dmccunney

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by dmccunney 5y ago
this comes as no surprise. But Camerron's post illustrates a deeper issue. The world we live in is a mental model created by our brains, and the data that underlies the model is supplied by our senses. The model we make will differ d
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by dmccunney 6y ago
I'm contrary on this. I see salary level as a negative, not a positive. I want to be paid comparably to my peers. I don't think I'm unique. I think just about all workers want to be paid comparably to their peers. They ge
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by dmccunney 6y ago
I have a Fujitsu P2110 with the Transmeta Crusoe CPU. It was passed along by a friend who had upgraded to a more powerful machine but didn't want it to go into the trash. She said it was "slow slow SLOW". Well, yes. The ma
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by dmccunney 6y ago
A universal basic income is not a cure for this particular problem. The reason the idea is getting interest is the number of people who don't have and can't get jobs. Buckminster Fuller talked years ago about the need to abolish
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by dmccunney 7y ago
When was the last time you went to Sourceforge? How do you access it? It isn't ad filled here. They went through a bad patch when owned by the previous owner, who was trying to figure out how to monetize it, and made bad choices in h
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by dmccunney 7y ago
Yes, B5 was an aggressive adopter of digital technology. The driver was costs . Models were expensive , and if they could be replaced by CGI, the cost of making the show could be dramatically reduced. B5 was being produced for the synd
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by dmccunney 7y ago
I think I admire the energy and dedication behind this, but I can't see getting one. I've been involved with eBooks for over 15 years. It began when my then employer decided all IT staff members should have PDAs. A Handspring Vi
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by dmccunney 8y ago
An assortment: "The Silent Language" by Edward T. Hall. Hall was an anthropologist attached to the University of New Mexico. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, were doing research in comparative culture. Hall r
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by dmccunney 9y ago
Whether any government mandated minimum wage boost "works", depends upon who you are. Who benefits from it? If you are currently in a minimum wage job, you may benefit. You're making more money, because the government s
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by dmccunney 9y ago
This is an example of why I flatly refused to install an IM client at a former employer who wanted IT staff connected and instantly available. (The issue was laid to rest in a conference call when a co-worker said "The nice thing about
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by dmccunney 9y ago
The key statement in the article is the last: "Bottom line: Robots do replace workers. On the other hand, some industries that don't automate end up losing workers anyway, because their costs are too high and their customers go el
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by dmccunney 10y ago
The biggest worldview changer for me was probably the work of the late Edward T. Hall. Hall was an anthropologist attached the the University of New Mexico. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, were doing research in compar
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by dmccunney 10y ago
Profit is not a "choice", it's a requirement . The one thing we can say for certain about tomorrow is that it will be different from today. We don't know (and likely can't know) how it will be different - only
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by dmccunney 10y ago
Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were rising over ( gasp! ) $1/gallon, and there was
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by dmccunney 10y ago
Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were rising over ( gasp! ) $1/gallon, and there was
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by dmccunney 12y ago
I know Terry, and saw him read this with fellow writer Jack Womack years ago. Terry was the enthusiastic describer of these weird biological critters, and Jack did the " Meat ?" responses with a perfect voice and wonderful tone o
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by dmccunney 12y ago
So just what was your goal? You don't really seem to have thought this through. This is a case of "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." You started a company, convinced your friends to join you, and Lo! Your
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by dmccunney 13y ago
I don't have just one. Under Windows, I use a fork of Florian Ballmer's Notepad2 to replace Notepad. It's one of a number of editors based on Neil Hodgson's Scintilla edit control. It's small, starts fast, and can replace Windows Notepad
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by dmccunney 13y ago
I have two Ubuntu Linux installations. The desktop uses XFCE4. The ancient notebook uses LXDE because it's really low end hardware. The notebook can't run Unity. The desktop can, but Unity is optimized to get the best use of small scre
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by dmccunney 14y ago
Speaking personally, I never left Firefox. I've been using Mozilla code since the Netscape 7.X days (and tried to use NS6, but it was way too buggy.) I progressed from MS7 to the Mozilla Suite to Firefox, and have stayed there. I have Ch
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by dmccunney 14y ago
Nope. Remember that Project Gutenberg hosts books which have lapsed into the public domain. That's not true for a lot of the stuff mentioned. (A decent collection of Van Vogt is available through Baen Book's Webscriptions program, though
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by dmccunney 14y ago
A note on various of the Gutenberg SF entries: the versions on Project Gutenberg may be the magazine serial versions. They may differ substantially from the book versions. (Shorter, to fit magazine space limitations.) Copyright law was di