Give him time. I once believed in creationism, but slowly, over time, I changed. Now I believe in evolution.
Strangely enough, I used to believe in Evolution, but now believe in Creationism and actually came to that turnaround by studying evolution. It is true though that Christians let themselves down terribly by using arguments that sound good to them, but are not worked through thoroughly. Please understand that I am not trolling, but just stating what I believe.
Incredibly it was Christian monks who kept knowledge - the sciences - alive through the Dark Ages. Universities also were originally Christian institutions, but these days so many Christians have forgotten how to think critically, believing that critical thinking is unfaithful to their Pastors and the Bible. How wrong they are! I say this as an orthodox, charismatic Christian. It is ok to question things as long as your intent is to find the truth.
If indeed we have been given brains, we have a responsibility to use them critically to ascertain the truth in whatever we are taught, by both Creationists and Evolutionists.
Hmm. I've actually found printers easier in recent years on Linux than Windows. Scanners are plug and play as well. Two words. CUPS and SANE. Windows doesn't have anything on them. Most of the time with my (Linux) laptop I just plug in the printer and print about a minute later.
The basic thing is this - and before any of you pedants out there spot my misquotation, I know - people should be allowed to defend their name, investment and reputation. Trademarks are very good for that purpose, in fact I have one for my business name. If someone wants to take their code and change it in a way that could potentially damage the functionality of it, then why should the original developers wear it? On the other hand, good code is good code and it should be available. I think the present system, eg Firefox, works quite well.
According to the article, these things can kill a dog in a single bite. Even given that venomous spiders the size of an adult male's fist aren't really photogenic, (won't have some "humane solution" protesters) what can the town do about them? Poison all the possible breeding areas? Make a civil patrol with bug zappers?
Should be interesting to see how it works out.
When the rain settles down they'll go away. Like they normally would. Don't see how this got to be news... We have more poisonous things that creep, crawl or slither than I'd care to name, but it's just part of the backdrop of where we live. Who cares? Certainly not news...
In your favour I don't think I was very clear and I never did use W2K all that much. Went straight from 98SE to Linux on my own computers...
IMHO though, the MS register of honour goes as such. DOS 5.0, Win 3.11, NT, Win 2000, XP(service pack 2), and, predicting, Win7. XP made the list mainly as there was no real MS replacement for a long time.
I think if you carefully read what I said in my post, you will find that I didn't explicitly call Win 2000 unsuccessful either. Is Vista the worst general release since the two operating systems mentioned? Yes. No other release in that time frame (ie this century) has caused MS more loss, so to speak, in reputation or custom. I rest my case.
They finally spit out a half decent product (Win7) and they want to hang on to their most unsuccessful release since Win2000 or ME? I wonder if the copies of Vista sold after Win7's release date will still have the free upgrade to Win7 option?
If my experience with Asians from less wealthy nations (esp. Sth East Asians) is worth anything, the majority of them will still just buy bootleg as that is the only system they really know or its just the way they do things. Unless they actually see a real reason to download 3gig or more, burn it to a DVD etc they'll just go to the market and buy a bootleg for 40 rupees (call it a dollar).
We Aussies are surprisingly straight-forward and blunt about naming things. For example. Squeaky Beach (your feet squeak in the sand as you walk) Cock Rock (it looks like a, well, never mind), The Great Sandy Desert, 90-mile Beach and the Nullarbor Plain (means 'no trees' in Latin). Also anything coming out of Canberra tends to have a hint of 'boring' to it.
If you are putting through a stack of cable, buy a crimper, a cable tester and do it yourself. (Buy your tools at a swap-meet if you can. Same tools, 1/4 the price.) The future convenience of having cable done to fit the building will reward you.
If, on the other hand, it is not a huge amount of cable, it may be cheaper to buy set length cables already made up. I can buy made up cable so cheap where I am that it has to be more than 100m or so before it makes sense to do my own. All that about hand-made vs factory made is BS. Just modern superstition. The job is simpler than deleting a lusers emails...
... because it is fat soluble, it hangs around the system for about 7 years (the amount of time it takes for all the cells in your body to be replaced)...
The only problem with that is that apparently fat cells are like nerve cells. They don't get replaced like muscle celss or whatever. Once they are produced, they stay there. The highs you experienced were probably more likely to be the contents of the cells being utilised by the body.
Re.the Summary above. There is no 'Federal' court in Melbourne. We have the Supreme Court. Paradoxically, a higher court is in Canberra, the High Court of Australia. If people want to go higher than that, there is the Privy Council in England. Haven't heard of a case going there in many years though.
Ever heard of anyone dying from an overdose of pot? Falling asleep, eating until bloated, thirsty enough to drink the pacific ocean dry, yes. Dying... never!:-)
Dying, no. Long term problems with short-term memory and concentration, yes. Loss of initiative and drive, yes. Psychosis, family break-down, incarceration in a psychiatric facility, panic disorder, depression, suicide attempts, broken relationships, unemployment. Yes. Actually that pretty well sums up the largish circle of people I used to smoke marijuana with and as far as I can tell, they were all pretty average, normal people before they started on dope. Ten years after I quit I still have serious problems with my memory.
Many people like to say that Marijuana is harmless and not like other drugs as it is natural. Well, Arsenic and Cyanide are natural as well. It seems that the main problem with Marijuana is that THC, the main drug in Gunja isn't water soluble like most drugs that wash out of the system. It's soluble in fats and oils, so it hangs around in fat cells in the body for many years to come. Your brain is 30% fatty tissue...
Up to that point, I never thought of myself in any way, shape or form as a logical thinker. In some sense, I'm really not. But I learned something about myself. I learned that things go wrong in even completely logical settings for no apparent reason -- but there is a reason, and searching it down, identifying it, and solving it is actually fun and rewarding. I can't write code, but I am quite skilled in digging around in it and bending it to my will -- something I never dreamed I'd like doing.
I must say that using Linux (manpages and all) has taught me a stack of confidence, logical thinking, problem solving skills etc as well as a lot about computers in general and how they run. I even run a PC repair business now as well as setting up free Linux boxes for disadvantaged students.
Has anyone else found that using Linux has really helped them develop personally in this way?
The thing that made (makes) *nix such an easy target is that you can actually understand how it works. Windows is full of holes, but it's so frigging weird and hard to wrap your head around the bizarre OS that the casual cracker won't bother learning what's going on.
What I find really strange is that a 'mixed bag' like a Linux distro with software from all over the place hodge-podged together actually does often make a lot more sense functionally than a complete in-house setup like Windows. I can understand my Linux box. Windows drives me freaking insane!
Sounds like he went to a Windows tech... He was however quite right in his presumption that his Linux box was quite safe in itself. We've all seen the fake scanners and they are funny. The the issue here though was that the malware passed on to a server through his browser. That IS interesting!
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Give him time. I once believed in creationism, but slowly, over time, I changed. Now I believe in evolution.
Strangely enough, I used to believe in Evolution, but now believe in Creationism and actually came to that turnaround by studying evolution. It is true though that Christians let themselves down terribly by using arguments that sound good to them, but are not worked through thoroughly. Please understand that I am not trolling, but just stating what I believe.
Incredibly it was Christian monks who kept knowledge - the sciences - alive through the Dark Ages. Universities also were originally Christian institutions, but these days so many Christians have forgotten how to think critically, believing that critical thinking is unfaithful to their Pastors and the Bible. How wrong they are! I say this as an orthodox, charismatic Christian. It is ok to question things as long as your intent is to find the truth.
If indeed we have been given brains, we have a responsibility to use them critically to ascertain the truth in whatever we are taught, by both Creationists and Evolutionists.
Hmm. I've actually found printers easier in recent years on Linux than Windows. Scanners are plug and play as well. Two words. CUPS and SANE. Windows doesn't have anything on them. Most of the time with my (Linux) laptop I just plug in the printer and print about a minute later.
The basic thing is this - and before any of you pedants out there spot my misquotation, I know - people should be allowed to defend their name, investment and reputation. Trademarks are very good for that purpose, in fact I have one for my business name. If someone wants to take their code and change it in a way that could potentially damage the functionality of it, then why should the original developers wear it? On the other hand, good code is good code and it should be available. I think the present system, eg Firefox, works quite well.
"A Rose by any other name is still as sweet."
According to the article, these things can kill a dog in a single bite. Even given that venomous spiders the size of an adult male's fist aren't really photogenic, (won't have some "humane solution" protesters) what can the town do about them? Poison all the possible breeding areas? Make a civil patrol with bug zappers? Should be interesting to see how it works out.
When the rain settles down they'll go away. Like they normally would. Don't see how this got to be news... We have more poisonous things that creep, crawl or slither than I'd care to name, but it's just part of the backdrop of where we live. Who cares? Certainly not news...
In your favour I don't think I was very clear and I never did use W2K all that much. Went straight from 98SE to Linux on my own computers...
IMHO though, the MS register of honour goes as such. DOS 5.0, Win 3.11, NT, Win 2000, XP(service pack 2), and, predicting, Win7. XP made the list mainly as there was no real MS replacement for a long time.
I think if you carefully read what I said in my post, you will find that I didn't explicitly call Win 2000 unsuccessful either. Is Vista the worst general release since the two operating systems mentioned? Yes. No other release in that time frame (ie this century) has caused MS more loss, so to speak, in reputation or custom. I rest my case.
They finally spit out a half decent product (Win7) and they want to hang on to their most unsuccessful release since Win2000 or ME? I wonder if the copies of Vista sold after Win7's release date will still have the free upgrade to Win7 option?
If one thing exited people
I don't think that phrase means what you think it means...
But the irony is delicious. A Freudian slip perhaps?
If my experience with Asians from less wealthy nations (esp. Sth East Asians) is worth anything, the majority of them will still just buy bootleg as that is the only system they really know or its just the way they do things. Unless they actually see a real reason to download 3gig or more, burn it to a DVD etc they'll just go to the market and buy a bootleg for 40 rupees (call it a dollar).
We Aussies are surprisingly straight-forward and blunt about naming things. For example. Squeaky Beach (your feet squeak in the sand as you walk) Cock Rock (it looks like a, well, never mind), The Great Sandy Desert, 90-mile Beach and the Nullarbor Plain (means 'no trees' in Latin). Also anything coming out of Canberra tends to have a hint of 'boring' to it.
Reminds me of German U-Boat blankets and concentration camps...
If you are putting through a stack of cable, buy a crimper, a cable tester and do it yourself. (Buy your tools at a swap-meet if you can. Same tools, 1/4 the price.) The future convenience of having cable done to fit the building will reward you.
If, on the other hand, it is not a huge amount of cable, it may be cheaper to buy set length cables already made up. I can buy made up cable so cheap where I am that it has to be more than 100m or so before it makes sense to do my own. All that about hand-made vs factory made is BS. Just modern superstition. The job is simpler than deleting a lusers emails...
... because it is fat soluble, it hangs around the system for about 7 years (the amount of time it takes for all the cells in your body to be replaced)...
The only problem with that is that apparently fat cells are like nerve cells. They don't get replaced like muscle celss or whatever. Once they are produced, they stay there. The highs you experienced were probably more likely to be the contents of the cells being utilised by the body.
Re.the Summary above. There is no 'Federal' court in Melbourne. We have the Supreme Court. Paradoxically, a higher court is in Canberra, the High Court of Australia. If people want to go higher than that, there is the Privy Council in England. Haven't heard of a case going there in many years though.
Ever heard of anyone dying from an overdose of pot? Falling asleep, eating until bloated, thirsty enough to drink the pacific ocean dry, yes. Dying... never! :-)
Dying, no. Long term problems with short-term memory and concentration, yes. Loss of initiative and drive, yes. Psychosis, family break-down, incarceration in a psychiatric facility, panic disorder, depression, suicide attempts, broken relationships, unemployment. Yes. Actually that pretty well sums up the largish circle of people I used to smoke marijuana with and as far as I can tell, they were all pretty average, normal people before they started on dope. Ten years after I quit I still have serious problems with my memory.
Many people like to say that Marijuana is harmless and not like other drugs as it is natural. Well, Arsenic and Cyanide are natural as well. It seems that the main problem with Marijuana is that THC, the main drug in Gunja isn't water soluble like most drugs that wash out of the system. It's soluble in fats and oils, so it hangs around in fat cells in the body for many years to come. Your brain is 30% fatty tissue...
Probably the best enterprise marketing decision that MS has made in years...
Windows is like a drug addiction. Sometimes it takes several tries to kick it.
More like Windows is a bad stain-- it might take several washes to get it out!
so, a bad stain is worse than a drug addiction?? if not, which OS would u describe as a drug addiction??
Linux, but more like Soma in Brave New World. Not harmful, just gives u a bit of a rush every now and then.
Up to that point, I never thought of myself in any way, shape or form as a logical thinker. In some sense, I'm really not. But I learned something about myself. I learned that things go wrong in even completely logical settings for no apparent reason -- but there is a reason, and searching it down, identifying it, and solving it is actually fun and rewarding. I can't write code, but I am quite skilled in digging around in it and bending it to my will -- something I never dreamed I'd like doing.
I must say that using Linux (manpages and all) has taught me a stack of confidence, logical thinking, problem solving skills etc as well as a lot about computers in general and how they run. I even run a PC repair business now as well as setting up free Linux boxes for disadvantaged students.
Has anyone else found that using Linux has really helped them develop personally in this way?
I should mention that the first uneasy but hopeful meeting turned into a long-term relationship and eventually a business.
Just hunted around. I was trying out different distros.
The thing that made (makes) *nix such an easy target is that you can actually understand how it works. Windows is full of holes, but it's so frigging weird and hard to wrap your head around the bizarre OS that the casual cracker won't bother learning what's going on.
What I find really strange is that a 'mixed bag' like a Linux distro with software from all over the place hodge-podged together actually does often make a lot more sense functionally than a complete in-house setup like Windows. I can understand my Linux box. Windows drives me freaking insane!
Actually 99% of the time I can pick malware up on a flash drive armed only with Nautilus or Dolphin.
I do regular scans of removable media, but only cos I'm a tech working with windows machines and my flash drives get around a fair bit.
Sounds like he went to a Windows tech... He was however quite right in his presumption that his Linux box was quite safe in itself. We've all seen the fake scanners and they are funny. The the issue here though was that the malware passed on to a server through his browser. That IS interesting!