The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. Sausage tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled with unidentifiable meats like SPAM and if they are filled, when you put your delicious meat in, it gets in line and it's going to be mixed up by anyone that puts into that sausage tube enormous amounts of pork rectums, enormous amounts of other animal byproducts!
No, wrong, voice mail is more of a distraction than receiving text messages. Just don't enable the ability to respond to the text message until the car comes to a stop.
But what about passengers?
Who cares about the passengers. I want this company to make a phone which can short the battery to self destruct, you know, when some asshole is talking on the phone while I'm waiting in line. *shakes fist at cell phone assholes* You know when geriatrics talk amongst themselves about their digestive issues? Those conversations are infinitely more enthralling than your idiotic twaddle! So, please die in a fire!
Another hypothesis could be that people are signing up their "friends" (often inadvertently, but sometimes on purpose). This was really popular back in college (as I recall) by signing up known person's emails as a prank. Remember at the Dem's convention they were collecting cell phone numbers of the numbers of family and friends of the Dem Convention attendees cell phones.
Heh, I used to do that to friends too. Except instead of signing them up for spam, political or otherwise, I'd write a nice note on their behalf to scientology, kindly explaining my, err.. their drug addiction and psychology problems, with the hope they'd send information. Or was that what I used to do to enemies? Hmmm... Oh well...
Doesn't defective by design imply a DRM story? I didn't see any indication that the 3g connectivity problems had anything to do with DRM..
Of course. If it were an MS smartphone, it would monitor the line for copyright infringing materials. For example, say you were in New York, and sung not one but two bars of 'happy birthday' to your niece in New Mexico, your phone would receive a DMCA notice, would then immediately disconnect the call, and you would be reported to the RIAA.
It's useless on a workstation? Only if you're a nincompoop and don't scan suspicious files manually, before you go to run them. I.E. the way things used to work before computers were generally fast enough to make on-access virus scanning bearable. It's a good alternative, if you don't sit on your brain--which, of course makes it unusable to most people, (if that's what you meant)
That was kind of my point. Snipers aren't effective because they rack up tons of kills, or because they can face down an entire army. They're effective, because they demoralize the enemy.
Of course, my argument is that gun ownership is a disincentive for the government to take away rights. Further, my argument is that, because of that, the government has a strong incentive to take away our rights is over a longer period of time, so that collectively we either don't notice, or the changes are small enough incrementally, that we just don't care, etc.
It's like the bathtub faucet dripping. Even if the bathtub drips only once every second, the cumulative effect of the dripping can be enough to fill the tub over the course of a longer time span. The net effect is the same as filling the tub all the way up, and letting all the water go at once, but it doesn't have the same psychological impact. From the stance of water conservation, both are equally negative in effect.
Did I destroy my own argument, or did you just not understand it?
I don't want people to be ashamed of their bodies. I'd be happier, however, if people admired their bodies, be they fit, fat or just plain disgusting--in a private place... Or at a nudist colony/beach, etc.
It's not the case that I want to see nice bodies, because if I want that, there are a number of places besides DVDs or magazines, or the internet or strip bars, where such imagery (and more) is accessible. The state is, however, that I'd prefer not to see your disgusting fatbodies while I'm going about my business. Is that too much to ask?
re: saggy tits: Well, to each his own, I say. Still, not too excited about seeing it out on the street.
Also, the population density wasn't all that high before the bra was invented, so people had room... Still, it was strongly encouraged to keep 'em under wraps in the time, saggy or not... So they didn't pose much of a threat.:)
I think you do miss the point. Allowing the entire citizenry to own guns is like the getting involved in a cold war. It establishes an uneasy armed truce between the citizens and the leading class (politicians), with the ideal situation being that leaders do not take away freedoms, and in turn, the citizens don't take their lives. Sort of like Mutually Assured Destruction, only with the weight placed much more on the ruling class, because they are few, and the mob is legion. I think many of the founding fathers understood this, just like most of the ruling class understands this today, if somewhat unconsciously.
Sure, it's true... A single hunting rifle will be, and always has been utterly ineffective against an army. Still, I think people underestimate the power a few small chunks of lead could have. Devices which effectively poke holes in game animals will continue to be effective at poking holes in (much more frail) humans. I.E. You can hide some of the politicians all of the time, but you can't hide all of the politicians all of the time. This explains why our rights are slowly eroding. It makes the changes less tangible, less dramatic... Then the doublespeak begins.
You must be gay. We heterosexuals dearly and truly wish for the female of the species to bare their chests at every opportunity!
You know, the only women who actually want to go topless in public are mostly the overweight middle-aged variety whose tits sag to their stomach, (which is equally saggy) because they thought going without a bra was a good idea for one reason or another; these women are in the same demographic as those who refuse to shave their armpits or ape-like legs, you know, as a way demonstrating their unsuppressed feminine nature--or some stupid shit. Let me share some wisdom: there's a reason Venus de Milo and similar visages are classical archetypes of femininity; and doughy middle-aged neanderthal-esqueness just doesn't fit into it.
There are some things which just shouldn't be seen, and I shudder at the thought of having to look (which I would, it's like a train wreck) at droopy boobs all flying around an swingin' with the gait that some of these heifers sport. Not to mention, it's a physical hazard there's a definite need to put leashes on those puppies! In all fairness, I'm not fond of seeing manboobs, beer belly and ass-crack flying all over the place, either. Same exact thing in my mind, I have no gender bias in this issue.
Now, if attractive, physically fit women (or men) want to go topless--you're all welcome to it. However, I still feel it's necessary to to place armed guards at all places where spandex is retailed, with authorization to shoot to kill all fatties who dare waddle over to touch the form fitting fabric.
Is that why SGI's prices were always insane? The handholding? Last time I bought anything directly from them, the cost would have easily eclipsed *ahem* much more thorough services from other... providers. Talk about Bend Over.
It wouldn't come as a large surprise to learn that a company as poorly managed as SGI would have had some nincompoop pass over on selling maintenance. After all, in the old days that's where they made their money, you know, when they actually made money. I can't imagine someone currently under their employ actually trying to make a profit.
It would be nice if any OS you'd run off a flash disk to had some write caching capability. Tweaking the write cache size and empty frequency aught to largely take care of the logging thing, I would think... Shouldn't be a big deal with Linux. That, and it's probably not imperative that such an installation needs to have as aggressive logging as other applications.
And that fine line is awesome! Piracy is awesome and terrorism is not.
So true, but as you know: when you put two things together, especially when one thing on its own isn't that great, but the other thing is--that combination is could be even more awesome than either of the two, on their own.
It's like beans and rice, raw potatoes and hot oil, chocolate and chili, Sonny and Cher, etc.
I bet that a single pirate terrorist could defeat an entire navy of ninjas. That would be the most awesome fucking thing evar.
Says right in your PDF that when considering radiative heat losses & entropy (they didn't take thermal conduction into account, I noticed), the black body limit on efficiency is about 86%. Personally, I'd think that mass production of 20-30% efficient cells would be a hell of a revolution. Limited production of 50% efficient cells would be a mind blowing breakthrough... Any more than that is just icing on the cake.
These days, you'd probably be charged with a sex crime, would instantly, er, that is after "due process", become a felon, and go to prison to hang out with a bunch of rapists and child molesters.
Exactly. This stuff doesn't help the creative process, and it doesn't add much if you're willing to gain some personal experience.
Tangential to that, is that I do believe DSLRs are a great learning tool for perspective photographers, even if they're rarely used that way. The critical difference is the ability to shoot a few frames and have near instant feedback with practically no work. It's funny, but after using digital in the studio with strobes for six months, and having that instant feedback, I quit using a meter for more than 80% of the things I do.
However, it still amuses me to no end when some doofus goes and buys a $1700 body and $1600 lens (if not worse), just to make the most boring images ever created by man. It's good for us, though, their spending habits are pushing the price on superb gear down, down down. Thank you, people who buy top of the line pro-sumer DSLRs, just to make snapshots; you're the best!
Hey, you know, that's really short sighted. Personally, when the muscles in my right arm are replaced with micrometer accurate servos because of severe gaming (or otherwise) induced carpal tunnel syndrome, I KNOW I'm really going to appreciate that I chose to invest in such quality hardware. Laugh it up all you will, we'll see who gets the last laugh when I'm owning your ass in Counter-Strike XVI! HAHA! SUCKER!
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The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. Sausage tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled with unidentifiable meats like SPAM and if they are filled, when you put your delicious meat in, it gets in line and it's going to be mixed up by anyone that puts into that sausage tube enormous amounts of pork rectums, enormous amounts of other animal byproducts!
Oh, so you're one of THEM? If you're like the people I routinely suffer overhearing, you have no life, which unsurprisingly, is precisely the problem.
No, wrong, voice mail is more of a distraction than receiving text messages. Just don't enable the ability to respond to the text message until the car comes to a stop.
But what about passengers?
Who cares about the passengers. I want this company to make a phone which can short the battery to self destruct, you know, when some asshole is talking on the phone while I'm waiting in line. *shakes fist at cell phone assholes* You know when geriatrics talk amongst themselves about their digestive issues? Those conversations are infinitely more enthralling than your idiotic twaddle! So, please die in a fire!
Another hypothesis could be that people are signing up their "friends" (often inadvertently, but sometimes on purpose). This was really popular back in college (as I recall) by signing up known person's emails as a prank.
Remember at the Dem's convention they were collecting cell phone numbers of the numbers of family and friends of the Dem Convention attendees cell phones.
Heh, I used to do that to friends too. Except instead of signing them up for spam, political or otherwise, I'd write a nice note on their behalf to scientology, kindly explaining my, err.. their drug addiction and psychology problems, with the hope they'd send information. Or was that what I used to do to enemies? Hmmm... Oh well...
So, how'd that Quizno's gig work out?
Doesn't defective by design imply a DRM story? I didn't see any indication that the 3g connectivity problems had anything to do with DRM..
Of course. If it were an MS smartphone, it would monitor the line for copyright infringing materials. For example, say you were in New York, and sung not one but two bars of 'happy birthday' to your niece in New Mexico, your phone would receive a DMCA notice, would then immediately disconnect the call, and you would be reported to the RIAA.
I've always thought the nutcracker was a great incentive.
It's useless on a workstation? Only if you're a nincompoop and don't scan suspicious files manually, before you go to run them. I.E. the way things used to work before computers were generally fast enough to make on-access virus scanning bearable. It's a good alternative, if you don't sit on your brain--which, of course makes it unusable to most people, (if that's what you meant)
That was kind of my point. Snipers aren't effective because they rack up tons of kills, or because they can face down an entire army. They're effective, because they demoralize the enemy.
Of course, my argument is that gun ownership is a disincentive for the government to take away rights. Further, my argument is that, because of that, the government has a strong incentive to take away our rights is over a longer period of time, so that collectively we either don't notice, or the changes are small enough incrementally, that we just don't care, etc.
It's like the bathtub faucet dripping. Even if the bathtub drips only once every second, the cumulative effect of the dripping can be enough to fill the tub over the course of a longer time span. The net effect is the same as filling the tub all the way up, and letting all the water go at once, but it doesn't have the same psychological impact. From the stance of water conservation, both are equally negative in effect.
Did I destroy my own argument, or did you just not understand it?
I don't want people to be ashamed of their bodies. I'd be happier, however, if people admired their bodies, be they fit, fat or just plain disgusting--in a private place... Or at a nudist colony/beach, etc.
It's not the case that I want to see nice bodies, because if I want that, there are a number of places besides DVDs or magazines, or the internet or strip bars, where such imagery (and more) is accessible. The state is, however, that I'd prefer not to see your disgusting fatbodies while I'm going about my business. Is that too much to ask?
re: saggy tits: Well, to each his own, I say. Still, not too excited about seeing it out on the street.
Also, the population density wasn't all that high before the bra was invented, so people had room... Still, it was strongly encouraged to keep 'em under wraps in the time, saggy or not... So they didn't pose much of a threat. :)
I think you do miss the point. Allowing the entire citizenry to own guns is like the getting involved in a cold war. It establishes an uneasy armed truce between the citizens and the leading class (politicians), with the ideal situation being that leaders do not take away freedoms, and in turn, the citizens don't take their lives. Sort of like Mutually Assured Destruction, only with the weight placed much more on the ruling class, because they are few, and the mob is legion. I think many of the founding fathers understood this, just like most of the ruling class understands this today, if somewhat unconsciously.
Sure, it's true... A single hunting rifle will be, and always has been utterly ineffective against an army. Still, I think people underestimate the power a few small chunks of lead could have. Devices which effectively poke holes in game animals will continue to be effective at poking holes in (much more frail) humans. I.E. You can hide some of the politicians all of the time, but you can't hide all of the politicians all of the time. This explains why our rights are slowly eroding. It makes the changes less tangible, less dramatic... Then the doublespeak begins.
You must be gay. We heterosexuals dearly and truly wish for the female of the species to bare their chests at every opportunity!
You know, the only women who actually want to go topless in public are mostly the overweight middle-aged variety whose tits sag to their stomach, (which is equally saggy) because they thought going without a bra was a good idea for one reason or another; these women are in the same demographic as those who refuse to shave their armpits or ape-like legs, you know, as a way demonstrating their unsuppressed feminine nature--or some stupid shit. Let me share some wisdom: there's a reason Venus de Milo and similar visages are classical archetypes of femininity; and doughy middle-aged neanderthal-esqueness just doesn't fit into it.
There are some things which just shouldn't be seen, and I shudder at the thought of having to look (which I would, it's like a train wreck) at droopy boobs all flying around an swingin' with the gait that some of these heifers sport. Not to mention, it's a physical hazard there's a definite need to put leashes on those puppies! In all fairness, I'm not fond of seeing manboobs, beer belly and ass-crack flying all over the place, either. Same exact thing in my mind, I have no gender bias in this issue.
Now, if attractive, physically fit women (or men) want to go topless--you're all welcome to it. However, I still feel it's necessary to to place armed guards at all places where spandex is retailed, with authorization to shoot to kill all fatties who dare waddle over to touch the form fitting fabric.
Is that why SGI's prices were always insane? The handholding? Last time I bought anything directly from them, the cost would have easily eclipsed *ahem* much more thorough services from other... providers. Talk about Bend Over.
It wouldn't come as a large surprise to learn that a company as poorly managed as SGI would have had some nincompoop pass over on selling maintenance. After all, in the old days that's where they made their money, you know, when they actually made money. I can't imagine someone currently under their employ actually trying to make a profit.
I'd watch it, and I'd enjoy it, goddamnit.
It would be nice if any OS you'd run off a flash disk to had some write caching capability. Tweaking the write cache size and empty frequency aught to largely take care of the logging thing, I would think... Shouldn't be a big deal with Linux. That, and it's probably not imperative that such an installation needs to have as aggressive logging as other applications.
I advocate turning old people into fuel.
SenOil... is people?
And that fine line is awesome! Piracy is awesome and terrorism is not.
So true, but as you know: when you put two things together, especially when one thing on its own isn't that great, but the other thing is--that combination is could be even more awesome than either of the two, on their own.
It's like beans and rice, raw potatoes and hot oil, chocolate and chili, Sonny and Cher, etc.
I bet that a single pirate terrorist could defeat an entire navy of ninjas. That would be the most awesome fucking thing evar.
Says right in your PDF that when considering radiative heat losses & entropy (they didn't take thermal conduction into account, I noticed), the black body limit on efficiency is about 86%. Personally, I'd think that mass production of 20-30% efficient cells would be a hell of a revolution. Limited production of 50% efficient cells would be a mind blowing breakthrough... Any more than that is just icing on the cake.
When was the last time a ship landed on someone's house?
Last Thursday. A whole boatload of semen was stranded on my rooftop, that is, until I pulled out the garden hose!
These days, you'd probably be charged with a sex crime, would instantly, er, that is after "due process", become a felon, and go to prison to hang out with a bunch of rapists and child molesters.
Exactly. This stuff doesn't help the creative process, and it doesn't add much if you're willing to gain some personal experience.
Tangential to that, is that I do believe DSLRs are a great learning tool for perspective photographers, even if they're rarely used that way. The critical difference is the ability to shoot a few frames and have near instant feedback with practically no work. It's funny, but after using digital in the studio with strobes for six months, and having that instant feedback, I quit using a meter for more than 80% of the things I do.
However, it still amuses me to no end when some doofus goes and buys a $1700 body and $1600 lens (if not worse), just to make the most boring images ever created by man. It's good for us, though, their spending habits are pushing the price on superb gear down, down down. Thank you, people who buy top of the line pro-sumer DSLRs, just to make snapshots; you're the best!
And wear your mirror action up twice as fast, too... And for a feature which can be accurately deduced through the meter. OMG YAY!
Hey, you know, that's really short sighted. Personally, when the muscles in my right arm are replaced with micrometer accurate servos because of severe gaming (or otherwise) induced carpal tunnel syndrome, I KNOW I'm really going to appreciate that I chose to invest in such quality hardware. Laugh it up all you will, we'll see who gets the last laugh when I'm owning your ass in Counter-Strike XVI! HAHA! SUCKER!