"The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48" Subliminal Sub*lim"i*nal, a. Pref. sub- + L. limen threshold. 1. (Philos.) Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas. Webster 1913 Suppl.
2. having or using an intensity of sensory stimulus insufficient to be perceived consciously, but having an effect on unconscious mental processes; as, subliminal advertising.
Note: The existence of such an effect is still not universally accepted. PJC
I'm getting pretty tired of society being held hostage by a bunch of ignorant barbarians who basically worship symbols and idols.
Start a campaign against the NYSE then !
Seriously, and unfortunately, I can't mod you TROLL as I've replied on this thread.
But that's what you are.
Ever heard of a word called respect ? It is an intrinsic part of their religion that images of Mohammed are forbidden. Idol worship was also forbidden by the "God of the Hebrews", remember Moses coming down off the mountain and finding the golden bull ?
You also seem to be ignorant of the fact that the guy who stirred up all this trouble did it deliberately, and has close ties to Al Qaeda. What do you think would happen, say in the deep south of the US, if a bunch of moslems started burning US flags ? Or drawing mustaches on figures of christ on the cross ?
Get a clue, otherwise you are as bad as the mindless rioters that follow the herd.
The only part that religion plays in the current events (or ever IMHO) is that it acts as the glue that holds each of the opposing sides together. The conflicts are always caused by the politicians, by playing the religeous angle. Looks like you fell for it too.
I saw a program about a lighthouse last night. The bulb used is a massive 35w - but due to the excellent lenses, the light can be seen from 25 miles away.
So I guess we need better lenses for these projectors.
My Infocus X2 lamp is 200w and I need a darkened room for an 84" diagonal screen at a 15 foot distance. It can be seen in daylight, but it is pretty washed out.
I bought a sony vaio laptop 5 years ago and its still usable now. Ok, its only a 1 gig cpu and 256 RAM, but it does the job and has a nice 15" screen. It cost me $1400. If I had gone for the $799 variety back then, it probably wouldn't have been as useful or nice.
What was your point again ? Nothing to do with OS-X apparently.
The US can have neo-Nazi websites because it has a stable political system that, while certainly not perfect, does a good job at keeping the masses content enough that rebellion doesn't linger on anyone's mind. China on the other hand has a political system where the masses have little say in governance. China has left the only opposition to government policies to be rebellion. As a result, China deals with constant (and little reported on) riots and instances of civil unrest that are completely alien to most Western governments.
I've bolded the funny parts. So you agree that the US government only has to keep you content enough to prevent revolution. As long as prices don't rise too much and the tv works, you're content to let your rights wither away.
How much "say" does any average American have in their own governance ? Ooooh, you get to "vote" once in a while, and then the politicos do what they want anyway.
Completely alien, no. Actively feared and heavily discouraged, yes. G8 summits ? anti-war protests ? Petrol price protests ? Council tax protests ?
I realise that the last two are UK based occurrences, but that allows me to mention that when I said the US government before, I actually meant most US influenced governments.
When the wall came down and the cold war was finally over, the governments of this world were left with a problem - how to justify their own (bloated) existences. Hence the "war" on terror. If China was to turn around tomorrow and renounce communism, and kiss Uncle Sams ass, we, as normal peace loving hard working people, would be completely fucked. It is not right that the USA is the only super power on the planet. How many military actions have been shelved because the chinese won't let it happen. I don't agree with human rights violations, but I also don't agree with a political mono-culture, globalisation, and the prevention of terrorism (where terrorism is newspeak for fighting for your freedom). One day we all might be terrorists in the governments eyes - oh, sorry, thats already happened hasn't it.
If you've ever seen Brazil by Terry Gilliam, then you will have seen a glimpse of the fabulous future. 1984 is also only a glimpse. The reality is always much much worse. Picture a boot stamping on a human face - forever !
Ever had a really good friend, who you haven't seen for a while, so you go out for a beer, and halfway through a conversation, you discover he is trying to sell you life insurance/water filters/mortgage services/etc/etc ? Not fatal, but uncomfortable and disingenuous.
Well that's google for ya. I can handle advertising on their search pages, as the price of using their service, but I'm damned if I'll help them index me !
Google already has their sticky fingers in enough pies, what with their desktop search and google earth, and their planned file indexing and transfer "service". I am glad there are no linux apps from google, because it makes linux still safer from the "mainstream". Wasn't there a nice windows vulnerability facilitated by the google toolbar/desktop search a little while ago. Oh, yeah, the wmf debacle.
While I don't believe in security by obscurity, I do like to keep my stuff , my stuff ! I am not interested in having google poke around in my machine (even with restricted privileges).
They should have stayed as a simple search engine, ie web based. They have no business on my hardware. Especially as it's going to be closed source so no-one can take a look and test it for problems. I must add that I do use closed source software such as the nvidia drivers and I was using linuxant driverloader wifi drivers (and custom kernel) for a while through neccessity, which I payed for. I would have payed for them even if they had been open source, because they were worth it to me at the time. I am not a complete leech.
But, back OT, google can keep their crap. It's only a way for them to gather more data with which to woo advertising revenue. And as many people say about the MPAA and RIAA, they exist to provide us with a service, we owe them nothing in return. I have no desire to be part of googles ever expanding ad-farm.
I see lots of post saying how various people in various countries have had ID cards for years and they have never been asked to produce it, or it's not so bad etc etc.
In Britain, we will be expected to carry it at ALL times, and they will prosecute you if you don't. Britain follows the EU commandments even when our EU neighbours disregard its laws. British officials are intensely slavish to the letter of the law, so it will be a nuisance and a concern to us here.
I think we still have a law that says if we don't have a certain amount of money in our pockets we can be arrested for vagrancy. As other posters have said, it's not the card per se, it's the Dbase behind the card, which goes beyond anything we've ever had to put up with before.
Sorry, but especially after Tiananmen Square China holds nothing but contempt from me.
Hmmm, Kent State University Shooting of 1970, Waco siege 1993, Oakland Cops Shoot at Longshore Workers And Antiwar Protesters 2003, Gitmo, PATRIOT act, etc, etc. Stones - Glass houses ?
The first home computer I had experience on was my dads nascom. He built it into a cool all in one case, which looked really 2001-ish. We had hours of "fun" typing in space invaders hex code from a magazine one night while we drank whiskey (F0 and 0F always got a laugh), he read while I typed and vice verce. You could also get a star trek adventure game and a moon lander program IIRC.
He upgraded that to a beefier gemini later on, but apart from playing around in Z80 assembler I never really got to use that one. After that he got a compaq 8086 which was destined to be my first computer. I remember it well, 2 * 5 1/4 " floppies. In fact I still have that machine and (AFAIK) it still runs (I must dig it out and try it). That's back when Norton actually made some useful software !
After that I had a brief fling with a 286 and windows 3.1 before upgrading to a 386 and the same OS.
After the Pentium had been around for a while (50, 60 and 66 mhz) I built my first machine - A whopping 75mhz cpu with 32MB ram and an 850 MB hard disk. That damn hard disk cost me £350 back then ! ('95 ?). I couldn't afford a cd drive so I had to get win95 on floppies - 14 of them ! When I did get a cd drive and speakers Doom was cool though, especially with Rob Zombie playing as the game music.
After that, I upgraded to a 200 mhz cpu and then on to a cyrix 300mhz socket 7. That chip and various upgrades lasted me until 2000 (!) when I splashed out and got an AMD 1400 T-bird with new everything (and a flashy Elsa Gladiac 920 Nvidia based graphics card). I still have that box, although it is on an AMD XP2200 chip now and is only used for games and TV (windows 98se). I still have the T-bird 1400 on a board somewhere, I was using it for running a FBSD web server.
My next box will have a bit more beef though - Tyan K8WE (S2895) Dual Opteron DDR400 SLI with dual 246 Opterons and 4 GB RAM and 1TB SATA goodness. I am trying to get more into video editing so I need a bit of muscle. Interestingly, this machine will cost roughly the same as the the P75 system cost back in 95/96.
Ooops, I seemed to have drifted off topic slightly, but as all this has taken place in around 20 years, it is amazing what we take for granted these days. Likewise the internet. I built my first web page using Netscape Composer using dial up when 1 meg download took 7 minutes. Now I get around 70MB in that time, and thats not stretching the technology even slightly.
Lynx is a very safe browser. Flash ads are rendered impotant. Animated GIFs are defeated on load. Active X; no way! Lynx is the browser of the future! Now let me get back to my 3270 terminal.
Because of the way the earth spins, and the distrobution of land and water, there are "climate bands" going around the globe. At the top, there is a cold one (obviously), beneath that, a "warm" band, then a cooler one, and a warm band again at the equator. This explains some of the wierd things about global climates, including how Alaska and Great Britian are at about the same latitude, but the climates are radically different.
How, exactly does that explain anything ?
If Great Britain and Alaska are at about the same latitude, then surely they would fall within the same "climate band". But the climates are radically different, so your explanation leaves a lot to be desired.
The explanation of the weirdness should include the existence of the North Atlantic drift, which carries warm water from the caribbean to western europe, thereby raising the average temparatures around Great Britain, which would otherwise have a very similar climate to Alaska.
Explanations that make no sense do more harm than good, as even if the audience is not hyper intelligent, they do normally have common sense. So if your reasoning is at all suspect, then the baby tends to leave with the bathwater.
This reminds me of an show called Beyond 2000, which I saw in Australia. They were describing how a plane wing works, and said that because of the shape of the wing (curved on top) the air was "forced downwards" and so pushed down which made the plane rise. Utter crap ! As most of us are aware, the curved surface makes the air travel further (and hence faster) on the top of the wing than on the underside, which causes a low pressure region on the top of the wing. This then creates lift as the air underneath the wing pushes up to restore the pressure. It's more like "suck" than lift really. But Beyond 2000 told a bare-faced lie (IMHO) on national tv. And that is a science program:/
All this ranting is not meant to be a personal attack, but rather, as with global climate change, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem !
It always has been and always will be, whether THEM is government, royalty, or any other form of authority. They want to control US, we don't want to be controlled by THEM. Why should we do what they say just because they say it ?
If you want to roll over like a good little prole, carry on - I for one like to be in control of my own life, which means not giving all my personal details out to any prick that asks for them.
WTF has it got to do with anybody else anyway. If I'm guilty of a crime, it's up to THEM to catch me and then prove it in court. I had my car vandalised a while back, and while the police were taking a statement, one of the questions was "and how tall would you say you are ?" ! Central database building for the government at its crudest.
Never ever trust anybody in authority, even (especially) if your life depends on it, without making your own plans (just in case).
But I guess being responsible for your own life is so last century...
(I could go on...)
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That is, if you define "time travel" as "moving at some velocity significantly different from one second per second through time", rather than "instantly POOFing from one time to another", "time travel" forwards is as simple as traveling at high relativistic speeds.
Would _accelerating_ through time be measured in seconds per second per second ?
There has yet to be a single major case of someone who wasn't really evil being anything other than mildly inconvienced. If and when some average joe is taken advantage of, or criminally or financially damaged, THEN you will see people upset.
And by then, of course, it's far too late to change it - that's why action is needed sooner rather than later.
It's almost like leaving the gate open and your 2 year old playing in the yard - "but it's ok, he never goes out the gate "
Famous last words.
There was a debate about cctv on/. a while back, and the question came up - who watches the watchers ?
Answer - We do !
Ever heard the expression "nip it in the bud" ? Well that means deal with potential problems as they arise, because it will be a whole lot harder when they've taken root.
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Nice .sig
My moment of Zen for today.
So I guess there is a little breathing space yet ;-)
Interestingly, if you RTFA and scroll down to the other links, you'll see "windows leads server OS pack for first time" last november !
dupe or astroturf - you decide ...
Seriously, and unfortunately, I can't mod you TROLL as I've replied on this thread.
But that's what you are.
Ever heard of a word called respect ? It is an intrinsic part of their religion that images of Mohammed are forbidden. Idol worship was also forbidden by the "God of the Hebrews", remember Moses coming down off the mountain and finding the golden bull ?
You also seem to be ignorant of the fact that the guy who stirred up all this trouble did it deliberately, and has close ties to Al Qaeda. What do you think would happen, say in the deep south of the US, if a bunch of moslems started burning US flags ? Or drawing mustaches on figures of christ on the cross ?
Get a clue, otherwise you are as bad as the mindless rioters that follow the herd.
The only part that religion plays in the current events (or ever IMHO) is that it acts as the glue that holds each of the opposing sides together. The conflicts are always caused by the politicians, by playing the religeous angle. Looks like you fell for it too.
Mmmm, finger ... dike.....!
IIRC he had to sell them back to raise funds after a court case cost him his fortune.
See subject.
ZZZZT - it goes down
ZZZZT - it goes up
ZZZZT - it goes down
(repeat as neccessary)
So I guess we need better lenses for these projectors.
My Infocus X2 lamp is 200w and I need a darkened room for an 84" diagonal screen at a 15 foot distance. It can be seen in daylight, but it is pretty washed out.
Cheap stuff not as good as expensive stuff !
I bought a sony vaio laptop 5 years ago and its still usable now. Ok, its only a 1 gig cpu and 256 RAM, but it does the job and has a nice 15" screen. It cost me $1400. If I had gone for the $799 variety back then, it probably wouldn't have been as useful or nice.
What was your point again ? Nothing to do with OS-X apparently.
How much "say" does any average American have in their own governance ? Ooooh, you get to "vote" once in a while, and then the politicos do what they want anyway.
Completely alien, no. Actively feared and heavily discouraged, yes. G8 summits ? anti-war protests ? Petrol price protests ? Council tax protests ?
I realise that the last two are UK based occurrences, but that allows me to mention that when I said the US government before, I actually meant most US influenced governments.
When the wall came down and the cold war was finally over, the governments of this world were left with a problem - how to justify their own (bloated) existences. Hence the "war" on terror. If China was to turn around tomorrow and renounce communism, and kiss Uncle Sams ass, we, as normal peace loving hard working people, would be completely fucked. It is not right that the USA is the only super power on the planet. How many military actions have been shelved because the chinese won't let it happen. I don't agree with human rights violations, but I also don't agree with a political mono-culture, globalisation, and the prevention of terrorism (where terrorism is newspeak for fighting for your freedom). One day we all might be terrorists in the governments eyes - oh, sorry, thats already happened hasn't it.
If you've ever seen Brazil by Terry Gilliam, then you will have seen a glimpse of the fabulous future. 1984 is also only a glimpse. The reality is always much much worse. Picture a boot stamping on a human face - forever !
But - you have been warned !
Ever had a really good friend, who you haven't seen for a while, so you go out for a beer, and halfway through a conversation, you discover he is trying to sell you life insurance/water filters/mortgage services/etc/etc ? Not fatal, but uncomfortable and disingenuous.
Well that's google for ya. I can handle advertising on their search pages, as the price of using their service, but I'm damned if I'll help them index me !
Google already has their sticky fingers in enough pies, what with their desktop search and google earth, and their planned file indexing and transfer "service". I am glad there are no linux apps from google, because it makes linux still safer from the "mainstream". Wasn't there a nice windows vulnerability facilitated by the google toolbar/desktop search a little while ago. Oh, yeah, the wmf debacle.
While I don't believe in security by obscurity, I do like to keep my stuff , my stuff ! I am not interested in having google poke around in my machine (even with restricted privileges).
They should have stayed as a simple search engine, ie web based. They have no business on my hardware. Especially as it's going to be closed source so no-one can take a look and test it for problems. I must add that I do use closed source software such as the nvidia drivers and I was using linuxant driverloader wifi drivers (and custom kernel) for a while through neccessity, which I payed for. I would have payed for them even if they had been open source, because they were worth it to me at the time. I am not a complete leech.
But, back OT, google can keep their crap. It's only a way for them to gather more data with which to woo advertising revenue. And as many people say about the MPAA and RIAA, they exist to provide us with a service, we owe them nothing in return. I have no desire to be part of googles ever expanding ad-farm.
Thanks. (but no thanks)
In Britain, we will be expected to carry it at ALL times, and they will prosecute you if you don't. Britain follows the EU commandments even when our EU neighbours disregard its laws. British officials are intensely slavish to the letter of the law, so it will be a nuisance and a concern to us here.
I think we still have a law that says if we don't have a certain amount of money in our pockets we can be arrested for vagrancy. As other posters have said, it's not the card per se, it's the Dbase behind the card, which goes beyond anything we've ever had to put up with before.
I hope this is a "non-evil" use for flash, coz I payed for Swish Video2 recently and I don't want to alienate users.
He upgraded that to a beefier gemini later on, but apart from playing around in Z80 assembler I never really got to use that one. After that he got a compaq 8086 which was destined to be my first computer. I remember it well, 2 * 5 1/4 " floppies. In fact I still have that machine and (AFAIK) it still runs (I must dig it out and try it). That's back when Norton actually made some useful software !
After that I had a brief fling with a 286 and windows 3.1 before upgrading to a 386 and the same OS.
After the Pentium had been around for a while (50, 60 and 66 mhz) I built my first machine - A whopping 75mhz cpu with 32MB ram and an 850 MB hard disk. That damn hard disk cost me £350 back then ! ('95 ?). I couldn't afford a cd drive so I had to get win95 on floppies - 14 of them ! When I did get a cd drive and speakers Doom was cool though, especially with Rob Zombie playing as the game music.
After that, I upgraded to a 200 mhz cpu and then on to a cyrix 300mhz socket 7. That chip and various upgrades lasted me until 2000 (!) when I splashed out and got an AMD 1400 T-bird with new everything (and a flashy Elsa Gladiac 920 Nvidia based graphics card). I still have that box, although it is on an AMD XP2200 chip now and is only used for games and TV (windows 98se). I still have the T-bird 1400 on a board somewhere, I was using it for running a FBSD web server.
My next box will have a bit more beef though -
Tyan K8WE (S2895) Dual Opteron DDR400 SLI with dual 246 Opterons and 4 GB RAM and 1TB SATA goodness. I am trying to get more into video editing so I need a bit of muscle. Interestingly, this machine will cost roughly the same as the the P75 system cost back in 95/96.
Ooops, I seemed to have drifted off topic slightly, but as all this has taken place in around 20 years, it is amazing what we take for granted these days. Likewise the internet. I built my first web page using Netscape Composer using dial up when 1 meg download took 7 minutes. Now I get around 70MB in that time, and thats not stretching the technology even slightly.
Memories eh...
If Great Britain and Alaska are at about the same latitude, then surely they would fall within the same "climate band". But the climates are radically different, so your explanation leaves a lot to be desired.
The explanation of the weirdness should include the existence of the North Atlantic drift, which carries warm water from the caribbean to western europe, thereby raising the average temparatures around Great Britain, which would otherwise have a very similar climate to Alaska.
Explanations that make no sense do more harm than good, as even if the audience is not hyper intelligent, they do normally have common sense. So if your reasoning is at all suspect, then the baby tends to leave with the bathwater.
This reminds me of an show called Beyond 2000, which I saw in Australia. They were describing how a plane wing works, and said that because of the shape of the wing (curved on top) the air was "forced downwards" and so pushed down which made the plane rise. Utter crap ! As most of us are aware, the curved surface makes the air travel further (and hence faster) on the top of the wing than on the underside, which causes a low pressure region on the top of the wing. This then creates lift as the air underneath the wing pushes up to restore the pressure. It's more like "suck" than lift really. But Beyond 2000 told a bare-faced lie (IMHO) on national tv. And that is a science program :/
All this ranting is not meant to be a personal attack, but rather, as with global climate change, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem !
Message ends.
It always has been and always will be, whether THEM is government, royalty, or any other form of authority. They want to control US, we don't want to be controlled by THEM. Why should we do what they say just because they say it ?
If you want to roll over like a good little prole, carry on - I for one like to be in control of my own life, which means not giving all my personal details out to any prick that asks for them.
WTF has it got to do with anybody else anyway. If I'm guilty of a crime, it's up to THEM to catch me and then prove it in court. I had my car vandalised a while back, and while the police were taking a statement, one of the questions was "and how tall would you say you are ?" ! Central database building for the government at its crudest.
Never ever trust anybody in authority, even (especially) if your life depends on it, without making your own plans (just in case).
But I guess being responsible for your own life is so last century ...
(I could go on ...)
It's almost like leaving the gate open and your 2 year old playing in the yard - "but it's ok, he never goes out the gate "
Famous last words.
There was a debate about cctv on /. a while back, and the question came up - who watches the watchers ?
Answer - We do !
Ever heard the expression "nip it in the bud" ? Well that means deal with potential problems as they arise, because it will be a whole lot harder when they've taken root.