you know... being an "AOL user" does not necessarily mean dumb, although i agree that geek snobs have a tendency to judge people according to tech knowledge and somehow have the misconception that unix knowledge is a universal and ultimate measure of IQ; "AOL user" might also mean...
1. Some guy with a family who runs a democratic household where the needs of a young kid for a somewhat safe "walled garden" with good parental controls and plenty of kid-safe content is at least as important as, if not more than, the self-gratifying feeling and bragging rights of running the latest debian or gentoo. 2. someone with certain sociopolitical conscience who thinks that supporting AOL Time Warner and its stable of responsible and free media outlets such as CNN, TNT, and the Cartoon Network, and until recently its support of Mozilla, is good considering the aggressive onslaught of their competition, Fox being the most notorious and morally dangerous, and until recently Microsoft. 3. other reasons...
I have similar experiences... and where the exuberance of youth and its spring-like optimism had made me a firm believer in life before, my views have changed out of seeing cancer patients who were beyond treatement, and who were relegated to terminal care. I think there are things about cancer care that won't be helped by medicine alone, at least not the near future and not unless effective treatment is available; I now firmly believe the pampered moralists who indulge in the luxury of idealistic debate have no right to speak for everyone and deprive the terminally ill from the right to die where death has been deemed certain, to the best knowledge and experience of doctors, and the few weeks to it are filled with intolerable suffering, or pressure those looking after them into prolonging such suffering, with the fear of legal and sociopolitical reprisals. Morphine might help with pain somewhat, but vomiting blood, gasping for breath, and many other symptoms are far beyond what is acceptable for anyone to endure unnecessarily.
it's interesting that you should say that about testicles and recommend that they're "fondled" often, 'cos some people who have been brought up in certain somewhat puritanical situations and strict hygeine instructions are unlikely to "fondle" themselves and thereby might miss out all together on the possibility of a painless thing such as a cancer. I happen to be one of them, and though i'm now at least agnostic and perhaps even atheist i guess some habits of upbringing are difficult to shake off, but now that you reminded me about about testicular cancer i ought to make an intention to check them out next time i take a shower. In fact, i have had very little tactile contact with my testicles that when some girl in my youth, who apparently had a liking for oral sex, suddenly wrapped her mouth around one i was somewhat momentarily horrified by her surprising move and the chance of harm happening to them. I can still say that i'm far from being an expert on the exact texture of my testicles.
I think it's something other than a search engine that they have in mind, for which they need the search engine technology as a component, but i'm not entirely sure what that is. Their recent announcement that they're going to use IBM's PowerPC chips instead of intel for their next generation xbox makes their purchase of VirtualPC's connectix more than just a strategic takeover to threaten apple, as it'll enable them to emulate intel on the powerPC so their next Xbox will be backward compatible with current games. Microsot probably has something they want to roll out and they don't wanna wait to build a search engine from scratch; can anyone guess what that might be...
i find these as very very welcome news, especially so that i have personally seen the effects of conventional therapies; if you're lucky you'll have a tumor they can cut out, if not then too many of those chemotherapies are way too toxic, and quite a few radiotherapies too.
thanks to this article... i'm now waiting to see how long it'd take one of this resourceful crowd, which so far seemed to have cloned and homemade everything remotely fun, to proudly declare to fellow geeks details of some overclocked and overmodded micorwave oven he hacked together.... for some reason i suspect it'll have green neon internals...
of course with the usual "for educational purposes only" disclaimer, eventhough he'll be linking to it from his post on alt.shenanigans
In these media-fueled times, when war is a television spectacle and wiping out large numbers of civilians is generally frowned upon,...
Am I reading too much into this or does the literary style of Mr Abrams make sound as he might be nostalgic for the good ol' times when "wiping out large numbers of civilians" wasn't something the media would be interested in or it'd be "generally frowned upon"
There's one important factor that is often ommitted from such considerations; battery life, which is a very finite resource. I personally carry in my bag a cybershot camera that i use to videoblog and a clie, and although convergence devices have hit the market that provide a PDA with video capabilities i'm not so tempted to buy one any time soon for that very same reason. The camera would take just over an hour of video before it runs out of battery, which i personally use almost daily, and that wouldn't affect the PDAs battery at all. Separation of concerns is a good thing, and i'd imagine that gaming that'd be intensive enough to consume a PDAs battery mean it's better to have a dedicated gaming device even if that means carrying two gadgets. PDAs are meant to be reliable and a PDA that's out of battery power isn't reliable at all.
let's just hope this will encourage adobe and corel to port their artistic stuff to linux, or that it'll add to the mindshare and therefore developer input that the gimp has.
1. it's time for them to endorse pull or on-demand technologies; there's no reason for me to change my habits or schedule to watch a TV show i might be interested in or to put up with whatever is on the TV at the time i rest on the sofa... web-reared audiences now go for what they want, if TV is not providing it, the internet will. There's a big difference between thinking "let's see, i wonder what's on TV right now" and "gee, right now i'm interested in this thing and i wanna watch something about it"
2. thanks to the media conglomerates consolidating and things across the board being homogenized, i have little interest in most of what's on TV these days; take for example the most agressive consolidator of media and you'll see that being true; rupert murdoch's Fox and etc... News channels such as Faux(fox) News assume i'm a brainwashable retard to the extent i feel outraged and somewhat insulted whenever i have to endure the evident deliberate "unfair and unbalanced" reporting that they do. Their entertainment shows including the reality TV glot and the sleazy nonsnese somehow assume i'm superficial and driven by hedonistic instinct, and if a female then i'm slutty and shopaholic; liberalism and conservatism aside, it's all just to brainwash me into a drone who'll buy products and remain a loyal subscriber; in the form of "you really want this, we'll keep pumping it to you". What's worse is that other and rival media outlets have felt compelled to compete and therefore you often end up with such nonsense on all channels. It's quite remarkable that fox news seems the most aggressively conservative yet fox entertainment is the most sleazy of the mainstream channel. Well it's good to know that the answer to monopoly now is to abandon the medium altogether.
3. the trend towards TV is the same towards that towards mcdonalds and junk food; people no longer want junk unhealthy stuff, they want healthy choices not just in their food but also in their meme intake; recently i've turned into a healthier lifestyle and found that TV such as above was very very unhealthy, i felt happier listening to audiobooks, respectable radio such as BBC and NPR, and reading books, and i felt much healther as a person in mind and consequently in body.
i'd be happy to use alltheweb instead of google had it not been for one simple thing that if alltheweb changed it'd make it just as good.
in google the ads are on the right of the page so that my first search results are there right where i want to see them or expect to see them, time after time, my eyes can just be on the same spot i expect to find the first answer. on alltheweb they put the sponsored ads first which vary in number and length so it always means i have to scroll down, either visually with my eyes or by clicking the scrollbar a few times, sometimes a page down and sometimes a few lines to find my first search result; these unpredictabilities as to where the first search result might be on the screen and the need to visually scan to find it and if need be make a few extra clicks, plus the need to ignore the sponsored search results which are similarly formatted, whereas in google their format is different and i know where they are spatially that i don't need to worry about them, all add up to make using alltheweb a little tedious to a degree of giving me a slight headache of being somewhat annoyed.
it's bizarre and somewhat foolish of alltheweb to do that, especially that if they adopt the google way of not putting things in the way of people they'd be able to cram in some more search results down the page. All it takes for them is to change this one simple thing and i wouldn't care too much about google, except of course for the newsgroups and media news, plus seach, all in one place.
google has just the convenience of usability. i really suggest they have a new tab, like those for images, groups and news.. etc, for blogs and RSS feeds; that way they'd prevent regular search results being contaminated by such often useless stuff.
one other thing; filter band names! too often recently whenever i search for something on google the first result i get is some sorta kids band that happen to have that word in their name; it seems with every kid now wanting to be in a band there's almost nearly as many kids bands as words in the english language.
Barring the current Iraq situation, the US has proven they are RESPONSIBLE with their use of WMD, and only use them when attacked, and therefore are allowed to have them, per the UN and the rest of the world treaties out there.
What about intense, unopposed aerial bombardment; As far as an effect is concerned, this is a weapon of mass destruction. The US anihilated scores and scores of helpless iraqi forces by bombing them beyond mercy.
Hitler did not kill 6,000,000; there weren't even 6,000,000 jews in the area he had under his control to start with.
The gross exageration in figures demonstrates the skill of people who won't hesitate to capitalize on anything; just like they did a "holocaust industry" they now stand to be the major people to capitalize on 9/11.
The engineered virus is not contagious and does not affect humans...
ha... that is... until it mutates!
which is almost inevitable, that's just like saying... "this campfire is small and does not harm anyone... "... until the wind blows the sparks into the forest and you end up with a major disaster
so i assume then that it's now scientifically established that the big bang happened... well... what was there before it... and where does god come into the picture...
first of all... most plasma TV frames make a bad frame for such pictures! a suitable frame is more important than most people think and can totally spoil an otherwise great picture.
Then, whatever TV that'd use this, it better have an effective anti-burn technology; otherwise a static picture would leave residual images and damage the expensive gadget.
Why pay $500 for a TV rendered image when you can buy posters for $5.
What people often miss out on is that Oil is a fossil and non-sustainable fuel, which means the more you consume of it the less there will be left. So this makes the idea that we should consume less oil rather rediculous because if you really want to save the environment 'cos anyway it doesn't matter; it is a self-limiting hazard if there is any.
What they also miss out on is that the technologies that rely on oil are over a century old and have reached a degree of efficiency, safety, reliability, cleanliness and commoditization that it is unlikely any technology will be able to compete any time soon. It may be that oil currently sells for 10 or 20 dollars per barrel but it can actually be produced for as little as 1$ per barrel by some producers such as Saudi Arabia.
So unless by some unprecedented historical event we will have a technology that will be as reliable and commoditized, and as cheap as oil, and by commoditization i also mean the entire industry such as the internal combustion engine, I don't see oil going away anytime soon, which is good, because we don't need to be driven by anti-oil dogma. The environment isn't nearly as bad as many portrays it, and oil is certainly not as evil as many suggest.
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you know... being an "AOL user" does not necessarily mean dumb, although i agree that geek snobs have a tendency to judge people according to tech knowledge and somehow have the misconception that unix knowledge is a universal and ultimate measure of IQ; "AOL user" might also mean...
1. Some guy with a family who runs a democratic household where the needs of a young kid for a somewhat safe "walled garden" with good parental controls and plenty of kid-safe content is at least as important as, if not more than, the self-gratifying feeling and bragging rights of running the latest debian or gentoo.
2. someone with certain sociopolitical conscience who thinks that supporting AOL Time Warner and its stable of responsible and free media outlets such as CNN, TNT, and the Cartoon Network, and until recently its support of Mozilla, is good considering the aggressive onslaught of their competition, Fox being the most notorious and morally dangerous, and until recently Microsoft.
3. other reasons...
I have similar experiences... and where the exuberance of youth and its spring-like optimism had made me a firm believer in life before, my views have changed out of seeing cancer patients who were beyond treatement, and who were relegated to terminal care. I think there are things about cancer care that won't be helped by medicine alone, at least not the near future and not unless effective treatment is available; I now firmly believe the pampered moralists who indulge in the luxury of idealistic debate have no right to speak for everyone and deprive the terminally ill from the right to die where death has been deemed certain, to the best knowledge and experience of doctors, and the few weeks to it are filled with intolerable suffering, or pressure those looking after them into prolonging such suffering, with the fear of legal and sociopolitical reprisals. Morphine might help with pain somewhat, but vomiting blood, gasping for breath, and many other symptoms are far beyond what is acceptable for anyone to endure unnecessarily.
it's interesting that you should say that about testicles and recommend that they're "fondled" often, 'cos some people who have been brought up in certain somewhat puritanical situations and strict hygeine instructions are unlikely to "fondle" themselves and thereby might miss out all together on the possibility of a painless thing such as a cancer. I happen to be one of them, and though i'm now at least agnostic and perhaps even atheist i guess some habits of upbringing are difficult to shake off, but now that you reminded me about about testicular cancer i ought to make an intention to check them out next time i take a shower. In fact, i have had very little tactile contact with my testicles that when some girl in my youth, who apparently had a liking for oral sex, suddenly wrapped her mouth around one i was somewhat momentarily horrified by her surprising move and the chance of harm happening to them. I can still say that i'm far from being an expert on the exact texture of my testicles.
I think it's something other than a search engine that they have in mind, for which they need the search engine technology as a component, but i'm not entirely sure what that is. Their recent announcement that they're going to use IBM's PowerPC chips instead of intel for their next generation xbox makes their purchase of VirtualPC's connectix more than just a strategic takeover to threaten apple, as it'll enable them to emulate intel on the powerPC so their next Xbox will be backward compatible with current games. Microsot probably has something they want to roll out and they don't wanna wait to build a search engine from scratch; can anyone guess what that might be...
i find these as very very welcome news, especially so that i have personally seen the effects of conventional therapies; if you're lucky you'll have a tumor they can cut out, if not then too many of those chemotherapies are way too toxic, and quite a few radiotherapies too.
thanks to this article... i'm now waiting to see how long it'd take one of this resourceful crowd, which so far seemed to have cloned and homemade everything remotely fun, to proudly declare to fellow geeks details of some overclocked and overmodded micorwave oven he hacked together.... for some reason i suspect it'll have green neon internals...
of course with the usual "for educational purposes only" disclaimer, eventhough he'll be linking to it from his post on alt.shenanigans
In these media-fueled times, when war is a television spectacle and wiping out large numbers of civilians is generally frowned upon,
Am I reading too much into this or does the literary style of Mr Abrams make sound as he might be nostalgic for the good ol' times when "wiping out large numbers of civilians" wasn't something the media would be interested in or it'd be "generally frowned upon"
what a poor phrasing to start an article...
whether environmentalist might just claim this is due to global warming; i won't be surprised if they do!!!
There's one important factor that is often ommitted from such considerations; battery life, which is a very finite resource. I personally carry in my bag a cybershot camera that i use to videoblog and a clie, and although convergence devices have hit the market that provide a PDA with video capabilities i'm not so tempted to buy one any time soon for that very same reason. The camera would take just over an hour of video before it runs out of battery, which i personally use almost daily, and that wouldn't affect the PDAs battery at all. Separation of concerns is a good thing, and i'd imagine that gaming that'd be intensive enough to consume a PDAs battery mean it's better to have a dedicated gaming device even if that means carrying two gadgets. PDAs are meant to be reliable and a PDA that's out of battery power isn't reliable at all.
and it's likely to remain so for years to come
i think the word politics means different things in different contexts.
the software patent was filed in 2001, which means it shouldn't affect what we've all been doing since at least the midnineties.
well consider buying staroffice then... i have it; it's great
let's just hope this will encourage adobe and corel to port their artistic stuff to linux, or that it'll add to the mindshare and therefore developer input that the gimp has.
3 things:
1. it's time for them to endorse pull or on-demand technologies; there's no reason for me to change my habits or schedule to watch a TV show i might be interested in or to put up with whatever is on the TV at the time i rest on the sofa... web-reared audiences now go for what they want, if TV is not providing it, the internet will. There's a big difference between thinking "let's see, i wonder what's on TV right now" and "gee, right now i'm interested in this thing and i wanna watch something about it"
2. thanks to the media conglomerates consolidating and things across the board being homogenized, i have little interest in most of what's on TV these days; take for example the most agressive consolidator of media and you'll see that being true; rupert murdoch's Fox and etc... News channels such as Faux(fox) News assume i'm a brainwashable retard to the extent i feel outraged and somewhat insulted whenever i have to endure the evident deliberate "unfair and unbalanced" reporting that they do. Their entertainment shows including the reality TV glot and the sleazy nonsnese somehow assume i'm superficial and driven by hedonistic instinct, and if a female then i'm slutty and shopaholic; liberalism and conservatism aside, it's all just to brainwash me into a drone who'll buy products and remain a loyal subscriber; in the form of "you really want this, we'll keep pumping it to you". What's worse is that other and rival media outlets have felt compelled to compete and therefore you often end up with such nonsense on all channels. It's quite remarkable that fox news seems the most aggressively conservative yet fox entertainment is the most sleazy of the mainstream channel. Well it's good to know that the answer to monopoly now is to abandon the medium altogether.
3. the trend towards TV is the same towards that towards mcdonalds and junk food; people no longer want junk unhealthy stuff, they want healthy choices not just in their food but also in their meme intake; recently i've turned into a healthier lifestyle and found that TV such as above was very very unhealthy, i felt happier listening to audiobooks, respectable radio such as BBC and NPR, and reading books, and i felt much healther as a person in mind and consequently in body.
i'd be happy to use alltheweb instead of google had it not been for one simple thing that if alltheweb changed it'd make it just as good.
in google the ads are on the right of the page so that my first search results are there right where i want to see them or expect to see them, time after time, my eyes can just be on the same spot i expect to find the first answer. on alltheweb they put the sponsored ads first which vary in number and length so it always means i have to scroll down, either visually with my eyes or by clicking the scrollbar a few times, sometimes a page down and sometimes a few lines to find my first search result; these unpredictabilities as to where the first search result might be on the screen and the need to visually scan to find it and if need be make a few extra clicks, plus the need to ignore the sponsored search results which are similarly formatted, whereas in google their format is different and i know where they are spatially that i don't need to worry about them, all add up to make using alltheweb a little tedious to a degree of giving me a slight headache of being somewhat annoyed.
it's bizarre and somewhat foolish of alltheweb to do that, especially that if they adopt the google way of not putting things in the way of people they'd be able to cram in some more search results down the page. All it takes for them is to change this one simple thing and i wouldn't care too much about google, except of course for the newsgroups and media news, plus seach, all in one place.
google has just the convenience of usability. i really suggest they have a new tab, like those for images, groups and news.. etc, for blogs and RSS feeds; that way they'd prevent regular search results being contaminated by such often useless stuff.
one other thing; filter band names! too often recently whenever i search for something on google the first result i get is some sorta kids band that happen to have that word in their name; it seems with every kid now wanting to be in a band there's almost nearly as many kids bands as words in the english language.
you retard; your reference is "the holocaust eductation trust", the propagandit of such holocaust industry.
Barring the current Iraq situation, the US has proven they are RESPONSIBLE with their use of WMD, and only use them when attacked, and therefore are allowed to have them, per the UN and the rest of the world treaties out there.
What about intense, unopposed aerial bombardment; As far as an effect is concerned, this is a weapon of mass destruction. The US anihilated scores and scores of helpless iraqi forces by bombing them beyond mercy.
Hitler did not kill 6,000,000; there weren't even 6,000,000 jews in the area he had under his control to start with.
The gross exageration in figures demonstrates the skill of people who won't hesitate to capitalize on anything; just like they did a "holocaust industry" they now stand to be the major people to capitalize on 9/11.
The engineered virus is not contagious and does not affect humans...
ha... that is... until it mutates!
which is almost inevitable, that's just like saying... "this campfire is small and does not harm anyone... "... until the wind blows the sparks into the forest and you end up with a major disaster
so i assume then that it's now scientifically established that the big bang happened... well... what was there before it... and where does god come into the picture...
how noisy is that tube
first of all... most plasma TV frames make a bad frame for such pictures! a suitable frame is more important than most people think and can totally spoil an otherwise great picture.
Then, whatever TV that'd use this, it better have an effective anti-burn technology; otherwise a static picture would leave residual images and damage the expensive gadget.
Why pay $500 for a TV rendered image when you can buy posters for $5.
The quintessential submarine adventurer has always been TinTin!
What people often miss out on is that Oil is a fossil and non-sustainable fuel, which means the more you consume of it the less there will be left. So this makes the idea that we should consume less oil rather rediculous because if you really want to save the environment 'cos anyway it doesn't matter; it is a self-limiting hazard if there is any.
What they also miss out on is that the technologies that rely on oil are over a century old and have reached a degree of efficiency, safety, reliability, cleanliness and commoditization that it is unlikely any technology will be able to compete any time soon.
It may be that oil currently sells for 10 or 20 dollars per barrel but it can actually be produced for as little as 1$ per barrel by some producers such as Saudi Arabia.
So unless by some unprecedented historical event we will have a technology that will be as reliable and commoditized, and as cheap as oil, and by commoditization i also mean the entire industry such as the internal combustion engine, I don't see oil going away anytime soon, which is good, because we don't need to be driven by anti-oil dogma. The environment isn't nearly as bad as many portrays it, and oil is certainly not as evil as many suggest.