Oh come on. We are the parasites on the sides of the beast. We do well when the beast does well, but that doesn't mean the beast really has OUR interests at heart! Look at all the very stupid things "industry" has done because management was only looking at the bottom line and "maximizing shareholder profits" in the short run instead of looking at the big/long picture.
If everyone was the Libertarian Ideal Citizen with Enlightened Self Interest, perhaps your rosy view might be similar to reality, but most are absolutely not. Especially among the ranks of those controlling the corporations. There has to be a balance, and it won't come from unfettered capitalism any more than it came from absolute communism.
Uh...if you follow the link, the trademark HAS been granted. It's just that Despair has a better sense of proportion than to actually sue people for using it in daily life.
So Java needs MS? It's not in any way difficult to add a Sun compliant Java to any MS platform. The minute MS starts breaking that capability, there's more grounds for lawsuits.
Seriously, how many really good TV shows are there on TV now?
Not many, but the ones that are good seem to me to still be worth the effort. Let's see: Iron Chef, Junkyard Wars, Battlebots, Win Ben Stein's Money (ok, that's a stretch:-), Good Eats, Dexter's Laboratory, various informative things on HGTV for those of us with homes to maintain (though we could lose Martha).... I could get by with about 6 channels, but without them it is a colder place.
since in individual markets people who have or have not
updated their viewing equipment may end up watching different channels
We're already there. Over the christmas holiday, AT&T Broadband in Oak Park (and probably much of the rest of the Chicago metro area) disabled anything on analog that you had to have a set-top box to get. In order to get those channels, you now have to get digital cable, period. Lucky me, I've always hated set-top boxes, so I didn't have anything that required one to begin with. But many other people complained strongly enough about the minimal warning (yes, there was a warning buried in the previous months bill, amongst all the junk they always include) that it made the local paper.
When it comes time to choose between digital cable or no cable, I'm going with a dish, and AT&T can thank themselves for losing another customer.
yeah, I'm going to buy a palm pilot that needs to be left in the living room all the time. Twice as much money to use half the functionality available. Good plan.
I was in college working a co-op job at Fermi National Accellerator lab, outside Chicago. The lab had closed circuit TV's stationed all around, usually monitoring the beamline and what was going on for the latest experiments (or preperations). But they'd occasionally run special programming, and this shuttle launch was one of them. Someone was watching when it blew up and we all went running to see what was going on, and spent the rest of the day in a daze after we realized what had happened.
The thing is, in this case, there was no reason (aside from the much discussed pressures to get Krista into space) that it couldn't have been caught. Engineers knew about it. They tried (albeit with less than effective diagrams and notes) to tell NASA no go, but NASA wasn't listening, and the case they made was not presented in it's strongest possible form (read one of Edward Tufte's books about how the case could have been made much stronger; I suspect it was "Visual Display of Quantitative Information" but don't have it here to check).
If the engineers had been more effective (not that they don't deserve credit for trying), if NASA had not been hell-bent for leather, it could easily have been prevented.
That was the Ralph Bashki (of "Wizards" fame) animated version. An incredible disappointment, never mind the fact that it was only half the story. Much of the "animation" was live action film sequences that had been drawn over. Orcs were actors in rags with their eyes made to glow with animation tricks, and little else to fit them into the scene. I saw this as a kid, and it was horrible.
It'll be interesting to see what the wholesalers do for a revenue stream once they force PG&E and such out of business with their pricing. Hard to sell a product without a distributor.....
Sadly, I bet it's not just $5k. It's probably also signatures on a legal document promising not to disclose this information to 3rd parties not signatory to the agreement.
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"Useless" is in the eye of the beholder
I couldn't agree more. Perhaps the digital skillet or the electronic fork are questionable, but I myself seriously considered one of these LCD Universal remotes. I actually ended up with one not QUITE so spendy, but I still spent a fair chunk of change for "just a remote". Except that now I have *one* remote that does *everything* and I don't have to force myself to change my usage--I can program every damn button any way I want. Well worth the money to no longer have to play find the right remote for this task.
If he wants to have his bots tend orange groves, wouldn't he get more electical oomph out of citric acid than sugars? I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the "lemon battery" science project as a kid.....
The people
commiting murders and such on my street could very well move into your neighborhood
Not if you're doing your job and getting them put away for real crimes.
On the other hand, the drug users you fill the prisons with from your street are keeping me from being able to keep the murderers from my street in prison and away from the rest of us.
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It's a damn shame that he was trying to follow California's law on growing medical marijuana, and the Fed's threw him in jail and effectively killed him by not giving him his AIDS treatments on their necessary schedule.
I bet the RF generated by the static could also act as a TEMPEST style carrier signal as well. Perhaps static is one of the redacted bits from the TEMPEST docs discussed here a few days ago?
First let me say I'm appalled that some of the PC-police modded you down to zero. Your comment is as reasonable as my own.
For those who aren't seeing zero posts:
No, obviously not, they encourage the race of people they supposedly represent to think of themselves as victims that have
the deck stacked against them at every turn. This may have been true 50 years ago but it's not now, and all they do is keep
mental shackles on where physical ones once were.
Surely that much is obvious, unless you're taken in by all the PC crap.
The thing is that while we all agree that the deck is not AS stacked against them as it was 50 years ago, it sure as hell is still stacked against them.
You're right, a victim mentality, and standing around waiting for someone else to make it right is not going to help anyone. Those who fit those shoes stay stuck. But there are many who DON'T fit those shoes and still have to work harder than those of us whose main priveledge is the whiteness of our skin and/or our X chromosome just to get to the same places.
Affirmative Action, as applied by brainless bureaucrats, is about as effective as any other policy implemented by the same bureaucrats (i.e. hardly at all in addressing the real issue, and typically doing more harm than good) but it's not right to 1) blame African Americans for that and 2) do nothing to help address the institutional barriers that absolutely still exist in our society.
If you can't see the walls and ceilings in the way of African Americans, you're just not looking very hard. This is not to say none make it through; in fact a large number do, all the more credit to their efforts. But to pretend that our society is now colorblind and discrimination is not still pervasive (even if it isn't as OPEN or VIRULENT as it once was in most quarters) is to have one's head firmly lodged in a very dark place.
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If everyone was the Libertarian Ideal Citizen with Enlightened Self Interest, perhaps your rosy view might be similar to reality, but most are absolutely not. Especially among the ranks of those controlling the corporations. There has to be a balance, and it won't come from unfettered capitalism any more than it came from absolute communism.
I think IBM and Sun need to field teams too, just to make it more interesting.
Is too!
Is not!
Is too!
Oh yeah. And HUMAN CLONING is *so easy*.
Uh...if you follow the link, the trademark HAS been granted. It's just that Despair has a better sense of proportion than to actually sue people for using it in daily life.
So Java needs MS? It's not in any way difficult to add a Sun compliant Java to any MS platform. The minute MS starts breaking that capability, there's more grounds for lawsuits.
Not many, but the ones that are good seem to me to still be worth the effort. Let's see: Iron Chef, Junkyard Wars, Battlebots, Win Ben Stein's Money (ok, that's a stretch :-), Good Eats, Dexter's Laboratory, various informative things on HGTV for those of us with homes to maintain (though we could lose Martha).... I could get by with about 6 channels, but without them it is a colder place.
We're already there. Over the christmas holiday, AT&T Broadband in Oak Park (and probably much of the rest of the Chicago metro area) disabled anything on analog that you had to have a set-top box to get. In order to get those channels, you now have to get digital cable, period. Lucky me, I've always hated set-top boxes, so I didn't have anything that required one to begin with. But many other people complained strongly enough about the minimal warning (yes, there was a warning buried in the previous months bill, amongst all the junk they always include) that it made the local paper.
When it comes time to choose between digital cable or no cable, I'm going with a dish, and AT&T can thank themselves for losing another customer.
yeah, I'm going to buy a palm pilot that needs to be left in the living room all the time. Twice as much money to use half the functionality available. Good plan.
I was in college working a co-op job at Fermi National Accellerator lab, outside Chicago. The lab had closed circuit TV's stationed all around, usually monitoring the beamline and what was going on for the latest experiments (or preperations). But they'd occasionally run special programming, and this shuttle launch was one of them. Someone was watching when it blew up and we all went running to see what was going on, and spent the rest of the day in a daze after we realized what had happened.
The thing is, in this case, there was no reason (aside from the much discussed pressures to get Krista into space) that it couldn't have been caught. Engineers knew about it. They tried (albeit with less than effective diagrams and notes) to tell NASA no go, but NASA wasn't listening, and the case they made was not presented in it's strongest possible form (read one of Edward Tufte's books about how the case could have been made much stronger; I suspect it was "Visual Display of Quantitative Information" but don't have it here to check).
If the engineers had been more effective (not that they don't deserve credit for trying), if NASA had not been hell-bent for leather, it could easily have been prevented.
Uh...the AUTHOR couldn't figure it out. I'm sure NASA could. You are so smart.... you can't tell where quotes begin and end.
That was the Ralph Bashki (of "Wizards" fame) animated version. An incredible disappointment, never mind the fact that it was only half the story. Much of the "animation" was live action film sequences that had been drawn over. Orcs were actors in rags with their eyes made to glow with animation tricks, and little else to fit them into the scene. I saw this as a kid, and it was horrible.
It'll be interesting to see what the wholesalers do for a revenue stream once they force PG&E and such out of business with their pricing. Hard to sell a product without a distributor.....
Sadly, I bet it's not just $5k. It's probably also signatures on a legal document promising not to disclose this information to 3rd parties not signatory to the agreement.
I couldn't agree more. Perhaps the digital skillet or the electronic fork are questionable, but I myself seriously considered one of these LCD Universal remotes. I actually ended up with one not QUITE so spendy, but I still spent a fair chunk of change for "just a remote". Except that now I have *one* remote that does *everything* and I don't have to force myself to change my usage--I can program every damn button any way I want. Well worth the money to no longer have to play find the right remote for this task.
Yah, it's so easy to look around in an FPS game using keyboard strokes. NOT. Some of us NEEED our three buttons to frag our opponents!
Can this please be modded up, as the urls are informative. Danke.
If he wants to have his bots tend orange groves, wouldn't he get more electical oomph out of citric acid than sugars? I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the "lemon battery" science project as a kid.....
Not if you're doing your job and getting them put away for real crimes.
On the other hand, the drug users you fill the prisons with from your street are keeping me from being able to keep the murderers from my street in prison and away from the rest of us.
It's a damn shame that he was trying to follow California's law on growing medical marijuana, and the Fed's threw him in jail and effectively killed him by not giving him his AIDS treatments on their necessary schedule.
I bet the RF generated by the static could also act as a TEMPEST style carrier signal as well. Perhaps static is one of the redacted bits from the TEMPEST docs discussed here a few days ago?
For those who aren't seeing zero posts:
No, obviously not, they encourage the race of people they supposedly represent to think of themselves as victims that have the deck stacked against them at every turn. This may have been true 50 years ago but it's not now, and all they do is keep mental shackles on where physical ones once were.
Surely that much is obvious, unless you're taken in by all the PC crap.
The thing is that while we all agree that the deck is not AS stacked against them as it was 50 years ago, it sure as hell is still stacked against them.
You're right, a victim mentality, and standing around waiting for someone else to make it right is not going to help anyone. Those who fit those shoes stay stuck. But there are many who DON'T fit those shoes and still have to work harder than those of us whose main priveledge is the whiteness of our skin and/or our X chromosome just to get to the same places.
Affirmative Action, as applied by brainless bureaucrats, is about as effective as any other policy implemented by the same bureaucrats (i.e. hardly at all in addressing the real issue, and typically doing more harm than good) but it's not right to 1) blame African Americans for that and 2) do nothing to help address the institutional barriers that absolutely still exist in our society.
If you can't see the walls and ceilings in the way of African Americans, you're just not looking very hard. This is not to say none make it through; in fact a large number do, all the more credit to their efforts. But to pretend that our society is now colorblind and discrimination is not still pervasive (even if it isn't as OPEN or VIRULENT as it once was in most quarters) is to have one's head firmly lodged in a very dark place.
Jesse & Al & Louis are ALWAYS talking down education, and encouraging their young people to go shoot each other instead of bettering themselves.
Get real, and go learn some facts instead of believing what Rush tells you, ok?
Yeah, just look at Bush's cabinet!