I switched about 3 years ago, thinking that it would be better to start learning an alternative before the whole thing really starts to go downhill very very fast.
Yes it takes time to adjust to Linux/BSD if one has never worked with it before. Is it difficult? Sometimes, but in my early DOS/Windows days I too needed more time to find the solution for problems.
Happy? Definitely! I encountered a few serious potholes in the road to learning this alternative, but overall I'm so happy that I've switched. Next to that, I found that I simply cannot really go back to Windows again. I can work with it if I have to, sure... but having it permantely on my workstation would be very frustrating for me as a software developer. Just the Win32 commandline, which I believe is crippled, is driving me nuts now..
If I cannot control my own computer and my own data anymore, I'll probably serious consider becoming a Buddhist monk somewhere far away from all technology. *g*;)
Theoretically it would be possible for a large group of consumers to start building their own (rogue?) internet. With the availability of wireless products (e.g. WiFi), it has become possible to build a (mesh) network without having to dig cables into the ground.
But creating anything that comes close to the current size of the internet with just WiFi nodes is difficult to say the least, how to cross the Atlantic for example?:)
Perhaps we would need to start an Open Source Satellite program...;)
Let me just say that there are enough skilled people on this planet who might be able to come up with some sort of an alternative option. (but they need the internet to effectively work together, gheh)
Perhaps a few degrees of warming would not change much, but I'm afraid of what is going to happen when the threshold is on which it starts to be released. Everything that is released would add to global warming, which would speed up the release of other methane, which would add to global warming etc. Would this not create a whole cascade of effects?
And what about the fact that it is stored on the oceanic seabeds.. that means it is stored under pressure.. which will likely cause each amount of methane to expand when it reaches the water surface, right?
Disclaimer: climate change and gas/chemistry stuff is one of those scientific fields of which the reading material is still on my todo list. Please forgive any stupid question.:)
I slightly disagree. Every star ship captain, Autobahn lover, and Looney Tunes(tm) character knows that there is one step beyond full speed: ludicrous speed!
The quantum network still has a nasty bug in it. It will sometimes cause a recursive problem of trying to get ones future code, resulting in a deadline that will converge to a point just 1 second ahead of the programmer's own timeline. This results in projects that are almost ready, but never finished.
Famous example: Duke Nukem: Forever.
According to insiders, the 'Forever' part in the name hints at the eternal attempt of the programmers to catch up with this 'one-second-ahead-in-the-future-release'. A horrible fate indeed!
"I predict that this will happen shortly after all composers simply re-arrange themes and phrases from previous musical pieces in order to create any new compositions and authors simply splice paragraphs from existing books to form new ones."
(Disclaimer The following is without trying to start a language X vs. language Y flame-fest:)
Perhaps I'm allowed to recommend Python to you. It's easy and quick to learn in general and personally I noticed that I picked it up much, much faster than Perl. The only thing I have to say is that, when it comes to the fact that whitespace/identation is part of the Python syntax.. dive in with an open mind! There are so many people who are complaining about this feature of Python, but if you are used to given your code a proper layout, you'll stop noticing that you have to ident code blocks quite fast. Then it has become natural and, IMHO, quite pleasant.
Although this might not be a guarantee, the following anecdote is quite telling if you ask me:
One of my friends (experienced PHP/Perl coder) was also complaining about 'whitespace this and whitespace that'.. after a few weeks I convinced him to give him a shot. After an hour the amount of complaining reduced significantly. The next day he proudly showed me a complete IRC bot which he had developed from the ground up! Even though he had a decent amount coding experience, doing this in a new language is quite amazing when thinking about it!:)
Oh, and nowadays he wants to program in Python as much as possible... he's addicted!;)
Slashdot Mirror
"P.S. /. strips sarcasm tags. For the terminally holier-than-thou set, the above was indeed sarcasm."
;)
s o_table.html
HTML entities are your <friend>
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/i
http://www.mytrashmail.com/
Very handy temporary email accounts.
Doh, I forgot some good looking female crew member in a cat suit doing some disk* management every now and then.
* If you believed I would make a Freudian slip here, I can tell you've got a naughty, naughty mind hehehe.
I want my SAN to look like that large glowing pipe in Engineering which a ring of light going through it depending on how fast data is accessed*. ;-)
:P
* Including the 'waooom, waooom, waooom' sound
Keyboards not supermodels?
Doh! That explains why sometimes it is so hard to hit the right buttons...
*Zzzinnggg* </Conan O'Brien>
I hear you!
I switched about 3 years ago, thinking that it would be better to start learning an alternative before the whole thing really starts to go downhill very very fast.
Yes it takes time to adjust to Linux/BSD if one has never worked with it before. Is it difficult? Sometimes, but in my early DOS/Windows days I too needed more time to find the solution for problems.
Happy? Definitely! I encountered a few serious potholes in the road to learning this alternative, but overall I'm so happy that I've switched. Next to that, I found that I simply cannot really go back to Windows again. I can work with it if I have to, sure... but having it permantely on my workstation would be very frustrating for me as a software developer. Just the Win32 commandline, which I believe is crippled, is driving me nuts now..
If I cannot control my own computer and my own data anymore, I'll probably serious consider becoming a Buddhist monk somewhere far away from all technology. *g*
Theoretically it would be possible for a large group of consumers to start building their own (rogue?) internet. With the availability of wireless products (e.g. WiFi), it has become possible to build a (mesh) network without having to dig cables into the ground.
:)
;)
But creating anything that comes close to the current size of the internet with just WiFi nodes is difficult to say the least, how to cross the Atlantic for example?
Perhaps we would need to start an Open Source Satellite program...
Let me just say that there are enough skilled people on this planet who might be able to come up with some sort of an alternative option.
(but they need the internet to effectively work together, gheh)
Iron man loves it on his hot dogs!
Perhaps a few degrees of warming would not change much, but I'm afraid of what is going to happen when the threshold is on which it starts to be released. Everything that is released would add to global warming, which would speed up the release of other methane, which would add to global warming etc. Would this not create a whole cascade of effects?
:)
And what about the fact that it is stored on the oceanic seabeds.. that means it is stored under pressure.. which will likely cause each amount of methane to expand when it reaches the water surface, right?
Disclaimer: climate change and gas/chemistry stuff is one of those scientific fields of which the reading material is still on my todo list. Please forgive any stupid question.
Ah! It's good to know that at least my handwritten notes are safe! :D
The Impact Calculator website at Earth Impact Effects Program:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
The second movie title that came to my mind is: 'Something's gotta give' ;O
I slightly disagree. Every star ship captain, Autobahn lover, and Looney Tunes(tm) character knows that there is one step beyond full speed: ludicrous speed!
*me waves to Wile E. Coyote*
*beep* *beep*
The quantum network still has a nasty bug in it. It will sometimes cause a recursive problem of trying to get ones future code, resulting in a deadline
that will converge to a point just 1 second ahead of the programmer's own timeline. This results in projects that are almost ready, but never finished.
Famous example: Duke Nukem: Forever.
According to insiders, the 'Forever' part in the name hints at the eternal attempt of the programmers to catch up with this 'one-second-ahead-in-the-future-release'. A horrible fate indeed!
something which is also known as 'extreme premature ejaculation'. *g*
Please make sure you reply using a BCC and not a CC, thank you! ^_^
Perhaps we'll one day see some kind of 'internet weather' report just after the sports news and the real-live-outdoor-kind-of-weather report. ;)
Retrieving the password of a password protected MS Access database is very, very easy.. that's for sure!
Not sure how vunerable SQL Server/ MySQL/PostgreSQL and others are..
I was more thinking in the direction of: /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd sync :P
"I predict that this will happen shortly after all composers simply re-arrange themes and phrases from previous musical pieces in order to create any new compositions and authors simply splice paragraphs from existing books to form new ones."
;)
As in remixes and sampling?
(Disclaimer The following is without trying to start a language X vs. language Y flame-fest:)
:)
;)
Perhaps I'm allowed to recommend Python to you. It's easy and quick to learn in general and personally I noticed that I picked it up much, much faster than Perl. The only thing I have to say is that, when it comes to the fact that whitespace/identation is part of the Python syntax.. dive in with an open mind! There are so many people who are complaining about this feature of Python, but if you are used to given your code a proper layout, you'll stop noticing that you have to ident code blocks quite fast. Then it has become natural and, IMHO, quite pleasant.
Although this might not be a guarantee, the following anecdote is quite telling if you ask me:
One of my friends (experienced PHP/Perl coder) was also complaining about 'whitespace this and whitespace that'.. after a few weeks I convinced him to give him a shot. After an hour the amount of complaining reduced significantly. The next day he proudly showed me a complete IRC bot which he had developed from the ground up! Even though he had a decent amount coding experience, doing this in a new language is quite amazing when thinking about it!
Oh, and nowadays he wants to program in Python as much as possible... he's addicted!
There's indeed a lot of pollution outside!
All of use should remember how lucky we are, safely spending our time behind the computer in the basement of our parents..
Ehmm.. I mean.. ehm... *runs*
But then you're running the risk that all hell will break loose! ;)
In this light, with no pun intended:
Google founders invest in solar energy (Nanosolar company)
http://www.nanosolar.com/cache/cnetgoogle.htm