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decimation: unfortunately
they don't dim brightness
mircea_popescu: but no,
they can't light
them on orange or something. gotta be
that god awful pseudo-white
decimation: they both allow you
to 'redshift' your screen
to match
the local night-time
ascii_modem: colour lcd absorbs far
too much light
to be reflectively lightable.
mircea_popescu: it'd be so much more helpful if
they simply didn't backlight
them with evil fucking uv diodes
mircea_popescu: the lit lcd bs is absolutely insane. i use brighness at 1-2% on all
these lcd
things.
ascii_modem: and nothing
today - save wristwatch - has.
ascii_modem: if
this is re: old
thread about hp lx - it had passive matrix unlit lcd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: who has 60 hour battery now ? << do a battery
time / mips or flops
thing
to for fairness.
gabriel_laddel: ascii_modem:
thanks. a concise phrasing for my project still hasn't come
to mind....
mircea_popescu: dude how long did
the luke wankfest carry on ? by now it's like one of
those fabled 3 day weddings.
gabriel_laddel: ascii_modem: do you have any favorite organic chem programs or books you'd care
to recommend?
mircea_popescu: people occasionally get cocky enough
to
try. it never works out.
the reasons it never works out aren't directly palatable, so
the dream remains.
mircea_popescu: this
theory is always intellectually appealing, like
the
theory
that you can get rich by cornering
the market.
ascii_modem: when 'large' is an abo reservation
that can't even refine own molybdenum - works
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem except no "embargo" by
the small against
the large ever worked in fucking history.
ascii_modem: if big fat landmass could uproot, get up, walk over & sit on small landmass's face
till its guts pop out - sure
mircea_popescu: mike_c for
technologiclaly inferior
tribes, yes, it is.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem just
the very simple fact
that if i say "a man"
then
that's
that, whereas if you
try
to show "a man" you won't be able
to. which is how most films are shittier
than
the books
they're based on.
the forced mistake of having
to provide all
the data visual requires
to work.
mike_c: latitude is important
though
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing
this ; russia's almost larger
than
the sum of
them. and
this is without
the rest of
the "all-union" landmass)
ascii_modem: visual scams << carnival / conjurer
trickery ?
mircea_popescu: so you know, put it on google maps, so you can drink
the presumption
that
the us is a lot larger
than canada while doing whatever else.
decimation: ed
tufte made
the point
that baseball scores are a giant dense
table, and are comprehensible by someone with a 4th grade education
decimation: there's a
thing in academia/business where graphics (esp. on a powerpoint) are held as some kind of standard for communication
decimation: no, I'm writing about a presentation meant
to communicate
decimation: I often find myself distracted by 'pretty graphics' rather
than looking at
the content
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel sure, but
the gui of "google earth" is a needles contrivance.
mircea_popescu: decimation not sure if really >, because i used
to be
total shit in geometry, all
the chicks doing pretty much an impersonation of elaine with
the
tyres "saw"
things
that
took me days. nevertheless, it DOES do a lot for reducing one's ability
to... be scammed, i guess. slef scamming especially, where you end up making unfounded assumptions
that arew predicated on whatever weird visual crap going on.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I'm not a visual
thinker either - at least, never have been described as such.
That said, GUIS are nice in certain circumstances.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i am fortunate
to not be much of a visual
thinker.
mircea_popescu: it's not like
the us can actually compare with i dunno,
the russians on car pools.
ascii_modem: it parks six rattling
toyotas ,
too. when i was
there i would have sworn it would land a bomber.
mircea_popescu: whenever girlie
takes me on a virtual
trip of her childhood space, it's usually "o shit, a parking lot ?!"
decimation: I
think NASA even made a google-earth knockoff called "world wind"
that you can use 'off-line'
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem
this seems altogether a common experience.
decimation: I
think 'high-end gis'
types
typically use arcgis
tools
ascii_modem: from g.earth i learned
the one solitary fact
that
the yard i played in as a boy is now a parking lot. boo/hiss.
decimation: they charge a shitload of $$$
to actually use
their 'pro'
tools
decimation: you can load custom kml files
to plot various
things
mircea_popescu: (why would i give google info ?! not like
they're pickig up my intel bills ?!)
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu:
thanks for explaining.
This aside I must admit I'm interested in knowing if you've got
the 3D earth populated with all sorts of interesting information.
mircea_popescu: or whatever your definition of "enjoy personal interaction is", i suppose
the discussion as
to how all
that = fucking is
too much
to meld in here.
mircea_popescu: nah. A = living in
the us ; B = being employed at computerizing ; C = meeting people who fuck enjoyably.
mircea_popescu: on
the structure of
that, should C be pointed out
to be unrelated
the subject'd normally become aggressive.
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mircea_popescu: when B is pointed out
to be unrelated, you bring in
the discussion C, which is not only unrelated
to B, but also
to A.
mircea_popescu: you establish
that A is desirable. you
then deny A on
the grounds
that B, which is unrelated.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me summarize
this so perhaps you see it for
the
transactional (psych
term of art) pseudoreasoning i see
there.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel but
that is a wholy distinct matter from working and job discussions.
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along
the lines of, nobody can really do
this for you, as a "consumer" sort of
thing. << So you do all your research by hand? Also, do you have a rotating 3D globe on your computer
that allows you
to highlight/heatmap known uranium deposits, nuclear reactors, oil reserves, population stats etc.?
BingoBoingo: <undata>
the film's probably garbage either way << Actually not bad. It's a
typical Seth Rogen movie. People who like
that sort of flick will enjoy it, other people won't.
undata: I wonder
too if
the degradation of
the language isn't a major factor in
the decline of a civilization.
gabriel_laddel: again, r.e., chair warming. Maybe I'm
the odd one out here, but I've had
the distinct pleasure of interacting with people who I enjoy seeing on somewhat regular basis.
decimation: yeah in retrospect
the whole sony
thing was a crass marketing ploy with usg cooperation
undata: yep, and
they caved yet again
to 'bama and released
the
thing
mircea_popescu: undata: what is
this doublespeak where
they 'stand by
their filmmakers' while scrapping
the film? << business as usual ?
gabriel_laddel: sometimes it's nice
to interface with people - mostly - no.
gabriel_laddel: r.e., chair warming,
there is such a
thing as interpersonal chemistry.
decimation: no she's
too busy whining about b-a on
tard's news
mircea_popescu: im sending sexy_saffron over
to your house
to whip you.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: also,
thanks for upping me. my keys got destroyed in a botched backup and I don't know if I'll be able
to recover
them. until I sink some
time into
that
task - no L2.
mircea_popescu: if you're hired for chair warming rather
than sshing you are really not much better
than
the pr chicks.
adlai: all
the internet branding will rely on middlemen, until your audience learns pgp
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel my point was more along
the lines of, unless you actually work in hardware maintenance, you are connecting
to your job over
the internet anyway.
mircea_popescu: if all
the idiotic websites could not in fact control
their own domain name, imagine all
the chilling effect on
the idiocy of "branding" and generally
the stupid internet.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all
that skilled. <<
this is
true, however if an economy
thinks itself of being in dire need of programmers anyone with a brain can fly blind into
the country and remain relatively assured of
their future prosperity without having
to put
too much
thought into it.
This is going
to go away at some point in
the futur
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decimation: while asciilifeform reinvents data
transport, he ought
to consider reinventing dns
adlai: easy money if you fall over sue
the government?
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mircea_popescu: decimation point being, if we monitor "the site" and something appears
there, all we know is
that either
the attacker put it up or icann did, and it's either
true or false.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along
the lines of, nobody can really do
this for you, as a "consumer" sort of
thing.
decimation: like
the
toilet stall in
the
truck stop
mircea_popescu: "For additional information about
the attack, please monitor
the ICANN website." "we're still not using gpg
tho, so you'll never know."
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: what makes you
thik he'd be in a position
to write it ? guy never left australia. << He (or another) can supply
the aforementioned article without getting up from
their chair all
that often. I'm just looking for some basic/tedious research - not boots on
the ground scouting (though I am not opposed
to
this).
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