Now that's a blast from the past. They had one of the earliest, if not *the* earliest, commercial distributions of Linux.
Their claim to fame was their live filesystem. You could mount the CD as the basis for a full Linux system. Add a bit of actual disk space for tmp and home, and you were in business.
Why is your karma stuck at 5? I thought 50 was the cap, so you should be able to get more karma. Is there a bug or something that's affecting your account?
Microsoft identified a bug in Windows 98 that caused the step #3 to execute slowly. You will find that the new operating system from Redmond, called "Windows Me Harder", fixes that bug causing step #3 to take much less time than before. Indeed, the ballot stuffing was much enhanced when run on the new operating system.
Negroponte and Minsky have to eat just like everyone else.
Seriously, your picture of everything is a bit bleaker than what is fair, or perhaps it is not bleak enough.
I think the Media Lab does good work despite the corporate influence. One can hardly expect the old guys who run the place to do much. They are past their prime. But the grad students who go through the place can certainly benefit from working and studying in a nice building, on projects that are well funded.
But on the other hand, the Media Lab is just like everywhere else, where in 50 years time you might just attend the General Motors/Ford/Univerity of Michigan and take classes like "Chrysler Calculus 101" and study things like "Motown Records Derivatives" and "Integration by Sony".
His article might have that air of hopelessness. In fact, I think a recent book of his was held up because he was overcome with the feeling that his advice was just a lot of pissing in the wind. But I think that's the current situation. HaX0rz are out there and eventually they will get in one way or another. It's sound advice to recommend that clients not only lock the doors, but insure the contents as well. Maybe make a backup or two and put them in a safe place. Is that hopeless?
They are running a contest right now. Write an essay and win a TiVo (14 hour model). A guy a work with wrote 100 words and got one. They pick 10 winners a day.
Click here
So, if you've wanted one, but are too cheap to get one, here's your chance.
I don't have anything to add, but I would like to say that your article was good. I enjoy a good rant just like some folks enjoy watching wrestling, and yours was particularly good.
At used computer places you can find half gig drives for under 10 bucks. At that price you can just run some long wires and just keep the drive on the passenger floormat without a case!
I've got 155 karma, and I'm looking for equilibrium. Will I ever find rest???
Please, get me to 50 karma so my life can have meaning again..........
Don't make me resort to goatse.cx!
(sorry, I really don't normally make these kind of posts, but there definitely is a logic to what you wrote. I did use to contribute more when I could see my karma rise from a meaningful contribution. Now that reward is gone, and I post less. Probably when I finally drift down to 50 I'll post more.)
I can't wait until the UN imposes the one world government. When that happens conspiracy idiots like you will be the first to die.
(sarchasm/flame off)
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Definition time:
Atheist is broken into two parts, strong and weak.
Strong atheism says that god does not exist. The logical support for this position is as precarious as the logical support for believing in a god.
Weak atheism says that there is no evidence for god, therefore no reason to hypothesize one. This is the strongest logical position to take. It fits the physical evidence and does not break rules and guidelines of science. i.e. Occam's Razor.
Agnostic means that the person belives in a god, but cannot distinguish between all the different choices.
Of course, your definitions may vary. This is one of the big problems with discussing religion or the lack thereof with terms such as atheist, agnostic, or whatever. The terms are not solidly nailed down, so it's easy to miscommunicate. I suggest the above as a working set of definitions.
>We have no way of knowing what it will be like in these regions in 50 years.
That is true. But consider this: I think it is a reasonable hypothesis that the condition of those regions in 50 years would be considerably better *with* the elevator than without it.
If the cable broke it would wrap around the equator. Probably it would hit some land somewhere along the way, considering that it would wrap most of the way around the globe. This assumes that it breaks 22500 miles up at the point of max tension.
I know a guy who did something simpler, but cooler. He routed the windshield washer hose to his front right fender. When he turned it on, fluid would spray out several feet from the right side of the car. He used to hose down pedestrians with it.
The slippery slope is a fallacy. You need to identify the connection. Without that connection, it is just an illogical conclusion.
Example: If we let the government protect our children a little bit, then they will tend to protect our children more and more over time, and eventually all children will be raised as wards of the state, because parents will have all their rights usurped by the government. Therefore we can't let our children be protected by the government at all.
Your other ideas seem OK, but you haven't justified why there is the slightest reason to fear the mythical slippery slope. I know you were trying to be balanced in your presentation, but by giving credence to a preposterous viewpoint, your presentation is less effective.
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OK, I see what you mean.
Now that's a blast from the past. They had one of the earliest, if not *the* earliest, commercial distributions of Linux.
Their claim to fame was their live filesystem. You could mount the CD as the basis for a full Linux system. Add a bit of actual disk space for tmp and home, and you were in business.
Why is your karma stuck at 5? I thought 50 was the cap, so you should be able to get more karma. Is there a bug or something that's affecting your account?
The program did indeed run under Windows.
The program was structured like this:
1) autorun vote program
2) vote
3) reboot
Microsoft identified a bug in Windows 98 that caused the step #3 to execute slowly. You will find that the new operating system from Redmond, called "Windows Me Harder", fixes that bug causing step #3 to take much less time than before. Indeed, the ballot stuffing was much enhanced when run on the new operating system.
Negroponte and Minsky have to eat just like everyone else.
Seriously, your picture of everything is a bit bleaker than what is fair, or perhaps it is not bleak enough.
I think the Media Lab does good work despite the corporate influence. One can hardly expect the old guys who run the place to do much. They are past their prime. But the grad students who go through the place can certainly benefit from working and studying in a nice building, on projects that are well funded.
But on the other hand, the Media Lab is just like everywhere else, where in 50 years time you might just attend the General Motors/Ford/Univerity of Michigan and take classes like "Chrysler Calculus 101" and study things like "Motown Records Derivatives" and "Integration by Sony".
Ouch! You got me! You are right. I had to buy my own.
His article might have that air of hopelessness. In fact, I think a recent book of his was held up because he was overcome with the feeling that his advice was just a lot of pissing in the wind. But I think that's the current situation. HaX0rz are out there and eventually they will get in one way or another. It's sound advice to recommend that clients not only lock the doors, but insure the contents as well. Maybe make a backup or two and put them in a safe place. Is that hopeless?
Oh, I thought we were quoting witticisms in this thread.
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
They are running a contest right now. Write an essay and win a TiVo (14 hour model). A guy a work with wrote 100 words and got one. They pick 10 winners a day.
Click here
So, if you've wanted one, but are too cheap to get one, here's your chance.
Please say testicles, not balls. Sounds a little like "Hercules."
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
My keyboard is full of STARS!!!
I don't have anything to add, but I would like to say that your article was good. I enjoy a good rant just like some folks enjoy watching wrestling, and yours was particularly good.
At used computer places you can find half gig drives for under 10 bucks. At that price you can just run some long wires and just keep the drive on the passenger floormat without a case!
My username is PD. For the right donation, I will change my username to whatever you desire. Thank you for your support.
If there was a good use for that infernal goatse.cx link, this might be it.
It's default if you've got the karma. If Taco didn't want it, then why is it default?
Yer absolutely fuckin right.
I've got 155 karma, and I'm looking for equilibrium. Will I ever find rest???
Please, get me to 50 karma so my life can have meaning again..........
Don't make me resort to goatse.cx!
(sorry, I really don't normally make these kind of posts, but there definitely is a logic to what you wrote. I did use to contribute more when I could see my karma rise from a meaningful contribution. Now that reward is gone, and I post less. Probably when I finally drift down to 50 I'll post more.)
(sarchasm/flame on)
I can't wait until the UN imposes the one world government. When that happens conspiracy idiots like you will be the first to die.
(sarchasm/flame off)
Definition time:
Atheist is broken into two parts, strong and weak.
Strong atheism says that god does not exist. The logical support for this position is as precarious as the logical support for believing in a god.
Weak atheism says that there is no evidence for god, therefore no reason to hypothesize one. This is the strongest logical position to take. It fits the physical evidence and does not break rules and guidelines of science. i.e. Occam's Razor.
Agnostic means that the person belives in a god, but cannot distinguish between all the different choices.
Of course, your definitions may vary. This is one of the big problems with discussing religion or the lack thereof with terms such as atheist, agnostic, or whatever. The terms are not solidly nailed down, so it's easy to miscommunicate. I suggest the above as a working set of definitions.
>We have no way of knowing what it will be like in these regions in 50 years.
That is true. But consider this: I think it is a reasonable hypothesis that the condition of those regions in 50 years would be considerably better *with* the elevator than without it.
If the cable broke it would wrap around the equator. Probably it would hit some land somewhere along the way, considering that it would wrap most of the way around the globe. This assumes that it breaks 22500 miles up at the point of max tension.
I know a guy who did something simpler, but cooler. He routed the windshield washer hose to his front right fender. When he turned it on, fluid would spray out several feet from the right side of the car. He used to hose down pedestrians with it.
He told us to share right after he told us to pray loudly in public.
Doh!
The slippery slope is a fallacy. You need to identify the connection. Without that connection, it is just an illogical conclusion.
Example: If we let the government protect our children a little bit, then they will tend to protect our children more and more over time, and eventually all children will be raised as wards of the state, because parents will have all their rights usurped by the government. Therefore we can't let our children be protected by the government at all.
Your other ideas seem OK, but you haven't justified why there is the slightest reason to fear the mythical slippery slope. I know you were trying to be balanced in your presentation, but by giving credence to a preposterous viewpoint, your presentation is less effective.