What/who "suddenly" decides that if: I buy Crest Toothpaste - that I have to buy a Butler Tooth brush. That if I buy a Volvo - that I have to buy GoodYear tires. That if I buy Nike runners - I have to buy Nike socks. (nine thousand other examples follow - left out for brevity;) ). That if I now buy an Intel based PC - that has WindowsMedia Player installed - WMP is the only Media Player allowed (by Microsoft). Hey wait - that's already been decided in the USA Courts and the EU Courts. Both Courts found Microsoft guilty of illegal monopolistic actions. Let see - if I buy a Linux OS, and it won't run on a Intel PC because Intel puts in "X" to stop Linux from loading. Legal? No way! So I buy an Intel PC and when I try to install Mac OS X that I buy - I can't because "X" has been installed by Intel - the"X" stops me from installing the Mac OS I bought. No I don't live in Red China - do you?^) Speaking of a better Apple OS - the boys and girls at Apple could improve the Mac OS - which now runs MySLQ 5 times slower than Linux on a Apple G5!!!! Speaking of better Apple products - why don't the boys and girls at Apple improve their implementation of Quicktime H.264 - which takes twice the time to encode compared to some of their competitors. Remember - this time round - Apple is the producer of the codec - can't blame a third party;)
Isn't it time to organize for a Class Action Suit against Apple and Intel. To me it's an open and shut case of one or both companies trying to eliminate/restrict the consumers choice of what one does with the hardware purchased. At the same time - another scenario is that Apple is simple grabing the media to promote the fact that Apple O$ can run on an Intel PC - nothing like billions of dollars of free advertising. And will then turn around and sell the Apple OS to run on any hardware. In the meantime, I'm sure that DVD Jon (or some else) will force the issue into the courts.
You are now starting to speak like a "Jesuit". I asked you to set up a face to face meeting with god or God with me. And instead you start asking me questions - to avoid the fact that there is no god - no God to meet with. I don't what Darwin has to do with the fact that you can't set up a face to face meeting with god or God (so obviously God does not exist). However, the USA has certainly tried to prove Darwin was right (assuming what you say Darwin said is true) - the hundreds of thousands of Blacks lynched by bible carrying " God Fearing" Whites in the Unites States Of America is a testament to that.
Of course I am serious. I want to sit down with your god or God - face to face. Of course that's not possible - because there is no God or god. Now I am not saying that you and others should or shouldn't believe in God or god if you want to - just don't expect (or is it force ) me and others to believe. It's strange that ID folks say there is no proof for evolution - but at the same time the hiearchy for these folks - while skimming off millions in church donations for a lifestyle of the "rich and famous" - don't have to prove that god or God exists. I am always amazed how successful the Jesuits were (are?) in brainwashing "Protestants" to become "Catholics" with their "bullshit baffles brains" campaign - some call this "equivocation". What baffles me is that all Christain religions are simple cults of the Jewish religion.
Speaking of Jesuits. Can you tell me what one calls a lie when one is a Jesuit. I can't remember the "name" when - a Jesuit lies in one way or another - by ommission etc..
I am not sure who are the greatest "bullshiters" - the people in white coats who suck off $300,000 tax funded grants - or the people running the largest corporations in the world - the Christain Church of one brand or another. In one case 60 billion dollars has gone to people in white coats, over a 25 year period - who are trying to discover a cure for so-called HIV=AIDS. No cure yet! In the other case, various people running various churches living lifestyles tht would embarass any corporate CEO sitting in jail now. Ar least the CEOs sitting jail - didn't organize the largest pedophile organization in the world - of course sustained by the biggest corporation in the world - the Catholic Church.
This entire issue is not about science or religion - just follow the money. As Molly Ivans the journalist suggests - there are always two groups of people in any issue - those being screwed and those doing the screwing. What better way to make money screwing people - who will give away their money and/or time to religious institutions - who in turn are told that they (the donors) now can go screw someone because.... . Well because - this is where religions are "wonderful" - just make up any bullshit - to fit the situation and away you go - "bullshit always baffles brains". This is what muslim jihads are all about - not about religion - its power and/or money. What i find interesting - is that the folks in white lab coats have kept quite about this issue until recently - they may have to start justifying the $300,000 grants from the NIH and other tax based grants. We just may find out that the folks in white lab coats have been screwing us too.
Governments Giveth and Governments Can Take Away. Any company can have their incorporation status revoked - if they are not behaving in the nation's interest. Depends which country(s) Roche is incorporated in. On the other hand why not charge Roche - with "Crimes Against Humanity" in the International Courts in the Hague! Or is this really all about Asiatic "population control" by a sub contractor to the C.I.A!?
Back to the Media and Apple. How many Macintosh magazines (in hard copy or online ) go after Apple/ Jobs for continuosly producing hardware and an OS that is inferior to Intel/Microsoft - when it comes to real work (not word processing;) ) For example, the "fastest" dual G5 is 25% slower than a Dell (lower price than the dual G5) when it comes to rendering or compressing video. Naturally the G5 would be even slower when compared to an dual AMD. Running MySLQ on a G5/Tiger is 5 times slower than running MySLQ on a G5/Linux!!! Don't believe me! Google all three statements. Or go search http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/ for starters.
Intuitive face? I own both Apple and Microsoft computers. Absolutely no difference in doing word processing on either. Both Apple and Microsoft stole their intuitive face from:
"A scientist named Douglas Engelbart. As early as 1962, while Jobs and Wozniak were still drinking Ovaltine and watching Saturday morning cartoons in their jammies, Engelbart was creating several items of interest to the personal computing crowd that would follow. He invented the first "mouse," which he called an "X-Y Position Indicator," a little gizmo housed in a wooden box on wheels that moved around the desktop and took the cursor with it on the display. Engelbart saw the mouse as being an integral part of a "graphical windowed interface," and invented what he called "a windowed GUI" that fascinated co-workers but wasn't considered useful outside the lab. In 1968 Engelbart created NLS (oNLine System), a hypermedia groupware system that used the mouse, the windowed GUI, hypermedia with object addressing and linking, and even an early version of video teleconferencing to wow its audience, a group of technicians, engineers, and scientific types at Stanford University.
However, Engelbart was not the only visionary in the history of GUI. In 1963 a grad student at MIT, Ivan Sutherland, submitted as his thesis a program called "Sketchpad," which directly manipulated objects on a CRT screen using a light pen.
"Sketchpad pioneered the concepts of graphical computing, including memory structures to store objects, rubber-banding of lines, the ability to zoom in and out on the display, and the ability to make perfect lines, corners, and joints. This was the first GUI (Graphical User Interface) long before the term was coined." -- from a Sun Microsystems biography of Ivan Sutherland
The idea of direct manipulation of objects on a screen is integral to the concept of a graphic interface. In fact, the idea of a GUI derives from cognitive psychology, the study of how the brain deals with communication. The idea is that the brain works much more efficiently with graphical icons and displays rather than with words - words add an extra layer of interpretation to the communication process. Imagine if all the road signs you saw were uniform white rectangles, with only the words themselves to differentiate the different commands, warnings, and informational displays. When the "Stop" signs hardly look different from the "Resume Highway Speed" signs, the processing of the signs' messages becomes a slower and more difficult process, and you'd have even more wrecks than you have now.
Combine this with Alan Kay's concept of "biological computing," where computer components function like organic "cells," either independently or in concert whenever appropriate, and you have an idea of the thinking behind both modern computing, and the GUI.
The 70s - SmallTalk and Xerox
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- informal PARC slogan
The underground buzz stayed underground, but Engelbart's and Sutherland's creations were not lost on the creative fellows at Xerox's PARC facility. PARC was (and is), at least in some respects, a computing "think tank," where brilliant and brilliantly erratic minds cranked out ideas and tried, with varying success, to implement them on the workbench.
In the early 70s, as part of a (sadly abortive) project called "Dynabook" that envisioned notebook-sized, hyperlinked computers, Alan Kay and others developed an interactive object-oriented [3] programming language called Smalltalk. Kay had previously worked with a team at the University of Utah that developed a programming system called Flex. This was a design for a flexible simulation and graphics-oriented personal computer, with many ideas derived from the Norwegian-developed Simula programming language, another programming language called LISP, and Sutherland's Sketchpad. Kay also borrowed ideas from a highly graphical language called Logo, which was designed to teach programming to children. Smalltalk featured a graphical user interface (GUI) that looked suspiciously simi
The analytical comments by Cringely and a few other journalists - more often than not, question Apple/Jobs approaches. The other journalists are lemmings and are easily impressed by what's "cool". It seems that if they like "cool" - that makes them "cool" too. The fact that Apple/Jobs is afraid to compete in the market place with overpriced products seems to escape these writers. The fact that Apple/Jobs produces products - which are predisposed to attempting to create a monopoly - for example the audio formats for the iPods, or the OSX can only run on Apple Intel boxes, or when only Apple's Superdrive could be used with their DVD software and so on. Price? I remember an article in MacWorld which shows the cost of parts for the MacSE was $350 - but cost me $3000. Its too bad these writers don't bring "Right Livlihood" into their stories. Then they would evaluate Apple differently - and would ask if any particular Apple product is "being all it could be" for the USER. Just look at Apple approach to H264 - which is marginal at best in terms of profiles and levels laid out in the spec. Even worse Apple Quicktime 7 h.264 interoperability sucks - sucks badly.
Again - cite one study that states " HIV is the probable cause of AIDS". Since you are so sure about your beliefs - you must have that study sitting on your shelf - or computer! Yes/No!? AZT was first developed to "cure" people who had "cancer". AZT works by killing human cells. The notion is that - lets give someone AZT and hope that the AZT kills off the cancer cells before the AZT kills all the non cancerous cells - which means the person being "treated" with AZT is dead!! Any healthy person will die if they are given AZT for an extended period of time!! When AZT was removed as a treatment for cancer and put on the shelf - it was then resurrected as a treatment for AIDS!. Anyone that has the supposedly a disease called AIDS and treated with AZT - will die from the AZT. Many people - supposedly infected with HIV -and are not treated with AZT - don't get sick with AIDS - even after 15 years - and don't die from HIV/AIDS.
DR. Mullis won a Nobel Prize in chemistry - likely one of the youngest ever to receive a Nobel. Duhhhh! The Nobel Prize was for "his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - which redifined the world of DNA and genetics." Duhhhh! Dr. Mullis is a biochemist! Duhhh! Dr Mullis is an expert witness on DNA for court cases. Duhhh! The jerk offs posting so-called info about the supposed HIV DNA particles that cause the hypothetical dis-ease AIDS, do not have a Nobel Prize that relates directly to DNA scientific research! The jerk offs posting so-called info about the supposed HIV DNA particles that cause the hypothetical dis-ease AIDS, are not ranked as a "expert witness" when it comes to testifying about DNA in court cases! Despite the above - the jerks offs control what goes into the "democratic" Wikipedia!! They are more expert than Mullis. Duhhhh! What this is really all about is - "The Scientific Method". Remember grade nine science? Remember "The Scientific Method". Go back and read your text book about what the "scientific method" is and what is it isn't. Dr. Mullis was working as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica. He was asked to write a report so that the lab could grab one of the $300,000 grants to study "HIV/AIDS". As Mullis strated his report "since HIV is the probable cause of AIDS" - then stopped - because he needed to find the study that said that - first. He asked a bunch of people - including Dr. Montagnier - the supposed discoverer of HIV/AIDS about a study that shows that "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS" - Montagnier could not cite one study! Duhhhhh!
When it comes to greed versus good - the history of corporations in the USA (and other places too) has been anything but stellar. One good read is "Trading With The Enemy" - which shows Dupont supplied the gas to murder millions in the concetration camps, which shows Ford supplied ballbearings for Nazis tanks - which shows the Luftwaffer bombing London with Luftwaffer getting their aviation fuel from Standard Oil (Esso?) - which shows IBM set up the computerized system for the Nazis to track who was put into which concentration camp and/or was murdered or sent off to experimental medical operations - all the while ATT listened to all telephone communications of the Nazis but didn't supply the Allies with any intelligence. All for a blood dollar. Last but not least the head of Dupont was called into the Oval Office by Roosevelt - why? - the head of Dupont through the World Bank (that he headed up) to stop selling the gold that the Nazis took out of the mouths of the millions gased in gas chambers. The laundered money was then sent to the Nazis to buy more bombs - to bomb London! Of course "we" find out about all the horrors years after the fact. I hate to be reading what corporate horror stories are going on now in various parts of the world - 10 years from now.
First of all, the Wikipedia gang have simply removed any comment I have every made! So much for open discussion.
Yes Dr. Kary Mullis is noted in Wikipedia. Kary is a male;) . But the comments amde are so much bullshit! These comments about Dr. Kary Mullis - really illustrate what this discussion is all about - what's true/relevant!
Wikipedia says don't listen to Mullis about HIV=AIDS because he is not a medical doctor. As if medical doctors know much about dis-ease! And the Wikipedia comment about "its not in his field" - what nosense. A scientist is a scientist is a scientist! Most info spread by medical schools is NOT scientific! Most medical practise (notice the word practise) is not scientific.
It is NOT free speech on Wikipedia. I have tried to post several alternative points about HIV=AIDS - and my comments are always CENSORED out of existance. When I say my comments - I am just repeating what Nobel Laureate For Chemistry Dr. Kary Mullis states about HIV=AIDS. So some illiterate can trump what a Nobel Laureate For Chemistry states. A subtitle for Wikipedia web site could be Dumb And Dummer!
Definition of illiterate : " uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate" ". And that's the first problem with Wikipedia. Then add to that - the impact of schooling. One of the prime purposes of schooling is to get kids (who then get older) to "always obey authority figures". Then add to that the propensity of lying in most parts western world - especially when it comes to politicians. For example, Iraqs "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" lies by Bush et al.. Or the lying that went on initially by Bush and the Boys regarding Katrina. Then add Money to the equation. People in white lab coats at universities will say anything to keep the tax/research money flowing. Lying and/or illiteracy just becomes the norm!
Makes me want to run out and buy a Sony product. NOT! I was going to buy a P2P and likely a Sony HD camcorder- but not anymore! I own several Sony products - a DAT and high end camcorder - but that's it - no more. For the same anti-monopolistic reason - I will never buy another Apple product nor a Nike product. It's time for consumers to start voting with their feet. Is their a website that lists "socially responsible/anti-monopolistic" corporations? I don't mean investment houses that call companies producing long range nuclear missiles - socially responsible.
Is the sky blue? And how much do you want to bet that I can find several articles published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review - that states that the sky is blue?
The fact is that you (and others) are illiterate - def: "3 : showing or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the fundamentals of a particular field of knowledge" and have been schooled so well (brain washed?) into believing anything that comes from "authority" figures - especially people in white lab coats. Have you heard of Pavlov?
Unsubstantiated? Most points of view expressed here by most people here - are unsubstantiated. And it appears to me - that as long one sticks to the "status quo" viewpoint - its OK. But - if one (me) deviates from those "Status Quo" viewpoints - then that makes me a troll or some other bullshit label.
Again no scientific proof that: HIV=AIDS, that people cause global warming, that "global warming" exists, that most prescription drugs do anything positive blah blah. On the other hand its unlikely that that software writers understand anything about learning, that Creationists are not Phsychotic, that Apple gives a crap about its consumers (the bottom line?= monopoly) and so on.
Lastly - when I use the term "illiterate" - def. "3 : showing or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the fundamentals of a particular field of knowledge."
The "discovery" that ulcers were caused by bacteria was by accident - when someone having "ulcers/stomach problems" took PepTo- Bismul. Voila no more uclers! The Bismuth killed of the bacteria. Imagine the millions of people who were tortured by medical doctors for 20 years and more - operating on assumptions, rather than on scientific research. The only thing we don't know is how many other dis-eases that exist in medical schools have no basis - no scientific basis.
For example, initial research shows that the build up of plaque in the arteries ("hardening of the arteries") is caused by bacteria! Yes the same bacteria that cause plaque on teeth!
Even worse, there is not one scientific study that shows that cholesterol has anything do do with heart dis-ease!
Nor is there one scientific research piece published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS"! And on and on. How many treatments, drugs has no basis for being using? At least 50%!!!
By the way I am tired of getting a troll designation or 1 or zero for my replies/posts etc. on the site. Just because some of you are illiterates (like most medical doctors) shouldn't prevent you from expanding your horizons and using google more - rather than relying on Wikis or your limited knowledge.
Anyone here illiterate on the issue of the music industry operating like organized crime synicate - needs to pop payola into google - 710,000 entries pop up.
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What/who "suddenly" decides that if: I buy Crest Toothpaste - that I have to buy a Butler Tooth brush. That if I buy a Volvo - that I have to buy GoodYear tires. That if I buy Nike runners - I have to buy Nike socks. (nine thousand other examples follow - left out for brevity ;) ). That if I now buy an Intel based PC - that has WindowsMedia Player installed - WMP is the only Media Player allowed (by Microsoft). Hey wait - that's already been decided in the USA Courts and the EU Courts. Both Courts found Microsoft guilty of illegal monopolistic actions. Let see - if I buy a Linux OS, and it won't run on a Intel PC because Intel puts in "X" to stop Linux from loading. Legal? No way! So I buy an Intel PC and when I try to install Mac OS X that I buy - I can't because "X" has been installed by Intel - the"X" stops me from installing the Mac OS I bought. No I don't live in Red China - do you?^) Speaking of a better Apple OS - the boys and girls at Apple could improve the Mac OS - which now runs MySLQ 5 times slower than Linux on a Apple G5!!!! Speaking of better Apple products - why don't the boys and girls at Apple improve their implementation of Quicktime H.264 - which takes twice the time to encode compared to some of their competitors. Remember - this time round - Apple is the producer of the codec - can't blame a third party ;)
Isn't it time to organize for a Class Action Suit against Apple and Intel. To me it's an open and shut case of one or both companies trying to eliminate/restrict the consumers choice of what one does with the hardware purchased. At the same time - another scenario is that Apple is simple grabing the media to promote the fact that Apple O$ can run on an Intel PC - nothing like billions of dollars of free advertising. And will then turn around and sell the Apple OS to run on any hardware. In the meantime, I'm sure that DVD Jon (or some else) will force the issue into the courts.
You are now starting to speak like a "Jesuit". I asked you to set up a face to face meeting with god or God with me. And instead you start asking me questions - to avoid the fact that there is no god - no God to meet with. I don't what Darwin has to do with the fact that you can't set up a face to face meeting with god or God (so obviously God does not exist). However, the USA has certainly tried to prove Darwin was right (assuming what you say Darwin said is true) - the hundreds of thousands of Blacks lynched by bible carrying " God Fearing" Whites in the Unites States Of America is a testament to that.
Of course I am serious. I want to sit down with your god or God - face to face. Of course that's not possible - because there is no God or god. Now I am not saying that you and others should or shouldn't believe in God or god if you want to - just don't expect (or is it force ) me and others to believe. It's strange that ID folks say there is no proof for evolution - but at the same time the hiearchy for these folks - while skimming off millions in church donations for a lifestyle of the "rich and famous" - don't have to prove that god or God exists. I am always amazed how successful the Jesuits were (are?) in brainwashing "Protestants" to become "Catholics" with their "bullshit baffles brains" campaign - some call this "equivocation". What baffles me is that all Christain religions are simple cults of the Jewish religion.
Could you please organize a meeting for me - with god or God. I would love to talk to him.
Speaking of Jesuits. Can you tell me what one calls a lie when one is a Jesuit. I can't remember the "name" when - a Jesuit lies in one way or another - by ommission etc..
I am not sure who are the greatest "bullshiters" - the people in white coats who suck off $300,000 tax funded grants - or the people running the largest corporations in the world - the Christain Church of one brand or another. In one case 60 billion dollars has gone to people in white coats, over a 25 year period - who are trying to discover a cure for so-called HIV=AIDS. No cure yet! In the other case, various people running various churches living lifestyles tht would embarass any corporate CEO sitting in jail now. Ar least the CEOs sitting jail - didn't organize the largest pedophile organization in the world - of course sustained by the biggest corporation in the world - the Catholic Church.
This entire issue is not about science or religion - just follow the money. As Molly Ivans the journalist suggests - there are always two groups of people in any issue - those being screwed and those doing the screwing. What better way to make money screwing people - who will give away their money and/or time to religious institutions - who in turn are told that they (the donors) now can go screw someone because.... . Well because - this is where religions are "wonderful" - just make up any bullshit - to fit the situation and away you go - "bullshit always baffles brains". This is what muslim jihads are all about - not about religion - its power and/or money. What i find interesting - is that the folks in white lab coats have kept quite about this issue until recently - they may have to start justifying the $300,000 grants from the NIH and other tax based grants. We just may find out that the folks in white lab coats have been screwing us too.
Governments Giveth and Governments Can Take Away. Any company can have their incorporation status revoked - if they are not behaving in the nation's interest. Depends which country(s) Roche is incorporated in. On the other hand why not charge Roche - with "Crimes Against Humanity" in the International Courts in the Hague! Or is this really all about Asiatic "population control" by a sub contractor to the C.I.A!?
Back to the Media and Apple. How many Macintosh magazines (in hard copy or online ) go after Apple/ Jobs for continuosly producing hardware and an OS that is inferior to Intel/Microsoft - when it comes to real work (not word processing;) ) For example, the "fastest" dual G5 is 25% slower than a Dell (lower price than the dual G5) when it comes to rendering or compressing video. Naturally the G5 would be even slower when compared to an dual AMD. Running MySLQ on a G5/Tiger is 5 times slower than running MySLQ on a G5/Linux!!! Don't believe me! Google all three statements. Or go search http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/ for starters.
Intuitive face? I own both Apple and Microsoft computers. Absolutely no difference in doing word processing on either. Both Apple and Microsoft stole their intuitive face from: "A scientist named Douglas Engelbart. As early as 1962, while Jobs and Wozniak were still drinking Ovaltine and watching Saturday morning cartoons in their jammies, Engelbart was creating several items of interest to the personal computing crowd that would follow. He invented the first "mouse," which he called an "X-Y Position Indicator," a little gizmo housed in a wooden box on wheels that moved around the desktop and took the cursor with it on the display. Engelbart saw the mouse as being an integral part of a "graphical windowed interface," and invented what he called "a windowed GUI" that fascinated co-workers but wasn't considered useful outside the lab. In 1968 Engelbart created NLS (oNLine System), a hypermedia groupware system that used the mouse, the windowed GUI, hypermedia with object addressing and linking, and even an early version of video teleconferencing to wow its audience, a group of technicians, engineers, and scientific types at Stanford University. However, Engelbart was not the only visionary in the history of GUI. In 1963 a grad student at MIT, Ivan Sutherland, submitted as his thesis a program called "Sketchpad," which directly manipulated objects on a CRT screen using a light pen. "Sketchpad pioneered the concepts of graphical computing, including memory structures to store objects, rubber-banding of lines, the ability to zoom in and out on the display, and the ability to make perfect lines, corners, and joints. This was the first GUI (Graphical User Interface) long before the term was coined." -- from a Sun Microsystems biography of Ivan Sutherland The idea of direct manipulation of objects on a screen is integral to the concept of a graphic interface. In fact, the idea of a GUI derives from cognitive psychology, the study of how the brain deals with communication. The idea is that the brain works much more efficiently with graphical icons and displays rather than with words - words add an extra layer of interpretation to the communication process. Imagine if all the road signs you saw were uniform white rectangles, with only the words themselves to differentiate the different commands, warnings, and informational displays. When the "Stop" signs hardly look different from the "Resume Highway Speed" signs, the processing of the signs' messages becomes a slower and more difficult process, and you'd have even more wrecks than you have now. Combine this with Alan Kay's concept of "biological computing," where computer components function like organic "cells," either independently or in concert whenever appropriate, and you have an idea of the thinking behind both modern computing, and the GUI. The 70s - SmallTalk and Xerox "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- informal PARC slogan The underground buzz stayed underground, but Engelbart's and Sutherland's creations were not lost on the creative fellows at Xerox's PARC facility. PARC was (and is), at least in some respects, a computing "think tank," where brilliant and brilliantly erratic minds cranked out ideas and tried, with varying success, to implement them on the workbench. In the early 70s, as part of a (sadly abortive) project called "Dynabook" that envisioned notebook-sized, hyperlinked computers, Alan Kay and others developed an interactive object-oriented [3] programming language called Smalltalk. Kay had previously worked with a team at the University of Utah that developed a programming system called Flex. This was a design for a flexible simulation and graphics-oriented personal computer, with many ideas derived from the Norwegian-developed Simula programming language, another programming language called LISP, and Sutherland's Sketchpad. Kay also borrowed ideas from a highly graphical language called Logo, which was designed to teach programming to children. Smalltalk featured a graphical user interface (GUI) that looked suspiciously simi
The analytical comments by Cringely and a few other journalists - more often than not, question Apple/Jobs approaches. The other journalists are lemmings and are easily impressed by what's "cool". It seems that if they like "cool" - that makes them "cool" too. The fact that Apple/Jobs is afraid to compete in the market place with overpriced products seems to escape these writers. The fact that Apple/Jobs produces products - which are predisposed to attempting to create a monopoly - for example the audio formats for the iPods, or the OSX can only run on Apple Intel boxes, or when only Apple's Superdrive could be used with their DVD software and so on. Price? I remember an article in MacWorld which shows the cost of parts for the MacSE was $350 - but cost me $3000. Its too bad these writers don't bring "Right Livlihood" into their stories. Then they would evaluate Apple differently - and would ask if any particular Apple product is "being all it could be" for the USER. Just look at Apple approach to H264 - which is marginal at best in terms of profiles and levels laid out in the spec. Even worse Apple Quicktime 7 h.264 interoperability sucks - sucks badly.
Again - cite one study that states " HIV is the probable cause of AIDS". Since you are so sure about your beliefs - you must have that study sitting on your shelf - or computer! Yes/No!? AZT was first developed to "cure" people who had "cancer". AZT works by killing human cells. The notion is that - lets give someone AZT and hope that the AZT kills off the cancer cells before the AZT kills all the non cancerous cells - which means the person being "treated" with AZT is dead!! Any healthy person will die if they are given AZT for an extended period of time!! When AZT was removed as a treatment for cancer and put on the shelf - it was then resurrected as a treatment for AIDS!. Anyone that has the supposedly a disease called AIDS and treated with AZT - will die from the AZT. Many people - supposedly infected with HIV -and are not treated with AZT - don't get sick with AIDS - even after 15 years - and don't die from HIV/AIDS.
DR. Mullis won a Nobel Prize in chemistry - likely one of the youngest ever to receive a Nobel. Duhhhh! The Nobel Prize was for "his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - which redifined the world of DNA and genetics." Duhhhh! Dr. Mullis is a biochemist! Duhhh! Dr Mullis is an expert witness on DNA for court cases. Duhhh! The jerk offs posting so-called info about the supposed HIV DNA particles that cause the hypothetical dis-ease AIDS, do not have a Nobel Prize that relates directly to DNA scientific research! The jerk offs posting so-called info about the supposed HIV DNA particles that cause the hypothetical dis-ease AIDS, are not ranked as a "expert witness" when it comes to testifying about DNA in court cases! Despite the above - the jerks offs control what goes into the "democratic" Wikipedia!! They are more expert than Mullis. Duhhhh! What this is really all about is - "The Scientific Method". Remember grade nine science? Remember "The Scientific Method". Go back and read your text book about what the "scientific method" is and what is it isn't. Dr. Mullis was working as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica. He was asked to write a report so that the lab could grab one of the $300,000 grants to study "HIV/AIDS". As Mullis strated his report "since HIV is the probable cause of AIDS" - then stopped - because he needed to find the study that said that - first. He asked a bunch of people - including Dr. Montagnier - the supposed discoverer of HIV/AIDS about a study that shows that "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS" - Montagnier could not cite one study! Duhhhhh!
When it comes to greed versus good - the history of corporations in the USA (and other places too) has been anything but stellar. One good read is "Trading With The Enemy" - which shows Dupont supplied the gas to murder millions in the concetration camps, which shows Ford supplied ballbearings for Nazis tanks - which shows the Luftwaffer bombing London with Luftwaffer getting their aviation fuel from Standard Oil (Esso?) - which shows IBM set up the computerized system for the Nazis to track who was put into which concentration camp and/or was murdered or sent off to experimental medical operations - all the while ATT listened to all telephone communications of the Nazis but didn't supply the Allies with any intelligence. All for a blood dollar. Last but not least the head of Dupont was called into the Oval Office by Roosevelt - why? - the head of Dupont through the World Bank (that he headed up) to stop selling the gold that the Nazis took out of the mouths of the millions gased in gas chambers. The laundered money was then sent to the Nazis to buy more bombs - to bomb London! Of course "we" find out about all the horrors years after the fact. I hate to be reading what corporate horror stories are going on now in various parts of the world - 10 years from now.
First of all, the Wikipedia gang have simply removed any comment I have every made! So much for open discussion.
Yes Dr. Kary Mullis is noted in Wikipedia. Kary is a male;) . But the comments amde are so much bullshit! These comments about Dr. Kary Mullis - really illustrate what this discussion is all about - what's true/relevant!
Wikipedia says don't listen to Mullis about HIV=AIDS because he is not a medical doctor. As if medical doctors know much about dis-ease! And the Wikipedia comment about "its not in his field" - what nosense. A scientist is a scientist is a scientist! Most info spread by medical schools is NOT scientific! Most medical practise (notice the word practise) is not scientific.
It is NOT free speech on Wikipedia. I have tried to post several alternative points about HIV=AIDS - and my comments are always CENSORED out of existance. When I say my comments - I am just repeating what Nobel Laureate For Chemistry Dr. Kary Mullis states about HIV=AIDS. So some illiterate can trump what a Nobel Laureate For Chemistry states. A subtitle for Wikipedia web site could be Dumb And Dummer!
Definition of illiterate : " uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate" ". And that's the first problem with Wikipedia. Then add to that - the impact of schooling. One of the prime purposes of schooling is to get kids (who then get older) to "always obey authority figures". Then add to that the propensity of lying in most parts western world - especially when it comes to politicians. For example, Iraqs "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" lies by Bush et al.. Or the lying that went on initially by Bush and the Boys regarding Katrina. Then add Money to the equation. People in white lab coats at universities will say anything to keep the tax/research money flowing. Lying and/or illiteracy just becomes the norm!
Makes me want to run out and buy a Sony product. NOT! I was going to buy a P2P and likely a Sony HD camcorder- but not anymore! I own several Sony products - a DAT and high end camcorder - but that's it - no more. For the same anti-monopolistic reason - I will never buy another Apple product nor a Nike product. It's time for consumers to start voting with their feet. Is their a website that lists "socially responsible/anti-monopolistic" corporations? I don't mean investment houses that call companies producing long range nuclear missiles - socially responsible.
Is the sky blue? And how much do you want to bet that I can find several articles published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review - that states that the sky is blue? The fact is that you (and others) are illiterate - def: "3 : showing or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the fundamentals of a particular field of knowledge" and have been schooled so well (brain washed?) into believing anything that comes from "authority" figures - especially people in white lab coats. Have you heard of Pavlov?
Unsubstantiated? Most points of view expressed here by most people here - are unsubstantiated. And it appears to me - that as long one sticks to the "status quo" viewpoint - its OK. But - if one (me) deviates from those "Status Quo" viewpoints - then that makes me a troll or some other bullshit label.
Again no scientific proof that: HIV=AIDS, that people cause global warming, that "global warming" exists, that most prescription drugs do anything positive blah blah. On the other hand its unlikely that that software writers understand anything about learning, that Creationists are not Phsychotic, that Apple gives a crap about its consumers (the bottom line?= monopoly) and so on.
Lastly - when I use the term "illiterate" - def. "3 : showing or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the fundamentals of a particular field of knowledge."
Flame bait? No! - ha ha ha like I said - illiterates
The "discovery" that ulcers were caused by bacteria was by accident - when someone having "ulcers/stomach problems" took PepTo- Bismul. Voila no more uclers! The Bismuth killed of the bacteria. Imagine the millions of people who were tortured by medical doctors for 20 years and more - operating on assumptions, rather than on scientific research. The only thing we don't know is how many other dis-eases that exist in medical schools have no basis - no scientific basis.
For example, initial research shows that the build up of plaque in the arteries ("hardening of the arteries") is caused by bacteria! Yes the same bacteria that cause plaque on teeth!
Even worse, there is not one scientific study that shows that cholesterol has anything do do with heart dis-ease!
Nor is there one scientific research piece published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS"! And on and on. How many treatments, drugs has no basis for being using? At least 50%!!!
By the way I am tired of getting a troll designation or 1 or zero for my replies/posts etc. on the site. Just because some of you are illiterates (like most medical doctors) shouldn't prevent you from expanding your horizons and using google more - rather than relying on Wikis or your limited knowledge.
Anyone here illiterate on the issue of the music industry operating like organized crime synicate - needs to pop payola into google - 710,000 entries pop up.