How could I forget Notepad++? I write all my Bash scripts with it at work.
Also, some of the alternatives I might want require KDE and I need to stick with XFCE for my older hardware, so no go there. (e.g. Okular)
Some of the above work OK in Wine or have passable native alternatives, but those are some I've recently wished for in my day-to-day work and hobby time.
Hm. Well, I stand corrected. It's just surprised me that the roads in Oregon sometimes seem quite a bit worse that roads in my previous home, Upstate NY. I guess in NY the roads deteriorate faster so you get new roads more often?
Ok, I'm mostly just whining, but studded tires are what make Oregon roads kind of sucky. Folks get their tires switched over to studs in mid-fall and ruin the roads from then 'till mid spring, rarely, if ever having need of them (and the rest of us just pull out the chains for the occasional icy or snowy day or trip over the mountains). I often drive as close as I safely can to the center line or almost on the shoulder to try to stay out of the ruts the studded tires make....Though the log trucks probably have a big impact too.
That said, it does make sense that all users of roads should be responsible in some way for their upkeep, commensurate with how much those roads are used. How to do this without unfairly taxing those who do long-distance out-of-state travel would be tricky. Its absurd to say that this unfairly targets owners of efficient vehicles. Everyone gets charged the same tax per mile, efficient-vehicle-owners still pay less for gas.
Sure, which is why my kids are getting vaccinated (that and the guilt-trip from our PCP about "herd immunity").
My problem is that I'm not so sure that in the long term the "small risk of some weird side effect" is simply that. My impression is that the science is way too thin in that area. I may be wrong on that point, in which case my argument does indeed fall apart.
It seems like the knee-jerk reaction here is to call any doubters in vaccine safety "anti-science" or whatever else. It seems to me that the ones who are "anti-science" are those who don't think it's necessary to explore the possible long-term effects and side-effects of vaccines, both at the individual and societal levels. I thought it was cool on Slashdot to be skeptical, especially when large, powerful organizations like the FDA and Big Pharma are involved...
I wish I could vote this up. I think the whole Autism freakout thing unfairly devalues the argument that the science on vaccine safety is severely lacking.
I also am not against vaccines on principle, but am nervous about them in practice.
...as if the U.S. Government actually follows the Constitution anyway. (I'm lookin' at you, 10th Amendment) I have little faith that anything can really hold the U.S. federal government back from doing whatever the heck it wants to do.
Furthermore, I believe that doodling can sometimes help someone listen better who is a kinesthetic learner. It's somewhat like underlining or highlighting parts of a text. It might help you to find important parts more quickly when re-reading, but also the action of underlining tickles that kinesthetic part of your brain.
Doodling may not provide much in the way of a useful reference for later, but might be better than just sitting there. I'm no expert, but for certain learning styles, it might even be better than stenographer-style note taking, since the brain isn't trying to get every last word copied down.
n.b.: I say I "believe" this because it's sort of an amalgam of ideas I've picked up from various books at various times, as well as my experiences as a (primarily) kinesthetic learner.
Somewhat offtopic - but isn't it funny how a Tasmanian Devil is so much "cuter" than a starving girl with a swollen belly? Nothing against Tasmanian Devils, but where are our priorities?
Sorry about that - my terminology was weak. They hacked some supposedly-secure-from-the-student portion of the network. And FWIW, this was back in ought one.
That's where the 18-year old kid is at fault. He showed a lack of hacker ethics. Good hackers may discover an exploit, but they don't do harm.
When I hacked my university's computer network (Vax machines on Bitnet back in 1990), I did it with the knowledge of the sysadmin staff. And once you have made your point, you stand back.
Indeed. At my college a while back, some seniors found a way to hack into the school's network. They posted every user's password on a local network site. Only a handful of weeks away from graduation, they were expelled. Sure, they meant no harm, just to expose the weaknesses in the system, but they broke the rules and seriously compromised the system by posting the passwords, so they had to pay the price. Yikes!
Mostly true. It's not so much the belief that God has let you down (there are plenty of excuses for that in Christianity), as a certain attitude of depression and a period in my life where everything was upside down anyway, and a combination of seeing some pretty decnt evidence for macro-evolution (species to species evolution by an organism evolving new abilities). A combination of a number of things are necessary for someone to change their beliefs without being brainwashed.
Not as a challenge, but from curiosity - what evidence for macro-evolution have you seen?
That doesn't even make sense. Wins? At what? The game of life? I think the following are more appropriate:
'He who dies with the most toys is still dead'
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'I've never seen a hearse with a luggage rack' - George Strait
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Yeah, but then they'll charge more.
From TFA:
"...the maximum significant wave height—a measure of a storm's intensity—is 2.2 meters, but individual waves may top out at 4.5 meters."
How could I forget Notepad++? I write all my Bash scripts with it at work. Also, some of the alternatives I might want require KDE and I need to stick with XFCE for my older hardware, so no go there. (e.g. Okular)
Some of the above work OK in Wine or have passable native alternatives, but those are some I've recently wished for in my day-to-day work and hobby time.
Hm. Well, I stand corrected. It's just surprised me that the roads in Oregon sometimes seem quite a bit worse that roads in my previous home, Upstate NY. I guess in NY the roads deteriorate faster so you get new roads more often?
Ok, I'm mostly just whining, but studded tires are what make Oregon roads kind of sucky. Folks get their tires switched over to studs in mid-fall and ruin the roads from then 'till mid spring, rarely, if ever having need of them (and the rest of us just pull out the chains for the occasional icy or snowy day or trip over the mountains). I often drive as close as I safely can to the center line or almost on the shoulder to try to stay out of the ruts the studded tires make. ...Though the log trucks probably have a big impact too.
That said, it does make sense that all users of roads should be responsible in some way for their upkeep, commensurate with how much those roads are used. How to do this without unfairly taxing those who do long-distance out-of-state travel would be tricky. Its absurd to say that this unfairly targets owners of efficient vehicles. Everyone gets charged the same tax per mile, efficient-vehicle-owners still pay less for gas.
Pedantic N.B. - Saint Nick is/was real: Saint Nicholas
"Vinyl album sales smashed records on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014..."
Sure, which is why my kids are getting vaccinated (that and the guilt-trip from our PCP about "herd immunity").
My problem is that I'm not so sure that in the long term the "small risk of some weird side effect" is simply that. My impression is that the science is way too thin in that area. I may be wrong on that point, in which case my argument does indeed fall apart.
It seems like the knee-jerk reaction here is to call any doubters in vaccine safety "anti-science" or whatever else. It seems to me that the ones who are "anti-science" are those who don't think it's necessary to explore the possible long-term effects and side-effects of vaccines, both at the individual and societal levels. I thought it was cool on Slashdot to be skeptical, especially when large, powerful organizations like the FDA and Big Pharma are involved...
How is this a troll? Just because it's a different opinion than most of the rest of the \. readers?
I wish I could vote this up. I think the whole Autism freakout thing unfairly devalues the argument that the science on vaccine safety is severely lacking.
I also am not against vaccines on principle, but am nervous about them in practice.
...as if the U.S. Government actually follows the Constitution anyway. (I'm lookin' at you, 10th Amendment) I have little faith that anything can really hold the U.S. federal government back from doing whatever the heck it wants to do.
Furthermore, I believe that doodling can sometimes help someone listen better who is a kinesthetic learner. It's somewhat like underlining or highlighting parts of a text. It might help you to find important parts more quickly when re-reading, but also the action of underlining tickles that kinesthetic part of your brain.
Doodling may not provide much in the way of a useful reference for later, but might be better than just sitting there. I'm no expert, but for certain learning styles, it might even be better than stenographer-style note taking, since the brain isn't trying to get every last word copied down.
n.b.: I say I "believe" this because it's sort of an amalgam of ideas I've picked up from various books at various times, as well as my experiences as a (primarily) kinesthetic learner.
How about LabVIEW?
Somewhat offtopic - but isn't it funny how a Tasmanian Devil is so much "cuter" than a starving girl with a swollen belly? Nothing against Tasmanian Devils, but where are our priorities?
...and yet somehow the tablet I sign at the grocery store still butchers my signature. Yeesh.
Sorry about that - my terminology was weak. They hacked some supposedly-secure-from-the-student portion of the network. And FWIW, this was back in ought one.
That's where the 18-year old kid is at fault. He showed a lack of hacker ethics. Good hackers may discover an exploit, but they don't do harm.
When I hacked my university's computer network (Vax machines on Bitnet back in 1990), I did it with the knowledge of the sysadmin staff. And once you have made your point, you stand back.
Indeed. At my college a while back, some seniors found a way to hack into the school's network. They posted every user's password on a local network site. Only a handful of weeks away from graduation, they were expelled. Sure, they meant no harm, just to expose the weaknesses in the system, but they broke the rules and seriously compromised the system by posting the passwords, so they had to pay the price. Yikes!
Mostly true. It's not so much the belief that God has let you down (there are plenty of excuses for that in Christianity), as a certain attitude of depression and a period in my life where everything was upside down anyway, and a combination of seeing some pretty decnt evidence for macro-evolution (species to species evolution by an organism evolving new abilities). A combination of a number of things are necessary for someone to change their beliefs without being brainwashed.
Not as a challenge, but from curiosity - what evidence for macro-evolution have you seen?
He who dies with the most toys wins.
That doesn't even make sense. Wins? At what? The game of life? I think the following are more appropriate:'He who dies with the most toys is still dead'
-and-
'I've never seen a hearse with a luggage rack' - George Strait