Gosh, that was clear as mud. Whatever it means, I'll bet it sort of relates to the evo devo survival value of logical fallacies like post hoc ergo propter hoc, or the sudden (and surprising) ability of children of leap to conclusions at the age of 8. Can YOU program a computer to leap to conclusions? If you did, would your laptop snap itself shut on your fingers and scuttle up to the attic to hide? Even rats can modify their behavior based on fallacies like "Ralph died after eating blue bait, I'll bet all blue food is poisonous." Teach a computer to get it wrong with the facile ease of wetware? Sorry, Charlie. Can't be done.
I wouldn't even bother retiring the shuttle. Just scrap it today. Walk away from it. It was a tired dog of an idea when the idea was first poached... uh... broached, and after one disaster on the way up and one disaster on the way down, it's still a crock. I say, give NASA's budget as a grant to Burt Rutan, and let him outsource the whole shebang to Red China. The Apollo missions gave us Teflon, while toasting a mere three astronauts. Totting up the benefits of all those shuttle missions, with appropriate minuses for the carbonized school teacher and mutilated multinational civilians, would take several minutes of painful headscratching to come up with, "Umm... none?"
Little Brickout on the Apple ][+ was a favorite, so it was fun to see it on the iPod... for about 5 minutes:) The Linux version (assuming they ever get wheel oversensitivity figured out) is nice because it has Invaders and other things like chess that don't work well with a wheel, a central button that doesn't know when "Now!" is and four arrows (possibly with a shift function). What I'd REALLY like to see on my iPod is Link To The Past, or Gnu Go 3.7.6 using Scott Liniger's rotation b&w stone cursor.
Installing uCLinux on the old 2 Gb iPod seems to prod the charge state display to force recharge. Maybe this proves that Apple really did mess that up, because the charge state on the Linux side is 100% (or something). As far as "Linux" goes, Tux is wearing earphones, the wheel is hypersensitive and "Action Debounce" is inscrutable, but I suspect very very necessary for a usable lnxPod. It comes with Space Invaders and a chess game with a user surly HI. Fascinating toy. I'll keep it on my iPod long enough to see if the recharge works properly.
After Spirited Away, Miyazaki can coast for miles and miles before he has to buff up his laurels for an audience that hasn't seen the film yet. And yes, the English dub is the issue. Disney has so loaded the soundtrack with Big Names making minimal contributions (or negative contributions in the case of Crystal) that the Miyazaki direction and Diana Wynne Jones story are slimed under the dreck.
yes, I'm the grikdog... in the gas mask.
Excuse me, please, but what rapture are you talking about? Howl's Moving Castle has not made it to Cedar Rapids, and probably never will. And frankly, having read the Diane Wynne Jones novel, I'll probably skip the theatrical release entirely and wait for the DVD -- so I can watch it without hearing Calcifer's voice rendered in Billy Crystal's wokka wokka. There seems to be a new Hollywood insider "in thing", viz., voice acting in a Miyazaki film, and frankly hearing Crystal, or Patrick Stewart or even Uma Thurman for that matter, really really spoils the effect.
Gosh. You mean criminal conduct like murder, mayhem, theft, burglary, breaking and entering, rape, pillage, plunder, cheating on income tax, unlicensed gambling, bingo, adulturation, bigamy, prostitution, uttering and publishing, libel, mischief, cable sipping, cooking books, grand theft auto, selling on rumor, back door buggery or sea lawyering? Don't you get tired of self-inflated academic liberals whose major professor once read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and now thinks they're telepaths just like grandma?
So, somebody's cutting out jobs. Is this "fiscal responsibility" (i.e., downsizing Big Guvmint), or does it have something to do with a leaner, meaner NASA, or is it just peeling off a top layer of brain cells nobody needs because the fiefdoms in question are due to be slashed and set ablaze? Hubbard as tip of the iceberg sort of thing. Why not decommision NASA outright, and privatize it like the Post Office? Have all those shuttle flights accomplished anything, except to demonstrate the feasibility of shuttle flights which work well in space but occasionally kill people taking off and landing? At least, when NASA flew to the moon, it took our minds off the Tet Offensive. And it came back with Teflon.
Let me get this straight. Microsoft has just signed its second "deal of the century" with IBM, referring obviously to the XBox 360 chipset, thereby demonstrating the first bit of corporate agility since its first Altair upgrade, so Steve Jobs decides to play it safe and join the Intel armada? Jobs, who counts his iPods on the thumb of one hand and his Newtons on his toes, has probably chunked Apple, handed the future to Microsoft, and done absolutely nothing relative to Linux, whose price makes it a survivor in the Evo Devo sweepstakes.
Most of the computer-buying world comes late to the game, and has no vested interest in supporting American hegenomics. Apple vs. Microsoft is a David and Goliath scale-up joke, but so is Microsoft vs. Denmark, Microsoft vs. Sumatra, Microsoft vs. China, etc. Linux (or rather, the altruism that masks the motives) adapts to emerging economies faster, fitter and pre-feathered for flight.
My daughter destroyed the keyboard on my Mac G3 Powerbook -- playing Tomb Raider Chronicles -- thereby rendering an entire laptop useless as well as hopelessly obsolete. IMHO, personal computing is not the proper venue for videogaming, especially when appropriate apparatus sells at commodity prices. Because I expect these old games to be running even better under emulation within a few months, either on PSP or Nintendo's next-after-next, I don't mind popping nine bucks for a Playstation copy of TR 2.
Of course open means out. No worries, mate. That's eCon for you. But judging by results, I'd say that one Open Office.org, one PostgreSQL or even one MySQL community edition mitigates a great deal of monopoly practice pain by killing off the "killer apps," from user perspective.
George Lucas appears to have about as much interest in women as a necrophiliac. He paints them like dolls, keep them motionless, and won't let them act. Keisha Castle-Hughes, the girl from Whale Rider
who nearly won the Academy Award for best actress a couple of years ago, played the Queen of Naboo but, as Yoda would say, recognizing her impossible to do it might be. She was onscreen for less than 5 seconds, an act of slash vandalism worthy of Quentin Tarantino.
Australia? United States? Cyberspace is the size of a pinhead, and as long as the angels dancing on it finish bringing phpPgAdmin to the same state of perfection as phpMyAdmin SOMETIME SOON, I'll be happy.
Apple is getting a bit stiff in their britches
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Change Is Not Good, Leon. This sounds like another reason to delay adopting Tiger until the end of the fiscal year or later, since it seems unlikely that this is the last or only surprise the Man Who Created Lisa will drop on us.
Ok, the planet Magrathea was breathtaking in the book, but Zooey Deschanel is a much better Trillian than I ever visualized. The movie is a footnote. It should have been released by Studio Ghibli to do it justice.
Considering the fact that ommatidias (bug eyes) and retinas (your eyes) are simply convex and concave variations on a plan expressed by the same exact incredibly ancient genes, one may infer that Nature is conservative about algorithms but profligate about body plans and nonessentials like that. Therefore, since all the good software has been written for eons, your best bet is hardware, coupled with a worshipful admiration for planned obsolescence.
There are alternative solutions to the unauthorized user problem, starting with turnkey systems which embed cryptographically impeccable digital keys in cd's, dongles and flash memory. Sheesh! How long does it take before the glaze over normal users' eyes causes someone to notice there's a different way to fry this popsicle stick??!
Finally realizing that my degee in English from Iowa State University (1969) impressed nobody, I retrained myself in the early 90's to program MS-DOS and Mac OS 6. All you needed was Turbo Pascal and a few copies of books by Wirth and Knuth, on the DOS side, and a complete set of every developer tome ever edited and/or written by Caroline Rose (plus a modicum of guts and imagination), and you could eke out a livelihood for about a decade. Microsoft certification and the rise of Windows killed that, despite the fact that MFC is about as complex as chicken soup, if you've ever had to learn Mac using Codewarrior. Later, I realized that my "career" was simply an early variation on outsourcing, since it was cheaper to hire a bright hacker in Cedar Rapids who didn't know chum from sharkbait than it was to hire a CS grad who had a fair sense of his/her own worth. As every one who has ever been on the hiring end of this equation now realizes, cheap code without continuity was, is and probably always will be extremely remunerative. While Bill Gates will never suffer for this, a legion of poor hackers will have the satisfaction of knowing that the future of software belongs to Open Source, most of which will be written in the former Soviet Union and Red China, bankrolled by IBM and other EOB's.
Isn't half the earth in a gamma ray shadow? These aren't neutrinos. So, granting that all life was in the oceans 450 million years ago (or is that just all life we know about?), didn't half of it survive if gamma rays were the agency of destruction? Gamma rays seem an unlikely source. What about dark energy, instead?
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Fifty years ago, I heard rumors there were channel cats this big in the Mississippi River back in the Twenties. Might have been sturgeon, though.
Gosh, that was clear as mud. Whatever it means, I'll bet it sort of relates to the evo devo survival value of logical fallacies like post hoc ergo propter hoc, or the sudden (and surprising) ability of children of leap to conclusions at the age of 8. Can YOU program a computer to leap to conclusions? If you did, would your laptop snap itself shut on your fingers and scuttle up to the attic to hide? Even rats can modify their behavior based on fallacies like "Ralph died after eating blue bait, I'll bet all blue food is poisonous." Teach a computer to get it wrong with the facile ease of wetware? Sorry, Charlie. Can't be done.
I wouldn't even bother retiring the shuttle. Just scrap it today. Walk away from it. It was a tired dog of an idea when the idea was first poached ... uh... broached, and after one disaster on the way up and one disaster on the way down, it's still a crock. I say, give NASA's budget as a grant to Burt Rutan, and let him outsource the whole shebang to Red China. The Apollo missions gave us Teflon, while toasting a mere three astronauts. Totting up the benefits of all those shuttle missions, with appropriate minuses for the carbonized school teacher and mutilated multinational civilians, would take several minutes of painful headscratching to come up with, "Umm... none?"
Was it? Was it really? It was so damn convenient I mistook it for a feature. Sorry 'bout dat!
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/downloads/patches /NeoOfficeJ-1.1-Patch-0.dmg
I'll give 'em credit for getting patches out fast, but the nearly flawless 1.1 RC Patch 6 was out for quite a while, so it would have been nice if Preferences... [splat-comma] worked out of the box.
Little Brickout on the Apple ][+ was a favorite, so it was fun to see it on the iPod ... for about 5 minutes :) The Linux version (assuming they ever get wheel oversensitivity figured out) is nice because it has Invaders and other things like chess that don't work well with a wheel, a central button that doesn't know when "Now!" is and four arrows (possibly with a shift function). What I'd REALLY like to see on my iPod is Link To The Past, or Gnu Go 3.7.6 using Scott Liniger's rotation b&w stone cursor.
Installing uCLinux on the old 2 Gb iPod seems to prod the charge state display to force recharge. Maybe this proves that Apple really did mess that up, because the charge state on the Linux side is 100% (or something). As far as "Linux" goes, Tux is wearing earphones, the wheel is hypersensitive and "Action Debounce" is inscrutable, but I suspect very very necessary for a usable lnxPod. It comes with Space Invaders and a chess game with a user surly HI. Fascinating toy. I'll keep it on my iPod long enough to see if the recharge works properly.
After Spirited Away, Miyazaki can coast for miles and miles before he has to buff up his laurels for an audience that hasn't seen the film yet. And yes, the English dub is the issue. Disney has so loaded the soundtrack with Big Names making minimal contributions (or negative contributions in the case of Crystal) that the Miyazaki direction and Diana Wynne Jones story are slimed under the dreck. yes, I'm the grikdog... in the gas mask.
Excuse me, please, but what rapture are you talking about? Howl's Moving Castle has not made it to Cedar Rapids, and probably never will. And frankly, having read the Diane Wynne Jones novel, I'll probably skip the theatrical release entirely and wait for the DVD -- so I can watch it without hearing Calcifer's voice rendered in Billy Crystal's wokka wokka. There seems to be a new Hollywood insider "in thing", viz., voice acting in a Miyazaki film, and frankly hearing Crystal, or Patrick Stewart or even Uma Thurman for that matter, really really spoils the effect.
Gosh. You mean criminal conduct like murder, mayhem, theft, burglary, breaking and entering, rape, pillage, plunder, cheating on income tax, unlicensed gambling, bingo, adulturation, bigamy, prostitution, uttering and publishing, libel, mischief, cable sipping, cooking books, grand theft auto, selling on rumor, back door buggery or sea lawyering? Don't you get tired of self-inflated academic liberals whose major professor once read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and now thinks they're telepaths just like grandma?
So, somebody's cutting out jobs. Is this "fiscal responsibility" (i.e., downsizing Big Guvmint), or does it have something to do with a leaner, meaner NASA, or is it just peeling off a top layer of brain cells nobody needs because the fiefdoms in question are due to be slashed and set ablaze? Hubbard as tip of the iceberg sort of thing. Why not decommision NASA outright, and privatize it like the Post Office? Have all those shuttle flights accomplished anything, except to demonstrate the feasibility of shuttle flights which work well in space but occasionally kill people taking off and landing? At least, when NASA flew to the moon, it took our minds off the Tet Offensive. And it came back with Teflon.
Let me get this straight. Microsoft has just signed its second "deal of the century" with IBM, referring obviously to the XBox 360 chipset, thereby demonstrating the first bit of corporate agility since its first Altair upgrade, so Steve Jobs decides to play it safe and join the Intel armada? Jobs, who counts his iPods on the thumb of one hand and his Newtons on his toes, has probably chunked Apple, handed the future to Microsoft, and done absolutely nothing relative to Linux, whose price makes it a survivor in the Evo Devo sweepstakes.
Most of the computer-buying world comes late to the game, and has no vested interest in supporting American hegenomics. Apple vs. Microsoft is a David and Goliath scale-up joke, but so is Microsoft vs. Denmark, Microsoft vs. Sumatra, Microsoft vs. China, etc. Linux (or rather, the altruism that masks the motives) adapts to emerging economies faster, fitter and pre-feathered for flight.
My daughter destroyed the keyboard on my Mac G3 Powerbook -- playing Tomb Raider Chronicles -- thereby rendering an entire laptop useless as well as hopelessly obsolete. IMHO, personal computing is not the proper venue for videogaming, especially when appropriate apparatus sells at commodity prices. Because I expect these old games to be running even better under emulation within a few months, either on PSP or Nintendo's next-after-next, I don't mind popping nine bucks for a Playstation copy of TR 2.
Of course open means out. No worries, mate. That's eCon for you. But judging by results, I'd say that one Open Office.org, one PostgreSQL or even one MySQL community edition mitigates a great deal of monopoly practice pain by killing off the "killer apps," from user perspective.
George Lucas appears to have about as much interest in women as a necrophiliac. He paints them like dolls, keep them motionless, and won't let them act. Keisha Castle-Hughes, the girl from Whale Rider who nearly won the Academy Award for best actress a couple of years ago, played the Queen of Naboo but, as Yoda would say, recognizing her impossible to do it might be. She was onscreen for less than 5 seconds, an act of slash vandalism worthy of Quentin Tarantino.
Australia? United States? Cyberspace is the size of a pinhead, and as long as the angels dancing on it finish bringing phpPgAdmin to the same state of perfection as phpMyAdmin SOMETIME SOON, I'll be happy.
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Change Is Not Good, Leon. This sounds like another reason to delay adopting Tiger until the end of the fiscal year or later, since it seems unlikely that this is the last or only surprise the Man Who Created Lisa will drop on us.
Ok, the planet Magrathea was breathtaking in the book, but Zooey Deschanel is a much better Trillian than I ever visualized. The movie is a footnote. It should have been released by Studio Ghibli to do it justice.
Considering the fact that ommatidias (bug eyes) and retinas (your eyes) are simply convex and concave variations on a plan expressed by the same exact incredibly ancient genes, one may infer that Nature is conservative about algorithms but profligate about body plans and nonessentials like that. Therefore, since all the good software has been written for eons, your best bet is hardware, coupled with a worshipful admiration for planned obsolescence.
There are alternative solutions to the unauthorized user problem, starting with turnkey systems which embed cryptographically impeccable digital keys in cd's, dongles and flash memory. Sheesh! How long does it take before the glaze over normal users' eyes causes someone to notice there's a different way to fry this popsicle stick??!
Finally realizing that my degee in English from Iowa State University (1969) impressed nobody, I retrained myself in the early 90's to program MS-DOS and Mac OS 6. All you needed was Turbo Pascal and a few copies of books by Wirth and Knuth, on the DOS side, and a complete set of every developer tome ever edited and/or written by Caroline Rose (plus a modicum of guts and imagination), and you could eke out a livelihood for about a decade. Microsoft certification and the rise of Windows killed that, despite the fact that MFC is about as complex as chicken soup, if you've ever had to learn Mac using Codewarrior. Later, I realized that my "career" was simply an early variation on outsourcing, since it was cheaper to hire a bright hacker in Cedar Rapids who didn't know chum from sharkbait than it was to hire a CS grad who had a fair sense of his/her own worth. As every one who has ever been on the hiring end of this equation now realizes, cheap code without continuity was, is and probably always will be extremely remunerative. While Bill Gates will never suffer for this, a legion of poor hackers will have the satisfaction of knowing that the future of software belongs to Open Source, most of which will be written in the former Soviet Union and Red China, bankrolled by IBM and other EOB's.
Isn't half the earth in a gamma ray shadow? These aren't neutrinos. So, granting that all life was in the oceans 450 million years ago (or is that just all life we know about?), didn't half of it survive if gamma rays were the agency of destruction? Gamma rays seem an unlikely source. What about dark energy, instead?
Was this hydrogen bound to oxygen, by any chance? In a ratio of, say, two to one?