... i dunno if you noticed this or not, but the Cultural Revolution is long since over, and China has moved on.
If you can't see examples of how Chinese centralized planning is affecting modern China, you haven't been there. Until you've been there, you won't really get it.. China is awake. China is un-stoppable.
Muscles produce powerful, fine-grained motion, with only ridiculous amounts of sugar and oxygen. I'm not sure comparing a big dinosaur with a big airplane means anything, as one is the result of millions of years of evolution, and the other only 50 years.
well, and presumably from here on out, the future of space flight is going to be the result of millions of years of evolutionary information 'cross-pollinating' the info-space of another species, and giving us all super-skins we can wear to get to work, in place of ye ol' SUV..
Man, what a great time it was to download the Darwinia demo install script, run it, and play it on Linux.. I'd been keeping an eye on this game (I'm a huge llama fan) while they got the Linux demo ported, and I just want to say: superlative job.
I would say games on Linux are waaaay ahead of the competition for ease of use, if Darwinia is an example. The darn thing just ran, and I played, and.. it worked.
It may not seem remarkable to you young-uns', but there was a time when such ease of use gaming in Unix was relatively irrelevant. But, I mean, this 30 minute Darwinia session I just went through was at least as simple, from an "einfach sichtpunkt" perspective, as.. say.. a PS2. I didn't even think, I just clicked the link, ran the shell, and played..
has to be observed. i think linux gaming could give other platforms a serious run for its money. but then, i'm not hardcore gamer.. the only 'console' i own is an 8bit space invaders-era multi-arcade clone..
Train from Bristol to London, maybe standing all the way. £80. Hire car, + petrol for a day: £50. It only works if you have a public transport system that is designed to make peoples lives better, not make profit.
true. but there are places in the world that have been designed for walking life. there are rural examples, all over europe, all over china, all over asia, where gas-economy has not been the primary factor in city planning and design.
I'll bet you a million dollars you have no kids. Otherwise, I'd be surprised if you can afford a mortage or rent on a large enough place close to to work, and not needed a car.
this is rather rank absolutism. i am a mobile professional; i do not have a problem in selecting my workplace on the basis of how close i can live to it, what the expenses are, etc. in fact, i have the ideal situation: i walk 2 blocks to work, live in a nice, comfortable neighborhood, and even if i did have kids (planning on having them very soon) they would do just fine in this living situation as well.
of course, this is the case because i live in an area with a very proud and honorable tradition of city planning. in fact the city i live in was planned and laid out before the era of cars, so it is quite simple to live here, car-less, and enjoy it that way.
americans are in this gas-slave position because the vast majorities of their cities have been planned by industrialists who not only reap profit on the road-building, but also the gas-selling. it should come as no surprise to americans in this day and age that their cities were not designed with anything but cars in mind..
build better cities, america. i walk to work because i moved close to my place of work, and was able to do so in a way which is entirely comfortable.
yes, abandon cars: as a daily requirement. i've got no problems with using cars as tools when they're needed; its the overuse of cars as a general, mass society, which bothers me.
americans are only dependent on their cars because their city planning sucks.
With the exception of the Manhattan project what could still be tactically or strategically damaging?
Corruption. Crime. Stuff like the Franklin affair, where masses of government officials were involved in child sex rings.
These things need to be made secret in order to protect National Security. Acts which may prompt widespread civil disturbance are classified.. Civil War is a threat to National Security, so in fact.. it is legal for grand fuckups to be covered up by the U.S. federal government..
I am car-less, and have lived, pretty much, car-less all my adult life.. its not difficult to have a lifestyle which promotes simpler forms of transportation, and i am proud to say that i was able to hone this skill in even a car-hungry metropolis as Los Angeles..
i walk to work every day right now, and have a bicycle when i need it. i don't accept involvement in any business or company (workplace) which requires heavy commuting; i eschew all forms of long-distance car-only commuting; if i can't take the train somewhere, or walk somewhere, i don't get there. simple enough, and i would say my quality of life is superlative as a result.
every day i see people arriving at work in that 'just wasted an hour of my life on the freeway' zombie mode, for which they have all sorts of quick fixes and snake-oil remedies, like 4cups of coffee, bitchin' out their co-workers, etc. i say to them, walk to work; enjoy your health, fight your own personal laziness at all fronts. it really does improve ones life, to abandon cars altogether.
that said, if i want to go on a trip somewhere inaccessible, i do use cars. my vacations in the australian desert wouldn't be nearly as fun if it weren't for the (proper) use of a 4WD/SUV to get to certain long-distance places.. but i could never, ever, see myself driving an SUV to work on a daily basis, and find the whole idea to be a preposterous example of the excesses of modern living. decadence defined.
i had an egg mcmuffin today which, i noted, was pulled out of a blister pack before being stuffed into a machine. it was a singularly borg-like experience.. i don't think i'll have another one, ever.
the best food is home-grown. after that, it is all down-hill. i hope we build better machines that make it possible for humans to grow their own food.
in fact, i'd be just as happy if we stopped making multi-millionaire momsanto executives, and threw all that money at proper programs to manage growth and water-tables in lands that really need it.. and turned the industry-greed off for a while, until things were under control.
Gimmick; "A trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or business"
ummm.. state the obvious much? pretty much ALL consumer electronics toys are gimmicks, yo. goes for the PSP, goes for the DS, hell.. it even goes for my crappy JVC camcorder.
electronic toys have been in the land of the 'gimme' gimmick for years. Sony themselves are masters at it...
i don't agree. saying that 'its too hard for librarians' is pathetic and weak.
libraries are supposed to be higher institutes of learning. if you can't train a librarian on proper computer maintenance, who can you train?
libraries of the future must contend with the digital reality. anything less is failure of the purpose of libraries, which is to record and make available the literature of civilization.. as we step on up into the digital age, it becomes ever more relevant that libraries catch up with the curve.
were i a rich man, i'd start my own library fund, found my own libraries all around the world, and you can be damn sure i wouldn't be hiring anyone incapable of dealing with an apple ][..
1. A section on developer tools, specifically compilers, language interpreters, etc. Compilers should be a -definite- Library section; and I do mean the actual apps themselves, as well as whatever source code for programming language/development systems have been made available in the library domain.
2. A section for 'retired architecture', so that I could, in 1000 years time, be sure that I could go to a Library with some media I found in grandads grave, rent some juice, and fire up the ol' memories..
This would mean Libraries should become 'old-format graveyards', and on this issue I wholeheartedly concur. They should.
okay, razor, blade, which do we sell the most to get the most profit from?
oh, i know: CUSTOM PAPER!?!?!
screw it. if you have to have custom paper to use this pen, why do you have to do circle-M to get to the menu? can't they just print a 'menu button' on the paper, and have you tap it to get the goods?
Right. And for Apple, it seems like the right tools are Open Source.
Makes sense; they've got their portability pretty much totally under control.. so they can surf the processor charts freely, pretty much, and still be delivering software in nice packages..
bah. either you understand the global economy, or you've got your head up your ass^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hin the sand.
the reason the american economy is in the shithouse, and actually it is in the shithouse, is because americans think they have a right to rip people off, and have forgotten that it actually means you take less responsibility for shit, than you would if you were fair, and humane to your fellow man.
this blatant falsehood has bled all the way through their economy, and thus, america falls. the only thing propping it up is the fact that the american nation is armed to the teeth.
having lived in both the US and S-E Asia, I'd say S-E Asia, no question about it. the so-called 'creature comforts' of the US are a huge trap. nothing could be more soul-sucking than big city life in [insert generic american metropolis here]..
Wake me up when I can download (for free) the Generation NEX development kit, and can find a way to get my home-brew apps on cartridge format for cheap.
If you want retro-gaming resurrection, look no further than GPX32, Gamepark et al, yo.
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... i dunno if you noticed this or not, but the Cultural Revolution is long since over, and China has moved on.
.. China is awake. China is un-stoppable.
If you can't see examples of how Chinese centralized planning is affecting modern China, you haven't been there. Until you've been there, you won't really get it
Muscles produce powerful, fine-grained motion, with only ridiculous amounts of sugar and oxygen. I'm not sure comparing a big dinosaur with a big airplane means anything, as one is the result of millions of years of evolution, and the other only 50 years.
..
well, and presumably from here on out, the future of space flight is going to be the result of millions of years of evolutionary information 'cross-pollinating' the info-space of another species, and giving us all super-skins we can wear to get to work, in place of ye ol' SUV
Man, what a great time it was to download the Darwinia demo install script, run it, and play it on Linux.. I'd been keeping an eye on this game (I'm a huge llama fan) while they got the Linux demo ported, and I just want to say: superlative job.
I would say games on Linux are waaaay ahead of the competition for ease of use, if Darwinia is an example. The darn thing just ran, and I played, and
It may not seem remarkable to you young-uns', but there was a time when such ease of use gaming in Unix was relatively irrelevant. But, I mean, this 30 minute Darwinia session I just went through was at least as simple, from an "einfach sichtpunkt" perspective, as
has to be observed. i think linux gaming could give other platforms a serious run for its money. but then, i'm not hardcore gamer
Train from Bristol to London, maybe standing all the way. £80. Hire car, + petrol for a day: £50. It only works if you have a public transport system that is designed to make peoples lives better, not make profit.
true. but there are places in the world that have been designed for walking life. there are rural examples, all over europe, all over china, all over asia, where gas-economy has not been the primary factor in city planning and design.
to solve the gas problem: build better cities.
I'll bet you a million dollars you have no kids. Otherwise, I'd be surprised if you can afford a mortage or rent on a large enough place close to to work, and not needed a car.
..
this is rather rank absolutism. i am a mobile professional; i do not have a problem in selecting my workplace on the basis of how close i can live to it, what the expenses are, etc. in fact, i have the ideal situation: i walk 2 blocks to work, live in a nice, comfortable neighborhood, and even if i did have kids (planning on having them very soon) they would do just fine in this living situation as well.
of course, this is the case because i live in an area with a very proud and honorable tradition of city planning. in fact the city i live in was planned and laid out before the era of cars, so it is quite simple to live here, car-less, and enjoy it that way.
americans are in this gas-slave position because the vast majorities of their cities have been planned by industrialists who not only reap profit on the road-building, but also the gas-selling. it should come as no surprise to americans in this day and age that their cities were not designed with anything but cars in mind
build better cities, america. i walk to work because i moved close to my place of work, and was able to do so in a way which is entirely comfortable.
yes, abandon cars: as a daily requirement. i've got no problems with using cars as tools when they're needed; its the overuse of cars as a general, mass society, which bothers me.
americans are only dependent on their cars because their city planning sucks.
With the exception of the Manhattan project what could still be tactically or strategically damaging?
.. Civil War is a threat to National Security, so in fact .. it is legal for grand fuckups to be covered up by the U.S. federal government ..
Corruption. Crime. Stuff like the Franklin affair, where masses of government officials were involved in child sex rings.
These things need to be made secret in order to protect National Security. Acts which may prompt widespread civil disturbance are classified
I am car-less, and have lived, pretty much, car-less all my adult life.. its not difficult to have a lifestyle which promotes simpler forms of transportation, and i am proud to say that i was able to hone this skill in even a car-hungry metropolis as Los Angeles ..
.. but i could never, ever, see myself driving an SUV to work on a daily basis, and find the whole idea to be a preposterous example of the excesses of modern living. decadence defined.
i walk to work every day right now, and have a bicycle when i need it. i don't accept involvement in any business or company (workplace) which requires heavy commuting; i eschew all forms of long-distance car-only commuting; if i can't take the train somewhere, or walk somewhere, i don't get there. simple enough, and i would say my quality of life is superlative as a result.
every day i see people arriving at work in that 'just wasted an hour of my life on the freeway' zombie mode, for which they have all sorts of quick fixes and snake-oil remedies, like 4cups of coffee, bitchin' out their co-workers, etc. i say to them, walk to work; enjoy your health, fight your own personal laziness at all fronts. it really does improve ones life, to abandon cars altogether.
that said, if i want to go on a trip somewhere inaccessible, i do use cars. my vacations in the australian desert wouldn't be nearly as fun if it weren't for the (proper) use of a 4WD/SUV to get to certain long-distance places
good for gas masks too, if you need one in an emergency..
The US is a totalitarian Police State, dude. Of course the only 'real solution' appears to be a militarily derived one ..
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There is none. Australia is practically an American colony these days.
SGI
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DEC
Atari.
i had an egg mcmuffin today which, i noted, was pulled out of a blister pack before being stuffed into a machine. it was a singularly borg-like experience
the best food is home-grown. after that, it is all down-hill. i hope we build better machines that make it possible for humans to grow their own food.
in fact, i'd be just as happy if we stopped making multi-millionaire momsanto executives, and threw all that money at proper programs to manage growth and water-tables in lands that really need it
Gimmick; "A trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or business"
.. state the obvious much? pretty much ALL consumer electronics toys are gimmicks, yo. goes for the PSP, goes for the DS, hell .. it even goes for my crappy JVC camcorder.
ummm
electronic toys have been in the land of the 'gimme' gimmick for years. Sony themselves are masters at it...
Nice fluff piece though.
i don't agree. saying that 'its too hard for librarians' is pathetic and weak.
..
libraries are supposed to be higher institutes of learning. if you can't train a librarian on proper computer maintenance, who can you train?
libraries of the future must contend with the digital reality. anything less is failure of the purpose of libraries, which is to record and make available the literature of civilization.. as we step on up into the digital age, it becomes ever more relevant that libraries catch up with the curve.
were i a rich man, i'd start my own library fund, found my own libraries all around the world, and you can be damn sure i wouldn't be hiring anyone incapable of dealing with an apple ][
.. or, even better, can we use these lasers to detect rampant agitprop? that'd be cool. the world could use less of that.
1. A section on developer tools, specifically compilers, language interpreters, etc. Compilers should be a -definite- Library section; and I do mean the actual apps themselves, as well as whatever source code for programming language/development systems have been made available in the library domain.
..
2. A section for 'retired architecture', so that I could, in 1000 years time, be sure that I could go to a Library with some media I found in grandads grave, rent some juice, and fire up the ol' memories
This would mean Libraries should become 'old-format graveyards', and on this issue I wholeheartedly concur. They should.
okay, razor, blade, which do we sell the most to get the most profit from?
oh, i know: CUSTOM PAPER!?!?!
screw it. if you have to have custom paper to use this pen, why do you have to do circle-M to get to the menu? can't they just print a 'menu button' on the paper, and have you tap it to get the goods?
pass. no thanks.
You still need the right tool for the right jobs.
.. so they can surf the processor charts freely, pretty much, and still be delivering software in nice packages ..
Right. And for Apple, it seems like the right tools are Open Source.
Makes sense; they've got their portability pretty much totally under control
bah. either you understand the global economy, or you've got your head up your ass^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hin the sand.
the reason the american economy is in the shithouse, and actually it is in the shithouse, is because americans think they have a right to rip people off, and have forgotten that it actually means you take less responsibility for shit, than you would if you were fair, and humane to your fellow man.
this blatant falsehood has bled all the way through their economy, and thus, america falls. the only thing propping it up is the fact that the american nation is armed to the teeth.
bandits! not the sheriff. you are the bad guys!
Which country would you prefer to live in?
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having lived in both the US and S-E Asia, I'd say S-E Asia, no question about it. the so-called 'creature comforts' of the US are a huge trap. nothing could be more soul-sucking than big city life in [insert generic american metropolis here]
Wake me up when I can download (for free) the Generation NEX development kit, and can find a way to get my home-brew apps on cartridge format for cheap.
If you want retro-gaming resurrection, look no further than GPX32, Gamepark et al, yo.
Eurasia, as a continent, is not full of greedy, selfish pigs.
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North America, as a continent, is. Case in point: charging hospitals $30,000 for something which costs approximately $1000 to make, elsewhere
right, coz, umm, vietnam is the last bastion of fully-paid software licenses...