That is his opinion and he is entitled to it. However, humans like comfort, and humans bitch when comfort does not exist, especially on long trips.
What history class did you sit through? It took about 60 days for the pilgrims to get to America. Imagine 102 people on a 90 foot boat with no shower facilities, rampant seasickness, scurvy and dysentery, and the only toilet facilities being the open sea. And when they get to where they're going, they have to start by building their friggin' houses so they don't freeze to death.
Now imagine walking 2,000 miles across harsh wilderness populated by people who will kill you as soon as trade with you, knowing that 10% of your party will die along the way. Surely nobody will want to go, right?
As for food, any long-term space trip will involve growing food, particularly a Mars mission. You *do* know that we grow food out of the dirt. It doesn't just appear on supermarket shelves. People will have to learn how to grow their food or they will *die.*
Also, any human presence in space will require that all people have a working knowledge of almost every system as well as how to make tools from local materials.
So, yeah, people now are lazy pigs who want to sit around all day and complain. But I, and I'm sure many other people, are willing to go and face the hardships. Some want to get away from people, others want religious freedom.
Sidenote: I don't think Al Qaeda would be trying to kill people if they had a way to move away from the influences they dislike.
Frankly we can only hope that there's enough big business clients that have "legacy" Windows OSs that will raise holy hell with Microsoft on this.
Actually, we can also hope that the big business clients finally realize that OSS is a viable alternative for 90% of their staff, that it will run fine on their current hardware, and that it will improve productivity and decrease long-term IT costs.
Of course, if we hoped for that we'd be totally unrealistic.
Actually it's autonomous collective or Anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
Hang on, someone calling himself my king is ordering me to be quiet.
But you're fooling yourself. We're actually living in a dictatorship.
My fiancee put it thusly:
"We've both been tested and have IQs around 140. An IQ of 100 is average, and 60 is retarded. So compared to us, even average people are retarded."
Not only that, but you can't transfer photos off of it, or music files onto it, without doing it over their cellular network for $$$/MB.
/me connects to phone from Powerbook via bluetooth /me opens Bluetooth File Exchange /me copies pictures to and from phone
What's that? Oh, and there are places all over the 'net to find unlock codes for your phone so you can use it with different providers. Granted, it would be great if you didn't have to do this, but it's not impossible.
Sounds like you've been sifting through the classifieds. Kinda depressing, isn't it. You feel like you wasted your life getting that four year degree. Why the heck did you have to take Philosophy? Why couldn't you spend your time learning ADO.NET? Why didn't you go to ITT Tech and get exactly the skills they want for half the price?
Here's a tip: Don't go by the classifieds. Start sending your resume to as many companies as you can find in your field, or that might have departments in your field. That's how I found my sweet, sweet job.
There's a wave of jobs out there. You can either sit back and wait for the wave to hit you and carry you along, or you can start paddling and try to catch one. And I think we both know which ride will be smoother.
I don't trust people unless they have proven themselves to be trustworthy. And since TiVo's primary responsibility is to make a profit, they don't have my best interests at heart unless it's profitable.
So their choice is to sell my information behind my back (but legally, since it's in the contract) and increase profits, or not make a profit and keep my information secure. I would prefer a company *not* have that kind of power over me.
I was that guy all through high school. And then the hot chick ran off to the disgusting piggish bastard who only wanted sex from her and didn't bother listening.
They would always ask me "why aren't there more guys like you" when they really meant "why aren't any of the cool guys like you?"
And why are you giving me dating advice. I'm getting friggin' married!;-)
Imagine having ALL of your entertainment equipment, including your computer, connected digitally via one, simple FireWire cable each, all daisy-chained off one another.
Congratulations. You have just convinced me to roll my own PVR instead of buying a TiVo. I had forgotten that it contacts the mothership for listings and may upload my viewing choices. While I don't think they're selling that information yet, I have no reason to trust that they won't ever sell that information.
Could somebody point me to a homebrew PVR tutorial?
Yes, but I am incapable of dating. I am so geeky that women drawn to me by my stereotypical "tall, dark and handsome" are instantly repelled by the stream of technical information spewing forth from my mouth. Luckily, I found a woman very early on who can deal with it, and actually likes it.
Last night she asked me to explain how the Internet worked. How hot is that?
Slashdot Mirror
Hang on, George Bush is calling...
What history class did you sit through? It took about 60 days for the pilgrims to get to America. Imagine 102 people on a 90 foot boat with no shower facilities, rampant seasickness, scurvy and dysentery, and the only toilet facilities being the open sea. And when they get to where they're going, they have to start by building their friggin' houses so they don't freeze to death.
Now imagine walking 2,000 miles across harsh wilderness populated by people who will kill you as soon as trade with you, knowing that 10% of your party will die along the way. Surely nobody will want to go, right?
As for food, any long-term space trip will involve growing food, particularly a Mars mission. You *do* know that we grow food out of the dirt. It doesn't just appear on supermarket shelves. People will have to learn how to grow their food or they will *die.*
Also, any human presence in space will require that all people have a working knowledge of almost every system as well as how to make tools from local materials.
So, yeah, people now are lazy pigs who want to sit around all day and complain. But I, and I'm sure many other people, are willing to go and face the hardships. Some want to get away from people, others want religious freedom.
Sidenote: I don't think Al Qaeda would be trying to kill people if they had a way to move away from the influences they dislike.
Almost there.
some sort of extremely rare material only available on an asteroid
Helium 3. Gold nuggets the size of your head. mountains of pure iron. All in a place with no zoning regulations or air quality standards.
How's that for incentive?
Which part of "don't want to be dealing with someone who doesn't have my best interests at heart" don't *you* understand?
No, but I do like having my computer more than 15 feet away from my TV.
Actually, we can also hope that the big business clients finally realize that OSS is a viable alternative for 90% of their staff, that it will run fine on their current hardware, and that it will improve productivity and decrease long-term IT costs.
Of course, if we hoped for that we'd be totally unrealistic.
And I finally got him to switch to Firefox full time. Next up: Putting Thunderbird on his system.
Hang on, someone calling himself my king is ordering me to be quiet.
But you're fooling yourself. We're actually living in a dictatorship.
Source
My fiancee put it thusly:
"We've both been tested and have IQs around 140. An IQ of 100 is average, and 60 is retarded. So compared to us, even average people are retarded."
I have 800+ records to get rid of. Do you want them? I'll take $1 a piece.
And I don't look like a Christmas tree. Stop laughing at me!
/me connects to phone from Powerbook via bluetooth
/me opens Bluetooth File Exchange
/me copies pictures to and from phone
What's that? Oh, and there are places all over the 'net to find unlock codes for your phone so you can use it with different providers. Granted, it would be great if you didn't have to do this, but it's not impossible.
And even if you didn't *want* AOL, at least you could reuse the floppy.
</crotchety bastard>
Touche. :-)
Here's a tip: Don't go by the classifieds. Start sending your resume to as many companies as you can find in your field, or that might have departments in your field. That's how I found my sweet, sweet job.
There's a wave of jobs out there. You can either sit back and wait for the wave to hit you and carry you along, or you can start paddling and try to catch one. And I think we both know which ride will be smoother.
It's a vicious cycle.
So their choice is to sell my information behind my back (but legally, since it's in the contract) and increase profits, or not make a profit and keep my information secure. I would prefer a company *not* have that kind of power over me.
I was that guy all through high school. And then the hot chick ran off to the disgusting piggish bastard who only wanted sex from her and didn't bother listening.
They would always ask me "why aren't there more guys like you" when they really meant "why aren't any of the cool guys like you?"
And why are you giving me dating advice. I'm getting friggin' married! ;-)
BUt is my name attached to that? I don't want that, and I can't trust TiVo *not* to sell my name. What's next, spam trying to sell me DVD box sets?
I thought of it as a play on words. That is, "fixing" the broken way we voted last time.
Or at least that's how they spun it.
Now imagine buying a $40 repeater for every 15 feet of cable...
Could somebody point me to a homebrew PVR tutorial?
Last night she asked me to explain how the Internet worked. How hot is that?
If you can't tell who they voted for, yes. They should have been more careful. Voting is a right; voting correctly is a responsibility.
Not only that, but he's also CEO of a major corporation, and thereby shielded from a lot of liability! Hooray!