"UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!" *removes professional headshot, posts shitty cell phone picture of a celebrities' shoulder* "Here is a headshot I took with my DSLR, fill flash and $10,000 lens." "UR PICTURE IS NO GOOD!" *reverts edit to shitty cell phone photo*
"UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!" "Well the photo comes from government archives and originated in the SS, so I don't think anyone is going to..." "UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!" *nominates photo for deletion*
Rinse. Repeat.
I know many of them are either admins or obsessive super-editors who have ingratiated themselves into the community, but damn.
Westerners often tend to conflate Wahhabism with Islam, but that is a critical mistake that undermines any clear understanding of the Middle East and Islam itself. The movement has taken Islam from being an unquestioned powerhouse of intellectual and cultural innovation to being perceived as a force of stagnation. Islam is not the problem, the cultural baggage that it is presently burdened with is the issue. Wahhabism itself is only a few centuries old, and in that time it has deeply undermined the perception of Islam in the Western world, and undermined the social, intellectual and economic development of those countries where it has taken root.
It's why women went from being the closest advisors to the Prophet himself, to being deeply despised and treated as subhuman in certain corners of the Islamic world. The najib, the bourqua, the many, many restrictions on women - these came from outside of Islam, and were integrated into the narrative of what Islam is about. Many in the West fail to understand that Wahhabism and the myriad of ancient tribal customs that were given an opportunity for resurgence are not found in the Qu'ran.
One can find the seeds of Wahhabism. The passages and the bits of text that would inspire such an interpretation, but to say it is a legitimate part of Islam would be false. (Wahhabists would strongly disagree.;) )
But Wahhabism is a factor that must be dealt with regardless of how legitimate it is. So here we find ourselves looking at its biggest proponent - and it's largest victim - Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has siphoned its oil wealth off to fund the lifestyle of countless princes vaguely related to the royal family, while the rest of the young-skewing country faces unemployment and poverty.
The ruling class has tried to embrace the radical Wahhabist interpretation of Islam and use it as a uniting force in the country, while accumulating for itself the material pleasures of modernity purchased with the natural resources of the nation. It hasn't really worked. It's resulted in the aforementioned elites living the high life, while the impoverished masses watch the encroachment of western culture they are taught to despise.
It's a nation ruled by oppression and undermined with a deep-seated cognitive dissonance regarding technology, culture, religion and how it all interacts on a moral and practical level.
It's a climate that is intellectually bankrupt, as it crushes new ideas while longing for the modernity it simultaneously craves / despises. It wants to mesh 16th century mores with 21st century technology. So far it has operated under the illusion that such things are possible, as the country has simply purchased what it desires from the West. But it doesn't develop much of anything on its own. The culture of Wahhabism silences innovation. It creates an environment where fear, oppression, absolutely pathological misogyny are entrenched in the social and legal fabric of the nation.
Saudi Arabia has tried to improve its position by having students study overseas, but they quickly become deeply alienated from the world that stands so far apart from the one they come from. Ideally, the men (and they are almost always men) would return with new ideas and new perspectives. But they so often end up bitter radicals. They see how their nation is widely perceived as a backwards ocean of sand that is valued for its oil and little else. Furthermore, the Western world they encounter is full of temptations they have been groomed to hate, but the promise of economic prosperity they cannot hope to find at home.
The home they return to is a stifling environment of institutionalized corruption (the name Saudi Arabia literally means "Arabia that belongs to the House of Saud"), intellectual stagnation where new ideas are deeply frowned upon, and constant reminders of the morally corrupt world they've left behind.
Oh, not the whole "Start Building the Saturn V Again!" argument.
I understand it. I do. On the surface, it makes perfect sense.
But it doesn't make sense from a practical standpoint. All the parts that went into it are out of production. You might find some screws or maybe even some tubing that have lingered on to fill the need of some obscure sub-market, but other than that, it's all gone. You'd have to create production lines for every last part. And production lines for every part that goes into every larger part. Certify all of the components and the facilities where they are made.
On top of that you'd be rejecting any and all advances made in rocketry in the last 40 years. Sure, we haven't made massive leaps like we did from the V2 to the Saturn V in half the time, but things have progressed.
The Saturn V is dead. It will remain so. The time to reactivate the program was during the Nixon administration, and it was probably going to be a challenge as early as the Gerald Ford years.
You gotta keep the DVD market in mind when you're shooting something. Nobody wants to make a movie that looks like crap unless it's watched in a tricked-out theatre.
Yeah, about a year and a half ago I sat through a lecture on the 1838 photo. We discussed the presence of the two people on the street corner, and how it was such an unexpected treat given the ridiculous exposure times back then (they were measured in minutes). This isn't news.
- Every section of every textbook would end with a massive, nonsensical collection of anime / manga / comic book trivia, along with non-sequtor references to obscure garage bands that formed yesterday.
- All portraits and photographs would be removed from academic buildings and replaced with enlargements of shots taken with cell phone cameras.
- Professors would hand back papers having noted and corrected the student's grammatical errors. Students would then un-correct the errors and ask the professors to leave.
I would argue Mac OS 8.6 was the best Classic OS release. It pushed the old architecture about as far as it could go, and got it about as stable as you could hope for given the technical limitations of cooperative multitasking and unprotected memory.
It removed a ton of cruft, swapped out the kernel, added Carbon support and basically pulled a Weekend at Bernie's on what was an embarrassingly out of date codebase.
I'm still not even sure why Mac OS 9 happened beyond the need for something between 8 and 10 on the release schedule. It didn't add very many new features (voice login and uh... yeah), and brought us back to 8.5 levels of stability. Definitely the Weekend at Bernie's 2 release. An uninspired and pointless sequel that arrived too late.
Yes, I understand it's a challenging technical issue, but things like OS X (which is an amalgam of quite a few disparate technologies and APIs) took less time.
People keep clamoring for a Verizon iPhone, but Verizon is the last company you would want to see get its hands on something like that.
Verizon has good coverage, but their customer service is, by all accounts, absolutely atrocious. And now it has gotten to the point where a CSR can get in trouble for helping you save money:
"Effective this past month, all CSRs [customer-service reps} were versed on the usage of blocks. A new policy has gone into effect regarding how to handle Escalated Calls regarding data charges. Now, a representative can be reprimanded and even terminated for proactively offering to block any of the following:
Web Access Blocks Data Blocks Premium SMS blocking Application download blocking Vcast Music or Vcast Video download blocks
"Essentially, we are to upsell customers on the $9.99 25mb/month or $29.99 unlimited packages for customers. Customers are not to be credited for charges unless they ask for the credit. And in cases such as data or premium SMS, where the occurrences may have gone months without the consumer noticing, only an initial credit can be issued."
Verizon has also shown time and time again that it will lock down phones to an extreme degree. If you think AT&T's reluctance to allow tethering is a problem, wait until Verizon gets to dictate terms.
The company nickels-and-dimes its customers to a degree that is shameful even by U.S. cell phone company standards. I have my fingers crossed for an alliance between Apple and T-Mobile. Verizon is just a terrible company.
In my personal, completely subjective opinion, there were few things more satisfying to do at a library than open the biggest damn dictionary you could find to a random page. (This was after I finished playing Ghostbusters in the stacks)
In my experience, the older the school building, the more windows, earth tones and subdued, indirect lighting.
Newer schools are seemingly built with the idea that the maximum amount of direct light possible (artificial and unshaded sun) is automatically a good thing, and white walls, floors and ceilings are fantastic. The result is a sterile, hospital-like environment that is miserable to work in.
You know what's going to happen, right? One day some setting will be changed somewhere in your provider's network, and the avalanche of SMS messages floating around in a buffer somewhere are going to finally reach their intended recipients. Very, very, very late.;)
When the only example you cite is a well known one from sixty years ago... all that does is make you look like a loon.
Salvador Allende was overthrown on September 11th, 1973. 60 Minutes did a report on it. I clearly remember watching it air for the first time. On Sunday, September 9th, 2001.
Slashdot Mirror
"UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!"
*removes professional headshot, posts shitty cell phone picture of a celebrities' shoulder*
"Here is a headshot I took with my DSLR, fill flash and $10,000 lens."
"UR PICTURE IS NO GOOD!"
*reverts edit to shitty cell phone photo*
"UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!"
"Well the photo comes from government archives and originated in the SS, so I don't think anyone is going to..."
"UR FAIR USE RATIONALE IS NO GOOD!"
*nominates photo for deletion*
Rinse. Repeat.
I know many of them are either admins or obsessive super-editors who have ingratiated themselves into the community, but damn.
First off, a little disclaimer:
Westerners often tend to conflate Wahhabism with Islam, but that is a critical mistake that undermines any clear understanding of the Middle East and Islam itself. The movement has taken Islam from being an unquestioned powerhouse of intellectual and cultural innovation to being perceived as a force of stagnation. Islam is not the problem, the cultural baggage that it is presently burdened with is the issue. Wahhabism itself is only a few centuries old, and in that time it has deeply undermined the perception of Islam in the Western world, and undermined the social, intellectual and economic development of those countries where it has taken root.
It's why women went from being the closest advisors to the Prophet himself, to being deeply despised and treated as subhuman in certain corners of the Islamic world. The najib, the bourqua, the many, many restrictions on women - these came from outside of Islam, and were integrated into the narrative of what Islam is about. Many in the West fail to understand that Wahhabism and the myriad of ancient tribal customs that were given an opportunity for resurgence are not found in the Qu'ran.
One can find the seeds of Wahhabism. The passages and the bits of text that would inspire such an interpretation, but to say it is a legitimate part of Islam would be false. (Wahhabists would strongly disagree. ;) )
But Wahhabism is a factor that must be dealt with regardless of how legitimate it is. So here we find ourselves looking at its biggest proponent - and it's largest victim - Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has siphoned its oil wealth off to fund the lifestyle of countless princes vaguely related to the royal family, while the rest of the young-skewing country faces unemployment and poverty.
The ruling class has tried to embrace the radical Wahhabist interpretation of Islam and use it as a uniting force in the country, while accumulating for itself the material pleasures of modernity purchased with the natural resources of the nation. It hasn't really worked. It's resulted in the aforementioned elites living the high life, while the impoverished masses watch the encroachment of western culture they are taught to despise.
It's a nation ruled by oppression and undermined with a deep-seated cognitive dissonance regarding technology, culture, religion and how it all interacts on a moral and practical level.
It's a climate that is intellectually bankrupt, as it crushes new ideas while longing for the modernity it simultaneously craves / despises. It wants to mesh 16th century mores with 21st century technology. So far it has operated under the illusion that such things are possible, as the country has simply purchased what it desires from the West. But it doesn't develop much of anything on its own. The culture of Wahhabism silences innovation. It creates an environment where fear, oppression, absolutely pathological misogyny are entrenched in the social and legal fabric of the nation.
Saudi Arabia has tried to improve its position by having students study overseas, but they quickly become deeply alienated from the world that stands so far apart from the one they come from. Ideally, the men (and they are almost always men) would return with new ideas and new perspectives. But they so often end up bitter radicals. They see how their nation is widely perceived as a backwards ocean of sand that is valued for its oil and little else. Furthermore, the Western world they encounter is full of temptations they have been groomed to hate, but the promise of economic prosperity they cannot hope to find at home.
The home they return to is a stifling environment of institutionalized corruption (the name Saudi Arabia literally means "Arabia that belongs to the House of Saud"), intellectual stagnation where new ideas are deeply frowned upon, and constant reminders of the morally corrupt world they've left behind.
What hope is there for a country like that?
Even if they didn't come back a
666.66... = 1
It featured a mysterious Chinese restaurant in the middle of the Canadian wilderness that served animals that were unknown to science.
It's best watched back-to-back with "Naked Lunch".
I got an Amiga 2000 on the side and the down low. Keeping it very real. My 4000 is a freak though, she's all about the bridgeboard action.
Oh, not the whole "Start Building the Saturn V Again!" argument.
I understand it. I do. On the surface, it makes perfect sense.
But it doesn't make sense from a practical standpoint. All the parts that went into it are out of production. You might find some screws or maybe even some tubing that have lingered on to fill the need of some obscure sub-market, but other than that, it's all gone. You'd have to create production lines for every last part. And production lines for every part that goes into every larger part. Certify all of the components and the facilities where they are made.
On top of that you'd be rejecting any and all advances made in rocketry in the last 40 years. Sure, we haven't made massive leaps like we did from the V2 to the Saturn V in half the time, but things have progressed.
The Saturn V is dead. It will remain so. The time to reactivate the program was during the Nixon administration, and it was probably going to be a challenge as early as the Gerald Ford years.
I'm holding out for SCSI or an Amiga video slot. I want to track down a dusty Video Toaster 4000 card and do some genlockin'.
You gotta keep the DVD market in mind when you're shooting something. Nobody wants to make a movie that looks like crap unless it's watched in a tricked-out theatre.
I'm not trying to be an ass, but you need to re-read the entire article. You completely missed the whole point.
Apple's Preview.app handles them nicely.
Yeah, about a year and a half ago I sat through a lecture on the 1838 photo. We discussed the presence of the two people on the street corner, and how it was such an unexpected treat given the ridiculous exposure times back then (they were measured in minutes). This isn't news.
It will let you view GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs on any page you visit.
This is a terrible thing... but I just want to celebrate.
- Every section of every textbook would end with a massive, nonsensical collection of anime / manga / comic book trivia, along with non-sequtor references to obscure garage bands that formed yesterday.
- All portraits and photographs would be removed from academic buildings and replaced with enlargements of shots taken with cell phone cameras.
- Professors would hand back papers having noted and corrected the student's grammatical errors. Students would then un-correct the errors and ask the professors to leave.
It's the only way to get the votes needed to stop this. We can raise sea levels and recover the Unity core while we're at it!
I would argue Mac OS 8.6 was the best Classic OS release. It pushed the old architecture about as far as it could go, and got it about as stable as you could hope for given the technical limitations of cooperative multitasking and unprotected memory.
It removed a ton of cruft, swapped out the kernel, added Carbon support and basically pulled a Weekend at Bernie's on what was an embarrassingly out of date codebase.
I'm still not even sure why Mac OS 9 happened beyond the need for something between 8 and 10 on the release schedule. It didn't add very many new features (voice login and uh... yeah), and brought us back to 8.5 levels of stability. Definitely the Weekend at Bernie's 2 release. An uninspired and pointless sequel that arrived too late.
Yes, I understand it's a challenging technical issue, but things like OS X (which is an amalgam of quite a few disparate technologies and APIs) took less time.
Works properly on Safari 5.0.2
I read an article in the past year or two saying the last one was manufactured in Russia around 1984.
People keep clamoring for a Verizon iPhone, but Verizon is the last company you would want to see get its hands on something like that.
Verizon has good coverage, but their customer service is, by all accounts, absolutely atrocious. And now it has gotten to the point where a CSR can get in trouble for helping you save money:
link
Verizon has also shown time and time again that it will lock down phones to an extreme degree. If you think AT&T's reluctance to allow tethering is a problem, wait until Verizon gets to dictate terms.
The company nickels-and-dimes its customers to a degree that is shameful even by U.S. cell phone company standards. I have my fingers crossed for an alliance between Apple and T-Mobile. Verizon is just a terrible company.
In my personal, completely subjective opinion, there were few things more satisfying to do at a library than open the biggest damn dictionary you could find to a random page. (This was after I finished playing Ghostbusters in the stacks)
In my experience, the older the school building, the more windows, earth tones and subdued, indirect lighting.
Newer schools are seemingly built with the idea that the maximum amount of direct light possible (artificial and unshaded sun) is automatically a good thing, and white walls, floors and ceilings are fantastic. The result is a sterile, hospital-like environment that is miserable to work in.
"But we thought people wanted Hurd to be finished?"
You know what's going to happen, right? One day some setting will be changed somewhere in your provider's network, and the avalanche of SMS messages floating around in a buffer somewhere are going to finally reach their intended recipients. Very, very, very late. ;)
When the only example you cite is a well known one from sixty years ago... all that does is make you look like a loon.
Salvador Allende was overthrown on September 11th, 1973. 60 Minutes did a report on it. I clearly remember watching it air for the first time. On Sunday, September 9th, 2001.