We Old Fogies forget how smart kids are. I first learned about computer viruses when I was 13, from a 10 year old who was playing with them on Mac System 6.
And have we seriously forgotten Lunch Period? Every school has a "Johnny Rogue" whose big brother shows him stuff, and within a week it's all over the inside gossip at Lunch.
Actually, I both agree and want to push this further. Although he was phrasing it rather snarky, the AC elsewhere who said it was about the preppy contacts and schmoozing was part right - if you're a people-person and know how to be in the popular crowds, the Who-You-Know factor can be an instant ticket.
However, I treated a degree as "something to defend" and didn't want a glaring Scarlet Letter following me around. I agree that the undergrad experience in some of the Name Schools is awful and a borderline-scam. I switched to a state school and started on a mostly ordinary business career.
But Education is the next big Bubble. I was in Uni in a precisely dated "last of the old" time slots - 1993-1997. A typical undergrad course = 2 textbooks, "40 podcasts" and your choice of "2 answers per podcast + 1 office hour". Thanks to the RIAA's screaming, we now know that 40 podcasts =... $0! And now the Two-Questions can be answered on the net. So the real price of the class is a $50/hour "consulting hour" plus the rent for the dorm + meal ticket.
It does look better than the 10 series too, so per elsewhere I'm going to try it out. Hard to say on polish vs Firefox, I think that's where themes comes in.
I had some trouble with the Opera 10 series, see a couple of my other posts. I'm going to give Opera 11 a fair tryout.
Keep in mind that all kinds of things break when you compare Mac vs Windows implementations of stuff. It really is like British-American accents on english - most of it is fine, then some thing throws you.
I think I agree. I wanted to go with Opera as the Non-IE Non-Google option on the few sites that Firefox throws snit fits at, except then when I'd go back to regular pages, random surprises would show up.
What did you think of the show Lost? I'm betting some of the same story problems the show had floated over.
I wish studios would allow fan mashups of movies. Do you think it was okay in the visual department if you could hack out what every one refers to as "20 minutes too long"?
We have an endemic problem with movies with good visuals getting dragged down by broken scripts. Sometimes a nice reviewer will say that an actor did their damndest with what they were handed. In this case the Vailiant Effort award is apparently slated for Olivia Wilde.
However we'd have to solve our current copyright problem before that happened.
It's fiendishly complicated which of the western countries is "most" repressive right now. If I may mashup some gaming analogies, I'm seeing it as "repression battleship". France is playing with Unlucky Strikes, we just saw the Packet Inspection update a few hours ago, Intel contributed a remote-kill switch, US wants to shove ACTA along, etc. Each piece is bad, but they synergistically combine into OhDearWTF. Then it's just a grid exercise to complete the collectible set across all countries.
Sorry, you fell for it as well. Consider the pattern: (Packet ID tech) "which we say we will use for ___" Once the tech is in place, they can use it for anything. "You must visit facebook 12 times a day (through your portal page, so you can see our ads) to keep your "net user discount", or else you'll lose your discounted rate." Or other stuff. Just think evil for a while and see what ones you come up with.
Sorry, no - this is exactly coinciding with the rise of "move to the cloud"! So all the stuff you used to do locally with a software package will now be streamed to you one click at a time! "Want to use online apps, that's work, that's more."
A technically minded... decides that he can do better, so he creates something where every frame is absolutely beautiful, and the audio is perfectly clear, but you don't care about any of the characters, the writing is awful, and the acting would be improved by overdubbing the dialog with something from espeak.
This seems to be the easy way out the critics took to unite in panning Tron Legacy. Tron 2 was just gutsy by Disney, out of nowhere, and all the critics can do is sandwich it between the slam of Michael Bay's Transformers as "all action and boring" to "all dialogue and boring".
I think instead something happened culturally so that we are no longer satiated by even decent SciFi. Lord of the Rings coupled with Harry Potter is the End of Fantasy.
I think we're on the verge of being culturally exhausted, to the boredom-terror of proportions never before seen.
I'll chip in the the "rationality of the decision". Someone deciding whether to change their habits on $50 vs $100 is indicating they are concerned with the overall effect of the purchase on their budget. Someone making a capital investment of $1000 for a computer shouldn't be worrying about where their next necessity purchase is coming from. It's like the famous joke "I'll take 2 Angus Bacon Cheeseburger meals, supersized, but make the drinks diet coke because I'm on a diet".
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We Old Fogies forget how smart kids are. I first learned about computer viruses when I was 13, from a 10 year old who was playing with them on Mac System 6.
And have we seriously forgotten Lunch Period? Every school has a "Johnny Rogue" whose big brother shows him stuff, and within a week it's all over the inside gossip at Lunch.
Yes, Rule 34 has done nicely with Cages.
Actually, I both agree and want to push this further.
Although he was phrasing it rather snarky, the AC elsewhere who said it was about the preppy contacts and schmoozing was part right - if you're a people-person and know how to be in the popular crowds, the Who-You-Know factor can be an instant ticket.
However, I treated a degree as "something to defend" and didn't want a glaring Scarlet Letter following me around. I agree that the undergrad experience in some of the Name Schools is awful and a borderline-scam. I switched to a state school and started on a mostly ordinary business career.
But Education is the next big Bubble. I was in Uni in a precisely dated "last of the old" time slots - 1993-1997. A typical undergrad course = 2 textbooks, "40 podcasts" and your choice of "2 answers per podcast + 1 office hour". Thanks to the RIAA's screaming, we now know that 40 podcasts = ... $0! And now the Two-Questions can be answered on the net. So the real price of the class is a $50/hour "consulting hour" plus the rent for the dorm + meal ticket.
It does look better than the 10 series too, so per elsewhere I'm going to try it out. Hard to say on polish vs Firefox, I think that's where themes comes in.
I had some trouble with the Opera 10 series, see a couple of my other posts. I'm going to give Opera 11 a fair tryout.
Keep in mind that all kinds of things break when you compare Mac vs Windows implementations of stuff. It really is like British-American accents on english - most of it is fine, then some thing throws you.
Nice tip on Comodo Dragon browser - I use browsers as "sandboxed homepages", and I haven't added any good new ones for a while.
However, I am a classic menu fan. Is there an add-on or option that puts a classic menu bar on top of these browsers?
I think I agree. I wanted to go with Opera as the Non-IE Non-Google option on the few sites that Firefox throws snit fits at, except then when I'd go back to regular pages, random surprises would show up.
Let me borrow a pun to ask you a question.
What did you think of the show Lost? I'm betting some of the same story problems the show had floated over.
I wish studios would allow fan mashups of movies. Do you think it was okay in the visual department if you could hack out what every one refers to as "20 minutes too long"?
We have an endemic problem with movies with good visuals getting dragged down by broken scripts. Sometimes a nice reviewer will say that an actor did their damndest with what they were handed. In this case the Vailiant Effort award is apparently slated for Olivia Wilde.
However we'd have to solve our current copyright problem before that happened.
It's fiendishly complicated which of the western countries is "most" repressive right now. If I may mashup some gaming analogies, I'm seeing it as "repression battleship". France is playing with Unlucky Strikes, we just saw the Packet Inspection update a few hours ago, Intel contributed a remote-kill switch, US wants to shove ACTA along, etc. Each piece is bad, but they synergistically combine into OhDearWTF.
Then it's just a grid exercise to complete the collectible set across all countries.
Briliantly evil.
At least some complicated multi-layered variant of it. It's disturbingly like religious theory - "how do you prove it's not a false flag"?
The level of intensity of slick ops went through the roof these last few years.
All the carriers will do it in sequence, and VPN traffic itself is "advanced level" and merits an upcharge.
Sorry, you fell for it as well.
Consider the pattern:
(Packet ID tech) "which we say we will use for ___"
Once the tech is in place, they can use it for anything. "You must visit facebook 12 times a day (through your portal page, so you can see our ads) to keep your "net user discount", or else you'll lose your discounted rate."
Or other stuff. Just think evil for a while and see what ones you come up with.
Sorry, no - this is exactly coinciding with the rise of "move to the cloud"! So all the stuff you used to do locally with a software package will now be streamed to you one click at a time! "Want to use online apps, that's work, that's more."
Goatse!
(Creepy!)
Ooh, go ahead and yelp! You're so exploitable when you're yelping!
(/Creepy)
Simple, they'll just make it illegal.
They already are, depending on your line. However they'll try to deny it. We ran into this at work on Verizon a few years back.
You're obviously a nice guy and not evil enough. Encryption will soon be Gov only, because the FBI can't crack it!
(Burlesque)
Hey, you have nothing to hide right?
Why not let the nice telcos grope your data?
(/Burlesque)
http://xkcd.com/538/
Rocks are indeed mysterious. However, you probably meant petabit encryption.
A technically minded ... decides that he can do better, so he creates something where every frame is absolutely beautiful, and the audio is perfectly clear, but you don't care about any of the characters, the writing is awful, and the acting would be improved by overdubbing the dialog with something from espeak.
This seems to be the easy way out the critics took to unite in panning Tron Legacy. Tron 2 was just gutsy by Disney, out of nowhere, and all the critics can do is sandwich it between the slam of Michael Bay's Transformers as "all action and boring" to "all dialogue and boring".
I think instead something happened culturally so that we are no longer satiated by even decent SciFi. Lord of the Rings coupled with Harry Potter is the End of Fantasy.
I think we're on the verge of being culturally exhausted, to the boredom-terror of proportions never before seen.
Wouldn't this be an assignment for Anonymous?
I'll chip in the the "rationality of the decision". Someone deciding whether to change their habits on $50 vs $100 is indicating they are concerned with the overall effect of the purchase on their budget. Someone making a capital investment of $1000 for a computer shouldn't be worrying about where their next necessity purchase is coming from. It's like the famous joke "I'll take 2 Angus Bacon Cheeseburger meals, supersized, but make the drinks diet coke because I'm on a diet".
Awww. Store can't bamboozle poor customers with flashy displays anymore?