teeja

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by teeja 17y ago
30 years ago we finally got rid of mainframes, the priesthood, and the control. The cycle begins again. When he says 'nobody questions the wisdom' though, I needa point out that Larry Ellison does.
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by teeja 17y ago
Why did I read that 'in cannabis' ??
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by teeja 17y ago
May life never throw you a deadline in Montana.
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by teeja 17y ago
"Apple wants to be the best" As an off-again on-again customer since the II, that's clearly never been the case. Assuming anyone can know what 'the best' is (apart from measurable technical performance). Every piece of Apple hardware I've o
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by teeja 17y ago
Here's how I see the question: When did it suddenly become acceptable for a computer manufacturer to decide what software the customer can run on that computer? I'm sure the money can be good ... but is that really the road anyone wants to
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by teeja 17y ago
"pray for it to last" It could be interesting to discuss what circumstances might bring the 'source for truth' to an end ... what might be done to minimize the loss should it end ... how to route around the damage should the official intern
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by teeja 17y ago
Best of class - concise, thorough. Thanks!
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by teeja 17y ago
Maybe that isn't self-evident because the history is so far back. 100 years ago, 99.9% of starters didn't have a degree. (And they didn't start life $80K in debt either.) But I'd argue that college isn't about learning a trade, it's about g
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by teeja 17y ago
"A generation looks for guidance to the nation's two greatest capitalists." Oh please. Gag me with a spoon. The whole thing reminds me of Oral Roberts back in his Heal! days. Is this a student body, or a cult?
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by teeja 17y ago
"create ZIP compressed files from within the OS ... Control-click on the file and choose Create Archive (which is Apple-speak for 'make a compressed ZIP file')..." To decompress a zip, double-click. http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/zip.html
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by teeja 17y ago
Well-written survey of the damage. Newspapers: tradition-bound. In about 1985 I wrote an article about shopping for a home computer. The local newspaper editor refused it with the comment "Aren't those kind of a niche product?" Their formul
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by teeja 17y ago
bandcamp.com If I had a band and didn't have time worry about the web much, I'd want to own a domain and pay someone 10 percent of our combined take to make it and keep it the way I want it. The more we make, the more they make.
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by teeja 17y ago
"a cookie can be stored on a user's computer, or accessed from that computer, only if the user "has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information"." Great to see that the EU is requiring people acce
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by teeja 17y ago
Some people say mathematics is beautiful. After several years, unfortunately, I could never see that beauty. There was a point, long ago, where I could see the beauty of Forth. Ditto with Bach. On the other hand, I 'get' the beauty of Beeth
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by teeja 17y ago
All brains are created equal. Reminds me of something. Very upbeat article; always good to hear about any teachers listening to neuroscientists; even better to see recognition that children are born learning machines (they all have to boots
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by teeja 17y ago
Interesting ... that ties in with what I was just reading about the erosion of The Sphinx being caused by rain, not by sand. (Which would make it much older than 2500BC.) http://www.catchpenny.org/sphinx.html http://www.robertschoch.com/
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by teeja 17y ago
On Slashdot that would qualify as a 4 "Funny"
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by teeja 17y ago
"Other than monetary, there have been no practical uses for gold in antiquity." Except for those silly Egyptian and Aztec people, who thought gold was good for making art objects and jewelry.
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by teeja 17y ago
Most US newspapers also haven't been long on the analysis, history and erudition that lets us make wise choices. And they were conspicuously quiet about a lot of significant questions during the Bush years. Who can you trust? I tuned into T
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by teeja 17y ago
"there is no quick fix for crumbling infrastructure" According to US engineers ... it's not just 'communism' that has that problem.
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by teeja 17y ago
I'm sure you're right. Plus, in the sciences, he knows how his colleagues minds work (and all the politics). Dirac probably kept mostly quiet about his doubts because Bohr, the Godfather of QM, thought QM was the Cat's Meow, which Schroding
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by teeja 17y ago
That's different. In the early days of the web, the quality of any board <<<<< forum was destined to plummet every September, then slowly rise with attrition until after Spring break. But then maybe there aren't that man
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by teeja 17y ago
Since the 1920s, up until a decade or so ago: "Many investigators believed that the lower atmosphere was too dense for electrons to accelerate to speeds high enough to emit x-rays and other high-energy particles. Instead, they thought that
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by teeja 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Gamma_rays_and_the_ru...
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by teeja 17y ago
I thought CEO's went to Bohemian Grove ??!
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by teeja 17y ago
That's a Good Thing. Ever spent a year adding data to a site (like oh, say, Stumbleupon) only to notice that there's no way to get your work out ? I did. DL lets you export to several other blogformats. That's much cooler.
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by teeja 17y ago
Fully agreed. QM is like ... our knowledge of the Moon before the 1960s. Until we got 'out there' we couldn't see the whole thing. Lots of people like to look at the very complex stuff. But the year Einstein published several papers, it was
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by teeja 17y ago
http://mindbody.blogspot.com/2009/10/penrose-kind-o-gets-it.... "Schrödinger, Einstein, and Paul Dirac. They were all quantum skeptics in a sense. Dirac is the one whom people find most surprising, because he set up the whole foundation,
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Forty years of the internet(guardian.co.uk)
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by teeja 17y ago
For some people finding fault is easier than seeing the point.

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