The real competition, is who can take the most drugs . . . and not get caught. So sports are actually a very nerdy business. You need an excellent medical team to push the level of drugs just right to the line . . . without going over it. There is probably a lot of interesting biochemical technology behind all that.
Team OS/2 went external that spring, when the first Team OS/2 Party was held in Chicago. The IBM Marketing Office in Chicago created a huge banner visible from the streets. Microsoft reacted when Steve Ballmer roamed the floor with an application on diskette that had been specially programmed to crash OS/2;[3] and OS/2 enthusiasts gathered for an evening of excitement at the first Team OS/2 party.
[3] Dvorak, John C. "Microsoft Should Apologize" PC Magazine, October 20, 1998, p. 87
The CEO is the public face a company, and I personally find Mr. Ballmer extremely unctuous and repulsive. I have to use Windows on my PC for business. I have no other choice. But with a phone, I do have other choices, and one of the factors I evaluate in how I view the company that makes the phone. So I use an Android.
Which is actually very "profiling" of me, in the "crazy ass cracker" sense of the word. I have never personally met anyone who works for Microsoft. I keep imagining that there are some really nice and brilliant folks who work there. But then I think of Ballmer, and I think of him sending out internal memos all day, saying, "Try to do something even more nasty today!"
I'll probably meet someone from Microsoft someday, and that will probably convince me that Microsoft is not a "Nation of Ballmers", in the "Napoleonic" sense of the word. But maybe having a CEO who at least pretends to be "kinder and gentler" could do Microsoft a world of good.
The new Lumia and its camera is a very attractive phone for me.
Be careful. Nokia uses other cameras to take the pictures for their ads, and then claims that they were taken with the phone camera. Someone caught them on the street doing this . . . and took a picture with a phone camera, of course.
I am the owner of a Nokia N90, N800, N96 and N9. But I don't trust Nokia any more, now that Microsoft is running the company.
Oh, philosophers have been bantering about this ever since the first one got his PhD and was unemployed for the rest of his life, and had nothing else better to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
In philosophy, the brain in a vat is an element used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is based on an idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist, machine, or other entity might remove a person's brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives. According to such stories, the computer would then be simulating reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the person with the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences without these being related to objects or events in the real world.
The brain in a vat is a contemporary version of the argument given in Hindu Maya illusion, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", and the evil demon in René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy.
This will be a hoot and a half, when Lord Wez and his Road Warrior boys start raging around, one hand on the crossbow, one hand on the wireless gadget.
So, in TFA he said he was not allowed to make a copy of the order, but just take some notes about it. His attorney said it was legitimate . . . how?
I mean, you can't take a copy yourself to a secret court to ask them if they authorized it. You could call up a number that they give you, but what does that prove? And the whole damn thing is supposed to be secret, so that nobody knows nothing anyway.
There are always studies supporting an opposing view of anything and everything.
Pharma companies wouldn't fund any vitamin C studies. Even if they found a new use for it . . . they can't patent vitamin C, and thus can't make any big profits from it.
Maybe Monsanto will come along and create a genetically modified version of vitamin C . . . then they would fund studies proving that it can cure baldness, smelly feet, tooth decay, near-sightedness, high blood pressure, schizophrenia, ear aches, . . .
Gee, let's just replace Microsoft with IBM, PC with mainframe, and smartphones/tables with PCs. Class, that gives us:
The traditional mainframe market has had 5 consequential quarters of decline. This is IBM's core market, where it makes much of its money.
On top of that IBM has essentially failed to gain any traction in the the new growth markets of PCs
So it is understandable that like the mainframe market, which is adjusting to some new smaller number of annual sales, IBM which makes it's income from those sales will adjust down to some new lower level of earnings, and a correspondingly lower stock price.
Viola! It's just like twenty years ago. Maybe some of those stock trading boys are old enough to remember way back then . . .
I do a lot of business traveling in Europe on trains, and just about all the passengers are fiddling with some electronic gadget or another. Business folks? Lenovo ThinkPads. Cooler business folks? MacBooks. Regular folks? Andriod tablets and iPads. Folks not wanting to be left out of the gadget party? Samsung Galaxy phones.
I have never seen a Microsoft Surface of any breed or color.
Of course, your mileage may vary. But I would have expected to have seen at least one. The only one I have ever seen, has been in a store.
In the UK, it's all about "who you know". Anthony Blunt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt) was openly gay around the same time as Alan Turing. And he spied for Russia.
But because he was the " Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures", nothing ever happened to him.
One rule of law for the elite, another for the commoners.
"I hate your guts" is just a polite way of saying, "You have extraordinarily odorous flatulence."
That's why dogs sniff each others' butts, to see if they are compatible as mates. Humans could learn from dogs, and instead of a quick chat during speed dating, just take a quick whiff of each others' butts.
That's why evolution placed the sexual organs so close to the anal orifice. You're forced to check gut bacteria compatibility, before you mate.
Unless you're prude, and just do missionary in the dark, with your clothes on.
Yeah, it would be like S&M without the pain . . . cute, but something essential is missing from the experience.
Heidi Klum has a TV show call "Germany's Next Top Model". She basically gets all "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" on a bunch of neurotic, anorexic, pubescent girls, teaching them how a top model needs to suffer.
Heidi Klum would make a good GPU programming instructor.
. . . and even non-geeks would watch the show. A win-win for everyone.
High speed trains offer WiFi access in Germany. I assume it works, but I never use it. I use a flat rate 3G for 20€ a month, and am fine with that.
Of course, our friendly neighborhood NSA and DHS might find some uses for it At the customs check:
"Good new, sir, we won't be taking your photograph and thumbprint! However, as a foreigner, you will be required to carry this WiFi transceiver at all times. Enjoy your stay! We'll be interested in seeing where you choose to visit."
You know, like, they just forgot to update the firmware about who the allies and enemies are? And so it just did its old job of hitting an American air base . . . ?
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Because then it puts any opponents to the ban in the position of seeming to say, "I don't want to protect children."
Well, I'd just answer, "Why don't you protect your own children, instead of outsourcing your parental responsibilities to the rest of society?"
"Charity begins in the home."
"Are you looking for something in particular, sir . . . ?"
"Yeah, you got any tinfoil clothes . . . ?"
The real competition, is who can take the most drugs . . . and not get caught. So sports are actually a very nerdy business. You need an excellent medical team to push the level of drugs just right to the line . . . without going over it. There is probably a lot of interesting biochemical technology behind all that.
Tour de France? More like, Tour de Drugs.
This is my favorite Ballmer story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_OS/2
Team OS/2 went external that spring, when the first Team OS/2 Party was held in Chicago. The IBM Marketing Office in Chicago created a huge banner visible from the streets. Microsoft reacted when Steve Ballmer roamed the floor with an application on diskette that had been specially programmed to crash OS/2;[3] and OS/2 enthusiasts gathered for an evening of excitement at the first Team OS/2 party.
[3] Dvorak, John C. "Microsoft Should Apologize" PC Magazine, October 20, 1998, p. 87
The CEO is the public face a company, and I personally find Mr. Ballmer extremely unctuous and repulsive. I have to use Windows on my PC for business. I have no other choice. But with a phone, I do have other choices, and one of the factors I evaluate in how I view the company that makes the phone. So I use an Android.
Which is actually very "profiling" of me, in the "crazy ass cracker" sense of the word. I have never personally met anyone who works for Microsoft. I keep imagining that there are some really nice and brilliant folks who work there. But then I think of Ballmer, and I think of him sending out internal memos all day, saying, "Try to do something even more nasty today!"
I'll probably meet someone from Microsoft someday, and that will probably convince me that Microsoft is not a "Nation of Ballmers", in the "Napoleonic" sense of the word. But maybe having a CEO who at least pretends to be "kinder and gentler" could do Microsoft a world of good.
The new Lumia and its camera is a very attractive phone for me.
Be careful. Nokia uses other cameras to take the pictures for their ads, and then claims that they were taken with the phone camera. Someone caught them on the street doing this . . . and took a picture with a phone camera, of course.
I am the owner of a Nokia N90, N800, N96 and N9. But I don't trust Nokia any more, now that Microsoft is running the company.
Oh, philosophers have been bantering about this ever since the first one got his PhD and was unemployed for the rest of his life, and had nothing else better to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
In philosophy, the brain in a vat is an element used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is based on an idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist, machine, or other entity might remove a person's brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives. According to such stories, the computer would then be simulating reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the person with the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences without these being related to objects or events in the real world.
The brain in a vat is a contemporary version of the argument given in Hindu Maya illusion, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", and the evil demon in René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy.
"More mouse than mouse" is our motto.
But how will a mouse say, "I want more life, fucker!" . . . ?
It's watchers . . . all the way down.
Sadly, this isn't even funny, but rather the reality.
Hey, wireless assisted Road Rage!
This will be a hoot and a half, when Lord Wez and his Road Warrior boys start raging around, one hand on the crossbow, one hand on the wireless gadget.
. . . so don't use the salt, and just take iodine . . . straight up, or on the rocks . . .
Why not try using Claymore mines: http://www.amazon.com/Airsoft-Claymore-Wireless-Remote-Spring/dp/B0037MH646 ?
They scare the living Bejesus out of wiggin' meth-heads.
I prefer, "some people are educated way beyond their intelligence."
So, in TFA he said he was not allowed to make a copy of the order, but just take some notes about it. His attorney said it was legitimate . . . how?
I mean, you can't take a copy yourself to a secret court to ask them if they authorized it. You could call up a number that they give you, but what does that prove? And the whole damn thing is supposed to be secret, so that nobody knows nothing anyway.
Does anyone know how this works?
There are always studies supporting an opposing view of anything and everything.
Pharma companies wouldn't fund any vitamin C studies. Even if they found a new use for it . . . they can't patent vitamin C, and thus can't make any big profits from it.
Maybe Monsanto will come along and create a genetically modified version of vitamin C . . . then they would fund studies proving that it can cure baldness, smelly feet, tooth decay, near-sightedness, high blood pressure, schizophrenia, ear aches, . . .
Gee, let's just replace Microsoft with IBM, PC with mainframe, and smartphones/tables with PCs. Class, that gives us:
The traditional mainframe market has had 5 consequential quarters of decline. This is IBM's core market, where it makes much of its money.
On top of that IBM has essentially failed to gain any traction in the the new growth markets of PCs
So it is understandable that like the mainframe market, which is adjusting to some new smaller number of annual sales, IBM which makes it's income from those sales will adjust down to some new lower level of earnings, and a correspondingly lower stock price.
Viola! It's just like twenty years ago. Maybe some of those stock trading boys are old enough to remember way back then . . .
I do a lot of business traveling in Europe on trains, and just about all the passengers are fiddling with some electronic gadget or another. Business folks? Lenovo ThinkPads. Cooler business folks? MacBooks. Regular folks? Andriod tablets and iPads. Folks not wanting to be left out of the gadget party? Samsung Galaxy phones.
I have never seen a Microsoft Surface of any breed or color.
Of course, your mileage may vary. But I would have expected to have seen at least one. The only one I have ever seen, has been in a store.
In the UK, it's all about "who you know". Anthony Blunt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt) was openly gay around the same time as Alan Turing. And he spied for Russia.
But because he was the " Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures", nothing ever happened to him.
One rule of law for the elite, another for the commoners.
"I hate your guts" is just a polite way of saying, "You have extraordinarily odorous flatulence."
That's why dogs sniff each others' butts, to see if they are compatible as mates. Humans could learn from dogs, and instead of a quick chat during speed dating, just take a quick whiff of each others' butts.
That's why evolution placed the sexual organs so close to the anal orifice. You're forced to check gut bacteria compatibility, before you mate.
Unless you're prude, and just do missionary in the dark, with your clothes on.
the NSA surveillance center requires 1.7M gallons of water daily to operate.
How else do expect them to get all that water-boarding done . . . ?
Tip the veal, try the waitress . . .
And suppose the fracking chemicals themselves don't migrate.
. . . they could be carried by a swallow . . .
Yeah, it would be like S&M without the pain . . . cute, but something essential is missing from the experience.
Heidi Klum has a TV show call "Germany's Next Top Model". She basically gets all "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" on a bunch of neurotic, anorexic, pubescent girls, teaching them how a top model needs to suffer.
Heidi Klum would make a good GPU programming instructor.
. . . and even non-geeks would watch the show. A win-win for everyone.
They have one million servers,
. . . and two million hands to deal with the Metro interface . . .
but how many are running Linux?
They won't tell you that. Otherwise, they would owe SCO and Darl McBride a lot of money for the license fees . . .
High speed trains offer WiFi access in Germany. I assume it works, but I never use it. I use a flat rate 3G for 20€ a month, and am fine with that.
Of course, our friendly neighborhood NSA and DHS might find some uses for it At the customs check:
"Good new, sir, we won't be taking your photograph and thumbprint! However, as a foreigner, you will be required to carry this WiFi transceiver at all times. Enjoy your stay! We'll be interested in seeing where you choose to visit."
Global warming is real.
. . . if it's not real, the CIA will now be able to make it real for us . . .
You know, like, they just forgot to update the firmware about who the allies and enemies are? And so it just did its old job of hitting an American air base . . . ?
Seems plausible to me.
Maybe.