My dad is a nurse. He works in psychiatry, and they occasionally get violent patients who try to hurt themselves or the staff members. At those times, the female nurses are very glad to have a few men around to restrain them. My dad's gotten some pretty nasty cuts and scratches from crazy patients.
If it's true, and if global warming isn't really our fault, that would be sort of a relief, since we wouldn't have to clean up our act. Of course, it would also mean that Mars is equally screwed. So much for moving there. I guess I'll just stop worrying about it and go back to playing video games.
My parents never got me a computer. In fact, until my junior year of high school, they tried to discourage my interest in computers. Fear of the unknown, I guess. Anyway, I already had a hobby of trash-picking, and sometime around 1999 I began seeing computers in the trash. I learned much more from dragging old computers home and fixing, disassembling, and rebuilding them than I ever would have learned with a shiny new laptop my parents bought for me.
I think there is definitely some kind of connection between an interest in computers and an interest in music. Many of the CS students I know play some kind of instrument. I play the organ, and I've even tried building a pipe organ. Several hundred years ago, pipe organs were just about the most complex piece of machinery there was, and I'm sure it had to have been the geeky types that were drawn to the art and science of organ building.
Digital instruments cannot sound like the real thing, and they never will. As an organist, it annoys me to no end to hear companies like Allen and Rodgers claim that their "instruments" sound as good as real pipes. I like the analogy that using an electronic organ in church instead of a pipe organ is like replacing your pastor with a recorded sermon.
I can just see some former employers of mine freaking out at the idea of contributing to Free Software. "What! You mean, you just gave away all that intellectual property!? And you expect me to hire you?" Probably better not to mention it.
I recently aquired one of the old Macs (PowerPC 5200/75 LC) my junior high school had, and they had At Ease installed. I aways hated that thing, and now that it's mine, I'd love to get rid of it. Anyone know how you can do that without the admin password? I've given up on guessing the password.
I'm 21 and I remember using rotary phones at my grandparents' house up until about two or three years ago. They were wired into the wall and were actually the property of the phone company, so when my parents sold the house, they had to give the phones back. I'm sure they were promptly destroyed, a real shame since they worked perfectly and probably would have out-lived me.
And realistically, most Internet users have no need for broadband. You don't need tons of bandwidth to do email, instant messaging, and read your friends' blogs. Most people probably don't even know that it's possible to do things that require more bandwidth, like downloading movies or operating systems or running a huge Freenet node.
I've been running FreeBSD on a couple servers for a while, and with this latest release, I've been thinking about trying it on a desktop. The particular computer I have in mind is currently running Slackware 10. I have a few questions for those of you using FreeBSD on a desktop system:
Why do you prefer it over other Unix-like OS's? Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio? Have you had difficulty finding applications that will run on it? In general, will software written for Linux compile and run on FreeBSD without too much difficulty?
Nothing. When arguments escalate to persecution and war, then we have a problem.
Or are you of the politically correct persuasion that 'all beliefs are relative to the believer and hence right'?
Of course not. That's absurd. Two conflicting beliefs can't both be right. However, telling someone they're stupid because they believe in God or they're evil because they believe in evolution is counter-productive to all involved, and often likely to provoke conflict (see above).
I'm sick of these stupid evolution vs. creationism arguments. Why can't we all just accept that:
- People have different beliefs - It's okay to have different beliefs - No one has the right to force his beliefs on others - We can all get along despite out differences
Seriously, what is so hard about that? And I'm talking to both sides here.
When I try to go to http://www.georgewbush.com/ in Firefox, the browser immediately crashes. I just noticed this now (it was fine a couple of days ago). The site works fine in IE and Konqueror. Anyone else having this problem?
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But is it as amazing as this stuff? http://www.shamwow.com/
IBM operates in the true spirit of Christian charity: their right hand has no idea what their left hand is doing.
My dad is a nurse. He works in psychiatry, and they occasionally get violent patients who try to hurt themselves or the staff members. At those times, the female nurses are very glad to have a few men around to restrain them. My dad's gotten some pretty nasty cuts and scratches from crazy patients.
Hello, moderators! I'm feeling insightful today! And you don't really need those points, do you?
If it's true, and if global warming isn't really our fault, that would be sort of a relief, since we wouldn't have to clean up our act. Of course, it would also mean that Mars is equally screwed. So much for moving there. I guess I'll just stop worrying about it and go back to playing video games.
That's the funniest thing I've read all week. I'd mod you up if I had points. Thanks for making my day.
And if you leave your head there long enough, we'll eat your brain!
- KillerHamster
Is anyone else tired of hearing that term?
By the way, this is hilarious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_worker
UNIX? bah user friendliness pussy!
real men use XEDIT
My parents never got me a computer. In fact, until my junior year of high school, they tried to discourage my interest in computers. Fear of the unknown, I guess. Anyway, I already had a hobby of trash-picking, and sometime around 1999 I began seeing computers in the trash. I learned much more from dragging old computers home and fixing, disassembling, and rebuilding them than I ever would have learned with a shiny new laptop my parents bought for me.
And, of course, Windows Help will be renamed RTFM.
I think there is definitely some kind of connection between an interest in computers and an interest in music. Many of the CS students I know play some kind of instrument. I play the organ, and I've even tried building a pipe organ. Several hundred years ago, pipe organs were just about the most complex piece of machinery there was, and I'm sure it had to have been the geeky types that were drawn to the art and science of organ building.
Digital instruments cannot sound like the real thing, and they never will. As an organist, it annoys me to no end to hear companies like Allen and Rodgers claim that their "instruments" sound as good as real pipes. I like the analogy that using an electronic organ in church instead of a pipe organ is like replacing your pastor with a recorded sermon.
I can just see some former employers of mine freaking out at the idea of contributing to Free Software. "What! You mean, you just gave away all that intellectual property!? And you expect me to hire you?" Probably better not to mention it.
Well, I am a musician, so that sounds like a plan to me.
- KillerHamster
I wish ninjas would steal them more often.
I recently aquired one of the old Macs (PowerPC 5200/75 LC) my junior high school had, and they had At Ease installed. I aways hated that thing, and now that it's mine, I'd love to get rid of it. Anyone know how you can do that without the admin password? I've given up on guessing the password.
I'm 21 and I remember using rotary phones at my grandparents' house up until about two or three years ago. They were wired into the wall and were actually the property of the phone company, so when my parents sold the house, they had to give the phones back. I'm sure they were promptly destroyed, a real shame since they worked perfectly and probably would have out-lived me.
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And realistically, most Internet users have no need for broadband. You don't need tons of bandwidth to do email, instant messaging, and read your friends' blogs. Most people probably don't even know that it's possible to do things that require more bandwidth, like downloading movies or operating systems or running a huge Freenet node.
I've been running FreeBSD on a couple servers for a while, and with this latest release, I've been thinking about trying it on a desktop. The particular computer I have in mind is currently running Slackware 10. I have a few questions for those of you using FreeBSD on a desktop system:
Why do you prefer it over other Unix-like OS's?
Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio?
Have you had difficulty finding applications that will run on it?
In general, will software written for Linux compile and run on FreeBSD without too much difficulty?
OK, so whats wrong with arguing?
Nothing. When arguments escalate to persecution and war, then we have a problem.
Or are you of the politically correct persuasion that 'all beliefs are relative to the believer and hence right'?
Of course not. That's absurd. Two conflicting beliefs can't both be right. However, telling someone they're stupid because they believe in God or they're evil because they believe in evolution is counter-productive to all involved, and often likely to provoke conflict (see above).
I'm sick of these stupid evolution vs. creationism arguments. Why can't we all just accept that:
- People have different beliefs
- It's okay to have different beliefs
- No one has the right to force his beliefs on others
- We can all get along despite out differences
Seriously, what is so hard about that? And I'm talking to both sides here.
When I try to go to http://www.georgewbush.com/ in Firefox, the browser immediately crashes. I just noticed this now (it was fine a couple of days ago). The site works fine in IE and Konqueror. Anyone else having this problem?
It's a joke. Hamsters are herbivores. :)