I'd be surprised, just a couple months ago during an interview they claimed they had a version of the emerald dream done, but it was done before changes in direction from BC and that everything, including most of the art, was going to be scrapped.
I was in SF then and am in SF now where there are quite a number of startups. If this is what the media really believes then they have no idea how crazy the dot.com bubble really was. It was a gold rush of epic proportions, people really did make 80k a year for knowing basic HTML. If you could string two sentences together and work Word you could be a project manager. If you knew three layers of the OSI and how to run tracert, you could be fast tracked to being an admin. Companies were desperate for people because everyone believe you had to ramp up customers *and* employees as fast as possible regardless of profitability.
The companies around now all have some veterans of the crash. What I see are people who are frugal, want to stay small, and aren't out to IPO as fast as possible. Many of these companies are trying to make their series A last as long as possible. During the boom companies were planning how to spend series C before even closing B... it was crazy, fun, exciting and a total disaster.
Here's a benchmark for how crazy SF was. Pretty much every company would reimburse most lunch and almost any taxi ride if you could come up with some loose business connection. There was such a wait for taxis downtown and SOMA that limo drivers from all over the bay would do extra day hours with a whole booklet of receipts from major taxi companies. You could take a limo pretty much anywhere in town for $10 flat with tip, $20 if it involved multiple stops or a short wait anywhere. This lead to you seeing kids fresh out of college, popping in and out of limos having $140 lunches at Aqua and such because it all came so easy. Everyone know it was a farce and was going to end soon (well everyone without an MBA or people who moved into town specifically for one of these crazy pie dreams). If I had to do it all over again, I would, because it was a fabulously good time on dumb people's money.
This was my thought exactly, of course I professed to being a virgin long after my purity was ruined by some dirty girl.
I still do these days, women think it is cute, and it allows my followup, "I have no children therefore you can not prove that I am not a virgin." Women don't really want to know what a dirty whore you've been, they would like to think they are one of your first few, no matter how old you or they are.
I didn't mention anything about a way to uninstall.
Again if you had the ability to have rational discourse you wouldn't have confused me with someone else. Notice how instead of a straw man, this time you opened with a direct attack on me. Perhaps you felt attacked by my comment on your lack of reasoning skills; however this lack of reasoning was obvious from your post, it is a fact. My ego, isn't hurt in the least but even if it was... it surely wasn't born out by my previous post.
Do you even know what a strawman argument is? Here's a hint: Memory segmentation has absolutely nothing to do with installing/uninstalling applications. You bringing it in as an arguing point shows you really have little in the way of support for the point you *do* want to argue.
You sound like the type who, back before OS X, when a single app could bring down the whole system because there was no memory segmentation, would say "Good job of blaming the OS for developer problems."
I was going to write out a pointed reply to your post but I just can't get past the fact that you feel the need to open with a strawman. Maybe when you develop some sensible reasoning skills you will understand the post to which you were replying and why it is indeed, a developer issue.
So I take it you throw out media to any applications you actually purchase which come on such?
It's your fault for getting rid of the installer if that is the way the developer specifies for an uninstall. Your step 4 is a breakdown in the application cycle at the user level. What if you ever had to reinstall that app, you would download it again? What if that specific version didn't exist anymore? Or the entire app was pulled?
I won't make any apologies for Job's well known asshole tendencies (but supposedly those are much more subdued since NeXT, guess winning does fix everything?) but all he is doing here is stating what really happened. Were the primitives and direct inspiration for the Mac gui borrowed from Xerox? Damn straight. They borrowed from other places too, but they had the foresight to slap it all together and shove it out to the masses. This is how humanity works people, we build on what others have done and sometimes we take an idea that seems trivial to one person (gui inside xerox that was never intended for consumers) and wring it through the brain of another person and out pops a whole new shift in perspective.
I'm sure in his heart, Jobs sincerely believes this is the biggest interface breakthrough in 23 years; you or I may not agree. If you pay close attention to Job's words he actually doesn't take credit for anything that Apple didn't do. Anything they co-opt and bring to market is always a "we" or an "us".
You speak as if this is something new. I'm actually getting uh, older now, but for the first part of my adult life working in and around the 'Net since the early 90s there was very rarely a situation where the other engineers or technicians were not significantly older than me. Many a lunch was spent listening to DEC guys talk about the work they did before I was born. Earning their trust and respect was a pretty hard thing to do.
In virtual worlds, when you remove the things we base our common 1st opinions on, you tend to take a person at their acts and words more quickly. This lack of information which you would normally use in judgement forces you to focus on what is actually more important. In work situations wherever possible my preference is for text communication because it is easier for *me* to focus on the task at hand by removing the personal element from the people I am working with.
If HBO *hates* time-shifting then why are one of the fastest at putting up content and a strong proponent of OnDemand viewing? You just made that up. Good job on getting the mod points, I guess.
No matter how much they may claim otherwise. What they are really afraid of is some business setting up that allows bars and the like to purchase service in areas outside of blackout zones and stream content back in. If a bar could pay for a space, tv rental, and cable service in a zone that features more sports blackouts they would do so in a heartbeat. They must appear tough now so when other place-shifting arrises they will seem less so then.
I thought it was quite clear what I meant. Of the known planets a startingly high percentage of them can harbour life as we know it. Any percentage above 0.000000001 is extremely high given our understanding of the universe just ten years ago.
I said nothing about how this holds up in comparison to the number of stars, galaxies, chickens, functioning walkmen or bottles of aftershave in the universe.
What is even more impressive to me, call it 241 or call it 249 planets, is the following:
* Consider a planet like mars that could one day be terraformed or colonized by people from Earth. * Let's call that a planet suitable for life as we know it. * Then there is Earth where we do already live.
What does that give us? 2 of 241 or 249 planets in the known universe that could possibly harbour life as we know it. That is a startingly high percentage.
Are you sure about that? It looks like us humans are about to implement many other world technologies into our bodies/brains. Evolution isn't just what happens within a physical body but also an entities ability to change, utilize and gain unforseen advantages out of its environment. Humans are evolving augmentation as the next step to removing the environmental defects that plague us today... ie witness the ability for even the most infertile to produce offspring.
This is completely untrue. The US has a well defined path for extradition:
Foreign Country Requests through their Embassy --> State Department --> Justice Department --> Local US Attorney who begins proceedings for extradition.
The test for extradition is "probable cause to believe an individual has commited a crime covered by an extradtion treaty with country X".
I feel many people are afraid to ask for or demand better service when needed. Sometimes you simply have to escalate as far as possible to get any sort of result. Systems break down and often it only takes the incompetence or lack of caring in one person in a lengthy process.
Around aught-zero my DSL provider was forced out of business by some rather dramatic changes in the DSL market. They had a length of time to shut down and began immediately cutting employees. At the time this was a very fast DSL connection and my bill was on the order of $200 a month. After canceling my service they continued to charge me. I called, of course it would be fixed! It wasn't for month two... then three... then four, every month them charging me only to refund money after many calls on my part and being told the problem was fixed for good.
Month five. They did it again. So I did what any pissed off customer would do, I flew down to their office and bea... er. Found their about page and looked for personal information for company employees listed at the VP level and above. Guess others had done the same, because it was all impossible to find. Then I noticed their board list, sure enough, many of the board members had information available online. So I wrote one, more out of frustration than anything explaining what had happened for the previous five months. Twenty minutes later the CEO of the company called me and assured me the problem would be resolved and then proceeded to offer me an additional refund for my "time spent on their failure".
The point of all this? Even the boss has a boss or someone he is "scared of" or "respects". When you come to the end of a normal process without success, it is okay to escalate to them.
Why does it matter, now? If it took 28 years to come out and she has been continually rising in both job responsibility and performance (which she has), then why does anyone really care? Obviously she can do this particular job well. She screwed up... twenty... eight... years ago.
CNN had a poll yesterday asking if people lied on resumes. The last time I glanced at the results it was something like 85% saying they never had. Rigggggggght. I've seen more than my fair share of resumes through the years and easily half of them have something that is shady. More so, many of them have inflated experience and importance for tasks at previous employers. Sadly, this is the norm, not the exception as that CNN poll would have one believe. Then again given that the modern resume is more a sales sheet than a real starting point for evaluating someone's competence for a task, should we expect any different?
As a 45 year Kaiser member you should. What they have done and are still tuning is nothing special. Other HMO/MMOs have already done such and many did this years ago for a far cheaper price. Yes, what you saw was convenience yesterday and that is an awesome selling point. What you didn't see what the horrendous roll-out time for this project, the multiple attempts at re-inventing the wheel and the wasted excess in monies spent which is passed on.
It really pains me every-time I see one of these large organizations who outsources these huge projects onto contractors like this. In many cases it would be *just* as fast and more importantly *cheaper* to create a new internal division or ramp up their own IT staff to complete these projects. Outsourcing projects of epic scale is lazy, wasteful and usually involves something shady. I've seen it time and time again in the IT portion of multiple industries and you would think by now, more people would have caught on to what a sham it is.
It's only a "mystery" because we just don't understand quantum interactions well enough yet to describe them in detail.
I always find it interesting (not directed at you) that people assume it's some crazy wacko replacement for religion, etc... when someone suggests that our minds might actually be linked to something outside ourselves. Is this really so hard to believe? That in our becoming conscious perhaps something happens, behind the scenes, say some sort of entanglement across some tightly coiled dimensions we don't even know exist yet? Surely it sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but then again so do most quantum effects when we related to them as we perceive the universe in our little sheltered corner with only four dimensions.
Hell, if you think about the complexities needed to even enable us to have this discussion it's all somewhat insane. Logically we shouldn't even exist, except we do and here we are trying to say that everything is black and white, cut and dry. We can observe it. We can record it. We can explain it. Quite a little arogant animal aren't we to assume that everything is so simple?
This was an excellent post. I hope more people read it.
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I have one of the first gen plasma screens. When purchased (not by me) it was right over 11k. The screen is now about six years old and I'd say the complaints about plasma's longevity are solid. There have been many improvements over the past few years in plasma screens but the downsides really become apparent. My screen has burn in on both sides from watching content in a non-widescreen mode. The screen's anti-burn in feature has now made the entire screen so bright that it is nearly impossible to watch under direct or even indirect sun light. It runs hot as hell (this has been fixed somewhat) and gulps power down in a way that is entirely unhealthy.
My next tv display will be an LCD, given that I don't have the room for a projector.
After 9/11 I was dating a girl from the Mainland. She had been in the states for a few years and still had a really positive view of her homeland. One night we were watching one of the tributes to the heroes of that day (she was really into that stuff) and they showed a quick summary of history for the last 25 years. As it was going on they showed the protest in Tienamen square and the student confronting the tank and then being... well you know.
She had never seen it.
She had no idea that had ever happened.
It's hard to put into words how sad she became and the rage that immediately followed towards her homeland. There's a lot governments are good at repressing things in most any country from public knowledge, but the ability to completely hide something from your people that the rest of the world knows about? That's just criminal.
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I'd be surprised, just a couple months ago during an interview they claimed they had a version of the emerald dream done, but it was done before changes in direction from BC and that everything, including most of the art, was going to be scrapped.
I was in SF then and am in SF now where there are quite a number of startups. If this is what the media really believes then they have no idea how crazy the dot.com bubble really was. It was a gold rush of epic proportions, people really did make 80k a year for knowing basic HTML. If you could string two sentences together and work Word you could be a project manager. If you knew three layers of the OSI and how to run tracert, you could be fast tracked to being an admin. Companies were desperate for people because everyone believe you had to ramp up customers *and* employees as fast as possible regardless of profitability.
The companies around now all have some veterans of the crash. What I see are people who are frugal, want to stay small, and aren't out to IPO as fast as possible. Many of these companies are trying to make their series A last as long as possible. During the boom companies were planning how to spend series C before even closing B... it was crazy, fun, exciting and a total disaster.
Here's a benchmark for how crazy SF was. Pretty much every company would reimburse most lunch and almost any taxi ride if you could come up with some loose business connection. There was such a wait for taxis downtown and SOMA that limo drivers from all over the bay would do extra day hours with a whole booklet of receipts from major taxi companies. You could take a limo pretty much anywhere in town for $10 flat with tip, $20 if it involved multiple stops or a short wait anywhere. This lead to you seeing kids fresh out of college, popping in and out of limos having $140 lunches at Aqua and such because it all came so easy. Everyone know it was a farce and was going to end soon (well everyone without an MBA or people who moved into town specifically for one of these crazy pie dreams). If I had to do it all over again, I would, because it was a fabulously good time on dumb people's money.
This was my thought exactly, of course I professed to being a virgin long after my purity was ruined by some dirty girl.
I still do these days, women think it is cute, and it allows my followup, "I have no children therefore you can not prove that I am not a virgin." Women don't really want to know what a dirty whore you've been, they would like to think they are one of your first few, no matter how old you or they are.
Who, cmdrtaco?
... right!
Slashdot has sources now?
Sometimes less is more, stop trying to fill your quota, it is embarrassing.
I didn't mention anything about a way to uninstall.
Again if you had the ability to have rational discourse you wouldn't have confused me with someone else. Notice how instead of a straw man, this time you opened with a direct attack on me. Perhaps you felt attacked by my comment on your lack of reasoning skills; however this lack of reasoning was obvious from your post, it is a fact. My ego, isn't hurt in the least but even if it was... it surely wasn't born out by my previous post.
Do you even know what a strawman argument is? Here's a hint: Memory segmentation has absolutely nothing to do with installing/uninstalling applications. You bringing it in as an arguing point shows you really have little in the way of support for the point you *do* want to argue.
Hope this helps.
You sound like the type who, back before OS X, when a single app could bring down the whole system because there was no memory segmentation, would say "Good job of blaming the OS for developer problems."
I was going to write out a pointed reply to your post but I just can't get past the fact that you feel the need to open with a strawman. Maybe when you develop some sensible reasoning skills you will understand the post to which you were replying and why it is indeed, a developer issue.
So I take it you throw out media to any applications you actually purchase which come on such?
It's your fault for getting rid of the installer if that is the way the developer specifies for an uninstall. Your step 4 is a breakdown in the application cycle at the user level. What if you ever had to reinstall that app, you would download it again? What if that specific version didn't exist anymore? Or the entire app was pulled?
And you stopped reading because?
I won't make any apologies for Job's well known asshole tendencies (but supposedly those are much more subdued since NeXT, guess winning does fix everything?) but all he is doing here is stating what really happened. Were the primitives and direct inspiration for the Mac gui borrowed from Xerox? Damn straight. They borrowed from other places too, but they had the foresight to slap it all together and shove it out to the masses. This is how humanity works people, we build on what others have done and sometimes we take an idea that seems trivial to one person (gui inside xerox that was never intended for consumers) and wring it through the brain of another person and out pops a whole new shift in perspective.
I'm sure in his heart, Jobs sincerely believes this is the biggest interface breakthrough in 23 years; you or I may not agree. If you pay close attention to Job's words he actually doesn't take credit for anything that Apple didn't do. Anything they co-opt and bring to market is always a "we" or an "us".
realize they are 10 years younger than you.
You speak as if this is something new. I'm actually getting uh, older now, but for the first part of my adult life working in and around the 'Net since the early 90s there was very rarely a situation where the other engineers or technicians were not significantly older than me. Many a lunch was spent listening to DEC guys talk about the work they did before I was born. Earning their trust and respect was a pretty hard thing to do.
In virtual worlds, when you remove the things we base our common 1st opinions on, you tend to take a person at their acts and words more quickly. This lack of information which you would normally use in judgement forces you to focus on what is actually more important. In work situations wherever possible my preference is for text communication because it is easier for *me* to focus on the task at hand by removing the personal element from the people I am working with.
This is just wrong.
If HBO *hates* time-shifting then why are one of the fastest at putting up content and a strong proponent of OnDemand viewing? You just made that up. Good job on getting the mod points, I guess.
No matter how much they may claim otherwise. What they are really afraid of is some business setting up that allows bars and the like to purchase service in areas outside of blackout zones and stream content back in. If a bar could pay for a space, tv rental, and cable service in a zone that features more sports blackouts they would do so in a heartbeat. They must appear tough now so when other place-shifting arrises they will seem less so then.
Actually there was no fraction before discoveries of the previous ten years.
The number was simply 2.
We now have the capability of having a fraction that we have high confidence in.
I thought it was quite clear what I meant. Of the known planets a startingly high
percentage of them can harbour life as we know it. Any percentage above
0.000000001 is extremely high given our understanding of the universe just
ten years ago.
I said nothing about how this holds up in comparison to the number of stars,
galaxies, chickens, functioning walkmen or bottles of aftershave in the universe.
What is even more impressive to me, call it 241 or call it 249 planets, is the following:
* Consider a planet like mars that could one day be terraformed or colonized by people from Earth.
* Let's call that a planet suitable for life as we know it.
* Then there is Earth where we do already live.
What does that give us? 2 of 241 or 249 planets in the known universe that could possibly
harbour life as we know it. That is a startingly high percentage.
Didn't evolve?
Are you sure about that? It looks like us humans are about to implement many other world technologies into our bodies/brains. Evolution isn't just what happens within a physical body but also an entities ability to change, utilize and gain unforseen advantages out of its environment. Humans are evolving augmentation as the next step to removing the environmental defects that plague us today... ie witness the ability for even the most infertile to produce offspring.
This is completely untrue. The US has a well defined path for extradition:
Foreign Country Requests through their Embassy --> State Department --> Justice Department --> Local US Attorney who begins proceedings for extradition.
The test for extradition is "probable cause to believe an individual has commited a crime covered by an extradtion treaty with country X".
I feel many people are afraid to ask for or demand better service when needed. Sometimes you simply have to escalate as far as possible to get any sort of result. Systems break down and often it only takes the incompetence or lack of caring in one person in a lengthy process.
Around aught-zero my DSL provider was forced out of business by some rather dramatic changes in the DSL market. They had a length of time to shut down and began immediately cutting employees. At the time this was a very fast DSL connection and my bill was on the order of $200 a month. After canceling my service they continued to charge me. I called, of course it would be fixed! It wasn't for month two... then three... then four, every month them charging me only to refund money after many calls on my part and being told the problem was fixed for good.
Month five. They did it again. So I did what any pissed off customer would do, I flew down to their office and bea... er. Found their about page and looked for personal information for company employees listed at the VP level and above. Guess others had done the same, because it was all impossible to find. Then I noticed their board list, sure enough, many of the board members had information available online. So I wrote one, more out of frustration than anything explaining what had happened for the previous five months. Twenty minutes later the CEO of the company called me and assured me the problem would be resolved and then proceeded to offer me an additional refund for my "time spent on their failure".
The point of all this? Even the boss has a boss or someone he is "scared of" or "respects". When you come to the end of a normal process without success, it is okay to escalate to them.
Why does it matter, now? If it took 28 years to come out and she has been continually rising in both job responsibility and performance (which she has), then why does anyone really care? Obviously she can do this particular job well. She screwed up... twenty... eight... years ago.
CNN had a poll yesterday asking if people lied on resumes. The last time I glanced at the results it was something like 85% saying they never had. Rigggggggght. I've seen more than my fair share of resumes through the years and easily half of them have something that is shady. More so, many of them have inflated experience and importance for tasks at previous employers. Sadly, this is the norm, not the exception as that CNN poll would have one believe. Then again given that the modern resume is more a sales sheet than a real starting point for evaluating someone's competence for a task, should we expect any different?
As a 45 year Kaiser member you should. What they have done and are still tuning is nothing special. Other HMO/MMOs have already done such and many did this years ago for a far cheaper price. Yes, what you saw was convenience yesterday and that is an awesome selling point. What you didn't see what the horrendous roll-out time for this project, the multiple attempts at re-inventing the wheel and the wasted excess in monies spent which is passed on.
It really pains me every-time I see one of these large organizations who outsources these huge projects onto contractors like this. In many cases it would be *just* as fast and more importantly *cheaper* to create a new internal division or ramp up their own IT staff to complete these projects. Outsourcing projects of epic scale is lazy, wasteful and usually involves something shady. I've seen it time and time again in the IT portion of multiple industries and you would think by now, more people would have caught on to what a sham it is.
It's only a "mystery" because we just don't understand quantum interactions well enough yet to describe them in detail.
I always find it interesting (not directed at you) that people assume it's some crazy wacko replacement for religion, etc... when someone suggests that our minds might actually be linked to something outside ourselves. Is this really so hard to believe? That in our becoming conscious perhaps something happens, behind the scenes, say some sort of entanglement across some tightly coiled dimensions we don't even know exist yet? Surely it sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but then again so do most quantum effects when we related to them as we perceive the universe in our little sheltered corner with only four dimensions.
Hell, if you think about the complexities needed to even enable us to have this discussion it's all somewhat insane. Logically we shouldn't even exist, except we do and here we are trying to say that everything is black and white, cut and dry. We can observe it. We can record it. We can explain it. Quite a little arogant animal aren't we to assume that everything is so simple?
2600.
(For the exact reason you listed.)
This was an excellent post. I hope more people read it.
I have one of the first gen plasma screens. When purchased (not by me) it was right over 11k. The screen is now about six years old and I'd say the complaints about plasma's longevity are solid. There have been many improvements over the past few years in plasma screens but the downsides really become apparent. My screen has burn in on both sides from watching content in a non-widescreen mode. The screen's anti-burn in feature has now made the entire screen so bright that it is nearly impossible to watch under direct or even indirect sun light. It runs hot as hell (this has been fixed somewhat) and gulps power down in a way that is entirely unhealthy.
My next tv display will be an LCD, given that I don't have the room for a projector.
After 9/11 I was dating a girl from the Mainland. She had been in the states for a few years and still had a really positive view of her homeland. One night we were watching one of the tributes to the heroes of that day (she was really into that stuff) and they showed a quick summary of history for the last 25 years. As it was going on they showed the protest in Tienamen square and the student confronting the tank and then being... well you know.
She had never seen it.
She had no idea that had ever happened.
It's hard to put into words how sad she became and the rage that immediately followed towards her homeland. There's a lot governments are good at repressing things in most any country from public knowledge, but the ability to completely hide something from your people that the rest of the world knows about? That's just criminal.