Re:Dean for President
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If your Ph.D. isn't in this field, your mentioning the Ph.D. is basically an attempt to get one up on me by artificially inflating your knowledge in this particular subject.
Actually, I rely quite heavily on the Internet to perform my research and collaborate with folks all over the world. My playing that card was in response to your rather knee jerk obnoxious statement, assessing the intellectual abilities of someone you know nothing about.
It can be argued. But it's a stupid argument. Because the Internet is a technological advancement of Arpanet, not an ideological one.
Sigh, what's the point?...........O.K., for education purposes.....Why do you discount any ideological arguments for the creation of the internet? Why do we do what we do? Why try to find a cure for cancer? Why did we go to the moon? Why try to find a cure for blindness? These are are achievements that are highly technical in nature, but they have ideological foundations. Just.....like....the....Internet.
Re:Dean for President
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· Score: 2, Flamebait
Dear God you're stupid.
My Ph.D. says otherwise.
The Internet was about building a very large network that could withstand physical attack.
No, that was Arpanet. It can be argued that the "Internet" is a much different beast.
Re:Liberal/Convervative mumbo jumbo
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You could also say that people who think that a UNIX-alike is the pinnacle of operating system design are "conservative."
Then how does this explain Al Gore's presence on Apple board of directors given that OS X is a "UNIX-alike"?:-)
Only if you are right wing Republican.:-) Most Democrats I know are more than happy to call themselves liberal.
Dean for President
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· Score: 5, Insightful
From the article: But they avoid visiting a fact that should be deeply troubling to every candidate running (and then governing) for money rather than for voters: Dean's lead is owed to a huge number of small donations, not to a small number of large special interests. If he's being bought, it's by his voters. This is a New Thing. It's also been made possible by the Net.
This was part of what the internet was all about: democratizing the ability of an individual outside the established powers to enter into competition or publication or public recognition. Dean has been smart about this and so far, he certainly has my vote.
In one of those quirks of life, the random function of iTunes started playing Tom Petty & The Hartbreakers, I Won't Back Down just as I pressed submit. Cool.
Hrmmm. I hope the schools maintain their privacy (for privacy's sake not to protect piracy), but I fear that the RIAA will start to pressure the donors of these schools (where many $$'s for research and support come from).
So, aside from the fact (presuming this was a xenotransplant) that this guy is going to have to take immunosuppresants for the rest of his life which have significant side effects like kidney damage, it will be interesting to see what happens. The tongue is actually a pretty impressive bit of tissue comprised of several layers of muscle, and the innervation of it from the hypoglossal CN is not insignificant.
Well, I guess it depends upon the industry. For years German and Japanese companies have been moving automobile production to the US because the labor and benefits are much cheaper, while IT is being more and more phased out to India and other countries.
Lemme see. Who are they going to run in the ads? Metallica? What I would like to see is some of the artists that were truly screwed by the RIAA and the labels represented here. People like Jen Trynin who is amazingly talented, but had a baaaad experience with the labels.
O.K., so I went to the site and started looking around. First thing I noticed is that again, Apple's look and feel have been copied. Badly. Even down to the ads. Oh, well, what about the content? Pretty good, although their jazz selection it pretty weak compared to the iTMS, but here is the other deal: lots of songs are listed as Not Available for Sale.????? What?!?
Next issue: Their big deal is that they are cheaper than iTMS, but just look at the wording. Songs as low as 70 cents and albums from 7.95. Bogus.
Also what about the rights management? Aside from the Windows Music format issue, we have no real way to deauthorize a computer that I can find and I have to use IE as my browser due to ActiveX. What about all the other browsers? And here is the biggest thing: No consistency. I have no idea which songs I can burn to CD or put on my iPod (or any other MP3 player that I can think of).
I'm suggesting you not attend any meetings where MBA's are present for at least 1 month starting immediately. It is your only hope at this point! Please call me if you need any support through your ordeal.
That's right, a tool. But how is crying about RFIDs when they're used by businesses to track inventory evil yet Woz (or anyone else in his area) using them to possibly track when residents have left their houses empty good?
If the RFIDs are used exclusively within the business for order/manufacturing/inventory/etc... then there is nothing wrong with them. The problem occurs when businesses continue to use the RFID to track purchases by individual consumers. Privacy advocates are understandably upset over the possibility of businesses creating databases with say, your credit card info, personal info, products you purchase, frequency of purchase, etc..etc..etc.. As anyone who has ever worked in databases will tell you, databases (again, tools), just call out to be populated and linked with other databases. The problem here is that once the laws are created that enable this sort of tracking, it is very hard to put the Djinn back into the bottle.
when someone mentions RFIDs, everyone gets all up in arms about it, but when it's Steve Wozniak behind them (these things are basically an advanced form of RFIDs and can be used in much the same way), it's wahoo! go woz! you rock man!
RFID's are a tool. As such they can be useful or they can be abused just like any other tool. (cars, pharmaceuticals, guns, databases etc...etc...etc...). What Woz has done is created a paradigm whereby individuals can harness the power of this technology to enable their lives through their own choice as opposed to RFID technology being used without permission or knowledge.
I was interested to find out find out they used the older Altivec instruction unit rather than the one from the G4e. Is there anyone that can comment of differences between the two Altivec units?
Re:calling clueful car manufacturers
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All you really need is a 1/8" stereo-->(2) RCA converter cable, right?
No, actually since the Toyota factory stereo does not have any audio in, I have to go through the CD-changer input which requires a special wiring harness that converts the CD-changer input to a couple of RCA jacks. From there you need an 1/8" stereo plug to RCA converter cable found anywhere. If I had more time, I might consider looking at the wiring diagram and making my own harness. However, that would probably take a couple of hours or more, so having the dealer do it is worth the money in terms of time saved for me.
Re:calling clueful car manufacturers
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Would it kill these guys to put a mini-jack on the dash (or somewhere) and an AUX setting on the stereo.
I have been using the cassette adapter option in my 4Runner, but recently I started looking into the option of having a direct plug in to the stereo from my iPod. A little poking around lead to this company. The short of it is that I can plug one of these adapters into the CD-changer input on the back of my factory stereo and then run a mini-jack from the iPod directly into it. My local Toyota dealer tells me they can install it with a factory appearance for $40 making this a must have option.
Craig does seem to be about as fair as he can be regarding the G5 benchmarks he posted.
I've spoken with Craig a number of times in discussion groups and have found him to be a careful scientist whose numbers can be trusted and I don't believe he would unfairly bias or skew the numbers in Apple's favor. Additionally, while he is often an Apple advocate, he has also been critical of Apple when appropriate.
Second of all, we don't all use Macs because we don't want to.
Fair enough. It's weird though, after trying OS X, I will never again use another OS for my work if I can help it. It is seriously efficient and has replaced in my workspace: 1) IRIX, 2) Win2k and 3) Classic MacOS doing everything in one box what the three OS's did in three boxes.
It's that simple and I wish you Mac zealots would get that through your thick heads at some point and quit bludgeoning us with your evangelism.
The parent post expressed a problem that is easily resolved by using OS X. It was a suggestion and a point for discussion. That is what./ is all about, right? I have said it before and I will say it again, like Linux advocacy, Mac advocacy is an effort at ensuring the tools I want and need are available to me in the future given the overwhelming market forces arrayed against "alternative" platforms like Linux and OS X.
you can use Virtual PC on this Toshiba laptop just as well as you can on a Mac (it's a Mac and Windows product, you know),
Very true. But then you are using a Toshiba laptop and not a sweet little Powerbook that provides good run time and performance in an elegantly designed and functional package.
Why should you need to spend extra money just to be able to dual-boot your computer?
I agree with you. Ideally one should not have to spend any extra money to get a dual boot environment. I too was running a triple boot environment as of last year. However, this year I have consolodated all of my software libraries and standardized on a single environment that is more efficient for me and I still get a webserver and workstation running at the same time.
But the story posted here seems to be nothing new. Few PC's I've seen lately come with regular old Windows install disks like you can get in a store. Most of them come with "restore" disks that simply put the drive back in the condition it was when you bought the machine.
There has been a trend toward this for years. Remember when OS's came with paper manuals? These were replaced by (often inferior) online documentation. When Microsoft got so big, it made financial sense to attempt the scenario you describe by not shipping boot disks at all. After all when you have 95% of the market, 50 cents saved per license adds up.
Of course, this is of no help if you somehow type "rd windows" at a DOS prompt by mistake or something and don't need or even want to actually format the drive.
Routine backups are of great importance here.:-) I routinely make backup images of my hard drives to an external hard drive just in case something happens. A simple restore takes care of this issue.
Still, I confess that I don't quite understand how this actually prevents you from setting up a dual boot.
It's stuff like this that make me wonder why some folks are not using Macs? They simply.....work. And with VirtualPC, (yes, I know unfortunately it is now a MS product) one can have as many boot environments as you want. Linux (pick your flavor), and Windows (again, pick your flavor) all on one machine. Of course I have since dropped even VirtualPC since OS X meets all of my needs now (including running all of my *nix code from my SGI's).
Except for the fact that the bullet (~1000m/s in most rifles) will break the sound barrier (~340 m/s).
While the parent post is disturbing, I will respond regarding this post. Sub-sonic ammo with silencers take care of most of that problem with traditional guns, while coil guns are tunable with the desired weight and size of the projectile used in them to keep the round sub-sonic.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
Sure this is great if you're doing simulations or animating/rendering stuff . But for Joe Schmoe who surfs the web and reads his e-mail, what's the big deal? How will this affect network security?
Aside from my rather glib answer to the parent post, I should have added that for the average Joe Schmoe surfing the web, grid computing is very important for web-searches, hierarchical analysis of searches and valid links and if the spam load keeps increasing, we will have to have grids just to handle the load of email onslaught. Seriously though, all you have to do is examine any of the search engine companies. Take Google for instance. How do you think they do what they do? Grid computing is the answer.
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If your Ph.D. isn't in this field, your mentioning the Ph.D. is basically an attempt to get one up on me by artificially inflating your knowledge in this particular subject.
Actually, I rely quite heavily on the Internet to perform my research and collaborate with folks all over the world. My playing that card was in response to your rather knee jerk obnoxious statement, assessing the intellectual abilities of someone you know nothing about.
It can be argued. But it's a stupid argument. Because the Internet is a technological advancement of Arpanet, not an ideological one.
Sigh, what's the point?...........O.K., for education purposes.....Why do you discount any ideological arguments for the creation of the internet? Why do we do what we do? Why try to find a cure for cancer? Why did we go to the moon? Why try to find a cure for blindness? These are are achievements that are highly technical in nature, but they have ideological foundations. Just.....like....the....Internet.
Dear God you're stupid.
My Ph.D. says otherwise.
The Internet was about building a very large network that could withstand physical attack.
No, that was Arpanet. It can be argued that the "Internet" is a much different beast.
You could also say that people who think that a UNIX-alike is the pinnacle of operating system design are "conservative."
:-)
Then how does this explain Al Gore's presence on Apple board of directors given that OS X is a "UNIX-alike"?
Many Americans use it as if it is an insult,
:-) Most Democrats I know are more than happy to call themselves liberal.
Only if you are right wing Republican.
From the article: But they avoid visiting a fact that should be deeply troubling to every candidate running (and then governing) for money rather than for voters: Dean's lead is owed to a huge number of small donations, not to a small number of large special interests. If he's being bought, it's by his voters. This is a New Thing. It's also been made possible by the Net.
This was part of what the internet was all about: democratizing the ability of an individual outside the established powers to enter into competition or publication or public recognition. Dean has been smart about this and so far, he certainly has my vote.
In one of those quirks of life, the random function of iTunes started playing Tom Petty & The Hartbreakers, I Won't Back Down just as I pressed submit. Cool.
Hrmmm. I hope the schools maintain their privacy (for privacy's sake not to protect piracy), but I fear that the RIAA will start to pressure the donors of these schools (where many $$'s for research and support come from).
So, aside from the fact (presuming this was a xenotransplant) that this guy is going to have to take immunosuppresants for the rest of his life which have significant side effects like kidney damage, it will be interesting to see what happens. The tongue is actually a pretty impressive bit of tissue comprised of several layers of muscle, and the innervation of it from the hypoglossal CN is not insignificant.
Well, I guess it depends upon the industry. For years German and Japanese companies have been moving automobile production to the US because the labor and benefits are much cheaper, while IT is being more and more phased out to India and other countries.
No, no, no. This is the MPAA, Jack Valenti's horde.
:-P
Totally different from Hillary Rosens' horde.
Ooops. Thanks for pointing that out.
Featuring starving artists in the movie industry
Lemme see. Who are they going to run in the ads? Metallica? What I would like to see is some of the artists that were truly screwed by the RIAA and the labels represented here. People like Jen Trynin who is amazingly talented, but had a baaaad experience with the labels.
O.K., so I went to the site and started looking around. First thing I noticed is that again, Apple's look and feel have been copied. Badly. Even down to the ads. Oh, well, what about the content? Pretty good, although their jazz selection it pretty weak compared to the iTMS, but here is the other deal: lots of songs are listed as Not Available for Sale.????? What?!?
Next issue: Their big deal is that they are cheaper than iTMS, but just look at the wording. Songs as low as 70 cents and albums from 7.95. Bogus.
Also what about the rights management? Aside from the Windows Music format issue, we have no real way to deauthorize a computer that I can find and I have to use IE as my browser due to ActiveX. What about all the other browsers? And here is the biggest thing: No consistency. I have no idea which songs I can burn to CD or put on my iPod (or any other MP3 player that I can think of).
Don't forget the spammers. We can take a few IPs away from them as well.
I'm suggesting you not attend any meetings where MBA's are present for at least 1 month starting immediately. It is your only hope at this point! Please call me if you need any support through your ordeal.
Someone mod this as funny. It's funny, laugh.
That's right, a tool. But how is crying about RFIDs when they're used by businesses to track inventory evil yet Woz (or anyone else in his area) using them to possibly track when residents have left their houses empty good?
If the RFIDs are used exclusively within the business for order/manufacturing/inventory/etc... then there is nothing wrong with them. The problem occurs when businesses continue to use the RFID to track purchases by individual consumers. Privacy advocates are understandably upset over the possibility of businesses creating databases with say, your credit card info, personal info, products you purchase, frequency of purchase, etc..etc..etc.. As anyone who has ever worked in databases will tell you, databases (again, tools), just call out to be populated and linked with other databases. The problem here is that once the laws are created that enable this sort of tracking, it is very hard to put the Djinn back into the bottle.
when someone mentions RFIDs, everyone gets all up in arms about it, but when it's Steve Wozniak behind them (these things are basically an advanced form of RFIDs and can be used in much the same way), it's wahoo! go woz! you rock man!
RFID's are a tool. As such they can be useful or they can be abused just like any other tool. (cars, pharmaceuticals, guns, databases etc...etc...etc...). What Woz has done is created a paradigm whereby individuals can harness the power of this technology to enable their lives through their own choice as opposed to RFID technology being used without permission or knowledge.
You go Woz!
I was interested to find out find out they used the older Altivec instruction unit rather than the one from the G4e. Is there anyone that can comment of differences between the two Altivec units?
All you really need is a 1/8" stereo-->(2) RCA converter cable, right?
No, actually since the Toyota factory stereo does not have any audio in, I have to go through the CD-changer input which requires a special wiring harness that converts the CD-changer input to a couple of RCA jacks. From there you need an 1/8" stereo plug to RCA converter cable found anywhere. If I had more time, I might consider looking at the wiring diagram and making my own harness. However, that would probably take a couple of hours or more, so having the dealer do it is worth the money in terms of time saved for me.
Would it kill these guys to put a mini-jack on the dash (or somewhere) and an AUX setting on the stereo.
I have been using the cassette adapter option in my 4Runner, but recently I started looking into the option of having a direct plug in to the stereo from my iPod. A little poking around lead to this company. The short of it is that I can plug one of these adapters into the CD-changer input on the back of my factory stereo and then run a mini-jack from the iPod directly into it. My local Toyota dealer tells me they can install it with a factory appearance for $40 making this a must have option.
Craig does seem to be about as fair as he can be regarding the G5 benchmarks he posted.
I've spoken with Craig a number of times in discussion groups and have found him to be a careful scientist whose numbers can be trusted and I don't believe he would unfairly bias or skew the numbers in Apple's favor. Additionally, while he is often an Apple advocate, he has also been critical of Apple when appropriate.
First of all, -1 Troll.
./ is all about, right? I have said it before and I will say it again, like Linux advocacy, Mac advocacy is an effort at ensuring the tools I want and need are available to me in the future given the overwhelming market forces arrayed against "alternative" platforms like Linux and OS X.
:-) I routinely make backup images of my hard drives to an external hard drive just in case something happens. A simple restore takes care of this issue.
:-)
Oh, please. Seriously?
Second of all, we don't all use Macs because we don't want to.
Fair enough. It's weird though, after trying OS X, I will never again use another OS for my work if I can help it. It is seriously efficient and has replaced in my workspace: 1) IRIX, 2) Win2k and 3) Classic MacOS doing everything in one box what the three OS's did in three boxes.
It's that simple and I wish you Mac zealots would get that through your thick heads at some point and quit bludgeoning us with your evangelism.
The parent post expressed a problem that is easily resolved by using OS X. It was a suggestion and a point for discussion. That is what
you can use Virtual PC on this Toshiba laptop just as well as you can on a Mac (it's a Mac and Windows product, you know),
Very true. But then you are using a Toshiba laptop and not a sweet little Powerbook that provides good run time and performance in an elegantly designed and functional package.
Why should you need to spend extra money just to be able to dual-boot your computer?
I agree with you. Ideally one should not have to spend any extra money to get a dual boot environment. I too was running a triple boot environment as of last year. However, this year I have consolodated all of my software libraries and standardized on a single environment that is more efficient for me and I still get a webserver and workstation running at the same time.
But the story posted here seems to be nothing new. Few PC's I've seen lately come with regular old Windows install disks like you can get in a store. Most of them come with "restore" disks that simply put the drive back in the condition it was when you bought the machine.
There has been a trend toward this for years. Remember when OS's came with paper manuals? These were replaced by (often inferior) online documentation. When Microsoft got so big, it made financial sense to attempt the scenario you describe by not shipping boot disks at all. After all when you have 95% of the market, 50 cents saved per license adds up.
Of course, this is of no help if you somehow type "rd windows" at a DOS prompt by mistake or something and don't need or even want to actually format the drive.
Routine backups are of great importance here.
Still, I confess that I don't quite understand how this actually prevents you from setting up a dual boot.
Marketshare.
That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. . .
It's stuff like this that make me wonder why some folks are not using Macs? They simply.....work. And with VirtualPC, (yes, I know unfortunately it is now a MS product) one can have as many boot environments as you want. Linux (pick your flavor), and Windows (again, pick your flavor) all on one machine. Of course I have since dropped even VirtualPC since OS X meets all of my needs now (including running all of my *nix code from my SGI's).
Except for the fact that the bullet (~1000m/s in most rifles) will break the sound barrier (~340 m/s).
While the parent post is disturbing, I will respond regarding this post. Sub-sonic ammo with silencers take care of most of that problem with traditional guns, while coil guns are tunable with the desired weight and size of the projectile used in them to keep the round sub-sonic.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
I guess I had better leave, huh? :)
:-)
I uh.....guess I should have seen that one coming.
Sure this is great if you're doing simulations or animating/rendering stuff . But for Joe Schmoe who surfs the web and reads his e-mail, what's the big deal? How will this affect network security?
Aside from my rather glib answer to the parent post, I should have added that for the average Joe Schmoe surfing the web, grid computing is very important for web-searches, hierarchical analysis of searches and valid links and if the spam load keeps increasing, we will have to have grids just to handle the load of email onslaught. Seriously though, all you have to do is examine any of the search engine companies. Take Google for instance. How do you think they do what they do? Grid computing is the answer.