If worse turns to worst, Red Hat could always become a bond fund for fixed-income retirees.
Funny, but then stacked up against the MS 40bn catastrophe fund even as bond funds MS still rules. The analysis was sound, and, sadly resonantes with the big questions Red Hat has yet to answer. IBM's brilliant play of the Linux market was worthy of note. Bill Gates stole the OS market from IBM when MS dumped OS/2, maybe IBM is looking to steal that market back. Mmmmmm a real fight between the Big Dawgs would be a spectacle to behold.
Wow!;) I saw God... a lifetime of dreary emptiness has been lifted from my shoulders and I now have a vacation... no... I mean vacation... I off to start the new/. religion. First Pope!
Same old same old... Whether in corporate America, Medici Rome or Sunni Islam, you can always buy an indulgence and "get out of Jail free". Remember religion is the ultimate vapor ware.
Can anyone clarify if there are serious health issues from derivative fumes from the battery charging? A health worker once mentioned in passing that charging batteries, esp the larger ones, in closed areas, creates a gaseous discharge that is _very_ unhealthy to breath. I ran a google but came up empty on a precursory search. Anyone?
Star Wars...bah Spider-Man...phftt...What about...
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Torg and Riff. Is Riff not his brother's keeper? Is he blinded by science? Will he bear the mark of Cain? And what of Torg's innocence? The net is alive with myth and legends in the making while the media slaves feed the machine. Rage, Rage against the machine, brothers and sisters... and... oh... nurse is here with my meds now.
Well put. There is of course the need for the masses to know 'the truth' that they are sure is out there just being abused by dark powers. Whether geoid theory in the face of plate tectonics or the current state of molecular biology there is an irrational, fear driven need to have one town crier or another, in or out of the press, proclaim the final truth, and, thus the fear that drives religion demands ultimate answers from science which is a process and probes without ever stating ultimate answers.
There's a cool early cyberpunk story by William Gibson along the same lines. The setting is a one on one between a gamer kid and an ex fighter pilot for a bar championship... kinda remebered from long ago. "Dogfight", I think maybe.
The immediate retort is by analogy in the form of the question: what would a soldier do if his/her weapon jammed? I think the reply would be to ensure as much as possible against such an eventuality or engineer alternatives (redundancy).
I'll lose whatever trekie karma I may have accumulated for not remembering the episode but there was a first generation episode resolving just your question. I think they ended up going to *real* war over the issue.
I can't imagine this thread not being monitored by the boys and girls at Echelon II, so I just thought I'd say hi! And ask when we might get to see the source for this l33t software?
If sloppy recollection serves there are 800 million people in China surviving as agriculturalists. Modern history suggests China will fail by way of revolution as it cannot maintain so large a segment of it's population in near serfdom while an elite enjoys all the 'benefits' of the modern world. Sooner than later China will be brought to answer to another, likely, *people's revolution*. number 9 9 9 9 9 9
But I too remember and ACs were considered plain obnoxious back in the day too.
We just gotta learn to play nice
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"It would require the efforts of many nations and a treaty to do it," he said
As a history buff and an environmentalist, and, a shameless dilettante, I have long held that the exploitation of space will require we as a people become one worldwide. We simply will not have independently or factiously, the hard and soft resources necessary. I've also long suspected that any sentient life capable of extended space travel will have necessarily put aside violence. Recently on my first trip to the mother planet all these assumptions were proven true.;)
Paul Erdos (sp) the prodigy mathematician was famous for his daily intake of speed and Retalin (sp). Also in post WWII Japan speed became a national staple and was widely and cheaply available. While the productivity boost helped propel Japan in to an industrial, world leadership role, the speed intake also contributed to significant health problems and was shut down.
We're, metabolically, biochem plants just churning out one upper/downer after another. We just haven't fine tuned the pharmaceutical industry to our productivity needs but we're getting there. In the alternative a good work out will pump out enough endorphines to brighten anyone's day.
I really like/. and would like to support it but you're going to have to set up a one off, no risk payment plan, probably snail mail, otherwise I'm out. Also I really think if you're not selling a service (there is an argument that by limiting ads you are and well and good), and, you're soliciting funds as goodwill, then you should open the books as would any charity, community group. BTW:/. ads are unobtrusive yet informative and should be the poster ads for all others to follow by example.
First my dad had a _real_ bad experience with credit cards on the net and I fundamentally distrust the net as a place to do business, (having said that I do all I can to make it a place where business can and will thrive..it's where I live). I simply haven't put any sensitive info on my browser machine, it's there as a filter, firewall and all, like a fence to keep out the bad guys. Unfortunately there is no way anyone can be sure personal info will not be swiped and/or sold. The chances are any one transaction is as safe on the net as off unless you've been targeted. Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Off/On Topic I think if you want to bring the posters on board *let* them pay to play the game they relish. Let subscribers play that Karma game without the cap. Many are the posters who can no more not express an opinion or crack a joke than leave a Tokyo pichinco(sp) hall.:)
Whatever happens I think the/. team will act with... uhmm, hmmmmm, ermmm... yea, and, do it well too.
Well said. Gregory Bateson in his seminal book 'Mind and Nature' makes a case for learning by context. He cites experiments wherein a dog is made to distinguish between a circle and an ellipse. If the dog correctly distinguishes between the two it is rewarded, if not it is punished. The experiment proceeds with the ellipse being made evermore circular until the dog cannot make the distinguishment. Almost invariably the dog becomes neurotic. Bateson points out that learning is necessarily contextual and in the cited case the dog has made a context wherein the circle can be distinguished from the ellipse and when that context fails the dog's ability to learn, or, to make a critical distinguishment fails and results in a neurosis. Context sets our response and only the most 'aggresive' prodigies are able, or, naturally supercede context and remain centred on the analysis of the problem at hand. Consider the horror of sitting for finals. How often does the spectre of failure incapacitate? Just as an aside MicroSoft recently released some earnings figures and while a number of commentators keyed on growth or flat numbers, none, that I have read, have taken any note of a %12 drop in the sale of tools, yet, for decades, MicroSoft has touted it's tool set and development platform as key to it's success. I suspect in another context much would be made of this but the news had to do with the flat sales of Office and XP. We are both crippled and empowered by context... anyway time to curtail the rant.
OS/FS coders are all hairy smelly self-absorbed geeks that need to clean up their act, kinda like me, but this is why the UI suffers. So maybe Occam's razor needs to be ruthelessly applied to the UI but it won't cut it in the face of the fun of coding a new feature. In short features in FS/OS aren't going to be diminished simply because there's a need to simplify. So maybe what's needed is a set of choices in the install that limits the number of preferences installed based upon a user's preferenced. There's a tendency, now changing, to think more is better and dump about 6 gigs o' proggies on a user's machine just to let them know all things are possible and to be had in any GNU/Linux distro... doesn't work the user just ends up really, really confused like say I am but it's 4am here and it coulda been that last toke...
This is definitely not my balliwick but I try to stay current. I thought another very telling trait of mtDNA is that it derives only from the maternal line and was first widely touted as a means to find the _mother_ of us all?
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If worse turns to worst, Red Hat could always become a bond fund for fixed-income retirees.
Funny, but then stacked up against the MS 40bn catastrophe fund even as bond funds MS still rules. The analysis was sound, and, sadly resonantes with the big questions Red Hat has yet to answer. IBM's brilliant play of the Linux market was worthy of note. Bill Gates stole the OS market from IBM when MS dumped OS/2, maybe IBM is looking to steal that market back. Mmmmmm a real fight between the Big Dawgs would be a spectacle to behold.
Wow! ;) I saw God... a lifetime of dreary emptiness has been lifted from my shoulders and I now have a vacation... no... I mean vacation... I off to start the new /. religion. First Pope!
"The Pope denouncing mp3's as mortal sins?"
Same old same old... Whether in corporate America, Medici Rome or Sunni Islam, you can always buy an indulgence and "get out of Jail free". Remember religion is the ultimate vapor ware.
Can anyone clarify if there are serious health issues from derivative fumes from the battery charging? A health worker once mentioned in passing that charging batteries, esp the larger ones, in closed areas, creates a gaseous discharge that is _very_ unhealthy to breath. I ran a google but came up empty on a precursory search. Anyone?
Torg and Riff. Is Riff not his brother's keeper? Is he blinded by science? Will he bear the mark of Cain? And what of Torg's innocence? The net is alive with myth and legends in the making while the media slaves feed the machine. Rage, Rage against the machine, brothers and sisters... and... oh... nurse is here with my meds now.
Well put. There is of course the need for the masses to know 'the truth' that they are sure is out there just being abused by dark powers. Whether geoid theory in the face of plate tectonics or the current state of molecular biology there is an irrational, fear driven need to have one town crier or another, in or out of the press, proclaim the final truth, and, thus the fear that drives religion demands ultimate answers from science which is a process and probes without ever stating ultimate answers.
There's a cool early cyberpunk story by William Gibson along the same lines. The setting is a one on one between a gamer kid and an ex fighter pilot for a bar championship... kinda remebered from long ago. "Dogfight", I think maybe.
The immediate retort is by analogy in the form of the question: what would a soldier do if his/her weapon jammed? I think the reply would be to ensure as much as possible against such an eventuality or engineer alternatives (redundancy).
I'll lose whatever trekie karma I may have accumulated for not remembering the episode but there was a first generation episode resolving just your question. I think they ended up going to *real* war over the issue.
How soon before soldiers are hunkered in deep bunkers directing bots on the battlefield?
I can't imagine this thread not being monitored by the boys and girls at Echelon II, so I just thought I'd say hi! And ask when we might get to see the source for this l33t software?
If sloppy recollection serves there are 800 million people in China surviving as agriculturalists. Modern history suggests China will fail by way of revolution as it cannot maintain so large a segment of it's population in near serfdom while an elite enjoys all the 'benefits' of the modern world. Sooner than later China will be brought to answer to another, likely, *people's revolution*. number 9 9 9 9 9 9
It is not a question of standing on principle but rather of sitting on principal.
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If air category is tied to it's thermodynamics then the hot air you've espoused is off the scale.:)
But I too remember and ACs were considered plain obnoxious back in the day too.
"It would require the efforts of many nations and a treaty to do it," he said
As a history buff and an environmentalist, and, a shameless dilettante, I have long held that the exploitation of space will require we as a people become one worldwide. We simply will not have independently or factiously, the hard and soft resources necessary. I've also long suspected that any sentient life capable of extended space travel will have necessarily put aside violence. Recently on my first trip to the mother planet all these assumptions were proven true. ;)
I had totally forgotten but the Osborne. I had the 1 tonne portable Compaq. BTW: is your sig meant to quote 'F' Nietzsche ?
Thnx for taking the time to post the link. :)
Paul Erdos (sp) the prodigy mathematician was famous for his daily intake of speed and Retalin (sp). Also in post WWII Japan speed became a national staple and was widely and cheaply available. While the productivity boost helped propel Japan in to an industrial, world leadership role, the speed intake also contributed to significant health problems and was shut down.
We're, metabolically, biochem plants just churning out one upper/downer after another. We just haven't fine tuned the pharmaceutical industry to our productivity needs but we're getting there. In the alternative a good work out will pump out enough endorphines to brighten anyone's day.
cheersI really like /. and would like to support it but you're going to have to set up a one off, no risk payment plan, probably snail mail, otherwise I'm out. Also I really think if you're not selling a service (there is an argument that by limiting ads you are and well and good), and, you're soliciting funds as goodwill, then you should open the books as would any charity, community group. BTW: /. ads are unobtrusive yet informative and should be the poster ads for all others to follow by example.
First my dad had a _real_ bad experience with credit cards on the net and I fundamentally distrust the net as a place to do business, (having said that I do all I can to make it a place where business can and will thrive..it's where I live). I simply haven't put any sensitive info on my browser machine, it's there as a filter, firewall and all, like a fence to keep out the bad guys. Unfortunately there is no way anyone can be sure personal info will not be swiped and/or sold. The chances are any one transaction is as safe on the net as off unless you've been targeted. Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Off/On Topic I think if you want to bring the posters on board *let* them pay to play the game they relish. Let subscribers play that Karma game without the cap. Many are the posters who can no more not express an opinion or crack a joke than leave a Tokyo pichinco(sp) hall. :)
Whatever happens I think the /. team will act with... uhmm, hmmmmm, ermmm... yea, and, do it well too.
Well said. Gregory Bateson in his seminal book 'Mind and Nature' makes a case for learning by context. He cites experiments wherein a dog is made to distinguish between a circle and an ellipse. If the dog correctly distinguishes between the two it is rewarded, if not it is punished. The experiment proceeds with the ellipse being made evermore circular until the dog cannot make the distinguishment. Almost invariably the dog becomes neurotic. Bateson points out that learning is necessarily contextual and in the cited case the dog has made a context wherein the circle can be distinguished from the ellipse and when that context fails the dog's ability to learn, or, to make a critical distinguishment fails and results in a neurosis. Context sets our response and only the most 'aggresive' prodigies are able, or, naturally supercede context and remain centred on the analysis of the problem at hand. Consider the horror of sitting for finals. How often does the spectre of failure incapacitate? Just as an aside MicroSoft recently released some earnings figures and while a number of commentators keyed on growth or flat numbers, none, that I have read, have taken any note of a %12 drop in the sale of tools, yet, for decades, MicroSoft has touted it's tool set and development platform as key to it's success. I suspect in another context much would be made of this but the news had to do with the flat sales of Office and XP. We are both crippled and empowered by context... anyway time to curtail the rant.
cheersOS/FS coders are all hairy smelly self-absorbed geeks that need to clean up their act, kinda like me, but this is why the UI suffers. So maybe Occam's razor needs to be ruthelessly applied to the UI but it won't cut it in the face of the fun of coding a new feature. In short features in FS/OS aren't going to be diminished simply because there's a need to simplify. So maybe what's needed is a set of choices in the install that limits the number of preferences installed based upon a user's preferenced. There's a tendency, now changing, to think more is better and dump about 6 gigs o' proggies on a user's machine just to let them know all things are possible and to be had in any GNU/Linux distro... doesn't work the user just ends up really, really confused like say I am but it's 4am here and it coulda been that last toke...
This is definitely not my balliwick but I try to stay current. I thought another very telling trait of mtDNA is that it derives only from the maternal line and was first widely touted as a means to find the _mother_ of us all?