"Furthermore, the dangerous Delphic Expanse, likened to the Bermuda Triangle, causes those who enter to "become anatomically inverted (skin on the inside, organs on the outside)"
Wow, what a great plot vehicle...
This sounds like it was written by some junior high school student...
With E-Voting you have to worry about another problem. Spontaneous, apathetic voters who are voting.
<cynical view>
Hmmm... maybe that's what some of these politicians and activists want: Mobs of easily manipulated, uninformed impulse voters who can be swayed by a commercial or two.
</cynical view>
Funny Story
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Not sure if it's in this book, but I read a funny story one time about some early overflights of the USSR using modified B-29 bombers. On a flight over the Kamchatka peninsula, one plane suddenly found themseleves in/near a group of Russian bombers.
They were in a panic, but amazed that weren't under fire and basically ignored, until they realized the Russian bombers were Tu-4s - which were bolt-for-bolt copies of B-29s designed from a plane that was siezed by the USSR during a WWII emergency landing. Their B-29 had a bright-red tail, so they were mistaken for another Soviet bomber.
First it was dumb terminals then network computers and now this. Its dead give it up.
I used to agree with you, but if it's done correctly, it can be pretty slick. Our EE dept set up a lab with Sun Rays (a thin client, basically just a video card and a NIC) and Windows Terminal Server, and trust me, I was leaps and bounds better than the f*cked-up PC labs we had.
Java would've been far better if they'd stuck to a few basic classes, and let people develop the classes they need as they go.
Well, gosh, you go right ahead and write your own replacement classes for everything that Sun has done already. What's stopping you?
That's exactly why I like Java. They have a lot of good built-in libraries that cover a wide-range of applications. I don't have to reinvent the freaking wheel every time I write an app.
USA is already very very close to the type of state described in '1984' by Orwell, and it seems to do all it can to surpass the nightmare portrayed in the book.
Do a little reading on North Korea, China, et al. my friend. You are *way* the hell off. Privacy in the modern world is very difficult to hold on to, I agree, but it's what the government *does* with that information that's critical.
I think I'll stay here in the US, thanks very much.
I saw a letter to Dr. Dobbs recently that was saying that XML needed to have the ability to embed things like Visual Basic and javascript in it to be really useful. I think that this is a horrible idea. The whole point of XML was to have a generic data model, i.e. one parser to rule them all.
And yes, a Patriot will perform acts of civil disobedience, when extreme situations warrent it.
Define 'civil diobedience' then...
The dumb-ass that spray-painted "Fuck Bush" and "Fuck War" all over my campus is an example:
Some low-paid janitor (not me, so no jokes:)) now has to go around and clean up after him, and generally fucks-up someone's day. It's that kind of uncaring and inconsiderate attitude that collectively causes wars to begin with. And yeah, I think that applies to people blocking city streets, and causing traffic jams,
Why can't someone protest in a civilized manner? And better yet, why aren't these people protesting for the oppressed people in North Korea? Or to protest the whore-houses full of 6 year old girls in Cambodia?
I've devised a 40-foot mast and sail that attaches to the handlebars of the common bicycle, requiring no other modification to the bike's structure. Range is unlimited.
Geez, give the guy a break will ya? This would use a hell of a lot less gas than a car. What a bunch of negative whiners.
I kind of agree with you, but Alan Kay (pioneer in GUI, laptops, SmallTalk, etc) has some interesting ideas about the computer being a medium, just like a the book became in the Renaisance (sp?). He advocates very young kids using computers.
This is a shitty link but can't find anything better right now:
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kay/01_Dy na book.html
Google around for "User Interface: a Personal View"
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Anyone notice how snowflakes look like hexagonal 2D cellular automata? They exhibit a lot of the variation you see when you change the 'rules' of automata systems.
Since everyone is going ape-shit, the broader point I was trying to make was that in America, we worry about stupid shit like the "Digital Divide", and in the process are creating a nation of lazy asses demanding their entitlements, while ignoring masses of humanity around the world who really have had a bad-hand dealt to them.
Case in point, I was approached yesterday by a "homeless" guy about as white, young, and fat as CowboyNeil - asking for money for food of all things. After I very politely refused, this guy gave me shit about it, like I owed it to him. My wife standing next to me mind you, grew up in Vietnam and refugee camps in the Phillipines. Her and her family had jack-shit growing up, and were lucky to even have food, let alone a God-damned computer. And guess what? The kids all graduated from college after they moved here, one even in CS.
Just go visit Vietnam, Cambodia, et al. see how fucked-up the real world can be.
So call me an asshole, but I think it's fucking pathetic to spend money on giving a nicety like WiFi away to Americans when there's the real poor in the world suffering and starving due to circumstances totally beyond their control.
BTW, who says they can't use free dial-up for God's sake? And how you brought in the totally off-topic part $1000 prescriptions for the elderly - that's a real gem, you should be a politician.
but I really doubt this will be very useful in improving many low-income families lives. I mean, sure, having Intenet access is fun and all, but I mostly see it being used for music-sharing, IM, and porn.
There's always a few people who really take an affinity to tech, and will run with it, and maybe start a career, but they'd probably do it without WiFi.
Anyways, my point is the money could probably be used better somewhere else, either in the USA or elsewhere in the world, like the countless refugee camps throughout Asia and Africa, where people have really fucked-up lives.
I've already found a bunch of dev sites via Google, but I'm interesting in hearing if anyone here has tried developing GB or GBA apps. Good/bad experience?
Didn't you know? Hollywood producers/directors are doing everyone a great big favor by educating the planet with their well-balanced world-view. If someone filters or otherwise make any changes the movie, how will their propaga^H^H^H^H^H^H enlightenment work correctly?
We're trying create a brave new world here people, get with the program...
Is this move by South Africa, People's Rep. China, et al. really a big win for the Open Source movement, or is it just governments taking free stuff?
Maybe I'm being a cynic and/or misunderstanding, but I'm not expecting some of these governments to actually contribute anything back to OSS. I half expect some of them to end up violating any licensing the code is released under.
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Do you really think that European or Asian countries would still be moving to Linux if Microsoft was based in their country instead?
Amen brother.
This message is not flamebait, you retards.
That's right, this dam will cause the Pacific Ocean to dry up and become a desert.
As well as the lovely page titles:
<title>Untitled Document</title>
Top-notch work.
"Furthermore, the dangerous Delphic Expanse, likened to the Bermuda Triangle, causes those who enter to "become anatomically inverted (skin on the inside, organs on the outside)"
Wow, what a great plot vehicle...
This sounds like it was written by some junior high school student...
With E-Voting you have to worry about another problem. Spontaneous, apathetic voters who are voting.
<cynical view>
Hmmm... maybe that's what some of these politicians and activists want:
Mobs of easily manipulated, uninformed impulse voters who can be swayed by a commercial or two.
</cynical view>
Not sure if it's in this book, but I read a funny story one time about some early overflights of the USSR using modified B-29 bombers. On a flight over the Kamchatka peninsula, one plane suddenly found themseleves in/near a group of Russian bombers.
They were in a panic, but amazed that weren't under fire and basically ignored, until they realized the Russian bombers were Tu-4s - which were bolt-for-bolt copies of B-29s designed from a plane that was siezed by the USSR during a WWII emergency landing. Their B-29 had a bright-red tail, so they were mistaken for another Soviet bomber.
Um, does many thousands of people starving daily due to rampant overpopulation count?
You should correct that statement:
"...many thousands of people starving daily due to the fucked-up governments they live under..."
Modern, free societies with good governments and economies have birthrates barely above replacement levels.
Speaking of floppies and CDs...
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http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.htm
First it was dumb terminals then network computers and now this. Its dead give it up.
I used to agree with you, but if it's done correctly, it can be pretty slick. Our EE dept set up a lab with Sun Rays (a thin client, basically just a video card and a NIC) and Windows Terminal Server, and trust me, I was leaps and bounds better than the f*cked-up PC labs we had.
Java would've been far better if they'd stuck to a few basic classes, and let people develop the classes they need as they go.
Well, gosh, you go right ahead and write your own replacement classes for everything that Sun has done already. What's stopping you?
That's exactly why I like Java. They have a lot of good built-in libraries that cover a wide-range of applications. I don't have to reinvent the freaking wheel every time I write an app.
Blah blah what about wind or solar blah blah blah, blah blah blah, conspiracy?
Blah blah: "Blah Blah blah". Enron blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Blah radioactive blah blah blah blah? Blah blah. Bush blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Radiation, blah blah blah blah blah blah!
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
USA is already very very close to the type of state described in '1984' by Orwell, and it seems to do all it can to surpass the nightmare portrayed in the book.
Do a little reading on North Korea, China, et al. my friend. You are *way* the hell off.
Privacy in the modern world is very difficult to hold on to, I agree, but it's what the government *does* with that information that's critical.
I think I'll stay here in the US, thanks very much.
I saw a letter to Dr. Dobbs recently that was saying that XML needed to have the ability to embed things like Visual Basic and javascript in it to be really useful. I think that this is a horrible idea. The whole point of XML was to have a generic data model, i.e. one parser to rule them all.
Doesn't xhtml and vxml allow this already?
And yes, a Patriot will perform acts of civil disobedience, when extreme situations warrent it.
:)) now has to go around and clean up after him, and generally fucks-up someone's day. It's that kind of uncaring and inconsiderate attitude that collectively causes wars to begin with.
Define 'civil diobedience' then...
The dumb-ass that spray-painted "Fuck Bush" and "Fuck War" all over my campus is an example:
Some low-paid janitor (not me, so no jokes
And yeah, I think that applies to people blocking city streets, and causing traffic jams,
Why can't someone protest in a civilized manner? And better yet, why aren't these people protesting for the oppressed people in North Korea? Or to protest the whore-houses full of 6 year old girls in Cambodia?
I use Nokia's WAP development toolkit, and while it's not setting speed records on my computer, it works for what I need it to do.
Dumb question, but isn't the Nokia WAP toolkit Java Swing? Why do you need VPC for a Java app?
You're right, the only solution is wind power:
I've devised a 40-foot mast and sail that attaches to the handlebars of the common bicycle, requiring no other modification to the bike's structure. Range is unlimited.
Geez, give the guy a break will ya? This would use a hell of a lot less gas than a car. What a bunch of negative whiners.
I kind of agree with you, but Alan Kay (pioneer in GUI, laptops, SmallTalk, etc) has some interesting ideas about the computer being a medium, just like a the book became in the Renaisance (sp?). He advocates very young kids using computers.
y na book.html
This is a shitty link but can't find anything better right now:
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kay/01_D
Google around for "User Interface: a Personal View"
Anyone notice how snowflakes look like hexagonal 2D cellular automata?
They exhibit a lot of the variation you see when you change the 'rules' of automata systems.
Since everyone is going ape-shit, the broader point I was trying to make was that in America, we worry about stupid shit like the "Digital Divide", and in the process are creating a nation of lazy asses demanding their entitlements, while ignoring masses of humanity around the world who really have had a bad-hand dealt to them.
Case in point, I was approached yesterday by a "homeless" guy about as white, young, and fat as CowboyNeil - asking for money for food of all things. After I very politely refused, this guy gave me shit about it, like I owed it to him. My wife standing next to me mind you, grew up in Vietnam and refugee camps in the Phillipines. Her and her family had jack-shit growing up, and were lucky to even have food, let alone a God-damned computer. And guess what? The kids all graduated from college after they moved here, one even in CS.
Just go visit Vietnam, Cambodia, et al. see how fucked-up the real world can be.
So call me an asshole, but I think it's fucking pathetic to spend money on giving a nicety like WiFi away to Americans when there's the real poor in the world suffering and starving due to circumstances totally beyond their control.
BTW, who says they can't use free dial-up for God's sake? And how you brought in the totally off-topic part $1000 prescriptions for the elderly - that's a real gem, you should be a politician.
but I really doubt this will be very useful in improving many low-income families lives. I mean, sure, having Intenet access is fun and all, but I mostly see it being used for music-sharing, IM, and porn.
There's always a few people who really take an affinity to tech, and will run with it, and maybe start a career, but they'd probably do it without WiFi.
Anyways, my point is the money could probably be used better somewhere else, either in the USA or elsewhere in the world, like the countless refugee camps throughout Asia and Africa, where people have really fucked-up lives.
I've already found a bunch of dev sites via Google, but I'm interesting in hearing if anyone here has tried developing GB or GBA apps. Good/bad experience?
They use a 1 MB key to encrypt the data, whee.
It's not theoretically unbreakable, just practically unbreakable with today's technology.
Didn't you know? Hollywood producers/directors are doing everyone a great big favor by educating the planet with their well-balanced world-view. If someone filters or otherwise make any changes the movie, how will their propaga^H^H^H^H^H^H enlightenment work correctly?
We're trying create a brave new world here people, get with the program...
Is this move by South Africa, People's Rep. China, et al. really a big win for the Open Source movement, or is it just governments taking free stuff?
Maybe I'm being a cynic and/or misunderstanding, but I'm not expecting some of these governments to actually contribute anything back to OSS. I half expect some of them to end up violating any licensing the code is released under.