Someone modded this funny, but in fact it is wholeheartly insightful. Yeah, some level of apathy EXACTLY works as cooler for your brain - so it can't burn out. And as always, if you will work right, you will outperform yourself.
Because it is my everyday's life and I fighting with this problem all my life.
I am brainy. I do remember lot of difficult and smart things, I exel in computers, arts, remembering details, talking about complex human emotions, analyzing something and yet...
I have performed poorly VERY frequently so far. Why? Because of worries. Exactly. Because when the hell hits pan, I have very big problem to concentrate. Yet, everytime it happens to me it is very big fight what I survive inside. When I win, I shine and outperform myself. When I loose, well...then it is something I hate to expierence.
But recently I started to train myself on calm myself down from various troublesome situtions. And guess what...It works, it really works. Not for all kind of situations, but hey, it is a start at least.
So I would say it is not another stupid, "waste of the science time" study. It has some roots and if right team could analyze this, I guess lot of people would like to get practical advices how to push their performance without any kind of cheat, with simply self-training.
Yes, all that stuff (patents, copyright extentions, bought laws) is actually anti-capitalism, anti-free market. And that is where lies problem - all these coorporations are meant to be part of this system, yet, they are mostly driven by forces who are against it - they accept the rulles of free market as long it works for them. Simply capitalism and free market heavily conflicts with "strongest survives", it has it's own paradox - free market without control can destroy itself in matter of years if there is no rules and morale applied to it. Pure example is Europe and US. Both has almost same structure of society, but yet, we don't see such predator style business as in US. Why? Culture, etics? It is NOT about money, that's sure.
I guess my problem is that my english is not far enough advanced to talk about topics like this, but I feel that something has to be changed - otherwise this will lead us in very dark future. I still believe that this system - free market, capitalism - can be used, but with control. And there is a problem - all controls driven by humans can be corrupted. So far it seems like a dead end for me. Altought I'm optimistic by nature.
It is dead end. Everyone knew that it will happen, for years knew. But all the time we have heard that "no system is working better than this and we should stick that way". Well, it worked for me somehow...to survive. But not to live. I somehow can't live in such ruthless world, as biggest part of people just try ignore it. I can't.
Capitalism and free market can be done only in theory - when people are mostly driven by money. Hoverer, I have my own theory on this. Most big coorporations are not driven by money, but by people with low self-esteem who wants power by any cost. If they have been motivated by money, they have already stop all this after first, second milion. But no...
I guess that is where it has a big problem - our society tends to forget what human being really is - it is NOT ONLY an animal driven by his basic needs, but complex intelligence creature which needs are much more difficult to deal with.
This creature needs attention, care, peace, and yes...that stupid little thing love.
Personally I think behind each crime against humanity, each greedy, stupid demonstration of power like this is one, small tortured soul which has lost it's way to love.
Ok, it was outright sentimental, but it is what I think about it:)
It is not about how much rocket costs..
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..but if it is relaiable. And guess what - those God damned expensive NASA rockets are most relayable ones. Strange, isn't it? If you have problems with your car, ups, rocket in the space, you are propably a gonner. There is no technical car service in the space. And I have big doubts if NASA can put out a resq. team specially for you:)
Hey, maybe you can use LGPL libs instead, because it was the purpose of the creation of the LGPL - allow the usage of GNOME/GTK+ interface in the prioritary apps. For example, almost all GNOME libs are LGPL now.
AFAIK, Miguel talk about it somewhere last summer in the blog - that it will be a simple GTK+ port, which will use special GTK+ theme for Windows (forgot how it was), but that was all. I guess if we have already good system of ports of GTK+ and other libs, so why not port all what is left and do it in native GTK+ style. Support it would be much easer, too.
Congratulations to Novell about this great step! All the time when I install or support Windows machines (which cannot be converted yet/wound't be due of various software), I dream about version of Evolution for Windows - because Outlook is big, fat security hole and unsecure as hell (from my own expierence).
So it is just GREAT.
And ohh - no one wants to convert Evolution to OS X?:)
I like to point out that that is fine example how open source works - someone has very good idea, but wrong implentation. Project goes down. Someone re-evaluates idea, extract functionality and get it done differently, but more effiecently. Job is done, we, users, get functionality, which idea is best is proven by real world, not by marketing crap.
Yeah, but big difference is that Apple has it all NOW. Microsoft implementation is still theoretical and at least two years ahead, if not more. And if we are talking about showing, promising and doing - Apple has done much more about brining REAL new technologies and products in the market than Microsoft.
About whole your post - yeah, I agree. It is time to get rid of pixels. And AFAIS(See), this is where industry is moving.
I have to agree with you on this. Apple has is very sure about itself now and I actually happy to see this - because, even If I don't use their products everyday, I happy to use OS X (by myself I am musician and yet, open source and Linux advocat on this case too) and see the quality of the products they present to the market - specially about hardware. Yes, I love the Apple brand as it is - even If I don't use it - because I believe that sometimes have a good brand around in market gives a warm, good feeling about all whole thing.
And I happy to see that Apple finally comes out of ninche and pushes PC industry to move their asses forward to not be left behind. Because all the time PC industry was about features, not about quality of the product. Maybe Apple will push them to rethink this point for once more.
Science over everything
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I think NASA rovers was one of the rare things in 2004 which united whole world. They were there for purerly scientific reasons, they did what they had been sent to do, even more - they continue to rock on and provide more and more details, overloading NASA scientists with work for years.
I see it as victory of science over money, politics, everything which seperate us. Because I think nothing beat those news that we discovered that Mars once definetly has water. So... there should be living organisms on other planets. There could be something like us, humans.
I think nothing beats that feeling when science and common sence works for whole humanity.
I have to agree with you, but I think it was just a bunch of small countries waited for some hero to appear - AFAIK Estonia, Latvia, Lithuenia (aka Baltic States, I'm from Latvia) was against proposal, but didn't have much political honesty and courage to suggest to stop this maddness. I guess your theory is also supported by that no one objected that Poland blocked patent proposal in this meeting. That means that even proponents don't have any kind of big illusions to get it trough such way.
I think there will be always jokes about countries which people don't understand or haven't seen or their language or behaveur is strange (from our point of view). There is nothing wrong with that as long it is not over the top - we, Latvians, almost every time make jokes about Estonians - and I bet they do that do about us. And it is fun;)
However, I haven't heard lot of jokes about Poland or polish people, so it could be just a US thingy;)
It was quite a surprise, and thanks God - it is done. Of coarse, they (we know who they are) will try again and again, but in fact that they lost it second time, so I think they will eventually run out of arguments if they will try it next time.
Thanks to open source, free software and small IT business advocates and lobbies who made it happen, everyone who tried to provide insightful information to diplomats and goverments.
I can second that. PHP has very serious issues with threading, so it is beheaving very strange and not relaibly with worker module with Apache2. Sure, you can use it with standard module but why do it so then? It is not worth the switch - if you don't have other issues of coarse.
But not to make flames, I must admit that I use Apache 2 over first version and I really love PHP and that code landmass it has created in last 5 years.
Problem is maybe there that Solaris isn't actually a new kid in the block AND it is supported and backed by Sun. It is very striking difference between Solaris and Linux.
I just wanted to point out that you are talking about Sun's own hardware. Call me when Sun Solaris 10 will run without glich on poor's man Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP server.
So far it is just raving from Sun - ohh, yeah, we have very shiny hardware, and ohh, our OS is free and open source.
Prove it. Improve it under different platforms. Then claim it a winner:)
How the 'I have no time to check it out and I won't because I have much better ways to spend my geek time' is the arrogant?
Personally, I haven't checked newest Microsoft products FOR YEARS. Because I just don't see any sense or need in that, nor I have time for that. It is just plainly simple. Not arrogant.
He says that he respect that many people will be happy to use it, fine. But he simply don't care about that. And guess what - he can allow himself to do so, because he is just a manager of the Linux project. Lot of people will check out Solaris for them and if there will be interesting things, he will be pushed to see it by himself.
Linus is not a sales man, so he says what he thinks. Sales man says that he doesn't care about competitors because he is ordered to say so.
But if we are serious about that - yeah, not everything is perfect and some security layers could be improved in downloading Firefox. However, in reality, it is all that bad - no common user will take any security checkings according to that. Solution? When 'Spreading Firefox [tm]' be sure to inform users about OFFICIAL sites and mirrors to be sure about legimity of dowloads.
So as someone before already said - author could be in some part right, but for my opinion, it doesn't hold very much water to be disscussed here, in Slashdot (ohhh, yeah, Firefox is bad, some kind of sensacional journalism, heh), so it is better simply to suggest that as bugs in Bugzilla.
See, coorporation is very big institution and sometimes, there are many people who are here not to just to job they have paid for, but get something more...illegal or not, it is not my way to say. I guess AOL ties with Microsoft hides in some of AOL CEO's greed and that's all that matters then. So AOL can do some such absurd moves, and not whole coorporation will take any notice - hey, it's IT, high technologies and let's be honest, not all shareholders are that insightful to understand what's really going on here.
Personally I think that it is just a message for AOL zone webmasters - stick with IE only standards and you will be saved. Drop them and you will be gone, choice is yours. It displays some level of confusion and desperation from MS, I think.
Answer is very simple - Game is owned by publisher and it can do ANYTHING what it owns. So...answer is VERY simple - just don't use it, period.
Ohh, you bought it? No, you bought a right to play. Ohh, there is no license? I guess no, when you install it, you have to agree with it. If you don't agree, call Valve that you don't and get a refund.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone modded this funny, but in fact it is wholeheartly insightful. Yeah, some level of apathy EXACTLY works as cooler for your brain - so it can't burn out. And as always, if you will work right, you will outperform yourself.
Because it is my everyday's life and I fighting with this problem all my life.
I am brainy. I do remember lot of difficult and smart things, I exel in computers, arts, remembering details, talking about complex human emotions, analyzing something and yet...
I have performed poorly VERY frequently so far. Why? Because of worries. Exactly. Because when the hell hits pan, I have very big problem to concentrate. Yet, everytime it happens to me it is very big fight what I survive inside. When I win, I shine and outperform myself. When I loose, well...then it is something I hate to expierence.
But recently I started to train myself on calm myself down from various troublesome situtions. And guess what...It works, it really works. Not for all kind of situations, but hey, it is a start at least.
So I would say it is not another stupid, "waste of the science time" study. It has some roots and if right team could analyze this, I guess lot of people would like to get practical advices how to push their performance without any kind of cheat, with simply self-training.
See, I thought it such way.
Yes, all that stuff (patents, copyright extentions, bought laws) is actually anti-capitalism, anti-free market. And that is where lies problem - all these coorporations are meant to be part of this system, yet, they are mostly driven by forces who are against it - they accept the rulles of free market as long it works for them. Simply capitalism and free market heavily conflicts with "strongest survives", it has it's own paradox - free market without control can destroy itself in matter of years if there is no rules and morale applied to it. Pure example is Europe and US. Both has almost same structure of society, but yet, we don't see such predator style business as in US. Why? Culture, etics? It is NOT about money, that's sure.
I guess my problem is that my english is not far enough advanced to talk about topics like this, but I feel that something has to be changed - otherwise this will lead us in very dark future. I still believe that this system - free market, capitalism - can be used, but with control. And there is a problem - all controls driven by humans can be corrupted. So far it seems like a dead end for me. Altought I'm optimistic by nature.
It is dead end. Everyone knew that it will happen, for years knew. But all the time we have heard that "no system is working better than this and we should stick that way". Well, it worked for me somehow...to survive. But not to live. I somehow can't live in such ruthless world, as biggest part of people just try ignore it. I can't.
:)
Capitalism and free market can be done only in theory - when people are mostly driven by money. Hoverer, I have my own theory on this. Most big coorporations are not driven by money, but by people with low self-esteem who wants power by any cost. If they have been motivated by money, they have already stop all this after first, second milion. But no...
I guess that is where it has a big problem - our society tends to forget what human being really is - it is NOT ONLY an animal driven by his basic needs, but complex intelligence creature which needs are much more difficult to deal with.
This creature needs attention, care, peace, and yes...that stupid little thing love.
Personally I think behind each crime against humanity, each greedy, stupid demonstration of power like this is one, small tortured soul which has lost it's way to love.
Ok, it was outright sentimental, but it is what I think about it
..but if it is relaiable. And guess what - those God damned expensive NASA rockets are most relayable ones. Strange, isn't it? :)
If you have problems with your car, ups, rocket in the space, you are propably a gonner. There is no technical car service in the space. And I have big doubts if NASA can put out a resq. team specially for you
Hey, maybe you can use LGPL libs instead, because it was the purpose of the creation of the LGPL - allow the usage of GNOME/GTK+ interface in the prioritary apps. For example, almost all GNOME libs are LGPL now.
AFAIK, Miguel talk about it somewhere last summer in the blog - that it will be a simple GTK+ port, which will use special GTK+ theme for Windows (forgot how it was), but that was all. I guess if we have already good system of ports of GTK+ and other libs, so why not port all what is left and do it in native GTK+ style. Support it would be much easer, too.
Congratulations to Novell about this great step! All the time when I install or support Windows machines (which cannot be converted yet/wound't be due of various software), I dream about version of Evolution for Windows - because Outlook is big, fat security hole and unsecure as hell (from my own expierence).
:)
So it is just GREAT.
And ohh - no one wants to convert Evolution to OS X?
I like to point out that that is fine example how open source works - someone has very good idea, but wrong implentation. Project goes down. Someone re-evaluates idea, extract functionality and get it done differently, but more effiecently. Job is done, we, users, get functionality, which idea is best is proven by real world, not by marketing crap.
Of coarse, we can. The whole world is about many choices, not the holy one. :)
:) They both rock, dude.
And in exchange, I still use K3b and Kbabel at my GNOME desktop
Yeah, but big difference is that Apple has it all NOW. Microsoft implementation is still theoretical and at least two years ahead, if not more. And if we are talking about showing, promising and doing - Apple has done much more about brining REAL new technologies and products in the market than Microsoft.
About whole your post - yeah, I agree. It is time to get rid of pixels. And AFAIS(See), this is where industry is moving.
I have to agree with you on this. Apple has is very sure about itself now and I actually happy to see this - because, even If I don't use their products everyday, I happy to use OS X (by myself I am musician and yet, open source and Linux advocat on this case too) and see the quality of the products they present to the market - specially about hardware. Yes, I love the Apple brand as it is - even If I don't use it - because I believe that sometimes have a good brand around in market gives a warm, good feeling about all whole thing.
And I happy to see that Apple finally comes out of ninche and pushes PC industry to move their asses forward to not be left behind. Because all the time PC industry was about features, not about quality of the product. Maybe Apple will push them to rethink this point for once more.
I think NASA rovers was one of the rare things in 2004 which united whole world. They were there for purerly scientific reasons, they did what they had been sent to do, even more - they continue to rock on and provide more and more details, overloading NASA scientists with work for years.
I see it as victory of science over money, politics, everything which seperate us. Because I think nothing beat those news that we discovered that Mars once definetly has water. So... there should be living organisms on other planets. There could be something like us, humans.
I think nothing beats that feeling when science and common sence works for whole humanity.
but web site diagnosis is clear: slashdotted.
I have to agree with you, but I think it was just a bunch of small countries waited for some hero to appear - AFAIK Estonia, Latvia, Lithuenia (aka Baltic States, I'm from Latvia) was against proposal, but didn't have much political honesty and courage to suggest to stop this maddness. I guess your theory is also supported by that no one objected that Poland blocked patent proposal in this meeting. That means that even proponents don't have any kind of big illusions to get it trough such way.
I think there will be always jokes about countries which people don't understand or haven't seen or their language or behaveur is strange (from our point of view). There is nothing wrong with that as long it is not over the top - we, Latvians, almost every time make jokes about Estonians - and I bet they do that do about us. And it is fun ;)
;)
However, I haven't heard lot of jokes about Poland or polish people, so it could be just a US thingy
It was quite a surprise, and thanks God - it is done. Of coarse, they (we know who they are) will try again and again, but in fact that they lost it second time, so I think they will eventually run out of arguments if they will try it next time.
:)
Thanks to open source, free software and small IT business advocates and lobbies who made it happen, everyone who tried to provide insightful information to diplomats and goverments.
Thank you
I can second that. PHP has very serious issues with threading, so it is beheaving very strange and not relaibly with worker module with Apache2. Sure, you can use it with standard module but why do it so then? It is not worth the switch - if you don't have other issues of coarse.
But not to make flames, I must admit that I use Apache 2 over first version and I really love PHP and that code landmass it has created in last 5 years.
Problem is maybe there that Solaris isn't actually a new kid in the block AND it is supported and backed by Sun. It is very striking difference between Solaris and Linux.
I just wanted to point out that you are talking about Sun's own hardware. Call me when Sun Solaris 10 will run without glich on poor's man Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP server.
:)
So far it is just raving from Sun - ohh, yeah, we have very shiny hardware, and ohh, our OS is free and open source.
Prove it. Improve it under different platforms. Then claim it a winner
How the 'I have no time to check it out and I won't because I have much better ways to spend my geek time' is the arrogant? Personally, I haven't checked newest Microsoft products FOR YEARS. Because I just don't see any sense or need in that, nor I have time for that. It is just plainly simple. Not arrogant. He says that he respect that many people will be happy to use it, fine. But he simply don't care about that. And guess what - he can allow himself to do so, because he is just a manager of the Linux project. Lot of people will check out Solaris for them and if there will be interesting things, he will be pushed to see it by himself. Linus is not a sales man, so he says what he thinks. Sales man says that he doesn't care about competitors because he is ordered to say so.
Yeah, I can *trust* IE, riiiiight. :)
But if we are serious about that - yeah, not everything is perfect and some security layers could be improved in downloading Firefox. However, in reality, it is all that bad - no common user will take any security checkings according to that. Solution? When 'Spreading Firefox [tm]' be sure to inform users about OFFICIAL sites and mirrors to be sure about legimity of dowloads.
So as someone before already said - author could be in some part right, but for my opinion, it doesn't hold very much water to be disscussed here, in Slashdot (ohhh, yeah, Firefox is bad, some kind of sensacional journalism, heh), so it is better simply to suggest that as bugs in
Bugzilla.
When you are a monopoly, it is WRONG - legally, ethically and morally.
Apple is NOT monopoly, not close to call them in that way. Microsoft is. And use it's monopoly power ILLEGALY.
That's the whole difference...
Ok, I think I will bite this...
See, coorporation is very big institution and sometimes, there are many people who are here not to just to job they have paid for, but get something more...illegal or not, it is not my way to say. I guess AOL ties with Microsoft hides in some of AOL CEO's greed and that's all that matters then. So AOL can do some such absurd moves, and not whole coorporation will take any notice - hey, it's IT, high technologies and let's be honest, not all shareholders are that insightful to understand what's really going on here.
Personally I think that it is just a message for AOL zone webmasters - stick with IE only standards and you will be saved. Drop them and you will be gone, choice is yours. It displays some level of confusion and desperation from MS, I think.
Answer is very simple - Game is owned by publisher and it can do ANYTHING what it owns. So...answer is VERY simple - just don't use it, period.
Ohh, you bought it? No, you bought a right to play. Ohh, there is no license? I guess no, when you install it, you have to agree with it. If you don't agree, call Valve that you don't and get a refund.
Very deadly simple.