These are paperbacks, are they not? The neat thing to do would be to assemble a collection of nicely hardbound versions of these--not firsts, but nicely bound--that would look a lot more impressive lining your library than a bunch of cheap paperbacks.
Actually, it's much more efficient to block the *source* IP of the blinky ads. My time is valuable. I'm not going to waste it sorting out *which* blinky ads I want to watch. They all die. When the advertisers learn this lesson, I may reconsider. It's funny, but I click on more Google search page ads in a month than I have ever clicked on at a website in my life. You'd think these idiots would get the picture.
Just a little history. The internet as it now stands is simply a high tech version of two mail-based phenomena that existed for ages before its arrival, mailorder shopping and the small/amateur/fan magazine. Neither of these made money through advertizing. The mailorder businesses made money by selling stuff. I bought a lot of stuff by mailorder. The selection was better and I didn't have to go out and get the stuff. The small mags weren't in business to make money. They were simply trying to have their voice heard by a larger audience. Anyone who wanted to make money publishing created a real magazine sold at newsstands. These also have their analogue on the web. They are the pay-for sites that live or die on the quality of their content. Yes, there is now a middle ground where "free" sites try to survive by taking advertising, but these too have their analogue in the real world. They are the free city papers and advertising rags that survive through their advertising. The web advertisers should take a clue from these.
I agree. But let me just say that I really didn't mind static ads. After all, the internet was originally a static medium and, like newspapers, one expects some nice little static ads.
It was when these retardo-bozos began the damned flash ads that winked and blinked until they drove you nuts that I began to get angry. When the damned ads started getting up and marching across the screen like wooden soldiers in a little kid's dreams, I began to get apoplectic. Then you couldn't even click on a link without being redirected to an ad page before being permitted to see what you wanted to see.
And somewhere along the way these veritable cretinous lunatics decided that they had the right to set malicious cookies that would phone home everytime you turned on your computer thus slowing down your boot time and generally mucking up the innards of YOUR VERY OWN computer paid for with your hard earned dollars. And this character has the nerve to threaten us with the DEATH OF THE INTERNET!!! if we don't stop preventing him from annoying us.
Yes, I agree. Screw you double-boner and the rest of your silly fannies.
"Apple prides itself on a quality user experience that approaches a luxury product. Everything from the appearance of the fonts to the way consumers interact with the interface needs to remain consistently "high quality" and I am sure Apple will make efforts to preserve this experience."
I resent that!
I build my own and they are consistently high quality. Maybe they could add a feature that only allows OSX to run on superior machines?;-) Would I dual boot with OSX if I had the opportunity? Maybe. Depends on how much it cost.
I agree to some extent, but there's really not much chance of getting rid of the companies without a major political upheaval. So our last line of defense is the scientists. We just have to find some way of teaching them that it's not a good idea to just say, "Gee, I wonder what would happen if we shoved this gigaton nuclear device up the ass of civilization as we know it." This is most assuredly NOT what scientists should be doing. They need to take some semblance of responsibility for their actions. They are, after all, THEIR actions.
It was an example. Of what nanotechnology could do. And since no one has ever figured out where viruses come from--they need cells to exist--it's not unthinkable that they *were* an invention, of the military type most likely.
Okay, let's just suppose that viruses were a technological development of an ancient civilization. One can imagine a protest that would draw a chorus of laughter from the technical elite of the time. "These guys are just against technological advancement," they might say, "a bunch of luddites." Well, it really amazes me that science can run off willy nilly inventing all manner of peculiar "stuff" and it never occurs to most folks that they could be opening themselves and their descendants up to thousands of years of consequences. Next time you rip some of that round-leafed mint viney shit out of your lawn, remember, this too was trumpeted as an advancement.
I am perpetually amazed at how closed minded the folks who post here are. Seems to have something to do with a "not invented here" mindset. Not until *we* invent something does it become believable to these folks. And this extends into the dimension of time as well. The very idea that someone on Earth could have invented something that we have just discovered thousands of years ago is in some ways even less acceptable to them than its invention on another planet.
Having said that, I am also continually amazed that anyone would think that the US military would have the answer to something this complex and unusual when these same geniuses managed to allow the Pakistani government to snooker them out of O. bin Laden.
As far as juries are concerned, the best method would simply be to photograph the original before it's stolen and then superimpose a photo of the allegedly stolen copy over the photo of the original. One wonders why hitech solutions are even considered when visual identification can be used so successfully.
Quoting parts of the bible proves nothing. It is a collection of separate works artificially assembled into a larger whole with only perfunctory attention to synchronization among the parts. In short, you can find support for virtually anything if you look hard enough. This is why "fundamentalists" are so pathetic.
You are missing the fact that these are handwritten copies of an identical text by different people. They are not different writings of the same person. As such, though the letters themselves may be "identical," the spacing, size of letters, and especially the lengths of the lines differ. So you could in actuality just measure the lengths of a finite number of lines very accurately to create a fingerprint for each work. The odds of these being identical in two versions is vanishingly small.
"commodity hardware" or just "intel CPU in an Apple box?"
Knowing Jobs, you won't be able to (legally) buy the OS and load it onto your dual-booting (tribooting?) homebuilt. What I think you may be missing, though, is that Intel may be hedging their bets against a Microsoft/processor-manufacturer cabal of some sort, though the details don't look terribly clear at this point--maybe Intel loading OSX directly onto their chips Transmeta-style? Anyone care to speculate how that would affect to performance?
No. The males call each other Fripple. The females are forbidden to talk without a permit. This results from the inability of Martians to pronounce Fripplette. And they're not really green. They're more of a cyan.;-)
Of course, if the swimming pool were truly empty, the sumo wrestler would simply make a large crater in the bottom, kind of analogous to an asteroid hitting Earth.;-)
"global warming is not the worldwide effect people shape it up to be"
What you are missing is that the effects of the small global rise in temperature are not evenly distributed! There are, in fact, even regions that get *colder* as a result of this worldwide increase in temperature. Global climatic conditions are complex and unified, but they are NOT uniform. Hence what *looks* like a local phenom can actually be a direct result of global conditions. Think El Nino, for example.
You don't like labor unions, why don't you go to work for Walmart? They have all the advantages of no union plus you get to interact with the creme de la creme of American society....
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These are paperbacks, are they not? The neat thing to do would be to assemble a collection of nicely hardbound versions of these--not firsts, but nicely bound--that would look a lot more impressive lining your library than a bunch of cheap paperbacks.
What's the URL? Is the quality better than the ATT voice synthesis program?
Perhaps I mean what I fucking said.
Actually, it's much more efficient to block the *source* IP of the blinky ads. My time is valuable. I'm not going to waste it sorting out *which* blinky ads I want to watch. They all die. When the advertisers learn this lesson, I may reconsider. It's funny, but I click on more Google search page ads in a month than I have ever clicked on at a website in my life. You'd think these idiots would get the picture.
Baloney.
Just a little history. The internet as it now stands is simply a high tech version of two mail-based phenomena that existed for ages before its arrival, mailorder shopping and the small/amateur/fan magazine. Neither of these made money through advertizing. The mailorder businesses made money by selling stuff. I bought a lot of stuff by mailorder. The selection was better and I didn't have to go out and get the stuff. The small mags weren't in business to make money. They were simply trying to have their voice heard by a larger audience. Anyone who wanted to make money publishing created a real magazine sold at newsstands. These also have their analogue on the web. They are the pay-for sites that live or die on the quality of their content. Yes, there is now a middle ground where "free" sites try to survive by taking advertising, but these too have their analogue in the real world. They are the free city papers and advertising rags that survive through their advertising. The web advertisers should take a clue from these.
"Whether you looked or not, they think you did and that only encourages them."
Well, then, they are even stupider than I figured they were.
I agree. But let me just say that I really didn't mind static ads. After all, the internet was originally a static medium and, like newspapers, one expects some nice little static ads.
It was when these retardo-bozos began the damned flash ads that winked and blinked until they drove you nuts that I began to get angry. When the damned ads started getting up and marching across the screen like wooden soldiers in a little kid's dreams, I began to get apoplectic. Then you couldn't even click on a link without being redirected to an ad page before being permitted to see what you wanted to see.
And somewhere along the way these veritable cretinous lunatics decided that they had the right to set malicious cookies that would phone home everytime you turned on your computer thus slowing down your boot time and generally mucking up the innards of YOUR VERY OWN computer paid for with your hard earned dollars. And this character has the nerve to threaten us with the DEATH OF THE INTERNET!!! if we don't stop preventing him from annoying us.
Yes, I agree. Screw you double-boner and the rest of your silly fannies.
Actually, we just went from NT to 2000 a couple of years ago and there's no sign of any impending XP adoption.
"Apple prides itself on a quality user experience that approaches a luxury product. Everything from the appearance of the fonts to the way consumers interact with the interface needs to remain consistently "high quality" and I am sure Apple will make efforts to preserve this experience."
;-) Would I dual boot with OSX if I had the opportunity? Maybe. Depends on how much it cost.
I resent that!
I build my own and they are consistently high quality. Maybe they could add a feature that only allows OSX to run on superior machines?
1) port to intel 2) sell chips with embedded OSX a la Transmeta 3) profit!
I agree to some extent, but there's really not much chance of getting rid of the companies without a major political upheaval. So our last line of defense is the scientists. We just have to find some way of teaching them that it's not a good idea to just say, "Gee, I wonder what would happen if we shoved this gigaton nuclear device up the ass of civilization as we know it." This is most assuredly NOT what scientists should be doing. They need to take some semblance of responsibility for their actions. They are, after all, THEIR actions.
It was an example. Of what nanotechnology could do. And since no one has ever figured out where viruses come from--they need cells to exist--it's not unthinkable that they *were* an invention, of the military type most likely.
Okay, let's just suppose that viruses were a technological development of an ancient civilization. One can imagine a protest that would draw a chorus of laughter from the technical elite of the time. "These guys are just against technological advancement," they might say, "a bunch of luddites." Well, it really amazes me that science can run off willy nilly inventing all manner of peculiar "stuff" and it never occurs to most folks that they could be opening themselves and their descendants up to thousands of years of consequences. Next time you rip some of that round-leafed mint viney shit out of your lawn, remember, this too was trumpeted as an advancement.
I am perpetually amazed at how closed minded the folks who post here are. Seems to have something to do with a "not invented here" mindset. Not until *we* invent something does it become believable to these folks. And this extends into the dimension of time as well. The very idea that someone on Earth could have invented something that we have just discovered thousands of years ago is in some ways even less acceptable to them than its invention on another planet.
Having said that, I am also continually amazed that anyone would think that the US military would have the answer to something this complex and unusual when these same geniuses managed to allow the Pakistani government to snooker them out of O. bin Laden.
Compared to the surface of the sun, it's room temperature!
As far as juries are concerned, the best method would simply be to photograph the original before it's stolen and then superimpose a photo of the allegedly stolen copy over the photo of the original. One wonders why hitech solutions are even considered when visual identification can be used so successfully.
Quoting parts of the bible proves nothing. It is a collection of separate works artificially assembled into a larger whole with only perfunctory attention to synchronization among the parts. In short, you can find support for virtually anything if you look hard enough. This is why "fundamentalists" are so pathetic.
You are missing the fact that these are handwritten copies of an identical text by different people. They are not different writings of the same person. As such, though the letters themselves may be "identical," the spacing, size of letters, and especially the lengths of the lines differ. So you could in actuality just measure the lengths of a finite number of lines very accurately to create a fingerprint for each work. The odds of these being identical in two versions is vanishingly small.
Well, at 7% of the installed machines (not % of yearly sales) I would imagine there were at least that many.
"commodity hardware" or just "intel CPU in an Apple box?"
Knowing Jobs, you won't be able to (legally) buy the OS and load it onto your dual-booting (tribooting?) homebuilt. What I think you may be missing, though, is that Intel may be hedging their bets against a Microsoft/processor-manufacturer cabal of some sort, though the details don't look terribly clear at this point--maybe Intel loading OSX directly onto their chips Transmeta-style? Anyone care to speculate how that would affect to performance?
No. The males call each other Fripple. The females are forbidden to talk without a permit. This results from the inability of Martians to pronounce Fripplette. And they're not really green. They're more of a cyan. ;-)
"Imagine: If everyone programmed, computers would likely be sentient by this stage!"
And there'd be no overpopulation problem either....
Of course, if the swimming pool were truly empty, the sumo wrestler would simply make a large crater in the bottom, kind of analogous to an asteroid hitting Earth. ;-)
"global warming is not the worldwide effect people shape it up to be"
What you are missing is that the effects of the small global rise in temperature are not evenly distributed! There are, in fact, even regions that get *colder* as a result of this worldwide increase in temperature. Global climatic conditions are complex and unified, but they are NOT uniform. Hence what *looks* like a local phenom can actually be a direct result of global conditions. Think El Nino, for example.
You don't like labor unions, why don't you go to work for Walmart? They have all the advantages of no union plus you get to interact with the creme de la creme of American society....