Yeah, as much as I'd like to recommend an Android device, just go with a 1st Gen iPad. Any kind of touchscreen is going to be challenging for her to use, and I don't think she'd really use it much anyway. But at least this way you won't have to put up with all your family blaming you for getting something that was "too complicated for grandma".
Load it up with family photo albums and videos, and maybe some audio books / audio messages from the family that she might like to keep her company.
As for internet, I think she would really appreciate outside contact with some of the multi-player games, though, like WordFeud or some of the other things that might give her some human contact when you guys aren't visiting. Should be able to set up some of those turn-based games so she can play with family members.
Even if she ends up not using the device, this should at least win you some brownie points with your family for ingenuity:-P
Heh, sorry to fit your stereotype (minus the vocal bit), but I'm kinda glad that Nautilus finally got most of the features I liked from explorer.exe . But that's pretty much the only thing I missed from the Windows world.
I'm certainly not a Mac guy, far from it. But I do have to admit that I like the way they package 3rd party applications, such that you just drop them into "Applications" and they're there, hidden in some self-contained directory tree. If you drop a new version with the same name into Applications, it replaces the old version (rather than just copying over top and making a mess).
So yeah, it's sort of similar to how you can drop a tarball of something into/opt/something/ (not that too many Linux programs are packaged that way), and they might have all the/opt/something/bin/opt/something/lib etc. directories just work without having to do anything. I think FreeBSD sort of works in a similar fashion. It's kind of nice not to have random applications that you're toying with drop files all over the place.
It's pretty user friendly on just about every Linux LiveCD/DVD or pendrivelinux USB distro...
Haven't tried setting up squashfs + aufs cow on my regular system yet, tho, but it ought to be straightforward to model it after the configuration used by one of those USB distros.
When I die, my master password will be scrawled in blood next to my body. Help yourself!
But more practically, you could set up a dead man's switch (er, script) to automatically email an encrypted file to your loved ones (with whom you've shared the decryption key with in advance) if you don't check in every so often. Or if you're a bit more trusting, you could give the password to one person and the private keyfile to another, so they'd sort of keep each other honest if need be.
But don't spend so much time worrying about the Ebay stuff, you have more important things to attend to, like getting rid of all of his junk. Oh, wait, nm, carry on:P
Yeah, during the last great depression, we had the Civilian Conservation Corps running around basically providing work and shelter camps for young unemployed persons. The work basically built the infrastructure in national parks using labor-intensive but low impact methods, things that wouldn't really put them in competition with the construction companies that would whine about not getting paid to do that kind of thing. It's kind of silly that we're spending so much money trying to "save" the economy from this bubble when all we really ought to be doing is giving people something worthwhile to do to ride out the fall and gain some XP until the bubble hits bottom.
As a side note, I refuse to believe we're in any sort of recovery until the federal reserve returns interest rates to more believable levels. Wasn't the whole low-interest rate thing one of the primary causes of the housing bubbles? People couldn't make money off of traditional savings, so they threw everything and more at real estate investments, because getting subprime loans for real estate properties was basically free money. So maybe banks are now a bit stricter with approving loans, but the primary driver is still there.
I like what Obama says, but so far all of the actions we got out of the administration has pretty much been like having Bush #3. More bailouts to failed companies, the same old for DMCA / ATCA type EFF issues, and Obamacare basically got neutered to essentially a guaranteed handout for the health insurance companies. But that's pretty much right in line with Medicare being originally created in the 60s mostly to protect health insurance and pharmaceutical companies with federally-guaranteed revenue rather than help the old people who use it.
What's awesome is that it's still going on today even with all these OWS protests that somehow "can't convey a clear message." There's some bill going around to make a long overdue cost of living adjustment to increase Social Security payouts by 3.6%... which will pretty much go straight into paying increased Medicare premiums. FTW!
But yeah, I'm employed, not really much affected by the "bottom 10%" or even by most of my fellow "bottom 99%", so what am I going to do about it beyond whining on a messageboard?:-P More of the middle class has to get involved for any kind of ground-up revolution to be successful, and our form of 2-party democracy is pretty successful at making everyone believe they can have a virtual revolution every 4-8 years without having to do any actual work or even changing anything;-D
Yeah, the definition of equality pursued by the government by this kind of affirmative action is about creating a future where every group is equally represented. No, it is not strictly fair, and it sure as hell is not colorblind. But it is necessary to create a future that is not dominated by one ethnic group, which could lead to more conflict or oppression.
Spoiler alert: pretty much the take-away from this exercise is that we do have unconscious biases, and really the only practical way to neutralize them is to acknowledge that the bias exists, and actively counteract it in ways that aren't strictly fair. Also, as an added bonus, this test REALLY seems to piss off people who regard themselves as totally unbiased:-P
Mmm, it's nice to think that, but a lot of poor people at the bottom of the economic ladder are poor because they are really, really bad with money. Lots of articles about homeless people panhandling so they can spend a night at a hotel every few days. With that kind of money, they could easily afford actual rent, but they blow it on the short term night out with TV and a bath and someone else to clean up and do laundry afterwards. Hell, my mom would be like that if she wasn't living off the support of her rich family and I wasn't attentive in canceling her Bankfee of America accounts and thank god she doesn't have enough of a credit history to successfully apply for her own credit cards. And yet we can't really offer her too much financial support because she just goes off and spends it on designer clothes to gift back to us:-P
My theory is the defense-industrial complex is a good way of keeping middle-class engineers employed and out of trouble, because if they got upset or bored and had the freedom to get involved in politics their "fix-it" mentality and capability would be instrumental in moving revolutions forward, as it has in, erm, other countries.
Anyway, I'd say the best way to help the poor would be to guarantee them a good education if they choose to take that path.
Yeah, if it were me, instead of a RAID10 with exotic hardware, I'd split it across a few cheap servers and run software RAID6 for a more hardware-agnostic approach. Then use something like OpenAFS (which I unfortunately have 0 actual experience with) to make those servers look like one filesystem to clients. That should get you a good bang for the buck, since motherboards and tower chassis that can fit 6 disks and gigabit networking hardware is relatively cheap compared to JBODs and junk.
Lustre and OCFS2 are more suited for homogenous cluster performance, so accessing the data wouldn't be very convenient. At least with OpenAFS you can run clients on Windows and OSX as well. With the cluster FS's I don't think it's even safe to run different kernels on the nodes.
I've read unflattering things about the performance of GlusterFS, even if you do have exotic multi-homed SAN fabrics to run it on. Never heard of subby's last option. I had also tried to get CODA working for the longest time, but it still seems too complicated and experimental compared to *AFS.
On my own home system, for most of the past 8 years I've been running a hybrid software RAID of 4x 250GB disks, with one set of partitions in RAID0 for/tmp , one set in RAID10 for performance, and one set in RAID5 for maximum storage. (And my important dirs rsync'd offsite to a friend's server which I donated hardware towards). This setup has survived about 2 disk failures over the years. The oldest file in my home dir goes back to 1998 or so.
delete some porn. Sure, it's a good feeling to know it's all there, but you really just watch the top 1% over and over. "The redyouwankjizzhutdb Cloud" will do when you just want some random fix.
compress the rest. There's no reason you need lossless 1080p masters of all your home videos of your kids spitting up. A nice h264 compressed archive can be enjoyed more often, is more portable to all your mobile devices, and you'll barely notice the loss of quality when someday you might get to run it through an upsampling 3D holodeck reconstruction algorithm
Once it's a bit more manageable than 8TB, sort and periodically rsync the "important" stuff (i.e. the stuff you created yourself and can't re-download from someone else) to a backup server, preferably offsite at a friend/relative's house. You can start it with a 2TB "sneakernet" and just do incremental updates over the net thereafter.
don't worry about the unimportant stuff, random movies/mp3s. Let go of the hoarding, gotta catch 'em all mentality. Your time is much better spent elsewhere than collecting and organizing other people's crap for some false sense of "completion" achievement.
Here's a nice goal to keep in mind, if some burglar breaks into your house and swipes your file server and holds it for ransom (more than the cost of the hardware), you should be able to just say "meh, I can just restore from the offsite backup"
By and large the CentOS team do an excellent job with the distribution - but it's a volunteer effort and there have been some notable times lately when important or security updates which have been shipped by Red Hat run late with CentOS, sometimes by a considerable amount of time.
You could also use Scientific Linux instead of CentOS. SL has the backing of CERN behind it, and as a result it has been much more responsive to that sort of thing. SL 6.0 and 6.1 came out much sooner than the CentOS team could port (hell, I think we're still waiting for CentOS 6.1). SL is pretty much otherwise identical in spirit to CentOS... pretty much a white-box clone of RHEL. Sure there are a few minor improvements. And there's a LiveCD!
CentOS itself was apparently launched by a diskless clustering company, which has since started primarily developing on Debian. So I kinda anticipate SL becoming the premier RHEL clone.
Most places I've worked for would develop on CentOS, then swing for the RHEL license when they deploy to clients (probably so they can bill it and markup a "handling fee").
There is a movement to migrate everything to RHEL for security reasons (mainly so you have someone else to blame if your server gets hacked for any reason, I suppose if you're running CentOS you basically might have to suck up the blame).
I would like to support Redhat financially, but I'm more of a Debian guy, and the RHN is more or less broken on the RHEL6 licensed VM that work bought for me due to some certificate error:-P
Word. It's kind of sad, though, a large human population ought to be a resource and not a liability. If only there were something useful we could do with all these humans... hmmm. Maybe if they were all well educated they could entertain each other somehow. But even then, hell we could even start practicing until that time, it would be a nice thing to do, you know, as a gesture, to see if we can share the limited resources of the planet between as many people as practical.
Having driven around a large swath of the US midwest this past summer, I don't see it practical to raise anything other than cattle on those huge plots of arid grazing land. There certainly isn't enough water to irrigate farmland. It looks like the ranchers have a pretty good handle on preventing the cattle from destroying the grasslands and turning them to actual deserts, as supposedly happened to large parts of the sahara in the distant past. Maybe after a couple more decades / centuries of cowpies, that land might be able to sustain something else.
Also, we officially surpassed 7 billion just recently, so you can start using that figure in your talking points.
Hmm, not sure why you got downmodded. But yeah... China just bought Saab.
Of course, a lot will also depend on how bad Chinese corruption offsets Chinese productivity. And they're also famous for screwing up in grand fashion. China has been overinvesting in their real estate bubble just as bad as the US has, and now they have rows and rows of empty high-rise condos littering their industrial cities just as a lot of their work has been outsourced to poorer countries like Vietnam.
It will be interesting times. But fortunately, a lot of the money that was "lost" from these bubbles bursting was just imaginary money that the financial sector conjured up. As long as we can engage in some form of actual productivity, the rest of us will be OK. As long as we're not forced to throw real money at the banks to help prop up their facade... oh wait, DOH!
"We" don't know how to "fix" global warming. There is no computer model that given any appropriate starting point predicts all the warm and cold periods of the last two millenia, including times warmer than we're experiencing now. Furthermore, it's not a "problem".
The "global warming" a.k.a. "climate change" brouhaha is just an effort by leftists to gain more power, destroy those they think of as their enemies, and for many of them to destroy industrial civilization. But I'm sure you won't the vision of universal poverty interfere with your quest for a mindless life in Eden.
"Fixing" anthropogenic global warming is pretty simple, you simply give back as good as you take. Plant enough trees to recover the combustion you're accountable for. This comes as naturally to environmentalists as recycling, composting, and wiping their own asses after they take a shit.
The burden of proof really shouldn't be on the environmentalists, who are living the low-impact lifestyle. The people who are burning up the world's stored energy should be the ones charged with proving that the environment can support them. Which is pretty much all the climate scientists are trying to do... figure out what that number is. We know that number is probably big enough to produce energy to support a few billion people at an above-povery standard of living, but we know that number isn't infinity. We laugh a nervous laugh at people like you who just seem to think we could burn all we want, burn it all! We don't like the idea of wars to periodically trim down the global population. So what's your proposal for sharing the riches of the land?
I second this. If practicable, go on to get your Professional Engineer license for your state, then go start your own business doing exactly what you want to do.
If you get a job working for someone else, you will be doing what other people tell you to do regardless of whether you think it's a good idea or not. Or you'll spend all your time trying to convince them they should really be doing the right thing.
Start your own project, even if it's just a hobby. It will be more rewarding and will keep you from getting frustrated.
If you need to, get a job in the real world for a bit to learn a bit about the rest of the world and secure a bit of funding to get you on your feet. But don't get locked in.
While you're in school, be sure to make some friends you trust to cover the legal/marketing/accounting aspects of the business, because you're probably not that interested in those things.
Heh, when they first rolled out their Groups feature, I thought, yay, finally a way to separate my real friends and coworkers from all of my misc Mafia Wars, uh, "partners in crime". Then I was surprised when the creation of all these Groups created notifications on everyone's walls. Stopped using that feature real quick.
I came pretty close to putting some people into an "Idiots and Assholes" group. Pretty close:-P But now and again I'm tempted to do it anyway, you know, for the lulz.
Hmm, very interesting... didn't classmates.com get sued by a class-action suit for always spamming people with fake "someone is searching for you" emails? This doesn't seem any different, actually worse if anything:P
I too am unsure what exactly the submitter is trying to do.
But my oldskool HTC myTouch Slide 3G and my wife's HTC myTouch 4G running CyanogenMOD 7.x supports just about everything on the T-Mobile network.
Wifi & USB tethering work, so I can connect my laptop and/or other people's devices to the internet over HSDPA
Phone calls over wifi works, though I haven't really bothered to test it yet. But this sounds useful if you spend a lot of time somewhere with wifi but poor phone reception.
The Dolphin HD browser supports user agent tags, in case he's trying to use a proxy so websites will stop giving you the mobile version.
Opera Browser Mini will sort of proxy everything through Opera's render servers.
Could just use androidVNC to remotely operate a browser on your home machine.
I simply just use ConnectBot to ssh into a screen session on my home machine to do most stuff.
Also, if he just wants to configure a traditional http proxy on Android, LMGTFY provides a pretty straightforward though somewhat arcane solution (halfway down the page after the "just use Opera" entry: http://www.techxilla.com/2011/01/17/proxy-settings-for-android/
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, as much as I'd like to recommend an Android device, just go with a 1st Gen iPad. Any kind of touchscreen is going to be challenging for her to use, and I don't think she'd really use it much anyway. But at least this way you won't have to put up with all your family blaming you for getting something that was "too complicated for grandma".
Load it up with family photo albums and videos, and maybe some audio books / audio messages from the family that she might like to keep her company.
As for internet, I think she would really appreciate outside contact with some of the multi-player games, though, like WordFeud or some of the other things that might give her some human contact when you guys aren't visiting. Should be able to set up some of those turn-based games so she can play with family members.
Even if she ends up not using the device, this should at least win you some brownie points with your family for ingenuity :-P
Heh, sorry to fit your stereotype (minus the vocal bit), but I'm kinda glad that Nautilus finally got most of the features I liked from explorer.exe . But that's pretty much the only thing I missed from the Windows world.
I'm certainly not a Mac guy, far from it. But I do have to admit that I like the way they package 3rd party applications, such that you just drop them into "Applications" and they're there, hidden in some self-contained directory tree. If you drop a new version with the same name into Applications, it replaces the old version (rather than just copying over top and making a mess).
So yeah, it's sort of similar to how you can drop a tarball of something into /opt/something/ (not that too many Linux programs are packaged that way), and they might have all the /opt/something/bin /opt/something/lib etc. directories just work without having to do anything. I think FreeBSD sort of works in a similar fashion. It's kind of nice not to have random applications that you're toying with drop files all over the place.
It's pretty user friendly on just about every Linux LiveCD/DVD or pendrivelinux USB distro...
Haven't tried setting up squashfs + aufs cow on my regular system yet, tho, but it ought to be straightforward to model it after the configuration used by one of those USB distros.
Heh, to summon someone else's /. sig... "1984 was not an instruction manual"
But I think China's leadership suits their culture. Too bad you could pretty much say the same thing about the US's "dumb jock" culture as well.
Heh, I thought the 512 - 4096 byte block size migration was the plan by HDD manufacturers to help get people to switch over to SSD's instead.
When I die, my master password will be scrawled in blood next to my body. Help yourself!
But more practically, you could set up a dead man's switch (er, script) to automatically email an encrypted file to your loved ones (with whom you've shared the decryption key with in advance) if you don't check in every so often. Or if you're a bit more trusting, you could give the password to one person and the private keyfile to another, so they'd sort of keep each other honest if need be.
But don't spend so much time worrying about the Ebay stuff, you have more important things to attend to, like getting rid of all of his junk. Oh, wait, nm, carry on :P
/ Oblig sorry for you loss )-;
Yeah, during the last great depression, we had the Civilian Conservation Corps running around basically providing work and shelter camps for young unemployed persons. The work basically built the infrastructure in national parks using labor-intensive but low impact methods, things that wouldn't really put them in competition with the construction companies that would whine about not getting paid to do that kind of thing. It's kind of silly that we're spending so much money trying to "save" the economy from this bubble when all we really ought to be doing is giving people something worthwhile to do to ride out the fall and gain some XP until the bubble hits bottom.
As a side note, I refuse to believe we're in any sort of recovery until the federal reserve returns interest rates to more believable levels. Wasn't the whole low-interest rate thing one of the primary causes of the housing bubbles? People couldn't make money off of traditional savings, so they threw everything and more at real estate investments, because getting subprime loans for real estate properties was basically free money. So maybe banks are now a bit stricter with approving loans, but the primary driver is still there.
I like what Obama says, but so far all of the actions we got out of the administration has pretty much been like having Bush #3. More bailouts to failed companies, the same old for DMCA / ATCA type EFF issues, and Obamacare basically got neutered to essentially a guaranteed handout for the health insurance companies. But that's pretty much right in line with Medicare being originally created in the 60s mostly to protect health insurance and pharmaceutical companies with federally-guaranteed revenue rather than help the old people who use it.
What's awesome is that it's still going on today even with all these OWS protests that somehow "can't convey a clear message." There's some bill going around to make a long overdue cost of living adjustment to increase Social Security payouts by 3.6% ... which will pretty much go straight into paying increased Medicare premiums. FTW!
But yeah, I'm employed, not really much affected by the "bottom 10%" or even by most of my fellow "bottom 99%", so what am I going to do about it beyond whining on a messageboard? :-P More of the middle class has to get involved for any kind of ground-up revolution to be successful, and our form of 2-party democracy is pretty successful at making everyone believe they can have a virtual revolution every 4-8 years without having to do any actual work or even changing anything ;-D
Yeah, the definition of equality pursued by the government by this kind of affirmative action is about creating a future where every group is equally represented. No, it is not strictly fair, and it sure as hell is not colorblind. But it is necessary to create a future that is not dominated by one ethnic group, which could lead to more conflict or oppression.
This is a neat test about biases: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Spoiler alert: pretty much the take-away from this exercise is that we do have unconscious biases, and really the only practical way to neutralize them is to acknowledge that the bias exists, and actively counteract it in ways that aren't strictly fair. Also, as an added bonus, this test REALLY seems to piss off people who regard themselves as totally unbiased :-P
Mmm, it's nice to think that, but a lot of poor people at the bottom of the economic ladder are poor because they are really, really bad with money. Lots of articles about homeless people panhandling so they can spend a night at a hotel every few days. With that kind of money, they could easily afford actual rent, but they blow it on the short term night out with TV and a bath and someone else to clean up and do laundry afterwards. Hell, my mom would be like that if she wasn't living off the support of her rich family and I wasn't attentive in canceling her Bankfee of America accounts and thank god she doesn't have enough of a credit history to successfully apply for her own credit cards. And yet we can't really offer her too much financial support because she just goes off and spends it on designer clothes to gift back to us :-P
My theory is the defense-industrial complex is a good way of keeping middle-class engineers employed and out of trouble, because if they got upset or bored and had the freedom to get involved in politics their "fix-it" mentality and capability would be instrumental in moving revolutions forward, as it has in, erm, other countries.
Anyway, I'd say the best way to help the poor would be to guarantee them a good education if they choose to take that path.
Yeah, if it were me, instead of a RAID10 with exotic hardware, I'd split it across a few cheap servers and run software RAID6 for a more hardware-agnostic approach. Then use something like OpenAFS (which I unfortunately have 0 actual experience with) to make those servers look like one filesystem to clients. That should get you a good bang for the buck, since motherboards and tower chassis that can fit 6 disks and gigabit networking hardware is relatively cheap compared to JBODs and junk.
Lustre and OCFS2 are more suited for homogenous cluster performance, so accessing the data wouldn't be very convenient. At least with OpenAFS you can run clients on Windows and OSX as well. With the cluster FS's I don't think it's even safe to run different kernels on the nodes.
I've read unflattering things about the performance of GlusterFS, even if you do have exotic multi-homed SAN fabrics to run it on. Never heard of subby's last option. I had also tried to get CODA working for the longest time, but it still seems too complicated and experimental compared to *AFS.
On my own home system, for most of the past 8 years I've been running a hybrid software RAID of 4x 250GB disks, with one set of partitions in RAID0 for /tmp , one set in RAID10 for performance, and one set in RAID5 for maximum storage. (And my important dirs rsync'd offsite to a friend's server which I donated hardware towards). This setup has survived about 2 disk failures over the years. The oldest file in my home dir goes back to 1998 or so.
But if he really insists on lots of on-line storage, check out this custom box linked from slashdot a few months back:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
Yeah, subby just needs to:
My father wants to start a new cloud storage company called blackhole.
Meh, it'd get too confused with anything that runs Sharepoint, already referred to as the "information black hole".
By and large the CentOS team do an excellent job with the distribution - but it's a volunteer effort and there have been some notable times lately when important or security updates which have been shipped by Red Hat run late with CentOS, sometimes by a considerable amount of time.
You could also use Scientific Linux instead of CentOS. SL has the backing of CERN behind it, and as a result it has been much more responsive to that sort of thing. SL 6.0 and 6.1 came out much sooner than the CentOS team could port (hell, I think we're still waiting for CentOS 6.1). SL is pretty much otherwise identical in spirit to CentOS... pretty much a white-box clone of RHEL. Sure there are a few minor improvements. And there's a LiveCD!
CentOS itself was apparently launched by a diskless clustering company, which has since started primarily developing on Debian. So I kinda anticipate SL becoming the premier RHEL clone.
Most places I've worked for would develop on CentOS, then swing for the RHEL license when they deploy to clients (probably so they can bill it and markup a "handling fee").
There is a movement to migrate everything to RHEL for security reasons (mainly so you have someone else to blame if your server gets hacked for any reason, I suppose if you're running CentOS you basically might have to suck up the blame).
I would like to support Redhat financially, but I'm more of a Debian guy, and the RHN is more or less broken on the RHEL6 licensed VM that work bought for me due to some certificate error :-P
Word. It's kind of sad, though, a large human population ought to be a resource and not a liability. If only there were something useful we could do with all these humans... hmmm. Maybe if they were all well educated they could entertain each other somehow. But even then, hell we could even start practicing until that time, it would be a nice thing to do, you know, as a gesture, to see if we can share the limited resources of the planet between as many people as practical.
Having driven around a large swath of the US midwest this past summer, I don't see it practical to raise anything other than cattle on those huge plots of arid grazing land. There certainly isn't enough water to irrigate farmland. It looks like the ranchers have a pretty good handle on preventing the cattle from destroying the grasslands and turning them to actual deserts, as supposedly happened to large parts of the sahara in the distant past. Maybe after a couple more decades / centuries of cowpies, that land might be able to sustain something else.
Also, we officially surpassed 7 billion just recently, so you can start using that figure in your talking points.
Hmm, not sure why you got downmodded. But yeah... China just bought Saab.
Of course, a lot will also depend on how bad Chinese corruption offsets Chinese productivity. And they're also famous for screwing up in grand fashion. China has been overinvesting in their real estate bubble just as bad as the US has, and now they have rows and rows of empty high-rise condos littering their industrial cities just as a lot of their work has been outsourced to poorer countries like Vietnam.
It will be interesting times. But fortunately, a lot of the money that was "lost" from these bubbles bursting was just imaginary money that the financial sector conjured up. As long as we can engage in some form of actual productivity, the rest of us will be OK. As long as we're not forced to throw real money at the banks to help prop up their facade... oh wait, DOH!
"We" don't know how to "fix" global warming. There is no computer model that given any appropriate starting point predicts all the warm and cold periods of the last two millenia, including times warmer than we're experiencing now. Furthermore, it's not a "problem".
The "global warming" a.k.a. "climate change" brouhaha is just an effort by leftists to gain more power, destroy those they think of as their enemies, and for many of them to destroy industrial civilization. But I'm sure you won't the vision of universal poverty interfere with your quest for a mindless life in Eden.
"Fixing" anthropogenic global warming is pretty simple, you simply give back as good as you take. Plant enough trees to recover the combustion you're accountable for. This comes as naturally to environmentalists as recycling, composting, and wiping their own asses after they take a shit.
The burden of proof really shouldn't be on the environmentalists, who are living the low-impact lifestyle. The people who are burning up the world's stored energy should be the ones charged with proving that the environment can support them. Which is pretty much all the climate scientists are trying to do... figure out what that number is. We know that number is probably big enough to produce energy to support a few billion people at an above-povery standard of living, but we know that number isn't infinity. We laugh a nervous laugh at people like you who just seem to think we could burn all we want, burn it all! We don't like the idea of wars to periodically trim down the global population. So what's your proposal for sharing the riches of the land?
There's no greater wealth than health.
Yeah, pretty much.
There will always be denialists as long as there are people who don't want to pay to fix the problem.
We will simply have to proceed to fix the problem without them. They're not going to ever go away.
What was funny about all this was all the commentators on ArsTechnica that said they were going to leave Dolphin for Opera (?!)
Anyone want to elaborate on how much access Opera Mobile/Mini has to the content you surf on through their servers?
"I got me 64 gigabytes of RAM;
I don't feed trolls and I don't ream SPAM;"
-- Weird Al
Hmm, will have to change the refrain, it's not all about the Pentiums anymore, baby.
That was no gentle "whooshing" sound. It went blaring by more like "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdJRDpLHbw
--
"(The hammer is my penis)"
I second this. If practicable, go on to get your Professional Engineer license for your state, then go start your own business doing exactly what you want to do.
If you get a job working for someone else, you will be doing what other people tell you to do regardless of whether you think it's a good idea or not. Or you'll spend all your time trying to convince them they should really be doing the right thing.
Start your own project, even if it's just a hobby. It will be more rewarding and will keep you from getting frustrated.
If you need to, get a job in the real world for a bit to learn a bit about the rest of the world and secure a bit of funding to get you on your feet. But don't get locked in.
While you're in school, be sure to make some friends you trust to cover the legal/marketing/accounting aspects of the business, because you're probably not that interested in those things.
Have fun!
In Russia, Laika launch is still considered success!
Is this what Tori Amos's Space Dog about?
Heh, when they first rolled out their Groups feature, I thought, yay, finally a way to separate my real friends and coworkers from all of my misc Mafia Wars, uh, "partners in crime". Then I was surprised when the creation of all these Groups created notifications on everyone's walls. Stopped using that feature real quick.
I came pretty close to putting some people into an "Idiots and Assholes" group. Pretty close :-P
But now and again I'm tempted to do it anyway, you know, for the lulz.
Hmm, very interesting... didn't classmates.com get sued by a class-action suit for always spamming people with fake "someone is searching for you" emails? This doesn't seem any different, actually worse if anything :P
Peer pressure FTW.
Fake peer pressure even better.
I too am unsure what exactly the submitter is trying to do.
But my oldskool HTC myTouch Slide 3G and my wife's HTC myTouch 4G running CyanogenMOD 7.x supports just about everything on the T-Mobile network.
Wifi & USB tethering work, so I can connect my laptop and/or other people's devices to the internet over HSDPA
Phone calls over wifi works, though I haven't really bothered to test it yet. But this sounds useful if you spend a lot of time somewhere with wifi but poor phone reception.
The Dolphin HD browser supports user agent tags, in case he's trying to use a proxy so websites will stop giving you the mobile version.
Opera Browser Mini will sort of proxy everything through Opera's render servers.
Could just use androidVNC to remotely operate a browser on your home machine.
I simply just use ConnectBot to ssh into a screen session on my home machine to do most stuff.
Also, if he just wants to configure a traditional http proxy on Android, LMGTFY provides a pretty straightforward though somewhat arcane solution (halfway down the page after the "just use Opera" entry: http://www.techxilla.com/2011/01/17/proxy-settings-for-android/