I was thinking the same thing. Although I was raised Catholic and received the relevant sacraments, I'm not religious and haven't even stepped foot in a church for a number of years. I've considered checking it out again for no real reason, but it feels awkward to me to just show up on Sunday (and I'm not that committed to the idea anyway).
If I were able to sort of "check it out" by reading the priest's blog or whatever, it would make my decision to show up and participate much easier. Either I'll decide that it's just not my thing, or my somewhat renewed interest leads me to actually go.
Seems like a good idea to me. And why stop at just Catholicism? There are at least 5 different churches of varying denominations within a few miles of my house and I don't really know the differences between them. I could hit up a few of the sites and see what they're all about. If nothing else, at least I'll learn something. (And to be honest, they might have a web presence right now and I never thought about it. Time for some googling...)
I'm running Slackware on a laptop with a 1.8 GHz AMD processor and 512 MB of RAM and it works fine. Granted, Slackware recently made the upgrade to the latest KDE 4.x and the eye candy doesn't work without a video card, but it's not that big of a deal.
One thing to keep in mind though, you need to have a pretty good grasp of the command line to get Slackware up and running. By default it only creates a root account during the installation and boots straight to a command line, so you'll have to get everything running manually. You'll also probably need to use command line tools to get your wireless connected too.
Slackware is great on old hardware if you know what you're doing, and it's a great learning experience if you're a novice who wants to figure out how Linux really works.
I wasn't saying that users weren't pissed. I was saying the author was blaming the paywall for pissing off users, not blaming users for being pissed off about the paywall.
Read TFA. (I know, I know, slashdot). He isn't blaming users. He said that after the 9/11 attacks, no advertisers were paying because they didn't want their ads next to 9/11 stories. Salon, after rounds of layoffs before the attacks even happened, was hurting for cash. They used a paywall for some content, which brought in new cash in the short term. However, there wasn't much room for growth since nobody but the current subscribers could see the content to decide if they wanted to subscribe.
You cherry-picked the summary in your little tirade. They put up the 30 second ad "day pass" thing as a way to bring in new eyeballs, but it was so convoluted and poorly executed that users just quit coming to the site. He didn't blame the users, he blamed the paywall.
Learn the lesson: You can't trust the greedy to run critical infrastructure.
Kind of makes you wonder why health care isn't considered critical infrastructure.
(I know this is way OT, but that quote made me think. I never thought about health care being "critical infrastructure" before. If health care was treated like electricity or gas we wouldn't need all this goddam political drama.)
What good does it do to protest something miles away from the action?
That's exactly why people were pissed off about it. The businesses in the downtown area had taken precautions such as boarding up windows to prevent damage. The people outside the downtown area didn't bother.
Also, Pittsburgh is a fairly small city, so Oakland and Lawrenceville and downtown aren't really all that far apart.
Like I said though, I agree that the police had no right to use the sound cannon, and I'm not defending that action. People should not be subjected to that kind of treatment while trying to peaceably assemble and the police were flat out wrong. I was just trying to explain another side of the story that may not have really been covered in the national media.
I'm not sure how much national coverage it got, but I live in Pittsburgh and these protesters vandalized a lot of local businesses. The vandalism didn't even take place in the downtown area, but a few miles outside in Lawrenceville and Oakland, which aren't very high income areas to begin with. The protesters smashed storefront windows of some chains like KFC and Panera which were apparently the targets, but they also smashed windows from other small family businesses.
I'm not trying to defend the actions of the police. There is really no justification for employing a sound cannon in anything short of a riot. A lot of the people who live here were understandably pissed off about protesters flying in from all over and smashing up storefronts though, and the police were under a little bit of pressure.
I feel the exact same way. I have XP running in VirtualBox so I can use Office for school. I was a little confused with the ribbon initially since it looks so foreign, but after using it to write a simple 3 page paper I love it. It really is very intuitive once you play with it. Not only that, but unlike a few other free office suites, I don't feel like I'm wrestling with the damned thing. I can just sit down and start writing (after booting up XP in VirtualBox, of course, but still).
Also, as you pointed out, some of the more intermediate features that I never really used or understood before are more prominent, and actually more useful.
It wasn't a perfect transition. It took me a few minutes to figure out how the new single/double spacing is implemented, and I'm sure lots of people will point to that as proof that the new interface blows. Oh well.
Of course, I might just be feeling adventurous having just upgraded to Slackware 13 and spending the last few weeks figuring out KDE4:)
It's all in your head. You'd probably be (maybe you are?) one of those parents who think that vaccinations are a pharmaceutical industry conspiracy. Allergies are a little strange. People can go their whole lives being exposed to something, then one day have an allergic reaction to it. Some people also outgrow allergies. Asthma is sometimes similar. That doesn't change the fact that medication can (though doesn't always) reduce symptoms. It most certainly doesn't mean that you're actions have had any effect on your response to allergens.
Trying to "conquer" allergies is like trying to conquer pneumonia or strep throat. Just because you haven't caught it doesn't mean that multivitamin or apple-a-day is the reason.
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So I'll get to see aliens and the antichrist at the same time?
Awesome.
Just don't use whale communication. We all know what happens then.
And when I read your sig, all I see is AAAAARRRRR!!!!!
;)
I kid, I kid
lol touche, i hadn't taken holo-fucking into account when i posted.
I'm a rootkit, and Windows 7 was my idea!
My point ? No matter what you look at from 30 years ago - we haven't made the progress that we always believed we should have by now...
Clearly you forget how hard it was to cheaply and quickly access high (and low) quality porn back then.
Me too, but it's up to 8223 in the half hour since you posted. The sample is growing pretty quick.
I was thinking the same thing. Although I was raised Catholic and received the relevant sacraments, I'm not religious and haven't even stepped foot in a church for a number of years. I've considered checking it out again for no real reason, but it feels awkward to me to just show up on Sunday (and I'm not that committed to the idea anyway).
If I were able to sort of "check it out" by reading the priest's blog or whatever, it would make my decision to show up and participate much easier. Either I'll decide that it's just not my thing, or my somewhat renewed interest leads me to actually go.
Seems like a good idea to me. And why stop at just Catholicism? There are at least 5 different churches of varying denominations within a few miles of my house and I don't really know the differences between them. I could hit up a few of the sites and see what they're all about. If nothing else, at least I'll learn something. (And to be honest, they might have a web presence right now and I never thought about it. Time for some googling...)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Identical to the summary link, except from the actual source.
I'm running Slackware on a laptop with a 1.8 GHz AMD processor and 512 MB of RAM and it works fine. Granted, Slackware recently made the upgrade to the latest KDE 4.x and the eye candy doesn't work without a video card, but it's not that big of a deal.
One thing to keep in mind though, you need to have a pretty good grasp of the command line to get Slackware up and running. By default it only creates a root account during the installation and boots straight to a command line, so you'll have to get everything running manually. You'll also probably need to use command line tools to get your wireless connected too.
Slackware is great on old hardware if you know what you're doing, and it's a great learning experience if you're a novice who wants to figure out how Linux really works.
I wasn't saying that users weren't pissed. I was saying the author was blaming the paywall for pissing off users, not blaming users for being pissed off about the paywall.
Big difference.
Read TFA. (I know, I know, slashdot). He isn't blaming users. He said that after the 9/11 attacks, no advertisers were paying because they didn't want their ads next to 9/11 stories. Salon, after rounds of layoffs before the attacks even happened, was hurting for cash. They used a paywall for some content, which brought in new cash in the short term. However, there wasn't much room for growth since nobody but the current subscribers could see the content to decide if they wanted to subscribe.
You cherry-picked the summary in your little tirade. They put up the 30 second ad "day pass" thing as a way to bring in new eyeballs, but it was so convoluted and poorly executed that users just quit coming to the site. He didn't blame the users, he blamed the paywall.
Learn the lesson: You can't trust the greedy to run critical infrastructure.
Kind of makes you wonder why health care isn't considered critical infrastructure.
(I know this is way OT, but that quote made me think. I never thought about health care being "critical infrastructure" before. If health care was treated like electricity or gas we wouldn't need all this goddam political drama.)
Mod away!
They have Demonoid listed, but its been down for a while and likely isn't coming back for a while.
Try this instead: http://www.torrentz.com/
Now that is one hell of a rant!
What good does it do to protest something miles away from the action?
That's exactly why people were pissed off about it. The businesses in the downtown area had taken precautions such as boarding up windows to prevent damage. The people outside the downtown area didn't bother.
Also, Pittsburgh is a fairly small city, so Oakland and Lawrenceville and downtown aren't really all that far apart.
Like I said though, I agree that the police had no right to use the sound cannon, and I'm not defending that action. People should not be subjected to that kind of treatment while trying to peaceably assemble and the police were flat out wrong. I was just trying to explain another side of the story that may not have really been covered in the national media.
I, sir, am very offended by the blatant lie in your post.
-Satan
I'm not sure how much national coverage it got, but I live in Pittsburgh and these protesters vandalized a lot of local businesses. The vandalism didn't even take place in the downtown area, but a few miles outside in Lawrenceville and Oakland, which aren't very high income areas to begin with. The protesters smashed storefront windows of some chains like KFC and Panera which were apparently the targets, but they also smashed windows from other small family businesses.
I'm not trying to defend the actions of the police. There is really no justification for employing a sound cannon in anything short of a riot. A lot of the people who live here were understandably pissed off about protesters flying in from all over and smashing up storefronts though, and the police were under a little bit of pressure.
I feel the exact same way. I have XP running in VirtualBox so I can use Office for school. I was a little confused with the ribbon initially since it looks so foreign, but after using it to write a simple 3 page paper I love it. It really is very intuitive once you play with it. Not only that, but unlike a few other free office suites, I don't feel like I'm wrestling with the damned thing. I can just sit down and start writing (after booting up XP in VirtualBox, of course, but still).
:)
Also, as you pointed out, some of the more intermediate features that I never really used or understood before are more prominent, and actually more useful.
It wasn't a perfect transition. It took me a few minutes to figure out how the new single/double spacing is implemented, and I'm sure lots of people will point to that as proof that the new interface blows. Oh well.
Of course, I might just be feeling adventurous having just upgraded to Slackware 13 and spending the last few weeks figuring out KDE4
Notice the lack of "5. PROFIT!"
Thank God I own the patent on the world's only Textalizer (TM).
I'm gonna be rich, bitch!
I realize that pnas.org is a reputable organization, but didn't anyone look closely at that acronym before making it official?
lol priceless, i wish i had mod points.
Virgin-Universal didn't create the content, the artists did, and I seriously doubt any artist is going to be paid more as a result of this deal.
It's all in your head. You'd probably be (maybe you are?) one of those parents who think that vaccinations are a pharmaceutical industry conspiracy. Allergies are a little strange. People can go their whole lives being exposed to something, then one day have an allergic reaction to it. Some people also outgrow allergies. Asthma is sometimes similar. That doesn't change the fact that medication can (though doesn't always) reduce symptoms. It most certainly doesn't mean that you're actions have had any effect on your response to allergens.
Trying to "conquer" allergies is like trying to conquer pneumonia or strep throat. Just because you haven't caught it doesn't mean that multivitamin or apple-a-day is the reason.