I wish I could count the number of times I've heard variations of this. I think the first time I heard it was when Intel released the 80387. Didn't seem to be accurate then either.
Pretty soon social networking will include 1080p video mail or 50 megapixel photos of Jr. or there will be another DOOM II or something like that golf game that had every executive upgrading their Windows 95 'business' computers. Or perhaps the latest 4x1080p 3D media encoder will have us all wanting something faster.
But that's just at home. At work I do a lot of molecular modeling and a lot of very large data set manipulation... we'll be pushing that 24 month upgrade cycle for the foreseeable future.
Oh and BTW... I would by an extra core or even an extra PC if I could use it for dedicated PC housekeeping and free up the rest of the resources for doing work when I want the damn thing to do work.
What the hell is "Google Gears"? I mean besides "Google Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications." Which is all the FAQ had to say.
Recently on one of the photography forums I frequent a member posted an inflammatory email that he received out of the blue from another forum member. So I was sort of expecting some bizarre diatribe waiting on me when I got home (as webmail is verboten where I work). Alas there was none, so I have no bizarreness to share.
What I found extremely interesting is that my little throw away comment garnered the most moderation I've had on any comment in last few years. I suppose a ruffled a few feathers among the christian reconstructionists lurking about Slashdot. I wonder what got them going... the idea that somehow the freedom of not having technology in a community is roughly equivalent to freedom of standing in special building exhorting approval from an imaginary friend, or perhaps the idea that pushing your imaginary health risks off on the wider public is as inappropriate as pushing rules from you imaginary friend off on the wider public.
I suppose there is an art to crafting a Slashdot comment. Bland comments are ignored and inflammatory anti-groupthink comments are quickly moderated into oblivion. So you must create a balance of being just inflammatory enough to provoke comment without disappearing under the weight of spiteful and humorless mods. After getting so many unfair mods when Al Gore lost the presidency in 2000 I had pretty much quit posting serious comments on controversial topics. 8 years on I don't really care about my Slashdot Karma any more and this sort of entertained me. So I guess, in the future, I'll try to come up with more snarky controversial comments.
Every weekend scores of millions of people put on special clothes congregate in special buildings and perform goofy rituals in order to secure approval in an non existent being. I think we can let some little hippy community slide on the not wanting the Wi-Fi thing, regardless of how stupid it may be.
Now if they start trying to pass national referendums banning Wi-Fi on Sundays or some shit like that...
I gotta say that link (and thus your post) is a whole lot hyperbole and a whole lot of text to get one link to the project Cosa: http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/COSA.htm
The project itself I suppose is pretty interesting...
But I'll not beleive the everyone in computer science since Charles Babbage was wrong BS until the entire industry is using the model proposed.
So now I'm curious how much work would it be to roll out an open version of the hardware? None of this sounds like it's particularly special... I say this as an software engineer (I only do embedded stuff) not as a hardware engineer. I'll bet a few grad students could whip up an equivalent board (or a daughter board for a mass produced product) in short order (particularly having an existing board to begin with).
So... Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke and move on to a different platform.
I understood your point. And I was thinking another arm as dextrous as my right arm would be mostly useless. However another nearly as dextrous as my left would be really useful and useful in more mundane situations... in the lab running experiments or soldering circuit boards. I'd be really, really, really happy with a set of fully functional micro-prosthesis (Well described in the short story 'Burning Chrome by William Gibson as 'Waldos')... provided I did not have to sacrifice my existing arms!
I have to confess I wouldn't be so interested in weaponry.
I'm left handed. An arm nearly as dextrous as my left... that would be *really* useful. My right... about the only thing I can really do with it is type and hold things still. Having another one of those wouldn't be all that useful.
The right question is "Should Apple take security more seriously?" YES and "Should Apple be more proactive in dealing with security issues?" YES. "Should Apple be closely following the tactics of various malware propagators and bot net operators?" YES.
Bringing the Anti-virus & Registry Cleaner snake oil salesmen to the Mac isn't going to do anyone any good.
Having said all that I used to use clam but never reinstalled it when I move to Leopard...
To be clear when I said Latino (in the context it was in) I am speaking specifically about American citizens... ones who vote and who may or may not complain to the FCC. Not anyone of any decent living anywhere else (as they are not complaining to the FCC). Also to be clear: this distinction between what American Conservatives call conservative and what the rest of the world calls conservative is exactly what I was trying to highlight with my comments... I can say (and have) the exact same thing about Austrian conservatives... they don't spend their time obsessing over nipples and curses appearing on the telly. Only saying Austrian conservatives doesn't mean much to the largely American audience on slashdot.
I didn't provide a source because it I read this in a German language paper, which was describing various voting blocks within the US. The Latino voting block was described as largely catholic and largely having social values which I think could be called paleo-conservative... which puts them sort of at odds with neo-conservative / Christian Reconstuctionist elements that currently are currently in vogue.
One last thing: I was commenting on statistics (as I had read). If I'm wrong, show me but in any case please get over the "Sweeping Generalities" bullshit I made no claim about *ALL* of *any* group of people having any specific beliefs or values.
No. It's just me noting an article I recently read which mentioned that statistically speaking many Latinos (as in the voting block in American politics) fall in the conservative part of the political spectrum. However, legions of said conservative Latinos are not forming bogus family values committees. Maybe you could attribute this a difference "Authentic Conservatism" and "Asshole Conservatism". I'm not sure. What I do know is that living where I live now the conservatives,by and large, don't spend their time complaining about seeing breasts or hearing naughty language on the TV.
It's arbitrary because the FCC does not give a flying fuck.
They only react to complaints. The only complaints they get are from a single Christian Asshole group "Family Television Council". The vast majority of individual complainants having never seen the broadcast they are complaining about.
It is also not surprising than non English broadcasts don't have similar complaints (despite Latinos being largely conservative... this is because there is high correlation between Christian Assholism and the racism & bigotry to drives things like the "English only" movement in America. It goes without saying that these bigoted Christian Assholes are not listening to a lot of Spanish & Korean programming.
I wonder how this will turn out... as this is essentially the path to Christian Reconstructionism.
I'm a fairly ecologically minded guy and I do think we need to develop energy sources which don't have us polluting or dealing with unsavory governments. However I question the wisdom of backing specific technologies over others. I think it would better to simply remove all the subsidies on coal mining and coal burning power plants. And then punitively tax ecologically unsound processes or activities. This will bring a parity to energy costs also and it removes the artificial motivations to pursue inferior technologies and cling to outdated ones.
I am not a web developer but I was impressed with how Wikileaks handled that recent foolishness.
I guess they use multiple domains with multiple registrars? I guess that could get expensive for just a little site bent on pissing off powerful people.
I think you have all of that completely wrong. Black boxes in airplanes are extremely robust and resistant to most of the things you listed (like being shot, dropped or burned)... And to being gernerally toyed with.
If they, then they will be labled a "do nothing congress". By sending bills to the president they know will vetoed they are able to propose much stronger bills than they would be really comfortable with, have them Vetoed, have the Bill & the Veto to talk about during the campaign. Then next year they can quietly pass a weeker bill and no one will notice.
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I wish I could count the number of times I've heard variations of this. I think the first time I heard it was when Intel released the 80387. Didn't seem to be accurate then either.
Pretty soon social networking will include 1080p video mail or 50 megapixel photos of Jr. or there will be another DOOM II or something like that golf game that had every executive upgrading their Windows 95 'business' computers. Or perhaps the latest 4x1080p 3D media encoder will have us all wanting something faster.
But that's just at home. At work I do a lot of molecular modeling and a lot of very large data set manipulation... we'll be pushing that 24 month upgrade cycle for the foreseeable future.
Oh and BTW... I would by an extra core or even an extra PC if I could use it for dedicated PC housekeeping and free up the rest of the resources for doing work when I want the damn thing to do work.
What the hell is "Google Gears"? I mean besides "Google Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications." Which is all the FAQ had to say.
Oh, 'They' are still making great music... mountains of it in fact.
What is happening is that only formulaic music is marketed.
"When fascism came to America, it was wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
There, fixed that for you!
Recently on one of the photography forums I frequent a member posted an inflammatory email that he received out of the blue from another forum member. So I was sort of expecting some bizarre diatribe waiting on me when I got home (as webmail is verboten where I work). Alas there was none, so I have no bizarreness to share.
What I found extremely interesting is that my little throw away comment garnered the most moderation I've had on any comment in last few years. I suppose a ruffled a few feathers among the christian reconstructionists lurking about Slashdot. I wonder what got them going... the idea that somehow the freedom of not having technology in a community is roughly equivalent to freedom of standing in special building exhorting approval from an imaginary friend, or perhaps the idea that pushing your imaginary health risks off on the wider public is as inappropriate as pushing rules from you imaginary friend off on the wider public.
I suppose there is an art to crafting a Slashdot comment. Bland comments are ignored and inflammatory anti-groupthink comments are quickly moderated into oblivion. So you must create a balance of being just inflammatory enough to provoke comment without disappearing under the weight of spiteful and humorless mods. After getting so many unfair mods when Al Gore lost the presidency in 2000 I had pretty much quit posting serious comments on controversial topics. 8 years on I don't really care about my Slashdot Karma any more and this sort of entertained me. So I guess, in the future, I'll try to come up with more snarky controversial comments.
Is there some reason you are posting my email in clear text?
I don't recall complaining about not getting enough spam...
I don't really agree with that thinking.
Most folks can't control how the power that comes to home or business is generated but they can at least reduce what they consume.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Every weekend scores of millions of people put on special clothes congregate in special buildings and perform goofy rituals in order to secure approval in an non existent being. I think we can let some little hippy community slide on the not wanting the Wi-Fi thing, regardless of how stupid it may be.
Now if they start trying to pass national referendums banning Wi-Fi on Sundays or some shit like that...
I gotta say that link (and thus your post) is a whole lot hyperbole and a whole lot of text to get one link to the project Cosa: http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/COSA.htm
The project itself I suppose is pretty interesting...
But I'll not beleive the everyone in computer science since Charles Babbage was wrong BS until the entire industry is using the model proposed.
So now I'm curious how much work would it be to roll out an open version of the hardware? None of this sounds like it's particularly special... I say this as an software engineer (I only do embedded stuff) not as a hardware engineer. I'll bet a few grad students could whip up an equivalent board (or a daughter board for a mass produced product) in short order (particularly having an existing board to begin with).
So... Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke and move on to a different platform.
I understood your point. And I was thinking another arm as dextrous as my right arm would be mostly useless. However another nearly as dextrous as my left would be really useful and useful in more mundane situations... in the lab running experiments or soldering circuit boards. I'd be really, really, really happy with a set of fully functional micro-prosthesis (Well described in the short story 'Burning Chrome by William Gibson as 'Waldos')... provided I did not have to sacrifice my existing arms!
I have to confess I wouldn't be so interested in weaponry.
I'm left handed. An arm nearly as dextrous as my left... that would be *really* useful. My right... about the only thing I can really do with it is type and hold things still. Having another one of those wouldn't be all that useful.
Don't feel bad, we don't do spelling here.
The i-RAM connects to a single SATA I port. And only gets its power from the slot.
The right question is "Should Apple take security more seriously?" YES and "Should Apple be more proactive in dealing with security issues?" YES. "Should Apple be closely following the tactics of various malware propagators and bot net operators?" YES.
Bringing the Anti-virus & Registry Cleaner snake oil salesmen to the Mac isn't going to do anyone any good.
Having said all that I used to use clam but never reinstalled it when I move to Leopard...
Your 9 Year Old Nephew is Correct.
I don't think MicroBSD or NanoBSD ever went anywhere. Pity That.
To be clear when I said Latino (in the context it was in) I am speaking specifically about American citizens... ones who vote and who may or may not complain to the FCC. Not anyone of any decent living anywhere else (as they are not complaining to the FCC). Also to be clear: this distinction between what American Conservatives call conservative and what the rest of the world calls conservative is exactly what I was trying to highlight with my comments... I can say (and have) the exact same thing about Austrian conservatives... they don't spend their time obsessing over nipples and curses appearing on the telly. Only saying Austrian conservatives doesn't mean much to the largely American audience on slashdot.
I didn't provide a source because it I read this in a German language paper, which was describing various voting blocks within the US. The Latino voting block was described as largely catholic and largely having social values which I think could be called paleo-conservative... which puts them sort of at odds with neo-conservative / Christian Reconstuctionist elements that currently are currently in vogue.
One last thing: I was commenting on statistics (as I had read). If I'm wrong, show me but in any case please get over the "Sweeping Generalities" bullshit I made no claim about *ALL* of *any* group of people having any specific beliefs or values.
No. It's just me noting an article I recently read which mentioned that statistically speaking many Latinos (as in the voting block in American politics) fall in the conservative part of the political spectrum. However, legions of said conservative Latinos are not forming bogus family values committees. Maybe you could attribute this a difference "Authentic Conservatism" and "Asshole Conservatism". I'm not sure. What I do know is that living where I live now the conservatives ,by and large, don't spend their time complaining about seeing breasts or hearing naughty language on the TV.
It's arbitrary because the FCC does not give a flying fuck.
They only react to complaints. The only complaints they get are from a single Christian Asshole group "Family Television Council". The vast majority of individual complainants having never seen the broadcast they are complaining about.
It is also not surprising than non English broadcasts don't have similar complaints (despite Latinos being largely conservative... this is because there is high correlation between Christian Assholism and the racism & bigotry to drives things like the "English only" movement in America. It goes without saying that these bigoted Christian Assholes are not listening to a lot of Spanish & Korean programming.
I wonder how this will turn out... as this is essentially the path to Christian Reconstructionism.
I'm a fairly ecologically minded guy and I do think we need to develop energy sources which don't have us polluting or dealing with unsavory governments. However I question the wisdom of backing specific technologies over others. I think it would better to simply remove all the subsidies on coal mining and coal burning power plants. And then punitively tax ecologically unsound processes or activities. This will bring a parity to energy costs also and it removes the artificial motivations to pursue inferior technologies and cling to outdated ones.
I am not a web developer but I was impressed with how Wikileaks handled that recent foolishness.
I guess they use multiple domains with multiple registrars? I guess that could get expensive for just a little site bent on pissing off powerful people.
I think you have all of that completely wrong. Black boxes in airplanes are extremely robust and resistant to most of the things you listed (like being shot, dropped or burned)... And to being gernerally toyed with.
If they, then they will be labled a "do nothing congress". By sending bills to the president they know will vetoed they are able to propose much stronger bills than they would be really comfortable with, have them Vetoed, have the Bill & the Veto to talk about during the campaign. Then next year they can quietly pass a weeker bill and no one will notice.
great, I can't wait for adverts on my chopsticks.