His parents thought it was A-OK for Billy to have whatever he wanted, and didn't have much concern for the World-At-Large, or for whatever shiny thing struck Billy's fancy.
Billy's Tarantula was exciting for about a month. During that time, it was a spectacle all his friends oohed and ahhed over. They talked about how hairy it was, what it would be like to be the same size as it, how they would ride it, and the wretched giddily when it molted.
Then Billy saw a show about a Moose. He let the tarantula go outside.
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This is the view from the selfish human perspective. Earth creatures slower or dumber than humans are free to do with what the humans please. Who cares what remains of them after a generation or two.
Reproduction is a crucial part of the genetic information exchange equation. See: Mule
If you go messing around with the normality of reproduction, you get all kinds of unpredictable results
The Nazis messed around with all of this before.. (Godwin!)
Unless you are against genetically modified foods (which I've yet to be convinced that they are categorically unhealthy)
The arguement against GM foods is not that they are simply "unhealthy", but that they are a not-fully-understood, and perhaps unwelcome addition to the biodiversity of Earth.
I for one, do not want commercially-driven science project mingling with my maize - gift from god.
I also do not want foodstuffs to contain genetic information from such diverse organisms as bacteria, nor for goats to produce spider's silk.
I was going to pose the question, "Could SGI survive on Apple's Server-oriented product line *and* sales", but as I thought about Apple's mainstream UNIX, HP's engineering workstation stronghold, with Linux running on so many renderfarms, it became clear.
If you cant really *move* in a lively and limber way when your survival depends on it - to either keep up with the times or keep out of an alligators jaws - time rolls on without you.
If a company spends its days _anchored_ in a particular mode of operation, the fickle stream of "what's current" will erode their foundation, no matter what or who they represented.
To quote Jerry Reed, "When you're hot, you're hot - when you're not, you're not."
There's a
whole list of computer companies who were assimilated, died a horrible wilting death, or weirded themselves into extinction.
The determination of what intent the actions carry is your "reality".
Reality itself is illusory, my friend. That's the point - it's open for interpretation.
If you're the President of the United States of America, your reality is different from mine. The difference is in your personal interpretation, and the values you attribute to factors of that reality. "Reality" just is.
If you define my "reality" by "your personal interpretation", you're screwing both of us out of a meaningful existance.
Now if you want to argue that the motivitaion behind actions are actually "reality", we're talking about personal interaction with other personal interations, and we're into sociology.
Is is. The minute you attribute meaning to it, you're going to be partial no matter what.
There have been a few "next steps" for Apple since then, like the AirPort family, iPod (1-4G, Nano, Mini, Photo, and now video), FrontRow and the digital video influence, and now Intel chips.
"Logical" and Apple don't jibe. Apple decides what will be "logical", not the other way around.
Steve Jobs makes a point to elevate his work beyond pedestrian predictability. It's the secret sauce..
We need PKI at my company, but there's a big problem.
The people who would be responsible for keys, can just barely handle email.
I know I'm not alone, and I know I'm not the only lone admin who would have to be responsible for put such a system in place, and have to hold hands & train users.
Waking up is "awakening". When you awaken, your senses come alive, and are sometimes overwhelmed.
Waking up - when it works like it should, results in your dream-state ending, and regular, daytime conciousness being dumped into reality like so many bowling balls out of a gunnysack. It's like Frankenstein getting the neckbolts juiced, and the table being rotated into upright.
Sleep goes away very quickly and cleanly, when there's nothing getting in the way.
Waking up in the morning after having eaten dinner at 10:00, and ice cream, cookies, and desserts at 10:45, then passing out. When you try to wake up your brain and mind, when the rest of your body is heavily into sluggish digestion, it will be like being drunk, because the same thing is happening.
Ask Ben Franklin if after he rose early, he felt as if he were drunk. The whole point of the "early bed/early rise" thing is that it's *not* like being drunk.
Not to mention, floppies are almost dead. This might do them in for folks like you who fear of accidental data erasure, but it's not gonna happen. Especially to a hard drive..
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Once upon a time, Billy wanted a pet tarantula.
His parents thought it was A-OK for Billy to have whatever he wanted, and didn't have much concern for the World-At-Large, or for whatever shiny thing struck Billy's fancy.
Billy's Tarantula was exciting for about a month. During that time, it was a spectacle all his friends oohed and ahhed over. They talked about how hairy it was, what it would be like to be the same size as it, how they would ride it, and the wretched giddily when it molted.
Then Billy saw a show about a Moose. He let the tarantula go outside.
--This is the view from the selfish human perspective. Earth creatures slower or dumber than humans are free to do with what the humans please. Who cares what remains of them after a generation or two.
Neon fish loose in the wild?
Crafted strains of corn contaminating traditionally (painstakingly) *bred* varieties? (See: Transgenic Maize)
Reproduction is a crucial part of the genetic information exchange equation. See: Mule If you go messing around with the normality of reproduction, you get all kinds of unpredictable results The Nazis messed around with all of this before.. (Godwin!)They wouldn't go hungry, they'd use Paint for all their graphic editing needs.
More of the web would look like MySpace does now.
Home-printed business cards would look even worse.
Apple would sell more computers just because of tools like iPhoto.
The BSA spins it as lost revenue while Microsoft spins it as increased market penetration..
What sort of market share would Microsoft have in Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia - if not for illicit copies?
What about India? How many H1-B visa holders cut their teeth on a blackmarket copy of Visual Studio?
You can't bitch coming and going! If anything is unfair, it's that..
The arguement against GM foods is not that they are simply "unhealthy", but that they are a not-fully-understood, and perhaps unwelcome addition to the biodiversity of Earth.
I for one, do not want commercially-driven science project mingling with my maize - gift from god.
I also do not want foodstuffs to contain genetic information from such diverse organisms as bacteria, nor for goats to produce spider's silk.
It's got the bubbles, and the salt.
If you want the sugar and flavorings, you can add them.
Some cities have a large enough Asian population where you can buy fresh soymilk (unadulterated) in a gallon jug, just like milk.
Parent should be moderated +3 funny.
What you want is notepad.exe!
If you cant really *move* in a lively and limber way when your survival depends on it - to either keep up with the times or keep out of an alligators jaws - time rolls on without you.
If a company spends its days _anchored_ in a particular mode of operation, the fickle stream of "what's current" will erode their foundation, no matter what or who they represented.
To quote Jerry Reed, "When you're hot, you're hot - when you're not, you're not."
There's a whole list of computer companies who were assimilated, died a horrible wilting death, or weirded themselves into extinction.
Everybody thinks the new screen will be a camera of some sort, but input is where it's really at.
It's a danged digital canvas.
It's a tablet and more, but it's too new to make it into a product, unless that's part of Steve's new anti-leak plan.
Scary Movie is your Airplane equivalent.
Then you might like Clerks II, a Harvey Weinstein Production..
Unloved fry grease meets unloved computers to make parallel super(?)computing cluster. How is this bad in any way?
Lesson:
Buying a first generation Apple product is, in effect paying for the privilige of owning one of their "ready for the public" prototypes.
Seriously, look back in time through all major Apple releases - especially those since the NeXT takeover.
"...makeshift audio-video studio..."
*kick drum/splash*
Well, I never..
Metamoderators, do your stuff!
The point is that "actions just are".
The determination of what intent the actions carry is your "reality".
Reality itself is illusory, my friend. That's the point - it's open for interpretation.
If you're the President of the United States of America, your reality is different from mine. The difference is in your personal interpretation, and the values you attribute to factors of that reality. "Reality" just is.
If you define my "reality" by "your personal interpretation", you're screwing both of us out of a meaningful existance.
Now if you want to argue that the motivitaion behind actions are actually "reality", we're talking about personal interaction with other personal interations, and we're into sociology.
Is is. The minute you attribute meaning to it, you're going to be partial no matter what.
My point is still there; that he's doing it on purpose just as much as he's not, simply because the judgement depends on your own personal reaction.
If people rush to buy, it's a result of their reaction.
If they rush to accuse, it's a result of their reaction.
He just is.
Ahh, yeah, and the record hurricane season. When have we run out of names, and then gone into season-overtime?
Nearly a week of record highs in Texas, wildfires, etc..
Is it me, or do I detect the far-off hum of 10,000,000,000,000 locusts!?
Melodrama, alarmist, nut-job, wacko..
Is he, in fact, a melodramatic alarmist, or are his simple words simply effective in raising your own alarms?
Is he intimidating, or is it that are you intimidated?
He doesn't know you, nor does he calculate your reaction, just like the guy who farts on the subway. He just is what he is.
You define things by your reaction, but that doesn't make it any more true/right/correct than your own personal, private reaction.
After so many years of research in the field of tin foil hats, why are they going for duct tape?
Where's the leather?
Where's the Velostat TM?
People have been saying that for a while now.
There have been a few "next steps" for Apple since then, like the AirPort family, iPod (1-4G, Nano, Mini, Photo, and now video), FrontRow and the digital video influence, and now Intel chips.
"Logical" and Apple don't jibe. Apple decides what will be "logical", not the other way around.
Steve Jobs makes a point to elevate his work beyond pedestrian predictability. It's the secret sauce..
We need PKI at my company, but there's a big problem.
The people who would be responsible for keys, can just barely handle email.
I know I'm not alone, and I know I'm not the only lone admin who would have to be responsible for put such a system in place, and have to hold hands & train users.
I have researched my eyes out.
Waking up is "awakening". When you awaken, your senses come alive, and are sometimes overwhelmed.
Waking up - when it works like it should, results in your dream-state ending, and regular, daytime conciousness being dumped into reality like so many bowling balls out of a gunnysack. It's like Frankenstein getting the neckbolts juiced, and the table being rotated into upright.
Sleep goes away very quickly and cleanly, when there's nothing getting in the way.
Waking up in the morning after having eaten dinner at 10:00, and ice cream, cookies, and desserts at 10:45, then passing out. When you try to wake up your brain and mind, when the rest of your body is heavily into sluggish digestion, it will be like being drunk, because the same thing is happening.
Ask Ben Franklin if after he rose early, he felt as if he were drunk. The whole point of the "early bed/early rise" thing is that it's *not* like being drunk.
Yeah, but "two hands".
I knew a dedicated TiBook user that moused with the corner of his thumb, and used various fingers for keys.
It looked extremely uncomfortable.
If the Mighty Mouse was such an innovation, why not carry it over?
It's a small confort for laptop users, especially those on windows. (I know many of them tote a mouse along, but should they have to with an Apple?)
Nothing to worry about with the magnetism..
I strapped my two debit cards (emblazoned with the 'New Order of the Ages' emblem to my fridge with a pair of heavy-duty magnetic knife racks, hoping to scramble their tiny brains out of existance.No go. They still function.
Not to mention, floppies are almost dead. This might do them in for folks like you who fear of accidental data erasure, but it's not gonna happen. Especially to a hard drive..