In the same sense that I find it funny that my book collection contains about 6 billion words, one for every man, woman and child on earth.
In other words, no, can't say that I do.
Not only is it an entirely artificial milestone devoid of meaning even in the sense of interesting coincidence, it's an artificially created "milestone" for the purpose of pointing it out.
Any marketing department can churn out such by the barrel full.
How much does a set of graphite shaft golf clubs cost? For that matter have you checked out the price of balls lately? Nevermind greens fees.
What does a single Orvis or Sage flyrod cost, never mind your reel, line, flies and wading equipment?
I've got several hundred dollars into just the radio gear of my R/C racing car, and it's another fourty bucks in tires every few times I race it. Not to mention entry fees.
Computer gaming is actually relatively cheap if one runs a generation or so behind the curve. Used 17" CRTs are about fifty bucks.
I'm a notorious cheap ass bastard who enjoys squeezing life out of as little money as I can. I'm a luftmensch. But I work to buy things I want and enjoy. A good book. A game. A nice flyrod. A Campy grouppo. Whatever.
Life is a money pit. I'm going to do what I can to enjoy it and use what little money I have in that pursuit.
I almost never use the look left/right feature in Grand Prix Legends. It's too jarring and unnatural. I'm likely to hit the car I'm looking to see if it's there, and then miss my turn in.
Simply being able to glance at a monitor to my side would be wonderful, even if it meant turning my head. The panning is natural and continuous and perpherial vision keeps your forward orientation intact.
Used 17" monitors are going for about $50 at my local salvager.
Benjamin Franklin was a remarkable man, and a remarkable inventor, but paper money was not among his inventions. He would have been familiar with it since childhood. By the time of his birth it was more common than hard cash.
Indeed, the main anger at the Stamp Act in the American colonies was because it required payment in hard coinage, and most people didn't have hard currency, not so much as a penny.
Correct. They are no more hackers, in any sense of the word, than someone who uses a computer to type in the latest Stephen King short story and putting it on usenet is.
Or someone who rips a CD.
Or copies an unprotected propriatary file.
Mere use of a computer is not hacking.
The correct term for the people in this case is "counterfeiter."
I wouldn't recommend a fountain pen for taking college notes. Get the ballpoint. Less cache, more suited to the task.
In fountain pens I like the matte black Parker, but that's just me. Not a great writing pen but I like the feel of the barrel. You could do a lot worse than a cheap Schaffer, I've got a couple, and if I were looking to spend money on something classy I'd go for a Waterman Patrician.
But we were talking about showing off, otherwise I might have recommended a Cambridge vinyl notepad and an Alfa Romeo GTV 1750.
If you aren't familiar with it you might want to see if you can track down a copy of Stephen Leacock's (Professor of Economics- McGill University) "Too Much College" for his view of what the field of economics was becoming, circa 1939, as well as his views of a number of other fields and education in general.
There's a good chance your library will have this.
Of course there's another reason none of these political/economic theories has been tried in their purest form.
They simply don't meet the needs of people. Capitalism and democracy work great in the market place. They really don't in the private home where oligarchy is the only workable system. Communism works great in the monastary and group farm, but only when imbedded in a larger social framework that allows dissenters to leave freely and not distrupt the communal ethic. In the early days of America we experimented with privately held roads and bridges. It sucked. It sucked a lot. Socialism is the only really workable way to deal with such infrastructure.
Yeah, I caught myself in an earlier post using affected properly and then immediately following it up with effected. I'm having trouble with that one today even though I know I'm doing it.
I can't say I'd have any problem with Spanish, although Mandarin might give me some pause. In any language that allows for growth and modification culture also grows. Being able to effectively communicate with each other is also a great virtue. The parable of the Tower of Babel is a tragedy, not a celebration of diversity. The tendency to differentiate ourselves over our trivial differences in language, food, color, etc has been the source of much pain in the world.
It is the reason why even if we all fucked until we were all one color there would still be "hate crimes."
People hate each other over what brand of car they drive, which side of town they live on, their choice of text editor and their fasion sense.
Actually, we don't have a record of most of them, but yes, very, very few people spoke them. That's one of the reasons we don't have a record of them.
Most of the languages being lost are from New Guinea, which due to the peculiarities of the geography accounts for about 1/4 of all human languages. As tribal isolation is lost the tribal languages die.
Their loss is of grave concern to linguists, since, as above, they don't even have a record of most of them, but I don't see how this could effect programing languages in any way.
In fact, it's difficult to see how it effects humanity in general in any way.
But I like bitches. Otherwise, why would I have married her?
Seriously, I think one can descern that there's about 8 mill worth of bitch in putting the thing together, if you're a pro. Not to be undertaken lightly.
There's just something about a big box of parts that makes my fingers itch though. ..
All of which may well lead us to an unexpected physical phenomenon, which in turn leads us to greater understanding of star formation and evolution, perhaps even greater understanding of matter itself.
In the biological field we may discover Black Smokers, where we learn more about life in general than we do when studying oysters and their ecologies.
It's simply my preference to overtly assume something like Black Smokers are out there somewhere and go looking for them.
In social networks you'll often find the isolated data element (which is to say, person) suddenly explodes as a nexus of contact, or gets absorbed into a clump, or a clump spits something out to the fringes. To me this is, in itself, worthy of attention.
In the example given, for instance, the first thing I want to know is what caused those few interconference games between the physically distant teams to take place at all? It is the nexus of interaction that is interesting to me here, but specifically because that interaction is anomolous.
On the other hand, if one is interested in science. ..
I'd be more interested in seeing the data that gets deleted, not the clumps. This isn't to say that the clumps aren't important, especially if you're trying to rebuild oyster populations in the Chesepeake or some such, but plenty of people will be focusing on those. People have an attraction to like objects and group mechanism.
I have an attraction to the exceptions. That's where the really interesting scientific stuff is likely to be happening, and where the Nobels are most likely to be hiding.
Why is this star off the main sequence? How did it get there, what makes it tick? What relevance might that have to stars that are on the main sequence?
The question is not so much how fast a virus spreads, but what percentage of the computer population is affected at any one time, and what function does that percentage play in the workings of the whole.
If I have a Windows box and a Linux box sitting side by side, each able to perform all the critical functions of the other, then a virus has to effect them both at the same time for me to lose functionality. When Blaster hits the Windows box I'm free to take it offline to clean it up. Vice versa for a *nix worm. Personally I add a Mac into the mix for three way security.
This doesn't mean I can't get hit by a virus. It means that a virus can't take me down. And that's the point. Not that infections don't spread, but that infections are genetically specific. Your email worm targeted at a Windows address book, can't even find the address book on my Linux box. The mutt exploit is worthless against my Windows box. The Mac just keeps chugging along, mostly because no one cares to waste time writing a virus for a system even more obscure than Linux (That would be OS8 for those Mac heads about to pounce on me for saying that Macs are popular).
Resilience through diversity, not absolute immunity.
KFG
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I used foot and a half wide. You'll find that's about right for the average American adult male, so for humanity the figure is actually generous.
Do the math, it might surprise you.
Just before WWII we only would have needed a box half a mile to the side to pack away humanity, but we've grown a bit since then.
KFG
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The earth's mass increases by tons a day, from the influx of space stuff. It doesn't really matter, as a percentage of the earth's mass the stuff that comes in and what we ship out is waaaaaay below the level of significant digits.
I could sit here half the night listing reasons why launching dead granny dust into space is a pretty daft idea, but worries about unbalancing the earth's orbit or running out of carbon wouldn't be among them.
If you took all the people in the world and packed them into a box, like sardines, without cremating, that box would have to be about 3/4 mile per side.
That's it. All of humanity. All of humanity's mass. Poof it out into space and the earth wouldn't so much as bobble, or care.
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In the same sense that I find it funny that my book collection contains about 6 billion words, one for every man, woman and child on earth.
In other words, no, can't say that I do.
Not only is it an entirely artificial milestone devoid of meaning even in the sense of interesting coincidence, it's an artificially created "milestone" for the purpose of pointing it out.
Any marketing department can churn out such by the barrel full.
KFG
Oh yeah, because my city council completely ignores the morality police and listens to me.
What city do you live in? I want to move there.
KFG
How much does a set of graphite shaft golf clubs cost? For that matter have you checked out the price of balls lately? Nevermind greens fees.
What does a single Orvis or Sage flyrod cost, never mind your reel, line, flies and wading equipment?
I've got several hundred dollars into just the radio gear of my R/C racing car, and it's another fourty bucks in tires every few times I race it. Not to mention entry fees.
Computer gaming is actually relatively cheap if one runs a generation or so behind the curve. Used 17" CRTs are about fifty bucks.
I'm a notorious cheap ass bastard who enjoys squeezing life out of as little money as I can. I'm a luftmensch. But I work to buy things I want and enjoy. A good book. A game. A nice flyrod. A Campy grouppo. Whatever.
Life is a money pit. I'm going to do what I can to enjoy it and use what little money I have in that pursuit.
I work to live, not live to work.
KFG
I almost never use the look left/right feature in Grand Prix Legends. It's too jarring and unnatural. I'm likely to hit the car I'm looking to see if it's there, and then miss my turn in.
Simply being able to glance at a monitor to my side would be wonderful, even if it meant turning my head. The panning is natural and continuous and perpherial vision keeps your forward orientation intact.
Used 17" monitors are going for about $50 at my local salvager.
GPL Rank -11
Monster Rank +104
KFG
And if it had water clouds that would have made the news a long time ago.
It would also make the joke.
KFG
Benjamin Franklin was a remarkable man, and a remarkable inventor, but paper money was not among his inventions. He would have been familiar with it since childhood. By the time of his birth it was more common than hard cash.
Indeed, the main anger at the Stamp Act in the American colonies was because it required payment in hard coinage, and most people didn't have hard currency, not so much as a penny.
A brief history of paper money
KFG
Correct. They are no more hackers, in any sense of the word, than someone who uses a computer to type in the latest Stephen King short story and putting it on usenet is.
Or someone who rips a CD.
Or copies an unprotected propriatary file.
Mere use of a computer is not hacking.
The correct term for the people in this case is "counterfeiter."
KFG
I wouldn't recommend a fountain pen for taking college notes. Get the ballpoint. Less cache, more suited to the task.
In fountain pens I like the matte black Parker, but that's just me. Not a great writing pen but I like the feel of the barrel. You could do a lot worse than a cheap Schaffer, I've got a couple, and if I were looking to spend money on something classy I'd go for a Waterman Patrician.
But we were talking about showing off, otherwise I might have recommended a Cambridge vinyl notepad and an Alfa Romeo GTV 1750.
KFG
Can I trade them both for what's in Carol Merrill's box, Monty?
KFG
And for those people I can highly recommend a deluxe executive leather clipboard, a Mont Blanc and a Jaguar XKR to keep them in.
A far better use of money than a tablet PC, not mention classier.
KFG
Jobs and the Reality Distortion Field
Jobs is basically a promoter. Nothing less, nothing more. A charismatic evangelist.
For my money the Woz is the man, but Apple is past the age of technology and into the age of promotion. Such is life I guess.
KFG
Being an economist is definitely a dismal science
If you aren't familiar with it you might want to see if you can track down a copy of Stephen Leacock's (Professor of Economics- McGill University) "Too Much College" for his view of what the field of economics was becoming, circa 1939, as well as his views of a number of other fields and education in general.
There's a good chance your library will have this.
Of course there's another reason none of these political/economic theories has been tried in their purest form.
They simply don't meet the needs of people. Capitalism and democracy work great in the market place. They really don't in the private home where oligarchy is the only workable system. Communism works great in the monastary and group farm, but only when imbedded in a larger social framework that allows dissenters to leave freely and not distrupt the communal ethic. In the early days of America we experimented with privately held roads and bridges. It sucked. It sucked a lot. Socialism is the only really workable way to deal with such infrastructure.
Some "political realities" have reality.
KFG
I see Volvos
Inside of Volvos
Inside of Volvos
Inside of Volvos
Inside of. . .
Yuppies on LSD - Dave Hitt
KFG
Yeah, I caught myself in an earlier post using affected properly and then immediately following it up with effected. I'm having trouble with that one today even though I know I'm doing it.
I can't say I'd have any problem with Spanish, although Mandarin might give me some pause. In any language that allows for growth and modification culture also grows. Being able to effectively communicate with each other is also a great virtue. The parable of the Tower of Babel is a tragedy, not a celebration of diversity. The tendency to differentiate ourselves over our trivial differences in language, food, color, etc has been the source of much pain in the world.
It is the reason why even if we all fucked until we were all one color there would still be "hate crimes."
People hate each other over what brand of car they drive, which side of town they live on, their choice of text editor and their fasion sense.
I want as little part of it as possible.
KFG
Actually, we don't have a record of most of them, but yes, very, very few people spoke them. That's one of the reasons we don't have a record of them.
Most of the languages being lost are from New Guinea, which due to the peculiarities of the geography accounts for about 1/4 of all human languages. As tribal isolation is lost the tribal languages die.
Their loss is of grave concern to linguists, since, as above, they don't even have a record of most of them, but I don't see how this could effect programing languages in any way.
In fact, it's difficult to see how it effects humanity in general in any way.
KFG
But I like bitches. Otherwise, why would I have married her?
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Seriously, I think one can descern that there's about 8 mill worth of bitch in putting the thing together, if you're a pro. Not to be undertaken lightly.
There's just something about a big box of parts that makes my fingers itch though. .
KFG
All of which may well lead us to an unexpected physical phenomenon, which in turn leads us to greater understanding of star formation and evolution, perhaps even greater understanding of matter itself.
In the biological field we may discover Black Smokers, where we learn more about life in general than we do when studying oysters and their ecologies.
It's simply my preference to overtly assume something like Black Smokers are out there somewhere and go looking for them.
In social networks you'll often find the isolated data element (which is to say, person) suddenly explodes as a nexus of contact, or gets absorbed into a clump, or a clump spits something out to the fringes. To me this is, in itself, worthy of attention.
In the example given, for instance, the first thing I want to know is what caused those few interconference games between the physically distant teams to take place at all? It is the nexus of interaction that is interesting to me here, but specifically because that interaction is anomolous.
There is an invisible subnetwork somewhere.
I want to examine it.
KFG
On the other hand, if one is interested in science. . .
I'd be more interested in seeing the data that gets deleted, not the clumps. This isn't to say that the clumps aren't important, especially if you're trying to rebuild oyster populations in the Chesepeake or some such, but plenty of people will be focusing on those. People have an attraction to like objects and group mechanism.
I have an attraction to the exceptions. That's where the really interesting scientific stuff is likely to be happening, and where the Nobels are most likely to be hiding.
Why is this star off the main sequence? How did it get there, what makes it tick? What relevance might that have to stars that are on the main sequence?
KFG
Well, at least that's the theory.
KFG
The question is not so much how fast a virus spreads, but what percentage of the computer population is affected at any one time, and what function does that percentage play in the workings of the whole.
If I have a Windows box and a Linux box sitting side by side, each able to perform all the critical functions of the other, then a virus has to effect them both at the same time for me to lose functionality. When Blaster hits the Windows box I'm free to take it offline to clean it up. Vice versa for a *nix worm. Personally I add a Mac into the mix for three way security.
This doesn't mean I can't get hit by a virus. It means that a virus can't take me down. And that's the point. Not that infections don't spread, but that infections are genetically specific. Your email worm targeted at a Windows address book, can't even find the address book on my Linux box. The mutt exploit is worthless against my Windows box. The Mac just keeps chugging along, mostly because no one cares to waste time writing a virus for a system even more obscure than Linux (That would be OS8 for those Mac heads about to pounce on me for saying that Macs are popular).
Resilience through diversity, not absolute immunity.
KFG
I used foot and a half wide. You'll find that's about right for the average American adult male, so for humanity the figure is actually generous.
Do the math, it might surprise you.
Just before WWII we only would have needed a box half a mile to the side to pack away humanity, but we've grown a bit since then.
KFG
The earth's mass increases by tons a day, from the influx of space stuff. It doesn't really matter, as a percentage of the earth's mass the stuff that comes in and what we ship out is waaaaaay below the level of significant digits.
I could sit here half the night listing reasons why launching dead granny dust into space is a pretty daft idea, but worries about unbalancing the earth's orbit or running out of carbon wouldn't be among them.
If you took all the people in the world and packed them into a box, like sardines, without cremating, that box would have to be about 3/4 mile per side.
That's it. All of humanity. All of humanity's mass. Poof it out into space and the earth wouldn't so much as bobble, or care.
KFG
No point mentioning those bats, I think. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.
KFG
Wait a minute. Are you implying that there's a good part of Barstow?
KFG
At Hacker-Pschorr, of course.
KFG