Well, anybody without a computer would just have to go to a public computer polling place and vote...
Wait a minute....then we'd have long lines, stupid mistakes, logon problems, incompetent technicians screwing things up, badly designed online forms,....
oh...
and amen to the electoral college. the purpose it serves is to give people in less populous states some semblance of participation and enfranchisement. that way, the people participate to decide who their state votes for; the state electors cast their votes, and voila!, the magic of the founders' attempts to balance regional, individual and national interests takes place.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
don't you think a little cultural knowledge is a good thing. people who ignore history, literature etc., may very likely be decent techies but they are hardly qualified to be decent citizens. - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
quite right. it makes economic sense to them to run linux as the os not as a recognized client. seems obvious.... - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Most graphic artists / Desktop publishing types I know still say Mac is the best for what they do.
I run both Mac OS and Linux for the PowerPC on another machine (Yellow Dog). I spend all my time developing in Linux (Mac has neither emacs nor any of the million other useful utilities and shell tools). My wife, however, does all the front end web stuff and design, and she swears by the Mac. I think there are many people who will continue to want and use the Mac.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
the file system is easy to understand and transparent,
shell commands are fast and easy at the command line; i hate my mouse
four cool desktops
my k-task bar slides
everything's free - i want it, i get it - my database, compilers, web server, lots of nice shell utilities and languages to choose from and suit any occassion, formal or informal
the OS older, better tested, bug-free
no memory leaks so i don't have to reboot (it would be a sin to bring my box down for any reason but an emergency)
real multi-tasking
it's cool
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Plots of the data from USGS observatories can be seen on-line at: http://geomag.usgs.gov/frames/plots.htm - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Suffice it to say that many people manage to think despite their public school educations.
Viviana probably would have done something pretty bright either way. Unfortunately, public schools ususally manage to allow those who really NEED a rigourous education to be left completely unprepared for much except garbage collection (the traditional kind...)
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
you virtually exclude yourself from the realm of reasonable debate by your comments, revealing yourself as a fanatic. and "take guns from cops"? why are guns so special, as a weapon, that they must be taken away? take computers away from fanatics....
i refer you to Modern Times by Paul Johnson, the revised edition. I believe it is well known that, through his efforts to revitalize the church in poland, the hope had an enormous effect in bringing totalitarian rule to an end there by turning masses of individuals against their rulers. don't get me wrong. i believe george marshall to be one of the greats, but in light of the worldwide mission and accomplishments of the pope (he's made dozens of visits to other countries, met with countless leaders, written well over 20 feet of shelf space worth of theology, philosophy (including political), poetry, encyclicals, etc.), I don't think marshall quite makes the cut by comparison.
... and the crusades are old news. if we were to judge every institution by its past mistakes, we'd be so busy condemning we'd have no time for anything else. one of the reasons it is so easy to criticize the catholic church is that not many other institutions have survived so long as to make as many mistakes. its survival itself is testimony to its general health.
it would seem to me that, in light of modern america's relativism and behavioural pscychological democracy, bill clinton would be the perfect man of the century. he embodies the childish tendencies and hypocrisy that only we americans could elevate to a position of leadership.
the more i learn about thomas jefferson, the more i think he was a technical/engineering genius and completely delusional with regard to human nature and political reality. he would be alarmed at the state of politics and democracy today, though he is in large part responsible for its shortcomings. such a fan of the popular will never thought the popular will would desire such stupid things as the american public does.
i didn't realize that the pope was a flamboyant figure. certainly he might be considered more influential more positive than marshall, although i agree with the assessment in general. but the current pope was probably the most influential figure in the downfall of communism, the revitalization of an ailing church and a dialogue among peoples of disparate geographical regions and beliefs.
this is the typical routine for a bored, overly indulged people. medicines that block fat but make you do all sorts of disgusting things. medicines that grow hair but make your fingers fall off.
people now go in to doc's offices with a self-diagnosis of *social phobia* or some other personality trait, as if it were a badge of honor to be mentally ill (which they're not), requesting pills, because it feels good to take pills.
Psych*s ought to know better, but their profession has been so divorced from the procedural methods of real medicine in the last twenty years that its a joke. they treat most cases based on nothing but a description of symptoms, and as any doctor knows, similar symptoms arise from different causes.
business-people certainly don't seem to take any of the other unreasonable over-valuations personally. the problem with this market, as with so many other sub-sectors of the IT market, is this: there may actually be as much future profit out there as is built into the valuations numbers sustained by the companies currently out there. but the market seems to be unreasonably ignoring the fact the competition will inevitably arise for these companies. as of yet, the competition has yet to emerge that will pop the balloon for some companies (amazon), in part because of the losing numbers. in fact, many of those sustaining high valuations now will turn out to have subsidized the future winners throught their ultimate failure. but just because there may exist huge value in the sector in general doesn't mean it is all wrapped up in the few companies being valued so ridiculously. and in the linux market, where plenty of competition should be obvious (since its open source), there will be many companies competing for that big pot of gold. i won't be buying any of it soon.
Anonymous coward is right: people back then had nothing comparing to our modern concept of "progress," except in the case of "moral progress," which was an incrementally slow and painful process. For anyone interested in how people imagined their world back then, see "Medieval Society," a collection of essays with the first one by Mircea Eliade (that one being the seminal serious work up to its writing) and also see Peter Brown's works ("The Cult of Saints" being a great place to start). We tend not to realize that medieval's world view was infused with a sense of the religious and sacramental and a sense of connection rather than our modern sense of isolation.
Bradbury is one of the great writers of our times, and I wish him good health, and god bless him (;). The great thing about his writing is the moral imagination it displays, rather than the cheap meaningless fantasy you see so often.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed.
Calling this "seven lines of code" is a little deceptive. Make it readable and it's more like forty.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Well, anybody without a computer would just have to go to a public computer polling place and vote...
Wait a minute....then we'd have long lines, stupid mistakes, logon problems, incompetent technicians screwing things up, badly designed online forms,....
oh...
and amen to the electoral college. the purpose it serves is to give people in less populous states some semblance of participation and enfranchisement. that way, the people participate to decide who their state votes for; the state electors cast their votes, and voila!, the magic of the founders' attempts to balance regional, individual and national interests takes place.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
amen, bro'
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Technology is not getting cheaper
yes it is. you can put together a reasonably fast computer for $600 bucks, monitor included, if you look in the right place.
they must become like the TV
the TV is already like the TV.
The slobs who see a digital utopia in our future are always those with the latest widgets
probably true....
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
don't you think a little cultural knowledge is a good thing. people who ignore history, literature etc., may very likely be decent techies but they are hardly qualified to be decent citizens.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
quite right. it makes economic sense to them to run linux as the os not as a recognized client. seems obvious....
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Most graphic artists / Desktop publishing types I know still say Mac is the best for what they do.
I run both Mac OS and Linux for the PowerPC on another machine (Yellow Dog). I spend all my time developing in Linux (Mac has neither emacs nor any of the million other useful utilities and shell tools). My wife, however, does all the front end web stuff and design, and she swears by the Mac. I think there are many people who will continue to want and use the Mac.
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
the whole damn OS is intuitive,
the file system is easy to understand and transparent,
shell commands are fast and easy at the command line; i hate my mouse
four cool desktops
my k-task bar slides
everything's free - i want it, i get it - my database, compilers, web server, lots of nice shell utilities and languages to choose from and suit any occassion, formal or informal
the OS older, better tested, bug-free
no memory leaks so i don't have to reboot (it would be a sin to bring my box down for any reason but an emergency)
real multi-tasking
it's cool
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Plots of the data from USGS observatories can be seen on-line at: http://geomag.usgs.gov/frames/plots.htm
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
Suffice it to say that many people manage to think despite their public school educations.
Viviana probably would have done something pretty bright either way. Unfortunately, public schools ususally manage to allow those who really NEED a rigourous education to be left completely unprepared for much except garbage collection (the traditional kind...)
- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
don't ask stupid questions.
amen to that bro.
jefferson: the tree of liberty must often be watered withe the blood of its enemies.
problem is, people are too chicken-shit to sacrifice anything to defend the things that make life worth living.
is this being self-moderated or something? how do such comments get *interesting*? how about funny. or pathetic.
you virtually exclude yourself from the realm of reasonable debate by your comments, revealing yourself as a fanatic. and "take guns from cops"? why are guns so special, as a weapon, that they must be taken away? take computers away from fanatics....
i refer you to Modern Times by Paul Johnson, the revised edition. I believe it is well known that, through his efforts to revitalize the church in poland, the hope had an enormous effect in bringing totalitarian rule to an end there by turning masses of individuals against their rulers. don't get me wrong. i believe george marshall to be one of the greats, but in light of the worldwide mission and accomplishments of the pope (he's made dozens of visits to other countries, met with countless leaders, written well over 20 feet of shelf space worth of theology, philosophy (including political), poetry, encyclicals, etc.), I don't think marshall quite makes the cut by comparison.
... and the crusades are old news. if we were to judge every institution by its past mistakes, we'd be so busy condemning we'd have no time for anything else. one of the reasons it is so easy to criticize the catholic church is that not many other institutions have survived so long as to make as many mistakes. its survival itself is testimony to its general health.
it would seem to me that, in light of modern america's relativism and behavioural pscychological democracy, bill clinton would be the perfect man of the century. he embodies the childish tendencies and hypocrisy that only we americans could elevate to a position of leadership.
the more i learn about thomas jefferson, the more i think he was a technical/engineering genius and completely delusional with regard to human nature and political reality. he would be alarmed at the state of politics and democracy today, though he is in large part responsible for its shortcomings. such a fan of the popular will never thought the popular will would desire such stupid things as the american public does.
i didn't realize that the pope was a flamboyant figure. certainly he might be considered more influential more positive than marshall, although i agree with the assessment in general. but the current pope was probably the most influential figure in the downfall of communism, the revitalization of an ailing church and a dialogue among peoples of disparate geographical regions and beliefs.
Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey hear, monkey say.
this is the typical routine for a bored, overly indulged people. medicines that block fat but make you do all sorts of disgusting things. medicines that grow hair but make your fingers fall off.
people now go in to doc's offices with a self-diagnosis of *social phobia* or some other personality trait, as if it were a badge of honor to be mentally ill (which they're not), requesting pills, because it feels good to take pills.
Psych*s ought to know better, but their profession has been so divorced from the procedural methods of real medicine in the last twenty years that its a joke. they treat most cases based on nothing but a description of symptoms, and as any doctor knows, similar symptoms arise from different causes.
god help us
business-people certainly don't seem to take any of the other unreasonable over-valuations personally. the problem with this market, as with so many other sub-sectors of the IT market, is this: there may actually be as much future profit out there as is built into the valuations numbers sustained by the companies currently out there. but the market seems to be unreasonably ignoring the fact the competition will inevitably arise for these companies. as of yet, the competition has yet to emerge that will pop the balloon for some companies (amazon), in part because of the losing numbers. in fact, many of those sustaining high valuations now will turn out to have subsidized the future winners throught their ultimate failure. but just because there may exist huge value in the sector in general doesn't mean it is all wrapped up in the few companies being valued so ridiculously. and in the linux market, where plenty of competition should be obvious (since its open source), there will be many companies competing for that big pot of gold. i won't be buying any of it soon.
so now windowsNT and 2000 can crash at the speed of light?
Anonymous coward is right: people back then had nothing comparing to our modern concept of "progress," except in the case of "moral progress," which was an incrementally slow and painful process. For anyone interested in how people imagined their world back then, see "Medieval Society," a collection of essays with the first one by Mircea Eliade (that one being the seminal serious work up to its writing) and also see Peter Brown's works ("The Cult of Saints" being a great place to start). We tend not to realize that medieval's world view was infused with a sense of the religious and sacramental and a sense of connection rather than our modern sense of isolation.
Bradbury is one of the great writers of our times, and I wish him good health, and god bless him (;). The great thing about his writing is the moral imagination it displays, rather than the cheap meaningless fantasy you see so often.