Yeah, except one is a myth and a made up story that never really happened, and the other is something that actually happened and they learned from their mistakes and went on to further successes.
Yeah, you're right about that. And that's an obvious one. But *all* the search engines were right if you were very specific -- and if you weren't spot on, you got shit. Google's getting like that.
How much do you want to bet that Howard Deans "tens of thousands of small contributions" is funnelled money?
The *only* innovation in the Internet is the lack of oversight. E-Bay is basically just what other countries call the black market: not everybody on e-bay is fencing stolen goods but everybody fencing stolen goods is on E-Bay. Of *course* they make lots of money: at best it's an unregulated market.
We are basically developing a "leisure privileged class" like Britain used to have. The American Revolution is over.
Google's search results for some searches are awful. I believe that google will fail utimately just like Yahoo, altavista, hotbot, excite. Making money and sucking are inverse qualities. Once they start to fiddle with the results to make $, people will get turned off and leave.
Usually the difference between a shitty CS experience and a good one is how much information the CS person has -- do they just have the same data that's on the internet, or do they have "the private system"?
It's true that some shitty CS domestic orgs have only the public internet terminal in front of them. So far, the several times I could tell I was talking to an Indian, I could tell they had a "public-facing" terminal only -- which makes sense, because since a company doesn't have a HQ in India, they probably aren't going to expose their private apps there.
It stands to reason that if you are in a remote site you are going to have (on balance) less access to "private" information than if you are in the company's HQ. It's a social thing.
To sum up, there can be shitty CS operations in the US, but until companies move a primary HQ to India, they probably are going to have "less complete access" to the companies private backbone.
Any company which publicy exposes its private backbone over the Internet is somebody I don't want to do business with anyway.
Because there are plenty of well-educated Indians who speak fluent western English. All they need is a little practice on their idioms and pronunciation, and you can't tell them from a native of Duluth. Not over the phone anyway.
Maybe before we realized that. Now, since I'm expecting it, I can hear the slight British twinge which gives it away. Plus Indians tend to overpronounce certain consonants, or something. I dunno, but the last couple times I've heard that American name, it's obvious its an Indian.
Also the fact that they can only perform the most rote actions that I could do on the internet anyway.
Simple: encourage instability in Kashmir and a nuclear exchange. China freaks out, turns western Pakistan into glass. Before they go, Pakistan lobs a few missiles into Bombay.
Al Quaeda is dead and Americans are scared to invest in India. China is our buddy for playing the bad guy. Win win, win.
Remember, "free" in free software means "freedom". It's super-ironic that someone would declare the end of "free" -- it shows where his head is at.
Maybe the companies making "free" software should spend more time remembering that it means "freedom" and they'd make a buck as well. People always gravitate to the better mousetrap.
Oh, I knew that. I got a BS in math, but I never took any topology classes. I know a bit informally though, via my bro. in law who got a masters.
Even though they're topologically equivalent, I would have expected them to call the "obloids" or "closed simply connected two dimensional surfaces", instead of spheres. In linear algebra or measure theory its usually called a "ball".
I have a feeling that most of the " choose OpenOffice" things you see, including this one, are just negotiating tactics to get Microsoft to drop the price. Does anybody have any data about long-term switches away from Microsoft? Any data of people who ultimately buy Microsoft anyway?
Microsoft does a minor reorg every six months and a major reorg every 18 months. This is just some PR around an otherwise ordinary event trying to get you to associate MS development processes with Linux.
I swear, it's like watching someone in a bad marriage: *this* time s/he'll be different! It's gonna work this time.
It's just so MS can compute the COGS on Longhorn better, and, like I said, it's just something that happens all the time anyway.
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I have 3 library cards, and get a lot of DVDs, CDs, and books from them. (Lotsa free time).
I got tired of having to go to all 3 websites to see what to take back each day, so I wrote a small bash/curl script so I could do it at the command line.
There are *lots* of things like this that could be done if the web were more semantic.
When I was over in France I saw a doco about one of the unintended consequences of the Chunnel: muslim & eastern european refuges. It's easier for them to cross in the train. (I can't remember which way they were headed! but I know it was an "issue" the news was talking about). I think they'd set up a camp for them because they had no money and nowhere else to go.
I'd think a link from Europe to Africa will be very severely subject to this problem.
All I'd like to do is to be able to fly across the country in 2 hours for about $200, please.
I'd like to visit family more often. You can zip up and down the east coast or west coast cheap and quickly, but cross country is still $500 and an all-day affair, typically.
We in the west are kind of neutered and dickless. In the mideast they still have a pair of balls, but they're struggling to "bring themselves up" to a higher intellectual plane.
A lot of shit "dickless" people expect to be the case doesn't hold true in that mindset. But they're also plagued with self-doubt: Am I good enough? Are they laughing at me?
It's like, you can't go into a low-class bunch of people and start acting all upity. They'll break a fucking bottle over your head.
(Bottle over head == Bombs).
You have to treat them with respect but also kick the shit out of them, but be buds too. It's a junk-yard dog thing.
They used to teach specialized techniques in the 1800s for "compound arithmetic", so you don't have to "blow up" the compounds into their constituent parts. You just gave the answer in pennies or ounces; they needed to know how many schillings or stone + pence or drams.:-)
The dot-com era showed how clearly and blatantly easy it is to misrepresent your revenue, and your whole value, to an extrordinary degree.
And here comes somebody with a result that *shouldn't* be happening, and yet it is happening, and people just go: "Well, gosh, ain't that internet something!"
No, it ain't. I'm not saying it's definite, I'm just saying "raising wildly unexpected amounts of money" sets my bullshit radar off. I would think all the frauds of the past 3 years would make you suspicous too.
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Yeah, except one is a myth and a made up story that never really happened, and the other is something that actually happened and they learned from their mistakes and went on to further successes.
Yeah, you're right about that. And that's an obvious one. But *all* the search engines were right if you were very specific -- and if you weren't spot on, you got shit. Google's getting like that.
It's subjective.
Tell me that doesn't suck.
She's got a web site doesn't she? An authoritative source? Do you see it?
Those are all obviously paid links.
Fraud is the only internet business model.
How much do you want to bet that Howard Deans "tens of thousands of small contributions" is funnelled money?
The *only* innovation in the Internet is the lack of oversight. E-Bay is basically just what other countries call the black market: not everybody on e-bay is fencing stolen goods but everybody fencing stolen goods is on E-Bay. Of *course* they make lots of money: at best it's an unregulated market.
We are basically developing a "leisure privileged class" like Britain used to have. The American Revolution is over.
Google's search results for some searches are awful. I believe that google will fail utimately just like Yahoo, altavista, hotbot, excite. Making money and sucking are inverse qualities. Once they start to fiddle with the results to make $, people will get turned off and leave.
I've already started to use Teoma.
Since GPS/maps is allowed, but computers are disallowed: are computers being used as GPS/maps allowed? I bet the cop would pull you over anyway.
I use my laptop with an Earthmate sometimes. So they are saying a PocketPC/Palm with a GPS is okay but a laptop is not?
Usually the difference between a shitty CS experience and a good one is how much information the CS person has -- do they just have the same data that's on the internet, or do they have "the private system"?
It's true that some shitty CS domestic orgs have only the public internet terminal in front of them. So far, the several times I could tell I was talking to an Indian, I could tell they had a "public-facing" terminal only -- which makes sense, because since a company doesn't have a HQ in India, they probably aren't going to expose their private apps there.
It stands to reason that if you are in a remote site you are going to have (on balance) less access to "private" information than if you are in the company's HQ. It's a social thing.
To sum up, there can be shitty CS operations in the US, but until companies move a primary HQ to India, they probably are going to have "less complete access" to the companies private backbone.
Any company which publicy exposes its private backbone over the Internet is somebody I don't want to do business with anyway.
Maybe before we realized that. Now, since I'm expecting it, I can hear the slight British twinge which gives it away. Plus Indians tend to overpronounce certain consonants, or something. I dunno, but the last couple times I've heard that American name, it's obvious its an Indian. Also the fact that they can only perform the most rote actions that I could do on the internet anyway.
Simple: encourage instability in Kashmir and a nuclear exchange. China freaks out, turns western Pakistan into glass. Before they go, Pakistan lobs a few missiles into Bombay.
Al Quaeda is dead and Americans are scared to invest in India. China is our buddy for playing the bad guy. Win win, win.
Remember, "free" in free software means "freedom". It's super-ironic that someone would declare the end of "free" -- it shows where his head is at.
Maybe the companies making "free" software should spend more time remembering that it means "freedom" and they'd make a buck as well. People always gravitate to the better mousetrap.
Oh, I knew that. I got a BS in math, but I never took any topology classes. I know a bit informally though, via my bro. in law who got a masters.
Even though they're topologically equivalent, I would have expected them to call the "obloids" or "closed simply connected two dimensional surfaces", instead of spheres. In linear algebra or measure theory its usually called a "ball".
Surely they mean obloid? An egg doesn't have holes. Can anybody provide a better description?
I have a feeling that most of the " choose OpenOffice" things you see, including this one, are just negotiating tactics to get Microsoft to drop the price. Does anybody have any data about long-term switches away from Microsoft? Any data of people who ultimately buy Microsoft anyway?
Not wishful thinking data: objective stuff.
"Some hackers think linux is neat."
Film at 11.
I can't believe it: Perens left the "e" out of userlinux.com in the link to his own whitepaper on his own site!
Microsoft does a minor reorg every six months and a major reorg every 18 months. This is just some PR around an otherwise ordinary event trying to get you to associate MS development processes with Linux.
I swear, it's like watching someone in a bad marriage: *this* time s/he'll be different! It's gonna work this time.
It's just so MS can compute the COGS on Longhorn better, and, like I said, it's just something that happens all the time anyway.
I have 3 library cards, and get a lot of DVDs, CDs, and books from them. (Lotsa free time).
I got tired of having to go to all 3 websites to see what to take back each day, so I wrote a small bash/curl script so I could do it at the command line.
There are *lots* of things like this that could be done if the web were more semantic.
When I was over in France I saw a doco about one of the unintended consequences of the Chunnel: muslim & eastern european refuges. It's easier for them to cross in the train. (I can't remember which way they were headed! but I know it was an "issue" the news was talking about). I think they'd set up a camp for them because they had no money and nowhere else to go.
I'd think a link from Europe to Africa will be very severely subject to this problem.
All I'd like to do is to be able to fly across the country in 2 hours for about $200, please.
I'd like to visit family more often. You can zip up and down the east coast or west coast cheap and quickly, but cross country is still $500 and an all-day affair, typically.
Another example of being out of touch.
Just think about the type of person you're describing vs. the type of person I'm describing.
Those are two different people.
We in the west are kind of neutered and dickless. In the mideast they still have a pair of balls, but they're struggling to "bring themselves up" to a higher intellectual plane.
A lot of shit "dickless" people expect to be the case doesn't hold true in that mindset. But they're also plagued with self-doubt: Am I good enough? Are they laughing at me?
It's like, you can't go into a low-class bunch of people and start acting all upity. They'll break a fucking bottle over your head.
(Bottle over head == Bombs).
You have to treat them with respect but also kick the shit out of them, but be buds too. It's a junk-yard dog thing.
(I'm American.)
It amazes me to see so many Westerners fundamentally misunderstand the psychology of the Middle eastern male population.
I never see any proper treatment of a man as a full man: cruel, craven, proud, smart, base, spiteful, avaricous, simple. Just a man.
We're so used to hollywood, they're just men. I'm a man. I know how they think.
The one thing you have to remember: power is everything.
That's what closets are for.
How many dozens is that?
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They used to teach specialized techniques in the 1800s for "compound arithmetic", so you don't have to "blow up" the compounds into their constituent parts. You just gave the answer in pennies or ounces; they needed to know how many schillings or stone + pence or drams.
How many times can the American people be fooled?
The dot-com era showed how clearly and blatantly easy it is to misrepresent your revenue, and your whole value, to an extrordinary degree.
And here comes somebody with a result that *shouldn't* be happening, and yet it is happening, and people just go: "Well, gosh, ain't that internet something!"
No, it ain't. I'm not saying it's definite, I'm just saying "raising wildly unexpected amounts of money" sets my bullshit radar off. I would think all the frauds of the past 3 years would make you suspicous too.