Sorry, an operating system that doesn't have an upgrade path is a no-no for me. Reinstalling isn't an upgrade path. I just don't believe all my settings and custom scripts (that I don't even remember where they are and what problem they were supposed to fix) will be magically reapplied.
1. Some of those things you custom scripted around are probably fixed in the new release, and your scripts will just muck things up. 2. Similar applies to settings.
(I have experienced these myself.)
3. Failure to organize and remember what you've messed with is not the distro's fault.
4. Be smart and keep a separate/home partition. Mine has been through about 5 iterations over two different distros now, and still going strong. I keep two different OS install partitions, and when it's time to install a new OS, I blow away the older one and replace it with the new install. That way I can still fall back on my current setup if need be. And yes, I have done that. Disk is cheap. Use it to your advantage.
5. Try it out in a VM and see if it's worth the trouble before screwing with your system. I installed the Olivia RC that way but am still undecided on whether I'll bother. I'm still running Maya (LTS) as my main, with backports.
6. Anonymous Cowards don't take advice, but maybe somebody else will benefit. (And I'm sure others have even better ways of managing this.)
I have a ntfs partition with directories that I symlink from my home, so I can put stuff there that I want to share back and forth. I don't see a need to have the whole home partition accessible from windows.
However, I only use windows for a couple of games and a handful of other rarely used programs, so my use case may not match yours.
Another way of looking at it is that the self interested industrialist will say or do almost anything to keep the gravy train a-rollin' for as long as can be finagled, and if it kills off the human race in a generation or two, well, that's their problem.
On the other hand, I've heard rumors that energy companies are already preparing diversification strategies. (While the other hand keeps the gravy train going...)
Nobody is making money off of terrorism and mass murder (except perhaps "news" outlets and businesses selling unnecessary things to frightened people?) so we can't accept that, but if someone is in business, a few corpses are just the price of getting rich. Welcome to the plutocracy.
(Note to the sarcastically challenged: I agree with the anonymous parent poster's sentiments.)
Good thought, but the plant was built within a short distance of the central business district of West which hasn't moved much since the town was incorporated in 1892. The plant was a bit newer than that.
I can't speak much about a PhD in literature, but my BA in literature seems ok. I'm a software developer and make, um, more than $18k per annum. Tenure track PhD seemed like a tar pit to me even back in 19*grumble grumble* when I graduated.
Exactly, so now instead of testing against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is, we'll have to test against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is.
(The fact that several browser projects/makers used "webkit" in some version or other never reduced the need to test against every blooming thing you could.)
Do you miss the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of other people who are also gone? Not to mention the arms, legs, eyes, health, etc. of thousands of other folks?
Actually, Mitra's point has little to do with computers except inasmuch as they make access to information vastly more available. The point is about how children, given access and motivation, learn quite remarkably well on their own. Think of it as a "Free Market" theory of education.
Our teachers, bless them for their nearly thankless efforts, are as trapped as the students in our out of date education system. Freeing them is every bit as important as freeing the children.
Anyway, the point is to find out how to make learning work better, not to throw out the good things about what we have.
Cheers:)
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Hi Anonymous, thanks for your concern.
As a matter of fact my daughter is not "home schooled" in the sense you imagine. She is enrolled in a fully accredited online school, with classes, assignments, teachers, lectures, exams, and all the trappings of traditional schools except for the hours spent waiting in lines to go to the potty, waiting for the slower kids to finish their assignments, doing busy work so the overworked teacher can have a little time to grade a few papers, and so forth.
She works harder, does more, learns faster, and is excelling, as measured by the same standardized tests and the same curriculum requirements as set forth by the state in which we reside. The program leads to the same diploma received by any public school student, although I dare say she'll have learned more and accomplished more than most.
In the meanwhile, she's free from the foolishness and stupidity rampant in physical schools, and has the flexibility she needs to pursue the career she's already engaged in - so her "future" is quite secure. (The developing career is why she had to leave traditional schooling in the first place.)
As for friends, she has a number of close friends with whom she spends time regularly, and we make a priority of providing social experiences. Furthermore, she's actively engaged in multiple community organizations (as are her parents) and is a remarkably poised and well adjusted human being.
As far as being hippies (Hey, you understood my sig! Bonus points!) you'd be hard pressed to recognize us as anything of the sort, being hard working, tax paying, home owning, church going, normal dressing, unobtrusive, productive citizens.
I hope that alleviates your concerns for my daughter's welfare.
I thoroughly enjoyed the talk, and especially appreciated Mitra's open minded approach to educational possibilities.
I am the parent of a child who is pursuing her education outside of a physical school setting, and I certainly recognized correlations with our experiences.
Mitra is asking for people to expand the research, and materials are available to participate.
Our culture is changing, just like cultures always have, and always will. Among other things, there are more people, and a corresponding increase in the absolute numbers of violent events. I am not at all convinced that the actual rate of violence is rising, as measured in an individual's likelihood of experiencing violence.
The perceptions of the prevalence of bad events is no doubt increased by the readily available information about such events, and the rush to report first, regardless of accuracy, as well as a tendency to focus on the negative. This is normal human behavior, magnified by new and more efficient means of distributing information.
All things considered, I suspect life is getting better, on average, for humans, as measured by health, longevity, and ability to enjoy activities beyond simply surviving.
Today's events are horrific, and evoke painful emotions. The sky is not falling, though.
I doubt that the sample size of mass shooters is large enough for a meaningful correlation.
I'm also skeptical of the effectiveness of these institutions in preventing this sort of event. I'm not arguing against mental health care, at all, just wondering if the increased availability of institutions would have any effect on the sort of context that leads an individual to this type of action. Other sorts of mental health intervention might be more effective, perhaps beginning with simply treating mental illness as a disease instead of a bogey man.
(Are you listening, health insurance plans with mental health care exclusions?)
I agree with your sentiment, wholeheartedly. I just came home early from work and hugged my ten year old daughter, giving thanks yet again that she attends school online from home.
Nonetheless, it bears saying that the shooter is already dead - at whose hands I have not yet heard.
I'm also skeptical of the effectiveness of capital punishment for a type of crime that often includes the suicide of the perpetrator. Why would the potential of death be a deterrent? Not that it isn't deserved, but I could hardly care less about what such a person deserves, as compared with how to prevent such madness in the first place.
Live on less than the annual increase, reinvest the surplus, make sure you stay equal to or ahead of inflation. It doesn't have to balance that way every year, but should probably balance on a 5 or so year rolling basis. 5 million is plenty.
As a U.S. citizen I share the sentiment, but the fact is we have lots of political parties. I just wish more of them were strong enough to play a significant role in the political discourse. As it is, my concern is that if either of the two big ones collapsed due to internal issues, the remaining "superpower" party would tilt the political tables so far in their own direction that we'd end up with effectively a single party tyranny. They've both shown historical tendencies to act that way.
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Sorry, an operating system that doesn't have an upgrade path is a no-no for me. Reinstalling isn't an upgrade path. I just don't believe all my settings and custom scripts (that I don't even remember where they are and what problem they were supposed to fix) will be magically reapplied.
1. Some of those things you custom scripted around are probably fixed in the new release, and your scripts will just muck things up.
2. Similar applies to settings.
(I have experienced these myself.)
3. Failure to organize and remember what you've messed with is not the distro's fault.
4. Be smart and keep a separate /home partition. Mine has been through about 5 iterations over two different distros now, and still going strong. I keep two different OS install partitions, and when it's time to install a new OS, I blow away the older one and replace it with the new install. That way I can still fall back on my current setup if need be. And yes, I have done that. Disk is cheap. Use it to your advantage.
5. Try it out in a VM and see if it's worth the trouble before screwing with your system. I installed the Olivia RC that way but am still undecided on whether I'll bother. I'm still running Maya (LTS) as my main, with backports.
6. Anonymous Cowards don't take advice, but maybe somebody else will benefit. (And I'm sure others have even better ways of managing this.)
I have a ntfs partition with directories that I symlink from my home, so I can put stuff there that I want to share back and forth. I don't see a need to have the whole home partition accessible from windows.
However, I only use windows for a couple of games and a handful of other rarely used programs, so my use case may not match yours.
But they wear their stretchy pants!
And it's obvious that C12H22O11 that came from a cane tastes better than C12H22O11 that came from corn.
I don't care what happens, I am NOT tucking in my Hawaiian shirt.
Another way of looking at it is that the self interested industrialist will say or do almost anything to keep the gravy train a-rollin' for as long as can be finagled, and if it kills off the human race in a generation or two, well, that's their problem.
On the other hand, I've heard rumors that energy companies are already preparing diversification strategies. (While the other hand keeps the gravy train going...)
I agree. One extremist group says, "Stop! The bridge is out!". The other extremist group says, "No it's not, full speed ahead!"
I say we compromise, and stop in the middle of the bridge. That way we all win.
Nobody is making money off of terrorism and mass murder (except perhaps "news" outlets and businesses selling unnecessary things to frightened people?) so we can't accept that, but if someone is in business, a few corpses are just the price of getting rich. Welcome to the plutocracy.
(Note to the sarcastically challenged: I agree with the anonymous parent poster's sentiments.)
Good thought, but the plant was built within a short distance of the central business district of West which hasn't moved much since the town was incorporated in 1892. The plant was a bit newer than that.
I can't speak much about a PhD in literature, but my BA in literature seems ok. I'm a software developer and make, um, more than $18k per annum. Tenure track PhD seemed like a tar pit to me even back in 19*grumble grumble* when I graduated.
Exactly, so now instead of testing against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is, we'll have to test against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is.
(The fact that several browser projects/makers used "webkit" in some version or other never reduced the need to test against every blooming thing you could.)
Maybe someone who missed blinks and marquees wanted to name it after the famous Dr. Who episode....
Does anyone miss blinks and marquees?
Saddam is gone. I don't miss him.
Do you miss the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of other people who are also gone? Not to mention the arms, legs, eyes, health, etc. of thousands of other folks?
Actually, Mitra's point has little to do with computers except inasmuch as they make access to information vastly more available. The point is about how children, given access and motivation, learn quite remarkably well on their own. Think of it as a "Free Market" theory of education.
Our teachers, bless them for their nearly thankless efforts, are as trapped as the students in our out of date education system. Freeing them is every bit as important as freeing the children.
Anyway, the point is to find out how to make learning work better, not to throw out the good things about what we have.
Cheers :)
Hi Anonymous, thanks for your concern.
As a matter of fact my daughter is not "home schooled" in the sense you imagine. She is enrolled in a fully accredited online school, with classes, assignments, teachers, lectures, exams, and all the trappings of traditional schools except for the hours spent waiting in lines to go to the potty, waiting for the slower kids to finish their assignments, doing busy work so the overworked teacher can have a little time to grade a few papers, and so forth.
She works harder, does more, learns faster, and is excelling, as measured by the same standardized tests and the same curriculum requirements as set forth by the state in which we reside. The program leads to the same diploma received by any public school student, although I dare say she'll have learned more and accomplished more than most.
In the meanwhile, she's free from the foolishness and stupidity rampant in physical schools, and has the flexibility she needs to pursue the career she's already engaged in - so her "future" is quite secure. (The developing career is why she had to leave traditional schooling in the first place.)
As for friends, she has a number of close friends with whom she spends time regularly, and we make a priority of providing social experiences. Furthermore, she's actively engaged in multiple community organizations (as are her parents) and is a remarkably poised and well adjusted human being.
As far as being hippies (Hey, you understood my sig! Bonus points!) you'd be hard pressed to recognize us as anything of the sort, being hard working, tax paying, home owning, church going, normal dressing, unobtrusive, productive citizens.
I hope that alleviates your concerns for my daughter's welfare.
I thoroughly enjoyed the talk, and especially appreciated Mitra's open minded approach to educational possibilities.
I am the parent of a child who is pursuing her education outside of a physical school setting, and I certainly recognized correlations with our experiences.
Mitra is asking for people to expand the research, and materials are available to participate.
I'll be fascinated to see how this develops.
Interestingly enough, the review is of a book about enyo, rather than enyo itself. Perhaps the book mentions this historical tidbit.
Our culture is changing, just like cultures always have, and always will. Among other things, there are more people, and a corresponding increase in the absolute numbers of violent events. I am not at all convinced that the actual rate of violence is rising, as measured in an individual's likelihood of experiencing violence.
The perceptions of the prevalence of bad events is no doubt increased by the readily available information about such events, and the rush to report first, regardless of accuracy, as well as a tendency to focus on the negative. This is normal human behavior, magnified by new and more efficient means of distributing information.
All things considered, I suspect life is getting better, on average, for humans, as measured by health, longevity, and ability to enjoy activities beyond simply surviving.
Today's events are horrific, and evoke painful emotions. The sky is not falling, though.
I doubt that the sample size of mass shooters is large enough for a meaningful correlation.
I'm also skeptical of the effectiveness of these institutions in preventing this sort of event. I'm not arguing against mental health care, at all, just wondering if the increased availability of institutions would have any effect on the sort of context that leads an individual to this type of action. Other sorts of mental health intervention might be more effective, perhaps beginning with simply treating mental illness as a disease instead of a bogey man.
(Are you listening, health insurance plans with mental health care exclusions?)
I agree with your sentiment, wholeheartedly. I just came home early from work and hugged my ten year old daughter, giving thanks yet again that she attends school online from home.
Nonetheless, it bears saying that the shooter is already dead - at whose hands I have not yet heard.
I'm also skeptical of the effectiveness of capital punishment for a type of crime that often includes the suicide of the perpetrator. Why would the potential of death be a deterrent? Not that it isn't deserved, but I could hardly care less about what such a person deserves, as compared with how to prevent such madness in the first place.
I have no answers, only questions and doubts.
Please find a new meme. That is all.
Live on less than the annual increase, reinvest the surplus, make sure you stay equal to or ahead of inflation. It doesn't have to balance that way every year, but should probably balance on a 5 or so year rolling basis. 5 million is plenty.
http://www.barackobama.com/
http://www.mittromney.com/
There, now you can have both sets of propaganda, and be almost exactly as well informed as you were before you read any of it.
As a U.S. citizen I share the sentiment, but the fact is we have lots of political parties. I just wish more of them were strong enough to play a significant role in the political discourse. As it is, my concern is that if either of the two big ones collapsed due to internal issues, the remaining "superpower" party would tilt the political tables so far in their own direction that we'd end up with effectively a single party tyranny. They've both shown historical tendencies to act that way.
Isn't that the same line the pusher on the corner uses?