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In the best traditions of advertising-driven web progress, here we have yet another example of intentional bloat whose sole purpose is to push yet more foo-foo "targeted content", at the expense of your system and bandwidth, into your ever-shrinking useful workspace. Bloody wonderful.
Very well put. I might add that it is a fundamental error in logic to attempt to define the boundaries of, or apply measurements to the scope of our little bubble without presupposing a greater realm beyond. For something to have boundaries, it must exist within something to be bound from. "Everything" can't exist apart from or within something else. It means what it says: everything.
Without launching into a futile and fruitless debate over the etymology and semantics of "universe", I add my small voice to those who assert that "our universe", i.e. the observable and predictable one, is not at all "universal". Indeed, if one can embrace the concept of infinity, then our little cosmos becomes merely our current neighborhood. The possibilities around the corner, so to speak, are endless.
Can my company get your CV when you graduate? That's the most intelligent thing I've heard from an E-school student in ten years! Mod this up Insightful.
Couldn't agree more. It's nice to know that enlightened cynicism still acts as a necessary counterpoise to starry-eyed enthusiasm. Remember folks, the first part of *hyperlink* will always be *hype*.
It's a pity that the discussion is almost always framed as a dichotomy. Nearly everyone forgets, or is unaware, that there is an older, more accomodating, and intellectually honest way of viewing things. There are still people around the world, not entirely of Indo-European ancestry, who hold that the universe is a perfectly natural phenominon and that the "supernatural" is merely those portions of the natural that are difficult to observe and explain. They maintain that Fate or Providence is merely the natural outcome of complex cause and effect relationships. They see that co-existing dimensions of reality and higher-order beings are only knowable through improved techniques applied with involved direct observation, much like Schroedinger's cat. They understand that science and spirit are not mutually exclusive. They have more in common metaphysically with Pythagoras and Einstein than with Moses or Descarte. They're called pagans.
Odd, noone here seems to be willing to affix the blame for this whole flapdoodle (frapgoogle?) where it clearly belongs: China. International companies must comply with the statutory requirements of host countries or be sanctioned. If an onerous practice is required (such as the reporting of purchases or travel to regulatory agencies), it is not the company's responsibility to act like some starry-eyed paragon of glorious revolutionary activism. Businesses exist to generate profits for their equity holders. The Chinese political system is the problem, and the people of China have noone to blame but themselves for the resulting troubles. Teh internets can't undo China's police state, only the Chinese themselves can.
Vista is the most unutterably awful pig of an OS ever created, and that is a simple fact by any benchmark. I'm not an MS hater, btw. I recently got fed up with a new machine, out of the box, running like an IBM PC300 with Windows 3.x. The folks at HP helped point me to XP-compatable drivers for my ordinary, workaday, mid-price-range Pavilion desktop. XP installed, problem solved. The argument that Vista "just needs better computers" is simply absurd. Consumer commodity software should work properly on consumer commodity computers. Period.
Dateline: Last surviving.bomb yuppie bar in Cupertino
In a massive blow to software ogre Microsoft, Novell/SUSE and Google today announced the free download availability of "Google Linux...powered by SuSE".
Robert Love, where are you?
My problem with the merger is that since Doubleclick is one of the most obnoxious ad-pushers and a notoriously unscrupulous and insecure data miner, I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere for my search needs and delete all google cookies at once.
This is merely another symptom of humanity lurching steadily toward a drab, gray, intellectually sterile future, where cultural diversity will be eclipsed by monotony. In a monolingual, monocultural future, people all around the globe will be able to talk alright, but there will be much less to talk about.
Ah, well. As the late great Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "So it goes."
I worked on amorphous silicon thin-film solar technology at BP solar (the old Solarex) years back. The aSi panels had a number of good attributes but we could never get the $/watt down below grown silicon. I'm glad to see a similar technology succeed because thin film offers mechanical properties in terms of light weight and yeild that make it ideal for building-integrated installations.
Who really cares about a bunch of nutjobs who take science fiction seriously? The rank-and-file $cientology adhereant isn't any different than a Trekkie or an H.P. Lovecraft cultist. This is the same sort of life-challenged whacko that stays up all night listening to Art Bell and George Norrie.
This is old technology, still classified by regulation but long recognized as having been "compromised" decades ago, most notably from an errant sale of surplus machine tools to the PRC in the 1980's.
It's about as significant as having the code for an old AN/YUK-7 computer or LINK-4 NTDS...of more use as an interesting conversation piece than of any military or scientific value.
Besides, there is no credible adversary for US submarines left anyway; the few ships/subs left to the Russians generally just rust away at their moorings, and the Chinese navy is a laughingstock. North Korea and Iran are just pests from a naval warfare standpoint, and we do not regard India as potentially hostile.
So who really cares?
Absolutely. I work in the auto industry, where 60-hour workweeks are expected, and usually more is necessary. "Use or lose" vacation always ends up lost, health needs go unmet due to lack of time off for appointments, and management in the industry has a universal "Somebody else wants your job, so if you don't like it, don't let the door hit you. We need you for 12 hours every night till Hell freezes over" So tough noogies, Magna, if I read/. on my infrequent breaks.
Unless you just want to establish a baseline to prove the progression that the next generation, so full naive ideals, red-hot urine, and youthful self-righteousness, will turn out to be just as big a lot of destructive, selfish, short-sighted cretins as every other generation that has gone before.
Qutie right. The whole privacy debate, as it pertains to databases and other elint, is moot except to the tin-foil hat crowd. Yours and my personal lives, right down to our preferred brand of beer, is on someone's easily-accessable database somewhere. If the US gov't (or worse, a UN NGO) wanted to know if I drank Newcastle Ale in large amounts they'd certainly be able to parse this with no trouble.
Databases are not the front line of the privacy war anymore...it has devolved back on to who our leaders are and their intentions. The technical tools available to them are irrelevant in an age of public records and semi-public records.
More feel-good junk science to feed the rightfully low self-esteem of the Buffet Buffalo population.
Many years ago a doctor candidly revealed to me that chronic pathological causes for acute Lardus Assimus account for about 2% of all cases. The rest of the up-right walking hog population is just lazy and eats too much, but doctors can't say that, at least not in public.
Life experience tends to confirm this.
If you want to be a pig, that's fine, but don't expect any sympathy from the healthy population.
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In the best traditions of advertising-driven web progress, here we have yet another example of intentional bloat whose sole purpose is to push yet more foo-foo "targeted content", at the expense of your system and bandwidth, into your ever-shrinking useful workspace. Bloody wonderful.
Very well put. I might add that it is a fundamental error in logic to attempt to define the boundaries of, or apply measurements to the scope of our little bubble without presupposing a greater realm beyond. For something to have boundaries, it must exist within something to be bound from. "Everything" can't exist apart from or within something else. It means what it says: everything.
Without launching into a futile and fruitless debate over the etymology and semantics of "universe", I add my small voice to those who assert that "our universe", i.e. the observable and predictable one, is not at all "universal". Indeed, if one can embrace the concept of infinity, then our little cosmos becomes merely our current neighborhood. The possibilities around the corner, so to speak, are endless.
Can my company get your CV when you graduate? That's the most intelligent thing I've heard from an E-school student in ten years! Mod this up Insightful.
Couldn't agree more. It's nice to know that enlightened cynicism still acts as a necessary counterpoise to starry-eyed enthusiasm. Remember folks, the first part of *hyperlink* will always be *hype*.
It's a pity that the discussion is almost always framed as a dichotomy. Nearly everyone forgets, or is unaware, that there is an older, more accomodating, and intellectually honest way of viewing things. There are still people around the world, not entirely of Indo-European ancestry, who hold that the universe is a perfectly natural phenominon and that the "supernatural" is merely those portions of the natural that are difficult to observe and explain. They maintain that Fate or Providence is merely the natural outcome of complex cause and effect relationships. They see that co-existing dimensions of reality and higher-order beings are only knowable through improved techniques applied with involved direct observation, much like Schroedinger's cat. They understand that science and spirit are not mutually exclusive. They have more in common metaphysically with Pythagoras and Einstein than with Moses or Descarte. They're called pagans.
Odd, noone here seems to be willing to affix the blame for this whole flapdoodle (frapgoogle?) where it clearly belongs: China. International companies must comply with the statutory requirements of host countries or be sanctioned. If an onerous practice is required (such as the reporting of purchases or travel to regulatory agencies), it is not the company's responsibility to act like some starry-eyed paragon of glorious revolutionary activism. Businesses exist to generate profits for their equity holders. The Chinese political system is the problem, and the people of China have noone to blame but themselves for the resulting troubles. Teh internets can't undo China's police state, only the Chinese themselves can.
I built my own universe once, but the startup Bang really hosed up my wife's microwave.
Vista is the most unutterably awful pig of an OS ever created, and that is a simple fact by any benchmark. I'm not an MS hater, btw. I recently got fed up with a new machine, out of the box, running like an IBM PC300 with Windows 3.x. The folks at HP helped point me to XP-compatable drivers for my ordinary, workaday, mid-price-range Pavilion desktop. XP installed, problem solved. The argument that Vista "just needs better computers" is simply absurd. Consumer commodity software should work properly on consumer commodity computers. Period.
1337 is SO 90's...
Dateline: Last surviving .bomb yuppie bar in Cupertino
In a massive blow to software ogre Microsoft, Novell/SUSE and Google today announced the free download availability of "Google Linux...powered by SuSE".
Robert Love, where are you?
My problem with the merger is that since Doubleclick is one of the most obnoxious ad-pushers and a notoriously unscrupulous and insecure data miner, I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere for my search needs and delete all google cookies at once.
Vatican to copyright God, film at 11.
This is merely another symptom of humanity lurching steadily toward a drab, gray, intellectually sterile future, where cultural diversity will be eclipsed by monotony. In a monolingual, monocultural future, people all around the globe will be able to talk alright, but there will be much less to talk about.
Ah, well. As the late great Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "So it goes."
Calling Bill Gates an asshole is an egregious insult to honorable assholes everywhere.
I worked on amorphous silicon thin-film solar technology at BP solar (the old Solarex) years back. The aSi panels had a number of good attributes but we could never get the $/watt down below grown silicon. I'm glad to see a similar technology succeed because thin film offers mechanical properties in terms of light weight and yeild that make it ideal for building-integrated installations.
Perhaps they value freedom of speech more than political correctness. Perish the thought!
Who really cares about a bunch of nutjobs who take science fiction seriously? The rank-and-file $cientology adhereant isn't any different than a Trekkie or an H.P. Lovecraft cultist. This is the same sort of life-challenged whacko that stays up all night listening to Art Bell and George Norrie.
This is old technology, still classified by regulation but long recognized as having been "compromised" decades ago, most notably from an errant sale of surplus machine tools to the PRC in the 1980's. It's about as significant as having the code for an old AN/YUK-7 computer or LINK-4 NTDS...of more use as an interesting conversation piece than of any military or scientific value. Besides, there is no credible adversary for US submarines left anyway; the few ships/subs left to the Russians generally just rust away at their moorings, and the Chinese navy is a laughingstock. North Korea and Iran are just pests from a naval warfare standpoint, and we do not regard India as potentially hostile. So who really cares?
Absolutely. I work in the auto industry, where 60-hour workweeks are expected, and usually more is necessary. "Use or lose" vacation always ends up lost, health needs go unmet due to lack of time off for appointments, and management in the industry has a universal "Somebody else wants your job, so if you don't like it, don't let the door hit you. We need you for 12 hours every night till Hell freezes over" So tough noogies, Magna, if I read /. on my infrequent breaks.
Unless you just want to establish a baseline to prove the progression that the next generation, so full naive ideals, red-hot urine, and youthful self-righteousness, will turn out to be just as big a lot of destructive, selfish, short-sighted cretins as every other generation that has gone before.
Ye gods, a planet populated exclusively by blondes!
Yup, the farmer that grows the corn that went into your 6th bag of Doritos today, lardass.
Qutie right. The whole privacy debate, as it pertains to databases and other elint, is moot except to the tin-foil hat crowd. Yours and my personal lives, right down to our preferred brand of beer, is on someone's easily-accessable database somewhere. If the US gov't (or worse, a UN NGO) wanted to know if I drank Newcastle Ale in large amounts they'd certainly be able to parse this with no trouble. Databases are not the front line of the privacy war anymore...it has devolved back on to who our leaders are and their intentions. The technical tools available to them are irrelevant in an age of public records and semi-public records.
More feel-good junk science to feed the rightfully low self-esteem of the Buffet Buffalo population. Many years ago a doctor candidly revealed to me that chronic pathological causes for acute Lardus Assimus account for about 2% of all cases. The rest of the up-right walking hog population is just lazy and eats too much, but doctors can't say that, at least not in public. Life experience tends to confirm this. If you want to be a pig, that's fine, but don't expect any sympathy from the healthy population.