If you crack open an old Mac (you need a long torx screwdriver to do this properly) you will find the signatures of the original Mac team cut into the plastic. Steve Jobs said that artists sign their works and the Mac team created art. The members signed the case mold used for Macs up until 1986. I've purchased two Mac Pluses. One for $2500 in the heydey. I put it to much good use. It came with a 40 Meg HD. I much later purchased another at a garage sale, I couldn't resist for $25, it came with a 60 Meg HD all the standard Mac software and a number of decent games.
I think that Earth is void of reason so naturally we seek it in space. I think we need to exhaust our search of the space between our ears before we inflict our brand of love on the universe at large. Once we have discovered ourselves, we will then be better suited to share with others we might find.
I think about our so-called Judeo-Christian values. The cognitive dissonance between our idealized values and our actual values are lightyears apart. We polute our water and land and it has now it full-circle accumulates in our bodies. We idle by and by while the fruit of our labors supports those who will efficiently (and honorably) KILL innocents in their sleep (eg. on an airplane flight) when told to do so. These same leaders presume holy relationships: praying, visiting churches, and "God Bless" a common phrase ending many a speech. I think we need to close the gap between what we say and what we do before we spend our billions exploring half-heartedly.
How many billions are spent the world over in all countries on doublespeek "defense" and "peacekeepers"? Why not brand these with words with real meaning "KILLing" and "KILLers".
We infight like Clark/Kubrick's 2001 hominid ancestors while the next asteroid, CME, errant black hole (or other as yet to be discovered nano-dna-phenom) comes to take us to be one with God.
Nature is a terrorist with superhuman powers! If this isn't a reason to fear God and love one another... well I don't know a better one.
Evolve! GROW UP!
We share 99.9%+ DNA. We are all related. We are all family. We are all brothers and sisters.
There is a message "Do not Kill!" it needs to be taught at birth and reinforced in childhood and enforced as law. Killing is senseless and stupid. Solutions abound that cost no thing "do unto others as you would have others do unto you", "love thy neighbor", "be nice".
Happy Valentines Day!
If you send this post to a friend, you will increase the love in the world, if you send it to ten friends...
A really smart guy by the name of Albert Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Here's what I imagine: Install J J: Home on a Pocket PC, go through the J programming language tutorials, and you get a programmable calculator- sized device that calculates, computes, and can graph fluctuating hyperparabaloids in technocolor, and while being a phone, a camera, an mp3 player, and...
This is a terrific solution however it does seem to invade our right to privacy. Is Peace of mind is worth seeing naked bodies of various proportions?
This wreaks of stepping on our unalienable rights. Why should our God Given rights to privacy be so unalienable? Liberty Essay
Why should we fight for our freedom? Dred Scott's fought The advance of freedom is the calling of our time. Because if we don't fight we will continue lose it. Like the frog in the pot, it will slowly heat up and we will boil in your loss of freedom. Like the Nazi's took away the rights then more rights then until they finally found it convenient to take away the right to live. You would think we would have learned something. But no. We are sheep.
The terrorists caused more harm to us by causing a societal Auto Immune Disease than by their attacks. The lymphatic system of our society over- reacted to the threat to the point where the true threat is fear which for some reason, our society has propagated. The true problem was the sheep.
We need to teach our citizens to defend themselves from terrorists. We should all learn Krav Maga in grade school. But we would rather be sheep. Fat fast food eating, non-exercizing Sheep that watch too much TV.
It starts with fear. Fear is the mind killer. is the mind-killer. Terrorists work to create fear. These terrorist succeeded in stirring up a lot of fear. Now we have to fly naked.
America used to be the Home of the Brave . We did not have fear. We were the land of the "NoFear bumper stickers" But now we fear our fellow americans. We fear anybody we don't know who rides on the airplane with us. We fear men in turbans. We are afraid to lose our valuable sheep lives.
This is why we should be able to bear arms. An American with a machete, a machine gun, a nuke, and nifty ice9 nano particals is a Free american afraid of no one. The interesting aspect of this is that if one bears arms he is afraid of something otherwise why carry the extra weight? We should be able to bear arms but we should not because bearing arms shows that we are afraid. What arms we decide to bear is irrelevant.
Q. What are we afraid of? A. Death, loss of life, loss of loved ones.
Q. Why are we afraid? A. We are afraid of where we go when we die.
1. heaven? if we are going here,
what are we afraid of? cool gardens streamside with plenty of fruit? Spending eternity with our God?
2. hell? if we are afraid of going to hell we are already in hell.
3. nowhere? Ceasing to exist is like total loss of freedom. We are afraid of losing our freedom. Why give it up without a fight now. Why die the little death?
Sheep. We are sheep. We go where they say to go. When they say submit to the search, we submit. When they say bend over, we bend over. When they say no nail clippers, no baby swiss army knife, no pointy things, do we say "We are free!!! We are CITIZENS!!! WE HAVE UNALIENABLE GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO BEAR ARMS/FINGER NAIL CLIPPERS!!!!!
When they say "fly naked", we will submit. When they say take this tattoo on our hand or forehead, we will submit. Why?
Because we are sheep.
When they say we will implant rice chips in all our kiddos when they are born and we will track their GPS coordinates and purchases for their lives, we will submit. We won't just submit, we will want it. We will demand it. Why? Because we are sheep.
Why can't a manufacturer as smart as apple make the battery easily replacable by the user? In another market Sonicare makes a toothbrush that has AA batteries inside it that cannot be replaced without resulting to using your dremel. I wouldn't want to have to buy a new car every time my battery died. Who would? There is no difference.
The only reason I can think of doing this is to make more money selling new devices or expensive battery replacement services. This is great if your customer is willing to do this. Great for you. Not so great for the world but who cares about that anyhow. We care about getting now.
The problem is we are a throw away society. We use stuff until it stops working, then throw it away and buy it's replacing. We don't think about it. A coffee maker that if designed well could last generations. It could be passed on to your children's children's children. But nobody thinks this way. We can only concentrate long enough to watch a McDonald's commercial.
In a nutshell, don't blame the manufacturer, blame yourself you short thinkin monkey.
You checkin me?
Is that really Sadam? Looks more like Moses.
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Saw the pictures on Yahoo. He doesn't look like Sadam to me. Anyone else notice this guy closely resembles Moses as played by Heston in the 10 Commandments movie? Time will tell.
The image on the web page was 800x526. I did not find a link to a downloadable 1,060,000,000 pixel image. I didn't find pieces of that image to download. I would like to see more details of Bryce Canyon. I would like to see the whole thing even though my monitor would choke. Based on the credibility of the writer I trust it exists. But, with pictures, seeing is believing WHERE'S THE BEEF?
In order to determine the solution to the SPAM problem you have to get into some pretty hairy mathematics. Fortunately, I am presently unemployed and willing to spend some time working on this.
When you talk about email, you are really talking about sending bytes of information, but a perfectly clear email can be sent in relatively few bytes, perhaps a Kilobyte. So let m be a kilobyte's worth of email. m is a good descripter because it stands for mail.
Now sending mail through the internet requires processor effort. Lets choose E for this to stand for the effort. E would then be the effort required to push m through an email processor on the internet in a second.
There is only so much that the internet can do sending emails, eventually with enough spammers, the internet will get bogged down, certainly there will be bottlenecks here and there. Of course the theoretical limitation is the speed of electrons somewhat approaching a maximum of kilobytes of mail per second per second that we can call c.
It can be shown that mail messages can be related to m through the quantity c using the following formula.
Factoid: I did a ls -R in / in the command shell on a shiny new Mac G5 in the local CompUSA store. It is amazing how many files there are in the base os. This sucker went on for many minutes before I got bored watching them fly by. It is obvious that in this speed test a (G5, or any modern PC for that matter) just isn't near as fast as an IBM PC running DOS that only has about 4 files (autoexec.bat, config.sys, msdos.sys and io.sys). The old IBM PC boots faster too.
This is not to say that I wouldn't love to have one of these artful beauties sitting on my desk right now.
The page ref'ed this bit on 200 gigabit nanotube memory cubes.
I am not so sure I want my chips to be living organisms. On the otherhand I am certain that the choice between faster organic computer and slower inorganic computer would be a no-brainer. I'm just rooting for the inorganics right now. Thought then there is ice-nine goo and all that to be concerned about which is not much better than a computer virus destroying all life forms.
A 'puter [not including DNA synths which incidentaly should be cautiously defended since they are potential hacking targets to 3li4e geno-hackers] passing a virus directly to a human (or some other animal) becomes a probability when the computer has a DNA factory as part of its makeup.
Amplification seems like a reasonable quick solution to hard problems of routing traveling salesmen, but make sure you don't get any of it on you.
TheBrain.com has an interesting solution to storing stuff. Warning! the link is a little slow because thebrain.com is served up by a java version of thebrain software. You can download a copy of the software and run it locally. Then you can download "brains" which are 'random-interactive-accessable' (my terminology) datasets on various topics some interestingly offbeat and some interestingly utilitarian.
The page shows the enterprise version of their software having won all sorts of prizes recently from various tech/sales/ad rags.
Since the fastest CPU was about 5 GhZ last year, and next year with this new diamond tech it may be 200Ghz I guess we have to scratch this doubling every one and a half years law. Looks like the growth curve is going to explode.
Wee!
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| ---- 2004, Speed accelerates way faster.
/ ---- Moore's Law: doubles every 1.5yrs / / / /
Y E A R S
I received a letter from the postmaster a while back that was an apology for having lost a payment I had sent. The letter came in a manila envelope many months after I sent the payment. The letter was a relief to me and an admission that post office workers are human. It doesn't happen very often.
On ebay, I have had non-paying winning bidders on about 2 of 100 auctions. It is a bummer when it happens but it does not happen very often. What really sucks are eBays rules for compensating the seller. You have to go through eBay's waiting period to get your auction fees reversed. I have so far been unable to jump through all the hoops to get a refund.
I got a traffic violation while on business in Pismo Beach, California. I am from Texas. webtrafficschool.com gave me an excellent learning experience and saved me from the insurance costs of having an unclean driving record.
The course material was informative and relatively enjoyable in comparison to other Defensive Driving classes I have taken. I received excellent value for my $25 payment.
"But the truth is that all of the waste produced by all of the world's nuclear reactors could fit in a two-story building, on an area the size of a basketball court."
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I would love to have the time to sit down and play a game with 10**49 moves. Then again, it would be a terrific pain in the keister.
Here's the link for clicking on. www.suprnova.com
This is not a free service but it looks very convenient.
Note, I get the credit for the link.
If you crack open an old Mac (you need a long torx screwdriver to do this properly) you will find the signatures of the original Mac team cut into the plastic. Steve Jobs said that artists sign their works and the Mac team created art. The members signed the case mold used for Macs up until 1986. I've purchased two Mac Pluses. One for $2500 in the heydey. I put it to much good use. It came with a 40 Meg HD. I much later purchased another at a garage sale, I couldn't resist for $25, it came with a 60 Meg HD all the standard Mac software and a number of decent games.
I think that Earth is void of reason so naturally we seek it in space. I think we need to exhaust our search of the space between our ears before we inflict our brand of love on the universe at large. Once we have discovered ourselves, we will then be better suited to share with others we might find.
I think about our so-called Judeo-Christian values. The cognitive dissonance between our idealized values and our actual values are lightyears apart. We polute our water and land and it has now it full-circle accumulates in our bodies. We idle by and by while the fruit of our labors supports those who will efficiently (and honorably) KILL innocents in their sleep (eg. on an airplane flight) when told to do so. These same leaders presume holy relationships: praying, visiting churches, and "God Bless" a common phrase ending many a speech. I think we need to close the gap between what we say and what we do before we spend our billions exploring half-heartedly.
How many billions are spent the world over in all countries on doublespeek "defense" and "peacekeepers"? Why not brand these with words with real meaning "KILLing" and "KILLers".
We infight like Clark/Kubrick's 2001 hominid ancestors while the next asteroid, CME, errant black hole (or other as yet to be discovered nano-dna-phenom) comes to take us to be one with God.
Nature is a terrorist with superhuman powers! If this isn't a reason to fear God and love one another... well I don't know a better one.
Evolve! GROW UP!
We share 99.9%+ DNA. We are all related. We are all family. We are all brothers and sisters.
There is a message "Do not Kill!" it needs to be taught at birth and reinforced in childhood and enforced as law. Killing is senseless and stupid.
Solutions abound that cost no thing "do unto others as you would have others do unto you", "love thy neighbor", "be nice".
Happy Valentines Day!
If you send this post to a friend, you will increase the love in the world, if you send it to ten friends...
they will want to kill you.
I would wager that the water jet you saw was also a might faster than 1mm/sec.
Do those who make rules for which devices may be used on tests value knowledge more than imagination?
A really smart guy by the name of Albert Einstein said
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Here's what I imagine:
Install J J: Home on a Pocket PC, go through the J programming language tutorials, and you get a programmable calculator- sized device that calculates, computes, and can graph fluctuating hyperparabaloids in technocolor, and while being a phone, a camera, an mp3 player, and...
I got the convergence monkey in my pocket.
-Wargames
Thanks. Jiggy is easier for me than crossing my eyes.
This is a terrific solution however it does seem to invade our right to privacy. Is Peace of mind is worth seeing naked bodies of various proportions?
This wreaks of stepping on our unalienable rights. Why should our God Given rights to privacy be so unalienable? Liberty Essay
Why should we fight for our freedom?
Dred Scott's fought
The advance of freedom is the calling of our time.
Because if we don't fight we will continue lose it. Like the frog in the pot, it will slowly heat up and we will boil in your loss of freedom. Like the Nazi's took away the rights then more rights then until they finally found it convenient to take away the right to live. You would think we would have learned something. But no. We are sheep.
The terrorists caused more harm to us by causing a societal Auto Immune Disease than by their attacks. The lymphatic system of our society over- reacted to the threat to the point where the true threat is fear which for some reason, our society has propagated. The true problem was the sheep.
We need to teach our citizens to defend themselves from terrorists. We should all learn Krav Maga in grade school. But we would rather be sheep. Fat fast food eating, non-exercizing Sheep that watch too much TV.
It starts with fear. Fear is the mind killer. is the mind-killer.
Terrorists work to create fear. These terrorist succeeded in stirring up a lot of fear. Now we have to fly naked.
America used to be the Home of the Brave . We did not have fear. We were the land of the "NoFear bumper stickers"
But now we fear our fellow americans. We fear anybody we don't know who rides on the airplane with us. We fear men in turbans. We are afraid to lose our valuable sheep lives.
This is why we should be able to bear arms. An American with a machete, a machine gun, a nuke, and nifty ice9 nano particals is a Free american afraid of no one. The interesting aspect of this is that if one bears arms he is afraid of something otherwise why carry the extra weight? We should be able to bear arms but we should not because bearing arms shows that we are afraid. What arms we decide to bear is irrelevant.
Q. What are we afraid of?
A. Death, loss of life, loss of loved ones.
Q. Why are we afraid?
A. We are afraid of where we go when we die.
1. heaven? if we are going here,
what are we afraid of? cool gardens streamside with plenty of fruit? Spending eternity with our God?
2. hell? if we are afraid of going to hell we are already in hell.
3. nowhere? Ceasing to exist is like total loss of freedom. We are afraid of losing our freedom. Why give it up without a fight now. Why die the little death?
Sheep.
We are sheep.
We go where they say to go.
When they say submit to the search, we submit.
When they say bend over, we bend over.
When they say no nail clippers, no baby swiss army knife, no pointy things, do we say "We are free!!! We are CITIZENS!!! WE HAVE UNALIENABLE GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO BEAR ARMS/FINGER NAIL CLIPPERS!!!!!
When they say "fly naked", we will submit.
When they say take this tattoo on our hand or forehead, we will submit.
Why?
Because we are sheep.
When they say we will implant rice chips in all our kiddos when they are born and we will track their GPS coordinates and purchases for their lives, we will submit. We won't just submit, we will want it. We will demand it. Why?
Because we are sheep.
Be brave and be free. Remember the Su
Warning, the following site is for mature over 21 audiences...
www.Naked-air.com
I've considered this further, with the risk of losing even more of my currently good karma....
He looks a lot like Santa Clause too.
Hey Mama! Why are they checking Santa's tonsils out? Is he not feeling well?
Why can't a manufacturer as smart as apple make the battery easily replacable by the user? In another market Sonicare makes a toothbrush that has AA batteries inside it that cannot be replaced without resulting to using your dremel.
I wouldn't want to have to buy a new car every time my battery died. Who would? There is no difference.
The only reason I can think of doing this is to make more money selling new devices or expensive battery replacement services. This is great if your customer is willing to do this. Great for you. Not so great for the world but who cares about that anyhow. We care about getting now.
The problem is we are a throw away society. We use stuff until it stops working, then throw it away and buy it's replacing. We don't think about it. A coffee maker that if designed well could last generations. It could be passed on to your children's children's children. But nobody thinks this way. We can only concentrate long enough to watch a McDonald's commercial.
In a nutshell, don't blame the manufacturer, blame yourself you short thinkin monkey.
You checkin me?
Saw the pictures on Yahoo. He doesn't look like Sadam to me. Anyone else notice this guy closely resembles Moses as played by Heston in the 10 Commandments movie?
Time will tell.
That is a slice of sandwich meat. I was looking for a cow.
The image on the web page was 800x526. I did not find a link to a downloadable 1,060,000,000 pixel image. I didn't find pieces of that image to download. I would like to see more details of Bryce Canyon. I would like to see the whole thing even though my monitor would choke. Based on the credibility of the writer I trust it exists. But, with pictures, seeing is believing WHERE'S THE BEEF?
In order to determine the solution to the SPAM problem you have to get into some pretty hairy mathematics. Fortunately, I am presently unemployed and willing to spend some time working on this.
When you talk about email, you are really talking about sending bytes of information, but a perfectly clear email can be sent in relatively few bytes, perhaps a Kilobyte. So let m be a kilobyte's worth of email. m is a good descripter because it stands for mail.
Now sending mail through the internet requires processor effort. Lets choose E for this to stand for the effort. E would then be the effort required to push m through an email processor on the internet in a second.
There is only so much that the internet can do sending emails, eventually with enough spammers, the internet will get bogged down, certainly there will be bottlenecks here and there. Of course the theoretical limitation is the speed of electrons somewhat approaching a maximum of kilobytes of mail per second per second that we can call c.
It can be shown that mail messages can be related to m through the quantity c using the following formula.
E=mc^2
Aha!!!
The solution is obvious... NUKE THE SPAMMERS.
Factoid: I did a ls -R in / in the command shell on a shiny new Mac G5 in the local CompUSA store. It is amazing how many files there are in the base os. This sucker went on for many minutes before I got bored watching them fly by. It is obvious that in this speed test a (G5, or any modern PC for that matter) just isn't near as fast as an IBM PC running DOS that only has about 4 files (autoexec.bat, config.sys, msdos.sys and io.sys). The old IBM PC boots faster too.
This is not to say that I wouldn't love to have one of these artful beauties sitting on my desk right now.
No, this is not an infection on my forearm, it is my battery, stupid!
"the bit" Nanotube Transistors Make Memory referred to in my previous post. Scuse me.
on 200 gigabit nanotube memory cubes.
I am not so sure I want my chips to be living organisms. On the otherhand I am certain that the choice between faster organic computer and slower inorganic computer would be a no-brainer. I'm just rooting for the inorganics right now. Thought then there is ice-nine goo and all that to be concerned about which is not much better than a computer virus destroying all life forms.
A 'puter [not including DNA synths which incidentaly should be cautiously defended since they are potential hacking targets to 3li4e geno-hackers] passing a virus directly to a human (or some other animal) becomes a probability when the computer has a DNA factory as part of its makeup.
Amplification seems like a reasonable quick solution to hard problems of routing traveling salesmen, but make sure you don't get any of it on you.
The page shows the enterprise version of their software having won all sorts of prizes recently from various tech/sales/ad rags.
Since the fastest CPU was about 5 GhZ last year, and next year with this new diamond tech it may be 200Ghz I guess we have to scratch this doubling every one and a half years law. Looks like the growth curve is going to explode.
/
/
/
Wee!
|
S|
P|
E|
E|
D|
| ---- 2004, Speed accelerates way faster.
/ ---- Moore's Law: doubles every 1.5yrs
/
Y E A R S
I received a letter from the postmaster a while back that was an apology for having lost a payment I had sent. The letter came in a manila envelope many months after I sent the payment.
The letter was a relief to me and an admission that post office workers are human. It doesn't happen very often.
On ebay, I have had non-paying winning bidders on about 2 of 100 auctions. It is a bummer when it happens but it does not happen very often. What really sucks are eBays rules for compensating the seller. You have to go through eBay's waiting period to get your auction fees reversed. I have so far been unable to jump through all the hoops to get a refund.
I got a traffic violation while on business in Pismo Beach, California. I am from Texas. webtrafficschool.com gave me an excellent learning experience and saved me from the insurance costs of having an unclean driving record.
The course material was informative and relatively enjoyable in comparison to other Defensive Driving classes I have taken. I received excellent value for my $25 payment.
"But the truth is that all of the waste produced by all of the world's nuclear reactors could fit in a two-story building, on an area the size of a basketball court."
Truthfully!