I don't know what the correct form should be. The whole concept of reversed time flow comes from a tale told by someone claiming to be an alien - he mentioned that time flows in reverse in some of the alternative realities, and people (aliens) trying to describe events in these realities use special grammatical "reversed" time. Such grammatical constructs probably do not exist in languages spoken on Earth (I do not know of any), but many alien languages have them.
Credibility of that guy aside, the whole tale was interesting and fun to read, and made me think: we know that the language we speak has a great influence on *how* do we think... Polish is my first language and english is the second; sometimes I have trouble with expressing things when thinking in one language, and no problem with the other. I'm sure that language is one of the factors limiting human ability to evolve thoughts... Maybe some great discoveries have not quite been made because something was holding the thinker back? Einstein didn't like the quantum theory, and he even doubted his own realitivity theory. Hmm...
...and you should also always specify whether it's AD or BC, whether you use julian or gregorian or some other calendar, and also the direction the time flows in in your corner of the universe. I think you can safely omit the name of your universe, though.
In one of my previous lives I used to run simulations of an universe on an early prototype of an abacus, running a REAL Unix. One of the simulations went uncontrolled, became Singularity, created Earth and shit in six days, it was like 6000 years ago, AFAIR. That singularity used to run until 1882, with the only major upgrade around 1 A.D. Now, that's also a pretty nice uptime.
Who cares? When I say, "please install python-pygame for me", because I'd like to hack around and write some simple game, I'd like the package manager to automatically also pull in: Python, Psyco, libsdl, libsdl-image, libsdl-ttf and libsdl-sound, because having pygame alone without these doesn't make much sense. I haven't used Slackware, but I've heard that it doesn't do "magic tricks" like that. Maybe what I've heard was not truth, dunno. Is Slackware worth trying out?
> No one can reasonably argue that BSD-licensed code isn't truly free.
I wouldn't like to start another holy war, but my POV is that it's MIT/BSD that is "more free" (AFAIK you can even relicense your derived work under L?GPL), while the GPL family is "less free", but takes away some of the freedom in order to protect the rest of it.
I think the choice of license depends on what you're licensing. If you're afraid of competition taking away and closing your code, go GPL/LGPL. If you're afraid of competition building proprietary extensions, use GPL. If you're hacking up a small and convenient library or Python module or alike, it'd be cool to release it under BSD, just so that the text of the license isn't longer than the source code itself. Hell, you can even build a proprietary app, and/or reuse some BSD licensed stuff. I prefer GPL2+ personally, but use whatever seems to be the best (most convenient) choice for a given piece of code. Hell, as I think of it, I wouldn't mind releasing a big project under the BSD. What could possibly go wrong. If some downstream #@$% (I mean, developer) chooses to fork and close the source, let it be his own problem to maintain it.
Hm, it's all about getting the right fitness function, isn't it?
The processor that would be more fit would: draw less power, compute stuff faster, be cheap to produce, etc. Then it could either have a compatible instruction set, or a new one; in case of a new one, it would have to be able to come up with a way of automatically translating stuff from the old instruction set, or targetting a compiler at it.
The case with the new instruction sets sounds really, really interesting. I think the actual hardware design would have to be derived from some higher-level representation of the instruction set architecture. I wonder if such a high-level description would be enough to also automatically port a compiler. Hmmmm...
Thank you for your insights. You're really making me think about my ways.
Of course one of my personal goals is to get other people interested in self-help, spirituality, and other such stuff. Many people have helped me, inspired me, teached me. They helped me turn my life into something... Beautiful. I also have helped and inspired other people. I know I'm good at it (at least in the "real life", an internet forum sucks for this. Also, my english sucks).
Slashdot however... Slashdot really sucks donkey balls for discussing such topics. People's attitude is usually "what have you been smoking, I want some", "get off my lawn you dirty hippie", "this new age pseudoscience is hurting people, not helping them", etc. When I said straight and sincerely that I believe that one's mental health directly affects physical health, my post generated like 25 direct replies (and a few longer threads), got modded up +5, then down to -1, back to like +3, and eventually stopped around 0, and I got a few brand new freaks. But what can I say? I observed a pattern, I drawed conclusions, I've shared my observations with the world, and such was the reaction. The people in the RL with which I was discussing this topic, however, usually tend to agree with me.
In response to your other post below (/. discussion system sucks for long threads!):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxkp62veWE
Did you read the description?
> The effects of the plant salvia...used for meditation purposes > but *some ppl dont read the directions* and this...is what you get
Emphasis mine.
Salvia has been used for meditational and spiritual purposes for, like, ages. You can get yourself hurt with a few bottles of beer. If you're irresponsible, the problem is your own irresponsibility, not any chemical substance.
> the message "dont be a tool of the man"
That was the obvious message. You get an E+ for getting it:)
The non-obvious message? Look. There is almost no difference between our society, and the kind of society that we're seeing in Libria. We are all blind, deaf, and unsensitive, and see nothing wrong with it (how can we see that something's wrong if we can't see at all, duh). God (or however you call him) does exist, but people can't see him (and turned the whole concept upside down and built a religion around it). Love is the true human nature, but we're denying it to ourselves. The reality around you exists only in your own mind, as a dumbed down and simplified model of what's REALLY out there, and *your mind itself* is putting the barriers. Becoming aware of these barriers, and realizing they're an illusion (kind of like in "The Matrix") could be a definition of an enlightenment.
Have you tried to look through the eyes of a typical librian citizen? You get up, apply your dose, go to work, come back home, spend free time listening to the bullshit from the Father, go to sleep. "What do you live for?" "To protect this wonderful society." What do WE live for?
Don't worry, Firstly, I'm not in any hurry. I'll try it out when I'll feel like I'm ready. Secondly, I have a friend that is famous for trying out probably every single possible drug he could get his hands on, and I'm going to have him around when I'll try this. From what I've read and heard about salvia, the biggest danger (besides a bad trip or someone interrupting) is unconsciously hurting oneself (or someone else) with broken glass or other such stuff. Well, I'm sure nothing bad will happen:) However, if you believe that there might be something that my experienced friend might not have told me, I'd appreciate if you'd share your thoughts.
You made me think, and I hate you because of this:) ("Make people think they're thinking, and they'll love you. Make them actually think, and they'll hate you".) OK, here's my response.
> I have the feeling that someone who was really so self-satisfied > wouldn't bother saying so
I hadn't said I'm a Buddha of some sort, or did I? By definition, only a Buddha wouldn't really care about anything. But even (from a buddhist point of view) a Buddha sometimes does care and would incarnate into a human to help other humans with their spiritual growth. (disclaimer: I'm not a buddhist.)
> Either you're trying to get others to understand how good it is > so that they'll try out your lifestyle too
No no no no no no NO! Each and every single human is unique. My shoes won't fit you, period. My problem is with the shoes that the society has choosen for us: everyone is expected to wear shoes of a specific size, otherwise they're seen as antisocial, threatening, or some other kind of dirty hippies, etc. Salvia is being delegalized in Poland (my country), and it's already illegal in many states in the US. What kind of harm does salvia bring to the society? Uh, you're not wearing our shoes, you're not sharing our pain -- that's why you're hurting our great society! Damn, you should really watch "Equilibrium" (if not for the story, then at least for all the awesome fighting scenes) -- I think our society works very much just like that.
I don't want to tell you which shoes you should wear... It would be a kind of hypocrisy, I think. But before you walk away, ask yourself one question... Whether you're really, really, really, REALLY OK with the shoes that the society has forced upon you.
You may want to evolve spiritually. You may not want. You may choose this path or some other, or find your own (the best way). It's a little like Bill Hicks' "smokers vs non-smokers" kind of thing -- the guy suddenly gave up smoking (after many many years), and explained to the smoking part of his audience that the point of all his rants about the non-smokers was not to convince them that smoking is good or whatever, but about making them realize that there is more than one way of doing things, of living a life.
> your doing a terrible job using the [...] approach which is > undermining your argument since anyone whos [...] would realize
I honestly have absolutely no clue what did you mean here. I don't get your point.
OK, I've said that I have no personal, practical experience with any drugs, because I simply avoid them. The pot probably wouldn't help you to open your third eye, but there are other drugs that certainly would. When you're not really interested in a very specific topic (drugs), it isn't too difficult to be a little ignorant about it, right? (or can you tell me the differences between a staysail and a studding sail, without looking up any external sources? Exactly.)
This is a very good question. The immediate answer I've thought of is:
Things like this usually do have some kind of checksum as the last digit (I know PESEL numbers in Poland do). Make up one with an invalid checksum and pray they do not actually check them (although I know for sure that some of the assigned PESELs have an invalid embedded checksum).
As I've stated in another post in this thread, I do not do any drugs (although I'd like to try out salvia), preferring meditation and other natural methods.
I do not own a TV. It's been veeeery long since I've observed that no matter how many channels I have to choose from, there's still nothing interesting to watch. Later I've learned that you don't need to watch TV for longer than 30 seconds before your mind shifts into an alpha state, where you are very, very susceptible to manipulation. So I do my best to avoid TVs, and I don't feel like any of the value is being lost.
Oh, and the spiritual growth? You probably do not know how does it feel like, and you'll never understand until you'll feel it. I could go on talking about it for a whole day and you'll learn nothing. This is like an orange. You could write an essay on oranges and you'll know nothing about them until you've tasted one.
Physical stuff. When I was poor (and there was a time when I was/very/ poor), I thought money would solve all of my problems. Well, I recently got a nice new job, etc, and now I have more money than I really need. Well, what would I spend it on? New computer? Hell, I've got six, why would I need seventh. A car? Besides that I don't have a driving license, I always go everywhere by foot anyway. And what, my work is 5 minutes away from home and my university is 15 minutes away. A TV? Rotfl. A new dish washing machine, because the old one broke last month? I've found manual dish washing an excellent form of meditation, and in the meantime, the old broken junk started working again. Hmmm... The pot! No, I do not do drugs... Hookers?... Uh, I don't have trouble picking up girls. A new set of strings for my guitar... Now, that's something I could make a good use of! That's 20 PLN (about $5). Hmm...
It's not that I've lost all interest in all material stuff -- I'm aware of its important role in my life (and raising awareness is one of the points of spiritual evolution). I just realize now that it couldn't make my life better beyond a certain point, and that's where other things come into play. One of these other things is exploring the world that could be seen only through the eye that most of us have not opened yet.
Ever tried living for one month eating only stuff you've grown at your home? Or wearing 100% only things you've sewed all by yourself, all the time? I think GP is somewhat right.
2. You realize that God loves you, that you don't need anything else to be happy, that everything is a vibration and the whole living universe is One
3. You become less and less attached to physical goods and material stuf, you stop caring about possesing things and instead focus on spiritual growth
4. You become a very poor source of profits, because you spend much less money, if any at all
There's of course another side effect of being more enlightened, which is: not fitting into the structure of the society. And this is the biggest threat to our current "order". You are much harder to control. To lock in a cage full of shit painted gold.
Hah! It seems I'm not the only one using such alias:)
Luckily I always have "rm" aliased to "trash", which is a standards-compliant trash implementation for the CLI (I don't have the link anywhere around).
I think they should provide an apt-like framework for installing and removing programs, with support for third-party repositories. Srsly, the amount of "find the project's website, click download, wait, click install.exe, click next, click next, wait, click next, click next, finish" you have to do after a fresh Windows install could drive anyone mad.
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I don't know what the correct form should be. The whole concept of reversed time flow comes from a tale told by someone claiming to be an alien - he mentioned that time flows in reverse in some of the alternative realities, and people (aliens) trying to describe events in these realities use special grammatical "reversed" time. Such grammatical constructs probably do not exist in languages spoken on Earth (I do not know of any), but many alien languages have them.
Credibility of that guy aside, the whole tale was interesting and fun to read, and made me think: we know that the language we speak has a great influence on *how* do we think... Polish is my first language and english is the second; sometimes I have trouble with expressing things when thinking in one language, and no problem with the other. I'm sure that language is one of the factors limiting human ability to evolve thoughts... Maybe some great discoveries have not quite been made because something was holding the thinker back? Einstein didn't like the quantum theory, and he even doubted his own realitivity theory. Hmm...
...and you should also always specify whether it's AD or BC, whether you use julian or gregorian or some other calendar, and also the direction the time flows in in your corner of the universe. I think you can safely omit the name of your universe, though.
> by November 2007, but then pushed the date back to June 2008
They're living backwards in time, dude. They think that the year of Linux on the Desktop was^H^H^Hwill be 1972.
Duh, it's still an -ism.
Hmpf.
In one of my previous lives I used to run simulations of an universe on an early prototype of an abacus, running a REAL Unix. One of the simulations went uncontrolled, became Singularity, created Earth and shit in six days, it was like 6000 years ago, AFAIR. That singularity used to run until 1882, with the only major upgrade around 1 A.D. Now, that's also a pretty nice uptime.
Who cares? When I say, "please install python-pygame for me", because I'd like to hack around and write some simple game, I'd like the package manager to automatically also pull in: Python, Psyco, libsdl, libsdl-image, libsdl-ttf and libsdl-sound, because having pygame alone without these doesn't make much sense. I haven't used Slackware, but I've heard that it doesn't do "magic tricks" like that. Maybe what I've heard was not truth, dunno. Is Slackware worth trying out?
Informative!? Funny I'd say.
> No one can reasonably argue that BSD-licensed code isn't truly free.
I wouldn't like to start another holy war, but my POV is that it's MIT/BSD that is "more free" (AFAIK you can even relicense your derived work under L?GPL), while the GPL family is "less free", but takes away some of the freedom in order to protect the rest of it.
I think the choice of license depends on what you're licensing. If you're afraid of competition taking away and closing your code, go GPL/LGPL. If you're afraid of competition building proprietary extensions, use GPL. If you're hacking up a small and convenient library or Python module or alike, it'd be cool to release it under BSD, just so that the text of the license isn't longer than the source code itself. Hell, you can even build a proprietary app, and/or reuse some BSD licensed stuff. I prefer GPL2+ personally, but use whatever seems to be the best (most convenient) choice for a given piece of code. Hell, as I think of it, I wouldn't mind releasing a big project under the BSD. What could possibly go wrong. If some downstream #@$% (I mean, developer) chooses to fork and close the source, let it be his own problem to maintain it.
Hm, it's all about getting the right fitness function, isn't it?
The processor that would be more fit would: draw less power, compute stuff faster, be cheap to produce, etc. Then it could either have a compatible instruction set, or a new one; in case of a new one, it would have to be able to come up with a way of automatically translating stuff from the old instruction set, or targetting a compiler at it.
The case with the new instruction sets sounds really, really interesting. I think the actual hardware design would have to be derived from some higher-level representation of the instruction set architecture. I wonder if such a high-level description would be enough to also automatically port a compiler. Hmmmm...
> a calendar going up to 2050
duh, it'd have to end on 2012 anyway.
Link please, or shut up.
Thank you for your insights. You're really making me think about my ways.
:)
Of course one of my personal goals is to get other people interested in self-help, spirituality, and other such stuff. Many people have helped me, inspired me, teached me. They helped me turn my life into something... Beautiful. I also have helped and inspired other people. I know I'm good at it (at least in the "real life", an internet forum sucks for this. Also, my english sucks).
Slashdot however... Slashdot really sucks donkey balls for discussing such topics. People's attitude is usually "what have you been smoking, I want some", "get off my lawn you dirty hippie", "this new age pseudoscience is hurting people, not helping them", etc. When I said straight and sincerely that I believe that one's mental health directly affects physical health, my post generated like 25 direct replies (and a few longer threads), got modded up +5, then down to -1, back to like +3, and eventually stopped around 0, and I got a few brand new freaks. But what can I say? I observed a pattern, I drawed conclusions, I've shared my observations with the world, and such was the reaction. The people in the RL with which I was discussing this topic, however, usually tend to agree with me.
In response to your other post below (/. discussion system sucks for long threads!):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxkp62veWE
Did you read the description?
> The effects of the plant salvia...used for meditation purposes
> but *some ppl dont read the directions* and this...is what you get
Emphasis mine.
Salvia has been used for meditational and spiritual purposes for, like, ages. You can get yourself hurt with a few bottles of beer. If you're irresponsible, the problem is your own irresponsibility, not any chemical substance.
> the message "dont be a tool of the man"
That was the obvious message. You get an E+ for getting it
The non-obvious message? Look. There is almost no difference between our society, and the kind of society that we're seeing in Libria. We are all blind, deaf, and unsensitive, and see nothing wrong with it (how can we see that something's wrong if we can't see at all, duh). God (or however you call him) does exist, but people can't see him (and turned the whole concept upside down and built a religion around it). Love is the true human nature, but we're denying it to ourselves. The reality around you exists only in your own mind, as a dumbed down and simplified model of what's REALLY out there, and *your mind itself* is putting the barriers. Becoming aware of these barriers, and realizing they're an illusion (kind of like in "The Matrix") could be a definition of an enlightenment.
Have you tried to look through the eyes of a typical librian citizen? You get up, apply your dose, go to work, come back home, spend free time listening to the bullshit from the Father, go to sleep. "What do you live for?" "To protect this wonderful society." What do WE live for?
Don't worry, Firstly, I'm not in any hurry. I'll try it out when I'll feel like I'm ready. Secondly, I have a friend that is famous for trying out probably every single possible drug he could get his hands on, and I'm going to have him around when I'll try this. From what I've read and heard about salvia, the biggest danger (besides a bad trip or someone interrupting) is unconsciously hurting oneself (or someone else) with broken glass or other such stuff. Well, I'm sure nothing bad will happen :) However, if you believe that there might be something that my experienced friend might not have told me, I'd appreciate if you'd share your thoughts.
You made me think, and I hate you because of this :) ("Make people think they're thinking, and they'll love you. Make them actually think, and they'll hate you".) OK, here's my response.
> I have the feeling that someone who was really so self-satisfied
> wouldn't bother saying so
I hadn't said I'm a Buddha of some sort, or did I? By definition, only a Buddha wouldn't really care about anything. But even (from a buddhist point of view) a Buddha sometimes does care and would incarnate into a human to help other humans with their spiritual growth. (disclaimer: I'm not a buddhist.)
> Either you're trying to get others to understand how good it is
> so that they'll try out your lifestyle too
No no no no no no NO! Each and every single human is unique. My shoes won't fit you, period. My problem is with the shoes that the society has choosen for us: everyone is expected to wear shoes of a specific size, otherwise they're seen as antisocial, threatening, or some other kind of dirty hippies, etc. Salvia is being delegalized in Poland (my country), and it's already illegal in many states in the US. What kind of harm does salvia bring to the society? Uh, you're not wearing our shoes, you're not sharing our pain -- that's why you're hurting our great society! Damn, you should really watch "Equilibrium" (if not for the story, then at least for all the awesome fighting scenes) -- I think our society works very much just like that.
I don't want to tell you which shoes you should wear... It would be a kind of hypocrisy, I think. But before you walk away, ask yourself one question... Whether you're really, really, really, REALLY OK with the shoes that the society has forced upon you.
You may want to evolve spiritually. You may not want. You may choose this path or some other, or find your own (the best way). It's a little like Bill Hicks' "smokers vs non-smokers" kind of thing -- the guy suddenly gave up smoking (after many many years), and explained to the smoking part of his audience that the point of all his rants about the non-smokers was not to convince them that smoking is good or whatever, but about making them realize that there is more than one way of doing things, of living a life.
> your doing a terrible job using the [...] approach which is
> undermining your argument since anyone whos [...] would realize
I honestly have absolutely no clue what did you mean here. I don't get your point.
OK, I've said that I have no personal, practical experience with any drugs, because I simply avoid them. The pot probably wouldn't help you to open your third eye, but there are other drugs that certainly would. When you're not really interested in a very specific topic (drugs), it isn't too difficult to be a little ignorant about it, right? (or can you tell me the differences between a staysail and a studding sail, without looking up any external sources? Exactly.)
This is a very good question. The immediate answer I've thought of is:
Things like this usually do have some kind of checksum as the last digit (I know PESEL numbers in Poland do). Make up one with an invalid checksum and pray they do not actually check them (although I know for sure that some of the assigned PESELs have an invalid embedded checksum).
> had a life or three
Now that's someone who took "get a life" a little too seriously perhaps?
As I've stated in another post in this thread, I do not do any drugs (although I'd like to try out salvia), preferring meditation and other natural methods.
/very/ poor), I thought money would solve all of my problems. Well, I recently got a nice new job, etc, and now I have more money than I really need. Well, what would I spend it on? New computer? Hell, I've got six, why would I need seventh. A car? Besides that I don't have a driving license, I always go everywhere by foot anyway. And what, my work is 5 minutes away from home and my university is 15 minutes away. A TV? Rotfl. A new dish washing machine, because the old one broke last month? I've found manual dish washing an excellent form of meditation, and in the meantime, the old broken junk started working again. Hmmm... The pot! No, I do not do drugs... Hookers?... Uh, I don't have trouble picking up girls. A new set of strings for my guitar... Now, that's something I could make a good use of! That's 20 PLN (about $5). Hmm...
I do not own a TV. It's been veeeery long since I've observed that no matter how many channels I have to choose from, there's still nothing interesting to watch. Later I've learned that you don't need to watch TV for longer than 30 seconds before your mind shifts into an alpha state, where you are very, very susceptible to manipulation. So I do my best to avoid TVs, and I don't feel like any of the value is being lost.
Oh, and the spiritual growth? You probably do not know how does it feel like, and you'll never understand until you'll feel it. I could go on talking about it for a whole day and you'll learn nothing. This is like an orange. You could write an essay on oranges and you'll know nothing about them until you've tasted one.
Physical stuff. When I was poor (and there was a time when I was
It's not that I've lost all interest in all material stuff -- I'm aware of its important role in my life (and raising awareness is one of the points of spiritual evolution). I just realize now that it couldn't make my life better beyond a certain point, and that's where other things come into play. One of these other things is exploring the world that could be seen only through the eye that most of us have not opened yet.
Huh? I've been able to listen to partially downloaded mp3s since like for ever, and I believe it'd work for videos as well.
BTW, real girls > pr0n.
I'm a total newb when it comes to any drugs, I admit. It's because I prefer natural methods (meditation, etc).
Ever tried living for one month eating only stuff you've grown at your home? Or wearing 100% only things you've sewed all by yourself, all the time? I think GP is somewhat right.
It's simple.
1. You smoke marijuana
2. You realize that God loves you, that you don't need anything else to be happy, that everything is a vibration and the whole living universe is One
3. You become less and less attached to physical goods and material stuf, you stop caring about possesing things and instead focus on spiritual growth
4. You become a very poor source of profits, because you spend much less money, if any at all
There's of course another side effect of being more enlightened, which is: not fitting into the structure of the society. And this is the biggest threat to our current "order". You are much harder to control. To lock in a cage full of shit painted gold.
Oblig. movie: "Equilibrium".
Oblig. YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1CvW38cHA
Hah! It seems I'm not the only one using such alias :)
Luckily I always have "rm" aliased to "trash", which is a standards-compliant trash implementation for the CLI (I don't have the link anywhere around).
I think they should provide an apt-like framework for installing and removing programs, with support for third-party repositories. Srsly, the amount of "find the project's website, click download, wait, click install.exe, click next, click next, wait, click next, click next, finish" you have to do after a fresh Windows install could drive anyone mad.
> If they're wrong then it's
also the end of the most beautiful life I've had so far (of those lifes that I can remember).