Many asked you the same question, you didn't respond.
Why do we care about death of life on this planet or in the Universe at all, once you are dead, what is it to you if the entire Universe ends as well? You did not answer that.
2 Free hours so that you can sit there occupying a table for 2 hours on 1 cup of coffee?:) OK, let's see how that business survives THAT. 15 minutes is more than enough for a single purchase.
That's Insightful? You do realize, that you don't own that table and that chair, or do you? If I come in and I see all chairs occupied by laptop trolls, I leave, I don't bother staying in that coffee shop, so this is a coffee shop owner's problem so they have to deal with you, not me, or their business will die off.
The meaning of life is to plant trees that we will not live to sit in the shade of.
- you have defined a meaning for your life.
Now let me define a meaning for mine: do what I can to at some point start enjoying my life, which is short, much shorter than some of the trees, whose seeds you'll be planting.
Once our lifespans go up significantly (into thousands/tens of thousand of years) THEN EVENTUALLY the politics will change from: what is good now, to what is good for the next 120 years approximately.
There you go, no way you can change it with your nice philosophies and you are not fooling anybody: people want the shade now, so they'll go out, make some money and buy a tree or an air-conditioned tent for those sunny days, so they can be sitting there, having margaritas.
only realize that to a non-existing being, problems of existing beings are not their problems, all I am saying that everybody's life passes in an infinitesimally short period of time, which in fact does not even mean anything to a non-existing entity. To a non-existing entity infinity = 1 =0 = negative infinity. Anybody's problem is really irrelevant once you are not there. They'll get over it, and even if an entire civilization dies because of some information that came out after your death, even that is completely irrelevant to a non-existing entity.
It only matters in your mind while you are alive and it only matters because you have a perspective, which non-existing entity does not. So, sure, it's your choice what you want or do not want to come out, but realize, once you are dead, things that you may not wished to come out, can STILL come out, but it's not important.
By year 5, lets be honest, they collect dust and prevent papers from blowing away, and nothing else.
- It all differs from case to case, from machine to machine, from user to user.
I am typing this on a computer I use daily - Dell Latitude D810, which I got in the summer of 2005. I always wanted to put a bigger harddrive in it, but never got around to it. There are a few things I notice about it that are deteriorating:
1. Touch pad has peeled off a bit, it's patchy, but works probably as well as new. 2. The machine is getting hotter now than it was 5 years ago, I know it because of the fan that comes on sooner. I cleaned it, didn't change much. 3. The volume buttons are not working well, so I change the volume with the software controls.
It's not as bad as you are describing, but this laptop was one of the top of the lines machines in its time, got it for work, it was about 5.5K (CAD).
I repeat my question: do you think it matters after you are dead at all? REALLY? That's just very narrow vision. Once you are dead, it absolutely does not matter at all, even if it concerns your closest family or the entire world. You are dead, you are gone, you have no more input and no more output on any of this. There is no more input to you on any of this. To you nothing exists and you do not exist. The eternity == to infinity == to nothing at that point, all the time or space does not matter, it's all as if it never existed.
The only real thing that matters is what you are doing while you are alive. Everything else is completely irrelevant and made up.
Dude, the only meaning is what you can make for yourself while you are alive. Once you are dead, there is no more meaning for you, no matter how many monuments can be built, don't fool yourself, there is no meaning after death, do what you can now.
There is no question there, it's an assignment of 'true' to 'foo', which supposedly will always result in the 'if' condition always evaluating to true, assuming this is C code and assuming true is not a 0.
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you tell them, MC Vagina.
Many asked you the same question, you didn't respond.
Why do we care about death of life on this planet or in the Universe at all, once you are dead, what is it to you if the entire Universe ends as well? You did not answer that.
Moron I'd Like to Forget. but you keep reminding and reminding me...
2 Free hours so that you can sit there occupying a table for 2 hours on 1 cup of coffee? :) OK, let's see how that business survives THAT. 15 minutes is more than enough for a single purchase.
That's Insightful? You do realize, that you don't own that table and that chair, or do you? If I come in and I see all chairs occupied by laptop trolls, I leave, I don't bother staying in that coffee shop, so this is a coffee shop owner's problem so they have to deal with you, not me, or their business will die off.
The meaning of life is to plant trees that we will not live to sit in the shade of.
- you have defined a meaning for your life.
Now let me define a meaning for mine: do what I can to at some point start enjoying my life, which is short, much shorter than some of the trees, whose seeds you'll be planting.
Once our lifespans go up significantly (into thousands/tens of thousand of years) THEN EVENTUALLY the politics will change from: what is good now, to what is good for the next 120 years approximately.
There you go, no way you can change it with your nice philosophies and you are not fooling anybody: people want the shade now, so they'll go out, make some money and buy a tree or an air-conditioned tent for those sunny days, so they can be sitting there, having margaritas.
I will not care then, because I would probably be unable to (or I'd be in hell and have other things on my mind).
- I like your optimism.
you are probably correct, but your comment still reminded me of this
you never know now if the guy will take the million dollars himself, or if you'll have to chase him around and beat it into him.
I was taking complexity at UofT with Cook, he actually is a brilliant teacher AFAIC, he made this stuff seem easy.
only realize that to a non-existing being, problems of existing beings are not their problems, all I am saying that everybody's life passes in an infinitesimally short period of time, which in fact does not even mean anything to a non-existing entity. To a non-existing entity infinity = 1 =0 = negative infinity. Anybody's problem is really irrelevant once you are not there. They'll get over it, and even if an entire civilization dies because of some information that came out after your death, even that is completely irrelevant to a non-existing entity.
It only matters in your mind while you are alive and it only matters because you have a perspective, which non-existing entity does not. So, sure, it's your choice what you want or do not want to come out, but realize, once you are dead, things that you may not wished to come out, can STILL come out, but it's not important.
By year 5, lets be honest, they collect dust and prevent papers from blowing away, and nothing else.
- It all differs from case to case, from machine to machine, from user to user.
I am typing this on a computer I use daily - Dell Latitude D810, which I got in the summer of 2005. I always wanted to put a bigger harddrive in it, but never got around to it. There are a few things I notice about it that are deteriorating:
1. Touch pad has peeled off a bit, it's patchy, but works probably as well as new.
2. The machine is getting hotter now than it was 5 years ago, I know it because of the fan that comes on sooner. I cleaned it, didn't change much.
3. The volume buttons are not working well, so I change the volume with the software controls.
It's not as bad as you are describing, but this laptop was one of the top of the lines machines in its time, got it for work, it was about 5.5K (CAD).
I repeat my question: do you think it matters after you are dead at all? REALLY? That's just very narrow vision. Once you are dead, it absolutely does not matter at all, even if it concerns your closest family or the entire world. You are dead, you are gone, you have no more input and no more output on any of this. There is no more input to you on any of this. To you nothing exists and you do not exist. The eternity == to infinity == to nothing at that point, all the time or space does not matter, it's all as if it never existed.
The only real thing that matters is what you are doing while you are alive. Everything else is completely irrelevant and made up.
Dude, the only meaning is what you can make for yourself while you are alive. Once you are dead, there is no more meaning for you, no matter how many monuments can be built, don't fool yourself, there is no meaning after death, do what you can now.
bigger question is: who cares about your reflections?
I have no feelings, cause feelings are gay.
He may be your sysadmin, but he ain't no priest of nobody.
I have a better, more perfect solution.
Don't die.
(in the unlikely event that you do die, ask yourself a question: "why do you give a fuck what anybody finds out about you? Really?")
No, the Chinese people who ACTUALLY have paid for this.
THAT should have been Informative.
Yeah, well, how do you think that came to be?....
pffft, I type with my dick. The only problem is that balls keep pushing the space-bar.
so what you are saying is that /. editing algorithm has been bettered done quickly?
actually no, his code clearly should be this:
foo=true;
a=x;
There is no question there, it's an assignment of 'true' to 'foo', which supposedly will always result in the 'if' condition always evaluating to true, assuming this is C code and assuming true is not a 0.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct. You fit perfectly into a coding team.
NOW notice how the parent post wasn't asking you about this, he was making a joke about a way of getting OFF of a coding team.
You fail to understand joke, thus you do belong on /.