Rather than a newsgroup or a wiki, a forum would also work.
Drupal is a great way to work collaboratively. Threaded comments, different content types; pretty much everything you'd need. Internal scheduling isn't very robust.
Something like phpGroupware would work as well (I suppose that's what it's for, eh?)
Re:One more key point - lack of security
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There's one key point about javascript insecurity that you left out: it's relative only to the URL that you're dealing with. If you trust GMail to store your email, surely you can trust them not to expliot javascript insecurity in a malicious way. The same reasoning applies to cookies.
At the end of one of Orson Scott Card's audio books, he talks about how he'd shyed away from making Enders Game into a movie, because the quality of the child actors wasn't where it needed to be and because the studios he spoke with always wanted to make Ender older and give him a LOVE INTEREST! But he did mention that something was in the pipeline, because after seeing some movie with kids in it he got encouraged.
As an aside, he also considers audio recordings of books to be of greater value than movies (I'm certainly on board with him there).
The only piece of equipment you can tangibly benefit from is a new video card. A couple of days ago the 7900GT/X came out. Drop the $350 at Newegg and pick one up.
If you want to upgrade something else after that, maybe getting an Athlon 64 4000 or 3800 could help (but not like the video card will).
I'm with you man. I've had an audible subscription for a very long time, and I suck down audio books like nobody's business during my 15hr/wk commute.
Why don't I read ebooks? The same reason I don't read normal books anymore (for the most part) - time. Not to mention that I certainly get my fill with Audible.
I can remember waiting with bated breath for my copy of the original Pool of Radiance to come in the mail after "8 to 10 weeks" (oh, the good old days). I loved that game, and would play with my brother.
I can also remember being introduced to one of my loves, roguelikes, on a Tandy computer via Moria. I subsequently played Angband, and now I like ToME.
I have a lot of good memories of the precursors to MMORPGS (in their glory for the past few years), MUDs. My first MUD was called "Aldara ][", and I spent a lot of time on a ROM called "Sanctuary", a SillyMUD called "KAOS", and an absolutely awesome Circle named "Rifts". I also have a lot of good memories of the original Everquest, which I played from the first day it went public until my levitation wore off over some lava in Sol A and I pretty much burned out.
I loved to play HOMM2 & later 3. I also have some fond memories of Moraff's World (bring on the soap!). King's Quest and (to a lesser extent) Space Quest.
When I was a kid, one day I casually asked my dad: "Dad, what's a prophylactic?". I'd found his floppies of "Leisure Suit Larry" and played it.
I also hand fond memories of the Intellivision game "Dungeons and Dragons", moving in a simple 3d maze fighting stuff.
Let's not forget Castle Wolfenstein fighting Nazis! The original "Pirates" was fun, I can remember that Trinidad was my favorite cove (I actually work with a girl now who's from Trinidad. Arrrrgh Matey!)
I used to cheat on Bard's Tale. I learned early on that when you cheat in games, you're only cheating yourself. But man was my monk buff!!
Yes, I gathered that when I reread your post. I thought that the point you were trying to make was that people didn't see a distinction between the two, and that there was no stigma associated with homosexual behaviour.
I can't speak to the mindset of the ancient world. One could propose an argument that since hetrosexuality was the accepted norm, then people implicitly considered themselves "strait". Those who deviated from this norm were not considered "strait", but aberrant. Those who persisted exclusively in homosexual behaviour must have come to identify themselves with this behaviour, since it so clearly set them apart from the norm.
This may have not been the case, however, in places like Greece, where taking "boy toys" was common. In those cultures (see my post above) it would have been normal.
Protagoras: Truth is relative. It is only a matter of opinion. Socrates: You mean that truth is mere subjective opinion? Protagoras: Exactly. What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me is true for me. Truth is subjective. Socrates: Do you really mean that? That my opinion is true by virtue of its being my opinion? Protagoras: Indeed I do. Socrates: My opinion is: Truth is absolute, not opinion, and that you, Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is my opinion, you must grant that it is true according to your philosophy. Protagoras: You are quite correct, Socrates.
I'm afraid that it's not some newfangled modern idea.
Rom 1:21-32 ESV For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Claiming to be wise, they became fools, (23) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. (24) Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, (25) because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (26) For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; (27) and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. (28) And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. (29) They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, (30) slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (31) foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (32) Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
{insert obligatory "This is your brain on politics" joke here}
Re: People are better teachers
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Right, because we all know that Slashdot is the place where people with no social skills come to wax eloquent.
Rest assured, we're just people who love technology. There are many loving parents and people with well developed social skills who can provide insightful input to questions just like these.
I just happen to not be one of them. (j/k!)
I've got a 6 year old daughter as well, and really the best thing in my mind that you can do is set up a "chess date" some time, where you can sit down and play the game with her, joke it up and share some snacks. I bet if you tied in some baking it would be one of her favorite activities =)
I knew that clock for clock phrase was going to bite me after I posted it.
I realise that Intel changed the way that they measure clock frequencies, and hence AMD came up with the 2000+ scheme. "Clock for clock" AMD is much more powerful.
But I suppose that phrase doesn't mean anything anymore. What I'm talking about is FPS/Benchmarking power per dollar. Regardless - just because Dell is going to sell AMD machines doesn't mean the consumer is going to see the cost benefit they should, especially if Intel has their way.
Dell has been in bed with Intel for a long time. Their offering standalone AMD CPUs was simply to stave off legal action.
What matters is the price point here. We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock. They're no more or less stable, no better supported. We buy them because they're cheaper.
Dell is in the position to take that benefit away from AMD. If they're still loyal to Intel, they'll be pricing their AMD machines on par, or even higher, than their Intel counter parts, and pocketing the change.
I checked out the docs for enterprise but I'm unclear as to one point: can the users of the desktop application share an enterprise index, while keeping their own indices as well?
I'd like to have UserA and UserB index their own email, but also utilize a shared index on network shares to find pdf files etc.
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"Getting my song back, f#$!er!"
Burn!
I need to put the Bartle Test in the wp article...
Rather than a newsgroup or a wiki, a forum would also work.
Drupal is a great way to work collaboratively. Threaded comments, different content types; pretty much everything you'd need. Internal scheduling isn't very robust.
Something like phpGroupware would work as well (I suppose that's what it's for, eh?)
There's one key point about javascript insecurity that you left out: it's relative only to the URL that you're dealing with. If you trust GMail to store your email, surely you can trust them not to expliot javascript insecurity in a malicious way. The same reasoning applies to cookies.
At the end of one of Orson Scott Card's audio books, he talks about how he'd shyed away from making Enders Game into a movie, because the quality of the child actors wasn't where it needed to be and because the studios he spoke with always wanted to make Ender older and give him a LOVE INTEREST! But he did mention that something was in the pipeline, because after seeing some movie with kids in it he got encouraged.
As an aside, he also considers audio recordings of books to be of greater value than movies (I'm certainly on board with him there).
The only piece of equipment you can tangibly benefit from is a new video card. A couple of days ago the 7900GT/X came out. Drop the $350 at Newegg and pick one up.
If you want to upgrade something else after that, maybe getting an Athlon 64 4000 or 3800 could help (but not like the video card will).
I'm with you man. I've had an audible subscription for a very long time, and I suck down audio books like nobody's business during my 15hr/wk commute.
Why don't I read ebooks? The same reason I don't read normal books anymore (for the most part) - time. Not to mention that I certainly get my fill with Audible.
Everyone knows slime molds are for eating!
I can remember waiting with bated breath for my copy of the original Pool of Radiance to come in the mail after "8 to 10 weeks" (oh, the good old days). I loved that game, and would play with my brother.
I can also remember being introduced to one of my loves, roguelikes, on a Tandy computer via Moria. I subsequently played Angband, and now I like ToME.
I have a lot of good memories of the precursors to MMORPGS (in their glory for the past few years), MUDs. My first MUD was called "Aldara ][", and I spent a lot of time on a ROM called "Sanctuary", a SillyMUD called "KAOS", and an absolutely awesome Circle named "Rifts". I also have a lot of good memories of the original Everquest, which I played from the first day it went public until my levitation wore off over some lava in Sol A and I pretty much burned out.
I loved to play HOMM2 & later 3. I also have some fond memories of Moraff's World (bring on the soap!). King's Quest and (to a lesser extent) Space Quest.
When I was a kid, one day I casually asked my dad: "Dad, what's a prophylactic?". I'd found his floppies of "Leisure Suit Larry" and played it.
I also hand fond memories of the Intellivision game "Dungeons and Dragons", moving in a simple 3d maze fighting stuff.
Let's not forget Castle Wolfenstein fighting Nazis! The original "Pirates" was fun, I can remember that Trinidad was my favorite cove (I actually work with a girl now who's from Trinidad. Arrrrgh Matey!)
I used to cheat on Bard's Tale. I learned early on that when you cheat in games, you're only cheating yourself. But man was my monk buff!!
Yes, I gathered that when I reread your post. I thought that the point you were trying to make was that people didn't see a distinction between the two, and that there was no stigma associated with homosexual behaviour.
I can't speak to the mindset of the ancient world. One could propose an argument that since hetrosexuality was the accepted norm, then people implicitly considered themselves "strait". Those who deviated from this norm were not considered "strait", but aberrant. Those who persisted exclusively in homosexual behaviour must have come to identify themselves with this behaviour, since it so clearly set them apart from the norm.
This may have not been the case, however, in places like Greece, where taking "boy toys" was common. In those cultures (see my post above) it would have been normal.
Protagoras: Truth is relative. It is only a matter of opinion.
Socrates: You mean that truth is mere subjective opinion?
Protagoras: Exactly. What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me is true for me. Truth is subjective.
Socrates: Do you really mean that? That my opinion is true by virtue of its being my opinion?
Protagoras: Indeed I do.
Socrates: My opinion is: Truth is absolute, not opinion, and that you, Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is my opinion, you must grant that it is true according to your philosophy.
Protagoras: You are quite correct, Socrates.
I'm afraid that it's not some newfangled modern idea.
Rom 1:21-32 ESV For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Claiming to be wise, they became fools, (23) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. (24) Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, (25) because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (26) For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; (27) and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. (28) And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. (29) They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, (30) slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (31) foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (32) Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
In DNF, RFID is actually a wearable vapor.
{insert obligatory "This is your brain on politics" joke here}
Right, because we all know that Slashdot is the place where people with no social skills come to wax eloquent.
Rest assured, we're just people who love technology. There are many loving parents and people with well developed social skills who can provide insightful input to questions just like these.
I just happen to not be one of them. (j/k!)
I've got a 6 year old daughter as well, and really the best thing in my mind that you can do is set up a "chess date" some time, where you can sit down and play the game with her, joke it up and share some snacks. I bet if you tied in some baking it would be one of her favorite activities =)
Burn!
Right. So once it goes live, they're going to introduce a bunch of untested stuff? I find that hard to believe.
My companny recently outsourced their IT to Australia.
I keep on wishing this would happen, but the French continue to confound me.
That quote is known not by virtue of it's own insight, but rather the prominence of it's author.
I, for one, welcome our new Yeek overlords.
[the-underdogs.org]
I knew that clock for clock phrase was going to bite me after I posted it.
I realise that Intel changed the way that they measure clock frequencies, and hence AMD came up with the 2000+ scheme. "Clock for clock" AMD is much more powerful.
But I suppose that phrase doesn't mean anything anymore. What I'm talking about is FPS/Benchmarking power per dollar. Regardless - just because Dell is going to sell AMD machines doesn't mean the consumer is going to see the cost benefit they should, especially if Intel has their way.
Dell has been in bed with Intel for a long time. Their offering standalone AMD CPUs was simply to stave off legal action.
What matters is the price point here. We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock. They're no more or less stable, no better supported. We buy them because they're cheaper.
Dell is in the position to take that benefit away from AMD. If they're still loyal to Intel, they'll be pricing their AMD machines on par, or even higher, than their Intel counter parts, and pocketing the change.
I checked out the docs for enterprise but I'm unclear as to one point: can the users of the desktop application share an enterprise index, while keeping their own indices as well?
I'd like to have UserA and UserB index their own email, but also utilize a shared index on network shares to find pdf files etc.