Comment Well, at least the terminology is right... (Score 1, Redundant) 71
People tend to confuse hacking with cracking quite often, thanks to the mass media.
Comment I never bought CDs in the first place (Score 1) 334
Vinyl is where it's at.
Comment Will the madness ever end? (Score 2, Insightful) 202
Seriously, is it ever possible to not patent every single fart that you think of?
Comment I will not buy this record (Score 1) 102
It is scratched.
Comment People still buy music. (Score 1) 174
The music industry needs to realize that people are still willing to buy music if they really like an artist and want to support him/her/them.
Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule 274
theodp writes "Ever wonder why you and the boss don't see eye-to-eye on the importance of meetings? Paul Graham explains that there are Maker Schedules (coder) and Manager Schedules (PHB), and the two are very different. With each day neatly cut into one-hour intervals, the Manager Schedule is for bosses and is tailor-made for schmoozing. Unfortunately, it spells disaster for people who make things, like programmers and writers, who generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can't write or program well in units of an hour, says Graham, since that's barely enough time to get started. So if you fall into the Maker camp, adds Graham, you better hope your boss is smart enough to recognize that you need long chunks of time to work in. How's that working out in your world?" Ironically enough, I have a meeting to attend in three minutes.
Comment old. (Score 0, Troll) 135
I'm pretty sure I've seen this elsewhere yesterday.
Comment Re:Yet again (Score 1) 301
Actually, if you had said the reverse there might have been a truth in there, rather than a pathatic attempt at a joke.
Comment There's a joke in here... (Score 1) 74
...about cookies and the dark side, but it escapes me.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 294
Maybe he's stealing his neighbour's wifi.
Comment Re:Just an idea... (Score 1) 337
Well, no. the koalas can't do this, because they know this tree has protection against them, so it would be pointless to swim there.
Comment Just an idea... (Score 2, Insightful) 337
...maybe it's still somewhat useful to protect itself from other things, like vicious koalas that are out to destroy it to harvest more eucalyptus.
Comment Yeah, but... (Score 1) 33
the question is, will this actually work better than the Wiimote, which randomly decides that you've pointed in the opposite direction for no reason?
Comment Re:Is spam still spam if it's relevant? (Score 3, Insightful) 284
that would depend on the amount and the way it is presented.
now, this is kind of like banners all over the web. I don't really mind the Google AdSense banners; they're text-only and often (no, not always) related to the page I'm browsing, and sometimes I even click one of those banners because it links to something I *might* find intresting.
But unfortunately there are idiots who put flash banners with fancy animations (let alone SOUND) on their site... and *that* is annoying.
therefor, if I'd maybe get one or two 'spam' messages in the week about something I slightly care about, it would be a lot less annoying.
I doubt spam will ever evolve that way, though.
Comment Re:Do people still get spam these days? (Score 1) 284
No matter how often I mark spam as spam in gmail, it keeps appearing in my inbox for some reason...
