Re:We should strive to be like Sheffield
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RIP: Charles Sheffield
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· Score: 5, Informative
Wow, you weren't full of shit for a whole two and a half paragraphs. Keep trying, little scamper, you'll get it all, someday.
Sheffield had three wives, four children, and was a physicist before he started writing. His first wife actually died of cancer. His widow is Nancy Kress, also a well known author of science fiction who has won more awards than he has.
Of course they have virtual desktops. How else would it be usable, what with all the wasted real-estate from those gargantuan dialog windows, fat vertical dock, and that ugly-ass Aqua-wannabe theme?
Microsoft is imitating the Linux desktop, circa 1998.
You cannot buy a 2003 ford mustang, remove the muffler, and drive around at 3am generating 100db of sound.
You can't bludgeon someone to death with a Tivo either, but that doesn't make it any less a specious analogy.
No one has a right to a profitable business model, and the power grab by content manufacturers has no more or less moral authority than the resistance of people using piracy. They rationalize that behavior because the corporations themselves are already trampling on the "widely held notions of fairness".
individuals or companies that attempt any sort of security should be shown that all their base, does indeed, belong to us?
Um, yes? Anything I purchase does, in fact, belong to me.
You're abusing the word "security". How does this password enhance anyones security?
Of course, security is an issue, as it is always a good idea to peek inside the gifts of the untrustworthy. There is a famous myth that demonstrates that concept.
There is a trend toward turning physical devices into EULA enforcing, fair use destroying, home-phoning, mysterious black boxes, so any attempt to thwart those schemes is a Just Cause, even if the target is generally on our side. If they don't like it, then perhaps they should sell us devices without backdoors or purposly restricted capabilities?
The culture already existed, the media was only spinning back what people wanted to hear.
It is foolish to single out segments for blame explicitly, because snake oil peddling occured at every level.
The best you can do is try to identify those people who were honest, those who were dishonest, and those who were willing to suspend incredulity simply to ride the wave.
Of course, I'd still say the locus of dishonesty was the VCs and high-profile stock analysts.
At odds are my ever-present lust for telegenic renaissance women and my contempt for those pretentious art-school floozies who consider it cute and original to eschew the shift key. Such a contradiction! This is sort of paradox that destroys lesser beings....
I have decided to stand by my principles, and not accept any sexual proposition from Miss Rodgers. I implore the rest of you to follow my example. Let's not be soft in the face of bad syntax!
Wearing a suit is an act of submission
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Suit Up Or Ship Out?
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Let's not beat around the bush, you may pretend you like it, you might think it makes you look sharp, but deep down you know it is only cultural conditioning that makes you think so. You would look just as sharp in a Star Trek costume as in these bland, antiquated, frivolous uniforms, if that is what everybody else wore.
And make no mistake, a suit is a uniform. It may not your name on the collar, but it serves the same purpose. You are indistiguishable, you are part of the team. Your identity does not matter so much as the persona you present. It says to your client "I'm willing to go to great expense to impress you". It says to your boss "I'm willing to go to great effort to kiss your ass".
Every time you go to the dry cleaners, every time you spend a day's pay on the next day's clothes, every time your spill your drink and curse the waste that is forced upon you, you are submitting your will to the superficial whims of those effete do-nothings who nonetheless lord over you in the social hierarchy.
Nothing says "I'm your bitch" like wearing a suit. Remember that.
Well, that's your problem, not theirs. You are making just as much a clothing-based judgement about them as you think they are making about you.
It's the same judgement I make about all submissive people. They're dogs licking the boot that kicks them. Wearing a suit says to the people who actually enjoy such stupid status symbols "I imitate you, I'm your bitch." The goofy tie is the bone they toss to make you shut up.
IBM just used it ala mouse-input. Microsoft is allowing people to use digital ink as a first class citizen in the computing world. It's a whole new way of looking at computing.
Didn't they fire you for those falsified 'switch' promotions? You should perhaps quit drinking the digital ink.
And they will tell another employee, who actually isn't technically savy, and might find it interesting, go look it up, and sign up for it.
Yea, I'm sure these people are thinking "fat guys in rainbow butterfly suits, putting their stickers all over Manhattan? Oh man, I got to get in on that action..."
doesn't the the guy who made that fan site scare you? What about the people on this site? Do you really think Henry Rollins can protected you from a horde of obsessive, sex-starved American nerds?
What's really going to bake your noddle later on is, did I just expose my ignorance of Star Trek, or, did I intentionally make the error to bring trekkies out of the woodwork?
I've never seen Dell or Linus at any of the Linux conventions I've attended. What the hell does Apple do but assemble the boxes and write the operating system? They don't make the applications or the user community that surrounds them, the community makes that themselves. What the hell do they need Apple for?
But then again, I guess for Mac fanatics this is like the Vatican saying there won't be Christmas this year.
They need to quick licking Steve's boots. This is the perfect opportunity to begin standing upright.
Indeed. And how long did it take 8-tracks to die out after cassettes were introduced? 10 years?
Actually, these new formats will most certainly flop. People had compelling reasons to migrate to cassette, and later, CDs. Cassettes were smaller and less likely to break. CDs, of course, offered noiseless sound and random track access. These new formats offer marginally superior sound and longer content times.
As everyone has said, most people don't notice the difference between an mp3 file and the original CD. It is the lack of noise in CDs that made us dismiss tape so quickly, not the superior sound quality. No one is going to care about better sound they can't hear. Nor will they care about more channels. People generally don't listen to music the way they watch movies.
And I doubt musicians will take much advantage of the larger space. Most artists have enough trouble filling a modern-sized album with decent songs. Are we going to start demanding 20+ songs with every release now? Besides, aggregating music is what mp3 players are for.
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Wow, you weren't full of shit for a whole two and a half paragraphs. Keep trying, little scamper, you'll get it all, someday.
Sheffield had three wives, four children, and was a physicist before he started writing. His first wife actually died of cancer. His widow is Nancy Kress, also a well known author of science fiction who has won more awards than he has.
You may take a gander at this short autobiography.
Of course they have virtual desktops. How else would it be usable, what with all the wasted real-estate from those gargantuan dialog windows, fat vertical dock, and that ugly-ass Aqua-wannabe theme?
Microsoft is imitating the Linux desktop, circa 1998.
It's that thing on the side of your house that measures horsepower.
You cannot buy a 2003 ford mustang, remove the muffler, and drive around at 3am generating 100db of sound.
You can't bludgeon someone to death with a Tivo either, but that doesn't make it any less a specious analogy.
No one has a right to a profitable business model, and the power grab by content manufacturers has no more or less moral authority than the resistance of people using piracy. They rationalize that behavior because the corporations themselves are already trampling on the "widely held notions of fairness".
individuals or companies that attempt any sort of security should be shown that all their base, does indeed, belong to us?
Um, yes? Anything I purchase does, in fact, belong to me.
You're abusing the word "security". How does this password enhance anyones security?
Of course, security is an issue, as it is always a good idea to peek inside the gifts of the untrustworthy. There is a famous myth that demonstrates that concept.
There is a trend toward turning physical devices into EULA enforcing, fair use destroying, home-phoning, mysterious black boxes, so any attempt to thwart those schemes is a Just Cause, even if the target is generally on our side. If they don't like it, then perhaps they should sell us devices without backdoors or purposly restricted capabilities?
Sell your organs.
The last refuge, blame the media...
The culture already existed, the media was only spinning back what people wanted to hear.
It is foolish to single out segments for blame explicitly, because snake oil peddling occured at every level.
The best you can do is try to identify those people who were honest, those who were dishonest, and those who were willing to suspend incredulity simply to ride the wave.
Of course, I'd still say the locus of dishonesty was the VCs and high-profile stock analysts.
Not as complex? No, even more complex, if you're doing anything worthy.
And as we all know, complexity has been measured to show a correlation with the author's dick size.
It ensures an enduring mark upon the outside world, but doesn't provide any benefit to anyone.
It disperses food for local scavengers.
At odds are my ever-present lust for telegenic renaissance women and my contempt for those pretentious art-school floozies who consider it cute and original to eschew the shift key. Such a contradiction! This is sort of paradox that destroys lesser beings....
I have decided to stand by my principles, and not accept any sexual proposition from Miss Rodgers. I implore the rest of you to follow my example. Let's not be soft in the face of bad syntax!
Let's not beat around the bush, you may pretend you like it, you might think it makes you look sharp, but deep down you know it is only cultural conditioning that makes you think so. You would look just as sharp in a Star Trek costume as in these bland, antiquated, frivolous uniforms, if that is what everybody else wore.
And make no mistake, a suit is a uniform. It may not your name on the collar, but it serves the same purpose. You are indistiguishable, you are part of the team. Your identity does not matter so much as the persona you present. It says to your client "I'm willing to go to great expense to impress you". It says to your boss "I'm willing to go to great effort to kiss your ass".
Every time you go to the dry cleaners, every time you spend a day's pay on the next day's clothes, every time your spill your drink and curse the waste that is forced upon you, you are submitting your will to the superficial whims of those effete do-nothings who nonetheless lord over you in the social hierarchy.
Nothing says "I'm your bitch" like wearing a suit. Remember that.
Well, that's your problem, not theirs. You are making just as much a clothing-based judgement about them as you think they are making about you.
It's the same judgement I make about all submissive people. They're dogs licking the boot that kicks them. Wearing a suit says to the people who actually enjoy such stupid status symbols "I imitate you, I'm your bitch." The goofy tie is the bone they toss to make you shut up.
Whatever, you spaceshipfucker.
Do you think the other ships call her "Meatfucker" behind her back?
Say what you will, I wouldn't mind a go with the ship in Andromeda.
What the heck is so new about creating a glorified unix emulator to run unix and emulated windows programs?
What the heck is so great about a Newton emulator running an operating system that emulates the Macintosh?
Writing this kind of tripe is easy, you dork.
The above post is either a troll or the crazed rambling of a zealot; moderate accordingly.
IBM just used it ala mouse-input. Microsoft is allowing people to use digital ink as a first class citizen in the computing world. It's a whole new way of looking at computing.
Didn't they fire you for those falsified 'switch' promotions? You should perhaps quit drinking the digital ink.
Remember kids, service guarantees citizenship!
And they will tell another employee, who actually isn't technically savy, and might find it interesting, go look it up, and sign up for it.
Yea, I'm sure these people are thinking "fat guys in rainbow butterfly suits, putting their stickers all over Manhattan? Oh man, I got to get in on that action..."
Not if Peter Wiggum gets there first!
She was so great in Wayne's World.
nor have I ever watched your show, but...
doesn't the the guy who made that fan site scare you? What about the people on this site? Do you really think Henry Rollins can protected you from a horde of obsessive, sex-starved American nerds?
Dude, you didn't know? KITT and C-3P0 were an item in the early eighties.
What's really going to bake your noddle later on is, did I just expose my ignorance of Star Trek, or, did I intentionally make the error to bring trekkies out of the woodwork?
Three reasons: gold plated latinum
I've never seen Dell or Linus at any of the Linux conventions I've attended. What the hell does Apple do but assemble the boxes and write the operating system? They don't make the applications or the user community that surrounds them, the community makes that themselves. What the hell do they need Apple for?
But then again, I guess for Mac fanatics this is like the Vatican saying there won't be Christmas this year.
They need to quick licking Steve's boots. This is the perfect opportunity to begin standing upright.
The computer is not both the "tool and master". The programmer is the master and the computer is his trusted henchman. The users are the tools.
Indeed. And how long did it take 8-tracks to die out after cassettes were introduced? 10 years?
Actually, these new formats will most certainly flop. People had compelling reasons to migrate to cassette, and later, CDs. Cassettes were smaller and less likely to break. CDs, of course, offered noiseless sound and random track access. These new formats offer marginally superior sound and longer content times.
As everyone has said, most people don't notice the difference between an mp3 file and the original CD. It is the lack of noise in CDs that made us dismiss tape so quickly, not the superior sound quality. No one is going to care about better sound they can't hear. Nor will they care about more channels. People generally don't listen to music the way they watch movies.
And I doubt musicians will take much advantage of the larger space. Most artists have enough trouble filling a modern-sized album with decent songs. Are we going to start demanding 20+ songs with every release now? Besides, aggregating music is what mp3 players are for.