If this becomes accurate to predict anything of actual use, the markets themselves will start using it... which renders the predictions themselves useless.
OK, you're part of some primitive wolfpack living in the same area as a bunch of giant, flightless, and probably very tasty birds. Wouldn't you prefer hunting those huge birds instead of smaller animals that are more difficult to catch?
Since they didn't have any concept of "sustainability", it's very easy to imagine those wolves contributing to the birds' extinction.
This is just a depressing attitude. I would rather have the few geniuses who are assholes than a bunch of nice guys who never do anything brilliant. I would rather have Wagner, and Mozart, and Twain, and the fucking Pyramids of Giza than have a bunch of people who were nice to their wives and kids. Sucks for the family, but without these assholes we don't have culture or civilization.
Mozilla has used an extension called Test Pilot to study user behavior. One study focused on usage of the menu bar. The results show a kind of power law in menu item usage. This suggests that you can probably ditch most of the menu items, and provide alternative methods to access the top used functions. I think this is broadly what they are going for in the proposed 4.0 UI redesign.
Indeed, wasn't Sinn Féin created in opposition to Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party? It was the Parnellite strategy to use Ireland's kingmaking ability to extract favorable policies from the English. Sinn Féin is about abstention rather than participation.
Coca-Cola still uses coca leaf extract in flavoring its soft drink. A subsidiary legally imports coca leaves, processes them to remove the cocaine, and then extracts the desired flavoring so that it can be added to Coca-Cola.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is in such widespread use in the Windows world, it may as well be rolled into the operating system itself.
Ironically, Apple more or less did roll PDF display technology into Mac OS X. The Quartz graphics layer is highly compatible with the PDF object graph, which is why pretty much any application running in OS X can natively output to the PDF format.
If the MacBook Air is any indication, Steve Jobs probably agrees with your that the optical drive is on its way out. I think he'd rather get rid of it entirely than have to upgrade it to deal with Blu-Ray licensing (which he's called "a bag of hurt").
I'm not Catholic, but I did attend a Jesuit college (Georgetown). I have to say, the priests who taught classes were without exception some of the best read, most literate, and widely knowledgeable people you could possibly meet. I was in a class with one priest who was a leading bioethicist (Georgetown has one of the larger bioethics libraries in the country), a field which necessarily has a deep engagement with science and technology.
Your post reflects little more than bigotry and seems more dogmatic than the popes you attempt to dismiss.
Well, Bush and Putin reduced nukes by 80%--from 10,000 apiece to 2,000 apiece (Moscow Treaty aka SORT). Obama and Medvedev/Putin are going to reduce them just 25%--from 2,000 to 1,500. Not really as spectacular as Bush's achievement. If a McCain really would have been 'Bush's third term,' would it also have followed that McCain would have achieved more spectacular cuts than Obama achieved?
"American culture" is generally considered fun stuff like: Consumerism. Corporatism. Obsession with money and violence. Fear of sex and drugs.
Huh? Those aren't exclusively US values, buddy. Though it's amusingly very American to claim ownership of those ideas...
No, "American culture" is generally considered mundane stuff like: the right to self-determination, freedom of expression and thought, freedom to not be oppressed by a fascist state.
You know, the real America, not the fictious one that marxists and leftists wished existed, but actually doesn't.
Overall solid essay, clearly written and well organized. Needs a stronger introduction: lead with your thesis statement, not just a topic sentence. Needs citations! Can't get into A-range grade without citing your sources (Wikipedia, or really any encyclopedia, doesn't count). Seemed to go off on a tangent at one point about bananas--was this a typo? Proofread! Argument got weak toward the end--could have used some direct quotes to reinforce your position regarding Doodle's death. A straightforward reading is acceptable, but I think it would have been better if you could have expanded on the context leading you to this interpretation? It may be that the literal causal story is less important than the intent of the author--what emotions in the reader did Hurst try to evoke by telling the story with Doodle dying in the end?
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality.
"They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.
"This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'" —George Carlin
When the product is a NEED rather than a WANT, the whole tone of business is changed. Food producers knows you NEED them, so they really don't give a fuck about you and know your dollars will flow in their direction no matter what you think about them.
People opposed to state-run food production are ignorant and/or complete liars; people who think food 'markets' are competitive are simply blind to reality and echoing irrational rhetoric.
His name was Thomas Hobbes and he wrote a book called Leviathan. Hobbes wrote this book in the context of the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War, both of which were massive civil conflicts centered around religion (Protestant sects vs. Catholicism).
In order to prevent further religious conflict, Hobbes set out to create a philosophical basis for the bracketing of religion from public life. Not the abolition of the Church outright, but the removal of the ability for people to make (public) claims about what is true (private piety was still assumed). He rejected revelation as a basis for truth claims, but noted that most things that people 'know' aren't really derived from experience, but are instead things that they believe on the authority of someone else. For instance, we believe certain things about reality because we recognize the epistemic authority of physicists.
Without an ultimate authority to resolve claims about reality/truth, Hobbes believed that people would never escape the devastating civil wars that he saw all around him in Europe. Rejecting revelation as a source of knowledge, Hobbes said that the person of the 'sovereign' would have to serve as the ultimate authority on truth claims in order to prevent civil conflict.
Establishing a sovereign authority would be the only way that rational individualism could prosper. Individuals, freed from epistemic confusion or conflict, could then engage in public life with the maximum freedom to pursue their (material) interests.
This is relevant to TFA given that it pits individualists (epistmeic authority allowing for skeptical materialist individualism) against communitarians (people making broad values/truth claims supposedly binding on others).
It's hard to find a more relevant philosopher for understanding modernity than Hobbes. The way that authority, truth claims, individualism, state sovereignty, and materialism are politically entwined are all to be found within Hobbes' writing. Even if you disagree with the conclusions he came to, it's still worth reading and knowing why he wrote what he wrote.
So yes, individualism and authority are quite closely linked in the history of Western thought.
Footnote: Hobbes was the first major translator of Thucydides. Many of his views on civil war and epistemic confusion come from Thucydides' description of the Corcyraean Civil War (in Book III of Thucydides' History). The episode is only about 8 pages and well worth reading to see how deeply ingrained this particular strand of political philosophy is embedded in Western thought. It's a pretty chilling description of the collapse of convention, law, norms, and the very meaning of words in the face of violence.
...how interrogations work. They showed him the picture and told him they knew it was drugs just to see what his response was...
Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is that your car out front? Is this your homework, Larry? You're entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework. We know that you stole a car. And the fucking money. And, we know that this is your homework.
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This phenomenon is called Goodhart's Law.
OK, you're part of some primitive wolfpack living in the same area as a bunch of giant, flightless, and probably very tasty birds. Wouldn't you prefer hunting those huge birds instead of smaller animals that are more difficult to catch?
Since they didn't have any concept of "sustainability", it's very easy to imagine those wolves contributing to the birds' extinction.
I'm pretty sure Google and Facebook have already released that as a joint-venture project.
This is just a depressing attitude. I would rather have the few geniuses who are assholes than a bunch of nice guys who never do anything brilliant. I would rather have Wagner, and Mozart, and Twain, and the fucking Pyramids of Giza than have a bunch of people who were nice to their wives and kids. Sucks for the family, but without these assholes we don't have culture or civilization.
Being redesigned. Not to worry. Here is the project page for the redesign.
Here you go: old releases all the way back to version 0.10!
Mozilla has used an extension called Test Pilot to study user behavior. One study focused on usage of the menu bar. The results show a kind of power law in menu item usage. This suggests that you can probably ditch most of the menu items, and provide alternative methods to access the top used functions. I think this is broadly what they are going for in the proposed 4.0 UI redesign.
Ugh, thanks for reminding me how dogshit ugly the new commenting system is. When will CmdrTaco give up and return everyone to clean classic interface?
Indeed, wasn't Sinn Féin created in opposition to Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party? It was the Parnellite strategy to use Ireland's kingmaking ability to extract favorable policies from the English. Sinn Féin is about abstention rather than participation.
Coca-Cola still uses coca leaf extract in flavoring its soft drink. A subsidiary legally imports coca leaves, processes them to remove the cocaine, and then extracts the desired flavoring so that it can be added to Coca-Cola.
Ironically, Apple more or less did roll PDF display technology into Mac OS X. The Quartz graphics layer is highly compatible with the PDF object graph, which is why pretty much any application running in OS X can natively output to the PDF format.
If the MacBook Air is any indication, Steve Jobs probably agrees with your that the optical drive is on its way out. I think he'd rather get rid of it entirely than have to upgrade it to deal with Blu-Ray licensing (which he's called "a bag of hurt").
I'm not Catholic, but I did attend a Jesuit college (Georgetown). I have to say, the priests who taught classes were without exception some of the best read, most literate, and widely knowledgeable people you could possibly meet. I was in a class with one priest who was a leading bioethicist (Georgetown has one of the larger bioethics libraries in the country), a field which necessarily has a deep engagement with science and technology.
Your post reflects little more than bigotry and seems more dogmatic than the popes you attempt to dismiss.
Not really. Dieter Rams is considered one of the best industrial designers. Take a look: comparison of Braun and Apple; and, slideshow of his work.
Apparently TRIM support is already in Mac OS code in both 10.5.7 and 10.6.*. It's called IOStorage::discard. It's just not turned on.
Well, Bush and Putin reduced nukes by 80%--from 10,000 apiece to 2,000 apiece (Moscow Treaty aka SORT). Obama and Medvedev/Putin are going to reduce them just 25%--from 2,000 to 1,500. Not really as spectacular as Bush's achievement. If a McCain really would have been 'Bush's third term,' would it also have followed that McCain would have achieved more spectacular cuts than Obama achieved?
Huh? Those aren't exclusively US values, buddy. Though it's amusingly very American to claim ownership of those ideas...
No, "American culture" is generally considered mundane stuff like: the right to self-determination, freedom of expression and thought, freedom to not be oppressed by a fascist state.
You know, the real America, not the fictious one that marxists and leftists wished existed, but actually doesn't.
87 B+
Overall solid essay, clearly written and well organized. Needs a stronger introduction: lead with your thesis statement, not just a topic sentence. Needs citations! Can't get into A-range grade without citing your sources (Wikipedia, or really any encyclopedia, doesn't count). Seemed to go off on a tangent at one point about bananas--was this a typo? Proofread! Argument got weak toward the end--could have used some direct quotes to reinforce your position regarding Doodle's death. A straightforward reading is acceptable, but I think it would have been better if you could have expanded on the context leading you to this interpretation? It may be that the literal causal story is less important than the intent of the author--what emotions in the reader did Hurst try to evoke by telling the story with Doodle dying in the end?
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We didn't declare war on Saddam Hussein either. Congress has not declared war since WWII. Congress did pass a law authorizing use of force against Iraq. For what it's worth, Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa on behalf of Al Qaeda that amounts to a public declaration of holy war against the United States.
The folks at Firefox are aware of the problem and are working on it: Project: Eradicate Startup Dialogs.
The solution is obviously to legislate a ban on legislation. That's the logical response, anyway.
Yeah, you and Larry Ellison.
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality.
"They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.
"This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'" —George Carlin
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Food has no market.
When the product is a NEED rather than a WANT, the whole tone of business is changed. Food producers knows you NEED them, so they really don't give a fuck about you and know your dollars will flow in their direction no matter what you think about them.
People opposed to state-run food production are ignorant and/or complete liars; people who think food 'markets' are competitive are simply blind to reality and echoing irrational rhetoric.
His name was Thomas Hobbes and he wrote a book called Leviathan. Hobbes wrote this book in the context of the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War, both of which were massive civil conflicts centered around religion (Protestant sects vs. Catholicism).
In order to prevent further religious conflict, Hobbes set out to create a philosophical basis for the bracketing of religion from public life. Not the abolition of the Church outright, but the removal of the ability for people to make (public) claims about what is true (private piety was still assumed). He rejected revelation as a basis for truth claims, but noted that most things that people 'know' aren't really derived from experience, but are instead things that they believe on the authority of someone else. For instance, we believe certain things about reality because we recognize the epistemic authority of physicists.
Without an ultimate authority to resolve claims about reality/truth, Hobbes believed that people would never escape the devastating civil wars that he saw all around him in Europe. Rejecting revelation as a source of knowledge, Hobbes said that the person of the 'sovereign' would have to serve as the ultimate authority on truth claims in order to prevent civil conflict.
Establishing a sovereign authority would be the only way that rational individualism could prosper. Individuals, freed from epistemic confusion or conflict, could then engage in public life with the maximum freedom to pursue their (material) interests.
This is relevant to TFA given that it pits individualists (epistmeic authority allowing for skeptical materialist individualism) against communitarians (people making broad values/truth claims supposedly binding on others).
It's hard to find a more relevant philosopher for understanding modernity than Hobbes. The way that authority, truth claims, individualism, state sovereignty, and materialism are politically entwined are all to be found within Hobbes' writing. Even if you disagree with the conclusions he came to, it's still worth reading and knowing why he wrote what he wrote.
So yes, individualism and authority are quite closely linked in the history of Western thought.
Footnote: Hobbes was the first major translator of Thucydides. Many of his views on civil war and epistemic confusion come from Thucydides' description of the Corcyraean Civil War (in Book III of Thucydides' History). The episode is only about 8 pages and well worth reading to see how deeply ingrained this particular strand of political philosophy is embedded in Western thought. It's a pretty chilling description of the collapse of convention, law, norms, and the very meaning of words in the face of violence.
Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? Is that your car out front? Is this your homework, Larry? You're entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework. We know that you stole a car. And the fucking money. And, we know that this is your homework.