Normally, I would NOT buy anything from an advertiser on a web site. In fact, I wish there were a link I could click on to say "Hey lusers, I hate your advertising and won't buy anything from you because of it!"
However, yesterday I clicked on a link to latimes.com from/., and an ad from x10 popped up. 3 wireless color cams plus controllers and stuff for $169. Well, I sprang for it. Hope I didn't get ripped off.
Fission, the splitting of the atom into smaller atoms, is
what powers all those nuclear bombs that are sitting in Russian, Chinese, American, etc.
silos, waiting to destroy us all.
Actually, many of those are H-Bombs. Even worse, we don't know if or how many of them are FFF bombs - Fission-Fusion-Fision. FFF bombs are made to be particularly nasty. The first fission sets off the fusion reaction, which blows fissioning pieces all over the place. Dirty, dirty.
And big box stores wiped out mom'n'pop stores, themselves wiped out by internet stores, now, can I interest you in some stock in a nice internet business?
Economics becomes paradoxically inefficient as markets mature, because the profit incentive becomes the entire driving force. So why do anything when you can get pure profit?
My stepdad had a toy and hobby store. It got wiped out by toys r us. Now the big box stores and chains are having big time problems - is it playco I just saw having a liquidation sale? How about etoys.com? The net result is much fewer hobby shops, with the loss of artisan advice giving. Remember when you were little and built things? Now everything is just manufactured and toys magically appear - even build-it toys are leaving less to the imagination - check out a lego set lately? So the inefficiency that economics doesn't address is that of good workmanship - there is a strong incentive away from it, in fact. Of course, in many circumstances, mass production is a good thing - even Ferrari has come into the 20th century for making engine parts. But there needs to be a balance of craftsmanship, and that is what is lost. In/. terms, it means that MS software is much better than anything else. Flamebait? No. For the general office worker, it may be a good thing for MS to take over everything. But we can think of many situations where the loss of software craftsmanship is a bad, bad thing.
And the other thing placing too much faith in market economics is, you wind up with a bifurcated economy - the rich get richer, the poor have children. Most of us/.ers are squeezed middle income, rich as long as we have our high-paid software jobs, just a few paychecks out of living out of individual transportation modules.
I live somewhat under 50 miles from a nuclear powerplant. That plant is on the seashore, approximately 2 miles from an active offshore earthquake fault. Anyone who buys a house near the plant receives a booklet about what to do in the case of release of radioactives. There is a near zone and far zone from the plant, which determines which booklet one gets.
The plant is near a Marine bombing test range.
Heat pollution is readily visible in the ocean as one drives by.
Terrorists could easily bring down the power lines from the freeway.
But yes, it's better than coal.
I know there is a fault there because I couldn't get earthquake insurance when I bought my house in 1986, because it had just had an earthquake. Yet, SCE claims there is no seismic activity in the area. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
Nor, for that matter, will it tend to hang around for long, helium having the nice property
that it tends to go straight up pretty quickly.
Is this so? I would think it disperses quickly, but only goes straight up if contained in a manner that allows density differences with air to manifest themselves. Dispersal might take thousands of years to leave the atmosphere... right?
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In the early sixties there was a reactor accident where the reactor went a bit hot, blowing the steam boiler into the roof, smushing the poor workers who happened to be standing on top of the boiler. It was not considered a nuclear accident, of course.
So now we will have a flooding basement full of hot billiard balls cracking open as the water hits them...
Most assuredly, the funniest Monty Python was the milkman-psychiatrist. The subject matter is both self-referential and time-independent, so unlike most humor it becomes funnier because you know what is going to happen. Deja vu all over again.
I think the best way to make sure that the students will not lookup inappropriate material
is to require the students to login before surfing.
Was it HS or Jr. Hi? I can't remember, but there was a guy who got himself in the yearbook several times, one of them as "Frank Zappa." I believe he owns a telecommunications company now.
I think we may have several whole generations now who understand the idea of fake persona and who have no idea alternate identities could even be morally wrong. So what's next - earprint access to library computers?
ALL filter makers are known to intentionally block of non-porn sites, particularly those
that criticize makers of said filter.
really? ALL of them? big claims require big evidence not vague claims.
Try it yourself. Copy, say, the Bill of Rights into a file called "purity.htm". Put it up on your site. Use any blocking software. Hell, go down to Kinkos and see if you can bring it up there.
What they ought to do is lobby for a law that allows specific, significant damages for incorrect blocking, and requires notification for blocked sites.
Home schoolers tend to fall into one of two groups:
Highly educated parents, often teachers, who tend to skew the sample because they get good results. It is very similar to having a very well funded private school.
Very religious parents, often not so educated, who wish to socially isolate themselves from the norm.
Guess which group doesn't put out a very good product.
A third, much smaller group (in the US) is religious groups with a tradition of education and study (usually very conservative Jewish groups). They also have a good success rate, although ocassionally wind up way off in left field, self-justifying financial fraud and what-all.
I would expect/. folk to be generally part of the first group, so good luck to you. Just watch out for the second group, now that anyone and his brother has a web-community. There's some real crap out there.
The main thesis of his article is that power resides not only in centered servers
(this is Sun's doomed wishful thinking, exactly), but also exists and is growing on the
edges, as widespread use of easily acquired and highly capable software triggers the law
of large numbers and a shift to topple a tipping point, to utterly overwhelm those few evil
hegemonists who seek to exert centralized _control_ in order to extract artificial scarcity
based revenues from the large mass of networked connected people.
So remember this the next time your bluetooth palmphone slows down because your ISP is running their billing on it.
In an accident of history, both of those movements were transformed in
January 1984, and began having parallel but increasingly important
effects on the world. That month, a new plan for handling DARPA net
addresses was launched. Dreamed up by Vint Cerf, this plan was called
the Internet Protocol, and required changing the addresses of every node
on the network over to one of the new IP addresses, a unique, global,
and numerical address. This was the birth of the Internet we have today.
I distinctly remember having to learn the IP stack in 1981. And isn't it Vince Cerf?
Remember, this is in the context of someone saying how great and stable W2K is. So what you've missed is the obvious question - why is rebooting required to fix a memory leak in a user app? I want to be clear on this, so I'll belabor the point - logging off doesn't help. The problem is much, much more obvious if the system is up for a week. This is a W2K memory leak problem, which is made much more obvious by the bloaterific Netscape. I'm sure if someone wanted to, they could write a program with notated memory usage to demonstrate this. But since we are making questions for an MS marketing person, I would much prefer to see someone get in his face about it. OK?
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"That baked 'em good".
- A Boy And His Dog.
Take a penguin, hack off the beak, tape on some legs, add a barker, voila!
How 'bout a bucket of broken glass perched on top of the door?
Normally, I would NOT buy anything from an advertiser on a web site. In fact, I wish there were a link I could click on to say "Hey lusers, I hate your advertising and won't buy anything from you because of it!"
/., and an ad from x10 popped up. 3 wireless color cams plus controllers and stuff for $169. Well, I sprang for it. Hope I didn't get ripped off.
However, yesterday I clicked on a link to latimes.com from
If he was a REAL PROGRAMMER he would have written his own file system! Tailored to the actual data!
Fission, the splitting of the atom into smaller atoms, is what powers all those nuclear bombs that are sitting in Russian, Chinese, American, etc. silos, waiting to destroy us all.
Actually, many of those are H-Bombs. Even worse, we don't know if or how many of them are FFF bombs - Fission-Fusion-Fision. FFF bombs are made to be particularly nasty. The first fission sets off the fusion reaction, which blows fissioning pieces all over the place. Dirty, dirty.
And big box stores wiped out mom'n'pop stores, themselves wiped out by internet stores, now, can I interest you in some stock in a nice internet business?
/. terms, it means that MS software is much better than anything else. Flamebait? No. For the general office worker, it may be a good thing for MS to take over everything. But we can think of many situations where the loss of software craftsmanship is a bad, bad thing.
/.ers are squeezed middle income, rich as long as we have our high-paid software jobs, just a few paychecks out of living out of individual transportation modules.
Economics becomes paradoxically inefficient as markets mature, because the profit incentive becomes the entire driving force. So why do anything when you can get pure profit?
My stepdad had a toy and hobby store. It got wiped out by toys r us. Now the big box stores and chains are having big time problems - is it playco I just saw having a liquidation sale? How about etoys.com? The net result is much fewer hobby shops, with the loss of artisan advice giving. Remember when you were little and built things? Now everything is just manufactured and toys magically appear - even build-it toys are leaving less to the imagination - check out a lego set lately? So the inefficiency that economics doesn't address is that of good workmanship - there is a strong incentive away from it, in fact. Of course, in many circumstances, mass production is a good thing - even Ferrari has come into the 20th century for making engine parts. But there needs to be a balance of craftsmanship, and that is what is lost. In
And the other thing placing too much faith in market economics is, you wind up with a bifurcated economy - the rich get richer, the poor have children. Most of us
I live somewhat under 50 miles from a nuclear powerplant. That plant is on the seashore, approximately 2 miles from an active offshore earthquake fault. Anyone who buys a house near the plant receives a booklet about what to do in the case of release of radioactives. There is a near zone and far zone from the plant, which determines which booklet one gets.
The plant is near a Marine bombing test range.
Heat pollution is readily visible in the ocean as one drives by.
Terrorists could easily bring down the power lines from the freeway.
But yes, it's better than coal.
I know there is a fault there because I couldn't get earthquake insurance when I bought my house in 1986, because it had just had an earthquake. Yet, SCE claims there is no seismic activity in the area. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
Wait a minute... exploding billiard balls?
I agree.
Nor, for that matter, will it tend to hang around for long, helium having the nice property that it tends to go straight up pretty quickly.
Is this so? I would think it disperses quickly, but only goes straight up if contained in a manner that allows density differences with air to manifest themselves. Dispersal might take thousands of years to leave the atmosphere... right?
In the early sixties there was a reactor accident where the reactor went a bit hot, blowing the steam boiler into the roof, smushing the poor workers who happened to be standing on top of the boiler. It was not considered a nuclear accident, of course.
So now we will have a flooding basement full of hot billiard balls cracking open as the water hits them...
Don't forget the A-Plane!
I have an old copy of an article about it, one of these days I'll dig it out of the basement and post it.
Most assuredly, the funniest Monty Python was the milkman-psychiatrist. The subject matter is both self-referential and time-independent, so unlike most humor it becomes funnier because you know what is going to happen. Deja vu all over again.
I think the best way to make sure that the students will not lookup inappropriate material is to require the students to login before surfing.
Was it HS or Jr. Hi? I can't remember, but there was a guy who got himself in the yearbook several times, one of them as "Frank Zappa." I believe he owns a telecommunications company now.
I think we may have several whole generations now who understand the idea of fake persona and who have no idea alternate identities could even be morally wrong. So what's next - earprint access to library computers?
ALL filter makers are known to intentionally block of non-porn sites, particularly those that criticize makers of said filter.
really? ALL of them? big claims require big evidence not vague claims.
Try it yourself. Copy, say, the Bill of Rights into a file called "purity.htm". Put it up on your site. Use any blocking software. Hell, go down to Kinkos and see if you can bring it up there.
What they ought to do is lobby for a law that allows specific, significant damages for incorrect blocking, and requires notification for blocked sites.
Home schoolers tend to fall into one of two groups:
/. folk to be generally part of the first group, so good luck to you. Just watch out for the second group, now that anyone and his brother has a web-community. There's some real crap out there.
Highly educated parents, often teachers, who tend to skew the sample because they get good results. It is very similar to having a very well funded private school.
Very religious parents, often not so educated, who wish to socially isolate themselves from the norm.
Guess which group doesn't put out a very good product.
A third, much smaller group (in the US) is religious groups with a tradition of education and study (usually very conservative Jewish groups). They also have a good success rate, although ocassionally wind up way off in left field, self-justifying financial fraud and what-all.
I would expect
Is it just me, or is nearly everyone missing the fact that the bullies started the gun thing?
The main thesis of his article is that power resides not only in centered servers (this is Sun's doomed wishful thinking, exactly), but also exists and is growing on the edges, as widespread use of easily acquired and highly capable software triggers the law of large numbers and a shift to topple a tipping point, to utterly overwhelm those few evil hegemonists who seek to exert centralized _control_ in order to extract artificial scarcity based revenues from the large mass of networked connected people.
So remember this the next time your bluetooth palmphone slows down because your ISP is running their billing on it.
Sheesh.
That's not recourse (going to a higher authority to redress differences) that's consideration (something of value used in an exchange).
In an accident of history, both of those movements were transformed in January 1984, and began having parallel but increasingly important effects on the world. That month, a new plan for handling DARPA net addresses was launched. Dreamed up by Vint Cerf, this plan was called the Internet Protocol, and required changing the addresses of every node on the network over to one of the new IP addresses, a unique, global, and numerical address. This was the birth of the Internet we have today.
I distinctly remember having to learn the IP stack in 1981. And isn't it Vince Cerf?
City of Vista just converted an old real estate office/stip mall into a homeless shelter. Christians next door have mixed feelings.
Remember, this is in the context of someone saying how great and stable W2K is. So what you've missed is the obvious question - why is rebooting required to fix a memory leak in a user app? I want to be clear on this, so I'll belabor the point - logging off doesn't help. The problem is much, much more obvious if the system is up for a week. This is a W2K memory leak problem, which is made much more obvious by the bloaterific Netscape. I'm sure if someone wanted to, they could write a program with notated memory usage to demonstrate this. But since we are making questions for an MS marketing person, I would much prefer to see someone get in his face about it. OK?
As if anyone will read this at this point.
So how the fuck come do I have to reboot my W2000 machine every time Netscape starts acting wierd, like skipping login buttons on web pages?