When he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" people were still getting impaled by their steering wheels which didn't collapse and crumple out of the drivers way.
I remember as a kid driving by an accident where most of the car was torn away except for the engine and the steering column which we sticking up and through the young woman who'd been driving the car.
The other car that had slammed into her from the back and propelled her into traffic in the intersection was also dead from the impact with his steering column.
I'll never be able to wipe that image from my mind so... joke away but realize that the idiots behind the wheels were sometimes innocent victims.
These troglodytes, sorry, wrestling fans, can barely stop dragging their knuckles through the dust.
They ain't exactly a wealthy and learned examples of the social upper crust.
They're poor but simple folks who, dull and slow, yet sullen, manage to handle a pistol with alacrity, just don't ask them to aim it too well (they think its loaded with bird shot.)
Linux will become more widely adopted during the coming year than in all of the years it has existed because of two things: 1) Its FREE. (big weight factor, like 70%.) 2) Its now "good enough on the desktop".(smaller weight factor, like 30%. [Managers have NEVER cared what hoops their underlings had to jump through.])
As for any M$ sponsored media campaign, its doomed to fail UNLESS M$ can get FOSS software declared illegal. (And don't think M$ isn't trying.)
I used to comment my code's 'intent' and document what I was trying to make it accomplish. (Instead of, and I kid you not, writing shit like "C = C + 1;/* add one to C */" [What was C counting, you fucking butt munch? There's terse and then there's stupid.] )
Then and only then, after documenting the intent, would I feel free to write the code.
I ended up giving courses to the other programmers because I was doing things in CICS Command Level COBOL that they had never heard of (like dynamic memory allocation to take a data structure and stand it on its ear.)
There were two ways to approach the problem.
I choose NOT to be a cock-biting ass-hole about it.
M$ sells software, (there is no branded computer called Microsoft, is there?,) and as such Linux is IN DIRECT COMPETITION, (there is no branded computer called Linux, is there?)
Because Linux is FREE and M$ costs, look for the same idiot managers to jettison M$ for the same reason they jettisoned IBM in the '80s and for the same reason: because Linux is FREE and M$ costs.
sadly, the "man in the street" may only be able to tell us that "Somebody just shot somebody else while I ducked! You want me to stick my head up? Screw you. I got a spouse and kids to support."
It takes some training (and journalism school provides only some of that training,) to dig around doing research, interviewing relevant people, doing some things of dubious morals and ethics in the pursuit of a story, writing and editing the story until its clear, concise, unbiased and relevant.
We'd better up the quality of the bloggers because they're going to be the citizen journalists and sorry but the average blogger, myself included, is not up to the task.
We all have opinions AFTER the fact.
The journalist is the rat terrier who digs up the facts.
If he cant make a living doing what he is the most qualified at doing, you can dig up your own facts.
If you're a mass circulation paper, your number's up.
Your demographic base may be too broad, so an ads' ROI may be only a fraction of what it is on the web.
If you're a niche advertiser you ship may have just come in.
You'll never see mass media and mass media advertising work for stuff that only interests less than 25% of the general populace. (Everybody gets colds, everybody gets thirsty, everybody gets sore [only 50% of the population gets PMS while the other 50% gets prostate problems.])
But if your product doesn't have that kind of broad demographic appeal, you ad ROI falls off like a stock broker on a windy ledge.
If you're a small circulation paper, you costs are going through the roof while your revenues are deflating like a tire that just driven over a bunch of nails.
But if you run a web site for a niche readership/audience and you're promoting niche products, you're golden.
Then Google is your ONLY competition for advertising. (And there's ways to cooperate, rather than fight for the ad revenue.)
no more expense and excuses for crop failure,
no more crop dusting (hey, its indoors, we're not talking the great outdoors here.)
no more to much or too little water, sun, nutrients, (its indoors, we can control the environment,)
no more losing crops to rodents, insects and other pests, (its indoors, we can control the environment,)
no more burning fossil fuels planting, growing and harvesting, since the planting, growing and harvest can be done by electric overhead crane suspended from the ceiling,
the most transport the things get subjected to is an elevator ride (instead of ripening in a truck on the way from far, far away,)
soil rotation (or removal) can be done by literally moving the soil around...
If all the land in New York City was built with control and planning instead of the haphazard growth over the last century and a half, we wouldn't be wasting any fuel trucking the stuff in from anywhere NOT New York City.
It could be easily done on a few floors of the buildings we're going to have to build over the next century.
Wind farms on the upper floors, agricultural space for plants interspersed on the lower floors, we could make New York City totally self sufficient.
Just keep animals and animal products OUT and you also keep the smell out.
My CPUs, displays, hard drives and network keep getting faster, getter, faster, stronger, (no apologies to "Datf Punk",) but this is one hell of a jump in performance.
Damn.
At least I can't upgrade my eyes, brains (and right hand.:-)
Back when Amdhal and Hitachi were nipping at IBM heels, the antitrust lawyers were snapping at their faces and Selectrics were still being made and sold, IBM had the System 360 to fall back on.
They could use it as a springboard for their eventual come back after they had changed their business model. But the 360 architecture has been there throughout.
M$ has the X-Box. (Which, ironically, uses IBM's POWER architecture chips.)
nothing on promotion (that's what YouTube and blogs are for,)
nothing on distribution, (that's what iTunes and the internet are for,)
nothing on material reproduction, (everything is digital,)
nothing on theatrical release, (its coming to a computer near you, [you supply the popcorn,])
and the damn film still gets out there.
You charge for the download of the high quality download (credit card transaction one way and film delivery the other,) and you make you money back.
Since it costs nothing to try, why not download a copy and try opening several examples and try saving several examples (and testing if you can "round trip" the documents.)
There are some documents which used some features which wouldn't come across (specialized formatting stuff,) when it was tried at one of my employers/clients.
For most (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) it was okay.
The database is way too primitive (so is Microsoft's so no loss there) so we rolled our own and we used specialized drawing tools.
drastic, draconian, utterly out of anyone's control and result in making the products of any **AA's clients so utterly unpopular, unpalatable and unsafe that merely uttering one word about it would make a performer a pariah.
Then, when everybody sees what a Ponzi scheme the media business is, they'll stop being able to sign up anybody.
We don't need the labels anymore.
They'll stop suing anybody when nobody listens to them anymore because they'll have no more money coming in.
There is no conceivable reason for the **AAs to exist anymore in the age of the internet distribution of what they used to control.
We can now get around them from concept to ultimate delivery.
What gets to me and gives me a chuckle is that they are trying so hard to hang onto noise.
Do I really give a toss what Christina Aquilera recorded?
Am I willing to pay for it?
No, and they can't make me.
I, like a whole lot of people on this planet, don't have any money to waste on them.
I also have lots of other media to fill my life with.
Fuck the **AAs is not an argument of the rambunctious.
Its my cry to the police that these people are trying to rob me by forcing me to pay for something I never bought (and that is coercion and it is illegal.)
Man, he must be Hitler's reincarnation here for its punishment, 'cause his karma's got to be worth as much as a Zimbabwean dollar.
Can you imagine being so morally and fiscally bankrupt that all you have to hang on to is a law suit that you have about as much chance of winning as you do of walking on the moon, by walking TO the moon.
That must really suck.
In fact I'd pay him off in Zimbabwean dollars, the only currency not even backed by its country's leader's gold fillings.
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When he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" people were still getting impaled by their steering wheels which didn't collapse and crumple out of the drivers way.
I remember as a kid driving by an accident where most of the car was torn away except for the engine and the steering column which we sticking up and through the young woman who'd been driving the car.
The other car that had slammed into her from the back and propelled her into traffic in the intersection was also dead from the impact with his steering column.
I'll never be able to wipe that image from my mind so ... joke away but realize that the idiots behind the wheels were sometimes innocent victims.
we stop giving a fuck.
Its like sex.
In my teens I couldn't wait, It was all a mystery.
In my twenties, I was into "The Selfish Gene" and "Spreading my Seed" far and wide.
In my thirties and forties, I wanted a friend more than a fuck.
In the middle fifties, I am coming to the conclusion that I was a hormonal idiot.
It's taken years, decades, to come to the conclusion that I'd have been a more productive human being, though a worse coder/project lead/manager.
In the end, hopefully years from now, its as a human being that I'd really want to be remembered.
These troglodytes, sorry, wrestling fans, can barely stop dragging their knuckles through the dust.
They ain't exactly a wealthy and learned examples of the social upper crust.
They're poor but simple folks who, dull and slow, yet sullen, manage to handle a pistol with alacrity, just don't ask them to aim it too well (they think its loaded with bird shot.)
they had "Man vs. Machine" death-match combats with the victor tearing the loser apart, either rivet by rivet or gibbet by gibbet.
They screwed the pooch years ago.
goes in an outline around the cadaver.
Chalk mark: $1.00
Knowing where to put it: $49.00
Dealing with the dead body: Priceless
because "The Media" don't pay the bills.
Linux will become more widely adopted during the coming year than in all of the years it has existed because of two things:
1) Its FREE. (big weight factor, like 70%.)
2) Its now "good enough on the desktop".(smaller weight factor, like 30%. [Managers have NEVER cared what hoops their underlings had to jump through.])
As for any M$ sponsored media campaign, its doomed to fail UNLESS M$ can get FOSS software declared illegal. (And don't think M$ isn't trying.)
I used to comment my code's 'intent' and document what I was trying to make it accomplish. (Instead of, and I kid you not, writing shit like "C = C + 1; /* add one to C */" [What was C counting, you fucking butt munch? There's terse and then there's stupid.] )
Then and only then, after documenting the intent, would I feel free to write the code.
I ended up giving courses to the other programmers because I was doing things in CICS Command Level COBOL that they had never heard of (like dynamic memory allocation to take a data structure and stand it on its ear.)
There were two ways to approach the problem.
I choose NOT to be a cock-biting ass-hole about it.
Apple USES software to move their hardware.
You're comparing Apple to lemons.
M$ sells software, (there is no branded computer called Microsoft, is there?,) and as such Linux is IN DIRECT COMPETITION, (there is no branded computer called Linux, is there?)
Because Linux is FREE and M$ costs, look for the same idiot managers to jettison M$ for the same reason they jettisoned IBM in the '80s and for the same reason: because Linux is FREE and M$ costs.
sadly, the "man in the street" may only be able to tell us that "Somebody just shot somebody else while I ducked! You want me to stick my head up? Screw you. I got a spouse and kids to support."
It takes some training (and journalism school provides only some of that training,) to dig around doing research, interviewing relevant people, doing some things of dubious morals and ethics in the pursuit of a story, writing and editing the story until its clear, concise, unbiased and relevant.
We'd better up the quality of the bloggers because they're going to be the citizen journalists and sorry but the average blogger, myself included, is not up to the task.
We all have opinions AFTER the fact.
The journalist is the rat terrier who digs up the facts.
If he cant make a living doing what he is the most qualified at doing, you can dig up your own facts.
If you're a mass circulation paper, your number's up.
Your demographic base may be too broad, so an ads' ROI may be only a fraction of what it is on the web.
If you're a niche advertiser you ship may have just come in.
You'll never see mass media and mass media advertising work for stuff that only interests less than 25% of the general populace. (Everybody gets colds, everybody gets thirsty, everybody gets sore [only 50% of the population gets PMS while the other 50% gets prostate problems.])
But if your product doesn't have that kind of broad demographic appeal, you ad ROI falls off like a stock broker on a windy ledge.
If you're a small circulation paper, you costs are going through the roof while your revenues are deflating like a tire that just driven over a bunch of nails.
But if you run a web site for a niche readership/audience and you're promoting niche products, you're golden.
Then Google is your ONLY competition for advertising. (And there's ways to cooperate, rather than fight for the ad revenue.)
Which tastes like rattle snake, doan cha kno...
Raising food indoors, in town, means:
no more expense and excuses for crop failure, ...
no more crop dusting (hey, its indoors, we're not talking the great outdoors here.)
no more to much or too little water, sun, nutrients, (its indoors, we can control the environment,)
no more losing crops to rodents, insects and other pests, (its indoors, we can control the environment,)
no more burning fossil fuels planting, growing and harvesting, since the planting, growing and harvest can be done by electric overhead crane suspended from the ceiling,
the most transport the things get subjected to is an elevator ride (instead of ripening in a truck on the way from far, far away,)
soil rotation (or removal) can be done by literally moving the soil around
If all the land in New York City was built with control and planning instead of the haphazard growth over the last century and a half, we wouldn't be wasting any fuel trucking the stuff in from anywhere NOT New York City.
It could be easily done on a few floors of the buildings we're going to have to build over the next century.
Wind farms on the upper floors, agricultural space for plants interspersed on the lower floors, we could make New York City totally self sufficient.
Just keep animals and animal products OUT and you also keep the smell out.
My CPUs, displays, hard drives and network keep getting faster, getter, faster, stronger, (no apologies to "Datf Punk",) but this is one hell of a jump in performance.
Damn.
At least I can't upgrade my eyes, brains (and right hand. :-)
Back when Amdhal and Hitachi were nipping at IBM heels, the antitrust lawyers were snapping at their faces and Selectrics were still being made and sold, IBM had the System 360 to fall back on.
They could use it as a springboard for their eventual come back after they had changed their business model. But the 360 architecture has been there throughout.
M$ has the X-Box. (Which, ironically, uses IBM's POWER architecture chips.)
M$ has nowhere to go.
And M$ is sadly lacking in bringing these to market.
I can't imagine them doing a Twitter, can you?
M$ is simply too big and now they can't buy their competition without the anti-trust regulators getting on their ass.
M$'s now in the same position that IBM was in the 'sixties and early seventies.
IBM HAD to change when their stock tanked and their markets dried up.
M$ has got a real problem there in that they're up against open-source and/or free software and yiou can't get cheaper than $0.00
Glad I don't own their stock.
so this is a seventh sense, not SIXTH.
You spend:
nothing on promotion (that's what YouTube and blogs are for,)
nothing on distribution, (that's what iTunes and the internet are for,)
nothing on material reproduction, (everything is digital,)
nothing on theatrical release, (its coming to a computer near you, [you supply the popcorn,])
and the damn film still gets out there.
You charge for the download of the high quality download (credit card transaction one way and film delivery the other,) and you make you money back.
twenty years when I get old.
(Cue "This Old Man" by "MC Frontalot" :-)
I plan to give up the iPhone when they can wrest it from my cold dead hands.
I agree with everything but, if any of them are recent college grads, they probably have more sense that to utter stuff that clueless.
Since it costs nothing to try, why not download a copy and try opening several examples and try saving several examples (and testing if you can "round trip" the documents.)
There are some documents which used some features which wouldn't come across (specialized formatting stuff,) when it was tried at one of my employers/clients.
For most (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) it was okay.
The database is way too primitive (so is Microsoft's so no loss there) so we rolled our own and we used specialized drawing tools.
in such depravity, just like the Taliban pretend the Koran tells us to do.
We could line them up face down on the ground against a wall and put single bullet from a Kalashnikov through as many heads as it'll go through.
Well, all the girls anyway. Boys get their week-end pass privileges revoked.
That ought to please all the religious whack jobs who says that being naked is punishable by something...
drastic, draconian, utterly out of anyone's control and result in making the products of any **AA's clients so utterly unpopular, unpalatable and unsafe that merely uttering one word about it would make a performer a pariah.
Then, when everybody sees what a Ponzi scheme the media business is, they'll stop being able to sign up anybody.
We don't need the labels anymore.
They'll stop suing anybody when nobody listens to them anymore because they'll have no more money coming in.
End of **AAs when we get rid of their clients.
as a legitimate form of commerce.
And noise is all it is.
There is no conceivable reason for the **AAs to exist anymore in the age of the internet distribution of what they used to control.
We can now get around them from concept to ultimate delivery.
What gets to me and gives me a chuckle is that they are trying so hard to hang onto noise.
Do I really give a toss what Christina Aquilera recorded?
Am I willing to pay for it?
No, and they can't make me.
I, like a whole lot of people on this planet, don't have any money to waste on them.
I also have lots of other media to fill my life with.
Fuck the **AAs is not an argument of the rambunctious.
Its my cry to the police that these people are trying to rob me by forcing me to pay for something I never bought (and that is coercion and it is illegal.)
Man, he must be Hitler's reincarnation here for its punishment, 'cause his karma's got to be worth as much as a Zimbabwean dollar.
Can you imagine being so morally and fiscally bankrupt that all you have to hang on to is a law suit that you have about as much chance of winning as you do of walking on the moon, by walking TO the moon.
That must really suck.
In fact I'd pay him off in Zimbabwean dollars, the only currency not even backed by its country's leader's gold fillings.
universal health care, you wouldn't have had to sue anyone.
The only people who won in your case are the lawyers on both sides.
You got shuffled around while the insurance tried to outlast you.
You're still around so you won a little, the insurance company just ratcheted up everybody else's coverage costs so everybody else lost.
But you're the one who's stuck with the infirmity. You have my heart felt sympathy.