The earliest surviving example of Phoenician is chiseled in stone. Not much problem there with handedness. Perhaps your smudging example played a role in the choice of direction later on. I would suspect, however, that if there was any influence from handedness, it had more to do with left-brainedness than right-handedness.
I'm just a lowly home-built guy but I have a 10,000 rpm SCSI drive. It's certainly fast. Trouble with SCSI is they keep upgrading the specs so you have to get a new card if you want to go to the next higher speed. XP sometimes loses track of the driver, too, but that's another question entirely.
Hebrew is not "ass-backwards." There is nothing inherently correct about writing from left to right. Neither is there any historical precedence. The original Phoenician script was written both ways. You got to the end of the line, you dropped down and continued writing in the opposite direction. Languages using derivative alphabets soon went to single directional script. They diverged at this point, some adopting left to right, some adopting right to left.
You need to notify the Federal Trade Commission about this. These characters are just trying to weasel out of their warrantee obligations. Bad hardware is bad hardware. Period.
Well spoken and a precise distillation of all the nonsense I have been putting up with for years and to which I normally react by simply mumbling to myself, "Fucking Bill Gates bastard fucking piece of shit Windows garbage I'm gonna throw it in the river..." Sometimes you have to explain it a bit less radically to an educated audience.
I seem to recall adding memory to my pocket calculator, so I really can't get down on these guys. It's all about fun, and a sense of accomplishment. It really doesn't have much to do with whether it's worth it or not on some abstract level.
It has something to do with the corporate gray color scheme. Windows is a desktop immitation of the color schemes of corporate interiors, most of which consist of various shades of gray and white. These guys' idea of design is running a red stripe down the sides of the gray carpets. Just another reason Microsoft has done well with executive types.
Reminds me of the time I was in Ikea and this entire family comes in carrying a partially assembled bureau and drawers. You just had to feel empathy for them but at the same time say to yourself, "What a bunch of ninnies!" Somehow I don't think computer chips are going to help folks like that. If they can't read and understand instructions in picture writing, are they going to understand what the chip says when it tells them, "No No No, don't screw the shelves in until you finish tightening the frame!" This is what the environmentalists call, I believe, a "technological fix"?
Did I mention I have a patent on the method of putting your right thumb on the right shift key and swiveling around to press the colon with your right forefinger while holding a telephone in your left hand?:o)
This is what happens when you take anything to its logical extreme. One of the purposes of the patent office is to see that things are not taken to those logical extremes. That this kind of idiocy continues is just another sign that the folks in government are there because they can't get real jobs.
Xerox. My God. Let's see. Push the little button. That's a "technological measure." Has anybody bothered to patent the push button, by the way? And these new copiers actually make a digital copy before printing, so they only have to scan once for multiple copies--so it certainly falls under the DMCA. Then all you have to do is argue that the use of trademarked fonts in the original is a means of protecting the copyright. Individuals can already be prosecuted for Xeroxing copyright documents.
Seriously though, this all goes to the question of whether passing a bunch of laws in the first place is the best way to change behaviour. You'd think we'd get beyond this paternalistic/religious mindset at some point.
That's why, in the US, there are three equal branches of government. If the corps. tried to buy the judges like they buy the legislature, they'd end up in jail. The judiciary is just likely to allow the prosecution of the corps. under their own laws, especially if the voters get pissed enough. Look at CEO George pretending to be against corporate corruption when his own Vice President...well, don't want to ruffle anybody's feathers here. You get my drift.
Actually, I think it has something to do with holding the phone in one hand and a hamburger in the other.
"Thats why you have to keep your eyes darting around constantly sizing up the other commuters. Remember, they're all out to get you."
Funny you mention the one thing that distinguishes cell phones from other distractions. Folks on cell phones look straight ahead and lose all peripheral vision. I guess if you do that long enough, people looking around in a normal fashion start to look kind of strange to you. Getting a little paranoid, are we? Don't worry, they're gonna take your gun away from you before they get around to your cell phone.;o)
Rust bucket=old clunker=vehicle in disrepair=junker=piece o' crap. You get the picture. This is what happens when you program for too long. You start taking everything literally, just like the machines you feed and serve. Go back to your cell phone.
Well, it was the closest thing you can get to rust with a fiberglass body. The guy must have painted it with a brush over a bad putty job. It certainly *looked* like an old rust bucket. The point, if I remember correctly, was that this character was driving an old clunker down the fast last yakking...oh, never mind. Go back to your damned cell phone.
I certainly hope it's an "if." You think nuclear radiation is bad? This guy wants to "get around" the basic principle that allows matter to exist as conglomerations of elements. Talk about pollution you can't get rid of. There are real molecules your liver can't deal with. What happens when it gets a hold of some nanotech substance that doesn't even have an atomic structure? Deliver me from folks who think nature is something to be defeated.
As long as you have an individual unit for each application. You branch the thing to the kitchen you gonna get a real surprise if somebody decides to wash the dishes while you're showering. Like I said, the automation angle is not only retrogressive, it's not even on the main branch of technological development. The model here is the autoplay CD drive, not a computer that plays music when it thinks you need it. Push the *shower* button and it turns on the water, sets the temperature and pressure, or prompts you for a choice if you have more than one maid, er, person in the house.
Tech is about empowering people, not turning them into vegetables.
The trouble is now they're driving down the fastlane of the interstate 15 mph slower than the prevailing traffic in their rusty old black Corvettes forcing others to pass them on the right while they yack away in total oblivion of everything around them. True story. Yes, these characters were idiots before. Now they're in a position to prematurely end someone's life.
It used to be I saw somebody dodging and weaving down the road I figured he was drunk. Now I know I'm gonna see him holding something vaguely rectangular up to his ear.
Hey, keep in mind this guy is SELLING this stuff. It's all spin. Chimera. Candy Cotton. Fluff. Stuff 'n Nonsense. He needs to pretend it has value, else he'd have to admit he's selling meaningless junk. Think about it. If you had that kind of money, would you want a lot of stupid hardware or a Swedish maid in a skimpy dress?
"Time to get up, Mr. Jones. You look like you're ready for a HARD day at the office today. I'll just go and heat up your shower for us, er, you."
Give me a break! Real hi-tech would be electrostatic WALLS, not plastered-in speakers.
What really gets me is the industrial revolution era equating of automation with advancement. With all that space you could put the water heater in the wall and have instant hot water. Hook up a digital temperature control if you need gee wiz. There's definitely something in the ink they use to print money that rots these guys' brains.
It's unnoticeable in the sense that someone peering DOWN into one of those vertical viewfinder cameras tends to get ignored. It's not that it can't be seen. It's just that it's a lot less intrusive. Basically, there's no eye contact.
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The earliest surviving example of Phoenician is chiseled in stone. Not much problem there with handedness. Perhaps your smudging example played a role in the choice of direction later on. I would suspect, however, that if there was any influence from handedness, it had more to do with left-brainedness than right-handedness.
The Phoenician alphabet is the root of all alphabets. No one said anything implicitly or explicitly about it being the root of all written languages.
"Ass-backwards" is valueless? Your contribution is valueless. "Ass-backwards" is far from valueless. The root of the thread has nothing to do with it.
As for trolls, I would heartily suggest that you take a good long look in the mirror before you start assigning such designations.
Yeah, but you don't get the MB/sec transfer rate, so what's the point?
I'm just a lowly home-built guy but I have a 10,000 rpm SCSI drive. It's certainly fast. Trouble with SCSI is they keep upgrading the specs so you have to get a new card if you want to go to the next higher speed. XP sometimes loses track of the driver, too, but that's another question entirely.
Hebrew is not "ass-backwards." There is nothing inherently correct about writing from left to right. Neither is there any historical precedence. The original Phoenician script was written both ways. You got to the end of the line, you dropped down and continued writing in the opposite direction. Languages using derivative alphabets soon went to single directional script. They diverged at this point, some adopting left to right, some adopting right to left.
You could probably put something together using Unicode, especially if you stuck to capitals. Cyrillic has a letter that looks like a reversed R.
You need to notify the Federal Trade Commission about this. These characters are just trying to weasel out of their warrantee obligations. Bad hardware is bad hardware. Period.
Well spoken and a precise distillation of all the nonsense I have been putting up with for years and to which I normally react by simply mumbling to myself, "Fucking Bill Gates bastard fucking piece of shit Windows garbage I'm gonna throw it in the river..." Sometimes you have to explain it a bit less radically to an educated audience.
I seem to recall adding memory to my pocket calculator, so I really can't get down on these guys. It's all about fun, and a sense of accomplishment. It really doesn't have much to do with whether it's worth it or not on some abstract level.
I guess they're just not built for security. :o)
It has something to do with the corporate gray color scheme. Windows is a desktop immitation of the color schemes of corporate interiors, most of which consist of various shades of gray and white. These guys' idea of design is running a red stripe down the sides of the gray carpets. Just another reason Microsoft has done well with executive types.
Sounds about right to me. Kind of like the Russians selling arms to the Chinese. Great short term thinking. ;o)
Reminds me of the time I was in Ikea and this entire family comes in carrying a partially assembled bureau and drawers. You just had to feel empathy for them but at the same time say to yourself, "What a bunch of ninnies!" Somehow I don't think computer chips are going to help folks like that. If they can't read and understand instructions in picture writing, are they going to understand what the chip says when it tells them, "No No No, don't screw the shelves in until you finish tightening the frame!" This is what the environmentalists call, I believe, a "technological fix"?
Did I mention I have a patent on the method of putting your right thumb on the right shift key and swiveling around to press the colon with your right forefinger while holding a telephone in your left hand? :o)
This is what happens when you take anything to its logical extreme. One of the purposes of the patent office is to see that things are not taken to those logical extremes. That this kind of idiocy continues is just another sign that the folks in government are there because they can't get real jobs.
That's too bad. You'd fit right in.
Xerox. My God. Let's see. Push the little button. That's a "technological measure." Has anybody bothered to patent the push button, by the way? And these new copiers actually make a digital copy before printing, so they only have to scan once for multiple copies--so it certainly falls under the DMCA. Then all you have to do is argue that the use of trademarked fonts in the original is a means of protecting the copyright. Individuals can already be prosecuted for Xeroxing copyright documents.
Seriously though, this all goes to the question of whether passing a bunch of laws in the first place is the best way to change behaviour. You'd think we'd get beyond this paternalistic/religious mindset at some point.
That's why, in the US, there are three equal branches of government. If the corps. tried to buy the judges like they buy the legislature, they'd end up in jail. The judiciary is just likely to allow the prosecution of the corps. under their own laws, especially if the voters get pissed enough. Look at CEO George pretending to be against corporate corruption when his own Vice President...well, don't want to ruffle anybody's feathers here. You get my drift.
Actually, I think it has something to do with holding the phone in one hand and a hamburger in the other.
;o)
"Thats why you have to keep your eyes darting around constantly sizing up the other commuters. Remember, they're all out to get you."
Funny you mention the one thing that distinguishes cell phones from other distractions. Folks on cell phones look straight ahead and lose all peripheral vision. I guess if you do that long enough, people looking around in a normal fashion start to look kind of strange to you. Getting a little paranoid, are we? Don't worry, they're gonna take your gun away from you before they get around to your cell phone.
Rust bucket=old clunker=vehicle in disrepair=junker=piece o' crap. You get the picture. This is what happens when you program for too long. You start taking everything literally, just like the machines you feed and serve. Go back to your cell phone.
Well, it was the closest thing you can get to rust with a fiberglass body. The guy must have painted it with a brush over a bad putty job. It certainly *looked* like an old rust bucket. The point, if I remember correctly, was that this character was driving an old clunker down the fast last yakking...oh, never mind. Go back to your damned cell phone.
I certainly hope it's an "if." You think nuclear radiation is bad? This guy wants to "get around" the basic principle that allows matter to exist as conglomerations of elements. Talk about pollution you can't get rid of. There are real molecules your liver can't deal with. What happens when it gets a hold of some nanotech substance that doesn't even have an atomic structure? Deliver me from folks who think nature is something to be defeated.
As long as you have an individual unit for each application. You branch the thing to the kitchen you gonna get a real surprise if somebody decides to wash the dishes while you're showering. Like I said, the automation angle is not only retrogressive, it's not even on the main branch of technological development. The model here is the autoplay CD drive, not a computer that plays music when it thinks you need it. Push the *shower* button and it turns on the water, sets the temperature and pressure, or prompts you for a choice if you have more than one maid, er, person in the house.
Tech is about empowering people, not turning them into vegetables.
The trouble is now they're driving down the fastlane of the interstate 15 mph slower than the prevailing traffic in their rusty old black Corvettes forcing others to pass them on the right while they yack away in total oblivion of everything around them. True story. Yes, these characters were idiots before. Now they're in a position to prematurely end someone's life.
It used to be I saw somebody dodging and weaving down the road I figured he was drunk. Now I know I'm gonna see him holding something vaguely rectangular up to his ear.
Hey, keep in mind this guy is SELLING this stuff. It's all spin. Chimera. Candy Cotton. Fluff. Stuff 'n Nonsense. He needs to pretend it has value, else he'd have to admit he's selling meaningless junk. Think about it. If you had that kind of money, would you want a lot of stupid hardware or a Swedish maid in a skimpy dress?
"Time to get up, Mr. Jones. You look like you're ready for a HARD day at the office today. I'll just go and heat up your shower for us, er, you."
Give me a break! Real hi-tech would be electrostatic WALLS, not plastered-in speakers.
What really gets me is the industrial revolution era equating of automation with advancement. With all that space you could put the water heater in the wall and have instant hot water. Hook up a digital temperature control if you need gee wiz. There's definitely something in the ink they use to print money that rots these guys' brains.
It's unnoticeable in the sense that someone peering DOWN into one of those vertical viewfinder cameras tends to get ignored. It's not that it can't be seen. It's just that it's a lot less intrusive. Basically, there's no eye contact.
Human's are funny that way.