The only thing to conclude is that you are incapable of rational and logical thought. You started with wrong assumptions and then used bad analogies and illogic to come to an even worse conclusion.
Oh, like most people he probably has a brain, but also like most people he chooses not to use it. That, really, is the tragedy of our times. We have the grandest, most advanced communications and information retrieval system ever conceived in all of human history... and people still cling to ignorance.
Go back to the days when information was scarce, education a luxury, where the majority of people didn't have even basic reading skills, and ignorance is to be expected. But today we have a situation where the sum total of human knowledge is just sitting there for the taking! People, you don't even have to leave your homes... just fucking GOOGLE it!
Nope, too much work. Maybe I've been wrong all these years, maybe ignorance really is bliss.
Whatever their problem is, it's a disease, and it needs to be treated as such. Of course, for those who are too far gone the only cure is the Second Amendment.
If you are licensed, then you know that it could be revoked if you behave unethically or illegally. If you are licensed, it is an indication that as far as anyone knows, you haven't behaved unethically or illegally in the past. That DOES tend to enhance credibility in court.
Well, if that's the case maybe we should consider a license requirement for attorneys... oh wait.
Nah... it's just that people don't bother to read what's in front of them. Had there been a big blurb during the software install that proclaimed "we collect anonymous usage statistics" nobody would have cared, but because it wasn't made sufficiently obvious people think there's something devious going on.
Huh... that's not a bad idea. Matter of fact, it could still serve as wastebasket: just put a false floor in it. You could fit a Mini-ITX motherboard, power supply and a hard drive in there easily. Use USB or Firewire for your peripherals.
their axles must be set in a thick piece of material.
Yeah, alignment is critical with mechanism that tiny. Actually, what he could have done was have smaller pieces of strong material: that would have provided local rigidity without as much mass. Oh well. In any event, no I didn't read the article, I was too busy marveling at the pictures.
You want to know what the problem is? The problem is not technology, or instrumentation, or double-blind tests, or anything remotely rational. It's a religion: people hear what they want to hear, and there's absolutely no arguing with them because their minds are closed. Permanently. You can prove, incontrovertibly, that a given audio waveform is reproduced more accurately by a solid-state amplifier... but that won't matter. The tube amp just "sounds" better. Now, maybe it does... but not because it's a better amplifier, but because it is a poorer one!
Nice speech. I have the exact opposite perception: only a fool who understands the true nature of neither would find them remotely similar or of equal value.
I will say that Robert A. Heinlein had a pretty good grasp of both, and that's who I was quoting. The two are, at the most basic level, incompatible. That's because faith is, by it's very definition, unreasoning. Much anguish has been caused down the centuries by repeated attempts to merge the two. In most cases, that meant simply ignoring reason, ignoring what is entirely... in favor of faith. It just doesn't work, you know it doesn't work, and you can't make it work by calling someone a fool. When you get right down to cases, what do you call a person who insists that his own worldview is correct, flying in the face of reality which says otherwise? Yet, that is precisely what those of faith will do. That's their choice... but don't try to legitimize their unreason. Only a fool would do that.
You simply can't do the type of interactive charting that they do there without Flash and Flex.
The Tomato firmware in my router does something very similar using Ajax. I don't know enough about Ajax to know if what he did qualifies as a hack, though.
Yes, I tend to agree. Now, if that clockwork were motorized and actually did something it would be unbelievably cool. Imagine if you turned the key, and the clockwork engaged and did a Rube Goldberg thing and finally turned the power on.
Nice job. Personally I've always liked the idea of a computer system simply disappearing into the background as just another piece of furniture (never really understood the case modders that put electroluminescent tape and UV tubes inside their machines. But hey, whatever floats your boat... no accounting for taste.) Quite some years ago, strictly as an experiment, I took my regular tower case and covered it in mahogany-grained contact paper: the front was already black so they went well together. People would look at my keyboard and display and ask me where the computer was. It was right there on the floor in front of them, but since it was almost a perfect match for my desk it blended right in and they didn't see it. I dunno, must've thought it was a wastebasket or something
I loved the look and still feel I should turn it into a Media PC and stick it in our living room.
You know, you should do that: put together another system for her, and return your wooden gem to its former glory. I have an old Compaq desktop enclosure that I use in our living room as a media PC: it fits nicely in the entertainment center and that's all well and good. However, if I were to do what you did and turn it into furniture, I'd buy myself a lot of brownie points. Well, and now you've gone and made me think about my next winter project...
As far as the war on drugs comment goes, it may not have affected you in a negative way, but I doubt it benefited you either (or anybody). Something like $500 billion spent and has there been any serious improvement?
{sigh} the government's answer to that question is always the same: "Yes, it was hideously expensive, but if we hadn't spent that half trillion, we're absolutely sure that everything would have turned out much worse, so you're damned lucky we're on the job! And by the way, we'll need a bigger budget next year" which puts attempted oversight at the same level of wanting to know if there's a God.
{sigh} well, all we can do is hope that the tattered remnants of the Constitution (or rather, our government's waning respect for the Supreme Law of our Land) can hold off the coming of the storm, at least for a little while.
Ray, I've known a lot of attorneys over the years, worked for a few, hired a few, have lawyers in my family (you might even have heard of one of them), number them among my friends... and the ones that have delved into this business to any degree are uniformly aghast at the RIAA's activities. I mean, regardless of whether they agree with what the RIAA is trying to do, the lack of professionalism and disrespect for the courts just leaves them shaking their heads.
I've read most of what you've written on your blog, and of course have spent too much time here on Slashdot, but as an engineer I know my understanding of what is going on here is shallow at best. I just don't have the background to fully grasp why, from a legal perspective, their tactics are so wrong. However, those I know who do have such knowledge of the law take a very dim view of these proceedings. Frankly, the RIAA's legal staff seems to have garnered about as much respect among real attorneys as the mob.
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Don't they know that pages' history is saved, so that improper deletions can be easily restored?
{sigh} you'd think they would have learned that from Ollie North.
The only thing to conclude is that you are incapable of rational and logical thought. You started with wrong assumptions and then used bad analogies and illogic to come to an even worse conclusion.
... and people still cling to ignorance.
... just fucking GOOGLE it!
Oh, like most people he probably has a brain, but also like most people he chooses not to use it. That, really, is the tragedy of our times. We have the grandest, most advanced communications and information retrieval system ever conceived in all of human history
Go back to the days when information was scarce, education a luxury, where the majority of people didn't have even basic reading skills, and ignorance is to be expected. But today we have a situation where the sum total of human knowledge is just sitting there for the taking! People, you don't even have to leave your homes
Nope, too much work. Maybe I've been wrong all these years, maybe ignorance really is bliss.
Whatever their problem is, it's a disease, and it needs to be treated as such. Of course, for those who are too far gone the only cure is the Second Amendment.
If you are licensed, then you know that it could be revoked if you behave unethically or illegally. If you are licensed, it is an indication that as far as anyone knows, you haven't behaved unethically or illegally in the past. That DOES tend to enhance credibility in court.
... oh wait.
Well, if that's the case maybe we should consider a license requirement for attorneys
Nah ... it's just that people don't bother to read what's in front of them. Had there been a big blurb during the software install that proclaimed "we collect anonymous usage statistics" nobody would have cared, but because it wasn't made sufficiently obvious people think there's something devious going on.
I detect an incoming "Offtopic" mod.
Hmm, now i know my next mod.......
... that's not a bad idea. Matter of fact, it could still serve as wastebasket: just put a false floor in it. You could fit a Mini-ITX motherboard, power supply and a hard drive in there easily. Use USB or Firewire for your peripherals.
Huh
their axles must be set in a thick piece of material.
Yeah, alignment is critical with mechanism that tiny. Actually, what he could have done was have smaller pieces of strong material: that would have provided local rigidity without as much mass. Oh well. In any event, no I didn't read the article, I was too busy marveling at the pictures.
I think I would have liked your grandpa.
You want to know what the problem is? The problem is not technology, or instrumentation, or double-blind tests, or anything remotely rational. It's a religion: people hear what they want to hear, and there's absolutely no arguing with them because their minds are closed. Permanently. You can prove, incontrovertibly, that a given audio waveform is reproduced more accurately by a solid-state amplifier ... but that won't matter. The tube amp just "sounds" better. Now, maybe it does ... but not because it's a better amplifier, but because it is a poorer one!
Nah ... Mythbusters are too polite. I'd like to see it on Penn & Teller's Bullshit!. Now that would be entertaining.
Nice speech. I have the exact opposite perception: only a fool who understands the true nature of neither would find them remotely similar or of equal value.
... in favor of faith. It just doesn't work, you know it doesn't work, and you can't make it work by calling someone a fool. When you get right down to cases, what do you call a person who insists that his own worldview is correct, flying in the face of reality which says otherwise? Yet, that is precisely what those of faith will do. That's their choice ... but don't try to legitimize their unreason. Only a fool would do that.
I will say that Robert A. Heinlein had a pretty good grasp of both, and that's who I was quoting. The two are, at the most basic level, incompatible. That's because faith is, by it's very definition, unreasoning. Much anguish has been caused down the centuries by repeated attempts to merge the two. In most cases, that meant simply ignoring reason, ignoring what is entirely
You simply can't do the type of interactive charting that they do there without Flash and Flex.
The Tomato firmware in my router does something very similar using Ajax. I don't know enough about Ajax to know if what he did qualifies as a hack, though.
I have the feeling the thing is intended more to impress people than anything else, and it is impressive.
Nah ... it runs Ancient UNIX.
Yes, I tend to agree. Now, if that clockwork were motorized and actually did something it would be unbelievably cool. Imagine if you turned the key, and the clockwork engaged and did a Rube Goldberg thing and finally turned the power on.
Well, that's really easy to fix. Go download Steam and run your computer on it.
Nice job. Personally I've always liked the idea of a computer system simply disappearing into the background as just another piece of furniture (never really understood the case modders that put electroluminescent tape and UV tubes inside their machines. But hey, whatever floats your boat ... no accounting for taste.) Quite some years ago, strictly as an experiment, I took my regular tower case and covered it in mahogany-grained contact paper: the front was already black so they went well together. People would look at my keyboard and display and ask me where the computer was. It was right there on the floor in front of them, but since it was almost a perfect match for my desk it blended right in and they didn't see it. I dunno, must've thought it was a wastebasket or something
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I loved the look and still feel I should turn it into a Media PC and stick it in our living room.
You know, you should do that: put together another system for her, and return your wooden gem to its former glory. I have an old Compaq desktop enclosure that I use in our living room as a media PC: it fits nicely in the entertainment center and that's all well and good. However, if I were to do what you did and turn it into furniture, I'd buy myself a lot of brownie points. Well, and now you've gone and made me think about my next winter project
Although the HP laptop does bring new meaning to the phrase "turnkey system".
As far as the war on drugs comment goes, it may not have affected you in a negative way, but I doubt it benefited you either (or anybody). Something like $500 billion spent and has there been any serious improvement?
{sigh} the government's answer to that question is always the same: "Yes, it was hideously expensive, but if we hadn't spent that half trillion, we're absolutely sure that everything would have turned out much worse, so you're damned lucky we're on the job! And by the way, we'll need a bigger budget next year" which puts attempted oversight at the same level of wanting to know if there's a God.
I know, I know ... beer talking.
{sigh} well, all we can do is hope that the tattered remnants of the Constitution (or rather, our government's waning respect for the Supreme Law of our Land) can hold off the coming of the storm, at least for a little while.
So ... what you're really saying is that none of us know where any of these people stand anymore.
That's reassuring.
Ray, I've known a lot of attorneys over the years, worked for a few, hired a few, have lawyers in my family (you might even have heard of one of them), number them among my friends ... and the ones that have delved into this business to any degree are uniformly aghast at the RIAA's activities. I mean, regardless of whether they agree with what the RIAA is trying to do, the lack of professionalism and disrespect for the courts just leaves them shaking their heads.
I've read most of what you've written on your blog, and of course have spent too much time here on Slashdot, but as an engineer I know my understanding of what is going on here is shallow at best. I just don't have the background to fully grasp why, from a legal perspective, their tactics are so wrong. However, those I know who do have such knowledge of the law take a very dim view of these proceedings. Frankly, the RIAA's legal staff seems to have garnered about as much respect among real attorneys as the mob.
That tells me a lot.
Don't get me started on Clinton.