To hear IBMers tell it, all this effort is a matter of giving more choices to customers tired of the Microsoft monopoly. But according to Forbes, IBM has a broader agenda
One of the most horrible and true books I've ever read. The book that changed my life: Winning Through Intimidation -- reality philosophy.
Life is a pile of chips. Robert Ringer teaches that life is all about getting the chips. It's never about not getting the chips. No matter how grandiose the words or how noble the intentions -- it's all about chips.
IBM is going for chips even though they say they're not. Ringer teaches there are three basic types of people: A. those that are going for your chips and let you know that up front, B. those that are going for your chips, but lie to you and tell you that they are not going for your chips (and play your friend, ally, whatever), C. those that tell you they are not going for your chips, actually believe, themselves, that they are not going for your chips, but in the end, go for your chips anyhow. IBM is B in this one. People dying for causes and with high-minded/humanitarian intentions are C maybe, etc. Oh, Ringer doesn't mention it, but there is also the D folks IMO: those that are used by A, B and Cs to get to the goal of getting the chips.
Every great philosopher, every great teacher, every Ghandi and Confucious -- whoever. They all fall prey to Ringer philosophy.
Ringer's theory of reality is also worth quoting daily: Reality isn't what you wish it would be. It isn't what it even appears to be, but reality it what it is, and you either go with it or get destroyed by it....
China's history is all about isolation (erm, the great wall and stuff), not to mention what communism did to them. Their modern history is rife with isolationism. To quote Spock, "Only Nixon could go to China." This says nothing of the centuries before that. So isolated were they that they didn't even realize they were the ones who invented the clock!
China, isolating itself?... It took experts to realize this?...
These corporations have deep pockets, and they could threaten to sue the crap out of you for looking at them cock-eyed, to which many people would have to settle out of court (I'm not being literal). If you can't afford a lawyer then what do you do? 'Admit' to wrong-doing you didn't committ? Again, I realize that a lot of file sharing IS illegal, but the whole blanket lawsuit thing does raise some interesting (or scary?) questions.
Which is why the root, the thesis, of our government is based on the legislature. No matter what laws, no matter how rich and powerful the person or the company, in the end, the founders wanted the people to have the ultimate say -- the vote -- in order to change corruption at the "top...."
I got nothing to say that's not already being said in my sig -- the coolest sig ever if I might add!!!
Oh, and I would have love to put in it, "Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate" but, wouldn't fit which makes me ask at this point, does paying for a subscription to/. get you more sig space? If not, it should....
Isn't there an inherent problem with SETI as it exists? Isn't it geared to search for life like us instead of life, period? Sure, a patch of moss won't put up a radio signal, but have equal efforts been made to discover planets which could house lower forms of life as has been put into, basically, finding "people" out in space (which is what we're really doing by looking for the evidence we're looking for in SETI)? Does anyone have any comparisons of resources spent? My point is, perhaps SETI should be refocused to consider such factors. "Contact," after all, was a movie....
K, I figured this was a girl (Andrea) and thought a last name of "Arch Angel" was, like, way cool and stuff, but figured for sure that was her IRC nick... was quite shocked when I read the pronoun "his" later in the blurb....
Look, my eye/mind team quickly forms letters in words into something already known, so getting "Arch Angel" outta Arcangeli is understandable, k?...
I am prepared to be the receptacle for your modding....
Current ideas (download Excel spreadsheet) include: Mars and asteroid microspacecraft missions, lunar robotic landing, robotic triathalon, rover survivor, Antarctic rover traverse and extreme environment computer.
And Lander Fear Factor! The rover has to drink a wicked puree of something a rover would find revolting....
Dothan is in due course expected form the basis for 'Jonah', Intel's first two-core Pentium M, due to ship during H2 2005, possibly at 65nm. To date, Jonah has been scheduled to be succeeded by 'Merom' and 'Conroe', two chips based on the same architecture, during H1 2006. While Merom is to be pitched at notebooks, Conroe - crucially - is a desktop chip.
Dothan: Meaning: two wells. A famous pasture-ground where Joseph found his brethren watching their flocks. Here, at the suggestion of Judah, they sold him to the Ishmaelite merchants (Gen. 37:17). It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 1600.
Jonah (We all know who Jonah was and/or you need to back to sunday school....)
Merom (WebBible Encyclopedia) - christianAnswers.Net. Merom. Meaning: height. a lake in Northern Palestine through which the
Jordan flows
One also has to wonder why in the world they are still refusing to offer the The Animated Series on DVD, forcing one to buy the bootlegs if you want to get your hands on a copy. Solly cholly. VHS only
"I've done more than not release you. I've released you on VHS only. And I wish to go on...releasing you on VHS...." -- Khannnnnnn!!!
Scalable? Please. One main reason I read/. is because it's real and cool. I cannot stand it if it starts using pop-IT lingo such as every well-polished vendor spills out to me on a daily basis.... If I see "interoperability" down further on the news page today, then I'm gunno not read/. for a week!...
This is exactly like Montgomery claiming to have single-handedly beaten back the Germans during the "battle of the bulge" when he said, "it was one of the toughest fights I've had" -- or something along those lines -- in a press conference. Did he actually say, "I single-handedly beat back the Germans?" No. But he failed to mention his "team" in that conference -- he failed to even mention the Americans. It was _the_same_as saying, "I single-handedly beat back the Germans." Ike was none-to-pleased with the whole affair and if I remember correctly Montgomery had to apologize.
Now, if we go the same route this is where those of same-political alignment dissect and pick-apart what Montgomery actually did and said, but the fact remains: when discussing what a team, or group did in a project, you never say friggin "I" unless you are wanting credit for the whole project.
It's apparent to me, anyhow, that Gore's "invention of the Internet" claim is far more a blatant self-aggrandizement than what Montgomery did....
Am "I" the only one who works in the corporate world?....
Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters
My brain is engrained. I cannot see any word remotely similar to google and read it as anything other than that.
I did think it odd that projectionists were using a new google invention that allowed night vision, but, heck, knowing google beta stuff, I wasn't surprised....
Snopes has/had a list of ridiculous quotes attributed to dan quayle stating "most of these are from dan quayle" (no, I'm not defending the blithering quayle). Most? Well, which ones?
I'm glad I never tried that crap in college paper....
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To hear IBMers tell it, all this effort is a matter of giving more choices to customers tired of the Microsoft monopoly. But according to Forbes, IBM has a broader agenda
One of the most horrible and true books I've ever read. The book that changed my life: Winning Through Intimidation -- reality philosophy.
Life is a pile of chips. Robert Ringer teaches that life is all about getting the chips. It's never about not getting the chips. No matter how grandiose the words or how noble the intentions -- it's all about chips.
IBM is going for chips even though they say they're not. Ringer teaches there are three basic types of people: A. those that are going for your chips and let you know that up front, B. those that are going for your chips, but lie to you and tell you that they are not going for your chips (and play your friend, ally, whatever), C. those that tell you they are not going for your chips, actually believe, themselves, that they are not going for your chips, but in the end, go for your chips anyhow. IBM is B in this one. People dying for causes and with high-minded/humanitarian intentions are C maybe, etc. Oh, Ringer doesn't mention it, but there is also the D folks IMO: those that are used by A, B and Cs to get to the goal of getting the chips.
Every great philosopher, every great teacher, every Ghandi and Confucious -- whoever. They all fall prey to Ringer philosophy.
Ringer's theory of reality is also worth quoting daily:
Reality isn't what you wish it would be. It isn't what it even appears to be, but reality it what it is, and you either go with it or get destroyed by it....
Or something like that....
Experts warn that China risks isolating itself
China's history is all about isolation (erm, the great wall and stuff), not to mention what communism did to them. Their modern history is rife with isolationism. To quote Spock, "Only Nixon could go to China." This says nothing of the centuries before that. So isolated were they that they didn't even realize they were the ones who invented the clock!
China, isolating itself?... It took experts to realize this?...
Notice I said, the founders wanted.... I never said they got what they wanted. Coward!...
You need some Buffy right about now:
"Buffy: Your logic does not resemble our Earth logic."
These corporations have deep pockets, and they could threaten to sue the crap out of you for looking at them cock-eyed, to which many people would have to settle out of court (I'm not being literal). If you can't afford a lawyer then what do you do? 'Admit' to wrong-doing you didn't committ? Again, I realize that a lot of file sharing IS illegal, but the whole blanket lawsuit thing does raise some interesting (or scary?) questions.
Which is why the root, the thesis, of our government is based on the legislature. No matter what laws, no matter how rich and powerful the person or the company, in the end, the founders wanted the people to have the ultimate say -- the vote -- in order to change corruption at the "top...."
I got nothing to say that's not already being said in my sig -- the coolest sig ever if I might add!!!
/. get you more sig space? If not, it should....
Oh, and I would have love to put in it, "Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate" but, wouldn't fit which makes me ask at this point, does paying for a subscription to
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So now you can claim your time gaming as 'job skills training'!
... really!..."
That should fly as well with the wife as the, "I'm working
Isn't there an inherent problem with SETI as it exists? Isn't it geared to search for life like us instead of life, period? Sure, a patch of moss won't put up a radio signal, but have equal efforts been made to discover planets which could house lower forms of life as has been put into, basically, finding "people" out in space (which is what we're really doing by looking for the evidence we're looking for in SETI)? Does anyone have any comparisons of resources spent? My point is, perhaps SETI should be refocused to consider such factors. "Contact," after all, was a movie....
Andrea Arcangeli
... was quite shocked when I read the pronoun "his" later in the blurb....
K, I figured this was a girl (Andrea) and thought a last name of "Arch Angel" was, like, way cool and stuff, but figured for sure that was her IRC nick
Look, my eye/mind team quickly forms letters in words into something already known, so getting "Arch Angel" outta Arcangeli is understandable, k?...
I am prepared to be the receptacle for your modding....
Achilles Heel?
...Don't hurt me! I'm not the one making the Troy references!...
That Linux is a terrible actor with a great body?
Google's ... being sued by the family of Professor Edward Kasner
In a related story, God is suing the Kasner family claiming he originally came up with the concept of them....
Current ideas (download Excel spreadsheet) include: Mars and asteroid microspacecraft missions, lunar robotic landing, robotic triathalon, rover survivor, Antarctic rover traverse and extreme environment computer.
And Lander Fear Factor! The rover has to drink a wicked puree of something a rover would find revolting....
Dothan is in due course expected form the basis for 'Jonah', Intel's first two-core Pentium M, due to ship during H2 2005, possibly at 65nm. To date, Jonah has been scheduled to be succeeded by 'Merom' and 'Conroe', two chips based on the same architecture, during H1 2006. While Merom is to be pitched at notebooks, Conroe - crucially - is a desktop chip.
Dothan: Meaning: two wells. A famous pasture-ground where Joseph found his brethren watching their flocks. Here, at the suggestion of Judah, they sold him to the Ishmaelite merchants (Gen. 37:17). It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 1600.
Jonah (We all know who Jonah was and/or you need to back to sunday school....)
Merom (WebBible Encyclopedia) - christianAnswers.Net. Merom. Meaning: height. a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows
Looks like Intel got some religion....
From
Honey, I'm home!
To
Honey, I'm done with my activity!
IRC is the breeding ground of all the Internet's Evils
/list for the first time on efnet....
It was in 1996 that I developed my eye twitch. That was just after having read
So the big question is, will the phone give off any residual waves that will allow custom made detection equipment to find the right 12 pack
I can imagine flight attendates augmenting the usual shpill:
We ask at this time that you turn off any cell phones, laptops, PDAs and GPS-enabled soda cans....
One also has to wonder why in the world they are still refusing to offer the The Animated Series on DVD, forcing one to buy the bootlegs if you want to get your hands on a copy. Solly cholly. VHS only
"I've done more than not release you. I've released you on VHS only. And I wish to go on...releasing you on VHS...." -- Khannnnnnn!!!
What Sex is Your Robot?
More importantly, what robot is your sex?...
(and cut his hair)
She should have cut them all....
"Scientific American is carrying a story about sythetic life...."
Trypo!
of creating a modern, scalable search engine.
/. is because it's real and cool. I cannot stand it if it starts using pop-IT lingo such as every well-polished vendor spills out to me on a daily basis.... If I see "interoperability" down further on the news page today, then I'm gunno not read /. for a week!...
Scalable? Please. One main reason I read
Do you code from a land down under? Where the DMCA grow's and makes plunder?
/duck
/dodge
/hide
This is exactly like Montgomery claiming to have single-handedly beaten back the Germans during the "battle of the bulge" when he said, "it was one of the toughest fights I've had" -- or something along those lines -- in a press conference. Did he actually say, "I single-handedly beat back the Germans?" No. But he failed to mention his "team" in that conference -- he failed to even mention the Americans. It was _the_same_as saying, "I single-handedly beat back the Germans." Ike was none-to-pleased with the whole affair and if I remember correctly Montgomery had to apologize.
Now, if we go the same route this is where those of same-political alignment dissect and pick-apart what Montgomery actually did and said, but the fact remains: when discussing what a team, or group did in a project, you never say friggin "I" unless you are wanting credit for the whole project.
It's apparent to me, anyhow, that Gore's "invention of the Internet" claim is far more a blatant self-aggrandizement than what Montgomery did....
Am "I" the only one who works in the corporate world?....
Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters
My brain is engrained. I cannot see any word remotely similar to google and read it as anything other than that.
I did think it odd that projectionists were using a new google invention that allowed night vision, but, heck, knowing google beta stuff, I wasn't surprised....
Snopes has/had a list of ridiculous quotes attributed to dan quayle stating "most of these are from dan quayle" (no, I'm not defending the blithering quayle). Most? Well, which ones?
I'm glad I never tried that crap in college paper....
they should have given the prize to Jarkko Oikarinen for creating IRC and totally screwing up my University studies.
Or sid miers for civilization. That game put me in the hospital....