...go ahead America, keep getting fat, lazy, stupid, watch Survivor, listen to music, play X-Box, read People, watch Dr. Phil, diet, eat, play, spend, spend, spend, spend.
Don't read a book though. But do watch infotainment and hear about how a common household product might kill your children TOMORROW!
Nevermind the fact that
1.) The Supreme Court just declared private property is only private until the government says they have an idea how someone else could perhaps use it better?
2.) The Senate is about to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow prohibiting burning a piece of fabric if that fabric happens to have 3 certain colors (red, white, blue) and 3 certain shapes (long rectangles, large rectancles, stars) in a certain pattern.
Nevermind the demise of liberty. Make sure you see the #1 movie at the box office this weekend, or else you aren't a patriotic American.
I found my current engineering job using Monster, so I'm biased. Be agressive though; I'm probably an exception. I got about 1 interview per 20 jobs I applied for.
One thing I noticed...when you upload your resume, the employers view them sorted by date. I noticed right after I would update it, I would get lots of hits. So I started adding/deleting a period or space every couple days and then saving it, so my resume would always be "current" and near the top of the list. It really increases your clicks.
I'm not sure what to make of this. I visited Europe several times in the past few years with my Uncle Tim. I'll admit the water in Scottland tasted abit funny but the place didn't strike me as acidic. I didn't smell much sulfer either, i think the author is mistaken about that one! as for intelligent life in england there is some but not so much in france. maybe this article on acidic europe is what the hackers call a "troll"?
They own all of the Pixar films to date. If Disney wants to, they could make Finding Nemo II all by themselves.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Pixar has first dibs on producing sequels for Disney; if Pixar isn't interested, THEN Disney can do it all by themselves.
It's questions like these that make me ashamed to be a "geek".
So, you are living in a war-torn country struggling to piece together a primitive demacracy of sorts--tell me, how much are the inkjet cartridges there? Do you, as a techno-geek, get picked on like you do back here?
By the way, he isn't an "expat" just because he's an American reporter in Bagdad.
This guy gets an article published in the NY Times about a very successful operation that helped finish the Cold War.
Bill Safire was a speechwriter for Nixon. He is now a pulitzer prize-winning writer who has written for the NYT for many years. You are making it sound like he's just a kook that managed to get a letter to the editor published.
...imagine throwing Linux on one of those things! You could make a Beowulf cluster of Mars Rovers! You could encode.ogg at blazing speed!::convulses with glee::
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Every km of highway can have an addressable traffic sensor so that police and emergency crews know exactly when and where a traffic accident happened. Every streetlight can be monitored to see if it is functioning properly or if it needs service. Every traffic signal can be made individually controllable so that they can dynamically adapt to changes in traffic patterns.
Every persion with an IP address, every gun with an IP address, every book that questions authority with an IP address...
...in the full knowledge that they could die in the process, and that even if they succeeded their health might be irreversibly harmed. Yet governments and scientific societies were willing sponsors of these enterprises. Why should it be different today?
Because we are more civilized and sophisticated today? He's arguing for a mission that dooms astronauts, because it's cheaper and more readily accomplished. Absurd. We can afford to wait a couple decades to do it right.
Would NASA entertain a one-way policy for human Mars exploration? Probably not. But other, more adventurous space agencies in Europe or Asia might.
America is barbaric and ruthless in all respects, except when it comes to marooning scientists on Mars: in that respect, we are just timid!
Yeah, right. Let the French go on a one-way trip, if they want. I'd like to think this country to sane enough to say "no way".
Realizing I through III will not turn out to be the worshipped saga he had hoped for, and since LotR now defines the high-quality fantasy saga, George wants another shot to redeem it all?
Mr. Gibson is good at writing a lot of words without saying anything but "I have a fantastic vocabulary" and "I am extremely well-educated."
I think his Wired piece on Singapore ("Disneyland with the Death Penalty") was a lot better than this one. This one has no real meat to it. Either he has no idea what he's talking about, or he does, but is too lazy to share with us.
Seeing people bash hypercard is fairly painful for me. You obviously have no idea what impact it had, and how ahead of it's time it was!
Hypercard stacks were a bit like web pages, only many years prior.
We're talking 1985.
You could *easily* make a simple program with a full-fledged GUI. A child could! (And they did!) Buttons, scroll bars, text fields, etc. etc. were all very easy. HC was used *extensively* in education.
Hypercard enabled kids like me to delve into programming at a very early age. When I was about 10, I was working on a 1st-person cartoon-style game, with animation, non-linear gameplay, and cheesy music. Of course, later on I learned Pascal and C, but Hypercard is where I began.
There is much to be said for such a simple, easy-to-use technology that predated the WWW, Visual-Blah++, Java, etc. by years and years. I think it would be great if Apple open-sourced it...that way it isn't up to them to keep it running on their new OSes, the Hypercard community can handle it.
Pardon the cynicism, but I have to question the logic in this. I think the type of people who would work for a technology non-profit would be less motivated, less driven, than those at a for-profit. The urge to get extremely wealthy, regardless of what you personally think of that urge, has been a major driving force in innovation since the beginning of the computer "revolution".
I just think it's a bit silly...but they can do whatever they want with it, it's theirs. If it results in LinuxPPC actually being easy to install one day, more power to them;)
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...go ahead America, keep getting fat, lazy, stupid, watch Survivor, listen to music, play X-Box, read People, watch Dr. Phil, diet, eat, play, spend, spend, spend, spend.
Don't read a book though. But do watch infotainment and hear about how a common household product might kill your children TOMORROW!
Nevermind the fact that
1.) The Supreme Court just declared private property is only private until the government says they have an idea how someone else could perhaps use it better?
2.) The Senate is about to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow prohibiting burning a piece of fabric if that fabric happens to have 3 certain colors (red, white, blue) and 3 certain shapes (long rectangles, large rectancles, stars) in a certain pattern.
Nevermind the demise of liberty. Make sure you see the #1 movie at the box office this weekend, or else you aren't a patriotic American.
For many of us, Linux will likely never be able to compete against OS X for one simple reason:
Most anything worthwhile that you can do in Linux, you can also do in OS X, and often much more easily. The reverse isn't *close* to being true.
OS X is what Linux dreams of one day being. Why not use what Linux *may* have in 10 years, today?
Office, with all its warts and proprietary nastiness, doesn't crash at random times.
OpenOffice, in all its free, open-source glory, does.
I use OO regularly and like it quite a bit, but it is missing the features and stability to be a *true* Office replacement.
I use it because of idealogiocal reasons, not beause it's a better product.
pay someone else to do housework - A maid can clean your house for a reasonable fee once a week. Please don't hire an illegal alien though.
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And why not?
Under the Bush plan, you can even help sponsor them. I bet illegal aliens (well, the ones that work), on average, work harder than citizens. :
don't kid yourself--vote libertarian 2004. www.lp.org
So what if everyone does it now. Didn't you read--I already got the job! ;)
I found my current engineering job using Monster, so I'm biased. Be agressive though; I'm probably an exception. I got about 1 interview per 20 jobs I applied for.
One thing I noticed...when you upload your resume, the employers view them sorted by date. I noticed right after I would update it, I would get lots of hits. So I started adding/deleting a period or space every couple days and then saving it, so my resume would always be "current" and near the top of the list. It really increases your clicks.
...and i am dealing with a poster, who couldn't spell to SAV HIZ LIEF!
Let's gather 'round and examine why this joke failed.
1.) I didn't use the term "ice fields" at all in the post. A line like "i saw no ice fields in dublin!!" might've been nice.
2.) A reader thought I was actually dissing prestine Scotland water.
3.) Another reader made a pre-1975 SNL reference. I thought that show started in the early nineties, the brainchild of Adam Sandler.
I'm not sure what to make of this. I visited Europe several times in the past few years with my Uncle Tim. I'll admit the water in Scottland tasted abit funny but the place didn't strike me as acidic. I didn't smell much sulfer either, i think the author is mistaken about that one! as for intelligent life in england there is some but not so much in france. maybe this article on acidic europe is what the hackers call a "troll"?
In the Soviet Union, bugs add YOU to progams.
They own all of the Pixar films to date. If Disney wants to, they could make Finding Nemo II all by themselves.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Pixar has first dibs on producing sequels for Disney; if Pixar isn't interested, THEN Disney can do it all by themselves.
No, see, I was mocking the questions that were asked.
It's questions like these that make me ashamed to be a "geek".
So, you are living in a war-torn country struggling to piece together a primitive demacracy of sorts--tell me, how much are the inkjet cartridges there? Do you, as a techno-geek, get picked on like you do back here?
By the way, he isn't an "expat" just because he's an American reporter in Bagdad.
This guy gets an article published in the NY Times about a very successful operation that helped finish the Cold War.
Bill Safire was a speechwriter for Nixon. He is now a pulitzer prize-winning writer who has written for the NYT for many years. You are making it sound like he's just a kook that managed to get a letter to the editor published.
...imagine throwing Linux on one of those things! You could make a Beowulf cluster of Mars Rovers! You could encode .ogg at blazing speed! ::convulses with glee::
Every km of highway can have an addressable traffic sensor so that police and emergency crews know exactly when and where a traffic accident happened. Every streetlight can be monitored to see if it is functioning properly or if it needs service. Every traffic signal can be made individually controllable so that they can dynamically adapt to changes in traffic patterns.
Every persion with an IP address, every gun with an IP address, every book that questions authority with an IP address...
Everything tagged, indexed, and tracked.
(sarcasm) I can't wait.
...in the full knowledge that they could die in the process, and that even if they succeeded their health might be irreversibly harmed. Yet governments and scientific societies were willing sponsors of these enterprises. Why should it be different today?
Because we are more civilized and sophisticated today? He's arguing for a mission that dooms astronauts, because it's cheaper and more readily accomplished. Absurd. We can afford to wait a couple decades to do it right.
Would NASA entertain a one-way policy for human Mars exploration? Probably not. But other, more adventurous space agencies in Europe or Asia might.
America is barbaric and ruthless in all respects, except when it comes to marooning scientists on Mars: in that respect, we are just timid!
Yeah, right. Let the French go on a one-way trip, if they want. I'd like to think this country to sane enough to say "no way".
>More like he wants another shot at being a trillionaire.
He's what, 60-ish? So what if he makes a few more billion. It can't be about money at this point.
Realizing I through III will not turn out to be the worshipped saga he had hoped for, and since LotR now defines the high-quality fantasy saga, George wants another shot to redeem it all?
>this is a company who has, since it's inception, sold only proprietary software and hardware
Perhaps you are forgetting that when you bought an Apple computer in the 70s, the schematics came with it.
...or so I've read, I wasn't even alive;)
It's a bare-bones BSD-like OS. If you want XFree and goodies like that, you need to download them yourself.
Ok, so why use Darwin at all?
1.) It's *painless* to install on a Mac. Absolutely painless.
2.) It's small and lean.
3.) An Apple-branded opensource BSD variant? Count me in!
Mr. Gibson is good at writing a lot of words without saying anything but "I have a fantastic vocabulary" and "I am extremely well-educated."
I think his Wired piece on Singapore ("Disneyland with the Death Penalty") was a lot better than this one. This one has no real meat to it. Either he has no idea what he's talking about, or he does, but is too lazy to share with us.
Seeing people bash hypercard is fairly painful for me. You obviously have no idea what impact it had, and how ahead of it's time it was!
Hypercard stacks were a bit like web pages, only many years prior.
We're talking 1985.
You could *easily* make a simple program with a full-fledged GUI. A child could! (And they did!) Buttons, scroll bars, text fields, etc. etc. were all very easy. HC was used *extensively* in education.
Hypercard enabled kids like me to delve into programming at a very early age. When I was about 10, I was working on a 1st-person cartoon-style game, with animation, non-linear gameplay, and cheesy music. Of course, later on I learned Pascal and C, but Hypercard is where I began.
There is much to be said for such a simple, easy-to-use technology that predated the WWW, Visual-Blah++, Java, etc. by years and years. I think it would be great if Apple open-sourced it...that way it isn't up to them to keep it running on their new OSes, the Hypercard community can handle it.
Pardon the cynicism, but I have to question the logic in this. I think the type of people who would work for a technology non-profit would be less motivated, less driven, than those at a for-profit. The urge to get extremely wealthy, regardless of what you personally think of that urge, has been a major driving force in innovation since the beginning of the computer "revolution".
I just think it's a bit silly...but they can do whatever they want with it, it's theirs. If it results in LinuxPPC actually being easy to install one day, more power to them;)
it's e=mc^2, morons.