But to be honest with you I have no idea why. So far it just seems like yet another chore dealing with people I know who decide to ping me with some lame ass application or another. What the whole point of it is & what people are getting out of it (& myspace, etc... or 'web 2.0') is completely beyond my comprehension. After reading this & some rumour that I won't be able to delete my facebook account I'm extremely happy I have not put a real picture on my account.
It seems rather base, pitiful, & back-asswards to me to use fear as a way to motivate anyone for anything. I for one can only take solace in the fact that my meat bag will expire while living in a world with such prevalent mentalities.
Well then, it looks like you've turned your usb drive into a usb key. Clever. Most people I know just use them as drives. I guess that's what happens when you're surrounded by Windows users all day. *le sigh*
I guess it's all about priorities. It's touchy-feel-good to watch ourselves on tv & oh-so enchanting. The hours of self-amusement keeps us out of trouble, you know?
WTF? My internal hard drive provides access to files & data in that way too too but I've never heard anyone referring to it as a "key" of any sort. Most people who drive newer cars have a fob on their keychain that is used to lock & unlock their doors, set their alarm, etc..
Exactly - there are such things as USB keys & so that is *exactly* the reason why we shouldn't call drives "keys" - sort of confuses the issue in light of the fact that there are keys & they are not drives. I know it's pedantic but I don't think there's a MOD choice for that;)
Well USB "key" is one term I'd like to see discontinued for USB devices that function only as a storage medium.
In this case it isn't a "key" to anything, it's a storage device. Drive is okay - shows up with a drive letter or as a/dev/sdb? but key? No - it's not unlocking anything, folks. Therefore it is not a key.
Meh - not everyone's perception of the value of life is the same. For example, if we use the perspective of supply & demand then human life is the cheapest it's ever been. If we view life through the (current) lens that nobody gets out alive anyway then whoop-de-do when you go because it was inevitable anyway. Another perspective could be that this material existence is more of a hindrance than it is a benefit. At which point we could be quite happy indeed when it is over. I can appreciate people who feel that death is necessarily a tragedy - they usually are the ones who never really considered how non-sensical it is that no matter how hard you try to survive gravity is gonna get your ass in the end anyway - king or pauper the same. Then there's those of us who see the irony.
So we laugh.
P.S. And yes, I am excited to find out if I'll remember this while I'm in the process of discorporating, myself.;)
I've always preferred looking at white text on black background consoles as opposed to the 'white on black' displays we have now for almost everything in the gui world. I find my eyes get tired faster with a white background & I'm pretty sure I have reasoned out why.
Think about what you're looking at. What our eyes see is light. If my letters are black & the background is white I have to try and *ignore* the white area to focus on the smaller black letters. Naturally, of course, it's easier to see the white because it is actual light on my retinas.
I've tried to understand why people like the black on white aspect of current guis to the point where it is ubiquitous & the only thing I could come up with is that it resembles reading paper. With paper we're used to black letters on a white background. But paper is a completely different medium - with paper the light source isn't the paper but is instead bounced off of the paper from another source.
Although I would have to say that black paper with white writing would probably be easier too. We just don't have that because it's too expensive.
One of the reasons I prefer a linux console to the gui is because I can work at it longer without my eyes getting as tired.
PC's with 1Gbps on the backplane xferring to each other through a Gigibit switch I get a peak speed of about 300mbps (mega-bits). This is using only about 33% of the speed of the network & my assumption is that it's faster than the drives can write. So my question is what computers can transfer data at 40Gbps let alone 100?
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But to be honest with you I have no idea why. So far it just seems like yet another chore dealing with people I know who decide to ping me with some lame ass application or another. What the whole point of it is & what people are getting out of it (& myspace, etc... or 'web 2.0') is completely beyond my comprehension. After reading this & some rumour that I won't be able to delete my facebook account I'm extremely happy I have not put a real picture on my account.
It seems rather base, pitiful, & back-asswards to me to use fear as a way to motivate anyone for anything. I for one can only take solace in the fact that my meat bag will expire while living in a world with such prevalent mentalities.
Well then, it looks like you've turned your usb drive into a usb key. Clever. Most people I know just use them as drives. I guess that's what happens when you're surrounded by Windows users all day. *le sigh*
Will they run Linux?
haiku does mod up but your post is not haiku it's 5, 7, 5!
I guess he knew of which he sang! ;)
I guess it's all about priorities. It's touchy-feel-good to watch ourselves on tv & oh-so enchanting. The hours of self-amusement keeps us out of trouble, you know?
Again, the key is not the drive - in this case you are using a software key which happens to be installed on a USB drive. ;)
WTF? My internal hard drive provides access to files & data in that way too too but I've never heard anyone referring to it as a "key" of any sort. Most people who drive newer cars have a fob on their keychain that is used to lock & unlock their doors, set their alarm, etc..
Exactly - there are such things as USB keys & so that is *exactly* the reason why we shouldn't call drives "keys" - sort of confuses the issue in light of the fact that there are keys & they are not drives. I know it's pedantic but I don't think there's a MOD choice for that ;)
Not to be pedantic or anything but in that case it would be a fob.
Well USB "key" is one term I'd like to see discontinued for USB devices that function only as a storage medium. In this case it isn't a "key" to anything, it's a storage device. Drive is okay - shows up with a drive letter or as a /dev/sdb? but key? No - it's not unlocking anything, folks. Therefore it is not a key.
Meh - not everyone's perception of the value of life is the same. For example, if we use the perspective of supply & demand then human life is the cheapest it's ever been. If we view life through the (current) lens that nobody gets out alive anyway then whoop-de-do when you go because it was inevitable anyway. Another perspective could be that this material existence is more of a hindrance than it is a benefit. At which point we could be quite happy indeed when it is over. I can appreciate people who feel that death is necessarily a tragedy - they usually are the ones who never really considered how non-sensical it is that no matter how hard you try to survive gravity is gonna get your ass in the end anyway - king or pauper the same. Then there's those of us who see the irony.
;)
So we laugh.
P.S. And yes, I am excited to find out if I'll remember this while I'm in the process of discorporating, myself.
why don't YOU go tell that to the criminal organizations. See how they'll consider your humble opinion. ;)
Is there really a need to have a limitation of the number of top-level domains?
I've always preferred looking at white text on black background consoles as opposed to the 'white on black' displays we have now for almost everything in the gui world. I find my eyes get tired faster with a white background & I'm pretty sure I have reasoned out why.
Think about what you're looking at. What our eyes see is light. If my letters are black & the background is white I have to try and *ignore* the white area to focus on the smaller black letters. Naturally, of course, it's easier to see the white because it is actual light on my retinas.
I've tried to understand why people like the black on white aspect of current guis to the point where it is ubiquitous & the only thing I could come up with is that it resembles reading paper. With paper we're used to black letters on a white background. But paper is a completely different medium - with paper the light source isn't the paper but is instead bounced off of the paper from another source.
Although I would have to say that black paper with white writing would probably be easier too. We just don't have that because it's too expensive.
One of the reasons I prefer a linux console to the gui is because I can work at it longer without my eyes getting as tired.
PC's with 1Gbps on the backplane xferring to each other through a Gigibit switch I get a peak speed of about 300mbps (mega-bits). This is using only about 33% of the speed of the network & my assumption is that it's faster than the drives can write. So my question is what computers can transfer data at 40Gbps let alone 100?