Do you get the feeling somebody at IBM has decided to go after the M$Intel axis and bomb them back into the Stone Age? If anybody has the resources, it's them.
And here I thought ARE (Advanced Relay Entry? Automated Read-only Extensive?) networks were some arcane kind of network that only the most advanced geeks would know about, and just kept on reading....
Have you tried swapping out harddrives and ending up with the same number of drives? That's what *I* would worry about if *I* were Microswift. It is nice to know you can add drives without going thru the rigmarole, though. I'm thinking of adding another drive to put Gnulix on. Should be completely transparent to XP. By the way, I didn't intentionally upgrade. My new Soyo board doesn't support Win 95 upgrade> 98SE. Vast conspiracy...;o)
Every time you throw a ball you're doing physics. That doesn't make you a physicist.
As for Einstein, he was more of a mathematician than a scientist. He actually claimed the Michelson-Morley experiment hadn't played a part in his development of Special Relativity.
I like the chrome theme even better. There's a shareware program that lets you load third party themes in XP. Something about overriding the checksum routine.... Beats spending a fortune on WindowBlinds.
"The concept that impresses people is that with this one continuously flashing entrypoint into the computer (awaiting input) is that even if you left it on for 2,000 years you had the idea that the machine [Apple II] was waiting patiently for your input"
I could never quite figure out the reason for the rotating plex in TheBrain (a tool for organizing everything in a computer using a series of graphical linkages). But it is really saying the same thing the Apple II was saying. The rotating plex has the added feature that it can be set to reverse directions at random intervals. There's an open source version (without the links) here. Something along these lines would go a long way way toward eliminating the multiple entry point problem with Windows-type GUIs, though the TheBrain itself is far from going open source. Imagine something like TheBrain linking Java-based programs.
After thinking about it a little longer, I realized that most of Escher's work involved polar opposites that he managed to link together, like a mobius bottle or in some other way. You'll notice there's a circle on Escher's version of the grid, so that what he appears to be doing is painting a picture of a picture that includes itself, but not in the kind of infinite regression represented by the Droste effect. The picture inside of the picture in Escher's painting is the first picture itself, not a third one contained within it. If this is true, it doesn't really matter what's at the center of the painting, though I still think his solution is a bit crude.
My favorite Escher painting is Ascending and Descending, the one of the monks walking up and down the staircase that feeds back on itself. That one's based more on false perspective than any mathematical concept, though I suppose it could be represented mathematically. There's actually an open space at the center of that one too, but it's integrated into the image as a stairwell whose bottom is obscured, so it doesn't jump out at you.
I am not a troll! Now get out from under my bridge!
Hey, I call them like I see them. That's just me.
And I didn't start anything, certainly not about maturity. I wouldn't have even used the term. What the record cartel is proposing has nothing to do with maturity. It has to do with vigilance, as in lynch mob. Funny, the so-called authorities didn't do much about that either.
You need to look at Escher's works as a whole. There is generally nothing at all left to the imagination. It is not his style. The art is about the illusion, not about making anybody think, except possibly about the illusion itself. This particular painting is thus an anomaly and I would argue that it is an anomaly precisely because it fails in a most uncharacteristic way. Specifically, it fails because Escher, the non-mathematician, has literally bitten off more than he can paint. Look at the reconstruction again and the mathematical process required to obtain it. This is a process way beyond that of even the most intuitive of artists and THAT, I am afraid, is why it is left blank.
Mature? This is war you twit. These morons have declared war on the digital citizens of the world and your response is like the British to the German invasion of Poland. Sometimes civilized will get you killed.
As for your own maturity, your syntax speaks volumes about your own "maturity." For example, why do you put quotation marks around "mob rule"? Perhaps there's something suspect about the term? As for "they'll go against congress with a 'see?", what in bloody Hell is that supposed to mean? Is this how "mature" folks speak? Not in my universe. And what in the world do stepping stones have to do with anything? You think you can just throw out some silly figure of speech in an attempt to make yourself look mature?
Congress already agrees. They've been bought and paid for to agree. This is about our so-called representatives representating anyone who will fill their trough with swill. "Mmmm...yum...yum...can we be in your next movie Mr. Hollywood man?" These political whores don't know the meaning of the term "rule of law," they left their maturity at the guard's desk, and they can't even conceive of the consequences of legalizing corporate funded hacker attacks, and you don't think it's "mature" for someone to give them a clue as to the consequences of their pinheaded actions? You are the one who needs to grow up.
You don't suppose Escher just didn't KNOW what went in the middle? The guy wasn't a mathematician, after all. He was an artist. From the grid he used it's apparent that what he came up with doesn't agree absolutely with the extracted mathematical representation, so it's pretty clear he was just doing art and not making a mathematical statement. Martin Gardner and others make this mistake about Escher. His art may represent certain mathematical principles, but it doesn't necessarily derive therefrom. The center also would have been very difficult to paint, since it gets progressively more detailed, almost fractalized, at the center: Take a close look at the very center of this image. It keeps going!
I'd look long and hard before buying an X10. There was a point when I was seriously considering installing one of their systems to control the lighting and other items in my house. Their stupid ads have disabused me of THAT idea. What these clowns don't realise is that most of their products are targets for disposable income and the rest have competition. Macy's rolls down an ad in front of something I'm reading, I send them an e-mail telling them they ever do it again, I'll never buy another thing from them. Not only do they have competition, the internet has made old fashioned mailorder a couple of orders of magnitude easier. I just ordered 6 dress shirts in styles and colors I can't even find at their local stores.
To paraphrase Mr. Rogers, 'Can you say "backlash?"'
As for better advertising methods, I'd say Google has it pegged about right. I actually click through on their ads, and I even BUY THINGS! That's because the ads are germane. If I'm searching for scanner reviews, I'm probably actually looking for a scanner! Duh! What makes the other morons think I'm looking to take a trip to Bora Bora when their webpage is about UFOs? And how many people really want to gamble online when they just surfed to a page about Uzbek history?
Doesn't all this sort of point out the advantages of selling computers AND operating systems the way Apple does? Apple decides they want to go to a Berkeley version of Unix, they just do it, and build the machines to run it. They decide they want to use a different chip architecture, they buy different chips and incorporate them in their machines. I realise this strategy has tanked for other manufacturers, but the presence of various non-Windows operating systems on embedded devices seems to support this contention. As soon as you get away from the computer as a general purpose modular machine a la IBM compatible, all the Intel-Microsoft-joined-at-the-hip nonsense seems to evaporate, or at least sink to the level of a chronic pain in the butt. In this light, I'm thinking the new IBM-Gnulix machines bode well for the future of non-M$Intel machines. Am I offbase here? Are not Microsoft and Intel still one product companies and destined to fade away?
Don't you just love how Georgie tells us he's going to get to the bottom of the bottomless corporate corruption we're seeing when it was his father and his father's predecessor who deregulated the neanderthal bastards in the first place? (My apologies to any neanderthals hiding out among the general population.) Are people's memories so short they can't remember these Republican wazoos telling us how deregulation was going to bring on the Millennium and the Second Coming of the Messiah and just general all around good times and free chickens in every pot? Just free the poor multimillionaires from government supervision so they can do what they do best? Which turned out to be pick the pockets of everyone in sight. Good goin', George, you're really on top of this one. I can't wait until they find the gene for Republicanism and develop a cure.
I have a Lian Li PC56. Nice case. Easy to access, add/remove stuff. Looks pretty cool too, though it would be nice to have silver fronted drives instead of beige.
The first step, of course, is to get the computer in the same room as the stereo and hook them up, which I've done. Obviates the need for a separate speaker system, which is pretty much a joke anyway.
The computer sits on a desk with its keyboard and its own chair. For streaming audio I just set things up and then retire to my Swedish easy chair and listen through the stereo speakers.
Video's another story, though. I find myself sitting at the computer and swiveling around to see what's happening on TV. Now I could have a video card with a TV tuner and watch through the monitor, but I'd still be sitting in the, relatively, uncomfortable computer chair.
I could do what I do with streaming audio and set a movie up and run it and then retire to the easy chair. I don't have a DVD drive but that's not really an issue. Just go out and buy one. But if I want to change a setting or just do something else at the same time, I have to get up and move to the other chair.
So, as I've suggested before, the real problem is one of furniture design. WebTV tried to solve this problem by having a wireless keyboard that could be used from an easy chair, and I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to implement this on a computer, if it hasn't already been done. From personal experience, though, I can say that the wireless keyboard from an easy chair just isn't terribly easy to do. Computing is active, while watching TV is passive. What you need is a chair that's comfortable enough to sit in for extended periods watching a movie but which can be easily converted to a more active position where you could use the computer functions without getting up and going to another chair.
Thanks for mentioning that. I was just looking at 4X boards at the store. I know, I know, I shoulda read the article.... They do seem to be cheap enough, though, and that wasn't even buying on the web. You don't suppose they're getting to the point that all this horsepower isn't really useful?
As someone who used to read the Washington Post on Fridays for the estate and garage sale ads, I must say it's nice to be able to do a word search on particular items of interest rather than read through every single little line set in 3-point type.
1. A company or organization large enough to be able to afford "enterprise" software or support for the "free" equivalent thereof.
This isn't as circular as it looks. It's simply a recognition of the financial element involved. See, e.g., TheBrain.com. These guys used to make $50 personal organizing software. Now they make $100,000 "enterprise" network organizing software. This after the company was taken over from its founder, Harlan Hugh, by a bunch of venture capitalists. Money still talks, and enterprise is where the money is.
There has to be some business model that would support this sequence of events. It just gives me such an optimistic feeling to even think about it! Imagine, no need for rinky-dink emulators and ports. Now if somebody would just solve the driver problem. Can you write a driver in Java?
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Do you get the feeling somebody at IBM has decided to go after the M$Intel axis and bomb them back into the Stone Age? If anybody has the resources, it's them.
And here I thought ARE (Advanced Relay Entry? Automated Read-only Extensive?) networks were some arcane kind of network that only the most advanced geeks would know about, and just kept on reading....
Have you tried swapping out harddrives and ending up with the same number of drives? That's what *I* would worry about if *I* were Microswift. It is nice to know you can add drives without going thru the rigmarole, though. I'm thinking of adding another drive to put Gnulix on. Should be completely transparent to XP. By the way, I didn't intentionally upgrade. My new Soyo board doesn't support Win 95 upgrade> 98SE. Vast conspiracy... ;o)
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Keep in mind that the Indian middle class is larger than the entire population of the US.
Every time you throw a ball you're doing physics. That doesn't make you a physicist.
As for Einstein, he was more of a mathematician than a scientist. He actually claimed the Michelson-Morley experiment hadn't played a part in his development of Special Relativity.
I like the chrome theme even better. There's a shareware program that lets you load third party themes in XP. Something about overriding the checksum routine.... Beats spending a fortune on WindowBlinds.
I could never quite figure out the reason for the rotating plex in TheBrain (a tool for organizing everything in a computer using a series of graphical linkages). But it is really saying the same thing the Apple II was saying. The rotating plex has the added feature that it can be set to reverse directions at random intervals. There's an open source version (without the links) here. Something along these lines would go a long way way toward eliminating the multiple entry point problem with Windows-type GUIs, though the TheBrain itself is far from going open source. Imagine something like TheBrain linking Java-based programs.
Am I the only one who noticed that these guys are trying to reproduce the look of a cheap flatpanel display looked at from 30 degrees off center?
After thinking about it a little longer, I realized that most of Escher's work involved polar opposites that he managed to link together, like a mobius bottle or in some other way. You'll notice there's a circle on Escher's version of the grid, so that what he appears to be doing is painting a picture of a picture that includes itself, but not in the kind of infinite regression represented by the Droste effect. The picture inside of the picture in Escher's painting is the first picture itself, not a third one contained within it. If this is true, it doesn't really matter what's at the center of the painting, though I still think his solution is a bit crude.
My favorite Escher painting is Ascending and Descending, the one of the monks walking up and down the staircase that feeds back on itself. That one's based more on false perspective than any mathematical concept, though I suppose it could be represented mathematically. There's actually an open space at the center of that one too, but it's integrated into the image as a stairwell whose bottom is obscured, so it doesn't jump out at you.
I am not a troll! Now get out from under my bridge!
Hey, I call them like I see them. That's just me.
And I didn't start anything, certainly not about maturity. I wouldn't have even used the term. What the record cartel is proposing has nothing to do with maturity. It has to do with vigilance, as in lynch mob. Funny, the so-called authorities didn't do much about that either.
I resent the term "cheap"! I use only the highest quality silver bullets! ;o)
You need to look at Escher's works as a whole. There is generally nothing at all left to the imagination. It is not his style. The art is about the illusion, not about making anybody think, except possibly about the illusion itself. This particular painting is thus an anomaly and I would argue that it is an anomaly precisely because it fails in a most uncharacteristic way. Specifically, it fails because Escher, the non-mathematician, has literally bitten off more than he can paint. Look at the reconstruction again and the mathematical process required to obtain it. This is a process way beyond that of even the most intuitive of artists and THAT, I am afraid, is why it is left blank.
Mature? This is war you twit. These morons have declared war on the digital citizens of the world and your response is like the British to the German invasion of Poland. Sometimes civilized will get you killed.
As for your own maturity, your syntax speaks volumes about your own "maturity." For example, why do you put quotation marks around "mob rule"? Perhaps there's something suspect about the term? As for "they'll go against congress with a 'see?", what in bloody Hell is that supposed to mean? Is this how "mature" folks speak? Not in my universe. And what in the world do stepping stones have to do with anything? You think you can just throw out some silly figure of speech in an attempt to make yourself look mature?
Congress already agrees. They've been bought and paid for to agree. This is about our so-called representatives representating anyone who will fill their trough with swill. "Mmmm...yum...yum...can we be in your next movie Mr. Hollywood man?" These political whores don't know the meaning of the term "rule of law," they left their maturity at the guard's desk, and they can't even conceive of the consequences of legalizing corporate funded hacker attacks, and you don't think it's "mature" for someone to give them a clue as to the consequences of their pinheaded actions? You are the one who needs to grow up.
It's a widely based genetic anomaly...same chromosome as the Republican gene.... ;o)
Moderate this!
You don't suppose Escher just didn't KNOW what went in the middle? The guy wasn't a mathematician, after all. He was an artist. From the grid he used it's apparent that what he came up with doesn't agree absolutely with the extracted mathematical representation, so it's pretty clear he was just doing art and not making a mathematical statement. Martin Gardner and others make this mistake about Escher. His art may represent certain mathematical principles, but it doesn't necessarily derive therefrom. The center also would have been very difficult to paint, since it gets progressively more detailed, almost fractalized, at the center: Take a close look at the very center of this image. It keeps going!
I'd look long and hard before buying an X10. There was a point when I was seriously considering installing one of their systems to control the lighting and other items in my house. Their stupid ads have disabused me of THAT idea. What these clowns don't realise is that most of their products are targets for disposable income and the rest have competition. Macy's rolls down an ad in front of something I'm reading, I send them an e-mail telling them they ever do it again, I'll never buy another thing from them. Not only do they have competition, the internet has made old fashioned mailorder a couple of orders of magnitude easier. I just ordered 6 dress shirts in styles and colors I can't even find at their local stores.
To paraphrase Mr. Rogers, 'Can you say "backlash?"'
As for better advertising methods, I'd say Google has it pegged about right. I actually click through on their ads, and I even BUY THINGS! That's because the ads are germane. If I'm searching for scanner reviews, I'm probably actually looking for a scanner! Duh! What makes the other morons think I'm looking to take a trip to Bora Bora when their webpage is about UFOs? And how many people really want to gamble online when they just surfed to a page about Uzbek history?
Doesn't all this sort of point out the advantages of selling computers AND operating systems the way Apple does? Apple decides they want to go to a Berkeley version of Unix, they just do it, and build the machines to run it. They decide they want to use a different chip architecture, they buy different chips and incorporate them in their machines. I realise this strategy has tanked for other manufacturers, but the presence of various non-Windows operating systems on embedded devices seems to support this contention. As soon as you get away from the computer as a general purpose modular machine a la IBM compatible, all the Intel-Microsoft-joined-at-the-hip nonsense seems to evaporate, or at least sink to the level of a chronic pain in the butt. In this light, I'm thinking the new IBM-Gnulix machines bode well for the future of non-M$Intel machines. Am I offbase here? Are not Microsoft and Intel still one product companies and destined to fade away?
Don't you just love how Georgie tells us he's going to get to the bottom of the bottomless corporate corruption we're seeing when it was his father and his father's predecessor who deregulated the neanderthal bastards in the first place? (My apologies to any neanderthals hiding out among the general population.) Are people's memories so short they can't remember these Republican wazoos telling us how deregulation was going to bring on the Millennium and the Second Coming of the Messiah and just general all around good times and free chickens in every pot? Just free the poor multimillionaires from government supervision so they can do what they do best? Which turned out to be pick the pockets of everyone in sight. Good goin', George, you're really on top of this one. I can't wait until they find the gene for Republicanism and develop a cure.
I have a Lian Li PC56. Nice case. Easy to access, add/remove stuff. Looks pretty cool too, though it would be nice to have silver fronted drives instead of beige.
The first step, of course, is to get the computer in the same room as the stereo and hook them up, which I've done. Obviates the need for a separate speaker system, which is pretty much a joke anyway.
The computer sits on a desk with its keyboard and its own chair. For streaming audio I just set things up and then retire to my Swedish easy chair and listen through the stereo speakers.
Video's another story, though. I find myself sitting at the computer and swiveling around to see what's happening on TV. Now I could have a video card with a TV tuner and watch through the monitor, but I'd still be sitting in the, relatively, uncomfortable computer chair.
I could do what I do with streaming audio and set a movie up and run it and then retire to the easy chair. I don't have a DVD drive but that's not really an issue. Just go out and buy one. But if I want to change a setting or just do something else at the same time, I have to get up and move to the other chair.
So, as I've suggested before, the real problem is one of furniture design. WebTV tried to solve this problem by having a wireless keyboard that could be used from an easy chair, and I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to implement this on a computer, if it hasn't already been done. From personal experience, though, I can say that the wireless keyboard from an easy chair just isn't terribly easy to do. Computing is active, while watching TV is passive. What you need is a chair that's comfortable enough to sit in for extended periods watching a movie but which can be easily converted to a more active position where you could use the computer functions without getting up and going to another chair.
Thanks for mentioning that. I was just looking at 4X boards at the store. I know, I know, I shoulda read the article.... They do seem to be cheap enough, though, and that wasn't even buying on the web. You don't suppose they're getting to the point that all this horsepower isn't really useful?
As someone who used to read the Washington Post on Fridays for the estate and garage sale ads, I must say it's nice to be able to do a word search on particular items of interest rather than read through every single little line set in 3-point type.
1. A company or organization large enough to be able to afford "enterprise" software or support for the "free" equivalent thereof.
This isn't as circular as it looks. It's simply a recognition of the financial element involved. See, e.g., TheBrain.com. These guys used to make $50 personal organizing software. Now they make $100,000 "enterprise" network organizing software. This after the company was taken over from its founder, Harlan Hugh, by a bunch of venture capitalists. Money still talks, and enterprise is where the money is.
There has to be some business model that would support this sequence of events. It just gives me such an optimistic feeling to even think about it! Imagine, no need for rinky-dink emulators and ports. Now if somebody would just solve the driver problem. Can you write a driver in Java?
You don't suppose they are playing to the gallery, i.e., the Federal Courts and the Justice Department?