They lost my (and most people I know) sympathy a long time ago.
Much as the strike inconvenienced me (I also bought a car.. was planning on doing so anyway, so strike just gave me a good push to actually go and do it), I really hope HRM sticks it to the union.
No idea.. but I've done it and still do from time to time. Someone calls me up with a question that I can answer without a great deal of effort, especially if it's a reasonable question (not documented, ambiguous, etc..), I'll answer it.
Big part of it is everywhere I've worked I've considered most of my co-workers friends and still hang around with several from previous jobs. I see it more as helping a buddy out than providing free labour (and again, a lot of the time we are talking a 10 second question.. usually followed by 5 minutes of enjoyable conversation / catching up). I guess if you are in an uptight all-business environment or didn't really like your previous co-workers I can understand.
Taking pills to help/force you to fall asleep on a consistent basis can't be good for you. That said, neither can not sleeping on a consistent basis. Even with the risks in mind, I imagine in many cases it still makes sense to keep taking the pills?
In general I agree.. but for some stuff (iterating through a collection for instance) I think it is acceptable. When you start dealing with collections of collections, iterator types become a nightmare!
in Java of course you can just use the foreach syntax (Kitten kitten : kittens).
That said, I don't bother. Most of my searches fall into the category of: - clueless care newb questions - obscure linux issues - guitar related
In principle I think people have a right not to be tracked, to control data about them, and I definitely don't agree with this "nothing to hide" shit.. privacy shouldn't require a reason, it should be a basic right. In practice.. I'm a very boring person with very little to hide and no inherent desire for privacy. I see no way in which I'm personally harmed by the data I know people are collecting.. if I had the option to opt out or opt in, I'd probably still let them collect the data.
That was basically the approach I started with.. but found it fairly glitchy, especially if I was running anything else (and I do have a fairly weird setup.. which is of course why I use jack!). I have a fairly beefy box too, so I don't think it was a resource thing.
I have a great hack in place now though! I set the internal sound on my mobo (which was previously unused) as my main alsa device, and have the line out going into my actual sound card (which I have jack attached to). Flash (and minecraft, and the handful of other non-jack aware apps I run) go through the "alsa" card and I get the sound into jack via line in on my main card. Horrible but insanely effective.
Oh I'm with you there. I don't blame nor expect adobe to deal with my unusual configuration.
I will say it's the fragmentation that I've come to love. Open source means just that. I can go in and modify anything I want. I don't like how something works.. I can make my own based off of the work of everyone else (and collectively, everyone else can use my work if they so desire (aka if they are nuts)). Not ideal for linux as a general desktop os.. but it's what I personally love about it.
On that note, the audio fragmentation is workable because if an _open source_ application doesn't support my prefered audio toolstack.. I can _make_ it support my tool stack. Fragmentation is very managable when anyone can modify their tools to meet their specific config (again, means nothing for average windows refugee).
I'd rather the mess we have now than for everyone to agree to a "standard". At that point, we'd just have a more open and cheaper version of windows. I _like_ that no one agrees on everything. Yes there is a lot of duplication out there, but people are having fun doing it.
anyone using flash for navigation probably has a "if they can't use the site, tough" attitude
I've yet to see a website where it would be absolutely impossible to replace site navigation with a text link as a fallback. Obviously there are times flash is appropriate. Site navigation isn't in my opinion one of them, or at the very least, gracefull degredation is generally a good idea.
There's a difference between Chrome and Chromium Browser.
It's the same difference between GNU/Linux and Linux and between America and United States. That is, a pedantic one that only means something to people who already have an opinion on the matter. I say chrome on linux, people know what I'm talking about based on context.
Used to be a major pain to get flash running on linux. Then it got a little easier. Then 64bit came out and it got annoying again. Then they released a 64bit plugin and it got easier (unless you run jackd, then it's a royal pain in the ass). Then they stopped updating it and it became annoying.. then they did update it and it became easier again.. ANNNDDD now it's gonna get annoying again:D
Anyone who sees GNU and thinks what you just said already knows the full story. Everyone else either rolls their eyes, or assumes it has something to do with the license (I've heard more than a few people say "oh, that's probably licensed under the GNU").
Lets not kid ourselves. At most, if anything it serves as a kind of acknowledgment for the RMS crowd.
Unless I read wrong, chrome should still be fine. Even then though.. anyone using flash for navigation probably has a "if they can't use the site, tough" attitude. They are also excluding many users of smartphones... which is probably a bigger market than linux users.
Getting flash to talk through alsaplug to jackd was an _epic_ pain.. and glitchy as hell. There was also a plugin someone had made that kinda worked, but again.. really glitchy.
I said this in an earlier comment, but I've always found there is _just enough_ flash still out there for it to be a headache not to have it.
Flash video is no problem (alternate players, worst case you can just download it and play it out of browser).. site navigation can be dealt with sometimes.. but there are still a select few sites that you need for whatever reason (banking, work) that are largely flash based. And unfortunately linux firefox users are not a big enough market to push these sites away from flash.
I (like most) hate flash. It’s a pain to get running, even more of a pain to get audio working correctly if you use something like jackd, sucks a tonne of resources, crashes all the time, etc.
That said, there have always been _just enough_ headaches around not having flash to make it worth the bother.
I doubt this will kill flash or even make any impact towards that goal. Linux firefox users just isn’t a big enough market. It will however be the shove I needed to look into getting away from requiring flash (alternate video player plugins to watch flash video (99% of my need for flash) and maybe greasemonkey scripts or something to deal with flash navigation on the few sites I can’t simply ignore.
I mean I can always install chrome as just a “flash browser”.. but that sounds really icky.
Weapon ranges might be an interesting topic, and so might countermeasures, given the lack of gravity.
Beyond that, assuming the ships can generally move, communicate, and fire weapons I imagine a space battle would probably be very similar to naval warfare. The fact that someone can be 3 miles in any direction vs 3 miles in a compass direction I don’t see as really changing much.
take those ingredients as a multivitamin and eat some fried tofu.
Except you can't have a medium rare tofu steak.
Personally I eat as a pleasurable activity. The fact that it's necessary to sustain me is secondary. If they could come up with a food substitute that was purely for sensation / making you feel full, and we all just took pills to actually get nutritional content.. I'd be all for it.
I think it would be a complete lie to say this stuff won't have an impact on human health. This stuff is not going to be identical to real meat, probably not even close, and our bodies are going to react differently to it.
Whether the effect is going to be good, bad, or mostly irrelevant is what will matter. I imagine it'll probably mostly be the last one. Our bodies will adjust to the new stuff.. probably some minor changes.. but in general I don't think it's gonna be major.
I (along with many others I'm sure) have spent a small period of my life living mostly on ramen noodles, with (apparently) no serious effects. This is probably something nature never indended for us (most natural ingredient in ramen noodles is likely the packaging). I don't think we are as fragile as we think.
Personally, I'm all for it, but I recognize there is always a risk when something is untested. The same can be said for any drug. You can't tell what the effects will be in 30 years until, well, people have been using it for 30 years. You can make soem very good guesses (which is what will happen with the synthetic meat) but you won't really _know_ until a generation actually lives off it.
There's gonna be people who won't trust this stuff (and probably never will), and that's fine.
I don't have a problem with animals being killed for food per se. I have more of a problem with the way some of these farms are run / animals are treated. Also farming uses a lot of land, a lot of resources, and generates a tonne of pollution (all of which the lab solution might do as well of course).
Ultimately if a lab solution can replace the need to kill animals, I'm all for it (assuming as you said, it's just as good or better). If for no other reason than no longer having to listen to the animal rights people. I'm sure they will be replaced by an equally annoying anti-synthetic food group in time, but at least it would be a change in the whitenoise.
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I tend to worry about traffic more than distance. An hour on a relatively empty highway is way more enjoyable than 30 minutes through heavy traffic.
I currently only drive around 26km (approx 16m) but it takes about 40 minutes due to traffic.
They lost my (and most people I know) sympathy a long time ago.
Much as the strike inconvenienced me (I also bought a car.. was planning on doing so anyway, so strike just gave me a good push to actually go and do it), I really hope HRM sticks it to the union.
Honestly, why would Anyone work for free?
No idea.. but I've done it and still do from time to time. Someone calls me up with a question that I can answer without a great deal of effort, especially if it's a reasonable question (not documented, ambiguous, etc..), I'll answer it.
Big part of it is everywhere I've worked I've considered most of my co-workers friends and still hang around with several from previous jobs. I see it more as helping a buddy out than providing free labour (and again, a lot of the time we are talking a 10 second question.. usually followed by 5 minutes of enjoyable conversation / catching up). I guess if you are in an uptight all-business environment or didn't really like your previous co-workers I can understand.
Neat, but not surprising.
Taking pills to help/force you to fall asleep on a consistent basis can't be good for you. That said, neither can not sleeping on a consistent basis. Even with the risks in mind, I imagine in many cases it still makes sense to keep taking the pills?
Luckily I sleep like a log.
I’m no doctorb, but I believe the most technical medical explanation for an “organ” is: a bunch of stuff joined together which does something.
In general I agree.. but for some stuff (iterating through a collection for instance) I think it is acceptable. When you start dealing with collections of collections, iterator types become a nightmare!
in Java of course you can just use the foreach syntax (Kitten kitten : kittens).
Mmm, that is a good point.
clueless car newb questions
Sigh..
I wonder if using https defeats this.
That said, I don't bother. Most of my searches fall into the category of:
- clueless care newb questions
- obscure linux issues
- guitar related
In principle I think people have a right not to be tracked, to control data about them, and I definitely don't agree with this "nothing to hide" shit.. privacy shouldn't require a reason, it should be a basic right. In practice.. I'm a very boring person with very little to hide and no inherent desire for privacy. I see no way in which I'm personally harmed by the data I know people are collecting.. if I had the option to opt out or opt in, I'd probably still let them collect the data.
That was basically the approach I started with.. but found it fairly glitchy, especially if I was running anything else (and I do have a fairly weird setup.. which is of course why I use jack!). I have a fairly beefy box too, so I don't think it was a resource thing.
I have a great hack in place now though! I set the internal sound on my mobo (which was previously unused) as my main alsa device, and have the line out going into my actual sound card (which I have jack attached to). Flash (and minecraft, and the handful of other non-jack aware apps I run) go through the "alsa" card and I get the sound into jack via line in on my main card. Horrible but insanely effective.
Fair enough, and I guess if flash is only gonna work in chrome and not chromium, there is a point in there.
Oh I'm with you there. I don't blame nor expect adobe to deal with my unusual configuration.
I will say it's the fragmentation that I've come to love. Open source means just that. I can go in and modify anything I want. I don't like how something works.. I can make my own based off of the work of everyone else (and collectively, everyone else can use my work if they so desire (aka if they are nuts)). Not ideal for linux as a general desktop os.. but it's what I personally love about it.
On that note, the audio fragmentation is workable because if an _open source_ application doesn't support my prefered audio toolstack.. I can _make_ it support my tool stack. Fragmentation is very managable when anyone can modify their tools to meet their specific config (again, means nothing for average windows refugee).
I'd rather the mess we have now than for everyone to agree to a "standard". At that point, we'd just have a more open and cheaper version of windows. I _like_ that no one agrees on everything. Yes there is a lot of duplication out there, but people are having fun doing it.
anyone using flash for navigation probably has a "if they can't use the site, tough" attitude
I've yet to see a website where it would be absolutely impossible to replace site navigation with a text link as a fallback. Obviously there are times flash is appropriate. Site navigation isn't in my opinion one of them, or at the very least, gracefull degredation is generally a good idea.
There's a difference between Chrome and Chromium Browser.
It's the same difference between GNU/Linux and Linux and between America and United States. That is, a pedantic one that only means something to people who already have an opinion on the matter. I say chrome on linux, people know what I'm talking about based on context.
It's a fun rollercoaster.
Used to be a major pain to get flash running on linux. Then it got a little easier. Then 64bit came out and it got annoying again. Then they released a 64bit plugin and it got easier (unless you run jackd, then it's a royal pain in the ass). Then they stopped updating it and it became annoying.. then they did update it and it became easier again.. ANNNDDD now it's gonna get annoying again :D
I don't think it really achieves that.
Anyone who sees GNU and thinks what you just said already knows the full story. Everyone else either rolls their eyes, or assumes it has something to do with the license (I've heard more than a few people say "oh, that's probably licensed under the GNU").
Lets not kid ourselves. At most, if anything it serves as a kind of acknowledgment for the RMS crowd.
Unless I read wrong, chrome should still be fine. Even then though.. anyone using flash for navigation probably has a "if they can't use the site, tough" attitude. They are also excluding many users of smartphones... which is probably a bigger market than linux users.
With jackd?
Getting flash to talk through alsaplug to jackd was an _epic_ pain.. and glitchy as hell. There was also a plugin someone had made that kinda worked, but again.. really glitchy.
I said this in an earlier comment, but I've always found there is _just enough_ flash still out there for it to be a headache not to have it.
Flash video is no problem (alternate players, worst case you can just download it and play it out of browser) .. site navigation can be dealt with sometimes.. but there are still a select few sites that you need for whatever reason (banking, work) that are largely flash based. And unfortunately linux firefox users are not a big enough market to push these sites away from flash.
Indeed.
I (like most) hate flash. It’s a pain to get running, even more of a pain to get audio working correctly if you use something like jackd, sucks a tonne of resources, crashes all the time, etc.
That said, there have always been _just enough_ headaches around not having flash to make it worth the bother.
I doubt this will kill flash or even make any impact towards that goal. Linux firefox users just isn’t a big enough market. It will however be the shove I needed to look into getting away from requiring flash (alternate video player plugins to watch flash video (99% of my need for flash) and maybe greasemonkey scripts or something to deal with flash navigation on the few sites I can’t simply ignore.
I mean I can always install chrome as just a “flash browser” .. but that sounds really icky.
Weapon ranges might be an interesting topic, and so might countermeasures, given the lack of gravity.
Beyond that, assuming the ships can generally move, communicate, and fire weapons I imagine a space battle would probably be very similar to naval warfare. The fact that someone can be 3 miles in any direction vs 3 miles in a compass direction I don’t see as really changing much.
take those ingredients as a multivitamin and eat some fried tofu.
Except you can't have a medium rare tofu steak.
Personally I eat as a pleasurable activity. The fact that it's necessary to sustain me is secondary. If they could come up with a food substitute that was purely for sensation / making you feel full, and we all just took pills to actually get nutritional content.. I'd be all for it.
I think it would be a complete lie to say this stuff won't have an impact on human health. This stuff is not going to be identical to real meat, probably not even close, and our bodies are going to react differently to it.
Whether the effect is going to be good, bad, or mostly irrelevant is what will matter. I imagine it'll probably mostly be the last one. Our bodies will adjust to the new stuff.. probably some minor changes.. but in general I don't think it's gonna be major.
I (along with many others I'm sure) have spent a small period of my life living mostly on ramen noodles, with (apparently) no serious effects. This is probably something nature never indended for us (most natural ingredient in ramen noodles is likely the packaging). I don't think we are as fragile as we think.
I say make it an option and let people decide.
Personally, I'm all for it, but I recognize there is always a risk when something is untested. The same can be said for any drug. You can't tell what the effects will be in 30 years until, well, people have been using it for 30 years. You can make soem very good guesses (which is what will happen with the synthetic meat) but you won't really _know_ until a generation actually lives off it.
There's gonna be people who won't trust this stuff (and probably never will), and that's fine.
Oh but they will be replaced by an anti-synthetics group.
At least it will be a different ringing in the ears.
Mostly my opinion.
I don't have a problem with animals being killed for food per se. I have more of a problem with the way some of these farms are run / animals are treated. Also farming uses a lot of land, a lot of resources, and generates a tonne of pollution (all of which the lab solution might do as well of course).
Ultimately if a lab solution can replace the need to kill animals, I'm all for it (assuming as you said, it's just as good or better). If for no other reason than no longer having to listen to the animal rights people. I'm sure they will be replaced by an equally annoying anti-synthetic food group in time, but at least it would be a change in the whitenoise.