I was thinking along those lines when I joined myspace - "I'm over 30 and male, I just know I'm going to end up on a suspected list somewhere". The only reason why I even joined was that a colleague wanted help with his bands myspace page so I figured it would be better to make mistakes on my own page than his (but then, all of myspace seems to be one large mistake). One thing I discovered is that
Maybe instead of "we'll make it look like you have friends" there's money to be made in "we'll make it look like you have some idea about style and design".
Isn't that more an example of doublethink than cognitive dissonance? I thought cognitive dissonance involved some process of trying to resolve the dissonance, either by finding more information or ignoring information, whereas with doublethink two incompatible views are held simultaneously and there is no attempt to resolve the dissonance (I'll leave aside that one is a literary device and the other a psychological theory).
For example, cognitive dissonance is what happens when some creationists confront evolution - they ignore any evidence that disagrees with their beliefs, whereas "drugs don't solve life's problems"/"have an anti-depressant" is a form of doublethink, as no effort is made to resolve the conflict.
I got my account here for the sole purpose of disabling posts from him and as far as I know there's still a setting in the database preventing me from seeing a story by him (If not about him)
Same here. It wasn't until this article that I even realized that Katz had left.
What I've never understood about the 5th of November is that we celebrate the failure of a terrorist's plot by burning things (well, at least until bonfires went out of fashion) and by blowing stuff up. It just seems like an odd way to celebrate it - I wasn't even entirely sure as kid whether we were celebrating the failure of the plot, or the attempt.
I can already see the tabloid headlines about "fedories" going around terrorizing decent, law abiding citizens and uploading the video from their hat cams to YouTube. After all, a hat cam will make happy slapping so much easier to record than the mobile phone cameras used by todays youths.
From the BBC Article: 5) Energy not transferred to laptop re-absorbed by source antenna. People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 6.4Mhz
That was at the bottom of the graphic. So it should be safe (however, seeing as the technology only exists as a computer model and not as reality, I would bet that if there are any safety issues they will only come to light after such a device is actually built)
What happens if instead of waiting, knee-jerk reactions take place instead, the world's economy is trashed and then it turns out that not only was CO2 not the threat that it was made out to be, it was actually a red herring and that something else was really behind global warming and, without a functioning economy, there's nothing we can do about it.
I'm all for reducing CO2 emissions (actually, I'd like to see a reduction in all forms of pollution) but there has to be a way to reduce C02 that doesn't require the destruction of the worlds economy.
How would firefox ever become closed source? It's already been released under open source licences, one of which being the GPL, so it would be pretty much impossible to close (as anyone could just start their own fork from the already released codebase, see iceweasal for an example).
And Adobe are open sourceing Tamarin - so again, no closed source. This is not a trap.
No, but then neither is Stern (of the Stern Report) a scientist either (unless you count Economics as a science).
Monkton's a former journalist, adviser to Margret Thatcher, the 3rd Viscount Monkton of Brenchley and inventor of the Eternity puzzle (you can find this out by looking at the PDF, which is signed "Monkton of Brenchley", and a quick check of wikipedia shows the rest). Viscount Monckton may not be a scientist, but he is considered to be one of the strongest minds in Britain.
but now hippies, greenies, and environmental scientists are also going to take away our freedoms by reducing greenhouse emissions, raising vehicle fuel efficiency, and sequestering carbon!?
It's just like fascism/communism - the more you get to the extremes the harder it is to tell the difference. Have a look at some of the more radical ideas from some of the more extreme elements of the green movement and you'll see a distinct lack of personal freedom.
Have you tried Ubuntu? I've not had any removable media issues with it, it uses Debian's package management so it actually works (I never had fun with yum and is one of the reasons why I've stuck with Debian and Ubuntu). Easy Ubuntu will give you all the multimedia handling and it works great on a laptop (though suspend could be better, though I've only upgraded to Edgy, so maybe it's improved).
OK, Games are a problem (but oddly, there are Linux version of all the handfull of games I want to play, so my experience of Linux games has been great - but then I'm not a gamer). And you can't buy software at Best Buy, but then often you can find something in Synaptic that will satisfy your needs.
The only issue I ever ran into with Ubuntu on ancient hardware was with ISA Ethernet cards. Oddly enough, the install CD of Ubuntu-Server (Dapper) didn't install the drivers for such old hardware. I had to copy the deb onto a floppy to get the driver across. Other than that one issue (with a card that was at least 10 years old) Ubuntu has run fine where ever I've installed it.
The oldest bit of hardware I have working is 15 years old (an SGI Indy) and that runs Debian just fine.
Actually, it does happen in the EU (or at least the UK). Where I work, if you're in the IT department (and more specifically if you have administrator access) you don't have to serve your notice period, even if you're resigning (one of my old bosses got so fed up with things, he quit the day he came back from holiday - he was out the door on 3 months salary before I even turned up to work). Same thing with one of my former colleagues last year, he found a better job and got 3 months worth of pay free. Why they're so paranoid of people doing bad things when they're leaving of their own free will, I'll never know (and it makes handover a bit difficult). We had a few redundancies several years back and it was exactly the same (though I heard they actually paid out way over the minimum, as they were so afraid of a tribunal happening).
Tomboy is nice, but it's hard to why it needed to be written in mono (it's the sort of thingyou would think would be easy in python), and much could be said for F-Spot (python, with the odd c library for performance. All three apps you mention are hardly shining examples of why anyone should take the risk and code with mono.
True, but they're not the people advertisers want to reach. The people that advertisers are willing to spend big bucks to reach are increasingly more likely to be found online and not in front of the TV.
Though I never understand while it's always an either/or when it comes to these things (either you're watching TV or you're surfing the web) - surely you can have the TV on and surf the web at the same time.
Unfortunately, slapping people at random was burned into the brains of the infants and small children of the time, so now we get happy slapping teenagers.
But they only ever do that on american shows, where the break (thanks to american ad patterns) naturally is. I prefer this to how they used to break american programmes at "british" times, where the breaks would be in the dumbest places.
TiVo did make a deal with Sky, but Sky+ is different. TiVo did a deal with Sky where Sky looked after the subscriber management (and still do), and Sky were involved in the (badly done) marketing of TiVo in the UK. If you have a UK TiVo and watch the start up animation you'll noticed at the end a "recommened" by Sky on the right hand side of the TiVo home page while the little TiVo man swings by which is from this time. However Sky had their own system in the works (namely Sky+) which came out about a year later and doesn't share anything at all with TiVo. The biggest problem for TiVo was that Sky never really marketed TiVo right (though I actually ascribe this to incompetence rather than malice, as their Sky+ marketing was almost identical to the TiVo marketing, which I think explains the slow take up of Sky+ as well).
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Wrong, we're all citizens (and have been since 1949). Read up about it on Wikipedia
I was thinking along those lines when I joined myspace - "I'm over 30 and male, I just know I'm going to end up on a suspected list somewhere". The only reason why I even joined was that a colleague wanted help with his bands myspace page so I figured it would be better to make mistakes on my own page than his (but then, all of myspace seems to be one large mistake). One thing I discovered is that
Maybe instead of "we'll make it look like you have friends" there's money to be made in "we'll make it look like you have some idea about style and design".
Isn't that more an example of doublethink than cognitive dissonance? I thought cognitive dissonance involved some process of trying to resolve the dissonance, either by finding more information or ignoring information, whereas with doublethink two incompatible views are held simultaneously and there is no attempt to resolve the dissonance (I'll leave aside that one is a literary device and the other a psychological theory).
For example, cognitive dissonance is what happens when some creationists confront evolution - they ignore any evidence that disagrees with their beliefs, whereas "drugs don't solve life's problems"/"have an anti-depressant" is a form of doublethink, as no effort is made to resolve the conflict.
I got my account here for the sole purpose of disabling posts from him and as far as I know there's still a setting in the database preventing me from seeing a story by him (If not about him)
Same here. It wasn't until this article that I even realized that Katz had left.
What I've never understood about the 5th of November is that we celebrate the failure of a terrorist's plot by burning things (well, at least until bonfires went out of fashion) and by blowing stuff up. It just seems like an odd way to celebrate it - I wasn't even entirely sure as kid whether we were celebrating the failure of the plot, or the attempt.
I can already see the tabloid headlines about "fedories" going around terrorizing decent, law abiding citizens and uploading the video from their hat cams to YouTube. After all, a hat cam will make happy slapping so much easier to record than the mobile phone cameras used by todays youths.
DVD entitled Arguments Creationists Should Not Use.
I suppose containing such highlights as "Logic And Reason" and "Physical Evidence".
Only that the tradition of belief in supernatural beings has been around far longer than the tradition of demanding proof of those beings.
Which means your argument is a logical fallacy
If they could just add decent sex to the mix (via a direct brain implant) i'd probably hook up as well.
I can't play mmorg's like i used to- the hands just hurt too much.
Ahem, Exactly what kind of mmorg did you used to play?
I am not sure if I like the idea of RF energy in my work/home
So you don't like the idea of artificial lights, radio/tv, wifi, etc?
From the BBC Article:
5) Energy not transferred to laptop re-absorbed by source antenna. People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 6.4Mhz
That was at the bottom of the graphic. So it should be safe (however, seeing as the technology only exists as a computer model and not as reality, I would bet that if there are any safety issues they will only come to light after such a device is actually built)
What happens if you wait too long?
What happens if instead of waiting, knee-jerk reactions take place instead, the world's economy is trashed and then it turns out that not only was CO2 not the threat that it was made out to be, it was actually a red herring and that something else was really behind global warming and, without a functioning economy, there's nothing we can do about it.
I'm all for reducing CO2 emissions (actually, I'd like to see a reduction in all forms of pollution) but there has to be a way to reduce C02 that doesn't require the destruction of the worlds economy.
How???? That site is unusable. There doesn't seem to be a way to search for groups, so if there is a unix group, I can't find it (or any other group)
How would firefox ever become closed source? It's already been released under open source licences, one of which being the GPL, so it would be pretty much impossible to close (as anyone could just start their own fork from the already released codebase, see iceweasal for an example).
And Adobe are open sourceing Tamarin - so again, no closed source. This is not a trap.
No, but then neither is Stern (of the Stern Report) a scientist either (unless you count Economics as a science).
Monkton's a former journalist, adviser to Margret Thatcher, the 3rd Viscount Monkton of Brenchley and inventor of the Eternity puzzle (you can find this out by looking at the PDF, which is signed "Monkton of Brenchley", and a quick check of wikipedia shows the rest). Viscount Monckton may not be a scientist, but he is considered to be one of the strongest minds in Britain.
but now hippies, greenies, and environmental scientists are also going to take away our freedoms by reducing greenhouse emissions, raising vehicle fuel efficiency, and sequestering carbon!?
It's just like fascism/communism - the more you get to the extremes the harder it is to tell the difference. Have a look at some of the more radical ideas from some of the more extreme elements of the green movement and you'll see a distinct lack of personal freedom.
Have you tried Ubuntu? I've not had any removable media issues with it, it uses Debian's package management so it actually works (I never had fun with yum and is one of the reasons why I've stuck with Debian and Ubuntu). Easy Ubuntu will give you all the multimedia handling and it works great on a laptop (though suspend could be better, though I've only upgraded to Edgy, so maybe it's improved).
OK, Games are a problem (but oddly, there are Linux version of all the handfull of games I want to play, so my experience of Linux games has been great - but then I'm not a gamer). And you can't buy software at Best Buy, but then often you can find something in Synaptic that will satisfy your needs.
The only issue I ever ran into with Ubuntu on ancient hardware was with ISA Ethernet cards. Oddly enough, the install CD of Ubuntu-Server (Dapper) didn't install the drivers for such old hardware. I had to copy the deb onto a floppy to get the driver across. Other than that one issue (with a card that was at least 10 years old) Ubuntu has run fine where ever I've installed it.
The oldest bit of hardware I have working is 15 years old (an SGI Indy) and that runs Debian just fine.
Actually, it does happen in the EU (or at least the UK). Where I work, if you're in the IT department (and more specifically if you have administrator access) you don't have to serve your notice period, even if you're resigning (one of my old bosses got so fed up with things, he quit the day he came back from holiday - he was out the door on 3 months salary before I even turned up to work). Same thing with one of my former colleagues last year, he found a better job and got 3 months worth of pay free. Why they're so paranoid of people doing bad things when they're leaving of their own free will, I'll never know (and it makes handover a bit difficult). We had a few redundancies several years back and it was exactly the same (though I heard they actually paid out way over the minimum, as they were so afraid of a tribunal happening).
Tomboy is nice, but it's hard to why it needed to be written in mono (it's the sort of thingyou would think would be easy in python), and much could be said for F-Spot (python, with the odd c library for performance. All three apps you mention are hardly shining examples of why anyone should take the risk and code with mono.
True, but they're not the people advertisers want to reach. The people that advertisers are willing to spend big bucks to reach are increasingly more likely to be found online and not in front of the TV.
Though I never understand while it's always an either/or when it comes to these things (either you're watching TV or you're surfing the web) - surely you can have the TV on and surf the web at the same time.
started slapping people in the face at random...
Unfortunately, slapping people at random was burned into the brains of the infants and small children of the time, so now we get happy slapping teenagers.
I would hardly call C4 "new" - it's 24 years old today (it started on November 2, 1982). Even five is almost 10 years old now.
But they only ever do that on american shows, where the break (thanks to american ad patterns) naturally is. I prefer this to how they used to break american programmes at "british" times, where the breaks would be in the dumbest places.
TiVo did make a deal with Sky, but Sky+ is different. TiVo did a deal with Sky where Sky looked after the subscriber management (and still do), and Sky were involved in the (badly done) marketing of TiVo in the UK. If you have a UK TiVo and watch the start up animation you'll noticed at the end a "recommened" by Sky on the right hand side of the TiVo home page while the little TiVo man swings by which is from this time. However Sky had their own system in the works (namely Sky+) which came out about a year later and doesn't share anything at all with TiVo. The biggest problem for TiVo was that Sky never really marketed TiVo right (though I actually ascribe this to incompetence rather than malice, as their Sky+ marketing was almost identical to the TiVo marketing, which I think explains the slow take up of Sky+ as well).