Browsing around the Alaska Aerospace corp. page, I got the distinct impression that the launch facility is privately-owned; in fact, they specifically mention that they're the only commercial launch complex without an adjacent federal facility. Yet NASA is sending up the first rocket (or so it seems..). Does anyone here have a clear idea as to the ownership/control of this and other American space launch facilities?
Please excuse me if I sound snide, but this seems like a case-in-point for the argument that easier often = better overall. Having the things you do all the time automated to a greater degree, all without any high degree of concentration required, throughout your computing experience can be a simply beetter way to do things. the GUI is easier than the command line, but it's also more useful in many ways. There is a reason why mac people are so defensive of their history and present (and i'm one of them): the macos is simply better-desinged, more 'elegent' than many other solutions. You do lose much nuts-and-bolts functionality, but 99/100 times that dosen't matter. But what do I know. MacOSX has introduced me to many new ways of doing things. But I'll shut up now, I'm stoned and my instant noodles are congealing rapidly. Sionara, Thomas Hobbes, Philosophe Extraordinaire
You do realize that the nazis were, in general, all for advertising; it was mostly state advertising - what you'd pejoritavly call 'propaganda' - but advertising none the less. From this freudian slip one can glean the reason why people arn't too keen on having pepsi logos within the walls of a school - because a school must be an area where one is free to think, and free from the imposition of the ideologies and ideas by others. This is, of course, never the case in practice; that is, however irrelevent - though theft continues, society deems it worthwhile to keep theft on the books as a crime. Likewise, though the school environment will never be absolutly free in an intellectual sense, this is no reason to allow for the introduction of programs which diminish the freedom of thought within said school.
Advertising is, in and of itself, deteremental to the freedom of thought, whereever it exitsts. The sole purpose of advertising is to change the opinion of those advertised to towards the desired opinion of the advertiser. Pepsi wants you to think two things: that consumerism is the path to happiness, and that consumption of Pepsi is the ideal path to consumer bliss. The first of their tenants is the most significant; the consumer culture is the dominant culture in the Wester world, making institutions of higher learning very significant places vis-a-vis societal decisions regarding said culture. If the consumer culture is ever to be altered or removed, it is the institutions of higher learning which will be instrumental in effecting that change. Thus, to have private interests on _either_ side of the consumerism debate press their views within the school environment, and press those views through the medium of advertising, is detremental to society's future direction vis-a-vis consumerism, if only because it limits the ability of important members of society to choose freely where they stand on the issue.
On the issue of funding; while schools may be short of money for chalk, blackboards, or CRTs, this is no excuse for the erroding of the very purpose of the school. As I have outlied above, advertising is counter-productive the program of a school in general. Thus, if a school finds itself short of money, it should and must raise the funds it needs from legitimate sources; in the case of the United Kingdom, this is very clearly the state (if you do not know already, the state funds schools in Great Britian to a very large extent, nearly- or completely eliminating the need for student fees). If the stone of government has run dry, tell the student to wear sweters in winter; reduce expenses; be inventive. Do not, however, fundamentally comprimise the purpose of the institution on the alter of the e-classroom.
Homeland security? Why the hell not 'Interior' security? It dosen't seem patriotic enough? Maybe the Dept. of Defence should be renamed the Dept. of Crusades!
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Bin Laden can't and shouldn't be automatically blamed for every terrorist act against the US. He may have been involved - but it's been three hours since the whole pile of shit began, and you can't know yet who or what organization did this. Jumping to conclusions is unproductive, unhelpful, prejudicial and leads to the sort of thing which happend today (not, let it be clear, that anything could ever justify these acts).
If you follow a couple of links at the bottom of the page, you'll find this, which is an archive of most of the files direrctly associated with the apollo program (and includes, as you would assume, lots of pretty pictures). I highly reccomend it, if only for the desktop images it provides.
You'll see this: "The US Department of Justice has announced that it will no longer push to have software giant Microsoft broken up.
The decision by the Bush administration reverses the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft. " Since Bush is (nominally) the head of the Bush administration, it's proper to presume that Bush gave the order. Whether someone advised him on it is another matter, but Bush is the president.
Isn't the matter of punishment before the courts right now? I can see how a president can tell his lieutenents who to prosecute at some level, but this degree of interference? Yech.
They have a piece tonight about 'CEOs on the edge', where they profile HP, saying how it's not as nimble as Dell, and dosen't have the the patents of IBM. No mention whatsoever of this buyout.
Th drug companies only produced the drug because there are people in the first world who can afford their $1k a month or whatever it costs. If AIDS was limited to the third world, it woudn't have been produced in the first place, irregradless of incidents like this. You're point is moot.
The future of IBM may look like the present of the Amiga. There's a hard core of fanatical users. Machines are still manufactured and sold, although in very small volume by PC standards. New models come out occasionally. New releases of software appear now and then. And nobody outside the fan club notices.
Not to nitpick, but I'm going to nitpick.. Firewire was developed by apple (search for it at everything2..). From the e2 page: "Firewire was developed by Apple, but has been adopted as an industry standard, IEEE 1394.
As for your other points, forward thinking is much more laudable, relevent and necessary than hindsight. Without entities which are forward thinking, things don't go forward. Due to lack of thinking. Like when it's 5 am... and you start to trail off..
I managed to get mine during the limbo when the new g4s had yet to come out, but the g3s were still in the 'sales channel'. Long story short, I got a $5k laptop for $2.5k.
The laptop itself has turned out really well - it's fast enough and has a good enough screen (14.1") to be a desktop replacement, and the battery life is acceptable (it's gone from 3.5 hours when new to ~2 hours today). In fact, outside of the screen width and the g4-g3 difference, it's the same computer as the powerbook g4 (same top mhz rating today). Most 3rd party modules you'd want are still being sold, and it runs osx, 9.1, virtual pc and linux, so there's no lack of os choice. Oh, and there's a cool upside-down glowing apple on the back of the screen.
You can add yourself as your friend.. Oh, and as someone pointed out in a journal, the fact that there's a list of top posters re number of journal enteries will probably lead to a fp-ish contest among the very bored..
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And when the US tried to correct that error, they supported a government Bush equates with the Nazis in the name of the drug war. (google)
one more.. Independent Online (South Africa)
More to come..
Go to the NASATv like above!
Browsing around the Alaska Aerospace corp. page, I got the distinct impression that the launch facility is privately-owned; in fact, they specifically mention that they're the only commercial launch complex without an adjacent federal facility. Yet NASA is sending up the first rocket (or so it seems..). Does anyone here have a clear idea as to the ownership/control of this and other American space launch facilities?
Please excuse me if I sound snide, but this seems like a case-in-point for the argument that easier often = better overall. Having the things you do all the time automated to a greater degree, all without any high degree of concentration required, throughout your computing experience can be a simply beetter way to do things. the GUI is easier than the command line, but it's also more useful in many ways. There is a reason why mac people are so defensive of their history and present (and i'm one of them): the macos is simply better-desinged, more 'elegent' than many other solutions. You do lose much nuts-and-bolts functionality, but 99/100 times that dosen't matter. But what do I know. MacOSX has introduced me to many new ways of doing things. But I'll shut up now, I'm stoned and my instant noodles are congealing rapidly. Sionara,
Thomas Hobbes, Philosophe Extraordinaire
Advertising is, in and of itself, deteremental to the freedom of thought, whereever it exitsts. The sole purpose of advertising is to change the opinion of those advertised to towards the desired opinion of the advertiser. Pepsi wants you to think two things: that consumerism is the path to happiness, and that consumption of Pepsi is the ideal path to consumer bliss. The first of their tenants is the most significant; the consumer culture is the dominant culture in the Wester world, making institutions of higher learning very significant places vis-a-vis societal decisions regarding said culture. If the consumer culture is ever to be altered or removed, it is the institutions of higher learning which will be instrumental in effecting that change. Thus, to have private interests on _either_ side of the consumerism debate press their views within the school environment, and press those views through the medium of advertising, is detremental to society's future direction vis-a-vis consumerism, if only because it limits the ability of important members of society to choose freely where they stand on the issue.
On the issue of funding; while schools may be short of money for chalk, blackboards, or CRTs, this is no excuse for the erroding of the very purpose of the school. As I have outlied above, advertising is counter-productive the program of a school in general. Thus, if a school finds itself short of money, it should and must raise the funds it needs from legitimate sources; in the case of the United Kingdom, this is very clearly the state (if you do not know already, the state funds schools in Great Britian to a very large extent, nearly- or completely eliminating the need for student fees). If the stone of government has run dry, tell the student to wear sweters in winter; reduce expenses; be inventive. Do not, however, fundamentally comprimise the purpose of the institution on the alter of the e-classroom.
As Jesse James would say, check google before ye speak.
Homeland security? Why the hell not 'Interior' security? It dosen't seem patriotic enough? Maybe the Dept. of Defence should be renamed the Dept. of Crusades!
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That's just obtuse.
Here's another link to an apollo archive. Lost of stuff here; video, audio, stills, radio transcripts, technical stuff...
Bin Laden can't and shouldn't be automatically blamed for every terrorist act against the US. He may have been involved - but it's been three hours since the whole pile of shit began, and you can't know yet who or what organization did this. Jumping to conclusions is unproductive, unhelpful, prejudicial and leads to the sort of thing which happend today (not, let it be clear, that anything could ever justify these acts).
If it's terrorism, then you can't use conventional weapons/warfare against it. If you try to, you'll _inevitably_ end up killing more innocent people.
If you follow a couple of links at the bottom of the page, you'll find this, which is an archive of most of the files direrctly associated with the apollo program (and includes, as you would assume, lots of pretty pictures). I highly reccomend it, if only for the desktop images it provides.
From the BBC article:
The US Department of Justice has announced that it will no longer push to have software giant Microsoft broken up.
The decision by the Bush administration reverses the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft.
Bush is the head of the Bush administration, so one can presume that it was him that made the decision.
You'll see this: "The US Department of Justice has announced that it will no longer push to have software giant Microsoft broken up.
The decision by the Bush administration reverses the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft. " Since Bush is (nominally) the head of the Bush administration, it's proper to presume that Bush gave the order. Whether someone advised him on it is another matter, but Bush is the president.
Isn't the matter of punishment before the courts right now? I can see how a president can tell his lieutenents who to prosecute at some level, but this degree of interference? Yech.
They have a piece tonight about 'CEOs on the edge', where they profile HP, saying how it's not as nimble as Dell, and dosen't have the the patents of IBM. No mention whatsoever of this buyout.
Th drug companies only produced the drug because there are people in the first world who can afford their $1k a month or whatever it costs. If AIDS was limited to the third world, it woudn't have been produced in the first place, irregradless of incidents like this. You're point is moot.
The future of IBM may look like the present of the Amiga. There's a hard core of fanatical users. Machines are still manufactured and sold, although in very small volume by PC standards. New models come out occasionally. New releases of software appear now and then. And nobody outside the fan club notices.
"Firewire was developed by Apple, but has been adopted as an industry standard, IEEE 1394
As for your other points, forward thinking is much more laudable, relevent and necessary than hindsight. Without entities which are forward thinking, things don't go forward. Due to lack of thinking. Like when it's 5 am... and you start to trail off..
This 'joke' was lost on you :(
8. Enflame readers overtly (JonKatz) or subtly (Articles: Mac Rants) , thus eliciting a torrant of world-weary posts about slashdot itself.
The laptop itself has turned out really well - it's fast enough and has a good enough screen (14.1") to be a desktop replacement, and the battery life is acceptable (it's gone from 3.5 hours when new to ~2 hours today). In fact, outside of the screen width and the g4-g3 difference, it's the same computer as the powerbook g4 (same top mhz rating today). Most 3rd party modules you'd want are still being sold, and it runs osx, 9.1, virtual pc and linux, so there's no lack of os choice. Oh, and there's a cool upside-down glowing apple on the back of the screen.
You can add yourself as your friend.. Oh, and as someone pointed out in a journal, the fact that there's a list of top posters re number of journal enteries will probably lead to a fp-ish contest among the very bored..