Finding the lowest common denominator, believers will equate everything with their belief... no different, they say. Just an opinion. Science is not an opinion: it is a well formed conclusion based on rigorous discovery, generally demonstrated and always subject to revision but only based on rigorous discovery and inquiry. Even to the farthest reaches of science, to string theory and worm holes and big bangs there are many hard won steps backed by much research. On the other side, there's just one step: god did it. QED. The rationality of science under question by people who will have no truck with anything rational. Skin heads, basically.
"only" 14% ever exceed? How about a curve? How many are "this far" from exceeding? And how about those that transmit almost nothing at all? This is a back door move to end network neutrality. A simple solution: regulate the ISPs. They are a utility. They are a must have. And regulate them now. Regulation is the best way to control prices at the same time it reduces risk to the provider.
right on the money: we elected him, we re elected him, we didn't impeach him, (I would have thought the Impeach signs would have bloomed like poppies in the field, but no: too scared.) and the democrats didn't quite "shine"...(after they wanted to prosecute for illegal wire tapping, they added to the law so that in the future it wouldn't be!) it's chicken to bother with him now. he's gone.
yep. the notion that sharing everything just makes us one big village... that's a narrow view. the sharing of information in a village where there is a good presumption of common interests, where a whole set of information is known, not just some isolated piece of it. it is essential that those who have some interest in what we say and do have some interest, too, in who we are and especially our well being as we see fit. and then there is the matter of law: once you forfeit the expectation of privacy, you have none in law. this whole bit about "oh, privacy is really nothing..." is very self serving. yuck. now they maybe give you a phone, something in exchange, and it is voluntary. that quickly becomes their right to your information because, umm, you have a phone. there is a tipping point, when a certain percent of the population is sheep, then all of the population is sheep, at least as far as the predators are concerned. then you don't have to be a sheep to get eaten.
If Quantas suspects, then Quantas must reproduce the error. Must. It is nuts to have "voluntary compliance" with passenger systems, and heck, it could all be by accident. We are warned at each takeoff and landing to shut stuff down: that is a major weakness! Heavens. Could we really be affecting the plane? How nuts is that. Which planes if any are succeptical? (sp?)
Scrabulous was not innovation. it was outright theft. It was nice, it was fun, but it certainly didn't belong to them. If they had approached scrabble, if they had presented a reasonable plan, and that was ignored or dismissed out of hand, well, I'd be inclined to look much more kindly at scrabulous. Heck, I don't know, maybe that's what they did. I didn't see any on line "Scrabble" being offered. Scrabble isn't "checkers", not yet. I'm surprised they didn't just work to license the game from scrabble. Then again, maybe they did.
AOL is a fine product. It was Mac-like (people that poo an AOL are almost certainly PC technoweebs or extra heavy testosterone laden, I humbly suggest)and is still by far the easiest way for actual people to get on the internet and use the darn thing. 1) built in email client 2) built in features 3) all the nasty parameters hidden (pop, proxy, smtp, DNCP, IP...) when people get off into browser preferences, they are rightly terrified. I have used AOL as an installation diagnostic tool: if AOL doesn't work, then it is certainly an equipment error.
Yahoo puts it out there and shares it with government. Google refuses to, but will restrict services at the outset: your government does not permit these services. With the former, it's Watership Down, where the farmer fed rabbits occasionally get neck trapped and popped into the soup. With Google, they simple will not participate in the feeding. In one the search engine is an agency of the government. In the other, the search engine is an open forum, albeit restricted, In one, the library has certain off limit shelves. In the other, none of the shelves are off limit, but we'll let you know if we disagree and then prosecute. Oh, what are the rules? they change, all the time. If a company cannot prevent its technology from being abused, then it absolutely must forgo its doing business. One form is engagement (google) the other is entrapment (yahoo)
Pda's survive in a world of iPods in the same way that some people loved DOS and windows 3.1. All the microsoft products run windows: yuck. None of the PDA's have the capacity of the iPod, or the design or the integrated sales and distribution plus pod casts and all. I have a Dell Axiom Pda... it is powerful, but I use it almost never. I use paper and pencil. It is nasty as a skype device (quality, human factors), nasty to navigate, nasty for internet... Those devices simply are not designed: they do things. In the spririt of "I would have written less but I didn't have the time" it takes genius to make something simple. And even if you do, simple just reeks of feminine and that scares a lot of boys away.
Oh, fooey. We waste energy in so many mundane and unproductive ways. Here, energy is being used for something possibly great and wonderful: personal flight. It's like "Ummm, this baby is defective: it can't even walk and it soils itself!" And everyone is NOT going to have one of these. But by gum I sure would like to! Meantime, I haven't got one of those,oh, 2 wheel riders... but then, I don't really need one or want one that bad. I do like my rollerblades though. Would be nice if those roller blades could get me airborn, at least a little, but, maybe later.
That is indeed what is needed. As for talent, training, attention, and skill, there is no reason we cannot make the automobile a lot more difficult and dangerous to drive. However, I prefer the idea of making things easier to fly. (I also like the change in medicine some years back when white gowns and clean hands replaced black coats and blood.) An answer to fuel efficiency is the market: have credits like energy credits so that people who ride bikes and walk and don't screw up the air can sell their credits to the guys with SUVS. For sure I'd be willing to do a lot of walking and use my credits to fly.
I rather like the gentle epithet "fruitbag"... 1) the notion that I can't link to you does rather screw up the whole notion of the internet...
2) AFP has access to adquate protections, as to all publishers on the web: eg, you can't look at content unless you are signed in, and that applies to links. There are TONS of sites that restrict access to their sites to subscribers... like, the NY times and ALL the investment services...
3)looking back, I think "fruitbag" was probably all that was needed.
"useless trivia"... gee, we have that now. Unchecked egalitarianism alas defies the inherent organizing and selecting principles of hierarchies, which filter and lend credence, whether in family, fortune, or accuracy. When everybody has everything, nobody has anything. QED. (That first sentence is rather heavy, but actually, fairly lean: there IS (to my surprise) a lot of meaning in there. I'm channeling for somebody reasonably bright, I guess.
gardening? legal work? carpentry? painting? massage? After a day of IT, plus the nights and weekends of "voluteer" work, I would think some real work would be in order.
The phone companies and cable held up that last couple of miles of high speed connection: the internet simply had no where to go. It absolutely needed that high speed. Where there was no broadbant, the word was, hey, consumers don't need broadband! what's it good for! Pictures, sound, VOIP, video, computer networking, always on communication, remote access, great big drives to hold that stuff, to back it up, processors to handle it and bigger lightweight screens, wireless communication.... dun! Al Gore? A superhighway with no off ramps, Al. Doesn't work.
Makes no sense at all. One line, and the rest is in French. Ah, the French have their own way of seeing things. As Steve Martin observed "The French have a different [from English] word for EVERYTHING!"
Yes, and for all the tools, it still seems that life sucks for all the working people. Just more ways you can be reached and used at all hours of the day. Social problems, health, travel (will TSA have a chip in you and all they have to do is check that it hasn't been tampered with) How will we make sense of all the information? Will be spend all our time recording our lives and playing them back: calculators obviate the need for math, and memory is replaced by instant replay? Here's a thing he misses: google will be AI, and I WILL be able to ask google where I left my toothbrush. HAL will be. How will we separate the bullshit from the real: thus, we have no neck Vietnam vets swearing that there was no one shooting at Kerry and that the emperor has wonderful clothes and no, you can't see his dick.
1) they all suck (as phones) 2) wi-fi uber alles. 3) the phone companies are not going to have a product pretty soon: I'll ask google to connect me to "my friend fred in muscogie" Then it will ask, would you like to send him email, leave a voice message, IM him, or talk to him right now? 4) THE device is the computer: everything else is a peripheral, including screen, keyboard, microphone, speakers, printer, projector, camera, video camera. What you carry around is a hard drive. Well, actually, a 30 gig memory card. You'll probably want to start with that small one.
Yes. The GUI sucks. I have NO idea why they didn't just plop OS 9 onto whatever OS they wanted. All the developers have to jump through their own ears anyway. I liken the MacX GUI on Unix to a large rug thrown over a floor with various imprefections in it, not a few of which are open to the basement. Oh, and did I mention: it eats the machine like Pacman! Gads, I get onto OS 9 sometimes and am shocked at the speed. Of course, thats until I use almost any modern wintel machine, which makes me feel like I've been living in South Carolina and suddenly I'm in NY City: it moves faster. And you do have to put up with a few unsavories.
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Nicely put... "segregate on some metric"... more than just people, though, that's biology.
Finding the lowest common denominator, believers will equate everything with their belief... no different, they say. Just an opinion.
Science is not an opinion: it is a well formed conclusion based on rigorous discovery, generally demonstrated and always subject to revision but only based on rigorous discovery and inquiry.
Even to the farthest reaches of science, to string theory and worm holes and big bangs there are many hard won steps backed by much research. On the other side, there's just one step: god did it. QED.
The rationality of science under question by people who will have no truck with anything rational.
Skin heads, basically.
Dead on right. Absolutely. Apple didin't even like DRM... they had to do it.
didn't mean to be anonymous
"only" 14% ever exceed?
How about a curve? How many are "this far" from exceeding?
And how about those that transmit almost nothing at all?
This is a back door move to end network neutrality.
A simple solution: regulate the ISPs. They are a utility. They are a must have.
And regulate them now.
Regulation is the best way to control prices at the same time it reduces risk to the provider.
right on the money: we elected him, we re elected him, we didn't impeach him, (I would have thought the Impeach signs would have bloomed like poppies in the field, but no: too scared.) and the democrats didn't quite "shine"...(after they wanted to prosecute for illegal wire tapping, they added to the law so that in the future it wouldn't be!)
it's chicken to bother with him now. he's gone.
yep.
the notion that sharing everything just makes us one big village... that's a narrow view.
the sharing of information in a village where there is a good presumption of common interests, where a whole set of information is known, not just some isolated piece of it.
it is essential that those who have some interest in what we say and do have some interest, too, in who we are and especially our well being as we see fit.
and then there is the matter of law: once you forfeit the expectation of privacy, you have none in law.
this whole bit about "oh, privacy is really nothing..." is very self serving. yuck. now they maybe give you a phone, something in exchange, and it is voluntary. that quickly becomes their right to your information because, umm, you have a phone.
there is a tipping point, when a certain percent of the population is sheep, then all of the population is sheep, at least as far as the predators are concerned. then you don't have to be a sheep to get eaten.
Where have I seen that before..... hmmm. George Bush? Reading one of his speeches.
Hey, it worked, didn't it? Wasn't he just in Peru?
If Quantas suspects, then Quantas must reproduce the error. Must.
It is nuts to have "voluntary compliance" with passenger systems, and heck, it could all be by accident.
We are warned at each takeoff and landing to shut stuff down: that is a major weakness! Heavens.
Could we really be affecting the plane? How nuts is that.
Which planes if any are succeptical? (sp?)
Scrabulous was not innovation. it was outright theft. It was nice, it was fun, but it certainly didn't belong to them.
If they had approached scrabble, if they had presented a reasonable plan, and that was ignored or dismissed out of hand, well, I'd be inclined to look much more kindly at scrabulous. Heck, I don't know, maybe that's what they did. I didn't see any on line "Scrabble" being offered.
Scrabble isn't "checkers", not yet.
I'm surprised they didn't just work to license the game from scrabble. Then again, maybe they did.
AOL is a fine product. It was Mac-like (people that poo an AOL are almost certainly PC technoweebs or extra heavy testosterone laden, I humbly suggest)and is still by far the easiest way for actual people to get on the internet and use the darn thing.
1) built in email client
2) built in features
3) all the nasty parameters hidden (pop, proxy, smtp, DNCP, IP...) when people get off into browser preferences, they are rightly terrified.
I have used AOL as an installation diagnostic tool: if AOL doesn't work, then it is certainly an equipment error.
Yahoo puts it out there and shares it with government. Google refuses to, but will restrict services at the outset: your government does not permit these services. With the former, it's Watership Down, where the farmer fed rabbits occasionally get neck trapped and popped into the soup.
With Google, they simple will not participate in the feeding.
In one the search engine is an agency of the government. In the other, the search engine is an open forum, albeit restricted,
In one, the library has certain off limit shelves. In the other, none of the shelves are off limit, but we'll let you know if we disagree and then prosecute. Oh, what are the rules? they change, all the time.
If a company cannot prevent its technology from being abused, then it absolutely must forgo its doing business.
One form is engagement (google) the other is entrapment (yahoo)
Pda's survive in a world of iPods in the same way that some people loved DOS and windows 3.1.
All the microsoft products run windows: yuck.
None of the PDA's have the capacity of the iPod, or the design or the integrated sales and distribution plus pod casts and all.
I have a Dell Axiom Pda... it is powerful, but I use it almost never. I use paper and pencil. It is nasty as a skype device (quality, human factors), nasty to navigate, nasty for internet...
Those devices simply are not designed: they do things.
In the spririt of "I would have written less but I didn't have the time" it takes genius to make something simple. And even if you do, simple just reeks of feminine and that scares a lot of boys away.
Oh, fooey. We waste energy in so many mundane and unproductive ways. Here, energy is being used for something possibly great and wonderful: personal flight.
It's like "Ummm, this baby is defective: it can't even walk and it soils itself!"
And everyone is NOT going to have one of these. But by gum I sure would like to!
Meantime, I haven't got one of those,oh, 2 wheel riders... but then, I don't really need one or want one that bad. I do like my rollerblades though.
Would be nice if those roller blades could get me airborn, at least a little, but, maybe later.
That is indeed what is needed.
As for talent, training, attention, and skill, there is no reason we cannot make the automobile a lot more difficult and dangerous to drive. However, I prefer the idea of making things easier to fly. (I also like the change in medicine some years back when white gowns and clean hands replaced black coats and blood.)
An answer to fuel efficiency is the market: have credits like energy credits so that people who ride bikes and walk and don't screw up the air can sell their credits to the guys with SUVS. For sure I'd be willing to do a lot of walking and use my credits to fly.
I rather like the gentle epithet "fruitbag"...
1) the notion that I can't link to you does rather screw up the whole notion of the internet...
2) AFP has access to adquate protections, as to all publishers on the web: eg, you can't look at content unless you are signed in, and that applies to links. There are TONS of sites that restrict access to their sites to subscribers... like, the NY times and ALL the investment services...
3)looking back, I think "fruitbag" was probably all that was needed.
"useless trivia"... gee, we have that now.
Unchecked egalitarianism alas defies the inherent organizing and selecting principles of hierarchies, which filter and lend credence, whether in family, fortune, or accuracy. When everybody has everything, nobody has anything. QED. (That first sentence is rather heavy, but actually, fairly lean: there IS (to my surprise) a lot of meaning in there.
I'm channeling for somebody reasonably bright, I guess.
gardening? legal work? carpentry? painting? massage?
After a day of IT, plus the nights and weekends of "voluteer" work, I would think some real work would be in order.
The phone companies and cable held up that last couple of miles of high speed connection: the internet simply had no where to go.
It absolutely needed that high speed. Where there was no broadbant, the word was, hey, consumers don't need broadband! what's it good for!
Pictures, sound, VOIP, video, computer networking, always on communication, remote access, great big drives to hold that stuff, to back it up, processors to handle it and bigger lightweight screens, wireless communication.... dun!
Al Gore? A superhighway with no off ramps, Al. Doesn't work.
Makes no sense at all. One line, and the rest is in French. Ah, the French have their own way of seeing things. As Steve Martin observed "The French have a different [from English] word for EVERYTHING!"
Yes, and for all the tools, it still seems that life sucks for all the working people. Just more ways you can be reached and used at all hours of the day. Social problems, health, travel (will TSA have a chip in you and all they have to do is check that it hasn't been tampered with)
How will we make sense of all the information? Will be spend all our time recording our lives and playing them back: calculators obviate the need for math, and memory is replaced by instant replay?
Here's a thing he misses: google will be AI, and I WILL be able to ask google where I left my toothbrush. HAL will be.
How will we separate the bullshit from the real: thus, we have no neck Vietnam vets swearing that there was no one shooting at Kerry and that the emperor has wonderful clothes and no, you can't see his dick.
1) they all suck (as phones)
2) wi-fi uber alles.
3) the phone companies are not going to have a product pretty soon: I'll ask google to connect me to "my friend fred in muscogie" Then it will ask, would you like to send him email, leave a voice message, IM him, or talk to him right now?
4) THE device is the computer: everything else is a peripheral, including screen, keyboard, microphone, speakers, printer, projector, camera, video camera. What you carry around is a hard drive. Well, actually, a 30 gig memory card. You'll probably want to start with that small one.
Yes. The GUI sucks. I have NO idea why they didn't just plop OS 9 onto whatever OS they wanted. All the developers have to jump through their own ears anyway.
I liken the MacX GUI on Unix to a large rug thrown over a floor with various imprefections in it, not a few of which are open to the basement.
Oh, and did I mention: it eats the machine like Pacman! Gads, I get onto OS 9 sometimes and am shocked at the speed. Of course, thats until I use almost any modern wintel machine, which makes me feel like I've been living in South Carolina and suddenly I'm in NY City: it moves faster. And you do have to put up with a few unsavories.
[rant] excellent![/rant]
from the "rob from the rich and give to me" dept, with nods to the fisherman's wife