It's beneficial for people to be able to use their language-of-choice because language is ART. When I am creating a drama/comedy/satire, I craft dialog to deliver a message - a message that may be part of a very meaningful whole.
"Stop shitting in my yard" contains an entirely different message than "Stop pooping in my yard". The first if forceful and angry, the second is humorous and laughable.
When we start carving parts of the language up into categories that are acceptable and not, we are fettering our very ability to communicate.
Your choice is to dictate people's language and thought patterns and control how they communicate.
My choice is to allow people to communicate how they please, and to continue to allow individuals to partake in whatever their own sensibilities permit.
It's clearly a bandwidth issue. It's too bad that Bluetooth was such a ridiculous bust for usability. I'd like to give Wifi a shot......but something so sophisticated may not be necessary. I have fantastic results with my Rocketfish gadget, which uses 2.4 GHz to send sound to my rear home theater speakers.
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Of course things haven't changed. The relatively unchallenging problem of helping people to write documents has been solved to the satisfaction of 98% of users.
With that said, Word would certainly stifle an ee cummings today.
I, for one, am interested in seeing candidates differentiate themselves more than I'm interested in how they reach their users. It feels to me like new-buzzword-marketing is making little difference in the REAL problems with the presidential race.
In fact, the information overload inherent in face-space/etcappears to be guiding candidates to focus on all appearing THE SAME, rather than helping voters make better decisions.
It's fairly common knowledge that the Aerospace and Defense spending is expected to collapse at the end of this administration. Bush "never saw a bill he didn't like", so has managed to rubber-stamp every budget increase that came across his desk.
What isn't common knowledge is when said administration will end:)
...but it pays off. Money spent on military aerospace 'subsidy' projects pays dividends in new technology for a wide range of applications.
Space-age materials in your cars, space blankets, sensor technology, GPS - we enjoy all of these things directly or indirectly because of military spending. And don't forget that glorious confection that is freeze-dried ice cream.
"By squinting people are actually changing the shape of their eye, just ever so little, so that the light focuses correctly on the retina.
Squinting also decreases the amount of light that enters the eye. Go ahead and squint right now - notice that you can start to see your bottom and top eyelid. When a lens is misshapen (due to age, damage or genetics) the light that passes through the lens is deflected incorrectly and misses the focal point; the farther the light rays are from the center of the lens, the more they are deviated from the focal point. By limiting the rays of light that come in through the bottom and top of the pupil, squinting allows rays to pass closer to the center of the lens, thereby creating a more focused image. So, that means that squinting works by two mechanisms - by both changing the shape of the eye and by letting in light that can be focused more precisely by the lens."
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PCs provide vital business software that is important to people who buy computers.
Macs do not. They provide fun media and graphics software that are not essential.
This will continue to be the case until Apple turns itself into a business machine company (and it's not clear to me that they ever will).
It's beneficial for people to be able to use their language-of-choice because language is ART. When I am creating a drama/comedy/satire, I craft dialog to deliver a message - a message that may be part of a very meaningful whole.
"Stop shitting in my yard" contains an entirely different message than "Stop pooping in my yard". The first if forceful and angry, the second is humorous and laughable.
When we start carving parts of the language up into categories that are acceptable and not, we are fettering our very ability to communicate.
Your choice is to dictate people's language and thought patterns and control how they communicate.
My choice is to allow people to communicate how they please, and to continue to allow individuals to partake in whatever their own sensibilities permit.
It's clearly a bandwidth issue. It's too bad that Bluetooth was such a ridiculous bust for usability. I'd like to give Wifi a shot... ...but something so sophisticated may not be necessary. I have fantastic results with my Rocketfish gadget, which uses 2.4 GHz to send sound to my rear home theater speakers.
Of course things haven't changed. The relatively unchallenging problem of helping people to write documents has been solved to the satisfaction of 98% of users.
With that said, Word would certainly stifle an ee cummings today.
I, for one, am interested in seeing candidates differentiate themselves more than I'm interested in how they reach their users. It feels to me like new-buzzword-marketing is making little difference in the REAL problems with the presidential race.
In fact, the information overload inherent in face-space/etcappears to be guiding candidates to focus on all appearing THE SAME, rather than helping voters make better decisions.
Yes, demanding something for which you have no right is definitely the right thing to do.
Next up, I go to Quizno's and demand free sandwiches.
I sorta preferred Northern Exposure. Bad humor, and Mounties - what else could we hope for?
or does this remind me of the "class action lawsuit similar to the one launched by Microsoft and Coke against PepsiCo last year"?
It's fairly common knowledge that the Aerospace and Defense spending is expected to collapse at the end of this administration. Bush "never saw a bill he didn't like", so has managed to rubber-stamp every budget increase that came across his desk.
:)
What isn't common knowledge is when said administration will end
...but it pays off. Money spent on military aerospace 'subsidy' projects pays dividends in new technology for a wide range of applications.
Space-age materials in your cars, space blankets, sensor technology, GPS - we enjoy all of these things directly or indirectly because of military spending. And don't forget that glorious confection that is freeze-dried ice cream.
"privillege"
:)
I would pay $5/year for the privilege of reading your posts pre-spellchecked.
I know, I know, I'm a spelling Nazi. But he was asking for it - he put it in quotes made it stand out and offend the eye even more
"By squinting people are actually changing the shape of their eye, just ever so little, so that the light focuses correctly on the retina.
Squinting also decreases the amount of light that enters the eye. Go ahead and squint right now - notice that you can start to see your bottom and top eyelid. When a lens is misshapen (due to age, damage or genetics) the light that passes through the lens is deflected incorrectly and misses the focal point; the farther the light rays are from the center of the lens, the more they are deviated from the focal point. By limiting the rays of light that come in through the bottom and top of the pupil, squinting allows rays to pass closer to the center of the lens, thereby creating a more focused image. So, that means that squinting works by two mechanisms - by both changing the shape of the eye and by letting in light that can be focused more precisely by the lens."
That's part of it - squinting also helps to reduce the amount of light entering the eye.
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Plenty of details here:
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/?quid=7
Chris
I should follow up on this by pointing out that rolling out Wifi in highly populated areas is eminently economical.
Lessons learned in highly populated areas will benefit areas with sparses population.
Does this remind anyone of anything? Like the telephone? Or cable TV? Or the cell phone?
Wikipedia says here:o rnia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_Calif
that Orange County's population density is ~3600 people per square mile.
150k over 5 years is 30k/year.
30k spread over 3600 people is ~$8.33. Per year.
So what's the problem?
Err... don't you mean the opposite:
"Especially when it turns one $50k/year engineer into two $100k/year engineers"
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I for one embrace our new corporate auctioneer overlords
It worked for popup blockers. Or it did for me - go google!!
The Ford dealer in my neighborhood tried to charge me $50 to come up with a diagnosis of my last problem.
At that point it's not worth my time to bring it to my local mechanic.
'nuff said.
Robert A Heinlen's character Delos D Harriman tried something similar to this in the 50s book "The Man Who Sold the Moon".
Prior art? Pretty close...
Total Recall is a Piers Anthony story.
...except they're 'entrapping' people who would otherwise be blowing their money on an internet investing scam, thereby saving them money.
Someone entrap me the same next time I go car shopping.
Great, there goes the raw materials supply for all my soap products.
"We were selling rich women their fat asses back to them"
I've got an original one:
'Survivor' is nothing more than Niven/Pournelle's Dream Park series...
wooo-haa