Forget computers. The pinnacle of classroom technology in Oklahoma is a Laddie pencil & a Big Chief tablet. Next year, we're gonna get a mimeograph machine. Yep, everything is looking up in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is a lot like a post nuclear society. Pockets of high tech surrounded by wasteland. You have to have an SUV so you can drive on the roads. Yes, you can have that offroad driving experience without ever having leave town.
Best of all, you don't have to send your jobs offshore. Oklahoma is also like a third world country. You don't have to send the jobs that far. You don't have to pay them that much. And they speak slightly better English than them there gosh dern feriners.
I think PHP is great, but I don't think it's quite ready for a robust content management system. The PHP CMS community is very fragmented. When shopping around for a good open source CMS, I found a profileration of nukes. The two CMSes I considered seriously were Mambo and Drupal. Both of them have had some recent issues that made me glad I didn't pick them. Not only that there were some serious PHP security issues. I've been a fan of Perl far longer, but was amazed at how quickly I could slap together usable stuff in PHP. And I didn't choose a Perl based CMS either.
Ultimately, I chose Plone which sits on top of Zope which sits on top of Python. It can sit behind Apache, You can use it with other other databases than it's own weird object db, but it's not easy. It also has a steep learning curve. Despite all these drawbacks and concerns, Plone is the most robust, secure, and ready to use out of the box CMS I've found.
Maybe it was just dumb luck and the recent problems with Mambo, Drupal, and PHP made me feel better about my decision. I'm still learning Zope and Plone, but I'm impressed that I can throw stuff together pretty quickly with it, even though hides stuff in non-intuitive locations.
How 'bout a coffin cam? Press the button on the tombstone and it lights up the interior of the coffin so you can see inside. It'll play a cheery tune like "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." when activated. What I'd really like to have is a motion sensor activated audio track with scratching sounds and the occasional muffled "Hello, is anybody out there? Can someone get a shovel?"
As overheard at Joe Bob's Megafauna Ranch and Barbecue in Cornhole, Nebraska in 2012:
"Hey that mammoth is just an elephant with it's ears bobbed that someone threw a big sheepskin coat over. How many sheepskins did you have to sew together? Besides they don't even match. And it's not a sabertooth dog. It's a sabertooth cat. Besides you can see the string holding the... are those WALRUS tusks? Speaking of strings, those fake beaks you put on the turkeys do not make them dodos. Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals did not look like Quasimodo, and were, never, I repeat, NEVER, in North America!"
I've probably downloaded Firefox a dozen times to install and use on different machines and to update it when new versions came out. So number of downloads doesn't equal number of users. If the average person has downloaded Firefox 4x (not unreasonable) that's only about 20 million users for those 80 million downloads.
The preponderance of evidence is that Mars has been cold and dry for a long time. Erosion features on Mars were probably the result of glaciers, wind, and the rare outbursts of flowing water. Olivine is the key. Mars is covered in huge areas of olivine.
Olivine degrades quickly in water, geologically speaking. The recent discoveries of Mars Express, Discovery, and Opportunity are tantalizing and beg for more exploration of the planet. Whether or not there was or is life on Mars and whether or not there was or is lots of water, it is still a worthy place to go. But it should not be contigent on life or water. I wish those who issue news releases would stop marketing Mars.
Could Mars have had dry ice glaciers and flows of liquid CO2 to cause the erosion? Unlikely, but I'm not a Martian expert. Maybe Mars was colder in the past.
I'm too lazy to provide Wikipedia links or otherwise. Google'm yerself.
Maybe we should sew the RFID tags into a patch and that patch can be sewn into our clothing. A yellow six pointed star, perhaps? Nope, sorry wrong shape. I know, a yellow crescent for Muslims. A red maple leaf for Canadians. A yellow taco for Mexicans. A red five pointed star for Liberals. A green celery stalk for Vegans.
Interestingly, however, the United States (along with most spacefaring countries) has not ratified the 1979 Moon Treaty,
The L5 Society killed that one, I believe (too lazy to google it). I think we should have a treaty similar to one governing Antartica with one exception. Allowing each country's respective area of control the right to grant mining concessions.
Who would be those countries? US & Canada, European Union, Russia, India, and China. Would the Moon be divided into pie slices like Antarctica? No more like sections of an orange. Would the sections intersect at the north and south pole? No the from the point closest to earth to the far side.
All of this is pretty arbitrary, but it's a starting place to think about.
Oooh! I can't wait for the sequels: Re-Voltron, Voltron vs. Michael Boltron, Voltron Meets The Electric Johnson, and Voltron Gets His Robotic Ass Handed to Him.
You anime fans are far more pathetic than comic book fans. At least they grow up even if some still read comic books. And don't get me started on Dr. Who luser fans.
-- I didn't mean to say that the TARDIS should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage.
This makes me suspicious. I did a google search and found that this guy has no credetentials. So I'd have to view his theory with great skepticism. I'm not going to shell out $30 to find out. And neither is this
guy.
Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
In some Asian countries it is common to be considererd one year old when you are born. So she could be younger. It's like buildings in Europe; their first floor is our second floor in America.
What we really need is the exact time of conception and we can measure in seconds from the time of conception how old both of them are.
Windows wasn't ready for the desktop until Windows 2000 came out. It only took Microsoft seven years to catch up with the Mac. Was DOS (any flavor) ready for the desktop? No. Was Windows 3.1 ready for the desktop.? No. Was Windows 95 ready for the desktop? No. Was Windows 98 ready for the deskstop? No. So don't give me that crap about Linux not being ready for the desktop. I'd say that at worst, at worst, Linux for the desktop is at Windows 98 level and probably higher in terms of desktop usability. Where does he get off?
You this is why you should publish in Journal of Irreproducible Results. No can check up on your work. I think balderdash has a nicer ring to it than nonsense. Sounds more academic. 31.4159% (+/- 2.718% margin of error) of all studies are balderdash and poppycock.
OT but amusing: From Without a Clue:
Holmes: How can I be expected to maintain the character when you belittle me in front of those hooligans?
Watson: Character? Are we talking about the same man who once declared with total conviction that the late Colonel Howard had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt excrement?
Holmes: Is it my fault you have such poor handwriting?
Or did you just through the Nazi's in there to Troll?
The Nazis did have a rocket factory. That was just a historical aside. So I don't understand your point. But if you think I'm trolling, so be it.
Really? So according to your theory, cars, medical devices and every other thing should be produced BY HAND to ensure their safety?
I have no theories. I have only conjectures, hypotheses, and wild guesses. Besides, what's wrong with handcrafting? Use whatever method that gives you the best return on your investment. Anyway, I'm very dissappointed with NASA's recent manned space efforts. I don't think they really learned their lesson from Challenger hence Columbia. It's wait and see if they learned their lesson from Columbia. You know the old adage: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Are we becoming so risk averse that we will significantly slow or stop the tide of exploration?
What is this tide of exploration? A tide ebbs ands flows, rises and falls. The tide has fallen and the tide will rise again. They certainly weren't being risk averse when they launched Challenger. They weren't being risk averse when they didn't look at Columbia's wing with special telescopes.
Perhaps Nasa should take a lesson from Henry Ford.... build a freaking factory to mass produce a SIMPLE, STANDARDIZED rocket.
Try taking your lesson from Wehrner von Braun. He built just such a rocket factory and did mass produce rockets. Of course, he used slave labor and it was built for the Nazis. Probably not what you had in mind.
Maybe someone knows better and doesn't want the shuttle to launch and made sure that window cover accidentally fell of to postpone the mission. I'm not supersticious, but NASA should have waited until it was a Friday the 13th. Not Wednesday the 13th to launch.
And I'm not sorry if someone else wrote same speculation earlier. I'm too lazy and tired to check all the other posts. So there!
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Forget computers. The pinnacle of classroom technology in Oklahoma is a Laddie pencil & a Big Chief tablet. Next year, we're gonna get a mimeograph machine. Yep, everything is looking up in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is a lot like a post nuclear society. Pockets of high tech surrounded by wasteland. You have to have an SUV so you can drive on the roads. Yes, you can have that offroad driving experience without ever having leave town.
Best of all, you don't have to send your jobs offshore. Oklahoma is also like a third world country. You don't have to send the jobs that far. You don't have to pay them that much. And they speak slightly better English than them there gosh dern feriners.
I think PHP is great, but I don't think it's quite ready for a robust content management system. The PHP CMS community is very fragmented. When shopping around for a good open source CMS, I found a profileration of nukes. The two CMSes I considered seriously were Mambo and Drupal. Both of them have had some recent issues that made me glad I didn't pick them. Not only that there were some serious PHP security issues. I've been a fan of Perl far longer, but was amazed at how quickly I could slap together usable stuff in PHP. And I didn't choose a Perl based CMS either.
Ultimately, I chose Plone which sits on top of Zope which sits on top of Python. It can sit behind Apache, You can use it with other other databases than it's own weird object db, but it's not easy. It also has a steep learning curve. Despite all these drawbacks and concerns, Plone is the most robust, secure, and ready to use out of the box CMS I've found.
Maybe it was just dumb luck and the recent problems with Mambo, Drupal, and PHP made me feel better about my decision. I'm still learning Zope and Plone, but I'm impressed that I can throw stuff together pretty quickly with it, even though hides stuff in non-intuitive locations.
From Acts of Gord, The Book of Annoyances, Ch. 23:
"We would like a quote for the front page of the newspaper talking about videogame violence, and it's possible impact on society."
"Video games don't make people more violent, and I'll kill anyone who disagrees."
<dramatic pause>
"I don't think we can print that."
I was worried for a moment. Next time put Canadian in the title so I can safely ignore it. Time to start using PGP, eh?
How 'bout a coffin cam? Press the button on the tombstone and it lights up the interior of the coffin so you can see inside. It'll play a cheery tune like "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." when activated. What I'd really like to have is a motion sensor activated audio track with scratching sounds and the occasional muffled "Hello, is anybody out there? Can someone get a shovel?"
I was under the impression that most of us never go outside. Why the hell would we need to know what the weather's like? ;-)
That pizza delivery boy needs drivable roads to get to your place.
As overheard at Joe Bob's Megafauna Ranch and Barbecue in Cornhole, Nebraska in 2012:
... are those WALRUS tusks? Speaking of strings, those fake beaks you put on the turkeys do not make them dodos. Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals did not look like Quasimodo, and were, never, I repeat, NEVER, in North America!"
"Hey that mammoth is just an elephant with it's ears bobbed that someone threw a big sheepskin coat over. How many sheepskins did you have to sew together? Besides they don't even match. And it's not a sabertooth dog. It's a sabertooth cat. Besides you can see the string holding the
where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy.
Since when is dog meat hoof-grown?
Speaking of space meat, have you read Terry Bisson's excellent short story"They're Made Out of Meat"?
"Remember, today is Soylent Yellow Day!"
I've probably downloaded Firefox a dozen times to install and use on different machines and to update it when new versions came out. So number of downloads doesn't equal number of users. If the average person has downloaded Firefox 4x (not unreasonable) that's only about 20 million users for those 80 million downloads.
they wouldn't bump their ass.
The preponderance of evidence is that Mars has been cold and dry for a long time. Erosion features on Mars were probably the result of glaciers, wind, and the rare outbursts of flowing water. Olivine is the key. Mars is covered in huge areas of olivine.
Olivine degrades quickly in water, geologically speaking. The recent discoveries of Mars Express, Discovery, and Opportunity are tantalizing and beg for more exploration of the planet. Whether or not there was or is life on Mars and whether or not there was or is lots of water, it is still a worthy place to go. But it should not be contigent on life or water. I wish those who issue news releases would stop marketing Mars.
Could Mars have had dry ice glaciers and flows of liquid CO2 to cause the erosion? Unlikely, but I'm not a Martian expert. Maybe Mars was colder in the past.
I'm too lazy to provide Wikipedia links or otherwise. Google'm yerself.
I for one welcome our new RFID overlords.
Maybe we should sew the RFID tags into a patch and that patch can be sewn into our clothing. A yellow six pointed star, perhaps? Nope, sorry wrong shape. I know, a yellow crescent for Muslims. A red maple leaf for Canadians. A yellow taco for Mexicans. A red five pointed star for Liberals. A green celery stalk for Vegans.
Interestingly, however, the United States (along with most spacefaring countries) has not ratified the 1979 Moon Treaty,
The L5 Society killed that one, I believe (too lazy to google it). I think we should have a treaty similar to one governing Antartica with one exception. Allowing each country's respective area of control the right to grant mining concessions.
Who would be those countries? US & Canada, European Union, Russia, India, and China. Would the Moon be divided into pie slices like Antarctica? No more like sections of an orange. Would the sections intersect at the north and south pole? No the from the point closest to earth to the far side.
All of this is pretty arbitrary, but it's a starting place to think about.
Oooh! I can't wait for the sequels: Re-Voltron, Voltron vs. Michael Boltron, Voltron Meets The Electric Johnson, and Voltron Gets His Robotic Ass Handed to Him.
You anime fans are far more pathetic than comic book fans. At least they grow up even if some still read comic books. And don't get me started on Dr. Who luser fans.
--
I didn't mean to say that the TARDIS should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage.
This guy is self-published. I can see why you put the smiley. Universal Publishers is a self publishing house like PublishAmerica.
This makes me suspicious. I did a google search and found that this guy has no credetentials. So I'd have to view his theory with great skepticism. I'm not going to shell out $30 to find out. And neither is this guy.
You aren't supposed to tell anyone.
Obligatory quote from "Office Space":
Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Reminds me of a Mah Jong tile set. Looks cool though.
It's full of cheese!
In some Asian countries it is common to be considererd one year old when you are born. So she could be younger. It's like buildings in Europe; their first floor is our second floor in America.
What we really need is the exact time of conception and we can measure in seconds from the time of conception how old both of them are.
Officer: "What were you doing on the night of..."
Windows wasn't ready for the desktop until Windows 2000 came out. It only took Microsoft seven years to catch up with the Mac. Was DOS (any flavor) ready for the desktop? No. Was Windows 3.1 ready for the desktop.? No. Was Windows 95 ready for the desktop? No. Was Windows 98 ready for the deskstop? No. So don't give me that crap about Linux not being ready for the desktop. I'd say that at worst, at worst, Linux for the desktop is at Windows 98 level and probably higher in terms of desktop usability. Where does he get off?
You this is why you should publish in Journal of Irreproducible Results. No can check up on your work. I think balderdash has a nicer ring to it than nonsense. Sounds more academic. 31.4159% (+/- 2.718% margin of error) of all studies are balderdash and poppycock.
OT but amusing: From Without a Clue:
Holmes: How can I be expected to maintain the character when you belittle me in front of those hooligans?
Watson: Character? Are we talking about the same man who once declared with total conviction that the late Colonel Howard had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt excrement?
Holmes: Is it my fault you have such poor handwriting?
Or did you just through the Nazi's in there to Troll?
The Nazis did have a rocket factory. That was just a historical aside. So I don't understand your point. But if you think I'm trolling, so be it.
Really? So according to your theory, cars, medical devices and every other thing should be produced BY HAND to ensure their safety?
I have no theories. I have only conjectures, hypotheses, and wild guesses. Besides, what's wrong with handcrafting? Use whatever method that gives you the best return on your investment. Anyway, I'm very dissappointed with NASA's recent manned space efforts. I don't think they really learned their lesson from Challenger hence Columbia. It's wait and see if they learned their lesson from Columbia. You know the old adage: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Are we becoming so risk averse that we will significantly slow or stop the tide of exploration?
... build a freaking factory to mass produce a SIMPLE, STANDARDIZED rocket.
What is this tide of exploration? A tide ebbs ands flows, rises and falls. The tide has fallen and the tide will rise again. They certainly weren't being risk averse when they launched Challenger. They weren't being risk averse when they didn't look at Columbia's wing with special telescopes.
Perhaps Nasa should take a lesson from Henry Ford.
Try taking your lesson from Wehrner von Braun. He built just such a rocket factory and did mass produce rockets. Of course, he used slave labor and it was built for the Nazis. Probably not what you had in mind.
Maybe someone knows better and doesn't want the shuttle to launch and made sure that window cover accidentally fell of to postpone the mission. I'm not supersticious, but NASA should have waited until it was a Friday the 13th. Not Wednesday the 13th to launch.
And I'm not sorry if someone else wrote same speculation earlier. I'm too lazy and tired to check all the other posts. So there!
I think the words of the master will show there is no sort of bias in video games. From Acts of Gord: The Book of Annoyances, Chapter 23, Verse Quotation:
"We would like a quote for the front page of the newspaper talking about videogame violence, and it's possible impact on society."
"Video games don't make people more violent, and I'll kill anyone who disagrees."
<dramatic pause>
"I don't think we can print that."