Yeah, the moment ads started moving I have found it impossible to surf without an aggressive ad blocking program and lately noscript/flashblock.
It could be a personal thing though, my nephew is not very computer literate but reads a lot of xtian forums with tons of religious ads for retreats, xtian couple sites and censorware for the internet. I thought I was doing him a favor blocking the ads, but as soon as I did he found the sites barren and uncomfortable without all the crap flashing at him, so he asked me to put the ads back.
Yes, my friend uses that much netflix, youtube, hulu and the like a day for him to hit the cap every month. He does not pirate movies online, he uses his netflix to get them in the mail and rip them himself so thats not it. However, Comcast refuses to talk to him about it.
MMORPGS came from MUDS in the 1980's which came from tabletop RPG which came from Sci-Fi writers like Paul Anderson's 'psychodrama' stories from the 1950's. The idea being that grown ups act like they are something they are not and interact with each other through roleplaying. That would be an interesting article to read, not some 20 some year old who can't bother to at least Google a bit further back than his comfort zone.
Try that in Texas or Alabama or Florida. It ain't going to happen and that is why the federal government once and for all should either get out of the marriage business or open it to all responsible adults.
We should celebrate the senile and powerful they make the last foolish stand for each generation before they are laughed to death. It is like macabre performance art.
I loathe needless physical media, including books but that is another discussion. I recently ripped and sold/gave away all my DVDs and CDs and will never buy either format ever again after accumulating almost 1k CDs and 600 or so legit DVDs and pry around 500 burned DVDs. It was completely unmanageable and now all of that and more is on a 10 TB raid 6 array in my hallway closet running a stripped down Debian install. Now I can grep for movies/television shows and even nostaligic commercials from my childhood in seconds instead of having to chase down a DVD. I'm currently at 8 TB and I plan to expand the storage by another 10 TB this Xmas if I can get 12 1 terabyte drives for under a hundred bucks.
Stop extrapolating this to the future, do you think people in 1809 could of imagined the progress we have made as a species? We don't need to increase the densities of cities we need to decrease the sprawling over-sized areas of the country that are used for farming. The city as it currently stands in most countries is slowly dissolving into neighborhood cities because the unifying feature if it ever had one is gone. There are no one employeer or even one industry cities anymore and the ones that tried it are turning to rust, being left on the tundra or are being taken over by dunes.
I ride my bike to work, school, groceries and the like 90% of the time because I live in PDX which worked on making their area more livable for decades. It cost money and the bike trails took up space and cost a decent amount of money to maintain but people use them. If we are going to solve the population DENSITY problem we need to start dismantling suburbia and making it livable for a more sustainable lifestyle, if you so choose.
There is no such thing as overpopulation that can't be solved by re-engineering our cities/factories and changing our lifestyles. Yes, other species and ecosystems will be be strained and always have been by growing human populations but the idea that the earth can only sustain a certain amount of humans is both naive and absurd. The biomass during this epoch is far less than the Triassic and Jurassic periods when huge 20 ton monsters roamed the country eating a good part of their body weight per day. This went on for 10's of millions of years. Even Americans aren't that big yet. According to the 1970's chicken littles like yourself we should all be dead by now. Well, um that didn't happen because technology solved many of the problems that were emerging at the time and we will continue solving them contrary to naysayers like yourself.
Who cares about non-academics? Seriously, do you think anyone without a college degree in the sciences or engineering is going to take the time to read something like this? If they are, maybe they should go back for a degree. I'm sick of praising the dumbing down of academic work to the lowest common denominator as a 'good thing';because, it may capture the essence of the work but more often than not it lends itself to the mythologization of the sciences. We have people in bars all night arguing about physics from snippets they heard on the Discovery channel and picked up on pop science sites and it speaks as much about science and its methods as describing the shape and color of the instruments in an orchestra while trying to understand Mozart.
I would agree that some academic papers have become so terse with their own jargon as to be indecipherable and that such papers are in fact much less useful than ones written in a language and style that lends itself to a more interdisciplinary understanding but please do not praise those who dumb down the sciences anymore. I'm sick of people who have insights into quantum physics or cosmology who understand neither the standard model or Hubble's constant. Who tell me with a straight face they understand something that I barely feel comfortable with after years of grad school. If you can't do math you don't really understand science and with that I include the social sciences which relies heavily on prob and stats.
Not everyone in the data center are IT monkeys. I'm a network engineer and I sit two rows over from a kernel developer. Some of us like working near our hardware, thank you.
I would guess tech support, computer sales or just smarter than average gamers. I'm losing my hearing working in an R&D data center environment. Anyone who has worked around 1000's of machines knows what I means.
Why shouldn't China be entitled to use its own resources to build out its own economy? China has a horrible standard of living for the amount of production present in the country and the pollution that goes along with it. I hope they use it all for domestic green energy projects, because frankly they need it more than we do where going "green" is more a luxury than anything. Building green jobs here with our own rare earths is entirely possible considering we have far more known rare earth ore deposits than they do. So what exactly are you complaining about, that we can't rape their country for all the resources? They have a billion people and it is highly unlikely they will ever have the same standard of living as the US in our lifetime but the very least we could do is not bitch and moan every time China does something nice for its own citizens.
You know, I would rather deport people like you than hard working or studying immigrants. Why don't you all go down to the south of the US and secede, this time the rest of us northern folk won't stop you. Well considering there is hardly any natural resources in the south besides coal and oil you can all have your coal power plants and big trucks and you won't need to worry about new-fangled technologies irritating you. You can all live gloriously embittered lives scapegoating the rest of the world for your problems as you walk around yelling in the swamps, marshes and hurricane-prone areas of the gulf states like some sort of swamp curmudgeon. You could yourself America for Americans only or something. Build yourself a Lou Dobbsian wall around your entire country to keep Yankees and Mexicans out. Give all those janitorial, landscaping and construction jobs back to Americans because we all know how much Americans love doing menial labor for low wages without health insurance. Right, mister xenophobe?
That is the stupidest thing I have heard all day. Who doesn't have more than one computer nowadays? Does the software check to see if you have an iphone, a wifi connected laptop or I don't know your textbook in front of you?
If she wants to work R&D she will need to learn Linux. There are decades of tools out there that are all Unix or Linux based. Cygwin may work but either way you are going to be learning Bash shell scripting. Any other department it will be optional, even IT.
I have been playing much attention to Internet political campaigns but that is not what I was talking about. It is a bit disingenuous to claim I'm not paying attention to something I clearly mentioned. To be absolutely clear I'm talking about being able to actually work on the law-making process which would mean collaborative legislative tools open at least in part to the public. Why should 700 people determine the laws for 300 million?
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Yeah, the moment ads started moving I have found it impossible to surf without an aggressive ad blocking program and lately noscript/flashblock. It could be a personal thing though, my nephew is not very computer literate but reads a lot of xtian forums with tons of religious ads for retreats, xtian couple sites and censorware for the internet. I thought I was doing him a favor blocking the ads, but as soon as I did he found the sites barren and uncomfortable without all the crap flashing at him, so he asked me to put the ads back.
For instance, why are you switching from an OS with more support to ones with less support?
Try that with windows. All the operating system files for windows must be on the same drive and partition.
No, it isn't. It is a fear of having a panic attack somewhere you can't escape.
That is not OCD that is agoraphobia, being anxious because you might be anxious. It is a serious disorder that is far more disabling than OCD.
Or Agoraphobic folks.
ProEngineer does parametric modeling and 2d stuff fine. Autocad is nowhere near a monopoly.
Yes, my friend uses that much netflix, youtube, hulu and the like a day for him to hit the cap every month. He does not pirate movies online, he uses his netflix to get them in the mail and rip them himself so thats not it. However, Comcast refuses to talk to him about it.
Maybe in your circles, but I hang out with academics.
MMORPGS came from MUDS in the 1980's which came from tabletop RPG which came from Sci-Fi writers like Paul Anderson's 'psychodrama' stories from the 1950's. The idea being that grown ups act like they are something they are not and interact with each other through roleplaying. That would be an interesting article to read, not some 20 some year old who can't bother to at least Google a bit further back than his comfort zone.
Try that in Texas or Alabama or Florida. It ain't going to happen and that is why the federal government once and for all should either get out of the marriage business or open it to all responsible adults.
Who the hell reads maxim this is slashdot not a website that talks about grooming and picking up chicks.
We should celebrate the senile and powerful they make the last foolish stand for each generation before they are laughed to death. It is like macabre performance art.
I loathe needless physical media, including books but that is another discussion. I recently ripped and sold/gave away all my DVDs and CDs and will never buy either format ever again after accumulating almost 1k CDs and 600 or so legit DVDs and pry around 500 burned DVDs. It was completely unmanageable and now all of that and more is on a 10 TB raid 6 array in my hallway closet running a stripped down Debian install. Now I can grep for movies/television shows and even nostaligic commercials from my childhood in seconds instead of having to chase down a DVD. I'm currently at 8 TB and I plan to expand the storage by another 10 TB this Xmas if I can get 12 1 terabyte drives for under a hundred bucks.
No, that would be OpenBSD. Linux runs the gamut from sloppy to secure but completely batshit insane would be down the hall.
I wonder if in 50 years the bad guys in the movies will be more likely to be Israeli or from an Islamic Country.
Stop extrapolating this to the future, do you think people in 1809 could of imagined the progress we have made as a species? We don't need to increase the densities of cities we need to decrease the sprawling over-sized areas of the country that are used for farming. The city as it currently stands in most countries is slowly dissolving into neighborhood cities because the unifying feature if it ever had one is gone. There are no one employeer or even one industry cities anymore and the ones that tried it are turning to rust, being left on the tundra or are being taken over by dunes.
I ride my bike to work, school, groceries and the like 90% of the time because I live in PDX which worked on making their area more livable for decades. It cost money and the bike trails took up space and cost a decent amount of money to maintain but people use them. If we are going to solve the population DENSITY problem we need to start dismantling suburbia and making it livable for a more sustainable lifestyle, if you so choose.
There is no such thing as overpopulation that can't be solved by re-engineering our cities/factories and changing our lifestyles. Yes, other species and ecosystems will be be strained and always have been by growing human populations but the idea that the earth can only sustain a certain amount of humans is both naive and absurd. The biomass during this epoch is far less than the Triassic and Jurassic periods when huge 20 ton monsters roamed the country eating a good part of their body weight per day. This went on for 10's of millions of years. Even Americans aren't that big yet. According to the 1970's chicken littles like yourself we should all be dead by now. Well, um that didn't happen because technology solved many of the problems that were emerging at the time and we will continue solving them contrary to naysayers like yourself.
Who cares about non-academics? Seriously, do you think anyone without a college degree in the sciences or engineering is going to take the time to read something like this? If they are, maybe they should go back for a degree. I'm sick of praising the dumbing down of academic work to the lowest common denominator as a 'good thing' ;because, it may capture the essence of the work but more often than not it lends itself to the mythologization of the sciences. We have people in bars all night arguing about physics from snippets they heard on the Discovery channel and picked up on pop science sites and it speaks as much about science and its methods as describing the shape and color of the instruments in an orchestra while trying to understand Mozart.
I would agree that some academic papers have become so terse with their own jargon as to be indecipherable and that such papers are in fact much less useful than ones written in a language and style that lends itself to a more interdisciplinary understanding but please do not praise those who dumb down the sciences anymore. I'm sick of people who have insights into quantum physics or cosmology who understand neither the standard model or Hubble's constant. Who tell me with a straight face they understand something that I barely feel comfortable with after years of grad school. If you can't do math you don't really understand science and with that I include the social sciences which relies heavily on prob and stats.
Not everyone in the data center are IT monkeys. I'm a network engineer and I sit two rows over from a kernel developer. Some of us like working near our hardware, thank you.
I would guess tech support, computer sales or just smarter than average gamers. I'm losing my hearing working in an R&D data center environment. Anyone who has worked around 1000's of machines knows what I means.
Anyone else have to wear earplugs at work?
Ok, mister xenophobe.
Why shouldn't China be entitled to use its own resources to build out its own economy? China has a horrible standard of living for the amount of production present in the country and the pollution that goes along with it. I hope they use it all for domestic green energy projects, because frankly they need it more than we do where going "green" is more a luxury than anything. Building green jobs here with our own rare earths is entirely possible considering we have far more known rare earth ore deposits than they do. So what exactly are you complaining about, that we can't rape their country for all the resources? They have a billion people and it is highly unlikely they will ever have the same standard of living as the US in our lifetime but the very least we could do is not bitch and moan every time China does something nice for its own citizens.
You know, I would rather deport people like you than hard working or studying immigrants. Why don't you all go down to the south of the US and secede, this time the rest of us northern folk won't stop you. Well considering there is hardly any natural resources in the south besides coal and oil you can all have your coal power plants and big trucks and you won't need to worry about new-fangled technologies irritating you. You can all live gloriously embittered lives scapegoating the rest of the world for your problems as you walk around yelling in the swamps, marshes and hurricane-prone areas of the gulf states like some sort of swamp curmudgeon. You could yourself America for Americans only or something. Build yourself a Lou Dobbsian wall around your entire country to keep Yankees and Mexicans out. Give all those janitorial, landscaping and construction jobs back to Americans because we all know how much Americans love doing menial labor for low wages without health insurance. Right, mister xenophobe?
That is the stupidest thing I have heard all day. Who doesn't have more than one computer nowadays? Does the software check to see if you have an iphone, a wifi connected laptop or I don't know your textbook in front of you?
If she wants to work R&D she will need to learn Linux. There are decades of tools out there that are all Unix or Linux based. Cygwin may work but either way you are going to be learning Bash shell scripting. Any other department it will be optional, even IT.
I have been playing much attention to Internet political campaigns but that is not what I was talking about. It is a bit disingenuous to claim I'm not paying attention to something I clearly mentioned. To be absolutely clear I'm talking about being able to actually work on the law-making process which would mean collaborative legislative tools open at least in part to the public. Why should 700 people determine the laws for 300 million?
Open source the government.