A very warped perspective holds that life is sacred and should be preserved at all costs. These people would build some device to escape until after the last star has winked out of the universe.
Another perspective holds that life is nasty, brutish, short and essentialy worthless, which explains people blowing themselves (and usually others) up in modes of public transportation; usually for the greater glory of something promising "eternal life amid fields of ripe virgins."
The problem is that we as a society don't, for the most part, deal well with death. We don't accept it as inevitable. And we don't grant any right to a dignified, quiet, proper exit.
While I don't see that as an option for now, I had a friend who opted NOT to continue treatment for his cancer.
He went out quietly and with dignity. Yes it hurt. But its an existential hurt. It would have happened sooner or later and my hurt is not as bad as his own was.
In the end we all have to go.
I hoist a glass to his memory every once in a while. That's the best any of us can hope for. He lived, loved, was loved and then... he died.
I'd prefer that Linus use OS X occasionally so he could see what's going on in the OS X world and decide if it might be a good to incorp/cooperate into/with Linux.
I'd love to see a RendezVous like technology of auto configuring hot pluggable devices that can be discovered on a LAN.
It makes printing and sharing hardware and software a whole lot easier on the Mac side of the wall.
The problem with Word's file format is that it's not a file format. Its a memory snapshot and includes whatever cruff was in RAM at the time.
Word doesn't clean the space so you get all kinds of things in there. Like old documents. Other people's documents. Stuff that constitutes serious breach of client confidentiality.
Lawyers use WordPerfect because they HAVE to.
Don't you remember the postings here about SCO's documents being full of versions of their printed texts?
Imagine, instead of storing data on concentric spirals that can be accessed at a pretty fast rate, we'll be able to have these drives of candy-floss like glassine material whipping around and drawing blood every time a volume needs to be numounted and changed.
Yeah. That clear forward thinking.
I can just imagine their using write-only RAM with black hole diodes for the controller.
Given that airlines are too cash strapped to put in RFID equipnent to track lost luggage, how many of them are going to pony up the cash to head off into space?
I was a victin of the following economic crash but not of the airframes that would have slammed into my floor (the 83rd) just about where my cubicle was.
Was I foolish to quit? You tell me.
I left because they didn't know what a state machine was (which had a SEVERE impact on the system's design,) my immediate boss expected to follow her around and commit everything to memory because she never wrote anything down, and I was expected to do miracles, like being prescient.
Was I foolish to quit? No way. I couldn't take working there one more day.
It may have cost me (I've recouped it all since,) but it was worth it.
I'm still here. 2 of my co-workers weren't so lucky.
The thing is that the content of the text is ignored partly because people are looking at what buttons to push to get past it to get the software they wanted at the pace that the expect computers to deliver it...
A computer screen a work or the home is exactly the WRONG place to ask if you've developped sober second thoughts about having shelled out money already.
You could write in there that they agree so sell their souls into perdition and nobody would notice.
Its not a question of valuing clean air. Everybody needs air but you don't know who to ask to buy any. That's how and why it got so crapped up in the seventies.
Likewise, we all want our chests to remain unskewered but the carnage would have continued unabated if the gummint hadn't stepped in because the people most affected weren't buying cars. They were buying coffins.
There is nothing as stupid as a businessman who sees a possible threat to his bottom line.
Like people stopped buying cars because they'd have to pay. No they stopped buying cars that were unsafe at any speed. They bought the other kind.
Business sell cigarettes and guns, neither of which have any redeeming social value.
If there's any way to get more information out of you they will; even at the cost of delaying you or even losing you as a customer forever.
You're buying worthless stuff annyway. Why should they care about you?
They never believe that you could go anywhere else anyway. They never believe in giving you any choice (not about product but about their own processes.)
CRM is less about the customer or the relationship than it is about the management. And if that takes too long, too friggin' bad.
But its how terrorists would look at it. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The entire theme fo a vengeful deity is THEIRS (not mine.) They're the ones who came up with the terms Fatwah and Jihad.
I would hope like hell it never happens.
But if they had something to lose, they'd apply the brakes.
If it would stop Osama dead in HIS track, its a lie I wouldn't mind having spread about me.
Out bullying the bullies.
Yes the logic is insame but its a rational response, if you happen to have the rationale of a religious zealot.
If the media would agree to only write long, well researched pieces about terrorist activities, instead of shooting footage of the body parts on video as they fall back to earth.
If they did that there would be NO TERRORISTS.
Terrorist events are a side-effect of having an irresponsible media. (Actually, they started with some executive at Boeing being too cheap to provide pilots with their own door into a plane back in the fifties, cutting off the possibility of cbin take-overs by not having a fucking door there in the first place.)
With responsible journalism, we don't stop the news, but we stop the immediacy of the "Fox5" mentality of "We report.You decide" clap-trap, sensationalist attitude that would show you anything and everything to make buck.
These people are not a country. They claim to represent an ideology.
It does no good to merely threaten them with bombing them back into the stone age. Look at the Afghan war. Western technology was merely shifting rubble around.
Looks great on TV but doesn't accomplish much. Where's Osama? Right?
The Taliban were defeated suicidal buggers before we ever set foot in there. (They were DEMANDING food as if we owed it to them! The Arab states we responding to that with bushels of air.) We MADE them, Omar and Osama, made them into folk heroes.
The ONLY way to threaten them is to threaten what they hold holy. Butv its not theirs. It belongs to the House of Saud.
How could we, the western world, make that the citizens of the western world, not some government, destroy everything from Mecca to Medina? Just leave a trail of Glowing Glass?
In response to an attack, that's how, and why. Let the mullahs stick that in their pipe and smoke it.
Leave us alome or lose two pillars of Islam, for at least longer than you've had Islam.
"Go where you wanna go" and they send you home in a doggie bag.
But GPS is only a location system, not a monitoring system. They would have to make it so that it can "uplink" if you "step out of line."
Which means of course that the signal could be interrupted or the XYZ coordinates of your position could be spoofed.
Unless its surgically implanted in a space that would render its removal akward (read lethal) while actively and continously transmitting your locvation to a monitoring station, I can't see this for anything more than some mildly entertaining Saturday night "murder mstery" reading.
Unless it was "idiot proof" (surgically implanted) and un-removable (implanted really deep in the brain) this is going to be a sop.
or listen to their crap. Fair use is immaterial. If they could they'd wire your ears and eyes up directly to a meter and change you for every second of your life.
As it is, its hard enough to get away from the ads, promos and all the other schlock.
I'd rather think than be considered as a money pump. Hence, I don't listen, I don't watch... At least not what they'd want me to. I'm ann unplugged-in subversive.
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And some bastard gets to go to lunch while you go in a "fausse comune".
You can win, you can't break even and you can't even quit the game.
A very warped perspective holds that life is sacred and should be preserved at all costs. These people would build some device to escape until after the last star has winked out of the universe.
... he died.
Another perspective holds that life is nasty, brutish, short and essentialy worthless, which explains people blowing themselves (and usually others) up in modes of public transportation; usually for the greater glory of something promising "eternal life amid fields of ripe virgins."
The problem is that we as a society don't, for the most part, deal well with death. We don't accept it as inevitable. And we don't grant any right to a dignified, quiet, proper exit.
While I don't see that as an option for now, I had a friend who opted NOT to continue treatment for his cancer.
He went out quietly and with dignity. Yes it hurt. But its an existential hurt. It would have happened sooner or later and my hurt is not as bad as his own was.
In the end we all have to go.
I hoist a glass to his memory every once in a while. That's the best any of us can hope for. He lived, loved, was loved and then
a lousy meal.
I'd prefer that Linus use OS X occasionally so he could see what's going on in the OS X world and decide if it might be a good to incorp/cooperate into/with Linux.
I'd love to see a RendezVous like technology of auto configuring hot pluggable devices that can be discovered on a LAN.
It makes printing and sharing hardware and software a whole lot easier on the Mac side of the wall.
The problem with Word's file format is that it's not a file format. Its a memory snapshot and includes whatever cruff was in RAM at the time.
Word doesn't clean the space so you get all kinds of things in there. Like old documents. Other people's documents. Stuff that constitutes serious breach of client confidentiality.
Lawyers use WordPerfect because they HAVE to.
Don't you remember the postings here about SCO's documents being full of versions of their printed texts?
Imagine, instead of storing data on concentric spirals that can be accessed at a pretty fast rate, we'll be able to have these drives of candy-floss like glassine material whipping around and drawing blood every time a volume needs to be numounted and changed.
Yeah. That clear forward thinking.
I can just imagine their using write-only RAM with black hole diodes for the controller.
I'd tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya.
Given that airlines are too cash strapped to put in RFID equipnent to track lost luggage, how many of them are going to pony up the cash to head off into space?
Then insurance costs alone will bust 'em.
you don't need the human touch.
It helps if the humans are already desensitized (see media) abused (see politics) and have no imagination (see education.)
Then the humans will be ready for integration into the collective. They will be ready to consume unthinkingly.
I was a victin of the following economic crash but not of the airframes that would have slammed into my floor (the 83rd) just about where my cubicle was.
Was I foolish to quit? You tell me.
I left because they didn't know what a state machine was (which had a SEVERE impact on the system's design,) my immediate boss expected to follow her around and commit everything to memory because she never wrote anything down, and I was expected to do miracles, like being prescient.
Was I foolish to quit? No way. I couldn't take working there one more day.
It may have cost me (I've recouped it all since,) but it was worth it.
I'm still here. 2 of my co-workers weren't so lucky.
Dvorak has been consistently wrong about most things.
He's have us using card punches.
There IS an alternative to Windows.
The thing is that the content of the text is ignored partly because people are looking at what buttons to push to get past it to get the software they wanted at the pace that the expect computers to deliver it...
A computer screen a work or the home is exactly the WRONG place to ask if you've developped sober second thoughts about having shelled out money already.
You could write in there that they agree so sell their souls into perdition and nobody would notice.
Its not a question of valuing clean air. Everybody needs air but you don't know who to ask to buy any. That's how and why it got so crapped up in the seventies.
Likewise, we all want our chests to remain unskewered but the carnage would have continued unabated if the gummint hadn't stepped in because the people most affected weren't buying cars. They were buying coffins.
There is nothing as stupid as a businessman who sees a possible threat to his bottom line.
Like people stopped buying cars because they'd have to pay. No they stopped buying cars that were unsafe at any speed. They bought the other kind.
Business sell cigarettes and guns, neither of which have any redeeming social value.
I'm an old WordPerfect hound from way back.
been patented. Software is merely the calling up of functionality provided by the hardware.
There should be NO software patents.
tell 'em that they have to bid for a contract administering it.
They you'll see all these bills go away.
If there's any way to get more information out of you they will; even at the cost of delaying you or even losing you as a customer forever.
You're buying worthless stuff annyway. Why should they care about you?
They never believe that you could go anywhere else anyway. They never believe in giving you any choice (not about product but about their own processes.)
CRM is less about the customer or the relationship than it is about the management. And if that takes too long, too friggin' bad.
"And have a nice day."
But its how terrorists would look at it. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The entire theme fo a vengeful deity is THEIRS (not mine.) They're the ones who came up with the terms Fatwah and Jihad.
I would hope like hell it never happens.
But if they had something to lose, they'd apply the brakes.
If it would stop Osama dead in HIS track, its a lie I wouldn't mind having spread about me.
Out bullying the bullies.
Yes the logic is insame but its a rational response, if you happen to have the rationale of a religious zealot.
If the media would agree to only write long, well researched pieces about terrorist activities, instead of shooting footage of the body parts on video as they fall back to earth.
If they did that there would be NO TERRORISTS.
Terrorist events are a side-effect of having an irresponsible media. (Actually, they started with some executive at Boeing being too cheap to provide pilots with their own door into a plane back in the fifties, cutting off the possibility of cbin take-overs by not having a fucking door there in the first place.)
With responsible journalism, we don't stop the news, but we stop the immediacy of the "Fox5" mentality of "We report.You decide" clap-trap, sensationalist attitude that would show you anything and everything to make buck.
Imagine that...
threaten back.
These people are not a country. They claim to represent an ideology.
It does no good to merely threaten them with bombing them back into the stone age. Look at the Afghan war. Western technology was merely shifting rubble around.
Looks great on TV but doesn't accomplish much. Where's Osama? Right?
The Taliban were defeated suicidal buggers before we ever set foot in there. (They were DEMANDING food as if we owed it to them! The Arab states we responding to that with bushels of air.) We MADE them, Omar and Osama, made them into folk heroes.
The ONLY way to threaten them is to threaten what they hold holy. Butv its not theirs. It belongs to the House of Saud.
How could we, the western world, make that the citizens of the western world, not some government, destroy everything from Mecca to Medina? Just leave a trail of Glowing Glass?
In response to an attack, that's how, and why. Let the mullahs stick that in their pipe and smoke it.
Leave us alome or lose two pillars of Islam, for at least longer than you've had Islam.
Osama can blow things up? Well so can we.
The tax situation is a mess and now states are going to impose tarrifs on each other.
What's next? State currency to ensure that the money stays in the state?
Who will play at currency trading then? Will it be fixed or floating exchange rate? (What would a Montana 'Buck' be worth?)
"Go where you wanna go" and they send you home in a doggie bag.
But GPS is only a location system, not a monitoring system. They would have to make it so that it can "uplink" if you "step out of line."
Which means of course that the signal could be interrupted or the XYZ coordinates of your position could be spoofed.
Unless its surgically implanted in a space that would render its removal akward (read lethal) while actively and continously transmitting your locvation to a monitoring station, I can't see this for anything more than some mildly entertaining Saturday night "murder mstery" reading.
Unless it was "idiot proof" (surgically implanted) and un-removable (implanted really deep in the brain) this is going to be a sop.
Come out of the basement. That big yellow ball overhead is the sun.
Really.
Real life is less interesting than the crime lab in Miami but its real. The crime lab in Miami is fictional.
or listen to their crap. Fair use is immaterial. If they could they'd wire your ears and eyes up directly to a meter and change you for every second of your life.
As it is, its hard enough to get away from the ads, promos and all the other schlock.
I'd rather think than be considered as a money pump. Hence, I don't listen, I don't watch... At least not what they'd want me to. I'm ann unplugged-in subversive.
turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
Darn. And I've got friends coming over this week-end. Oh well...