I had a dream where an Apple Store opened nearby and I got a job.
But then I woke up and had to slog through traffic to sit in front of a Dell.
So on your worst day at the Apple Store, just realize that there are people who would love to have your job. Hell, when I visited an Apple store on my vacation I got to answer a few questions because I was wearing a black T-shirt. That was the best part of my entire week-long beach vacation.
Not *all* computers. If this ran on a Mac and a user had FileVault Enabled they couldn't read the home directory of that user.
Of course, that's a Mac, but I'm sure similar utilities exist for Linux or Windows.
Filevault works by transparently putting your home directory onto an encrypted disk image and mounting it at/Users/username. Files are encrypted/decrypted as they are written to/read from the folder.
Better idea: Design transportation systems so you don't need a car to fucking live your life. There are probably 15 cities throughout the US where it's possible to live without a car. If people had little trouble getting around cities and suburbs without a car, then they wouldn't mind leaving their cars at homes.
A while ago I heard a report on NPR about Chinese people buying cars. They thought of buying cars as a sign of progress. I thought "No, real progress is when you don't have to own a car in order to live a normal life."
I spend $20/week on gas, $1400/year on insurance, and another $1K/year on maintenance. That's $3,440 per year just to drive back and forth to work and occasionally take a road trip.
If mass transit for the ~40 miles I commute to work cost $14.27/day, it would cost the same amount for my commuting per year. And I'd be able to have 2 hours a day to sit on a train and use my laptop to do things instead of avoiding getting killed by idiot drivers.
I've always been too warm, even back during my running days. I would often shovel snow in jeans, sneakers and a light jacket.
I know people who are obese and keep their houses at 73 (way too warm for me) because they're always cold. It has more to do with metabolism (mine's like a freakin' mongoose) than your weight.
Muscular people are usually warmer than fat people because muscle burns more energy than fat.
Another lane??? Do you realize how long it takes them to add a lane? Do you know the problems they have with traffic during construction? All so cars can have similar functionality (but with less efficiency) than an actual train? No thank you.
A major interchange in my home town of Harrisburg (Where I-81, I-83, and PA-322 come together) has just been redone to accomodate both commuters and traffic for the largest indoor farm exposition in the country, the PA Farm Show. (I'm ashamed to say I live here...) It took 5 years and cost the lives of several motorists in traffic caused by the construction. I use the new interchange every day and can say that it's not any better. Getting off at my exit reuires crossing three lanes of traffic while dodging semis moving at 75 mph. We're stuck on building more roads instead of finding a better solution.
What we need isn't more roads. More roads mean more space for more cars, more cars mean more congestion, which means more roads; a vicious cycle that just brings us back to the main problem: We rely too much on cars as primary transportation systems.
The biggest problem people have with travelling by train or plane is the fact that they don't have their car waiting for them when they get there. So why not bring the car along? Have a special rail car that you can park your automobile in for the journey.
My town recently has gone through a "revival." Meat-Market Dance (read: Dry Hump) clubs with pounding music have moved into the downtown, raising rents and creating an environment where you not only suffer cochlear damage, but may also get shot/stabbed/punched/run over/arrested/puked on. Or worse.
Do I go down there and turn off their music? Fuck no. I sit in my living room and get blitzed on the Black while playing a quiet game of poker with my friends.
Will I ever visit a club like that? Fuck no. I'll open my own. Where people can sit in comfy chairs talking and getting drunk while listening to music that they don't have to shout over. Like a coffee shop, but with booze instead of coffee, and cigars instead of pastries.
It's not theft. It is infringing on the rights held by the owner of the data for copying. Namely, the person who had access to it used it in a way not permitted by the owner.
It *would* be theft if the perp deleted the data after s/he copied it.
Get out, go hiking, meet people of the appropriate sex, see concerts, learn to cook. Virtually no one dies wishing they'd spent more time in front of an LCD screen.
Know how to cook, check.
Know how to fix a car, check.
Met appropriate sex and got married, check
Go geocaching, check
Now I don't have *any* time to sit in front of a computer screen. I'd say LCD, but we don't have the money for new-fangled non-radiation-gun monitors.
*I* find myself wishing I had spent more time learning about computers instead of using them to do other things.
Not to be redundant, but what the hell is there to regulate? If Verizon or AT&T or MCI can route long distance over the Internet, what's the big deal if I just route there earlier?
And what *is* VOIP? Is it calls from a PC or VOIP box to a POTS phone, or is it calls from PC-to-PC?
If a/.-er doesn't know where to start regulating VOIP how the hell is a 50-70 year old congressperson who can barely operate a PC going to regulate it?
Oh, wait, they don't. The lobbyists regulate their own industries by proxy.
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The idea that the Hindenberg crashed so spectacularly because of its hydrogen is false. Yeah, its hydrogen burst into a big fireball, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been as deadly if they hadn't painted it with aluminum powder in paint varnish.
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You, sir, have my envy.
I had a dream where an Apple Store opened nearby and I got a job.
But then I woke up and had to slog through traffic to sit in front of a Dell.
So on your worst day at the Apple Store, just realize that there are people who would love to have your job. Hell, when I visited an Apple store on my vacation I got to answer a few questions because I was wearing a black T-shirt. That was the best part of my entire week-long beach vacation.
Of course, that's a Mac, but I'm sure similar utilities exist for Linux or Windows.
Filevault works by transparently putting your home directory onto an encrypted disk image and mounting it at /Users/username. Files are encrypted/decrypted as they are written to/read from the folder.
Or you could buy third party pedals for $5 and get a brake pedal.
And if your kids don't shut up, maybe you shouldn't try to pacify them.
A while ago I heard a report on NPR about Chinese people buying cars. They thought of buying cars as a sign of progress. I thought "No, real progress is when you don't have to own a car in order to live a normal life."
I spend $20/week on gas, $1400/year on insurance, and another $1K/year on maintenance. That's $3,440 per year just to drive back and forth to work and occasionally take a road trip.
If mass transit for the ~40 miles I commute to work cost $14.27/day, it would cost the same amount for my commuting per year. And I'd be able to have 2 hours a day to sit on a train and use my laptop to do things instead of avoiding getting killed by idiot drivers.
You'd think waking up at 6:30 every day would make me tired, but I have no trouble staying up till 1 every night.
And forcing myself to go to bed at 10 or 11 doesn't make a difference. I'm tired in the morning anyway, and just as productive.
And I usually wear sunglasses at work because I can't stand the lights.
I know people who are obese and keep their houses at 73 (way too warm for me) because they're always cold. It has more to do with metabolism (mine's like a freakin' mongoose) than your weight.
Muscular people are usually warmer than fat people because muscle burns more energy than fat.
And where did you get this little factoid? Porn movies?
A major interchange in my home town of Harrisburg (Where I-81, I-83, and PA-322 come together) has just been redone to accomodate both commuters and traffic for the largest indoor farm exposition in the country, the PA Farm Show. (I'm ashamed to say I live here...) It took 5 years and cost the lives of several motorists in traffic caused by the construction. I use the new interchange every day and can say that it's not any better. Getting off at my exit reuires crossing three lanes of traffic while dodging semis moving at 75 mph. We're stuck on building more roads instead of finding a better solution.
What we need isn't more roads. More roads mean more space for more cars, more cars mean more congestion, which means more roads; a vicious cycle that just brings us back to the main problem: We rely too much on cars as primary transportation systems.
The biggest problem people have with travelling by train or plane is the fact that they don't have their car waiting for them when they get there. So why not bring the car along? Have a special rail car that you can park your automobile in for the journey.
I'll tell you how. You spend 16 hours straight coding, that's how.
This is precisely why I want to move to Mars.
My town recently has gone through a "revival." Meat-Market Dance (read: Dry Hump) clubs with pounding music have moved into the downtown, raising rents and creating an environment where you not only suffer cochlear damage, but may also get shot/stabbed/punched/run over/arrested/puked on. Or worse.
Do I go down there and turn off their music? Fuck no. I sit in my living room and get blitzed on the Black while playing a quiet game of poker with my friends.
Will I ever visit a club like that? Fuck no. I'll open my own. Where people can sit in comfy chairs talking and getting drunk while listening to music that they don't have to shout over. Like a coffee shop, but with booze instead of coffee, and cigars instead of pastries.
We don't need that. We just need to invest in hearing aid manufacturers and profit immensely off of them.
Best $120/year I've ever spent, that. And it's a tax write-off.
No, one has to create VPNs and block all access that doesn't come from the inside.
Or you could use dedicated lines that have no connection to the Internet.
It *would* be theft if the perp deleted the data after s/he copied it.
A wise man once said "A society is stable when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the laws *don't* change."
Know how to cook, check.
Know how to fix a car, check.
Met appropriate sex and got married, check
Go geocaching, check
Now I don't have *any* time to sit in front of a computer screen. I'd say LCD, but we don't have the money for new-fangled non-radiation-gun monitors.
*I* find myself wishing I had spent more time learning about computers instead of using them to do other things.
And what *is* VOIP? Is it calls from a PC or VOIP box to a POTS phone, or is it calls from PC-to-PC?
If a /.-er doesn't know where to start regulating VOIP how the hell is a 50-70 year old congressperson who can barely operate a PC going to regulate it?
Oh, wait, they don't. The lobbyists regulate their own industries by proxy.
If voting worked it would be illegal.
"This is a despotic system. I know this."
Yeah, it *could* set fire to your floor, if you're near an open flame, but it's not going to give you chemical burns or melt stuff.
Hang on a minute, I have to take this...
Hello? /me passes out from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The idea that the Hindenberg crashed so spectacularly because of its hydrogen is false. Yeah, its hydrogen burst into a big fireball, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been as deadly if they hadn't painted it with aluminum powder in paint varnish.
And how much did this Fujitsu cost ya? The closest I can find costs $500 more than the 12" iBook and $200 more than the 14"
And can yours run Mac OS X?