Firstly let me note that my wife is a practicing herbalist, and both her father and brother (and sister-in-law) are practicing homeopaths.
I prescribe to the rigors of science and fact as far as I can.
While I do not believe in the vast majority of alternative medicine, I have to admit that there is a lot to be said for it.
Firstly the idea behind homeopathy is the treatment of the person, and not the symptoms. I have found current clinical medicine to be a bulldozer when it comes to the body.
Recently we moved to the US and my eyes have opened... Drug companies rule here! They are really powerful companies. I see drive-by dispensaries... OMG! I was raised on clinical medicinal drugs, but even my parents kept it to a minimum. So anything that is 'proven' I take with a pinch of salt, and I follow my own mind.
I let my wife feed me whatever she wants (because she is my wife and I love her) but I also don't take much western medicine because most of that stuff just poisons you. (Have you READ the side-effects of some of that stuff!?)
Currently we are at odds about talking some vaccinations... I truly believe that the benefits outweigh the risks, while my wife still doubts. I feel that I need to let my body sort out and deal with any natural ailments. I only intervene if there is a real risk of permanent damage, great discomfort or death. I do not take anything for flu or colds... and have not had any serious illness for some time.
Strange thing is it seems since I have started living more healthy since I met my wife I do not get such severe colds (if any). The key to alternative health is in prevention, not cure.
Drug companies detest prevention because of their bottom line... I call this biased.
I believe through evolution, our bodies have adapted to be receptive to certain natural remedies, and I'd like to keep it this way and work with it. But I also realize that this may not be true anymore in today's environment of pollution, radiation and drug-laden societies. To this end I would use any western medicine for anything caused by a malfunction in my body (cancer, failures) or by outside interference (deadly virii, poisoning, etc.).
I'll say this... a few years ago it was scientific FACT that lobotomies cured schizophrenia. There are many 'facts' for which scientists have shuffled their feet apologetically. It was also a proven fact that antibiotics helped heal the body with little or no side-effects (although we are now seeing more and more strains of resistant bacteria... ain't evolution great!)
Do I believe that alternative medicine supersedes all western medicine? No.
Do I believe that I should try and stay with natural remedies as far as I can? Yes.
Do I believe that homeopathy has been proven? No.
But as I read the article I saw the same pompous self-righteousness that I had fresh out of school. That was before I learned that science did not have full answers yet to everything and the more I studied in Math and Physics and Computer Science the more I learned of our limitation of knowledge on which we base our 'proofs'. (And reading "Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid" also helped, amongst other books)
I know that scientists are still discovering properties of things as basic as water. And until I can prove otherwise I will not contest (but not agree either) with homeopaths.
Killing useful programs will stop people from using the system in future.
Isn't that the whole point of unix-type systems? unattended tasks and whatnot that don't die as in windows? killing tasks like that only adds the instability factor people associate with windows and lets them opt for local VMware, coLinux or cygwin solutions rather...
As a sysadmin in my college years I never killed unless I was 100% sure of a runaway process, but I had several automated scripts to auto-renice long-running tasks.
Nowadays I'm usually the only user on systems I use, so no need for, ahem, niceties.
Arrange seating so that small groups are seated together... this way they can watch each others' rigs. They can get to know one another and identify strangers.
Have all Computers face inward, with only a single accessible entrance for each group from behind.
99.99% of all people that have died have eaten a banana...
- Bananas thus ruled as major cause of death.
PLEASE! I would not have expected such a stupid article on Slashdot. Oh, wait, perhaps I would... nevermind.
Seriously though, polygamy is not the cause, but one of many results of things like religious beliefs and technological advancement (still subjugating women? read about the widespread rape in Amish communities?) Whatever the reason, less technology causes less pollution and stress... strange religious views often also ban the use of alcohol and crappy food.
Yep, It's that mocking, condescending attitude of (bearded) PERL programmers that is causing corporates to shun it.
It's more important for me to add value to a company. I'm a great C++ programmer and a good Perl one. Yet I would not mind using C# rather and would definitely choose python over perl for certain clients just because I feel it would empower my client and transfer real value.
Even though I believe corporates should not program, it always makes them feel better if they can look at the code and understand it.
It's not about making myself happy by writing technically cool code, but making myself happy to have delivered something that makes my client feel secure.
So even if you are writing readable perl code, that is not enough... if you are working in a large corporate on a large project, then your little part of perl code will not save the rest.
I think Perl's demise will be due to 50% marketing and 50% technical difficulty.
Using a mouse to do things not macho enough for you?
It's because of statements like that and attitudes that accompany it that perl does not take a foothold.
Just because it's fun to hack with and even the most clearly written and best managed perl code still is not as re-usable and maintainable as python for example. I've worked in many large and medium companies doing programming in various languages. Sometimes I wrote from scratch, sometimes I had to maintain someone else's code.
OO is what all new graduates do well. If a company wants their software to be supported in the future and not be reliant on some bearded genius with a penchant for megalomania, then the code needs to be easily understood by anyone or they can be held hostage.
So OO it is, and (like C++) perl's OO implementation is more tacked-on than designed into. It feels, looks and works cumbersomely. Perl is wonderful for scripting and glue (swig, testing, etc). For for a large project I will always choose python.
I've done C++ for around 15 years, perl for about 10, python for 5. I like to use languages I'm comfortable with as well... I fear using new languages and methodologies. But I try and overcome this fear and evaluate them to their potential and not reject them because they're "shiny pointy clicky"
I do not believe that programming should be easy enough for marketers and managers to understand, not because I fear for my tiny little bit of job-security, but because I really believe they are not trained to be able to write structured code... and bad languages make bad coders worse.
Na, don't make fonts bigger, just set your DPI to something larger... everything should scale (Unless you are in Linux where some applications just don't honour this even though you set it in the X11Config file)
Also set your font/general anti-aliasing to match the RGB dot configuration of your monitor and activate ClearType on Windows.
Don't discount loading monitor 'drivers' either... these help with better refresh rates etc.
Set your CRT refresh rates to at last 80 Hz (I'm one of *those* people who does notice it)
Environmental lighting, monitor brightness, color saturation/temperature and also screen position can help with problems such as eye strain, headaches and back pains.
I remember all the cool dungeons, the paced Strat UD, the sprawling and details BRD, the interesting and varied UBRS, the cool ZG and not to mention Scholo, AQ20, AQ40, BWL and Naxx.
Then came the BC expansion just as I was about to at least finish these dungeons and everyone ran onto the new higher level green BC gear and I could not get people to run these old instances anymore (and who could blame them... it was too easy and the items were lame for BC players)
All of these instances were basically rendered useless... there is no point in them other than a brief popping into them during the brief 59-61 period.
I am a late-game content player, but I still love the grind and questing... the grind and questing has not been affected by this and is still fun.
Now comes a new expansion which is basically going to render all these lvl 70 dungeons useless JUST as we (our guild) barely finished Kara. Not even started on any of the serious dungeons because we were not ready.
So now I must pay because they are *replacing* a lot of content with new content? (Sure they do add a little as well...) It does not seem fair. And not paying and staying at lvl 70 until I can finish Kara lvl 70 is not an option because there will be no-one else to play along with.
Yea, perhaps it's time to have a look at Lord of the Rings Online... or go back to playing Diablo II.
An external drive that can not be used on other people machines without installing something is essentially useless.
So, sadly, it's useless.
Also, a little-known problem with Mac OS X; if your drive is not formatted as HFS+, then you cannot share it using AppleShare (but still with Samba, but that requires messing with smb.conf)
I think the best solution if you really really must have the best file system on the drive, create a small FAT partition with MacFuse and WinFUSE? installers for ext2 support, and format the drive ext2/3.
You mean you want a country like the US to exist which do have (draconian) enforced IP and laws to protect large companies which then result in great movies and loads of music; and then you want to live in a country which do not honor these laws so you can leach off them?
Sounds like a bit of a conflict of ideas right there...
If all countries were like Sweden (or Iceland... lol) then you would have no media to pirate... sure they also produce great bands (I personally love Nordic music) and movies, but these benefit from the US and European economy to actually make money and survive.
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Firstly let me note that my wife is a practicing herbalist, and both her father and brother (and sister-in-law) are practicing homeopaths.
I prescribe to the rigors of science and fact as far as I can.
While I do not believe in the vast majority of alternative medicine, I have to admit that there is a lot to be said for it.
Firstly the idea behind homeopathy is the treatment of the person, and not the symptoms. I have found current clinical medicine to be a bulldozer when it comes to the body.
Recently we moved to the US and my eyes have opened... Drug companies rule here! They are really powerful companies. I see drive-by dispensaries... OMG! I was raised on clinical medicinal drugs, but even my parents kept it to a minimum. So anything that is 'proven' I take with a pinch of salt, and I follow my own mind.
I let my wife feed me whatever she wants (because she is my wife and I love her) but I also don't take much western medicine because most of that stuff just poisons you. (Have you READ the side-effects of some of that stuff!?)
Currently we are at odds about talking some vaccinations... I truly believe that the benefits outweigh the risks, while my wife still doubts. I feel that I need to let my body sort out and deal with any natural ailments. I only intervene if there is a real risk of permanent damage, great discomfort or death. I do not take anything for flu or colds... and have not had any serious illness for some time.
Strange thing is it seems since I have started living more healthy since I met my wife I do not get such severe colds (if any). The key to alternative health is in prevention, not cure.
Drug companies detest prevention because of their bottom line... I call this biased.
I believe through evolution, our bodies have adapted to be receptive to certain natural remedies, and I'd like to keep it this way and work with it. But I also realize that this may not be true anymore in today's environment of pollution, radiation and drug-laden societies. To this end I would use any western medicine for anything caused by a malfunction in my body (cancer, failures) or by outside interference (deadly virii, poisoning, etc.).
I'll say this... a few years ago it was scientific FACT that lobotomies cured schizophrenia. There are many 'facts' for which scientists have shuffled their feet apologetically. It was also a proven fact that antibiotics helped heal the body with little or no side-effects (although we are now seeing more and more strains of resistant bacteria... ain't evolution great!)
Do I believe that alternative medicine supersedes all western medicine? No.
Do I believe that I should try and stay with natural remedies as far as I can? Yes.
Do I believe that homeopathy has been proven? No.
But as I read the article I saw the same pompous self-righteousness that I had fresh out of school. That was before I learned that science did not have full answers yet to everything and the more I studied in Math and Physics and Computer Science the more I learned of our limitation of knowledge on which we base our 'proofs'. (And reading "Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid" also helped, amongst other books)
I know that scientists are still discovering properties of things as basic as water. And until I can prove otherwise I will not contest (but not agree either) with homeopaths.
there, those are my views.
> bash :> testing :> testing
$>
$> > testing
$> csh
~>
~> > testing
Invalid null command.
Killing useful programs will stop people from using the system in future.
Isn't that the whole point of unix-type systems? unattended tasks and whatnot that don't die as in windows? killing tasks like that only adds the instability factor people associate with windows and lets them opt for local VMware, coLinux or cygwin solutions rather...
As a sysadmin in my college years I never killed unless I was 100% sure of a runaway process, but I had several automated scripts to auto-renice long-running tasks.
Nowadays I'm usually the only user on systems I use, so no need for, ahem, niceties.
nohup is better, disown for 20-20 hindsight
1. Select all hives
2. Ctrl-0
3. 0-s-h
4. goto 3.
Watch all the low uids come out of the woodwork now...
you can do this post mortem with disown:
./some_script > some_script.out 2>&1
CTRL-Z
bg
disown %%
(otherwise it will get killed the moment you log out)
This will clear the contents of the file (without removing it thus and having to restart syslog etc.)
And if not is it a set of all sets that do not contain themselves?
Vista was, so will this be.
Perhaps it will promote us to "laugh at our mistakes" for buying a copy?
Arrange seating so that small groups are seated together... this way they can watch each others' rigs. They can get to know one another and identify strangers.
Have all Computers face inward, with only a single accessible entrance for each group from behind.
Less points of entry, means less points to watch.
Unless your brother is already hosting his Obama-D&D session there...
99.99% of all people that have died have eaten a banana...
- Bananas thus ruled as major cause of death.
PLEASE! I would not have expected such a stupid article on Slashdot. Oh, wait, perhaps I would... nevermind.
Seriously though, polygamy is not the cause, but one of many results of things like religious beliefs and technological advancement (still subjugating women? read about the widespread rape in Amish communities?) Whatever the reason, less technology causes less pollution and stress... strange religious views often also ban the use of alcohol and crappy food.
Yep, It's that mocking, condescending attitude of (bearded) PERL programmers that is causing corporates to shun it.
It's more important for me to add value to a company. I'm a great C++ programmer and a good Perl one. Yet I would not mind using C# rather and would definitely choose python over perl for certain clients just because I feel it would empower my client and transfer real value.
Even though I believe corporates should not program, it always makes them feel better if they can look at the code and understand it.
It's not about making myself happy by writing technically cool code, but making myself happy to have delivered something that makes my client feel secure.
So even if you are writing readable perl code, that is not enough... if you are working in a large corporate on a large project, then your little part of perl code will not save the rest.
I think Perl's demise will be due to 50% marketing and 50% technical difficulty.
Using a mouse to do things not macho enough for you?
It's because of statements like that and attitudes that accompany it that perl does not take a foothold.
Just because it's fun to hack with and even the most clearly written and best managed perl code still is not as re-usable and maintainable as python for example. I've worked in many large and medium companies doing programming in various languages. Sometimes I wrote from scratch, sometimes I had to maintain someone else's code.
OO is what all new graduates do well. If a company wants their software to be supported in the future and not be reliant on some bearded genius with a penchant for megalomania, then the code needs to be easily understood by anyone or they can be held hostage.
So OO it is, and (like C++) perl's OO implementation is more tacked-on than designed into. It feels, looks and works cumbersomely. Perl is wonderful for scripting and glue (swig, testing, etc). For for a large project I will always choose python.
I've done C++ for around 15 years, perl for about 10, python for 5. I like to use languages I'm comfortable with as well... I fear using new languages and methodologies. But I try and overcome this fear and evaluate them to their potential and not reject them because they're "shiny pointy clicky"
I do not believe that programming should be easy enough for marketers and managers to understand, not because I fear for my tiny little bit of job-security, but because I really believe they are not trained to be able to write structured code... and bad languages make bad coders worse.
Na, don't make fonts bigger, just set your DPI to something larger... everything should scale (Unless you are in Linux where some applications just don't honour this even though you set it in the X11Config file)
Also set your font/general anti-aliasing to match the RGB dot configuration of your monitor and activate ClearType on Windows.
Don't discount loading monitor 'drivers' either... these help with better refresh rates etc.
Set your CRT refresh rates to at last 80 Hz (I'm one of *those* people who does notice it)
Environmental lighting, monitor brightness, color saturation/temperature and also screen position can help with problems such as eye strain, headaches and back pains.
1 ACCOUNT for gaming
1 ACCOUNT for everything else
Sorry if you don't have protected memory and proper permission set up.
The great thing about Time Machine is you just plug in a hard drive and go!
It's got APIs which programs could use to represent content-sensitive revision-based restores... such as mail message, photos etc.
The fact that it uses unix-like hard symlinks in the background is just a good design.
It's also got a brilliant (and cool) UI.
Sorry... rsync it just well... rsync.
This is a non-article, and should not even be here.
If the phones were truly off or in flight mode, both which are asy to do, they would not have had a problem.
But these people were just lazy and too used to the practically free internet in the US.
I say, burn them! lol.
OS X: (I use the BSD utilities a lot... so very few additions)
Utilities:
The Unarchiver (Does Un-Rar and 7zip)
xPad (for when I'm not using vi)
Multimedia:
VLC (It's a bit bulky... would have preferred NicePlayer, but VLC plays it all)
Xee (great, quick, small multimedia viewer)
Internet:
Transmission (smaller than Azureus)
Camino (I use them all really... I still prefer Firefox for it's plugins though)
Adium
Windows:
Utilities:
Total Commander (with 7-zip, vim, and other plugins)
Multimedia:
Media Player Classic
iTunes (my little guilty pleasure... I have a vast library to manage cross-platform)
Irfanview
Internet:
uTorrent
Opera
Eudora (or previously Forte Agent)
Putty (Telnet/SSH)
Google Talk
Yea, slow for a operating system... and it does not even have vi.
I remember all the cool dungeons, the paced Strat UD, the sprawling and details BRD, the interesting and varied UBRS, the cool ZG and not to mention Scholo, AQ20, AQ40, BWL and Naxx.
Then came the BC expansion just as I was about to at least finish these dungeons and everyone ran onto the new higher level green BC gear and I could not get people to run these old instances anymore (and who could blame them... it was too easy and the items were lame for BC players)
All of these instances were basically rendered useless... there is no point in them other than a brief popping into them during the brief 59-61 period.
I am a late-game content player, but I still love the grind and questing... the grind and questing has not been affected by this and is still fun.
Now comes a new expansion which is basically going to render all these lvl 70 dungeons useless JUST as we (our guild) barely finished Kara. Not even started on any of the serious dungeons because we were not ready.
So now I must pay because they are *replacing* a lot of content with new content? (Sure they do add a little as well...) It does not seem fair. And not paying and staying at lvl 70 until I can finish Kara lvl 70 is not an option because there will be no-one else to play along with.
Yea, perhaps it's time to have a look at Lord of the Rings Online... or go back to playing Diablo II.
Hehe...
An external drive that can not be used on other people machines without installing something is essentially useless.
So, sadly, it's useless.
Also, a little-known problem with Mac OS X; if your drive is not formatted as HFS+, then you cannot share it using AppleShare (but still with Samba, but that requires messing with smb.conf)
I think the best solution if you really really must have the best file system on the drive, create a small FAT partition with MacFuse and WinFUSE? installers for ext2 support, and format the drive ext2/3.
You mean you want a country like the US to exist which do have (draconian) enforced IP and laws to protect large companies which then result in great movies and loads of music; and then you want to live in a country which do not honor these laws so you can leach off them?
Sounds like a bit of a conflict of ideas right there...
If all countries were like Sweden (or Iceland... lol) then you would have no media to pirate... sure they also produce great bands (I personally love Nordic music) and movies, but these benefit from the US and European economy to actually make money and survive.