You're right. Incurable, intense, constant agony or terminal illness are both exceptions to this rule.
But saying "choose the end of pain!" is pretty damn dangerous IMO.
"Oh, I'm in pain. Everyone hates me. I should go kill myself."
"Those damn bullies never leave me alone. My life sucks. I think I'll go find dad's gun and off myself."
"Life is horrible. I want to leave it, now."
These are indications of sick minds, not actual representations of someone's reality. If you don't like the way life is going, you can remove yourself from it (except in the case of terminal and/or excruciatingly painful illness) in many more constructive ways than killing yourself. It is utterly illogical and self-destructive, and therefore pathological.
I am by NO means a Linux expert, but isn't this the philosophy behind KDE? I was under the impression that part of the idea behind K is concerned with maintaining consistency in the UI. All K apps are supposed to have similar look and feel, yes?
Which brings up something else - isn't K the biggest memory hog for Linux as far as window managers go? Isn't Windows the biggest memory hog for x86 as far as OSes go? Why is it that highly standardized, highly consistent UIs seem to come packaged with inefficiency? Couldn't it be possible to design an efficient, consistent UI that didn't eat resources like crazy?
Hell, let's roll together a solution for all the problems with Linux's UI now, I say. Is there some project working on:
1) direct hardware access for 3D rather than going through X
2) consistent, simple, standardized UI that's easy to write apps for
3) a friendly, shallow learning curve for inexperienced users but with powerful configuration options behind it for the hackers among us all in one?
Good article, assuming you don't spam it all over the damn place. There's one thing you don't take into account, though:
You won't be saying, "hey world, kiss my ass." See, the vast majority of the world doesn't care, because they've never heard of you. The vast majority of the world doesn't give a shit. This is something you learn when you get into high school, usually. It's rather liberating, really. The downside of realizing this is that you suddenly understand that the only people you hurt in a self-destroying action like suicide are yourself and the people who love you - your friends, family, girlfriend, wife, husband, whatever. Which makes suicide pretty useless for anything.
If you don't like your place in the world, change it. Don't throw it away.
1) Does your karma go up when you submit a story, regardless of whether or not it's accepted?
2) How the hell do you people get up to 50, or 650, or whatever? Mine's been stuck at 12 for weeks. Do you just mod yourselves up with other accounts? Not EVERYthing you say can be +5, Insightful!
You could easily be 10 years old and rather precocious, I suppose, so:
1) Yep, but you need to learn how to configure it first. You can read about the basics here if you like. Invest in a Linux book, though. I recommend one by O'Reilly.
2) Sure, if you spend a few weeks hashing out a concept for a business, learning how to use Apache, building a website and physically provisioning it. What kind of business do you want to start?
3) Yep, it's a shell. What's beneath it is the actual nuts, bolts, and gears of the operating system, which is called the kernel. How do you get there? Well, if you mean "how do you change how it works," by fiddling with all those nifty files with.rc extensions, the configuration files for all those kernel modules. Again, get a good Linux book which will do a much better job of explaining this than any of us could.
Or, you could be a troll. But then, I've only wasted a minute or so of my time on you, which is really not much skin off my nose.
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Apart from Trek or X-Men, Mr. Stewart is an excellent, internationally-acclaimed Shakespearean actor. There is not a single role I have seen him in when I was not greatly impressed with his talent. The fact that Sir Guinness was older and more experienced than Mr. Stewart does not detract from the latter's talent in comparison.
You're probably a troll, but I thought I'd make that clear anyway.
This is unfortunately true. He was quoted multiple times as saying that he hated the role and thought the entire phenomenon was simplistic and ridiculous.
Yet, millions of fans loved him for his work in the movies. I suppose we should just remember him for his role and leave it at that.
You seem very knowledgable about this so I'll ask you - why don't we have two-way text messaging in the States (Wireless Web to the email-pager-number of a phone doesn't count)?
What are the feature similarities / differences between PCS, CDMA (same thing, I thought?!), TDMA, and GSM? I can't figure out which of these acronyms are actual designations of digital communications standards and which are just industry buzzwords. Do they all have the same features but different implementations?
Just think of the prospect of thinking the programs, and debugging at the speed of light, you could debug the linux kernel in a matter of minutes, you could optimize windows at assembly-level, by using nothing more than the memory-blueprint as a reference, you could do anything you want in a matter of hours, not months.
Slow down, bro. Yes, this does sound incredibly cool, but I don't think it works from an information theory level (at least I think that's the discipline I'm thinking of). We don't think in code, we think in terms of abstract ideas that our brains have to distill into code once we know what it is we want to program. "Thinking" a program into existence would require an incredibly complex "neural compiler" (let's call it) that would be capable of taking the extremely vague (from a computer's standpoint) "I want it to say 'Hello World' in a nice blue window on the screen." and turn it into code. Keep in mind that this would be even more difficult than the ever-elusive natural-language compiler since at least with natural language you have solid, unchanging text. The human mind is in a constant state of flux. It's very difficult for us to think of exactly the same thing, unchangingly, for more than a few seconds.
It's certainly an interesting challenge, though. What are all your thoughts on this?
Agreed - except the childbirth thing which is scary. As a substitute: free voluntary sterilization to anyone who wants it - and education re: the benefits of it to those cultures to whom childbearing is the be-all and end-all of existence and a sign of status (this includes many Asian and African cultures, coincidentally these are the places experiencing the most trouble with overpopulation).
And HERE come the culture whiners: "WAAAAH! What RIGHT do you have to tamper with their sacred culture and traditions which they've held for hundreds of years?!?!"
Sorry, but if you expect to live on this planet, I'm afraid you're going to have to pull your own weight. Adapt. Tough.
We managed to catch up with John Connor, a young man whose opinion of Cyberdyne is skeptical to say the least, who told us the following: "I fully support RMS in his endeavors. Personally I feel that everyone, Cyberdyne and the software community included, would benefit from the opening of this code. (heh heh heh) Information wants to be free!" John then wandered off muttering something about fate being what you make. We at Slashdot are concerned that Mr. Connor's mental health may be affecting his coding. YMMV.
You're right, it isn't stupid for a girl to be really into a good band.
However, N'Sync is neither good, nor a band, nor do they have anything to do with rock. They may have some small amount of musical talent, but unfortunately it is buried underneath a layer of 3rd party writers (mostly Max Martin, unfortunately, no matter what the CD case inserts say) and blinding PR. I will admit they have not a small amount of acapella skill, but it's drowned out by a usually overwhelming bass line (especially in their radio songs) whose sole purpose is to drive girls to dance whilst thinking about the 5 young men with hormone-driven longing.
Or from $3 crack? It seems there's an infinite amount of it floating around.:)
You fool. You environment-raping fool. All of you are alike. Remember back when we started using petroleum? Huh? They said, "OH, there's a nearly limitless source of this stuff that practically OOZES up out of the ground in places!! We won't run out for years and years!" Now look where we are. Gas prices are rising. We're projected to start running out of crude by 2050.
What are you going to do when our supply of $3 crack dwindles down to a few pebbles?! How smart will you be THEN?!?!
Someday, I swear it, Mother Earth will rise up against the environment vampires and crush you all between the folds of her labia.
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You're right. Incurable, intense, constant agony or terminal illness are both exceptions to this rule.
But saying "choose the end of pain!" is pretty damn dangerous IMO.
"Oh, I'm in pain. Everyone hates me. I should go kill myself."
"Those damn bullies never leave me alone. My life sucks. I think I'll go find dad's gun and off myself."
"Life is horrible. I want to leave it, now."
These are indications of sick minds, not actual representations of someone's reality. If you don't like the way life is going, you can remove yourself from it (except in the case of terminal and/or excruciatingly painful illness) in many more constructive ways than killing yourself. It is utterly illogical and self-destructive, and therefore pathological.
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I am by NO means a Linux expert, but isn't this the philosophy behind KDE? I was under the impression that part of the idea behind K is concerned with maintaining consistency in the UI. All K apps are supposed to have similar look and feel, yes?
Which brings up something else - isn't K the biggest memory hog for Linux as far as window managers go? Isn't Windows the biggest memory hog for x86 as far as OSes go? Why is it that highly standardized, highly consistent UIs seem to come packaged with inefficiency? Couldn't it be possible to design an efficient, consistent UI that didn't eat resources like crazy?
Hell, let's roll together a solution for all the problems with Linux's UI now, I say. Is there some project working on:
1) direct hardware access for 3D rather than going through X
2) consistent, simple, standardized UI that's easy to write apps for
3) a friendly, shallow learning curve for inexperienced users but with powerful configuration options behind it for the hackers among us
all in one?
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Good article, assuming you don't spam it all over the damn place. There's one thing you don't take into account, though:
You won't be saying, "hey world, kiss my ass." See, the vast majority of the world doesn't care, because they've never heard of you. The vast majority of the world doesn't give a shit. This is something you learn when you get into high school, usually. It's rather liberating, really. The downside of realizing this is that you suddenly understand that the only people you hurt in a self-destroying action like suicide are yourself and the people who love you - your friends, family, girlfriend, wife, husband, whatever. Which makes suicide pretty useless for anything.
If you don't like your place in the world, change it. Don't throw it away.
My 2c. Not a troll.
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Finkployd, last I checked Freenet was not searchable. Rather, you had to have a key in order to retrieve information. What are you speaking of?
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I hated the adaptive menu structure. How do you turn it off in O2K?
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1) Does your karma go up when you submit a story, regardless of whether or not it's accepted?
2) How the hell do you people get up to 50, or 650, or whatever? Mine's been stuck at 12 for weeks. Do you just mod yourselves up with other accounts? Not EVERYthing you say can be +5, Insightful!
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You could easily be 10 years old and rather precocious, I suppose, so:
.rc extensions, the configuration files for all those kernel modules. Again, get a good Linux book which will do a much better job of explaining this than any of us could.
1) Yep, but you need to learn how to configure it first. You can read about the basics here if you like. Invest in a Linux book, though. I recommend one by O'Reilly.
2) Sure, if you spend a few weeks hashing out a concept for a business, learning how to use Apache, building a website and physically provisioning it. What kind of business do you want to start?
3) Yep, it's a shell. What's beneath it is the actual nuts, bolts, and gears of the operating system, which is called the kernel. How do you get there? Well, if you mean "how do you change how it works," by fiddling with all those nifty files with
Or, you could be a troll. But then, I've only wasted a minute or so of my time on you, which is really not much skin off my nose.
Love, 'Kruzr
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Apart from Trek or X-Men, Mr. Stewart is an excellent, internationally-acclaimed Shakespearean actor. There is not a single role I have seen him in when I was not greatly impressed with his talent. The fact that Sir Guinness was older and more experienced than Mr. Stewart does not detract from the latter's talent in comparison.
You're probably a troll, but I thought I'd make that clear anyway.
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This is unfortunately true. He was quoted multiple times as saying that he hated the role and thought the entire phenomenon was simplistic and ridiculous.
Yet, millions of fans loved him for his work in the movies. I suppose we should just remember him for his role and leave it at that.
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Mod this up, it's actually relevant and interesting!
p3d0, what else can the watch do and how does he do data input on it? And how does he run X on it??
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Good point there. Is that round-looking thing on the side a mouse or something (not that'd I'd ever dream that it could run X)?
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What are the differences between the W2K shell and the 98 shell?
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You seem very knowledgable about this so I'll ask you - why don't we have two-way text messaging in the States (Wireless Web to the email-pager-number of a phone doesn't count)?
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What are the feature similarities / differences between PCS, CDMA (same thing, I thought?!), TDMA, and GSM? I can't figure out which of these acronyms are actual designations of digital communications standards and which are just industry buzzwords. Do they all have the same features but different implementations?
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All right. How does this differ from the Amiga process they're talking about in the article?
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Who runs gnutella.wego.com? The actual authors of the program? No, right?
.60 or whatever, and start the tree over from there?
So why can't we just have them standardize on a 3rd-party client and have THAT be Gnutella v
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- Just think of the prospect of thinking the programs, and debugging at the speed of light, you could debug the linux kernel in a matter of minutes, you could optimize windows at assembly-level, by using nothing more than the memory-blueprint as a reference, you could do anything you want in a matter of hours, not months.
Slow down, bro. Yes, this does sound incredibly cool, but I don't think it works from an information theory level (at least I think that's the discipline I'm thinking of). We don't think in code, we think in terms of abstract ideas that our brains have to distill into code once we know what it is we want to program. "Thinking" a program into existence would require an incredibly complex "neural compiler" (let's call it) that would be capable of taking the extremely vague (from a computer's standpoint) "I want it to say 'Hello World' in a nice blue window on the screen." and turn it into code. Keep in mind that this would be even more difficult than the ever-elusive natural-language compiler since at least with natural language you have solid, unchanging text. The human mind is in a constant state of flux. It's very difficult for us to think of exactly the same thing, unchangingly, for more than a few seconds.It's certainly an interesting challenge, though. What are all your thoughts on this?
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Read this, jackass.
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Awwww! What a cute little troll!
Don't feed them, though, kids.
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Agreed - except the childbirth thing which is scary. As a substitute: free voluntary sterilization to anyone who wants it - and education re: the benefits of it to those cultures to whom childbearing is the be-all and end-all of existence and a sign of status (this includes many Asian and African cultures, coincidentally these are the places experiencing the most trouble with overpopulation).
And HERE come the culture whiners: "WAAAAH! What RIGHT do you have to tamper with their sacred culture and traditions which they've held for hundreds of years?!?!"
Sorry, but if you expect to live on this planet, I'm afraid you're going to have to pull your own weight. Adapt. Tough.
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We managed to catch up with John Connor, a young man whose opinion of Cyberdyne is skeptical to say the least, who told us the following: "I fully support RMS in his endeavors. Personally I feel that everyone, Cyberdyne and the software community included, would benefit from the opening of this code. (heh heh heh) Information wants to be free!" John then wandered off muttering something about fate being what you make. We at Slashdot are concerned that Mr. Connor's mental health may be affecting his coding. YMMV.
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I'd say about 70% of the male population of Slashdot gets turned down for dates. You really expect the number to be lower than that?
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You're right, it isn't stupid for a girl to be really into a good band.
However, N'Sync is neither good, nor a band, nor do they have anything to do with rock. They may have some small amount of musical talent, but unfortunately it is buried underneath a layer of 3rd party writers (mostly Max Martin, unfortunately, no matter what the CD case inserts say) and blinding PR. I will admit they have not a small amount of acapella skill, but it's drowned out by a usually overwhelming bass line (especially in their radio songs) whose sole purpose is to drive girls to dance whilst thinking about the 5 young men with hormone-driven longing.
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I'm surprised he doesn't have wireless Internet access on his laptop. It's not THAT expensive, but then, I don't know what his means are....
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You fool. You environment-raping fool. All of you are alike. Remember back when we started using petroleum? Huh? They said, "OH, there's a nearly limitless source of this stuff that practically OOZES up out of the ground in places!! We won't run out for years and years!" Now look where we are. Gas prices are rising. We're projected to start running out of crude by 2050.
What are you going to do when our supply of $3 crack dwindles down to a few pebbles?! How smart will you be THEN?!?!
Someday, I swear it, Mother Earth will rise up against the environment vampires and crush you all between the folds of her labia.
Thank you.
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