I'm waiting for the sneaky kid who gets a warning from the school, and then proceeds to add to the blog, posting another six months of items with dates ranging into the future, and where the content gradually drifts into fluffy nonsense - articles about riding unicorns in the school halls of gingerbread, etc.
Then see if any police or court would believe the school's assertation that the blog was a "likely threat", once they'd seen the entire archive.
In which case we'd only buy the (rare) excellent stuff from official sources. Everything else would be 'Eh, I'm waiting for the pirate version."
Because everything improves with pirates.
You bond to the overall environment of stored documents, personalised settings and the thousand and one things that differentiate a fresh vanilla OS install from a machine you've been hammering on for five years.
Internal hardware upgrades matter no more than a friend improving an old skill.
External cases don't matter unless you've modded it yourself - investing some personalization in it. Otherwise it's nothing more than a friend wearing a different colored T-shirt.
It's the settings, the history of documents, the countless tweaks to shape it more and more to your own way of working, which make a computer 'personality'.
(And occasionally the hardware, if you've personalised it.)
However, just because something is indistiguishable from magic doesn't mean that it is magic.
If two things are completely and utterly indistinguishable, what's the point in treating them differently?
Those who can determine the difference can and should treat them differently.
Those who cannot determine the difference with the tools available to them can only guess. Far better that they use an encompassing term and follow up with sufficient background information to allow someone else to make the call.
The ability to perform the tasks they want or need to do. Although this does not take into account the ability to perform maintenance and/or repairs when the system deviates from ideal function.
I can drive a car, change a tyre and check the oil. I don't know how to swap out an engine, but I could take some car maintenance courses and learn. This makes me 'car literate' for 99% of daily tasks, even though I couldn't hold down a career as a garage mechanic based on what I currently know.
What work?
Set up a new DNS name for the same service (one that's easy to change the name of in future), post a notice of changeover, perhaps send some courtesy emails to the biggest (legit) users, then stop responding to the previous name.
Couple of hours, tops (plus six to eight weeks in the middle waiting for users to change to the new service, if feeling generous). If feeling REALLY generous, dig up logs of pre-DLink connections and serve requests from those IPs or names transparently on the old domain name.
It's not as if any properly-configured systems would only use one NTP source, right? Right?
Short answer: no
Medium answer: There are a bazillion webpages explaining why. Google should be able to hand you half a jillion with the most obvious searches.
What makes me cringe is nauseating misuse of the language by people who majored / are majoring in English.
I'm a tech. If I can repeatedly show someone up on what is supposed to be their own turf, with zero preparation on my part, what am I supposed to think about their ability to do anything else?
Huh? Oh, nothing, boss. Funny, I was just thinking about you.
"I converted my gold into this 'virtual money' they call 'US dollars'. It's fabulous, this place called 'real life' has its own virtual economy! I can go to different parts and perform 'business transactions' that can make me virtual money (or lose virtual money, of course). Then, I can convert my 'dollars' back into real gold! It's amazing!"
What makes you think that the RIAA has ever had anything to do with the music industry?
All they are - all they ever were - was middlemen. The RIAA does not create. They were merely a convenient efficiency, a placeholder until something better (like the internet) came along.
As an office tech, I was once pulled aside to demonstrate screenlocking to a new employee. I told her to put in a password while I wasn't looking, then locked the screen and had her unlock it. Then, to kill five seconds, I said "And now look what happens when I try to guess it," and with half a neuron thinking of "WarGames", quickly typed "Joshua" into the password box and hit Enter.
I'd like to spend three days with some really rich bastards, learning how they became rich bastards. I figure the first day will be introductions, the second day secrets of becoming rich, and the third day on bastardry.
1) I would like the option to have no ads. At all. For anything. Whether this means paying extra for the live stuff, buying on DVD, or paying for a fast internet connection and fast PC to display the program, I don't care.
2) Showing something for the first time on TV is an advantage, and can support more ads. The 20th time it's shown, people are just going to shift to DVDs or downloads. But the first time it's shown, alternatives don't exist so much. So less ads during repeats, thanks. And keep in mind that old, good stuff will still have higher ratings than new, crap stuff.
3) Asking people to rate ads in real time sounds like a winner, except that you'd need to correlate it with appropriate demographics AND not just confine the survey to people who are willing to do it for free or who have lots of free time. Hey advertisers! I'm (probably) richer than Bubba the Trailer Dweller, but you ain't getting my preference data unless it's at MY convenience and you pay me!
4) Targetted ads are likely to bring in more revenue, right? So why not give people the option (and that's OPTION, not LEGAL REQUIREMENT, you putzes) to have their TVs show more ads they like and less ones that they'll never respond to? Letting people increase the appeal of their TV experience means better ratings, and more people watching the ads, which leads to more demand for the ad timeslots.
5) In general, people don't like ads. They don't want ads. Ads are an imposition on their lives. Advertisers, unless you do something to make the punters more likely to watch the ads (such as giving them some power over the ads or determining what makes an appealing ad), people are going to keep spending their money on ways to stop you annoying them. You are not a necessary evil or funding mechanism. You are not a part of the content industry. You are not a pretty snowflake. You are bottom-feeding scum hanging off the arse of society, and the majority of us live in hope that one day you will all die in a fire. However, the less you annoy us, the longer it will take us to get around to your 'industry' with a box of matches. Capice?
Scientists working on the new technology have said "As with any other cutting-edge science, there are a number of problems to overcome. But we think we have most of them licked."
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I'm waiting for the sneaky kid who gets a warning from the school, and then proceeds to add to the blog, posting another six months of items with dates ranging into the future, and where the content gradually drifts into fluffy nonsense - articles about riding unicorns in the school halls of gingerbread, etc.
Then see if any police or court would believe the school's assertation that the blog was a "likely threat", once they'd seen the entire archive.
In which case we'd only buy the (rare) excellent stuff from official sources. Everything else would be 'Eh, I'm waiting for the pirate version." Because everything improves with pirates.
You bond to the overall environment of stored documents, personalised settings and the thousand and one things that differentiate a fresh vanilla OS install from a machine you've been hammering on for five years. Internal hardware upgrades matter no more than a friend improving an old skill. External cases don't matter unless you've modded it yourself - investing some personalization in it. Otherwise it's nothing more than a friend wearing a different colored T-shirt. It's the settings, the history of documents, the countless tweaks to shape it more and more to your own way of working, which make a computer 'personality'. (And occasionally the hardware, if you've personalised it.)
However, just because something is indistiguishable from magic doesn't mean that it is magic. If two things are completely and utterly indistinguishable, what's the point in treating them differently? Those who can determine the difference can and should treat them differently. Those who cannot determine the difference with the tools available to them can only guess. Far better that they use an encompassing term and follow up with sufficient background information to allow someone else to make the call.
No, they only show responses to _intelligent_ input.
The ability to perform the tasks they want or need to do. Although this does not take into account the ability to perform maintenance and/or repairs when the system deviates from ideal function. I can drive a car, change a tyre and check the oil. I don't know how to swap out an engine, but I could take some car maintenance courses and learn. This makes me 'car literate' for 99% of daily tasks, even though I couldn't hold down a career as a garage mechanic based on what I currently know.
Trust me, you got served.
If every American internet connection came with a loaded gun pointing at the user, the internet would become a lot politer very quickly :)
What work? Set up a new DNS name for the same service (one that's easy to change the name of in future), post a notice of changeover, perhaps send some courtesy emails to the biggest (legit) users, then stop responding to the previous name. Couple of hours, tops (plus six to eight weeks in the middle waiting for users to change to the new service, if feeling generous). If feeling REALLY generous, dig up logs of pre-DLink connections and serve requests from those IPs or names transparently on the old domain name. It's not as if any properly-configured systems would only use one NTP source, right? Right?
Short answer: no Medium answer: There are a bazillion webpages explaining why. Google should be able to hand you half a jillion with the most obvious searches.
Solution: Robotic schoolgirls!
What makes me cringe is nauseating misuse of the language by people who majored / are majoring in English.
I'm a tech. If I can repeatedly show someone up on what is supposed to be their own turf, with zero preparation on my part, what am I supposed to think about their ability to do anything else?
Huh? Oh, nothing, boss. Funny, I was just thinking about you.
You REALLY wouldn't want someone to hack into that from the next car across. "Hey, someone's remotely accessing my capacit-" *BZZZZAP!*
"I converted my gold into this 'virtual money' they call 'US dollars'. It's fabulous, this place called 'real life' has its own virtual economy! I can go to different parts and perform 'business transactions' that can make me virtual money (or lose virtual money, of course). Then, I can convert my 'dollars' back into real gold! It's amazing!"
Obsolescence-disabled knockoffs from untraceable overseas sources in 3,2,1...
Perhaps every industry should have a mandatory sensor which tells it when it's been superseded and it's time to throw in the towel?
What makes you think that the RIAA has ever had anything to do with the music industry? All they are - all they ever were - was middlemen. The RIAA does not create. They were merely a convenient efficiency, a placeholder until something better (like the internet) came along.
"Would you like to buy another coffee? First one's free!"
As an office tech, I was once pulled aside to demonstrate screenlocking to a new employee. I told her to put in a password while I wasn't looking, then locked the screen and had her unlock it. Then, to kill five seconds, I said "And now look what happens when I try to guess it," and with half a neuron thinking of "WarGames", quickly typed "Joshua" into the password box and hit Enter.
How was I to know it was also her kid's name?
Can I get a handful implanted in the back of my head? "You kids, I can see what you're up to!"
I'd like to spend three days with some really rich bastards, learning how they became rich bastards. I figure the first day will be introductions, the second day secrets of becoming rich, and the third day on bastardry.
1) I would like the option to have no ads. At all. For anything. Whether this means paying extra for the live stuff, buying on DVD, or paying for a fast internet connection and fast PC to display the program, I don't care.
2) Showing something for the first time on TV is an advantage, and can support more ads. The 20th time it's shown, people are just going to shift to DVDs or downloads. But the first time it's shown, alternatives don't exist so much. So less ads during repeats, thanks. And keep in mind that old, good stuff will still have higher ratings than new, crap stuff.
3) Asking people to rate ads in real time sounds like a winner, except that you'd need to correlate it with appropriate demographics AND not just confine the survey to people who are willing to do it for free or who have lots of free time. Hey advertisers! I'm (probably) richer than Bubba the Trailer Dweller, but you ain't getting my preference data unless it's at MY convenience and you pay me!
4) Targetted ads are likely to bring in more revenue, right? So why not give people the option (and that's OPTION, not LEGAL REQUIREMENT, you putzes) to have their TVs show more ads they like and less ones that they'll never respond to? Letting people increase the appeal of their TV experience means better ratings, and more people watching the ads, which leads to more demand for the ad timeslots.
5) In general, people don't like ads. They don't want ads. Ads are an imposition on their lives. Advertisers, unless you do something to make the punters more likely to watch the ads (such as giving them some power over the ads or determining what makes an appealing ad), people are going to keep spending their money on ways to stop you annoying them. You are not a necessary evil or funding mechanism. You are not a part of the content industry. You are not a pretty snowflake. You are bottom-feeding scum hanging off the arse of society, and the majority of us live in hope that one day you will all die in a fire. However, the less you annoy us, the longer it will take us to get around to your 'industry' with a box of matches. Capice?
in 3, 2, 1...
At least I won't work all day and then accidentally DELETE! a FILE!
Scientists working on the new technology have said "As with any other cutting-edge science, there are a number of problems to overcome. But we think we have most of them licked."