Reminds me of the mosquito-deleto that your buddy evangelizes when you come over for a barbecue--while getting eaten by mosquitos. You just want to say, dude! take that back, now!
There are more bugs in Ubuntu based systems than are generally acknowledged. I had to stop using Ubuntu based OSes recently and switch to Win 7 because of numerous issues with the 64bit line which is not given the same attention as 32bit. I always wondered why the 32bit was "(recommended)," now I know. I'm sorry, but I'm not sidelining the performance and the extra 4GB of RAM (ignore the maddening bugs and missing functionality and support) of my 64bit hex core.
Most of use here are the descendants of kings. The spanked a lot of ass. I'd say a LOT of people are descendants of kings, but others are not. Read Laurence Gardner.
Natural selection cannot "work imperfectly", cannot "break." As there is only one state, there are no states.
I find truth in this statement. I think we can start using natural selection as a model to understand other macro aspects of the universe if we take the time to analyze it. It reminds me of Einstein's observation about using looking at nature to understand or find the principles which drive greater aspects of the universe. This conversation has proven fruitful. Slashdot, you're still alive. Thanks for your observation.
The people who consciously act and take control of the planet are the rightful heirs. Those who survive are the rightful heirs. There is not much logic involved. True, passing judgement does nothing to affect the situation, but I don't like your argument much either. We are treating NS as some thing that happens like a ball rolling down the plank of a pinball machine, naturally finding its way to the bottom of the board, bouncing around, but ultimately ending up where gravity takes it. Our conscious, self-aware mind--will--equate to the flippers. Natural selection is the gravity.
I don't think you can stop natural selection. Whereas if you were weak, stupid, or susceptible to disease in the past you most likely would not be able to reproduce, or the chances greatly reduced; or you would be conquered by others who were stronger or smarter and the best of your offspring captured and the lame killed. Now, with government as we see it in the western world, the weak, stupid, and those susceptible to disease are protected and reproduce uninhibited. We have started the slow, ultimate death of our species through the use of technology and government in curtailing NS. What good does preserving those susceptible to disease along with enhanced food production get us? Rampant population growth and a whole set of problems that natural selection may not correct, other than us descending into barbarism (strong survive) and culling the herd (an aspect of natural selection I suppose). We see infant mortality rate reduction as a good thing, but is it in the long run? We are here, strong, because all of our ancestors survived. Einstein yarned on-and-on about the social problem of humans' emotional maturity and ability to handle technology in a sensible manner. It was the philosophy of our survival which seemed to plague the man in his later years. This will probably take us thousands of years to solve barring a raft of natural disasters (Yellowstone super volcano anyone?), which would render the whole debate moot--for now.
I don't think you understand just how dire the implications are of raising agricultural prices. It won't be the first world middle class that suffers the most from this, but the first world poor and third world population.
So true, and it would greatly affect us ultimately. When the US government practiced "quantitative easing" to prevent global economic meltdown the inflation did not impact those in the US, but it did have an affect in the rest of the world by increasing the prices of food by a fraction of 25%. This led to several government becoming unstable (Egypt riots and Gaddafi is dead) because people started to go hungry due to US dollar inflation.
There was a doom-and-gloom spin to the whole thing which originated in in the UK in the eighties and early nineties--under the Thatcher regime IIRC. US politicians grabbed the ball and ran with it as did other governments. They saw it as a way to garner more power under a "liberal," some would say Socialist, agenda. When government gets woven with science, it then fails to be science.
Oh yeah, I manually encode bcd and markup through dip switches on a digital trainer board and feed it through a parallel port to a command line on my PC which pipes the resultant gibberish into a file which is later dumped into a web interface and back down into my Android phone as a PDF. You guys suck.
MATE sucks. Sorry, wish it didn't. I've tried to genuinely use all of this shit recently and it all sucks. As a developer I simply can't have any bullshit, my time is too valuable and I will not try another distro until I hear of a system that "just works." LAMP servers, yeah, desktop, fucking stick it!
Like when you pick up some abysmal text of weak construction and mediocre content and think WTF?!, this was the BEST textbook available? No, it was the one with the highest profit margin for the bookstore.
Yeah, since I'm paying the bills at the college I just use the cheapest relevant text I can get my hands on and let the professor know up front that is what I will be using. They never complain and I don't put up with those who do. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Saves me a ton of money. Between borrowing and buying used books I spent $15 this quarter. Compared to $700 for the "sticker prices."
Uh...er...I get contacted by people all the time who use, overwhelmingly, gmail. Mind you, they are using it to establish a dialog with me, not to plug into a form for sign-up. Most of the people I converse with anymore use gmail, which is very surprising to me. Anecdotal, but I once thought as you did. It appears people have embraced gmail. It is a good solid service that is free of the distracting interface presented by yahoo and AOL (hotmail? that is still up?). People can also get a new intelligible email address on gmail, which is a big incentive to switch. my.name@gmail.com or sestra98@aol.com? You be the judge.
The problem ain't the teachers per se (though an amazing number are incompetent beyond belief, yet the NEA would go ballistic and threaten a general strike if you tried to fire the bad ones). The problem is this monster army of administrators and middle-management that swallows any given school budget, leaving damned little for the actual teachers. Now I'm not talking about the janitors and IT folks, but the massive percentage of paper-pushers, make-work positions (usually granted as political favors), curriculum specialists, and all the bloat that a typical school district carries on its ledger.
Looking around me at this very moment, I can attest that this is 100% true. It is human nature as seen in the principles of microeconomics, people act in their best interests. The administration does what they need to do to get people off their back and whatever else makes THEIR life easier. This is not leadership, and generally leads to a dysfunctional environment. They have little real incentive to promote quality, and science is not used to make decisions--politics is. A system has to be designed that constructs incentives that only promote the desired outcome--good luck. People say vouchers would work, but it doesn't seem to help community colleges. The people who attend community college have a choice of what school to attend, and can spend their money how they like, but the same problems exist. I think technology will eventually offer a free range of choices to students and the market will fix these problems--give it a generation or two.
This is the wisest collection of statements I've ever seen from someone who has no children. Usually, when people who don't have kids open their mouth about the subject it is a dreadful, unwitting embarrassment to themselves.
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This is how modern corporations open up negotiations with their peers---a patent lawsuit.
Reminds me of the mosquito-deleto that your buddy evangelizes when you come over for a barbecue--while getting eaten by mosquitos. You just want to say, dude! take that back, now!
There are more bugs in Ubuntu based systems than are generally acknowledged. I had to stop using Ubuntu based OSes recently and switch to Win 7 because of numerous issues with the 64bit line which is not given the same attention as 32bit. I always wondered why the 32bit was "(recommended)," now I know. I'm sorry, but I'm not sidelining the performance and the extra 4GB of RAM (ignore the maddening bugs and missing functionality and support) of my 64bit hex core.
Most of use here are the descendants of kings. The spanked a lot of ass. I'd say a LOT of people are descendants of kings, but others are not. Read Laurence Gardner.
Your comment is totally lame. Another demonstration of the Slashdot Lamer Curve.
Natural selection cannot "work imperfectly", cannot "break." As there is only one state, there are no states.
I find truth in this statement. I think we can start using natural selection as a model to understand other macro aspects of the universe if we take the time to analyze it. It reminds me of Einstein's observation about using looking at nature to understand or find the principles which drive greater aspects of the universe. This conversation has proven fruitful. Slashdot, you're still alive. Thanks for your observation.
The people who consciously act and take control of the planet are the rightful heirs. Those who survive are the rightful heirs. There is not much logic involved. True, passing judgement does nothing to affect the situation, but I don't like your argument much either. We are treating NS as some thing that happens like a ball rolling down the plank of a pinball machine, naturally finding its way to the bottom of the board, bouncing around, but ultimately ending up where gravity takes it. Our conscious, self-aware mind--will--equate to the flippers. Natural selection is the gravity.
I don't think you can stop natural selection. Whereas if you were weak, stupid, or susceptible to disease in the past you most likely would not be able to reproduce, or the chances greatly reduced; or you would be conquered by others who were stronger or smarter and the best of your offspring captured and the lame killed. Now, with government as we see it in the western world, the weak, stupid, and those susceptible to disease are protected and reproduce uninhibited. We have started the slow, ultimate death of our species through the use of technology and government in curtailing NS. What good does preserving those susceptible to disease along with enhanced food production get us? Rampant population growth and a whole set of problems that natural selection may not correct, other than us descending into barbarism (strong survive) and culling the herd (an aspect of natural selection I suppose). We see infant mortality rate reduction as a good thing, but is it in the long run? We are here, strong, because all of our ancestors survived. Einstein yarned on-and-on about the social problem of humans' emotional maturity and ability to handle technology in a sensible manner. It was the philosophy of our survival which seemed to plague the man in his later years. This will probably take us thousands of years to solve barring a raft of natural disasters (Yellowstone super volcano anyone?), which would render the whole debate moot--for now.
I don't think you understand just how dire the implications are of raising agricultural prices. It won't be the first world middle class that suffers the most from this, but the first world poor and third world population.
So true, and it would greatly affect us ultimately. When the US government practiced "quantitative easing" to prevent global economic meltdown the inflation did not impact those in the US, but it did have an affect in the rest of the world by increasing the prices of food by a fraction of 25%. This led to several government becoming unstable (Egypt riots and Gaddafi is dead) because people started to go hungry due to US dollar inflation.
Uh...don't think we did that. It is largely a magnetic phenomenon which we have no control over.
There was a doom-and-gloom spin to the whole thing which originated in in the UK in the eighties and early nineties--under the Thatcher regime IIRC. US politicians grabbed the ball and ran with it as did other governments. They saw it as a way to garner more power under a "liberal," some would say Socialist, agenda. When government gets woven with science, it then fails to be science.
Oh yeah, I manually encode bcd and markup through dip switches on a digital trainer board and feed it through a parallel port to a command line on my PC which pipes the resultant gibberish into a file which is later dumped into a web interface and back down into my Android phone as a PDF. You guys suck.
Ubuntu 10.04 was tight, but 64bit has bugs I cannot live with.
MATE sucks. Sorry, wish it didn't. I've tried to genuinely use all of this shit recently and it all sucks. As a developer I simply can't have any bullshit, my time is too valuable and I will not try another distro until I hear of a system that "just works." LAMP servers, yeah, desktop, fucking stick it!
Like when you pick up some abysmal text of weak construction and mediocre content and think WTF?!, this was the BEST textbook available? No, it was the one with the highest profit margin for the bookstore.
Yeah, since I'm paying the bills at the college I just use the cheapest relevant text I can get my hands on and let the professor know up front that is what I will be using. They never complain and I don't put up with those who do. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Saves me a ton of money. Between borrowing and buying used books I spent $15 this quarter. Compared to $700 for the "sticker prices."
My $2 milk has no rBGH. But, as a wise man once said: "I do not wish to consume bovine lactose at any temperature."
Loss-leader everywhere....about $2 here in the grocery store. I have to walk to the far corner of the store though.
Uh...er...I get contacted by people all the time who use, overwhelmingly, gmail. Mind you, they are using it to establish a dialog with me, not to plug into a form for sign-up. Most of the people I converse with anymore use gmail, which is very surprising to me. Anecdotal, but I once thought as you did. It appears people have embraced gmail. It is a good solid service that is free of the distracting interface presented by yahoo and AOL (hotmail? that is still up?). People can also get a new intelligible email address on gmail, which is a big incentive to switch. my.name@gmail.com or sestra98@aol.com? You be the judge.
I have a Live account at my college, not by choice, and I rarely use but for .edu verification for free Microsoft software licenses.
[throws invectim]
I see no valid arguments in your post.
The problem ain't the teachers per se (though an amazing number are incompetent beyond belief, yet the NEA would go ballistic and threaten a general strike if you tried to fire the bad ones). The problem is this monster army of administrators and middle-management that swallows any given school budget, leaving damned little for the actual teachers. Now I'm not talking about the janitors and IT folks, but the massive percentage of paper-pushers, make-work positions (usually granted as political favors), curriculum specialists, and all the bloat that a typical school district carries on its ledger.
Looking around me at this very moment, I can attest that this is 100% true. It is human nature as seen in the principles of microeconomics, people act in their best interests. The administration does what they need to do to get people off their back and whatever else makes THEIR life easier. This is not leadership, and generally leads to a dysfunctional environment. They have little real incentive to promote quality, and science is not used to make decisions--politics is. A system has to be designed that constructs incentives that only promote the desired outcome--good luck. People say vouchers would work, but it doesn't seem to help community colleges. The people who attend community college have a choice of what school to attend, and can spend their money how they like, but the same problems exist. I think technology will eventually offer a free range of choices to students and the market will fix these problems--give it a generation or two.
Please do not apologize for the system. It is lame, misguided, and undeserved.
This is the wisest collection of statements I've ever seen from someone who has no children. Usually, when people who don't have kids open their mouth about the subject it is a dreadful, unwitting embarrassment to themselves.
I think the judge is trolling.