It's not really all that "killer". I'm at a large, recently merged tech corporation (over 100,000 employees) and we are still on Exchange 5.5 (not 2000), which Evolution does not support. It's baffling. Their customer support has told me that many people from my company want to use Evolution, but they just won't support 5.5. I'm sure that many other corporations are still on 5.5 as well. I would move to Linux in a second if Ximan would just drag their heads from their asses.
My theory is that Apple is moving in a sneaky fashion towards turning the iPod into a PDA, without alerting competitors. They've added address and calendar. They just need to beef up the CPU and put a color screen on the thing, and they've got a cool looking PDA with 30 gigs of disk space.
Your entire argument is flawed. If fuel cell vehicles really have great advantages over traditional vehicles, a manufacturer coming out first with a shitty product will not kill the market. For instance, look at the PDA market. Apple came out with the Newton. It had terrible character recognition and was too big to carry around. Yet PDAs are booming right now.
Diesel is marginally better than gasoline vehicles and only in some respects, which is why the market never took off here.
The reality behind this is that the hard drive on your computer is a collection of magnetic switches that can be set in any way you want. Just because some idiots try to pass laws that tell other people how to arrange the bits on everyone's hard drives does nothing to inhibit your intuition that you really aren't stealing anything when you rearrange those bits.
Ownership is a concept that came from limited physical resources. It is a flawed model for software, which is easily and cheaply copied.
Everyone please stop trying to stick square pegs in round holes.
Why are you so stuck to this 8 to 5, bed at 11 thing? I should be able to walk around at 3 am without being harassed, even if I don't have any business in the area. Have you heard of an evening stroll? Why is it so difficult for people to understand that some people live differently than others?
I just recalled a time when two friends and I were walking around at 3AM in downtown Culver City, California, which is a wealthy movie studio enclave. A couple of police drove up and rolled down their window. They interrogated us for a while, asking what we were doing around, if we had any weapons, could they see our ID, etc... They finally asked what we do: software engineer, electrical engineer, neurobiologist. He replied with "Oh hahahahh, that explains it - you guys must have been eating pizza and drinking Jolt cola all night! Be on your way" and drove off.
The computer police too. I've been mugged, robbed, and assulted multiple times in my life, and the police were never interested in helping. My car was just broken into, and I had $4000 in computer equipment stolen out of it. I called to file a report and have them come down and dust for prints, and they said that they can't send anyone down.
Of course, I've been stopped and harrassed by cops on a number of occasions. My brother gave me a small cut in a fight that required stitches, and they investigated my parents for child abuse. I've been accused of possessing marijuana for having a tomato stem in the cup holder of my car. I have to drive through a police checkpoint every day on the way back from work on highway 15 in San Diego. After I hit a spare tire that flew off the back of a car in front of me, the police officer wanted to write me a ticket because he was upset that he had to drive out a take a report.
I'm a law abiding citizen without a mark on my record, and I can still say: fuck the police
After decades of struggling with ADHD, I've successfully bridled it. Here's what it took:
* Purposely putting yourself in uncomfortable situations. If the water is cold, take your shower and don't complain. Sit up straight in your chair. Talk to that person you've been avoiding in the hallways. Deal with that late bill you've been ignoring. Learn to smile when you do things that you are afraid of.
* Treat everyone with the same level respect when you interact with them. Look them in the eye, even if they are in a position of authority, or tall and leggy.
* Break away from attachments. Don't read your post over and over admiring your own intelligence. Don't stare in the mirror too long. Ignore the impulse to buy that new gadget at the store. Buy the mid-range item without the chrome plating.
* Do things that are "bad" for you. Binge drink. Take drugs. Stay up all night coding. But then stop just as soon as you started. Stay in control of your vices.
* Exercise and eat right. This is a BIG one. Do it outside if you can. Sunlight does a lot for improving your stability and mood, as does exercise. Don't eat fast food or other processed foods too often. Get lots of fiber, water, and nutrients, and less fat. Your mind is part of your body, and it doesn't function well when the rest isn't.
* Contemplate. Think about your place in the world, and where you are at. Look at yourself, and look at those around you. Try to really see yourself externally. Do you really treat those around you with the respect they deserve? Do you treat yourself with that same respect? Are you on a path that will sustain you mentally and spiritually (whatever that may mean to you)?
* Meditate. Actively try to calm your "yapper" (thanks for coining the term, Odd Todd!). The little voice in your head does a lot more trouble than good. Trust your intuition more when you act, instead of holding an internal debate before every action.
* Do what you like. If you find your true passion, you won't even have to try. If you are not doing what you like, make it your foremost goal to get there. You don't have to stay in that dead end job. This sounds cheesey, but you can do almost anything. It's only at the very top with the world-class that natural talent makes any real difference that hard work can't compensate for.
* Examine your culture. Modern technological culture is very new to man, and we haven't adjusted to it and worked out the kinks yet. I believe that ADHD and a host of other conditions are more cultural problems than anything else, so by examining your culture, you will get clues to the cause of your behavior
* Whatever works. Do what works for you. Everyone is different.
* DON'T LISTEN TO PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PHARMACUTICAL COMPANIES. They lose their source of income if you are cured. And they aren't as smart as you or they may think.
* Don't take things so seriously. Even if you don't get over what you see as your inadequacies, if you have food, shelter, and friendship, then the rest is icing.
How do people get away with posts like this? If the poster quoted the entire paragraph, you would see that s/he is simply paraphrasing what was already said:
"Some people I respect say the GPL is a bad idea, period. They say it's too restrictive of programmers' rights, in the sense of forcing them to open what they've done to the world. Fine: If you don't like the GPL, don't create software from code that used it in the first place. Then put different licensing terms on what you've done."
What is the basis for your post? Is there anything you've observed that indicates that this is not a testable theory based on scientific principals? Is there any data indicating that it is not scientific other than your own nagging feelings that a multiverse theory is untestable?
If your posts are based on assumptions rather than knowledge of the field, are not your posts uninformed tripe? If so, then it seems your posts should be withheld until they can be classified as thought-out.
Your post may have a point, but I think we should keep in mind that you are speculating outside the realm of your knowledge.
Sorry, a computer is not "the embodiment of reason and logic". According to Merriam-Webster, a computer is "a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data." A more accurate definition of a computer is a device that acts as a Turing Machine, which is an abstract description of a general purpose procedure execution device. See here
As you can see, the definition of a computer has nothing to do with the type of data it acts upon. I'm sure you've listened to music, a form of art, on your computer. How does this "defile" your computer?
A good artist is not driven by the format his music is delivered in. If you are worried about "hit" driven artists, then you are not listening to good music.
I don't know how much a "blow" this will be to Sony, considering that the main reason for including moving parts (read: disks) is because of cost per unit of storage space, and not the cost of integration. I'm sure Sony could throw a solid state disk into their camera without much effort.
I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I hear about yet another device with virtually no memory that can now play MP3's. Who gives a rat's ass? I guess teenagers who listen to the same song over and over might like this feature.
Until now, I've always thought that "Cowboy Bebop" was some form of Engrish, with two disjoint words that have some sort of a ring to them, in a tourettes syndrom-ish obsessive compulsive way.
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It's not really all that "killer". I'm at a large, recently merged tech corporation (over 100,000 employees) and we are still on Exchange 5.5 (not 2000), which Evolution does not support. It's baffling. Their customer support has told me that many people from my company want to use Evolution, but they just won't support 5.5. I'm sure that many other corporations are still on 5.5 as well. I would move to Linux in a second if Ximan would just drag their heads from their asses.
LS
My theory is that Apple is moving in a sneaky fashion towards turning the iPod into a PDA, without alerting competitors. They've added address and calendar. They just need to beef up the CPU and put a color screen on the thing, and they've got a cool looking PDA with 30 gigs of disk space.
LS
How's about it? Are you going to be the martyr willing to go through all the prosecution?
LS
Your entire argument is flawed. If fuel cell vehicles really have great advantages over traditional vehicles, a manufacturer coming out first with a shitty product will not kill the market. For instance, look at the PDA market. Apple came out with the Newton. It had terrible character recognition and was too big to carry around. Yet PDAs are booming right now.
Diesel is marginally better than gasoline vehicles and only in some respects, which is why the market never took off here.
LS
The reality behind this is that the hard drive on your computer is a collection of magnetic switches that can be set in any way you want. Just because some idiots try to pass laws that tell other people how to arrange the bits on everyone's hard drives does nothing to inhibit your intuition that you really aren't stealing anything when you rearrange those bits.
Ownership is a concept that came from limited physical resources. It is a flawed model for software, which is easily and cheaply copied.
Everyone please stop trying to stick square pegs in round holes.
LS
Why are you so stuck to this 8 to 5, bed at 11 thing? I should be able to walk around at 3 am without being harassed, even if I don't have any business in the area. Have you heard of an evening stroll? Why is it so difficult for people to understand that some people live differently than others?
I just recalled a time when two friends and I were walking around at 3AM in downtown Culver City, California, which is a wealthy movie studio enclave. A couple of police drove up and rolled down their window. They interrogated us for a while, asking what we were doing around, if we had any weapons, could they see our ID, etc... They finally asked what we do: software engineer, electrical engineer, neurobiologist. He replied with "Oh hahahahh, that explains it - you guys must have been eating pizza and drinking Jolt cola all night! Be on your way" and drove off.
assholes...
The computer police too. I've been mugged, robbed, and assulted multiple times in my life, and the police were never interested in helping. My car was just broken into, and I had $4000 in computer equipment stolen out of it. I called to file a report and have them come down and dust for prints, and they said that they can't send anyone down.
Of course, I've been stopped and harrassed by cops on a number of occasions. My brother gave me a small cut in a fight that required stitches, and they investigated my parents for child abuse. I've been accused of possessing marijuana for having a tomato stem in the cup holder of my car. I have to drive through a police checkpoint every day on the way back from work on highway 15 in San Diego. After I hit a spare tire that flew off the back of a car in front of me, the police officer wanted to write me a ticket because he was upset that he had to drive out a take a report.
I'm a law abiding citizen without a mark on my record, and I can still say: fuck the police
LS
After decades of struggling with ADHD, I've successfully bridled it. Here's what it took:
* Purposely putting yourself in uncomfortable situations. If the water is cold, take your shower and don't complain. Sit up straight in your chair. Talk to that person you've been avoiding in the hallways. Deal with that late bill you've been ignoring. Learn to smile when you do things that you are afraid of.
* Treat everyone with the same level respect when you interact with them. Look them in the eye, even if they are in a position of authority, or tall and leggy.
* Break away from attachments. Don't read your post over and over admiring your own intelligence. Don't stare in the mirror too long. Ignore the impulse to buy that new gadget at the store. Buy the mid-range item without the chrome plating.
* Do things that are "bad" for you. Binge drink. Take drugs. Stay up all night coding. But then stop just as soon as you started. Stay in control of your vices.
* Exercise and eat right. This is a BIG one. Do it outside if you can. Sunlight does a lot for improving your stability and mood, as does exercise. Don't eat fast food or other processed foods too often. Get lots of fiber, water, and nutrients, and less fat. Your mind is part of your body, and it doesn't function well when the rest isn't.
* Contemplate. Think about your place in the world, and where you are at. Look at yourself, and look at those around you. Try to really see yourself externally. Do you really treat those around you with the respect they deserve? Do you treat yourself with that same respect? Are you on a path that will sustain you mentally and spiritually (whatever that may mean to you)?
* Meditate. Actively try to calm your "yapper" (thanks for coining the term, Odd Todd!). The little voice in your head does a lot more trouble than good. Trust your intuition more when you act, instead of holding an internal debate before every action.
* Do what you like. If you find your true passion, you won't even have to try. If you are not doing what you like, make it your foremost goal to get there. You don't have to stay in that dead end job. This sounds cheesey, but you can do almost anything. It's only at the very top with the world-class that natural talent makes any real difference that hard work can't compensate for.
* Examine your culture. Modern technological culture is very new to man, and we haven't adjusted to it and worked out the kinks yet. I believe that ADHD and a host of other conditions are more cultural problems than anything else, so by examining your culture, you will get clues to the cause of your behavior
* Whatever works. Do what works for you. Everyone is different.
* DON'T LISTEN TO PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PHARMACUTICAL COMPANIES. They lose their source of income if you are cured. And they aren't as smart as you or they may think.
* Don't take things so seriously. Even if you don't get over what you see as your inadequacies, if you have food, shelter, and friendship, then the rest is icing.
LS
You say that ALL video game based movies are bad, and you have a quote from Tron as your sig????
Is this a Friday 13th gag or something? What next, an article on loading your CD-ROM driver into High Memory in DOS??
I don't think the submitter was referring the consumers. S/he was referring to Netflix' business.
SCO CEO Darl McBride before and after the law suits?
LS
How do people get away with posts like this? If the poster quoted the entire paragraph, you would see that s/he is simply paraphrasing what was already said:
"Some people I respect say the GPL is a bad idea, period. They say it's too restrictive of programmers' rights, in the sense of forcing them to open what they've done to the world. Fine: If you don't like the GPL, don't create software from code that used it in the first place. Then put different licensing terms on what you've done."
Nice plagiarism buddy.
LS
What is the basis for your post? Is there anything you've observed that indicates that this is not a testable theory based on scientific principals? Is there any data indicating that it is not scientific other than your own nagging feelings that a multiverse theory is untestable?
If your posts are based on assumptions rather than knowledge of the field, are not your posts uninformed tripe? If so, then it seems your posts should be withheld until they can be classified as thought-out.
Your post may have a point, but I think we should keep in mind that you are speculating outside the realm of your knowledge.
LS
Sorry, a computer is not "the embodiment of reason and logic". According to Merriam-Webster, a computer is "a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data." A more accurate definition of a computer is a device that acts as a Turing Machine, which is an abstract description of a general purpose procedure execution device. See here
As you can see, the definition of a computer has nothing to do with the type of data it acts upon. I'm sure you've listened to music, a form of art, on your computer. How does this "defile" your computer?
Or are you just a troll?
LS
You don't happen to work at HP, do you?
A good artist is not driven by the format his music is delivered in. If you are worried about "hit" driven artists, then you are not listening to good music.
I don't know how much a "blow" this will be to Sony, considering that the main reason for including moving parts (read: disks) is because of cost per unit of storage space, and not the cost of integration. I'm sure Sony could throw a solid state disk into their camera without much effort.
LS
Did anyone else besides me initially misread this to be "Stroqit"?
I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I hear about yet another device with virtually no memory that can now play MP3's. Who gives a rat's ass? I guess teenagers who listen to the same song over and over might like this feature.
LS
This story smacks of advertisement. Who uses "jammin" as slang, except for copy writers and advertising executives?
LS
Until now, I've always thought that "Cowboy Bebop" was some form of Engrish, with two disjoint words that have some sort of a ring to them, in a tourettes syndrom-ish obsessive compulsive way.
I would seriously doubt the validity of these claims. They sound a lot like Chinese restaurant placemat astrology to me.
LS
The unfortunate thing is that this should also be moderated as "insightful".
LS