That's what I wondered exactly. Make it *low* but reasonable cost, sell it to whoever wants it.. and if someone wants to privately subsidize it - just send money or boxes over. Trying to specify a price, specify who can and can't buy it and who can't sell it is a recipe for trouble.
I don't think that it does leave room, as 'let' isn't a passive allowance if you compare it to 1:3, 'Let there be light, and there was light'. Cause: 'let', effect: 'light'. Also you can compare other passages, where the entire activity is referred to as "make" - Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy., and Acts 4:24 And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, "O Lord, it is Thou who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them. Plus, the time period mentioned wouldn't allow the 'make' to take place over generations. Exodus is referring to the 6+1 day pattern of creation as the basis for the sabbath. Hope this helps.
a "CRT+mouse" computer may not be suited (to those 100% blind), perhaps. But there are lots of forms the human-computer interaction could take. Keyboard+spoken is just another form.
This is a lot like saying (years ago, at least, and I've heard it said just a few years ago), "Computers only work in English. It's not practical to adapt them to other languages." Well, the first part may be true in many cases, but it's not that other languages don't suit the computer - it's just that it wasn't done (enter social/political/historical/economic issues).
You are so very right. There is a certain bit of advantage to the old, pre-"personal computer" raised floor model: only trained techs use the computer. With that level of insulation there isn't the expectation that YOU control the computer directly.
It is very important for those of us who are technical to NOT look down on people for not wasting all of their mental energy on the ins and outs of the complicated and broken systems that pass for 'computing' these days. And yes, I include my Mac in this category as still being arbitrarily complex, although (in my opinion) they are significantly better.
Let's face it: your average internet-connected system is not 100% end-user manageable out of the box.
Here's a modest proposal: ISPs could block ALL attachments (and all ports?) (with the exception of script-less html) until users complete a short little online 'course' in email and virus safety. Print out a nice certificate of completion at the end.
Forget FF. You want Tiger Power(tm) cereal! That's what I've been having since T-day..
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If the editors checked to see that this was (a) dyndns to (b) a dsl account, they could have replied to the "AC" and asked them to host it somewhere else first.. (whatever "it" is)
If everyone spent time learning computer languages, what would that do to the skill of the doctors, architects, poets, etc? Why should everyone's mind be trained to think along the patterns of high level languages designed to run on our von neumann architecture machines?
Computers are tools, and should serve us. I'm constantly telling people, "Don't think you are stupid because you don't understand how to do some task on the computer. Some nerd in a windowless office wrote the code behind this program, yes you may need to learn how to make it do what you want, but it's not your stupidity."
Here's an analogy. If you had an old car which would only start if you hit it in the right spot, pull the choke at the right time, would people applaud you for being an automotive genius? No, they'd say, why don't you fix/sell that piece of junk and get a new one. Why then do people use terms like 'computer genius' (in the general public) to refer to someone who is able to make the computer do what they want? Using the command line is technician work - it is a skill, and a valued one, but it is way overvalued in society today. (This isn't meant to be a troll, but as an example, our favorite software company in redmond encourages this kind of thinking by the design of their software.)
Sure software is useful, and speaking as a software engineer, I enjoy making my own 'tools' for various uses. However, I wouldn't want everyone to have to think the same way - how boring.
It would be far more productive if people took the time to learn an additional human language.
The real reason anyone is a peasant in this technological age, is because they are too impressed with technology, they believe what the technology (internet, tv) tells them instead of thinking for themselves! Example: jdbcmgr.exe virus hoax.
update, another human replied that Network Solutions and Verisign Inc. operate differently from one another. Well.. I'm sure the financial message can be relayed from one to the other!
http://gandi.net - i have a bunch of doms with them, they've always been good. Great services.
I just transferred my one remaining domain. I also emailed and queued (in postal mail) a complaint. I got a response that seemed like an autoresponder gone awry: We have received and reviewed your e-mail, however, we are having difficulty understanding your request.... We genuinely want to help you in this matter.In order for us to assist you please send the following information.. [domain name, account number, etc..] your continued patience is appreciated. Kind of odd, but maybe VS thought this was not important enough to educate the troops on. Hey, if that was a real human, they get points for answering their emails at 2 in the morning. Anyone else had any responses?
Yeah, I remember that! It used flowcharts instead of @FORMULAS(). The developer (an aquaintance) showed it at macworld and I took a demo home. (didn't buy it)
Seemed like a good idea at the time, but I didn't have much use for spreadsheets then.. Nowadays, I think the 'helper' features in excel probably make things something near easy enough, i.e. you can press a single button to sum a row.
All of those spreadsheets you mention have interesting features. There's so little innovation these days. When I think of the things I worked on, or saw demoed, or even purchased that either never saw the light of day or faded under the crush of 'good enough' software from MS or others... it makes me sad.
Why did I purchase Office X ? Because it's good enough. It's stable. It reads and writes the files I need to work with. I'd love to switch to open solutions.. but for example, openoffice is still X11 based.
Maybe it'll show again at 11pm. It was a well done story- it emphasized how FD is an emergency preparedness event, besides being a lot of fun and a great way for folks to learn about the hobby.
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That's what I wondered exactly. Make it *low* but reasonable cost, sell it to whoever wants it.. and if someone wants to privately subsidize it - just send money or boxes over. Trying to specify a price, specify who can and can't buy it and who can't sell it is a recipe for trouble.
Maybe mutations are caused by "copying errors" in the source material during FTP/HTTP?
I don't think that it does leave room, as 'let' isn't a passive allowance if you compare it to 1:3, 'Let there be light, and there was light'. Cause: 'let', effect: 'light'. Also you can compare other passages, where the entire activity is referred to as "make" - Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy., and Acts 4:24 And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, "O Lord, it is Thou who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.
Plus, the time period mentioned wouldn't allow the 'make' to take place over generations. Exodus is referring to the 6+1 day pattern of creation as the basis for the sabbath. Hope this helps.
and pay for their medical bills..
And don't forget, "preferences" are the domain of the immature and "elite".
Aren't some of these from other copyrighted works?
a "CRT+mouse" computer may not be suited (to those 100% blind), perhaps. But there are lots of forms the human-computer interaction could take. Keyboard+spoken is just another form.
This is a lot like saying (years ago, at least, and I've heard it said just a few years ago), "Computers only work in English. It's not practical to adapt them to other languages." Well, the first part may be true in many cases, but it's not that other languages don't suit the computer - it's just that it wasn't done (enter social/political/historical/economic issues).
---still trying to learn braille
Novel idea: so don't buy the pants if you don't like them?
Oh I know, I didn't say it was an airtight solution.
.exe files anyways.
But it could provide SOME barrier to people who just plug it in and don't know what they are doing- and don't need to be forwarding
You are so very right. There is a certain bit of advantage to the old, pre-"personal computer" raised floor model: only trained techs use the computer. With that level of insulation there isn't the expectation that YOU control the computer directly.
It is very important for those of us who are technical to NOT look down on people for not wasting all of their mental energy on the ins and outs of the complicated and broken systems that pass for 'computing' these days. And yes, I include my Mac in this category as still being arbitrarily complex, although (in my opinion) they are significantly better.
Let's face it: your average internet-connected system is not 100% end-user manageable out of the box.
Here's a modest proposal: ISPs could block ALL attachments (and all ports?) (with the exception of script-less html) until users complete a short little online 'course' in email and virus safety. Print out a nice certificate of completion at the end.
Forget FF. You want Tiger Power(tm) cereal! That's what I've been having since T-day..
If the editors checked to see that this was (a) dyndns to (b) a dsl account, they could have replied to the "AC" and asked them to host it somewhere else first.. (whatever "it" is)
at least it makes it easier to disappear after the /. .. is this a new kind of DSL speed test?
If everyone spent time learning computer languages, what would that do to the skill of the doctors, architects, poets, etc? Why should everyone's mind be trained to think along the patterns of high level languages designed to run on our von neumann architecture machines?
Computers are tools, and should serve us. I'm constantly telling people, "Don't think you are stupid because you don't understand how to do some task on the computer. Some nerd in a windowless office wrote the code behind this program, yes you may need to learn how to make it do what you want, but it's not your stupidity."
Here's an analogy. If you had an old car which would only start if you hit it in the right spot, pull the choke at the right time, would people applaud you for being an automotive genius? No, they'd say, why don't you fix/sell that piece of junk and get a new one. Why then do people use terms like 'computer genius' (in the general public) to refer to someone who is able to make the computer do what they want? Using the command line is technician work - it is a skill, and a valued one, but it is way overvalued in society today. (This isn't meant to be a troll, but as an example, our favorite software company in redmond encourages this kind of thinking by the design of their software.)
Sure software is useful, and speaking as a software engineer, I enjoy making my own 'tools' for various uses. However, I wouldn't want everyone to have to think the same way - how boring.
It would be far more productive if people took the time to learn an additional human language.
The real reason anyone is a peasant in this technological age, is because they are too impressed with technology, they believe what the technology (internet, tv) tells them instead of thinking for themselves! Example: jdbcmgr.exe virus hoax.
Mountain View, California is a city [home of netscape, sgi, .. ] and not a company.. unless I'm missing something (and I thought I read the article)
update, another human replied that Network Solutions and Verisign Inc. operate differently from one another. Well.. I'm sure the financial message can be relayed from one to the other!
http://gandi.net - i have a bunch of doms with them, they've always been good. Great services.
... We genuinely want to help you in this matter.In order for us to assist you please send the following information .. [domain name, account number, etc..] your continued patience is appreciated.
I just transferred my one remaining domain. I also emailed and queued (in postal mail) a complaint. I got a response that seemed like an autoresponder gone awry:
We have received and reviewed your e-mail, however, we are having difficulty understanding your request.
Kind of odd, but maybe VS thought this was not important enough to educate the troops on. Hey, if that was a real human, they get points for answering their emails at 2 in the morning. Anyone else had any responses?
Hmm, according to the article, Iran itself may have requested the block of Persian-language transmissions coming out of the US.
Yeah, I remember that! It used flowcharts instead of @FORMULAS(). The developer (an aquaintance) showed it at macworld and I took a demo home. (didn't buy it)
Seemed like a good idea at the time, but I didn't have much use for spreadsheets then.. Nowadays, I think the 'helper' features in excel probably make things something near easy enough, i.e. you can press a single button to sum a row.
All of those spreadsheets you mention have interesting features. There's so little innovation these days. When I think of the things I worked on, or saw demoed, or even purchased that either never saw the light of day or faded under the crush of 'good enough' software from MS or others... it makes me sad.
Why did I purchase Office X ? Because it's good enough. It's stable. It reads and writes the files I need to work with. I'd love to switch to open solutions.. but for example, openoffice is still X11 based.
It's sad to see old timers go..
Maybe it'll show again at 11pm. It was a well done story- it emphasized how FD is an emergency preparedness event, besides being a lot of fun and a great way for folks to learn about the hobby.