10 years ago I had been using OS/2 Warp 3 for six months. The Win95 GUI was like a stripped down jeep compared to the pimped out caddie of the OS/2 GUI. Particularly after Object Desktop was installed into it.
Good point. Which highlights that "life" can only be the key issue for plastic shoe and belt wearing vegans with B12 deficiency.
No. It could be Christianity ("Every sperm is sacred") or some Hegelian idealism in which crushing a stem cell pivots the otherwise predestined course of history -- but it sure isn't pragmatic realism. Pragmatically, it's tissue bits.
It is such a shame that every advance has to butt it's head against the wall of darkness. How many have seen the old episodes of the early 60s Outer Limits type shows of the transplanted heart that leads the recipient to the heart's former spouse? Same thing isn't it? Instead of wondering whether an organ donation has "personhood" now we are anguishing the even more ridiculous proposition of whether cells have "personhood".
Sounds like they're doing simple desensitization. They should introduce paradoxical reaction. Have an army of Hello, Kitty! attack them with yarn balls.
I can't imagine what anyone needs this "recordable media" for.
I'm staring at the two-DVD set of Debcon 2005 lecture videos I downloaded and just burned this weekend in fact.
There are the Australia 2004 and 2003 linux conference CDs. Every computer I have is running from an ISO download of one sort or another. A DSL web server is so small I Mondo Archive a bare metal backup to CD-RW.
And there _is_ free web entertainment: IMPs, The Scene, Starship Exeter and the recent Star Wars movielette out of Baltimore to name a few.
City Commissioner Robert Billingsley said in the August 12 Gainesville Sun that he would ask the commission to fire VCL Director Sue Martin, but he declined to explain why he thought she had not done enough to prevent the incident,
Just an asshole. Nothing to see here.
It isn't like librarians have to go to college or anything is it? What do they have to do all day except hang around watching people use the computers? Surely firing "somebody" will be good for this City Commissioner's career.
It is a shame to see a business switch from linux to MS (servers, even, I assume in the case of Tommy.com!) when I think linux is a viable desktop terminal for education and many business offices. At the same time, I've greatly toned down my voice for home use.
"Testing" isn't enough. "Documentation" isn't enough. Distributions need a "customer satisfaction" group. Badly.
It takes a while to figure out that progress isn't linear. As an older person, my favorite is the motor-driven analog clock radio.
* It doesn't need a backup battery.
* Unlike cheap clock radios without backup if the power goes out for a minute, it takes about 5 seconds to adjust the minute hand.
* Ditto, if the power goes out. you aren't going to wake up for work two hours late unless the power is off for two hours.
* If you want to get up later one day, you don't have to cycle 23 hours that evening to get the alarm back to the earlier time.
* I just think analog is cool. It's a one-glance pictoral instead of digital information.
* And the clock motors were 60-cycle syncro and perfectly accurate for all practical purposes.
But, aside from the expense of being made of metal (back then), I imagine assembling a clock motor was labor intensive, right?
I'm currently using a circa '68 Zenith that somebody gave me around '98 because the AF power transistor had thermal runaway. An easy diagnosis and an equally easy fix with a circuit board of discrete components. A little light grease on the clock gears every few years and it's good to go.
I think the detail is that he smoked, smoked, smoked those cigarettes (and worked in NYC, which someone wrote is equal to another several packs/day). Despite his upbeat sign-off, it's a small percentage of people who survive lung cancer.
I see no reason that a chip like this couldn't be carried.
Fewer people will cut out their implants than leave their records in a drawer.
When I first saw a JumpDrive, I thought, "Wow. There's a business. Medical/legal documents you can carry with you around the world." First person I mentioned it to said, "I'm not carrying my medical records around."
Once HMOs require this, I wonder how likely it is they'd let me keep the data on a JumpDrive instead?
If a little FBI strong-arming doesn't work with Sweden, the CIA can always kidnap the CEO of Skype. A few months in an Egyptian torture prison should make him see the light.
Even with the Patriot Act (which is well intentioned but very flawed in execution) I think this goes too far. I expect this one to be ruled on by the Supreme Court before too long.
Using special receivers connected to their laptops, instructors were able to instantly gather responses to personal yes-or-no questions
As if American culture isn't shallow enough already, we are going to condition students to think everything has a "yes" or "no" answer that can be tallied by a clicker?
And at the university level?
I can remember when examinations had multiple choice or matching questions. Some, horror of horrors, even required essays stating a position and defending it.
That could be part of the appeal. "Sure it's expensive and stupid but you can see that I can afford one!" Hasn't hurt Hummer sales. Let's hope this thing doesn't catch on as a fad.
Just a thought from an older guy. Mr. Wizard wasn't all that hunky a middle-aged balding dude. He just demonostrated cool things and then actually took the time to drone on about why they worked.
What are the chances any cool, hip young science show today won't be a mess of 5-second jump cuts, cgi and musical interludes "rappng on the elements"?
Well, I got registered but there is something in some sites that crashes my Mozilla and they have it.
It seems like worthwhile research. We might learn to recognize things by a process as mundane as actually seeing them from different angles but I suspect there are processes of object abstraction at work as well.
Sure, they always say "Where would technology be if there hadn't been a space program?" But where would we be without porn! Home video? Home internet? P2P streaming? The very entrepreneurial heart of America that any couple with a video camera can become famous. My gosh, why not just slap a 25% tax on all tech R&D!
When the Chinese land on the moon I think they will be powerful enough to see that Dubya doesn't get the credit for it. Except maybe in Kansas where civils might follow intelligent design.
Sure, with the stroke of a pen Bush could have you shackled in a barrel in the sun with the Barney Song piped in at a 140 DB for the rest of your life, however long that might be, without access to a lawyer. But that would be because you hate our freedom.
Big Brother loves you. Big Brother would never make a mistake. It would break Big Brother's heart. And when they torture the guy next door he will never, ever mention your name. If he did, Big Brother in his wisdom would know that he is stupidly slinging mud on your outstanding reputation. Always. Go to sleep now.
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10 years ago I had been using OS/2 Warp 3 for six months. The Win95 GUI was like a stripped down jeep compared to the pimped out caddie of the OS/2 GUI. Particularly after Object Desktop was installed into it.
Good point. Which highlights that "life" can only be the key issue for plastic shoe and belt wearing vegans with B12 deficiency.
No. It could be Christianity ("Every sperm is sacred") or some Hegelian idealism in which crushing a stem cell pivots the otherwise predestined course of history -- but it sure isn't pragmatic realism. Pragmatically, it's tissue bits.
It is such a shame that every advance has to butt it's head against the wall of darkness. How many have seen the old episodes of the early 60s Outer Limits type shows of the transplanted heart that leads the recipient to the heart's former spouse? Same thing isn't it? Instead of wondering whether an organ donation has "personhood" now we are anguishing the even more ridiculous proposition of whether cells have "personhood".
My cat, on the other hand, _there_ is a person.
Sounds like they're doing simple desensitization. They should introduce paradoxical reaction. Have an army of Hello, Kitty! attack them with yarn balls.
I can't imagine what anyone needs this "recordable media" for.
I'm staring at the two-DVD set of Debcon 2005 lecture videos I downloaded and just burned this weekend in fact.
There are the Australia 2004 and 2003 linux conference CDs. Every computer I have is running from an ISO download of one sort or another. A DSL web server is so small I Mondo Archive a bare metal backup to CD-RW.
And there _is_ free web entertainment: IMPs, The Scene, Starship Exeter and the recent Star Wars movielette out of Baltimore to name a few.
City Commissioner Robert Billingsley said in the August 12 Gainesville Sun that he would ask the commission to fire VCL Director Sue Martin, but he declined to explain why he thought she had not done enough to prevent the incident,
Just an asshole. Nothing to see here.
It isn't like librarians have to go to college or anything is it? What do they have to do all day except hang around watching people use the computers? Surely firing "somebody" will be good for this City Commissioner's career.
FINALLY economic libertarians might support anonymous mass transit in the U.S.
It is a shame to see a business switch from linux to MS (servers, even, I assume in the case of Tommy.com!) when I think linux is a viable desktop terminal for education and many business offices. At the same time, I've greatly toned down my voice for home use.
"Testing" isn't enough. "Documentation" isn't enough. Distributions need a "customer satisfaction" group. Badly.
It takes a while to figure out that progress isn't linear. As an older person, my favorite is the motor-driven analog clock radio.
* It doesn't need a backup battery.
* Unlike cheap clock radios without backup if the power goes out for a minute, it takes about 5 seconds to adjust the minute hand.
* Ditto, if the power goes out. you aren't going to wake up for work two hours late unless the power is off for two hours.
* If you want to get up later one day, you don't have to cycle 23 hours that evening to get the alarm back to the earlier time.
* I just think analog is cool. It's a one-glance pictoral instead of digital information.
* And the clock motors were 60-cycle syncro and perfectly accurate for all practical purposes.
But, aside from the expense of being made of metal (back then), I imagine assembling a clock motor was labor intensive, right?
I'm currently using a circa '68 Zenith that somebody gave me around '98 because the AF power transistor had thermal runaway. An easy diagnosis and an equally easy fix with a circuit board of discrete components. A little light grease on the clock gears every few years and it's good to go.
I think the detail is that he smoked, smoked, smoked those cigarettes (and worked in NYC, which someone wrote is equal to another several packs/day). Despite his upbeat sign-off, it's a small percentage of people who survive lung cancer.
And sometimes societies start with the gypsies and homosexuals before getting to the Jews. Illogical behavior? Yes, darn them!
I see no reason that a chip like this couldn't be carried.
Fewer people will cut out their implants than leave their records in a drawer.
When I first saw a JumpDrive, I thought, "Wow. There's a business. Medical/legal documents you can carry with you around the world." First person I mentioned it to said, "I'm not carrying my medical records around."
Once HMOs require this, I wonder how likely it is they'd let me keep the data on a JumpDrive instead?
Who elected them? We're in the second session of the regime.
If a little FBI strong-arming doesn't work with Sweden, the CIA can always kidnap the CEO of Skype. A few months in an Egyptian torture prison should make him see the light.
Even with the Patriot Act (which is well intentioned but very flawed in execution) I think this goes too far. I expect this one to be ruled on by the Supreme Court before too long.
Wow. I bet _that_ threat has the regime scared.
Using special receivers connected to their laptops, instructors were able to instantly gather responses to personal yes-or-no questions
As if American culture isn't shallow enough already, we are going to condition students to think everything has a "yes" or "no" answer that can be tallied by a clicker?
And at the university level?
I can remember when examinations had multiple choice or matching questions. Some, horror of horrors, even required essays stating a position and defending it.
That could be part of the appeal. "Sure it's expensive and stupid but you can see that I can afford one!" Hasn't hurt Hummer sales. Let's hope this thing doesn't catch on as a fad.
Just a thought from an older guy. Mr. Wizard wasn't all that hunky a middle-aged balding dude. He just demonostrated cool things and then actually took the time to drone on about why they worked.
What are the chances any cool, hip young science show today won't be a mess of 5-second jump cuts, cgi and musical interludes "rappng on the elements"?
Obviously they need a scoring system!
Would that be -- oh, shall we say -- "insightful"?
Well, I got registered but there is something in some sites that crashes my Mozilla and they have it.
It seems like worthwhile research. We might learn to recognize things by a process as mundane as actually seeing them from different angles but I suspect there are processes of object abstraction at work as well.
You kids are so cute when you're ignorant.
:)"
Yes, I'm always in awe at how well the Reagan era brainwashed them.
"Children, remember to leave your rights at the front door."
"YES, TEACHER!
Was there a first grade primer about the little corporation that could do anything to you?
Glad I only had to worry about the commies and the H bomb when I was a kid.
Sure, they always say "Where would technology be if there hadn't been a space program?" But where would we be without porn! Home video? Home internet? P2P streaming? The very entrepreneurial heart of America that any couple with a video camera can become famous. My gosh, why not just slap a 25% tax on all tech R&D!
Surely you're pulling our leg. Nobody _wants_ to pay for XP _home_!
to weed out the one's who would tie themselves into a knot.
When the Chinese land on the moon I think they will be powerful enough to see that Dubya doesn't get the credit for it. Except maybe in Kansas where civils might follow intelligent design.
Sure, with the stroke of a pen Bush could have you shackled in a barrel in the sun with the Barney Song piped in at a 140 DB for the rest of your life, however long that might be, without access to a lawyer. But that would be because you hate our freedom.
Big Brother loves you. Big Brother would never make a mistake. It would break Big Brother's heart. And when they torture the guy next door he will never, ever mention your name. If he did, Big Brother in his wisdom would know that he is stupidly slinging mud on your outstanding reputation. Always. Go to sleep now.
Brazil........How I love you, how I love you.