Which is especially easy if you lie about how you'll finance your campaign, and then take in huge amounts of private cash after going back on your word.
I'm confused by this. I admit I haven't looked into or really cared about this particular issue. My limited understanding is he said he might(?) take public funds.. then didn't. How is this bad? Aren't the public funds from, say, my tax dollars? By not using them, it seems he saved me some money. What am I missing about this?
He made plenty of mistakes in his campaign - but they were completely sugar-coated by most of the news outlets.
Like...? You're talking to someone who wants to believe Obama is the right guy. You can't just drop unsubstantiated bombs like that. I have no idea what you're talking about as I and other Obama supporters have been largely blinded by self-induced faith in him...:p
The guy hasn't held a press conference in a month and a half.
What would you have asked him? What did you want to know that wasn't already out there? When did Palin last have a real one? I heard she was notoriously hard to get interviews with. (And for good reason from what I can tell - she sucks at them.)
See coming? They produced it for him!
Not at first. At first it was all Hillary - and he managed to win the nomination in spite of that.
Name one concrete accomplishment of Senator Obama in his career.
Well he's run an amazing campaign that even the (liberal?) media didn't see coming at first, he beat the Clinton machine, and oh, is likely on his way to winning the big office today. So... yeah... nothing important...
Well, the constitution does say something about me having a right to bare arms or something like that... I assume that means they have to keep me healthy so my limbs don't fall off, right?
One place I worked at once had to fire a janitor for using people's office computers late at night to watch porn. If he was smarter, imagine what else he could have done with their unprotected workstations...
Software has an impact, too. Messy, heavy code takes longer to run, takes more CPUs, etc. Imagine how much energy could be saved if there wasn't so much code bloat!
The iPhone dev community is largely open source already and the closed nature of some of the hack projects has always bothered me. I've released all of my code from my iApp-a-day project which took place last month, and a lot of people are learning from it and building better things now. I know I'd be interested to see how something like AnySim actually works under the hood. It's one thing to have an academic knowledge of how these things work, but quite another to see and experiment with it first hand.
Has anyone read anywhere if you can use the iPhone as a generic internet source via bluetooth/802.11 for a laptop or something like that? If it has unlimited data, it'd be nice to be able to pair it up with my laptop and get on the net from a "real" computer if I need to while I'm on the road and can't find a wifi hotspot. (Note.. I currently don't have a fancy-pants cell phone with data capability, so I'm a bit out of the loop on this kind of thing and I'm not sure if that feature is "normal" or not on these kinds of smart phones...)
How about a single button solution on the front panel of the PC? Label it as "power" so that each time the user turns the system off it actually starts a reinstall after shutting off the monitor. That way, when they come back in the morning, they can start fresh! Imagine how much easier tech support would be... rebooting your computer would actually help - and it'd always come back with a clean slate! No confusion about where they accidently dragged the Recycle Bin while trying to click on the Start menu. No more endless problems with spyware or viruses (well, nothing lasting, anyway). It'd be a usability revolution!
I'm amazed, dumbfounded, dismayed, and flabbergasted at the resistance OLPC is getting in certain circles. If it isn't someone complaining about the "hidden" costs of the thing, it's people whining that these kids would be better off with food and water or medicine or solving the AIDS problem or, etc, etc. Never-mind that these things are really targeted to the much better off but highly neglected second world and not the far more talked-about third.
And then there's those who try to be all "technical" and say it's too underpowered, too simple, too different, too hard. WTF? Just how spoiled are some of these people? I learned computers on 8-bit hardware connected to a B&W TV with no network, no disk drive, no mouse, and no high-res graphics and even *that* was luxury compared to what some of the older folks out there cut their teeth on. This product is designed to be dropped into a world where computers are rare or, perhaps, nonexistent - which reminds me a lot of my own childhood! I got a computer when I was a kid entirely because my dad liked gadgets. He didn't know what to do with it, and I hadn't been told it had no purpose so I spent years CREATING a reason to use it without any training whatsoever. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything and I expect these kids to take part in a similar journey. Who knows what applications they may come up with? Any serious amount of training or hand-holding is going to rob them of the magic of discovery and achievement and freedom that can only come from having never been told what's impossible.
That's the problem with LOC/s... it's a moving target.:-) It reminds me of the era when measurements were based off the king's physical body. Like, the length of his foot might be a "foot" until he got replaced by a different king. Etc.
In any case, that 10TB number I found seemed a bit small and the page looked sort of old. So it's probably not very accurate - but that wasn't really the point. I hadn't looked at the article yet, either, and decided it'd be more fun to base it almost entirely on the bogus "16 DVDs" comment. Seemed appropriate given the silliness of using the Library of Congress as a measure in the first place.:-)
Well, according to one page I found, the Library of Congress is (was?) around 10 Terabytes. Google says that equals 83,886,080 Megabits. Wikipedia says that DVD video can run at 9.8 Megabits/second using MPEG-2. So, my calculation is: (9.8 * 16) / 83886080 = 0.00000186920166 LOC/s. (Here's hoping I didn't make some stupid 2:30am math mistake here...:))
I remember hearing that Spore is going to be highly procedural. Textures, models, walking animations, etc. There's a lot of room for this approach and it's not limited to just the graphics.
Actually, it is.. because it at least gives the perception to others of interest and activity in the online community. No posts at all says no one cares enough to even crapflood the place. Right? Huh? You know it...:-)
Even if you don't know anything about politics you can still easily vote against the incumbents. It's usually better to get old people out of office than to keep them in. Change is good for the government - they just hate it something terrible. Not voting is essentially a vote for the incumbent and vote for the status-quo. Do you like the incumbent or like everything the way it is now? If so - then go vote for them and make it real! If not, then go make sure they know by voting for someone else! Just vote, dammit.
(Sadly I recently moved and didn't think to fill out the paperwork in time - so I can't vote this time around without driving over 100 miles to my old precinct. *sigh* Stupid.)
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That's what I did. A lot of people around here that I know did the same thing. Will be interesting to see what happens tonight.
Which is especially easy if you lie about how you'll finance your campaign, and then take in huge amounts of private cash after going back on your word.
I'm confused by this. I admit I haven't looked into or really cared about this particular issue. My limited understanding is he said he might(?) take public funds.. then didn't. How is this bad? Aren't the public funds from, say, my tax dollars? By not using them, it seems he saved me some money. What am I missing about this?
He made plenty of mistakes in his campaign - but they were completely sugar-coated by most of the news outlets.
Like...? You're talking to someone who wants to believe Obama is the right guy. You can't just drop unsubstantiated bombs like that. I have no idea what you're talking about as I and other Obama supporters have been largely blinded by self-induced faith in him... :p
The guy hasn't held a press conference in a month and a half.
What would you have asked him? What did you want to know that wasn't already out there? When did Palin last have a real one? I heard she was notoriously hard to get interviews with. (And for good reason from what I can tell - she sucks at them.)
See coming? They produced it for him!
Not at first. At first it was all Hillary - and he managed to win the nomination in spite of that.
So his greatest achievement comes from his gift of self promotion.
Self promotion is how stuff gets done in Washington. It's not merit based - it's a sales job.
Name one concrete accomplishment of Senator Obama in his career.
Well he's run an amazing campaign that even the (liberal?) media didn't see coming at first, he beat the Clinton machine, and oh, is likely on his way to winning the big office today. So... yeah... nothing important...
*wanders off to order a triple quarter-pounder with bacon and a gallon of cola*
Dude... this is America - you can't just order the small combo meal! Supersize it!
Well, the constitution does say something about me having a right to bare arms or something like that... I assume that means they have to keep me healthy so my limbs don't fall off, right?
Genius usually doesn't have the patience to see it through.
I knew I was a genius! I have virtually no patience and hardly ever finish... ooh.. shiny objects in the big blue room!
One place I worked at once had to fire a janitor for using people's office computers late at night to watch porn. If he was smarter, imagine what else he could have done with their unprotected workstations...
Because they've outgrown misogyny but not racism?
Gotta start somewhere, I guess...
Software has an impact, too. Messy, heavy code takes longer to run, takes more CPUs, etc. Imagine how much energy could be saved if there wasn't so much code bloat!
No.. they just know something you don't. :)
The iPhone dev community is largely open source already and the closed nature of some of the hack projects has always bothered me. I've released all of my code from my iApp-a-day project which took place last month, and a lot of people are learning from it and building better things now. I know I'd be interested to see how something like AnySim actually works under the hood. It's one thing to have an academic knowledge of how these things work, but quite another to see and experiment with it first hand.
Has anyone read anywhere if you can use the iPhone as a generic internet source via bluetooth/802.11 for a laptop or something like that? If it has unlimited data, it'd be nice to be able to pair it up with my laptop and get on the net from a "real" computer if I need to while I'm on the road and can't find a wifi hotspot. (Note.. I currently don't have a fancy-pants cell phone with data capability, so I'm a bit out of the loop on this kind of thing and I'm not sure if that feature is "normal" or not on these kinds of smart phones...)
The Internet is telephone for computers.
:-)
That works pretty well. If people get confused about Wifi, sometimes I might suggest it is like cellphones for computers.
How about a single button solution on the front panel of the PC? Label it as "power" so that each time the user turns the system off it actually starts a reinstall after shutting off the monitor. That way, when they come back in the morning, they can start fresh! Imagine how much easier tech support would be... rebooting your computer would actually help - and it'd always come back with a clean slate! No confusion about where they accidently dragged the Recycle Bin while trying to click on the Start menu. No more endless problems with spyware or viruses (well, nothing lasting, anyway). It'd be a usability revolution!
Insightful? Evidence, please.
I'm amazed, dumbfounded, dismayed, and flabbergasted at the resistance OLPC is getting in certain circles. If it isn't someone complaining about the "hidden" costs of the thing, it's people whining that these kids would be better off with food and water or medicine or solving the AIDS problem or, etc, etc. Never-mind that these things are really targeted to the much better off but highly neglected second world and not the far more talked-about third.
And then there's those who try to be all "technical" and say it's too underpowered, too simple, too different, too hard. WTF? Just how spoiled are some of these people? I learned computers on 8-bit hardware connected to a B&W TV with no network, no disk drive, no mouse, and no high-res graphics and even *that* was luxury compared to what some of the older folks out there cut their teeth on. This product is designed to be dropped into a world where computers are rare or, perhaps, nonexistent - which reminds me a lot of my own childhood! I got a computer when I was a kid entirely because my dad liked gadgets. He didn't know what to do with it, and I hadn't been told it had no purpose so I spent years CREATING a reason to use it without any training whatsoever. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything and I expect these kids to take part in a similar journey. Who knows what applications they may come up with? Any serious amount of training or hand-holding is going to rob them of the magic of discovery and achievement and freedom that can only come from having never been told what's impossible.
That's the problem with LOC/s... it's a moving target. :-) It reminds me of the era when measurements were based off the king's physical body. Like, the length of his foot might be a "foot" until he got replaced by a different king. Etc.
:-)
In any case, that 10TB number I found seemed a bit small and the page looked sort of old. So it's probably not very accurate - but that wasn't really the point. I hadn't looked at the article yet, either, and decided it'd be more fun to base it almost entirely on the bogus "16 DVDs" comment. Seemed appropriate given the silliness of using the Library of Congress as a measure in the first place.
Well, according to one page I found, the Library of Congress is (was?) around 10 Terabytes. Google says that equals 83,886,080 Megabits. Wikipedia says that DVD video can run at 9.8 Megabits/second using MPEG-2. So, my calculation is: (9.8 * 16) / 83886080 = 0.00000186920166 LOC/s. (Here's hoping I didn't make some stupid 2:30am math mistake here... :))
"Occam's razor says it was the wireless network. Let's not confuse science with wishful thinking in hoping all cool technology is safe."
Yeah.. he couldn't *possibly* have just had a flu or something like that.
The article doesn't specify, but you'd think if it was such a horribly dangerous technology, there'd be sick people like this all over his school.
I remember hearing that Spore is going to be highly procedural. Textures, models, walking animations, etc. There's a lot of room for this approach and it's not limited to just the graphics.
Is crapflooding better than a no post?
:-)
Actually, it is.. because it at least gives the perception to others of interest and activity in the online community. No posts at all says no one cares enough to even crapflood the place. Right? Huh? You know it...
Even if you don't know anything about politics you can still easily vote against the incumbents. It's usually better to get old people out of office than to keep them in. Change is good for the government - they just hate it something terrible. Not voting is essentially a vote for the incumbent and vote for the status-quo. Do you like the incumbent or like everything the way it is now? If so - then go vote for them and make it real! If not, then go make sure they know by voting for someone else! Just vote, dammit.
(Sadly I recently moved and didn't think to fill out the paperwork in time - so I can't vote this time around without driving over 100 miles to my old precinct. *sigh* Stupid.)
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"Pity the fool" :-)