I was a part-time student worker at my university, doing IT work. One time I saw an email come through that had thousands of students and faculty visible in the To/CC fields. I thought, oh man, whomever sent that is going to be red-faced soon.
The power of the Internet to retain acts, deeds, and knowledge for so long is disturbing to me. There are Usenet posts I made 10 years ago that will never go away.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there such a thing as a Unicode TLD? Like instead of the Western characters "cn", is there something that's rendered in Chinese characters for a fully Chinese domain name?
I can't remember if it was this case or another, but in a cognitive psych class I had, we watched a video about a man who couldn't form new long-term memories. His own wife would walk into a room once, then a second time a few minutes later, and he'd greet her as if he hadn't seen her in years.
The most disturbing part was the notebooks he kept. He would write, "Now I'm awake!" And "Now I'm *really* awake." He kept being on the verge of being able to remember his situation, but then losing it.
Meh. I love craigslist. I have never bought anything off there, but I have sold tons of things. Cell phone, LCD monitor, several high-end knives, Go board game, lamp, table. I've gotten hundreds of dollars in quick cash with nary a problem.
Contrast this with Ebay, which I stopped using years ago. On Ebay I did get ripped off once. Sold a CD player to a guy in Alaska and found out his check was bad.
Lately I've seen a few of these posts on various sites. I think it's the case of Apple being big enough and successful enough over the past few years that they fall into the same category as Google, Microsoft, etc.: no longer a cute underdog, no longer immune from attacks. There's always been some anti-Apple sentiment ("one button mouse!" etc.), but lately it seems more pointed and directed, more tactical.
I used to think the TCO argument was rubbish. But then I did some research this year on bug tracking software for my company. At least in this one area, it was obvious that while you'd save a few hundred initially on open source solutions, these solutions were much less polished and supported than their commercial competitors. I would have had to do a lot of additional installations and customization to get things working right. And there was no quick answer from a tech support email address when I would have trouble.
And in another recent purchase of music production software, the open source versions were an absolute joke in comparison to commercial varieties.
Open source is great. I use Firefox and Open Office all the time. But for business and specialty applications, commercial applications are still often much more solid and cheaper in the long run.
Actually, timing *is* an issue on computers. If you go to any music production / home recording type forums, you'll see that trying to get input and output latency as low as possible is a big topic.
Cool. Now we need free DVD and Blu-ray decryption. That always made me feel funny when I would try Linux. Totally free OS... but if you want to watch DVDs, you download an illegal DVD decrypter. (I know there are legal ones you can pay for.)
For awhile people were saying, "Any cheap computer these days is powerful enough to do web surfing, email, and word processing." But given how AJAXified everything is now and how big web apps are getting, this isn't as true anymore. For example, my Pentium 4 at home will sometimes show a popup when leaving Gmail.com that says something like, "Process still running, leave the page anyway?"
Then again, the new browsers like FF 3.1 are supposed to have blazing fast Javascript processing, so who knows?
This guy has been around for awhile, and obviously he's still productive. How is that possible with his degenerative disorder? Don't those diseases usually get bad enough that the body fails, e.g. muscles too weak to move the lungs?
I've decided that if ever my music gets good enough to sell (been giving it away free so far), I'm going with digital distribution. Getting a CD into a store is a huge hassle. And most of my friends/fans would just see a CD as an obstacle toward the final product of a FLAC/MP3/whatever on their player.
You jest, but I did notice a huge drop in my spam levels on my Gmail account. Went from avg of 2500 spam/month to 1400 spam/month over the last couple weeks.
It's funny how a regulated DNS still has so many security problems. I wonder if a distributed, non-governmental DNS that used a web of trust / trust ratings would work better for domain resolution.
Reminds me of generative music:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music#Software
Interesting stuff from a theoretical point of view, but I can't say I've ever heard any that sounds good. Likewise, throwing up random pixels on a monitor might yield an eye-catching image one in a million times, but it's mostly pure noise. I think you need a human hand to direct any music worth listening to. After all, it's we human who listen to the stuff, not computers. Then again, I won't rule out the possibility for the future.
Wow, what a shallow analysis. Ever stop to think about WHY women might not be interested in science, math, and engineering? If I as a male get a Lego set for my fifth birthday, while my sister gets a dollhouse, of course there is going to be differing rates of interest. This is reinforced later on by peer groups at school. If a girl gets teased mercilessly about being a "nerd" for knowing how to write Javascript, you think she's going to keep it up?
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I was a part-time student worker at my university, doing IT work. One time I saw an email come through that had thousands of students and faculty visible in the To/CC fields. I thought, oh man, whomever sent that is going to be red-faced soon.
The power of the Internet to retain acts, deeds, and knowledge for so long is disturbing to me. There are Usenet posts I made 10 years ago that will never go away.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there such a thing as a Unicode TLD? Like instead of the Western characters "cn", is there something that's rendered in Chinese characters for a fully Chinese domain name?
I can't remember if it was this case or another, but in a cognitive psych class I had, we watched a video about a man who couldn't form new long-term memories. His own wife would walk into a room once, then a second time a few minutes later, and he'd greet her as if he hadn't seen her in years. The most disturbing part was the notebooks he kept. He would write, "Now I'm awake!" And "Now I'm *really* awake." He kept being on the verge of being able to remember his situation, but then losing it.
Also an Oppenheim(er). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
Link to his domain all messed up? I got to it after removing the garbage. Intelligence test? Pissed off slashdot editor?
Oh man, thanks for warning me. I don't want to blow my stack at the office. Think of the mess and the embarrassment.
Meh. I love craigslist. I have never bought anything off there, but I have sold tons of things. Cell phone, LCD monitor, several high-end knives, Go board game, lamp, table. I've gotten hundreds of dollars in quick cash with nary a problem. Contrast this with Ebay, which I stopped using years ago. On Ebay I did get ripped off once. Sold a CD player to a guy in Alaska and found out his check was bad.
Lately I've seen a few of these posts on various sites. I think it's the case of Apple being big enough and successful enough over the past few years that they fall into the same category as Google, Microsoft, etc.: no longer a cute underdog, no longer immune from attacks. There's always been some anti-Apple sentiment ("one button mouse!" etc.), but lately it seems more pointed and directed, more tactical.
I used to think the TCO argument was rubbish. But then I did some research this year on bug tracking software for my company. At least in this one area, it was obvious that while you'd save a few hundred initially on open source solutions, these solutions were much less polished and supported than their commercial competitors. I would have had to do a lot of additional installations and customization to get things working right. And there was no quick answer from a tech support email address when I would have trouble. And in another recent purchase of music production software, the open source versions were an absolute joke in comparison to commercial varieties. Open source is great. I use Firefox and Open Office all the time. But for business and specialty applications, commercial applications are still often much more solid and cheaper in the long run.
Actually, timing *is* an issue on computers. If you go to any music production / home recording type forums, you'll see that trying to get input and output latency as low as possible is a big topic.
Cool. Now we need free DVD and Blu-ray decryption. That always made me feel funny when I would try Linux. Totally free OS... but if you want to watch DVDs, you download an illegal DVD decrypter. (I know there are legal ones you can pay for.)
So a few decades from now I'll be immortal, controlling my computer with my mind, and having sex in the holodeck? Future, here I come!
For awhile people were saying, "Any cheap computer these days is powerful enough to do web surfing, email, and word processing." But given how AJAXified everything is now and how big web apps are getting, this isn't as true anymore. For example, my Pentium 4 at home will sometimes show a popup when leaving Gmail.com that says something like, "Process still running, leave the page anyway?" Then again, the new browsers like FF 3.1 are supposed to have blazing fast Javascript processing, so who knows?
This guy has been around for awhile, and obviously he's still productive. How is that possible with his degenerative disorder? Don't those diseases usually get bad enough that the body fails, e.g. muscles too weak to move the lungs?
I've decided that if ever my music gets good enough to sell (been giving it away free so far), I'm going with digital distribution. Getting a CD into a store is a huge hassle. And most of my friends/fans would just see a CD as an obstacle toward the final product of a FLAC/MP3/whatever on their player.
You jest, but I did notice a huge drop in my spam levels on my Gmail account. Went from avg of 2500 spam/month to 1400 spam/month over the last couple weeks.
People who diagnosed their mental disorder online are not disordered.
...see a deep-core drilling team on the asteroid's surface?
It's funny how a regulated DNS still has so many security problems. I wonder if a distributed, non-governmental DNS that used a web of trust / trust ratings would work better for domain resolution.
Reminds me of generative music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music#Software Interesting stuff from a theoretical point of view, but I can't say I've ever heard any that sounds good. Likewise, throwing up random pixels on a monitor might yield an eye-catching image one in a million times, but it's mostly pure noise. I think you need a human hand to direct any music worth listening to. After all, it's we human who listen to the stuff, not computers. Then again, I won't rule out the possibility for the future.
It's an inside joke and a reference to a comment made by Taco awhile back.
Wow, what a shallow analysis. Ever stop to think about WHY women might not be interested in science, math, and engineering? If I as a male get a Lego set for my fifth birthday, while my sister gets a dollhouse, of course there is going to be differing rates of interest. This is reinforced later on by peer groups at school. If a girl gets teased mercilessly about being a "nerd" for knowing how to write Javascript, you think she's going to keep it up?
...savoring long-awaited new content. Seems like a rather ephemeral achievement.
Yes.