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Oh, bite me. At least you people in Europe have broadband. These little price wars are nice and all, but all they're doing is fighting over a handful of urban customers while continuing to ignore the teeming millions of us in suburbia (I don't exactly live on a farm here!). Keeping myself from giving up and just spending the $600 to sign up for EarthLink Satellite (at $70/month!) is getting more and more difficult. They do ethernet now...

Anybody who thinks privatizing the US Postal Service is a good idea needs to take a long, hard look at the broadband market here.

Nozomi 500

He said 49G, no +. The 49G+ is pretty good though. 75-MHz 32-bit ARM9 CPU, 2.5-MB of RAM, and an SD card port, which can hold more than 512-MB. Anything handheld with more power would be called a PDA. And, after you get it, download my library of 116 additional functions for it.

Although you're right that many users will indeed have those fonts, it turns out that just having them doesn't mean they'll be readable; Arial in particular creates problems for Mac and unix users.

With just a snippet of extra work, you can easily avoid those problems; to summarize, just specify a font list (rather than a single font), making sure it is ordered such that it degrades gracefully:

HTML:
<font face="Times New Roman,serif">
Degrades to a proportional serif font for everyone
</font>

CSS:
<div style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Shows Geneva on Macs (instead of too-small Arial), Arial on Windows, and Helvetica on unix, all degrading to generic sans-serif if no named font is available.
</div>

Also, you might want to take another look at CSS, keeping in mind that same principle of degrading gracefully; the archives at A List Apart contain an elderly but valid article saying To Hell with Old Browsers, and they make a lot of good points. They and the Web Standards Project seem to feel that most of the hard push is over with, and we can begin to really use CSS (again, it's workable because it allows graceful degradation), even though MSIE abounds.

Although you're right that many users will indeed have those fonts, it turns out that just having them doesn't mean they'll be readable; Arial in particular creates problems for Mac and unix users.

With just a snippet of extra work, you can easily avoid those problems; to summarize, just specify a font list (rather than a single font), making sure it is ordered such that it degrades gracefully:

HTML:
<font face="Times New Roman,serif">
Degrades to a proportional serif font for everyone
</font>

CSS:
<div style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Shows Geneva on Macs (instead of too-small Arial), Arial on Windows, and Helvetica on unix, all degrading to generic sans-serif if no named font is available.
</div>

Also, you might want to take another look at CSS, keeping in mind that same principle of degrading gracefully; the archives at A List Apart contain an elderly but valid article saying To Hell with Old Browsers, and they make a lot of good points. They and the Web Standards Project seem to feel that most of the hard push is over with, and we can begin to really use CSS (again, it's workable because it allows graceful degradation), even though MSIE abounds.

> Cards and monopoly are great. The have no noise making annoyances

Here in riverboat country, our card games often involve this kind of noise-making annoyance.

Don't worry, if you live in the Northeast USA and go down to Louisiana or Southern Texas you'll be pretty confused also.

I didn't find LA to be too bad, but I did used to work with a PBX operator from Texas who was a dead ringer for Boomhauer. (no, they're not making it up!).

Words right out of my mouth. I've posted to usenet asking if anyone's tried a hack yet, and some of the iMac deconstruction sites seem to suggest the wires are relatively easy to get to.

But if you could find a way to hack it, you're essentially getting an awfully cool monitor stand plus a Superdrive equipped G4 for $900. That's *much* easier to stomach.

Take apart at xlr8yourmac.com (look at "rainbow colored" wires)
Service manual

There was also a great Japanese site that showed the thing taken apart until the wires were dangling, but I always have the dangest time Googling in Japanese.

"I've had about 2 e-mails a day of this ilk with respect to my Earthlink account for at least 3 months."

You know, there's a real easy way to stop that...

Seriously, I find that challenge-response e-mail does to spam what Moz does to pop-ups.

Click here for video of a model rocket builder who successfully launched a gyro-guided rocket. His rocket goes straight up, even on windy days. His control system is simple and cheap. The Gyroc model rocket also has good active stabilization. Watch the video. This is a slow launch in a high wind. The rocket is being blown sideways, but continues to point upward at all times.

The real Saturn V did not do any reactive guidance while the first stage was boosting, because the resonance of the entire stack was too close to the frequency of the trajectory corrections. in other words, steering it would have made it fall apart!

That's wrong. Four of the F-1 engines were gimballed (the center engine was fixed), and the vehicle was actively stabilized during ascent. The attitude was controlled according to a fixed schedule, rather than trying to keep the vehicle on a specific trajectory, because it was important during the atmospheric phase of flight to avoid wind stresses. So in-atmosphere trajectory corrections were avoided. Such corrections were possible with a better control system, and software to do it was developed for later Saturn V shots, but the Saturn V program was, of course, cancelled.

Without active stabilization, the Saturn V would never have cleared the launch tower before it went out of control.

i would recommend you do 2 things:

1. install X11 on OS X. This is just Apple's version, there's also the XonX project. I'd recommend Apple's version for now. If you have Panther, it is located on CD #3, there's an X11.pkg file, dlb-click on that, or you may tell the panther installer to install it for you if you check the appropriate box in a "Customize..." Install.
2. Install Fink.

from this point, just about any unix/linux/open-source app you can think of is available to you to run under OS X, either from any terminal, or thru X11. For a while and since Mac OS 10.1, i've had a slew of X11 apps running on my mac, the whole Gnome desktop and all its goodies, and Gimp, to name a few.

Enjoy :)

actually EarthLink's spyware blocker does a pretty damn good job at blocking adware. it's powered by WebRoot. but of course, you gotta be an active earthlink member to use it ... i'm a member but i'm on macos x so i don't use it much. i have played with it under VirtualPC along with the rest of their Total Access 2004 suite just for kicks and to know if i could recommend the whole thing to my windows-using sisters. i can honnestly say i was impressed and i *want* them to use it so they fscking stop calling me for support. I think EarthLink is the first ISP out there to have put out a very decent non-intrusive internet software package for windows users: the bulk of the software manifests itself as a minizable, repositionable, closable "toolbar" and an icon in the tray. It clearly is a departure from their older "all-inclusive-sandbox" approach of the "earthlink 5.0" days.

I've had Earthlink DSL for about two years. I am currently paying $50 a month for the basic residential 1.5Mbps down. I was only supposed to get 256kbps up when I installed it, but it actually clocks at 384kbps. (But note that the basic package offered now only says 128kbps up - not sure what you'd actually get). They offer static IPs for the residential accounts for an extra $15 a month - officially for things like "running your own game server".

Earthlink also have a small business package that's 1.5Mbps / 384kbps + static IP for $79 / month. This is probably what you would want if you were to use them.

I've run an HTTP and FTP server (with a dynamic IP redirect service - dyndns.org), and it worked flawlessly. The only caveat for running your own servers is that outbound mail *must* be relayed through Earthlink's SMTP server - they block outbound port 25 to all other hosts but mail.earthlink.net as an anti-spam measure to prevent open relay abuse. It works and I can still send email from my work address through their servers from home. However, if you run a mailing list you'd want to use something like Yahoo Groups instead.

Earthlink certainly is not *bad* for a giant corporation (they're part of teleco giant Sprint) - the service seems a lot better and more reliable than the DSL service I previously had through Qwest. But I've never had to speak to a human, so I don't know what their tech support is like if I were to have a problem.

If I was starting over, I'd probably see if I could get Speakeasy first, but only because of the more expensive and faster 1.5Mbps / 768kbps service. If you can't get Speakeasy in your area, Earthlink is not a bad 2nd choice.

i've been an earthlink user for quite a few years now and i usually tend to stay away from ISP-supplied software, but they have been putting out some pretty cool shit this year thru various 3rd-party software partnerships/cobrandizing, the latest of which being SpyWare Blocker powered by WebRoot. it is actually quite cool: it'll look for advertising companies cookies and disable'em for you, as well as offer you to remove 3rd-party spyware and trojans, i think it can do some other shit but i haven't entirely explored it yet. it maintains a constantly updated database of existing spyware. i wonder if it would catch the New.net shit. hrmzerz. and it's free for all earthlink customers.

Is this place of any use to you?

Ain't that the truth.

There are a few "true costs of spam" I'm seeing. One is as you point out, Balkanization (and I'm still stuck by the AOL issue, though at least I can mail by a secondary route). One is people cut off from other groups by arbitrary blacklisting policies. And yes, many of us (/me raises hand) cheered the same action when used against foreign ISPs with large spam volumes, though I still maintain that there's an important distinction between strongly prodding ISPs to clean up their act, and arbitrarially shutting out large portions of the 'Net.

Another is that the typical user is rapidly getting chased off the 'Net. Exposing your address anywhere is an instant invitation to not only spam, but viral spew, which in my experience is many times worse. Even on bad days, spam is ~150 messages. I've had 2000+ viruses at peak of Swen and SoBig, friends report far more. POP mail over dialup is simply impossible in this situation. Most of your inbound mail bounces because your inbox is full, and you spend all day downloading crap. SMTP-time, user-controlled, accountable, accurate, and effective spam and virus filtering is no longer optional. I've been trying to drill this point in to my brain-dead ISP. Usenet discussions in their forums have been obsessed with Swen.

This also means that the likelihood for people to engage in open discussions, under their real identities, is being harmed. On the debian-user and other mailing lists we've seen endless discussions over the past several weeks by people who participate and then get flooded by spam. The lesson: don't participate.

And anyone with well-advertised, long-established email addresses.... Peter G. Neuman of the comp.risks archive runs SpamAssassin over list mail and still has 90% spam in the list mail, after filtering.

I still have hopes that we can dig out of the situation. As others note: when high-up execs start losing messages, I suspect AT&T's policy will slacken. AOL, as I've said, hasn't budged, however. Filtering is still largely effective, it just needs to be pushed further out to the SMTP transaction level. And I suspect that AT&T has a good idea, poorly implemented: MTAs themselves can keep track of spam and ham (non-spam) mail, and determine what mailservers they do and don't want to deal with. Current work with exim4+spamassassin integration is a long way toward this.

And yes, I'm the submitter of the AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers story.

You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required.

It's always amazed me how high tech gadgets are marketed as being "not computers" when that's exactly what they are! Things like the "Earthlink Mailstation" that allows you to "check your e-mail without a computer". I'm pretty sure I've even seen advertizing for TiVo claiming that it wasn't a "computer". Amazingly, Joe Blow consumers seem to not even think of gaming consoles as computing devices! I realize that this is done so as not to scare away the technilogically illiterate, but I still reserve the right to incredulity every time these claims are made! Seriously, without computing technology how do people think these things work? Little men with pointy shoes and long beards reaching to their knees inside the case?

Anyone that can say with a straight face that France defended Iraq for commercial reasons is a tragic illustration of the power of propaganda.

(Hint to the deluded: Iraq at its best was about 0.3% of the commercial exchanges with France. So we'd piss off one of our largest commercial partners for this fraction of a percent? Get real, lamer.)

See Damn french for more info.

France stood up to the Nazis when Poland was invaded.

The precise time table is:
Sep 1, 1939: Poland invasion
Sep 3, 1939: France declares war to protect its ally
Sep 5, 1939: US proclaim neutrality in the conflict

It's not until the US were attacked themselves that they came to the rescue. Who was the weasel?

See this page for more info.

hear hear. I can vouch for mac stuff working first time, every time. take a peek at a couple of my journal entries that outline my experience migrating from a dell laptop to the first-generation 400Mhz Titanium powerbook.

Two years later and a 384MB --> $200 1-GIG of RAM upgrade (courtesy of pricewatch) later, that little puppy is still kickin' ass and taking names.

My work has just upgraded me to the latest 15" 1.25Ghz Aluminum Powerbook, which has also qualified me for the up-to-date program so i can get Panther for 10.3. I'll soon be posting a "2-years later" follow-up journal entry to my original switch story. Apple software and hardware just keep giving, the introduction of Mac OS X was a major enabling pivotal point in Apple's history, and, i would say, a major milestone in overall computing history.

Best to you and your computing life :)

EarthLink installation has, for years, always configured everything you needed to use the internet, including installing its own email client and configuring it for your account(s). "EarthLink 5.x" was more of a sandbox paradigm. The new "Total Access" series (2003, 2004) adopt a far less intrusive "toolbar" approach, that keeps everything you need at your fingertibs in a toolbar conveniently positioned on the screen. TotalAccess 2004 also comes with its own e-mail client which is seemlessly integrated with EarthLink's latest spam-blocking features. In any case, from the moment you pop the CD into the computer until you are reading email and "surfing the 'Net", the whole experience is very, very easy.

The difference with AOL is that EarthLink does not require you to use their software to get on-line. If you know what you're doing, you could simply sign-up for a dial-up account online from, say, your work, at the end of which you'd get presented with a screen that gives you all the settings you need to set-it up yourself: mail server (POP/SMTP), news server, http/www address, ftp upload info, NNTP server and all that groovy stuff..

it basically gives you options. If you don't want to think, just pop the CD-in and you're done, if you don't want to use their software, config it yourself. easy.

EarthLink installation has, for years, always configured everything you needed to use the internet, including installing its own email client and configuring it for your account(s). "EarthLink 5.x" was more of a sandbox paradigm. The new "Total Access" series (2003, 2004) adopt a far less intrusive "toolbar" approach, that keeps everything you need at your fingertibs in a toolbar conveniently positioned on the screen. TotalAccess 2004 also comes with its own e-mail client which is seemlessly integrated with EarthLink's latest spam-blocking features. In any case, from the moment you pop the CD into the computer until you are reading email and "surfing the 'Net", the whole experience is very, very easy.

The difference with AOL is that EarthLink does not require you to use their software to get on-line. If you know what you're doing, you could simply sign-up for a dial-up account online from, say, your work, at the end of which you'd get presented with a screen that gives you all the settings you need to set-it up yourself: mail server (POP/SMTP), news server, http/www address, ftp upload info, NNTP server and all that groovy stuff..

it basically gives you options. If you don't want to think, just pop the CD-in and you're done, if you don't want to use their software, config it yourself. easy.

Dead PRAM battery. Does it have the right date? If it's 1956, definitely. Not hard to replace, but it's not a common size -- 1/2 AA 3.6 V. The Apple branded ones are extortionately priced; I believe some chain stores like Radio Shack have a compatible one.

Get the manual from this site. You can buy the battery at Macbatteries.com.

There is a capacitor charged by the battery that kick starts the machine. If the battery is dead, turning it on for a few moments charges it from the power supply, then when you power on again it boots.

Create a Windows distribution share that doesn't install IE.

Google is your friend, my friend :)

Here are a few OSX-compatible bar-code readers. Check both the search results links and the sponsored links at the top and to the side, you might get lucky there too :)

What prompted me to do the search is that i know there had to be some solution out there for macs, because all Apple stores' cashier terminals are iMacs linked to a barcode *and* digital-credit-card processors. Cool huh? :)

I researched this a year ago when working out a fake number to use in a book, and finally have the opportunity to share this worthless information...

"I'm working from home today about I don't want replies to my business email sent to my home account."

Reply-To: dumbass@company.com

heh you wanna know stable? how about X11 + Gnome + Gimp for image authoring, + 6 different web browsers for cross-browser checking of DHTML functionality, + office apps such as word and excel to deal with requirements documents sent by management drones, Multi-IM chat client to stay connected with co-workers over AIM, and Jabber over SSL, iTunes mp3 player in the background to soothe the mind playing music from a firewire-connected iPod, BBEdit code editor and 10 terminal windows, one of which running Tomcat java servlet container, another one running ant build scripts, to work on various components of a J2EE-compliant web application, all this and a few other apps running and being actively used simultanously on a 400mhz Titanium powerbook bought in early 2001, recently upgraded to 1Gig of RAM for $180 including priority shipping courtesy of pricewatch.com.

How many times have i ever crashed the machine, and have had to reboot due to a crash? well, TWICE, when i got kernel panics when fiddling with some obscure features of CUPS printer sharing over SMB. But never while performing the typical daily load outlined above on this machine.

I only reboot my laptop once a week as a preventive measure to give the OS a chance to perform a periodic fsck whenever it feels it needs to do so. My daily routine is heavy in network, peripherals, *and* disk I/O. Plenty of room for bad sectors to creep up on me.

Go ahead, weep.

Again, this is a 400mhz machine from 2001. It's old. and it still kicks ass.

PC's with Linux do make great UNIX-ish workstations but not nearly anywhere near Mac OS X.

Windows with Cygwin fucking sucks ass compared to OS X. I should know, prior to 2001 i used windows NT then windows 2000 on a DELL laptop. I used cygwin. I even wrote entire application development environment set-up scripts in bash under cygwin. It becomes a real bitch when you need to access executables that live in the "windows" world and get them to interoperate in the "cygwin world". cygpath. forward slashes vs backward slashes. stupid stupid stupid waste of time. Don't get me wrong, prior to OS X, Cygwin was a God-Send. It made windoz bearable to deal with.

I have a debian linux server running at home on a cheap 2Ghz PC i inherited from my sister. I love Linux because thanks to Linux, no piece of computing hardware ever becomes truly obsolete. You can always turn any box into a cheap, decent desktop workstation, or a cheap, decent server.

Windows NT and 2000 have wasted me countless hours of valuable time.

In the end, to me, the best computing platform is Apple. The turning point was this pure beauty of an operating system that is Mac OS X.

The revolution is now starting with Apple's new next-generation computing hardware architecture. Read here why I place such emphasis on overall system architecture. Hint: until dramatic architecture changes happen, wintel PCs really are stuck in a speed dead-end right now. Clocking your CPU chip upwards can only take you so far without melting your enclosing case or restricting your customer base to Alaska.

luluing@earthlink.net
seika7@earthlink.net

luluing@earthlink.net
seika7@earthlink.net

[error in posting, sorry; corrections follow]

The reasons given for why humans recognize words is erroneous, because the Meaning / Content Doesn't Exist merely in what you See; their unity is first given only in conceptual form to our cognition.

here's a little background, if you actually care to be thorough about such matters...

best regards,
john.

--| Thought as a Perceptual Instrument for Ideas |---

Does thinking even have any content if you disregard all visible reality, if you disregard the sense-perceptible world of phenomena? Does there not remain a total void, a pure phantasm, if we think away all sense-perceptible content?

That this is indeed the case could very well be a widespread opinion, so we must look at it a little more closely. As we have already noted above, many people think of the entire system of concepts as in fact only a photograph of the outer world. They do indeed hold onto the fact that our knowing develops in theform of thinking, but demand nevertheless that a 'strictly objective science' take its content only from outside. According to them the outer world must provide the substance that flows into our concepts. Without the outer world, they maintain, these concepts are only empty schemata without any content. If this outer world fell away, concepts and ideas would no longer have any meaning, for they are there for the sake of the outer world. One could call this view the negation of the concept. For then the concept no longer has any significance at all for the objective world. It is something added onto the latter. The world would stand there in all its completeness even if there were no concepts. For they in fact bring nothing new to the world. They contain nothing that would not be there without them. They are there only because the knowing subject wants to make use of them in order to have, in a form appropriate to this subject, that which is otherwise already there. For this subject, they are only mediators of a content that is of a non-conceptual nature. This is the view presented.

If it were justified, one of the following three presuppositions would have to be correct.

1. The world of concepts stands in a relationship to the outer world such that it only reproduces the entire content of this world in a different form. Here 'outer world' means the sense world. If that were the case, one truly could not see why it would be necessary to lift oneself above the sense world at all. The entire whys and wherefores of knowing would after all already be given along with the sense world.

2. The world of concepts takes up, as its content, only a part of 'what manifests to the senses.' Picture the matter so~nething like this. We make a series of observations. We meet there with the most varied objects. In doing so we notice that certain characteristics we discover in an object have already been observed by us berore. Our eye scans a series of objects A, B, C, D, etc. A has the characteristics p, q, a, r; B: 1, m, b) n; C: k h, c, g; and D: p, u, a, v. In D we again meet the characteristics a and p, which we have already encountered inA. We designate these characteristics as essential. And insofar as A and D have the same essential characteristics, we say that they are of the same kind. Thus we bringA and D together by holding fast to their essential characteristics in thinking. There we have a thinking that does not entirely coincide with the sense world, a thinking that therefore cannot be accused of being superfluous as in the case of the first presupposition above; nevertheless it it still just as far from bringing anything new to the sense world. But one can certainly raise the objection to this that, in order to recognize which characteristics of a thing are essential, there must already be a certain norm making it possible to distinguish the essential from the inessential. This norm cannot lie in the object, for the object in fact contains both what is essenti

The reasons given for why humans recognize words is erroneous, because the Meaning / Content Doesn't Exist merely in what you See; their unity is first given only in conceptual form our cognition.

here's a little background, if you actually care to be thorough about such matters...

best regards,
john.

--| Thought as a Perceptual Instrument for Ideas |---

Does thinking even have any content if you disregard all visible reality, if you disregard the sense-perceptible world of phenomena? Does there not remain a total void, a pure phantasm, if we think away all sense-perceptible content?

That this is indeed the case could very well be a widespread opinion, so we must look at it a little more closely. As we have already noted above, many people think of the entire system of concepts as in fact only a photograph of the outer world. They do indeed hold onto the fact that our knowing develops in theform of thinking, but demand nevertheless that a 'strictly objective science' take its content only from outside. According to them the outer world must provide the substance that flows into our concepts. Without the outer world, they maintain, these concepts are only empty schemata without any content. If this outer world fell away, concepts and ideas would no longer have any meaning, for they are there for the sake of the outer world. One could call this view the negation of the concept. For then the concept no longer has any significance at all for the objective world. It is something added onto the latter. The world would stand there in all its completeness even if there were no concepts. For they in fact bring nothing new to the world. They contain nothing that would not be there without them. They are there only because the knowing subject wants to make use of them in order to have, in a form appropriate to this subject, that which is otherwise already there. For this subject, they are only mediators of a content that is of a non-conceptual nature. This is the view presented.

If it were justified, one of the following three presuppositions would have to be correct.

1. The world of concepts stands in a relationship to the outer world such that it only reproduces the entire content of this world in a different form. Here 'outer world' means the sense world. If that were the case, one truly could not see why it would be necessary to lift oneself above the sense world at all. The entire whys and wherefores of knowing would after all already be given along with the sense world.

2. The world of concepts takes up, as its content, only a part of 'what manifests to the senses.' Picture the matter so~nething like this. We make a series of observations. We meet there with the most varied objects. In doing so we notice that certain characteristics we discover in an object have already been observed by us berore. Our eye scans a series of objects A, B, C, D, etc. A has the characteristics p, q, a, r; B: 1, m, b) n; C: k h, c, g; and D: p, u, a, v. In D we again meet the characteristics a and p, which we have already encountered inA. We designate these characteristics as essential. And insofar as A and D have the same essential characteristics, we say that they are of the same kind. Thus we bringA and D together by holding fast to their essential characteristics in thinking. There we have a thinking that does not entirely coincide with the sense world, a thinking that therefore cannot be accused of being superfluous as in the case of the first presupposition above; nevertheless it it still just as far from bringing anything new to the sense world. But one can certainly raise the objection to this that, in order to recognize which characteristics of a thing are essential, there must already be a certain norm making it possible to distinguish the essential from the inessential. This norm cannot lie in the object, for the object in fact contains both what is essential and inessential in undivided unity. Therefore this nor

--| Free Music |---

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
(John Lennon)

--| The Law of the Wild |---

And this is the law of the wild, As old and as true as the sky.
And the wolf who keeps it will prosper, But the wolf who breaks it will die!

Like the wind that circles the tree trunk, this law runneth forward and back.
The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
(Rudyard Kipling)

--| Social Threefolding |---

The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, i.e. the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are satisfied, not out of his own work but out of the work done by others.
(The Fundamental Social Law, Rudolf Steiner, 1905)

--| Thomas Jefferson on Ideas |---

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an IDEA, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

(Thomas Jefferson)

--| The Hate Mirror |---

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

--| The Soul's Awakening > Machines and Art |---

Manager:
So much is happening that makes it clear how our production slackens more and more and how we're failing in our obligations.
Too many are complaining that our products are growing worse in quality and so the other firms are starting to outdo us.
Our well-known punctuality is lacking, as many customers have rightly claimed.
Soon all the best friends that the firm has made will find themselves no longer satisfied.

Hilary:
The one who wishes to create the new must calmly watch the old things pass away. I will no longer carry on the work as up to now it has been organised.
It seems to me degrading when a business-- is profit-making in the narrowest range-- and throws the workers' output thoughtlessly upon the general market of the world, quite unconcerned with what becomes of it.
I've gained this view since I have realised how human work can take noble form, if human spirit puts its stamp upon it.

Thomasius, the artist, shall direct the workshops that I build for him nearby. The products made by our machines will first be formed with art by his creative spirit and so supply for daily human needs things useful that are truly beautiful.
Thus craftsmanship will be combined with art and bring good taste to ordinary life.
So I would add to what I see today, as corpselike body in our work, the soul that can alone bestow on it true meaning.

(The Souls Awakening, by Rudolf Steiner, 1922)

---| Constructing Machines as a Divine Service |---

Humanity must learn to deal with nature as the gods have done; it should learn not to construct machines in an indifferent way but to fulfill a divine service and bring sacramentalism into everything that is produced.
(Rudolf Steiner, The Karma of Vocation, Dornach, Nov1916)

best regards,
john

--| Free Music |---

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
(John Lennon)

--| The Law of the Wild |---

And this is the law of the wild, As old and as true as the sky.
And the wolf who keeps it will prosper, But the wolf who breaks it will die!

Like the wind that circles the tree trunk, this law runneth forward and back.
The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
(Rudyard Kipling)

--| Social Threefolding |---

The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, i.e. the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are satisfied, not out of his own work but out of the work done by others.
(The Fundamental Social Law, Rudolf Steiner, 1905)

--| Thomas Jefferson on Ideas |---

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an IDEA, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

(Thomas Jefferson)

--| The Hate Mirror |---

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

--| The Soul's Awakening > Machines and Art |---

Manager:
So much is happening that makes it clear how our production slackens more and more and how we're failing in our obligations.
Too many are complaining that our products are growing worse in quality and so the other firms are starting to outdo us.
Our well-known punctuality is lacking, as many customers have rightly claimed.
Soon all the best friends that the firm has made will find themselves no longer satisfied.

Hilary:
The one who wishes to create the new must calmly watch the old things pass away. I will no longer carry on the work as up to now it has been organised.
It seems to me degrading when a business-- is profit-making in the narrowest range-- and throws the workers' output thoughtlessly upon the general market of the world, quite unconcerned with what becomes of it.
I've gained this view since I have realised how human work can take noble form, if human spirit puts its stamp upon it.

Thomasius, the artist, shall direct the workshops that I build for him nearby. The products made by our machines will first be formed with art by his creative spirit and so supply for daily human needs things useful that are truly beautiful.
Thus craftsmanship will be combined with art and bring good taste to ordinary life.
So I would add to what I see today, as corpselike body in our work, the soul that can alone bestow on it true meaning.

(The Souls Awakening, by Rudolf Steiner, 1922)

---| Constructing Machines as a Divine Service |---

Humanity must learn to deal with nature as the gods have done; it should learn not to construct machines in an indifferent way but to fulfill a divine service and bring sacramentalism into everything that is produced.
(Rudolf Steiner, The Karma of Vocation, Dornach, Nov1916)

best regards,
john

seethruwindo@earthlink.net

seethruwindo@earthlink.net

Spam at will.

Thanks!

>QWERTY was designed to slow typists down, since old typewriters couldn't keep up with ultra-fast typists.

That's actually just a joke, not fact.

Some light reading.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down.

Which really only make sense... The Straight Dope on this.

Furthermore, because hey, someone will bring it up, there are no quality studies that show the superiority of Dvorak layouts over QWERTY. :-)

Check out the several entries for why no one eats at my house, in one of which I prove that pizza is in fact a fungus. ;)

Satellites are your friends.

Red is the colour of blood and, since the time of cavemen, has been the accepted colour for danger.

In your (and my) culture, maybe. But this is hardly a universal fact. Just using your explanation above, red could also be the accepted color for life and health.

In China, for example, "Red, a bright, auspicious color associated with warmth, life and the Fire Element, denotes good fortune and happiness." (See here)

Also: Symbolism of the color red in antiquity

Surely they're not suggesting Canada invaded the US!?

Actually, in thoses years, Canada was still a British colony... but yes Canada invaded the US and burned Washington. But the US troops did also burned York (Toronto) which was the capitol of the Upper Canada at the time.

Here's a tip: If you drive me to read your material, you are NOT likely to garner a favorable/constructive review.

I'd be willing to read what you've done, but if you trick me into hitting your page, the best you can hope to get is my leaving without crapflooding your guest book. Someone looking for a book review finding your site would be a good thing, probably for all involved, but this is not a desirable reason to Google bomb. This guy wanted the phrase "ruby orange" to point to his page, based on a photo of the kid (named Ruby) having just had her foot dipped in orange paint. For something as simple as a baby photos page, it would probably be cheaper/easier to register a domain name, or even to have a couple hundred cards printed up with a URL. How about creating an emailing list and telling people where to sign up?

I've got a few pages on the web, and several of them are loaded with photos of my son, who will be a year old in three weeks. I haven't plastered his web site all over creation using a method that's just likely to draw tons of strangers in to view them. I tell people I see when I know they'd be interested, and I email or call people that I don't see. As many creeps are on the 'net, I sometimes consider putting passwords on the pages. If I had a daughter like this guy, I'd be nervous to even POST photos at all.

And what about the people who

• are in the market to buy some ruby blood oranges?
  
  
• or maybe ruby red grapefruit?
  
  
• would like a new, better recipe for a ruby orange cream torte?
  
  
• are trying to find Ruby and Orange throw pillows
  
  
• to match their lovely Ruby and Orange table covers?
  
  
• or even their quasi-antique ruby orange candy dish?
  
  
• can't remember where they bought that tasty fruit basket (was it Pepperige Farms? Knott's Berry Farm? Old McDonald's Farm?) last year?
  
  
• there will even be more people researching Kentucky women named Orange having daughters whom they name Ruby than people looking for this man's one child.
  
  

2001-2003 Prius vs. Echo. (2004 Prius is very different.)

Prius is older (1998 model year).
Similar body style (both compacts).
They share some of the same engine block.

the Echo is not available in a CVT.

Base Echo is missing a bunch of stuff that's standard
in a base 2001-2003 Prius.

The engines use a different stroke cycle, with the
Prius' a bit more efficient. See http://home.earthlink.net/~graham1/MyToyotaPrius/U nderstanding/InternalCombustion.htm for a more detailed explanation/comparison.

Like this

Could just be a troll though, I wonder if someone could verify it?

Thanks for the info. Link added to what used to be my playlist, but is becoming an anti-RIAA condensed-rant page. (Which amazingly gets about 1500 hits a month.)

BIKE VILLAGES

bikes never need batteries, and will always be cheaper and simpler to build -- less to go wrong. why not build a village for bicycles. segway users would find it a great place to get around in if they so choose.

john

:)

It's important to watch out for ticks when you go hiking. Here's some more information:

http://home.earthlink.net/~robstitt/tick.htm

Please tell me more about these "new ticks." Are they Africanized ticks, like the Africanized killer bees?

Ok... here goes!

That would produce 400kV. To make the bulb for that maglight, all you'd need would be two 50cm (20") spheres space 16cm (6.3") apart, and the voltage would cause a continous spark between the two.