-1? I'd say he fits right in! +1 creepy! Basements? There's a young lady that wanted to move into my basement, but it's too cold in the winter down there. She pays ME.
So there's an attractive young woman I'm not related to living in my house and I can't get laid. If that isn't nerdy I don't know what is!
As to the GP's sig, that was a vwry logical quote from Mr. Spock.
If they mean online games (or pr0n), then a neural interface would be absolutely awesome.
I'd rather have a female R. Jander Panell than a porn implant. "Jandra" wouldn't need a positronic brain, conventional modern robotics (heated and lubricated of course) would do, controlled by a conventional computer like the one you have in front of you.
As to games, I'd rather have a dedicated building with holographs. You have the advantage of getting a little exersise, too, like with the fuckbot.
However, I am a cyborg, and have been since 2006. I have an implant in my left eyeball, my friend Tom calls me "the six thousand dollar man" because of my bionic eye; click my sig for details. But again, I didn't let them stick a needle in my eye without a damned good reason.
It won't make you dinner or rub your feet Neither would my ex-wife.
...nearly one in four Americans say that the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other for some period of time Well, the internet and Rosie Palm.
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government. Well, I'll agree that government should have web sites and portals. They should control their own sites, as I control my own site. So yeah, that's reasonable (depending on how the question was phrased).
Only 33% of 18 to 24 year-olds supported government stepping in on content Which supports my previous observation, although again they should control their OWN content
while 72% of those over 70 years of age support government regulation and ratings. That's not unreasonable, either. My dad doesn't even have a computer, has never been on the internet, and considering that, it would not be unreasonable of him to think it reasonable. Even a lot of younger people think the internet is like a TV set, and even the twentysomethings forget that most of the internet is beyond their government's reach.
More than one in four Americans has a social networking profile such as MySpace or Facebook.
Hell, I have a myspace page (that I haven't logged into in a year or two), a web site (that I haven't updated oin almost two years), a K5 account (that I haven't logged into for over 2 years), and a slashdot account and I'm 55. But I don't look my age. Or act it.
Americans may love the Internet, but most are not prepared to implant it into their brain, even if it was safe. Only 11% of respondents said they be willing to safely implant a device that enabled them to use their mind to access the Internet.
Only a total complete idiotic fuckwit moron would have ANYTHING implanted in their brain without an overriding medical reason. If you would have an internet connection implanted in your brain, WTF ARE YOU THINKING? Go ahead, dumbass, and when I crack your connection I'll control you like a meatware robot.
Holy fuck! If brains were dynamite, most people wouldn't have enough to blow their noses.
Note that a far higher percentage than 11% are mentally handicapped. Even retarded people have more sense than that!
Commerce and income? WTF? Income is the ONLY thing that is fair to tax! And I'm OK with B2B taxes as well.
But property tax is the most evil of all taxes. A freind I had about 20 years ago's parents lost their house. These folks were retired, had spent 30 years paying it off, and owned the house free and clear. When they bought it, they probably paid something like $20k for it, with payments maybe $50 per month.
So these poor folks are retired, on a fixed income (social security and maybe a small pension). Forty years after buying it, real estate prices have skyrocketed, as have valuations. Suddenly the annual tax on their HOME is equal to six months income. No way in hell they can afford that, and they lost their home.
That's just evil.
Not nearly so bad is sales tax, but sales taxes are regressive. Poor people live from meager payroll check to meager payroll check, working their asses off in two jobs with no disposable income, no cushion, no way to save money. 100% of their income is for purchases, so 100% is taxed. Meanwhile Richey Rich spends 5% of his income and banks the rest. Only 5% of his income is taxes on sales. And he's probably getting his income on capital gains, interest, and other investments, sitting back watching football and eating caviar while his income isn't taxed as income like the poor working man's is, but at a far lower rate. And he has numerous deductions.
The poor man has a vote, the rich man has a campaign contribution.
Where your logic falls down is that drug dealers have no monopoly; there's one on every street corner (at least, on the east side of town where the crackwhores are). The only place you can get your microsoft fix is microsoft.
I also posit that Ubantu is crack, and Vista is what law enforcement officials call a lookalike drug
I saved a screenshot from slashdot, and posted it at the bottom of a blagh on November 16, 2005. The blagh was fittingly titled "damned spyware", and the screen shot was fittingly on-topic both for that blagh and a response to your post. The Screenshot is from a Thursday, October 6 2005 slashdot front page. Look at the bottom of the screenshot...
Is the writing on the wall? I imagine the OLPC PC scared the bejibbers out of Microsoft. What happens when ordinary people (people who only want a computer to surf the web and check their email) start to realize that for what they need a computer for, they don't need to spend a ton of money?
The price of hardware keeps falling, not just computer hardware. The 25 inch TV set (sans remote, mind you) I bought in 1978 cost me $600, and that was when my wife would take $25 to the grocery store and come home with four big paper bags (not today's wimpy little plastic sacks) full of groceries, enough food to last us both a couple of weeks. A gallon of gasoline was about sixty cents. A TV like that is less than $200 today, and has stereo sound, a flat screen, and a remote control.
What's Microsoft going to do when you can get an OLPC or equivalent for fifteen bucks?
Why? That's like saying everyone should know some degree of auto mechanics, but I'd rather hire a mechanic than to do a halfassed job of fixing my car myself (and bleed all over the engine)
OTOH, you can be stupid in the other direction as well. "Plug up?" Yes, I agree with you. "Connect" is not only as easy to read, but more accurate. Well, POSSIBLY more accurate; perhaps the word the fellow should have used was "install". At any rate "plug up" not only sounds stupid, it doesn't communicate well. The purpose of writing something like that is communication, although other writing can have other uses (e.g, The Onion is for entertainment).
But I once read a research paper where the very first paragraph used the word "enumerate" seven times, and not once did the word "count" appear. If you use a nine syllable word when a one syllable synonym will suffice, you are not communicating, you are obfuscating in a lame attempt to make yourself look smart. That always mekes me suspect that you doubt your own intelligence.
Note that I used the word "intelligent" once and its synonym "smart" once, it makes the reading easier. If the word "count" had been used once, "enumerate" once, and five different synonyms for "count" used as well, that would have impressed me. Using "enumerate" seven times made me sure the paper's writer was a complete and utter moron whose paper I shouldn't be wasting my time reading. (Except I had to, because I was supposed to translate it from gobbldygook to English for my boss:)
I wasn't referring to looking stupid, I was referring to a) DOING stupid things and b) being unable to figure something out. Most of us nerds look stupid, that doesn't count.
I sure wish someone would have left ME a huge fortune, I hate that God damned alarm clock! If you're rich, what does it matter if you're a spoiled brat?
And look at the sports millionaires, most of them had poor or middle classs parents and they wound up being utter assholes anyway. Money doesn't make one a spoiled brat, shitty parents make one a spoiled brat.
They can cure age related farsightedness, they cured mine (in one eye, click my sig for details). McCoy couldn't cure Kirk's age related farsightedness, so he got him a pair of antique reading glasses.
I don't know about that, but I know from personal experience that automotive starting fluid smells EXACTLY like what they put me out with when I broke my arms, and what they put me out with when they removed my tonsils two years earlier.
Are you sure the ether they used in the O.R. in the 50s and earlier wasn't petroleum ether? I know it doesn't smell like benzine (which stinks as badly but way differently)
Are you trying to tell me that the people I listed (and neither Trump nor Ellison work for Microsoft) are paupers? Their position as execs has absolutely nothing to do with the point, or with anything else for that matter.
If you check, you'll find that Bill Gates is the world's richest man. Even if Microsoft mysteriously went out of business tomorrow, he would still have more money than any human could ever spend in a lifetime. Same goes for Jobs and Apple, Carmak and Id, etc.
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-1? I'd say he fits right in! +1 creepy! Basements? There's a young lady that wanted to move into my basement, but it's too cold in the winter down there. She pays ME.
So there's an attractive young woman I'm not related to living in my house and I can't get laid. If that isn't nerdy I don't know what is!
As to the GP's sig, that was a vwry logical quote from Mr. Spock.
(me: loser +.5)
"Hi, I'm Johnny Cab!"
If they mean online games (or pr0n), then a neural interface would be absolutely awesome.
I'd rather have a female R. Jander Panell than a porn implant. "Jandra" wouldn't need a positronic brain, conventional modern robotics (heated and lubricated of course) would do, controlled by a conventional computer like the one you have in front of you.
As to games, I'd rather have a dedicated building with holographs. You have the advantage of getting a little exersise, too, like with the fuckbot.
However, I am a cyborg, and have been since 2006. I have an implant in my left eyeball, my friend Tom calls me "the six thousand dollar man" because of my bionic eye; click my sig for details. But again, I didn't let them stick a needle in my eye without a damned good reason.
-mcgrew
Neither would my ex-wife.
Well, the internet and Rosie Palm.
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government.
Well, I'll agree that government should have web sites and portals. They should control their own sites, as I control my own site. So yeah, that's reasonable (depending on how the question was phrased).
Only 33% of 18 to 24 year-olds supported government stepping in on content
Which supports my previous observation, although again they should control their OWN content
while 72% of those over 70 years of age support government regulation and ratings.
That's not unreasonable, either. My dad doesn't even have a computer, has never been on the internet, and considering that, it would not be unreasonable of him to think it reasonable. Even a lot of younger people think the internet is like a TV set, and even the twentysomethings forget that most of the internet is beyond their government's reach.
More than one in four Americans has a social networking profile such as MySpace or Facebook.
Hell, I have a myspace page (that I haven't logged into in a year or two), a web site (that I haven't updated oin almost two years), a K5 account (that I haven't logged into for over 2 years), and a slashdot account and I'm 55. But I don't look my age. Or act it.
Americans may love the Internet, but most are not prepared to implant it into their brain, even if it was safe. Only 11% of respondents said they be willing to safely implant a device that enabled them to use their mind to access the Internet.
Only a total complete idiotic fuckwit moron would have ANYTHING implanted in their brain without an overriding medical reason. If you would have an internet connection implanted in your brain, WTF ARE YOU THINKING? Go ahead, dumbass, and when I crack your connection I'll control you like a meatware robot.
Holy fuck! If brains were dynamite, most people wouldn't have enough to blow their noses.
Note that a far higher percentage than 11% are mentally handicapped. Even retarded people have more sense than that!
-mcgrew
Commerce and income? WTF? Income is the ONLY thing that is fair to tax! And I'm OK with B2B taxes as well.
But property tax is the most evil of all taxes. A freind I had about 20 years ago's parents lost their house. These folks were retired, had spent 30 years paying it off, and owned the house free and clear. When they bought it, they probably paid something like $20k for it, with payments maybe $50 per month.
So these poor folks are retired, on a fixed income (social security and maybe a small pension). Forty years after buying it, real estate prices have skyrocketed, as have valuations. Suddenly the annual tax on their HOME is equal to six months income. No way in hell they can afford that, and they lost their home.
That's just evil.
Not nearly so bad is sales tax, but sales taxes are regressive. Poor people live from meager payroll check to meager payroll check, working their asses off in two jobs with no disposable income, no cushion, no way to save money. 100% of their income is for purchases, so 100% is taxed. Meanwhile Richey Rich spends 5% of his income and banks the rest. Only 5% of his income is taxes on sales. And he's probably getting his income on capital gains, interest, and other investments, sitting back watching football and eating caviar while his income isn't taxed as income like the poor working man's is, but at a far lower rate. And he has numerous deductions.
The poor man has a vote, the rich man has a campaign contribution.
-mcgrew
Where your logic falls down is that drug dealers have no monopoly; there's one on every street corner (at least, on the east side of town where the crackwhores are). The only place you can get your microsoft fix is microsoft.
I also posit that Ubantu is crack, and Vista is what law enforcement officials call a lookalike drug
-mcgrew
I saved a screenshot from slashdot, and posted it at the bottom of a blagh on November 16, 2005. The blagh was fittingly titled "damned spyware", and the screen shot was fittingly on-topic both for that blagh and a response to your post. The Screenshot is from a Thursday, October 6 2005 slashdot front page. Look at the bottom of the screenshot...
-mcgrew
Is the writing on the wall? I imagine the OLPC PC scared the bejibbers out of Microsoft. What happens when ordinary people (people who only want a computer to surf the web and check their email) start to realize that for what they need a computer for, they don't need to spend a ton of money?
The price of hardware keeps falling, not just computer hardware. The 25 inch TV set (sans remote, mind you) I bought in 1978 cost me $600, and that was when my wife would take $25 to the grocery store and come home with four big paper bags (not today's wimpy little plastic sacks) full of groceries, enough food to last us both a couple of weeks. A gallon of gasoline was about sixty cents. A TV like that is less than $200 today, and has stereo sound, a flat screen, and a remote control.
What's Microsoft going to do when you can get an OLPC or equivalent for fifteen bucks?
-mcgrew
everyone should know some degree of engineering
Why? That's like saying everyone should know some degree of auto mechanics, but I'd rather hire a mechanic than to do a halfassed job of fixing my car myself (and bleed all over the engine)
-mcgrew
Are all the mods indian today? That wasn't a troll, it was a joke about H2b visas. Go buy a sense of humor.
OTOH, you can be stupid in the other direction as well. "Plug up?" Yes, I agree with you. "Connect" is not only as easy to read, but more accurate. Well, POSSIBLY more accurate; perhaps the word the fellow should have used was "install". At any rate "plug up" not only sounds stupid, it doesn't communicate well. The purpose of writing something like that is communication, although other writing can have other uses (e.g, The Onion is for entertainment).
But I once read a research paper where the very first paragraph used the word "enumerate" seven times, and not once did the word "count" appear. If you use a nine syllable word when a one syllable synonym will suffice, you are not communicating, you are obfuscating in a lame attempt to make yourself look smart. That always mekes me suspect that you doubt your own intelligence.
Note that I used the word "intelligent" once and its synonym "smart" once, it makes the reading easier. If the word "count" had been used once, "enumerate" once, and five different synonyms for "count" used as well, that would have impressed me. Using "enumerate" seven times made me sure the paper's writer was a complete and utter moron whose paper I shouldn't be wasting my time reading. (Except I had to, because I was supposed to translate it from gobbldygook to English for my boss:)
-mcgrew
MBAs? You have GOT to be kidding! George Bush is an MBA, you expect any of the other MBAs to be any less incompetent?
The math was done by US educated researchers using excel 2007
On a Pentium.
-mcgrew
Hey, supply and demand. I'm kinda a freak
This is slashdot, news for nerds. None of us here are exactly normal. Well, except that one guy anyway.
Ha, I beat you to it!
World's worst pandemic
I wasn't referring to looking stupid, I was referring to a) DOING stupid things and b) being unable to figure something out. Most of us nerds look stupid, that doesn't count.
That hardly negates my point, but thank you for the correction.
I sure wish someone would have left ME a huge fortune, I hate that God damned alarm clock! If you're rich, what does it matter if you're a spoiled brat?
And look at the sports millionaires, most of them had poor or middle classs parents and they wound up being utter assholes anyway. Money doesn't make one a spoiled brat, shitty parents make one a spoiled brat.
Dud I spel it rong?
As I told an AC (in a different thread I think), the most expensive sex I ever had cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
They can cure age related farsightedness, they cured mine (in one eye, click my sig for details). McCoy couldn't cure Kirk's age related farsightedness, so he got him a pair of antique reading glasses.
I don't know about that, but I know from personal experience that automotive starting fluid smells EXACTLY like what they put me out with when I broke my arms, and what they put me out with when they removed my tonsils two years earlier.
Are you sure the ether they used in the O.R. in the 50s and earlier wasn't petroleum ether? I know it doesn't smell like benzine (which stinks as badly but way differently)
You, sir, get the nerd award for the day! Excellent.
Are you trying to tell me that the people I listed (and neither Trump nor Ellison work for Microsoft) are paupers? Their position as execs has absolutely nothing to do with the point, or with anything else for that matter.
If you check, you'll find that Bill Gates is the world's richest man. Even if Microsoft mysteriously went out of business tomorrow, he would still have more money than any human could ever spend in a lifetime. Same goes for Jobs and Apple, Carmak and Id, etc.
You have obviously read my slashdot journal "A nerd's guide to getting laid". I believe hookers are #2 in the list IIRC.
The most expensive piece of ass I ever had cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.