Now that the bottles are fully biodegradable, will people have no guilt about tossing them everywhere knowing they will biodegrade? Sounds like it will just generate more litter.
If you do a lot of sysadmin work, choose a topic that interests you, and find some kind of chart or table or data set that you would like to memorize. For example, you could choose capital cities and states, countries and their capitals, wire gauge to diameter, etc.
After a while of using that password each time, you will be able to remember all kinds of esoteric table data and amaze your friends at cocktail parties when you can recite the capital of every country on the globe, or what year many famous scientists were born.
Since you have to spend the effort remembering data, why not make the data something useful that you would like to remember for other applications?
Our nation became the worldwide leader in industry and science in the first half of the 20th century despite the fact the vast majority of the US population were religious. Stop using religion as some sort of magic cop-out to explain away all the woes of society.
In some sense, I think we are victims of technological progress. Microchips came along and replaced the printed circuit boards and the wire-wrapped Heathkit projects that made building and learning more about electronics fun and enjoyable.
Back in the 40's you could talk to people around the world by going down to the old TV repair shop, and picking up a box of used parts and wiring up a ham radio.
Or how about those old "100 in 1" electronic kits you could get and wire all kinds of oscillators and crystal radios with?
When was the last time you saw someone give their kids a chemistry set for Christmas?
But, just keep blaming it on Jesus.
Perhaps Obama got more attention in the media because of his skin color. I certainly hear mainstream media outlets mentioning it a lot. I think a lot of these people in the media are acting more racially biased by putting the spotlight on the fact that he's black. If they weren't racists, then his race wouldn't even be something thats brought up, and he wouldn't be getting so much attention in the media.
It's really easy to talk like that, but look at CB verses Ham Radio. The Internet we have today is like CB radio...anyone can transmit and receive. CB radio has its advantages and disadvantages. More serious radio users got into ham radio where users were more serious about radio communications, you were identified by a license, and it was highly regulated by the government. With the regulation came improved communications.
CB is good for some, ham radio good for others. So too with this. They should have a general Internet like the noisy CB band, and the other Internet with more regulation and better communications.
Not sure if anyone has heard about this, but there is now algae and other bio-engineered bugs that are producing crude oil. Not just biodiesel, but crude oil that can be converted into gasoline. It is also carbon-neutral, because the bugs take in CO2 from the atmosphere.
I find it rather jaw-dropping myself, because it seems like it has huge potential to change the playing field of this energy problem.
Depends on what YOU'RE looking for in a long term relationship. Do you want to be with a woman in a long term relationship who is so stupid that she goes after "bad boys", or someone you are not? Or do you want a woman with a real brain on her shoulders who is looking for someone special to share the rest of her life with?
I mean, just think of the depth of a relationship between an agressive man and a woman who is looking for her "daddy". Wow! Sounds like they must have a real deep, loving relationship with lots of meaning! I'm envious....
And what I don't understand is why do so many people have a strange sense of "entitlement" when it comes to internet services? Why should we pay for electricity, gasoline, but not have to pay for internet service? How come nobody is stepping up to offer "free city-wide power", or "free city-wide gasoline"?
Just like providing power from a power plant, working at an internet company requires a lot of resources, and a lot of work from skilled people. And yet strangely enough, so many people feel as though they should get the benefits of all of this without having to pay for it. Where does that idea come from? And why don't we have that same sense of entitlement with other services and utilities? I don't see a fundamentally significant difference between the industries.
Frankly, if people are willing to pay for their electricity and phone, they should be willing to pay for their internet services.
Can you explain why one must abandon logic in order to pursue faith? Why is it that so many people are convinced that an adherence to logic results in a lack of faith, or why is it that so many people feel that a strong faith will result in an exodus from logic thought and inquiry?
Were you aware that one of the fathers of the scientific method, Rene Descartes, was also not only religious, but wrote about various personal interactions with God? His highly logical mind was also capable of faith in God, and his strong faith was not incompatible with logic.
Try proving the existence of love with logic. Since it isn't logical, should one who believes in love stop their inquiries into the discipline of logic?
There is a place for logic, and a place for faith. Neither one trumps the other, and yet people seem to keep tangling the two!
This really doesn't work anymore. I've tried it many times on my Linux systems, and it's never resulted in a failure.
Perhaps this snippet from the wikipedia article is relevant...
"Another solution involves the detection of fork bombs by the kernel, which is not widely practiced although has been implemented in the form of a kernel module for the Linux kernel [1]."
One of the things that amazes me is that one of the original key thinkers and developers of the scientific method, was also a devout Christian who studied religious dream experiences, and suggested such experiences originated from God.
It fascinates me: so many people who suggest God does not exist because He cannot be scientifically proven among us. And yet, one of the founding fathers of the scientific method was religiously devout?
Maybe if the table saw manufacturers are unwilling to install his product on their saws, he could sell it as a separate unit that people can install on their saws themselves. It would eliminate a lot of problems he's having with manufacturers adopting the produce. Then he can deal with the legal obligations himself...
heh, no you only read things into my post that I never stated. I said that I find it amusing that there I read more criticism of Wikipedia than I hear of random individually-run web sites on the internet. What I did NOT state was that Wikipedia was good...I stated it was better than many of the individual sites I see.
People I have talked to in the past will regularily cite information from various sites on the internet, but when you bring up Wikipedia, they will scoff at it! Absurd.
AT LEAST the information in wikipedia TENDS to be more reliable than a lot of individually run sites, and yet it receives the highest amount of criticism, imho.
But really, doesn't any web site on the Internet suffer from most of these same problems? Anyone who can register a domain name, and put up a web page, can post all kinds of false information on a subject. The difference is, there is no input from anyone else to claim the information is false, whereas in wikipedia, there is feedback on the posted articles.
I've seen more BS on privately run web sites that turn up in Google searches than I've seen in Wikipedia.
The focus of the attack is all wrong. This isn't an operating system problem (which is proven highly stable and configurable from a technical perspective).
I think the primary problem with these Linux vs. Windows evaluations is that end users testing out the software all have a take it or leave it attitude. If they try it and don't like it because there isn't enough multimedia/office support, instead of complaining to software and hardware vendors about it...they blame the operating system and drop the ball right there.
If progress is going to be made, those users need to, instead of just abandoning the operating system, actually WRITE to these hardware companies asking for drivers...actually CONTACT these companies and ask them for multimedia software.
They should complain to nvidia about their poor Linux support...complain to HP because they don't have a Linux driver for a particular model printer...ASK large software companies for support for Linux.
And the MS Windows user inquires: "Why SHOULD I have to do that? Whats in it for ME?"
A valid question...if you would like to have free software, user, (and yes, free as in Free BEER), there is in fact something big in it for you! Consider spending $100 for Windows XP, and $350 for office software. Where is the advantage? There are some pretty substantial cost benefits involved, wouldn't you say?
Its unfortunate...so many Windows users who try the operating system...find it too difficult, or lacking software/hardware support...and who just chuck it claiming it is still underdeveloped. Only when they stop blaming the operating system, and start blaming companies for lacking driver and software support, will there be any progress made.
terribly obviously?
Is that grammatically correct? Hmmm...I would think that if one with any sense were engaging in a debate regarding the importance of grammer, they would be foolish not to be double checking their own!
I wonder why your post has accumulated mod points, because you're really not saying much. Can you explain WHY no single country should control the Internet?
Part of the problem here is that for some reason, many people tend to think in terms of power==bad. If we've got the power, then we really should give it away, because there is something wrong with having power over things.
But this really isn't the case. Power isn't a bad thing...it's the abuse of power. Another poster here stated how fearful they were that the US government would abuse that power. Well, the US hasn't abused it's control of the Internet, despite whatever fears you may have about what could happen.
With the US in control, and maintaining it's power base, there has been no appreciable amount of cencorship or bias against any kind of content or protocol. I can imagine quite a number of other countries, such as China, who have proven they filter content, where such power would be in some bad hands. But then this still begs the question...who has the right to decide which countries should be in control and which ones shouldn't? Who can decide if China should have control, or how much control, etc, they should have?
If the US is in control, you'd have to do more to back up any reasons why that is such a bad thing. Power, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. The power should go to the governing entities that will bring the most benefit to EVERYONE.
Don't be so afraid of power.
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Now that the bottles are fully biodegradable, will people have no guilt about tossing them everywhere knowing they will biodegrade? Sounds like it will just generate more litter.
If you do a lot of sysadmin work, choose a topic that interests you, and find some kind of chart or table or data set that you would like to memorize. For example, you could choose capital cities and states, countries and their capitals, wire gauge to diameter, etc.
After a while of using that password each time, you will be able to remember all kinds of esoteric table data and amaze your friends at cocktail parties when you can recite the capital of every country on the globe, or what year many famous scientists were born.
Since you have to spend the effort remembering data, why not make the data something useful that you would like to remember for other applications?
Our nation became the worldwide leader in industry and science in the first half of the 20th century despite the fact the vast majority of the US population were religious. Stop using religion as some sort of magic cop-out to explain away all the woes of society. In some sense, I think we are victims of technological progress. Microchips came along and replaced the printed circuit boards and the wire-wrapped Heathkit projects that made building and learning more about electronics fun and enjoyable. Back in the 40's you could talk to people around the world by going down to the old TV repair shop, and picking up a box of used parts and wiring up a ham radio. Or how about those old "100 in 1" electronic kits you could get and wire all kinds of oscillators and crystal radios with? When was the last time you saw someone give their kids a chemistry set for Christmas? But, just keep blaming it on Jesus.
Perhaps Obama got more attention in the media because of his skin color. I certainly hear mainstream media outlets mentioning it a lot. I think a lot of these people in the media are acting more racially biased by putting the spotlight on the fact that he's black. If they weren't racists, then his race wouldn't even be something thats brought up, and he wouldn't be getting so much attention in the media.
It's really easy to talk like that, but look at CB verses Ham Radio. The Internet we have today is like CB radio...anyone can transmit and receive. CB radio has its advantages and disadvantages. More serious radio users got into ham radio where users were more serious about radio communications, you were identified by a license, and it was highly regulated by the government. With the regulation came improved communications.
CB is good for some, ham radio good for others. So too with this. They should have a general Internet like the noisy CB band, and the other Internet with more regulation and better communications.
And yet some of these same people who insist Reiser may be innocent are some of the same people who criticize others for doubting Global Warming.
Not sure if anyone has heard about this, but there is now algae and other bio-engineered bugs that are producing crude oil. Not just biodiesel, but crude oil that can be converted into gasoline. It is also carbon-neutral, because the bugs take in CO2 from the atmosphere.
I find it rather jaw-dropping myself, because it seems like it has huge potential to change the playing field of this energy problem.
Anyway, here is the article...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
Depends on what YOU'RE looking for in a long term relationship. Do you want to be with a woman in a long term relationship who is so stupid that she goes after "bad boys", or someone you are not? Or do you want a woman with a real brain on her shoulders who is looking for someone special to share the rest of her life with? I mean, just think of the depth of a relationship between an agressive man and a woman who is looking for her "daddy". Wow! Sounds like they must have a real deep, loving relationship with lots of meaning! I'm envious....
And what I don't understand is why do so many people have a strange sense of "entitlement" when it comes to internet services? Why should we pay for electricity, gasoline, but not have to pay for internet service? How come nobody is stepping up to offer "free city-wide power", or "free city-wide gasoline"?
Just like providing power from a power plant, working at an internet company requires a lot of resources, and a lot of work from skilled people. And yet strangely enough, so many people feel as though they should get the benefits of all of this without having to pay for it. Where does that idea come from? And why don't we have that same sense of entitlement with other services and utilities? I don't see a fundamentally significant difference between the industries.
Frankly, if people are willing to pay for their electricity and phone, they should be willing to pay for their internet services.
The very best course I have found is a ~32 hour DVD course on the FreeBSD kernel internals and: Advanced FreeBSD Kernel Code Walkthrough Videos I've never found anything more thorough.
Can you explain why one must abandon logic in order to pursue faith? Why is it that so many people are convinced that an adherence to logic results in a lack of faith, or why is it that so many people feel that a strong faith will result in an exodus from logic thought and inquiry?
Were you aware that one of the fathers of the scientific method, Rene Descartes, was also not only religious, but wrote about various personal interactions with God? His highly logical mind was also capable of faith in God, and his strong faith was not incompatible with logic.
Try proving the existence of love with logic. Since it isn't logical, should one who believes in love stop their inquiries into the discipline of logic?
There is a place for logic, and a place for faith. Neither one trumps the other, and yet people seem to keep tangling the two!
Actually, this trick will work with any mail server running Sendmail, not just at gmail.
5 Insightful??!
This really doesn't work anymore. I've tried it many times on my Linux systems, and it's never resulted in a failure.
Perhaps this snippet from the wikipedia article is relevant...
"Another solution involves the detection of fork bombs by the kernel, which is not widely practiced although has been implemented in the form of a kernel module for the Linux kernel [1]."
The person I had in mind when I wrote my post was Rene Descartes, a devout Christian and scientist.
One of the things that amazes me is that one of the original key thinkers and developers of the scientific method, was also a devout Christian who studied religious dream experiences, and suggested such experiences originated from God.
It fascinates me: so many people who suggest God does not exist because He cannot be scientifically proven among us. And yet, one of the founding fathers of the scientific method was religiously devout?
How would an athiest answer to this?
"For serious though" is a silly phrase. Learn how to write!
Maybe if the table saw manufacturers are unwilling to install his product on their saws, he could sell it as a separate unit that people can install on their saws themselves. It would eliminate a lot of problems he's having with manufacturers adopting the produce. Then he can deal with the legal obligations himself...
heh, no you only read things into my post that I never stated. I said that I find it amusing that there I read more criticism of Wikipedia than I hear of random individually-run web sites on the internet. What I did NOT state was that Wikipedia was good...I stated it was better than many of the individual sites I see.
People I have talked to in the past will regularily cite information from various sites on the internet, but when you bring up Wikipedia, they will scoff at it! Absurd.
AT LEAST the information in wikipedia TENDS to be more reliable than a lot of individually run sites, and yet it receives the highest amount of criticism, imho.
But really, doesn't any web site on the Internet suffer from most of these same problems? Anyone who can register a domain name, and put up a web page, can post all kinds of false information on a subject. The difference is, there is no input from anyone else to claim the information is false, whereas in wikipedia, there is feedback on the posted articles.
I've seen more BS on privately run web sites that turn up in Google searches than I've seen in Wikipedia.
Cue the "cue the chair jokes" in 3...2...1...
The focus of the attack is all wrong. This isn't an operating system problem (which is proven highly stable and configurable from a technical perspective).
I think the primary problem with these Linux vs. Windows evaluations is that end users testing out the software all have a take it or leave it attitude. If they try it and don't like it because there isn't enough multimedia/office support, instead of complaining to software and hardware vendors about it...they blame the operating system and drop the ball right there.
If progress is going to be made, those users need to, instead of just abandoning the operating system, actually WRITE to these hardware companies asking for drivers...actually CONTACT these companies and ask them for multimedia software.
They should complain to nvidia about their poor Linux support...complain to HP because they don't have a Linux driver for a particular model printer...ASK large software companies for support for Linux.
And the MS Windows user inquires: "Why SHOULD I have to do that? Whats in it for ME?"
A valid question...if you would like to have free software, user, (and yes, free as in Free BEER), there is in fact something big in it for you! Consider spending $100 for Windows XP, and $350 for office software. Where is the advantage? There are some pretty substantial cost benefits involved, wouldn't you say?
Its unfortunate...so many Windows users who try the operating system...find it too difficult, or lacking software/hardware support...and who just chuck it claiming it is still underdeveloped. Only when they stop blaming the operating system, and start blaming companies for lacking driver and software support, will there be any progress made.
terribly obviously? Is that grammatically correct? Hmmm...I would think that if one with any sense were engaging in a debate regarding the importance of grammer, they would be foolish not to be double checking their own!
Thats all well and good, but you're comparing apples to oranges. A "tavurn" is a public place providing a service and are receiving payment.
It's amazing how you can give something away for free, and people have the audacity to think they have a right to moan about such matters.
I wonder why your post has accumulated mod points, because you're really not saying much. Can you explain WHY no single country should control the Internet? Part of the problem here is that for some reason, many people tend to think in terms of power==bad. If we've got the power, then we really should give it away, because there is something wrong with having power over things. But this really isn't the case. Power isn't a bad thing...it's the abuse of power. Another poster here stated how fearful they were that the US government would abuse that power. Well, the US hasn't abused it's control of the Internet, despite whatever fears you may have about what could happen. With the US in control, and maintaining it's power base, there has been no appreciable amount of cencorship or bias against any kind of content or protocol. I can imagine quite a number of other countries, such as China, who have proven they filter content, where such power would be in some bad hands. But then this still begs the question...who has the right to decide which countries should be in control and which ones shouldn't? Who can decide if China should have control, or how much control, etc, they should have? If the US is in control, you'd have to do more to back up any reasons why that is such a bad thing. Power, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. The power should go to the governing entities that will bring the most benefit to EVERYONE. Don't be so afraid of power.
They're so young! Amazing...