Well, at least it gives you something to do while waiting for your heart surgery.;-)
Seriously though, I bet it won't last much longer. Canada's a smaller market than the U.S., but I'm sure the Media Hegemony hasn't forgotten about it. Wait, are those cross-hairs I see on the Great White North? Good luck, Canada.
He should... I assume that a lot of the successful athletes have one copy of this gene. This little boy just happens to have two. I'm sure he's not the only person like this. His grandfather could heft 330-pound curb stones... I could look at a 330-pound curb stone, but I'd need to sit down afterwards.
Good thing Nazi Germany is gone or I think we'd have to worry about a new eugenics program. </me pulls out old Captain America comic books...>
Yeah, just wait till this spreads. Soon we pasty, overweight nerds will be oppressed by myostatin-free gradeschoolers stealing our lunch money, kicking sand in our face and laughing at our brushed aluminum cases with cold-cathode blacklights and fluorescent USB cables.
On the plus side, in 800,000 years, my descendants will be the eloi and not having to live underground. Um.
I myself make, uh, plenty of myostatin. In fact, that's my superpower -- making tons of myostatin to keep my body almost superhumanly unmuscled.
And I thought I was the only one......and that picture is amazing. The child looks like a bodybuilder.
I've always wondered about that. My sister's kids are built like tanks... incredibly solid bodies, large and very strong. My kids however, are more normal, what you'd typically expect for kids (at least their bodies... they all have "interesting" personalities just like their parents;-). It was always strange holding a large but lean, muscular two-year-old like that compared to the typical soft, cuddly toddlers (like mine used to be). I wonder if the kids inherited one copy of that gene since they have a former NFL football player for an uncle.
Her oldest child is now eight. He's a sweet boy, but he's had a fair amount of medical problems. He's the biggest and strongest in his class though, which can be good... or bad, and not suprisingly, he excels at athletics.
I have a feeling that the interest in this will be huge and some day there might be some skinny, sickly kid named Steve Rogers who gets and injection and goes on to fight America's enemies as some kind of super soldier.
The problem with almost all "mellow" music is that it's also monotonous, dull and painfully simple. Classical fits the bill quite nicely, since it is usually very complex and non-repetitive. It doesn't grate on your nerves. It's easy to tune out if you want to. But if you actually want to listen, there's real content there... you won't be gnawing off your limbs out of boredom, which is what most "light jazz" does to me.
Of course, if it were up to me, I'd be playing progressive music like Spock's Beard, Glass Hammer or The Flower Kings, but I wouldn't foist my (superior;-) tastes on others.
And this is what will happen to every DRM system that ever will be created. What the greedy morons can't seem to get through their thick heads, and yes, I believe they are being incredibly short-sighted and, yes, stupid.
Every DRM ever invented will always have a hole in it big enough to drive a truck through: the fact that the media needs to be delivered to human senses. Therefore, no matter what they try, it will always be copyable. Period.
Oh well. He's an angry guy. I can sympathize with that, but assuming my friend was somehow being sarcastic and treating him rudely was way over the top.
I managed to score a few at a used bookstore a couple years ago, and I saw a first edition of one of his books (can't remember which now) at a used bookstore in Fredricksburg, VA several years ago, but I'm not enough of a freak to pay $250 for a book, even one as eminently collectible as that, but I have a friend who does...
There was a biographical piece in one of his books of short stories where he mentions getting picked on as a kid and beat up because he was little and Jewish. I can't help but wonder if he never got over that.
This comes full circle to an idea I had the other day. The media companies have a serious (and legitimate) complaint about piracy, but it is so incredibly easy to find things on BitTorrent sites, and whatever. If they simply would follow that model, I'm sure they could drain off a lot of that piracy by people who would be more than willing to pay to legitimately download these things.
I was looking for an expansion to the game Ground Control, which was only ever offered as a free CD with a magazine a couple years ago. More recent releases of the game contained the expansion, but I already have the game. The _only_ place I could find, after some extensive looking, was amazon.co.uk (not amazon.com) that could put a search out for it used (I successfully found an obscure CD that way, but it took over a year). I put in a couple of orders to search for used versions of it, got fed up and found a Bittorrent source for the thing in (no exaggeration) about 30 seconds. I'll buy it if it comes through, but what a ridiculous situation.
Now if a bunch of dumb kids with questionable morals can set up that kind of network where you can find movies, music, software, etc, that easily, why can't the companies who are actually selling this stuff do it. Because they are so afraid of piracy that they would rather risk wider piracy than sell things on-line without some mythical, perfect, byzantine, Orwellian DRM that only screws the paying customer.
That's the problem. Ellison is always incoherently pissed off at something, you can never know when it's actually legitimate.
A friend of mine met him at an American Bookseller's Association meeting years ago and commented that it's a shame you can't find his books easier. Harlan's response? "F--- you."
You mean you haven't heard about the huge Oil for Food scandal, where a number of U.N. officials were on the take, at the expense of some of the food actually reaching Iraq?!
Oh well, so much for any kind of fair media with regard to the U.N. The U.N. has no moral authority in my mind... they are just a bunch of bureaucrats, which is fine when it comes to setting up elections and things like that, but completely ineffectual when dealing with threats to peace.
No one ever said the American system is above reproach. Our president has come right out and said that with regard to the prisoner abuses. He has called for those who committed abuses to be punished. And before I hear all the whining (not from you, necessarily) about how that abuse went all the way to the top: If it did, it wouldn't be these stupid porn movie antics and frat hazings, and they wouldn't have been taking pictures of it. This is clearly the work of low-level people who didn't know what they were doing (WRT real interrogation and psychological techniques). It was just so amateur and immature. Lindy England is about as effective at softening up prisoners as SCO is at generating positive PR.
With regard to the Marines, I honestly can't imagine anyone in Iraq having anything a Marine would want, but that's just me.
Yeah, they're just happy to rip off starving Iraqi kids and pocket the profits. A bunch of saints in the U.N., but unlike the U.S., they aren't being so forthright about corruption within.
When Kofi Annan gets up and admits what his organization has been up to, condemns it, and calls for those criminals to be brought to justice, then maybe, maybe, I'll consider the U.N. something more than a bunch of self-serving power-hungry elitist snobs.
Say what you will about Bush, at least he did that much.
Hey, some of us have SO's. Some of us are even married. Of course, my wife is a serious nerd too, just not a computer nerd.
I did my time as a lonely dateless nerd, but just because I have a life (and kids even) doesn't mean I'm still not a complete geek. In fact, my boss, who is also pretty nerdy, really appreciates me for my nerdiness, if not for my speed of coding.
Besides, someone has to keep putting weird stuff in the gene pool.
That assumes he means it...
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Nowadays, public apologies usually translate into: "I'm sorry I was caught." and the persion attempts to quietly go back to whatever it was that he or she had to apologize for.
You must have something seriously weird on your systems. I've been using Mozilla and/or Firefox for over a year now on several machines on XP and 2000, and while I have an occasional problem with Firefox (fewer problems than with IE, though), I never had any installation go bad.
3. You're absolutely right here. The thing about IE though, is that it's got nowhere to go but down. MS has no plans to do anything more with IE beyond the fixes in XP SP 2, while the Mozilla projects just keep getting better and better. Of course, Microsoft just has to flex some of their monopoly power to put a hurtin' on any competitor, but in this case Mozilla has everything to gain and MS has everything to lose.
I got hit by this recently. Windows 2000 was limited to support for 128GB partition sizes until SP3. Once you have SP3, it takes a registry change to enable "Big LBA" (48-bit).
This isn't an issue with XP, from my experience. I jacked in a 250GB drive in a USB chassis to my laptop and it worked fine right off the bat.
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I have to agree with you. I actually like Colmes and dislike Hannity, even though I agree with Hannity 90% of the time. He's a lousy interviewer, and just engages in a lot of silly name-calling ad hominem stuff and gets wrapped around the axle over silly peripheral things when trying to talk to someone. I feel this way and I AGREE with the guy. Alan Colmes, IMO, is much more likeable, more reasonable and more pleasant, just wrong (again, IMO)... but he often raises good points.
I think you will also find that the liberal types they have on the show are generally idiots or at the very least grating and shrill. Now I do firmly believe that liberal point of view is often illogical, irrational or otherwise silly, but there are much better spokespeople for that point of view than H&C usually come up with.
That said, I still watch the show sometimes because I can filter biases I believe people have.
Put it this way: I don't recall ever getting 5000 virus e-mail messages over a period of two weeks from any viruses running on Linux.
With windows on the other hand...
I wonder if they counted MS Office (a.k.a. The MS Virus Development Kit) in this research. I also don't recall any Linux distros containing a recommendation to type URL's in by hand since clicking on a hypertext link could compromise your computer. Of course, I am a Windows user, so maybe Linux does experience these kinds of problems and I just haven't heard of them...;-)
Actually, the Constitution is pretty specific for the most part. It's the legislators, and worse, the judges who have deconstructed the language and otherwise folded, spindled and mutilated the clear meaning of the words (and logic itself) to render the Constitution vague, even where it isn't.
What radical transformation is server hardware and software undergoing that makes anyone think this stuff will suddenly work so well that it will reduce the need for experts to maintain and operate them? Heck, the mere existence of Microsoft guarantees lifetime employment for anyone willing to suffer though learning how to use their software, and this is exacerbated by the fact that Microsoft seems to be exceeding Moore's Law (but in terms of code size and complexity) while delivering at best, a slow linear increase in real functionality.
Short of AI, I don't see sysadmins ever going away, or even decreasing.
I've used WMP for PocketPC, and like all MS software for the PocketPC, it sucks out loud. However, there is WinAmpaq, which works fine and plays OGG files too.
Being a Windows developer for 15 years, I really thought I would prefer a Windows-based PDA, but I have to say that Pocket PC and the MS software for it is incredibly awful, and riddled with bugs. Heck, I can't even reliably transfer large files with ActiveSync... good thing my laptop has a SD slot.
However, it does make a good media player, except I'm currently limited to my 512MB SD card for storage. If I could find a larger storage solution for my Toshiba e355, I'd be livin' large.
There was another reference in the episode about the stock market (where "that guy" takes over Planet Express) where Fry was sitting in with the Cryogenic support group when someone mentions when he was frozen giant carrots ruled the world.
I also seem to recall a reference to some powerful alien being elected President of Earth and his statue being in the Lincoln memorial or something like that.
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Well, at least it gives you something to do while waiting for your heart surgery. ;-)
Seriously though, I bet it won't last much longer. Canada's a smaller market than the U.S., but I'm sure the Media Hegemony hasn't forgotten about it. Wait, are those cross-hairs I see on the Great White North? Good luck, Canada.
He should... I assume that a lot of the successful athletes have one copy of this gene. This little boy just happens to have two. I'm sure he's not the only person like this. His grandfather could heft 330-pound curb stones... I could look at a 330-pound curb stone, but I'd need to sit down afterwards.
Good thing Nazi Germany is gone or I think we'd have to worry about a new eugenics program. </me pulls out old Captain America comic books...>
Yeah, just wait till this spreads. Soon we pasty, overweight nerds will be oppressed by myostatin-free gradeschoolers stealing our lunch money, kicking sand in our face and laughing at our brushed aluminum cases with cold-cathode blacklights and fluorescent USB cables.
On the plus side, in 800,000 years, my descendants will be the eloi and not having to live underground. Um.
Of course not, silly.
But their father obviously shares a lot of genes with his brother. He's huge and strong too.
I myself make, uh, plenty of myostatin. In fact, that's my superpower -- making tons of myostatin to keep my body almost superhumanly unmuscled.
...and that picture is amazing. The child looks like a bodybuilder.
;-). It was always strange holding a large but lean, muscular two-year-old like that compared to the typical soft, cuddly toddlers (like mine used to be). I wonder if the kids inherited one copy of that gene since they have a former NFL football player for an uncle.
And I thought I was the only one...
I've always wondered about that. My sister's kids are built like tanks... incredibly solid bodies, large and very strong. My kids however, are more normal, what you'd typically expect for kids (at least their bodies... they all have "interesting" personalities just like their parents
Her oldest child is now eight. He's a sweet boy, but he's had a fair amount of medical problems. He's the biggest and strongest in his class though, which can be good... or bad, and not suprisingly, he excels at athletics.
I have a feeling that the interest in this will be huge and some day there might be some skinny, sickly kid named Steve Rogers who gets and injection and goes on to fight America's enemies as some kind of super soldier.
I agree with you.
;-) tastes on others.
The problem with almost all "mellow" music is that it's also monotonous, dull and painfully simple. Classical fits the bill quite nicely, since it is usually very complex and non-repetitive. It doesn't grate on your nerves. It's easy to tune out if you want to. But if you actually want to listen, there's real content there... you won't be gnawing off your limbs out of boredom, which is what most "light jazz" does to me.
Of course, if it were up to me, I'd be playing progressive music like Spock's Beard, Glass Hammer or The Flower Kings, but I wouldn't foist my (superior
Well, I've had a break from it for about 6 years. I wouldn't mind seeing something new... if it was decent.
After Gilligan's Island in Space and the Sexual Adventures of Breasty McSpock, I don't see how it can go anywhere but up.
And this is what will happen to every DRM system that ever will be created. What the greedy morons can't seem to get through their thick heads, and yes, I believe they are being incredibly short-sighted and, yes, stupid.
Every DRM ever invented will always have a hole in it big enough to drive a truck through: the fact that the media needs to be delivered to human senses. Therefore, no matter what they try, it will always be copyable. Period.
Oh well. He's an angry guy. I can sympathize with that, but assuming my friend was somehow being sarcastic and treating him rudely was way over the top.
I managed to score a few at a used bookstore a couple years ago, and I saw a first edition of one of his books (can't remember which now) at a used bookstore in Fredricksburg, VA several years ago, but I'm not enough of a freak to pay $250 for a book, even one as eminently collectible as that, but I have a friend who does...
There was a biographical piece in one of his books of short stories where he mentions getting picked on as a kid and beat up because he was little and Jewish. I can't help but wonder if he never got over that.
This comes full circle to an idea I had the other day. The media companies have a serious (and legitimate) complaint about piracy, but it is so incredibly easy to find things on BitTorrent sites, and whatever. If they simply would follow that model, I'm sure they could drain off a lot of that piracy by people who would be more than willing to pay to legitimately download these things.
I was looking for an expansion to the game Ground Control, which was only ever offered as a free CD with a magazine a couple years ago. More recent releases of the game contained the expansion, but I already have the game. The _only_ place I could find, after some extensive looking, was amazon.co.uk (not amazon.com) that could put a search out for it used (I successfully found an obscure CD that way, but it took over a year). I put in a couple of orders to search for used versions of it, got fed up and found a Bittorrent source for the thing in (no exaggeration) about 30 seconds. I'll buy it if it comes through, but what a ridiculous situation.
Now if a bunch of dumb kids with questionable morals can set up that kind of network where you can find movies, music, software, etc, that easily, why can't the companies who are actually selling this stuff do it. Because they are so afraid of piracy that they would rather risk wider piracy than sell things on-line without some mythical, perfect, byzantine, Orwellian DRM that only screws the paying customer.
That's the problem. Ellison is always incoherently pissed off at something, you can never know when it's actually legitimate.
A friend of mine met him at an American Bookseller's Association meeting years ago and commented that it's a shame you can't find his books easier. Harlan's response? "F--- you."
You mean you haven't heard about the huge Oil for Food scandal, where a number of U.N. officials were on the take, at the expense of some of the food actually reaching Iraq?!
Oh well, so much for any kind of fair media with regard to the U.N. The U.N. has no moral authority in my mind... they are just a bunch of bureaucrats, which is fine when it comes to setting up elections and things like that, but completely ineffectual when dealing with threats to peace.
No one ever said the American system is above reproach. Our president has come right out and said that with regard to the prisoner abuses. He has called for those who committed abuses to be punished. And before I hear all the whining (not from you, necessarily) about how that abuse went all the way to the top: If it did, it wouldn't be these stupid porn movie antics and frat hazings, and they wouldn't have been taking pictures of it. This is clearly the work of low-level people who didn't know what they were doing (WRT real interrogation and psychological techniques). It was just so amateur and immature. Lindy England is about as effective at softening up prisoners as SCO is at generating positive PR.
With regard to the Marines, I honestly can't imagine anyone in Iraq having anything a Marine would want, but that's just me.
Yeah, they're just happy to rip off starving Iraqi kids and pocket the profits. A bunch of saints in the U.N., but unlike the U.S., they aren't being so forthright about corruption within.
When Kofi Annan gets up and admits what his organization has been up to, condemns it, and calls for those criminals to be brought to justice, then maybe, maybe, I'll consider the U.N. something more than a bunch of self-serving power-hungry elitist snobs.
Say what you will about Bush, at least he did that much.
I think you need to change the batteries in your sarcasm detector.
Hey, some of us have SO's. Some of us are even married. Of course, my wife is a serious nerd too, just not a computer nerd.
I did my time as a lonely dateless nerd, but just because I have a life (and kids even) doesn't mean I'm still not a complete geek. In fact, my boss, who is also pretty nerdy, really appreciates me for my nerdiness, if not for my speed of coding.
Besides, someone has to keep putting weird stuff in the gene pool.
Nowadays, public apologies usually translate into: "I'm sorry I was caught." and the persion attempts to quietly go back to whatever it was that he or she had to apologize for.
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You must have something seriously weird on your systems. I've been using Mozilla and/or Firefox for over a year now on several machines on XP and 2000, and while I have an occasional problem with Firefox (fewer problems than with IE, though), I never had any installation go bad.
3. You're absolutely right here. The thing about IE though, is that it's got nowhere to go but down. MS has no plans to do anything more with IE beyond the fixes in XP SP 2, while the Mozilla projects just keep getting better and better. Of course, Microsoft just has to flex some of their monopoly power to put a hurtin' on any competitor, but in this case Mozilla has everything to gain and MS has everything to lose.
I got hit by this recently. Windows 2000 was limited to support for 128GB partition sizes until SP3. Once you have SP3, it takes a registry change to enable "Big LBA" (48-bit).
Here's the relevant document.
This isn't an issue with XP, from my experience. I jacked in a 250GB drive in a USB chassis to my laptop and it worked fine right off the bat.
I have to agree with you. I actually like Colmes and dislike Hannity, even though I agree with Hannity 90% of the time. He's a lousy interviewer, and just engages in a lot of silly name-calling ad hominem stuff and gets wrapped around the axle over silly peripheral things when trying to talk to someone. I feel this way and I AGREE with the guy. Alan Colmes, IMO, is much more likeable, more reasonable and more pleasant, just wrong (again, IMO)... but he often raises good points.
I think you will also find that the liberal types they have on the show are generally idiots or at the very least grating and shrill. Now I do firmly believe that liberal point of view is often illogical, irrational or otherwise silly, but there are much better spokespeople for that point of view than H&C usually come up with.
That said, I still watch the show sometimes because I can filter biases I believe people have.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...
Never mind.
Windows is more secure than Linux, eh?
;-)
Put it this way: I don't recall ever getting 5000 virus e-mail messages over a period of two weeks from any viruses running on Linux.
With windows on the other hand...
I wonder if they counted MS Office (a.k.a. The MS Virus Development Kit) in this research. I also don't recall any Linux distros containing a recommendation to type URL's in by hand since clicking on a hypertext link could compromise your computer. Of course, I am a Windows user, so maybe Linux does experience these kinds of problems and I just haven't heard of them...
Actually, the Constitution is pretty specific for the most part. It's the legislators, and worse, the judges who have deconstructed the language and otherwise folded, spindled and mutilated the clear meaning of the words (and logic itself) to render the Constitution vague, even where it isn't.
... will be more than them recommending you type URL's in by hand.
No wonder MS doesn't ever plan to upgrade IE in the future, I'm sure keeping up with the security holes will keep the IE team busy for years.
What radical transformation is server hardware and software undergoing that makes anyone think this stuff will suddenly work so well that it will reduce the need for experts to maintain and operate them? Heck, the mere existence of Microsoft guarantees lifetime employment for anyone willing to suffer though learning how to use their software, and this is exacerbated by the fact that Microsoft seems to be exceeding Moore's Law (but in terms of code size and complexity) while delivering at best, a slow linear increase in real functionality.
Short of AI, I don't see sysadmins ever going away, or even decreasing.
I've used WMP for PocketPC, and like all MS software for the PocketPC, it sucks out loud. However, there is WinAmpaq, which works fine and plays OGG files too.
Being a Windows developer for 15 years, I really thought I would prefer a Windows-based PDA, but I have to say that Pocket PC and the MS software for it is incredibly awful, and riddled with bugs. Heck, I can't even reliably transfer large files with ActiveSync... good thing my laptop has a SD slot.
However, it does make a good media player, except I'm currently limited to my 512MB SD card for storage. If I could find a larger storage solution for my Toshiba e355, I'd be livin' large.
There was another reference in the episode about the stock market (where "that guy" takes over Planet Express) where Fry was sitting in with the Cryogenic support group when someone mentions when he was frozen giant carrots ruled the world.
I also seem to recall a reference to some powerful alien being elected President of Earth and his statue being in the Lincoln memorial or something like that.