One possible explanation could be that by virtue of being on both sides of this lawsuit, one single financial institution--Wells Fargo--can now claim twice the federal money committed to helping lenders make up for losses related to the "mortgage crisis".
1. Including/. and (now) the blog cited here (and the WP article that it refers to), I've been "told" by at least 4 media outlets about how boingboing is one of the most popular blogs in the universe, yet I've never visited it and have no plans to do so at any time in the future. So the blogger could be right--the author is not making very much money--or maybe the WP article is right--he's cleaning up.
Either way I'm still not going to visit.
2. It seems like it would be a good thing if blogging is no longer undertaken as a way to get-rich-quick. That would seem to mean that the ones who are still doing it are doing it for some reason other than money: i.e. for free. If it weren't for people who did things for free (or at least on spec) there'd be no personal computers, no Linux, no US Constitution and no Holy Bible.
Look at this way, maybe some blogger will come up with an open source religion, like "Jezux: Put the fun back in prayer."
I seem to recall reading the original of this article (and, presumably the book it is drawn from); at the time I read it, the book was titled, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Robert Pirsig--the author of the original--seemed less convinced of his status of a policy-wonk than does Matthew Crawford.
Of course Pirsig "supplemented his income" by teaching rhetoric and not--as Mr. Crawford does--by having essays published in the NY Times.
ps--if he's really a mechanic then why aren't there any greasy finger prints on his article?
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Daengbo mentioned above (vis a vis Tandy PC's from the '70's) that this is the way personal computers used to work.
Weren't the Macs and Ataris from the 1980's similar, utilizing a dedicated chip for the gui ("Apple toolbox")?
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it does seem like everything old is "newer" again.
Thank goodness the kid came forward and set the record straight by telling us all the truth . . . we did check to make certain that he's telling the truth this time didn't we?
What makes you think that "the encyclopedia" was/is created in any way different from the manner in which wikipedia is/was created?
Remember that at one time the printed records of "everything that ever happened, exactly the way it happened" did not tell the stories of the use of agent orange in Vietnam, the Tuskegee syphilis study, or the massacre at Wounded Knee, even though those are now accepted as "historical fact".
You may want to (re-)read E.H. Carr's, "What is History", speaking of books, and refer to it regularly as you read the gospel according to whatever gives you the comfort of "authoritative source".
. . . is a bit like driving an automobile with a manual stick transmission, while also being a bit like driving one with an automatic, and yet not exactly like the modern compromise, "manu-matic".
(Manu-matic is supposed to give the driver a sense of the control of the stick, while simultaneously incorporating the no-brainer-ness of an automatic.)
The ports system is an undeniably good idea, but only really shines if it is supported by a full-time, high-speed connection.
Running FreeBSD from a set of CD's, on the other hand, can be really frustrating in my experience; while running Ubuntu, (Open-)Suse, and even Slackware from a CD-, or DVD installation--the way most desktop users are accustomed to--is much more doable at this point.
Still, if you yearn for the feel of cranky stick-shifts and the quirks of normal aspiration--some things that would seem likely to appeal to those drawn to open-source--then put on your goggles, fire up your broadband and pop that boot-only 7.2 RELEASE CD into the tray.
The "original origin" of Wolverine was very good too; if it had not been so, there would never have been as many "re-workings" as there now have been.
With regard to the disrespect inherent is viewing artists' work before it's "done":
If the work of the artists who first came up with Wolverine and made him an interesting personality (not just a "character") had been respected in the first place, a lanky, Australian actor would never have been cast to play the short, stocky, Canadian Wolverine.
But I guess your respect for artistic integrity only extends to highly-paid, studio-backed adaption-wonks and not anyone who actually does any real creative work.
trying to recreate muscular movement seems more similar to using amplification of low signal levels to drive loudspeakers than to reducing thousands of pcb's to a few ic's to make a pc
(Some might say decent journalism could have helped here, but that's part and parcel of the perception problem.)
Yes; the best part of the whole dust-up is how TFA says that "Ubuntu contains Linux". If Linux is still considered by a "tech reporter" to be something akin to what high fructose corn syrup is in the soft drink world then there are a lot of hurdles still to get over besides one technophobic cheese-head.
It is hard to see any difference here from ISP "ideal conditions" down-/upload speeds which are never achieved in actual use, but are pitched "ad nauseam".
Either advertisers are to be held to account for documenting their performance claims, or consumers just have to assume it's all locker room talk (i.e. about 90% puff).
Shouldn't Spock already have been his adult self when he joined the Enterprise crew? Don't Vulcans live about twice as long as Humans? Do I know too much about this?
Also, I'm guessing there's a reason the top was dropped on the sting ray by the time the kid made it to that deep crevasse (the kind that one always finds in the middle of Iowa cornfields) or was that a continuity error?
I also saw a spike at that same time on councilman Les Winan's wikipedia's entry, but--like Sen. McCain--I figured that either Palin, Gilliam or the dead one would have much more cachet.
Your png with imageshack doesn't really show sufficient info to retrieve the document. As a result it is impossible to know if the information exists, if it shows what you say it shows or if you've made the whole thing up yourself. If the Chinese gov't can create a false passport (and fail to recognize the existence of contradictory, public documentation) then I'm pretty sure that a "hacker" with an inexplicable interest in girls' gymnastics could make up a phony png.
(5) Good-looking people who can talk with management and customers in a confident non-geeky way in perfect English will survive.
If you don't think that any/a lot of Indians are good-looking then you need to run "Ayesha Takia" through images.google.com asap.
Many Indians are British-educated as well, so it's likely that their command of English likely is at least as good as that of Chad Fowler and his editor at The Practical Bookshelf.
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One possible explanation could be that by virtue of being on both sides of this lawsuit, one single financial institution--Wells Fargo--can now claim twice the federal money committed to helping lenders make up for losses related to the "mortgage crisis".
How does one get to be an intern at an organization at M-S at age 15?
ps--kid's right, twitter is dumb
1. Including /. and (now) the blog cited here (and the WP article that it refers to), I've been "told" by at least 4 media outlets about how boingboing is one of the most popular blogs in the universe, yet I've never visited it and have no plans to do so at any time in the future. So the blogger could be right--the author is not making very much money--or maybe the WP article is right--he's cleaning up.
Either way I'm still not going to visit.
2. It seems like it would be a good thing if blogging is no longer undertaken as a way to get-rich-quick. That would seem to mean that the ones who are still doing it are doing it for some reason other than money: i.e. for free. If it weren't for people who did things for free (or at least on spec) there'd be no personal computers, no Linux, no US Constitution and no Holy Bible.
Look at this way, maybe some blogger will come up with an open source religion, like "Jezux: Put the fun back in prayer."
"Hinduxism", with a six-winged penguin-god.
Wow.
It seems more like 25 minutes ago when the rows started piling up.
Great keyboard game.
For more ideas check here:
http://www.marthastewart.com/crafts
I seem to recall reading the original of this article (and, presumably the book it is drawn from); at the time I read it, the book was titled, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Robert Pirsig--the author of the original--seemed less convinced of his status of a policy-wonk than does Matthew Crawford.
Of course Pirsig "supplemented his income" by teaching rhetoric and not--as Mr. Crawford does--by having essays published in the NY Times.
ps--if he's really a mechanic then why aren't there any greasy finger prints on his article?
Daengbo mentioned above (vis a vis Tandy PC's from the '70's) that this is the way personal computers used to work.
Weren't the Macs and Ataris from the 1980's similar, utilizing a dedicated chip for the gui ("Apple toolbox")?
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it does seem like everything old is "newer" again.
Thank goodness the kid came forward and set the record straight by telling us all the truth . . . we did check to make certain that he's telling the truth this time didn't we?
What makes you think that "the encyclopedia" was/is created in any way different from the manner in which wikipedia is/was created?
Remember that at one time the printed records of "everything that ever happened, exactly the way it happened" did not tell the stories of the use of agent orange in Vietnam, the Tuskegee syphilis study, or the massacre at Wounded Knee, even though those are now accepted as "historical fact".
You may want to (re-)read E.H. Carr's, "What is History", speaking of books, and refer to it regularly as you read the gospel according to whatever gives you the comfort of "authoritative source".
. . . is a bit like driving an automobile with a manual stick transmission, while also being a bit like driving one with an automatic, and yet not exactly like the modern compromise, "manu-matic".
(Manu-matic is supposed to give the driver a sense of the control of the stick, while simultaneously incorporating the no-brainer-ness of an automatic.)
The ports system is an undeniably good idea, but only really shines if it is supported by a full-time, high-speed connection.
Running FreeBSD from a set of CD's, on the other hand, can be really frustrating in my experience; while running Ubuntu, (Open-)Suse, and even Slackware from a CD-, or DVD installation--the way most desktop users are accustomed to--is much more doable at this point.
Still, if you yearn for the feel of cranky stick-shifts and the quirks of normal aspiration--some things that would seem likely to appeal to those drawn to open-source--then put on your goggles, fire up your broadband and pop that boot-only 7.2 RELEASE CD into the tray.
Flash is for sissies anyway, no?
. . . if a Klingon ever got the chance, he'd edit you and everyone you care about!
That Ayn Rand, she sure could type!
140 frame videos of John Cleese insulting the viewer.
Or TwitLiza . . . if you'd like to have an argument . . . a very, very, very circular argument.
No, he's just glad to see you.
The "original origin" of Wolverine was very good too; if it had not been so, there would never have been as many "re-workings" as there now have been.
With regard to the disrespect inherent is viewing artists' work before it's "done":
If the work of the artists who first came up with Wolverine and made him an interesting personality (not just a "character") had been respected in the first place, a lanky, Australian actor would never have been cast to play the short, stocky, Canadian Wolverine.
But I guess your respect for artistic integrity only extends to highly-paid, studio-backed adaption-wonks and not anyone who actually does any real creative work.
I have seen chefs put lobsters in the freezer so they (presumably) go to sleep and die quietly.
Is this more or less humane I wonder.
trying to recreate muscular movement seems more similar to using amplification of low signal levels to drive loudspeakers than to reducing thousands of pcb's to a few ic's to make a pc
(Some might say decent journalism could have helped here, but that's part and parcel of the perception problem.)
Yes; the best part of the whole dust-up is how TFA says that "Ubuntu contains Linux". If Linux is still considered by a "tech reporter" to be something akin to what high fructose corn syrup is in the soft drink world then there are a lot of hurdles still to get over besides one technophobic cheese-head.
I agree.
It is hard to see any difference here from ISP "ideal conditions" down-/upload speeds which are never achieved in actual use, but are pitched "ad nauseam".
Either advertisers are to be held to account for documenting their performance claims, or consumers just have to assume it's all locker room talk (i.e. about 90% puff).
Shouldn't Spock already have been his adult self when he joined the Enterprise crew? Don't Vulcans live about twice as long as Humans? Do I know too much about this?
Also, I'm guessing there's a reason the top was dropped on the sting ray by the time the kid made it to that deep crevasse (the kind that one always finds in the middle of Iowa cornfields) or was that a continuity error?
I also saw a spike at that same time on councilman Les Winan's wikipedia's entry, but--like Sen. McCain--I figured that either Palin, Gilliam or the dead one would have much more cachet.
Your png with imageshack doesn't really show sufficient info to retrieve the document. As a result it is impossible to know if the information exists, if it shows what you say it shows or if you've made the whole thing up yourself. If the Chinese gov't can create a false passport (and fail to recognize the existence of contradictory, public documentation) then I'm pretty sure that a "hacker" with an inexplicable interest in girls' gymnastics could make up a phony png.
No, and I wouldn't want to practice for years and be "beaten" by a scorekeeper's acknowledged error either.
(5) Good-looking people who can talk with management and customers in a confident non-geeky way in perfect English will survive.
If you don't think that any/a lot of Indians are good-looking then you need to run "Ayesha Takia" through images.google.com asap. Many Indians are British-educated as well, so it's likely that their command of English likely is at least as good as that of Chad Fowler and his editor at The Practical Bookshelf.
being "real" like Tom Brokaw's "resonant voice", or Sarah Jessica Parker's "beauty regimen"?