People with actual ability to use statistics know that it's unlikely that anyone will be killed by an asteroid for hundreds of years, if not thousands or even millions.
Oh, I hope you're wrong. Because if we're mining asteroids we're certain to see some industrial accidents.
I don't think there are many people, newton fans included, who really think that is odd at all.
Indeed. I'm a Newton Fan (MP130, MP2k, eMate 300) and anybody who thinks that this is odd must be totally ignorant of Steve Politics - the Newton was not Invented Under Steve, and thus must be discarded.
I do wish that the iPhone were half as useful an organizer as the MP130, but it's not - because Steve wanted a lifestyle device and what Steve wants, Steve gets. But as bitter as I may sound here, Steve is right about product definition more often than he is wrong (CD-Rs, anybody?), enough to propel AAPL stock from $14 to $130 and thus buy me a new house - so I can't complain too much.
For whatever reason, Steve's decided that the iPhone must be a "fun and family" lifestyle device without any product definition cloudiness from pesky productivity - and the iPhone does a goddamned fine job of being that lifestyle device, except when your AJAX Sudoku has to hit the web through molasses (EDGE) just to update the UI with a single fucking digit. Still, I'm hoping that he'll let the iPhone open up and be more than a lifestyle device sooner rather than later.
By the way, the eMate 300 made a kick-ass portable serial terminal for machine rooms.
OSX software is great. However, Linux offers me a great deal more choice, and that choice tends to be much more configurable to my needs.
Uh, what? Name some software (other than MythTV) that runs on Linux and not on Mac OS X. Usually it's just a download of a different version and running under the (Apple-supplied) X Server.
Nice try. You should read your copy of the Constitution more carefully.
Mine says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." Unfortunately it doesn't tell us how to tell what's reserved for the respective states and what's reserved to the people.
In other words, the FBI might be limited by your argument (as if! Given the "commerce clause" overreach reading, everything that might ever touch economic influence in any way is delegated to the Federal Government - and you had to pay money for that car, bucko), but the state police are not.
That aside, "more cynical" people would spell the end of any human race anyone would want to be a party of. It's the end of hope, trust, love, and loyalty. You know, the four pillars of a worthwhile life.
Oh, you guys are so full of sanctimonious, self-deluded horseshit.
And that's the point, and the problem - when there's enough money to be made my glossing over such a large public health issue, the money always wins. They're assisted by the fact that too many people will believe their intuitions when the science says otherwise, especially when believing otherwise would force them to change their behavior.
Science: Cigarettes cause cancer.
Politics: Federal and State governments cannot afford to lose the tax revenue or kill the tobacco industry.
The Result: Incremental instead of sweeping changes, because there are other factors to consider besides "the right answer."
More like:
Politics: Tobacco industry advertises and lobbies hard to prevent the government from acknowledging that there's a problem for decades. They fund their own "science" to cloud the issue and produce the illusion of doubt.
The Result: After tens of millions of deaths, in the face of overwhelming pressure and the actions of local governments, they drag their feet and do their best to protect the industry that has known that they've been killing their customers for half a century. Still, no individuals are ever held responsible for murdering nearly half a million people per year, through a deliberate pattern of fraud over a deadly product.
The Copenhagen Interpretation puts a magical significance on "measurement" that boggles the mind. It' not just photons interacting with the system, it's those photons being perceived by a mind. What's special about minds? Sssshhhh, don't ask that question.
This insistence upon putting the mind (particularly the human mind) at the center of the quantum universe reminds me of the insistence of the Medieval Church upon putting the Earth at the center of the Universe. I'm pretty amazed that it continues to enjoy the widespread acceptance among otherwise rational people.
I played EQ2 before WoW. In EQ2, at least when I played, you could do all the quests in the world (which I did), and you'd still have to "grind," which is to say kill things just for the direct benefit (Xp or loot) of the killing, and not in the service of advancing any plot line.
Before EQ2, I played City of Heroes. There, most of the missions were akin to grinding - levels that were randomized off of one of a number of very simple templates, and players had to return to very similar levels again and again and again. Plot lines were minimal, and after a while the missions themselves were their own kind of grind.
In WoW, there's simply too much content - you can not do all the quests available to you without advancing in level past where they're any sort of a challenge. WoW has so much more story that the places where you really do have to grind (Furlbogs, and Turtle Scales, bletch) before the endgame are the exception, not the rule. If you start at 60th level in the new Burning Crusades content and focus entirely on doing quests in ascending order, you end up hitting 70th level somewhere in Nagrand, with more than half of the pre-70th level content (in Blade's Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley) still undone.
Two years later, and I'm only using it for network applications. Because it REALLY SUCKS as a phone. Shitty speaker, idiotic half duplex microphone, unreliable ringing (sometimes it rings on an incoming call, sometimes it doesn't)... it's only usable if I use a headset, and I hate headsets - and even then, it'll randomly crash when I travel distances.
I can't wait to dump it for something that does network apps well and is actually a decent phone. I'm almost looking forward to iPhone more to dump the goddamned Treo 650 than to get all the new whizzbang stuff on the iPhone. (Almost. A phone that runs Unix...)
Right now, in the United States, if you publish a paper that is referenced in support of an anti-global-warming political statement (doesn't matter if your data was neutral), you have to worry about where your next meal is coming from
Hey, you can most effectively communicate hard truths through humor.
But really, it's just assuming we're all stupid to do this at the same time that they're planning to meet at Bush's parents' house in Connecticut.
And before people start believing sloppy reporters, that this is a meeting in reaction to the tensions, careful observers will remember that this meeting was announced before Putin started cranking up the Cold War rhetoric.
I agree. A lot of geeks have jumped on the band wagon without being skeptical enough of Ron Paul. Don't be fooled - he claims to be a libertarian and constitutionalist, but is neither.
He claimed to oppose Roe v Wade because regulating abortion isn't an enumerated federal power. Yet, he has no problem seizing that power to ban D&X abortions. No matter how you feel about D&X, either regulating abortion is a federal power or it isn't. He doesn't care, he just wants to fight abortion however he can.
The man's just a religious zealot hiding his motivations with a thin veil of rhetoric about liberty and the Constitution. He's also pretty damned ignorant about what the founders thought of Christianity.
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I do wish that the iPhone were half as useful an organizer as the MP130, but it's not - because Steve wanted a lifestyle device and what Steve wants, Steve gets. But as bitter as I may sound here, Steve is right about product definition more often than he is wrong (CD-Rs, anybody?), enough to propel AAPL stock from $14 to $130 and thus buy me a new house - so I can't complain too much.
For whatever reason, Steve's decided that the iPhone must be a "fun and family" lifestyle device without any product definition cloudiness from pesky productivity - and the iPhone does a goddamned fine job of being that lifestyle device, except when your AJAX Sudoku has to hit the web through molasses (EDGE) just to update the UI with a single fucking digit. Still, I'm hoping that he'll let the iPhone open up and be more than a lifestyle device sooner rather than later.
By the way, the eMate 300 made a kick-ass portable serial terminal for machine rooms.
Good point, I missed that it was Leopard and not Panther that's certified.
Apple is currently the largest vendor of Unix (non-tm), once Leopard is shipping Apple will be the largest vendor of Unix (tm).
Not only that, but now Apple is the largest (in units shipped) certified Unix(tm) vendor in the world.
That's a big deal.
Sure. For $20, even.
That'd be funny if it was posted two weeks ago. As is... just lame.
Nice try. You should read your copy of the Constitution more carefully.
Mine says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." Unfortunately it doesn't tell us how to tell what's reserved for the respective states and what's reserved to the people.
In other words, the FBI might be limited by your argument (as if! Given the "commerce clause" overreach reading, everything that might ever touch economic influence in any way is delegated to the Federal Government - and you had to pay money for that car, bucko), but the state police are not.
Yeah! People who say "Think of the Children!" are like Hitler!
Uh-oh. Did I just blow a fuse or something?
xkcd said it very well.
No, the problem really is that big. Even now, smoking was the leading cause of preventable death in the United State (2004 article talking about obesity approaching tobacco).
And that's the point, and the problem - when there's enough money to be made my glossing over such a large public health issue, the money always wins. They're assisted by the fact that too many people will believe their intuitions when the science says otherwise, especially when believing otherwise would force them to change their behavior.
Politics: Tobacco industry advertises and lobbies hard to prevent the government from acknowledging that there's a problem for decades. They fund their own "science" to cloud the issue and produce the illusion of doubt.
The Result: After tens of millions of deaths, in the face of overwhelming pressure and the actions of local governments, they drag their feet and do their best to protect the industry that has known that they've been killing their customers for half a century. Still, no individuals are ever held responsible for murdering nearly half a million people per year, through a deliberate pattern of fraud over a deadly product.
Even now, we're seeing just under half a million people a year die, thanks to decades of deception from Big Tobacco.
You've put your finger on it.
The Copenhagen Interpretation puts a magical significance on "measurement" that boggles the mind. It' not just photons interacting with the system, it's those photons being perceived by a mind. What's special about minds? Sssshhhh, don't ask that question.
This insistence upon putting the mind (particularly the human mind) at the center of the quantum universe reminds me of the insistence of the Medieval Church upon putting the Earth at the center of the Universe. I'm pretty amazed that it continues to enjoy the widespread acceptance among otherwise rational people.
What are we going to do this year, Brain?
The same thing we do every year, Pinky - take over the Desktop!
I'm with you.
I played EQ2 before WoW. In EQ2, at least when I played, you could do all the quests in the world (which I did), and you'd still have to "grind," which is to say kill things just for the direct benefit (Xp or loot) of the killing, and not in the service of advancing any plot line.
Before EQ2, I played City of Heroes. There, most of the missions were akin to grinding - levels that were randomized off of one of a number of very simple templates, and players had to return to very similar levels again and again and again. Plot lines were minimal, and after a while the missions themselves were their own kind of grind.
In WoW, there's simply too much content - you can not do all the quests available to you without advancing in level past where they're any sort of a challenge. WoW has so much more story that the places where you really do have to grind (Furlbogs, and Turtle Scales, bletch) before the endgame are the exception, not the rule. If you start at 60th level in the new Burning Crusades content and focus entirely on doing quests in ascending order, you end up hitting 70th level somewhere in Nagrand, with more than half of the pre-70th level content (in Blade's Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley) still undone.
Actually, I did the same thing.
Two years later, and I'm only using it for network applications. Because it REALLY SUCKS as a phone. Shitty speaker, idiotic half duplex microphone, unreliable ringing (sometimes it rings on an incoming call, sometimes it doesn't)... it's only usable if I use a headset, and I hate headsets - and even then, it'll randomly crash when I travel distances.
I can't wait to dump it for something that does network apps well and is actually a decent phone. I'm almost looking forward to iPhone more to dump the goddamned Treo 650 than to get all the new whizzbang stuff on the iPhone. (Almost. A phone that runs Unix...)
That doesn't make it not political. This is certainly a political film - he's clearly trying to effect social change on a societal level.
The fact that it's not partisan, that its goals don't align with either major party, is another matter altogether.
I response to the HMS Dreadnought, one US Congressman suggested the USS Skeered of Nothing.
Maybe not, but they sure did Galileo, publishing his heliocentric observations!
In those days they called them "devils," instead of liberals. Look to Ann Coulter, and you'll get the idea.
Hope that helps. Have a nice day.
OK - I don't have any mod points but that was pretty funny.
Hey, you can most effectively communicate hard truths through humor.
But really, it's just assuming we're all stupid to do this at the same time that they're planning to meet at Bush's parents' house in Connecticut. And before people start believing sloppy reporters, that this is a meeting in reaction to the tensions, careful observers will remember that this meeting was announced before Putin started cranking up the Cold War rhetoric.
- He opposes the separation of Church and State, and wants a Christian USA as he panders to the religious right.
- He claimed to oppose Roe v Wade because regulating abortion isn't an enumerated federal power. Yet, he has no problem seizing that power to ban D&X abortions. No matter how you feel about D&X, either regulating abortion is a federal power or it isn't. He doesn't care, he just wants to fight abortion however he can.
The man's just a religious zealot hiding his motivations with a thin veil of rhetoric about liberty and the Constitution. He's also pretty damned ignorant about what the founders thought of Christianity.Do not be fooled by this man.