My kids live in a foreign country and I get to see them once a year. In 2007, I visited and filled my camera's card with pics of them. When I was packing up, I made the dumbass decision to put the camera in my checked in bag to save weight on my carry on bag. I flew back in to Newark and caught my connecting flight from there. I come home, unpack and guess what's missing.
I call the airline and they say I have to fill out a form to get some money back from them. They asked me how much the camera was worth - oh, the camera was old and I didn't really care, but the pictures on it are worth about $1500 considering the airfare it took to go take the pictures. haha. As most probably do, I blew it off - Filling out forms and dicking around with customer service is rarely worth the pittance you get back from the effort.
If evolution was the tool that god used to create us, that implies that evolution is "god's will." That is to say, it implies that god WANTS us to evolve. If that's the case, shouldn't the people pushing "god's will" be pushing Eugenics and Transhumanism? Oops - I just gave believers yet another thing to be hypocritical about.
*author's note: the above is not intended to imply that I believe any of it.
I have a similar list and I wish my parents could have turned those bits off - they certainly don't contribute to my "damn smart"ness - why are you assuming that the whole mix is really that inter-related?
I think that I should have the right to genetically engineer my child. I also think that I don't have the right to "BF Skinner" my child. Do you see the distinction?
I am a fulltime teleworker for a 50k+ employee megacorp. In one day, I could have meetings with Europe at 6am, and Asia at 8pm. Every employee has Sametime IM (not a fan) on their desktop. All of the work I do involves complex cross functional interaction. 75% of the people I work with use it effectively. The other 25% are salespeople or director level. Those people are still in the phonecall/voicemail world, which sucks up a much larger proportion of my work focused time.
Over the last three years of using IM, I'd say that my email volume has reduced dramatically and my email quality has increased - all because I can answer quick questions on the fly with IM.
I haven't even met most of my co-workers, but they all know that I am responsive and on the ball. I attribute some of that perception to the fact that I am available >12hours a day to answer their questions, thus making them more productive.
Some situations are better handled with a quick phone call, but IM actually enables real phone conversations because you can see if someone is available and ping them with a "time for a quick call?" I NEVER leave people voicemail anymore and I rarely receive it. Voicemail is a stupid waste of time IMO. Maybe that perception is colored by the fact that the only people who actually leave me VMs are handshake monkeys (salespeople and directors).
I think that the idea of reducing taxes for environmentally beneficial corporations is close to the mark, but why not think about this concept on a wider scale? What if all taxes were solely based on social (including environmental) impact? So a cigarette manufacturer would have a very high social cost, even when you add in any positive social impact like providing jobs and the like. Their profits would be taxed according to the additional cost to society to deal with their negative societal implications. They would be very motivated to offset those taxes by doing positive things - the RJReynolds hospital offering free medical care for smokers anyone?
There is no such thing as a truly "free market," because there are always controls, but couldn't we model the parameters of the market to simply promote the "general welfare."
"The bigger problem is learning to type and mouse while you're moving. "
I use a logitech trackball when I am working out and computing - I find it much easier to control in that situation...
Don't you think that we need more anti-christian (and religion in general) backlash? I sure do. Religion is a big reason we have Bush. The hypocracy of american Christians is mindblowing.
Bush's lack of intelligence is probably feigned in order to win the votes of the large number of people in this country who despise intelligence. Most of them do so because they are religious and education tends to illuminate how silly religion is.
I never said that logic was a waste of time. I agree that it should be mandatory learning for everyone. Learning high level math does not make you intelligent or disciplined either.
Gee, I work in the tech industry, make 6 figures and never need more than simple algebra in my job or personal life. If you want to be an engineer (or other technical position that actually uses high level math), then sure - make math a pre-req, otherwise, teaching kids how to manage a budget and balance a checkbook if FAR more important to being successful in life.
All that anti-math stuff aside, I have gained an interest in how cool math is "just because" and am learning as a self-enrichment activity.
Whoah there cowboys! I wasn't suggesting that the musicians themselves be non-profit - merely that musicians need a non-profit "service provider" to enable them to promote their music sucessfully without having to rely on the monster that the RIAA embodies. Profit follows promotion.
With the RIAA and Ticketmaster out of the way, there would be room for a taxpayer funded (cheaper than dealing with RIAA lawsuits) non-profit system for promoting peer-reviewed bands (since promotion is the only thing that the RIAA has to offer). This wouldn't require a union I don't think.
Revoke RIAA member's corporate charter? Invalidate their predatory contracts with artists. Thile we're at it, eliminate Ticketmaster.
This leaves room for a non-profit system for promoting and desseminating music. We need a blue-collar musician class.
The US and Europe has been disasterously meddling in the Middle East since WW2. The "they" that hate are a small minority that is given weight and power by the West's blatant power plays for their oil. Why the fuck do you think America is a target? Because "they" hate us? Yeah, that's it - those people just hate for no fucking reason. Bullshit. And those "smug" Euorpeans who we dragged in to our latest fiasco are "smug" because they are finally beggining to realize that our insane war is stirring up the hornets in their backyard - how the fuck are we gonna "ride to their rescue" when every shot we fire worsens our position? In a "war" against "terrorism" - there is no enemy that can accept terms of surrender. Instead there is just the amorphous enemy that we use to justify the police state.
Where is a damn link or book or whatever that explains Linux admin concepts from a Windows perspective? I have been using windows since 3.0 - I know how to admin windows. It has become intuitive and second nature to me. Everytime I give Linux a spin, I end up frustrated and blowing it off. Mostly because I find it incredibly time consuming to relearn simple shit like downloading and installing an app.
Where is the link that tells me: "Windows Way of installing an app - go to website, download latest version, extract and 2x click on setup.exe click next next finish. Linux Way of installing an app - blaa blaa whatthefuckever"
Whoever writes this rosetta stone and promotes it will be the root cause of a lot of people running Linux on their non-gaming boxes. I fully expected to find a link like this when I clicked on this article, but instead I see crap like - create your own distro - you'll learn it all. Well no fucking shit sherlock, but if running Linux really requires that hefty of a time investment then it won't make serious inroads to the windows marketshare.
Note - this is not a troll (even though I am pissed) - I am seriously asking for help. I have four boxes in my house that I use for music, movies and web browsing that are all running Win2K - conceptually, running Linux on these would be great, but not if it is going to take me hours to figure out how to install a damn app...
Thanks for the helpful advice and not taking my bitching as trolling. I am serious about wanting to switch my non-gaming PCs over. I admit that I am being totally lazy about learning this stuff, but I think that the Linux community needs to embrace the lazy user to make real inroads to the desktop.
"Who says you can't? After all, the windows way is "go to software author's site, download package, run package, click next until finished". Just replace the last two steps with "extract package,./configure ; make ; make install"."
ROTFLMAO! What the fuck is "./configure ; make ; make install"." and why the fuck couldn't they just put a damn execuatable file that does what ever the fuck that totally unintuitive BS does?
"And bother to at least take a cursory look at the bloody documentation." NO! This is my point! I don't have to read any damn documentation to admin a windows box. I would probably spend hours looking for the "bloody documentation" that explains how to install a damn app. And then the documentation would probably be incorrect for my particular install anyway - do you get my point?
"Why should everyone do things exactly as Windows does? That prevents innovation, which can lead to better things."
Do we really need "innovation" around the "front end" for installing applications? The real question is: why do something different than the standard that the majority of the computing world has been accustomed to for over a decade?
And the explanation that you provide only illustrates my point - if I could have just clicked on a next-next-finish installer app, all the that crap you are talking about would be irrelevant to me. I know how to admin a windows box just fine - why should I have to re-learn admin when there are standards that are intuitive to 99% of the computer using population?
There is no point in being different JUST to be different.
I am not trying to troll here - I sincerely would love to switch my non-gaming machines over to some open OS, but it has to be fricking easy or it ain't worth it.
" - Installing programs means ticking one box and pressing ok
- Patching all programs means clicking ok when the update program asks to run
- Uninstalling programs means unticking one box and pressing ok"
I call BS - I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to update the version of Firefox on the Ubuntu browser appliance I installed recently. Where is this magic button you speak of and why the fuck can't Linux just emulate the way we have all been doing shit on windows for years? (if there is a reason, it better be damn good)
For one, I like to play PC games, so that rules out using it on my one gaming computer. I have 4 other PCs that are only used for browsing mp3 playing and movie watching - these would be great candidates for Linux (they are all running the same win2kpro install right now) and are a perfect example of an enchroachment area. Every couple years or so, I give Linux a spin, and it is always frustrating. My latest spin was installing a VMWare browser appliance. The version of Firefox on it was severely out of date so I download the latest version. But wait - there is no setup.exe (or obvious equiv) - windows is so ubiqutous that some things have become the fucking standard for intuitive administration. IF you are going to deviate from windows standards it had better be for a damn good reason. Is there a good reason for not having a setup.exe equivalent?
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True, sad story:
My kids live in a foreign country and I get to see them once a year. In 2007, I visited and filled my camera's card with pics of them. When I was packing up, I made the dumbass decision to put the camera in my checked in bag to save weight on my carry on bag. I flew back in to Newark and caught my connecting flight from there. I come home, unpack and guess what's missing.
I call the airline and they say I have to fill out a form to get some money back from them. They asked me how much the camera was worth - oh, the camera was old and I didn't really care, but the pictures on it are worth about $1500 considering the airfare it took to go take the pictures. haha. As most probably do, I blew it off - Filling out forms and dicking around with customer service is rarely worth the pittance you get back from the effort.
And now I read this. That fucker stole my camera.
If evolution was the tool that god used to create us, that implies that evolution is "god's will." That is to say, it implies that god WANTS us to evolve. If that's the case, shouldn't the people pushing "god's will" be pushing Eugenics and Transhumanism? Oops - I just gave believers yet another thing to be hypocritical about.
*author's note: the above is not intended to imply that I believe any of it.
That's why we need to catalog all these genes for the future.
I have a similar list and I wish my parents could have turned those bits off - they certainly don't contribute to my "damn smart"ness - why are you assuming that the whole mix is really that inter-related?
I think that I should have the right to genetically engineer my child. I also think that I don't have the right to "BF Skinner" my child. Do you see the distinction?
I am a fulltime teleworker for a 50k+ employee megacorp. In one day, I could have meetings with Europe at 6am, and Asia at 8pm. Every employee has Sametime IM (not a fan) on their desktop. All of the work I do involves complex cross functional interaction. 75% of the people I work with use it effectively. The other 25% are salespeople or director level. Those people are still in the phonecall/voicemail world, which sucks up a much larger proportion of my work focused time.
Over the last three years of using IM, I'd say that my email volume has reduced dramatically and my email quality has increased - all because I can answer quick questions on the fly with IM.
I haven't even met most of my co-workers, but they all know that I am responsive and on the ball. I attribute some of that perception to the fact that I am available >12hours a day to answer their questions, thus making them more productive.
Some situations are better handled with a quick phone call, but IM actually enables real phone conversations because you can see if someone is available and ping them with a "time for a quick call?" I NEVER leave people voicemail anymore and I rarely receive it. Voicemail is a stupid waste of time IMO. Maybe that perception is colored by the fact that the only people who actually leave me VMs are handshake monkeys (salespeople and directors).
I think that the idea of reducing taxes for environmentally beneficial corporations is close to the mark, but why not think about this concept on a wider scale? What if all taxes were solely based on social (including environmental) impact? So a cigarette manufacturer would have a very high social cost, even when you add in any positive social impact like providing jobs and the like. Their profits would be taxed according to the additional cost to society to deal with their negative societal implications. They would be very motivated to offset those taxes by doing positive things - the RJReynolds hospital offering free medical care for smokers anyone?
There is no such thing as a truly "free market," because there are always controls, but couldn't we model the parameters of the market to simply promote the "general welfare."
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Someone should take a current version of that zip and propogate it...
"The bigger problem is learning to type and mouse while you're moving. " I use a logitech trackball when I am working out and computing - I find it much easier to control in that situation...
If you are a christian and not part of the christian right then your silence is borderline criminal - shouldn't you be policing your own?
Don't you think that we need more anti-christian (and religion in general) backlash? I sure do. Religion is a big reason we have Bush. The hypocracy of american Christians is mindblowing.
Bush's lack of intelligence is probably feigned in order to win the votes of the large number of people in this country who despise intelligence. Most of them do so because they are religious and education tends to illuminate how silly religion is.
I never said that logic was a waste of time. I agree that it should be mandatory learning for everyone. Learning high level math does not make you intelligent or disciplined either.
Gee, I work in the tech industry, make 6 figures and never need more than simple algebra in my job or personal life. If you want to be an engineer (or other technical position that actually uses high level math), then sure - make math a pre-req, otherwise, teaching kids how to manage a budget and balance a checkbook if FAR more important to being successful in life.
All that anti-math stuff aside, I have gained an interest in how cool math is "just because" and am learning as a self-enrichment activity.
Whoah there cowboys! I wasn't suggesting that the musicians themselves be non-profit - merely that musicians need a non-profit "service provider" to enable them to promote their music sucessfully without having to rely on the monster that the RIAA embodies. Profit follows promotion.
With the RIAA and Ticketmaster out of the way, there would be room for a taxpayer funded (cheaper than dealing with RIAA lawsuits) non-profit system for promoting peer-reviewed bands (since promotion is the only thing that the RIAA has to offer). This wouldn't require a union I don't think.
Revoke RIAA member's corporate charter? Invalidate their predatory contracts with artists. Thile we're at it, eliminate Ticketmaster. This leaves room for a non-profit system for promoting and desseminating music. We need a blue-collar musician class.
The US and Europe has been disasterously meddling in the Middle East since WW2. The "they" that hate are a small minority that is given weight and power by the West's blatant power plays for their oil. Why the fuck do you think America is a target? Because "they" hate us? Yeah, that's it - those people just hate for no fucking reason. Bullshit. And those "smug" Euorpeans who we dragged in to our latest fiasco are "smug" because they are finally beggining to realize that our insane war is stirring up the hornets in their backyard - how the fuck are we gonna "ride to their rescue" when every shot we fire worsens our position? In a "war" against "terrorism" - there is no enemy that can accept terms of surrender. Instead there is just the amorphous enemy that we use to justify the police state.
Where is a damn link or book or whatever that explains Linux admin concepts from a Windows perspective? I have been using windows since 3.0 - I know how to admin windows. It has become intuitive and second nature to me. Everytime I give Linux a spin, I end up frustrated and blowing it off. Mostly because I find it incredibly time consuming to relearn simple shit like downloading and installing an app.
Where is the link that tells me: "Windows Way of installing an app - go to website, download latest version, extract and 2x click on setup.exe click next next finish. Linux Way of installing an app - blaa blaa whatthefuckever"
Whoever writes this rosetta stone and promotes it will be the root cause of a lot of people running Linux on their non-gaming boxes.
I fully expected to find a link like this when I clicked on this article, but instead I see crap like - create your own distro - you'll learn it all. Well no fucking shit sherlock, but if running Linux really requires that hefty of a time investment then it won't make serious inroads to the windows marketshare.
Note - this is not a troll (even though I am pissed) - I am seriously asking for help. I have four boxes in my house that I use for music, movies and web browsing that are all running Win2K - conceptually, running Linux on these would be great, but not if it is going to take me hours to figure out how to install a damn app...
Thanks for the helpful advice and not taking my bitching as trolling. I am serious about wanting to switch my non-gaming PCs over. I admit that I am being totally lazy about learning this stuff, but I think that the Linux community needs to embrace the lazy user to make real inroads to the desktop.
"Who says you can't? After all, the windows way is "go to software author's site, download package, run package, click next until finished". Just replace the last two steps with "extract package, ./configure ; make ; make install"."
ROTFLMAO! What the fuck is "./configure ; make ; make install"." and why the fuck couldn't they just put a damn execuatable file that does what ever the fuck that totally unintuitive BS does?
"And bother to at least take a cursory look at the bloody documentation."
NO! This is my point! I don't have to read any damn documentation to admin a windows box. I would probably spend hours looking for the "bloody documentation" that explains how to install a damn app. And then the documentation would probably be incorrect for my particular install anyway - do you get my point?
"Why should everyone do things exactly as Windows does? That prevents innovation, which can lead to better things."
Do we really need "innovation" around the "front end" for installing applications? The real question is: why do something different than the standard that the majority of the computing world has been accustomed to for over a decade?
And the explanation that you provide only illustrates my point - if I could have just clicked on a next-next-finish installer app, all the that crap you are talking about would be irrelevant to me. I know how to admin a windows box just fine - why should I have to re-learn admin when there are standards that are intuitive to 99% of the computer using population?
There is no point in being different JUST to be different.
I am not trying to troll here - I sincerely would love to switch my non-gaming machines over to some open OS, but it has to be fricking easy or it ain't worth it.
" - Installing programs means ticking one box and pressing ok
- Patching all programs means clicking ok when the update program asks to run
- Uninstalling programs means unticking one box and pressing ok"
I call BS - I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to update the version of Firefox on the Ubuntu browser appliance I installed recently. Where is this magic button you speak of and why the fuck can't Linux just emulate the way we have all been doing shit on windows for years? (if there is a reason, it better be damn good)
For one, I like to play PC games, so that rules out using it on my one gaming computer. I have 4 other PCs that are only used for browsing mp3 playing and movie watching - these would be great candidates for Linux (they are all running the same win2kpro install right now) and are a perfect example of an enchroachment area. Every couple years or so, I give Linux a spin, and it is always frustrating. My latest spin was installing a VMWare browser appliance. The version of Firefox on it was severely out of date so I download the latest version. But wait - there is no setup.exe (or obvious equiv) - windows is so ubiqutous that some things have become the fucking standard for intuitive administration. IF you are going to deviate from windows standards it had better be for a damn good reason. Is there a good reason for not having a setup.exe equivalent?