I can't begin to understand your politics. I agree with you that group think and council-based decision making can be dangerously bad, and therefore cannot understand why socialism would be your government of choice. However, you made me laugh with this one:
We Canadians are big believers in taking money away from stupid people. After all, our entire economy is based on taking money away from Americans and selling them rocks, sticks, and ice.
Speaking as someone who has a few (now expired) MCSE & CCNA certs, and a B.S. from a State U. I would say: forget certs AND school, and open your own business.
Don't get me wrong, college was a blast, but I've been kicked in the pants twice by higher education- being certified right at the tail end of 1999 (before the bust), and then graduating into the robust job market of 2005. Call it poor timing, or just plain old bad luck.
Start your own business, learn to read, and network with competitors and other professionals in your field. These days, some guys I work with are HS drop outs, others have advanced degrees (PhD/MBA/MS), and I find myself learning different things from all of them.
On the other hand, my wonderful 6-week certification "training" has rotted out of my brain long ago. And the only thing I learned at state school was how to build a bong out of old Romen noodles.
Like I said, it was a blast- but not worth the $30k in loans I'm repaying now. (IMO)
Oh, and on second thought- my A+ cert will never expire. But don't expect to get a lot of attention for an A+ cert (I've never had a client who even knew what it was, and most employers don't do a lot of work on DOS these days, strangely enough.)
I've been watching "The Simpsons" on DVD this chilly Saturday morning, and I think Bart Simpson said it best:
"Lisa, if you don't watch the violence, you'll never get desensitized to it."
As an American, my biggest beef with the way sex is handled on TV is the BLATANT hypocricy. A legal-aged (and IMO beautiful) woman like Janet Jackson has a nipple slip out, and we scream bloody murder. Then, we dress our best-looking 15 year olds like whores, and parade them around endlessly during prime time. Finally, we arrest and scorne any of those among us who dare to reach for the forbidden fruit.
Don't get me wrong- sex with kids is bad. But sex isn't. In fact, sex is how we got all these 15 year old in the first place. I'm not about to suggest that TV or video game violence is "rsponsible" for anything- unlike you, and your kids, it lacks free will. However, simply looking at the variety of violent acts among children, it is clear that something very bad is going on here.
If I had a daughter, I would prefer she stay at home, dressed in sweat pants and 40 pounds overweight. However, given the choice between buying her a box of condoms, and driving her to the emergency room, I'd rather bite the bullet and suffer a few minutes of embarrasment explaining how a "winky" works.
Jason Calacanis is a pompous twit who needs to go away. I hereby "shush" him in the name of sanity.
If Jimbo "Mr. Wiki" Wales is running out of cash, he'll need to figure something out. If he can keep a cashflow without resorting to more Google Ads, more power to him.
Being that I use adblock, this will most likely not affect me at all.
And being that Jason Calacanis doesn't even work for Wiki, I fail to see how this is any of his concern. He might be interested to know that I am having a tight month myself. Perhaps he could rant about that for a while, and drum up some PayPal donations for me. If all else fails, he can go back to trolling on Digg.
Well, truth be told, I'm rooting for Ron Paul. So I guess that makes me a racist sexist.
Your points are valid. If anything, I get ashamed that these issues are still being debated in 2007. Somehow, growing up in the 80's, I figured we'd be over this nonsense by now. I suppose I wastched too many multi-cultural McDonalds advertisments growing up...
Speaking of points going over heads, allow me to rephrase, your honor.
The most relevant thing about Obama (IMO) is his courageous anti-Iraq War speech, given back in 2002 when the wounds of 9/11 were still fresh.
Not his name. Not his race.
His position. His courage. His forsight.
He's quite an individual, a person worthy of my respect.
And, although I agree that it won't happen, I would vote for a 95-year-old African-American/Asian-American lesbian aitheist with a bum knee and poor vision- assuming I agreed with her platform.
In my opinion, this "Hillary is a woman" and "Obama is black" chatter is insulting to women and blacks. So what? OF COURSE a woman/black is just as capable, just as deserving of our consideration. To suggest anything else is silly.
I sincerely hope we elected a 95-year-old African-American/Asian-American lesbian aitheist with a bum knee and poor vision. Of course, only if her mother was an abusive alcoholic, her father left home when she was a baby, she was evicted, fired, beaten and shunned.
That way, I can point to her in shining example and say: "See! See! She made it. I'm not buying your excuse. Sorry."
I'm not keen on Obama's stance on gun control, but I still hope he wins. If for no other reason than to lay this "black" issue to bed once and for all.
And, for what its worth, his mom was white. How a "black guy" has a white mom, I'll never know.
As one of the biggest conspiracy theorists around (tin foil and all) let me say: thank you for providing a rational voice this morning.
No, I do not think we should halt scientific progress in regards to the brain. No, the machine- in and of itself- poses no threat to me or my way of life.
But I do understand the fear and anxiety expressed by the mob. Our nation (US) hasn't exactly been level-headed lately. I am sure I speak for a fair number of/. readers when I say: the day thought-crime can be detected and legally prosecuted, I am going to need a lawyer, or at least plane tickets to some South American paradise.
I've been using Cyberduck for about a year, and lately it has been giving me all sorts of trouble. It hangs on even the smallest uploads (like a 1kb PHP script). Before the last upgrade it worked like a charm. Go figure.
Imagine for a moment you are a fresh JD, looking for your first job. You send off a resume without any picture. Being a conservative guy, you are attracted to like-minded causes/practices. Ergo, you apply to work at a more conservative firm.
Personally, I could care less what a gay porn star does. But I'm not the one who will be googling the name on the resume. If "Old Man Johnson" thinks that homosexuality is a grevious misdeed, the mere sight of such materials might cost him the interview.
What recourse would you have? How could you prove any sort of discrimination? Would that even count as discrimination?
I agree 100%. Expecting the +1,000,000,000 users of the Internet to follow some sort of tagging convention is a pipe dream at best. I'd settle for proper punctuation in forums.
If any "standard" is proposed, it should be a mild, behind-the-scenes change. Perhaps a META TAGS header, i.e. rss/application or META KEYWORDS. And only to make it easier for scrapers and aggregators (and of course, our beloved Google).
If anything, we need to be focusing on "concept" mining. Synonyms, slang and syntax must all be considered. For example: "President Bush", "George Bush" and "W" might all be used to categorize the President (#43). However, on some pages, those same tags might be referring to H.W. Bush (#41) AND his son (#43). In other words, on site #1 these tags would refer to one concept, on site #2 they might refer to two distinct concepts.
On the other hand, it would be fantastic to click on the tag "funny", and immediatley see a list of all "hysterical", "knee-slappers" and "yuks"- all contained in a single "concept" list.
Knowing when to combine a concept, and when to "split" it into multiple concepts, is what the "intelligent web" is all about. I believe this is not only possible, but inevitable- and it will make the current web look like an Apple IIe v. a MacBook Pro.
Mastering the grouping of tags will provide a fantastic step forward in this pursuit.
There's also the huge issue of mistaken identity. Most of this video is going to be crap quality and at best [...] that's a pretty big assumption on your part to say that the guy you're interviewing is the SAME guy you saw online.
Very good point. I myself have been told several times that I have "dopplegangers" out there, despite the fact that I have always considered my appearance "unique".
A friend of mine has the misfortune of sharing a name with a gay porn star. The irony is, he is one of the most traditional, conservative people I know, and currently in law school.
Prejudice is prejudice. There's not a person alive who hasn't suffered embarassing moments. If nothing else, we ought to show some empathy for the human condition.
As I write this, I am sitting next to my fiance, the RN, who works at a not-for-profit hospital, and just LAST NIGHT saved the life of a homeless drug addict who, in all likelihood, will not amount to anything useful for the rest of society.
The ability for you to oversimplify complex issues for idealist reasons is absolutely incredible (and frightening).
Coming from New York (a very pro-socialist state) to Florida (a very anti-socialist state) I can tell you from FIRST HAND experience that the patients recieve better care, the staff recieves better compensation (and that income is not taxed) and those without insurance are still able to recieve top-rate care, regardless of circumstances. Socialized healthcare is not in the best interests of the American taxpayer.
In your post you implied that you are not American. Perhaps in your nation, this sort of healthcare makes sense. Sadly, I live in a nation of 300,000,000+ people. Comparing, say, Canada (pop. 32,000,000) to America is simpy not a fair comparison.
I assume this is a fault of their education, or lack thereof, and in the end, they're going to suffer for it, not you. There, there. Do you feel better now?
Until very recently, I would have agreed with you 100%. However, consider this scenerio:
You are a geek, and so YOUR laptop is setup exactly the way YOU want it- OS, apps, icons, mouse sensitivity, etc etc.
You are so spoiled by your laptop that the thought of touching another machine fills you with dread. You call into work sick to avoid it.
You and your laptop are off on a business trip, vacation, or multi-state police chase.
Your laptop breaks. You do a recovery dance, then cast CURE 4. No dice.
You order a replacement, but need to get some work done TONIGHT. Your new machine won't arrive until X days from now (^2 for mac users, ^3 for super-picky linux users).
You begrudgingly head to WalMart and buy a cheapo $500 laptop, and promise yourself you'll exchange it for a jumbo-sized bag of gummy bears next week (once the replacement arrives).
You get your default-windows-pos "loaner" out of the box, and start downloading your needed FOSS apps (unless you keep copies of the CDs in your glovebox).
Being a geek, it is impossible to do any work until your Jessica Alba background is back, and you font set to "comic sans". After 12 hours of tweaking you get to work.
The next day, in a coffee-induced rage, you accidentally strangle your accomplice/partner/lover and get sent to prison for 25 years.
Admit it- wouldn't it be easier to jump into your WebOS, no matter which machine you were forced to be using at any given time? Haven't you ever run VNC so you could access a box without finding a spare keyboard all the time? I view this as "VNC 2.0", with the added advantage that I don't have to set it up before I need it- just like my gmail, flickr pics and blog posts, the data will be waiting for me no matter where in this world I roam.
Back in '86, upon seeing my PS/2 running DOS for the first time, my grandfather asked: "why not just use a calculator and a typewriter"- and let's be honest, back in '86 he *almost* had a point. But like it or not, we are the new "old fogies", and I've decided to join the winning team early.
That said, these WebOS are still like telneting porno at 2400 bps. We've got a looooong way to go before I start relying on them for anything more than a "cool beta".
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I can't begin to understand your politics. I agree with you that group think and council-based decision making can be dangerously bad, and therefore cannot understand why socialism would be your government of choice. However, you made me laugh with this one:
We Canadians are big believers in taking money away from stupid people. After all, our entire economy is based on taking money away from Americans and selling them rocks, sticks, and ice.
Speaking as someone who has a few (now expired) MCSE & CCNA certs, and a B.S. from a State U. I would say: forget certs AND school, and open your own business.
Don't get me wrong, college was a blast, but I've been kicked in the pants twice by higher education- being certified right at the tail end of 1999 (before the bust), and then graduating into the robust job market of 2005. Call it poor timing, or just plain old bad luck.
Start your own business, learn to read, and network with competitors and other professionals in your field. These days, some guys I work with are HS drop outs, others have advanced degrees (PhD/MBA/MS), and I find myself learning different things from all of them.
On the other hand, my wonderful 6-week certification "training" has rotted out of my brain long ago. And the only thing I learned at state school was how to build a bong out of old Romen noodles.
Like I said, it was a blast- but not worth the $30k in loans I'm repaying now. (IMO)
Oh, and on second thought- my A+ cert will never expire. But don't expect to get a lot of attention for an A+ cert (I've never had a client who even knew what it was, and most employers don't do a lot of work on DOS these days, strangely enough.)
I've been watching "The Simpsons" on DVD this chilly Saturday morning, and I think Bart Simpson said it best:
"Lisa, if you don't watch the violence, you'll never get desensitized to it."
As an American, my biggest beef with the way sex is handled on TV is the BLATANT hypocricy. A legal-aged (and IMO beautiful) woman like Janet Jackson has a nipple slip out, and we scream bloody murder. Then, we dress our best-looking 15 year olds like whores, and parade them around endlessly during prime time. Finally, we arrest and scorne any of those among us who dare to reach for the forbidden fruit.
Don't get me wrong- sex with kids is bad. But sex isn't. In fact, sex is how we got all these 15 year old in the first place. I'm not about to suggest that TV or video game violence is "rsponsible" for anything- unlike you, and your kids, it lacks free will. However, simply looking at the variety of violent acts among children, it is clear that something very bad is going on here.
If I had a daughter, I would prefer she stay at home, dressed in sweat pants and 40 pounds overweight. However, given the choice between buying her a box of condoms, and driving her to the emergency room, I'd rather bite the bullet and suffer a few minutes of embarrasment explaining how a "winky" works.
Jason Calacanis is a pompous twit who needs to go away. I hereby "shush" him in the name of sanity. If Jimbo "Mr. Wiki" Wales is running out of cash, he'll need to figure something out. If he can keep a cashflow without resorting to more Google Ads, more power to him. Being that I use adblock, this will most likely not affect me at all. And being that Jason Calacanis doesn't even work for Wiki, I fail to see how this is any of his concern. He might be interested to know that I am having a tight month myself. Perhaps he could rant about that for a while, and drum up some PayPal donations for me. If all else fails, he can go back to trolling on Digg.
Well, truth be told, I'm rooting for Ron Paul. So I guess that makes me a racist sexist.
Your points are valid. If anything, I get ashamed that these issues are still being debated in 2007. Somehow, growing up in the 80's, I figured we'd be over this nonsense by now. I suppose I wastched too many multi-cultural McDonalds advertisments growing up...
Speaking of points going over heads, allow me to rephrase, your honor.
The most relevant thing about Obama (IMO) is his courageous anti-Iraq War speech, given back in 2002 when the wounds of 9/11 were still fresh.
Not his name. Not his race.
His position. His courage. His forsight.
He's quite an individual, a person worthy of my respect.
And, although I agree that it won't happen, I would vote for a 95-year-old African-American/Asian-American lesbian aitheist with a bum knee and poor vision- assuming I agreed with her platform.
In my opinion, this "Hillary is a woman" and "Obama is black" chatter is insulting to women and blacks. So what? OF COURSE a woman/black is just as capable, just as deserving of our consideration. To suggest anything else is silly.
Regarding the whole "black" thing:
I sincerely hope we elected a 95-year-old African-American/Asian-American lesbian aitheist with a bum knee and poor vision. Of course, only if her mother was an abusive alcoholic, her father left home when she was a baby, she was evicted, fired, beaten and shunned.
That way, I can point to her in shining example and say: "See! See! She made it. I'm not buying your excuse. Sorry."
I'm not keen on Obama's stance on gun control, but I still hope he wins. If for no other reason than to lay this "black" issue to bed once and for all.
And, for what its worth, his mom was white. How a "black guy" has a white mom, I'll never know.
As one of the biggest conspiracy theorists around (tin foil and all) let me say: thank you for providing a rational voice this morning.
/. readers when I say: the day thought-crime can be detected and legally prosecuted, I am going to need a lawyer, or at least plane tickets to some South American paradise.
No, I do not think we should halt scientific progress in regards to the brain. No, the machine- in and of itself- poses no threat to me or my way of life.
But I do understand the fear and anxiety expressed by the mob. Our nation (US) hasn't exactly been level-headed lately. I am sure I speak for a fair number of
I've been using Cyberduck for about a year, and lately it has been giving me all sorts of trouble. It hangs on even the smallest uploads (like a 1kb PHP script). Before the last upgrade it worked like a charm. Go figure.
Imagine for a moment you are a fresh JD, looking for your first job. You send off a resume without any picture. Being a conservative guy, you are attracted to like-minded causes/practices. Ergo, you apply to work at a more conservative firm.
Personally, I could care less what a gay porn star does. But I'm not the one who will be googling the name on the resume. If "Old Man Johnson" thinks that homosexuality is a grevious misdeed, the mere sight of such materials might cost him the interview.
What recourse would you have? How could you prove any sort of discrimination? Would that even count as discrimination?
User query=> I use a mac. How do I upload?
Intelligent web answer=> Download Cyberduck [link]here[/link], it uses FTP to upload data to your web host.
With information scattered about the way it is, I can see many, many applications for syllogisms in "search 2.0".
I agree 100%. Expecting the +1,000,000,000 users of the Internet to follow some sort of tagging convention is a pipe dream at best. I'd settle for proper punctuation in forums.
If any "standard" is proposed, it should be a mild, behind-the-scenes change. Perhaps a META TAGS header, i.e. rss/application or META KEYWORDS. And only to make it easier for scrapers and aggregators (and of course, our beloved Google).
If anything, we need to be focusing on "concept" mining. Synonyms, slang and syntax must all be considered. For example: "President Bush", "George Bush" and "W" might all be used to categorize the President (#43). However, on some pages, those same tags might be referring to H.W. Bush (#41) AND his son (#43). In other words, on site #1 these tags would refer to one concept, on site #2 they might refer to two distinct concepts.
On the other hand, it would be fantastic to click on the tag "funny", and immediatley see a list of all "hysterical", "knee-slappers" and "yuks"- all contained in a single "concept" list.
Knowing when to combine a concept, and when to "split" it into multiple concepts, is what the "intelligent web" is all about. I believe this is not only possible, but inevitable- and it will make the current web look like an Apple IIe v. a MacBook Pro.
Mastering the grouping of tags will provide a fantastic step forward in this pursuit.
There's also the huge issue of mistaken identity. Most of this video is going to be crap quality and at best [...] that's a pretty big assumption on your part to say that the guy you're interviewing is the SAME guy you saw online.
Very good point. I myself have been told several times that I have "dopplegangers" out there, despite the fact that I have always considered my appearance "unique".
A friend of mine has the misfortune of sharing a name with a gay porn star. The irony is, he is one of the most traditional, conservative people I know, and currently in law school.
Prejudice is prejudice. There's not a person alive who hasn't suffered embarassing moments. If nothing else, we ought to show some empathy for the human condition.
DRM, and other artificial technologies designed to protect intellectual property, hinder growth, both economically and technologically.
Viva los FOSS anarchistas! Viva el revolution!
media-agnostic
adj.
Without devotion to specific codecs, nor specific (approved) stores. Designed as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Current Google Index: 13,900.
I like this phrase. I love this concept. Here's hoping we hear it a lot more often in the wake of the recent BlueRay/HDDVD debacle.
There is a lot of money AGAINT net nuetrality and not enough for it.
I agree 100%. I have already made my 2007 donation to EFF. Have you?
As I write this, I am sitting next to my fiance, the RN, who works at a not-for-profit hospital, and just LAST NIGHT saved the life of a homeless drug addict who, in all likelihood, will not amount to anything useful for the rest of society.
The ability for you to oversimplify complex issues for idealist reasons is absolutely incredible (and frightening).
Coming from New York (a very pro-socialist state) to Florida (a very anti-socialist state) I can tell you from FIRST HAND experience that the patients recieve better care, the staff recieves better compensation (and that income is not taxed) and those without insurance are still able to recieve top-rate care, regardless of circumstances. Socialized healthcare is not in the best interests of the American taxpayer.
In your post you implied that you are not American. Perhaps in your nation, this sort of healthcare makes sense. Sadly, I live in a nation of 300,000,000+ people. Comparing, say, Canada (pop. 32,000,000) to America is simpy not a fair comparison.
I assume this is a fault of their education, or lack thereof, and in the end, they're going to suffer for it, not you. There, there. Do you feel better now?
Spell the word for her, she's ok for 5 minutes. Teach her to use dictionary.com, and she'll be ok for the rest of her life. :-)
So how come I can't play the holophone?
- You are a geek, and so YOUR laptop is setup exactly the way YOU want it- OS, apps, icons, mouse sensitivity, etc etc.
- You are so spoiled by your laptop that the thought of touching another machine fills you with dread. You call into work sick to avoid it.
- You and your laptop are off on a business trip, vacation, or multi-state police chase.
- Your laptop breaks. You do a recovery dance, then cast CURE 4. No dice.
- You order a replacement, but need to get some work done TONIGHT. Your new machine won't arrive until X days from now (^2 for mac users, ^3 for super-picky linux users).
- You begrudgingly head to WalMart and buy a cheapo $500 laptop, and promise yourself you'll exchange it for a jumbo-sized bag of gummy bears next week (once the replacement arrives).
- You get your default-windows-pos "loaner" out of the box, and start downloading your needed FOSS apps (unless you keep copies of the CDs in your glovebox).
- Being a geek, it is impossible to do any work until your Jessica Alba background is back, and you font set to "comic sans". After 12 hours of tweaking you get to work.
- The next day, in a coffee-induced rage, you accidentally strangle your accomplice/partner/lover and get sent to prison for 25 years.
Admit it- wouldn't it be easier to jump into your WebOS, no matter which machine you were forced to be using at any given time? Haven't you ever run VNC so you could access a box without finding a spare keyboard all the time? I view this as "VNC 2.0", with the added advantage that I don't have to set it up before I need it- just like my gmail, flickr pics and blog posts, the data will be waiting for me no matter where in this world I roam.Back in '86, upon seeing my PS/2 running DOS for the first time, my grandfather asked: "why not just use a calculator and a typewriter"- and let's be honest, back in '86 he *almost* had a point. But like it or not, we are the new "old fogies", and I've decided to join the winning team early.
That said, these WebOS are still like telneting porno at 2400 bps. We've got a looooong way to go before I start relying on them for anything more than a "cool beta".
Of course "Jurrasic Bark" makes anyone with a working heart choke-up, but which is your favorite episode?
I vote for "Time Keeps on Slippin'". I love how this episode f*cks with every convention it can.
Absolutely *nothing* is at stake!
Farnsworth at his best:
And an ending that packs an emotional punch:
Did you see it? Did you see it? [cue Globetrotters theme]
I'll second that vote for Dr. Z. Some of the best one-liners:
Horray! People are paying attention to me.
Of course, Farnsworth is also hysterical:
Doomsday device? A-ha! Now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
Let's not forget the great visual gags- lightsaber nightsticks, siren-in-head...
But what are these brain slugs going to do for ME, the working man (besides starve to death, that is)?