I noticed a similar democratization between amateur radio and CB radio. It took some "stability" to get an amateur radio license because you actually had to study for an exam that was at one time only given at regional federal buildings. Not surprisingly, there was, generally, a certain intelligence and civility in communication. In contrast, any lunatic could send in for a CB license. And the results were predictable.
I would rather hope that the glass is half full. People who do not communicate well might learn something from online interaction.
And I try to remember that a lot of people do better with English than I do with Hindi.
My undergraduate degree was sort of an A-B-B-A psychology experiment with "A" being dorm years at an evangelical Lutheran college and "B" being dorm years at a state college. About every paragraph of dorm speech at the evangelical Lutheran school contained some variation on "cocksucker" or "cocksucking". Swearing on the dorm floor at the state college was amazingly infrequent in contrast.
I guess I'll never know which among several speculations would most likely account for the difference. But the evangelical school entered your room on Friday and Saturday nights unannounced, made you sign in and out overnight, didn't allow dancing during lent or drinking anytime, anywhere, closed the college for daily chapel and obviously didn't allow the genders to mix in the dorm rooms. At the state school, you could do pretty much anything that your dorm floor was cool with and it was experimenting with co-ed suites at a time that would correspond to the parents of most/.ers.
If people inevitably crash after a certain time, I see the article saying that educated people nonetheless compensate longer so that the crash is _relatively_ more dramatic at the end.
I loved my home OS/2 desktop years from '95 into '01 but...
a 'rock solid kernel,' 'excellent multitasking,'
So, when you are streaming an mp3 station and you initiate a system sound, the sound system doesn't throw a zombie thread in the conflict and lock the desktop anymore?
And, to be honest, in retrospect some memories of OS/2 installation and configuration make me shudder even compared to linux.
But the desktop was beautiful. And perhaps because it was like your father's Caddie pimped out with the heated leather seats, the people seemed to reflect a more mature attitude than the frequent "RTFM Newbie" tone among the limux pack.
I mostly walk, but very occasionally take the bus. I haven't driven in five years.
Really, how much larger is your footprint than mine?
Now, my lifestyle is mostly maintainable because I'm young,
I live in a metro and haven't driven to work once in the last 20 years of taking the bus. (Technically, my wife drove me and took the car during two bus strikes.) When our one car was in the shop over a weekend last October, I got groceries on a dirt bike with racks. I'm 54.
At least where there is mass transit, it is possible to maintain that simplicity indefinitely and stay healthier than you would planting your ass in a Hummer. In fact, one of my heroes is an old dude _well_ into his 70s I see walking about four miles/day to one grocery or the other just to get out.
Alien vs. Predator had to be the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. Not because it was summer matinee fodder and stunk -- which it did -- but because they had a ton of background material to make one of the most kick-ass sci fi shooters ever.
I think it was Harlan Ellison way, way, way back (Tom Snyder TV show) who was ranting about the stupid producer who was pressuring him to write about how Startrek meets the Aztecs at the dawn of the universe. Well, head-up-his-ass-producer-dude apparently got his vision of Aztecs-in-the-antarctic-meet-aliens movie. And boy did it have 30 years to build up a stink.
You want a _real_ Alien vs. Predator? Just extrapolate from the paperbacks:
Human female warrior wakes up abord the predator ship from a background-filling nightmare as the retros fire to enter orbit. The goal is the sport of taking out an alien hive they've recently planted. For a super paranoid movie, she would remain the only human in the story watching her back for both aliens and her fellow predators but compromise would probably require that the planet have human colonization that requires her to walk a tightrope of survival protecting humans, her fellow predators and herself. I would see a more open and messy combat field like a Jurrassic Park instead of a Doom tunnel search.
Second AvP? Time to infect earth and for her to figure out how to stop it and survive.
But, instead, we got an Aztecs-in-Antarctica maze pyramid.
Most experts say computers are not addictive in the same sense that drugs are, but they could be on the same level as gambling."
If that were true, wouldn't it be possible to transfer compulsive gambling behavior to compulsive web behavior the same as moving a heroin addict to methedone? Does it pass the smell test that web browsing is _really_ that reinforcing?
Aside from being silly filler, I think this chatter is political. The free web is in direction opposition, and competition in some cases, with the stenographic mass media.
And I had newstand access to the British ZX magazine, which had some pretty impressive stuff using a few K.
But the first _useful_ computer was a Commodore Plus/4 with printers, floppies and dial-up to CompusServe and GEnie. Buying a Plus/4 during one of the about three months it was sold retail turned out to be a pretty good thing. The fact that programs were generally incompatible with the 64 was somewhat balanced by the built-in assembler/disassembler. Learned a lot.
Also my first cracking. Discovered that all the small business accounting programs could be consolidated onto one 3-1/2" floppy so you only had to swap the 5-1/4" data floppies.
Can be done. For me, it was when Hollywood initially turned to blockbusters with big fish and monkeys. I was lucky to live where I had a H*LL of a film society available -- that recognized that popcorn and soda are essentials.
Which makes for a thought -- what if Hollywood were the only entertainment group in the world to adopt the technology?
So the most gregarious people are the ones incapable of social learning? That's really a strange maxim when you think about it. But I suppose it could explain the loud, back-slapping thick-skinned blowhards who are as likely to offend everyone as they are to be the life of the party.
Obviousy, more research is necessary to determine the mechanism by which a bottle of vodka releases the capability in genetically sensitive subjects.
The WSJ notes an irony: Google is fighting for 'Internet freedom' in the U.S., by resisting the Justice Department's request for information on user searches."
China was business -- nothing personal. It is my understanding Google is fighting the DOJ data mining in large part because of the repressive costs to Google of performing it. Again, it's business considerations -- nothing personal.
What if the DOJ had gotten off on a better foot and contracted with Google to pay them costs+profit on the project? How much U.S. freedom would they be defending then?
The problem is that radio stations have to fool advertisers that people are listening to them with contests and call in campaigns and sheer speculation. There is no way to prove how many people are listening at any given time.
You may be on to something. Same way my parents can't understand how their small town newspaper can be so stupid as to print a ton of papers they dump on the nursing homes and such every week. It seems pretty obvious they are fudging circulation numbers to maintain advertisers.
I've never understood why internet radio should be so difficult when you have such good stats -- and maybe the stats are the problem. I spent a lot of work time listening to FUN and NRJ out of Paris in the late ninties and, hey, "Coca Cola" comes out of the French. So why should internet radio have any trouble getting international advertisers? I figured it was just lack of vision by either station marketing or the advertisers. But maybe the realistically unimpressive stats are a part of the problem when compared to the hot air of listener polls.
Guy with my name moved in a block away maybe eight years ago. I hoofed a record club selection to him once and I never got a book I suspect went to him. Year+ later, after he's gone, I get a letter from some mother crying about how I broke her daughter's heart and demanding a response. Since she was apparently looking for satisfaction of the family honor, I figured she'd just write another gusher, so it seemed I had to response and tell her that she had, embarrassingly, unloaded on the wrong guy.
But being a/.er I did enclose a printout of people in the state with my name.
Yup, Oxford English says "An individual human being... emphatically, as distinguished from a thing" There's a reason we call them embryos instead of "Heather" and "Bobby".
But it really doesn't matter to the evangelical. They're mostly determinists. If that embryo won't mature, a whole alternate ordained universe will be destroyed where a soul-filled sentient being will never experience Christmas morning, a rainbow, kitties, puppies, raping that 13-year-old and lethal injection.
Garsh -- lost in the sands of time. Not even a mention that Galactic Civilizations started out as an OS/2 operating system game? As did Object Desktop. OS/2 Warp with Object Desktop really rocked in the age of Win9X. Like driving a pimped up Caddie with heated seats and adjustable seat and steering wheel compared to a Jeep.
Brad seems to be an interesting person who is often willing to ruminate on the computer biz. It's too bad he left a bit of a bad taste with the OS/2 crowd by laying down some heavy bitterness about the system when he saw it's market wasn't going anywhere but down.
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Or social intelligence. Since hacking proprietary code is a felony via the DMCA, he'd probably spend quite a bit of time indoors as a repeat felon.
William 'IllWill' Genovese was sentenced to prison after being tricked by a Microsoft Investigator offering to pay $200 for a copy of the secret source code. From the article: 'The investigator then returned and arranged a second $20 transaction for an FBI agent
Actually, sounds like Microsoft got the FBI a deal. Maybe we should put them in charge of the GSA and the government wouldn't be paying $5000 for popcorn poppers.
The more refined, I think, purchased pure and sweet Bayer (TM) Heroin -- for the aches that ail you. Poster was reproduced in my abnormal psych book. And there was _real_ Coca-Cola -- sugar, caffeine _and_ coca. Top that, Red Bull.
I bet there are more artificial additives, especially colors and flavors, than there were in the 60's, when things were supposed to be so much worse.
It's my understanding that before there were food laws and inspections pickles, for example, might contain lead as a coloring agent so Victorian times might have been worse IQ-wise if food were the problem.
That obselete test just fails to keep up with modern applications of science and math. Like manipulating them to support your point, or redefining them for political reasons.
Nooooo. That volume test using the thin and fat containers is a stock test for recognization of the concept of volume and an indication of brain development in general. What "political reasons" did "the man" have to teach people about volume the 1976 way that current students have happily evolved beyond?
(On the other hand, I also suspect the comment is tongue-in-cheek. The fact that they used tests this fundamental to testing brain development and kids did so much worse does seem _really_ significant -- of something -- and sobering.)
Our currnet U.S. leadership is positively proud to snear at their "reality-based" critics. It is very possible that a segment of the population is swayed by a gutter-level Postmodernism where everything is culturally relative the way the Nazis aped an appreciation for Nietzsche. And pop musicians from the Rolling Stones to Bad Religion have sung about 20-21 century schizoid boys. It's a stock meme. Probably the only people who aren't crazy today are the Amish and some rural third-world pockets who don't have much access to radio and TV.
"By stressing the basics -- reading and writing -- and testing like crazy you reduce the level of cognitive stimulation. Children have the facts but they are not thinking very well," says Adey. "And they are not getting hands-on physical experience of the way materials behave."
Remember this research next time the topic of building Commander Data comes up. The chucklehead crew of the Dark Star demonstrated that even teaching Computer phenomenology was disasterously inadequate. The integration of first-hand real world experience is essential to intelligence as we think of it.
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Would be truth in advertising. They've already got companies paying so-called "software assurance" money.
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I noticed a similar democratization between amateur radio and CB radio. It took some "stability" to get an amateur radio license because you actually had to study for an exam that was at one time only given at regional federal buildings. Not surprisingly, there was, generally, a certain intelligence and civility in communication. In contrast, any lunatic could send in for a CB license. And the results were predictable.
I would rather hope that the glass is half full. People who do not communicate well might learn something from online interaction.
And I try to remember that a lot of people do better with English than I do with Hindi.
My undergraduate degree was sort of an A-B-B-A psychology experiment with "A" being dorm years at an evangelical Lutheran college and "B" being dorm years at a state college. About every paragraph of dorm speech at the evangelical Lutheran school contained some variation on "cocksucker" or "cocksucking". Swearing on the dorm floor at the state college was amazingly infrequent in contrast.
I guess I'll never know which among several speculations would most likely account for the difference. But the evangelical school entered your room on Friday and Saturday nights unannounced, made you sign in and out overnight, didn't allow dancing during lent or drinking anytime, anywhere, closed the college for daily chapel and obviously didn't allow the genders to mix in the dorm rooms. At the state school, you could do pretty much anything that your dorm floor was cool with and it was experimenting with co-ed suites at a time that would correspond to the parents of most
Form your own conclusions.
If people inevitably crash after a certain time, I see the article saying that educated people nonetheless compensate longer so that the crash is _relatively_ more dramatic at the end.
Basically, that is a good thing -- sort of.
I loved my home OS/2 desktop years from '95 into '01 but...
a 'rock solid kernel,' 'excellent multitasking,'
So, when you are streaming an mp3 station and you initiate a system sound, the sound system doesn't throw a zombie thread in the conflict and lock the desktop anymore?
And, to be honest, in retrospect some memories of OS/2 installation and configuration make me shudder even compared to linux.
But the desktop was beautiful. And perhaps because it was like your father's Caddie pimped out with the heated leather seats, the people seemed to reflect a more mature attitude than the frequent "RTFM Newbie" tone among the limux pack.
I mostly walk, but very occasionally take the bus. I haven't driven in five years.
Really, how much larger is your footprint than mine?
Now, my lifestyle is mostly maintainable because I'm young,
I live in a metro and haven't driven to work once in the last 20 years of taking the bus. (Technically, my wife drove me and took the car during two bus strikes.) When our one car was in the shop over a weekend last October, I got groceries on a dirt bike with racks. I'm 54.
At least where there is mass transit, it is possible to maintain that simplicity indefinitely and stay healthier than you would planting your ass in a Hummer. In fact, one of my heroes is an old dude _well_ into his 70s I see walking about four miles/day to one grocery or the other just to get out.
Alien vs. Predator had to be the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. Not because it was summer matinee fodder and stunk -- which it did -- but because they had a ton of background material to make one of the most kick-ass sci fi shooters ever.
I think it was Harlan Ellison way, way, way back (Tom Snyder TV show) who was ranting about the stupid producer who was pressuring him to write about how Startrek meets the Aztecs at the dawn of the universe. Well, head-up-his-ass-producer-dude apparently got his vision of Aztecs-in-the-antarctic-meet-aliens movie. And boy did it have 30 years to build up a stink.
You want a _real_ Alien vs. Predator? Just extrapolate from the paperbacks:
Human female warrior wakes up abord the predator ship from a background-filling nightmare as the retros fire to enter orbit. The goal is the sport of taking out an alien hive they've recently planted. For a super paranoid movie, she would remain the only human in the story watching her back for both aliens and her fellow predators but compromise would probably require that the planet have human colonization that requires her to walk a tightrope of survival protecting humans, her fellow predators and herself. I would see a more open and messy combat field like a Jurrassic Park instead of a Doom tunnel search.
Second AvP? Time to infect earth and for her to figure out how to stop it and survive.
But, instead, we got an Aztecs-in-Antarctica maze pyramid.
Most experts say computers are not addictive in the same sense that drugs are, but they could be on the same level as gambling."
If that were true, wouldn't it be possible to transfer compulsive gambling behavior to compulsive web behavior the same as moving a heroin addict to methedone? Does it pass the smell test that web browsing is _really_ that reinforcing?
Aside from being silly filler, I think this chatter is political. The free web is in direction opposition, and competition in some cases, with the stenographic mass media.
And I had newstand access to the British ZX magazine, which had some pretty impressive stuff using a few K.
But the first _useful_ computer was a Commodore Plus/4 with printers, floppies and dial-up to CompusServe and GEnie. Buying a Plus/4 during one of the about three months it was sold retail turned out to be a pretty good thing. The fact that programs were generally incompatible with the 64 was somewhat balanced by the built-in assembler/disassembler. Learned a lot.
Also my first cracking. Discovered that all the small business accounting programs could be consolidated onto one 3-1/2" floppy so you only had to swap the 5-1/4" data floppies.
Can be done. For me, it was when Hollywood initially turned to blockbusters with big fish and monkeys. I was lucky to live where I had a H*LL of a film society available -- that recognized that popcorn and soda are essentials.
Which makes for a thought -- what if Hollywood were the only entertainment group in the world to adopt the technology?
So the most gregarious people are the ones incapable of social learning? That's really a strange maxim when you think about it. But I suppose it could explain the loud, back-slapping thick-skinned blowhards who are as likely to offend everyone as they are to be the life of the party.
Obviousy, more research is necessary to determine the mechanism by which a bottle of vodka releases the capability in genetically sensitive subjects.
The WSJ notes an irony: Google is fighting for 'Internet freedom' in the U.S., by resisting the Justice Department's request for information on user searches."
China was business -- nothing personal. It is my understanding Google is fighting the DOJ data mining in large part because of the repressive costs to Google of performing it. Again, it's business considerations -- nothing personal.
What if the DOJ had gotten off on a better foot and contracted with Google to pay them costs+profit on the project? How much U.S. freedom would they be defending then?
The problem is that radio stations have to fool advertisers that people are listening to them with contests and call in campaigns and sheer speculation. There is no way to prove how many people are listening at any given time.
You may be on to something. Same way my parents can't understand how their small town newspaper can be so stupid as to print a ton of papers they dump on the nursing homes and such every week. It seems pretty obvious they are fudging circulation numbers to maintain advertisers.
I've never understood why internet radio should be so difficult when you have such good stats -- and maybe the stats are the problem. I spent a lot of work time listening to FUN and NRJ out of Paris in the late ninties and, hey, "Coca Cola" comes out of the French. So why should internet radio have any trouble getting international advertisers? I figured it was just lack of vision by either station marketing or the advertisers. But maybe the realistically unimpressive stats are a part of the problem when compared to the hot air of listener polls.
Or as they say, "Too soon old, too late smart".
One of the best reasons for life extension.
Guy with my name moved in a block away maybe eight years ago. I hoofed a record club selection to him once and I never got a book I suspect went to him. Year+ later, after he's gone, I get a letter from some mother crying about how I broke her daughter's heart and demanding a response. Since she was apparently looking for satisfaction of the family honor, I figured she'd just write another gusher, so it seemed I had to response and tell her that she had, embarrassingly, unloaded on the wrong guy.
/.er I did enclose a printout of people in the state with my name.
But being a
Yup, Oxford English says "An individual human being... emphatically, as distinguished from a thing" There's a reason we call them embryos instead of "Heather" and "Bobby".
But it really doesn't matter to the evangelical. They're mostly determinists. If that embryo won't mature, a whole alternate ordained universe will be destroyed where a soul-filled sentient being will never experience Christmas morning, a rainbow, kitties, puppies, raping that 13-year-old and lethal injection.
Garsh -- lost in the sands of time. Not even a mention that Galactic Civilizations started out as an OS/2 operating system game? As did Object Desktop. OS/2 Warp with Object Desktop really rocked in the age of Win9X. Like driving a pimped up Caddie with heated seats and adjustable seat and steering wheel compared to a Jeep.
Brad seems to be an interesting person who is often willing to ruminate on the computer biz. It's too bad he left a bit of a bad taste with the OS/2 crowd by laying down some heavy bitterness about the system when he saw it's market wasn't going anywhere but down.
Or social intelligence. Since hacking proprietary code is a felony via the DMCA, he'd probably spend quite a bit of time indoors as a repeat felon.
William 'IllWill' Genovese was sentenced to prison after being tricked by a Microsoft Investigator offering to pay $200 for a copy of the secret source code. From the article: 'The investigator then returned and arranged a second $20 transaction for an FBI agent
Actually, sounds like Microsoft got the FBI a deal. Maybe we should put them in charge of the GSA and the government wouldn't be paying $5000 for popcorn poppers.
The more refined, I think, purchased pure and sweet Bayer (TM) Heroin -- for the aches that ail you. Poster was reproduced in my abnormal psych book. And there was _real_ Coca-Cola -- sugar, caffeine _and_ coca. Top that, Red Bull.
I bet there are more artificial additives, especially colors and flavors, than there were in the 60's, when things were supposed to be so much worse.
It's my understanding that before there were food laws and inspections pickles, for example, might contain lead as a coloring agent so Victorian times might have been worse IQ-wise if food were the problem.
That obselete test just fails to keep up with modern applications of science and math. Like manipulating them to support your point, or redefining them for political reasons.
Nooooo. That volume test using the thin and fat containers is a stock test for recognization of the concept of volume and an indication of brain development in general. What "political reasons" did "the man" have to teach people about volume the 1976 way that current students have happily evolved beyond?
(On the other hand, I also suspect the comment is tongue-in-cheek. The fact that they used tests this fundamental to testing brain development and kids did so much worse does seem _really_ significant -- of something -- and sobering.)
Our currnet U.S. leadership is positively proud to snear at their "reality-based" critics. It is very possible that a segment of the population is swayed by a gutter-level Postmodernism where everything is culturally relative the way the Nazis aped an appreciation for Nietzsche. And pop musicians from the Rolling Stones to Bad Religion have sung about 20-21 century schizoid boys. It's a stock meme. Probably the only people who aren't crazy today are the Amish and some rural third-world pockets who don't have much access to radio and TV.
"By stressing the basics -- reading and writing -- and testing like crazy you reduce the level of cognitive stimulation. Children have the facts but they are not thinking very well," says Adey. "And they are not getting hands-on physical experience of the way materials behave."
Remember this research next time the topic of building Commander Data comes up. The chucklehead crew of the Dark Star demonstrated that even teaching Computer phenomenology was disasterously inadequate. The integration of first-hand real world experience is essential to intelligence as we think of it.
Would be truth in advertising. They've already got companies paying so-called "software assurance" money.
True, but is another demonstration that hard drive storage beats CD-R in _so_ many ways.