...they get commercially or freely available realtiem imagery down to 1 cm resolution. Think of the possibilities: . God could really watch His Cowboys play in Texas Stadium in Irving . We could check out the action on nude beaches:) . You could make *sure* your neighbor kid let the dog out for exercise while you're away
Notice that in all pictures, the device is to the right of the bed or chair. I've thought about having a bedside computer, but I'd want it on my *left* since that's the side I sleep on. Wonder if this gadget can switch sides with some wrench-twidding?
WARNING WARNING WARNING: Total flaming, fact-impoverished rant follows:
Oy, what a love/hate relationship with the Mac I have. For a tech writer who just wants to pound out a user manual, it's to die for.
OTOH, Jobs is the worst sort of arrogant control freak -- he looks on the "share your toys" philosophy with total contempt, plus he suffers from the "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
If he suffered clones to exist, his company would still be an industry leader and moneymaker because it would become more efficient, and the expanded market base would be more likely to spur innovation. It just might not all emerge from the labs of Apple.
I'm not saying that it isn't possible, just a little hard to fathom that the NSA would allow such a blatent reference to themselves.
Oh, I dunno. I've seen more egregious security lapses than this that just got overlooked. A foul-up like this "hiding in plain sight" doesn't sound too surprising.
Do you really think the NSA has the type of budget problems...
As Ricky Ricardo used to say, "Loooosseeee, lemme 'splain you something." The NSA ain't got no budget. Not in the traditional sense of the term, anyway. They're not required to submit one to Congress for approval. They just get what they ask for, and the dollar figure is classified. As are basically all of their activities. And what's more, unlike the CIA, they have *no* legal restrictions against *domestic* intelligence activities -- seems that during those pesky Church Committee hearings on the CIA's antics, everybody conveniently forgot to ask where the ELINT came from.
Having typed all this, I look forward to that funny click on the line when I pick up my phone tonight. Or maybe my head will just disappear in a pink cloud as I'm driving to work on Monday morning...
It's not all that hard to envision somebody from NSA being introduced to somebody from M$, and after a drink or two, discussion rolls around to those twin hobbyhorses, Terrorism and Narcotraffic. "Hey, you could really help your country out here by just putting in this little bitty ol' hack..."
If you really like conspiracy theories, here's the quid pro quo: "We can talk to some people (read: harrass or coerce some people) at DOJ to cut you guys some slack on the antitrust thing -- you know, slap-on-the-wrist, admonish you to play fair, just enough to satisfy the media that Justice Was Served [Commmentor's note: I mistyped "Serviced" at first], and you guys can get back to business as usual."
As soon as someone says any word/name, five zillion images jump into your awareness, all at once. Your sub-visual and sub-vocal spectra is flushed with all images and voices, perhaps even pushing out external light/sound. This is what never forgetting anything means.
Zowie....this means people would actually have to stop and think before they spoke or acted. Most of the time, at least, this would be a good thing.
I know just the book for you, Jimhotep: The Origin of Consciousness in the the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Not exactly a summer-beach read in spots, but engrossing and thought-provoking.
I stand corrected, *if* they've begun consolidating all those damned add-ons into the System and Finder executables themselves. Trying to keep track of all them pieces-parts is major distraction, too.
Meanwhile, you can call me "Rip" if you like. At least my user name doesn't profess to perform fellatio on theater-range ballistic missiles.;)
I stand corrected, *if* they've begun consolidating all those damned add-ons into the System and Finder executables themselves. Trying to keep track of all them pieces-parts is major distraction, too.
Hmmmm. Didn't realize I was "falling for the pro-Linux hype," just bemoaning the state of software bloat in general -- I detest having to buy faster, bigger processing and disk hardware to support the latest applications. Meanwhile, I'm never getting the kind of display technology I need at an affordable price.
By the time I'm ready to take a deep breath and plunge into Linux for a productivity platform, I figure OpenLinux et al. will be mature & robust enough that I won't be beating my brains out as long as my hardware's nothing too exotic.
User's take: Nice display, questionable computer.
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As a technical writer and admittedly one of the less technically adept of the posters around here...
This display is a step in the right direction -- what we TWs and DTPers crave is something an eensy bit bigger, say, able to show an 11 x 17 spread actual size, plus a little bit o' desktop/windowframe/menu area. And to be that big, it'd have to be a concave display to keep the user from constantly craning his/her neck port and starboard.
I'm unreconstructed Macophile -- they've been good to me since 1984 -- but somehow I can't get too excited anymore about a merely faster, more powerful Mac. From where I sit, it seems like Cupertino just keeps on coming up with these great technological innovations (Publish and Subscribe, CyberDog) that somehow wind up withering on the vine. Their designs are to die for and their marketing's bitchin', but I'm beginning to appreciate why they get dissed so much around here.
Their bloatware problem rivals a Certain Other Notorious OS Vendor's: The last time I bothered to look into upgrading a Mac, I realized that if I turned on half the extra inits that shipped with System 7.5, I'd never get any production work done without getting a faster Mac with twice the RAM. To stay at the cutting edge of Mac technology is to be constantly buying newer, faster boxen to keep up with the spiraling demand for raw thruput.
When I can run FrameMaker, PageMaker, Quark, and all the Acrobat tools on a Linux box without really much caring what platform it was originally compiled for and without going through hell first, that'll be something. Gearheads take note (God love ya).
But lately most of their articles seem to be about business and $$$.
And not just the articles, either. The September '99 issue sits on my desk, open to page 126, where there's an ad for a business jet, for heaven's sake! I got the subscription as a gift, but I don't know if I'll renew -- this just doesn't seem to be the in-your-face magazine it once was.
Interesting. Back in my bachelor days, my Taiwanese roommate turned me on to fried grasshoppers (mmmm, crunchy & chewy, damn good with beer) and Korean kim chi (great on hot dogs, btw), but he wouldn't touch pizza with a ten-foot pole -- melted cheese was the grossest stuff he'd ever encountered. And the smell of melted butter was revolting to him. Needless to say, I only ate Western when he was away.
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Right on, Lupulack. Some of us will never forget Bridge on the River Kwai, either.
Not to mention it takes some training to use a firearm effectively without being at least as much as a hazard to yourself as your target.
How do you think a straight male would feel if guys kept flirting with him?
He'd reconsider when it came time to re-up in the Navy.
...they get commercially or freely available realtiem imagery down to 1 cm resolution. Think of the possibilities: . God could really watch His Cowboys play in Texas Stadium in Irving . We could check out the action on nude beaches :) . You could make *sure* your neighbor kid let the dog out for exercise while you're away
Notice that in all pictures, the device is to the right of the bed or chair. I've thought about having a bedside computer, but I'd want it on my *left* since that's the side I sleep on. Wonder if this gadget can switch sides with some wrench-twidding?
I misread your post as "trying to cash in on something fatuous."
You want something that runs MacOS?
It's called "emulation." Look into it sometime. It's slow, G*d knows it's unstable, but it's cheap and it mostly works.
Let's bag the two of 'em with butterfly nets and put 'em adrift on a raft in the Pacific or something...
WARNING WARNING WARNING: Total flaming, fact-impoverished rant follows:
Oy, what a love/hate relationship with the Mac I have. For a tech writer who just wants to pound out a user manual, it's to die for.
OTOH, Jobs is the worst sort of arrogant control freak -- he looks on the "share your toys" philosophy with total contempt, plus he suffers from the "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
If he suffered clones to exist, his company would still be an industry leader and moneymaker because it would become more efficient, and the expanded market base would be more likely to spur innovation. It just might not all emerge from the labs of Apple.
Think you're discriminated against? Check out the domain in my email address! ;)
I'm not saying that it isn't possible, just a little hard to fathom that the NSA would allow such a blatent reference to themselves.
Oh, I dunno. I've seen more egregious security lapses than this that just got overlooked. A foul-up like this "hiding in plain sight" doesn't sound too surprising.
Do you really think the NSA has the type of budget problems...
As Ricky Ricardo used to say, "Loooosseeee, lemme 'splain you something." The NSA ain't got no budget. Not in the traditional sense of the term, anyway. They're not required to submit one to Congress for approval. They just get what they ask for, and the dollar figure is classified. As are basically all of their activities. And what's more, unlike the CIA, they have *no* legal restrictions against *domestic* intelligence activities -- seems that during those pesky Church Committee hearings on the CIA's antics, everybody conveniently forgot to ask where the ELINT came from.
Having typed all this, I look forward to that funny click on the line when I pick up my phone tonight. Or maybe my head will just disappear in a pink cloud as I'm driving to work on Monday morning...
It's not all that hard to envision somebody from NSA being introduced to somebody from M$, and after a drink or two, discussion rolls around to those twin hobbyhorses, Terrorism and Narcotraffic. "Hey, you could really help your country out here by just putting in this little bitty ol' hack..."
If you really like conspiracy theories, here's the quid pro quo: "We can talk to some people (read: harrass or coerce some people) at DOJ to cut you guys some slack on the antitrust thing -- you know, slap-on-the-wrist, admonish you to play fair, just enough to satisfy the media that Justice Was Served [Commmentor's note: I mistyped "Serviced" at first], and you guys can get back to business as usual."
As soon as someone says any word/name, five zillion images jump into your awareness, all at once. Your sub-visual and sub-vocal spectra is flushed with all images and voices, perhaps even pushing out external light/sound. This is what never forgetting anything means.
Zowie....this means people would actually have to stop and think before they spoke or acted. Most of the time, at least, this would be a good thing.
I know just the book for you, Jimhotep: The Origin of Consciousness in the the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Not exactly a summer-beach read in spots, but engrossing and thought-provoking.
GUI with menus, mouse support? Awwright! (Excuse my ignorance, but then, I warned ya in advance...
I stand corrected, *if* they've begun consolidating all those damned add-ons into the System and Finder executables themselves. Trying to keep track of all them pieces-parts is major distraction, too.
Meanwhile, you can call me "Rip" if you like. At least my user name doesn't profess to perform fellatio on theater-range ballistic missiles. ;)
I stand corrected, *if* they've begun consolidating all those damned add-ons into the System and Finder executables themselves. Trying to keep track of all them pieces-parts is major distraction, too.
Hmmmm. Didn't realize I was "falling for the pro-Linux hype," just bemoaning the state of software bloat in general -- I detest having to buy faster, bigger processing and disk hardware to support the latest applications. Meanwhile, I'm never getting the kind of display technology I need at an affordable price.
By the time I'm ready to take a deep breath and plunge into Linux for a productivity platform, I figure OpenLinux et al. will be mature & robust enough that I won't be beating my brains out as long as my hardware's nothing too exotic.
As a technical writer and admittedly one of the less technically adept of the posters around here...
This display is a step in the right direction -- what we TWs and DTPers crave is something an eensy bit bigger, say, able to show an 11 x 17 spread actual size, plus a little bit o' desktop/windowframe/menu area. And to be that big, it'd have to be a concave display to keep the user from constantly craning his/her neck port and starboard.
I'm unreconstructed Macophile -- they've been good to me since 1984 -- but somehow I can't get too excited anymore about a merely faster, more powerful Mac. From where I sit, it seems like Cupertino just keeps on coming up with these great technological innovations (Publish and Subscribe, CyberDog) that somehow wind up withering on the vine. Their designs are to die for and their marketing's bitchin', but I'm beginning to appreciate why they get dissed so much around here.
Their bloatware problem rivals a Certain Other Notorious OS Vendor's: The last time I bothered to look into upgrading a Mac, I realized that if I turned on half the extra inits that shipped with System 7.5, I'd never get any production work done without getting a faster Mac with twice the RAM. To stay at the cutting edge of Mac technology is to be constantly buying newer, faster boxen to keep up with the spiraling demand for raw thruput.
When I can run FrameMaker, PageMaker, Quark, and all the Acrobat tools on a Linux box without really much caring what platform it was originally compiled for and without going through hell first, that'll be something. Gearheads take note (God love ya).
But lately most of their articles seem to be about business and $$$.
And not just the articles, either. The September '99 issue sits on my desk, open to page 126, where there's an ad for a business jet, for heaven's sake! I got the subscription as a gift, but I don't know if I'll renew -- this just doesn't seem to be the in-your-face magazine it once was.
As a non-emacs-er, are there GUI front ends avail for emacs, and do any of them provide IDE/debugger capability?
Interesting. Back in my bachelor days, my Taiwanese roommate turned me on to fried grasshoppers (mmmm, crunchy & chewy, damn good with beer) and Korean kim chi (great on hot dogs, btw), but he wouldn't touch pizza with a ten-foot pole -- melted cheese was the grossest stuff he'd ever encountered. And the smell of melted butter was revolting to him. Needless to say, I only ate Western when he was away.
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will Rogers
This is akin to mathematician-novelist Rucker's concept of "boppers" a-life as I understand it. To see Rucker's home page, follow this link.