Yeah, as I said before, I've gone 4 weeks (or close to) without a computer. Actually, not true. I used it for probably a total of 30 minutes during the 4 weeks, but that is so negligible I don't think it counts.
Still no change in the sleepy feeling in my eyes.
I could take breaks, but that would require discipline. Still it's an idea that may be worth trying.
For years I have been unable to sleep properly. It's been at least 6 years, perhaps since I was 15, maybe younger. I wake up feeling energetic, sort of - able to leap over piles of junk in my room instantly. Yet for the whole day my eyes feel sleepy, like they want to sleep. And my body screams out that it's not ready for bed.
Before you say it, I already know - this sounds pretty much like I'm not getting enough excercise, and spending too much time looking at a monitor. However, even if I spend a month away from a computer, doing active outdoor activities, it still makes no difference. I think it may take longer time.
If it is true that an LCD is better for me, then I will gladly get one to end the way I feel. It's just...something...like a constant gnawing, irritation. I'm able to fall to sleep, providing I go when my body is ready. This is usually around 2-3am. Sometimes (very rarely) it can be as late as 7am before my body is ready to sleep. If I go too early I simply cannot sleep. If I go when I am ready I fall to sleep within, perhaps, 30 minutes.
I don't feel much back pain (if any) though, and my eyes almost never feel strained or saw (right now being the exception, so I'm about to go do something else).
So, is an LCD really going to reduce the effects that this article talks about?
Of course, that ignorantly assumes that earthquakes occur at the same frequency worldwide - and that when one place is quiet for a while then it is going to eventually have a lot of earthquakes to make up the average.
If one piece of software has a track record of many flaws, while another has never had a security breach, then you would be foolish to select the former on the basis that the latter is due for failure.
Instead, you select the one that has proven to be secure, and implement normal procedures for system recovery if a security breach does occur.
I wonder...would it be justified for a pro-life nation to invade and overthrow the ruling regime of another country on the basis that that country is murdering thousands of innocent unborn children?
The only reason I think we can stand abortion is because we don't have to think of them as a person. We don't have to see their face, or hear them scream for help, or think of the life they once had that they have lost. Just like it is easy to ignore the millions starving worldwide while we sit down to our banquets.
You say killing of doctors is wrong, and I mostly agree. But I ask you, if your country legalised the murder of born children, between the ages of 0-3, what would you consider to be the ethical/moral thing to do? Would it be our sacred duty to protest while obeying the government? Or would our duty change to civil disobedience of some sort, and if so what?
And what if a Germany type murdering of Jews was legalised in your country? What would be your duty then before God?
I'm uncertain myself. For some reason we seem to think less action is needed or justified for abortion than would be against those other attrocities I list. Perhaps it is just because the one would involve attacking people we know (pro-abortionists), while the other is the thought of attacking people we don't know (eg WW2 Nazi Germans).
Yeah that does suck. Especially since the Bible teaches that quite often its the scum of the world that become Christians, not the best.
I'm probably what you'd consider a Christian Conservative, but without the sickening pride I hope. Still, what I see is different to everyone else. I'm biased about myself:)
Contrary to FUD coming from young-Earth wackos, carbon dating has absolutely nothing to do with determining ages of dinosaur fossils. Carbon dating cannot be used to measure ages older than 10,000 years or so. It is totally inadequate for determining geological timescales. That's why other radiometric methods are used, such as potassium-argon dating or uranium-lead dating.
And you likewise propogate evolutionist FUD. Carbon dating has everything to do with fossils. Do you know why carbon dating is not used on old fossils? Because, presumably, there should be not enough C14 left to make any reasonable date. So the creationist says "This fossil is dated millions of years old, and should therefore contain no C14 that could produce a relevant date". So the creationist tests this fossil and finds out that it dates a lot younger than 10,000, meaning that it has quite enough C14 to say that it is a young fossil. This, for the creationist, demonstrates clearly that there are MAJOR problems and contradictions in modern day dating techniques. This is why a creationist thinks carbon dating is relevant for fossil dating...it provides a good way of testing whether the original age that a fossil is placed in is accurate, and quite often it isn't.
Likewise, I'm sure you could find plenty examples of such inconsistencies by a google search.
What if Microsoft is doing this as a method of guarunteeing that Palladium infiltrates business?
Some businesses will pay for this security. Microsoft will implement Palladium. Because these businesses have money, people will start to provide them with external Palladium services.
Thus Palladium starts of small amongst the rich and is popularised, until Microsoft's security services are affordable by the masses.
Still, maybe it will do what everyone else suspects - disgruntle the customers.
It seems to me that you have little imagination. Almost like asking, "How is a PC different from a calculator?".
This sounds like it will be easy to implement cheaply in a number of indoor and outdoor environments. The lack of a need for a lake is a huge difference anyway.
This could have potentially thousands of implementations that the Disneyworld solution doesn't have.
I've been installing patches for an organisation since back since maybe June/July, yet it seems that this network has been infiltrated by this virus anyway. Its' a constant uphill battle to maintain patches, and it tires the people out in this organisation..
Needless to say, I have recommended the use of Mozilla over IE and Outlook. A couple of people in the office are testing it, and with this latest virus I doubt that any will mind me removing those Microsoft nightmares and replacing it with something less bug-prone.
Another nail in Microsoft's coffin, even if it is not their fault this time (admin).
Why for? The people who use Gentoo notice a difference. The two applications I immediately noticed a difference with was the Gimp and Evolution both started up quite a lot faster than under Mandrake or whatever distro I used previously. I'm talking like twice as fast start up, or more.
So whether or not there are numbers to back it up, I can vouch that there is a definate speed increase for certain tasks and applications that wasn't there before.
I always love to see how our current civilization derived its knowledge in part or in full from the past. It gives a feeling of connectivity to our past, like we are not an island - but instead part of a much larger history. It also removes national boundaries, and helps me remember that even though we are from different races, we all have a common ancestry.
Much of our current culture and knowledge we owe to ancient Greece - yet ancient Greece was also no island. From whom did they derive their knowledge? The historian Josephus (born around AD30) said that Abraham, father of the Jews, taught the art of astronomy to the Egyptians. What other mysteries await us in history? It magnifies the ignorance of our current day, that thinks we are unique, when in fact all the thoughts and concepts we come up with are merely repeats of something older. Perhaps in a new skin (Eg computers and electricity), but the same concepts.
I think it works the other way. Articles like this can have an influence on the mind of people.
If you say "this is how apache should/could defeat Microsoft's passport" then you place seeds of doubt in the minds of purchasers and implementsers. Say "this is how apache will defeat Microsoft's passport" then purchasers and implementers will feel like this is the new technology to use, and they will be left behind if they don't.
So your choice of words may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm all for the propogation of a superior solution in words that indicate victory is assured - because it increases the chance of success.
If you reveal your uncertainty, then the market will be uncertain and cautious of your solution
As much as a terrible thing that 9/11 was, I can't help but be much more concerned for those 250 people that die each day because of Iraq sanctions, of the millions starving around the world because we rich people are too unwilling to solve it, because of the abusive and dominative policies we western nations place on other countries, and the many more greater evils that we are responsible for.
The terrorist attacks on 9/11 seem to have been a response to many of these problems. They targeted pentagon - a symbol of military power, and the world trade center - a symbol of capitalism.
Revenge seems unjustified to me unless those who were affected can look at themselves first and say "Is there anything that I am guilty of that would make it injust for me to seek revenge?" I think that unless the western nations look at their faults, which are much more grevious than what the terrorists have done, we are even more guilty than they.
We need to look at ourselves and clean ourselves so that we are without excuse. Only then can we justly say "We did you no wrong, and this is how you repay us?" Right now many peoples and countries have the right to complain against western evils, and we are certainly far from being without fault.
Mourn on this day, but don't look past the facts that the problem will not be solved by war - it will only be increased. Attacking Afghanistan has solved nothing, and attacking Iraq will solve nothing also. The solution is with ourselves - recognising and mourning all those evil qualities we all possess, and all those actions we are guilty of. Otherwise how can one murderer say to another "what you did was disgusting and you deserve to die" without saying the same thing to themself? It saddens me that 9/11 could have been used as a catalyst to produce lasting change in people's hearts. Instead, we are now on the road to war with Iraq which seems to be against the wishes of almost every nation, with worldwide warnings of disastrous consequences.
Yes, I think that the destructive capacity of Palladium is enough to require brutal efforts of lobbyists to oppose it.
I'm not suggesting breaking the law of course, but using every single lawful attempt possible to brutaly and ruthlessly prohibit/disable Palladium.
I know that I will totally boycott any Palladium hardware, and make certain that those people I know do not purchase any.
That means that keep people you know informed. Tell them that accepting DRM Palladium hardware today means tomorrow they will be restricted to the websites they can visit, the music they can listen to, and, most importantly, the software they can run.
Microsoft will probably try to sneak Palladium in through the back door - so that the takeover is slow (relatively speaking) and ubiquitous. Before you know it, your cousin, grandma, office all have Palladium enabled hardware and suddenly your software doesn't run.
Why do we insist upon parading Linux around as the "spokesmodel" for the open-source movement? Wouldn't the advancement of open-source efforts be better served and made more visible by combining the efforts of Linux, *BSD, Darwin/OS X, and other open-source O/Ses, and comparing their collective advance against the Evil Empire?
Because enemies may unite against a greater threat, but once the greater threat is eliminated they will turn against each other.
If we did unite, then there would undoubtedly be wars between Linux, *BSD, Darwin/OS X, etc, unless we can truly make software so portable that the underlying OS becomes a matter of choice. On the other hand, we are getting close to that situation now with open source software.
Very true. Our campaigns use the rules, but we are more flexible in our character's abilitities. Eg, in my campaign I have just become a vampire. I play this role for the roleplaying and the story, and will work with the other players out of character so as not to abuse or ruin the game for them.
As all of us mature in our gaming, I see us as enhancing our experience to the point where we play for the story and have a great deal of fun - and because of that maturity will be able to play roles like Vampires that were previously considered too powerful or unbalancing.
The system is not important, but it does help us keep some consistency and 'realism'.
Sounds eerily like the profiling we were discussing here. Just because they are becoming succesful now does not mean they will follow in the path of MS. Nor can we conclude now that they won't follow the path of MS. As far as I can tell we have nothing to base any assumption of future bullying except that they are the most succesful of a number of Linux companies.
If they release their code in GPL, who am I to judge?
It's harder to get someone to switch their favourite IM than it is to get them to switch OS.
At least with an OS we can build compatibility with their favourite applications/protocals, but getting them to switch protocals means that they lose all their friends.
And for some absurd reason people continue using ICQ and MSN messenger in general rather than get a multi-protocal IM application. I don't understand this, it's so much easier having them all in one.
I guess to get people to switch we'll have to wait for AOL and MSN to start new 'services' and 'features' that continue to irritate their 'customers' until the point where they look for alternatives - just like MS is doing with it's license fees at the moment.
Unfortunately a switch like that is not an easy option at the moment. Most of the decisions for the office are decided by their head in England or Scotland. Still, there is some room to breathe - but price is an important issue and they already have office2000 licenses.
I'd need to take any switch carefuly, but it might be worth it, so thanks for the idea.
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Yeah, as I said before, I've gone 4 weeks (or close to) without a computer. Actually, not true. I used it for probably a total of 30 minutes during the 4 weeks, but that is so negligible I don't think it counts.
Still no change in the sleepy feeling in my eyes.
I could take breaks, but that would require discipline. Still it's an idea that may be worth trying.
I've seen a doctor once. The recommendation was excercise. Easier said than done.
:) (though I know that is not a problem for many).
As for getting laid, I am not yet married
For years I have been unable to sleep properly. It's been at least 6 years, perhaps since I was 15, maybe younger. I wake up feeling energetic, sort of - able to leap over piles of junk in my room instantly. Yet for the whole day my eyes feel sleepy, like they want to sleep. And my body screams out that it's not ready for bed.
Before you say it, I already know - this sounds pretty much like I'm not getting enough excercise, and spending too much time looking at a monitor. However, even if I spend a month away from a computer, doing active outdoor activities, it still makes no difference. I think it may take longer time.
If it is true that an LCD is better for me, then I will gladly get one to end the way I feel. It's just...something...like a constant gnawing, irritation. I'm able to fall to sleep, providing I go when my body is ready. This is usually around 2-3am. Sometimes (very rarely) it can be as late as 7am before my body is ready to sleep. If I go too early I simply cannot sleep. If I go when I am ready I fall to sleep within, perhaps, 30 minutes.
I don't feel much back pain (if any) though, and my eyes almost never feel strained or saw (right now being the exception, so I'm about to go do something else).
So, is an LCD really going to reduce the effects that this article talks about?
I'm not sure which Bible you read.
Of course, that ignorantly assumes that earthquakes occur at the same frequency worldwide - and that when one place is quiet for a while then it is going to eventually have a lot of earthquakes to make up the average.
If one piece of software has a track record of many flaws, while another has never had a security breach, then you would be foolish to select the former on the basis that the latter is due for failure.
Instead, you select the one that has proven to be secure, and implement normal procedures for system recovery if a security breach does occur.
You said it well.
I wonder...would it be justified for a pro-life nation to invade and overthrow the ruling regime of another country on the basis that that country is murdering thousands of innocent unborn children?
The only reason I think we can stand abortion is because we don't have to think of them as a person. We don't have to see their face, or hear them scream for help, or think of the life they once had that they have lost. Just like it is easy to ignore the millions starving worldwide while we sit down to our banquets.
You say killing of doctors is wrong, and I mostly agree. But I ask you, if your country legalised the murder of born children, between the ages of 0-3, what would you consider to be the ethical/moral thing to do? Would it be our sacred duty to protest while obeying the government? Or would our duty change to civil disobedience of some sort, and if so what?
And what if a Germany type murdering of Jews was legalised in your country? What would be your duty then before God?
I'm uncertain myself. For some reason we seem to think less action is needed or justified for abortion than would be against those other attrocities I list. Perhaps it is just because the one would involve attacking people we know (pro-abortionists), while the other is the thought of attacking people we don't know (eg WW2 Nazi Germans).
Yeah that does suck. Especially since the Bible teaches that quite often its the scum of the world that become Christians, not the best.
:)
I'm probably what you'd consider a Christian Conservative, but without the sickening pride I hope. Still, what I see is different to everyone else. I'm biased about myself
Oh, shows how much I know :)
I'm disturbed you have a list of Conservative Christians on your freaks list and are so quick to share it.
Care to explain your basis for putting those people on that list? Seems...wrong...to me.
And you likewise propogate evolutionist FUD. Carbon dating has everything to do with fossils. Do you know why carbon dating is not used on old fossils? Because, presumably, there should be not enough C14 left to make any reasonable date. So the creationist says "This fossil is dated millions of years old, and should therefore contain no C14 that could produce a relevant date". So the creationist tests this fossil and finds out that it dates a lot younger than 10,000, meaning that it has quite enough C14 to say that it is a young fossil. This, for the creationist, demonstrates clearly that there are MAJOR problems and contradictions in modern day dating techniques. This is why a creationist thinks carbon dating is relevant for fossil dating...it provides a good way of testing whether the original age that a fossil is placed in is accurate, and quite often it isn't.
Likewise, I'm sure you could find plenty examples of such inconsistencies by a google search.
What if Microsoft is doing this as a method of guarunteeing that Palladium infiltrates business?
Some businesses will pay for this security. Microsoft will implement Palladium. Because these businesses have money, people will start to provide them with external Palladium services.
Thus Palladium starts of small amongst the rich and is popularised, until Microsoft's security services are affordable by the masses.
Still, maybe it will do what everyone else suspects - disgruntle the customers.
It seems to me that you have little imagination. Almost like asking, "How is a PC different from a calculator?".
This sounds like it will be easy to implement cheaply in a number of indoor and outdoor environments. The lack of a need for a lake is a huge difference anyway.
This could have potentially thousands of implementations that the Disneyworld solution doesn't have.
I've been installing patches for an organisation since back since maybe June/July, yet it seems that this network has been infiltrated by this virus anyway. Its' a constant uphill battle to maintain patches, and it tires the people out in this organisation..
Needless to say, I have recommended the use of Mozilla over IE and Outlook. A couple of people in the office are testing it, and with this latest virus I doubt that any will mind me removing those Microsoft nightmares and replacing it with something less bug-prone.
Another nail in Microsoft's coffin, even if it is not their fault this time (admin).
Why for? The people who use Gentoo notice a difference. The two applications I immediately noticed a difference with was the Gimp and Evolution both started up quite a lot faster than under Mandrake or whatever distro I used previously. I'm talking like twice as fast start up, or more.
So whether or not there are numbers to back it up, I can vouch that there is a definate speed increase for certain tasks and applications that wasn't there before.
I always love to see how our current civilization derived its knowledge in part or in full from the past. It gives a feeling of connectivity to our past, like we are not an island - but instead part of a much larger history. It also removes national boundaries, and helps me remember that even though we are from different races, we all have a common ancestry.
Much of our current culture and knowledge we owe to ancient Greece - yet ancient Greece was also no island. From whom did they derive their knowledge? The historian Josephus (born around AD30) said that Abraham, father of the Jews, taught the art of astronomy to the Egyptians. What other mysteries await us in history? It magnifies the ignorance of our current day, that thinks we are unique, when in fact all the thoughts and concepts we come up with are merely repeats of something older. Perhaps in a new skin (Eg computers and electricity), but the same concepts.
I think it works the other way. Articles like this can have an influence on the mind of people.
If you say "this is how apache should/could defeat Microsoft's passport" then you place seeds of doubt in the minds of purchasers and implementsers. Say "this is how apache will defeat Microsoft's passport" then purchasers and implementers will feel like this is the new technology to use, and they will be left behind if they don't.
So your choice of words may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm all for the propogation of a superior solution in words that indicate victory is assured - because it increases the chance of success.
If you reveal your uncertainty, then the market will be uncertain and cautious of your solution
As much as a terrible thing that 9/11 was, I can't help but be much more concerned for those 250 people that die each day because of Iraq sanctions, of the millions starving around the world because we rich people are too unwilling to solve it, because of the abusive and dominative policies we western nations place on other countries, and the many more greater evils that we are responsible for.
The terrorist attacks on 9/11 seem to have been a response to many of these problems. They targeted pentagon - a symbol of military power, and the world trade center - a symbol of capitalism.
Revenge seems unjustified to me unless those who were affected can look at themselves first and say "Is there anything that I am guilty of that would make it injust for me to seek revenge?" I think that unless the western nations look at their faults, which are much more grevious than what the terrorists have done, we are even more guilty than they.
We need to look at ourselves and clean ourselves so that we are without excuse. Only then can we justly say "We did you no wrong, and this is how you repay us?"
Right now many peoples and countries have the right to complain against western evils, and we are certainly far from being without fault.
Mourn on this day, but don't look past the facts that the problem will not be solved by war - it will only be increased. Attacking Afghanistan has solved nothing, and attacking Iraq will solve nothing also.
The solution is with ourselves - recognising and mourning all those evil qualities we all possess, and all those actions we are guilty of. Otherwise how can one murderer say to another "what you did was disgusting and you deserve to die" without saying the same thing to themself?
It saddens me that 9/11 could have been used as a catalyst to produce lasting change in people's hearts. Instead, we are now on the road to war with Iraq which seems to be against the wishes of almost every nation, with worldwide warnings of disastrous consequences.
The solution is at home.
Yes, I think that the destructive capacity of Palladium is enough to require brutal efforts of lobbyists to oppose it. I'm not suggesting breaking the law of course, but using every single lawful attempt possible to brutaly and ruthlessly prohibit/disable Palladium. I know that I will totally boycott any Palladium hardware, and make certain that those people I know do not purchase any. That means that keep people you know informed. Tell them that accepting DRM Palladium hardware today means tomorrow they will be restricted to the websites they can visit, the music they can listen to, and, most importantly, the software they can run. Microsoft will probably try to sneak Palladium in through the back door - so that the takeover is slow (relatively speaking) and ubiquitous. Before you know it, your cousin, grandma, office all have Palladium enabled hardware and suddenly your software doesn't run.
Because enemies may unite against a greater threat, but once the greater threat is eliminated they will turn against each other. If we did unite, then there would undoubtedly be wars between Linux, *BSD, Darwin/OS X, etc, unless we can truly make software so portable that the underlying OS becomes a matter of choice. On the other hand, we are getting close to that situation now with open source software.
Very true. Our campaigns use the rules, but we are more flexible in our character's abilitities. Eg, in my campaign I have just become a vampire. I play this role for the roleplaying and the story, and will work with the other players out of character so as not to abuse or ruin the game for them.
As all of us mature in our gaming, I see us as enhancing our experience to the point where we play for the story and have a great deal of fun - and because of that maturity will be able to play roles like Vampires that were previously considered too powerful or unbalancing.
The system is not important, but it does help us keep some consistency and 'realism'.
I foresee the use of "sleep cannons" in the future, that send out music designed to make the enemy drowsy and lethargic.
Sounds eerily like the profiling we were discussing here. Just because they are becoming succesful now does not mean they will follow in the path of MS. Nor can we conclude now that they won't follow the path of MS. As far as I can tell we have nothing to base any assumption of future bullying except that they are the most succesful of a number of Linux companies.
If they release their code in GPL, who am I to judge?
It's harder to get someone to switch their favourite IM than it is to get them to switch OS.
At least with an OS we can build compatibility with their favourite applications/protocals, but getting them to switch protocals means that they lose all their friends.
And for some absurd reason people continue using ICQ and MSN messenger in general rather than get a multi-protocal IM application. I don't understand this, it's so much easier having them all in one.
I guess to get people to switch we'll have to wait for AOL and MSN to start new 'services' and 'features' that continue to irritate their 'customers' until the point where they look for alternatives - just like MS is doing with it's license fees at the moment.
Unfortunately a switch like that is not an easy option at the moment. Most of the decisions for the office are decided by their head in England or Scotland. Still, there is some room to breathe - but price is an important issue and they already have office2000 licenses.
I'd need to take any switch carefuly, but it might be worth it, so thanks for the idea.
Nope, what is it? Could I use it? The office has a mix of 95 and 98 machines, all running Office 2000 with a Linux server.
I also have bandwidth considerations.
I'd love to hear more about it though.