From my fingers 3 hours ago, you insensitive clod. But if you liked it, maybe I should write similar teasers for some story ideas I've had sitting in a text file for a few months.....
Of course, Randall has to support himself and repay student loans, as he doesn't actually have a job. His only real job was working at NASA for a few years before and after graduating. He wrote somewhere that he wasn't launching rockets or anything, but rather just writing little programs when something unusual needed to be calculated. Something like that. I raged at the alt text to http://www.xkcd.com/564/ because he's never been a physics researcher. He just writes a web comic and lets his worshippers give offerings...
I think of some primitive post-human civilization struggling to industrialize amid the ruins of the heat-dead universe.
There's little solid matter left. Nobody really knows why; the legends tell of ancient, sprawling empires releasing great monsters that consume worlds and deliver energy to fuel their eons-old wars in the cold between the stars. Several human colonies survived the Last Scourge. One even knew something of their people's history. This colony of merchant-scholars thrived in an old space-borne city drifting about a great lightyears-long dust cloud inexplicably left untouched by the wars. The city was old, very old, built by a generation of master engineers who etched their likenesses in the great canvases of the city's impervious white construction. Quiet machinery lurked untouched in the mysterious depths of the undercity, seen only by outcasts wandering alone through those vast echoing chambers.
The city provided everything the civilization needed. Somehow (so much seemed like magic to them that even the usually-curious humans grew bored of speculation) their reservoirs filled with water, their air recycled, and their waste disappeared down bottomless shafts. All of their needs were filled, but they craved expansion and exploration. They were able to harvest some limited chemical energy from the food supplied by the city, and build using scrap. Still, entropy was a problem in the dust cloud of Linux.....
It's like going to a gas station and walking around a gas station that only sells Doritos and handing them a bag of Kettle Chips. Presumably, their system should read the bar code and tell you that they aren't sold there
Yes we should enact laws to protect innocent consumers defrauded by insisting on paying for their own chips.
What if you made up a quote like "Today, Reuters announced they were declaring bankrupcy" and licensed it from the AP. Could you then attribute that quote to the AP?
What does purchasing a license have to do with journalistic attribution?
Yes, taking the piles of money that people leave on my doorstep is taking advantage.
The guy is knowingly paying the AP for something free. They're not taking advantage of him. And even if someone was legitimately stupid enough to pay the AP for Thomas Jefferson's material, it's not their fault. Should I erect a fence around my doorstep so people don't leave piles of money?
They do? It's secure crypto hardware.. what's evil about that? Yes you have scary evil like Palladium but you don't have to install it if you don't want to. And if machines take control you can always disable the device from the BIOS.. (given you don't care about any data which has encryption keys stored only in the module)
I completely agree. If you bring your own bag of chips into a gas station mart, walk around a little, and then hand it to the cashier, they'll scan it and charge you.
I can see somebody at the AP raising an eyebrow and asking "So you want to pay us $12 to promise not to sue you for using text in the public domain? Uhhh OK we promise." It's the researcher that's baiting them and causing problems; there's no problem on their end.
In other words, the only respectable citizens would be the really good ones who stand to win because there's no incentive for the bad ones to lose money honorably for the privilege of losing even more money honorably.
Anyone you play will be better than you, and the winners would know better than to play each other.
The "remote control" just lets you check if it's charged, and lets you start the AC/heat early to get the cabin comfortable while it's still plugged in.
Well Apple's little update-jacking fiasco seems to have paid off. The screenshot shows that Safari is the third most popular Windows browser, in front of Chrome and Opera. I don't have any problem with Safari (fast, small, standards compliant) but I wonder if this is all an Apple plan... and they seriously need to just use Windows widgets and styles instead of imposing their Cocoa look on the windows environment..
Realistically, people aren't going to react well seeing a wall of unfamiliar names and being asked to make an informed choice. Most people just want to know what everyone else is using and then they'll pick one of those. We don't want users confused over some random browser they don't understand; that would be worse than making everyone use IE. The point is letting the users choose, not a mass exodus from IE.
I instantly thought steampunk too. Now you've got an image in my head of a master engineer with steampunk goggles pulling a lever, custom brass components whirring and chugging, and then a train silently roaring across the frame, occluding the stars, and disappearing in the distance toward Jupiter.
Slashdot Mirror
A signed timestamp along with it then.
From my fingers 3 hours ago, you insensitive clod. But if you liked it, maybe I should write similar teasers for some story ideas I've had sitting in a text file for a few months.....
Of course, Randall has to support himself and repay student loans, as he doesn't actually have a job. His only real job was working at NASA for a few years before and after graduating. He wrote somewhere that he wasn't launching rockets or anything, but rather just writing little programs when something unusual needed to be calculated. Something like that. I raged at the alt text to http://www.xkcd.com/564/ because he's never been a physics researcher. He just writes a web comic and lets his worshippers give offerings...
On the other hand, if every in the "26 word" store costs $12, then there's no need to scan it. It's like at a dollar store, every item costs the same.
I think of some primitive post-human civilization struggling to industrialize amid the ruins of the heat-dead universe.
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There's little solid matter left. Nobody really knows why; the legends tell of ancient, sprawling empires releasing great monsters that consume worlds and deliver energy to fuel their eons-old wars in the cold between the stars. Several human colonies survived the Last Scourge. One even knew something of their people's history. This colony of merchant-scholars thrived in an old space-borne city drifting about a great lightyears-long dust cloud inexplicably left untouched by the wars. The city was old, very old, built by a generation of master engineers who etched their likenesses in the great canvases of the city's impervious white construction. Quiet machinery lurked untouched in the mysterious depths of the undercity, seen only by outcasts wandering alone through those vast echoing chambers.
The city provided everything the civilization needed. Somehow (so much seemed like magic to them that even the usually-curious humans grew bored of speculation) their reservoirs filled with water, their air recycled, and their waste disappeared down bottomless shafts. All of their needs were filled, but they craved expansion and exploration. They were able to harvest some limited chemical energy from the food supplied by the city, and build using scrap. Still, entropy was a problem in the dust cloud of Linux.
Yes we should enact laws to protect innocent consumers defrauded by insisting on paying for their own chips.
What does purchasing a license have to do with journalistic attribution?
Yes, taking the piles of money that people leave on my doorstep is taking advantage.
The guy is knowingly paying the AP for something free. They're not taking advantage of him. And even if someone was legitimately stupid enough to pay the AP for Thomas Jefferson's material, it's not their fault. Should I erect a fence around my doorstep so people don't leave piles of money?
They do? It's secure crypto hardware.. what's evil about that? Yes you have scary evil like Palladium but you don't have to install it if you don't want to. And if machines take control you can always disable the device from the BIOS.. (given you don't care about any data which has encryption keys stored only in the module)
How about getting signed entropy from a trusted server on the network/internet? How about putting that microsecond-accurate system clock to use?
I completely agree. If you bring your own bag of chips into a gas station mart, walk around a little, and then hand it to the cashier, they'll scan it and charge you.
I can see somebody at the AP raising an eyebrow and asking "So you want to pay us $12 to promise not to sue you for using text in the public domain? Uhhh OK we promise." It's the researcher that's baiting them and causing problems; there's no problem on their end.
In other words, the only respectable citizens would be the really good ones who stand to win because there's no incentive for the bad ones to lose money honorably for the privilege of losing even more money honorably.
Anyone you play will be better than you, and the winners would know better than to play each other.
I'm sure you'd rather see My Little Pony all over your amazon homepage instead of new items that you might actually be interested in...
The "remote control" just lets you check if it's charged, and lets you start the AC/heat early to get the cabin comfortable while it's still plugged in.
Hur dur the internet?
Well Apple's little update-jacking fiasco seems to have paid off. The screenshot shows that Safari is the third most popular Windows browser, in front of Chrome and Opera. I don't have any problem with Safari (fast, small, standards compliant) but I wonder if this is all an Apple plan... and they seriously need to just use Windows widgets and styles instead of imposing their Cocoa look on the windows environment..
Realistically, people aren't going to react well seeing a wall of unfamiliar names and being asked to make an informed choice. Most people just want to know what everyone else is using and then they'll pick one of those. We don't want users confused over some random browser they don't understand; that would be worse than making everyone use IE. The point is letting the users choose, not a mass exodus from IE.
I don't think we have to go to quite that extreme. There are more realistic options to consider first.
I think there are people who can get you that high for even less per gram. Well, for your first hit anyway.
/me hides half-pound ball of nickel-cobalt cement reinforced with titantium carbide behind his back
What was that?
Hey, at $3,200,000, 400 payloads is a steal.
On the other hand, there's no crime if there's no freedom.
Oh, sorry
I instantly thought steampunk too. Now you've got an image in my head of a master engineer with steampunk goggles pulling a lever, custom brass components whirring and chugging, and then a train silently roaring across the frame, occluding the stars, and disappearing in the distance toward Jupiter.