Oh no, my e-mail is broken, maybe its The Beginning Of The End, fear, fear, fear!
Umm... I've been using e-mail for 20 years, and I plan on using e-mail for another 20 years. Every single time I've had a problem with e-mail, I've fixed it.
IF you're getting too much spam, change your e-mail address. Its as simple as that. Yes, it really is that simple. If you "can't" do this because too many people have your 'old' address, well then its not e-mail thats broken, its your management of it...
Really, I consider the reaction and subsequent 'conclusion that e-mail is going away' to be utterly ludicrous, and I truly question the motives of anyone who adopts that point of view.
Technology doesn't die; only mans desire to reliably, standardly sustain it goes away...
I've thought for years that companies that make 'habitats' all need to tie up with NASA.
I think it'd be great if boat mfr's, RV mfr's, and cheap house mfr's, all got together and developed a common, open, standardized framework for habitat design and construction, with NASA involved.
Every time I look at a UFO, I think to myself 'well-designed Winnebago', and if I could, I'd buy one of those instead of ___insert_favorite_waste_of_realty_here___ any time...
Really, I should be able to get one assigned. It sucks that these things are only assigned to major corporations... if we're going to have to wear the mark of the best, I want mine to at least be a dotted quad. (or two...)
You don't ----neeeeeeeeed----- MFC, and in fact I would advise you to stay the hell away from it.
Use wxWidgets, or some other framework instead. For fun, why not try something like ClanLib...
MFC is godawful. Once you've tried a few of the other frameworks that allow you to write cross-platform GUI code for Windows, I doubt you'll disagree with me...
Ta dah! Welcome to Industrial Design Mindfuck, 101.
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Since when do you hand over control of a nation when you are advancing an empire?
Since when? I'll tell you.
Since the time when it doesn't take a gov't to run an empire, but a handload full of corporate contracts instead.
Sure, 'statehood' is all that and bag of chicken wings. But 'statehood' ain't nothing when you've got a $5Trillion collection of 'undefeatable' International contracts for various 'key' things, all being run for you by amorphous globalist corporations.
"Handing over a nation" indeed. You think the Iraqi people have had ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with selecting Halliburton to 'administer the countries oil assets'?
Are you saying that its only a language if there's a dictionary around?
The purpose of language is to convey meaning. If meaning is conveyed through the use of a sound, then the purpose of language has been fulfilled. Thus, that sound is a form of language.
That said, absolutes are not attainable. Therefore, everything I say is wrong, but the bird outside my window thinks otherwise (apparently)...
I don't see that. Do you mean 'comments', or do you really mean 'commentary'?
I hate having to wait for someone to explain what the freak an article is about... I find it completely counter-intuitive to have to wait for another/. poster to explain an article before I'm able to 'grok' what that article is about.
That is how long I give Microsoft before they find themselves confronted by a revolution from their users due the their inability to deliver secure products.
Every single Windows virus... IS a 'revolution' from their users.
Nothing says "I hate you Microsoft, I want to bring you down" more than a well-written Virus designed to bring the issue of extraordinarily poorly written and managed software releases to the attention of the world.
That this fact is ignored only proves that Microsoft's responsibility for this issue has been deflected, quite well, by their PR people, towards the Virus writers and away from the true culprits: Microsoft, Inc.
It is Microsofts' complete and utter lack of responsibility for the issue of Virus control and propagation which has resulted in this situation. Sure, it is malicious to write Virus code and let it loose on the 'net... but it is just as malicious to have written 5 different Operating Systems, in the last 20 years of computing science, which have continually allowed this circumstance to occur...
Don't overlook this fact. Microsoft are the ones who are responsible for this condition, now. In the first 2 years of Virus problems, it was feasible to forgive them. But not now, after 20 years of 'product' from Redmond, in light of all the opportunities they had to truly resolve this issue...
Punish Microsoft the only way that hurts: STOP using their "products".
Being literate has absolutely NOTHING to do w/this.
Sorry, but I don't think you know what the word literacy means. How could you possibly have this view, if you did? Literacy has -everything- to do with caring. Education is the first step towards caring about anything.
'Literate' means being well-informed, well-educated, on a particular topic. It doesn't mean just 'able to read and write', though that is one common simple definition.
'Literate' also means, informed, educated, and it was in this sense that I was using the word.
I would hardly call anyone, weaned on MTV, whose opinion on 9/11, Terrorism, and Iraq was spoon-fed by CNN and pop-culture to be 'literate'.
American Telivision is a poor substitute for literacy, and alas... 'most' Americans form their opinion on the basis of what they see on TV and hear in the news, and learn from pop culture.
This is not literacy.
Americans just don't care. They don't want to hear about war, they don't want to hear about politics, and they especially don't want to learn anything about any of it.
Right. They are un-informed, and un-educated, or they -would -care. Thus illiterate. The less informed about something you are, the less you care about it.
Now, you can't become literate on a particular subject unless you care a little bit about it, enough for you to get interested and overcome any barriers to understanding a particular topic you may come across. But you also don't really start caring unless... and until... you become informed and educated on a particular subject. Caring and Literacy go hand in hand.
It is American Illiteracy which allowed the neo-con fascists to hijack the American political system. It is un-caring Americans, fat on their white picket fence hubris, who remain un-informed, and politically illiterate, who allow Feudal America to persist.
So, you really think you can decide on the merits of an argument just based on who partially funded the research?
You can't ignore it. Sure, you shouldn't complete your final anaysis strictly on the basis of who is pushing the reports, but you should not ignore their history, their background, or their 'other efforts on other fronts', if you truly want to remain free.
Never ignore the man behind the curtain, no matter how much you enjoy watching Punch & Judy, or agree with the act...
I think its lame, personally, and I agree with you. But I think there actually is a 'reasoning' behind this/. editorial policy of not describing/defining the terms and issues in each article submission.
This request to define things in the article text is asked time, and time, and time again.
In my opinion, the reason/. editors don't rigorously require this of their submissions, seems to me (and I've been here since Chips and Dips...) to be because they think, if they confuse you with an article you don't know anything about, you'll be "interested enough" to check out the article to try and figure it out. Some sort of 'geek procedure' - i.e. "I have no clue what this popular forum is discussing, I'll go read the article before I have an opinion on it..."
Its lame. It bugs me too. But its the/. editorial order that allows this to persist.
The whole point of a metric is to be a standard of measurement.
If, one day, you say that a program did "X" number of decisions, and the very next day, it did another "Y" number of decisions, then that program is the standard of measurement for that business logic. You're measuring a standard, reproducable quantum, daily. *THAT* matters.
Decisions, defined through business logic standardized and implemented as a running computer program, produce a more useful metric, because they relate directly to business logic. Obviously, any business logic which becomes runnable program code, and can reliably be run every day, is a standard.
Sure, it may not be an 'industrially useful' standard, unless of course you're talking about Industries with standardized business logic... which, of course, every decent computer science major knows, do exist.
So I don't agree with you that such things are "entirely subjective", sorry. I know plenty of industries whose business logic can be broken down into standard business decisions... measurable, and therefore, applicable to a 'decision metric'.
Like it or not though, many people are just not intellectually up to the challenge of dealing with Cato Institute, or any of the other instruments of social introspection that may allow commoners to understand the issues with the American coup d'etat currently under way.
Michael Moore is a pop-culture 'documentarist'/'entertainer'. If you want to wake up the masses, don't give them countless reams of reports and articles to attempt to wade through. Save that for the courts.
Remember, America is not the most literate nation on Earth.
Many peoples literary skills stop at the ability to change the channel whenever they see something on TV they don't understand.
While it may be 'popular' to counter the Michael Moore marketing machine with elite intellectual discourse on the condition of the American Empire, most MTV-riddled minds are not up to the task. They just aren't. 50 years of Television programming have brainwashed the American public beyond caring about it if they can't understand it.
Michael Moores' delivery methods serve a very key, very important, very significant demographic.
A very, very important demographic: those who are unable, or unwilling, to peer behind the curtain and try and work out what is going on with their society, while those who are intellectually, corporately, and politically able, engage in nefarious deeds.
Michael Moore, for all his failings (and yes, he does have quite a few), will get to the common man... where Cato Institute will not.
If you truly believe that an understanding of the nature of the conspiracy against American society is important, you won't discount the actual value of Moore's level of work.
It is just as vital to reach the proles as it is the intellectuals...
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Oh no, my e-mail is broken, maybe its The Beginning Of The End, fear, fear, fear!
...
...
Umm... I've been using e-mail for 20 years, and I plan on using e-mail for another 20 years. Every single time I've had a problem with e-mail, I've fixed it.
IF you're getting too much spam, change your e-mail address. Its as simple as that. Yes, it really is that simple. If you "can't" do this because too many people have your 'old' address, well then its not e-mail thats broken, its your management of it
Really, I consider the reaction and subsequent 'conclusion that e-mail is going away' to be utterly ludicrous, and I truly question the motives of anyone who adopts that point of view.
Technology doesn't die; only mans desire to reliably, standardly sustain it goes away
I've thought for years that companies that make 'habitats' all need to tie up with NASA.
...
I think it'd be great if boat mfr's, RV mfr's, and cheap house mfr's, all got together and developed a common, open, standardized framework for habitat design and construction, with NASA involved.
Every time I look at a UFO, I think to myself 'well-designed Winnebago', and if I could, I'd buy one of those instead of ___insert_favorite_waste_of_realty_here___ any time
(I suspect I'm going to end up living in the boonies.)
;)
;)
... zeroconf and uucp, good freakin' idea! ;)
hey, me too. stuff like this definitely makes it easier to wean yourself from civilization without having to go tooo far out of the way for advice.
all the benefits of civilization, none of the noise, right?
(has anyone come up with a service autoconfiguration tool for mesh networks?)
oooh
Really, I should be able to get one assigned. It sucks that these things are only assigned to major corporations ... if we're going to have to wear the mark of the best, I want mine to at least be a dotted quad. (or two ...)
You don't ----neeeeeeeeed----- MFC, and in fact I would advise you to stay the hell away from it.
...
Use wxWidgets, or some other framework instead. For fun, why not try something like ClanLib...
MFC is godawful. Once you've tried a few of the other frameworks that allow you to write cross-platform GUI code for Windows, I doubt you'll disagree with me
Ah, I see. So, 8 MiniPCI AP cards == 8 times the bandwidth potential for the box ... or?
I don't get it ... why would I want to plug in more than one MiniPCI AP card? To serve on different AP channels or something?
Or do you want a sandwich?
I saw that film in German. You think the physics and bad acting are bad, see it in German.
Nothing says "this stinks and is a total waste of my godamn time" more than seeing any film, even B-grade trash, in German.
Ta dah! Welcome to Industrial Design Mindfuck, 101.
Since when do you hand over control of a nation when you are advancing an empire?
Since when? I'll tell you.
Since the time when it doesn't take a gov't to run an empire, but a handload full of corporate contracts instead.
Sure, 'statehood' is all that and bag of chicken wings. But 'statehood' ain't nothing when you've got a $5Trillion collection of 'undefeatable' International contracts for various 'key' things, all being run for you by amorphous globalist corporations.
"Handing over a nation" indeed. You think the Iraqi people have had ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with selecting Halliburton to 'administer the countries oil assets'?
Are you saying that its only a language if there's a dictionary around?
The purpose of language is to convey meaning. If meaning is conveyed through the use of a sound, then the purpose of language has been fulfilled. Thus, that sound is a form of language.
That said, absolutes are not attainable. Therefore, everything I say is wrong, but the bird outside my window thinks otherwise (apparently)
... and the crowd goes wild ...
*APPLAUSE* *HOLLER* *APPLAUSE* *CHEER* *WÜRSTCHEN* *APPLAUSE*
Music is Language.
Language is Music.
Anyone who says otherwise is just singing out of tune.
And the definitions are in the commentary.
... I find it completely counter-intuitive to have to wait for another /. poster to explain an article before I'm able to 'grok' what that article is about.
I don't see that. Do you mean 'comments', or do you really mean 'commentary'?
I hate having to wait for someone to explain what the freak an article is about
That is how long I give Microsoft before they find themselves confronted by a revolution from their users due the their inability to deliver secure products.
... IS a 'revolution' from their users.
... but it is just as malicious to have written 5 different Operating Systems, in the last 20 years of computing science, which have continually allowed this circumstance to occur...
...
Every single Windows virus
Nothing says "I hate you Microsoft, I want to bring you down" more than a well-written Virus designed to bring the issue of extraordinarily poorly written and managed software releases to the attention of the world.
That this fact is ignored only proves that Microsoft's responsibility for this issue has been deflected, quite well, by their PR people, towards the Virus writers and away from the true culprits: Microsoft, Inc.
It is Microsofts' complete and utter lack of responsibility for the issue of Virus control and propagation which has resulted in this situation. Sure, it is malicious to write Virus code and let it loose on the 'net
Don't overlook this fact. Microsoft are the ones who are responsible for this condition, now. In the first 2 years of Virus problems, it was feasible to forgive them. But not now, after 20 years of 'product' from Redmond, in light of all the opportunities they had to truly resolve this issue
Punish Microsoft the only way that hurts: STOP using their "products".
So I guess you're just gonna ignore that last definition, eh?
"The condition of being ignorant
Did you not read it, or did you just not understand the sentence?
Okay, I'm 'wrong'. Argue with me about this point, then:
Illiteracy == Ignorance.
Being literate has absolutely NOTHING to do w/this.
... 'most' Americans form their opinion on the basis of what they see on TV and hear in the news, and learn from pop culture.
... and until ... you become informed and educated on a particular subject. Caring and Literacy go hand in hand.
Sorry, but I don't think you know what the word literacy means. How could you possibly have this view, if you did? Literacy has -everything- to do with caring. Education is the first step towards caring about anything.
'Literate' means being well-informed, well-educated, on a particular topic. It doesn't mean just 'able to read and write', though that is one common simple definition.
'Literate' also means, informed, educated, and it was in this sense that I was using the word.
I would hardly call anyone, weaned on MTV, whose opinion on 9/11, Terrorism, and Iraq was spoon-fed by CNN and pop-culture to be 'literate'.
American Telivision is a poor substitute for literacy, and alas
This is not literacy.
Americans just don't care. They don't want to hear about war, they don't want to hear about politics, and they especially don't want to learn anything about any of it.
Right. They are un-informed, and un-educated, or they -would -care. Thus illiterate. The less informed about something you are, the less you care about it.
Now, you can't become literate on a particular subject unless you care a little bit about it, enough for you to get interested and overcome any barriers to understanding a particular topic you may come across. But you also don't really start caring unless
It is American Illiteracy which allowed the neo-con fascists to hijack the American political system. It is un-caring Americans, fat on their white picket fence hubris, who remain un-informed, and politically illiterate, who allow Feudal America to persist.
So, you really think you can decide on the merits of an argument just based on who partially funded the research?
...
You can't ignore it. Sure, you shouldn't complete your final anaysis strictly on the basis of who is pushing the reports, but you should not ignore their history, their background, or their 'other efforts on other fronts', if you truly want to remain free.
Never ignore the man behind the curtain, no matter how much you enjoy watching Punch & Judy, or agree with the act
I think its lame, personally, and I agree with you. But I think there actually is a 'reasoning' behind this /. editorial policy of not describing/defining the terms and issues in each article submission.
/. editors don't rigorously require this of their submissions, seems to me (and I've been here since Chips and Dips...) to be because they think, if they confuse you with an article you don't know anything about, you'll be "interested enough" to check out the article to try and figure it out. Some sort of 'geek procedure' - i.e. "I have no clue what this popular forum is discussing, I'll go read the article before I have an opinion on it ..."
/. editorial order that allows this to persist.
This request to define things in the article text is asked time, and time, and time again.
In my opinion, the reason
Its lame. It bugs me too. But its the
I couldn't find a link to that movie. In my opinion, any truly 'revolutionary' documentary on the 'facts' of 9/11 would -NOT- cost you a cent to view.
Capitalism is not the solution to conspiracy.
(Note, I said 'conspiracy', not 'conspiracy theory'. There is a very, very big difference between those two phrases...)
As this process continues, expect the pressure to get worse until the revolution. 8)
I dunno. I think your mode of thinking is evidence enough that the revolution has in fact started...
The whole point of a metric is to be a standard of measurement.
... which, of course, every decent computer science major knows, do exist.
If, one day, you say that a program did "X" number of decisions, and the very next day, it did another "Y" number of decisions, then that program is the standard of measurement for that business logic. You're measuring a standard, reproducable quantum, daily. *THAT* matters.
Decisions, defined through business logic standardized and implemented as a running computer program, produce a more useful metric, because they relate directly to business logic. Obviously, any business logic which becomes runnable program code, and can reliably be run every day, is a standard.
Sure, it may not be an 'industrially useful' standard, unless of course you're talking about Industries with standardized business logic
So I don't agree with you that such things are "entirely subjective", sorry. I know plenty of industries whose business logic can be broken down into standard business decisions... measurable, and therefore, applicable to a 'decision metric'.
Like it or not though, many people are just not intellectually up to the challenge of dealing with Cato Institute, or any of the other instruments of social introspection that may allow commoners to understand the issues with the American coup d'etat currently under way.
Michael Moore is a pop-culture 'documentarist'/'entertainer'. If you want to wake up the masses, don't give them countless reams of reports and articles to attempt to wade through. Save that for the courts.
Remember, America is not the most literate nation on Earth.
Many peoples literary skills stop at the ability to change the channel whenever they see something on TV they don't understand.
While it may be 'popular' to counter the Michael Moore marketing machine with elite intellectual discourse on the condition of the American Empire, most MTV-riddled minds are not up to the task. They just aren't. 50 years of Television programming have brainwashed the American public beyond caring about it if they can't understand it.
Michael Moores' delivery methods serve a very key, very important, very significant demographic.
A very, very important demographic: those who are unable, or unwilling, to peer behind the curtain and try and work out what is going on with their society, while those who are intellectually, corporately, and politically able, engage in nefarious deeds.
Michael Moore, for all his failings (and yes, he does have quite a few), will get to the common man
If you truly believe that an understanding of the nature of the conspiracy against American society is important, you won't discount the actual value of Moore's level of work.
It is just as vital to reach the proles as it is the intellectuals...