Er, (2) is sort of how progress is made, isn't it?...
Umm... Read the Wiki link. My post was meant as a cautionary comment about the possibility of History repeating itself, or fools repeating History -- whichever butters your bread.
Or as Scotty said: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Embrace: Microsoft develops software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
Extend: Microsoft adds and promotes features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to remain neutral.
Extinguish: Microsoft's extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, marginalizing competitors that do not or cannot support Microsoft's extensions and creating an obstacle to new would-be competitors.
How will we feed it? How will it be tamed? And how soon will it, in its inevitable turn, become a dinosaur?
Gigasaurus, we hardly knew you...
[Sniff. A lone tear edged forth; the opalescent bead sparkled in the candlelight and betrayed my true feelings -- noooo! Damn you technology! Damn you to hell.]
The question is, how much flare does II Pegasi need to really express itself? 26? 37? Sure, the requirement is 11 pieces, but I'm sure it doesn't want to just do "the minimum".
From the article, the report 'predicts that by 2016 shoppers could be scanned as they enter stores, schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat, and jobs may be refused to applicants who are seen as a health risk.'
Nothing to see here. Just a minority report written by Guy Fawkes at Gattaca...
Microsoft is using a new algorithm to monitor hardware changes and enforce licensing compliance, and the company says that it is more forgiving now than it was with Windows XP.
Warning! Reading the words "Microsoft", "forgiving", and "Windows" (XP) in the same sentence may cause your head to explode.
...where only its own high priests of security may venture.
Actually, their metaphor is making me think Aztec/Inca monuments and sacrificial altars with blood and human hearts... After all, it is Microsoft. Or perhaps I'm thinkin' Arby's.
... research into finite improbability which was often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess' undergarments leap one foot simultaneously to the left in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.
Many respectful physicists said they wouldn't go to stand for that sort of thing, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
I doubt an "advanced civilization" would treat their own planet, flora, fauna and population as do we.
..."advanced civilization" is a meaningless term. How advanced? I think we still have a lot of room for advancement...
Yes, we do have a lot of room for advancment, though I didn't necessarily mean technological. I was actually trying to make a point about humans being self-centered and short-sighted with regard to our environmental stewardship and treatment of others. Some of which may be described by your own sig...
The war for oil is a war for the beast
The war on terror is a war on peace
"And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably."
SAs seem to thing that 'their way' is always the best way. Each one wants to setup their servers differntly because of this or that reason, and in turn sacrifice uniformity.
Hmmm... Time for some new SAs. Seriously, I've spent most of the past 20 years as admin to just about every kind of Unix (and some Windoze) system from Cray to Linux. Unless there's a convincing reason to the contrary, I either configure the system "standard" (or, as usual for that vendor) or all the same, and I try to automate as much as possible. I document it in any case. This way, if I get hit by a bus, someone else can step in with minimal fuss and confusion.
Usability, reliability and maintainability are more important than my ego. (Though my ego can take care of itself...:-)
Intelligent, creative people are far less likely to pay attention to personal appearance, where beautiful people are far less likely to pay attention to mental pursuits.
Your idea of the epitomy of consumer safety is to try something and see how it makes you feel?... There are plenty of things that will make you feel great today and kill you in a week or in twenty years.
Or in a few minutes... Mmmmm, this smells like almonds.
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Umm... Read the Wiki link. My post was meant as a cautionary comment about the possibility of History repeating itself, or fools repeating History -- whichever butters your bread.
Or as Scotty said: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Gigasaurus, we hardly knew you...
[Sniff. A lone tear edged forth; the opalescent bead sparkled in the candlelight and betrayed my true feelings -- noooo! Damn you technology! Damn you to hell.]
Now about those TPS reports...
Or, he may not :-)
Nothing to see here. Just a minority report written by Guy Fawkes at Gattaca...
I looked in my vacuum here at home, but saw no light.
Perhaps the Hoover at work...
You kids and your new-fangled sub-light speed waves.
Get offa my lawn!
Warning! Reading the words "Microsoft", "forgiving", and "Windows" (XP) in the same sentence may cause your head to explode.
Bah! Knowing what to compress is more intelligenter...
[Sigh, I am so old...]
Actually, their metaphor is making me think Aztec/Inca monuments and sacrificial altars with blood and human hearts... After all, it is Microsoft. Or perhaps I'm thinkin' Arby's.
Oh yes, I went there and there.
Meaning that the kernel itself will actually be a port of OpenBSD, but (shhh) don't tell anyone.
I'm a little uncertain, but I think that you can either know what's been infected, or how fast it's being infected, but not both...
Not counting all the old magazines from 1990 B.C. Geesh, this article about the delta flooding is at least five years older than the dig site...
Worked for Lot. Too bad about his wife...
Many respectful physicists said they wouldn't go to stand for that sort of thing, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
Douglas Adams. A man a head of his time...
I believe the correct spelling is lynx. :-)
(Although the graphics rendering is a bitch.)
Yes, we do have a lot of room for advancment, though I didn't necessarily mean technological. I was actually trying to make a point about humans being self-centered and short-sighted with regard to our environmental stewardship and treatment of others. Some of which may be described by your own sig...
"And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably."
Umm... They would probably come to that conclusion right now. :-)
I doubt an "advanced civilization" would treat their own planet, flora, fauna and population as do we.
Hmmm... Time for some new SAs. Seriously, I've spent most of the past 20 years as admin to just about every kind of Unix (and some Windoze) system from Cray to Linux. Unless there's a convincing reason to the contrary, I either configure the system "standard" (or, as usual for that vendor) or all the same, and I try to automate as much as possible. I document it in any case. This way, if I get hit by a bus, someone else can step in with minimal fuss and confusion.
Usability, reliability and maintainability are more important than my ego. (Though my ego can take care of itself... :-)
What's that saying? "Beauty * Brains = Constant"
Or in a few minutes... Mmmmm, this smells like almonds.