Yes, dolphins sometimes swim into nets. Humans swim into nets cast by online predators, hackers, thieves, swindlers, corporate con men, advertisers, media kingpins, tyrants and government scammers, profiteers, murderers, despots, politicians, and belief systems -- they do it with a repetitive and self-destructive idiocy that is almost always stunning in its blind ignorance. Which of these two species, I wonder, swims with greater folly and more recurrent insanity into the nets of destruction?
PF is actually one of the least "tripped out" bands of that era. Gilmore, Waters, the late Wright, and Mason are/were all fairly clean livers. I think they actually learned something early from Sid's death and avoided the drug culture that trapped many others. It's probably one reason why their music was so clear, creative, often sublime.
You'd think geeks would get the details right: 250,000 cables have NOT been published. Barely over a thousand have been. Yet this dweeb and the entire American MSM spouts about a quarter million cables published. Has idiocy become so enshrined that slashdot editors now bow to it, too? Are there any adults in charge anymore?
I still use it for entering CAPTCHA codes -- those images with cap letters and numbers. But flamers will be flamers whether or not they have a lock key as fuel for their flaming. So yes, idiots will be idiots and changing a keyboard won't make people suddenly mature.
What many forget is how bad 3.1 was. I clearly recall getting so fed up with it that I wiped my 120MB HD (on a Gateway 386dx) and put DOS 5 back -- because Windows sucked and because -- another thing folks forget -- WordPerfect for DOS was then a much better product than any existing version of Word. 95 sucked pretty bad too, and was clearly outclassed by os2 warp. But in America, the team with the best marketers wins. That was where Gates was ahead of everyone, even Jobs back then: he knew that the image meant so much more than substance. So he made the image his commitment. Today, the piper's come a' calling for that, and Ballmer is cashing in his shares now that the only decent or competitive product they sell is a video game box.
Would Anonymous's other name happen to be Rupert? Don't worry Rupe, ain't nobody gonna "gag" ur boyz except a Higher Power (yep, Cheney). What I don't understand is how this kid is gonna get "corrected" by being butt-fucked in stir for two and a half years. 220 years ago, in another nation, they had a situation like ours now: roughly a quarter of the nation's wealth was owned by a tiny sliver of a minority; the prisons were full to bursting with non-violent offenders; poverty was rampant in a nation that was among the world's richest; cities were crumbling as royalty and the feudal peerage indulged. I'm thinking France, around 1789.
That's a fine observation to make; what I don't get is the personal attack that the Pharyngula guy makes. It smells like sour grapes against a zillion-selling author who is no doubt a mega-millionaire as a result. To say that Kurzweil is wrong about this or over the top on that is okay; to brand him a charlatan and a fool is something else. I'm a writer myself, and it does not make me feel good when Sarah Palin or Lindsey Lohan get seven-figure advances on material they probably don't and couldn't write. At least Kurzweil deserves the credit of being able to write his own material, and apparently making some accurate socio-technological predictions and creating some interest in science and tech as a result. If he also deserves criticism, then let him have it, but ad hominem assaults just reveal the attacker's envy rather than reveal anything about the target of the attacks.
I was there, I remember putting it onto a Gateway 386DX with a 120MB HD and 4MB of RAM. Win 3 sucked, I mean it sucked so bad that after a month I formatted the drive and put good old DOS back.
This is plain creepy: Chuck Schumer, fresh from attacking his party's President for daring to criticize Israel (which, as we know, is more perfect than America and never does anything wrong) takes up a bizarre cause for tourism. How many million unemployed New Yorkers are there, and how near to financial collapse and political gridlock is the state? But Chuck thinks doing the right wing's dirty work by spanking Obama for questioning Israel and flag-waving for an old tourist hunk on the west side are his top priorities as a leader. Meanwhile, Chuck is so deep in Goldman Sachs' pockets that Ariadne couldn't lay out enough thread for him to find his way out. Maybe that's why he's busy attacking his party's President these days, because said Prez dares to get behind some legislation that just might curb Goldman's criminality.
America has simply got to get over its lust for the dramatic and the spacey. The transformational scientific project of the day is in Europe, as I mentioned here:
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is, frankly, rather ugly. It doesn’t fly, takes no glorious pictures of space, has no “one small step for man” quote-book, and doesn’t send us cool rocks. You can’t drive a space car on the LHC, and you’d better not go anywhere near it with a golf club. The LHC lacks all the beautiful theater and heavy-breathing drama of American space travel. But the fact is that manned interplanetary travel, with the technology available now, would be fairly banal in its practical revelations; just as landing on the Moon was really more an assertion of America’s scientific alpha-dog status than a genuine exercise in an even mildly revolutionary scientific understanding.
I'd prefer that we focus on the quality of the writing: Bennett's work is Pulitzer-quality journalism, the kind of stuff that would have transformed last year's debate and pulled Washington out of the sewer of shrill innuendo and insanity which it still calls home. Incidentally, the editors here deserve praise for bringing a sterling piece like this to a large audience.
My kid, a HS student, uses the Livescribe device and swears by it. It is kind of cool because it makes JPGs rather than attempting OCR with handwriting, and it's got audio. You can also print out your own paper for it. I think it cost around $150 or something.
If as SCOTUS determined this week, the corporation is a person with 1st amendment rights, then it must also have a conscience. Can't have one without the other, I should think. That goes for MS and for Intel too.
I'm a para-geek (a tech writer, actually), so don't understand the technical aspects of this. But I do sense the well-known fear that keeps products like IE6 running over corporate LANs. As I said in this post:
...the corporate mind is going to have to learn some courage if it is to discover its conscience. “Do no evil” (Google’s motto) is not enough, even if its intent is genuine. Aversion betrays an underlying fear; it is the software patch, the unending trail of ineffectual security updates, of the mind. It would be far better to simply say, “do what’s right.”
And I nearly had my head taken off by commenters because I dared suggest that Apple might create Linux versions of iTunes, Safari, and Quicktime. Oh, and Boot Camp drivers for Ubuntu.
I'm primarily a political blogger, so I know that smart dissent alway, always, makes the things you love better. Like democracy and operating systems. Here's a sample of my Linux criticism, which was thoroughly ignored: What Linux Lacks.
He touched the monolith. One of those rocks he tosses will tumble and soar through the air and into space and become a space station with very complicated instructions on using a zero gravity toilet.
Strike up the Blue Danube Waltz and open the pod bay doors!
In fact, there is not a single mistake in this post, for ITS writer doesn't know the difference between ITS and IT'S. Let's review:
Its: belong to it, as in "its last eruption..."
It's: It is...as in: It's amazing to me that geeks, to whom a single typo in code can be disaster, regularly butcher the English language.
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Is it August already? Or is the "idle" section of the site down?
As Dan Rather once said, Americans will put up with anything as long as it doesn't stop traffic...
Yes, dolphins sometimes swim into nets. Humans swim into nets cast by online predators, hackers, thieves, swindlers, corporate con men, advertisers, media kingpins, tyrants and government scammers, profiteers, murderers, despots, politicians, and belief systems -- they do it with a repetitive and self-destructive idiocy that is almost always stunning in its blind ignorance. Which of these two species, I wonder, swims with greater folly and more recurrent insanity into the nets of destruction?
PF is actually one of the least "tripped out" bands of that era. Gilmore, Waters, the late Wright, and Mason are/were all fairly clean livers. I think they actually learned something early from Sid's death and avoided the drug culture that trapped many others. It's probably one reason why their music was so clear, creative, often sublime.
You'd think geeks would get the details right: 250,000 cables have NOT been published. Barely over a thousand have been. Yet this dweeb and the entire American MSM spouts about a quarter million cables published. Has idiocy become so enshrined that slashdot editors now bow to it, too? Are there any adults in charge anymore?
I still use it for entering CAPTCHA codes -- those images with cap letters and numbers. But flamers will be flamers whether or not they have a lock key as fuel for their flaming. So yes, idiots will be idiots and changing a keyboard won't make people suddenly mature.
What many forget is how bad 3.1 was. I clearly recall getting so fed up with it that I wiped my 120MB HD (on a Gateway 386dx) and put DOS 5 back -- because Windows sucked and because -- another thing folks forget -- WordPerfect for DOS was then a much better product than any existing version of Word. 95 sucked pretty bad too, and was clearly outclassed by os2 warp. But in America, the team with the best marketers wins. That was where Gates was ahead of everyone, even Jobs back then: he knew that the image meant so much more than substance. So he made the image his commitment. Today, the piper's come a' calling for that, and Ballmer is cashing in his shares now that the only decent or competitive product they sell is a video game box.
Would Anonymous's other name happen to be Rupert? Don't worry Rupe, ain't nobody gonna "gag" ur boyz except a Higher Power (yep, Cheney). What I don't understand is how this kid is gonna get "corrected" by being butt-fucked in stir for two and a half years. 220 years ago, in another nation, they had a situation like ours now: roughly a quarter of the nation's wealth was owned by a tiny sliver of a minority; the prisons were full to bursting with non-violent offenders; poverty was rampant in a nation that was among the world's richest; cities were crumbling as royalty and the feudal peerage indulged. I'm thinking France, around 1789.
That's a fine observation to make; what I don't get is the personal attack that the Pharyngula guy makes. It smells like sour grapes against a zillion-selling author who is no doubt a mega-millionaire as a result. To say that Kurzweil is wrong about this or over the top on that is okay; to brand him a charlatan and a fool is something else. I'm a writer myself, and it does not make me feel good when Sarah Palin or Lindsey Lohan get seven-figure advances on material they probably don't and couldn't write. At least Kurzweil deserves the credit of being able to write his own material, and apparently making some accurate socio-technological predictions and creating some interest in science and tech as a result. If he also deserves criticism, then let him have it, but ad hominem assaults just reveal the attacker's envy rather than reveal anything about the target of the attacks.
I was there, I remember putting it onto a Gateway 386DX with a 120MB HD and 4MB of RAM. Win 3 sucked, I mean it sucked so bad that after a month I formatted the drive and put good old DOS back.
This is plain creepy: Chuck Schumer, fresh from attacking his party's President for daring to criticize Israel (which, as we know, is more perfect than America and never does anything wrong) takes up a bizarre cause for tourism. How many million unemployed New Yorkers are there, and how near to financial collapse and political gridlock is the state? But Chuck thinks doing the right wing's dirty work by spanking Obama for questioning Israel and flag-waving for an old tourist hunk on the west side are his top priorities as a leader. Meanwhile, Chuck is so deep in Goldman Sachs' pockets that Ariadne couldn't lay out enough thread for him to find his way out. Maybe that's why he's busy attacking his party's President these days, because said Prez dares to get behind some legislation that just might curb Goldman's criminality.
I'd prefer that we focus on the quality of the writing: Bennett's work is Pulitzer-quality journalism, the kind of stuff that would have transformed last year's debate and pulled Washington out of the sewer of shrill innuendo and insanity which it still calls home. Incidentally, the editors here deserve praise for bringing a sterling piece like this to a large audience.
Been using Superb for four yrs., had about two days' total downtime, and no data loss. Good support, inexpensive, supports linux/php/mysql.
My kid, a HS student, uses the Livescribe device and swears by it. It is kind of cool because it makes JPGs rather than attempting OCR with handwriting, and it's got audio. You can also print out your own paper for it. I think it cost around $150 or something.
Amazing coincidence that others have surely noticed -- this is the same company with the famous cat herding commercial, right?
If as SCOTUS determined this week, the corporation is a person with 1st amendment rights, then it must also have a conscience. Can't have one without the other, I should think. That goes for MS and for Intel too.
yo, liquid bling is my thing.
All you geeks just start singing or whistling while you work, and you'll have your headphones and your music back by next week.
And I nearly had my head taken off by commenters because I dared suggest that Apple might create Linux versions of iTunes, Safari, and Quicktime. Oh, and Boot Camp drivers for Ubuntu.
I'm primarily a political blogger, so I know that smart dissent alway, always, makes the things you love better. Like democracy and operating systems. Here's a sample of my Linux criticism, which was thoroughly ignored: What Linux Lacks.
He touched the monolith. One of those rocks he tosses will tumble and soar through the air and into space and become a space station with very complicated instructions on using a zero gravity toilet. Strike up the Blue Danube Waltz and open the pod bay doors!
Its: belong to it, as in "its last eruption..."
It's: It is...as in: It's amazing to me that geeks, to whom a single typo in code can be disaster, regularly butcher the English language.
This guy here has it right -- 7 appears to be solid but no more solid on balance than xp already is. The rest of my view of it is here.