(before I make my comment, I would like to ask what it is with people moderating me down for just saying calmly what I believe? Do Slashdotters really only want to hear just their own ideas?)
Anyway, in the Christian religion, thoughts ARE actions in this regard. Christ himself said that anyone who lusts after a woman in his heart has already committed adultery against his wife. And that's what I believe too.
Re:Good binoculars, star charts, and a red flashli
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You ought to just refer to Orion's left and right belt stars as Kalamazoo and Lansing. M-43 is kind of in the middle.
Christ is love, not punishment. It's in our nature to think of sinful things. Being an abusive parent isn't Christian, but guiding children to realize their own corrupt nature and ask Christ for forgiveness is. The true punishments are kept by God himself for people who reject Christ. The small punishments that a parent uses on a child, (not abuse) are meant to help them avoid worse punishments later.
Properly raised and disciplined (once again, NOT abused) children will desire to turn away from harmful sexual thoughts and violence when they are adults.
Holy Moley man, 15 days? Ahhh, you were looking through my posting history to find something that your arch-enemy wrote, in order to write something mean to me.
What a loser. Get a life. Why not join the Army and find a purpose to fill your empty days?
Just so everybody knows, ZFS is available for Linux as a FUSE module. It's easy to get it working, and lots of fun to tinker with. I have it set up right now in a test configuration with an old 80 gig drive, and a 11 gig drive. 91 gigs total, in external USB enclosures. And I created files on an NFS server the same size as each of the drives, and told ZFS to use those files as mirrors. On a 100 megabit link. And surprisingly enough, it's actually not too slow to use!
But the reason I have it set up is not to use it that way forever, but to learn about ZFS administration to assess how well it'll work in an average Linux geek's setup. So far, I think it'll work very well for many people, even if you've just got one drive. ZFS can keep multiple copies of important data and repair data errors even if you're not in a mirrored or RAID configuration.
No, comedy is funny. If it's insightful, smart people will think about it after the show. Also, insightful comedians are called humorists.
Re:Good binoculars, star charts, and a red flashli
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True, but that's not the typical advice given. The advice typically given is binoculars, with no mention of a tripod and binocular mount.
Plus, a nice 10 inch dob gives bright images, it's a quality instrument, you can get fancy electronic setting circles, and they don't cost much at all.
Besides, when a kid says he wants a telescope, he wants a telescope! Not binoculars, but something that looks like a telescope.
At the end of the day, M-43 in binoculars is NOTHING compared to M-43 in a 10 inch Dobsonian scope with a quality eyepiece. Images and experiences like that are what make astronomers out of wide-eyed kids. Binoculars are for the birds (watchers).
Re:Good binoculars, star charts, and a red flashli
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NOT binoculars. Have you actually tried to hold them above your head for more than 5 minutes to look at the sky? Awful.
Pick up an inexpensive telescope from Orion. A Dobsonian. You can get a sweet 8 or 10 inch scope for less than half the $1000 budget.
Excuse me? If I went on any "5-star, all-expense paid trip to Singapore" at a vendor's expense I'm going to be--and I would deserve to be--fired in less time than it took me to write this note.
I agree completely. Singapore's nice, but it's not THAT great. I would have held out for Paris or Rome.
Please read Apollo 13 and then get back to us. They had just such a cross-connected system, and when one of their several oxygen tanks blew out, they lost all their O2, rather than just some of it.
This guy isn't really making a prediction, he's just generating publicity for himself, and that requires a gimmick. Creating the gimmick is easy, and it's done like this:
First, pick a dualism. Any dualism. Here's some examples:
1) You can type in a word processor, and you can type in a spreadsheet. 2) You've got computers, and you've got networks. 3) Skirts can be short, or skirts can be long.
Now, make the unsupported claim that the dualism is really a continuum. It might be true, or it might be bullshit. Like this:
1) Things you can type in resemble word processors or spreadsheets, to certain degrees. 2) You can do computing activity on an isolated computer, or you can do it on a totally networked system. 3) Skirts can be any length between long or short.
Now, assert that there is movement. Look at which end of the bullshit continuum you've created that your asserted movement is pointing at. There's your prediction for the future. If you hype that like a pro, you too can be a tech pundit on Slashdot or even somewhere important.
Here's the predictions that result:
1) Over time, word processors are going to become more like spreadsheets. Entire sections of documents are going to be calculated by formulas. 2) In the future, the network will be the computer. 3) Next year we're going to have short skirts. Yay!
How often do we see this kind of thing? Very often. And sometimes they can even be good ideas, worthy of making products out of. But even if they are terrible ideas, they're useful for hyping yourself.
Here's some more: 1) This article - Rows and columns. You assert that rows are more important that columns. Except in the glorious future where columns take over. 2) We've got Embedded processors outnumbering desktop computers. In the future, no desktops, just embedded processors in our skulls. 3) Paper is giving way to computers. In the future, completely paperless office! 4) Mouse, Joystick. In the future, you tilt your mouse. 5) Structured and object. Obviously, everything's going objects in the future. The death of structured programming means that loops and decisions are obsolete.
And so on.
I know this because I was a consultant. It's a basic skill.
Somebody's got to stand with you, and it might as well be me. These protestors think they're going to change the army by protesting? No. If anything, I think that it shows that their training might have well been not good enough, because they are protesting against their fellow soldiers. Democrats would like to hollow out our Army and take away their training. They'd prefer that the Peace Corps produce simulations of well digging in Africa. Unfortunately, the world is a more dangerous place than that, and what's going to keep America safe is her armed forces and the brave men and women who fight for America. It's really sad that these soldiers have been misled by our liberal media into protesting against their brothers and sisters in arms. I know it's unpopular but somebody's got to say it. You don't protest against our troops during a war. They are soldiers so I'm going to cut them some slack and just pray that they change their minds about it.
Don't you know, Slashdot is filled with the very models of the modern Major Generals? We're gentlemen and scholors, and judges of fine whiskey? And our good looks are exceeded only by the kindness of our hearts? Certainly with all that we're going to find nearly everybody here has perfect pitch, plus a tendency to bitch about the frequency of our concert tuning.
The completely unfair scheduler, which takes all the time from processes that deserve it and gives it to processes that are blocked. Otherwise known as the liberal scheduler.
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(before I make my comment, I would like to ask what it is with people moderating me down for just saying calmly what I believe? Do Slashdotters really only want to hear just their own ideas?)
Anyway, in the Christian religion, thoughts ARE actions in this regard. Christ himself said that anyone who lusts after a woman in his heart has already committed adultery against his wife. And that's what I believe too.
You ought to just refer to Orion's left and right belt stars as Kalamazoo and Lansing. M-43 is kind of in the middle.
Harmful would be those things that cause your wife to divorce you and your kids to hate you because you're locked up for molesting them.
Do you disagree?
Christ is love, not punishment. It's in our nature to think of sinful things. Being an abusive parent isn't Christian, but guiding children to realize their own corrupt nature and ask Christ for forgiveness is. The true punishments are kept by God himself for people who reject Christ. The small punishments that a parent uses on a child, (not abuse) are meant to help them avoid worse punishments later.
Properly raised and disciplined (once again, NOT abused) children will desire to turn away from harmful sexual thoughts and violence when they are adults.
Holy Moley man, 15 days? Ahhh, you were looking through my posting history to find something that your arch-enemy wrote, in order to write something mean to me.
What a loser. Get a life. Why not join the Army and find a purpose to fill your empty days?
Just so everybody knows, ZFS is available for Linux as a FUSE module. It's easy to get it working, and lots of fun to tinker with. I have it set up right now in a test configuration with an old 80 gig drive, and a 11 gig drive. 91 gigs total, in external USB enclosures. And I created files on an NFS server the same size as each of the drives, and told ZFS to use those files as mirrors. On a 100 megabit link. And surprisingly enough, it's actually not too slow to use!
But the reason I have it set up is not to use it that way forever, but to learn about ZFS administration to assess how well it'll work in an average Linux geek's setup. So far, I think it'll work very well for many people, even if you've just got one drive. ZFS can keep multiple copies of important data and repair data errors even if you're not in a mirrored or RAID configuration.
We need a smug moderation, obviously.
Al Gore was working for Microsoft when he invented the internet.
No, comedy is funny. If it's insightful, smart people will think about it after the show. Also, insightful comedians are called humorists.
True, but that's not the typical advice given. The advice typically given is binoculars, with no mention of a tripod and binocular mount.
Plus, a nice 10 inch dob gives bright images, it's a quality instrument, you can get fancy electronic setting circles, and they don't cost much at all.
Besides, when a kid says he wants a telescope, he wants a telescope! Not binoculars, but something that looks like a telescope.
At the end of the day, M-43 in binoculars is NOTHING compared to M-43 in a 10 inch Dobsonian scope with a quality eyepiece. Images and experiences like that are what make astronomers out of wide-eyed kids. Binoculars are for the birds (watchers).
NOT binoculars. Have you actually tried to hold them above your head for more than 5 minutes to look at the sky? Awful.
Pick up an inexpensive telescope from Orion. A Dobsonian. You can get a sweet 8 or 10 inch scope for less than half the $1000 budget.
www.telescope.com
Remember, no 's' on the telescope in the URL.
Excuse me? If I went on any "5-star, all-expense paid trip to Singapore" at a vendor's expense I'm going to be--and I would deserve to be--fired in less time than it took me to write this note.
I agree completely. Singapore's nice, but it's not THAT great. I would have held out for Paris or Rome.
He included Ireland and Belgium. With the USA, that just about covers the entire world, don't you think so?
My bullshit detector is going off. Yours should be too.
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw101.html
Quantum bomb detector.
Please read Apollo 13 and then get back to us. They had just such a cross-connected system, and when one of their several oxygen tanks blew out, they lost all their O2, rather than just some of it.
This guy isn't really making a prediction, he's just generating publicity for himself, and that requires a gimmick. Creating the gimmick is easy, and it's done like this:
First, pick a dualism. Any dualism. Here's some examples:
1) You can type in a word processor, and you can type in a spreadsheet.
2) You've got computers, and you've got networks.
3) Skirts can be short, or skirts can be long.
Now, make the unsupported claim that the dualism is really a continuum. It might be true, or it might be bullshit. Like this:
1) Things you can type in resemble word processors or spreadsheets, to certain degrees.
2) You can do computing activity on an isolated computer, or you can do it on a totally networked system.
3) Skirts can be any length between long or short.
Now, assert that there is movement. Look at which end of the bullshit continuum you've created that your asserted movement is pointing at. There's your prediction for the future. If you hype that like a pro, you too can be a tech pundit on Slashdot or even somewhere important.
Here's the predictions that result:
1) Over time, word processors are going to become more like spreadsheets. Entire sections of documents are going to be calculated by formulas.
2) In the future, the network will be the computer.
3) Next year we're going to have short skirts. Yay!
How often do we see this kind of thing? Very often. And sometimes they can even be good ideas, worthy of making products out of. But even if they are terrible ideas, they're useful for hyping yourself.
Here's some more:
1) This article - Rows and columns. You assert that rows are more important that columns. Except in the glorious future where columns take over.
2) We've got Embedded processors outnumbering desktop computers. In the future, no desktops, just embedded processors in our skulls.
3) Paper is giving way to computers. In the future, completely paperless office!
4) Mouse, Joystick. In the future, you tilt your mouse.
5) Structured and object. Obviously, everything's going objects in the future. The death of structured programming means that loops and decisions are obsolete.
And so on.
I know this because I was a consultant. It's a basic skill.
My lawyers love it when that happens.
Having sex with a fish is gross.
Having sex with an eel is a moray.
They weren't completely new after all. That's not a bad thing, because zombies are cool. Borg even eat your brain, in a metaphorical way.
Somebody's got to stand with you, and it might as well be me. These protestors think they're going to change the army by protesting? No. If anything, I think that it shows that their training might have well been not good enough, because they are protesting against their fellow soldiers. Democrats would like to hollow out our Army and take away their training. They'd prefer that the Peace Corps produce simulations of well digging in Africa. Unfortunately, the world is a more dangerous place than that, and what's going to keep America safe is her armed forces and the brave men and women who fight for America. It's really sad that these soldiers have been misled by our liberal media into protesting against their brothers and sisters in arms. I know it's unpopular but somebody's got to say it. You don't protest against our troops during a war. They are soldiers so I'm going to cut them some slack and just pray that they change their minds about it.
Don't you know, Slashdot is filled with the very models of the modern Major Generals? We're gentlemen and scholors, and judges of fine whiskey? And our good looks are exceeded only by the kindness of our hearts? Certainly with all that we're going to find nearly everybody here has perfect pitch, plus a tendency to bitch about the frequency of our concert tuning.
You're so vain you probably think this rootkit is reporting about you.
Oh wait, that's not Neil Diamond. Darn.
The completely unfair scheduler, which takes all the time from processes that deserve it and gives it to processes that are blocked. Otherwise known as the liberal scheduler.
I'm here to discuss. Seems to me like you decided to pick on me about something or other. Liberal interference, typical.