Right. I'd like to see an example of a child who's been damaged by seeing a film. Ok, I was damaged by seeing The Wax Museum as a six-year-old, but you know what I mean. I'd venture that most kids know these naughty words by the time they're nine or ten, certainly.
"Occasionally, he pitches them to sign up as supporters of the Network Time Foundation, a nonprofit corporation he set up to receive donations for NTP. According to Stenn, they seldom do. In fact, just six companies support the foundation, with VMware the only household name among them."
I don't know why Apple (at least) doesn't make a donation. It's not like they don't have shitcakes of dough just sitting around, anyway.
I think you're spot-on about the watch market. As for not understanding the Apple Kool Aid, their products do work better. I mean, you've used Windows, right? But what Apple does best is, to be well ahead of everyone else. Most of the "other products" are direct copes of Apple products. When the first Mac came out, everyone else, the few using computers, were still typing commands. Windows was a direct rip-off of Mac OS. Same with Android. It looks quite a bit like iOS. Apple "invented" the smart phone, then the imitators came. Much of what everyone takes for granted these days (in computing) was brought to us by Apple.
I despise sports. Team sports. One on one sports. Contact sports. Group sports.
It's all paying ridiculous amounts of money to millionaire "athletes" to watch them play a game. I have nothing against playing games -- I have a thing against paying people to watch them do it.
I have no interest in professional sports, either. But I don't begrudge them the money. After all, there are people willing to pay to watch them. Really, most athletes are under-paid, with owners and other middlemen scooping up most of the dough, while it is the athletes whom people are paying to see.
What are you talking about? We just saw a U.S. Senator, the Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, throw a snowball on the Senate floor, proving conclusively that global warming doesn't exist. Also, the Earth is only 6000 years old. You need to get your unscientific facts straight!
A degree in "tech" is no proof against ignorance, is it? I have so little patience for this... Not everyone who does well in school has the money to "invest" in higher education. Also, I like how you want us "uneducated box-pushers" to have a "living wage," but you begrudge us the means to get it, namely, by organizing, collective bargaining, and strikes. Your good wishes haven't helped much. English major "doesn't count?" You know, not everyone views higher education as vocational training. Another thing to consider - not everyone can (or wants to be) be a "tech" worker. Some people have to make stuff. Others have to bring that stuff to you. Box pushing is as least as valuable as pixel pushing, don't you think?
Yes, a spending problem. We spend far too much on the military, and too little on infrastructure, and other investments in the future. But it's not a money problem, it's a printing problem, or rather, a philosophical problem. Many in our government do not understand how a fiat currency, (or the economy), works.
Yeah, my god, this article, if true, really blows my mind. Ninety-percent of what I see in comments sections is pure idiocy. It's difficult for me to imagine anyone looking at that dreck and taking it seriously. Of course, half the studies reported are reported incorrectly, or completely bogus themselves.
It can't be easy to be "even-handed" with today's Republican Party. Believe me, I'm no supporter of The Democratic Party, but the Republican's have pulled much of the lunatic fringe under their "big tent." There's no comedy without stupidity, and the Republicans seem to excel in that. As for the news being fake? It's all too real. The Daily Show is more informative than any other cable news show. This is not just my opinion, it's been studied, although it certainly is obvious. Only ideologues can, (and certainly will), argue with that.
I *still* POP my mail down to my home PC from my ISP and Gmail, though I still have to periodically log into Gmail and purge "deleted" messages (what part of Delete don't you understand Google?).
Yeah, me too. But he's right in that there's been a movement away from POP to IMAP and especially to webmail. Judging from most people I know, I'd say most people access email via a webpage, and that their saved mail resides on the provider's server. But even if, as you say, you download and delete from the server, there seems to be no guarantee it's gone from the server.
A sixty-something is probably gonna go with the Beatles and the Stones. But you're right, for most people, the music they were into as teenagers is what they listen to for the rest of their lives. That's because most people aren't really interested in music per se, but rather obtain a group identity by adopting whatever their peers were listening to. Later, it becomes nostalgia.
But the truth is, most commercial music is schlock, and always has been. There have been exceptions, of course, (hmm...the Beatles and the Stones?), but when people talk about how awful, say, 80's music was, I'm thinking of Minor Threat, or the Feelies, etc... If you only hear commercial music, of course it will seem to you like all music is shit.
I think the generational thing is gone, though. This is the post-modern era, after all, where people listen to music from all eras. That's why we haven't seen a revolution in rock since 1977 - there's nothing to rebel against if your parent's (and grandparent's) music is "cool." I haven't given up hope, though.
Yes, I was about to add the popularity of vinyl coming back will hopefully bring back some fidelity and quality with music. Let's hope vinyl or increased quality isn't just a passing fad.
It definitely has. There's a lot of effort to master from original tape, and a lot of new releases are being recorded to tape. Shelby Lynn's "Just a Little Lovin" is a good example, recorded on, mastered from the original 2" tape. A lot of recent releases sound incredible. "Digitally Remastered" is now a label people avoid like the plague. Still, few people today own a hi-fi. Most do their listening on computer speakers, earbuds, or boom boxes. Of the people buying vinyl, a large percentage think that record noise is part of the (retro) experience, and I suspect few have the equipment needed to reveal the difference between analog and digital. In short, for many, it is just a fad. As for myself, I'm buying as many titles as I can. Who knows what the future holds? I still cringe everytime I think of the boxes of records I sold, just to make moving more convenient.
Stories about zero tolerance are always quite amusing. Astonishing, even, when you consider that adults are behind these policies. But just because LotR is mentioned, seems a very tenuous reason to be discussing it here. Just saying'...
Right. If he's gonna play on the Terminal, he oughta learn some unix-y stuff. These key commands work in all text fields:
ctrl-a = brings cursor to the beginning of a line
ctrl-d = deletes the letter in front of the cursor
ctrl-e = brings cursor to the end of a line
ctrl-k = erases an entire line in front of the cursor
ctrl-o = acts like return, but cursor stay in the same place
ctrl-t = brings the letter that is behind the cursor forward one, switching places with the next letter.
ctrl-v = moves cursor to the end of a document, or line
ctrl-w = deletes everything behind the cursor.
I think these commands were originally from emacs, so I'm not sure if they work in vi. The HOME and END keys simply bring you to the top and bottom of a document, respectively. I can see how a person coming from Windows would not find Mac OS intuitive. You have to unlearn a lot of bad habits.
It's been shown over and over that a similarly configured PC costs as much or more than a comparable Mac. It's just that you can't buy a stripped-down Mac, like you can with PCs.
Of course it's ridiculous. I mean, what constitutes an event, or a choice? We always think of it in terms of people making choices, but surely every bacterium that wriggles this way instead of that, every mote of dust, every atom, every photon, would have its parallel universes of possibility. And possibilities are infinite for each. Not that these things aren't worth thinking about.
It's not a paradox if life is unique to Earth. This idea that, because there are trillions of stars, and because many of them have planets, ergo, there must be life on many of them, is a statistic based upon a sample of one. Until we understand how life began, I don't know if we can really say anything about the chances of life elsewhere. It's pure speculation.
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Right. I'd like to see an example of a child who's been damaged by seeing a film. Ok, I was damaged by seeing The Wax Museum as a six-year-old, but you know what I mean. I'd venture that most kids know these naughty words by the time they're nine or ten, certainly.
"Occasionally, he pitches them to sign up as supporters of the Network Time Foundation, a nonprofit corporation he set up to receive donations for NTP. According to Stenn, they seldom do. In fact, just six companies support the foundation, with VMware the only household name among them."
I don't know why Apple (at least) doesn't make a donation. It's not like they don't have shitcakes of dough just sitting around, anyway.
I think you're spot-on about the watch market.
As for not understanding the Apple Kool Aid, their products do work better. I mean, you've used Windows, right? But what Apple does best is, to be well ahead of everyone else. Most of the "other products" are direct copes of Apple products. When the first Mac came out, everyone else, the few using computers, were still typing commands. Windows was a direct rip-off of Mac OS. Same with Android. It looks quite a bit like iOS. Apple "invented" the smart phone, then the imitators came. Much of what everyone takes for granted these days (in computing) was brought to us by Apple.
I despise sports. Team sports. One on one sports. Contact sports. Group sports.
It's all paying ridiculous amounts of money to millionaire "athletes" to watch them play a game. I have nothing against playing games -- I have a thing against paying people to watch them do it.
I have no interest in professional sports, either. But I don't begrudge them the money. After all, there are people willing to pay to watch them. Really, most athletes are under-paid, with owners and other middlemen scooping up most of the dough, while it is the athletes whom people are paying to see.
So, where do you draw the line?
You don't. Or rather, the bank doesn't. The law does.
What are you talking about? We just saw a U.S. Senator, the Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, throw a snowball on the Senate floor, proving conclusively that global warming doesn't exist. Also, the Earth is only 6000 years old. You need to get your unscientific facts straight!
A degree in "tech" is no proof against ignorance, is it? I have so little patience for this...
Not everyone who does well in school has the money to "invest" in higher education. Also, I like how you want us "uneducated box-pushers" to have a "living wage," but you begrudge us the means to get it, namely, by organizing, collective bargaining, and strikes. Your good wishes haven't helped much.
English major "doesn't count?" You know, not everyone views higher education as vocational training. Another thing to consider - not everyone can (or wants to be) be a "tech" worker. Some people have to make stuff. Others have to bring that stuff to you. Box pushing is as least as valuable as pixel pushing, don't you think?
What? Xerox is hip-hop slang. Where you been?
Something to look forward to in my old age - to be treated like a child by a robot proxy. Where's the anonymous right-wing troll when we need him?
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Yes, a spending problem. We spend far too much on the military, and too little on infrastructure, and other investments in the future. But it's not a money problem, it's a printing problem, or rather, a philosophical problem. Many in our government do not understand how a fiat currency, (or the economy), works.
Yeah, my god, this article, if true, really blows my mind. Ninety-percent of what I see in comments sections is pure idiocy. It's difficult for me to imagine anyone looking at that dreck and taking it seriously. Of course, half the studies reported are reported incorrectly, or completely bogus themselves.
Educated people generally skew towards liberalism. Why are you here?
You haven't had much experience with cops, right? Besides, even if you're only getting a traffic ticket, they'll want to take it back to their car.
It can't be easy to be "even-handed" with today's Republican Party. Believe me, I'm no supporter of The Democratic Party, but the Republican's have pulled much of the lunatic fringe under their "big tent." There's no comedy without stupidity, and the Republicans seem to excel in that.
As for the news being fake? It's all too real. The Daily Show is more informative than any other cable news show. This is not just my opinion, it's been studied, although it certainly is obvious. Only ideologues can, (and certainly will), argue with that.
I *still* POP my mail down to my home PC from my ISP and Gmail, though I still have to periodically log into Gmail and purge "deleted" messages (what part of Delete don't you understand Google?).
Yeah, me too. But he's right in that there's been a movement away from POP to IMAP and especially to webmail. Judging from most people I know, I'd say most people access email via a webpage, and that their saved mail resides on the provider's server.
But even if, as you say, you download and delete from the server, there seems to be no guarantee it's gone from the server.
People still seem to think they own the equipment, devices, or media they pay for. In time, they will learn...
A sixty-something is probably gonna go with the Beatles and the Stones. But you're right, for most people, the music they were into as teenagers is what they listen to for the rest of their lives. That's because most people aren't really interested in music per se, but rather obtain a group identity by adopting whatever their peers were listening to. Later, it becomes nostalgia.
But the truth is, most commercial music is schlock, and always has been. There have been exceptions, of course, (hmm...the Beatles and the Stones?), but when people talk about how awful, say, 80's music was, I'm thinking of Minor Threat, or the Feelies, etc... If you only hear commercial music, of course it will seem to you like all music is shit.
I think the generational thing is gone, though. This is the post-modern era, after all, where people listen to music from all eras. That's why we haven't seen a revolution in rock since 1977 - there's nothing to rebel against if your parent's (and grandparent's) music is "cool." I haven't given up hope, though.
Yes, I was about to add the popularity of vinyl coming back will hopefully bring back some fidelity and quality with music. Let's hope vinyl or increased quality isn't just a passing fad.
It definitely has. There's a lot of effort to master from original tape, and a lot of new releases are being recorded to tape. Shelby Lynn's "Just a Little Lovin" is a good example, recorded on, mastered from the original 2" tape. A lot of recent releases sound incredible. "Digitally Remastered" is now a label people avoid like the plague.
Still, few people today own a hi-fi. Most do their listening on computer speakers, earbuds, or boom boxes. Of the people buying vinyl, a large percentage think that record noise is part of the (retro) experience, and I suspect few have the equipment needed to reveal the difference between analog and digital. In short, for many, it is just a fad.
As for myself, I'm buying as many titles as I can. Who knows what the future holds? I still cringe everytime I think of the boxes of records I sold, just to make moving more convenient.
Right. I've never torrented music. There are easier ways to get it, where you're going to find a much better selection.
Stories about zero tolerance are always quite amusing. Astonishing, even, when you consider that adults are behind these policies. But just because LotR is mentioned, seems a very tenuous reason to be discussing it here. Just saying'...
Right. If he's gonna play on the Terminal, he oughta learn some unix-y stuff. These key commands work in all text fields:
ctrl-a = brings cursor to the beginning of a line
ctrl-d = deletes the letter in front of the cursor
ctrl-e = brings cursor to the end of a line
ctrl-k = erases an entire line in front of the cursor
ctrl-o = acts like return, but cursor stay in the same place
ctrl-t = brings the letter that is behind the cursor forward one, switching places with the next letter.
ctrl-v = moves cursor to the end of a document, or line
ctrl-w = deletes everything behind the cursor.
I think these commands were originally from emacs, so I'm not sure if they work in vi. The HOME and END keys simply bring you to the top and bottom of a document, respectively. I can see how a person coming from Windows would not find Mac OS intuitive. You have to unlearn a lot of bad habits.
It's been shown over and over that a similarly configured PC costs as much or more than a comparable Mac. It's just that you can't buy a stripped-down Mac, like you can with PCs.
Of course it's ridiculous. I mean, what constitutes an event, or a choice? We always think of it in terms of people making choices, but surely every bacterium that wriggles this way instead of that, every mote of dust, every atom, every photon, would have its parallel universes of possibility. And possibilities are infinite for each. Not that these things aren't worth thinking about.
It's not a paradox if life is unique to Earth. This idea that, because there are trillions of stars, and because many of them have planets, ergo, there must be life on many of them, is a statistic based upon a sample of one. Until we understand how life began, I don't know if we can really say anything about the chances of life elsewhere. It's pure speculation.