Art is meant to be permanent, a lasting mark on the world.
So all the actors, musicians and singers who plied their trades before audio and video recording was invented are "nihilistic, intellectually bankrupt, [and] culture-rotting"? The Greeks of the Age of Pericles would probably take exception to that. Art is a means for the artist to express him- or herself. Permanence is not a necessary condition. Hell, an audience isn't even necessary.
I've always been partial to the Neuromancer universe. Call the room "Villa Straylight", and the main sever "Wintermute". Then get your job title changed to "Chief of Turing Police".
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how the hell could you use this for defense?
Good for scouting or recon, or extremely rapid platoon movement. The Air Cavalry concept has proven effective, and this would give each soldier his or her own "horse".
Not saying it would work out, but I can see why DARPA would be interested.
Some states use the SSN as your driver license number (VA does).
A few years back they began giving us the option to use a non-SSN serial number instead. I jumped right on that, but I'm not sure how hard they work to make licensees aware of the option.
an excellent weapon against RSI is simple exercises
More exercises, as well as good ergonomic info, can be found in this poster from TidBITS. I used to distribute copies to co-workers, back when I had a real job.
Compare, oh, Slashdot's main page in OmniWeb to the same page in Chimera.
I did, and couldn't see any real difference. OW lets you adjust the leading? I can't find it in the prefs.
Mozilla is, ultimately, a hack.
No real argument from me here. I'm just so happy that somebody is emphasizing standards-compliance that I'm willing to overlook (for a while) the shortcomings in the UI.
Don't you mean "Insert obvious Bill Joy reference here"? Anyone who wishes to discuss nanotech has to take into account this essay. I'm not completely convinced, but it's a chilling cautionary exposition. Nanotech can be our salvation or our doom. Pessimist that I am, I'm expecting the latter but hoping for the former.
I used to agree, because it was the only browser that used OS X's text rendering capabilities. Recent versions of Mozilla now use Cocoa for text rendering, obviating the only real presentational advantage of OW. I can't comment on its other nifty features because it's just too frustrating to watch it break compliant sites.
Mozilla ain't perfect. It renders fairly quickly, but the interface is a bit rough and the programmers don't seem to know about multi-threading (trying to open a new tab while a page is loading usually takes two or three tries). However, it's the benchmark for standards compliance, and for that I'm eternally grateful.
The proceeding number is actually 02-230. The FCC's web site is infuriatingly difficult to use, and their bureaucrats use the same format for FCC/DA numbers and docket numbers.
FCC 02-231 is the document that refers to docket number 02-230, neither of which is described as a "proceeding", but the number you enter into the "proceeding" field must be 02-230, as I found out after mistakenly commenting on 02-231.
Try explaining to mom why she can't have two directories named letters without crashing the machine
The GUI (gracefully) prevents you from doing this, so if Mom can understand the sequence of terminal commands that triggers the panic, she'll have no trouble understanding why...
The "desktop" metaphor is getting increasingly outdated, but I haven't seen a really good overhaul yet. There are some links at this site, the most interesting of which is David Gelertner's LifeStreams.
use this network to change channel on my TV, which is set 9 feets away from me.
Heh, I was so proud of my technically-challenged wife the first time she forwarded a joke email to me. We share an office, and our computers are four feet apart. She sent it out to the Midwest and back, instead of just asking me to turn around in my chair and read it off her screen.
why is there a slashdot story for every MacOS update
Because not every MacAddlebrained Drone leaves Sofware Update in the default check-every-day mode. For example, I have no interest in Airport updates. Slashdot is actually the most up-to-date notification service I know of, bless its heart.
I'm not aware of a law that requires local phone alternatives, but I'll certainly look into it now, thanks. I'd go the route mentioned by others and drop the landline altogether except that my wife's (thriving) business has used the Bell Atlantic/Verizon number for the past twelve years, and changing would be disastrous.
Part of my annoyance with Verizon is that they seem to have no interest in offering DSL even though I live (just) close enough to the CO to qualify.
the system sucks, but you are not without choices.
What part of "There's only one local phone company so I have no choice" didn't you understand? I have exactly one option for landline phones, and it's Verizon. My cell phone is with another company, and if I could choose another landline provider I would.
You could incorporate and then hold copyleft in the company name. You'd have to use your real name to form the corp, but it would provide one step of shielding for you.
Incorporating on your own is trivial and inexpensive (I did it). Get the appropriate book for your state, and you might also look at the Corporate Publishing web site.
a Good Thing to grind up food scraps in the garbage disposal. This way, it ends up back in the biosphere
Many years ago Asimov wrote an essay about phosphorus, calling it "life's bottleneck". I can't find the essay online but here's a brief piece that discusses it.
"...phosphorus leaches from our soils, is removed from the land in the crops we harvest, and flows down our drains whenever we use phosphorus-rich detergents or flush the commode (phosphorus was in the land, then in the agricultural crop we ate, the phosphorus passed through us, and now we're flushing it away...) and phosphorus ends up flowing into our streams and rivers and ultimately to the oceans. There it settles into mud and is not returned to the land except by geological processes requiring millions of years."
Disposals might not be such a good idea after all.
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Art is meant to be permanent, a lasting mark on the world.
So all the actors, musicians and singers who plied their trades before audio and video recording was invented are "nihilistic, intellectually bankrupt, [and] culture-rotting"? The Greeks of the Age of Pericles would probably take exception to that. Art is a means for the artist to express him- or herself. Permanence is not a necessary condition. Hell, an audience isn't even necessary.
No manual entry for server room
server room: nothing appropriate
I've always been partial to the Neuromancer universe. Call the room "Villa Straylight", and the main sever "Wintermute". Then get your job title changed to "Chief of Turing Police".
how the hell could you use this for defense?
Good for scouting or recon, or extremely rapid platoon movement. The Air Cavalry concept has proven effective, and this would give each soldier his or her own "horse".
Not saying it would work out, but I can see why DARPA would be interested.
The skycar is coming along nicely.
The car of the future...and always will be.
Some states use the SSN as your driver license number (VA does).
A few years back they began giving us the option to use a non-SSN serial number instead. I jumped right on that, but I'm not sure how hard they work to make licensees aware of the option.
my article about today's announcement that Firefly has been cancelled was rejected five minutes after I submitted it.
Aw crap. Insult to injury, that is.
an excellent weapon against RSI is simple exercises
More exercises, as well as good ergonomic info, can be found in this poster from TidBITS. I used to distribute copies to co-workers, back when I had a real job.
It has to be embarrassing for Apple to be systematically beaten by PCs in areas where, traditionally, they had the edge.
That's why Apple is changing its marketing campaign.
Compare, oh, Slashdot's main page in OmniWeb to the same page in Chimera.
I did, and couldn't see any real difference. OW lets you adjust the leading? I can't find it in the prefs.
Mozilla is, ultimately, a hack.
No real argument from me here. I'm just so happy that somebody is emphasizing standards-compliance that I'm willing to overlook (for a while) the shortcomings in the UI.
[insert obvious RMS reference here]
Don't you mean "Insert obvious Bill Joy reference here"? Anyone who wishes to discuss nanotech has to take into account this essay. I'm not completely convinced, but it's a chilling cautionary exposition. Nanotech can be our salvation or our doom. Pessimist that I am, I'm expecting the latter but hoping for the former.
OmniWeb is not without flaws. It needs some CSS improvements, seriously
"Some" CSS improvements?? OmniGroup is so far behind the curve on CSS that I don't bother to account for it in my sites.
its text rendering...can't be beat.
I used to agree, because it was the only browser that used OS X's text rendering capabilities. Recent versions of Mozilla now use Cocoa for text rendering, obviating the only real presentational advantage of OW. I can't comment on its other nifty features because it's just too frustrating to watch it break compliant sites.
Mozilla ain't perfect. It renders fairly quickly, but the interface is a bit rough and the programmers don't seem to know about multi-threading (trying to open a new tab while a page is loading usually takes two or three tries). However, it's the benchmark for standards compliance, and for that I'm eternally grateful.
The proceeding number is actually 02-230. The FCC's web site is infuriatingly difficult to use, and their bureaucrats use the same format for FCC/DA numbers and docket numbers.
FCC 02-231 is the document that refers to docket number 02-230, neither of which is described as a "proceeding", but the number you enter into the "proceeding" field must be 02-230, as I found out after mistakenly commenting on 02-231.
Sheesh.
I understand the commands. I don't understand for the life of me why this warrants a PANIC!
Agreed. I was just responding to the troll about how this would ruin the lives of non-power users.
Try explaining to mom why she can't have two directories named letters without crashing the machine
The GUI (gracefully) prevents you from doing this, so if Mom can understand the sequence of terminal commands that triggers the panic, she'll have no trouble understanding why...
The "desktop" metaphor is getting increasingly outdated, but I haven't seen a really good overhaul yet. There are some links at this site, the most interesting of which is David Gelertner's LifeStreams.
use this network to change channel on my TV, which is set 9 feets away from me.
Heh, I was so proud of my technically-challenged wife the first time she forwarded a joke email to me. We share an office, and our computers are four feet apart. She sent it out to the Midwest and back, instead of just asking me to turn around in my chair and read it off her screen.
why is there a slashdot story for every MacOS update
Because not every MacAddlebrained Drone leaves Sofware Update in the default check-every-day mode. For example, I have no interest in Airport updates. Slashdot is actually the most up-to-date notification service I know of, bless its heart.
I'm not aware of a law that requires local phone alternatives, but I'll certainly look into it now, thanks. I'd go the route mentioned by others and drop the landline altogether except that my wife's (thriving) business has used the Bell Atlantic/Verizon number for the past twelve years, and changing would be disastrous.
Part of my annoyance with Verizon is that they seem to have no interest in offering DSL even though I live (just) close enough to the CO to qualify.
I invite you and any other Slashdotters who shop at Safeway to use my card.
I knew should have held onto that last mod point. Bravo Zulu for ingenuity.
the system sucks, but you are not without choices.
What part of "There's only one local phone company so I have no choice" didn't you understand? I have exactly one option for landline phones, and it's Verizon. My cell phone is with another company, and if I could choose another landline provider I would.
In emergency situations, all you care about is walking away, not saving the airplane.
As my brother the pilot told me, "A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where you can use the plane again."
Does anyone know of a link to it?
Um, a Google search on "Racter" turns up a bunch of results...
You could incorporate and then hold copyleft in the company name. You'd have to use your real name to form the corp, but it would provide one step of shielding for you. Incorporating on your own is trivial and inexpensive (I did it). Get the appropriate book for your state, and you might also look at the Corporate Publishing web site.
a Good Thing to grind up food scraps in the garbage disposal. This way, it ends up back in the biosphere
Many years ago Asimov wrote an essay about phosphorus, calling it "life's bottleneck". I can't find the essay online but here's a brief piece that discusses it.
Disposals might not be such a good idea after all.