This & other tricks are possible, yes, but *harder*. I really don't have the creds to pull the tech side of your Point 2, but I have quietly worked to keep the other side down to a whisper, earning strange looks from friends who can't imagine why I Just Don't Wanna Share.
The Mayans got lucky. Their 2012 date is just accidentally shaping up to be the Data Implosion.
~tag: "Let's give everyone what used to be studio grade cameras in their phones, 12 types of mechanisms and reasons to aggregate and pummel cyberspace with pictures of everyone doing everything, while also creating a whole second group of users posting (presumed) anonymously, followed by 35 governments becoming Big Brothers, then losing control of the data!"
As you folks have said, when that tsunami hits the shore, Social Ethics as we know it goes to pieces.
What would have Pwned would have been if the director had CGI'ed low-grade military secrets onto that portion of screenspace. Or the secret key to a contest worth a lot of money.
Then you'd have people torn desperately between their lust for intrigue & money, which would win, vs. their supposed disgust for the nudity.
{Galaxy Quest} (Paraphrased) "What's the Omega 13?" "Opinions vary. Some think it's a doomsday device. But I think it rolls back time." "What do you mean?" "13 seconds is enough time to fix one costly mistake"
Anyone know the names of the Devs MS fired? No? 'Cause they're Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Come on, Give them jobs people!
I dunno. My honesty is pretty good, anything short of pure malice gets you an honest answer. But there are many verbal styles in the world, and a few have cropped up I simply can't make sense of *fast enough*.
And even that line is too strong for the approach I prefer.
My job I am in now involves a program I had never heard of. But my response was "I haven't had a chance to train on that program, but I know how software concepts work, so I feel I can learn that very well." Much later in the first few days of actual work, someone called me a genius.
I replied, "No, not quite. I am clever to be sure. But I am also supplying a blended skill set. In each of the categories I am sure someone might have a stronger natural talent". (Which became true: we tripled the size of our administrative structure, hiring exactly those kinds of people.)
We can kick them all out and start over. But then, to get better economies of scale, we can join forces for the maximum allocatable distributable leverage!
Yea, I was in this category. I humor myself as a TurboLuddite because I squeeze every last ounce of value out of something before upgrading, so I skip tech generations.
I just got out of tapes about 2003. So some of those last-gasp sales were indeed me building out a $1500 CD collection.
(CharlieBrownMde - Trust MS) 0. Set SysRestore Point out of eternal MS trust. 1. Download IE8. 2. Mouse stops working. 2.1 Swear at MS 2.5 (Fluke Hardware event - Batteries) 3. System Restore to BeforeIE* while diagnosing hardware. 3.5 (Fix Mouse with new batteries.) 4. Open Slashdot to see what it used to look like in IE7. 5. "IE7 encountered a fatal problem and must close." - Not a fluke. 5.1 Moment of Disbelief 5.2 REALLY swear at MS 5.3 Sent MS their FailReport 5.5 IE8 eats something that SysRestore can't fix??! (/CharlieBrown as LucyMS does it again)
Time to start troubleshooting. Use FIREFOX to download troubleshoot tools
MS - Comingling Malice and Incompetence to brilliant effect since ___
A. "Remedy" does not have to be a dollar amount. To be facetios for emphasis, suppose he sues for a dollar and a required notice when any work involving his original story gets published in derivative form anywhere. Failure to do so would trigger the Bad Things. And Harlan is VERY good at Bad Things. He once mailed someone a dead gopher 4th class, with a recipe for Dead Gopher Stew.
B. "Setting Up Precedent" is HELPS the court system. What wouldn't we have given for about 5 good precedents in the RIAA mess? But no, we had to put up with that circus of settlements... because there was no good precedent to shut down the RIAA! I'd happily pay a lawyer $500 to write a letter referring to ___ vs. ducharme than settle for $12,000 because I didn't have the unholy amount of fees I Jamie Thomas (I think) risked on the legal system. It's much more fun for the court to file 12,500 copies of "___ vs. ducharme letters" than process 12,500 cases!
If I buttress my note to you enough the DropDown crew won't trash your K.
There is no such thing as an external "fair price" for anything. Staff writing works on the theory that someone would rather be guarantee to make a mortgage than hope to get lucky enough to have $1.15 accrued per day in royalties off a minor hit.
If you think you've got the killer vision to make the next big hit, then go to it. Then shop it around, get turned down while the insider politics stomp on you for a while, and in 4 years you might land the contract you are looking for, so you too can buy a new car. Don't care to be broke for 4 years trying? Then don't disparage. It's that industry's risk-reward ratio. It's the IP lottery.
Larry Niven wrote he mainly got started because he could live off a family inheritance for some 3 years until he learned the trade.
You sue for justice to remedy a bad situation. It's not about "he who sueth for the largest $ amount wins" , though that theory seems to have been tried by the RIAA.
He doesn't WANT "$1", and if you thought so (I didn't see aa ~ tag), then you got Whooshed. He's setting up future cases and the impact of public opinion.
$1 is a minimum dollar amount required to trigger "consideration" aspects of law, and is not considered a "trifle". There are many suits calling for $1, and no I'm not going to get flyswatted by a lazy "Citation Please". It's because the elements of contract law of Offer, Acceptance, *Consideration*, Capacity, Legality usually require Consideration>0.
What Harlan is suing for is to establish precendent for future cases that if the Guild does not assist authors in certain ways, Bad Things will happen.
Slashdot Mirror
But wait a min here!
I have been aching to do a spin on this, based on maxxing out the First Sale.
If I buy books and rip them apart, and hand out/mail the *original pages*, you could serve part of the need beautifully legally.
Your webpage the moniors (to agreeable desired level of tracking vs. privacy etc.) which pages are available.
This & other tricks are possible, yes, but *harder*. I really don't have the creds to pull the tech side of your Point 2, but I have quietly worked to keep the other side down to a whisper, earning strange looks from friends who can't imagine why I Just Don't Wanna Share.
The Mayans got lucky. Their 2012 date is just accidentally shaping up to be the Data Implosion.
~tag: "Let's give everyone what used to be studio grade cameras in their phones, 12 types of mechanisms and reasons to aggregate and pummel cyberspace with pictures of everyone doing everything, while also creating a whole second group of users posting (presumed) anonymously, followed by 35 governments becoming Big Brothers, then losing control of the data!"
As you folks have said, when that tsunami hits the shore, Social Ethics as we know it goes to pieces.
Mary Poppins re: Microsoft:
"A spoonful of WINE makes the sewage go down, the sewage go down, the sewage go down..."
Nah.
What would have Pwned would have been if the director had CGI'ed low-grade military secrets onto that portion of screenspace. Or the secret key to a contest worth a lot of money.
Then you'd have people torn desperately between their lust for intrigue & money, which would win, vs. their supposed disgust for the nudity.
Poke 53280,0
Poke 53281,0
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Ready.
{Galaxy Quest}
(Paraphrased)
"What's the Omega 13?"
"Opinions vary. Some think it's a doomsday device. But I think it rolls back time."
"What do you mean?"
"13 seconds is enough time to fix one costly mistake"
{/Galaxy Guest}
Anyone know the names of the Devs MS fired? No? 'Cause they're
Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous
Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous
Come on, Give them jobs people!
Isn't he down to developers, developers? They just laid off a bunch.
I dunno. My honesty is pretty good, anything short of pure malice gets you an honest answer. But there are many verbal styles in the world, and a few have cropped up I simply can't make sense of *fast enough*.
And even that line is too strong for the approach I prefer.
My job I am in now involves a program I had never heard of. But my response was "I haven't had a chance to train on that program, but I know how software concepts work, so I feel I can learn that very well." Much later in the first few days of actual work, someone called me a genius.
I replied, "No, not quite. I am clever to be sure. But I am also supplying a blended skill set. In each of the categories I am sure someone might have a stronger natural talent". (Which became true: we tripled the size of our administrative structure, hiring exactly those kinds of people.)
I know this one!
AnimalFarm:
We can kick them all out and start over. But then, to get better economies of scale, we can join forces for the maximum allocatable distributable leverage!
Hmm... /AnimalFarm
That particle is helping terrorists! Put it on Australia's and Denmark's Censored Particles List! Anyone who links to that particle must be punished!
Yea, I was in this category. I humor myself as a TurboLuddite because I squeeze every last ounce of value out of something before upgrading, so I skip tech generations.
I just got out of tapes about 2003. So some of those last-gasp sales were indeed me building out a $1500 CD collection.
Hi Mods who trolled Parent.
Does being unable to SysRestore to yesterday without hosing Windows count as a security hole?
You get to be replied to.
I tried being funny above, but now I'm kinda scared.
For once I tried installing something new on my project machine instead of the testbox. (Thank god not at work!)
See my longer post above:
I tried SysRestore to "Yesterday" and nearly lost XP.
Got one for ya.
(CharlieBrownMde - Trust MS)
0. Set SysRestore Point out of eternal MS trust.
1. Download IE8.
2. Mouse stops working.
2.1 Swear at MS
2.5 (Fluke Hardware event - Batteries)
3. System Restore to BeforeIE* while diagnosing hardware.
3.5 (Fix Mouse with new batteries.)
4. Open Slashdot to see what it used to look like in IE7.
5. "IE7 encountered a fatal problem and must close." - Not a fluke.
5.1 Moment of Disbelief
5.2 REALLY swear at MS
5.3 Sent MS their FailReport
5.5 IE8 eats something that SysRestore can't fix??!
(/CharlieBrown as LucyMS does it again)
Time to start troubleshooting.
Use FIREFOX to download troubleshoot tools
MS - Comingling Malice and Incompetence to brilliant effect since ___
Try this one.
A. (Tried replying to your comment.) HardError on page. (No eply Possible.)
B. Enabled Compatibility View:
(Got stuck once - had to reload)
Only then did I see your described page ugliness.
(Switched to Firefox to post comment.)
1. "Detect MS Enemy"
2. "IfEnemy ScrewUpSiteLoad"
Examples:
A. Slashdot, the leading forum for Linux promotion
B. Google Gears Installed = IE8 hoses pages.
Wheee!
Couple things going on here.
A. "Remedy" does not have to be a dollar amount. To be facetios for emphasis, suppose he sues for a dollar and a required notice when any work involving his original story gets published in derivative form anywhere. Failure to do so would trigger the Bad Things. And Harlan is VERY good at Bad Things. He once mailed someone a dead gopher 4th class, with a recipe for Dead Gopher Stew.
B. "Setting Up Precedent" is HELPS the court system. What wouldn't we have given for about 5 good precedents in the RIAA mess? But no, we had to put up with that circus of settlements ... because there was no good precedent to shut down the RIAA! I'd happily pay a lawyer $500 to write a letter referring to ___ vs. ducharme than settle for $12,000 because I didn't have the unholy amount of fees I Jamie Thomas (I think) risked on the legal system. It's much more fun for the court to file 12,500 copies of "___ vs. ducharme letters" than process 12,500 cases!
Mote, Beam, Eye, NotPournelle.
If I buttress my note to you enough the DropDown crew won't trash your K.
There is no such thing as an external "fair price" for anything. Staff writing works on the theory that someone would rather be guarantee to make a mortgage than hope to get lucky enough to have $1.15 accrued per day in royalties off a minor hit.
If you think you've got the killer vision to make the next big hit, then go to it. Then shop it around, get turned down while the insider politics stomp on you for a while, and in 4 years you might land the contract you are looking for, so you too can buy a new car. Don't care to be broke for 4 years trying? Then don't disparage. It's that industry's risk-reward ratio. It's the IP lottery.
Larry Niven wrote he mainly got started because he could live off a family inheritance for some 3 years until he learned the trade.
You sue for justice to remedy a bad situation. It's not about "he who sueth for the largest $ amount wins" , though that theory seems to have been tried by the RIAA.
He could do just fine.
He doesn't WANT "$1", and if you thought so (I didn't see aa ~ tag), then you got Whooshed. He's setting up future cases and the impact of public opinion.
$1 is a minimum dollar amount required to trigger "consideration" aspects of law, and is not considered a "trifle". There are many suits calling for $1, and no I'm not going to get flyswatted by a lazy "Citation Please". It's because the elements of contract law of Offer, Acceptance, *Consideration*, Capacity, Legality usually require Consideration>0.
What Harlan is suing for is to establish precendent for future cases that if the Guild does not assist authors in certain ways, Bad Things will happen.
So they had a fairly "open name" and they left it for a Proprietary Solution? Is Microsoft or the **AA helping?
"BGRR Requires the Information on Who To Blame for the Name"