it?
Now, hold it there for four hours to simulate a long gaming session. That was agonizingly painful, wasn't it?
Tourist attraction? Saturn's rings, plus the Earth/Moon double planet, might be interesting.
Or art? I always imagined that in the replicator-rich society of Star Trek, original art would be one of the few valuable things left. It's an interesting area of thought, ruined of course by the script writers breaking the replicators every five minutes for plot reasons.
Well, no.
Don't get me wrong, this is a cool hack, but a 17" powerbook weighs over 3 kilograms.
You know how your Xbox controller was a bit big? Well, it wasn't that big.
Who cares how nVidia or ATI design their chips?
ATI and nVidia, in that order.
Sounds like a good idea, but of course the point of GNU/Linux is that it is not one product but a zillion products that you glue together to make a computer. So how do you make something new a standard for a zillion applications?
Do the KDA and Gnome people have any insight? How do they make people conform to their standards?
All that can, I guess, be done is for someone to implement a registry framework (including lots of tools to manipulate it for people, and a dev kit to make it trivial to build into your product), enlist a few dozen high profile applications to use it, and then hope that it catches on.
While I of course hate the Grammar Nazis almost (but not quite) as much as I hate the regular Nazis, I feel that, as a great admirer of the pint of plain, I must point out that the word is actually spelt "Guinness".
Sorry, I refuse to take any technique seriously that is named after a Microsoft product.
(Actually, this was an interesting post, but I only have snarky comments, not mod points!)
You may be speaking out of your ass, dear boy, but you're more on-topic than anyone else here....
Ha, I am so filled with bile that I repeated myself! Apologies, slashdot editors, I know that dupes are repugnant to you all.
And to any ex-SSA programmers in the house, I say: Show yourselves! Admit the awful truth!
"It was my fault! I wrote BPCS! I drove Biglig mad! It was me I tell you, me! But you'll never take me alive while I have this cyanide pill!"
Anyway programmers are always saying that code re-use is a good thing...
I suspect there is some ridiculous "methodology" called "Agile" that those silly programmers use to try and make their code less sucky, and the poster wonders if it could be usefully applied to SA work.
Well, unless it involves us learning how to get a job where we can put any misconfigured piece of DHCP request answering shit on someones production network, then go away to play pool on the table that was installed "because we're creative and have special needs", then I don't really want to know...
But, let's be fair and take a look at what agile is... (from http://agilemanifesto.org/)
Processes are bad.
"Hey, my account won't let me sign in!"
"Yeah man, that new account generation proccess that ensures you get access to the dozen departmental systems that people designed themselves because they know better, that was just too fascist for me man!"
Deliver stuff early when it partially works - yes, we SAs invented that, it's called kludging.
Talking to people in your team is a good way of communicating - yes, also we've heard there's this thing called fire that you can use to heat things up.
Working software is the primary measure of progress - you don't say! Really? I also heard there's this thing called fire that you can use to make cold things hotter.
You should try to make your software well designed and technially excellent - that's where my Perl scripts have been going wrong! I've been trying to make them shit all this time! D'oh!
Motivated people make better programmers - cattle prods are motivating, aren't they?
Do I sound bitter? Well, today I had to spend an hour of my life (that I won't get back again) teaching a perfecty intelligent person how to jump through the stupid hoops needed to make a piece of shoddy software designed by an intellectually challenged monkey perform a simple task for them. Yeah, making all twenty icons look the same, that was good idea. Maximise should show you more of the current document? No way man, it's just a conspiracy - don't let those Micro$oft bastards force you to comply to interface standards.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
All the world's waiting for you,
and the power you possess.
In your satin tights,
Fighting for your rights
And the old Red, White and Blue.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
Now the world is ready for you,
and the wonders you can do.
Make a hawk a dove,
Stop a war with love,
Make a liar tell the truth.
Wonder Woman,
Get us out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned on you.
And the magic that you do.
Stop a bullet cold,
Make the Axis fall,
Change their minds, and change the world.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
You're a wonder, Wonder Woman.
This written, of course, by Norman Gimbel, and Charles Fox.
I disagree, as Mumma points out, by the tie he phones them they have already broken the law; he says himself that removing his addresses does not absolve them from being sued - although he admits it is probably a good idea, as continuing to spam him would be bad.
And he would no doubt argue that he was being helpful by providing them not just with his domain, but with lots of domains that have not opted-in.
He's trying to hire a skilled Linux Admin in his example. If he were trying to hire an unskilled person who he could turn into a skilled admin, that's what he would do. And companies do occasionally do this; provided you have the luxury of not needing them to be productive immediately, hiring an unskilled can have advantages (basically, you can pay them peanuts, and you get to make them in your own image - they have no bad habits to unlearn)
I started by becoming a very low level SA for my university the year after I graduated. That gave me a year of experience, enough to get me a better job for another few years, and that gave me enough experience to get a junior SA role at my current company, where now I'm #2 SA worldwide. So it can be done.
Mulberry, god, I'd almost forgotten that. That was a good show.
So, what you (and I) want, is a video version of their radio service... Yes, that would be cool.
In 2003/2004 the license fee was about $20 a month.
Hmm, the page I got that from had an interesting breakdown of how they spent it:
* BBC One £3.37
* BBC Two £1.45
* Digital television channels £0.98
* Transmission and collection costs £0.98
* BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live £0.99
* Digital radio stations £0.08
* Nations & English Regions television £0.90
* Local radio £0.61
* bbc.co.uk £0.31
Total £9.67
For those not familiar with their work:
BBC one is the mainstream TV channel. This is where Dr. Who would be found. One is a difficult channel for the BBC since they have to work out how much it should compete with commercial TV.
BBC two is for less popular TV stuff. Often programs start on two, gain a following, and transfer to one.
Digital TV - they repeat one and two, and add three (more entertainment), four (more factual), two kids channels, a 24 hour news channel, and a channel showing what parliament is doing. the key on is three, which basically the Govt. forces them to do in order to encourage people to go digital (e.g. they show new series here first) so that it will be easy to turn off the analogue one day.
The national radio stations: one is new popular music; two is non-new popular music, comedy, other music genres; three is classical; four is speech; five is sport and news.
Digital radio is as digital TV; they rebroadcast and add some more channels. Seven is absolutely brilliant as they play their back catalogue of incredible radio stuff.
Regional TV is mostly news, although some of the larger regions make their own stuff. Northern Ireland and Wales especially.
Local Radio is mostly awful except for London and the odd show.
All the radio can be heard on their web page, with most shows available for a week after their original transmission. This alone nearly justifies the license fee for me!
The point is more that your data and applications become disassociated with your hardware.
So you have a laptop, and a desktop, and a desktop in the office, and they all see the same data, as does the screen in the local Starbucks, and the one at the library, and the one in the phone booth, and the one at the client site, and the one built into your car, and the one in your PDA, and the one in your ipod, and the one in your mobile phone.
I think computers should be like stationery. You go to the closet, pick up a terminal, authenticate, bam all your data is there.
I'm not sure why we have an ask slashdot system.
/. gang"
Couldn't we save time with an automatic reply to any submitted question that reads:
"Dear $submitter,
Thank you for asking slashdot how to do $something.
We've asked around, and apparently only a complete moron would want to do $something. In fact, the goatsce guy has more self-respect than to try doing $something. Did you know that every time someone does $something, a kernel hacker dies?
In short, we suggest you kill yourself messily and see if that helps you with the whole $something thing.
Lots of love,
CmdrTaco & the
Wouldn't that be easy to write e.g. a perl script to do that? Get a list of the file sizes, work out where to make the split, and shell out to the burner software?
I'll go out on a limb and suggest it is a cable that you can run Ethernet over. This is a broad definition, of course, but that does not make it an invalid one.
For that matter, CAT6E is no good for my friend Ernies ethernet network - the RJ45 doesn't fit his switch's AUI ports no matter how hard I push it in.
Anyone who wants to find a joke about Gay sex in there, I hear Kuro5hin are hiring moderators...