"Human creation of CO2 through fossil fuel consumption is minimal compared to that created by the ecosystem."
Surely you have some references for that because otherwise it could be a "anything you say on the Internet is true" moment. Or maybe an "anything you say on the Internet is true if you CAPITALIZE your VERBS and NOUNS."
But what else do you call it? To most folks 'desktop' is the place where the computer sits. When you work as a computer technician like I do, you get into the habit of explaining things in fairly simple terms to people. A regular computer user is going to scratch their head if you say that you're talking about a KDE desktop environment, running on X.org, running on a GNU/Linux system. 'Linux Desktop' is as good as an umbrella term as any.
Of course, keep in mind that half of the computer users out there don't even know what 'desktop' really means either. I lost track years ago the number of times I've told people to save things on the Desktop and they asked me what that was. "It's at the top of the list in the drop down combo box located at the top left corner of the 'save as" dialog box." Yeah right. You might as well be telling someone how to change the spark plugs in a Bugatti.
From what I've seen, the reason Linux desktop systems have never really caught on is it's too complicated to sell them to the general public because there are so many names for things.
I'm not sure why people ever thought blogs could make money.
I've been writing a blog for years but I was never so deluded to assume that millions of people would want to read my rantings and sponsors would want to shower me with money. I just do it because I like it. There may be some people who enjoy what I write, but not nearly enough to warrant an advertiser spending $2000/mo on me.
Putting some Google Ads on your blog always struck me as sort of desperate looking, like you were imagining yourself as the next Ann Landers or something. And face it, you're not. Even if you are a great writer, part of the problem is there are so many blogs available. Even if we assume only a million of them are properly active and not shit, who in their right mind would think that the world (or in my case, the English speaking world) could possibly support a million little magazines with advertising? Multiply $2000/month by one million and the number that pops out is 24 billion dollars a year. A pretty big price tag for citizen journalism and obviously the advertising market isn't going to pay it.
People need to get a grip on their fear. This thing has killed like what, 150 people globally? And people are worried why?
In related news, HIV killed another 6000 people today. It will kill another 6000 tomorrow too, and the day after that, and the day after that. Funny how the more deadly but less trendy pandemics don't seem to get a lot of news time these days.
I don't know about you, but I don't ever want to see flying cars. Most people can barely figure out how to safely operate a wheeled car in two dimensions. Imagine how nuts it would be if we added a third.
Anyone expecting privacy on these systems is a fool. It's not like either of these companies is regulated in any way, to say nothing of the fact they provide their services over the Internet which you only have read/. for a day to know is not secure.
I find that long amounts of FPS gaming starts to make me dizzy.
I used to play Starcraft for 8 hours at a time, no problem at all, but after two hours of playing something like MOH or Counterstrike I start to feel a little off and have to take a break for a bit.
I don't get motion sickness. My screen resolutions are pretty high and the refresh rates are 80Hz+, so I'm thinking it is my eyes. I'm myopic and wear glasses to correct it, and I've always wondered if this has something to do with it.
It shouldn't even be a contest. People should be free to believe what they want to believe. As long as others don't get hurt, your beliefs are your business. Any reasonable and just society should rigorously enforce this notion. Who cares if people believe in this god or that god, or even at all?
And if your belief system causes you to be offended by what others believe... maybe you should take your beliefs and go away from me.
Now do you suppose I'll be modded down to troll if I say:
I, for one, welcome our new Muslim overlords.
Am I a racist, bigot, asshole? A promulgator of hatred... or am I just a dude trying to be funny while exercising his right to free speech?
There seems to be a large disconnect with speech and free in a goodly chunk of the world, particularly in nations where Islam is the dominant religion. But I guess the UN thinks I shouldn't be making remarks like that because that would be criticism.
Government stuff aside, why is knowing your body's 'status' so important? Are you worried about something? Hooked up to the sensors, fretting over every little heartbeat, waiting for the inevitable end. Hardly seems like a great way to live a life.
You could always move to Canada. And while I'm sure some will disagree, the government mostly leaves you alone here (well except at tax time, but fair enough). This might be because they are nice, but perhaps also because they are a little incompetent and don't know how to make crazy Orwellian laws. They've tried, but it never seems to work out. Either way, I'd say you're better off. Some of these stories out I hear about the government in the UK scare the hell out of me.
Nice place, Canada. Vast countryside, okay beer, close to America (shopping ain't bad there), no CCTV to speak of and all the rumours you heard about the snow are false.
I got into IT so I wouldn't have to work in a sweltering hot factory in the summer. Been there, done that. Now, thanks to the miracle of technology, IT workers can sweat it out year round too.
So my vote is going to have to be for the Montgomery Scott Module. Fits the not named after a living person criteria and you can bet your bippy that pretty well everyone who pays attention to what NASA does is a Trek fan.
Not only do they have a nicely put together public website, you can learn all about their secret ways in Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese! For defectors maybe...?
There was that episode "Shindig". Book, Jayne and Simon are passing the time playing cards using "chores" on the ship as chips. Book wins a hand and comments on it being, "a nice pile of things I won't have to do." Since you don't generally make the paying customers work, to me, that kinda implied that Book was now paying his way by doing jobs on the ship as any crew member.
Even River turned out to be useful in a ninja ass-kicking sort of capacity. Dunno if they ever paid her for it tho:)
I guess I just see a rush to add features without really thinking them through and making them any good.
Take my cellphone, for example. It has an address book, a day planner, an MP3 player, a camera, web browser, email, etc...
I don't use the address book or day planner because my ancient Palm M500 does these things better. Admittedly, I only tend to carry the Palm when travelling because I mostly remember in my brain the contacts I need to know. I don't think I'm exceptional in this regard.
The email... uh-huh. Because I love to get spam on the run. I've never understood the Blackberry crowd. Also, trying to punch in an email on a little teeny-tiny keypad is not my idea of fun or productive. If I could dictate the email to the phone, I might consider it.
Web Browser: The web just isn't that useful to me on a tiny, pocket-sized screen. Even the iPhone, which has a very generous screen, can't really display all that much data. Also, my cellphone company robs me like a bandit for bandwidth.
The MP3 player is crap. I have an old Creative MuVo Slim that does a better job.
I don't use the camera because it is shit. As near as I can tell, all cellphone cameras are shit. I have a proper digital camera to take pictures with.
Jack of all trades, master of none. That's the problem with devices like these. If they were competent at doing all the things they offered, I'd be all over it. But let's face it, right now people are being charged solid money for devices that really don't do a great job of being anything other than a phone.
Or could it be that people just want a phone and not some kind of do-it-all gadget?
Call me old fashioned, but I've never understood this obsession people have with making their cellphone do tricks and whatnot. It's a phone. Its purpose is to make phone calls. If you want more capability, get a laptop.
Yeah, but this is the age of stupidity. Regular folks who don't take computers very seriously forget their passwords all the time, in spite of being told over and over to remember them. I think the theory at work here is that it's very hard for people to forget to bring along their face.
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Ad hominem would be how I'd characterize that reply, thank you so much. Nice talking!
"Human creation of CO2 through fossil fuel consumption is minimal compared to that created by the ecosystem."
Surely you have some references for that because otherwise it could be a "anything you say on the Internet is true" moment. Or maybe an "anything you say on the Internet is true if you CAPITALIZE your VERBS and NOUNS."
Maybe it's true by overall mass, but here's a reference to ponder: http://fire.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/research/climate_change/carbon_e.htm
Energy sector beating out forest fires for carbon production doesn't sound like 'minimal'.
But what else do you call it? To most folks 'desktop' is the place where the computer sits. When you work as a computer technician like I do, you get into the habit of explaining things in fairly simple terms to people. A regular computer user is going to scratch their head if you say that you're talking about a KDE desktop environment, running on X.org, running on a GNU/Linux system. 'Linux Desktop' is as good as an umbrella term as any.
Of course, keep in mind that half of the computer users out there don't even know what 'desktop' really means either. I lost track years ago the number of times I've told people to save things on the Desktop and they asked me what that was. "It's at the top of the list in the drop down combo box located at the top left corner of the 'save as" dialog box." Yeah right. You might as well be telling someone how to change the spark plugs in a Bugatti.
From what I've seen, the reason Linux desktop systems have never really caught on is it's too complicated to sell them to the general public because there are so many names for things.
Yeah, but ours is an information economy now. We have computer animation to produce abandoned cities for us.
I'm not sure why people ever thought blogs could make money.
I've been writing a blog for years but I was never so deluded to assume that millions of people would want to read my rantings and sponsors would want to shower me with money. I just do it because I like it. There may be some people who enjoy what I write, but not nearly enough to warrant an advertiser spending $2000/mo on me.
Putting some Google Ads on your blog always struck me as sort of desperate looking, like you were imagining yourself as the next Ann Landers or something. And face it, you're not. Even if you are a great writer, part of the problem is there are so many blogs available. Even if we assume only a million of them are properly active and not shit, who in their right mind would think that the world (or in my case, the English speaking world) could possibly support a million little magazines with advertising? Multiply $2000/month by one million and the number that pops out is 24 billion dollars a year. A pretty big price tag for citizen journalism and obviously the advertising market isn't going to pay it.
People need to get a grip on their fear. This thing has killed like what, 150 people globally? And people are worried why?
In related news, HIV killed another 6000 people today. It will kill another 6000 tomorrow too, and the day after that, and the day after that. Funny how the more deadly but less trendy pandemics don't seem to get a lot of news time these days.
I don't know about you, but I don't ever want to see flying cars. Most people can barely figure out how to safely operate a wheeled car in two dimensions. Imagine how nuts it would be if we added a third.
I'm building a fusion reactor in my backyard right now. The trick is, you tell the neighbours it's just a fancy composter. Green is good! *thumbs up*
Because going on the offensive worked so well in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Vietnam, etc...
Anyone expecting privacy on these systems is a fool. It's not like either of these companies is regulated in any way, to say nothing of the fact they provide their services over the Internet which you only have read /. for a day to know is not secure.
Wouldn't it be cool if it were routine? I wanna be able to use this line on a girl:
"I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
I find that long amounts of FPS gaming starts to make me dizzy.
I used to play Starcraft for 8 hours at a time, no problem at all, but after two hours of playing something like MOH or Counterstrike I start to feel a little off and have to take a break for a bit.
I don't get motion sickness. My screen resolutions are pretty high and the refresh rates are 80Hz+, so I'm thinking it is my eyes. I'm myopic and wear glasses to correct it, and I've always wondered if this has something to do with it.
It shouldn't even be a contest. People should be free to believe what they want to believe. As long as others don't get hurt, your beliefs are your business. Any reasonable and just society should rigorously enforce this notion. Who cares if people believe in this god or that god, or even at all?
And if your belief system causes you to be offended by what others believe... maybe you should take your beliefs and go away from me.
Now do you suppose I'll be modded down to troll if I say:
I, for one, welcome our new Muslim overlords.
Am I a racist, bigot, asshole? A promulgator of hatred... or am I just a dude trying to be funny while exercising his right to free speech?
There seems to be a large disconnect with speech and free in a goodly chunk of the world, particularly in nations where Islam is the dominant religion. But I guess the UN thinks I shouldn't be making remarks like that because that would be criticism.
Government stuff aside, why is knowing your body's 'status' so important? Are you worried about something? Hooked up to the sensors, fretting over every little heartbeat, waiting for the inevitable end. Hardly seems like a great way to live a life.
You could always move to Canada. And while I'm sure some will disagree, the government mostly leaves you alone here (well except at tax time, but fair enough). This might be because they are nice, but perhaps also because they are a little incompetent and don't know how to make crazy Orwellian laws. They've tried, but it never seems to work out. Either way, I'd say you're better off. Some of these stories out I hear about the government in the UK scare the hell out of me.
Nice place, Canada. Vast countryside, okay beer, close to America (shopping ain't bad there), no CCTV to speak of and all the rumours you heard about the snow are false.
I got into IT so I wouldn't have to work in a sweltering hot factory in the summer. Been there, done that. Now, thanks to the miracle of technology, IT workers can sweat it out year round too.
Next thing you know they'll be saying Tony Soprano was responsible.
So my vote is going to have to be for the Montgomery Scott Module. Fits the not named after a living person criteria and you can bet your bippy that pretty well everyone who pays attention to what NASA does is a Trek fan.
Not only do they have a nicely put together public website, you can learn all about their secret ways in Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese! For defectors maybe...?
Oddly enough, no option for French.
It makes responding to all those nitwit questions from reporters so much more fun.
He's their preacher. Crew as much as anything.
There was that episode "Shindig". Book, Jayne and Simon are passing the time playing cards using "chores" on the ship as chips. Book wins a hand and comments on it being, "a nice pile of things I won't have to do." Since you don't generally make the paying customers work, to me, that kinda implied that Book was now paying his way by doing jobs on the ship as any crew member.
Even River turned out to be useful in a ninja ass-kicking sort of capacity. Dunno if they ever paid her for it tho :)
I guess I just see a rush to add features without really thinking them through and making them any good.
Take my cellphone, for example. It has an address book, a day planner, an MP3 player, a camera, web browser, email, etc...
I don't use the address book or day planner because my ancient Palm M500 does these things better. Admittedly, I only tend to carry the Palm when travelling because I mostly remember in my brain the contacts I need to know. I don't think I'm exceptional in this regard.
The email... uh-huh. Because I love to get spam on the run. I've never understood the Blackberry crowd. Also, trying to punch in an email on a little teeny-tiny keypad is not my idea of fun or productive. If I could dictate the email to the phone, I might consider it.
Web Browser: The web just isn't that useful to me on a tiny, pocket-sized screen. Even the iPhone, which has a very generous screen, can't really display all that much data. Also, my cellphone company robs me like a bandit for bandwidth.
The MP3 player is crap. I have an old Creative MuVo Slim that does a better job.
I don't use the camera because it is shit. As near as I can tell, all cellphone cameras are shit. I have a proper digital camera to take pictures with.
Jack of all trades, master of none. That's the problem with devices like these. If they were competent at doing all the things they offered, I'd be all over it. But let's face it, right now people are being charged solid money for devices that really don't do a great job of being anything other than a phone.
Or could it be that people just want a phone and not some kind of do-it-all gadget?
Call me old fashioned, but I've never understood this obsession people have with making their cellphone do tricks and whatnot. It's a phone. Its purpose is to make phone calls. If you want more capability, get a laptop.
Yeah, but this is the age of stupidity. Regular folks who don't take computers very seriously forget their passwords all the time, in spite of being told over and over to remember them. I think the theory at work here is that it's very hard for people to forget to bring along their face.