The interesting thing I wonder is advertising free speech?
In India at least it is. There was a case a few years back when the state-owned telephone company blocked the sales of a private yellow pages directory. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the yellow pages company giving this explanation.
Then wouldn't any computer program with an ad in it be free speech?
Based on the ad-as-free-speech definition alone, no. The ad is free speech, not the medium.
But it makes you wonder if the theives can rob a government building, what about the quality of protection for the regular guy?
Particularly when traffic is usually controlled by the police themselves. Or is this normal-police vs. traffic police politics?
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I agree with you on the (mostly) unchanging nature of technology, but I think sleep is a bad example. You know, I'm also one of those people who sleep for 7 - 8 hours, but it's wrong to presume that everyone shuts down for exactly the same amount of time. I once went to a (not-so) remote Indian village (that's 'Indian' as in 'India') where everything shuts down at 7PM. Yup, you read that right, SEVEN PM. Not a single creature on their Main Street. In another one hour, everyone was sleeping. They got up at 5AM the next day. That's 9 - 10 hours of sleep.
I believe it's proof of the fact that electrical lighting as fundamentally changed our sleeping patterns.
The Singaporean MRT system, known for its efficiency cleanliness bla bla bla, has a comprehensive communications system. They have electronic boards outside MRT stations giving generally unhelpful messages on how fast trains will arrive and depart.
Guess what? They all run on DOS (or a related Win 9X clone). I once saw a "Not reading Drive A. Abort, Retry, Fail?" message on at least one screen.
Allegedly, many commuters thought that train drivers weren't driving the trains that day.
I've recently been involved in at least two large-scale projects involving developers in three countries, US, Singapore and India. The timescales were very small; we had to implement one of the systems within 48 hours. A huge coding effort it was, with rapid real-time changes to design specs.
As much as I hate M$ (hey, I AM a/.-ter after all), I just can't de-emphasise how critical MSN Messenger was during development.
Only one problem though:- you'll need intense amounts of concentration to ignore junk messages from friends.
This is one place I'd focus on. You know, perhaps an avatar sort of thing; in your programming (work) avatar, you are online to only a certain people. In your chillout avatar, you are online to everyone. The programming avatar also could have an auto-message feature:- perhaps one that delivers a message to the tester once you finish coding a class or something.
Any open source Jabber-related projects out there working on this?
My dad's office had just upgraded all their comps. I peeked into their office once and found a spare disused 286 motherboard lying around. It was vacation time and I had not only loads of spare time, but also spare computer parts. Somehow, we scourged and cobbled together a floppy disk drive, an 80 MB hard disk, 2MB RAM, an SMPS, a CGA card, a keyboard and a CGA monitor.
The eureka moment was just around the corner.
All of us gathered around that big table in my room and we staring at all those non-connected parts. All we needed was a proper tower. One look at everyone's faces, and we decided to cut holes in the motherboard's cardboard box and let the CGA & ID cards stick *out* of holes in the cardboard box. We put the SMPS and floppy drive outside the box.
Except for an initial burst capacitor (the bulb glowing, get it?), the comp worked perfect, if you call running DOS 5 with windows 3.1 on a CGA system as *perfect* running of the machine.
The question, really, is this. This was in 1997 and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find some pics or the other if I search carefully, but do you think I should sue Apple for copying the external floppy in iMacs?
gaining true guru-hood requires countless hours tooling with computers.
Indeed. I prefer meeting bots online.
Essence of Guru Dharma
A guru should also be recursively valid, ie, when given a URL, a guru spends some quality time in visiting the provided URL and bemuses on the offered wisdom.
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downsides: - WWE (formerly the WWF)
- The Anna Nicole Smith Show
- Jackass
- Springer/Oprah/etc.
- FOX News
- Windows
upsides:
- Simpsons
- Red Dwarf
- Cartoon Network's Adult Swim
- MST3K
- Linux
There, that should work wonders for my karma...
The interesting thing I wonder is advertising free speech?
In India at least it is. There was a case a few years back when the state-owned telephone company blocked the sales of a private yellow pages directory. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the yellow pages company giving this explanation.
Then wouldn't any computer program with an ad in it be free speech?
Based on the ad-as-free-speech definition alone, no. The ad is free speech, not the medium.
But it makes you wonder if the theives can rob a government building, what about the quality of protection for the regular guy?
Particularly when traffic is usually controlled by the police themselves. Or is this normal-police vs. traffic police politics?
I agree with you on the (mostly) unchanging nature of technology, but I think sleep is a bad example. You know, I'm also one of those people who sleep for 7 - 8 hours, but it's wrong to presume that everyone shuts down for exactly the same amount of time. I once went to a (not-so) remote Indian village (that's 'Indian' as in 'India') where everything shuts down at 7PM. Yup, you read that right, SEVEN PM. Not a single creature on their Main Street. In another one hour, everyone was sleeping. They got up at 5AM the next day. That's 9 - 10 hours of sleep.
I believe it's proof of the fact that electrical lighting as fundamentally changed our sleeping patterns.
the co-creator of Microsoft's game console just quit his job -- a day before a book portraying him as a hero hit the bookstores." "
Of course. If he still remained with Microsoft, he would have been the archenemy's trusted aide.The Singaporean MRT system, known for its efficiency cleanliness bla bla bla, has a comprehensive communications system. They have electronic boards outside MRT stations giving generally unhelpful messages on how fast trains will arrive and depart.
Guess what? They all run on DOS (or a related Win 9X clone). I once saw a "Not reading Drive A. Abort, Retry, Fail?" message on at least one screen.
Allegedly, many commuters thought that train drivers weren't driving the trains that day.
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
I've recently been involved in at least two large-scale projects involving developers in three countries, US, Singapore and India. The timescales were very small; we had to implement one of the systems within 48 hours. A huge coding effort it was, with rapid real-time changes to design specs.
/.-ter after all), I just can't de-emphasise how critical MSN Messenger was during development.
As much as I hate M$ (hey, I AM a
Only one problem though:- you'll need intense amounts of concentration to ignore junk messages from friends.
This is one place I'd focus on. You know, perhaps an avatar sort of thing; in your programming (work) avatar, you are online to only a certain people. In your chillout avatar, you are online to everyone. The programming avatar also could have an auto-message feature:- perhaps one that delivers a message to the tester once you finish coding a class or something.
Any open source Jabber-related projects out there working on this?
is it just me or do some others feel that game/movie conversions (whichever way) are most of the time pretty lame.
Try this.First you had SimCity 2000 with the following disasters:-
1) Alien attack.
2) Volcano.
3) Tornado.
Then you had the following movies:-
1) Independence Day.
2) Volcano; 2.1) Dante's Peak.
3) Twister.
Notice a pattern? Personally, I didn't mind Independence Day although Twister did suck. Crichton's first Razzie, wasn't it?
My dad's office had just upgraded all their comps. I peeked into their office once and found a spare disused 286 motherboard lying around. It was vacation time and I had not only loads of spare time, but also spare computer parts. Somehow, we scourged and cobbled together a floppy disk drive, an 80 MB hard disk, 2MB RAM, an SMPS, a CGA card, a keyboard and a CGA monitor.
The eureka moment was just around the corner.
All of us gathered around that big table in my room and we staring at all those non-connected parts. All we needed was a proper tower. One look at everyone's faces, and we decided to cut holes in the motherboard's cardboard box and let the CGA & ID cards stick *out* of holes in the cardboard box. We put the SMPS and floppy drive outside the box.
Except for an initial burst capacitor (the bulb glowing, get it?), the comp worked perfect, if you call running DOS 5 with windows 3.1 on a CGA system as *perfect* running of the machine.
The question, really, is this. This was in 1997 and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find some pics or the other if I search carefully, but do you think I should sue Apple for copying the external floppy in iMacs?
Indeed. I prefer meeting bots online.
That's not true! I'm a wannabe IT worker, and I make it a point to talk/ hangout with new people, especially cool folks such as these.
Indeed, one of the more pleasurable activities at our university is to hangout at the the library and chug code for projects.
Oh you capitalist-thinkers. Spare a thought for Geocities/ Hypermart users who have to start shelling out money if they cross a certain hit threshold.