What is it with you brain-washed greenies? Ya look at me like some kind of oddball because I believe in Jesus Christ; there's a lot of indication. But then when I point to the fossil record, an indisputable record of the long-term effects planet development, you want to believe in personalities, not science.
CO2 is both exuded and attracted to 3/4 of the world's surface.
A good sized volcano's blast and we make mankind's march to lower prices look like a booger in a few minutes.
Get over yourselves; you're surprisingly smaller than the planet. Everything is recycled. Oil spurts out of the ground that is covered with seawater and SURPRISE! It takes care of it's self.
You live in a riduclously-complex world, not a cardboard box. Stop playing peid piper and look at the science.
How many more times will a worldwide hoax take you off your game? GlobalCooling(TM), GlobalWarming(TM), AcidRain(TM), OzoneHole(TM), PopulationBomb(TM).
Can you scientists go back to suggestion-and-proof again? Can you stop acting like young-Earthers believing in a six-day creation despite truth? And can ya do it quickly? We're freezing our asses off in this "GlobalWarming"!
"amplifiers that boost the signals from the charge-coupled devices that form the heart of the 0.95-metre telescope's 95-million-pixel photometer, which detects the light emitted from the distant stars."
We're not going to them any time soon, anyway. Still sublight, guys. If they're not less than a generation away, we can't even send an 'Adam and Eve" to hope for another planet in an emergency.
These 'we're all gonna die' scenarios come from the same place. TheComingIceAge(TM), AcidRain(TM), SwineFlu(TM), OverPopulation(TM), OzoneHole(TM), PlanetsColliding(TM), GlobalWarming(TM)...Democrats at first; the Left.
Who benefits? Big Government; it panics us into accepting everything. Time to pay attention. Civics is actually important.
Reality Check:
The higher technology goes in a society, the less trash and waste there is. Remember the "London Fog"? It was due to millions of coal fires- it was all they had. It was actually "London Smog", but that's not so romantic in novels.
China's overcoming a lot of that today. Without an EPA or anything similar, broken batteries, full of acid, are just dumped into freshwater creeks for some reason. People working in those battery factories can be horribly mangled by spills and sprays; until they get a handle on it, it's gonna be miserable...just like it was once miserable here.
Time and time again we 'run out' of copper, just to find new pockets, new ways to recover it, or ways to do without it. This has also happened with the components of steel and many other commodities. In a capitalist system, as we run out, we have funding to find more or conserve better.
If you're not Christian, and know why we're here, you'll accept any number of reasons as to how we'll die next. This is the biggest terrarium known to mankind; we won't be polluting ourselves into extinction, or getting hit by a meteor, or change the climate because those are His domain.
Ever knock over a skyscraper reaching for the aspirin? Probably not. Ever forget which pocket has your keys and remember the universe you put into the keychain? I'm guessing 'no', too. Similarly, you won't be creating sentient life in your breakfast cereal...there are some things that aren't ours to do.
Why is that so hard, just because you've gone to college? You guys keep looking *only* to science and finding no answers. Sometimes you need to look elsewhere.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to wade through the newspapers that will poison me, the acid rain that's fallen, consider the ComingIceAge(TM), GlobalWarming(TM) and try to find politicians that don't think they can make better decisions for me, than me.
Are any of you guys old enough to remember CP/M running on the 8086? It was a solid, no-glitch way of running binaries from one OS to another. And Z80 code seemed as complex to most techs then, as protected-memory schemes do now.
But they *did* it, and did it well.
If we are *ever* going to actually have a 'universal binary' we need to make the hardware do the job: not software.
Case study: 1988, SCI Systems, Huntsville, Alabama.
Three software guys huddled over their 80186-based site-controller motherboard our company built. These guys were GODS, able to write compilers AND embedded control software, all interrupt-based, pre-emptive long before Linux. All three agreed it wasn't software, this *must* be something in the hardware. There'll be yelling and noise, but let's get a hardware tech here.
"Neil!" someone said. And this odd-looking, couldn't-be-nicer guy snagged an oscilloscope cart on his way over. He seemed to already know the question.
He clipped on the grounds, checked about 4-5 pins and dropped the probe. 'Software problem.' and walked out. I thought he had to be the most arrogant guy in the room, until I did the math:
He wrote the schematics. He laid out the parts, he did the prototype, he did the solder, and every other masks. He wouldn't have sent the device to production if the Chip Enable lines weren't working. Because of this, if they're trying to talk to the memory chips (using Intel's STUPID, 16-ways to describe-every-location scheme) then it was a software problem.
The point: hardware guys have more they can cross-check; they can't move on until one level of production checks. Based on that, future levels don't _tend_ to need a complete re-fit. You just can't get that in software: people don't work that way. Software is just too elusive. I've been saying this since 1978.
They were trying to work out a 'java' at that time, they're still trying today. But different 'runners' and different code, and we STILL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS HAVE NO REAL PROGRESS. If anything works at all in the customer's hands, it's a surprise.
Make all processors have unified code, or drop the project. There's SO much more we could be doing, please?
Our town had a small-ish stadium: 10,000 seats. For 40 years we missed the big stuff and had to drive for hours to see big-named talent.
So we're about to start on another, slightly-smaller one.
Many years ago, someone though it a good idea to make all the streets in downtown Evansville one-way, as if there was traffic to support it. It didn't. And it took down traffic because of it's harassment, until it's a ghost town.
They're still this way; they can't figure out why the traffic's low.
A commerce-center got tired of the huge circles of traffic around them. Kids in cars FILLED the place all weekend long. Well this won't do! We're gonna ask for receipts or turn them into jail!
Thirty years later, it, too, is a ghost town and everyone wonders why.
Evansville's a great place to be in a recession....we'll see how good it is in a depression. And now that money's tight, they STILL won't look into Linux....that would be a change. Everyone else will be on Linux, before Evansville starts heading that way.
Evansville's just a strange place with incoherent decisions. Looks like a great place for a doctoral thesis!
Maybe they're onto something. It's not that their math is wrong, it's not that their hypothesis is wrong. It's because the phenomenom ITSELF doesn't want to be found.
Yeah.
If this is true, we've cracked the case on why I send an even-number of socks to the laundry and they come back, odd. Why I collect pocket fluff in my pockets from characters from ancient history....
I'm sorry, but to suggest the Higgs Boson is trying not to be found suggests an intelligence. Rain doesn't stop on it's fall to consider the consequences of it's landing, whether in the green grass or in the open sodium bin.
Maybe they've taken the GlobalWarming(TM) toolset into the making of this collider? "Whether it works or fails, both are proof of GlobalWarming(TM)." You can see where this kind of lunacy will get ya off track pretty quickly.
And tell me one more time how I'm supposed to believe the Scientists *instead* of the Bible, because the scientist have a better track record again? Weren't they just last week talking about how dark matter estimations were off by like 4x?
I keep hearing about these things...FROM WEBSITES. I don't see anyone carrying them; telling people how much they like them, or offering a preference of readers or something. In short, if E-books are skyrocketing in sales, I sure can't tell!
Most of the people I know love books BECAUSE of that low-quality paper feeling that feels like a friend. I'm the only geek around me that would prefer to have various texts spoken to me, and for that, I have Festival!:)
Remember how big a deal Bloggers were going to be? A few are great, the rest are just boring people being *precisely* as boring as the rest of us. And don't Twitter me your bowel movements, either: just not that useful.
I hate to sound like the old man I'm slowly becoming, but with all the tech and pronouncements of achievement, we still dig holes, and we still use shovels!
And a surprise that Silicon Valley (or even America) is not such a high-tech source anymore?
Have you ever heard of Microsoft? That's the company that, if you design something to run on Windows, they will kill your idea. So? No money is available for that. It goes to other places and other things. Not surprisingly, that's overseas.
Since the dot-com bomb everything's been changing. Everyone's aware you can do things in Bopal (for instance) that you can't in America. This undercurrent has been in full force since that time!
Well, see, given the people Obama has surrounded himself with, I'd say there's a policy of "If it would be OK with Mao, it'll be good for Obama." Seriously! Something's wrong when American leaders are couched with people whose idols were hungry for the blood of their countrymen. Stalin, Mao, Castro.
So it won't be any surprise when they make it so that only donors to the DNC will be permitted to have websites. (I wish I was kidding about this! Thankfully they don't have THAT much power, yet)
I'm tellin' ya guys: ask around. Watch an episode of Glenn Beck where he shows entire clips of these people claiming Mao and/or Stalin to be their political idols. Ed Asner feels this way, too.
So don't be thinking we're on some bee-line to networking utopia; if they can tax it or otherwise control it, there's pending legislation in Congress. If it moves, tax it. If it doesn't, tax it.
Yeah...over the last few decades we've quit educating people about it, but their ability to 'strangle' the countryside by outlawing food production and starving LITERALLY MILLIONS should always be on your mind as you think back to Mao Tse Tung. (He killed around 70,000,000 in PEACE time.)
His head-count actually makes Hitler and Stalin look like they weren't even trying. But Communist leaders are usually bloody leaders; that's why red is the associated color.
How long has this law been continuing? 30 years? So then to act like journalists and say "one day it'll end" (after the reporter's dead and gone!) is kinda stupid, don't ya think?
It reminds me of those people, just TRYING to keep a panic: "Eventually our planets will collide!" (Not mentioning it's like 12,000,000,000 years from now, plenty of time to buy off-world tickets.)
Why do we keep getting these non-news stories? Why must they all be so un-grounded. What happened to fact-checking?
These guys can't prove this any more than the entire *world* of guys could PROVE an end to Moore's law over the last 30 years. So to say, long after we're dead (and is meaningless) that it will end....so gutless.
It's just as bogus as this latest round of "Rush Limbaugh is racist" stories lately. Rush is difficult to interview:
-The second-largest radio show on the planet, -Three hours a day -Five days a week -In it's 21st year of operation -Costs nothing to tune in and learn for one's self.
Yet, the media sources claiming him to be a bastard seem unable to attend a show. These "investigative reporters" and "balanced coverage" and "courage you can count on" guys run like little whiny babies when Rush is on, and don't know anything about him.
He's the most color-blind person I know. I've listed since about '89. NEVER have I heard him take pleasure in the ills of a black man. In fact, he's one of the biggest cheerleaders of giving them tools to advance with the rest of us....and then to the world!
Conservatism isn't racial hatred.
George Wallace wasn't conservative when he stood in that doorway, keeping negros out of college. (Remember Gump?) It wasn't conservatives using attack dogs or firehoses on negros: that was The National Democratic Party. Look it up.
My closest friend posted to Facebook: Limabaugh's gonna get an all-white team! That should make HIM happy!
I took him to task: don't make such statements- clearly you've never listened. "Oh, I did- I listen all the time. I listen to him and Ann Coulter on her show, too!"
[She doesn't have a show: he's just lying because the TV and radio have told him what he's supposed to be like.]
Whatever happened to skepticism? Whatever happened to "prove it to me"? Can we not think for ourselves anymore? We should be suing people that publish stories like this: media malpractice.
This would mean that yesterday, SCIENCE WAS WRONG. I keep getting reminded how this can't happen, usually from people looking at fossil records of CO2 use to cool the Earth, then supporting things to remove CO2 from all industry.
Science can be wrong, huh? Are ya listening guys?
This is how science works. We guess, then we confirm it. THEN, AND ONLY THEN, is it considered fact.
Perhaps you've been fooled by the people with the "If the government pays, I'll give whatever results they want" model.:>
Well, if "you can't do everything in Linux", point to the feature of Windows that makes it worth losing $30,000 of life savings and fighting to get it back for six years. This actually happens.
Cocaine, Opium, Microsoft, all these substances can be abused. But if you can't kick it, you need to kick BACK. Paying $100 every time the kids have a sleepover, swapping out antivirus software, not knowing which is right and which is just malware...you'd actually _prefer_ to live in this world of mediocrity?
Don't start with Arch or LFS, start with Ubuntu. As you use it, realize the speed doesn't go away due to a website you've hit, or a longstanding problem with defragging. Think about how no website is dangerous anymore, and how loading programs happens with a click, no dependencies, no BS...and you'll agree with me: if it can't be done in Linux, don't do it.
Remember the days of the "Killer App"? So do Microsoft. They 'partnered' with people until they were dead, so the chances of getting money to write the next big killer app has gone away. (Unless you count Linux).
In cities and towns all across America, there are only two types of "computer work":
1. Virus Hygiene. Simply being the janitor for Microsoft's mediocrity. Getting $100 for some poor schmuck who hasn't worked out the math, or doesn't know there's an alternative.
2. Everything ELSE. Making a supercomputer for watching an assembly line so it won't crash any more. Measuring/controlling the flow of natural gas from Canada to Kentucky. The mind boggles. The lowest-tech job there is system administration, FCOL.
Guess which one is the only work being done in my town? The flow of new applications has dwindled. The "breakthroughs" on the desktop have been almost completely new versions of old apps like Office.
This has been a blockage in place for at least 15 years. When do we get to have the technology growth back? Will Microsoft ever make 'enough' money?
- Conservatives didn't begin to outlaw the incandescent bulb.
- Conservatives didn't change your toilet.
- Conservatives don't think the Fed has any business in your business.
This is the work of the Liberal/Progressive/Communist Party. You know, the one who shot JFK, the one who stood in the doorway of a college to keep negros from entering, the ones who used firehoses on negros in Selma and elsewhere? Oh, same mindset was behind Booth, who killed Lincoln, a Republican president who freed the slaves.
Yeah, that's them. The ones pointing racism and bigotry at the Rebpublican party. They got some gall, don't they?
You'd think they'd come to this...but the truth is, the rich and (over) educated are usually the ones to buy such things. Imagine a bunch of Ed Begleys.:)
There are government bonuses for such purchases, but people just really don't LIKE these cars. They're expensive. They can leave you waiting for a recharge: your day has to come to an end, 'cause the thing needs to be recharged.
There's just nothing so cheap, nothing so reliable as an old beater to get you around. And you don't have to double the toxic waste in order to make the batteries and power controls for it.
When they make sense...you'll see them everywhere. And not a moment before. PRECISELY the same reason you don't tend to see Tesla ($100,000+) cars out on the road everywhere- they don't make sense to everyone.
Nuclear weapons work perfectly. Not one has been fired in anger- only two cities were EVER hit by them, and both of them have almost completely recovered, other than missing citizens.
The reason 'they work' is that, despite the knife-edge of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Russian subs were told to attack if they didn't get futher commands...YET THEY DIDN'T...is a testament to the value of nukes. They stop wars by making them so ridiculously dangerous to wage. This is why you don't understand Regan.
There's no value in sending more than 100 atomic devices anywhere: we all die. It's that fact, and the two existing examples we don't want to repeat, that keeps us all honest. Having more missiles than that, assures the fact won't change any time soon.
I remember waiting for the Space Shuttle to come to be...and remember them naming the first one "Enterprise" just seemed so right. But that was a mock-up; dammit.
Now I suppose I get to wait until the new series gets in place, and watch the fireworks through the *unscheduled* missions, because it'll never be ready on time.
Once upon a time, a concept had to be tested first with an experimenter, and when something new was found, he'd take that to a conference where other experimenters would retry the experiment again on their own. If they got the same result, it was declare 'true'.
But nowdays so much science is paid to support findings. There's money in a renowned scientist claiming CO2 is causing us all to die. It permits our governments to over-control each and every pleasantry of modern life, and gives politicians more and more power.
You can't say that, because it's really hot someplace, it's globalwarming, and later because it's really cold, that, too, is global warming. And you sure as hell can't say any of this, because the role of CO2 in the fossil record is one of COOLING when CO2 is widely present, not warming. Not opinion: fact. It's why AlGore showed the phenomenon as two distinct graphs, not one, in his "Inconvient Truth" lie.
Let's stop and do a reality check on this latest suggestion; the one that happiness is spread....in ANY way like a virus. Everyone has good and bad days. But how many BAD DAYS would the Earth have to have, to stop each and every one of us from being happy, naturally? The odds are staggering.
I'm an old fart. I remember when science was actually based on concpept and proof. Similarly, I remember when journalism was based on investigation and reporting, not merely cheerleading the team wanting to over-control human freedoms. But I tell you, we need to turn both around if we are to survive. And that, too, isn't opinion.
Science does silly things like this sometimes. Healing wounds? Sure! We'll make more cells. Oh, but no: BRAIN cells are magical and can't be replaced.
I'm sorry, with as many animals as there are (lots of diversity of breeds!) and humans seeing SO many animals in their lifetimes (just consider dogs and cats alone) if there were normally cells that actually could not be replaced, wouldn't that render them 'crazy' (for the brain) or leave gaping holes in muscle tissue, or similar? To rule this out sounds like another standard I heard:
Take a june bug, large and green...tie a string to it's leg and let him fly in circles. At the point where he starts to BLUR, that must be the speed of light. Figure the scale based on RPMs, etc the usual way.
SO: Speed of light: 34 mph!
Seriously: this standard stood for something like 700 years. Science: imperfect.
Sun doesn't suck. Solaris doesn't suck. What does suck?
"Chasing after an open version of Solaris" sucks. (Remember the statement they made, as a reason for not supporting an OS so very similar to theirs?
They've made good (though expensive) hardware. They have top-notch utility programs- everyone says so. I'm just not inclined to persue something that's already declared it's hatred of the OS I call 'home'.:)
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Isn't this more about ownership of the machine?
"Why don't you realize? [Ubuntu] waits for you..." --Billy Joel, paraphrased.
Own your machine! Without having to be a nerd OR a trained monkey!
What is it with you brain-washed greenies? Ya look at me like some kind of oddball because I believe in Jesus Christ; there's a lot of indication. But then when I point to the fossil record, an indisputable record of the long-term effects planet development, you want to believe in personalities, not science.
CO2 is both exuded and attracted to 3/4 of the world's surface.
A good sized volcano's blast and we make mankind's march to lower prices look like a booger in a few minutes.
Get over yourselves; you're surprisingly smaller than the planet. Everything is recycled. Oil spurts out of the ground that is covered with seawater and SURPRISE! It takes care of it's self.
You live in a riduclously-complex world, not a cardboard box. Stop playing peid piper and look at the science.
How many more times will a worldwide hoax take you off your game? GlobalCooling(TM), GlobalWarming(TM), AcidRain(TM), OzoneHole(TM), PopulationBomb(TM).
Can you scientists go back to suggestion-and-proof again? Can you stop acting like young-Earthers believing in a six-day creation despite truth? And can ya do it quickly? We're freezing our asses off in this "GlobalWarming"!
If you need:
"amplifiers that boost the signals from the charge-coupled devices that form the heart of the 0.95-metre telescope's 95-million-pixel photometer, which detects the light emitted from the distant stars."
We're not going to them any time soon, anyway. Still sublight, guys. If they're not less than a generation away, we can't even send an 'Adam and Eve" to hope for another planet in an emergency.
Thankfully, that won't be necessary.
And think this through with me:
Lights/electrons/etc left 7.3 billion years ago. The starter whistle began LONG before man, while the planet was still 'molten lava'.
How did they know the flow was coming? Is this more junk science like GlobalWarming(TM)?
These 'we're all gonna die' scenarios come from the same place. TheComingIceAge(TM), AcidRain(TM), SwineFlu(TM), OverPopulation(TM), OzoneHole(TM), PlanetsColliding(TM), GlobalWarming(TM)...Democrats at first; the Left.
Who benefits? Big Government; it panics us into accepting everything. Time to pay attention. Civics is actually important.
Reality Check:
The higher technology goes in a society, the less trash and waste there is. Remember the "London Fog"? It was due to millions of coal fires- it was all they had. It was actually "London Smog", but that's not so romantic in novels.
China's overcoming a lot of that today. Without an EPA or anything similar, broken batteries, full of acid, are just dumped into freshwater creeks for some reason. People working in those battery factories can be horribly mangled by spills and sprays; until they get a handle on it, it's gonna be miserable...just like it was once miserable here.
Time and time again we 'run out' of copper, just to find new pockets, new ways to recover it, or ways to do without it. This has also happened with the components of steel and many other commodities. In a capitalist system, as we run out, we have funding to find more or conserve better.
If you're not Christian, and know why we're here, you'll accept any number of reasons as to how we'll die next. This is the biggest terrarium known to mankind; we won't be polluting ourselves into extinction, or getting hit by a meteor, or change the climate because those are His domain.
Ever knock over a skyscraper reaching for the aspirin? Probably not. Ever forget which pocket has your keys and remember the universe you put into the keychain? I'm guessing 'no', too. Similarly, you won't be creating sentient life in your breakfast cereal...there are some things that aren't ours to do.
Why is that so hard, just because you've gone to college? You guys keep looking *only* to science and finding no answers. Sometimes you need to look elsewhere.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to wade through the newspapers that will poison me, the acid rain that's fallen, consider the ComingIceAge(TM), GlobalWarming(TM) and try to find politicians that don't think they can make better decisions for me, than me.
And wasn't it called Java?
Are any of you guys old enough to remember CP/M running on the 8086? It was a solid, no-glitch way of running binaries from one OS to another. And Z80 code seemed as complex to most techs then, as protected-memory schemes do now.
But they *did* it, and did it well.
If we are *ever* going to actually have a 'universal binary' we need to make the hardware do the job: not software.
Case study: 1988, SCI Systems, Huntsville, Alabama.
Three software guys huddled over their 80186-based site-controller motherboard our company built. These guys were GODS, able to write compilers AND embedded control software, all interrupt-based, pre-emptive long before Linux. All three agreed it wasn't software, this *must* be something in the hardware. There'll be yelling and noise, but let's get a hardware tech here.
"Neil!" someone said. And this odd-looking, couldn't-be-nicer guy snagged an oscilloscope cart on his way over. He seemed to already know the question.
He clipped on the grounds, checked about 4-5 pins and dropped the probe. 'Software problem.' and walked out. I thought he had to be the most arrogant guy in the room, until I did the math:
He wrote the schematics. He laid out the parts, he did the prototype, he did the solder, and every other masks. He wouldn't have sent the device to production if the Chip Enable lines weren't working. Because of this, if they're trying to talk to the memory chips (using Intel's STUPID, 16-ways to describe-every-location scheme) then it was a software problem.
The point: hardware guys have more they can cross-check; they can't move on until one level of production checks. Based on that, future levels don't _tend_ to need a complete re-fit. You just can't get that in software: people don't work that way. Software is just too elusive. I've been saying this since 1978.
They were trying to work out a 'java' at that time, they're still trying today. But different 'runners' and different code, and we STILL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS HAVE NO REAL PROGRESS. If anything works at all in the customer's hands, it's a surprise.
Make all processors have unified code, or drop the project. There's SO much more we could be doing, please?
This was on another news site I read:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/10/23/hulu-com-backing-away-from-paid-model-remarks/31321
It's about how they're BACKING AWAY from the paid model.
Which is correct, do ya think?
Our town had a small-ish stadium: 10,000 seats. For 40 years we missed the big stuff and had to drive for hours to see big-named talent.
So we're about to start on another, slightly-smaller one.
Many years ago, someone though it a good idea to make all the streets in downtown Evansville one-way, as if there was traffic to support it. It didn't. And it took down traffic because of it's harassment, until it's a ghost town.
They're still this way; they can't figure out why the traffic's low.
A commerce-center got tired of the huge circles of traffic around them. Kids in cars FILLED the place all weekend long. Well this won't do! We're gonna ask for receipts or turn them into jail!
Thirty years later, it, too, is a ghost town and everyone wonders why.
Evansville's a great place to be in a recession....we'll see how good it is in a depression. And now that money's tight, they STILL won't look into Linux....that would be a change. Everyone else will be on Linux, before Evansville starts heading that way.
Evansville's just a strange place with incoherent decisions. Looks like a great place for a doctoral thesis!
Maybe they're onto something. It's not that their math is wrong, it's not that their hypothesis is wrong. It's because the phenomenom ITSELF doesn't want to be found.
Yeah.
If this is true, we've cracked the case on why I send an even-number of socks to the laundry and they come back, odd. Why I collect pocket fluff in my pockets from characters from ancient history....
I'm sorry, but to suggest the Higgs Boson is trying not to be found suggests an intelligence. Rain doesn't stop on it's fall to consider the consequences of it's landing, whether in the green grass or in the open sodium bin.
Maybe they've taken the GlobalWarming(TM) toolset into the making of this collider? "Whether it works or fails, both are proof of GlobalWarming(TM)." You can see where this kind of lunacy will get ya off track pretty quickly.
And tell me one more time how I'm supposed to believe the Scientists *instead* of the Bible, because the scientist have a better track record again? Weren't they just last week talking about how dark matter estimations were off by like 4x?
I keep hearing about these things...FROM WEBSITES. I don't see anyone carrying them; telling people how much they like them, or offering a preference of readers or something. In short, if E-books are skyrocketing in sales, I sure can't tell!
Most of the people I know love books BECAUSE of that low-quality paper feeling that feels like a friend. I'm the only geek around me that would prefer to have various texts spoken to me, and for that, I have Festival! :)
Remember how big a deal Bloggers were going to be? A few are great, the rest are just boring people being *precisely* as boring as the rest of us. And don't Twitter me your bowel movements, either: just not that useful.
I hate to sound like the old man I'm slowly becoming, but with all the tech and pronouncements of achievement, we still dig holes, and we still use shovels!
And a surprise that Silicon Valley (or even America) is not such a high-tech source anymore?
Have you ever heard of Microsoft? That's the company that, if you design something to run on Windows, they will kill your idea. So? No money is available for that. It goes to other places and other things. Not surprisingly, that's overseas.
Since the dot-com bomb everything's been changing. Everyone's aware you can do things in Bopal (for instance) that you can't in America. This undercurrent has been in full force since that time!
Well, see, given the people Obama has surrounded himself with, I'd say there's a policy of "If it would be OK with Mao, it'll be good for Obama." Seriously! Something's wrong when American leaders are couched with people whose idols were hungry for the blood of their countrymen. Stalin, Mao, Castro.
So it won't be any surprise when they make it so that only donors to the DNC will be permitted to have websites. (I wish I was kidding about this! Thankfully they don't have THAT much power, yet)
I'm tellin' ya guys: ask around. Watch an episode of Glenn Beck where he shows entire clips of these people claiming Mao and/or Stalin to be their political idols. Ed Asner feels this way, too.
So don't be thinking we're on some bee-line to networking utopia; if they can tax it or otherwise control it, there's pending legislation in Congress. If it moves, tax it. If it doesn't, tax it.
Yeah...over the last few decades we've quit educating people about it, but their ability to 'strangle' the countryside by outlawing food production and starving LITERALLY MILLIONS should always be on your mind as you think back to Mao Tse Tung. (He killed around 70,000,000 in PEACE time.)
His head-count actually makes Hitler and Stalin look like they weren't even trying. But Communist leaders are usually bloody leaders; that's why red is the associated color.
How long has this law been continuing? 30 years? So then to act like journalists and say "one day it'll end" (after the reporter's dead and gone!) is kinda stupid, don't ya think?
It reminds me of those people, just TRYING to keep a panic: "Eventually our planets will collide!" (Not mentioning it's like 12,000,000,000 years from now, plenty of time to buy off-world tickets.)
Why do we keep getting these non-news stories? Why must they all be so un-grounded. What happened to fact-checking?
These guys can't prove this any more than the entire *world* of guys could PROVE an end to Moore's law over the last 30 years. So to say, long after we're dead (and is meaningless) that it will end....so gutless.
It's just as bogus as this latest round of "Rush Limbaugh is racist" stories lately. Rush is difficult to interview:
-The second-largest radio show on the planet,
-Three hours a day
-Five days a week
-In it's 21st year of operation
-Costs nothing to tune in and learn for one's self.
Yet, the media sources claiming him to be a bastard seem unable to attend a show. These "investigative reporters" and "balanced coverage" and "courage you can count on" guys run like little whiny babies when Rush is on, and don't know anything about him.
He's the most color-blind person I know. I've listed since about '89. NEVER have I heard him take pleasure in the ills of a black man. In fact, he's one of the biggest cheerleaders of giving them tools to advance with the rest of us....and then to the world!
Conservatism isn't racial hatred.
George Wallace wasn't conservative when he stood in that doorway, keeping negros out of college. (Remember Gump?) It wasn't conservatives using attack dogs or firehoses on negros: that was The National Democratic Party. Look it up.
My closest friend posted to Facebook: Limabaugh's gonna get an all-white team! That should make HIM happy!
I took him to task: don't make such statements- clearly you've never listened. "Oh, I did- I listen all the time. I listen to him and Ann Coulter on her show, too!"
[She doesn't have a show: he's just lying because the TV and radio have told him what he's supposed to be like.]
Whatever happened to skepticism? Whatever happened to "prove it to me"? Can we not think for ourselves anymore? We should be suing people that publish stories like this: media malpractice.
This would mean that yesterday, SCIENCE WAS WRONG. I keep getting reminded how this can't happen, usually from people looking at fossil records of CO2 use to cool the Earth, then supporting things to remove CO2 from all industry.
Science can be wrong, huh? Are ya listening guys?
This is how science works. We guess, then we confirm it. THEN, AND ONLY THEN, is it considered fact.
Perhaps you've been fooled by the people with the "If the government pays, I'll give whatever results they want" model. :>
Well, if "you can't do everything in Linux", point to the feature of Windows that makes it worth losing $30,000 of life savings and fighting to get it back for six years. This actually happens.
Cocaine, Opium, Microsoft, all these substances can be abused. But if you can't kick it, you need to kick BACK. Paying $100 every time the kids have a sleepover, swapping out antivirus software, not knowing which is right and which is just malware...you'd actually _prefer_ to live in this world of mediocrity?
Don't start with Arch or LFS, start with Ubuntu. As you use it, realize the speed doesn't go away due to a website you've hit, or a longstanding problem with defragging. Think about how no website is dangerous anymore, and how loading programs happens with a click, no dependencies, no BS...and you'll agree with me: if it can't be done in Linux, don't do it.
Remember the days of the "Killer App"? So do Microsoft. They 'partnered' with people until they were dead, so the chances of getting money to write the next big killer app has gone away. (Unless you count Linux).
In cities and towns all across America, there are only two types of "computer work":
1. Virus Hygiene. Simply being the janitor for Microsoft's mediocrity. Getting $100 for some poor schmuck who hasn't worked out the math, or doesn't know there's an alternative.
2. Everything ELSE. Making a supercomputer for watching an assembly line so it won't crash any more. Measuring/controlling the flow of natural gas from Canada to Kentucky. The mind boggles. The lowest-tech job there is system administration, FCOL.
Guess which one is the only work being done in my town? The flow of new applications has dwindled. The "breakthroughs" on the desktop have been almost completely new versions of old apps like Office.
This has been a blockage in place for at least 15 years. When do we get to have the technology growth back? Will Microsoft ever make 'enough' money?
Just so ya know:
- Conservatives did not do this.
- Conservatives didn't outlaw trans-fats in NYC.
- Conservatives didn't begin to outlaw the incandescent bulb.
- Conservatives didn't change your toilet.
- Conservatives don't think the Fed has any business in your business.
This is the work of the Liberal/Progressive/Communist Party. You know, the one who shot JFK, the one who stood in the doorway of a college to keep negros from entering, the ones who used firehoses on negros in Selma and elsewhere? Oh, same mindset was behind Booth, who killed Lincoln, a Republican president who freed the slaves.
Yeah, that's them. The ones pointing racism and bigotry at the Rebpublican party. They got some gall, don't they?
You'd think they'd come to this...but the truth is, the rich and (over) educated are usually the ones to buy such things. Imagine a bunch of Ed Begleys. :)
There are government bonuses for such purchases, but people just really don't LIKE these cars. They're expensive. They can leave you waiting for a recharge: your day has to come to an end, 'cause the thing needs to be recharged.
There's just nothing so cheap, nothing so reliable as an old beater to get you around. And you don't have to double the toxic waste in order to make the batteries and power controls for it.
When they make sense...you'll see them everywhere. And not a moment before. PRECISELY the same reason you don't tend to see Tesla ($100,000+) cars out on the road everywhere- they don't make sense to everyone.
That summer trip next year is ON!
Nuclear weapons work perfectly. Not one has been fired in anger- only two cities were EVER hit by them, and both of them have almost completely recovered, other than missing citizens.
The reason 'they work' is that, despite the knife-edge of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Russian subs were told to attack if they didn't get futher commands...YET THEY DIDN'T...is a testament to the value of nukes. They stop wars by making them so ridiculously dangerous to wage. This is why you don't understand Regan.
There's no value in sending more than 100 atomic devices anywhere: we all die. It's that fact, and the two existing examples we don't want to repeat, that keeps us all honest. Having more missiles than that, assures the fact won't change any time soon.
I remember waiting for the Space Shuttle to come to be...and remember them naming the first one "Enterprise" just seemed so right. But that was a mock-up; dammit.
Now I suppose I get to wait until the new series gets in place, and watch the fireworks through the *unscheduled* missions, because it'll never be ready on time.
Once upon a time, a concept had to be tested first with an experimenter, and when something new was found, he'd take that to a conference where other experimenters would retry the experiment again on their own. If they got the same result, it was declare 'true'.
But nowdays so much science is paid to support findings. There's money in a renowned scientist claiming CO2 is causing us all to die. It permits our governments to over-control each and every pleasantry of modern life, and gives politicians more and more power.
You can't say that, because it's really hot someplace, it's globalwarming, and later because it's really cold, that, too, is global warming. And you sure as hell can't say any of this, because the role of CO2 in the fossil record is one of COOLING when CO2 is widely present, not warming. Not opinion: fact. It's why AlGore showed the phenomenon as two distinct graphs, not one, in his "Inconvient Truth" lie.
Let's stop and do a reality check on this latest suggestion; the one that happiness is spread....in ANY way like a virus. Everyone has good and bad days. But how many BAD DAYS would the Earth have to have, to stop each and every one of us from being happy, naturally? The odds are staggering.
I'm an old fart. I remember when science was actually based on concpept and proof. Similarly, I remember when journalism was based on investigation and reporting, not merely cheerleading the team wanting to over-control human freedoms. But I tell you, we need to turn both around if we are to survive. And that, too, isn't opinion.
Science does silly things like this sometimes. Healing wounds? Sure! We'll make more cells. Oh, but no: BRAIN cells are magical and can't be replaced.
I'm sorry, with as many animals as there are (lots of diversity of breeds!) and humans seeing SO many animals in their lifetimes (just consider dogs and cats alone) if there were normally cells that actually could not be replaced, wouldn't that render them 'crazy' (for the brain) or leave gaping holes in muscle tissue, or similar? To rule this out sounds like another standard I heard:
Take a june bug, large and green...tie a string to it's leg and let him fly in circles. At the point where he starts to BLUR, that must be the speed of light. Figure the scale based on RPMs, etc the usual way.
SO: Speed of light: 34 mph!
Seriously: this standard stood for something like 700 years. Science: imperfect.
Sun doesn't suck.
Solaris doesn't suck.
What does suck?
"Chasing after an open version of Solaris" sucks. (Remember the statement they made, as a reason for not supporting an OS so very similar to theirs?
They've made good (though expensive) hardware. They have top-notch utility programs- everyone says so. I'm just not inclined to persue something that's already declared it's hatred of the OS I call 'home'. :)