You're assuming that the artist knocks out a few tunes over the weekend, and have no other costs. Mostly music takes a lot more effort, time and money to produce than that -- the stuff you want to listen to at least.
This sounds like the end of broccoli. Let's genetically modify it to pack itself with modified corn syrup, then even healthy vegetables can make you fat!
Also, the only reason I can think for people not liking broccoli is cooking it to death. It needs gentle treatment. 'Al dente' purple-sprouting broccoli was a real treat when I was a child at home, when it was in season.
So what you're saying is that PHP is better than COBOL -- hmmm. PHP reminds me of those spider webs made by spiders on different drugs. PHP is like COBOL reimplemented under the influence of which drug, I wonder?
It seems abundantly clear to me that the US would be happy to do espionage on diplomatic baggage as long as they believe that they could get away with it.
Yeah, as they say "There are no rules in love and war" -- so which is it? It appears that the US is no longer getting away with playing the game as if there were no rules.
These actions might meet your expectations of your government (in the US), but it doesn't meet other countries' expectations of how the US should be acting. The difference between expectation and reality is what is going to bring consequences. For diplomats it is quite personal -- their private exchanges about negotiations were potentially being revealed to people they were sitting at a table with hours later. There is personal embarrassment here apart from anything else. Diplomacy is all about carefully controlled presentation of positions, and that has been violated in the eyes of negotiators. Where is there any trust now for future negotiations? EU-US trade pact coming up soon.
There is obviously some expectation of privacy in diplomacy, e.g. Diplomatic baggage is still treated as sealed. But obviously the US considers everything else to be completely fair game, including crypto-protected messaging. Hardly seems like playing according to the spirit of the rules. So, yes, it is plain and simple espionage against allies. This is surely not going down well in Europe.
Disadvantage with a local reader (not backed by an online aggregator): If you are offline for a few days, you miss all that news. Maybe that's okay by you.
And I'll no longer be logged-in to Google all day. So it's really their loss
Mod parent up -- this is a good point. The only reason I'm logged into Google is for Reader. I only know of stuff happening on Google Plus because it pops up in the corner of the screen. Now Google Plus will also completely disappear from my life.
You must have a lot of spare time. I just want to zip through the news looking for anything that interests me. That is when an RSS reader really helps. I don't have time to load up 10 websites 5 times a day, re-reading the same headlines many times over. Going back to that would be like going back to writing with quill and parchment instead of using a keyboard and screen.
Yeah, after trying some of the alternatives, I was also planning to write my own -- although it's getting a bit late now. Google should have given us maybe a year or two of notice. I was going to do the polling on my webserver, send items as E-mail and then knock something up to view them using luakit.
Unless you are willing to re-do all the important scientific experiments ever done yourself, then you have to trust that other people did them correctly and reported them correctly, and also if their reasoning is beyond you, that their reasoning was valid. So from a personal perspective, it requires trust and belief in the work of others. Actually, it is this same trust and belief which means that average scientists generally won't discover new things in unexpected places (unless by accident), because scientists throughout the ages have assumed that certain areas of science were 'explained' and didn't re-examine their assumptions (and how would they know which ones to re-examine, anyway?). That's why it often takes a maverick or genius or other unreasonable person to make a breakthrough. If there was no belief involved in science, then everybody would spend all day repeating known experiments to validate all the elements of science to themselves, but we know in practice that doesn't happen -- people build on the work of others without rigorously re-testing everything from first principles. However, if you consider all scientists as a kind of Borg mind, then there is no belief involved, because the Borg mind has proved everything to itself to its satisfaction. Perhaps you are talking about this level of abstraction.
something polished instead of raw should try XFCE.
I agree. The point of a desktop for me is to do its job and to get out of my way. XFCE succeeds in this. I haven't had a single crash or weirdness (unlike KDE on Debian 'stable', which had several issues of crashes and a major memory leak, which I raised a Debian bug for). For me, the only downsides of XFCE 4.8 (shipped with Debian 'stable') is that xfdesktop doesn't show thumbnails (although the file manager does), and I had to hack the XKB files to make CapsLock into Control (it kept resetting my temporary changes with xmodmap). Having set up a few keyboard shortcuts, I can now get on with my life and forget about my desktop once again!
GNOME 3: maybe they've patched it up and made it usable, who knows? Will I waste any more time on it now I have a working desktop again? I don't think so.
Really gotta get myself an EEG headset sometime...I wonder what other signals it could be tuned to pick up?
Okay, then get ready for lots of goo. You need conductive paste for any kind of serious work. Also, there is the small matter of your skull getting in the way of the signals -- like listening to a symphony through ear protectors.
(I was involved in the OpenEEG project for a time -- dreams of an efficient BCI (brain-computer interface) to beat my keyboard as an input device were soon shattered.)
Part of the uniqueness of Blade Runner was the soundtrack. There are just so many ways this sequel can go wrong. But I suppose I don't have to watch it if they fail.
However, currently there isn't enough evidence to make me try and avoid late week surgery.
I'm so glad there are still a few people brave enough to be operated on on Fridays. We can call it "correlation is not causation" day, or "I won't believe it until Saint Peter himself confirms it".
Who says the console isn't the right tool for the job? Even Windows has PowerShell, and Windows 2012 can be installed without any GUI at all, relying on remote shell access for maintenance. If you do this all day long, the shell is often the best tool for the job. Point and click and GUIs are for getting things done when you have little previous experience with that task (or for things that obviously require graphics).
Are you the sort of person who changes your toothpaste every time some new whiz-bang marketing feature is invented? Or do you stick with a working basic toothpaste because it really makes no difference (brushing does most of the work anyway). What has changed in computing at the core level in the last few years? More parallelism, a few newer languages and technologies... not much else. The rest is just the interface. If you want to work on interfaces, you need to be up to speed on this. The rest can be manipulated just as well (or better) from a console. If your core knowledge and abilities are sound, then you are in a good place to tackle anything, interfaces included, according to the needs of the job at hand.
Kim Dotcom is not finnish born, he's born in Germany.
to a finnish mother. wikipedia lists him having finnish nationality due to the biggest newspaper in Finland reporting it. doesn't matter that much if he was born on finnish soil or not.
Given that the big joke on Finns is that they keep to the rules even when everyone else is breaking them (even mentioned in "Iron Sky", a Finnish production, where only the Finns didn't arm their spaceship), then we must guess that Kim Dotcom's life must be a reaction against his Finnish roots!
Think of the geriatrics! What would the elderly ladies of your locality think of what you're browsing? Would it cause them a heart attack? We only want crochet patterns, recipes and pictures of cute puppies on our internet. Please delete anything controversial or too hard to understand! (This being not too far from what 100s of government agencies censoring the internet would end up with.)
There is a good reason if given choice we eat meat , because it is tasty, because we have the taste bud for it.
We learn out tastes. If your culture ate insects every day, it'd find a way to prepare them that brings out their flavours. If you were brought up eating insects, they would remind you of your childhood. Some bloody mess of half rotten cow wouldn't be so appetising if you'd never become accustomed to it. (I'm certainly not attracted to it.)
See the whole part about them eating human waste and slurry and that stuff you just said? Thats why we dont eat bugs.
Well, your industrial chickens and pigs eat crap like that (ground up waste from other animal production, slurry for pigs, dried for chickens). I'd certainly eat grasshopper, though -- sounds quite nice. There was a programme on the BBC about the Philipines (or was it Thailand) where they are a street snack. Mmmm.
They were exporting weapons! Well, kind of -- programs that automatically create weapons when provided with a suitable 3D printer. So that probably comes under military export controls, like cryptography does in some places. I guess with the correct paperwork they could continue distributing these plans.
So, I should stop using "git" because "git" is an insult in my culture (UK)? No, I keep on using it because it does a fantastic job. What about firefox -- how do you think foxes feel about that? Yes, you have the right to be offended by a random acronym. Please carry on being offended -- thankfully no-one loses except you.
They don't need to know most of the details. You need to present it as an assortment of rectangles on a diagram with lines between them. Make sure everything that will need funding or time spent on them is represented by a rectangle. You can then do the entire discussion at this level (if you've got it right). If really necessary then you can drill down to the details of what is inside the rectangle, but that shouldn't be necessary if you've presented it right. If their job is to manage, they don't want to know details, they just need to know that everything is covered or planned for. If it looks like you've got everything covered, they will be happy. You may need to learn their way of thinking / talking in order to translate your requirements into a form that they will understand.
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You're assuming that the artist knocks out a few tunes over the weekend, and have no other costs. Mostly music takes a lot more effort, time and money to produce than that -- the stuff you want to listen to at least.
This sounds like the end of broccoli. Let's genetically modify it to pack itself with modified corn syrup, then even healthy vegetables can make you fat!
Also, the only reason I can think for people not liking broccoli is cooking it to death. It needs gentle treatment. 'Al dente' purple-sprouting broccoli was a real treat when I was a child at home, when it was in season.
So what you're saying is that PHP is better than COBOL -- hmmm. PHP reminds me of those spider webs made by spiders on different drugs. PHP is like COBOL reimplemented under the influence of which drug, I wonder?
It seems abundantly clear to me that the US would be happy to do espionage on diplomatic baggage as long as they believe that they could get away with it.
Yeah, as they say "There are no rules in love and war" -- so which is it? It appears that the US is no longer getting away with playing the game as if there were no rules.
These actions might meet your expectations of your government (in the US), but it doesn't meet other countries' expectations of how the US should be acting. The difference between expectation and reality is what is going to bring consequences. For diplomats it is quite personal -- their private exchanges about negotiations were potentially being revealed to people they were sitting at a table with hours later. There is personal embarrassment here apart from anything else. Diplomacy is all about carefully controlled presentation of positions, and that has been violated in the eyes of negotiators. Where is there any trust now for future negotiations? EU-US trade pact coming up soon.
There is obviously some expectation of privacy in diplomacy, e.g. Diplomatic baggage is still treated as sealed. But obviously the US considers everything else to be completely fair game, including crypto-protected messaging. Hardly seems like playing according to the spirit of the rules. So, yes, it is plain and simple espionage against allies. This is surely not going down well in Europe.
Disadvantage with a local reader (not backed by an online aggregator): If you are offline for a few days, you miss all that news. Maybe that's okay by you.
And I'll no longer be logged-in to Google all day. So it's really their loss
Mod parent up -- this is a good point. The only reason I'm logged into Google is for Reader. I only know of stuff happening on Google Plus because it pops up in the corner of the screen. Now Google Plus will also completely disappear from my life.
You must have a lot of spare time. I just want to zip through the news looking for anything that interests me. That is when an RSS reader really helps. I don't have time to load up 10 websites 5 times a day, re-reading the same headlines many times over. Going back to that would be like going back to writing with quill and parchment instead of using a keyboard and screen.
Yeah, after trying some of the alternatives, I was also planning to write my own -- although it's getting a bit late now. Google should have given us maybe a year or two of notice. I was going to do the polling on my webserver, send items as E-mail and then knock something up to view them using luakit.
Note: Drones are robots. Perhaps everyone is imagining 3 Laws humanoids.
Unless you are willing to re-do all the important scientific experiments ever done yourself, then you have to trust that other people did them correctly and reported them correctly, and also if their reasoning is beyond you, that their reasoning was valid. So from a personal perspective, it requires trust and belief in the work of others. Actually, it is this same trust and belief which means that average scientists generally won't discover new things in unexpected places (unless by accident), because scientists throughout the ages have assumed that certain areas of science were 'explained' and didn't re-examine their assumptions (and how would they know which ones to re-examine, anyway?). That's why it often takes a maverick or genius or other unreasonable person to make a breakthrough. If there was no belief involved in science, then everybody would spend all day repeating known experiments to validate all the elements of science to themselves, but we know in practice that doesn't happen -- people build on the work of others without rigorously re-testing everything from first principles. However, if you consider all scientists as a kind of Borg mind, then there is no belief involved, because the Borg mind has proved everything to itself to its satisfaction. Perhaps you are talking about this level of abstraction.
something polished instead of raw should try XFCE.
I agree. The point of a desktop for me is to do its job and to get out of my way. XFCE succeeds in this. I haven't had a single crash or weirdness (unlike KDE on Debian 'stable', which had several issues of crashes and a major memory leak, which I raised a Debian bug for). For me, the only downsides of XFCE 4.8 (shipped with Debian 'stable') is that xfdesktop doesn't show thumbnails (although the file manager does), and I had to hack the XKB files to make CapsLock into Control (it kept resetting my temporary changes with xmodmap). Having set up a few keyboard shortcuts, I can now get on with my life and forget about my desktop once again!
GNOME 3: maybe they've patched it up and made it usable, who knows? Will I waste any more time on it now I have a working desktop again? I don't think so.
Really gotta get myself an EEG headset sometime...I wonder what other signals it could be tuned to pick up?
Okay, then get ready for lots of goo. You need conductive paste for any kind of serious work. Also, there is the small matter of your skull getting in the way of the signals -- like listening to a symphony through ear protectors.
(I was involved in the OpenEEG project for a time -- dreams of an efficient BCI (brain-computer interface) to beat my keyboard as an input device were soon shattered.)
Part of the uniqueness of Blade Runner was the soundtrack. There are just so many ways this sequel can go wrong. But I suppose I don't have to watch it if they fail.
However, currently there isn't enough evidence to make me try and avoid late week surgery.
I'm so glad there are still a few people brave enough to be operated on on Fridays. We can call it "correlation is not causation" day, or "I won't believe it until Saint Peter himself confirms it".
No, nothing like Lisp.
Who says the console isn't the right tool for the job? Even Windows has PowerShell, and Windows 2012 can be installed without any GUI at all, relying on remote shell access for maintenance. If you do this all day long, the shell is often the best tool for the job. Point and click and GUIs are for getting things done when you have little previous experience with that task (or for things that obviously require graphics).
Are you the sort of person who changes your toothpaste every time some new whiz-bang marketing feature is invented? Or do you stick with a working basic toothpaste because it really makes no difference (brushing does most of the work anyway). What has changed in computing at the core level in the last few years? More parallelism, a few newer languages and technologies ... not much else. The rest is just the interface. If you want to work on interfaces, you need to be up to speed on this. The rest can be manipulated just as well (or better) from a console. If your core knowledge and abilities are sound, then you are in a good place to tackle anything, interfaces included, according to the needs of the job at hand.
Kim Dotcom is not finnish born, he's born in Germany.
to a finnish mother. wikipedia lists him having finnish nationality due to the biggest newspaper in Finland reporting it. doesn't matter that much if he was born on finnish soil or not.
Given that the big joke on Finns is that they keep to the rules even when everyone else is breaking them (even mentioned in "Iron Sky", a Finnish production, where only the Finns didn't arm their spaceship), then we must guess that Kim Dotcom's life must be a reaction against his Finnish roots!
Think of the geriatrics! What would the elderly ladies of your locality think of what you're browsing? Would it cause them a heart attack? We only want crochet patterns, recipes and pictures of cute puppies on our internet. Please delete anything controversial or too hard to understand! (This being not too far from what 100s of government agencies censoring the internet would end up with.)
There is a good reason if given choice we eat meat , because it is tasty, because we have the taste bud for it.
We learn out tastes. If your culture ate insects every day, it'd find a way to prepare them that brings out their flavours. If you were brought up eating insects, they would remind you of your childhood. Some bloody mess of half rotten cow wouldn't be so appetising if you'd never become accustomed to it. (I'm certainly not attracted to it.)
See the whole part about them eating human waste and slurry and that stuff you just said? Thats why we dont eat bugs.
Well, your industrial chickens and pigs eat crap like that (ground up waste from other animal production, slurry for pigs, dried for chickens). I'd certainly eat grasshopper, though -- sounds quite nice. There was a programme on the BBC about the Philipines (or was it Thailand) where they are a street snack. Mmmm.
They were exporting weapons! Well, kind of -- programs that automatically create weapons when provided with a suitable 3D printer. So that probably comes under military export controls, like cryptography does in some places. I guess with the correct paperwork they could continue distributing these plans.
So, I should stop using "git" because "git" is an insult in my culture (UK)? No, I keep on using it because it does a fantastic job. What about firefox -- how do you think foxes feel about that? Yes, you have the right to be offended by a random acronym. Please carry on being offended -- thankfully no-one loses except you.
They don't need to know most of the details. You need to present it as an assortment of rectangles on a diagram with lines between them. Make sure everything that will need funding or time spent on them is represented by a rectangle. You can then do the entire discussion at this level (if you've got it right). If really necessary then you can drill down to the details of what is inside the rectangle, but that shouldn't be necessary if you've presented it right. If their job is to manage, they don't want to know details, they just need to know that everything is covered or planned for. If it looks like you've got everything covered, they will be happy. You may need to learn their way of thinking / talking in order to translate your requirements into a form that they will understand.