Don't forget, Microsoft can also use this as a path to get nice Big-Brother features onto the Macintosh platform, like GUIDs, and NSAKeys, and software that won't function if you move the folder it's in to another folder.
Also, another flanking maneuver on Java, by moving MSJava (IE's JVM) to the Mac platform.
I just don't understand why IE Mac doesn't do CaptiveX yet. Come on MS! We need another dozen or so cryptically named libraries of fragile code in our extensions folder!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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After I re-read Ender's Game, I mailed my copy to my 11 year old son. (lives with his mom in another state).
Isolation isn't an issue (though he's not the "football hero" type - he's got a gang of geeky friends he hangs out with. They're all heavily into Pokemon). The issue for me is, will he enjoy reading it? Will it be a good quality break from the Star Wars spin-off trash he likes to read? Will it make him think?
Definately let your son read it. My first exposure to Sci Fi/Fantasy was LOTR when I was 9, and I haven't looked back since.
I think this goes back to the Hellmouth stuff, but the important thing to teach your kid, if they're a geek, social outcast, whatever, is NOT to develop a 'tude about it. For me, I got very lost oscillating between inferiority/superiority, and it caused me a LOT of trouble. A kid's got to find a middle ground, be happy with themself, but not feel so superior that they reject "mundanes" to the point where it makes their social problems worse - or even unrecoverable. Be different, yes! Be yourself, yes! but learn how to fit in when you need to, because no man is an island, and sometimes you need to fit in to get things done. What was said a couple days ago? Social graces are the packet-headers of everyday life?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Yeah, there's a lot of scary slanderous stuff written about Mormons out there. On the other hand, I always dread business trips to Utah, because, hey, what if I want a beer with lunch? WTF?
And I never really thought Heinlein was all that religious in his writings. If you want to read a true zealot's science fiction, read C.S. Lewis.
But avoid at all costs: L.Ron Hubbard!!!!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Man, we must have the same tastes. I can't say that I like much of anything else Greg Bear wrote - but Eon just took my mind for a long, long trip away from anything remotely resembling reality.
Of course, Ender's Game was far from the first Sci Fi book I ever read.
I recently re-read it, and enjoyed it a lot, though I kind of cringe at the mental clarity given to a six year old boy - it almost seemed as if "ultra-genius" was a crutch used by an adult author to get into the mind of a supposed child. I'll be disappointed if the same treatment is used for Bean in Ender's Shadow.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, it's just that - the companies are being led by these supposed geniuses of industry, commanding multi-million dollar salaries, stock options and golden parachutes - these guys screw up, and can't come up with anything more creative than "fire the peons"?
Figure- Joe Executive, and his good-ol-boy team of a half-dozen Mercedes-driving golf buddies, if they were to all take a 50% pay-cut, none of them would be in any danger of starving, and could probably save a few hundred engineer jobs.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I don't know - I think/. was getting really, really bad before the first iteration of moderation came on line. The first try fixed a lot of problems, but caused a few new ones, and eventually, folks figured out how to abuse the system. Hence M2. It could be pretty bad without moderation, in fact I think the fact that moderation exists even helps those who don't use it at all, because it probably discourages a lot of people from even trying crap.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that the tweaks done to the moderation system are GREAT! I personally have become much more sensitive to that urge I get to NOT post a quick smartass comment, because I want my karma to go up. I'm specifically being more careful and thoughtful about what I post. I think a lot of other people are too, and you can see that in the way the quality of comments has improved in the past few days (and the volume generally declined).
I don't think this is the end-all, eventually, someone's going to figure out how to abuse this new system, but for now, it's working great.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Religion is often a convenient excuse for those in power to wield such power arbitrarily. I don't think that the absense of religion would buy humanity much in the way of compassionate or enlightened leadership. It would only cause tyrants to look for more convenient excuses - or at least that's the gist of what Stalin's rule seems to indicate.
It's kind of sad, actually, that a belief system takes the rap for despicable acts. Again, all Christians are blamed for The Inquisition.
As a Christian (with slightly heretical beliefs, which would have probably earned me a date with a hot stake a scant few hundred years ago), I see nothing in the Bible that explicitly says that the divine design of humanity precludes the possible existance of intelligent extraterrestrial life (therefore, I believe in the possibility). The fact is, a few ultra-conservative fundamentalists have publicly wringed their hands over the possibility that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life, and the possibility that they might not worship God, or may even end up being THE minions of satan himself, but I don't think that most Christians believe thusly. Though there are a lot of sheep out there, who listen to these televangelists. The way I figure, when we see aliens, we'll know they exist. Until that day (or until Hillary Clinton fesses up), all we can do is either believe in the possibility, or (wrongly) believe that there IS no possibility. (wrongly, because it's a BIG universe, and we haven't seen it all yet, so it's impossible to draw that conclusion). When/if we DO ever encounter them, we'll know at that time if they have a religion, or a culture, or even a language, and whether they know how to make good pizza (which is what I'm primarily concerned about).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
bah. Until someone figures out how to make a whole buttload of money within one fiscal quarter by doing all that, it's probably not going to happen. Not with our insectoid species.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Hmmm, in Victorian England, having a sex drive was considered a psychological disorder"
heh, reminds me of a history of the vibrator I read on the internet last week; there was a disorder called "female hysteria" or something like that - basically, sexual frustration, and the treatment was, having a doctor "manually manipulate" her, well, you-know-what. The treatments became so popular, they invented the vibrator to save the doctors labor.
Talk about attention deficit - what were we talking about again?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
don't feel bad about that VW commercial. It's a fairly subtle effect (the rhythm coordination) for those not musically attuned. I know a couple of people who "don't get it". No big loss. I think it's a pretty stupid commercial myself.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's the weird thing, I think about half of my "lack of social skills" comes from lack of confidence/low self esteem, and the other half from skills, but I did do phone support for several years, and I had NO problem dealing with people over the phone. It's face to face that's a problem with me.
Of course, when you're the magic man with all the answers, people will bend over backwards to "connect" with you.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
All through my childhood, I was yelled at by my parents for rocking back on my chairs - "you'll break it!" they yelled. I swore to myself that when I grew up and moved out, I would rock on my chairs to my heart's content.
Day 1: after finishing unpacking my stuff into my rented house in DeKalb at NIU, I ate dinner, and kicked back in my chair afterwards - CRACK!
It's about the ONLY thing they were right about.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Can you keep time without being able to hear the drummer? I'm a geek, and I cant. My internal time will land me somewhere behind the beat within about 10 seconds if I have no other rhythmic references."
Well, we won't put you on Ceasar's ship then. You'll mess up the other rowers.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Can this happen to adults? I'm 32 and I STILL can't sit through a boring class without "tuning out". . . (probably another reason why I can't program). I thought ADHD was only a childrens disorder, and it went away in adults.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I was diagnosed as "borderline autistic" when I was a child, but really, that seemed extremely harsh when I saw how bad-off truly autistic kids were on TV documentaries and stuff like that.
I DO have a lot of trouble connecting with people, and I DO have a tendency to rock a bit when I'm sitting still, or bounce my knee, and I do get a bit obsessive, I HATE switching tasks when I get immersed. (which is probably why I spend so much time on/.) - yet, I'm not what you'd call a "computer genius" either. I just can't get into programming, I can't devote myself to any kind of long-term project without a clear worthy end-result in sight. (writing "hello world" etc. would be a crucial learning step, yet it just doesn't seem worth the time and effort). But I really dig troubleshooting - so I do tech support.
I certainly don't have balance and coordination problems, and I CAN be social, and polite when I want to be. I just don't think I fit the stereotype, 100%.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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naw. Microsoft will just ressurect Xenix.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Don't forget, Microsoft can also use this as a path to get nice Big-Brother features onto the Macintosh platform, like GUIDs, and NSAKeys, and software that won't function if you move the folder it's in to another folder.
Also, another flanking maneuver on Java, by moving MSJava (IE's JVM) to the Mac platform.
I just don't understand why IE Mac doesn't do CaptiveX yet. Come on MS! We need another dozen or so cryptically named libraries of fragile code in our extensions folder!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
After I re-read Ender's Game, I mailed my copy to my 11 year old son. (lives with his mom in another state).
Isolation isn't an issue (though he's not the "football hero" type - he's got a gang of geeky friends he hangs out with. They're all heavily into Pokemon). The issue for me is, will he enjoy reading it? Will it be a good quality break from the Star Wars spin-off trash he likes to read? Will it make him think?
Definately let your son read it. My first exposure to Sci Fi/Fantasy was LOTR when I was 9, and I haven't looked back since.
I think this goes back to the Hellmouth stuff, but the important thing to teach your kid, if they're a geek, social outcast, whatever, is NOT to develop a 'tude about it. For me, I got very lost oscillating between inferiority/superiority, and it caused me a LOT of trouble. A kid's got to find a middle ground, be happy with themself, but not feel so superior that they reject "mundanes" to the point where it makes their social problems worse - or even unrecoverable. Be different, yes! Be yourself, yes! but learn how to fit in when you need to, because no man is an island, and sometimes you need to fit in to get things done. What was said a couple days ago? Social graces are the packet-headers of everyday life?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Yeah, there's a lot of scary slanderous stuff written about Mormons out there. On the other hand, I always dread business trips to Utah, because, hey, what if I want a beer with lunch? WTF?
And I never really thought Heinlein was all that religious in his writings. If you want to read a true zealot's science fiction, read C.S. Lewis.
But avoid at all costs: L.Ron Hubbard!!!!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Man, we must have the same tastes. I can't say that I like much of anything else Greg Bear wrote - but Eon just took my mind for a long, long trip away from anything remotely resembling reality.
Of course, Ender's Game was far from the first Sci Fi book I ever read.
I recently re-read it, and enjoyed it a lot, though I kind of cringe at the mental clarity given to a six year old boy - it almost seemed as if "ultra-genius" was a crutch used by an adult author to get into the mind of a supposed child. I'll be disappointed if the same treatment is used for Bean in Ender's Shadow.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Microsoft, so they can butcher -er, embrace and extend OpenGL/Farenheit.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, it's just that - the companies are being led by these supposed geniuses of industry, commanding multi-million dollar salaries, stock options and golden parachutes - these guys screw up, and can't come up with anything more creative than "fire the peons"?
Figure- Joe Executive, and his good-ol-boy team of a half-dozen Mercedes-driving golf buddies, if they were to all take a 50% pay-cut, none of them would be in any danger of starving, and could probably save a few hundred engineer jobs.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I don't know - I think /. was getting really, really bad before the first iteration of moderation came on line. The first try fixed a lot of problems, but caused a few new ones, and eventually, folks figured out how to abuse the system. Hence M2. It could be pretty bad without moderation, in fact I think the fact that moderation exists even helps those who don't use it at all, because it probably discourages a lot of people from even trying crap.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
This just proves my point of what I've been saying all along about SGI, ever since they started selling Wintel systems.
They're just another Packard Bell.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that the tweaks done to the moderation system are GREAT!
I personally have become much more sensitive to that urge I get to NOT post a quick smartass comment, because I want my karma to go up. I'm specifically being more careful and thoughtful about what I post. I think a lot of other people are too, and you can see that in the way the quality of comments has improved in the past few days (and the volume generally declined).
I don't think this is the end-all, eventually, someone's going to figure out how to abuse this new system, but for now, it's working great.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Religion is often a convenient excuse for those in power to wield such power arbitrarily. I don't think that the absense of religion would buy humanity much in the way of compassionate or enlightened leadership. It would only cause tyrants to look for more convenient excuses - or at least that's the gist of what Stalin's rule seems to indicate.
It's kind of sad, actually, that a belief system takes the rap for despicable acts. Again, all Christians are blamed for The Inquisition.
As a Christian (with slightly heretical beliefs, which would have probably earned me a date with a hot stake a scant few hundred years ago), I see nothing in the Bible that explicitly says that the divine design of humanity precludes the possible existance of intelligent extraterrestrial life (therefore, I believe in the possibility). The fact is, a few ultra-conservative fundamentalists have publicly wringed their hands over the possibility that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life, and the possibility that they might not worship God, or may even end up being THE minions of satan himself, but I don't think that most Christians believe thusly. Though there are a lot of sheep out there, who listen to these televangelists. The way I figure, when we see aliens, we'll know they exist. Until that day (or until Hillary Clinton fesses up), all we can do is either believe in the possibility, or (wrongly) believe that there IS no possibility. (wrongly, because it's a BIG universe, and we haven't seen it all yet, so it's impossible to draw that conclusion). When/if we DO ever encounter them, we'll know at that time if they have a religion, or a culture, or even a language, and whether they know how to make good pizza (which is what I'm primarily concerned about).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Even if the universe DID have tons of intelligent life and advanced civilizations floating around up there, we'd still be a fluke.
It's a big, big, big universe. I'll give it that.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Sure they would. As an example of how NOT to run things.
And, of course, for the slapstick comedic value.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
bah. Until someone figures out how to make a whole buttload of money within one fiscal quarter by doing all that, it's probably not going to happen. Not with our insectoid species.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Hmmm, in Victorian England, having a sex drive was considered a
psychological disorder"
heh, reminds me of a history of the vibrator I read on the internet last week; there was a disorder called "female hysteria" or something like that - basically, sexual frustration, and the treatment was, having a doctor "manually manipulate" her, well, you-know-what. The treatments became so popular, they invented the vibrator to save the doctors labor.
Talk about attention deficit - what were we talking about again?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
don't feel bad about that VW commercial. It's a fairly subtle effect (the rhythm coordination) for those not musically attuned. I know a couple of people who "don't get it". No big loss. I think it's a pretty stupid commercial myself.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's the weird thing, I think about half of my "lack of social skills" comes from lack of confidence/low self esteem, and the other half from skills, but I did do phone support for several years, and I had NO problem dealing with people over the phone. It's face to face that's a problem with me.
Of course, when you're the magic man with all the answers, people will bend over backwards to "connect" with you.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
All through my childhood, I was yelled at by my parents for rocking back on my chairs - "you'll break it!" they yelled. I swore to myself that when I grew up and moved out, I would rock on my chairs to my heart's content.
Day 1:
after finishing unpacking my stuff into my rented house in DeKalb at NIU, I ate dinner, and kicked back in my chair afterwards - CRACK!
It's about the ONLY thing they were right about.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
whispering about a disease wouldn't make any sense. He IS a disease.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Can you keep time without being able to hear the drummer? I'm a geek, and I cant. My internal
time will land me somewhere behind the beat within about 10 seconds if I have no other rhythmic
references."
Well, we won't put you on Ceasar's ship then. You'll mess up the other rowers.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Can this happen to adults? I'm 32 and I STILL can't sit through a boring class without "tuning out". . . (probably another reason why I can't program). I thought ADHD was only a childrens disorder, and it went away in adults.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Billboard sign in LA (off the 405?)
"Geeks in Shining Armor."
(it was for some ISP, I forget which).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's probably why they call TCP/IP initialization a "three-way handshake".
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I know there's got to be more to it than this -
/.) - yet, I'm not what you'd call a "computer genius" either. I just can't get into programming, I can't devote myself to any kind of long-term project without a clear worthy end-result in sight. (writing "hello world" etc. would be a crucial learning step, yet it just doesn't seem worth the time and effort). But I really dig troubleshooting - so I do tech support.
I was diagnosed as "borderline autistic" when I was a child, but really, that seemed extremely harsh when I saw how bad-off truly autistic kids were on TV documentaries and stuff like that.
I DO have a lot of trouble connecting with people, and I DO have a tendency to rock a bit when I'm sitting still, or bounce my knee, and I do get a bit obsessive, I HATE switching tasks when I get immersed. (which is probably why I spend so much time on
I certainly don't have balance and coordination problems, and I CAN be social, and polite when I want to be.
I just don't think I fit the stereotype, 100%.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I would LOVE to have a palm OS device with a Palm V form-factor, and an Apple-Macintosh G4 case color scheme. That would be the cat's pajamas.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."