Maul escape? Escape what? Those two pansies? The two who you said were not a threat to him? (and I agree with that) Why would he run? You apparently misunderstand the code of the Samurai (on which the Jedi are loosely based) where when a Samurai gets an order from his Master, he is to carry it out or die trying. There is no running away, no escape. Maul would not have given up on his task. His orders were to eliminate the two Jedi guarding the queen, then carve her into sushi.
I would have rather liked to have seen external influences interrupt the fight right when Maul was going to kill Obiwan - killing Maul to preserve the story. Something like a stray blaster bolt from a tank blowing up the reactors or a catwalk falling on him or something like that.
frankly, the body-count is. . . everybody. Because in that book, everyone starts out as potentially immortal - and then is given the punishment of mortality because of disobedience to God's commandments. So in that respect, the body count is billions.
The goal of the Religious Right is not to convert the entire US population into chaste, celibate Soldiers of God (etc.) - it's to exert control over other people, in the name of God. Any way God's word can be twisted and perverted towards that purpose has been clearly demonstrated as fair game. And that applies to pretty much every other religion out there (except for: I don't recall ever hearing any examples of such abuses in buddhism, but it's probably because I just haven't heard about it). This isn't to bash religion either - because the same thing is done in atheist regimes. Philisophical doctrine that sounds nice, is easily twisted and perverted to evil purposes.
The problem here is, evil people trying to control other's lives, because it gets their rocks off.
iPhoto is like attacking Russia with a toothpick. If you've got 50 or so pictures, it's fine and dandy, but when you start tossing directories containing thousands of images, many hundreds of k in size per image (for instance, the NASA Blue Marble images) - iPhoto goes down like an out of work showgirl at a Las Vegas Networld+Interop.
what most people don't realize when they look up at the night sky, is that even under ideal circumstances, with the naked eye, you're really only seeing a minute fraction of what's out there. There are only two galaxies visible to the naked eye, and one of them, we're in. (the milky way). The other one is only barely visible to the naked eye. Consider the billions upon billions of galaxies out there that are too far away to be seen by the naked eye.
Looking at the sky with the naked eye in no way gives a true impression of how vast the universe is. It doesn't even scratch the surface.
Given the arithmatic errata most desktop processors have and the cross-platform nature of distributed computing, I'm wondering how anyone can possibly hope to gain accurate results - especially if there's any floating point math involved.
And with this specific project - isn't the earth's climate largely dependent on the amount of solar output, and isn't that amount relatively variable? How are they gonna know the slight variations in solar output over the next 50 years?
Doctors? you mean the pharmaceutical-industry shills? The guys who put normal kids on ritalin? The guys who believe that for every problem, there's an expensive happy-pill you can take for the rest of your life?
Ethics are a good thing to have. And the hippocratic oath is a good idea - in spirit. I just don't think that Doctors have a monopoly on ethics because of the silly oath.
I remember being in art school, some 20 years ago. I recall the commercial art department. Students were asked to create advertisements for food products, cars, and even cigarettes. The school had a 50% churn rate, because these kids would get in there, and start wringing their hands about being "whores". I have vivid memories of sitting at a party watching this big hulking drunk-and-stoned art major crying like a little girl because he couldn't bring himself to do the work, and was going to have to drop out. During the first 6 weeks of every year, the angst on the first floor was tangible.
These folks usually moved over into the fine-arts department, and spent the rest of their 4 years ridiculing the ComArt students behind their backs foor their poor moral judgements. I suppose they spent the next 4 years getting turned down by gallery owners. Like I did, before I wised up and changed fields.
If I had to choose between buying food and paying rent for my family or being socially responsible - fuck society.
I totally agree with you. And why do we feel this way? Do we feel that society won't take care of our needs during the times we aren't able to? Do we feel that society violates our social contract?
This is probably the root of the problem. We pay into the Tax system. We pay into social security. We pay into unemployment. I think most people still don't feel secure that these payments are good investments.
It's every man for himself. And in a capitalist society, these feelings are necessary in order to compel people to compete and play their role in the economic system. This compulsion is necessary - but when it's taken to an extreme degree, then ANY behavior that ensures personal survival (or what the individual perceives as insurance of survival) is justified.
Without balance, it becomes a morally bankrupt system.
I don't know, as much as I hate Microsoft's business practices, I think I owe a great deal to the success of Microsoft.
The dominance of a single, cheap OS running on commodity hardware greatly uncomplicated and accelerated the rollout of technology to the masses of middle class Americans with surplus capital.
I benefitted from this. I've had a stable job for 10 years, I got health benefits, stock options, training. This was not the norm in the early 80's. If it weren't for the tech boom, I might very well otherwise be a 10 year burger-flipping veteran. Through no intelligence or skill posessing shortcoming of my own, mind you. Simply through a lack of opportunities.
Microsoft has created opportunities for tens of millions. But on the other hand, it has also destroyed opportunities for many as well. The demand for computers created and destroyed companies like Word Perfect.
How would this all have played out without Microsoft? I have no idea. Maybe we'd all be complaining about IBM right now. Maybe OS/2 would be the dominant OS. But it would cost $1000. Probably Linux would not have ever been made - and we might all be BSD freaks instead. Who knows? Impossible to speculate.
He's just buying some good PR, and I'd even venture to speculate, a good night's sleep - but on the other hand, I'm not sure he has a problem with insomnia or a the burden of a conscience.
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Oh, but AGP was GREAT for scamming people into buying new machines when they didn't need to because Video Card manufacturers stopped producing PCI versions of their high-end models.
Hell, it puts them two years ahead of THEMSELVES. How much of Apple's current hardware line even supports this? I think they should have tried to at least go back to Rage128 - but again, it shows that Apple's really pushing up the bar on backwards compatability to get people to buy new machines. So much for the argument that macs remain useful longer than PCs. Thing is, none of their new machines are really appealing. We get one article today about Intel coming out with a 533 MHz FSB, and last Friday, it was about a PROTOTYPE Apple mobo with 133 MHz.
I wouldn't mind buying a new Mac - at the current specs, but I'm not going to pay the outrageous prices they're asking for out dated hardware.
Not so much anymore. Apple has taken great efforts to raise the bar on obsolescence.
Case in point: OS X not supported at all on pre-beige G3 machines, irregardless of CPU upgrades installed. (in fact, you could, in theory, install a dual 500mhz G4 in a 9600, last of the great 6-slot machines. But OS X is not supported, and you need to run a hack to get it to run, and most people I've heard from don't achieve any degree of stability with it). - In fact, you can't upgrade the OS past 9.1 on these machines. Period.
OS X not fully supported on beige G3 - irregardless of CPU upgrades installed (primarily, the video subsystem is not supported by graphics acceleration drivers - and the SCSI subsystem is poorly supported at best - believe me, I own one of these machines, I KNOW what I'm talking about).
iDVD not supported on machines that did not ship with the internal superdrive (Pioneer DVD-RW). You can buy the exact same model superdrive, external firewire or scsi, and plug it in to even the latest and greatest desktop powermac, and iDVD won't run. It's not a technical limitation, it's engieered into the product. The only alternative for those who want to author DVDs on a mac is to buy Apple's DVD Studio Pro for $999.
Video connectors on more recent macs aren't compatible with VGA monitors. (although they've finally corrected this by finally shipping an adaptor).
- - I agree, that historically, old Macs retain their value longer - look at the resale prices on eBay as proof. But this fact is changing, and continues to change, due to marketing decisions, not engineering limitations.
Never mind why the marketing people (who largely do not have a clue to the technology involed) of various technology companies get involved in establishing technical standards.
Or my personal favorite: "we're raising the bar on performance"
Followed by weekly status reports, monthly performance reviews, new bureaucratic hoops to jump through, and that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, you're marked.
My family homeschools, and we'll qualify to buy these.
These are just about perfect to replace what I currently have my kids using.
Two 132mhz 9500's, upgraded with G3 xlr8 cpus, 176m RAM, 2 gig scsi drives. These machines have been real workhorses for going on 10 years now (I acquired them about 6 months ago for free - my company was throwing them out). About the only thing these 9500's won't do is run OS X reliably, and since I'd like my kids to start learning the unix aspects, these eMac jobbies are just about perfect.
Really, 600mhz or faster, g3 or g4 is pretty much minimal for OS X, so the eMac makes it. However, to run the classic environment, 256 megs RAM minimum is req.d, so I guess I'd have to upgrade these units. But if they also last 10 years, don't you think that's a great deal? I don't see many PC's being very useful, upgrades or not, 10 years down the road.
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Maul escape? Escape what? Those two pansies? The two who you said were not a threat to him? (and I agree with that) Why would he run? You apparently misunderstand the code of the Samurai (on which the Jedi are loosely based) where when a Samurai gets an order from his Master, he is to carry it out or die trying. There is no running away, no escape. Maul would not have given up on his task. His orders were to eliminate the two Jedi guarding the queen, then carve her into sushi.
I would have rather liked to have seen external influences interrupt the fight right when Maul was going to kill Obiwan - killing Maul to preserve the story. Something like a stray blaster bolt from a tank blowing up the reactors or a catwalk falling on him or something like that.
In the Bible?
frankly, the body-count is. . . everybody. Because in that book, everyone starts out as potentially immortal - and then is given the punishment of mortality because of disobedience to God's commandments. So in that respect, the body count is billions.
The goal of the Religious Right is not to convert the entire US population into chaste, celibate Soldiers of God (etc.) - it's to exert control over other people, in the name of God. Any way God's word can be twisted and perverted towards that purpose has been clearly demonstrated as fair game. And that applies to pretty much every other religion out there (except for: I don't recall ever hearing any examples of such abuses in buddhism, but it's probably because I just haven't heard about it).
This isn't to bash religion either - because the same thing is done in atheist regimes. Philisophical doctrine that sounds nice, is easily twisted and perverted to evil purposes.
The problem here is, evil people trying to control other's lives, because it gets their rocks off.
iPhoto is like attacking Russia with a toothpick. If you've got 50 or so pictures, it's fine and dandy, but when you start tossing directories containing thousands of images, many hundreds of k in size per image (for instance, the NASA Blue Marble images) - iPhoto goes down like an out of work showgirl at a Las Vegas Networld+Interop.
what most people don't realize when they look up at the night sky, is that even under ideal circumstances, with the naked eye, you're really only seeing a minute fraction of what's out there. There are only two galaxies visible to the naked eye, and one of them, we're in. (the milky way). The other one is only barely visible to the naked eye. Consider the billions upon billions of galaxies out there that are too far away to be seen by the naked eye.
Looking at the sky with the naked eye in no way gives a true impression of how vast the universe is. It doesn't even scratch the surface.
Given the arithmatic errata most desktop processors have and the cross-platform nature of distributed computing, I'm wondering how anyone can possibly hope to gain accurate results - especially if there's any floating point math involved.
And with this specific project - isn't the earth's climate largely dependent on the amount of solar output, and isn't that amount relatively variable? How are they gonna know the slight variations in solar output over the next 50 years?
Then why do doctors (of medicine) take oaths?
Doctors? you mean the pharmaceutical-industry shills? The guys who put normal kids on ritalin? The guys who believe that for every problem, there's an expensive happy-pill you can take for the rest of your life?
Ethics are a good thing to have. And the hippocratic oath is a good idea - in spirit. I just don't think that Doctors have a monopoly on ethics because of the silly oath.
Coders.. your not holy men.. your not preachers.. you write code..
You mean I don't rape children, bilk old people out of their social security, or teach people to kill infidels? Thanks, I feel much better now. . .
I remember being in art school, some 20 years ago. I recall the commercial art department. Students were asked to create advertisements for food products, cars, and even cigarettes. The school had a 50% churn rate, because these kids would get in there, and start wringing their hands about being "whores". I have vivid memories of sitting at a party watching this big hulking drunk-and-stoned art major crying like a little girl because he couldn't bring himself to do the work, and was going to have to drop out. During the first 6 weeks of every year, the angst on the first floor was tangible.
These folks usually moved over into the fine-arts department, and spent the rest of their 4 years ridiculing the ComArt students behind their backs foor their poor moral judgements. I suppose they spent the next 4 years getting turned down by gallery owners. Like I did, before I wised up and changed fields.
If I had to choose between buying food and paying rent for my family or being socially responsible - fuck society.
I totally agree with you.
And why do we feel this way? Do we feel that society won't take care of our needs during the times we aren't able to? Do we feel that society violates our social contract?
This is probably the root of the problem.
We pay into the Tax system. We pay into social security. We pay into unemployment. I think most people still don't feel secure that these payments are good investments.
It's every man for himself.
And in a capitalist society, these feelings are necessary in order to compel people to compete and play their role in the economic system. This compulsion is necessary - but when it's taken to an extreme degree, then ANY behavior that ensures personal survival (or what the individual perceives as insurance of survival) is justified.
Without balance, it becomes a morally bankrupt system.
Smith *did* call it a "zoo".
No - that's what they taught you in science class. . . in The Matrix. In the REAL world, the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply.
I don't know, as much as I hate Microsoft's business practices, I think I owe a great deal to the success of Microsoft.
The dominance of a single, cheap OS running on commodity hardware greatly uncomplicated and accelerated the rollout of technology to the masses of middle class Americans with surplus capital.
I benefitted from this. I've had a stable job for 10 years, I got health benefits, stock options, training. This was not the norm in the early 80's. If it weren't for the tech boom, I might very well otherwise be a 10 year burger-flipping veteran. Through no intelligence or skill posessing shortcoming of my own, mind you. Simply through a lack of opportunities.
Microsoft has created opportunities for tens of millions. But on the other hand, it has also destroyed opportunities for many as well. The demand for computers created and destroyed companies like Word Perfect.
How would this all have played out without Microsoft? I have no idea. Maybe we'd all be complaining about IBM right now. Maybe OS/2 would be the dominant OS. But it would cost $1000. Probably Linux would not have ever been made - and we might all be BSD freaks instead. Who knows? Impossible to speculate.
He's just buying some good PR, and I'd even venture to speculate, a good night's sleep - but on the other hand, I'm not sure he has a problem with insomnia or a the burden of a conscience.
Oh, but AGP was GREAT for scamming people into buying new machines when they didn't need to because Video Card manufacturers stopped producing PCI versions of their high-end models.
That's funny, the #1 reason I always hear is: it's too slow on my not-brand-new hardware.
Hell, it puts them two years ahead of THEMSELVES. How much of Apple's current hardware line even supports this? I think they should have tried to at least go back to Rage128 - but again, it shows that Apple's really pushing up the bar on backwards compatability to get people to buy new machines. So much for the argument that macs remain useful longer than PCs. Thing is, none of their new machines are really appealing.
We get one article today about Intel coming out with a 533 MHz FSB, and last Friday, it was about a PROTOTYPE Apple mobo with 133 MHz.
I wouldn't mind buying a new Mac - at the current specs, but I'm not going to pay the outrageous prices they're asking for out dated hardware.
Embarrassing? Compared to what? Yemen's reusable space launch vehicle?
Not so much anymore. Apple has taken great efforts to raise the bar on obsolescence.
Case in point:
OS X not supported at all on pre-beige G3 machines, irregardless of CPU upgrades installed. (in fact, you could, in theory, install a dual 500mhz G4 in a 9600, last of the great 6-slot machines. But OS X is not supported, and you need to run a hack to get it to run, and most people I've heard from don't achieve any degree of stability with it). - In fact, you can't upgrade the OS past 9.1 on these machines. Period.
OS X not fully supported on beige G3 - irregardless of CPU upgrades installed (primarily, the video subsystem is not supported by graphics acceleration drivers - and the SCSI subsystem is poorly supported at best - believe me, I own one of these machines, I KNOW what I'm talking about).
iDVD not supported on machines that did not ship with the internal superdrive (Pioneer DVD-RW). You can buy the exact same model superdrive, external firewire or scsi, and plug it in to even the latest and greatest desktop powermac, and iDVD won't run. It's not a technical limitation, it's engieered into the product. The only alternative for those who want to author DVDs on a mac is to buy Apple's DVD Studio Pro for $999.
Video connectors on more recent macs aren't compatible with VGA monitors. (although they've finally corrected this by finally shipping an adaptor).
- -
I agree, that historically, old Macs retain their value longer - look at the resale prices on eBay as proof. But this fact is changing, and continues to change, due to marketing decisions, not engineering limitations.
Never mind why the marketing people (who largely do not have a clue to the technology involed) of various technology companies get involved in establishing technical standards.
Or my personal favorite:
"we're raising the bar on performance"
Followed by weekly status reports, monthly performance reviews, new bureaucratic hoops to jump through, and that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, you're marked.
Wait till you have a baby.
The hospitals have the same kind of racket going with the diaper and formula people.
You forgot the playboy spread for Maxine Headroom.
My family homeschools, and we'll qualify to buy these.
These are just about perfect to replace what I currently have my kids using.
Two 132mhz 9500's, upgraded with G3 xlr8 cpus, 176m RAM, 2 gig scsi drives. These machines have been real workhorses for going on 10 years now (I acquired them about 6 months ago for free - my company was throwing them out).
About the only thing these 9500's won't do is run OS X reliably, and since I'd like my kids to start learning the unix aspects, these eMac jobbies are just about perfect.
Really, 600mhz or faster, g3 or g4 is pretty much minimal for OS X, so the eMac makes it. However, to run the classic environment, 256 megs RAM minimum is req.d, so I guess I'd have to upgrade these units. But if they also last 10 years, don't you think that's a great deal? I don't see many PC's being very useful, upgrades or not, 10 years down the road.
Font geeks. Gotta love 'em.
Birth School Work Death.
Well, we've added school sometime in the past 300 years or so. . . but it's still not universal.