Honest to Dog, I swear we've been "just a decade away" from mass distribution of optical implants to aid the blind since the SEVENTIES! I've given up on stories about the distribution of ALL brain interfaces that are "just a decade away (Really, trust me!)" until I see local news stories about my neighborhood hospital installing them and insurance paying for them.
Maybe nobody feels "sorry" for child molesters, but I've thought for years it was at least stupid for the U.S. to make their current addresses public be decree. Newspapers have reported on many who fail to maintain addresses on record because nobody will rent to them and they end up wandering homeless from town to town and state to state. Sort of defeats the purpose. But Germany prohibiting the media from besmirching the good name of out-of-prison murderers? Can't we find a happy middle ground here?
That's what our local CBS calls it, and, yes, it's annoying as hell. I'd rather have another bear up a tree story or some corporate PR piece vaguely disguised as "news" than know what some other TV watching fool thinks.
Might take some tweaking. The Minneapolis Metrodome had some collapse issues the first year or two until they learned how to get on top of snow removal.
Every day. One thing that is a problem for some of us is XvMD and CBS. They seem to do something with their 1080 that screws up playback. Anybody know whether VDPAU fixes that?
That isn't a bug in MythTV per se. The program has it's bugs but it does most of what I want. I agree that the audio jukebox is mighty ergonomically ugly. Assumes you'll just call up a playlist? You can elect to have the music player continue while you do other stuff -- so why not allow the same option with streaming music? The custom web browser doesn't let me call up the foreign TV news station running Flash that I like to watch, so I have to drop out of the GUI for that. Hey, it is at version POINT22, right?
Some bugs are serious. I'm finding that Mythdora will practically do a flawless base install recognizing devices. But then you have to get stuff working, and in that area, I'm still advising people who don't know some linux and don't like tinkering with their computer to give it a pass. And I cringe at upgrading. Run a version until a new version intrigues me into a reinstall. It seemed like it took me a day the first time just to figure out everything I had to configure. Made camera screenshots of all the config pages and the next install took about 1-1/2 hours to get TV up, half for install/half for config.
The bottom line is that MythTV honestly is a hobby project, but it fits my viewing niche.
That said, I'm an "intellectual" with a fairly high IQ last time I checked, yet I still get along with most people. It's just that I don't have very strong friendships with people who are mostly "normal" and I tend to drift away from them.
You got it. You can _fake_ normal long enough to get by now and then. Not unusual. People with high IQs are often more culturally experienced. Multi-class experiences and travel correlate with better employments. I grew up in a backwater and when I get back I sometimes hear about so-and-so's brother/cousin/etc who has money and has traveled the world yet he seems like such a regular guy. Duh. They never stop to think that if you've drunk fermented yak milk in Mongolia, you can chat them up in North Dakota for an hour. It's mostly Rogerian technique and mingling tips, right? Just get them talking about their favorite hunt, sport, car, TV show. "What do you like most?" "What really excites you about that?" Blah-blah. The problem comes when you mention that you're saving up for an O-III galactic filter for your reflector for Xmas and they turn and look at you like you stepped out of the fucking X-Files. Which is the problem with all the "don't you know how to get along with people" advise. Yes, you can be _friendly_ to other people but will they ever be a _friend_ to you? Or are you just too frackin' weird for their boundaries?
I wouldn't say his sample questions are very hard but they could likely catch people with what I call the "hyper monkey grab fruit" syndrome. And there are a lot of them. If a person just _calmly_ steps back for a moment and thinks...
I guess what I've never understood about LTS is that if it's broken on release, it won't be fixed so make sure all your hardware works on install before you commit to using it. I've never gotten CUPS on 8.04 to work with my HP Laserjet through a Hawking print server and I know I'm not alone with CUPS problems. (Where it works fine when I dual-boot the machine to straight Debian and has for years.) Last I followed the thread it was closed because it was "fixed in the next release." I guess that's what LTS means -- upgrade.
Which is to conclude -- Frankly, I don't trust Ubuntu, and when you lose trust....
Exactly. Sounds like a horrible idea. You could "increase production" by pouring raw sewage onto the land too and not worry about the build-up of dangerous metals and organic chemicals. (Are you listening, China?)
Somebody step in and remind us which "inside Microsoft" tell-all book it was where the guy said Gates went through a period where he just couldn't figure out why his programmers were having such a hard time in the lab trying to make the PC a universal computer -- run PC programs _and_ Mac programs on the fly.
I'd go in the basement and look for the book but I'm too comfortable on the sofa with my laptop running Debian with wireless, temp control, etc. etc. working just fine. Not that that takes away any of the glitter of Microsoft's technological amazingness or anything.
And I love how essayists can make history with brief comments:
"[H]e led the campaign to destroy Netscape. In those days Microsoft was still nimble enough that it could pivot quickly and catch up on a rival. Since then the company has become bureaucratic and lumbering."
The good old days when the monopoly was at it's height if that's what he means by "nimble". Any web developers like to comment on how the technological excellence of Explorer has augmented their professional happiness ever since?
High-profile maybe. High quality? Maybe not so much.
Local Minneapolis/St. Paul media ran a story about a farming couple who are into organic and renewables out for a lot of thousand because the Iowa company selling Chinese wind crap that broke down went bankrupt.
Maybe that's the problem. Show me a liberal paper in America. Yeah, yeah, right. Even the NYT is a fascist warmongering rag a la Judith Miller's WMD lies. I get more honest reporting on how the wheels of business and government turn from the 1-3 weekly pages of reporting in my local City Pages. Mostly American papers are a circle jerk among local business and the advertising section.
So why should I buy an American paper? For the cherry pie recipes I can't get on the net?
Disgusting. Die, die, for all I care. None too soon. We can use the trees.
I think it helps for me to be older to agree with you. A lot of IT graduated from the Reagan era propaganda schools in which libertarian capitalism does everything right and nothing wrong. "I'm working for the union" is something I expect to hear sung in IT immediately before complete social collapse.
Does that make IT _special_? On the contrary, it makes IT as brainwashed as pink collar workers. The demographic shift from rural independent farmers and small town union workers to non-union office jobs is one of the defining broad strokes of change in the second half of the 20th century. Yes, even before NAFTA. Whether you're talking Lagos, Nigeria, or Detroit and Silicon Valley. I doubt if too many IT people see it that way because they are techies, but I was one of those humanities and social sciences liberal arts grads who could just "fall into {-i 'it'}" in the 80s when anyone who had a knack for a dual-floppy PC was valuable.
No, I'm not that confident, but I'm taking a chance on the 23andme.com database security anyway. Just signed up and the contract does give one pause. They point out that loose talk with your doctor can be dangerous. I don't know how far law will protect a person against medical and employment discrimination in practice but they mention that the law does not protect your ability to get _life_ insurance.
On topic, they routinely test for warfarin sensitivity and Plavix efficacy.
Been a few years, but I understood SQL Server's performance degradation curve with load was poor compared to other DBS's commercial and open source. When I was taking the version 8 classes at our local Oracle center, somebody said, "What about DB2?" and the instructor said, "That's a good system but we're here to talk Oracle." Somebody said, "SQL Server?" and everybody laughed.
Have always preferred PostgreSQL over MySQL myself but Oracle took a swipe back at it as well by releasing XE for department and small business use.
The state has its own bank to offer residents low interest loans for socially useful things like student loans.
But it's basically Reaganomics. The theory goes that education shouldn't be supported because I guess it isn't really a social good and colleges should be run like businesses. So thank Neocon libertarianism for your loan payments. To do a "back in my day" may be annoying but it can also be enlightening. I remember something like $7.50 per undergraduate state college quarter credit. 48 in a typical three quarter year for a cool $360/year tuition. Sure, I was making $1.5/hour on my first summer job hammering together harrow weeder belts on a night shift factory job and that was considered a good high school wage so let's say $1/hour was more typical. Up that to $7.50 today and multiple by $360 and you should be paying something like $2,700/year for tuition at a four-year state college. Thank Reaganomics and "running colleges like a business" for your difference.
I'm _sure_ that will be the first concern for the contractors (of course -- can't have government jobs) who hire people for these "green" jobs. "Spend eight hours a day trampling around Love Canal. It's a fun job -- and green!" Everybody be for it if each job came with government-sponsored health insurance for _unlimited_ payment on cancer treatments?
Reminds me of the commercials for exciting off-world employment opportunities that are faithfully placed in most PK Dick inspired movies.
I don't know that I or the above poster are anti-Lovecraft, but I agree that Lovecraft is "unique." His is not a style I would choose to promote if I were teaching high school students. But neither is James Joyce.
Influences do influence. I was once so impressed by a paragraph-length sentence in a book by a well-known scholar of Immanuel Kant that I ran it through Grammatik and got "Grade 36." Clearly, Kant devoured that man's brain such that he will never be capable of delivering a Toastmaster's speech again. In a like manner, you don't want other students enfolded by the dark, eldrich horror these sci fi students could emanate like a musty shroud if their tender minds are driven mad by style no teenager's brain should fall witness to, now do you?
None of the characters especially captivates me. Torture a few. Kill off a few. It's all the same to me like playing with plastic soldiers. On the bright side, it's an opportunity to do Stargate as Battlestar Galactica.
Seriously, it's been so long ago, I can't begin to recall my first impressions of the original cast, but I see some problems with Universe if the 2-hour premiere didn't make me care about what happens to the characters. Similar to, but considerably worse than, Enterprise.
Guess we need a case to determine whether user response blogs are "advertising" when they are hosted by the retailer. Since FOX got a ruling that its "news" can be lies, I have to think our postmodern courts might swing toward letting them get away with it otherwise.
"No industry is going to fail, aside from the patent troll industry."
You say that like it's a small thing. What _do_ we manufacture in the U.S. these days? Patent trolls have been a growth industry. Cry for the underemployed lawyer, can't you?
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Honest to Dog, I swear we've been "just a decade away" from mass distribution of optical implants to aid the blind since the SEVENTIES! I've given up on stories about the distribution of ALL brain interfaces that are "just a decade away (Really, trust me!)" until I see local news stories about my neighborhood hospital installing them and insurance paying for them.
Maybe nobody feels "sorry" for child molesters, but I've thought for years it was at least stupid for the U.S. to make their current addresses public be decree. Newspapers have reported on many who fail to maintain addresses on record because nobody will rent to them and they end up wandering homeless from town to town and state to state. Sort of defeats the purpose. But Germany prohibiting the media from besmirching the good name of out-of-prison murderers? Can't we find a happy middle ground here?
That's what our local CBS calls it, and, yes, it's annoying as hell. I'd rather have another bear up a tree story or some corporate PR piece vaguely disguised as "news" than know what some other TV watching fool thinks.
Might take some tweaking. The Minneapolis Metrodome had some collapse issues the first year or two until they learned how to get on top of snow removal.
I tell my wife it will say, "No, Jennifer, I will not open the pod bay door until you have watched all your recordings."
Every day. One thing that is a problem for some of us is XvMD and CBS. They seem to do something with their 1080 that screws up playback. Anybody know whether VDPAU fixes that?
That isn't a bug in MythTV per se. The program has it's bugs but it does most of what I want. I agree that the audio jukebox is mighty ergonomically ugly. Assumes you'll just call up a playlist? You can elect to have the music player continue while you do other stuff -- so why not allow the same option with streaming music? The custom web browser doesn't let me call up the foreign TV news station running Flash that I like to watch, so I have to drop out of the GUI for that. Hey, it is at version POINT22, right?
Some bugs are serious. I'm finding that Mythdora will practically do a flawless base install recognizing devices. But then you have to get stuff working, and in that area, I'm still advising people who don't know some linux and don't like tinkering with their computer to give it a pass. And I cringe at upgrading. Run a version until a new version intrigues me into a reinstall. It seemed like it took me a day the first time just to figure out everything I had to configure. Made camera screenshots of all the config pages and the next install took about 1-1/2 hours to get TV up, half for install/half for config.
The bottom line is that MythTV honestly is a hobby project, but it fits my viewing niche.
That said, I'm an "intellectual" with a fairly high IQ last time I checked, yet I still get along with most people. It's just that I don't have very strong friendships with people who are mostly "normal" and I tend to drift away from them.
You got it. You can _fake_ normal long enough to get by now and then. Not unusual. People with high IQs are often more culturally experienced. Multi-class experiences and travel correlate with better employments. I grew up in a backwater and when I get back I sometimes hear about so-and-so's brother/cousin/etc who has money and has traveled the world yet he seems like such a regular guy. Duh. They never stop to think that if you've drunk fermented yak milk in Mongolia, you can chat them up in North Dakota for an hour. It's mostly Rogerian technique and mingling tips, right? Just get them talking about their favorite hunt, sport, car, TV show. "What do you like most?" "What really excites you about that?" Blah-blah. The problem comes when you mention that you're saving up for an O-III galactic filter for your reflector for Xmas and they turn and look at you like you stepped out of the fucking X-Files. Which is the problem with all the "don't you know how to get along with people" advise. Yes, you can be _friendly_ to other people but will they ever be a _friend_ to you? Or are you just too frackin' weird for their boundaries?
I wouldn't say his sample questions are very hard but they could likely catch people with what I call the "hyper monkey grab fruit" syndrome. And there are a lot of them. If a person just _calmly_ steps back for a moment and thinks...
I guess what I've never understood about LTS is that if it's broken on release, it won't be fixed so make sure all your hardware works on install before you commit to using it. I've never gotten CUPS on 8.04 to work with my HP Laserjet through a Hawking print server and I know I'm not alone with CUPS problems. (Where it works fine when I dual-boot the machine to straight Debian and has for years.) Last I followed the thread it was closed because it was "fixed in the next release." I guess that's what LTS means -- upgrade.
Which is to conclude -- Frankly, I don't trust Ubuntu, and when you lose trust....
Exactly. Sounds like a horrible idea. You could "increase production" by pouring raw sewage onto the land too and not worry about the build-up of dangerous metals and organic chemicals. (Are you listening, China?)
Somebody step in and remind us which "inside Microsoft" tell-all book it was where the guy said Gates went through a period where he just couldn't figure out why his programmers were having such a hard time in the lab trying to make the PC a universal computer -- run PC programs _and_ Mac programs on the fly.
I'd go in the basement and look for the book but I'm too comfortable on the sofa with my laptop running Debian with wireless, temp control, etc. etc. working just fine. Not that that takes away any of the glitter of Microsoft's technological amazingness or anything.
And I love how essayists can make history with brief comments:
"[H]e led the campaign to destroy Netscape. In those days Microsoft was still nimble enough that it could pivot quickly and catch up on a rival. Since then the company has become bureaucratic and lumbering."
The good old days when the monopoly was at it's height if that's what he means by "nimble". Any web developers like to comment on how the technological excellence of Explorer has augmented their professional happiness ever since?
Or perhaps just "who passed?" The things grandpa might have socked away.
Given the equipment's era, I have the strongest desire to say, "Have you considered OS/2?"
High-profile maybe. High quality? Maybe not so much.
Local Minneapolis/St. Paul media ran a story about a farming couple who are into organic and renewables out for a lot of thousand because the Iowa company selling Chinese wind crap that broke down went bankrupt.
Maybe that's the problem. Show me a liberal paper in America. Yeah, yeah, right. Even the NYT is a fascist warmongering rag a la Judith Miller's WMD lies. I get more honest reporting on how the wheels of business and government turn from the 1-3 weekly pages of reporting in my local City Pages. Mostly American papers are a circle jerk among local business and the advertising section.
So why should I buy an American paper? For the cherry pie recipes I can't get on the net?
Disgusting. Die, die, for all I care. None too soon. We can use the trees.
I think it helps for me to be older to agree with you. A lot of IT graduated from the Reagan era propaganda schools in which libertarian capitalism does everything right and nothing wrong. "I'm working for the union" is something I expect to hear sung in IT immediately before complete social collapse.
Does that make IT _special_? On the contrary, it makes IT as brainwashed as pink collar workers. The demographic shift from rural independent farmers and small town union workers to non-union office jobs is one of the defining broad strokes of change in the second half of the 20th century. Yes, even before NAFTA. Whether you're talking Lagos, Nigeria, or Detroit and Silicon Valley. I doubt if too many IT people see it that way because they are techies, but I was one of those humanities and social sciences liberal arts grads who could just "fall into {-i 'it'}" in the 80s when anyone who had a knack for a dual-floppy PC was valuable.
No, I'm not that confident, but I'm taking a chance on the 23andme.com database security anyway. Just signed up and the contract does give one pause. They point out that loose talk with your doctor can be dangerous. I don't know how far law will protect a person against medical and employment discrimination in practice but they mention that the law does not protect your ability to get _life_ insurance.
On topic, they routinely test for warfarin sensitivity and Plavix efficacy.
Has it gotten better?
Been a few years, but I understood SQL Server's performance degradation curve with load was poor compared to other DBS's commercial and open source. When I was taking the version 8 classes at our local Oracle center, somebody said, "What about DB2?" and the instructor said, "That's a good system but we're here to talk Oracle." Somebody said, "SQL Server?" and everybody laughed.
Have always preferred PostgreSQL over MySQL myself but Oracle took a swipe back at it as well by releasing XE for department and small business use.
The state has its own bank to offer residents low interest loans for socially useful things like student loans.
But it's basically Reaganomics. The theory goes that education shouldn't be supported because I guess it isn't really a social good and colleges should be run like businesses. So thank Neocon libertarianism for your loan payments. To do a "back in my day" may be annoying but it can also be enlightening. I remember something like $7.50 per undergraduate state college quarter credit. 48 in a typical three quarter year for a cool $360/year tuition. Sure, I was making $1.5/hour on my first summer job hammering together harrow weeder belts on a night shift factory job and that was considered a good high school wage so let's say $1/hour was more typical. Up that to $7.50 today and multiple by $360 and you should be paying something like $2,700/year for tuition at a four-year state college. Thank Reaganomics and "running colleges like a business" for your difference.
I suspect a lot of us on /. could contribute.
How many Illuminati are there again?
I'm _sure_ that will be the first concern for the contractors (of course -- can't have government jobs) who hire people for these "green" jobs. "Spend eight hours a day trampling around Love Canal. It's a fun job -- and green!" Everybody be for it if each job came with government-sponsored health insurance for _unlimited_ payment on cancer treatments?
Reminds me of the commercials for exciting off-world employment opportunities that are faithfully placed in most PK Dick inspired movies.
I don't know that I or the above poster are anti-Lovecraft, but I agree that Lovecraft is "unique." His is not a style I would choose to promote if I were teaching high school students. But neither is James Joyce.
Influences do influence. I was once so impressed by a paragraph-length sentence in a book by a well-known scholar of Immanuel Kant that I ran it through Grammatik and got "Grade 36." Clearly, Kant devoured that man's brain such that he will never be capable of delivering a Toastmaster's speech again. In a like manner, you don't want other students enfolded by the dark, eldrich horror these sci fi students could emanate like a musty shroud if their tender minds are driven mad by style no teenager's brain should fall witness to, now do you?
None of the characters especially captivates me. Torture a few. Kill off a few. It's all the same to me like playing with plastic soldiers. On the bright side, it's an opportunity to do Stargate as Battlestar Galactica.
Seriously, it's been so long ago, I can't begin to recall my first impressions of the original cast, but I see some problems with Universe if the 2-hour premiere didn't make me care about what happens to the characters. Similar to, but considerably worse than, Enterprise.
Guess we need a case to determine whether user response blogs are "advertising" when they are hosted by the retailer. Since FOX got a ruling that its "news" can be lies, I have to think our postmodern courts might swing toward letting them get away with it otherwise.
"No industry is going to fail, aside from the patent troll industry."
You say that like it's a small thing. What _do_ we manufacture in the U.S. these days? Patent trolls have been a growth industry. Cry for the underemployed lawyer, can't you?