Ancient Greeks believed in powerful gods with human emotions that frequently visited them in various disguises and influenced and guided them. But I don't believe the Greeks thought their lives were meaningless because of that.
I think it was a difficult decision but they had no choice. They realized that they only had to choices. To immediately start building cities and recreating their lost civilization or to make a leap of faith and abandon all of the old baggage. The first choice clearly leads to another cycle so they had to go into the wild.
I hear Americans usually take up two sits on an airplane, but THREE? How many times a day exactly do they serve McDonald's super-size meals on the ISS?
Soviet troops routing Germans at Stalingrad and Kursk, then chasing them all the way to Berlin and raising their flag over Reichstag while Hitlers bones smoldered in a shallow grave, won WWII. At the most nuclear weapons helped US minimize their casualties in the battle against an already weakened minor sidekick.
Me and my wife are small business owners, What you said about putting in a lot of time is 100% true. But... somehow it doesn't feel like a burden. I'd hate putting 16 hour days for some random corp or even for Google. But when you are working for yourself, somehow work and "non-work" integrates seamlessly which I think is a good thing because the whole separation of life into compartments - this is work - you do it for money and when you have enough you retire to do "non-work" - that is something enjoyable, something work kept you from all those years, it's a bad thing, it destroys your character.
In theory. But in reality I seriously doubt Sony and PS3 owners will ever see a lot of CELL optimized games they are hoping to. In general a company making a console game would want it to work on both leading consoles, but since XBOX360 is already in the dominant position and has good development tools it makes sense for them to optimize the game for XBOX first and port it to the PS3 later. It would not be rational to invest time into optimizing for the CELL only to end up with code that runs poorly on the XBOX, or god forbid have two development paths. So PS3 will end up with inferior code and slower/poorer graphics which given the relative lack of games for the PS3 would not affect the game sales much.
I'm straight and in a conversation with gay people I would find it hard to measure potential sexual attractiveness of a given man to other men. I honestly don't know what gay men prefer in their partners.
Don't you fuckin' fuck me, Jerry. I want you to get this money to the Dayton Radisson, top level, in 30 minutes, Jerry, we wrap this thing up. Hey, you're there in 30 minutes, Jerry, or I find you, Jerry, and I shoot you and I shoot your fuckin' wife and I shoot all your fuckin' children and I shoot them all in the back of their little fuckin' heads; you got it?
Do I have to explain everything to you? You can start by realizing that you don't have to drive at exactly the speed limit, you know. If you have trouble with overshooting by 1MPH going downhill and getting a ticket for that, then for god sake slow down to 50 beforehand. Problem solved.
I think you understand little of science and scientists. Scientists, first and foremost are people, and very few of, us, scientists included have complete intellectual and moral integrity, living rational lives completely guided by critical thinking with no place for tradition, superstition, irrational fear and so on.
Abdus Salam was a brilliant theoretical physicist, he got a Nobel prize in physics for his work in Electro-Weak theory. But he was also a devout Muslim. He once wrote:
"The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart".
I don't think he was a pseudo-scientist. I'd like to think of this compartmentalization of human psyche as an evolutionary development, the same thing that allows for a brilliant scientist to also be a muslim also allows us to be happy, to smile and enjoy life again after a terrible loss, a tragedy.
Do you know what capitalism is? (before you attempt to answer make sure you understand that trade and even money is not nearly the same as capitalism) Do you really believe that people 50 thousand years ago lived in a capitalist society? Then how can our brains be wired for capitalism? In you opinion is it a recent evolutionary development?
Funny how you just stumbled upon the infamous "spaceship paradox". Should we send a spaceship to distant stars now, knowing that by the time it gets half-way there we will have developed much more advanced technologies for a new spaceship that will pass the older spaceship an get to the destination first? Following the logic it gives us a very convenient excuse to just sit on our asses and never actually accomplish anything.
There is a hacker named Junis in the Kabul area can I hear he can help, got an old Commodore on dial-up through Pakistan that works sometimes. He got an awesome (tho low res) porn collection as well! Good Luck, and say Hi to Junis!
But is 100K enough to retire? Normally by "retire" we mean not having to work ever again and living the rest of your life comfortably on your savings. I'm sure you can buy a really nice house in certain parts of SA. You can do it here in Russia as well. But the PC I want still costs 3000 US dollars here and a new car 20K+ and all the other imported shit costs even more here. So I think not, unless by "retiring" you mean barely scrounging a living.
Yes there are hundreds of distros, but even an experienced Linux user is likely to name only a dozen or so. So the probability of you becoming confused and accidentally installing an obscure distribution is close to null.
Just ask someone who already runs Linux (online or IRL) to recommend you a distro and I guarantee you'll end up with a very short list (4-5 distributions).
Yes, people buy their first computer with an OS, and then keep it for a looong time. Which makes sense, there is no reason why a computer shouldn't last less than 15-20 years. And it does, only MS must make money, so it implements planned obsolescence. What good is a computer with an OS if the OS no longer receives security updates? A 366 MHz computer bought in 2000 can run win2k or trimmed down XP with a cheap RAM upgrade. Only it's impossible to find drivers for many PCI, ISA and SCSI cards common at that time. So they keep running Win98 and become infected and sucked into botnets, and then SPAM you - first world citizens. But the hardware can run a 2.6 based distro that supports their peripherals, proof that it can still cut for a variety of everyday tasks. But like the Stallman's proverbial laser printer, closed source has locked millions of people out of this opportunity.
You have listed some very expensive professional software and I understand that if you do require them to make a living then there is no shame in sticking to Windows for you. However there are so many people who do nothing on their computer but check email, watch youtube and browse social networking sites, I don't know if its 10% or 50% of home users, but I'm pretty sure it's an order of magnitude more than current percentage of Linux home users. For them the most important factor is the responsiveness of the interface, other factors like file copy operations are also very important, think of copying images and videos from SD cards found in cell phones and digital cameras. I believe that Linux can surpass Windows in this areas and woo in a lot of users.
And do you realize that a lot of people, especially those NOT living in the USA don't? And why should I throw away my perfectly good SCSI scanner (to have it processed by some poor 10 y/o kid in one of those electronics garbage cities in China) just because Mustek refuses to provide an XP driver?
I think you're putting to much weight into the whole Theocracy thing. There is a saying in Russian that goes like this - "It says DICKS on the side of the barn but there is actually firewood inside". I'm an atheist and a pretty cynical person and I seriously doubt that The Pope, Osama, or Iranian Ayatollahs actually believe in God, because in order to get to the top of a large organization you have to be a cynical, amoral, power-hungry person, in any country. If anything they are guilty of being nationalistic, but can we blame them for that? They are a large country of 70 million people with a rich history and culture, good educational system and a solid manufacturing, scientific and engineering base and rich in natural resources. They are destined to be a local power. They have a peculiar quasi-democracy setup mixed with some nationalistic rhetoric aimed at the other country striving to be a middle-eastern power. Nothing out of the ordinary here. I think they are pretty rational, yes they sponsor the 2 Hs but that is what every superpower and local power did and still does.
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Ancient Greeks believed in powerful gods with human emotions that frequently visited them in various disguises and influenced and guided them. But I don't believe the Greeks thought their lives were meaningless because of that.
I think it was a difficult decision but they had no choice. They realized that they only had to choices. To immediately start building cities and recreating their lost civilization or to make a leap of faith and abandon all of the old baggage. The first choice clearly leads to another cycle so they had to go into the wild.
I hear Americans usually take up two sits on an airplane, but THREE? How many times a day exactly do they serve McDonald's super-size meals on the ISS?
Have you considered the Soviet troops?
Soviet troops routing Germans at Stalingrad and Kursk, then chasing them all the way to Berlin and raising their flag over Reichstag while Hitlers bones smoldered in a shallow grave, won WWII. At the most nuclear weapons helped US minimize their casualties in the battle against an already weakened minor sidekick.
Me and my wife are small business owners, What you said about putting in a lot of time is 100% true. But... somehow it doesn't feel like a burden. I'd hate putting 16 hour days for some random corp or even for Google. But when you are working for yourself, somehow work and "non-work" integrates seamlessly which I think is a good thing because the whole separation of life into compartments - this is work - you do it for money and when you have enough you retire to do "non-work" - that is something enjoyable, something work kept you from all those years, it's a bad thing, it destroys your character.
In theory. But in reality I seriously doubt Sony and PS3 owners will ever see a lot of CELL optimized games they are hoping to. In general a company making a console game would want it to work on both leading consoles, but since XBOX360 is already in the dominant position and has good development tools it makes sense for them to optimize the game for XBOX first and port it to the PS3 later. It would not be rational to invest time into optimizing for the CELL only to end up with code that runs poorly on the XBOX, or god forbid have two development paths. So PS3 will end up with inferior code and slower/poorer graphics which given the relative lack of games for the PS3 would not affect the game sales much.
Did you even read the page you linked to? The controversy is long over and the result is considered valid.
I'm straight and in a conversation with gay people I would find it hard to measure potential sexual attractiveness of a given man to other men. I honestly don't know what gay men prefer in their partners.
Don't you fuckin' fuck me, Jerry. I want you to get this money to the Dayton Radisson, top level, in 30 minutes, Jerry, we wrap this thing up. Hey, you're there in 30 minutes, Jerry, or I find you, Jerry, and I shoot you and I shoot your fuckin' wife and I shoot all your fuckin' children and I shoot them all in the back of their little fuckin' heads; you got it?
And you forgot about Greenland, which IS melting and the glaciers which ARE melting.
Do I have to explain everything to you? You can start by realizing that you don't have to drive at exactly the speed limit, you know. If you have trouble with overshooting by 1MPH going downhill and getting a ticket for that, then for god sake slow down to 50 beforehand. Problem solved.
Let's suppose I don't want HEALTHCARE, under your plan can I refuse it?
If you can not control the speed of your car methinks you have no business driving. You are an unsafe driver.
I think you understand little of science and scientists. Scientists, first and foremost are people, and very few of, us, scientists included have complete intellectual and moral integrity, living rational lives completely guided by critical thinking with no place for tradition, superstition, irrational fear and so on.
Abdus Salam was a brilliant theoretical physicist, he got a Nobel prize in physics for his work in Electro-Weak theory. But he was also a devout Muslim. He once wrote:
"The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart".
I don't think he was a pseudo-scientist. I'd like to think of this compartmentalization of human psyche as an evolutionary development, the same thing that allows for a brilliant scientist to also be a muslim also allows us to be happy, to smile and enjoy life again after a terrible loss, a tragedy.
Do you know what capitalism is? (before you attempt to answer make sure you understand that trade and even money is not nearly the same as capitalism) Do you really believe that people 50 thousand years ago lived in a capitalist society? Then how can our brains be wired for capitalism? In you opinion is it a recent evolutionary development?
Funny how you just stumbled upon the infamous "spaceship paradox". Should we send a spaceship to distant stars now, knowing that by the time it gets half-way there we will have developed much more advanced technologies for a new spaceship that will pass the older spaceship an get to the destination first? Following the logic it gives us a very convenient excuse to just sit on our asses and never actually accomplish anything.
There is a hacker named Junis in the Kabul area can I hear he can help, got an old Commodore on dial-up through Pakistan that works sometimes. He got an awesome (tho low res) porn collection as well! Good Luck, and say Hi to Junis!
But is 100K enough to retire? Normally by "retire" we mean not having to work ever again and living the rest of your life comfortably on your savings. I'm sure you can buy a really nice house in certain parts of SA. You can do it here in Russia as well. But the PC I want still costs 3000 US dollars here and a new car 20K+ and all the other imported shit costs even more here. So I think not, unless by "retiring" you mean barely scrounging a living.
Yes there are hundreds of distros, but even an experienced Linux user is likely to name only a dozen or so. So the probability of you becoming confused and accidentally installing an obscure distribution is close to null. Just ask someone who already runs Linux (online or IRL) to recommend you a distro and I guarantee you'll end up with a very short list (4-5 distributions).
Yes, people buy their first computer with an OS, and then keep it for a looong time. Which makes sense, there is no reason why a computer shouldn't last less than 15-20 years. And it does, only MS must make money, so it implements planned obsolescence. What good is a computer with an OS if the OS no longer receives security updates? A 366 MHz computer bought in 2000 can run win2k or trimmed down XP with a cheap RAM upgrade. Only it's impossible to find drivers for many PCI, ISA and SCSI cards common at that time. So they keep running Win98 and become infected and sucked into botnets, and then SPAM you - first world citizens. But the hardware can run a 2.6 based distro that supports their peripherals, proof that it can still cut for a variety of everyday tasks. But like the Stallman's proverbial laser printer, closed source has locked millions of people out of this opportunity.
You have listed some very expensive professional software and I understand that if you do require them to make a living then there is no shame in sticking to Windows for you. However there are so many people who do nothing on their computer but check email, watch youtube and browse social networking sites, I don't know if its 10% or 50% of home users, but I'm pretty sure it's an order of magnitude more than current percentage of Linux home users. For them the most important factor is the responsiveness of the interface, other factors like file copy operations are also very important, think of copying images and videos from SD cards found in cell phones and digital cameras. I believe that Linux can surpass Windows in this areas and woo in a lot of users.
And do you realize that a lot of people, especially those NOT living in the USA don't? And why should I throw away my perfectly good SCSI scanner (to have it processed by some poor 10 y/o kid in one of those electronics garbage cities in China) just because Mustek refuses to provide an XP driver?
If you are not cheating on your wife/gf you have nothing to worry about.
I think you're putting to much weight into the whole Theocracy thing. There is a saying in Russian that goes like this - "It says DICKS on the side of the barn but there is actually firewood inside". I'm an atheist and a pretty cynical person and I seriously doubt that The Pope, Osama, or Iranian Ayatollahs actually believe in God, because in order to get to the top of a large organization you have to be a cynical, amoral, power-hungry person, in any country. If anything they are guilty of being nationalistic, but can we blame them for that? They are a large country of 70 million people with a rich history and culture, good educational system and a solid manufacturing, scientific and engineering base and rich in natural resources. They are destined to be a local power. They have a peculiar quasi-democracy setup mixed with some nationalistic rhetoric aimed at the other country striving to be a middle-eastern power. Nothing out of the ordinary here. I think they are pretty rational, yes they sponsor the 2 Hs but that is what every superpower and local power did and still does.