Obviously these guys have not spent much time looking at the politics of the religious right.
Look at civil unions. That was an attempt to rebrand gay marriage so the jesus freaks would chill. And it failed miserably. The Jesus freaks went on the fucking offensive the minute civil unions began being passed in various states.
You NEVER dilute your brand. Ever. Period.
Least of all under the delusion you can sneak things past the Jesus freaks.
This is all going to be moot. The FCC database is being flooded with STAs providing proper notice of early shutdown pre-emptively in the face of the new legislation.
In the end, it will all be moot, because a number of stations are not even properly budgeted to continue transmitting. Most current UHF stations are going to see their electric bill drop 80% when they turn off their analog. They have no incentive to continue transmitting analog.
My business improved after I made a practice of heavily interviewing clients before they signed the contract.
Why?
First, because shitty clients are time wasters. If one clients relentlessly pisses away your time, it hurts your bottom line because that is time that could be spent on other clients, sales, R&D or just good old fashioned self-pleasuring -- all superior even to doing paid work for an ass.
Second, it will improve your outlook, and ultimately improve you are your work. The best piece of code I ever wrote was the main shopping cart system I constantly resell. It began with a local client who deeply enjoyed participating in the development and debugging of the software, and we eventually expanded the project to include large-scale integration of inventory control, brick and mortar sales and online sales.
Third, you may spends months if not years with these people. No one should ever have to deal with an asshole lording over them because of money.
I cannot emphasize this approach enough: interview your clients like you are hiring for the most important job position in history.
And be prepared to walk if they fail the interview, no matter how much money they offer.
When you get right down to it, the reason Asimov's work doesn't adapt well is because not enough stuff goes BOOM!
Asimov's stories function more like a small stage play than they do big, epic, violent lightshows. They generally don't encompass more than a handful of lead characters. They always revolve around someone just sorting something out.
For as big as the entire Foundation + Empire story is from beginning to end, the stories always stay small within the scope of the characters.
Even when you read Forward the Foundation -- a story just begging to explode into bigness -- you really never see more than two characters do much more than talk out a few issues.
That's fine for a series of novels and short story collections. It would be disastrously boring for a two or three hour feature film.
To paraphrase Vince Lombardi: next time you make it to the future, act like you've been there before.
Wouldn't it have been cooler had they done something badass? Or even interesting? Christ, I want to find a quick way to hack these and run around fucking them up on news racks!
It's sooooo frickin juvenile to have an obnoxious blinking thing saying "Welcome to the 21st Century".
Really?
I'm sorry you missed out on the last eight years. You're gonna be absolutely fucking horrified to see what has happened since.
Many of those creatures he attempted to boldly go to bed with fought back.
He may have been a degenerate visiting planets and taking their women in the finest traditions of 1930s pulp Martian invasion comics -- but at the end of the day Kirk earned that right by killing thousands of hairy monsters and blobs during those five years of peaceful exploration.
I will never tolerate such libels against the first TV character that respected that interspecies communication went beyond the verbal.
"Mr. Johnson, the consumers aren't adopting our products!"
"Well, what can we do?!?!"
"Perhaps instead of selling anything or contributing anything of value, we could undermine other products that act as direct competitors."
"Isn't that, like, illegal?"
"Fuck no. We live in a world where the rules make Ayn Rand look like a fuckin' pinko mole!"
"Cool. Let's do it. WAIT!"
"What now?"
"What if someone does this to out product? Like, say a group of kids introduces a system that allows people to completely bypass our shitty formats and our worthless player?"
"Aw, hell, boss. We'll sue them so bad their parents will have to sell the basement they code in."
The FCC is allowing the stations to keep transmitting with a notice about the DTV transition. The FCC will also allow the stations to continue transmitting emergency and weather info on the analogs.
However, the FCC is keeping the Feb 2009 deadline a hard deadline for a full shutdown of those analog transmitters.
Does anyone on Slashdot read AVS Forum? You'd really think there would be more overlap.
All paranoid theories about this issue sort of ignore the fact that unless you plan to install hundreds (or even thousands) of systems from your own compiled source for years and years to come, all of this discussion is at best academic.
The new distros are going to have the patch.
And really, considering the number of prehistoric vulnerabilities that should have been patched, that this one is finally getting patched is fine.
Yeah, there's a bit of "trust me" factor here with this patch, but a lot of good people are putting their credibility on the line for this patch.
All of this whole FOSS thing entails a lot of trust. I mean, you're really telling me that everyone on here whining about the need to see the source code has read every line of code in every OS they're using? There is a level at which we're all sort of hoping that the guys interested in each of the particular parts of the OS have done a thorough job in their separate efforts.
Considering my raw hatred of D&D, role playing, cosplay, and various other nerd behaviors, I burned by nerd card around the time I decided that academic performance was for suckers and was also eating into my coding time.
As long as I keep my geek card with its C endorsement for coding, I could care less about Star Wars. Although, Lando is still awesome -- he has a cloud city! How fucking cool is that?
Let me know when you have a secret history of Firefly. I might be able to feign interest in that, what with the significantly hotter chicks in it.
Small add-on to this: some fruits actually require more calories to consume than your body gets from them. The classic example is an apple. Also a good source of dietary fiber.
And Joe Biden is one of the very worst. He's been a stooge for the credit business in his state for years. So, all we have to do now is send all of our file names as hashes, and pretty soon we can get back to fucking children, which is after all the lone purpose of teh internets.
Can we reverse the age requirements for Congress, so no one over the age of 45 is allowed to serve? Jesus Christ are old people increasingly useless in our culture.
OK, stop right there. That's really all that has to be said. Sun sucks. Sun will make MySQL suck. It's not that hard to understand. Just as Java never really reached as far and wide as its potential, Sun will squeeze the fricking life out of MySQL.
Repeat it... that has nothing to do with Sandisk's rise. Nothing. Ever, ever, ever, never nothing ever. OK? Got it. Like trees. Not laptops. Not data centers. Green. Dig? Got it? Sure.
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Talk about a long slog.
Obviously these guys have not spent much time looking at the politics of the religious right.
Look at civil unions. That was an attempt to rebrand gay marriage so the jesus freaks would chill. And it failed miserably. The Jesus freaks went on the fucking offensive the minute civil unions began being passed in various states.
You NEVER dilute your brand. Ever. Period.
Least of all under the delusion you can sneak things past the Jesus freaks.
This is all going to be moot. The FCC database is being flooded with STAs providing proper notice of early shutdown pre-emptively in the face of the new legislation.
In the end, it will all be moot, because a number of stations are not even properly budgeted to continue transmitting. Most current UHF stations are going to see their electric bill drop 80% when they turn off their analog. They have no incentive to continue transmitting analog.
My business improved after I made a practice of heavily interviewing clients before they signed the contract.
Why?
First, because shitty clients are time wasters. If one clients relentlessly pisses away your time, it hurts your bottom line because that is time that could be spent on other clients, sales, R&D or just good old fashioned self-pleasuring -- all superior even to doing paid work for an ass.
Second, it will improve your outlook, and ultimately improve you are your work. The best piece of code I ever wrote was the main shopping cart system I constantly resell. It began with a local client who deeply enjoyed participating in the development and debugging of the software, and we eventually expanded the project to include large-scale integration of inventory control, brick and mortar sales and online sales.
Third, you may spends months if not years with these people. No one should ever have to deal with an asshole lording over them because of money.
I cannot emphasize this approach enough: interview your clients like you are hiring for the most important job position in history.
And be prepared to walk if they fail the interview, no matter how much money they offer.
When you get right down to it, the reason Asimov's work doesn't adapt well is because not enough stuff goes BOOM!
Asimov's stories function more like a small stage play than they do big, epic, violent lightshows. They generally don't encompass more than a handful of lead characters. They always revolve around someone just sorting something out.
For as big as the entire Foundation + Empire story is from beginning to end, the stories always stay small within the scope of the characters.
Even when you read Forward the Foundation -- a story just begging to explode into bigness -- you really never see more than two characters do much more than talk out a few issues.
That's fine for a series of novels and short story collections. It would be disastrously boring for a two or three hour feature film.
Bah! Knowing how to use curl isn't so big!
I would gladly destroy the world if it meant no one having to hear any more political coverage.
To paraphrase Vince Lombardi: next time you make it to the future, act like you've been there before.
Wouldn't it have been cooler had they done something badass? Or even interesting? Christ, I want to find a quick way to hack these and run around fucking them up on news racks!
It's sooooo frickin juvenile to have an obnoxious blinking thing saying "Welcome to the 21st Century".
Really?
I'm sorry you missed out on the last eight years. You're gonna be absolutely fucking horrified to see what has happened since.
Many of those creatures he attempted to boldly go to bed with fought back.
He may have been a degenerate visiting planets and taking their women in the finest traditions of 1930s pulp Martian invasion comics -- but at the end of the day Kirk earned that right by killing thousands of hairy monsters and blobs during those five years of peaceful exploration.
I will never tolerate such libels against the first TV character that respected that interspecies communication went beyond the verbal.
You gotta love the state of modern capitalism.
"Mr. Johnson, the consumers aren't adopting our products!"
"Well, what can we do?!?!"
"Perhaps instead of selling anything or contributing anything of value, we could undermine other products that act as direct competitors."
"Isn't that, like, illegal?"
"Fuck no. We live in a world where the rules make Ayn Rand look like a fuckin' pinko mole!"
"Cool. Let's do it. WAIT!"
"What now?"
"What if someone does this to out product? Like, say a group of kids introduces a system that allows people to completely bypass our shitty formats and our worthless player?"
"Aw, hell, boss. We'll sue them so bad their parents will have to sell the basement they code in."
"Excellent."
Not to mention the redshirt, interracial on-screen romance and genetically engineered supersoldiers.
There was that time I wrote a program that inserted random gibberish into files it found on the school's network.
That was zany. And daring.
The FCC is allowing the stations to keep transmitting with a notice about the DTV transition. The FCC will also allow the stations to continue transmitting emergency and weather info on the analogs. However, the FCC is keeping the Feb 2009 deadline a hard deadline for a full shutdown of those analog transmitters. Does anyone on Slashdot read AVS Forum? You'd really think there would be more overlap.
What's your ZIP code? Plug you ZIP code into TVFool.com and then post us a link to the map.
I cannot seriously believe so many people who profess to be endlessly smart do not know how the Supreme Court works.
The reason RIAA is hiring someone new to argue before the SCTOUS is ... ?
Someone impress me. Please. Because right now everyone on Slashdot looks like a bunch of dumbfucks.
All paranoid theories about this issue sort of ignore the fact that unless you plan to install hundreds (or even thousands) of systems from your own compiled source for years and years to come, all of this discussion is at best academic.
The new distros are going to have the patch.
And really, considering the number of prehistoric vulnerabilities that should have been patched, that this one is finally getting patched is fine.
Yeah, there's a bit of "trust me" factor here with this patch, but a lot of good people are putting their credibility on the line for this patch.
All of this whole FOSS thing entails a lot of trust. I mean, you're really telling me that everyone on here whining about the need to see the source code has read every line of code in every OS they're using? There is a level at which we're all sort of hoping that the guys interested in each of the particular parts of the OS have done a thorough job in their separate efforts.
Turns out, well commented code is an invitation to have your chair filled with someone else's ass. That's not good for long-term economic survival.
Considering my raw hatred of D&D, role playing, cosplay, and various other nerd behaviors, I burned by nerd card around the time I decided that academic performance was for suckers and was also eating into my coding time.
As long as I keep my geek card with its C endorsement for coding, I could care less about Star Wars. Although, Lando is still awesome -- he has a cloud city! How fucking cool is that?
Let me know when you have a secret history of Firefly. I might be able to feign interest in that, what with the significantly hotter chicks in it.
Small add-on to this: some fruits actually require more calories to consume than your body gets from them. The classic example is an apple. Also a good source of dietary fiber.
1. Every DRM effort aimed at recording just pushes more people into the arms of the people cracking these systems.
2. Who still watches NBC? According to the rating, no one.
Oh, they have been a real godsend to America.
And Joe Biden is one of the very worst. He's been a stooge for the credit business in his state for years. So, all we have to do now is send all of our file names as hashes, and pretty soon we can get back to fucking children, which is after all the lone purpose of teh internets.
Can we reverse the age requirements for Congress, so no one over the age of 45 is allowed to serve? Jesus Christ are old people increasingly useless in our culture.
Vote Republican.
OK, stop right there. That's really all that has to be said. Sun sucks. Sun will make MySQL suck. It's not that hard to understand. Just as Java never really reached as far and wide as its potential, Sun will squeeze the fricking life out of MySQL.
Repeat it... that has nothing to do with Sandisk's rise. Nothing. Ever, ever, ever, never nothing ever. OK? Got it. Like trees. Not laptops. Not data centers. Green. Dig? Got it? Sure.