Dude, I've been homeless. I'm actually a bit worried that I might be again within the span of a few months. And having been there, I'm giving serious consideration to suicide if that becomes a certainty. And even I think you need to lighten up. The solutions to world hunger, saving the sick and dying, etc, just aren't there. And throwing money at that particular problem isn't going to do anything. Throwing money at not having a monolith on the moon however, might solve that problem. When I had money I used much of it to just buy food for various homeless people around town, or if I had more to at least try to provide what I could to get them back on their feet. Sometimes it went well, sometimes not, and most of the time I have no idea what the end effect was. But even when I was doing that, I'd have chipped in a bit to this kind of thing. People who live and breathe charity, who let it dominate them, tend to become hollow shells of a person. Keeping yourself going is itself a charity as well, and maintaining a sense of humor is important to everyone.
Yep, I'm a long time linux fan. Switched to debian when beos died, and then to ubuntu. And every time I tried my hand at windows again in the hopes of getting back into pc gaming, I was reminded why I left. Until last month. Tried windows 7 and instantly tossed more partition space at it as a keeper. It's a bit of an odd thing to say, but windows is finally ready for the desktop as far as I'm concerned. I still prefer linux, the package management is something I wouldn't want to give up. But I'll hand it to microsoft, windows 7 seems pretty solid.
It's unfortunate, given what a massive tool Paul is. But in general I think it's a safe assumption that his writings are probably paint a more accurate picture of the teachings of Jesus than the gospels. He at least was a contemporary, while the gospel writers were just some random guys who tossed on famous names as self promotion.
Android apps funded by ads? I've known people who tried to do that, but saying it as a fact contradicts what I've heard. Every dev I know who's trying going with an ad support model with android has gotten pretty much nothing, even on very popular programs. People don't click ads on phones.
It's there for you and me. What seems simple and intuitive for us often isn't for the average person though. I've lived with three people since I first tossed XBMC onto an xbox and went to just streaming. Of those, one person could use it with a cheat sheet I wrote out. And two others just refused to even try and would instead just find me to get their show playing.
Eh, it's always a really bad idea to draw too many conclusions from non-experimental data. It's not even close to uncommon for people to look at populations, notice a nutritional difference, and attribute it to a different diet. Then it turns out that the isolated breeding population wound up with a genetic quirk that your average person in western cultures doesn't. Hell, even situations where the food did matter, but it only mattered, again, because it was interacting with genetic elements that aren't present in 99.9% of humans on earth.
Probably genetics. There's really not a huge amount we can do with the aging process. Balding in particular, barring pharmaceutical intervention, is going to happen like clockwork.
On one hand, I agree. On the other, there's a legion of mac users who'll insist that they're still using 100% apple when they dual boot into windows to play games.
Seriously. I love reddit, love it. But really the only way to use it as a bookmarking service would be to first locate existing submissions of the site you're looking at and then use the save function. Which would be time consuming even if reddit's search function wasn't notorious for being somewhat lackluster.
I recently moved, and for whatever reason it was into a very android heavy area. That same thought about linux occurred to me almost instantly. Linux being a popular operating system for the general public went from being a joke, to being normal. And all without many of us who joke about it even noticing it'd happened.
Man, if I saw people building cubicles out of books and random objects I'd go full out and make a fort. Complete with a blanket roof, and sign offering advice on who may or may not enter. Ten to one people unfamiliar with the place would start going to me under the assumption that I was the boss, rather than the chump in the office. Because it's quite obvious that fort>office.
At this point, I seriously doubt if people stuck in cubicles too long even realize how miserable it makes them. It's been a fair amount of years since I was in one. And most of that was telecommuting from either home, or a wide variety of parks or other awesome wide open spaces. But part of that was also spent homeless. And in retrospect, if I had to make a choice of going back to a cubicle or being homeless again...I'm really not quite sure which I'd choose. People are raised in cramped classrooms, often in environments where they can't actually experience the outdoors as a kid, then funneled into even more developed environments to be packed in together, only to be funneled out into cubicles. People don't tend to consciously miss the freedoms they never had. They just wind up going a bit more insane every year, knowing that there's something wrong they can't figure out, while buying more and more things in an effort to find the item that'll finally scratch that itch.
Hell, if the present situation is anything close to the future people will be inside the flying cars while complaining that nobody has ever invented a flying car. I mean fuck, they've essentially been around for quite some time now. It's just that, it turns out, people don't actually want them that much.
Meh. That in itself is just projection of subjective human values onto a universe that doesn't share them. Good and bad only exist in the human mind. To the universe, there's no difference between earth as it is, say mercury, and an earth where we'd killed all other life. Even aside from the nature of evolution. Our ancestor species, if anything, can be assumed to be far bigger dicks than we could aspire to be in terms of how we judge the worth of other life. In all probability we're just a stepping stone to something else. Which might well be better, at least by our own morality.
It gives money to the creators, and most importantly to me it offers at least a small chance that I get to vote for a tv show I like to stay on the air.
It really is an awesome combination. Personally, I prefer boxee over xbmc. But I have that all on an old netbook using an external drive, and it's been a terrific media center. And boxee is a surprisingly good frontend for games and emulators as well.
Yep, travel is the big one. I used to do it constantly, and battery life was my god. Because when you're stuck sitting in one place for long enough to drain a laptop, you're going to get damn bored with nothing to do.
Well said. It's why I really prefer shows like being human. You only get a handful of episodes, with no filler. No shitty boxing match episodes, just pure plot development from start to finish. When a show goes quantity over quality, it winds up washing out the chunks of quality in the attempt.
Moonlight seems to be a solution in search of a problem. It works great with aspects of silverlight nobody uses. And the only thing lacking in it is the ability to play the drm video of the few siliverlight using sites anyone actually cares about.
Exactly. Historically, things like this geocities backup are very important. We don't usually get such elaborate records from the average citizens. We'll know about the big events of the past and what it meant to the kings and presidents of the world. But typically not so much about what the average guy just wanting to look out for his family thought of it. Even more, it's reactions to things that we might not even recognize as having any importance yet. And which, as a result, we wouldn't bother to save. But which the people of five hundred years in the future recognized as being a critical point of history.
It better not be shut down! I mean with limewire gone, what am I going to populate the new android port of winamp with! My nostalgia must be properly formatted!
I think I'd be annoyed by this. I prefer ebooks for the most part. To the point where I'll often simply pass on reading a book if there's no digital version available. But only if it's a work of fiction. For something that's going to be used as study material, I really can't imagine using them at this point. Ebook readers, whether stand alone units on or a computer, are great for going one page forward or one page back. But just terrible for the kind of rapid skimming and flipping that I usually do with textbooks.
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Dude, I've been homeless. I'm actually a bit worried that I might be again within the span of a few months. And having been there, I'm giving serious consideration to suicide if that becomes a certainty. And even I think you need to lighten up. The solutions to world hunger, saving the sick and dying, etc, just aren't there. And throwing money at that particular problem isn't going to do anything. Throwing money at not having a monolith on the moon however, might solve that problem. When I had money I used much of it to just buy food for various homeless people around town, or if I had more to at least try to provide what I could to get them back on their feet. Sometimes it went well, sometimes not, and most of the time I have no idea what the end effect was. But even when I was doing that, I'd have chipped in a bit to this kind of thing. People who live and breathe charity, who let it dominate them, tend to become hollow shells of a person. Keeping yourself going is itself a charity as well, and maintaining a sense of humor is important to everyone.
Yep, I'm a long time linux fan. Switched to debian when beos died, and then to ubuntu. And every time I tried my hand at windows again in the hopes of getting back into pc gaming, I was reminded why I left. Until last month. Tried windows 7 and instantly tossed more partition space at it as a keeper. It's a bit of an odd thing to say, but windows is finally ready for the desktop as far as I'm concerned. I still prefer linux, the package management is something I wouldn't want to give up. But I'll hand it to microsoft, windows 7 seems pretty solid.
It's unfortunate, given what a massive tool Paul is. But in general I think it's a safe assumption that his writings are probably paint a more accurate picture of the teachings of Jesus than the gospels. He at least was a contemporary, while the gospel writers were just some random guys who tossed on famous names as self promotion.
Emulators. I love the old consoles, but there's really no reason to keep their bulky forms around when you can just emulate it on a newer one.
Android apps funded by ads? I've known people who tried to do that, but saying it as a fact contradicts what I've heard. Every dev I know who's trying going with an ad support model with android has gotten pretty much nothing, even on very popular programs. People don't click ads on phones.
It's there for you and me. What seems simple and intuitive for us often isn't for the average person though. I've lived with three people since I first tossed XBMC onto an xbox and went to just streaming. Of those, one person could use it with a cheat sheet I wrote out. And two others just refused to even try and would instead just find me to get their show playing.
Eh, it's always a really bad idea to draw too many conclusions from non-experimental data. It's not even close to uncommon for people to look at populations, notice a nutritional difference, and attribute it to a different diet. Then it turns out that the isolated breeding population wound up with a genetic quirk that your average person in western cultures doesn't. Hell, even situations where the food did matter, but it only mattered, again, because it was interacting with genetic elements that aren't present in 99.9% of humans on earth.
Probably genetics. There's really not a huge amount we can do with the aging process. Balding in particular, barring pharmaceutical intervention, is going to happen like clockwork.
On one hand, I agree. On the other, there's a legion of mac users who'll insist that they're still using 100% apple when they dual boot into windows to play games.
Seriously. I love reddit, love it. But really the only way to use it as a bookmarking service would be to first locate existing submissions of the site you're looking at and then use the save function. Which would be time consuming even if reddit's search function wasn't notorious for being somewhat lackluster.
I recently moved, and for whatever reason it was into a very android heavy area. That same thought about linux occurred to me almost instantly. Linux being a popular operating system for the general public went from being a joke, to being normal. And all without many of us who joke about it even noticing it'd happened.
tl;dr: We got old, yo.
Man, if I saw people building cubicles out of books and random objects I'd go full out and make a fort. Complete with a blanket roof, and sign offering advice on who may or may not enter. Ten to one people unfamiliar with the place would start going to me under the assumption that I was the boss, rather than the chump in the office. Because it's quite obvious that fort>office.
At this point, I seriously doubt if people stuck in cubicles too long even realize how miserable it makes them. It's been a fair amount of years since I was in one. And most of that was telecommuting from either home, or a wide variety of parks or other awesome wide open spaces. But part of that was also spent homeless. And in retrospect, if I had to make a choice of going back to a cubicle or being homeless again...I'm really not quite sure which I'd choose. People are raised in cramped classrooms, often in environments where they can't actually experience the outdoors as a kid, then funneled into even more developed environments to be packed in together, only to be funneled out into cubicles. People don't tend to consciously miss the freedoms they never had. They just wind up going a bit more insane every year, knowing that there's something wrong they can't figure out, while buying more and more things in an effort to find the item that'll finally scratch that itch.
It's the 90s again? Oh shit! That explains why everything seemed so Xtreme when I woke up today. TIME TO SET CAPS LOCK TO 90S MODE!
Hell, if the present situation is anything close to the future people will be inside the flying cars while complaining that nobody has ever invented a flying car. I mean fuck, they've essentially been around for quite some time now. It's just that, it turns out, people don't actually want them that much.
Meh. That in itself is just projection of subjective human values onto a universe that doesn't share them. Good and bad only exist in the human mind. To the universe, there's no difference between earth as it is, say mercury, and an earth where we'd killed all other life. Even aside from the nature of evolution. Our ancestor species, if anything, can be assumed to be far bigger dicks than we could aspire to be in terms of how we judge the worth of other life. In all probability we're just a stepping stone to something else. Which might well be better, at least by our own morality.
Have you tried grooveshark? I think it's only about $3 a month, and they have clients at least for the iphone and android.
It gives money to the creators, and most importantly to me it offers at least a small chance that I get to vote for a tv show I like to stay on the air.
It really is an awesome combination. Personally, I prefer boxee over xbmc. But I have that all on an old netbook using an external drive, and it's been a terrific media center. And boxee is a surprisingly good frontend for games and emulators as well.
Yep, travel is the big one. I used to do it constantly, and battery life was my god. Because when you're stuck sitting in one place for long enough to drain a laptop, you're going to get damn bored with nothing to do.
Well said. It's why I really prefer shows like being human. You only get a handful of episodes, with no filler. No shitty boxing match episodes, just pure plot development from start to finish. When a show goes quantity over quality, it winds up washing out the chunks of quality in the attempt.
Moonlight seems to be a solution in search of a problem. It works great with aspects of silverlight nobody uses. And the only thing lacking in it is the ability to play the drm video of the few siliverlight using sites anyone actually cares about.
Exactly. Historically, things like this geocities backup are very important. We don't usually get such elaborate records from the average citizens. We'll know about the big events of the past and what it meant to the kings and presidents of the world. But typically not so much about what the average guy just wanting to look out for his family thought of it. Even more, it's reactions to things that we might not even recognize as having any importance yet. And which, as a result, we wouldn't bother to save. But which the people of five hundred years in the future recognized as being a critical point of history.
It better not be shut down! I mean with limewire gone, what am I going to populate the new android port of winamp with! My nostalgia must be properly formatted!
I think I'd be annoyed by this. I prefer ebooks for the most part. To the point where I'll often simply pass on reading a book if there's no digital version available. But only if it's a work of fiction. For something that's going to be used as study material, I really can't imagine using them at this point. Ebook readers, whether stand alone units on or a computer, are great for going one page forward or one page back. But just terrible for the kind of rapid skimming and flipping that I usually do with textbooks.