What about when Sears created the Discover card (which is now its own company and Sears' future looks gloomy) or when the Wright brothers built a flying machine in their bicycle shop. It's a fundamental of business -- change is fact: you can either be part of it or watch it happen. Google is simply applying their resources to expand the productivity they offer the average user. I like it.
I would kick a robot dog because it's a robot dog. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT A ROBOT DOG?! If you possess the technology for robot dogs, I have two words for you -- ROBOT MONKEY. Robotic monkeys are obviously the next step in monkey evolution. Just remember to tell everyone I said that when robot dogs try to enslave us and we are saved by our robotic simian friends.
I say we all gather up and form our own party -- "The Slashdocrats". Whaddya' think? It has a nice ring to it. There's around a million of us (according to user ID numbers, throw in lurkers and take away international/.'ers), so if we each reach out to 30 people, that's 30 million, which is about 10% of the country. (295,734,134 total U.S. pop). If we make a strong case to each of those 30 million and then half of them go out and tell 5 more people, that's another 75 millions (plus the 30 million told by us and the 1 million of us gives us a total of 106 million). Wielding a good third of the U.S. population for votes, we would be able to bring about some competition to the Dems and Reps. Of course, if we could only become ultra-corrupt in order to get that corporate funding we need to run our political ads:(
"Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed"
It's SkyNet!!! It must be destroyed! Death to Microsoft!
Most people on myspace are hardly "emo" -- I believe the word you're looking for is "scenester". "Emo" people don't advertise themselves, in addition -- they don't listen to crappy pop music (Hawthorne Heights? *baaaarf*), as well as not engaging in many activities that the typical myspacer does. If you want to categorize the average myspace user as scenesters, then yes -- you are correct. Scenesters are all about group indentification (and thus the need to have 5,000 friends on an internet site) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenester (god damn... I love wikipedia!). Yes, there are emo-scenesters -- however, as mentioned previously, the typical myspace user's musical preferences do not match the emo genre. My final point -- what's wrong with hiring a so-called "emo"? I find people typically labeled as emo are much more fun to be around, more intelligent, and harder working than many other conventional stereotypes (jocks, druggies, gangsters, preps). Happy (no, 'cause you're emo OHHHHHH BURN)?
I agree -- don't mess with what the Great Magic Man Named God in the sky made. Like those assholes who wear eyeglasses or contacts -- GOD CRIPPLED YOUR VISION FOR A REASON. Oh, and don't even get me started on those fucking diabetics with their insulin. Bastards. Wait a minute... I just realized I had my wisdom teeth pulled... I'M GOING TO BURN FOR ALL ETERNITY IN FIERY HELL!!!
One (I guess it could be considered two) word: Myspace. There are millions of 14-16 year old girls who would give you a weeks worth of allowance to make their page pretty -- best part is, their definition of pretty is usually "cluttered, pink, and gag-inducing". You could make about $5 per site doing that, and assuming it only took you 10 minutes to code their site, you could make approximately $30 an hour working from home... Seriously though, I feel for you -- all tech jobs have been knocked down a couple notches since the web bubble burst. If you like web development, I'd say try either getting several small business clients (especially if you know macromedia, small businesses eat-up flash sites: "ohhh, so pretty") or if you want to get out of the field all together, ask some of your larger former clients if they're looking for any tech-work. As far as what you want to do -- no one can tell you what you'll enjoy except yourself. I've seen people go from Helpdesk to Development and hate it, I've also seen them go from Helpdesk to Development and love it (even though they loved Helpdesk too). Beauty (of the job) is in the eye of the beholder.
My sentiments exactly -- I always try to buy the unmarketed (or at least less-marketed) products [unless it's inferior] just because I hate marketing so much. I'm sorry -- I hate marketing METHODS so much. I have no problems with marketing telling me the facts, but marketers seem to be all too geared toward fact/reality-twisting. Dear marketers: you're going to ruin my game experience to plaster "BEST BUY" or "FedEx" all over?... I already know Best Buy and FedEx exist, throwing it all over my world when I'm trying to frag some zombies or save the princess or whatever I want to do in my own little gaming reality will only upset me; the gaming world has NOTHING to do with your crappy product. please die, kthxbye.
It's NOT a free market -- the U.S. gov't put the TelComs into a monopoly situation. Now the government is not stepping in to limit the power of those companies... Yes, you could switch your local-ISP, but they run on backbones provided by a few man ISPs so you'll still encounter "tiering".
The legislative branch is in place to make laws, and those lawmakers are in palce to serve their constituents. Serve their constituents? Serve them a nice kick in the face!
This wasn't just a "barely passed" or "it'll change when the Dems get control over the Reps again" type of thing...
FTA: "The amendment was defeated by 269 votes to 152 and the Cope Act was passed by 321-101 votes."
Our government must have something against us (not protecting us from TelComs which THEY monopolized) because I don't see how else this could happen....oh, wait, that's right, it's because they're feeding from the sweet suckle of corruption. Money talks, and apparently it says "No Net Neutrality". Except instead of words coming out of its mouth, poop come out, not only does Net Neutrality get no'ed -- it gets crapped all over.
Actually, 12 step programs DON'T work. The "success" rate for AA is measured as people who haven't drank after 12 months -- it's 5%. Want to know the percentage of people who didn't drink after 12 months who didn't use AA?... it's also 5%. AA works for some people just because they can't quit without the fear of god in them (AA is very religious, it breaks your self esteem: they make you say that you have no power over yourself and that you need the help of a higher power [they don't say "god" because then it couldn't be mandated for alcoholics to attend by the courts] to get over your addiction)... some of those people probably couldn't quit on their own, but with the help of their god, they can bring themselves under control.
Another important thing about electric (battery) cars is that batteries perform poorly in the cold (due to their chemical electricity-generating process). Considering a good portion of the United States (and the world) is cold for a good portion of the year: this means battery cars are a no-no. A capacitor powered electric car, on the other hand, could operate in the coldest environments (well, except absolute zero) with little performance degredation (the lesser performance would be from moving parts in the car).
don't forget: "ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phoooone, ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phoooooone"...except replace "banana" with "porn".
I whole-heartedly agree. When a user clicks on a.exe/.pif link in an e-mail/IM that says something like "omg picturz frum last nitee!", it's not their fault for being "stupid" -- they just don't know any better. They have a different "reality" as to how computers and the internet work. Why would their friend send them a virus? Why would a pop-up lie when it tells them it detected a virus on their computer and they needed to download malicious virusscanner 1.2 (the 'this installs even more viruses' edition)? Even in cases of phishing -- in their mind, the message says it's from 'so and so'. The populace must be educated to make the internet a safer place -- until then, the world will just be full of technical ignorance/misunderstanding. Now... the 4th or 5th time the same user clicks on the SAME.pif link... then it's okay to want to hit them.
Yes, the equipment is cheap... but the broadcasting license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_License will get you. You could set up a pirate radio station, but it's not extremely difficult to track those down. Also, how are you going to get people to listen when they can hear that one song for the fifth time in the hour?
"the Internet must remain a fair and level playing field for the distribution of political speech." Like: 'bush is teh gh3y.' "no, gore pWnz u." 'bush/cheney ftw.' "you stole my election!" [ANALOGY TIME] Finding political speech on the internet is like finding poop in the toilet: it's easy to find, but you don't want to see it.
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What about when Sears created the Discover card (which is now its own company and Sears' future looks gloomy) or when the Wright brothers built a flying machine in their bicycle shop. It's a fundamental of business -- change is fact: you can either be part of it or watch it happen. Google is simply applying their resources to expand the productivity they offer the average user. I like it.
Yes, but where is the love in that? WHERE IS THE LOVE?
It could have many interchangable parts as well as being extremely flexible. Also, it could kill you while you slept with its cold metal hands.
I would kick a robot dog because it's a robot dog. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT A ROBOT DOG?! If you possess the technology for robot dogs, I have two words for you -- ROBOT MONKEY. Robotic monkeys are obviously the next step in monkey evolution. Just remember to tell everyone I said that when robot dogs try to enslave us and we are saved by our robotic simian friends.
I say we all gather up and form our own party -- "The Slashdocrats". Whaddya' think? It has a nice ring to it. There's around a million of us (according to user ID numbers, throw in lurkers and take away international /.'ers), so if we each reach out to 30 people, that's 30 million, which is about 10% of the country. (295,734,134 total U.S. pop). If we make a strong case to each of those 30 million and then half of them go out and tell 5 more people, that's another 75 millions (plus the 30 million told by us and the 1 million of us gives us a total of 106 million). Wielding a good third of the U.S. population for votes, we would be able to bring about some competition to the Dems and Reps. Of course, if we could only become ultra-corrupt in order to get that corporate funding we need to run our political ads :(
"Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed"
It's SkyNet!!! It must be destroyed! Death to Microsoft!
Most people on myspace are hardly "emo" -- I believe the word you're looking for is "scenester". "Emo" people don't advertise themselves, in addition -- they don't listen to crappy pop music (Hawthorne Heights? *baaaarf*), as well as not engaging in many activities that the typical myspacer does. If you want to categorize the average myspace user as scenesters, then yes -- you are correct. Scenesters are all about group indentification (and thus the need to have 5,000 friends on an internet site) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenester (god damn... I love wikipedia!). Yes, there are emo-scenesters -- however, as mentioned previously, the typical myspace user's musical preferences do not match the emo genre. My final point -- what's wrong with hiring a so-called "emo"? I find people typically labeled as emo are much more fun to be around, more intelligent, and harder working than many other conventional stereotypes (jocks, druggies, gangsters, preps). Happy (no, 'cause you're emo OHHHHHH BURN)?
I'm... not actually a squirrel *crowd gasps!*
I agree -- don't mess with what the Great Magic Man Named God in the sky made. Like those assholes who wear eyeglasses or contacts -- GOD CRIPPLED YOUR VISION FOR A REASON. Oh, and don't even get me started on those fucking diabetics with their insulin. Bastards. Wait a minute... I just realized I had my wisdom teeth pulled... I'M GOING TO BURN FOR ALL ETERNITY IN FIERY HELL!!!
Exactly. First thing I thought while I read the article was "which one of the TelComs is paying for this guy's kids to go to college".
One (I guess it could be considered two) word: Myspace. There are millions of 14-16 year old girls who would give you a weeks worth of allowance to make their page pretty -- best part is, their definition of pretty is usually "cluttered, pink, and gag-inducing". You could make about $5 per site doing that, and assuming it only took you 10 minutes to code their site, you could make approximately $30 an hour working from home...
Seriously though, I feel for you -- all tech jobs have been knocked down a couple notches since the web bubble burst. If you like web development, I'd say try either getting several small business clients (especially if you know macromedia, small businesses eat-up flash sites: "ohhh, so pretty") or if you want to get out of the field all together, ask some of your larger former clients if they're looking for any tech-work. As far as what you want to do -- no one can tell you what you'll enjoy except yourself. I've seen people go from Helpdesk to Development and hate it, I've also seen them go from Helpdesk to Development and love it (even though they loved Helpdesk too). Beauty (of the job) is in the eye of the beholder.
My sentiments exactly -- I always try to buy the unmarketed (or at least less-marketed) products [unless it's inferior] just because I hate marketing so much. I'm sorry -- I hate marketing METHODS so much. I have no problems with marketing telling me the facts, but marketers seem to be all too geared toward fact/reality-twisting.
Dear marketers: you're going to ruin my game experience to plaster "BEST BUY" or "FedEx" all over?... I already know Best Buy and FedEx exist, throwing it all over my world when I'm trying to frag some zombies or save the princess or whatever I want to do in my own little gaming reality will only upset me; the gaming world has NOTHING to do with your crappy product. please die, kthxbye.
It's NOT a free market -- the U.S. gov't put the TelComs into a monopoly situation. Now the government is not stepping in to limit the power of those companies... Yes, you could switch your local-ISP, but they run on backbones provided by a few man ISPs so you'll still encounter "tiering".
The legislative branch is in place to make laws, and those lawmakers are in palce to serve their constituents. Serve their constituents? Serve them a nice kick in the face! ...oh, wait, that's right, it's because they're feeding from the sweet suckle of corruption. Money talks, and apparently it says "No Net Neutrality". Except instead of words coming out of its mouth, poop come out, not only does Net Neutrality get no'ed -- it gets crapped all over.
This wasn't just a "barely passed" or "it'll change when the Dems get control over the Reps again" type of thing...
FTA: "The amendment was defeated by 269 votes to 152 and the Cope Act was passed by 321-101 votes."
Our government must have something against us (not protecting us from TelComs which THEY monopolized) because I don't see how else this could happen.
Actually, 12 step programs DON'T work. The "success" rate for AA is measured as people who haven't drank after 12 months -- it's 5%. Want to know the percentage of people who didn't drink after 12 months who didn't use AA?... it's also 5%. AA works for some people just because they can't quit without the fear of god in them (AA is very religious, it breaks your self esteem: they make you say that you have no power over yourself and that you need the help of a higher power [they don't say "god" because then it couldn't be mandated for alcoholics to attend by the courts] to get over your addiction)... some of those people probably couldn't quit on their own, but with the help of their god, they can bring themselves under control.
Another important thing about electric (battery) cars is that batteries perform poorly in the cold (due to their chemical electricity-generating process). Considering a good portion of the United States (and the world) is cold for a good portion of the year: this means battery cars are a no-no. A capacitor powered electric car, on the other hand, could operate in the coldest environments (well, except absolute zero) with little performance degredation (the lesser performance would be from moving parts in the car).
So, in other words... you can look at porn on it?
China blocked Google until Google agreed to abide by China's zany laws. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_on_hi_te/ch ina_google
don't forget: "ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phoooone, ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phoooooone" ...except replace "banana" with "porn".
*sniff*... *sniff*.... mmmm, I love the smell of bullshit in the morning.
World of Starcraft.
I whole-heartedly agree. When a user clicks on a .exe/.pif link in an e-mail/IM that says something like "omg picturz frum last nitee!", it's not their fault for being "stupid" -- they just don't know any better. They have a different "reality" as to how computers and the internet work. Why would their friend send them a virus? Why would a pop-up lie when it tells them it detected a virus on their computer and they needed to download malicious virusscanner 1.2 (the 'this installs even more viruses' edition)? Even in cases of phishing -- in their mind, the message says it's from 'so and so'. The populace must be educated to make the internet a safer place -- until then, the world will just be full of technical ignorance/misunderstanding. Now... the 4th or 5th time the same user clicks on the SAME .pif link... then it's okay to want to hit them.
I knew it was a bad business decision to step away from a growing operating system. Way to stick it to the (M$) man! Go Lenovo, go Lenovo, go, go, go!
Yes, the equipment is cheap... but the broadcasting license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_License will get you. You could set up a pirate radio station, but it's not extremely difficult to track those down. Also, how are you going to get people to listen when they can hear that one song for the fifth time in the hour?
"the Internet must remain a fair and level playing field for the distribution of political speech."
Like: 'bush is teh gh3y.' "no, gore pWnz u." 'bush/cheney ftw.' "you stole my election!"
[ANALOGY TIME] Finding political speech on the internet is like finding poop in the toilet: it's easy to find, but you don't want to see it.