Earth is not conscious or sentient. We, the homo sapiens, are. From the collected human knowledge so far, we are the only ones. And this is our first time doing it. So gimme a break. Its a no brainer the Earth will heal. But the mutual goal ie win-win situation is that how can the humans repair the damage and maybe even return the Earth to a healthier state than it ever has been. That isn't bad proposition for either party. We are on the same fucking side.
Linux is the shortest distance between a CPU(s) and the programmer. I program mostly in java and I can switch VMs by merely changing PATH and soft links or kill misbehaving tomcat. Cron jobs for ant scripts is no brainer. Publishing java docs from ant builds with apache is no brainer either. I am in and out with no frills - leaves me space to create frills. AND with every kernel release since 2.2 my P3 laptop gets faster.
Meanwhile on Windows, I hit save and it takes forever because the realtime filesystem protection kicks in. It is said that the out of the top ten apps for Windows, five undo the damage of the other five.
The most successful story of web commerce is Amazon.com. And in those days it just sold books, cyberspace medium used to sell dead tree media. If that is not a paradox, what is? New technologies make it possible for people to fit more things into their day.
The sales engineer at my company are buying PSPs to keep up with things while they are enflight, on customer sites, and/or foreign countries. To paraphrase Bruce Sterling, "The future is mass market customization" - a trend away from Industrial Revolution style cookie cutter packaging.
Eventually home is where your data is. And all the activity in XML/RSS space is pointing in this direction - meta data of your life. You can see the pattern everywhere, be it news/news alerts, Tivo, iPod, Flickr - meta data that lets you access previously structured organization of data, randomly, quickly and most importantly "individualised".
Prediction: There will be just more TV shows as there are now podcasts - something for everyone.
Yuppy or not human society wants to celebrate little things or big things or no things at all. This one is hyped up by the media 'cause it so far falls outside the consumerist circle. Or perhaps the suburbanites as you say require an endorsement of their revolution.
These are the great features I really like in my karma:
- Ogg codec - Parametric equalizer (you adjust the frequency response width) - Ethernet connectivity for file transfer - Java ui downloadable from the onboard web server - 10 hours solid battery life - Rugged (took on motorcycle trips and international flights) - The dock glowed translucent blue while playing music or charging, you get to glance that "all you got is that white brick" look:)
Good engineering, sweet features, solid product. It will be missed.
Chandrayan = Chandra + yan (conjugation of two words) meaning moon + vehicle. The yan, as the learned here will observe is the same as hinyana and mahayana of Budhist orders.
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Earth is not conscious or sentient. We, the homo sapiens, are. From the collected human knowledge so far, we are the only ones. And this is our first time doing it. So gimme a break. Its a no brainer the Earth will heal. But the mutual goal ie win-win situation is that how can the humans repair the damage and maybe even return the Earth to a healthier state than it ever has been. That isn't bad proposition for either party. We are on the same fucking side.
Linux is the shortest distance between a CPU(s) and the programmer. I program mostly in java and I can switch VMs by merely changing PATH and soft links or kill misbehaving tomcat. Cron jobs for ant scripts is no brainer. Publishing java docs from ant builds with apache is no brainer either. I am in and out with no frills - leaves me space to create frills. AND with every kernel release since 2.2 my P3 laptop gets faster.
Meanwhile on Windows, I hit save and it takes forever because the realtime filesystem protection kicks in. It is said that the out of the top ten apps for Windows, five undo the damage of the other five.
The most successful story of web commerce is Amazon.com. And in those days it just sold books, cyberspace medium used to sell dead tree media. If that is not a paradox, what is? New technologies make it possible for people to fit more things into their day.
The sales engineer at my company are buying PSPs to keep up with things while they are enflight, on customer sites, and/or foreign countries. To paraphrase Bruce Sterling, "The future is mass market customization" - a trend away from Industrial Revolution style cookie cutter packaging.
Eventually home is where your data is. And all the activity in XML/RSS space is pointing in this direction - meta data of your life. You can see the pattern everywhere, be it news/news alerts, Tivo, iPod, Flickr - meta data that lets you access previously structured organization of data, randomly, quickly and most importantly "individualised".
Prediction: There will be just more TV shows as there are now podcasts - something for everyone.
imho, that would be google.
That's funny man.
Yuppy or not human society wants to celebrate little things or big things or no things at all. This one is hyped up by the media 'cause it so far falls outside the consumerist circle. Or perhaps the suburbanites as you say require an endorsement of their revolution.
These are the great features I really like in my karma:
:)
- Ogg codec
- Parametric equalizer (you adjust the frequency response width)
- Ethernet connectivity for file transfer
- Java ui downloadable from the onboard web server
- 10 hours solid battery life
- Rugged (took on motorcycle trips and international flights)
- The dock glowed translucent blue while playing music or charging, you get to glance that "all you got is that white brick" look
Good engineering, sweet features, solid product. It will be missed.
Chandrayan = Chandra + yan (conjugation of two words) meaning moon + vehicle. The yan, as the learned here will observe is the same as hinyana and mahayana of Budhist orders.