True... but iirc there was a LOT of criticism at the time that, for what was supposed to be a "new operating system", there was still the need to return to DOS for so much. Kind of set the pattern for a LONG time:-)
When they designed the cpu, they (intel) didn't think that anyone would be "dumb enough" to design a system that required you to return to "real mode" after getting into protected mode, to actually get any work done.
So what are you going to do when your new gentoo keyboard detects that your system has some of that nasty "open sores" stuff on it, and decides to do an "emerge MicrosoftDRMPlus"? It won't be the first time Microsoft used the keyboard controller to work around a bug in their OS (remember Windows 3x and using the keyboard controller instead of triple-faulting the 286 to go from protected mode back to real mode?)
Will this happen? Not today, certainly, but eventually? Only time will tell.
Unless it is really hot RIGHT NOW and you only have 30 bux until next week, then it seems like a damn good idea and the 100 dollar AC unit is out of the question.
30 bux will buy you a 2-4 of your favourite brewskis, with a toonie or so change. That'll keep you cool for more than 3 hours. With the populatrity engendered by your newfound case of 24, get an invite to someone who HAS air conditioning. You'll probably also get treated to a free meal in return. Or work up a sweat getting laid. Or both. Then return the empties for a $2.40 refund on your deposit.
More fun, cheaper, cooler in both senses of the word. and you haven't f$cked up your fan or your garbage can.
... and if you had bothered to look at the pictures, you would have seen that there are several frozen bottles of water in the garbage can... those didn't come out of the ground.
This whole "project" makes us canucks look stupid. He should have made a beer cooler. Universal appeal. Plus, if you drink enough, you don't give a shit how hot the room is.
It's not like you can't buy a room air conditioner for under $100 Canadian nowadays at Loblaws.
It's not a minor nit-pick. Its a major flaw. His setup is so much more inefficient than even a cheap ($100) AC.
If he wants to be cheap, why not just take an old fridge ($20), remove the doors, and use the fridge to block the door to his room? Leave the coils facing out into the hallway, and his room becomes cooler - plus the light will always be on, so he can see wtf he's doing.
The statemnt I took exception to was (in relation to my statement that gays and lesbians are part of the norm)
The facts do not confirm what you have said "we know". In other words, you're trying to logically back up what you want to say, when the logic actually goes against it. For something to be "normal behavior" in a species, wouldn't that mean that it is practiced by at least half? If it is something done by a small percentage, then it would not be "normal behavior". I don't think we would logically say that suicide is "normal behavior" or that bulemia is "normal behavior". Those are considered aberrations because the majority of people do not do them.
If you're now saying that gays and lesbians are normal in the sense of "functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies", then it's cool by me. Glad we could clear up the misunderstanding.
While we're at it - since the article is about body modifications: Where are the holy penis inspectors?
After all, it was unlawful for the uncircumcised to enter into the synagogue. Just like it was unlawful for the circumcised to eat with the uncircumcised. So how could you tell? (apologies to Monty Python)
Hi mates, I'm new in town. Mind if I join you at this table? Sure, just before you do, do you mind to step up here and show us your penis? My WHAT? Your penis. You know, your dick, prick, johnson, schlong, one-eyed monster... Whatever for? Well, you know its unlawful for us to sit with the uncircumcised. Show us yours and we'll show you ours. Are you sure? It's the law! (obliges). Yes sir, you're certainly welcome to sup with us (extends a hand) (new guy declines to shake hands, murmurs) Um, no thanks - I know where its been... So, what's happening this weekend? Well, we're having the usual get-together at the synagogue. You'd be best to bring some hand lotion... Hand lotion? Well, yes. You'll have to prove you're circumcised before you're allowed into the inner temple. Gotta pass by the SPI, you know? The SPI? Well, yes, surely you know about the SPI - the Synagogue Penis Inspectors. Can't have the unclean mixing it up with the holy and all that, you know. Can't be too careful nowadays. So why do I need hand lotion? Well, this week it's old Harry who's doing the inspections, and he's blind. So? He does it... by feel... if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge... Oh? Yep. Synagogue is quite popular with the menfolk when Harry's pulling SPI duty, if you'll pardon the pun. Really? Yep. the uncircumcised are lined up for hours... The uncircumcised? Well, sure, they try to come, too. Some even try to come 3, 4 times... so much for rest on the Sabbath. Still, it makes us quite popular with the locals and all. Can't be too careful, you know.
So how did they tell who was circumcised and who wasn't without looking? Even today, its a taboo to look at shomeone's piece when lined up at the urinal. Judaeo-christian history sounds like a bunch of perverts got together and indulged in their fantasies.
The Bible (God's Word) clearly states that it is an abomination:
So what? I say the Bible is an abomination. I'm ready to defend my beliefs in open debate against him - lets see if God has enough guts to show up for the debate. Any time. Oh, that's right - you have no proof that god exists - that's why you have to have "faith".
If Jesus was God the Son, why didn't he bother to take a few minutes out to free the slaves? Oh, that's right... human rights aren't on Jesus' agenda. Gotta keep the little people in their place.
The choice of books as well as the threats of excomunicating rulers shows this rather well.
Chances are your pastor hasn't read the whole bible. There was a teacher at (IIRC) Dallas Theological who would ask his students on the first day of class "How many of you have read the whole Bible?" Nobody would raise their hand. (Keep in mind these were people who claimed to be "called by God to serve").
When it was time for them to graduate years later, he'd ask the same question. Typically, he'd get the same response.
The excuse is typically "Not enough time". Even though all it takes is a few minutes a day to go through the whole thing in 1 year.
People just like to concentrate on what they know already, what is familiar, reassuring, etc. They tend not to look too closely at anything that threatens their world view.
The choice of books as well as the threats of excomunicating rulers shows this rather well.
Being xcommunicated is a blast. Very liberating (been there, done that, laughed my silly ass off:-) I highly recommend it. Good for the soul, and all that...
For something to be "normal behavior" in a species, wouldn't that mean that it is practiced by at least half?
Normal behaviour is not the same as average behaviour.
For example, at one point more than half the adult population smoked, even though this is definitely not normal behaviour for any animal.
Again, if we go by your definition, then men can never engage in any normal behaviour, because they comprise slightly less than 50% of the population.
Similarly, it would be considered abnormal behaviour for a woman to be pregnant, because at any one time much less than 50% of the population is pregnant.
Lots of people play musical instruments. This is normal behaviour. But it's not practiced by 50% of the population. The majority of the population also watches a lot of television - but not watching television is also a normal behaviour for humans. Or would you try to claim that not watching TV is an unhealthy aberration?
We know that homosexuality is determined in part by genetics, and in part by in utero development. For an example of the latter, for every male child that a woman gives birth to, there is an increase in the likelyhood that the child will be gay. Check it out.
Only about 10% of the population is left-handed. And yet being a lefty is part of normal human development.
Lets look at other physical traits - the majority of the population is not white - so what? Do we now get to label white people to be aberrations? The majority of the population of the world doesn't speak english. Is that aberrant behaviour. Or, to look at it another way - the majority of the world speaks more than one language. Are unilingual people aberrant?
We've had gays, lesbians, and transgenders in the population throughout recorded history. To say its abnormal because they compose a minority of the population is to confuse average and normal, nothing more.
In this case, it was a "christian" pronouncing on people who have earrings, including women, and nose piercings, as being pagans. Nice combination of stereotyping AND ignorance, seeing as even the Bible makes it clear that women can have both.
Obviously you don't recognize the relationship between religious brainwashing and intolerance to diversity.
Okay, so why do you think homosexuality and lesbianism are abnormal?
As I point out, its not like they don't exist elsewhere in the animal kingdom. I sat through too many sermons where preachers would claim from the pulpit that its not normal, and that animals don't do it.
they obviously never had mice for pets. Mice of both sexes engage in same-sex behaviour.
I guess they also never had a dog try to hump their leg, either. (If humans did it we'd call it beastiality; when animals do it, do we call it humaniality? And when animals hump the leg of humans of the same sex, what would we call it)
The stance of the bible, calling such behaviours abnormal, or abominations, is contradicted by direct evidence. There is no way to reconcile the two.
It would be great if there was a God, and he or she actually could be inveighed upon to help us solve the mess we've gotten ourselves into, but the evidence says otherwise. We're going to have to take responsability and clean it up ourselves, or suffer the consequences.
Would we be having a greenhouse effect if the worlds' population were under a billion? If most of the arboreal forests were still around, to help recycle the excess CO2 that too many people using fossil fuels produce? If we hadn't so rapidly used up the buffering capacity of the worlds' oceans?
Would the east coast fisheries be in total collapse if we didn't have too many people plundering them for too many years?
We can't even care for and feed those who are around now - its not likely that either human nature or the laws of physics are going to change to accomodate us in the future.
I mean, if you want to show up covered in tattoos and piercings, I want to show up without pants.
Feel free to do so - just remember that I keep the servers at a nice 60 degrees Fahrenheit. And that we have multiple video cameras (not that there'd be much to see at that temperature:-)
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This reminds me of something I read recently about a workshop in changing hiring practices to be more competitive:
Your business is in need of a creative boost. You have 2 people who are applying for the position. One is dressed in suit and tie, the other has blue hair, an earring, etc.
When asked which of the two they would hire, people said the first one.
When asked which of the two they thought would be more creative, they said the second one.
So, the participants were asked, why are you hiring number 1 when you clearly believe number 2 is more likely to meet your needs?
Businesses are paying consultants to help them change their thinking, so they can survive. So, you can stick with the old ways, and end up working for a company that can't adapt, or you can show individuality, and go with the ones more likely to survive long-term.
Re-read the "christian" poster who wants people to be judged by their appearance, and slurs people with the label "pagan" if they don't conform. Pay attention to the myogeny in the remark about women with more than one or 2 earrings, or any other piercing, such as a nose piercing, etc., even though his own bible is full of accounts of women with pierced noses.
Perhaps its time christians took a hard look in the mirror and asked themselves why they're so offensive to so many people. They claim to believe the bible, but they obviously never read it. Or they believe they can "pick and choose" as to what parts are true - and then impose their choices on everyone else.
We are over-populated, with our resources stretched WAY beyond the breaking point, and yet we still have religions that teach that birth control is a sin.
We know that homosexuality and lesbianism are normal behaviour in many mammals, including humans, and yet we have christians going around saying its an abomination.
We ave bible-thumpers who go around saying (as the post I was replying to tried to claim) that only pagans get their ears pierced, when their own bible says otherwise.
If I'm ripping them a new ass-hole, its because they're so full of shit because their current one obviously isn't working.
But then again, in my parents day, they had to walk 10 miles to and from school each day - uphill both ways, through 6 feet of snow, after chopping and stacking a weeks worth of firewood, milking the cows, and shoeing the horse.
There have been irresponsible and/or adults in every generation.
Are you for real? this is IT we're talking about. Computers "boot." They "crash." Software has "bugs."
Okay. No more "mouse" - its a pointing device. No more "surfing the web". No more "just fucking google it".
No more "email" - its "electronic mail". No more "viruses", or "trojans" or "phishing scams". No more "patching". No more "RAM", that's just slang... No more saying "burn a CD".
No more "logging in" - you're "accessing your system/session/terminal/whatever-the-fuck".
Remember that 300,000 IT jobs in the USA will go away in the next five years. Not following this advice will hurt your career.
Following this particular piece of advice will get you labeled as a pedantic arsehole.
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When they designed the cpu, they (intel) didn't think that anyone would be "dumb enough" to design a system that required you to return to "real mode" after getting into protected mode, to actually get any work done.
Ah, the bad old days ... in some ways I miss them.
Seriously, how long before the marketroids try to appropriate this? Only time will tell. My bet is it'll be a race between them and Google.
So what are you going to do when your new gentoo keyboard detects that your system has some of that nasty "open sores" stuff on it, and decides to do an "emerge MicrosoftDRMPlus"? It won't be the first time Microsoft used the keyboard controller to work around a bug in their OS (remember Windows 3x and using the keyboard controller instead of triple-faulting the 286 to go from protected mode back to real mode?)
Will this happen? Not today, certainly, but eventually? Only time will tell.
We don't say "I'm going to eat a breakfast", or "I'm going to have a sex", or "I'm going to troll a slashdot".
And we certainly don't say "I got to to Harvard" unless we have a speech impediment ... or are trying to adapt to the Gentoo Keyboard ...
More fun, cheaper, cooler in both senses of the word. and you haven't f$cked up your fan or your garbage can.
Do I have to teach you guys EVERYTHING?
This whole "project" makes us canucks look stupid. He should have made a beer cooler. Universal appeal. Plus, if you drink enough, you don't give a shit how hot the room is.
It's not like you can't buy a room air conditioner for under $100 Canadian nowadays at Loblaws.
If he wants to be cheap, why not just take an old fridge ($20), remove the doors, and use the fridge to block the door to his room? Leave the coils facing out into the hallway, and his room becomes cooler - plus the light will always be on, so he can see wtf he's doing.
After all, it was unlawful for the uncircumcised to enter into the synagogue. Just like it was unlawful for the circumcised to eat with the uncircumcised. So how could you tell? (apologies to Monty Python)
So how did they tell who was circumcised and who wasn't without looking? Even today, its a taboo to look at shomeone's piece when lined up at the urinal. Judaeo-christian history sounds like a bunch of perverts got together and indulged in their fantasies.If Jesus was God the Son, why didn't he bother to take a few minutes out to free the slaves? Oh, that's right ... human rights aren't on Jesus' agenda. Gotta keep the little people in their place.
When it was time for them to graduate years later, he'd ask the same question. Typically, he'd get the same response.
The excuse is typically "Not enough time". Even though all it takes is a few minutes a day to go through the whole thing in 1 year.
People just like to concentrate on what they know already, what is familiar, reassuring, etc. They tend not to look too closely at anything that threatens their world view.
Being xcommunicated is a blast. Very liberating (been there, done that, laughed my silly ass off :-) I highly recommend it. Good for the soul, and all that ...
For example, at one point more than half the adult population smoked, even though this is definitely not normal behaviour for any animal.
Again, if we go by your definition, then men can never engage in any normal behaviour, because they comprise slightly less than 50% of the population.
Similarly, it would be considered abnormal behaviour for a woman to be pregnant, because at any one time much less than 50% of the population is pregnant.
Lots of people play musical instruments. This is normal behaviour. But it's not practiced by 50% of the population. The majority of the population also watches a lot of television - but not watching television is also a normal behaviour for humans. Or would you try to claim that not watching TV is an unhealthy aberration?
We know that homosexuality is determined in part by genetics, and in part by in utero development. For an example of the latter, for every male child that a woman gives birth to, there is an increase in the likelyhood that the child will be gay. Check it out.
Only about 10% of the population is left-handed. And yet being a lefty is part of normal human development.
Lets look at other physical traits - the majority of the population is not white - so what? Do we now get to label white people to be aberrations? The majority of the population of the world doesn't speak english. Is that aberrant behaviour. Or, to look at it another way - the majority of the world speaks more than one language. Are unilingual people aberrant?
We've had gays, lesbians, and transgenders in the population throughout recorded history. To say its abnormal because they compose a minority of the population is to confuse average and normal, nothing more.
Obviously you don't recognize the relationship between religious brainwashing and intolerance to diversity.
As I point out, its not like they don't exist elsewhere in the animal kingdom. I sat through too many sermons where preachers would claim from the pulpit that its not normal, and that animals don't do it.
they obviously never had mice for pets. Mice of both sexes engage in same-sex behaviour.
I guess they also never had a dog try to hump their leg, either. (If humans did it we'd call it beastiality; when animals do it, do we call it humaniality? And when animals hump the leg of humans of the same sex, what would we call it)
The stance of the bible, calling such behaviours abnormal, or abominations, is contradicted by direct evidence. There is no way to reconcile the two.
It would be great if there was a God, and he or she actually could be inveighed upon to help us solve the mess we've gotten ourselves into, but the evidence says otherwise. We're going to have to take responsability and clean it up ourselves, or suffer the consequences.
Would the east coast fisheries be in total collapse if we didn't have too many people plundering them for too many years?
We can't even care for and feed those who are around now - its not likely that either human nature or the laws of physics are going to change to accomodate us in the future.
Same thing with God towards his people, as described in Ezekiel.
So its not *just* for slaves.
Perhaps its time christians took a hard look in the mirror and asked themselves why they're so offensive to so many people. They claim to believe the bible, but they obviously never read it. Or they believe they can "pick and choose" as to what parts are true - and then impose their choices on everyone else.
We are over-populated, with our resources stretched WAY beyond the breaking point, and yet we still have religions that teach that birth control is a sin.
We know that homosexuality and lesbianism are normal behaviour in many mammals, including humans, and yet we have christians going around saying its an abomination.
We ave bible-thumpers who go around saying (as the post I was replying to tried to claim) that only pagans get their ears pierced, when their own bible says otherwise.
If I'm ripping them a new ass-hole, its because they're so full of shit because their current one obviously isn't working.
But then again, in my parents day, they had to walk 10 miles to and from school each day - uphill both ways, through 6 feet of snow, after chopping and stacking a weeks worth of firewood, milking the cows, and shoeing the horse.
There have been irresponsible and/or adults in every generation.
Okay. No more "mouse" - its a pointing device. No more "surfing the web". No more "just fucking google it".
No more "email" - its "electronic mail". No more "viruses", or "trojans" or "phishing scams". No more "patching". No more "RAM", that's just slang ... No more saying "burn a CD".
No more "logging in" - you're "accessing your system/session/terminal/whatever-the-fuck".
Following this particular piece of advice will get you labeled as a pedantic arsehole.