I've had ongoing problems for the past few years. As a contractor, with a family and mortgage, I've just had to push through. I've not had it specifically diagnosed or treated - my mother had it as an office worker and there isn't much you can do to treat it. every know and then it wakes me up in the middle of the night with pain as bad as my dodgy prostate.
to the naysayers:
cubicle noise: - nothing call centres don't already deal with via throat mikes. tick.
esoteric syntax: - this is their selling point vs standard OS-level voice recognition. you can also assign your own shortcuts. tick.
slowness: - anything is better than what I'm like on a bad hands day. tick.
until Neuromancer-style jacks are available this will do nicely thanks:-)
1. i eat meat
2. i say so in the post
3. the capitalization thing is redundant. if i put two carriage returns or a period+space before a sentence, then you know it's the start of a new sentence, so why bother to do what MS Word/Outlook does and automatically capitalize. i.e. capitals=ballmer-fanboy-shill. capitalization is going the way of allcaps - the oracle has spoken, sweetcheeks
according to the office girls; and you know what it's true.
I have a good mate who is thick as a brick but still managed to get an MCSE - I guess when a company is paying the the big bucks to the training organisation they'd be hard pressed to fail them.
But while he is thick he has great teeth a good tan and dresses like a CEO. so he scores plenty of sweet contracts and rides the fine pussy at those workplaces - at the office I met him at he banged three hott secretaries - but asked me how to spell crowd. twice.
Same thing goes for their marketing people - the MS account managers and biz devs are hot fucking shit. I have no doubt they vet their customer-facing teams on looks - they have a far higher proportion of genuine stunners than you would expect. If I had a 300k contract dangling I would definitely let these hotties pitch to me. pitch it baby... aw yeah
linux techs are ugly fuckers. I know because I am one, and so are you bitches. sad but true
eating meat essentially means you are a stupid ass man. please let me explain you good for long time fun:
Your points about heroin, etc, aren't relevant because those aren't subject to evolutionary pressure like food is. Food has a direct relationship to survability. If vegetables made a huge difference in how long someone lived, then it should be that people who liked vegetables a lot more than meat should be naturally selected. But they haven't been.
junk science buddy. evolutionary pressure is way too slow an effect to alter diet - it's like saying gravity is why we are muscular. it has an impact, but very negligible in comparison to, well, evolutionary pressures (strongest man gets the mate) in this case:-). there are plenty of skinny predators that get along fine with bulging pectorals.
diet and preference is all about resources. our palate evolved to make sure we lusted after fats, proteins, sugars and salts because 50,000 years ago (the last time we were any diffrent in physiological evolutionary terms) these substances were extremely hard to get a hold of - they either required killing something with the equivalent defensive properties of a tank or migrating long distances between scarce and contested resources.
each of these things (fats, proteins, sugars, salts) are now very, very easy to get hold of but our hunger sense for them hasn't underdeveloped yet because evolution is so damn _slow_.
the fact is these foods are now, on average, very very _bad_ for the average persons health, and evolution is starting to grind into action - hence the rise of vegetarianism - but in the mean time most of us are beholden to out of date instinctual urges that are unhealthy.
so the _intelligent_ among us are leapfrogging evolution and choosing not to eat meat. they're evolving, and we're being culled for being unfit for survival. So if you're smart enough to understand evolution, you should be smart enough to short circuit your meat palate. If not, you're an evolutionary chump.
Then look at children. Very, very, very few children enjoy green vegetables. If they were so good for you, wouldn't we have evolved such that children would love them?
junk, junk, junk. children play with themselves in public as well, do you think that replicating it as an adult would be a positive addition to your evolutionary chances? I'm thinking no, dumbass.
- and yes, I eat meat, but in honour of a good rant I'm prepared to be a raving hypocrite to assuage my excoriation fetish. have nice day good buddy! (yes, you need to say it in a pidgin asian accent to make it funny:-)
you guys supporting this 'no foreign workers' paradigm should be ashamed of yourselves. you're a racketeering mob if ever their was one: cronyist, corrupt and extortionist.
take the medical fraternity in australia as an example of where this 'jobs for qualified locals only' thinking goes. the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has exactly these kinds of racketeering rules laid out in law (you can't practice medicine without being an AMA member; doing so is the equivalent of a felony) to prevent foreigners from taking up positions and possibly denying them the rates that allow them to upgrade their porsches every year.
This practice continues while lack of specialists and rural GPs drives huge hospital waiting lists and ever-increasing costs of healthcare.
And yet here is an example of a foreign worker: my wife is eastern european, and through her I have met older friends of the family, one of whom was a respected neurosurgeon in her country of origin. A neurosurgeon you say? surely she must be practising her incredibly difficult-to-gain level of education and experience to treat desperately ill patients on said waiting lists, right? wrong. she worked as a cleaner for many years while trying unsuccessfully to gain AMA membership, and now owns a small business completely unrelated to medicine and has left her hopes behind. The AMA is a cabal of price-fixers who use thier fraternity to starve supply and to artifically raise costs.
You IT 'no foreign worker' bastards are just the same. If they can't place someone locally, or the candidates who do apply are shithouse, then foreign workers should be sought. If there's an oppurtunity to give gainful employment to qualified personnel from underprivelidged nations then we should jump at the chance.
do you think its fair that an argentinian programmer should have to work for $20US a day to barely feed his family and drive a taxi at night to survive so you can be guaranteed of being overpaid for a job you're underqualified for, even though his code runs rings around yours?
ps. yes, aussies are racist. %93 supported sending the NV Tampa home while on board Iraqis starved and faced either death or destitution at home. add to that concentration camps for refugees. and aborigines probably don't appreciate the name 'the lucky country' you insensitive twats.
The trouble is that the solution people offer to inequity is usually what caused the problem in the first place.
ok so let me guess... it's government, right! the old 'drown it in the bathtub' boogeyman. distribution of equity is _definitely_ the governments fault. bad government! bad! we surely shouldn't blame generation after generation of capital holders bleeding the GDP of the nation and gaining a greater and greater percentage of total wealth that has left the expanding population with less and less to go around, how should we?.
in the 70's wages was 70% of received GDP... now it's under %50. less money is being paid to more people while rich individuals and corporations further consolidate (and don't spend!) their wealth. governments, in general, spend in ways to reduce this inequality - e.g. social security. i can say that private capitalists are rapacious misers, and that eric raymond is a racist gun nut; and in the end me calling people names is just as childish as you crying tinfoil tears at the government.
... it is by it's very nature and structure a system of hierarchy and authority, and so increasing the power and resources of the state can only increase inequality and subjugation.
hey, who needs causality! I can say 'dogs + chili = economics' but trying to pass it off as cause+effect is nonsense. at the very least, how about some evidential proof of a correlation?
the idea of the state (should be) to foster administration of the wider community for the good of all. the state should be as decentralized as possible; local community leaders should be invested with as much power as possible to determine their own affairs and the (incredibly difficult) job of prioritising the allocation of monies should be determined by a safeguarded, corruption-resistant regime - we call it the beauracracy. most public servants i have met are stout personalities with a sense of due diligence, fairness and social responsibilty. and yes the rest were slackers but the rate has been signicantly less than my experience in prviate organisations, where the majority (more name-calling) are greedy, self-centred ingrates.
If you truly want equality, then you would support decentralization of power, and the reduction and/or elimination of the state. Inequality comes from violence...
decentralization of power=decentralized state. you know, city councils, first responders, utility managers; those awful people who do nothing for us. how about your local social security office, rape crisis centre, orphanage, school. we surely don't need any of _those_ now do we. and we surely shouldn't have rigid protections and assurances of these services via.. wait for it... _government_, now should we?
further decentralization comes from _expansion_ of the state; tribal/cultural leaders, church deacons, scout troops, little leaguers, big sister/brother etc. funding these and similar programs in order to foster them in communities which lack them will give more and more power to _local_ people to make a positive change in their _local_ communities.
and yes it costs more in taxes - so what? is it better that bill gates pays less tax so he can buy him and ballmer a double-headed dildo made of interleaved gold? or is it better that the money raised be given to social workers to help disadvantaged kids and battered women escape their nightmare existences?
oh no! I'm in america! i'm super rich in comparision to everyone in the world! even my poor, poor neighbor earns more than an african villiage! i have unlimited opportunities thanks to my business leaders raping and pillaging the natural resources and labour of poor peoples around the globe! and oh my god i have the lowest income tax rates in the OECD! how _dare_ they take my money from me! they are a wasteful, wasteful, evil beauracracy! excuse me while i drive my three ton truck to the woods so i can shoot near-extinct animals with my lovingly oiled fantasy
for single shot downloads of big files, it is just plain _faster_
if it isn't a torrent, use prozilla. it opens 4 streams against the server and just pumps the bits down as fast as my pipe will allow. generally shaves at least 50% off my download times, the bigger the file the quicker it is in comparison.
extensions will still work with flock: http://extend.flock.com/
so otherwise it's the same thing as firefox, except some guys have spent some time doing some hardcore dev work to integrate some pretty cool extensions seamlessly so they're less of an ugly bolt-on and the whole thing has some cohesion.
it's eye candy, right? with some useful widgets. if the gnome candy boys could get with the kde widget boys like these flock guys have gone with firefox, maybe we'd have a decent linux desktop. but hell the way people whinge you wonder why they bother...
I have a del.icio.us account, which I use so I can see my bookmarks on each of the four boxen (work, laptop, games, web) I work with. I _need_ my bookmarks; my memory is shite and I'm programming 10 different things every week so I need an easy way to access my knowlegdebase. Before that I was moving around a huge bookmarks toolbar folder from fox to fox, which sucked. I also run dual/triple boot on pretty each machine, so suddenly that's 10 installs I have to sync bookmarks to. So del.icio.us rocks, right? And I've never gotten foxylicious to work successfully (i.e. at all) so after flock _just worked_ I'm pretty happy.
I also have a flickr account - hey look flock just got more useful for me.
I need to start a weblog as well; I'm an uncommunicative bastard who doesn't call his family so it should be an easy (i.e. one button) way to keep people up to date. and yes, I have issues with the blog concept as much as the next guy but I need to get over it and join the 21st century. A few blogs (kottke,waxy,idlewords,girlyounasty) are a genuine source of goodness for me. that and the technical blogs which are more necessary than even now that google has butchered usenet.
I'm also a news junkie, and my google.com.ig page is packed with feeds. one more tick for the flockster
flock should hopefully make all this easier... and if not what did I lose apart from the oppurtunity to whine like a bitch about how I'm incapable of embracing technological progress?
Wallscreens (cf. Tad Williams' Otherland novels) Wall-sized ultra-flatscreen net connected hardware-complete televisions/consoles/workstations - my pitch to kill Fox cable like the evil slug it is
Look-to-click. I've gotten carpal tunnel from the stupid mouse because I have to chase what I'm looking at all the time. cut out the middle man!
speak/think/twitch -to-type. The typewriter keyboard has been around since what, 18-hundred-and-something? I do love the new LCD board, but a better mousetrap is still a mousetrap. Hows about a virtual keyboard linked up to wireless fingertip-pads - tip-twitching _must_ be quicker than whole-hand-typing
Visual overlay. Why have a desktop background at all? Why can't I have glasses/implants constantly streaming data/commands as requested while I go about my day? Left-eye Slashdot summary while walking between greens? sure. Instant bring up of gas prices down the road while pulling up at the gas station? great. And why do I have to crick my neck reading goddamn tree-killing novels again? Get me away from these noisy boxes and crotch-burning fliptops and oopsy-dropsy input-contortion-inducing PDAs. Stop making my monkey eyes look at psychosis-inducing backlights and radiation blasters. Bring the screen to my retinas where the rest of my incoming video is.
Self-storage. Where do I need my data? Wherever I am. Do I want to have to remember a sodding device everytime I go anywhere, or chain myself to a fixed conduit device? no. Insert a terabyte of wireless flash in my appendix or something and have every device I walk up to sync to it. This is the 'Electronic Workspace'/'Digital Presence' requirement. why the hell do I have to spend so much time shifting bits about the place? they're _my_ bits for chrissakes - give 'em back you stinking non-interoperable discrete-storage non-propagating storage media of death. Unify all my boxen via _me_.
Universal wireless net coverage. WiMax, 3G whatever. And do it global. Net access is as much a right for every child as is clean air and water.
Brain overclocking. If I'm only seeing what's on the net, and interacting with it virtually, my defunct body is just a supporting fluid sac right? Why can't my brain start viewing content as fast as it possibly can? Why can't I leave monkey-pace viewing behind and go to dream speed? Don't we REM for only minutes, but have hours of experience in the dreamscape? Why can't I asccelerate my daily read of BBC/Slashdot/TheRegister/Kottke/Waxy/Digg/Del.icio.us by upping my brainwave refresh rate?
whatever happened to desktop-style 'Dye Sublimation' printers?
a sales exec touted them as the next big thing to me a few years back, did they vaporize or what?
ps - hmmm... thermal wax;-)
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I've had ongoing problems for the past few years. As a contractor, with a family and mortgage, I've just had to push through. I've not had it specifically diagnosed or treated - my mother had it as an office worker and there isn't much you can do to treat it. every know and then it wakes me up in the middle of the night with pain as bad as my dodgy prostate.
to the naysayers:
until Neuromancer-style jacks are available this will do nicely thanks
1. i eat meat
2. i say so in the post
3. the capitalization thing is redundant. if i put two carriage returns or a period+space before a sentence, then you know it's the start of a new sentence, so why bother to do what MS Word/Outlook does and automatically capitalize. i.e. capitals=ballmer-fanboy-shill. capitalization is going the way of allcaps - the oracle has spoken, sweetcheeks
according to the office girls; and you know what it's true.
I have a good mate who is thick as a brick but still managed to get an MCSE - I guess when a company is paying the the big bucks to the training organisation they'd be hard pressed to fail them.
But while he is thick he has great teeth a good tan and dresses like a CEO. so he scores plenty of sweet contracts and rides the fine pussy at those workplaces - at the office I met him at he banged three hott secretaries - but asked me how to spell crowd. twice.
Same thing goes for their marketing people - the MS account managers and biz devs are hot fucking shit. I have no doubt they vet their customer-facing teams on looks - they have a far higher proportion of genuine stunners than you would expect. If I had a 300k contract dangling I would definitely let these hotties pitch to me. pitch it baby... aw yeah
linux techs are ugly fuckers. I know because I am one, and so are you bitches. sad but true
(so very, very offtopic, but...)
:-). there are plenty of skinny predators that get along fine with bulging pectorals.
:-)
eating meat essentially means you are a stupid ass man. please let me explain you good for long time fun:
Your points about heroin, etc, aren't relevant because those aren't subject to evolutionary pressure like food is. Food has a direct relationship to survability. If vegetables made a huge difference in how long someone lived, then it should be that people who liked vegetables a lot more than meat should be naturally selected. But they haven't been.
junk science buddy. evolutionary pressure is way too slow an effect to alter diet - it's like saying gravity is why we are muscular. it has an impact, but very negligible in comparison to, well, evolutionary pressures (strongest man gets the mate) in this case
diet and preference is all about resources. our palate evolved to make sure we lusted after fats, proteins, sugars and salts because 50,000 years ago (the last time we were any diffrent in physiological evolutionary terms) these substances were extremely hard to get a hold of - they either required killing something with the equivalent defensive properties of a tank or migrating long distances between scarce and contested resources.
each of these things (fats, proteins, sugars, salts) are now very, very easy to get hold of but our hunger sense for them hasn't underdeveloped yet because evolution is so damn _slow_.
the fact is these foods are now, on average, very very _bad_ for the average persons health, and evolution is starting to grind into action - hence the rise of vegetarianism - but in the mean time most of us are beholden to out of date instinctual urges that are unhealthy.
so the _intelligent_ among us are leapfrogging evolution and choosing not to eat meat. they're evolving, and we're being culled for being unfit for survival. So if you're smart enough to understand evolution, you should be smart enough to short circuit your meat palate. If not, you're an evolutionary chump.
Then look at children. Very, very, very few children enjoy green vegetables. If they were so good for you, wouldn't we have evolved such that children would love them?
junk, junk, junk. children play with themselves in public as well, do you think that replicating it as an adult would be a positive addition to your evolutionary chances? I'm thinking no, dumbass.
- and yes, I eat meat, but in honour of a good rant I'm prepared to be a raving hypocrite to assuage my excoriation fetish. have nice day good buddy! (yes, you need to say it in a pidgin asian accent to make it funny
you guys supporting this 'no foreign workers' paradigm should be ashamed of yourselves. you're a racketeering mob if ever their was one: cronyist, corrupt and extortionist. take the medical fraternity in australia as an example of where this 'jobs for qualified locals only' thinking goes. the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has exactly these kinds of racketeering rules laid out in law (you can't practice medicine without being an AMA member; doing so is the equivalent of a felony) to prevent foreigners from taking up positions and possibly denying them the rates that allow them to upgrade their porsches every year. This practice continues while lack of specialists and rural GPs drives huge hospital waiting lists and ever-increasing costs of healthcare. And yet here is an example of a foreign worker: my wife is eastern european, and through her I have met older friends of the family, one of whom was a respected neurosurgeon in her country of origin. A neurosurgeon you say? surely she must be practising her incredibly difficult-to-gain level of education and experience to treat desperately ill patients on said waiting lists, right? wrong. she worked as a cleaner for many years while trying unsuccessfully to gain AMA membership, and now owns a small business completely unrelated to medicine and has left her hopes behind. The AMA is a cabal of price-fixers who use thier fraternity to starve supply and to artifically raise costs. You IT 'no foreign worker' bastards are just the same. If they can't place someone locally, or the candidates who do apply are shithouse, then foreign workers should be sought. If there's an oppurtunity to give gainful employment to qualified personnel from underprivelidged nations then we should jump at the chance. do you think its fair that an argentinian programmer should have to work for $20US a day to barely feed his family and drive a taxi at night to survive so you can be guaranteed of being overpaid for a job you're underqualified for, even though his code runs rings around yours? ps. yes, aussies are racist. %93 supported sending the NV Tampa home while on board Iraqis starved and faced either death or destitution at home. add to that concentration camps for refugees. and aborigines probably don't appreciate the name 'the lucky country' you insensitive twats.
The trouble is that the solution people offer to inequity is usually what caused the problem in the first place.
ok so let me guess... it's government, right! the old 'drown it in the bathtub' boogeyman. distribution of equity is _definitely_ the governments fault. bad government! bad! we surely shouldn't blame generation after generation of capital holders bleeding the GDP of the nation and gaining a greater and greater percentage of total wealth that has left the expanding population with less and less to go around, how should we?.
in the 70's wages was 70% of received GDP... now it's under %50. less money is being paid to more people while rich individuals and corporations further consolidate (and don't spend!) their wealth. governments, in general, spend in ways to reduce this inequality - e.g. social security. i can say that private capitalists are rapacious misers, and that eric raymond is a racist gun nut; and in the end me calling people names is just as childish as you crying tinfoil tears at the government.
hey, who needs causality! I can say 'dogs + chili = economics' but trying to pass it off as cause+effect is nonsense. at the very least, how about some evidential proof of a correlation?
the idea of the state (should be) to foster administration of the wider community for the good of all. the state should be as decentralized as possible; local community leaders should be invested with as much power as possible to determine their own affairs and the (incredibly difficult) job of prioritising the allocation of monies should be determined by a safeguarded, corruption-resistant regime - we call it the beauracracy. most public servants i have met are stout personalities with a sense of due diligence, fairness and social responsibilty. and yes the rest were slackers but the rate has been signicantly less than my experience in prviate organisations, where the majority (more name-calling) are greedy, self-centred ingrates.
If you truly want equality, then you would support decentralization of power, and the reduction and/or elimination of the state. Inequality comes from violence...
decentralization of power=decentralized state. you know, city councils, first responders, utility managers; those awful people who do nothing for us. how about your local social security office, rape crisis centre, orphanage, school. we surely don't need any of _those_ now do we. and we surely shouldn't have rigid protections and assurances of these services via.. wait for it... _government_, now should we?
further decentralization comes from _expansion_ of the state; tribal/cultural leaders, church deacons, scout troops, little leaguers, big sister/brother etc. funding these and similar programs in order to foster them in communities which lack them will give more and more power to _local_ people to make a positive change in their _local_ communities.
and yes it costs more in taxes - so what? is it better that bill gates pays less tax so he can buy him and ballmer a double-headed dildo made of interleaved gold? or is it better that the money raised be given to social workers to help disadvantaged kids and battered women escape their nightmare existences?
oh no! I'm in america! i'm super rich in comparision to everyone in the world! even my poor, poor neighbor earns more than an african villiage! i have unlimited opportunities thanks to my business leaders raping and pillaging the natural resources and labour of poor peoples around the globe! and oh my god i have the lowest income tax rates in the OECD! how _dare_ they take my money from me! they are a wasteful, wasteful, evil beauracracy! excuse me while i drive my three ton truck to the woods so i can shoot near-extinct animals with my lovingly oiled fantasy
wget/curl meet your maker: http://prozilla.genesys.ro/
for single shot downloads of big files, it is just plain _faster_
if it isn't a torrent, use prozilla. it opens 4 streams against the server and just pumps the bits down as fast as my pipe will allow. generally shaves at least 50% off my download times, the bigger the file the quicker it is in comparison.
extensions will still work with flock: http://extend.flock.com/ so otherwise it's the same thing as firefox, except some guys have spent some time doing some hardcore dev work to integrate some pretty cool extensions seamlessly so they're less of an ugly bolt-on and the whole thing has some cohesion. it's eye candy, right? with some useful widgets. if the gnome candy boys could get with the kde widget boys like these flock guys have gone with firefox, maybe we'd have a decent linux desktop. but hell the way people whinge you wonder why they bother...
I have a del.icio.us account, which I use so I can see my bookmarks on each of the four boxen (work, laptop, games, web) I work with. I _need_ my bookmarks; my memory is shite and I'm programming 10 different things every week so I need an easy way to access my knowlegdebase. Before that I was moving around a huge bookmarks toolbar folder from fox to fox, which sucked. I also run dual/triple boot on pretty each machine, so suddenly that's 10 installs I have to sync bookmarks to. So del.icio.us rocks, right? And I've never gotten foxylicious to work successfully (i.e. at all) so after flock _just worked_ I'm pretty happy.
I also have a flickr account - hey look flock just got more useful for me.
I need to start a weblog as well; I'm an uncommunicative bastard who doesn't call his family so it should be an easy (i.e. one button) way to keep people up to date. and yes, I have issues with the blog concept as much as the next guy but I need to get over it and join the 21st century. A few blogs (kottke,waxy,idlewords,girlyounasty) are a genuine source of goodness for me. that and the technical blogs which are more necessary than even now that google has butchered usenet.
I'm also a news junkie, and my google.com.ig page is packed with feeds. one more tick for the flockster
flock should hopefully make all this easier... and if not what did I lose apart from the oppurtunity to whine like a bitch about how I'm incapable of embracing technological progress?
- Wallscreens (cf. Tad Williams' Otherland novels) Wall-sized ultra-flatscreen net connected hardware-complete televisions/consoles/workstations - my pitch to kill Fox cable like the evil slug it is
- Look-to-click. I've gotten carpal tunnel from the stupid mouse because I have to chase what I'm looking at all the time. cut out the middle man!
- speak/think/twitch -to-type. The typewriter keyboard has been around since what, 18-hundred-and-something? I do love the new LCD board, but a better mousetrap is still a mousetrap. Hows about a virtual keyboard linked up to wireless fingertip-pads - tip-twitching _must_ be quicker than whole-hand-typing
- Visual overlay. Why have a desktop background at all? Why can't I have glasses/implants constantly streaming data/commands as requested while I go about my day? Left-eye Slashdot summary while walking between greens? sure. Instant bring up of gas prices down the road while pulling up at the gas station? great. And why do I have to crick my neck reading goddamn tree-killing novels again? Get me away from these noisy boxes and crotch-burning fliptops and oopsy-dropsy input-contortion-inducing PDAs. Stop making my monkey eyes look at psychosis-inducing backlights and radiation blasters. Bring the screen to my retinas where the rest of my incoming video is.
- Self-storage. Where do I need my data? Wherever I am. Do I want to have to remember a sodding device everytime I go anywhere, or chain myself to a fixed conduit device? no. Insert a terabyte of wireless flash in my appendix or something and have every device I walk up to sync to it. This is the 'Electronic Workspace'/'Digital Presence' requirement. why the hell do I have to spend so much time shifting bits about the place? they're _my_ bits for chrissakes - give 'em back you stinking non-interoperable discrete-storage non-propagating storage media of death. Unify all my boxen via _me_.
- Universal wireless net coverage. WiMax, 3G whatever. And do it global. Net access is as much a right for every child as is clean air and water.
- Brain overclocking. If I'm only seeing what's on the net, and interacting with it virtually, my defunct body is just a supporting fluid sac right? Why can't my brain start viewing content as fast as it possibly can? Why can't I leave monkey-pace viewing behind and go to dream speed? Don't we REM for only minutes, but have hours of experience in the dreamscape? Why can't I asccelerate my daily read of BBC/Slashdot/TheRegister/Kottke/Waxy/Digg/Del.ici
o .us by upping my brainwave refresh rate?
And after that? Bring on the Singularity! http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-whatever happened to desktop-style 'Dye Sublimation' printers? a sales exec touted them as the next big thing to me a few years back, did they vaporize or what? ps - hmmm... thermal wax ;-)