There is a reason why there is an age limit on becoming President of the USA. However *smart* you are, wisdom always takes time to develop. And one sign of wisdom is not too change things for the sake of change. Imagine if the UX designers were unleashed on the car industry, we'd be steering with pedals (it's so much more intuitive!) and braking with a lever (focus groups really liked it!). A consistent interface is better than a volatile interface: QWERTY vs Dvorjak etc, telephone and calculator button layout etc.
You seem to think the more screens you watch the election results on, the better informed you will be. Actually, if you shut down all your electronic gadgets and read a good book (The Prince or Primary Colors spring to mind) you will wake up the next morning a better educated and wiser person. And whoever wins will still have won.
... of the what the late, great Australian cricketer and WW2 Mosquito pilot Keith Miller had to say about stress:
"When athletes nowadays talk of pressure they only reveal what they don't know of life. They've never had a Messerschmitt up their arse. That's pressure."
The first ever successful use of genetic fingerprinting to catch a killer was in Leicestshire, England - see "The Blooding" by Joseph Wambaugh. The police announced a mass DNA screening of all adult males in the area and the murderer was caught BECAUSE HE ASKED A FRIEND TO SUPPLY A SAMPLE FOR HIM. So although I acknowledge there are obviously civil liberty issues, as a procedure for catching criminals mass screening and being suspicious of declinees can bring results.
That letter is not likely to be taken very seriously. The grammar is horribly mangled, the spelling is atrocious - proprietry? furthur? - and the word "disgusting" is over-used.
So according to Steve Wozniak in Revolution In The Valley, "Every computer today is basically a Macintosh". You could have fooled me, fooling around with a procmail recipe in a terminal window on a Sunday morning. But what would I know?
"And what is wrong with belief, may I ask? What is wrong with having hopes and dreams?"
This is the problem. Nothing wrong with hoping for a nice present at Christmas. Nothing wrong dreaming about enjoying the nice present. However if you really *believe* that a white-bearded gentleman in a sleigh pulled by reindeer is going to come down your chimney to deliver it you are fucked.
There's no arguing with religious people like you.
Ok, so you get your ideas from sci-fi authors. That's why you're so wooly-headed. How can a theology be both animistic *and* Roman Catholic? Animism is a heresy. Ask the Pope. And what is "ultimate survival"? Native Americans hunted game for food, built shelters, made clothes - they looked after themselves like human beings do.
And if your mind is so open as to find the good in Nazism then you'll believe anything.
Firstly this Native American wisdom crap. They were just like any other human beings - they squabbled, exploited the environment for their short term advantage and all the usual stuff that we do. They hunted species to extinction, just check out the historical record. It's just that being a small population in a big continent they caused less damage.
Secondly you are a Marxist are you? So Lenin screwed up the great man's ideas did he? Did Mao get it right? How's Fidel doing? Kim Chong-Il in North Korea? Face it, Marxism has *never* worked *anywhere*. A lot of people have suffered needlessly in order to prove that one.
I for one would be perfectly happy had that over-rated blowhard bullfight enthusiast Hemingway spent his life digging ditches rather than writing his lame fiction.
Well I've been using Popfile for a few months, processed about 4-5 thousand mesages and have an accuracy of 97.6%. It works pretty well, but I do have to manually check for misclassified spam because even now I seem to get a couple of false positives every week. Judging from the article I think I ought to try Spambayes...
You are wrong. EU opposition to GM crops is largely a grass-roots phenomenon. Here in the UK our Prime Minister Tony Blair has cautiously been trying to talk up the benefits of GM foods to a public which is overwhelmingly against the idea.
Now there is certainly a lot of bad science in the anti-GM movement, and cynical EU politicians have used the issue as a pretext for following protectionist policies. The fact remains that on this side of the pond GM is a technology that has yet to be sold to a suspicious, if not hostile, public.
There are many legitimate reasons to oppose GM that have nothing to do with whether or not the food is safe to eat. Could a GM crop encourage farmers to use even more pesticides and herbicides? Could the introduction of this technology encourage patenting of crops, enmeshing agriculture in a morass of legal and IP issues? Could Monsanto possibly have anyting other than relieving world hunger on their agenda?
In much the same way as copy-protected CD's I say give the consumers as much information as possible and let them make their own choices.
Replaced an HP DeskJet with a Canon S750 last year and I've never looked back. Much better paper handling (gravity assisted rear feed), cheaper supplies, nice output and fast printing. Choice of USB or good old fashioned parallel connection.
Shame Canon aren't more Linux friendly, but their hardware really is very impressive.
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There is a reason why there is an age limit on becoming President of the USA. However *smart* you are, wisdom always takes time to develop. And one sign of wisdom is not too change things for the sake of change. Imagine if the UX designers were unleashed on the car industry, we'd be steering with pedals (it's so much more intuitive!) and braking with a lever (focus groups really liked it!). A consistent interface is better than a volatile interface: QWERTY vs Dvorjak etc, telephone and calculator button layout etc.
Just phoned T-Mobile up and cancelled my contract, told them exactly why I was doing it.
You seem to think the more screens you watch the election results on, the better informed you will be. Actually, if you shut down all your electronic gadgets and read a good book (The Prince or Primary Colors spring to mind) you will wake up the next morning a better educated and wiser person. And whoever wins will still have won.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
Why do people "pass away". Surely you mean die? I mean dead is dead, however you choose to phrase it. Less mealy-mouthed euphemisms please!
... of the what the late, great Australian cricketer and WW2 Mosquito pilot Keith Miller had to say about stress:
"When athletes nowadays talk of pressure they only reveal what they don't know of life. They've never had a Messerschmitt up their arse. That's pressure."
Exactly.
The first ever successful use of genetic fingerprinting to catch a killer was in Leicestshire, England - see "The Blooding" by Joseph Wambaugh. The police announced a mass DNA screening of all adult males in the area and the murderer was caught BECAUSE HE ASKED A FRIEND TO SUPPLY A SAMPLE FOR HIM. So although I acknowledge there are obviously civil liberty issues, as a procedure for catching criminals mass screening and being suspicious of declinees can bring results.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
Well a public school education taught me the difference between "its" and "it's"....
That letter is not likely to be taken very seriously. The grammar is horribly mangled, the spelling is atrocious - proprietry? furthur? - and the word "disgusting" is over-used.
These things matter, like it or not.
Well I'm very happy with my DAB radio. I'm in central London and I get a better signal than FM, plus I can pause and record programs on a memory card.
Guess it works for some of us...
Toby
So according to Steve Wozniak in Revolution In The Valley, "Every computer today is basically a Macintosh". You could have fooled me, fooling around with a procmail recipe in a terminal window on a Sunday morning. But what would I know?
Toby
London, UK
I think you'll find Indian partition occurred in 1947 (14th August to be precise), not 1942. The Brits were busy fighting a world war in 1942.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
Marxist Hacker -
"And what is wrong with belief, may I ask? What is wrong with having hopes and dreams?"
This is the problem. Nothing wrong with hoping for a nice present at Christmas. Nothing wrong dreaming about enjoying the nice present. However if you really *believe* that a white-bearded gentleman in a sleigh pulled by reindeer is going to come down your chimney to deliver it you are fucked.
There's no arguing with religious people like you.
Toby
Ok, so you get your ideas from sci-fi authors. That's why you're so wooly-headed. How can a theology be both animistic *and* Roman Catholic? Animism is a heresy. Ask the Pope. And what is "ultimate survival"? Native Americans hunted game for food, built shelters, made clothes - they looked after themselves like human beings do.
And if your mind is so open as to find the good in Nazism then you'll believe anything.
How much Marx have you read, by the way?
Toby
Sorry, I really don't understand what you mean. In what sense were they *leavers*?
As to marxism, I don't care what your second name is. Suppose I call myself Nazi Benefactor. Is that alright?
Toby
Firstly this Native American wisdom crap. They were just like any other human beings - they squabbled, exploited the environment for their short term advantage and all the usual stuff that we do. They hunted species to extinction, just check out the historical record. It's just that being a small population in a big continent they caused less damage.
Secondly you are a Marxist are you? So Lenin screwed up the great man's ideas did he? Did Mao get it right? How's Fidel doing? Kim Chong-Il in North Korea? Face it, Marxism has *never* worked *anywhere*. A lot of people have suffered needlessly in order to prove that one.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
I for one would be perfectly happy had that over-rated blowhard bullfight enthusiast Hemingway spent his life digging ditches rather than writing his lame fiction.
Toby
London, UK
You Americans with your love of euphemism. I think you mean he's dead.
The article repeatedly mentions *sending* mail via POP3. What on earth does that mean?
Not sure how much credence I'd give an article which claims the Quattro Pro *spreadsheet* program is in fact a database....
I think Niklaus Wirth would be interested to hear that Bill Joy was the creator of Pascal...
I'm off to the pub. Happy New Year all!
Toby Poynder
London, UK
Well I've been using Popfile for a few months, processed about 4-5 thousand mesages and have an accuracy of 97.6%. It works pretty well, but I do have to manually check for misclassified spam because even now I seem to get a couple of false positives every week. Judging from the article I think I ought to try Spambayes...
Toby Poynder
London, UK
You are wrong. EU opposition to GM crops is
largely a grass-roots phenomenon. Here in the UK
our Prime Minister Tony Blair has cautiously been
trying to talk up the benefits of GM foods to a
public which is overwhelmingly against the idea.
Now there is certainly a lot of bad science in the
anti-GM movement, and cynical EU politicians have
used the issue as a pretext for following
protectionist policies. The fact remains that on
this side of the pond GM is a technology that has
yet to be sold to a suspicious, if not hostile,
public.
There are many legitimate reasons to oppose GM
that have nothing to do with whether or not the
food is safe to eat. Could a GM crop encourage
farmers to use even more pesticides and
herbicides? Could the introduction of this
technology encourage patenting of crops, enmeshing
agriculture in a morass of legal and IP issues?
Could Monsanto possibly have anyting other than
relieving world hunger on their agenda?
In much the same way as copy-protected CD's I say
give the consumers as much information as possible
and let them make their own choices.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
Replaced an HP DeskJet with a Canon S750 last year and I've never looked back. Much better paper handling (gravity assisted rear feed), cheaper supplies, nice output and fast printing. Choice of USB or good old fashioned parallel connection.
Shame Canon aren't more Linux friendly, but their hardware really is very impressive.
Well by that logic you ought to buy the cheapest
possible food and drink, not to mention nasty
economy toilet paper. Yuckk!
I like spending money on my body. It's fun!
Toby Poynder
London, UK
If that post is really from RMS why does he refer
to Linux instead of GNU/Linux? Don't tell me he's
getting fed up of the extra typing...
Toby Poynder
London, UK