I haven't been keeping track of the LOTR-movie news until reading the article here, but I have to say although I admire Ian McKellen as an actor, Gandalf is an odd character for him to play. I loved his 1995 movie portrayal of "Richard III", and would have thought Saruman would have been more his line of work -- all that cackling and scorn, you know.
I had never heard of Orcs (did Tolkien invent that species?)
The term "orc" existed before Tolkien (Milton used it, for example), but it was used inconsistently for various types of aquatic and terrestial monsters. For some reason Tolkien decided to rename the creatures that he called "goblins" in _The Hobbit_ to "orcs", and since then, "orc" has meant a creature similar to the goblins of Middle Earth.
But one would *expect* the//GS to have a web browser -- it was a GUI-based computer with at least 256K of memory, after all, Now, a web browser for the traditional Apple ]['s (][, ][+,//e and//c) with their small memories and lack of native GUI, would be a worthy challenge.
Lately the trend is to use the prefix "Bio-" if referring to compounds from living cells, and leave organic to just mean hydrocarbons. For example, the soy-based fuel is "Biodiesel" while "Organic diesel" would be just redundant.
The easiest and sfaest way of achieving (1) and, circumstances permitting, some of (2) is to make sure that at least 60% of what you eat is raw.
I can see how eating raw things can cause you to lose weight -- after all, cooking oil has a lot of calories, but exercise? Or are you suggesting we should run after and catch the animals we eat as well?
True, people sometimes confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory' but one can't ignore the fact that 2001 features humans evolving into the next stage of existence (Nietzsche's whole philosophy centered around men becoming "supermen") and has "Also Sprach Zaruthustra" (named after Nietzsche's most famous book) on the soundtrack. Kubrick clearly meant us to think of Nietzsche, and so it is allegory.
Other things that Wheat brings up, like bathroom tiles, "no meat", etc. are at best examples of 'applicability'.
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In the early '90s on Solaris (which was the only UNIX that counted in most places back then) Xview *was* the standard. Motif was practically nonexistent then. Then *boom* CDE became the standard on Solaris and Motif took off.
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Indeed. Reminds me of a book "Practical Xview Programming" that I once read. The authors couldn't see that then (1994) Xview was on its last legs (to be killed by CDE/Motif) All the same arguments were there: more code being written in Xview, Xview is the standard, Xview more mature, etc., etc.
If you read the article, you'll find that the guy begind the model used to develop models for Bayer, a quite profitable company. There's nothing magical about models -- they are just more complicated versions of the sorts of things everyone creates with spreadsheets
I believe it is the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), which interacts with various IP organizations like ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers).
But that isn't the point. It's just trivia for me to know this stuff -- but a technology advisor to the president should know this stuff without hesitation -- it's his job, after all.
There have certainly been better educated presidents than Dubya with his MBA -- Hell, Woodrow Wilson had a PhD in history and Herbert Hoover had a masters in engineering. However, neither Wilson nor Hoover would make the the top ten list of US presidents, so perhaps degrees aren't the issue.
Gotta love this quote from the interview.
Napster believes there is a legal precedent that has something to do with how radio...I guess when radio started to play songs, they had exactly the same problem. So this thing was set up.
I can't even remember what the acronym is...this organization that now keeps track of which disc jockey plays which song
I thought this guy was supposed to *advise* Dubya -- not sound just like him!
>With companies, you can avoid doing business >with them.
It is the goal of all corporations to make themselves so ubiquitous so as to make avoiding them impossible. Take a look at Microsoft -- in their own words they want "Windows Everywhere".
>...whereas a corrupt government can *control* >the judicial system,
And corporations can't? Money controls everything ultimately, and many corps already have more money than some nations.
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I suppose a belt clip is a possibility -- it would look rather geeky, but I suppose it would be truth-in-advertising.
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..but from looking at them in stores, it doesn't look like that an IPAQ would fit in my pocket.As that's how I carry my Handspring around, the IPAQ is simply impractical for me. Sure, it is more powerful than a Visor. But a laptop is more powerful yet, and if I had to lug around something in a carrying case, I'd choose a laptop.
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Well, for me it gives me something to do on the subway to work -- I can read a book, play a game, look at my calendar and read the New York Times all on a device that I can put easily in my pocket (which is important to me because I rarely have a bag or briefcase with me). I don't think Internet capability is all that important because there are good off-line Web browsers -- I, for example, download the New York Times in html format using my PC, transfer it to my Handspring and can read it on the way to work. Much easier than having to deal with a physical newspaper on the subway.
Generally, I would say that the smaller form factor is the only reason I would go with the m505 over the EM500. Personally, since I wouldn't carry either around in my pocket all day, the large size isn't a big issue.
When I hear words like "I don't carry my PDA in my pocket" I begin to wonder if the person actually *uses* their PDA or if it just sits on their shelf gathering dust. How do you carry it around with you if you don't put it in your pocket? (I carry my Handspring in my pocket nearly everywhere I go)
I hate to break it to you but all gmo food is bad because we are unsure. Eat real food (tm)
The problem with that "logic" is that "real food" hasn't been tested either. You may say "Well, natural things don't need to be tested; everyone knows that they are safe". But history shows us that products from totally non-gmo'ed plants can be unhealthy. People smoked totally non gmo-ed tobacco for thousands of years before even considering the possibility that it was unhealthy.
And French people drank a neurotoxic liquor called "absinthe" (made from the natural wormwood tree) for several hundred years without noticing the ill effects.
Er. the semicolons in odd places like "if; br(T, tree(T), tree(T))" is pretty obfuscated. Yes, you may say there is a good reason for it, but then there is a good reason for Perl's oddities as well.
I'm an American working in Montreal, and I can attest that even in Quebec, which is viewed as one of the most anti-English places on the planet, English is still the working language of science. Still, French is useful because that's what everyone speaks in the bars and clubs!
Ah, but Og, rather than send tribespeople, we can throw rocks into the next valley first. Rocks are plentiful, and if there is a an firebreathing invisible-ape, we will hear it go "ouch!" when the rocks hit it. Some same that this is less heroic or exciting than going into the valley ourselves, but it seems very clever.
Actually there is a BioRuby but it is 1) fairly new and undeveloped and 2) mostly documented in Japanese, as most Ruby modules are. I myself like Ruby and have done several projects in it -- the problem though is that where I am now I have to work in a team, and Perl is the only scripting language that everbody knows.
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The computer scientists who don't know their biology are just as lost in the field the as biologists who don't know their computer science.
True. If I have to sit through one more seminar where somebody thinks that they are doing bioinformatics by proving some unrealistic abstraction of a biological problem to be NP-hard, it will be one too many.
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I haven't been keeping track of the LOTR-movie news until reading the article here, but I have to say although I admire Ian McKellen as an actor, Gandalf is an odd character for him to play. I loved his 1995 movie portrayal of "Richard III", and would have thought Saruman would have been more his line of work -- all that cackling and scorn, you know.
I had never heard of Orcs (did Tolkien invent that species?)
The term "orc" existed before Tolkien (Milton used it, for example), but it was used inconsistently for various types of aquatic and terrestial monsters. For some reason Tolkien decided to rename the creatures that he called "goblins" in _The Hobbit_ to "orcs", and since then, "orc" has meant a creature similar to the goblins of Middle Earth.
One other weird thing, Linus's prononciation is generally quite good, but he says "project" like prowwject which gets really annoying
That's the British/Canadian pronunciation of "project" -- as an American living in Canada I found it weird at first too.
If you read the article, you'll find that it's 5% of all Koreans in South Korea... 2 million of 46 million people
But one would *expect* the //GS to have a web browser -- it was a GUI-based computer with at least 256K of memory, after all, Now, a web browser for the traditional Apple ]['s (][, ][+, //e and //c) with their small memories and lack of native GUI, would be a worthy challenge.
Lately the trend is to use the prefix "Bio-" if referring to compounds from living cells, and leave organic to just mean hydrocarbons. For example, the soy-based fuel is "Biodiesel" while "Organic diesel" would be just redundant.
The easiest and sfaest way of achieving (1) and, circumstances permitting, some of (2) is to make sure that at least 60% of what you eat is raw.
I can see how eating raw things can cause you to lose weight -- after all, cooking oil has a lot of calories, but exercise? Or are you suggesting we should run after and catch the animals we eat as well?
True, people sometimes confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory' but one can't ignore the fact that 2001 features humans evolving into the next stage of existence (Nietzsche's whole philosophy centered around men becoming "supermen") and has "Also Sprach Zaruthustra" (named after Nietzsche's most famous book) on the soundtrack. Kubrick clearly meant us to think of Nietzsche, and so it is allegory.
Other things that Wheat brings up, like bathroom tiles, "no meat", etc. are at best examples of 'applicability'.
In the early '90s on Solaris (which was the only UNIX that counted in most places back then) Xview *was* the standard. Motif was practically nonexistent then. Then *boom* CDE became the standard on Solaris and Motif took off.
Indeed. Reminds me of a book "Practical Xview Programming" that I once read. The authors couldn't see that then (1994) Xview was on its last legs (to be killed by CDE/Motif) All the same arguments were there: more code being written in Xview, Xview is the standard, Xview more mature, etc., etc.
If you read the article, you'll find that the guy begind the model used to develop models for Bayer, a quite profitable company. There's nothing magical about models -- they are just more complicated versions of the sorts of things everyone creates with spreadsheets
I believe it is the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), which interacts with various IP organizations like ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers).
But that isn't the point. It's just trivia for me to know this stuff -- but a technology advisor to the president should know this stuff without hesitation -- it's his job, after all.
There have certainly been better educated presidents than Dubya with his MBA -- Hell, Woodrow Wilson had a PhD in history and Herbert Hoover had a masters in engineering. However, neither Wilson nor Hoover would make the the top ten list of US presidents, so perhaps degrees aren't the issue.
Gotta love this quote from the interview.
Napster believes there is a legal precedent that has something to do with how radio...I guess when radio started to play songs, they had exactly the same problem. So this thing was set up. I can't even remember what the acronym is...this organization that now keeps track of which disc jockey plays which song
I thought this guy was supposed to *advise* Dubya -- not sound just like him!
>With companies, you can avoid doing business >with them.
It is the goal of all corporations to make themselves so ubiquitous so as to make avoiding them impossible. Take a look at Microsoft -- in their own words they want "Windows Everywhere".
>...whereas a corrupt government can *control* >the judicial system,
And corporations can't? Money controls everything ultimately, and many corps already have more money than some nations.
I suppose a belt clip is a possibility -- it would look rather geeky, but I suppose it would be truth-in-advertising.
..but from looking at them in stores, it doesn't look like that an IPAQ would fit in my pocket.As that's how I carry my Handspring around, the IPAQ is simply impractical for me. Sure, it is more powerful than a Visor. But a laptop is more powerful yet, and if I had to lug around something in a carrying case, I'd choose a laptop.
Well, for me it gives me something to do on the subway to work -- I can read a book, play a game, look at my calendar and read the New York Times all on a device that I can put easily in my pocket (which is important to me because I rarely have a bag or briefcase with me). I don't think Internet capability is all that important because there are good off-line Web browsers -- I, for example, download the New York Times in html format using my PC, transfer it to my Handspring and can read it on the way to work. Much easier than having to deal with a physical newspaper on the subway.
Generally, I would say that the smaller form factor is the only reason I would go with the m505 over the EM500. Personally, since I wouldn't carry either around in my pocket all day, the large size isn't a big issue.
When I hear words like "I don't carry my PDA in my pocket" I begin to wonder if the person actually *uses* their PDA or if it just sits on their shelf gathering dust. How do you carry it around with you if you don't put it in your pocket? (I carry my Handspring in my pocket nearly everywhere I go)
I hate to break it to you but all gmo food is bad because we are unsure. Eat real food (tm)
The problem with that "logic" is that "real food" hasn't been tested either. You may say "Well, natural things don't need to be tested; everyone knows that they are safe". But history shows us that products from totally non-gmo'ed plants can be unhealthy. People smoked totally non gmo-ed tobacco for thousands of years before even considering the possibility that it was unhealthy.
And French people drank a neurotoxic liquor called "absinthe" (made from the natural wormwood tree) for several hundred years without noticing the ill effects.
Er. the semicolons in odd places like "if; br(T, tree(T), tree(T))" is pretty obfuscated. Yes, you may say there is a good reason for it, but then there is a good reason for Perl's oddities as well.
I'm an American working in Montreal, and I can attest that even in Quebec, which is viewed as one of the most anti-English places on the planet, English is still the working language of science. Still, French is useful because that's what everyone speaks in the bars and clubs!
Ah, but Og, rather than send tribespeople, we can throw rocks into the next valley first. Rocks are plentiful, and if there is a an firebreathing invisible-ape, we will hear it go "ouch!" when the rocks hit it. Some same that this is less heroic or exciting than going into the valley ourselves, but it seems very clever.
Actually there is a BioRuby but it is 1) fairly new and undeveloped and 2) mostly documented in Japanese, as most Ruby modules are. I myself like Ruby and have done several projects in it -- the problem though is that where I am now I have to work in a team, and Perl is the only scripting language that everbody knows.
The computer scientists who don't know their biology are just as lost in the field the as biologists who don't know their computer science.
True. If I have to sit through one more seminar where somebody thinks that they are doing bioinformatics by proving some unrealistic abstraction of a biological problem to be NP-hard, it will be one too many.