I have for years actively referred to it as 'The Adidas Swoosh.' It's become such second nature to me that I don't even think about it. More people need to be creative. What sort of swoosh is it for you?
All we need to do is all be more creative, and this form of Legalism could wither away.
There are dozens more like him. Plus, you and him in court would be surrounded by the lawyers you would each have to hire. That's where your "lots of money" would end up. Probably, even, encouraging lawyers to be even more vigorous and active.
saying people are free to not buy a product which is poisonous is a stupid argument.
But people ARE free to not buy a product. A whole lot of the pet owners I know refuse to buy any pet products labeled 'Made In China.' It didn't take any form of governmental organization for them to decide this.
As society and technology gets bigger and more complex, people become better and more rapidly informed. But we still need a certain number of duffs to work for the Government. I agree with that.
What I got out of it is that he's not an 'IT Geek.' That's a specialized kind, ya know. Do you have a good understanding of the relative benefits of CMOS and TTL? How about the different types of lapidary grit?
I agree, though, that Slashdot isn't so much 'news for nerds' as it used to be. It's infested with IT types who think they're the whole community.
Well, there have to be a certain number of instances where the criminal actually fires the thing and word gets around that they are actually lethal. Then people will figure it out. But one of the chief benefits of said 'plastic gun in Fisher-Price blue' is that it sounds like it would be relatively cheap to produce, cheap enough to use once and then throw away (or better yet, burn in a fire or melt) so that it isn't evidence that can be found.
"What kind of "engineering" does it really take to pull off...."
I dunno, but I doubt if they have to sit in meetings all afternoon. Which means that, correct, they're nothing like what's considered a modern engineer.
Resonance could rule bigtime. Some of us would LOVE to have the ability to cut into the audio stream of those cars that go by with the big subwoofer. Finding the resonant frequency of the frame of the car, then shaking it apart, would be very rewarding. Hey rap-man, get your pile of scrap metal off the street!
To an outsider, you just sound like somebody who swallowed a whistle, and the sound it makes is 'the cloud.' I hope they paid you well to not have it surgically removed.
Those are called Business Cycles. Ambitious and successful business units figure out ways to do new and innovative things and break free of the infrastructure bullshit. Before IT and the Management Horde catches up and resumes sucking the life out of things in the next step of the cycle.
What do you mean, I can't have the fucking printout until Friday? Can't your tape-mounting monkeys put the job on before then?
It a system for having somebody like you fucking around running a server, in an era when computing has gotten so good that everybody could make a one-time (or a once-every-five-years) purchase of an Office Productivity package. You'd have to go find honest work doing something else if they did that. So yeah.
We're all just stupid and lazy and need to employ people like you for your expertise. Yeah, that's it.
You could locate yourself on property near a large powerful broadcast station. Build cleverly disguised antennas connected to tank circuits tuned to the resonance of the broadcast station. Very passively (no emissions at all) soak up their power, rectify and reuse or store it. Is it even illegal to passively soak up RF power that way?
I am successful at enjoying entertainment video that isn't even 480p. Laurel and Hardy movies from the 1930's have good entertainment value.
I can enjoy listening to records that are 45 RPM and were recorded in the 1940's. I can enjoy watching a play in the cheapest seats in the house.
Hell, I get great pleasure out of reading books, and playing back the 'video' in my head. The bitrate for that is probably about 75 baud.
If you're badly distracted by video artifacts when you watch a film at less than 720p you must be watching really crappy boring content. Try focusing on the content, not the container.
When you buy a DVD and decide you've watched it enough, you can give it to anybody else and they can enjoy it. Then they can pass it on to somebody else.
That probably has Big Hollywood furious, and I can see why they'd like it changed completely to PayPerView or 'Bound To A Single Account.'
No, the point is much more complex than that. There are a lot of people who claim that Western Civilization is the problem, whereas it's actually the base for much of what's good.
Things are somewhat bad all over, but when you put on one of those Palestinian neckscarfs and parade around campus, you're over looking just how backwards elements within those cultures are. There are individual escapees from said cultures that need to be welcomed. But unconditional multiculturalism? No thanks.
The whole thing is deeply embedded in our language and culture.
For instance, you used the pejorative 'douchebag' to describe somebody in above comment. Uh, that's a pretty misogynistic reference, there, dude. Gonna work on correcting it??
We're talking about the implementation model of the VA, and how it ends up in actual implementation, not the details of the 'bottom line dollar value' of the VA. Shit-tons of money are spent on the VA, as should be the case for veterans who gave so much. Get a clue and pull your head outta there.
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Corrupt people have to eat, too, you know.
And it's just as well that we encourage as many of them as possible to locate in California, so that the rest of us can stay far far away.
Can you fit that all on a Nexus? What with the no SD slot and all...
Apple is more of a marketing operation. They very deeply brand the stuff they hire other people to build for them.
Not that much culture. In fact, mostly just shitty logos.
I have for years actively referred to it as 'The Adidas Swoosh.' It's become such second nature to me that I don't even think about it. More people need to be creative. What sort of swoosh is it for you?
All we need to do is all be more creative, and this form of Legalism could wither away.
There are dozens more like him. Plus, you and him in court would be surrounded by the lawyers you would each have to hire. That's where your "lots of money" would end up. Probably, even, encouraging lawyers to be even more vigorous and active.
saying people are free to not buy a product which is poisonous is a stupid argument.
But people ARE free to not buy a product. A whole lot of the pet owners I know refuse to buy any pet products labeled 'Made In China.' It didn't take any form of governmental organization for them to decide this.
As society and technology gets bigger and more complex, people become better and more rapidly informed. But we still need a certain number of duffs to work for the Government. I agree with that.
What I got out of it is that he's not an 'IT Geek.' That's a specialized kind, ya know. Do you have a good understanding of the relative benefits of CMOS and TTL? How about the different types of lapidary grit?
I agree, though, that Slashdot isn't so much 'news for nerds' as it used to be. It's infested with IT types who think they're the whole community.
Well, there have to be a certain number of instances where the criminal actually fires the thing and word gets around that they are actually lethal. Then people will figure it out. But one of the chief benefits of said 'plastic gun in Fisher-Price blue' is that it sounds like it would be relatively cheap to produce, cheap enough to use once and then throw away (or better yet, burn in a fire or melt) so that it isn't evidence that can be found.
"What kind of "engineering" does it really take to pull off ...."
I dunno, but I doubt if they have to sit in meetings all afternoon. Which means that, correct, they're nothing like what's considered a modern engineer.
Not necessarily. Volume 1 of Knuth is over fifty bucks. You can get a cheap inkspray printer for less than that and it's considered a normal printer.
Resonance could rule bigtime. Some of us would LOVE to have the ability to cut into the audio stream of those cars that go by with the big subwoofer. Finding the resonant frequency of the frame of the car, then shaking it apart, would be very rewarding. Hey rap-man, get your pile of scrap metal off the street!
To an outsider, you just sound like somebody who swallowed a whistle, and the sound it makes is 'the cloud.' I hope they paid you well to not have it surgically removed.
Those are called Business Cycles. Ambitious and successful business units figure out ways to do new and innovative things and break free of the infrastructure bullshit. Before IT and the Management Horde catches up and resumes sucking the life out of things in the next step of the cycle.
What do you mean, I can't have the fucking printout until Friday? Can't your tape-mounting monkeys put the job on before then?
It a system for having somebody like you fucking around running a server, in an era when computing has gotten so good that everybody could make a one-time (or a once-every-five-years) purchase of an Office Productivity package. You'd have to go find honest work doing something else if they did that. So yeah.
We're all just stupid and lazy and need to employ people like you for your expertise. Yeah, that's it.
You're ignoring the fact that somebody is probably having their employees print out the website and fax it to them.
You could locate yourself on property near a large powerful broadcast station. Build cleverly disguised antennas connected to tank circuits tuned to the resonance of the broadcast station. Very passively (no emissions at all) soak up their power, rectify and reuse or store it. Is it even illegal to passively soak up RF power that way?
I think you mean that the cost is infinite, when you've paid for the content and the power goes out or your service provider goes down for a spell.
I am successful at enjoying entertainment video that isn't even 480p. Laurel and Hardy movies from the 1930's have good entertainment value.
I can enjoy listening to records that are 45 RPM and were recorded in the 1940's. I can enjoy watching a play in the cheapest seats in the house.
Hell, I get great pleasure out of reading books, and playing back the 'video' in my head. The bitrate for that is probably about 75 baud.
If you're badly distracted by video artifacts when you watch a film at less than 720p you must be watching really crappy boring content. Try focusing on the content, not the container.
When you buy a DVD and decide you've watched it enough, you can give it to anybody else and they can enjoy it. Then they can pass it on to somebody else.
That probably has Big Hollywood furious, and I can see why they'd like it changed completely to PayPerView or 'Bound To A Single Account.'
No, the point is much more complex than that. There are a lot of people who claim that Western Civilization is the problem, whereas it's actually the base for much of what's good.
Things are somewhat bad all over, but when you put on one of those Palestinian neckscarfs and parade around campus, you're over looking just how backwards elements within those cultures are. There are individual escapees from said cultures that need to be welcomed. But unconditional multiculturalism? No thanks.
The whole thing is deeply embedded in our language and culture.
For instance, you used the pejorative 'douchebag' to describe somebody in above comment. Uh, that's a pretty misogynistic reference, there, dude. Gonna work on correcting it??
Mine is: "some of you don't even know what grid-leak bias is, or how to calculate the coulombs in a charged capacitor, but you call yourself nerds."
We're talking about the implementation model of the VA, and how it ends up in actual implementation, not the details of the 'bottom line dollar value' of the VA. Shit-tons of money are spent on the VA, as should be the case for veterans who gave so much. Get a clue and pull your head outta there.
Public policy is social engineering. Yes, I mean that in the Mitnick sense.
No, not in the 'Mitnick sense' of a 2600 subscriber. I meant as in 'fucking crooks.'