I have been studying the issue on an ongoing basis and have reached the conclusion that in order to be able to wield information effectively, you must be able to control it. And controling it includes keeping it from people and making sure it only flows through controlled channels.
You and the other poster making a judgement that ignorance isn't evil. Suggesting possible alternative words to search at the top isn't evil in my book, but injecting them into the middle is bad, and returning actual results on them is even worse! It's called taking second guessing me too far!
I had those tests. I was reading somewhat "high level" fiction books. Actually I was skimming them. Got the answers right most of the time because they were pretty obvious from the information I got from gleaming. However, "Brave New World" I did well on. "Brave New World Revisited", which isn't actually a sequel but a complex tome dealing with the concepts invovled in the first book, I flunked, but by this point I had filled the quota they gave me and was going for bonus points.
All I know is that I had trouble staying on task around the time I hit puberty, and the situation that comes to mind was me alone with a math book, with light from a desk lamp.
The problem isn't the distractions. Man's had distractions ever since he had to hunt for food and live in a cave. It's a lack of ability to filter them out, which is a recent phenomenon.
My measurement of Google's evil...
on
A Look at Google DRM
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It first came to my attention that Google was evil when I did:
and got See results for Winzip
and see also winipcfg
in the middle of my searches.
I'm using Firefox, but that still made me wonder if there wasn't some sort of malware bringing it up.
That drew me to reflect on Google's other practices. What was Google's line of reasoning that led it to release a non-open source desktop search utility?
Google evil? The winds are beginning to blow in that direction.
I've had lots of people explain essentially that because something was their job, it meant they were so much smarter than me, and that I'm not God.
Oh, and listening to the goings on about you to understand people and how you and they might be a benefit/risk to each other isn't a smart thing to do in their minds. They label it "evesdropping" and is unquestionably wrong in their minds.
With the lack of vital information that listening in provides, no wonder they're so dumb.
For me, it's a totally different story. I use Windows, and have sole control and use of my box. I never reboot as the first thing. (What, and lose the layout of my active apps?) I get Windows for the most part, and rarely end up feeling stupid. Of course, most people (Windows or Linux) don't spend nearly every waking hour in front of their computer like I do. I use the latest daily build of Firefox, except when I don't want to close Firefox out.
It was my understanding that she meant feasible where she said plausible, and I wasn't relying on the dictionary, merely utilizing it. I had an understanding of the word plausible well in mind long before I went for the dictionary.
One side's opinion is that they joined a memory chip ocnsortium for setting memory standards in which all the members were supposed to disclose their patents on elements that would go into proposed standards, but Rambus didn't disclose their patents.
The Rambus Wikipedia topic is currently in a revert war over this very issue!
I watch Cartoon Network on 29, History on 61, Scifi on 62. Switching between 61 and 62 is easy indirectly, but pushing up/down to get from them to Cartoon Network is a chore. Going through a mosaic/menu is even worse, especially when switching DVD chapters. Let me see, Hit next, and the DVD seeks to the next chapter, if the part that starts playing is what you want, you're done, or just hit next again, or hot next, the DVD seeks to the chapter menu, you try to guess from the small snippets an captions whether or not one of these is what you want, and perhaps what you want is actually on another page, then have it seek to what might be what you want, if not, another trip to menu land...
From my perspective, dealing with Microsoft OS's starting with DOS, the OS had a space to itself, and the rest was a free for all for all users. Usually, then and now, I was/am the sole user of the computer. I want different settings for programs on a document by document basis and even resort to setting up different accounts for myself for different phases in development cycle for example, where in the different phases a different tool is prime when working on a given file. Thing is, different files are in different phases of development.
But my main point is, having the computer all to myself has always been the norm for me, and I don't think I'm in so small a minority that it is economically for the best that my usage patterns be ignored by developers of general purpose solutions.
put it on your own website of course! Then you can also rewrite it to conform to a universe of your own making, and attempt to roll it into your own game someday.
Well if you take that at face value, and not mutterings in another language that just happens to sound remarkably like English, they wouldn't have needed to build the Earth to find the question, now would they? Because they would know that what the question really was, was "What is God's phone number?" now wouldn't they?
So where are the actual figures? Without them, you're just as bad as the article you deplore.
That being said, what are the larger set of figures encompasing the government's spending, past and planned, of all education and welfare related items. If the hovernment is cutting back on general outlays to, in this case, Universities, loans may be the wrong target, but the right area.
98's search is only more functional because the new search depends on a mechanism whereby it ignores the contents all files that don't ahve a filter driver.
By worse, I mean, more dependent upon it. On the one hand, I have several drives to put stuff on, and I want the files all grouped a certain way. For example, I want the directory "Final Fantasy" to hold the CD images of the FF games I bought, the soundtrack CD's, various FF promotional material and various rough drafts of lyrics I felt inspired to write based on the music, etc.
Home directories have nothing to do with trashing the OS's files, as they have always been separate from other content even on systems (MS-DOS, pre-Win95 Windows) without the concept of home directories.
That file is 49 minutes, 11 seconds long, so I'm not doing it unless I get paid. How much you willing to pay? My e-mail address is hackwrench@hotmail.com, and my prices are surprisingly low!
I am taking on audio file transcription jobs in general, so people, if you got something you want transcribed, I might be your man. I don't give quotes, but make an offer. Hey, if a bunch of you want this particular file bad enough, maybe you can scrape together enough amongst the lot of you to make an acceptable offer, or to put it another way, divided amongst the lot of you, you'll hardly miss it.
I'm seriously beginning to consider that possibility, since I haven't seen it do anything yet that makes sense from that perspective.
#125 an hour? Going alone is more affordable!
Consider this piece of fluff:
If "thinking outside the box" is the basic invention process, enlarging the box before thinking outside is the next level.
If you're enlarging the box, then there's less room to think outside of it. It sounds like tying ones hands instead of freeing.
Most if not all, "Patent prospector" entries are venom filled. Nor, when viewed as a whole, do they take a conistent position.
It wasn't a standard church sermon, it was an adult pre-service class, but the lecturer wasn't taking questions and comments. Part of the problem is that churches hardly ever have sessions where there's any interaction at all, just shut up and take the man at the front's word as the unquestionable, undeniable, truth, from God's mind, to his lips. Can't have grown adults thinking for themselves, now, that would be dangerous. A whole room full of fragile adults that can't handle civilized discourse, for that would be what the session would have been, if they could. The sort of people that churches are encouraging their parishioners to be aren't Christians in the properly capitalized sense of the word. As Steven Taylor put it, "Cloneliness is next to Godliness, right?"
First, there's a difference between aesthetics and morality, so the music hall isn't a good comparison. I don't know what the rules of procedure are in an alcoholics anonymous meeting, so I don't know how well that applies. Same for a political party meeting.
I said absolutely nothing about using insulting terms, so what was your point again?
I was in a church where the lecturer said something (for example) like, "Anybody would get violent if they were wronged a certain way", and my response would be "No, not all people would".
There's nothing insulting in that, but they insist upon you leaving anyways on point of calling the police.
Also, most church meeting are of the one ring to rule them all variety.
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I have been studying the issue on an ongoing basis and have reached the conclusion that in order to be able to wield information effectively, you must be able to control it. And controling it includes keeping it from people and making sure it only flows through controlled channels.
You and the other poster making a judgement that ignorance isn't evil. Suggesting possible alternative words to search at the top isn't evil in my book, but injecting them into the middle is bad, and returning actual results on them is even worse! It's called taking second guessing me too far!
I had those tests. I was reading somewhat "high level" fiction books. Actually I was skimming them. Got the answers right most of the time because they were pretty obvious from the information I got from gleaming. However, "Brave New World" I did well on. "Brave New World Revisited", which isn't actually a sequel but a complex tome dealing with the concepts invovled in the first book, I flunked, but by this point I had filled the quota they gave me and was going for bonus points.
I want to be genetically reengineered as soon as it becomes feasable.
All I know is that I had trouble staying on task around the time I hit puberty, and the situation that comes to mind was me alone with a math book, with light from a desk lamp.
The problem isn't the distractions. Man's had distractions ever since he had to hunt for food and live in a cave. It's a lack of ability to filter them out, which is a recent phenomenon.
It first came to my attention that Google was evil when I did:
o ogle+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=winip&btnG=G
and got See results for Winzip
and see also winipcfg
in the middle of my searches.
I'm using Firefox, but that still made me wonder if there wasn't some sort of malware bringing it up.
That drew me to reflect on Google's other practices. What was Google's line of reasoning that led it to release a non-open source desktop search utility?
Google evil? The winds are beginning to blow in that direction.
I've had lots of people explain essentially that because something was their job, it meant they were so much smarter than me, and that I'm not God.
Oh, and listening to the goings on about you to understand people and how you and they might be a benefit/risk to each other isn't a smart thing to do in their minds. They label it "evesdropping" and is unquestionably wrong in their minds.
With the lack of vital information that listening in provides, no wonder they're so dumb.
At first I thought it might be that they all have wikis:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Home_Page
But I couldn't find one for XVid.
The list seems geared towards editing, viewing or transferring media.
For me, it's a totally different story. I use Windows, and have sole control and use of my box. I never reboot as the first thing. (What, and lose the layout of my active apps?) I get Windows for the most part, and rarely end up feeling stupid. Of course, most people (Windows or Linux) don't spend nearly every waking hour in front of their computer like I do. I use the latest daily build of Firefox, except when I don't want to close Firefox out.
Well you see, it revolves, so naturally "Revolutionary" was quick to come from that, and they kind of just went with the flow to get "innovative".
It was my understanding that she meant feasible where she said plausible, and I wasn't relying on the dictionary, merely utilizing it. I had an understanding of the word plausible well in mind long before I went for the dictionary.
One side's opinion is that they joined a memory chip ocnsortium for setting memory standards in which all the members were supposed to disclose their patents on elements that would go into proposed standards, but Rambus didn't disclose their patents.
The Rambus Wikipedia topic is currently in a revert war over this very issue!
was what was impractical.
I watch Cartoon Network on 29, History on 61, Scifi on 62. Switching between 61 and 62 is easy indirectly, but pushing up/down to get from them to Cartoon Network is a chore. Going through a mosaic/menu is even worse, especially when switching DVD chapters. Let me see, Hit next, and the DVD seeks to the next chapter, if the part that starts playing is what you want, you're done, or just hit next again, or hot next, the DVD seeks to the chapter menu, you try to guess from the small snippets an captions whether or not one of these is what you want, and perhaps what you want is actually on another page, then have it seek to what might be what you want, if not, another trip to menu land...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
1. Apparently reasonable and valid
Just because something doesn't appear reasonable and valid, doesn't mean it actually isn't
From my perspective, dealing with Microsoft OS's starting with DOS, the OS had a space to itself, and the rest was a free for all for all users. Usually, then and now, I was/am the sole user of the computer. I want different settings for programs on a document by document basis and even resort to setting up different accounts for myself for different phases in development cycle for example, where in the different phases a different tool is prime when working on a given file. Thing is, different files are in different phases of development.
But my main point is, having the computer all to myself has always been the norm for me, and I don't think I'm in so small a minority that it is economically for the best that my usage patterns be ignored by developers of general purpose solutions.
put it on your own website of course! Then you can also rewrite it to conform to a universe of your own making, and attempt to roll it into your own game someday.
Well if you take that at face value, and not mutterings in another language that just happens to sound remarkably like English, they wouldn't have needed to build the Earth to find the question, now would they? Because they would know that what the question really was, was "What is God's phone number?" now wouldn't they?
So where are the actual figures? Without them, you're just as bad as the article you deplore.
That being said, what are the larger set of figures encompasing the government's spending, past and planned, of all education and welfare related items. If the hovernment is cutting back on general outlays to, in this case, Universities, loans may be the wrong target, but the right area.
98's search is only more functional because the new search depends on a mechanism whereby it ignores the contents all files that don't ahve a filter driver.
By worse, I mean, more dependent upon it. On the one hand, I have several drives to put stuff on, and I want the files all grouped a certain way. For example, I want the directory "Final Fantasy" to hold the CD images of the FF games I bought, the soundtrack CD's, various FF promotional material and various rough drafts of lyrics I felt inspired to write based on the music, etc.
Home directories have nothing to do with trashing the OS's files, as they have always been separate from other content even on systems (MS-DOS, pre-Win95 Windows) without the concept of home directories.
That file is 49 minutes, 11 seconds long, so I'm not doing it unless I get paid. How much you willing to pay? My e-mail address is hackwrench@hotmail.com, and my prices are surprisingly low!
I am taking on audio file transcription jobs in general, so people, if you got something you want transcribed, I might be your man. I don't give quotes, but make an offer. Hey, if a bunch of you want this particular file bad enough, maybe you can scrape together enough amongst the lot of you to make an acceptable offer, or to put it another way, divided amongst the lot of you, you'll hardly miss it.
But what it means to the mice is anybody's guess.
I'm seriously beginning to consider that possibility, since I haven't seen it do anything yet that makes sense from that perspective.
#125 an hour? Going alone is more affordable!
Consider this piece of fluff:
If "thinking outside the box" is the basic invention process, enlarging the box before thinking outside is the next level.
If you're enlarging the box, then there's less room to think outside of it. It sounds like tying ones hands instead of freeing.
Most if not all, "Patent prospector" entries are venom filled. Nor, when viewed as a whole, do they take a conistent position.
It wasn't a standard church sermon, it was an adult pre-service class, but the lecturer wasn't taking questions and comments. Part of the problem is that churches hardly ever have sessions where there's any interaction at all, just shut up and take the man at the front's word as the unquestionable, undeniable, truth, from God's mind, to his lips. Can't have grown adults thinking for themselves, now, that would be dangerous. A whole room full of fragile adults that can't handle civilized discourse, for that would be what the session would have been, if they could. The sort of people that churches are encouraging their parishioners to be aren't Christians in the properly capitalized sense of the word. As Steven Taylor put it, "Cloneliness is next to Godliness, right?"
http://www.fairtaxvolunteer.org/smart/faq-main.htm l#2
is the list of taxes to be abolished. What federal taxes won't it abolish?
First, there's a difference between aesthetics and morality, so the music hall isn't a good comparison. I don't know what the rules of procedure are in an alcoholics anonymous meeting, so I don't know how well that applies. Same for a political party meeting.
I said absolutely nothing about using insulting terms, so what was your point again?
I was in a church where the lecturer said something (for example) like, "Anybody would get violent if they were wronged a certain way", and my response would be "No, not all people would".
There's nothing insulting in that, but they insist upon you leaving anyways on point of calling the police.
Also, most church meeting are of the one ring to rule them all variety.