50 lbs of... rock? That wouldn't be too bad for the environment I bet.
Seriously though, I was worried about this thing tipping over and killing my 1 year old too (cuz I'm gonna buy one... sooner or later). They should be able to either design it with a counter-weight at the bottom (wow is this thing going to be heavy to ship), or with a really broad base that will give it enough balance. Then you lose floorspace, so that could be bad, too. Hmmmm. I wonder if somebody else already has a better idea (I don't like the spring idea... I want the 200 year version of this lamp, not the 1 year).
Doing it way wrong, or just incapable of doing it right. Might be a hard-wired evil bastard, and no amount of love is going to fix that. Or maybe just immature.;)
Reminds me of a show that was on... it was talking about how urban fighting is so hard because the "bad guys" get tons and tons of defensive positions in cities. The Brit army guys on the show said something like a minimum of 100 troops could take out a few "bad guys" in 4 houses (I think they were more like 4 story apartment buildings). He said that was stretching is troops very thin.
If you are in a really easily defended area, you can hold off a ton of guys with a few guys. So yeah, I can see where the urban warfare would cost us a ton. And the flip side is probably Vietnam, where extreme nature benefits the guys used to that nature. Most of the US's forests have been wiped out, so I'm not sure if that would ever be a factor here.
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Yeah. I was thinking, after reading the title of TFA, that it was the reverse/absence of smell he was detecting.
Don't try this at home, but if you clean your bathroom with a too high concentration of bleach, and it starts to hurt a little... when you leave the room (house, neighborhood) to get out of that awful smell, you will notice what i believe is the "negative smell" of bleach. And if you thought bleach was bad, omg, this "smell" which is just the interpretation in reverse is really really bad.
I could be wrong on this... but I was assuming my smell sensors were doing what your eyes and other sense organs do with a constant strong stimulus. You know, like when you stare at a blue wall for a while, then look at a white wall, you see the opposite of blue (orange). I forget the name of this and am out of time to look it up.
Yes yes and yes.
I hear there is at least one big game company that realizes this, and has done away with the stupid DRM stuff.
MS and others really should follow suit. Corporations that are big and busy don't have time for the BS. And they are going to buy everything anyway (why not? I'm not going to risk my personal neck when the company can pay for it). But yeah, the cracked versions of software are 1000 times easier to deal with, and save you much time and heartache. It's pathetic that the hardest part of software in corporations is the licensing... no joke.
MS even offers some "give MS money and they'll tech you to use their licensing" classes or seminars. Really lame.
I'm mostly stuck on Windows due to my needs (office environment and gaming at home), but I do appreciate lots of things about Linux. "Command line editing" isn't always fun, but config file editing is by far the BEST way to have things configured. You can easily make backups. You can easily copy and paste from a website. It's 100 times faster than searching through menus.
The one place menus are better is when you have no reference (no internet) or if you only have like 10 or less things to change in your config... so you can quickly find them in a menu.
Yes, Vista sucks bad in every way. Did anybody find out anything good about the kernal upgrade with SP1?
But my main (off topic) point is, according to this big dictionary site banal can be pronounced 3 ways in English:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banal
Well damn it. Correction here needed! I had actually mistakenly changed the
general.useragent.security from "U" to "contype" instead of changing the general.useragent.override to "contype"... so ignore that part until I get a minute to test it for real or someone else posts on it.
Firefox wins in stability and ease of use in OWA. I've had to many many times tell users to use firefox instead of IE due to one reason or another. MS is ALWAYS going out of their way to screw the other guys. I've seen it when i worked at a place that used Novell Netware, and I've seen it many times since. OWA is just another area (anybody saying otherwise is probably working on MS's counter-blog/misinformation team).
However, some users need the fancy features to pick multiple recipients under the TO: button. Switching the user agent seems to totally allow this feature for firefox (using 2.0.0.11).
Weird to follow (poor wording?) on how to get the user agent switching option started:
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/24/changinguseragent.htmlhttp://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml
gives the string of "contype" to emulate IE 4.x and 5. I don't see one for 6.x or 7 though.
Anybody know one for 6.x?
I was disgusted to find out that to "keep" your alumni email account, you have to sign up for a new account that is through hotmail. This was after about a decade of allowing the alumni to freely use (no alumni fee) their old email addresses (as long as they kept the account tidy). I can understand them wanting to get away from too much freebie stuff, but going to hotmail (and charging for it) was just... terrible. As a result, I'm not going to be using that service at all. I had converted to gmail a short time prior to that anyway... so now let's just see when gmail decides to start charging. =[
Sometimes I wonder if parents who are good at language happen to have kids that can speak more adult-like, and it just so happens that the parents didn't speak to them in baby talk. Surely some studies somewhere have proved or disproved this by now though.
Lesson learned. Laws are only much trouble for the little guy. Why should the corporation be taxed when 10 million little guys can pay for you?
1. Make your company big enough to be able to use any loopholes that may be inconvenient to start with.
2. To help get to #1, stretch, bend, and break laws and relationships as needed (monopolize, copy ideas, screw people over, stab your friends in the back, etc.).
3. After you get huge, threaten governments if they try to make you pay, and then offer your employees as sacrificial lambs. After all, they aren't important and they can obviously afford to pay more taxes than the corporation... which obviously deserves to make more money and pay less taxes than the people. It's fair b/c the corporation tried so hard, made good grades in school, and screwed it's friends up the arse and... and besides the little people don't really mind paying taxes. If they really cared then they would have made Microsoft and been at the head of things. Bill Gates was destined to make Microsoft... it was a design by the Gods.
Ok, enough of that. Are taxes fair or fun for anybody? No. But should one of the richest companies in the world get a break just because they are big? I don't particularly think so. Will they get a huge break? Apparently they will and do, since they are so big they can threaten/make a deal with (subtly at least) the people who control taxes.
Team Fortress 2 anyone?
The biggest problem is that the robots would be too slow (no always on sprint? wtf?!), laggy (1 second visual lag and then a 4 second command lag??! How am I going to get headshots?), and finally the medics would always uber the wrong guy for the job at hand (Medic: I just need one Heavy to Uber so we can take out these 4 tightly packed sentry guns that are 40 yards away!).
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Being a cynic... I agree with your mirror statement, but I also think he's still holding on the hope of becoming "leader of the world". Sorry Bill, pretending to care about the poor isn't going to fool anybody.
Young gaming is fine, but the kids need lots of physical activity too. I became addicted to the Atari 2600 when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. ? But I also lived in the country and played with siblings/cousins outdoors... sports, whatever... every chance I got. Many similarly aged friends did the same. We all came out to be pretty healthy ppl in most respects.
Now take the flip side, my friend who grew up in a city, his parents dropped him off at the "PC LAN GAMING" babysitting business around the corner... and who never was encouraged to exercise or whatever. He's more social than me, but less healthy, and he also has a major problem distinguishing between what's right and what's not. Could it be the fact that he was mildly neglected by his parents and learned to survive/socialize at a ghetto school and via online gaming? Dunno.
It's probably good to ignore comments about badness if the viewer doesn't like shaky cam. Also any pro cameramen can probably tell the shakiness was not normal (since they filmed 80% of the film with an ultra heavy real movie cam, etc.). But for anybody who can get over this, I'd say it was a pretty darn good film. I'm sure someone will flame the hell out of this, but I saw No Country For Old Men the day after... and while that one was pretty good, the Cloverfield film was more satisfying and intriguing... and sad.
My 3 cents.
I think it's all about that hugely long commute our Japanese friends endure. It's admirable that they can get some art/literature out of that wasted time... but it's still inhuman to make people sit on trains or drive for hours a day... anywhere.
Sad to see people take their own lives. Sucks to go nuts for whatever reason, I'm sure.
Freaky stuff too... you almost get the impression the pursuit of the near impossible (human AI) helped contribute to their torment. The guys going for insect intelligence and such are on the right track at this point, I think. Human AI is just too multi-dimensional.
Kids are cool. Your own kid(s) is(are) extra cool. Got one myself... about a year old. One of the best parts is seeing how they perceive the world and learn. It's freaky how humans learn so much with apparently not much instinct dictating what/how they learn.
Be a very productive, yet invisible president.
1. Make a law that my likeness and personal information couldn't be posted publicly... leading up to...
2. Use a popular web forum or three to try out good ideas and get more good ideas. What are they calling the free work people on the net provide for companies for no pay?
3. Hire lots of smart literate people to read the forums and help me keep on top of things.
4. Go with the best ideas. Post them on the net.;)
On a more serious and specific note, off the top of my head I'd look at things in this order and try to make things better and more fair. A lot of these overlap:
1. Environmental stuff/Energy (affects everything else)
2. Peace (less war, more alliances, less greed)
3. Our people (well being, rights, etc. People are more important than corporations)
4. Money (economy, we can't function right now without it. Corporations can't be neglected, but they have to come after the other important things)
5. Other people (well being of people everywhere)
6. Small level environment stuff (if we missed it at number 1, we need to look more closely. Quit killing off forests and species for greed, etc.)
--getting a little more creative as we go further down my list--
7. Find a way to reduce the human population of the world gradually, without infringing on people's rights. Tricky. Any ideas?
8. I'm all about freedom of religion and all that, but we've got to find a way to get people to stop hating people of other religions. Seriously. It'd also be nice to get religions to quit encouraging infinite reproduction. Yeah, I guess we need to get the religious leaders to be a little more reasonable given the circumstances of what we see happening around us. Maybe get them all playing tag football together or something. Or at least Team Fortress 2!
9. Deal with criminal stuff better. Especially the corporate and government bad guys who get off WAAAYYY too lightly as it is. As for the bad street criminals with lots of violent crimes... I say give them the axe sooner if we are sure they are in the wrong. Maybe speed up court dates and whatnot.
10. That leads me to something else. Reduce the bullshit factor of people getting into certain professions. For instance, why limit the number of lawyers, doctors, etc. artificially... simply to keep their skills in high demand and give them higher pay. I say let people go to college for 2 years then have more open doors to getting there. Maybe even have some other level of "doctor" that can skip college entirely and go straight into the medical learning pursuits. Not sure how this would work, but it'd be interesting. Personally, I still would have switched majors a million times and stayed in school forever.
11. On another medical note, see about letting people go (pass away) when it's their time instead of pumping them full of drugs and halfway lying to them about their survival rates. I think it's wonderful to extend people's lives if they can function pretty well... but when you see older people you love who are hanging on by a thin thread and ravaged by a disease and nearly poisoned by medication... you realize we just aren't all meant to live to 100.
12. Another specific... less BS censorship. Especially on the internet and with games. But give parents more control over their own household censorship. Speaking of which, give parents more control over ADVERTISING censorship at home. I'm much more worried about my kids getting influenced by stupid commercials that warp you perceptions than most of the shows. TV ads need to have warnings of how much harm they might do to you. Personally I am affected very little by commercials, but I don't typically get affected by peer pressure anway... I digress.
OK, I just need a lucky 13 to round it off.
13. Reduce the punishment on mp3 and movie downloaders. The fines just don't fit the "crime". It's just silly.
Interesting, but I haven't seen the real reason most people go to college. To have some fun! Learning is secondary.;) I'm trying to be funny, but honestly, don't live your life without a little fun. College is a good place for that.
In the US (at least in Louisiana) there are laws that actually adjust speed limits for driving conditions like weather. I doubt many if any police will give you a ticket for going 55 in bad rain in a 55 zone, but they could if they wanted.
I will say that a lot of speed limits are too low... and a lot of stupid driving is completely unrelated to speed. Spy cameras for speeding seem like a ripoff.
They are learning from all the evil corporations that rule the world that morality is just another obstacle, just like laws, when it comes to business and money. Not all companies are like this, but a lot of the big famous ones CERTAINLY are. =[ Government doesn't really help... no Kyoto signing for instance?
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50 lbs of ... rock? That wouldn't be too bad for the environment I bet.
Seriously though, I was worried about this thing tipping over and killing my 1 year old too (cuz I'm gonna buy one... sooner or later). They should be able to either design it with a counter-weight at the bottom (wow is this thing going to be heavy to ship), or with a really broad base that will give it enough balance. Then you lose floorspace, so that could be bad, too. Hmmmm. I wonder if somebody else already has a better idea (I don't like the spring idea... I want the 200 year version of this lamp, not the 1 year).
Doing it way wrong, or just incapable of doing it right. Might be a hard-wired evil bastard, and no amount of love is going to fix that. Or maybe just immature. ;)
Or the corporate hitmen would kill all the musicians off early, so they could avoid paying for long.
Reminds me of a show that was on... it was talking about how urban fighting is so hard because the "bad guys" get tons and tons of defensive positions in cities. The Brit army guys on the show said something like a minimum of 100 troops could take out a few "bad guys" in 4 houses (I think they were more like 4 story apartment buildings). He said that was stretching is troops very thin. If you are in a really easily defended area, you can hold off a ton of guys with a few guys. So yeah, I can see where the urban warfare would cost us a ton. And the flip side is probably Vietnam, where extreme nature benefits the guys used to that nature. Most of the US's forests have been wiped out, so I'm not sure if that would ever be a factor here.
Yeah. I was thinking, after reading the title of TFA, that it was the reverse/absence of smell he was detecting. Don't try this at home, but if you clean your bathroom with a too high concentration of bleach, and it starts to hurt a little... when you leave the room (house, neighborhood) to get out of that awful smell, you will notice what i believe is the "negative smell" of bleach. And if you thought bleach was bad, omg, this "smell" which is just the interpretation in reverse is really really bad. I could be wrong on this... but I was assuming my smell sensors were doing what your eyes and other sense organs do with a constant strong stimulus. You know, like when you stare at a blue wall for a while, then look at a white wall, you see the opposite of blue (orange). I forget the name of this and am out of time to look it up.
Yes yes and yes. I hear there is at least one big game company that realizes this, and has done away with the stupid DRM stuff. MS and others really should follow suit. Corporations that are big and busy don't have time for the BS. And they are going to buy everything anyway (why not? I'm not going to risk my personal neck when the company can pay for it). But yeah, the cracked versions of software are 1000 times easier to deal with, and save you much time and heartache. It's pathetic that the hardest part of software in corporations is the licensing... no joke. MS even offers some "give MS money and they'll tech you to use their licensing" classes or seminars. Really lame.
I'm mostly stuck on Windows due to my needs (office environment and gaming at home), but I do appreciate lots of things about Linux. "Command line editing" isn't always fun, but config file editing is by far the BEST way to have things configured. You can easily make backups. You can easily copy and paste from a website. It's 100 times faster than searching through menus. The one place menus are better is when you have no reference (no internet) or if you only have like 10 or less things to change in your config... so you can quickly find them in a menu.
Yes, Vista sucks bad in every way. Did anybody find out anything good about the kernal upgrade with SP1? But my main (off topic) point is, according to this big dictionary site banal can be pronounced 3 ways in English: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banal
Well damn it. Correction here needed! I had actually mistakenly changed the general.useragent.security from "U" to "contype" instead of changing the general.useragent.override to "contype"... so ignore that part until I get a minute to test it for real or someone else posts on it.
Firefox wins in stability and ease of use in OWA. I've had to many many times tell users to use firefox instead of IE due to one reason or another. MS is ALWAYS going out of their way to screw the other guys. I've seen it when i worked at a place that used Novell Netware, and I've seen it many times since. OWA is just another area (anybody saying otherwise is probably working on MS's counter-blog/misinformation team). However, some users need the fancy features to pick multiple recipients under the TO: button. Switching the user agent seems to totally allow this feature for firefox (using 2.0.0.11). Weird to follow (poor wording?) on how to get the user agent switching option started: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/24/changinguseragent.html http://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml gives the string of "contype" to emulate IE 4.x and 5. I don't see one for 6.x or 7 though. Anybody know one for 6.x?
I was disgusted to find out that to "keep" your alumni email account, you have to sign up for a new account that is through hotmail. This was after about a decade of allowing the alumni to freely use (no alumni fee) their old email addresses (as long as they kept the account tidy). I can understand them wanting to get away from too much freebie stuff, but going to hotmail (and charging for it) was just... terrible. As a result, I'm not going to be using that service at all. I had converted to gmail a short time prior to that anyway... so now let's just see when gmail decides to start charging. =[
Sometimes I wonder if parents who are good at language happen to have kids that can speak more adult-like, and it just so happens that the parents didn't speak to them in baby talk. Surely some studies somewhere have proved or disproved this by now though.
Lesson learned. Laws are only much trouble for the little guy. Why should the corporation be taxed when 10 million little guys can pay for you? 1. Make your company big enough to be able to use any loopholes that may be inconvenient to start with. 2. To help get to #1, stretch, bend, and break laws and relationships as needed (monopolize, copy ideas, screw people over, stab your friends in the back, etc.). 3. After you get huge, threaten governments if they try to make you pay, and then offer your employees as sacrificial lambs. After all, they aren't important and they can obviously afford to pay more taxes than the corporation... which obviously deserves to make more money and pay less taxes than the people. It's fair b/c the corporation tried so hard, made good grades in school, and screwed it's friends up the arse and... and besides the little people don't really mind paying taxes. If they really cared then they would have made Microsoft and been at the head of things. Bill Gates was destined to make Microsoft... it was a design by the Gods. Ok, enough of that. Are taxes fair or fun for anybody? No. But should one of the richest companies in the world get a break just because they are big? I don't particularly think so. Will they get a huge break? Apparently they will and do, since they are so big they can threaten/make a deal with (subtly at least) the people who control taxes.
Team Fortress 2 anyone? The biggest problem is that the robots would be too slow (no always on sprint? wtf?!), laggy (1 second visual lag and then a 4 second command lag??! How am I going to get headshots?), and finally the medics would always uber the wrong guy for the job at hand (Medic: I just need one Heavy to Uber so we can take out these 4 tightly packed sentry guns that are 40 yards away!). =]
Being a cynic... I agree with your mirror statement, but I also think he's still holding on the hope of becoming "leader of the world". Sorry Bill, pretending to care about the poor isn't going to fool anybody.
Young gaming is fine, but the kids need lots of physical activity too. I became addicted to the Atari 2600 when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. ? But I also lived in the country and played with siblings/cousins outdoors ... sports, whatever... every chance I got. Many similarly aged friends did the same. We all came out to be pretty healthy ppl in most respects.
Now take the flip side, my friend who grew up in a city, his parents dropped him off at the "PC LAN GAMING" babysitting business around the corner... and who never was encouraged to exercise or whatever. He's more social than me, but less healthy, and he also has a major problem distinguishing between what's right and what's not. Could it be the fact that he was mildly neglected by his parents and learned to survive/socialize at a ghetto school and via online gaming? Dunno.
It's probably good to ignore comments about badness if the viewer doesn't like shaky cam. Also any pro cameramen can probably tell the shakiness was not normal (since they filmed 80% of the film with an ultra heavy real movie cam, etc.). But for anybody who can get over this, I'd say it was a pretty darn good film. I'm sure someone will flame the hell out of this, but I saw No Country For Old Men the day after... and while that one was pretty good, the Cloverfield film was more satisfying and intriguing... and sad. My 3 cents.
I think it's all about that hugely long commute our Japanese friends endure. It's admirable that they can get some art/literature out of that wasted time... but it's still inhuman to make people sit on trains or drive for hours a day... anywhere.
Sad to see people take their own lives. Sucks to go nuts for whatever reason, I'm sure. Freaky stuff too... you almost get the impression the pursuit of the near impossible (human AI) helped contribute to their torment. The guys going for insect intelligence and such are on the right track at this point, I think. Human AI is just too multi-dimensional.
Kids are cool. Your own kid(s) is(are) extra cool. Got one myself... about a year old. One of the best parts is seeing how they perceive the world and learn. It's freaky how humans learn so much with apparently not much instinct dictating what/how they learn.
Be a very productive, yet invisible president. 1. Make a law that my likeness and personal information couldn't be posted publicly... leading up to... 2. Use a popular web forum or three to try out good ideas and get more good ideas. What are they calling the free work people on the net provide for companies for no pay? 3. Hire lots of smart literate people to read the forums and help me keep on top of things. 4. Go with the best ideas. Post them on the net. ;)
On a more serious and specific note, off the top of my head I'd look at things in this order and try to make things better and more fair. A lot of these overlap:
1. Environmental stuff/Energy (affects everything else)
2. Peace (less war, more alliances, less greed)
3. Our people (well being, rights, etc. People are more important than corporations)
4. Money (economy, we can't function right now without it. Corporations can't be neglected, but they have to come after the other important things)
5. Other people (well being of people everywhere)
6. Small level environment stuff (if we missed it at number 1, we need to look more closely. Quit killing off forests and species for greed, etc.)
--getting a little more creative as we go further down my list--
7. Find a way to reduce the human population of the world gradually, without infringing on people's rights. Tricky. Any ideas?
8. I'm all about freedom of religion and all that, but we've got to find a way to get people to stop hating people of other religions. Seriously. It'd also be nice to get religions to quit encouraging infinite reproduction. Yeah, I guess we need to get the religious leaders to be a little more reasonable given the circumstances of what we see happening around us. Maybe get them all playing tag football together or something. Or at least Team Fortress 2!
9. Deal with criminal stuff better. Especially the corporate and government bad guys who get off WAAAYYY too lightly as it is. As for the bad street criminals with lots of violent crimes... I say give them the axe sooner if we are sure they are in the wrong. Maybe speed up court dates and whatnot.
10. That leads me to something else. Reduce the bullshit factor of people getting into certain professions. For instance, why limit the number of lawyers, doctors, etc. artificially... simply to keep their skills in high demand and give them higher pay. I say let people go to college for 2 years then have more open doors to getting there. Maybe even have some other level of "doctor" that can skip college entirely and go straight into the medical learning pursuits. Not sure how this would work, but it'd be interesting. Personally, I still would have switched majors a million times and stayed in school forever.
11. On another medical note, see about letting people go (pass away) when it's their time instead of pumping them full of drugs and halfway lying to them about their survival rates. I think it's wonderful to extend people's lives if they can function pretty well... but when you see older people you love who are hanging on by a thin thread and ravaged by a disease and nearly poisoned by medication... you realize we just aren't all meant to live to 100.
12. Another specific... less BS censorship. Especially on the internet and with games. But give parents more control over their own household censorship. Speaking of which, give parents more control over ADVERTISING censorship at home. I'm much more worried about my kids getting influenced by stupid commercials that warp you perceptions than most of the shows. TV ads need to have warnings of how much harm they might do to you. Personally I am affected very little by commercials, but I don't typically get affected by peer pressure anway... I digress.
OK, I just need a lucky 13 to round it off.
13. Reduce the punishment on mp3 and movie downloaders. The fines just don't fit the "crime". It's just silly.
Interesting, but I haven't seen the real reason most people go to college. To have some fun! Learning is secondary. ;) I'm trying to be funny, but honestly, don't live your life without a little fun. College is a good place for that.
Firefox has taken over for a long time... but Netscape was the stuff back in the day. Sad to see it pass away.
In the US (at least in Louisiana) there are laws that actually adjust speed limits for driving conditions like weather. I doubt many if any police will give you a ticket for going 55 in bad rain in a 55 zone, but they could if they wanted. I will say that a lot of speed limits are too low... and a lot of stupid driving is completely unrelated to speed. Spy cameras for speeding seem like a ripoff.
They are learning from all the evil corporations that rule the world that morality is just another obstacle, just like laws, when it comes to business and money. Not all companies are like this, but a lot of the big famous ones CERTAINLY are. =[ Government doesn't really help... no Kyoto signing for instance?