Ha! I don't own a TV. So there. Broadcast TV sucks. I stream all my media watching - what I want when I want. Funny how people are getting defensive over what is actually a very unoriginal/. meme: criticizing cholesterol-clogged, undercooked, over-egged desktop interfaces. And as I'm fond of saying: no non-touchscreen UI has improved conceptually on Mac 1984 all that much in 27 years, bling and ponies notwithstanding.
And a geek needs all of these alleged UI features and the sluggish torpor of a bloated fat desktop which takes longer to customize than it's worth because.......? I'm not saying there aren't people that need all those layers of fat for their reasons, I'm saying I'm not sure I'm one of them. Not being too sheltered from the innards makes Linux fun and keeps command line skills alive. Anyway much of the boring office productivity stuff can be done passably enough on Gdocs in a browser, I did most of that kind of work in Firefox on Tinycore linux for several years and was rarely inconvenienced.
Seriously. On Linux I consider Fluxbox overfeatured and enjoy using a fast light desktop and a terminal. If I want desktop bells and whistles and bling or for officey work with spreadsheets and such, I use Mac OSX, though I can still do most of that on a light desktop.
Actually you'tre wrong. FYI there have always been alternative pathways into the Law as a profession other than having a law degree (JD or LL.B or whatever) in the UK, US and Australia. California (I believe it is) has its alternative non-degree study program and so does Victoria in Australia. The UK has a graduate diploma conversion course for graduates of other disciplines. These are all designed to broaden the profile of people entering the legal professions and are academically tough. The Victorian and Californian programs are very old. One notable High Court judge in Australia had one of these diplomas and no law degree: it is entirely equivalent for admission to practice. And the law as a profession historically developed as an apprenticeship outside universities altogether.
... and a chance to shag those you were too frightened to talk to in your youth (only to find they've aged really really badly!).
Or I suppose you can at least gloat at just how revoltingly wrinkled, fat, stupid and ugly Mary Jane Hotty-Cheerleader - the girl that you blistered your palms and wrote bad poetry hopelessly lusting after at 16yo - turned out to be post-40. Or that she's alone, been divorced twice and struggles in a disgusting job with three horrific teenage brats on crack or in jail. You, who works out five times per week, is gloriously free of encumberments, and makes close to a 6-figure income, would never so much spit in her fatty wrinkled direction now. Ah! Schadenfreude may be a shallow and short lived pleasure but isn't it nice when geeks triumph over cheerleader/jock types with age.
I was overseas on a trip when the last big anniversary high school reunion happened. Frankly, I was relieved. These things are much loved by insurance salesmen and other parasitic networking types. One of them, who I never liked at school, had the gall to telephone me and ask for a donation to the old school (aka private militaristic fascist dungeon) that I was incarcerated in all those precious years. No thanks says I, claiming quite accurately at the time that I wouldn't spare any coin.
Your criticisms of Facebook are all valid. But when you say that if people had something to tell you then they'd use email/text, the problem is that Facebook is replacing email and text as the primary written social communication media. People are just using these less and less to tell others about that party Saturday night or whatever. They say: "Oh what, you didn't see it on Facebook?". No, I didn't see it. I'm not on FB either and I pay a social price for it. That's plain wrong of course but that's how it is.
I believe chefs in Japan can select a cow on the web with details of its history etc. It is then killed, butchered and the meat is shipped to them direct. The beef is specifically bred for Japanese tastes, marbled with fat etc.
I used to use Firefox all the time. But I like fast software (I'd be using Dillo if it could handle modern web needs) and FF just seemed to get bigger, slower and more bloated all the time and no-one at Mozilla cared. Then Chrome came out and wiped the floor with Firefox: it opened much faster (still does) and had the faster experience I was looking for. I immediately switched to Chrome/Chromium along with many other people. Firefox then improved the responsiveness of their browser considerably but they'd already lost some key market share.
A lot of desktop application coders, including some notables I used to work with, do not seem to care about the sluggish responsiveness of their frankenstein creations until someone jumps up and down and hits them with a big stick. Cases in point: Gnome, KDE and other monstrosities, massively endowed with alleged "features". On Linux I use fast light software where possible. I always enjoy watching applications and windows open instantly on five year old hardware. Posting from Chrome on Mac now.
I hope your old friend is happy now, or all his efforts were useless.
Now a days-old thread which means I probably won't get read, nevertheless:
He never would have thought it useless, he loved the subject matter and I think assumed himself a high achiever. However I lost touch. He completed a Masters by research in under 6 months while waiting to go to Oxford on the Rhodes. I recall he was annoyed he didn't get a higher dollar value scholarship he had applied for (to Cambridge). It wasn't just technique and dedication, the guy had unique talent and creative brain power, and this was well recognized by the university, which deposited honors on him like confetti. He was also likable and attractive, though conservative and intolerant of fools. He did help me a bit and I think he respected the fact I was deliberately changing - overnight and with huge effort - from a mediocre underachiever with poor technique to a straight-A student. By contrast he had little time for plain dumb or lazy classmates. I had none of the previously-gained brain store that he had on problem solving etc.
I fully expected this guy to become a world beater eg Nobel Prize. But on googling him, I have found nothing, other than someone with the same name and initials and a PhD in the same general area teaching at a private school. If that's him, something happened and he did not dominate the profession he had chosen as a teen. (That happened to a truly brilliant musician I knew who ran into serious problems and never achieved the heights everyone had predicted). Perhaps he's reading now, if so ping me.
You misunderstand the purpose of international treaties. These are intended to look as if something has been achieved and are only observed when it suits the purposes of the particular government that is supposed to be bound by them.
I believe Orwell set 1984 in what remained of the UK for good reasons. The English developed much of what we now call rights or freedoms over a thousand years following the Norman Conquest. In particular, standardizing the interpretation of laws across the country in the Common Law system using Circuit Judges was a major breakthrough and allowed lesser mortals to seek justice against powerful landowners. And all this well before the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.
But, taking the longer view, there is more tyranny in English history than justice and the same goes for all of Western society. He knew just how delicate and tenuous freedom in the UK was.
Just nothing. After weeks of enduring "God particle" teasers about a "possible announcement", it all turns out to be nothing conclusive, no announcement of a definite find. I *knew* that would happen, yet still I feel had. This is PR-hype coitus interruptus aimed at driving more funding.
Well congratulations, now you can die happy. I hope it was everything you dreamed it could be.
It was. I am now a fulfilled man. Next to this, sex is like chocolate tainted with salmonella.
God, you must be a politician!
Thank you. With that well-placed humor, you have constructed meaning around the gaping void of my post. It annoyed a moderator sufficiently enough to mod me off-topic and -1.
Quicksilver, bah. Having invested in reading the first half of the book I had just started to enjoy the characters when he suddenly shifts gears to modern times. You see I'm actually interested in Newton and Co and not just as plot devices. I was annoyed enough to stop reading.
And while I do think Snow Crash is immensely clever in an intellectual sense, it is also tainted with postmod silliness (a samurai-sword wielding pizza delivery boy is more suited to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Also Stephenson is not a great prose stylist which is something I demand from a writer (Quicksilver looked more mature in that regard). Gibson's work is better prose and few scifi novels have broken ground like Neuromancer did.
How's that meme again? Oh yeah, let the holy wars begin.
Since a lot of posters are reporting false positives, I'd say lawyers might have a good chance of shooting down the reliability of this "evidence" in court. In which case, the MPIAA etc might send the usual extortion letter but be loathe to follow up in court. But IANAL.
Fail. You're *not* in the clear running torrents over Tor because most bittorrent clients very helpfully harvest and send your IP over tor. Read the article on the Tor website. Not only are you choking the tor network, you are likely not obscuring your IP address.
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Ha! I don't own a TV. So there. Broadcast TV sucks. I stream all my media watching - what I want when I want. Funny how people are getting defensive over what is actually a very unoriginal /. meme: criticizing cholesterol-clogged, undercooked, over-egged desktop interfaces. And as I'm fond of saying: no non-touchscreen UI has improved conceptually on Mac 1984 all that much in 27 years, bling and ponies notwithstanding.
Thank you for granting me your permission to use the desktop of my choice.
And a geek needs all of these alleged UI features and the sluggish torpor of a bloated fat desktop which takes longer to customize than it's worth because .......? I'm not saying there aren't people that need all those layers of fat for their reasons, I'm saying I'm not sure I'm one of them. Not being too sheltered from the innards makes Linux fun and keeps command line skills alive. Anyway much of the boring office productivity stuff can be done passably enough on Gdocs in a browser, I did most of that kind of work in Firefox on Tinycore linux for several years and was rarely inconvenienced.
Seriously. On Linux I consider Fluxbox overfeatured and enjoy using a fast light desktop and a terminal. If I want desktop bells and whistles and bling or for officey work with spreadsheets and such, I use Mac OSX, though I can still do most of that on a light desktop.
Actually you'tre wrong. FYI there have always been alternative pathways into the Law as a profession other than having a law degree (JD or LL.B or whatever) in the UK, US and Australia. California (I believe it is) has its alternative non-degree study program and so does Victoria in Australia. The UK has a graduate diploma conversion course for graduates of other disciplines. These are all designed to broaden the profile of people entering the legal professions and are academically tough. The Victorian and Californian programs are very old. One notable High Court judge in Australia had one of these diplomas and no law degree: it is entirely equivalent for admission to practice. And the law as a profession historically developed as an apprenticeship outside universities altogether.
... and a chance to shag those you were too frightened to talk to in your youth (only to find they've aged really really badly!).
Or I suppose you can at least gloat at just how revoltingly wrinkled, fat, stupid and ugly Mary Jane Hotty-Cheerleader - the girl that you blistered your palms and wrote bad poetry hopelessly lusting after at 16yo - turned out to be post-40. Or that she's alone, been divorced twice and struggles in a disgusting job with three horrific teenage brats on crack or in jail. You, who works out five times per week, is gloriously free of encumberments, and makes close to a 6-figure income, would never so much spit in her fatty wrinkled direction now. Ah! Schadenfreude may be a shallow and short lived pleasure but isn't it nice when geeks triumph over cheerleader/jock types with age.
I was overseas on a trip when the last big anniversary high school reunion happened. Frankly, I was relieved. These things are much loved by insurance salesmen and other parasitic networking types. One of them, who I never liked at school, had the gall to telephone me and ask for a donation to the old school (aka private militaristic fascist dungeon) that I was incarcerated in all those precious years. No thanks says I, claiming quite accurately at the time that I wouldn't spare any coin.
Your criticisms of Facebook are all valid. But when you say that if people had something to tell you then they'd use email/text, the problem is that Facebook is replacing email and text as the primary written social communication media. People are just using these less and less to tell others about that party Saturday night or whatever. They say: "Oh what, you didn't see it on Facebook?". No, I didn't see it. I'm not on FB either and I pay a social price for it. That's plain wrong of course but that's how it is.
I believe chefs in Japan can select a cow on the web with details of its history etc. It is then killed, butchered and the meat is shipped to them direct. The beef is specifically bred for Japanese tastes, marbled with fat etc.
A young buy ...
A prostitute then?
American humor sounds better faster?
I used to use Firefox all the time. But I like fast software (I'd be using Dillo if it could handle modern web needs) and FF just seemed to get bigger, slower and more bloated all the time and no-one at Mozilla cared. Then Chrome came out and wiped the floor with Firefox: it opened much faster (still does) and had the faster experience I was looking for. I immediately switched to Chrome/Chromium along with many other people. Firefox then improved the responsiveness of their browser considerably but they'd already lost some key market share.
A lot of desktop application coders, including some notables I used to work with, do not seem to care about the sluggish responsiveness of their frankenstein creations until someone jumps up and down and hits them with a big stick. Cases in point: Gnome, KDE and other monstrosities, massively endowed with alleged "features". On Linux I use fast light software where possible. I always enjoy watching applications and windows open instantly on five year old hardware. Posting from Chrome on Mac now.
And it's official: *everything* is bad for children. Paranoid parents are so much easier for marketers and politicians to manipulate.
I hope your old friend is happy now, or all his efforts were useless.
Now a days-old thread which means I probably won't get read, nevertheless:
He never would have thought it useless, he loved the subject matter and I think assumed himself a high achiever. However I lost touch. He completed a Masters by research in under 6 months while waiting to go to Oxford on the Rhodes. I recall he was annoyed he didn't get a higher dollar value scholarship he had applied for (to Cambridge). It wasn't just technique and dedication, the guy had unique talent and creative brain power, and this was well recognized by the university, which deposited honors on him like confetti. He was also likable and attractive, though conservative and intolerant of fools. He did help me a bit and I think he respected the fact I was deliberately changing - overnight and with huge effort - from a mediocre underachiever with poor technique to a straight-A student. By contrast he had little time for plain dumb or lazy classmates. I had none of the previously-gained brain store that he had on problem solving etc.
I fully expected this guy to become a world beater eg Nobel Prize. But on googling him, I have found nothing, other than someone with the same name and initials and a PhD in the same general area teaching at a private school. If that's him, something happened and he did not dominate the profession he had chosen as a teen. (That happened to a truly brilliant musician I knew who ran into serious problems and never achieved the heights everyone had predicted). Perhaps he's reading now, if so ping me.
The ideas are interesting enough. But over hyping and building false expectations gets annoying.
You misunderstand the purpose of international treaties. These are intended to look as if something has been achieved and are only observed when it suits the purposes of the particular government that is supposed to be bound by them.
I believe Orwell set 1984 in what remained of the UK for good reasons. The English developed much of what we now call rights or freedoms over a thousand years following the Norman Conquest. In particular, standardizing the interpretation of laws across the country in the Common Law system using Circuit Judges was a major breakthrough and allowed lesser mortals to seek justice against powerful landowners. And all this well before the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.
But, taking the longer view, there is more tyranny in English history than justice and the same goes for all of Western society. He knew just how delicate and tenuous freedom in the UK was.
Just nothing. After weeks of enduring "God particle" teasers about a "possible announcement", it all turns out to be nothing conclusive, no announcement of a definite find. I *knew* that would happen, yet still I feel had. This is PR-hype coitus interruptus aimed at driving more funding.
Well congratulations, now you can die happy. I hope it was everything you dreamed it could be.
It was. I am now a fulfilled man. Next to this, sex is like chocolate tainted with salmonella.
God, you must be a politician!
Thank you. With that well-placed humor, you have constructed meaning around the gaping void of my post. It annoyed a moderator sufficiently enough to mod me off-topic and -1.
Quicksilver, bah. Having invested in reading the first half of the book I had just started to enjoy the characters when he suddenly shifts gears to modern times. You see I'm actually interested in Newton and Co and not just as plot devices. I was annoyed enough to stop reading.
And while I do think Snow Crash is immensely clever in an intellectual sense, it is also tainted with postmod silliness (a samurai-sword wielding pizza delivery boy is more suited to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Also Stephenson is not a great prose stylist which is something I demand from a writer (Quicksilver looked more mature in that regard). Gibson's work is better prose and few scifi novels have broken ground like Neuromancer did.
How's that meme again? Oh yeah, let the holy wars begin.
(which means he held that Jesus was supernatural in that he pre-existed his physical existence but was not actually God himself).
He is considered a Unitarian, and specifically was into Arian Christology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism#.22Arian.22_Christology
And the site appears to be communicating with Facebook (a tracker?) after you enter what might be the correct captcha.
Since a lot of posters are reporting false positives, I'd say lawyers might have a good chance of shooting down the reliability of this "evidence" in court. In which case, the MPIAA etc might send the usual extortion letter but be loathe to follow up in court. But IANAL.
Fail. You're *not* in the clear running torrents over Tor because most bittorrent clients very helpfully harvest and send your IP over tor. Read the article on the Tor website. Not only are you choking the tor network, you are likely not obscuring your IP address.