Or in the original Sanskrit: "Mrtuh sarva haras ca aham." Literal translation: "And I am death the destroyer of all." Oppenheimer had a bad translation of the Bhagavad-Gita.
Simple Solution: Don't turn on Remote Login (SSH) on your OS X Mac. In fact keep all Sharing under Sharing in System Preferences tuned off. Now if I can just convince my cow-irkers that they don't need these things everything would be fine. "Oh, I have to access my computer from home." "Well then just turn on File Sharing." "But, its over the web, don't I need Web Sharing and Remote Login turned on?" Undsoweiter.
Why this drive to combine everything into one? Part of the reason for the popularity of the iPod is that its small, light and easy to carry. Add a few button and a bigger screen for games and it becomes too bulky for its original mission. This same sort of combine all into one thinking is what ruined the Me 262, a German jet designed during WW II as a fighter that Hitler insisted be used as a bomber. KISS, keep it sweet and simple, Jobs knows that, too later for Hitler, but Gates need to learn before he throws development money at another "killer" device.
Well, I guess if you take a broader view of history, wars do often bring about positive change, but whould these changes have happened if there had been no wars? [retorical question]
I would say that we are at a time in the earth's history when wars have become so destructive that we, with an awareness of history, should find other ways to bring about change whether technological, social or political. I would love to see a better transportation system in my city, the bus service here suks, but I am not willing to see Tallahassee leveled by an atomic blast in order for that to happen.
But wars also kill people (doh). With spaceflight, both manned and unmanned, there are spin-off technologies and benefits without destroying cities or turning societies into chaos.
Also, yes, many of the techologies you mentioned were used and developed by the military, but they were initially developed by non-military scientists. A lot of the early research in rocketry was by
John Goddaard, a private scientist and engineer whose work was funded by the Smithsonian. Einstein, Plank, Bohr, Dirac, etc. who's work let to nuclear devices were not working to make bigger bombs, but to extend our knowledge of matter and dynamics. The list goes on. Just because many technologies were used and developed by the military does not mean that war is the main impetus for basic research, nor does it justify a big miltary buget while cutting funding for research in other areas.
Yes, I just saw The Transporter. If I hadn't borrowed it from a friend on DVD (can I do that?) it would have been a waste of money. A plot full of holes that you could drive a truck through (and they did) which was just an excuse for car chases and explosions. It reminds me of the catch line from the redneck SCTV film reviewers, "It blowed up real good." Unfortuneatly that has become the mantra of studio executives who wouldn't know a well written script if it bit them in the backside. No story? Just pile on special effects, impossible stunts and CGI and no one will notice there is no actual narrative. However, there is "A New Hope," that of inedependent films distributed over the internet or on DVD. As in music, the internet has given creative artists a chance to get seen and heard and to sidestep the imagine-less bottomline fomer accountant studio executives and music bosses.
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Its only partial jest. I have about 500 albums. I think the full bodied sound of a well care for album is much better than the electronic CD sound or the underwater sound of MP3's. I have heard that during the 50's there were car turntables, but these were superceded by cassettes and 8 tracks in the 60's and 70's.
Why do I need and iPod? A record turntable on the back seat of my car with springs, dampers and a weighted tonearm is fine with me. OK, I wear out a copy of Dark Side of the Moon in a few months, but its cheaper than spending money on one of those MD-3 thingies.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
That comment reminds me of the Doomsday Device in the movie Dr. Strangelove. The Russians had a device that would make the surface of the planet uninhabitable. Dr. Strangelove (a Peter Sellers parody of Edmund Teller) suggested to the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they form an underground community. Since they would have to repopulate the world, every man would have a harem full of women. I get dibs on Drew Barrymore. I think I'll pass on Paris.
Face it, there is no longer any such thing as privacy. The internet is just the telescreen of 1984, where the powers that be watch you while you watch their programs. [Obigatory quote left out here.] With datamining, cell phone call available from web sites, personal records, etc. for sale, Big Brother Dubya scaning calls, usw. we are all living in houses with open curtains. I guess the only way out of this is to become a Zen monk and live in a cave without internet, phone, or credit cards, but even then the government would probably hire some badger to spy on you.
China should withdraw from Tibet and allow the Tibetans to construct a Disneyland in Lhasa, since Tibet is already becoming little more than a tourist trap.
Bush should withdraw from Iraq and let the war be carried out by our powerful allies from Togo and Lithuania.
The Road Runner should let the Coyote have him for dinner.
They should develop a snow ball in hell that would survive for an extended period of time.
I remember when they first discovered the rings way back when I was in high school. My astronomy club friend, Gary, walked around school showing everyone the headlines "There Are Rings Around Uranus." The science teacher saw this and said, "Maybe around yours, not mine."
ID supporters claim that the reason that humans and other animals share similar DNA was that they were "made" by the same designer, God. This view shows the fault in the creationist's argument. They claim to see His design in nature and in the functioning of organisms, and claim that this shows that the existence of a creator God can be inferred from nature. This is the fallacy called "begging the question." They use their conclusion as part of their argument. To say that His design is in nature, assumes that he exists before concluding that he exists. This is not science, but is based on faith in God. Science is based on observation. It seeks to explain these observations with hypotheses and then tests these hypotheses with further experiments. If a hypothesis stands up to experimentation then it becomes theory. You can not test for the existence of God. It is a matter of faith which is not science. Teaching children about faith belongs in the church, synagogue, or temple of their parent's choice not in a public school science class room attended by children of different religious beliefs and cultures.
And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure
than their Windows based counterparts.
Actually Explorer on Macs is more secure than Explorer on Windows. Something
about them Active X's and.exe files.
It's possible that whatever browser has the highest usage rating will have
the most virii written for it. If Firefox becomes the dominant browser, it might
even be safer to have IE installed on your computer to avoid the latest virus.
This is a general myth about both IE and PC/Windows, that they are more vulnerable
since they are used by a greater percentage of users. There are inherent vulnerabilities
in Explorer and Windows that don't even exist for other browsers or operating
systems. Gates didn't realize the potential of the web early on and has been
trying to play catch up ever since he discovered the internet. Windows was designed
as as stand alone operating system and doesn't have the built in security features
of Unix-like systems such as Linux or OS X. I am not saying that these systems
are 100 percent secure, just that they are more difficult to hack and less vulnerable
to script kiddies. Active X and the design of IE have left millions of computers
open to anyone with minimal knowledge of scripting. Goodbye and good riddance
Explorer. Camino on OS X is fine for me and I can upgrade to newer versions of
Firefox/Mozilla or use Safari when necessary.
If you watch the bios of rock stars on VH-1 or American Masters most of them from the Beatles to Bob Dylan to Lou Reed say they learned to play guitar by listening to records and working out the cord changes themselves. Since the members of the RIAA are in the business of selling records (or CD's for you young folk) how are they going to stop this blatant misuse of music by people who don't pay for the publishing rights?
I hear that Japan has started a Zen Buddhist Quantum logic lab that will be neither evil nor not evil nor both evil and not evil nor neither evil nor not evil.
It's not even generic - it was created in part based on a modern day product.
If anything, it should be going into a slang reference guide not a dictionary.
There are many words in the English language that started out as brand names.
Common examples are kleenex and band-aid. Its not surprising that words based
on brand names for computer hardware, software, or processes have made it into the Oxford
dictionary.
Just change the name, call it World Domination, or Bush's Dream or something else.
That makes me wonder, do you think Bush every played Risk as a child? If he did don't you think he would have learned not to go into the Middle East without enough divisions? If he had played he probably would have been one of those hot headed players who constantly attacks every country around him without building up his forces or making allies and would have been out early in the game.
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Or in the original Sanskrit: "Mrtuh sarva haras ca aham." Literal translation: "And I am death the destroyer of all." Oppenheimer had a bad translation of the Bhagavad-Gita.
Simple Solution: Don't turn on Remote Login (SSH) on your OS X Mac. In fact keep all Sharing under Sharing in System Preferences tuned off. Now if I can just convince my cow-irkers that they don't need these things everything would be fine. "Oh, I have to access my computer from home." "Well then just turn on File Sharing." "But, its over the web, don't I need Web Sharing and Remote Login turned on?" Undsoweiter.
Why this drive to combine everything into one? Part of the reason for the popularity of the iPod is that its small, light and easy to carry. Add a few button and a bigger screen for games and it becomes too bulky for its original mission. This same sort of combine all into one thinking is what ruined the Me 262, a German jet designed during WW II as a fighter that Hitler insisted be used as a bomber. KISS, keep it sweet and simple, Jobs knows that, too later for Hitler, but Gates need to learn before he throws development money at another "killer" device.
They will take my vinyl records from me when they pry them from my cold dead fingers.
Well, I guess if you take a broader view of history, wars do often bring about positive change, but whould these changes have happened if there had been no wars? [retorical question]
I would say that we are at a time in the earth's history when wars have become so destructive that we, with an awareness of history, should find other ways to bring about change whether technological, social or political. I would love to see a better transportation system in my city, the bus service here suks, but I am not willing to see Tallahassee leveled by an atomic blast in order for that to happen.
But wars also kill people (doh). With spaceflight, both manned and unmanned, there are spin-off technologies and benefits without destroying cities or turning societies into chaos.
Also, yes, many of the techologies you mentioned were used and developed by the military, but they were initially developed by non-military scientists. A lot of the early research in rocketry was by John Goddaard, a private scientist and engineer whose work was funded by the Smithsonian. Einstein, Plank, Bohr, Dirac, etc. who's work let to nuclear devices were not working to make bigger bombs, but to extend our knowledge of matter and dynamics. The list goes on. Just because many technologies were used and developed by the military does not mean that war is the main impetus for basic research, nor does it justify a big miltary buget while cutting funding for research in other areas.
The article also failed to mention that the password to gain root access to the Mac was "password."
Yes, I just saw The Transporter. If I hadn't borrowed it from a friend on DVD (can I do that?) it would have been a waste of money. A plot full of holes that you could drive a truck through (and they did) which was just an excuse for car chases and explosions. It reminds me of the catch line from the redneck SCTV film reviewers, "It blowed up real good." Unfortuneatly that has become the mantra of studio executives who wouldn't know a well written script if it bit them in the backside. No story? Just pile on special effects, impossible stunts and CGI and no one will notice there is no actual narrative. However, there is "A New Hope," that of inedependent films distributed over the internet or on DVD. As in music, the internet has given creative artists a chance to get seen and heard and to sidestep the imagine-less bottomline fomer accountant studio executives and music bosses.
Which country would that be then. Explain yourself !
US
Whether this is good or bad for Apple, we shall see.
What's good for Apple is good for the country.
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Its only partial jest. I have about 500 albums. I think the full bodied sound of a well care for album is much better than the electronic CD sound or the underwater sound of MP3's. I have heard that during the 50's there were car turntables, but these were superceded by cassettes and 8 tracks in the 60's and 70's.
Why do I need and iPod? A record turntable on the back seat of my car with springs, dampers and a weighted tonearm is fine with me. OK, I wear out a copy of Dark Side of the Moon in a few months, but its cheaper than spending money on one of those MD-3 thingies.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
That comment reminds me of the Doomsday Device in the movie Dr. Strangelove. The Russians had a device that would make the surface of the planet uninhabitable. Dr. Strangelove (a Peter Sellers parody of Edmund Teller) suggested to the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they form an underground community. Since they would have to repopulate the world, every man would have a harem full of women. I get dibs on Drew Barrymore. I think I'll pass on Paris.
Face it, there is no longer any such thing as privacy. The internet is just the telescreen of 1984, where the powers that be watch you while you watch their programs. [Obigatory quote left out here.] With datamining, cell phone call available from web sites, personal records, etc. for sale, Big Brother Dubya scaning calls, usw. we are all living in houses with open curtains. I guess the only way out of this is to become a Zen monk and live in a cave without internet, phone, or credit cards, but even then the government would probably hire some badger to spy on you.
Other Suggestions:
China should withdraw from Tibet and allow the Tibetans to construct a Disneyland in Lhasa, since Tibet is already becoming little more than a tourist trap.
Bush should withdraw from Iraq and let the war be carried out by our powerful allies from Togo and Lithuania.
The Road Runner should let the Coyote have him for dinner.
They should develop a snow ball in hell that would survive for an extended period of time.
Etc.
I remember when they first discovered the rings way back when I was in high school. My astronomy club friend, Gary, walked around school showing everyone the headlines "There Are Rings Around Uranus." The science teacher saw this and said, "Maybe around yours, not mine."
ID supporters claim that the reason that humans and other animals share similar DNA was that they were "made" by the same designer, God. This view shows the fault in the creationist's argument. They claim to see His design in nature and in the functioning of organisms, and claim that this shows that the existence of a creator God can be inferred from nature. This is the fallacy called "begging the question." They use their conclusion as part of their argument. To say that His design is in nature, assumes that he exists before concluding that he exists. This is not science, but is based on faith in God. Science is based on observation. It seeks to explain these observations with hypotheses and then tests these hypotheses with further experiments. If a hypothesis stands up to experimentation then it becomes theory. You can not test for the existence of God. It is a matter of faith which is not science. Teaching children about faith belongs in the church, synagogue, or temple of their parent's choice not in a public school science class room attended by children of different religious beliefs and cultures.
And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure than their Windows based counterparts.
Actually Explorer on Macs is more secure than Explorer on Windows. Something about them Active X's and .exe files.
It's possible that whatever browser has the highest usage rating will have the most virii written for it. If Firefox becomes the dominant browser, it might even be safer to have IE installed on your computer to avoid the latest virus.
This is a general myth about both IE and PC/Windows, that they are more vulnerable since they are used by a greater percentage of users. There are inherent vulnerabilities in Explorer and Windows that don't even exist for other browsers or operating systems. Gates didn't realize the potential of the web early on and has been trying to play catch up ever since he discovered the internet. Windows was designed as as stand alone operating system and doesn't have the built in security features of Unix-like systems such as Linux or OS X. I am not saying that these systems are 100 percent secure, just that they are more difficult to hack and less vulnerable to script kiddies. Active X and the design of IE have left millions of computers open to anyone with minimal knowledge of scripting. Goodbye and good riddance Explorer. Camino on OS X is fine for me and I can upgrade to newer versions of Firefox/Mozilla or use Safari when necessary.
If you watch the bios of rock stars on VH-1 or American Masters most of them from the Beatles to Bob Dylan to Lou Reed say they learned to play guitar by listening to records and working out the cord changes themselves. Since the members of the RIAA are in the business of selling records (or CD's for you young folk) how are they going to stop this blatant misuse of music by people who don't pay for the publishing rights?
So it is purple?
The cypress tree in the garden.
I hear that Japan has started a Zen Buddhist Quantum logic lab that will be neither evil nor not evil nor both evil and not evil nor neither evil nor not evil.
I think it was Radar who said, "Ahh, Gödel, Escher, Bach."
It's not even generic - it was created in part based on a modern day product. If anything, it should be going into a slang reference guide not a dictionary.
There are many words in the English language that started out as brand names. Common examples are kleenex and band-aid. Its not surprising that words based on brand names for computer hardware, software, or processes have made it into the Oxford dictionary.
Just change the name, call it World Domination, or Bush's Dream or something else.
That makes me wonder, do you think Bush every played Risk as a child? If he did don't you think he would have learned not to go into the Middle East without enough divisions? If he had played he probably would have been one of those hot headed players who constantly attacks every country around him without building up his forces or making allies and would have been out early in the game.