"The thing about C programming: high risk (harder to find jobs), high reward (those that have them tend to get higher salaries). This is just an economic reality."
So, you're saying that when supply is higher than demand, the price will rise? This is a pretty astonishing economic reality, if that's what it is.
Tethering is built into the n900. I had no trouble providing internet for my home network via 3G during snowmaggedon last month, when my internet went down. I use Ubuntu, but I'm sure it would have been about as easy with Windows or Mac.
"99% of the time I'm correct. Linux has support for so many pieces of hardware out of the box that I don't even *need* a third party driver."
I'm glad someone, somewhere, is having this experience. I used Linux on the desktop from 1997 through mid-2003 (switched to Mac), and I switched back to Ubuntu last month. That's one of the things that has not changed: there's always something that doesn't work, and often multiple things that don't work completely (it used to be sound and network, and then it was graphics, wireless, and ACPI that always seemed to not work right, and after installing Ubuntu on my iMac, sure enough, it's the ATI video card and the wireless drivers that don't work correctly (though the gnome-power-manager also gets in the way, turning on my iMac's screen in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and leaving it on, but at least it'll stay killed until the next reboot, even though it doesn't obey the preference to not start on startup).
In the last six years, the Linux desktop has improved quite a lot (Gnome seems a lot more stable and somewhat faster, but not nearly as much faster as my machine is), but drivers are apparently still a major weak spot.
Oh, I wasn't saying that everything just works on Mac (though, really, most stuff does; not being able to do something at all is not the same as installing something and then finding that it doesn't actually do what it ought to have, and your examples point out that the built-in defaults work well enough that you'd like to use those programs for other things that they don't handle by default, too!). I'm just saying that the *default assumption* is that things do what they're supposed to, even if they don't do other things you'd like.
Once you've used Linux for a bit, your (well, "my") default assumption is that a given package will actually not do what it should do, hence my example of not wanting to uninstall the kubuntu-desktop package, even though I'm not using it, because the login screen still seems to be the kubuntu one, and my default expectation is not that it will either warn me or re-enable the Gnome login screen, but that I just won't be able to login without booting into runlevel 3 and fixing things (assuming runlevel 3 is still textmode). Oh, and the pointer and "wait" cursor are still the KDE ones, which is nice since I liked those better, but worrying because it's not clear why the Gnome ones wouldn't have come back.
I switched back in part because I noticed I was using mostly open source stuff instead of Mac stuff, and that was because I could make it do what I really wanted, instead of just accepting the few options I'm given. I knew what I was getting into, because I went the other way a few years back, and I'm not really complaining about that. Also, let me hurry to point out that Ubuntu really has come a long way from Debian ca 2003, but it appears that they've reached this point mainly by making things less configurable so that you're less likely to run into sharp corners, and that once you start doing any real changes to the system, you're on your own.:)
That's not reliable. I installed Ubuntu, tried out kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, enlightenment, and finally went back to Gnome (ubuntu-desktop). After installing the kubuntu-desktop, it's said kubuntu every time I log in, even though I'm logging into Gnome, now. I might be able to get it to stop by uninstalling kubuntu-desktop, or that might just make it so I can't log in at all; who knows?
I switched to Mac from Gentoo in 2003, and while I switched to Ubuntu a few weeks ago (since I now have the time to tweak my system every day again), I'm startled by how far Linux hasn't come.:( In Windows and Mac, there's an expectation that things will actually work, but after a few weeks back in Linux, I've reverted to the default expectation that things will not work without handholding and forum browsing.
I think this was way more realistic than it would have been if he'd suddenly had a change of heart in the lab; it wasn't really a place he could think about things enough for that. Near the end, when he protects the alien on the way back, it's not because he's had a moment of becoming moral, but because he finally sees the alien (and their child) as a *person*, and Wickus is someone who cares about people.
"However, I'm sure I'd fail on any Java test or C test."
I thought that, too, but now I'm convinced you'd do okay. I took a test recently for Java (the company insisted, even though Java wasn't on my resume at all, and I relented), and I scored "Master - Can mentor others" even though I've never done anything serious in Java (maybe played around with it a few years ago). For someone who knows C-family languages, the tests are cake. I guess they're only intended to weed out those who truly know nothing at all.
However, if you lived in a place with sane electricity prices, like where I currently live, that 75 kilowatt hours would cost you ~$7, or about the same as two gallons of gas.
Maybe a more interesting question is how to show folk in general that privacy is impossible, in the long run. If you give information out, it's out. Conduct your life accordingly.
No, it's absurd to think that it doesn't, unless you're a dualist. In which case you're beyond help anyway. That's exactly the reverse of the case. Only if you were a dualist would you think that there could be two bodies sharing a single consciousness, merely because they were copies. Those who believe that consciousness is a physical process would, of course, realize that there are two such physical processes going on, rather than one.
Ah, this explains why the attacker has always won, because if there was a significant chance the attacker would lose, there'd be no attack, right?
If fights are fair, a lot more people are tempted to start fights, because they can convince themselves that they will "probably" win.
Lastly, by conflating the "peace through superior firepower" position with being a "crazy warmonger", you seem to imply that you, yourself, would never hestitate to attack others if you thought you could get away with it. Perhaps you didn't mean to be so forthcoming?
"If you could blow through an instance with no effort, then what satisfaction would you get from doing it? Gear? Everyone else would have the same gear. Experience? Everyone else would have the same experience. It would crazy boring."
Everyone else? Who cares about what everyone else has?
Protest? He couldn't go in because his agreement with his employer requires that he have the phone on at all times. Not quite sure where protest comes into it.
I don't play MMORPG's, but I presume that this is because playing a low-level RPG character in these games is boring and that it gets more interesting as the character advances.
It's actually the other way 'round. It's easy and interesting to get a character up to 20-30, but after that, it becomes considerably longer between interesting moments. In my experience, at least. I have a lot of characters at 20- and 30-something, and only two or three above 40.
As a businessman, let me point out that politicians mostly seem to work against me, rather than for me. Every now and then they fail to tax or regulate me as much as it was thought they would, and then everyone cries about how the politicians are "helping" businesses.
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"The thing about C programming: high risk (harder to find jobs), high reward (those that have them tend to get higher salaries). This is just an economic reality."
So, you're saying that when supply is higher than demand, the price will rise? This is a pretty astonishing economic reality, if that's what it is.
That would be congressional *action*, would it not? If they hadn't acted to insert the 70 words, this wouldn't be a problem.
Tethering is built into the n900. I had no trouble providing internet for my home network via 3G during snowmaggedon last month, when my internet went down. I use Ubuntu, but I'm sure it would have been about as easy with Windows or Mac.
"99% of the time I'm correct. Linux has support for so many pieces of hardware out of the box that I don't even *need* a third party driver."
I'm glad someone, somewhere, is having this experience. I used Linux on the desktop from 1997 through mid-2003 (switched to Mac), and I switched back to Ubuntu last month. That's one of the things that has not changed: there's always something that doesn't work, and often multiple things that don't work completely (it used to be sound and network, and then it was graphics, wireless, and ACPI that always seemed to not work right, and after installing Ubuntu on my iMac, sure enough, it's the ATI video card and the wireless drivers that don't work correctly (though the gnome-power-manager also gets in the way, turning on my iMac's screen in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and leaving it on, but at least it'll stay killed until the next reboot, even though it doesn't obey the preference to not start on startup).
In the last six years, the Linux desktop has improved quite a lot (Gnome seems a lot more stable and somewhat faster, but not nearly as much faster as my machine is), but drivers are apparently still a major weak spot.
Oh, I wasn't saying that everything just works on Mac (though, really, most stuff does; not being able to do something at all is not the same as installing something and then finding that it doesn't actually do what it ought to have, and your examples point out that the built-in defaults work well enough that you'd like to use those programs for other things that they don't handle by default, too!). I'm just saying that the *default assumption* is that things do what they're supposed to, even if they don't do other things you'd like.
Once you've used Linux for a bit, your (well, "my") default assumption is that a given package will actually not do what it should do, hence my example of not wanting to uninstall the kubuntu-desktop package, even though I'm not using it, because the login screen still seems to be the kubuntu one, and my default expectation is not that it will either warn me or re-enable the Gnome login screen, but that I just won't be able to login without booting into runlevel 3 and fixing things (assuming runlevel 3 is still textmode). Oh, and the pointer and "wait" cursor are still the KDE ones, which is nice since I liked those better, but worrying because it's not clear why the Gnome ones wouldn't have come back.
I switched back in part because I noticed I was using mostly open source stuff instead of Mac stuff, and that was because I could make it do what I really wanted, instead of just accepting the few options I'm given. I knew what I was getting into, because I went the other way a few years back, and I'm not really complaining about that. Also, let me hurry to point out that Ubuntu really has come a long way from Debian ca 2003, but it appears that they've reached this point mainly by making things less configurable so that you're less likely to run into sharp corners, and that once you start doing any real changes to the system, you're on your own. :)
"packing as much energy as 2400 megatons of TNT"
That seems a bit low, doesn't it? Only two orders of magnitude more than what we've produced in a single nuke explosion?
That's not reliable. I installed Ubuntu, tried out kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, enlightenment, and finally went back to Gnome (ubuntu-desktop). After installing the kubuntu-desktop, it's said kubuntu every time I log in, even though I'm logging into Gnome, now. I might be able to get it to stop by uninstalling kubuntu-desktop, or that might just make it so I can't log in at all; who knows?
I switched to Mac from Gentoo in 2003, and while I switched to Ubuntu a few weeks ago (since I now have the time to tweak my system every day again), I'm startled by how far Linux hasn't come. :( In Windows and Mac, there's an expectation that things will actually work, but after a few weeks back in Linux, I've reverted to the default expectation that things will not work without handholding and forum browsing.
I think this was way more realistic than it would have been if he'd suddenly had a change of heart in the lab; it wasn't really a place he could think about things enough for that. Near the end, when he protects the alien on the way back, it's not because he's had a moment of becoming moral, but because he finally sees the alien (and their child) as a *person*, and Wickus is someone who cares about people.
Well, that's Michael Scott. Good salesman, though, apparently.
Cue hyperinflation when someone finally gets a fusion reactor working. Or hyperdeflation when we run out of oil.
But energy has a fair claim to being nearly synonymous with wealth. It's not inflation if everyone really is that much more wealthy.
If so, they could just fix it last summer if they discover any other problems, no?
Hm. My guess is that he drinks a LOT of liquid, and then runs out to where other people need a drink and fills them up with... liquid.
I'll just shut up now.
"However, I'm sure I'd fail on any Java test or C test."
I thought that, too, but now I'm convinced you'd do okay. I took a test recently for Java (the company insisted, even though Java wasn't on my resume at all, and I relented), and I scored "Master - Can mentor others" even though I've never done anything serious in Java (maybe played around with it a few years ago). For someone who knows C-family languages, the tests are cake. I guess they're only intended to weed out those who truly know nothing at all.
zen.spamhaus.org IS sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org , per their website.
However, if you lived in a place with sane electricity prices, like where I currently live, that 75 kilowatt hours would cost you ~$7, or about the same as two gallons of gas.
If I understand what you're looking for, Vendetta has that.
Maybe a more interesting question is how to show folk in general that privacy is impossible, in the long run. If you give information out, it's out. Conduct your life accordingly.
"If fights are fair people won't engage in them,"
Ah, this explains why the attacker has always won, because if there was a significant chance the attacker would lose, there'd be no attack, right?
If fights are fair, a lot more people are tempted to start fights, because they can convince themselves that they will "probably" win.
Lastly, by conflating the "peace through superior firepower" position with being a "crazy warmonger", you seem to imply that you, yourself, would never hestitate to attack others if you thought you could get away with it. Perhaps you didn't mean to be so forthcoming?
"If you could blow through an instance with no effort, then what satisfaction would you get from doing it? Gear? Everyone else would have the same gear. Experience? Everyone else would have the same experience. It would crazy boring."
Everyone else? Who cares about what everyone else has?
Protest? He couldn't go in because his agreement with his employer requires that he have the phone on at all times. Not quite sure where protest comes into it.
It's actually the other way 'round. It's easy and interesting to get a character up to 20-30, but after that, it becomes considerably longer between interesting moments. In my experience, at least. I have a lot of characters at 20- and 30-something, and only two or three above 40.
1) McDonald's has no White Chocolate Mocha. :)
2) There is no McDonald's in Barnes & Nobel, but there is a Starbucks.
Comfortably numb, let me tell you. I had no idea. :)
As a businessman, let me point out that politicians mostly seem to work against me, rather than for me. Every now and then they fail to tax or regulate me as much as it was thought they would, and then everyone cries about how the politicians are "helping" businesses.