Homer: Oh Lisa, you and your stories! Bart is a vampire. Beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that building... thingy... where our beds and TV... is.
One of my perpetual frustrations with the scientific community, is thier insistance on putting forth possible answers and explinations as facts while working with only a relativly small amount of data. The water on Mars question has been "proven" and "disproven" about a dozen times already based on the same available data. I have nothing against scientific research, on the contrary, I belive it is a most worthy pursuit. But I get sick and tired of the incredible hubris of stating "such and such" as scientific fact when really all they are submitting are inducive/deductive leaps based on given persons way of observing given data.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. No matter the complexity or simlicity of any given system a certain percentage of the population will find a way to srcew it up! All the hubub in Florida right now is caused by the fact that the percentage who screwed up is large enough to swing the election. Or rather margin of victory is narrow enough to be swung by that percentage. Technology is nither a solution or a problem it merely multiplies and facilitates solutions and problems. /RANT
No mater the complexity or simplicity of any given system, a certain percentage of the population will always manage to screw it up. The problem with trying to make something "fool proof," is that one so often underestimates the resourcefulness of fools. Technology is neither the problem or the solution, it just helps to amplify problems and solutions.
There was a movie in the mid 80's called Brewster's Millions, starring Richard Pryor. It was a very funny move about some poor schmuck that inherits 30 million dollars which he has to spend in 30 days so he can inherit $300 million. In order to spend the $30 million, he hits on the idea of running for Mayor of New York. What was so funny, was that he would spend all his money on TV spots, billboards, ads, etc. and he would tell people not to vote for him. His campain slogan was "None of the Above!" And at one point in the movie, he says in a press confernce, "Only an idiot would vote for me!"
I know that no person in thier right mind would ever run such a platform. But what I wouldn't give to have the option on every ballot "None of the Above."
I've been a fan of Anime/Manga/Japanimation ever since I first watched StarBlazers as a kid. But one thing I've been puzzled about for some time is how Manga and Anime relate, and how the two terms came about.
Or is it merely a matter of semantics?
Puh-leeze, Katz! Having done your own shrare of moral pontificating in this forum I'd hope you'd be able to refrain from calling the kettle black. While I rarely agree with Senators Lieberman and Bennett on most issues and matters of legislation, I do respect them, as I respect anyone who'll state thier convictions and stand by them.
I'd like a little price competition in space (since it seems more likely than among local land-bound connections), but why can't the dishes and setup be free like they are with satellite TV promotions?
When and If price-competition begins to heat up, I'm certain free setup as well as a number of other "perks" will be offered.
The Wintel partnership has been slowly eroding because of several factors,
1) AMD's rapidly increasing market share
and
2) Intel's continued overtures to the Open Source/Linux community.
Taking that into consideration, its hardly surprising that Micro$oft would be interested in doing more "in house"
Many branches of science (most notably Biology) have profitably used Latin and Ancient Greek in the areas of classification and for clarity of communication. The very fact that they are "dead" languages eliminates the possiblity of ambigutiy arising from changes in modern vernacular. While I realize that few programers know much if any Latin, it has roots in so many European languages (Spanish, French, Italian, and even to an extent in English) it would not be too dificult to learn enough to be an efficent programer/hacker.
So what? We still make reference to mankind, humanity, etc. But that doesn't mean women are a different species. (Though I'll admit to knowing a number of people willing to make that arguement)
Politicaly Correct - adj. see anal-retentive
Oh yes and a bow and arrow are very hard to use
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weapons have always been designed so that a child, (or a man with a child's intelligence) could use them. And the young have always been instructed in thier use. In more "primitive" days, children had to learn the use of weapons for use in gathering food, and as protection when the nearest authority was at best a days journey away. The fact that these skills were easily converted to use in war was a mere convienence for the generals and politicians. And in every war up till recent times, boys as young as 15 or 16 have enlisted (and at times been conscripted) to serve and die for thier country.
The dicotomy between then and now comes from the fact that in the "modern" western world weapons are not needed for our mere survival. We have little need to hunt for our food, and (while it does have its own problems) we have a justice system to protect us from violent criminals.
I actually have some personal experience with some of these media. My mother (bless her little pack-rat heart) has kept a plethora of old things inherited from my grandfather. Most notatbly are a few wax tubes that were intended for one of those old Victrolas (which we have yet to recover).
She also has a stereopticon, which is sort of like those ViewMasters that I used to play with as a kid. It has a viewport with two lenses that look through at a little mounting place where you place a card that has two identical (or nearly identical) pictures side by side. The effect is that when you look through the viewer at the card, the two identical photos merge into a 3D picture. It blew my mind to think that my grandpa was playing with 3D when he was a kid.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
Bill becoming "Chief Software Architect," of course has a number of implications. One of them is that Bill is trying to rework his image. In the wake of Linus Torvalds increasing popularity, (which among some groups has become reverential awe, and is swiftly approaching worship) Bill may be looking at his future, and realizing that being remembered as merciless marketer and corporate raider, is hardly the legacy he'd care to leave behind. Being thought of as a programing genius will mean much more in the comming decades.
I understand your point, but no matter what you do, there are going to be a fair amount of the "unwashed masses" who will take things out of context, misinterpret what your saying, and generaly bug the hell out of the rest of us. All in all, it doesn't matter what morons think since they don't (think that is).
If nothing else, the Artist's Rendition helps to inspire our imaginations, and and give us something more to ponder than calculations and figures on paper.
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Homer: Oh Lisa, you and your stories! Bart is a vampire. Beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that building... thingy... where our beds and TV... is.
Wouldn't "Constipated Mechanical Berserkers" be a cool name for a band?
One of my perpetual frustrations with the scientific community, is thier insistance on putting forth possible answers and explinations as facts while working with only a relativly small amount of data. The water on Mars question has been "proven" and "disproven" about a dozen times already based on the same available data. I have nothing against scientific research, on the contrary, I belive it is a most worthy pursuit. But I get sick and tired of the incredible hubris of stating "such and such" as scientific fact when really all they are submitting are inducive/deductive leaps based on given persons way of observing given data.
2. The same was in the Kernel with Linus.
3. All code was GPL'ed by him, and without him was not any code GPL'ed that was GPL'ed.
4. In him was the Open Source, and the Open Source was the GPL of hackers.
5. And the GPL shineth on Microsoft, and Microsoft comprehendeth it not.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. No matter the complexity or simlicity of any given system a certain percentage of the population will find a way to srcew it up! All the hubub in Florida right now is caused by the fact that the percentage who screwed up is large enough to swing the election. Or rather margin of victory is narrow enough to be swung by that percentage. Technology is nither a solution or a problem it merely multiplies and facilitates solutions and problems.
No mater the complexity or simplicity of any given system, a certain percentage of the population will always manage to screw it up. The problem with trying to make something "fool proof," is that one so often underestimates the resourcefulness of fools. Technology is neither the problem or the solution, it just helps to amplify problems and solutions.
IMHO, slim chance to none. At least initialy.
just my $.02
I know that no person in thier right mind would ever run such a platform. But what I wouldn't give to have the option on every ballot "None of the Above."
I've been a fan of Anime/Manga/Japanimation ever since I first watched StarBlazers as a kid. But one thing I've been puzzled about for some time is how Manga and Anime relate, and how the two terms came about.
Or is it merely a matter of semantics?
just my $.02
...and probably in more than one episode.
47% of all statistics ar made up on the spot
Puh-leeze, Katz! Having done your own shrare of moral pontificating in this forum I'd hope you'd be able to refrain from calling the kettle black. While I rarely agree with Senators Lieberman and Bennett on most issues and matters of legislation, I do respect them, as I respect anyone who'll state thier convictions and stand by them.
When and If price-competition begins to heat up, I'm certain free setup as well as a number of other "perks" will be offered.
The Wintel partnership has been slowly eroding because of several factors,
1) AMD's rapidly increasing market share
and
2) Intel's continued overtures to the Open Source/Linux community.
Taking that into consideration, its hardly surprising that Micro$oft would be interested in doing more "in house"
Many branches of science (most notably Biology) have profitably used Latin and Ancient Greek in the areas of classification and for clarity of communication. The very fact that they are "dead" languages eliminates the possiblity of ambigutiy arising from changes in modern vernacular. While I realize that few programers know much if any Latin, it has roots in so many European languages (Spanish, French, Italian, and even to an extent in English) it would not be too dificult to learn enough to be an efficent programer/hacker.
Politicaly Correct - adj. see anal-retentive
The dicotomy between then and now comes from the fact that in the "modern" western world weapons are not needed for our mere survival. We have little need to hunt for our food, and (while it does have its own problems) we have a justice system to protect us from violent criminals.
She also has a stereopticon, which is sort of like those ViewMasters that I used to play with as a kid. It has a viewport with two lenses that look through at a little mounting place where you place a card that has two identical (or nearly identical) pictures side by side. The effect is that when you look through the viewer at the card, the two identical photos merge into a 3D picture. It blew my mind to think that my grandpa was playing with 3D when he was a kid.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
Thats my $.02
If nothing else, the Artist's Rendition helps to inspire our imaginations, and and give us something more to ponder than calculations and figures on paper.