Let me see if I got this straight. Cal tech is small, because MIT lets in just about anyone? And those few who aren't even smart enough to get into MIT go to Cal Tech?
Swear to god, I just got the spinning beach ball for almost 5 minutes, and the rest of the OS was bogged down. It took about 20 seconds to just switch applications.
Granted, I had quite a few apps running, and quite a few tabs open in Safari. I need more RAM. Paging is a bitch.
And Dana, if you read this, sorry I went off on you. =) I'm not normally a hater.
How much acreage would we need to devote to these reservoirs? Would recoverable rainwater be enough? And aren't water tables natural reservoirs in a sense? Why don't we just stop polluting them?
Maybe it's production that is the problem. Less production, less pollution? Are we increasing our material wealth at the cost of our survival? How much of the crap we produce do we really need?
Unfortunately, I can't supply any answers. I don't know how we can stop without some major worldwide catastrophe. I certainly don't trust or support any sort of worldwide revolution. Caucasians/Westerners would be the first against the wall.
I believe in a free market. But sometimes I wonder if we're all making the wrong assumptions.
Although high density does lend itself to problems with pollution and disease.
Oh, totally, dude! That's why I don't build aqueducts and hospitals until later, when I have plenty of Wonders, temples, cathedrals, and coliseums to keep the people happy. In fact, I might not even build hospitals until I get recycling and mass transit, to cut down on the pollution.
OK, segueing into a more serious note, it's not density that is a problem so much as it is limited global resources. The article mentions drought. Water is going to be one of those resources in short supply and high demand later this century. Drinking water. I shit you not. And (getting back to your point about pollution) we're not helping matters with the way we let nasty things seep into the water table. And that's just us. I don't even want to think about what China is doing to its water table.
This shit is too scary to really even think of. I just try to forget and hunker down in my little life and enjoy that the best I can, and hope I'm long gone before the shit really hits the fan.
I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm too sleepy to look it up right now. If it's the same drug, it's been used to help kick heroin. It basically blocks the sites, much as a histamine blocker can block the sites that histamines go to that trigger allergic symptoms.
This is great for the addicts/alcoholics that really do want to quit, but can't put even a few days sober together because the cravings get too bad or the withdrawal symptoms overwhelm them.
I've gotten some good gigs (I work in the movie biz), made a few friends, and got laid a few times.
I just got burnt out on it, though. If it wasn't the annoying "pimped out" pages, it was the buggy MySpace code that was just too frustrating. Also, I started working a lot more (in part due to the aforementioned gigs) and I just didn't have the time to waste. I just stopped logging in and checking people out.
meh. I don't hate it, and I don't think it's all that bad. I just got bored with it. Maybe I'll check back in one of these days, maybe not.
I was really into it for a while up until about a year ago, but then got burnt out and didn't have as much time, so I haven't even logged since that time.
It was great fun, though, and it was very useful for IRL networking. I made some good friends, dated some chicks, and even got some choice gigs (I work in the movie biz).
A lot of things sucked, though. Many many "pimped" user pages, but especially just the MySpace software itself was incredibly crappy. I'm afraid to go back because I'm afraid it will have just gotten worse, since it's gotten even more popular.
I guess it's the same now as it was a year ago, when I was last pretty involved on Myspace. Yeah, they don't seem to have test or development systems. They develop directly on the production boxes. I'd have hoped that they'd have actually gotten their shit together after the big deal with Unca Murdoch.
I'm pretty glad I've not logged in in so long, with all the hoopla over pedophiles, statutory rape, child molestation, etc., on Myspace. I went out with some chicks that were definitely lying about their age. I like 'em young, but I value my freedom.
You fucking dick! (Yes, I know you're female, but still . ..You fucking dick!)
WHY did I have to click on that link? You hosed safari for almost 5 minutes. I felt like I was on Kottke's legendary Mac (Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Text Wrangler is straining to keep up as I type this.)
OK, you're not a dick. You're the famous and awesome Dana, who got OS X running on an LC or an si (I forget exactly). I apologize, I was just blowing off steam. I need more RAM. {sigh}
I think you've hit the nail on the head, but it seems even worse than that. Without MS providing enough information, we don't know which is going to be worse, the patched or the unpatched system, until exhaustive testing is done or until there is catastrophic failure. So, we're basically screwed either way unless we can just halt all operations, in which case we're basically screwed from a business standpoint.
This is the basic gist of the complaint as I understand it. I think you were saying roughly the same thing, but it wasn't quite as clear, (although the example you use makes the seriousness crystal clear).
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Aaron Faby rules. If I needed to pay for webhosting, I'd go with Server Logistics.
Do you consider Gennedy Tartakovsky to be Japanese?
Let me see if I got this straight. Cal tech is small, because MIT lets in just about anyone? And those few who aren't even smart enough to get into MIT go to Cal Tech?
Maybe Slashdot is trying to help the US military's disinformation campaign, twice!!
It's pretty clear that in the US there is a correlation between mental retardation and viewing imported anime.
It worked so well the first time, why not go with it again?
Also, this could be to commemorate Slashdotville's sister city, Dublin.
So, Clinton was President on the day you were born. WTF does that have to do with anything?
Swear to God, Kano, with non sequiturs like that, I'm starting to think you're getting senile.
Timothy "Lord"?
So he had his God-complex before he became a slashdot editor?
Just kidding Timothy. Please don't smite me.
Swear to god, I just got the spinning beach ball for almost 5 minutes, and the rest of the OS was bogged down. It took about 20 seconds to just switch applications.
Granted, I had quite a few apps running, and quite a few tabs open in Safari. I need more RAM. Paging is a bitch.
And Dana, if you read this, sorry I went off on you. =) I'm not normally a hater.
Interesting idea. But.
How much acreage would we need to devote to these reservoirs? Would recoverable rainwater be enough? And aren't water tables natural reservoirs in a sense? Why don't we just stop polluting them?
You're talking about a gargantuan infrastructure.
Here's a scary thought:
Maybe it's production that is the problem. Less production, less pollution? Are we increasing our material wealth at the cost of our survival? How much of the crap we produce do we really need?
Unfortunately, I can't supply any answers. I don't know how we can stop without some major worldwide catastrophe. I certainly don't trust or support any sort of worldwide revolution. Caucasians/Westerners would be the first against the wall.
I believe in a free market. But sometimes I wonder if we're all making the wrong assumptions.
Nor did I say anything about getting rid of SUVs or the Vegas strip. I said:
Try making and powering them yourself, because it'll learn ya something.
I haven't seen any plans for the Gingery Humvee, but man, that would rule! I am in the planning stages of building a backyard foundry, tho.
(I suspect that they are kike EU and Japan, they tend to remain very local)
I'm Sino-Hebrew, you insensitive clod!!
Although high density does lend itself to problems with pollution and disease.
Oh, totally, dude! That's why I don't build aqueducts and hospitals until later, when I have plenty of Wonders, temples, cathedrals, and coliseums to keep the people happy. In fact, I might not even build hospitals until I get recycling and mass transit, to cut down on the pollution.
OK, segueing into a more serious note, it's not density that is a problem so much as it is limited global resources. The article mentions drought. Water is going to be one of those resources in short supply and high demand later this century. Drinking water. I shit you not. And (getting back to your point about pollution) we're not helping matters with the way we let nasty things seep into the water table. And that's just us. I don't even want to think about what China is doing to its water table.
This shit is too scary to really even think of. I just try to forget and hunker down in my little life and enjoy that the best I can, and hope I'm long gone before the shit really hits the fan.
Penis envy?
I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm too sleepy to look it up right now. If it's the same drug, it's been used to help kick heroin. It basically blocks the sites, much as a histamine blocker can block the sites that histamines go to that trigger allergic symptoms.
This is great for the addicts/alcoholics that really do want to quit, but can't put even a few days sober together because the cravings get too bad or the withdrawal symptoms overwhelm them.
I sure as hell can not! Is it another Linkletter movie?
Spoken by someone that's probbably never had a hard day and needed to relax.
Or by someone that is way too tightly wound to ever relax.
He's a doctor and a lawyer. He has a mansion and a yacht. You should stop . . . .
I've gotten some good gigs (I work in the movie biz), made a few friends, and got laid a few times.
I just got burnt out on it, though. If it wasn't the annoying "pimped out" pages, it was the buggy MySpace code that was just too frustrating. Also, I started working a lot more (in part due to the aforementioned gigs) and I just didn't have the time to waste. I just stopped logging in and checking people out.
meh. I don't hate it, and I don't think it's all that bad. I just got bored with it. Maybe I'll check back in one of these days, maybe not.
I was really into it for a while up until about a year ago, but then got burnt out and didn't have as much time, so I haven't even logged since that time.
It was great fun, though, and it was very useful for IRL networking. I made some good friends, dated some chicks, and even got some choice gigs (I work in the movie biz).
A lot of things sucked, though. Many many "pimped" user pages, but especially just the MySpace software itself was incredibly crappy. I'm afraid to go back because I'm afraid it will have just gotten worse, since it's gotten even more popular.
I guess it's the same now as it was a year ago, when I was last pretty involved on Myspace. Yeah, they don't seem to have test or development systems. They develop directly on the production boxes. I'd have hoped that they'd have actually gotten their shit together after the big deal with Unca Murdoch.
I'm pretty glad I've not logged in in so long, with all the hoopla over pedophiles, statutory rape, child molestation, etc., on Myspace. I went out with some chicks that were definitely lying about their age. I like 'em young, but I value my freedom.
You fucking dick! (Yes, I know you're female, but still . . .You fucking dick!)
WHY did I have to click on that link? You hosed safari for almost 5 minutes. I felt like I was on Kottke's legendary Mac (Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Text Wrangler is straining to keep up as I type this.)
OK, you're not a dick. You're the famous and awesome Dana, who got OS X running on an LC or an si (I forget exactly). I apologize, I was just blowing off steam. I need more RAM. {sigh}
[Medium Close Up of Lawyer against a white background. She is wearing a gray hoody. Her eyes are red and she appears stoned.]
Lawyer: I was writing an appellate brief . . .
Lawyer: And it was like beep, beep, beep, beep, beep!
[Lawyer gestures spasctically.]
Lawyer: And then, like, half my case law cites were gone.
[Lawyer shrugs]
Lawyer: And I was like, huh?
Lawyer: It devoured my appellate brief. And it was a really good appellate brief.
Lawyer: Then I had to write it again, but I had to write it fast, so it wasn't as good.
Lawyer: It was kind of a bummer.
Lawyer: I'm Ellen Feiss, and I'm an appellate lawyer.
I think you've hit the nail on the head, but it seems even worse than that. Without MS providing enough information, we don't know which is going to be worse, the patched or the unpatched system, until exhaustive testing is done or until there is catastrophic failure. So, we're basically screwed either way unless we can just halt all operations, in which case we're basically screwed from a business standpoint.
This is the basic gist of the complaint as I understand it. I think you were saying roughly the same thing, but it wasn't quite as clear, (although the example you use makes the seriousness crystal clear).