Holy crap. I made a joke in my head about rebooting a car, but MS has again found a way to make truth stranger than fiction (from the wiki):
"For new car owners whose MyFord Touch systems crash, both Ford dealerships and Ford-sponsored websites have been recommending that owners disconnect the black (negative) lead to the battery for several minutes, reconnect, then run the car for at least five minutes to reboot the MyFord Touch system. Owners have complained that this is extremely inconvenient, even dangerous in many situations, and should not be required of owners who have paid tens-of-thousands of dollars for their new cars."
What do you think is the bigger threat?
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Given your unique position, I'd like to know your answer to this question:
What do you think is the currently a bigger threat to legitimate science:
- The growing wave of anti-intellectualism and anti-science that seemingly rejects science outright on certain issues
- Or the growing wave of pseudo-science that undercuts science by adopting the trappings of science but none of its procedures?
Given your rather unique history in show business, and the myriad of projects that you've worked on (who can forget Incubus?), is there any project in your past where, even now, you look back even now and say, "What was I thinking?"
I didn't even realize how bad it had gotten until I flew domestically in Japan.
All of the bureaucracy parts of air travel took five minutes. I checked in, checked my bag, and went through security in under five minutes at the start of the day in at the second-busiest airport in the country. The experience was efficient, polite, and noninvasive. I went through a normal metal detector, was not groped, irradiated, or violated, and was treated with respect by the staff through every portion of the process. Japanese airlines advise passengers to show up no later than *ten minutes* before their flights.
In addition, there had a bottle scanner. If you brought liquids through, they put it on the scanner and pushed a button. It took two seconds. How is it that we don't have these devices in our airports, but we do have cancer-causing backscatter scanners that have stopped zero terrorists?
We've gone off the rails.
As some one whose career has pretty closely paralleled the "popularization" of geek culture (and perhaps benefited from it), how do you feel on the subject?
There seems to be a strong divide amongst nerds about public acceptance of larger swaths of what are traditionally "outcast" culture, and not a little bit of backlash against it (a'la Patton Oswalt). As a nerd who can't help but benefit from the continuing popularization (and, perhaps bastardization) of nerd culture, what are your insights?
You still do not know what the body of the elephant looks like - just like Civ has not reached perfection. Now, are you going to cling to the tusk and leg and claim that those are the only parts of an elephant?
No, but I am going to complain if I end up with an elephant ass.
"It feels almost as if someone described the concept of the renowned 19-year-old turn-based strategy series to a talented designer who'd never played it, and let him come up with his own version."
I don't want three blind men describing an elephant incorrectly. I want Civ.
There's a rather old-timey solution to this problem. I, too, was tried of wearing holes in my pockets from the numerous keys I had to carry around. Get yourself a leather key wallet. It is a wallet sized object with a set of key holders inside. You can store your keys in a relatively small area, and no more tearing up your pockets. Some of them even include change purses.
... if you're hiding behind a crate and want to take out enemies without popping up from behind it, shoot a hole in it. Bingo, you've got a comparatively safe firing vantage.
If you can shoot through one end of it, I'm pretty sure they can shoot through the other end of it.
As someone who saw it in IMAX, this film sucked even if you could see the pores of a Vulcan. It was inherently hamstrung by trying to be both a reboot and canon, and failing at both.
Not only that, but can you imagine the amount of research they are going to have to do with cannibals considering that human hands will be the most common thing on the countertop?
The greatest challenge in education is the disintegration of two-parent families and strong communities.
[Citation needed]
This is particularly pronounced in minority communities. The very occasional teaching of ID in public classrooms is probably not even a factor. But I guess confronting real problems isn't as much fun as kicking religious people, is it?
You mean the way the religious people confront the real problems such as who gets to marry who, eroding the separation of Church and state, and trying enforce certain morality through law?
... Do remember that it was only but a few weeks ago that Intel was on the OLPC bandwagon, is it a conflict of interest then? Prior to then? How about now? So you see, context is important here. Now that Intel is out of favor, suddenly it's astroturfing. This little bit of news has actually been around a while and honestly, I could care less and I still read his site.
Please. There have been numerous stories in the last couple of weeks about how Intel was acting in bad faith through the entire partnership, even going to the point of trying to talk people out of signed contracts. If they are willing to do that, keeping a slander blog up for the duration of the partnership that was "deniable" is the least of their efforts.
... The grave mistake that most people make is the failure to acknowledge the massive bias in all media outlets. Once you realize they all have it *cough* advertisers *cough* editors *cough* owners *cough*, you can read the media and use your brain as an intelligent media bias detector.
The logical failings abound. Because there are inherent biases in everything, we should ignore an explicit conflict of interest? Whatever, Wayan.
But, once again, please answer this one question: How many "personal" blogs have you bought Google ads for?
Wayan seems to be replying to every article about this.
His argument seems to be: It is a coincidence that he is working on a competing product to the OLPC. It is a coincidence that he started a "personal" project slandering his business rival and getting Google links to the OLPC. It is simply standard procedure that he is buying negative Google ads to promote his personal site. (You know, the way you buy Google Ads all the time for your personal projects.)
His screeching denials are more damning than anything else.
First of all, you're wrong. Substantively and specifically.
It is not a "hate crime" to use a racial epitaph. You cannot be arrested for using any of the words you mentioned.
Now, can you be fired for them? Sure. But that has nothing to do with the law. That has to do with whether a company wants the liability of a racist idiot on their staff. And it is not out of the goodness of their heart, but your ability to offend potential partners and clients.
You're just likely one of those people who wants to have the good old days when you could be an open racist without any repercussions. Go outside right now and say all of those epitaphs. You won't be arrested, but you may get beat up. No one is forcing you to be courteous, but you will have to face the reaction to your speech. You types are all about personal responsibility, right?
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"For new car owners whose MyFord Touch systems crash, both Ford dealerships and Ford-sponsored websites have been recommending that owners disconnect the black (negative) lead to the battery for several minutes, reconnect, then run the car for at least five minutes to reboot the MyFord Touch system. Owners have complained that this is extremely inconvenient, even dangerous in many situations, and should not be required of owners who have paid tens-of-thousands of dollars for their new cars."
Given your unique position, I'd like to know your answer to this question:
What do you think is the currently a bigger threat to legitimate science:
- The growing wave of anti-intellectualism and anti-science that seemingly rejects science outright on certain issues
- Or the growing wave of pseudo-science that undercuts science by adopting the trappings of science but none of its procedures?
Thank you for your time.
And nothing of value was lost.
Given your rather unique history in show business, and the myriad of projects that you've worked on (who can forget Incubus?), is there any project in your past where, even now, you look back even now and say, "What was I thinking?"
Thanks, Captain.
And right there your argument, such as it was, falls apart. There are no "various levels of privacy." This is one:
None.
I didn't even realize how bad it had gotten until I flew domestically in Japan. All of the bureaucracy parts of air travel took five minutes. I checked in, checked my bag, and went through security in under five minutes at the start of the day in at the second-busiest airport in the country. The experience was efficient, polite, and noninvasive. I went through a normal metal detector, was not groped, irradiated, or violated, and was treated with respect by the staff through every portion of the process. Japanese airlines advise passengers to show up no later than *ten minutes* before their flights. In addition, there had a bottle scanner. If you brought liquids through, they put it on the scanner and pushed a button. It took two seconds. How is it that we don't have these devices in our airports, but we do have cancer-causing backscatter scanners that have stopped zero terrorists? We've gone off the rails.
Is Saturday really the right time to be asking on the Web for helpful advise from people who have already foregone the Internet except at work?
As some one whose career has pretty closely paralleled the "popularization" of geek culture (and perhaps benefited from it), how do you feel on the subject?
There seems to be a strong divide amongst nerds about public acceptance of larger swaths of what are traditionally "outcast" culture, and not a little bit of backlash against it (a'la Patton Oswalt). As a nerd who can't help but benefit from the continuing popularization (and, perhaps bastardization) of nerd culture, what are your insights?
Thanks.
You still do not know what the body of the elephant looks like - just like Civ has not reached perfection. Now, are you going to cling to the tusk and leg and claim that those are the only parts of an elephant?
No, but I am going to complain if I end up with an elephant ass.
I don't want three blind men describing an elephant incorrectly. I want Civ.
There's a rather old-timey solution to this problem. I, too, was tried of wearing holes in my pockets from the numerous keys I had to carry around. Get yourself a leather key wallet. It is a wallet sized object with a set of key holders inside. You can store your keys in a relatively small area, and no more tearing up your pockets. Some of them even include change purses.
... if you're hiding behind a crate and want to take out enemies without popping up from behind it, shoot a hole in it. Bingo, you've got a comparatively safe firing vantage.
If you can shoot through one end of it, I'm pretty sure they can shoot through the other end of it.
As someone who saw it in IMAX, this film sucked even if you could see the pores of a Vulcan. It was inherently hamstrung by trying to be both a reboot and canon, and failing at both.
And now imagine that the system is compromised, and complete identity theft is available to anyone who can crack that one database.
Not only that, but can you imagine the amount of research they are going to have to do with cannibals considering that human hands will be the most common thing on the countertop?
[Citation needed]
This is particularly pronounced in minority communities. The very occasional teaching of ID in public classrooms is probably not even a factor. But I guess confronting real problems isn't as much fun as kicking religious people, is it?
You mean the way the religious people confront the real problems such as who gets to marry who, eroding the separation of Church and state, and trying enforce certain morality through law?
Really? Someone should tell him (from the linked article): "So I wonder if anyone realizes this post is a year old? As in Jan 2007. It was a sad conspiracy theory back then: http://www.bbwindow.com/2006/america/blogging_big_leagues.html And now that I no longer work for Geekcorps, even more out of date and out of touch: http://www.geekcorps.org/2007/09/geekcorps-says-goodbye-to-waya/ Posted-by: Wayan | 12 Jan 2008 17:38:11"
Do remember that it was only but a few weeks ago that Intel was on the OLPC bandwagon, is it a conflict of interest then? Prior to then? How about now? So you see, context is important here. Now that Intel is out of favor, suddenly it's astroturfing. This little bit of news has actually been around a while and honestly, I could care less and I still read his site.
Please. There have been numerous stories in the last couple of weeks about how Intel was acting in bad faith through the entire partnership, even going to the point of trying to talk people out of signed contracts. If they are willing to do that, keeping a slander blog up for the duration of the partnership that was "deniable" is the least of their efforts.
The grave mistake that most people make is the failure to acknowledge the massive bias in all media outlets. Once you realize they all have it *cough* advertisers *cough* editors *cough* owners *cough*, you can read the media and use your brain as an intelligent media bias detector.
The logical failings abound. Because there are inherent biases in everything, we should ignore an explicit conflict of interest? Whatever, Wayan.
But, once again, please answer this one question: How many "personal" blogs have you bought Google ads for?
Wayan seems to be replying to every article about this.
His argument seems to be:
It is a coincidence that he is working on a competing product to the OLPC.
It is a coincidence that he started a "personal" project slandering his business rival and getting Google links to the OLPC.
It is simply standard procedure that he is buying negative Google ads to promote his personal site. (You know, the way you buy Google Ads all the time for your personal projects.)
His screeching denials are more damning than anything else.
... that the first users are just going to be able to authorize their games.
First of all, you're wrong. Substantively and specifically.
It is not a "hate crime" to use a racial epitaph. You cannot be arrested for using any of the words you mentioned.
Now, can you be fired for them? Sure. But that has nothing to do with the law. That has to do with whether a company wants the liability of a racist idiot on their staff. And it is not out of the goodness of their heart, but your ability to offend potential partners and clients.
You're just likely one of those people who wants to have the good old days when you could be an open racist without any repercussions. Go outside right now and say all of those epitaphs. You won't be arrested, but you may get beat up. No one is forcing you to be courteous, but you will have to face the reaction to your speech. You types are all about personal responsibility, right?
Yeah, hi. You're a racist. Just thought you'd like to know.
Sorry. Just had a nasty flashback there. Carry on.
"You, there. Get off the corpse. We've warned you about this already."
You and your facts and your articles, bah. It's funnier my way.