No, my proposal to let the coporations do the technological work, let the academic institutions do the pure science work, and let the government stop taking my damn money.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Women are still second rate. Age means everything. Forigners are still outsiders.
Granted, however, women have the vote, and I believe I just read that the new PM is appointing some women to important governmental positions. Foreigners may be outsiders, but they are no longer forbidden entry, or even citizenship. I don't know enough to speak to the age issue.
This may not seem like much to you, but again, remeber my point: Western civilization had over half a millenium to phase these changes in. The Japanese are now being told that they have to adapt to these changes in a mere generation or two. World War 2 was no more uncivilized of them than Napoleon was for the French (and as for the tortures inflicted upon those they conquered, don't forget Robuspierre (er, sp? Hate French) and the Committes of Public Saftey that immediately preceeded). The status of women is no worse now in Japan than it was in America 75 years ago.
The only reason their changes seem so long in coming is that they started out behind by a good 600 years. The fact that we can compare them today favorably to ourselves 75 years ago is fairly impressive. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It does seem to lack a bit of the editing that one would expect from a professional book. Linus, for example, has a disturbing tendancy to slip back and forth between the first and the second person (yes, first and second person. As in: "you work on code all the time. I rarely knew if it was day or night"), and a few times autocorrect seems to have been used incorrectly (the ls command being written as l's, as though it were a plural of the letter L (numbers and letters use apostrophes before the s to show plurals)).
Still, it's quite a lot of fun, and rather inspiring too. I had to stop last night about halfway through because I felt like I should be doing some programming of my own:)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Whoa there. You're talking about a country that, in the last 150 years, has done what it took Europe some 600-1000 years. Our culture was able to evolve along with the technology, but theirs was not. I would say, the fact that their society functions at all is fairly impressive. Look at China, Vietnam, Korea (North or South), or anywhere else in Asia, and pick out a country that has done a better job of adapting to modern times.
I'd say, change happens slowly, but less so in Japan than elsewhere...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Well, not too surprising, whenever a chip becomes ubiquitous (sp?), it becomes integrated into the core of the system. I remember the days when I couldn't run software, because my Mac LC II lacked a math coprocessor. As these sorts of applications became more common, we started getting integrated floating point.
Now, as virtually every game requires a 3d card, why not just integrate the damn things into the motherboard? Strikes me that this more or less follows the traditional progression within the computer industry.
So my question is, why the Hell do I still need a sound card?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Whoa, wait, slow down. No broadband content? Have you SEEN the web lately? With clueless PHB's setting the design goals for corporate websites, browsing with at 56k modem is already pretty painful. Your two items aren't actually linked, and hence not a catch 22. Look a little closer. No broadband without demand, and no demand without content. A true catch 22 would be no broadband without demand, and no demand without broadband, which plainly does not make sense.
Hell, you could say the same thing about any piece of computer hardware: there's no incentive to market gigahertz chips until there's a lot of demand, and there won't be a lot of demand for gigahertz chips until there's programs that need it. Well, guess what, there are. Hello Windows XP. Content is created based on the percieved future of the medium (everyone wants to be first in), not neccessarily on its present adoption rate.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I have to admit, I've never noticed the noise that computers make. Am I alone? Maybe it's just because I've had a computer in my room since I was in about 6th grade, but I've never thought it was something to complain about. Hell, sometimes I think I ought to start overclocking, since I really wouldn't mind putting in a larger fan to get better performance.
The only time the noise my computer makes bothers me is when I turn my speakers up all the way I get a little whining sound. But fans, I have no problem with those.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You're right, individual companies can be very short sighted. However, the private sector as a whole, rarely is. The companies with long term vision succeed, while those without fail.
Short sighted govenments on the other hand, cause billions in taxpayer dollars to be flushed down the toilet. Take the Soviet Union. Aside from the various unworkabilities of their economic system, they had too strong of a focus on heavy industry. Whereas the collapse of steel caused places like Detroit in the US to experience heavy recessions, in the Soviet Union it caused the whole damn country to collapse.
Also, why in God's name would you consider a moon base to be short sighted? I'd consider single shot probes to be far more short sighted. With a moon base, you can carry on moon-based research for decades, even centuries if you build it strong enough. A probe on the other hand, maybe will last 5-10 years, of which 1 or 2 years will actually produce worthwhile data, and then it will be lost.
Finally, in case you're worried about a lack of "pure science" research, don't forget academic institutions. It's fairly well known, I think, that government projects are always more expensive than private industry. Sometimes they do a better job (I've heard that Air France has a pretty top notch safety record), sometimes not (the Post Office: 6 seconds without a lost parcel and counting). So, given that, why send the government out first? Why not get corporations to bring down the cost, then have academic institutions (which always recieve govenment subsidies anyway) then provide the research for a tiny fraction of the cost? I mean, it's not like Mars is GOING anywhere!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
And I wasn't saying it would be impossible, just that it would be much more difficult. Sort of like having sex in the back seat of a car, it's certainly very doable, and fun besides, but most of us would much prefer a nice big bed.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Is you would support suing anyone who makes a fingerpainting of the Mona Lisa? Besides which, this is a GAME, not an educational tool, and it apparently has to do with cyborgs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Just out of idle curiosity, why is/. so cozy with Barnes & Noble (owners of Fatbrain)? Is it just a straight marketing deal, are they the only ones with good prices and not Amazon, or what?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Huh? Did you miss where it said "weapons grade plutonium?" And by "power" they meant military power, not electicity. I can't believe this idiocy got modded up. I guess there's just a whole bunch of insecure greens that feel a need to mod anything up that complains about the environment.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Zero g is not like floating. "Floating" would be if you could keep yourself in the air, despite one g of force pushing down on you. Zero g feels more like falling. Falling at 9.8 m/s^2, to be precise. That's why it's called "free fall," because you're just falling around the Earth perpetually when you're in orbit (like Douglas Adams' throwing yourself at the ground and missing). This is why space sickness lasts for hours. Besides, who wants to feel like they're floating? Maybe afterwards, but during that just sounds a little too passive for my tastes.
find a wall to brace yourselves on, or push against
And bounce right off it... If you've got her against the wall, the only thing you have to push against is the air behind you. So youd be flailing your arms crazily trying to essentially "swim" back and forth through the air. If you're against the wall, they you'll just push right off it on the first thrust. So, either you could bounce around the room, thrusting once every time you hit a wall, or you could find a narrow corridor, so you can push off the wall behind you, while pushing her into the wall behind her.
Then you can tell your friends, In space, I could hear her scream....
This is just stupid.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this. It seems like the survey did a very poor job of controlling for variables like that. I mean, it's nice to know that napster users still buy music, and indeed buy more music than the mainstream, but it does not conclusively show that Napster is actually beneficial to the music industry.
It does, however, show that the napster-using segment is important to the music industry, and if the price of keeping them happy is letting napster thrive, then maybe they should back off a bit.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I've heard it said (on what authority, I honestly have no idea) that the lack of gravity actually makes things a lot more difficult (you push, she just floats away). However, breasts in zero g would certainly be a sight to behold...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Look, libertarians, it has now become apparent that it is not government that is taking away our First Amendment rights, it is courts following bad legislation that only favors big publishers.
Huh? How does that make any sense? It's not the government taking our rights away, it's our legislation and our courts? What the Hell do you think our government is? Are you actually this stupid, or do you just pretend to be to see how many moderators you can get to agree with you?
Yes, corporate lobbying has subverted certain laws in their favor. I'm not sure what can be drawn from that though. Make more laws, and corporations will subvert those too, because corporations always concentrate power and money on laws they don't like to a degree that the public at large never could. Do away with corporations, and you will still have some powerful special interest that will do the same, to other laws.
The only conclusion that comes to mind for me is the same old tired expression: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Fewer laws and stronger constitutional restrictions on lawmaking are our best protection against any subversion by the Powers That Be.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The Mandrake Store puts an interesting spin on this as well. They now have a $5 "cheapo 2 CD burn set," and a $90 "fully featured, with manuals, 7 cd set." Note the lack of your standard Red Hat, SuSE, whathaveyou $30 boxed set. Basically, the only way Mandrake can make money now is off of the expensive boxed set, donations, or shirts/hats/mugs/whatever. I'm not quite sure where I'm goin with this, but it is interesting.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Really interesting things are not, in fact, neccessarily either tidy ("neat") nor cold in temperature ("cool"). A faggot is a bundle of sticks, not a homosexual man or a cigarette. Your/bin directory is named such because it holds binaries, not because it is a bin to put things in. Hackers do not take an axe to their computers in order to program (usually).
It's a colloquialism, get over it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I can't speak to the rest of it, but PacBell (an SBC subsidiary) is currently offering free self-install for those who agree to a 1 year contract.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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Consumers may not give a damn, but as online music consumption increases, more and more content providers will be setting up music distribution channels. If the RIAA won't play ball the way the providers want, and the way their consumers demand, then they'll look for alternative sources of music.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Am I the only one who quickly abandoned B&W, due to frequent misinterpretation of gestures? I'd try to punish my creature, and instead I'd get him to drop the food he's holding. Gesture commands are stupid, especially when we have a perfectly good keyboard to use.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
AMD's down $0.03 on a basis of $31.95 (which is to say, essentially dead even) as of 12:50 eastern time. It was up early this morning, breifly, but spent most of the day down about $0.40.
Transmeta, on the other hand, was up $0.75 on a basis of $14.10 at the open, from after hours trading. Since then, it fell steadily throughout the morning, but turned around at 10:30, and has since climbed back to $14.64, down $0.25 from the open, but up $0.50 from the previous day's close.
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No, my proposal to let the coporations do the technological work, let the academic institutions do the pure science work, and let the government stop taking my damn money.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Granted, however, women have the vote, and I believe I just read that the new PM is appointing some women to important governmental positions. Foreigners may be outsiders, but they are no longer forbidden entry, or even citizenship. I don't know enough to speak to the age issue.
This may not seem like much to you, but again, remeber my point: Western civilization had over half a millenium to phase these changes in. The Japanese are now being told that they have to adapt to these changes in a mere generation or two. World War 2 was no more uncivilized of them than Napoleon was for the French (and as for the tortures inflicted upon those they conquered, don't forget Robuspierre (er, sp? Hate French) and the Committes of Public Saftey that immediately preceeded). The status of women is no worse now in Japan than it was in America 75 years ago.
The only reason their changes seem so long in coming is that they started out behind by a good 600 years. The fact that we can compare them today favorably to ourselves 75 years ago is fairly impressive.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Still, it's quite a lot of fun, and rather inspiring too. I had to stop last night about halfway through because I felt like I should be doing some programming of my own :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Whoa there. You're talking about a country that, in the last 150 years, has done what it took Europe some 600-1000 years. Our culture was able to evolve along with the technology, but theirs was not. I would say, the fact that their society functions at all is fairly impressive. Look at China, Vietnam, Korea (North or South), or anywhere else in Asia, and pick out a country that has done a better job of adapting to modern times.
I'd say, change happens slowly, but less so in Japan than elsewhere...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Now, as virtually every game requires a 3d card, why not just integrate the damn things into the motherboard? Strikes me that this more or less follows the traditional progression within the computer industry.
So my question is, why the Hell do I still need a sound card?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hell, you could say the same thing about any piece of computer hardware: there's no incentive to market gigahertz chips until there's a lot of demand, and there won't be a lot of demand for gigahertz chips until there's programs that need it. Well, guess what, there are. Hello Windows XP. Content is created based on the percieved future of the medium (everyone wants to be first in), not neccessarily on its present adoption rate.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The only time the noise my computer makes bothers me is when I turn my speakers up all the way I get a little whining sound. But fans, I have no problem with those.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Short sighted govenments on the other hand, cause billions in taxpayer dollars to be flushed down the toilet. Take the Soviet Union. Aside from the various unworkabilities of their economic system, they had too strong of a focus on heavy industry. Whereas the collapse of steel caused places like Detroit in the US to experience heavy recessions, in the Soviet Union it caused the whole damn country to collapse.
Also, why in God's name would you consider a moon base to be short sighted? I'd consider single shot probes to be far more short sighted. With a moon base, you can carry on moon-based research for decades, even centuries if you build it strong enough. A probe on the other hand, maybe will last 5-10 years, of which 1 or 2 years will actually produce worthwhile data, and then it will be lost.
Finally, in case you're worried about a lack of "pure science" research, don't forget academic institutions. It's fairly well known, I think, that government projects are always more expensive than private industry. Sometimes they do a better job (I've heard that Air France has a pretty top notch safety record), sometimes not (the Post Office: 6 seconds without a lost parcel and counting). So, given that, why send the government out first? Why not get corporations to bring down the cost, then have academic institutions (which always recieve govenment subsidies anyway) then provide the research for a tiny fraction of the cost? I mean, it's not like Mars is GOING anywhere!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
And I wasn't saying it would be impossible, just that it would be much more difficult. Sort of like having sex in the back seat of a car, it's certainly very doable, and fun besides, but most of us would much prefer a nice big bed.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Is you would support suing anyone who makes a fingerpainting of the Mona Lisa? Besides which, this is a GAME, not an educational tool, and it apparently has to do with cyborgs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Just out of idle curiosity, why is /. so cozy with Barnes & Noble (owners of Fatbrain)? Is it just a straight marketing deal, are they the only ones with good prices and not Amazon, or what?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Huh? Did you miss where it said "weapons grade plutonium?" And by "power" they meant military power, not electicity. I can't believe this idiocy got modded up. I guess there's just a whole bunch of insecure greens that feel a need to mod anything up that complains about the environment.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Zero g is not like floating. "Floating" would be if you could keep yourself in the air, despite one g of force pushing down on you. Zero g feels more like falling. Falling at 9.8 m/s^2, to be precise. That's why it's called "free fall," because you're just falling around the Earth perpetually when you're in orbit (like Douglas Adams' throwing yourself at the ground and missing). This is why space sickness lasts for hours. Besides, who wants to feel like they're floating? Maybe afterwards, but during that just sounds a little too passive for my tastes.
find a wall to brace yourselves on, or push against And bounce right off it... If you've got her against the wall, the only thing you have to push against is the air behind you. So youd be flailing your arms crazily trying to essentially "swim" back and forth through the air. If you're against the wall, they you'll just push right off it on the first thrust. So, either you could bounce around the room, thrusting once every time you hit a wall, or you could find a narrow corridor, so you can push off the wall behind you, while pushing her into the wall behind her.
Then you can tell your friends, In space, I could hear her scream....
This is just stupid.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It does, however, show that the napster-using segment is important to the music industry, and if the price of keeping them happy is letting napster thrive, then maybe they should back off a bit.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I've heard it said (on what authority, I honestly have no idea) that the lack of gravity actually makes things a lot more difficult (you push, she just floats away). However, breasts in zero g would certainly be a sight to behold...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Huh? How does that make any sense? It's not the government taking our rights away, it's our legislation and our courts? What the Hell do you think our government is? Are you actually this stupid, or do you just pretend to be to see how many moderators you can get to agree with you?
Yes, corporate lobbying has subverted certain laws in their favor. I'm not sure what can be drawn from that though. Make more laws, and corporations will subvert those too, because corporations always concentrate power and money on laws they don't like to a degree that the public at large never could. Do away with corporations, and you will still have some powerful special interest that will do the same, to other laws.
The only conclusion that comes to mind for me is the same old tired expression: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Fewer laws and stronger constitutional restrictions on lawmaking are our best protection against any subversion by the Powers That Be.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The Mandrake Store puts an interesting spin on this as well. They now have a $5 "cheapo 2 CD burn set," and a $90 "fully featured, with manuals, 7 cd set." Note the lack of your standard Red Hat, SuSE, whathaveyou $30 boxed set. Basically, the only way Mandrake can make money now is off of the expensive boxed set, donations, or shirts/hats/mugs/whatever. I'm not quite sure where I'm goin with this, but it is interesting.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Gates was actually asked to leave by the university for stealing mainframe time. I don't know about you, but I think that's hilarous.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It's a colloquialism, get over it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I can't speak to the rest of it, but PacBell (an SBC subsidiary) is currently offering free self-install for those who agree to a 1 year contract.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Consumers may not give a damn, but as online music consumption increases, more and more content providers will be setting up music distribution channels. If the RIAA won't play ball the way the providers want, and the way their consumers demand, then they'll look for alternative sources of music.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Am I the only one who quickly abandoned B&W, due to frequent misinterpretation of gestures? I'd try to punish my creature, and instead I'd get him to drop the food he's holding. Gesture commands are stupid, especially when we have a perfectly good keyboard to use.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This Star Wars quote edited for content by (Not available at your clearance level).
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Transmeta, on the other hand, was up $0.75 on a basis of $14.10 at the open, from after hours trading. Since then, it fell steadily throughout the morning, but turned around at 10:30, and has since climbed back to $14.64, down $0.25 from the open, but up $0.50 from the previous day's close.
Isn't working for a brokerage firm fun? Disclaimer, for anyone who may be monitoring text transmittal: all quotes are delayed at least 20 minutes, and are approximate. This post is not intended as investment advice, and anyone who uses the information contained herein for any purpose is an idiot.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There is no escape. I, Galvatron will crush you just as the magnificent Megatron crushed Prime!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.