No, of course, I'm not saying that he shouldn't have been talking big. What I'm saying is that he should have realized earlier that we were actually going to kick him out of Kuwait, and withdrawn his troops. He would have been in a much better position: we would have never had cause for a trade embago or inspections, and he would have suffered less military losses. This would have been obvious to anyone with the ability weigh the consequences of their actions.
If he were sane, he would have seen the coalition lined up on his border, and moved his troops out of Kuwait immediately. Really.
And this is all academic, to me, anyway. I don't really care if he's delusional. I don't care if he's Mother Theresa. If there were obvious benefits for us Americans, I might be in favor of the war. imho there are bigger disadvantages than advantages, and thus I am opposed.
Of course, now that it has begun, the bulk of the disadvantages will occur whether or not we continue. So now that Bush has already fucked everything up, he better finish it quickly and in the most beneficial manner. Of course, I have no faith that he will, but I can hope.
>>Freeing the world from a madman with illegal weapons
>I'm very curious as to where this came from. Saddam Hussein is not mad. He might be a megalomaniac, and he is certainly ruthless and cruel, but by all indications he is a cunning and calculating opponent.
1) You're replying to an AC troll. His comment was a total nonsequitor from mine.
2) You can be cunning, calculating, and mad, all at the same time. When Desert Storm was about to begin, and all the US tanks were lined up on his border about to push him out of Kuwait, he was still ranting about the "Mother of all battles." Sure. He's mad as a hatter.
Comparing numbers of protesters and disapproval numbers is obviously meaningless.
I, for example, am vehemently opposed to the war. I feel that the protests do not serve my interests. I went to one a month before the fighting broke out, and will never go again. They are worthless.
Of course, just because one of your examples is meaningless doesn't mean you're wrong. I think you're correct.
i've watched my co-worker...who does no actual work...he is absolutely amazing at mindsweeper. I think his entire left brain is now dedicated to mindsweeper.
i asked him if he's even "thinking" when he's playing.
"nope" he says.
Solving minesweeper follows very clear and repeatable patterns. After you have memorized them, there is no need to figure them out a second time. There are many skills of this variety that do not require concentration once they are mastered. The most obvious group of skills of this variety are motor skills. Riding a bike.
You don't have to dedicate large portions of your brain to being able to ride a bike. Becoming expert at these sorts of skills does not remove expertise in other skills.
Ok. Something like a flexpac, only a little smaller? That sounds like a very desireable product.
It just only makes sense to me if you're aiming for something that is much much more powerful than any laptop. If you're going for a low power/heat CPU and no expansion cards, I don't really understand what desktop computers have that big laptops don't have.
Um... the need for the luggable you describe has been eroded. What itch would the luggable scratch that would not be perfectly satisfied by either a Shuttle XPC or a laptop?
I'd consider William Gibson the most important living SF writer. I would not consider his intent to have anything to do with inspiring intelligence, the direction of technology, civilization, etc.
When SF is good (and it is often bad: the geek equivalent of a romance novel), it illustrates the present. Stranger in a Strange Land, for example, gives totally unique insight into human nature. That is its (way over-generalized) goal. Every Gibson novel is a perfect snap shot of the time it was written.
Also, there is no need whatsoever to malign "arts school types." First of all, you are focusing on a contrast that isn't there. Tell me what genres Pattern Recognition and Vineland belong to. Second, over the course of my college career, four different professors either referred to or recommended Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Two were in comp sci, one was in Middle Eastern studies, and one was in photography. If you think non-geeks naturally have some sort of antipathy towards SF, you're wrong.
Grandparent post didn't say that we should look away from SF, just that we should look everywhere. He's right. Note, when he says "all fiction" he does not say "mainstream fiction". Is The Hobbit SF? Does it inspire/. readers? I'd even call it "mainstream".
To debunk the myth that Linux eats mostly Unix market share.
That is only a significant outcome because there was an existing myth. He exactly does not say that it is significant that Linux users are eating Windows marketshare.
In what way does this study cast Linux in a positive light? It is a study of Linux users. Given that fact, what on Earth could we object to about this study? If there were a study showing that 100% of developers who only use Windows only develop for Windows... no one here would complain.
Macwhispers reports that several suppliers are bidding to manufacture a 970 based motherboard for Apple. The bid deadline is in a week.
Sure, MacWhisper's predictions turned out to be all wrong, but their actual supplier information has been quite accurate. At least, there's no evidence to the contrary so far.
John C. Dvorak is dumb like a brick. He's predicted Apple's imminent demise like four times in the past eight years. He'll say absolutely anything to get attention. I have more insight in my left testicle than he has exhibited over the course of his entire carreer.
There was definitely an episode with a personal transporter device that did not cause genetic damage. I totally forget the situation. It was on a planet, and there was some kind of chase involved. Er... I don't recall if it was in a movie or an episode. But they definitely didn't act like it was uncommon technology. I think the device only functioned for a certain number of jumps or something.
Also, I understand you don't imagine that all of these abilities would work all the time, but the ship you describe is sufficiently more advanced than any other race's (known) technology, that it sounds like your commandos could easily destroy any ship in known space. It seems that if the alien races had any of these sorts of capabilities, they would have been used against TNG/DS9 folks in plot episodes.
I'm just saying I think you'd want to set it after TNG/DS9, not during. That way, all this tech would be new, and there's no need to explain its non-proliferation.
And boy is it exciting! Woo, ha! In fact, I just got fourteen job offers last week, and I'm a 22 year old recent grad with a crappy GPA.
Anything goes, here in billings. Local culture is primo. I've lived in LA, NYC, but I got sick of all the ugly girls. Come here to Billings, where it's nothing but 100% beautiful people, all the time.
I work in an all Linux shop, writing 3D game engines and debating Libertarian politics. It's great!
With something that does use the standard GNU build system, I can set it to install into ~/bin and ~/lib instead of/usr/bin and/usr/lib, or/usr/local/bin and/usr/local/lib.
In fact, I can make ~groupname/bin and ~groupname/lib directories, so that everyone in a certain project will get access to the results.
Sure, porting tomcat might have been a pain... and that pain might hilight weaknesses in the Unix design philosophy, but portability and installation are not those weaknesses. For many system administrators, portability and installation ease/flexibility are wonderful features of Unix that do not exist on Windows.
No, you are not crazy. These articles are all refering to the other MS issue this week: IIS's WebDAV remote buffer overflow attack.
There is, however, a new issue today. Use Windows Update. This new issue would allow operators of a malicious website to remote root your machine if you navigate to them. This applies to all (!) versions of Windows since Win98.
The worm-friendly bug is the old bug. So, technically speaking, this post is 100% dupe. It just happened to (luckily?) coincide with another MS security issue.
Please, oh please, push him about the DMCA getting passed under his watch, and his wife's co-founding of the PMRC. Some suggest that the PMRC has lead to de facto government censorship.
It might take a little research to get good questions that he won't just brush off, or evade, but those are two technology issues that are totally essential to us/.ers as voters, and us Apple fans as customers.
If you actually read the exact comment that he made, and understand the role Al Gore had in the creation of a research friendly political environment, no, it wasn't really silly or moronic.
I don't mind him getting lampooned, because it's funny, but... still. He deserves it even less than Dan Quayle (who was reading from a card with the alternative spelling "potatoe").
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When I read that I thought he was snidely suggesting a crappy multithreading implementation and a lack of Altivec optimization.
Dunno.
No, of course, I'm not saying that he shouldn't have been talking big. What I'm saying is that he should have realized earlier that we were actually going to kick him out of Kuwait, and withdrawn his troops. He would have been in a much better position: we would have never had cause for a trade embago or inspections, and he would have suffered less military losses. This would have been obvious to anyone with the ability weigh the consequences of their actions.
If he were sane, he would have seen the coalition lined up on his border, and moved his troops out of Kuwait immediately. Really.
And this is all academic, to me, anyway. I don't really care if he's delusional. I don't care if he's Mother Theresa. If there were obvious benefits for us Americans, I might be in favor of the war. imho there are bigger disadvantages than advantages, and thus I am opposed.
Of course, now that it has begun, the bulk of the disadvantages will occur whether or not we continue. So now that Bush has already fucked everything up, he better finish it quickly and in the most beneficial manner. Of course, I have no faith that he will, but I can hope.
>>Freeing the world from a madman with illegal weapons
>I'm very curious as to where this came from. Saddam Hussein is not mad. He might be a megalomaniac, and he is certainly ruthless and cruel, but by all indications he is a cunning and calculating opponent.
1) You're replying to an AC troll. His comment was a total nonsequitor from mine.
2) You can be cunning, calculating, and mad, all at the same time. When Desert Storm was about to begin, and all the US tanks were lined up on his border about to push him out of Kuwait, he was still ranting about the "Mother of all battles." Sure. He's mad as a hatter.
Comparing numbers of protesters and disapproval numbers is obviously meaningless.
I, for example, am vehemently opposed to the war. I feel that the protests do not serve my interests. I went to one a month before the fighting broke out, and will never go again. They are worthless.
Of course, just because one of your examples is meaningless doesn't mean you're wrong. I think you're correct.
And to think, my great post about using enzymes to create electricity rather then expensive fuel cells got deleted.
Um. Good. I would have been a dupe, wouldn't it?
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
The man who chooses not to read good books has massive advantages. He can read street signs. And magazines. And websites. C'mon.
i've watched my co-worker...who does no actual work...he is absolutely amazing at mindsweeper. I think his entire left brain is now dedicated to mindsweeper.
i asked him if he's even "thinking" when he's playing.
"nope" he says.
Solving minesweeper follows very clear and repeatable patterns. After you have memorized them, there is no need to figure them out a second time. There are many skills of this variety that do not require concentration once they are mastered. The most obvious group of skills of this variety are motor skills. Riding a bike.
You don't have to dedicate large portions of your brain to being able to ride a bike. Becoming expert at these sorts of skills does not remove expertise in other skills.
Ok. Something like a flexpac, only a little smaller? That sounds like a very desireable product.
It just only makes sense to me if you're aiming for something that is much much more powerful than any laptop. If you're going for a low power/heat CPU and no expansion cards, I don't really understand what desktop computers have that big laptops don't have.
Do I understand you now?
Um... the need for the luggable you describe has been eroded. What itch would the luggable scratch that would not be perfectly satisfied by either a Shuttle XPC or a laptop?
I'm curious, not just being a dick.
I'd consider William Gibson the most important living SF writer. I would not consider his intent to have anything to do with inspiring intelligence, the direction of technology, civilization, etc.
/. readers? I'd even call it "mainstream".
When SF is good (and it is often bad: the geek equivalent of a romance novel), it illustrates the present. Stranger in a Strange Land, for example, gives totally unique insight into human nature. That is its (way over-generalized) goal. Every Gibson novel is a perfect snap shot of the time it was written.
Also, there is no need whatsoever to malign "arts school types." First of all, you are focusing on a contrast that isn't there. Tell me what genres Pattern Recognition and Vineland belong to. Second, over the course of my college career, four different professors either referred to or recommended Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Two were in comp sci, one was in Middle Eastern studies, and one was in photography. If you think non-geeks naturally have some sort of antipathy towards SF, you're wrong.
Grandparent post didn't say that we should look away from SF, just that we should look everywhere. He's right. Note, when he says "all fiction" he does not say "mainstream fiction". Is The Hobbit SF? Does it inspire
Either that, or his point is what he said it was:
To debunk the myth that Linux eats mostly Unix market share.
That is only a significant outcome because there was an existing myth. He exactly does not say that it is significant that Linux users are eating Windows marketshare.
In what way does this study cast Linux in a positive light? It is a study of Linux users. Given that fact, what on Earth could we object to about this study? If there were a study showing that 100% of developers who only use Windows only develop for Windows... no one here would complain.
Macwhispers reports that several suppliers are bidding to manufacture a 970 based motherboard for Apple. The bid deadline is in a week.
Sure, MacWhisper's predictions turned out to be all wrong, but their actual supplier information has been quite accurate. At least, there's no evidence to the contrary so far.
John C. Dvorak is dumb like a brick. He's predicted Apple's imminent demise like four times in the past eight years. He'll say absolutely anything to get attention. I have more insight in my left testicle than he has exhibited over the course of his entire carreer.
There was definitely an episode with a personal transporter device that did not cause genetic damage. I totally forget the situation. It was on a planet, and there was some kind of chase involved. Er... I don't recall if it was in a movie or an episode. But they definitely didn't act like it was uncommon technology. I think the device only functioned for a certain number of jumps or something.
Also, I understand you don't imagine that all of these abilities would work all the time, but the ship you describe is sufficiently more advanced than any other race's (known) technology, that it sounds like your commandos could easily destroy any ship in known space. It seems that if the alien races had any of these sorts of capabilities, they would have been used against TNG/DS9 folks in plot episodes.
I'm just saying I think you'd want to set it after TNG/DS9, not during. That way, all this tech would be new, and there's no need to explain its non-proliferation.
And boy is it exciting! Woo, ha! In fact, I just got fourteen job offers last week, and I'm a 22 year old recent grad with a crappy GPA.
Anything goes, here in billings. Local culture is primo. I've lived in LA, NYC, but I got sick of all the ugly girls. Come here to Billings, where it's nothing but 100% beautiful people, all the time.
I work in an all Linux shop, writing 3D game engines and debating Libertarian politics. It's great!
Good point. No bibles at all.
Although you haven't necessarily made this mistake:
I love it when nuts Christians use that quote to tell me how damned I am. That quote originates with Pulp Fiction. It is nowhere in the bible.
Boy, could I not disagree more.
/usr/bin and /usr/lib, or /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib.
With something that does use the standard GNU build system, I can set it to install into ~/bin and ~/lib instead of
In fact, I can make ~groupname/bin and ~groupname/lib directories, so that everyone in a certain project will get access to the results.
Sure, porting tomcat might have been a pain... and that pain might hilight weaknesses in the Unix design philosophy, but portability and installation are not those weaknesses. For many system administrators, portability and installation ease/flexibility are wonderful features of Unix that do not exist on Windows.
You think Hollywood and Big Media wanted mandatory labelling?
No, you are not crazy. These articles are all refering to the other MS issue this week: IIS's WebDAV remote buffer overflow attack.
There is, however, a new issue today. Use Windows Update. This new issue would allow operators of a malicious website to remote root your machine if you navigate to them. This applies to all (!) versions of Windows since Win98.
The worm-friendly bug is the old bug. So, technically speaking, this post is 100% dupe. It just happened to (luckily?) coincide with another MS security issue.
Please, oh please, push him about the DMCA getting passed under his watch, and his wife's co-founding of the PMRC. Some suggest that the PMRC has lead to de facto government censorship.
/.ers as voters, and us Apple fans as customers.
It might take a little research to get good questions that he won't just brush off, or evade, but those are two technology issues that are totally essential to us
If you actually read the exact comment that he made, and understand the role Al Gore had in the creation of a research friendly political environment, no, it wasn't really silly or moronic.
I don't mind him getting lampooned, because it's funny, but... still. He deserves it even less than Dan Quayle (who was reading from a card with the alternative spelling "potatoe").
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1) Who says I wasn't serious? Nice cut and paste. Way to steal.
2) Thanks!
1) Nice cut and paste.
2) Yellowdog has been around for a while.