Yeah, I have to agree with you there. There are certainly strong arguments for the national ID card, biometric or otherwise. BUT, the notion that the card would somehow prevent terrorism is bunk, and I think that EVERY person, Rep or Dem, in Washington (DC) knows this full well. There is a common notion that we have got to nail down the borders if we're going to take security seriously. I suspect that this will never happen and that the borders will remain wide open. Rather, is the important thing actually just to make us all FEEL safer? I think it may be so. The real terrorists will always find a way to try, which is why the FBI/CIA has to work harder to get to them before they get to us. Oh, it goes on and on... Anyhow, I'm a geek and I want my Orwellian biometric card so I can use it to go shopping or turn the lights on in the house remotely or whatever. SOUNDS COOL! Liberties be damned.
Umm... for those who weren't aware (and those who like to go WAY off topic, but then I'm only replying to the post) the Chronicles are an allegory for the "Jesus died for your sins" story. His idea was to target kids with a thinly veiled version of the gospels. Screwtape, which I've read, I think is a rather clever and THOROUGHLY contemplative defense of his faith. But whatever, I digress.
Yes, those know-nothing religious fanatics sure are STUPID!
Come on, just because I profess to know Jesus? If only all that time in the science museum were able to OPEN some minds... I'm an engineer. I've been to other countries, spoken other languages, protested wars, and read Marx and Nietche. Just think about the PEOPLE you're disabusing.
Insightful? Really?
If there is a problem with the content of the films that causes the theatre to lean away from screening it then perhaps they're making a prudent business decision. The question then becomes who are these folks who are CENSORING OUR EDUTAINMENT? It's all those DARWIN NUTS down at the MUSEUM!
Yeah, that's the way I read it too. There's nothing wrong with taxing sales as "sales taxes", as long as it originates in your state and is CONSUMED in your state. Otherwise, it's bogus. AND any law that's unenforceable is bogus as well, which is WHY we have so many of them... "Look at all that legislation! They're working hard for us!" and the legislators never have to worry about it ever being implemented.
That's the PERFECT point to be making... the whole concept behind software DL's - even EXPENSIVE downloads - is convenience for both the seller and the buyer.
_RANT_ The sales tax systems currently in place in states like Wisconsin don't know what to do with dynamic commerce anyway! What would my state, Washington, do if every Microsoft product were sold tax-free? Lose money? No, because Washington offers tax INCENTIVES to large corporations... Jobs equal consumers which equate to a bigger state budget. Boeing went to Illinois because they got more breaks. That's BUSINESS. You wouldn't have to go seeking more taxes if your population made and spent more money per capita! Wisconsin needs to get more people consuming by getting them more industry by offering incentives to businesses, blah, blah, blah. Come on! Let's take a PROACTIVE approach to this. It bothers me that someone who gets elected and PAID to think about this stuff treat taxes as a tier one SOLUTION rather than a necessary EVIL.
Wisconsin, we would not pay your taxes even if we lived there!
I don't even want to think about teenage girls (keep reading) careening down the freeway while trying to download Brittney Spears to their mesh-networked in-dash MP3 players. Now you're trying to give them a REASON to cause accidents... increased bandwidth!
Funny, you do one "Evil" think in your life, like tossing a bag full of puppies in the chipper, and no matter how many free AOL CDs you provide to people you're still labeled as "Un-Good". I guess that means we must be, by our very nature, evil? Go figure.
1. We don't do business online, we do TRANSACTIONS online. We actually host our own web site locally at the office and the traffic to the site consumes less than 2% of our lowley T1.
2. I don't know, it could indeed be a large proportion. But you or I don't need a search engine to get to our web site or anyone else's, just a browser. If I want to research my product I'd go to a consumer site. YES, search technology MAKES THIS EASIER, but it's not what makes it POSSIBLE, which leads to...
3. Yes, we'd love to be ranked number one as a Google search because that would mean some fraction of those people were buying from us. This would be a sign of our prosperity, but would be the result of good marketing.
I don't disagree with your car motor analogy, a good search engine and some savvy for using it can get you just about anywhere you want to go. What I'm saying is: The Internet is a more important invention than the search engine... Mosaic that.
Doo- If the "personal computer" can be on the list, then "the internet" surely can too. Plus, the suite of protocols, hardware, and utilities that made up darpanet were certainly the precursors that we now associate with the internet (in fact, several are unchanged) but conceptually they're a whole different realm. In the minds of people who make lists of things there is no connection between the two, and the winner will be the "Internet" of Al Gore and the "internets" of George W.
Spelling aside, the sixty or so people at my company probably hit Google collectively 1000 times a day, which is a lot, I guess, and I probably "Google" twenty times a day. However, we also do $100,000 in online transactions every day without the help of a search engine, and our retail locations do an equal part in purely monetary transactions at credit card terminals that use the internet.
My point being that Google's utility doesn't compare to the functionality of the internet, the www, or even darpanet. When it comes to changing the world, my life is internet-centric, not search-centric.
Yup, I frequently see many more hops to my office eight blocks down the street than to the colo on the other coast. I can usually infer from the addresses that most of the hops are resultant from crossing several ISP host boundaries, so hopefully the pubs are all on the same ISP and particularly important would be to get them on the same subnet. I would bet that if you asked nice and mentioned the charitable nature of your event they'd issue you some static IPs on the same subnet... depending, of course, on the type of service you've got.
A: You believe that the people of the world are capable of governing one-another better than the US is at governing itself.
OR
B: You believe that the US is more capable of governing itself than the people of the world are of governing one-another.
The issue, in its most elemental form, is WHO DO YOU TRUST? Yes, it's GROSSLY reductionist, but with the current state of national (US) and global (UN) politics, it's not a simple question... except for the occasional constitutional libertarian.
You mean to tell me that Russia adopted the treaty for essentially the same reason the US didn't; Because the treaty has no enforcable impact on a nation violating the treaty, and because the endorsement is a non-binding political ploy?
Or Kofi Annan and the good old boys at the UN will send inspectors for the next 12 years, demanding that we de-industrialize. When we refuse to do so they'll look the other way in exchange for a couple billion US greenbacks.
(D)ARPA-Net really DID become the internet... It was the first really large network infrastructure investment that I know of, and the "protocol" developed, while certainly in good part a scavenging of other pre-existing technology, provided the moment of clarity nececssary to hurdle the application gap.
What I thought when I read this wasn't arapanet, it was NEW INTERNET. Darpa-Net became Arpa-Net which became something else and ultimately (No thanks to Al Gore) mutated into the public domain we know now as "The Internets" (GW). So, with all this talk lately of the extensible limits of the Net being close at hand, and drawing conclusions based solely on historic precedents, aren't we seeing the development of the next generation?
Don't RTFA me, because I did, and it's rather vague and very short on meaningful details. I even dug a little deeper and continued only to ponder...
It would appear that I stand corrected... Vapor yes, but it appears that they want it to see the light of day eventually. This from MS:
Thomas Rizzo Microsoft Corporation
March 17, 2004
UPDATE: In spite of what may be stated in this content, "WinFS" is not a feature that will come with the Longhorn Operating System. However, "WinFS" will be available on the Windows platform at some future date, which is why this article continues to be provided for your information.
And how could I have missed THIS ARTICLE months ago? I'm going to have to beat the delivery boy.
I believe that we're going to see this feature in Longhorn... True, the Google brand makes this a viable product, but of course there have been utils with this same functionality on the web for some time now. I can't name any and I haven't installed any but I do recall downloading a couple last year some time. The Longhorn version is going to be implemented as SQL-lite running on your windows box that uses data/metadata pegged to the upcoming WinFS.
Oh man, once again Microsoft is leading the way. I remember several years ago seeing this article in the Seattle Weekly that was a real eye-opener. This kid, some scruffy dweeb from the hills, gets to be Bill Gates' brain-child prodigy! They discovered him after he built a neural television remote control for his crippled granny. Be sure to check the date on the article... Cute kid, though.
I love my Ti. It manages a laptop, mouse, power supply, camera, Mp3 player and disks of all sizes and sports a mess of those little slots for pens and pencils. The beautiful thing about Dana is that they still build a completely rugged pack and I can safely assure you that it will last longer than your next five laptops. It's also a lot better looking than anything else I've seen on the market. The only thing I regret is that they're no longer made in the US since Dana has broken down and moved the majority of their assembly to Mexico. You can even actually TAKE IT HIKING since it's got the built-in lumbar strap. It's great for day hikes but don't push it because the shoulder strap gets old after the first couple of hours. Built-in LED strobe runs on a watch battery so them Seattle drivers won't mow you down. You'll see them online for right around $90 but it was one REI.com a few months ago for under $40. They're also on sale right now in the local Helly Hansen store. Did I mention they're COOL?
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Funny, I read somewhere that Longhorn actually will feature both traditional BLUE, and new RED screens of death. FEATURE!
Yeah, I have to agree with you there. There are certainly strong arguments for the national ID card, biometric or otherwise. BUT, the notion that the card would somehow prevent terrorism is bunk, and I think that EVERY person, Rep or Dem, in Washington (DC) knows this full well. There is a common notion that we have got to nail down the borders if we're going to take security seriously. I suspect that this will never happen and that the borders will remain wide open. Rather, is the important thing actually just to make us all FEEL safer? I think it may be so. The real terrorists will always find a way to try, which is why the FBI/CIA has to work harder to get to them before they get to us. Oh, it goes on and on...
Anyhow, I'm a geek and I want my Orwellian biometric card so I can use it to go shopping or turn the lights on in the house remotely or whatever. SOUNDS COOL! Liberties be damned.
Umm... for those who weren't aware (and those who like to go WAY off topic, but then I'm only replying to the post) the Chronicles are an allegory for the "Jesus died for your sins" story. His idea was to target kids with a thinly veiled version of the gospels. Screwtape, which I've read, I think is a rather clever and THOROUGHLY contemplative defense of his faith. But whatever, I digress.
Yes, those know-nothing religious fanatics sure are STUPID!
Come on, just because I profess to know Jesus? If only all that time in the science museum were able to OPEN some minds... I'm an engineer. I've been to other countries, spoken other languages, protested wars, and read Marx and Nietche. Just think about the PEOPLE you're disabusing.
Insightful? Really?
If there is a problem with the content of the films that causes the theatre to lean away from screening it then perhaps they're making a prudent business decision. The question then becomes who are these folks who are CENSORING OUR EDUTAINMENT? It's all those DARWIN NUTS down at the MUSEUM!
Sounds silly, right?
Yeah, that's the way I read it too. There's nothing wrong with taxing sales as "sales taxes", as long as it originates in your state and is CONSUMED in your state. Otherwise, it's bogus. AND any law that's unenforceable is bogus as well, which is WHY we have so many of them... "Look at all that legislation! They're working hard for us!" and the legislators never have to worry about it ever being implemented.
It will never work.
That's the PERFECT point to be making... the whole concept behind software DL's - even EXPENSIVE downloads - is convenience for both the seller and the buyer.
_RANT_
The sales tax systems currently in place in states like Wisconsin don't know what to do with dynamic commerce anyway! What would my state, Washington, do if every Microsoft product were sold tax-free? Lose money? No, because Washington offers tax INCENTIVES to large corporations... Jobs equal consumers which equate to a bigger state budget. Boeing went to Illinois because they got more breaks. That's BUSINESS. You wouldn't have to go seeking more taxes if your population made and spent more money per capita! Wisconsin needs to get more people consuming by getting them more industry by offering incentives to businesses, blah, blah, blah. Come on! Let's take a PROACTIVE approach to this. It bothers me that someone who gets elected and PAID to think about this stuff treat taxes as a tier one SOLUTION rather than a necessary EVIL.
Wisconsin, we would not pay your taxes even if we lived there!
I don't even want to think about teenage girls (keep reading) careening down the freeway while trying to download Brittney Spears to their mesh-networked in-dash MP3 players. Now you're trying to give them a REASON to cause accidents... increased bandwidth!
Anyways [sic]. Sic means "spelling incorrect," or, "Grammar incorrect."
Just wanted to point out that "anyways" is n/s.
Seriously, if you like this mouse you should check this out.
ergonomical?
Funny, you do one "Evil" think in your life, like tossing a bag full of puppies in the chipper, and no matter how many free AOL CDs you provide to people you're still labeled as "Un-Good". I guess that means we must be, by our very nature, evil? Go figure.
Answer:
1. We don't do business online, we do TRANSACTIONS online. We actually host our own web site locally at the office and the traffic to the site consumes less than 2% of our lowley T1.
2. I don't know, it could indeed be a large proportion. But you or I don't need a search engine to get to our web site or anyone else's, just a browser. If I want to research my product I'd go to a consumer site. YES, search technology MAKES THIS EASIER, but it's not what makes it POSSIBLE, which leads to...
3. Yes, we'd love to be ranked number one as a Google search because that would mean some fraction of those people were buying from us. This would be a sign of our prosperity, but would be the result of good marketing.
I don't disagree with your car motor analogy, a good search engine and some savvy for using it can get you just about anywhere you want to go. What I'm saying is: The Internet is a more important invention than the search engine... Mosaic that.
Doo-
If the "personal computer" can be on the list, then "the internet" surely can too. Plus, the suite of protocols, hardware, and utilities that made up darpanet were certainly the precursors that we now associate with the internet (in fact, several are unchanged) but conceptually they're a whole different realm. In the minds of people who make lists of things there is no connection between the two, and the winner will be the "Internet" of Al Gore and the "internets" of George W.
Spelling aside, the sixty or so people at my company probably hit Google collectively 1000 times a day, which is a lot, I guess, and I probably "Google" twenty times a day. However, we also do $100,000 in online transactions every day without the help of a search engine, and our retail locations do an equal part in purely monetary transactions at credit card terminals that use the internet.
My point being that Google's utility doesn't compare to the functionality of the internet, the www, or even darpanet. When it comes to changing the world, my life is internet-centric, not search-centric.
The number one innovation will be the internet.
Indeed, the Turnip Twaddler was Ronco's Opus.
Yup, I frequently see many more hops to my office eight blocks down the street than to the colo on the other coast. I can usually infer from the addresses that most of the hops are resultant from crossing several ISP host boundaries, so hopefully the pubs are all on the same ISP and particularly important would be to get them on the same subnet. I would bet that if you asked nice and mentioned the charitable nature of your event they'd issue you some static IPs on the same subnet... depending, of course, on the type of service you've got.
And someone inserts a few strings in the instructions that generate a bubble of Cyanide gas around the object...
See, here's the thing:
A: You believe that the people of the world are capable of governing one-another better than the US is at governing itself.
OR
B: You believe that the US is more capable of governing itself than the people of the world are of governing one-another.
The issue, in its most elemental form, is WHO DO YOU TRUST? Yes, it's GROSSLY reductionist, but with the current state of national (US) and global (UN) politics, it's not a simple question... except for the occasional constitutional libertarian.
Wait, WHAT?
You mean to tell me that Russia adopted the treaty for essentially the same reason the US didn't; Because the treaty has no enforcable impact on a nation violating the treaty, and because the endorsement is a non-binding political ploy?
Now THAT'S crazy talk.
Or Kofi Annan and the good old boys at the UN will send inspectors for the next 12 years, demanding that we de-industrialize. When we refuse to do so they'll look the other way in exchange for a couple billion US greenbacks.
(D)ARPA-Net really DID become the internet... It was the first really large network infrastructure investment that I know of, and the "protocol" developed, while certainly in good part a scavenging of other pre-existing technology, provided the moment of clarity nececssary to hurdle the application gap.
What I thought when I read this wasn't arapanet, it was NEW INTERNET. Darpa-Net became Arpa-Net which became something else and ultimately (No thanks to Al Gore) mutated into the public domain we know now as "The Internets" (GW). So, with all this talk lately of the extensible limits of the Net being close at hand, and drawing conclusions based solely on historic precedents, aren't we seeing the development of the next generation?
Don't RTFA me, because I did, and it's rather vague and very short on meaningful details. I even dug a little deeper and continued only to ponder...
It would appear that I stand corrected...
Vapor yes, but it appears that they want it to see the light of day eventually. This from MS:
Thomas Rizzo
Microsoft Corporation
March 17, 2004
UPDATE: In spite of what may be stated in this content, "WinFS" is not a feature that will come with the Longhorn Operating System. However, "WinFS" will be available on the Windows platform at some future date, which is why this article continues to be provided for your information.
And how could I have missed THIS ARTICLE months ago? I'm going to have to beat the delivery boy.
I believe that we're going to see this feature in Longhorn... True, the Google brand makes this a viable product, but of course there have been utils with this same functionality on the web for some time now. I can't name any and I haven't installed any but I do recall downloading a couple last year some time.
The Longhorn version is going to be implemented as SQL-lite running on your windows box that uses data/metadata pegged to the upcoming WinFS.
Oh man, once again Microsoft is leading the way. I remember several years ago seeing this article in the Seattle Weekly that was a real eye-opener. This kid, some scruffy dweeb from the hills, gets to be Bill Gates' brain-child prodigy! They discovered him after he built a neural television remote control for his crippled granny. Be sure to check the date on the article... Cute kid, though.
I love my Ti. It manages a laptop, mouse, power supply, camera, Mp3 player and disks of all sizes and sports a mess of those little slots for pens and pencils. The beautiful thing about Dana is that they still build a completely rugged pack and I can safely assure you that it will last longer than your next five laptops. It's also a lot better looking than anything else I've seen on the market. The only thing I regret is that they're no longer made in the US since Dana has broken down and moved the majority of their assembly to Mexico. You can even actually TAKE IT HIKING since it's got the built-in lumbar strap. It's great for day hikes but don't push it because the shoulder strap gets old after the first couple of hours. Built-in LED strobe runs on a watch battery so them Seattle drivers won't mow you down. You'll see them online for right around $90 but it was one REI.com a few months ago for under $40. They're also on sale right now in the local Helly Hansen store. Did I mention they're COOL?