I was told in late '98 by a knowledgeable fellow that China had been trying to stick crowbars into USAF stuff for at least a decade -- meaning it was going on during Ray-gun, and likely Carter.
Now, I know lots of you also heard that, and variations on the same song. So why is it that mainstream media don't call it? It's been going on for a long, long time. Mainstream thinks China is an emerging threat. Bullshit. They were an emerging threat 30 years ago. Now they're a real threat.
The next World War will be computer-driven drones of all sorts, in air, space, water and land. I've been thinking that for 10+ years, but my confidence that it will happen is increasing exponentially. It's going to happen, folks.
Think of the ramifications of hardware backdoors in hardware made in usa, china -- anywhere, really.
I had a few phonecalls with Prolexic back in late '11. The talks didn't get too far. Sounds like a sweatshop with very high churn. Something, I don't know what, gave me the impression that it's a struggling concern.
What are the odds that this article was a slashvertisement?
What amazes me is that nobody is learning anything from these green technology failures.
Yeah USA's been down this road before. Didn't work then. Won't work now. For a while everyone was "by 2000 there will be no oil anywhere" and 20 years later (90's) people were driving land garbage scows and there was so much oil prices plummeted. Eco went away.
The current wave of Ecothink is similar to the last. Solar still won't work, not with photovoltaics in their current state. Corn is a joke. It's for eatin' and makin' hooch, not becoming fuel. It's upside-down, you spend more energy making than what you get out of it. Adding it to gasoline makes the cars unhappy and doesn't do a damn thing to improve MPG. Wishful thinking can't beat physics. People still fall for Eco and embrace it with religious fervor.
As for electric cars I'm all for it, just please no rows and rows and rows of ballast.. I mean batteries.. weighing down my car and needlessly using dangerous, expensive, hard-to-get materials.
Don't get what you want? Throw a tantrum or take by force.
Few people agree with what you say? Be mean to them, belittle them, In public if possible. Bully them until a) they kick your ass or kill you, b) you *do* win them over, or 3) they stop listening to you.
This particular phenomenon isn't quite new. TV and Religion work much the same way. One blogger or poster or anchor or pastor or priest will say one thing, then an avalanche of people incapable of original, independent thought nod in assent. In order to rile the crowd, they will attack the person and ideas of those who "oppose" them. "Gee, if senator Juan Pingalarga is here in church agreeing with the pastor's bashing of gays, it must be ok! I'll bash gays too!" Tell me this isn't how it works. Tell me this isn't how we get these sickening political comments threads on CNN, etc. Tell me that's not how we get these fantastically bellicose flame wars here about win vs. unix, apple vs. android / samsung etc.
Tell me this isn't why America's rapidly slipping into irrelevance -- the smart and quiet ones constantly out-mouthed by the dumb and loud.
This starts at home and school, and the only way to buck it is to teach the little ones right, not trusting their education largely to TV or the Internet.
So I'm sure if they offer fiber in your neighborhood you wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.:>
I probably wouldn't touch it. You probably said it with a humorous inflection, but I'm dead serious -- I don't want to give Google a single penny. Vote with your wallet, they say.
My preference is still the iphone up through version 4. After that it gets bothersome to carry and use. I'm still reluctant to get a 5 with it's 1/2" longer screen. The old dimensions were just about perfect.
I have a company-issued Galaxy SII. It sits unused on my kitchen counter, calls forwarded to my iphone. I can't stand the SII's size -- and it's really not that much larger than an old iphone - maybe 1/2" all around. I think it's excessively large. I used it almost exclusively for a month and gave up on it. This time any "cool" value of being "different" (android vs. ios, anyone else vs. apple) was destroyed by the way the phone feels in my hand and pocket. Sorry. It just doesn't work for me, and I honestly feel it's the extra size.
It's not like I have tiny hands or anything -- and I'm sure everyone's different -- but I don't want a big phone. I'm sure there are others who think the same thing.
As for the satnav argument presented before, meh and double meh. Why should I put up with the compromises of even a large phone when I have a perfectly good top-shelf TomTom with humongous screen and a speaker that makes itself extremely intelligible at 65% volume even with the music going fairly loudly? That's something neither of my phones can do. For every job, a proper tool, yes?
This is a move I expect out of a non-tech C-level. Like, I don't know, healthcare. "Yes, all employees must be chained to their desks by 0830 because otherwise we can't trust that work is being done."
Stupid, 1950's typewriter-and-adding-machine mentality. "Because that's how it's always been done."
The two most productive and profitable places I've been to not only allow telecommute -- they encourage it, and not for money. Their numbers tell them people do more work of better quality when free to work wherever.
so the fact that more and more movies and TV shows are available online isn't taken into account for your doom and gloom scenario?
It's not the amount that's available (or not available) that I have misgivings about -- it's how long will it be available for.
Can you really look me in the eye and tell me with a straight face that you belive that something in streaming today will be available for streaming 20 years from now? Do you trust the content owners that much? I don't.
Here's another reason to love physical: Pay once, watch many. Subscription models aren't unreasonable, pay a blanket fee, watch what you want. That said, I bet what the studios wish they could get away with is a pay-per-view model, just like real cinemas. That's just my conjecture, mind you -- but that conjecture is based on what they know and love (butts in seats, one ticket one viewing).
It would be awesome if Netflix was an online library of movies and TV shows, nearly everything produced in the past 100 years.
I have a feeling the "content owners" would never consent to this. They may put it on some kind of physical media that may or may not last 2 or 3 decades or more, but I have this gut feeling that they'll never put their stuff up for streaming "forever."
I am extremely distrustful of streaming. I don't believe for a second that a movie I like, and I mean really like will be available to stream 10, 20, 30 years after initial release. There's no permanence to streaming.
For that reason I prefer physical. I have many other reasons, but this one's probably the biggest one, right behind picture and sound quality.
I'm an old-car junkie. I have none right now, but I have in the past. I spent 3 years as a mechanic for the USAF, and I've wrenched on every car I've had to some extent or another. My last car was OBD I, it blinked, like Capt Pike, to tell you things.
Now I have an OBD II car. The amount of data it captures is remarkable. One would need a sizable battery of old-school analytical tools to match what OBD II gives you for free. You just need to pay a little for the scanner.
For today's car, you need an OBD II reader with freeze-frame capability. Less than 100 bucks. Or, you can get a wi-fi OBD II dongle, and use one of the multitude of scanners and realtime dataloggers for a variety of platforms, iOS and PC included.
Hearing all the whining about how modern cars are not for the shadetree mechanic makes me wince. All it tells me is that people are unwilling to adapt, change and learn new tricks.
I've used a 90 dollar OBD II scanner, a forum and the car's Factory Service Manual to diagnose and conclusively repair the two Check Engine Lights I've had. I tracked both down to dirty solenoid connectors. Why were they dirty and grimy? Long story, but the source of this trouble has been vigorously flogged, and they've lost my business forever.
The language in TFA is weird. What exactly is this info that makers are allegedly holding back? If by "holding back" they mean spend the $120 on the factory service manual, then don't be such a cheapskate and pony up the dosh. I have the FSM for my car. The real FSM, not some Haynes or Chilton wannabe. Every single code my car uses is in there, and I can read them all with a 90 dollar OBD II scanner with freeze-frame. For some of the more exotic things you need a datalogger that records OBD II data realtime. Like I said above, lots to choose from for multiple platforms.
The info is available, you just have to pay for it. Is that so much of a burden?
Mechanics of old had to keep a battery of test equipment (ignition testers, tach/dwell meters, exhaust analyzers, etc) and had to keep up-to-date reference material, all of which cost money. Why should today's mechanics be any different? What, you want the car's codes for free? Na. You need to shell out the $$$ to get the factory service manual. You've always had to.
The thing we should've done years ago, Pinky: Move to Arizona. I hear it's dry there. *ptooie* Now shut up and keep rowing. We'll make it out of the parking lot yet.
The two best keyboards i've had. I've put my M into storage because the LIK gives me just as much feedback minus the noise, and isn't some membrane abomination -- it's a scissors action. Key dip is halfway between an M and a laptop keyboard. The feedback is amazing. No ambiguity at all -- you either hit it, or you didn't.
That it's sleek and backlit and looks like it belongs in this century are bonus points. I don't think, however, that it'll live nearly as long in daily use as a model M, however, my LIKs are used heavily daily and here they are, three years later, no issues. Who knows, maybe they will last 15+ years.
I like the LIK so much I bought two, one for for work one for home.
I did. I almost wasted modpoints on hammering your original post, and the knee-jerk response from the fella that fell for your troll as 'offtopic.' I decided that I'd rather call you both out for being a troll and offtopic rather than burn modpoints by modding posts down. And I got modded down for it. Oh well. C'est la guerre.
This was a pen thread, the only religious war in this thread should've been Steadler vs. Rotring vs. Pilot!
For throwaways I like Pilot V5. Used 'em on weather charts back in the day. Worked fine, it was good paper, no bleeding. Ink was a little slow to dry on that paper. That's the closest I got to "technical" writing / drawing. Still had to be tiny, neat and legible.
I now have no use for technical pens, though. For writing, I use a 1942 Parker Vacumatic fountain pen. Cellulose nitrate barrel, huge ink reservoir - the barrel itself is the reservoir. You can see through it to see how much ink is in it. Fills from a bottle. Flexible nib, dig in a bit and it's bold, let up on it and it's fine. (Flexy nib on a parker is akin to finding a $50 on the sidewalk.. rather rare.)
It's super-light. I find modern pens, like modern watches, are artificially heavy -- as if weight = quality. It doesn't. It sucks to write pages with a heavy status symbol. It's sublime to write pages with something that feels like it's made of air.
Look, it's someone who believes in a school of thought that has done nothing but spread ignorance, hatred, bigotry, subservience, and war - used by leaders to maintain control. Religion is a disease. Religion is a control mechanism. Fuck yes - I'll fight that every time I see it.
As an atheist myself, I still have to question why this is in this thread.. this is about pens, not religion. Don't feed the trolls.
Your country is not the one putting this forth. The current set of "leaders" is. Vote them out next Tuesday.
What a load of succotash. Slip in a "vote the bums out" remark into a thread that had nothing to do with that.
FWIW, this erosion of privacy started long ago, not just four years ago. Both parties are guilty of it. Can you accept that?
The system itself is broken, do you not understand that? It's not the individual players that are broken, it's the whole system. How do you propose we fix that?
Constantly throwing out the current crop of bastards will not fix anything, and will only screw things up faster.
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I was told in late '98 by a knowledgeable fellow that China had been trying to stick crowbars into USAF stuff for at least a decade -- meaning it was going on during Ray-gun, and likely Carter.
Now, I know lots of you also heard that, and variations on the same song. So why is it that mainstream media don't call it? It's been going on for a long, long time. Mainstream thinks China is an emerging threat. Bullshit. They were an emerging threat 30 years ago. Now they're a real threat.
The next World War will be computer-driven drones of all sorts, in air, space, water and land. I've been thinking that for 10+ years, but my confidence that it will happen is increasing exponentially. It's going to happen, folks.
Think of the ramifications of hardware backdoors in hardware made in usa, china -- anywhere, really.
I think it's time I put my zombie kit together.
Then their headhunter needs to communicate better.
I had a few phonecalls with Prolexic back in late '11. The talks didn't get too far. Sounds like a sweatshop with very high churn. Something, I don't know what, gave me the impression that it's a struggling concern.
What are the odds that this article was a slashvertisement?
Yeah USA's been down this road before. Didn't work then. Won't work now. For a while everyone was "by 2000 there will be no oil anywhere" and 20 years later (90's) people were driving land garbage scows and there was so much oil prices plummeted. Eco went away.
The current wave of Ecothink is similar to the last. Solar still won't work, not with photovoltaics in their current state. Corn is a joke. It's for eatin' and makin' hooch, not becoming fuel. It's upside-down, you spend more energy making than what you get out of it. Adding it to gasoline makes the cars unhappy and doesn't do a damn thing to improve MPG. Wishful thinking can't beat physics. People still fall for Eco and embrace it with religious fervor.
As for electric cars I'm all for it, just please no rows and rows and rows of ballast.. I mean batteries.. weighing down my car and needlessly using dangerous, expensive, hard-to-get materials.
My mileage varied:
1. iMessages are easy to spot, they have blue bubbles instead of Green
2. iMessages usually arrive nearly-instantaneously, but many times they'll arrive minutes after they were sent, in some cases hours. Or the next day.
3. iMessages seem to dupe. A lot.
3. iMessages seem to dupe. A lot.
4. iMessages seem to choke when sent along with video or pictures if you're out in 3G-land.
It's called "bully."
Don't get what you want? Throw a tantrum or take by force.
Few people agree with what you say? Be mean to them, belittle them, In public if possible. Bully them until a) they kick your ass or kill you, b) you *do* win them over, or 3) they stop listening to you.
This particular phenomenon isn't quite new. TV and Religion work much the same way. One blogger or poster or anchor or pastor or priest will say one thing, then an avalanche of people incapable of original, independent thought nod in assent. In order to rile the crowd, they will attack the person and ideas of those who "oppose" them. "Gee, if senator Juan Pingalarga is here in church agreeing with the pastor's bashing of gays, it must be ok! I'll bash gays too!" Tell me this isn't how it works. Tell me this isn't how we get these sickening political comments threads on CNN, etc. Tell me that's not how we get these fantastically bellicose flame wars here about win vs. unix, apple vs. android / samsung etc.
Tell me this isn't why America's rapidly slipping into irrelevance -- the smart and quiet ones constantly out-mouthed by the dumb and loud.
This starts at home and school, and the only way to buck it is to teach the little ones right, not trusting their education largely to TV or the Internet.
This has been done before.
Prior Art.
I probably wouldn't touch it. You probably said it with a humorous inflection, but I'm dead serious -- I don't want to give Google a single penny. Vote with your wallet, they say.
Starting to? They've been evil since they took their first dollar from selling advertisement.
My preference is still the iphone up through version 4. After that it gets bothersome to carry and use. I'm still reluctant to get a 5 with it's 1/2" longer screen. The old dimensions were just about perfect.
I have a company-issued Galaxy SII. It sits unused on my kitchen counter, calls forwarded to my iphone. I can't stand the SII's size -- and it's really not that much larger than an old iphone - maybe 1/2" all around. I think it's excessively large. I used it almost exclusively for a month and gave up on it. This time any "cool" value of being "different" (android vs. ios, anyone else vs. apple) was destroyed by the way the phone feels in my hand and pocket. Sorry. It just doesn't work for me, and I honestly feel it's the extra size.
It's not like I have tiny hands or anything -- and I'm sure everyone's different -- but I don't want a big phone. I'm sure there are others who think the same thing.
As for the satnav argument presented before, meh and double meh. Why should I put up with the compromises of even a large phone when I have a perfectly good top-shelf TomTom with humongous screen and a speaker that makes itself extremely intelligible at 65% volume even with the music going fairly loudly? That's something neither of my phones can do. For every job, a proper tool, yes?
This is a move I expect out of a non-tech C-level. Like, I don't know, healthcare. "Yes, all employees must be chained to their desks by 0830 because otherwise we can't trust that work is being done."
Stupid, 1950's typewriter-and-adding-machine mentality. "Because that's how it's always been done."
The two most productive and profitable places I've been to not only allow telecommute -- they encourage it, and not for money. Their numbers tell them people do more work of better quality when free to work wherever.
"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. It's the Business Way!"
--Paraphrased and mangled from "Jim Malone" from "The Untouchables"
Point is, all them are evil in one way or another. I don't trust Google any more, or less, than Apple, Microsoft, GM, Ford, etc.
It's not the amount that's available (or not available) that I have misgivings about -- it's how long will it be available for.
Can you really look me in the eye and tell me with a straight face that you belive that something in streaming today will be available for streaming 20 years from now? Do you trust the content owners that much? I don't.
Here's another reason to love physical: Pay once, watch many. Subscription models aren't unreasonable, pay a blanket fee, watch what you want. That said, I bet what the studios wish they could get away with is a pay-per-view model, just like real cinemas. That's just my conjecture, mind you -- but that conjecture is based on what they know and love (butts in seats, one ticket one viewing).
I have a feeling the "content owners" would never consent to this. They may put it on some kind of physical media that may or may not last 2 or 3 decades or more, but I have this gut feeling that they'll never put their stuff up for streaming "forever."
I am extremely distrustful of streaming. I don't believe for a second that a movie I like, and I mean really like will be available to stream 10, 20, 30 years after initial release. There's no permanence to streaming.
For that reason I prefer physical. I have many other reasons, but this one's probably the biggest one, right behind picture and sound quality.
Maybe it was supposed to be 40, not 400?
If it's not a typo, then the intent is to kill it with fire.
(40% is still ridiculous, Lync isn't all that to start with.)
Why is it a certain segment of the US population thinks it's still the 1800's or the first 3 quarters of the 1900's?
Other than that thought, this news has left me speechless.
Dice has been rolled, waiting to see result.
I'm an old-car junkie. I have none right now, but I have in the past. I spent 3 years as a mechanic for the USAF, and I've wrenched on every car I've had to some extent or another. My last car was OBD I, it blinked, like Capt Pike, to tell you things.
Now I have an OBD II car. The amount of data it captures is remarkable. One would need a sizable battery of old-school analytical tools to match what OBD II gives you for free. You just need to pay a little for the scanner.
For today's car, you need an OBD II reader with freeze-frame capability. Less than 100 bucks. Or, you can get a wi-fi OBD II dongle, and use one of the multitude of scanners and realtime dataloggers for a variety of platforms, iOS and PC included.
Hearing all the whining about how modern cars are not for the shadetree mechanic makes me wince. All it tells me is that people are unwilling to adapt, change and learn new tricks.
I've used a 90 dollar OBD II scanner, a forum and the car's Factory Service Manual to diagnose and conclusively repair the two Check Engine Lights I've had. I tracked both down to dirty solenoid connectors. Why were they dirty and grimy? Long story, but the source of this trouble has been vigorously flogged, and they've lost my business forever.
The language in TFA is weird. What exactly is this info that makers are allegedly holding back? If by "holding back" they mean spend the $120 on the factory service manual, then don't be such a cheapskate and pony up the dosh. I have the FSM for my car. The real FSM, not some Haynes or Chilton wannabe. Every single code my car uses is in there, and I can read them all with a 90 dollar OBD II scanner with freeze-frame. For some of the more exotic things you need a datalogger that records OBD II data realtime. Like I said above, lots to choose from for multiple platforms.
The info is available, you just have to pay for it. Is that so much of a burden?
Mechanics of old had to keep a battery of test equipment (ignition testers, tach/dwell meters, exhaust analyzers, etc) and had to keep up-to-date reference material, all of which cost money. Why should today's mechanics be any different? What, you want the car's codes for free? Na. You need to shell out the $$$ to get the factory service manual. You've always had to.
The thing we should've done years ago, Pinky: Move to Arizona. I hear it's dry there. *ptooie* Now shut up and keep rowing. We'll make it out of the parking lot yet.
NARRF yes, right Brain!
The two best keyboards i've had. I've put my M into storage because the LIK gives me just as much feedback minus the noise, and isn't some membrane abomination -- it's a scissors action. Key dip is halfway between an M and a laptop keyboard. The feedback is amazing. No ambiguity at all -- you either hit it, or you didn't.
That it's sleek and backlit and looks like it belongs in this century are bonus points. I don't think, however, that it'll live nearly as long in daily use as a model M, however, my LIKs are used heavily daily and here they are, three years later, no issues. Who knows, maybe they will last 15+ years.
I like the LIK so much I bought two, one for for work one for home.
I did. I almost wasted modpoints on hammering your original post, and the knee-jerk response from the fella that fell for your troll as 'offtopic.' I decided that I'd rather call you both out for being a troll and offtopic rather than burn modpoints by modding posts down. And I got modded down for it. Oh well. C'est la guerre.
This was a pen thread, the only religious war in this thread should've been Steadler vs. Rotring vs. Pilot!
For throwaways I like Pilot V5. Used 'em on weather charts back in the day. Worked fine, it was good paper, no bleeding. Ink was a little slow to dry on that paper. That's the closest I got to "technical" writing / drawing. Still had to be tiny, neat and legible.
I now have no use for technical pens, though. For writing, I use a 1942 Parker Vacumatic fountain pen. Cellulose nitrate barrel, huge ink reservoir - the barrel itself is the reservoir. You can see through it to see how much ink is in it. Fills from a bottle. Flexible nib, dig in a bit and it's bold, let up on it and it's fine. (Flexy nib on a parker is akin to finding a $50 on the sidewalk.. rather rare.)
It's super-light. I find modern pens, like modern watches, are artificially heavy -- as if weight = quality. It doesn't. It sucks to write pages with a heavy status symbol. It's sublime to write pages with something that feels like it's made of air.
As an atheist myself, I still have to question why this is in this thread.. this is about pens, not religion. Don't feed the trolls.
I'm atheist, I find your post trollish. WTF does this have to do with pens? Other than an AC, you're the one who raised the issue.
Now, who's the one being a dick?
What a load of succotash. Slip in a "vote the bums out" remark into a thread that had nothing to do with that.
FWIW, this erosion of privacy started long ago, not just four years ago. Both parties are guilty of it. Can you accept that?
The system itself is broken, do you not understand that? It's not the individual players that are broken, it's the whole system. How do you propose we fix that?
Constantly throwing out the current crop of bastards will not fix anything, and will only screw things up faster.