So the number of countries who read your email depends on the number of countries the servers are in that it passes through. At least with snail mail, you'd _see_ the greasy fingerprints and cum stains on the envelope.
That was the conclusion of a pre-Reaganomics book called The Academic Marketplace that turned the light of sociology back upon academia.
And it still seems to be true. Kurzweil is a court jester.
Let's all hope for a quick and painless stroke for Kurzweil. The worst thing that could happen to him is a lingering (and damned embarrassing) cancer of several years that science actually _can't_ with just a little concentrated thought cure "real soon".
That can get political. "Open source or death!" But I think OpenOffice.org, etc. on Windows is a really good wedge. Once a business sees it doesn't _need_ Office, Outlook, etc. it's a "Duh!" to ask, "Why the hell are we paying for Windows?"
I've mostly worked in academia so my experience might not be applicable to the iron rigidity of business but we had a similar thing with WordPerfect/Word a decade ago. In the (unfortunate in my opinion) transition to Word, they kept WordPerfect on the network as an option for something like two years. Why not make OpenOffice.org the standard (saving at least initially in.doc format) but have a few Office licenses for those who feel they can justify or "must" have Office? With a proper roll-out I really think it is unlikely that many people will hold a revolt and demand Office.
Indeed. Vinge was the first writer I "saw" lecture "live" in 1990s dial-up text before I attended a sci fi con around 2000 and heard him in 3d retinal-color live. But, aha! Now I know his "True Face".
Still is a terrorist here I believe. I saw on TV the other week that the U.S. government is working on that so Mandela can accept an award this summer. But then a CATHOLIC college in St. Paul, Minnesota took back its invitation to ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu to speak last year because he was too "controversial". That's what it's like in the U.S. today.
(A month later that college received the largest single individual donation of any college in state history. Evil has it's rewards.)
Catell. Otherwise about 130-132 for Mensa. And remember, you're talking about a normal curve so the sample becomes progressively smaller with each point above that.
That said, I'd say 142 is low. _Really_ smart people don't bother with on-line fun tests perhaps?
My wife and I were unemployed about a year and a half ago and we decided to take several very decent classes on 21st century job hunting presented by our state job service. The thing is, it was mandatory networking/extroversion to introduce yourself in some detail each time. I'd say probably 1 in 20 was just back from teaching English on the Mainland (2), Taiwan (1) or Thailand (1). Who'da thunk, because how often are you free to survey a room full of the unemployed?
Note, however, that they were _back_ from those jobs looking for something else so that should hint that Asia wasn't paradise.
Those of us around IT don't always see them regularly, but remember, 16-17% of the population just aren't that smart. And per another comment, 1% are in jail. I saw a college alumni survey about a decade ago and email use really dropped over about the age of 55 -- which I guess now might extrapolate to 65? Lot of Americans over 65. Lot of Americans at the poverty level as well.
Admittedly, many of these factors are coexistent but 20% sounds really good all things considered.
Anything except YouTube and OpenGL games? I put Xubuntu on a 400 mhz K6-III with half a gig last year. Boots slowly, programs load slowly, but you would be surprised at the passable performance for office work. And it's fine for streaming _audio_. YouTube doesn't stutter but it's about 2 frames/second with the 16 meg X2 AGP.
Admittedly, with the merging of entertainment and browsing, that's a qualification but you know in your heart grandma will be challenged enough figuring out email and basic browsing.
I probably will take 4 or 5 30-second jumps per commercial break on stuff I've put on the MythTV. But, in truth, I'm not timeshifting 80% of the time. Remember, more than half of my TV viewing years were before VCRs were inexpensive and before DVDs were invented so everybody watched live or missed it.
Agreed. They'd be more likely to carry a bioweapons/adaptation lab than a flute assuming they are a species retaining that much arrogance. The energy and effort expenditure is just too great. Generally, at best we'll be watching each other's old news from a distance.
Other than that: boring. Another quotable person says:
1) Big universe = what are the odds? 2) Hostile universe = much more pond scum than sentience
The FBI getting a librarian to tell them what you have been reading, well, that's obviously evil. But this is business-to-business. Isn't it great to see free and unbridled libertarian capitalism? I mean, hey, who's forcing her to use Blockbuster?
On the other hand, can it really be that the Reagan era schooled generation is starting to see that corporations _can_ be evil?
Fraud indeed. My wife has a similar problem. Since it is an issue of "IDENTITY theft" instead of "identity THEFT" I'm at a bit of a loss to know how to filter a Google well to know where to go to get anything done about it. The local police aren't very interested and are probably frustrated in their inability to do much about it.
Something more than once/year we get the collection calls for this or that credit card. They have my wife's name, address and phone number. Presumably something like the "billing address" instead of the "shipping address" in internet transactions? What they don't have is _our_ credit card number or SSNs, thanky Cheeses, so it is cleared up relatively quickly but it may take two or three calls to get the phone drones out of collection mode and into problem-solving mode, and did echo back to our credit card company in one case before it was resolved. So it is annoying.
Heh, heh. Not to mention that the original Galactic Civilizations was OS/2. Protection through obscurity. It had a pretty benign one-time code recognition to activate.
Could be worse. Installed Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in a qemu session the other day. I had thankfully forgotten that each boot requires looking up a trivial fact in the manual. Similar to 688 Attack Sub.
For better or worse, from what I got out of the article, it was the attempt to _download_ at the site that constituted the thought to commit a crime. So this is just a refinement of what I've understood the U.S. government to be doing for years. Which is to say, running kiddie porn sites. Must have been about five years ago I remember one of our area high school teachers was dumb enough to order a video from a decoy site and have it sent to his school mailbox for that extra humiliation of getting dragged away at his school. Downloads have to _way_ increase their arrests, which will be quoted as their "success", because it is so much simpler than actually mailing something across state lines.
So just a new techno wrinkle on what has become an old practice since the "war on drugs" in America. Not to say that I approve of my tax dollars going to government agents acting as Satan to preemptively tempt people into sin. It's rule by black ops social psychology instead of rule of law.
When I watch the "noos" I see stories about high achieving high school students, cats saved from fires, Paris Hilton, the latest actor picked up for drunk driving. the annual arrival of Girl Scout cookies, plucky disabled people, gang shootings, BS, BS, BS.
So, out of the five hours of "news" broken down by foreign affairs, domestic affairs, campaign '08, etc. did they actually have to watch 50 hours of "noos"?
People love the "great man" theory of history. Reagan single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union. Clinton was "responsible" for the economy of the 90s. The MPAA can just as well step in and take credit for their part in promoting the need for the public to support Hollywood. Most people won't argue.
"It seems like the TV execs are missing a huge opportunity that they could just own without issue if they just stepped out and took advantage of it."
Because media and corporate people are morons? I've wondered for nearly a decade why even regular stream is considered a poor cousin and a toy. If I'm listening to a radio station in Paris I might not understand every word, but I'll pick out "Coca-Cola". There should be some fund of Coca-Cola International that the station is collecting from to support that stream. Same for Podcasts. Just leave the commercials in and distribute them for free _as_long_as_ the sponsors are paying for that extra channel.
True, it isn't perfect. A BBQ rib joint advertising in Paris probably won't get my business. And there is the general question of "listenership" -- but how precisely has that ever been estimated?
Torrents just ramp the stakes up exponentially. What's the value of having your show (preferably with commercials if we are talking value$) available on demand from the cloud "forever"? It's actually rather amusing if you think about it. Like trying to put a value on an illegal upload and then trying to collect that amount from the corporation you sold the advertising to. Is that something-less-than-eternal commercial something-less-than-infinitely valuable? If there are a million something-less-than-eternal coca-cola commercials available on demand, how much should an advertising agency be paid to produce the million-and-one commercial? Insider trendiness manipulation could become as profitable as stock manipulation.
Seems to me the biggest practical hurdle is still, ironically, distribution -- at least as a generational gap. Not all car systems handle mp3, not all people over 40 routinely do a dump to their portable player for the week. Who will create the first programmable podcast retrieval and player for the car -- Sweet Jesus willing only programmable when the car is in park?
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So the number of countries who read your email depends on the number of countries the servers are in that it passes through. At least with snail mail, you'd _see_ the greasy fingerprints and cum stains on the envelope.
That was the conclusion of a pre-Reaganomics book called The Academic Marketplace that turned the light of sociology back upon academia.
And it still seems to be true. Kurzweil is a court jester.
Let's all hope for a quick and painless stroke for Kurzweil. The worst thing that could happen to him is a lingering (and damned embarrassing) cancer of several years that science actually _can't_ with just a little concentrated thought cure "real soon".
That can get political. "Open source or death!" But I think OpenOffice.org, etc. on Windows is a really good wedge. Once a business sees it doesn't _need_ Office, Outlook, etc. it's a "Duh!" to ask, "Why the hell are we paying for Windows?"
.doc format) but have a few Office licenses for those who feel they can justify or "must" have Office? With a proper roll-out I really think it is unlikely that many people will hold a revolt and demand Office.
I've mostly worked in academia so my experience might not be applicable to the iron rigidity of business but we had a similar thing with WordPerfect/Word a decade ago. In the (unfortunate in my opinion) transition to Word, they kept WordPerfect on the network as an option for something like two years. Why not make OpenOffice.org the standard (saving at least initially in
Indeed. Vinge was the first writer I "saw" lecture "live" in 1990s dial-up text before I attended a sci fi con around 2000 and heard him in 3d retinal-color live. But, aha! Now I know his "True Face".
Still is a terrorist here I believe. I saw on TV the other week that the U.S. government is working on that so Mandela can accept an award this summer. But then a CATHOLIC college in St. Paul, Minnesota took back its invitation to ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu to speak last year because he was too "controversial". That's what it's like in the U.S. today.
(A month later that college received the largest single individual donation of any college in state history. Evil has it's rewards.)
Catell. Otherwise about 130-132 for Mensa. And remember, you're talking about a normal curve so the sample becomes progressively smaller with each point above that.
That said, I'd say 142 is low. _Really_ smart people don't bother with on-line fun tests perhaps?
Since it's on Windows IT Pro, I assume that is the intended tone. "Business don't try anything innovative like those stupid, penny-pinching colleges."
Once those beetles can fart at escape velocity it's all over.
As long as you only use one table, it's a flat file.
Should you decide to go hog wild and split your table into a relational set, it's all there and available.
I suppose that means running XP on qemu is being anally retentive.
My wife and I were unemployed about a year and a half ago and we decided to take several very decent classes on 21st century job hunting presented by our state job service. The thing is, it was mandatory networking/extroversion to introduce yourself in some detail each time. I'd say probably 1 in 20 was just back from teaching English on the Mainland (2), Taiwan (1) or Thailand (1). Who'da thunk, because how often are you free to survey a room full of the unemployed?
Note, however, that they were _back_ from those jobs looking for something else so that should hint that Asia wasn't paradise.
Those of us around IT don't always see them regularly, but remember, 16-17% of the population just aren't that smart. And per another comment, 1% are in jail. I saw a college alumni survey about a decade ago and email use really dropped over about the age of 55 -- which I guess now might extrapolate to 65? Lot of Americans over 65. Lot of Americans at the poverty level as well.
Admittedly, many of these factors are coexistent but 20% sounds really good all things considered.
"And then do what with them exactly?"
Anything except YouTube and OpenGL games? I put Xubuntu on a 400 mhz K6-III with half a gig last year. Boots slowly, programs load slowly, but you would be surprised at the passable performance for office work. And it's fine for streaming _audio_. YouTube doesn't stutter but it's about 2 frames/second with the 16 meg X2 AGP.
Admittedly, with the merging of entertainment and browsing, that's a qualification but you know in your heart grandma will be challenged enough figuring out email and basic browsing.
I probably will take 4 or 5 30-second jumps per commercial break on stuff I've put on the MythTV. But, in truth, I'm not timeshifting 80% of the time. Remember, more than half of my TV viewing years were before VCRs were inexpensive and before DVDs were invented so everybody watched live or missed it.
Agreed. They'd be more likely to carry a bioweapons/adaptation lab than a flute assuming they are a species retaining that much arrogance. The energy and effort expenditure is just too great. Generally, at best we'll be watching each other's old news from a distance.
Other than that: boring. Another quotable person says:
1) Big universe = what are the odds?
2) Hostile universe = much more pond scum than sentience
So what else is new?
The FBI getting a librarian to tell them what you have been reading, well, that's obviously evil. But this is business-to-business. Isn't it great to see free and unbridled libertarian capitalism? I mean, hey, who's forcing her to use Blockbuster?
On the other hand, can it really be that the Reagan era schooled generation is starting to see that corporations _can_ be evil?
Fraud indeed. My wife has a similar problem. Since it is an issue of "IDENTITY theft" instead of "identity THEFT" I'm at a bit of a loss to know how to filter a Google well to know where to go to get anything done about it. The local police aren't very interested and are probably frustrated in their inability to do much about it.
Something more than once/year we get the collection calls for this or that credit card. They have my wife's name, address and phone number. Presumably something like the "billing address" instead of the "shipping address" in internet transactions? What they don't have is _our_ credit card number or SSNs, thanky Cheeses, so it is cleared up relatively quickly but it may take two or three calls to get the phone drones out of collection mode and into problem-solving mode, and did echo back to our credit card company in one case before it was resolved. So it is annoying.
Heh, heh. Not to mention that the original Galactic Civilizations was OS/2. Protection through obscurity. It had a pretty benign one-time code recognition to activate.
Could be worse. Installed Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in a qemu session the other day. I had thankfully forgotten that each boot requires looking up a trivial fact in the manual. Similar to 688 Attack Sub.
For better or worse, from what I got out of the article, it was the attempt to _download_ at the site that constituted the thought to commit a crime. So this is just a refinement of what I've understood the U.S. government to be doing for years. Which is to say, running kiddie porn sites. Must have been about five years ago I remember one of our area high school teachers was dumb enough to order a video from a decoy site and have it sent to his school mailbox for that extra humiliation of getting dragged away at his school. Downloads have to _way_ increase their arrests, which will be quoted as their "success", because it is so much simpler than actually mailing something across state lines.
So just a new techno wrinkle on what has become an old practice since the "war on drugs" in America. Not to say that I approve of my tax dollars going to government agents acting as Satan to preemptively tempt people into sin. It's rule by black ops social psychology instead of rule of law.
When I watch the "noos" I see stories about high achieving high school students, cats saved from fires, Paris Hilton, the latest actor picked up for drunk driving. the annual arrival of Girl Scout cookies, plucky disabled people, gang shootings, BS, BS, BS.
So, out of the five hours of "news" broken down by foreign affairs, domestic affairs, campaign '08, etc. did they actually have to watch 50 hours of "noos"?
Don't see any mention of the obvious military applications.
People love the "great man" theory of history. Reagan single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union. Clinton was "responsible" for the economy of the 90s. The MPAA can just as well step in and take credit for their part in promoting the need for the public to support Hollywood. Most people won't argue.
Basically, we have to give up our freedoms to preserve our freedoms, right?
Well, that and tourism.
Being of Norwegian heritage, someday I'll probably waste money on a troll doll -- troll doll, get it?
"It seems like the TV execs are missing a huge opportunity that they could just own without issue if they just stepped out and took advantage of it."
Because media and corporate people are morons? I've wondered for nearly a decade why even regular stream is considered a poor cousin and a toy. If I'm listening to a radio station in Paris I might not understand every word, but I'll pick out "Coca-Cola". There should be some fund of Coca-Cola International that the station is collecting from to support that stream. Same for Podcasts. Just leave the commercials in and distribute them for free _as_long_as_ the sponsors are paying for that extra channel.
True, it isn't perfect. A BBQ rib joint advertising in Paris probably won't get my business. And there is the general question of "listenership" -- but how precisely has that ever been estimated?
Torrents just ramp the stakes up exponentially. What's the value of having your show (preferably with commercials if we are talking value$) available on demand from the cloud "forever"? It's actually rather amusing if you think about it. Like trying to put a value on an illegal upload and then trying to collect that amount from the corporation you sold the advertising to. Is that something-less-than-eternal commercial something-less-than-infinitely valuable? If there are a million something-less-than-eternal coca-cola commercials available on demand, how much should an advertising agency be paid to produce the million-and-one commercial? Insider trendiness manipulation could become as profitable as stock manipulation.
Seems to me the biggest practical hurdle is still, ironically, distribution -- at least as a generational gap. Not all car systems handle mp3, not all people over 40 routinely do a dump to their portable player for the week. Who will create the first programmable podcast retrieval and player for the car -- Sweet Jesus willing only programmable when the car is in park?