The entertainment sections of the media are just as much a part of the game as the subjects being covered. They don't like to bite the hand that feeds them.
I hope you're not saying that it's wrong to counter propaganda?
With more propaganda, from a company that more than almost any other is in a place to say "screw em" to both sides and provide actual facts with proper citation? And for a country which more and more is entering into a state where factual issues are up for opinion instead of proper analysis of the available data? Yes, I actually would call that evil.
A Google person is offering to help health care organizations tell their side of the story, and this is "evil"? If you think this is "evil" then I guess you think there is no room for debate here.
There is no room for debate. It's not an issue with opinions, any more than the results of an equation are up for discussion. The entire issue is numbers. Anything other than raw data, with no interpretation, from either side should be assumed as misleading.
God does not provide proof, because proof kills faith.
We talking the same guy that was constantly having conversations with people, to the point of even killing people for making fun of his friends with male pattern baldness? Going by what Christians profess to believe, you can't shake a stick without accedently hitting Jehovah yelling about something. Was there any early Christian who couldn't, apparently, perform miracles?
Who cares about balance, I want truth. I don't want people either yelling about how 2+2=5, or that 2+2 equels either or both 5 and 4. I just want people paid to deliver the truth to actually care more about it than their bias, and to change their opinions based on what their investigation turns up. It's hard, sure, but if it's what their day job they should be able to muster that extra effort.
The article smacks of creating an idol out of a tool, and ignoring the whole point of a tool, use to create or enable something else. In this case, they value having constant access to their friends and family more than money. Good for them!
I use an axim x51v pda to read ebooks, and it does a fine job. The screen's pretty high quality, though it's always going to take an adjustment time to get used to reading from something like it. Just like staring at ink on white paper was annoying when you were a kid. After a couple weeks with the PDA's screen, it was no different than reading a paper book. There's some nice programs for it to handle pdf and chm (adobe reader sucks for ebooks on it), and mobipocket or windows reader do a great job for lit, html, pbb, or others.
Seriously. I never get the point of these kinds of articles. "Could you go without air conditioning?" Yes, I'd be hot. "Can you live without pens." Oh no, time for a pencil. The point they're trying to make always seems to be somewhat muddied by a rather obvious glorification of tool A as something other than a way to produce effect B. As if there was ever any obsession with the tool other than as a means of getting to that end. I don't care one bit about my heart, for example. What I do care about, is getting the blood moved, handled, and distributed correctly around my body. I don't care about the pen or pencil, I care about getting information laid out on an easily distributable and reproducible medium.
Could I shut the internet off, isolating me from the news and opinions of the rest of the planet, aside from a handful of friends and family who probably agree with me on most things and share the same biases and preconceptions which arise from being a part of any particular social and geographical location? Sure, but a better question would be to ask why that might or might not be a good thing.
The problem is that sometimes, depending on personality, the things you don't own also own you. There's a whole lot of celibate Christians more obsessed with sex than anyone I've ever known who was actually getting some on a regular basis. Extremes in either indulgence or asceticism are usually a detriment to the person doing it. Better to just work on learning to enjoy the things in life without obsessing or over identifying with them in either direction.
The relatively fast part. Webkit's javascript interpreter is fast for what it is. But fast for a scripting language, and fast in general are two very different things. Especially on a 400mhz arm processor. It's fine for simple text manipulation, but I really doubt anything beyond that is going to be possible. I test our 'very' simple ajax stuff on my pda every now and again, and I find it often struggling even there.
The problem is that he's marketing to my wife, but my wife also has me walking around connected to our media server and reminding her of all the things hers can't do. I don't know if there's enough geek saturation to get the average person annoyed, but I think there's a fair chance of it.
For me, skype. Runs better on my pda than linux. Second comes the basic nature of being a networked media device. tcmp, and I have all my dvds, music, some radio streams, almost any media thanks to no restrictions to built-in codecs, available at the touch of a button. Even my old console games, all from our houses media server. Most of that is relativity simple code, but it's also all things which can't be done in javascript.
Have to disagree to some extent about khtml. They started in the same spot, but it's really moved into its own thing since then as much as webkit has on the other side. In particular ajax handling is fairly different between them. For testing, I'd say one would be better off grabbing the webkit source from trunk and compiling the qt4 port. It's unstable, noway ready for prime-time, but when the source doesn't break it's at least good for a quick page load or three.
The extensions make firefox. I'm not that fond of its rendering engine for the most part, and much prefer a kde or even qt based gui. But I can't wean myself off it simply for the amount of extensions out there. It seems like half the applications I use these days are actually firefox extensions.
It does seem pretty speedy. But is there an easy way to benchmark it on our own within windows, rather than relying on apple's stats? I always just use fasterfox's page load timer on firefox, but don't know if there's anything similar that would work on the windows port of safari.
More said they would join the protest then said they would fire.
And people in the Milgram experiment didn't think they'd torture someone to the point of death either. And if we were ruled by logic and morality they'd both be right. But, we're humans, and selected since we first ranked as great apes to follow our leaders.
In Montana? I've been here three winters so far, and never seen enough snow on the ground to call it trudging. Heck, I can clear our sidewalks with a broom.
Despite never being able to quite get myself into a frame of mind where I'd enjoy second life, I've always liked the management. They've always seemed oddly sane, given not only the industry, but the fringe subset they've founded.
True, but firefox is a better browser than IE. And even then it's still not even close to being even with IE for usage. While theora, at least according to the video guys I know, is pretty crappy compared to almost everything else out there. If the only thing something has going for it is a license, than yep, I'd say it's already lost.
It depends on the operating system reported by the browser. Not sure about osx, but windows gets the download link, and linux receives an avi file. LInux wins on that because google didn't feel like putting the resources into making a linux compatible player.
Penn's always been pretty open that bullshit is closer to "porn for skeptics" than anything someone should use as a citation. I'd really hope that anyone would take a tv show, no matter who's doing it, with far more gains of salt than even wikipedia.
It's one of the things I've never understood about our culture. Nobody is ever happy with the money they're making. Discussions like these are among those rare times when I appreciate the significance of having lost so much family when I was young, and not having as much as most people. Now, I really appreciate what many others in our culture would take for granted, and in particular recognise my family, not things, as what actually makes me happy. Telecommuting gives me the freedom to actually be with them, as well as face the dreaded inability to get out of the office after the eight hour mark. The benefit to loss in career advancement might not be for some, but I have to vote it far outweighing the negatives.
That said, I do have to make one broad complaint about a huge number of comments so far. Notice how often, when speaking of management, the posters slip into passive voice. For instance, "The perception is that". The perception among whom? Crazy as it might sound, the management in a company is made up of humans. Humans with different viewpoints, which you're going to have to interact with on a personal level no matter how that communication is accomplished. It's not about what you 'think' your boss wants, it's what he 'actually' wants. Having a suit on doesn't mean that a person is going to suddenly pick up a choose your own adventure book to tell him how his subjective opinion is suddenly going to move. Talk to him or her, ask them how you're doing in the company and if there's anything he considers good or bad.
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The Vancouver airport is, I'll agree, one of the most harsh ones out there for going from Canada to the US.
The entertainment sections of the media are just as much a part of the game as the subjects being covered. They don't like to bite the hand that feeds them.
I hope you're not saying that it's wrong to counter propaganda?
With more propaganda, from a company that more than almost any other is in a place to say "screw em" to both sides and provide actual facts with proper citation? And for a country which more and more is entering into a state where factual issues are up for opinion instead of proper analysis of the available data? Yes, I actually would call that evil.
A Google person is offering to help health care organizations tell their side of the story, and this is "evil"? If you think this is "evil" then I guess you think there is no room for debate here.
There is no room for debate. It's not an issue with opinions, any more than the results of an equation are up for discussion. The entire issue is numbers. Anything other than raw data, with no interpretation, from either side should be assumed as misleading.
God does not provide proof, because proof kills faith.
We talking the same guy that was constantly having conversations with people, to the point of even killing people for making fun of his friends with male pattern baldness? Going by what Christians profess to believe, you can't shake a stick without accedently hitting Jehovah yelling about something. Was there any early Christian who couldn't, apparently, perform miracles?
I'm reading the diamond age right now, and I'm loving that most of the characters dress like Victorians.
Who cares about balance, I want truth. I don't want people either yelling about how 2+2=5, or that 2+2 equels either or both 5 and 4. I just want people paid to deliver the truth to actually care more about it than their bias, and to change their opinions based on what their investigation turns up. It's hard, sure, but if it's what their day job they should be able to muster that extra effort.
The article smacks of creating an idol out of a tool, and ignoring the whole point of a tool, use to create or enable something else. In this case, they value having constant access to their friends and family more than money. Good for them!
I use an axim x51v pda to read ebooks, and it does a fine job. The screen's pretty high quality, though it's always going to take an adjustment time to get used to reading from something like it. Just like staring at ink on white paper was annoying when you were a kid. After a couple weeks with the PDA's screen, it was no different than reading a paper book. There's some nice programs for it to handle pdf and chm (adobe reader sucks for ebooks on it), and mobipocket or windows reader do a great job for lit, html, pbb, or others.
Seriously. I never get the point of these kinds of articles. "Could you go without air conditioning?" Yes, I'd be hot. "Can you live without pens." Oh no, time for a pencil. The point they're trying to make always seems to be somewhat muddied by a rather obvious glorification of tool A as something other than a way to produce effect B. As if there was ever any obsession with the tool other than as a means of getting to that end. I don't care one bit about my heart, for example. What I do care about, is getting the blood moved, handled, and distributed correctly around my body. I don't care about the pen or pencil, I care about getting information laid out on an easily distributable and reproducible medium. Could I shut the internet off, isolating me from the news and opinions of the rest of the planet, aside from a handful of friends and family who probably agree with me on most things and share the same biases and preconceptions which arise from being a part of any particular social and geographical location? Sure, but a better question would be to ask why that might or might not be a good thing.
The problem is that sometimes, depending on personality, the things you don't own also own you. There's a whole lot of celibate Christians more obsessed with sex than anyone I've ever known who was actually getting some on a regular basis. Extremes in either indulgence or asceticism are usually a detriment to the person doing it. Better to just work on learning to enjoy the things in life without obsessing or over identifying with them in either direction.
The relatively fast part. Webkit's javascript interpreter is fast for what it is. But fast for a scripting language, and fast in general are two very different things. Especially on a 400mhz arm processor. It's fine for simple text manipulation, but I really doubt anything beyond that is going to be possible. I test our 'very' simple ajax stuff on my pda every now and again, and I find it often struggling even there.
The problem is that he's marketing to my wife, but my wife also has me walking around connected to our media server and reminding her of all the things hers can't do. I don't know if there's enough geek saturation to get the average person annoyed, but I think there's a fair chance of it.
For me, skype. Runs better on my pda than linux. Second comes the basic nature of being a networked media device. tcmp, and I have all my dvds, music, some radio streams, almost any media thanks to no restrictions to built-in codecs, available at the touch of a button. Even my old console games, all from our houses media server. Most of that is relativity simple code, but it's also all things which can't be done in javascript.
The frontend's just flash, javascript and html, but they've got things on the backend you're not going to be able to do with a scripting language.
Have to disagree to some extent about khtml. They started in the same spot, but it's really moved into its own thing since then as much as webkit has on the other side. In particular ajax handling is fairly different between them. For testing, I'd say one would be better off grabbing the webkit source from trunk and compiling the qt4 port. It's unstable, noway ready for prime-time, but when the source doesn't break it's at least good for a quick page load or three.
The extensions make firefox. I'm not that fond of its rendering engine for the most part, and much prefer a kde or even qt based gui. But I can't wean myself off it simply for the amount of extensions out there. It seems like half the applications I use these days are actually firefox extensions.
It does seem pretty speedy. But is there an easy way to benchmark it on our own within windows, rather than relying on apple's stats? I always just use fasterfox's page load timer on firefox, but don't know if there's anything similar that would work on the windows port of safari.
More said they would join the protest then said they would fire.
And people in the Milgram experiment didn't think they'd torture someone to the point of death either. And if we were ruled by logic and morality they'd both be right. But, we're humans, and selected since we first ranked as great apes to follow our leaders.
trudging through the snow
In Montana? I've been here three winters so far, and never seen enough snow on the ground to call it trudging. Heck, I can clear our sidewalks with a broom.
Despite never being able to quite get myself into a frame of mind where I'd enjoy second life, I've always liked the management. They've always seemed oddly sane, given not only the industry, but the fringe subset they've founded.
True, but firefox is a better browser than IE. And even then it's still not even close to being even with IE for usage. While theora, at least according to the video guys I know, is pretty crappy compared to almost everything else out there. If the only thing something has going for it is a license, than yep, I'd say it's already lost.
It depends on the operating system reported by the browser. Not sure about osx, but windows gets the download link, and linux receives an avi file. LInux wins on that because google didn't feel like putting the resources into making a linux compatible player.
Penn's always been pretty open that bullshit is closer to "porn for skeptics" than anything someone should use as a citation. I'd really hope that anyone would take a tv show, no matter who's doing it, with far more gains of salt than even wikipedia.
It's one of the things I've never understood about our culture. Nobody is ever happy with the money they're making. Discussions like these are among those rare times when I appreciate the significance of having lost so much family when I was young, and not having as much as most people. Now, I really appreciate what many others in our culture would take for granted, and in particular recognise my family, not things, as what actually makes me happy. Telecommuting gives me the freedom to actually be with them, as well as face the dreaded inability to get out of the office after the eight hour mark. The benefit to loss in career advancement might not be for some, but I have to vote it far outweighing the negatives.
That said, I do have to make one broad complaint about a huge number of comments so far. Notice how often, when speaking of management, the posters slip into passive voice. For instance, "The perception is that". The perception among whom? Crazy as it might sound, the management in a company is made up of humans. Humans with different viewpoints, which you're going to have to interact with on a personal level no matter how that communication is accomplished. It's not about what you 'think' your boss wants, it's what he 'actually' wants. Having a suit on doesn't mean that a person is going to suddenly pick up a choose your own adventure book to tell him how his subjective opinion is suddenly going to move. Talk to him or her, ask them how you're doing in the company and if there's anything he considers good or bad.