Yeah, you're right. Equating depression with depth is adolescent, but I don't think literary and artistic giants are immortal for merely being screwed in the head. Still, it's possible to be prolific or successful just because one's inner life is too bland to be anything but a workhorse.
I couldn't disagree more. There's no difference between between a stopwatch that counts to a minute and one that counts to forever. The latter just never stops counting.
Since you can never reach infinity, the infinite time before us would still be ongoing, making it impossible for the present time to exist.
Huh? Wednesday is 48 finite hours after Monday -- always. You might as well claim we can't buy a dozen eggs because we could always add one more egg!
"I can no longer conduct services in praise of the angry, petulant old man in whom you believe. You have turned your back on the God of Love and Compassion, and invented for yourselves a cruel, senile delinquent who blames the world for his own faults."
"They" burned a police car because they're violent, immature, and craving excitement that will aggrandize themselves. "They" were not G8 protesters. "They" were hangers-on who show up at ANY public protest -- the political reasons for their behavior is merely an excuse.
"The fact is that no one is in danger of these people."
The police officer who ended up at San Francisco General with a concussion and a blod clot would disagree.
I don't get it either. I remember the incident this guy supposedly video taped. The cops/government aren't pissed at G8 protesters. They don't give a shit as long as no one gets hurt. What they're concerned about is "Black Block" (blackblock.org) -- an "anarchist" group whos professed ideology has emphasized methods so much that goals are indecipherable. A cop car isn't the only thing that got trashed. An officer had his skull cracked open with a hammer.
Of course, what I'm pointing out here doesn't address the legal principals at stake, but lets not kid ourselves. This guy isn't Woodward, Bernstein, or Judith Miller.
"Home computers are marketed with slogans like "Ultimate Performance," but the truth is they're engineered to run cool, quiet, and slow compared to commercial servers."
Personal computers are so overpowered for their common usage that making them silent and energy efficient has become more important than raw computational speed. As for servers, I thought their design motivations placed agility with "super pi" dead last -- even for a render farm.
Thanks for your post. IIRC, a few years ago some academics at the University of Chicago stumbled upon a correlation between the advent of abortion rights and a reduction in crime. That being said, what the world needs is a political philosopher that could open a path to compromise between the absolutist forces on either side of this issue. Personally, I'm "pro choice", but see no reason why a woman should need nine months to decide on motherhood. Drawing the line at the first or second trimester seems reasonable to me but how could such a principal actually become the law of the land given the vehemence of either side?
Hmmm. I'm not sure I understand your point. No matter how abstract the initial representation of an image it will still have to be rasterized. If that means tapping hardware GL and shaders to turn SVG (or what have you) into a bitmapped texture, and only then painting it to a monitor I don't see what's lost. The available hardware is still utilized. Doesn't the intermediary step merely add flexibility?
I've got to disagree with that. There may be sophisticated layering in the production of a Spears tune but musically there isn't an advancement over the past. The Beatles wrote music that was harmonically and melodically rich. Leonard Bernstein openly praised Brian Wilson's compositional talent when he heard "Pet Sounds". Duke Ellington's music was mostly performed in dance halls (early on), but he managed to throw a sense of narrative into his arrangements that just isn't heard on the pop charts anymore.
Dude, "Care Not Cash" was a step forward. I don't see why you should complain if you live within three blocks of Union Square. I'd be more annoyed by the tourists than the "regulars" that haunt that area. Homelessness isn't nearly as bad as it was 8 or 9 years ago anyway.
What "brave" scientific discoveries have we made with the Space Shuttle? Name one prominent scientist that has gone into orbit. The only meritable thing NASA has done since building the Shuttle fleet involves probes and Hubble. Your moxie may be spirited if overzelous, but you might as well be callng Americans cowards for not slamming thier heads into a brick wall as hard as they can.
Yeah, I don't get that about Gentoo at all. Back when I was taking it for a spin I saw some of the wierdest behaviour with thier kernels, yet they wouldn't put the latest plain ol' kernel.org release in the portage tree.
I would push that observation even further. I believe the median woman might be a bit smarter than the median man. Like you, I think the spectrum of female brain-power is much less variable than that of men, but would add that men are the freaks of the species. Look to the men for most examples of human genius, but admit we're also going to find the criminals, thugs, bums, serial killers, and genocidal dictators.
It's more than just opening a club. SOMA was under fire during the dot-com boom in San Francisco. The "loft" development lobby was muscling nightlife out of an area zoned (in part) to facillitate it. The intent was to make the region more hospitable to upscale housing while preserving the tax loopholes and building codes afforded to an "industrial" type of development. In effect, there was a housing lobby analog of the SUV lobby and nightclubs that had been doing their thing for decades were going to take the hit.
Zawinski put his hat in the ring very publicly over this matter with organized demonstrations. Buying the DNA was a touch risky and a touch cool because it was something of an icon that was going under. That was in a time when it seemed that owning a big nightclub was about to become politically difficult at best if not impossible.
Surely using words like "history" is blowing things way out of proportion, but it is cool that he scooped the place up and turned things around.
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Yeah, you're right. Equating depression with depth is adolescent, but I don't think literary and artistic giants are immortal for merely being screwed in the head. Still, it's possible to be prolific or successful just because one's inner life is too bland to be anything but a workhorse.
None of those guys will be remembered in league with Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Donne, etc...
Since you can never reach infinity, the infinite time before us would still be ongoing, making it impossible for the present time to exist.
Huh? Wednesday is 48 finite hours after Monday -- always. You might as well claim we can't buy a dozen eggs because we could always add one more egg!
"I can no longer conduct services in praise of the angry, petulant old man in whom you believe. You have turned your back on the God of Love and Compassion, and invented for yourselves a cruel, senile delinquent who blames the world for his own faults."
"The fact is that no one is in danger of these people."
The police officer who ended up at San Francisco General with a concussion and a blod clot would disagree.
He would in a crowd of midgets wearing tuxedos.
Of course, what I'm pointing out here doesn't address the legal principals at stake, but lets not kid ourselves. This guy isn't Woodward, Bernstein, or Judith Miller.
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Personal computers are so overpowered for their common usage that making them silent and energy efficient has become more important than raw computational speed. As for servers, I thought their design motivations placed agility with "super pi" dead last -- even for a render farm.
Thanks for your post. IIRC, a few years ago some academics at the University of Chicago stumbled upon a correlation between the advent of abortion rights and a reduction in crime. That being said, what the world needs is a political philosopher that could open a path to compromise between the absolutist forces on either side of this issue. Personally, I'm "pro choice", but see no reason why a woman should need nine months to decide on motherhood. Drawing the line at the first or second trimester seems reasonable to me but how could such a principal actually become the law of the land given the vehemence of either side?
Hmmm. I'm not sure I understand your point. No matter how abstract the initial representation of an image it will still have to be rasterized. If that means tapping hardware GL and shaders to turn SVG (or what have you) into a bitmapped texture, and only then painting it to a monitor I don't see what's lost. The available hardware is still utilized. Doesn't the intermediary step merely add flexibility?
Jesus man, did you even read the ancestors of your post before you took that tack?
You're thinking of "Touch of Evil".
I'd like to see laptop LCDs tap transflective tech like some cell phones and PDAs.
He means modular at the source. FDO has been "autotooling" the monolithic tree for some time now. All those debs come from the same source tarball.
I've got to disagree with that. There may be sophisticated layering in the production of a Spears tune but musically there isn't an advancement over the past. The Beatles wrote music that was harmonically and melodically rich. Leonard Bernstein openly praised Brian Wilson's compositional talent when he heard "Pet Sounds". Duke Ellington's music was mostly performed in dance halls (early on), but he managed to throw a sense of narrative into his arrangements that just isn't heard on the pop charts anymore.
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- H. D. Thoreau
Dude, "Care Not Cash" was a step forward. I don't see why you should complain if you live within three blocks of Union Square. I'd be more annoyed by the tourists than the "regulars" that haunt that area. Homelessness isn't nearly as bad as it was 8 or 9 years ago anyway.
What "brave" scientific discoveries have we made with the Space Shuttle? Name one prominent scientist that has gone into orbit. The only meritable thing NASA has done since building the Shuttle fleet involves probes and Hubble. Your moxie may be spirited if overzelous, but you might as well be callng Americans cowards for not slamming thier heads into a brick wall as hard as they can.
Yeah, I don't get that about Gentoo at all. Back when I was taking it for a spin I saw some of the wierdest behaviour with thier kernels, yet they wouldn't put the latest plain ol' kernel.org release in the portage tree.
I would push that observation even further. I believe the median woman might be a bit smarter than the median man. Like you, I think the spectrum of female brain-power is much less variable than that of men, but would add that men are the freaks of the species. Look to the men for most examples of human genius, but admit we're also going to find the criminals, thugs, bums, serial killers, and genocidal dictators.
Pixar recruited Brad Bird because they were "worried about becoming complacent".
Zealots hate the switch.
Zawinski put his hat in the ring very publicly over this matter with organized demonstrations. Buying the DNA was a touch risky and a touch cool because it was something of an icon that was going under. That was in a time when it seemed that owning a big nightclub was about to become politically difficult at best if not impossible.
Surely using words like "history" is blowing things way out of proportion, but it is cool that he scooped the place up and turned things around.
What's stopping them from doing this right now?