I don't mean exclusively the ancients if that's what you're wondering. Pretty much anything over 50 years back. Google for the 100 greatest novels; an audio collection from about 15 years ago. I'm in the 70s after about 15 years. My favorite by far is Moby-Dick. That might be because I feel like I understand it almost completely. My other favorites so far:
* Les Miserable * The Grapes of Wrath * Anna Karenina * War and Peace * A Tale of Two Cities
I'm a slow reader though, so 4-5 a year is the best I can manage. Especially when the language slows me down. I really liked Paradise Lost, but the language was so difficult I had to stop about 1/3 through.
Off-topic and pointless maybe, but I use them a lot in my own writing. I remember a handful of esoteric grammatical tips from way back in high school that I've found really help out with bringing the context of conversation to the written word. I'm no grammar god, but it's disappointing to see how much knowledge of the intricacies of our written language is being lost in the era of LOLs and ZOMGs. I'm a casual reader of the classics, and it's amazing how pervasive beautiful writing was even at the lowest tiers of education; e.g. Civil War-era letters from soldiers to their loved ones (lol).
I think you're being pretty harsh. What I loved about WoW was exploring the world and the sites, monsters, bosses, etc. and the tactics for playing in the battlefield instances. It wasn't until hitting the higher levels that I got the sensation of repetitive reward conditioning. Not that there aren't some individual quests like that as well.
When there were plenty of young readers who only stayed in the game for 5-10 years or so. When I collected, Jean Grey had already died and come back (in various incarnations) 3 times. But, that didn't affect my enjoyment because it was a distant historical context. Now, with a larger percentage of the market being collectors and not the casual read-discard crowd, the past history is cemented in the minds of the readers who've probably been in the game for much longer.
If one schmoe's study says that drinking antifreeze will kill you, the Antifreeze For Children's Mopeds lobby will counter with their own study saying it's as safe as milk. Sometimes you need more studies from different angles/people to sink home the facts. How long did it take for people to accept cigarettes as a carcinogen? It was before my time, but I've recently seen some of the Congressional testimony from Tobacco execs and the shameless lying (seed of doubt!) is draw dropping in a modern context.
Do these guys really expect some $8/hr amazon support monkey to manage your linux patches, fix bugs, write scripts, install applications, customize applications, etc.
That's the idea. Attempts to implement it just keep failing.
OT, but one of the greatest shopping tips I learned from Slashdot is not to pick fruit by prettiness. We tend to go for the brightest, flawless variants and a poster noted how fruit are being naturally selected for appearance and away from taste. So, I started trying other types beyond that deep red Delicious apple and haven't gone back since.
Well, we can say that Pakistan was in a state of war with us for harboring America's Most Wanted for 10 years. Pakistan would be wise to keep their mouths shut about encroachments on their sovereignty. The war could have been winding down 5 years ago had it not been for:
1.) Musharaf redirecting our counterterrorism aid money to building up their forces against India. 2.) Not fucking harboring OBL.
You make it sound like altering the atmosphere that drastically isn't that big a deal. Yeah, we won't destroy life on earth, but possibly life as we know it.
Assuming the average length of a book in the Library of Congress is 300 pages and it takes 3 minutes to read one page, this decent rate can best be expresses as 725,254,818,816 FootballFields/LibraryOfCongress
A bill that rapes citizens of their rights gets renewed yet again with "thunderous applause" and the only opposition point getting news coverage comes from a partisan hack bitching about the way it was signed?
It's a little hard to tell from these images, but the videos I saw on a documentary show really well a concentration along web-like lines. Maybe neural connections are a better analogy. Pretty amazing that the universe isn't a homogenous mixture of galaxies.
Evolution does mean improvement over time in the common parlance. I tried slogging through Darwin's Origin of Species. I make the distinction between evolution and natural selection. A moose might be naturally selected to grow huge antlers that the chicks dig, but gets him tied up in brush and barb wire. Pandas and koalas are naturally selected to have narrowly targeted digestive systems that expose them to starvation should the environment change drastically. Natural selection just means changes that increase your odds of passing on genes in a given environment at a given time. A stupid monkey that doesn't waste the blood flow to his brain when resources limited and strength works better for acquiring food might be more survivable than a really smart monkey forces to commit 25% of his blood flow to his brain when it's not really helping him.
Evolution has come to mean talking dogs in a million years.
I've been in the IT industry for about 12 years without a degree and let me tell you. All the BS about college not being important for programmers is just that...BS! What I learned in the first 2 classes, Discrete Math and Computer Architecture, almost makes it worthwhile alone. Can you code without knowing how to solve recurrence relations or Djikstra's algorithm? Sure, but it's damned nice to have those additional tools in your kit. It's also handy to address a problem with a tested solution some math geek wrote a grad paper on 50 years ago rather than spending a month trying to figure it out yourself.
You know, the one's growing up without 8-core machines in their bedrooms and broadband pipes. I guess someone has to wash the dishes at the country club.
Stripped the plug threads on my motorcycle. After I'm done, I'll be looking for good news shows to DVR about people who trashed their lives in anticipation of the end of the world.
...unfortunately. It's good politics. Our country has shifted towards authoritarianism. Cops have increased powers to violate your rights and get away with it if they, say, accidentally kill you or your dog. Corporations also have the same power to violate or by force of lobbying, repeal regulations. We've all surrendered personal freedoms for the sake of security.
This slide isn't going to stop because Congress decides to stand up for individual rights. The change will start when people start demanding our rights back. Believe it or not, politicians do respond to pressure from the voters because they don't want to give up the limos and sycophantic admiration.
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I don't mean exclusively the ancients if that's what you're wondering. Pretty much anything over 50 years back. Google for the 100 greatest novels; an audio collection from about 15 years ago. I'm in the 70s after about 15 years. My favorite by far is Moby-Dick. That might be because I feel like I understand it almost completely. My other favorites so far:
* Les Miserable
* The Grapes of Wrath
* Anna Karenina
* War and Peace
* A Tale of Two Cities
I'm a slow reader though, so 4-5 a year is the best I can manage. Especially when the language slows me down. I really liked Paradise Lost, but the language was so difficult I had to stop about 1/3 through.
Not a network guy, but if they're repeating these hacks so quickly and with such regularity I imagine their backdoor is still up.
Well played, sir!
Off-topic and pointless maybe, but I use them a lot in my own writing. I remember a handful of esoteric grammatical tips from way back in high school that I've found really help out with bringing the context of conversation to the written word. I'm no grammar god, but it's disappointing to see how much knowledge of the intricacies of our written language is being lost in the era of LOLs and ZOMGs. I'm a casual reader of the classics, and it's amazing how pervasive beautiful writing was even at the lowest tiers of education; e.g. Civil War-era letters from soldiers to their loved ones (lol).
It's a shark. Obviously the meatier one.
I think you're being pretty harsh. What I loved about WoW was exploring the world and the sites, monsters, bosses, etc. and the tactics for playing in the battlefield instances. It wasn't until hitting the higher levels that I got the sensation of repetitive reward conditioning. Not that there aren't some individual quests like that as well.
When there were plenty of young readers who only stayed in the game for 5-10 years or so. When I collected, Jean Grey had already died and come back (in various incarnations) 3 times. But, that didn't affect my enjoyment because it was a distant historical context. Now, with a larger percentage of the market being collectors and not the casual read-discard crowd, the past history is cemented in the minds of the readers who've probably been in the game for much longer.
If one schmoe's study says that drinking antifreeze will kill you, the Antifreeze For Children's Mopeds lobby will counter with their own study saying it's as safe as milk. Sometimes you need more studies from different angles/people to sink home the facts. How long did it take for people to accept cigarettes as a carcinogen? It was before my time, but I've recently seen some of the Congressional testimony from Tobacco execs and the shameless lying (seed of doubt!) is draw dropping in a modern context.
Do these guys really expect some $8/hr amazon support monkey to manage your linux patches, fix bugs, write scripts, install applications, customize applications, etc.
That's the idea. Attempts to implement it just keep failing.
OT, but one of the greatest shopping tips I learned from Slashdot is not to pick fruit by prettiness. We tend to go for the brightest, flawless variants and a poster noted how fruit are being naturally selected for appearance and away from taste. So, I started trying other types beyond that deep red Delicious apple and haven't gone back since.
sssssssh! Don't you know you're not supposed to criticize Israel in the US? That makes you an anti-semite!
Well, we can say that Pakistan was in a state of war with us for harboring America's Most Wanted for 10 years. Pakistan would be wise to keep their mouths shut about encroachments on their sovereignty. The war could have been winding down 5 years ago had it not been for:
1.) Musharaf redirecting our counterterrorism aid money to building up their forces against India.
2.) Not fucking harboring OBL.
You make it sound like altering the atmosphere that drastically isn't that big a deal. Yeah, we won't destroy life on earth, but possibly life as we know it.
Assuming the average length of a book in the Library of Congress is 300 pages and it takes 3 minutes to read one page, this decent rate can best be expresses as 725,254,818,816 FootballFields/LibraryOfCongress
A bill that rapes citizens of their rights gets renewed yet again with "thunderous applause" and the only opposition point getting news coverage comes from a partisan hack bitching about the way it was signed?
It's a little hard to tell from these images, but the videos I saw on a documentary show really well a concentration along web-like lines. Maybe neural connections are a better analogy. Pretty amazing that the universe isn't a homogenous mixture of galaxies.
Evolution does mean improvement over time in the common parlance. I tried slogging through Darwin's Origin of Species. I make the distinction between evolution and natural selection. A moose might be naturally selected to grow huge antlers that the chicks dig, but gets him tied up in brush and barb wire. Pandas and koalas are naturally selected to have narrowly targeted digestive systems that expose them to starvation should the environment change drastically. Natural selection just means changes that increase your odds of passing on genes in a given environment at a given time. A stupid monkey that doesn't waste the blood flow to his brain when resources limited and strength works better for acquiring food might be more survivable than a really smart monkey forces to commit 25% of his blood flow to his brain when it's not really helping him.
Evolution has come to mean talking dogs in a million years.
I've been in the IT industry for about 12 years without a degree and let me tell you. All the BS about college not being important for programmers is just that...BS! What I learned in the first 2 classes, Discrete Math and Computer Architecture, almost makes it worthwhile alone. Can you code without knowing how to solve recurrence relations or Djikstra's algorithm? Sure, but it's damned nice to have those additional tools in your kit. It's also handy to address a problem with a tested solution some math geek wrote a grad paper on 50 years ago rather than spending a month trying to figure it out yourself.
From what I've seen of that age group, you have to physically walk over to it, make eye contact, and repeat your command.
How the hell are they going to grip fiber with their hooves?
I figured this was another handjob for the insurance industry. No one's rates are going down, but you get another tool to deny claims.
You know, the one's growing up without 8-core machines in their bedrooms and broadband pipes. I guess someone has to wash the dishes at the country club.
Stripped the plug threads on my motorcycle. After I'm done, I'll be looking for good news shows to DVR about people who trashed their lives in anticipation of the end of the world.
...unfortunately. It's good politics. Our country has shifted towards authoritarianism. Cops have increased powers to violate your rights and get away with it if they, say, accidentally kill you or your dog. Corporations also have the same power to violate or by force of lobbying, repeal regulations. We've all surrendered personal freedoms for the sake of security.
This slide isn't going to stop because Congress decides to stand up for individual rights. The change will start when people start demanding our rights back. Believe it or not, politicians do respond to pressure from the voters because they don't want to give up the limos and sycophantic admiration.
Are you serious? Are you going to seriously make the claim that there's no difference from Bush? Based on the Patriot Act being renewed?
People who think our government hasn't fundamentally changed don't follow politics.