If that was meant to be a joke, it was amusing. If it wasn't meant to be a joke then it's inaccurate.
In truth, the Church has changed a lot about the way it operates even if it hasn't changed its doctrine. The Council of Trent comes to mind. The Church has evolved significantly (sometimes being dragged kicking and screaming, sometimes being ahead of the curve) since the early days of Christianity. Not only changing political situations (e.g., Emperor Constantine, the unification of Italy), but also refinements and reformations of social and political teachings (e.g., the aforementioned Trent, as well as the First Vatican Council).
Thoughtcrimes have been on the books for years, except they're called "hate crimes".
Don't rest assured just because you are not an anti-semite or anti-homosexual, etc, that you won't be subject to throughtcrime legislation at some point in the future. The slope is steep and slippery and our legislators are at the top, pushing with all their might.
But isn't that a problem with any commercial software?
It used to be you could count on the companies doing some real improvement version to version, but so much software has hit a point of diminishing returns where there's really nothing useful it doesn't already do, and the companies are just contriving reasons to bump the version number and charge another C note.
I mean, what does Office do now that it didn't do 12 years ago... that most people actually care about?
Security software is actually one field where a subscription model actually makes sense. Given that the developers must struggle with the constant barrage of new and improved attacks as well as the constantly shifting sands of Windows, that's one software job I would never want. I'm not sure which of those two would make for the most work, but the heroic level of work needed to keep these tools up to date has to be worth something.
Of course, I imagine most people are like me and resent having to pay for tools that make up for deficiencies in Windows.
because of hard disk locking issues because the way their clueless programmers could not figure out NTFS....which is ironic because the brains to defrag are built into Windows. All the defrag tools are is a GUI to turn it on.
I'm enjoying the discussion of pyrotechnics. The significance of Independence Day, especially in this day and age, is just too depressing to think about. Besides, I already blogged about the other stuff and it's killed my celebratory mood. Let's enjoy some big colorful lights and loud noises.
I'm glad you got that back. I've been on Effexor for about 9 years and I haven't lost that. If I had, I would be really worried and consider getting off the meds. I'd like to get off the meds, but they really help.
My creative mojo, my mental energy, my appreciation for music (I'm a lifelong music lover) have not diminished as far as I can tell. I do as much or more creative stuff now than I did at any time since about 1994 and I'm as rampant a music nut as I ever was. But the former is probably not so much a function of the meds but a function of when my first child was born. With four kids you go into about a 10-year pattern of having very little focus other than kids and work. It's still very fun and very rewarding, but it doesn't leave as much time for other things. Now that the kids are older and don't require anywhere near as much close supervision I can pursue other interests better, which has another side effect, because a lot of these interests spill over to the kids.
I've heard many people describe that side effect and I try to monitor for it in myself. I haven't seen any kind of lack of affect or creativity, which is good, because that's a big part of what I feel makes me me! Occasionally I forget the meds and have found that after about 48 hours, the biggest thing I notice is that my potential for anxiety goes way up.
There's good stuff everywhere. Despite the fact that most of the stuff on Hulu is garbage, I still find plenty of good, fun stuff to watch. You needn't be so condescending. It's not like Britain and Australia and everywhere else doesn't have garbage TV, too.
Now, if there were a way to get BBC stuff via a Hulu-like service, I would be in hog heaven. But there's always Netflix, and for those series I really love, buying the DVDs. We have the complete Red Dwarf, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Planet Earth, The Future Is Wild, and some others.
If large numbers of non-doctors using Google had any reliability at all, real doctors would have been out of business years ago.
I hate to break it to you, but it's possible the situation is little more complex than something that can be diagnosed by reading a news article and doing a web search.
I've bought about 9 Sansas for myself and as gifts for others, including my wife and kids (plus a replacement for one that went through the wash). Even the memory inside is replaceable, although I haven't actually tried that. My daughter broke the headphone jack on hers and I replaced it (tried to fix it but had no luck). The new one has 2GB and the old one had 4GB... I haven't tried yet, but I'm pretty sure I can swap the memory modules.... they're just cute little daughtercards about the size of an SD.
That device is a nerd's dream, hackable, replaceable, doesn't require stupid software*, even if you are using the stock firmware (unless you want to convert a video), just mounts as a USB device like every similar device should.
* Why is it that the software that comes with MP3 players and cameras, etc, is always the most horrible stuff ever written except for maybe Lotus Notes? (And yes, I include iTunes in that)
The really funny thing is knowing that during the years of 1939 to 1945 there are numerous accounts of identical twins struggling with each other at places Hitler was known to frequent.
Now, a blogger at The Tech Report makes the case that censorship of violent and sexual images and themes in video games is precisely what inhibits video games from maturing artistically beyond a nascent form.
Because Hollywood has proved it's impossible to be creative without the of crutch showing boobies and gushing head wounds.
You know what's sad? The fact that there is very little creativity in the game market, and censorship has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. But go on and continue believing that the Man is keeping you down by not letting you exercise your most base urges and calling it "creativity". Is there room for _good_ games that might not be appropriate for all audiences? Of course. The example I would suggest is "System Shock" and its sequel. I'm sure there are many others, but I am also they are still uncommon, among a sea of mediocrity, just like (surprise! surprise!) games that are suitable for all ages.
Is censorship really stifling creativity? That's complete nonsense. If you can't do something creative without having to resort to sex and violence and other topics unsuitable for a general audience, then guess what? You're not going to be creative with them either... you'll just sell more because sex and violence, etc, sell on their own. Again, look at Hollywood. Censorship may stifle specific projects that may or may not have merit, but suggesting it's stifling creativity in general is an extraordinarily lame assertion.
Very expensive sugar pills. Come to think of it, I think we have homeopathic government: extremely expensive, no active ingredients, completely relies on placebo effect
If the only thing released since Phoenix 0.3 was something crappy, slow and ugly, that nobody wanted, then your analogy would be in any way comparable to Windows.
OK. If you provide me with the hardware necessary to run it.
I've always stated the theory that Notes was actually written by Soviet government programmers in the early 80's and that Lotus actually bought it from them in a fire sale after the USSR collapsed for a case of cigarettes.
Well, the amazing thing is that this is some hobbyist's project, not a multi-million dollar research project. The fact that it works at all, or even that it doesn't collapse under its own weight is enough for me to be impressed.
Lotus Notes is like using software from the 1980's. Bad GUI software designed without any regard to CUA (yes, it existed back then) or any other standard that has been used by any piece of software written since Windows 2. I found it to be the single more horrible piece of software I've ever used. Yes, even worse than Word. I found you had to be a developer to do even the most trivial operations with it.
Maybe it's gotten better since I last used it, around 2003, but since it was 20 years out of date then, I have a hard time imagining it.
MST3K was at least able to continue on the (so-called) Sci-Fi channel. Of course, they cancelled MST3K* around 1999, but these days, all the principals of that classic show are doing what they do best in other formats: Rifftrax, The Film Crew and especially Cinematic Titanic.
We get the riffs we love and they are no longer beholden to that evolutionary cul-de-sac known as network executives.
* Probably needed more room on the schedule for no-budget horror films. Yes, the Sci-Fi channel has been involved in some great material (e.g., Dune, BSG) but mostly it is a dumping ground for stuff that was too bad even for the USA Network.
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If that was meant to be a joke, it was amusing. If it wasn't meant to be a joke then it's inaccurate.
In truth, the Church has changed a lot about the way it operates even if it hasn't changed its doctrine. The Council of Trent comes to mind. The Church has evolved significantly (sometimes being dragged kicking and screaming, sometimes being ahead of the curve) since the early days of Christianity. Not only changing political situations (e.g., Emperor Constantine, the unification of Italy), but also refinements and reformations of social and political teachings (e.g., the aforementioned Trent, as well as the First Vatican Council).
Thoughtcrimes have been on the books for years, except they're called "hate crimes".
Don't rest assured just because you are not an anti-semite or anti-homosexual, etc, that you won't be subject to throughtcrime legislation at some point in the future. The slope is steep and slippery and our legislators are at the top, pushing with all their might.
Perhaps, but IE8 was in beta forever.
But isn't that a problem with any commercial software?
It used to be you could count on the companies doing some real improvement version to version, but so much software has hit a point of diminishing returns where there's really nothing useful it doesn't already do, and the companies are just contriving reasons to bump the version number and charge another C note.
I mean, what does Office do now that it didn't do 12 years ago... that most people actually care about?
Security software is actually one field where a subscription model actually makes sense. Given that the developers must struggle with the constant barrage of new and improved attacks as well as the constantly shifting sands of Windows, that's one software job I would never want. I'm not sure which of those two would make for the most work, but the heroic level of work needed to keep these tools up to date has to be worth something.
Of course, I imagine most people are like me and resent having to pay for tools that make up for deficiencies in Windows.
because of hard disk locking issues because the way their clueless programmers could not figure out NTFS. ...which is ironic because the brains to defrag are built into Windows. All the defrag tools are is a GUI to turn it on.
Whoa, how did I become Anonymous? Oh, well, that was me.
I'm enjoying the discussion of pyrotechnics. The significance of Independence Day, especially in this day and age, is just too depressing to think about. Besides, I already blogged about the other stuff and it's killed my celebratory mood. Let's enjoy some big colorful lights and loud noises.
I'm glad you got that back. I've been on Effexor for about 9 years and I haven't lost that. If I had, I would be really worried and consider getting off the meds. I'd like to get off the meds, but they really help.
My creative mojo, my mental energy, my appreciation for music (I'm a lifelong music lover) have not diminished as far as I can tell. I do as much or more creative stuff now than I did at any time since about 1994 and I'm as rampant a music nut as I ever was. But the former is probably not so much a function of the meds but a function of when my first child was born. With four kids you go into about a 10-year pattern of having very little focus other than kids and work. It's still very fun and very rewarding, but it doesn't leave as much time for other things. Now that the kids are older and don't require anywhere near as much close supervision I can pursue other interests better, which has another side effect, because a lot of these interests spill over to the kids.
I've heard many people describe that side effect and I try to monitor for it in myself. I haven't seen any kind of lack of affect or creativity, which is good, because that's a big part of what I feel makes me me! Occasionally I forget the meds and have found that after about 48 hours, the biggest thing I notice is that my potential for anxiety goes way up.
I hope things continue to go well for you.
All we've been able to do is dump the ROMs for life forms. No one has managed to write MAME for DNA yet.
Multiple Animal Mutation Emulator, that is.
There's good stuff everywhere. Despite the fact that most of the stuff on Hulu is garbage, I still find plenty of good, fun stuff to watch. You needn't be so condescending. It's not like Britain and Australia and everywhere else doesn't have garbage TV, too.
Now, if there were a way to get BBC stuff via a Hulu-like service, I would be in hog heaven. But there's always Netflix, and for those series I really love, buying the DVDs. We have the complete Red Dwarf, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Planet Earth, The Future Is Wild, and some others.
If large numbers of non-doctors using Google had any reliability at all, real doctors would have been out of business years ago.
I hate to break it to you, but it's possible the situation is little more complex than something that can be diagnosed by reading a news article and doing a web search.
The OS deities are feeble? The right kind of Windows virus could cripple world commerce... we've seen the potential many times. That's not feeble.
Haven't played a good singleplayer ID game since Wolf3d.
iD hasn't made a new single-player game since Wolf3D. The just keep re-releasing the same game with improved technology.
I've bought about 9 Sansas for myself and as gifts for others, including my wife and kids (plus a replacement for one that went through the wash). Even the memory inside is replaceable, although I haven't actually tried that. My daughter broke the headphone jack on hers and I replaced it (tried to fix it but had no luck). The new one has 2GB and the old one had 4GB... I haven't tried yet, but I'm pretty sure I can swap the memory modules.... they're just cute little daughtercards about the size of an SD.
That device is a nerd's dream, hackable, replaceable, doesn't require stupid software*, even if you are using the stock firmware (unless you want to convert a video), just mounts as a USB device like every similar device should.
* Why is it that the software that comes with MP3 players and cameras, etc, is always the most horrible stuff ever written except for maybe Lotus Notes? (And yes, I include iTunes in that)
Don't forget the new site to allow blogging, but only in a form that is too abbreviated to be meaningful: Twitter
(Is Twitter anything like reading Slashdot if they only included the sigs?)
You might want to fix the typo in your sig: "Analysis"
The really funny thing is knowing that during the years of 1939 to 1945 there are numerous accounts of identical twins struggling with each other at places Hitler was known to frequent.
Now, a blogger at The Tech Report makes the case that censorship of violent and sexual images and themes in video games is precisely what inhibits video games from maturing artistically beyond a nascent form.
Because Hollywood has proved it's impossible to be creative without the of crutch showing boobies and gushing head wounds.
You know what's sad? The fact that there is very little creativity in the game market, and censorship has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. But go on and continue believing that the Man is keeping you down by not letting you exercise your most base urges and calling it "creativity". Is there room for _good_ games that might not be appropriate for all audiences? Of course. The example I would suggest is "System Shock" and its sequel. I'm sure there are many others, but I am also they are still uncommon, among a sea of mediocrity, just like (surprise! surprise!) games that are suitable for all ages.
Is censorship really stifling creativity? That's complete nonsense. If you can't do something creative without having to resort to sex and violence and other topics unsuitable for a general audience, then guess what? You're not going to be creative with them either... you'll just sell more because sex and violence, etc, sell on their own. Again, look at Hollywood. Censorship may stifle specific projects that may or may not have merit, but suggesting it's stifling creativity in general is an extraordinarily lame assertion.
They probably _are_ doing "COTS + a consultant". That's the sad thing.
Very expensive sugar pills. Come to think of it, I think we have homeopathic government: extremely expensive, no active ingredients, completely relies on placebo effect
If the only thing released since Phoenix 0.3 was something crappy, slow and ugly, that nobody wanted, then your analogy would be in any way comparable to Windows.
OK. If you provide me with the hardware necessary to run it.
I've always stated the theory that Notes was actually written by Soviet government programmers in the early 80's and that Lotus actually bought it from them in a fire sale after the USSR collapsed for a case of cigarettes.
Well, the amazing thing is that this is some hobbyist's project, not a multi-million dollar research project. The fact that it works at all, or even that it doesn't collapse under its own weight is enough for me to be impressed.
Lotus Notes is like using software from the 1980's. Bad GUI software designed without any regard to CUA (yes, it existed back then) or any other standard that has been used by any piece of software written since Windows 2. I found it to be the single more horrible piece of software I've ever used. Yes, even worse than Word. I found you had to be a developer to do even the most trivial operations with it.
Maybe it's gotten better since I last used it, around 2003, but since it was 20 years out of date then, I have a hard time imagining it.
MST3K was at least able to continue on the (so-called) Sci-Fi channel. Of course, they cancelled MST3K* around 1999, but these days, all the principals of that classic show are doing what they do best in other formats: Rifftrax, The Film Crew and especially Cinematic Titanic.
We get the riffs we love and they are no longer beholden to that evolutionary cul-de-sac known as network executives.
* Probably needed more room on the schedule for no-budget horror films. Yes, the Sci-Fi channel has been involved in some great material (e.g., Dune, BSG) but mostly it is a dumping ground for stuff that was too bad even for the USA Network.