There is a great difference between a Mensa monthly meeting and a Linux Users Group meeting. A Mensan might actually get laid.
Our monthly meeting is a party room with bar arrangement. With a rotating attendance of a few hundred it can get amusingly incestuous if you attend regularly enough to plot the relationship patterns.
And who do you suppose ended up in the #1 position on that list? Who do the 'intellectually gifted' among us look up to as a hero? Who, above everyone else, does the Mensa community place on a pedestal? None other than George W. Bush, of course.
My local group's monthly get-together (party room with bar) routinely has the table where Rush Limbaugh is God. It isn't intellect. It's taste. They are common. Which is not uncommon. Just the all-American lowest common denominator at work.
Yes. The national magazine is so shallow it is almost unreadable. But again, "The 6:00 o'clock news said the other night....." Who are they to question it? And it would be elitist to have actually read the Federalist Papers or cracked a history book, right? Lowest common denominator again. It isn't intellect. It's taste. Whose fault is that? Isn't it really just another sign of American culture unraveling at every seam?
Then, quite simply, for most people who just want email and browsing
Or special setups.
We have a Win95 and a Win98 on top of linux. Delphi 6 works for me. Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash work for the wife. Do everything else native linux.
Particularly with Win4lin or VMWare, it isn't difficult to keep legacyware around. www.microsoft.com will probably be seeing Windows 95 hits in 2025:)
Uh huh. I think the bet is: Will we see fully ambulatory paralyzed people at the mall before we see Mech Warriors in the field.
But I wasn't aware of the show. One of the reasons to read/. I've been frequently disappointed in NPR's Science Friday since about 9/11. Seems like they air a lot of soft tech segments: "What are we going to do about the nursing shortage" and the like. This show looks promising.
It was successful enough to spin off a shareware parady. Pretty sure it wasn't called "Billy Bob" but that was the flavor. Click the dead possum on the wall for one thing, the XXX jug for another, the outhouse through the window for trash.
_Almost_ funny enough to actually use. Similar to the original product in that way.
The wisdom is that if Microsoft product isn't excellent, it's their marketing that's excellent, right?
Yes. For me, current Debian releases _are_ Knoppix.
First, there is the legendary Debian installation process that only a linux-from-scratch person would call a wimpy newbie GUI. You end up feeling like a pigeon pecking for an eventual pellet pressing "enter" that many times.
Second, Knoppix hardware recognition is great and knx2hd is an incredibly easy hard drive install in contrast to vanilla Debian, one can choose "old fashioned" Debian, and the base desktop apps you want are already there when you reboot.
Third, there are enough articles out now on the Knoppix remastering process that the entrance bar to that has been greatly lowered. Myself, I've worked up a PostgreSQL server ISO that includes apache, php, perl, ODBC, PgAdmin III, Webmin and desktop icons to the PostgreSQL manual and a debian manual, start/stop database, view log, and the ODBC GUI manager. It's great. I've quit doing bare metal backups.
Paradoxically, these developments may _validate_ Debian caution. All this creative third-party repackaging has a heavy dependency upon the stable foundation Debian provides, right? It's a good thing.
Also useful for the K-5 kids who don't like science. Careers Teaching English as a Second Language in India -- but more likely teaching people in Lesotho and Cambodia to sound Nebraskan by the time these kids get out of school.
I just collect stuff, I don't have any motivation to reconcile it!
Seriously, it's convenient that Evolution saves in the same format as Mutt. A prudent number of folders to file by and I'm thinking annually I dump to CD. Searching? Grep, of course.
you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"
Where does it say they assert _sole_ownership_ of your content? Aren't they, in effect, pressing you to GPL of your content?
I'm willing to play that game because the annoyance doesn't exceed my hourly value and out of, I don't know -- going on "dozens", I'm pretty sure I've only been burned once. Put a return sticker with my P.O. Box _on_the_ENVELOPE_ and the Minnesota redemption center held it for like three months past the offer and sent it back saying "rules say we don't honor post boxes".
On the other hand, Office Max honored a rebate from a bankrupt company a couple years ago. AFAIK without prodding.
I have a machine plucked from beside a dumpster that I upgraded with a $9 CD-RW, a 99 cent NIC, a $30 hard drive, and a free mouse connecting through an $8 router -- all rebates I collected. Runs SimplyMEPIS as an icecast and living room stereo streamer and workstation in a pince. In my experience bottom feeding, rebate stuff works.
Helps that I'm within walking distance of a Microcenter. Coincidence? I think not!
It isn't bad business psychology. You can just hear the salesmen saying, "Who's your daddy! Does linux offer priority access to security patches? I don't think so."
Sadly, the majority of poeple will answer back, "Well, gosh gee. You're right. Microsoft makes me feel special! Microsoft is so great."
Shiny thing catches the sunlight. Bargain. Today only. People are stupid.
Darn it, there they go having babies again
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Better hire a man.
I notice the article says "in the U.S." I wonder whether this says more about culture than gender.
This is pretty interesting. A good opportunity to input the goal, vector and some parameters and see what a neural net would try to do with imitation human musculature?
Apparently, NZ is a rather maternalistic country. Someone less lazy than I am tonight can surely find a link about the home raid on the couple who ordered a few foreign "growing marijuana at home" books. It was the books they wanted to confiscate.
From what I can gather, the Neocons have spoiled Great Britian and are working on Australia. Let's hope Canada can resist the Orwellian/Huxleyian urge. It would be nice if a few scattered technologically advanced regions spoke English and had a tradition of British common law and human rights after the unfolding Dark Ages in the U.S.
I suppose they could still buy eComStation licenses if they were eccentric? But support has to be a major concern _now_, much less in a few years.
OS/2 was a great home system for me from '95 through '00 but that was the '90s and it's time to give it up. Training people to maintain it on current hardware would have to be a pain. And the HPFS file system just isn't as robust or secure as NTFS.
If you realllly want to protect your children from the big bad mean old world full of ads and porn, I suggest you don't tell the government about them and keep them locked up in the home without internet access, telephone, video games, radio, music, art, TV, books, newspapers, or anything else with information in it. All that stuff corrupts them, you know. Family members and friends can corrupt them too --- keep 'em in the basement --- in the dark. They'll be just fine.
I believe the name for that is Amish.
Except for the locked in the basement in the dark part -- mostly.
(Oh, lighten up. They'll never see this post.)
Maybe this is a key political yardstick:
Keep your kids away from TV = liberal Keep your kids away from the internet = neocon
Which medium more consistently offers up fact-based statements today? Which medium is more corrupt?
Not so hard to understand. A few decades ago Psychology Today ran an article on an experiment in cultural differences in children's sharing. Imagine something like two corks in a narrow-mouthed beaker with the corks connected to strings that run outside the beaker. A couple kids are told that the first one to tug his cork out of the beaker gets candy. A significant percentage of U.S. kids don't get candy because they will both tug at the same time, the corks block each other at the neck of the beaker and neither gives up before the allotted time expires. Recognizing this dilemma, among Mexican kids a significant percentage will let the other kid win on the unsure hope that the experiment will be repeated and the other kid would let him win next time.
In other words, in U.S. culture winning, and winning first, is everything. Barring winning, making sure everyone loses is second best. Never assume you will get a second chance and never assume the other guy will give you a break because you wouldn't give him a break. These are cultural values ingrained in a lot of U.S. kids by grade school. So it is all about broadly defining cultural values. I would say the current political climate is just rapturously promoting values that are already deeply embedded in a significant percentage of the U.S. population.
Exactly. Problems with the vision thing aren't technological. They're marketing based. Programming thinks they have to target McDonalds. Distribution thinks its lobster they are pushing. If distribution would actually practice _mass_ distribution, that would be another issue.
I just won't be talked into paying more than a Taco Bell bean burrito for 42 minutes of serial media.
Well, he's made government _seem_, if not smaller, at least no larger -- until we have to give whatever part of the country tax-paying workers own to Japan, China, Saudia Arabia and Europe to pay off the debt.
Considering people's attention spans, it's a pretty sweet way to steal.
Yes. Stargate deserves its success. It's just such a gosh-darned "DECENT" show.
Jack's pretty typical as action dude with some quirkiness but then you've got the brainy, subdued-hot female #2 in charge, and the brainy guy in glasses who is also strong and confident. Same for the former female doc and even Walter. And how about a short, bald middle-aged commander for realism? And the black dude isn't just an immigrant, he's alien. If all the characters didn't project such serious professionalism (which is also smart script pacing), the political correctness would be laughable.
And how many stories run through a sequence from drone/reconnaissance to data collection to lab work to conferencing on results and strategy to deployment? A lot of U.S. schools are probably doing a worse job teaching scientific method.
And for 8 years they've done pretty good at minimizing spandex, children and cheesey sex while coming up with some clever plots to keep us all amused.
What's not to like?
As for Startrek, $3,000,000 _here_
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
would probably be enough to produce episodes on endowment interest:)
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There is a great difference between a Mensa monthly meeting and a Linux Users Group meeting. A Mensan might actually get laid.
Our monthly meeting is a party room with bar arrangement. With a rotating attendance of a few hundred it can get amusingly incestuous if you attend regularly enough to plot the relationship patterns.
And who do you suppose ended up in the #1 position on that list? Who do the 'intellectually gifted' among us look up to as a hero? Who, above everyone else, does the Mensa community place on a pedestal? None other than George W. Bush, of course.
My local group's monthly get-together (party room with bar) routinely has the table where Rush Limbaugh is God. It isn't intellect. It's taste. They are common. Which is not uncommon. Just the all-American lowest common denominator at work.
Yes. The national magazine is so shallow it is almost unreadable. But again, "The 6:00 o'clock news said the other night....." Who are they to question it? And it would be elitist to have actually read the Federalist Papers or cracked a history book, right? Lowest common denominator again. It isn't intellect. It's taste. Whose fault is that? Isn't it really just another sign of American culture unraveling at every seam?
Then, quite simply, for most people who just want email and browsing
:)
Or special setups.
We have a Win95 and a Win98 on top of linux. Delphi 6 works for me. Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash work for the wife. Do everything else native linux.
Particularly with Win4lin or VMWare, it isn't difficult to keep legacyware around. www.microsoft.com will probably be seeing Windows 95 hits in 2025
Whenever I need to call up IE to read a
Shouldn't everyone?
Uh huh. I think the bet is: Will we see fully ambulatory paralyzed people at the mall before we see Mech Warriors in the field.
/. I've been frequently disappointed in NPR's Science Friday since about 9/11. Seems like they air a lot of soft tech segments: "What are we going to do about the nursing shortage" and the like. This show looks promising.
But I wasn't aware of the show. One of the reasons to read
I was apparently getting a new mplayer with every frame or something. Have to quickly VNC from another machine to do a shutdown.
It was successful enough to spin off a shareware parady. Pretty sure it wasn't called "Billy Bob" but that was the flavor. Click the dead possum on the wall for one thing, the XXX jug for another, the outhouse through the window for trash.
_Almost_ funny enough to actually use. Similar to the original product in that way.
The wisdom is that if Microsoft product isn't excellent, it's their marketing that's excellent, right?
Yes. For me, current Debian releases _are_ Knoppix.
First, there is the legendary Debian installation process that only a linux-from-scratch person would call a wimpy newbie GUI. You end up feeling like a pigeon pecking for an eventual pellet pressing "enter" that many times.
Second, Knoppix hardware recognition is great and knx2hd is an incredibly easy hard drive install in contrast to vanilla Debian, one can choose "old fashioned" Debian, and the base desktop apps you want are already there when you reboot.
Third, there are enough articles out now on the Knoppix remastering process that the entrance bar to that has been greatly lowered. Myself, I've worked up a PostgreSQL server ISO that includes apache, php, perl, ODBC, PgAdmin III, Webmin and desktop icons to the PostgreSQL manual and a debian manual, start/stop database, view log, and the ODBC GUI manager. It's great. I've quit doing bare metal backups.
Paradoxically, these developments may _validate_ Debian caution. All this creative third-party repackaging has a heavy dependency upon the stable foundation Debian provides, right? It's a good thing.
Also useful for the K-5 kids who don't like science. Careers Teaching English as a Second Language in India -- but more likely teaching people in Lesotho and Cambodia to sound Nebraskan by the time these kids get out of school.
I just collect stuff, I don't have any motivation to reconcile it!
Seriously, it's convenient that Evolution saves in the same format as Mutt. A prudent number of folders to file by and I'm thinking annually I dump to CD. Searching? Grep, of course.
you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"
Where does it say they assert _sole_ownership_ of your content? Aren't they, in effect, pressing you to GPL of your content?
How progressive of AOL.
I'm willing to play that game because the annoyance doesn't exceed my hourly value and out of, I don't know -- going on "dozens", I'm pretty sure I've only been burned once. Put a return sticker with my P.O. Box _on_the_ENVELOPE_ and the Minnesota redemption center held it for like three months past the offer and sent it back saying "rules say we don't honor post boxes".
On the other hand, Office Max honored a rebate from a bankrupt company a couple years ago. AFAIK without prodding.
I have a machine plucked from beside a dumpster that I upgraded with a $9 CD-RW, a 99 cent NIC, a $30 hard drive, and a free mouse connecting through an $8 router -- all rebates I collected. Runs SimplyMEPIS as an icecast and living room stereo streamer and workstation in a pince. In my experience bottom feeding, rebate stuff works.
Helps that I'm within walking distance of a Microcenter. Coincidence? I think not!
It isn't bad business psychology. You can just hear the salesmen saying, "Who's your daddy! Does linux offer priority access to security patches? I don't think so."
Sadly, the majority of poeple will answer back, "Well, gosh gee. You're right. Microsoft makes me feel special! Microsoft is so great."
Shiny thing catches the sunlight. Bargain. Today only. People are stupid.
Better hire a man.
I notice the article says "in the U.S." I wonder whether this says more about culture than gender.
given that advancing human knowledge is not a legitimate function of the State
Let me guess: that's because centers of learning belong in either the monastery or the castle?
We really do have a foot deeply into the neo-Dark Ages, don't we?
This is pretty interesting. A good opportunity to input the goal, vector and some parameters and see what a neural net would try to do with imitation human musculature?
Apparently, NZ is a rather maternalistic country. Someone less lazy than I am tonight can surely find a link about the home raid on the couple who ordered a few foreign "growing marijuana at home" books. It was the books they wanted to confiscate.
From what I can gather, the Neocons have spoiled Great Britian and are working on Australia. Let's hope Canada can resist the Orwellian/Huxleyian urge. It would be nice if a few scattered technologically advanced regions spoke English and had a tradition of British common law and human rights after the unfolding Dark Ages in the U.S.
My feeling too. But then I assume you also ran it single-player. If you just look at it as arenas, they have to be pretty nice for tournaments.
I'm mostly annoyed that cursor key movements aren't the same as IDs.
I suppose they could still buy eComStation licenses if they were eccentric? But support has to be a major concern _now_, much less in a few years.
OS/2 was a great home system for me from '95 through '00 but that was the '90s and it's time to give it up. Training people to maintain it on current hardware would have to be a pain. And the HPFS file system just isn't as robust or secure as NTFS.
If you realllly want to protect your children from the big bad mean old world full of ads and porn, I suggest you don't tell the government about them and keep them locked up in the home without internet access, telephone, video games, radio, music, art, TV, books, newspapers, or anything else with information in it. All that stuff corrupts them, you know. Family members and friends can corrupt them too --- keep 'em in the basement --- in the dark. They'll be just fine.
I believe the name for that is Amish.
Except for the locked in the basement in the dark part -- mostly.
(Oh, lighten up. They'll never see this post.)
Maybe this is a key political yardstick:
Keep your kids away from TV = liberal
Keep your kids away from the internet = neocon
Which medium more consistently offers up fact-based statements today? Which medium is more corrupt?
Not so hard to understand. A few decades ago Psychology Today ran an article on an experiment in cultural differences in children's sharing. Imagine something like two corks in a narrow-mouthed beaker with the corks connected to strings that run outside the beaker. A couple kids are told that the first one to tug his cork out of the beaker gets candy. A significant percentage of U.S. kids don't get candy because they will both tug at the same time, the corks block each other at the neck of the beaker and neither gives up before the allotted time expires. Recognizing this dilemma, among Mexican kids a significant percentage will let the other kid win on the unsure hope that the experiment will be repeated and the other kid would let him win next time.
In other words, in U.S. culture winning, and winning first, is everything. Barring winning, making sure everyone loses is second best. Never assume you will get a second chance and never assume the other guy will give you a break because you wouldn't give him a break. These are cultural values ingrained in a lot of U.S. kids by grade school. So it is all about broadly defining cultural values. I would say the current political climate is just rapturously promoting values that are already deeply embedded in a significant percentage of the U.S. population.
Exactly. Problems with the vision thing aren't technological. They're marketing based. Programming thinks they have to target McDonalds. Distribution thinks its lobster they are pushing. If distribution would actually practice _mass_ distribution, that would be another issue.
I just won't be talked into paying more than a Taco Bell bean burrito for 42 minutes of serial media.
Well, he's made government _seem_, if not smaller, at least no larger -- until we have to give whatever part of the country tax-paying workers own to Japan, China, Saudia Arabia and Europe to pay off the debt.
Considering people's attention spans, it's a pretty sweet way to steal.
Yes. Stargate deserves its success. It's just such a gosh-darned "DECENT" show.
:)
Jack's pretty typical as action dude with some quirkiness but then you've got the brainy, subdued-hot female #2 in charge, and the brainy guy in glasses who is also strong and confident. Same for the former female doc and even Walter. And how about a short, bald middle-aged commander for realism? And the black dude isn't just an immigrant, he's alien. If all the characters didn't project such serious professionalism (which is also smart script pacing), the political correctness would be laughable.
And how many stories run through a sequence from drone/reconnaissance to data collection to lab work to conferencing on results and strategy to deployment? A lot of U.S. schools are probably doing a worse job teaching scientific method.
And for 8 years they've done pretty good at minimizing spandex, children and cheesey sex while coming up with some clever plots to keep us all amused.
What's not to like?
As for Startrek, $3,000,000 _here_
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
would probably be enough to produce episodes on endowment interest
THEM: They bought it when we said CDs cost more than LPs. Let's try it again!
Reality: In the internet generation, we are awash in media. It should be cheap as electricity or some other commodity. Just supply and demand.
Quite a painful gulf to bridge between those two perceptions.