Damn right! I'll write my letter now, and then things will be set straight. Oh, wait, you meant to say that I should believe so strongly that I sacrifice years and thousands of dollars to lobby a law in a state that caters to the industry in question? Thank god for democracy, I guess.
But even windows is not always well documented and well understood. Especially with the more obscure features of windows.
Even in the case of well-known features with copious amounts of documentation, underutilization of expensive Microsoft software is commonplace. I have seen more than a few cases of SMS and Active Directory implementations that sit unused (or barely used), after tens of thousands have been spent on consultants, hardware, and software. User ignorance is the problem, even when the users are technical professionals. Since most companies do not have the resources to train every technician in the counterintuitive operations of these complex systems (with $5000 'educational' 2-week seminars), the end result is a system that creates more work than it eliminates. Which makes the software worse than useless, literally.
There is a limiting factor on this kind of threat. You see, society takes pains to give power only to those who earn it -- either through intelligence, dilligence, cleverness, and what have you. For a 'mad scientist' to have access to the advanced equipment necessary to build DNA, he or she would need to pretend normalcy pretty damn well. The Unibomber was a brilliant and capable madman, but he was building letter-bombs primitive enough to be constructed in a mountain cabin.
The President of the United States might have the authority to launch a nuclear strike -- and how likely is it for a madman to be a pretend politician long enough to get elected? Similiarly, a wealthy industrialist has the resources to buy an island fortress and a private army to ransom the world, James Bond style.....why has it not happened yet?
Ah, I see you follow the time-honored Slashdot tradition of replying before you finish reading the article. The missing logic is the point of the post....as noted, conveniently I might add, in the sentence following the one you cited.
Maybe a few of the big ones are known for conservatism, but the vast majority are certianly not.
So you are telling me that the majority of newspapers -- which are municipal, county, and regional publications -- are liberal? It goes to follow, then, that massively-syndicated columnists like Dear Abby are also liberal. Does this mean that staunch conservatives in your strange corner of reality read the The New York Times for their daily dose of news?
It's great that their union is so powerful that it can disrupt commerce worldwide. That just means that, like the Mob, they've become experts in extortion.
I guess I am just full of bias; the thought of longshoremen being overpaid tens-of-thousands of dollars does not enrage me the same way executives getting overpaid hundreds-of-thousands (and millions) does. Then again, the longshoreman's children will most likely have to work for their living (or are the jobs hereditary?), while the CEO's progeny can use interest and trust funds until they get bored.
I would rather see the longshoremen continue their extortion racket and have a decent middle-class lifestyle, than have their wages reduced......and allow executives' salaries to absorb the profit. No thanks.
Since the money doesn't get spent, it simply vanishes from the economy. The truth is that trickle down would work, if the upper 1% spent all (or even most) of their money. Since they can't, trickle down is doomed to fail, as is the economy unless money starts flowing *out* of Eisner et al, and into the general economy...
This is why estate taxes originally came about. The government was extremely worried that a de-facto aristocracy would form out of the money that Industrialists were accumulating. So in order to prevent assets from endlessly collecting interest, they decreed that a large percentage of an individual's wealth would return to society upon death. This would also ensure that, at some point, SOMEone would have to work to bring more money in. Not exactly what one would call a fair system, but since Rockefellers and Kennedys do not own GE and Microsoft today, I would have to call it a partial success.
Now just recently estate taxes were repealed by the fiscal conservatives. Will this finally tip the scale to the point where wealth can endlessly create more wealth, so meritous, hard-working individuals like Ally Hilfiger can entertain us with their priviledge? Our children will find out!
Not only that, but the fscking elves were cut down like wheat, which throws Tolkein's idea of the supercapable elf warrior right out the window. According to orthodoxy, the elves are supposed to be the best individual fighters in Middle Earth.
I think you may be mistaken on this. The executives in my company lovingly fuss over their Blackberries, but they cannot add a shared printer to their windows desktop. I would not call this tech-saavy. That is just called "obsessing about being in-touch."
I would call someone who raised millions over the Internet saavy, even if it is de facto saaviness.
It's been style over substance in American society for a while now. Musicians are now chosen on sex appeal and on-screen/on-stage charisima, and not on talent or ability, because that is what Cubase plugins are for. Artists get famous for their lifestyle, philosophy, and snobbishness, while the quality of their work is all but ignored (ask a European artist about making art for Americans....).
As consumerism becomes the foundation of our society and our individual identities, is it unreasonable to expect the public to identify with those who share their consumer
preferences? I think not -- it is just one of the unpleasant side-effects of our wonderous modernity, right or wrong.
You mean that we are all living inside of a simulation of freedom?! What, is the government some sort of non-human entity bent on exploiting us for capital generation? Fiendish!!!
Matrix stuff crossing over into the real world just didn't make a lot of sense.
I agree. That's why I suspect the 'real world' was just another part of the Matrix. Or rather, that is the only way the plot can save its respectability. I guess we will find out in the episode IV....
The Diamondback has a glowing review up. Here's a blurb:
It is thematically and philosophically the strongest of the entire trilogy, and accomplishes as much more subtly than its predecessors. Viewers were confronted with great ethical dilemmas and metaphysical conundrums in the form of 'in-your-face' one liners and headache-inducing dialogues in the first two Matrix films, but Revolutions takes a different approach. Its depth and philosophical richness comes in the strength of its visual metaphors and an intriguing storyline pulling on everything from the Bible to The Wizard of Oz, grounding the story in cultural identification and modern mythmaking.
Sounds good to me. I don't like professional critics, anyway.
So the big bad nuclear power plants so reviled by hippies may cure AIDS. Oh the irony.
Actually, it is the charming nuclear families of the 'burbs that revile power plants most of all. Not to say that the lefties don't protest a fission-splitter going up, but if you have ever seen one of these rallies, it is the "Not in My Backyard" crowd that is predominate. There are plenty of mulleted firemen in that group, let me tell you.....
From the title Manager of Information Strategy, I can infer that Mr. Strauss is a tech planner -- looking ahead to see how and where Princeton should spend its IT dollars. He is also a Manager, and thus quite divorced from actual technology. Perhaps Mr. Strauss has based his expertise on proprietary systems. Perhaps he finds the growing use of OSS is eroding the market value of his expertise; if Princeton decides to switch to OSS, Mr. Stauss may find himself out of a job -- replaced by one of the "teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and others..." This is his greatest fear, so he is taking the offensive and discrediting the whole movement.
Pity he didn't use logic or persuasiveness in his tirade. Mr. Strauss needs a new job title (if not a new job entirely); someone lacking reasoning skills should not be planning strategy.
Neal Stephenson threw one into the Cryptonomicon, too. It was operated by Dwarves (see context) and used to cripple the equipment of Misguided Law Enforcement Personnel. That scene was quite entertaining, let me tell you.
At the risk of sounding stupid, the sun seemed much more intense today. The "painfully bright" zone (as I call it) surrounding it filled a much larger portion of the sky than I am used to.
Harmlessness of solar flares aside, you can definately catch a tan outside these next few days.....
What, EXACTLY, are benefits the "rich" are getting that poor people aren't? And while you're at it, define "rich".
That's an easy one. How about a tax cut that reaches tens or hundreds of thousands, versus a check in the mail for a few hundred?
But all things considered, he's doing a great job.
That's sounds like the words of a Bush apologist to me. And you call the other side "lefties" while simultaneously decrying partisan politics. You, sir, doubletalk much better than the President does. I commend you for supporting one so much like yourself.
How many people will lose their jobs? System integrators? Partners? Businesses that rely on them for support? Home users of ma and pa homes? They have build a co-dependent ecosystems that kept the sofware business afloat in these past couple of years of economic hardship.
They will evolve, or they will go out of business. Its actually quite simple. Ask all the compaies that were built around providing NetWare services.....
What if one of the choices (namely the Microsoft choice) works actively to prevent you from making said choice again in the future? Is preventing this choice prohibiting freedom, or preserving it?
There are tiny applications for Mac OSX that allows you to run the screensaver as wallpaper for a negligible performance hit (on newer Apples, at any rate). So I would say it would be trivial to run the game this way with a little porting.
This also leads to the possibility of organic, evolving wallpaper, instead of just static imagery....
I'll second that. BBEdit has been my preferred editor for awhile now. It makes sense, if only because a Macintosh and web design go together like an iPod and.......well, a Macintosh.
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Damn right! I'll write my letter now, and then things will be set straight. Oh, wait, you meant to say that I should believe so strongly that I sacrifice years and thousands of dollars to lobby a law in a state that caters to the industry in question? Thank god for democracy, I guess.
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Even in the case of well-known features with copious amounts of documentation, underutilization of expensive Microsoft software is commonplace. I have seen more than a few cases of SMS and Active Directory implementations that sit unused (or barely used), after tens of thousands have been spent on consultants, hardware, and software. User ignorance is the problem, even when the users are technical professionals. Since most companies do not have the resources to train every technician in the counterintuitive operations of these complex systems (with $5000 'educational' 2-week seminars), the end result is a system that creates more work than it eliminates. Which makes the software worse than useless, literally.
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The President of the United States might have the authority to launch a nuclear strike -- and how likely is it for a madman to be a pretend politician long enough to get elected? Similiarly, a wealthy industrialist has the resources to buy an island fortress and a private army to ransom the world, James Bond style.....why has it not happened yet?
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Ah, I see you follow the time-honored Slashdot tradition of replying before you finish reading the article. The missing logic is the point of the post....as noted, conveniently I might add, in the sentence following the one you cited.
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So you are telling me that the majority of newspapers -- which are municipal, county, and regional publications -- are liberal? It goes to follow, then, that massively-syndicated columnists like Dear Abby are also liberal. Does this mean that staunch conservatives in your strange corner of reality read the The New York Times for their daily dose of news?
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I guess I am just full of bias; the thought of longshoremen being overpaid tens-of-thousands of dollars does not enrage me the same way executives getting overpaid hundreds-of-thousands (and millions) does. Then again, the longshoreman's children will most likely have to work for their living (or are the jobs hereditary?), while the CEO's progeny can use interest and trust funds until they get bored.
I would rather see the longshoremen continue their extortion racket and have a decent middle-class lifestyle, than have their wages reduced......and allow executives' salaries to absorb the profit. No thanks.
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This is why estate taxes originally came about. The government was extremely worried that a de-facto aristocracy would form out of the money that Industrialists were accumulating. So in order to prevent assets from endlessly collecting interest, they decreed that a large percentage of an individual's wealth would return to society upon death. This would also ensure that, at some point, SOMEone would have to work to bring more money in. Not exactly what one would call a fair system, but since Rockefellers and Kennedys do not own GE and Microsoft today, I would have to call it a partial success.
Now just recently estate taxes were repealed by the fiscal conservatives. Will this finally tip the scale to the point where wealth can endlessly create more wealth, so meritous, hard-working individuals like Ally Hilfiger can entertain us with their priviledge? Our children will find out!
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Not only that, but the fscking elves were cut down like wheat, which throws Tolkein's idea of the supercapable elf warrior right out the window. According to orthodoxy, the elves are supposed to be the best individual fighters in Middle Earth.
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I would call someone who raised millions over the Internet saavy, even if it is de facto saaviness.
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As consumerism becomes the foundation of our society and our individual identities, is it unreasonable to expect the public to identify with those who share their consumer preferences? I think not -- it is just one of the unpleasant side-effects of our wonderous modernity, right or wrong.
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I agree. That's why I suspect the 'real world' was just another part of the Matrix. Or rather, that is the only way the plot can save its respectability. I guess we will find out in the episode IV....
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It is thematically and philosophically the strongest of the entire trilogy, and accomplishes as much more subtly than its predecessors. Viewers were confronted with great ethical dilemmas and metaphysical conundrums in the form of 'in-your-face' one liners and headache-inducing dialogues in the first two Matrix films, but Revolutions takes a different approach. Its depth and philosophical richness comes in the strength of its visual metaphors and an intriguing storyline pulling on everything from the Bible to The Wizard of Oz, grounding the story in cultural identification and modern mythmaking.
Sounds good to me. I don't like professional critics, anyway.
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Actually, it is the charming nuclear families of the 'burbs that revile power plants most of all. Not to say that the lefties don't protest a fission-splitter going up, but if you have ever seen one of these rallies, it is the "Not in My Backyard" crowd that is predominate. There are plenty of mulleted firemen in that group, let me tell you.....
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Pity he didn't use logic or persuasiveness in his tirade. Mr. Strauss needs a new job title (if not a new job entirely); someone lacking reasoning skills should not be planning strategy.
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Neal Stephenson threw one into the Cryptonomicon, too. It was operated by Dwarves (see context) and used to cripple the equipment of Misguided Law Enforcement Personnel. That scene was quite entertaining, let me tell you.
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Or he and Apple are giving the labels a lion's-share of the profit, and running the operation as a loss-leader for iPods and Macintoshes.
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Harmlessness of solar flares aside, you can definately catch a tan outside these next few days.....
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That's an easy one. How about a tax cut that reaches tens or hundreds of thousands, versus a check in the mail for a few hundred?
But all things considered, he's doing a great job.
That's sounds like the words of a Bush apologist to me. And you call the other side "lefties" while simultaneously decrying partisan politics. You, sir, doubletalk much better than the President does. I commend you for supporting one so much like yourself.
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They will evolve, or they will go out of business. Its actually quite simple. Ask all the compaies that were built around providing NetWare services.....
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This also leads to the possibility of organic, evolving wallpaper, instead of just static imagery....
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