I'd love to pay a monthly fee for the few TV shows I actually want to follow (Dr. Who, BSG, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Nova, Mythbusters) and have them delivered without commercials on a regular basis. If it weren't for the ridiculous pricing scheme put in place by Comcast ($67/month for broadband alone or $52/month for broadband plus $15/month for cable TV), I'd have dropped my cable a long time ago and just gotten season passes on iTunes.
Still doesn't mean I wouldn't want a NAT to offer a centralized location to manage my network. Right now I've got a NAT router forwarding most ports on my IP to my Mac Mini server (which has its own firewall), and a few gaming ports to my Powerbook. Managing a firewall in a single location would be a lot easier than managing a firewall on multiple devices.
And how will IPv6 affect broadband? Right now I'm only allowed one dynamic IP. Would all broadband providers be forced to monitor individual IPs across their network?
While I understand your annoyance, I'd like to point out that OS X was pretty much a complete tear-down and rebuild of the OS, not just a refactoring and a pretty new UI. So we're not on version 10, we're really on version 4 of the second-generation Mac OS.
And I can't remember the last time I looked for a file in a specific location. Quicksilver pretty much makes all file browsers obsolete.
I think it's funny that everyone says kids are the best thing that ever happened to them, because it's completely illogical. Having a being that requires 24/7 care for about ten years straight? Not having any time or money to yourself? Then having them hate you for being your parents while asking you for money? And then asking you for money until they're 22 and having to get a second mortgage to pay for their education?
I've been told that these questions will be erased by the mindfuck that is the Parenting Hormone. Of course, sleep deprivation can cause major psychological problems, so maybe that's why babies keep you up.
Then when they found out she was 25 in the photo, they changed their story to not wanting anyone who has had alcohol touch their virgin lips to be teaching young children, rather than admitting they were wrong.
I had teachers who smoked like chimneys and had bottles of scotch in their desks, and I turned out alright. Heck, most of my classmates senior year were drunk in class, having smuggled it in inside of iced tea.
I saw a documentary on PBS about the summer of love, and it struck me how much of that philosophy is present in the Open Source movement. Take, for example, the Diggers, who would get bruised and otherwise unsellable food from grocery stores, cook it, and give it away in the park to anyone who wanted it. They took things that would have gone to wasted and made them into something useful for others.
Open Source contributors are continuing this tradition. They're taking spare programmer cycles and spare server space and turning it into something that improves the lives of people for free.
Just wait till you have a wife. I try writing my own stuff and I never have the time to. I actually have stuff to do at work, so I can't work on anything there, and when I go home my wife insists that I "spend time" with her. And, apparently, tapping away at my Powerbook while she watches TV doesn't count.
I'm hopeful that once we have a kid I'll be relegated to the role of grocery courier and she'll have someone else to bother all the time. But I'm not going to hold my breath. (First kid's due in October.)
I hate lawyers. Not because they make life hard, but because, like marketers and sales, their job is to lie to make the person giving them money look as good as possible.
But lawyers are relatively benign. Marketers are dangerous because they have legions of psychologists at their disposal looking for ways to make you think something even if you don't want to.
So the reason we have a security industry is because lazy programmers can't see all edge cases in a virtually infinite system. That's like saying that if only we lived in sterile white rooms all our lives, we wouldn't need health insurance.
Part of the function of education is to teach children how to behave and what their boundaries are.
Really? I was taught good behavior by my parents. All school taught me was how to go outside the boundaries without getting caught, among other things.
And does this really stop people from doing it at work? I've seen people fired for similar reasons. I've also seen people not fired because they're high enough in the system not to get caught. The problem here is human nature, not disrespect for the law. Get something valuable and put it behind a wall, and you'll have people trying to get over the wall.
It's funny that you brought up "morals." The same curmudgeons who insist that MPAA/RIAA is the best way to distribute music and movies are the same as people who say that organized religion is the only way to have morals. They look things like the Creative Commons the same as leaders of organized religions look at homosexuality. They say "You can't create music without a music company" just like the others say "You can't have morality without religion."
The world is changing, and it scares them, and they're going to fight like hell to stay relavent. Our only task is to wait them out. You see, we have an advantage: We're younger, so they're going to die first.
It's not Mac compatible. It's X11 compatible. X11 is ugly, doesn't use my fonts, and is hard to print from. Saying something that runs in X11 is "Mac compatible" is like saying something that runs in Cygwin is "Windows compatible."
Politicians are all scum, no matter which flag they wave. Remeber: Poly = many, tick = small bloodsucking parasite.
I completely agree. Politicians are horrible. Why can't we go back to the good old days before annoying campaigns and bothersome voting. I just want to be told what to do by clergy and nobility, and have the strength to be able to do it. Why bother thinking?
Magellan was a national hero and he was buried at sea. If I was the first person to walk on mars, I wouldn't mind at all to be buried there, and if I died on the way there, I'd want to be flushed out the airlock.
Yet the philosophical question is where did those ideas come from?
Trial and error. Societies that didn't subscribe to it were less nice to live in than other societies. We could live like Mongol hordes (which even the Mongols don't do anymore), but it doesn't work as well as simply treating everyone nicely. Yeah, it's hard to do sometimes, but that doesn't mean it's not good.
I just want to state my belief tbat a Faith in God is not about religion, supernatural miracles, mumbo jumbo; it is about accepting something greater then myself
Of course. But why make something up when there's a whole universe greater than you, and that you and everything in it are made of the same stuff?
My problem with the supernatural isn't that it's supernatural. It's that the supernatural is inherently unprovable, and that breeds conflict. How many wars have been sparked because one group's idea of god wasn't compatible with another group's idea of god? Remove the supernatural and you still have good reasons to do the right thing, you just eliminate a point of contention.
You can arrive at similar conclusions without all the supernatural mumbo jumbo. We're all on this planet together, and we're all made of the same stuff, and you should treat other people nicely because you would want them to treat you nicely, even if they're mean to you. See? No god or fairies or eternal punishment or reward needed.
I'm amazed a slashdotter missed a Brave New World reference...
Other countries, let's see... Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Japan. Or basically the rest of the developed world.
Other countries seem to have very good postal services, education systems, medical care and retirement systems, as well as functional public transportation and high speed rail.
For me to dispose of anything from old computers to old paint to motor oil, it's a two mile trip to Lancaster's Household Hazardous Waste Center. I pull in, pop the trunk, let the guys take everything and close the trunk, and then leave. Heck, it's even on my way to work.
Don't feel too bad about disposing of it in the trash, though. Over the life of the bulb the level of mercury emissions from the coal fired power plant and the 5mg in the bulb itself are actually lower than the power plant emissions needed to power an incandescent bulb.
But I think the recycling option is the best one, at least for those poor folks who don't live in a community like mine.
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God I hope so.
I'd love to pay a monthly fee for the few TV shows I actually want to follow (Dr. Who, BSG, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Nova, Mythbusters) and have them delivered without commercials on a regular basis. If it weren't for the ridiculous pricing scheme put in place by Comcast ($67/month for broadband alone or $52/month for broadband plus $15/month for cable TV), I'd have dropped my cable a long time ago and just gotten season passes on iTunes.
Still doesn't mean I wouldn't want a NAT to offer a centralized location to manage my network. Right now I've got a NAT router forwarding most ports on my IP to my Mac Mini server (which has its own firewall), and a few gaming ports to my Powerbook. Managing a firewall in a single location would be a lot easier than managing a firewall on multiple devices.
And how will IPv6 affect broadband? Right now I'm only allowed one dynamic IP. Would all broadband providers be forced to monitor individual IPs across their network?
While I understand your annoyance, I'd like to point out that OS X was pretty much a complete tear-down and rebuild of the OS, not just a refactoring and a pretty new UI. So we're not on version 10, we're really on version 4 of the second-generation Mac OS.
And I can't remember the last time I looked for a file in a specific location. Quicksilver pretty much makes all file browsers obsolete.
I think it's funny that everyone says kids are the best thing that ever happened to them, because it's completely illogical. Having a being that requires 24/7 care for about ten years straight? Not having any time or money to yourself? Then having them hate you for being your parents while asking you for money? And then asking you for money until they're 22 and having to get a second mortgage to pay for their education?
I've been told that these questions will be erased by the mindfuck that is the Parenting Hormone. Of course, sleep deprivation can cause major psychological problems, so maybe that's why babies keep you up.
I had teachers who smoked like chimneys and had bottles of scotch in their desks, and I turned out alright. Heck, most of my classmates senior year were drunk in class, having smuggled it in inside of iced tea.
To be fair, they'll probably still offer DRMed, lower quality music for the same price. Just burn, rip, burn if it's that much of a problem for you.
I saw a documentary on PBS about the summer of love, and it struck me how much of that philosophy is present in the Open Source movement. Take, for example, the Diggers, who would get bruised and otherwise unsellable food from grocery stores, cook it, and give it away in the park to anyone who wanted it. They took things that would have gone to wasted and made them into something useful for others.
Open Source contributors are continuing this tradition. They're taking spare programmer cycles and spare server space and turning it into something that improves the lives of people for free.
Just wait till you have a wife. I try writing my own stuff and I never have the time to. I actually have stuff to do at work, so I can't work on anything there, and when I go home my wife insists that I "spend time" with her. And, apparently, tapping away at my Powerbook while she watches TV doesn't count.
I'm hopeful that once we have a kid I'll be relegated to the role of grocery courier and she'll have someone else to bother all the time. But I'm not going to hold my breath. (First kid's due in October.)
I hate lawyers. Not because they make life hard, but because, like marketers and sales, their job is to lie to make the person giving them money look as good as possible.
But lawyers are relatively benign. Marketers are dangerous because they have legions of psychologists at their disposal looking for ways to make you think something even if you don't want to.
Exactly! Who needs software! I buy my computer to sit there and look pretty.
So the reason we have a security industry is because lazy programmers can't see all edge cases in a virtually infinite system. That's like saying that if only we lived in sterile white rooms all our lives, we wouldn't need health insurance.
Really? I was taught good behavior by my parents. All school taught me was how to go outside the boundaries without getting caught, among other things.
And does this really stop people from doing it at work? I've seen people fired for similar reasons. I've also seen people not fired because they're high enough in the system not to get caught. The problem here is human nature, not disrespect for the law. Get something valuable and put it behind a wall, and you'll have people trying to get over the wall.
It's funny that you brought up "morals." The same curmudgeons who insist that MPAA/RIAA is the best way to distribute music and movies are the same as people who say that organized religion is the only way to have morals. They look things like the Creative Commons the same as leaders of organized religions look at homosexuality. They say "You can't create music without a music company" just like the others say "You can't have morality without religion."
The world is changing, and it scares them, and they're going to fight like hell to stay relavent. Our only task is to wait them out. You see, we have an advantage: We're younger, so they're going to die first.
It's not Mac compatible. It's X11 compatible. X11 is ugly, doesn't use my fonts, and is hard to print from. Saying something that runs in X11 is "Mac compatible" is like saying something that runs in Cygwin is "Windows compatible."
I completely agree. Politicians are horrible. Why can't we go back to the good old days before annoying campaigns and bothersome voting. I just want to be told what to do by clergy and nobility, and have the strength to be able to do it. Why bother thinking?
Hybrid cars aren't that expensive, and they're as practical as any other compact car.
Doesn't it?
Magellan was a national hero and he was buried at sea. If I was the first person to walk on mars, I wouldn't mind at all to be buried there, and if I died on the way there, I'd want to be flushed out the airlock.
Screw bumper stickers. I'm getting a tattoo.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Laissez-faire capitalism simply does not work.
Trial and error. Societies that didn't subscribe to it were less nice to live in than other societies. We could live like Mongol hordes (which even the Mongols don't do anymore), but it doesn't work as well as simply treating everyone nicely. Yeah, it's hard to do sometimes, but that doesn't mean it's not good.
Of course. But why make something up when there's a whole universe greater than you, and that you and everything in it are made of the same stuff?
My problem with the supernatural isn't that it's supernatural. It's that the supernatural is inherently unprovable, and that breeds conflict. How many wars have been sparked because one group's idea of god wasn't compatible with another group's idea of god? Remove the supernatural and you still have good reasons to do the right thing, you just eliminate a point of contention.
You can arrive at similar conclusions without all the supernatural mumbo jumbo. We're all on this planet together, and we're all made of the same stuff, and you should treat other people nicely because you would want them to treat you nicely, even if they're mean to you. See? No god or fairies or eternal punishment or reward needed.
I'm amazed a slashdotter missed a Brave New World reference...
Other countries, let's see... Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Japan. Or basically the rest of the developed world.
Other countries seem to have very good postal services, education systems, medical care and retirement systems, as well as functional public transportation and high speed rail.
Maybe it's just that Americans suck at governing.
Man, I'm glad I don't live in Richmond.
For me to dispose of anything from old computers to old paint to motor oil, it's a two mile trip to Lancaster's Household Hazardous Waste Center. I pull in, pop the trunk, let the guys take everything and close the trunk, and then leave. Heck, it's even on my way to work.
Don't feel too bad about disposing of it in the trash, though. Over the life of the bulb the level of mercury emissions from the coal fired power plant and the 5mg in the bulb itself are actually lower than the power plant emissions needed to power an incandescent bulb.
But I think the recycling option is the best one, at least for those poor folks who don't live in a community like mine.