Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - while I think the US is behind the times on same sex marriage and the torture issues should be seriously dealt with, I don't think in general this is true.
Supremacy of the Military - The military has not propped up the government, nor overrule the government.
Rampant Sexism - Um, no.
Religion and Government are Intertwined - I'm pretty sure the separation of church and state is in the constitution somewhere...
Labor Power is Suppressed - Unions, anyone?
Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - NASA, DARPA...
Fraudulent Elections - While there are issues from time to time, the voting is fair.
While I do think the US has a whole mountain of issues we are not talking about Nazi Germany by any stretch.
Offtopic: Has anyone done a distro using Razor-qt yet? I'm going to be upgrading to a newer laptop in a couple months and I would like to give this a whirl.
Actually, I built my desktop/server in April of 2006 with a Sempron 1.6 GHz & 1 GB of RAM. Except for KDE with the nightmare of Akonadi/Nepomuk/Stringi the thing has been flawless.
I don't think the OP meant they SHOULD run 10 year old hardware, I think he's making the point that the enviroment can help significantly extend the service life of a computer.
At home I run a 9 year old Pentium M laptop which I finally yesterday decided was due to be retired. I run Lubuntu on it and it's gotten to the point where if I am running Opera & Pidgin nothing else can be going without serious performance issues. Granted I have only 512 MB of RAM but I max out at 1 GB anyway.
Google, Slashdot, and Canonical didn't almost-proportionally regress
While I think Slashdot does need to get criticism from time to time, I don't think the editor issues are on the same level as Unity & the cult of Jobs.
I wouldn't say they don't care, but it's what's in style right now. Call it the Ikea effect.
Myself, I toyed with the idea of doing a wood finish case, inlay and all a few years ago but that was before I started my family. Now I'm lucky if I get an hour a day to check E-mail and facebook, much less design and build a custom computer case. Furthermore, most people have laptops, tablets & mobile phones which they do most of their computing from. It's analogous to finding hot rod parts for a flathead ford versus finding parts for a small block chevy - The chevy is what more people use and therefore there is more supply. Flathead parts are out there but they are few and far between.
But the primary goal changed. Generally with a game you have two goals: entertainment and completing the game. The primary goal with the stranger was to complete the game. With the friend your primary goal became entertainment and it was more entertaining to kill each other within the game.
Anyway, I have no problem with screwing with friends doing that. Witness Tetris & Dr. Mario.
I disagree - how good a team is can vary wildly year to year. Coaching changes, injuries, age, experience and so on can play huge roles in how a team performs especially on a collegiate level where there is so much growth between juniors and seniors in terms of development. This is less so in professional sports but still relavent.
I was not arguing one way or another that professional wrestling was a sport. I was just adding to the list of well known wrestlers who have sustained permanent injury within the ring.
You seem to ignore the fact that large numbers of people enjoy actual violence, injury and death. Most notable would have been the gladiators and others that were killed off in large numbers in front of very large crowds almost every day. More recently we just love the actual crashing and hurting involved in sports (American Football, Football, Rugby, Boxing etc). Not so much to the death now-a-days, but we do love our actual violence even though it's in the organised sports realm.
I think you are mistaking competition for violence. Basketball, Baseball, Soccer and Golf draw huge ratings and are not very violent at all. As well, in sports where there is inherent violence (North American football, hockey) most of the highly regarded events are not hits but plays which involve a high amount of skill. It's the 'Top Ten Plays', not the 'Top Ten Hits'.
Agreed. I have been at my current job for almost 3 years and within a few weeks of starting I began to build and maintain an online repository for every project we were involved in, as well as specifications, drawings, artwork and the like. When I started all project info was in three or four scattered file cabinets, email archives and between the ears of my boss. I have also spend a good portion of my time making sure the different departments know it exists so if there arises a situation where I'm not there they can find something.
It's unrealistic to expect the new person, no matter how good they are, to be a plug and play in a knowledge-based role. But giving the new person somewhere to access information and get up to speed is all you can do.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know if this is insightful or funny. Let's just hope it's not considered a good idea!
But with respect to TFA, so what?
What? Seriously, what?
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - while I think the US is behind the times on same sex marriage and the torture issues should be seriously dealt with, I don't think in general this is true.
Supremacy of the Military - The military has not propped up the government, nor overrule the government.
Rampant Sexism - Um, no.
Religion and Government are Intertwined - I'm pretty sure the separation of church and state is in the constitution somewhere...
Labor Power is Suppressed - Unions, anyone?
Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - NASA, DARPA...
Fraudulent Elections - While there are issues from time to time, the voting is fair.
While I do think the US has a whole mountain of issues we are not talking about Nazi Germany by any stretch.
If Android can do that, why the hell can't we do that on a desktop?!?
Just so we can get to other stuff: It runs Windows 7.
'The Pirateparty disputes your claim and will not comply with your request.'
To quote Capt Barbossa:
I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no".
I saw that there were repos as well. Thanks for the input!
Offtopic: Has anyone done a distro using Razor-qt yet? I'm going to be upgrading to a newer laptop in a couple months and I would like to give this a whirl.
Nobody said evolution was perfect.
Actually, I built my desktop/server in April of 2006 with a Sempron 1.6 GHz & 1 GB of RAM. Except for KDE with the nightmare of Akonadi/Nepomuk/Stringi the thing has been flawless.
I don't think the OP meant they SHOULD run 10 year old hardware, I think he's making the point that the enviroment can help significantly extend the service life of a computer.
At home I run a 9 year old Pentium M laptop which I finally yesterday decided was due to be retired. I run Lubuntu on it and it's gotten to the point where if I am running Opera & Pidgin nothing else can be going without serious performance issues. Granted I have only 512 MB of RAM but I max out at 1 GB anyway.
Google, Slashdot, and Canonical didn't almost-proportionally regress
While I think Slashdot does need to get criticism from time to time, I don't think the editor issues are on the same level as Unity & the cult of Jobs.
I wouldn't say they don't care, but it's what's in style right now. Call it the Ikea effect.
Myself, I toyed with the idea of doing a wood finish case, inlay and all a few years ago but that was before I started my family. Now I'm lucky if I get an hour a day to check E-mail and facebook, much less design and build a custom computer case. Furthermore, most people have laptops, tablets & mobile phones which they do most of their computing from. It's analogous to finding hot rod parts for a flathead ford versus finding parts for a small block chevy - The chevy is what more people use and therefore there is more supply. Flathead parts are out there but they are few and far between.
But the primary goal changed. Generally with a game you have two goals: entertainment and completing the game. The primary goal with the stranger was to complete the game. With the friend your primary goal became entertainment and it was more entertaining to kill each other within the game.
Anyway, I have no problem with screwing with friends doing that. Witness Tetris & Dr. Mario.
I disagree - how good a team is can vary wildly year to year. Coaching changes, injuries, age, experience and so on can play huge roles in how a team performs especially on a collegiate level where there is so much growth between juniors and seniors in terms of development. This is less so in professional sports but still relavent.
I was not arguing one way or another that professional wrestling was a sport. I was just adding to the list of well known wrestlers who have sustained permanent injury within the ring.
I would throw out other names who have died or had their careers shortened by injuries sustained in the ring:
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Mick Foley
Edge
Chris Benoit
Bret Hart
Davey Boy Smith
The Dynamite Kid
You seem to ignore the fact that large numbers of people enjoy actual violence, injury and death. Most notable would have been the gladiators and others that were killed off in large numbers in front of very large crowds almost every day. More recently we just love the actual crashing and hurting involved in sports (American Football, Football, Rugby, Boxing etc). Not so much to the death now-a-days, but we do love our actual violence even though it's in the organised sports realm.
I think you are mistaking competition for violence. Basketball, Baseball, Soccer and Golf draw huge ratings and are not very violent at all. As well, in sports where there is inherent violence (North American football, hockey) most of the highly regarded events are not hits but plays which involve a high amount of skill. It's the 'Top Ten Plays', not the 'Top Ten Hits'.
Ah! A fellow Canadian I see!
The Oatmeal may have just become my favorite webcomic.
Have you considered DeVeDe? I use to to build custom ISOs using whatever.
I don't know if that's funny, interesting or insightful.
I was just going to say good luck.
My bad - it's the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA), not the CRIA.
The CRIA is the canadian arm of the RIAA. They just reached a settlement to pay $47.5 million to songwriters which they had been screwing for decades Why is anyone surprised they would try for this?
Agreed. I have been at my current job for almost 3 years and within a few weeks of starting I began to build and maintain an online repository for every project we were involved in, as well as specifications, drawings, artwork and the like. When I started all project info was in three or four scattered file cabinets, email archives and between the ears of my boss. I have also spend a good portion of my time making sure the different departments know it exists so if there arises a situation where I'm not there they can find something.
It's unrealistic to expect the new person, no matter how good they are, to be a plug and play in a knowledge-based role. But giving the new person somewhere to access information and get up to speed is all you can do.