Absolutely nothing in this article is startling if you are a student of history:
Gee, chronic illness and cancer were high. Do you know it was business as usual for preserved foods to have ingredients like copper and lead for coloring? Do you know Bayer could market heroin for those aches that nag you? The horror of big government not withstanding, maybe food and drug laws have value?
How many people died from coal fired pollution in the 19th century? Clean Air Act anyone? For that matter, with no pollution control laws, it was anyone's guess what you were eating, drinking, breathing and living on top of from day to day.
No worker safety laws, no minimum wage, no 40-hour week, no food stamps, no social security. You paint the picture.
The Oxford History of the American People states that the average American breakfast was something like whiskey and ham. Maybe if McDonalds served whiskey with a McMuffin we would be back in the 19th century. Companies like Kellogg were founded as health food alternatives.
I personally had an ancestor die of cholera the year before Minneapolis got their water system up in 1869. Municipally-run water systems are good too. And another civil war ancestor die of typhoid -- probably also water contamination.
Universal childhood vaccination. Infant and children's nutrition to curb lifelong chronic illness. Sounds pretty socialist to me.
All-in-all, we have the health we have because there was a social infrastructure that promoted public health. So can we start to agree that Little House on the Prairie was a TV show and the propaganda we have been fed since the 80s that the 19th century was the golden age of America is a fantasy?
Thank you. I think it was ridiculous for me to be rated 100% troll.
1) Roughly before OS/2 Warp, Microsoft had an important role in OS/2. 2) _Now_, a decade later Microsoft wants to imitate OS/2 Warp with an included speech recognition. 3) It apparently works identically badly a decade later. 4) Considering the number of things that have appeared elsewhere before appearing in Microsoft products I find that an historically amusing irony and pretty germane to Micrsoft standard operating procedure. And rather _telling_ that in 10 years, the Microsoft product apparently is as bad as the OS/2 Warp version of 1995.
"Somebody" (sorry) has an article this week that I reached through the Buzzflash.com portal that notes a crucial difference between Orwell and the U.S. We have freedom of speech. Really we do. It just doesn't matter. As long as mass media completes the trifecta with business and government to maintain the Big Lies, it doesn't matter what 15% of the people who use alternative media believe.
The big news this week was the rise in mind share of WMDs. From a low in the 30s, belief that Saddam had WMDs is back in the 50th percentile. There are no facts, no lessons to be learned. The masses only have "opinions of the week" to be molded. And that fabricated social solidarity can coexist very well with a small intelligentsia who see everything differently.
Free speech _and_ totalitarianism -- and totalitarianism all the stronger for the facade of democracy.
Does Microsoft have to copy EVERYTHING??? I used OS/2 Warp for the second half of the 90s but my experience with _its_ built-in speech recognition was pretty much identical to that demo.
I have to wonder whether there aren't plenty of countries poor enough that it would be useful to start with one laptop per teacher, one laptop per class, one laptop for school administration or some combination of the above.
Don't forget the lesson of the FreeGen radio. Nice recreational product for the First World. But it had to be subsidized for Africa. And many African countries didn't particularly _want_ their people to have ready access to a solar-powered radio. Closed the South Africa plant and ended up as a label for Chinese product.
Yup. It seems like testing for the desktop and stable for servers is a popular convention. I believe I've notice one obvious bug, that had a workaround, in a year using testing. And considerably fewer bugs than Fedora.
But, as an ironic side note, I've decided to give up on KnoppMyth and am following a website's instructions on manually setting up MythTV with Fedora Core 4. I haven't tried Fedora 5 but my inpression is that Debian Testing has a great many considerably later versions of programs than my (upgraded) Fedora 4. So, can we now also put to rest the popular opinion that Debian lags behind some other distributions?
Actually not always scan, scan, swipe. As a one-car urban warrior I mountain biked to the grocery store one weekend while the car was in the shop. I figured self-serve would make sense that once because it would let me balance the bags for the carriers while I scanned. As I discovered, there is a feature (scale?) that halts the process if you take scanned items out of the bag and into another bag. Sort of like, "PUT THAT ITEM BACK WHERE IT BELONGS!" I'm still not sure of the rationale for that function. Maybe I would be tempted to scan it again and charge myself twice? Anyway, it was a disaster and it would have been much smoother to just work with a bag boy.
Really, aren't IT people in the best position to realize that self-serve is evil? These people losing their jobs aren't going to be retrained as rocket scientists and society isn't better off for their unemployment. And just because we are comfortable interfacing with machines most of the day, that doesn't mean the novelty of interfacing with a cashier occasionally is a bad thing.
Sorry - I am much more willing to associate "fruitcake" and "fool" with someone who is keen to presume an extreme behavior.
So.....then. If invading a country on a lie, killing 100-140,000 of their citizens, ignoring habeas corpus and international law, promoting your personal attorney to attorney general to tell you there isn't any torture going on and adding addendums to 750+ bills Congress passes detailing what you will and will not "agree" to follow isn't extreme behavior, what is _your_ definition of when the administration will have crossed the line?
While there may very well be some cultural differences (maybe westerners do actually prefer FPS and simple games over easterners - though I'm not sure that's true), it's not because one can not handle them.
Dunno. I think it was a little less than 20 years ago when Mensa changed their admissions test in Japan because something like 15% were passing instead of 2%. Maybe nurture _becomes_ mental nature? It isn't Lamarckian to say the development of the mind is shaped according to its available environment.
When I grew up, it seemed like the U.S. respected science instead of intelligent design and respected debate over the nihilism of "everyone's opinion has value". Perhaps it would be a research topic to evaluate whether junk content and sloppy reasoning have a spillover adverse effect on more primal I.Q. measurements like reaction time to simple problems?
Echoing SNL's insight that WalMart reversed its decision to sell birth control pills when it throught about who shops at WalMart, do we _really_ want people who would join this site uncensored and emailing each other?
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Yup. My wife is a web worker and she won't touch the GIMP. And she uses OO.org (and Bluefish -- likes it!) all the time.
Normally, I'm prone to scratch my head at people who think OpenOffice.org is so different from Office they are afraid to touch it. But the GIMP really is off-puttingly different from Photoshop without compensating features or market share. Not appreciating that is a blind spot.
I said it last month when this issue came up. The studies show it is dividing the attention of your MIND, not particularly your eyes, that is the real problem. As someone who has dodged cars as a pedestrian for decades and has known no fewer than three secretaries who had their fathers run over and killed at stop lights or stop signs, it is an issue I no longer feel much humor for. Beyond their own safety, it would be nice if drivers considered it valuable to pay more attention to the people they might kill.
That is really what is at stake. Does India have what it takes to invade and occupy a country, any country, as a demonstration to their citizens and the world that they will not tolerate terror?
How does a country assure the world that it is working to make itself safe from terror? Has the Bush administration made the U.S. safe from terror by channeling Homeland Security money to Indiana Amish popcorn factories instead of container-by-container port inspection?
Give our Congress credit where credit is due. They've prioritized on-line gambling behind flag burning, gay marriage and the threat our lettuce-pickers pose to national security.
I don't know. It seems that when the U.S. passes a law the rest of the world is supposed to obey it so are most of the servers really out of reach? Join the army and see the world? I don't think so. See Iraq maybe. But every month it seems like you read about the FBI raiding someplace in Russia, South Africa, etc. etc. Join the FBI if you want to see the world is my advice. They should be renamed GBI for "Global".
Don't worry about it. If decades of Star Wars have taught us anything it is that (1) you always run tests under artificially optimal conditions, and (2) it doesn't actually have to work to get more contracts.
True. I have a little old lady I've set up for an experiment and she operates linux fine for the web stuff she wants to do.
One thing that has troubled me though is that a lot of these home Win9x duffers are probably on dial-up. How do you _update_ and _upgrade_ that linux distro? For that matter, would anyone want the user trying it? Apt-get has to be like a loaded gun to a child -- particularly when it is run from a GUI like KPackage where it will tell you what it has decided to REMOVE after it has STARTED the process.
You did the right thing. I fought that back with my P100 with 40 meg. It ran OS/2 Warp 3 through Netscape 3 but, come on, is Puppy Linux _really_ more fun than a Win9X desktop? Windows was the minimal OS for minimal hardware -- crashes accepted as part of the bargain.
You don't get something for nothing. I think a lot of the talk about linux hardware efficiency should have been left with, or should be reserved for, command-line servers.
Thank you. Yes, too many city boys here. I suspect almost all the "farms" that would install these facilities would be the massive cow factories. Bad in so many ways. It's a little like saying we could burn every book in every library to solve our energy "needs" and society would be the better for it in the trade-off.
What part of the studies that show the problem is your MIND being distracted doing other things while driving, not just having your eyes off the road, it is that Apple doesn't understand?
At the very least we can get past the nihilism of political correctness toward religion. In other words, "you may have the right to your beliefs" but "I have an equal right to laugh at you in public when they contradict science and reason and you try to push them upon society". Right now in the U.S. both the evangelicals and the politically correct weigh toward religion at the expense of science.
Just preparing the kids for the world of work where they will give up _all_ their rights as the corporation becomes their fe facto guardian. If the school didn't paw through their cell phones now and then how will they be wise to the corporation watching everything they do?
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Absolutely nothing in this article is startling if you are a student of history:
Gee, chronic illness and cancer were high. Do you know it was business as usual for preserved foods to have ingredients like copper and lead for coloring? Do you know Bayer could market heroin for those aches that nag you? The horror of big government not withstanding, maybe food and drug laws have value?
How many people died from coal fired pollution in the 19th century? Clean Air Act anyone? For that matter, with no pollution control laws, it was anyone's guess what you were eating, drinking, breathing and living on top of from day to day.
No worker safety laws, no minimum wage, no 40-hour week, no food stamps, no social security. You paint the picture.
The Oxford History of the American People states that the average American breakfast was something like whiskey and ham. Maybe if McDonalds served whiskey with a McMuffin we would be back in the 19th century. Companies like Kellogg were founded as health food alternatives.
I personally had an ancestor die of cholera the year before Minneapolis got their water system up in 1869. Municipally-run water systems are good too. And another civil war ancestor die of typhoid -- probably also water contamination.
Universal childhood vaccination. Infant and children's nutrition to curb lifelong chronic illness. Sounds pretty socialist to me.
All-in-all, we have the health we have because there was a social infrastructure that promoted public health. So can we start to agree that Little House on the Prairie was a TV show and the propaganda we have been fed since the 80s that the 19th century was the golden age of America is a fantasy?
Thank you. I think it was ridiculous for me to be rated 100% troll.
1) Roughly before OS/2 Warp, Microsoft had an important role in OS/2.
2) _Now_, a decade later Microsoft wants to imitate OS/2 Warp with an included speech recognition.
3) It apparently works identically badly a decade later.
4) Considering the number of things that have appeared elsewhere before appearing in Microsoft products I find that an historically amusing irony and pretty germane to Micrsoft standard operating procedure. And rather _telling_ that in 10 years, the Microsoft product apparently is as bad as the OS/2 Warp version of 1995.
"Somebody" (sorry) has an article this week that I reached through the Buzzflash.com portal that notes a crucial difference between Orwell and the U.S. We have freedom of speech. Really we do. It just doesn't matter. As long as mass media completes the trifecta with business and government to maintain the Big Lies, it doesn't matter what 15% of the people who use alternative media believe.
The big news this week was the rise in mind share of WMDs. From a low in the 30s, belief that Saddam had WMDs is back in the 50th percentile. There are no facts, no lessons to be learned. The masses only have "opinions of the week" to be molded. And that fabricated social solidarity can coexist very well with a small intelligentsia who see everything differently.
Free speech _and_ totalitarianism -- and totalitarianism all the stronger for the facade of democracy.
Does Microsoft have to copy EVERYTHING??? I used OS/2 Warp for the second half of the 90s but my experience with _its_ built-in speech recognition was pretty much identical to that demo.
I have to wonder whether there aren't plenty of countries poor enough that it would be useful to start with one laptop per teacher, one laptop per class, one laptop for school administration or some combination of the above.
Don't forget the lesson of the FreeGen radio. Nice recreational product for the First World. But it had to be subsidized for Africa. And many African countries didn't particularly _want_ their people to have ready access to a solar-powered radio. Closed the South Africa plant and ended up as a label for Chinese product.
Yup. It seems like testing for the desktop and stable for servers is a popular convention. I believe I've notice one obvious bug, that had a workaround, in a year using testing. And considerably fewer bugs than Fedora.
But, as an ironic side note, I've decided to give up on KnoppMyth and am following a website's instructions on manually setting up MythTV with Fedora Core 4. I haven't tried Fedora 5 but my inpression is that Debian Testing has a great many considerably later versions of programs than my (upgraded) Fedora 4. So, can we now also put to rest the popular opinion that Debian lags behind some other distributions?
Actually not always scan, scan, swipe. As a one-car urban warrior I mountain biked to the grocery store one weekend while the car was in the shop. I figured self-serve would make sense that once because it would let me balance the bags for the carriers while I scanned. As I discovered, there is a feature (scale?) that halts the process if you take scanned items out of the bag and into another bag. Sort of like, "PUT THAT ITEM BACK WHERE IT BELONGS!" I'm still not sure of the rationale for that function. Maybe I would be tempted to scan it again and charge myself twice? Anyway, it was a disaster and it would have been much smoother to just work with a bag boy.
Really, aren't IT people in the best position to realize that self-serve is evil? These people losing their jobs aren't going to be retrained as rocket scientists and society isn't better off for their unemployment. And just because we are comfortable interfacing with machines most of the day, that doesn't mean the novelty of interfacing with a cashier occasionally is a bad thing.
Unfortunately, fetal experimentation will be against the law so when they test it on mice, mice _will_ be the most intelligent species on earth.
Sorry - I am much more willing to associate "fruitcake" and "fool" with someone who is keen to presume an extreme behavior.
So.....then. If invading a country on a lie, killing 100-140,000 of their citizens, ignoring habeas corpus and international law, promoting your personal attorney to attorney general to tell you there isn't any torture going on and adding addendums to 750+ bills Congress passes detailing what you will and will not "agree" to follow isn't extreme behavior, what is _your_ definition of when the administration will have crossed the line?
While there may very well be some cultural differences (maybe westerners do actually prefer FPS and simple games over easterners - though I'm not sure that's true), it's not because one can not handle them.
Dunno. I think it was a little less than 20 years ago when Mensa changed their admissions test in Japan because something like 15% were passing instead of 2%. Maybe nurture _becomes_ mental nature? It isn't Lamarckian to say the development of the mind is shaped according to its available environment.
When I grew up, it seemed like the U.S. respected science instead of intelligent design and respected debate over the nihilism of "everyone's opinion has value". Perhaps it would be a research topic to evaluate whether junk content and sloppy reasoning have a spillover adverse effect on more primal I.Q. measurements like reaction time to simple problems?
Not that this raises disconcerting images of Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age or anything.
Echoing SNL's insight that WalMart reversed its decision to sell birth control pills when it throught about who shops at WalMart, do we _really_ want people who would join this site uncensored and emailing each other?
Yup. My wife is a web worker and she won't touch the GIMP. And she uses OO.org (and Bluefish -- likes it!) all the time.
Normally, I'm prone to scratch my head at people who think OpenOffice.org is so different from Office they are afraid to touch it. But the GIMP really is off-puttingly different from Photoshop without compensating features or market share. Not appreciating that is a blind spot.
I said it last month when this issue came up. The studies show it is dividing the attention of your MIND, not particularly your eyes, that is the real problem. As someone who has dodged cars as a pedestrian for decades and has known no fewer than three secretaries who had their fathers run over and killed at stop lights or stop signs, it is an issue I no longer feel much humor for. Beyond their own safety, it would be nice if drivers considered it valuable to pay more attention to the people they might kill.
Just google "esp tests" and take a couple you might be surprised.
Or you might not. I think the operative word is "might".
But if you take the test 100, 200 times and average the results......
That is really what is at stake. Does India have what it takes to invade and occupy a country, any country, as a demonstration to their citizens and the world that they will not tolerate terror?
How does a country assure the world that it is working to make itself safe from terror? Has the Bush administration made the U.S. safe from terror by channeling Homeland Security money to Indiana Amish popcorn factories instead of container-by-container port inspection?
Give our Congress credit where credit is due. They've prioritized on-line gambling behind flag burning, gay marriage and the threat our lettuce-pickers pose to national security.
I don't know. It seems that when the U.S. passes a law the rest of the world is supposed to obey it so are most of the servers really out of reach? Join the army and see the world? I don't think so. See Iraq maybe. But every month it seems like you read about the FBI raiding someplace in Russia, South Africa, etc. etc. Join the FBI if you want to see the world is my advice. They should be renamed GBI for "Global".
Don't worry about it. If decades of Star Wars have taught us anything it is that (1) you always run tests under artificially optimal conditions, and (2) it doesn't actually have to work to get more contracts.
But being Microsoft, I assume they would pay in pennies and demand a receipt?
True. I have a little old lady I've set up for an experiment and she operates linux fine for the web stuff she wants to do.
One thing that has troubled me though is that a lot of these home Win9x duffers are probably on dial-up. How do you _update_ and _upgrade_ that linux distro? For that matter, would anyone want the user trying it? Apt-get has to be like a loaded gun to a child -- particularly when it is run from a GUI like KPackage where it will tell you what it has decided to REMOVE after it has STARTED the process.
You did the right thing. I fought that back with my P100 with 40 meg. It ran OS/2 Warp 3 through Netscape 3 but, come on, is Puppy Linux _really_ more fun than a Win9X desktop? Windows was the minimal OS for minimal hardware -- crashes accepted as part of the bargain.
You don't get something for nothing. I think a lot of the talk about linux hardware efficiency should have been left with, or should be reserved for, command-line servers.
Thank you. Yes, too many city boys here. I suspect almost all the "farms" that would install these facilities would be the massive cow factories. Bad in so many ways. It's a little like saying we could burn every book in every library to solve our energy "needs" and society would be the better for it in the trade-off.
What part of the studies that show the problem is your MIND being distracted doing other things while driving, not just having your eyes off the road, it is that Apple doesn't understand?
At the very least we can get past the nihilism of political correctness toward religion. In other words, "you may have the right to your beliefs" but "I have an equal right to laugh at you in public when they contradict science and reason and you try to push them upon society". Right now in the U.S. both the evangelicals and the politically correct weigh toward religion at the expense of science.
Just preparing the kids for the world of work where they will give up _all_ their rights as the corporation becomes their fe facto guardian. If the school didn't paw through their cell phones now and then how will they be wise to the corporation watching everything they do?