and iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile 7, WebOS, ChromeOS, Playstation/XBox custom OSes, and a few others. And clumping all "Linux" into one (from Ubuntu to Red Hat's Enterprise) is a bit of over-generalization.
In short, if you like playing around with new and interesting programmable systems, it may not be a Cambrian explosion, but we've certainly come out of the temporary bottleneck of the late 90's.
There's a reason for that. I'm not sure about other cities, but the Seattle public school district allows the community to donate facilities. Which is how the elementary school I went to came to have such a nice playground set up. The community got together and raised the funds, did a lot of the work themselves and suddenly there was a nice playground. Replacing the previous playground which wasn't quite as nice.
Unfortunately due to a lack of time, money and organization that tends not to happen in poorer neighborhoods.
Isn't there too many people on this earth anyways?
We kill people in stupid wars.
So who the hell cares?
I mean, seriously, here's something that can better mankind, and considering all the crappy shit we do to each other, why are they bitching about this?
- What would happen to him if he didn't take the medication?
- When was the medication invented?
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my adult years (mid 30's). Also dyslexia.
Anyways, I spent most of early school years being extremely frustrated. People didn't seem to understand the points of what I was saying. I didn't play well with others. I could do better if I applied myself. Don't seem to pay attention. etc.
In my teenage years, nothing really changed.
In my 20's I discovery herion and that it makes me feel so good that none of the frustration of dealing with people matter.
In my 30's, after 15 years of being a junkie and trying to stop being a junkie, I get to start seeing a shrink at the methadone clinic. We figure out that I'm ADHD (well, he figured that one out) and dyslexic (i started to notice something was wrong), got me on meds, and I had no problem getting off methadone and staying clean since then.
My life would be different now if I had found out about my ADHD (and dyslexia, and well, depression) back in my youth and if I had gotten medication for it. How different, no idea. Probably better in the long run, even though I don't really have any complaints.
By society's "norm" i'm a waste. disabled, living off the government. By my goals, I have a my own place, a cat, computers, internet. I'm a slacker, taking this life off.
So, if i probably would of known about my problems, and taken meds, I'd probably be married, have 2.5 fat kids, probably have 3 cats, some crappy IT job, lots of bills, stress and ulcers. And worse, I'd probably work for microsoft.
Seriously, I can't say what my life would of been like, but I can safely say this:
My life has been better since I started taking meds for the ADHD.
Sad part is, they didn't bring it to your attention it appears. Good old CmdrTaco and the poster (Albert) thought it'd be more effective to not tell you and sensationalize it a bit here in some sort of attempt to turn this into yet another GPL war.
Bringing it to your attention properly would have simply meant they clicked on the link on your website to report it.
I appreciate you taking the high road here and trying to say thanks, but lets call it what it is, this is a bunk story written for ad clicks by a couple of douche bags trying to get more page views from the angsty slashdot teenagers.
If you think so highly of this site, why are you here?
The book is over 1100 pages long. I actually own a version that comes in two volumes, so that would be $85 each. They are used for 3 or 4 semester calculus courses and the quality of the material is really good. It's money well spent.
That's not a fair price.
First off, it's for students, who shouldn't expect to pay top dollar for school stuff. Second, it don't cost them very much to print them.
It's all greed.
And when people get too greedy, someone else will fill the need with a cheaper product, which this time happens to be a scanned copy of the overpriced one.
No -- in the USA, only a prosecutor can file criminal charges. People sometimes say here, "I'm going to press charges," but that really just means cooperating with a prosecutor or attorney general. If your father punches you in a drunken fight, and you tell the cops you don't want to file charges, you better hope they want to cooperate... They can charge, or not charge, whoever they want. You have no control over it.
the cops don't press charges, the city, or county does.
There couldn't be a better audience for this product announcement than slashdot. This is perfect for all of us who will die alone in our basements, with nobody to attend the funeral. Just flick a switch and it's done.
Um, who's going to flip the switch? alone in the basement remember? Your dead?
Sure, maybe most people might not care, but if they knew what the difference is, they would.
For example. I won't watch camera captured screeners, or even the TS (telesync) screeners.
They look crappy. don't matter that i'm a big tron fan and that would be the only way I'd see the new tron movie first (unless i go to the theatre). Will I download a cam or TS of it? No.
I have a 1080p tv. All resolutions except 1080p get stretched to fit. And while 720p stuff looks fine, 720x480 is about the lesser limit I want to watch anything on it.
As for that matter, comcast likes to squeeze as much channels as possible, thus you get a lot of crappy screen things, like boxes and other crap. I hate it. Rather download something and watch it then watch it on via comcast.
Movies or TV shows that were not originally shot in HD but being shown in HD doesn't look as good as something shot in HD. I can notice the difference.
I think the test is bogus since it doesn't actually list much info about it.
Not to mention what sort of media they are watching it on, so on.
if you talking about watching stuff on a normal tv, ya, you might find that people won't noticed as much crap. Move that up to a 1080p TV and you'll see more people complaining.
I use an old commodore 1902 monitor for my old video game systems, since i made an adapter to use the seperate svideo jacks (chroma & luna on the monitor). Ya, i'd love to use my 38" HDTV to play my ps2 games, but they look like serious shit on it.
Even some of my Wii games looks pretty bad on it, but not bad enough I won't use it.
Dishing out some charity (financed by heroin sales and foreign donations) in order to win over population is not the way to build a sustainable economy. The job of the government (same applies to Afghanistan as does to US) is primarily to provide a stable rule of law (not arbitrary executions at the whim of the local mullahs). If the country has poor resources and is unable to produce anything worthwhile then it is probably going to be poor. There is no magical way for the government to change that and to conjure up wealth out of the rocks and sand. Taliban is a fundamentally inhuman organization that would sacrifice a million people in a blink of an eye if they thought that's what Allah wants. Their first concern is with their religious fantasies not with actual human beings. So please don't defend them.
funny you should say "conjure up wealth of the rocks and sand." seeing as that is where we now know that afghans wealth is.
They are already risking the lives of our soldiers by simply posting their tactics and secrets.
"combing through" the documents to 'save lives' is bullshit and they know it. They just want to post the dirtiest, effective secrets that can have maximum damage.... which will in turn hurt our soldiers.
No, our government is risking the lives of our soldiers by keeping them over there, in a fight we aren't winning, won't win, and can't win.
Civil disobedience is not a free activity. Sometimes it's worth paying the price for standing up for what you believe in. Rosa Parks was found guilty and assessed a fine. Does that mean she shouldn't have done what she did?
And what did she gain? As far as I can tell, by my experience, black people still sit in the back of the bus.
Yes, of course, they don't have to sit there, but most of them seem to.
I'm not going to jump on you, but you're living up to your handle here a bit.
Prosecuting war (or police actions, or whatnot) is an ugly business. It has to be - armed men, bombs, etc are dangerous. Soldiers are fallible. They have seconds to make the right call, and quite often, screw up. This is a fact of war, and no one disputes it.
In an ideal world, full transparency would be great. If a country were being responsible in its usage of force, for every mis-called bomb strike or innocent victim there would be hundreds of examples of making the right call, calling off the troops just in time, doing the job professionally. A neutral reviewer could say "Yes, there were several major errors, but on the whole, the US troops are doing well in a very difficult situation."
But that is not how the world actually works. One single graphic image, video, or similar can be taken from the overall picture, blown up, put on the front page of newspapers, and tar the entire country and all its soldiers. We see this all the time with politics in the US - good people done in by a goofy on-camera moment (Dean's scream comes to mind) or poorly chosen word or phrase (potatoe!).
This is not to say that all transparency is bad. Simply that full transparency, in this real world we live in, is not all good. We still need something like wikileaks for the next Mai Lai massacre, or similar, where the authorities who should prosecute those who willfully screw up fail to take action. But we don't need full 24/7 coverage of every piece of the conflict. And in my personal opinion, the most recent set of disclosures crossed that line.
We aren't responsible enough as a society at viewing all that information fairly to be trusted with it indiscriminately.
Um, but if we had transparency, then we would of known years ago Afgan was a failure and pulled out. If we had transparency, then they wouldn't of needed to cover up the killing of the journalist. (which was what people were pissed about, the cover up, not that person got killed, imo).
I don't want people I didn't vote for (after all, I can vote for my state's senators & congress, but I can't vote for other states, or I don't directly vote for the president) deciding what is good for me to know.
Anyways, when the government can cover stuff up (top secret, classified) it leaves government officials able to abuse their positions easier.
And seeing as man has been abusing power and greed since the beginning of time, I don't have any faith in anyone with that sort of power.
5.1 million people who are eligible to vote, but do not, could legally replace the great share of the national, state and local government if they'd only VOTE. It takes far less to swing an election that you'd think, most are not more than 60%-40%
No revolution, less people, and no violence.
Ya, votes.
Let's see, if I voted for mccain, shit would be the same, since this is what he wanted.
Now Obama, he said a lot of good things during his campaign, but since he's been in office, he's gone back on what he's said. So now, shits still the same.
Doesn't matter which party you vote for, they both are fuck toys for corporations.
Yeah 5 billion years into the future. During the previous 1 billion we evolved from amino acids to cells to amphibians, lizards, and intelligent mammals. So by the time the earth expires, we'll likely have moved into Q-like beings. Even if we stayed on this planet, its eventual scalding by the nearby star wouldn't affect us.
As for asteroids that caused massive extinctions, the previous one was 70 million years ago. And 250 million years ago. During that timespan we evolved from small rodent-like lizards into modern mammals. Who knows where we'll be in another 70 million years.
Seriously... if you can't find better-paying work than this as a JANITOR, then you truly are utterly unemployable and ought to consider yourself grateful to be able to find this kind of work.
I did janitor work for awhile and the job was great.
Got a bunch of "free" computer equipment and other stuff. Free food. pencils, pens, paperclips, etc.
the pay sucked though, which is why the "benefits" were so nice.
... None of this means anything if you can't get to it, but again, Germany has massive transit especially rail, and bus, and it doesn't take hours to get anywhere like the bus systems I know from Seattle or Philadelphia.....
If it's taking you hours to get somewhere on bus in Seattle, you either, took the wrong bus, or are taking a bus out of Seattle.
Having lived here my whole life, and not ever driving, I've depended on the bus in Seattle. And I can safely say, there isn't any locations in Seattle that take more then an hour to get to on bus.
Now if your taking the bus out of Seattle, that's different, and probably what you meant.
As for your friends getting hit by cars when they are on their bikes, sorry, that's a sport we have here in Seattle.
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and iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile 7, WebOS, ChromeOS, Playstation/XBox custom OSes, and a few others. And clumping all "Linux" into one (from Ubuntu to Red Hat's Enterprise) is a bit of over-generalization.
In short, if you like playing around with new and interesting programmable systems, it may not be a Cambrian explosion, but we've certainly come out of the temporary bottleneck of the late 90's.
Don't forget AmigaOS!!!
You miss the point. You aren't supposed to hate MS, you are supposed to make up your own mind about how you feel about MS.
You need to have your own thoughts, make your own decisions, and live on that, not on what your supposed to do.
There's a reason for that. I'm not sure about other cities, but the Seattle public school district allows the community to donate facilities. Which is how the elementary school I went to came to have such a nice playground set up. The community got together and raised the funds, did a lot of the work themselves and suddenly there was a nice playground. Replacing the previous playground which wasn't quite as nice.
Unfortunately due to a lack of time, money and organization that tends not to happen in poorer neighborhoods.
I was educated thanks to Seattle Public Schools.
What did I learn?
That we don't put enough money into education.
There are more teachers than teaching jobs, this clearly indicates they are not underpaid.
That does not compute.
Isn't there too many people on this earth anyways?
We kill people in stupid wars.
So who the hell cares?
I mean, seriously, here's something that can better mankind, and considering all the crappy shit we do to each other, why are they bitching about this?
Man, I grew up on his text adventures.
wonder what his house is like.
You see a wood door, with a doorbell next to it. Behind you is a path to the south.
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I have two questions:
- What would happen to him if he didn't take the medication?
- When was the medication invented?
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my adult years (mid 30's). Also dyslexia.
Anyways, I spent most of early school years being extremely frustrated. People didn't seem to understand the points of what I was saying. I didn't play well with others. I could do better if I applied myself. Don't seem to pay attention. etc.
In my teenage years, nothing really changed.
In my 20's I discovery herion and that it makes me feel so good that none of the frustration of dealing with people matter.
In my 30's, after 15 years of being a junkie and trying to stop being a junkie, I get to start seeing a shrink at the methadone clinic. We figure out that I'm ADHD (well, he figured that one out) and dyslexic (i started to notice something was wrong), got me on meds, and I had no problem getting off methadone and staying clean since then.
My life would be different now if I had found out about my ADHD (and dyslexia, and well, depression) back in my youth and if I had gotten medication for it. How different, no idea. Probably better in the long run, even though I don't really have any complaints.
By society's "norm" i'm a waste. disabled, living off the government.
By my goals, I have a my own place, a cat, computers, internet. I'm a slacker, taking this life off.
So, if i probably would of known about my problems, and taken meds, I'd probably be married, have 2.5 fat kids, probably have 3 cats, some crappy IT job, lots of bills, stress and ulcers. And worse, I'd probably work for microsoft.
Seriously, I can't say what my life would of been like, but I can safely say this:
My life has been better since I started taking meds for the ADHD.
Sad part is, they didn't bring it to your attention it appears. Good old CmdrTaco and the poster (Albert) thought it'd be more effective to not tell you and sensationalize it a bit here in some sort of attempt to turn this into yet another GPL war.
Bringing it to your attention properly would have simply meant they clicked on the link on your website to report it.
I appreciate you taking the high road here and trying to say thanks, but lets call it what it is, this is a bunk story written for ad clicks by a couple of douche bags trying to get more page views from the angsty slashdot teenagers.
If you think so highly of this site, why are you here?
Guess Lulu removed the link now.
Fair price actually.
The book is over 1100 pages long. I actually own a version that comes in two volumes, so that would be $85 each. They are used for 3 or 4 semester calculus courses and the quality of the material is really good. It's money well spent.
That's not a fair price.
First off, it's for students, who shouldn't expect to pay top dollar for school stuff.
Second, it don't cost them very much to print them.
It's all greed.
And when people get too greedy, someone else will fill the need with a cheaper product, which this time happens to be a scanned copy of the overpriced one.
No -- in the USA, only a prosecutor can file criminal charges. People sometimes say here, "I'm going to press charges," but that really just means cooperating with a prosecutor or attorney general. If your father punches you in a drunken fight, and you tell the cops you don't want to file charges, you better hope they want to cooperate... They can charge, or not charge, whoever they want. You have no control over it.
the cops don't press charges, the city, or county does.
.... He's shown that he can't set aside his ego and such a person has no business having system level passwords.
but he'd make good management!
Sounds to me like some of their cleaning supplies might have changed.
But hey, lets blame the new tech, since it's works like magic, and the chemicals we use are based on good science.
But I don't care what happens after I die. I'll be dead. do what you want with my body.
I don't need a tombstone, nor do I need a grave. Maybe other people in my family want me to have that stuff, but I don't. not my problem.
There couldn't be a better audience for this product announcement than slashdot. This is perfect for all of us who will die alone in our basements, with nobody to attend the funeral. Just flick a switch and it's done.
Um, who's going to flip the switch? alone in the basement remember? Your dead?
Now a deadman's switch, okay, that will work.
I don't find this to be true.
Sure, maybe most people might not care, but if they knew what the difference is, they would.
For example. I won't watch camera captured screeners, or even the TS (telesync) screeners.
They look crappy. don't matter that i'm a big tron fan and that would be the only way I'd see the new tron movie first (unless i go to the theatre). Will I download a cam or TS of it? No.
I have a 1080p tv. All resolutions except 1080p get stretched to fit. And while 720p stuff looks fine, 720x480 is about the lesser limit I want to watch anything on it.
As for that matter, comcast likes to squeeze as much channels as possible, thus you get a lot of crappy screen things, like boxes and other crap. I hate it. Rather download something and watch it then watch it on via comcast.
Movies or TV shows that were not originally shot in HD but being shown in HD doesn't look as good as something shot in HD. I can notice the difference.
I think the test is bogus since it doesn't actually list much info about it.
Not to mention what sort of media they are watching it on, so on.
if you talking about watching stuff on a normal tv, ya, you might find that people won't noticed as much crap. Move that up to a 1080p TV and you'll see more people complaining.
I use an old commodore 1902 monitor for my old video game systems, since i made an adapter to use the seperate svideo jacks (chroma & luna on the monitor). Ya, i'd love to use my 38" HDTV to play my ps2 games, but they look like serious shit on it.
Even some of my Wii games looks pretty bad on it, but not bad enough I won't use it.
Dishing out some charity (financed by heroin sales and foreign donations) in order to win over population is not the way to build a sustainable economy. The job of the government (same applies to Afghanistan as does to US) is primarily to provide a stable rule of law (not arbitrary executions at the whim of the local mullahs). If the country has poor resources and is unable to produce anything worthwhile then it is probably going to be poor. There is no magical way for the government to change that and to conjure up wealth out of the rocks and sand. Taliban is a fundamentally inhuman organization that would sacrifice a million people in a blink of an eye if they thought that's what Allah wants. Their first concern is with their religious fantasies not with actual human beings. So please don't defend them.
funny you should say "conjure up wealth of the rocks and sand." seeing as that is where we now know that afghans wealth is.
They are already risking the lives of our soldiers by simply posting their tactics and secrets.
"combing through" the documents to 'save lives' is bullshit and they know it. They just want to post the dirtiest, effective secrets that can have maximum damage.... which will in turn hurt our soldiers.
No, our government is risking the lives of our soldiers by keeping them over there, in a fight we aren't winning, won't win, and can't win.
Civil disobedience is not a free activity. Sometimes it's worth paying the price for standing up for what you believe in. Rosa Parks was found guilty and assessed a fine. Does that mean she shouldn't have done what she did?
And what did she gain? As far as I can tell, by my experience, black people still sit in the back of the bus.
Yes, of course, they don't have to sit there, but most of them seem to.
I'm not going to jump on you, but you're living up to your handle here a bit.
Prosecuting war (or police actions, or whatnot) is an ugly business. It has to be - armed men, bombs, etc are dangerous. Soldiers are fallible. They have seconds to make the right call, and quite often, screw up. This is a fact of war, and no one disputes it.
In an ideal world, full transparency would be great. If a country were being responsible in its usage of force, for every mis-called bomb strike or innocent victim there would be hundreds of examples of making the right call, calling off the troops just in time, doing the job professionally. A neutral reviewer could say "Yes, there were several major errors, but on the whole, the US troops are doing well in a very difficult situation."
But that is not how the world actually works. One single graphic image, video, or similar can be taken from the overall picture, blown up, put on the front page of newspapers, and tar the entire country and all its soldiers. We see this all the time with politics in the US - good people done in by a goofy on-camera moment (Dean's scream comes to mind) or poorly chosen word or phrase (potatoe!).
This is not to say that all transparency is bad. Simply that full transparency, in this real world we live in, is not all good. We still need something like wikileaks for the next Mai Lai massacre, or similar, where the authorities who should prosecute those who willfully screw up fail to take action. But we don't need full 24/7 coverage of every piece of the conflict. And in my personal opinion, the most recent set of disclosures crossed that line.
We aren't responsible enough as a society at viewing all that information fairly to be trusted with it indiscriminately.
Um, but if we had transparency, then we would of known years ago Afgan was a failure and pulled out. If we had transparency, then they wouldn't of needed to cover up the killing of the journalist. (which was what people were pissed about, the cover up, not that person got killed, imo).
I don't want people I didn't vote for (after all, I can vote for my state's senators & congress, but I can't vote for other states, or I don't directly vote for the president) deciding what is good for me to know.
Anyways, when the government can cover stuff up (top secret, classified) it leaves government officials able to abuse their positions easier.
And seeing as man has been abusing power and greed since the beginning of time, I don't have any faith in anyone with that sort of power.
5.1 million people who are eligible to vote, but do not, could legally replace the great share of the national, state and local government if they'd only VOTE. It takes far less to swing an election that you'd think, most are not more than 60%-40%
No revolution, less people, and no violence.
Ya, votes.
Let's see, if I voted for mccain, shit would be the same, since this is what he wanted.
Now Obama, he said a lot of good things during his campaign, but since he's been in office, he's gone back on what he's said. So now, shits still the same.
Doesn't matter which party you vote for, they both are fuck toys for corporations.
I think he means cheque, for those of you in the civilized world.
Wait, there's a civilized world now?
>>>This planet has an expiration date.
Yeah 5 billion years into the future. During the previous 1 billion we evolved from amino acids to cells to amphibians, lizards, and intelligent mammals. So by the time the earth expires, we'll likely have moved into Q-like beings. Even if we stayed on this planet, its eventual scalding by the nearby star wouldn't affect us.
As for asteroids that caused massive extinctions, the previous one was 70 million years ago. And 250 million years ago. During that timespan we evolved from small rodent-like lizards into modern mammals. Who knows where we'll be in another 70 million years.
I know where I will be.
Dead.
...
Seriously... if you can't find better-paying work than this as a JANITOR, then you truly are utterly unemployable and ought to consider yourself grateful to be able to find this kind of work.
I did janitor work for awhile and the job was great.
Got a bunch of "free" computer equipment and other stuff. Free food. pencils, pens, paperclips, etc.
the pay sucked though, which is why the "benefits" were so nice.
... None of this means anything if you can't get to it, but again, Germany has massive transit especially rail, and bus, and it doesn't take hours to get anywhere like the bus systems I know from Seattle or Philadelphia. ....
If it's taking you hours to get somewhere on bus in Seattle, you either, took the wrong bus, or are taking a bus out of Seattle.
Having lived here my whole life, and not ever driving, I've depended on the bus in Seattle. And I can safely say, there isn't any locations in Seattle that take more then an hour to get to on bus.
Now if your taking the bus out of Seattle, that's different, and probably what you meant.
As for your friends getting hit by cars when they are on their bikes, sorry, that's a sport we have here in Seattle.