With all the tell-all shows, reality tv, etc., is the clamor for privacy just so many fine-sounding words? Because Americans are relentlessly public, looking for their fame.
In particular, it is by no means difficult for evolution to arrange for the less skilled people to have most of the babies, and for their children to be at least of average intelligence.
One thing academically intelligent people think is that academic intelligence is somehow an evolutionary advantage. It's obviously not, but rather it looks like a disadvantage.
'm in Redmond right now, staring out my window, the damn sky is clear as it was in the summer.
In Seattle people curse a clear sky. Most of us here _like_ the cloudy gloom.
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I'll bring up the fact that both Seattle and 'Frisco are geologically dangerous places.
Excellent point. I'm in training for CERT at a local fire station. The emphasis is Earthquake, Earthquake, Earthquake. There's the Cascadia fault (with a looming monster subduction quake) and the Seattle fault which isn't so bad, because it runs right by Microsoft.
The other thing that is odd (it's not really a bad thing, though), is the Seattle 4-way stop challenge. The normal rules don't apply. It's: who can out-nice everyone else?
It rains a lot in Seattle. Not steady rain, but dripping and drizzle. In the winter it gets light late and dark early and is cloudy and gloomy. A great place to be a mushroom.
Think of all the pork products you can: pork chops, tenderloin, bacon, ham, snouts, knuckles, pork rinds, scrapple. I'm sure there are others. Everything that doesn't make it into those goes into Spam.
But! it's annoying having all my attachments dumped into a single folder,
I've gotten in the habit of changing the attachments folder the beginning of every year. I add a new directory (say, Attach-2006) and change the setting to that folder. It starts putting attachments from there on out in that folder. So I've got things separated by years, and the old ones still work fine, because Eurdora only uses that setting in placing the attachment, not in reading / opening it.
I don't think I was arguing that there will never be an end. Not sure what we can do about the oil thing except let the pricing mechanism do the work for us. If oil gets ridiculously expensive, we'll just _have_ to change.
I do like what Julian Simon (?) did years ago, when presented with a dire list of the depletion of all sorts of resources. He bet the man that all of them--all--would be cheaper, meaning more plentiful. He won that bet.
There is a trend in some circles in the US to cozy up to Apocalyptic End-Time scenarios.
This article is somewhat out there. How can an operating system with such market share be irrrelevant ?
Agreed. He says, "You'll hear the Gen Xers sneer about how Microsoft's operating system is, well, so yesterday." IOW, it's not 'fresh', it's not 'hip', it's not 'cool', or whatever vague value statement that has nothing to do with practical use and everything to do with image.
it contained the choice between a machine with your favorite operating system or a machine with your most hated current OS but with access to the internet.
Sounds like a false dilemma. What OS doesn't have access to the internet? OTOH, "Acess to the Internet" in this case could be considered Your Favorite Application, and if it only runs on Windows, Windows it is.
RMS tends to be political. De Raadt is not--he is a pure pragmatist. De Raadt (Disclaimer: I am an OpenBSD proponent) wants to avoid propietary bits so he can have good secure maintainable code. Period. Blobs, NDAs, undocumented hardware work against that. If there is a security problem with a blob, you can't fix it. (Blobs are inherently insecure: you _cannot_ audit the code.) If there is a security problem with code someone else wrote under NDA, it's really hard to fix. If you don't have good documentation on the hardware, it's hard to reverse engineer the piece.
The OpenBSD team has been at the forefront of getting documentation of hardware from vendors. Linux users tend to Compromise, and the OS is itself compromised, from the security POV.
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As I said before, great ideas in the browsing experience may be hard to come by since the idea of the browser and its application are mature.
They're waiting to see what the Opera developers come up with next.
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True, but it's already known: refrigerators, furnaces, dryers. Big stuff like that.
And, uh, woe be to you, too (see the article).
Thank you for your stand against blobs.
With all the tell-all shows, reality tv, etc., is the clamor for privacy just so many fine-sounding words? Because Americans are relentlessly public, looking for their fame.
Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Anecdote Battles.
One thing academically intelligent people think is that academic intelligence is somehow an evolutionary advantage. It's obviously not, but rather it looks like a disadvantage.
I raise a glass to you in honor of the Old School.
Boeing has a major data center in Kent, in the Green River valley. There is one scenario where the melting glacier floods out that valley.
The earthquake danger is serious. The building codes are the ones used for "max earthquake" and the Cascadia fault is a doozy.
In Seattle people curse a clear sky. Most of us here _like_ the cloudy gloom.
Excellent point. I'm in training for CERT at a local fire station. The emphasis is Earthquake, Earthquake, Earthquake. There's the Cascadia fault (with a looming monster subduction quake) and the Seattle fault which isn't so bad, because it runs right by Microsoft.
The other thing that is odd (it's not really a bad thing, though), is the Seattle 4-way stop challenge. The normal rules don't apply. It's: who can out-nice everyone else?
Yeah, I live here, obviously you don't, since you want more people to move here...Californians have a difficult time up here, and they drive badly.
It rains a lot in Seattle. Not steady rain, but dripping and drizzle. In the winter it gets light late and dark early and is cloudy and gloomy. A great place to be a mushroom.
Think of all the pork products you can: pork chops, tenderloin, bacon, ham, snouts, knuckles, pork rinds, scrapple. I'm sure there are others. Everything that doesn't make it into those goes into Spam.
I've gotten in the habit of changing the attachments folder the beginning of every year. I add a new directory (say, Attach-2006) and change the setting to that folder. It starts putting attachments from there on out in that folder. So I've got things separated by years, and the old ones still work fine, because Eurdora only uses that setting in placing the attachment, not in reading / opening it.
I really don't like the "Embedded" folder...
Seat-of-the-Pants Lawyering.
I don't think I was arguing that there will never be an end. Not sure what we can do about the oil thing except let the pricing mechanism do the work for us. If oil gets ridiculously expensive, we'll just _have_ to change.
There is a trend in some circles in the US to cozy up to Apocalyptic End-Time scenarios.
Of course. No one is going to project the sudden discovery of oil-peeing unicorns.
The article here seems to suggest that Intel firmware has had some serious (aka Critical) issues.
Good point, I've never understood the reasoning on that, although I admit I haven't tried all that hard.
Agreed. He says, "You'll hear the Gen Xers sneer about how Microsoft's operating system is, well, so yesterday." IOW, it's not 'fresh', it's not 'hip', it's not 'cool', or whatever vague value statement that has nothing to do with practical use and everything to do with image.
Sounds like a false dilemma. What OS doesn't have access to the internet? OTOH, "Acess to the Internet" in this case could be considered Your Favorite Application, and if it only runs on Windows, Windows it is.
The OpenBSD team has been at the forefront of getting documentation of hardware from vendors. Linux users tend to Compromise, and the OS is itself compromised, from the security POV.
They're waiting to see what the Opera developers come up with next.