My experience is that sparks are everywhere, but the real difficulty is in growing the sparks into bonfires.
We all have great ideas that show up later brought to market (the world) by someone with more drive. Many more people than we realize have their brilliant ways to be excellent.
Without the guiding hand of someone with Job's skills, though, those sparks tend to die out.
I'll stop being a Jobs fanboy now and get back to my own entrepreneurial endeavors.
Exactly. The engineer in us all wants Woz to be the much-put-upon hero of the story, but looking at what Jobs and Woz did professionally *after* they were ousted is very telling. Woz tried his hand at a number of enterprises... none of which I can recall. I wonder why?
Jobs, on the other hand, started NeXT; and though we can bicker somewhat about its market success, it was eventually sold to Apple for $400M and was extraordinarily innovative for its time. Afterward, Jobs was the single-most-responsible reason why Apple had its turn-around. He brought Pixar to its successful heights. He envisioned, brought about, and championed changes to the way we think about computer styling, music players, and animated entertainment.
Wozniak sounds like a really nice guy. He was a brilliant engineer, no doubt. However, the real force behind his rise to success was the marketing brilliance of Steve Jobs. Jobs financially made Woz what he is today, and Woz should really be nothing but grateful. Slashdot probably is not the most receptive crowd to such heresy, but it is the truth.
I would want a full refund of my money to Slashdot if I paid for it. Since I don't, I can only shake my head in disbelief that they have such stupid editors. If they're not posting some obvious hoaxy massive storage scam, they're posting perpetual motion machine crap like this. Maybe we'll get really lucky and they'll dupe this one.
So disappointing that people who should have an eye for scams like this are so easily fooled.
If you don't configure to be run outside of the browser, then you're locked into only being able to use Firefox. That kind of defeats the portability aspect of it, since many Windows users just use IE and Mac users only use Safari.
The problem can't be just blamed on the extremists.
If moderate Christians would stand up and tell Jerry Falwell to shove his bigotted ideas up his ass, Christians wouldn't have such an increasingly bad reputation. If moderate Muslims would *actively* work against the extremist mullahs (I'm not just talking about issuing press statements), then Muslims wouldn't have such an increasingly bad reputation.
The same can be said for Republicans, Democrats, and Cthulus -- the uneducated masses of voters that give the extremists the power are every bit as much to blame as the extremists themselves.
You know those random dot stereogram pictures, the ones where you have to sort of focus your eyes in the distance to see the image?
Cryofan, every once in a while I read one of your posts with the same open-minded defocusing to try to see the image that you appear to be looking at so intently: "Surely," I think, "all that passion has to have some purpose."
... not that I've been able to determine, unfortunately. I just can't envision the benefits of living in the world you seem to focus on. Sure, the world we're currently in could use a lot of improvements; and for some things, I'd maybe move in your direction. Taken as a whole, though, your utopia looks (to me) like a Bizzarro-world where the greatest producers in the society would be ground under the heels of the largely-mediocre masses.
For example, I've noted in two separate articles today on Slashdot where you've railed against hierarchies... are you saying that hierarchies are a problem? Are you saying that it's bad to have strong, successful, intelligent people move into positions of power and leadership; then reap rewards for their ascension? Are you saying that rewards are bad? Are you saying that it's bad to allow people to enjoy success?
Maybe you can clear up some misunderstanding of your position that I may have.
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The Einstein was changed to a foot by the editors... probably after they realized that they had been suckered.
Maybe the actual site is a joke, but it looks more like the rantings of a loon whom no one takes seriously.
Christ did not place a bunch of caveats around the need to give up everything you had to others who are needy. He didn't say, "give money to the poor as long as you can make sure your kids go to college", or "let others into your home, only if you can do so in a very orderly way according to the rules, ensuring that no one will hurt you.". He basically said, "Screw the consequences to yourself, do everything you can for your fellow man no matter what it does to you personally. In the end, God will reward you for your sacrifices and devotion to his other children."
You're providing a perfect example of someone who tries to rationalize what Christ said so that you still get to keep your SUV, your college funds, your "establishment", your borders, and your money. TFA has that whole mind-set pegged of ignoring troubling facts that get in the way of your overall belief structure.
Face it. Christ would have had a lot more in common with the peace-loving hippy walking the streets of LA in 1968 than he would with the average Christian yuppie surfing the Internet, poster to Slashdot, or Christian evangelist.
It's not just "that crazy atheist" who believes that was Christ's position. There are numerous Christian sects that have tried to follow Christ's teachings to the letter. Their members give up all wordly possessions and preach Christ's message to any who will listen.
It's anti-Christ to create laws that would keep the poor and unfortunate out of your house and lands. Christ was quite clear in his instructions regarding giving everything you had to the poor and to others. He was quite emphatic about inviting the poor into your home to help them, rather than having parties with your friends.
Social conservatives ignore Christ's directions if they advocate any type of "border control", legally based or not. Read TFA again to understand why you may have trouble understanding what I'm saying.
The funny things to note here are that: 1) I'm an atheist, so don't really feel a need to follow Christ's advice (assuming he said those words and that he existed at all). and 2) I'm all for very strong border control. We should have land mines from Corpus Cristi to San Diego at all non-checkpoint locations.
Calling people or positions "evil" isn't always wrong, but it's one of those tactics where a little bit goes a long way.
I normally find that the "evil" label gets applied by people who are guilty of exactly what tfa is about -- they don't want to deal on a logical level with the other side's arguments, so slapping the "evil" label on the arguments allows them to move on to ignore concepts they don't want to deal with.
So, basically, you're saying that you encode the specification for a plane in another number?
That seems to go against the problem statement that the N points are specified in cartesian 3D space. If their encoding can be arbitrary, then they can't very well be called N points in cartesian 3D space.
I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that there are already tools out there using bandwidth to probe for vulnerabilities. There are already people out there abusing this technique of software dispersal.
I'm just saying that while it's being done, we might as well encourage people to do it who *might* have some chance of doing the right thing.
When making worms is outlawed, only outlaws will make worms.
But how is this system better than simply having the OS automatically check for updates and download them silently?
Who's offering a comprehensive system for doing this? Sure, MicroSoft offers silent system updates in their more recent OSes, but it's obvious that they aren't on top of all of the security holes in their products past and present. Users routinely turn off automatic updates (or never turn them on in the first place). Is MicroSoft planning on fixing all the zombied Windows 98 machines out there? Of course not.
I'm all for this. People are out there exploiting these security holes for malicious reasons anyway. Anyone who wants to instead use the security holes to propagate fixes has my blessing. There are legions of bozos out there too cheap or ignorant to protect themselves and their company's computers from being used against all of the rest of us to send out spam and DoS attacks. If they can't fix their own problems, then someone else should.
I don't understand why there's enough controversy on this topic to merit multiple Slashdot articles over the past year.
Why all the hubbub?
Can't people just accept the fact that these celestial bodies have different qualities that defy ones ability to create a simple binary "is a planet, is not a planet" classification scheme?
Maybe, but I was just joking. Please defer all intelligent questions until after the laughter subsides or until after New Orleans is drained of floodwater... whichever happens second.
Is there like a PayPal account we can donate money to in support of the killers?
There's a spam I might click on... "Donate here to see other spammers killed". If we could just have all the others wiped out and only have to deal with the one 'toughest' spammer, mabye the Internet landscape would be nicer.
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My experience is that sparks are everywhere, but the real difficulty is in growing the sparks into bonfires.
We all have great ideas that show up later brought to market (the world) by someone with more drive. Many more people than we realize have their brilliant ways to be excellent.
Without the guiding hand of someone with Job's skills, though, those sparks tend to die out.
I'll stop being a Jobs fanboy now and get back to my own entrepreneurial endeavors.
Exactly. The engineer in us all wants Woz to be the much-put-upon hero of the story, but looking at what Jobs and Woz did professionally *after* they were ousted is very telling. Woz tried his hand at a number of enterprises... none of which I can recall. I wonder why?
Jobs, on the other hand, started NeXT; and though we can bicker somewhat about its market success, it was eventually sold to Apple for $400M and was extraordinarily innovative for its time. Afterward, Jobs was the single-most-responsible reason why Apple had its turn-around. He brought Pixar to its successful heights. He envisioned, brought about, and championed changes to the way we think about computer styling, music players, and animated entertainment.
Wozniak sounds like a really nice guy. He was a brilliant engineer, no doubt. However, the real force behind his rise to success was the marketing brilliance of Steve Jobs. Jobs financially made Woz what he is today, and Woz should really be nothing but grateful. Slashdot probably is not the most receptive crowd to such heresy, but it is the truth.
Government official: Must... apply... thought... to... job..... Must... think... *ugh* outside... of... the... box... *gah*.
I would want a full refund of my money to Slashdot if I paid for it. Since I don't, I can only shake my head in disbelief that they have such stupid editors. If they're not posting some obvious hoaxy massive storage scam, they're posting perpetual motion machine crap like this. Maybe we'll get really lucky and they'll dupe this one.
So disappointing that people who should have an eye for scams like this are so easily fooled.
If you don't configure to be run outside of the browser, then you're locked into only being able to use Firefox. That kind of defeats the portability aspect of it, since many Windows users just use IE and Mac users only use Safari.
The problem can't be just blamed on the extremists.
If moderate Christians would stand up and tell Jerry Falwell to shove his bigotted ideas up his ass, Christians wouldn't have such an increasingly bad reputation. If moderate Muslims would *actively* work against the extremist mullahs (I'm not just talking about issuing press statements), then Muslims wouldn't have such an increasingly bad reputation.
The same can be said for Republicans, Democrats, and Cthulus -- the uneducated masses of voters that give the extremists the power are every bit as much to blame as the extremists themselves.
Been there, done that. The weather sure is nice, though.
You know those random dot stereogram pictures, the ones where you have to sort of focus your eyes in the distance to see the image?
... not that I've been able to determine, unfortunately. I just can't envision the benefits of living in the world you seem to focus on. Sure, the world we're currently in could use a lot of improvements; and for some things, I'd maybe move in your direction. Taken as a whole, though, your utopia looks (to me) like a Bizzarro-world where the greatest producers in the society would be ground under the heels of the largely-mediocre masses.
Cryofan, every once in a while I read one of your posts with the same open-minded defocusing to try to see the image that you appear to be looking at so intently: "Surely," I think, "all that passion has to have some purpose."
For example, I've noted in two separate articles today on Slashdot where you've railed against hierarchies... are you saying that hierarchies are a problem? Are you saying that it's bad to have strong, successful, intelligent people move into positions of power and leadership; then reap rewards for their ascension? Are you saying that rewards are bad? Are you saying that it's bad to allow people to enjoy success?
Maybe you can clear up some misunderstanding of your position that I may have.
The Einstein was changed to a foot by the editors... probably after they realized that they had been suckered.
Maybe the actual site is a joke, but it looks more like the rantings of a loon whom no one takes seriously.
Unfortunately, unbelievers are "spreading mischief in the land"... so killing non-Muslims or those who support those non-Muslims is okie dokie.
Yeah, that's right along the lines of:
She was wearing a "sexy" dress where you could see her legs. She deserved to get raped.
Christ did not place a bunch of caveats around the need to give up everything you had to others who are needy. He didn't say, "give money to the poor as long as you can make sure your kids go to college", or "let others into your home, only if you can do so in a very orderly way according to the rules, ensuring that no one will hurt you.". He basically said, "Screw the consequences to yourself, do everything you can for your fellow man no matter what it does to you personally. In the end, God will reward you for your sacrifices and devotion to his other children."
You're providing a perfect example of someone who tries to rationalize what Christ said so that you still get to keep your SUV, your college funds, your "establishment", your borders, and your money. TFA has that whole mind-set pegged of ignoring troubling facts that get in the way of your overall belief structure.
Face it. Christ would have had a lot more in common with the peace-loving hippy walking the streets of LA in 1968 than he would with the average Christian yuppie surfing the Internet, poster to Slashdot, or Christian evangelist.
It's not just "that crazy atheist" who believes that was Christ's position. There are numerous Christian sects that have tried to follow Christ's teachings to the letter. Their members give up all wordly possessions and preach Christ's message to any who will listen.
It's anti-Christ to create laws that would keep the poor and unfortunate out of your house and lands. Christ was quite clear in his instructions regarding giving everything you had to the poor and to others. He was quite emphatic about inviting the poor into your home to help them, rather than having parties with your friends.
Social conservatives ignore Christ's directions if they advocate any type of "border control", legally based or not. Read TFA again to understand why you may have trouble understanding what I'm saying.
The funny things to note here are that: 1) I'm an atheist, so don't really feel a need to follow Christ's advice (assuming he said those words and that he existed at all). and 2) I'm all for very strong border control. We should have land mines from Corpus Cristi to San Diego at all non-checkpoint locations.
Calling people or positions "evil" isn't always wrong, but it's one of those tactics where a little bit goes a long way.
I normally find that the "evil" label gets applied by people who are guilty of exactly what tfa is about -- they don't want to deal on a logical level with the other side's arguments, so slapping the "evil" label on the arguments allows them to move on to ignore concepts they don't want to deal with.
Can you build a space elevator out of them?
ANSWER in ROT13:
Vg'f mreb, fvapr (k-k) rdhnyf mreb naq mreb gvzrf nyy gur bgure snpgbef rdhnyf mreb.
So, basically, you're saying that you encode the specification for a plane in another number?
That seems to go against the problem statement that the N points are specified in cartesian 3D space. If their encoding can be arbitrary, then they can't very well be called N points in cartesian 3D space.
I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that there are already tools out there using bandwidth to probe for vulnerabilities. There are already people out there abusing this technique of software dispersal.
I'm just saying that while it's being done, we might as well encourage people to do it who *might* have some chance of doing the right thing.
When making worms is outlawed, only outlaws will make worms.
But how is this system better than simply having the OS automatically check for updates and download them silently?
Who's offering a comprehensive system for doing this? Sure, MicroSoft offers silent system updates in their more recent OSes, but it's obvious that they aren't on top of all of the security holes in their products past and present. Users routinely turn off automatic updates (or never turn them on in the first place). Is MicroSoft planning on fixing all the zombied Windows 98 machines out there? Of course not.
I'm all for this. People are out there exploiting these security holes for malicious reasons anyway. Anyone who wants to instead use the security holes to propagate fixes has my blessing. There are legions of bozos out there too cheap or ignorant to protect themselves and their company's computers from being used against all of the rest of us to send out spam and DoS attacks. If they can't fix their own problems, then someone else should.
I don't understand why there's enough controversy on this topic to merit multiple Slashdot articles over the past year.
Why all the hubbub?
Can't people just accept the fact that these celestial bodies have different qualities that defy ones ability to create a simple binary "is a planet, is not a planet" classification scheme?
Maybe, but I was just joking. Please defer all intelligent questions until after the laughter subsides or until after New Orleans is drained of floodwater... whichever happens second.
Actually, I'm an atheist... it was a joke. :)
Gotcha!
You have to simulate the soul.
The interesting question here is: Who doesn't already know Mundocani's home address... and social security number?
Is there like a PayPal account we can donate money to in support of the killers?
There's a spam I might click on... "Donate here to see other spammers killed". If we could just have all the others wiped out and only have to deal with the one 'toughest' spammer, mabye the Internet landscape would be nicer.
Did I say all that out loud? Oops...