In that timeframe, I actually had 3 annual flu shots. Every single time I got the shots, I was ill within about 8 hours and it stayed very sick for about 72 hours.
If a placebo can make you feel better - it strikes me that fear can make you sick.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
It's just as likely they would have told you:
"I don't want to shovel all that shit.
"I don't want to build a barn and hire a boy to stable, feed and maintain a horse."
"I'm a country doctor on call. I can't be spending half an hour hitching up a buggy."
"I'm a farmer. I need a practical tractor for field work. Something with a PTO for a harvester or baler."
The first company that realizes the obvious, and sticks a power efficient screen in an ergonomic form factor, ignores all Microsoft attacks and bribes to make it run 7, and makes it almost disposable cheap......will have a product that the whole world will stampede to buy.
The XO had confirmed sales of about 1 million units before being modified to run Windows and MS Office.
3 million XO laptops running Windows and Office are being distributed to rural India. The first mass deployment of the XO in Asia. US-based outfit to distribute three million laptops to poor rural kids
To rub salt in the geek's wounds, the deployment is being sponsored in part by Google and Red Hat - and Linux scarcely rates a mention.
The world didn't stampede to buy the Linux Simputer. It didn't stampede to buy the Linux netbook.
You could argue - with a touch of malice, to be sure - that it will be the geek who gets trampled this time around the track as well.
Neither do I believe that broadcasts of stories like The Veldt have entered the public domain, as alleged by archive.org.
Destination X looked to stories like First Contact, Destination Moon, A Pebble in the Sky. You can't fault these choices for a hard core sci-fi series.
But The Twilight Zone mined very different ground.
So if I ask for "scatterbrain" and it returns five hundred instances of "scatterbrain.mp3", I should have the right to know which 3 out of 4 files is OK to download.
If this worries you, why aren't you downloading directly from the artist's or label's site? The torrent from an unknown and untrusted source is inherently more dangerous.
One potential scenario could be during an emergency where the mobile phone network was unavailable or clogged. In a city centre, users could set up the network to share information, video, photographs and, depending on the final client applications, even locate friends and loved ones.
The emergency scenario implies extended and widespread power outages. When you battery dies, it dies, and it just might take you with it.
The cell phone designer makes certain simplying assumptions: that you will be well within range of a commercial grade repeater mounted high and with a relatively unobstructed line of sight.
That you aren't trying to hop-scotch your way at street level across midtown Manhatten in a sleet storm.
You are going to need one hell of an algorithym to manage the load if you allow unrestricted traffic in photos and video under 9/11 conditions.
What's needed here most is the ability to send a brief - meanignful - text message.
Hasn't stuff like this been around forever? Certainly HAM & CB counts for something.
But the CB or HAM operator has made a big investment in mobile/emergency power, antenna systems and so on. He will formallly or informally prioritize traffic - so that the essential traddic moves quickly and efficiently.
Prior to CSPAN the Congress used to actually sit on the floor. After CSPAN they started hiding behind closed doors. So really CPSAN didn't reveal government - it just drove it underground.
The everyday work of the House and Senate is done in committee.
There are 100 Senators. 435 Representatives.
Twenty-five commitees in the House alone. Committee Offices Each with its own staff and funding.
In 1850 the House had 233 members and the Senate 62.
The Senate in those days was the place to be if you wanted to hear some remarkable debate and oratory: The Seventh of March Speech
But this sort of thing eats up a hell of lot of time if everyone wants to have their say.
In 1900 the House had 357 members and the Senate 90.
At this point, you simply have to break the work down to managable size or nothing gets done.
The standing committee with a permanent staff has a reasonable chance of holding its own against the executive, the bureaucrat and the lobbyist.
This is the fallacy of term limits.
No one is going to master the federal tax code, military procurement, agricultural policy, Social Security and Medicaid-Medicare - in two years.
rather useful skill... develops a desire to learn more about computers.
If simply installing Linux has become as easy as the geek pretends, why should it inspire any greater desire to learn about the machine than any other OS?
But the traditional jury selection process rejects people with critical thinking skills - engineers in particular.
If you can prove this, fine.
If you can't, don't present it as gospel truth.
The pay is eminently lousy.
The guy who isn't trying to weasel out of this damn well knows what he getting into and is willing to make the commitment.
In a federal civil trial, each side gets three peremptory challenges.
How to frame your challenges for cause when confronted with a randomly selected jury pool - how to frame your challenges in a way that systematically excludes the engineer - is really quite beyond me.
Whether the engineer's critical judgment remains quite so sound outside the narrow bounds of his profession is a question I will leave for another time.
Technically, they have this in the USA; judges are elected. In practice, this means that judges are subject to the same pressures as the legislature and executive (i.e. needing bribes, uh, campaign contributions, to get reelected) so it doesn't actually solve the
U.S. federal judges are appointed.
Rhode Island District Court Judge William E. Smith was nominated by President George Bush in July 2002 and confirmed by the Senate in November 2002.
Only one federal district judge has ever been convicted of bribery. Jury Convicts U.S. District Judge in Bribery Case [1991]
The formal impeachment and removal of a federal judge - for any cause - is extraordinarily rare. Impeachment in the United States
Loose talk of bribery has become the geek's all-purpose explanation of judicial decisions that are not to his liking.
Why should anyone who just forked out $xxx for a brand-new OS then be forced to pay yearly "protection money" as well? Sounds like a racket to me.
The "service and support" model in FOSS can sound like a racket as well.
The poster here might also usefully remember that the ordinary user doesn't blame Microsoft for malware - he blames the guy who wrote the program - launched the attack - and the culture which produced him.
He doesn't fine distinctions between hackers, crackers and geeks.
... inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet...
All bet are on...
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You forgot the Bonus Point for the quote from Star Wars.
The geek's inalienable right to a free movie fix has always struck me as the ultimate in middle class entitlements. It means absolutely nothing if you can't afford a mid-line PC and broadband service.
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In that timeframe, I actually had 3 annual flu shots. Every single time I got the shots, I was ill within about 8 hours and it stayed very sick for about 72 hours.
If a placebo can make you feel better - it strikes me that fear can make you sick.
The world is stampeding to by the BSD based iPhone though. They like the shiny interface. The difference is marketing.
I doubt that a bare 1% of the iPhone market knows or cares about the *nix roots of the OS.
But you are quite right to say that they care about the iPhone's UI. That is where they spend their time.
They also care about the iPhone app.
That it comes with the Apple stamp of approval. That is clearly and attractively presented to the iPhone shopper.
This is where branding and marketing can reap huge benefits.
FOSS began as a development model.
To many it has become an ideological, religious, or political commitment.
The door that slams on the Seventh Day Adventist is often open to the Fuller Brush salesman.
Too often what FOSS is not is a market-oriented product that can stand on its own as best-of-breed.
That is where the geek's contempt for the "shiny interface" comes into play.
It's just as likely they would have told you:
"I don't want to shovel all that shit.
"I don't want to build a barn and hire a boy to stable, feed and maintain a horse."
"I'm a country doctor on call.
I can't be spending half an hour hitching up a buggy."
"I'm a farmer.
I need a practical tractor for field work. Something with a PTO for a harvester or baler."
The first company that realizes the obvious, and sticks a power efficient screen in an ergonomic form factor, ignores all Microsoft attacks and bribes to make it run 7, and makes it almost disposable cheap... ...will have a product that the whole world will stampede to buy.
The XO had confirmed sales of about 1 million units before being modified to run Windows and MS Office.
3 million XO laptops running Windows and Office are being distributed to rural India. The first mass deployment of the XO in Asia. US-based outfit to distribute three million laptops to poor rural kids To rub salt in the geek's wounds, the deployment is being sponsored in part by Google and Red Hat - and Linux scarcely rates a mention.
The world didn't stampede to buy the Linux Simputer. It didn't stampede to buy the Linux netbook.
You could argue - with a touch of malice, to be sure - that it will be the geek who gets trampled this time around the track as well.
I don't believe it:
Dimension X
Neither do I believe that broadcasts of stories like The Veldt have entered the public domain, as alleged by archive.org.
Destination X looked to stories like First Contact, Destination Moon, A Pebble in the Sky. You can't fault these choices for a hard core sci-fi series.
But The Twilight Zone mined very different ground.
I won't be going anywhere. I refuse to let my government have my fingerprints, in order to renew my passport.
Now tell me how many other government agencies or private employers and services have access to your fingerprints.
How you explain to your boss why you a) can't travel abroad or b) have been denied clearance to enter certain facilities?
uh, wireless hdmi?
$800
Latency 85-90ms.
Maxes out at 1080p30.
Some motion-compression artifacts. Some loss in detail. Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender (EXT-WHDMI)
The HDMI 1.4 cable supports 4K x 2K video, 3D over HDMI, Ethernet, etc.
If this worries you, why aren't you downloading directly from the artist's or label's site? The torrent from an unknown and untrusted source is inherently more dangerous.
This is of course, only possible if the writers of P2P software actually give two hoots about the bill.....
The author might not care. But the distributor will.
No downloads from CNET - and - quite possibly - no downloads through Sourceforge or your favorite Linux repository either.
The distributor is exposed and he is likely to have a legally and financially significant presence in the U.S.
He can be reached and he can be hurt.
This tag has never been more appropriate...
Or more insignificant.
It won't deter Apple's customers from choosing the iPhone if their cellular provider has it to offer.
One potential scenario could be during an emergency where the mobile phone network was unavailable or clogged. In a city centre, users could set up the network to share information, video, photographs and, depending on the final client applications, even locate friends and loved ones.
The emergency scenario implies extended and widespread power outages. When you battery dies, it dies, and it just might take you with it.
The cell phone designer makes certain simplying assumptions: that you will be well within range of a commercial grade repeater mounted high and with a relatively unobstructed line of sight.
That you aren't trying to hop-scotch your way at street level across midtown Manhatten in a sleet storm.
You are going to need one hell of an algorithym to manage the load if you allow unrestricted traffic in photos and video under 9/11 conditions.
What's needed here most is the ability to send a brief - meanignful - text message.
Hasn't stuff like this been around forever? Certainly HAM & CB counts for something.
But the CB or HAM operator has made a big investment in mobile/emergency power, antenna systems and so on. He will formallly or informally prioritize traffic - so that the essential traddic moves quickly and efficiently.
Prior to CSPAN the Congress used to actually sit on the floor. After CSPAN they started hiding behind closed doors. So really CPSAN didn't reveal government - it just drove it underground.
The everyday work of the House and Senate is done in committee.
There are 100 Senators. 435 Representatives.
Twenty-five commitees in the House alone. Committee Offices Each with its own staff and funding.
In 1850 the House had 233 members and the Senate 62.
The Senate in those days was the place to be if you wanted to hear some remarkable debate and oratory: The Seventh of March Speech
But this sort of thing eats up a hell of lot of time if everyone wants to have their say.
In 1900 the House had 357 members and the Senate 90.
At this point, you simply have to break the work down to managable size or nothing gets done.
The standing committee with a permanent staff has a reasonable chance of holding its own against the executive, the bureaucrat and the lobbyist.
This is the fallacy of term limits.
No one is going to master the federal tax code, military procurement, agricultural policy, Social Security and Medicaid-Medicare - in two years.
Don't need to see through walls when your outside... duh!
True. But you might want network access outside without installing an antenna on your roof.
Waste of time, money and reputation.
The Wii is a casual - family-oriented - gaming platform. Wii Fit an instant hit among young women.
This is how Nintendo builds its reputation and sales and it needs the modder about as much as a car needs a fifth wheel.
The geek has no sense of scale.
His place in the overall scheme of things.
Oops! Map was wrong and we are in the wrong house!
The occupants and first responders are still at far less risk than if the entry was made blindly.
Step 1 Paint your house with iy.
Step 2: Install a Faraday cage in the basement.
Some folks step out into the light and air.
Which means they'll want WiFi access on the porch, the back yard - the patio and the sundeck.
Pirates switch to Linux
End of problem and it will takes windows out of the Free OS market.
Someday - and it can't come too soon, to my way of thinking - the geek will understand why OSX and Windows own 99% of the desktop.
The pirate gets his free OS.
The honest Joe who shops for Windows or the Mac is in the market for a household appliance or an office workhorse sold under warranty.
The attractive OEM hardware and software bundle. Factory tested. All hardware and software issues resolved before it ships.
No googling for solutions - it works out of the box or it goes back to the store.
rather useful skill... develops a desire to learn more about computers.
If simply installing Linux has become as easy as the geek pretends, why should it inspire any greater desire to learn about the machine than any other OS?
But the traditional jury selection process rejects people with critical thinking skills - engineers in particular.
If you can prove this, fine.
If you can't, don't present it as gospel truth.
The pay is eminently lousy.
The guy who isn't trying to weasel out of this damn well knows what he getting into and is willing to make the commitment.
In a federal civil trial, each side gets three peremptory challenges.
How to frame your challenges for cause when confronted with a randomly selected jury pool - how to frame your challenges in a way that systematically excludes the engineer - is really quite beyond me.
Whether the engineer's critical judgment remains quite so sound outside the narrow bounds of his profession is a question I will leave for another time.
But I have my doubts.
Technically, they have this in the USA; judges are elected. In practice, this means that judges are subject to the same pressures as the legislature and executive (i.e. needing bribes, uh, campaign contributions, to get reelected) so it doesn't actually solve the
U.S. federal judges are appointed.
Rhode Island District Court Judge William E. Smith was nominated by President George Bush in July 2002 and confirmed by the Senate in November 2002.
Only one federal district judge has ever been convicted of bribery.
Jury Convicts U.S. District Judge in Bribery Case [1991]
The formal impeachment and removal of a federal judge - for any cause - is extraordinarily rare. Impeachment in the United States
Loose talk of bribery has become the geek's all-purpose explanation of judicial decisions that are not to his liking.
Your Freedom
The freedom which matters to the Windows user is the freedom to run his Windows programs.
He has no interest in ideological purity or political correctness.
Why should anyone who just forked out $xxx for a brand-new OS then be forced to pay yearly "protection money" as well? Sounds like a racket to me.
The "service and support" model in FOSS can sound like a racket as well.
The poster here might also usefully remember that the ordinary user doesn't blame Microsoft for malware - he blames the guy who wrote the program - launched the attack - and the culture which produced him.
He doesn't fine distinctions between hackers, crackers and geeks.
If a person is sufficiently motivated, especially if they're well-trained or on drugs, even *lethal* force can be inadequate to stop them.
It doesn't play out like in the movies.
There is always a weapon - and always a shot - that will get the job done.
The SWAT team goes home for supper. You make your exit in a body bag.
My response would be 'goodluckwiththat'
The museum can't play fast and loose with the law.
It can't play fast and loose with its donors - or significant works go elsewhere and donors sue for recovery.
Time for a reality check:
When Paramount presented the original Enterprise model from the Star Trek series to the Smithsonian do you think the gift came without restrictions?
... inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet ...
All bet are on ...
+5 Insightful
-5 Troll
+5 Funny
You forgot the Bonus Point for the quote from Star Wars.
The geek's inalienable right to a free movie fix has always struck me as the ultimate in middle class entitlements. It means absolutely nothing if you can't afford a mid-line PC and broadband service.