Think about it -- everything from kitty litter to wallboard dust is likely ending up inside the one's brain,
So that must be why I've been scratching up the furniture, licking myself and pissing to "mark my territory". One side benefit (other than the obvious one of licking oneself) is that I've been saving a TON of money on food!
Not to mention setting up your home broadband connection to allow you dial-up from your grandma's house when you go to visit her.
Wha? Your gramma doesn't have a broadband connection? Is she an aging sixties radical who thinks of this term as derogatory and insulting to women? My grandparents aren't alive. But if they were, I'd set them straight on this technology and it's termonology by gum!
My getting beat up on the way home from Chess club was a rather regular occurance. It wasn't regulation boxing, mind you. More like "Wrestling Team/Football Team/Baseball Team vs Chess Team". But I remember these "events" being on the bill nearly every week!
How long is it before ATM's / "grocery stores" (supermarkets here) are linked into dating sites and your email?
Dude, if the grocery store tattled on my buying habits and my dating website realized how many twinkies and pints of Ben & Jerry's I buy (not for myself, I assure you!) the dating site may assume (incorrectly, I assure you) that my picture is 5+ years out of date and not representative of my current date-ability and good-lookie drool factor vis a vis the ladies. Soundly suckily Orwellian to me.
After playing in Punk bands, listening to Punk on walkmen and seeing other Punk bands play live I've had an awful case of Tinnitus since about 1990. Actually it started for me after seeing an industrial band play at a tiny nightclub in Neptune NJ.
The suck-factor of this malady has increased over the past decade. But I've learned to live with it (for the most part, but it does drive me nuts occasionally). There are treatments out there that are mostly based on cognitive adaptation. I've also heard of some treatments involving massive doses of vitamin A. But the latter is a bit dicey, because if things go wrong you can easily poison yourself if the dosage is just a bit off.
The article metiontions noise damage to the central ear - the cochlea - which is EXACTLY what caused my condition. The treatments in question could potentially reduce further damage to the inner. But I was *very* encouraged that they are also talking about the potential of hearing rehabilitation.
I've always (having already been a fullbown by the age of 5) been fascinated with science and technology and believing it's inevitable upward spiral would yield miraculous advances. After having been injured (in no small part due to my own ignorance of human physiology) in this way, I've held onto that belief tighter than ever. This is a truly maddening condition.
I'm sure there is SOME unifying philosophy behind Windows. I have no idea what that might be, nor would I wish to. But I found this book about the philosophy of UNIX very enlightening when I read it back in the day. It was an epiphany for me at the time to realize that there WAS or could be a philosophy behind an operating system. But this was the book that made the concept clear for me.
But I really wish they had the results before they went public. Suppose for a moment that it's NOT him. That it's one of the body doubles surgically altered to look like Saddam. Do you really think Bush is gonna step up to the bully pulpit and say "Oops!"?
Sony makes consumer DVD players that have 300 and 400 disc capacities for $500 and $400,
I must admit, I love standardizing on technologies when it comes to jamming components into my entertainment center. Long ago, I made the ill-advised decision to do so with SONY components. By far the worst purchase I made was the 200 DVD changer (back then a new-ish technology).
A number of things turned me of about this particular unit. For one, one of the most heavily sold features of the unit was it's ability to organize cd/dvds by category (buggy and worked not at all). The slots they gave for naming the DVDs was so sparse that I had to abbreviate the names and hoped I remembered what the ad-hoc acryonyms were meant to stand for. I considered this particularly unforgivable because by the time this box had been made available RAM had been SUPER cheap for a really long time. Then there were the icons they gave you to represent the DVDs in question. They were SOOOO bad and reminded me of my VIC-20 (not even C64!) days in the 80s and looked like they were designed by a derranged child to boot. I considered nearly every "feature" sub-standard and poorly implemented.
Possibly the BEST feature was what I call the "time bomb" feaure. It was like it had a clock counting down to when the warranty expired. Seemingly at 12:01 AM on the day that it did expire the player STOPPED recognizing DVD, scanning through each successive slot until it reports "NO DVD FOUND". Using a store bought DVD cleaner availed me naught. I called Sony support and they were about as useful as ever (that is to say as useful as a chocolate tea-pot) and was told that I had to shell out $150 bux to get the beast fixed. Caveat emptor, indeed! I now realize my naivte in trusting the SONY or for that matter blind faith in any product line. Not even APPLE;) (j/k)
So, let me get this striaght. Starbuck... a girl. Boomer...also a girl. Cylon warriors...sexpot girls? So what elements from the original show did they keep? Vipers. We have Vipers. If you took the Vipers out of Battlestar Girlactica you'd might as well call this series "Ernest Goes To Outer Space".
I'm wrong, but this appears it is going to be politics driving science, not the other way around, and I question its usefulness if it is going to be implemented in the same closed and uninclusive manner it's being planned.
You make very valid points. But bear in mind that politics have always driven scienctofoc advancement in the US. The Eniac was invented to calculate firing tables for ballistics when this need was realized during WW II. The Arpanet was founded to provide for a distributed communications and computing network in the event of a nuclear war. And the Gemini missions were a direct result of Sputnik orbiting the Earth, as was the space program as a whole. Politcally, America NEEDS the competition of a major military power in order to innovate. Curiousity for scientific "pure knowledge" is not sufficient motivation for our government.
There will never be a permanent settlement on the moon. It's pretty well known by now that there is not enough water there to sustain any kind of colony of any sort (that ice cap turned out to be way too thin).
Scientific advances always have their naysayers. People who say "Sorry! Can't do that 'cause... x". Given the above statement it's reasonable to assume you would've told the Wright brothers "Heavier than air flight? No way!" had you been alive during those times.
Well, to establish a permanent moon base, they'll have to do things a little like the way they did on the USS Enterprise. They will have to
recycle.
The Walt Disney World version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed in 1967.
I remeber riding that ride in Disney World when I was 7 years old. And I was born in 1969! My guess is that they are talking about the DisneyLAND (not World) ride which closed in '67. Or perhaps it was a revamped version I rode as a kid.
Again, they're just proving that the best security method is just to not let anyone on the system at all.
Very true! How can you 0wn a box that...isn't there! I saw this interesting report on 60 minutes (an abbreviated version of it can be found here, and the full story I beleive can be found here, but for a fee to Big Bill) a number of months ago showing this interesting photo of the Korean peninsula. It kind of reminds you of the hoax photo of the 2003 blackout, except that I suspect the Korean photo to be legit. Assuming it it is, maybe NK should start thinking about how to get power to most of their city (I could be mistaken, but I think Pyonyang is their only city and even THAT was just built "for show") and towns before they start getting their boxes online to trade e-mail!
But setting up a "secure e-mail" system for boxes that don't exist is the same sort of logic you would expect from a country that has traffic cops in the heart of their city directing traffic...that ISN'T THERE! It's an absouletly amazing society. Crazy. Loopy. But fascinating at the same time.
I saw that bit about the "traffic cop" in the same 60 minutes report and in it there was also someone from the state department claiming that at the time there was probably 5 machines on the Internet in the entire county!
but it's going to be a little harder for other types of advertising where new products or companies are trying to convince you to buy their products or services. The "why should I buy" part.
One thing that advertisors are trying in order to cope with the unimaginable (to them) loss of advertising revenues because of the "infiltration" of a new "alien" DVR technology is something called "Viral Marketing".
See that pretty girl at the bar? She's smiling at you and asking you to light her cigarette. The conversation quickly turns to...cigarettes and how great the brand is that she's smoking. By now your ego is feeling pretty good and you feel the adrenaline rush of "being hit on". She's actually a sales woman simulating a social envirnoment in order to sell you the cigarette she's smoking!
Walking to your job in New York City and you bump into a handsome young couple who are "from the midwest" (so they claim). They ask you take a picture of them with their "hot new picture taking cell phone". You use it, think it's cool and a brief discussion ensues about how cool this new gadgetry is.
You go to Starbucks and there's a handsome (see a pattern here?) young fellow playing a video game on his laptop. He's really into it, making a bit of a show of what he's doing. He's using an amazing looking "cyber glove" to play the game. "Would you like to try it out?" says he. Next thing you know, you're playing the game with the glove and asking where you can buy the same thing. "I got mine at Best Buy" he says, but "you can get them just about anywhere electronics are sold".
Of course, I personally think that you'd have to be a bit of a twit to actually fall for this sort of thing. The reports I've seen on TV make the whole affair seem pretty darn artificial. But I also have no doubt that this sort of thing will work on a certain precentage amount of the population. It strikes me as more than a bit disgusting and shows just how low advertisers are willing to sink.
From the article: In afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Dell was up 67 cents at $35.19.
There are socialmovements about to save american jobs in the technical sector. As horrible as this is bound to be for the economy at home, it's always been "bout tha dollar dollar bill y'all" so this is the one and only thing that will bring these jobs back to American soil.
My girlfriend and I had dinner one night recently with the CTO of CS First Boston (he's a church buddy of hers) who was responsible for the decision to move many of the jobs of his subbordinates. This is a topic that I feel quite passionate about, but due to the nature of the social occasion I was understanably polite about it. But I felt the need to at least mention it and perhaps have a rare opportunity to get into the mind of someone calling the shots in this capacity.
Among the points that I raised was that from a national security standpoint, American companies are creating a great incentive for cultures across the globe to become technically savvy. A good many of these cultures may likely be unfriendly to the USA and the companies creating these incentives. By the same token, I believe that knowledge of computing is so far reaching that there is an element of historical inevitability to all cultures acquiring this knowledge. But I still believe that American companies are accelerating forces that they may not even realize are beyond their control in order to impact their finances in a very immediate way. In my view, it's just myopia. Plain and simple.
Looks like I have a few more reasons to stay up past my bedtime..." Or get a tivo.
*upper lip trembling* you mean there are poor souls out there that actually lack this essential technology?;P
Seriously, if it weren't for Tivo I'd never catch my fix of Twilight Zone reruns and Enterprise. I do Tivo Anime Crash on TechTV, but some of the Anime they show is a little esoteric for my tastes. So, a lot of that gets deleted before I have a chance to watch it.
My friend Mike got slashdotted recently pointing out that Time Warner cable is rolling out Tivo to their users for something on the order of less than $10 a month...and at no cost to the subscriber for the box!Pretty sweet deal considering that I paid slightly over $400 for the Sony DirctTV/Tivo combo box. That particular combination is a pretty sweet deal. I guess I could regret having shelled out that much money in light of Mike's cable deal. But...naaahhh. How can you regret shelling out for such a life-affirming technology?
I just checked with my registrar and it looks like tivoaid.com is still open. I think I may buy that domain to start a worthy cause....
Not particularly funny, but the PATH station at 14th and 6th in the city has all these flat panel displays that are supposed to give you updates on the trains and such and news so that you're not bored standing there waiting for your train. It is FOREVER BSODed!
It's just a modern convention of writing. For hundreds of years if you were referring to a generic human you referred to this person as a "he". This started changing somewhere in the 90s when writers of just about every genre, and whether the author was male or female, began defaulting to "she" instead of "he" to mean "generic person".
Sort of like the Barbie doll of the 80s who exclaimed "I don't like math!" when you pulled her string, the predominating view in modern social science is that the reason you end up with very male dominated fields (like Cisco networking or IT in general) is that women are socialized to believe that these things "aren't for girls". When you start writing books that use "she" as the generic, and you start putting out more books for kids featuring women as astronauts or scientists or mathematicians we will have the enourmous benefit of a society that does not value women primarily as mere Vicoria's Secret fashion victims.
Not that women shouldn't be valued for their beauty. But if all someone is contributing to society is how they look in high-heels it's a lose-lose situation for both the society and the woman brainwashed into believing that all that really matters is her appearance.
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Think about it -- everything from kitty litter to wallboard dust is likely ending up inside the one's brain,
So that must be why I've been scratching up the furniture, licking myself and pissing to "mark my territory". One side benefit (other than the obvious one of licking oneself) is that I've been saving a TON of money on food!
News in the mother tongue appears to be spreading!
One of the better projects in Linux Toys is a Linux based telephone answering system.
I'm not a Microsoft guy.
Shouldn't that be IANAMSG? Then again, people could get confused and think you were not an employee of a Chinese restaurant.
Not to mention setting up your home broadband connection to allow you dial-up from your grandma's house when you go to visit her.
Wha? Your gramma doesn't have a broadband connection? Is she an aging sixties radical who thinks of this term as derogatory and insulting to women? My grandparents aren't alive. But if they were, I'd set them straight on this technology and it's termonology by gum!
My getting beat up on the way home from Chess club was a rather regular occurance. It wasn't regulation boxing, mind you. More like "Wrestling Team/Football Team/Baseball Team vs Chess Team". But I remember these "events" being on the bill nearly every week!
How long is it before ATM's / "grocery stores" (supermarkets here) are linked into dating sites and your email?
Dude, if the grocery store tattled on my buying habits and my dating website realized how many twinkies and pints of Ben & Jerry's I buy (not for myself, I assure you!) the dating site may assume (incorrectly, I assure you) that my picture is 5+ years out of date and not representative of my current date-ability and good-lookie drool factor vis a vis the ladies. Soundly suckily Orwellian to me.
After playing in Punk bands, listening to Punk on walkmen and seeing other Punk bands play live I've had an awful case of Tinnitus since about 1990. Actually it started for me after seeing an industrial band play at a tiny nightclub in Neptune NJ.
The suck-factor of this malady has increased over the past decade. But I've learned to live with it (for the most part, but it does drive me nuts occasionally). There are treatments out there that are mostly based on cognitive adaptation. I've also heard of some treatments involving massive doses of vitamin A. But the latter is a bit dicey, because if things go wrong you can easily poison yourself if the dosage is just a bit off.
The article metiontions noise damage to the central ear - the cochlea - which is EXACTLY what caused my condition. The treatments in question could potentially reduce further damage to the inner. But I was *very* encouraged that they are also talking about the potential of hearing rehabilitation.
I've always (having already been a fullbown by the age of 5) been fascinated with science and technology and believing it's inevitable upward spiral would yield miraculous advances. After having been injured (in no small part due to my own ignorance of human physiology) in this way, I've held onto that belief tighter than ever. This is a truly maddening condition.
I'm sure there is SOME unifying philosophy behind Windows. I have no idea what that might be, nor would I wish to. But I found this book about the philosophy of UNIX very enlightening when I read it back in the day. It was an epiphany for me at the time to realize that there WAS or could be a philosophy behind an operating system. But this was the book that made the concept clear for me.
The DNA tests are not in..YET! And I do mean YET!
But I really wish they had the results before they went public. Suppose for a moment that it's NOT him. That it's one of the body doubles surgically altered to look like Saddam. Do you really think Bush is gonna step up to the bully pulpit and say "Oops!"?
Set your browsers to stun!
No WAY dude! You mean set your browsers to FUN!
Hey, those jukeboxes are expensive, but why pay when you can steal? Sneak into CompUSA at night and "share" yourself a few!
Sony GPLd their hardware? Lemme atit!
Sony makes consumer DVD players that have 300 and 400 disc capacities for $500 and $400,
;) (j/k)
I must admit, I love standardizing on technologies when it comes to jamming components into my entertainment center. Long ago, I made the ill-advised decision to do so with SONY components. By far the worst purchase I made was the 200 DVD changer (back then a new-ish technology).
A number of things turned me of about this particular unit. For one, one of the most heavily sold features of the unit was it's ability to organize cd/dvds by category (buggy and worked not at all). The slots they gave for naming the DVDs was so sparse that I had to abbreviate the names and hoped I remembered what the ad-hoc acryonyms were meant to stand for. I considered this particularly unforgivable because by the time this box had been made available RAM had been SUPER cheap for a really long time. Then there were the icons they gave you to represent the DVDs in question. They were SOOOO bad and reminded me of my VIC-20 (not even C64!) days in the 80s and looked like they were designed by a derranged child to boot. I considered nearly every "feature" sub-standard and poorly implemented.
Possibly the BEST feature was what I call the "time bomb" feaure. It was like it had a clock counting down to when the warranty expired. Seemingly at 12:01 AM on the day that it did expire the player STOPPED recognizing DVD, scanning through each successive slot until it reports "NO DVD FOUND". Using a store bought DVD cleaner availed me naught. I called Sony support and they were about as useful as ever (that is to say as useful as a chocolate tea-pot) and was told that I had to shell out $150 bux to get the beast fixed. Caveat emptor, indeed! I now realize my naivte in trusting the SONY or for that matter blind faith in any product line. Not even APPLE
Honestly, I don't really want to picture a bunch of geeks 'groping' around trying to 'reveal' something.
Yeah, same here. Sounds a little bit too much like a furry convention for my tastes.
So, let me get this striaght. Starbuck... a girl. Boomer...also a girl. Cylon warriors...sexpot girls? So what elements from the original show did they keep? Vipers. We have Vipers. If you took the Vipers out of Battlestar Girlactica you'd might as well call this series "Ernest Goes To Outer Space".
I'm wrong, but this appears it is going to be politics driving science, not the other way around, and I question its usefulness if it is going to be implemented in the same closed and uninclusive manner it's being planned.
You make very valid points. But bear in mind that politics have always driven scienctofoc advancement in the US. The Eniac was invented to calculate firing tables for ballistics when this need was realized during WW II. The Arpanet was founded to provide for a distributed communications and computing network in the event of a nuclear war. And the Gemini missions were a direct result of Sputnik orbiting the Earth, as was the space program as a whole. Politcally, America NEEDS the competition of a major military power in order to innovate. Curiousity for scientific "pure knowledge" is not sufficient motivation for our government.
There will never be a permanent settlement on the moon. It's pretty well known by now that there is not enough water there to sustain any kind of colony of any sort (that ice cap turned out to be way too thin).
Scientific advances always have their naysayers. People who say "Sorry! Can't do that 'cause... x". Given the above statement it's reasonable to assume you would've told the Wright brothers "Heavier than air flight? No way!" had you been alive during those times.
Well, to establish a permanent moon base, they'll have to do things a little like the way they did on the USS Enterprise. They will have to recycle.
The Walt Disney World version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed in 1967.
I remeber riding that ride in Disney World when I was 7 years old. And I was born in 1969! My guess is that they are talking about the DisneyLAND (not World) ride which closed in '67. Or perhaps it was a revamped version I rode as a kid.
Again, they're just proving that the best security method is just to not let anyone on the system at all.
Very true! How can you 0wn a box that...isn't there! I saw this interesting report on 60 minutes (an abbreviated version of it can be found here, and the full story I beleive can be found here, but for a fee to Big Bill) a number of months ago showing this interesting photo of the Korean peninsula. It kind of reminds you of the hoax photo of the 2003 blackout, except that I suspect the Korean photo to be legit. Assuming it it is, maybe NK should start thinking about how to get power to most of their city (I could be mistaken, but I think Pyonyang is their only city and even THAT was just built "for show") and towns before they start getting their boxes online to trade e-mail!
But setting up a "secure e-mail" system for boxes that don't exist is the same sort of logic you would expect from a country that has traffic cops in the heart of their city directing traffic...that ISN'T THERE! It's an absouletly amazing society. Crazy. Loopy. But fascinating at the same time.
I saw that bit about the "traffic cop" in the same 60 minutes report and in it there was also someone from the state department claiming that at the time there was probably 5 machines on the Internet in the entire county!
When asked if New Line has approached him about the project, Jackson said he has not ruled it out, but not until after King Kong is done.
I certainly don't think it's going to be The Twin Towers this time around.
but it's going to be a little harder for other types of advertising where new products or companies are trying to convince you to buy their products or services. The "why should I buy" part.
One thing that advertisors are trying in order to cope with the unimaginable (to them) loss of advertising revenues because of the "infiltration" of a new "alien" DVR technology is something called "Viral Marketing".
See that pretty girl at the bar? She's smiling at you and asking you to light her cigarette. The conversation quickly turns to...cigarettes and how great the brand is that she's smoking. By now your ego is feeling pretty good and you feel the adrenaline rush of "being hit on". She's actually a sales woman simulating a social envirnoment in order to sell you the cigarette she's smoking!
Walking to your job in New York City and you bump into a handsome young couple who are "from the midwest" (so they claim). They ask you take a picture of them with their "hot new picture taking cell phone". You use it, think it's cool and a brief discussion ensues about how cool this new gadgetry is.
You go to Starbucks and there's a handsome (see a pattern here?) young fellow playing a video game on his laptop. He's really into it, making a bit of a show of what he's doing. He's using an amazing looking "cyber glove" to play the game. "Would you like to try it out?" says he. Next thing you know, you're playing the game with the glove and asking where you can buy the same thing. "I got mine at Best Buy" he says, but "you can get them just about anywhere electronics are sold".
Of course, I personally think that you'd have to be a bit of a twit to actually fall for this sort of thing. The reports I've seen on TV make the whole affair seem pretty darn artificial. But I also have no doubt that this sort of thing will work on a certain precentage amount of the population. It strikes me as more than a bit disgusting and shows just how low advertisers are willing to sink.
From the article:
In afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Dell was up 67 cents at $35.19.
There are social movements about to save american jobs in the technical sector. As horrible as this is bound to be for the economy at home, it's always been "bout tha dollar dollar bill y'all" so this is the one and only thing that will bring these jobs back to American soil.
My girlfriend and I had dinner one night recently with the CTO of CS First Boston (he's a church buddy of hers) who was responsible for the decision to move many of the jobs of his subbordinates. This is a topic that I feel quite passionate about, but due to the nature of the social occasion I was understanably polite about it. But I felt the need to at least mention it and perhaps have a rare opportunity to get into the mind of someone calling the shots in this capacity.
Among the points that I raised was that from a national security standpoint, American companies are creating a great incentive for cultures across the globe to become technically savvy. A good many of these cultures may likely be unfriendly to the USA and the companies creating these incentives. By the same token, I believe that knowledge of computing is so far reaching that there is an element of historical inevitability to all cultures acquiring this knowledge. But I still believe that American companies are accelerating forces that they may not even realize are beyond their control in order to impact their finances in a very immediate way. In my view, it's just myopia. Plain and simple.
Looks like I have a few more reasons to stay up past my bedtime..." Or get a tivo.
;P
*upper lip trembling* you mean there are poor souls out there that actually lack this essential technology?
Seriously, if it weren't for Tivo I'd never catch my fix of Twilight Zone reruns and Enterprise. I do Tivo Anime Crash on TechTV, but some of the Anime they show is a little esoteric for my tastes. So, a lot of that gets deleted before I have a chance to watch it.
My friend Mike got slashdotted recently pointing out that Time Warner cable is rolling out Tivo to their users for something on the order of less than $10 a month...and at no cost to the subscriber for the box!Pretty sweet deal considering that I paid slightly over $400 for the Sony DirctTV/Tivo combo box. That particular combination is a pretty sweet deal. I guess I could regret having shelled out that much money in light of Mike's cable deal. But...naaahhh. How can you regret shelling out for such a life-affirming technology?
I just checked with my registrar and it looks like tivoaid.com is still open. I think I may buy that domain to start a worthy cause....
Not particularly funny, but the PATH station at 14th and 6th in the city has all these flat panel displays that are supposed to give you updates on the trains and such and news so that you're not bored standing there waiting for your train. It is FOREVER BSODed!
Why do you assume it will be a female?
It's just a modern convention of writing. For hundreds of years if you were referring to a generic human you referred to this person as a "he". This started changing somewhere in the 90s when writers of just about every genre, and whether the author was male or female, began defaulting to "she" instead of "he" to mean "generic person".
Sort of like the Barbie doll of the 80s who exclaimed "I don't like math!" when you pulled her string, the predominating view in modern social science is that the reason you end up with very male dominated fields (like Cisco networking or IT in general) is that women are socialized to believe that these things "aren't for girls". When you start writing books that use "she" as the generic, and you start putting out more books for kids featuring women as astronauts or scientists or mathematicians we will have the enourmous benefit of a society that does not value women primarily as mere Vicoria's Secret fashion victims.
Not that women shouldn't be valued for their beauty. But if all someone is contributing to society is how they look in high-heels it's a lose-lose situation for both the society and the woman brainwashed into believing that all that really matters is her appearance.