I don't want to explore drop down bullshit. I just want to read the fricking summary and determine yeah or neah, and then move on. Who has time for this crap? It just makes it difficult to read and impairs the communication.
not actually accurate title here...
the article states that Reid directly copied (mirrored) the site under www.therealsharonangle.com
thus pretty much stealing the content.
sounds like legitimate copyright violation actually, and nothing really sensational at all
that's great - unles you are left-handed in which case you are still hosed. I write creditably well with ball pen and I don't think that's the problem at all. On the other hand - I purposefully write by hand on paper regularly (with ball pen), forcing myself not to use a keyboard (which is the real source for deteriorated cursive handwriting...)
This guy has a track record of following behind and just missing. The plan sounds like a mission statement rather than an actual plan, and the preconception that age has anything to do with innovation at all is crap thinking.
That's exactly how David Miscavige writes and speaks. Remember - to a large degree he's not communicating to you, he is being consistent to the line he has already fed to his followers...
This isn't about anti-religion. This is about specific entries and the deletion and alteration of entries (against published rules on wikipedia) to remove viewpoints considered undesirable by Scientology. Anti-religion is just a label and button to characterize and demonize the action emotionally. This is a necessary action to remove a disruptive behavior. They (Ch. of $cn) could have ADDED their viewpoint, or added references - but that was not the case, they delete opposing viewpoints, adding (IMHO erroneous) citations and data that is exclusively pro-$cn.
wait - stop - just kidding...
innovation (read adoption of what the surveyed herd wants and whoever we could purchase a look from, or failing that, what apple did last quarter, visually) in windows sucks.
The next step is to divorce the windows graphic interface from the underlying operating system, and make it a desktop for linux. Like apple. But with Linux.
Having worked extensively with both - there is a financial and criticality point where Linux falls short and Solaris pulls ahead.
Google runs on linux. Ebay runs on Solaris and SUN hardware. Informational versus transactional. Financial companies where oversight and regulation meet serious financial risk, use invariably SUN and Solaris. Because it just works and the cost of support and hardware makes that worth it.
Stupid idea. Hope it never happens. Apple has a worse track record of sharing than any other computer manufacturer, even to the extent of making Intel hardware proprietary to OSX. I would expect to kiss Photoshop on Windows goodbye...
Microsoft can advertise that users have a larger capacity with ease - many users have reported that attachments aren't transmitted when using Hotmail, and I've experienced this phenomena personally. Easy to add vaporous capacity to Hotmail, or would bogus be a better term? Gmail on the other hand has never done this to me.
...neatimage. There are no easy to use and professionally capable noise removal programs/plugins for GIMP.
...16 bit color. Why would I have an unbelievable scan and then throw away half the data to work with a free program? That's information, and in RAW that's a huge loss.
GIMP is fine as a paint replacement, but is not in the league of photoshop. Now a linux port of Photoshop, that would be nice. Course it won't help those who wouldn't spend the money anyway... But adobe does support acrobat reader on linux, so maybe someday...
That would only make sense as an analogy if the expected behavior of a printer was to route to a shredder - the judge would be a not- stupid to hold you in contempt. Go teach a fish to make bread or something...
Curious - did they require a Masters (all big city colleges in the Northeast seem to require way more schooling)? Or just the life experience and track record?
Ipod will have to survive on coolness alone - because they do not actually work well at all. I had a 4G 40 GB, and the goddamned thing never truly worked well at all. A complete POS. Yes I'll say it - the ipod is a complete POS. Great functional and aesthetic design, truly crappy operation over time. I now own an iAudio from Cowon - the second player I've owned from them (the first 1 GB flash player I bought in desperation when my ipod was being repaired...). Plays ogg, has incredible sound, and 60 GB space (for actual 224bit encoded songs). Free yourselves from the pod. Do not buy itunes, it is such a total rip-off. But you won't hear, and if you hear you won't listen... Actually I still have the 4G - it's a paperweight. Really. I put a screw through it into a piece of oak and it is a PAPERWEIGHT.
The prof is correct - this would force people to listen more closely and to actually pay attention. Anyone remember "Real Genius" with the professor's tape recorder lecturing to a bunch of student tape recorders???
no further comment needed. He mocks usage he fails to understand, and has so little reality on the limits under which some culture must function that he completely misses the point. One of the eventual pitfalls Microsoft will fall into is the fact that many many countries simply cannot afford the prices for Windows and related software.
Why? Books are inexpensive, durable, don't break, are replaceable for minimal cost, don't care if you fall asleep while reading and drop the book off the bed or couch, never need recharging or batteries, recover from water, don't require a Microsoft tax, store for years without bad effect - where exactly is the downside?
ebooks basically are inconvenient and a complete waste of attention and time to maintain as a format - yet another device to have break and fail, and yet more data to try and back up and be able to recover despite digital rights crap.
Slashdot is becoming ludicrous. Pointless. Lame. Quite a stretch, skiing down moguls and running a business. Oooh, a spyware king, oooh, how can they award gold for spyware kings? Well, why wasn't Cowboy Neal out there taking the gold away from him? That would be because the guy can actually ski. And the medal was for. Skiiing.
see E. L. Doctorow's essay on Bush. Doesn't really matter what he says (Bush). It's completely Orwellian anyway. We torture under the auspices of the Department of Love, didn't you hear? I think Bush as sociopath may explain my gut instant dislike even hate for this person. The smirk. The constant litany of lies. I find it just amazing we have sunk so low as to have leadership like this. Damn shame. Used to be an amazing place, America.
By E.L. Doctorow
The Unfeeling President
But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the weapons of mass destruction he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man.
He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. He does not feel a personal responsibility for the 1,000 dead young men and women who wanted to be what they could be.
They come to his desk not as youngsters with mothers and fathers or wives and children who will suffer to the end of their days a terribly torn fabric of familial relationships and the inconsolable remembrance of aborted life . . . they come to his desk as a political liability, which is why the press is not permitted to photograph the arrival of their coffins from Iraq.
How then can he mourn? To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing. He does not regret that his reason for going to war was, as he knew, unsubstantiated by the facts. He does not regret that his bungled plan for the war's aftermath has made of his mission-accomplished a disaster. He does not regret that, rather than controlling terrorism, his war in Iraq has licensed it. So he never mourns for the dead and crippled youngsters who have fought this war of his choice.
He wanted to go to war and he did. He had not the mind to perceive the costs of war, or to listen to those who knew those costs. He did not understand that you do not go to war when it is one of the options but when it is the only option; you go not because you want to but because you have to.
Yet this president knew it would be difficult for Americans not to cheer the overthrow of a foreign dictator. He knew that much. This president and his supporters would seem to have a mind for only one thing -- to take power, to remain in power, and to use that power for the sake of themselves and their friends.
A war will do that as well as anything. You become a wartime leader. The country gets behind you. Dissent becomes inappropriate. And so he does not drop to his knees, he is not contrite, he does not sit in the church with the grieving parents and wives and children. He is the president who does not feel. He does not feel for the families of the dead, he does not feel for the 35 million of us who live in poverty, he does not feel for the 40 percent who cannot afford health insurance, he does not feel for the miners whose lungs are turning black or for the working people he has deprived of the chance to work overtime at time-and-a-half to pay their bills - it is amazing for how many people in this country this president does not feel.
But he will dissemble feeling. He will say in all sincerity he is relieving the wealthiest 1 percent of the population of their tax burden for the sake of the rest of us, and that he is polluting the air we breathe for the sake of our economy, and that he is decreasing the quality of air in coal mines to save the coal miners' jobs, and that he is depriving workers of their time-and-a-half benefits for overtime because this is
A new breakthrough makes all previous incarnations obselete. Now all painters are relegated to minor touch up of a new innovation - "film" - sandwiched light-sensitive material is encased in a light-controlling box with an mechanism for admitting light. Just hold that pose for several minutes (don't breath in the smoke from the flash powder lighting equipment!). This instead of the several sittings and days it took with the old fashioned method. Manufacturers of canvas, already hit by the loss of wind power, are reeling. Pigment and linseed proprieters are claiming they will only carry a small selection of the new tubes of "paint" for nostalgic reasons, but will be pushing gallon jars, glass plates and silver nitrate on the display shortly.
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I don't want to explore drop down bullshit. I just want to read the fricking summary and determine yeah or neah, and then move on. Who has time for this crap? It just makes it difficult to read and impairs the communication.
not actually accurate title here... the article states that Reid directly copied (mirrored) the site under www.therealsharonangle.com thus pretty much stealing the content. sounds like legitimate copyright violation actually, and nothing really sensational at all
that's great - unles you are left-handed in which case you are still hosed. I write creditably well with ball pen and I don't think that's the problem at all. On the other hand - I purposefully write by hand on paper regularly (with ball pen), forcing myself not to use a keyboard (which is the real source for deteriorated cursive handwriting...)
single bed, jackhammer. In the right hands this could be kinky. Instead, just sad.
This guy has a track record of following behind and just missing. The plan sounds like a mission statement rather than an actual plan, and the preconception that age has anything to do with innovation at all is crap thinking.
"I'm sorry, I suck at sharing"
Frankly, I can't imagine asking someone to use their laptop. Establish some fucking boundaries.
That's exactly how David Miscavige writes and speaks. Remember - to a large degree he's not communicating to you, he is being consistent to the line he has already fed to his followers...
yes. So he is. How can you tell? His lips move...
This isn't about anti-religion. This is about specific entries and the deletion and alteration of entries (against published rules on wikipedia) to remove viewpoints considered undesirable by Scientology. Anti-religion is just a label and button to characterize and demonize the action emotionally. This is a necessary action to remove a disruptive behavior. They (Ch. of $cn) could have ADDED their viewpoint, or added references - but that was not the case, they delete opposing viewpoints, adding (IMHO erroneous) citations and data that is exclusively pro-$cn.
Frankly it couldn't happen to a nicer cult.
wait - stop - just kidding...
innovation (read adoption of what the surveyed herd wants and whoever we could purchase a look from, or failing that, what apple did last quarter, visually) in windows sucks.
The next step is to divorce the windows graphic interface from the underlying operating system, and make it a desktop for linux. Like apple. But with Linux.
Having worked extensively with both - there is a financial and criticality point where Linux falls short and Solaris pulls ahead. Google runs on linux. Ebay runs on Solaris and SUN hardware. Informational versus transactional. Financial companies where oversight and regulation meet serious financial risk, use invariably SUN and Solaris. Because it just works and the cost of support and hardware makes that worth it.
Stupid idea. Hope it never happens. Apple has a worse track record of sharing than any other computer manufacturer, even to the extent of making Intel hardware proprietary to OSX. I would expect to kiss Photoshop on Windows goodbye...
Microsoft can advertise that users have a larger capacity with ease - many users have reported that attachments aren't transmitted when using Hotmail, and I've experienced this phenomena personally. Easy to add vaporous capacity to Hotmail, or would bogus be a better term? Gmail on the other hand has never done this to me.
...neatimage. There are no easy to use and professionally capable noise removal programs/plugins for GIMP.
...16 bit color. Why would I have an unbelievable scan and then throw away half the data to work with a free program? That's information, and in RAW that's a huge loss.
GIMP is fine as a paint replacement, but is not in the league of photoshop. Now a linux port of Photoshop, that would be nice. Course it won't help those who wouldn't spend the money anyway... But adobe does support acrobat reader on linux, so maybe someday...
That would only make sense as an analogy if the expected behavior of a printer was to route to a shredder - the judge would be a not- stupid to hold you in contempt. Go teach a fish to make bread or something...
Curious - did they require a Masters (all big city colleges in the Northeast seem to require way more schooling)? Or just the life experience and track record?
Ipod will have to survive on coolness alone - because they do not actually work well at all. I had a 4G 40 GB, and the goddamned thing never truly worked well at all. A complete POS. Yes I'll say it - the ipod is a complete POS. Great functional and aesthetic design, truly crappy operation over time. I now own an iAudio from Cowon - the second player I've owned from them (the first 1 GB flash player I bought in desperation when my ipod was being repaired...). Plays ogg, has incredible sound, and 60 GB space (for actual 224bit encoded songs). Free yourselves from the pod. Do not buy itunes, it is such a total rip-off. But you won't hear, and if you hear you won't listen... Actually I still have the 4G - it's a paperweight. Really. I put a screw through it into a piece of oak and it is a PAPERWEIGHT.
Go one step further - don't contribute money to anything with DRM. Just say no. It dries up and blows (ahem)... away.
I would do anything to have google commemorate me as an artist... Amazing. This is petty crap.
The prof is correct - this would force people to listen more closely and to actually pay attention. Anyone remember "Real Genius" with the professor's tape recorder lecturing to a bunch of student tape recorders???
no further comment needed. He mocks usage he fails to understand, and has so little reality on the limits under which some culture must function that he completely misses the point. One of the eventual pitfalls Microsoft will fall into is the fact that many many countries simply cannot afford the prices for Windows and related software.
Why? Books are inexpensive, durable, don't break, are replaceable for minimal cost, don't care if you fall asleep while reading and drop the book off the bed or couch, never need recharging or batteries, recover from water, don't require a Microsoft tax, store for years without bad effect - where exactly is the downside?
ebooks basically are inconvenient and a complete waste of attention and time to maintain as a format - yet another device to have break and fail, and yet more data to try and back up and be able to recover despite digital rights crap.
Slashdot is becoming ludicrous. Pointless. Lame. Quite a stretch, skiing down moguls and running a business. Oooh, a spyware king, oooh, how can they award gold for spyware kings? Well, why wasn't Cowboy Neal out there taking the gold away from him? That would be because the guy can actually ski. And the medal was for. Skiiing.
see E. L. Doctorow's essay on Bush. Doesn't really matter what he says (Bush). It's completely Orwellian anyway. We torture under the auspices of the Department of Love, didn't you hear? I think Bush as sociopath may explain my gut instant dislike even hate for this person. The smirk. The constant litany of lies. I find it just amazing we have sunk so low as to have leadership like this. Damn shame. Used to be an amazing place, America.
By E.L. Doctorow
The Unfeeling President
But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the weapons of mass destruction he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man.
He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. He does not feel a personal responsibility for the 1,000 dead young men and women who wanted to be what they could be.
They come to his desk not as youngsters with mothers and fathers or wives and children who will suffer to the end of their days a terribly torn fabric of familial relationships and the inconsolable remembrance of aborted life . . . they come to his desk as a political liability, which is why the press is not permitted to photograph the arrival of their coffins from Iraq.
How then can he mourn? To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing. He does not regret that his reason for going to war was, as he knew, unsubstantiated by the facts. He does not regret that his bungled plan for the war's aftermath has made of his mission-accomplished a disaster. He does not regret that, rather than controlling terrorism, his war in Iraq has licensed it. So he never mourns for the dead and crippled youngsters who have fought this war of his choice.
He wanted to go to war and he did. He had not the mind to perceive the costs of war, or to listen to those who knew those costs. He did not understand that you do not go to war when it is one of the options but when it is the only option; you go not because you want to but because you have to.
Yet this president knew it would be difficult for Americans not to cheer the overthrow of a foreign dictator. He knew that much. This president and his supporters would seem to have a mind for only one thing -- to take power, to remain in power, and to use that power for the sake of themselves and their friends.
A war will do that as well as anything. You become a wartime leader. The country gets behind you. Dissent becomes inappropriate. And so he does not drop to his knees, he is not contrite, he does not sit in the church with the grieving parents and wives and children. He is the president who does not feel. He does not feel for the families of the dead, he does not feel for the 35 million of us who live in poverty, he does not feel for the 40 percent who cannot afford health insurance, he does not feel for the miners whose lungs are turning black or for the working people he has deprived of the chance to work overtime at time-and-a-half to pay their bills - it is amazing for how many people in this country this president does not feel.
But he will dissemble feeling. He will say in all sincerity he is relieving the wealthiest 1 percent of the population of their tax burden for the sake of the rest of us, and that he is polluting the air we breathe for the sake of our economy, and that he is decreasing the quality of air in coal mines to save the coal miners' jobs, and that he is depriving workers of their time-and-a-half benefits for overtime because this is
A new breakthrough makes all previous incarnations obselete. Now all painters are relegated to minor touch up of a new innovation - "film" - sandwiched light-sensitive material is encased in a light-controlling box with an mechanism for admitting light. Just hold that pose for several minutes (don't breath in the smoke from the flash powder lighting equipment!). This instead of the several sittings and days it took with the old fashioned method. Manufacturers of canvas, already hit by the loss of wind power, are reeling. Pigment and linseed proprieters are claiming they will only carry a small selection of the new tubes of "paint" for nostalgic reasons, but will be pushing gallon jars, glass plates and silver nitrate on the display shortly.