Of course fear and the thought that you have the flu can make you sick. You create everything around you, why wouldn't you create your own diseases too? Mind over matter is largely ignored in the scientific community, but it's possible to manipulate Your Universe just by the process of thought and intention. Think about it.
Please, for the love of nature and life, at least use power saving if your computer supports it! I bet we could feed the starving children of Africa saved by the power used by idle computers everywhere. And don't get me started on people who leave their computers on when they leave the workplace!
.. My Mac Mini with Snow Leopard installed boots in under 20 seconds. Of course this is great for Windows, but this isn't anything new either. And I bet you can tweak Linux to boot in this time too, if you manually tweak it for a year or something;)
And this is the reason we must stick it to the man, exactly. Staying static will not bring any change. Fight the man. He is just a man, after all. We can overcome.
Overall, I think the world would be a better place if most people tried LSD at least once, providing they spent months of their free time learning all they could about LSD before using it and used it in a safe environment in a responsible way.
Agreed. Key here is information and a controlled environment. Know your substances and know your body.
Anyway, what I hear people are already using various off-the-shelf drugs (Ritalin etc) in the scientific circles to keep the user more concentrated and able to work more. Imagine the possibilities of using LSD in a controlled environment, for example once every month for dealing with the more complex technological problems we are facing.
On second thought, I think that is already happening somewhere, someplace.. maybe google ?:P They're funding psychedelic research (www.maps.org) too.
Personally I think it is easier to be creative and solve problems when you're not on drugs. You're more likely to overestimate the importance and uniqueness of your own ideas when you're high.
True. The point is not to be "high" all the time, point is to use them like tools, like a hat you put on for a while and come back with new ideas and ways to solve them.
In a controlled environment and with the right knowledge these could be extremely useful tools for levering our technological progress. And used with caution and the respect they demand. Too bad everybody can't control their use or research into things before doing bad stuff for themselves.
I say we need to educate people about drugs anyway, some % of the people are going to use different substances no matter what, so why not educate them about safe usage ?
What I hear from it's a great way to boost you way of analytic, mathematical and engineering way of thinking. Now, I'm not saying we should promote use of any of these substances, but I'm saying we should aknowledge them and use them in a controlled way for the benefit of human kind. Psychedelics can unlock huge potentials in human beings, why are we denying this still ? The native people of different regions of the world have known this for centuries. Too bad we are still being led by medical companies and other huge colloborations of humans who like their materialistic ways of lifes too much to really let the human race take off.
Writer not reincarnation of Douglas Adams ? How can this happen? I thought we had somebody taking care of this. I mean, we got the one of the greatest scifi writers ever, and nobody even bothered making sure somebody acts as a vessel for him and makes sure he writes more good stuff, bloody british curse word!
When are people going to realize that XKCD f*cking sucks and doesn't need to be referenced in every goddamn article?
I mean, the guy writes these supposedly-witty-but-oh-so-self-conscious comics about stuff that gets posted on slashdot, and then people reference back to the comics. Ergh ?
Yeah, I remember when I picked up my ordered box back in 1998 from the mail office, looked at the odd interface pictures from behind the cardboard box and fiddled with the cool manual and stickers that came with it.
The first steps were very odd, installing with the boot disk and several CD-ROMS. I remember being very excited about this totally new system. Beforehand I had only experience from the usual MS-DOS and Windows. The road to 100% Linux use was long and hard. So much new commands, new way of thinking about things and these strange source code packages you could download.
Lots of compiling the kernel trying to get my SB32 and ISDN cards working.. the ISDN setting up was a lot of manual work back then, I even wrote a document on how to get it done in Finnish as nobody else had done before.
Playing quakeworld, ircing and listening to mp3s at the same time, nice:) Also the quality of the developer tools and environment really surprised me, compared to the MS-DOS counterparts I was used to, like 64-kbit segments of memory.
After that I guess I tried every possible distro available. Slackware was my pick of choice after moving away from Redhat, and after that Gentoo, then Debian and now Ubuntu if I have to use Linux. Mac Os X is so much nicer on the desktop.
I remember all the years that were supposed to be the 'year of Linux on the desktop'.. I guess their approaching that now:)
Just to clarify on this, most still voted with the traditional pen & paper methods. I guess E-voting was tested in some places. The finnish E-voting system was programmed by TietoEnator, which has had some questionable results in the past too in delivering working software. Still they get a lot of the government related jobs.. gee, wonder why ?
God isn't some thing. God is in every one of us. Church, religion and the likes are just diversions from the real true god or whatever you want to call him. If you look at the plot from that view of point, it makes much more sense.
It's safe to say that YOU can not hear the difference, but that doesn't mean I can't notice the differences between lossless audio and MP3 even at 256 kpbs.
And I certainly can tell the difference between well water and tap water, even here in Finland where tap water is high quality and is the main source of drinking water.
Doom was surprisingly good for a franchise movie. Although it really didn't capture any of the Doom mood, but anyway, for a no-brainer action movie it was good.
And the FPS sequence was something different, I liked it.
Judge Dredd on the other hand.. WTF! The Judge takes off his helmet in the first 5 minutes or something.
My average work week is ~35 hours, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Made possible by no time tracking, boss on a different continent and getting the job done when needed and not hanging around the office when nothing to do.
At my last job I used to work 8hrs everyday with timetracking etc, but that really sucked also counting the 2 hours I travelled everyday with public transportation to my job.
Currently I like my job as I can leave when I feel like it and come when I feel like it.
Yeah.. GH3 sucks comparing to GH2. Harmonix just has a thing for making better songs to be played with toy guitars.
Comparing Rock Band and GH: World Tour you can see the same thing.. the songs in World Tour are full of wanking and repeating the same impossible finger patterns, as in Rock Band they are easier and more enjoyable to play.
And for instance people programming Perl need to focus all the time on what is the best way out of all the ways in this case to do things. But people who program Python don't need to worry about such trivial things and can focus on instead the actual structure of the program while they exercise their creative potential.
There is so much more to programming than myriad selection of characters and syntaxes can contain:-)
a human is also an entity and a form of energy, in addition to the body mass and the heat it generates.
No, it's not.
How do you know it's not ? Have you seen the truth ? Nobody knows the truth, but one thing is certain, we are more than our physical body, or at least what we observer as our physical body. Maybe you will see it too one day. Some might describe it as a soul, some as energy that floats in the universe. Science and physics can't explain everything, as they are only OUR understanding of things.
Well, apparently you haven't really used YUM on any real servers.. it's a pain in the ass compared to the ease and speed of apt-get. For example, try to search something with 'yum search foo' and witness the incredible slowness compared to 'apt-cache search foo'.
Also, when installing packages on x86_64 servers, you need to add.x86_64 to every package you're going to install to prevent YUM installing the i386 versions too. Also, sometimes YUM forgets or gets confused with the repository updates, and you need to do manual 'yum clean all' runs to fix the cached information..
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Of course fear and the thought that you have the flu can make you sick. You create everything around you, why wouldn't you create your own diseases too? Mind over matter is largely ignored in the scientific community, but it's possible to manipulate Your Universe just by the process of thought and intention. Think about it.
Please, for the love of nature and life, at least use power saving if your computer supports it! I bet we could feed the starving children of Africa saved by the power used by idle computers everywhere. And don't get me started on people who leave their computers on when they leave the workplace!
.. My Mac Mini with Snow Leopard installed boots in under 20 seconds. Of course this is great for Windows, but this isn't anything new either. And I bet you can tweak Linux to boot in this time too, if you manually tweak it for a year or something ;)
And this is the reason we must stick it to the man, exactly. Staying static will not bring any change. Fight the man. He is just a man, after all. We can overcome.
Overall, I think the world would be a better place if most people tried LSD at least once, providing they spent months of their free time learning all they could about LSD before using it and used it in a safe environment in a responsible way.
Agreed. Key here is information and a controlled environment. Know your substances and know your body.
Anyway, what I hear people are already using various off-the-shelf drugs (Ritalin etc) in the scientific circles to keep the user more concentrated and able to work more. Imagine the possibilities of using LSD in a controlled environment, for example once every month for dealing with the more complex technological problems we are facing.
On second thought, I think that is already happening somewhere, someplace .. maybe google ? :P They're funding psychedelic research (www.maps.org) too.
Personally I think it is easier to be creative and solve problems when you're not on drugs. You're more likely to overestimate the importance and uniqueness of your own ideas when you're high.
True. The point is not to be "high" all the time, point is to use them like tools, like a hat you put on for a while and come back with new ideas and ways to solve them.
In a controlled environment and with the right knowledge these could be extremely useful tools for levering our technological progress. And used with caution and the respect they demand. Too bad everybody can't control their use or research into things before doing bad stuff for themselves.
I say we need to educate people about drugs anyway, some % of the people are going to use different substances no matter what, so why not educate them about safe usage ?
As a fellow nerd I have to tell you that some critical parts of our computer technology these days was built with the help of these 'drugs', or more clearly psychedelics and more precisely LSD. See: http://open.salon.com/blog/hal_m/2009/07/09/lsd_inventor_hofmanns_letter_to_steve_jobs and http://heroux.blogspot.com/2006/03/this-is-your-computer-on-lsd.html for a couple of good starting points for you too look at.
What I hear from it's a great way to boost you way of analytic, mathematical and engineering way of thinking. Now, I'm not saying we should promote use of any of these substances, but I'm saying we should aknowledge them and use them in a controlled way for the benefit of human kind. Psychedelics can unlock huge potentials in human beings, why are we denying this still ? The native people of different regions of the world have known this for centuries. Too bad we are still being led by medical companies and other huge colloborations of humans who like their materialistic ways of lifes too much to really let the human race take off.
Writer not reincarnation of Douglas Adams ? How can this happen? I thought we had somebody taking care of this. I mean, we got the one of the greatest scifi writers ever, and nobody even bothered making sure somebody acts as a vessel for him and makes sure he writes more good stuff, bloody british curse word!
This article makes none. Seriously, what the heck ?
Actually, for example files crypted with Truecrypt seem only like data, they are indistinguishable from random blabber. Probably.
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for everybody else.
I, for one, welcome our All Fixing overlords!
When are people going to realize that XKCD f*cking sucks and doesn't need to be referenced in every goddamn article? I mean, the guy writes these supposedly-witty-but-oh-so-self-conscious comics about stuff that gets posted on slashdot, and then people reference back to the comics. Ergh ?
Yeah, I remember when I picked up my ordered box back in 1998 from the mail office, looked at the odd interface pictures from behind the cardboard box and fiddled with the cool manual and stickers that came with it.
The first steps were very odd, installing with the boot disk and several CD-ROMS. I remember being very excited about this totally new system. Beforehand I had only experience from the usual MS-DOS and Windows. The road to 100% Linux use was long and hard. So much new commands, new way of thinking about things and these strange source code packages you could download.
Lots of compiling the kernel trying to get my SB32 and ISDN cards working .. the ISDN setting up was a lot of manual work back then, I even wrote a document on how to get it done in Finnish as nobody else had done before.
Playing quakeworld, ircing and listening to mp3s at the same time, nice :) Also the quality of the developer tools and environment really surprised me, compared to the MS-DOS counterparts I was used to, like 64-kbit segments of memory.
After that I guess I tried every possible distro available. Slackware was my pick of choice after moving away from Redhat, and after that Gentoo, then Debian and now Ubuntu if I have to use Linux. Mac Os X is so much nicer on the desktop.
I remember all the years that were supposed to be the 'year of Linux on the desktop' .. I guess their approaching that now :)
Just to clarify on this, most still voted with the traditional pen & paper methods. I guess E-voting was tested in some places. The finnish E-voting system was programmed by TietoEnator, which has had some questionable results in the past too in delivering working software. Still they get a lot of the government related jobs .. gee, wonder why ?
God isn't some thing. God is in every one of us. Church, religion and the likes are just diversions from the real true god or whatever you want to call him. If you look at the plot from that view of point, it makes much more sense.
It's safe to say that YOU can not hear the difference, but that doesn't mean I can't notice the differences between lossless audio and MP3 even at 256 kpbs.
And I certainly can tell the difference between well water and tap water, even here in Finland where tap water is high quality and is the main source of drinking water.
Doom was surprisingly good for a franchise movie. Although it really didn't capture any of the Doom mood, but anyway, for a no-brainer action movie it was good.
And the FPS sequence was something different, I liked it.
Judge Dredd on the other hand .. WTF! The Judge takes off his helmet in the first 5 minutes or something.
News that matter .. more like cash that matters .. nice plug, Slashfuck!
The name says it all, it's a View for things to come, that is, paid public beta for Windows.
My average work week is ~35 hours, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Made possible by no time tracking, boss on a different continent and getting the job done when needed and not hanging around the office when nothing to do.
At my last job I used to work 8hrs everyday with timetracking etc, but that really sucked also counting the 2 hours I travelled everyday with public transportation to my job.
Currently I like my job as I can leave when I feel like it and come when I feel like it.
Yeah .. GH3 sucks comparing to GH2. Harmonix just has a thing for making better songs to be played with toy guitars.
Comparing Rock Band and GH: World Tour you can see the same thing .. the songs in World Tour are full of wanking and repeating the same impossible finger patterns, as in Rock Band they are easier and more enjoyable to play.
I also sold my GH3 to a friend. Good riddance.
And for instance people programming Perl need to focus all the time on what is the best way out of all the ways in this case to do things. But people who program Python don't need to worry about such trivial things and can focus on instead the actual structure of the program while they exercise their creative potential.
There is so much more to programming than myriad selection of characters and syntaxes can contain :-)
a human is also an entity and a form of energy, in addition to the body mass and the heat it generates.
No, it's not.
How do you know it's not ? Have you seen the truth ? Nobody knows the truth, but one thing is certain, we are more than our physical body, or at least what we observer as our physical body. Maybe you will see it too one day. Some might describe it as a soul, some as energy that floats in the universe. Science and physics can't explain everything, as they are only OUR understanding of things.
Geodude evolves into Graveler, which then again evolves into Golem when traded and so on .. humm ? Well documented facts.
Well, apparently you haven't really used YUM on any real servers .. it's a pain in the ass compared to the ease and speed of apt-get. For example, try to search something with 'yum search foo' and witness the incredible slowness compared to 'apt-cache search foo'.
Also, when installing packages on x86_64 servers, you need to add .x86_64 to every package you're going to install to prevent YUM installing the i386 versions too. Also, sometimes YUM forgets or gets confused with the repository updates, and you need to do manual 'yum clean all' runs to fix the cached information ..
I hate yum compared to apt-get. Just my 2 cents.