I thought the whole point of Christian rock was that people could make heaps of money out of it because noone would rip it off -- the audience was that honest...
Every Christian is a walking, talking wallet full of cash for buying Christian rock music.
and hire Clear Channel to monitor the stuff for us like they do their radio stations.
The hard part of any mass video monitoring system is looking for signs of thought or sense-crime.
Doing this with AI systems is a hard problem.
Getting enough man-power to have eyeballs on enough monitors for it to make a difference is a hard problem too... unless you turn the whole monitoring system into a gigantic reality TV show.
Get the citizens monitoring each other.
Offer free cable/satellite/HD TV to any citizen willing to have cameras in their homes. And the promise that they, too, will be on the latest reality TV craze -- stars in their own homes.
People would sign up for this en-masse. Especially in the UK.
Considering Windows is one of MS's supposed guaranteed cash cows, this is going to be absolute hell on investor confidence, and stock is going to tumble. *That* then becomes the real financial loss for MS.
If I had shares in M$, I'd be selling them right about now.
I've found that many sites which, at first glance, don't work with firefox, if I set the user agent appropriately somehow magically seem to work... Theres an extension for this.
Chimps don't live in areas where they may get frostbite.
Humans are well adapted to the sorts of places where they originated and have perfectly adequate feet for walking on rough surfaces; people are not as soft as civilisation would have you believe.
Spending all your energy making sure your bare feet don't get cut is the epitome of self-absorption
It hardly takes "all your energy" and being aware of ones surroundings is healthy, no?
I tend to think that the great achievement of the human being -- self awareness -- is also the greatest trap; because self awareness is so captivating, most people are seldom aware of anything else...
Sorry, I took you "inspired and retarded" comment as sarcasm
Its an expression I've heard from other people some of whom are longer-term Mac users than myself...
Don't get me wrong, I think OSX is pretty good most of the time but sometimes the UI decisions seem really strange, like the keyboard shortcuts. Eg When editing a document the 'home' and 'end' keys take the viewport to the top or bottom of the document but leave the cursor where it was so that when you use the arrow keys you zoom back to where you were before. It took me ages to figure out that theres a splat-up-arrow and splat-down-arrow key combo.
I fail to see the value in shifting viewpoint in an editor but not shifting the cursor with it. Um... is there value in this that I'm just not seeing?
And up till now my preferred desktop has been KDE under Linux... not so much the Windows:)
OSX is a far better *NIX workstation than Linux of *any* flavor. And I've been a Linux user since 1992. Yes, that long. Which is why I'm used to being able to customise things:)
Evolution is like a search engine and the search space is the possible genome of the species.
By enabling the reproduction of individuals who, in nature, would not have had opportunity to reproduce, the human race has, in effect, been able to explore more of the search space than had previously been possible.
Today, there are areas of the genome which previous generations may never have touched upon.
If this is actually the case then I'm surprised at the findings represented in this article; perhaps there is some kind of lag effect?
Anyhows, I fully expect that the extended search parameters enabled by civilisation will sooner or later produce such mutant freak babies as telepaths, the fantastic 4, x-men et al. Assuming these things are possible at all they should be easier to 'find' now...
Fleshy feet that cant walk along most surfaces without shoes
Bull *shit*.
Maybe your pansy, city-slicker feet are too soft and lily-white for you to stand to walk barefoot long enough for you to adapt but I've lived barefoot a fair bit in my life and a LOT of people walk barefoot on surfaces which you may not think possible.
There are a couple of factors which contribute: the toughness of the soles of your feet will improve quite a lot and the way in which you walk counts for a lot as well. Then theres being observant.
Most people going barefoot for the first time over rough or sharp surfaces, such as rocky coastlines or dirt roads, try to walk in the same style as they walk when wearing shoes; this is going to lead to pain and injury. They are also used to being able to walk pretty much without looking where they are going.
After watching how 'native' people walk barefoot I realised that it helps a lot to put the foot down fairly flatly, not heel first but as if you are trying to plant the whole surface of the foot on the ground at the same time.
Then you have to look ahead of yourself and get used to having a view of the world which includes the surface of the ground which you are about to step on. People in 'civilised' parts of the world are *incredibly* unobservant and self-absorbed. *INCREDIBLY*. Walking barefoot with your head in the clouds is going to get you hurt.
I've found myself able to walk on sharp, bare, volcanic rock with no pain or injury even with deconditioned (ie: softened) soles of my feet (after not going barefoot for a long time) merely by looking where I'm going and treading properly.
Seems like the little ball in the middle of my mouse moves the preview around just fine
I don't much like the clitoris mouse; when I try to use the clit as a scroll wheel to scroll up and down a web page it inevitably detects some sideways movement and takes me back or forward in history.
However I took your point and tried it out with the mouse I do use which is a microsoft mouse with side-tilt. Amazingly enough it works for panning the viewport in preview. I'll never say that MS never got anything right ever again...
And sure Apple have some right-click functionality but its not used consistently.
I am just getting used to the mac at the moment and its better than Windows in some ways and just plain retarded in others. Like I said, both inspired and retarded simultaneously.
It could do with better ability to customise and tune, but the preferences on most apps and in the system preferences control panel gadgets are just condescendingly simple and unhelpful.
And anyway, I still maintain that the philosophy that one mouse button plus keyboard buttons in various combinations is not good ergonomics; its best to give the user the choice in as many ways as possible.
Thus, when your hands are both on the keyboard you should not have to reach for the mouse to perform basic operations such as moving focus from one dialog button to the next. And when your hand is on the mouse and the keyboard is out of reach, you should not have to reach for the keyboard for little things like eg the one mouse button plus control key to bring up a menu combination.
I'm giving the Mac a chance I only wish that it were more configurable. Or at least more obviously configurable. I've been trying to find a resource to help me get under the hood. I got 'the missing manual' but its as condescending as the preferences in the Apple iLife applications... Pointers would be appreciated.
The majoy *annoyance* was however, not then mouse itself, but PC users crowing on about the 'one button' design, ignoring the fact that Mac Software was (surprisingly enough) designed for 1 button mice, and 103 more buttons were available on a nearby keyboard when required. (emphasis mine).
Yeah, Mac users having to use two hands to perform operations that PC users do with just one... thats such clearly superior UI design from Apple.
NOT.
My un-favorite is in OSX Preview app where in order to drag the view port around you have to hold the space bar PLUS the left mouse button. Brilliant design.
Apple: both retarded and inspired at the same time.
When MS talks about 'security' you have to ask 'Is this security in the computer systems meaning of the word or in the financial security sense of the word?'
In this case its fairly clear that MS is mainly concerned with financial security.
trying to set off real shoe bombs on an actual airplane?
By 'real shoe bombs' you mean 'shoe bombs that would actually detonate'?
Ie unlike the "shoe bombs" deployed by Richard Reid... Which were actually fake shoe bombs?
The fake shoe bombs in question were plastic explosives which he 'attempted' to detonate using *matches*. There was never a threat to the aircraft or its passengers.
These 'devices' would not have detonated and were fake bombs.
If I knew someone who had sat next to this guy on this flight, no I would not be insisting that people take off their shoes to get on an airplane.
I look forward to it being compatible with OSX. Trying to install the xpi results in an error that it is not compatible with the Thunderbird build Darwin_ppc-gcc3. Its the latest one from Mozilla too.:(
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but the alternative--50 independent nation states on the US continent--would suck even more.
:)
Hey, not for the rest of the world!
Break-up of the United States? Bring It On!
After all these years, it shouldn't be that easy to do. Vista was supposed to be the most secure operating system yet. Or so I recall.
Maybe from MS's perspective it *is* more secure for the OS to crash... rather than the driver get a buffer overrun leading to priviledge escalation...
I thought the whole point of Christian rock was that people could make heaps of money out of it because noone would rip it off -- the audience was that honest...
Every Christian is a walking, talking wallet full of cash for buying Christian rock music.
and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
You mean that people are actually ripping and sharing Christian rock??
Thats just *sick*.
and hire Clear Channel to monitor the stuff for us like they do their radio stations.
The hard part of any mass video monitoring system is looking for signs of thought or sense-crime.
Doing this with AI systems is a hard problem.
Getting enough man-power to have eyeballs on enough monitors for it to make a difference is a hard problem too... unless you turn the whole monitoring system into a gigantic reality TV show.
Get the citizens monitoring each other.
Offer free cable/satellite/HD TV to any citizen willing to have cameras in their homes. And the promise that they, too, will be on the latest reality TV craze -- stars in their own homes.
People would sign up for this en-masse. Especially in the UK.
Instead of:
we have an Internet out of control
He would have been better off with:
We have an internets gone wild and the hot spicy video of underage internet users to prove it!!!!!!11
Considering Windows is one of MS's supposed guaranteed cash cows, this is going to be absolute hell on investor confidence, and stock is going to tumble. *That* then becomes the real financial loss for MS.
:)
If I had shares in M$, I'd be selling them right about now.
And I advise everyone else to do the same...
oh god. such an overreaction
I thought it was hilarious... how wrong can you be, eh?
Did you try setting your user agent?
I've found that many sites which, at first glance, don't work with firefox, if I set the user agent appropriately somehow magically seem to work... Theres an extension for this.
Chimps don't live in areas where they may get frostbite.
Humans are well adapted to the sorts of places where they originated and have perfectly adequate feet for walking on rough surfaces; people are not as soft as civilisation would have you believe.
Spending all your energy making sure your bare feet don't get cut is the epitome of self-absorption
It hardly takes "all your energy" and being aware of ones surroundings is healthy, no?
I tend to think that the great achievement of the human being -- self awareness -- is also the greatest trap; because self awareness is so captivating, most people are seldom aware of anything else...
Or to put it succinctly, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana (thanks Noam).
Noam?
I think that remark was originally Marxist. Groucho Marxist.
Sorry, I took you "inspired and retarded" comment as sarcasm
:)
:)
Its an expression I've heard from other people some of whom are longer-term Mac users than myself...
Don't get me wrong, I think OSX is pretty good most of the time but sometimes the UI decisions seem really strange, like the keyboard shortcuts. Eg When editing a document the 'home' and 'end' keys take the viewport to the top or bottom of the document but leave the cursor where it was so that when you use the arrow keys you zoom back to where you were before. It took me ages to figure out that theres a splat-up-arrow and splat-down-arrow key combo.
I fail to see the value in shifting viewpoint in an editor but not shifting the cursor with it. Um... is there value in this that I'm just not seeing?
And up till now my preferred desktop has been KDE under Linux... not so much the Windows
OSX is a far better *NIX workstation than Linux of *any* flavor. And I've been a Linux user since 1992. Yes, that long. Which is why I'm used to being able to customise things
Its amazing isn't it? They obviously have NO idea what an election campaign costs these days...
Evolution is like a search engine and the search space is the possible genome of the species.
By enabling the reproduction of individuals who, in nature, would not have had opportunity to reproduce, the human race has, in effect, been able to explore more of the search space than had previously been possible.
Today, there are areas of the genome which previous generations may never have touched upon.
If this is actually the case then I'm surprised at the findings represented in this article; perhaps there is some kind of lag effect?
Anyhows, I fully expect that the extended search parameters enabled by civilisation will sooner or later produce such mutant freak babies as telepaths, the fantastic 4, x-men et al. Assuming these things are possible at all they should be easier to 'find' now...
Fleshy feet that cant walk along most surfaces without shoes
Bull *shit*.
Maybe your pansy, city-slicker feet are too soft and lily-white for you to stand to walk barefoot long enough for you to adapt but I've lived barefoot a fair bit in my life and a LOT of people walk barefoot on surfaces which you may not think possible.
There are a couple of factors which contribute: the toughness of the soles of your feet will improve quite a lot and the way in which you walk counts for a lot as well. Then theres being observant.
Most people going barefoot for the first time over rough or sharp surfaces, such as rocky coastlines or dirt roads, try to walk in the same style as they walk when wearing shoes; this is going to lead to pain and injury. They are also used to being able to walk pretty much without looking where they are going.
After watching how 'native' people walk barefoot I realised that it helps a lot to put the foot down fairly flatly, not heel first but as if you are trying to plant the whole surface of the foot on the ground at the same time.
Then you have to look ahead of yourself and get used to having a view of the world which includes the surface of the ground which you are about to step on. People in 'civilised' parts of the world are *incredibly* unobservant and self-absorbed. *INCREDIBLY*. Walking barefoot with your head in the clouds is going to get you hurt.
I've found myself able to walk on sharp, bare, volcanic rock with no pain or injury even with deconditioned (ie: softened) soles of my feet (after not going barefoot for a long time) merely by looking where I'm going and treading properly.
Seems like the little ball in the middle of my mouse moves the preview around just fine
I don't much like the clitoris mouse; when I try to use the clit as a scroll wheel to scroll up and down a web page it inevitably detects some sideways movement and takes me back or forward in history.
However I took your point and tried it out with the mouse I do use which is a microsoft mouse with side-tilt. Amazingly enough it works for panning the viewport in preview. I'll never say that MS never got anything right ever again...
And sure Apple have some right-click functionality but its not used consistently.
I am just getting used to the mac at the moment and its better than Windows in some ways and just plain retarded in others. Like I said, both inspired and retarded simultaneously.
It could do with better ability to customise and tune, but the preferences on most apps and in the system preferences control panel gadgets are just condescendingly simple and unhelpful.
And anyway, I still maintain that the philosophy that one mouse button plus keyboard buttons in various combinations is not good ergonomics; its best to give the user the choice in as many ways as possible.
Thus, when your hands are both on the keyboard you should not have to reach for the mouse to perform basic operations such as moving focus from one dialog button to the next. And when your hand is on the mouse and the keyboard is out of reach, you should not have to reach for the keyboard for little things like eg the one mouse button plus control key to bring up a menu combination.
I'm giving the Mac a chance I only wish that it were more configurable. Or at least more obviously configurable. I've been trying to find a resource to help me get under the hood. I got 'the missing manual' but its as condescending as the preferences in the Apple iLife applications... Pointers would be appreciated.
*Under* the *hood* please.
The majoy *annoyance* was however, not then mouse itself, but PC users crowing on about the 'one button' design, ignoring the fact that Mac Software was (surprisingly enough) designed for 1 button mice, and 103 more buttons were available on a nearby keyboard when required. (emphasis mine).
Yeah, Mac users having to use two hands to perform operations that PC users do with just one... thats such clearly superior UI design from Apple.
NOT.
My un-favorite is in OSX Preview app where in order to drag the view port around you have to hold the space bar PLUS the left mouse button. Brilliant design.
Apple: both retarded and inspired at the same time.
When MS talks about 'security' you have to ask 'Is this security in the computer systems meaning of the word or in the financial security sense of the word?'
In this case its fairly clear that MS is mainly concerned with financial security.
Beside, Mac doesn't let you run OSX under virtualization anywhere!
IIRC, the OSX license only states that you can only run it on Apple hardware.
Since a virtual machine running on a Mac *is* running on Apple hardware there should be no problem running OSX on a VM running on Apple hardware.
trying to set off real shoe bombs on an actual airplane?
By 'real shoe bombs' you mean 'shoe bombs that would actually detonate'?
Ie unlike the "shoe bombs" deployed by Richard Reid... Which were actually fake shoe bombs?
The fake shoe bombs in question were plastic explosives which he 'attempted' to detonate using *matches*. There was never a threat to the aircraft or its passengers.
These 'devices' would not have detonated and were fake bombs.
If I knew someone who had sat next to this guy on this flight, no I would not be insisting that people take off their shoes to get on an airplane.
Apple isn't retarded
Apple is both retarded and inspired at the same time, like an idiot savant.
Just look at the keyboard shortcuts.
Mailody
Oh My God!
It does not start with a 'K'?????
If you're referring to top posting, then you can kindly avoid doing that.
On the other hand, strict non-top-posting can result in having to wade through pages of quoted text to find the "Me too!" at the bottom.
I've tried it on Linux and Lightning looks good.
:(
I look forward to it being compatible with OSX. Trying to install the xpi results in an error that it is not compatible with the Thunderbird build Darwin_ppc-gcc3. Its the latest one from Mozilla too.