One example he told about was how 10 years ago, society's view of cell phones was that they were devices only bought by gabbers who liked to annoy other people. People had this viceral reaction when they saw a person with a cell phone, something like, "Oh God, that person thinks they are SO important, but they just look like an idiot gabbing away."
Ten years later and this view hasn't changed.
And no, this isn't a troll or flamebait. The next time you are out and are behind someone who's waddling along talking on their cell phone, actually listen to what they are saying. 99% of the time the conversation will not be about something important ("I'm at the store, do you need something?"; "Are you alright? I'll be right over.") but rather someone talking to someone simply because they have a cell phone.
Unless I'm mistaken, if you look closely along the top, right edge of the images in the first link you can see another dust devil. It appears near the horizon edge and meets the edge of the overall image right before the main dust devil appears.
Unless it's some kind of artifact from the processing it looks like NASA got a two-for-one.
Ah, but to patent it you have to tell people how it works... how confusing:)
Which is why WD-40 is not patented. They would have to tell the world what is in their product and they don't want to do that.
And before anyone remarks that I'm wrong, I just called the WD-40 corporation to verify this. I had heard about this a long time ago and wanted to confirm this information before I posted.
This story sounded strangely familiar so I did a quick check and sure enough this previous story covers essentially the same information.
Maybe it's not the same story but both stories originate from Pune, India and both deal with employees of a call center transferring money in the amount of Rs 1.5 crore.
I've seen several comments from posters posing the question as to how long it will be before robots participate in human sports. These comments reminded me of a short story I had read in years past which involved robots playing football.
The whole jist was that the robots couldn't have chips which would make them have a will to win. Essentially the robots were supposed to merely run the programmed plays. However, one old guy had found a way to bury such a chip deep inside his teams robots.
The story ends by one robot plastering another robot to prevent a touchdown. This robot 'dies' as the impact desintegrates the two players.
Not a particularly exciting story but one which is relevant to the previous comments. Oh, the reason for the robots to be playing football rather than humans was because the game had become too dangerous to play.
This story was in a Readers Digest-like book I had found at a flea market. Can't remember the name of the story or the author so if someone else can fill in the blanks that would be most appreciative.
not having Flash installed or Java enabled? How hard is that?
I'm always amazed at people who write in the Mozilla forums about the popups they are getting when using FF and my first question has always been: do you have Flash installed?
99.9% of the time the answer is yes.
Not sure why people think they need to have Flash installed since it's nothing but a resoure hog and rarely provides any extra benefit. As a poster the other day said, if I see the missing puzzle piece when I go to a site that means the site is using Flash and isn't a site I want to visit.
As far as java is concerned, it too is a resource hog and also provides little to no added benefit.
While the FF developers should be commended for their quick work on trying to beat down the horde of advertisers who think that an obnoxious popup is the way to get a message across, this issue is not a FF issue but a third party issue.
I run FF straight out of the box with no extensions and minor tweaks to the chrome file and I never, EVER, see any popups.
This just goes to show that the more crap people put on their systems the more things can go wrong.
"Members of (the) Apple Developer Connection receive advance copies of Apple software under strict confidentiality agreements, which we take very seriously to protect our intellectual property," Apple said in a December statement.
How horrible that Apple should go after someone who broke a confidentiality agreement and disseminated software which wasn't his to begin with and which he had no right to disseminate.
Funny, I'm not a leftist. More a centrist with right-wing leanings.
Maybe its because I expect more of people and am simply fed up with all the lies this particular administration throws about and then tries to justify that it seems like I'm a leftist.
For example, five days into his first term, Bush was told by Richard Clarke that an immediate meeting was needed to discuss the Al Qaeda threat. Clarke told both Bush and Rice about this meeting and gave them memos stating the urgency of the meeting.
Both Bush and Rice denied ever having been informed of such a meeting. Too bad the memo was released on February 10th of this year proving that Clarke was correct when he said during Congressional hearing that Bush was warned about the threat.
Am I giving Clinton a pass? No way. The dingbat had his own issues. I am merely harping on the current officeholder because he's the one doing the stupidity. When the next person comes into office, I'll rail against them as well.
Don't automatically assume that because I or anyone rails against Bush that they are leftists. You'd be surprised how many Republicans are just as disgusted by his antics as the Democrats are.
As a side note, your final comments echo almost exactly what the morons in the Florida legislature were saying about leftists. I guess when people can't back up their arguments it's easier to shoot the messenger than disprove the message.
"We live in an open society in which the concept of widespread knowledge is embraced as a goal of governance,"
Maybe in the overall big picture that is true but in the current political environment that statement is most certainly not true.
The current administration has done and continues to do everything in its power to suppress the flow of knowledge and information. Witness the recent suppression of an EPA-funded study conducted by Harvard which found that the recent changes to rules regarding mercury emissions from U.S. power plants would have health benefits 100 times as great as the EPA said it would .
Why the difference? Because according to the EPA and the Bush administration, more stringent controls would cost too much to industry compared to the public health benefit. Thus the analysis was stripped from the final report even though the findings of the analysis were used in a briefing by the EPA to the Washington Post on February 2nd.
Even outside the administration the flow of knowledge is under attack. Witness the current effort by the Florida legislature to pass legislation which would allow students to sue professors who the students claim were punishing the students for their beliefs. Included would be a situation when a professor challenges a student to explain their theories by using the Socratic method. In other words, simply state you have a belief but you don't have to provide any evidence or rationale to support this belief.
Let us not forget the fiasco in my home state where Intelligent Design is being taught alongside Darwinian Evolution as a valid scientfic theory.
While Kahles overall sentiment is correct the current political environment is not conducive to the flow of knowledge and won't be for a fairly substantial time.
I read the title and thought, "CSS will be IEs weakest link? Something doesn't sound right."
This sounds like typical Microsoft logic. "Just wait a bit longer and something better will come out." CSS2 is here now and people are using it. Support it instead of forcing web designers to put in loads of ugly hacks just to make your bloated software work as it should in the first place.
Yeah, I'm bashing Microsoft but it is deserved in this case.
Dammit! Where are my mod points! You deserve to be +5 rather than that anemic +2.
You hit the nail on the head but because you dare to speak the truth you'll have numerous mods marking you as Troll and Flamebait (as no doubt these comments will be).
There is an umbrella organization who doesn't own the products in question but is sending letters to people it claims is infringing on the use of said products and is threatening to take legal action.
Why does this sound so familiar?
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Believing in something, without facts to support that belief, does not make it true. I believe I'm the King of San Francisco. Does that make it true?
On one hand this would be a good thing since when the prices collapse, or come down significantly from where they are now, people like myself will be able to buy a decent home at a resonable price.
Further, since the prices will be lower than they are now, there will be those who will buy these properties at, relatively speaking, bargain prices, fix them up and then resell them for profit.
Capitalism at its best. Buy low, sell high.
To see some of the stories you've been missing, see my Journal.
It's more like not wanting to pay $5 to rent a movie that you've heard is bad, so you walk over to your friends house and borrow it.
Except you're not borrowing it. You're keeping it permanently. Which is exactly what you would have done had you gone to the store and bought it new or used.
You've just screwed the movie company out of money and should be tossed in jail for "stealing" by not paying them every time you watch it.
Had you actually bought the item you could watch it as often as you wished without incurring any further costs.
I wish I had mod points. That is exactly correct and spot on.
However, you and I both realize that there will be those who will say it isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement which isn't the same as theft and so your comments will be marked down as Troll or Flamebait.
*sigh* Since when did taking someone elses work without their permission and not paying them for it become acceptable?
The problem with using torture (other than the obvious) is that whatever information is gleaned is usually not reliable or even worthy of pursuing. People who have been tortured will pretty much say whatever you want them to say just to stop the pain.
Ask John McCain and other folks who have had torture done to them. They will tell you they gave every bit of BS they could muster.
One could also look at several recent cases where people who had been imprisoned for decades were found to have been coerced or subjected to physical mistreatment by the police. They were originally found guily because of what they said due to the mistreatment and wanted it to stop, not because they were actually guilty.
You can get useful information out of people without torture. It just takes longer but the folks in charge don't want to wait. They just want something to use for the nightly news to make it seem like we're actually protecting our citizens when in reality they know very well the info they're getting isn't very useful.
As a side note, the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) admitted just recently that their policy of destroying the homes of suicide bombers had no effect on whether one would go through with the process or not. There was only one documented case where this was the exception and it was only because the father found out and reported his son.
What does that have to do with torture? It's the same principle. People seem to think that by torturing someone you'll get useful info when in reality you're just wasting your time.
Because it is. Don't ask them to explain how it's different, it just is. You're not supposed to think like this. That's free thought and that's dangerous.
It would be like asking the question: if Syria is on the list of nations who use torture to try and extract information from prisoners and we (the U.S.) object to such treatment, how come we (the U.S.) send suspected terrorists to Syria for interrogation?
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Ten years later and this view hasn't changed.
And no, this isn't a troll or flamebait. The next time you are out and are behind someone who's waddling along talking on their cell phone, actually listen to what they are saying. 99% of the time the conversation will not be about something important ("I'm at the store, do you need something?"; "Are you alright? I'll be right over.") but rather someone talking to someone simply because they have a cell phone.
Doubt me? Have a listen.
I want to know how the fuck this comment is offtopic. It clearly is not.
Shitfaced mods. Quit injecting your personal crap on very ontopic comments.
This is exactly why I metamoderate all comments marked as Redundant as Unfair.
Unless I'm mistaken, if you look closely along the top, right edge of the images in the first link you can see another dust devil. It appears near the horizon edge and meets the edge of the overall image right before the main dust devil appears.
Unless it's some kind of artifact from the processing it looks like NASA got a two-for-one.
Which is why WD-40 is not patented. They would have to tell the world what is in their product and they don't want to do that.
And before anyone remarks that I'm wrong, I just called the WD-40 corporation to verify this. I had heard about this a long time ago and wanted to confirm this information before I posted.
Maybe it's not the same story but both stories originate from Pune, India and both deal with employees of a call center transferring money in the amount of Rs 1.5 crore.
I've seen several comments from posters posing the question as to how long it will be before robots participate in human sports. These comments reminded me of a short story I had read in years past which involved robots playing football.
The whole jist was that the robots couldn't have chips which would make them have a will to win. Essentially the robots were supposed to merely run the programmed plays. However, one old guy had found a way to bury such a chip deep inside his teams robots.
The story ends by one robot plastering another robot to prevent a touchdown. This robot 'dies' as the impact desintegrates the two players.
Not a particularly exciting story but one which is relevant to the previous comments. Oh, the reason for the robots to be playing football rather than humans was because the game had become too dangerous to play.
This story was in a Readers Digest-like book I had found at a flea market. Can't remember the name of the story or the author so if someone else can fill in the blanks that would be most appreciative.
not having Flash installed or Java enabled? How hard is that?
I'm always amazed at people who write in the Mozilla forums about the popups they are getting when using FF and my first question has always been: do you have Flash installed?
99.9% of the time the answer is yes.
Not sure why people think they need to have Flash installed since it's nothing but a resoure hog and rarely provides any extra benefit. As a poster the other day said, if I see the missing puzzle piece when I go to a site that means the site is using Flash and isn't a site I want to visit.
As far as java is concerned, it too is a resource hog and also provides little to no added benefit.
While the FF developers should be commended for their quick work on trying to beat down the horde of advertisers who think that an obnoxious popup is the way to get a message across, this issue is not a FF issue but a third party issue.
I run FF straight out of the box with no extensions and minor tweaks to the chrome file and I never, EVER, see any popups.
This just goes to show that the more crap people put on their systems the more things can go wrong.
combined this story with the one about Paris being a shill for Linux. Then the use of the word 'gulp' would be more applicable.
Of course, the part about brain optimization might also be useful in her case.
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How about:
The Feast of Maximum Occupancy
NetCraft confirms, Linux is now dead.
Well, since most software developers think they are god, this would make sense.
To see some of the stories you've been missing, see my Journal.
"Members of (the) Apple Developer Connection receive advance copies of Apple software under strict confidentiality agreements, which we take very seriously to protect our intellectual property," Apple said in a December statement.
How horrible that Apple should go after someone who broke a confidentiality agreement and disseminated software which wasn't his to begin with and which he had no right to disseminate.
Oh the horror!
Maybe its because I expect more of people and am simply fed up with all the lies this particular administration throws about and then tries to justify that it seems like I'm a leftist.
For example, five days into his first term, Bush was told by Richard Clarke that an immediate meeting was needed to discuss the Al Qaeda threat. Clarke told both Bush and Rice about this meeting and gave them memos stating the urgency of the meeting.
Both Bush and Rice denied ever having been informed of such a meeting. Too bad the memo was released on February 10th of this year proving that Clarke was correct when he said during Congressional hearing that Bush was warned about the threat.
Am I giving Clinton a pass? No way. The dingbat had his own issues. I am merely harping on the current officeholder because he's the one doing the stupidity. When the next person comes into office, I'll rail against them as well.
Don't automatically assume that because I or anyone rails against Bush that they are leftists. You'd be surprised how many Republicans are just as disgusted by his antics as the Democrats are.
As a side note, your final comments echo almost exactly what the morons in the Florida legislature were saying about leftists. I guess when people can't back up their arguments it's easier to shoot the messenger than disprove the message.
"We live in an open society in which the concept of widespread knowledge is embraced as a goal of governance,"
Maybe in the overall big picture that is true but in the current political environment that statement is most certainly not true.
The current administration has done and continues to do everything in its power to suppress the flow of knowledge and information. Witness the recent suppression of an EPA-funded study conducted by Harvard which found that the recent changes to rules regarding mercury emissions from U.S. power plants would have health benefits 100 times as great as the EPA said it would .
Why the difference? Because according to the EPA and the Bush administration, more stringent controls would cost too much to industry compared to the public health benefit. Thus the analysis was stripped from the final report even though the findings of the analysis were used in a briefing by the EPA to the Washington Post on February 2nd.
Even outside the administration the flow of knowledge is under attack. Witness the current effort by the Florida legislature to pass legislation which would allow students to sue professors who the students claim were punishing the students for their beliefs. Included would be a situation when a professor challenges a student to explain their theories by using the Socratic method. In other words, simply state you have a belief but you don't have to provide any evidence or rationale to support this belief.
Let us not forget the fiasco in my home state where Intelligent Design is being taught alongside Darwinian Evolution as a valid scientfic theory.
Along those same lines, this very site posted a story yesterday about some IMAX theaters not showing a film because it contained references to evolution.
While Kahles overall sentiment is correct the current political environment is not conducive to the flow of knowledge and won't be for a fairly substantial time.
I read the title and thought, "CSS will be IEs weakest link? Something doesn't sound right."
This sounds like typical Microsoft logic. "Just wait a bit longer and something better will come out." CSS2 is here now and people are using it. Support it instead of forcing web designers to put in loads of ugly hacks just to make your bloated software work as it should in the first place.
Yeah, I'm bashing Microsoft but it is deserved in this case.
Geek: I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster.
Marge: Does anyone need that much porno?
Homer: (drooling) One million times...
Dammit! Where are my mod points! You deserve to be +5 rather than that anemic +2.
You hit the nail on the head but because you dare to speak the truth you'll have numerous mods marking you as Troll and Flamebait (as no doubt these comments will be).
There is an umbrella organization who doesn't own the products in question but is sending letters to people it claims is infringing on the use of said products and is threatening to take legal action.
Why does this sound so familiar?
* To see some of the stories you've been missing, see my Journal *
Believing in something, without facts to support that belief, does not make it true. I believe I'm the King of San Francisco. Does that make it true?
On one hand this would be a good thing since when the prices collapse, or come down significantly from where they are now, people like myself will be able to buy a decent home at a resonable price.
Further, since the prices will be lower than they are now, there will be those who will buy these properties at, relatively speaking, bargain prices, fix them up and then resell them for profit.
Capitalism at its best. Buy low, sell high.
To see some of the stories you've been missing, see my Journal.
Only if Yoda were the one asking the question.
Except you're not borrowing it. You're keeping it permanently. Which is exactly what you would have done had you gone to the store and bought it new or used.
You've just screwed the movie company out of money and should be tossed in jail for "stealing" by not paying them every time you watch it.
Had you actually bought the item you could watch it as often as you wished without incurring any further costs.
I wish I had mod points. That is exactly correct and spot on.
However, you and I both realize that there will be those who will say it isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement which isn't the same as theft and so your comments will be marked down as Troll or Flamebait.
*sigh* Since when did taking someone elses work without their permission and not paying them for it become acceptable?
The problem with using torture (other than the obvious) is that whatever information is gleaned is usually not reliable or even worthy of pursuing. People who have been tortured will pretty much say whatever you want them to say just to stop the pain.
Ask John McCain and other folks who have had torture done to them. They will tell you they gave every bit of BS they could muster.
One could also look at several recent cases where people who had been imprisoned for decades were found to have been coerced or subjected to physical mistreatment by the police. They were originally found guily because of what they said due to the mistreatment and wanted it to stop, not because they were actually guilty.
You can get useful information out of people without torture. It just takes longer but the folks in charge don't want to wait. They just want something to use for the nightly news to make it seem like we're actually protecting our citizens when in reality they know very well the info they're getting isn't very useful.
As a side note, the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) admitted just recently that their policy of destroying the homes of suicide bombers had no effect on whether one would go through with the process or not. There was only one documented case where this was the exception and it was only because the father found out and reported his son.
What does that have to do with torture? It's the same principle. People seem to think that by torturing someone you'll get useful info when in reality you're just wasting your time.
Because it is. Don't ask them to explain how it's different, it just is. You're not supposed to think like this. That's free thought and that's dangerous.
It would be like asking the question: if Syria is on the list of nations who use torture to try and extract information from prisoners and we (the U.S.) object to such treatment, how come we (the U.S.) send suspected terrorists to Syria for interrogation?