I strongly disagree. Screening those of Middle Eastern origin and/or appearance would be the most sensible thing that could be done. It won't be done because the race card turns it into something politicians can't hide from fast enough.
An amusing article about this countries post 911 stupidity can be found here. The sad thing about it is that it's mostly true.
Apple has a bigger market share...
Linux has a bigger market share...
I don't really care. As long as the gains either one makes are taken out of Windows market share then it's all good to me.
I wonder how many people are going from Linux to Mac (Though I can't imagine any Linux user I know completely leaving Linux behind for OSX), or how many Mac users are reaching for that cheap hardware and going with Linux? I suspect (but have no evidence) that most converts to anything are coming from Windows to whatever they're converting to. There are only two really big pools of people to bring to your platform, people using Windows and people using nothing. The other "pools" are pretty shallow in comparison and if tomorrow Apple sucked every last Linux desktop user on earth into a Mac and candy-coated bliss then it would barely be perceptable. Ditto if it went the other way around.
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I long ago quit trying to help those who didn't have a clue. It's cold I know but what Nuttles wrote sounds so much like what I went through back in the late 90's that I'm convinced it's the only way to go. I've pretty much wittled it down to just family members (Who I've mostly pushed to Macs so that's no big deal) but I won't touch anyone elses computer. Not for the classic "Buy you lunch sometime", not for money, not for anything.
My last one was in 2000 and it was a simple come over, install Windows ME (Ugh) and walk away. I spent almost a year coming over off and on to fix minor things and then I said "That's it, I'm done".
Lost a "friend" (think "friendly leech") but gained my freedom. Now I say "You should get a Mac" and leave it at that.
They've done far worse than kill you. They've hurt you and they wish to go on hurting you. They shall leave you as you left Voyager, as you left Deep Space Nine, marooned. for all eternity in the center of a dead science fiction universe: buried alive (with your television set).
But just imagine what you could do with a beowulf cluster of ignorant slashdot readers....
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No it's not rough really. See since his different interest (You can't say "different interests" because that implies that there's more than one) involves sitting in a dark room all of the time staring at a monitor while trying to find a key to open the blue door without setting off the explosive it's not hard to avoid an encounter.
I spend plenty of time online myself. I game, participate in a couple of discussion boards, and like to surf as much as anyone. I don't do it all the time. There's nothing wrong with online games or the internet but if you do anything exclusively all the time you need to step back from it.
"Well rounded" You familiar with that idea?
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At least the part about the language skills.
Example (And I'm going to preface this with a solid "I have absolutely minimal input in this situation though I'm trying" statement)
My stepson is a frickin pod person thanks to DSL and a father (who he lives with) who literally refuses to pull the plug. The kid comes home from school (not School(TM) yet but soon I'm sure) and goes online. He stays online until he goes to sleep. When he's at our house (every other weekend, his dad got custody and then prompty opted to let the net and television handle most of the chores) it's a war to get him to do anything that doesn't involve a video game. We have broadband too but we try to keep him from spending the entire weekend on it. What's two days though every two weeks when he lives online the rest of the time (admittedly outside of school).
He seems to me to be a pretty bright kid and makes ok grades but his communication skills are almost non-existent. Getting more than a couple of sentences out of him at one time is a triumph and if they're understandable then that's a bonus. He's got to use the English language at school (doesn't he?) so you would think he'd know a few words. A noun or two here and there? Maybe? If that's the case though then he doesn't exhibit any sign of it that I can see.
At his age (Almost 16) I was trying to figure out how to earn enough money to get a car, trying to get laid (with little luck), and had interests in music, books, sports, and a pack of friends all thinking about much of the same things.
The idea of this kid working anywhere is laughable. He doesn't even mention cars or driving and to the best of my knowledge doesn't know what a girl is (and I check his browser cache when he leaves so we're not even talking about hitting the porn here). He doesn't read, he doesn't listen to music, and he doesn't even want to go outside much less actually do something that might require sweating. Friends? Hell if I know.
I wonder how many other kids are already hooked up to "The Feed" for all practical purposes?
Haven't you worked it out yet? The entire technology "universe" is slowly evolving into the companies you hate and the companies you hate more than those companies you just hate. In every single battle it seems there's two guys I don't particularly like slugging it out and all I have to do is pick which one I want to win "least" to figure out what side I'm on.
As I recall the Batmobile in Dark Knight Returns was that way because it had been heavily modified at some point prior to Batman's retirement in order to handle some sort of riot situation (that was obviously pretty nasty because, well look at the damned thing). It just happened to be the perfect thing to use against the Mutant gang and their black market military weapons.
Oh yeah and Batman should never have gotten out of it to fight the Mutant leader. Stupid move.
Almost word for word what I thought when I read that. Then of course I thought that (generally speaking) I've liked a majority of the things that I've seen from Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Michelle Pfieffer (sp? Who the hell knows), Tommy Lee Jones, Uma Thurman, Governor Schwarzenegger.
Nothing can send an apparently good cast straight down the crapper like a Batman movie.
Oh it exists. There are 32 NFL teams in 31 cities (New York having two teams) and so on any given weekend 16 games are played in stadiums seating from 50,000+ to around 100,000.
The total attendance for the 2003 season was 16,913,584. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who watch the games on television. The Super Bowl was watched by around 140 million people world wide. Sales of NFL merchandise I don't have numbers for but I'd say it's safe to say that they're "healthy".
The problem is that the NFL is run by 32 old men who move slowly in anything. They take years to decide whether or not to use instant replay in officiating and then take more years to decide to drop it before (after waiting a few more years) to bring it back. They are conservative to a fault.
The NFL made one decision that made it the strongest of the professional sports leagues in the United States many years ago and that was to share revenue evenly from television contracts and merchandise sales. Since that day owning an NFL franchise has been akin to owning a license to print money. Their biggest fear is that somehow, someday they'll make a bad decision and manage to fuck it all up.
Eventually they'll start offering this sort of stuff for sale. Classic games or games featuring record setting individual performances will come first. Then when the sky doesn't fall and they realize how many fans would like to own a copy of their teams greatest games the season sets will come along.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that the demand isn't there though. The power of a movie studio's franchise (television, theatrical, whatever) pales in comparison with the NFL's ability to sell itself. They're just doing things the old way ala the RIAA and the MPAA. Once they get comfortable with it and figure how to turn it into another revenue stream the fans will swallow it up as fast as they can.
To begin with you would actually need to be a football fan. Since you start off with "Football is boring enough as it is" I think it's safe to assume that you're not one. Obviously this precludes any ability to see the point of recording football games (not that there's anything wrong with that of course).
I live in Houston Texas. I'm a football fan and in 2002 the Houston Texans began playing. I've recorded every game and every off season I make about 100-120 copies for other Texans fans. Maybe the games aren't being shown in their area and they couldn't watch them or maybe they just want to watch a specific series or play again. Whatever the reason the demand seems pretty real to me.
The NFL is exceptionally stupid in the way they handle their old footage. While TV studios are making bank selling old television series by the season the NFL sits on their old games and from time to time doles out a highlight DVD. If they would sell teams seasons to the fans they could be fleecing them year round (instead of just during football season with expensive tickets, parking, and $8 beer).
My prior art will defeat your patent in court. I have no doubt of this. Once when I was seven I drew a "prototype" of a "1 BILLION" dollar check to pay my little brother for one of his action figures I wanted and my mom kept it because she thought it was cute.
You bring those lawyers buddy and we'll see just who's going to be walking away with the bank!
Yes, very amusing. You have however overstepped your bounds with this little jest since I previously patented the idea of making a joke about another person having already patented something.
I expect your check (for 1 BILLION dollars, and yeah say it like Doctor Evil) by 8:00AM tomorrow or you will be hearing from my lawyers.
I don't think that's going to be the case. The application that runs for 200 years is going to be "ported" gradually from one type of hardware to another as it evolves. I suspect that even if the computer is very different at the end of that 200 year time period so will the application that runs on it. It will still appear to function the same way of course and it will still be able to read data from a 199 years or so prior but it will evolve to run on the hardware of the time.
I mean, you're right about it basically but since it will be a gradual change I don't think it will be much of an issue in the end.
Personally (and I don't have a clue what the rest of the world is doing, just what the people around me are doing) I know of exactly 5 "switchers" excluding myself. I went to the Mac about three years ago after buying a couple of old ones at auction and spending some time playing around with them.
Two of the people I know who switched did so after buying an iPod. The other three just got sick of Windows and picked the Mac over trying a different OS on their hardware though I've got one using Mandrake on his old PC and he likes it.
I know three other people who are on the fence and thinking they'll get a Mac next time but none of them have any interest in an iPod or any other MP3 player. They're also just sick of the Windows "vulnerability of the week"
I think Microsoft is going to sell more Macs than the iPod will but having the iPod around doesn't hurt.
"Wait a second... Look Here! Perhaps if we could assemble the portions of several posts found on diffferent hard drives we might be able to locate a pattern that could lead us to...."
"What does this mean here where it says: goatse... Good Lord"
In light of the even/odd suck ratio I have always numbered them thus:
1. Star Trek I: The Motionless Picture 2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 3. Star Trek III: The Search for Plot 4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 5. Star Trek V: Let's go meet God! 6. Star Trek VI: The Apology 7. Star Trek VII: Oh so very tired (stolen from The Simpsons) 8. Star Trek VIII: First Contact 9. Star Trek IX: The one I didn't bother to see (This will be my official title for all further Star Trek films by the way)
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I strongly disagree. Screening those of Middle Eastern origin and/or appearance would be the most sensible thing that could be done. It won't be done because the race card turns it into something politicians can't hide from fast enough.
An amusing article about this countries post 911 stupidity can be found here. The sad thing about it is that it's mostly true.
http://www.seanbaby.com/news/terrorism.htm
I support over 300 engineers and I've yet to see a whole lot of this "Common Sense" you speak of.
For some reason it reminds me of something I heard in a movie. "You keep this word. I do not think it means what you think it means".
I've always preferred "If you haven't heard of _____ you must have been living in an ice cave up near the Arctic circle for the past ___ years"
But that's just me.
Re-designed and re-launched as the new "CList! from eBay"
"802.11z Jaguar" ....."
"802.11z Panther"
"802.11z Tiger"
"802.11z
Until there are no more cool cat names. After that they're pretty well buggered.
Apple has a bigger market share...
Linux has a bigger market share...
I don't really care. As long as the gains either one makes are taken out of Windows market share then it's all good to me.
I wonder how many people are going from Linux to Mac (Though I can't imagine any Linux user I know completely leaving Linux behind for OSX), or how many Mac users are reaching for that cheap hardware and going with Linux? I suspect (but have no evidence) that most converts to anything are coming from Windows to whatever they're converting to. There are only two really big pools of people to bring to your platform, people using Windows and people using nothing. The other "pools" are pretty shallow in comparison and if tomorrow Apple sucked every last Linux desktop user on earth into a Mac and candy-coated bliss then it would barely be perceptable. Ditto if it went the other way around.
I long ago quit trying to help those who didn't have a clue. It's cold I know but what Nuttles wrote sounds so much like what I went through back in the late 90's that I'm convinced it's the only way to go. I've pretty much wittled it down to just family members (Who I've mostly pushed to Macs so that's no big deal) but I won't touch anyone elses computer. Not for the classic "Buy you lunch sometime", not for money, not for anything.
My last one was in 2000 and it was a simple come over, install Windows ME (Ugh) and walk away. I spent almost a year coming over off and on to fix minor things and then I said "That's it, I'm done".
Lost a "friend" (think "friendly leech") but gained my freedom. Now I say "You should get a Mac" and leave it at that.
Because, to borrow and change a quote:
They've done far worse than kill you. They've hurt you and they wish to go on hurting you. They shall leave you as you left Voyager, as you left Deep Space Nine, marooned. for all eternity in the center of a dead science fiction universe: buried alive (with your television set).
Of course not. We know what a beowulf cluster is.
But just imagine what you could do with a beowulf cluster of ignorant slashdot readers....
No it's not rough really. See since his different interest (You can't say "different interests" because that implies that there's more than one) involves sitting in a dark room all of the time staring at a monitor while trying to find a key to open the blue door without setting off the explosive it's not hard to avoid an encounter.
I spend plenty of time online myself. I game, participate in a couple of discussion boards, and like to surf as much as anyone. I don't do it all the time. There's nothing wrong with online games or the internet but if you do anything exclusively all the time you need to step back from it.
"Well rounded" You familiar with that idea?
At least the part about the language skills.
Example (And I'm going to preface this with a solid "I have absolutely minimal input in this situation though I'm trying" statement)
My stepson is a frickin pod person thanks to DSL and a father (who he lives with) who literally refuses to pull the plug. The kid comes home from school (not School(TM) yet but soon I'm sure) and goes online. He stays online until he goes to sleep. When he's at our house (every other weekend, his dad got custody and then prompty opted to let the net and television handle most of the chores) it's a war to get him to do anything that doesn't involve a video game. We have broadband too but we try to keep him from spending the entire weekend on it. What's two days though every two weeks when he lives online the rest of the time (admittedly outside of school).
He seems to me to be a pretty bright kid and makes ok grades but his communication skills are almost non-existent. Getting more than a couple of sentences out of him at one time is a triumph and if they're understandable then that's a bonus. He's got to use the English language at school (doesn't he?) so you would think he'd know a few words. A noun or two here and there? Maybe? If that's the case though then he doesn't exhibit any sign of it that I can see.
At his age (Almost 16) I was trying to figure out how to earn enough money to get a car, trying to get laid (with little luck), and had interests in music, books, sports, and a pack of friends all thinking about much of the same things.
The idea of this kid working anywhere is laughable. He doesn't even mention cars or driving and to the best of my knowledge doesn't know what a girl is (and I check his browser cache when he leaves so we're not even talking about hitting the porn here). He doesn't read, he doesn't listen to music, and he doesn't even want to go outside much less actually do something that might require sweating. Friends? Hell if I know.
I wonder how many other kids are already hooked up to "The Feed" for all practical purposes?
Haven't you worked it out yet? The entire technology "universe" is slowly evolving into the companies you hate and the companies you hate more than those companies you just hate. In every single battle it seems there's two guys I don't particularly like slugging it out and all I have to do is pick which one I want to win "least" to figure out what side I'm on.
It's kind of like presidential elections really.
As I recall the Batmobile in Dark Knight Returns was that way because it had been heavily modified at some point prior to Batman's retirement in order to handle some sort of riot situation (that was obviously pretty nasty because, well look at the damned thing). It just happened to be the perfect thing to use against the Mutant gang and their black market military weapons.
Oh yeah and Batman should never have gotten out of it to fight the Mutant leader. Stupid move.
Almost word for word what I thought when I read that. Then of course I thought that (generally speaking) I've liked a majority of the things that I've seen from Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Michelle Pfieffer (sp? Who the hell knows), Tommy Lee Jones, Uma Thurman, Governor Schwarzenegger.
Nothing can send an apparently good cast straight down the crapper like a Batman movie.
Oh it exists. There are 32 NFL teams in 31 cities (New York having two teams) and so on any given weekend 16 games are played in stadiums seating from 50,000+ to around 100,000.
The total attendance for the 2003 season was 16,913,584. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who watch the games on television. The Super Bowl was watched by around 140 million people world wide. Sales of NFL merchandise I don't have numbers for but I'd say it's safe to say that they're "healthy".
The problem is that the NFL is run by 32 old men who move slowly in anything. They take years to decide whether or not to use instant replay in officiating and then take more years to decide to drop it before (after waiting a few more years) to bring it back. They are conservative to a fault.
The NFL made one decision that made it the strongest of the professional sports leagues in the United States many years ago and that was to share revenue evenly from television contracts and merchandise sales. Since that day owning an NFL franchise has been akin to owning a license to print money. Their biggest fear is that somehow, someday they'll make a bad decision and manage to fuck it all up.
Eventually they'll start offering this sort of stuff for sale. Classic games or games featuring record setting individual performances will come first. Then when the sky doesn't fall and they realize how many fans would like to own a copy of their teams greatest games the season sets will come along.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that the demand isn't there though. The power of a movie studio's franchise (television, theatrical, whatever) pales in comparison with the NFL's ability to sell itself. They're just doing things the old way ala the RIAA and the MPAA. Once they get comfortable with it and figure how to turn it into another revenue stream the fans will swallow it up as fast as they can.
Well, I would.
To begin with you would actually need to be a football fan. Since you start off with "Football is boring enough as it is" I think it's safe to assume that you're not one. Obviously this precludes any ability to see the point of recording football games (not that there's anything wrong with that of course).
I live in Houston Texas. I'm a football fan and in 2002 the Houston Texans began playing. I've recorded every game and every off season I make about 100-120 copies for other Texans fans. Maybe the games aren't being shown in their area and they couldn't watch them or maybe they just want to watch a specific series or play again. Whatever the reason the demand seems pretty real to me.
The NFL is exceptionally stupid in the way they handle their old footage. While TV studios are making bank selling old television series by the season the NFL sits on their old games and from time to time doles out a highlight DVD. If they would sell teams seasons to the fans they could be fleecing them year round (instead of just during football season with expensive tickets, parking, and $8 beer).
My prior art will defeat your patent in court. I have no doubt of this. Once when I was seven I drew a "prototype" of a "1 BILLION" dollar check to pay my little brother for one of his action figures I wanted and my mom kept it because she thought it was cute.
You bring those lawyers buddy and we'll see just who's going to be walking away with the bank!
Yes, very amusing. You have however overstepped your bounds with this little jest since I previously patented the idea of making a joke about another person having already patented something.
I expect your check (for 1 BILLION dollars, and yeah say it like Doctor Evil) by 8:00AM tomorrow or you will be hearing from my lawyers.
I don't think that's going to be the case. The application that runs for 200 years is going to be "ported" gradually from one type of hardware to another as it evolves. I suspect that even if the computer is very different at the end of that 200 year time period so will the application that runs on it. It will still appear to function the same way of course and it will still be able to read data from a 199 years or so prior but it will evolve to run on the hardware of the time.
I mean, you're right about it basically but since it will be a gradual change I don't think it will be much of an issue in the end.
Personally (and I don't have a clue what the rest of the world is doing, just what the people around me are doing) I know of exactly 5 "switchers" excluding myself. I went to the Mac about three years ago after buying a couple of old ones at auction and spending some time playing around with them.
Two of the people I know who switched did so after buying an iPod. The other three just got sick of Windows and picked the Mac over trying a different OS on their hardware though I've got one using Mandrake on his old PC and he likes it.
I know three other people who are on the fence and thinking they'll get a Mac next time but none of them have any interest in an iPod or any other MP3 player. They're also just sick of the Windows "vulnerability of the week"
I think Microsoft is going to sell more Macs than the iPod will but having the iPod around doesn't hurt.
"Wait a second... Look Here! Perhaps if we could assemble the portions of several posts found on diffferent hard drives we might be able to locate a pattern that could lead us to...."
"What does this mean here where it says: goatse... Good Lord"
In light of the even/odd suck ratio I have always numbered them thus:
1. Star Trek I: The Motionless Picture
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3. Star Trek III: The Search for Plot
4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
5. Star Trek V: Let's go meet God!
6. Star Trek VI: The Apology
7. Star Trek VII: Oh so very tired (stolen from The Simpsons)
8. Star Trek VIII: First Contact
9. Star Trek IX: The one I didn't bother to see (This will be my official title for all further Star Trek films by the way)
You missed me.
99% of the time I'd be inclined to agree with you. In this case though I cannot. The end justifies the means.
And I for one don't want to have to go around telling people I'm a "United Statesian".
"American" is fine by me.