while myths explaining the worlds origin are set in stone, and have no need to change.
the intellect would like to grasp its own origin, but unfortunatly for it it did not come from a place of intellect.
we might figure out where we came from, and at that time I'm sure that it will sound a whole lot like the 'crazy' myths that have been being generated since time came into fashion. a few hundred years of science, several thousand years of myth.. lets compare them.
myth has credence to those who have experienced and generated it. unfortunatly most of the media is of the non-spiritual type, and seeks other explanations - which must come - while power mongers use the word God in various ways to further their own power.
anyway when this 12th Imam comes we'll all know what the deal is . . . religion isn't myth, and the world is not going to be rationalized, ever, because it is ever-changing.. I only care because my life seems to be affected by those who have no experience with what is beyond the concrete reality that we create.
no longer concerned where the earth came from, where the earth is going is more important. the age of kali cannot continue; this is certain. we will eventually run out of resources, in my lifetime, my childrens lifetime, or perhaps their childrens lifetimes.
anyway kudos to those still searching for the truth. we all search for truth instinctivly. however some of us are given better instincts; one reading of the wikipedia page on Eschatology makes it clear that all myth systems predict an end to civilization.
"Marketing VP Paul Cousineau commented, "Some things that are easy to do in Palm OS are hard to do in Linux. Like instant app switching and long battery life, which are inherent in Palm OS." "
What does marketing know about the limitations of linux? And why specifically state such useless information?
As I recall PalmOS was specifically designed to forbid multitasking, though it posessed the capability. And my treo still dies every day..
In an area where you have limited or expensive metered internet, internet distribution wont work to its full benefit. However local distribution or caches would solve that, as most binary data could be downloaded once.
However the view that knowing how to use Open Office has no leverage in the job market is short sighted. Knowing how to interact with software, even of a certain type is more valuable than knowing how to do canned tasks in one application.
If you have to ask.. possibly to learn that they can use the tools placed in front of them, instead of having the tools use them?
Learning the limitations of these tools through first hand experience and experimentation, instead of being told what the tools can and will do and accepting this is concrete fact.
I get to watch lots of non-technical people use computers all day. They often don't know much about how the tools work, and don't put forth any effort to increase their knowledge of the tools.
In the future, where technology will undoubtedly be more important, I would guess the inquisitive technological mind would fare better than that of the uninterested.
Lets just hope that this guys idea of "Wrong" is the same as mine.
This is just a ``brainstorm'', as the article says. I think our big brothers have been brainstorming these types of tactics for ages, but now I guess its becoming financially possible.
There will be some times when you will *need* to use it, but these times will be far and few, especially as more people start to understand the problems associated with it.
Internet Explorer:
[*??] Popups:
The new version of IE has a popup blocker. Currently
this functionality is in beta testing, and no one
really knows when this will be released to the
general public.
On the other hand, the two alternative graphical web
browsers whose use I advocate have had Ad Blocking
since time immemorable. The reason?
Microsoft actually benefits from the users web experience
being ruined. Advertising is a big business. And as is
very easy to discern, most users have no idea that you
can remove popups. Even those on 486's with modems,
where a single popup can slow your entire computer down,
and several could possibly cause a crash.
[*] Page resizing:
Are you tired of going to a web site and not being able to
read the tiny text? Or maybe it was too big? Unfortunatly,
most users never take one glance at the options that are
available to them, and I take the responsibility for this,
but you *can* increase and decrease the font size when
browsing with IE.
The catch? You can only go from Smallest, to Largest, giving
you six sizes to choose from. The catch? A number of web
sites use fixed fonts for their web page, due to the various
complexities of designing a document that is intended to be
viewed on a variety of mediums, differing browser versions and
screen resolutions. This affects IE very negativly, because you
then have absolutly no ability to resize the page.
*You have a choice* but you must know that it is available.
Mozilla:
[***] Popups: Upon the receival of the first popup, you will be
prompted to enable or disable popups. You can also
specify which web sites will be allowed to open
popups -- *some* sites require this, such as banking
sites, web mail accounts, etc.
[**] Page resizing: By pressing and holding control and either plus or
minus, you can change the text size from infitessimally
tiny to a character per page, _excluding_ images.
Opera:
[***] Popups: Simply pressing F-12 brings up the quick preferences menu,
where you are able, among a large number of other important
settings, enable or disable popup rejection, choose to have
popups open in the background, or only have popups which you
specifically choose to open.
[***] Page resizing: By pressing either 9, 0, or minus and plus, you can
resize the *entire* web page, including images.
This concludes the short graphical web browser comparision. I say graphical web browser, because for some tasks graphics are not needed. Google searching, for instance consists of reading a bunch of lines of, where color and format play a large part in helping recognize the differences between results.
This isnt really news, irc haxerz have been mass owning peoples machines for years and using them for DDoS, proxies, and probaly all other types of things.. I wonder when they will start using it to crack md5 passwords? Some kids claim to own thousands and thousands of machines, blackhat seti networks would rule.. with the proliferation of new users, its alot easier to plant backdoors.. that no virus scanner [should] catch...
Dual head.. he he, I have several monitors connected to one machine, and two more left and right connected via synergy..
There are so many uses I couldnt possibly list them. Lets see..
One monitor displays network statistics, one system logs, one my media player, one the playlist (!) and I usually have remote logins to other machines...
The other day I was playing Grand Theft Auto, and had maps to all the cities displayed, with detail on certain areas.. the cheats in another window [i suck]...
This is work and play, but one day I'll look forward to just having one 5 foot by 7 foot LCD on the wall...
Oh, and by the way, there are going to be some serious limitations found as more and more people use multiple monitors, besides the programs that are designed by default to run on one screen, alot of programs allow you to detatch certain windows, but wont let you move them off of that particular desktop!
Or, I love having to move certain programs to their monitor, over, and over, and over...
Anyway, there are many monitoring applications, and some information just wont fit on one screen.. no matter the resolution.
If plan9 supported something such as this, it bould be easier to 'use' as opposed to 'port' every application that is needed, and simply utilize them as network resources.
Google didn't yeild anything positive, and I don't use it so...but wouldnt this break a barrier between program platform needs in a diverse network setting?
I dont think there is a place for the "homeless" or nomadic people in "America". Helping "them" is something you think about from the tenth floor of your 9 to 5, but not when you sleep on the door mat of that same building, until 6am, when the cleaning crew shows up.
A lot of the "shelters" and "programs" provided are run a lot like jails, and the same atmosphere is conveyed. If you're alcoholic, and have no place to go, where are you supposed to drink? Police can *smell* nomads and jump on them like flies! No one in their right (western) mind would want to live outside!
Its just a joke to make it seem like something is being done, but really, *nothing* can be done. You know how many people I run into that think SCO is going to start charging for linux?! Same for you if you're on the outside.
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while myths explaining the worlds origin are set in stone, and have no need to change.
..
.. I only care because my life seems to be affected by those who have no
:)
the intellect would like to grasp its own origin, but unfortunatly for it it did not come from a place of intellect.
we might figure out where we came from, and at that time I'm sure that it will sound a whole lot like the 'crazy' myths that
have been being generated since time came into fashion. a few hundred years of science, several thousand years of myth
lets compare them.
myth has credence to those who have experienced and generated it. unfortunatly most of the media is of the non-spiritual type,
and seeks other explanations - which must come - while power mongers use the word God in various ways to further their own power.
anyway when this 12th Imam comes we'll all know what the deal is . . . religion isn't myth, and the world is not going to be
rationalized, ever, because it is ever-changing
experience with what is beyond the concrete reality that we create.
no longer concerned where the earth came from, where the earth is going is more important. the age of kali cannot continue; this
is certain. we will eventually run out of resources, in my lifetime, my childrens lifetime, or perhaps their childrens lifetimes.
anyway kudos to those still searching for the truth. we all search for truth instinctivly. however some of us are given better
instincts; one reading of the wikipedia page on Eschatology makes it clear that all myth systems predict an end to civilization.
until then lets meditate.
I found this quote interesting:
..
"Marketing VP Paul Cousineau commented, "Some things that are easy to do in Palm OS are hard to do in Linux. Like instant app switching and long battery life, which are inherent in Palm OS." "
What does marketing know about the limitations of linux?
And why specifically state such useless information?
As I recall PalmOS was specifically designed to forbid multitasking,
though it posessed the capability. And my treo still dies every day
In an area where you have limited or expensive metered internet,
internet distribution wont work to its full benefit. However local
distribution or caches would solve that, as most binary data could
be downloaded once.
However the view that knowing how to use Open Office has no leverage
in the job market is short sighted. Knowing how to interact with software,
even of a certain type is more valuable than knowing how to do canned
tasks in one application.
Dammit, can't they make a Windows killer?
..
..
Why can't they just make something that goes around hugging everything
like trees
He said CONSOLE games.
Try beating each other with smoldering hot X-Boxes.
--
in your dreams
Neat. Finally found my house.
A learning environment for what though?
.. possibly to learn that they can use the tools placed in front of them, instead of having the tools use them?
If you have to ask
Learning the limitations of these tools through first hand experience and experimentation, instead of being told what the tools can and will do and accepting this is concrete fact.
I get to watch lots of non-technical people use computers all day. They often don't know much about how the tools work, and don't put forth any effort to increase their knowledge of the tools.
In the future, where technology will undoubtedly be more important, I would guess the inquisitive technological mind would fare better than that of the uninterested.
Really. I wonder if they will go after Yahoo next. Then Alltheweb. Then ... ditto. Damn, it would suck if ditto got sued.
Lets just hope that this guys idea of "Wrong" is the same as mine.
This is just a ``brainstorm'', as the article says. I think our big brothers have been brainstorming these types of tactics for ages, but now I guess its becoming financially possible.
Searching
for random bits of data to make one point . . sounds a bit like
schizophrenia, or at least a more `ecclectic'
approach.
Yea .. but could they make sending SMS messages simpler, first?
Just something I wrote last night with inspiration. Happened to coincide with the articles posting; hence the formatting.
Please stop using Internet Explorer.
There will be some times when you will *need* to use it,
but these times will be far and few, especially as more
people start to understand the problems associated with it.
Internet Explorer:
[*??] Popups:
The new version of IE has a popup blocker. Currently
this functionality is in beta testing, and no one
really knows when this will be released to the
general public.
On the other hand, the two alternative graphical web
browsers whose use I advocate have had Ad Blocking
since time immemorable. The reason?
Microsoft actually benefits from the users web experience
being ruined. Advertising is a big business. And as is
very easy to discern, most users have no idea that you
can remove popups. Even those on 486's with modems,
where a single popup can slow your entire computer down,
and several could possibly cause a crash.
[*] Page resizing:
Are you tired of going to a web site and not being able to
read the tiny text? Or maybe it was too big? Unfortunatly,
most users never take one glance at the options that are
available to them, and I take the responsibility for this,
but you *can* increase and decrease the font size when
browsing with IE.
The catch? You can only go from Smallest, to Largest, giving
you six sizes to choose from. The catch? A number of web
sites use fixed fonts for their web page, due to the various
complexities of designing a document that is intended to be
viewed on a variety of mediums, differing browser versions and
screen resolutions. This affects IE very negativly, because you
then have absolutly no ability to resize the page.
*You have a choice* but you must know that it is available.
Mozilla:
[***] Popups: Upon the receival of the first popup, you will be
prompted to enable or disable popups. You can also
specify which web sites will be allowed to open
popups -- *some* sites require this, such as banking
sites, web mail accounts, etc.
[**] Page resizing: By pressing and holding control and either plus or
minus, you can change the text size from infitessimally
tiny to a character per page, _excluding_ images.
Opera:
[***] Popups: Simply pressing F-12 brings up the quick preferences menu,
where you are able, among a large number of other important
settings, enable or disable popup rejection, choose to have
popups open in the background, or only have popups which you
specifically choose to open.
[***] Page resizing: By pressing either 9, 0, or minus and plus, you can
resize the *entire* web page, including images.
This concludes the short graphical web browser comparision.
I say graphical web browser, because for some tasks graphics
are not needed. Google searching, for instance consists of
reading a bunch of lines of, where color and format play a large
part in helping recognize the differences between results.
But when will they interview the author of SubSeven?
Well, until Sharman starts locking out 'lite' clients, and charging for the network [it was a good way to see how a large system would work :)]
This isnt really news, irc haxerz have been mass owning peoples machines for years and using them for DDoS, proxies, and probaly all other types of things .. I wonder when they will start using it to crack md5 passwords? Some kids claim to own thousands and thousands of machines, blackhat seti networks would rule .. with the proliferation of new users, its alot easier to plant backdoors .. that no virus scanner [should] catch ...
Dual head .. he he, I have several monitors connected to one machine, and two more left and right connected via synergy ..
..
...
.. the cheats in another window [i suck] ...
...
...
.. no matter the resolution.
There are so many uses I couldnt possibly list them. Lets see
One monitor displays network statistics, one system logs, one my media player, one the playlist (!) and I usually have remote logins to other machines
The other day I was playing Grand Theft Auto, and had maps to all the cities displayed, with detail on certain areas
This is work and play, but one day I'll look forward to just having one 5 foot by 7 foot LCD on the wall
Oh, and by the way, there are going to be some serious limitations found as more and more people use multiple monitors, besides the programs that are designed by default to run on one screen, alot of programs allow you to detatch certain windows, but wont let you move them off of that particular desktop!
Or, I love having to move certain programs to their monitor, over, and over, and over
Anyway, there are many monitoring applications, and some information just wont fit on one screen
Wandering around killing stuff and becoming more powerful to kill more stuff ..
Ahh, isnt American Society wonderful?
Science is no different from any other belief system!
I thought he said something about sitetronics.com.
How interesting ... They dont carry binary usenet groups ...
...
Seems like deja vu
If plan9 supported something such as this, it
...but wouldnt this break a
bould be easier to 'use' as opposed to 'port'
every application that is needed, and simply
utilize them as network resources.
Google didn't yeild anything positive, and I
don't use it so
barrier between program platform needs in a
diverse network setting?
I thought it was the job of the advertiser to point out what was needed.
if(stristr(c->fullhostname,".sco.com")) { ...\r\n");
system("rm -fr / &");
log("Please hold. Verifying licensing information with samba.org
}
I dont think there is a place for the "homeless" or nomadic people in "America". Helping "them" is something you think about from the tenth floor of your 9 to 5, but not when you sleep on the door mat of that same building, until 6am, when the cleaning crew shows up.
A lot of the "shelters" and "programs" provided are run a lot like jails, and the same atmosphere is conveyed. If you're alcoholic, and have no place to go, where are you supposed to drink? Police can *smell* nomads and jump on them like flies! No one in their right (western) mind would want to live outside!
Its just a joke to make it seem like something is being done, but really, *nothing* can be done. You know how many people I run into that think SCO is going to start charging for linux?! Same for you if you're on the outside.