He's got a point... Over the weekend when I left The Da Vinci Code, as I left the theatre, it dawned on me how reserved Christians are, especially vs. Muslims. I mean look what happened over a few innocuous cartoons that were seen as offensive to Muslims!
Did you see any movie theatres being burned over DVC? Hell, other than a few scattered news stories of a few people with picket signs deep in he bible belt, did you even see any protest that even comes CLOSE to what the Muslims do at the drop of a hat?
Where's the death warrant for Dan Brown for the novel like Solomon Rushdie, or Ron Howard like Theo Van Gogh?
Seriously, you can't even come close to saying that Christians and Muslims are in the same boat when it comes to how they deal with criticism.
Well, at least since the Inquisition that is. I think that's the problem. Maybe the Muslims need a serious fuck-up like that to realize that they are behaving like animals right now.
"Still, it would be nice to have some major shakeup in physics... there really haven't been any in my lifetime"... that actually makes a bit of difference in the lives of anyone other than physicists.
SGI, back in the early and mid 90's was the best place I've ever worked, or could imagine working. SO many cool, fun, and super intelligent people. Of course that was before TJ thought he was a rock star and various other blunders caused it to implode.
Why not just burn his book then? I love when liberals that want to shove all forms of "open thinking" and "alternative lifestyles" down MY throat, are the same lefto-fascists that can't STAND to even consider an alternative point of view that differs from their Air-America spoon fed pablum.
Perhaps the guy is right leaning? I've read his stuff, and I've read the cookery that talks about how EG is some kind of bio of Hitler, apology of Hitler, whatever. Whatever. Here's more tinfoil.
As for that article, care to point out what's wrong with it? I don't see any of his points as being demonstrably incorrect. Why not show me if you have some time after your little lefto book burning.
Perhaps if the US health system had not devolved to a racket run by marketing companies that masquerade as health insurance firms then doctors would not have been forced to become nothing more than drones with clipboards, checklists, and drug company provided pamphlets.
My sister-in-law almost died last year because a TEAM of doctors at Sutter Health that were experts kept mis-diagnosing her illness. They tried a treatment that put her in ICU for a _month_.
If it was not for several tens of pages printed from sites like WebMD, etc. about her illness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombotic_thrombocy topenic_purpura Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, TTP. Very rare, they REFUSED to believe that's what was causing the problems. They REFUSED to offer the treatments in all the stuff I was digging up. When they finally did begin the treatments that I had been urging them to begin weeks before, she got better...
Next... My father-in-law just about died this last spring. They were POSITIVE that he had pneumonia. classic case. Gave him just about every antibiotic under the sun, and he kept getting worse. well, it turns out that around here (Sacramento Valley) there is a kind of rare condition called "Valley Fever" that is often mis-diagnosed as pneumonia. We told the Dr.s that after a week of him sitting in a hospital bed as we trusted their "expert" opinions to JUST FUSKING TEST FOR VALLEY FEVER, guess what happened... He had Valley Fever!
In both cases, if the Drs. had done the same research that I was able to do, they would have at least explored the options and saved a shit load of money, and just about killed two members of of my wife's family.
But as soon as you show up at the Dr. with printouts from WebMD, they immediately dismiss anything you say.
This is mostly because the health system allows Dr.s 10 minutes per patent, and will only pay for tests if they are absolutely necessary.
If you have not had to deal with this kind of scenario, consider yourself lucky.
1) It's ironic that the guy's "job" is "privacy chief" at a company that's reason for being is to invade other people's privacy. Fox guarding the hen house.
2) It's interesting that he was helpful enough to tell people what tools to use to actually do the blocking.
This guy is clearly a 'tard. But then again, look who he works for.
Sure, as long as it's cheap and user friendly, or at least not user hostile. It should be priced so that your volume discount in components should offset the labor to do the system integration/assembly work so that from my stand-point I can buy a system like this for same cost (minus my time) to build it myself. Once I own it, and it works, then I can worry 'bout modify it.
Is there not a viable business model (cost, profit, customer service) that takes the Tivo model to the next level by having a more general purpose computing device as a digital media center, without the outrageous "premium" that comes with MS's Media Center PC's.
Can't a sub $1,000 linux based, HD, headless digital media centric PC be designed, marketed, and built so that it "Just Works?"
Seriously, I'd like to buy one. just not for $2,000
There's no way I'm going to blow the type of time it would take to roll my own.
90% of the public is simply unable to think, but merely jumps from one belief pattern to another. That my friends is the problem. The other 90% doesn't care...
I've been on PC's for YEARS. I've got a large collection of software that I need to do my job and my hobbies (graphic design, web development, and music production).
The value of software (Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Ableton Live, Project 5, etc.) is so much higher than the hardware. I'd have to shell out 2x to 3x to replace all my PC software with Mac software.
I just bought a new PC to use as a DAW with my electronic drums. I REALLY wanted to get a Mac, but instead I ended up doing the New Egg thing and building an AMD based system. God what a horrible experience. Trying to get XP installed on a SATA system... First time in years I got a PC with no floppy, and the first time I NEEDED a floppy because XP, even SP2 does not have SATA drivers!!! I should have just bought a Dell and overpaid for crap components that at least worked with less than three days of fiddling!
But what I REALLY wanted was a G5!!! Apple needs to come up with a way to make the software switch more easy to swallow.
It could be that you have not noticed that most governments are paid for by big corporations. They own the government so they can do what they want with their outsourced marketing enforcement division.. errrr... elected officials.
Yes, this post is funny, but I wonder how something like this would play out? With all the problems with 99% of computer users not knowing enough to keep spyware and virii off their computers, it seems that if someone at Company A, wanted to hurt Company B by leaking info, then the best way to do it would be to set up an information chain like you describe. Send a spoofed email to a fanboy blog, pretend to be a VP for product development, etc. and say that product iFoo is going to be released in a week. But they'd like your little fanboy blog to "leak" some initial info to drive buzz.
Fanboy sees the email from company, B, thinks "Sweet! I've done such a good job on my site that Company B wants to reward me with a "scoop"...
Hilarity ensures...
sure ignorance of the law is no excuse, but how can mortal computer users have a clue about email headers, etc.?
So why don't you make one in your damn country? I'm so sick of foreigners bitching and moaning about the US=Centric nature of this thing on the web or that thing on the web... Shit, it's a free web, make your own damn site that does a search on the best cheese producer in Lichtenstein or something. Last I checked Google was a US company. Deal with it.
I'm not the most tech savvy person around, but it seems to me that it should be possible to have a BIG master list that serves the purpose that suprnova serves that itself is passed around by a bittorrent like application. That way there's no one place to go after.
I guess you'd have to have some way of initially connecting "your" bittorrent to this network to get "on board", but once you're in, you're in, and no one can ever break it apart.
Seems pretty straight forward to me, what's wrong with this idea?
That's gotta be worth at least $20 per hour flippen burgers
Holy crap! You can make $20.00 and hour flipping burgers in Canada?
Is that Canadian money or real money?
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He's got a point... Over the weekend when I left The Da Vinci Code, as I left the theatre, it dawned on me how reserved Christians are, especially vs. Muslims. I mean look what happened over a few innocuous cartoons that were seen as offensive to Muslims!
Did you see any movie theatres being burned over DVC? Hell, other than a few scattered news stories of a few people with picket signs deep in he bible belt, did you even see any protest that even comes CLOSE to what the Muslims do at the drop of a hat?
Where's the death warrant for Dan Brown for the novel like Solomon Rushdie, or Ron Howard like Theo Van Gogh?
Seriously, you can't even come close to saying that Christians and Muslims are in the same boat when it comes to how they deal with criticism.
Well, at least since the Inquisition that is. I think that's the problem. Maybe the Muslims need a serious fuck-up like that to realize that they are behaving like animals right now.
While the sentiment of the quote is good and all, it's also most likly made up. http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp
I'd phrase it as:
"Still, it would be nice to have some major shakeup in physics... there really haven't been any in my lifetime"... that actually makes a bit of difference in the lives of anyone other than physicists.
SGI, back in the early and mid 90's was the best place I've ever worked, or could imagine working. SO many cool, fun, and super intelligent people. Of course that was before TJ thought he was a rock star and various other blunders caused it to implode.
Very sad passing of an amazing company.
Why not just burn his book then? I love when liberals that want to shove all forms of "open thinking" and "alternative lifestyles" down MY throat, are the same lefto-fascists that can't STAND to even consider an alternative point of view that differs from their Air-America spoon fed pablum.
Perhaps the guy is right leaning? I've read his stuff, and I've read the cookery that talks about how EG is some kind of bio of Hitler, apology of Hitler, whatever. Whatever. Here's more tinfoil.
As for that article, care to point out what's wrong with it? I don't see any of his points as being demonstrably incorrect. Why not show me if you have some time after your little lefto book burning.
PLEASE click that link and tell Apple NOT to do ANYTHING SonyBMG wants them to! Turn this around and shove it up Sony's ass!
For what it's worth, the "Go" menu is a great thing to have on a touch based or tablet PC.
Don't forget that you can also use ALT-TAB.
Mouse down on an object, drag, ALT-TAB to target window while mouse still down, drag to drop location, mouse up.
Perhaps if the US health system had not devolved to a racket run by marketing companies that masquerade as health insurance firms then doctors would not have been forced to become nothing more than drones with clipboards, checklists, and drug company provided pamphlets.
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My sister-in-law almost died last year because a TEAM of doctors at Sutter Health that were experts kept mis-diagnosing her illness. They tried a treatment that put her in ICU for a _month_.
If it was not for several tens of pages printed from sites like WebMD, etc. about her illness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombotic_thromboc
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, TTP. Very rare, they REFUSED to believe that's what was causing the problems. They REFUSED to offer the treatments in all the stuff I was digging up. When they finally did begin the treatments that I had been urging them to begin weeks before, she got better...
Next... My father-in-law just about died this last spring. They were POSITIVE that he had pneumonia. classic case. Gave him just about every antibiotic under the sun, and he kept getting worse. well, it turns out that around here (Sacramento Valley) there is a kind of rare condition called "Valley Fever" that is often mis-diagnosed as pneumonia. We told the Dr.s that after a week of him sitting in a hospital bed as we trusted their "expert" opinions to JUST FUSKING TEST FOR VALLEY FEVER, guess what happened... He had Valley Fever!
In both cases, if the Drs. had done the same research that I was able to do, they would have at least explored the options and saved a shit load of money, and just about killed two members of of my wife's family.
But as soon as you show up at the Dr. with printouts from WebMD, they immediately dismiss anything you say.
This is mostly because the health system allows Dr.s 10 minutes per patent, and will only pay for tests if they are absolutely necessary.
If you have not had to deal with this kind of scenario, consider yourself lucky.
1) It's ironic that the guy's "job" is "privacy chief" at a company that's reason for being is to invade other people's privacy. Fox guarding the hen house. 2) It's interesting that he was helpful enough to tell people what tools to use to actually do the blocking. This guy is clearly a 'tard. But then again, look who he works for.
Sure, as long as it's cheap and user friendly, or at least not user hostile. It should be priced so that your volume discount in components should offset the labor to do the system integration/assembly work so that from my stand-point I can buy a system like this for same cost (minus my time) to build it myself. Once I own it, and it works, then I can worry 'bout modify it.
Is there not a viable business model (cost, profit, customer service) that takes the Tivo model to the next level by having a more general purpose computing device as a digital media center, without the outrageous "premium" that comes with MS's Media Center PC's. Can't a sub $1,000 linux based, HD, headless digital media centric PC be designed, marketed, and built so that it "Just Works?" Seriously, I'd like to buy one. just not for $2,000 There's no way I'm going to blow the type of time it would take to roll my own.
90% of the public is simply unable to think, but merely jumps from one belief pattern to another. That my friends is the problem.
The other 90% doesn't care...
I've been on PC's for YEARS. I've got a large collection of software that I need to do my job and my hobbies (graphic design, web development, and music production).
The value of software (Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Ableton Live, Project 5, etc.) is so much higher than the hardware. I'd have to shell out 2x to 3x to replace all my PC software with Mac software.
I just bought a new PC to use as a DAW with my electronic drums. I REALLY wanted to get a Mac, but instead I ended up doing the New Egg thing and building an AMD based system. God what a horrible experience. Trying to get XP installed on a SATA system... First time in years I got a PC with no floppy, and the first time I NEEDED a floppy because XP, even SP2 does not have SATA drivers!!! I should have just bought a Dell and overpaid for crap components that at least worked with less than three days of fiddling!
But what I REALLY wanted was a G5!!! Apple needs to come up with a way to make the software switch more easy to swallow.
I doubt I'm the only one with this issue.
It could be that you have not noticed that most governments are paid for by big corporations. They own the government so they can do what they want with their outsourced marketing enforcement division.. errrr... elected officials.
Yes, this post is funny, but I wonder how something like this would play out? With all the problems with 99% of computer users not knowing enough to keep spyware and virii off their computers, it seems that if someone at Company A, wanted to hurt Company B by leaking info, then the best way to do it would be to set up an information chain like you describe. Send a spoofed email to a fanboy blog, pretend to be a VP for product development, etc. and say that product iFoo is going to be released in a week. But they'd like your little fanboy blog to "leak" some initial info to drive buzz.
Fanboy sees the email from company, B, thinks "Sweet! I've done such a good job on my site that Company B wants to reward me with a "scoop"...
Hilarity ensures...
sure ignorance of the law is no excuse, but how can mortal computer users have a clue about email headers, etc.?
So why don't you make one in your damn country? I'm so sick of foreigners bitching and moaning about the US=Centric nature of this thing on the web or that thing on the web... Shit, it's a free web, make your own damn site that does a search on the best cheese producer in Lichtenstein or something. Last I checked Google was a US company. Deal with it.
This Leap frog gizmo is essentially the same as THIS device from Logitech.
Where have you been?
So let's say a site like lokitorrent requires a user to have an account so that your IP can be recognized by the tracker.
Let's say Lokitorrent gets hit by a lawsuit.
Will the fuzz be able to go after the people that are registered as well?
And the big question, is pr0n copyrighted? 'Cause if it is, then say goodbye to www.empornium.com
I'm not the most tech savvy person around, but it seems to me that it should be possible to have a BIG master list that serves the purpose that suprnova serves that itself is passed around by a bittorrent like application. That way there's no one place to go after.
I guess you'd have to have some way of initially connecting "your" bittorrent to this network to get "on board", but once you're in, you're in, and no one can ever break it apart.
Seems pretty straight forward to me, what's wrong with this idea?
This was intentionally leaked. No exec. writes an internal memo that long with that tone. This is an unofficial press release.
Gotta love those long economic answers that boil down to, "So if they have you by the balls..."
That's gotta be worth at least $20 per hour flippen burgers
Holy crap! You can make $20.00 and hour flipping burgers in Canada?
Is that Canadian money or real money?
How's Google gonna pay the rent with this? All via advertising?