I'm rather tired of people blaming cellphones for a lack of civility by their owners. A lack of manners didn't rise up concurrently with cellphones, it predates their widespread introduction. Cellphones merely allow their owners to be uncivil in newer ways. The term asshole wasn't coined in the early 1980s, was it?
I own a cellphone but I turn it off/vibe mode when I'm at a theatre or any place where it's ringing could be disruptive. I do not stop talking to someone merely because my phone is ringing unless the call is of considerable importance or business. Many people do this but a large minority does not and therefore paints the technology as disruptive and not the person.
Frankly, people who don't wash every day bother me more than a ringing phone, and I hate the sound of ringing phones.
I can authoratatively say that they don't pay that much these days. I make more money selling stories to paper magazines and some newspapers then Salon pays for a piece. Perhaps it was different in the "old" days, but they don't pay writers much now.
The only reason people like Russ Smith are cheering over Salon's demise is because David Talbot is such an insufferable asshole. They do have some good people on staff -- I've talked to Laura Miller on occasion and she does a good job with the books section -- but Salon is just what Talbot intended it to be when it launched: the online version of Mother Jones. Democracy dies if Salon disappears? You can only pray for someone to fail when they make those pronouncements.
Wasn't there a micro-upgrade to some vendor's version of Linux? Company drops prices on hardware? Boy, that must have been the first time that's happened -- not only at Apple -- but in the whole computer industry.
I think you're wrong on that. I believe the atom bombs weren't put together until they reached their final pre-flight destination (that is, on the island where the bombers took off from to deliver the bombs). The USS Indianapolis (more famous for another incident just days later) delivered the dissembled parts that ended up the bomb that was used over Hiroshima, IIRC.
Wow, a ex-M$ using Linux...what a non-story.
We going to see any stories about Linux users who dual boot over the lack of quality Linux apps or would that be too controversial?
Yeah, mark it as a troll...consistency is worth it.
They have three books worth of movies there -- Robots of Dawn, Caves of Steel and that other one that came out in the 80s -- that would be beautiful to see on the big screen. Grumble....
Gosh, to me it looks like a fscking laptop. In fact, the Titanium Powerbook and the Porsche designed laptop both look like my 1994 Gateway 2000 Colorbook except the Gateway has a plastic case. Hmmm, screen, keyboard...looks like a laptop to me. Oh wait, Apple was responsible for how laptops look, I forgot.
I think that the silliest part of all of this is that they actually believe that they're going to convert Macintosh users to Windows.
Gosh, that would be silly right? Given that the market share that Apple used to enjoy, some Mac owners must have went somewhere...I guess they all became Amiga users right? or BeOS?
For the record, I'm one of those Macintosh users that was converted. For me a computer is a tool, not a device to measure the length of my member nor an opportunity to show how cool I am.
A community of programmers who hate capitalism except for once every two weeks helping to support a communist tyranny that murders its own citizens! I guess Microsoft really is evil and U.S. domestic policy is horrible by comparison.
I always thought Tom Selleck for Batman, Chuck Heston for commissioner Gordon, Mila Jovovich for Robin, Alec Baldwin (very slimmed down) for Superman.
Selleck's got the athleticism, Heston the gravity, Jovovich the screwed-up-ed-ness to want to even be Robin and Baldwin's got that pompous blowhardness about him that Superman had in DKR.
I just got an email from Charles Taylor, a contributing writer with Salon and with the lead piece today about Ann Coulter's new book, and he told me that he was unaware of any problems. I guess he was the only one in the office not to get the news...
Did you just promote the free market on Slashdot? You must know the fabled libertarianism of geeks and web users was a manufacture of the media. These people are no less statist than the people they criticize. No more Ayn Rand or Ludwig von Mises for you!
A party because a piece of software was released? Social lives can be good too...
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I read this book and reviewed it for my magazine about a month ago (Review here.)
I'm not an environmentalist by any stretch of the word but I was sympathetic to their aims. Problem I found was that they had few specifics about how exactly this massive undertaking of rethinking how we make things would occur. It's one thing to say, let's make things cleaner, another to lay out this process.
As I said in my review, "It's one thing to write a manifesto as an intellectual exercise and quite another to trigger a revolutionary change in the fundamental way that humanity goes about creating the things that they use. It's a process that we have using for over a century and if we are to shift direction, it's incumbent upon the manifesto authors to build an airtight case for how that shift is to be undertaken."
Despite that, I thought McDonough and Braungart did writing a fascinating piece of blueskying.
Get my drift? There are some things money can't buy, and for everything else, Microsoft is never right.
Ah sweet. When I take power and install a dictatorship, I'm hoping there will be many people like you. Why apply critical thinking when you can simply make a blanket statement and accept it unquestioningly? I love people like you. So easily led...
Remember what Theodore Sturgeon said about sci-fi...90 per cent of sci-fi is crap because 90 per cent of everything is crap. I think he lowballed it but that's just me.
At any rate, a quick scan of the NY Times Bestseller List shows that:
Hardcover Fiction #2 ST: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones
Hardcover Nonfiction #6 The Art of Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones
Children's Books #1 STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES #8 ATTACK OF THE CLONES MOVIE STORYBOOK #10 ATTACK OF THE CLONES SCRAPBOOK
Children's Chapter #7 BOBA FETT: THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE
Paperback Fiction #32 THE NEW JEDI ORDER: REBEL DREAM
Paperback Nonfiction #11 STAR WARS: THE NEW ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS
I would have put the Potter books up but they aren't sci-fi...so...a quick glace would suggest there is sci-fi on the best seller lists but it's all stuff that makes George Lucas a couple more dollars.
Frankly, most sci-fi today sucks anyway...I stopped reading years ago. The golden age of sci-fi was amazing...today's stuff is bust plain boring.
As much as I love Wolverine -- a fellow Canadian -- I always thought too much was made of his adamantium skeleton. For instance, his first appearance was a fight with the Hulk in Quebec. Sure, the Hulk may not be able to break Wolverine's bones (well, I doubt that, the Hulk's upper strength limit is an unknown, it all depends on his anger) but the simple act of punching Wolverine once would cause such catastrophic damage that he'd die instantly. Think about it, one punch to the head by the Hulk and Logan's mind would be soup. Sounds like death to me.
My God, I just geeked out hardcore there...it's been so long...
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I'm rather tired of people blaming cellphones for a lack of civility by their owners. A lack of manners didn't rise up concurrently with cellphones, it predates their widespread introduction. Cellphones merely allow their owners to be uncivil in newer ways. The term asshole wasn't coined in the early 1980s, was it?
I own a cellphone but I turn it off/vibe mode when I'm at a theatre or any place where it's ringing could be disruptive. I do not stop talking to someone merely because my phone is ringing unless the call is of considerable importance or business. Many people do this but a large minority does not and therefore paints the technology as disruptive and not the person.
Frankly, people who don't wash every day bother me more than a ringing phone, and I hate the sound of ringing phones.
Good God, I can't believe it. I actually had one of those in the early 1980s and used it. I lost it one day and could never find another one.
I can authoratatively say that they don't pay that much these days. I make more money selling stories to paper magazines and some newspapers then Salon pays for a piece. Perhaps it was different in the "old" days, but they don't pay writers much now.
The only reason people like Russ Smith are cheering over Salon's demise is because David Talbot is such an insufferable asshole. They do have some good people on staff -- I've talked to Laura Miller on occasion and she does a good job with the books section -- but Salon is just what Talbot intended it to be when it launched: the online version of Mother Jones. Democracy dies if Salon disappears? You can only pray for someone to fail when they make those pronouncements.
Yeah, mod me down, I could care less.
I think you're wrong on that. I believe the atom bombs weren't put together until they reached their final pre-flight destination (that is, on the island where the bombers took off from to deliver the bombs). The USS Indianapolis (more famous for another incident just days later) delivered the dissembled parts that ended up the bomb that was used over Hiroshima, IIRC.
Dude, that's like a woman saying you were "Alright" in bed. Faint praise.
Wow, a ex-M$ using Linux...what a non-story. We going to see any stories about Linux users who dual boot over the lack of quality Linux apps or would that be too controversial? Yeah, mark it as a troll...consistency is worth it.
They have three books worth of movies there -- Robots of Dawn, Caves of Steel and that other one that came out in the 80s -- that would be beautiful to see on the big screen. Grumble....
Trust Europeans to make laziness a status symbol.
Outside of giving every mouth breather a chance to make a cute "I always knew OSX was buggy" comment, why is this a posted story?
Gosh, to me it looks like a fscking laptop. In fact, the Titanium Powerbook and the Porsche designed laptop both look like my 1994 Gateway 2000 Colorbook except the Gateway has a plastic case. Hmmm, screen, keyboard...looks like a laptop to me. Oh wait, Apple was responsible for how laptops look, I forgot.
Gosh, that would be silly right? Given that the market share that Apple used to enjoy, some Mac owners must have went somewhere...I guess they all became Amiga users right? or BeOS?
For the record, I'm one of those Macintosh users that was converted. For me a computer is a tool, not a device to measure the length of my member nor an opportunity to show how cool I am.
A community of programmers who hate capitalism except for once every two weeks helping to support a communist tyranny that murders its own citizens! I guess Microsoft really is evil and U.S. domestic policy is horrible by comparison.
I always thought Tom Selleck for Batman, Chuck Heston for commissioner Gordon, Mila Jovovich for Robin, Alec Baldwin (very slimmed down) for Superman. Selleck's got the athleticism, Heston the gravity, Jovovich the screwed-up-ed-ness to want to even be Robin and Baldwin's got that pompous blowhardness about him that Superman had in DKR.
I just got an email from Charles Taylor, a contributing writer with Salon and with the lead piece today about Ann Coulter's new book, and he told me that he was unaware of any problems. I guess he was the only one in the office not to get the news...
Did you just promote the free market on Slashdot? You must know the fabled libertarianism of geeks and web users was a manufacture of the media. These people are no less statist than the people they criticize. No more Ayn Rand or Ludwig von Mises for you!
Shhhh...no facts at Slashdot. It ruins the righteous indignation that's cultivated here.
A party because a piece of software was released? Social lives can be good too...
I'm not an environmentalist by any stretch of the word but I was sympathetic to their aims. Problem I found was that they had few specifics about how exactly this massive undertaking of rethinking how we make things would occur. It's one thing to say, let's make things cleaner, another to lay out this process.
As I said in my review, "It's one thing to write a manifesto as an intellectual exercise and quite another to trigger a revolutionary change in the fundamental way that humanity goes about creating the things that they use. It's a process that we have using for over a century and if we are to shift direction, it's incumbent upon the manifesto authors to build an airtight case for how that shift is to be undertaken."
Despite that, I thought McDonough and Braungart did writing a fascinating piece of blueskying.
Ah sweet. When I take power and install a dictatorship, I'm hoping there will be many people like you. Why apply critical thinking when you can simply make a blanket statement and accept it unquestioningly? I love people like you. So easily led...
I figured there wouldn't be one reference to globalization in there but I knew he was going to reference that hack Joseph Campbell.
There was a good article at Salon one month back about both George Lucas and Joseph Campbell ... and not very complimentary that.
I thought Florida 2000 was open source. The source was available and the results changed depending on who "compiled" the votes.
Remember what Theodore Sturgeon said about sci-fi...90 per cent of sci-fi is crap because 90 per cent of everything is crap. I think he lowballed it but that's just me.
At any rate, a quick scan of the NY Times Bestseller List shows that:
Hardcover Fiction
#2 ST: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones
Hardcover Nonfiction
#6 The Art of Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones
Children's Books
#1 STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES
#8 ATTACK OF THE CLONES MOVIE STORYBOOK
#10 ATTACK OF THE CLONES SCRAPBOOK
Children's Chapter
#7 BOBA FETT: THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE
Paperback Fiction
#32 THE NEW JEDI ORDER: REBEL DREAM
Paperback Nonfiction
#11 STAR WARS: THE NEW ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS
I would have put the Potter books up but they aren't sci-fi...so...a quick glace would suggest there is sci-fi on the best seller lists but it's all stuff that makes George Lucas a couple more dollars.
Frankly, most sci-fi today sucks anyway...I stopped reading years ago. The golden age of sci-fi was amazing...today's stuff is bust plain boring.
As much as I love Wolverine -- a fellow Canadian -- I always thought too much was made of his adamantium skeleton. For instance, his first appearance was a fight with the Hulk in Quebec. Sure, the Hulk may not be able to break Wolverine's bones (well, I doubt that, the Hulk's upper strength limit is an unknown, it all depends on his anger) but the simple act of punching Wolverine once would cause such catastrophic damage that he'd die instantly. Think about it, one punch to the head by the Hulk and Logan's mind would be soup. Sounds like death to me.
My God, I just geeked out hardcore there...it's been so long...