... and when they cornered the bad guy did they yell, "Come out with your hands up?" No they shot 400 bullets into the boat the kid was hiding in and still managed not to kill him. Lots of people praise the police for their actions but all I see is lots and lots of gross incompetence.
The article says"why are we getting better at abstract reasoning and little else?" Well what is intelligence? Isn't it simply "abstract reasoning and little else??
It is a bad patent. It's obvious! If a gadget(GPS, Loran,sextent, radar) gives me a location (coordinates) I (or some machine) looks up what's around me (on a map, Rutter, or database). The fact that at it's on a phone is really irrelevant. This is exactly the kind of patent that should have been thrown out initially.
Back in the early 1990's I wrote a book about how to migrate from mainframes to Unix. I got a good advance and the first printing was for 10,000 copies. I received a statement every month until the royalties owed matched the advance exactly, to the penny. The statement said that they had sold about 7500 copies but they were declaring the book to be out of print. No one could tell me where the extra 2500 copies went or how my royalties could match my advance exactly. All I was told was that I was free to pay for an audit.
They guy doesn't say anything that's really out of the ordinary except that CERN might have made some money out of the web. This is an ad for Cory Doctorow nothing more.
Adam may have been the name of the founder of a dynasty that invented written, symbolic language. IF written language IS the definition of what MAN is then yes, Adam could be considered the first man. By the way this isn't just my idea it's fundamental Judeo-Christian theology. Most Pentecostals are theologically clueless.
My response to this is that any citizen should be able to go before a Federal Special Grand Jury and request indictment of a prosecutor (and or Police) who knowingly violates ones Civil Rights. This is an obvious violation of the cartoonists civil rights.
I had/have a similar problem. I switched my DSL line to FiOS and Verizon continued to bill me for 9 months for the DSL line. No amount of polite conversation could convince the DSL folks that they were in error. They finally sent it to collections where I insisted that they take me to court. They won't and periodically still try to collect from me. meanwhile my FiOS is working just fine. I get the impression that Verizon is really a few dozen companies that don't really talk to each other. I know that Verizon Wireless was really Vodaphone with almost no contact with the rest of Verizon. They appear to be better integrated now than they were even a year ago.
The problem is poorly posed. There is a distinction between intellectuals and academics. What has passed here for anti-intellectual is really anti-academic. I grew up in a very intellectual environment. All of my fathers friends were engineers from the era of BIG engineering projects. Few of them had more than a BS degree some were completely self taught. Only the younger parents of my friends consistently had degrees and only because of the GI bill following WWII. My mothers friends were equally intellectual. Many were writers and poets and artists, many with household names but only a small fraction had degrees and those that did were in English Literature or Art History and only Bachelors degrees at that. I could have a good discussion about French literature with the engineers or Galloping Gurdy with the poets because they actually knew about such things and would gleefully talk to anyone from high school student to Nobel Laurette without prejudice.
When I moved to Cambridge Massachusetts to go to school (I won't mention which one) I found what I can only describe as an anti-intellectual environment. Oh there were the greatest living authorities in fill in the blank and you could get as snotty as you like but the truth is the quality of intellectual curiosity was grossly inferior to the salons and backyard barbeques I grew up with. The problem was that you encountered one of two attitudes: First, this is MY field and I am THE expert in it and I won't lower myself to engage in conversation with you. OR, That's not my field and I know nothing about it so I won't lower myself to talk to you. I can honestly say I have never encountered more bullshit than I did during my years in Cambridge Massachusetts among the "Very Smart and Important People" some of whom inhabit the highness positions in the land.
The DA still blackmailed you. Shame on you. I would not only have gone to court and brought the fact that the DA tried to shake you down in the process. I got a DA reprimanded once because of that practice. I backed the judge into a corner AFTER she ruled in my favor.
I was working at the HQ of a famous (but nameless) speaker manufacturer who's engineering department insisted that all traffic went through their 5baseT coax-Ethernet. The data center was on one side and the users (sales and marketing) on the other. All the equipment was in the same room. We had gigabit Ethernet in our side (the data center) and so did marketing on their side. The old 5 megabit coax-Ethernet was killing performance so when the manager of the data center (an engineer) wasn't looking I (I was a contractor working for IT which was distinct from engineering - go figure) quietly patched the system around the coax. Everyone thought I was brilliant and "Engineering" was never wiser for it.
I was installing mainframe software at a fortune 100 site. There were a line of printers in the computer room that spit paper into a hall to be picked up. If a printer ran out of paper a yellow flashing light went off. If one of the super fast page printers ran out of paper a red light flashed. I was in the computer room around midnight when a new watchman came in on his rounds, saw the flashing lights and paniced and pressed the red button on the IBM mainframe console. Needless to say, I was sent home and told to come back in a couple of weeks.
Another time I was in the computer room at a small mainframe installation out in the middle of nowhere. The managers decided that they needed a full bank of batteries for backup so there were a bunch of carpenters banging away next to me. One of them put a nail from a nail gun through the 220 volt main. The computer room sounded like an explosion as the heads of the drop-in disks retracted simultaneously. That bang was followed by dead silence. You have no idea how loud mainframe computer rooms are until the power goes out.
The last time I experienced a meltdown was at another data center that redundant everything... except cooling water. The 3 inch pressurized, chilled water main blew apart draining the coolant system and leaving 6 inches of water under the raised floor. Fortunately there were no shorts but within about 20 minutes the temp in the rack room reached 130. It was a sauna in there. One by one the systems powered down starting with the big DEC VAX's... the only systems that didn't shut down before we got to them were the SUN servers, mostly Sun 50's. It took us 3 days to get everything back up.
For me, and I suspect for most of us, Net Neutrality means that we just want to rent a common carrier, just like the phone line. Imagine if the phone company charged one thing for voice, another for fax and yet another for 1200 baud, 2400 baud and 25K baud modem service. The FCC would have been able to say NO! Well along comes the Internet and Verizon want to limit things like streaming video, Skype calls and what else? I say NO! I want to simply buy bandwidth, nothing else from them. If they have a subsidiary that sells movies, fine I can rent movies but that's got nothing to do with the bandwidth I pay for except use some of it.
I think it's time for Congress to simply say that the FCC has the authority to regulate Internet access just as they regulate telephone access and that like POTS providers, Internet providers are defined as simple common carriers.
Shame on the ACLU for not taking this case all the way to the Supreme Court. It needs to be decided once and for all - are we a police state or are we ruled by law and due process?
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... and when they cornered the bad guy did they yell, "Come out with your hands up?" No they shot 400 bullets into the boat the kid was hiding in and still managed not to kill him. Lots of people praise the police for their actions but all I see is lots and lots of gross incompetence.
I have to admit I am impressed. Using Google Docs as an infection vector is ingenious. Why would anyone want to work out of "the cloud."
The article says"why are we getting better at abstract reasoning and little else?" Well what is intelligence? Isn't it simply "abstract reasoning and little else??
Eventually we'll learn that ALL the components were made in China.
It is a bad patent. It's obvious! If a gadget(GPS, Loran,sextent, radar) gives me a location (coordinates) I (or some machine) looks up what's around me (on a map, Rutter, or database). The fact that at it's on a phone is really irrelevant. This is exactly the kind of patent that should have been thrown out initially.
I wonder what the Teamsters have to say.
Just Adobe, that's all. I use Indesign 20 hours a week. Nuff said.
Does Open/Libra Office have the same problem?
Back in the early 1990's I wrote a book about how to migrate from mainframes to Unix. I got a good advance and the first printing was for 10,000 copies. I received a statement every month until the royalties owed matched the advance exactly, to the penny. The statement said that they had sold about 7500 copies but they were declaring the book to be out of print. No one could tell me where the extra 2500 copies went or how my royalties could match my advance exactly. All I was told was that I was free to pay for an audit.
Needless to say I never wrote for them again.
They guy doesn't say anything that's really out of the ordinary except that CERN might have made some money out of the web. This is an ad for Cory Doctorow nothing more.
Adam may have been the name of the founder of a dynasty that invented written, symbolic language. IF written language IS the definition of what MAN is then yes, Adam could be considered the first man. By the way this isn't just my idea it's fundamental Judeo-Christian theology. Most Pentecostals are theologically clueless.
My response to this is that any citizen should be able to go before a Federal Special Grand Jury and request indictment of a prosecutor (and or Police) who knowingly violates ones Civil Rights. This is an obvious violation of the cartoonists civil rights.
I had/have a similar problem. I switched my DSL line to FiOS and Verizon continued to bill me for 9 months for the DSL line. No amount of polite conversation could convince the DSL folks that they were in error. They finally sent it to collections where I insisted that they take me to court. They won't and periodically still try to collect from me. meanwhile my FiOS is working just fine. I get the impression that Verizon is really a few dozen companies that don't really talk to each other. I know that Verizon Wireless was really Vodaphone with almost no contact with the rest of Verizon. They appear to be better integrated now than they were even a year ago.
The problem is poorly posed. There is a distinction between intellectuals and academics. What has passed here for anti-intellectual is really anti-academic. I grew up in a very intellectual environment. All of my fathers friends were engineers from the era of BIG engineering projects. Few of them had more than a BS degree some were completely self taught. Only the younger parents of my friends consistently had degrees and only because of the GI bill following WWII. My mothers friends were equally intellectual. Many were writers and poets and artists, many with household names but only a small fraction had degrees and those that did were in English Literature or Art History and only Bachelors degrees at that. I could have a good discussion about French literature with the engineers or Galloping Gurdy with the poets because they actually knew about such things and would gleefully talk to anyone from high school student to Nobel Laurette without prejudice.
When I moved to Cambridge Massachusetts to go to school (I won't mention which one) I found what I can only describe as an anti-intellectual environment. Oh there were the greatest living authorities in fill in the blank and you could get as snotty as you like but the truth is the quality of intellectual curiosity was grossly inferior to the salons and backyard barbeques I grew up with. The problem was that you encountered one of two attitudes: First, this is MY field and I am THE expert in it and I won't lower myself to engage in conversation with you. OR, That's not my field and I know nothing about it so I won't lower myself to talk to you. I can honestly say I have never encountered more bullshit than I did during my years in Cambridge Massachusetts among the "Very Smart and Important People" some of whom inhabit the highness positions in the land.
This is almost as interesting as the OS written in Postscript and said to be able to run on HP printers.
You should tell the world what county, state and city this happened in so that we can all pile on them instead of you.
The DA still blackmailed you. Shame on you. I would not only have gone to court and brought the fact that the DA tried to shake you down in the process. I got a DA reprimanded once because of that practice. I backed the judge into a corner AFTER she ruled in my favor.
So I guess we won't run out this time.
SG
So your signal to noise ratio is so low that it's imposable to pull a signal from the noise. What good is that?
That is going to be one electronically loud ship. Nothing like electronic stealth to fight the blue meanies with.
I was working at the HQ of a famous (but nameless) speaker manufacturer who's engineering department insisted that all traffic went through their 5baseT coax-Ethernet. The data center was on one side and the users (sales and marketing) on the other. All the equipment was in the same room. We had gigabit Ethernet in our side (the data center) and so did marketing on their side. The old 5 megabit coax-Ethernet was killing performance so when the manager of the data center (an engineer) wasn't looking I (I was a contractor working for IT which was distinct from engineering - go figure) quietly patched the system around the coax. Everyone thought I was brilliant and "Engineering" was never wiser for it.
Isn't this an obvious case of prior art?
I have 3 data center stories:
I was installing mainframe software at a fortune 100 site. There were a line of printers in the computer room that spit paper into a hall to be picked up. If a printer ran out of paper a yellow flashing light went off. If one of the super fast page printers ran out of paper a red light flashed. I was in the computer room around midnight when a new watchman came in on his rounds, saw the flashing lights and paniced and pressed the red button on the IBM mainframe console. Needless to say, I was sent home and told to come back in a couple of weeks.
Another time I was in the computer room at a small mainframe installation out in the middle of nowhere. The managers decided that they needed a full bank of batteries for backup so there were a bunch of carpenters banging away next to me. One of them put a nail from a nail gun through the 220 volt main. The computer room sounded like an explosion as the heads of the drop-in disks retracted simultaneously. That bang was followed by dead silence. You have no idea how loud mainframe computer rooms are until the power goes out.
The last time I experienced a meltdown was at another data center that redundant everything ... except cooling water. The 3 inch pressurized, chilled water main blew apart draining the coolant system and leaving 6 inches of water under the raised floor. Fortunately there were no shorts but within about 20 minutes the temp in the rack room reached 130. It was a sauna in there. One by one the systems powered down starting with the big DEC VAX's ... the only systems that didn't shut down before we got to them were the SUN servers, mostly Sun 50's. It took us 3 days to get everything back up.
SG
For me, and I suspect for most of us, Net Neutrality means that we just want to rent a common carrier, just like the phone line. Imagine if the phone company charged one thing for voice, another for fax and yet another for 1200 baud, 2400 baud and 25K baud modem service. The FCC would have been able to say NO! Well along comes the Internet and Verizon want to limit things like streaming video, Skype calls and what else? I say NO! I want to simply buy bandwidth, nothing else from them. If they have a subsidiary that sells movies, fine I can rent movies but that's got nothing to do with the bandwidth I pay for except use some of it.
I think it's time for Congress to simply say that the FCC has the authority to regulate Internet access just as they regulate telephone access and that like POTS providers, Internet providers are defined as simple common carriers.
SG
Shame on the ACLU for not taking this case all the way to the Supreme Court. It needs to be decided once and for all - are we a police state or are we ruled by law and due process?