Yeah, especially on a laptop. I just switched from Linux to Mac. Got tired of trying make wireless drivers and power management work. And yes, I still keep mulitple Linux PCs around.
If I try to use Windows, I always end up booting back into Linux so I can actually do stuff. I hate not having a decent shell. (And don't say Cygwin. That doesn't cut it.)
But when I switched to Mac, my maintenance problems went away, AND I got a real shell!
This is so cool! I'll bet everyone will want one now! I can imagine some possible health benefits from this (but IANAD). You'd be less likely to have an aneurysm burst, because the peak blood pressure is never as high. The effects of high blood pressure would be reduced (or maybe you can just turn it down). And... *scores* of other benefits that I can't think of right now!
I'll second David Deida's books (I read The Way of the Superior Man), though I don't completely agree with the summary here. There is a wide allowance for varying levels of what would conventionally be considered "maleness" and "femaleness". But the key is that you have to true to your core being, and be strong in yourself. Because (a) you won't be happy otherwise, and (b) that attracts people to you, including your spouse.
The idea that the only options are the wimpy sensitive guy and the macho sexist guy is a false dichotomy. When rve says "You have to be someone she can look up to," that does not mean that she must bow down to you, simply that she must respect you for things to work. And you should respect her back.
A man who is truly strong and secure with himself does not need to bully people to feel strong. (Really, that's an indicator of insecurity.) But the problems with the opposite are harder to understand for people that come from that side. You end up wimping out on your core being, trying to barter compliance for love. And then you come across as pandering, selling out, etc. in the long term, which a woman can't admire. And this behavior is also an indicator of insecurity.
The better way is in some ways a middle ground to the macho or sensitive, but is really on a different axis from either.
But unless anyone is expecting Ahmadinejad to admit that he cheated, no solid official evidence is going to show up.
Ahmadinejad's problem is that this was a big operation, and he had many helpers. If any of the helpers admit to cheating, evidence could show up. Plus, there were other witnesses. I've already seen reports of Ahmadinejad's people burning ballot boxes.
The book Flatland encourages you to imagine the 4th dimension by first imagining how a 2-dimensional being would perceive a 3-dimensional object. It could seemingly appear out of nowhere, and disappear again.
how about the flash ads trying to be load from a server that has been turned into a smokeing ruin and locks up the whole page while the browser vaining waits for it to download?
The title of the first linked article is "Deep Zoom: proof that Microsoft is still capable of amazing technology".
But the SeaDragon site says "Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February." So the first title should really be "Proof that Microsoft is still capable of buying out or copying amazing technology".
You're trying too hard. I can think of a couple things it could explain better:
Adam and Eve: there were a few other people around for their kids to marry. And a "Garden of Eden" would be especially appealing after a drought.
It could also explain the loss of ancient technology, like space travel. That's just too small a population to maintain that kind of advanced knowledge.
Assuming you're from the US or Europe, Thimerosal is not used in vaccines except for influenza (which isn't required) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimerosal.
That's not what it says. That was specifically a reference to childhood vaccinations, not vaccinations overall. Plus, it specifically cited several other vaccines that do use thimerosal, saying only that they're not routinely used in young children. And it doesn't say that those are the only ones. It makes no explicit reference to adult vaccinations:
"In the U.S., the European Union, and a few other affluent countries, thiomersal is no longer used as a preservative in childhood vaccines.[2] In the U.S., the only exceptions among vaccines routinely recommended for young children are most formulations of the inactivated influenza vaccine. Several vaccines not routinely recommended for young children contain thimerosal, including DT (diphtheria and tetanus), Td (tetanus and diphtheria), and TT (tetanus toxoid)."
If I get too short on sleep, I start seeing stuff moving in the corner of my eye. When I turn and look, nothing's there. But one time, when I knew I should go to bed because I was starting to see stuff, I turned just in time to see a mouse scampering under a chair.
So just because you have a hard time nailing something down doesn't mean it's not real.:-P Maybe a lot of ghosts are really mice. Douglas Adams' ghost might have something to say about that. Those mice were pretty crafty.
And now that I think about it, his mice (HHGTG) were a projection of multidimensional beings into our dimension. That's one of my old ghost theories, too, ever since that bad dream I had after reading Flatland (a mathematical story book about multiple dimensions, very good).
I once had the CMOS battery go out on my 386. This machine wouldn't autodect the hard drive, so it had to be set manually. Before I got around to hunting down a new battery, I could set the hard drive type in the BIOS with my eyes closed.
I dunno. Maybe more people will watch Colbert this way. The world will be a better place.
Colbert has a great job, and this controversy fits into it perfectly. He can make fun of anyone he wants. If the joke is about "them", it's funny. If it's about "us", it's tongue in cheek.
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover."
Does [Ubuntu]: Play DVDs out of the box? Play MP3s out of the box? Work with Microsoft / Apple DRM music files out of the box?
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ will take care of most of that for free. As for buying DRM encumbered music for a music player that will handle MP3s, well, I'm told there are ways to handle that, too. But so far, DRM is mainly a tool to lock you into buying from the same place.
But we can play the same game with Windows:
Excuse me for a second.
So, Windows costs quite a bit.
Does it: View and edit MS Word and Excel docs out of the box? (OpenOffice) High quality image editing? (Gimp) Instant Messaging? (Gaim) Email Calendaring? (Evolution) Desktop Publishing? (Scribus)
No. It doesn't. For something to be even considered useful, it needs to be able to do the above things. Or else it's WORTHLESS IMO. Sure, you can drive to CompUSA and shell out another thousand dollars for all that stuff. ($230 just for MS Word?! WTF?)
And what about my hardware? Every other driver I install adds some annoying program to my system, which runs something at startup.
And Windows makes it *so* much easier for programs to simply run themselves. So now I shell out another couple hundred dollars for antivirus, antispyware, firewall, etc. And my system still gets infected! If I'm lucky I can get it off with help of my Windows guru friend, but eventually I have to reinstall the whole thing just so I can stop being a spambot.
While I understand that Windows is eaiser because people are used to it, usability is FAR less than what people are willing to admit. Windows has a LOOOOONG way to go before it's ready for prime time on the desktop. If you disagree, try testing the 2 OSes on people who have never used either.
For a server? Hell, no. Desktop? Questionable there, too. Yeah, I just love supporting all my Windows friends and family every time the get another fracking virus. I've taken to telling most people that I'm a Linux guy, and don't know much about Windows.
I'd add: they can replace lenses easily and quickly. They can also replace corneas easily and quickly. It's not something you WANT to have happen, but if it does, the surgery is routine so if damage to the cornea from laser ablation leads to later-life problems, it's no biggie.
Cataract surgery (which usually involves replacing the lens) does increase the risk of a detached retina, which can usually be reattached, but not replaced. I think glaucoma surgery also increases the risk. The risk is still pretty low, though.
So, it's usually pretty easy to fix eyes these days, but it's not 100% yet.
Just the same, I think eye surgery is far enough along that I'm now willing to have surgery for my nearsightedness. The biggest thing that bugs me is going to the pool or beach. I have the choices of (1) wearing glasses with swim trunks and looking lame, (2) wearing contacts and not being able to open my eyes underwater, (3) wearing one contact, opening the other eye underwater, but getting a headache, or (3) going with glasses or contacts and repeatedly losing everyone I came with.
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... a lot of people who are afraid of their boss, or authority figures in general, or airplanes, or ...
Yeah, especially on a laptop. I just switched from Linux to Mac. Got tired of trying make wireless drivers and power management work. And yes, I still keep mulitple Linux PCs around.
If I try to use Windows, I always end up booting back into Linux so I can actually do stuff. I hate not having a decent shell. (And don't say Cygwin. That doesn't cut it.)
But when I switched to Mac, my maintenance problems went away, AND I got a real shell!
This is so cool! I'll bet everyone will want one now! I can imagine some possible health benefits from this (but IANAD). You'd be less likely to have an aneurysm burst, because the peak blood pressure is never as high. The effects of high blood pressure would be reduced (or maybe you can just turn it down). And... *scores* of other benefits that I can't think of right now!
I'll second David Deida's books (I read The Way of the Superior Man), though I don't completely agree with the summary here. There is a wide allowance for varying levels of what would conventionally be considered "maleness" and "femaleness". But the key is that you have to true to your core being, and be strong in yourself. Because (a) you won't be happy otherwise, and (b) that attracts people to you, including your spouse.
The idea that the only options are the wimpy sensitive guy and the macho sexist guy is a false dichotomy. When rve says "You have to be someone she can look up to," that does not mean that she must bow down to you, simply that she must respect you for things to work. And you should respect her back.
A man who is truly strong and secure with himself does not need to bully people to feel strong. (Really, that's an indicator of insecurity.) But the problems with the opposite are harder to understand for people that come from that side. You end up wimping out on your core being, trying to barter compliance for love. And then you come across as pandering, selling out, etc. in the long term, which a woman can't admire. And this behavior is also an indicator of insecurity.
The better way is in some ways a middle ground to the macho or sensitive, but is really on a different axis from either.
Set up a home bugzilla server. Every complain she has she can log into bugzilla, from household repairs to you forgetting the anniversary.
UNCONFIRMED
INVALID
WONTFIX
DUPLICATE
WORKSFORME
But unless anyone is expecting Ahmadinejad to admit that he cheated, no solid official evidence is going to show up.
Ahmadinejad's problem is that this was a big operation, and he had many helpers. If any of the helpers admit to cheating, evidence could show up. Plus, there were other witnesses. I've already seen reports of Ahmadinejad's people burning ballot boxes.
Get on twitter and see what's going on over there. The people have risen up. It already is bloody. This is about coordinating action, not idle chat.
Or, he's not running Windows, so he can't use Outlook?
The book Flatland encourages you to imagine the 4th dimension by first imagining how a 2-dimensional being would perceive a 3-dimensional object. It could seemingly appear out of nowhere, and disappear again.
how about the flash ads trying to be load from a server that has been turned into a smokeing ruin and locks up the whole page while the browser vaining waits for it to download?
Use the flashblock extension.
The title of the first linked article is "Deep Zoom: proof that Microsoft is still capable of amazing technology".
But the SeaDragon site says "Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February." So the first title should really be "Proof that Microsoft is still capable of buying out or copying amazing technology".
Yeah, and Java is just C++ for people who hate C++.
You're trying too hard. I can think of a couple things it could explain better:
Adam and Eve: there were a few other people around for their kids to marry. And a "Garden of Eden" would be especially appealing after a drought.
It could also explain the loss of ancient technology, like space travel. That's just too small a population to maintain that kind of advanced knowledge.
That's not what it says. That was specifically a reference to childhood vaccinations, not vaccinations overall. Plus, it specifically cited several other vaccines that do use thimerosal, saying only that they're not routinely used in young children. And it doesn't say that those are the only ones. It makes no explicit reference to adult vaccinations:
"In the U.S., the European Union, and a few other affluent countries, thiomersal is no longer used as a preservative in childhood vaccines.[2] In the U.S., the only exceptions among vaccines routinely recommended for young children are most formulations of the inactivated influenza vaccine. Several vaccines not routinely recommended for young children contain thimerosal, including DT (diphtheria and tetanus), Td (tetanus and diphtheria), and TT (tetanus toxoid)."
If I get too short on sleep, I start seeing stuff moving in the corner of my eye. When I turn and look, nothing's there. But one time, when I knew I should go to bed because I was starting to see stuff, I turned just in time to see a mouse scampering under a chair.
:-P Maybe a lot of ghosts are really mice. Douglas Adams' ghost might have something to say about that. Those mice were pretty crafty.
So just because you have a hard time nailing something down doesn't mean it's not real.
And now that I think about it, his mice (HHGTG) were a projection of multidimensional beings into our dimension. That's one of my old ghost theories, too, ever since that bad dream I had after reading Flatland (a mathematical story book about multiple dimensions, very good).
OR:
They'll be the first against the wall when Dance Dance Revolution comes.
I used ISOMEDIA for a while about 3 years back. Good service, very reliable. Only reason I switched was because I moved.
Have you got a flag? No flag, no country.
I once had the CMOS battery go out on my 386. This machine wouldn't autodect the hard drive, so it had to be set manually. Before I got around to hunting down a new battery, I could set the hard drive type in the BIOS with my eyes closed.
I dunno. Maybe more people will watch Colbert this way. The world will be a better place.
Colbert has a great job, and this controversy fits into it perfectly. He can make fun of anyone he wants. If the joke is about "them", it's funny. If it's about "us", it's tongue in cheek.
Thanks! I thought that sounded familiar. :-)
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover."
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ will take care of most of that for free. As for buying DRM encumbered music for a music player that will handle MP3s, well, I'm told there are ways to handle that, too. But so far, DRM is mainly a tool to lock you into buying from the same place.
But we can play the same game with Windows:
Excuse me for a second.
So, Windows costs quite a bit.
Does it: View and edit MS Word and Excel docs out of the box? (OpenOffice) High quality image editing? (Gimp) Instant Messaging? (Gaim) Email Calendaring? (Evolution) Desktop Publishing? (Scribus)
No. It doesn't. For something to be even considered useful, it needs to be able to do the above things. Or else it's WORTHLESS IMO. Sure, you can drive to CompUSA and shell out another thousand dollars for all that stuff. ($230 just for MS Word?! WTF?)
And what about my hardware? Every other driver I install adds some annoying program to my system, which runs something at startup.
And Windows makes it *so* much easier for programs to simply run themselves. So now I shell out another couple hundred dollars for antivirus, antispyware, firewall, etc. And my system still gets infected! If I'm lucky I can get it off with help of my Windows guru friend, but eventually I have to reinstall the whole thing just so I can stop being a spambot.
While I understand that Windows is eaiser because people are used to it, usability is FAR less than what people are willing to admit. Windows has a LOOOOONG way to go before it's ready for prime time on the desktop. If you disagree, try testing the 2 OSes on people who have never used either.
For a server? Hell, no. Desktop? Questionable there, too. Yeah, I just love supporting all my Windows friends and family every time the get another fracking virus. I've taken to telling most people that I'm a Linux guy, and don't know much about Windows.