November this year: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the U.S. Congress to Democrats (both House and Senate), on the grounds that it wasn't broke when the G.O.P. got it and now they can't fix it.
November two years from now: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the Presidency of the United States to Jimmy Carter. Hey, he can run again!
January, 2008: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court reveals that he's a) not gay, b) a closet Democrat, and c) punches "cowboys" in Laramie for fun. Scalia has a heart attack laughing, and Clarence Thomas gropes Ruthie Ginsberg, figuring she'd never notice. (Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. So wrong.) Carter nominates Hillary Clinton for Chief Justice, and the appointment is passed in three hours by acclamation.
Microsoft is up to their widely-spaced ears in antitrust suits by January 25th. Surprise, surprise, surprise, you all.
As long as we're appropriating money for nonsense, can I have $40 billion to discover the slow-motion Gravity Bubble? Lifts Immense Loads In Total Silence, trading gravity particles for time. The equation is T=Gc^2.
Book readers have been around, virtually speaking, since well before Asimov. Telzey Amberdon, James H. Schmitz' domesticated superkitten, had an entire law library in her kit, and let's not forget Douglas Adams' HHGG. Not one of these encyclopedic monsters lived in a clamshell laptop. The format was flat, convenient and pocketable -- exactly like a PSP. Or like that reader Annie Skywalker flipped down on the couch when Portman angsted lithely into the room. Not a PC in the bunch! Just as curiously, all such devices that support actual reading (as opposed to the HHGG, which was multimedia with as little of the written word as possible) have a common data format, viz., BLT ("booklike, transparent"). Not to plump Sony's version too much. Nintendo's alleged Revolution sounds like a perfect library delivery system. However, none of this will EVER happen, except in North Korea, because of draconian copyright laws that embalm a 19th century look and feel in a 21st century legal nightmare. Or worse: Google delivers it all, complete with Amazon.com ads next to Frodo's vision in Galadriel's mirror.
Not guns. What you attach is a shaped C4 charge, and a few terribly inconspicuous jewelled patches that absolutely do not resemble eyes but work like the visual ganglia of certain shrimp species, connected to a hard-wired neural net trained to detect the difference between children, cattle, dogs or gun-toting combatants. Approach with caution.
Ok, why do people still mention VB in the same breath as actual work for money? Did Microsoft write Excel in VB? Did Microsoft write ANYTHING in VB except for HORSE and WUMPUS? Did Sun write Java in VB? Is VB written in VB?
...what people who are actually good at this stuff, like Honda, can do. Are we seeing a bit of PsyOps ("Bletchly Park can crack any code"), here? The idea being, if They can afford to release this into the public arena, what are They holding back? Obviously, Gundam suits and Terminators, right? I don't think any country which actually has black ops working on combat robotics is worried by this, about as colossally under-scaled as Don Rumsfeld's low budget "shock and awe" campaign. E.g., the Chinese probably remember Chosun Reservoir every bit as well as the U.S. Army does, so the next real-life million man attack wave is just as likely to be a billion gecko-footed hand grenades as not, wooden cha think?
Chinese fossils, like anyone else's fossils, get peer reviewed and can withstand a little critical scrutiny from sources whose motives are largely unknown. That said, the palaeontological record from China is pretty amazing, as anyone with enough linguistic competence to access the world's most spoken modern language might realize. Also, on the face of it, the likelihood of a fossil like this being found eventually is pretty high. Fur and feathers are complex, well-adapted structures rather far removed in time from their origins as reptilian scales -- which bespeaks an immensity of time. Finding mammalian features like this in the Jurassic is wonderful, but not shocking.
I see Twilight Princess isn't due out until June, now. Gotta hype something, I guess, when deadlines slip... Sure, though -- Link to the Past and Ocarina are on my "worth replaying" list, assuming I ever finish Star Ocean 3 (lost in the Firewall...)
>Terminal.app is by far the most powerfull tool in the system, so any bad guys should/would use it.
Au contraire! The most powerful tool in the system is/bin/sh, or any other executable beastie which can spawn a subshell. You might as well blame Unix itself, which was designed in an ivory tower by academics and implemented by graduate students who instantly subverted the specs. The issues are pretty much well-understood and pretty much worked-around by everyone else. Maybe Apple should buy a book.
When I turned 60, I didn't turn myself in for euthanasia, either. Star Ocean is lots more fun, and I've learned to appreciate those annoying AI bugs.
On a serious note, I apparently had a minor strokelet a couple years ago that left me unable to understand the color red in the context of traffic lights, stop signs, tail lights, etc. Red means stop, of course, bear with me here. When I see red in any more or less urgent context involving driving a car, red is simply invisible.
I have to TELL myself, in words, what it means. I've got the tickets to show for this weirdly anecdotal condition, and I've learned to love my 2000 Honda Civic's ABS and V-Tek engine in consequence. That was then.
These days, several months after the worst of these episodes (it was never life-threatening, fortunately), my "red reflex" has rewired itself almost back to normal -- and the only major change in my lifestyle has been videogaming. Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that jazz, Doc, but I think there's something to it.
Anyone who remembers clipping a wire inside the Apple ][+ to enable the upper-lower character set chip will recognize an issue here: Function drives form, even without the Bauhaus proselytizing to drive the point home.
Just as Microsoft became the tail that wagged the IBM PC dog (and Apple churned out Apple/// and SOS for desktop publishing), some bright bunch of yahoos you never heard of is going to capture the game market because they build the stuff that plays the games. All games, every game ever written, now, then and tomorrow.
If China succeeds in re-educating Kim Jong Il, I could even bet on the North Koreans to do that little job. But it's going to be somebody.
Tomb Raiders I and II. Tomb Raider III is worth re-visiting, but not (ha!) re-playing, IMHO. Final Fantasy I (Dawn of Souls) is worth footling around in, especially in some of the longer (or deeper) dungeons, but leveling up again from zero? Nope.
"Computer simulations show..." is another way of saying "computer programmers imagine...", but presumably something in reality OTHER THAN coincidence posits this weblike dark stuff, right? Presumably one tests one hypotheses with a few more data points than those one started with? In the meanwhile, I propose we give this Dark Matter a new name, such as "Ether", "Phlogiston" or "Element X", at least until we can kleinbottle it and tie it up with strings.
Bistromathic drive? Sorry, Douglas, but isn't that what G-string theorists do in pizza pits? If time turns out to be an illusory function of fewer than two dimensions wrapped around Italian restaurants, perhaps it will be possible to entertain the notion without lap dancers. Until then, a c note should do.
Somebody took away my five mod points, probably because I uttered a spelling flame unrelated to this post, or I'd give this guy all 5 for sagacity. Hey! Stop That Thinking!
Come on, "echosystem," "premotes," "inhabbitants"...? One refers to sonar, one refers to Maleen conning the near future, and one is clearly misspelled because the author no doubt was referring to inhobbitants of the Shire, probably Hamfast Gamgee's Saturday Grange Meet and Babble. I'm glad he's reading a book though. Mod up!
Actually, the cross was between oilseed rape and charlock, previously presumed to be too distantly related to allow cross-pollinaton. As a general rule, plant sex is way more complicated than human kindergarten-variety sex (it has diploid and tetraploid genes, alternation of generations, and other bizarre complications including susceptibility to mosaic viruses), so the ordinary sex paradigms and assumptions are suspect. Scientists regard this cross to be more than interesting for the right reasons, in other words.
The kid lied, and cracked under pressure when his prof started asking pointed questions about inconsistencies. The story should have raised red flags (heh) everywhere, since you can find "original, authorized" copies of the Selected Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong in most languages (including Chinese) near you: Just Google. "Authorized selected quotations," yet. You clowns will swallow anything. The version at http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/work s/red-book/ is pretty official, but the edition at http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html is downright canonical, since it's a verbatim copy of the Foreign Languages Press (Beijing) edition of 1970.
Oh woe, I dorked off all my mod points yesterday, because this guy needs some serious modding up. Absolutely dead right on the head of the nail with maximum perpendicular force straight down delivered economically by a skilled wrist, a cunning eye and minimum elbow.
It seems prudent to assume that one's personal IT assets are scrutinized routinely by the NSA and possibly seven other countries, simultaneously. If there is a harm to rectify, it's probably the same as the harm caused by spam -- except that with federal budgets, we citizens have a right to expect that our phones are tapped, our computers scanned and our keystrokes logged as efficiently, delicately and above all, as undetectably (and so bug-free) as possible. Otherwise, what are we paying taxes for?
India's problems are (to put it mildly) not IT's. While English-speaking outsources may be hard to find, the evolving clientele is less anglotaxonic. Look for the next "Indias" in Mexico and southern China.
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November this year: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the U.S. Congress to Democrats (both House and Senate), on the grounds that it wasn't broke when the G.O.P. got it and now they can't fix it.
November two years from now: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the Presidency of the United States to Jimmy Carter. Hey, he can run again!
January, 2008: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court reveals that he's a) not gay, b) a closet Democrat, and c) punches "cowboys" in Laramie for fun. Scalia has a heart attack laughing, and Clarence Thomas gropes Ruthie Ginsberg, figuring she'd never notice. (Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. So wrong.) Carter nominates Hillary Clinton for Chief Justice, and the appointment is passed in three hours by acclamation.
Microsoft is up to their widely-spaced ears in antitrust suits by January 25th. Surprise, surprise, surprise, you all.
As long as we're appropriating money for nonsense, can I have $40 billion to discover the slow-motion Gravity Bubble? Lifts Immense Loads In Total Silence, trading gravity particles for time. The equation is T=Gc^2.
Book readers have been around, virtually speaking, since well before Asimov. Telzey Amberdon, James H. Schmitz' domesticated superkitten, had an entire law library in her kit, and let's not forget Douglas Adams' HHGG. Not one of these encyclopedic monsters lived in a clamshell laptop. The format was flat, convenient and pocketable -- exactly like a PSP. Or like that reader Annie Skywalker flipped down on the couch when Portman angsted lithely into the room. Not a PC in the bunch! Just as curiously, all such devices that support actual reading (as opposed to the HHGG, which was multimedia with as little of the written word as possible) have a common data format, viz., BLT ("booklike, transparent"). Not to plump Sony's version too much. Nintendo's alleged Revolution sounds like a perfect library delivery system. However, none of this will EVER happen, except in North Korea, because of draconian copyright laws that embalm a 19th century look and feel in a 21st century legal nightmare. Or worse: Google delivers it all, complete with Amazon.com ads next to Frodo's vision in Galadriel's mirror.
Not guns. What you attach is a shaped C4 charge, and a few terribly inconspicuous jewelled patches that absolutely do not resemble eyes but work like the visual ganglia of certain shrimp species, connected to a hard-wired neural net trained to detect the difference between children, cattle, dogs or gun-toting combatants. Approach with caution.
Ok, why do people still mention VB in the same breath as actual work for money? Did Microsoft write Excel in VB? Did Microsoft write ANYTHING in VB except for HORSE and WUMPUS? Did Sun write Java in VB? Is VB written in VB?
...what people who are actually good at this stuff, like Honda, can do. Are we seeing a bit of PsyOps ("Bletchly Park can crack any code"), here? The idea being, if They can afford to release this into the public arena, what are They holding back? Obviously, Gundam suits and Terminators, right? I don't think any country which actually has black ops working on combat robotics is worried by this, about as colossally under-scaled as Don Rumsfeld's low budget "shock and awe" campaign. E.g., the Chinese probably remember Chosun Reservoir every bit as well as the U.S. Army does, so the next real-life million man attack wave is just as likely to be a billion gecko-footed hand grenades as not, wooden cha think?
Chinese fossils, like anyone else's fossils, get peer reviewed and can withstand a little critical scrutiny from sources whose motives are largely unknown. That said, the palaeontological record from China is pretty amazing, as anyone with enough linguistic competence to access the world's most spoken modern language might realize. Also, on the face of it, the likelihood of a fossil like this being found eventually is pretty high. Fur and feathers are complex, well-adapted structures rather far removed in time from their origins as reptilian scales -- which bespeaks an immensity of time. Finding mammalian features like this in the Jurassic is wonderful, but not shocking.
I see Twilight Princess isn't due out until June, now. Gotta hype something, I guess, when deadlines slip... Sure, though -- Link to the Past and Ocarina are on my "worth replaying" list, assuming I ever finish Star Ocean 3 (lost in the Firewall...)
>Terminal.app is by far the most powerfull tool in the system, so any bad guys should/would use it. Au contraire! The most powerful tool in the system is /bin/sh, or any other executable beastie which can spawn a subshell. You might as well blame Unix itself, which was designed in an ivory tower by academics and implemented by graduate students who instantly subverted the specs. The issues are pretty much well-understood and pretty much worked-around by everyone else. Maybe Apple should buy a book.
When I turned 60, I didn't turn myself in for euthanasia, either. Star Ocean is lots more fun, and I've learned to appreciate those annoying AI bugs.
On a serious note, I apparently had a minor strokelet a couple years ago that left me unable to understand the color red in the context of traffic lights, stop signs, tail lights, etc. Red means stop, of course, bear with me here. When I see red in any more or less urgent context involving driving a car, red is simply invisible.
I have to TELL myself, in words, what it means. I've got the tickets to show for this weirdly anecdotal condition, and I've learned to love my 2000 Honda Civic's ABS and V-Tek engine in consequence. That was then.
These days, several months after the worst of these episodes (it was never life-threatening, fortunately), my "red reflex" has rewired itself almost back to normal -- and the only major change in my lifestyle has been videogaming. Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that jazz, Doc, but I think there's something to it.
Not a clue, but Jimmy Hoffa's in it.
Worse than that. "Muskrat Ramble" by the Captain and Tennille.
Anyone who remembers clipping a wire inside the Apple ][+ to enable the upper-lower character set chip will recognize an issue here: Function drives form, even without the Bauhaus proselytizing to drive the point home. Just as Microsoft became the tail that wagged the IBM PC dog (and Apple churned out Apple /// and SOS for desktop publishing), some bright bunch of yahoos you never heard of is going to capture the game market because they build the stuff that plays the games. All games, every game ever written, now, then and tomorrow.
If China succeeds in re-educating Kim Jong Il, I could even bet on the North Koreans to do that little job. But it's going to be somebody.
I think you missed a couple of puns and the allusion to the Professor... Oh, well. Next time (so to speak).
You have 30 seconds to back that up with fax, young hooligan!
Tomb Raiders I and II. Tomb Raider III is worth re-visiting, but not (ha!) re-playing, IMHO. Final Fantasy I (Dawn of Souls) is worth footling around in, especially in some of the longer (or deeper) dungeons, but leveling up again from zero? Nope.
"Computer simulations show..." is another way of saying "computer programmers imagine...", but presumably something in reality OTHER THAN coincidence posits this weblike dark stuff, right? Presumably one tests one hypotheses with a few more data points than those one started with? In the meanwhile, I propose we give this Dark Matter a new name, such as "Ether", "Phlogiston" or "Element X", at least until we can kleinbottle it and tie it up with strings.
Bistromathic drive? Sorry, Douglas, but isn't that what G-string theorists do in pizza pits? If time turns out to be an illusory function of fewer than two dimensions wrapped around Italian restaurants, perhaps it will be possible to entertain the notion without lap dancers. Until then, a c note should do.
Somebody took away my five mod points, probably because I uttered a spelling flame unrelated to this post, or I'd give this guy all 5 for sagacity. Hey! Stop That Thinking!
Come on, "echosystem," "premotes," "inhabbitants"...? One refers to sonar, one refers to Maleen conning the near future, and one is clearly misspelled because the author no doubt was referring to inhobbitants of the Shire, probably Hamfast Gamgee's Saturday Grange Meet and Babble. I'm glad he's reading a book though. Mod up!
Actually, the cross was between oilseed rape and charlock, previously presumed to be too distantly related to allow cross-pollinaton. As a general rule, plant sex is way more complicated than human kindergarten-variety sex (it has diploid and tetraploid genes, alternation of generations, and other bizarre complications including susceptibility to mosaic viruses), so the ordinary sex paradigms and assumptions are suspect. Scientists regard this cross to be more than interesting for the right reasons, in other words.
The kid lied, and cracked under pressure when his prof started asking pointed questions about inconsistencies. The story should have raised red flags (heh) everywhere, since you can find "original, authorized" copies of the Selected Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong in most languages (including Chinese) near you: Just Google. "Authorized selected quotations," yet. You clowns will swallow anything. The version at http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/work s/red-book/ is pretty official, but the edition at http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html is downright canonical, since it's a verbatim copy of the Foreign Languages Press (Beijing) edition of 1970.
Oh woe, I dorked off all my mod points yesterday, because this guy needs some serious modding up. Absolutely dead right on the head of the nail with maximum perpendicular force straight down delivered economically by a skilled wrist, a cunning eye and minimum elbow.
It seems prudent to assume that one's personal IT assets are scrutinized routinely by the NSA and possibly seven other countries, simultaneously. If there is a harm to rectify, it's probably the same as the harm caused by spam -- except that with federal budgets, we citizens have a right to expect that our phones are tapped, our computers scanned and our keystrokes logged as efficiently, delicately and above all, as undetectably (and so bug-free) as possible. Otherwise, what are we paying taxes for?
India's problems are (to put it mildly) not IT's. While English-speaking outsources may be hard to find, the evolving clientele is less anglotaxonic. Look for the next "Indias" in Mexico and southern China.