That which is unknown is feared
That which is feared is avoided
That which is avoided will remain unknown
The unknown will continue to grow and deviate from which was once largely unknown to something completely alien to the group that fails to comprehend it. Thus making fear become panic.
A bit off topic from that part is that people always use historical or cultural trivia to "prove" that kids aren't learning and then blame it on games. For example: "Kids don't even know who Cathrine Hepburn is!" (quote from my reletives). My reply: "Do you know how to burn a CD-r?". General cultural knowledge is often confused with common sense, when this happens age gaps widen at astonishingly fast rates. Often this evolves into culture rifts where even older technical people end up shunning younger non-technical people.
This is the point where gaming is about to be. As gamers grow into maturity and pass it on those who fear it become thought of as hermits and even outsiders of the main group.
Games are not going to go away, they just provide a different way to have enjoyment.
Often videogames are said to "increase aggression" yet no comparison is done to mainstream sports. If someone claimed football didn't "increase aggression" I'd wonder what drugs they're taking.
It's okay to not understand something, so long as you do not fear it, but accept that you do not understand.
I used N6 all day yesterday and I'm using M18 all day today. So far the only difference is M18 loads faster...and with the theme I installed in N6 (I deleted N6 after installing M18), even the form data transfered over and neither overwrote N4.76.
If anything the Mozilla project benifits from Netscape because everyone knows Netscape's name yet not many non-geek-like-people know Mozilla. I've been using Netscape since 1.22 and I toyed around with Mozilla for a few milestones. M18 seems like a winner to me. Although there is a few sites that remain broken (hotmail for some reason) it's definately grown to acceptable.
The biggest complaint I have with IE versions after 3 is that they tend to include hidden "extras" that just make for a lousy UI. As far as a double standard and MS not spamming, look at the "channel bar" that installs with Win98.
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Tracability, if there is any question about the vote with a physical piece of paper you CAN recount.
And with an online system there runs into the problem of data integrity, in online FPS games there is "proxy" systems used to aim for someone who is cheating, who's to say that when the stakes are higher a similar thing wouldn't result where people would have thier votes changed without them knowing it?
As much as I am for tech stuff, hardcopy does have it's place.
Recently on our local radio the BSA has been running "ads" stating something like the following:
"Pirating software has large penalties, most buisnesses are caught because disgruntled employees and ex-employees report them. Unless you have no disgruntled employees or ex-employees you may find yourself audited"
Books have libraries, software has nothing. Until the library of congress starts archiving software, we will continue to have software lost, forgotten, and even when an attempted ressurection is attempted a lawyer comes in. Only a third party with a large amount of resources or the actual software companies can do something about it.
This kid successfully protested an entire system without any violence or personal attacks whatsoever and managed to get more publicity and widespread acknowledgement of it because he did execute it so well.
I can't remember a single person in my high school that would have been able to succeed in that way.
Say a manufacturer has a DIMM with a bad address line, visually it's a normal DIMM. They decided to sell it for a massively low price. Some unscrupulous buyer utilizing "sell and run" tactics buys a bunch and sells them as normal DIMMs. Buyers call the manufacturer complaining that the DIMMs they bought are bad and the retailer no longer exists.
Note: This has happened to me, I bought two hard to find keyboards only to find both had water damage upon arrival (packaging still good) and the retailer disappeared.
Social Security has grown to become something that it was never intended to be. When SSNs were created they were not to be used as identification, but only for SS tax purposes. So why does your credit card company and bank want it? Every time I hear a commercial or someone say "You can't retire on social security" I want to reply "That's because that is not intended to be a retirement fund". Social security was born for the sole purpose of ASSISTING people on retirement to help cope with inflation. Many people today don't even think about thier future much less plan for it. Of all the people that I've met recently from my high school days, I think I am the only one remotely planning for retirement.
Privatization of social security would be a good way to make a company fail or get social security reform without being a black mark on a candidate's record (since it was a third party that did the horrible things, not them)
Although there is a large amount of the population that is young, the core is the older people who actually get out of thier house and VOTE. Many of these older people are so technophobic that talk about mapping the human gene seems sacriligious. Hell, my grandma won't even check the propane level in her trailer (it involves reading a small gauge on the tanks) and I've never seen her ever touch a keyboard. Yet these are the people who go to the booth and punch a card.
Unless the younger generations get out and vote, the dinosaurs will continue to rule because we don't adaquatly tell them what we want.
Kids today have no respect
This music kids listen to is inappropriate
The way kids dress today is very inappropriate
There is way too much violence today (not like when I was growing up)
Said by your Grandma to your Mom.
Said by your Mom to you.
Said by you to your kids?
In the strive to get the latest news first, sometimes printing rumors helps... as long as they are labeled as such. What Apple is trying to do is control the news so they always are the ones with all the latest info (which negates the whole purpose of other Mac news site). I think this has alot to do with the pre-realease cube pictures, Jobs wanted the spot light all for himself. He couldn't stand sharing it even though the light was shining brighter.
When I was using Infoseek as my primary search engine I'd notice the amount of broken links would climb for 4-6 months, then become perfectly clean. I was noticing google's effectiveness lessen and was hoping that it was for the same reason.
OH MY GOD!!! MY VCR, CAMERA, PAD OF PAPER, PEN, CHAULK, STICK AND DIRT, AND MEMORY ARE ALL ILLEGAL!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!...well there goes a couple of karma points for that little outburst.
In the body there is a statement that basically says there we went from Hunter+gatherers, to argicultural, to industrial, to information. I disagree, I feel that rather than replacing the "lower" level a portion builds itself ontop of the formerly dominant level. Is there still hunter+gatherer cultures? few, but there is. Is there agricultural cultures? By the fact that we still see salad on the menus in many restraunts, I'd have to say there is.
There will always be the various stages of the sociological evolution, if there wasn't the top levels would have a hard time fullfilling thier basic need to survive. Nothing in==Nothing out.
I think what's going to come out is how generic the site is. A box is a box. However various logos and trademarks may raise an eyebrow.
Just because the F550 Maranello has a hood scoop like a camero SS and 4 round tailights like the early '80s corvettes that doesn't mean that Ferrari stole from General Motors
When will all these upgrading stop? I've seen Gameboy carts upgraded, PDAs upgraded, and even proprietary systems have been hacked up for other uses...
This is getting out of control. To compare it to prohibition: It's gone from busting the people who designed the process to make alcohol to busting people who have the the way to make alcohol, to busting people who are saying where the instructions are to make alcohol.
A few organizations that tried pushing a mountain up a rock:
Unisys
Rambus
MPAA
RIAA
See the MS marketing department and the MS legal department duke it out of what set of numbers to use!!! This will be a no holds barred deathmatch in the steel cage of the DOJ! The Battle of the Bulge begins at 7AM pacific, 10AM eastern. Buy your tickets where ever you feel like because in this match SOMEONE WILL BE BROKEN UP!!!
*this is not a ticketmaster event, but feel free to complain to them anyways
"We've got Coppermines where we work that can be cooled with a simple heatsink/fan combo. AMD
requires cooling or it will burn out within twenty seconds. "
Did you look at how long a coppermine would last without cooling? I wouldn't say that the Athlons require excessive cooling (about the same size heatsink as the one I have been using since my 233K6), however it's thier thirst for a power supply which keeps them out of the bugdet market where the power supply is one of the first things that are skimped on.
With the current PC king of high power usage meeting the PC king of low power usage, maybe AMD's Athlon can get it's current budget over to Jenny Craig.
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That which is unknown is feared
That which is feared is avoided
That which is avoided will remain unknown
The unknown will continue to grow and deviate from which was once largely unknown to something completely alien to the group that fails to comprehend it. Thus making fear become panic.
A bit off topic from that part is that people always use historical or cultural trivia to "prove" that kids aren't learning and then blame it on games. For example: "Kids don't even know who Cathrine Hepburn is!" (quote from my reletives). My reply: "Do you know how to burn a CD-r?". General cultural knowledge is often confused with common sense, when this happens age gaps widen at astonishingly fast rates. Often this evolves into culture rifts where even older technical people end up shunning younger non-technical people.
This is the point where gaming is about to be. As gamers grow into maturity and pass it on those who fear it become thought of as hermits and even outsiders of the main group.
Games are not going to go away, they just provide a different way to have enjoyment.
Often videogames are said to "increase aggression" yet no comparison is done to mainstream sports. If someone claimed football didn't "increase aggression" I'd wonder what drugs they're taking.
It's okay to not understand something, so long as you do not fear it, but accept that you do not understand.
Why is there a rush to create artificial intelligence when we still have yet to find natural intelligence outside of laboratory conditions?
I used N6 all day yesterday and I'm using M18 all day today. So far the only difference is M18 loads faster...and with the theme I installed in N6 (I deleted N6 after installing M18), even the form data transfered over and neither overwrote N4.76. If anything the Mozilla project benifits from Netscape because everyone knows Netscape's name yet not many non-geek-like-people know Mozilla. I've been using Netscape since 1.22 and I toyed around with Mozilla for a few milestones. M18 seems like a winner to me. Although there is a few sites that remain broken (hotmail for some reason) it's definately grown to acceptable. The biggest complaint I have with IE versions after 3 is that they tend to include hidden "extras" that just make for a lousy UI. As far as a double standard and MS not spamming, look at the "channel bar" that installs with Win98.
Tracability, if there is any question about the vote with a physical piece of paper you CAN recount.
And with an online system there runs into the problem of data integrity, in online FPS games there is "proxy" systems used to aim for someone who is cheating, who's to say that when the stakes are higher a similar thing wouldn't result where people would have thier votes changed without them knowing it?
As much as I am for tech stuff, hardcopy does have it's place.
Recently on our local radio the BSA has been running "ads" stating something like the following:
:)
"Pirating software has large penalties, most buisnesses are caught because disgruntled employees and ex-employees report them. Unless you have no disgruntled employees or ex-employees you may find yourself audited"
...sounds like the IRS
The century has yet to turn. So basically we're left with 1901 technology... in a couple months turn of the century tech will include the internet.
hmmm, either way the statement doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Books have libraries, software has nothing. Until the library of congress starts archiving software, we will continue to have software lost, forgotten, and even when an attempted ressurection is attempted a lawyer comes in. Only a third party with a large amount of resources or the actual software companies can do something about it.
This kid successfully protested an entire system without any violence or personal attacks whatsoever and managed to get more publicity and widespread acknowledgement of it because he did execute it so well. I can't remember a single person in my high school that would have been able to succeed in that way.
How long have we gone with always having a plane in the sky? The ISS can be considered a very high altitude plane with a long flight time.
Say a manufacturer has a DIMM with a bad address line, visually it's a normal DIMM. They decided to sell it for a massively low price. Some unscrupulous buyer utilizing "sell and run" tactics buys a bunch and sells them as normal DIMMs. Buyers call the manufacturer complaining that the DIMMs they bought are bad and the retailer no longer exists.
Note: This has happened to me, I bought two hard to find keyboards only to find both had water damage upon arrival (packaging still good) and the retailer disappeared.
Social Security has grown to become something that it was never intended to be. When SSNs were created they were not to be used as identification, but only for SS tax purposes. So why does your credit card company and bank want it? Every time I hear a commercial or someone say "You can't retire on social security" I want to reply "That's because that is not intended to be a retirement fund". Social security was born for the sole purpose of ASSISTING people on retirement to help cope with inflation. Many people today don't even think about thier future much less plan for it. Of all the people that I've met recently from my high school days, I think I am the only one remotely planning for retirement.
Privatization of social security would be a good way to make a company fail or get social security reform without being a black mark on a candidate's record (since it was a third party that did the horrible things, not them)
Although there is a large amount of the population that is young, the core is the older people who actually get out of thier house and VOTE. Many of these older people are so technophobic that talk about mapping the human gene seems sacriligious. Hell, my grandma won't even check the propane level in her trailer (it involves reading a small gauge on the tanks) and I've never seen her ever touch a keyboard. Yet these are the people who go to the booth and punch a card.
Unless the younger generations get out and vote, the dinosaurs will continue to rule because we don't adaquatly tell them what we want.
Actually it was a bumper sticker. I didn't know who the quote was originally from.
Funny, Detonate.net had the exact same problem a bunch of months back. Next spammers are going to stop being paid to email everyone on earth! *pray*
Kids today have no respect This music kids listen to is inappropriate The way kids dress today is very inappropriate There is way too much violence today (not like when I was growing up) Said by your Grandma to your Mom. Said by your Mom to you. Said by you to your kids?
In the strive to get the latest news first, sometimes printing rumors helps... as long as they are labeled as such. What Apple is trying to do is control the news so they always are the ones with all the latest info (which negates the whole purpose of other Mac news site). I think this has alot to do with the pre-realease cube pictures, Jobs wanted the spot light all for himself. He couldn't stand sharing it even though the light was shining brighter.
When I was using Infoseek as my primary search engine I'd notice the amount of broken links would climb for 4-6 months, then become perfectly clean. I was noticing google's effectiveness lessen and was hoping that it was for the same reason.
:(
Looks like I was wrong
OH MY GOD!!! MY VCR, CAMERA, PAD OF PAPER, PEN, CHAULK, STICK AND DIRT, AND MEMORY ARE ALL ILLEGAL!!! AHHHHH!!!!!! ...well there goes a couple of karma points for that little outburst.
In the body there is a statement that basically says there we went from Hunter+gatherers, to argicultural, to industrial, to information. I disagree, I feel that rather than replacing the "lower" level a portion builds itself ontop of the formerly dominant level. Is there still hunter+gatherer cultures? few, but there is. Is there agricultural cultures? By the fact that we still see salad on the menus in many restraunts, I'd have to say there is.
There will always be the various stages of the sociological evolution, if there wasn't the top levels would have a hard time fullfilling thier basic need to survive. Nothing in==Nothing out.
I think what's going to come out is how generic the site is. A box is a box. However various logos and trademarks may raise an eyebrow. Just because the F550 Maranello has a hood scoop like a camero SS and 4 round tailights like the early '80s corvettes that doesn't mean that Ferrari stole from General Motors
When will all these upgrading stop? I've seen Gameboy carts upgraded, PDAs upgraded, and even proprietary systems have been hacked up for other uses...
God I love electronics.
This is getting out of control. To compare it to prohibition: It's gone from busting the people who designed the process to make alcohol to busting people who have the the way to make alcohol, to busting people who are saying where the instructions are to make alcohol.
A few organizations that tried pushing a mountain up a rock:
Unisys
Rambus
MPAA
RIAA
See the MS marketing department and the MS legal department duke it out of what set of numbers to use!!! This will be a no holds barred deathmatch in the steel cage of the DOJ! The Battle of the Bulge begins at 7AM pacific, 10AM eastern. Buy your tickets where ever you feel like because in this match SOMEONE WILL BE BROKEN UP!!!
*this is not a ticketmaster event, but feel free to complain to them anyways
"We've got Coppermines where we work that can be cooled with a simple heatsink/fan combo. AMD requires cooling or it will burn out within twenty seconds. " Did you look at how long a coppermine would last without cooling? I wouldn't say that the Athlons require excessive cooling (about the same size heatsink as the one I have been using since my 233K6), however it's thier thirst for a power supply which keeps them out of the bugdet market where the power supply is one of the first things that are skimped on.
With the current PC king of high power usage meeting the PC king of low power usage, maybe AMD's Athlon can get it's current budget over to Jenny Craig.