Stoopid Linn County Democrats still won't put an Obama/Biden yardsign in my yard. The situation is downright noticeable here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Folks are actually making their own yard signs because they can't get the snazzy official ones.
In my case, I can sort of understand it. I'm more of a Susan Eisenhower Republicrat who has to swallow galling pride and admit I made a damnable mistake in 2000 when I voted for Bush 43. This time, it's Obama.
There are probably a few kids who'll be able to follow programming arcana, although the vast majority won't or can't. So hit them where they live, by introducing meme-level applications. Teach Gimp amd game-building to artists, and Firefox and Open Office to everyone else. The notion of "what computers do" really has simplified in the last decade, to the point where we can talk about Jonathon Swift and not about Bigendian vs. Littlendian manias.
"Top down" has now been around so long, the "down" part actually works so well it no longer needs to be taught.
That said, I've met professional programmers who don't understand such elementary concepts as page-based addressing or stacks. These deficiencies lead to bizarre programming practices and difficult bugs, such as creating local variables so large they overwrite return addresses. I'd recommend a short course in 6502 or Z80 assembler, but only because those Trilobite concepts were my base. Follow that with a thorough-going grounding in C (not C++ or C#), followed by an introduction to actual open source libraries such as gzip. That gets you to the point where it's almost possible to understand how Microsoft distributes functionality at a level of granularity so fine it actually does make sense (from their point of view) to integrate a browser into the OS.
I was making links to unmounted network volumes and arranging them in a window on the OS 8 desktop ages ago. That's a "proto-dock"! Where's my untold billions? And why would some guvmint luser be so naive as to think such a blindingly obvious hack based on prior art would be patentable? The one I still use when I use Macs, is James Thomsen's DragThing, which is very old hat and still extremely useful.
Although dark phlogiston actually increases the mass of combustible residua by leaving behind oxidized molecules, just as the so-called "Lavoisier Combustion Theory" predicts, just not as much, until the LHC it was impossible to determine that the mass gained actually exceeds the contribution of oxygen less light pressure by a significant delta, leading to the darkly immaterial conclusion that mentioning Schödinger's Cat without actually examining it requires it to be simultaneously alive or dead in wherever fine products are sold.
FEE, FIE, FOE, FOO... >*Poof!*
Thanks for the tip. Does complete backup versioning force you to continually add on more storage? Are users allowed to delete unwanted items from the SpiderOak servers? 100 Gb at $10 a month/$120 per year adds up in a hurry for some of us.
Actually, solipsist creationism has a long and widely respected pedigree. However, most of my projected minions, where I delegate most of my brains, have pointed out that if "I" am "God", then "I" am a frivolously dangerous schizophrenic paranoid (although We do appreciate your attempts to keep Us amused.) This is like buying a cup of coffee with a 20 billion dollar bill, the one with George W. Bush's picture on it.
You can play Evolution without first erecting a Taj-like ontological framework, other than assuming that the world is real. A much quieter enterprise, filled with deeper and subtler revelations.
How long does your average Joan College pretend to hover within the testgiver's proscenium arch (for what? extra credit? 5$US an hour or per session?) before saying, "Blow this...!" and getting the hell out?
As a semi-pro test scorer on big national accounts I'm not allowed to mention by name, I have to say the procrustean mindset roolz when it comes to No Child Left Untested. The bright ones who recognize the boundaries of the game and scribble beyond the borders get docked for being venturesome — not overtly, in most cases, but by failing to fall inside the parameters of the rubric.
So this study seems cocked to me.
Actually, creationism can be studied scientifically. It doesn't take long. Maybe an afternoon. Evolution, on the other hand, is breathtaking in its implications, scale, scope, relevance and remaining veils not yet gently pulled aside. It's a lot like Einstein's Theory (heh) of Relativity, in that regard. I love evolution and Charles Darwin is my hero.
How about just getting someone with really deep pockets to rewrite Wine or VirtualBox? It's pathetic how well Virtual PC used to run on Macs, with nothing comparable on Linux. How about something as transparent as XDarwin, and as competent as Virtual PC?
In the best of all possible well-ordered universes, how about if Microsoft could transparently emulate its own OS on top of Linux? That would guarantee sales for a century, if not the entire millenium, and cut out all the crapware hassles that come with working with OEMs (who have their own problems.)
Linus Torvalds' kernels, yeah. I haven't figured out whatsisname's angle yet. Yes, altruism is real and even practiced on occasion. But an OS that actually competes in the look-and-feel, flawless performance, beautifully integrated category? That's sex, not Ubuntu.
Kudos for the "superstition is useful" argument, and it's easy to generalize these behaviors to non-human species, such as rats, too. To the best of my knowledge, rats do not worship science or Vulcan logic, but they succeed at avoiding EVERYTHING that reminds them of their last experience with rat poison. It was pink, nothing pink is safe. Bad logic, stupendous survival value.
Superstitions such as the Great Anthropomorphic Fallacy, which scientists of a peculiarly thick-headed stripe (Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, et al.) insist on, are simply ignored by ethologists who have actually been observing nature (Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, et al.), since the human software which runs on brain wetware rather obviously had alpha, beta and version 1.0 antecedents in non-human species.
As mammals, humans belong to a superset of animals. We aren't the "best" animal, and we don't figure in William Blake's romantic speculations about our putative place above the apes, below the angels. Blake (and all the Romantics) was wrong, and all non-Darwinian speculation about how behaviors work and evolve is passing twee.
What long-term goals? NASA's first, last, and only goal is budgetary lebensraum, which is probably what JFK meant by "go to the moon in this decade, and the other thing." Houston, we have a line item.
I don't feel like being clear-headed enough to garner 5 whole mod points this morning, so can somebody please mod this guy +Funny? I really enjoyed the damnation with faint brimstone bits.
Silence is not assent to the truth of a proposition, Sir Thomas More's point of law to the contrary. Only the harmless substitute logic for thumbscrews and rubber hoses, but "Zero Challenge" is so recherche it deserves its own Isaac Asimov Three Laws of Cluelessness Award for 2008.
I routinely gave my superviser written memoranda with my passwords written on it, the last time I worked in the shrinkwrap software industry. When the inevitable (and somewhat volatile) parting of the ways finally came, I got even by doing absolutely nothing. Information entropy had miraculously lost, hidden or evaporated every memo of mine, along with every trace of me in my spotlessly clean cubicle, so when my work (plastered with non-disclosure agreements in effect for two more years) suddenly became unavailable in plain sight -- Microsoft Windows 2000 was one thing they did VERY well -- I'll be doggoned if I could recall my password! Struth, too. I always picked 32 character secure passwords, just like Best Practice, and those things are darned hard to reconstruct after a week or so of cooling off. They didn't offer hypnotherapy. They fired my super, too. Moral: Never, ever call a damn fine programmer analyst a "coder."
Barack's folks have this technoid/grassroots thing well in hand, so either donate at BarackObama.com, or send money to the DSCC.
Other than that, citizen, the best thing you can do is VOTE.
If you're really interested, there'll be some good theater coming up on October 2 during the first and only Vice Presidential debate. McCain's VP pick, Sarah "Barracuda" Palin, will be attempting to sandbag Joe Biden -- as though Democrats can't or haven't read her profile in the Almanac of American Politics.
R U sayin' that observation creates objects, or just artifacts in the data? Anyway, at that distance, how can one tell the difference between planetary bodies transiting their local solar discs, and the flicker caused by nearby cloaked Klingon warships?
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Q: How many astrophysicists does it take to screw in a billion billion billion light bulbs?
A: Two per bulb, but most of them prefer lava lamps.
Especially the kind implemented with rubber hoses.
Stoopid Linn County Democrats still won't put an Obama/Biden yardsign in my yard. The situation is downright noticeable here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Folks are actually making their own yard signs because they can't get the snazzy official ones.
In my case, I can sort of understand it. I'm more of a Susan Eisenhower Republicrat who has to swallow galling pride and admit I made a damnable mistake in 2000 when I voted for Bush 43. This time, it's Obama.
Erm, horseshoe crabs are not modern trilobites. Different orders, vaguely similar shapes.
There are probably a few kids who'll be able to follow programming arcana, although the vast majority won't or can't. So hit them where they live, by introducing meme-level applications. Teach Gimp amd game-building to artists, and Firefox and Open Office to everyone else. The notion of "what computers do" really has simplified in the last decade, to the point where we can talk about Jonathon Swift and not about Bigendian vs. Littlendian manias. "Top down" has now been around so long, the "down" part actually works so well it no longer needs to be taught.
That said, I've met professional programmers who don't understand such elementary concepts as page-based addressing or stacks. These deficiencies lead to bizarre programming practices and difficult bugs, such as creating local variables so large they overwrite return addresses. I'd recommend a short course in 6502 or Z80 assembler, but only because those Trilobite concepts were my base. Follow that with a thorough-going grounding in C (not C++ or C#), followed by an introduction to actual open source libraries such as gzip. That gets you to the point where it's almost possible to understand how Microsoft distributes functionality at a level of granularity so fine it actually does make sense (from their point of view) to integrate a browser into the OS.
I was making links to unmounted network volumes and arranging them in a window on the OS 8 desktop ages ago. That's a "proto-dock"! Where's my untold billions? And why would some guvmint luser be so naive as to think such a blindingly obvious hack based on prior art would be patentable? The one I still use when I use Macs, is James Thomsen's DragThing , which is very old hat and still extremely useful.
Although dark phlogiston actually increases the mass of combustible residua by leaving behind oxidized molecules, just as the so-called "Lavoisier Combustion Theory" predicts, just not as much, until the LHC it was impossible to determine that the mass gained actually exceeds the contribution of oxygen less light pressure by a significant delta, leading to the darkly immaterial conclusion that mentioning Schödinger's Cat without actually examining it requires it to be simultaneously alive or dead in wherever fine products are sold.
FEE, FIE, FOE, FOO... >*Poof!*
Thanks for the tip. Does complete backup versioning force you to continually add on more storage? Are users allowed to delete unwanted items from the SpiderOak servers? 100 Gb at $10 a month/$120 per year adds up in a hurry for some of us.
Actually, solipsist creationism has a long and widely respected pedigree. However, most of my projected minions, where I delegate most of my brains, have pointed out that if "I" am "God", then "I" am a frivolously dangerous schizophrenic paranoid (although We do appreciate your attempts to keep Us amused.) This is like buying a cup of coffee with a 20 billion dollar bill, the one with George W. Bush's picture on it. You can play Evolution without first erecting a Taj-like ontological framework, other than assuming that the world is real. A much quieter enterprise, filled with deeper and subtler revelations.
How long does your average Joan College pretend to hover within the testgiver's proscenium arch (for what? extra credit? 5$US an hour or per session?) before saying, "Blow this...!" and getting the hell out? As a semi-pro test scorer on big national accounts I'm not allowed to mention by name, I have to say the procrustean mindset roolz when it comes to No Child Left Untested. The bright ones who recognize the boundaries of the game and scribble beyond the borders get docked for being venturesome — not overtly, in most cases, but by failing to fall inside the parameters of the rubric. So this study seems cocked to me.
Actually, creationism can be studied scientifically. It doesn't take long. Maybe an afternoon. Evolution, on the other hand, is breathtaking in its implications, scale, scope, relevance and remaining veils not yet gently pulled aside. It's a lot like Einstein's Theory (heh) of Relativity, in that regard. I love evolution and Charles Darwin is my hero.
cat Website > Tim_Walrus_Berners_Lee | grep Liddul_Oysters "But answer came there none."
How about just getting someone with really deep pockets to rewrite Wine or VirtualBox? It's pathetic how well Virtual PC used to run on Macs, with nothing comparable on Linux. How about something as transparent as XDarwin, and as competent as Virtual PC?
In the best of all possible well-ordered universes, how about if Microsoft could transparently emulate its own OS on top of Linux? That would guarantee sales for a century, if not the entire millenium, and cut out all the crapware hassles that come with working with OEMs (who have their own problems.)
Linus Torvalds' kernels, yeah. I haven't figured out whatsisname's angle yet. Yes, altruism is real and even practiced on occasion. But an OS that actually competes in the look-and-feel, flawless performance, beautifully integrated category? That's sex, not Ubuntu.
My daughter needs her music.
Kudos for the "superstition is useful" argument, and it's easy to generalize these behaviors to non-human species, such as rats, too. To the best of my knowledge, rats do not worship science or Vulcan logic, but they succeed at avoiding EVERYTHING that reminds them of their last experience with rat poison. It was pink, nothing pink is safe. Bad logic, stupendous survival value.
Superstitions such as the Great Anthropomorphic Fallacy, which scientists of a peculiarly thick-headed stripe (Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, et al.) insist on, are simply ignored by ethologists who have actually been observing nature (Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, et al.), since the human software which runs on brain wetware rather obviously had alpha, beta and version 1.0 antecedents in non-human species.
As mammals, humans belong to a superset of animals. We aren't the "best" animal, and we don't figure in William Blake's romantic speculations about our putative place above the apes, below the angels. Blake (and all the Romantics) was wrong, and all non-Darwinian speculation about how behaviors work and evolve is passing twee.
Palin without pork, lipstick without fear.
The Jacquard loom never had anything to do with business punch cards, but as a hoopskirt to hide under, it saved IBM's bacon.
What long-term goals? NASA's first, last, and only goal is budgetary lebensraum, which is probably what JFK meant by "go to the moon in this decade, and the other thing." Houston, we have a line item.
I don't feel like being clear-headed enough to garner 5 whole mod points this morning, so can somebody please mod this guy +Funny? I really enjoyed the damnation with faint brimstone bits.
Silence is not assent to the truth of a proposition, Sir Thomas More's point of law to the contrary. Only the harmless substitute logic for thumbscrews and rubber hoses, but "Zero Challenge" is so recherche it deserves its own Isaac Asimov Three Laws of Cluelessness Award for 2008.
I routinely gave my superviser written memoranda with my passwords written on it, the last time I worked in the shrinkwrap software industry. When the inevitable (and somewhat volatile) parting of the ways finally came, I got even by doing absolutely nothing. Information entropy had miraculously lost, hidden or evaporated every memo of mine, along with every trace of me in my spotlessly clean cubicle, so when my work (plastered with non-disclosure agreements in effect for two more years) suddenly became unavailable in plain sight -- Microsoft Windows 2000 was one thing they did VERY well -- I'll be doggoned if I could recall my password! Struth, too. I always picked 32 character secure passwords, just like Best Practice, and those things are darned hard to reconstruct after a week or so of cooling off. They didn't offer hypnotherapy. They fired my super, too. Moral: Never, ever call a damn fine programmer analyst a "coder."
Barack's folks have this technoid /grassroots thing well in hand, so either donate at BarackObama.com, or send money to the DSCC.
Other than that, citizen, the best thing you can do is VOTE.
If you're really interested, there'll be some good theater coming up on October 2 during the first and only Vice Presidential debate. McCain's VP pick, Sarah "Barracuda" Palin, will be attempting to sandbag Joe Biden -- as though Democrats can't or haven't read her profile in the Almanac of American Politics.
R U sayin' that observation creates objects, or just artifacts in the data? Anyway, at that distance, how can one tell the difference between planetary bodies transiting their local solar discs, and the flicker caused by nearby cloaked Klingon warships?
Every Saturday Night Satirist will want one: "You can have my virtual talking head when you pry it/him/her from my cold dead fingers."