Picard: LaForge, how’s your status? LaForge: The decreased resistance from the inertial dampeners allowed me to insert the plasma coils into the warp core. We should be able to create a massive phaser burst shortly. Picard: Don’t you mean dampers? Or have you been...ehrm...meeting... Ensign Clancy a bit too much, lately?;)
Protip to people who think China and North Korea are about the same: Do you know where North Koreans flee to (according to someone who helps them flee), because it is so much better? To China! Yes, that’s right. That’s how bad NK is. So bad that China looks like the promised land.
Let’s say it like this: If a SUV and a iPhone are your balls, then this laser is the penis. Just as pointless. Just as much made for bragging. (Smug or retarded. Doesn’t matter.) Just as useful... for compensation.;)
<yoda voice>If treating people like idiots you do, idiots they will become.</yoda voice> I said it already, and I’ll say it again: Let’s pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself. Before it’s too late.
If you buy a laset, it says that “it can burn skin and shit, man”, and you still go and point it at your face, or are careless enought not to take use precautions... then you fuckin’ deserve your Darwin award! ^^ Really. Put away the padding and let them grow up!
It’s funny how TV zombies still think people that are alive would want to watch “American Idol, Lost, or Grey's Anatomy”. And it’s also funny to think that we can’t.
The thing you linked to reminded me of crab mentality: “If I’m too much of a pathetic couch potato zombie to become an active human instead of a passive vegetable, then you also shouldn’t!”
Imagine Slashdot without the ability to comment. Then you know what gives me a bad feeling when watching TV. (Or reading newspapers btw.)
I really consider some humans better than others: Lowest level: Completely passive. (Has no opinions except when it threatens his comfortable state.) Dangerous mid-low level: Active, but nearly completely reactive. (Thinks he has opinions, but actually is more like a parrot. Ofter the opinion voicing is stronger, caused by the insecurity of not having anything to back it up, since it came from others.) Underwhelming mid-high level: Active, independent, but not dominant. (Has a good sense of reality and his own set of values. Knows not only what, but why he has that opinion. Does not follow, and wants to lead. But can’t get people behind him, because he does not radiate the confidence and calmness of a real leader.) High level: Active, independent, a “born” leader. (Ditto as mid-high, but is secure, confident, and used to it. Knows how to handle people and groups.)
And in the evening when it's too dark to work it's a great time to try and learn something.
You mean like that you should not hang your expensive light bulb outside when your’re gone, or it will get stolen?;) $15 for a light bulb is a lot, compared to these kerosene things, which certainly don’t cost more than a dollar.
Uuum, Bosnia was a democratic state before. All that was in-between was a war and separation. Which is to be expected when there are big disagreements in a state. The bigger problems start when it doesn’t happen. Like in the USA right now, where somehow there is a taboo about splitting the thing up, even though there are two completely different and incompatible mindsets in the country.
But I agree that South Korea does pretty nicely. I just hope their traditions don’t get lost.
Also you always have to remember that the USA did never invade countries to save people there. The point was to stay in power over the government there. The cold war was never cold. It was just fought in other countries that both sides tried to gain power over.
I’m not disagreeing with countries trying to keep allies on their side. I’m disagreeing with this requiring people to die. Especially unrelated ones. It’s like beating the crap out of a friend who is rich but doesn’t know it, so he does not get beaten the crap out by someone else. Sure it will stop him. But was it really better for him? Or just for you?
There’s a caveat with that though: Your definition of a healthy government is not theirs. As your values are not theirs. Hierarchies of respect are still very deeply engraved in these people. And I think it’s wrong to judge it as good or bad. It’s just different. Important is if it works. And before all the invasions and shit, it actually worked, as far as I know. In these hierarchies it may look like dictatorship to the outsider, but it’s not. It’s people following their leaders out of respect, even if they disagree. Because when someone is in that respected position, he gets the respect. Period. If you “give” them democracy, they’ll just use it in the same way. That’s why democracy is simply the wrong approach down there.
At least that’s how I understood it. (Correct me if you are actually from down there and know better. It’s a long time since I learned the above.)
It’s like when the first soldiers went there way back in the 70s or even before, and they offered the kids chocolate. They didn’t like it and said it tasted bad. Instead they preferred lightly salted yogurt-based drinks with pieces of cucumber and mint. (Similar to the Turkish “ayran”.)
Learning this, made me stop and listen, to check if maybe I was only being egocentric and maybe my system of good and bad was not as universal as I thought.
severe corruption, wars, and generally speaking, bad times for those citizens.
I’m sorry, but how is this different from the last decades and maybe even centuries in Afghanistan?;) I don’t think anyone down there can still remember good times. It’s really incredibly sad. If Afghanistan were a person, that person would have been the victim of the “Super Adventure Club” (a club of Fritzls), locked in the basement and raped for decades.
It’s a surprise that there are still healthy and normal people down there. We’d probably have gone berserk with a bomb by now.
Exactly. And A simple basic understanding of physics of bitspace should have told you that: There is no such thing as deleting. There is overwriting. Overwriting the link to it in the directory. Or overwriting the actual data.
So if you want something to be gone, write something else in place, and forget about it. Has been my policy for a long time.
Caveat: Watch out for things that keep a change log / history.
No it isn’t. Because as a poster above mentioned, and as we all should know by now, Atom is a power consumption scam and is designed as one. When you look at an Atom mainboard, what you think is the CPU, because of the cooler, is the north bridge. And what you think is the north bridge, because of its smallness, is the Atom CPU. They simply shifted features to the north bridge, so they could trick you into believing the whole system would be more efficient, by giving you small consumption numbers for the CPU. The joke is, that even those numbers are still about 5 times that of a equivalent ARM CPU. Which does not need the large NB.
So the point here is eyewash, and to sell you a delusion. But I did not expect better from the convicted criminal that Intel is. (Look up the lawsuits yourself, in case you lived in a cave and missed the/. articles. [Especially the ones around anticompetitive behavior. Specifically against AMD when the Athlon came out. I personally suffered from this.])
That’s also why I ditched everything that tries to tag files without actually using the file system to do it. Including Amarok and Nepomuk. But especially Amarok.
Modern file systems have soft and hard links! Which make your tree into a graph, and allow you to put files in multiple directories. Just like with tags. Use ’em!
Right now I’m moving to a full ontology in a graph as my choice of main data structure for the “file system”. It’s such a obvious choice that I can only explain why it isn’t the standard, with people dumbing down the thing until it becomes worse again. But those KISS people would even make that into a table. And then into a list. And if there were something even simpler and even worse, they’d do that too.
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Picard: LaForge, how’s your status? ;)
LaForge: The decreased resistance from the inertial dampeners allowed me to insert the plasma coils into the warp core. We should be able to create a massive phaser burst shortly.
Picard: Don’t you mean dampers? Or have you been...ehrm...meeting... Ensign Clancy a bit too much, lately?
Protip to people who think China and North Korea are about the same:
Do you know where North Koreans flee to (according to someone who helps them flee), because it is so much better?
To China!
Yes, that’s right. That’s how bad NK is. So bad that China looks like the promised land.
Let’s say it like this: If a SUV and a iPhone are your balls, then this laser is the penis. Just as pointless. Just as much made for bragging. (Smug or retarded. Doesn’t matter.) Just as useful... for compensation. ;)
<yoda voice>If treating people like idiots you do, idiots they will become.</yoda voice>
I said it already, and I’ll say it again:
Let’s pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself. Before it’s too late.
If you buy a laset, it says that “it can burn skin and shit, man”, and you still go and point it at your face, or are careless enought not to take use precautions... then you fuckin’ deserve your Darwin award! ^^
Really. Put away the padding and let them grow up!
Pussy! You call that a laser?
THIS is a laser!
I would have said:
The thing that caught my eye was...
FIRE!
Also, bear arms aren’t such a good idea. Cheap polyester... burns like tinder.
It’s funny how TV zombies still think people that are alive would want to watch “American Idol, Lost, or Grey's Anatomy”. And it’s also funny to think that we can’t.
The thing you linked to reminded me of crab mentality: “If I’m too much of a pathetic couch potato zombie to become an active human instead of a passive vegetable, then you also shouldn’t!”
Imagine Slashdot without the ability to comment. Then you know what gives me a bad feeling when watching TV. (Or reading newspapers btw.)
I really consider some humans better than others:
Lowest level: Completely passive. (Has no opinions except when it threatens his comfortable state.)
Dangerous mid-low level: Active, but nearly completely reactive. (Thinks he has opinions, but actually is more like a parrot. Ofter the opinion voicing is stronger, caused by the insecurity of not having anything to back it up, since it came from others.)
Underwhelming mid-high level: Active, independent, but not dominant. (Has a good sense of reality and his own set of values. Knows not only what, but why he has that opinion. Does not follow, and wants to lead. But can’t get people behind him, because he does not radiate the confidence and calmness of a real leader.)
High level: Active, independent, a “born” leader. (Ditto as mid-high, but is secure, confident, and used to it. Knows how to handle people and groups.)
P.S.: Einstein wasn’t a arrogant prick who compares himself to people like Einstein. ;)
Let’s bet they are only a third as bright too?
And in the evening when it's too dark to work it's a great time to try and learn something.
You mean like that you should not hang your expensive light bulb outside when your’re gone, or it will get stolen? ;)
$15 for a light bulb is a lot, compared to these kerosene things, which certainly don’t cost more than a dollar.
Uuum, Bosnia was a democratic state before. All that was in-between was a war and separation. Which is to be expected when there are big disagreements in a state.
The bigger problems start when it doesn’t happen. Like in the USA right now, where somehow there is a taboo about splitting the thing up, even though there are two completely different and incompatible mindsets in the country.
But I agree that South Korea does pretty nicely. I just hope their traditions don’t get lost.
Also you always have to remember that the USA did never invade countries to save people there. The point was to stay in power over the government there. The cold war was never cold. It was just fought in other countries that both sides tried to gain power over.
I’m not disagreeing with countries trying to keep allies on their side. I’m disagreeing with this requiring people to die. Especially unrelated ones. It’s like beating the crap out of a friend who is rich but doesn’t know it, so he does not get beaten the crap out by someone else. Sure it will stop him. But was it really better for him? Or just for you?
There’s a caveat with that though: Your definition of a healthy government is not theirs. As your values are not theirs.
Hierarchies of respect are still very deeply engraved in these people. And I think it’s wrong to judge it as good or bad. It’s just different. Important is if it works.
And before all the invasions and shit, it actually worked, as far as I know.
In these hierarchies it may look like dictatorship to the outsider, but it’s not. It’s people following their leaders out of respect, even if they disagree. Because when someone is in that respected position, he gets the respect. Period.
If you “give” them democracy, they’ll just use it in the same way.
That’s why democracy is simply the wrong approach down there.
At least that’s how I understood it. (Correct me if you are actually from down there and know better. It’s a long time since I learned the above.)
It’s like when the first soldiers went there way back in the 70s or even before, and they offered the kids chocolate. They didn’t like it and said it tasted bad.
Instead they preferred lightly salted yogurt-based drinks with pieces of cucumber and mint. (Similar to the Turkish “ayran”.)
Learning this, made me stop and listen, to check if maybe I was only being egocentric and maybe my system of good and bad was not as universal as I thought.
So what made you go from a porn star to a basement dweller?
severe corruption, wars, and generally speaking, bad times for those citizens.
I’m sorry, but how is this different from the last decades and maybe even centuries in Afghanistan? ;)
I don’t think anyone down there can still remember good times.
It’s really incredibly sad.
If Afghanistan were a person, that person would have been the victim of the “Super Adventure Club” (a club of Fritzls), locked in the basement and raped for decades.
It’s a surprise that there are still healthy and normal people down there. We’d probably have gone berserk with a bomb by now.
What do you mean, back in the ’90s??
*scratches balls in a comically overexaggerated way, while making a fitting grimace*
Exactly. And A simple basic understanding of physics of bitspace should have told you that:
There is no such thing as deleting. There is overwriting. Overwriting the link to it in the directory. Or overwriting the actual data.
So if you want something to be gone, write something else in place, and forget about it.
Has been my policy for a long time.
Caveat: Watch out for things that keep a change log / history.
Huh? There are ads on the net?
What are ads again?
— An AdBlock Plus user.
No it isn’t. Because as a poster above mentioned, and as we all should know by now, Atom is a power consumption scam and is designed as one.
When you look at an Atom mainboard, what you think is the CPU, because of the cooler, is the north bridge. And what you think is the north bridge, because of its smallness, is the Atom CPU.
They simply shifted features to the north bridge, so they could trick you into believing the whole system would be more efficient, by giving you small consumption numbers for the CPU.
The joke is, that even those numbers are still about 5 times that of a equivalent ARM CPU. Which does not need the large NB.
So the point here is eyewash, and to sell you a delusion. /. articles. [Especially the ones around anticompetitive behavior. Specifically against AMD when the Athlon came out. I personally suffered from this.])
But I did not expect better from the convicted criminal that Intel is. (Look up the lawsuits yourself, in case you lived in a cave and missed the
8kW for a normal rack is a LOT! ;)
The ones I know consume one bra, a bag of bird seed, and one to two men a week.
I want my server out of 512 actual atoms! *waaaahhhh*
P.S.: I bet a ARM-based server would beat the crap out of that (TFA) thing on the price/performance and price/energy scales
That’s also why I ditched everything that tries to tag files without actually using the file system to do it.
Including Amarok and Nepomuk. But especially Amarok.
Modern file systems have soft and hard links! Which make your tree into a graph, and allow you to put files in multiple directories. Just like with tags.
Use ’em!
Right now I’m moving to a full ontology in a graph as my choice of main data structure for the “file system”. It’s such a obvious choice that I can only explain why it isn’t the standard, with people dumbing down the thing until it becomes worse again. But those KISS people would even make that into a table. And then into a list. And if there were something even simpler and even worse, they’d do that too.
What? Badtimes is my Ex??
No, you’re not. :)
We were promised smart speech interfaces all our lives, so I better damn can at least act as if.
Oh, and a tiny script will allow you to let it answer “You’re welcome!”. ;)
and haven't had a single virus yet that was detected, even with all the stupid browsing that gets done by users.
There, fixed that for ya. ...considering that the detection rates of that thing are a complete joke.