If that's the case, it makes me wonder about the potential for a write-in election campaign, like the anonymous scientology demonstrations.
If enough of the popular votes in high profile states get drowned that way, the results could be interesting, and it would be the most influential hack that a goup like thiers would ever have done.
Imagine, hacking an election, by organized voter DDoS.
It could be that a facebook page doesn't interrupt you during dinner, or your favorite movie, or during sex.
That it doesn't use a melodramatic voice actor to sound all serious about the $TotallyEvilShit that $OtherCandidate does, and basically conflate that not voting for $EndorsedCandidate is a vote for raping babies with wood rasps.
Seriously. People are losing patience with the mud slinging. A facebook page can be ignored. It doesn't shove itself in your face. It doesn't scream. It doesn't rant. It doesn't turn the volume up 30 additional decibels to blast your brains out.
Given the substantially fewer sets of clear and present BADs being injected, is it any wonder that people would react more favorably to them?
Current TV ads are like the $PoliticalParty edit wars on Wikipedia for $CandidateHistory. Look, the ministry of truth bullshit with your truthiness gets old. Say your bit, the shut the fuck up already. If I want to know about your party or your candidate, let me do so on my own. Don't try to control my access to information. Don't try to poison that well. If you do, you expose yourself as dishonest shysters, and I will only want you to go away and stop bothering me.
I suspect many other americans feel the same way.
Grow the fuck up, grow a pair, own up, and let us make up our own damn minds.
I recently built a system for a friend of mine using ans AsRock 4 extreme, and an 1155 based i5 CPU with ivybridge.
As I am not made of money, we cheesed it and coaxed an old ATX power supply with molex plugs into working for us (with some cheap adaptors), and used the integrated video. He rarely games anyway, and we agreed it was a good foundation to work from for later purchases.
As a system torture test, I installed a copy of TES V Skyrim.
For the first time in a very long while, I was impressed with how far intel's video offerings have come. It was able to run on medium settings at 1280x960 or some such, at a fully playable speed.
Still not at match for my now older nVidia GTS 440, but for integrated garbage video, it has certainly come a long way. I didn't see any of the usual 3d texture alignment and geometry "issues" normally associated with intel video.
If they can keep up that level of improvement, be ubiquitous, cheap, and open, nVidia and AMD are going to start hurting.
I would be willing to be tested, as long as the test materials weren't bs that would further clutter up my head.
Since my university is primarily outfitted for engineering, computer science, and education degrees I am not convinced it is an appropriate venue. I don't feel like taking a 4 hour drive everyday to get to the nearest one with a respectable medical training curriculum, just to get prodded and asked to do parlor tricks with my brain.
I remember too much, and with sufficient recall that when reminded of something funny, I will recall the whole thing and start laughing. This makes it seem like I am slightly crazy, and laughing when no joke has been uttered. Little things like that.
If I could purge some of the useless data from my head, and do so safely, I would be sorely tempted to do so.
That's the whole point of my original post. Not to claim I am some savant, which I do not believe I am.
Upon landing at las vegas airport, we were stuck on the runway, as the plane in the stall our flight was scheduled to disembark t was grounded due to a medical emergency, and delayed for a half hour.
I was worried that I would have to rent a hotel room in las vegas on the 4th of july. (The return flight was the night of july 3rd.) We DID board successfully, as it turns out the plane we were to embark on was the very one that had experienced the medical emergency. There was an entire row of seats, 4th from the front in coach, that had barriers over them, which I assmed to be the location said medical emergency took place. Being a non-revinue ticket holder, we (my friend and I) were in the last set of people boarding, and took whatever available seats we could. He got stuck beside "squirmy man", and I got stuck behind screamer baby. I talked with the parents of screamer baby, who turned out to be a barely 4 year old girl with dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a little red dress. Her dad put in earbuds and watched the iron man movie (first one) on a laptop, and his wife read a harlequin romance novel, white tied screamer baby raised hell.
I used my hacked PSP with custom firmware to play castlevania from the nintendo GBA using an emulator, and was thankful that the earbuds I had in were noise cancelling.
There was aggressive turbulence during the flight, as we flew through a thunderstorm. It was raining when we arrived at kansas city airport.
We almost missed my friend's folks, who were our ride, due to the clusterfuck design of the airport.
It takes conscious effort to remember an arbitrary unit of information, such as a complete recipie, vs remembering that I made muffins that day, and that they were delicious.
People with perfect autobiographical memory do the latter. They will associate a date with an activity, and remember it. They will remember making the muffins, what problems may have come up during baking (such as phone ringing, etc), that they were delicious, how many they ate, etc... but will not recall the recipie.
I can recall the recipie, if I make a conscious effort to store it.
This is something people with perfect autobiographical memory cannot do.
I do not habe perfect autobiographical memory, and do not claim to. I have above average autobiographical memory, and also the ability to recall discrete units of information I have consciously taken the effort to store.
Compare: remembering that my friend's dad wanted odd ingredients for something he wanted to cook VS remembering what the ingredients are.
Perfect autobiographical memory sufferers often fail miserably at discrete memory tasks, but excell at semantic and biographical memory tasks.
I do not have perfect autobiographical memory, and do not claim to. I do have superior biographical memory, however. I do not remember the exact conversation on said flight. What I remember is that he was a minority student, possibly italian or mediteranean in origin, as he had tanned skin, loose curly black hair with and oily sheen, brown eyes, a black shirt with white khaki pants, and a black paperback college textbook on electrical engineering.
The conversation we had revolved around the actual validity of claims that the stuardess was making concerning the disruption of flight instruments by wireless communications devices, considering the inverse cube law, and the average effective transmit energy of a personal electronic device being in the milliwatt range. This was leaving san jose airport for las vegas airport for our connecting flight.
We agreed that it might be possible for there to be a problem if there were improperly grounded and unsheilded driven elements that could act as an active reciever, and propogate the noise signal through the wiring harness, but this would be a serious design flaw of the aircraft, as it would likely have serious problems with reception of noise emissions from other wired systems in the plane.
I suggested that perhaps they were worried about miniscule chances of impairment, due to FAA officiousness. We agreed that it would likely take everyone on board simultaneously using their handsets with hacked firmwares to broadcast on max energy to create enough noise to impact flight control systems on a modern jet liner, and that the prohibition was likely pure BS, and CYA tactics on the part of the airline.
I do not remember the date. I believe it was a Thursday.
I am not sure my local university is properly equipped for that, and don't relish the idea of being poked, prodded, or worse-- made to remember even more tedious information.
If it helps your room-mate, I do not have perfect autobiographical memory; instead, to store the information reliably, I have to comprehend the material I am being exposed to. For example, I have a weakness in mathematics. Showing me a mathematical proof, I will have difficulty storing it. However, a complex process, if I comprehend it and its steps and purpose, I can store almost immediately.
For instance, here is a recipie I like for pumpkin bread. I have made it twice. It makes 38 muffins.
Preheat oven to 350F. In a large mixing bowl combine 4 softened sticks of butter, 4 large eggs, 3 cups of white sugar, 3/4 cup sweetened evaporated milk and one 15oz can of pumpkin puree until well blended.
In another bowl, sift together 3 and 1/2 cups white all purpouse flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1/4 teaspoon powdered ginger, 2 teaspoon baking soda, and 1 teaspoon salt.
Combine the dry and wet ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth. Blend in one 8oz bag of pecan chips, ad one 8oz bag of chunked english walnuts.
Place muffin paper liners in 2 one dozen muffin tins, and spoon the papers full to the top, (approx 2 tablespoons each.)
Load filled trays on center rack and bake until inserted toothpick returns clean.
(This post is entirely from memory. I have made them twice. They are delicious.)
I enjoy cooking, and easily stored this recipie for later. As you can see, it is fairly involved, and well beyond most people's ability to keep in short term memory long enough to fully commit ater only 2 uses. I had the recipie almost perfectly stored after the first use, and fully stored after the second.
Again, a complex math proof would fail me, but only because I have difficulty with that subject. I have to be able to make connections to store the information directly. If I do not comprehend the subject matter, I can't do that, and it greatly impedes the process.
As for how I do it, I am not entirey sure how to explain it. There is a certain... feel... to a successful push. Some items, if sufficiently complex, may require more than one push to fully store. It is a conscious effort, and not innate, though I do have abnormally high recall for random daily occurances, and could give you a fairly accurate description of my (entire) trip last week for example, but that would be boring and unnecessary.
I know for a fact that my short term memory is abysmal, as I often forget people and names that I do not consider important. This is probably because I rarely use it.
Lately I have been having odd cognitative issues with feeling... "full". Hence, my desire to do house keeping.
I might be an anomaly, but after highschool and college, I developed the ability to push things directly to long-term memory, and shortchange the short-term, removing the volatility.
I know I can do that, because the information and even the circumstances happening around me are stored such that I can recall them clearly now, years later. (The first time I did it was durng a cram session in science class concerning the simple machines physics test material in HS. I remember the entire circumstance clearly. Upon learning I could do this, I never had to really study again, just make the concious effort to store the information permanently. The most recent time I used it was last week over the holiday weekend. I visited a friend and took some extra days off. His parents wanted him to find some unusual ingredients for a recipe his dad had found online, and I memorized the missing items: mediteranean couscous, lemon preserves, and picholine olives.)
Let me know when they can deal with long term memories, because there is some stagnant data in my head that needs purging. I don't need to remember the conversation I had with the engineering student on the SW airlines return flight from my california vacation two years ago. That and numberous other things could safely be removed.
Aside from the dubious reference to the predictive qualities of a giant robot genre anime series....
Let's assume that the world population was a mere 2 billion again. I would have to be using 4x the energy resources I am using now.
Realistically, I could probably power my house with 100% green energy. (Such as wind. My area has a surplus of windy days.) The issue is transportation. I somehow doubt that I will consume 4x the transportation energy simply because I can, especially if the reason for the population collapse was a malthusian catastrophe.
(The reason I don't use 100% green energy is mostly because of other people: wind generators are "ugly", a subjective aspersion cast by other people, and enforced at the civic level using zoning and legal obstacles. People don't like "ugly" things. Remove the other people, and that problem goes away.)
I don't think a reduced population would consume at the same levels of current consumption due to increased availability and reduced costs. The logistics of providing the resources with the reduced workforce would make that untenable. The opposite is true: ubiqitous labor makes previously impossible tasks possible. Ask the ancient egyptians. What is asy to do now, prospecting and producing energy from natura supplies, would be significantly more difficult with a radically reduced population.
There is a reason why people burned wood and dung for millenia.
Seriously here, when will the world wise up to the fact that "cheap cinese labor" has costs that don't tabulate out cleanly on expense sheets and quarterly reports?
Is getting your technology for fractions of a cent per transistor worth.... this?
Do the affluent of today not know that this kind of despotism breeds civil unrest, government oppression, and the degredation of what it means to be a human being?
Do they even care?
A worker's paradise indeed. Does anyone know of any electronics makers who don't abuse another country's willingness to throw its own people under the bus for money?
Ok, if Jobs is floating over his OLD OFFICE, that means he was incarnated as a hungry ghost!
See, in bhuddist cosmology, there are various gradients of existence. This world, our world, represents the crossroads between the celestial heavens, and the hellish naraka. (Those are plural. There are many of each.)
The important thing of note here, is that the priests say he was incarnated above his old office. This means here, on the mortal realm.
In the mortal realm, there are 3 potential kinds of incarnation: Human, Hungry ghost, and Animal.
Since he is incorporeal, and in the mortal realm, that means he is a hungry ghost. Hungry ghosts are called that, because they have big appetites, but lack any real means to sate them. They are a pitiable form of existence, but can also cause serious problems, such as hauntings.
That he would incarnate into a LOWER incarnation implies he had BAD karma, but not quite sufficient to send him to one of the naraka. (Though the burning flesh naraka might be appropriate if you ask me.)
So, if you work at apple, you should attempt to appease the late Jobs, by leaving offerings of unmarked bills, and the latest iDevice on his desk. Failing to do so will anger the hungry ghot, and there will be trouble. Burning incense may help as well. But not sandalwood. It's tacky.
Most people will have a cable company supplied DVR/DigitalCable box, a different brand of television, and a different yet brand of stereo surround sysytem.
The "google" solution would have all these devices made by google.
It is a rectangular display device with a built in radio frequency tuner and an audio subsystem intended for the playback of home entertainment motion pictures, and the reception and display of live broadcasts.
This particular form of entertainment was slowly phased out in favor of superior offerings toward the end of the 20th century.
Buy whatever electronic devices I find favorable, and configure them however the fuck I want.
That way I can avoid their "ecosystem", with its inherant vendor lock in, and pervasive bullshit entirely!
As a consumer, that sounds far more desirable.
However, I do see where other normal consumers may fall victim here, since getting all the equipment and services from a single company should (theoretically...) make setup and use easier.
Personally though? When I plop down on the couch to veggify some braincells, I want a few annoyances as possible, which mans the equipment has to do whar *I* want, and not what a bunch of shyster lawyers in hollywood, and a bunch of beancounters in the bay area google HQ want.
If that means DIY home theater with MythTV and a raid array, so fucking be it.
Essentially, they believe that a massive dieoff is immenent, and that having more children is a gross and unethical thing to do given the already overpopulated condition of the planet.
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...if the phone won't fucking quit, yes.
I have relatives that become hysterical, and forget to call my cell instead of the house phone.
If that's the case, it makes me wonder about the potential for a write-in election campaign, like the anonymous scientology demonstrations.
If enough of the popular votes in high profile states get drowned that way, the results could be interesting, and it would be the most influential hack that a goup like thiers would ever have done.
Imagine, hacking an election, by organized voter DDoS.
P'shaw!
Cthulu can't do anything without Yog Sothoth's help, that incompetent narcoleptic slimeball.
Now, Azathoth, there's a candidate I could endorse!
Al Bundy, 'zat you?
It could be that a facebook page doesn't interrupt you during dinner, or your favorite movie, or during sex.
That it doesn't use a melodramatic voice actor to sound all serious about the $TotallyEvilShit that $OtherCandidate does, and basically conflate that not voting for $EndorsedCandidate is a vote for raping babies with wood rasps.
Seriously. People are losing patience with the mud slinging. A facebook page can be ignored. It doesn't shove itself in your face. It doesn't scream. It doesn't rant. It doesn't turn the volume up 30 additional decibels to blast your brains out.
Given the substantially fewer sets of clear and present BADs being injected, is it any wonder that people would react more favorably to them?
Current TV ads are like the $PoliticalParty edit wars on Wikipedia for $CandidateHistory. Look, the ministry of truth bullshit with your truthiness gets old. Say your bit, the shut the fuck up already. If I want to know about your party or your candidate, let me do so on my own. Don't try to control my access to information. Don't try to poison that well. If you do, you expose yourself as dishonest shysters, and I will only want you to go away and stop bothering me.
I suspect many other americans feel the same way.
Grow the fuck up, grow a pair, own up, and let us make up our own damn minds.
I recently built a system for a friend of mine using ans AsRock 4 extreme, and an 1155 based i5 CPU with ivybridge.
As I am not made of money, we cheesed it and coaxed an old ATX power supply with molex plugs into working for us (with some cheap adaptors), and used the integrated video. He rarely games anyway, and we agreed it was a good foundation to work from for later purchases.
As a system torture test, I installed a copy of TES V Skyrim.
For the first time in a very long while, I was impressed with how far intel's video offerings have come. It was able to run on medium settings at 1280x960 or some such, at a fully playable speed.
Still not at match for my now older nVidia GTS 440, but for integrated garbage video, it has certainly come a long way. I didn't see any of the usual 3d texture alignment and geometry "issues" normally associated with intel video.
If they can keep up that level of improvement, be ubiquitous, cheap, and open, nVidia and AMD are going to start hurting.
I would be willing to be tested, as long as the test materials weren't bs that would further clutter up my head.
Since my university is primarily outfitted for engineering, computer science, and education degrees I am not convinced it is an appropriate venue. I don't feel like taking a 4 hour drive everyday to get to the nearest one with a respectable medical training curriculum, just to get prodded and asked to do parlor tricks with my brain.
I remember too much, and with sufficient recall that when reminded of something funny, I will recall the whole thing and start laughing. This makes it seem like I am slightly crazy, and laughing when no joke has been uttered. Little things like that.
If I could purge some of the useless data from my head, and do so safely, I would be sorely tempted to do so.
That's the whole point of my original post. Not to claim I am some savant, which I do not believe I am.
*shrug*
It was 2 years ago.
Further details of that return flight:
Upon landing at las vegas airport, we were stuck on the runway, as the plane in the stall our flight was scheduled to disembark t was grounded due to a medical emergency, and delayed for a half hour.
I was worried that I would have to rent a hotel room in las vegas on the 4th of july. (The return flight was the night of july 3rd.) We DID board successfully, as it turns out the plane we were to embark on was the very one that had experienced the medical emergency. There was an entire row of seats, 4th from the front in coach, that had barriers over them, which I assmed to be the location said medical emergency took place. Being a non-revinue ticket holder, we (my friend and I) were in the last set of people boarding, and took whatever available seats we could. He got stuck beside "squirmy man", and I got stuck behind screamer baby. I talked with the parents of screamer baby, who turned out to be a barely 4 year old girl with dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a little red dress. Her dad put in earbuds and watched the iron man movie (first one) on a laptop, and his wife read a harlequin romance novel, white tied screamer baby raised hell.
I used my hacked PSP with custom firmware to play castlevania from the nintendo GBA using an emulator, and was thankful that the earbuds I had in were noise cancelling.
There was aggressive turbulence during the flight, as we flew through a thunderstorm. It was raining when we arrived at kansas city airport.
We almost missed my friend's folks, who were our ride, due to the clusterfuck design of the airport.
It takes conscious effort to remember an arbitrary unit of information, such as a complete recipie, vs remembering that I made muffins that day, and that they were delicious.
People with perfect autobiographical memory do the latter. They will associate a date with an activity, and remember it. They will remember making the muffins, what problems may have come up during baking (such as phone ringing, etc), that they were delicious, how many they ate, etc... but will not recall the recipie.
I can recall the recipie, if I make a conscious effort to store it.
This is something people with perfect autobiographical memory cannot do.
I do not habe perfect autobiographical memory, and do not claim to. I have above average autobiographical memory, and also the ability to recall discrete units of information I have consciously taken the effort to store.
Compare: remembering that my friend's dad wanted odd ingredients for something he wanted to cook VS remembering what the ingredients are.
Perfect autobiographical memory sufferers often fail miserably at discrete memory tasks, but excell at semantic and biographical memory tasks.
I do not have perfect autobiographical memory, and do not claim to. I do have superior biographical memory, however. I do not remember the exact conversation on said flight. What I remember is that he was a minority student, possibly italian or mediteranean in origin, as he had tanned skin, loose curly black hair with and oily sheen, brown eyes, a black shirt with white khaki pants, and a black paperback college textbook on electrical engineering.
The conversation we had revolved around the actual validity of claims that the stuardess was making concerning the disruption of flight instruments by wireless communications devices, considering the inverse cube law, and the average effective transmit energy of a personal electronic device being in the milliwatt range. This was leaving san jose airport for las vegas airport for our connecting flight.
We agreed that it might be possible for there to be a problem if there were improperly grounded and unsheilded driven elements that could act as an active reciever, and propogate the noise signal through the wiring harness, but this would be a serious design flaw of the aircraft, as it would likely have serious problems with reception of noise emissions from other wired systems in the plane.
I suggested that perhaps they were worried about miniscule chances of impairment, due to FAA officiousness. We agreed that it would likely take everyone on board simultaneously using their handsets with hacked firmwares to broadcast on max energy to create enough noise to impact flight control systems on a modern jet liner, and that the prohibition was likely pure BS, and CYA tactics on the part of the airline.
I do not remember the date. I believe it was a Thursday.
I am not sure my local university is properly equipped for that, and don't relish the idea of being poked, prodded, or worse-- made to remember even more tedious information.
If it helps your room-mate, I do not have perfect autobiographical memory; instead, to store the information reliably, I have to comprehend the material I am being exposed to. For example, I have a weakness in mathematics. Showing me a mathematical proof, I will have difficulty storing it. However, a complex process, if I comprehend it and its steps and purpose, I can store almost immediately.
For instance, here is a recipie I like for pumpkin bread. I have made it twice. It makes 38 muffins.
Preheat oven to 350F.
In a large mixing bowl combine 4 softened sticks of butter, 4 large eggs, 3 cups of white sugar, 3/4 cup sweetened evaporated milk and one 15oz can of pumpkin puree until well blended.
In another bowl, sift together 3 and 1/2 cups white all purpouse flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1/4 teaspoon powdered ginger, 2 teaspoon baking soda, and 1 teaspoon salt.
Combine the dry and wet ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth. Blend in one 8oz bag of pecan chips, ad one 8oz bag of chunked english walnuts.
Place muffin paper liners in 2 one dozen muffin tins, and spoon the papers full to the top, (approx 2 tablespoons each.)
Load filled trays on center rack and bake until inserted toothpick returns clean.
(This post is entirely from memory. I have made them twice. They are delicious.)
I enjoy cooking, and easily stored this recipie for later. As you can see, it is fairly involved, and well beyond most people's ability to keep in short term memory long enough to fully commit ater only 2 uses. I had the recipie almost perfectly stored after the first use, and fully stored after the second.
Again, a complex math proof would fail me, but only because I have difficulty with that subject. I have to be able to make connections to store the information directly. If I do not comprehend the subject matter, I can't do that, and it greatly impedes the process.
As for how I do it, I am not entirey sure how to explain it. There is a certain... feel... to a successful push. Some items, if sufficiently complex, may require more than one push to fully store. It is a conscious effort, and not innate, though I do have abnormally high recall for random daily occurances, and could give you a fairly accurate description of my (entire) trip last week for example, but that would be boring and unnecessary.
I know for a fact that my short term memory is abysmal, as I often forget people and names that I do not consider important. This is probably because I rarely use it.
Lately I have been having odd cognitative issues with feeling... "full". Hence, my desire to do house keeping.
I might be an anomaly, but after highschool and college, I developed the ability to push things directly to long-term memory, and shortchange the short-term, removing the volatility.
I know I can do that, because the information and even the circumstances happening around me are stored such that I can recall them clearly now, years later. (The first time I did it was durng a cram session in science class concerning the simple machines physics test material in HS. I remember the entire circumstance clearly. Upon learning I could do this, I never had to really study again, just make the concious effort to store the information permanently. The most recent time I used it was last week over the holiday weekend. I visited a friend and took some extra days off. His parents wanted him to find some unusual ingredients for a recipe his dad had found online, and I memorized the missing items: mediteranean couscous, lemon preserves, and picholine olives.)
Let me know when they can deal with long term memories, because there is some stagnant data in my head that needs purging. I don't need to remember the conversation I had with the engineering student on the SW airlines return flight from my california vacation two years ago. That and numberous other things could safely be removed.
Aside from the dubious reference to the predictive qualities of a giant robot genre anime series....
Let's assume that the world population was a mere 2 billion again. I would have to be using 4x the energy resources I am using now.
Realistically, I could probably power my house with 100% green energy. (Such as wind. My area has a surplus of windy days.) The issue is transportation. I somehow doubt that I will consume 4x the transportation energy simply because I can, especially if the reason for the population collapse was a malthusian catastrophe.
(The reason I don't use 100% green energy is mostly because of other people: wind generators are "ugly", a subjective aspersion cast by other people, and enforced at the civic level using zoning and legal obstacles. People don't like "ugly" things. Remove the other people, and that problem goes away.)
I don't think a reduced population would consume at the same levels of current consumption due to increased availability and reduced costs. The logistics of providing the resources with the reduced workforce would make that untenable. The opposite is true: ubiqitous labor makes previously impossible tasks possible. Ask the ancient egyptians. What is asy to do now, prospecting and producing energy from natura supplies, would be significantly more difficult with a radically reduced population.
There is a reason why people burned wood and dung for millenia.
You realize that the global climate change caused by humans is directly correllated to the number of humans contributing, right?
That means that via the consequence of increased greenhouse gas production, overpopulation DID cause droughts through climate change.
No, but they will make all the music.
They are halfway there now, what with the automated takedowns....
Seriously here, when will the world wise up to the fact that "cheap cinese labor" has costs that don't tabulate out cleanly on expense sheets and quarterly reports?
Is getting your technology for fractions of a cent per transistor worth.... this?
Do the affluent of today not know that this kind of despotism breeds civil unrest, government oppression, and the degredation of what it means to be a human being?
Do they even care?
A worker's paradise indeed. Does anyone know of any electronics makers who don't abuse another country's willingness to throw its own people under the bus for money?
Ok, if Jobs is floating over his OLD OFFICE, that means he was incarnated as a hungry ghost!
See, in bhuddist cosmology, there are various gradients of existence. This world, our world, represents the crossroads between the celestial heavens, and the hellish naraka. (Those are plural. There are many of each.)
The important thing of note here, is that the priests say he was incarnated above his old office. This means here, on the mortal realm.
In the mortal realm, there are 3 potential kinds of incarnation: Human, Hungry ghost, and Animal.
Since he is incorporeal, and in the mortal realm, that means he is a hungry ghost. Hungry ghosts are called that, because they have big appetites, but lack any real means to sate them. They are a pitiable form of existence, but can also cause serious problems, such as hauntings.
Wiki on hungry ghosts
That he would incarnate into a LOWER incarnation implies he had BAD karma, but not quite sufficient to send him to one of the naraka. (Though the burning flesh naraka might be appropriate if you ask me.)
So, if you work at apple, you should attempt to appease the late Jobs, by leaving offerings of unmarked bills, and the latest iDevice on his desk. Failing to do so will anger the hungry ghot, and there will be trouble. Burning incense may help as well. But not sandalwood. It's tacky.
So... In other words...
I think I get it now...
Most people will have a cable company supplied DVR/DigitalCable box, a different brand of television, and a different yet brand of stereo surround sysytem.
The "google" solution would have all these devices made by google.
It is a rectangular display device with a built in radio frequency tuner and an audio subsystem intended for the playback of home entertainment motion pictures, and the reception and display of live broadcasts.
This particular form of entertainment was slowly phased out in favor of superior offerings toward the end of the 20th century.
A litte arm powered tablet might as well be powered by frito-lay for what I use computers for at work.
Industrial CAD eats cpu cycles for breakfast, while chuggng down ram allocations like a fratboy at a weekend bender.
Don't even get me started about how the touch interface simply won't work for what I do either.
No, Tablets will *NEVER* replace an engineering seat. Not under this paradigm anyway.
"What? You mean a mac is really just a PC with a special bios that let's it run OSX? OMG! Everything I know is wrong!"
Buy whatever electronic devices I find favorable, and configure them however the fuck I want.
That way I can avoid their "ecosystem", with its inherant vendor lock in, and pervasive bullshit entirely!
As a consumer, that sounds far more desirable.
However, I do see where other normal consumers may fall victim here, since getting all the equipment and services from a single company should (theoretically...) make setup and use easier.
Personally though? When I plop down on the couch to veggify some braincells, I want a few annoyances as possible, which mans the equipment has to do whar *I* want, and not what a bunch of shyster lawyers in hollywood, and a bunch of beancounters in the bay area google HQ want.
If that means DIY home theater with MythTV and a raid array, so fucking be it.
No! It was Carmen Sandiego!
Bitch stole hoover dam, and the eifel tower too!
She couldn't think of anything really noteworthy to steal from canada, and settled on stealing your precious reserves of syrup!
I hear she has a secret plan to convert the sugars into petrolium, to subvert the global supply!
A malthist is someone who adheres to the ideas about population and sustainability argued by Thomas Malthus.
Wikipedia page on Malthus
Essentially, they believe that a massive dieoff is immenent, and that having more children is a gross and unethical thing to do given the already overpopulated condition of the planet.
Reference, "malthusian catastrophe."