banal - with a small "b": lacking originality, freshness, or novelty
Using most generic search engines with "define:banal" with or without the colon shoulda pulled that up for you. I think I last used it in conversation a year or two ago. If you like banal, you should check out "jejune."
"I don't recognize any of those names (damn hipster)"
Well, first, I ain't no hipster. Old, maybe, or getting there. F'rinstance listening to "Love: Forever Changes" from '68 just now.
Krebs might well be obscure these days - it was Bob Denver's first big TV role on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"; you may recognize him as Gilligan from "Gilligan's Island" which last I looked was still in syndication from '64-'67.
But seriously, you haven't heard of Liddy or Leary? Liddy, who was in charge of the crew who burgled the Democratic Party HQ at the Watergate and has had a long-running radio talk show? Leary, who popularized the use of LSD for personal exploration and medical use along with Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) back when he was a prof at Harvard. You've heard the phrase "Tune in, turn on, drop out."? That's Leary.
Well, it depends. Admittedly, being essentially a luser - surf, email, watch a few vids, read too much, play a few games, and run the occasional vm - I'm part of a very small market share as distinct from any big biz or serious user stuff.
AMD is relevant to me because I could put together a box at prices that I could save up for to let me better do what I wanted. Further, I could move from a Phenom quad-core to a Phenom II hexa-core on the same mobo with only a BIOS update. Also, with the six-core I was able to contribute more work units to World Community Grid in six months than in the previous six years.
For my next build I'll probably use AMD; what I assemble for others will depend on what they need done and what they can afford.
Intel _needs_ AMD to stick around, for engineering-approach competition and to maintain the semblance of an honest market. Intel have no need or desire to lower prices since they're making money hand over fist as it is.
Maybe consider the real use of advertising: "hey, I'm here! (with a product you can use or we can make you want); a new product; a sale or discount.
Despite all the analyses, much of the advertising credo is based on the faith that it's necessary and the notion that they must advertise regardless of direct purpose lest "out of sight, out of mind."
Don't use Facebook, can't directly comment, but I'd think from the advertisers' standpoint Hulu's "Is this ad appropriate for you?" to be more useful than a like or dislike.
And yeah, I think it's a cashout; whether FB has a real future or not is another question. Back circa '92 I characterized the Internet as the world's largest koffee klatsch; I see FB is an attempt to organize and monetize that.
Maybe I'm just old but to me a hipster is a poseur, always grasping the latest flash and trash to appear hip.
Someone who is hip sees through the bullshit and acts accordingly.
But then, I found it interesting growing up with Maynard G. Krebs and with the Dharma Bums and Lenny Bruce somewhere on the horizon to years later sitting a table sharing pitchers of beer with G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary.
Number of channels to choose from was not the point. The point was that when Dad was in the living room reading the paper, listening/watching the TV, when he wanted the channel changed, I was the default remote. It was a simple matter: I'd been going to school and playing; he'd been working to earn the money to pay the bills and buy the freaking TV. RHIP.
Nice. Had forgotten much of it. We used a surplus teletype through a bread-boarded interface to our recently completed Altair... worked fine, circa '79.
Enough already with the slew of new gTLDs. ICANN looks to me like the pathetic case of an enfeebled whore scratching for a buck; that, or corporate racketeers.
"When I was in school, I carried a knife every day...."
Yup, thanks, hadn't thought of it in years. While most of the relevant furniture, moldings, bleachers may not have survived, every school from second grade on was graced with my carved initials, part of the then rites of passage. Or simply, Kilroy was here.
Compliance and un-thinking obedience are the new normal. Conformity rules. Brave new world, innit?
Works for me w/ FF in Ubuntu 12.04; I set Opera to mask as FF for the site, works fine, set it in Speed Dial. The video is worth watching/listening to, bit of interesting history. I'd like to see the Jaguar version, time to see about emulation for it, I guess.
Although not in all kind, degree and scope you mention, DoD has been doing this, parts going back to the oil embargoes. Car-pooling, staggering watch changes at bases (so's not to have long lines of idling vehicles or a snafu at one gate exacerbating an already bad situation), the shift from oil-fired boilers to natural gas turbine both for propulsion and juice, push to use blended fuels, retro-fit viz. the slew of weatherization stuff. Cites abound if one looks. You're right, much more can be done, and not just DoD.
And forty years ago Social Security insurance fund was doing fine until Congress in their benevolent wisdom reclassified a portion of its premiums and principal as general revenue - technically, IIRC, they _borrowed_ [wink, nudge] from them.
I'm still having trouble getting past the "ect." I've known three dyslexics, two Aspergers and a raft of those now classed AD/ADHDs, and they all mostly most of the time got this much right. I've been running across "ect." since BBS days and it still rankles. Christ on a crutch, if you don't know or can't do then try _et cetera_.
Beauty. Thanks for bringing this. Last I looked feds still bring local leo for legal cover.
As a side note, to preclude any enforcers from having to do any real math and analysis, look for [eventual] felony arrests of those who still smoke - they're easily detectable and targeted. OMFG, etc., take an easy route and screw reality. From an old song "there's a group of people wearing frowns who will screw you up but they'd rather screw you down." I can picture Mr. Rogers asking if anyone can spell "totalitarian."
Funny thing is, Panetta might've thought he was doing well, but the can of worms now becomes more un-cappable.
As for the marijuana tax stamps [for sjames, below, as well] IIRC during WWII all those growing hemp for cordage had said stamps.
Much of this can still be looked up and found but it's getting more difficult as sites and pages die. Back during one of the times when this discussion got big, circa '90, many of the people involved at the time at PARC and DRI didn't want to talk about it much, too much hassle and they were busy with other things.
I had most of the relevant posts from usenet and various fora by many of the original people on floppies, a saveset from my 50MB drive, but they vanished around '05.
From memory, a quick read was that Apple gave DRI stock for the license to use GEM, at least insofar as "look and feel." Atari bought a license - the only company to do so - for a partial implementation of GEM. Microsoft.... well, that gets interesting. Some claim they licensed it, some that they simply took the tour and went home. I don't know and at this late date, while I suppose it might be worth knowing for the sake of historical accuracy, I no longer have the enthusiasm to go digging to see what sources are left.
Nicely put. I get the idea that a few things are coming together: improvements in robotics, hardware and software; blend of tech for getting decent energy generation and density; readily available boost a la Space X et al; and enough vision to see immense long-term profit potential with less risk than smaller minds find obvious. It's also a properly nerdy enterprise to boot.
Right on. Thanks. For me it's the continuing hobby of trying to become the human I'd like to live as, which requires the examination and changing of perception, reaction, thinking and doing. A "fun" job, and a good toolkit helps.
I like your chicken pox analogy. In my experience some things do change one irretrievably - death of a betrothed, depression, being jailed. One's world view and affect is forever... shifted.
I've lived with severe clinical depression since childhood, becoming only slowly aware of "it" except as being unlike many people I knew. I'll buy into nature _and_ nurture. Had no idea what it was or called until college. Well, goody, now it's a thing to be addressed.
Twenty years back finally had a course of a popular brand SSRB; great, could go a month without even thinking of suicide. How liberating! Obviously, never had the courage to pull the plug, just the intense need to make things... stop. The side effects of the chem therapy were not happy-making, to the point I can now tolerate none of substances so far tried.
Turning 65 this month I find that age itself seems to calm things down a bit - it's all still there but it's simply become part of the fabric of existence just like the bum ticker or relative poverty, and it's just not quite that important anymore - encroaching mortality rather puts a few things in focus. Perspective brings its own reward, however sardonic. A developing sense of humor is for me essential. Staying interested in things, taking enjoyment where found, and finding ways to still be helpful is de rigeur.
I exhort anyone with clinical depression to seek and get treatment, whatever they can, and do their level best to come to grips with it. As you know, it's crippling enough - at least get a cane. You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.
And what are the fittest? If memory serves, Darwin et al considered those most able to accommodate change as the most fit to survive. That is, in a given species' population, those individuals who can both adapt to changes and pass on their genes increase the likelihood of the survival of that species.
Rather puts the "survival of the fittest" arguments in a different light, no? My observation is that the concept is mis-used or abused by people pushing their own agenda or trying to justify an otherwise indefensible action.
One wonders how robust were Gutenberg, Brahe, Galileo, Newton, any of that ilk out and about over that span of centuries.
Motor in hub... Ferdinand Porsch did that nigh a century ago. BBC had two articles on three guys in London who did this a few years back. US Army looked into this for their "mule" maybe thirty years ago. Etc., et al.
It works. With issues, such as sprung weight and more massive motors to handle the loads.
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Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/) is your friend. It can block the web bugs and such. Works fine in Opera and Firefox.
banal - with a small "b": lacking originality, freshness, or novelty
Using most generic search engines with "define:banal" with or without the colon shoulda pulled that up for you. I think I last used it in conversation a year or two ago. If you like banal, you should check out "jejune."
"I don't recognize any of those names (damn hipster)"
Well, first, I ain't no hipster. Old, maybe, or getting there. F'rinstance listening to "Love: Forever Changes" from '68 just now.
Krebs might well be obscure these days - it was Bob Denver's first big TV role on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"; you may recognize him as Gilligan from "Gilligan's Island" which last I looked was still in syndication from '64-'67.
But seriously, you haven't heard of Liddy or Leary? Liddy, who was in charge of the crew who burgled the Democratic Party HQ at the Watergate and has had a long-running radio talk show? Leary, who popularized the use of LSD for personal exploration and medical use along with Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) back when he was a prof at Harvard. You've heard the phrase "Tune in, turn on, drop out."? That's Leary.
Well, it depends. Admittedly, being essentially a luser - surf, email, watch a few vids, read too much, play a few games, and run the occasional vm - I'm part of a very small market share as distinct from any big biz or serious user stuff.
AMD is relevant to me because I could put together a box at prices that I could save up for to let me better do what I wanted. Further, I could move from a Phenom quad-core to a Phenom II hexa-core on the same mobo with only a BIOS update. Also, with the six-core I was able to contribute more work units to World Community Grid in six months than in the previous six years.
For my next build I'll probably use AMD; what I assemble for others will depend on what they need done and what they can afford.
Intel _needs_ AMD to stick around, for engineering-approach competition and to maintain the semblance of an honest market. Intel have no need or desire to lower prices since they're making money hand over fist as it is.
Maybe consider the real use of advertising: "hey, I'm here! (with a product you can use or we can make you want); a new product; a sale or discount.
Despite all the analyses, much of the advertising credo is based on the faith that it's necessary and the notion that they must advertise regardless of direct purpose lest "out of sight, out of mind."
Don't use Facebook, can't directly comment, but I'd think from the advertisers' standpoint Hulu's "Is this ad appropriate for you?" to be more useful than a like or dislike.
And yeah, I think it's a cashout; whether FB has a real future or not is another question. Back circa '92 I characterized the Internet as the world's largest koffee klatsch; I see FB is an attempt to organize and monetize that.
Maybe I'm just old but to me a hipster is a poseur, always grasping the latest flash and trash to appear hip.
Someone who is hip sees through the bullshit and acts accordingly.
But then, I found it interesting growing up with Maynard G. Krebs and with the Dharma Bums and Lenny Bruce somewhere on the horizon to years later sitting a table sharing pitchers of beer with G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary.
Number of channels to choose from was not the point. The point was that when Dad was in the living room reading the paper, listening/watching the TV, when he wanted the channel changed, I was the default remote. It was a simple matter: I'd been going to school and playing; he'd been working to earn the money to pay the bills and buy the freaking TV. RHIP.
Nice. Had forgotten much of it. We used a surplus teletype through a bread-boarded interface to our recently completed Altair... worked fine, circa '79.
Enough already with the slew of new gTLDs. ICANN looks to me like the pathetic case of an enfeebled whore scratching for a buck; that, or corporate racketeers.
"When I was in school, I carried a knife every day...."
Yup, thanks, hadn't thought of it in years. While most of the relevant furniture, moldings, bleachers may not have survived, every school from second grade on was graced with my carved initials, part of the then rites of passage. Or simply, Kilroy was here.
Compliance and un-thinking obedience are the new normal. Conformity rules. Brave new world, innit?
Works for me w/ FF in Ubuntu 12.04; I set Opera to mask as FF for the site, works fine, set it in Speed Dial. The video is worth watching/listening to, bit of interesting history. I'd like to see the Jaguar version, time to see about emulation for it, I guess.
Amen. Ditto. Mille grazie.
Although not in all kind, degree and scope you mention, DoD has been doing this, parts going back to the oil embargoes. Car-pooling, staggering watch changes at bases (so's not to have long lines of idling vehicles or a snafu at one gate exacerbating an already bad situation), the shift from oil-fired boilers to natural gas turbine both for propulsion and juice, push to use blended fuels, retro-fit viz. the slew of weatherization stuff. Cites abound if one looks. You're right, much more can be done, and not just DoD.
And forty years ago Social Security insurance fund was doing fine until Congress in their benevolent wisdom reclassified a portion of its premiums and principal as general revenue - technically, IIRC, they _borrowed_ [wink, nudge] from them.
I'm still having trouble getting past the "ect." I've known three dyslexics, two Aspergers and a raft of those now classed AD/ADHDs, and they all mostly most of the time got this much right. I've been running across "ect." since BBS days and it still rankles. Christ on a crutch, if you don't know or can't do then try _et cetera_.
Beauty. Thanks for bringing this. Last I looked feds still bring local leo for legal cover.
As a side note, to preclude any enforcers from having to do any real math and analysis, look for [eventual] felony arrests of those who still smoke - they're easily detectable and targeted. OMFG, etc., take an easy route and screw reality. From an old song "there's a group of people wearing frowns who will screw you up but they'd rather screw you down." I can picture Mr. Rogers asking if anyone can spell "totalitarian."
Funny thing is, Panetta might've thought he was doing well, but the can of worms now becomes more un-cappable.
As for the marijuana tax stamps [for sjames, below, as well] IIRC during WWII all those growing hemp for cordage had said stamps.
Much of this can still be looked up and found but it's getting more difficult as sites and pages die. Back during one of the times when this discussion got big, circa '90, many of the people involved at the time at PARC and DRI didn't want to talk about it much, too much hassle and they were busy with other things.
I had most of the relevant posts from usenet and various fora by many of the original people on floppies, a saveset from my 50MB drive, but they vanished around '05.
From memory, a quick read was that Apple gave DRI stock for the license to use GEM, at least insofar as "look and feel." Atari bought a license - the only company to do so - for a partial implementation of GEM. Microsoft.... well, that gets interesting. Some claim they licensed it, some that they simply took the tour and went home. I don't know and at this late date, while I suppose it might be worth knowing for the sake of historical accuracy, I no longer have the enthusiasm to go digging to see what sources are left.
"true righteous conservative principles"
"socialist masters"
Beauty. Thanks for the laugh. Shades of the John Birch Society. Now all we need are some revanchist running dogs of imperialist lackeys.
Nicely put. I get the idea that a few things are coming together: improvements in robotics, hardware and software; blend of tech for getting decent energy generation and density; readily available boost a la Space X et al; and enough vision to see immense long-term profit potential with less risk than smaller minds find obvious. It's also a properly nerdy enterprise to boot.
Right on. Thanks. For me it's the continuing hobby of trying to become the human I'd like to live as, which requires the examination and changing of perception, reaction, thinking and doing. A "fun" job, and a good toolkit helps.
I like your chicken pox analogy. In my experience some things do change one irretrievably - death of a betrothed, depression, being jailed. One's world view and affect is forever... shifted.
I've lived with severe clinical depression since childhood, becoming only slowly aware of "it" except as being unlike many people I knew. I'll buy into nature _and_ nurture. Had no idea what it was or called until college. Well, goody, now it's a thing to be addressed.
Twenty years back finally had a course of a popular brand SSRB; great, could go a month without even thinking of suicide. How liberating! Obviously, never had the courage to pull the plug, just the intense need to make things... stop. The side effects of the chem therapy were not happy-making, to the point I can now tolerate none of substances so far tried.
Turning 65 this month I find that age itself seems to calm things down a bit - it's all still there but it's simply become part of the fabric of existence just like the bum ticker or relative poverty, and it's just not quite that important anymore - encroaching mortality rather puts a few things in focus. Perspective brings its own reward, however sardonic. A developing sense of humor is for me essential. Staying interested in things, taking enjoyment where found, and finding ways to still be helpful is de rigeur.
I exhort anyone with clinical depression to seek and get treatment, whatever they can, and do their level best to come to grips with it. As you know, it's crippling enough - at least get a cane. You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.
And what are the fittest? If memory serves, Darwin et al considered those most able to accommodate change as the most fit to survive. That is, in a given species' population, those individuals who can both adapt to changes and pass on their genes increase the likelihood of the survival of that species.
Rather puts the "survival of the fittest" arguments in a different light, no? My observation is that the concept is mis-used or abused by people pushing their own agenda or trying to justify an otherwise indefensible action.
One wonders how robust were Gutenberg, Brahe, Galileo, Newton, any of that ilk out and about over that span of centuries.
No mod points, sorry. Bravo!
Motor in hub... Ferdinand Porsch did that nigh a century ago. BBC had two articles on three guys in London who did this a few years back. US Army looked into this for their "mule" maybe thirty years ago. Etc., et al.
It works. With issues, such as sprung weight and more massive motors to handle the loads.