Next, you're going to tell me that Ozzy Osbourne was completely sane before the dope. Or that Jack Kerouac wasn't crazy for getting hooked on Heroin on purpose.
The vast majority of addicts become addicts because of one mental illness or another. Depression, anxiety, neurosis, psychosis, mania, insecurity, just take your pick. People will take drugs to make the voices go away, to calm the anxiety, to stop the pain, and just to appear normal when they're anything but. You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a well-adjusted addict, that's for sure.
Your diagnosis, while well-intentioned, is far too late. My doctor came up with that one about 8 years ago. This past winter just about drove me to suicide (It rained every day for a month straight in January, breaking the previuos record of 28 days), at which point I decided it was time I got a sun lamp. BTW, the light box you refer to makes me physically ill. I had to find another one that didn't emit so much blue/UV light.
I'm still likely to get a prescription for antidepressents this winter though.
One thing that annoys me is that they added "is not a satellite" to specifically exclude Charon.
No, it was added to specifically exclude all of the large satellites around Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth, many of which are larger than both Charon and Pluto, and one of which even has enough mass to harbour an atmosphere.
Ah, the magical switch that flips when a kid turns 18, making him a responsible adult....
There is, on the other hand, a magical switch that flips when a kid rents his own apartment, has to get his own ass out of bed to get it into work every morning, and at the same time ensures that he eats and pays his bills.
One of my coworkers had this magical switch flipped when he was 13. At the time, he had a job and his Dad insisted he pay his share of the rent. 100% of it, in fact. The resulting argument ended with an eviction, after which he was still paying 100% of the rent, but elsewhere.
He was successful in college and in work thanks to these drugs, but was he truly happy without poetry and music?
To quote Trent Reznor: "I don't write a lot when I'm happy."
I have a theory that says that the function of modern art is for the viewer to live vicariously through the artist's insanity. Van Gogh was famous for this. So was Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Alan Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollock, to name a few.
Perhaps the question isn't "can he be happy without his poetry", but "can he make good poetry without his sadness".
Spoken like someone who's never had a problem with depression.
Personally, I think that's a small sacrifice to keep from wanting to KILL YOURSELF!
When someone's clinically depressed, the whole world is in shades of grey to them. Things that would normally bring joy are met at best with indifference and anger at worst. Interest in eating and having sex wanes. Social activities and obligations are ignored, along with housework. They feel listless and sleep more.
Then there's the extreme sadness and suicidal tendencies.
Personally, I wouldn't mind not caring for the 4 months out of the year that I'm depressed.
Stargate really should have ended with the defeat of the Goa'uld. That would have been an awesome and worthy end to the series.
My wife and I are big fans of Stargate. I think they did an amazing job. They took an idea from a movie that was only so-so, and they ran with it and made it into something infinitely greater. In fact, we bought all the seasons that they produced on DVD so far.
But we're not going to buy last season's DVD set. It seems that either the creative well has run dry, or that the writers just aren't capable of coming up with original bad guys anymore. At any rate, this past season was a total dud and I doubt that I'll be waiting with bated breath for this last season.
I guess that's show business for you. Just keep churning out the same old stuff, not until you get the big dramatic ending, but until the grosses start to drop.
Some feel that per-track downloads hurt the artistic integrity of albums as a whole
This is true. Especially of artists like nine inch nails who blend tracks one into another, and Anal Cunt*, which, ah, doesn't. Live albums like Nirvana's Unplugged are much easier to listen to from start to finish.
Of course, they could offer the entire album in one continuous mp3 for $12. Sometimes an album is so good, you want the whole thing.
*Although their music is pretty pointless, it is infinitely moreso if you try to download an album one track at a time, since they completely ignore track boundaries. This is artistic inasmuch that their main goal is to piss off their audience in a very, very Punk way.
My dad just retired, and he's been playing and loving Diablo-style games since, well, Diablo.
Heh. My mom is in her 50s now, and she's been playing Diablo-style games since, well, *Rogue*. She still generally likes the RPG genre, and plays Baldur's Gate a lot.
Star gazing is still another matter altogether.;-)
Another matter in which I'm an expert.:) (And so are they)
While the view generally gets better the higher you go, the higher you go above 10,000 ft, the less oxygen your brain and eyeballs get to see with. O2 improves this so much at 14,000 ft, I've heard pilots describe the difference as "like turning the lights on". Especially at night (someone else mentioned that the FAR rules are lower at night as well).
While I expect that the view was quite spectacular like you say, it's not anywhere near as good as it could be, unless you're Chilean. "Just lying on the ground" might not be a very vigorous activity, but neither is flying VFR.
In layman's terms, expect significantly brighter, more detailed LCD displays,
Can we just fuck right off with the phrase "in layman's terms" and the accompanying explanation? This is slashdot, news for nerds. We are nerds. We are NOT laymen. Yes, we know what VGA is. Yes, we know what it means when you double the resolution of an LCD. To suggest we don't demonstrates the editor's complete ignorance of the readership.
And hard to breathe, I would imagine? Oxygen is required for pilots flying above 10,000ft. At 14,000, your vision would be diminished due to hypoxia, and you probably didn't see nearly as many meteorites as you could have.
About three years ago, I started keeping a journal. This was due to two factors: Livejournal was just then becoming very popular, and I work at an ISP. I was starting to wonder if the massive clusterfucks that our telco was regularly handing down to us had any historical reference. Did other infrastructures, which today are nearly infallible, have their growing pains in the first 10 years of their existence? Was the telephone network as flaky in 1906 as the internet is today? Was the power grid? I knew that the automobile was very much a hobbyist's toy at that time, much like the computer was in 1990. Noone today would stand for a car so finicky and in need of constant attention as they were then, yet we still need to defrag our hard drives and scan for viruses on a weekly basis.
I started to record my daily hectic firewalking, so that historians a century from now can say "wow, they sure had a lot of trouble with making the internet work back then! It's so reliable now!" I also keep most of my work e-mail, for the same reason. I expect someday I'll be printing it all out with archival ink and storing it in a safety deposit box, or keeping it perpetually backed up in digital form, or preferrably both.
Historians place great value on the correspondance between people in the past. E-mail is the modern equivalent to the letters between Napoleon and Josephine. We don't think much of it now, but it's a historical record that must not be lost.
It would make sense that often there would be chunks of smaller mass just floating around until they scoop up enough matter into their gravity well to start fusion.
Sure, but those chunks of smaller mass just waiting around to scoop up more matter are generally floating around in large clouds of dust and gas, doing exactly that. And because of that, we can't see them. What happens is that other nearby stars that were formed alongside each other in such a cloud, generally boil away the cloud and starve the runts of new material. That's where these bodies come from.
That's odd. I still play Rogue (the PC, 8 bit ASCII version), Death Rally, and Bubble Bobble. Rogue never gets old (random dungeons will do that), and the earliest memories I have of playing it are still fond. Bubble Bobble is still as saccarine and obscenity-inducing as it ever was. And I've honed my skills in Death Rally to a fine edge.
See, I just don't harbour any delusions about how good the graphics were, or how silly the game was, or how hard it was to finish. Mind you, I've also been playing them all along, instead of leaving the game for 20 years and creating false memories in my imagination.
A game that you can keep coming back to year after year is the mark of a true classic.
I certainly hope that you mean you can't build a proper program in C++ with 100,000 lines of code or some such. Sysadmins need to code. They typically do it in higher-level languages like sh or perl, and their programs are typically less than 500 lines, but there's a million little things that need to be automated in a sysadmin's job. Office automation is the single most important application of sysadminning. It's why they pay us the big bucks (heh).
Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal he is bullish on Microsoft's investments in online services, and he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon.
In other words, Steve Ballmer tells his shareholders exactly what he thinks they want to hear. Or what he wants them to hear so that they keep buying stock. Kind of like how our builders told us 9 months ago that our townhouse will be ready in 3 months.
Air conditioning is of most use at night. Unless you live in the arctic circle your proposal means everyone will roast in their beds.
Huh? Around here, it just so happens that the lack of sunlight at night cools the surface of the earth, so miraculously, just pumping air from outside to the inside results in a living unit that gets cooler too.
Just as miraculously, if you keep the temperature of said living unit cool during the day when the sun is shining, it doesn't take a lot of energy to make it cool after the sun sets.
Moreover, who says you have to get all your power all the time from solar? If you're hooked up to the power grid, you can use your solar panels to generate power that goes into said grid, and makes your meter run backwards. You're then producing power for other people to use, and as such reducing the amount that the power authority has to generate. You win because your bill goes down. They win because their bill goes down. Everyone's happy.
Of course, silly ideas like CF lights and high efficiency refrigerators might help that too.
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Next, you're going to tell me that Ozzy Osbourne was completely sane before the dope. Or that Jack Kerouac wasn't crazy for getting hooked on Heroin on purpose.
The vast majority of addicts become addicts because of one mental illness or another. Depression, anxiety, neurosis, psychosis, mania, insecurity, just take your pick. People will take drugs to make the voices go away, to calm the anxiety, to stop the pain, and just to appear normal when they're anything but. You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a well-adjusted addict, that's for sure.
Your diagnosis, while well-intentioned, is far too late. My doctor came up with that one about 8 years ago. This past winter just about drove me to suicide (It rained every day for a month straight in January, breaking the previuos record of 28 days), at which point I decided it was time I got a sun lamp. BTW, the light box you refer to makes me physically ill. I had to find another one that didn't emit so much blue/UV light.
I'm still likely to get a prescription for antidepressents this winter though.
One thing that annoys me is that they added "is not a satellite" to specifically exclude Charon.
No, it was added to specifically exclude all of the large satellites around Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth, many of which are larger than both Charon and Pluto, and one of which even has enough mass to harbour an atmosphere.
Ah, the magical switch that flips when a kid turns 18, making him a responsible adult....
There is, on the other hand, a magical switch that flips when a kid rents his own apartment, has to get his own ass out of bed to get it into work every morning, and at the same time ensures that he eats and pays his bills.
One of my coworkers had this magical switch flipped when he was 13. At the time, he had a job and his Dad insisted he pay his share of the rent. 100% of it, in fact. The resulting argument ended with an eviction, after which he was still paying 100% of the rent, but elsewhere.
He's now a millionaire of his own device.
He was successful in college and in work thanks to these drugs, but was he truly happy without poetry and music?
To quote Trent Reznor: "I don't write a lot when I'm happy."
I have a theory that says that the function of modern art is for the viewer to live vicariously through the artist's insanity. Van Gogh was famous for this. So was Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Alan Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollock, to name a few.
Perhaps the question isn't "can he be happy without his poetry", but "can he make good poetry without his sadness".
Spoken like someone who's never had a problem with depression.
Personally, I think that's a small sacrifice to keep from wanting to KILL YOURSELF!
When someone's clinically depressed, the whole world is in shades of grey to them. Things that would normally bring joy are met at best with indifference and anger at worst. Interest in eating and having sex wanes. Social activities and obligations are ignored, along with housework. They feel listless and sleep more.
Then there's the extreme sadness and suicidal tendencies.
Personally, I wouldn't mind not caring for the 4 months out of the year that I'm depressed.
Stargate really should have ended with the defeat of the Goa'uld. That would have been an awesome and worthy end to the series.
My wife and I are big fans of Stargate. I think they did an amazing job. They took an idea from a movie that was only so-so, and they ran with it and made it into something infinitely greater. In fact, we bought all the seasons that they produced on DVD so far.
But we're not going to buy last season's DVD set. It seems that either the creative well has run dry, or that the writers just aren't capable of coming up with original bad guys anymore. At any rate, this past season was a total dud and I doubt that I'll be waiting with bated breath for this last season.
I guess that's show business for you. Just keep churning out the same old stuff, not until you get the big dramatic ending, but until the grosses start to drop.
Some feel that per-track downloads hurt the artistic integrity of albums as a whole
This is true. Especially of artists like nine inch nails who blend tracks one into another, and Anal Cunt*, which, ah, doesn't. Live albums like Nirvana's Unplugged are much easier to listen to from start to finish.
Of course, they could offer the entire album in one continuous mp3 for $12. Sometimes an album is so good, you want the whole thing.
*Although their music is pretty pointless, it is infinitely moreso if you try to download an album one track at a time, since they completely ignore track boundaries. This is artistic inasmuch that their main goal is to piss off their audience in a very, very Punk way.
My dad just retired, and he's been playing and loving Diablo-style games since, well, Diablo.
Heh. My mom is in her 50s now, and she's been playing Diablo-style games since, well, *Rogue*. She still generally likes the RPG genre, and plays Baldur's Gate a lot.
Somehow, I suspect that by the time I'm 64, lines like this will apply:
:)
"Whoa! Check out those neural kinetics! They're way above normal!"
And maybe video games are the cure for Alzheimer's.
Star gazing is still another matter altogether. ;-)
:) (And so are they)
Another matter in which I'm an expert.
While the view generally gets better the higher you go, the higher you go above 10,000 ft, the less oxygen your brain and eyeballs get to see with. O2 improves this so much at 14,000 ft, I've heard pilots describe the difference as "like turning the lights on". Especially at night (someone else mentioned that the FAR rules are lower at night as well).
While I expect that the view was quite spectacular like you say, it's not anywhere near as good as it could be, unless you're Chilean. "Just lying on the ground" might not be a very vigorous activity, but neither is flying VFR.
See!?
My point exactly!
You say 10,000 feet requires oxygen?
u res/media/hypoxia.pdf
Well, the FAA seems to think so:
http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybroch
But as they say, every person's reaction to hypoxia is different.
In layman's terms, expect significantly brighter, more detailed LCD displays,
Can we just fuck right off with the phrase "in layman's terms" and the accompanying explanation? This is slashdot, news for nerds. We are nerds. We are NOT laymen. Yes, we know what VGA is. Yes, we know what it means when you double the resolution of an LCD. To suggest we don't demonstrates the editor's complete ignorance of the readership.
It was beautiful... also cold.
And hard to breathe, I would imagine? Oxygen is required for pilots flying above 10,000ft. At 14,000, your vision would be diminished due to hypoxia, and you probably didn't see nearly as many meteorites as you could have.
I mean we probably didn't smell very good by the end of the week
What do you mean "probably"?
About three years ago, I started keeping a journal. This was due to two factors: Livejournal was just then becoming very popular, and I work at an ISP. I was starting to wonder if the massive clusterfucks that our telco was regularly handing down to us had any historical reference. Did other infrastructures, which today are nearly infallible, have their growing pains in the first 10 years of their existence? Was the telephone network as flaky in 1906 as the internet is today? Was the power grid? I knew that the automobile was very much a hobbyist's toy at that time, much like the computer was in 1990. Noone today would stand for a car so finicky and in need of constant attention as they were then, yet we still need to defrag our hard drives and scan for viruses on a weekly basis.
I started to record my daily hectic firewalking, so that historians a century from now can say "wow, they sure had a lot of trouble with making the internet work back then! It's so reliable now!" I also keep most of my work e-mail, for the same reason. I expect someday I'll be printing it all out with archival ink and storing it in a safety deposit box, or keeping it perpetually backed up in digital form, or preferrably both.
Historians place great value on the correspondance between people in the past. E-mail is the modern equivalent to the letters between Napoleon and Josephine. We don't think much of it now, but it's a historical record that must not be lost.
It would make sense that often there would be chunks of smaller mass just floating around until they scoop up enough matter into their gravity well to start fusion.
Sure, but those chunks of smaller mass just waiting around to scoop up more matter are generally floating around in large clouds of dust and gas, doing exactly that. And because of that, we can't see them. What happens is that other nearby stars that were formed alongside each other in such a cloud, generally boil away the cloud and starve the runts of new material. That's where these bodies come from.
That's odd. I still play Rogue (the PC, 8 bit ASCII version), Death Rally, and Bubble Bobble. Rogue never gets old (random dungeons will do that), and the earliest memories I have of playing it are still fond. Bubble Bobble is still as saccarine and obscenity-inducing as it ever was. And I've honed my skills in Death Rally to a fine edge.
See, I just don't harbour any delusions about how good the graphics were, or how silly the game was, or how hard it was to finish. Mind you, I've also been playing them all along, instead of leaving the game for 20 years and creating false memories in my imagination.
A game that you can keep coming back to year after year is the mark of a true classic.
The new armor, originally envisioned to be spread on like peanut butter, is instead sprayed onto Kevlar in ultrathin coats.
So they spray this stuff onto bulletproof material to make it... bulletproof? I'm not sure how this makes an improvement on the original.
I certainly hope that you mean you can't build a proper program in C++ with 100,000 lines of code or some such. Sysadmins need to code. They typically do it in higher-level languages like sh or perl, and their programs are typically less than 500 lines, but there's a million little things that need to be automated in a sysadmin's job. Office automation is the single most important application of sysadminning. It's why they pay us the big bucks (heh).
Um, yeah, because the world's biggest telescopes use refracting lenses these days.
This just serves to make you look even dumber. Or maybe that's the joke.
Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal he is bullish on Microsoft's investments in online services, and he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon.
In other words, Steve Ballmer tells his shareholders exactly what he thinks they want to hear. Or what he wants them to hear so that they keep buying stock. Kind of like how our builders told us 9 months ago that our townhouse will be ready in 3 months.
Next time please don't pull prices out of your ass.
He's not.
Air conditioning is of most use at night. Unless you live in the arctic circle your proposal means everyone will roast in their beds.
Huh? Around here, it just so happens that the lack of sunlight at night cools the surface of the earth, so miraculously, just pumping air from outside to the inside results in a living unit that gets cooler too.
Just as miraculously, if you keep the temperature of said living unit cool during the day when the sun is shining, it doesn't take a lot of energy to make it cool after the sun sets.
Moreover, who says you have to get all your power all the time from solar? If you're hooked up to the power grid, you can use your solar panels to generate power that goes into said grid, and makes your meter run backwards. You're then producing power for other people to use, and as such reducing the amount that the power authority has to generate. You win because your bill goes down. They win because their bill goes down. Everyone's happy.
Of course, silly ideas like CF lights and high efficiency refrigerators might help that too.