There's an interesting case of a newspaper reacting to another media technology: The Chicago Tribune wanted to create a sort of alternative newspaper, and for the comic section they started a program called "Sam and Henry". The Time: 1926. The media threat: Radio. Sam & Henry went on to become the fantastically popular Amos and Andy.
All the good plots have already been explored - everything else is just variations on a theme. Someone suggested "Somewhere In Time" (Christopher Reeves) and from what is posted on imdb.com it looks pretty decent. Wish I could get Turner Classic Movies without having to pay for 90 other channels I have NO interest in.
and 'evil' - those are not rigorously defined, widely recognized values like the length of a 'meter' in terms of wavelength, or (what once was) an ounce of gold is $32. Go by the mantra of 'do no evil' and you will eventually find that what is 'good' in the eyes of inventors is not always 'good' in the eyes of consumers. This is why so many wildly successfuly companies, in terms of investor capital gains, are usually so evil to their locked in customers.
Identity wants to be free. You could open source your ID and make it available to everyone, with the only stipulation being that any additions or alterations someone else makes will also be made available.
Just noticed last night while mpeg encoding - mp3 has a copyright flag. So do CD's and DAT's. Nobody's jumping and shouting about those. The important part is having control over the software to ignore them.
Uhura: Captain, I'm getting an urgent communique' from Starfleet HQ Kirk: Put in on the main screen Uhura: Aya Commander: Jim... Kirk: Commander Wilkes! What brings us the pleasure of your visit? Commander: Jim, I have some bad news. Kirk: Not another shippment of tribbles, heheh Commander: Jim, this is serious. We're... you know that 'five year mission' bit? Kirk: Yes Commander: Well, we're going to have to cut it back to one... Kirk: What? Commander: That's right - one year. Kirk: (dramatic) Their... ONE... year... mission... to... seek... Commander: That give your 3 more months to clear up this planet destroyer thingy. Kirk: But... why?? Commander: It's the budget Jim. Starfleet's pretty strapped these days, what with the extra patrols in the Romulan sector Kirk: I knew we never should have taken sides in their sectarian squabbling. Commander: That doesn't matter. It's not for us to decide. We.. have our orders. And you ha.. Kirk: What about... new life, new planets... boldly going... Commander: It's "to boldy go" Jim. I know, we all feel as bad about it as you do. Prepare to wrap this up in 3 months. That's all. Uhura: They've dropped connection, captain. Kirk: Sulu, lay in a course for the Altairian sector Spock: Captain, the plant destroyer is continuing toward the heavily populated... Kirk: Nevermind that. If we've only got 3 months budget left we're going to the planet of the Altairian slave girls...
Msft's been running the same program since 1981. It goes something like this:
10 WhatWeHaveNow = "Leaves Something to be desired, has known problems and Issues but functions with workarounds" 20 WhatIsYetToCome = "Fantastic! The Next release is going to blow your socks off, reduce your TCO and clean the kitchen sink!"
30 Year = Year + 2.5 35 Legacy = WhatWeHaveNow 40 WhatWeHaveNow = WhatIsYetToCome 50 Goto 10
Chauvinist comes from one Nicolas Chauvin, a rabidly patriotic member of Napoleon's army; it was then later applied to the veterans of the Napoleonic wars who were mocked for their unswerving loyalty to Napoleon long after his fall. Whatever the true origin, what's undisputed is that a Chauvin became a vaudeville character, and so the term chauvinisme came to be applied to blind and belligerent patriotism. By the 1870s, English had borrowed the term in this meaning.
The broadening of the term to include any sort of biased belief in the superiority of a particular race, creed, operating system or cause emerged much later, in the mid-20th century. Both this meaning and the earlier meaning also took on the form chauvinist, and both forms are most often used with an adjective modifier to describe the kind of chauvinism or chauvinist being talked about.
When I was a 4 year old kid, the snow was so deep it came up to my waist; I can remember making tunnels thru it. Now that I'm over 40, it barely comes up to my knees - there's definitely less snow these days.
Perhaps GnuPG? Well, there's the whole problem with the GPL (esp. V3).
How about S/MIME ? I'm just playing around with it, but Evolution email has support for PGP and S/MIME. I just got a free cert from Thawte installed in Firefox, exported and loaded it into Evolution and can now sign/encrypt email and just recently send a signed email to Eudora which recognized it as a valid signature.
One thing you'll never see is a bunch of Christians rioting become someone drew cartoons of Jesus being tortured and executed by crucifixion. Put a cross in a jar of urine, throw camel dung at a painting of Jesus' Mom, they take it in stride. Write books and make movies about Jesus whore-mongering, it blow over in no time.
Nobody with any sense wants to live in a culture where the Ayaotallah puts a contract out on you for writing a book.
Sounds like on-hold music: "Your HTTP REQUEST is important to us. Due to an unexpected increase in HTTP traffic we cannot serve your web page at this moment. Please hold, and a process will serve your page in the order it was received, as soon as it is paged back into memory from swap. Thank you, and have a nice day."
First, define "wrong". Next, imagine the evesdroppers are puritanical retentive maniacs who define "wrong" as "anything enjoyable", or "anything that does not contribut to business profits". Say a friend rings you up and asks to borrow a CD. Is it ok then for the RIAA swat team to converge on your location and take you away?
Whatever happened to freedom to believe whatever you want? The biggest crime is NOT that some folks hold outdated views - it's the bashing upon them by the folks who consider themselves to be the sole container and promulgator of the TRVTH.
Say I believed the earth is flat. Does that add to or detract from YOUR well being? Thank $DIETY I am free to believe it, and curses to those who want to humiliate me because of it. You are perfectly free to prostelyze and spread your view of the 'round earth theory' (which I consider a theory only), but once you start treating and persecuting me like some dangerous criminal you've crossed the line and I only become MORE defensive. Remember, this Jesus person said his believers would be, and have been, persecuted for their beliefs. The militant wing of the Evolutionary Biologists are starting to look like Nazi's who want to round up and execute those filthy UNBELIEVERS.
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There's an interesting case of a newspaper reacting to another media technology: The Chicago Tribune wanted to create a sort of alternative newspaper, and for the comic section they started a program called "Sam and Henry". The Time: 1926. The media threat: Radio. Sam & Henry went on to become the fantastically popular Amos and Andy.
All the good plots have already been explored - everything else is just variations on a theme. Someone suggested "Somewhere In Time" (Christopher Reeves) and from what is posted on imdb.com it looks pretty decent. Wish I could get Turner Classic Movies without having to pay for 90 other channels I have NO interest in.
and 'evil' - those are not rigorously defined, widely recognized values like the length of a 'meter' in terms of wavelength, or (what once was) an ounce of gold is $32. Go by the mantra of 'do no evil' and you will eventually find that what is 'good' in the eyes of inventors is not always 'good' in the eyes of consumers. This is why so many wildly successfuly companies, in terms of investor capital gains, are usually so evil to their locked in customers.
Identity wants to be free. You could open source your ID and make it available to everyone, with the only stipulation being that any additions or alterations someone else makes will also be made available.
Who do you want to be today?
I've been taking it in tablet form for, oh, over 25 years now. Twice a day.
Just found out about this. Pretty funny.
Interpreting apocalyptic literature as truth verbatim is not only stupid, it's dangerous.
But it does make for some pretty wild art
Just noticed last night while mpeg encoding - mp3 has a copyright flag. So do CD's and DAT's. Nobody's jumping and shouting about those. The important part is having control over the software to ignore them.
Uhura: Captain, I'm getting an urgent communique' from Starfleet HQ ... you know that 'five year mission' bit? ... ... ONE ... year ... mission ... to ... seek ... ... why?? .. have our orders. And you ha.. ... new life, new planets ... boldly going ...
Kirk: Put in on the main screen
Uhura: Aya
Commander: Jim...
Kirk: Commander Wilkes! What brings us the pleasure of your visit?
Commander: Jim, I have some bad news.
Kirk: Not another shippment of tribbles, heheh
Commander: Jim, this is serious. We're
Kirk: Yes
Commander: Well, we're going to have to cut it back to one
Kirk: What?
Commander: That's right - one year.
Kirk: (dramatic) Their
Commander: That give your 3 more months to clear up this planet destroyer thingy.
Kirk: But
Commander: It's the budget Jim. Starfleet's pretty strapped these days, what with the extra patrols in the Romulan sector
Kirk: I knew we never should have taken sides in their sectarian squabbling.
Commander: That doesn't matter. It's not for us to decide. We
Kirk: What about
Commander: It's "to boldy go" Jim. I know, we all feel as bad about it as you do. Prepare to wrap this up in 3 months. That's all.
Uhura: They've dropped connection, captain.
Kirk: Sulu, lay in a course for the Altairian sector
Spock: Captain, the plant destroyer is continuing toward the heavily populated...
Kirk: Nevermind that. If we've only got 3 months budget left we're going to the planet of the Altairian slave girls...
now the dufus' computer in the next cube is going to start saying, "You've got premium mail!"
This is insufferable - we will not stand for any stinkin' politicians finding out where we stand on important issues.
Msft's been running the same program since 1981. It goes something like this:
10 WhatWeHaveNow = "Leaves Something to be desired, has known problems and Issues but functions with workarounds"
20 WhatIsYetToCome = "Fantastic! The Next release is going to blow your socks off, reduce your TCO and clean the kitchen sink!"
30 Year = Year + 2.5
35 Legacy = WhatWeHaveNow
40 WhatWeHaveNow = WhatIsYetToCome
50 Goto 10
Well, for today only, Fat Tuesday or National Pancake Day, you can also drop into your local IHOP and get Free Pancakes.
Chauvinist comes from one Nicolas Chauvin, a rabidly patriotic member of Napoleon's army; it was then later applied to the veterans of the Napoleonic wars who were mocked for their unswerving loyalty to Napoleon long after his fall. Whatever the true origin, what's undisputed is that a Chauvin became a vaudeville character, and so the term chauvinisme came to be applied to blind and belligerent patriotism. By the 1870s, English had borrowed the term in this meaning.
The broadening of the term to include any sort of biased belief in the superiority of a particular race, creed, operating system or cause emerged much later, in the mid-20th century. Both this meaning and the earlier meaning also took on the form chauvinist, and both forms are most often used with an adjective modifier to describe the kind of chauvinism or chauvinist being talked about.
Well, another contender for the 1st crown is the Konrad Zuse Z3, recognition being largely obscured by fact of being on the losing side of the war.
When I was a 4 year old kid, the snow was so deep it came up to my waist; I can remember making tunnels thru it. Now that I'm over 40, it barely comes up to my knees - there's definitely less snow these days.
I took a Speed Reading course once, and read "War & Peace" in 20 minutes.
It's about Russia.
Perhaps GnuPG? Well, there's the whole problem with the GPL (esp. V3).
How about S/MIME ? I'm just playing around with it, but Evolution email has
support for PGP and S/MIME. I just got a free cert from Thawte installed
in Firefox, exported and loaded it into Evolution and can now sign/encrypt email
and just recently send a signed email to Eudora which recognized it as a valid
signature.
The PC term is "Rectal-cranial inversion"
One thing you'll never see is a bunch of Christians rioting become someone drew cartoons of Jesus being tortured and executed by crucifixion. Put a cross in a jar of urine, throw camel dung at a painting of Jesus' Mom, they take it in stride. Write books and make movies about Jesus whore-mongering, it blow over in no time.
Nobody with any sense wants to live in a culture where the Ayaotallah puts a contract out on you for writing a book.
Sounds like on-hold music: "Your HTTP REQUEST is important to us. Due to an unexpected increase in HTTP traffic we cannot serve your web page at this moment. Please hold, and a process will serve your page in the order it was received, as soon as it is paged back into memory from swap. Thank you, and have a nice day."
First, define "wrong". Next, imagine the evesdroppers are puritanical retentive maniacs who define "wrong" as "anything enjoyable", or "anything that does not contribut to business profits". Say a friend rings you up and asks to borrow a CD. Is it ok then for the RIAA swat team to converge on your location and take you away?
sitting in the drivers seat of this new Honda Accord thinking, "Well, this car isn't going to drive itself" when, all of a sudden....
Mr. Field will just have to find another way of making a fortune. "Jackpot Justice" didn't pay off this time.
Whatever happened to freedom to believe whatever you want? The biggest crime is NOT that some folks hold outdated views - it's the bashing upon them by the folks who consider themselves to be the sole container and promulgator of the TRVTH.
Say I believed the earth is flat. Does that add to or detract from YOUR well being? Thank $DIETY I am free to believe it, and curses to those who want to humiliate me because of it. You are perfectly free to prostelyze and spread your view of the 'round earth theory' (which I consider a theory only), but once you start treating and persecuting me like some dangerous criminal you've crossed the line and I only become MORE defensive. Remember, this Jesus person said his believers would be, and have been, persecuted for their beliefs. The militant wing of the Evolutionary Biologists are starting to look like Nazi's who want to round up and execute those filthy UNBELIEVERS.