That's a good idea, actually. Then publish the site with those tech support sweatshops (Convergys, et. al.) so that when the workers there get calls from people who are mad about spam, they can say "If you go to www.spammer-info.com, you can call them and tell them personally what you think about them..."
Of course then you have the problem of innocent people getting on the list... and anyone who says "hurting one innocent person is worth it!" just joined the ranks of spammers as far as moral decay goes, imho.
This is not a bad thing in the long run. In the short term, yes, unemployment is bad. But is anyone still hurting because buggy whip makers are all out of business? What are the people doing now that would have been employed making buggy whips, had cars not come along and taken away their jobs? Sure, some of them are probably doing jobs that will eventually be replaced by machines. However -- might some of them be, say, working out the latest cure for cancer?
Technological automation of repetetive tasks frees humans up to do things that only humans can do. Flying is 90% sitting around, making repeated checks of the horion to make sure you're not about to crash. I'm a little bit surprised it's taken this long to automate it.
Make windows like this that replay from a few hours before. "I don't know what happened, Officer, but if we just wait about 15 minutes we'll be able to see it all in my window here."
I had a Windows 98 machine that ran without crashing for several years. (That's without crashing; I turned it off every night.) It required draconian attention to what was running on startup, but I feel like this gives me some sort of bragging rights.
Keep in mind he's talking to the record companies here. If he wants to convince them, he has to make them think he agrees with them. If I wanted the record companies to enter into a contract with me that would make me billions, I'd sure as heck say "thieves" if I thought it'd help my case with them.
The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.
No, this isn't because MSN is more objective, it's because MSN's page ranking algorythm isn't as good.
I know that sounds backwards, but it's not; Google takes into account the words used in a link to a page, and MSN does not. If enough teenie boppers link to current-pop-star's page using the words "sex god" in the anchor tag:
<a href='current-pop-star.com'>sex god</a>
Google figures that this guy must be a sex god, since everyone's saying he is. Search on sex god, find some loser who can't sing but sure looks good on a poster. On the other hand, MSN takes into account none of this, and therefore doesn't rank pages as accurately as does Google.
"Anything else requires the brain to waste resources on "translator system" in order to use things like command line only interfaces."
That's the part I don't agree with. It took a while to learn the *nix command line interface, but now that I know it, I can think in it. Stringing together something like
takes no more thought (for me) than just deciding what I want. In fact, I think in terms of the command shell so much that once when I wanted to hear both sides of a phone conversation, my first thought was "tail -f Emily's phone", and another time I wanted more water in my glass, and my first thought was "cat faucet > glass" I am not joking.
Wasn't it that guy that A Beautiful Mind is about who said that you should do not what's selfishly best for you, but what's best for you *and* everyone else?
Grow a spine, man. You don't need girls like that in your life, and you don't need roommates like that. Screw them both. (Figuratively.) I'm totally serious - as long as you're willing to take that crap, people will keep giving it to you.
Hmm... okay. Intelligence was the wrong word. But surely we can agree that it's a process which has created some fascinatingly elegant solutions, and that such a system must be attributed some degree of sophistication?
"I don't understand the origins/purpose/design of something, so it MUST have been created by something even more intelligent than myself."
It was created by something more intelligent than yourself - it was created by a billion years long process of mutation and natural selection. That system seems to have the ability to test out nearly every possibility, and keep only the ones that work.
It's been recommended before, I just wanted to second the nomination. It's a Windows client, crippleware (you can use it for free but you don't get all the features.) Hmmm what else? It's fast, it's clean and slick, I bought a copy ages ago and still get free updates. Nick Gammon (the guy who wrote it) answers all of my emails personally, and has implemented two or three features that I requested. To me, this kind of personal contact with the author is worth a lot.
I'm going to disagree with you on the subject of religious censorship, and I hope that if I'm missing the boat here on the subject of censorship (as opposed to the subject of religion) you'll correct me.
I am a member of one of the religions you listed (Mormon,) and my religion doesn't censor anything for me. If I decide I want to buy a keg of beer or sign up for a porn site or go watch an R rated movie (a big no-no in some social circles in Utah,) nobody is going to stand in my way and say "Nope, not as long as you're Mormon."
My religion does offer suggestions and commandments regarding behavior, and I do my best, on a voluntary basis, to censor *myself* based on those suggestions and guidelines. But that's me acting on my own decisions and values, not my religion controlling what I consume and am exposed to.
no duh? I could've told you that without needing to run a survey. TV has reality shows, the net has Trogdor; what more evidence do you need that the web is far superior as an entertainment medium?
The cops did show up, remember? Only the cops were called Storm Troopers, and they had to hurry out, which left Han Solo free to blast the bounty hunter. (Not exactly a Star Wars geek, I just happen to have seen them again the other night.)
So what's a variable sword? What are they and how do they "work"?
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That's a good idea, actually. Then publish the site with those tech support sweatshops (Convergys, et. al.) so that when the workers there get calls from people who are mad about spam, they can say "If you go to www.spammer-info.com, you can call them and tell them personally what you think about them..."
Of course then you have the problem of innocent people getting on the list... and anyone who says "hurting one innocent person is worth it!" just joined the ranks of spammers as far as moral decay goes, imho.
This is not a bad thing in the long run. In the short term, yes, unemployment is bad. But is anyone still hurting because buggy whip makers are all out of business? What are the people doing now that would have been employed making buggy whips, had cars not come along and taken away their jobs? Sure, some of them are probably doing jobs that will eventually be replaced by machines. However -- might some of them be, say, working out the latest cure for cancer?
Technological automation of repetetive tasks frees humans up to do things that only humans can do. Flying is 90% sitting around, making repeated checks of the horion to make sure you're not about to crash. I'm a little bit surprised it's taken this long to automate it.
Make windows like this that replay from a few hours before. "I don't know what happened, Officer, but if we just wait about 15 minutes we'll be able to see it all in my window here."
Informative. I was going to post the same thing, but there it is.
I had a Windows 98 machine that ran without crashing for several years. (That's without crashing; I turned it off every night.) It required draconian attention to what was running on startup, but I feel like this gives me some sort of bragging rights.
Keep in mind he's talking to the record companies here. If he wants to convince them, he has to make them think he agrees with them. If I wanted the record companies to enter into a contract with me that would make me billions, I'd sure as heck say "thieves" if I thought it'd help my case with them.
It is that, but it's also something else. I didn't realize it could be interpreted as a timestamp.
The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.
I've plagiarised that piece repeatedly.
No, this isn't because MSN is more objective, it's because MSN's page ranking algorythm isn't as good.
I know that sounds backwards, but it's not; Google takes into account the words used in a link to a page, and MSN does not. If enough teenie boppers link to current-pop-star's page using the words "sex god" in the anchor tag:
<a href='current-pop-star.com'>sex god</a>
Google figures that this guy must be a sex god, since everyone's saying he is. Search on sex god, find some loser who can't sing but sure looks good on a poster. On the other hand, MSN takes into account none of this, and therefore doesn't rank pages as accurately as does Google.
"Anything else requires the brain to waste resources on "translator system" in order to use things like command line only interfaces."
/var/log/messages | grep -v pop | awk blah blah blah
That's the part I don't agree with. It took a while to learn the *nix command line interface, but now that I know it, I can think in it. Stringing together something like
tail -f
takes no more thought (for me) than just deciding what I want. In fact, I think in terms of the command shell so much that once when I wanted to hear both sides of a phone conversation, my first thought was "tail -f Emily's phone", and another time I wanted more water in my glass, and my first thought was "cat faucet > glass" I am not joking.
Wasn't it that guy that A Beautiful Mind is about who said that you should do not what's selfishly best for you, but what's best for you *and* everyone else?
Grow a spine, man. You don't need girls like that in your life, and you don't need roommates like that. Screw them both. (Figuratively.) I'm totally serious - as long as you're willing to take that crap, people will keep giving it to you.
Are the things he's listing bad, or is he getting it half right, or... what?
Hmm... okay. Intelligence was the wrong word. But surely we can agree that it's a process which has created some fascinatingly elegant solutions, and that such a system must be attributed some degree of sophistication?
"I don't understand the origins/purpose/design of something, so it MUST have been created by something even more intelligent than myself." It was created by something more intelligent than yourself - it was created by a billion years long process of mutation and natural selection. That system seems to have the ability to test out nearly every possibility, and keep only the ones that work.
It's been recommended before, I just wanted to second the nomination. It's a Windows client, crippleware (you can use it for free but you don't get all the features.) Hmmm what else? It's fast, it's clean and slick, I bought a copy ages ago and still get free updates. Nick Gammon (the guy who wrote it) answers all of my emails personally, and has implemented two or three features that I requested. To me, this kind of personal contact with the author is worth a lot.
I'm going to disagree with you on the subject of religious censorship, and I hope that if I'm missing the boat here on the subject of censorship (as opposed to the subject of religion) you'll correct me.
I am a member of one of the religions you listed (Mormon,) and my religion doesn't censor anything for me. If I decide I want to buy a keg of beer or sign up for a porn site or go watch an R rated movie (a big no-no in some social circles in Utah,) nobody is going to stand in my way and say "Nope, not as long as you're Mormon."
My religion does offer suggestions and commandments regarding behavior, and I do my best, on a voluntary basis, to censor *myself* based on those suggestions and guidelines. But that's me acting on my own decisions and values, not my religion controlling what I consume and am exposed to.
You spelled truly wrong in your sig.
Is this HaveBlue from NLH?
no duh? I could've told you that without needing to run a survey. TV has reality shows, the net has Trogdor; what more evidence do you need that the web is far superior as an entertainment medium?
So, are you a *single* young, female scientist? ;D
As long as we continue to have sex, womens' legs will never be unneeded appendages.
The cops did show up, remember? Only the cops were called Storm Troopers, and they had to hurry out, which left Han Solo free to blast the bounty hunter. (Not exactly a Star Wars geek, I just happen to have seen them again the other night.)
So what's a variable sword? What are they and how do they "work"?
Please say that "light saber" is one of these things we're just one step away from...
I think I'm going to cry, it's so lovely. Why don't people who can write this kind of stuff apply themselves to other things?