The more that sick and ugly shenanigans are brought to light, the greater the likelihood of a peaceful revolution at the ballot box.
The US political system needs an enema at pretty much all levels.
Guys like this CIO, who are trying to do the Right Thing, and meeting evil at every turn, deserve to be write-ins on ballots.
So, what are we going to do, then?
Massive reverse-osmosis water purification plants on the African coast, to terraform our own planet?
In all seriousness, are we willing to accept phenomenal loss of human life in Pakistan, Indonesia, and the US gulf coast, because we don't want to pollute in the name of saving life?
Do we roll back the clock to simpler, agrarian times, and excuse ourselves from feeling any guilt, or roll the clock forward to cleaner technologies?
you'll realise that reducing CO2 emmisions is actually a conservative approach.
I do realize this. The question is, what political leadership has sufficient moral authority to champion the cause? The problem with the Republocrats is that they're obviously in the pocket of Big B'iness. The problem with the Demmicans, at least as far as Red State America is concerned, is that their power base consists of societal elements at least as dangerous as global warming itseslf.
Thus, the existing political order is about as helpful as the tacit global experiment underway to which you allude. Running your question through the Inspector Fowler Paraphraser: "Our cock-up, our arse". A less than erotic realization.
In fairness, one data point does not a useful judgement make.
What was the mental/physical context of the interview? How much lead time did the interviewee have? How many on-camera hours had the interviewee logged prior to the debacle in question?
I'm reminded of teh 1992 vice-presidential debates, when now-deceased VADM James Stockdale looked horrible on camera. Yet, all nonsense aside, he was an impeccable of leadership and courage. Say what you will of Perot.;)
The fact that she's performed as a trapeze artist indicates no small personal courage, if nothing else.
Recalls the George Carlin routine discussing the progression from "shellshock" to "combat fatigue" to "post-traumatic stress disorder". Publish or perish means elaborating on existing ideas far beyond any appropriate abstraction level.
Does anyone here have a working understanding of how software patents came about in America, or how they got so out of hand?
It's in the US Constitution. However, given any system, (information, political, legislative, or otherwise), the entropy of human nature drives the system to perversion.
As a Treo600 user, with T-Mobile service, I greet this news warmly. Except that T-Mobile's website doesn't offer the 600 anymore, much less the 650. The thought of running Linux on a cel-phone and connecting reliably with my Gentoo laptop is quite nice. Yet none of the providers seem to share my excitment. Why? Is the infrastructure simply not there to support lots of people moving packets on cel phone networks?
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Why must everything be so black and white?
To sell napalm. What kind of uninformed question was that?
That being said, does anyone know how to do in Emacs what is
effectively the same as doing a ``set list'' in vi?
Two suggestions would be to explore the emacs emulations of vi, to see if there is a 'done deal'
Failing that, http://www.emacswiki.org/ is your ticket to bliss.
The killer feature of emacs for me is the rectangular edits.
When you want to sculpt text, nothing else will do.
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Now, because of its single-threadedness, I do run separate instances, but I like to have the Emacs Code Browser, Emacs Relay Chat, and Gnus open at simultaneously.
Sure, just drop in the Emacs Code Browser.
Eclispe can try, but the fundamental truth shall see no successful ammendment:
"There are two categories of editor: Emacs, and lesser."
I dunno. I was just delving into the joy of SQLServer. I wanted to query against a DATETIME field, and build a string, say, "FY05" from that field.
Lot of cognitive dissonance how that game is played. I guess they have a lot of that calculation stuff sitting right in the database engine, as opposed to farming it out to an expression library when evaluating the query.
Not the cleanest looking thing I've ever seen, he said, not really wanting to troll.
Truly, I wish that the project could just use PostGREsql, and compile in Python support, but I guess I'd have to start my own company to achieve such feats of common sense.
A sixer o' Benjamins, bub
A groovy, wee hub
Emerge, and distcc:
Wi' Gentoo rock'n dis byotch,
We'll kick Sony BMG in the crotch,
An' prolly end up Gentree! Burma Shave
How is a "call home" feature going to work? If you have any kind of network that The Combine and its Fog Machine do not control, then there is the possibility of intercepting the packets and ushering them elsewhere.
As far as corporate and government markets go, the whole thing is a wash; the cartel-like behavior of The Evil Ones fits nicely in with Digital Restrictions Management and Trustworthless Computing.
Best the technorati can hope for is to draw attention to the Mephistophelean nature of the evil, and try to keep the consumer sector reasonably free.
And who cares about for this Digitally Restricted content, anyway? Slapping a rootkit and a high price on a pile of crap doesn't change the intrinsic nature thereof...
You seem to think the companies a) have much technical understanding of the issues b) have awareness of the understanding of outsiders.
SonyBMG wasn't an isolated incident of cranial rectalitis.
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What's not to understand?
Below the current level of understanding sits another, as objects lead to molecules lead to atoms...and so on.
It's turtles all the way down, sonny!
The more that sick and ugly shenanigans are brought to light, the greater the likelihood of a peaceful revolution at the ballot box.
The US political system needs an enema at pretty much all levels.
Guys like this CIO, who are trying to do the Right Thing, and meeting evil at every turn, deserve to be write-ins on ballots.
Massive reverse-osmosis water purification plants on the African coast, to terraform our own planet?
In all seriousness, are we willing to accept phenomenal loss of human life in Pakistan, Indonesia, and the US gulf coast, because we don't want to pollute in the name of saving life?
Do we roll back the clock to simpler, agrarian times, and excuse ourselves from feeling any guilt, or roll the clock forward to cleaner technologies?
I do realize this. The question is, what political leadership has sufficient moral authority to champion the cause? The problem with the Republocrats is that they're obviously in the pocket of Big B'iness. The problem with the Demmicans, at least as far as Red State America is concerned, is that their power base consists of societal elements at least as dangerous as global warming itseslf.
Thus, the existing political order is about as helpful as the tacit global experiment underway to which you allude. Running your question through the Inspector Fowler Paraphraser: "Our cock-up, our arse". A less than erotic realization.
I mean, really: isn't this just a variation on the theme of "code that blocks"?
In fairness, one data point does not a useful judgement make. ;)
What was the mental/physical context of the interview? How much lead time did the interviewee have? How many on-camera hours had the interviewee logged prior to the debacle in question?
I'm reminded of teh 1992 vice-presidential debates, when now-deceased VADM James Stockdale looked horrible on camera. Yet, all nonsense aside, he was an impeccable of leadership and courage. Say what you will of Perot.
The fact that she's performed as a trapeze artist indicates no small personal courage, if nothing else.
Recalls the George Carlin routine discussing the progression from "shellshock" to "combat fatigue" to "post-traumatic stress disorder". Publish or perish means elaborating on existing ideas far beyond any appropriate abstraction level.
MinGW failed?
How do you preclude an XSLT to un-frobnicate documents bearing the Redmond taint?
As a Treo600 user, with T-Mobile service, I greet this news warmly.
Except that T-Mobile's website doesn't offer the 600 anymore, much less the 650.
The thought of running Linux on a cel-phone and connecting reliably with my Gentoo laptop is quite nice.
Yet none of the providers seem to share my excitment.
Why? Is the infrastructure simply not there to support lots of people moving packets on cel phone networks?
Bought a new receiver recently. Yamaha. Didn't badmouth the Sony hardware in the store. Much.
Oh, all right: there is at least one other editor out there with this essential feature. ;)
Who could master emacs? Jack into #emacs over on irc.freenode.net, and listen to t3h h34dz say: "WTF? I didn't know emacs had that feature!"
Failing that, http://www.emacswiki.org/ is your ticket to bliss.
The killer feature of emacs for me is the rectangular edits.
When you want to sculpt text, nothing else will do.
Now, because of its single-threadedness, I do run separate instances, but I like to have the Emacs Code Browser, Emacs Relay Chat, and Gnus open at simultaneously.
Sure, just drop in the Emacs Code Browser.
Eclispe can try, but the fundamental truth shall see no successful ammendment:
"There are two categories of editor: Emacs, and lesser."
I dunno. I was just delving into the joy of SQLServer. I wanted to query against a DATETIME field, and build a string, say, "FY05" from that field.
Lot of cognitive dissonance how that game is played. I guess they have a lot of that calculation stuff sitting right in the database engine, as opposed to farming it out to an expression library when evaluating the query.
Not the cleanest looking thing I've ever seen, he said, not really wanting to troll.
Truly, I wish that the project could just use PostGREsql, and compile in Python support, but I guess I'd have to start my own company to achieve such feats of common sense.
Right, but if the medium is meant to play on un-networked hardware, how can any of these manifestations of evil be made untweakable?
A sixer o' Benjamins, bub
A groovy, wee hub
Emerge, and distcc:
Wi' Gentoo rock'n dis byotch,
We'll kick Sony BMG in the crotch,
An' prolly end up Gentree!
Burma Shave
How is a "call home" feature going to work? If you have any kind of network that The Combine and its Fog Machine do not control, then there is the possibility of intercepting the packets and ushering them elsewhere.
As far as corporate and government markets go, the whole thing is a wash; the cartel-like behavior of The Evil Ones fits nicely in with Digital Restrictions Management and Trustworthless Computing.
Best the technorati can hope for is to draw attention to the Mephistophelean nature of the evil, and try to keep the consumer sector reasonably free.
And who cares about for this Digitally Restricted content, anyway? Slapping a rootkit and a high price on a pile of crap doesn't change the intrinsic nature thereof...
You seem to think the companies a) have much technical understanding of the issues b) have awareness of the understanding of outsiders.
SonyBMG wasn't an isolated incident of cranial rectalitis.
To paraphrase Karl Marx: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as XML.