Come on, if the government has the software to sift through fathomless amounts of e-mail traffic and random data, only accessing it when it was intended for a party for which they have a fully cleared warrant, then surely they have the expensive software and know how to give us the locations of a few meteors?
This is true when you are modeling reality, a continuous system - particularly in terms of dynamics. Dimensions may be arbitrary and redefinable within dynamical systems theory, but phenomenologically time is always already the "universal" which allows for the possibility of any being whatsoever. That is to say, there IS time - which IS (equiprimordially) AS the gound for the contextuality which lets it be.
The supermarket is a direct result of car culture. The supermarket did not come first. You buy your week's food in some nations, you know, during the week, when you are going to eat it. From a store around the corner from your residence. This model makes much more sense sustainably - smaller, local businesses (owned by the people who live around you) are supported, food does not need to have billions of preservatives, and you get fresher food. As someone who likes to cook, I think you would be all about this.
That you do all of your shopping once every week sounds like madness - not just on your part, but on the part of the stores which are designed for people to do just this.
I've been biking to work and stores for a couple years now, and it works out just fine for me - I take a large backpack and can fit at least 3 days of food in it - even including the massive amounts of wine I drink. When going to work I can easily fit bike gear, folders, a laptop, and a change of clothes in too. Lunch maybe, but I've never tried. In any case, I'm just saying that if you wanted to, it would be completely doable by just adopting more community-based habits. (assuming you live in a very urban environment here, or europe)
I doubt a better nationwide rail system will help this much, but at least it's a step in the right direction. maybe if the government provided more aid to city-wide transit, we'd be getting somewhere.
What I really want is to be able to use Gmail as a offline client for multiple IMAP boxes - not just to download my imap messages to Google's servers. It's a step in the right direction, but until it can do everything a normal offline client like Thunderbird or Outlook can do, it's just not quite there yet.
I would bet you that 90% of the nerdy guys who know how computers work, support the average user working at helpdesks and IT shops, and sell things to the average consumer at best buy play (or have played) games.
I am one of these nerdy guys. I learned how to use linux when I was a kid to run bots for an efnet channel and bsod windows clients and stupid shit. I liked it because it was robust, I could do things without a GUI, and everything worked off of C, which I knew enough of to get around. So, I imagine I am about as willing to use linux as the average nerd. The thing is, I haven't touched it since I was 16 because it doesn't run games.
I think it's great, but would I be comfortable installing it on a friends' or a coworkers computer? heck no! I don't have the years of experience supporting it that I do with windows based systems, so when they ran into some strange driver error or something, I wouldn't really be able to help.
And again, I want to emphasize that the only reason I don't have this experience is that Linux doesn't support the games I play, so I have no lasting motivation to switch my OS.
When I think about how many people I know who feel pretty much the same, and work in similar positions supporting end users, it's really wholly apparent how important gaming is to the Linux movement. If you truly cared about Linux, it seems to me you would do everything in your power to bridge this divide.
I imagine I am pretty much exactly their target audience, but I live in Atlanta and think this is an awesome idea. My family was never too in to outdoor activity when I was a kid, but now that I am older I often want to get out and go hiking or fishing or camping. Usually what happens is that I get this urge on a Thursday, spend the day googling possible locations, don't come up with much aside from vague directions and maybe a few sites of places 3 hours away, and then it is midday Friday, I get off work without a plan, and I give up. Now, I realize this is largely my fault, but just in visiting this site I have discovered 4 or 5 places that I had never found before, that look like perfect nearby places to get out and bike or fish. Perfect!
This only applies to people who already think like you do. If you aren't already in this mentality, what you have said is pretty nonsensical.
Who is demanding masters of anyone? I am working as a systems administrator now, and recently got offered a 90k job as director of IT. I studied philosophy in college, I might as well have been a highschool dropout. Even my first boss said my education was completely irrelevant in my application.
The problem is, people like you think you get paid for your education. No. You get paid for being useful and accomplishing things. You don't have to be a college graduate to work in a fedex store, spot a way to cut costs by 15-20%, get a raise, and 5 years later be a regional manager. I have friends who have done just this. You don't have to work 90 hour weeks at a law firm to move up - you can accomplish the same goal by spending 2 hours in a bar after hours.
anyways, there was no problem with his story. People who are genuinely driven to do something because they think it is a worthwhile thing to do will, with a bit of intelligence, always have no problem in accomplishing it.
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hahahahahahaha
this is the greatest post slashdot will ever see
seriously, just shut the site down now
the project that was slashdot has ended.
Dude, they'll just google for one.
Technobabble role call :
Dilithiumcrystal
Holodeck
Tricorder
Warpspeeeeeeeeeeed
taboo. (cf. bataille, erotism: death and sensuality)
Come on, if the government has the software to sift through fathomless amounts of e-mail traffic and random data, only accessing it when it was intended for a party for which they have a fully cleared warrant, then surely they have the expensive software and know how to give us the locations of a few meteors?
This is true when you are modeling reality, a continuous system - particularly in terms of dynamics. Dimensions may be arbitrary and redefinable within dynamical systems theory, but phenomenologically time is always already the "universal" which allows for the possibility of any being whatsoever. That is to say, there IS time - which IS (equiprimordially) AS the gound for the contextuality which lets it be.
The supermarket is a direct result of car culture. The supermarket did not come first. You buy your week's food in some nations, you know, during the week, when you are going to eat it. From a store around the corner from your residence. This model makes much more sense sustainably - smaller, local businesses (owned by the people who live around you) are supported, food does not need to have billions of preservatives, and you get fresher food. As someone who likes to cook, I think you would be all about this.
That you do all of your shopping once every week sounds like madness - not just on your part, but on the part of the stores which are designed for people to do just this.
I've been biking to work and stores for a couple years now, and it works out just fine for me - I take a large backpack and can fit at least 3 days of food in it - even including the massive amounts of wine I drink. When going to work I can easily fit bike gear, folders, a laptop, and a change of clothes in too. Lunch maybe, but I've never tried. In any case, I'm just saying that if you wanted to, it would be completely doable by just adopting more community-based habits. (assuming you live in a very urban environment here, or europe)
I doubt a better nationwide rail system will help this much, but at least it's a step in the right direction. maybe if the government provided more aid to city-wide transit, we'd be getting somewhere.
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I have the hugest fucking hardon at this moment
I was viewing Moscow the other day on Google Earth and thinking what a wonderful world we live in. An open world, more free than we were back then.
Woah woah woah, why on earth were you planning to bomb Moscow???
...sounds like the net needs to try to kill Senator Diane Feinstein.
LETS ROLL AMERICA
What I really want is to be able to use Gmail as a offline client for multiple IMAP boxes - not just to download my imap messages to Google's servers. It's a step in the right direction, but until it can do everything a normal offline client like Thunderbird or Outlook can do, it's just not quite there yet.
I don't mean to be a public buzzkill, but so far it looks like Obama's presidency is Clinton 2.0.
I am not quite sure Obama is president yet.
Seriously.
I am serious.
Does the water get it instead?
I would bet you that 90% of the nerdy guys who know how computers work, support the average user working at helpdesks and IT shops, and sell things to the average consumer at best buy play (or have played) games.
I am one of these nerdy guys. I learned how to use linux when I was a kid to run bots for an efnet channel and bsod windows clients and stupid shit. I liked it because it was robust, I could do things without a GUI, and everything worked off of C, which I knew enough of to get around. So, I imagine I am about as willing to use linux as the average nerd. The thing is, I haven't touched it since I was 16 because it doesn't run games.
I think it's great, but would I be comfortable installing it on a friends' or a coworkers computer? heck no! I don't have the years of experience supporting it that I do with windows based systems, so when they ran into some strange driver error or something, I wouldn't really be able to help.
And again, I want to emphasize that the only reason I don't have this experience is that Linux doesn't support the games I play, so I have no lasting motivation to switch my OS.
When I think about how many people I know who feel pretty much the same, and work in similar positions supporting end users, it's really wholly apparent how important gaming is to the Linux movement. If you truly cared about Linux, it seems to me you would do everything in your power to bridge this divide.
No.
I imagine I am pretty much exactly their target audience, but I live in Atlanta and think this is an awesome idea. My family was never too in to outdoor activity when I was a kid, but now that I am older I often want to get out and go hiking or fishing or camping. Usually what happens is that I get this urge on a Thursday, spend the day googling possible locations, don't come up with much aside from vague directions and maybe a few sites of places 3 hours away, and then it is midday Friday, I get off work without a plan, and I give up. Now, I realize this is largely my fault, but just in visiting this site I have discovered 4 or 5 places that I had never found before, that look like perfect nearby places to get out and bike or fish. Perfect!
This only applies to people who already think like you do. If you aren't already in this mentality, what you have said is pretty nonsensical.
Who is demanding masters of anyone? I am working as a systems administrator now, and recently got offered a 90k job as director of IT. I studied philosophy in college, I might as well have been a highschool dropout. Even my first boss said my education was completely irrelevant in my application.
The problem is, people like you think you get paid for your education. No. You get paid for being useful and accomplishing things. You don't have to be a college graduate to work in a fedex store, spot a way to cut costs by 15-20%, get a raise, and 5 years later be a regional manager. I have friends who have done just this. You don't have to work 90 hour weeks at a law firm to move up - you can accomplish the same goal by spending 2 hours in a bar after hours.
anyways, there was no problem with his story. People who are genuinely driven to do something because they think it is a worthwhile thing to do will, with a bit of intelligence, always have no problem in accomplishing it.
what the heck is a 'perfect storm'
I agree! Life is just too short to think or wonder about things. No big deal, who cares?
I, too, began my professional carrier in the bell-system.
I am personally holding out for the 64 bit version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_time
ctl-alt-del = cyber cyanide