The ancient battle between our rational body of knowledge and our passions is complex. I think, but could be recalling the facts incorrectly, that the original context for theory has to do with a Dionysian orgastic communion with a god. I hold we, as bio-chemical entities, are necessarily junkies. Culture has much to do with the witch's brew we self-generate to propogate our kind and stay safe. Acquiring the habit of critically questioning most, if not all, facets of one's life doesn't make for a fun person. I agree religion has little to do with the degree of intelligence of the practioner. Many of the great minds of our history is almost a list of famous religious personages who, inter alia, furthered learning when the Church of Rome was the only stable institution.
Running's high impact and depending on the road surface can cause alot of damage. Swimming's a great alternative but where that's not available try skipping. Skipping on a shock absorbent mat will save the knees and hips a tremendous amount of punishment. If you can skip 45 minutes after a workout then you're doing *good.
Mandrake is my Linux distro and I do what I can to support it. $60.00 gives you access to a community of users and developers with more experties and, and, well... just more stuff than you can shake a stick at... (man I like mug after mug o' coffee on an empty stomach). Of course that's $60.00 U.S. so as a canajen I gotta mortagage the country for the $$$. How about I just fall the last big fir in the back fourty and send Mandrake a big old log?
The funny part is that punching through your personal walls and knowing the highs from peak conditioning is far, far beyond any drug/food induced high. And really learning to eat the pain and go on gives you something that can't be taken away and is nigh on impossible to lose or break. I'd better stop here, now, I feel dangerously close to recounting past exploits.;)
I can't remember not working out. I think I've tried pretty much every type of regimen but really there isn't a better exercise than walking, especially if you're starting out of condition. For those of us who have always been in condition the question isn't how can anyone workout plus 90 minutes a day but rather how can anyone not workout 90 minutes plus a day. Bulking up and being buff at the top of your game is fun and really punches up self confidence but I'd rather go for streaching and breathing and staying as light as possible. I don't know what it's like to never have been in shape, especially when growing up, and then struggle to get in shape as a young adult, but I do know, like riding bikes and so much else, once you've been there it's just that much easier to find your back. Eat the Pain.
Why not just cut out the middle man (or fish):)? With stem cell research, couldn't one of our multi-generational space cadets just give up an arm or leg for dins and then regen the limb?
By the sea our corpses shall steep in the water
On the hills our corpses shall rot in the grass.
We shall die by the side of our Sovereign
We shall never look back
copied from an old book in the stacks at my alma mater... The similarity in the meter and spirit seem so close to that of W. Churchill's speech I've often wondered if 'Winnie' nicked it.
As a Canadian I sidelined on this issue, but Canada would probably steer a similar course unless deterred. Under a broader horizon, I'd be concerned that such technology could lead to a pincer attack on the rights of consumers to view preferred data. I mean, if they have a lock on one end what would it take to implement a key at the other end?
There doesn't seem to be an effective Cost analysis in terms of the losses actually suffered by the industries. Going to the movies or buying the current top of the chart CD is a different market that has it's own rhyme and reason and captures an impulse buying market that has a saturation point. I doubt the noted industries have lost all that much income espescially in light of how readily the majority of their products depreciate so quickly into the discount bin. I can't help but think the industry is simply fighting bloody tooth and nail over control of a new lucrative industry.
The Good Thing is that an email address with attached legal considerations brings more power and greater legal definition to the community of internet users. In the way ButterFlyWings and StrangeAttractors this could impact Bad Things like Spam. The courts are really just coming up to scratch with the burgeoning legal hassels of the internet. As a Canadian I would think in a country like America with a very proactive judiciary this could ultimately force a more stanardized set of laws perhaps in favour of the enduser. Either way these issues will make their way into the courts and call for more legislation. Ah for the days of the WildWest.
"It's the wailing and gnashing of teeth of/. wennies."
"Wennies have teeth?" "Why the wailing and gnashing?"
"Put on your teflon/asbestos suit first then I'll tell you"
"OK so tell me... hey what's that... it smells like flamebait... Whoa... so that's why the wailing, gnashing stuff."
Microsoft (MSFT) rules. They won. In case you missed it, their operating system drives all of the volume in PCs and is now moving into network servers
a 64-bit processor called the "Hammer." That's the internal code name, [and it has] a remarkable capability in that it is based on a Microsoft-supported instruction set developed by AMD
"Yes... the/. wennies are upset because AMD was their shield, the ageis under which they fought the evil, Redmond beast and if your shield tells you it's over in the OS dept then it's over. But now we have to placate them."
"Why are we gonna placate the/. wennies?"
"We're Karma Whores. It's what we do."
AMD would do well to remember the outcome of MicroSoft's deal with IBM that lead to the development of OS/2.
Yes. I really do have far,far too much time on my hands.
Litigation is in the air like LA smog. Wow maybe some posters and/. will be served next.
'Virtu*mundo'?
It's cool they're starting to feed on one another, and, although, I personally find cannibalism repugnant, in this case I'll hope for mutual annihilation. The econiche of bottomfeeders is an ugly place.
No one taking the Magnetic Pole from us. We went up and buried a looney under it. Now we not only know where it is, we're guaranteed to win every hockey game we play up there.
Definition:Productivity, '2 a : the act or process of producing b : the creation of utility; especially : the making of goods available for use.' from Mariam Webster
Premise: Productivity cannot be measured except by creation of utility. Utility can be defined as a marginal increment of value. Value can be defined as a unit of production. Productivity then is a measure of increased value. Definitions of value have been attempted from Aristotle onward with varying degrees of acceptance. For business purposes value is found in the bottom line and is predicated upon Generally Accepted Accounting Practices.
If we put aside the idea of a programmer being made to be 'highly' productive as a pipe dream then increments of utility can be put forth as the only available measure of productivity. For example I find I'm more likely to be 'highly' productive the more people like me, do what I want them to do and give me what I want.
If we accept increased utility as a definition of productivity then the final product as it is defined becomes the final abitrator of value. This implies a Goal oriented approach to value based upon measurable increments to utility. This suggests any one programmer is capable of productivity only in so far as s/he is capable of adding to utility.
If this simple definition of productivity is looked at from the view point of Open Source an interesting phenomenon arises in terms of the artistry of programmers. The Renaissance and post Renaissance periods produced leaps in Science and the Arts something akin to what we're presently experience. It's been suggested the creation of perspective drawings birthed the industrial revolution by providing schematics that made possible the production of the machinery of industrialization. A critical aspect of the Renaissance and the eras that followed upon it allowed for the free borrowings from the works of others. Those given to 'copyrighting' their material had little recourse, famed lutanists would hide behind curtains so no one could steal their chops. Bach, Shakespeare and others freely borrowed lines and more from their contemporaries and those who came before them. Bringing this rant to a close it remains to postulate whether the Open Source movement, in multipart harmony, provides a more efficient model for productivity? Well doh!
"If a programmer can be highly productive by writing a negative amount of code, how do we measure productivity for software engineers? There is no easy answer to this question..."
The above is the article in a nutshell. Nothing to see here. Go back to work where the true measure of productivity is your paycheck. If money is an unfulfilling measure of your true worth then go out and buy yourself a cool new toy. It works for me.
I started out with Mandrake 6. I liked it and the Mandrake org, so I'll stay with them
The review seemed to be written with the whimsy that is expected of a Linux install if it is to push WindowsXP off the desktop, for example: "Installation on our dual PIII 450 Mhz seemed to go well and I could play a Solitaire game while waiting for the installation to complete in the background" Uhm did you get good cards? What am I supposed to take from this?
No/. wennie moderator it's not offtopic. It quotes directly from the content of the topic and then proceeds to link directly to said content. How the fuck can anyone be so stupid as to moderate it offtopic.
"Brendan Sullivan is an absolute marvel. The issue is whether he will be able to crack Gates and show some of the less-believable aspects," Lande said
Wasn't one of the first American bare fists fighting champions named Sullivan? Any way this promises to be a contest of world calibre. Hopefully this will be televized. I'd pay to witness this while I'd never pay to see Tyson/Lewis.
Wasn't IBM the business model for Bill Gates to emulate? Didn't IBM wage a battle with the DOJ and didn't IBM use every concievable ploy, including submitting a warehouse of hard documents that numbered so high as to be impossible for the DOJ to ever peruse? With OS/2 and MicroChannel Architecture IBM made a concerted effort to capture the PC market but I think they underestimated the size and the savy of the market.
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their religious fever overrode rational thought.
The ancient battle between our rational body of knowledge and our passions is complex. I think, but could be recalling the facts incorrectly, that the original context for theory has to do with a Dionysian orgastic communion with a god. I hold we, as bio-chemical entities, are necessarily junkies. Culture has much to do with the witch's brew we self-generate to propogate our kind and stay safe. Acquiring the habit of critically questioning most, if not all, facets of one's life doesn't make for a fun person. I agree religion has little to do with the degree of intelligence of the practioner. Many of the great minds of our history is almost a list of famous religious personages who, inter alia, furthered learning when the Church of Rome was the only stable institution.
cheersHale-Bopp was awesome and it had the added advantage of culling the low end of the gene pool.
AMC?
*Gremlin, are we talk'n Gremlin here?
Only a mother could love a geek; and only a geek could love a Gremlin
It's a fact live with it. :)
No way around it.
Man that is really, really overweight.:)
Running's high impact and depending on the road surface can cause alot of damage. Swimming's a great alternative but where that's not available try skipping. Skipping on a shock absorbent mat will save the knees and hips a tremendous amount of punishment. If you can skip 45 minutes after a workout then you're doing *good.
Keel Haul the /. Weenies
Mandrake is my Linux distro and I do what I can to support it. $60.00 gives you access to a community of users and developers with more experties and, and, well... just more stuff than you can shake a stick at... (man I like mug after mug o' coffee on an empty stomach). Of course that's $60.00 U.S. so as a canajen I gotta mortagage the country for the $$$. How about I just fall the last big fir in the back fourty and send Mandrake a big old log?
The funny part is that punching through your personal walls and knowing the highs from peak conditioning is far, far beyond any drug/food induced high. And really learning to eat the pain and go on gives you something that can't be taken away and is nigh on impossible to lose or break. I'd better stop here, now, I feel dangerously close to recounting past exploits. ;)
I can't remember not working out. I think I've tried pretty much every type of regimen but really there isn't a better exercise than walking, especially if you're starting out of condition. For those of us who have always been in condition the question isn't how can anyone workout plus 90 minutes a day but rather how can anyone not workout 90 minutes plus a day. Bulking up and being buff at the top of your game is fun and really punches up self confidence but I'd rather go for streaching and breathing and staying as light as possible. I don't know what it's like to never have been in shape, especially when growing up, and then struggle to get in shape as a young adult, but I do know, like riding bikes and so much else, once you've been there it's just that much easier to find your back. Eat the Pain.
I thought it was like a glass flue covering a plant starter kit like I use to start my uhm... ermm.. Java plants, yea that's it... Java plants
Why not just cut out the middle man (or fish):)? With stem cell research, couldn't one of our multi-generational space cadets just give up an arm or leg for dins and then regen the limb?
...tency
On the hills our corpses shall rot in the grass.
We shall die by the side of our Sovereign
We shall never look back
copied from an old book in the stacks at my alma mater... The similarity in the meter and spirit seem so close to that of W. Churchill's speech I've often wondered if 'Winnie' nicked it.
Yama yukaba Kusamusu Kabane
O-kimi no he ni koso shiname
Kaerimi wa seji.
circa 749 A.D.
As a Canadian I sidelined on this issue, but Canada would probably steer a similar course unless deterred. Under a broader horizon, I'd be concerned that such technology could lead to a pincer attack on the rights of consumers to view preferred data. I mean, if they have a lock on one end what would it take to implement a key at the other end?
There doesn't seem to be an effective Cost analysis in terms of the losses actually suffered by the industries. Going to the movies or buying the current top of the chart CD is a different market that has it's own rhyme and reason and captures an impulse buying market that has a saturation point. I doubt the noted industries have lost all that much income espescially in light of how readily the majority of their products depreciate so quickly into the discount bin. I can't help but think the industry is simply fighting bloody tooth and nail over control of a new lucrative industry.
"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go along."
Indiana Jones
The Good Thing is that an email address with attached legal considerations brings more power and greater legal definition to the community of internet users. In the way ButterFlyWings and StrangeAttractors this could impact Bad Things like Spam. The courts are really just coming up to scratch with the burgeoning legal hassels of the internet. As a Canadian I would think in a country like America with a very proactive judiciary this could ultimately force a more stanardized set of laws perhaps in favour of the enduser. Either way these issues will make their way into the courts and call for more legislation. Ah for the days of the WildWest.
"What's that noise?"
"It's the wailing and gnashing of teeth of /. wennies."
"Wennies have teeth?" "Why the wailing and gnashing?"
"Put on your teflon/asbestos suit first then I'll tell you"
"OK so tell me... hey what's that... it smells like flamebait... Whoa... so that's why the wailing, gnashing stuff."
Microsoft (MSFT) rules. They won. In case you missed it, their operating system drives all of the volume in PCs and is now moving into network servers
a 64-bit processor called the "Hammer." That's the internal code name, [and it has] a remarkable capability in that it is based on a Microsoft-supported instruction set developed by AMD
"Yes... the /. wennies are upset because AMD was their shield, the ageis under which they fought the evil, Redmond beast and if your shield tells you it's over in the OS dept then it's over. But now we have to placate them."
"Why are we gonna placate the /. wennies?"
"We're Karma Whores. It's what we do."
AMD would do well to remember the outcome of MicroSoft's deal with IBM that lead to the development of OS/2.
Yes. I really do have far,far too much time on my hands.
Litigation is in the air like LA smog. Wow maybe some posters and /. will be served next.
'Virtu*mundo'?
It's cool they're starting to feed on one another, and, although, I personally find cannibalism repugnant, in this case I'll hope for mutual annihilation. The econiche of bottomfeeders is an ugly place.
No one taking the Magnetic Pole from us. We went up and buried a looney under it. Now we not only know where it is, we're guaranteed to win every hockey game we play up there.
Get the editors off the Crack and into detox... You're frickn scar'n me.
Ice Shelf Collapses
Resident Evil
Child Porn
Killer Asteroids
Definition:Productivity, '2 a : the act or process of producing b : the creation of utility; especially : the making of goods available for use.' from Mariam Webster
Premise: Productivity cannot be measured except by creation of utility. Utility can be defined as a marginal increment of value. Value can be defined as a unit of production. Productivity then is a measure of increased value. Definitions of value have been attempted from Aristotle onward with varying degrees of acceptance. For business purposes value is found in the bottom line and is predicated upon Generally Accepted Accounting Practices.
If we put aside the idea of a programmer being made to be 'highly' productive as a pipe dream then increments of utility can be put forth as the only available measure of productivity. For example I find I'm more likely to be 'highly' productive the more people like me, do what I want them to do and give me what I want.
If we accept increased utility as a definition of productivity then the final product as it is defined becomes the final abitrator of value. This implies a Goal oriented approach to value based upon measurable increments to utility. This suggests any one programmer is capable of productivity only in so far as s/he is capable of adding to utility.
If this simple definition of productivity is looked at from the view point of Open Source an interesting phenomenon arises in terms of the artistry of programmers. The Renaissance and post Renaissance periods produced leaps in Science and the Arts something akin to what we're presently experience. It's been suggested the creation of perspective drawings birthed the industrial revolution by providing schematics that made possible the production of the machinery of industrialization. A critical aspect of the Renaissance and the eras that followed upon it allowed for the free borrowings from the works of others. Those given to 'copyrighting' their material had little recourse, famed lutanists would hide behind curtains so no one could steal their chops. Bach, Shakespeare and others freely borrowed lines and more from their contemporaries and those who came before them. Bringing this rant to a close it remains to postulate whether the Open Source movement, in multipart harmony, provides a more efficient model for productivity? Well doh!
"If a programmer can be highly productive by writing a negative amount of code, how do we measure productivity for software engineers? There is no easy answer to this question..."
The above is the article in a nutshell. Nothing to see here. Go back to work where the true measure of productivity is your paycheck. If money is an unfulfilling measure of your true worth then go out and buy yourself a cool new toy. It works for me.
I started out with Mandrake 6. I liked it and the Mandrake org, so I'll stay with them
The review seemed to be written with the whimsy that is expected of a Linux install if it is to push WindowsXP off the desktop, for example: "Installation on our dual PIII 450 Mhz seemed to go well and I could play a Solitaire game while waiting for the installation to complete in the background" Uhm did you get good cards? What am I supposed to take from this?
No /. wennie moderator it's not offtopic. It quotes directly from the content of the topic and then proceeds to link directly to said content. How the fuck can anyone be so stupid as to moderate it offtopic.
"Brendan Sullivan is an absolute marvel. The issue is whether he will be able to crack Gates and show some of the less-believable aspects," Lande said
Wasn't one of the first American bare fists fighting champions named Sullivan? Any way this promises to be a contest of world calibre. Hopefully this will be televized. I'd pay to witness this while I'd never pay to see Tyson/Lewis.
Wasn't IBM the business model for Bill Gates to emulate? Didn't IBM wage a battle with the DOJ and didn't IBM use every concievable ploy, including submitting a warehouse of hard documents that numbered so high as to be impossible for the DOJ to ever peruse? With OS/2 and MicroChannel Architecture IBM made a concerted effort to capture the PC market but I think they underestimated the size and the savy of the market.