You can also make refrigerators using a Stirling-engine like gas compression cycle. The guys at Medis Technologies have designed this. See here for the brief description. I guess instead of trying to extract mechanical work from a Stirling engine, they are just removing heat from one area and piping it off elsewhere. They claim this uses no greenhouse depleting gases, and it sounds plausible to me.
A strategy can be protected as a trade secret, maybe, since trade secrets can be pretty much anything a company keeps secret and uses to plan or conduct business. However, copyright law is there to protect authors and artists. A "strategy" is not copyrightable by design. A strategy _document_ is protected by copyright, but a single fact from a document is not protected by copyright. Period.
Eh. If you read the article you'll see that it CLAIMS that the tattoo-bot creates its own designs. As in some sort of wacky design generation procedure. You don't actually get to pick a design at all. The idea of a tattoobot is kinda cool in some ways, but the idea that I'd let a pseudorandomly generated design that a fucking Palm Pilot came up with be permanently etched on my skin is so laughable as to not even qualify for being funny.
In short, this story is either pure fiction, stretched from truth until it was barely recognizable or just outright bollocks. I'm sure you could find volunteers to get tattoos from a machine if they could pick it, but who is gonna wander by a booth at some show and say, gee, it seems like a great idea to get a randomly generated crooked-ass-R shape tattooed onto my arm permanently. Might as well let a meat grinder make a random design on your hand.
Nice try buddy. You are saying that limitless music-on-demand to handheld devices and car-based players is a geek application? You are saying that looking up restaurants, movies, directions, and so-on on a dashboard-based browser when you are stuck miles from home and need some critical information is a geek application? You don't see how these would interest ordinary people?
I never said that Hello Kitty-wallpaper or customized ringtones don't appeal to the masses. In fact, I wish my shitty cellphone could download customized ringtones (I think I'll pass on the Hello Kitty wallpaper as I'm not a 13 year old girl). However, I don't really get the sense that custom ringtone download is inherently more or less "geeky" than any other wireless app. Furthermore, as was ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN THE ORIGINAL POST, those aren't 3G apps. They don't require 3G, and really have nothing to do with 3G. They require minimal bandwidth data transfer. Frankly, to say they require 2.5G is a stretch.
The geekiness of these applications is pretty much determined by how hard they are to execute. As long as downloading customized ringtones requires you to jump through a million hoops and do all sorts of work with a computer, link cables, whatever, only a frigging geek would do it. If it's just a matter of going into a menu to the "ringtone" selection and selecting "Download more Ringtones" and picking from a list and having it happen automagically, the application suddenly becomes accessible to the masses who will realize that it's not only cool but that they can actually do it without messing with any geeky stuff. The same argument applies to all potential 3G apps. If my car comes with a console that not only supports GPS, but integrated 3G wireless, which is connected to an embedded MP3 decoder piped into the car stereo, then all Joe Consumer needs to do is sign up for the 10 dollar a month music-on-demand service when he buys his car and click on the menu button to select songs for a personal playlist, or select a reccommended themed playlist before setting out for his daily commuting or for that long intercity drive.
Now if you can tell me with a straight face that music-on-demand is more geeky and has less mass appeal than fucking cell-based videophones, I will laugh in your face and call you an RIAA gimp.
Eh. Unfortunately, in this case, the Google search has led you astray. I actually just confirmed that in fact, she took the 8 middle initial herself, and it was not given to her by her parents. Her reason? To differentiate herself, to "brand" her name. That's it.:) The myth about her name might have been started by her too, but it's not true.
Okay that sentence was retarded, forgive me, I typed that post hastily as I had to run out and grab some dinner. It should read "MP3s have been one of the killer apps for broadband internet". Don't ask me what the fuck the web has to do with it, since these days most MP3s are leeched from Kazaa et. al. Though if you remember the old skewl days, we used to have scour.net and other great web-based MP3 leeching systems. Back in 98 and 99 when I was in college we used to download MP3s off the web all the time.
Well, she wrote under the same name for the Harvard Crimson when she was a student at Harvard. Depending on who you believe either a) that's her real middle name, given to her by her parents because 8 is a lucky number in China or b) she took the number 8 as her middle initial to distinguish herself from the multitude of Asian girls named "Jennifer Lee". In reality, I think both have some truth. Her middle name really is that weird, and she uses it and spells it 8 because it gets attention. I mean, she could use Jennifer E Lee in her byline if she wanted, or just Jennifer Lee, due to the weirdness of her middle name, but she chooses to feature it very prominently because it makes her stories and her byline that much more noticeable.
The killer app for 3G wireless? Well, there are lots of them out there, but letting yourself get coupled to the idea of the cellphone as the correct outlet for them all is retarded. The network should not be usable only by an audio handset device. That's dumb.
Audio-on-demand. From anywhere you want. THAT will kick ass. MP3s have been one of the killer apps for the web. Being able to build a little MP3 player that can play MP3s, record them from the radio, AND stream any song you want over a 3G network - that will rock. Again, it's not a fucking cellphone. I want a small cellphone that I can talk into. Maybe a bluetooth headset would be nice. And an ultra-high density fuel cell to power the handset. But other than that, I am pretty satisfied with my cellphone as a thing I use to call people, not a thing I use for video, picture-taking or music-listening.
I mean, this stuff doesn't take much creativity to come up with. Sending phone-quality pictures to my friends from my cellphone? Eh. Not that impressive. Videophones? They've failed utterly though the technology has been there for years (and the bandwidth is actually there in many households for it to work quite well). No reason to think that video-cellphones will do better. People like cellphones because they can do other shit while they talk on them - I drive and use my cell all the time because I'm a BUSY fucking person (before I get flamed, I always use my handsfree set so I can devote most of my attention to the road).
So, in short, think of all the cool apps that could be built with 3G wireless bandwidth that ARE NOT cellphones. My car should have a GPS console, with integrated 3G wireless, that lets me search the web, auto-updates the map data (I don't know how the current car-GPS units do this). And audio-on-demand in the car - that would be great. Anyway, there are still things *I* can't do with *my* cell phone - real SMTP email access, real web browsing (not the current shitty excuse for this), download email attachments and view them - I suppose these examples are mostly 2.5G compatible apps, but the ones above seem to require 3G.
No, I think that people are familiar with two browsers. These browsers are called "Netscape" (to most people, and to some "Netscape Navigator") and "Internet Explorer". There is some basic imagery here that speaks to people. What I'm suggesting is that from a marketing perspective (something usually ignored in open source projects) it doesn't necessarily seem sensible to strike out in a totally new direction with naming. To say that a "derivative" name or simply a name that evokes similar imagery to existing products (that was really my point) implies guaranteed product failure is insane. MozLite and MiniMoz - well those are simple. They sound like shit. Lightscape (or the less preferable Litescape which sounds cheesier to me - like a shitty American beer) is, as I SAID IN MY POST WHICH YOU CLEARLY DIDN'T READ is directly derivative of Netscape and too similar to be suitable. But it has an advantage in that it DOESN'T sound like shit (MiniMoz, Moz-anything) and evokes several images that work in the context of the product (a lighthouse which is a beacon on the seas, a well-lit landscape, a relationship to Netscape, etc.)
So if you go back and look at my post, you'll note that my point was not that I was genuinely putting forth either of those names as candidates - rather, I thought that coming up with a nautically themed name, or name that evokes imagery similar to existing browsers might help with product adoption.
Well, if you look at their main project page here you will see that they refer to the Chimera Project and sometimes to Navigator. Whether this is a mistake, or cutting and pasting of sentences from other sources or intentional is certainly arguable. Somebody told me that they were calling it "The Chimera Project" but they were officially not calling the browser "Chimera" anymore - when I went to their webpage I saw the strange back-and-forth references. Anyway, it was just an idea.:) Take it or leave it.
Somebody else just pointed out that the Chimera browser (Mac OS X/Cocoa GUI using Gecko rendering engine) is now called "Navigator" or "Chimera Navigator" but the project is still called "The Chimera Project". This apparently was due to threat of lawsuit there by some trademark holder on "Chimera".
Why not take the same approach? Call it "Project Phoenix" or "The Phoenix Project" and call the browser something bland? IIRC, a trademark only applies to exact wording - i.e. "The Phoenix Project(TM)" does not infringe on "Phoenix(TM)", even if they both are vaguely software-related in some way. At least it puts you in a defensible position. Just an idea anyway. Let me know if I am completely wrong. Obviously, Phoenix can still sue and argue trademark dilution if they really want, but they would have to prove that there's a reasonable chance for confusion. That seems difficult no matter what. And frankly, Phoenix can sue them anyway if they want, even if they've ceased the offending usage (they can still argue damage has been done to their brand recognition - hah!) - no reason to run scared from a lawsuit, it just encourages more frivolous suits.
That's the best suggestion so far. I prefer Gryphon to Kirin (at least I don't feel like busting open a Japanese beer every time I surf the web). As long as you don't call it Gryffindor - which might get you sued by JK Rowling.
It even makes some sense - take the rear end of a lion (Mozilla) and give it a slick, eagle/feline front end (that slick, customizable Phoenix GUI). Okay, it's a stretch. But it sounds good.
Here's my vote for Gryphon.
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Maybe you should try downloading a better browser, like Phoenix or Mozilla? Just an idea that you might find preferable to whining about the sucky browser included with your computer. If you are sophisticated enough to disable scripting, then there's no fucking excuse for you to be using IE.
Why do we have to stick with mythical figures or variants of the word Phoenix? I mean Phoenix made sense - a bird that, after having been consumed in flames, rises from its own ashes (the ashes being the Mozilla project - I suppose the imagery may be objectionable to Mozilla project fans, but there's some basis to it). I mean this made sense from a marketing perspective.
But we can come up with other names that make sense too. How about something that harkens to the Netscape name (not so obviously that it presents a trademark issue of course). Example: Lightscape (or Litescape). Maybe that's too similar, and we should expand the search to related themes. Galeon used this approach for its name, which is a decent name. Some other cool ship name?
Something like K-meleon, on the other hand is a shitty name (if for no other reason than it's not only hard to spell and thus hard to search for and find on the web).
If you can find a mythological name that seems appropriate (has some associated imagery) and sounds decent rolling off the tongue then fine. Otherwise, we shouldn't limit ourselves to the mythological figures/Phoenix-alike names. I don't want this to end up as another open source project rendered inaccessible to a wide audience by a shitty name (think: Ogg Vorbis). I'll never be able to download and install something on my mother's computer if I have to tell her it's an Ogg Vorbis player.
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You need to do stuff like code all night, run around in circles flapping your arms, eat all kinds of weird crap, not bathe very often, and also (perhaps as a result?) not get laid for months at a time.
Wow, that's impressive. I made a small stride for Open Source software - my mother always hated Internet Explorer because the older versions she had on Windows 98 blew up all the time on her (well, Windows 98 blew up all the time to be fair). So I just built her a new computer to replace the rickety Gateway POS she had, and the first thing she wanted to do was download Netscape 7.0 (or whatever the current version is now). I said, "Well, you could do that, or you could use that Mozilla browser I use, that is the same thing as Netscape, but with some other features." Of course, she wanted to know what features. When I told her about blocking popups she was honestly amazed and excited that this was a matter of checking a configuration option on Mozilla. I downloaded it and she was thrilled. So happy that I just came home two weeks later and discovered that my 53 year old mother had downloaded and installed Mozilla on her Sony Vaio laptop as well.
I feel like a proud parent who has successfully taught his child a lesson. Only she's my mother. I mean, my mom doesn't give a shit that somebody can download the source code, but when I explained to her that Netscape bundles certain software and disables certain features in their branded browser as a business decision (because AOL owns lots of companies that make money from pop-ups, they disable pop-up blocking), but Netscape's Open Source cousin Mozilla is built with the features that people want and need, not with the features that AOL wants you to have - well, she actually got that and seemed to think that was a fabulous idea.
Anyway, it's small strides like that for Open Source software. User focus is key, if you give a shit about winning. I know lots of/.ers don't, but I like having alternatives to Microsoft.
Maybe this is because Jews generally have more money than the average population while african americans tend to be poorer? "Elite" colleges are all about how much cash you have. Helps if you're not black too. Get charged and convicted of felony theft is all about how little money you have for a lawyer, oh ya, helps if you're black too.
Okay, how did Jews get all that money then? When most Jews immigrated to this country they were poor, just like the Irish and the Italians. Actually, all of these groups have been quite successful economically in this country.
I cannot deny that economic success increases the odds of academic success by providing time to spend in academic pursuits. However, before the Jewish community in the US was well off at all, academics were still heavily emphasized. Some of the great Jewish academics of this century came out of CCNY in New York, and were from poor or middle class families in Brooklyn and Queens. I don't have statistics to back this up, but simple qualitative observation rejects your assertion that academic success is tied only to economic status.
Furthermore, I would encourage you to look at the inside of an elite college sometime. There are certainly people there because they have money, but they are usually the minority (maybe 15-20% of the school's population). At Harvard, where I went, over 60% of the undergraduate students received financial aid.
So if i decide I'm only going to hire white people because they have so many great and well documented accomplishments then I am not prejudice?
No, if you judge an individual based on statistical trends among groups without any particular analysis of causation you are an idiot. It is not prejudiced to note that white people have had many great accomplishments. Of course, much of that (in the US) has to do with the fact that over the years this has been a white culture, a country founded by white people, with institutions and organizations founded by white people. The implicit assumption you would be making in refusing to hire non-whites is that non-whites must not be as competent for a job regardless of individual merit, or that they all have non-desireable characteristics based on ethnicity. Those are prejudiced assumptions, very different from factual observations.
Since you say if it is based on facts not opinions then it is true. So you can't deny then that most Israel men are trained killers who have participated in the occupation and suppression of the palestinian territories?
I agree that many Israeli men have been trained by the military. That military training is not that different from the military training every male receives in any country with mandatory military service. If that makes them "trained killers" then so is anybody who has done military service. Most who served in the Israeli military never fired a gun during their service, and certainly most have not killed any Palestinians.
I never said I agreed with the occupation of Palestinian territories nor with the "settlements" or the religious zealots who live in them (who, noteably, make up less than 1% of the population of Israel). I support a peaceful two state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories, as do the majority of American Jews.
No more so or less so than any other human being. We all see things through the lens of our culture and upbringing. However, I consider myself first and foremost a scientist and logical thinker. I make mistakes, and I am always interested in having my mistakes pointed out to me by those who refrain from ad hominem attacks and blatant racism.
n unbiased thinking does not just look at crime statistics or graduation statistics and take them as established facts, all the while failing to consider alternative explanations for social injustices and inequalities.
Huh? You did not read my post properly, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough about my meaning. The point is that the facts are not under dispute. The explanation IS open to dispute. In fact, I agree with you here that the crime statistics and graduation statistics I referenced ARE due to social circumstances. I don't know about focusing on "injustices and inequalities" since that seems like a rather negative and narrow framework to view it in, but I certainly never argued that any of these differences were due to anything other than social circumstance. In the case of Jewish culture, a value and ethic is placed on academic performance and achievement. This is a qualitative observation I have made, based on my own life history, in which I have lived in many communities, some which were dominated by a variety of minorities (mostly black, in Lauderdale Lakes, FL), some of which were mostly white, and some of which (in New York City) were largely Jewish.
In particular, the idea of "institutional racism" does not inform your thinking. I see no evidence that you are prepared to have a serious discussion of the issues you've raised.
I am aware of the concept of "institutional racism". I agree that it can explain some of the problems certain minority groups have. It can certainly not explain some of the successes certain minority groups have had. Internal cultural differences can explain both, but certainly some of those cultural differences have been created by years and centuries of "institutional racism". In the case of Jews, I think the cultural differences have been created by social forces on Ashkenazi Jews in Europe over the centuries that favored the cultivation of intellectual skills - there have been several studies that have used this explanation to explain observed IQ differences. Not to say that this is "the truth", but it is a possible explanation. Likewise, cultural evolution of American Black culture has certainly resulted from insitutional racism over the years, though I think more of the problems African Americans have today are due to these entrenched cultural differences than due to _current_ institutional racism, that likely plays a part too.
In the future, you should consider taking a less hostile position with somebody who fundamentally agrees with your point of view. And don't post AC. It undermines your credibility.
Jesus, if they are ghostwritten, then somebody ought to have told him to hire a better fucking ghostwriter. I mean, have you read any of these books? I just assumed he really wrote them, as they are pretty fucking terrible, and any real writer would have done better.
I mean no offense to the man as an actor or anything else (I'm not a Trekker/Trekkie whatever really, though I enjoy some of the Next Generation episodes). I am just offering an honest opinion on the Tek series books, of which I read one (and skimmed a few pages of another to verify that it was as bad as the first).
1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
Actually, I don't think that word applies here. It's not a stereotype, because it's not an opinion or an image. It's just a statement of fact. Look at any elite university in the country and you will probably find that Jews represent a greater proportion of the student population than they do of the population at large. Does this mean that "Jews are smarter than other people" or "all Jews are smart" or some other clearly fallacious bullshit? Of course not, that's crazy, as crazy as saying "all Blacks are thieves". Do more Black people, proportionally, commit certain kinds of crimes than White people? Yes - statement of fact, you can back it up by pretty solid statistics.
Prejudice is "an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts." according to the American Heritage dictionary. I don't believe that observing cultural behavior patterns among certain ethnic groups and their statistically verifiable results amounts to prejudice. Saying that "Jews are dirty cheats" or "Asians are passive little math nerds" or "all Blacks are thieves" are all fundamentally opinion-laden, overly broad statements that are not verifiable (the first or second) or just plain not true (the third). The only opinion-laden part of my statement was the phrase "work hard", and while there are certainly other ways to explain some of the observable consequences, many others can be explained by no other means.
If you want facts and figures and so forth, go to Google, I am sure you can find some. And of course, note that according to the definition of the word, noting positive accomplishments of certain groups is NOT prejudice, and if it consists primarily of facts rather than opinions, it is not a stereotype either.
OK, typical antisemitic troll, but I'm in a testy mood tonight so I'll bite.
Yes, you caught us. America is a military dictatorship. You found us out. Our military state is run by those pesky Jews, who go around making up things like the Holocaust, and running Hollywood, and exterminating the Palestinians, and running the FBI and the CIA and all the black ops agencies I can't tell you about because the Zionist Conspiracy told me not to.
You and the nutty, paranoid anti-semites like yourself should grow up and grow a sack. Jews are people like any other people, some are violent and hawkish, some are pacifist doves, some are in between. Many are selfish, many are selfless. Some are brilliant, some are morons, most are just somewhat above average (typical for those from a culture that values learning and intellectual accomplishment).
Why do Jews have a lot of influence in America? Because Jews work hard and achieve success in academia, business and other areas at a higher rate than the rest of the population. Some other ethnic groups have achieved similar sorts of success in America. Do Jews control the US? Give me a break. That's as likely as your implicit claim that all those Palestinians are entirely innocent and are just getting slaughtered like hogs. Granted, lots of innocent blood has been shed on both sides (no, telling me that 4 times as many Palestinians have died doesn't make a fuck bit of a difference to me as in no way makes for a moral argument) in Israel and the occupied territories, but implying that somebody is turning a blind eye to some mysterious atrocities is ridiculous.
Hannaford's Homeruns service was supposedly doing the same in the Boston area. Hannaford is a retail, brick and mortar grocery store operation, though I never saw their stores in the Boston area, their trucks used to be everywhere - apparently their stores are all out in the suburbs, not near Boston-proper. They did next day delivery, had minimum order charges and delivery charges. I don't know what happened but perhaps if they had a retail operation closer to Boston where their delivery service operation flourished they would have done better. Hannaford is still around and has something like 30-40 grocery stores in New England, but homeruns.com is defunct. Boston has no more delivery services that I know of. I really miss getting my fucking videos and pr0n delivered within an hour by whatsitcalled. Fuck. The name has even faded from my mind. Oh well. Time to haul ass over to the store again.
You have GOT to be joking. Yes, all those Qt, Gtk+ and Tk apps look FABULOUS running together on my desktop. Groan. This is why I stopped using Linux for my daily desktop work. I have a relatively well-tuned aesthetic sense and it KILLS me to have some apps that only have good Qt versions and some that only have good Gtk+ versions, and most that have two mediocre versions. Windows 2000/XP suck in a lot of ways but at least looking at my desktop doesn't give me a headache (and my 2d performance is more than a bit better).
Well if my ISP told me I could use my 160kbyte/sec cable modem pipe at capacity about 6 hours a day, every day, I'd be fine with that. There is no way in hell I could use that much bandwidth. Even if I sit in front of my computer 10 hours a day, I am rarely saturating the pipe, downloading stuff, maybe an hour or two a day, sometimes more if I'm doing some big Kazaa downloads or something, but those rarely come even close to saturating my pipe anyway.
Course, by my back of the envelope calculation that comes out to around 100 gigs/month of transfer. I have heard of ISPs that only let you have a few gigs a month - that's untenable. Fuck, download two or three ISOs and you would have blown your monthly bandwidth. That's nutty. Don't call it broadband if you're not going to give me at least 50-100 gigs/month of transfer.
Dude, I'm 23 and there are things on the Internet I don't want to see because they are so fucking disturbing. Now, it's only through years of life experiences that I know that while there is a strange appeal to clicking on things and wanting to see everything out there, some images are SO disturbing that I don't want to see them. Seeing them is traumatizing and could honestly damage my psychological well-being.
Even when I was 12, 13, 14 years old I don't think I had such a concept of self-censorship. If it was out there I would look at it. Luckily, the Internet was a more innocent place. Sure, I'd seen plenty of porn, sure I knew what a bad place the world could be when I was a teen, I read the news. But I didn't have to worry about stumbling onto Fecal Japan, goatse.cx and so on and so forth. Freedom of speech is great and all but there are some images that I'm not sure are appropriate for a 12 or 13 year old, let alone a 7 or 8 year old (and a lot of them can surf the web themselves these days).
Of course, I realize point 1 above. And Point 3, like I said, has some truth to it, though I don't think to avoid being "gullible" you need to see pictures of prolapsed rectums, bondage, mutilated bodies and so on at a bright young age. The real problem is point 2 - it's HARD to really filter out harmful stuff without cutting out lots of reasonable stuff. Which is why hopefully when I have children I can solve these problems through parental policy and monitoring, until my kids are in the mid-teens and old enough to really call their own shots.
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You can also make refrigerators using a Stirling-engine like gas compression cycle. The guys at Medis Technologies have designed this. See here for the brief description. I guess instead of trying to extract mechanical work from a Stirling engine, they are just removing heat from one area and piping it off elsewhere. They claim this uses no greenhouse depleting gases, and it sounds plausible to me.
A strategy can be protected as a trade secret, maybe, since trade secrets can be pretty much anything a company keeps secret and uses to plan or conduct business. However, copyright law is there to protect authors and artists. A "strategy" is not copyrightable by design. A strategy _document_ is protected by copyright, but a single fact from a document is not protected by copyright. Period.
In short, this story is either pure fiction, stretched from truth until it was barely recognizable or just outright bollocks. I'm sure you could find volunteers to get tattoos from a machine if they could pick it, but who is gonna wander by a booth at some show and say, gee, it seems like a great idea to get a randomly generated crooked-ass-R shape tattooed onto my arm permanently. Might as well let a meat grinder make a random design on your hand.
I never said that Hello Kitty-wallpaper or customized ringtones don't appeal to the masses. In fact, I wish my shitty cellphone could download customized ringtones (I think I'll pass on the Hello Kitty wallpaper as I'm not a 13 year old girl). However, I don't really get the sense that custom ringtone download is inherently more or less "geeky" than any other wireless app. Furthermore, as was ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN THE ORIGINAL POST, those aren't 3G apps. They don't require 3G, and really have nothing to do with 3G. They require minimal bandwidth data transfer. Frankly, to say they require 2.5G is a stretch.
The geekiness of these applications is pretty much determined by how hard they are to execute. As long as downloading customized ringtones requires you to jump through a million hoops and do all sorts of work with a computer, link cables, whatever, only a frigging geek would do it. If it's just a matter of going into a menu to the "ringtone" selection and selecting "Download more Ringtones" and picking from a list and having it happen automagically, the application suddenly becomes accessible to the masses who will realize that it's not only cool but that they can actually do it without messing with any geeky stuff. The same argument applies to all potential 3G apps. If my car comes with a console that not only supports GPS, but integrated 3G wireless, which is connected to an embedded MP3 decoder piped into the car stereo, then all Joe Consumer needs to do is sign up for the 10 dollar a month music-on-demand service when he buys his car and click on the menu button to select songs for a personal playlist, or select a reccommended themed playlist before setting out for his daily
commuting or for that long intercity drive.
Now if you can tell me with a straight face that music-on-demand is more geeky and has less mass appeal than fucking cell-based videophones, I will laugh in your face and call you an RIAA gimp.
Eh. Unfortunately, in this case, the Google search has led you astray. I actually just confirmed that in fact, she took the 8 middle initial herself, and it was not given to her by her parents. Her reason? To differentiate herself, to "brand" her name. That's it. :) The myth about her name might have been started by her too, but it's not true.
Okay that sentence was retarded, forgive me, I typed that post hastily as I had to run out and grab some dinner. It should read "MP3s have been one of the killer apps for broadband internet". Don't ask me what the fuck the web has to do with it, since these days most MP3s are leeched from Kazaa et. al. Though if you remember the old skewl days, we used to have scour.net and other great web-based MP3 leeching systems. Back in 98 and 99 when I was in college we used to download MP3s off the web all the time.
Well, she wrote under the same name for the Harvard Crimson when she was a student at Harvard. Depending on who you believe either a) that's her real middle name, given to her by her parents because 8 is a lucky number in China or b) she took the number 8 as her middle initial to distinguish herself from the multitude of Asian girls named "Jennifer Lee". In reality, I think both have some truth. Her middle name really is that weird, and she uses it and spells it 8 because it gets attention. I mean, she could use Jennifer E Lee in her byline if she wanted, or just Jennifer Lee, due to the weirdness of her middle name, but she chooses to feature it very prominently because it makes her stories and her byline that much more noticeable.
Audio-on-demand. From anywhere you want. THAT will kick ass. MP3s have been one of the killer apps for the web. Being able to build a little MP3 player that can play MP3s, record them from the radio, AND stream any song you want over a 3G network - that will rock. Again, it's not a fucking cellphone. I want a small cellphone that I can talk into. Maybe a bluetooth headset would be nice. And an ultra-high density fuel cell to power the handset. But other than that, I am pretty satisfied with my cellphone as a thing I use to call people, not a thing I use for video, picture-taking or music-listening.
I mean, this stuff doesn't take much creativity to come up with. Sending phone-quality pictures to my friends from my cellphone? Eh. Not that impressive. Videophones? They've failed utterly though the technology has been there for years (and the bandwidth is actually there in many households for it to work quite well). No reason to think that video-cellphones will do better. People like cellphones because they can do other shit while they talk on them - I drive and use my cell all the time because I'm a BUSY fucking person (before I get flamed, I always use my handsfree set so I can devote most of my attention to the road).
So, in short, think of all the cool apps that could be built with 3G wireless bandwidth that ARE NOT cellphones. My car should have a GPS console, with integrated 3G wireless, that lets me search the web, auto-updates the map data (I don't know how the current car-GPS units do this). And audio-on-demand in the car - that would be great. Anyway, there are still things *I* can't do with *my* cell phone - real SMTP email access, real web browsing (not the current shitty excuse for this), download email attachments and view them - I suppose these examples are mostly 2.5G compatible apps, but the ones above seem to require 3G.
So if you go back and look at my post, you'll note that my point was not that I was genuinely putting forth either of those names as candidates - rather, I thought that coming up with a nautically themed name, or name that evokes imagery similar to existing browsers might help with product adoption.
Well, if you look at their main project page here you will see that they refer to the Chimera Project and sometimes to Navigator. Whether this is a mistake, or cutting and pasting of sentences from other sources or intentional is certainly arguable. Somebody told me that they were calling it "The Chimera Project" but they were officially not calling the browser "Chimera" anymore - when I went to their webpage I saw the strange back-and-forth references. Anyway, it was just an idea. :) Take it or leave it.
Why not take the same approach? Call it "Project Phoenix" or "The Phoenix Project" and call the browser something bland? IIRC, a trademark only applies to exact wording - i.e. "The Phoenix Project(TM)" does not infringe on "Phoenix(TM)", even if they both are vaguely software-related in some way. At least it puts you in a defensible position. Just an idea anyway. Let me know if I am completely wrong. Obviously, Phoenix can still sue and argue trademark dilution if they really want, but they would have to prove that there's a reasonable chance for confusion. That seems difficult no matter what. And frankly, Phoenix can sue them anyway if they want, even if they've ceased the offending usage (they can still argue damage has been done to their brand recognition - hah!) - no reason to run scared from a lawsuit, it just encourages more frivolous suits.
It even makes some sense - take the rear end of a lion (Mozilla) and give it a slick, eagle/feline front end (that slick, customizable Phoenix GUI). Okay, it's a stretch. But it sounds good.
Here's my vote for Gryphon.
Maybe you should try downloading a better browser, like Phoenix or Mozilla? Just an idea that you might find preferable to whining about the sucky browser included with your computer. If you are sophisticated enough to disable scripting, then there's no fucking excuse for you to be using IE.
But we can come up with other names that make sense too. How about something that harkens to the Netscape name (not so obviously that it presents a trademark issue of course). Example: Lightscape (or Litescape). Maybe that's too similar, and we should expand the search to related themes. Galeon used this approach for its name, which is a decent name. Some other cool ship name?
Something like K-meleon, on the other hand is a shitty name (if for no other reason than it's not only hard to spell and thus hard to search for and find on the web).
If you can find a mythological name that seems appropriate (has some associated imagery) and sounds decent rolling off the tongue then fine. Otherwise, we shouldn't limit ourselves to the mythological figures/Phoenix-alike names. I don't want this to end up as another open source project rendered inaccessible to a wide audience by a shitty name (think: Ogg Vorbis). I'll never be able to download and install something on my mother's computer if I have to tell her it's an Ogg Vorbis player.
Richard? Mr. Stallman? Is that you?
I feel like a proud parent who has successfully taught his child a lesson. Only she's my mother. I mean, my mom doesn't give a shit that somebody can download the source code, but when I explained to her that Netscape bundles certain software and disables certain features in their branded browser as a business decision (because AOL owns lots of companies that make money from pop-ups, they disable pop-up blocking), but Netscape's Open Source cousin Mozilla is built with the features that people want and need, not with the features that AOL wants you to have - well, she actually got that and seemed to think that was a fabulous idea.
Anyway, it's small strides like that for Open Source software. User focus is key, if you give a shit about winning. I know lots of
Maybe this is because Jews generally have more money than the average population while african americans tend to be poorer? "Elite" colleges are all about how much cash you have. Helps if you're not black too. Get charged and convicted of felony theft is all about how little money you have for a lawyer, oh ya, helps if you're black too.
Okay, how did Jews get all that money then? When most Jews immigrated to this country they were poor, just like the Irish and the Italians. Actually, all of these groups have been quite successful economically in this country.
I cannot deny that economic success increases the odds of academic success by providing time to spend in academic pursuits. However, before the Jewish community in the US was well off at all, academics were still heavily emphasized. Some of the great Jewish academics of this century came out of CCNY in New York, and were from poor or middle class families in Brooklyn and Queens. I don't have statistics to back this up, but simple qualitative observation rejects your assertion that academic success is tied only to economic status.
Furthermore, I would encourage you to look at the inside of an elite college sometime. There are certainly people there because they have money, but they are usually the minority (maybe 15-20% of the school's population). At Harvard, where I went, over 60% of the undergraduate students received financial aid.
So if i decide I'm only going to hire white people because they have so many great and well documented accomplishments then I am not prejudice?
No, if you judge an individual based on statistical trends among groups without any particular analysis of causation you are an idiot. It is not prejudiced to note that white people have had many great accomplishments. Of course, much of that (in the US) has to do with the fact that over the years this has been a white culture, a country founded by white people, with institutions and organizations founded by white people. The implicit assumption you would be making in refusing to hire non-whites is that non-whites must not be as competent for a job regardless of individual merit, or that they all have non-desireable characteristics based on ethnicity. Those are prejudiced assumptions, very different from factual observations.
Since you say if it is based on facts not opinions then it is true. So you can't deny then that most Israel men are trained killers who have participated in the occupation and suppression of the palestinian territories?
I agree that many Israeli men have been trained by the military. That military training is not that different from the military training every male receives in any country with mandatory military service. If that makes them "trained killers" then so is anybody who has done military service. Most who served in the Israeli military never fired a gun during their service, and certainly most have not killed any Palestinians.
I never said I agreed with the occupation of Palestinian territories nor with the "settlements" or the religious zealots who live in them (who, noteably, make up less than 1% of the population of Israel). I support a peaceful two state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories, as do the majority of American Jews.
No more so or less so than any other human being. We all see things through the lens of our culture and upbringing. However, I consider myself first and foremost a scientist and logical thinker. I make mistakes, and I am always interested in having my mistakes pointed out to me by those who refrain from ad hominem attacks and blatant racism.
n unbiased thinking does not just look at crime statistics or graduation statistics and take them as established facts, all the while failing to consider alternative explanations for social injustices and inequalities.
Huh? You did not read my post properly, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough about my meaning. The point is that the facts are not under dispute. The explanation IS open to dispute. In fact, I agree with you here that the crime statistics and graduation statistics I referenced ARE due to social circumstances. I don't know about focusing on "injustices and inequalities" since that seems like a rather negative and narrow framework to view it in, but I certainly never argued that any of these differences were due to anything other than social circumstance. In the case of Jewish culture, a value and ethic is placed on academic performance and achievement. This is a qualitative observation I have made, based on my own life history, in which I have lived in many communities, some which were dominated by a variety of minorities (mostly black, in Lauderdale Lakes, FL), some of which were mostly white, and some of which (in New York City) were largely Jewish.
In particular, the idea of "institutional racism" does not inform your thinking. I see no evidence that you are prepared to have a serious discussion of the issues you've raised.
I am aware of the concept of "institutional racism". I agree that it can explain some of the problems certain minority groups have. It can certainly not explain some of the successes certain minority groups have had. Internal cultural differences can explain both, but certainly some of those cultural differences have been created by years and centuries of "institutional racism". In the case of Jews, I think the cultural differences have been created by social forces on Ashkenazi Jews in Europe over the centuries that favored the cultivation of intellectual skills - there have been several studies that have used this explanation to explain observed IQ differences. Not to say that this is "the truth", but it is a possible explanation. Likewise, cultural evolution of American Black culture has certainly resulted from insitutional racism over the years, though I think more of the problems African Americans have today are due to these entrenched cultural differences than due to _current_ institutional racism, that likely plays a part too.
In the future, you should consider taking a less hostile position with somebody who fundamentally agrees with your point of view. And don't post AC. It undermines your credibility.
I mean no offense to the man as an actor or anything else (I'm not a Trekker/Trekkie whatever really, though I enjoy some of the Next Generation episodes). I am just offering an honest opinion on the Tek series books, of which I read one (and skimmed a few pages of another to verify that it was as bad as the first).
1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
Actually, I don't think that word applies here. It's not a stereotype, because it's not an opinion or an image. It's just a statement of fact. Look at any elite university in the country and you will probably find that Jews represent a greater proportion of the student population than they do of the population at large. Does this mean that "Jews are smarter than other people" or "all Jews are smart" or some other clearly fallacious bullshit? Of course not, that's crazy, as crazy as saying "all Blacks are thieves". Do more Black people, proportionally, commit certain kinds of crimes than White people? Yes - statement of fact, you can back it up by pretty solid statistics.
Prejudice is "an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts." according to the American Heritage dictionary. I don't believe that observing cultural behavior patterns among certain ethnic groups and their statistically verifiable results amounts to prejudice. Saying that "Jews are dirty cheats" or "Asians are passive little math nerds" or "all Blacks are thieves" are all fundamentally opinion-laden, overly broad statements that are not verifiable (the first or second) or just plain not true (the third). The only opinion-laden part of my statement was the phrase "work hard", and while there are certainly other ways to explain some of the observable consequences, many others can be explained by no other means.
If you want facts and figures and so forth, go to Google, I am sure you can find some. And of course, note that according to the definition of the word, noting positive accomplishments of certain groups is NOT prejudice, and if it consists primarily of facts rather than opinions, it is not a stereotype either.
Yes, you caught us. America is a military dictatorship. You found us out. Our military state is run by those pesky Jews, who go around making up things like the Holocaust, and running Hollywood, and exterminating the Palestinians, and running the FBI and the CIA and all the black ops agencies I can't tell you about because the Zionist Conspiracy told me not to.
You and the nutty, paranoid anti-semites like yourself should grow up and grow a sack. Jews are people like any other people, some are violent and hawkish, some are pacifist doves, some are in between. Many are selfish, many are selfless. Some are brilliant, some are morons, most are just somewhat above average (typical for those from a culture that values learning and intellectual accomplishment).
Why do Jews have a lot of influence in America? Because Jews work hard and achieve success in academia, business and other areas at a higher rate than the rest of the population. Some other ethnic groups have achieved similar sorts of success in America. Do Jews control the US? Give me a break. That's as likely as your implicit claim that all those Palestinians are entirely innocent and are just getting slaughtered like hogs. Granted, lots of innocent blood has been shed on both sides (no, telling me that 4 times as many Palestinians have died doesn't make a fuck bit of a difference to me as in no way makes for a moral argument) in Israel and the occupied territories, but implying that somebody is turning a blind eye to some mysterious atrocities is ridiculous.
Hannaford's Homeruns service was supposedly doing the same in the Boston area. Hannaford is a retail, brick and mortar grocery store operation, though I never saw their stores in the Boston area, their trucks used to be everywhere - apparently their stores are all out in the suburbs, not near Boston-proper. They did next day delivery, had minimum order charges and delivery charges. I don't know what happened but perhaps if they had a retail operation closer to Boston where their delivery service operation flourished they would have done better. Hannaford is still around and has something like 30-40 grocery stores in New England, but homeruns.com is defunct. Boston has no more delivery services that I know of. I really miss getting my fucking videos and pr0n delivered within an hour by whatsitcalled. Fuck. The name has even faded from my mind. Oh well. Time to haul ass over to the store again.
You have GOT to be joking. Yes, all those Qt, Gtk+ and Tk apps look FABULOUS running together on my desktop. Groan. This is why I stopped using Linux for my daily desktop work. I have a relatively well-tuned aesthetic sense and it KILLS me to have some apps that only have good Qt versions and some that only have good Gtk+ versions, and most that have two mediocre versions. Windows 2000/XP suck in a lot of ways but at least looking at my desktop doesn't give me a headache (and my 2d performance is more than a bit better).
Course, by my back of the envelope calculation that comes out to around 100 gigs/month of transfer. I have heard of ISPs that only let you have a few gigs a month - that's untenable. Fuck, download two or three ISOs and you would have blown your monthly bandwidth. That's nutty. Don't call it broadband if you're not going to give me at least 50-100 gigs/month of transfer.
Even when I was 12, 13, 14 years old I don't think I had such a concept of self-censorship. If it was out there I would look at it. Luckily, the Internet was a more innocent place. Sure, I'd seen plenty of porn, sure I knew what a bad place the world could be when I was a teen, I read the news. But I didn't have to worry about stumbling onto Fecal Japan, goatse.cx and so on and so forth. Freedom of speech is great and all but there are some images that I'm not sure are appropriate for a 12 or 13 year old, let alone a 7 or 8 year old (and a lot of them can surf the web themselves these days).
Of course, I realize point 1 above. And Point 3, like I said, has some truth to it, though I don't think to avoid being "gullible" you need to see pictures of prolapsed rectums, bondage, mutilated bodies and so on at a bright young age. The real problem is point 2 - it's HARD to really filter out harmful stuff without cutting out lots of reasonable stuff. Which is why hopefully when I have children I can solve these problems through parental policy and monitoring, until my kids are in the mid-teens and old enough to really call their own shots.