The premium was several hundred dollars above retail. Someone pocketed that profit and it sure wasn't Microsoft. It'd say the author's point is valid on those grounds alone.
Was when Bluto walks down the stairs during that toga party and comes across this dude playing guitar and singing some folk song to a couple of chicks. Then he grabs the guitar and slams it against the wall, smashing it to bits.
Could you imagine that set at Starfleet Academy? There's Spock plucking some Vulcan lute in the dorm while Kirk comes along and slams it against the wall, then walks away with the two green chicks listening nearby. But Spock doesn't pout. Nope. Spock doesn't pout.
OK. If Dvorak can pull off getting Jolie and Portman naked and wresting in jello, I'll run Windows. But I'll expect them petrified afterward, with hot grits poured over them to boot.
Ah. I see. You're here to help me learn what is a "real" browser and what is not by linking to a commercial product. You are a walking advertisement with an anchor tag. Most helpful.
Yeah. The noscript extension is very nice. I'll miss that if I downgrade. Actually, I hadn't considered Camino. But upon looking at the site, it appears to be a version downgrade with built-in spellcheck and ad-block. Which, if I'm already considering a downgrade to 1.0.x, I might as well try that out too. Thanks for the suggestion.
There are no spell check extensions available for the mac. aspell check is not supported. I'm actaully going to downgrade back to 1.0.x in order to get spellcheck working again.
How do you propose to convince the majority of Microsoft's customer base to boycott? That's hundreds of millions of users. How many real slashdotters are there again?
I bet you like to use $ with MS like M$. What's wrong with using Microsoft Word to edit/etc/passwd;/etc/shadow;/etc/pam.d/sshd;/etc/resolv.conf; etc etc etc? You're just biased against M$, that's why. Me, I prefer TECO. Where are the trolls out running DEC down? Huh?
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Just use your handy editor, emacs, vi, Microsoft Word - whatever - to remove that pesky user "root" and its "UID 0" from/etc/passwd then update the netinfo database. Reboot Mac. Problem solved!
No what? That the spinning laser light won't be going faster than light when it reaches Mars? Of course it will! Duh. If you spin light around the farther out it goes the faster it goes until infinity. Then it starts going slower. That's relativity. Einstein said so.
"um, no"
I hear you. You're just not thinking nonlinearly. Stop walking straight and following the cracks in the sidewalk. Jump over them! That's thinking nonlinearly.
"um, no"
Look. What is Gravity? It's just the dents in the felt of a pool table caused by a ball. Sort of like a reverse nipple. Therefore, antigravity is the nipple!
if we spin it around the beam will be going many order of magnitude faster than light when it reaches mars. That way the long latency is irrelevent. Also, it looks cool. Sorta like a fire engine.
I'm gonna go to the sandbox and play with my Tonka Firetruck now.
The first operating principle of all society is self-defense. The second operating principle is food production for the population - a starving population cannot be productive. Only the surplus after food production is available for economic investment. The Third operating principle of all society is property rights management - recording deeds and such. All of this work requires energy. Currently, our food production is dependent on petroleum based fertilizer. Food transportation is also dependent on petroleum. This energy source is dwindling.
A few points:
a) Food costs have increased faster than CPI core inflation.
b) Housing and property rates have increased far faster than CPI core inflation.
c) Energy costs are increasing dramatically faster than CPI core inflation.
d) Value added manufactured goods are dropping in price drastically due to automation improvements in production.
e) Communication networks allow for labor arbitrage across national borders in information technology centric businesses.
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All this adds up to not cheaper basic necessities, but cheaper value added manufactured goods due to less energy intensive automation. Basic necessities, however, should continue to rise as long as energy rates rise. Also transporting food and manufactured goods should increase the cost of goods due to higher energy rates. Information technology and cheap communications should be resistant to high energy rates though due to the marginal cost of energy in proportion to the productivity.
Unless we find a new source of cheap energy to harness, I suspect the next fifty to one hundred years will be quite tough for the vast majority of the population. Not a rosy scenario.
Brown and Root was a small construction company in southeast Texas formed in 1914 by Herman Brown with his brother-in-law Dan Root. Mr. Brown was a conservative and staunch opponent of the New Deal when he befriended a congressional staffer by the name of Lyndon Johnson in the early thirties. Johnson was ambition and wanted up the ladder from a staff position to an elected official. Herman Brown made that happen. With a lot of money. In exchange, once Lyndon won a seat in congress, he arranged for Brown and Root to build a number of public projects such as the Marshall Ford Dam, and the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi.
Lyndon wasn't much for house debate, nor was he a skilled lawyer, so writing and pushing through legislation was particularly difficult for him. Which for a congressman is a pretty serious drawback. But Lyndon was a big - physically imposing - man. And he had access to a lot of money through his connections at Brown and Root. So pretty soon Lyndon was passing contributions around to various Democratic congressmen in threatened races throughout the country. Because of this Lyndon grew very powerful in a very short time - powerful enough to attempt a run for Senate only two years after having won election as a congressman. He lost that first bid, but within a few election cycles large numbers of congressmen owed their seats to his arranged donations. Lyndon had the choice of committee seats at his disposal, and quickly became close friends with then congressional leader Sam Rayburn.
But Lyndon still wasn't satisfied. He wanted to be a Senator. So off to his friends at Brown and Root asking to finance a new election bid for Senate. This time he won, but only because he cheated. Didn't matter. Once again he climbed the ladder from junior Senator from Texas in 1948 to minority leader in a single six year term (the Democrats lost the senate majority during the election of '52). He did this through funneling corporate contributions, much of which came from Brown and Root.
Of course, we all know how Lyndon Johnson wound up as President. He was chosen to be JFKs vice presidential nominee in order to shore up the southern vote. Nobody expected him to have any power in that position. But JFK was assassinated in Dallas Texas on Nov 22nd, 1963 and soon thereafter Johnson assumed the Presidency.
Who was there right behind him scoring military contracts left and right? Brown and Root. Soon to be named Kellog, Brown and Root. And then soon thereafter to be purchased by Halliburton.
We all know who Halliburton is, don't we? History sure is a strange thing...
See the works of Robert Caro for a detailed history of Johnson and his connection with corporate financing. He was arguably one of the founders of this whole cross state campaign financing fiasco.
I mean, how many millions does one need to retire? He'll never want for food or shelter. He spends his days teaching children, tinkering on personal projects, and being a daddy. As you pointed out, who is happier: Jobs or Wozniak? I bet Wozniak.
ED: "One of the key questions, however, is sustainability. If some content creation depends on patronage or philanthropy how can sustainability be achieved? Many of the models we see are such short-term focused and this is what needs to be tackled. In particular philanthropic giving in this area needs to think harder about sustainability."
[...]
ED: "Yes, I agree, but this might point to an old fashioned concept: state funding. In particular in areas of such strategic and social importance as education in a country like South Africa. I don't think the Internet is a good medium for education, though it is a good tool. Education is a process; it's not content. Even though involving the internet to produce and disseminate content sharply reduces costs, there is still the need for quality assurance and costs of maintaining such a service. And in many regards state funding might the most appropriate way for achieving that such a service can be maintained at low costs."
I don't have a problem with state funding per se, but I fail to see how a state funded project could in any way be deemed: FREE. Perhaps free speech, but certainly not free beer.
It blows my mind this paranoid ramblings gets modded up. The CIA's "masters" are our elected government.
Our elected government. The Soviet Union used to hold elections too:
Decades of continuous manipulative mass mobilization, affording every citizen a vote but no choice of candidates, produced corrosive cynicism and apathy. Growing technological sophistication undermined government control of ideas: by the 1980s anyone in the USSR could start an underground opposition newspaper by getting hold of a second-hand word processor and a printer, increasingly common tools of the fully developed society to which most Soviets and Eastern Europeans -- and their leaderd -- aspired.
--Twentieth Century World, pp 322, Findley & Rothney, 5th edition.
Sound familiar? Here, let's look at the Democratic Party playing Swift Boat games on its own in order to control the primary process.
In an announcement that stunned many in Washington and even some in his campaign staff, Hackett declared on February 13, 2006, that he was dropping his bid for U.S. Senate in Ohio, ending his 11 month political career. "I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind-the-scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign," he said, only hinting at what had gone down. The day after his withdrawal from the race, he told me about the backroom battles that forced him out.
[...]
Swift boats soon appeared on the horizon. A whisper campaign started: Hackett committed war crimes in Iraq--and there were photos. "The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago," Dave Lane, chair of the Clermont County Democratic Party, told me the day after Hackett pulled out of the race. "I heard it more than once that someone was distributing photos of Paul in Iraq with Iraqi war casualties with captions or suggestions that Paul had committed some sort of atrocities. Who did it? I have no idea. It sounds like a Republican M.O. to me, but I have no proof of that. But if it was someone on my side of the fence, I have a real problem with that. I have a hard time believing that a Democrat would do that to another Democrat."
What annoys me most about OS X is that Apple still hasn't yanked that old NextStep NIS-light abomination netinfo for storing system configurations. It might seem neat - that is until you have to administer a heterogeneous UNIX environment and OS X (or NextStep) happens to be the only OS of the bunch using netinfo. Shared configuration scripts? HA! I really wish they would dump that and just go back to plain text config files.
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The premium was several hundred dollars above retail. Someone pocketed that profit and it sure wasn't Microsoft. It'd say the author's point is valid on those grounds alone.
Ken Burns didn't.
Was when Bluto walks down the stairs during that toga party and comes across this dude playing guitar and singing some folk song to a couple of chicks. Then he grabs the guitar and slams it against the wall, smashing it to bits.
Could you imagine that set at Starfleet Academy? There's Spock plucking some Vulcan lute in the dorm while Kirk comes along and slams it against the wall, then walks away with the two green chicks listening nearby. But Spock doesn't pout. Nope. Spock doesn't pout.
OK. If Dvorak can pull off getting Jolie and Portman naked and wresting in jello, I'll run Windows. But I'll expect them petrified afterward, with hot grits poured over them to boot.
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Ah. I see. You're here to help me learn what is a "real" browser and what is not by linking to a commercial product. You are a walking advertisement with an anchor tag. Most helpful.
Yeah. The noscript extension is very nice. I'll miss that if I downgrade. Actually, I hadn't considered Camino. But upon looking at the site, it appears to be a version downgrade with built-in spellcheck and ad-block. Which, if I'm already considering a downgrade to 1.0.x, I might as well try that out too. Thanks for the suggestion.
There are no spell check extensions available for the mac. aspell check is not supported. I'm actaully going to downgrade back to 1.0.x in order to get spellcheck working again.
How do you propose to convince the majority of Microsoft's customer base to boycott? That's hundreds of millions of users. How many real slashdotters are there again?
uh huh...
good luck.
yeah, I'll get to that chick nipple research pronto! Science awaits my results!
Well iTunes is more popular than the Beatles. And you know who the Beatles are more popular than...
Jesus is gonna get mighty pissed!
I thought a reference to TECO would have clued you in. No, I do not use MS Word to edit config files.
/.? We need another OOG_THE_OPENSOURCE_CAVEMAN. "I WILL BEAT YOU WITH MY OPENSOURCE CD!!!"
What happened to
they should be reading dailykos and not slashdot
I bet you like to use $ with MS like M$. What's wrong with using Microsoft Word to edit /etc/passwd; /etc/shadow; /etc/pam.d/sshd; /etc/resolv.conf; etc etc etc? You're just biased against M$, that's why. Me, I prefer TECO. Where are the trolls out running DEC down? Huh?
Just use your handy editor, emacs, vi, Microsoft Word - whatever - to remove that pesky user "root" and its "UID 0" from /etc/passwd then update the netinfo database. Reboot Mac. Problem solved!
"um, no"
No what? That the spinning laser light won't be going faster than light when it reaches Mars? Of course it will! Duh. If you spin light around the farther out it goes the faster it goes until infinity. Then it starts going slower. That's relativity. Einstein said so.
"um, no"
I hear you. You're just not thinking nonlinearly. Stop walking straight and following the cracks in the sidewalk. Jump over them! That's thinking nonlinearly.
"um, no"
Look. What is Gravity? It's just the dents in the felt of a pool table caused by a ball. Sort of like a reverse nipple. Therefore, antigravity is the nipple!
Physics is a snap, dude. You just gotta think.
if we spin it around the beam will be going many order of magnitude faster than light when it reaches mars. That way the long latency is irrelevent. Also, it looks cool. Sorta like a fire engine.
I'm gonna go to the sandbox and play with my Tonka Firetruck now.
The first operating principle of all society is self-defense. The second operating principle is food production for the population - a starving population cannot be productive. Only the surplus after food production is available for economic investment. The Third operating principle of all society is property rights management - recording deeds and such. All of this work requires energy. Currently, our food production is dependent on petroleum based fertilizer. Food transportation is also dependent on petroleum. This energy source is dwindling.
A few points:
a) Food costs have increased faster than CPI core inflation.
b) Housing and property rates have increased far faster than CPI core inflation.
c) Energy costs are increasing dramatically faster than CPI core inflation.
d) Value added manufactured goods are dropping in price drastically due to automation improvements in production.
e) Communication networks allow for labor arbitrage across national borders in information technology centric businesses.
-----
All this adds up to not cheaper basic necessities, but cheaper value added manufactured goods due to less energy intensive automation. Basic necessities, however, should continue to rise as long as energy rates rise. Also transporting food and manufactured goods should increase the cost of goods due to higher energy rates. Information technology and cheap communications should be resistant to high energy rates though due to the marginal cost of energy in proportion to the productivity.
Unless we find a new source of cheap energy to harness, I suspect the next fifty to one hundred years will be quite tough for the vast majority of the population. Not a rosy scenario.
how many people are there on Slashdot?
About twenty. The rest are dupes flaming themselves. *cough!*
she'd be happy to see another sign of the End Times. I mean, teh Rapture is upon us!!!
Brown and Root was a small construction company in southeast Texas formed in 1914 by Herman Brown with his brother-in-law Dan Root. Mr. Brown was a conservative and staunch opponent of the New Deal when he befriended a congressional staffer by the name of Lyndon Johnson in the early thirties. Johnson was ambition and wanted up the ladder from a staff position to an elected official. Herman Brown made that happen. With a lot of money. In exchange, once Lyndon won a seat in congress, he arranged for Brown and Root to build a number of public projects such as the Marshall Ford Dam, and the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi.
Lyndon wasn't much for house debate, nor was he a skilled lawyer, so writing and pushing through legislation was particularly difficult for him. Which for a congressman is a pretty serious drawback. But Lyndon was a big - physically imposing - man. And he had access to a lot of money through his connections at Brown and Root. So pretty soon Lyndon was passing contributions around to various Democratic congressmen in threatened races throughout the country. Because of this Lyndon grew very powerful in a very short time - powerful enough to attempt a run for Senate only two years after having won election as a congressman. He lost that first bid, but within a few election cycles large numbers of congressmen owed their seats to his arranged donations. Lyndon had the choice of committee seats at his disposal, and quickly became close friends with then congressional leader Sam Rayburn.
But Lyndon still wasn't satisfied. He wanted to be a Senator. So off to his friends at Brown and Root asking to finance a new election bid for Senate. This time he won, but only because he cheated. Didn't matter. Once again he climbed the ladder from junior Senator from Texas in 1948 to minority leader in a single six year term (the Democrats lost the senate majority during the election of '52). He did this through funneling corporate contributions, much of which came from Brown and Root.
Of course, we all know how Lyndon Johnson wound up as President. He was chosen to be JFKs vice presidential nominee in order to shore up the southern vote. Nobody expected him to have any power in that position. But JFK was assassinated in Dallas Texas on Nov 22nd, 1963 and soon thereafter Johnson assumed the Presidency.
Who was there right behind him scoring military contracts left and right? Brown and Root. Soon to be named Kellog, Brown and Root. And then soon thereafter to be purchased by Halliburton.
We all know who Halliburton is, don't we? History sure is a strange thing...
See the works of Robert Caro for a detailed history of Johnson and his connection with corporate financing. He was arguably one of the founders of this whole cross state campaign financing fiasco.
I mean, how many millions does one need to retire? He'll never want for food or shelter. He spends his days teaching children, tinkering on personal projects, and being a daddy. As you pointed out, who is happier: Jobs or Wozniak? I bet Wozniak.
ED: "One of the key questions, however, is sustainability. If some content creation depends on patronage or philanthropy how can sustainability be achieved? Many of the models we see are such short-term focused and this is what needs to be tackled. In particular philanthropic giving in this area needs to think harder about sustainability."
[...]
ED: "Yes, I agree, but this might point to an old fashioned concept: state funding. In particular in areas of such strategic and social importance as education in a country like South Africa. I don't think the Internet is a good medium for education, though it is a good tool. Education is a process; it's not content. Even though involving the internet to produce and disseminate content sharply reduces costs, there is still the need for quality assurance and costs of maintaining such a service. And in many regards state funding might the most appropriate way for achieving that such a service can be maintained at low costs."
I don't have a problem with state funding per se, but I fail to see how a state funded project could in any way be deemed: FREE. Perhaps free speech, but certainly not free beer.
Our elected government. The Soviet Union used to hold elections too:
--Twentieth Century World, pp 322, Findley & Rothney, 5th edition.
Sound familiar? Here, let's look at the Democratic Party playing Swift Boat games on its own in order to control the primary process.
*sigh*
What annoys me most about OS X is that Apple still hasn't yanked that old NextStep NIS-light abomination netinfo for storing system configurations. It might seem neat - that is until you have to administer a heterogeneous UNIX environment and OS X (or NextStep) happens to be the only OS of the bunch using netinfo. Shared configuration scripts? HA! I really wish they would dump that and just go back to plain text config files.