Of course there have also been times when men have been tied to servitude, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry and blind hatred.
"The old days are o'er there's none can deny
The days of the traveler's over
There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere to bide
So fareweel to the life o' the rover
Goodbye to the tent and the old caravan
The tinker, the tailor, the travling man
And goodbye to the thirty foot trailer."
Perhaps these new technologies will give the rover a bit of a leg up over the squatter scum again.
Humor aside, it's kind of weird to see people take more and more steps into a kind of nomadic existence. ..
In other words, returning to a more normal, although more technolgical, state of human existence.
Yes, I'm even choosing to take your joke seriously. My 75 year old aunt sold her grand victiorian mansion a few years ago and bought an RV. She now says she'll never live in a house again and wonders why anyone does.
Mobility is humanity. It's only weird to you because you grew up in the narrow little slice of history where people were tied to piles of cinderblock by, rather short, electrical umbilical cords.
While missing my point somewhat (since I went for the short and more humorous version of events, thus leaving out much of the verbal exchange; and even then my point would have remained implicit), given the evidence before you win the prize.
Bearing in mind, of course, that fast moving rocks in space are included in the "we."
Actually, what they appear to have done is not expand their lawsuit, but change its claims, dropping the charge of making public trade secrets entirely and replacing it with the copyright violation charge.
This technically makes much of IBM's interogatories legally moot, although the fact of the matter is that the same code is in question.
It appears that SCO may be pulling, in the technical jargon of the law, "a fast one" to escape having failed to comply with the court's order.
No, it does not. It means what it literally claims to mean, and people who say that also profess belief in certain corallary tenets, such as the fact that you choose your own parents.
I was not responding to the rough claim, but the specific.
Nor was I responding the to truth of claim, only to the claim itself.
KFG
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No. I would agree he is a solopsist. I would contend there is a difference between one who believes there is an intangible ideal underlying perceived reality and one who believes reality is all in his own mind.
For instance, as a physicist I may admit to there being number under everything and idealized states that do not exist in reality. This does not, however, mean that I admit to the nonexistence of matter or objective reality at all.
As a Buddhist I might ask "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
Perhaps that is what they should say, but it is not what they do say.
Mostly they say, "Ow, shit, quit it," or some such.
Thus providing the refutation that they they actually believe as they claim.
Please note that I have provided no refutation of their claim. Only performed an action and asked a question. Nor is my action in any way a refuation of their claim. It only serves to bring forth said refutation of their claimed belief.
I have yet to meet a single individual who claims to "create their own reality" who takes instinctual responsibility for even the smallest part of said reality.
With the caveat that latency reducing schemes such as massive bandwidth and cacheing have no effect on the speed of light.
If you have to bounce of a bird you're going to have a one second delay. Whether that delay is visible to the end user or not depends largely on the end user's needs. In video conferencing and gaming the lag is always visible. In realtime gaming it's virtually fatal.
My desktop already does everything I want it too, and plenty fast enough as well. I've upgraded from my 486 laptop because it does everything I want it to, and plenty fast enough.
For basic office funtions we've been fast enough for years. If someone offers to sell you a 64 bit word processor they're yanking your chain to yank your wallet and most likely delivering Byzantine crappy code.
Yeah, the gamers will want it, but some of them spend several hundred a year on video cards. If I were doing rendering or confirming the solution to the four color theorem I'd want it. Real workstation stuff.
But on the desktop? The only reason you'll need it in two years is because they've barfed up a 64 bit Office that won't run on a 32 bit machine and EOLed the 32 bit version, for no other reason than to make you buy it.
In the meantime I note that the 2.0 kernel is still being maintained. That's nice, it's what I've got on my laptop.
In fact, before they set sail the "Pilgrims" gave a prayer of thanks to God for sending the plague to the Indians so that the land might be theirs.
Squanto paired up with the Pilgrims because he needed help as well, he was the sole survivor of his native village. How did he survive? He was in England at the time, which is why he could communicate with the Pilgrims. He spoke the King's English.
There have been flying cars since the 50's. Nobody really cares because a) very few people actually want one, and b) they suck. What makes a good car makes a poor plane, and vice versa.
A plane and two cars is the superior solution for a commute, and a car, a plane and a car rental agency for the irregular routes.
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This works reasonably well enough up until the time walking to the store at 10 P.M. is considered probable cause, or even criminal.
But by then it's too late to turn back.
KFG
Of course there have also been times when men have been tied to servitude, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry and blind hatred.
"The old days are o'er there's none can deny
The days of the traveler's over
There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere to bide
So fareweel to the life o' the rover
Goodbye to the tent and the old caravan
The tinker, the tailor, the travling man
And goodbye to the thirty foot trailer."
Perhaps these new technologies will give the rover a bit of a leg up over the squatter scum again.
KFG
Humor aside, it's kind of weird to see people take more and more steps into a kind of nomadic existence. . .
In other words, returning to a more normal, although more technolgical, state of human existence.
Yes, I'm even choosing to take your joke seriously. My 75 year old aunt sold her grand victiorian mansion a few years ago and bought an RV. She now says she'll never live in a house again and wonders why anyone does.
Mobility is humanity. It's only weird to you because you grew up in the narrow little slice of history where people were tied to piles of cinderblock by, rather short, electrical umbilical cords.
KFG
While missing my point somewhat (since I went for the short and more humorous version of events, thus leaving out much of the verbal exchange; and even then my point would have remained implicit), given the evidence before you win the prize.
Bearing in mind, of course, that fast moving rocks in space are included in the "we."
KFG
Actually, what they appear to have done is not expand their lawsuit, but change its claims, dropping the charge of making public trade secrets entirely and replacing it with the copyright violation charge.
This technically makes much of IBM's interogatories legally moot, although the fact of the matter is that the same code is in question.
It appears that SCO may be pulling, in the technical jargon of the law, "a fast one" to escape having failed to comply with the court's order.
KFG
This is related to the saying that you "create your own luck."
I'm not talking about people like that.
I'm talking about people who make the claim literally, in particular certain "New Agers" or Postmodernists.
KFG
No, it does not. It means what it literally claims to mean, and people who say that also profess belief in certain corallary tenets, such as the fact that you choose your own parents.
I was not responding to the rough claim, but the specific.
Nor was I responding the to truth of claim, only to the claim itself.
KFG
No. I would agree he is a solopsist. I would contend there is a difference between one who believes there is an intangible ideal underlying perceived reality and one who believes reality is all in his own mind.
For instance, as a physicist I may admit to there being number under everything and idealized states that do not exist in reality. This does not, however, mean that I admit to the nonexistence of matter or objective reality at all.
As a Buddhist I might ask "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
KFG
Perhaps that is what they should say, but it is not what they do say.
Mostly they say, "Ow, shit, quit it," or some such.
Thus providing the refutation that they they actually believe as they claim.
Please note that I have provided no refutation of their claim. Only performed an action and asked a question. Nor is my action in any way a refuation of their claim. It only serves to bring forth said refutation of their claimed belief.
I have yet to meet a single individual who claims to "create their own reality" who takes instinctual responsibility for even the smallest part of said reality.
KFG
Dr. Johnson was refuting a different claim.
KFG
I answer: "Clearly, I am a masochist."
I think we took that as stipulated from the moment you created me in the first place.
KFG
I offer this argument to those who state "You create your own reality."
I kick them in the shin.
Then say, "Why did you do that?"
KFG
I didn't know you had to win awards to be infamous.
What? You missed Alexander's win for Best Macedonian in a Conquering Role of 322 B.C.?
Get with the program.
KFG
Since when do people read computer books on the throne?
Since the last time I went to the throne? I also read them in the park, while in waiting rooms of various kinds and in bed.
Sometimes it's ok just to think about the content.
KFG
They've invented. . . the meter?
Oh be still my heart. What will they think of next?
KFG
With the caveat that latency reducing schemes such as massive bandwidth and cacheing have no effect on the speed of light.
If you have to bounce of a bird you're going to have a one second delay. Whether that delay is visible to the end user or not depends largely on the end user's needs. In video conferencing and gaming the lag is always visible. In realtime gaming it's virtually fatal.
KFG
How can OLD watches still hang around that just tell time?
Really. Everyone knows that's what your refrigerator is for.
KFG
Even with the ski mask and a set of joke glasses on it?
KFG
My desktop already does everything I want it too, and plenty fast enough as well. I've upgraded from my 486 laptop because it does everything I want it to, and plenty fast enough.
For basic office funtions we've been fast enough for years. If someone offers to sell you a 64 bit word processor they're yanking your chain to yank your wallet and most likely delivering Byzantine crappy code.
Yeah, the gamers will want it, but some of them spend several hundred a year on video cards. If I were doing rendering or confirming the solution to the four color theorem I'd want it. Real workstation stuff.
But on the desktop? The only reason you'll need it in two years is because they've barfed up a 64 bit Office that won't run on a 32 bit machine and EOLed the 32 bit version, for no other reason than to make you buy it.
In the meantime I note that the 2.0 kernel is still being maintained. That's nice, it's what I've got on my laptop.
Runs emacs and Visicalc just fine.
KFG
In your neighbor's house. Just remember to wear gloves and a ski mask.
KFG
I wonder how the creationists will deal with this idea...
About as well as they deal with any other I'm afraid.
KFG
Conversely there was a time when Mars contaminated us. It is at least concievable that we are, in fact, Martians.
KFG
In fact, before they set sail the "Pilgrims" gave a prayer of thanks to God for sending the plague to the Indians so that the land might be theirs.
Squanto paired up with the Pilgrims because he needed help as well, he was the sole survivor of his native village. How did he survive? He was in England at the time, which is why he could communicate with the Pilgrims. He spoke the King's English.
KFG
There have been flying cars since the 50's. Nobody really cares because a) very few people actually want one, and b) they suck. What makes a good car makes a poor plane, and vice versa.
A plane and two cars is the superior solution for a commute, and a car, a plane and a car rental agency for the irregular routes.
The cheaper solution as well.
KFG