Ergonomic keyboards have the keys in the positions your hands are supposed to be. It's a neutral position.
Neutral is meaningless. You're supposed to be getting stuff done, so the criteria would be, among others, natural and effective. Arms relaxed and at your sides, with the wrists relaxed and parallel to the keyboard, is about as close as you'll get.
Reclining is a very healthy thing to do, and indeed the very best ergonomic chairs are made to support working in a reclined position.
I own and use one of those high-priced chairs, so I'm well aware of what benefits they offer. While they do accommodate working in a reclined position, that's not to say that doing so is synonymous to working. Do you sit up when the doorbell rings or you spill that coffee, or do you shift into an even more comfortable position? I'm all for relaxation, meditation and easing tired joints and muscles, but I'm not going to agree that we should all strive for some passive womb-like work environment in which our muscles atrophy and our brains enter a a deep REM state.
If that's your goal, I think you're trying too hard. What you really want is a good mattress.
I'm sorry if all this discipline, structure and effort doesn't appeal to your sensibilities. You're free to dismiss it as the rantings of some Slashdot poster, but here's a tip: if you look at anyone who does anything physical professionally, you'll find not one of them advocating for more relaxed or neutral anything. Quite the opposite. Upright chairs are still the norm in orchestras (both for practice and performance), Lazyboy chairs aren't used on the ballfield or the dugout, and athletes, yoga masters and chiropracters all tend to sit and stand in a fairly erect manner.
Mind you, the Romans did eat while reclining, but look where that got them.
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After 5 min of typing, my wrists hurt.
Has the possibility occured to you that you don't know how to type?
If your wrists aren't parallel to the keyboard and completely relaxed, you most likely don't. Double, if you're resting your wrists on something, and your hands and fingers are splayed up in the air like the legs of a cheap Las Vegas hooker.
If an "ergonomic" keyboard works for you, that's great. But to me, that's a lot like saying there's nothing better than a big fat comfy chair for people who like to slouch. Who can argue with that? The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
But while we're on the subject of theories, my own pet theory is that aside from the fact that few people today can be bothered to actually study typing, the height of desktops is mostly to blame. They're just too damned high. While the height does offset the too-low monitor problem, trying to type properly at that height is, if not next to impossible, then definitely problematic.
I have no use for these additional keys, and I bet I'm not the only guy around who despises them.
Well, I despise that they're called Windows keys, that they have the Windows logo on them, and that when used under Windows, they really don't enough to warrant redesigning the standard layout to add two of them.
That said, they can be useful. I prefer to consider them a extra "function" keys and use them in cases where yet another CTRL-ish combo that isn't program-specific would be pointless to remember. Switching desktops is probably the best example.
My Thinkpad has no Winkeys. On the one hand, that's A Good Thing. On the other, they added a non-standard and oddly-sized IBM Function key, and stuck that where the left CTRL key goes, shifting everything over by one, making the use of it and the usual left CTRL key a no op for me. To make things weirder, they added what I believe are two browser back/forward buttons. Which I use for switching desktops forward and back.
If there's a point to that goofy story, it's that's keyboard layout should never be mucked around with, unless it's the user who's doing the mucking around. Why manufacturers are continuing to do it is beyond me, especially when you consider that 99% of their target audience uses a mouse wherever possible, and those who most need a proper keyboard are inconvenienced with every new change.
Any time you hear one of these incredibly stupid, meaningless buzzwords you know for certain that the word's user is completely ignorant of the subject he is talking about and wants you to think you are the ignorant one.
Normally I'd tend to agree, but I'm afraid you're wrong in this case. From the Wiki cloud article:
The term Cloud Computing derives from the common depiction in most technology architecture diagrams, of the Internet or IP availability, using an illustration of a cloud. Cloud computing gained attention in 2007 as it became a popular solution to the problem of horizontal scalability.
If you're unfamiliar with a typical network diagram looks like, the illustration in this Wiki article should make things clearer.
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Just remember the mantra: RAID is not a backup solution.
I think someone should engrave that onto a dozen or so cluebats people can use to beat over the head the sheer numbers of people who are unable to grasp the truth of those words. To be fair, however, the cost of tape backups are prohibitive for most users, so once you're past trivial requirements (CDs, DVDs, etc.), backups to online storage remains the only option. Which, regrettably, starts to look similar to a RAID array.
As for recommendations, I get the impression the poster is looking for a pre-packaged hardware solution more than anything else, so I don't see the value of suggesting FreeNAS, for example, when the web front end and other touted features are entirely superfluous for anyone that can install and configure Open/FreeBSD themselves. If it is prepackaged hardware he's looking for up, I'd suggest he drop the idea, and spec out regular computer, and find joy in getting rid of the old 4U box.
For example, I have a few VIA boxes I use, and while I'm happy to have them, I'm painfully aware of the slow bus speeds, the innability of the system in general to cope with something like an encrypted file system, or the crappy onboard NICs that start to drop packets under high network load. Low power, fanless, all-singing, all-dancing? Sure. Would I use them for file storage? Not a chance.
Facing the prospect of shoddy hardware that is masked by a nice looking box bearing a nice looking logo is a solution only if your needs are trivial, or if you simply don't know any better.
You could sit all day making little beaded merkins with fur trim and I won't pay you a damned cent because I don't want your damned merkins.
Not bragging, but I don't think I've looked up the meaning of a non-technical word (as opposed to reading up on, or reminding myself of its etymology) since I was in grade school many years ago, but "merkin" threw me for a loop. Assuming I'm not alone in admitting that I don't know WTF a "merkin" is, allow me to share the following tidbit of information:
Assuming that's correct (it's on the web, so it must be, right?), I'll leave it as an exercise for my fellow Slashdot readers to look up the meaning of "pudenda", and infer what relevance a pudenda (female or otherwise) has to Apple, Steve Jobs, or the high price of Apple hardware, why the poster used it as an example, and what kind of person would spend their day making beaded versions of such things.
The dubious bit is that warning lights go off in my head every time someone mentions Al-Qaeda because usually it's someone trying to scare me for political reasons.
Normally I do the same, but the article specifically mentions al-Qaeda by name (not "the terrists", "insurgents", "extremists" or "evil-doers"), refers to the "tribal areas of western Pakistan" and accurately characterises those areas as "ungoverned" (no ambiguous "war on terrorism" angle), and then refrains from drawing unwarranted conclusions about what may or may not be going in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
I'd say that's a trifecta.
Just as importantly, using the fear card (as was done for Iraq) is a no op. Pakistan already has a nuclear program, is and will continue to be an ally, the political and social realities there are so complex that no one would dare try to make talking points out of them for news media, and the US military would prefer to stay out of such inaccessible regions altogether. And then, of course, there's no oil.
As for the possibility that this will draw additional attention to the subject of encryption on the part of the administration, or lawmakers in general, I don't see that happening except, perhaps, at the periphery. The use of encryption is as commonlace as it is widespread. That means the issue, if there is one, involves everyone from big business to the military to ordinary folks checking their email.
Yes, absolutely. Instead of believing the propaganda from Big Oil that nothing is wrong, we should instead believe in the propaganda from political interests attempting to divert our attention from other matters and scientific communities whose funding is dependent on the support of those political interests that our doom is upon us and we must stop doing anything.
Wow. Just wow.
I'm guessing that if the subject at hand was "other matters", the response would be similar in both in tone and an absence of meaningful content.
"Dad, why won't anyone think of the polar bears?"
"No worries, son. Let me tell you how the world works..."
Personally I think it's probably better to distribute the power-generation facility onto the roofs of all the residents in these 'southwestern states'... Use the wasted space productively...
Maybe someone who knows more about this than I do can chime in, but I was once told that years ago, before being enviro-friendly was fashionable, folks in Israel would regularly make use of solar energy.
Why?
Because they wanted hot water.
The relevant bit from a Wiki article seems to indicate that it's indeed the case:
Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, the Israeli Knesset passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area). As a result Israel is now the world leader in the use of solar energy per capita (3% of the primary national energy consumption).
The irony here is that instead of adopting a similar measure when the opportunity presented itself, we decided to wait a few generations to be forced into thinking about it. In fairness, though, the Carter administration did build what is still considered the largest solar installation in the US, but that, as they say, is another subject.
I agree that it isn't a BAD thing... what bothers me, though, is how many in our government are pushing oil and coal as being uber critical to american energy needs... so much so that environment corners cut are worth the price.
I'm not sure cutting corners is the right terminology, but insofar as critical infrastructure and price are concerned, a good example may be the EPA's fast tracking of the fence being built along the Mexican border (ostensibly to protect our jobs and Our American Way of Life).
The cost to the environment: undefined. The cost of additional new voters: literally priceless.
The boundary you saw between the smog and clean air above is from an inversion layer.
No, it's called the West Side. That small sliver of land that runs along the coast of the Pacific Ocean where the rich, the famous, and the wanna be rich and famous live and enjoy cool ocean breezes and the California experience, while the rest of us grind out our existence in what's left, a semi-arid, hot, dirty and treeless environment where, during the days, cars swarm like locusts, but at night, disappear, leaving those endless miles of pavement open for the crack whores and gang kids to conduct their business or make that late night trip to their local 7-11. If it wasn't for the streetlights, twinkling like jewels in the night sky for everyone fortunate to live above us, you'd think no one lived here at all.
Seriously, if robots are going to be cleaning narrow and inaccessible pipes, what dirty jobs will be left? Aside from animal husbandry (I don't think even robots want to go there).
It's typical recently of American automakers to offer this kind of gimmicks instead of making decent quality cars.
I'm not sure it's a gimmick, but to the extent it is, I'm sure that Chryser will, in typical American automaker fashion, implement it badly.
That means owners will get probably end up with a square woodgrained plastic panel insert emblazoned with a metal "The Intarweb" logo (in a cursive script and painted to resemble chrome), that contains a few oversized cheap-ass rocker switches, only the one of which can be reached without leaning far out of your seat, and possibly some light indicators that glow too brightly at night. Luxury model owners can opt for a foot pedal switch, an extra steering column lever, or an in-dash touch screen that displays garishly coloured pie charts, columnar graphs that update every second.
In similarly typical fashion, the rest us will have to sit back and wonder why they just didn't buy a Honda.
This guy is a coward who isn't capable of dealing with his problems in a mature manner and so he's concocted this weird scheme to try and finance him running away from his problems.
This is obviously from someone who's not suffered any tragedy in his entire life but feels compelled to offer glib judgment on the sorrows of others. The least you could do is invoke something less cliched than a Readers Digest version of some Dr. Phil episode your mom forced you to watch.
Here's a tip: In the worst of times, even the best of us behave badly. It's to be expected. It's normal. It's what makes us human. If you get that much, ask yourself how very ordinary is your own life and your relationships with others that you're unable to relate to someone who might be enduring really bad times?
Me, I'm laughing (like everyone else), but only because I "get it". Losing your job, developing a incurable disease, getting cheated out of money, having your car stolen, losing big time in Vegas, nothing comes close to the torment of what a woman can put you through.
Somewhere in hell Sam Kinnison is screaming "This ain't hell! I'll tell you what hell is!!!"
That's how I've always felt (as an English minor)... that the stories of Homer were dated.
As an English Major, it's worth pointing out that Homer's contributions to... ah, fuckit. Just read the Derivative Works section in the Odyssey Wiki article. You'll find everything from Dante to James Joyce to Stargate and Sponge Bob there.
For the rest of the kids, the funny word ("eponymous") used in the submission means "giving one's name to", as in Romulus gave his name to Rome. Romulus, of course was... ah fuck that too. It happened a long time ago, before Star Trek the original TV series, even.
Windows 7 is "scheduled" for maybe something like sometime in 2010, but they're not making any promises... Instead of "Windows 7" the real code name is "Maybe we can come up with something you will want to buy, unlike Vista...?"
Personally, I think a code name of "Not Sure" would be more concise, and if the uptake of Vista is any indication, more appropriate given the typical user.
Not Sure, now with... electrolytes!
Then again, maybe I have it backwards. Vista is the one with electrolytes, and Not Sure will be redesigned to use toilet water.
Not underwhelming in the slightest. It just shows you how very little we understand about the Earth, how little we understand about weather, and also ocean currents.
Agreed, but there's a greater irony. While travel and research above and beyond earth has done wonders to increase our understanding of our own world, what's left undiscovered and unstudied is what lies beneath our oceans. Studying ocean currents and topology is literally superficial in that regard.
One vote for the democratic party of america is one less vote for the republican party of america, but is it really a vote to the left?
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that most all left vs. right discussions are meaningless and religeous in nature. Unless, of course, they're engaged in by political science majors, historians or otherwise learned observers whose outlook isn't so narrow as to be constrained by US geography or the day's headlines, and whose vocubulary extends beyond buzzwords. Thankfully, in this election cycle, most of the idealogues and nutcases have retreated or otherwise dispersed, leaving the rest of us with the ability to focus on real issues for a change.
That said, I'll postulate that a vote for the Republican party, at since Nixon's time, has become a vote for folks who, if elected or given power, tend to be very dangerous people. McCain would fit in nicely with that illustrious group.
We built up our country stupidly, particularly after WWII. We put extensive, relatively sparse tracts of housing far outside of places where people work and provide only highways for transportation.
More accurately, we're STILL doing it!
If it wasn't for successes of a few communities here and there across the country, or the ability of some (typically wealthy, educated professionals) to take advantages of another era's infrastucture and move back into urban areas or otherwise help develop them, I'd say we're all fucked.
Personally, I'd like to believe that the American dream of living in a suburban house with a white picket fence and two-car garage (or it's modern-day equivalent, an isolated gated community) is over. At the very least, it should give way to something that's both sensible and sustainable.
most ISPs will not even allow customers with static IP addresses to control the reverse DNS for their addresses.
Dunno what you mean by most or control, but for ATT DSL customers, a call to DNS Provisioning and a day's wait is all that's required. For their part, they basically just create a CNAME record and let you take care of the rest. Unless, of course, you choose to have them take of the rest.
Stop the future! Something "bad" was done 60 years ago!... That justifies any position in favor or opposed to anything from now until the end of time.
I'm not sure the above as written actually means anything, but if your argument is that past mistakes and transgressions shouldn't be considered when similar behaviour is up for question, then my response is you're either a fool or a complete idiot.
History is something that can't be dismissed simply as Old Shit That Happened, irrespective of how optimistic or forward-leaning you are. What you inherited or otherwise learned from your parents you carry around every day. And your own past behaviour is indicative of your future behaviour. Does that mean you can't change, or do things differently because your father and his father before him did things a certain way? Not at all. But you'll have to explain, justify and then convince everyone around you every step of the way.
Governments, slow-moving bureaucracies, and institutions of power are no different. Put another way, there's perfectly valid reasons that the black population is still pissed off about slavery, the Jews are still terrified of annihilation, people in countries all over South America remain wary of the CIA, and the Arabs feel the need to carry around their hostility and suspicion in self-defense. Hell, the majority of Americans still resent the English and French, and how long ago were those conflicts?
It wasn't too long ago, for example, that we announced A New and Friendlier CIA, but then Ollie North showed up on TV and everyone saw the future for it was: more of the same. Now put yourself in the shoes of someone living in some insignificant country trying to make its way for itself, a country that's suffered the consequences of our ill-conceived policies. While you're busy selling everyone on the idea of the new you, that you're better, or that it's simply time to forgive or forget because Things Change, chances are good you won't notice how pissed off he really is. Or why he has every right to be. Or notice that maybe, just maybe, it's you who hasn't noticed that Things Haven't Changed.
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Ergonomic keyboards have the keys in the positions your hands are supposed to be. It's a neutral position.
Neutral is meaningless. You're supposed to be getting stuff done, so the criteria would be, among others, natural and effective. Arms relaxed and at your sides, with the wrists relaxed and parallel to the keyboard, is about as close as you'll get.
Reclining is a very healthy thing to do, and indeed the very best ergonomic chairs are made to support working in a reclined position.
I own and use one of those high-priced chairs, so I'm well aware of what benefits they offer. While they do accommodate working in a reclined position, that's not to say that doing so is synonymous to working. Do you sit up when the doorbell rings or you spill that coffee, or do you shift into an even more comfortable position? I'm all for relaxation, meditation and easing tired joints and muscles, but I'm not going to agree that we should all strive for some passive womb-like work environment in which our muscles atrophy and our brains enter a a deep REM state.
If that's your goal, I think you're trying too hard. What you really want is a good mattress.
I'm sorry if all this discipline, structure and effort doesn't appeal to your sensibilities. You're free to dismiss it as the rantings of some Slashdot poster, but here's a tip: if you look at anyone who does anything physical professionally, you'll find not one of them advocating for more relaxed or neutral anything. Quite the opposite. Upright chairs are still the norm in orchestras (both for practice and performance), Lazyboy chairs aren't used on the ballfield or the dugout, and athletes, yoga masters and chiropracters all tend to sit and stand in a fairly erect manner.
Mind you, the Romans did eat while reclining, but look where that got them.
After 5 min of typing, my wrists hurt.
Has the possibility occured to you that you don't know how to type?
If your wrists aren't parallel to the keyboard and completely relaxed, you most likely don't. Double, if you're resting your wrists on something, and your hands and fingers are splayed up in the air like the legs of a cheap Las Vegas hooker.
If an "ergonomic" keyboard works for you, that's great. But to me, that's a lot like saying there's nothing better than a big fat comfy chair for people who like to slouch. Who can argue with that? The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
But while we're on the subject of theories, my own pet theory is that aside from the fact that few people today can be bothered to actually study typing, the height of desktops is mostly to blame. They're just too damned high. While the height does offset the too-low monitor problem, trying to type properly at that height is, if not next to impossible, then definitely problematic.
I have no use for these additional keys, and I bet I'm not the only guy around who despises them.
Well, I despise that they're called Windows keys, that they have the Windows logo on them, and that when used under Windows, they really don't enough to warrant redesigning the standard layout to add two of them.
That said, they can be useful. I prefer to consider them a extra "function" keys and use them in cases where yet another CTRL-ish combo that isn't program-specific would be pointless to remember. Switching desktops is probably the best example.
My Thinkpad has no Winkeys. On the one hand, that's A Good Thing. On the other, they added a non-standard and oddly-sized IBM Function key, and stuck that where the left CTRL key goes, shifting everything over by one, making the use of it and the usual left CTRL key a no op for me. To make things weirder, they added what I believe are two browser back/forward buttons. Which I use for switching desktops forward and back.
If there's a point to that goofy story, it's that's keyboard layout should never be mucked around with, unless it's the user who's doing the mucking around. Why manufacturers are continuing to do it is beyond me, especially when you consider that 99% of their target audience uses a mouse wherever possible, and those who most need a proper keyboard are inconvenienced with every new change.
Any time you hear one of these incredibly stupid, meaningless buzzwords you know for certain that the word's user is completely ignorant of the subject he is talking about and wants you to think you are the ignorant one.
Normally I'd tend to agree, but I'm afraid you're wrong in this case. From the Wiki cloud article:
If you're unfamiliar with a typical network diagram looks like, the illustration in this Wiki article should make things clearer.
Just remember the mantra: RAID is not a backup solution.
I think someone should engrave that onto a dozen or so cluebats people can use to beat over the head the sheer numbers of people who are unable to grasp the truth of those words. To be fair, however, the cost of tape backups are prohibitive for most users, so once you're past trivial requirements (CDs, DVDs, etc.), backups to online storage remains the only option. Which, regrettably, starts to look similar to a RAID array.
As for recommendations, I get the impression the poster is looking for a pre-packaged hardware solution more than anything else, so I don't see the value of suggesting FreeNAS, for example, when the web front end and other touted features are entirely superfluous for anyone that can install and configure Open/FreeBSD themselves. If it is prepackaged hardware he's looking for up, I'd suggest he drop the idea, and spec out regular computer, and find joy in getting rid of the old 4U box.
For example, I have a few VIA boxes I use, and while I'm happy to have them, I'm painfully aware of the slow bus speeds, the innability of the system in general to cope with something like an encrypted file system, or the crappy onboard NICs that start to drop packets under high network load. Low power, fanless, all-singing, all-dancing? Sure. Would I use them for file storage? Not a chance.
Facing the prospect of shoddy hardware that is masked by a nice looking box bearing a nice looking logo is a solution only if your needs are trivial, or if you simply don't know any better.
You could sit all day making little beaded merkins with fur trim and I won't pay you a damned cent because I don't want your damned merkins.
Not bragging, but I don't think I've looked up the meaning of a non-technical word (as opposed to reading up on, or reminding myself of its etymology) since I was in grade school many years ago, but "merkin" threw me for a loop. Assuming I'm not alone in admitting that I don't know WTF a "merkin" is, allow me to share the following tidbit of information:
A merkin is false hair for the female pudenda
Assuming that's correct (it's on the web, so it must be, right?), I'll leave it as an exercise for my fellow Slashdot readers to look up the meaning of "pudenda", and infer what relevance a pudenda (female or otherwise) has to Apple, Steve Jobs, or the high price of Apple hardware, why the poster used it as an example, and what kind of person would spend their day making beaded versions of such things.
The dubious bit is that warning lights go off in my head every time someone mentions Al-Qaeda because usually it's someone trying to scare me for political reasons.
Normally I do the same, but the article specifically mentions al-Qaeda by name (not "the terrists", "insurgents", "extremists" or "evil-doers"), refers to the "tribal areas of western Pakistan" and accurately characterises those areas as "ungoverned" (no ambiguous "war on terrorism" angle), and then refrains from drawing unwarranted conclusions about what may or may not be going in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
I'd say that's a trifecta.
Just as importantly, using the fear card (as was done for Iraq) is a no op. Pakistan already has a nuclear program, is and will continue to be an ally, the political and social realities there are so complex that no one would dare try to make talking points out of them for news media, and the US military would prefer to stay out of such inaccessible regions altogether. And then, of course, there's no oil.
As for the possibility that this will draw additional attention to the subject of encryption on the part of the administration, or lawmakers in general, I don't see that happening except, perhaps, at the periphery. The use of encryption is as commonlace as it is widespread. That means the issue, if there is one, involves everyone from big business to the military to ordinary folks checking their email.
Yes, absolutely. Instead of believing the propaganda from Big Oil that nothing is wrong, we should instead believe in the propaganda from political interests attempting to divert our attention from other matters and scientific communities whose funding is dependent on the support of those political interests that our doom is upon us and we must stop doing anything.
Wow. Just wow.
I'm guessing that if the subject at hand was "other matters", the response would be similar in both in tone and an absence of meaningful content.
"Dad, why won't anyone think of the polar bears?"
"No worries, son. Let me tell you how the world works ..."
"But the scientists ..."
"Let me tell you what scientists really do."
Personally I think it's probably better to distribute the power-generation facility onto the roofs of all the residents in these 'southwestern states'... Use the wasted space productively...
Maybe someone who knows more about this than I do can chime in, but I was once told that years ago, before being enviro-friendly was fashionable, folks in Israel would regularly make use of solar energy.
Why?
Because they wanted hot water.
The relevant bit from a Wiki article seems to indicate that it's indeed the case:
The irony here is that instead of adopting a similar measure when the opportunity presented itself, we decided to wait a few generations to be forced into thinking about it. In fairness, though, the Carter administration did build what is still considered the largest solar installation in the US, but that, as they say, is another subject.
I agree that it isn't a BAD thing... what bothers me, though, is how many in our government are pushing oil and coal as being uber critical to american energy needs... so much so that environment corners cut are worth the price.
I'm not sure cutting corners is the right terminology, but insofar as critical infrastructure and price are concerned, a good example may be the EPA's fast tracking of the fence being built along the Mexican border (ostensibly to protect our jobs and Our American Way of Life).
The cost to the environment: undefined.
The cost of additional new voters: literally priceless.
The boundary you saw between the smog and clean air above is from an inversion layer.
No, it's called the West Side. That small sliver of land that runs along the coast of the Pacific Ocean where the rich, the famous, and the wanna be rich and famous live and enjoy cool ocean breezes and the California experience, while the rest of us grind out our existence in what's left, a semi-arid, hot, dirty and treeless environment where, during the days, cars swarm like locusts, but at night, disappear, leaving those endless miles of pavement open for the crack whores and gang kids to conduct their business or make that late night trip to their local 7-11. If it wasn't for the streetlights, twinkling like jewels in the night sky for everyone fortunate to live above us, you'd think no one lived here at all.
Mike Rowe, I'm looking at you, buddy.
Seriously, if robots are going to be cleaning narrow and inaccessible pipes, what dirty jobs will be left? Aside from animal husbandry (I don't think even robots want to go there).
It's typical recently of American automakers to offer this kind of gimmicks instead of making decent quality cars.
I'm not sure it's a gimmick, but to the extent it is, I'm sure that Chryser will, in typical American automaker fashion, implement it badly.
That means owners will get probably end up with a square woodgrained plastic panel insert emblazoned with a metal "The Intarweb" logo (in a cursive script and painted to resemble chrome), that contains a few oversized cheap-ass rocker switches, only the one of which can be reached without leaning far out of your seat, and possibly some light indicators that glow too brightly at night. Luxury model owners can opt for a foot pedal switch, an extra steering column lever, or an in-dash touch screen that displays garishly coloured pie charts, columnar graphs that update every second.
In similarly typical fashion, the rest us will have to sit back and wonder why they just didn't buy a Honda.
While the article does ask about web sites, the kids should know that SSL is not something whose use is exclusive to websites and web browsers.
The relevant Transport Layer Security Wiki article would be a good start.
This guy is a coward who isn't capable of dealing with his problems in a mature manner and so he's concocted this weird scheme to try and finance him running away from his problems.
This is obviously from someone who's not suffered any tragedy in his entire life but feels compelled to offer glib judgment on the sorrows of others. The least you could do is invoke something less cliched than a Readers Digest version of some Dr. Phil episode your mom forced you to watch.
Here's a tip: In the worst of times, even the best of us behave badly. It's to be expected. It's normal. It's what makes us human. If you get that much, ask yourself how very ordinary is your own life and your relationships with others that you're unable to relate to someone who might be enduring really bad times?
Me, I'm laughing (like everyone else), but only because I "get it". Losing your job, developing a incurable disease, getting cheated out of money, having your car stolen, losing big time in Vegas, nothing comes close to the torment of what a woman can put you through.
Somewhere in hell Sam Kinnison is screaming "This ain't hell! I'll tell you what hell is!!!"
That's how I've always felt (as an English minor)... that the stories of Homer were dated.
As an English Major, it's worth pointing out that Homer's contributions to ... ah, fuckit. Just read the Derivative Works section in the Odyssey Wiki article. You'll find everything from Dante to James Joyce to Stargate and Sponge Bob there.
For the rest of the kids, the funny word ("eponymous") used in the submission means "giving one's name to", as in Romulus gave his name to Rome. Romulus, of course was ... ah fuck that too. It happened a long time ago, before Star Trek the original TV series, even.
Windows 7 is "scheduled" for maybe something like sometime in 2010, but they're not making any promises ... Instead of "Windows 7" the real code name is "Maybe we can come up with something you will want to buy, unlike Vista...?"
Personally, I think a code name of "Not Sure" would be more concise, and if the uptake of Vista is any indication, more appropriate given the typical user.
Not Sure, now with ... electrolytes!
Then again, maybe I have it backwards. Vista is the one with electrolytes, and Not Sure will be redesigned to use toilet water.
Not underwhelming in the slightest. It just shows you how very little we understand about the Earth, how little we understand about weather, and also ocean currents.
Agreed, but there's a greater irony. While travel and research above and beyond earth has done wonders to increase our understanding of our own world, what's left undiscovered and unstudied is what lies beneath our oceans. Studying ocean currents and topology is literally superficial in that regard.
One vote for the democratic party of america is one less vote for the republican party of america, but is it really a vote to the left?
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that most all left vs. right discussions are meaningless and religeous in nature. Unless, of course, they're engaged in by political science majors, historians or otherwise learned observers whose outlook isn't so narrow as to be constrained by US geography or the day's headlines, and whose vocubulary extends beyond buzzwords. Thankfully, in this election cycle, most of the idealogues and nutcases have retreated or otherwise dispersed, leaving the rest of us with the ability to focus on real issues for a change.
That said, I'll postulate that a vote for the Republican party, at since Nixon's time, has become a vote for folks who, if elected or given power, tend to be very dangerous people. McCain would fit in nicely with that illustrious group.
Being that I am a wage slave, I want to know about this sort of thing.
So it's like a "They're pretending to pay me, so I'm pretending to work" kind of thing?
If you think earning and maintaining the trust and respect of others is overrated, I guess self-respect is really out of the question.
pre-mutual love investigation
LOL.
Synonyms: 1. Ogling, Groping. 2. Sexual Harrassment.
We built up our country stupidly, particularly after WWII. We put extensive, relatively sparse tracts of housing far outside of places where people work and provide only highways for transportation.
More accurately, we're STILL doing it!
If it wasn't for successes of a few communities here and there across the country, or the ability of some (typically wealthy, educated professionals) to take advantages of another era's infrastucture and move back into urban areas or otherwise help develop them, I'd say we're all fucked.
Personally, I'd like to believe that the American dream of living in a suburban house with a white picket fence and two-car garage (or it's modern-day equivalent, an isolated gated community) is over. At the very least, it should give way to something that's both sensible and sustainable.
most ISPs will not even allow customers with static IP addresses to control the reverse DNS for their addresses.
Dunno what you mean by most or control, but for ATT DSL customers, a call to DNS Provisioning and a day's wait is all that's required. For their part, they basically just create a CNAME record and let you take care of the rest. Unless, of course, you choose to have them take of the rest.
Stop the future! Something "bad" was done 60 years ago! ... That justifies any position in favor or opposed to anything from now until the end of time.
I'm not sure the above as written actually means anything, but if your argument is that past mistakes and transgressions shouldn't be considered when similar behaviour is up for question, then my response is you're either a fool or a complete idiot.
History is something that can't be dismissed simply as Old Shit That Happened, irrespective of how optimistic or forward-leaning you are. What you inherited or otherwise learned from your parents you carry around every day. And your own past behaviour is indicative of your future behaviour. Does that mean you can't change, or do things differently because your father and his father before him did things a certain way? Not at all. But you'll have to explain, justify and then convince everyone around you every step of the way.
Governments, slow-moving bureaucracies, and institutions of power are no different. Put another way, there's perfectly valid reasons that the black population is still pissed off about slavery, the Jews are still terrified of annihilation, people in countries all over South America remain wary of the CIA, and the Arabs feel the need to carry around their hostility and suspicion in self-defense. Hell, the majority of Americans still resent the English and French, and how long ago were those conflicts?
It wasn't too long ago, for example, that we announced A New and Friendlier CIA, but then Ollie North showed up on TV and everyone saw the future for it was: more of the same. Now put yourself in the shoes of someone living in some insignificant country trying to make its way for itself, a country that's suffered the consequences of our ill-conceived policies. While you're busy selling everyone on the idea of the new you, that you're better, or that it's simply time to forgive or forget because Things Change, chances are good you won't notice how pissed off he really is. Or why he has every right to be. Or notice that maybe, just maybe, it's you who hasn't noticed that Things Haven't Changed.
That just gave me the best chuckle I've had all day
Even funnier is that the "office" isn't a real office.
It's just a single desk tucked away in an unused basement area where a fat guy sits keeping a watchful eye over a red stapler.