The reason was "Indulgences". An Indulgence is a written forgivness of sin; sort of a medieval get out of jail free card. But it was NOT free. The average peasant who already lived a live of daily strife torment and mire could take his few earned coppers and buy forgivness of sins in the next life from the chubby parish priest. Produced in the local abbey by a sweat shop of monks, these indulgences were used to fund the building of the great cathedrals, debts from a few crusades, Vatican building projects and the like. Along comes the printing press and suddenly fake indulgences crop up in their thousands. Also suddenly the goose qull pen users were no longer in high demand. The Church looses a revenue stream and clerics loose their cush jobs. Double blow. Users of the Printing Press were at one tme placed under Anathema and occasionaly burned...along with their press. Think of the Papal investigators of that era as RIAA lawyers protecting their turf from encroaching technology.
No, First they went after sheet music: "If they wish to hear my music, come see my show" -very early John Philip Sousa quote, then they went after 78RPM "Buy the sheet music!", then Radio "Buy the 78s, Radio is music for Free!" then.....you get the picture. Technology never waits for the weasels in suits to figure it out, it just goes along its merry way inovating and waiting for humans, Yeah thats us, to figure out how to use it. Meanwhile the Curia argues over whether the church should ban printing presses since they will put all the clerics in abbeys out of work...
While using my Apple IIgs with a Focus hard drive IDE hacked internal drive card (using small, early laptop drives partitoned into 32mb ProDOS partitions) , a LANceGS etherent card on a kooky hacked TCP/IP stack, 4 times the memory (8mbs) that a standard spec Apple II would ever be equipped with, and a CDROM via a SCSI interface (Classic RAMFast card) I too wonder why anyone would do such a uselss hack..
well, it depends on the Accident avoidance response and practivity committee findings. They will be submited to the Budget Committee, the Inventory Committee, the Human Resources committee, the Technical Services committee the Union Shop Boss, the Public Affairs Committee, OSHA, and any Congressional Executive, State, Commisision, Department, or internal Houston advisory staff who has a "need to know flag" on their respective forms. Then once signed off, by each (this shoudl take 6 months) the one illegal alien tech who bought the duct tape out of his own pocket down at Wal*Mart will fix it.
or, promote a armed citizenry. If the FAA took a rational aproach.. and instead of screening for weapons, certified ammunition as "airline safe". Say only allow "prefragmented rounds" like Glaser Safety Slugs(tm) for example. Then, like the terrs who tried a shoot-out one day in the 70s in a Tel Aviv restraunt and ended up nailed from 7 directions by common, ordinary and honest citizen, these modern criminals would stop this foolishness. as long as the atitude is "Sardines in a can" dependent on 1 'trustworthy" guy with a can opener...then we deserve what we get. Cattle stand in lines too...
Speakin as one who works in a support role, I can comment on some observations of common traits of all the dim lighs who call on the best way to use their computer's built-in cup holder and the like: All are primates. There! I said it. Now go ahead! accuse me of speciesism!
It DOES inspire me.. It inspires me to use another vendor for my needs. I see little reason to reward such corporate behavior, and in a capitalist society you comment on such displeasure with your dollars. Fortunately there is the Web.....because I already dispise Fry's...
the problem here is a belief that defense contractor work, and the suckage on the taxpayer teat has a direct relationship with the original requsted specification. Nothing could be further from the truth. This fellow honestly believes what he does what he builds or what he designs bears ANY resemblence to what some boots on the ground WANTED. Who was it who said: "Elephant: mouse designed by commitee to government specification" ?
XEROX PARC. it sure didn't help Xerox's bottom line that much, but I seem to see a few products that came out of that effort. Watching the Pencil Pusher Legions drooling over the possibility of Goose soup, then wondering why the golden eggs stopped is always entertaining, never of value....
The Lawyer may have little to do with his feelings about AOL and the job. Ever stopped to think that some ambulance chaser is right now tracking down identifiable AOL searchers to mount a class action on this? All responsible individulas would be targets, along with AOL (regardless of current employment status) of such a suit.
My phone still plugs into the wall. Onephone I still have has a stalk microphone, and a crank on the side to get the operator's attention. It delivers a 24volt jolt of goodness down the line which fries every DSL modem between my place and the main office. I always wondered about the sudden screams of agony in my neighborhood when I placed a call...
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Entebe Incident; The Hijackers went around the plane asking for Israeli Passports. Now it is so much easier. Welcome to the new world of "Wand and Shoot".
The point of my post, which both you and the previous reply aptly show actually far better then my poor humor was: "Never trust authority". Oh, and indeed yes; morning sickness is just not a guy thing unless it is preceeded by a better forgotten night;)
Some years back the state of Oregon spent a similar ammount upgradign their DMV. Again, it never worked and was written off as a hopless waste of money. Its ok though, its only tax money...
Clippy came out of Bob, Melinda saw that it was good. But seriously though, about that same time period was the dawn of CDROM as a media type. Many magazines shipped with CDs, and each had a GUI. The gamer mags in particular had various custom GUIs for selecting their content. Some were based on shopping, some on Office or Home (ala Bob) Some on really weird stuff (Anyone remember the elevator ride to hell on old PC Gamers?). It seems those were some real free wheeling days of UI development, but none of that seems to have gone anywhere.
I totally agree, only I am NOT tellin where I moved to. I may want to upgrade my house, my car my xbox, or my girlfriend and I do NOT want to have Valley refugees bumping the prices on me...
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I can just see Jammie Hynaman doing a cameo, with Adam Savage stumbling over the bridge...
The reason was "Indulgences". An Indulgence is a written forgivness of sin; sort of a medieval get out of jail free card. But it was NOT free. The average peasant who already lived a live of daily strife torment and mire could take his few earned coppers and buy forgivness of sins in the next life from the chubby parish priest. Produced in the local abbey by a sweat shop of monks, these indulgences were used to fund the building of the great cathedrals, debts from a few crusades, Vatican building projects and the like. Along comes the printing press and suddenly fake indulgences crop up in their thousands. Also suddenly the goose qull pen users were no longer in high demand. The Church looses a revenue stream and clerics loose their cush jobs. Double blow. Users of the Printing Press were at one tme placed under Anathema and occasionaly burned...along with their press. Think of the Papal investigators of that era as RIAA lawyers protecting their turf from encroaching technology.
No, First they went after sheet music: "If they wish to hear my music, come see my show" -very early John Philip Sousa quote, then they went after 78RPM "Buy the sheet music!", then Radio "Buy the 78s, Radio is music for Free!" then.....you get the picture. Technology never waits for the weasels in suits to figure it out, it just goes along its merry way inovating and waiting for humans, Yeah thats us, to figure out how to use it. Meanwhile the Curia argues over whether the church should ban printing presses since they will put all the clerics in abbeys out of work...
While using my Apple IIgs with a Focus hard drive IDE hacked internal drive card (using small, early laptop drives partitoned into 32mb ProDOS partitions) , a LANceGS etherent card on a kooky hacked TCP/IP stack, 4 times the memory (8mbs) that a standard spec Apple II would ever be equipped with, and a CDROM via a SCSI interface (Classic RAMFast card) I too wonder why anyone would do such a uselss hack..
well, it depends on the Accident avoidance response and practivity committee findings. They will be submited to the Budget Committee, the Inventory Committee, the Human Resources committee, the Technical Services committee the Union Shop Boss, the Public Affairs Committee, OSHA, and any Congressional Executive, State, Commisision, Department, or internal Houston advisory staff who has a "need to know flag" on their respective forms. Then once signed off, by each (this shoudl take 6 months) the one illegal alien tech who bought the duct tape out of his own pocket down at Wal*Mart will fix it.
there were a lot more to see back when LANL was LASL :)
actually, many have it. as I said: Cattle stand in lines too...
Will Rogers once said: "Thank Goodness we don't get all the government we pay for!"
or, promote a armed citizenry. If the FAA took a rational aproach.. and instead of screening for weapons, certified ammunition as "airline safe". Say only allow "prefragmented rounds" like Glaser Safety Slugs(tm) for example. Then, like the terrs who tried a shoot-out one day in the 70s in a Tel Aviv restraunt and ended up nailed from 7 directions by common, ordinary and honest citizen, these modern criminals would stop this foolishness. as long as the atitude is "Sardines in a can" dependent on 1 'trustworthy" guy with a can opener...then we deserve what we get. Cattle stand in lines too ...
Speakin as one who works in a support role, I can comment on some observations of common traits of all the dim lighs who call on the best way to use their computer's built-in cup holder and the like: All are primates. There! I said it. Now go ahead! accuse me of speciesism!
It DOES inspire me.. It inspires me to use another vendor for my needs. I see little reason to reward such corporate behavior, and in a capitalist society you comment on such displeasure with your dollars. Fortunately there is the Web.....because I already dispise Fry's...
the problem here is a belief that defense contractor work, and the suckage on the taxpayer teat has a direct relationship with the original requsted specification. Nothing could be further from the truth. This fellow honestly believes what he does what he builds or what he designs bears ANY resemblence to what some boots on the ground WANTED. Who was it who said: "Elephant: mouse designed by commitee to government specification" ?
But, can it play these old DivX DVDs I got at a discount at Circuit City? -true backward compatabilty!
XEROX PARC. it sure didn't help Xerox's bottom line that much, but I seem to see a few products that came out of that effort. Watching the Pencil Pusher Legions drooling over the possibility of Goose soup, then wondering why the golden eggs stopped is always entertaining, never of value....
The Lawyer may have little to do with his feelings about AOL and the job. Ever stopped to think that some ambulance chaser is right now tracking down identifiable AOL searchers to mount a class action on this? All responsible individulas would be targets, along with AOL (regardless of current employment status) of such a suit.
My phone still plugs into the wall. Onephone I still have has a stalk microphone, and a crank on the side to get the operator's attention. It delivers a 24volt jolt of goodness down the line which fries every DSL modem between my place and the main office. I always wondered about the sudden screams of agony in my neighborhood when I placed a call...
Entebe Incident; The Hijackers went around the plane asking for Israeli Passports. Now it is so much easier. Welcome to the new world of "Wand and Shoot".
The point of my post, which both you and the previous reply aptly show actually far better then my poor humor was: "Never trust authority". Oh, and indeed yes; morning sickness is just not a guy thing unless it is preceeded by a better forgotten night ;)
Relax, don't worry about it. If it makes you too nervous, take som thalidamide and go fishin on Love canal..
Some years back the state of Oregon spent a similar ammount upgradign their DMV. Again, it never worked and was written off as a hopless waste of money. Its ok though, its only tax money...
horseshoes and....
Clippy came out of Bob, Melinda saw that it was good. But seriously though, about that same time period was the dawn of CDROM as a media type. Many magazines shipped with CDs, and each had a GUI. The gamer mags in particular had various custom GUIs for selecting their content. Some were based on shopping, some on Office or Home (ala Bob) Some on really weird stuff (Anyone remember the elevator ride to hell on old PC Gamers?). It seems those were some real free wheeling days of UI development, but none of that seems to have gone anywhere.
This seems to point to a truth I have long suspected:
Evolutionists were created..... Creationists, evolved
Why keep email? I figure if I really need it later I could always call the NSA and have them restore it from their copy....
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No, you can't have my tinfoil hat.
I totally agree, only I am NOT tellin where I moved to. I may want to upgrade my house, my car my xbox, or my girlfriend and I do NOT want to have Valley refugees bumping the prices on me...
I am sorry but if it quacks like a duck... "Fison does not take place"? Excuse me? what produces the heat?