TALK about diaper rash and how to wipe you child's but after defecation or urination.
This will result in a rise of infections as e-coli get into urethrae (wipe front to back people, [but the average IQ is only 100 and the whole concept of cleanliness has to be taught with pictures and circles and arrows on the back of each one explaining the lot.]) and that is a form of state enforced child abuse.
Censoring pictures of exploitation leads to its "unthinking innocent" repetition.
Going back to school has done my wife a world of good (she's getting a degree in childhood education) so much so that I have gone back myself (I'm getting a degree in communications.)
Its keeping both of us young, agile, nimble, and makes for far more interesting conversation around the dinner table.
The worst thing is to sit there and ossify in front of the TV set. (I now use an old 20" G5 iMac with an Elgato EyeTV 500 as a digital signal receiver, but I don't get a chance to watch it much.:-)
80% of the features are useless (crap to anybody who doesn't need 'em) while 20% are marginally useful and will be used as long as they don't get COMPLICATED by features from the 80%.
The prime purpose of a phone is to CALL people. That's enough for a lot of people.
I'm not saying that its not handy to have a hundred bladed "Swiss Army Knife(TM)", but if all you want is to cut something, that's 99 blades too many, and it makes the knife into a "brick with a cutting edge".
Sometimes you need configurability in your configurability.
Bill Gates screamed to his minions: "Make it more like a Mac!"
Windows 1.0 2.0 and 3.0 were absolute failures and they didn't come up with anything usable 'till 3.11.
All the while Bill G. screamed:"Make it more like the Mac!"
But they never got what made the software actually work.
Bill G. should have been screaming to his minions: "Make it work right"
But they never did and Linux came along...
Apple makes the Mac but they're not a computer company, and now they don't even pretend to be.
Linux is Microsoft's real competition but they're focused on the Zune and on the XBox and they're treating themselves like they treated everybody else for years...
Go Tux.:-)
My wife uses the phrase "Google knows all!"
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and that scamming the Feds should be an offense punishable with LONG prison terms.
The opportunity-cost benefit analysis (C-B A) has to changed from the current
"low cost, low risk but profitable" C-B A into a
"low-cost but high risk, profitable" C-B A.
That will immediately provide jobs for people in the civil service who will have nothing better to do than to seek out and destroy spammers.
That should in turn shake out anybody who isn't a real criminal while making sure that any scam/spam you do get is punishable. (Spam is a lot less attractive is its going to net the spammer 15 to 20 years in some hell-hole prison, say Guantanamo?)
who are "threatened" (because they're so fuckin' important that they must be responding to threats,) while the Democrats are "ne'er do wells" who must be in cohoots with these slimy creatures who would threaten "Truth, Justice and The American Way(TM)®"
I'd laugh if they weren't deadly serious (and quite paranoid.)
It would come as such a blow to their egos to know that nobody gives a shit.
to meet somebody called "Guido 'No Neck' Fangioni" I'd be inclined to disbelieve it (as I disbelieve ALL unsolicited email.)
Its not that some people don't hate me, (I'm sure I've pissed old ex-bosses off, and the like,) but I seriously doubt it'd be worth the risk of looking for a hit-person (they're NOT all male,) or the expense.
Basically, I'd say: "Well, you gotta do what you gotta do... But I AM armed, dangerous, a fuckin' lunatic, rich enough to devote some time to it, and if I decide to hunt your down, you'll never know about it, because..." (And then I'd [trade secret] to convince him that he CAN be found.)
And its amazing that the descriptive language to denote one also defines the other...
I use a limited number of random alphanumeric strings that I forced myself to memorize (it was a time consuming "pain-in-the-butt"(TM)® to set up but its pretty secure. The characters are meaningless and they are unguessable and there is an algorithm for the number-letter pairing.)
I don't want to thing of the error rate when you will attempt to read the thing.
Not to mention storage technology will have changed, fundamentally changed, twice or three times over the next 25 years just like it has changed over the past 25 years.
Density has gone up enormously as the physical dimensions reduced but the bigger changes were to the actual recording methodology.
Burying it for 25 years means just wasting money.
All of the data may fit onto a portion of a hologram on a single translucent chip read by multicolor lasers.
And won't you feel like a chump sitting at a desk trying to spin some degraded magnetic medium on a spindle after hunting on the equivalent of Antiques.com for some working read-write heads.
Tell them to buy some bigger media every few years.
I still have some articles and data that I wrote/generated in the '70 and '80s but I have moved the information every few years from punch cards, to 5"1/4 diskettes, to 3"1/2 diskettes, to my 5MB HD (enormous at the time,) and so on, and so on, to my USB 1TB back up drive. (Its not the only TB drive I have on my desktop either. [Next drives will be 10+TB drives. [Hopefully we'll have holographic storage in a few years and I can finally get rid of the damn whirring noise.}])
which would let light bounce to the bottom of the light pipe.
In addition, there would definitely be 'solstice celebrations' which would be great Bacchanals. ("Tout l'monde tout nu!":-)
Also the "objections" that everybody seem to be raising are all design points, not objections.
And to anybody who strenuously objects, they don't HAVE to live 'in town.'
Buckminster Fuller had a tetrahedral pyramid which could be built 'one slice at a time', with each expansion giving greater and greater living area and which could FLOAT, anchored on New York's East River. We wouldn't even need to chew up valuable real-estate.
There's nothing stopping Dubai except the fact that the surrounding countryside couldn't possibly support that many people and the peak oil scenario would make transportation impractical (not impossible but impractical.)
That being said, it could be done elsewhere (Like population rich and land resources poor Bangladesh [where it would represent a tremendous rise in living standards {and they literally won't have any choice.}])
1) Never do anything you don't need to.
Applied properly, this gets into all kinds of code assessment that is trivial to do but needs tracking.
Think of it as filling a sparse matrix of unknown dimensions when doing step 2. 2) Never do anything twice, (right down to the iron.)
Applied properly, this gets into all kinds of execution assessment that is trivial to do but needs tracking. 3) Repeat 1 and 2 until you run out of RAM.
Then you need to get judicious on its ass.(By pruning the sparse matrix [when the only penalty is refilling the matrix.])
JIT compilation gets things out of the way by not 'going there' (the 80/20 rule applies nicely to code execution/optimization,) or gets things over with 'once and for all, (the 99/1 rule applies when you've got the right kinds of memory structures [handles as opposed to references,]) and can result in stuff you wouldn't want to decipher since the optimization depends on the actual order of execution.
But it can run almost as fast as the iron can handle.
A company can spend $0.00 on R&D and still exist (look at chewing gum manufacturers.)
R&D is a discretionary expense. It just happens to be a wise move for anybody (unless you're Microsoft who does what Apple does like a trained monkey, [just like Ford and Ferrari are two car makers, {they both make cars that's about as much as they have in common...}])
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And the police will want to talk to you about those jaybirds too.
TALK about diaper rash and how to wipe you child's but after defecation or urination.
This will result in a rise of infections as e-coli get into urethrae (wipe front to back people, [but the average IQ is only 100 and the whole concept of cleanliness has to be taught with pictures and circles and arrows on the back of each one explaining the lot.]) and that is a form of state enforced child abuse.
Censoring pictures of exploitation leads to its "unthinking innocent" repetition.
You're using Windows 64 ultimate and it seems slow on 4GB?
Well of course. Its Microsoft.
They had enough nuclear weapons to kill everybody on earth several times over.
How many would be left?
None.
Going back to school has done my wife a world of good (she's getting a degree in childhood education) so much so that I have gone back myself (I'm getting a degree in communications.)
Its keeping both of us young, agile, nimble, and makes for far more interesting conversation around the dinner table.
The worst thing is to sit there and ossify in front of the TV set. (I now use an old 20" G5 iMac with an Elgato EyeTV 500 as a digital signal receiver, but I don't get a chance to watch it much. :-)
assuming the aerodynamics of a brick.
In any case, you're lucky if its a landing you can walk away from.
80% of the features are useless (crap to anybody who doesn't need 'em) while 20% are marginally useful and will be used as long as they don't get COMPLICATED by features from the 80%.
The prime purpose of a phone is to CALL people. That's enough for a lot of people.
I'm not saying that its not handy to have a hundred bladed "Swiss Army Knife(TM)", but if all you want is to cut something, that's 99 blades too many, and it makes the knife into a "brick with a cutting edge".
Sometimes you need configurability in your configurability.
Boot time, as fast as I can grab 'em.
Power requirement, none except some not too dim external light.
On Phobos.
Trust me, you don't want to meet Brin's descendants.
Big, mean and UGLY.
Bill Gates screamed to his minions: "Make it more like a Mac!"
Windows 1.0 2.0 and 3.0 were absolute failures and they didn't come up with anything usable 'till 3.11.
All the while Bill G. screamed:"Make it more like the Mac!"
But they never got what made the software actually work.
Bill G. should have been screaming to his minions: "Make it work right"
But they never did and Linux came along...
Apple makes the Mac but they're not a computer company, and now they don't even pretend to be.
Linux is Microsoft's real competition but they're focused on the Zune and on the XBox and they're treating themselves like they treated everybody else for years...
Go Tux. :-)
And I must admit its caught on...
You know I don't believe the supposed billions of file transfers of illegal music.
The numbers are now so huge that everybody in the world is in on it or they're just trying to blow smoke up our asses.
Since I doubt that Conway Twitty's albums are getting that much action ANYWHERE, I think I want to see some audited numbers, Okay?
Fuck the **AAs.
and that scamming the Feds should be an offense punishable with LONG prison terms.
The opportunity-cost benefit analysis (C-B A) has to changed from the current
"low cost, low risk but profitable" C-B A into a
"low-cost but high risk, profitable" C-B A.
That will immediately provide jobs for people in the civil service who will have nothing better to do than to seek out and destroy spammers.
That should in turn shake out anybody who isn't a real criminal while making sure that any scam/spam you do get is punishable. (Spam is a lot less attractive is its going to net the spammer 15 to 20 years in some hell-hole prison, say Guantanamo?)
who are "threatened" (because they're so fuckin' important that they must be responding to threats,) while the Democrats are "ne'er do wells" who must be in cohoots with these slimy creatures who would threaten "Truth, Justice and The American Way(TM)®"
I'd laugh if they weren't deadly serious (and quite paranoid.)
It would come as such a blow to their egos to know that nobody gives a shit.
and see nothing wrong with raping you up the ass for their own petty ends.
Because while they're watching you, nobody's watching THEM.
"Quis custodes ipso custodes"
to meet somebody called "Guido 'No Neck' Fangioni" I'd be inclined to disbelieve it (as I disbelieve ALL unsolicited email.)
Its not that some people don't hate me, (I'm sure I've pissed old ex-bosses off, and the like,) but I seriously doubt it'd be worth the risk of looking for a hit-person (they're NOT all male,) or the expense.
Basically, I'd say: "Well, you gotta do what you gotta do... But I AM armed, dangerous, a fuckin' lunatic, rich enough to devote some time to it, and if I decide to hunt your down, you'll never know about it, because ..." (And then I'd [trade secret] to convince him that he CAN be found.)
It makes me ill (like ballistic barfing ill ;-p) after a couple of hours and I have to go and take a lie down. :-)
Maxwells' Demon.
When that fails, call your friendly neighborhood AC salesman and tell him the data center has some problems.
You can spend money now or spend money right now.
There is NO solution to make up for unplanned growth (except to end it.)
And its amazing that the descriptive language to denote one also defines the other...
I use a limited number of random alphanumeric strings that I forced myself to memorize (it was a time consuming "pain-in-the-butt"(TM)® to set up but its pretty secure. The characters are meaningless and they are unguessable and there is an algorithm for the number-letter pairing.)
I don't want to thing of the error rate when you will attempt to read the thing.
Not to mention storage technology will have changed, fundamentally changed, twice or three times over the next 25 years just like it has changed over the past 25 years.
Density has gone up enormously as the physical dimensions reduced but the bigger changes were to the actual recording methodology.
Burying it for 25 years means just wasting money.
All of the data may fit onto a portion of a hologram on a single translucent chip read by multicolor lasers.
And won't you feel like a chump sitting at a desk trying to spin some degraded magnetic medium on a spindle after hunting on the equivalent of Antiques.com for some working read-write heads.
Tell them to buy some bigger media every few years.
I still have some articles and data that I wrote/generated in the '70 and '80s but I have moved the information every few years from punch cards, to 5"1/4 diskettes, to 3"1/2 diskettes, to my 5MB HD (enormous at the time,) and so on, and so on, to my USB 1TB back up drive. (Its not the only TB drive I have on my desktop either. [Next drives will be 10+TB drives. [Hopefully we'll have holographic storage in a few years and I can finally get rid of the damn whirring noise.}])
which would let light bounce to the bottom of the light pipe.
In addition, there would definitely be 'solstice celebrations' which would be great Bacchanals. ("Tout l'monde tout nu!" :-)
Also the "objections" that everybody seem to be raising are all design points, not objections.
And to anybody who strenuously objects, they don't HAVE to live 'in town.'
Buckminster Fuller had a tetrahedral pyramid which could be built 'one slice at a time', with each expansion giving greater and greater living area and which could FLOAT, anchored on New York's East River. We wouldn't even need to chew up valuable real-estate.
Of course, that applies to distopias too.
(Logan's Run, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/ ,
THX 1138 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/ ,
Fahrenheit 451 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/ and even
Metropolis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ )
There's nothing stopping Dubai except the fact that the surrounding countryside couldn't possibly support that many people and the peak oil scenario would make transportation impractical (not impossible but impractical.)
That being said, it could be done elsewhere (Like population rich and land resources poor Bangladesh [where it would represent a tremendous rise in living standards {and they literally won't have any choice.}])
1) Never do anything you don't need to.
Applied properly, this gets into all kinds of code assessment that is trivial to do but needs tracking.
Think of it as filling a sparse matrix of unknown dimensions when doing step 2.
2) Never do anything twice, (right down to the iron.)
Applied properly, this gets into all kinds of execution assessment that is trivial to do but needs tracking.
3) Repeat 1 and 2 until you run out of RAM.
Then you need to get judicious on its ass.(By pruning the sparse matrix [when the only penalty is refilling the matrix.])
JIT compilation gets things out of the way by not 'going there' (the 80/20 rule applies nicely to code execution/optimization,) or gets things over with 'once and for all, (the 99/1 rule applies when you've got the right kinds of memory structures [handles as opposed to references,]) and can result in stuff you wouldn't want to decipher since the optimization depends on the actual order of execution.
But it can run almost as fast as the iron can handle.
Its called a podcast and I've been doing it for years.
Live is definitely not necessary. In fact "live" is a drawback.
I have hundreds of hours of episodes of my show available on a server.
The protocols are MP3 and m4a. (and if you want to do video, you can do that too.)
Since when is R&D a fixed cost?
A company can spend $0.00 on R&D and still exist (look at chewing gum manufacturers.)
R&D is a discretionary expense. It just happens to be a wise move for anybody (unless you're Microsoft who does what Apple does like a trained monkey, [just like Ford and Ferrari are two car makers, {they both make cars that's about as much as they have in common...}])