Because a lot of popular 'blogs - derived, remember, from weblog - are less of the livejournally ohmigoshthere'sthistotallycuteboyinmymathclass and more of the commentary and links that other people find interesting. I know my weblog doesn't have a huge readership, but if I go on vacation, I know there are people who are still going to be checking every day and wanting to get the same kind of content they get when I'm around posting. So I'll either post a bunch of stuff in advance or ask my best friend, who's a lot like me in such things, to guest-post.
There's weblogs... and then there's journals. Some day, hopefully, this will all make sense.
I don't know if I buy that. I mean, companies are all about providing what people want.
Or maybe they're also all about convincing people of what they want and then giving it to them.:) I agree with your points, but I'm not sure we have the same amount of faith in the free market.
I recommed the article U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad. Space is the next frontier for US military dominance. NASA may have been gutted, but now the government is realizing it can enhance its control over the world if it has space. This means denying everyone else access to space - so I won't be surprised if the US govt starts painting the Chinese (dirty commies! watch out! coughbullshitcough) space program as a serious military threat.
(Missile shield? Missile shield? Hell, son, we need orbital weapons platforms all around the world! We need to be able to shut down military operations by rogue states and terr'ists anywhere on the globe! Hot damn, we need nukes on the moon!)
Anyone else getting flashbacks to the gun in Iain M Banks' "A Gift from the Culture?" The smart handgun that will only work for the protagonist, that targets and tracks and fires on its own? Just me, then? Hokay.
I think it's been established that as Strata is an homage/parody of Ringworld (look at the themes, Pratchett's book is similar only in outline and strcture - referential in outward appearance but ideas of his own in the themes), Dark Side of the Sun is homage/parody of Asimov's Foundation (see pratchett's "p-math":) ). Pratchett himself says:
"I intended Strata to be as much a (pisstake/homage/satire) on Ringworld as, say, Bill the Galactic Hero was of Starship Troopers. All Niven's heroes are competent and all his technology works for millions of years... but he's a nice guy and says he enjoyed the book."
Please note that all the sources in the article are "hackers." Yet Wired reports it as _fact_ when they have no official confirmation or hard evidence. I guess a publication like Wired doesn't have very strict journalistic standards about news, but still... this is an instance where you use words like "alleged" and "claim."
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Palm PDA Roundup
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Sorry, this has been bugging me for a long time and hell I've got karma to burn. I'm not picking on the poster, just the general grammatical carelessness to which I too am occasionally subject.
Being a geek's gadget,:) I would recommend you guys to check out this roundup if you are planning to get a new Palm PDA
Okay, so you are recommending this to us because you are a geek's gadget? Some sort of AI agent perhaps, or a sexbot? Eh?
Okay, I'm done.
In on-topic news, my second-hand TRG Pro has lasted me well for over a year now; the CF slot keeps it expandable and the PalmPix camera keeps it indispensable. Use of the PalmPix is the only real argument against the HandEra 330 when the TRG fails.
Remember when OS 3.5 was hot? Anybody? No? I'll just go read this review for some new game called Dungeons&Dragons, then....
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Man, I want me a tasp. The thought of sitting quietly in a corner of the Commons and remotely inducing orgasms in my fellow students fills me with sadistic glee.
Yeah, really. I can see them making a robot that can execute the forms, but that's not really what doing tai'chi is all about. Ah well, i guess it sounds good for PR purposes.
That may just be you... are you running the latest GTK? I'm pretty sure I am, on Win2k, and aside from some minor behavioral quirks (hesitancy on mouseovers), I have no problems.
But yeah, I somehow think Windows GTK doesn't get quite as much priority as Linux.;)
But see, the point is that if you do all your websites to standards, that's a lot of the accessibility work done right there. It's not doing extra work for accesibility, it's doing the job right. And I'd even argue that making your website accessible (in 508 terms) is part of doing the job right - the web is about disseminating information and making it available to everyone.
Perhaps one ought to explain why the trick works (antithetical to the usual magic show, I know) so that the kids see thet there is, well, a science behind it - something they can study and understand and play with themselves.
Astronomers named the new object Quaoar, after the creation myth of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers.
I happen to think that that is way groovy. It's about time some other ancient belief systems got in on the planet-naming!:)
I have had for years the strange and useless "party trick" ability to read english equally well left to right or right to left (on paper or in my head, leading to "talking backwards"), and it struck me as cruel that such an awesome talent would be so utterly useless - trust me, in performance, it gets old after about five or ten minutes.
But now I can search for stuff backwards. Today, Google, tomorrow, the world! Muahahahaha!
I don't know - if I all I need to do is check some cookies and output a stylesheet based on those cookies, or dip into a database and sort and output some data, why do I need perl? I can do it quickly and painlessly in my page with PHP. No need to go around insulting those of us who use it as "unserious."
I see perl's coolness, but just to play contrary deity's advocate with you... why not PHP?:)
Please tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can believe in God, and what role religion has played in your work on Perl.
I missed the original discussion in which all these questions were collected, but yowza, that's a dense question (no offense to the inquirer!).
I am not religious either - faith is simply not in me, I cannot believe in something I cannot see - so I see where the inquirer is coming from, but as Larry puts it, the question is talking at right angles.
To say "you're a scientist, how can you believe in God?" makes the automatic and ignorant assumption that said scientist believes said god created the world in thirty days, wrought man from the testicles of a gopher, and causes the sun to rise every day by means of ropes and pulleys (or something of the like - you get my point).
Larry may be a Christian, but though there may be many irrational/ignorant/intolerant Christians in the world, not all Christians are like that. As a friend of mine says, the attitude that they are "puts the asshole in atheist."
Being religious does not preclude being a smart and talented scientist. Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'm kind of fed up with the attitude that "belief in god(s)" == "irrational and stupid." And though he has in no way convinced me, I'm quite impressed with Larry's defense of his faith.
Maybe you're not a computer geek and you've never heard of Mozilla, but you know the guy down the hall who does all the website stuff is always complaining about Netscape 4 and you want to upgrade....
One of the main challenges faced in getting users to use standards-compliant browsers over obsolete programs such as Netscape 4-series is also the computers. At places still using older systems or franken-systems, Moz (may just be too hefty for Windows. It doesn't seem as much of a problem on PCs, because IE is available, but many people still use NS4 for the mail client (and I cannot in good conscience tell them that Moz's is overwhelmingly superior, despite weird stuff like NS4 Mail encoding all messages in Rot13 by accident). It is an even bigger challenge with Macs, because many older Macs just won't comfortably run IE/mac, so NS4/mac is the browser of choice for aging Macs.
But saturating the market with standards-compliant browsers is helpful anyway. I could only wish more people knew about Mozilla, for their sake.
Slashdot Mirror
Because a lot of popular 'blogs - derived, remember, from weblog - are less of the livejournally ohmigoshthere'sthistotallycuteboyinmymathclass and more of the commentary and links that other people find interesting. I know my weblog doesn't have a huge readership, but if I go on vacation, I know there are people who are still going to be checking every day and wanting to get the same kind of content they get when I'm around posting. So I'll either post a bunch of stuff in advance or ask my best friend, who's a lot like me in such things, to guest-post.
There's weblogs... and then there's journals. Some day, hopefully, this will all make sense.
Sci-fi fans (or naval adventure fans, or people who like good books) who dig this whole solar sail business are highly encouraged to check out Michael Flynn's recent book The Wreck of the River of Stars. Hardcore space adventure aboard the last of the great solar sail ships, put out of business by fusion technology. It's a romantic yet compelling look at space-travelin' technology. Flynn's a talented writer, the type who can name his chef Eaton Grubb and get away with it. Good summer read.
Heh heh. Off-topic. Bring it on.
Godsdamn. When bleeding-edge PDAs have as much memory as your laptop, I guess it's time to consider upgrading, huh?
Or maybe they're also all about convincing people of what they want and then giving it to them. :) I agree with your points, but I'm not sure we have the same amount of faith in the free market.
Actually, it might get me to watch it. Robots! Come on! ROBOTS!
Ahem.
I recommed the article U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad. Space is the next frontier for US military dominance. NASA may have been gutted, but now the government is realizing it can enhance its control over the world if it has space. This means denying everyone else access to space - so I won't be surprised if the US govt starts painting the Chinese (dirty commies! watch out! coughbullshitcough) space program as a serious military threat.
(Missile shield? Missile shield? Hell, son, we need orbital weapons platforms all around the world! We need to be able to shut down military operations by rogue states and terr'ists anywhere on the globe! Hot damn, we need nukes on the moon!)
Anyone else getting flashbacks to the gun in Iain M Banks' "A Gift from the Culture?" The smart handgun that will only work for the protagonist, that targets and tracks and fires on its own? Just me, then? Hokay.
Well, we do now!
Hate to be anal, but slashdot editors, please....
Emphasis mine. Come on, it's not that hard.
In other news, I'm glad they apparently decided not to use "Roogle"... something about that word disturbs me deeply on a primal level.
I think it's been established that as Strata is an homage/parody of Ringworld (look at the themes, Pratchett's book is similar only in outline and strcture - referential in outward appearance but ideas of his own in the themes), Dark Side of the Sun is homage/parody of Asimov's Foundation (see pratchett's "p-math" :) ). Pratchett himself says:
Annotated Pratchett File :)
Please note that all the sources in the article are "hackers." Yet Wired reports it as _fact_ when they have no official confirmation or hard evidence. I guess a publication like Wired doesn't have very strict journalistic standards about news, but still... this is an instance where you use words like "alleged" and "claim."
Sorry, this has been bugging me for a long time and hell I've got karma to burn. I'm not picking on the poster, just the general grammatical carelessness to which I too am occasionally subject.
Okay, so you are recommending this to us because you are a geek's gadget? Some sort of AI agent perhaps, or a sexbot? Eh?
Okay, I'm done.
In on-topic news, my second-hand TRG Pro has lasted me well for over a year now; the CF slot keeps it expandable and the PalmPix camera keeps it indispensable. Use of the PalmPix is the only real argument against the HandEra 330 when the TRG fails.
Remember when OS 3.5 was hot? Anybody? No? I'll just go read this review for some new game called Dungeons&Dragons, then....
Man, I want me a tasp. The thought of sitting quietly in a corner of the Commons and remotely inducing orgasms in my fellow students fills me with sadistic glee.
But not, you know, for the thirty people laid off.
Ah, slashdot.
Yeah, really. I can see them making a robot that can execute the forms, but that's not really what doing tai'chi is all about. Ah well, i guess it sounds good for PR purposes.
That may just be you... are you running the latest GTK? I'm pretty sure I am, on Win2k, and aside from some minor behavioral quirks (hesitancy on mouseovers), I have no problems.
But yeah, I somehow think Windows GTK doesn't get quite as much priority as Linux. ;)
But see, the point is that if you do all your websites to standards, that's a lot of the accessibility work done right there. It's not doing extra work for accesibility, it's doing the job right. And I'd even argue that making your website accessible (in 508 terms) is part of doing the job right - the web is about disseminating information and making it available to everyone.
Perhaps one ought to explain why the trick works (antithetical to the usual magic show, I know) so that the kids see thet there is, well, a science behind it - something they can study and understand and play with themselves.
Just a thought.
Quoth BBC:
I happen to think that that is way groovy. It's about time some other ancient belief systems got in on the planet-naming! :)
I have had for years the strange and useless "party trick" ability to read english equally well left to right or right to left (on paper or in my head, leading to "talking backwards"), and it struck me as cruel that such an awesome talent would be so utterly useless - trust me, in performance, it gets old after about five or ten minutes.
But now I can search for stuff backwards. Today, Google, tomorrow, the world! Muahahahaha!
ahem
I don't know - if I all I need to do is check some cookies and output a stylesheet based on those cookies, or dip into a database and sort and output some data, why do I need perl? I can do it quickly and painlessly in my page with PHP. No need to go around insulting those of us who use it as "unserious."
I see perl's coolness, but just to play contrary deity's advocate with you... why not PHP? :)
I missed the original discussion in which all these questions were collected, but yowza, that's a dense question (no offense to the inquirer!).
I am not religious either - faith is simply not in me, I cannot believe in something I cannot see - so I see where the inquirer is coming from, but as Larry puts it, the question is talking at right angles.
To say "you're a scientist, how can you believe in God?" makes the automatic and ignorant assumption that said scientist believes said god created the world in thirty days, wrought man from the testicles of a gopher, and causes the sun to rise every day by means of ropes and pulleys (or something of the like - you get my point).
Larry may be a Christian, but though there may be many irrational/ignorant/intolerant Christians in the world, not all Christians are like that. As a friend of mine says, the attitude that they are "puts the asshole in atheist."
Being religious does not preclude being a smart and talented scientist. Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'm kind of fed up with the attitude that "belief in god(s)" == "irrational and stupid." And though he has in no way convinced me, I'm quite impressed with Larry's defense of his faith.
Maybe you're not a computer geek and you've never heard of Mozilla, but you know the guy down the hall who does all the website stuff is always complaining about Netscape 4 and you want to upgrade....
One of the main challenges faced in getting users to use standards-compliant browsers over obsolete programs such as Netscape 4-series is also the computers. At places still using older systems or franken-systems, Moz (may just be too hefty for Windows. It doesn't seem as much of a problem on PCs, because IE is available, but many people still use NS4 for the mail client (and I cannot in good conscience tell them that Moz's is overwhelmingly superior, despite weird stuff like NS4 Mail encoding all messages in Rot13 by accident). It is an even bigger challenge with Macs, because many older Macs just won't comfortably run IE/mac, so NS4/mac is the browser of choice for aging Macs.
But saturating the market with standards-compliant browsers is helpful anyway. I could only wish more people knew about Mozilla, for their sake.
I guess a degree is pretty powerful, if it can start its own company....