No, you still don't have to listen to any of the crap. Sure, you won't find the good stuff that way*, but YOU DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO ANY OF IT. It's OPTIONAL!
* Well, except by hearing about it from someone who doesn't mind wading through the crap... like a reviewer... or a friend... or Slashdot.
Back when the agreement was being considered by Australian authorities, I read a transcript of Rusty's appearance before a senate committee on the matter.
The transcript is available starting on page 55 of this PDF (called a Hansard, apparently.)
There's now an illustrated version of his opening statement here, but the questions from the senators are much more interesting and you'll find them in the Hansard.
someone somewhere might find squares or grayness offensive, after all
I'll say. The rigid, overbearing, uncompromizing linear edges and penetrating corners. The color of cold emotionless metal, of industry and warships and destruction. The isolated shape stands alone, unconnected, unaccepting.
Where are the soft, fluid curves of the sacred feminine? The varied colors of humanity? The intricate flow of people interacting, vulnerable and aroused?
At least your suggestion is truthful. What better symbol to represent the work of emotionally stunted priviliged males in a patriarchal society.
It seems to me that up is all you really need. You can bring up fuel and thrusters to deorbit anything you need sent down.
We could deal with reentry the same way we do now. Alternatively, with an abundance of fuel, you could perhaps descend very differently. First maneuver to a low orbit. Then cancel out your momentum, and drop like rocket guy.
I don't know the numbers involved, so maybe this isn't practical even with a space elevator feeding you everything you need, but it sure would be nice not to have to worry about burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
I'd been hearing about how great Grim Fandango was on Slashdot for quite a while before I fished a copy out of the bargain bin and gave it a try.
Don't be fooled. Oh, they may say it's the funniest game ever, or that the characters are masterfully rendered with personality that makes you care for them, but it's all true!
I've written variations of this in a few languages. This small example exercises classes and operator overloading, collections and iteration, math, graphics, modularization, so it gives a pretty comprehensive view of what the programming system is like in real use. But the real reason I like it is because the output is mesmerizing.
If malpractice suits were all due to actual malpractice, then the eliminating of the bottom 6% percent would stop when the malpractice suits stopped, which is well before you eliminate the entire medical profession. This is because a lot of it is competent, which is a distinction mostly unaffected by how many qualify.
People lie. People spin. I'm too tired to try piece together a picture of protest violence that allows me to confidently condemn either party and spew righteous indignation so I can feel better.
These are PROTESTS. They're outside. There are lots of people there. Didn't anybody bring a fucking video camera?
Yeah. The actual link to to http://http/.* and FireFox takes me to the top google hit for "http". I'm surprised google thinks microsoft.com is the fountain of knowledge regarding HTTP, though.
The web pages that use IE holes to install ad- and spyware are third party software, if you're sufficiently determined to see it that way.
But there's something to be said for -- you know, being reasonable.
Gates' kurt answer gives me the feeling that he's really annoyed and just doesn't want to deal with the mess his company has made for itself with security.
Let's leave the problem of dealing with our consumption to future generations.
Weeeeeell, that's actually not an entirely invalid idea. Technology advances. Future generations should be better equipped to deal with all sorts of problems. If a problem really can be neutralized for a time, doing so is something we should look into. The total cost of dealing with the problem may well be lowered.
Whether a particular problem is suitable for deliberate procrastination is a separate question. I, for one, would likely accept this one, but reject another Hanford.
If you don't mind somebody else storing your bookmarks, you could use Spurl. You bookmark the current page using a bookmarklet, or you can bulk upload your bookmarks. You access them on the spurl site or from the sidebar.
From glancing at the LPS datasheet, it looks like gtk and libglade for Flash. Could be good. It's not clear to me wether you still need the Flash IDE to do anything useful.
You can do a lot with Flash, and it's a good platform for getting "rich" UIs to clients on multiple platforms without forcing them to install anything. ActiveX and Java web start have less penetration than the Flash player.
I just wish this kind of thing were happening with SVG, SMIL, DOM, and JavaScript rather than Macromedia's proprietary Flash stuff. Macromedia wants to own the new web.
You cut my sentence off taking it copletely out of context.
I'm sorry, but the way I understood your post, that was the gist of it. I didn't mean to misrepresent your views. Here's how I understood them: It's not how much you you make that matters, but how much you make compared to those around you. That makes no sense from a detached, logical stance because you can't spend any less just because another can spend more*.
From an emotional standpoint, however, this is common. We call it envy, or feelings of inadequacy. It seems strange that a person would unashamedly proclaim such feelings and admit to being ruled by them. Perhaps you're just one of those people who can see their own flaws and are brutally honest about them, but your second post indicates that instead, I may have gotten the wrong idea about what you meant. It didn't clarify to me exactly what you did mean, though.
The porn star analogy doesn't apply. In it, the size of your dick is part of what determines your value to the company, like education is at Google. It's a valid criterion for judging people. Money acquired basically by chance isn't.
* (well, that's not strictly true -- the valuation of your coworkers can cause higher prices at the caffeteria and more expensive destinations for company outings.)
You don't want to work in a company where almost all your coworkers are millionaires, and you're not
Interesting. Is that for the same reason you wouldn't want to work where almost all of your coworkers have huge dicks and you don't, or did I get the wrong idea?
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Each Dell is crappier than the next?
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Everyone has the right to television news in NTSC format.
* Well, except by hearing about it from someone who doesn't mind wading through the crap... like a reviewer... or a friend... or Slashdot.
Here you go.
Once again, Iceland takes the extreme per capita value. I think we may have the most per capita extremes per capita of any country! ;-)
The transcript is available starting on page 55 of this PDF (called a Hansard, apparently.)
There's now an illustrated version of his opening statement here, but the questions from the senators are much more interesting and you'll find them in the Hansard.
I'll say. The rigid, overbearing, uncompromizing linear edges and penetrating corners. The color of cold emotionless metal, of industry and warships and destruction. The isolated shape stands alone, unconnected, unaccepting.
Where are the soft, fluid curves of the sacred feminine? The varied colors of humanity? The intricate flow of people interacting, vulnerable and aroused?
At least your suggestion is truthful. What better symbol to represent the work of emotionally stunted priviliged males in a patriarchal society.
Get the Slashfix extension.
My startup is run out of a cocktail lounge.
I don't care if The Daredevil comes with fucking PORN, I'm not having it in my house!
None of the hassles of computing, and his body will thank him for it. And don't forget, exercise promotes mental well-being too.
I like recumbent exersise bikes more than iMacs, so my suggestion is better.
What kind of loser would hunt sheep?
We could deal with reentry the same way we do now. Alternatively, with an abundance of fuel, you could perhaps descend very differently. First maneuver to a low orbit. Then cancel out your momentum, and drop like rocket guy.
I don't know the numbers involved, so maybe this isn't practical even with a space elevator feeding you everything you need, but it sure would be nice not to have to worry about burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Don't be fooled. Oh, they may say it's the funniest game ever, or that the characters are masterfully rendered with personality that makes you care for them, but it's all true!
I've written variations of this in a few languages. This small example exercises classes and operator overloading, collections and iteration, math, graphics, modularization, so it gives a pretty comprehensive view of what the programming system is like in real use. But the real reason I like it is because the output is mesmerizing.
If malpractice suits were all due to actual malpractice, then the eliminating of the bottom 6% percent would stop when the malpractice suits stopped, which is well before you eliminate the entire medical profession. This is because a lot of it is competent, which is a distinction mostly unaffected by how many qualify.
These are PROTESTS. They're outside. There are lots of people there. Didn't anybody bring a fucking video camera?
Yeah. The actual link to to http://http/.* and FireFox takes me to the top google hit for "http". I'm surprised google thinks microsoft.com is the fountain of knowledge regarding HTTP, though.
But there's something to be said for -- you know, being reasonable.
Gates' kurt answer gives me the feeling that he's really annoyed and just doesn't want to deal with the mess his company has made for itself with security.
Weeeeeell, that's actually not an entirely invalid idea. Technology advances. Future generations should be better equipped to deal with all sorts of problems. If a problem really can be neutralized for a time, doing so is something we should look into. The total cost of dealing with the problem may well be lowered.
Whether a particular problem is suitable for deliberate procrastination is a separate question. I, for one, would likely accept this one, but reject another Hanford.
If you don't mind somebody else storing your bookmarks, you could use Spurl. You bookmark the current page using a bookmarklet, or you can bulk upload your bookmarks. You access them on the spurl site or from the sidebar.
You can do a lot with Flash, and it's a good platform for getting "rich" UIs to clients on multiple platforms without forcing them to install anything. ActiveX and Java web start have less penetration than the Flash player.
I just wish this kind of thing were happening with SVG, SMIL, DOM, and JavaScript rather than Macromedia's proprietary Flash stuff. Macromedia wants to own the new web.
I'm sorry, but the way I understood your post, that was the gist of it. I didn't mean to misrepresent your views. Here's how I understood them: It's not how much you you make that matters, but how much you make compared to those around you. That makes no sense from a detached, logical stance because you can't spend any less just because another can spend more*.
From an emotional standpoint, however, this is common. We call it envy, or feelings of inadequacy. It seems strange that a person would unashamedly proclaim such feelings and admit to being ruled by them. Perhaps you're just one of those people who can see their own flaws and are brutally honest about them, but your second post indicates that instead, I may have gotten the wrong idea about what you meant. It didn't clarify to me exactly what you did mean, though.
The porn star analogy doesn't apply. In it, the size of your dick is part of what determines your value to the company, like education is at Google. It's a valid criterion for judging people. Money acquired basically by chance isn't.
* (well, that's not strictly true -- the valuation of your coworkers can cause higher prices at the caffeteria and more expensive destinations for company outings.)
Interesting. Is that for the same reason you wouldn't want to work where almost all of your coworkers have huge dicks and you don't, or did I get the wrong idea?