Hair loss Tooth loss Hearing loss Tinitus (ringing in the ears) Prostatitis (difficulty urinating) Incontinence (loss of bladder control) Impotence (a.k.a. Erectile Dysfunction) Senility An uncontrollable urge to spank schoolgirls
I have most of these, but women adore me just as much as when I was young and fit.
Is the USPTO in the Executive branch, under the President? If so, nothing will change until we flush away all of the Bushies. If our Gang of Geeks can bring a web server to its knees, we ought to be able to have an impact in an election. Make the USPTO mess an issue.
There's no way it can be the worst Star Wars related thing out there (currently a tie between the Christmas Special and Episode I)
I can't let this slip past. Episode I instroduced Queen Amidala. That character moved me in ways no other female role has since I can remember. I'm not talking about when she is a normal looking girl. I'm talking about the
costumes, the makeup, and the feminine atmosphere created by her attendents. So exotic, so alien. A few obvious bits from China and Japan, but still undeniably exotic. Yet so strong. Fourteen, still free of the influence of men, already a great leader, who makes adults appear corrupt, polluted, and just plain stupid. I wish she would run for President. This is a woman I would marry. In a heartbeat.
Certainly, on a large scale, I wouldn't consider IBM developing some kernel components privately (in-house) to ruin the bazaar aspect of the Linux kernel (so long as they get made public eventually).
In the context of the GPL it is allowable to develop in-house modifications that are never released. It is the release that triggers the bazaar context. There is no requirement that the releaser accept patches from outside, either. If someone in the crowd feels strongly about their contribution they can create a fork, another definitive trait of the GPL and the bazaar context. As for eyeballs, I agree with you, but maybe IBM -- a large company -- has enough of their own?
Conservatives have made media manipulation an art form. Never pay for what you can get for free. I would not categorize the author as a conservative, so maybe the idea is spreading to the liberal side of the isle.
When you are riding a bicycle on the highway, a leather jacket won't help...
Sure it will. It's a chick magnet, and it prevents bruises from collisions with June bugs and the like. If you do get clipped by a car it prevents road rash, and it reduces damage from blood splatter on the car's paint, which the driver's insurace company will sue for. If you are extraodinarily unlucky and get hit really hard, it will keep all your body parts together for easier identification at the morgue.
As for "There is no real reason to have an antivirus, when you are already connected to the internet and keep your system updated," well, that just doesn't make sense, either. A virus arrives as payload in a horse brought in by naive Trojans -- er, I mean mail attachments and web downloads. Patching Outlook and IE will not protect you from malicious payloads. If you are on the 'net with Windows, use a NAT firewall, keep everything up-to-date, and install a good anti-virus program. Even so, plan on weekly system decontamination. Using FreeBSD, or Linux, or a Mac will help, but it's not so much a matter of what you use as what you do.
Call me a spoil-sport. I remember dust. I had the best dust sweeper brush I could buy, used it before and after every play, but even so, snap, crackle, dust. Someone walking past the turntable, ski-preeeck!! And warps. Brand new disks, even, and the tone arm bobbing for apples. At the crest of a wave it shimmies, then ski-preeeeck!!
Yeah, those were the good old days.
The biggest obstacle to good sound is good engineering. Good sound is a rare find in the industry, regardless of media. I am pleasently surprised by the clean sound on the Dave Matthews Band Live From Chicago CD. My ears tell me a talented team did a great mix live, went direct to disk bypassing compression and other tricks, and that is what shipped. Raw, clean sound. It can be done.
Obviously you haven't been around here very long, despite the rapidity with which you hurl the idiot line. I mean, I've seen *so* much worse. Granted, it would have been better to construct something around misspelling, something like this:
Yeah, my girlfreind watches her show all the time; peices me off.
But then it wasn't you who attempted to provide an example, now was it?
As for the subject of this thread, well, hopefully many will follow where IBM has now gone.
I have no problem with putting a 'Designed for Firefox.' button on my sites
I don't think there is such a thing -- unless you create your own. You would do well to consider
one of these, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
A few years back I tried to start an alternative to textbooks, but got no interest. I call the concept Chalk Dust. Actually, it covers textbooks and educational software, because in my view these need to merge. It is totally stupid to use computers to emulate old style books. Boring, and a waste of bandwidth. Chalk Dust was in turn a component of a much grander idea, Open Slate. The whole idea was to apply the open-source concept to education.
I believe that the biggest obstacle to Chalk Dust is that anyone with enough knowledge to write educational material is blinded by dollar signs. The complaints come from students, who are powerless to develop their own textbooks without the support of established experts. And, to some extent, publishing houses control access to the market, although not to the extent seen in the entertainment industry.
One way to avoid the "work for free" syndrome would be to create a foundation that supports Chalk Dust projects. All I need now is a rich uncle...
You should be proud to be in the less than one in five crowd. Actually, for me it's more like one in a million, but that still leaves me thousands of potential partners. The problem is finding them, the needle in a haystack problem. So what the world needs is a match-making service for geeks. Maybe/. would consider it?
This remains an area where the 'net has failed to meet its potential. It is easier to find help in setting up Samba than finding a dance partner. Is the net a place to meet, or a place to hide?
Possible poll question: How many of your relationships were begun on the 'net.
o 0 - 1
o 2 - 3
o Does it count if you never meet in real life?
... often because they have inadequately developed social networks.
This seductive stereotype can easily lead to false conclusions. If spending time on-line is limited to lurking, shopping for shoes or searching for the perfect p0rn, then it may be that the individual has inadequately developed social networks. But not necessarily. They might have perfectly adequate social skills and very exotic tastes in shoes (or p0rn). And maybe they live in a small town, where neither are plentiful in the real world.
Looking deeper we find all sorts of alternative socialization taking place on-line. Again, a common attribute is specialization, or privacy. Take this dialog, for example. Not as "live" as IM, but a lot different than if I had read the thread and moved silently on. Let's not equate social with "in the flesh."
The facinating new thing to me are MMOGs. Tons of social interaction taking place there, only of a sort that adults have trouble understanding.
Finally, social skills and networks are great, but having more or less of them does not make one a better person. Shy, socially awkward individuals have much to offer.
Thanks for the terrific suggestion to switch to a wiki. I'll pursue that. As for "a few good people" well that was mostly a figure of speech. I think my description of Chalk Dusk conveyed how content would be built over time by teams. Regarding trust, the Chalk Dust process uses a review process similar to that used by acedemic journals in which established experts sign off on the team's output. Oversight should include a representative from the target grade level, to avoid ivory tower-ism.
Admin can be easy. If it doesnt work, it gets reformatted. Period.
No wireless network. Its not needed.
Ah, the soviet management model. Always assume the worst in people, and give them as little as possible. So common with system administrators. But why not have the Sate take your car if you are caught driving with an expired license? And freeways? Not needed, people will just go too fast and blow up.
For a refreshingly different approach, based on respect and responsibility, read about my Open Slate project, where students build their own slates and manage the school network.
How many of us stare at a laptop screen for hours on end?... but still this can't bode well for the children's vision.
How many high school students stare at printed pages for hours on end? MTV is more likely the case. The optimal learning experience is likely not silent words entombed on a static page, paper or otherwise. We respond to movement, to color, to sound and smell and taste and touch.
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Hair loss
Tooth loss
Hearing loss
Tinitus (ringing in the ears)
Prostatitis (difficulty urinating)
Incontinence (loss of bladder control)
Impotence (a.k.a. Erectile Dysfunction)
Senility
An uncontrollable urge to spank schoolgirls
I have most of these, but women adore me just as much as when I was young and fit.
Is the USPTO in the Executive branch, under the President? If so, nothing will change until we flush away all of the Bushies. If our Gang of Geeks can bring a web server to its knees, we ought to be able to have an impact in an election. Make the USPTO mess an issue.
Yeah, and when the legal bills arrive they'll be pursed. :P
Only if used to stream pop music! :P
Another tin-eared geek. It's do-di-do-doh do-di-do-doh . . .
Next you're gonna tell me John Lennon didn't write "Twist and Shout."
The going part is easy ... it's returning that's a bitch. Be sure to take along your towel.
I can't let this slip past. Episode I instroduced Queen Amidala. That character moved me in ways no other female role has since I can remember. I'm not talking about when she is a normal looking girl. I'm talking about the costumes, the makeup, and the feminine atmosphere created by her attendents. So exotic, so alien. A few obvious bits from China and Japan, but still undeniably exotic. Yet so strong. Fourteen, still free of the influence of men, already a great leader, who makes adults appear corrupt, polluted, and just plain stupid. I wish she would run for President. This is a woman I would marry. In a heartbeat.
In the context of the GPL it is allowable to develop in-house modifications that are never released. It is the release that triggers the bazaar context. There is no requirement that the releaser accept patches from outside, either. If someone in the crowd feels strongly about their contribution they can create a fork, another definitive trait of the GPL and the bazaar context. As for eyeballs, I agree with you, but maybe IBM -- a large company -- has enough of their own?
Are you insinuating that there is a cover-up?
All clocks are that way. The field collapses whe you read the time. I wonder if the speed at which the field collapses has a relatavistic component?
Conservatives have made media manipulation an art form. Never pay for what you can get for free. I would not categorize the author as a conservative, so maybe the idea is spreading to the liberal side of the isle.
Sure it will. It's a chick magnet, and it prevents bruises from collisions with June bugs and the like. If you do get clipped by a car it prevents road rash, and it reduces damage from blood splatter on the car's paint, which the driver's insurace company will sue for. If you are extraodinarily unlucky and get hit really hard, it will keep all your body parts together for easier identification at the morgue.
As for "There is no real reason to have an antivirus, when you are already connected to the internet and keep your system updated," well, that just doesn't make sense, either. A virus arrives as payload in a horse brought in by naive Trojans -- er, I mean mail attachments and web downloads. Patching Outlook and IE will not protect you from malicious payloads. If you are on the 'net with Windows, use a NAT firewall, keep everything up-to-date, and install a good anti-virus program. Even so, plan on weekly system decontamination. Using FreeBSD, or Linux, or a Mac will help, but it's not so much a matter of what you use as what you do.
Call me a spoil-sport. I remember dust. I had the best dust sweeper brush I could buy, used it before and after every play, but even so, snap, crackle, dust. Someone walking past the turntable, ski-preeeck!! And warps. Brand new disks, even, and the tone arm bobbing for apples. At the crest of a wave it shimmies, then ski-preeeeck!!
Yeah, those were the good old days.
The biggest obstacle to good sound is good engineering. Good sound is a rare find in the industry, regardless of media. I am pleasently surprised by the clean sound on the Dave Matthews Band Live From Chicago CD. My ears tell me a talented team did a great mix live, went direct to disk bypassing compression and other tricks, and that is what shipped. Raw, clean sound. It can be done.
Simple. Just tell my wife it was something I did.
Obviously you haven't been around here very long, despite the rapidity with which you hurl the idiot line. I mean, I've seen *so* much worse. Granted, it would have been better to construct something around misspelling, something like this:
Yeah, my girlfreind watches her show all the time; peices me off.
But then it wasn't you who attempted to provide an example, now was it?
As for the subject of this thread, well, hopefully many will follow where IBM has now gone.
I don't think there is such a thing -- unless you create your own. You would do well to consider one of these, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
I believe that the biggest obstacle to Chalk Dust is that anyone with enough knowledge to write educational material is blinded by dollar signs. The complaints come from students, who are powerless to develop their own textbooks without the support of established experts. And, to some extent, publishing houses control access to the market, although not to the extent seen in the entertainment industry.
One way to avoid the "work for free" syndrome would be to create a foundation that supports Chalk Dust projects. All I need now is a rich uncle ...
You should be proud to be in the less than one in five crowd. Actually, for me it's more like one in a million, but that still leaves me thousands of potential partners. The problem is finding them, the needle in a haystack problem. So what the world needs is a match-making service for geeks. Maybe /. would consider it?
What kind of shoes are mmorpgs?
All kidding aside, congrats on finding someone.
This remains an area where the 'net has failed to meet its potential. It is easier to find help in setting up Samba than finding a dance partner. Is the net a place to meet, or a place to hide?
Possible poll question: How many of your relationships were begun on the 'net.
o 0 - 1
o 2 - 3
o Does it count if you never meet in real life?
I doubt it was as good as the crispy garlic chicken served at Jacob's Ladder.
This seductive stereotype can easily lead to false conclusions. If spending time on-line is limited to lurking, shopping for shoes or searching for the perfect p0rn, then it may be that the individual has inadequately developed social networks. But not necessarily. They might have perfectly adequate social skills and very exotic tastes in shoes (or p0rn). And maybe they live in a small town, where neither are plentiful in the real world.
Looking deeper we find all sorts of alternative socialization taking place on-line. Again, a common attribute is specialization, or privacy. Take this dialog, for example. Not as "live" as IM, but a lot different than if I had read the thread and moved silently on. Let's not equate social with "in the flesh."
The facinating new thing to me are MMOGs. Tons of social interaction taking place there, only of a sort that adults have trouble understanding.
Finally, social skills and networks are great, but having more or less of them does not make one a better person. Shy, socially awkward individuals have much to offer.
Could be fodder for new Fox reality shows, something to jump-start the writers.
Thanks for the terrific suggestion to switch to a wiki. I'll pursue that. As for "a few good people" well that was mostly a figure of speech. I think my description of Chalk Dusk conveyed how content would be built over time by teams. Regarding trust, the Chalk Dust process uses a review process similar to that used by acedemic journals in which established experts sign off on the team's output. Oversight should include a representative from the target grade level, to avoid ivory tower-ism.
No wireless network. Its not needed.
Ah, the soviet management model. Always assume the worst in people, and give them as little as possible. So common with system administrators. But why not have the Sate take your car if you are caught driving with an expired license? And freeways? Not needed, people will just go too fast and blow up.
For a refreshingly different approach, based on respect and responsibility, read about my Open Slate project, where students build their own slates and manage the school network.
How many high school students stare at printed pages for hours on end? MTV is more likely the case. The optimal learning experience is likely not silent words entombed on a static page, paper or otherwise. We respond to movement, to color, to sound and smell and taste and touch.