...has tried to make microsoft look sexy for how long? And how come he always tries to do it with stuff over a hundred years old. First he was selling Vista with Seinfeld. And now this. Reality TV must be older than ms-dos 6.0! Who even watches that crap anymore? Certainly not young programmers. This guy wouldn't know sexy if it hit him on the head with a chair. Face it, there is nothing cool about the legacy wintel platform and the company associated with it. Pack your bags and move along.
And don't let me get started on the fact that nobody in their right mind would ever hire the kind of people who go on reality TV shows.
Well I have back/forward buttons on my mouse. They are amazing. And the best part is, I don't even have to swipe, the buttons are already under my thumb. But wait, there's more! The mouse actually has some 9 buttons and I have set combos to do everything I do. And the best part is, I don't even have to swipe, the buttons are already under my fingers!
Every action by man (good or not) requires choice. By deciding not to choose, you still have chosen.
You are absolutely right. This is why i said explicit choice, as in being aware of the choice at hand.
Again, you are on a slippery slope. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "truth", you are correct. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "fact", you are in a fix.
Well for example the fairy tale of the red riding hood contains the fact that children should not talk to strangers (or they will stumble upon the pedobear/wolf). Imbelished, yes, but so as to get the children to listen.
Most fairy tales are based on legend or mythology. Both legend and mythology (another name for an outdated religion, GASP!) contain bits of fact; real people, real places, real deeds, etc. But, like any good story they contain... imbelishments.
Actually, for most of the time the real people, places etc. are the imbelishments, Real, yes, but still mere narrative devices. The real truth and fact in mythology is about The Way Things Are(TM). The red riding hood communicates a very important point about the world, and this point makes the difference between having a happy childhood and being molested. Each and every one of these stories conveys an important point about the world. Not mere "truth", but fact in the most scientific meaning - tried out in countless observations and experiments, over the course of thousands of years, until no one in their right mind will doubt them any more....well until the majority of the population moves into towns and becomes ashamed of their village roots and the dialected stories of the countryfolk. To further the damage, along comes the scientific revolution - hard sciences - and finalizes the discrediting of mythology. Yet this mythology would be most accurately described as the once flourishing human sciences long since forgotten. My favourite (exxagerated) example is that of Freud - just by picking up again the single myth of Oedipus, he made some 50 years of psychology. Think then of the amount of knowledge lost and our smugness to be happy about it.
...it looked like google wave. But I guess that wasn't future enough.
Now that I thought about it for a couple of minutes, the future of e-mail consists solely of the X-Thread-Id header, which will finally allow to properly sort the friggin' archives. A quick google says that X-Thread-Id has already been proposed by someone in '09!
Once implemented, it will make e-mail 'feature-complete', which translates into english roughly as 'old, boring and forgotten'. After that it will be mostly impossible to get work done, so everyone will become a hipster or die grumpy. Thus the end of our beloved civilization, and the rise of the planet of apes or whatever.
Why would a "God" need to perform an experiment, when He already knows the outcome?
Now this question is simple enough to answer. He does not know the answer. The nature of the experiment is to find out whether the human race is able to freely AND wisely choose between go(o)d and (d)evil. Because the devil has been given a fair game, not even god can know the end result. The interesting thing is that choosing go(o)d requires explicit choice and effort from us, while choosing (d)evil pretty much just happens like a default setting. In the end there will of course be an epic final boss battle between god and devil, and the people on their freely chosen sides will tip the scales and decide the end result.
stories no more substantial than children's fairy tales.
And please do not underestimate the fairy tales. They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines. It is even rarer that these people will try to get the message. Try to think of these stories as if they are written by your wife. It is not about what she says, but what she wants you to figure out yourself.
the cable companies can increase their profitibility while at the same time blocking consumers from cutting the cord and getting their TV services online.
Does this mean that the current motivation behind mr. chairman is cable tv being worried about customers preferring internet video to their subscriptions?
He makes the claim that it would drive network efficiency.
This 'efficency' would then mean 'compensation for the loss of profit'?
Millions of people struggle to understand. Whatever. We do remember that we come from a times when there was no math around at all, right? So how much time do we spend being happy abouth the fact that millions of people do understand a payslip or a train timetable? Making fuss about these millions without context shows poor skills in philosophy and can ruin lives.
Some important questions to ask around these skills and the millions are here: How many and much total skills do people have? Is the total going up or down? Is the relative amount of math skills in this total going up or down? What are the other skills that might be replacing or being replaced by math skills? Which skills should be priorities? For which professions?
Yes i like Phillip Glass, and of course my fellow estonian Arvo Pärt, the holy minimalist. But public space these days doesn't tolerate pretty much anything. Haters gonna hate, complainers gonna complain. Since we cannot agree upon what to put in the public space, we get spontaneous crap from random noobs instead. I miss the good old days, and I'm not even 30 yet. Now get off my lawn:P
Even if one would accept the argument of entertainment not being information, it would still remain fact that copyright is just a means to the end of rewarding authorship. (This being itself a mean to the end of cultural progress.) The means of this end, the copyright, has been progressively abused by the owner of the printing press, to leave the authors with as little reward as possible (these days the author often ends up with net loss), while reaping massive profits for the industry. It is sad we are to accept such abuse, all while swallowing a lying rhetoric from the very same industry that has made a farce of our good intention to support the authors. It is therefore the moral duty of everyone to push for an end to this copyright regime, to dismantle this unenforceable legacy machine, and to start actually taking care of our authors.
I am from Estonia and our internet community has managed to put the ACTA issues into the public debate here. The politicians still seem unwilling to tackle the issues raised; furthermore, it seems they were about to sign it without reading it - even to the point where our local RIAA lackey was the one explaining the "governments position" on the TV yesterday. I do not know where this will end and while our government seems to be afraid to say no, we will not go down without a fight.
I believe the NASA budget was cut exactly because the US doesn't want to get into the next space race with China. And the truth is, the US would never survive it.
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... that a substance used to harm life would harm life?
...has tried to make microsoft look sexy for how long? And how come he always tries to do it with stuff over a hundred years old. First he was selling Vista with Seinfeld. And now this. Reality TV must be older than ms-dos 6.0! Who even watches that crap anymore? Certainly not young programmers. This guy wouldn't know sexy if it hit him on the head with a chair. Face it, there is nothing cool about the legacy wintel platform and the company associated with it. Pack your bags and move along.
And don't let me get started on the fact that nobody in their right mind would ever hire the kind of people who go on reality TV shows.
I might trust an 80 year old reactor, but I wouldn't trust the suits running it.
... at least NY solved the rat problem, right?
Well I have back/forward buttons on my mouse. They are amazing. And the best part is, I don't even have to swipe, the buttons are already under my thumb. But wait, there's more! The mouse actually has some 9 buttons and I have set combos to do everything I do. And the best part is, I don't even have to swipe, the buttons are already under my fingers!
Do not feed the trolls.
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Does this mean I could program the chip to deliver coffee on demand? Or Loli?
FTFY
You have a point there, too. Funny how that works, right? I guess there is stupid everywhere.
Every action by man (good or not) requires choice. By deciding not to choose, you still have chosen.
You are absolutely right. This is why i said explicit choice, as in being aware of the choice at hand.
Again, you are on a slippery slope. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "truth", you are correct. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "fact", you are in a fix.
Well for example the fairy tale of the red riding hood contains the fact that children should not talk to strangers (or they will stumble upon the pedobear/wolf). Imbelished, yes, but so as to get the children to listen.
Most fairy tales are based on legend or mythology. Both legend and mythology (another name for an outdated religion, GASP!) contain bits of fact; real people, real places, real deeds, etc. But, like any good story they contain ... imbelishments.
Actually, for most of the time the real people, places etc. are the imbelishments, Real, yes, but still mere narrative devices. The real truth and fact in mythology is about The Way Things Are(TM). The red riding hood communicates a very important point about the world, and this point makes the difference between having a happy childhood and being molested. ...well until the majority of the population moves into towns and becomes ashamed of their village roots and the dialected stories of the countryfolk.
Each and every one of these stories conveys an important point about the world. Not mere "truth", but fact in the most scientific meaning - tried out in countless observations and experiments, over the course of thousands of years, until no one in their right mind will doubt them any more.
To further the damage, along comes the scientific revolution - hard sciences - and finalizes the discrediting of mythology. Yet this mythology would be most accurately described as the once flourishing human sciences long since forgotten. My favourite (exxagerated) example is that of Freud - just by picking up again the single myth of Oedipus, he made some 50 years of psychology. Think then of the amount of knowledge lost and our smugness to be happy about it.
...it looked like google wave. But I guess that wasn't future enough.
Now that I thought about it for a couple of minutes, the future of e-mail consists solely of the X-Thread-Id header, which will finally allow to properly sort the friggin' archives. A quick google says that X-Thread-Id has already been proposed by someone in '09!
Once implemented, it will make e-mail 'feature-complete', which translates into english roughly as 'old, boring and forgotten'. After that it will be mostly impossible to get work done, so everyone will become a hipster or die grumpy. Thus the end of our beloved civilization, and the rise of the planet of apes or whatever.
This universe is God's experiment in free will.
Why would a "God" need to perform an experiment, when He already knows the outcome?
Now this question is simple enough to answer. He does not know the answer. The nature of the experiment is to find out whether the human race is able to freely AND wisely choose between go(o)d and (d)evil. Because the devil has been given a fair game, not even god can know the end result. The interesting thing is that choosing go(o)d requires explicit choice and effort from us, while choosing (d)evil pretty much just happens like a default setting. In the end there will of course be an epic final boss battle between god and devil, and the people on their freely chosen sides will tip the scales and decide the end result.
stories no more substantial than children's fairy tales.
And please do not underestimate the fairy tales. They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines. It is even rarer that these people will try to get the message. Try to think of these stories as if they are written by your wife. It is not about what she says, but what she wants you to figure out yourself.
the cable companies can increase their profitibility while at the same time blocking consumers from cutting the cord and getting their TV services online.
Does this mean that the current motivation behind mr. chairman is cable tv being worried about customers preferring internet video to their subscriptions?
He makes the claim that it would drive network efficiency.
This 'efficency' would then mean 'compensation for the loss of profit'?
Well I have no idea about such a law, but if you find a way to make North Korea actually follow an international law, pleas let the world know ASAP.
I vastly prefer KDE over that Unity abortion Canonical is trying to foist on us.
branch out into new markets such as a Kubuntu Active flavour for tablets
Well this actually sounds like a plan to turn Kubuntu into another abortion, something that would be called Kunity or whatever.
Coming to a pub near you!
And some for Leeroy Jenkins...
Millions of people struggle to understand. Whatever. We do remember that we come from a times when there was no math around at all, right? So how much time do we spend being happy abouth the fact that millions of people do understand a payslip or a train timetable? Making fuss about these millions without context shows poor skills in philosophy and can ruin lives.
Some important questions to ask around these skills and the millions are here:
How many and much total skills do people have?
Is the total going up or down?
Is the relative amount of math skills in this total going up or down?
What are the other skills that might be replacing or being replaced by math skills?
Which skills should be priorities? For which professions?
Yes i like Phillip Glass, and of course my fellow estonian Arvo Pärt, the holy minimalist. But public space these days doesn't tolerate pretty much anything. Haters gonna hate, complainers gonna complain. Since we cannot agree upon what to put in the public space, we get spontaneous crap from random noobs instead. :P
I miss the good old days, and I'm not even 30 yet. Now get off my lawn
I would also go with Eno's "Music for Airports". A wonderful piece that does wonders with the stressful atmosphere of contemporary travel.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian company that could influence internal Russian enforcement actions.
You must be new to the eastern hemisphere. In the sovereign democracy of Russia, the enforcement influences companies, not the other way around.
Even if one would accept the argument of entertainment not being information, it would still remain fact that copyright is just a means to the end of rewarding authorship. (This being itself a mean to the end of cultural progress.)
The means of this end, the copyright, has been progressively abused by the owner of the printing press, to leave the authors with as little reward as possible (these days the author often ends up with net loss), while reaping massive profits for the industry.
It is sad we are to accept such abuse, all while swallowing a lying rhetoric from the very same industry that has made a farce of our good intention to support the authors. It is therefore the moral duty of everyone to push for an end to this copyright regime, to dismantle this unenforceable legacy machine, and to start actually taking care of our authors.
I have always noticed, the bigger you get, the more power hungry...
I am from Estonia and our internet community has managed to put the ACTA issues into the public debate here. The politicians still seem unwilling to tackle the issues raised; furthermore, it seems they were about to sign it without reading it - even to the point where our local RIAA lackey was the one explaining the "governments position" on the TV yesterday. I do not know where this will end and while our government seems to be afraid to say no, we will not go down without a fight.
I believe the NASA budget was cut exactly because the US doesn't want to get into the next space race with China. And the truth is, the US would never survive it.