Great point on the VPN. The company we work at in the gulf has terrible IT support. Every single person here has a Nokia. After I got my wife to use the e61 (technophopbe) she convinced everyone in her office to get one. It looks like a company issue phone now. So here's the question, will IT go out and spend the money to get a VPN from Nokia so that the product everyone uses will just work? The answer, no. They only support iMate (read fat bribe form M$). What a waste of time. I guess you can also hook this phone into the PBX and make it your office phone when you are at work.
My biggest grip with the e-series is no tab key. I get into fields on web pages sometimes where I cannot get out and just want a god damn tab key. I tried to map it but it didn't work out.
I am also annoyed that e-bay/Skype won't make a Symbian Skype. The company line is that they are worried that the performance over carrier based wireless networks will suffer. Oh wait... this phone has WiFi so what the fuck??? I use Fring but it isn't perfect and it kind of freaks me out. I really have no assumption of privacy because I have no idea how the technology works. I had SIP working with PBXES and Gizmo Project but then the firmware update made it stop working. Now I have a Gizmo5 app running directly on the phone. Unfortunately it took a lot of effort to get the friends and family on the Skype bandwagon and telling them that an open source cheaper version isn't going to make them want to learn something new.
If you read Maddox's review linked above I think you might know why Nokia made an almost perfect phone. "...because Nokia's marketing team is busy finding every last dick in the universe to suck..."
I don't think cnet is going to tell you anyting other than who is paying the highest price for advertising this month.
From what he said I think I know what he needs. A Nokia e90. My wife has the e61 and it does 90% of the computing tasks I need. Wi-Fi, 3G, phone, office documents, acrobat, web browsing with Opera, Blackberry support, exchange, & Skype. The e90 is big enough to do any office task on and small enough to take with you. It has 2 cameras (one 3m with flash) and is a great MP3 player. If you don't believe me read Maddox's review of the iPhone vs. e70 titled "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face." . Granted the e90 is a little different than the e70 but who is going to notice that the e90's balls are made out of tungsten instead of steel with kicking them? Plus it runs on Sybian, a great OS with lots of support and not a bitch of M$ or a BSD rip off with flashing colored baubles.
You know it is a great product because the US cell phone companies will only sell a crippled piece of shit version (e62) in the US.
My favorite was when I learned about the fourth world when I was studying Haiti. Places so fucking horrible that they will never be ok, never get better, and will always be hell. In Haitit's case it is the result of political, ecological, and demographic nightmares all working together to make sure that eveyone is fucked.
Ok does anyone know where that article went about using active matrix LCD style wire grids to create an ice proof surface? I swear the article was posted to slashdot or wired a few years ago but I cannot find it. It was about a guy (Russian I think) who work in an ice lab (Harvard I think)and found that the protons not the electrons move when a current is applied to ice. He created a surface that would bond to or explosivley reple ice depending on the type of charge applied to the surface. I have looked for this 10 times on google and can't find a thing about it.
Sounds like a poor man's Aerogel! Not that many rich people are rich enough to buy this stuff. Unless they want scraps from United Nuclear. If you want green Aerogel and not stuff that is decribed as being more dangerous to make than TNT to make you can create some SEAgel buy freeze drying agar.
/rumor/ Is this more powerful than DARPA's EM laser where they drilled a hole in the earth, made a spherical chamber, and set off a nuke in it? The idea being that the chamber would shape the EM pulse into a coherent beam.
I guess I just see the answer as more complex. Just because there was no difference between R-rated and X-rated doesn't change the effect of reduced empathy.
The visual act of sex isn't the important part, it is the overall treatment of women; empathic vs. objective. For me this is the same as propaganda trying to dehumanize the enemy so that it is easier to kill them. Have you seen Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel's movies on why we should fear the Germans and Japanese? Have you watched the anti-Japanese Bugs Bunny shorts? If our most empathic and funny writers can create systems designed to allow us to harm others is it so hard to imagine that movies made only for the purpose of making money from a low cultural perspective can do harm? Let's not confuse erotica & porn with dehumanizing portrayals. I am sure there are great porn movies that increase empathy and teach good technique but there is also some seriously frightening shit out there. Did you watch the Nightline when they went to Extreme Productions? The Nightline cameraman jerks his head back from the eye-piece and says to the rest of the crew, "we are leaving." There is porn out there that invokes rape, torture, and kidnapping. People are pattern recognition engines with modeling built in. Even if 99% of the population can safely watch it, if 1% of 150 million adult US males see it and goes out and reenacts this stuff is that an acceptable loss rate? Risk is damage X likelihood; what value do you place on a human life or the psyche of someone who is kidnapped, tortured and raped?
So you are right about to a point. Also I read this article 10 years ago so I'm sorry if my recall was not perfect as the methodology and the subtlety of the findings. Either way if watching generally degrading material reduces empathy should be able to control it? The courts think so even if their current definition is weak.
Does anyone know where to find the Mac Anti-Tetris of yore? The one that invoked Hudson's "Game over!" from Aliens when you lost. YOu know the one where when you fucked up it said "You meant to do that right?" I have searched for it for years and I can never find it. Someone once posted that it had been posted with a virus and after that everyone got gun shy about it. If you have it put it up on home of the underdogs.
Title: Effects of long-term exposure to violent and sexually degrading depictions of women.
Abstract:
Investigated the effects of emotional desensitization to films of violence against women and the effects of sexually degrading explicit and nonexplicit films on beliefs about rape and the sexual objectification of women. Males viewed either 2 or 5 R-rated violent "slasher," X-rated nonviolent "pornographic," or R-rated nonviolent teenage-oriented ("teen sex") films. Affective reactions and cognitive perceptions were measured after each exposure. Later, these men and no-exposure control Ss completed a voir dire questionnaire, viewed a reenacted acquaintance or nonacquaintance sexual assault trial, and judged the defendant and alleged rape victim. Ss in the violent condition became less anxious and depressed and showed declines in negative affective responses. They were also less sympathetic to the victim and less empathetic toward rape victims in general. However, longer film exposure was necessary to affect general empathy. There were no differences in response between the R-rated teen sex film and the X-rated, sexually explicit, nonviolent film, and the no-exposure control conditions on the objectification or the rape trial variables. A model of desensitization to media violence and the carryover to decision making about victims is proposed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Authors: Linz, Daniel G.; Donnerstein, Edward; Penrod, Steven Affiliations: Linz, Daniel G.: U California, Communication Studies Program, Santa Barbara, US Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1988 Nov Vol 55(5) 758-768
It has been shown that watching porn will make people more likely to allow another person to be hurt. Basically if you shown porn to a group and then run the Milgram experiment the subjects are even less likely to step in while another person is getting shocked. So if watch porn is actually damaging to our ability to be decent to those around us how can horror be better? If something makes causes widespread brain damage in society do we as a society want to allow it? We have "freedom of speach" but we don't have freedom of drugs because "its bad for us." Dictatorship allows for unpopular decisions to be made. A enlightened democracy might archive the same end but remember most Americans are fuck wits. Fuck wits who are stupid enough to borrow money at 23.5% interest rates to buy plastic shit made in China using oil and then bitch about expensive gas. We as a society, oh wait no... that is, an unelected body created by constitutionally dubious administrative law decides what we can and cannot see what's the difference between the FCC and the Chinese decision? Nothing, nothing at all.
Profane means to profane the temple, saying "god damn" is profane. Vulgarity means being common from the vulgate or the square, saying "fuck" is vulgar. Progarity I made up, saying "god fucking damn it" is vulgfanity.
Clippy is gone. Ctrl-S still works, Alt now brings up a letter for each item on the ribbon, pressing that letter takes you to the next level of menu items. You can now use Word/Excel without a mouse even if you are shortcuttarded.
Microsoft built itself by being ruthless. Then they built themselves by leveraging their monopoly. Now they have pretty much filled the entire market space and have no room left to grow except by extracting payment form the people who use them but don't pay. You might be right if they had any growth left but they don't. They have been trading sideways for a long, long time because they have exhausted their growth they are in effect a climax community. Now they try and create growth by buying companies outside their core business model that end up doing nothing. If everyone one on the planet who uses Windows paid, even a small amount for it, they would be on a gravy train till the end of time.
As for business they don't want something flashy and I never implied they did, hence the fanboys reference. Businesses want a utility, something that turns on, does its job, and turns off with a low TCO. They don't want 3d alt-tab, they don't want their depreciated hardware that is still useful to be made obsolete by software when all the workers use is Office. Honestly if you don't play games and maintain your equipment you can get away with a Pentium 3 or Pentium M hardware for most non-technical business work. Granted Linux makes that even easier but Windows has the market saturated and that's the reality.
As for Yahoo I just don't see the synergies. What does yahoo provide? Nothing. They will bastardize the brand by making it MSYahooNBCForBobLive.Net and they what do you have, a parallel mail system to hotmail and a directory, a search engine and a portal. Yahoo will not make YahooLive.net with moonlight enhanced flashiness competitive with Google. You will have a Chrysler Benz takeover where one group reduces the effectiveness of the other and you are left with a taste in your mouth best described by Fry upon eating a "Fresh" Egg Salad Sandwich, "It's like there's a party in my mouth, and everybody is throwing up."
As a share holder in Microsoft I think that Microsoft has way better things to do with my retained earnings than pay too much for nothing right before the whole economy tanks.
He's an idea. Sell you stupid DRM pipe dreams down the river of wasted time and turn into what you should be, a DIVIDEND paying LOW GROWTH utility company. Make a good operating system with no bells or whistles that will pass any anti-trust case, sell it for a low enough price that the trouble of downloading a bit torrent crack isn't worth it. Make it so I can add/remove modules over the Internet at will for low low prices. Then make a a version that looks fucking fantastic and sell it like a Mac for a premium to fanboys and people who think translucent colored baubles are the shit.
Someone over there has finally woken up. I have been teaching Office 2007 and for god's sake it's a great product. 90% of the things that have made want to skull fuck the assholes in the Office department to death are gone. The menu system is great. The Page layout break controls are great. The automatic formating is now controllable. Best of fucking all you can now set the default action for paste to be text only.
I want Microsoft to stop being a bitch like Sony. (Don't FUCKING sue yourself.) Don't get delusions of being a media company or and Internet company you twits. Give me my fucking retained earnings as a dividend, make Office for a profit, make Server for a large profit, and make Windows so it works underwater in space, in the future, across standards, platforms, without a hoot because it is a god damn utility that doesn't give a fuck because everyone has to use it and doesn't hate it because it just fucking does its job come hell or high water.
They can conduct them from anywhere, the people who live in the middle east are the people affected. Al-Qaeda is a distributed amorphous mass, that could use phone calls or sneaker net to dispurse their plans to working nodes. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic media hurtling down the highway."
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Not only that but the injunction against images of the prophet Muhammad are to prevent idolatry. How can satire inspire idol worship?
Great point on the VPN. The company we work at in the gulf has terrible IT support. Every single person here has a Nokia. After I got my wife to use the e61 (technophopbe) she convinced everyone in her office to get one. It looks like a company issue phone now. So here's the question, will IT go out and spend the money to get a VPN from Nokia so that the product everyone uses will just work? The answer, no. They only support iMate (read fat bribe form M$). What a waste of time. I guess you can also hook this phone into the PBX and make it your office phone when you are at work.
My biggest grip with the e-series is no tab key. I get into fields on web pages sometimes where I cannot get out and just want a god damn tab key. I tried to map it but it didn't work out.
I am also annoyed that e-bay/Skype won't make a Symbian Skype. The company line is that they are worried that the performance over carrier based wireless networks will suffer. Oh wait... this phone has WiFi so what the fuck??? I use Fring but it isn't perfect and it kind of freaks me out. I really have no assumption of privacy because I have no idea how the technology works. I had SIP working with PBXES and Gizmo Project but then the firmware update made it stop working. Now I have a Gizmo5 app running directly on the phone. Unfortunately it took a lot of effort to get the friends and family on the Skype bandwagon and telling them that an open source cheaper version isn't going to make them want to learn something new.
If you read Maddox's review linked above I think you might know why Nokia made an almost perfect phone. "...because Nokia's marketing team is busy finding every last dick in the universe to suck..."
I don't think cnet is going to tell you anyting other than who is paying the highest price for advertising this month.
From what he said I think I know what he needs. A Nokia e90. My wife has the e61 and it does 90% of the computing tasks I need. Wi-Fi, 3G, phone, office documents, acrobat, web browsing with Opera, Blackberry support, exchange, & Skype. The e90 is big enough to do any office task on and small enough to take with you. It has 2 cameras (one 3m with flash) and is a great MP3 player. If you don't believe me read Maddox's review of the iPhone vs. e70 titled "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face." . Granted the e90 is a little different than the e70 but who is going to notice that the e90's balls are made out of tungsten instead of steel with kicking them? Plus it runs on Sybian, a great OS with lots of support and not a bitch of M$ or a BSD rip off with flashing colored baubles.
You know it is a great product because the US cell phone companies will only sell a crippled piece of shit version (e62) in the US.
My favorite was when I learned about the fourth world when I was studying Haiti. Places so fucking horrible that they will never be ok, never get better, and will always be hell. In Haitit's case it is the result of political, ecological, and demographic nightmares all working together to make sure that eveyone is fucked.
Ok does anyone know where that article went about using active matrix LCD style wire grids to create an ice proof surface? I swear the article was posted to slashdot or wired a few years ago but I cannot find it. It was about a guy (Russian I think) who work in an ice lab (Harvard I think)and found that the protons not the electrons move when a current is applied to ice. He created a surface that would bond to or explosivley reple ice depending on the type of charge applied to the surface. I have looked for this 10 times on google and can't find a thing about it.
I love the grid backup idea. http://www.beaconpower.com/products/EnergyStorageSystems/SmartEnergyMatrix.htm
Although you could probably tow one of these behind a GE Hybrid Locomotive pretty well. In Portland they have an old tain line where an electic trian pulls a generator, why not pull a flywheel?
Can someone explain to me why this was moderated offtopic? Aerogel is used to trap gases all the time.
I would love to see a link to a good graph. I was under the impression that flywheels easily take the lead on power density, reliability, and cost.
Sounds like a poor man's Aerogel! Not that many rich people are rich enough to buy this stuff. Unless they want scraps from United Nuclear. If you want green Aerogel and not stuff that is decribed as being more dangerous to make than TNT to make you can create some SEAgel buy freeze drying agar.
Or some megalodon DNA trapped in fossilized remoras!
"It's like there' a party in my mouth, and everybody's throwing up!"
I wonder if this is similar to the charcoal briquetting technique shown about a year ago with corn cobs and natural gas. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108390/
/rumor/ Is this more powerful than DARPA's EM laser where they drilled a hole in the earth, made a spherical chamber, and set off a nuke in it? The idea being that the chamber would shape the EM pulse into a coherent beam.
I guess I just see the answer as more complex. Just because there was no difference between R-rated and X-rated doesn't change the effect of reduced empathy.
The visual act of sex isn't the important part, it is the overall treatment of women; empathic vs. objective. For me this is the same as propaganda trying to dehumanize the enemy so that it is easier to kill them. Have you seen Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel's movies on why we should fear the Germans and Japanese? Have you watched the anti-Japanese Bugs Bunny shorts? If our most empathic and funny writers can create systems designed to allow us to harm others is it so hard to imagine that movies made only for the purpose of making money from a low cultural perspective can do harm? Let's not confuse erotica & porn with dehumanizing portrayals. I am sure there are great porn movies that increase empathy and teach good technique but there is also some seriously frightening shit out there. Did you watch the Nightline when they went to Extreme Productions? The Nightline cameraman jerks his head back from the eye-piece and says to the rest of the crew, "we are leaving." There is porn out there that invokes rape, torture, and kidnapping. People are pattern recognition engines with modeling built in. Even if 99% of the population can safely watch it, if 1% of 150 million adult US males see it and goes out and reenacts this stuff is that an acceptable loss rate? Risk is damage X likelihood; what value do you place on a human life or the psyche of someone who is kidnapped, tortured and raped?
So you are right about to a point. Also I read this article 10 years ago so I'm sorry if my recall was not perfect as the methodology and the subtlety of the findings. Either way if watching generally degrading material reduces empathy should be able to control it? The courts think so even if their current definition is weak.
Does anyone know where to find the Mac Anti-Tetris of yore? The one that invoked Hudson's "Game over!" from Aliens when you lost. YOu know the one where when you fucked up it said "You meant to do that right?" I have searched for it for years and I can never find it. Someone once posted that it had been posted with a virus and after that everyone got gun shy about it. If you have it put it up on home of the underdogs.
Title: Effects of long-term exposure to violent and sexually degrading depictions of women.
Abstract:
Investigated the effects of emotional desensitization to films of violence against women and the effects of sexually degrading explicit and nonexplicit films on beliefs about rape and the sexual objectification of women. Males viewed either 2 or 5 R-rated violent "slasher," X-rated nonviolent "pornographic," or R-rated nonviolent teenage-oriented ("teen sex") films. Affective reactions and cognitive perceptions were measured after each exposure. Later, these men and no-exposure control Ss completed a voir dire questionnaire, viewed a reenacted acquaintance or nonacquaintance sexual assault trial, and judged the defendant and alleged rape victim. Ss in the violent condition became less anxious and depressed and showed declines in negative affective responses. They were also less sympathetic to the victim and less empathetic toward rape victims in general. However, longer film exposure was necessary to affect general empathy. There were no differences in response between the R-rated teen sex film and the X-rated, sexually explicit, nonviolent film, and the no-exposure control conditions on the objectification or the rape trial variables. A model of desensitization to media violence and the carryover to decision making about victims is proposed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Authors: Linz, Daniel G.; Donnerstein, Edward; Penrod, Steven
Affiliations: Linz, Daniel G.: U California, Communication Studies Program, Santa Barbara, US
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1988 Nov Vol 55(5) 758-768
It has been shown that watching porn will make people more likely to allow another person to be hurt. Basically if you shown porn to a group and then run the Milgram experiment the subjects are even less likely to step in while another person is getting shocked. So if watch porn is actually damaging to our ability to be decent to those around us how can horror be better? If something makes causes widespread brain damage in society do we as a society want to allow it? We have "freedom of speach" but we don't have freedom of drugs because "its bad for us." Dictatorship allows for unpopular decisions to be made. A enlightened democracy might archive the same end but remember most Americans are fuck wits. Fuck wits who are stupid enough to borrow money at 23.5% interest rates to buy plastic shit made in China using oil and then bitch about expensive gas. We as a society, oh wait no... that is, an unelected body created by constitutionally dubious administrative law decides what we can and cannot see what's the difference between the FCC and the Chinese decision? Nothing, nothing at all.
Go ahead and shoot me dumb shit, evil has a deep bench.
Profane means to profane the temple, saying "god damn" is profane.
Vulgarity means being common from the vulgate or the square, saying "fuck" is vulgar.
Progarity I made up, saying "god fucking damn it" is vulgfanity.
Clippy is gone. Ctrl-S still works, Alt now brings up a letter for each item on the ribbon, pressing that letter takes you to the next level of menu items. You can now use Word/Excel without a mouse even if you are shortcuttarded.
Microsoft built itself by being ruthless. Then they built themselves by leveraging their monopoly. Now they have pretty much filled the entire market space and have no room left to grow except by extracting payment form the people who use them but don't pay. You might be right if they had any growth left but they don't. They have been trading sideways for a long, long time because they have exhausted their growth they are in effect a climax community. Now they try and create growth by buying companies outside their core business model that end up doing nothing. If everyone one on the planet who uses Windows paid, even a small amount for it, they would be on a gravy train till the end of time.
As for business they don't want something flashy and I never implied they did, hence the fanboys reference. Businesses want a utility, something that turns on, does its job, and turns off with a low TCO. They don't want 3d alt-tab, they don't want their depreciated hardware that is still useful to be made obsolete by software when all the workers use is Office. Honestly if you don't play games and maintain your equipment you can get away with a Pentium 3 or Pentium M hardware for most non-technical business work. Granted Linux makes that even easier but Windows has the market saturated and that's the reality.
As for Yahoo I just don't see the synergies. What does yahoo provide? Nothing. They will bastardize the brand by making it MSYahooNBCForBobLive.Net and they what do you have, a parallel mail system to hotmail and a directory, a search engine and a portal. Yahoo will not make YahooLive.net with moonlight enhanced flashiness competitive with Google. You will have a Chrysler Benz takeover where one group reduces the effectiveness of the other and you are left with a taste in your mouth best described by Fry upon eating a "Fresh" Egg Salad Sandwich, "It's like there's a party in my mouth, and everybody is throwing up."
As a share holder in Microsoft I think that Microsoft has way better things to do with my retained earnings than pay too much for nothing right before the whole economy tanks.
He's an idea. Sell you stupid DRM pipe dreams down the river of wasted time and turn into what you should be, a DIVIDEND paying LOW GROWTH utility company. Make a good operating system with no bells or whistles that will pass any anti-trust case, sell it for a low enough price that the trouble of downloading a bit torrent crack isn't worth it. Make it so I can add/remove modules over the Internet at will for low low prices. Then make a a version that looks fucking fantastic and sell it like a Mac for a premium to fanboys and people who think translucent colored baubles are the shit.
Someone over there has finally woken up. I have been teaching Office 2007 and for god's sake it's a great product. 90% of the things that have made want to skull fuck the assholes in the Office department to death are gone. The menu system is great. The Page layout break controls are great. The automatic formating is now controllable. Best of fucking all you can now set the default action for paste to be text only.
I want Microsoft to stop being a bitch like Sony. (Don't FUCKING sue yourself.) Don't get delusions of being a media company or and Internet company you twits. Give me my fucking retained earnings as a dividend, make Office for a profit, make Server for a large profit, and make Windows so it works underwater in space, in the future, across standards, platforms, without a hoot because it is a god damn utility that doesn't give a fuck because everyone has to use it and doesn't hate it because it just fucking does its job come hell or high water.
Did you work in Beaverton? I was told once they had their own nuclear generator to run the fab there.
They can conduct them from anywhere, the people who live in the middle east are the people affected. Al-Qaeda is a distributed amorphous mass, that could use phone calls or sneaker net to dispurse their plans to working nodes. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic media hurtling down the highway."
You just miss our Rumsfeld "Shaved Ape" press conferences.