Would you rather waste it digging up answers, or have them at your fingertips, giving you more time to concentrate on the more important matters in this short life?
You will not find the answers to important questions in a reference. The only important matters are food, shelter and family, but only to you.
And always be greatful that in this world of starving millions your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
I swear, it is like you people are dedicated to having no fun in this lifetime.
"At one of my own performances I was introduced by the promoter as someone who ". . . is obviously having so much fun you can't help but have fun along with him."
I was once informed by a friend that a group of friends had gotten together and decided that my last name was a verb, meaning "to make laugh uncontrolably." In fact, at the moment I seem to have gathered a small cadre of aspiring young stand up comedians who like to just listen to me talk, trying to figure out how to be funny (they write good jokes, but they really don't have much skill at being funny yet. I don't have any "material" at all. I'm just funny. I guess I'd be in the "Billy Connolly School" of comedy). One of them is begging me to let him make a film about me. He says I "need to be documented."
I'd posit that I know something both about having fun and entertaining people.
"A medium-well steak is no more nutritious for me than a few bites off of a cow. It costs more but I'll enjoy it a lot better. .."
Indeed. Bugs Bunny;medium-well steak. Transformers;Three day raw dead cow - advertised as medium-well steak to somehow induce you into buying toys of ill manufacture, but momentary intrigue.
Well, I guess someone had to have the misfortune to spend their childhood in the 1980s, the most culturally bankrupt decade in all of human history, and I'm aware of a good deal of human history. If you're nostalgic for it I suppose it's not your fault, by virtue of not knowing any better.
There's a reason it is called the "entertainment industry", they make money by entertaining people.
It's called the entertainment industry because it's an industry, not entertainment, and their chief output seems to be constant whinging that people are ignoring them in ever increasing droves.
Maybe they need to learn to be funny . . . and some decent material, 'cause they sure suck at making it up as they go along.
The network is the hardware, any software and any costs incurred in the appropriate set up of that hardware.
Since I've incurred these expenses myself I'm familiar with them.
. ..and didn't cover all the costs to complete the network didn't do their homework.
Or they ran out of money.
The most common form of this fallacy is the "you just bought an expensive car, so the outragous maintainence costs must not matter to you, because you have the money."
In fact, most people who own expensive cars do not maintain them properly, because they don't have the money, because they spent it all on the expensive car. I know. I used to deal in them "preunloved."
Ironically it is the best values in expensive cars that get the worst maintainence, because they attract the highest percentage of buyers who really can't afford them. E type Jags were one of the worst used investments you could make at one point, because the cost of purchase was quite reasonable, but the maintainence costs were at the top of the scale.
No, a wireless network doesn't cost what a Ferrari or Jag does these days, but many people are just scratching to get by. They can afford the gear to get the network up and running, but can't afford to have an expert come in and set it up at several times the hourly that they themselves are making.
Metal does not break, unless you hit it really hard, or heat it up a ton.
Which is, as it happens, exactly what happens to your pistons and valves.
Even running an engine with no oil in it to lubricate the moving parts and reduce friction will not break metal, it will simply reduce the power and efficiency of the engine. The same goes for the transmission. Metal does not wear out or break, at least not in our lifetimes.
Oh, hey, that's a good one.
Jet fuel works pretty good, if you have an engine that can withstand the extra heat and force.
Oh, hey, that's a really good one.
I assume that turbine engines aren't popular for the same reason . . . the turbine is much more suited to the speed up and slow down style of the roads. ..
It could be a person, living, dead or as yet unborn. Maybe a pet of someone living, dead or as yet unborn. Perhaps someone called "Mister," or "Miss," or "Meathead." Maybe you're into semiotics and recognize it as a . ..letter of an alphabet, past, present, or as yet unborn. I'd take that as a hit. I'm easy to get along with.
If "M" doesn't mean anything to you I've got lots more guesses. I'll be here all night, but I'll try to be long gone when "the bill comes due."
Slashdot Mirror
What about the idea of putting a stitch in time to save nine?
If you want to wear clothes made with only one stitch in ten I figure that's your business.
I prefer to just leave them all out.
KFG
. . . it may be considered a primitive product of the "meta intelligence"
See Regression to the Mean.
KFG
It's easy to say that the future will have this or that generalized feature, but hard when you move to greater and greater detail.
Clearly they do not have the advantage of modern training in epidemiology.
KFG
what do we do with infinite physical and metaphysical knowledge
Feel-A-Round.
when we can manipulate time do we win ?
Yes.
and if so what ?
One of these handmade, Taiwanese beauties, but remember, I won him. He's mine.
KFG
...welcome our new post-human overlords. . .
.and kill them.
. .
KFG
Saving time is no myth. It's an expression that if taken literally is of course logically false.
.it continues to progress at the same rate, thus you lose it the same no matter what.
Thus you cannot save time, only choose between different ways to waste it.
. .
Time is relative.
"I get the feeling any reply I write will be met with the same nature of commentary: pointless rhetoric.
Well d'oh!
Go placidly Amid the noise and waste. And remember what comfort there may be In owning a piece thereof.
KFG
The point is, time is precious.
And the idea of saving it is a myth.
Would you rather waste it digging up answers, or have them at your fingertips, giving you more time to concentrate on the more important matters in this short life?
You will not find the answers to important questions in a reference. The only important matters are food, shelter and family, but only to you.
And always be greatful that in this world of starving millions your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
KFG
. . . reinforcing and improving our minds. . .You'll be able to answer questions within seconds of being asked
.something.
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not thought.
Life is not a standarized test.
And, ummmmmmmm, rotate your tires, or . .
KFG
. . . he doesn't know much about predicting the future
Be vague.
KFG
Seriously, WHY DOES it take a 4ghz computer to play solitaire?
Translucent 3D! Just like real cards.
KFG
What units are on the two axes of this spiral?
Workload and units processing the load, but it simplifies computations to use a system of coordinates native to quantized spirals, nautili.
Why isn't it nested tetrahedrons?
Because that would be silly.
KFG
At least electronic voting booths are still insecure...
Poppycock. They promised to deliver the vote for Bush; and they did. How much more security do you want than that?
KFG
I swear, it is like you people are dedicated to having no fun in this lifetime.
."
"At one of my own performances I was introduced by the promoter as someone who ". . . is obviously having so much fun you can't help but have fun along with him."
I was once informed by a friend that a group of friends had gotten together and decided that my last name was a verb, meaning "to make laugh uncontrolably." In fact, at the moment I seem to have gathered a small cadre of aspiring young stand up comedians who like to just listen to me talk, trying to figure out how to be funny (they write good jokes, but they really don't have much skill at being funny yet. I don't have any "material" at all. I'm just funny. I guess I'd be in the "Billy Connolly School" of comedy). One of them is begging me to let him make a film about me. He says I "need to be documented."
I'd posit that I know something both about having fun and entertaining people.
"A medium-well steak is no more nutritious for me than a few bites off of a cow. It costs more but I'll enjoy it a lot better. .
Indeed. Bugs Bunny;medium-well steak. Transformers;Three day raw dead cow - advertised as medium-well steak to somehow induce you into buying toys of ill manufacture, but momentary intrigue.
Well, I guess someone had to have the misfortune to spend their childhood in the 1980s, the most culturally bankrupt decade in all of human history, and I'm aware of a good deal of human history. If you're nostalgic for it I suppose it's not your fault, by virtue of not knowing any better.
There's a reason it is called the "entertainment industry", they make money by entertaining people.
It's called the entertainment industry because it's an industry, not entertainment, and their chief output seems to be constant whinging that people are ignoring them in ever increasing droves.
Maybe they need to learn to be funny . . . and some decent material, 'cause they sure suck at making it up as they go along.
KFG
But first do no harm . . .to the goose that lays the golden egg.
KFG
Jesus is my OS, but he panicked on boot up so I reformated him and installed Windows.
KFG
Part of the goal in the movie is to regain nostalgia of when we were kids . . .
In exchange for your adult money.
KFG
The network is the hardware, any software and any costs incurred in the appropriate set up of that hardware.
.and didn't cover all the costs to complete the network didn't do their homework.
Since I've incurred these expenses myself I'm familiar with them.
. .
Or they ran out of money.
The most common form of this fallacy is the "you just bought an expensive car, so the outragous maintainence costs must not matter to you, because you have the money."
In fact, most people who own expensive cars do not maintain them properly, because they don't have the money, because they spent it all on the expensive car. I know. I used to deal in them "preunloved."
Ironically it is the best values in expensive cars that get the worst maintainence, because they attract the highest percentage of buyers who really can't afford them. E type Jags were one of the worst used investments you could make at one point, because the cost of purchase was quite reasonable, but the maintainence costs were at the top of the scale.
No, a wireless network doesn't cost what a Ferrari or Jag does these days, but many people are just scratching to get by. They can afford the gear to get the network up and running, but can't afford to have an expert come in and set it up at several times the hourly that they themselves are making.
Car costs are eating up their lives.
KFG
If you can't afford it, then how are you able to afford a wireless network.
Because I spent all my money on the wireless network? Sorry, but this is the logical fallacy that really pushes my buttons.
KFG
Metal does not break, unless you hit it really hard, or heat it up a ton.
.
Which is, as it happens, exactly what happens to your pistons and valves.
Even running an engine with no oil in it to lubricate the moving parts and reduce friction will not break metal, it will simply reduce the power and efficiency of the engine. The same goes for the transmission. Metal does not wear out or break, at least not in our lifetimes.
Oh, hey, that's a good one.
Jet fuel works pretty good, if you have an engine that can withstand the extra heat and force.
Oh, hey, that's a really good one.
I assume that turbine engines aren't popular for the same reason . . . the turbine is much more suited to the speed up and slow down style of the roads. .
Nearly as good as the jet fuel thingy.
KFG
Ahhhhhhhh, what we have here is obviously an esteemed holder of a degree in psychodynamic masterbation from UBS:
http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/index.html
Although this bit only rates a 4.24 on the Wankometer:
http://www.cynicalbastards.com/wankometer/
Obviously not an honours student.
KFG
Who here is sick of "futurologists"?
.letter of an alphabet, past, present, or as yet unborn. I'd take that as a hit. I'm easy to get along with.
Does "M" mean anything to you?
It could be a person, living, dead or as yet unborn. Maybe a pet of someone living, dead or as yet unborn. Perhaps someone called "Mister," or "Miss," or "Meathead." Maybe you're into semiotics and recognize it as a . .
If "M" doesn't mean anything to you I've got lots more guesses. I'll be here all night, but I'll try to be long gone when "the bill comes due."
KFG
It's also the very source for Sci-Fi story ideas.
See the anthology "It Came From Schenectady."
Also the source of the single greatest line in Sci-Fi B movie history:
"You haven't lived until you've seen a Valkyrie go down!"
KFG
Who needs a music player?.
That's "Lifestyle Device," Bub. Jeezum Crow, get with the program.
KFG
Well, yeah, pretty much. Microsoft has already largely staked their future on this. It's the cornerstone of Trusted Computing.
KFG
. . .an integrated, seamless ecosystem for digital media. . .
Nee DRM monopoly.
KFG