...Wikipedia in bound volume format. 26 volumes updated daily at the newsstand for only 50 cents a day! Fine print: To keep the costs down please recycle the volumes daily by bringing them to the local Wikipedia print shop. Remember if everyone plays it's almost free!!!!
The problem with your suggestion is that you refer to the stuff that's "important" enough to be transferred to newer media/formats. However, I suggest that things like old photos from the 10th and 20th century that WEREN'T "important" in the large scheme of thing survive to this day. Although they're not "important" to the survival of society, the are extremely important to the understanding and relation to the past by future generations. We get to experience a bit of the past through just photos alone. Add to that written text even personal letters and you have unimaginable cultural wealth. The kind of wealth that will be lost forever if we don't preserve this stuff on something human readable or devise a guaranteed readable format. I think the comment that the problem is so big as to be stupid to try and solve is EXACTLY on the mark. I had suggested a while back that we'd be better off taking quantum snapshots of the entire solar system and transmitting the datastream to remote locations in the universe for possible recovery in the future. I even suggested that there be an automatic way of rebuilding the solar system as needed to recover lost eras. Of course I was called a crackpot even though the science is sound. But at least I made a suggestion. I, personally think that the data requirements for processing such snapshots and the space to hold the data would be much smaller than the solar system itself.
Typically it's in my pants while watching Pamela Anderson's sweater meat bounce around like a raver on extacy. Come on! Laugh! It's funny! You KNOW you WANT to.
Considering that they aren't having much success extracting teabagging extortion fees from the fiercly masculine Linux userbase, they've had to resort to more desperate means. $4500 should cover the $699 fee for about six machines and Darl McBride's penis shortage.
SSH? What's that? I use Microsoft's innovated IP Sec VPN for super fast connections from anywhere in the world. And who in their right mind uses dial-up these days anyway. Bandwidth is cheap. Just hop on a WiFi AP somewhere, launch the MS VPN connection and then use the innovative Remote Desktop application to connect directly to your desktop at the home office. Simple, clean, and effective. No need for mussing about with command lines. And even better, the lightweight Remote Desktop Protocol goes over even slow DSL lines without having to run a local Outlook client. Not to mention that all of the above is really not needed if you use Outlook Web Agent which is really light. I was simply pointing out that the archaic command line applications you mentioned have far too much technical knowledge overhead. I just want to check mail, I don't want to be a programmer.
Man. Someone forgot to take his happy pill this morning I see. Look, I'm only repeating what I saw on a legitimate science show. I didn't make this stuff up. Go look it up! The main article being featured on Slashdot goes a long way to explaining why the sheep would change colors when exposed to stimuli like those poles. Until I read it, the fact that it happened remained a mystery and Carl Sagan didn't explain it too much other than to sy that it was natural selection at work. The only possible explanation is that the sheep felt a bit out of style with their bland old white coats when confronted with the presence of new trendy striped poles. So simply by thinking that, they changed their coats. I don't know how fast this stuff works, but I've been wanting a nice Eggplant wash in my jet black hair. So I'm going to think about myself looking like that for the next few months hoping that I'll beat the clock before my next colour consultation with my stylist.
What a bunch of claptrap! You apparently know NOTHING about natural selection. I'd be very surprised to find that Carl Sagan did indeed present such a preposterous notion. Carl Sagan was a respected scientist whereas you are...? Thought so. Go lay your pseudoscience turds on an audience that cares. Digg.com perhaps?
...of something I once saw on Carl Sagan's Cosmos Factor back in the 70s. The part about how natural selection is basically how aminals are inaffected by their environmets. He picked a part from biblical scripture to back himself up too. It was this passage where Moses or someone needed a bunch of wool yarn that was black and white striped. So he corralled his sheep (or goats, I can't remember which) into a pen and put some long poles in the ground painted with black and white stripes. The aminals after being in there for a few months started to develope striped coats due to natural selection. I always wondered how that sort of thing happens in nature. So this explains it all. The sheep must have been thinking what I'd think in their situation, "Those black and white poles are so hip and trendy. And here I am with my boring silly old white coat. I've must DO something about this"! So then after willing themselves to have black and white striped coats to accesorize the poles, it happened! Man this is going to save me a TON on hair colour at my salon!
Never mind Mutt. Us 'leet Outlook users are still scratching our heads wondering why on earth anyone is still using a CLI mail app. Face it, the GUI has one and is clearly the victor. I'm willing to bet I could read/cleanse/fold/manipulate 1000 times more messages in a day than any Pine or Mutt users on a given day. There just isn't any benefit to having a CLI mail reader. Maybe in the 1960s there was, but not since the days of Xerox's Star system have CLIs for e-mail made sense. Outlook just does so many things right that you could never do in a CLI mail client, and it's got wicked groupware functionality too.
Yup. And it should start even earlier than college. When I was growing up, it was pretty much derigeur for boys to be trained in basic electronics. What kid didn't build a crystal radio set in the 50s? Today, I say both boys and girls should be taught more than how to use a mouse and point and click on the web. You really should know the why before you know the how. Anyone who disagrees with me on this is just a part of the problem. That is all.
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I only "google" when I perform a search using www.google.com or one of it's sub-searches. If I use Altavista, then I am doing a "web search on Altavista". Same goes for any other search engine. It's relatively simple to be very specifica about what you're doing on a machine if you think about it. Add in the fact that I'm fully aware of Google's search engine not being an application on my PC, and we have the beginnings of what every user should be thinking when they use their computer. It's idiotic to attach a brand to a function or application. Of course, I know the point you're making but I see that as part of the problem. I mean think about it... we don't "Ford" or "Chevy" all over the roads when we drive our cars. We don't "Nokia" our friends to set up social engagements. Hell... we don't even "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" our baking tins when making baked goods. So there's no really good reason why anyone should "google" something when they aren't using the Google search tools. It's just plain idiotic to think that way regardless of what a current dictionary might have to say on the matter. A lot of current dictionaries accept "nucular" as a legitimate pronunciation. However, I refuse to accept this unless they also accept "cellular nuculeus", "deoxyribnuculeic acid" and "nucular family" as legitimate as well. I'm guessing that won't be happening anytime soon. But the time has come for me to go "Serta", so I bid all you asshats adieu.
...lots of big companies to get LOTS of money from NASA and the U.S. military for developing more and more technologies that won't actually be used at all in any flights to the moon or mars. I also expect to see either no flight to Mars, or one that falls far short of what is being planned today at best. At worst I expect to see quite a few lost lives within the first five to ten flights to/from Mars. Why? Because I expect that most of the money is going to be spent on developing PROFITABLE (here on Earth) technologies that will only have a very loose connection to the missions. This is just a huge money grab and not about the advancement of science or discovery.
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How true. Most people think they are using "Word" no matter what word processor their system came with. I still can't comprehend what it must be like to not be able to discern the difference between a brand and an application. I can't comprehend how someone can't tell the difference between a web page and a local application. And yet, here we are... with a large segment of even the brightest people who can't deal with abstractions. And take into account that future releases of mainstream Linux distros will be including virtualization of some kind where the end user can run Windows on top of Linux and you have a formula for disaster even though you shouldn't. How did we get to the point where people can't process abstractions? It's pretty much a necessity these days if you deal with any usable computing.
Never mind replying... I just looked at your blog. God you're boring. Bruce Campbell is OK, but he's not THAT good. Southpark sucks. Polyphonic Spree? Please... It's OK to be boring though as that's what a lot of you seem to be these days. Ummm... by "you" I mean losers who think they've figured the world out and dont' give a rat's ass about anyone but numero uno.
So show me your musical god of choice Mr. Rocket Scientist? Is it Manly McMahon or Stryper? Music is the most important thing that our society creates. Above all other things. If you haven't gotten that by now, you're hopeless.
Well at least I admit I like to have exchanges with idiots like you for fun rather than taking the whole thing seriously. Anyone who ends their post by calling someone else a tool is obviously taking things a little too seriously. And what kind of a name is Moofie in the first place. Try something with a little style and class next time you get an account. I chose eno2001 because Brian Eno is god. If you can't relate to that, then you're even more lost than I imagined.
This is yet another classic battle: Knowledge vs. Wealth (both financial and resource). I always come down on the side that says that knowledge is far more valuable than wealth since it frees you from the bondage of relying on others for most things. A simple example is the GNU/Linux project. For those of us who use Linux, we know that we are free of MANY of the things that Windows users are bound to Microsoft by. When you use GNU/Linux, you have to acquire a certain level of knowledge (that is actually fiarly easy to acquire if you make the effort) in order to do everything a Windows user can do. In exchange, you are no longer bound to the restrictions that Microsoft would impose on you had you not escaped. The same can be applied to things like knowing how to fix things around your house (more than just the basics), or how to take care of your medical issues with natural remedies that DO work (see my JE link below) and there by avoide bondage to the pharmaceutical industry. Anyone who is opposed to spreading knowledge instead of throwing money and resources at a population is either naive, or disingenuous. After all... which is better: Spending money over many many many generations to either teach people in developing nations that having lots of kids is generally a bad thing, or... letting them find out for themselves by sharing the knowledge with them through a simple low cost device? That's what the $100 laptop project is all about. It's about freeing the recipients from having to rely on a host of people and orgnaizations and instead, with a small investment, providing them with the ability to free themselves permanently by experiencing the power of shared knowledge from the people who are very willing to lend a hand with no strings. I applaud the $100 laptop project because for every one of the possible projects that the money could be wasted on, the potential to obviate them by sharing knowledge (about hydroponics, or solar power, or alternative medicines that may already be present in the culture, etc...) at what will turn out to be a fraction of the cost. But, I suspect that the people who stand to benefit from the expenditures on the other competing projects are largely opposed to this as they would lose a reason for being and therefore lose funding. Really good intentions there... Remember: knowledge is ALWAYS more valuable than wealth.
No. I don't need a hug. I just like playing mean S.O.Bs on Slashdot. Lord knows that the liberal camp needs more mean people. Too many well meaning but soft people on the left and way too many bastards on the right. I generally ignore the libertarians as they're total idiots who think they have a solution. They're so lost, there's no hope for them at all.
Psychically? Where the fucking hell did you come up with that you fucking whack? My point is that it's too complicated to know anything with any certainty and too many people are willing to manipulate you to their way of thinking. The only option you have that's realistic is to work within the system and pick the things that are closest to what you believe based on some deeper research than just hitting a few web pages. And then after that, accept the fact that even with that effort you will have failed. Is that so hard to comprehend Mr. Rocket Scientist? You should learn to read a little better jerkwad.
Yeah... damn all those words and the thinking behind them. It's better to just fall in line with the sheeple.;P
No. I don't have a solution for it and I honestly don't think there is one. I think the system is hoplessly broken since there is no way to have verifiable information that can be trusted regarding candidates and issues. If someone has the money or the power, they WILL (and already do) falsify information to back their positions in such a way that a large segment of the population will believe them. Do you HONESTLY want to have to tail your representatives to see exactly what it is that they do all day and make sure they're not lying to you? Because I sure don't. Do you HONESTLY want to research everything yourself by going straight to the government and corporate offices or backtracking what your favorite political blogger is telling you to make sure you're being told the truth? Because I sure don't. So, there is no answer. However, you can learn to think for yourself for a start. I'm just sayin'...
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...Wikipedia in bound volume format. 26 volumes updated daily at the newsstand for only 50 cents a day! Fine print: To keep the costs down please recycle the volumes daily by bringing them to the local Wikipedia print shop. Remember if everyone plays it's almost free!!!!
The problem with your suggestion is that you refer to the stuff that's "important" enough to be transferred to newer media/formats. However, I suggest that things like old photos from the 10th and 20th century that WEREN'T "important" in the large scheme of thing survive to this day. Although they're not "important" to the survival of society, the are extremely important to the understanding and relation to the past by future generations. We get to experience a bit of the past through just photos alone. Add to that written text even personal letters and you have unimaginable cultural wealth. The kind of wealth that will be lost forever if we don't preserve this stuff on something human readable or devise a guaranteed readable format. I think the comment that the problem is so big as to be stupid to try and solve is EXACTLY on the mark. I had suggested a while back that we'd be better off taking quantum snapshots of the entire solar system and transmitting the datastream to remote locations in the universe for possible recovery in the future. I even suggested that there be an automatic way of rebuilding the solar system as needed to recover lost eras. Of course I was called a crackpot even though the science is sound. But at least I made a suggestion. I, personally think that the data requirements for processing such snapshots and the space to hold the data would be much smaller than the solar system itself.
Typically it's in my pants while watching Pamela Anderson's sweater meat bounce around like a raver on extacy. Come on! Laugh! It's funny! You KNOW you WANT to.
Considering that they aren't having much success extracting teabagging extortion fees from the fiercly masculine Linux userbase, they've had to resort to more desperate means. $4500 should cover the $699 fee for about six machines and Darl McBride's penis shortage.
SSH? What's that? I use Microsoft's innovated IP Sec VPN for super fast connections from anywhere in the world. And who in their right mind uses dial-up these days anyway. Bandwidth is cheap. Just hop on a WiFi AP somewhere, launch the MS VPN connection and then use the innovative Remote Desktop application to connect directly to your desktop at the home office. Simple, clean, and effective. No need for mussing about with command lines. And even better, the lightweight Remote Desktop Protocol goes over even slow DSL lines without having to run a local Outlook client. Not to mention that all of the above is really not needed if you use Outlook Web Agent which is really light. I was simply pointing out that the archaic command line applications you mentioned have far too much technical knowledge overhead. I just want to check mail, I don't want to be a programmer.
Shhh... don't tell anyone, but I think this 'eno2001' character is a little strange.
Man. Someone forgot to take his happy pill this morning I see. Look, I'm only repeating what I saw on a legitimate science show. I didn't make this stuff up. Go look it up! The main article being featured on Slashdot goes a long way to explaining why the sheep would change colors when exposed to stimuli like those poles. Until I read it, the fact that it happened remained a mystery and Carl Sagan didn't explain it too much other than to sy that it was natural selection at work. The only possible explanation is that the sheep felt a bit out of style with their bland old white coats when confronted with the presence of new trendy striped poles. So simply by thinking that, they changed their coats. I don't know how fast this stuff works, but I've been wanting a nice Eggplant wash in my jet black hair. So I'm going to think about myself looking like that for the next few months hoping that I'll beat the clock before my next colour consultation with my stylist.
What a bunch of claptrap! You apparently know NOTHING about natural selection. I'd be very surprised to find that Carl Sagan did indeed present such a preposterous notion. Carl Sagan was a respected scientist whereas you are...? Thought so. Go lay your pseudoscience turds on an audience that cares. Digg.com perhaps?
..."Microsoft Office" would take on a while new meaning. [ducks]
/me ducks)
(Or for the humor challenged:
...of something I once saw on Carl Sagan's Cosmos Factor back in the 70s. The part about how natural selection is basically how aminals are inaffected by their environmets. He picked a part from biblical scripture to back himself up too. It was this passage where Moses or someone needed a bunch of wool yarn that was black and white striped. So he corralled his sheep (or goats, I can't remember which) into a pen and put some long poles in the ground painted with black and white stripes. The aminals after being in there for a few months started to develope striped coats due to natural selection. I always wondered how that sort of thing happens in nature. So this explains it all. The sheep must have been thinking what I'd think in their situation, "Those black and white poles are so hip and trendy. And here I am with my boring silly old white coat. I've must DO something about this"! So then after willing themselves to have black and white striped coats to accesorize the poles, it happened! Man this is going to save me a TON on hair colour at my salon!
Oooh... I'm honoured. Have fun. ;P
Never mind Mutt. Us 'leet Outlook users are still scratching our heads wondering why on earth anyone is still using a CLI mail app. Face it, the GUI has one and is clearly the victor. I'm willing to bet I could read/cleanse/fold/manipulate 1000 times more messages in a day than any Pine or Mutt users on a given day. There just isn't any benefit to having a CLI mail reader. Maybe in the 1960s there was, but not since the days of Xerox's Star system have CLIs for e-mail made sense. Outlook just does so many things right that you could never do in a CLI mail client, and it's got wicked groupware functionality too.
Yup. And it should start even earlier than college. When I was growing up, it was pretty much derigeur for boys to be trained in basic electronics. What kid didn't build a crystal radio set in the 50s? Today, I say both boys and girls should be taught more than how to use a mouse and point and click on the web. You really should know the why before you know the how. Anyone who disagrees with me on this is just a part of the problem. That is all.
I only "google" when I perform a search using www.google.com or one of it's sub-searches. If I use Altavista, then I am doing a "web search on Altavista". Same goes for any other search engine. It's relatively simple to be very specifica about what you're doing on a machine if you think about it. Add in the fact that I'm fully aware of Google's search engine not being an application on my PC, and we have the beginnings of what every user should be thinking when they use their computer. It's idiotic to attach a brand to a function or application. Of course, I know the point you're making but I see that as part of the problem. I mean think about it... we don't "Ford" or "Chevy" all over the roads when we drive our cars. We don't "Nokia" our friends to set up social engagements. Hell... we don't even "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" our baking tins when making baked goods. So there's no really good reason why anyone should "google" something when they aren't using the Google search tools. It's just plain idiotic to think that way regardless of what a current dictionary might have to say on the matter. A lot of current dictionaries accept "nucular" as a legitimate pronunciation. However, I refuse to accept this unless they also accept "cellular nuculeus", "deoxyribnuculeic acid" and "nucular family" as legitimate as well. I'm guessing that won't be happening anytime soon. But the time has come for me to go "Serta", so I bid all you asshats adieu.
...lots of big companies to get LOTS of money from NASA and the U.S. military for developing more and more technologies that won't actually be used at all in any flights to the moon or mars. I also expect to see either no flight to Mars, or one that falls far short of what is being planned today at best. At worst I expect to see quite a few lost lives within the first five to ten flights to/from Mars. Why? Because I expect that most of the money is going to be spent on developing PROFITABLE (here on Earth) technologies that will only have a very loose connection to the missions. This is just a huge money grab and not about the advancement of science or discovery.
How true. Most people think they are using "Word" no matter what word processor their system came with. I still can't comprehend what it must be like to not be able to discern the difference between a brand and an application. I can't comprehend how someone can't tell the difference between a web page and a local application. And yet, here we are... with a large segment of even the brightest people who can't deal with abstractions. And take into account that future releases of mainstream Linux distros will be including virtualization of some kind where the end user can run Windows on top of Linux and you have a formula for disaster even though you shouldn't. How did we get to the point where people can't process abstractions? It's pretty much a necessity these days if you deal with any usable computing.
You're my hero. Added to friends list... Now get to posting some entertaining journals before I cut my nads off.
Never mind replying... I just looked at your blog. God you're boring. Bruce Campbell is OK, but he's not THAT good. Southpark sucks. Polyphonic Spree? Please... It's OK to be boring though as that's what a lot of you seem to be these days. Ummm... by "you" I mean losers who think they've figured the world out and dont' give a rat's ass about anyone but numero uno.
So show me your musical god of choice Mr. Rocket Scientist? Is it Manly McMahon or Stryper? Music is the most important thing that our society creates. Above all other things. If you haven't gotten that by now, you're hopeless.
Well at least I admit I like to have exchanges with idiots like you for fun rather than taking the whole thing seriously. Anyone who ends their post by calling someone else a tool is obviously taking things a little too seriously. And what kind of a name is Moofie in the first place. Try something with a little style and class next time you get an account. I chose eno2001 because Brian Eno is god. If you can't relate to that, then you're even more lost than I imagined.
This is yet another classic battle: Knowledge vs. Wealth (both financial and resource). I always come down on the side that says that knowledge is far more valuable than wealth since it frees you from the bondage of relying on others for most things. A simple example is the GNU/Linux project. For those of us who use Linux, we know that we are free of MANY of the things that Windows users are bound to Microsoft by. When you use GNU/Linux, you have to acquire a certain level of knowledge (that is actually fiarly easy to acquire if you make the effort) in order to do everything a Windows user can do. In exchange, you are no longer bound to the restrictions that Microsoft would impose on you had you not escaped. The same can be applied to things like knowing how to fix things around your house (more than just the basics), or how to take care of your medical issues with natural remedies that DO work (see my JE link below) and there by avoide bondage to the pharmaceutical industry. Anyone who is opposed to spreading knowledge instead of throwing money and resources at a population is either naive, or disingenuous. After all... which is better: Spending money over many many many generations to either teach people in developing nations that having lots of kids is generally a bad thing, or... letting them find out for themselves by sharing the knowledge with them through a simple low cost device? That's what the $100 laptop project is all about. It's about freeing the recipients from having to rely on a host of people and orgnaizations and instead, with a small investment, providing them with the ability to free themselves permanently by experiencing the power of shared knowledge from the people who are very willing to lend a hand with no strings. I applaud the $100 laptop project because for every one of the possible projects that the money could be wasted on, the potential to obviate them by sharing knowledge (about hydroponics, or solar power, or alternative medicines that may already be present in the culture, etc...) at what will turn out to be a fraction of the cost. But, I suspect that the people who stand to benefit from the expenditures on the other competing projects are largely opposed to this as they would lose a reason for being and therefore lose funding. Really good intentions there... Remember: knowledge is ALWAYS more valuable than wealth.
No. I don't need a hug. I just like playing mean S.O.Bs on Slashdot. Lord knows that the liberal camp needs more mean people. Too many well meaning but soft people on the left and way too many bastards on the right. I generally ignore the libertarians as they're total idiots who think they have a solution. They're so lost, there's no hope for them at all.
Psychically? Where the fucking hell did you come up with that you fucking whack? My point is that it's too complicated to know anything with any certainty and too many people are willing to manipulate you to their way of thinking. The only option you have that's realistic is to work within the system and pick the things that are closest to what you believe based on some deeper research than just hitting a few web pages. And then after that, accept the fact that even with that effort you will have failed. Is that so hard to comprehend Mr. Rocket Scientist? You should learn to read a little better jerkwad.
Yeah... damn all those words and the thinking behind them. It's better to just fall in line with the sheeple. ;P
No. I don't have a solution for it and I honestly don't think there is one. I think the system is hoplessly broken since there is no way to have verifiable information that can be trusted regarding candidates and issues. If someone has the money or the power, they WILL (and already do) falsify information to back their positions in such a way that a large segment of the population will believe them. Do you HONESTLY want to have to tail your representatives to see exactly what it is that they do all day and make sure they're not lying to you? Because I sure don't. Do you HONESTLY want to research everything yourself by going straight to the government and corporate offices or backtracking what your favorite political blogger is telling you to make sure you're being told the truth? Because I sure don't. So, there is no answer. However, you can learn to think for yourself for a start. I'm just sayin'...
...then why in the HELL are there 12 versions of it!!!? ;P