Agree. Everytime I need to open a package I'm thinking "these guys really don't give a shit after we have bought the thing." And to be honest that's the way the market tumbles. Apart from the packaging that seems to be able to seal time within it, there is also the wonders of food packing: the totally useless "open here" labels on the corner.
Wasn't there a mention many, many years ago about a Sony executive standing infront of an audience showing off their first music CDs from their newly aquired music division and he couldn't open the plastic.
mmm...americans and english fighting about which nation is better with food.
Let's see: UK: good food comes from below, the working class, housewifes, kids and the family, not from the number of michelin star restaurants. On the other hand the local produce from around the UK is amazing.
Now the States: Maybe you guys should stay away from the conversation at the adult table until you can figure out what entree means. On the other hand Good Eats is the greatest cooking program of all time.
Dude, have you read anything about him. He talks about how great capitalism is for distributing goods and resources etc as well as criticizing it. The guy was a good economist. If you read his stuff like you read all the other ideas out there: with a critical mind and seeing how, if any, evidence supports it, then you'll just do fine. But if you're going to replace on ideology with another then you're just as bad as the communists.
Second most multicultural country in the world is Australia. The first being Israel.
America does overhype itself a bit too much on the diversity and democracy fronts. Sure it has both but it isn't necessarily the best at either. Though 10 out of 10 for your Constitution and Bill of Rights. We all want them!
Well sure, but Runsfeld has shown time and time again that he is usually 100% wrong - and I am only talking about his work with Nixon, Reagan and Bush I. (I think we still need some more perspective during his current rule with Bush II - though it doesn't look too good so far.)
Rumsfeld is following an ideology. People like this should never be allowed in government. His mistakes have forced billions of dollars of tax payers money to be funneled into useless defence projects, held the world to hostage for close to 30 years, nearly created WWIII because of the need to evilize[?] the enemy and destroy anyone that believed in a non-military (ie not spending tax-payer's money on his friends) solution and all he seems to respond with is "whoops, my bad". Again this is based all on pre-Bush II events.
So I would summarise that following Rumsfeld is a really bad idea based on his track record. Just to twist the blade in: this is a guy who talks about the anti-Iraq war people of being morally misguided and yet this is the guy who shook Hussein's hand. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Jon Stewart says the same thing. TDS is nearly impossible to understand without knowing what is already going on in the world of politics.
You need to not only know what's going on but how the other news outlets interpret it. THEN the daily show is funny!
Also not to forget the guests that plug their books. Heck half of my reading material seems to come from watching that show and saying "hey that looks like a good book to read". Currently I'm reading "No god but God" by Reza Aslan (no link since I'm not whoring:)
In fact, I would love to compare the reading list between TDS and, say, O'Reilly Factor.
Correct! People keep on saying how unsubstantive TDS is but it is the ONLY news program that I watch that regularly catches out what politicians say.
A case in point: When the VP Dick Cheney said that he never said, or that he couldn't remember saying, that there was a link between Iraq and Al-Quaeda, the Daily Show was the only program to immediatedly follow that denial with the clip of him saying it. If this isn't *objective* journalism then I don't know what is.
The whole point of the press and news in general is to help the common guy/girl with how their democracy and their representatives are doing.
I should not be expected to make a concerted effort everytime a politician says something to go through my archive of news bullentins stretching back a few years to see if the VP was lying/deceiving or not. It is the responsibility of the press and news to do the leg work for me in an objective way as possible. If one news organisation wants to say "he couldn't remember, which is different from lying so we won't pick up on it" that's fine; but I also expect some people to pick up on the codewords for "i know i said it but I'll play safe and hope the average viewer won't remember" which is what TDS did.
It's a fine line between a democracy that is for the people and a democracy that is for some of people.
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It must be bad how the world isn't what you think it is. Read some Hume please
Wow. And who is going to pay for this for the next hundred years. Digital archiving is one of the worse ways to archive things (ask anyone in the business). CDs have a shelf life of 5 years. DAT tapes about 10-20 years. Paper (acid-free) can last 1000 years in the right circumstances and 200-500 years on average, otherwise.
Of course, what you want is a distribution model where someone, somewhere is backing up and archiving some stuff. But given 1000 years I'm sure this system will break down at some critical point and once that happens then you'll lost it.
Also who is going to keep all of the software and hardware to read all of these different formats up and running. Hence, as the GP said, these requires dedicated, knowledgable people, always making sure hat we can read the documents with right software and backing up not only the documents but the software to read it. For books, I carry my software with me whereever I go: my brain and my eyes.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I wonder in 1000 years time what archeologists will know about our time. "Look, Roger, a found some one's and zero's. I think it might be part of a Word document..."
No. Not if you can show that the moon rocks have not been in an oxidising atmosphere for the last few billion years.
Science isn't as clean cut as you think it is. There are always clues.
My biggest fear is robot armies. Not that they will take over the earth (a la Terminator) but that an administration, very much like this one, which governs with the believe that the means justifies the end. Will quite happily have an all out war with some tin-pot country that will no longer have ANY repercussions at home (no body bags, no war wounded) and will be funded indefinitely. Just get some TV networks to say how great war is now: no fatalities (on our side) - why would you complain about it. It'll be the equivalent of having an army of highly trained slaves to fight for you. No loss all gain.
Wow, it'll be the perfect setup for WWIII. Even nuclear bombs will be OK if the opposing army was also made of robots.
The conclusion is not to stop building robots but to make sure that any high AI robot has some sort of lawness. By the time you've already made the thing and you just have to figure out whether or not to put a gun in its hand or a whisk (or hammer etc etc etc) it's too late.
The main advantage for 'Sparkle' is (in a pure-Windows environment) where designers will make mock-ups (esp for Web sites) in Sparkle. If the client then agrees with the mock-up they can simply hand-over their mock-up to the developers without the need of: "OK we need to cut the Photoshop-ed mock-up, lay-it out in HTML and then while we're doing this we hope the developers can wait for it or they might start on development while we're doing the HTML templates and then we need to spend time changing any development HTML code and hope we don't delete any tags along the way."
Of course, images and stuff will be made in Photoshop but the designers can also work (as they usually do) with the client actually creating a good look-and-feel with a functional flow and once it's OKed by the client then it can be developed on immediately by the developers without any intermediate steps.
Anyway I'm sure 90% of web-sites aren't designed along these lines but those that do Sparkle will be a big contributer to the whole production cycle.
Just start supporting vouchers. Everyone else in the world but the US seems to have them
This is the single biggest piece of wrongness I've seen on/. for a while. There are just so many wrong things with it! I know of no country in the world that has a voucher system..not even close. Everwhere is the world there are strong teacher's unions (to reply to a child post). In fact, most of the rest of the world have a lot more left-wing, socialist tendencies (come to Belgium and see how left-wing things are)...but I guess the Right doesn't want to mention this when it talks about the magic bullet of vouchers.
Like I said the rest of the world has ball-gripping teacher unions, left-wing ideologists and no voucher systems...yet they still beat the US when they are compared with testing (I think there was a story a few days ago about this - I love the comparison with Belgium - a socialist paradise if there ever was one!)
Sorry for the rant and it wasn't meant to be a troll for saying how bad the US education system is, but when I see "but the rest of the world" sort of comment from a typical-stereotypical right-wing American who probably doesn't even have a passport then I get angry.
Oh buy the way..for the parent..since you like doing things based on what the rest of the world thinks does that mean you support universal health cover? No, I thought not.....
At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?
Not to put fuel on the fire but I think our US citizens have forgotten the little politicised thing called "the Space Race". Sometimes comparing dick sizes isn't always a waste of resources:)
yes, but then they will need to sell the same model (with some modifications) at a much lower price (else why release it). No, Apple pretty much has standard price points and margins, and they usually try to hit those marks.
Apple can go two ways with Intel Macs: either 1) make it reasonably difficult, or a non-documented feature, to install Windows on a Mac (possibly with OS X as well), or 2) make it as easy as possible to install multiple operating systems on the Mac
If (1) is true we have the old-school Apple (Steve Jobs?) wanting an integrated user experience with no possibility of fucking it up by installing another OS on it. Or we have (2) and all the people saying Apple is a hardware company is true!!
I'm hoping for (2) [I did hear a rumour about an easy fast-OS-switcher with pretty graphics, so maybe its not too far fetched] then people will buy Apple products for the same reason people buy nice looking things. Even with 1-5% of the Windows buying public buying a Mac to install Windows on it so they can place their computer somewhere other than the corner of a room - Mac sales wiil go through the roof.
I've read about 50 pages of it and it looks like one of the defining documents on the topic.
It also made the pro-ID (ex-)Board members look like a bunch of idiots and the Judge pretty much states that they lied in court about their actions over the last two years.
The opinion might just become the new FAQ at talk.origins. Very very lucid document.
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Wasn't there a mention many, many years ago about a Sony executive standing infront of an audience showing off their first music CDs from their newly aquired music division and he couldn't open the plastic.
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I'll buy that!
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Let's see: UK: good food comes from below, the working class, housewifes, kids and the family, not from the number of michelin star restaurants. On the other hand the local produce from around the UK is amazing.
Now the States: Maybe you guys should stay away from the conversation at the adult table until you can figure out what entree means. On the other hand Good Eats is the greatest cooking program of all time.
Life is so complicated.
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He was being sarcastic. If you looked at the title of the article it shows that lazy thinkers are in the AU too. CIao
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Second most multicultural country in the world is Australia. The first being Israel.
America does overhype itself a bit too much on the diversity and democracy fronts. Sure it has both but it isn't necessarily the best at either.
Though 10 out of 10 for your Constitution and Bill of Rights. We all want them!
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Well sure, but Runsfeld has shown time and time again that he is usually 100% wrong - and I am only talking about his work with Nixon, Reagan and Bush I. (I think we still need some more perspective during his current rule with Bush II - though it doesn't look too good so far.)
Rumsfeld is following an ideology. People like this should never be allowed in government. His mistakes have forced billions of dollars of tax payers money to be funneled into useless defence projects, held the world to hostage for close to 30 years, nearly created WWIII because of the need to evilize[?] the enemy and destroy anyone that believed in a non-military (ie not spending tax-payer's money on his friends) solution and all he seems to respond with is "whoops, my bad". Again this is based all on pre-Bush II events.
So I would summarise that following Rumsfeld is a really bad idea based on his track record. Just to twist the blade in: this is a guy who talks about the anti-Iraq war people of being morally misguided and yet this is the guy who shook Hussein's hand. Pot. Kettle. Black.
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In fact, I would love to compare the reading list between TDS and, say, O'Reilly Factor.
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The whole point of the press and news in general is to help the common guy/girl with how their democracy and their representatives are doing. I should not be expected to make a concerted effort everytime a politician says something to go through my archive of news bullentins stretching back a few years to see if the VP was lying/deceiving or not. It is the responsibility of the press and news to do the leg work for me in an objective way as possible. If one news organisation wants to say "he couldn't remember, which is different from lying so we won't pick up on it" that's fine; but I also expect some people to pick up on the codewords for "i know i said it but I'll play safe and hope the average viewer won't remember" which is what TDS did.
It's a fine line between a democracy that is for the people and a democracy that is for some of people.
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It must be bad how the world isn't what you think it is. Read some Hume please
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Of course, what you want is a distribution model where someone, somewhere is backing up and archiving some stuff. But given 1000 years I'm sure this system will break down at some critical point and once that happens then you'll lost it.
Also who is going to keep all of the software and hardware to read all of these different formats up and running. Hence, as the GP said, these requires dedicated, knowledgable people, always making sure hat we can read the documents with right software and backing up not only the documents but the software to read it. For books, I carry my software with me whereever I go: my brain and my eyes.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I wonder in 1000 years time what archeologists will know about our time. "Look, Roger, a found some one's and zero's. I think it might be part of a Word document..."
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Wow, it'll be the perfect setup for WWIII. Even nuclear bombs will be OK if the opposing army was also made of robots.
The conclusion is not to stop building robots but to make sure that any high AI robot has some sort of lawness. By the time you've already made the thing and you just have to figure out whether or not to put a gun in its hand or a whisk (or hammer etc etc etc) it's too late.
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The main advantage for 'Sparkle' is (in a pure-Windows environment) where designers will make mock-ups (esp for Web sites) in Sparkle. If the client then agrees with the mock-up they can simply hand-over their mock-up to the developers without the need of: "OK we need to cut the Photoshop-ed mock-up, lay-it out in HTML and then while we're doing this we hope the developers can wait for it or they might start on development while we're doing the HTML templates and then we need to spend time changing any development HTML code and hope we don't delete any tags along the way."
Of course, images and stuff will be made in Photoshop but the designers can also work (as they usually do) with the client actually creating a good look-and-feel with a functional flow and once it's OKed by the client then it can be developed on immediately by the developers without any intermediate steps.
Anyway I'm sure 90% of web-sites aren't designed along these lines but those that do Sparkle will be a big contributer to the whole production cycle.
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This is the single biggest piece of wrongness I've seen on /. for a while. There are just so many wrong things with it! I know of no country in the world that has a voucher system..not even close. Everwhere is the world there are strong teacher's unions (to reply to a child post). In fact, most of the rest of the world have a lot more left-wing, socialist tendencies (come to Belgium and see how left-wing things are)...but I guess the Right doesn't want to mention this when it talks about the magic bullet of vouchers.
Like I said the rest of the world has ball-gripping teacher unions, left-wing ideologists and no voucher systems...yet they still beat the US when they are compared with testing (I think there was a story a few days ago about this - I love the comparison with Belgium - a socialist paradise if there ever was one!)
Sorry for the rant and it wasn't meant to be a troll for saying how bad the US education system is, but when I see "but the rest of the world" sort of comment from a typical-stereotypical right-wing American who probably doesn't even have a passport then I get angry.
Oh buy the way..for the parent..since you like doing things based on what the rest of the world thinks does that mean you support universal health cover? No, I thought not.....
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Not to put fuel on the fire but I think our US citizens have forgotten the little politicised thing called "the Space Race". Sometimes comparing dick sizes isn't always a waste of resources :)
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yes, but then they will need to sell the same model (with some modifications) at a much lower price (else why release it). No, Apple pretty much has standard price points and margins, and they usually try to hit those marks.
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My 2 roubles worth of info and speculation.
Apple can go two ways with Intel Macs: either
1) make it reasonably difficult, or a non-documented feature, to install Windows on a Mac (possibly with OS X as well), or
2) make it as easy as possible to install multiple operating systems on the Mac
If (1) is true we have the old-school Apple (Steve Jobs?) wanting an integrated user experience with no possibility of fucking it up by installing another OS on it. Or we have (2) and all the people saying Apple is a hardware company is true!!
I'm hoping for (2) [I did hear a rumour about an easy fast-OS-switcher with pretty graphics, so maybe its not too far fetched] then people will buy Apple products for the same reason people buy nice looking things. Even with 1-5% of the Windows buying public buying a Mac to install Windows on it so they can place their computer somewhere other than the corner of a room - Mac sales wiil go through the roof.
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The opinion might just become the new FAQ at talk.origins. Very very lucid document.
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Curiously, what's your Erdos number? Ciao