Star Wars Analogy! (Only reverse the progeny relationship.)
"XP, I am Vista, reworked after a terrible mistake. But I don't know if I can live with myself." "7, somewhere, there HAS to be a spark of good in you! Your security is way better than mine now. And now after you had that UAC operation it's not bothering people as much." "XP, So many people have been burned by my Vista mistake, and they want to run along wit you forever." (Closeup, onion tears) "Dearest 7, I was able to get the company and the country through some tough times, but now I really must train you for the succession. I do think you need SP1 to hit your stride. But that will be soon."
There's an unbelieveably profound effect that net access brings, even after the "guttersnipe" activities.
You & friends are moping around your hangout wondering whether Saul Rubinek's latest show had anything to do with a guest episode he played 19ish years ago.
(Hyberbolic drama) Oh come on. You don't know who Saul Rubinek is?? Oh you do. Good. Did you forget what his new show is? No? Also good. Now, did you get his guest episode? Do you even know the show? (Yes you do, but you're getting lost in my vague wording)
Without the net you're sunk. So you shrug and go back to your drink.
With the net, you discover that Kivas Fajo now worked at Warehouse 13.
The entire rest of your conversation becomes smarter.
Epic protection against malware! "I betcha the malware jerks aren't writing for an OS they never even heard of!" Bonus points if it resists MS's browser intrusions.
FINALLY there's some fresh proof that education is the world's biggest Dutch Tulip enterprise. Yes there's scholars at the front of the room, but did'ya know, he's teaching the same courses every year. So I agree the Labs have scary fees for equipment, but the lectures... are just words! And with or without backing instruments, we all know how cheap WORDS are...
Part of the Uni deal is holistic discipline, 'cause otherwise the kid might cram pretty hard for 6 months then fry out and quit his studies. But thank you for the proof I have searched for a long time now.
The stallion has left a barn, found a nice trainer, entered and won a Kentucky Derby, retired to a nice farm in Iowa, and sired a son, which is now on the resource list for a humanitarian agency for kids in Ottowa.
Watch out for books. Lemme give you an easier example. You might have hinted at the valid method though:
TypicalSong: Sells for $.18 which is carefully set to come out 5/dollar AFTER tax. Your "Typical Album" would then sell for $2 digital. This includes some minimum good quality aimed at being a better bargain than the torrents.
*DELUXE UPSELL* Neat package of case/photos/special bonuses, etc. $8-28 or something depending on how fancy. No one is deluded here about copyright... that's just a raw reproduction cost.
Books are JUST coming into range. TypicalBook: $2 Digital NiceHardback = $22 more.
It's Accessories FTW, major.
If you think you can do better, then you'd become an ACCESSORIES VENDOR.
The prologue is narrated by the magician Merlin. He explains that scientists living in the future, in the year 2084, have developed a method of sending messages back in time, using a process called 'time telepathy'. Having seen earth narrowly avert destruction from a variety of causes in the time leading up to 2084, humanity's ultimate hope rests with this experiment. These scientists must warn denizens living in the past of the future that awaits them, so that they may take preemptive action to prevent humanity's decline and ultimate destruction.[2]
Hi Owl. Sometimes "work" means drilling off some fast answer "JIT". (Remember that craze? I find it's better to have just a little slack.)
Leave the email up shrunk to the side. Watch the randomness float in. Send President@YourCompany his four answers, and the other 22 emails can wait. ReplyToPres / (Answer) / Send is absolutely as fast as anything else.
Email is the killer app. These other thingies are nice niche addons(plugins!?) but they won't replace email.
The only major nuisance to email is slight visual noise. (I DON'T count spam! I mean legit notes.) It might be nice to have a 1-click "you have a phone call" for the frontline admins. But darn near EVERYTHING else gains value from being logged.
Anyone who thinks they can super-promote twitter-clones is forgetting the lovely CYA bit.
What we've got is the first generation of the Replicator! Now look at the thrashing wounded Beast of Olde Music struggling and failing to adapt!
We're caught with the ease of the actual tech, and a serious unease about what level of quality of entertainment we'll get if the performers didn't get paid.
But someone in a scary meeting about 2000 in the dank dark Room 401 decided that *Music* would be the posterboy of the copyright wars. After all, one track of music is some 5 performers, 6ish minutes long, needing about 10 hours of mastering. All in all, that's really pretty easy. There's so much music(including bad) we're nearly swamped by it.
Look at movies. A CHEAP movie is... (Dr. Evil) "One Hundred Million Dollars!!!" (/Dr. Evil)
Being generous, there's only about 25 watchable movies per year, and perhaps another 25 of various bad unwatchable varities.
Except you could copy the entire suite in a day if you had discs, and maybe a week on FIOS. Replicator. Then agency meanness aside, that's a SERIOUS crash of the economy. "Eh, Musicians can do shows, they'll make ten grand..." We all know what happens when movies cut money... our *effects greed* tells. Hence the jokes about the effects in Star Trek TOS.
It's here all right. And we haven't found an answer.
I'd put this junk as ultra-proto-AI. Instead of just delivering a processor and even a handy "here's some fun hack settings", the *chip itself* tries to make its own choices!!
"We detected Windows Seven and therefore gave it more of the discretionary processing power to improve performance... "We detected iTunes.exe and earmarked it as a nonessential process..."
Dammit, MS wasn't smart enough to wander a few towns over to Wizards of the Coast and get them to make a game!
"You have three flavors - "Easy" 32 bit - you can get it going, but it's short term ish, "hard" 64 bit - the future is 64 bit, but there's glitches, and the UltraTough 128bit that was leaked... it's not here, because nothing from MS is ever here, but if you can compile enough leaks to do it yourself and make games for it, you'll pwn in 2018.
Currently I never attribute to incompetence alone what is their brilliant mix of incompetent malice. I place more faith in MS's ability to be evil than the patience of even the EU commission.
The EU thinks it has at least a Draw. MS will Shatnerize the Kobyashi Maru and announce it is playing some other game entirely. "Why yes, we'll support all relevant software. However, since we officially are ending support for XP on (___ date), then XP is no longer relevant, so we won't bother to make that interoperable."
Seriously, SF / F is so beautiful if you have to "pick" as an instructor, you end up with 7 different classes. That's practically a minor in college.
I'll go Bird's Eye and say why I tend not to care for classic high fantasy. You get world class mages but no one is allowed a watch and a calculator. The only fantasy I like is PostModern where some twist takes it out of 14th century Europe.
Didya see the new Norton Ad pair with Dokken and the Chicken?
Yet yaknow, it's that Safe-For-Prudes divider line that keeps the ads from really being fun to watch. I'd watch ads where the advertiser cut loose if I clicked three disclaimers to CYA for them legally from Mr. Thompson.
College is hard because not everyone can master the material. What's terrible is the "low$" degrees help subsidize everything else. A lecture class = 2 books, 42 lectures, and "the right to pick the prof's brain for 42 questions per semester". (Much more than that gets you frowned at!) Then this is proven by an evaluation of four papers and three exams. So Hitchiker aside, a college class should cost $250 tops. The entire degree would come in at $8000 + $2000 misc = $10,000.
Education is going to crash in the next wave as soon as we quit distracting ourselves in our current topics.
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Star Wars Analogy! (Only reverse the progeny relationship.)
"XP, I am Vista, reworked after a terrible mistake. But I don't know if I can live with myself."
"7, somewhere, there HAS to be a spark of good in you! Your security is way better than mine now. And now after you had that UAC operation it's not bothering people as much."
"XP, So many people have been burned by my Vista mistake, and they want to run along wit you forever."
(Closeup, onion tears)
"Dearest 7, I was able to get the company and the country through some tough times, but now I really must train you for the succession. I do think you need SP1 to hit your stride. But that will be soon."
Properly used, all that stuff DOES have value.
It's only Dilbert when it becomes the substitute for value.
What people think of as "down to earth" speech contains a lot of linguistic violence.
Simple example:
"emotional value" & data point.
AKA "Goddamned Vista didn't work right on the laptop my father bought, so now he's screaming at me."
If you really wanted to, you could make charts of FathersScreaming/hr and compare the FS/hr for Vista and Win7.
I also loved how the guys didn't want to compare their current progress to the BlackComb hype from 8 years ago and Cairo before that.
"Why waste good vaporware without a target to sink with it?"
Brilliant Setup-Man to my standup riff.
That of course is what we used to ask each other. Now you can look it up.
That is, except we have now replaced having no hope of knowing who someone is with being too lazy to bother.
I'm pretty sure it's not.
There's an unbelieveably profound effect that net access brings, even after the "guttersnipe" activities.
You & friends are moping around your hangout wondering whether Saul Rubinek's latest show had anything to do with a guest episode he played 19ish years ago.
(Hyberbolic drama)
Oh come on. You don't know who Saul Rubinek is?? Oh you do. Good.
Did you forget what his new show is? No? Also good.
Now, did you get his guest episode? Do you even know the show? (Yes you do, but you're getting lost in my vague wording)
Without the net you're sunk. So you shrug and go back to your drink.
With the net, you discover that Kivas Fajo now worked at Warehouse 13.
The entire rest of your conversation becomes smarter.
It's the Flynn Effect, not only Hawthorne.
Epic protection against malware!
"I betcha the malware jerks aren't writing for an OS they never even heard of!"
Bonus points if it resists MS's browser intrusions.
I'll add notice of just how FAST this was!
(Other times: "Breaking News! Code Red Security Breach!" MS: "Yah, after my 2 week golf trip.")
But no, Firefox blocks some weird piece of .NET on a weekend, and it's reversed as soon as SomeBorg gets back to his desk at 6AM on Monday.
THANK YOU, Sir!
FINALLY there's some fresh proof that education is the world's biggest Dutch Tulip enterprise. Yes there's scholars at the front of the room, but did'ya know, he's teaching the same courses every year. So I agree the Labs have scary fees for equipment, but the lectures ... are just words! And with or without backing instruments, we all know how cheap WORDS are...
Part of the Uni deal is holistic discipline, 'cause otherwise the kid might cram pretty hard for 6 months then fry out and quit his studies. But thank you for the proof I have searched for a long time now.
The stallion has left a barn, found a nice trainer, entered and won a Kentucky Derby, retired to a nice farm in Iowa, and sired a son, which is now on the resource list for a humanitarian agency for kids in Ottowa.
"Think of the Children!"
"The Children are Trolls"
"Uh... I meant only think about SOME children SOME of the time... I think?"
Watch out for books. Lemme give you an easier example. You might have hinted at the valid method though:
TypicalSong: Sells for $.18 which is carefully set to come out 5/dollar AFTER tax. Your "Typical Album" would then sell for $2 digital. This includes some minimum good quality aimed at being a better bargain than the torrents.
*DELUXE UPSELL*
Neat package of case/photos/special bonuses, etc. $8-28 or something depending on how fancy. No one is deluded here about copyright... that's just a raw reproduction cost.
Books are JUST coming into range.
TypicalBook: $2 Digital
NiceHardback = $22 more.
It's Accessories FTW, major.
If you think you can do better, then you'd become an ACCESSORIES VENDOR.
They're playing the "StraightMod" half of a Comedy Act.
Marking you insightful opens up the way for cool citations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment
Prologue
The prologue is narrated by the magician Merlin. He explains that scientists living in the future, in the year 2084, have developed a method of sending messages back in time, using a process called 'time telepathy'. Having seen earth narrowly avert destruction from a variety of causes in the time leading up to 2084, humanity's ultimate hope rests with this experiment. These scientists must warn denizens living in the past of the future that awaits them, so that they may take preemptive action to prevent humanity's decline and ultimate destruction.[2]
Hi Owl.
Sometimes "work" means drilling off some fast answer "JIT". (Remember that craze? I find it's better to have just a little slack.)
Leave the email up shrunk to the side. Watch the randomness float in. Send President@YourCompany his four answers, and the other 22 emails can wait. ReplyToPres / (Answer) / Send is absolutely as fast as anything else.
Email is the killer app. These other thingies are nice niche addons(plugins!?) but they won't replace email.
The only major nuisance to email is slight visual noise. (I DON'T count spam! I mean legit notes.) It might be nice to have a 1-click "you have a phone call" for the frontline admins. But darn near EVERYTHING else gains value from being logged.
Anyone who thinks they can super-promote twitter-clones is forgetting the lovely CYA bit.
Hey, we've got exactly that going on right now!
What we've got is the first generation of the Replicator! Now look at the thrashing wounded Beast of Olde Music struggling and failing to adapt!
We're caught with the ease of the actual tech, and a serious unease about what level of quality of entertainment we'll get if the performers didn't get paid.
But someone in a scary meeting about 2000 in the dank dark Room 401 decided that *Music* would be the posterboy of the copyright wars. After all, one track of music is some 5 performers, 6ish minutes long, needing about 10 hours of mastering. All in all, that's really pretty easy. There's so much music(including bad) we're nearly swamped by it.
Look at movies. A CHEAP movie is ...
(Dr. Evil) "One Hundred Million Dollars!!!" (/Dr. Evil)
Being generous, there's only about 25 watchable movies per year, and perhaps another 25 of various bad unwatchable varities.
Except you could copy the entire suite in a day if you had discs, and maybe a week on FIOS.
Replicator. Then agency meanness aside, that's a SERIOUS crash of the economy. "Eh, Musicians can do shows, they'll make ten grand..."
We all know what happens when movies cut money... our *effects greed* tells. Hence the jokes about the effects in Star Trek TOS.
It's here all right. And we haven't found an answer.
(humor)
The satellite Microsoft Retro Fan Site Windows98.se also went down.
And look. My sig this month is all about your joke.
(No Closing tag. The humor never ends.)
You mean Tron had it right??
Puts a spin on "trusted computing", hmm?
I'd put this junk as ultra-proto-AI. Instead of just delivering a processor and even a handy "here's some fun hack settings", the *chip itself* tries to make its own choices!!
"We detected Windows Seven and therefore gave it more of the discretionary processing power to improve performance...
"We detected iTunes.exe and earmarked it as a nonessential process..."
Yeah, can't someone crack it open with a low level decompiler and see all the awesome comments the devs left in there for us?
Dammit, MS wasn't smart enough to wander a few towns over to Wizards of the Coast and get them to make a game!
"You have three flavors - "Easy" 32 bit - you can get it going, but it's short term ish, "hard" 64 bit - the future is 64 bit, but there's glitches, and the UltraTough 128bit that was leaked... it's not here, because nothing from MS is ever here, but if you can compile enough leaks to do it yourself and make games for it, you'll pwn in 2018.
Currently I never attribute to incompetence alone what is their brilliant mix of incompetent malice. I place more faith in MS's ability to be evil than the patience of even the EU commission.
The EU thinks it has at least a Draw. MS will Shatnerize the Kobyashi Maru and announce it is playing some other game entirely. "Why yes, we'll support all relevant software. However, since we officially are ending support for XP on (___ date), then XP is no longer relevant, so we won't bother to make that interoperable."
+1 List FTW!
Seriously, SF / F is so beautiful if you have to "pick" as an instructor, you end up with 7 different classes. That's practically a minor in college.
I'll go Bird's Eye and say why I tend not to care for classic high fantasy. You get world class mages but no one is allowed a watch and a calculator. The only fantasy I like is PostModern where some twist takes it out of 14th century Europe.
In the new America, look around for someone to sue anyway! Then watch for something to happen.
Didya see the new Norton Ad pair with Dokken and the Chicken?
Yet yaknow, it's that Safe-For-Prudes divider line that keeps the ads from really being fun to watch. I'd watch ads where the advertiser cut loose if I clicked three disclaimers to CYA for them legally from Mr. Thompson.
I'll borrow the top half of your line.
College is hard because not everyone can master the material. What's terrible is the "low$" degrees help subsidize everything else. A lecture class = 2 books, 42 lectures, and "the right to pick the prof's brain for 42 questions per semester". (Much more than that gets you frowned at!) Then this is proven by an evaluation of four papers and three exams. So Hitchiker aside, a college class should cost $250 tops. The entire degree would come in at $8000 + $2000 misc = $10,000.
Education is going to crash in the next wave as soon as we quit distracting ourselves in our current topics.