"56 percent of all Oklahoma students surveyed admitted having had sexual intercourse."
It looks like Oklahoma teens are doing a lot better in one respect than the average slashdotter. Maybe if the Oklahoma legislature encouraged computer use and video games they would lower this percentage.
I am really frustrated with the lack of games for Macs. I fianally got a decent home computer, a dual G4, with a good graphics card are a ton of memory that would be great for games, but am having trouble finding a good selection of games. The local CompUSA has only first person shooters for Macs and no strategy games. I miss playing C&C on my old pre-pentium Windows95 but can't find anything similar for Mac OS X.
Yes, for a country that was founded, in part, by puritains, America is one of the most sexually obsessed countries in the world. Fundies (as you call them) are just as obsessed with sex as the pervs who surf the net looking for new thrills. The Republicans in America have discovered what the Catholic Church has known for centuries, that people are driven by their sexual desires and by repression and sublimation of their sexual desires. Freud knew this. Unfortuately sex has now become a large part of the political debate in this country and an incompetent power hungry president was re-elected by playing on peoples fears of homosexuals, which is really their fears of their own sexuality. The debate over the.xxx domain is just another example of the represseded desires of white bread conservatives being carried over into the political and now the technological arenas. It wouldn't have changed anything. A search for your favorite body part on Google will bring up plenty of sites, regardless of the what is after the "."
It is reported that they have also translated some of the dolphin's language. The most recent communication was, "So long and thanks for all the fish." They are not sure what this means, but I would recommend hitching a ride on the next Vogon crusier to pass by.
The article says that Neil Aspinall, now manager of Apple Corps, was the Beatles' first roadie. Neil wasn't a roadie, he was a press agent. Mal Evans is well know as the Beatles roadie, go-fer and body guard.
The Beatles were great musicians, but terrible business men. The story of the mess that was Apple has been documented in several books including "The Love you Make" by Peter Brown.
I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google.
Its the same for Safari on Macs. There is a search box in the upper right that uses Google. I think its great, and I prefer Google, I even have it as my home page, but it seems hypocritical of them to criticize IE 7 for defaulting to MSN search.
I do think that Google is more fair than MSN in their search rankings. Well, partly because the web sites that I have done for various Buddhist and Martial Arts groups in my city are at the top when you do a search, but also because I was turned off when MSN search gave a link to a "Why switch from Linux to Windows" page when users looked up Linux. I think they have changed it now, or become more subtle, but I prefer to have my searches pure.
Having said that, look up the word failure in Google and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Another reason to stay with Google.
How about delivering the 15" 1.83 MacBook that I ordered last week? I even paid extra for second day air, but I haven't heard from the computer store yet.
...I thought that is what all the languages used on the web do right now. PHP, Perl, Javascript, etc.
One should differentiate between CGI languages and browser languages. Most CGI languages (Perl, PHP, etc.) are able to do anything a language can do and use the browser as an interface. The main drawback is that there is a lag time, particularly if you are on a slow connection. Javascript is faster, since it runs in the browser, but it is a limited language. Until we have everyone connected to broadband running 24/7 we are not going to see thin-clients in widespread use. Java is great, but it still takes a while to get an app running in a browser. So for now its Word and Photoshop on my computer, Safari or Firefox for web surfing and OS X Mail or webbased interfaces for e-mails. For the time being I don't see any other way around it.
Last year, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Germany's Manager Magazin: "We needed the first years to conquer the PC and those following to be ahead in the server business. In the upcoming years we'll conquer the Internet."
Sounds like another quote, "Heute Deutschland, Morgen Der Welt." (Today Germany, Tomorrow the World) made by some guy named Adolf about 65 years ago. The Will to Power lives on.
How is Google going to topple Microsoft? One is a search engine the other makes operating systems and a word processing application. Despite all this talk about their map systems, both make their real money from totally different operations. Unless Google has a web based operating system up its sleeve and can provide everyone with broadband so that we can use it, I don't see Microsoft getting toppled anytime soon.
Yes, Iraq is not a very cost effective war, as was also Vietnam. The Second World War, while more costly in material and lives did gain the U.S. acess to world resources and markets. If Iraq was the quick Blitzkrieg that Rumsfeld though it would be, despite the critics, then it might have been cost effective in terms of resouces gained (oil) and world prestige. Instead we are stuck in another quagmire in a country where enough of the poplulation is against us to support a strong rebellion. IANDG, but if I was a U.S. military general I would be calling for his resignation also.
I have to admit that I didn't RTFG before posting my comment. I guess I could find the Gospel of Judas on-line and give it a look through. I did listen to the NPR discussion yesterday about the newly discovered Gospel and it did seem that it was addressing some of the same issues as J.C. Superstar, even if it took a different tack. Judas may have gone ahead and turned Jesus in, not because he didn't think he was devine, but that he realized that he had a part to play in all this, even if he was "damned for all time." Anyway just some musings from a Buddhist agnostic.
Have you noticed that the main theme of the Gospel of Judas is similar to some of the questions raised in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar? They both explore the idea that Judas had to turn in Christ to fulfill Christ's mission on earth. Listen to the debate between Chirst and Judas during the last supper in Jesus Christ Superstar:
Judas: You want me to do it. [Turn him in.]
Jesus: Why don't you do it?
Judas: What if I just stay here and ruin your ambition? Chirst, you deserve it.
If you control the moon, you have a major military strategic advantage, the ultimate high ground. You can catapult anything down, anywhere on Earth and nobody can stop you.
Except that they have three days and a clear radar view of the object while it heads towards earth to send up interceptors or evacuate a target population.
Intercontinental ballistic missles that reach their destination in 15 mins. to 1/2 and hour are much more effective and don't requre a big program to get them to their launch point.
Does anyone at DARPA, the Defense Department or any of the universities involved watch movies? Have they not seen the Terminator series? Haven't they read Harlan Ellison? Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf? Is this the start of the war between humans and machines? I think they need to require more reading and humanities credits for scientists and engineers. I can see myself in twenty years running from human hunting humvees in the national forest. What are we starting?
Grrr, no Safari support. I have to go to the trouble of opening another browser to use this and entering the web address all over again. Too much work. I give up.
The page says you have to have a PC with Explorer to take the test. Grrr, no Mac/Safari. I guess they know that the average Mac user is smarter and will blow the other contestants away.
This is not what the founding fathers intended when they wrote the constitution. In fact they didn't intend for us to have an internet, so we should get rid of it. We should also get rid of cars, sub-machine guns and TV sets. They also allowed slavery and didn't give the right to vote to women so we should bring back slavery and end universal sufferage. We should also wear powdered wigs and hats with buckles. After all that's what the founding fathers intended.
However the new Star Wars series turns out it can't be as bad as the Wookie Christmas special that aired about the time that the first (Ep. IV) Star Wars movie was released. Does anyone else remember that? Was it as bad as I think it was?
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"56 percent of all Oklahoma students surveyed admitted having had sexual intercourse."
It looks like Oklahoma teens are doing a lot better in one respect than the average slashdotter. Maybe if the Oklahoma legislature encouraged computer use and video games they would lower this percentage.
I am really frustrated with the lack of games for Macs. I fianally got a decent home computer, a dual G4, with a good graphics card are a ton of memory that would be great for games, but am having trouble finding a good selection of games. The local CompUSA has only first person shooters for Macs and no strategy games. I miss playing C&C on my old pre-pentium Windows95 but can't find anything similar for Mac OS X.
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools."
Yes, for a country that was founded, in part, by puritains, America is one of the most sexually obsessed countries in the world. Fundies (as you call them) are just as obsessed with sex as the pervs who surf the net looking for new thrills. The Republicans in America have discovered what the Catholic Church has known for centuries, that people are driven by their sexual desires and by repression and sublimation of their sexual desires. Freud knew this. Unfortuately sex has now become a large part of the political debate in this country and an incompetent power hungry president was re-elected by playing on peoples fears of homosexuals, which is really their fears of their own sexuality. The debate over the .xxx domain is just another example of the represseded desires of white bread conservatives being carried over into the political and now the technological arenas. It wouldn't have changed anything. A search for your favorite body part on Google will bring up plenty of sites, regardless of the what is after the "."
It is reported that they have also translated some of the dolphin's language. The most recent communication was, "So long and thanks for all the fish." They are not sure what this means, but I would recommend hitching a ride on the next Vogon crusier to pass by.
The article says that Neil Aspinall, now manager of Apple Corps, was the Beatles' first roadie. Neil wasn't a roadie, he was a press agent. Mal Evans is well know as the Beatles roadie, go-fer and body guard.
The Beatles were great musicians, but terrible business men. The story of the mess that was Apple has been documented in several books including "The Love you Make" by Peter Brown.
I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google.
Its the same for Safari on Macs. There is a search box in the upper right that uses Google. I think its great, and I prefer Google, I even have it as my home page, but it seems hypocritical of them to criticize IE 7 for defaulting to MSN search.
I do think that Google is more fair than MSN in their search rankings. Well, partly because the web sites that I have done for various Buddhist and Martial Arts groups in my city are at the top when you do a search, but also because I was turned off when MSN search gave a link to a "Why switch from Linux to Windows" page when users looked up Linux. I think they have changed it now, or become more subtle, but I prefer to have my searches pure.
Having said that, look up the word failure in Google and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Another reason to stay with Google.
How about delivering the 15" 1.83 MacBook that I ordered last week? I even paid extra for second day air, but I haven't heard from the computer store yet.
One should differentiate between CGI languages and browser languages. Most CGI languages (Perl, PHP, etc.) are able to do anything a language can do and use the browser as an interface. The main drawback is that there is a lag time, particularly if you are on a slow connection. Javascript is faster, since it runs in the browser, but it is a limited language. Until we have everyone connected to broadband running 24/7 we are not going to see thin-clients in widespread use. Java is great, but it still takes a while to get an app running in a browser. So for now its Word and Photoshop on my computer, Safari or Firefox for web surfing and OS X Mail or webbased interfaces for e-mails. For the time being I don't see any other way around it.
Last year, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Germany's Manager Magazin: "We needed the first years to conquer the PC and those following to be ahead in the server business. In the upcoming years we'll conquer the Internet."
Sounds like another quote, "Heute Deutschland, Morgen Der Welt." (Today Germany, Tomorrow the World) made by some guy named Adolf about 65 years ago. The Will to Power lives on.
How is Google going to topple Microsoft? One is a search engine the other makes operating systems and a word processing application. Despite all this talk about their map systems, both make their real money from totally different operations. Unless Google has a web based operating system up its sleeve and can provide everyone with broadband so that we can use it, I don't see Microsoft getting toppled anytime soon.
This from a Mac OS X using Buddhist Agnostic.
Yes, Iraq is not a very cost effective war, as was also Vietnam. The Second World War, while more costly in material and lives did gain the U.S. acess to world resources and markets. If Iraq was the quick Blitzkrieg that Rumsfeld though it would be, despite the critics, then it might have been cost effective in terms of resouces gained (oil) and world prestige. Instead we are stuck in another quagmire in a country where enough of the poplulation is against us to support a strong rebellion. IANDG, but if I was a U.S. military general I would be calling for his resignation also.
I have to admit that I didn't RTFG before posting my comment. I guess I could find the Gospel of Judas on-line and give it a look through. I did listen to the NPR discussion yesterday about the newly discovered Gospel and it did seem that it was addressing some of the same issues as J.C. Superstar, even if it took a different tack. Judas may have gone ahead and turned Jesus in, not because he didn't think he was devine, but that he realized that he had a part to play in all this, even if he was "damned for all time." Anyway just some musings from a Buddhist agnostic.
Have you noticed that the main theme of the Gospel of Judas is similar to some of the questions raised in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar? They both explore the idea that Judas had to turn in Christ to fulfill Christ's mission on earth. Listen to the debate between Chirst and Judas during the last supper in Jesus Christ Superstar:
Judas: You want me to do it. [Turn him in.]
Jesus: Why don't you do it?
Judas: What if I just stay here and ruin your ambition? Chirst, you deserve it.
etc.
And Toyata Cars can use their brand recognition to sell Toyota Chocolate, so what?
That was so long ago. That kid must be like 30 by now.
Yes, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
OK, mod me down, but I just had to say it.
If you control the moon, you have a major military strategic advantage, the ultimate high ground. You can catapult anything down, anywhere on Earth and nobody can stop you.
Except that they have three days and a clear radar view of the object while it heads towards earth to send up interceptors or evacuate a target population.
Intercontinental ballistic missles that reach their destination in 15 mins. to 1/2 and hour are much more effective and don't requre a big program to get them to their launch point.
We shouldnt try to see in them, an image of us.
Yes, that's what scares me.
All that aside, it was a good show, I fianlly watched it last night on tape. WTG Stanly. Software uber Alles.
Does anyone at DARPA, the Defense Department or any of the universities involved watch movies? Have they not seen the Terminator series? Haven't they read Harlan Ellison? Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf? Is this the start of the war between humans and machines? I think they need to require more reading and humanities credits for scientists and engineers. I can see myself in twenty years running from human hunting humvees in the national forest. What are we starting?
Did you see the tie the guy was wearing in his picture on the article? Its pretty tacky for someone concerned with personal apperance.
Just as ridiculous as patenting an Apple.
Yea, or trademarking an Apple, unless you are Steve Jobs or Yoko Ono.
Grrr, no Safari support. I have to go to the trouble of opening another browser to use this and entering the web address all over again. Too much work. I give up.
The page says you have to have a PC with Explorer to take the test. Grrr, no Mac/Safari. I guess they know that the average Mac user is smarter and will blow the other contestants away.
This is not what the founding fathers intended when they wrote the constitution. In fact they didn't intend for us to have an internet, so we should get rid of it. We should also get rid of cars, sub-machine guns and TV sets. They also allowed slavery and didn't give the right to vote to women so we should bring back slavery and end universal sufferage. We should also wear powdered wigs and hats with buckles. After all that's what the founding fathers intended.
However the new Star Wars series turns out it can't be as bad as the Wookie Christmas special that aired about the time that the first (Ep. IV) Star Wars movie was released. Does anyone else remember that? Was it as bad as I think it was?