I'll go one further. I'm pretty good at this stuff, and there are some files I can't figure out how to tag with metadata in a way that would make this useful. It makes no sense to spend the extra effort, if only a single piece of data exists. Why not make that the folder name? Or will their metadata paradigm evolve to where you drag the file to an icon with the single instance of that metadata as its name?
The government may vet an employee well enough to eliminate a risk that a cop will shoot you when drunk. But let's be fair here, whether or not they do, that risk is fairly low anyway. I worry about being shot by a cop because he's crooked and I'll stumble upon him doing something he doesn't want known, or because he's a twitchy fuck that doesn't like the way I pull out my wallet when he asks for ID. Amadu Diallo.
I worry that we're not so far away from some tipping point, where the government doesn't even bother with the charade that they exist to serve us, not the other way around. That they might use those guns for their primary purpose, to enforce laws that people would otherwise ignore.
Needing a gun isn't the best kind of liberty, it's scraping the bottom of the barrel liberty. People still died in the eastern block, you know. They would still have died, but wouldn't it have been nice if they could have take a few of the oppressors with them?
The only shocking part is that there will be millions of people that have been using computers since the 1980s, who never noticed that there ever was such a thing as folders/directories.
I'm sorry, but I like to categorize things. I like to know where they are, in this logical space. If this loses a document, can you dig it out? Or did it just never exist?
Funny, you have no problem allowing the government to have guns. Some would say that they're the most dangerous entity that could have them.
I think that I have expressed my disinterest in them, my lack of fascination with things that blow up or that cause harm to other people.
I am not an NRA member. Those people scare me too. But to be honest, I don't think that I have a right, natural or Constitutional, to be safe from being scared.
What scares me the most is a government that time and time again shows itself to be foolish, ignorant and downright stupid on countless issues domestic and foreign, and even lately, to be evil too, tells me that its ok for *them* to have guns, but obviously I can't be trusted with one.
Not a gun nut here. The damn things scare me. I don't want to own one, and I will probably go on without owning one until it becomes illegal to do so. Only because the people who say I shouldn't be allowed to have one scare me more.
Because the only people I see waving their hands over something like this are the same people who want to call a mud puddle "Protected Wetlands"
Hardly. I might be called a conservative if that meant more than the puppet on the left hand of the powers that be. But does it matter, puppet on the right hand, puppet on the left hand?
Namely, people who have lost all credibility.
That's not me, I never had any.
No links to successes or failures of operations that used the Patriot Act.
Really? You mean there are such things. Near as I can tell, they try to hide both from any kind of public oversight. 50 media companies in the early 1990s reduced to 5 media companies, they can now do that, you know.
Probably no mention that of certain clauses that will sunset at the end of the year.
Yeh, we also don't bother to mention how even though copyright was extended, that it's actually still completely and 100% finite.
I would be in shock if someone posted their conversation with the Senator.
I can't even get my supervisor at work to pay attention to me when I know how to save the company money. Why is a man that can vote to raise his own salary at my expense ever going to give a fuck about what I think?
So when people like you, who are on top of the situation are doing nothing, the uninformed people see that and follow your example.
Really? I guess they'd follow my lead if I acted like a crazy survivalist buying all the guns and MREs I could and moving to Montana?
Yeh, the same double standard that says landmines are always bad, but that we can ignore temporarily if say, Pol Pot gets one accidentally stuffed up his ass.
Oh wait. That's not a double standard, that's just us cheering when bad things happen to bad people. Whooddah thunkit?
Really? That's funny, that's why they spend hundreds of millions of dollars doing advertising. For things we can't even legally buy, like prescription medicines.
That's why they spend more money on psych and subliminal studies than black ops DOD projects.
Corporations like Enron don't become successful because of free will, they become successful because of fraud. Small frauds, big frauds.
Psychopaths in that analogy were the corporations. Not the consumers.
Poser. I have all the original google day-to-day logo art tattooed on me, up to Halloween of 2004. I then ran out of room, so I had to start tattooing the rest onto my 4 month old son. It would have been nice to let him grow up to see his own unaltered adult face, but my plan to increase square inchage of my tattooable skin by becoming incredibly obese isn't progressing nearly fast enough!
I think you misunderstand. We don't rail against the eternal corporation, they do indeed die. Often times, this is not a good thing though... it usually means they were killed by an even worse corporation. It's like locking 1000 psychopaths in the room with guns and knives, the ones that are left are the *worst* of the bunch.
All you are saying is that some of the psychopaths are female also, and assuming that they fuck around enough, babies are born. Gee, I wonder how that kid will grow up, eh?
The incredible thing here, is that with Google, that analogy has failed. Here's a company that at least as of now is *not* a psychopath. Some of us are so cynical wonder if it is one, but hides it well, others figure it's only a matter of time before it becomes one even if it isn't already.
This isn't a shining example of the success of capitalism, rather, it's an exception to the rule. Capitalism shouldn't be a religion, the invisible hand might have been gentle at one time, but now it rarely ever even gives you a reach-around.
Well, Steve Jobs had to fuck something up eventually, right? Not that he hasn't worked magic before, just that everyone screws up once in awhile.
And it's not exactly unfair to say that he values looks over substance... just that he had enough style to make up for the disadvantages of that approach. I guess it was inevitable that the mouthbreathers out there and their marketing propaganda "clockspeed = how fast it is" would hijack the decision-making process at Apple.
There have been too many gorgeous OSs by OS-only companies that died lonely little deaths, to think that OSX has a "get out of irrelevance free" card stuffed up its ass somewhere.
It's simply too bad that they couldn't have pulled some type of reversal here. Intel making PPCs, or some such. The PPC, especially the G5, was and always be a hell of a chip. But then good chips die too. I think Intel has a secret lab where they torture the soul of the Alpha and drain off its essence for yet another braindead x86 chip.
Don't suppose there is any chance of anyone offering a plainjane G5 motherboard?
So we trap linux in a little box on windows. And get this, if windows crashes, so will linux! Most people will only ever see it like this, so they'll think that it's no better. Not to mention the possibility of some subtle sabotage that makes it crash even when windows doesn't!
Yeh, it does take quite a bit more energy to fuse them. But once you start talking about solid elements, it seems that you could maybe focus it better. I dunno, 2 of the pyroelectric crystals on either side of a lithium wire?
What strikes me as funny, is now that the proof of concept is out, doesn't that just make it an engineering challenge? Could they quadruple the output by carefully arranging the crystal(s) and conductor? Could they increase it 100fold? (Even though I'm well aware that this still wouldn't be near breakeven).
How far can it be pushed, with this one method?
Can they fuse something other than deuterium? Helium, lithium maybe? Don't some of the other elements have interesting fusion properties? (Seem to remember that boron would produce some sigificant voltage in the form of beta radiation).
Let's see: Be tried to be just another operating system on x86. NeXT tried to be just another operating system on x86. Oh, but SGI came out with x86 machines, and they're doing grea... er. Yhe And I hear that the latest thing in the Amigaverse is an amiga emulator running on x86! Everyone knows the Amiga is alive and kicking. HP Unix, now there's a winner. They went and partnered with Intel, just so they could have their own Intel architecture, the platinum award winning Itaniumanic. Itanic.
This isn't Microsoft and Windows 2000. Of course they'll release a fix. In the year 2045, they might just tell you to upgrade though, even Open Source has its limits for supporting old software....
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I'll go one further. I'm pretty good at this stuff, and there are some files I can't figure out how to tag with metadata in a way that would make this useful. It makes no sense to spend the extra effort, if only a single piece of data exists. Why not make that the folder name? Or will their metadata paradigm evolve to where you drag the file to an icon with the single instance of that metadata as its name?
The government may vet an employee well enough to eliminate a risk that a cop will shoot you when drunk. But let's be fair here, whether or not they do, that risk is fairly low anyway. I worry about being shot by a cop because he's crooked and I'll stumble upon him doing something he doesn't want known, or because he's a twitchy fuck that doesn't like the way I pull out my wallet when he asks for ID. Amadu Diallo.
I worry that we're not so far away from some tipping point, where the government doesn't even bother with the charade that they exist to serve us, not the other way around. That they might use those guns for their primary purpose, to enforce laws that people would otherwise ignore.
Needing a gun isn't the best kind of liberty, it's scraping the bottom of the barrel liberty. People still died in the eastern block, you know. They would still have died, but wouldn't it have been nice if they could have take a few of the oppressors with them?
The only shocking part is that there will be millions of people that have been using computers since the 1980s, who never noticed that there ever was such a thing as folders/directories.
I'm sorry, but I like to categorize things. I like to know where they are, in this logical space. If this loses a document, can you dig it out? Or did it just never exist?
Funny, you have no problem allowing the government to have guns. Some would say that they're the most dangerous entity that could have them.
I think that I have expressed my disinterest in them, my lack of fascination with things that blow up or that cause harm to other people.
I am not an NRA member. Those people scare me too. But to be honest, I don't think that I have a right, natural or Constitutional, to be safe from being scared.
What scares me the most is a government that time and time again shows itself to be foolish, ignorant and downright stupid on countless issues domestic and foreign, and even lately, to be evil too, tells me that its ok for *them* to have guns, but obviously I can't be trusted with one.
Not a gun nut here. The damn things scare me. I don't want to own one, and I will probably go on without owning one until it becomes illegal to do so. Only because the people who say I shouldn't be allowed to have one scare me more.
You mean the ones that keep the president from pandering to California/New York/Florida and telling the rest of us to fuck off?
That part?
Funny that people think the power rests in the executive branch.
You had me until "hideously outdated". Which of the rights and/or protections would you want to get rid of?
Maybe you've been a victim to the brainwashing too, and feel as if you can't be trusted to own a firearm?
Me, I don't own one either. But it scares me that other people try to tell me I shouldn't be allowed to have one all the same.
Because the only people I see waving their hands over something like this are the same people who want to call a mud puddle "Protected Wetlands"
Hardly. I might be called a conservative if that meant more than the puppet on the left hand of the powers that be. But does it matter, puppet on the right hand, puppet on the left hand?
Namely, people who have lost all credibility.
That's not me, I never had any.
No links to successes or failures of operations that used the Patriot Act.
Really? You mean there are such things. Near as I can tell, they try to hide both from any kind of public oversight. 50 media companies in the early 1990s reduced to 5 media companies, they can now do that, you know.
Probably no mention that of certain clauses that will sunset at the end of the year.
Yeh, we also don't bother to mention how even though copyright was extended, that it's actually still completely and 100% finite.
I would be in shock if someone posted their conversation with the Senator.
I can't even get my supervisor at work to pay attention to me when I know how to save the company money. Why is a man that can vote to raise his own salary at my expense ever going to give a fuck about what I think?
So when people like you, who are on top of the situation are doing nothing, the uninformed people see that and follow your example.
Really? I guess they'd follow my lead if I acted like a crazy survivalist buying all the guns and MREs I could and moving to Montana?
Yeh, funny how the wrong candidate always manages to win no matter what though, ain't it?
And I'm no lover of Kerry either, I'm convinced he could have stepped up to the plate as the "wrong candidate" had he been given the chance.
Yeh, the same double standard that says landmines are always bad, but that we can ignore temporarily if say, Pol Pot gets one accidentally stuffed up his ass.
Oh wait. That's not a double standard, that's just us cheering when bad things happen to bad people. Whooddah thunkit?
Damn, you used almost used a regex instead of a dos wildcard. The world really is changing.
Really? That's funny, that's why they spend hundreds of millions of dollars doing advertising. For things we can't even legally buy, like prescription medicines.
That's why they spend more money on psych and subliminal studies than black ops DOD projects.
Corporations like Enron don't become successful because of free will, they become successful because of fraud. Small frauds, big frauds.
Psychopaths in that analogy were the corporations. Not the consumers.
Poser. I have all the original google day-to-day logo art tattooed on me, up to Halloween of 2004. I then ran out of room, so I had to start tattooing the rest onto my 4 month old son. It would have been nice to let him grow up to see his own unaltered adult face, but my plan to increase square inchage of my tattooable skin by becoming incredibly obese isn't progressing nearly fast enough!
I think you misunderstand. We don't rail against the eternal corporation, they do indeed die. Often times, this is not a good thing though... it usually means they were killed by an even worse corporation. It's like locking 1000 psychopaths in the room with guns and knives, the ones that are left are the *worst* of the bunch.
All you are saying is that some of the psychopaths are female also, and assuming that they fuck around enough, babies are born. Gee, I wonder how that kid will grow up, eh?
The incredible thing here, is that with Google, that analogy has failed. Here's a company that at least as of now is *not* a psychopath. Some of us are so cynical wonder if it is one, but hides it well, others figure it's only a matter of time before it becomes one even if it isn't already.
This isn't a shining example of the success of capitalism, rather, it's an exception to the rule. Capitalism shouldn't be a religion, the invisible hand might have been gentle at one time, but now it rarely ever even gives you a reach-around.
They've just discovered the holy grail of inkjet industry revenue.
That's like 5 color cartridges per minute, at $32 a pop!
Well, Steve Jobs had to fuck something up eventually, right? Not that he hasn't worked magic before, just that everyone screws up once in awhile.
And it's not exactly unfair to say that he values looks over substance... just that he had enough style to make up for the disadvantages of that approach. I guess it was inevitable that the mouthbreathers out there and their marketing propaganda "clockspeed = how fast it is" would hijack the decision-making process at Apple.
Oh well, there's always Cell.
There have been too many gorgeous OSs by OS-only companies that died lonely little deaths, to think that OSX has a "get out of irrelevance free" card stuffed up its ass somewhere.
It's simply too bad that they couldn't have pulled some type of reversal here. Intel making PPCs, or some such. The PPC, especially the G5, was and always be a hell of a chip. But then good chips die too. I think Intel has a secret lab where they torture the soul of the Alpha and drain off its essence for yet another braindead x86 chip.
Don't suppose there is any chance of anyone offering a plainjane G5 motherboard?
This is better than a nuclear physicist that invents cybernetic octopus arms, so that he adjust 4 dials on his fusion machine at once?
He should have been a roboticist. His "city destroying experiment" could have been some kind of AI or robot. Would have made more sense.
So we trap linux in a little box on windows. And get this, if windows crashes, so will linux! Most people will only ever see it like this, so they'll think that it's no better. Not to mention the possibility of some subtle sabotage that makes it crash even when windows doesn't!
I thought the consensus prediction for ITER was far from certain success.
Also, I'm just a layman, mind explaining how Z-pinch figures in among all these methods? (assuming you know).
Yeh, it does take quite a bit more energy to fuse them. But once you start talking about solid elements, it seems that you could maybe focus it better. I dunno, 2 of the pyroelectric crystals on either side of a lithium wire?
That's funny - it reminded me of a really bad Toby Mcguire movie.
I know, I know.. I'll have to be more specific...
What strikes me as funny, is now that the proof of concept is out, doesn't that just make it an engineering challenge? Could they quadruple the output by carefully arranging the crystal(s) and conductor? Could they increase it 100fold? (Even though I'm well aware that this still wouldn't be near breakeven).
How far can it be pushed, with this one method?
Can they fuse something other than deuterium? Helium, lithium maybe? Don't some of the other elements have interesting fusion properties? (Seem to remember that boron would produce some sigificant voltage in the form of beta radiation).
It will hurt Apple worse. Why?
Let's see:
Be tried to be just another operating system on x86.
NeXT tried to be just another operating system on x86.
Oh, but SGI came out with x86 machines, and they're doing grea... er. Yhe
And I hear that the latest thing in the Amigaverse is an amiga emulator running on x86! Everyone knows the Amiga is alive and kicking.
HP Unix, now there's a winner. They went and partnered with Intel, just so they could have their own Intel architecture, the platinum award winning Itaniumanic. Itanic.
This isn't Microsoft and Windows 2000. Of course they'll release a fix. In the year 2045, they might just tell you to upgrade though, even Open Source has its limits for supporting old software....