But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What is so funny about me? What the FUCK is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny.
What are you gonna say about me? What are you gonna say? That I was a kind man? That I was a wise man? That I had plans? That I had wisdom? Bullshit man!
This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, Jack.
ZDNet has also "upgraded" their message boards into unusability. No preview button, and it takes an average of fifty-seven hours between clicking "comment" and getting the entry page.
Did Microsoft merge with them as well?
Aw, geez, here comes another Offtopic Troll mod.:-\
1. I never said I was an authority. That was your own strawman after ignoring everything else I said.
2. My only point was that it's sad such things cannot be discussed because people can't handle it, and lapse into ideological stupors.
3. I never said The Bell Curve was *correct*. In fact, I disagree with several of its theses. I said it wasn't racist. But you saw things through your own ideological filters, and, as I stated, rational discussion is dead.
I assume you mean William Shockley. I never read his (and therefore, unlike most humans, I will not judge it), but I got quite upset when he died, and all the media could focus on was his racial views. I mean, hey, like father of the *transistor* here. Can you get any more fundamental than that as a contribution to humanity?
And it was *bad*. A typical report was along the lines of "Noted racist scientist William Shockley died today. He held many evil racist views. Oh, and he had something to do with the invention of the transistor."
It's sad that topics like this cannot be analyzed without people's heads exploding. This is why I decry ideology as a mental illness. It prevents rational discussion. It's going to destroy civilization one of these days once the world becomes so polarized and Balkanized that no person on the Earth can suffer the existence of any other that differs in any way.
The amount of disinformation on Murray's "The Bell Curve" is a pathetic symptom of this. I've met so many people who are *rabid* in their assessment of Murray as a hardcore racist and Bell Curve as belonging on the same shelf as The Turner Diaries. NONE of these people read the book, or even knew that race was covered only in a couple chapters. Many, like at least one poster below, have an opinion formed by reading reviews of the book written by other people with similar ideology. That's how many approach controversial topics- they only view through an ideological filter.
They are neurologically incapable of grasping that the book is not, in any real way, racist. I own the book and have read it- or as much as I could. It's a rather dry and academic text. A couple critics, when I tried to show them the book, actually ran out of the room rather than be confronted with reality. This is a true story.
To be honest, I don't know why Murray subjects himself to this. I know if he didn't follow his interests it would be a surrender of intellectual study and cerebral exploration to mindless, reptilian ideology, but it's not something I could stomach. I'm also such a misanthrope at this point that I could care less if anyone expands human knowledge anymore. People will just misuse it or use it to feed their hateful little dark hearts.
You know that companies make a lot of money of silly things like that.
Yes, but someone, somewhere, would open the store that uses the Flash devices, and it would be a hit. The Flash device would be given free and act as the customer's membership card. The store could be automated with just a couple people on site for technical help and system maintenance. Eventually, when they franchise the thing, their database of films could be sotred at a central location and dowloaded over the network. You could walk into this store and rent every film ever made in history (assuming a copy still exists to be transferred to storage).
Remember, Sam Walton started with one store.
The movie companies, I think, would like this. They get a fee for each rental, and they don't have to produce a physical product.
Actually, those auto-destructing DVDs might work well here if you could get a licensing agreement and the cost per disc gets low enough.
Office is profitable. Therefore they will continue to develop it. I doubt they have any big fears about mass migrations to the Mac, and I say that as a Mac user.
So we must all march lockstep into the next era of space boondoggles, and set back humanity's emergence as a truly spacefaring species for *another* century? Let's all salute the flag and fritter away the trillions. Just so we can plop several hundred pounds of under-evolved primate flesh on Mars for a quick romp. Then we can say "Hey, look what we did!" and masturbate or something. Whatever.
We can only hope something sets a fire (pun intended) under the nascent private space industry. *This* space nut long ago gave up on the political and big government solutions to space travel.
No more boondoggles! Honestly, what is this drive to send humans to Mars? And if you've followed the space plane saga, that has just as much portential, if not more, to become another bloated waste like Apollo or the Shuttle or the International Space Station.
If we had followed the incremental steps into space originally proposed by Von Braun and others way back when, we'd have gotten to Mars years ago. We might even be thinking about interstellar efforts (an Orion-like craft) in a few years.
Concentrate of efficiency. Concentrate on reducing the cost per pound. Create building blocks like orbital industries upon which we can build other things. Think modular. The ISS should look like a Lego set with easily and cheaply mass produced components.
If it turns out that the cheapest and most efficicent way into orbit is a giant pink and purple catapult using Barney The Dinosaur rubber bands, then by God that's what we should use, and ignore the snickers from the ESA and China. No more sexy. We can't afford to let the quest for sexy hold back our move into space any longer.
No more one shot trillion dollar PR projects that sap everyone's time and talent, and do more to make political points than anything scientific or technological.
You know that air pollution and global warming are two completely diffferent thing, right? You can have one without the other.
CO2 is not a "pollutant" as the word is normally used. I mean, we humans *exhale* CO2. It's a normal component of the atmosphere. What's up for debate is the safe level of it.
Sorry. Not arguing the reality of GW or anything. It's just a pet peeve of mine.
I'm not sure I buy the theory yet myself. I've read Deep Hot Biosphere, and he does have some compelling stuff on his side. It's one of those fringe theories that just might pan out.
I have to think the environmentalists would be opposed to this idea. The idea that we really have a potentially *unlimited* supply of oil could keep them up at night with visions of the 28-wheel Hummer H5.:-o
There's an idea that some oil comes from deeper sources, and has an abiogeneic origin. There are hundreds of wells drilled more than 5 km deep, below the levels of prehistoric plants (what is called "basement rock"), and they are still productive.
Expose is the greatest GUI enhancement since the interfaces on the Thetan massacre machines way back in 15,000,000 B.C. or whenever.
It singlehandedly erased all my negative engrams upon first usage.
I commonly have ten applications and 25 windows open. Expose rocked my freakin' world. When I tied it to the right side button on my Intellimouse, my brain trancended to a spiritual level shared only by archangels and certain select saints. Once I came down from that, I had a full and satisfying orgasm with every subsequent use.
I AM NOT EXAGGERATING!
Well, OK, maybe a little.
Oh, and the new customizable finder bar in conjunction with the dock makes life good.
And for the first time I find labels cool. I never even used those back in the ghastly pre-OSX days.
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Kids today just don't know the classiscs. :-(
What are you gonna say about me? What are you gonna say? That I was a kind man? That I was a wise man? That I had plans? That I had wisdom? Bullshit man!
This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, Jack.
I put Expose on the right side button of my Intellimouse. Man, was that a revelation in GUI happiness. :-)
Did Microsoft merge with them as well?
Aw, geez, here comes another Offtopic Troll mod. :-\
Get over here.
Now. (smack) Mac (smack) OS (smack) X (smack) supports (smack) multibutton (smack) mice (smack) right (smack) out (smack) of (smack) the (smack) box!
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Now pound sand before I officially sanction a hit. Jobs is a made man, and you shall not direspect his product. Capisca?
1. I never said I was an authority. That was your own strawman after ignoring everything else I said.
2. My only point was that it's sad such things cannot be discussed because people can't handle it, and lapse into ideological stupors.
3. I never said The Bell Curve was *correct*. In fact, I disagree with several of its theses. I said it wasn't racist. But you saw things through your own ideological filters, and, as I stated, rational discussion is dead.
Scientists can become some of the worst ideologues the world has ever seen.
And it was *bad*. A typical report was along the lines of "Noted racist scientist William Shockley died today. He held many evil racist views. Oh, and he had something to do with the invention of the transistor."
I only hope the spirit of Douglas Adams is out there enjoying the show.
The amount of disinformation on Murray's "The Bell Curve" is a pathetic symptom of this. I've met so many people who are *rabid* in their assessment of Murray as a hardcore racist and Bell Curve as belonging on the same shelf as The Turner Diaries. NONE of these people read the book, or even knew that race was covered only in a couple chapters. Many, like at least one poster below, have an opinion formed by reading reviews of the book written by other people with similar ideology. That's how many approach controversial topics- they only view through an ideological filter.
They are neurologically incapable of grasping that the book is not, in any real way, racist. I own the book and have read it- or as much as I could. It's a rather dry and academic text. A couple critics, when I tried to show them the book, actually ran out of the room rather than be confronted with reality. This is a true story.
To be honest, I don't know why Murray subjects himself to this. I know if he didn't follow his interests it would be a surrender of intellectual study and cerebral exploration to mindless, reptilian ideology, but it's not something I could stomach. I'm also such a misanthrope at this point that I could care less if anyone expands human knowledge anymore. People will just misuse it or use it to feed their hateful little dark hearts.
Yes, but someone, somewhere, would open the store that uses the Flash devices, and it would be a hit. The Flash device would be given free and act as the customer's membership card. The store could be automated with just a couple people on site for technical help and system maintenance. Eventually, when they franchise the thing, their database of films could be sotred at a central location and dowloaded over the network. You could walk into this store and rent every film ever made in history (assuming a copy still exists to be transferred to storage).
Remember, Sam Walton started with one store.
The movie companies, I think, would like this. They get a fee for each rental, and they don't have to produce a physical product.
Actually, those auto-destructing DVDs might work well here if you could get a licensing agreement and the cost per disc gets low enough.
Which is also one easily erased or disposed of location if you think about it.
Office is profitable. Therefore they will continue to develop it. I doubt they have any big fears about mass migrations to the Mac, and I say that as a Mac user.
OK, to quote the Beatles, all together now:
MICROSOFT DEVELOPS MAC PRODUCTS .THEREFORE THEY OBVIOUSLY WILL BUY THE LATEST MODELS.
Seeing as they claimed to be working on the G5 glitch with Virtual PC already, one can assume they already had some G5s.
Why would they be embarassed about buying Macs? How do you develop Mac products without Macs?
So we must all march lockstep into the next era of space boondoggles, and set back humanity's emergence as a truly spacefaring species for *another* century? Let's all salute the flag and fritter away the trillions. Just so we can plop several hundred pounds of under-evolved primate flesh on Mars for a quick romp. Then we can say "Hey, look what we did!" and masturbate or something. Whatever.
We can only hope something sets a fire (pun intended) under the nascent private space industry. *This* space nut long ago gave up on the political and big government solutions to space travel.
If we had followed the incremental steps into space originally proposed by Von Braun and others way back when, we'd have gotten to Mars years ago. We might even be thinking about interstellar efforts (an Orion-like craft) in a few years.
Concentrate of efficiency. Concentrate on reducing the cost per pound. Create building blocks like orbital industries upon which we can build other things. Think modular. The ISS should look like a Lego set with easily and cheaply mass produced components.
If it turns out that the cheapest and most efficicent way into orbit is a giant pink and purple catapult using Barney The Dinosaur rubber bands, then by God that's what we should use, and ignore the snickers from the ESA and China. No more sexy. We can't afford to let the quest for sexy hold back our move into space any longer.
No more one shot trillion dollar PR projects that sap everyone's time and talent, and do more to make political points than anything scientific or technological.
Argh! Argh! Grrr! Hisss! Rrrrrrrrrrggg!
CO2 is not a "pollutant" as the word is normally used. I mean, we humans *exhale* CO2. It's a normal component of the atmosphere. What's up for debate is the safe level of it.
Sorry. Not arguing the reality of GW or anything. It's just a pet peeve of mine.
I have to think the environmentalists would be opposed to this idea. The idea that we really have a potentially *unlimited* supply of oil could keep them up at night with visions of the 28-wheel Hummer H5. :-o
Here's a starter link: Link
No need. I was born with a fuly functional tail, so I use thhat to control the mouse.
Microsoft Intellimouse control^H^H^H^H^H^H^H preference panel. You set the right side button to F9.
I generally don't care that much about packaging, but the box *was* pretty sweet. Almost as cool as the iPod boxes (I still have mine).
It singlehandedly erased all my negative engrams upon first usage.
I commonly have ten applications and 25 windows open. Expose rocked my freakin' world. When I tied it to the right side button on my Intellimouse, my brain trancended to a spiritual level shared only by archangels and certain select saints. Once I came down from that, I had a full and satisfying orgasm with every subsequent use.
I AM NOT EXAGGERATING!
Well, OK, maybe a little.
Oh, and the new customizable finder bar in conjunction with the dock makes life good.
And for the first time I find labels cool. I never even used those back in the ghastly pre-OSX days.
There was a penguin, but the cat ate it. Sorry. :-)