Though discussion of alcohol on \. is something that could start problems, I'll do it anyway. There are lots of recipes for the Pan-Galatic Gargle Blaster. The one that I heard was...
1 2-liter bottle of 7-up
1 bottle Everclear
1 bottle Southern Comfort
1 1/2 gallon of your favorite sherbert
Mix. Drink in Dixie cups. Quickly. Lest the wax holding them together melts... --
Time to send all these people to http://www.permission.com/ and make them read. Permission Marketing is really good book that I think most Slashdot'rs would say "Yes - this is the way it always should have been."
Godin must be shaking his head over this one. A big step backward.
In case you are wondering what Permission Marketing is all about. A few highlights:
People's attention is a limited resource. There is only so much time during the day to look at ads, even if you want to, and the amount of that resource is non-negotiable.
The more money spent on Interruption Marketing the more effective Permission Marketing is.
Permission Marketing is not SPAM but it can be if you are not careful.
Interruption Marketing is shotgun. Maybe you'll hit something.
Permission Marketing is a smart bomb. You don't "fire" until you know what you intend to "hit."
Permission Marketing is more work but more cost effective.
I work for an advertising firm and even I think web advertising is being done wrong. --
I agree completely. PLEASE PROOFREAD YOUR ARTICLES!!! Most of the comments for this posting have nothing to do with the article but all to do with how it is written!!! --
Oh, I will second that! Support from LinuxPPC.com is awful. Truly a black hole with SMTP pointing at it. D/L'ing the Yellow Dog ISO is on my list of things to do in January. --
Laying a lot of fiber lines is trival in cost to laying any amount of fat copper lines. Those things were about as wide as Palm Pilot!
There is a trickle down effect and there will always be someone "at the top of the heap". But remember that the old G4 machine that will be donated to a developing country a few years from now would have been a supercomputer to anyone a couple of decades ago.
The tech gap is not the problem. Tech's cheap. Education is the problem. Intellectual haves and have nots is the growing gap. And problems with such gaps exist in developed countries too. --
Palm IIIxe = 4.7" x 3.2" x 0.7", 6.0 oz. Palm IIIc = 5.06" x 3.17" x 0.67", 6.8 oz.
...so, the color model is *slightly* narrower and shorter, but a bit longer. It's a bit hard to tell what the screen size difference is without having one in front of me.
Still, color is "nice but not necessary". I think a paper white high res grayscale Palm V would be the coolest personally. --
Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An Introduction Mari Jibu & Kunio Yasue
Karl Pribram was consulted on this one, I believe. Interesting concepts on how important water - simple water (!) - is to consciousness. More non-locality stuff - it's everywhere.
As an aside, associate of mine (and Pribram's) once told me "DNA is a holographic quantum information decoder". Wierd stuff. But it makes the universe a big cool place. --
Well... 1) Palm reduced the price of there whole product line shortly after the introduction of the Visor. 2) They should be *very* code compatable. Unless someone is going outside the OS specs.
Yeah, the Palm V is overpriced by as much as $300. --
But see, what if you could do it without really "aging" all that much physically? What if you were able to pass from one body of yours, when you're maybe 50 or 60, to a clone body created 20 years earlier?
Sigh... Humans. Always looking outside of themselves for "what's missing". What's wrong with restoring the body you have? --
Remember two things: 1) The $370 is just the yen translation - Sony may sell it for less in North America because of marketing concerns. 2) Time. It's very easy to see that production kinks, chip yields, and other price streamlining effects could bring the price down to an acceptable $250-$299 come fall 2000.
Or at least that's what I would like to believe... ^_^ --
I know Brian personally - we went to college together (name dropping at/. - heh!). He is a very talented individual. The smartest individual I know in regards to computer graphics. I wish him the best personally and professionally.
Now, I wonder what he did with all that code for the 3D object designing tool he made that was developed under SunOS (a 68020 machine!) for the Pixar that UW-Oshkosh had back in '89... =)
Yes, kiddies - Pixar use to make hardware! Boy do I feel old... -- "All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
I don't think lag will be an issue for forever. If IBM is successful in the area of quantum teleportation as a means of information transmission, all communications regardless of distance will be instantanous.
We will have "ansibles", ala Ender's Game, eventually. And it will be quite cool! -- "All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
Re:Abstractions, the "dumbing down" of the end use
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Computer Stupidities
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· Score: 2
I think the real problem is that many people do not understand the concept of "abstractions" in the first place. The idea that "...this represents..." is hard to for some to grasp.
Perhaps that is why 'Math' may still be a good primer to computing - mathematics is nothing but abstraction.
...
These "Dumb User" articles aren't funny anymore. I feel my stress level rise just reading them. Some of these stories go beyond "I am new to computers", and into the realm of "I am just plain stupid, but I expect you to make up for that fact anyway."
-- "All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
Hmmm, this could be a different situation for Borland/Inprise (I have been a Borland supporter for some time now - I hated the name change). Will they support architectures other than x86? PowerPC? Alpha? MIPS? Burning questions... -- "All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
Slashdot Mirror
- 1 2-liter bottle of 7-up
- 1 bottle Everclear
- 1 bottle Southern Comfort
- 1 1/2 gallon of your favorite sherbert
Mix. Drink in Dixie cups. Quickly. Lest the wax holding them together melts...--
I *liked* that game!
--
Godin must be shaking his head over this one. A big step backward.
In case you are wondering what Permission Marketing is all about. A few highlights:
- People's attention is a limited resource. There is only so much time during the day to look at ads, even if you want to, and the amount of that resource is non-negotiable.
- The more money spent on Interruption Marketing the more effective Permission Marketing is.
- Permission Marketing is not SPAM but it can be if you are not careful.
- Interruption Marketing is shotgun. Maybe you'll hit something.
- Permission Marketing is a smart bomb. You don't "fire" until you know what you intend to "hit."
- Permission Marketing is more work but more cost effective.
I work for an advertising firm and even I think web advertising is being done wrong.--
I agree completely. PLEASE PROOFREAD YOUR ARTICLES!!! Most of the comments for this posting have nothing to do with the article but all to do with how it is written!!!
--
CmdrTaco needs a full time proofreading assistant. Geez, how many articles with very obvious gaffs has he submitted!?
--
I think the next wave is something to the effect of:
<img src="btn1.gif" onMouseOver="submit();">
Hover clicking - No Click shopping/donation. This could be dangerous...
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Oh, I will second that! Support from LinuxPPC.com is awful. Truly a black hole with SMTP pointing at it. D/L'ing the Yellow Dog ISO is on my list of things to do in January.
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First typographical error! ... of many!
"...but this is to out there..."
It should be:
"...but this is too out there..."
Misuse of "to", "too" and "two" burns me almost as much as the misuse of "sight" and "site." Just a pet peeve I guess.
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The fantasy artist Clyde Caldwell is always at the Con ... and always seems to have an entourage of interesting women helping him out at his booth...
And then there was that "assistant" in the Art Gallery...
I need a digital camera...
BTW, yes, there are some gamers that take your breath away... And I don't mean that as a pleasing experience at all!!!
--
Wasn't it Linus himself that said, "If Gates makes Office for Linux, I know I will have won."
Or something like that...
--
From Videodrome, I believe...
--
Simply put: Newer technology is often cheaper.
Laying a lot of fiber lines is trival in cost to laying any amount of fat copper lines. Those things were about as wide as Palm Pilot!
There is a trickle down effect and there will always be someone "at the top of the heap". But remember that the old G4 machine that will be donated to a developing country a few years from now would have been a supercomputer to anyone a couple of decades ago.
The tech gap is not the problem. Tech's cheap. Education is the problem. Intellectual haves and have nots is the growing gap. And problems with such gaps exist in developed countries too.
--
According to the PDF's...
Palm IIIxe = 4.7" x 3.2" x 0.7", 6.0 oz.
Palm IIIc = 5.06" x 3.17" x 0.67", 6.8 oz.
...so, the color model is *slightly* narrower and shorter, but a bit longer. It's a bit hard to tell what the screen size difference is without having one in front of me.
Still, color is "nice but not necessary". I think a paper white high res grayscale Palm V would be the coolest personally.
--
Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An Introduction
Mari Jibu & Kunio Yasue
Karl Pribram was consulted on this one, I believe. Interesting concepts on how important water - simple water (!) - is to consciousness. More non-locality stuff - it's everywhere.
As an aside, associate of mine (and Pribram's) once told me "DNA is a holographic quantum information decoder". Wierd stuff. But it makes the universe a big cool place.
--
Well...
1) Palm reduced the price of there whole product line shortly after the introduction of the Visor.
2) They should be *very* code compatable. Unless someone is going outside the OS specs.
Yeah, the Palm V is overpriced by as much as $300.
--
Same here. It works on my 7000.
--
I still wanna know if they are going to support PowerPC based Linux...
--
But see, what if you could do it without really "aging" all that much physically? What if you were able to pass from one body of yours, when you're maybe 50 or 60, to a clone body created 20 years earlier?
Sigh... Humans. Always looking outside of themselves for "what's missing". What's wrong with restoring the body you have?
--
Will the speaker be powerful/loud enough to play DTMF tones for auto dialing of phone numbers?!
...the Holy Grail of the PalmPilot users everywhere...
Stupid thing - I would be willing to spend a couple hundred dollars to get a feature that probably costs 23-cents extra to make possible.
The Visor sounds QUITE sweet! 3Com may make bucks off of PalmOS licenses, but is going to lose a ton of sales of hardware to Handspring.
...Now what is 3Com's thinking in spinning off Palm Computing to a separate company? It was a cash cow, now what is the future?
--
Remember two things:
1) The $370 is just the yen translation - Sony may sell it for less in North America because of marketing concerns.
2) Time. It's very easy to see that production kinks, chip yields, and other price streamlining effects could bring the price down to an acceptable $250-$299 come fall 2000.
Or at least that's what I would like to believe... ^_^
--
I know Brian personally - we went to college together (name dropping at /. - heh!). He is a very talented individual. The smartest individual I know in regards to computer graphics. I wish him the best personally and professionally.
Now, I wonder what he did with all that code for the 3D object designing tool he made that was developed under SunOS (a 68020 machine!) for the Pixar that UW-Oshkosh had back in '89... =)
Yes, kiddies - Pixar use to make hardware! Boy do I feel old...
--
"All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
See : http://www.research.ibm.com/ quantuminfo/teleportation/
We will have "ansibles", ala Ender's Game, eventually. And it will be quite cool!
--
"All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
Perhaps that is why 'Math' may still be a good primer to computing - mathematics is nothing but abstraction.
These "Dumb User" articles aren't funny anymore. I feel my stress level rise just reading them. Some of these stories go beyond "I am new to computers", and into the realm of "I am just plain stupid, but I expect you to make up for that fact anyway."
--
"All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
"Joy!"
- Stimpy
I had forgotten about that! That's REALLY good news!
--
"All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."
Hmmm, this could be a different situation for Borland/Inprise (I have been a Borland supporter for some time now - I hated the name change). Will they support architectures other than x86? PowerPC? Alpha? MIPS? Burning questions...
--
"All that is visible must grow and extend itself into the realm of the invisible."