Incendiary foaming at the mouth "warnings of planetary illness" do our overall chances of mitigating the reality of human-caused global warming no good either. Extremists undercut the message for anyone more moderate, and more likely to actually effect change.
I don't have anything against him flogging his book, at least he makes it pretty obvious. Just wish I'd thought of it.
I'm also sympathetic to the view of the earth acting like a living organism, in fact you can make the same argument for the whole universe. But because it looks like that doesn't actually mean it is a living thing, although I'm not sure how you'd define it at that macro a level.
The question is whether it actually gives a shit whether or not it's hospitable to life. As a member of the Church of the Utterly Indifferent God, somehow I doubt it. It certainly will be a problem for us though.
Sorry, you just reminded me of the History of Life Part I, where Moses comes out with the Fifteen Commandments... Oops, Ten Commandments...
This thread also strikes me as funny because I'm in the middle of archiving about 800 VHS tapes to DVD. Many are 15-20 years old, and I've been surprised at how well most of them still work. I wonder if the DVDs will last as long, but I figure it'll be easier to move the data off them since it won't have to be done in real time.
Besides, it's more of a space issue at this point. Which I'm guessing would be an issue with the stone tablets too!
Yes, why don't you go ahead and demonize SUV owners while you're at it? Because eveyone is the same, right? By the way, we're outlawing all those useless game consoles next month because I think they're a waste of time and make society worse. Not to mention you could be spending all that time and money on your education. What's the difference?
The whole point of the bill is to provide a path for people who are low-income or rural and do not have the $$$ for a new digital TV. CRTs last 15 years and a lot of people will still have one in three years. I think it's stupid, but it's an understandable political response to the old folks complaining. To a lot of elders and shut-ins that TV might be their main link to the outside, and they do not have the dough to get a new plasma screen.
Your assertion that TV in and of itself makes society worse in every way is just that, and no more. I happen to enjoy it, and when I don't I turn the channel or turn it off. I wish the gang-bangers in town would spend more time watching the Comedy Channel instead of getting out and stabbing each other.
I suggest you go ahead and offer the grandparent poster the $80 if you're sincere. And let us know if it made the difference between him attending college or not. My guess is: not.
>I'd rather go to college than watch TV Great, do that and see if it can help your reading skills.
They're not giving you help to buy a digital TV, they're giving $40 for a converter box so you can watch a crappy old analog TV with a nice digital signal. Would $40 really help your college fund?
What he said... unless you're not of the "human race", you shouldn't worry too much about the genetics. What you *should* worry about it is all the OTHER stuff, like diet/local pollutants, etc.
I remember this girl who worked in Ops, and after a sweaty encounter would light up a cig and say something like "hey, so whaddaya think of those new disc packs, eh?".
I did a wedding video for a friend, and when I went to show him on their 60" TV it was all whacked. They wouldn't let me change the TV, insisting that it was only the cable that was affected, not the DVD. Yeah, right. I had to render it again in letterbox to minimize the effect. Then I was there watching football and saw their foul-mouthed ADD kid flip the thing into stretch mode during commercials. Forgetting, of course, to flip it back, so then I had to point out we're watching a nice HD football game all distorted.
Little creep just couldn't stand the 4:3 commercials.
Good thing there's only one proper way to view the evidence of creation, eh? To say nothing of the life of a charismatic Jewish carpenter who never stopped being Jewish. Any theory that doesn't conform to ancient texts written when men believed in animal sacrifice and the sun revolved around the earth just can't possibly be true, right?
The fact is we can observe evolution. It's a theory like gravity is a theory, and nothing in it says "God" couldn't have arranged it all if that's what you prefer to believe. Others have picked Zeus or Odin instead. If you want to be "mainstream", consider something like two thirds of the people on the planet don't believe Jesus is God. The names and stories of various creation theories are simply cultural artifacts - else surely you would know it was the big Hindi elephant god, Lord Ganesh who created it all. Because, um, somebody said so long ago, eh?
So if it's all the same to you, I'll stick with "mainstream" observable reality and do the best we can with what it tells us, until we learn better.
Personally, I'd prefer a physician that works from science first. I'll get a witch doctor if the meds don't work.
Yes, it's terrible new people have moved into the neighborhood. I'd like to introduce you to my coworker - she started out hard-wiring programs into an IBM in the 60's.
Now any fool who can type can come along and they don't even have to hand-assemble their programs! Sheesh!
What makes you think this hasn't already happened? Alcohol or some derivative has been around since forever, and it seems to be a contributing factor to success in movies, music, government and business. I've never met a director/CEO that couldn't drink like a fish.
As far as I know the universe doesn't do controlled experiments (or at least doesn't publish them in Nature), so I'm not sure about the control group, but it would seem clear that not everyone could be drunk at the same time.
I laughed my butt off reading that. My predecessor used many of these techniques, and when the staff asked him how something worked he actually said "What, and let you know all my secrets?"
Include files copied into each folder so if you changed a structure you had to know to do it 5 places, constants defined as enums, non-std abbreviations, no vowels in any variables, the one-char names, on and on.
I really liked the text file hidden in an.exe, for which there was no project whatsoever. He hid a bunch of interpreted instructions there and had to seek past the.exe stuff to read and write it. I'm sure he cackled gleefully doing that one.
I ported a DOS character-based windowing library called C-Scape to the Amiga and OS/2 in 1990 or so. Worked pretty well. I never figured out why that kind of thing wasn't used more.
Yes, I've decided that 2+2 really IS 5, because I'm Chinese and 4 is such an unhappy number.
In other news, Roderick McGarvey yesterday decided that objects do NOT fall at 32m per second per second, but only at 1 m/s, and so floated off his 27th floor condo patio to the enjoyment of all.
>Even if the Intel PowerBooks only had an improved front side bus and otherwise equal performance, it'd blow this roof to Neptune and back.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I also noticed an article on the ATI card (X1000?) that does transcoding in like 20% of the normal time. I'm thinking next year might see some interesting hardware. I've been getting the most out of this poor little PowerBook for like 2 yrs now and I *already* have the Cinema Display... MUHAHAHAHAHA
I'm going to burn down a credit card listening to you guys.:-)
Ouch. I have a 1.2G ram 12" PowerBook G4 with a 23" Cinema display and it's pretty good for editing, but the encoding is killing me. The HD import takes like 4X the video length because it has to convert to the intermediate codec. Surprisingly I can edit HD no problem once it's in there, but I tried to export the file to DV Quicktime last night and it was still running when I left this morning. And once you go through all that and look at it, you don't want to decide to change the colors on your titling or something!
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Man, I gotta get more creative in my Googling....
A 50 yr old local blogger chick. Cool.
Yeah, that's the bad part - he might be right!
Incendiary foaming at the mouth "warnings of planetary illness" do our overall chances of mitigating the reality of human-caused global warming no good either. Extremists undercut the message for anyone more moderate, and more likely to actually effect change.
I don't have anything against him flogging his book, at least he makes it pretty obvious. Just wish I'd thought of it.
I'm also sympathetic to the view of the earth acting like a living organism, in fact you can make the same argument for the whole universe. But because it looks like that doesn't actually mean it is a living thing, although I'm not sure how you'd define it at that macro a level.
The question is whether it actually gives a shit whether or not it's hospitable to life. As a member of the Church of the Utterly Indifferent God, somehow I doubt it. It certainly will be a problem for us though.
Sorry, I was a fan of the old one. StarBuck is a man, and cylons do not kiss people.
What the heck, I'm watching the old ones on 20 yr old VHS.
Sci-Fi has been the pits for a long time, I'm glad to see it.
Sorry, you just reminded me of the History of Life Part I, where Moses comes out with the Fifteen Commandments... Oops, Ten Commandments...
This thread also strikes me as funny because I'm in the middle of archiving about 800 VHS tapes to DVD. Many are 15-20 years old, and I've been surprised at how well most of them still work. I wonder if the DVDs will last as long, but I figure it'll be easier to move the data off them since it won't have to be done in real time.
Besides, it's more of a space issue at this point. Which I'm guessing would be an issue with the stone tablets too!
Yes, why don't you go ahead and demonize SUV owners while you're at it? Because eveyone is the same, right? By the way, we're outlawing all those useless game consoles next month because I think they're a waste of time and make society worse. Not to mention you could be spending all that time and money on your education. What's the difference?
The whole point of the bill is to provide a path for people who are low-income or rural and do not have the $$$ for a new digital TV. CRTs last 15 years and a lot of people will still have one in three years. I think it's stupid, but it's an understandable political response to the old folks complaining. To a lot of elders and shut-ins that TV might be their main link to the outside, and they do not have the dough to get a new plasma screen.
Your assertion that TV in and of itself makes society worse in every way is just that, and no more. I happen to enjoy it, and when I don't I turn the channel or turn it off. I wish the gang-bangers in town would spend more time watching the Comedy Channel instead of getting out and stabbing each other.
I suggest you go ahead and offer the grandparent poster the $80 if you're sincere. And let us know if it made the difference between him attending college or not. My guess is: not.
>I'd rather go to college than watch TV
Great, do that and see if it can help your reading skills.
They're not giving you help to buy a digital TV, they're giving $40 for a converter box so you can watch a crappy old analog TV with a nice digital signal. Would $40 really help your college fund?
What he said... unless you're not of the "human race", you shouldn't worry too much about the genetics. What you *should* worry about it is all the OTHER stuff, like diet/local pollutants, etc.
I remember this girl who worked in Ops, and after a sweaty encounter would light up a cig and say something like "hey, so whaddaya think of those new disc packs, eh?".
Not exactly "Sin and the City" material.
Geez, I thought the mice were running everything... now the hamsters are getting into the act!
I did a wedding video for a friend, and when I went to show him on their 60" TV it was all whacked. They wouldn't let me change the TV, insisting that it was only the cable that was affected, not the DVD. Yeah, right. I had to render it again in letterbox to minimize the effect. Then I was there watching football and saw their foul-mouthed ADD kid flip the thing into stretch mode during commercials. Forgetting, of course, to flip it back, so then I had to point out we're watching a nice HD football game all distorted.
Little creep just couldn't stand the 4:3 commercials.
Good thing there's only one proper way to view the evidence of creation, eh? To say nothing of the life of a charismatic Jewish carpenter who never stopped being Jewish. Any theory that doesn't conform to ancient texts written when men believed in animal sacrifice and the sun revolved around the earth just can't possibly be true, right?
The fact is we can observe evolution. It's a theory like gravity is a theory, and nothing in it says "God" couldn't have arranged it all if that's what you prefer to believe. Others have picked Zeus or Odin instead. If you want to be "mainstream", consider something like two thirds of the people on the planet don't believe Jesus is God. The names and stories of various creation theories are simply cultural artifacts - else surely you would know it was the big Hindi elephant god, Lord Ganesh who created it all. Because, um, somebody said so long ago, eh?
So if it's all the same to you, I'll stick with "mainstream" observable reality and do the best we can with what it tells us, until we learn better.
Personally, I'd prefer a physician that works from science first. I'll get a witch doctor if the meds don't work.
Yes, it's terrible new people have moved into the neighborhood. I'd like to introduce you to my coworker - she started out hard-wiring programs into an IBM in the 60's.
Now any fool who can type can come along and they don't even have to hand-assemble their programs! Sheesh!
What makes you think this hasn't already happened? Alcohol or some derivative has been around since forever, and it seems to be a contributing factor to success in movies, music, government and business. I've never met a director/CEO that couldn't drink like a fish.
As far as I know the universe doesn't do controlled experiments (or at least doesn't publish them in Nature), so I'm not sure about the control group, but it would seem clear that not everyone could be drunk at the same time.
Just because someone claims to be in some tradtion or group doesn't mean the others agree.
The true Silent Majority.
I laughed my butt off reading that. My predecessor used many of these techniques, and when the staff asked him how something worked he actually said "What, and let you know all my secrets?"
.exe, for which there was no project whatsoever. He hid a bunch of interpreted instructions there and had to seek past the .exe stuff to read and write it. I'm sure he cackled gleefully doing that one.
Include files copied into each folder so if you changed a structure you had to know to do it 5 places, constants defined as enums, non-std abbreviations, no vowels in any variables, the one-char names, on and on.
I really liked the text file hidden in an
Oh, and he named the program after himself.
If you're going to all that trouble you might as well make it worthwhile!
Yeah, good thing too: kids just HATE "Fluffy Bunny's Candy".
Much better to give them the repair book for 1973 Volvo station wagon and a die-cast of a Cummins tractor.
meters, feet, what's a little unit or two between friends? :-)
I ported a DOS character-based windowing library called C-Scape to the Amiga and OS/2 in 1990 or so. Worked pretty well. I never figured out why that kind of thing wasn't used more.
Yes, I've decided that 2+2 really IS 5, because I'm Chinese and 4 is such an unhappy number.
In other news, Roderick McGarvey yesterday decided that objects do NOT fall at 32m per second per second, but only at 1 m/s, and so floated off his 27th floor condo patio to the enjoyment of all.
Let the individual decide! I love it!
>Even if the Intel PowerBooks only had an improved front side bus and otherwise equal performance, it'd blow this roof to Neptune and back.
:-)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I also noticed an article on the ATI card (X1000?) that does transcoding in like 20% of the normal time. I'm thinking next year might see some interesting hardware. I've been getting the most out of this poor little PowerBook for like 2 yrs now and I *already* have the Cinema Display... MUHAHAHAHAHA
I'm going to burn down a credit card listening to you guys.
Ouch. I have a 1.2G ram 12" PowerBook G4 with a 23" Cinema display and it's pretty good for editing, but the encoding is killing me. The HD import takes like 4X the video length because it has to convert to the intermediate codec. Surprisingly I can edit HD no problem once it's in there, but I tried to export the file to DV Quicktime last night and it was still running when I left this morning. And once you go through all that and look at it, you don't want to decide to change the colors on your titling or something!