I don't know how everyone else feels, but... while I was reading the books, I always got the impression that Tolkien wanted us to immerse ourselves in the belief that this was a "forgotten" prehistory. That maybe a long time ago, before our current history was written, this was the way that things were, and that we are the eventual outcome of everything happening. "The time of elves is gone, it is to men that we now give our hope". Him talking about an Oliphant as a gargantuan trunked creature whose relatives still live today was plain enough. For fun, I've tried to matchup the map he drew of his world and ours, and tried to place it. The closest I've come has been maybe someplace in northern/western africa.
I have my theory, and my theory is this. Most people's generation pronounced this character: , as "comma". My generation, and those directly younger than me ( less than 22 ) prounouce , as like, and they just over punctuate their sentences.
"So, I was down at the mall today, and there was this cute (guy|girl) and they were totally checking me out."
would be more or less correct in standard english. The current young generation would (verbally) create this from it:
So like I was down at the mall today and like there was this cute (guy|girl) who was like totally checking me out.
Other than the one reversed/comma/ with/and/, it follows pretty well. I might come up with an proper translation guide sometime, if I get bored enough.
What I usually do is have 2 hard drives, the large one as my working drive, and another as the backup drive. Every so often (right now, it's cron'd to weekly i think) it tosses all the stuff i need into a tarball, datestamps it, and throws it in a folder on tbe backup drive. It works for my data, and stuff like that. it definatly wouldn't work so well for my mp3s, but i figure that since i payed for roughly half of them, i can rerip them (and into ogg, no less!), the others wern't mine anyway...easy come, easy go....
Think Medicine Man with Sean Connery. 2 people in a rainforest discover that one kind of ant has the power to reverse cancerous masses. That kind of thing is possible. We like to think that everything simple has already been done, but I suspect that we're wrong.
yea, he was supposedly sending a message to Admiral Perry(maybe) who was exploring the North Pole at the time, but supposedly he overshot. Other than some far-fetched ideas, Tesla's life was really interesting. I'd recommend reading a biography if you can find the time...
>Tho, I do have to wonder why anyone would use > any *nix if they don't want to learn about it.
I know what you mean, but I rationalize it like this...If RedHat can bring more MS drones into the Linux fold, it can't be a bad thing. Once Linux becomes an acceptable business solution, then it's not just RH that gains...it's the whole community. We "zealots" just have to be careful not to ostracize the non-technical linux users. Without being/REALLY/ condescending, think of the gurus as shephards for the sheep.
There may come a time (and it's probably not that far off) where linux will become the defacto MIS/IT OS, kind of like Macs in media shops. You don't see a newspaper or magazine without macintoshes, and you don't (or won't soon) see an IT shop without Linux boxen.
It just depends man. Many people ask me what version of linux would be right for them, and this is what I them: "Do you want to do, or do you want to know? Because if you just want a workable system, then use RedHat, because it will set everything up for you, and you'll have a good workable system. If you want to know how things work,/why/ they act the way they do, then you need to start on Slackware."
Because in my mind, both are completly ok choices. There are some people who just want to use a computer. This is why Windows has such a huge market share. Most of the people don't care one way or another. And if RedHat can give them that, then there's nothing wrong with them using it. People like us though, we Slackware users, are a different breed:) We can't stand not to know how our OS works. The fact that we have ran slackware for any length of time is a testiment to that. Anyone who can spend more than a month using slackware should probably stay with it, becuase not much else would make them happy, or at least that's the way I feel.
I know why I would fret at the rest of the world using Linux...I'm in tech support. Fixing something on a linux computer that is on the net is fine...fixing someone's chat script remotely over the phone is a nightmare, which i've actually lived. Linux is great for me, for most of the computer ppl that I know, and for servers (along with a healthy mix of BSD) but it stops at my little brother. He's pretty good, and he gets by with linux, but i wouldn't want to support anyone less comfortable on a computer than him...
I think that I'd go with the first offer, just for a change of pace. I really like moving around, because I get bored if I'm in one place too long. Luckily, the job that I have now, I started as technical support, and then they moved me to assistant network administrator, so I haven't gotten bored yet. or maybe I'm just weird....
yea, you're right. But as cool as it would be to have Billions of intelligent civilizations, if they are in distant galaxies, they might as well be alone without extreme changes in propulsion. Maybe with wormholes, if we don't black-hole ourselves into oblivion before we figure it out...
I agree with you that most people hate rats. I can't say I blame them for hating the rats that live in an urban envornment, but I'd wager lab rats are a bit different, in that they arn't carrying diseases, have matted fur, are rabit, etc.
I also don't have any reservations about using mosquitoes, or virii for research, but the not so subtle difference is that the rat is a much higher life form. It's intelligent, it thinks, hell, it might even be sentient by some definition of the word. My arguement wasn't against using a living creature to do this. My arguement was seeing myself in the animal's place, and I didn't like it, and I still don't.
Yea, ok, the tech is cool, but I definatly have reservations about this. It's not from my usual "this technology is going to be the end of us" paranoia (though it might), it's just...I hate the idea of someone doing this to me so much, that I can't help but feel for the rats. Sure, they arn't "intelligent" (though that can be argued). I just don't think that I could be proud of doing research on this project.
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you're right...i think we would end up rather egg shaped...as for crashing into the earth...that would probably (for lack of a better word to adaquatly sum it up) suck.:) I was rather concerned about the origional idea of having solar collectors on the moon microwaving us energy...a significant meteor impact on the moon might "jar" it enough to miss the target reciever on earth, and fry a couple of hundred miles worth of prime real estate here. :) oh well...stuff happens
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someone ALWAYS brings up Nazis. I love that law. Thanks for reminding me of it :)
the identity imparing ski-goggles
so just who exactly is /not/ a parent or a child?
We are ALL children of SOMEBODY...
it's probably too early....
I don't know how everyone else feels, but...
while I was reading the books, I always got the impression that Tolkien wanted us to immerse ourselves in the belief that this was a "forgotten" prehistory. That maybe a long time ago, before our current history was written, this was the way that things were, and that we are the eventual outcome of everything happening. "The time of elves is gone, it is to men that we now give our hope". Him talking about an Oliphant as a gargantuan trunked creature whose relatives still live today was plain enough. For fun, I've tried to matchup the map he drew of his world and ours, and tried to place it. The closest I've come has been maybe someplace in northern/western africa.
I have my theory, and my theory is this. Most people's generation pronounced this character: , as "comma". My generation, and those directly younger than me ( less than 22 ) prounouce , as like, and they just over punctuate their sentences.
/comma/ with /and/, it follows pretty well. I might come up with an proper translation guide sometime, if I get bored enough.
"So, I was down at the mall today, and there was this cute (guy|girl) and they were totally checking me out."
would be more or less correct in standard english.
The current young generation would (verbally) create this from it:
So like I was down at the mall today and like there was this cute (guy|girl) who was like totally checking me out.
Other than the one reversed
What I usually do is have 2 hard drives, the large one as my working drive, and another as the backup drive. Every so often (right now, it's cron'd to weekly i think) it tosses all the stuff i need into a tarball, datestamps it, and throws it in a folder on tbe backup drive. It works for my data, and stuff like that. it definatly wouldn't work so well for my mp3s, but i figure that since i payed for roughly half of them, i can rerip them (and into ogg, no less!), the others wern't mine anyway...easy come, easy go....
this is the most obvious troll in the universe, and he gets modded up. can SOMEONE with mod points kill this back down???
Fortunatly, the minimum royalty payment is a mere $15,000.
I hope the take checks...
Please! Most of Larry's programs would never THINK of being 50 lines.
If he wrote a perl script that was 50 lines long, we could replace DirectX!
They would probably buy him out anyways, "just in case" :)
Think Medicine Man with Sean Connery. 2 people in a rainforest discover that one kind of ant has the power to reverse cancerous masses. That kind of thing is possible. We like to think that everything simple has already been done, but I suspect that we're wrong.
what you would have to do is put simple floor linoleum above and below the cat, thereby creating the desired effect.
/too/ easy."
In the words of Garth Algar, "It's almost
hey, at least it was intentional? Could have been worse.... "oops, well damn"
kinda like "hey Bob, great design, where are the bathrooms???"
yea, he was supposedly sending a message to Admiral Perry(maybe) who was exploring the North Pole at the time, but supposedly he overshot.
Other than some far-fetched ideas, Tesla's life was really interesting. I'd recommend reading a biography if you can find the time...
no way....it was a Near Hit...it nearly hit...it could have been a near miss... *WHAM* Aw look, it nearly missed.
With apologies to George Carlin
roughly, i'd say naught. Being the size of a football pitch(field), it probably had very little, if any...
>Tho, I do have to wonder why anyone would use
/REALLY/ condescending, think of the gurus as shephards for the sheep.
> any *nix if they don't want to learn about it.
I know what you mean, but I rationalize it like this...If RedHat can bring more MS drones into the Linux fold, it can't be a bad thing. Once Linux becomes an acceptable business solution, then it's not just RH that gains...it's the whole community. We "zealots" just have to be careful not to ostracize the non-technical linux users. Without being
There may come a time (and it's probably not that far off) where linux will become the defacto MIS/IT OS, kind of like Macs in media shops. You don't see a newspaper or magazine without macintoshes, and you don't (or won't soon) see an IT shop without Linux boxen.
It just depends man. Many people ask me what version of linux would be right for them, and this is what I them: "Do you want to do, or do you want to know? Because if you just want a workable system, then use RedHat, because it will set everything up for you, and you'll have a good workable system. If you want to know how things work, /why/ they act the way they do, then you need to start on Slackware."
:) We can't stand not to know how our OS works. The fact that we have ran slackware for any length of time is a testiment to that. Anyone who can spend more than a month using slackware should probably stay with it, becuase not much else would make them happy, or at least that's the way I feel.
Because in my mind, both are completly ok choices. There are some people who just want to use a computer. This is why Windows has such a huge market share. Most of the people don't care one way or another. And if RedHat can give them that, then there's nothing wrong with them using it. People like us though, we Slackware users, are a different breed
I know why I would fret at the rest of the world using Linux...I'm in tech support. Fixing something on a linux computer that is on the net is fine...fixing someone's chat script remotely over the phone is a nightmare, which i've actually lived. Linux is great for me, for most of the computer ppl that I know, and for servers (along with a healthy mix of BSD) but it stops at my little brother. He's pretty good, and he gets by with linux, but i wouldn't want to support anyone less comfortable on a computer than him...
he could have done it in a southern accent...
*duck*
I think that I'd go with the first offer, just for a change of pace. I really like moving around, because I get bored if I'm in one place too long. Luckily, the job that I have now, I started as technical support, and then they moved me to assistant network administrator, so I haven't gotten bored yet. or maybe I'm just weird....
yea, you're right. But as cool as it would be to have Billions of intelligent civilizations, if they are in distant galaxies, they might as well be alone without extreme changes in propulsion. Maybe with wormholes, if we don't black-hole ourselves into oblivion before we figure it out...
I agree with you that most people hate rats. I can't say I blame them for hating the rats that live in an urban envornment, but I'd wager lab rats are a bit different, in that they arn't carrying diseases, have matted fur, are rabit, etc.
I also don't have any reservations about using mosquitoes, or virii for research, but the not so subtle difference is that the rat is a much higher life form. It's intelligent, it thinks, hell, it might even be sentient by some definition of the word. My arguement wasn't against using a living creature to do this. My arguement was seeing myself in the animal's place, and I didn't like it, and I still don't.
Yea, ok, the tech is cool, but I definatly have reservations about this. It's not from my usual "this technology is going to be the end of us" paranoia (though it might), it's just...I hate the idea of someone doing this to me so much, that I can't help but feel for the rats. Sure, they arn't "intelligent" (though that can be argued).
I just don't think that I could be proud of doing research on this project.
you're right...i think we would end up rather egg shaped...as for crashing into the earth...that would probably (for lack of a better word to adaquatly sum it up) suck. :)
I was rather concerned about the origional idea of having solar collectors on the moon microwaving us energy...a significant meteor impact on the moon might "jar" it enough to miss the target reciever on earth, and fry a couple of hundred miles worth of prime real estate here.
:) oh well...stuff happens