This. The home version for 1 PC costs less than 4$ per month if you take a 4 year subscription. I did this nearly 3 years ago, and by now I have several TB of data on there. Can't beat that price.
'gas' stations? That will go the way of 'dialing a number', 'hanging up the phone', 'taping' a program, or even that weird non-rectangular red blob in Youtube's logo.
It stands to reason that consciousness is embedded in the biological factory that is our body. There's no reason to assume any magic comes into play here. Any complex system with many variables may look like magic if you don't fully grasp it.
Sending meat bags into space is not very practical at all. It's more likely that we'll develop nano-factories and the capability of offloading intelligence into machines. Then we can just create intelligent space drones that replicate themselves as they go along and thus populate the galaxy.
This is actually one of the reasons why some think there is no extraterrestial life advanced enough to pull this off, as we would have noticed it by now. The reasoning behind this is that any society that has such capabilities more than likely destroyed itself before being able to reach this state. Of course, we might just be the first in our universe to pull this off, but don't count on it.
Germany had a decent chance at the time, having a very advanced military and being technologically superior. This is definitely not in the cards for Russia right now. Sure they have enough firepower to destroy a continent, but it's also a guaranteed mutual destruction. Sure, Putin may try to nab a few more regions here and there that are relatively low-risk, but a world conquest is out of the picture.
A wall is precisely defined by the one who gives the builder the order.
If this analogy would work, then your boss would have to hand you the EXACT specifications, to the very minute detail, before you start implementing anything. Something tells me that is not what your boss does.
So, as your average software developer, your task isn't to implement a system that is 100% specced out. Your job is also to spec that system, based on ambiguous and incomplete specifications. And to make matters worse, the specs will likely change while you are implementing it.
In short: Complexity is several orders of magnitude more difficult. If it were as easy as brick laying, you'd be replaced by a machine by now.
I find that MessagEase is an excellent keyboard for scripting. In fact, I like it better than a hardware keyboard. All the letters, numbers and other printable characters you need are available with a single swipe. Nowadays, after special request, it also includes Ctrl, Alt and F1..F12. Vim works wonderfully well once you master the non-standard layout.
The only major drawback is that it eats screen real estate. I'd recommend a Galaxy Note with a nice big screen for that, although I get by well enough on a HTC One with a 4.7" screen. With the onscreen keyboard, you have more than enough space for a 80x25 terminal in ConnectBot.
My solution to this problem is to wear over-the-head headphones that block out outside noise, and put some constant noise on (ocean waves, brown noise,..). It suppresses outside sounds really well.
I'd like to try those really expensive noise-cancelling headphones as well. They work amazingly well in the noisy stores that sell them.
A thousand times this. I recently got a 2007 core-duo laptop (2x2Ghz) with a broken screen for less than 20$ off ebay, ran OpenElec on it from a USB stick, and hooked it up to a tv. Plays everything, plus has a great interface. And barely requires any setting up other than choosing the right OpenElec version.
I have a very different experience. We had several dogs (2-3 on average) and a few cats. I've had allergies all during my youth. Mostly pollen, cats, dogs. I still hate the smell of freshly mowed grass. That was one of the worst.
The upshot is that past my early twenties, pretty much all allergies have almost completely disappeared. I can now inhale deeply standing over freshly mowed grass and not suffer. The strong negative association with the smell is a little harder to get rid of though.
Yeah. When using Ubuntu, you have to get used to a different[ly behaving] UI every 6 months. That is actually *worse* than Windows/Mac, where at least the experience is more consistent.
This is a good time to switch to xmonad in combination with the tools used by LXDE.
Indeed. Having bigger keys is a big improvement. And since the current generation touchscreens are so sensitive, one button can easily be used for multiple letters with a single action (tap or swipe). That's why I fell in love with messagease. There's a learning curve involved, but with the supplied game you pick it up quite fast.
What I like about this keyboard is that the buttons are big, yet they offer multiple letters on each. Plus, you don't have to switch modes to type capital letters or most of the punctuation or other special characters. Or even numbers for the more advanced users. I can write properly formatted text with capitals and punctuation marks quite rapidly now, and it doesn't involve any type of auto-correction of suggestion at all!
Also, the dev behind this thing responds very rapidly to suggestions and bug fixes. Vim-users (who are already used to learning curves;) should definitely give this thing a spin.
On android phones, there are alternative keyboards you can use that are optimized for use on a capacitive touchscreen. A qwerty-keyboard with small keys on a small screen is annoying, as it requires modifier-keys or slow long-presses to switch between text, numbers and symbols. Yes, you can use auto-suggest to speed plain old text typing (such as swype), but that only works for regular text. The alternatives presents a keyboard with large keys that can have all of those at a single, speedy gesture.
My favorite is messagease. It makes optimum use of touchscreen capabilities. E.g. on a single key you can do a single tap, a swipe in 8 different directions (and back for even more options like capitalization), and things like drawing a circle clock-wise or anti-clockwise. Using a single (large) key you can input many different characters this way. Especially power users will love this. Similar to using powerful editors like vim, there's a learning curve. But once you master it, you will love every second of it. Since this is that you use very often, it is worth investing some time to learn it. And honestly, this one is not hard or frustrating to learn; there's a simple game included that will get you up to speed in a matter of weeks.
I use this keyboard to fix things on the go without being frustrated by how horrible a normal keyboard layout is when using a terminal emulator. It's even better than a physical keyboard on a smartphone. No, I do not make money off of this keyboard, it's just one of the greatest tools I've used since I mastered vim ages ago.
Except that you're more than a little likely to run into something else that you will waste time on, thereby once again avoiding the issue that is _really_ at stake here. This is fighting the symptoms of a problem, not actually tackling the problem that's apparently bothering this person.
Yeah. Imagine, if you will, that capacity will double every 1.5 to 2 years. 10 Years from now, we'll have phones that are 30+ times faster than what we have now. With that hardware, who needs PC's?
Just put the phone on a dock and use the attached screen/keyboard/mouse as your computer. PC's will go the way of the workstation for professionals and enthusiasts. That's why Microsoft is desperately clawing its way back into the mobile OS.
Comparing a server idling to a car in front of a red light is seriously wrong. Servers in general tend to spend a _lot_ more time idling than cars wait for a red traffic light. There'll always be servers that _do_ fully utilize their resources, but most of them will idle a lot. So it makes perfect sense to take that as a generic guide-line.
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This. The home version for 1 PC costs less than 4$ per month if you take a 4 year subscription. I did this nearly 3 years ago, and by now I have several TB of data on there. Can't beat that price.
Certainly we need an update to this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II
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'gas' stations? That will go the way of 'dialing a number', 'hanging up the phone', 'taping' a program, or even that weird non-rectangular red blob in Youtube's logo.
It stands to reason that consciousness is embedded in the biological factory that is our body. There's no reason to assume any magic comes into play here. Any complex system with many variables may look like magic if you don't fully grasp it.
Sending meat bags into space is not very practical at all. It's more likely that we'll develop nano-factories and the capability of offloading intelligence into machines. Then we can just create intelligent space drones that replicate themselves as they go along and thus populate the galaxy.
This is actually one of the reasons why some think there is no extraterrestial life advanced enough to pull this off, as we would have noticed it by now. The reasoning behind this is that any society that has such capabilities more than likely destroyed itself before being able to reach this state. Of course, we might just be the first in our universe to pull this off, but don't count on it.
Germany had a decent chance at the time, having a very advanced military and being technologically superior. This is definitely not in the cards for Russia right now. Sure they have enough firepower to destroy a continent, but it's also a guaranteed mutual destruction. Sure, Putin may try to nab a few more regions here and there that are relatively low-risk, but a world conquest is out of the picture.
A wall is precisely defined by the one who gives the builder the order.
If this analogy would work, then your boss would have to hand you the EXACT specifications, to the very minute detail, before you start implementing anything. Something tells me that is not what your boss does.
So, as your average software developer, your task isn't to implement a system that is 100% specced out. Your job is also to spec that system, based on ambiguous and incomplete specifications. And to make matters worse, the specs will likely change while you are implementing it.
In short: Complexity is several orders of magnitude more difficult. If it were as easy as brick laying, you'd be replaced by a machine by now.
strongly preferred by a vocal minority who arrogantly THINK they represent the entire userbase.
FTFY.
Luckily they have now thrown in their own windows by acting like total assholes. Good riddance.
I find that MessagEase is an excellent keyboard for scripting. In fact, I like it better than a hardware keyboard. All the letters, numbers and other printable characters you need are available with a single swipe. Nowadays, after special request, it also includes Ctrl, Alt and F1..F12. Vim works wonderfully well once you master the non-standard layout.
The only major drawback is that it eats screen real estate. I'd recommend a Galaxy Note with a nice big screen for that, although I get by well enough on a HTC One with a 4.7" screen. With the onscreen keyboard, you have more than enough space for a 80x25 terminal in ConnectBot.
My solution to this problem is to wear over-the-head headphones that block out outside noise, and put some constant noise on (ocean waves, brown noise, ..). It suppresses outside sounds really well.
I'd like to try those really expensive noise-cancelling headphones as well. They work amazingly well in the noisy stores that sell them.
A thousand times this. I recently got a 2007 core-duo laptop (2x2Ghz) with a broken screen for less than 20$ off ebay, ran OpenElec on it from a USB stick, and hooked it up to a tv. Plays everything, plus has a great interface. And barely requires any setting up other than choosing the right OpenElec version.
http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/
I have a very different experience. We had several dogs (2-3 on average) and a few cats. I've had allergies all during my youth. Mostly pollen, cats, dogs. I still hate the smell of freshly mowed grass. That was one of the worst.
The upshot is that past my early twenties, pretty much all allergies have almost completely disappeared. I can now inhale deeply standing over freshly mowed grass and not suffer. The strong negative association with the smell is a little harder to get rid of though.
You and your silly logic and reasoning. The hive mind wants to bash cops, how dare you stray from the path!
Yeah. When using Ubuntu, you have to get used to a different[ly behaving] UI every 6 months. That is actually *worse* than Windows/Mac, where at least the experience is more consistent.
This is a good time to switch to xmonad in combination with the tools used by LXDE.
Indeed. Having bigger keys is a big improvement. And since the current generation touchscreens are so sensitive, one button can easily be used for multiple letters with a single action (tap or swipe). That's why I fell in love with messagease. There's a learning curve involved, but with the supplied game you pick it up quite fast.
What I like about this keyboard is that the buttons are big, yet they offer multiple letters on each. Plus, you don't have to switch modes to type capital letters or most of the punctuation or other special characters. Or even numbers for the more advanced users. I can write properly formatted text with capitals and punctuation marks quite rapidly now, and it doesn't involve any type of auto-correction of suggestion at all!
Also, the dev behind this thing responds very rapidly to suggestions and bug fixes. Vim-users (who are already used to learning curves ;) should definitely give this thing a spin.
On android phones, there are alternative keyboards you can use that are optimized for use on a capacitive touchscreen. A qwerty-keyboard with small keys on a small screen is annoying, as it requires modifier-keys or slow long-presses to switch between text, numbers and symbols. Yes, you can use auto-suggest to speed plain old text typing (such as swype), but that only works for regular text. The alternatives presents a keyboard with large keys that can have all of those at a single, speedy gesture.
My favorite is messagease. It makes optimum use of touchscreen capabilities. E.g. on a single key you can do a single tap, a swipe in 8 different directions (and back for even more options like capitalization), and things like drawing a circle clock-wise or anti-clockwise. Using a single (large) key you can input many different characters this way. Especially power users will love this. Similar to using powerful editors like vim, there's a learning curve. But once you master it, you will love every second of it. Since this is that you use very often, it is worth investing some time to learn it. And honestly, this one is not hard or frustrating to learn; there's a simple game included that will get you up to speed in a matter of weeks.
I use this keyboard to fix things on the go without being frustrated by how horrible a normal keyboard layout is when using a terminal emulator. It's even better than a physical keyboard on a smartphone. No, I do not make money off of this keyboard, it's just one of the greatest tools I've used since I mastered vim ages ago.
Except that you're more than a little likely to run into something else that you will waste time on, thereby once again avoiding the issue that is _really_ at stake here. This is fighting the symptoms of a problem, not actually tackling the problem that's apparently bothering this person.
Yeah. Imagine, if you will, that capacity will double every 1.5 to 2 years. 10 Years from now, we'll have phones that are 30+ times faster than what we have now. With that hardware, who needs PC's?
Just put the phone on a dock and use the attached screen/keyboard/mouse as your computer. PC's will go the way of the workstation for professionals and enthusiasts. That's why Microsoft is desperately clawing its way back into the mobile OS.
I second this. I've been using a VPS for the last 5 years for mail and DNS, and don't regret it for a moment.
But if you're lucky, you can run them in SLI configuration for twice the fun.
But at least you can run them in SLI mode for twice the fun.
Here's another link: http://tv.ign.com/articles/992/992321p1.html
Comparing a server idling to a car in front of a red light is seriously wrong. Servers in general tend to spend a _lot_ more time idling than cars wait for a red traffic light. There'll always be servers that _do_ fully utilize their resources, but most of them will idle a lot. So it makes perfect sense to take that as a generic guide-line.