In cities roller skates are one of the fastest methods around if you're only planning on going a few blocks and you're in a high car-traffic area during rush hour. If you're going 15 miles across the city, roller skates are impractical.
Virus to teach them not to trust strange* USB devices.
* How is it a strange drive when it's sent to you by someone you trust?
Then teach them not to trust any portable media. That's the real lesson that needs taught, since most people infect themselves with their own USB drives.
those other browsers are free so who cares if Windows users are forced to use IE?
Maybe the makers of browsers which aren't free? It would at least let people know that alternatives exist and that the "blue E" isn't "the internet"
And, as Microsoft is so want to say: Free == bad, so IE must really suck.
The best thing to do in this situation is to call the FBI. NOW. Your friend needs to grow a pair and tell the professors (after the FBI takes the machines and/or runs their sting operation): sorry about your FTP servers, but I told you... now there's kiddie porn on the machines, you stupid gits. Your friend is risking his job, reputation, and the futures of the pedo's victims. He makes me ashamed to be in the same line of work.
which save their lives, what chance is there to voluntarily inconvenience themselves, to stop bad things happening to others.
Regarding seatbelts: I've had better luck explaining to people that in a crash, seatbelts aren't there just to save their lives, but also that of their passengers. In a side-collision, if the driver is not wearing a seat belt, but the passenger is (or vice-versa), the one without a seatbelt becomes a bouncing projectile, injuring or killing the "safe" person in the seatbelt.
This argument appeals to the same people that never tried to quit smoking until they had kids ("I'm only hurting myself. A baby? Time to quit.")
3. Use multiple disk partitions. On Windows, that means you can reinstall faster if you do get hit by something,
I used to suggest this for Windows. I no longer do. Why? I keep seeing reinfections from D:\autorun.inf (yes, HDDs run autorun too)
Even for people capable enough to reinstall their own OS to a specific partition, and knowledgeable enough to turn off autorun, it's common to want to check D:\ right after installation to make sure the files are still there. Oops, didn't wipe out d:\autorun.inf with a boot CD, and didn't turn off autorun yet? Reinfected.
Side benefit: copying files on reinstall helps people clean out the cruft on their desktops.
If we, the technorati, keep insisting that computers and networks are somehow special and require special handling, then all we are doing is turning a blind eye to avoid seeing our own failures. Notice the trend to more appliance-like devices in both the desktop and mobile realms that run their OS out of firmware.
Customers are trying to tell us something. Are we listening?
But... computers are special and require special handling. Is there any other device in modern or ancient life that's used for more things? I might say the wheel or the knife, but beyond that, I can't think of anything. The wheel's pretty innocuous unless you put them on a big metal thing that moves fast. Knives, however, require special training. You probably don't remember it, but your parents were constantly guiding you and watching you while you used knives for the first time. Even as adults, people make stupid mistakes with knives: grabbing at a falling knife out of reflex, cutting themselves while peeling fruit, threatening someone who has a concealed-carry license. And computers can do a lot more stuff (some that seems to have no relation to computing) than any wheel or knife.
Customers are trying to tell us that they like GPS computers: it only does GPS. They like set-back thermostats: it only regulates temperature. They like Tivo: it only records shows. They like their car's computer: it computes gas mileage for them. They like their Wii: it plays games. But you had better not mess with their Office 2007 machine, because it has all their unencrypted income tax data on it, and little Billy likes to use it to play the latest FPS which requires quite a few open ports, and to be run as Administrator.
I'll believe examples one and three. If it turns out that my weird friend is right and transistors really are alien technology, then I might believe example two.
Too many DRM schemes (with companies that still operate) have already gone under and taken the protected files with them. Relying on the promises of a company instead of a contract is ridiculous. They're handing you sales fluff and you're eating it up. I would love to buy a lot of steam-only games, but _never_ will, because I want to play them X years from now.
BTW, you can't stop a "Steam sucks" thread in an anti-DRM post.
Even the most intolerant retarded backwards major religious groups (such as Southern Baptists or Wahhabis) try to feed the poor (at least as long as they're of the right ethnic group), not milk them.
What is Waste Management ? a company ? what is SAP ? what is ERP (Wikipedia give me a full list of results, with "Erotic Role-playing, a sexual form of Role-playing" among them, but i guess this is not what it is about) ? Where is this story located ?
Remember that you have audiance which is not from the US and sometimes don't have a clue on what you are talking about.
Thank You! I am from the US, and I have NO idea what any of this is. It's like a perfect April Fools' day joke; tons of comments that make no sense, joking like SAP and Waste Management are household names. ?
I wash my hands constantly (from my irrational distaste for having unclean hands, not for any job requirement) on the measure of about 30-40 times a day every day, and my fingerprints are still intact. Maybe she washes her hands even more than that, but I'm going to call bullshit on this one.
However, his options and thoughts on subjects outside of his field carry less weight then those of someone who was/is within that field.
Necessarily? So if someone finds a Genghis Khan quote that says "Through preparing and waging war, I will make the whole world peaceful" it _must_ have more merit because he dealt with fighting first-hand?
No, it's societies that creats that image.
Watch small children, they generally want to get along. It's around age 5 that parents start instilling an US and THEM mentality.
One of my earliest memories is of a time when I had to have my natural US and THEM mentality removed from me. I was watching TV with my father and brother, and a commercial came on. I don't remember the entire commercial, but it was something about diversity and expectations during the backdrop of a chess game, where you only saw a black person's hand and a white person's hand moving the pieces. At the end, the black person won and declared checkmate. The reason I remember it so vividly is because my dad then asked me (as he often did) "What did that mean?"
I, being a little kid, overgeneralized into an US and THEM mentality: "Black people are better at chess"
Then, there was a long talk with my dad about how I had missed the _real_ point of the commercial, and I remember thinking I was in trouble, but my dad was trying to tell me that black or white didn't matter. etc.
US and THEM is also strong in kindergarten and elementary school. There were "popular" kids in kindergarten, believe it or not. US and THEM might be a useful survival trait when THEM is Neanderthal, other human tribes, or other predators.
Chandler: From now on, I have no first name.
Joey: So - you're just Bing?
Chandler: I have no name.
Phoebe: All right, so what are we supposed to call you?
Chandler: Okay, for now, temporarily, you can call me... Clint.
Joey: No way are you cool enough to pull off Clint.
Chandler: Okay, so what name am I cool enough to pull off?
Phoebe: Um... Gene.
Chandler: It's Clint. It's Clint.
Joey: See ya later, Gene.
Phoebe: Bye, Gene.
Chandler: It's Clint. Clint.
Joey: What's up with Microsoft?
I hope the 3 members who "reached a financial arrangement with church officials" can un-withdraw and help testify. And if they get to keep the money - sweet!
I'll bet it will be easy for them to argue that they agreed under duress.
All Churches operate in much the same way. They all prey (pray) on the hard of thinking.
It's strange, then that you would find some religious organizations to be centers of critical thought and argument throughout the ages. Some religions are of the "Stop Thinking" variety, but not all are.
IIRC, Linux existed before dual-head cards. Also, I think that OSX wouldn't allow him to make one 6400x2400 desktop. I might be wrong on the reasons, but I know there was a very specific technical reason he didn't use OSX.
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Uh... cars => oil => war. I don't have a car, I walk if the goal isn't too far away and use public transportation otherwise.
That's nice. Did you know that:
plastics => oil and
public transport => oil
too?
And did you know that:
whatever the hell someone wants badly enough => war ?
I'll bet you did. Just wait; we'll see a couple wars over Lithium in South America.
In cities roller skates are one of the fastest methods around if you're only planning on going a few blocks and you're in a high car-traffic area during rush hour. If you're going 15 miles across the city, roller skates are impractical.
Fixed that for ya.
Most good cities have a highway system where you can drive at least 55-65mph within the city. Cheetah speeds with draft horse endurance.
Virus to teach them not to trust strange* USB devices.
* How is it a strange drive when it's sent to you by someone you trust?
Then teach them not to trust any portable media. That's the real lesson that needs taught, since most people infect themselves with their own USB drives.
those other browsers are free so who cares if Windows users are forced to use IE?
Maybe the makers of browsers which aren't free? It would at least let people know that alternatives exist and that the "blue E" isn't "the internet"
And, as Microsoft is so want to say: Free == bad, so IE must really suck.
The best thing to do in this situation is to call the FBI. NOW. Your friend needs to grow a pair and tell the professors (after the FBI takes the machines and/or runs their sting operation): sorry about your FTP servers, but I told you... now there's kiddie porn on the machines, you stupid gits. Your friend is risking his job, reputation, and the futures of the pedo's victims. He makes me ashamed to be in the same line of work.
which save their lives, what chance is there to voluntarily inconvenience themselves, to stop bad things happening to others.
Regarding seatbelts: I've had better luck explaining to people that in a crash, seatbelts aren't there just to save their lives, but also that of their passengers. In a side-collision, if the driver is not wearing a seat belt, but the passenger is (or vice-versa), the one without a seatbelt becomes a bouncing projectile, injuring or killing the "safe" person in the seatbelt.
This argument appeals to the same people that never tried to quit smoking until they had kids ("I'm only hurting myself. A baby? Time to quit.")
3. Use multiple disk partitions. On Windows, that means you can reinstall faster if you do get hit by something,
I used to suggest this for Windows. I no longer do. Why? I keep seeing reinfections from D:\autorun.inf (yes, HDDs run autorun too)
Even for people capable enough to reinstall their own OS to a specific partition, and knowledgeable enough to turn off autorun, it's common to want to check D:\ right after installation to make sure the files are still there. Oops, didn't wipe out d:\autorun.inf with a boot CD, and didn't turn off autorun yet? Reinfected.
Side benefit: copying files on reinstall helps people clean out the cruft on their desktops.
If we, the technorati, keep insisting that computers and networks are somehow special and require special handling, then all we are doing is turning a blind eye to avoid seeing our own failures. Notice the trend to more appliance-like devices in both the desktop and mobile realms that run their OS out of firmware.
Customers are trying to tell us something. Are we listening?
But... computers are special and require special handling. Is there any other device in modern or ancient life that's used for more things? I might say the wheel or the knife, but beyond that, I can't think of anything. The wheel's pretty innocuous unless you put them on a big metal thing that moves fast. Knives, however, require special training. You probably don't remember it, but your parents were constantly guiding you and watching you while you used knives for the first time. Even as adults, people make stupid mistakes with knives: grabbing at a falling knife out of reflex, cutting themselves while peeling fruit, threatening someone who has a concealed-carry license. And computers can do a lot more stuff (some that seems to have no relation to computing) than any wheel or knife.
Customers are trying to tell us that they like GPS computers: it only does GPS. They like set-back thermostats: it only regulates temperature. They like Tivo: it only records shows. They like their car's computer: it computes gas mileage for them. They like their Wii: it plays games. But you had better not mess with their Office 2007 machine, because it has all their unencrypted income tax data on it, and little Billy likes to use it to play the latest FPS which requires quite a few open ports, and to be run as Administrator.
I'll believe examples one and three. If it turns out that my weird friend is right and transistors really are alien technology, then I might believe example two.
Too many DRM schemes (with companies that still operate) have already gone under and taken the protected files with them. Relying on the promises of a company instead of a contract is ridiculous. They're handing you sales fluff and you're eating it up. I would love to buy a lot of steam-only games, but _never_ will, because I want to play them X years from now.
BTW, you can't stop a "Steam sucks" thread in an anti-DRM post.
Even the most intolerant retarded backwards major religious groups (such as Southern Baptists or Wahhabis) try to feed the poor (at least as long as they're of the right ethnic group), not milk them.
But... can't you milk anything with nipples?
"[a destructive cult] uses deception in recruiting new members."
... "destructive" cult definition pretty much exactly matches Catholic church?
Only if you think the Catholic priests don't believe in God. You might think they're wrong, but that doesn't mean they're being deceptive.
What is Waste Management ? a company ? what is SAP ? what is ERP (Wikipedia give me a full list of results, with "Erotic Role-playing, a sexual form of Role-playing" among them, but i guess this is not what it is about) ? Where is this story located ? Remember that you have audiance which is not from the US and sometimes don't have a clue on what you are talking about.
Thank You! I am from the US, and I have NO idea what any of this is. It's like a perfect April Fools' day joke; tons of comments that make no sense, joking like SAP and Waste Management are household names. ?
-1 Go watch Revenge of the Nerds again.
I'm assuming you're joking. If not, I was serious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_(soap)
http://www.google.com/search?q=lava+soap
Just when you think you've got that atrocity erased from your mind...
... they reboot the series.
I wash my hands constantly (from my irrational distaste for having unclean hands, not for any job requirement) on the measure of about 30-40 times a day every day, and my fingerprints are still intact. Maybe she washes her hands even more than that, but I'm going to call bullshit on this one.
Lava Soap. The power of pumice.
However, his options and thoughts on subjects outside of his field carry less weight then those of someone who was/is within that field.
Necessarily? So if someone finds a Genghis Khan quote that says "Through preparing and waging war, I will make the whole world peaceful" it _must_ have more merit because he dealt with fighting first-hand?
No, we need a Darth Vader mask, an empty moon-bounce, and a drunk cheerleader. Why attempt to out-breed the enemy when we can breed with them?
No, it's societies that creats that image. Watch small children, they generally want to get along. It's around age 5 that parents start instilling an US and THEM mentality.
One of my earliest memories is of a time when I had to have my natural US and THEM mentality removed from me. I was watching TV with my father and brother, and a commercial came on. I don't remember the entire commercial, but it was something about diversity and expectations during the backdrop of a chess game, where you only saw a black person's hand and a white person's hand moving the pieces. At the end, the black person won and declared checkmate. The reason I remember it so vividly is because my dad then asked me (as he often did) "What did that mean?"
I, being a little kid, overgeneralized into an US and THEM mentality: "Black people are better at chess"
Then, there was a long talk with my dad about how I had missed the _real_ point of the commercial, and I remember thinking I was in trouble, but my dad was trying to tell me that black or white didn't matter. etc.
US and THEM is also strong in kindergarten and elementary school. There were "popular" kids in kindergarten, believe it or not. US and THEM might be a useful survival trait when THEM is Neanderthal, other human tribes, or other predators.
Chandler: From now on, I have no first name.
Joey: So - you're just Bing?
Chandler: I have no name.
Phoebe: All right, so what are we supposed to call you?
Chandler: Okay, for now, temporarily, you can call me... Clint.
Joey: No way are you cool enough to pull off Clint.
Chandler: Okay, so what name am I cool enough to pull off?
Phoebe: Um... Gene.
Chandler: It's Clint. It's Clint.
Joey: See ya later, Gene.
Phoebe: Bye, Gene.
Chandler: It's Clint. Clint.
Joey: What's up with Microsoft?
I hope the 3 members who "reached a financial arrangement with church officials" can un-withdraw and help testify. And if they get to keep the money - sweet!
I'll bet it will be easy for them to argue that they agreed under duress.
All Churches operate in much the same way. They all prey (pray) on the hard of thinking.
It's strange, then that you would find some religious organizations to be centers of critical thought and argument throughout the ages. Some religions are of the "Stop Thinking" variety, but not all are.
IIRC, Linux existed before dual-head cards. Also, I think that OSX wouldn't allow him to make one 6400x2400 desktop. I might be wrong on the reasons, but I know there was a very specific technical reason he didn't use OSX.