No, PBS is in fact much much worse than regular television. They're double dipping by getting federal money via grants and then asking (hell, pleading, insisting, spending hours and hours a day begging during pledge drives) for donations on top of that. Then they have "sponsored" programs which is nothing more than corporate advertising on top of it.. just a little more subtle.
That's right, cuz everbody knows the BIG MONEY is in public television! Those PBS fatcats have Rupert Murdoch and his ilk trembling in their boots! C'mon. Get real.. So they have multiple funding sources. So? It underscores the meager appropriation Congress gives the CPB. Less than a third of PBS funding comes from tax-based sources (federal, state, or otherwise). I assume you'd rather them plead for voluntary donations than a bigger check from the govnt.
All the while we end up with nothing but a homogenized liberal soap box for people who are too extreme to get on regular television.
Riight...who's the left wing nut on PBS again? Is it LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow or the pedant of dry interviews, Charlie Rose? No, no, it's the subliminal leftwing conspiracy foisted on us during the antelope mating scenes on Nature. Or perhaps its the Dems having their way with the audience when NOVA explores the mysteries of the Amazon basin. Don't even get me started about Bert and Ernie.
That reminds me...Have you seen the latest TV ad campaign from KFC? They're now billing their fried chicken as health food for the weight conscious. "Honey, you know how we talked about eating better?" begins one ad. I nearly fell out of my chair. Talk about swinging the hype pendulum too far the other direction. (OK, nobody talks about a hype pendulum, I made that up, but still...)
Any diet, even Atkins, only works as long as you can follow it...
Except that nows there's evidence that low-carb style diets work better than other more conventional diets. A recent Harvard study presented at the last meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity showed that subjects on a controlled low-carb diet lost more weight than conventional dieters--despite eating on average 25,000 more calories over the course of the 12 week study! The AP covered this, and I found an archive of the storyat FoxNews. It really flies in the face of the standard nutritionist's "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" dogma.
Well, it's true that they're have been some problems. I'm beta testing the MONAD system, but there's just no good docs on how to handle BIGHAIRYBALLS. I'm trying to use it to code up a network analyzer that would probe the input to ANUS with SHAFT...but apparently, ANUS is read-only, and only provides output. That stinks. Guess I just don't have the SAC to do this.
Maybe I'd have better luck with the VAGINA/CLIT combo you suggest.
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Yeah, yeah, that's right...and MONAD has some interesting development tools...including Structured Application Code (SAC), to hang your scripts off of, and SHell Accessible File Types (SHAFT), that gives you really big, long file names, and a firewall library via the Active Network Usage System (ANUS), that lets you monitor any nasty packets your box might be dumping, and it's all tied together with some really interesting primitves provided by the Basic Integrated Graphical Handle And Input Recognition Yoking Bridge And Link Library System. (BIGHAIRYBALLS). Sounds promising!
Saying 97 percent of the significant figures in sciences come from the west is like saying 90 percent of shark bite victims happen within 100 meters of the shoreline.
They're alike in that they're both...what?...true? I don't get your point. I'm sure there will be a huge onslaught of (possibly) valid criticisms from cultural relativists like Jared Diamond, but yours isn't one of them.
Hmm....so open-minded, rational people don't need to read this book, and irrational, knee-jerk reactionaries by definition won't read it, or won't be convinced. By the reviewer's logic this book is perfect....for noone.
But seriously, I can't imagine convincing an Ashcroftian to sit down and consider the other side, but I might read it just for some common sense ammunition. You know, some security...against those...who..want..more..security... Uh, yeah.
Funk Brothers... they wrote more #1 hits than the Beatles, the Stones, Elvis, and the Beach Boys combined. Don't give the white boys all the credit just cause they claim it.
the Funk Brothers played on more #1 hits...not wrote. I can't find anything that says they wrote every #1 hit they played on.
Granted, they were grossly uncredited...and chiefly responsible for the Motown sound...but that doesn't take anything away from the brilliance of the Lennon/McCartney team...those "white boys" deserve all the credit they claim.
You're remarkably articulate and well thought-out on these points. Your history lends a unique credibility to your points. I hope somebody mods your comments up.
I'm not just being sycophantic..I actually don't know that I completely agree with your choices. I think there's something to be said for owning a firearm for self-defense and the defense of your home. But, you're absolutely right that the primary function of a gun is the injury or taking of life. While other hunting/killing practices have been elevated to "sport"--archery, javelin-throw, all of martial arts--their primary purpose can't be denied.
There's another girl...actually, one particular photo of a girl...that I see all the time. As irony would have it, can't find an example right now.
It's the shot of the cute doe-eyed blonde with a laptop looking up at the camera, shot from above with some slight figh-eye lensing to give a kind of foreshortened feel to it. I know I've seen her advertising Yahoo! Mail, a singles service, various computer e-tailers, and even on posters in train stations. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
You forgot the geek favorite: The Frontier Labs Nex II series! And the new Nex IA features an FM tuner (although it also features a really stupidly placed headphone cord that comes out the bottom).
I paired my Nex II with the armband case from Tune Belt and I have the perfect jogging/gym solution. Got my Tune Belt case at PlanetMiniDisc.com and my Nex II from Choke Slam Media on eBay, where they always have TONS of various Nex models for sale. In general there's a great market out there for mp3 armband cases (I only know of two: Tune Belt's, and a crappier (less comfortable, IMO) one from Case Logic) and full-featured CF mp3 players. Really, really overlooked markets.
My only gripe about the Nex series is NO PLAY LISTS! Geez. I hate reshuffling around my jogging/biking/driving tunes into different folders depending on my mood. Cheap CF player (that doubles as a flash drive), great sound with custom 5-band EQ, and now with FM tuning...m3u playlists would make it perfect.
You will use your machine for nothing but work! I have had bosses that tried to do similar things in the past and all they really did is cause folks to leave the company because things were so strict and you basically couldn't take breaks anymore other than pushing back from your desk and staring at the wall for 10 minutes
There are whispers of a time in the Great Before when people goofed off at work WITHOUT having web access! There were entire "coffee breaks" where not a single email was sent or a single http request made! I know! It boggles the mind. Turns out, lazy people have always been lazy!
But, in all seriousness, I will concede that expectations are different now. Especially if a company takes AWAY something employess have been accustomed to (unfettered web access), morale will fall precipitously. I'd go so far as to say, in fact, that the general computing populace is far more web-addicted than we realize. People wouldn't just be disgruntled, I think many would go through a real kind of withdrawl. And while the boss doesn't "owe you" anything in terms of connectivity at his (or her) workstation, employment is a two-way street.
Honestly, it's been years since I installed a Linux distro, but I remember being particularly vexed just getting off the ground setting up multibooting correctly.
Most Linux newbies are going to be transitioning from Windows and are going to want to keep their Windows set-up intact. Most of my gripes are not with Linux per se, but they're issues straight Windows users never have to deal with it. I remember being annoyed about the following:
1) All the nuanced distinctions between the MBR and bootable partitions, primary vs. logical partitions, the magical boundaries at 2gig/8gigs/"1024" cylinders, yadda yadda. Again, features of the architecture not of the OS (and many obviated with modern BIOSes), but still a pain to have keep straight.
2) Getting the bootloader configured correctly. I had some odd set-up where BootMagic was on the MBR of IDE0, which handed things off to LILO on the first partition of IDE1. And even then I think I must have tweaked lilo.conf a couple dozen times before it worked. Oy vey. LILO, GRUB, BootMagic, NTLoader, etc. It's a mess.
3) Keeping straight which version of Windows can live where. Some gotta be on the first partition of the first primary. Some don't care so much. Sometimes you have to "hide" the other bootable partitions, sometimes this doesn't matter so much.
4) Anxiously futzing with fdisk (win and linux versions) and RedHat's Disk Druid, and some apps seeing what others don't (at least back when I did this around RH6). And keeping straight your FAT16 vs FAT32 vs FAT32X (fat32 beyond 1024cyl) vs ext2 vs ext3.
And most how-tos and other online tutorials cover a few specific scenarioes that invariably never apply exactly to you (this is true of MOST intallation issues). So it'd be great to have all the principles, rules of thumbs, and gotchas laid out in one place.
Yup, except, the power consumption of the human body isn't determined by energy input but by energy expenditure. But 2000 kcalories for the relatively sedentary *cough* Slashdotter *cough* person is about right. The average resting metabolic rate is about 1800 kcalories per day (for a 150lb male under 40yrs). That's if he doesn't nothing but lie around breathe all day.
Of course, as amazing as just running on 100W is, most of us are blessed with wonderfully efficient metabolism so that our bodies actually get a surplus of glucose energy! That's why have these wonderful adipose batteries in our asses.
I have found Larry Gonick's "Cartoon Guides" charming, accurate (if sometimes kinda understandibly rushed), and very compelling. Gonick is most famous for his "Cartoon History of the Universe," but he also has a "Cartoon Guide to Physics" and a "Cartoon Guide to Statistics" among other science titles. It's perfect for the adult novice and the young student as well. The cartoons illustrate abstract concepts visually, while maintaining a great sense of humor and fun.
Your post just resurrected a laptop! I recently acquired an ancient ThinkPad 600E that I need to flash the BIOS on. IBM provides a bootable floppy image for this purpose. Well, the thing is, it's missing the floppy module and the CD-ROM module appears dead. I'd like to give the flash card in the PCMCIA slot a try.
So, I'm gonna plead some ignorance here. How do I go about putting a bootable image on a flash card? Even if it's as simple as format f:/s, in this case I need to put IBM's exact bios-flashing-floppy disc image on the card. (Which probably has some unique info in the boot sector, since its specialized to flash the bios, and they give you a little program for making the disc. Maybe?).
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No, PBS is in fact much much worse than regular television. They're double dipping by getting federal money via grants and then asking (hell, pleading, insisting, spending hours and hours a day begging during pledge drives) for donations on top of that. Then they have "sponsored" programs which is nothing more than corporate advertising on top of it.. just a little more subtle.
That's right, cuz everbody knows the BIG MONEY is in public television! Those PBS fatcats have Rupert Murdoch and his ilk trembling in their boots! C'mon. Get real.. So they have multiple funding sources. So? It underscores the meager appropriation Congress gives the CPB. Less than a third of PBS funding comes from tax-based sources (federal, state, or otherwise). I assume you'd rather them plead for voluntary donations than a bigger check from the govnt.
All the while we end up with nothing but a homogenized liberal soap box for people who are too extreme to get on regular television.
Riight...who's the left wing nut on PBS again? Is it LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow or the pedant of dry interviews, Charlie Rose? No, no, it's the subliminal leftwing conspiracy foisted on us during the antelope mating scenes on Nature. Or perhaps its the Dems having their way with the audience when NOVA explores the mysteries of the Amazon basin. Don't even get me started about Bert and Ernie.
That reminds me...Have you seen the latest TV ad campaign from KFC? They're now billing their fried chicken as health food for the weight conscious. "Honey, you know how we talked about eating better?" begins one ad. I nearly fell out of my chair. Talk about swinging the hype pendulum too far the other direction. (OK, nobody talks about a hype pendulum, I made that up, but still...)
Any diet, even Atkins, only works as long as you can follow it...
Except that nows there's evidence that low-carb style diets work better than other more conventional diets. A recent Harvard study presented at the last meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity showed that subjects on a controlled low-carb diet lost more weight than conventional dieters--despite eating on average 25,000 more calories over the course of the 12 week study! The AP covered this, and I found an archive of the storyat FoxNews. It really flies in the face of the standard nutritionist's "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" dogma.
Well, it's true that they're have been some problems. I'm beta testing the MONAD system, but there's just no good docs on how to handle BIGHAIRYBALLS. I'm trying to use it to code up a network analyzer that would probe the input to ANUS with SHAFT...but apparently, ANUS is read-only, and only provides output. That stinks. Guess I just don't have the SAC to do this.
Maybe I'd have better luck with the VAGINA/CLIT combo you suggest.
Wallowing in the geek gutter,
NoData
Yeah, yeah, that's right...and MONAD has some interesting development tools...including Structured Application Code (SAC), to hang your scripts off of, and SHell Accessible File Types (SHAFT), that gives you really big, long file names, and a firewall library via the Active Network Usage System (ANUS), that lets you monitor any nasty packets your box might be dumping, and it's all tied together with some really interesting primitves provided by the Basic Integrated Graphical Handle And Input Recognition Yoking Bridge And Link Library System. (BIGHAIRYBALLS). Sounds promising!
Nice. Give the AC props, mods.
Saying 97 percent of the significant figures in sciences come from the west is like saying 90 percent of shark bite victims happen within 100 meters of the shoreline.
They're alike in that they're both...what?...true?
I don't get your point. I'm sure there will be a huge onslaught of (possibly) valid criticisms from cultural relativists like Jared Diamond, but yours isn't one of them.
"I've been using MapQuest most of my life,
HOLY SHIT do I feel old.
No kidding! I had no idea about these tricks. I'm sitting here on an 10.2 machine, and there's no man entry for pbcopy or pbpaste.
Hmm....so open-minded, rational people don't need to read this book, and irrational, knee-jerk reactionaries by definition won't read it, or won't be convinced. By the reviewer's logic this book is perfect....for noone.
But seriously, I can't imagine convincing an Ashcroftian to sit down and consider the other side, but I might read it just for some common sense ammunition. You know, some security...against those...who..want..more..security... Uh, yeah.
Funk Brothers... they wrote more #1 hits than the Beatles, the Stones, Elvis, and the Beach Boys combined. Don't give the white boys all the credit just cause they claim it.
the Funk Brothers played on more #1 hits...not wrote. I can't find anything that says they wrote every #1 hit they played on.
Granted, they were grossly uncredited...and chiefly responsible for the Motown sound...but that doesn't take anything away from the brilliance of the Lennon/McCartney team...those "white boys" deserve all the credit they claim.
You're remarkably articulate and well thought-out on these points. Your history lends a unique credibility to your points. I hope somebody mods your comments up.
I'm not just being sycophantic..I actually don't know that I completely agree with your choices. I think there's something to be said for owning a firearm for self-defense and the defense of your home. But, you're absolutely right that the primary function of a gun is the injury or taking of life. While other hunting/killing practices have been elevated to "sport"--archery, javelin-throw, all of martial arts--their primary purpose can't be denied.
There's another girl...actually, one particular photo of a girl...that I see all the time. As irony would have it, can't find an example right now.
It's the shot of the cute doe-eyed blonde with a laptop looking up at the camera, shot from above with some slight figh-eye lensing to give a kind of foreshortened feel to it. I know I've seen her advertising Yahoo! Mail, a singles service, various computer e-tailers, and even on posters in train stations. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
You forgot the geek favorite: The Frontier Labs Nex II series! And the new Nex IA features an FM tuner (although it also features a really stupidly placed headphone cord that comes out the bottom).
I paired my Nex II with the armband case from Tune Belt and I have the perfect jogging/gym solution. Got my Tune Belt case at PlanetMiniDisc.com and my Nex II from Choke Slam Media on eBay, where they always have TONS of various Nex models for sale. In general there's a great market out there for mp3 armband cases (I only know of two: Tune Belt's, and a crappier (less comfortable, IMO) one from Case Logic) and full-featured CF mp3 players. Really, really overlooked markets.
My only gripe about the Nex series is NO PLAY LISTS! Geez. I hate reshuffling around my jogging/biking/driving tunes into different folders depending on my mood. Cheap CF player (that doubles as a flash drive), great sound with custom 5-band EQ, and now with FM tuning...m3u playlists would make it perfect.
Those spunky MIT kids! They got moxy, I tell ya!
>> for instance slipup batteries wield result in the emission of heat rupture liquid.
> I saw the same line in the manual for a Japanese vibrator. Wierd.
That is weird...cuz I actually experienced the emission of heat rupture liquid while using a Japanese vibrator manually. Small world!
Prythee no sport with stingy of play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not wallk. Throagh of peril.
Dude, that's not Engrish...That's Chaucer.
Bottom line, people think its ok to steal $1000 worth of music, but refuse to shoplift gum.
Sigh...Once again, class:
Theft = I am -1 item, you are +1 item.
Copying = I am +0 items, you are +1 item.
Copyright infringement != Theft.
It just doesn't. Period. Depite what Lars told you.
You will use your machine for nothing but work! I have had bosses that tried to do similar things in the past and all they really did is cause folks to leave the company because things were so strict and you basically couldn't take breaks anymore other than pushing back from your desk and staring at the wall for 10 minutes
There are whispers of a time in the Great Before when people goofed off at work WITHOUT having web access! There were entire "coffee breaks" where not a single email was sent or a single http request made! I know! It boggles the mind. Turns out, lazy people have always been lazy!
But, in all seriousness, I will concede that expectations are different now. Especially if a company takes AWAY something employess have been accustomed to (unfettered web access), morale will fall precipitously. I'd go so far as to say, in fact, that the general computing populace is far more web-addicted than we realize. People wouldn't just be disgruntled, I think many would go through a real kind of withdrawl. And while the boss doesn't "owe you" anything in terms of connectivity at his (or her) workstation, employment is a two-way street.
Well, there's goes my bet on what the new Handspring, Palm merged company would be called:
"PalmSprings" of course!
Sure, you laugh now, but their new office digs woulda been SWEET.
They didn't even make it fully buzzword compliant.
But hey, they did make a compound word with an unnecessary infix capitalization.
(CitiGroup, MetLife, SunTrust, etc.) That's pretty CorpSpeak of them.
Honestly, it's been years since I installed a Linux distro, but I remember being particularly vexed just getting off the ground setting up multibooting correctly.
Most Linux newbies are going to be transitioning from Windows and are going to want to keep their Windows set-up intact. Most of my gripes are not with Linux per se, but they're issues straight Windows users never have to deal with it. I remember being annoyed about the following:
1) All the nuanced distinctions between the MBR and bootable partitions, primary vs. logical partitions, the magical boundaries at 2gig/8gigs/"1024" cylinders, yadda yadda. Again, features of the architecture not of the OS (and many obviated with modern BIOSes), but still a pain to have keep straight.
2) Getting the bootloader configured correctly. I had some odd set-up where BootMagic was on the MBR of IDE0, which handed things off to LILO on the first partition of IDE1. And even then I think I must have tweaked lilo.conf a couple dozen times before it worked. Oy vey. LILO, GRUB, BootMagic, NTLoader, etc. It's a mess.
3) Keeping straight which version of Windows can live where. Some gotta be on the first partition of the first primary. Some don't care so much. Sometimes you have to "hide" the other bootable partitions, sometimes this doesn't matter so much.
4) Anxiously futzing with fdisk (win and linux versions) and RedHat's Disk Druid, and some apps seeing what others don't (at least back when I did this around RH6). And keeping straight your FAT16 vs FAT32 vs FAT32X (fat32 beyond 1024cyl) vs ext2 vs ext3.
And most how-tos and other online tutorials cover a few specific scenarioes that invariably never apply exactly to you (this is true of MOST intallation issues). So it'd be great to have all the principles, rules of thumbs, and gotchas laid out in one place.
Yup, except, the power consumption of the human body isn't determined by energy input but by energy expenditure. But 2000 kcalories for the relatively sedentary *cough* Slashdotter *cough* person is about right. The average resting metabolic rate is about 1800 kcalories per day (for a 150lb male under 40yrs). That's if he doesn't nothing but lie around breathe all day.
Of course, as amazing as just running on 100W is, most of us are blessed with wonderfully efficient metabolism so that our bodies actually get a surplus of glucose energy! That's why have these wonderful adipose batteries in our asses.
"It's not a spare tire, it's a spare battery"
I have found Larry Gonick's "Cartoon Guides" charming, accurate (if sometimes kinda understandibly rushed), and very compelling. Gonick is most famous for his "Cartoon History of the Universe," but he also has a "Cartoon Guide to Physics" and a "Cartoon Guide to Statistics" among other science titles. It's perfect for the adult novice and the young student as well. The cartoons illustrate abstract concepts visually, while maintaining a great sense of humor and fun.
Your post just resurrected a laptop! I recently acquired an ancient ThinkPad 600E that I need to flash the BIOS on. IBM provides a bootable floppy image for this purpose. Well, the thing is, it's missing the floppy module and the CD-ROM module appears dead. I'd like to give the flash card in the PCMCIA slot a try.
/s, in this case I need to put IBM's exact bios-flashing-floppy disc image on the card.
So, I'm gonna plead some ignorance here. How do I go about putting a bootable image on a flash card? Even if it's as simple as format f:
(Which probably has some unique info in the boot sector, since its specialized to flash the bios, and they give you a little program for making the disc. Maybe?).