Various slashdot posters have occasionally commented on having something called a 'girlfriend' or 'wife'. I want some proof of that, can you do a show on it?
Possibly. Firefox is pretty much always up and ready on any of my systems. IM clients on the other hand, are only loaded when I'm actually wanting to chat. Am I alone here?
Yeah, and they sure managed to clamp down on TV and Radio. They managed to keep sex and violence out of it, did a great job of it. I'm really scared now.
The answer is simple. There is at least one site where they have to say 'Yes': Windowsupdate. There are others too, where if you don't say 'Yes' then you don't get what you came for. That's what makes it hard for them to press the 'No' button. The average computer user is not good with rules that change with different circumstances. If they have to hit 'Yes' when they see the question on one web site, they like to go on autopilot and apply that same rule anywhere else they see it. Otherwise they'd have to stop and think about it, or go find someone to ask. You can tell them, "Always click NO" if you like, but be prepared for the phonecalls where they clicked "No" just like you told them, and now they can't get their (totally benign) news streaming thingamabob or whatever.
Better to string up the site ops that abuse this particular strain of human nature. Hang them by their balls for awhile with a bag of rats tied over their head. Then it'll be better, trust me.
I don't know about that. I was adopted, and there's very little that is good about myself and my talents that my 'parents' can take credit for. Less than a handful of things I am thankful for, and a larger fistful of bad issues. I had to do all the rest myself, relying on what came naturally to me. I have a daughter out there in the world, whose adoptive parents have done all the real work, but when I visit, there's something between us that is magical and cool. I haven't seen her many times in her life, I don't want to intrude in their lives. They have always felt it was important for her to know where she came from, so my ex and I have always been offered contact with her. She's almost 10 now, and it's eerie what I can see of both of us in her, and having grown up with parents that weren't mine myself, it seems evident that genetic makeup has a lot to do with who you are.
We can even put it on TV along with the Steroid-Mandatory version of the Olympics, that would be cool! Pumped-up atheletes pole-vaulting into the spectators alongside of a screen where some script-kiddie's character is pwning a whole gang of high-level mobs using basic equipment. Put it on Pay Per View. Profit!
I am cow, hear me moo I weigh twice as much as you And I look good on the barbecue Yogurt, curd, cream cheese and butter's Made from liquid from my udders I am cow, I am cow, hear me moo (moo)
I am cow, eating grass Methane gas comes out my ass And out my muzzle when I belch Oh, the ozone layer is thinner From the outcome of my dinner I am cow, I am cow, I've got gas
I am cow, here I stand Far and wide upon this land And I am living everywhere From B.C. to Newfoundland You can squeeze my teats by hand I am cow, I am cow, I am cow I am cow, I am cow, I am cow!
just remember it takes a LOT of people and a LOT of human energy and commerce to build the comforts and luxuries you want 3rd worlders to have access to.
That's just my point. Be grateful you've got any of it.
The game will be released on the 25th having entered final CD production on the 19th.
And I'm already, in spirit, standing in the store staring forlornly at the shelf waiting for it to appear. There goes my life for the next while, but that's a pretty minimal impact anyhow.;)
Well, if I may throw some straw on the fire.. I think the point is that in the West we're a bunch of spoiled babies who have no concept of what it means to suffer. We complain about taxes (that build roads, fund schools, feed people etc) that we actually can pay, while others starve with nothing and barely even clothes on their backs. The real question is, are you, as a human being, actually *entitled* to bitch about how 'hard' your life is made by superfluous issues, while others barely survive? What did you do to *earn* the civilization that supports you? Maybe you personally have earned it, I don't know you, but I can assure you that most of the crybabies in our culture have not.
They've moved along a little at least. I love my alarm clock radio, it's got dual alarms for partners in bed with different wake times, one is pitched a bit higher than the other making it easy to recognize which one is sounding. It's got a great beep, starts out quietly, gently, and over the course of a minute or so gets louder and louder until you've really got to deal with it. No sudden shriek to make you leap out of bed with your heart pounding. Customizable snooze interval. And a nap timer that can be set quickly for 10 minutes to 2 hours.
It doesn't do the "nice radio station to fall asleep with, and the energized station to wake up with" that would be neat, but it's totally the best alarm clock I've had, cost $20 CDN. GE makes it. Kind of off-topic, but a good alarm clock is one of the important things in life to me, so I had to speak up.:)
Ah, but you have forgotten the one unifying factor in all of this. The Flying Spaghetti Monster created Slashdot, humans, the earth, the sun, a mountain, some trees, and a midget. He holds the monopoly on everything, and there shall be no other to compete with Him and His Noodly Appendage. Yarrrr!
To my senses, friendly is the message in its speaking of things with which sense I must make. My awareness does not include what problem you make with this.
But, with all those lucrative shipping routes, it will mean an increase in the pirate population, which will reverse global warming, and create a paradox. Proof that we are in the End of Days, when the Flying Spaghetti Monster will descend from the heavens and show everyone his Noodly Appendage.
You can't patent the ownership of gold, or the general activity of mining it, so no big problem there. But you could patent a particular method for mining gold, involving a technique that is somehow superior to current methods. Or maybe, a method of using particle accelerators or whatever to make it out of lead. This doesn't really change what gold is, and who can have it. I think the two examples I give are reasonable patents.
But I do agree that it's stupid to place ownership on the discovery of a particular sequence of *anything*, that was always there for anybody to find if they were looking in the right place. Possible patent: "A method for finding out where the bit is that makes you have a lot of nose hairs". It's stupid because it stifles growth and further discovery, and it's just a money-maker. Yeah these researchers have to get paid and all that, but not this way.
Looks to me like the plaintiff was visiting sites that had spyware attached to them, he shouldn't have visited these sites
That reminds me of a help desk tech I was in a Y-jack with one day, telling a customer not to use a firewall because of the problems they cause. I muted him and asked, "Ok, so what if they run a program that is actually a trojan?" His response, "Well they shouldn't do that."
Great non-answer. How's the guy supposed to know which sites are safe and which aren't?
You're not paying for the shows when you pay your cable bill, the channels that have commercials midway through the shows are not covered by what you pay. You're paying for the cable company to maintain all that wire, and collect feeds to modulate into a set of channels. You're paying so they can have service techs available to come out and fix things up when there's a problem. And then there's all the digital technology now, which required upgrades to the cable system so the higher frequency signals can be used without breaking up all the time.
Maybe they'd start being concerned about that if it was a similar issue -- If a lot of people who know goddamn well that they have an infection to spread, are going around spreading it as much as possible, then you can pose that speculation about the doctors. Until then, it doesn't mean shit in this discussion.
I like what you're saying, but I wonder about something. If the recording companies get all beat up in all of this and Apple winds up distributing all of the music digitally, no more middle-man, then who actually does the recording? Who provides the studio, with all the high-end mixing equipment? The digital info still has to come out of instruments, throats, armpits, etc, pulled through a mixing board controlled by some sort of professional. It's not just a question of mixing tools either though, that's pretty accessible thanks to good PC software and peripherals, and an amateur can get pretty good results, but you still need a good acoustic space to work in and all that. So if the record labels go away, who actually gets the music into a distributable form?
I'm definitely not saying that I want them to continue, they suck, I just wanted to point out there's still got to be some kind of middle-man job here.
If this is for a woman's handbag, I think it would be much more sensible to attach something to her jaw and get mechanical energy from there as she talks. Because the sun eventually burns out, you know.
I got a Shuffle for my birthday several months ago, and just love it. It's so small, and so simple. There's almost nothing to break on it, there's just the one 4-position button, and I guess you might be able to break the jack mooring or something if you really tried. It's so light and solid that I'm not worried about dropping it. And if it slips out of my shirt pocket while listening, I have headphones for it that hook over my ears, it's so light that the jack doesn't pull out, it just hangs from my head if that happens. When I eventually have to replace it, I'm positive that the reason will be the battery no longer holding charge. I'm cool with that. I don't need to look at pictures while I'm listening to music, I like my player to be tucked away somewhere. It's so light, and my headphones are so comfortable (the hooks over the ears mean the buds don't have to be jammed deep into the canal to keep them in) that it's like I don't even have a music player at all, there's just this music magically appearing in my head.
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Various slashdot posters have occasionally commented on having something called a 'girlfriend' or 'wife'. I want some proof of that, can you do a show on it?
Possibly. Firefox is pretty much always up and ready on any of my systems. IM clients on the other hand, are only loaded when I'm actually wanting to chat. Am I alone here?
Spam, Popups, Adware, those are all free too. Have fun.
Yeah, and they sure managed to clamp down on TV and Radio. They managed to keep sex and violence out of it, did a great job of it. I'm really scared now.
this isn't a follow-up story to "asteroid on collision coarse with earth" IS IT!?!?
It's actually a dupe from the mysterious future. We willen has fixen the asteroid collision in 2009.
The answer is simple. There is at least one site where they have to say 'Yes': Windowsupdate. There are others too, where if you don't say 'Yes' then you don't get what you came for. That's what makes it hard for them to press the 'No' button. The average computer user is not good with rules that change with different circumstances. If they have to hit 'Yes' when they see the question on one web site, they like to go on autopilot and apply that same rule anywhere else they see it. Otherwise they'd have to stop and think about it, or go find someone to ask. You can tell them, "Always click NO" if you like, but be prepared for the phonecalls where they clicked "No" just like you told them, and now they can't get their (totally benign) news streaming thingamabob or whatever.
Better to string up the site ops that abuse this particular strain of human nature. Hang them by their balls for awhile with a bag of rats tied over their head. Then it'll be better, trust me.
I don't know about that. I was adopted, and there's very little that is good about myself and my talents that my 'parents' can take credit for. Less than a handful of things I am thankful for, and a larger fistful of bad issues. I had to do all the rest myself, relying on what came naturally to me. I have a daughter out there in the world, whose adoptive parents have done all the real work, but when I visit, there's something between us that is magical and cool. I haven't seen her many times in her life, I don't want to intrude in their lives. They have always felt it was important for her to know where she came from, so my ex and I have always been offered contact with her. She's almost 10 now, and it's eerie what I can see of both of us in her, and having grown up with parents that weren't mine myself, it seems evident that genetic makeup has a lot to do with who you are.
We can even put it on TV along with the Steroid-Mandatory version of the Olympics, that would be cool! Pumped-up atheletes pole-vaulting into the spectators alongside of a screen where some script-kiddie's character is pwning a whole gang of high-level mobs using basic equipment. Put it on Pay Per View. Profit!
Like this one:
I am Cow - The Arrogant Worms
I am cow, hear me moo
I weigh twice as much as you
And I look good on the barbecue
Yogurt, curd, cream cheese and butter's
Made from liquid from my udders
I am cow, I am cow, hear me moo (moo)
I am cow, eating grass
Methane gas comes out my ass
And out my muzzle when I belch
Oh, the ozone layer is thinner
From the outcome of my dinner
I am cow, I am cow, I've got gas
I am cow, here I stand
Far and wide upon this land
And I am living everywhere
From B.C. to Newfoundland
You can squeeze my teats by hand
I am cow, I am cow, I am cow
I am cow, I am cow, I am cow!
just remember it takes a LOT of people and a LOT of human energy and commerce to build the comforts and luxuries you want 3rd worlders to have access to.
That's just my point. Be grateful you've got any of it.
The game will be released on the 25th having entered final CD production on the 19th.
;)
And I'm already, in spirit, standing in the store staring forlornly at the shelf waiting for it to appear. There goes my life for the next while, but that's a pretty minimal impact anyhow.
Well, if I may throw some straw on the fire.. I think the point is that in the West we're a bunch of spoiled babies who have no concept of what it means to suffer. We complain about taxes (that build roads, fund schools, feed people etc) that we actually can pay, while others starve with nothing and barely even clothes on their backs. The real question is, are you, as a human being, actually *entitled* to bitch about how 'hard' your life is made by superfluous issues, while others barely survive? What did you do to *earn* the civilization that supports you? Maybe you personally have earned it, I don't know you, but I can assure you that most of the crybabies in our culture have not.
They've moved along a little at least. I love my alarm clock radio, it's got dual alarms for partners in bed with different wake times, one is pitched a bit higher than the other making it easy to recognize which one is sounding. It's got a great beep, starts out quietly, gently, and over the course of a minute or so gets louder and louder until you've really got to deal with it. No sudden shriek to make you leap out of bed with your heart pounding. Customizable snooze interval. And a nap timer that can be set quickly for 10 minutes to 2 hours.
:)
It doesn't do the "nice radio station to fall asleep with, and the energized station to wake up with" that would be neat, but it's totally the best alarm clock I've had, cost $20 CDN. GE makes it. Kind of off-topic, but a good alarm clock is one of the important things in life to me, so I had to speak up.
Ah, but you have forgotten the one unifying factor in all of this. The Flying Spaghetti Monster created Slashdot, humans, the earth, the sun, a mountain, some trees, and a midget. He holds the monopoly on everything, and there shall be no other to compete with Him and His Noodly Appendage. Yarrrr!
To my senses, friendly is the message in its speaking of things with which sense I must make. My awareness does not include what problem you make with this.
But, with all those lucrative shipping routes, it will mean an increase in the pirate population, which will reverse global warming, and create a paradox. Proof that we are in the End of Days, when the Flying Spaghetti Monster will descend from the heavens and show everyone his Noodly Appendage.
I'M PORTING MYSELF TO A SILICON BASED LIFE FORM!
Is Pamela Anderson going to let you get close enough to her for that?
You can't patent the ownership of gold, or the general activity of mining it, so no big problem there. But you could patent a particular method for mining gold, involving a technique that is somehow superior to current methods. Or maybe, a method of using particle accelerators or whatever to make it out of lead. This doesn't really change what gold is, and who can have it. I think the two examples I give are reasonable patents.
But I do agree that it's stupid to place ownership on the discovery of a particular sequence of *anything*, that was always there for anybody to find if they were looking in the right place. Possible patent: "A method for finding out where the bit is that makes you have a lot of nose hairs". It's stupid because it stifles growth and further discovery, and it's just a money-maker. Yeah these researchers have to get paid and all that, but not this way.
Looks to me like the plaintiff was visiting sites that had spyware attached to them, he shouldn't have visited these sites
That reminds me of a help desk tech I was in a Y-jack with one day, telling a customer not to use a firewall because of the problems they cause. I muted him and asked, "Ok, so what if they run a program that is actually a trojan?" His response, "Well they shouldn't do that."
Great non-answer. How's the guy supposed to know which sites are safe and which aren't?
You're not paying for the shows when you pay your cable bill, the channels that have commercials midway through the shows are not covered by what you pay. You're paying for the cable company to maintain all that wire, and collect feeds to modulate into a set of channels. You're paying so they can have service techs available to come out and fix things up when there's a problem. And then there's all the digital technology now, which required upgrades to the cable system so the higher frequency signals can be used without breaking up all the time.
I appreciate the funny mod, but honestly, mod parent Insightful.
Maybe they'd start being concerned about that if it was a similar issue -- If a lot of people who know goddamn well that they have an infection to spread, are going around spreading it as much as possible, then you can pose that speculation about the doctors. Until then, it doesn't mean shit in this discussion.
I like what you're saying, but I wonder about something. If the recording companies get all beat up in all of this and Apple winds up distributing all of the music digitally, no more middle-man, then who actually does the recording? Who provides the studio, with all the high-end mixing equipment? The digital info still has to come out of instruments, throats, armpits, etc, pulled through a mixing board controlled by some sort of professional. It's not just a question of mixing tools either though, that's pretty accessible thanks to good PC software and peripherals, and an amateur can get pretty good results, but you still need a good acoustic space to work in and all that. So if the record labels go away, who actually gets the music into a distributable form?
I'm definitely not saying that I want them to continue, they suck, I just wanted to point out there's still got to be some kind of middle-man job here.
If this is for a woman's handbag, I think it would be much more sensible to attach something to her jaw and get mechanical energy from there as she talks. Because the sun eventually burns out, you know.
I got a Shuffle for my birthday several months ago, and just love it. It's so small, and so simple. There's almost nothing to break on it, there's just the one 4-position button, and I guess you might be able to break the jack mooring or something if you really tried. It's so light and solid that I'm not worried about dropping it. And if it slips out of my shirt pocket while listening, I have headphones for it that hook over my ears, it's so light that the jack doesn't pull out, it just hangs from my head if that happens. When I eventually have to replace it, I'm positive that the reason will be the battery no longer holding charge. I'm cool with that. I don't need to look at pictures while I'm listening to music, I like my player to be tucked away somewhere. It's so light, and my headphones are so comfortable (the hooks over the ears mean the buds don't have to be jammed deep into the canal to keep them in) that it's like I don't even have a music player at all, there's just this music magically appearing in my head.
Simplify, it frees your mind.