Back in the day, I used to say if linux was a jeep and Windows was a Pinto, the combo of Warp+Object Desktop was your grandfather's pimped out Caddie with the power seats, velor, and adjustable steering wheel. But that was then. I've moved on. Really. Oh, sure. I have a copy in a qemu cylinder to play Galactic Civilizations [the _original_ Galactic Civilizations kids], but that just reminds me that OS/2 doesn't look so pretty today.
Multi-tasking? Yes, for all of a year, or two, it was better than Windows 3.1 and 95. The GUI for individually tweaking configuration files for _each_ DOS, Win3.1 and OS2 program was particularly cool and gave some foundation for saying DOS and Win3.1 programs ran better on OS/2 than they did on Windows. But I sure as hell don't miss the zombie thread from the collision when I was playing an mp3 stream and a system sound clobbered it. And the four-year-old on the Windows commercials could install Ubuntu compared to OS/2 setup hell, so, in fair retrospect, it was doomed as a home desktop and IBM was rational not to try to push it.
When my wife bangs her mouse around at home complaining it takes so long for the "screensaver" to give back her desktop. Clearly, the place she works hasn't set any power saving on their machines or she would know what is going on. I believe with about 500 employees at their peak last year, maybe they could have fired a couple fewer on their recent rounds of layoffs if they had actually used power saving.
Seriously, for the country that's supposed to be the most modern and have the best technology...
Seriously, anybody still claiming this?
I remember a bioscience story about a breakthrough each of the last couple months on our local TV news, but those American medical advances were both variations on European science I saw on the BBC or BFMTV.fr or read about on foreign web sites months ago. Wouldn't know the _original_ discovery wasn't American if you only watched U.S. TV. Makes me think things have come full cycle and we are the new "Japanese" or "Chinese" building on the discoveries of other countries.
I left a job in the NorthEast corridor almost 20 years ago because I couldn't breath. Yeah, that blue haze drifting around was "fog" all right. State had something like a 65 year average life expectancy. Glad to be back in a state with about a 78 year life expectancy even though I really liked the job.
When I wrote Saint Wellstone back in the day that I thought it was insane that the DMCA should impose a 5 year/$100,000 fine on playing a legally purchased DVD on a linux machine, his reply was that the DMCA was the right thing to do and he'd do it again.
Actually, I think Democrats are the worst. Republicans love them some oil and gas. Democrats love them some Hollywood.
So, now's your chance: that lack of a PhD in Astrology and Alchemy won't hold you back any longer.
I miss the old Chaoseum. I have a couple polo shirts, alumni association mug, auto stickers (including the parking lot passes), multiple T-shirts and the Bachelors and Masters (Medieval Metaphysics) kits from "Old Misk". It was my understanding they got the word to cool it or they might get charged with being a diploma mill? At an IT training about a decade ago I was wearing the Miskatonic U, Dept of Astrology polo shirt and the instructor asked me, "Your university doesn't really have a department of astrology, does it?"
As for Texas, or Oklahoma or much of the South and Midwest, I've been saying on the political blogs that if Chuck Norris wants to lead a secession, let him. Give Bubba a reservation to run free so the rest of us can get on with progress -- and we can deny them visas to return.
In the trenches, it's all they have. It's what they are.
Case in point. My stepfather thought he was being cute getting his "free $1000 life insurance policy" but the fool gave them my name. The letter they sent me was _amazing_. I started with technical issues like the inside address in all caps that didn't close up the second address line and progressed through the spelling and grammar errors to find a dozen things wrong with that letter. Made me do some research to find out whether the company was for real [yes, more-or-less, as life insurance companies go].
Anyway, it took me to a blog of their sales representatives. These people can't write, can't spell, probably never made it past high school. But by the end of the day, by the sweat of their brow, they may have your money. It's all they have. It's what they are. It was really pretty "Death of a Salesman" sad to read through.
Both Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica jumped the shark for me when the baby became the key to either "it all" or just a subplot. I hope that won't be a decade-long meme. Maybe more episode about breast-feeding, though?
One of the famous comparative studies of how American kids start out on par and decline relative to the performance of other countries was done comparing Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. They concluded, for instance, that Japanese cramming was more of a myth than thought. While the American kids might be occupied with sports after school, the Japanese kids might be occupied with something like calligraphy that was also non-academic.
The most striking difference between countries was the percentage of kids who were "missing" in American schools. They may have been in the building but the administration just couldn't tell the researcher where they were at any given time.
"God bless the meek." "Oh, that's nice. They have a devil of a time of it." This shouldn't help.
Actually, what's really scary is it's five minutes in the future from Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom where a person thrives by his cumulative online "Whuffie".
Weird how that principle works out again. I always tell people I don't mind mp3s because I remember when AM was the norm, particularly in cars. More than that, 196 kbps and above is better than table top FM and many of the stereos I've listened to in my life. So, no worries.
Got that, nweaver. Fringe sucked moldy dog turds. But then, I could only bare to watch the pilot and still haven't washed the taint from my mind. I hate colorful wink-at-the-camera insane geniuses for side-comedy's sake. If I want The Nutty Professor, Jerry Lewis set the standard. In terms of writing, you often hear SF writers state the maxim that every book is allowed _one_ miracle. That pilot used a whole season's worth even without pulling leprechauns out of their asses for a secret weapon. Much the same for Eleventh Hour, truth be told. I hate the basic "sniff the glove neofascist" premise of that show that a scientist needs an FBI agent with constant PMS to guard and watch him. Both those shows just felt "wrong" and had me constantly critiquing how I could better write or direct each scene.
Both shows are thuggish rip-offs of the immensely more intelligent and mature -- _for_, as well as _by_, Canadians -- ReGenesis. Three of the five seasons are on Hulu. Fringe lovers in withdrawal -- go to Hulu and behold the wonder of adult SF untainted by the Hollywood rule that SF is for 11-year-old boys. You Eleventh Hour watchers too.
Our household is split on the others. My wife has drifted off from Connor in boredom and won't watch it with me anymore. Probably only watched it in the first place because she loved Firefly. A "River" fetish. She likes Dollhouse more than I do but I'm willing to keep at it.
I think the point of the scheduling is putting them before Numb3rs. Numb3rs could loosely be called science fiction if math purists would grant me some slack on applied theory, and, if not, it appeals to the same audience so I suspect the idea at FOX was to create something like a SciFi Friday in synergy with CBS. As network wonk strategy goes, it seems rather unusually intelligent to me. As always, the people who have something better to do on Friday night will record them.
Have to agree. Like so many medium and big box stores, Circuit City was apparently afraid of the Inner City. [So they could keep prices low in land costs? Yeah, you betcha.] Since I'm afraid of the 'burbs, we seldom met.
It's all online, isn't it? Just shows up at the door. Hell, in dollars spent furniture from ifurn.com has been our largest supplier so far this year. No doubt, the Fex Ex guy hates our guts.
Although, hypocritically, I'm within walking distance of a Microcenter.
I quit going to Hollywood blockbusters when they became vapid moron-mind food about big fish and apes in the 70s. And because our metro was particularly rich in access to foreign film.
I quit TV in the 80s because I was fed up with the same inherent lack of quality. Sure, the ZX-81 and Commodore came along and took up a lot of my time because they were more interesting -- but not for the reasons this late-comer is spouting off about.
Maybe we should call it the vulgar media instead of the mass media. They're near synonyms. Just don't blame computers because TV is cram.
Abbie Hoffman used to say that an undercover cop would smoke marijuana with your group but he sure as hell wouldn't drop acid because the drug classes at the time were telling people it made you permanently crazy. So how do you test a new member of your dark net?
From what I understand ("Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong"), IE8 should cure several MS/IE-induced problems. So Microsoft is having second thought about _not_ being a perpetual pain in the ass?
I'm not even blind and these stories make me crazy. Honest to Dog, I think I've read stories about this being tried once every decade since the '70s. so _WHEN_ will it be ready for prime time?
Either that, or just give up on running a story on it every decade. Geez.
Paradox of the middle. This is still a great country -- to many. If you are trying to survive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo you'd love to have the opportunity to come here.
I'm not impressed with these guys returning now. I was trying to talk my wife into emigrating back in '03-'04 when our ages were more likely to let us squeak through for citizenship in Canada. It was clear to any thinking person that the country would be in a shambles in a few years. But no. So, lucky us. Front seats at the end times.
Lucky Californian bastards. Minneapolis should be 10 degrees warmer than Duluth by March 30. Could break 50 here in the afternoon and they won't have the opportunity to savor the wind off Lake Superior.
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Back in the day, I used to say if linux was a jeep and Windows was a Pinto, the combo of Warp+Object Desktop was your grandfather's pimped out Caddie with the power seats, velor, and adjustable steering wheel. But that was then. I've moved on. Really. Oh, sure. I have a copy in a qemu cylinder to play Galactic Civilizations [the _original_ Galactic Civilizations kids], but that just reminds me that OS/2 doesn't look so pretty today.
Multi-tasking? Yes, for all of a year, or two, it was better than Windows 3.1 and 95. The GUI for individually tweaking configuration files for _each_ DOS, Win3.1 and OS2 program was particularly cool and gave some foundation for saying DOS and Win3.1 programs ran better on OS/2 than they did on Windows. But I sure as hell don't miss the zombie thread from the collision when I was playing an mp3 stream and a system sound clobbered it. And the four-year-old on the Windows commercials could install Ubuntu compared to OS/2 setup hell, so, in fair retrospect, it was doomed as a home desktop and IBM was rational not to try to push it.
When my wife bangs her mouse around at home complaining it takes so long for the "screensaver" to give back her desktop. Clearly, the place she works hasn't set any power saving on their machines or she would know what is going on. I believe with about 500 employees at their peak last year, maybe they could have fired a couple fewer on their recent rounds of layoffs if they had actually used power saving.
Seriously, for the country that's supposed to be the most modern and have the best technology...
Seriously, anybody still claiming this?
I remember a bioscience story about a breakthrough each of the last couple months on our local TV news, but those American medical advances were both variations on European science I saw on the BBC or BFMTV.fr or read about on foreign web sites months ago. Wouldn't know the _original_ discovery wasn't American if you only watched U.S. TV. Makes me think things have come full cycle and we are the new "Japanese" or "Chinese" building on the discoveries of other countries.
I left a job in the NorthEast corridor almost 20 years ago because I couldn't breath. Yeah, that blue haze drifting around was "fog" all right. State had something like a 65 year average life expectancy. Glad to be back in a state with about a 78 year life expectancy even though I really liked the job.
When I wrote Saint Wellstone back in the day that I thought it was insane that the DMCA should impose a 5 year/$100,000 fine on playing a legally purchased DVD on a linux machine, his reply was that the DMCA was the right thing to do and he'd do it again.
Actually, I think Democrats are the worst. Republicans love them some oil and gas. Democrats love them some Hollywood.
So, now's your chance: that lack of a PhD in Astrology and Alchemy won't hold you back any longer.
I miss the old Chaoseum. I have a couple polo shirts, alumni association mug, auto stickers (including the parking lot passes), multiple T-shirts and the Bachelors and Masters (Medieval Metaphysics) kits from "Old Misk". It was my understanding they got the word to cool it or they might get charged with being a diploma mill? At an IT training about a decade ago I was wearing the Miskatonic U, Dept of Astrology polo shirt and the instructor asked me, "Your university doesn't really have a department of astrology, does it?"
As for Texas, or Oklahoma or much of the South and Midwest, I've been saying on the political blogs that if Chuck Norris wants to lead a secession, let him. Give Bubba a reservation to run free so the rest of us can get on with progress -- and we can deny them visas to return.
In the trenches, it's all they have. It's what they are.
Case in point. My stepfather thought he was being cute getting his "free $1000 life insurance policy" but the fool gave them my name. The letter they sent me was _amazing_. I started with technical issues like the inside address in all caps that didn't close up the second address line and progressed through the spelling and grammar errors to find a dozen things wrong with that letter. Made me do some research to find out whether the company was for real [yes, more-or-less, as life insurance companies go].
Anyway, it took me to a blog of their sales representatives. These people can't write, can't spell, probably never made it past high school. But by the end of the day, by the sweat of their brow, they may have your money. It's all they have. It's what they are. It was really pretty "Death of a Salesman" sad to read through.
Both Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica jumped the shark for me when the baby became the key to either "it all" or just a subplot. I hope that won't be a decade-long meme. Maybe more episode about breast-feeding, though?
No statement of parties or terms.
But, then, only so much blood and alcohol I suppose.
One of the famous comparative studies of how American kids start out on par and decline relative to the performance of other countries was done comparing Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. They concluded, for instance, that Japanese cramming was more of a myth than thought. While the American kids might be occupied with sports after school, the Japanese kids might be occupied with something like calligraphy that was also non-academic.
The most striking difference between countries was the percentage of kids who were "missing" in American schools. They may have been in the building but the administration just couldn't tell the researcher where they were at any given time.
"God bless the meek." "Oh, that's nice. They have a devil of a time of it." This shouldn't help.
Actually, what's really scary is it's five minutes in the future from Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom where a person thrives by his cumulative online "Whuffie".
There are some appealing arguments for it.
There are some appealing arguments against it.
Which makes me wonder:
HAS ANYBODY THOUGHT TO LOOK WHETHER THERE IS FOREIGN RESEARCH THAT INDICATES AN ANSWER ONE WAY OR ANOTHER?
Sheesh. What a Rorschach test to expose opinions.
Weird how that principle works out again. I always tell people I don't mind mp3s because I remember when AM was the norm, particularly in cars. More than that, 196 kbps and above is better than table top FM and many of the stereos I've listened to in my life. So, no worries.
You know what happened to Pushing Daisies.
Got that, nweaver. Fringe sucked moldy dog turds. But then, I could only bare to watch the pilot and still haven't washed the taint from my mind. I hate colorful wink-at-the-camera insane geniuses for side-comedy's sake. If I want The Nutty Professor, Jerry Lewis set the standard. In terms of writing, you often hear SF writers state the maxim that every book is allowed _one_ miracle. That pilot used a whole season's worth even without pulling leprechauns out of their asses for a secret weapon. Much the same for Eleventh Hour, truth be told. I hate the basic "sniff the glove neofascist" premise of that show that a scientist needs an FBI agent with constant PMS to guard and watch him. Both those shows just felt "wrong" and had me constantly critiquing how I could better write or direct each scene.
Both shows are thuggish rip-offs of the immensely more intelligent and mature -- _for_, as well as _by_, Canadians -- ReGenesis. Three of the five seasons are on Hulu. Fringe lovers in withdrawal -- go to Hulu and behold the wonder of adult SF untainted by the Hollywood rule that SF is for 11-year-old boys. You Eleventh Hour watchers too.
Our household is split on the others. My wife has drifted off from Connor in boredom and won't watch it with me anymore. Probably only watched it in the first place because she loved Firefly. A "River" fetish. She likes Dollhouse more than I do but I'm willing to keep at it.
I think the point of the scheduling is putting them before Numb3rs. Numb3rs could loosely be called science fiction if math purists would grant me some slack on applied theory, and, if not, it appeals to the same audience so I suspect the idea at FOX was to create something like a SciFi Friday in synergy with CBS. As network wonk strategy goes, it seems rather unusually intelligent to me. As always, the people who have something better to do on Friday night will record them.
Have to agree. Like so many medium and big box stores, Circuit City was apparently afraid of the Inner City. [So they could keep prices low in land costs? Yeah, you betcha.] Since I'm afraid of the 'burbs, we seldom met.
It's all online, isn't it? Just shows up at the door. Hell, in dollars spent furniture from ifurn.com has been our largest supplier so far this year. No doubt, the Fex Ex guy hates our guts.
Although, hypocritically, I'm within walking distance of a Microcenter.
I quit going to Hollywood blockbusters when they became vapid moron-mind food about big fish and apes in the 70s. And because our metro was particularly rich in access to foreign film.
I quit TV in the 80s because I was fed up with the same inherent lack of quality. Sure, the ZX-81 and Commodore came along and took up a lot of my time because they were more interesting -- but not for the reasons this late-comer is spouting off about.
Maybe we should call it the vulgar media instead of the mass media. They're near synonyms. Just don't blame computers because TV is cram.
If our local news stories are to be believed. But I guess like sailors pushed _out_ to sea by dolphins, you don't hear from the satisfied customers.
What are the odds it was clumped together by one of the office workers who was told, "We need a website for this program. Who knows some html?"
Abbie Hoffman used to say that an undercover cop would smoke marijuana with your group but he sure as hell wouldn't drop acid because the drug classes at the time were telling people it made you permanently crazy. So how do you test a new member of your dark net?
From what I understand ("Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong"), IE8 should cure several MS/IE-induced problems. So Microsoft is having second thought about _not_ being a perpetual pain in the ass?
Typical, I guess.
I'm not even blind and these stories make me crazy. Honest to Dog, I think I've read stories about this being tried once every decade since the '70s. so _WHEN_ will it be ready for prime time?
Either that, or just give up on running a story on it every decade. Geez.
"Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping?"
Early in the interview. Bring it up often. And make sure to maintain extended eye contact to emphasize your point.
Paradox of the middle. This is still a great country -- to many. If you are trying to survive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo you'd love to have the opportunity to come here.
I'm not impressed with these guys returning now. I was trying to talk my wife into emigrating back in '03-'04 when our ages were more likely to let us squeak through for citizenship in Canada. It was clear to any thinking person that the country would be in a shambles in a few years. But no. So, lucky us. Front seats at the end times.
Lucky Californian bastards. Minneapolis should be 10 degrees warmer than Duluth by March 30. Could break 50 here in the afternoon and they won't have the opportunity to savor the wind off Lake Superior.