let's be honest about this: this is complete and utter bullshit. you know it. i know it. the american people know it.
[quickly setting threshold back up to 1]
so if i was forced to get in at 8:30, i would be able to do it. i would then sit in front of the screen and stare at email or/. until 11. then i would start to work.
as it is, i come in at 10, read/write email for an hour and then work.
flex time makes me a lot more efficient for my employer.
one would hope that unmanned aircraft would reduce the number of people killed in conflict. i am kind of surprised they have not been introduced earlier - the technology certainly has been around for about 15 years. cameras. remote controls. simple stuff.
BUT i am afraid the war in yugoslavia demonstrated that this is not true. in order to win a war, lots of people have to be killed. only then will the losing side give in. targeting equipment/military installations only cannot and does not win wars.
sad but true. so when these high-end pilot-less planes are introduced, they will not save any lives. they will be used to bomb cities or radio towers or the chinese embassy somewhere (sorry, could not resist) and kill people in the process.
and, if there is a smart/desperate/fanatic adversary around, then the enemy will target american civilians. not the planes they can never hope to catch. i don't want to go into detail, but it's obvious that there is a plethora of possibilities and options...
in fact, the ballot was so simple and easy to use, amazon is now using it for its website:
<a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/ all-stores-ballot.html/102-0171378-63537 45>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/al l-stores-ballot.html/102-0171378-6353 745 </a>
my main problem with this is that i can't stuff all my 200 CDs in my car's disk changer. and i really would like the idea of carrying *all* my CDs around at all times. and adding new ones when i am at a friend's...
what this thing needs is FireWire/IEEE1394 so it's hot swappable and you can take it to friends and load it full of goodies. until then i am waiting...
Hello-o?
sorry for stating the obvious, but... it seems clear to me that the only and fairest way to resolve this is to vote again. votes that raise serious doubt about their regularity should just be repeated.
so just <b>repeat palm beach and get it over with</b>. jesus, what's the problem? it's certainly easier than
- recounting 20 million times
- having several lawsuits that contest the election
- having a president whose legitimacy is in doubt (also called sitting duck president)
what we need is that everybody should be able to say "yes, these were fair elections".
1) good that you are not posting anonymously. why would you?
2) the claim that the pro-choice movement is "not innocent in the violence issue" is complete bullshit. maybe a look at the... um... facts would help? the fact is, if it were not for the anti-abortionists, there would be no violence AT ALL. no people shot. no clinics bombed. it's not that hard to understand.
3) i don't disagree with anti-abortionists on most issues. don't try to convince me abortion is bad - we all know that.
what you need to explain is why do you want to take away a woman's right to choose? why do you want to take away the ability to make their own ethical judgement?
no-one really wants gore - which is his problem. but every person in their right mind (and that apparently excludes 50% of all americans) would vote _against_ bush.
the man is a dimwit [he proves that whenever his PR people take him off the leash], and an asshole to boot. i don't know _what_ bush will do with the country (kill more people? blame the internet for columbine? bring the kansas school guidelines to the rest of the states?) but it certainly won't be good... the only hope for bush is that he _will_ dance to the corporate music. hurrah corporations!
why are all posts that are anti-abortion anonymous? do they fear pro-choice people we will send them a bomb? or otherwise attack them? do they fear retribution of the majority?
makes you wonder... what do you fear so much?
your position, BTW, is impossible to defend. pro-choice means you can decide whether you want abortion or not - if you are opposed, don't do it. try to convince people not to do it.
the so-called "pro-life" [highly ironic since people have been killed in the "pro-life" battle] movement wants to impose their will on all others. pro-choice does not.
abortion is a very serious matter. no woman who had one will ever forget it - and i do know a few. just from this personal experience, i would [and will] discourage anyone. but i would never want to take away their right to choose.
just because it was designed to "keep the status quo" does not mean
- we can't change it
- we shouldn't change it
so, what's your point? your assertion seems to be that things that were designed a certain way can or should not be changed.
if you want to be apathetic, or, in other words, keep the status quo, then please speak for yourself. i am just more ambitious than that. i believe that things can change for the better. and i believe individuals can make a difference.
besides, for keeping the status quo, i can think of much more cost efficient ways than democracy. your argument is just one of the better thought-out excuses to abstain the vote. still an excuse, though.
yes, wages would rise somewhat if there were no H1B workers here.
but one thing is completely illusionary: the educational system is not going to get better because high tech needs skilled workers!
even if you would succeed in reforming the entire american educational system so it is up to par with, say, western europe, in, say, one year. then it would take at least another 6 years until these enlightened young people graduate with some sort of degree.
that makes 7 years. 7 years from now, requirements may be entirely different. who knows what is needed then?!
what this country needs is a reform of the entire educational system, not with the goal of producing what we need tomorrow, but with the goal of providing as much education as possible to as many people as possible.
i come from germany, and i must say, honestly, that people there generally work a *lot* harder than people here. they are also more on top of things, e.g. we simply do not have people who do some job but don't actually know anything about it [i have seen this here frequently]. and this covers all areas of work.
please don't be offended - this is just my experience. since i don't believe americans are somehow born dumb, it must be the education system. go figure.
i am not talking about elite universities. we all know US universities drive much of the world's research. i am talking about education for the masses.
like high schools. i am in the bay area, and high school teachers earn something like $25k a year. if you are from somewhere else: for this kind of money, it is pretty much impossible to live here! if education is valued this little here you will always have to import smarts.
couple the high speed cam with something that auto-detects microscopic changes in the facial expression and you have a super lie detector.... scary.
i think it would be endlessly interesting just to capture people talking and replaying that in super-slomo. be it the debates between the candidates or whatever....
so here is what i think is much worse than the default bookmark-thing: all search via the address bar goes to the M$ search engine
this happens whenever you type some unfinished url. now maybe that's just me... but i do it all the time. this behavior can be turned off, but the option is buried deeply into the preferences and ordinary people won't change it.
of course, joe public will also use the standard msn search for all searches and have msn.com every time they open the browser.
those things are much bigger issues than the URL redirect. i am not sure how to express my distaste for this kind of behavior - but it really pisses me off.
not that netscape is any better. netscape IS OWNED BY AOL NOW. hello-o?!
BTW i just read in business week that 72% of americans are annoyed about the extent of corporate power. i hope the backlash is coming.
read the ars technica articles on this. it will blow your mind. they have *several* very innovative features in the OS. packaging apps is just one of them (extremely elegant). www.arstechnica.com (yes, i know its lame i did not make this a link but i am too lazy to hand-type fucking HTML, i am an apple user and as such expect/. to do that for me)
*i* need 16M pixels. in fact, i will not buy anything digital that has lower rez than 35 mm analog film. when i watch these pictures in 20 years, my display will have 600 dpi and all these 2M pixel pics will be stamp-sized.
i don't think a 600 dpi display is far fetched - the current 72 dpi looks horrible and the difference to a 300dpi display is plainly obvious - once you have seen it, you will not want to go back. we need at least a factor of 10 improvement over current display technologies to get anything near sufficient in terms of eye resolution.
until then, i will snap 35mm pics. i can then always scan them in later for a decent rez image.
check out the demo picture at the foveon web site .
it does not look like there is a lot of strange artifacts there... in fact, it looks like a professional photograph. of course, it is kind of hard to judge from my 72 dpi screen here, but still... looks impressive.
two questions:
1 - how many transistors on a PIII are dead?
2 - does the PIII still work when a transistor goes belly up?
if the answer to 2 is no, then the answer to 1 is almost never. if the answer to 2 is yes, then how the heck does the PIII do that, or, will it become sentinent when the right transistors die?
there seems to be a horrid fear of RPG players to acknowledge that what they are doing DOES in fact have SOMETHING to do with reality.
it seems to be their nature to dwell in the idea that this is all fiction and purely for fun. i understand, i was the same way.
i have not played for years now, and, looking back, i can say that RPGs were an escape for me, and a source of wonderful tales. tales shape your dreams and those who dare follow their dreams their entire life.
shadowrun and consorts with their eery view on the corporate world and the media are like an attempt to understand and deal with these things.
... and the Seattle riots bring the whole thing into the real world.
it is all very simple.
one company will go with what people want. one will go against what people want. the first one will win, which only gets easier because the second one does not compete.
no-one needs to worry about sony. sony is a big mad-ass company, as big as they come, but if they shoot themselves in the foot they are not threatening anyone. except napster, which may be a casuality on the way to doom.
that sony is so big jut means that they are shooting themselves in the foot with a bigger gun, and they are going to survive it, too. but not after some painful lessons about the market have been re-learned.
Slashdot Mirror
let's be honest about this: this is complete and utter bullshit. you know it. i know it. the american people know it.
[quickly setting threshold back up to 1]
i am not able to function normally before 11am.
/. until 11. then i would start to work.
so if i was forced to get in at 8:30, i would be able to do it. i would then sit in front of the screen and stare at email or
as it is, i come in at 10, read/write email for an hour and then work.
flex time makes me a lot more efficient for my employer.
one would hope that unmanned aircraft would reduce the number of people killed in conflict. i am kind of surprised they have not been introduced earlier - the technology certainly has been around for about 15 years. cameras. remote controls. simple stuff.
BUT i am afraid the war in yugoslavia demonstrated that this is not true. in order to win a war, lots of people have to be killed. only then will the losing side give in. targeting equipment/military installations only cannot and does not win wars.
sad but true. so when these high-end pilot-less planes are introduced, they will not save any lives. they will be used to bomb cities or radio towers or the chinese embassy somewhere (sorry, could not resist) and kill people in the process.
and, if there is a smart/desperate/fanatic adversary around, then the enemy will target american civilians. not the planes they can never hope to catch. i don't want to go into detail, but it's obvious that there is a plethora of possibilities and options...
sorry! i am too dumb to post, let alone fill out the butterfly ballot.
s tores-ballot.html/102-0171378-6353745
here it is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-
in fact, the ballot was so simple and easy to use, amazon is now using it for its website:/ all-stores-ballot.html/102-0171378-63537 45>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/al l-stores-ballot.html/102-0171378-6353 745 </a>
<a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home
it's really funny. go check it out.
my main problem with this is that i can't stuff all my 200 CDs in my car's disk changer. and i really would like the idea of carrying *all* my CDs around at all times. and adding new ones when i am at a friend's...
what this thing needs is FireWire/IEEE1394 so it's hot swappable and you can take it to friends and load it full of goodies. until then i am waiting...
Hello-o?
sorry for stating the obvious, but... it seems clear to me that the only and fairest way to resolve this is to vote again. votes that raise serious doubt about their regularity should just be repeated.
so just <b>repeat palm beach and get it over with</b>. jesus, what's the problem? it's certainly easier than
- recounting 20 million times
- having several lawsuits that contest the election
- having a president whose legitimacy is in doubt (also called sitting duck president)
what we need is that everybody should be able to say "yes, these were fair elections".
1) good that you are not posting anonymously. why would you?
... um... facts would help? the fact is, if it were not for the anti-abortionists, there would be no violence AT ALL. no people shot. no clinics bombed. it's not that hard to understand.
2) the claim that the pro-choice movement is "not innocent in the violence issue" is complete bullshit. maybe a look at the
3) i don't disagree with anti-abortionists on most issues. don't try to convince me abortion is bad - we all know that.
what you need to explain is why do you want to take away a woman's right to choose? why do you want to take away the ability to make their own ethical judgement?
all that you say is true.
however, you did not understand my post at all. my point was that the anti-abortion people were posting anonymously.
no-one really wants gore - which is his problem. but every person in their right mind (and that apparently excludes 50% of all americans) would vote _against_ bush.
the man is a dimwit [he proves that whenever his PR people take him off the leash], and an asshole to boot. i don't know _what_ bush will do with the country (kill more people? blame the internet for columbine? bring the kansas school guidelines to the rest of the states?) but it certainly won't be good... the only hope for bush is that he _will_ dance to the corporate music. hurrah corporations!
a foreigner in the US,
nik
4. billg would NEVER say michael dell is 'babbling'.
5. the introduction says it's a satire.
why are all posts that are anti-abortion anonymous? do they fear pro-choice people we will send them a bomb? or otherwise attack them? do they fear retribution of the majority?
makes you wonder... what do you fear so much?
your position, BTW, is impossible to defend. pro-choice means you can decide whether you want abortion or not - if you are opposed, don't do it. try to convince people not to do it.
the so-called "pro-life" [highly ironic since people have been killed in the "pro-life" battle] movement wants to impose their will on all others. pro-choice does not.
abortion is a very serious matter. no woman who had one will ever forget it - and i do know a few. just from this personal experience, i would [and will] discourage anyone. but i would never want to take away their right to choose.
just because it was designed to "keep the status quo" does not mean
- we can't change it
- we shouldn't change it
so, what's your point? your assertion seems to be that things that were designed a certain way can or should not be changed.
if you want to be apathetic, or, in other words, keep the status quo, then please speak for yourself. i am just more ambitious than that. i believe that things can change for the better. and i believe individuals can make a difference.
besides, for keeping the status quo, i can think of much more cost efficient ways than democracy. your argument is just one of the better thought-out excuses to abstain the vote. still an excuse, though.
yes, wages would rise somewhat if there were no H1B workers here.
but one thing is completely illusionary: the educational system is not going to get better because high tech needs skilled workers!
even if you would succeed in reforming the entire american educational system so it is up to par with, say, western europe, in, say, one year. then it would take at least another 6 years until these enlightened young people graduate with some sort of degree.
that makes 7 years. 7 years from now, requirements may be entirely different. who knows what is needed then?!
what this country needs is a reform of the entire educational system, not with the goal of producing what we need tomorrow, but with the goal of providing as much education as possible to as many people as possible.
i come from germany, and i must say, honestly, that people there generally work a *lot* harder than people here. they are also more on top of things, e.g. we simply do not have people who do some job but don't actually know anything about it [i have seen this here frequently]. and this covers all areas of work.
please don't be offended - this is just my experience. since i don't believe americans are somehow born dumb, it must be the education system. go figure.
i am not talking about elite universities. we all know US universities drive much of the world's research. i am talking about education for the masses.
like high schools. i am in the bay area, and high school teachers earn something like $25k a year. if you are from somewhere else: for this kind of money, it is pretty much impossible to live here! if education is valued this little here you will always have to import smarts.
couple the high speed cam with something that auto-detects microscopic changes in the facial expression and you have a super lie detector.... scary.
i think it would be endlessly interesting just to capture people talking and replaying that in super-slomo. be it the debates between the candidates or whatever....
so here is what i think is much worse than the default bookmark-thing: all search via the address bar goes to the M$ search engine
this happens whenever you type some unfinished url. now maybe that's just me... but i do it all the time. this behavior can be turned off, but the option is buried deeply into the preferences and ordinary people won't change it.
of course, joe public will also use the standard msn search for all searches and have msn.com every time they open the browser.
those things are much bigger issues than the URL redirect. i am not sure how to express my distaste for this kind of behavior - but it really pisses me off.
not that netscape is any better. netscape IS OWNED BY AOL NOW. hello-o?!
BTW i just read in business week that 72% of americans are annoyed about the extent of corporate power. i hope the backlash is coming.
read the ars technica articles on this. it will blow your mind. they have *several* very innovative features in the OS. packaging apps is just one of them (extremely elegant). www.arstechnica.com (yes, i know its lame i did not make this a link but i am too lazy to hand-type fucking HTML, i am an apple user and as such expect /. to do that for me)
*i* need 16M pixels. in fact, i will not buy anything digital that has lower rez than 35 mm analog film. when i watch these pictures in 20 years, my display will have 600 dpi and all these 2M pixel pics will be stamp-sized.
i don't think a 600 dpi display is far fetched - the current 72 dpi looks horrible and the difference to a 300dpi display is plainly obvious - once you have seen it, you will not want to go back. we need at least a factor of 10 improvement over current display technologies to get anything near sufficient in terms of eye resolution.
until then, i will snap 35mm pics. i can then always scan them in later for a decent rez image.
check out the demo picture at the foveon web site .
it does not look like there is a lot of strange artifacts there... in fact, it looks like a professional photograph. of course, it is kind of hard to judge from my 72 dpi screen here, but still... looks impressive.
two questions:
1 - how many transistors on a PIII are dead?
2 - does the PIII still work when a transistor goes belly up?
if the answer to 2 is no, then the answer to 1 is almost never. if the answer to 2 is yes, then how the heck does the PIII do that, or, will it become sentinent when the right transistors die?
seems current bidding is up to 10 million dollars....& item=434391456
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
this is exactly what i wanted to say, thanks.
there seems to be a horrid fear of RPG players to acknowledge that what they are doing DOES in fact have SOMETHING to do with reality.
it seems to be their nature to dwell in the idea that this is all fiction and purely for fun. i understand, i was the same way.
i have not played for years now, and, looking back, i can say that RPGs were an escape for me, and a source of wonderful tales. tales shape your dreams and those who dare follow their dreams their entire life.
shadowrun and consorts with their eery view on the corporate world and the media are like an attempt to understand and deal with these things.
... and the Seattle riots bring the whole thing into the real world.
let go, ikea-boy.
it WAS rugby! the winning team won by toppling the other robots. that's kinda simple.
if i was competing there, i would give each of my dogbots a chainsaw.
jesus, what are you mods thinking? this is the only live report we got and it's at 0?!?!
it is all very simple.
one company will go with what people want. one will go against what people want. the first one will win, which only gets easier because the second one does not compete.
no-one needs to worry about sony. sony is a big mad-ass company, as big as they come, but if they shoot themselves in the foot they are not threatening anyone. except napster, which may be a casuality on the way to doom.
that sony is so big jut means that they are shooting themselves in the foot with a bigger gun, and they are going to survive it, too. but not after some painful lessons about the market have been re-learned.