The One Way Hash Argument notion applies to Philosophy itself.
Sure, a communicator may exploit the audience's lack of expertise so that the audience, overwhelmed, agrees without understanding whether any of it is right or wrong. Boo hoo.
The chance of a long, self-absorbed philosophical tract boiling down to a rather bland-looking lump of food is very high. OWHA may well trigger a reflex that people have evolved to deal with those thinkers among them who can cook all day but end up serving a spoonful of gruel late in the evening. "By the gods, I could have been hunting all this time instead of listening to Conan The Orator."
OWHA is a useful onomatopoeia for my reaction. (o;
I just know you're going to make a lengthy complaint thread of this.
If you would simply put down your Silver Surfer comics, comb the crumbs and insects out of your beards, cut your straggly hair, have a bath and a good scrub, and eagerly learn all the new technologies as our Marketing department invents them (and disposes of the old technologies), we could see the dawn of a New Age of incredibly rich CEOs and VPs who live in mansions, collect cars, race boats and planes, and in general protect the freedoms that your betters fought so hard to establish.
If I can no longer read files because of changes to proprietary formats, if I cannot play media because of DRM, if I cannot use my hardware because proprietary drivers don't exist and the manufacturer won't release the information needed to create an open-source driver, if I cannot obtain security updates because my OS is wrongly deemed to be an unauthorized copy, if I am not allowed to install the software that I buy on any PC I choose without having to call for permission, if the software on my computer calls home without my explicit permission, if the software on my computer transmits information about my computer without my explicit permission,
I have lost control of my computer and it has been hacked.
I know someone who works for Redmond's marketing team. If "Bing" fails, the next name will be "Squirt". It will be introduced by an expensive advertising campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. We'll see the "fun" side of Bill and the unfunny side of Jerry. At the end of each segment, Ballmer will burst through a wall, his face painted purple, screaming "OH YEAH!"
You can't print the document that contains the graphic, but when you are editing the drawing itself, you can export it from the editor to PDF, SVG, and PNG.
TFA does not mention warranty -- it's a decisive factor for me when I buy anything. The computer industry has given generations of consumers deep scars for forgetting the axiom, "Caveat Emptor".
Kingston offers a "limited 5 year warranty". The OCZ Rally 2 series has a lifetime warranty. I use these for NAS storage and they are good performers.
"Sutherland says [...] 'The key turned out to be the order that the ingredients are added and the way you put them together -- like making a soufflé.'"
How much clearer does it need to be made to you amoral materialists that cooking dinner needs *a Chef*?
The only thing I regret is that Sutherland compared God's Work to making a "soufflé". Couldn't he have used a good Christian American recipe?
Romulus' sun goes supernova... what, the Romulans, who have starship technology, didn't know in advance?
The Romulans don't evacuate?
The Federation sends ONE BLOKE (Spock) to save their sun?
Chekov knows how to use the transporter a certain way, so he has to take elevators and run through corridors to get to the transporter? Its a huge ship. He can't communicate with anyone down their? The systems aren't interoperable? He's the only guy who knows how to do what's needed?
And Bad Boy Alternative-Universe Kirk... - just rides up to the Federation Recruitment Facility on a motorcycle and jumps aboard a shuttle, no check-points, no questions - bangs a green (literally) programmer so he can cheat the Federation exam? - gets to be First Officer because Pike respected his dad?! - gets strangled by a Vulcan and at least one Romulan and still has a trachea? - is marooned on a random, dangerous Class M planet that just happens to have Nimoy-Spock and Scotty as residents?
a) Yes, colons. My mistake. Good thing we're not playing for money.
b) What's wrong with my sig, Sir? Expound.
Sheesh me no sheeshes, a Grammar Nazi is a proper noun, just as is a Soup Nazi. But you must know, I am only having fun. And waving my Freak Flag high. (o:
Sources say the code-name for IBM's project is "Connery".
Trebek : This nobleman is believed to have written many of Shakespeare's works.
"Connery" : [pause] So that's your game, is it, Trebek? I was a coveted performer among the brothel ladies while you were still pissing your knee-pants, boy.
Trebek : Can one of the IBM people fix the computer?
"Connery" : Your mother's a whore. But don't feel badly, Trebek. She's not a very good one. Ha ha, ha ha!
I tried the Femisapien's autonomous mode. It took my wallet, bought all kinds of batteries that it can't even use, then came home and told me that "we" need to buy a bigger house.
I took it back to the store and exchanged it for the Robosapien.
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the known universe is only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space, projected into 3 dimensions
Well if THAT'S all it is, I see no reason to upgrade my video card.
The One Way Hash Argument notion applies to Philosophy itself.
Sure, a communicator may exploit the audience's lack of expertise so that the audience, overwhelmed, agrees without understanding whether any of it is right or wrong. Boo hoo.
The chance of a long, self-absorbed philosophical tract boiling down to a rather bland-looking lump of food is very high. OWHA may well trigger a reflex that people have evolved to deal with those thinkers among them who can cook all day but end up serving a spoonful of gruel late in the evening. "By the gods, I could have been hunting all this time instead of listening to Conan The Orator."
OWHA is a useful onomatopoeia for my reaction. (o;
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600
Note that Oracle (nee Sun) is also doing this with a Java extension.
From the transcript of the speech:
"you never loose a dream"
I just know you're going to make a lengthy complaint thread of this.
If you would simply put down your Silver Surfer comics, comb the crumbs and insects out of your beards, cut your straggly hair, have a bath and a good scrub, and eagerly learn all the new technologies as our Marketing department invents them (and disposes of the old technologies), we could see the dawn of a New Age of incredibly rich CEOs and VPs who live in mansions, collect cars, race boats and planes, and in general protect the freedoms that your betters fought so hard to establish.
The meek shall inherit my EULA.
If I can no longer read files because of changes to proprietary formats,
if I cannot play media because of DRM,
if I cannot use my hardware because proprietary drivers don't exist and the manufacturer won't release the information needed to create an open-source driver,
if I cannot obtain security updates because my OS is wrongly deemed to be an unauthorized copy,
if I am not allowed to install the software that I buy on any PC I choose without having to call for permission,
if the software on my computer calls home without my explicit permission,
if the software on my computer transmits information about my computer without my explicit permission,
I have lost control of my computer and it has been hacked.
I know someone who works for Redmond's marketing team. If "Bing" fails, the next name will be "Squirt". It will be introduced by an expensive advertising campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. We'll see the "fun" side of Bill and the unfunny side of Jerry. At the end of each segment, Ballmer will burst through a wall, his face painted purple, screaming "OH YEAH!"
Also excellent reasons not to use Vista and Windows 7.
is Windows 7 RC1.
I just tried the feature. It's very cool!
You can't print the document that contains the graphic, but when you are editing the drawing itself, you can export it from the editor to PDF, SVG, and PNG.
I prefer the security features and extensibility of Firefox to the speed of Chrome, so I haven't tried this -- how does Chrome run in Wine?
I missed the line in the table. Thanks!
TFA does not mention warranty -- it's a decisive factor for me when I buy anything. The computer industry has given generations of consumers deep scars for forgetting the axiom, "Caveat Emptor".
Kingston offers a "limited 5 year warranty". The OCZ Rally 2 series has a lifetime warranty. I use these for NAS storage and they are good performers.
Hmm, -1 Troll. Must be a lot of religious nuts with Mod points this evening. (o:
"Sutherland says [...] 'The key turned out to be the order that the ingredients are added and the way you put them together -- like making a soufflé.'"
How much clearer does it need to be made to you amoral materialists that cooking dinner needs *a Chef*?
The only thing I regret is that Sutherland compared God's Work to making a "soufflé". Couldn't he have used a good Christian American recipe?
Like omelette!
I agree that the movie is often just STUPID.
Romulus' sun goes supernova... what, the Romulans, who have starship technology, didn't know in advance?
The Romulans don't evacuate?
The Federation sends ONE BLOKE (Spock) to save their sun?
Chekov knows how to use the transporter a certain way, so he has to take elevators and run through corridors to get to the transporter? Its a huge ship. He can't communicate with anyone down their? The systems aren't interoperable? He's the only guy who knows how to do what's needed?
And Bad Boy Alternative-Universe Kirk...
- just rides up to the Federation Recruitment Facility on a motorcycle and jumps aboard a shuttle, no check-points, no questions
- bangs a green (literally) programmer so he can cheat the Federation exam?
- gets to be First Officer because Pike respected his dad?!
- gets strangled by a Vulcan and at least one Romulan and still has a trachea?
- is marooned on a random, dangerous Class M planet that just happens to have Nimoy-Spock and Scotty as residents?
a) Yes, colons. My mistake. Good thing we're not playing for money.
b) What's wrong with my sig, Sir? Expound.
Sheesh me no sheeshes, a Grammar Nazi is a proper noun, just as is a Soup Nazi. But you must know, I am only having fun. And waving my Freak Flag high. (o:
Brrzzzzt! You cannot complain about semi-colons -- and COUNT THEM -- then claim not to be a Grammar Nazi.
Wave your Freak Flag high, brother!
By the way, the "g" of "grammar Nazi" must be capitalized.
I've been using Vista for over a year (had to, didn't want to). I never had a Blue Screen Of Death from Windows XP. But I see plenty of these from Vista:
http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mwvistabluescreen.jpg
Although I consider some features of Vista an improvement over XP, if I can't rely on Vista every day, it isn't worth a plug nickel.
It would be foolish to count downloads for this purpose. However, Canonical could surely count update requests to repositories, for example.
"Having the most secure Windows ever" does not equate to having secure Windows.
Sources say the code-name for IBM's project is "Connery".
Trebek : This nobleman is believed to have written many of Shakespeare's works.
"Connery" : [pause] So that's your game, is it, Trebek? I was a coveted performer among the brothel ladies while you were still pissing your knee-pants, boy.
Trebek : Can one of the IBM people fix the computer?
"Connery" : Your mother's a whore. But don't feel badly, Trebek. She's not a very good one. Ha ha, ha ha!
Did I mention that it always wanted to talk about our Relationship?
I tried the Femisapien's autonomous mode. It took my wallet, bought all kinds of batteries that it can't even use, then came home and told me that "we" need to buy a bigger house.
I took it back to the store and exchanged it for the Robosapien.
What if your business model is "hire the shadiest accountants in the world to cook the books like crazy and hide the money"?
Then, Sir, you are a 21st Century capitalist, and I thank you for preserving our Freedom.