If you need to go to the 500th result, I don't think you are using the tool the right way.
Thanks . ..
, but I like to look at a lot of pages. Not everything's been published, tagged for meta-info, or become 'popular' to the engines. New stuff all the time. I don't always search for specific things, but also for multiple contexts. I could use the "-" operator to distill the results, but oftentimes there are so many returned - that it's just as fast or faster to wade through the raw junk, than to add more operators and arguments.
I have never had anything but praise for Google. The "Less is More" design was an oasis compared to other yahoos. However, I have always had a Yahoo account because it is free. I'll jump to google in a heartbeat ~ as long as it's free.
Google has created more innovative search features than anyone. And they just keep doing it. People have discussed the impending or eventual doom because of new offerings from MS and Yahoo, but the mindshare is with Google and the service just rocks/folks!
I have only 1 suggestiong for Google, and that is to let me up the number results returned to 250 or 500. Other than that, I'm on the bandwagon!
Pop-ups and pop-unders have always done more harm than good. Though, most advertising strategy never works on me anyway - I don't understand how DoubleClick (et.al.) feel they're not creating a Bad image for these products because of the annoyance. The animated.gifs with moving high-contrast colors are also bad - I get a headache when they're too flashy.
I think the best way for these advertisements to be (other than non-existant), is just woven into the page. You read the headline and first paragraph, and then scroll down past the ad, then read the rest. No negative associations with the product! The best way for advertisers to do that is to simply make the ad to the left or right of the text. At least users see the ad longer.
1) Please do not confuse my patriotism with:
a. Support for Bush/Cheny/et.al.
b. Nationalism
Thank you
I have to point out that we don't know the protocol for mining this data. They may analyze it in stages - trying to preserve anonymity as best they can. I do however, of course, realize that they have taken an UNPRECIDENTED step in all of this, and I doubt JetBlue or Northwest are the only carriers, or services for that matter, that have turned over records. Recent moves by content piracy lawyers to acquire dowloader data should not be confused with trying to protect our citizens - they are vastly different symptoms of us not being able to control everything. That not being able to control everything is a fact, it is also, IMHO, a sign that we are missing opportunities to make this planet safe and enjoyable for everyone.
Yet look at the underlying fundamentals, which these gery-op type actions seem to overlook:
Anyone, domestic or foreign, can readily acquire the tools to kill thousands or more people. They simply can. The Spirit rover on Mars is a great example of what technology can do from a long, long way away. We are incapable of preventing Free Will through legislation - only our actions, domestic and foreign can address this. Bombs and secret tribunals cannot.
My conclusion is that we are responding in kneejerk fashion to what is really a social disease. Instead of defending and offending at the same time, retaliating and escalating, we should do the 'right thing'. Invest in the world so that everyone has a sustainable future, beyond mud huts and slavery. I think then, the only problem we'd have with the technological genii is the random, actually crazy serial killer. The fundametalist killers would be satiated, and re-absorbed into their communities. Living happily everafter (tra la la).
How many times are you really gonna watch something?
I see your point with the fishing show. I can imagine myself doing the same thing with "This Old House", or a PBS or CBC educational series - not to mention that having every episode of the original Star Trek would be cool (except Pike).
As a relatively poor person, I tend to live by Pay To Play, perhaps that's what makes going to movies so much more enjoyable. I distance myself from the TiVo/VHS crowd also because of what I'll call a Pavlovian Relationship with content and commercials. So, there's an extra reason that others may not identify with, that keeps me from purchasing new recording formats.
Quite frankly, I've never been a fan of broadcast rule(r)s anyway. The use the natural laws of the universe to disseminate content over a 'free' medium is great. Commercials make TV work for free - fine. Do they have a right to limit my use of the natural laws of the universe to capture what they broadcast? No!!! (IMHO). If they feel they do, then they need to rethink what they're broadcsting. The opening scene from "Contact" is a clever, if not too realistic example - {Hitler's address to the Olympic Arena being the first broadcast strong enough to reach space.}. While I consider myself liberal when it comes to social mores, I think most media today stretches the limit and actually broadcasts damaging stuff on occaision. Sex and frank discussions - that's ok, but if it's only titilation - who cares. I am reminded of a commercial that showed actual death scenes when promiting it's 'wild' video for sale. A guy getting sucked up into an Air Force Jet on a runway. It freaked me right out because I was not 'prepared' for it. I think stuff like that is socially irresponsible.
I guess I wish that everything was archived so that I could intake whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. For that I would rather pay than pirate. Content providers would be able to better manage their offerings as well. If that does become the next pradigm, I hope they address musicians because a GREAT amount of cultural erosion has occured, behind this whole ownership scene. The broadcast execs and content managers are about as thorough and trustful as Enron, WorldCom. Though I may or may not have broken that law in the past to some small degree, it doesn't bother me either.
How about: Apprehend the FCC instead of KILL YOUR TV. - Does that work?:)
Additionally, my old games ruined my old TVs. If I could drag one out of the local landfill and plug it in, Intellivision's Sea Battle or Atari's Adventure would probably still be burned into the screen!
I haven't read up on Yahoo's initiative to use "Domain Keys", whatever it turns out to be, but it has always seemed to me that SPAM is really just user error, except that it's on the part of the ISPs and other deployers of email servers.
Please forgive my ignorance, if present, but can someone please analyze the current paradigm and tell me why we don't just change the damn paradigm on email altogether?
Here's what I think would work:
1) Instead of giving out your email address, so that ANYONE can send you ANYTHING, legal or not, give them the URL to your email signup page, which has a CAPTCHA feature like any good signup page does.
2) Your simple website, and you know this would be simple, maintains the list of 'acceptable' email addresses and spurns messages from all others. You import your current address book to bring the new system up to date, then do the familiar mass mailing informing your contacts that you have switched to the new paradigm.
3) Your site receives vistors who wish to email you. They fill out the form and identify the captcha image, and provide you with their email address. Additionally, they provide a short, text-only message that you receive along with their signup request.
4) Now, I realize I have introduce another signup/hurdle to the user's experience, but from another perspective, they will feel it is worth it to conquer/prevent SPAM.
5) You receive the request, visit the site of the requester, do whatever you want - then add their address to the "OK" list, or not. This puts you in the position of detective - but, whether you choose to investigate (whether they are spammers) or not, you can always remove them from the list as an "abuser".
6) On your server's side, you run a script that changes your email address every so often. Your email address is always hidden, and ever-changing, all to the extent to which you can prevent people from hacking in.
7) The web-signup/homepage/email page concept becomes mainstream and everyone is happy, ans some more work exists (for a little while) for web-monkeys.
I was serious about the K.Y.T.V. comment. I just don't like the content anymore, it's not worth it for me to record it. My age probably has something to with that. For aesthetic reasons - I prefer large format display, and will pay top dollar for it. It's 'better'.
Though I must admit, sitting at home is WAY more convenient, especially since my shoes won't be sticking to the floor, and when I have to pee, I can hit "Pause".
I guess my point was: Why tape TV when it sux?
1) There are other formats
2) How many times are you really gonna watch something? Online services will archive their offerings - Pay for Play.
May the Universe continue to bless itself - theough You!
Doesn't it force you to pay attention for 6 minutes at a time? The term "programming" will now be used in a different light. Sure, home movies are convenient, but remember how powerful big-screen movies are? Just sneak some candy and soda in with you - KILL YOUR TV!
Heck, they don't even play the Star Spangled Banner @ 5am anymore. Besides, digital projectors and DVDs will be commonplace in a few years. IMHO
" . . . with the advancement of technology, it has become common practice for on-air personalities across the industry -- such as Rush Limbaugh -- to anchor programs remotely . .."
And just what technology might that be - Pharmacology?
. . . but seriously folks . . .
This reminds me of the movie Quiz Show from 1994. After people find out that certain charasmatic contestants have been supplied with the questions before the show, an executive from the program testifies before Congress. His statement in the movie goes something like: "Hey - we never said is was factual, we only said it was entertaining.". Here is some testimony from what I believe is the actual 1950's hearing.
As far as radio goes, disco was bad enough, now that it's all pre-packaged and rotated - I'll stick to playing my guitar with my friends. However, for actual entertainment, and a counter-voice to Limbaugh (et. al.), I'm eagerly anticipating the new channel and programming involving Al Franken
May the Universe continue to bless itself - through You!
I have a horror story about the BMV (Bureau of Motor Vehicles) in Toledo, OH. While this was in 1999 - it was a major problem.
I walked into the office stating that I needed to acquire a new drivers license. The clerk asked me to sign in with my name and SSN, handed me a stub of a pencil, and pointed to the list sitting OUTSIDE of the sliding glass window. I nearly sh*t my pants. I had in my hand 40 or 50 names, along with their SSNs, which I could easily have mined for malicious purposes.
I looked around the office and saw about 20 people who I wouldn't trust with my enemy's life, let alone 2 parts of my Identity.
It kinda reminds me of the time the US Post Office thought they were going to launch a pay-per-email scheme, when I had already had a free Yahoo account for at least a year.
God help us all.
May the Universe continue to bless itself - through You!
If the tearaforming is possible, which it is, then the rest sounds like a dream - Of course I'd go. Six to ten years later, there's more able bodied, hearty and educated people to help out - God! It's be paradise for a thousand years!
While we'll never escape death - at least on Mars there wouldn't be any taxes!
My experience was with a string orchestra and The Doors "Light My Fire". My opinion of my doctor at that point went from 'conservative, but safe' - to 'just plain twsited' and, Do I really want this person diagnosing me!
That is not and end goal, they are in fact highly probable, we will do it I believe. I just think we ought to wait awhile to do so; 50 - 100 years? I hate seeing people suffer in poverty while the technology exists that could put an end to it. Fuck capitalism when it kills people. Patents are a freaking joke, just like yachts.
who is to say that future technological improvements wont make Mars so hospitable that people might actually want to call it "home".
You're right. If we survive as a species to get there our ancesters will call it home. But do you really think we'll get out of the solar system after that? I know, I know, they said man could not fly, but have you ever heard of the law of diminishing returns? Maybe there's not alot more to learn??? Maybe we'll learn that we know as much as is possible, and we're just screwed in a solar system of 9 planets and alot of asteroids. We could live and thrive here for a LONG time, but teraforming is gonna happen way before we go to other solar systems pursuing some damn "destiny".
the US has a democratic process, and your elected representatives are speaking for you. If you dont like how they spend the nations money, cast your vote accordingly. If the majority of the US voting population like the way they are spending money, you are SOL
Yes. We do. The veracity of which neither of us could prove or disprove. The point is moot. I do vote. I do volunteer in my community. I do know you and I will be dead before humans can travel to other planets or moons en masse. It is a great goal, and most likely necessary considering the Pope's view on contraception, which kind of illuminates my point on taking care of business that is at hand in the first place.
That's complete crap. [I'm tired of us paying for science that gets exported all around the globe.]?
No. It isn't. Several other countries do develop technology, but for instance, take pharmeceuticals - who foots the bill for research and development? The good ol' USA. And besides, what did the space race do to the C.C.C.P? If you answered "Bankrupt" and or "cold" you iz just about right.
Science is for the good of humanity, not one specific, transient country.
I agree. Science (should be) is for the good of all, but have you ever heard of patents? How about gouging American customers for research and development. Spending on NASA DOES achieve stuff, no question, but we want the payoff, not some pie-in-the-sky promise about trickle-down science. There is progress, but lets slow down (R&D) and bring the price to deploy currrently possible products to the masses. Let's build up the Sustenance Infrastructure, thereby feeling good, and producing even more scientists.
Long after the US has gone the way of the Roman Republic (and it will, it is the nature of such things), its contribution to science and technology will endure.
Again, I agree. We're still using fire and electricity and that is likely to continue. However, Rome had little more than brute strength, borrowing their logic and math and religion from Greece and the East. We are much like Rome to be sure. Anyone with enough capital and enough minds can develop new stuff - why they should constantly do so is the question. The law of diminishing returns comes to mind.
I just think we have SO MUCH technology that we should slow down. A hundred and fifty years ago, and all time prior, you and I would most likely be farmers or hunter gatherers. Not such a bad life except that it was only, on average, 335-50 years long. That 150 years of preogress has brought us light years ahead, and I for one don't need much more stuff.
Colonizing other worlds is on my agenda, even if I never live to see it - I think it's neccesary for the survival of the species, but we gotta pay to play, and I'm one for paying as you go. If we secure our sustenance infrastructure first, feed, educate, etc., then we can more readily pay for space travel. In the meantime, why not let other countries figure stuff out? Or, just wait for supercomputing to really develop and alot of stuff will figured out for free over time. While we perfect WHO is going to rule/live in space. Comparing us to Romans in this way could easily be construed as an omen to slow the fuck down.
No, no one actually wants to live in the desert anymore than they want to live on the moon. Like the saying goes "It's a nice place to visit, with a heck of a view, but I wouldn't want to live there."
I think the whole idea is proposterous for the $ aspect alone. Yes. The money could definately be much better spent here on Earth. Let the Chinese develop new space tech. Just because it's their first go at space doesn't mean that we might not get some free advances from what they learn. I'm tired of us paying for science that gets exported all around the globe.
I'm from the midwest too. In 6th grade (1978?) they tried to get us to do things in metrci. They said thewhole world was going that way. It was easy to learn and I still carry a few of the conversion ratios in my memory.
Full immersion Would Work - children are born to learn.
Look what happened to Reagan {see grey area at bottom}. Right out of office, and the presidential implant removed (aka prostrate surgery), he was claiming he couldn't remember a thing about Iran-Contra.
Looking at our current Bush, I'd say the upgrade is vaporware.
I killed my TV in 1998. It was because of something I noticed while watching the NFL's "Sunday Ticket". You know, you just sit around all day Sunday and watch 3 three-hour games and 2 hours of pre/post game. 11 hours of beer and football - I was sick.
The final straw came when I noticed something. I could switch to another secondary game when mine went to commercial, and then switch back to the primary game when the commercial was over. What was important was that I just 'knew' when the commercials were over - without checking. I realized that my subconcious was counting the 2 or 3 minutes that a "TV Timeout" takes, and was telling me to return just as the fade-in occured. I tested the hypothesis for weeks, and even proved it to my friends.
Then I remembered Pizza Delivery. As a driver, I would oftentimes knock on the door of someone watching TV. If the TV was visible from the door, I would feel the tug of my eyes to glance over at it. While I could control it rather easily - the fact that it was 'calling' to me freaked me out. It has little to do with content though.
Programs go to commercial at given times. While commercials are often even better to view than the shows, there's a stigma attached to commercials as 'garbage'. It seems like a classic example of reward and punishment - regardless, it does condition us. Good or Bad are irrelevant at that point - just the effect was enough for me to kill it.
Parent however, do use TV to occupy their kids. Arguably better than video games. TV is a remarkable medium, and I used to watch PBS religiously. Anymore I think their kinda bland.
Anyway, that's my testimonial: I got rid of TV and
1) went to 65 hours a week at work,
2) took classes,
3) joined a community group
- all at the same time, and still had time to program and surf.
You're the first reply I noticed that mentioned that person's name. I dislike that name, so I am posting it. Shouldn;t their be an apostrophe or something. He sure as hell aint darling. Maybe he's an agro business freak that gamble's on other people's stupidity and timidity. You know "the type".
I work for an archiving company that has microfilming and scanning departments. We use Kodak i260 scanners, and we scan mostly B&W 8.5"x11"s. The cameras in these scanners are really good, but the Kodak hardware and software is beyond kludge. Also note that Kodak has closed service bureaus for their scanners and relies on on-site techs now. Thoe whole ship is under scrutiny, and the price is dropping in the market. In fact, cameras are so cheap they're almost 'required' accessories on cell phones today.
The issue our company's clients face is preservation. Most of these entities are hospitals, or law firms or municipalities - they are goverened by guidelines that suggest microfilm is the better media for the long haul. It all depends on how you look at it.
Digital archiving is a fine solution, if you can manage a repository to maintain multiple backups and upgrade them as new platforms arise. Throughput and storage parameters are still increasing as computer continue to evolve, and the 'lifespan' of the new media will in effect be lengthened because it'll be so simple to make multiple copies - cost effectively.
As for "warmth" in analog . . . I got two compliments the other day from the photos I took with a $4.95 disposable. I can hear the difference in music (CD vs Vinyl), but I don't think the average picture is being looked at for Detail as much as for Subject, this is diiferent from music.
The father of a former girlfriend of mine worked at Three Mile Island, he was always ranting against the anti-nuke folks.
Of course, I live 30 miles from Davis Bessie on Lake Erie. The eroded cap that was supposed to hold all that stuff in could have broken at any time in the near future if not found.
The point being, it's not necessarily the technology that's bad - it's the humans running the show! And some of them aren;t even on 'our' side.
It reminds me of getting a new Math book each year in High-School. Had high-school math really changed all that much since the year before -No! Yet we wasted our districts $ and now we depend on the lottery for Education spending.
I disagree that there is nothing to be learned from space, but then again I'm an idiot (relatively). I also admit that I just want to go for a ride in space.
The items you mentioned are important, far more important. People say overpopulation is why we need to go to space. I concur. But when I was a kid, there were less than 5 Billion people. Today there are 6 Billion. 20 percent in 30 years - you do the math.
We're at the periphery of my conspiracy inclinations, so I need to stop here.
I agree. Verisign isn't much better than network solutions was. Hide everything users are probably trying to do with inept form design and off-shore support reps who never speak your language - but make it look pretty for the end-user.
I guess we have Al & Newt to thank for it . . .
All those governing bodies, entrusted with the managing the WWW just suck. The night ICANN's servers mysteriously shut down during a public vote my modem was fried by lightening - coincidence? I think not!
I'm glad W3C keeeps it honest. So000000 glad.
Thanks for that reply. I was told once that it was about $10,000 a pound to put stuff in orbit. What you relate as a need for much more fuel issues, in addition to precision issues, certainly drives the point home that these people ARE risking their lives a GREAT DEAL MORE than people such as myself realize.
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If you need to go to the 500th result, I don't think you are using the tool the right way.
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Thanks . .
, but I like to look at a lot of pages. Not everything's been published, tagged for meta-info, or become 'popular' to the engines. New stuff all the time. I don't always search for specific things, but also for multiple contexts. I could use the "-" operator to distill the results, but oftentimes there are so many returned - that it's just as fast or faster to wade through the raw junk, than to add more operators and arguments.
I found a cool List of Google Features that you may or may no be aware of. Check it out.
I have never had anything but praise for Google. The "Less is More" design was an oasis compared to other yahoos. However, I have always had a Yahoo account because it is free. I'll jump to google in a heartbeat ~ as long as it's free.
Google has created more innovative search features than anyone. And they just keep doing it. People have discussed the impending or eventual doom because of new offerings from MS and Yahoo, but the mindshare is with Google and the service just rocks/folks!
I have only 1 suggestiong for Google, and that is to let me up the number results returned to 250 or 500. Other than that, I'm on the bandwagon!
Pop-ups and pop-unders have always done more harm than good. Though, most advertising strategy never works on me anyway - I don't understand how DoubleClick (et.al.) feel they're not creating a Bad image for these products because of the annoyance. The animated .gifs with moving high-contrast colors are also bad - I get a headache when they're too flashy.
I think the best way for these advertisements to be (other than non-existant), is just woven into the page. You read the headline and first paragraph, and then scroll down past the ad, then read the rest. No negative associations with the product! The best way for advertisers to do that is to simply make the ad to the left or right of the text. At least users see the ad longer.
a. Support for Bush/Cheny/et.al.
b. Nationalism
Thank you
I have to point out that we don't know the protocol for mining this data. They may analyze it in stages - trying to preserve anonymity as best they can. I do however, of course, realize that they have taken an UNPRECIDENTED step in all of this, and I doubt JetBlue or Northwest are the only carriers, or services for that matter, that have turned over records. Recent moves by content piracy lawyers to acquire dowloader data should not be confused with trying to protect our citizens - they are vastly different symptoms of us not being able to control everything. That not being able to control everything is a fact, it is also, IMHO, a sign that we are missing opportunities to make this planet safe and enjoyable for everyone.
Yet look at the underlying fundamentals, which these gery-op type actions seem to overlook:
Anyone, domestic or foreign, can readily acquire the tools to kill thousands or more people. They simply can. The Spirit rover on Mars is a great example of what technology can do from a long, long way away. We are incapable of preventing Free Will through legislation - only our actions, domestic and foreign can address this. Bombs and secret tribunals cannot.
My conclusion is that we are responding in kneejerk fashion to what is really a social disease. Instead of defending and offending at the same time, retaliating and escalating, we should do the 'right thing'. Invest in the world so that everyone has a sustainable future, beyond mud huts and slavery. I think then, the only problem we'd have with the technological genii is the random, actually crazy serial killer. The fundametalist killers would be satiated, and re-absorbed into their communities. Living happily everafter (tra la la).
How many times are you really gonna watch something?
:)
I see your point with the fishing show. I can imagine myself doing the same thing with "This Old House", or a PBS or CBC educational series - not to mention that having every episode of the original Star Trek would be cool (except Pike).
As a relatively poor person, I tend to live by Pay To Play, perhaps that's what makes going to movies so much more enjoyable. I distance myself from the TiVo/VHS crowd also because of what I'll call a Pavlovian Relationship with content and commercials. So, there's an extra reason that others may not identify with, that keeps me from purchasing new recording formats.
Quite frankly, I've never been a fan of broadcast rule(r)s anyway. The use the natural laws of the universe to disseminate content over a 'free' medium is great. Commercials make TV work for free - fine. Do they have a right to limit my use of the natural laws of the universe to capture what they broadcast? No!!! (IMHO). If they feel they do, then they need to rethink what they're broadcsting. The opening scene from "Contact" is a clever, if not too realistic example - {Hitler's address to the Olympic Arena being the first broadcast strong enough to reach space.}. While I consider myself liberal when it comes to social mores, I think most media today stretches the limit and actually broadcasts damaging stuff on occaision. Sex and frank discussions - that's ok, but if it's only titilation - who cares. I am reminded of a commercial that showed actual death scenes when promiting it's 'wild' video for sale. A guy getting sucked up into an Air Force Jet on a runway. It freaked me right out because I was not 'prepared' for it. I think stuff like that is socially irresponsible.
I guess I wish that everything was archived so that I could intake whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. For that I would rather pay than pirate. Content providers would be able to better manage their offerings as well. If that does become the next pradigm, I hope they address musicians because a GREAT amount of cultural erosion has occured, behind this whole ownership scene. The broadcast execs and content managers are about as thorough and trustful as Enron, WorldCom. Though I may or may not have broken that law in the past to some small degree, it doesn't bother me either.
How about: Apprehend the FCC instead of KILL YOUR TV. - Does that work?
Additionally, my old games ruined my old TVs. If I could drag one out of the local landfill and plug it in, Intellivision's Sea Battle or Atari's Adventure would probably still be burned into the screen!
I haven't read up on Yahoo's initiative to use "Domain Keys", whatever it turns out to be, but it has always seemed to me that SPAM is really just user error, except that it's on the part of the ISPs and other deployers of email servers.
Please forgive my ignorance, if present, but can someone please analyze the current paradigm and tell me why we don't just change the damn paradigm on email altogether?
Here's what I think would work:
1) Instead of giving out your email address, so that ANYONE can send you ANYTHING, legal or not, give them the URL to your email signup page, which has a CAPTCHA feature like any good signup page does.
2) Your simple website, and you know this would be simple, maintains the list of 'acceptable' email addresses and spurns messages from all others. You import your current address book to bring the new system up to date, then do the familiar mass mailing informing your contacts that you have switched to the new paradigm.
3) Your site receives vistors who wish to email you. They fill out the form and identify the captcha image, and provide you with their email address. Additionally, they provide a short, text-only message that you receive along with their signup request.
4) Now, I realize I have introduce another signup/hurdle to the user's experience, but from another perspective, they will feel it is worth it to conquer/prevent SPAM.
5) You receive the request, visit the site of the requester, do whatever you want - then add their address to the "OK" list, or not. This puts you in the position of detective - but, whether you choose to investigate (whether they are spammers) or not, you can always remove them from the list as an "abuser".
6) On your server's side, you run a script that changes your email address every so often. Your email address is always hidden, and ever-changing, all to the extent to which you can prevent people from hacking in.
7) The web-signup/homepage/email page concept becomes mainstream and everyone is happy, ans some more work exists (for a little while) for web-monkeys.
Ok. Does this suck? Please explain. Thank you!
Though I must admit, sitting at home is WAY more convenient, especially since my shoes won't be sticking to the floor, and when I have to pee, I can hit "Pause".
I guess my point was: Why tape TV when it sux?
1) There are other formats
2) How many times are you really gonna watch something? Online services will archive their offerings - Pay for Play.
May the Universe continue to bless itself - theough You!
Are you people nuts!?
Doesn't it force you to pay attention for 6 minutes at a time? The term "programming" will now be used in a different light. Sure, home movies are convenient, but remember how powerful big-screen movies are? Just sneak some candy and soda in with you - KILL YOUR TV!
Heck, they don't even play the Star Spangled Banner @ 5am anymore. Besides, digital projectors and DVDs will be commonplace in a few years. IMHO
" . . . with the advancement of technology, it has become common practice for on-air personalities across the industry -- such as Rush Limbaugh -- to anchor programs remotely . . ."
And just what technology might that be - Pharmacology?
. . . but seriously folks . . .
This reminds me of the movie Quiz Show from 1994. After people find out that certain charasmatic contestants have been supplied with the questions before the show, an executive from the program testifies before Congress. His statement in the movie goes something like: "Hey - we never said is was factual, we only said it was entertaining.". Here is some testimony from what I believe is the actual 1950's hearing.
As far as radio goes, disco was bad enough, now that it's all pre-packaged and rotated - I'll stick to playing my guitar with my friends. However, for actual entertainment, and a counter-voice to Limbaugh (et. al.), I'm eagerly anticipating the new channel and programming involving Al Franken
May the Universe continue to bless itself - through You!
I have a horror story about the BMV (Bureau of Motor Vehicles) in Toledo, OH. While this was in 1999 - it was a major problem.
I walked into the office stating that I needed to acquire a new drivers license. The clerk asked me to sign in with my name and SSN, handed me a stub of a pencil, and pointed to the list sitting OUTSIDE of the sliding glass window. I nearly sh*t my pants. I had in my hand 40 or 50 names, along with their SSNs, which I could easily have mined for malicious purposes.
I looked around the office and saw about 20 people who I wouldn't trust with my enemy's life, let alone 2 parts of my Identity.
It kinda reminds me of the time the US Post Office thought they were going to launch a pay-per-email scheme, when I had already had a free Yahoo account for at least a year.
God help us all.
May the Universe continue to bless itself - through You!
If the tearaforming is possible, which it is, then the rest sounds like a dream - Of course I'd go. Six to ten years later, there's more able bodied, hearty and educated people to help out - God! It's be paradise for a thousand years!
While we'll never escape death - at least on Mars there wouldn't be any taxes!
My experience was with a string orchestra and The Doors "Light My Fire". My opinion of my doctor at that point went from 'conservative, but safe' - to 'just plain twsited' and, Do I really want this person diagnosing me!
That is not and end goal, they are in fact highly probable, we will do it I believe. I just think we ought to wait awhile to do so; 50 - 100 years? I hate seeing people suffer in poverty while the technology exists that could put an end to it. Fuck capitalism when it kills people. Patents are a freaking joke, just like yachts.
who is to say that future technological improvements wont make Mars so hospitable that people might actually want to call it "home".You're right. If we survive as a species to get there our ancesters will call it home. But do you really think we'll get out of the solar system after that? I know, I know, they said man could not fly, but have you ever heard of the law of diminishing returns? Maybe there's not alot more to learn??? Maybe we'll learn that we know as much as is possible, and we're just screwed in a solar system of 9 planets and alot of asteroids. We could live and thrive here for a LONG time, but teraforming is gonna happen way before we go to other solar systems pursuing some damn "destiny".
the US has a democratic process, and your elected representatives are speaking for you. If you dont like how they spend the nations money, cast your vote accordingly. If the majority of the US voting population like the way they are spending money, you are SOLYes. We do. The veracity of which neither of us could prove or disprove. The point is moot. I do vote. I do volunteer in my community. I do know you and I will be dead before humans can travel to other planets or moons en masse. It is a great goal, and most likely necessary considering the Pope's view on contraception, which kind of illuminates my point on taking care of business that is at hand in the first place.
No. It isn't. Several other countries do develop technology, but for instance, take pharmeceuticals - who foots the bill for research and development? The good ol' USA. And besides, what did the space race do to the C.C.C.P? If you answered "Bankrupt" and or "cold" you iz just about right.
Science is for the good of humanity, not one specific, transient country.I agree. Science (should be) is for the good of all, but have you ever heard of patents? How about gouging American customers for research and development. Spending on NASA DOES achieve stuff, no question, but we want the payoff, not some pie-in-the-sky promise about trickle-down science. There is progress, but lets slow down (R&D) and bring the price to deploy currrently possible products to the masses. Let's build up the Sustenance Infrastructure, thereby feeling good, and producing even more scientists.
Long after the US has gone the way of the Roman Republic (and it will, it is the nature of such things), its contribution to science and technology will endure.Again, I agree. We're still using fire and electricity and that is likely to continue. However, Rome had little more than brute strength, borrowing their logic and math and religion from Greece and the East. We are much like Rome to be sure. Anyone with enough capital and enough minds can develop new stuff - why they should constantly do so is the question. The law of diminishing returns comes to mind.
I just think we have SO MUCH technology that we should slow down. A hundred and fifty years ago, and all time prior, you and I would most likely be farmers or hunter gatherers. Not such a bad life except that it was only, on average, 335-50 years long. That 150 years of preogress has brought us light years ahead, and I for one don't need much more stuff.
Colonizing other worlds is on my agenda, even if I never live to see it - I think it's neccesary for the survival of the species, but we gotta pay to play, and I'm one for paying as you go. If we secure our sustenance infrastructure first, feed, educate, etc., then we can more readily pay for space travel. In the meantime, why not let other countries figure stuff out? Or, just wait for supercomputing to really develop and alot of stuff will figured out for free over time. While we perfect WHO is going to rule/live in space. Comparing us to Romans in this way could easily be construed as an omen to slow the fuck down.
I understand your point completely - IMHO.
No, no one actually wants to live in the desert anymore than they want to live on the moon. Like the saying goes "It's a nice place to visit, with a heck of a view, but I wouldn't want to live there."
I think the whole idea is proposterous for the $ aspect alone. Yes. The money could definately be much better spent here on Earth. Let the Chinese develop new space tech. Just because it's their first go at space doesn't mean that we might not get some free advances from what they learn. I'm tired of us paying for science that gets exported all around the globe.
Just givin' prop's.
I'm from the midwest too. In 6th grade (1978?) they tried to get us to do things in metrci. They said thewhole world was going that way. It was easy to learn and I still carry a few of the conversion ratios in my memory.
Full immersion Would Work - children are born to learn.
Look what happened to Reagan {see grey area at bottom}. Right out of office, and the presidential implant removed (aka prostrate surgery), he was claiming he couldn't remember a thing about Iran-Contra.
Looking at our current Bush, I'd say the upgrade is vaporware.
Uh - where exactly are those VB Jobs? Not in Toldeo - thatz fer shur.
No, I don't know Jamie Farr.
I killed my TV in 1998. It was because of something I noticed while watching the NFL's "Sunday Ticket". You know, you just sit around all day Sunday and watch 3 three-hour games and 2 hours of pre/post game. 11 hours of beer and football - I was sick.
The final straw came when I noticed something. I could switch to another secondary game when mine went to commercial, and then switch back to the primary game when the commercial was over. What was important was that I just 'knew' when the commercials were over - without checking. I realized that my subconcious was counting the 2 or 3 minutes that a "TV Timeout" takes, and was telling me to return just as the fade-in occured. I tested the hypothesis for weeks, and even proved it to my friends.
Then I remembered Pizza Delivery. As a driver, I would oftentimes knock on the door of someone watching TV. If the TV was visible from the door, I would feel the tug of my eyes to glance over at it. While I could control it rather easily - the fact that it was 'calling' to me freaked me out. It has little to do with content though.
Programs go to commercial at given times. While commercials are often even better to view than the shows, there's a stigma attached to commercials as 'garbage'. It seems like a classic example of reward and punishment - regardless, it does condition us. Good or Bad are irrelevant at that point - just the effect was enough for me to kill it.
Parent however, do use TV to occupy their kids. Arguably better than video games. TV is a remarkable medium, and I used to watch PBS religiously. Anymore I think their kinda bland.
Anyway, that's my testimonial: I got rid of TV and
1) went to 65 hours a week at work,
2) took classes,
3) joined a community group
- all at the same time, and still had time to program and surf.
You're the first reply I noticed that mentioned that person's name. I dislike that name, so I am posting it. Shouldn;t their be an apostrophe or something. He sure as hell aint darling. Maybe he's an agro business freak that gamble's on other people's stupidity and timidity. You know "the type".
"I don't like the guy's name!"
It just all looks like scumbag pie.
I work for an archiving company that has microfilming and scanning departments. We use Kodak i260 scanners, and we scan mostly B&W 8.5"x11"s. The cameras in these scanners are really good, but the Kodak hardware and software is beyond kludge. Also note that Kodak has closed service bureaus for their scanners and relies on on-site techs now. Thoe whole ship is under scrutiny, and the price is dropping in the market. In fact, cameras are so cheap they're almost 'required' accessories on cell phones today.
The issue our company's clients face is preservation. Most of these entities are hospitals, or law firms or municipalities - they are goverened by guidelines that suggest microfilm is the better media for the long haul. It all depends on how you look at it.
Digital archiving is a fine solution, if you can manage a repository to maintain multiple backups and upgrade them as new platforms arise. Throughput and storage parameters are still increasing as computer continue to evolve, and the 'lifespan' of the new media will in effect be lengthened because it'll be so simple to make multiple copies - cost effectively.
As for "warmth" in analog . . . I got two compliments the other day from the photos I took with a $4.95 disposable. I can hear the difference in music (CD vs Vinyl), but I don't think the average picture is being looked at for Detail as much as for Subject, this is diiferent from music.
The father of a former girlfriend of mine worked at Three Mile Island, he was always ranting against the anti-nuke folks.
Of course, I live 30 miles from Davis Bessie on Lake Erie. The eroded cap that was supposed to hold all that stuff in could have broken at any time in the near future if not found.
The point being, it's not necessarily the technology that's bad - it's the humans running the show! And some of them aren;t even on 'our' side.
It reminds me of getting a new Math book each year in High-School. Had high-school math really changed all that much since the year before -No! Yet we wasted our districts $ and now we depend on the lottery for Education spending.
I disagree that there is nothing to be learned from space, but then again I'm an idiot (relatively). I also admit that I just want to go for a ride in space.
The items you mentioned are important, far more important. People say overpopulation is why we need to go to space. I concur. But when I was a kid, there were less than 5 Billion people. Today there are 6 Billion. 20 percent in 30 years - you do the math.
We're at the periphery of my conspiracy inclinations, so I need to stop here.
I agree. Verisign isn't much better than network solutions was. Hide everything users are probably trying to do with inept form design and off-shore support reps who never speak your language - but make it look pretty for the end-user.
I guess we have Al & Newt to thank for it . . .
All those governing bodies, entrusted with the managing the WWW just suck. The night ICANN's servers mysteriously shut down during a public vote my modem was fried by lightening - coincidence? I think not!
I'm glad W3C keeeps it honest. So000000 glad.
Thanks for that reply. I was told once that it was about $10,000 a pound to put stuff in orbit. What you relate as a need for much more fuel issues, in addition to precision issues, certainly drives the point home that these people ARE risking their lives a GREAT DEAL MORE than people such as myself realize.