Hey, you have a point. I'm definitely lucky. You're probably lucky too relative to most sentient beings. Feelings of being superior are a natural defense mechanism to the fear that we all have.
The question is, what are you going to do about it? You can play the cards you're dealt. You can help others. You can work on understanding your life. Or, you can blame others or blame society. Which do you think leads to happiness?
I don't have any daddy-money. But I found someone who did, and who also happened to learn quite a bit of business acumen from said daddy. He funded our operation, handles the business side, and I handle engineering. It worked out very well in the end. Of course the real world isn't always fair, but there's always ways to adapt and come out on top. Step 1 is to stop complaining about it.
China's lack of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and free elections are incredibly scary to me. It may not seem like that big of a deal right now, as they try to play nicely with the world. But what happens in 20 years when they become the richest & most powerful nation, and no longer have the incentive to play fairly? They have complete control over their people due to the lack of the above democratic checks. The Chinese people have no idea about the genocides committed in their near past, Tiananmen Square, etc. What happens when the most powerful nation on earth lacks any kind of social discourse??
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My co-worker wasted a couple hours trying to install a second graphics card on Ubuntu, before inserting the card into a Windows machine and realizing that the card simply didn't work. IMO, that illustrates a significant reason to stay away from desktop Linux. Solving computer problems is complex enough already, adding in another dimension because of, say, uncertainty in the correctness of your config files, can greatly magnify the hassle and amount of wasted time.
Yes, the time is worth it on mission critical applications, but I'm sticking to Windows for my desktop until my confidence in things "just working" increases enough to get rid of this dimension in problem solving.
I was just at an educators conference where they had a seminar on MySpace. They showed how a predator can track down information from the bits and pieces on MySpace. Your child may be smart enough to omit personal information about herself, but her friends probably aren't. And enough information can be found out about your child through their associations on MySpace and google searches to be downright scary.
MySpace is taking the K-12 world by storm, and these educators were badly shaken. Anything MySpace can do to make under-18 accounts only available to immediate friends is very much needed. Education of parents & children is also critical!
While I disagree with alot of what Crichton says - his argument is particularly crude that because we can't predict the weather 12 hours from now therefore we don't have any idea what large increases in CO2 will do to the climate - I do strongly agree with him on one point:
There should be a global scientific body derived of scientists from both sides of the spectrum that uses double blinded research and debate to bring clarity to issues like global warming.
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Hey, you have a point. I'm definitely lucky. You're probably lucky too relative to most sentient beings. Feelings of being superior are a natural defense mechanism to the fear that we all have. The question is, what are you going to do about it? You can play the cards you're dealt. You can help others. You can work on understanding your life. Or, you can blame others or blame society. Which do you think leads to happiness?
I don't have any daddy-money. But I found someone who did, and who also happened to learn quite a bit of business acumen from said daddy. He funded our operation, handles the business side, and I handle engineering. It worked out very well in the end. Of course the real world isn't always fair, but there's always ways to adapt and come out on top. Step 1 is to stop complaining about it.
I don't live there, it doesn't affect me.
China's lack of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and free elections are incredibly scary to me. It may not seem like that big of a deal right now, as they try to play nicely with the world. But what happens in 20 years when they become the richest & most powerful nation, and no longer have the incentive to play fairly? They have complete control over their people due to the lack of the above democratic checks. The Chinese people have no idea about the genocides committed in their near past, Tiananmen Square, etc. What happens when the most powerful nation on earth lacks any kind of social discourse??
My co-worker wasted a couple hours trying to install a second graphics card on Ubuntu, before inserting the card into a Windows machine and realizing that the card simply didn't work. IMO, that illustrates a significant reason to stay away from desktop Linux. Solving computer problems is complex enough already, adding in another dimension because of, say, uncertainty in the correctness of your config files, can greatly magnify the hassle and amount of wasted time. Yes, the time is worth it on mission critical applications, but I'm sticking to Windows for my desktop until my confidence in things "just working" increases enough to get rid of this dimension in problem solving.
MySpace is taking the K-12 world by storm, and these educators were badly shaken. Anything MySpace can do to make under-18 accounts only available to immediate friends is very much needed. Education of parents & children is also critical!
While I disagree with alot of what Crichton says - his argument is particularly crude that because we can't predict the weather 12 hours from now therefore we don't have any idea what large increases in CO2 will do to the climate - I do strongly agree with him on one point:
There should be a global scientific body derived of scientists from both sides of the spectrum that uses double blinded research and debate to bring clarity to issues like global warming.