It is fair to say that Thomas is a reference that can be understood as generically Christian, not just "gnostic," since the account of Doubting Thomas is in the orthodox canon. The author is probably asymilating the apostle Thomas with the author of the pseudopigraphal "Gospel of Thomas," which was a gnostic document.
Man, posting that on/. takes balls. And it's one of the truly informative and interesting comments I've seen here for a long time. thanks.
Science-fiction fans make a slight distinction between the terms "SF" and "Sci-fi" which you don't seem to be aware of.
- Sci-fi is easy-to-get-into science fiction, like Star Trek, Matrix and I, robot. In short, sci-fi is more like a regular story, or show, set in some futuristic universe
- SF is hard-core, or "serious" science fiction. That includes, for example, books from Iain M. Banks, and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey. SF works are usually space operas, well researched on the (possible) technical plan, and can plunge the reader/viewer right down the weird and absolutely alien, which not all may like.
They could form a company just for that (ala the IOC), and of course, there would be advertising. They could all be "Proud Sponsors of the Mission to Mars" in much the same way they all pay to help with the Olympics.
Do you really hope to get a bunch of companies to pony up billions of dollars for a risky mission into the unknown, and tell them they'll have a return on investment with advertising alone? now that's naive...
The olympics model works because the initial investment isn't all that great (compared to a mars mission anyway), it's super-safe, it guarantees return on investment with ads, but also derivative products, direct sales, and (most important) the use of much admired athletes as walking talking billboards: Nike will sell shoes by getting some sportsman to wear them, the underlying idea being that *you too can be that man with our shoes*. They won't sell any if the only thing they can say is *the shoe that goes to Mars*.
To finish off Spirit and Opportunity: they just won't die and G.W. can't wait to disband the rovers' team and divert the money to his grand plans for man walking on Mars, or the moon base, or whatever.
I know money could be spent elsewhere, but hey, isn't it the exploratory nature of humans to venture into the unknown?
You know, I hate to break it to you but most exploration missions of the past were privately funded, either by capitalists in search of new opportunities, or by rich idealists. Those that were publicly funded were for geopolitical reason, the most obvious example being the race to the moon.
So, since no private enterprise today has enough cash to fund something that big, and the US government has nobody to flex muscles at anymore, and the US deficit is already big enough thanks to our recent exploration of Iraq, who will fund the mars mission?
As for the Russians, well, I'll believe they can do it when they can feed their population adequately without any external subsidies.
Surely you must be joking. They use an e-commerce structure (Paypal) that acts as a bank, handles millions and millions of dollars like a bank, is structured exactly like a bank, but is *not FDIC-insured* and has the gall to block accounts at random without explanation or recourse.
I don't really know what's respectful about using such a shaky financial tool to do business. I'm surprised they haven't been taken under by some huge class-action lawsuit, or by the feds who should damn well step in and force them to play by the book already.
Approximately 20% of all eBay listings are not listed through the eBay website but rather through these third-party applications.
Hello Bruce,
Could you perhaps list the third-party applications that use the eBay "backend"?
Many people, like myself, have been bitten by eBay, and bitten even harder by its evil sidekick Paypal, and have elected to stay clear away from it. If other honest-looking auction sites use eBay as a backend, I'd like very much to know who they are.
I don't actually disagree with the idea (although coming from the RIAA, it certainly feels like Dr. Mengele taking up pediatrics). But I mean, look at the "artists" they propose: Gwen Stefani, Will Smith, 50 cent... I think I'll stay on conventional illegal P2P for now, thank you very much, until they propose music for download.
And this differs from any company that "supports" OSS how? Its all about free labor for the corporations!
You're wrong. The usual meaning of "support OSS" is that some software company, or hardware manufacturer, has decided to make their software or hardware drivers run on an F/OSS operating system (typically Linux), or interoperate with a F/OSS gui, or something similar.
You're correct however in that eBay supports OSS the same way a counterfeiter supports the right to visit the US mint with a photo camera.
It's only going to be available to AT&T customers. That's too bad. Now it doesn't sound nearly as cool or half as useful to me.
So if you can't have it for free, it's not as useful to you? sounds to me like you confuse usefulness and free-riding.
But anyone, as a "security professional" (what's that anyway? a bodyguard? a rent-a-cop? a Pentagon-paid mercenary like those operating right now in Iraq?), you probably won't be impressed by AT&T's service anyway, as it probably will be a channel for news coming straight from the administration and other news organisation's pundits, as I doubt they want to keep a staff of real professional journalists on the payroll.
ISN will look very much like Time Warner's Cable News Network, except that it will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet, Eslambolchi said. "It's like CNN," he said. "When a new attack is spotted, we'll be able to offer constant updates, monitoring, and advice."
Because we all know in the US that the only news worthy of reporting are attacks. Attacks by terrorists, attacks by US troops, and basically any violent act that gets the population fearful and anxious, and therefore riveted to the TV set to learn more.
Of course, economic (unless the economy is threatened one way or another), diplomatic and other news aren't interesting.
The article describes being able to feel different levels of pressure in addition to different temperatures. It sounds like an impressive level of feedback.
Anybody want to take bets on how long it takes for a Linux dist. to be built for it?
About 5 years, 1 year for the guy to learn how to type "make menuconfig" with his toes, and another 4 for gentoo to finish compiling.
That's not the issue. The issue is, if they choose to masquerade as something bigger than themselves, at least they should have the decency not to help the biggest bully in the browser market playground.
Moz/Firefox is a big enough player that many, if not most site operators do make sure they work well with it, not just IE these days, so Opera could have chosen to masquerade as Firefox instead.
But then again, the Opera userbase is insignificant, so perhaps in the end it just doesn't matter at all.
Mozilla on the other hand fires off two requests. Thus doubling its market share.
That argument doesn't hold water, as anybody who gets bitten by the too-many-clicks effect quickly learns not to double-click on a link. In less than 10 minutes, if I can trust what I saw with people switching from Windows to KDE.
Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer
In other words, they provide skewed data that helps Microsoft present itself as leader of the browser market. That's intelligent, way to go. At least you could have picked up a F/OSS browser to masquerade Opera...
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It is fair to say that Thomas is a reference that can be understood as generically Christian, not just "gnostic," since the account of Doubting Thomas is in the orthodox canon. The author is probably asymilating the apostle Thomas with the author of the pseudopigraphal "Gospel of Thomas," which was a gnostic document.
/. takes balls. And it's one of the truly informative and interesting comments I've seen here for a long time. thanks.
Man, posting that on
Science-fiction fans make a slight distinction between the terms "SF" and "Sci-fi" which you don't seem to be aware of.
- Sci-fi is easy-to-get-into science fiction, like Star Trek, Matrix and I, robot. In short, sci-fi is more like a regular story, or show, set in some futuristic universe
- SF is hard-core, or "serious" science fiction. That includes, for example, books from Iain M. Banks, and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey. SF works are usually space operas, well researched on the (possible) technical plan, and can plunge the reader/viewer right down the weird and absolutely alien, which not all may like.
They could form a company just for that (ala the IOC), and of course, there would be advertising. They could all be "Proud Sponsors of the Mission to Mars" in much the same way they all pay to help with the Olympics.
Do you really hope to get a bunch of companies to pony up billions of dollars for a risky mission into the unknown, and tell them they'll have a return on investment with advertising alone? now that's naive...
The olympics model works because the initial investment isn't all that great (compared to a mars mission anyway), it's super-safe, it guarantees return on investment with ads, but also derivative products, direct sales, and (most important) the use of much admired athletes as walking talking billboards: Nike will sell shoes by getting some sportsman to wear them, the underlying idea being that *you too can be that man with our shoes*. They won't sell any if the only thing they can say is *the shoe that goes to Mars*.
"Why would we need chainsaws on Mars?!"
To finish off Spirit and Opportunity: they just won't die and G.W. can't wait to disband the rovers' team and divert the money to his grand plans for man walking on Mars, or the moon base, or whatever.
I know money could be spent elsewhere, but hey, isn't it the exploratory nature of humans to venture into the unknown?
You know, I hate to break it to you but most exploration missions of the past were privately funded, either by capitalists in search of new opportunities, or by rich idealists. Those that were publicly funded were for geopolitical reason, the most obvious example being the race to the moon.
So, since no private enterprise today has enough cash to fund something that big, and the US government has nobody to flex muscles at anymore, and the US deficit is already big enough thanks to our recent exploration of Iraq, who will fund the mars mission?
As for the Russians, well, I'll believe they can do it when they can feed their population adequately without any external subsidies.
EBay is a respected player in the business world.
Surely you must be joking. They use an e-commerce structure (Paypal) that acts as a bank, handles millions and millions of dollars like a bank, is structured exactly like a bank, but is *not FDIC-insured* and has the gall to block accounts at random without explanation or recourse.
I don't really know what's respectful about using such a shaky financial tool to do business. I'm surprised they haven't been taken under by some huge class-action lawsuit, or by the feds who should damn well step in and force them to play by the book already.
Approximately 20% of all eBay listings are not listed through the eBay website but rather through these third-party applications.
Hello Bruce,
Could you perhaps list the third-party applications that use the eBay "backend"?
Many people, like myself, have been bitten by eBay, and bitten even harder by its evil sidekick Paypal, and have elected to stay clear away from it. If other honest-looking auction sites use eBay as a backend, I'd like very much to know who they are.
From the Peer Impact site:
For a limited time, we're giving away $5 worth of free music to our newest beta members.
How can they give away $5 worth of something that's free? And also, since it's free, I can share it on regular P2P, right?
Nice one :-)
I don't actually disagree with the idea (although coming from the RIAA, it certainly feels like Dr. Mengele taking up pediatrics). But I mean, look at the "artists" they propose: Gwen Stefani, Will Smith, 50 cent... I think I'll stay on conventional illegal P2P for now, thank you very much, until they propose music for download.
And this differs from any company that "supports" OSS how? Its all about free labor for the corporations!
You're wrong. The usual meaning of "support OSS" is that some software company, or hardware manufacturer, has decided to make their software or hardware drivers run on an F/OSS operating system (typically Linux), or interoperate with a F/OSS gui, or something similar.
You're correct however in that eBay supports OSS the same way a counterfeiter supports the right to visit the US mint with a photo camera.
It allows individual developers and companies to access source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and applications.
Or, phrasing it another way, it allows Ebaypal to take advantage of work done for them for free by someone else.
Can it run linux? I can then add all homebrewed software I like.
including this one. I wonder if you can run the exploit on the emulator too...
It's only going to be available to AT&T customers. That's too bad. Now it doesn't sound nearly as cool or half as useful to me.
So if you can't have it for free, it's not as useful to you? sounds to me like you confuse usefulness and free-riding.
But anyone, as a "security professional" (what's that anyway? a bodyguard? a rent-a-cop? a Pentagon-paid mercenary like those operating right now in Iraq?), you probably won't be impressed by AT&T's service anyway, as it probably will be a channel for news coming straight from the administration and other news organisation's pundits, as I doubt they want to keep a staff of real professional journalists on the payroll.
From TFA:
ISN will look very much like Time Warner's Cable News Network, except that it will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet, Eslambolchi said. "It's like CNN," he said. "When a new attack is spotted, we'll be able to offer constant updates, monitoring, and advice."
Because we all know in the US that the only news worthy of reporting are attacks. Attacks by terrorists, attacks by US troops, and basically any violent act that gets the population fearful and anxious, and therefore riveted to the TV set to learn more.
Of course, economic (unless the economy is threatened one way or another), diplomatic and other news aren't interesting.
I don't mean to sound like an insentive asshole
You definitely should consider being fitted with a prosthetic asshole that can feel hot and cold and sense objects.
The article describes being able to feel different levels of pressure in addition to different temperatures. It sounds like an impressive level of feedback.
Anybody want to take bets on how long it takes for a Linux dist. to be built for it?
About 5 years, 1 year for the guy to learn how to type "make menuconfig" with his toes, and another 4 for gentoo to finish compiling.
I know lots of people here are going to cry foul, but come on: Who was gonna buy anti-virus software for linux from Microsoft?
I agree, it's like leaving your child to the care of an ex-pedophile.
Microsoft selling antivirus. That always leaves me gaping. It's like, I don't know, Lucrecia Borgia selling antidotes...
That's not the issue. The issue is, if they choose to masquerade as something bigger than themselves, at least they should have the decency not to help the biggest bully in the browser market playground.
Moz/Firefox is a big enough player that many, if not most site operators do make sure they work well with it, not just IE these days, so Opera could have chosen to masquerade as Firefox instead.
But then again, the Opera userbase is insignificant, so perhaps in the end it just doesn't matter at all.
I can't even call local tech support people without someone not knowing what Opera is.
Understandable, I bet these guys are probably a lot more into rock'n'roll...
f I ran around telling everyone my name is Frank, would it be a suprise to find out that nobody knows my name?
Unless your name really is Frank...
Mozilla on the other hand fires off two requests. Thus doubling its market share.
That argument doesn't hold water, as anybody who gets bitten by the too-many-clicks effect quickly learns not to double-click on a link. In less than 10 minutes, if I can trust what I saw with people switching from Windows to KDE.
Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer
In other words, they provide skewed data that helps Microsoft present itself as leader of the browser market. That's intelligent, way to go. At least you could have picked up a F/OSS browser to masquerade Opera...
You obviously are not biased against Dvorak.
I am biased against Dvorak.
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