I but I actually find it very pleasant (provided one has dry clothes to change into at work - in fact changing clothes at work means that one doesn't _need_ to shower, even when cycling on hot days). Dude, believe me, you stink.
please take a shower, your co-workers will thank you, and you will prove that environmentalist is not synonomous with "stinking, bearded, rotten-toothed, sandaled looser"
In sports, practice makes perfect. The more you practice a foul shot, the better you get if your fundamentals are good.
I was modding but I want to reply to this. I love sports and I think about it for a work analogy often. Just like team sports, I see many younger co-workers with excellent fundamentals (equivalent to making shots in practice), but are not good when pressure is on, as in crunch mode in a project. In my opinion, playing anything is better than practicing anything, if you really want to get good at real-time thinking, dealing with the unexpected etc. This is where the school's learning system has absolutely no answers. So I say, do some homework, but get in a team sport and PLAY. Don't just practice. It will be a big help to your career down the road.
I'm a current (pissed off) Verizon customer;- what has me pissed is
1) I got a V3 Razr from verizon with r.01 firmware. I was able bluetooth mp3 ringtones, pictures to my heart's content using my OSX 10.3.8 G4 powerbook. 2) I had battery problems, then took the phone into Verizon; they sold me a new battery, and "upgraded" my firmware to get me better performance from the phone (what they told me at least). 3) I then found out that bluetooth had been disabled via new firmware! 4) I'm now paying per pic, can't do ringtones for myself etc. Needless to say, this was without me knowing what they were doing.
In short, Verizon is totally untrustworthy, and I will leave them ASAP. I was glad to see that Apple was going with another provider, but so many of the comments posted put Cingular in a bad light. I'd be worried that they also would pull some crap to basically force users toward their data xfer plans, of course racking up charges etc.
I can see both sides of this argument. The $100 laptop giveaway does suggest some naivitee in my opinion, but is forward thinking enough that you have to allow for this.
At anyrate, I hope that those who make statements on either side put their money where their mouth is. Give a little, and invest in what you believe in.
How is this a conservative agenda? Every important item in your list is about telling others how to live! A true conservative agenda is that basically people should be as free as possible from government interference.
Government should be minimal. People should be free to pursue life, liberty and happiness - remember that line?
This is the most depressing thing I have read all day.
1) if you are too lazy to think for yourself, join a political party 2) apathy is never good, don't ever try to rationalize it 3) if you have a job, live someplace other than the gutter, and especially if you pay taxes, 30 minutes of reading will get you what you need to know. Then GET OFF YOUR LAZY F**KING ASS AND VOTE!!!
I think what the blogger and the author intend to say is that peoples fears tend to be irrational.
Risk analysis is rational, and is different from the examples he gives.
Back to irrational fears. A great book on this topic is "meaning of anxiety" (r. may, c. 1977). He discussed why fears are irrational, especially in children. We project irrational fears, because they really don't happen to us, so we worry for a while, then stop and get on with life. To express real fear on what is likely to happen to us would cause deep anxiety 24/7, and no one could live like that.
Your post made a good point, one that I don't think all slashdotters are digesting.
Still, those of us like myself have limited means, and we have to pick and choose our charitable causes. Having kids myself, and knowing how there are children in the world who are genuinely suffering, I'm compelled to spend my charitable dollars on them, as best as I can. Thus I give to the likes of Red Cross, Ronald Mcdonald house.
I give away my old macs to friends of the family whose kids could benefit from them.
"That said however, I'm not gonna blow but so much money on what will essentially be an OS experiment for me."
It's all about how much your time is worth to you. $2k really is a lot of money, and I understand that it's too much for some. But like almost anything, quality costs more, and if you can afford better quality, you will spend less time maintaining it, or learning its quirks etc.
I used to be a mac hater years ago. Then I used one. learned that instead of feeling smug because i knew how smart you had to be to really get useful things done on a computer, I could just put that energy into just getting things done period. For most of us, it's not about the computer, it's about design, chemistry, architecture, whatever.
"...a Government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too."
Quote taken from supplied link.
Okay, this is what I mean. a complex certification process is involved. Unfortunately, the word "organic" was chosen to label this process. What is wrong is that this is a word that chemists use to describe molecules containing carbon-carbon bonds.
So, when chemists needs to step in and and help get to the bottom of what is going on scientifically with food additives etc., we have to use nomenclature that has been convoluted by government officials, marketeers, and so on.
I think we agree that "organic" has lost its original meaning (from the chemists point of view), and its current government-issue meaning is not clear as well (your pointing out that pesticides are still allowed etc.)
when I studied chemistry as an undergrad, one of the first thing we learned about was nomenclature, how difficult standards can be etc.
23 years later, I see the same problems over and over.
At issue here is what is meant by "nanotechnology"? TFA sites synthetic foods dyes as an example of first generation nanotech in food; does that mean that all synthetic organic chemistry is nanotechnology? We have been able to alter molecules in a batch process for food since cooking food maybe 100k years ago. So clearly, there is confusion about what is meant by this term.
The other huge nomenclature problem is what is meant by "organic"? I don't want to sound like a pedantic chemist, but very few consumers really understand this term. I get that we as consumers and parents want natural, unaltered, healthy food, but "organic" was really a poor descriptor of what this is about.
FWIW, I do subscribe to the idea that natural products are preferred over a synthetic substitute, but this has NOTHING to do with whether a molecule is organic, produced by nanotechnology or not. It has to due with metabolic pathways which have evolved over time eating naturally ocurring food.
When we substitute molecules that don't fit into natural pathways, we get unpredictable results. For some short term issues, this can be a good thing (like taking ibuprofen for pain), but for long-term dietary issues, this is wholly unknown and probably dangerous.
Anyway, some food for thought coming from a chemist, father, and natural product advocate.
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"illeterate" - man, that is the one word you don't want to misspell in a post ...
please take a shower, your co-workers will thank you, and you will prove that environmentalist is not synonomous with "stinking, bearded, rotten-toothed, sandaled looser"
best
In sports, practice makes perfect. The more you practice a foul shot, the better you get if your fundamentals are good.
I was modding but I want to reply to this. I love sports and I think about it for a work analogy often. Just like team sports, I see many younger co-workers with excellent fundamentals (equivalent to making shots in practice), but are not good when pressure is on, as in crunch mode in a project. In my opinion, playing anything is better than practicing anything, if you really want to get good at real-time thinking, dealing with the unexpected etc. This is where the school's learning system has absolutely no answers. So I say, do some homework, but get in a team sport and PLAY. Don't just practice. It will be a big help to your career down the road."...A steep learning curve means something is easy to learn."
you are unclear on the concept.
That there is even a delta_Y in the graph, well, that's the problem. An intuitive interface means there is little or no delta_y.
no...
it will have some type of voice recognition.
you may count on that.
I'm a current (pissed off) Verizon customer;- what has me pissed is
1) I got a V3 Razr from verizon with r.01 firmware. I was able bluetooth mp3 ringtones, pictures to my heart's content using my OSX 10.3.8 G4 powerbook.
2) I had battery problems, then took the phone into Verizon; they sold me a new battery, and "upgraded" my firmware to get me better performance from the phone (what they told me at least).
3) I then found out that bluetooth had been disabled via new firmware!
4) I'm now paying per pic, can't do ringtones for myself etc. Needless to say, this was without me knowing what they were doing.
In short, Verizon is totally untrustworthy, and I will leave them ASAP. I was glad to see that Apple was going with another provider, but so many of the comments posted put Cingular in a bad light. I'd be worried that they also would pull some crap to basically force users toward their data xfer plans, of course racking up charges etc.
Can they actually be worse than Verizon?
it's not available for the mac.
so, you're wrong in that regard.
"happy people" will complain less about the symptoms they have.
"unhappy people" will complain more.
Fucking obvious.
sheesh.
Al2O3
it most certainly does.
Go to the beach, look carefully at some aluminum stuff that's sat around for a while...
"methane levels are barely rising anymore -- and it is unclear why."
I fart less than I used to...
I can see both sides of this argument. The $100 laptop giveaway does suggest some naivitee in my opinion, but is forward thinking enough that you have to allow for this.
At anyrate, I hope that those who make statements on either side put their money where their mouth is. Give a little, and invest in what you believe in.
Que the one great sig (I'll admit it) I saw on slashdot, something like:
... "
"Jesus was my co-pilot, until we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat Him
How is this a conservative agenda? Every important item in your list is about telling others how to live! A true conservative agenda is that basically people should be as free as possible from government interference.
Government should be minimal. People should be free to pursue life, liberty and happiness - remember that line?
This is the most depressing thing I have read all day.
1) if you are too lazy to think for yourself, join a political party
2) apathy is never good, don't ever try to rationalize it
3) if you have a job, live someplace other than the gutter, and especially if you pay taxes, 30 minutes of reading will get you what you need to know. Then GET OFF YOUR LAZY F**KING ASS AND VOTE!!!
I think what the blogger and the author intend to say is that peoples fears tend to be irrational.
Risk analysis is rational, and is different from the examples he gives.
Back to irrational fears. A great book on this topic is "meaning of anxiety" (r. may, c. 1977). He discussed why fears are irrational, especially in children. We project irrational fears, because they really don't happen to us, so we worry for a while, then stop and get on with life. To express real fear on what is likely to happen to us would cause deep anxiety 24/7, and no one could live like that.
"...type up a paper at home."
Your post made a good point, one that I don't think all slashdotters are digesting.
Still, those of us like myself have limited means, and we have to pick and choose our charitable causes. Having kids myself, and knowing how there are children in the world who are genuinely suffering, I'm compelled to spend my charitable dollars on them, as best as I can. Thus I give to the likes of Red Cross, Ronald Mcdonald house.
I give away my old macs to friends of the family whose kids could benefit from them.
All my music in on my powerbook.
;)
All of my music is on my iPod.
I take my iPod everywhere, can listen to head phones or plug into cassette adapter in car, or headphone jack at friend's house.
This is pretty much what you describe that you want. Apple managed to give it to consumers within the scope of acceptable, semi-transparent DRM.
Why is this so bad? I think it's a very workable comromise and by the way, what's really wrong with getting old
"Part of the reason public schools do better is that they tend to get a better grade of teacher: those who are out to teach instead of to get rich."
a less rosy hypothesis,
Private schools cater to students from families with higher incomes, more stable home situations, and better command of english at home.
The poor, non-native speaking, single-parent familied, etc. are left out as usual.
Guess what? Those kids grow up too. They need jobs too. Society needs to address that end of the spectrum; ingnoring it is not a solution.
"That said however, I'm not gonna blow but so much money on what will essentially be an OS experiment for me."
It's all about how much your time is worth to you. $2k really is a lot of money, and I understand that it's too much for some. But like almost anything, quality costs more, and if you can afford better quality, you will spend less time maintaining it, or learning its quirks etc.
I used to be a mac hater years ago. Then I used one. learned that instead of feeling smug because i knew how smart you had to be to really get useful things done on a computer, I could just put that energy into just getting things done period. For most of us, it's not about the computer, it's about design, chemistry, architecture, whatever.
I predict similar results.
Google can afford the gamble of course. But at this point you can see their basic strategy, buy a brand then exploit it.
"...a Government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too."
Quote taken from supplied link.
Okay, this is what I mean. a complex certification process is involved. Unfortunately, the word "organic" was chosen to label this process. What is wrong is that this is a word that chemists use to describe molecules containing carbon-carbon bonds.
So, when chemists needs to step in and and help get to the bottom of what is going on scientifically with food additives etc., we have to use nomenclature that has been convoluted by government officials, marketeers, and so on.
I think we agree that "organic" has lost its original meaning (from the chemists point of view), and its current government-issue meaning is not clear as well (your pointing out that pesticides are still allowed etc.)
when I studied chemistry as an undergrad, one of the first thing we learned about was nomenclature, how difficult standards can be etc.
23 years later, I see the same problems over and over.
At issue here is what is meant by "nanotechnology"? TFA sites synthetic foods dyes as an example of first generation nanotech in food; does that mean that all synthetic organic chemistry is nanotechnology? We have been able to alter molecules in a batch process for food since cooking food maybe 100k years ago. So clearly, there is confusion about what is meant by this term.
The other huge nomenclature problem is what is meant by "organic"? I don't want to sound like a pedantic chemist, but very few consumers really understand this term. I get that we as consumers and parents want natural, unaltered, healthy food, but "organic" was really a poor descriptor of what this is about.
FWIW, I do subscribe to the idea that natural products are preferred over a synthetic substitute, but this has NOTHING to do with whether a molecule is organic, produced by nanotechnology or not. It has to due with metabolic pathways which have evolved over time eating naturally ocurring food.
When we substitute molecules that don't fit into natural pathways, we get unpredictable results. For some short term issues, this can be a good thing (like taking ibuprofen for pain), but for long-term dietary issues, this is wholly unknown and probably dangerous.
Anyway, some food for thought coming from a chemist, father, and natural product advocate.
dude,
Your problem is not with iPod, Apple, or consumer products that just don't hold up.
Your problem is that you are a huge pussy who can't stand up to your wife.
so sorry.
pilot error:
was trying to mod this +1 funny, mis-clicked and got redundant, sorry 'bout that.
which is why all thinking voters should register as INDEPENDENT.
you've got to earn our vote.
The party sistem is so riddled with flaws... I could go on but I won't waste your time.