To boot? You actually _boot_ it? That's bizarre...
I _never_ shut my Fujitsu 2110P down or even suspend it. With the large battery I get 11 hours battery life when I'm not doing much so I just unplug it from home and go to work and plug it back in when I get home. It has no fan, but doesn't overheat even unsuspended with the screen closed in my bag.
I leave the mail client and browser open all the time and they work fine. Sure they take a while if you have to load them, but why would you ever shut them down?
I want the newer one because the old Crusoe chips are just _slightly_ too slow for my general use, but the long battery life and the tiny size more than make up for it.
For power I have a P4 at home (since my Dual Athlon box died. Grumble.), but on the road I don't need most of that.
I think the article could've done with a bit more substance. It doesn't actually take things far enough.
One of the things I found _extremely_ useful in Mage at the time it came out was the help it gave me in coming to terms with a number of completely contradictory opinions and worldviews that I had.
Between the way I was raised, the things I saw at work and the subculture I'd become involved with there was _very_ little solid foundation left, it had all become rather rocky.
The overall philosophies put across in Mage are made up, but there is still a lot of useful things in there that can be applied back to the real world.
One of the largest is that, in most cases, it doesn't actually _matter_ what the truth is. The fact of the matter is that different people will have different perceptions of what is going on in any given situation and to accomplish anything it's usually the _people_ that you have to deal with to solve things.
You accomplish nothing by fighting or by arguing with people, but rather from being understood and understanding others.
Just because things _seem_ to contradict each other of the surface there is probably a deeper level at which they both make more sense and can coexist.
The real depth in Mage comes not from the fairly stereotypical groups within it or the storyline, but from the philosophical glue that holds it together and from a questioning mind actively looking at things and thinking "How does this apply in the real world."
I've been confronted with this argument so many times, going as far back as playing D&D in highschool in the 80s.
"Violent games/TV/computers cause people to be violent."
It _looks_ to be true, but psychological studies have found no evidence of cause and effect at all. It seems to completely be statistical. The true statement is really:
"Violent people and people with a tendency towards violence are attracted to violent games and television programs."
ThunderFoot. (OF course they aren't the _only_ people attracted to violent games!)
I could go out and murder key politicians which would cause public outrage and get the bill passed.
SARCASM Wonderful./SARCASM
I can do that just as easily with a knife and, to my mind, far more honestly. I dislike the philosophy of distancing self from actions. If I ever decided to take such a path I have a responsibility to be personally involved and get my hands dirty.
Guns are a cowards option.
But regardless guns are NOT a solution. If you choose to not take the radical step of murder (which most would agree is a morally wrong way of ensuring your own viewpoint triumphs) then the gun becomes a piece of metal and wood that is useless in helping me get my point across to the government at all.
A pen and a piece of paper are far more effective weapons than a gun could ever be.
Speech... They aren't taking away our speech. They are taking away our access to all XXX pornographic pictures in addition to hardcore S&M and paedophilia which are already illegal. Awww... Poor people losing access to all the things they tell everybody they aren't looking at anyway. So, who's going to stand up for something they refuse to admit they are looking at? No-one in the general public. Certainly no-one in government.
The fact that this censorship actually WILL bloke a large amount of other content including medical sites and places like Geocities with wildly diverse content is the real problem. People are not aware at how difficult it is to ACCURATELY filter the net. It can be done to a limited extent, but only with broad strokes and it is THIS damage that is the real problem.
I couldn't care less that people are stopped from looking at porn (except for the impact it will have on the ISP I work for who will lose over a third of our traffic and thus may cost lots of jobs), but I DO care about being forced to implement a substandard solution which will probably wipe out my access to Deja News, the single greatest technical resource I have.
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Two-Face, we're going to take your coin away... Here, have a Tarot deck instead.
To boot? You actually _boot_ it? That's bizarre...
I _never_ shut my Fujitsu 2110P down or even suspend it. With the large battery I get 11 hours battery life when I'm not doing much so I just unplug it from home and go to work and plug it back in when I get home.
It has no fan, but doesn't overheat even unsuspended with the screen closed in my bag.
I leave the mail client and browser open all the time and they work fine. Sure they take a while if you have to load them, but why would you ever shut them down?
I want the newer one because the old Crusoe chips are just _slightly_ too slow for my general use, but the long battery life and the tiny size more than make up for it.
For power I have a P4 at home (since my Dual Athlon box died. Grumble.), but on the road I don't need most of that.
Ahhhh... Casablanca, yes, that was my favourite movie of the year. Specially that new version with Pamela Anderson in it.
I think the article could've done with a bit more substance. It doesn't actually take things far enough.
One of the things I found _extremely_ useful in Mage at the time it came out was the help it gave me in coming to terms with a number of completely contradictory opinions and worldviews that I had.
Between the way I was raised, the things I saw at work and the subculture I'd become involved with there was _very_ little solid foundation left, it had all become rather rocky.
The overall philosophies put across in Mage are made up, but there is still a lot of useful things in there that can be applied back to the real world.
One of the largest is that, in most cases, it doesn't actually _matter_ what the truth is. The fact of the matter is that different people will have different perceptions of what is going on in any given situation and to accomplish anything it's usually the _people_ that you have to deal with to solve things.
You accomplish nothing by fighting or by arguing with people, but rather from being understood and understanding others.
Just because things _seem_ to contradict each other of the surface there is probably a deeper level at which they both make more sense and can coexist.
The real depth in Mage comes not from the fairly stereotypical groups within it or the storyline, but from the philosophical glue that holds it together and from a questioning mind actively looking at things and thinking "How does this apply in the real world."
I've been confronted with this argument so many times, going as far back as playing D&D in highschool in the 80s.
"Violent games/TV/computers cause people to be violent."
It _looks_ to be true, but psychological studies have found no evidence of cause and effect at all. It seems to completely be statistical. The true statement is really:
"Violent people and people with a tendency towards violence are attracted to violent games and television programs."
ThunderFoot.
(OF course they aren't the _only_ people attracted to violent games!)
And a gun would help me how?
I could go out and murder key politicians which would cause public outrage and get the bill passed.
SARCASM Wonderful.
I can do that just as easily with a knife and, to my mind, far more honestly. I dislike the philosophy of distancing self from actions. If I ever decided to take such a path I have a responsibility to be personally involved and get my hands dirty.
Guns are a cowards option.
But regardless guns are NOT a solution. If you choose to not take the radical step of murder (which most would agree is a morally wrong way of ensuring your own viewpoint triumphs) then the gun becomes a piece of metal and wood that is useless in helping me get my point across to the government at all.
A pen and a piece of paper are far more effective weapons than a gun could ever be.
Speech... They aren't taking away our speech. They are taking away our access to all XXX pornographic pictures in addition to hardcore S&M and paedophilia which are already illegal. Awww... Poor people losing access to all the things they tell everybody they aren't looking at anyway. So, who's going to stand up for something they refuse to admit they are looking at?
No-one in the general public. Certainly no-one in government.
The fact that this censorship actually WILL bloke a large amount of other content including medical sites and places like Geocities with wildly diverse content is the real problem.
People are not aware at how difficult it is to ACCURATELY filter the net. It can be done to a limited extent, but only with broad strokes and it is THIS damage that is the real problem.
I couldn't care less that people are stopped from looking at porn (except for the impact it will have on the ISP I work for who will lose over a third of our traffic and thus may cost lots of jobs), but I DO care about being forced to implement a substandard solution which will probably wipe out my access to Deja News, the single greatest technical resource I have.
ThunderFoot.
Development Engineer.