The real question is which end people in that time will eat their eggs from, and whether they will have read Gulliver's Travels and be both curious and smart enough to connect lifting oneself up by the bootstraps with the term 'reboot' on their own.
Re:Pre-1950 systems with configurable defaults.
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The law has been a set of default configurations more or less since the invention of the contract. By default, you cannot trespass on another man's land. By default, the damages you can recover for breach of a contractual agreement are limited to the amount that the breaching party could have foreseen you would incur.
Others have mentioned product defaults. The default Model T color was black. (Of course, that one was only user-configurable with a paint brush.) There were also service defaults. You had to buy an Air Mail stamp to get your letter off the ground.
As to configurable systems like you mentioned, though, while I am not personally knowledgeable about anything earlier than that I am sure that others existed. It is next to impossible to come up with a process that does not have a default configuration, and it is human nature to desire the ability to change that configuration to suit oneself.
The article is stupid and so is the editor who approved it for the main page. But we already knew that before getting to the text of the summary. This belongs on Idle, at best. I thought that Idle was added to keep all this crap in one place, but of course the editors would all have to be bright enough to put idle nonsense there for that plan to work. Maybe the default category should be set to Idle.
California would be the perfect state if not for all the Californians. It has just about every type of terrain and climate you could ask for... but too many Californians passing too many Californian laws.
Well, shit. I spent all that time thinking about whether it was Stumbos IV or V and forgot about the more important matter of the hover dolly's proper name. It's a good thing for me that pedant points work like golf scoring. =)
Correct quote: ""This is executive Beta, programmed to underestimate middle America." "It's funny, but will it get them off their tractors?"
Loss of 20 geek points. Please complete three Windows ME to Vista upgrades as penance.
Loss of 50 geek points for using an off-topic penance. The correct penance is to demote to Bureaucrat Grade 37. Now you're going to have to deliver pillows on Stumbos IV, without the anti-gravity dolly.
Don't forget to cross post to as many irrelevant groups as possible. For instance, if you are writing something about Python, you will want to post to comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.perl, comp.emacs, alt.english.usage, and comp.lang.python. Bonus points if you have posted the same thing in response to 10 other topics to which it is not remotely relevant within the past month, and have a permanent HTML version on your web page, which also chronicles some of your criminal acts. It helps even more if you use lots of untoward profanity in your ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagrees with something you say.
Many commercial pilots did learn to fly in the military. It's a cheaper, way more fun option than civilian aviation college. And, at least in the US, you can tell if your pilot learned how to fly in the Navy or somewhere else based on his landing philosophy. An Air Force- or civilian-trained pilot will make a long, smooth approach and you may not even feel the wheels touch down. Sometimes, your first indication that you're on the ground may be the turn onto a taxiway. A Navy-trained pilot, on the other hand, will maintain 100ft AGL until he visually confirms that he is right over the runway numbers, then slam the plane down hard and get it stopped before the first taxiway, then throttle up to get the plane rolling again for taxi.
That works for some characters, but Futurama is unlikely to be anything close to as good without a few of the key voice actors. It's not just the voices, it's the five completed seasons of being in character for all those characters that they cover. Each one of them has perfected those voices, which is not a quick task even for the best voice actors you can find (arguably, a list starting out with four or five members of the Futurama cast).
I was going to mod you down for your s/stupid/dumb/, but instead I'm going to write my own comment. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the comment.
Have we been watching the same Family Guy? Which episode are you referring to where there's a two-second clip of the chicken fight saga? I don't recall one less than a minute.
What about OS X on PPC? That's much more common on my desk. I was trying to find the sources and see how bad it was on the Mac just earlier this week, and the reason it is x86-only is because the JavaScript VM that really makes Chrome what it is currently cannot run on other architectures. If anyone has the expertise to fix that, please submit a patch.
I'm going to make my own lunar lander. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander!
I am okay with rules that keep people away from the early moon landing sites, on one condition: The new sites must have a Goofy Gopher Revue available to all visitors. Weeeeeeeee're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tuuuuuuuuuuune!
But this isn't about giving up your profits. It's about damages, which can be measured by many different methods depending on the case. The question is this: Do you think that a business should be punished differently from an individual for the same act, if all things are equal other than the fact that one of them is a business and the other is an individual?
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that the law should be different for an individual who willfully infringes than it is for a business that does the same thing, or that Sotomayor is likely to ignore the law and treat them differently anyhow?
I paid my taxes in hope this year. Unfortunately, the IRS sent me a nasty letter demanding immediate payment of the amount I owed in US legal tender. Hope is useless, it turns out. Unfortunately, the postal service charged me a pretty penny when I re-filed my tax returns and paid the amount I owed with change.
I don't know that those changed my world so much. They may have been killer apps or billion-dollar industries, but my life has been changed by more simple, fundamental things:
1. GW-BASIC. When I discovered that the games I was already playing were right there for me to tinker with, an entire new world was opened to me. From there, I wanted to do more and more, and ended up learning about C and C++, compilers, etc. GW-BASIC was the program that opened the door into the world of programming for me.
2. Compuserve. That was the dial-up service that we found when I was young. The time on it was so very limited due to long distance fees, but the information that suddenly became available was a real eye-opener. My internet addiction started before Compuserve gave me internet access.
3. IRC. Once I was really on the internet, I could get all sorts of information by browsing through Yahoo's categories. But what connected me to the world was IRC. I was using IRC for a long time before ICQ came around and started the instant messenger craze. I even held off on getting an ICQ account for long enough that I got an ID in the 500,000 range, because I didn't see the point of it. After all, I had IRC. At any rate, IRC was how I connected to the outside world. Until I discovered MUSHing, my interaction with people from around the world, exposing me to ideas and conversations I may never have had in my corner of the world, was through IRC.
And that's really it. Everything else has, for me, been incremental or within one of those paradigms. (1) Control and program the computer. (2) Access information with the computer. (3) Communicate instantaneously with others using the computer. Producing documents was what the computer was all about, and since I grew up with them more or less around it has never surprised me or opened new doors for me to be able to edit images, put them into documents, or the like. That was just a logical extension of being able to type a document with XyWrite back in the day.
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The real question is which end people in that time will eat their eggs from, and whether they will have read Gulliver's Travels and be both curious and smart enough to connect lifting oneself up by the bootstraps with the term 'reboot' on their own.
The law has been a set of default configurations more or less since the invention of the contract. By default, you cannot trespass on another man's land. By default, the damages you can recover for breach of a contractual agreement are limited to the amount that the breaching party could have foreseen you would incur.
Others have mentioned product defaults. The default Model T color was black. (Of course, that one was only user-configurable with a paint brush.) There were also service defaults. You had to buy an Air Mail stamp to get your letter off the ground.
As to configurable systems like you mentioned, though, while I am not personally knowledgeable about anything earlier than that I am sure that others existed. It is next to impossible to come up with a process that does not have a default configuration, and it is human nature to desire the ability to change that configuration to suit oneself.
The article is stupid and so is the editor who approved it for the main page. But we already knew that before getting to the text of the summary. This belongs on Idle, at best. I thought that Idle was added to keep all this crap in one place, but of course the editors would all have to be bright enough to put idle nonsense there for that plan to work. Maybe the default category should be set to Idle.
I'm sarcastic either exactly 0% or exactly 100% of the time.
California would be the perfect state if not for all the Californians. It has just about every type of terrain and climate you could ask for ... but too many Californians passing too many Californian laws.
Plus, real trees pose an even bigger disposal problem than people have mentioned these artificial trees would.
Well, shit. I spent all that time thinking about whether it was Stumbos IV or V and forgot about the more important matter of the hover dolly's proper name. It's a good thing for me that pedant points work like golf scoring. =)
"It's funny, but how will it go with farmers?"
Correct quote: ""This is executive Beta, programmed to underestimate middle America." "It's funny, but will it get them off their tractors?"
Loss of 20 geek points. Please complete three Windows ME to Vista upgrades as penance.
Loss of 50 geek points for using an off-topic penance. The correct penance is to demote to Bureaucrat Grade 37. Now you're going to have to deliver pillows on Stumbos IV, without the anti-gravity dolly.
Don't forget to cross post to as many irrelevant groups as possible. For instance, if you are writing something about Python, you will want to post to comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.perl, comp.emacs, alt.english.usage, and comp.lang.python. Bonus points if you have posted the same thing in response to 10 other topics to which it is not remotely relevant within the past month, and have a permanent HTML version on your web page, which also chronicles some of your criminal acts. It helps even more if you use lots of untoward profanity in your ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagrees with something you say.
I've often wondered why a commercial flight certificate doesn't require glider time.
I don't know about the submitter but, regardless of nationality, the editor is a moron.
Many commercial pilots did learn to fly in the military. It's a cheaper, way more fun option than civilian aviation college. And, at least in the US, you can tell if your pilot learned how to fly in the Navy or somewhere else based on his landing philosophy. An Air Force- or civilian-trained pilot will make a long, smooth approach and you may not even feel the wheels touch down. Sometimes, your first indication that you're on the ground may be the turn onto a taxiway. A Navy-trained pilot, on the other hand, will maintain 100ft AGL until he visually confirms that he is right over the runway numbers, then slam the plane down hard and get it stopped before the first taxiway, then throttle up to get the plane rolling again for taxi.
That works for some characters, but Futurama is unlikely to be anything close to as good without a few of the key voice actors. It's not just the voices, it's the five completed seasons of being in character for all those characters that they cover. Each one of them has perfected those voices, which is not a quick task even for the best voice actors you can find (arguably, a list starting out with four or five members of the Futurama cast).
Hot diggity daffodil!
I was going to mod you down for your s/stupid/dumb/, but instead I'm going to write my own comment. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the comment.
Actually it's Stanislaw Lem. He's Polish (like me) and we don't use the letter v .
There! You did it right there!
Have we been watching the same Family Guy? Which episode are you referring to where there's a two-second clip of the chicken fight saga? I don't recall one less than a minute.
What about OS X on PPC? That's much more common on my desk. I was trying to find the sources and see how bad it was on the Mac just earlier this week, and the reason it is x86-only is because the JavaScript VM that really makes Chrome what it is currently cannot run on other architectures. If anyone has the expertise to fix that, please submit a patch.
I'm going to make my own lunar lander. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander!
I am okay with rules that keep people away from the early moon landing sites, on one condition: The new sites must have a Goofy Gopher Revue available to all visitors. Weeeeeeeee're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tuuuuuuuuuuune!
But this isn't about giving up your profits. It's about damages, which can be measured by many different methods depending on the case. The question is this: Do you think that a business should be punished differently from an individual for the same act, if all things are equal other than the fact that one of them is a business and the other is an individual?
The parent said nothing of profit, only willfulness. But let's go from there. Do you feel the same way about manufacturers of dangerous toys?
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that the law should be different for an individual who willfully infringes than it is for a business that does the same thing, or that Sotomayor is likely to ignore the law and treat them differently anyhow?
I paid my taxes in hope this year. Unfortunately, the IRS sent me a nasty letter demanding immediate payment of the amount I owed in US legal tender. Hope is useless, it turns out. Unfortunately, the postal service charged me a pretty penny when I re-filed my tax returns and paid the amount I owed with change.
I don't know that those changed my world so much. They may have been killer apps or billion-dollar industries, but my life has been changed by more simple, fundamental things:
1. GW-BASIC. When I discovered that the games I was already playing were right there for me to tinker with, an entire new world was opened to me. From there, I wanted to do more and more, and ended up learning about C and C++, compilers, etc. GW-BASIC was the program that opened the door into the world of programming for me.
2. Compuserve. That was the dial-up service that we found when I was young. The time on it was so very limited due to long distance fees, but the information that suddenly became available was a real eye-opener. My internet addiction started before Compuserve gave me internet access.
3. IRC. Once I was really on the internet, I could get all sorts of information by browsing through Yahoo's categories. But what connected me to the world was IRC. I was using IRC for a long time before ICQ came around and started the instant messenger craze. I even held off on getting an ICQ account for long enough that I got an ID in the 500,000 range, because I didn't see the point of it. After all, I had IRC. At any rate, IRC was how I connected to the outside world. Until I discovered MUSHing, my interaction with people from around the world, exposing me to ideas and conversations I may never have had in my corner of the world, was through IRC.
And that's really it. Everything else has, for me, been incremental or within one of those paradigms. (1) Control and program the computer. (2) Access information with the computer. (3) Communicate instantaneously with others using the computer. Producing documents was what the computer was all about, and since I grew up with them more or less around it has never surprised me or opened new doors for me to be able to edit images, put them into documents, or the like. That was just a logical extension of being able to type a document with XyWrite back in the day.
A saying becomes cliche if it contains sufficient truth: A picture's worth a thousand words.
Or, in the internet vernacular: This thread is worthless without pictures.