indeed...i've had theunpleasant experience while traveling to need to set up a c2c wifi cnxtn on a pc that uses an at&t gsm dongle 4 its internet access:-P after enabling that network device to share its cnxtn, i setup a c2c.
then on my mac i connect...but then the pc tries 2 disconnect the gsm:-\ and after i'm finished w/ the cnxtn, the pc forgets it's a c2c, and adds it to its wireless list, making it unavailable 4 c2c, even tho i've told it 2 remember it...
voice-activated dialing is way better;-) i remember how impressed i was when my family moved from an area that had dial phones to 1 that didn't: wow! what a great invention...of course i was 7, long b4 7y.o. had cell phone already;-)
i guess mikeFM was counting on/.ers' lack of personal experience w/children;-)
otoh, i was babysitting a friend's 1 y.o. granddaughter, and she grabbed my remote, pointed it @ the tv & started pushing buttons...when that didn't work, she just found the big on button right on the front panel;-)
as a recovering deadhead with zydecosis, i have rediscovered the pleasure of partner dancing (altho the purists in the cajun/zydeco crowd say i don't know how 2 dance;-)
but there's nothing like 2 people having a conversation about the music in motion & touch:-) plus it's gr8 aerobic exercise;-)
getting back to this research: it seems to back up the fundies' proscription of dancing as the vertical expression of a horizontal desire;-}
i 2 followed the "technical track" under trw's "matrix" management, which was supposed 2 allow parallel career trajectories (as measured by salary) w/o the need to stop doing what i loved: coding...it mostly worked out that way, but without the parallel salary;-} then ngc bought trw, & that all changed;-(
my b-i-l started out coding but jumped into mgmt...he's now managing a $10e6 yearly networking operation, w/ commensurate compensation:-) but he tells me he really misses coding;-}
the situation is also parallel to building-trades contracting: most guys start out as a carpenter, learn the business, go out on their own & build a career 1 house @ a time. the smart 1s soon stop swinging a hammer & start hiring other (younger;-) guys, because physical labor does take its toll on the body...a contractor i know fell off a roof, which @ 50 is a much bigger deal than 4 a 20y.o.;-}
coding parallels physical labor in that staying up all night is something that's much easier 4 the yoot;-) and the coding culture arose from grad-student marathon coding sessions...in the beltway bandit world they were called death-marches;-}
and then i just slowed down in my ability/desire 2 keep learning new stuff...never got 2 coast;-} so last year i got laid off, then took the retirement(trw legacy:-)
i saw alice in 3d imax, and while i thought the 3d was ok (they didn't do too many in-your-face effects, but the backgrounds were softer-focus so as to be, ahhh...in the b.g., same as in 2d) the imax version fills more of my field of vision, giving an immersive experience that for my money ($8 vs $13) is worth it, but not so 3d...
_must_ be publicly reviewable, allowing many eyeballs to easily (& legally;-) discover errors.
i remember when any s/w installed on classified systems _had_ to have a source code walkthru...now they've succumbed to microserfdum:-( and i understand that most cars' lans run an industrial (n/c) version on windoze:-P
the whole healthcare issue hinges not only on how do we pay for it, but how much do we pay for? last week's lawNorder:svu ep http://www.aceshowbiz.com/tv/episodeguide/law_order_special_victims_unit_s11_e13/ dealt directly with treating a 4mo-premie that _could_ be saved but _probably_ would be a blind vegetable...and unfortunately beliefs don't deal well with probabilities:-(
just because we have the technology, does that mean we _must_ use it? who pays? the religious right objects to paying for abortions, but demands that all life must be preserved @ all cost:-{sounds ironically like "from each.../to each..." don't it?-}
i think sjg's noma is inaccurate: _politics_ is the intersection of religion & science...
is a widow in her 70s...i'd put linux on her old pc so she could continue to use it after it became too slow (ie: win98 was bogged down with malware)-: but her grown kids got her a new windoze laptop (fuckin' microserfs)-:
so the other day she called me, saying windoze had just updated itself, and now she can't get on webmail or anything...
i click on her shortcuts, and a firefox window opens(i've @ least got her away from internet exploder;-) but it's too smal to show anything, maybe 1"x1", not even any controls...it was no problem to grab the l/r corner & expand it, but she was totally flummoxed by it:-(
to paraphrase my dad: no one's ever gone broke underestimating to capabilities of the average microserf;-}
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and that's the main diff between digital & analog media: analog storage technology is the same as display: a human-viewable image (or text).
digital media require 2 separate technologies, a bifurcation that marks the beginning of a new epoch, 4better or worse:-}
k25? hah! i remember kII;-) and color-coded aluminum screwtop film can, not that cheap black plastic;-)
i'd much rather have atcs referring to a jet than to l'avion d'le reaction;-)
i think this shows we've already created our own monsters of the id...
indeed...i've had theunpleasant experience while traveling to need to set up a c2c wifi cnxtn on a pc that uses an at&t gsm dongle 4 its internet access:-P after enabling that network device to share its cnxtn, i setup a c2c.
then on my mac i connect...but then the pc tries 2 disconnect the gsm:-\ and after i'm finished w/ the cnxtn, the pc forgets it's a c2c, and adds it to its wireless list, making it unavailable 4 c2c, even tho i've told it 2 remember it...
no wonder micro$serfs r so sorry;-}
& all the !@#$%^&*()micro$serfdums that he's responsible 4 creating;-{
@ the 1964 ny world's fair...cool car, quite quiet & smooth;-)
boy u must have lazy checkout clerk in jolly 'ol;-} here in the good 'ol, they do the bagging 4 u:-)
voice-activated dialing is way better;-) i remember how impressed i was when my family moved from an area that had dial phones to 1 that didn't: wow! what a great invention...of course i was 7, long b4 7y.o. had cell phone already;-)
oops, she was just under 2 yrs old, but not talking yet...
i guess mikeFM was counting on /.ers' lack of personal experience w/children;-)
otoh, i was babysitting a friend's 1 y.o. granddaughter, and she grabbed my remote, pointed it @ the tv & started pushing buttons...when that didn't work, she just found the big on button right on the front panel;-)
belgium!
they're all_former_military?-)
as a recovering deadhead with zydecosis, i have rediscovered the pleasure of partner dancing (altho the purists in the cajun/zydeco crowd say i don't know how 2 dance;-)
but there's nothing like 2 people having a conversation about the music in motion & touch:-) plus it's gr8 aerobic exercise;-)
getting back to this research: it seems to back up the fundies' proscription of dancing as the vertical expression of a horizontal desire;-}
i 2 followed the "technical track" under trw's "matrix" management, which was supposed 2 allow parallel career trajectories (as measured by salary) w/o the need to stop doing what i loved: coding...it mostly worked out that way, but without the parallel salary;-} then ngc bought trw, & that all changed;-(
my b-i-l started out coding but jumped into mgmt...he's now managing a $10e6 yearly networking operation, w/ commensurate compensation:-) but he tells me he really misses coding;-}
the situation is also parallel to building-trades contracting: most guys start out as a carpenter, learn the business, go out on their own & build a career 1 house @ a time. the smart 1s soon stop swinging a hammer & start hiring other (younger;-) guys, because physical labor does take its toll on the body...a contractor i know fell off a roof, which @ 50 is a much bigger deal than 4 a 20y.o.;-}
coding parallels physical labor in that staying up all night is something that's much easier 4 the yoot;-) and the coding culture arose from grad-student marathon coding sessions...in the beltway bandit world they were called death-marches;-}
and then i just slowed down in my ability/desire 2 keep learning new stuff...never got 2 coast;-} so last year i got laid off, then took the retirement(trw legacy:-)
it'll come 2 me...some kinda fruit store...
i saw alice in 3d imax, and while i thought the 3d was ok (they didn't do too many in-your-face effects, but the backgrounds were softer-focus so as to be, ahhh...in the b.g., same as in 2d) the imax version fills more of my field of vision, giving an immersive experience that for my money ($8 vs $13) is worth it, but not so 3d...
who mock what they can't understand...almost undermines my faith in democracy, but then palindrones are only ~22% of the u.s. population:-}
_must_ be publicly reviewable, allowing many eyeballs to easily (& legally;-) discover errors.
i remember when any s/w installed on classified systems _had_ to have a source code walkthru...now they've succumbed to microserfdum:-( and i understand that most cars' lans run an industrial (n/c) version on windoze:-P
the open source concept is the solution to nhtsa's problem: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/2022204/NHTSA-Has-No-Software-Engineers-To-Analyze-Toyota
now is the time for hackers to assume their civic duty & demand access to all s/w that operates in public;-)
the whole healthcare issue hinges not only on how do we pay for it, but how much do we pay for? last week's lawNorder:svu ep http://www.aceshowbiz.com/tv/episodeguide/law_order_special_victims_unit_s11_e13/ dealt directly with treating a 4mo-premie that _could_ be saved but _probably_ would be a blind vegetable...and unfortunately beliefs don't deal well with probabilities:-(
just because we have the technology, does that mean we _must_ use it? who pays? the religious right objects to paying for abortions, but demands that all life must be preserved @ all cost:-{sounds ironically like "from each.../to each..." don't it?-}
i think sjg's noma is inaccurate: _politics_ is the intersection of religion & science...
is a widow in her 70s...i'd put linux on her old pc so she could continue to use it after it became too slow (ie: win98 was bogged down with malware)-: but her grown kids got her a new windoze laptop (fuckin' microserfs)-:
so the other day she called me, saying windoze had just updated itself, and now she can't get on webmail or anything...
i click on her shortcuts, and a firefox window opens(i've @ least got her away from internet exploder;-) but it's too smal to show anything, maybe 1"x1", not even any controls...it was no problem to grab the l/r corner & expand it, but she was totally flummoxed by it:-(
to paraphrase my dad: no one's ever gone broke underestimating to capabilities of the average microserf;-}
> repeat the same mistakes with Iran.
i think u mean iraq;-) and yes, appeasing the peace@anyPrice-nix by pulling out would be repeating our mistakes:-(
i think it was colin powell who said we broke it, we bought it...we have no choice but to protect the world's energy supply...
but fucked up the end-game, according to charlie wilson's war;-}
an i saw this story on network news last night...
won't the 3 laws of robotics require impregnable systems? even, especially, to users?