Or maybe commuting to work by bicycle, 60 miles each way, instead of spending that time sitting in a Lexus "exercising" his gas pedal foot, had something to do with it.
At least until you hit 40, when it is more of a "plunging off a cliff" aging process. ..
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
The fastest average "nonstop" (the clock never stopped) speed by bicycle across America, 15.3 mph, was set by a 43 year old nuclear engineer.
A 25 mile time trialist who competed in the American national championships from his teens into his eighties reported ( and could back it up with race results) that every year he could get stronger and faster . . . until he hit 65, at which point he started losing about a minute a year no matter how he trained.
Bear in mind that even ten years after "plunging over the cliff" of 65 he was still healthier, stronger and faster than most 20 year olds.
If you "plunge over the cliff" at 30 or 40 I'm afraid it ain't age that's done it. You have, very simply, "let yourself go."
I have a touch of old-fogeyism in me, and wish that Linux's file system GUI management tools were all standardized and work as simply as My Computer/Explorer do.
I have a touch of old-fogeyism in me. What the hell is a GUI and why would I want to manage it from the file system?
Also, if Your Computer works so simply, what are you bitching about?
Like writing down on leaflets PINs and passwords or communicating them via email.
How about walking around telling everyone your password to demonstrate how clever you were in devising it (out of dictionary words).
Yes, a member of my own family, with a degree from Harvard (bit of local men's room grafitti: "At Skidmore we teach people to wash their hands after using the restroom." Somebody wrote under it: "At Harvard we teach them not to piss on their hands.").
The only effective security measure I know for behavior like this is to apply an LBI.
Some people like the LBIs that come from Louisville, but I'm a New England boy and prefer the LBIs from New Britain. The FatMax(r) incorporates tuning fork technology to reduce harmful vibrations that can cause arm and wrist injuries.
I like the 16 oz. myself, but I only go 130 lbs with dripping wet clothes on. You might acheive better results with the 20 oz.
. ..it's the security team's responsibility to make them less stupid.
You can make them less ignorant. You cannot make them less stupid. You can train the ignorant. You cannot train the stupid, because, well, they're stupid. Stupid is forever. That's the definition of stupid.
Security has to take the stupid into account, because they're out there, in your organization.
If you can find Adirondack you can probably find Polar. Try their pomegranate.
As an aside, when you are in the mood for a sugared soda and are tired of all the colas and "anti"colas, try Polar Cream. Best Cream soda in the entire frickin' universe.
So I'll point out that because our eyes are so close together stereoscopic vision only works to out about 30 feet. Beyond that point even in RL appearance of depth is a 2D illusion.
I'll further point out that 3D does not mean "appearance of visual depth." It means "modelable on three axes."
Yep, it's just that few realize how life affirming truely understanding that is.
Maybe other people miss that implied message.
It's just possible that many people here will think I'm implying Bob Marley's observation with my last sentence, and while it is apropos I actually had another statement of Mallory's in mind:
Have we vanquised an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. To struggle and to understand, Never this last without the other. Such is the law.
A mountaineer formed the ultimate geek credo. Go figure.
"None but Ourselves" is the motto of my ultramarathon bicycle racing team.
It's been a long time since I've been in a 24-hour store in the wee hours and seen the employees smiling
I'm a geek. I love "third shift." When left to my own devices that's when I choose to work.
When I go into my local 24 hour supermarket at 3 A.M. for a Dorito break the checkout people look miserable, but the shelf stockers always look like they're actually having fun stocking toilet paper.
I've got a friend who recently moved from checkout at that very supermarket to third shift shelf stocker at Target. She's been all smiles for months.
Why? Because she no longer has to deal with customers and management leaves her the bloody fuck alone as long as her job is getting done.
And it's a useful job. If the pay didn't suck I'd get in line for it myself, but I make more per hour busking.
Yes, using a mouse slows you down horribly, but most (if not all) of the "rodent driven" editors can be used effectively entirely with the keyboard.
But because of the way the keyboard is laid out the use of control and alt keys slows you down as well. Far more than is required by changing modes. In fact, my one real beef with vi is the use of the escape key to change modes. Using the key farthest away from home base prevents accidental mode changes, but really breaks the flow of typing having to reach way out there for it.
And as you can see from this and a number of other posts I've made in the past few days, my touch typing needs some work. Yeah, I know, there's that "Preview" thingy, but that would require removing my hands from home base.
>>Never having to use the mouse. >> >Sounds like every other editor in the world. > >>Being able to quickly move around a document. >> >Again, how is this unique?
It isn't, but, as per my other post in this thread, it is unique in that its keyboard command sequences are optimzed for true touch typists, so once you learn them you can work at whatever your typing speed is, assuming that you think that fast (or type that slowly I guess).
Isn't "intuitive" the *opposite* of "steep learning curve"? (Peopleware calls this "lying by repeated assertion.")
Well, yes, but bearing in mind that calling anything but the nipple an "intuitive" interface is lying by repeated assertion. You even had to learn that your hands were good for something other than grabbing the tit. You just did it so long ago that it feels intuitive to pick something up.
The only way software can be "intuitive" is by mimicing some already learned skill. Sometimes, however, this already learned skill can be inappropriate for a piece of software, like "knobs" that have to be "turned" with the mouse pointer.
vi/m is "intuitive" (even though the commands themselves are not) to a trained touch typist, because it is, as per above, optimized for that already learned skill. The command sequences, although needing to be learned, are not entirely arbitrary.
However, to a nontouch typist they are, because such a typist does not share the same skill set and reference plane. For vi/m to be "intutive" touch typing has to first be "intuitive."
Which means you have to first spend a lot of time learning to touch type.
I might add the caveat that you have be a "real" touch typist to appreciate and be able to fully "unlock" the power of vim.
Hunt and Peckers and "half and halfers" may not be able to utilize vim to it's full potential, and thus not actually realize any benefit from using it.
Please forgive me, however, if I suggest to these people that the solution is to "learn to type.":)
I'm personally acquainted with Mr. Kunstler. I'm an "Honorary" Saratogian myself, even having been declared a "Saratoga Treasure," even though I'm from a neighboring city. If you ever get a chance to see him speak live, grab it. The way I typically describe him is as "The Harlan Ellison of the New Urbanist Movement."
You may not want him as a houseguest, but you sure as shit want to hang out with him a bit for the entertainment value.
I've never told him that. I wonder if he reads Slashdot?
Education has already been crushed into the instutionalization approach.
Standardized tests for standardized people. That's why I tutor privately, using a very Socratic approach. I do not "teach," I "facilitate learning." This does not always make my life easy, if only because I have developed a bit of a reputation as a "teacher of last resort." I tend to be brought the kids that everyone else has already failed with, not so much the "discipline problem" kids (thugs), but the "learning disabled" and "autistic spectrum" kids.
The kids who actually cannot do their homework, and so for whom "discpline" is mere punishment.
Parents need to be more active in their kids lives.
In the Suzuki Method of teaching music the parents are not only required to attend the lessons, but to take music lessons themselves and to practice with the kid.
And that's hard to do when both parents need to work to make the inflated mortgage (or rent) payments.
The surest sign of a society sick at its core is parents who are not "allowed" to be parents. For the working poor this is understandable and there is little to nothing they can do about it. For the "upwardly mobile" and "success driven" couple who work to maintain a "lifestyle" they can't actually afford, well, they are the problem, unskilled as parents; and unaware of it.
That's another reason my tutoring doesn't always make my life easy. The parents above cope by taking out another home equity loan (in execess of their actual equity) and sending the poor kid off to a military academy or something. I get the charity cases.
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Or maybe commuting to work by bicycle, 60 miles each way, instead of spending that time sitting in a Lexus "exercising" his gas pedal foot, had something to do with it.
Just maybe.
If you do it, you can do it.
KFG
At least until you hit 40, when it is more of a "plunging off a cliff" aging process. . .
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
The fastest average "nonstop" (the clock never stopped) speed by bicycle across America, 15.3 mph, was set by a 43 year old nuclear engineer.
A 25 mile time trialist who competed in the American national championships from his teens into his eighties reported ( and could back it up with race results) that every year he could get stronger and faster . . . until he hit 65, at which point he started losing about a minute a year no matter how he trained.
Bear in mind that even ten years after "plunging over the cliff" of 65 he was still healthier, stronger and faster than most 20 year olds.
If you "plunge over the cliff" at 30 or 40 I'm afraid it ain't age that's done it. You have, very simply, "let yourself go."
50 is the new 30.
KFG
I have a touch of old-fogeyism in me, and wish that Linux's file system GUI management tools were all standardized and work as simply as My Computer/Explorer do.
I have a touch of old-fogeyism in me. What the hell is a GUI and why would I want to manage it from the file system?
Also, if Your Computer works so simply, what are you bitching about?
KFG
I'm calling from the 90s. I want my turbo back.
KFG
Your users are so stupid they DVDs in their CDROMs, then complain that the drive wont play their movie.
Your users are so stupid they tryed to plug their new phone into a ethernet port.
This is ignorance, not stupidity. The people who wrote the jokes were too stupid to know the difference.
I like LBJ's line about stupidity:
They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel."
KFG
Like writing down on leaflets PINs and passwords or communicating them via email.
How about walking around telling everyone your password to demonstrate how clever you were in devising it (out of dictionary words).
Yes, a member of my own family, with a degree from Harvard (bit of local men's room grafitti: "At Skidmore we teach people to wash their hands after using the restroom." Somebody wrote under it: "At Harvard we teach them not to piss on their hands.").
The only effective security measure I know for behavior like this is to apply an LBI.
Some people like the LBIs that come from Louisville, but I'm a New England boy and prefer the LBIs from New Britain. The FatMax(r) incorporates tuning fork technology to reduce harmful vibrations that can cause arm and wrist injuries.
I like the 16 oz. myself, but I only go 130 lbs with dripping wet clothes on. You might acheive better results with the 20 oz.
KFG
. . .it's the security team's responsibility to make them less stupid.
You can make them less ignorant. You cannot make them less stupid. You can train the ignorant. You cannot train the stupid, because, well, they're stupid. Stupid is forever. That's the definition of stupid.
Security has to take the stupid into account, because they're out there, in your organization.
And boy, are they stupid.
KFG
If you can find Adirondack you can probably find Polar. Try their pomegranate.
As an aside, when you are in the mood for a sugared soda and are tired of all the colas and "anti"colas, try Polar Cream. Best Cream soda in the entire frickin' universe.
KFG
How bout... nothing?
.cause you'll die?
How bout. .
KFG
I like second shift myself, four to midnight.
That's the busking shift, at least in a big city.
In a small city it's lunch break. Small cities go flat ass dead at suppertime. I should know. I live in one of those.
KFG
The problem is that, while oft quoted, this is really a bad argument when you get down to it
That's why I said it as a joke. I can't help how it got moderated.
Next week I'll likely say something really deep and important and get moderated troll/overrated.
KFG
I once asked my "navigation system" which way we went from here and she looked at the map and said, "Up."
Maybe it's time to upgrade.
KFG
Yes, I'm being pedantic
So I'll point out that because our eyes are so close together stereoscopic vision only works to out about 30 feet. Beyond that point even in RL appearance of depth is a 2D illusion.
I'll further point out that 3D does not mean "appearance of visual depth." It means "modelable on three axes."
KFG
Serendipitously the current Slashdot FOTD is:
"It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try, but the result's the same." - Mike Dennison
This is true if you are braindead.
KFG
Don't we all end up dead anyway?
Yep, it's just that few realize how life affirming truely understanding that is.
Maybe other people miss that implied message.
It's just possible that many people here will think I'm implying Bob Marley's observation with my last sentence, and while it is apropos I actually had another statement of Mallory's in mind:
Have we vanquised an enemy?
None but ourselves.
Have we gained success?
That word means nothing here.
To struggle and to understand,
Never this last without the other.
Such is the law.
A mountaineer formed the ultimate geek credo. Go figure.
"None but Ourselves" is the motto of my ultramarathon bicycle racing team.
KFG
Any notable reasons to try FreeBSD?
Because it's there, Dude. Because it's there. Honestly, what kind of a geek are you?
I do, however, feel duty bound to point out that the man famous for saying that ended up dead shortly thereafter.
If you do manage to survive getting it installed though, what will you have conquered?
None but yourself, Dude. None but yourself.
KFG
First off, I wish Warner Brothers would get it through their head that if they are to compete with piracy, they have to price the movies as such.
Perhaps they have actually acquired a clue, but they clearly haven't unwrapped it yet.
Offer downloads so cheap that you run the pirates out of business but leave quality lacking so true fans will always buy the DVDs.
You keep your clue nice and shiney.
KFG
It's been a long time since I've been in a 24-hour store in the wee hours and seen the employees smiling
I'm a geek. I love "third shift." When left to my own devices that's when I choose to work.
When I go into my local 24 hour supermarket at 3 A.M. for a Dorito break the checkout people look miserable, but the shelf stockers always look like they're actually having fun stocking toilet paper.
I've got a friend who recently moved from checkout at that very supermarket to third shift shelf stocker at Target. She's been all smiles for months.
Why? Because she no longer has to deal with customers and management leaves her the bloody fuck alone as long as her job is getting done.
And it's a useful job. If the pay didn't suck I'd get in line for it myself, but I make more per hour busking.
KFG
Can't you hit tab with your pinky until you get to the preview button? :P
:)
Oh sure, but just count how many times you have to hit tab to get back to the editing box.
KFG
Yes, using a mouse slows you down horribly, but most (if not all) of the "rodent driven" editors can be used effectively entirely with the keyboard.
But because of the way the keyboard is laid out the use of control and alt keys slows you down as well. Far more than is required by changing modes. In fact, my one real beef with vi is the use of the escape key to change modes. Using the key farthest away from home base prevents accidental mode changes, but really breaks the flow of typing having to reach way out there for it.
KFG
>Have you heard of google?
>
>>Nope. What can you tell me about it?
Jeezum Crow, Dude. Google it yourself.
KFG
And as you can see from this and a number of other posts I've made in the past few days, my touch typing needs some work. Yeah, I know, there's that "Preview" thingy, but that would require removing my hands from home base.
KFG
>>Never having to use the mouse.
>>
>Sounds like every other editor in the world.
>
>>Being able to quickly move around a document.
>>
>Again, how is this unique?
It isn't, but, as per my other post in this thread, it is unique in that its keyboard command sequences are optimzed for true touch typists, so once you learn them you can work at whatever your typing speed is, assuming that you think that fast (or type that slowly I guess).
Isn't "intuitive" the *opposite* of "steep learning curve"? (Peopleware calls this "lying by repeated assertion.")
Well, yes, but bearing in mind that calling anything but the nipple an "intuitive" interface is lying by repeated assertion. You even had to learn that your hands were good for something other than grabbing the tit. You just did it so long ago that it feels intuitive to pick something up.
The only way software can be "intuitive" is by mimicing some already learned skill. Sometimes, however, this already learned skill can be inappropriate for a piece of software, like "knobs" that have to be "turned" with the mouse pointer.
vi/m is "intuitive" (even though the commands themselves are not) to a trained touch typist, because it is, as per above, optimized for that already learned skill. The command sequences, although needing to be learned, are not entirely arbitrary.
However, to a nontouch typist they are, because such a typist does not share the same skill set and reference plane. For vi/m to be "intutive" touch typing has to first be "intuitive."
Which means you have to first spend a lot of time learning to touch type.
KFG
I might add the caveat that you have be a "real" touch typist to appreciate and be able to fully "unlock" the power of vim.
:)
Hunt and Peckers and "half and halfers" may not be able to utilize vim to it's full potential, and thus not actually realize any benefit from using it.
Please forgive me, however, if I suggest to these people that the solution is to "learn to type."
KFG
In the book The Long Emergency . . .
I'm personally acquainted with Mr. Kunstler. I'm an "Honorary" Saratogian myself, even having been declared a "Saratoga Treasure," even though I'm from a neighboring city. If you ever get a chance to see him speak live, grab it. The way I typically describe him is as "The Harlan Ellison of the New Urbanist Movement."
You may not want him as a houseguest, but you sure as shit want to hang out with him a bit for the entertainment value.
I've never told him that. I wonder if he reads Slashdot?
Education has already been crushed into the instutionalization approach.
Standardized tests for standardized people. That's why I tutor privately, using a very Socratic approach. I do not "teach," I "facilitate learning." This does not always make my life easy, if only because I have developed a bit of a reputation as a "teacher of last resort." I tend to be brought the kids that everyone else has already failed with, not so much the "discipline problem" kids (thugs), but the "learning disabled" and "autistic spectrum" kids.
The kids who actually cannot do their homework, and so for whom "discpline" is mere punishment.
Parents need to be more active in their kids lives.
In the Suzuki Method of teaching music the parents are not only required to attend the lessons, but to take music lessons themselves and to practice with the kid.
And that's hard to do when both parents need to work to make the inflated mortgage (or rent) payments.
The surest sign of a society sick at its core is parents who are not "allowed" to be parents. For the working poor this is understandable and there is little to nothing they can do about it. For the "upwardly mobile" and "success driven" couple who work to maintain a "lifestyle" they can't actually afford, well, they are the problem, unskilled as parents; and unaware of it.
That's another reason my tutoring doesn't always make my life easy. The parents above cope by taking out another home equity loan (in execess of their actual equity) and sending the poor kid off to a military academy or something. I get the charity cases.
I take them.
KFG