... Windows (in any incarnation) has always been more popular.
That statement always give me the boak...
Windows is not popular !!! Saying that Windows is popular is like saying that petrol is a popular fuel for cars.
It is just what "people" have and have used since they bought their first PeeCee and "people" don't know that there is anything different or for those (statisticly few) that do changing is more toruble that it's worth... I
Aye... This is where the canker gnaws.... America isn't alone in this but it seems to be the most extreme. It's about 'American Values'. Americans simply do not value education as much as they do "success". How we define success is to a great extent part of the problem. In fact education is largely denegrated in the United States as it is often an impediment to success when one uses the popular definition of attaining wealth and power.
Americans do value competition and the bottom line, but if you don't need to know something to meet your goal then you don't need it and anything you don't need is clutter and excess weight. The word 'intellectual' is used as an insult by most Americans who feel threatened by things they don't have a rote answer for rather than intrigued by the mystery and challenged to find some understanding.
The politcal catch phrase 'American Values' is so over used that it has no meaning but as shorthand for a set of "Leave it to Beaver/Father Knows Best" mythological social norms so relished by those that would have us live as they believe we should. These are not American values. True 'American Values' are the values that American society demonstrates by its' actions rather than by its' rhetoric and mythology.
Just look around and see what people do and don't do. Who in our society is priased and exalted? Who do we tout as 'role models' for our youth? What do we do with our abundant physical, monetary and temporal resources? We waste it... for the most part in persuit of more. If you block out the talking heads and look at the actions you se that America is all about banality. America is about consumption. Consumers in competition with other consumers to see who can consume the most with points for style.
When I was young I was fascinated by all of the arrow heads my father had collected as a boy. I had a large, if not the best quality, supply of flint and began making stone tools. By trial and error and with a lot of frustration I eventually made some very good arrow heads, axe's and scrapers are easier. Very satisfying a decent looking point to get it is...
Understanding is seldom achieved by anyone. How do we model it ?
At the very minimum "understanding" implies a consistant context. This means that the engine needs be tailored culturaly and demographicaly to be of use. The CIA/FBI/paranoid right wing fanatic context is probably fairly straight forward to model, one dimensional definitions with a few weighted variants. But what about real people asking questions not related to the investigative context ?
...that the words freedom and democracy especially when used in conjuction by politicians in the United States carry very different meanings than their dictionary definitions...
other than not liking usless, archaic constructs, if i were to inherit your code and prefer different tab widths, say 6 or 8, or 3(my personal favorite) i'd have to change my editor settings or jerk it around and convert the tabs to get it to be readable.......
why not just use a soft tab of 4 spaces?
looks the same everywhere for everyone.
I cannot get its editor to put tabs in realistic, predicable places.
Tabs ???? Tabs ??? did you say tabs ? ARRRGGGHHHH !!!!! Real physical tab chars in code text are an absolute and unpardonable sin !!!!
There I said it.
All of you lads that leave physical tab chars in your code should to be caned, second offenses deserve disembowlement with a spoon... It is incomprehensable, to me (and yes I am biased but not stupid), why this anachronism persists when the good lord has provideded such things as the space character, sufficient storage, efficient compression algorithims, and such concepts as "soft tabs" that should have relegated the tab character to some obscure corner of hell where it belongs...
Who modded up this completely invalid analogy ?
Analogies are a good way to present an unfamiliar concept in familiar terms for those that would otherwise have a difficult time understanding a concept or relationship. But this silly attempt just proves that he author has no understandaing of (this is frustrating, the list is too long ) much of anything..
Both organizations exhibit many of the same characteristics. They are just two of many anachronistic collections of persons with agenda defined by narrowly defined parameters chosen to enhance their own self engrandisement and the general perception in others that they are in some mannner superior to them.
The biggest thing to come from this is probably an agument about what degree of differentiation between genetic maps determines a "specie". The concept of distinct species is a 19th cetury zoological concept that really is a bit anachronistic, if still convienient, at this point. The rules for classification have been addapted each time the granularity of preception has increased with regard to those things that differentiate one organism from another beyond appearance habit and habitat. With this effort may come the realization that, trying to classify each node in a chaotic dynamic is like digging a hole in sand.
No doubt their earnings are high, but neccessarily as high as reported and surely not for the published reasons. Other's in the recent past have had some pretty fantastic earnings figures as well.
When you have the internal and external resources, access to the fiscal instruments and influence with regulatory institutions that Microsoft ha[s,ve] true disclosure is largely at the corporations own discression.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...
The key question is, do enough people engage critical thinking to avoid the electorate being systematically manipulated by misinformation?
This was a rhetorical question, was it not ?
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...and what things do we lose?
...uhh but then you've already done that... damn!
why your eternal souls of course
IBM 370/168 and a bunch of CICS and TSO terminals. Windows Terminals indeed...
... Windows (in any incarnation) has always been more popular.
That statement always give me the boak...
Windows is not popular !!! Saying that Windows is popular is like saying that petrol is a popular fuel for cars.
It is just what "people" have and have used since they bought their first PeeCee and "people" don't know that there is anything different or for those (statisticly few) that do changing is more toruble that it's worth...
I
yes... Cloothu.... I see it now....
hey ferner if it aint mercan it aint reel...
only reesin we put innenashnul stuff in innthin is so we nose ware thuh targits is...
so thir...
but it's not bad
Aye...
This is where the canker gnaws....
America isn't alone in this but it seems to be the most extreme. It's about 'American Values'.
Americans simply do not value education as much as they do "success". How we define success is to a great extent part of the problem.
In fact education is largely denegrated in the United States as it is often an impediment to success when one uses the popular definition of attaining wealth and power.
Americans do value competition and the bottom line, but if you don't need to know something to meet your goal then you don't need it and anything you don't need is clutter and excess weight.
The word 'intellectual' is used as an insult by most Americans who feel threatened by things they don't have a rote answer for rather than intrigued by the mystery and challenged to find some understanding.
The politcal catch phrase 'American Values' is so over used that it has no meaning but as shorthand for a set of "Leave it to Beaver/Father Knows Best" mythological social norms so relished by those that would have us live as they believe we should.
These are not American values.
True 'American Values' are the values that American society demonstrates by its' actions rather than by its' rhetoric and mythology.
Just look around and see what people do and don't do. Who in our society is priased and exalted? Who do we tout as 'role models' for our youth? What do we do with our abundant physical, monetary and temporal resources? We waste it... for the most part in persuit of more.
If you block out the talking heads and look at the actions you se that America is all about banality. America is about consumption. Consumers in competition with other consumers to see who can consume the most with points for style.
A vampire... that means ye niver leave Holyrood onywey. Richt ??
When I was young I was fascinated by all of the arrow heads my father had collected as a boy. I had a large, if not the best quality, supply of flint and began making stone tools. By trial and error and with a lot of frustration I eventually made some very good arrow heads, axe's and scrapers are easier. Very satisfying a decent looking point to get it is...
Understanding is seldom achieved by anyone. How do we model it ? At the very minimum "understanding" implies a consistant context. This means that the engine needs be tailored culturaly and demographicaly to be of use. The CIA/FBI/paranoid right wing fanatic context is probably fairly straight forward to model, one dimensional definitions with a few weighted variants. But what about real people asking questions not related to the investigative context ?
Exchange Servers shore based and shipboard servers should be on Zulu time...
...that the words freedom and democracy especially when used in conjuction by politicians in the United States carry very different meanings than their dictionary definitions...
Payolla ?
just move the clocks ahead a half hour one spring and forget about the madness for ever...
un-biased opinions
I call oxymoron!!!!
other than not liking usless, archaic constructs, if i were to inherit your code and prefer different tab widths, say 6 or 8, or 3(my personal favorite) i'd have to change my editor settings or jerk it around and convert the tabs to get it to be readable.......
why not just use a soft tab of 4 spaces?
looks the same everywhere for everyone.
I cannot get its editor to put tabs in realistic, predicable places.
Tabs ???? Tabs ??? did you say tabs ? ARRRGGGHHHH !!!!!
Real physical tab chars in code text are an absolute and unpardonable sin !!!!
There I said it.
All of you lads that leave physical tab chars in your code should to be caned, second offenses deserve disembowlement with a spoon...
It is incomprehensable, to me (and yes I am biased but not stupid), why this anachronism persists when the good lord has provideded such things as the space character, sufficient storage, efficient compression algorithims, and such concepts as "soft tabs" that should have relegated the tab character to some obscure corner of hell where it belongs...
Who modded up this completely invalid analogy ?
Analogies are a good way to present an unfamiliar concept in familiar terms for those that would otherwise have a difficult time understanding a concept or relationship. But this silly attempt just proves that he author has no understandaing of (this is frustrating, the list is too long ) much of anything..
Both organizations exhibit many of the same characteristics.
They are just two of many anachronistic collections of persons with agenda defined by narrowly defined parameters chosen to enhance their own self engrandisement and the general perception in others that they are in some mannner superior to them.
I... read Argyle..
VB programmers are revolting ?
That's just mean....
The biggest thing to come from this is probably an agument about what degree of differentiation between genetic maps determines a "specie". The concept of distinct species is a 19th cetury zoological concept that really is a bit anachronistic, if still convienient, at this point. The rules for classification have been addapted each time the granularity of preception has increased with regard to those things that differentiate one organism from another beyond appearance habit and habitat. With this effort may come the realization that, trying to classify each node in a chaotic dynamic is like digging a hole in sand.
No doubt their earnings are high, but neccessarily as high as reported and surely not for the published reasons.
Other's in the recent past have had some pretty fantastic earnings figures as well.
When you have the internal and external resources, access to the fiscal instruments and influence with regulatory institutions that Microsoft ha[s,ve] true disclosure is largely at the corporations own discression.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...
The key question is, do enough people engage critical thinking to avoid the electorate being systematically manipulated by misinformation?
This was a rhetorical question, was it not ?
...that says Univac Inside ! b