This just serves to remind us, 'liberal' and 'conservative' alike, that political maneuvering and groupthink look pretty much exactly the same and have the same consequences, regardless on which side of the ideological fence it occurs.
Groupthink is groupthink, and it's ALWAYS bad.
That's why, as a liberal, I preferred Dennis Kucinich and am wary of Obama; Obama is far too good at mixing up the Kool-Aid and fomenting groupthink. Kucinich is a plain talker, and it apparently makes him unpopular for saying things that rattle people's delusions and make them uncomfortable. Obama NEVER does that. He's a playa.
So this wouldn't really just be another means for greedy people to control and manipulate my perception and information in such a way that it benefits them? Like having selective "points of interest" in navigation and mapping software, those inclusions only being available to those "points" willing to pony up a chunk of dough for the privilege?
This "reality overlay" is really about reality control/filtering.
I never said he was an EXPERT: I said he knew enough to recognize that there were probable unpleasant consequences of actually building them all. I'm not an expert in thermodynamics nor climatology nor even engineering, either, so I don't have the data you desire. Doesn't matter... "data" is almost as malleable as statistics and studies, so the source and methodology and whether it's been peer-reviewed matters more than the actual "data" itself.
Right... because audio is NEVER distracting? Have you SEEN people flailing their arms, bobbing that head, gyrating around, and making the car rock like it's riding a wave, just because they're listening to some tune they really like?
... some torture involving his testicles. Of course since he's 64 maybe they atrophied and he doesn't have any? OTOH, he musta had some balls to pull this kinda crap....
This is exactly sort of solution I've been suggesting to avoid concerns of Big Brother while creating better awareness and security. This particular instance might not take it as far as I'd like, but it's a step. OPEN THE PROCESS UP, let citizens monitor the cameras and "be the eyes" and the police react when they're called. That's the way it's supposed to work. What we have then is a lot more like an old-fashioned Neighborhood Watch brought forward into the Digital Age than a close resemblance to Big Brother.
Go ahead and make fun of his question and concern, but it's a valid concern. He obviously understands thermodynamics well enough to understand that this "study" is taking quite a lot out of context. That's precisely what ALL the "renewable energy" hucksters have been doing. There are no free lunches when it comes to energy and thermodynamics; there is ALWAYS a price to be paid, and more often than not the price is huge but in fine print on the last page of the contract.
We got a bit lucky with petroleum, because that price was paid down in advance by Mother Nature over hundreds of millions of years. Do we honestly think we're going to find an equivalently abundant source of energy that we can process and harness virtually in realtime with no destructive consequences? Gimme a break.
Kucinich is the one man in our Congress who had the balls to stand up and try to start impeachment proceedings against culpable officials of the last administration; he risked his own political career to do it. His own party leadership publicly vowed to oppose his effort. Obama, a member of that same party, has refused to support an investigation.
It's funny to me that the greatest amount of political courage and ethics is concentrated in such a diminutive man. IMHO, in terms of ethics he's a giant compared to most of his Congressional colleagues. Most of them TALK about ethics but don't actually have any, just as corporations say quality and customer satisfaction is their priority when in fact neither is the case. Most often the ethically dubious scum rises to the top, but every so often you get an iconoclastic gem like Kucinich. He's a diamond in the rough, but we got the polished cubic zirconia as President.
... did the Obama Campaign receive from IP holders? Was it a landslide enough to help him get elected, I wonder?
Between having so many "friends of the RIAA" in the Department of Justice, VP Biden bragging that Big Media will love the new Copyright Czar, and this continued tight-lipped-ness about ACTA, I think it's pretty damned clear what Obama's REAL agenda will be for the next four years.
All of you fools that thought Obama was the Messiah screwed-up: you voted for Judas instead. The real Messiah might have been Dennis Kucinich, and coincidentally he got crucified... both by the DNC *and* voters.
I guess I should have annotated it with some smiley or ASCII-sketched a tongue in cheek?
Nevertheless, as you noted, there is still some truth even in humor. Ignoring for the moment the possibility that at some point the activity might NOT be viewed as criminal (or tortious?), and further ignoring the vanishingly remote possibility that she DIDN'T commit said acts, Thomas was indeed a stupid and careless criminal. She got caught because she just broke into the house through the front door with a sledgehammer. Had she cased the joint and studied the layout, she would have formulated a much different plan of attack and possibly walked away scot-free with the loot.
It's always the dumbest criminals that get caught. The really good ones possess above average intelligence and problem-solving skills, and are much less likely to get ensnared.
It's always the stupid and careless pirates that get caught in the harbor. It's natural evolution at work, a culling of the weak and unfit from the pirate fleet. Feel sad if you must for Thomas, but also feel comfort that evolution has done its job: the pirates that remain are the cream of the crop. They will bear an even more naturally skilled crew to man the next fleet of sloops and schooners.
... it cares only about benefiting itself. IP is the new Last Frontier of land grabs, and unlike actual land they can create an infinite amount of the stuff to control.
Once upon a time it was possession and control of land, real estate, that caused friction, conflict, and wars. No more: land is a finite commodity. The new Last Frontier is this so-called intellectual property, where an infinite amount of things to control can be created out of thin air. These things don't require armies of soldiers to control them, instead they require armies of lawyers and expert witnesses. There seems to be an economy of scale to this new IP real estate, though, because it requires a whole lot less investment in hardware and human resources to control this IP than a coveted patch of land with armies and tanks and planes and guns.
800x600 is not merely retrograde, it's downright Cro-Magnon! Four times that area was a minimum for me a decade ago. These days it's minimum 1920 horizontal or bust!
Get this guy a Princeton monochrome monitor from 20 years ago and he'll probably still be happy.:-)
Ironically, large scale storage would be an ideal application for SSDs, given that the point of failure in the devices is the media itself and the more you write to it the more likely it is to begin failing. Large scale storage is not likely to endure as many writes as an "OS drive", as you put it. The point of failure in fixed magnetic media (these days) is likely to be something other than the media itself.
Frankly it's that failure of the media itself that makes me leery of both Flash and writable optical media. At least with fixed magnetic drives you'll have the likely option of paying a couple thousand bucks to some outfit with a cleanroom to swap your platters and retrieve your data if the drive itself fails.
You missed the point, which was that the MEDIA ITSELF in those drives has not degraded significantly over all that time. That is not the case with either Flash RAM nor optical media, for both of which it's the MEDIA ITSELF that is the point of failure.
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This just serves to remind us, 'liberal' and 'conservative' alike, that political maneuvering and groupthink look pretty much exactly the same and have the same consequences, regardless on which side of the ideological fence it occurs.
Groupthink is groupthink, and it's ALWAYS bad.
That's why, as a liberal, I preferred Dennis Kucinich and am wary of Obama; Obama is far too good at mixing up the Kool-Aid and fomenting groupthink. Kucinich is a plain talker, and it apparently makes him unpopular for saying things that rattle people's delusions and make them uncomfortable. Obama NEVER does that. He's a playa.
So this wouldn't really just be another means for greedy people to control and manipulate my perception and information in such a way that it benefits them? Like having selective "points of interest" in navigation and mapping software, those inclusions only being available to those "points" willing to pony up a chunk of dough for the privilege?
This "reality overlay" is really about reality control/filtering.
And Germany. And...?
I never said he was an EXPERT: I said he knew enough to recognize that there were probable unpleasant consequences of actually building them all. I'm not an expert in thermodynamics nor climatology nor even engineering, either, so I don't have the data you desire. Doesn't matter... "data" is almost as malleable as statistics and studies, so the source and methodology and whether it's been peer-reviewed matters more than the actual "data" itself.
Right... because audio is NEVER distracting? Have you SEEN people flailing their arms, bobbing that head, gyrating around, and making the car rock like it's riding a wave, just because they're listening to some tune they really like?
... some torture involving his testicles. Of course since he's 64 maybe they atrophied and he doesn't have any? OTOH, he musta had some balls to pull this kinda crap....
If they're already "dead", does it really matter if I wish them to be?
This is exactly sort of solution I've been suggesting to avoid concerns of Big Brother while creating better awareness and security. This particular instance might not take it as far as I'd like, but it's a step. OPEN THE PROCESS UP, let citizens monitor the cameras and "be the eyes" and the police react when they're called. That's the way it's supposed to work. What we have then is a lot more like an old-fashioned Neighborhood Watch brought forward into the Digital Age than a close resemblance to Big Brother.
Go ahead and make fun of his question and concern, but it's a valid concern. He obviously understands thermodynamics well enough to understand that this "study" is taking quite a lot out of context. That's precisely what ALL the "renewable energy" hucksters have been doing. There are no free lunches when it comes to energy and thermodynamics; there is ALWAYS a price to be paid, and more often than not the price is huge but in fine print on the last page of the contract.
We got a bit lucky with petroleum, because that price was paid down in advance by Mother Nature over hundreds of millions of years. Do we honestly think we're going to find an equivalently abundant source of energy that we can process and harness virtually in realtime with no destructive consequences? Gimme a break.
His question demands an answer.
Kucinich is the one man in our Congress who had the balls to stand up and try to start impeachment proceedings against culpable officials of the last administration; he risked his own political career to do it. His own party leadership publicly vowed to oppose his effort. Obama, a member of that same party, has refused to support an investigation.
It's funny to me that the greatest amount of political courage and ethics is concentrated in such a diminutive man. IMHO, in terms of ethics he's a giant compared to most of his Congressional colleagues. Most of them TALK about ethics but don't actually have any, just as corporations say quality and customer satisfaction is their priority when in fact neither is the case. Most often the ethically dubious scum rises to the top, but every so often you get an iconoclastic gem like Kucinich. He's a diamond in the rough, but we got the polished cubic zirconia as President.
... did the Obama Campaign receive from IP holders? Was it a landslide enough to help him get elected, I wonder?
Between having so many "friends of the RIAA" in the Department of Justice, VP Biden bragging that Big Media will love the new Copyright Czar, and this continued tight-lipped-ness about ACTA, I think it's pretty damned clear what Obama's REAL agenda will be for the next four years.
All of you fools that thought Obama was the Messiah screwed-up: you voted for Judas instead. The real Messiah might have been Dennis Kucinich, and coincidentally he got crucified... both by the DNC *and* voters.
It actually DOES do that. I guess that means Doctorow might be substantially right after all, then?
(Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of religion nor the Catholic Church in particular, unlike my genuflecting parent there.)
Nein!
Nay, neigh!
Maybe they are... do we actually have bathroom video to prove otherwise?
I love it when you talk dirty like that! Gimme some more, and say it in a hoarse whisper!
I guess I should have annotated it with some smiley or ASCII-sketched a tongue in cheek?
Nevertheless, as you noted, there is still some truth even in humor. Ignoring for the moment the possibility that at some point the activity might NOT be viewed as criminal (or tortious?), and further ignoring the vanishingly remote possibility that she DIDN'T commit said acts, Thomas was indeed a stupid and careless criminal. She got caught because she just broke into the house through the front door with a sledgehammer. Had she cased the joint and studied the layout, she would have formulated a much different plan of attack and possibly walked away scot-free with the loot.
It's always the dumbest criminals that get caught. The really good ones possess above average intelligence and problem-solving skills, and are much less likely to get ensnared.
It's always the stupid and careless pirates that get caught in the harbor. It's natural evolution at work, a culling of the weak and unfit from the pirate fleet. Feel sad if you must for Thomas, but also feel comfort that evolution has done its job: the pirates that remain are the cream of the crop. They will bear an even more naturally skilled crew to man the next fleet of sloops and schooners.
^^^ True dat!
Usually, though, you probably want that 1920 in the VERTICAL, right? Flip that baby over!
... it cares only about benefiting itself. IP is the new Last Frontier of land grabs, and unlike actual land they can create an infinite amount of the stuff to control.
You mean like a Coke and a fistful of fries? Supersize me!
Once upon a time it was possession and control of land, real estate, that caused friction, conflict, and wars. No more: land is a finite commodity. The new Last Frontier is this so-called intellectual property, where an infinite amount of things to control can be created out of thin air. These things don't require armies of soldiers to control them, instead they require armies of lawyers and expert witnesses. There seems to be an economy of scale to this new IP real estate, though, because it requires a whole lot less investment in hardware and human resources to control this IP than a coveted patch of land with armies and tanks and planes and guns.
800x600 is not merely retrograde, it's downright Cro-Magnon! Four times that area was a minimum for me a decade ago. These days it's minimum 1920 horizontal or bust!
Get this guy a Princeton monochrome monitor from 20 years ago and he'll probably still be happy. :-)
Ironically, large scale storage would be an ideal application for SSDs, given that the point of failure in the devices is the media itself and the more you write to it the more likely it is to begin failing. Large scale storage is not likely to endure as many writes as an "OS drive", as you put it. The point of failure in fixed magnetic media (these days) is likely to be something other than the media itself.
Frankly it's that failure of the media itself that makes me leery of both Flash and writable optical media. At least with fixed magnetic drives you'll have the likely option of paying a couple thousand bucks to some outfit with a cleanroom to swap your platters and retrieve your data if the drive itself fails.
You missed the point, which was that the MEDIA ITSELF in those drives has not degraded significantly over all that time. That is not the case with either Flash RAM nor optical media, for both of which it's the MEDIA ITSELF that is the point of failure.