I know; isn't it great? I love biased advocacy journalism. At least it has an opinion and it's fun to read, regardless of how credible or worthless it is ^_^
http://www.flashkit.com -- there are tons of sound clips and music loops with various licenses. I think most (if not all) of them are available as MP3. A lot of them are available as free-with-credits, some are public domain, some have to be purchased.
I don't know much at all about oceanology, but I will say this: there are theories that a big, frosty inland sea was partly to blame for the last ice age. It was trapped in the belly of North America, and at one point something broke, and it drained through the St Lawrence Seaway into the Atlantic. Now, if there was a 'gulf stream' back then, a bunch of icy cold water flowing into this warm oceanic current could play serious havoc with the weather (think about the crazy stuff that goes on every time an El Nino winter comes around!)
So my point is: what could the mobilisation of this frosty body of water do? We could be looking at another ice age!!!! AAAAAAAAA! Get out your parkas and mukkluks, everyone; it's gonna be a big chill! (No need to worry about global warming anymore either ^_^)
Disclaimer: I did hear this theory from my uncle Patrick, and he's..... not known for being very critical of the rumours he hears.
Our credit union just got a new ATM and, sure enough, it has Windows on it. I'm not joking. And the funny thing is, some of the instructional diagrams were 404ing.... I just chuckled to myself and thought, "that's just typical." Looks like they got it fixed now though ^_^
seriously, I had no idea these things were networked in any fashion other than being tied to my credit union's mainframe. If they are, that's really really scary.
I think the fact that you're able to ask this kind of question is what differentiates us from the other animals (oh, and we have less hair, by and large, unless you consider fish and reptiles). Humans seem to have acquired the ability to think really really big thoughts. And I mean, big!
I wonder if 'meaning' is really a meme, or is it for some reason part of our brains? I mean, did someone start searching for meaning, then other people started catching on, until we're all asking the question? I'm inclined to believe that the need to ask that question is part of our genetic makeup. I see evidence of this in the fact that everyone, throughout most of their life, seems so obsessed with this subject, and often go into despair when they can't find the answer to this question. It's almost as if the need for meaning is a fundamental need, as fundamental as the need for survival.
My two cents' worth. I really enjoyed your writ (especially the comment that most people's primary meme is "WTF?" -- I feel like that a lot of the time myself), and if I had any karma points I'd mod you up.
Havoc is wearing my favourite shirt! how on earth did he get it?!? I don't remember saying he could use it, but that's ol' Havoc... always taking my clothes without asking.
Foundationless name-dropping aside, I'm excited to watch the directions the free desktop is taking. I tried using GNOME 2.2, and wasn't completely impressed with it (eventually moved over to KDE), but this new version looks like a serious contender in terms of power and ease-of-use to both KDE and, in my eyes, Windows XP.
Makes me really want to figure out how I borked up my Gentoo install so I can start using Linux again. oh boy!
I think they chose the word 'compromise' in this context because of SCO's allegation that a compromise must be made, as opposed to a hidden knowledge that Linux is in danger. I think that in another part of the letter, the authors question McBride about whether there is any compromise to be made at all.
I clicked on it too, fully expecting to see goatse as well... thought, "hmmmm, maybe I should just press the stop button..." coulda easily been tubgirl, which I was just introduced to today, and had to subsequently pour ethanol in my eyes to clean them out.
yeah, actually I kinda agree. And, to tell the truth, I don't want too much innovation in Linux, for the sake of innovation itself (and I mean the whole OSS/FS community, not just the Linux kernel). Sure, innovation is usually pretty neat (I think those "windows that flap in the wind" in Longhorn are the best thing since sliced butter), but is it always valuable? Not necessarily.
What is valuable is stuff that gets my work done efficiently and effectively. If new innovations fulfil that need, I'm all for them! But so often, innovations create new markets that didn't exist before, and then the sales teams go out and try to convince the world that they need something that it's done without for at least ten thousand years, if not more.
yeah, we all were under that impression, until Lindows started shifting their focus to Windows 'data compatibility' as opposed to 'executable compatibility'. It was disappointing to us all, as we were expecting some nice yummy stuff to be contributed back to the WINE project.
I think what happened was Lindows just saw it as a too-formidable task, and shifted their focus a bit. Now they're focusing on a couple of things: data compatibility, like I said before (e.g., documents, instant messaging protocols), and family-friendliness (e.g., ease-of-use, parental controls).
hmmmmmmmmm... no case mod involving a CPU as a heater, but this site documents the installation of a lava lamp into a very swanky stained-glass case. This site is the home of my favourite case mods in the world ^_^ Look at the very last case mod, number eight, to see the lava lamp.
amlai is right; flash media has "delayed writes", just the same as hard drives. Now the problemmmmmmmm......... is that some USB flash media doesn't have an "eject" item on its context menu. Unless it's Windows itself that provides the "eject" feature, in which case.... where the hell did it go in XP? I've had all sorts of problems with my flash media just because I couldn't find the "eject" menu item! Fie and pox upon them!
(please mod me up for calling down a pox on Microsoft)
who the hell modded this guy as insightful?!? someone should take away their mod points.
(ha, love the way HookedOnPhonics' website is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary tho ^_^)
funky little program that tries to prevent RMI by reminding you to take breaks at different intervals. I think it's part of the GNOME system as opposed to an add-on.
I could only find this link: http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.4/user-gu ide.html#goscustdesk-86
I never knew about that shutdown/a thingy, but here's what I did:
fired up the machine in safe mode
logged into an account with admin privileges (for some reason the "Administrator" account didn't work, so I used my own)
fired up the "Services" admin window
scrolled down to "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" and double-clicked on it
Under the "Recovery" tab, I chose "Restart the Service" for first, second, and subsequent failures -- I imagine you could probably choose "Take No Action" instead
rebooted the computer
Because I chose "Restart the Service", I'm greeted with a coredump message every five minutes or so -- you may want to either turn off error reporting or choose "Take No Action".
I think it's very true that causality != corellation, but I think the corellation is a very strong one. Here's how it happened in my life:
young geeklet has nasty childhood experience, which shows him that the world is scary and dangerous
young geeklet believes this lie and insulates him from the world to protect himself
young geeklet pupates into a teenager, finds computers, an infinitely intriguing hobby, and uses it as his chrysalis
although computers occupy his time and even make him feel fulfilled for a while, they still aren't erasing the problem, which is that he is still isolating himself from his friends and family
geek comes to maturation, but discovers that he's very immature in some areas, like intimacy with his family members, courage to embrace life in its fullness, and the ability to make new friendships
geek gets very depressed
geek eventually decides to break out of his coccoon
Says the guy who formatted his list using HTML <UL> elements, ha ha!
I'm in the last stage right now, but it is bloody difficult. However, I sincerely believe the story isn't over yet.
I think different people have markedly different experiences. My guess is that surrounding oneself with technology (or any other collection of inanimate objects) can exacerbate an already existing condition in people.
Sit down and let me tell you a tale. I was sexually abused as a kid, so was at high risk for depression (abuse can be nasty) and insulating myself from the world (I learned, mistakenly, that the world was too dangerous). Once I discovered computers, I found an ideal way to escape from the world: these things were almost infinitely interesting (new stuff is being developed all the time), and I didn't have to deal with that scary thing we call "the world". (Of course, I didn't realize at the time that that was one of my motives.) Whee! What a great hobby!
Now, years later, I'm trying to reconnect myself with the real world after going through a years-long episode of depression. It's not easy, and it's kinda frightening. But I notice that every time I start burrowing myself in my computery hobby, I'm always more depressed and disconnected from the world.
I realize that my experience may be different from other people's, but I just wanted to illustrate that a predisposition to depression can be "turned on" by heavy computer use.
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I know; isn't it great? I love biased advocacy journalism. At least it has an opinion and it's fun to read, regardless of how credible or worthless it is ^_^
http://www.flashkit.com -- there are tons of sound clips and music loops with various licenses. I think most (if not all) of them are available as MP3. A lot of them are available as free-with-credits, some are public domain, some have to be purchased.
I don't know much at all about oceanology, but I will say this: there are theories that a big, frosty inland sea was partly to blame for the last ice age. It was trapped in the belly of North America, and at one point something broke, and it drained through the St Lawrence Seaway into the Atlantic. Now, if there was a 'gulf stream' back then, a bunch of icy cold water flowing into this warm oceanic current could play serious havoc with the weather (think about the crazy stuff that goes on every time an El Nino winter comes around!) So my point is: what could the mobilisation of this frosty body of water do? We could be looking at another ice age!!!! AAAAAAAAA! Get out your parkas and mukkluks, everyone; it's gonna be a big chill! (No need to worry about global warming anymore either ^_^) Disclaimer: I did hear this theory from my uncle Patrick, and he's..... not known for being very critical of the rumours he hears.
Our credit union just got a new ATM and, sure enough, it has Windows on it. I'm not joking. And the funny thing is, some of the instructional diagrams were 404ing.... I just chuckled to myself and thought, "that's just typical." Looks like they got it fixed now though ^_^
seriously, I had no idea these things were networked in any fashion other than being tied to my credit union's mainframe. If they are, that's really really scary.
what?
this makes no sense. I don't understand this Intarweb thing. AAAA!
I think the fact that you're able to ask this kind of question is what differentiates us from the other animals (oh, and we have less hair, by and large, unless you consider fish and reptiles). Humans seem to have acquired the ability to think really really big thoughts. And I mean, big!
I wonder if 'meaning' is really a meme, or is it for some reason part of our brains? I mean, did someone start searching for meaning, then other people started catching on, until we're all asking the question? I'm inclined to believe that the need to ask that question is part of our genetic makeup. I see evidence of this in the fact that everyone, throughout most of their life, seems so obsessed with this subject, and often go into despair when they can't find the answer to this question. It's almost as if the need for meaning is a fundamental need, as fundamental as the need for survival.
My two cents' worth. I really enjoyed your writ (especially the comment that most people's primary meme is "WTF?" -- I feel like that a lot of the time myself), and if I had any karma points I'd mod you up.
your new sig is a thing of beauty.
Humdinger!
Havoc is wearing my favourite shirt! how on earth did he get it?!? I don't remember saying he could use it, but that's ol' Havoc... always taking my clothes without asking.
Foundationless name-dropping aside, I'm excited to watch the directions the free desktop is taking. I tried using GNOME 2.2, and wasn't completely impressed with it (eventually moved over to KDE), but this new version looks like a serious contender in terms of power and ease-of-use to both KDE and, in my eyes, Windows XP.
Makes me really want to figure out how I borked up my Gentoo install so I can start using Linux again. oh boy!
you know, that's exactly what I was thinking too. Silly me ^_^
I think they chose the word 'compromise' in this context because of SCO's allegation that a compromise must be made, as opposed to a hidden knowledge that Linux is in danger. I think that in another part of the letter, the authors question McBride about whether there is any compromise to be made at all.
I clicked on it too, fully expecting to see goatse as well... thought, "hmmmm, maybe I should just press the stop button..." coulda easily been tubgirl, which I was just introduced to today, and had to subsequently pour ethanol in my eyes to clean them out.
you insensitive clod! I'm so new to this Intarweb thing... I had no idea what tubgirl.com was...
gonna wash my eyes out now.
yeah, actually I kinda agree. And, to tell the truth, I don't want too much innovation in Linux, for the sake of innovation itself (and I mean the whole OSS/FS community, not just the Linux kernel). Sure, innovation is usually pretty neat (I think those "windows that flap in the wind" in Longhorn are the best thing since sliced butter), but is it always valuable? Not necessarily.
What is valuable is stuff that gets my work done efficiently and effectively. If new innovations fulfil that need, I'm all for them! But so often, innovations create new markets that didn't exist before, and then the sales teams go out and try to convince the world that they need something that it's done without for at least ten thousand years, if not more.
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yeah, we all were under that impression, until Lindows started shifting their focus to Windows 'data compatibility' as opposed to 'executable compatibility'. It was disappointing to us all, as we were expecting some nice yummy stuff to be contributed back to the WINE project.
I think what happened was Lindows just saw it as a too-formidable task, and shifted their focus a bit. Now they're focusing on a couple of things: data compatibility, like I said before (e.g., documents, instant messaging protocols), and family-friendliness (e.g., ease-of-use, parental controls).
you are bad.
hmmmmmmmmm... no case mod involving a CPU as a heater, but this site documents the installation of a lava lamp into a very swanky stained-glass case. This site is the home of my favourite case mods in the world ^_^ Look at the very last case mod, number eight, to see the lava lamp.
amlai is right; flash media has "delayed writes", just the same as hard drives. Now the problemmmmmmmm......... is that some USB flash media doesn't have an "eject" item on its context menu. Unless it's Windows itself that provides the "eject" feature, in which case.... where the hell did it go in XP? I've had all sorts of problems with my flash media just because I couldn't find the "eject" menu item! Fie and pox upon them! (please mod me up for calling down a pox on Microsoft)
who the hell modded this guy as insightful?!? someone should take away their mod points. (ha, love the way HookedOnPhonics' website is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary tho ^_^)
funky little program that tries to prevent RMI by reminding you to take breaks at different intervals. I think it's part of the GNOME system as opposed to an add-on. I could only find this link: http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.4/user-gu ide.html#goscustdesk-86
ha ha! you couple of karma-whores!
I never knew about that shutdown /a thingy, but here's what I did:
Because I chose "Restart the Service", I'm greeted with a coredump message every five minutes or so -- you may want to either turn off error reporting or choose "Take No Action".
Hope this helps!
instead of a
. So shoot me ^_^
I think it's very true that causality != corellation, but I think the corellation is a very strong one. Here's how it happened in my life:
Says the guy who formatted his list using HTML <UL> elements, ha ha!
I'm in the last stage right now, but it is bloody difficult. However, I sincerely believe the story isn't over yet.
I think different people have markedly different experiences. My guess is that surrounding oneself with technology (or any other collection of inanimate objects) can exacerbate an already existing condition in people.
Sit down and let me tell you a tale. I was sexually abused as a kid, so was at high risk for depression (abuse can be nasty) and insulating myself from the world (I learned, mistakenly, that the world was too dangerous). Once I discovered computers, I found an ideal way to escape from the world: these things were almost infinitely interesting (new stuff is being developed all the time), and I didn't have to deal with that scary thing we call "the world". (Of course, I didn't realize at the time that that was one of my motives.) Whee! What a great hobby!
Now, years later, I'm trying to reconnect myself with the real world after going through a years-long episode of depression. It's not easy, and it's kinda frightening. But I notice that every time I start burrowing myself in my computery hobby, I'm always more depressed and disconnected from the world.
I realize that my experience may be different from other people's, but I just wanted to illustrate that a predisposition to depression can be "turned on" by heavy computer use.