Remember back in the day when/. editors didn't take themselves too seriously and we had postings ad nauseam of Taco at this convention then that convention and obligatory shots of one editor or another with a real live girl in the frame, (usually the editor in question wore a crooked grin and had one hand in a blurred pocket). I hope we're not going to have to view endless group shot of drunken/stoned/. ers.
While the details have yet to be worked out We're close to being able to offer a complete line of party favours (note: canajen distro per Xtra vowel) for those special/. gatherings. Initially we're offering/. Beer, Condoms and Lotion (for the socially impaired, expected to be our biggest revenue generator). Coming to a location near you.;)
criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
So, uhm, while possibly not all prisoners are criminal, surely, all are equally a burden to tax payers. Further, if a non-criminal prisoner should successfully sue for wrongful incarceration, then would not the cost to the tax payer be all the more? Well, I'm off to gather my nits while I may.:)
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Or is Wolfram writing some kind of giant patent application.
This truly worries me deeply. You may have the expressed a horrible truth. Really though, without the benefit of having read the book, but with the benefit of having read much philosophy, Mr. Wolfram comes across as a time traveller from the pre 20th century when gigantic system builders bestrode... "the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves." (J. Caesar, Shakespeare) The Great systems buliders of the past include most recently, Freud, Darwin, and, before them, Newton (Principia) and Leibniz. Thankfully science put aside such quaint adjuncts as divine revelation and the occult. (Newton was big on the occult). Mr. Wolfram has simply put aside modern practices in favour of those of bygone eras. There's nothing new in his method as all such persons tended to be very secretive and deeply possessive, witness the rumble in the academic jungle between Netwon and Leibniz over who discovered the Calculus. Unfortunately in our era such a man might exhibit the least attractive egomanical trait of wanting to harness the resources of the world to his benign rule via a patent. (See Pitr at User Friendly)
Yea whatever. Overall off the cuff, so to speak, it ain't bad but for the lack of any sense of pace, (compensated for by the time posts). The use of 'block' three times in one paragraph is suggests you're more autistic than artistic. Just as an aside, ( I was raised as a hunter from a very early age, no longer hunt or own weapons ), to the best of my knowledge, skinning knives are usually short and dual edged. The type of knife you mentioned is, I believe a military issue, although I still favour a K-bar.
In adolescence, where Farrah Fawcett should have graced my wall, there was a picture of a Cray SuperComputer in full splendor framing no mere mortal SysAd but a Dude who went by the name ArchAngel. Respledent all in White he and he alone touched the holy of holies. Now it's just dross for drunken/. trolls, oh my lost youth.
*Ahem*, Yes well, of course, to the, uhm, uninitiated the connection may, at first appear, at best tenuous. (note: tortuous intro necessary to general attempts at recovery from a faux pas)... But, uhm, given the established, strong associational bent of the human thought processes, and, J. Piaget's work outlinning the developing ego as evincing a highly egocentric conceptualiztion of the world, (note: name dropping and loose reference to a widely held theory necessary to obfuscate and deny the application of Occam's razor, leaving the reader staring into the hypnotizing glare of a Rasputin like declaration of near divine insight), and, further, that the original post spoke from a first person reference to reference characteristics of another it is easily seen that my natural inclination to think of myself in terms of a hewer of wood would invite the _slip_ (see associational premise) of hew for hue. Or it may be my Danish/German ancestory predisposes me to *hew* and cry in the great tradition of beserkers, rather than the more British manner of tut tuting bad behaviour. Well I seem to have defended myself admirably and shown yet once again that I have no life.:) cheers
I somewhat self-deprecatingly characterize myself as a wannabe, newbie programmer. This because although I've been on PCs since the early 80s, made friends with DOS, Basic, Visual Basic and, now, C, I've never worked in the field. My background is in com/economics with a strong history in humanities and more especially epistemology. I note the above to bore and to bait you. It seems for all the logic inherent in the exercise of programming few programmers seem to know how to conduct an analysis or an experiment. Even elementary statistics and probability courses would suggest an answer more immediately germane to the person who submitted the question. Asking what is hot without so much as a nod toward the history, proclivities and abilities of the person asking the question betrays a superficiality that deserves to be trolled. Read the title to my comment, research the meaning. If you can't get off first base try an old standard like A. Kaplan, 'Conduct of Inquiry', or, Fisher on conducting experiments. If nothing else you'll come away far ahead of the pack that sets up the hew and cry at/. and you'll have acquired a valuable asset: How to ask the right question.
The interview served Mr. Andreeseen's needs as was evident in the way he swung the conversation around to LoudCloud. What he had to say about browers was somewhat germane but really spoke more to his past experience than the existing market. Granted MS has a gigantic piece of the pie it's well to remember how quickly the market can turn itself inside out and come out reinvented yet again.
These guys have a clue with one overridding imperative: profit. It may be that with the internet and the indie scene they see further than you give them credit for and are doing what they are paid to do: make money.
My background and schooling is in market analysis and valuations. With just enough economics and statistics to make me dangerous I have for some time been toying with a concept for an alternative economy based upon the services provided by each individual comprising the economy. Extra storage space, power, bandwidth, relay, intellect, kidney... you get the idea. The accounting would be daunting in any age other than this one but I suspect barter will come into play big time until the Status Quo Ante of our elected governments play catch up with the legislation.
There's a site here. It's sponsored by Yamaha so it's gotta alota maketroid stuff. CBC radio has been keeping pretty good tabs on the competition. I think it's a little too borgish. This bar of music by 7 of 8.
OK! I've been seriously KarmaWhoring all day 'n got nada, nothing, zip. If my/. neurosis follows to form, yesh preciousss, then I should now turn to trolling in a fit of petulant co-dependency. So please mod me offtopic and troll, to boot, right now and I can just go out 'n get stoned in the sunshine and wallow in hurt self-absorption
The Geek Factor is high here but so is the smell of ageism, I mean, why? But if you were there and wanted a Spartan reminder of why the Bronze Age was the One Golden Age then maybe, whynot?
The IT age greets the Salad Shooter @ $19.95
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The Gutenberg era wherein the word was sacred and could not be profaned is dead, dead, dead, and, information is a commodity destined to become cheaper. The question arises whether some form of Gresham's Law will come into play, and, bad information will drive out the good. But then , the more especially in the context of television, maybe the inverse will hold and good information will drive out the bad. May the Force be With You.
Thnx muchly for the links. I'm pretty much rebuildng my Raeligh mntbk from the frame up and had thought to stay with a Shimano matchup with the derailleur setup but it's not to late to give the stuff you linked to some thought. )
It's that old butter versus weapons argument again. Now let's see if the military needs bandwidth or anything else and I have to forgo in order for them to go... then I forgo. The US military didn't purchase their bandwidth from Enron did they?
So if the guy doesn't perform up to the standards of the spirit of dead, Joe Campbell and reinvent the entire cosmology of Western Mythology then he's a smuck. But, if he tries to live up to the expectations for a reinvention of the Western Mythology, then... he's a smuck. Fans being Fanboyz he should take all the fucking money he can, go home to his mansion and super model bride, play with all his toys and think, 'Fuck you one and all'.:)
DateLine: circa 1942, the northern most tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. At a top secret location a specially trained cadre of experts carefully sweep the NorthWest Pacific skies for signs of the awaited Japanese invasion. Their cutting edge technology: RADAR. Early one morning the first wave of Zeros shows on the RADAR screen and the word is sent out: the invasion has begun... well almost... that was until the first wave of Zeros showed itself to be a flock of Canadian Geese. Now we can just call their service and check their flight plans.
A log cabin remains, with a plaque commemorating the brave souls who spent the war, huddled over bleeding edge technology muttering... airplane?...goose?
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but they are a rip off they are just pictures
Obviously you should upgrade your system. The teleportation chips just can't be done without. :)
You're in! The /. crowd that is, especially since the correct spelling is 'antithesis'.
Remember back in the day when /. editors didn't take themselves too seriously and we had postings ad nauseam of Taco at this convention then that convention and obligatory shots of one editor or another with a real live girl in the frame, (usually the editor in question wore a crooked grin and had one hand in a blurred pocket). I hope we're not going to have to view endless group shot of drunken/stoned /. ers.
While the details have yet to be worked out We're close to being able to offer a complete line of party favours (note: canajen distro per Xtra vowel) for those special /. gatherings. Initially we're offering /. Beer, Condoms and Lotion (for the socially impaired, expected to be our biggest revenue generator). Coming to a location near you. ;)
re: your sig
criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
So, uhm, while possibly not all prisoners are criminal, surely, all are equally a burden to tax payers. Further, if a non-criminal prisoner should successfully sue for wrongful incarceration, then would not the cost to the tax payer be all the more? Well, I'm off to gather my nits while I may. :)
Or is Wolfram writing some kind of giant patent application.
This truly worries me deeply. You may have the expressed a horrible truth. Really though, without the benefit of having read the book, but with the benefit of having read much philosophy, Mr. Wolfram comes across as a time traveller from the pre 20th century when gigantic system builders bestrode... "the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves." (J. Caesar, Shakespeare) The Great systems buliders of the past include most recently, Freud, Darwin, and, before them, Newton (Principia) and Leibniz. Thankfully science put aside such quaint adjuncts as divine revelation and the occult. (Newton was big on the occult). Mr. Wolfram has simply put aside modern practices in favour of those of bygone eras. There's nothing new in his method as all such persons tended to be very secretive and deeply possessive, witness the rumble in the academic jungle between Netwon and Leibniz over who discovered the Calculus. Unfortunately in our era such a man might exhibit the least attractive egomanical trait of wanting to harness the resources of the world to his benign rule via a patent. (See Pitr at User Friendly)
Yea whatever. Overall off the cuff, so to speak, it ain't bad but for the lack of any sense of pace, (compensated for by the time posts). The use of 'block' three times in one paragraph is suggests you're more autistic than artistic. Just as an aside, ( I was raised as a hunter from a very early age, no longer hunt or own weapons ), to the best of my knowledge, skinning knives are usually short and dual edged. The type of knife you mentioned is, I believe a military issue, although I still favour a K-bar.
In adolescence, where Farrah Fawcett should have graced my wall, there was a picture of a Cray SuperComputer in full splendor framing no mere mortal SysAd but a Dude who went by the name ArchAngel. Respledent all in White he and he alone touched the holy of holies. Now it's just dross for drunken /. trolls, oh my lost youth.
*Ahem*, Yes well, of course, to the, uhm, uninitiated the connection may, at first appear, at best tenuous. (note: tortuous intro necessary to general attempts at recovery from a faux pas)... But, uhm, given the established, strong associational bent of the human thought processes, and, J. Piaget's work outlinning the developing ego as evincing a highly egocentric conceptualiztion of the world, (note: name dropping and loose reference to a widely held theory necessary to obfuscate and deny the application of Occam's razor, leaving the reader staring into the hypnotizing glare of a Rasputin like declaration of near divine insight), and, further, that the original post spoke from a first person reference to reference characteristics of another it is easily seen that my natural inclination to think of myself in terms of a hewer of wood would invite the _slip_ (see associational premise) of hew for hue. Or it may be my Danish/German ancestory predisposes me to *hew* and cry in the great tradition of beserkers, rather than the more British manner of tut tuting bad behaviour. Well I seem to have defended myself admirably and shown yet once again that I have no life. :) cheers
Right you are. My only defense, I'm canajen, and we're hewers of wood and carriers of water. Lame but it's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
If recent memory serves me right Zimbabwe has also been tossed out of the Commonwealth.
why I've moved away from computing.
Dude, you're posting @ /. move further away... way, way, way away.
I somewhat self-deprecatingly characterize myself as a wannabe, newbie programmer. This because although I've been on PCs since the early 80s, made friends with DOS, Basic, Visual Basic and, now, C, I've never worked in the field. My background is in com/economics with a strong history in humanities and more especially epistemology. I note the above to bore and to bait you. It seems for all the logic inherent in the exercise of programming few programmers seem to know how to conduct an analysis or an experiment. Even elementary statistics and probability courses would suggest an answer more immediately germane to the person who submitted the question. Asking what is hot without so much as a nod toward the history, proclivities and abilities of the person asking the question betrays a superficiality that deserves to be trolled. Read the title to my comment, research the meaning. If you can't get off first base try an old standard like A. Kaplan, 'Conduct of Inquiry', or, Fisher on conducting experiments. If nothing else you'll come away far ahead of the pack that sets up the hew and cry at /. and you'll have acquired a valuable asset: How to ask the right question.
The interview served Mr. Andreeseen's needs as was evident in the way he swung the conversation around to LoudCloud. What he had to say about browers was somewhat germane but really spoke more to his past experience than the existing market. Granted MS has a gigantic piece of the pie it's well to remember how quickly the market can turn itself inside out and come out reinvented yet again.
When are these guys going to get a clue?"
These guys have a clue with one overridding imperative: profit. It may be that with the internet and the indie scene they see further than you give them credit for and are doing what they are paid to do: make money.
My background and schooling is in market analysis and valuations. With just enough economics and statistics to make me dangerous I have for some time been toying with a concept for an alternative economy based upon the services provided by each individual comprising the economy. Extra storage space, power, bandwidth, relay, intellect, kidney... you get the idea. The accounting would be daunting in any age other than this one but I suspect barter will come into play big time until the Status Quo Ante of our elected governments play catch up with the legislation.
There's a site here.
It's sponsored by Yamaha so it's gotta alota maketroid stuff. CBC radio has been keeping pretty good tabs on the competition. I think it's a little too borgish. This bar of music by 7 of 8.
OK! I've been seriously KarmaWhoring all day 'n got nada, nothing, zip. If my /. neurosis follows to form, yesh preciousss, then I should now turn to trolling in a fit of petulant co-dependency. So please mod me offtopic and troll, to boot, right now and I can just go out 'n get stoned in the sunshine and wallow in hurt self-absorption
The Geek Factor is high here but so is the smell of ageism, I mean, why? But if you were there and wanted a Spartan reminder of why the Bronze Age was the One Golden Age then maybe, whynot?
The Gutenberg era wherein the word was sacred and could not be profaned is dead, dead, dead, and, information is a commodity destined to become cheaper. The question arises whether some form of Gresham's Law will come into play, and, bad information will drive out the good. But then , the more especially in the context of television, maybe the inverse will hold and good information will drive out the bad. May the Force be With You.
Thnx muchly for the links. I'm pretty much rebuildng my Raeligh mntbk from the frame up and had thought to stay with a Shimano matchup with the derailleur setup but it's not to late to give the stuff you linked to some thought. )
It's that old butter versus weapons argument again. Now let's see if the military needs bandwidth or anything else and I have to forgo in order for them to go... then I forgo. The US military didn't purchase their bandwidth from Enron did they?
So if the guy doesn't perform up to the standards of the spirit of dead, Joe Campbell and reinvent the entire cosmology of Western Mythology then he's a smuck. But, if he tries to live up to the expectations for a reinvention of the Western Mythology, then... he's a smuck. Fans being Fanboyz he should take all the fucking money he can, go home to his mansion and super model bride, play with all his toys and think, 'Fuck you one and all'. :)
I know it's nitpicking but geese don't quack, geese honk! and are just as belligerent as roadrage honking drivers.
DateLine: circa 1942, the northern most tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. At a top secret location a specially trained cadre of experts carefully sweep the NorthWest Pacific skies for signs of the awaited Japanese invasion. Their cutting edge technology: RADAR. Early one morning the first wave of Zeros shows on the RADAR screen and the word is sent out: the invasion has begun... well almost... that was until the first wave of Zeros showed itself to be a flock of Canadian Geese. Now we can just call their service and check their flight plans.
A log cabin remains, with a plaque commemorating the brave souls who spent the war, huddled over bleeding edge technology muttering... airplane?...goose?