"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution," -V.K. Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (which the Russians lost).
I turn 30 in 2 months and 1 day. Is my brain going to evaporate? Will I no longer be able to maintain my own servers? Will I want to censor my own connection and yet be incapable of doing so?
Shit, I thought just being 30 would be bad enough.
"Anyone with the ability to see another person's point of view would acknowledge that using the Start button to stop, or requiring hardware knowledge to install an OS, and so on, is indicative of a situation that needs improvement."
Funny, seems the guys in the article were laughing at iMacs. You know, the computers that don't require any hardware knowledge to set up and don't make you hit Start to stop.
The fact that they were watching them on a PowerPoint presentation, a piece of software that deserves any and all scorn thrown it's way, is just icing on the cake.
Decent stories and believable characters aside, the two things the new Trek series has to have to make me watch it are:
1. Seatbelts. After being flung about the bridge for the Nth time someone, somewhere, must rediscover the lost art of strapping oneself to one's seat.
2. Fuses. Another bit of technology forgotten sometime after the 21st century. Just a couple of breakers and we can say goodbye to spark flinging controll boards and concentrate on structural members collapsing whenever the Enterprise hits a dust mote going faster than 10m/s.
"In all fairness the people I dealt with on an individual basis were all very friendly and enjoyable. But when they get together their actions are somewhat appalling."
As a resident of Tennessee I can not tell you how glad I am to have the legacy of the Scopes Monkey Trial lifted from this state.
But no liquor on sundays. Unless you go to a bar of course... or Georgia.
Wanna hear something funny? The county in which the Jack Daniel's distillery is located is dry. Yup, the only place to buy booze in Lynchburg is the gift shop at the distillery.
I remember gauss guns (same theory) from the RPG Traveller circa 1978. Battletech and OGRE also had railguns a short time later. It's a fairly old concept.
What these guys are doing is much more similar to the railgun in Neal Stephenson's The Big U (1988?).
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In my estimation, one (BeOS) has moderately superior technological underpinnings. The other (OS X) is actually going to matter.
I agree with the author completely. I love using BeOS, it's still the most pleasent interface, but I need to use Illustrator, Quark, Photoshop, MS Office, etc., etc. OSX offers all this and the interface is growing on me. I'll keep my Be based machine around as a glorified stereo system, but my next box will be a DP G4 Mac.
The man has already stated that he hates Gore, why would you repond with more (or more likely the same) reasons that Gore sucks? Why would you not try and build your candidate up by showing how W is better?
The west has had these concepts for centuries, if not millenia. The problem is that these concepts were only passed on in heavily codified form due to fear of persecution from the western mega-faiths. Sufi, Rosicrutionism, Alchemy, Cabbala, Hermeticism, and, quite possibly, the ancient Mystery Religions (esp. the Eluesinian, Dionysian, and Orphic mysteries) all use various metaphors to basically state the same thing. Perception is reality and God is everything (pantheism).
A bit of purple window-pane does help a bit, although I am no longer as sure as I once was that the center of the universe is located in the hot-tub of the downtown Atlanta Sheraton.
Inanimate objects are not good or bad, people are (Nietsche aside... although even he would blame the person's 'will' rather than the object). The same gun that kills a child can protect a child. The gun is neither good nor bad, the user of it is.
I don't know about you, but I'm capable of taking responsibility for myself. I won't place the blame for my weaknesses on inanimate objects.
Isn't it amazing how a concept like 'the noble savage' lives on although any historian or anthropologist you ask about it will tell you the concept has been discredited for years?
Those who think everything would be better if we still used horses instead of cars need to read the history of Typhoid epidemics. Renfairs need to be sprayed down with a layer of shit to get that real 15th century feel. And those opposed to automated looms need to dress in sackcloth and go barefooted for a year.
We live in an age of miracles, but human foibles are still the same. People need to blame their problems on themselves not inanimate objects.
Fine with me, as long as I get a copy of the video (or at least half of the rights). That way I can use it to intimidate my next batch (faster reflexes this time) like I use that scene from The Hunger to do with the current batch.
To bad I had to put down Fabius, my war-monkey... he'd be a much better fight. Those bio-mechanical weapons just didn't agree with his nervous system, alas.
BTW, the monkeys, paraphrasing Nepos, say that if orthodoxy is your doxy then hetrodoxy is simply their doxy... I don't know how they picked up on Byzantine religous history, but there you go.
Now that you mention it, one of my hyper-intelegent... well formerly hyper-intelegent.... monkeys does drool over the ferrite core memory. I was having them try a new scheme for creating 200Mhz double data rate ferrite core memory when one of the iron doughnuts escaped containment at just under escape velocity blowing a neat hole through said monkey's head. Now he drools over the memory... hell over anything near him... and has some strange tendancys to violent outbreaks of pure simian angst. I changed his name to Phineas since it's apropo and he doesn't respond to Lucullus anymore. Pompey, Cato, and Cornelius were loathe to return to work after the accident so I had to apply more chunky voltage to their testicles (this is why I use male hyper-intelegent monkeys), Lucullus too since it seems to, eventualy, calm him down some.
The problem, as I see it, with our (US) government is that it is no longer truly representative. I know that the two front runners for president do not come even close to representing my ideals, and the one I'm going to vote for, Nader, is at best close to my ideals. The closest in congress, either house, is the independent (the only independent in congress) from Vermont Bernard Sanders. My own senators (Thompson and Frist) and my rep (the loathsome Zach Wamp) are hacks that I wouldn't buy a used car from.
My first step in reforming government would be to make elections for representatives 'at large' rather than by district. No district in any state, with the exception of Vermont a one district state, is going to have sufficient support for third party candidates to get them elected. Statewide however, third party candidates could probably find the support they need to get elected. Sure the Dems and Repubs will still get a majority of the seats, but with 13 districts (using my home state as an example) Libertarian, Green, and/or Reform candidate(s), even in bible belt Tennessee, could get elected. With a more pluralistic house, third parties could build upon the bases they create to leapfrog candidates to the senate and presidency.
Maybe that's a dumb idea (if so tear me to pieces) but it seems to me that it could easily work.
... or does anyone else want to see an adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns starring Adam West as the over-the-hill Batman? Corny one liners and psychotic violence, it would be great!
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Shit, I thought just being 30 would be bad enough.
Funny, seems the guys in the article were laughing at iMacs. You know, the computers that don't require any hardware knowledge to set up and don't make you hit Start to stop.
The fact that they were watching them on a PowerPoint presentation, a piece of software that deserves any and all scorn thrown it's way, is just icing on the cake.
1. Seatbelts. After being flung about the bridge for the Nth time someone, somewhere, must rediscover the lost art of strapping oneself to one's seat.
2. Fuses. Another bit of technology forgotten sometime after the 21st century. Just a couple of breakers and we can say goodbye to spark flinging controll boards and concentrate on structural members collapsing whenever the Enterprise hits a dust mote going faster than 10m/s.
Really, that's all I truly want from my SciFi TV.
I think you just described people everywhere.
But no liquor on sundays. Unless you go to a bar of course... or Georgia.
Wanna hear something funny? The county in which the Jack Daniel's distillery is located is dry. Yup, the only place to buy booze in Lynchburg is the gift shop at the distillery.
Point two is still a good one.
What these guys are doing is much more similar to the railgun in Neal Stephenson's The Big U (1988?).
In my estimation, one (BeOS) has moderately superior technological underpinnings. The other (OS X) is actually going to matter.
I agree with the author completely. I love using BeOS, it's still the most pleasent interface, but I need to use Illustrator, Quark, Photoshop, MS Office, etc., etc. OSX offers all this and the interface is growing on me. I'll keep my Be based machine around as a glorified stereo system, but my next box will be a DP G4 Mac.
-Face Dancer (as opposed to Tleilaxu Master)
-Swordmaster of the Ginaz
-Imperial Bashar (or Caid)
-Fedaykin Death Commando
-Rigessian
-Laandsradd Noble (non-Harkonnen/Atreides/Corrino)
-CHOAM Director
-Chilling on Tupile (Where renegade houses go)
As it is: FUD.
A bit of purple window-pane does help a bit, although I am no longer as sure as I once was that the center of the universe is located in the hot-tub of the downtown Atlanta Sheraton.
I don't know about you, but I'm capable of taking responsibility for myself. I won't place the blame for my weaknesses on inanimate objects.
Those who think everything would be better if we still used horses instead of cars need to read the history of Typhoid epidemics. Renfairs need to be sprayed down with a layer of shit to get that real 15th century feel. And those opposed to automated looms need to dress in sackcloth and go barefooted for a year.
We live in an age of miracles, but human foibles are still the same. People need to blame their problems on themselves not inanimate objects.
To bad I had to put down Fabius, my war-monkey... he'd be a much better fight. Those bio-mechanical weapons just didn't agree with his nervous system, alas.
BTW, the monkeys, paraphrasing Nepos, say that if orthodoxy is your doxy then hetrodoxy is simply their doxy... I don't know how they picked up on Byzantine religous history, but there you go.
My first step in reforming government would be to make elections for representatives 'at large' rather than by district. No district in any state, with the exception of Vermont a one district state, is going to have sufficient support for third party candidates to get them elected. Statewide however, third party candidates could probably find the support they need to get elected. Sure the Dems and Repubs will still get a majority of the seats, but with 13 districts (using my home state as an example) Libertarian, Green, and/or Reform candidate(s), even in bible belt Tennessee, could get elected. With a more pluralistic house, third parties could build upon the bases they create to leapfrog candidates to the senate and presidency.
Maybe that's a dumb idea (if so tear me to pieces) but it seems to me that it could easily work.