I have no idea if it works well or not. I just hear their ads on the radio all the time, and I figure if some people buy the product they'll ease up on the ads a bit.
In an engineering environment, that will result in armed insurrection, and the heads of the sysadmins on pikes out in front of the main entrance as a warning to their replacements.
Well... not to argue for the existence of a soul, but the rock to the head would not disprove it. The general assumption amongst many believers is that brain death = release of the soul to... whatever "afterlife" they believe in.
Terry Schaivo's parents are excepted from this, of course.;-) They felt her soul was still exsting in a brain turned to mush.
Personally, I remain an agnostic, but find the debates entertaining. We'll all find out eventually, and I have more pressing issues with which to deal.:)
Maybe a dual-processor system: one PowerPC and one Intel?
One has to wonder if that doesn't exist somewhere as a prototype, or at least a sketch. And I mean a truly integrated hybrid motherboard that uses the correct processor automatically when you boot into Windows or Mac OS. Maybe even dual PPCs and dual Pentiums. The real coup would some way to allow one set of processors to use the other set as coprocessors in some way so they are not sitting there wasted when in one OS or the other.
That's an even funnier quote when you consider the mouse had been invented 16 years earlier at SRI. The mouse was hardly "experimental" in 1984, and was already in use in CAD workstations. Dvorak is another one of those dumbass media figures that people inexplicably listen to. Good gig if you can get it.
The cell phone gave us portability and even security aspects. Word processing freed us from white out and tedious formatting. CDs gave us better sound ("audiophiles" will be solidly ignored here, so don't bother. I'll kick you and put dirt in your hair). Energy save bulbs, well, save energy, and the one in my porch light is in its 12th year of operation. And so on. The benefits of those things could be seen from the start- it was merely a cost issue holding them back initially.
I ain't seein' no benefit from these here TeeVee phone-a-ma-jigs, as they might say in Arkansas.;-)
I always ask the question, been asking for a couple years now, and no one can give a good answer. Do people really need to be staring at a TeeVee screen every waking moment?
Can someone point me toward a good book on stem cells?
And I want something purely technical but readable by the layman. Also, I'm looking for something with as little discussion of "ethics" as possible. I'm coming from a POV that would allow abortions until the fifty-seventh trimetster, so the ethics side of it bores me.
I mean, just this morning I copied a bunch of files to my desktop temporarily. From the "Details" based windows they appeared as a line of icons that went off screen. When I dropped them, the offscreen icons stayed off screen out of reach. I had to drill down into Documents & Settings to get a text based view of the desktop to sort things out. Should I be having to do that in 2005 A.D.?
Such as "How do I get Windows to the point where I'm not having to continually force quit stalled applications" or "Why on God's green Earth would Windows go out and waste my time trying to access a server pointed to by a shortcut I am telling it to delete, and then it bogs down because it can't find the server and does not realize that, well, that's why I want to DELETE THE FUCKING SHORTCUT!!!!" or "Why are most Cancel buttons in Windows cruel hoaxes?"
"You will know the power of the dark side," screamed a sweat drenched Ballmer to the packed Stanford auditorium. "Trust us now. Some day you won't have any choice."
"Do the Monkey Dance," shouted a student in the back row. Armed Homeland Security agents dressed in blue suits wrestled the student to the ground and dragged hium from the gathering.
"And yea, He did walketh the path of the holy registry," droned the bouncy and oddly spherical Ballmer. "And He said, bring unto me your blue screens and I shall heal them with Longhorn as it ushers in the next millennia, which is about when we expect it to be released."
"We were promised Radiohead!" yelled another student, who was prompty dropped by a head shot courtesy of a concealed SWAT sniper.
"God, I really hate you all," said Ballmer in a tired voice. "Will you ever realize we're just fucking with you by releasing these shitpiles we call operating systems and applications. Honestly, you fucking losers would buy my turds if we put them in shiny boxes and stamped them Microsoft certified. I read all the Windows problems on message boards, and I laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh..." Blink. "I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud?"
Ballmer then started doing the Monkey Dance with amazing vigor. Half the audience immediately went blind while the other half slipped into persistant vegitative states. Outside, it began to rain two headed frogs.
"We really should have realized something was amiss when she mentioned that a spyware program found her lost cat," said senior Wired editor Brank McTonnahay. "The problem is, you see, is that I and the other senior editors have severe addictions to cocaine and heroin. It's a full time job just keeping the monkey away. Sally over in the PC department is also a total crack whore."
"It's lies! Lies I tell you!" said Ms. Delio, shaking her fist at a press conference held the women's rest room at an abandone Gulf Oil station off the New Jersey Turnpike. "Wait... I mean, the claims that I told lies are lies, you see? My words were unvarnished truth! The Walker Art Museum really did transform into a giant Autobot and prance around the area. There were, like BILLIONS of witnesses!"
"She's (sniff) a troubled (sniff) girl," said and shaky, sweaty Rebekah Chemtrayle who is some sort of senior something at Wired that no one is quite able to define. "(Sniff) she has had some traumatic (sniff) experiences (sniff) and some (sniff) childhood demons (sniff) that causes her to (sniff) do really unsound things (sniff) like write false (sniff) stories, wear poly(sniff)ester and vote (sniff) Republican... fuck, I need a fix. How much would youy (sniff) pay me for (sniff) a BBBJ?"
"They won't catch me!" cried Ms. Delio in a phone interview from what she claimed was her Fortress Of Solitude in Flat Rock, Michigan deep beneath the Ford Mustang plant. "I'll unleash my legions of lesbian ninja kittens on tham all, and I, yes *I* shall have the last laugh. Here it goes. Hahahahahahaaa!"
...despite being rabidly pro stem cell anything. Hell, I advocate using prisoners (lifers & death row) for medical research, and I support abortion up through the fifty-seventh trimester.
I warned everyone a new bureaucracy would be created, but do people listen to reason? Nooooo...
A small team of people with the required expertise working out of some existing offfice and handing out checks is all that is needed.
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I have no idea if it works well or not. I just hear their ads on the radio all the time, and I figure if some people buy the product they'll ease up on the ads a bit.
In an engineering environment, that will result in armed insurrection, and the heads of the sysadmins on pikes out in front of the main entrance as a warning to their replacements.
"Gosh! Where's the sexbots already? Everything they need has been in place for, like, a thousand years! What are they waiting for? Ugh! Retards!"
Terry Schaivo's parents are excepted from this, of course. ;-) They felt her soul was still exsting in a brain turned to mush.
Personally, I remain an agnostic, but find the debates entertaining. We'll all find out eventually, and I have more pressing issues with which to deal. :)
One has to wonder if that doesn't exist somewhere as a prototype, or at least a sketch. And I mean a truly integrated hybrid motherboard that uses the correct processor automatically when you boot into Windows or Mac OS. Maybe even dual PPCs and dual Pentiums. The real coup would some way to allow one set of processors to use the other set as coprocessors in some way so they are not sitting there wasted when in one OS or the other.
That's an even funnier quote when you consider the mouse had been invented 16 years earlier at SRI. The mouse was hardly "experimental" in 1984, and was already in use in CAD workstations. Dvorak is another one of those dumbass media figures that people inexplicably listen to. Good gig if you can get it.
The cell phone gave us portability and even security aspects. Word processing freed us from white out and tedious formatting. CDs gave us better sound ("audiophiles" will be solidly ignored here, so don't bother. I'll kick you and put dirt in your hair). Energy save bulbs, well, save energy, and the one in my porch light is in its 12th year of operation. And so on. The benefits of those things could be seen from the start- it was merely a cost issue holding them back initially.
I ain't seein' no benefit from these here TeeVee phone-a-ma-jigs, as they might say in Arkansas. ;-)
I always ask the question, been asking for a couple years now, and no one can give a good answer. Do people really need to be staring at a TeeVee screen every waking moment?
I might push it to 75th (18 years old).
And I want something purely technical but readable by the layman. Also, I'm looking for something with as little discussion of "ethics" as possible. I'm coming from a POV that would allow abortions until the fifty-seventh trimetster, so the ethics side of it bores me.
I mean, just this morning I copied a bunch of files to my desktop temporarily. From the "Details" based windows they appeared as a line of icons that went off screen. When I dropped them, the offscreen icons stayed off screen out of reach. I had to drill down into Documents & Settings to get a text based view of the desktop to sort things out. Should I be having to do that in 2005 A.D.?
Such as "How do I get Windows to the point where I'm not having to continually force quit stalled applications" or "Why on God's green Earth would Windows go out and waste my time trying to access a server pointed to by a shortcut I am telling it to delete, and then it bogs down because it can't find the server and does not realize that, well, that's why I want to DELETE THE FUCKING SHORTCUT!!!!" or "Why are most Cancel buttons in Windows cruel hoaxes?"
You know... little factoids like that.
Yeah, but they is good eatin'
"Do the Monkey Dance," shouted a student in the back row. Armed Homeland Security agents dressed in blue suits wrestled the student to the ground and dragged hium from the gathering.
"And yea, He did walketh the path of the holy registry," droned the bouncy and oddly spherical Ballmer. "And He said, bring unto me your blue screens and I shall heal them with Longhorn as it ushers in the next millennia, which is about when we expect it to be released."
"We were promised Radiohead!" yelled another student, who was prompty dropped by a head shot courtesy of a concealed SWAT sniper.
"God, I really hate you all," said Ballmer in a tired voice. "Will you ever realize we're just fucking with you by releasing these shitpiles we call operating systems and applications. Honestly, you fucking losers would buy my turds if we put them in shiny boxes and stamped them Microsoft certified. I read all the Windows problems on message boards, and I laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh..." Blink. "I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud?"
Ballmer then started doing the Monkey Dance with amazing vigor. Half the audience immediately went blind while the other half slipped into persistant vegitative states. Outside, it began to rain two headed frogs.
Not since I rented "Center Of The World" based on his positive review. What a pointless flick.
And Roeper I gave up on after he said the anime Metropolis had "crude animation" and he shot down the first LOTR film.
The hospitals around here all farm their bloodwork out to testing centers. Could you go direct to one of those?
Why would you link to the ZDNet story and not the original blog?
I have no friends. :( Can Dodgeball help me find some?
I'm old. :(
Thank you, although "sire" is not necessarily. My family tree has not had any royalty in it since the 1500s.
I suggest a career in journalism
Wow! I see no need to be insulting!
I can't help it! Goot kick up my heels! Gotta dance, gotta jerk those knees! I have happy feet! Pile on! Pile on!
"It's lies! Lies I tell you!" said Ms. Delio, shaking her fist at a press conference held the women's rest room at an abandone Gulf Oil station off the New Jersey Turnpike. "Wait... I mean, the claims that I told lies are lies, you see? My words were unvarnished truth! The Walker Art Museum really did transform into a giant Autobot and prance around the area. There were, like BILLIONS of witnesses!"
"She's (sniff) a troubled (sniff) girl," said and shaky, sweaty Rebekah Chemtrayle who is some sort of senior something at Wired that no one is quite able to define. "(Sniff) she has had some traumatic (sniff) experiences (sniff) and some (sniff) childhood demons (sniff) that causes her to (sniff) do really unsound things (sniff) like write false (sniff) stories, wear poly(sniff)ester and vote (sniff) Republican... fuck, I need a fix. How much would youy (sniff) pay me for (sniff) a BBBJ?"
"They won't catch me!" cried Ms. Delio in a phone interview from what she claimed was her Fortress Of Solitude in Flat Rock, Michigan deep beneath the Ford Mustang plant. "I'll unleash my legions of lesbian ninja kittens on tham all, and I, yes *I* shall have the last laugh. Here it goes. Hahahahahahaaa!"
I warned everyone a new bureaucracy would be created, but do people listen to reason? Nooooo...
A small team of people with the required expertise working out of some existing offfice and handing out checks is all that is needed.
Every day I get closer to building a secret bunker somewhere.
Hey! I tease Australia! I love ya guys! Hope to come back to Sydney soon! Hugs!