Remember Deiter from "Sprockets" on Saturday Night Live? That's where the line "touch my monkey" is from. The boss of that German company kinda looks like Deiter, which triggered the flashback.
Maybe I'm accustomed to a different way of doing things. For one, my email is web-based. I've been using rocketmail for my primary email account since circa '98 (Yahoo since usurped it but I got to keep the address) and online storage is more than ample for any backups. I don't need to grep gigabytes of saved emails like some folks. I'm also pretty organised and remove text files whenever I can, otherwise I have it in an appropriate directory where I'll remember it's purpose and contents. And as for Google Desktops other superfluous bells and whistles like weather, images etcetera, whoopty-freakin-do. That's not innovative or even useful. It's played out, bigtime. Is that what the Google braintrust is coming up with to conqueur Microsoft?!
I have a suggestion for Google: port Desktop 2 to GNU/Linux. Google is a vocal supporter of open source, and they're locked in mortal combat with Microsoft, so why not give it up? Linux users would appreciate it more than Windows users, and it would be more useful on that platform.
I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, Google isn't smart enough.
Does anyone actually USE Google Desktop?
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I've installed every version of google desktop since inception, hoping every time that I'll find use for it. But I never do. It just sits there on my desktop, taking up real estate and looking fugly.
Other than replacing XP's pathetic search feature, it's really alot of nothing.
Plenty, if you're into retro games. I bought Tekken 3 for a fin and a PS1 memory card for $2. I also bought Street Fighter Alpha, Grand Turismo 2 and I think even the PSX re-release of FF I&II for the same price.
Video games haven't made huge leaps in graphics and frame rates since the induction of the 32 bit era, and it's arguable whether these next gen games are any more entertaining either. Point is, the deals are out there if you can lower your standards a notch.
So, that byte of data sitting on Joe Blow's hard drive in San Dimas that forms part of his most-recently downloaded pron is interconnected to little Sally Froo-Froo's pictures of her Bunny-Wunny that her daddy gave her for her birthday? I somehow think not.
You made the connection yourself just now. So yes.
I spoke out against teaching Intelligent Design in schools. I said it's useless unless they make Jesus Christ central in the ciriculum. That's not pushing any scientific theory at all. As far as I'm concerned, we're both arguing the same cause, except from entirely different angles.
However science is based upon proofs, empirical observation, and the scientific method, while religion is based on faith in things that cannot be known or measured.
Look up into the night sky - is that not proof enough of an Intelligent Designer? Everytime I forgive or feel forgiven, love or feel loved, that testifies to me there is a Divine Creator. Even you can't deny that in those moments, mortality seems more than just living sinews of flesh coexisting on a giant rock floating out in space.
There is no such thing as coincidence in this life. Everything is intimately interconnected in this universe, just as one byte of data is sibling to another byte of data in cyberspace (but I digress).
If they keep their faith out of my schools, I'll keep my science out of their churches. Seems like a fair trade.
Science and religion are not mutually exclusive. Rather, they go hand-in-hand and betters our understanding of both. Who says God didn't use the mechanisms of evolution to "beta test" the earth? Jesus Christ was and is a Creator (and we've inherited this trait) and will always employ the laws of the universe to create life. Never will He break a law of the universe, ergo everything He has made is explainable by science. This is why we have the study of science in the first place!
I am a Christian - a Latter-Day Saint to be precise - and members of the Church are strongly encouraged to study the sciences and other secular fields, because the Glory of God is Intelligence and we can better understand Him by better understanding the world around us.
...unless school teaches about the Intelligent Designer also. That Intelligent Designer is Jesus Christ: The Creator of heaven and earth, the King of Glory, the God of Life. Without mention of Him, and the Atonement whereby He took upon Himself all the sins and suffering of the world, the study of Intelligent Design is a waste of time.
Jesus Christ should be the central focus of our heart, mind and soul - every minute of every day. All this other academic ciriculum is only skirting around the core issue.
I used to buy every console that came out, and spent at least $100 a week on games. A lot of that was crap, but I was immersed in game mags and sites at the time, getting a full blast of big name promotion.
Wow. That sounded exactly like me about 10 years ago, except for now I'm primarily into retro gaming with my daughter (I buy old consoles and games for cheap but I plan on buying Nintendo's Revolution if I got the ching). This segment of the market you and I are in is growing. Hollywood is running out of ideas and it's terminal so it's not like us "thirtysomethings" can justify spending $60 on a night at the cinema of even wasting two hours on a dvd. TV and satelite is just as pitiful (500 channels and still nothing to watch - I hear it all the time).
Yup, gaming (new and old) seems to offer the most bang for the buck. The industry won't ignore us.
Quick to jump the gun and insult others, aren't we AC? Why are you so defensive? How could you know what I know or don't know?
"All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matt 24:8) AC. Believe it or not. You have your own free agency. You choose what you will believe. I believe the summer is nigh at hand and that the bible is factually correct.
Critics gushed over "Lost in Translation" and it did pretty darn well in the box office too. However, despite the great cinemetography and even better soundtrack, the movie as a whole was overrated.
...it's still the last days before Jesus Christ returns to the earth. There will be many like yourself, who will deny it and explain it away (no matter how bad it gets and no matter how many biblical prophesies are fulfilled before their eyes). No amount of reasoning and evidence will be enough for people like you. But you will be wrong in the end.
It's the end of the world (as we know it) and I feel fine.
I know it's cool not to like Dvorak, since he's old and does alot of posturing against the behometh Microsoft - who doesn't even acknowledge his existance - but the guy is right alot of the time. This is one of them.
me: "I certainly don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. They don't pay taxes, or work full time, they're not parents, nor do they even drive."
you: "So if someone doesn't pay taxes, drive, have kids of their own or work full time shouldn't have the same rights as you? That includes the unemployed, those working part time, those who choose not to or are unable to have kids and even people who are unable to drive. Anyone else you feel shouldn't have the same rights as you?
me: Read my last statement again and look at the context. I said I don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. Besides, it's already in effect. Minors can't vote and they don't help make the laws, and minors certainly don't have the life experience and maturity to make wise, long term decisions - even for themselves.
le I do not agree with the exploitation of minors in any way...
What a swell guy you are!
I also think that minors (who are still people and entitled to the same rights as everyone else) should be allowed to make their own decisions in life.
I certainly don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. They don't pay taxes, or work full time, they're not parents, nor do they even drive. They haven't accumulated enough life experience to make serious decisions. They still need rules, guidance and boundaries.
It's not as important that we always have a good time, but that we live a good life. --President James E. Faust
I work in a factory just like you...
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...and I hate it. I truly do. But it pays enough to keep me going, I live relatively close to work and I have 12 years seniority. But did I mention I hated the job?
I guess what keeps me going is having a dream and a sence of obligation towards those I love. I'm writing a book and although it'll likely never sell millions of copies (and get me out of the factory), to have it published would be a major personal accomplishment. The other motivation I mentioned is my daughters.I have a daughter that lives with me and two who live with there mother, and I don't want to be struggling with my support for them.
There is a third motivation: fear. I'm afraid of leaving this factory job for something else, only to either fail at the new job, or for the new job to fail me!
My advice (I hope you're still reading this drsquare) is to have a dream and go for it. Have a family if that is in the cards (you don't need to be rich to experience the joy of children) and be grateful for what you do have. Think about it: you have your sight, do you have all your limbs? Are you healthy (or dying of a disease)? You're employed and self-suffificient. Acknowledge and be grateful to God and He will give you more!
Actually, there's a cool parallel between that Slate article you mentioned and this Red Herring article. My understanding (and I didn't RTFM, just skimmed it) is the RIAA "wants, and will insist upon having, variable pricing", and doesn't believe there should be a uniform price of.99. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. proposed theaters charge higher prices for more expensive movies. Why, he reasoned, should you pay the same amount to see a $2 million movie as you would to see a $200 million one? So he was also one for variable pricing.
Fact is, variable pricing schemata won't work for movies and most fickle music consumers will be damned to pay more than a buck (when they're already playing fair and eschewing p2p apps ala Kazaa, Soul Seek and even AllOf MP3.com.
I've long been of the conviction that piracy is not nearly as large of a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be.
Piracy isn't the big problem. Educated music listeners are the problem now. The music industry can no longer sell 10+ million copies of Britney Spears/N'Sync type garbage, because people have access to many more types of music. Music buying appetities are now fragmented and specialized, which means instead of a label selling a gazillion records of one artist, chart topping artists many not even sell a half-million. The labels have to do more research and advertising than ever and as a result, profit margins are smaller.
Besides, albums with only one or two good tracks won't sell like before. The music buying public samples the music beforehand and the RIAA hates that!
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Remember Deiter from "Sprockets" on Saturday Night Live? That's where the line "touch my monkey" is from. The boss of that German company kinda looks like Deiter, which triggered the flashback.
No need to get sicko perverted.
must TOUCH MY MONKEY!!!!
Disclaimer: I have no idea what that means (but it doesn't sound good).
that's what beatings are for
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Beatings administered with love, of course
Maybe I'm accustomed to a different way of doing things. For one, my email is web-based. I've been using rocketmail for my primary email account since circa '98 (Yahoo since usurped it but I got to keep the address) and online storage is more than ample for any backups. I don't need to grep gigabytes of saved emails like some folks. I'm also pretty organised and remove text files whenever I can, otherwise I have it in an appropriate directory where I'll remember it's purpose and contents. And as for Google Desktops other superfluous bells and whistles like weather, images etcetera, whoopty-freakin-do. That's not innovative or even useful. It's played out, bigtime. Is that what the Google braintrust is coming up with to conqueur Microsoft?!
I have a suggestion for Google: port Desktop 2 to GNU/Linux. Google is a vocal supporter of open source, and they're locked in mortal combat with Microsoft, so why not give it up? Linux users would appreciate it more than Windows users, and it would be more useful on that platform.
I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, Google isn't smart enough.
I've installed every version of google desktop since inception, hoping every time that I'll find use for it. But I never do. It just sits there on my desktop, taking up real estate and looking fugly.
Other than replacing XP's pathetic search feature, it's really alot of nothing.
Plenty, if you're into retro games. I bought Tekken 3 for a fin and a PS1 memory card for $2. I also bought Street Fighter Alpha, Grand Turismo 2 and I think even the PSX re-release of FF I&II for the same price.
Video games haven't made huge leaps in graphics and frame rates since the induction of the 32 bit era, and it's arguable whether these next gen games are any more entertaining either. Point is, the deals are out there if you can lower your standards a notch.
So, that byte of data sitting on Joe Blow's hard drive in San Dimas that forms part of his most-recently downloaded pron is interconnected to little Sally Froo-Froo's pictures of her Bunny-Wunny that her daddy gave her for her birthday? I somehow think not.
You made the connection yourself just now. So yes.
I spoke out against teaching Intelligent Design in schools. I said it's useless unless they make Jesus Christ central in the ciriculum. That's not pushing any scientific theory at all. As far as I'm concerned, we're both arguing the same cause, except from entirely different angles.
I'm not imposing my beliefs on you. I'm commenting in a related discussion. You can take it or leave it. Nobody's got a gun to your head.
However science is based upon proofs, empirical observation, and the scientific method, while religion is based on faith in things that cannot be known or measured.
Look up into the night sky - is that not proof enough of an Intelligent Designer? Everytime I forgive or feel forgiven, love or feel loved, that testifies to me there is a Divine Creator. Even you can't deny that in those moments, mortality seems more than just living sinews of flesh coexisting on a giant rock floating out in space.
There is no such thing as coincidence in this life. Everything is intimately interconnected in this universe, just as one byte of data is sibling to another byte of data in cyberspace (but I digress).
Here's a google search with the key words "Jesus Christ is God". And yes, He is also the Son of God.
If they keep their faith out of my schools, I'll keep my science out of their churches. Seems like a fair trade.
Science and religion are not mutually exclusive. Rather, they go hand-in-hand and betters our understanding of both. Who says God didn't use the mechanisms of evolution to "beta test" the earth? Jesus Christ was and is a Creator (and we've inherited this trait) and will always employ the laws of the universe to create life. Never will He break a law of the universe, ergo everything He has made is explainable by science. This is why we have the study of science in the first place!
I am a Christian - a Latter-Day Saint to be precise - and members of the Church are strongly encouraged to study the sciences and other secular fields, because the Glory of God is Intelligence and we can better understand Him by better understanding the world around us.
...unless school teaches about the Intelligent Designer also. That Intelligent Designer is Jesus Christ: The Creator of heaven and earth, the King of Glory, the God of Life. Without mention of Him, and the Atonement whereby He took upon Himself all the sins and suffering of the world, the study of Intelligent Design is a waste of time.
Jesus Christ should be the central focus of our heart, mind and soul - every minute of every day. All this other academic ciriculum is only skirting around the core issue.
I used to buy every console that came out, and spent at least $100 a week on games. A lot of that was crap, but I was immersed in game mags and sites at the time, getting a full blast of big name promotion.
Wow. That sounded exactly like me about 10 years ago, except for now I'm primarily into retro gaming with my daughter (I buy old consoles and games for cheap but I plan on buying Nintendo's Revolution if I got the ching). This segment of the market you and I are in is growing. Hollywood is running out of ideas and it's terminal so it's not like us "thirtysomethings" can justify spending $60 on a night at the cinema of even wasting two hours on a dvd. TV and satelite is just as pitiful (500 channels and still nothing to watch - I hear it all the time).
Yup, gaming (new and old) seems to offer the most bang for the buck. The industry won't ignore us.
Quick to jump the gun and insult others, aren't we AC? Why are you so defensive? How could you know what I know or don't know?
"All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matt 24:8) AC. Believe it or not. You have your own free agency. You choose what you will believe. I believe the summer is nigh at hand and that the bible is factually correct.
Go ahead. Have a temper tantrum.
Critics gushed over "Lost in Translation" and it did pretty darn well in the box office too. However, despite the great cinemetography and even better soundtrack, the movie as a whole was overrated.
Now Steamboy - that's a movie!!!
...it's still the last days before Jesus Christ returns to the earth. There will be many like yourself, who will deny it and explain it away (no matter how bad it gets and no matter how many biblical prophesies are fulfilled before their eyes). No amount of reasoning and evidence will be enough for people like you. But you will be wrong in the end.
It's the end of the world (as we know it) and I feel fine.
I know it's cool not to like Dvorak, since he's old and does alot of posturing against the behometh Microsoft - who doesn't even acknowledge his existance - but the guy is right alot of the time. This is one of them.
Go ahead poseurs and fanboys. Mod me down.
me: "I certainly don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. They don't pay taxes, or work full time, they're not parents, nor do they even drive."
you: "So if someone doesn't pay taxes, drive, have kids of their own or work full time shouldn't have the same rights as you? That includes the unemployed, those working part time, those who choose not to or are unable to have kids and even people who are unable to drive. Anyone else you feel shouldn't have the same rights as you?
me: Read my last statement again and look at the context. I said I don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. Besides, it's already in effect. Minors can't vote and they don't help make the laws, and minors certainly don't have the life experience and maturity to make wise, long term decisions - even for themselves.
le I do not agree with the exploitation of minors in any way...
What a swell guy you are!
I also think that minors (who are still people and entitled to the same rights as everyone else) should be allowed to make their own decisions in life.
I certainly don't think minors are entitled to the same rights as me. They don't pay taxes, or work full time, they're not parents, nor do they even drive. They haven't accumulated enough life experience to make serious decisions. They still need rules, guidance and boundaries.
You just blew the head off a georgeous and rare animal (check the pic out)
Ugh. My stomach did a cartwheel.
It's not as important that we always have a good time, but that we live a good life. --President James E. Faust
...and I hate it. I truly do. But it pays enough to keep me going, I live relatively close to work and I have 12 years seniority. But did I mention I hated the job?
I guess what keeps me going is having a dream and a sence of obligation towards those I love. I'm writing a book and although it'll likely never sell millions of copies (and get me out of the factory), to have it published would be a major personal accomplishment. The other motivation I mentioned is my daughters.I have a daughter that lives with me and two who live with there mother, and I don't want to be struggling with my support for them.
There is a third motivation: fear. I'm afraid of leaving this factory job for something else, only to either fail at the new job, or for the new job to fail me!
My advice (I hope you're still reading this drsquare) is to have a dream and go for it. Have a family if that is in the cards (you don't need to be rich to experience the joy of children) and be grateful for what you do have. Think about it: you have your sight, do you have all your limbs? Are you healthy (or dying of a disease)? You're employed and self-suffificient. Acknowledge and be grateful to God and He will give you more!
Actually, there's a cool parallel between that Slate article you mentioned and this Red Herring article. My understanding (and I didn't RTFM, just skimmed it) is the RIAA "wants, and will insist upon having, variable pricing", and doesn't believe there should be a uniform price of .99. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. proposed theaters charge higher prices for more expensive movies. Why, he reasoned, should you pay the same amount to see a $2 million movie as you would to see a $200 million one? So he was also one for variable pricing.
Fact is, variable pricing schemata won't work for movies and most fickle music consumers will be damned to pay more than a buck (when they're already playing fair and eschewing p2p apps ala Kazaa, Soul Seek and even AllOf MP3.com.
I've long been of the conviction that piracy is not nearly as large of a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be.
Piracy isn't the big problem. Educated music listeners are the problem now. The music industry can no longer sell 10+ million copies of Britney Spears/N'Sync type garbage, because people have access to many more types of music. Music buying appetities are now fragmented and specialized, which means instead of a label selling a gazillion records of one artist, chart topping artists many not even sell a half-million. The labels have to do more research and advertising than ever and as a result, profit margins are smaller.
Besides, albums with only one or two good tracks won't sell like before. The music buying public samples the music beforehand and the RIAA hates that!