OK, you take in your 20 year old SUV and buy a bicycle. Are they going to give you the bounty on your shitheap then?
No?
Didn't think so. What an effing crock.
Amen. This isn't like when Sculley chucked Jobs out the first time because the "suits" couldn't under stand his vision or control his temper. This time Jobsy's rebuilt the company in his own image, and while his charisma keeps projects rolling and wins a bit of attention for them, the whole company culture is creative these days. Apple will go on, anybody saying otherwise is just indulging in that whole computer industry monoculture is the only way bullshit.
Now, having stocked up on guns, ammo and booze, start printing out all the useful info on wikipedia and buying 1940s/1950s medical text books and pre WW1 encyclopaedia.
Suddenly the economy doesn't sound like such a big problem after all.
It never was all that big a problem. Yes, it was the largest crash in decades, maybe even since 1929, but the underlying wealth below the crash point was per capita the highest it's ever been. You don't have stockbrokers defenestrating like they did in 1929.
Also, how long do you puny humans think the party will last? Seriously, if a super volcano doesn't get you, or a planetoid in a rogue orbit, peak oil will fuck everything up.
I'm an Apple fanboi of at least 20 years loyalty, but I can't see how scaling OS X back so that it can't cut and paste, fitting it with an sms tool that doesn't even do a character count and sticking that in a mobile phone so expensive it's twice the price of it's feature equivalent competitors is innovation. Even multitouch was just a race that any of about 10 suppliers could have won. Apple stopped innovating when they went Intel inside.
Has always been like this, it has never been like this and it's a bit of both. Individuals make breakthroughs by breaking rules, groups make breakthroughs by sticking to them, and sometimes you get a troublemaker in the group who spurs the group on to greatness.
The rise of capitalism and corporate culture has given more weight to this advancement by committee in the last 50 years, but it's by no means the only way science and engineering is done.
Names like Jobs and Wozniak or Mark Roth stand out as just 2 examples of individualism in advancement of science and engineering in recent years.
This is how the internet dies. Slowly, with country after country introducing draconian filtering and rules.
No, you mustn't make and distribute your own media independently. No, we mustn't have new business models. No, we mustn't have access to unfettered information. We must stay within the exploitative "studio" model.
Been nice knowing you all. (I say this now, because we won't get any warning before our rights to publish anything are ripped from us.)
Why would it matter if he used linux and a generic player? I don't see how what a leader listens to in his private time, and on what player, matters one jot. Jeez, get lives, people, FFS.
The issue is not one of whether taxpayers should fund a car only the wealthy could afford. The issue is that funding electric car development is totally wrong-headed.
Funding ANY car development in a world of 6.5 billion, all trying to have 2 cars in the garage, is funding the end of civilisation, no matter what they're powered by. The only transport the world can afford for every adult to own is the bicycle or a pair of shoes or two.
An electric car is NOT a zero emission vehicle. Carbon is emitted to generate the electricity (80% of the world's electricity is coal fired), carbon is emitted making the batteries and disposing of the tech waste, 30% of the energy an EV draws from the socket is wasted in the battery and charger as heat and electrolysis and how do you build 3.25 billion EVs for every adult without creating a pall of smog a mile thick across the planet?
In Australia, copyright law supports format shift. Buying a copy, then not reading it, but reading a pirate instead could be argued to be format shift, so long as you destroy the pirate copy if you on-sell the dead tree version.
DMCA USA might look at it differently. Ethically, though, what PXC says seems like fair use to me.
Hmm, here's the answer. ID is the "hand of God". God is a simple concept, a benevolent being looking after us all like a loving (or sometimes vengeful) father. A simple rule-of-law, benevolent dictatorship. No complexity here, and judging by the way religions have risen and fallen, highly entropic.
The non-God universe is a complex place, full of uncertainties, statistical probabilities, and corollaric anomalies, just falling into place in just the right way to create the world we know. VERY complex, but even if it is entropic, is only slightly so. (The inevitability of heat death has yet to be proven.)
Therefore the whole universe is the natural consequence of evolution, God is man-made.:D
(OK Christians, to lynch me, you've got to find me.)
When I go, let my online identity lapse, for chrissake! I'm happy to stand by what I say and do, but the last thing I want is for my family to know its extent or to feel the need to redact any of it. As for my finances, the executor of my estate will be or engage a lawyer who will sort all of that for them.
It's spin.
The cock-socks in the Pentagon want their robosapiens for xMas. So they're trying to justify it like a husband trying to convince the missus his new $2000 mountain bike will save petrol (which he then burns on weekends taking the bike out into the scrub for trail bashing.)
The next stage is a tantrum. EG: they'll engineer a coup de tat in The (un)Democratic Republic of Bhuttfock and say, "SEE! If we'd had killer robots, this would never have happened!"
Your country's army is evil. Kill them.
The power of 3 lightbulbs? I presume they mean 300 watts.
There's a chap in Australia (Max Whisson) who has made a machine that does this using nothing more than the wind blowing past it... http://www.waterunlimited.com.au/
I've been a Mac fanboi (annoyingly so to some;-) since 1985. They always were a superior product, always easier to use, always more reliable. My Mac and Doze usage hours are about equal, and I'm the "alpha geek" in my office, so I consider my position to be drawn from a more logical place than the usual fanboi's.
Then the iPod thing started. My first iPod (a mini 2nd gen) was a bitter disappointment, and will be my last. It's not cool and Apple-like. It's a lock-in more like a Windows product. Then comes iPhone, and new iPods with hashes, and Macs built in shitty asian factories with no quality control. Finally Apple drop Firewire from their entry level portable - the only Mac that meets my needs and my budget, no longer meets my main need.
I won't use Doze at home, ever. I may use some flavour of linux if I become desperate, but my next Mac will be a hackintosh. Apple have lost their most loyal fanboi. Steve Jobs was never the hero, who saved Apple, he's just another hippy/yuppie sell-out, bastard.
This sort of "reasoning" (it's hardly reasonable) by those filthy scum suckers in corporate law is the reason why the trade union movement needs to get as militant as ever. Your employer inflicts a slow, piece of shit OS on you. It requires a daily reboot to stay half reliable, and you're expected to do this on your own time? Fuck capitalism, it's fucked and works for nobody but the greedy cunts who rip off the share market! Unionise, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The first case i'd support Halliburton for. Think of it, they get this patent, and anyone who trolls patents are in violation.
Its a self obsoleting patent. Eventually they will bankrupt all the other trolls and have little left but hang up their hats.
Except that it gives them, the potential patent owner, a monopoly on trolling. Intellectual property law collapses under it's own bloated mass. (Finally!)
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OK, you take in your 20 year old SUV and buy a bicycle. Are they going to give you the bounty on your shitheap then? No? Didn't think so. What an effing crock.
Amen. This isn't like when Sculley chucked Jobs out the first time because the "suits" couldn't under stand his vision or control his temper. This time Jobsy's rebuilt the company in his own image, and while his charisma keeps projects rolling and wins a bit of attention for them, the whole company culture is creative these days. Apple will go on, anybody saying otherwise is just indulging in that whole computer industry monoculture is the only way bullshit.
Now, having stocked up on guns, ammo and booze, start printing out all the useful info on wikipedia and buying 1940s/1950s medical text books and pre WW1 encyclopaedia.
Suddenly the economy doesn't sound like such a big problem after all.
It never was all that big a problem. Yes, it was the largest crash in decades, maybe even since 1929, but the underlying wealth below the crash point was per capita the highest it's ever been. You don't have stockbrokers defenestrating like they did in 1929.
Also, how long do you puny humans think the party will last? Seriously, if a super volcano doesn't get you, or a planetoid in a rogue orbit, peak oil will fuck everything up.
I'm an Apple fanboi of at least 20 years loyalty, but I can't see how scaling OS X back so that it can't cut and paste, fitting it with an sms tool that doesn't even do a character count and sticking that in a mobile phone so expensive it's twice the price of it's feature equivalent competitors is innovation. Even multitouch was just a race that any of about 10 suppliers could have won. Apple stopped innovating when they went Intel inside.
Has always been like this, it has never been like this and it's a bit of both. Individuals make breakthroughs by breaking rules, groups make breakthroughs by sticking to them, and sometimes you get a troublemaker in the group who spurs the group on to greatness. The rise of capitalism and corporate culture has given more weight to this advancement by committee in the last 50 years, but it's by no means the only way science and engineering is done. Names like Jobs and Wozniak or Mark Roth stand out as just 2 examples of individualism in advancement of science and engineering in recent years.
This is how the internet dies. Slowly, with country after country introducing draconian filtering and rules. No, you mustn't make and distribute your own media independently. No, we mustn't have new business models. No, we mustn't have access to unfettered information. We must stay within the exploitative "studio" model. Been nice knowing you all. (I say this now, because we won't get any warning before our rights to publish anything are ripped from us.)
Why would it matter if he used linux and a generic player? I don't see how what a leader listens to in his private time, and on what player, matters one jot. Jeez, get lives, people, FFS.
And while he's being a PC semanticist, it's HIV or Human Immuno Virus, but to call it the HIV Virus is to say virus twice.
Any dumb fuck that would try to reason from Hitler's rantings, and have as a sig "Burn an Indian flag", is clearly a screaming right wing loony.
No self-respecting socialist would bother for one second try to reason with your brand of unreasonable.
The issue is not one of whether taxpayers should fund a car only the wealthy could afford. The issue is that funding electric car development is totally wrong-headed.
Funding ANY car development in a world of 6.5 billion, all trying to have 2 cars in the garage, is funding the end of civilisation, no matter what they're powered by. The only transport the world can afford for every adult to own is the bicycle or a pair of shoes or two.
An electric car is NOT a zero emission vehicle. Carbon is emitted to generate the electricity (80% of the world's electricity is coal fired), carbon is emitted making the batteries and disposing of the tech waste, 30% of the energy an EV draws from the socket is wasted in the battery and charger as heat and electrolysis and how do you build 3.25 billion EVs for every adult without creating a pall of smog a mile thick across the planet?
In Australia, copyright law supports format shift. Buying a copy, then not reading it, but reading a pirate instead could be argued to be format shift, so long as you destroy the pirate copy if you on-sell the dead tree version. DMCA USA might look at it differently. Ethically, though, what PXC says seems like fair use to me.
I am! :D
Hmm, here's the answer. ID is the "hand of God". God is a simple concept, a benevolent being looking after us all like a loving (or sometimes vengeful) father. A simple rule-of-law, benevolent dictatorship. No complexity here, and judging by the way religions have risen and fallen, highly entropic.
:D
The non-God universe is a complex place, full of uncertainties, statistical probabilities, and corollaric anomalies, just falling into place in just the right way to create the world we know. VERY complex, but even if it is entropic, is only slightly so. (The inevitability of heat death has yet to be proven.)
Therefore the whole universe is the natural consequence of evolution, God is man-made.
(OK Christians, to lynch me, you've got to find me.)
Interesting definition for "buddies" there. I wouldn't have thought a "buddy" would think it was funny to toast his "buddy's" laptop.
When I go, let my online identity lapse, for chrissake! I'm happy to stand by what I say and do, but the last thing I want is for my family to know its extent or to feel the need to redact any of it. As for my finances, the executor of my estate will be or engage a lawyer who will sort all of that for them.
It's spin. The cock-socks in the Pentagon want their robosapiens for xMas. So they're trying to justify it like a husband trying to convince the missus his new $2000 mountain bike will save petrol (which he then burns on weekends taking the bike out into the scrub for trail bashing.) The next stage is a tantrum. EG: they'll engineer a coup de tat in The (un)Democratic Republic of Bhuttfock and say, "SEE! If we'd had killer robots, this would never have happened!" Your country's army is evil. Kill them.
pretty pictures... Colour and movement always entertains the stupid.
iPhone isn't an OS in it's own right, you dick, it's a cut down version of Mac OS X. Are there any real nerds posting to /. anymore?
The power of 3 lightbulbs? I presume they mean 300 watts.
There's a chap in Australia (Max Whisson) who has made a machine that does this using nothing more than the wind blowing past it...
http://www.waterunlimited.com.au/
Why burn carbon when the wind is always blowing?
I've been a Mac fanboi (annoyingly so to some ;-) since 1985. They always were a superior product, always easier to use, always more reliable. My Mac and Doze usage hours are about equal, and I'm the "alpha geek" in my office, so I consider my position to be drawn from a more logical place than the usual fanboi's.
Then the iPod thing started. My first iPod (a mini 2nd gen) was a bitter disappointment, and will be my last. It's not cool and Apple-like. It's a lock-in more like a Windows product. Then comes iPhone, and new iPods with hashes, and Macs built in shitty asian factories with no quality control. Finally Apple drop Firewire from their entry level portable - the only Mac that meets my needs and my budget, no longer meets my main need.
I won't use Doze at home, ever. I may use some flavour of linux if I become desperate, but my next Mac will be a hackintosh. Apple have lost their most loyal fanboi. Steve Jobs was never the hero, who saved Apple, he's just another hippy/yuppie sell-out, bastard.
This sort of "reasoning" (it's hardly reasonable) by those filthy scum suckers in corporate law is the reason why the trade union movement needs to get as militant as ever. Your employer inflicts a slow, piece of shit OS on you. It requires a daily reboot to stay half reliable, and you're expected to do this on your own time? Fuck capitalism, it's fucked and works for nobody but the greedy cunts who rip off the share market! Unionise, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
See this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUouXu1iR4
In the words of Voltaire, "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to comprehend the extent of human stupidity."
Voltaire was obviously a tolerant bloke.
The first case i'd support Halliburton for. Think of it, they get this patent, and anyone who trolls patents are in violation.
Its a self obsoleting patent. Eventually they will bankrupt all the other trolls and have little left but hang up their hats.
Except that it gives them, the potential patent owner, a monopoly on trolling. Intellectual property law collapses under it's own bloated mass. (Finally!)