It's very funny, until you realize the implications. I no longer make my signature on credit card reciepts anything like the one on my card. Why bother?
Coal and graphite are also made from diamond material, carbon. It's the final structure that counts, and it isn't structured like a diamond, or it would have the hardness of one.
Sorry, but that's the inverse idea, it's a trojan that messes things up, when the person thinks they are getting something neat. The creative grafitti idea would be a virus that instead of doing something dumb or just evil, actually improves the computer in some way, or at least doesn't screw things up irreversibly for the average user.
Oh wait, all sorts of people have imagined that future, and it isn't pretty, in any of them but Star Trek with Data.
Think of "I Robot" for a recent movie example of an Artificial Intelligence operating in a massive collective. Oh wait, scratch Star Trek too, there's the Borg!
It seems our only hope is to not imagine, or create a cluster of AI robots or life forms.
If you'd been reading Slashdot years ago, you'd have noticed in my signature perhaps a pet foil hat, with a polyethylene lining - shopping bag - to increase effectiveness.
And you all laughed at me then. Look who's laughing now?!
It's a shame that these idiot kids can't make a program that every computer [that runs Windows anyway] could use, and then when they get the urge to explot a Windows hole, they'd have a payload that would do more than cause reboots and crashes, and could do something useful like calculate something for medical science, patch the hole they exploit without doing damage, or play a podcast with a good message.
ANYTHING. The lack of creativity in today's vandals is just pitiful.
And they should look at this as an ideal way to export the British way of life through entertainment channels. For years the Hollywood movie has defined foreign entertainment in many parts of the world, but now the Internet might bring another country's productions to the forefront of the world stage, and America will begin to lose its grip on the "on-screen" entertainment monoploy.
Which raises another reason movies are in decline, the layout of communities has changed. Everyone who went to movies in droves is now living in a suburb, and there are no drive in theatres, and people have to drive 20 minutes through busy freeways to get to a mall-like parking lot, and sit in a mall-like atmosphere. Not everyone digs the mall scene, and there are very few homey theatres left in big-city USA [or Canada for that matter].
And if they launch the news from Pitsburgh, then it'll be the first VOIPIPOIPP [In Pitsburgh, Pennsylvania].
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Bookmarks are more secure than a search engine, since a search engine could provide a poisoned link, and if you're typing in the URL by hand, if you make a spelling mistake, you could find yourself at a pharming site, or someplace you didn't want to go.
I tend to use bookmarks in Firefox and the autocomplete about equally, and make use of the Quick Links toolbar for my most popular sites.
The Firefox bookmark all tabs feature is a breakthrough, since you can close your browser, and reopen it to the same set of tabs as before, which is great when installing extensions and you're forced to restart. The only drawback is that scrolling through bookmarks is too slow, but if you use your scroll wheel it speeds up considerably. That's a trick I didn't figure out until just last month.
Google will read your brain, and thus with the combined power of maps.google.com and news.google.com with talk.google.com and moon.google.com there will be no place left on earth to hide!
They are even working on underthesea.google.com for people who think it's still safe to hide UNDER THE SEA!
"Binnie, now only the second person in history to earn his commercial astronaut wings, reported a shaky flight with "a little roll" but did not experience the 29 rolls Mike Melvill experienced last week."
You're forgetting the marketing and migration side of reality. You can't just tell someone that they can and should switch, you have to give them a roadmap or an application that will migrate their data. Presumably, if you've switched your documents to Open Office, and your IM to GAIM before you go to Linux, the transition will be much smoother.
Windows 95 was the third Windows I used, but the first I remember selling to a customer. In the Summer of 1995, or possibly 1996, me and my Dad put together about 6 new Pentium 100MHz computers with Windows 95, and we haven't stopped building machines for people since.
"That will never happen as long as the USA has the 2nd Amendment."
Do you honestly think guns will protect Americans from being brainwashed? You can't shoot a brainwashing. You can't take up arms against an army of ignorance and apathy.
"simplification of such tasks as writing a trivial application,"
What's the most trivial application is a business is putting out on the market? I think there is no such thing as a trivial application when it's the interface from the customer to the company.
Take eBay's Turbo Lister software (please!). They replaced a stable and easy to use Mr. Lister software that was working nicely, and then to add more features they created a whole new product and shipped it before it had even half of the serious bugs out of it. People would find it crashed their computers, the update feature didn't work for most people, and the billing component was designed in a way that if you came from using Mr. Lister, then you'd probably end up paying for something you expected to see a preview for first. One time it created a 200MB database file for no reason on my machine.
I think eBay farmed out the programming to an offshore location, and because they thought it was trivial programming, since it was done so nicely in Mr. Lister, they didn't think too much about how much it mattered that it work reliably. So eBay's flagship listing product was about the worst software product I've ever used, and it's just a glorified html editor with a uploading component. It doesn't even have a way to translate listings from one country's ebay site, to another ebay site which should be "Trivial".
It hardly ever crashes for me, and opens Word Perfect files, so if they use Word Perfect give them 1.9.x and tell them it's the beta testing version so might not work, and if so, install 1.1.4 stable instead.
Of course I can say it's a contributing factor, even though those specific courses don't exist in most schools. The people working on implementing those classes are the ones who are pretty much in charge of the current class layouts.
There is a decided different between apathy about science, and apathy that most Americans posses because they are ignorant of other cultures and people. One is brought on through a lack of material in the school, where there would otherwise be a will to learn science. And the other is brought on through a lack of information in the home and in the media about other places which gives people a sense that they shouldn't care about what goes on around them.
"going to come back and complain that you trashed their PC."
The problem is that with most modern software, it introduces remotely exploitable security holes if it's not kept up to date, and if your friend doesn't have a firewall. What will happen when they install Firefox 1.0.1 from the CD for example? They'll be instantly asked to install another version and might think that its strange that the "new" program they just put on already has a "problem" with it.
I acknowlege and agree that stable versions must be provided, but it would be nice if they offered an "updated" folder on it too, making note that it's untested but should work similar to the other tested software on the disc.
While the push for more religion in the classroom is not the sole reason for the decline of education in America, it is a contributing factor. When you devote time to one thing in the classroom, you have less time to focus on something else that does need teaching.
We arent teaching our children enough about many many many subjects. For instance, there should be sexual education in grade 3, 5, through 11, better math courses including personal accounting, better world events courses, history, and physical education. It's no coincidence that many of America's children are fatter and more likely to get pregnant or an STI than they were decades ago. The family as an entity has changed, and the schools either have to pick up the parents slack, or there will be a generation of kids that don't know anything besides how to send an instant message to someone they just blew, while they were skipping Intelligent Design class.
Your comment is not insightful because one doesn't have to "bash" Bush when it comes to science and religion. Bashing Bush would be saying he's a monkey, and falls off his bike, and is a poopyhead for opposing stem cell research, even the kind that doesn't involve embryos.
Anyone who is unbiased sees a world leader imposing religious dogma onto secular public schools, and scientists doing legitimate and lifesaving research with aborted fetus tissue, or even pre-life-viable embryos in a labratory.
Slashdot has a story involving Bush because like him or not he's a world leader and what he says counts as news. If he says something objectionable, then it's the medias' responsibility to report it and explain why it's objectionable. In an open society you're allowed to use the media to respond, or say the media is wrong for saying Bush is wrong, but if all you can say is that they are "biased" and that somehow passes as a solid argument, then we're letting people like you off way to easily.
Tell us WHY critics of Bush's science and religion policy are wrong? You can't, because they are right.
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Zug.com and slashdot has shown this gag before.
It's very funny, until you realize the implications. I no longer make my signature on credit card reciepts anything like the one on my card. Why bother?
Coal and graphite are also made from diamond material, carbon. It's the final structure that counts, and it isn't structured like a diamond, or it would have the hardness of one.
I can't believe that someone read the EULA much less noticed a problem with it.
What is this world coming to? Probably someone looking for an easter egg.
Sorry, but that's the inverse idea, it's a trojan that messes things up, when the person thinks they are getting something neat.
The creative grafitti idea would be a virus that instead of doing something dumb or just evil, actually improves the computer in some way, or at least doesn't screw things up irreversibly for the average user.
"give birth to true artificial intelligence."
Oh wait, all sorts of people have imagined that future, and it isn't pretty, in any of them but Star Trek with Data.
Think of "I Robot" for a recent movie example of an Artificial Intelligence operating in a massive collective. Oh wait, scratch Star Trek too, there's the Borg!
It seems our only hope is to not imagine, or create a cluster of AI robots or life forms.
If you'd been reading Slashdot years ago, you'd have noticed in my signature perhaps a pet foil hat, with a polyethylene lining - shopping bag - to increase effectiveness.
And you all laughed at me then.
Look who's laughing now?!
MUHAHAHAHAHAAHH!!
http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/ebay/pet-foil-hat/
And who'd have thunk it, after all these years, Atilla the Hun is still causing problems for humanity.
"The writer of this 'virus' should get a frickin' medal."
He's more likely to get beaten to death by people raking in the money from removing spyware and repairing viruses.
It's a shame that these idiot kids can't make a program that every computer [that runs Windows anyway] could use, and then when they get the urge to explot a Windows hole, they'd have a payload that would do more than cause reboots and crashes, and could do something useful like calculate something for medical science, patch the hole they exploit without doing damage, or play a podcast with a good message.
ANYTHING. The lack of creativity in today's vandals is just pitiful.
And they should look at this as an ideal way to export the British way of life through entertainment channels. For years the Hollywood movie has defined foreign entertainment in many parts of the world, but now the Internet might bring another country's productions to the forefront of the world stage, and America will begin to lose its grip on the "on-screen" entertainment monoploy.
"At these gas prices?"
Which raises another reason movies are in decline, the layout of communities has changed. Everyone who went to movies in droves is now living in a suburb, and there are no drive in theatres, and people have to drive 20 minutes through busy freeways to get to a mall-like parking lot, and sit in a mall-like atmosphere. Not everyone digs the mall scene, and there are very few homey theatres left in big-city USA [or Canada for that matter].
And if they launch the news from Pitsburgh, then it'll be the first VOIPIPOIPP [In Pitsburgh, Pennsylvania].
Bookmarks are more secure than a search engine, since a search engine could provide a poisoned link, and if you're typing in the URL by hand, if you make a spelling mistake, you could find yourself at a pharming site, or someplace you didn't want to go.
I tend to use bookmarks in Firefox and the autocomplete about equally, and make use of the Quick Links toolbar for my most popular sites.
The Firefox bookmark all tabs feature is a breakthrough, since you can close your browser, and reopen it to the same set of tabs as before, which is great when installing extensions and you're forced to restart. The only drawback is that scrolling through bookmarks is too slow, but if you use your scroll wheel it speeds up considerably. That's a trick I didn't figure out until just last month.
As I understand it, Helicopters have a changing wing shape as they fly.
I saw a documentary recently, which shows modern wings have a 90 degree projection from the ends of the rotors, and this gives a speed boost.
Google will read your brain, and thus with the combined power of maps.google.com and news.google.com with talk.google.com and moon.google.com there will be no place left on earth to hide!
They are even working on underthesea.google.com for people who think it's still safe to hide UNDER THE SEA!
Space Ship One's private citizen pilot(s?) got his wings, or at least that's what CNN reported.p one.attempt.cnn/
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/spaceshi
"Binnie, now only the second person in history to earn his commercial astronaut wings, reported a shaky flight with "a little roll" but did not experience the 29 rolls Mike Melvill experienced last week."
You're forgetting the marketing and migration side of reality. You can't just tell someone that they can and should switch, you have to give them a roadmap or an application that will migrate their data. Presumably, if you've switched your documents to Open Office, and your IM to GAIM before you go to Linux, the transition will be much smoother.
Windows 95 was the third Windows I used, but the first I remember selling to a customer. In the Summer of 1995, or possibly 1996, me and my Dad put together about 6 new Pentium 100MHz computers with Windows 95, and we haven't stopped building machines for people since.
"That will never happen as long as the USA has the 2nd Amendment."
Do you honestly think guns will protect Americans from being brainwashed? You can't shoot a brainwashing. You can't take up arms against an army of ignorance and apathy.
"simplification of such tasks as writing a trivial application,"
What's the most trivial application is a business is putting out on the market? I think there is no such thing as a trivial application when it's the interface from the customer to the company.
Take eBay's Turbo Lister software (please!). They replaced a stable and easy to use Mr. Lister software that was working nicely, and then to add more features they created a whole new product and shipped it before it had even half of the serious bugs out of it. People would find it crashed their computers, the update feature didn't work for most people, and the billing component was designed in a way that if you came from using Mr. Lister, then you'd probably end up paying for something you expected to see a preview for first. One time it created a 200MB database file for no reason on my machine.
I think eBay farmed out the programming to an offshore location, and because they thought it was trivial programming, since it was done so nicely in Mr. Lister, they didn't think too much about how much it mattered that it work reliably. So eBay's flagship listing product was about the worst software product I've ever used, and it's just a glorified html editor with a uploading component. It doesn't even have a way to translate listings from one country's ebay site, to another ebay site which should be "Trivial".
It hardly ever crashes for me, and opens Word Perfect files, so if they use Word Perfect give them 1.9.x and tell them it's the beta testing version so might not work, and if so, install 1.1.4 stable instead.
Of course I can say it's a contributing factor, even though those specific courses don't exist in most schools. The people working on implementing those classes are the ones who are pretty much in charge of the current class layouts.
There is a decided different between apathy about science, and apathy that most Americans posses because they are ignorant of other cultures and people. One is brought on through a lack of material in the school, where there would otherwise be a will to learn science. And the other is brought on through a lack of information in the home and in the media about other places which gives people a sense that they shouldn't care about what goes on around them.
"going to come back and complain that you trashed their PC."
The problem is that with most modern software, it introduces remotely exploitable security holes if it's not kept up to date, and if your friend doesn't have a firewall. What will happen when they install Firefox 1.0.1 from the CD for example? They'll be instantly asked to install another version and might think that its strange that the "new" program they just put on already has a "problem" with it.
I acknowlege and agree that stable versions must be provided, but it would be nice if they offered an "updated" folder on it too, making note that it's untested but should work similar to the other tested software on the disc.
While the push for more religion in the classroom is not the sole reason for the decline of education in America, it is a contributing factor. When you devote time to one thing in the classroom, you have less time to focus on something else that does need teaching.
We arent teaching our children enough about many many many subjects. For instance, there should be sexual education in grade 3, 5, through 11, better math courses including personal accounting, better world events courses, history, and physical education. It's no coincidence that many of America's children are fatter and more likely to get pregnant or an STI than they were decades ago. The family as an entity has changed, and the schools either have to pick up the parents slack, or there will be a generation of kids that don't know anything besides how to send an instant message to someone they just blew, while they were skipping Intelligent Design class.
Your comment is not insightful because one doesn't have to "bash" Bush when it comes to science and religion. Bashing Bush would be saying he's a monkey, and falls off his bike, and is a poopyhead for opposing stem cell research, even the kind that doesn't involve embryos.
Anyone who is unbiased sees a world leader imposing religious dogma onto secular public schools, and scientists doing legitimate and lifesaving research with aborted fetus tissue, or even pre-life-viable embryos in a labratory.
Slashdot has a story involving Bush because like him or not he's a world leader and what he says counts as news. If he says something objectionable, then it's the medias' responsibility to report it and explain why it's objectionable. In an open society you're allowed to use the media to respond, or say the media is wrong for saying Bush is wrong, but if all you can say is that they are "biased" and that somehow passes as a solid argument, then we're letting people like you off way to easily.
Tell us WHY critics of Bush's science and religion policy are wrong? You can't, because they are right.