Well, for those with anxiety, the causes and roots are many. The "hopelessness, burden to others, loss of sense of dignity, desire for death or loss of will to live and threats to self identity" can be common to people with symptoms that affect their anxiety - paranoia, for example, can create a feeling of hopelessness that breeds anxiety over obsessive thoughts such as "I'm terrible at my job" or "I'll never get better" - these thoughts can be attributed to the paranoid delusion that there is an active force of the universe out to get you - these thoughts feed more anxiety and a loop is created.
Anxiety can readily be triggered by external forces and perceptions, existential distress is by no means exempt from that.
Some of the best self-discovery I've had was using... that thing specifically that your book will focus on - but on two occasions with a particular fungus I had a good time and a bad time. The good time led me guided through an Aztec maze to meet with my spiritual guardian, the other was the most horrifying and chaotic experience of my life short of being born (and I since I don't really remember that one...). The terrible experience altered my perspective of life, what it means to "live," and how meaningless all of the little parts of everyday life are - our focus should be on improving the whole of humanity so that our existence will shine into the future instead of burning out in a charred waste of nuclear wreckage.
Good luck with the book! Keep me posted if you would, I'd like to give it a read.
I don't know if LESS has this, but with SASS and Compass, you can tell Compass to "watch" your SASS folder - when any files change, it automatically rebuilds your CSS. Quite nice for actively working in the SASS without having to go back and recompile every dang time you change something.
On the dev side, all of our SASS is compartmentalized into partials for that particular section "_toolbars.scss, _article.scss, etc" Our local configurations are set to compile the SASS to expanded CSS, complete with annotations and line numbers so we know which rules originated in which source files. When we finally deploy a project, the build script tells compass to generate a compressed CSS file, as well as splitting our our media-query specific styles and styles just for our subsites and IE.
It's crazy, but SASS and LESS also deserve to stay in their own separate play-place for now. It's important for these to continue to expand and develop, but in both camps there is constant movement and redesign, no clear stability, and no clear path of where certain features will lead. CSS, on the other had, is generally solid and not often updated. It has to remain rather slow and boring in order to maintain support for all the browsers and designers and companies who are relying on said stability. Variables would be nice, but even adding something simple like that has the potential to raise a ton of questions about implementation, and we all know that the W3C isn't the fastest on the planet when it comes to that stuff...
The only way we aren't running out of oil is if we stop extracting it or can't extract it because it's just not accessible. Given enough time and resources, we can exhaust all of the oil available to us on the planet. If we develop alternative methods of energy production that don't break the bank and they eventually replace oil-based energy, then we may not run out of oil but we won't need to worry about it either. Of course, the old rule applies:
rsync only does incremental copies when you tell it to, and, technically, the same thing could be achieved through ssh and scp (using ssh to check for the destination file first and then copying with scp if needed). Of course, rsync does make it easy; just because it's easier doesn't mean it's not technically possible with scp
Fine, for me it didn't - except $. I spent so much time fixing Vista installs and machines and listening to people bemoan it's existence. I never had any desire to install it myself, and never saw any "must have" value from it. If a friend needed a clean OS install, I would recommend XP or Linux over Vista any day until 7 came out. M$ even brought their "Vista Party Bus" to my college - nothing really "must have" about Aero, nor animated wallpapers. DX upgrades are a "must have" if you're a gamer, I suppose, but I am not (at least not on computers anymore), save for Minecraft. If all of the CRAP that I had to deal with in servicing peoples' Vista boxes was "must have" then we must have a very different understanding of "must have."
No offense, but I detest Vista and I have no sympathy for it as an OS - not enough out the gate and finally working by the time 7 was ready.
Umm...Fall 2013. It's in Portal 2. Ta-da! Also, how are you modded 4 for that? 'Sounds like some real Gordon Freeman shit to me.' gets a 0 offtopic, "Where's my HL3 I'd take a new HL2 ep" gets 4? Neat. No offense, I'm just as eager as you, but I'm also confused.
Vista and 7... well, they don't really bring any "must have" things to the user.
Vista didn't bring any "must have" things to the user
7 brought "must have" to the user by fixing the things that went horribly wrong in Vista. If you upgraded or got a Vista machine, Windows 7 was a boon and a necessity.
*Incoming call* >> Brain state: focused, ignore call = Focusing on Call of Duty means one voicemail from wife who is angry when she gets home and oops I'm still playing COD instead of prepping dinner. Let's try another:
*Incoming call* >> Brain state: loose, open minded, answers call = You're drunk and your boss called about the database spitting out strange errors on the QA env (and it's saturday) - but hey, you're willing to talk, you're wasted!
Personally, I prefer to look at my phone, see who is calling, and make a decision then and there. Or, if my phone is too far away, fudge it and leave a message. I don't want an app deciding that I'm in a good mood to answer a call everytime it's a telemarker (usually when I'm at work, in a good mood) or deciding that I'm too occupied or stressed to talk to my friends and family because I'm playing video games or taking out the trash.
Pure wank, never mind the convenience of dialing while driving and not having to look at the phone. Too bad I still crashed as I was wanking at the time. But, now I'm disabled, so it's voice-dialing alllllll day.
Actually: "It wasn't me, it was my brain. Oh...I mean, it was the thought that it was you... oh my. Yes, I'm blocking all calls right now as I'm stressing about losing my job."
Yes, unintentionally. In fact, the studios requesting the take down of the take down are the ones who gave up that location. They'd love to be able to say "A file at an undisclosed location is in violation of our copyright, but since we don't want to tell you where, please just block all searches for 'X, Y, and Z.'" But, since they have to actually say where they think it's coming from, they have to give up the position themselves.
1) Make a guest account, lock it the f*ck down, and you're done. Limited executables (Firefox + NoScript), good antivirus/firewall, yadda yadda. If you have a Mac this is even better as most people who are average Windows users won't get far off the trail and Linux users will generally be safer users as it is.
2) They don't have their own laptops? Their own smartphones? How frequently are they using your computers in lue of their own devices? If you need to Ask Slashdot then you have a bigger problem than what can be solved here, or your lying about this being your house and guests (underground internet café? Is that a thing?). Seriously, your friends and family should know better and, if they don't, educate them instead of attempting to just "hope" that you can lock it down.
How does the old adage go? The only time a computer is safe is when it's unplugged, in a safe, buried underground, with armed guards outside. And it's still probably not safe.
I understand the point they were trying to make, just pointing out that their example itself was a mistake - an improper example of the improper labeling done by the retailer. You mentioned that the slab they are selling Norton Mobile Security with fell prey to this 8/RT mislabeling. That's what the point of the headline and summary are until you get to the whole iOS/Android bit - bringing that in doesn't sell the point of mislabeling, but it does make the retailer appear doubly idiotic.
Argos, for example, recommends Norton Mobile Security as an add-on for its mis-labelled Windows 8 machine, despite that product only working on Android and iOS
The mislabeling of the Windows machine has nothing to do with this "example" of how the mislabeling is a problem. If it only runs on Android and iOS, the RT/8 label makes no difference as the software doesn't run on anything that says "Windows" in the name.
I'd love to jump on the bandwagon of merchant-bashing since they don't know an RT from their asshole, but that's a tough sell when the article lambasting them makes examples that don't benefit their case at all, but instead make the argument that whoever wrote this can't grasp the idea of simple examples any more than UK retailers can grasp that RT and 8 are different operating systems/
I've always contened that Obama wasn't any better or only marginally better than anything from the other party, and I would always bring up things like his drone policy, not doing a lot of the "come on" easy stuff, hammering through health care reform even when, after meetings and talks and revisions, it was largely stripped of the good things and bent to the will of big pharma/insurance, etc, as reasons I could see myself NOT voting for him. And it would outrage my friends (some of them, the big O ppl). And now that the election is over, I hear some of them saying "I can't believe Obama would authorize X" where X is anything that he was doing before the election that they seemed to miss.
I still voted for him, but I don't really think it made a difference either way. It's sad when I think our best bet is one of the Pauls (Ron or Rand; not Ryan jesus not Ryan) and they're completely BAT SHIT INSANE. But, when they say something, or that they'll do something, by golly they stick to their guns. They don't waffle, flip flop, whatever.
I'm a TWC customer, as the other local offerings are, frankly, terrible. They boil down to ATT DSL, which I had for a couple years before getting completely fed up with their speeds and their customer service. The only other option really is Clear(wire), and that was a fun year-long experiment in "how can I position this router in the window just right to get 3 out of 5 bars of internet?" Terrible idea, but probably fine for people who don't game online. TWC has been reliable and speedy, but I only got the price I have because of promotions. So, what does TWC offer at the TOP TIER? From their website:
Download speeds up to 50Mbps Upload speeds up to 5Mbps Modem with Free Home WiFi* TWC WiFi Hotspots Free Internet Security and Parental Controls software 30 email accounts
all for a cool price of... $75 - more than my cell phone bill. It rivals the combined price of electricity and water in my home. Of course, without the "Free Home WiFi" upsell, the WiFi hotspots (wth?), fluffy security addons, and 30 goddamn e-mail accounts?!?!, I would expect it to cost a lot less. No one, no one, needs 30 e-mail accounts, not through their ISP. And, if you have 30, you're probably sharing them with other people, and it sounds like a business line might be better suited to your needs anyways.
Unfortunately, even if most customers did want faster Internet, I think what the CFO really was saying was "We don't have enough customers willing to pay out the ass for fast speeds, so we won't offer them." There's a big difference between "no demand for fast and affordable speeds" and "no demand for fast and overpriced speeds" - we have some areas in my city with fiber options from ATT and VZW, and the people I know who have them are happy to pay the price because the speeds are so damn awesome. But, you go to the average subscriber and ask them if they'd like to pay $100/mo (more?) for way faster speeds and they'd probably tell you that their e-mail works just fine as it is and that the Firefox doesn't need to be upgraded. Why budge on offering Good Things to your customers when you're just focused on maintaing a pool of profits from already overpriced connections to people who don't use them near their full potential?
It is by no means cheap and the textured back cover makes it very easy to hold.
Sorry to nitpick, but don't do that. Don't do a " and " - it makes it seem that either not being cheap is a good thing, or having an easy to hold cover is a bad thing.
I like what Apple does with it's App Store vs Play - although I don't agree with keeping 3rd party markets out, I completely understand why they did it and why they will likely continue to do it: make the user feel safe = trust from the user = loyalty and $$$.
Android, as a brand, gets hurt every time someone's mom installs xXSudoku23BlitzXx because the name travels - your mom doesn't know what the heck a HTC Motorazrformer Prime is, but she knows she has an Android something or rather. Even worse, if malware comes from a 3rd party market, sideloading, clicking a malicious link and then somehow managing to stumble into the installer from Downloads, it all boils down to "Android Malware Rampant!" in the headlines. Openness is great PR to the folks who frequent/. - for the rest of the media world, the focus is on the bad with few and far between knowing what "open" is or why it matters.
I've never had a virus on my MacBook, Android Tablet, Android Phone, webOS tablet, yadda yadda. And the smart people will stay away from shady downloads. The point is that most users are not terribly smart when it comes to identifying shady vs legit, and that's where the issues with the Android Market came in. I'm not sure how good Google has been at keeping Play clean, but I always run across crap that looks like it's going to open up my internal memory and haul ass to a remote server. Apple, on the other hand, does a simultaneous service and dis-service with it's strict App Store policies. Malicious apps rarely (if ever) get through, at the cost of a slower app approval time and tighter guidelines that may (and have) thwart legitimate apps from being in the store.
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Well, for those with anxiety, the causes and roots are many. The "hopelessness, burden to others, loss of sense of dignity, desire for death or loss of will to live and threats to self identity" can be common to people with symptoms that affect their anxiety - paranoia, for example, can create a feeling of hopelessness that breeds anxiety over obsessive thoughts such as "I'm terrible at my job" or "I'll never get better" - these thoughts can be attributed to the paranoid delusion that there is an active force of the universe out to get you - these thoughts feed more anxiety and a loop is created.
Anxiety can readily be triggered by external forces and perceptions, existential distress is by no means exempt from that.
Some of the best self-discovery I've had was using ... that thing specifically that your book will focus on - but on two occasions with a particular fungus I had a good time and a bad time. The good time led me guided through an Aztec maze to meet with my spiritual guardian, the other was the most horrifying and chaotic experience of my life short of being born (and I since I don't really remember that one...). The terrible experience altered my perspective of life, what it means to "live," and how meaningless all of the little parts of everyday life are - our focus should be on improving the whole of humanity so that our existence will shine into the future instead of burning out in a charred waste of nuclear wreckage.
Good luck with the book! Keep me posted if you would, I'd like to give it a read.
I don't know if LESS has this, but with SASS and Compass, you can tell Compass to "watch" your SASS folder - when any files change, it automatically rebuilds your CSS. Quite nice for actively working in the SASS without having to go back and recompile every dang time you change something.
On the dev side, all of our SASS is compartmentalized into partials for that particular section "_toolbars.scss, _article.scss, etc" Our local configurations are set to compile the SASS to expanded CSS, complete with annotations and line numbers so we know which rules originated in which source files. When we finally deploy a project, the build script tells compass to generate a compressed CSS file, as well as splitting our our media-query specific styles and styles just for our subsites and IE.
We looked at LESS, but we wanted more. *ba-dum*
It's crazy, but SASS and LESS also deserve to stay in their own separate play-place for now. It's important for these to continue to expand and develop, but in both camps there is constant movement and redesign, no clear stability, and no clear path of where certain features will lead. CSS, on the other had, is generally solid and not often updated. It has to remain rather slow and boring in order to maintain support for all the browsers and designers and companies who are relying on said stability. Variables would be nice, but even adding something simple like that has the potential to raise a ton of questions about implementation, and we all know that the W3C isn't the fastest on the planet when it comes to that stuff...
The only way we aren't running out of oil is if we stop extracting it or can't extract it because it's just not accessible. Given enough time and resources, we can exhaust all of the oil available to us on the planet. If we develop alternative methods of energy production that don't break the bank and they eventually replace oil-based energy, then we may not run out of oil but we won't need to worry about it either. Of course, the old rule applies:
Q: What if we don't run out of oil?
A: No.
...and if the connection breaks or anything happens, you'll have to restart copying everything from the beginning.
Interestingly, rsync can even resume a transfer that was started by scp but then interrupted - neat!
rsync only does incremental copies when you tell it to, and, technically, the same thing could be achieved through ssh and scp (using ssh to check for the destination file first and then copying with scp if needed). Of course, rsync does make it easy; just because it's easier doesn't mean it's not technically possible with scp
The wise keep as many tools in their tool box as possible. You seem to be among the wise.
The wise build workspaces with proper space arrangements and storage for their tools - only a fool puts all of their tools in one box.
Fine, for me it didn't - except $. I spent so much time fixing Vista installs and machines and listening to people bemoan it's existence. I never had any desire to install it myself, and never saw any "must have" value from it. If a friend needed a clean OS install, I would recommend XP or Linux over Vista any day until 7 came out. M$ even brought their "Vista Party Bus" to my college - nothing really "must have" about Aero, nor animated wallpapers. DX upgrades are a "must have" if you're a gamer, I suppose, but I am not (at least not on computers anymore), save for Minecraft. If all of the CRAP that I had to deal with in servicing peoples' Vista boxes was "must have" then we must have a very different understanding of "must have."
No offense, but I detest Vista and I have no sympathy for it as an OS - not enough out the gate and finally working by the time 7 was ready.
Umm...Fall 2013. It's in Portal 2. Ta-da! Also, how are you modded 4 for that? 'Sounds like some real Gordon Freeman shit to me.' gets a 0 offtopic, "Where's my HL3 I'd take a new HL2 ep" gets 4? Neat. No offense, I'm just as eager as you, but I'm also confused.
Vista and 7... well, they don't really bring any "must have" things to the user.
Vista didn't bring any "must have" things to the user
7 brought "must have" to the user by fixing the things that went horribly wrong in Vista. If you upgraded or got a Vista machine, Windows 7 was a boon and a necessity.
*Incoming call*
>> Brain state: focused, ignore call
= Focusing on Call of Duty means one voicemail from wife who is angry when she gets home and oops I'm still playing COD instead of prepping dinner. Let's try another:
*Incoming call*
>> Brain state: loose, open minded, answers call
= You're drunk and your boss called about the database spitting out strange errors on the QA env (and it's saturday) - but hey, you're willing to talk, you're wasted!
Personally, I prefer to look at my phone, see who is calling, and make a decision then and there. Or, if my phone is too far away, fudge it and leave a message. I don't want an app deciding that I'm in a good mood to answer a call everytime it's a telemarker (usually when I'm at work, in a good mood) or deciding that I'm too occupied or stressed to talk to my friends and family because I'm playing video games or taking out the trash.
Pure wank, never mind the convenience of dialing while driving and not having to look at the phone. Too bad I still crashed as I was wanking at the time. But, now I'm disabled, so it's voice-dialing alllllll day.
Actually: "It wasn't me, it was my brain. Oh ...I mean, it was the thought that it was you... oh my. Yes, I'm blocking all calls right now as I'm stressing about losing my job."
Yes, unintentionally. In fact, the studios requesting the take down of the take down are the ones who gave up that location. They'd love to be able to say "A file at an undisclosed location is in violation of our copyright, but since we don't want to tell you where, please just block all searches for 'X, Y, and Z.'" But, since they have to actually say where they think it's coming from, they have to give up the position themselves.
1) Make a guest account, lock it the f*ck down, and you're done. Limited executables (Firefox + NoScript), good antivirus/firewall, yadda yadda. If you have a Mac this is even better as most people who are average Windows users won't get far off the trail and Linux users will generally be safer users as it is.
2) They don't have their own laptops? Their own smartphones? How frequently are they using your computers in lue of their own devices? If you need to Ask Slashdot then you have a bigger problem than what can be solved here, or your lying about this being your house and guests (underground internet café? Is that a thing?). Seriously, your friends and family should know better and, if they don't, educate them instead of attempting to just "hope" that you can lock it down.
How does the old adage go? The only time a computer is safe is when it's unplugged, in a safe, buried underground, with armed guards outside. And it's still probably not safe.
I understand the point they were trying to make, just pointing out that their example itself was a mistake - an improper example of the improper labeling done by the retailer. You mentioned that the slab they are selling Norton Mobile Security with fell prey to this 8/RT mislabeling. That's what the point of the headline and summary are until you get to the whole iOS/Android bit - bringing that in doesn't sell the point of mislabeling, but it does make the retailer appear doubly idiotic.
Argos, for example, recommends Norton Mobile Security as an add-on for its mis-labelled Windows 8 machine, despite that product only working on Android and iOS
The mislabeling of the Windows machine has nothing to do with this "example" of how the mislabeling is a problem. If it only runs on Android and iOS, the RT/8 label makes no difference as the software doesn't run on anything that says "Windows" in the name.
I'd love to jump on the bandwagon of merchant-bashing since they don't know an RT from their asshole, but that's a tough sell when the article lambasting them makes examples that don't benefit their case at all, but instead make the argument that whoever wrote this can't grasp the idea of simple examples any more than UK retailers can grasp that RT and 8 are different operating systems/
I've always contened that Obama wasn't any better or only marginally better than anything from the other party, and I would always bring up things like his drone policy, not doing a lot of the "come on" easy stuff, hammering through health care reform even when, after meetings and talks and revisions, it was largely stripped of the good things and bent to the will of big pharma/insurance, etc, as reasons I could see myself NOT voting for him. And it would outrage my friends (some of them, the big O ppl). And now that the election is over, I hear some of them saying "I can't believe Obama would authorize X" where X is anything that he was doing before the election that they seemed to miss.
I still voted for him, but I don't really think it made a difference either way. It's sad when I think our best bet is one of the Pauls (Ron or Rand; not Ryan jesus not Ryan) and they're completely BAT SHIT INSANE. But, when they say something, or that they'll do something, by golly they stick to their guns. They don't waffle, flip flop, whatever.
I liked it. Mod up if I could. Card is a dick, and even forbade his daughter's gay friend from being at their house.
Ah, if I could I would mod you up for the correction - I def didn't read it that way
I'm a TWC customer, as the other local offerings are, frankly, terrible. They boil down to ATT DSL, which I had for a couple years before getting completely fed up with their speeds and their customer service. The only other option really is Clear(wire), and that was a fun year-long experiment in "how can I position this router in the window just right to get 3 out of 5 bars of internet?" Terrible idea, but probably fine for people who don't game online. TWC has been reliable and speedy, but I only got the price I have because of promotions. So, what does TWC offer at the TOP TIER? From their website:
Download speeds up to 50Mbps
Upload speeds up to 5Mbps
Modem with Free Home WiFi*
TWC WiFi Hotspots
Free Internet Security and Parental Controls software
30 email accounts
all for a cool price of ... $75 - more than my cell phone bill. It rivals the combined price of electricity and water in my home. Of course, without the "Free Home WiFi" upsell, the WiFi hotspots (wth?), fluffy security addons, and 30 goddamn e-mail accounts?!?!, I would expect it to cost a lot less. No one, no one, needs 30 e-mail accounts, not through their ISP. And, if you have 30, you're probably sharing them with other people, and it sounds like a business line might be better suited to your needs anyways.
Unfortunately, even if most customers did want faster Internet, I think what the CFO really was saying was "We don't have enough customers willing to pay out the ass for fast speeds, so we won't offer them." There's a big difference between "no demand for fast and affordable speeds" and "no demand for fast and overpriced speeds" - we have some areas in my city with fiber options from ATT and VZW, and the people I know who have them are happy to pay the price because the speeds are so damn awesome. But, you go to the average subscriber and ask them if they'd like to pay $100/mo (more?) for way faster speeds and they'd probably tell you that their e-mail works just fine as it is and that the Firefox doesn't need to be upgraded. Why budge on offering Good Things to your customers when you're just focused on maintaing a pool of profits from already overpriced connections to people who don't use them near their full potential?
It is by no means cheap and the textured back cover makes it very easy to hold.
Sorry to nitpick, but don't do that. Don't do a " and " - it makes it seem that either not being cheap is a good thing, or having an easy to hold cover is a bad thing.
I like what Apple does with it's App Store vs Play - although I don't agree with keeping 3rd party markets out, I completely understand why they did it and why they will likely continue to do it: make the user feel safe = trust from the user = loyalty and $$$.
Android, as a brand, gets hurt every time someone's mom installs xXSudoku23BlitzXx because the name travels - your mom doesn't know what the heck a HTC Motorazrformer Prime is, but she knows she has an Android something or rather. Even worse, if malware comes from a 3rd party market, sideloading, clicking a malicious link and then somehow managing to stumble into the installer from Downloads, it all boils down to "Android Malware Rampant!" in the headlines. Openness is great PR to the folks who frequent /. - for the rest of the media world, the focus is on the bad with few and far between knowing what "open" is or why it matters.
I've never had a virus on my MacBook, Android Tablet, Android Phone, webOS tablet, yadda yadda. And the smart people will stay away from shady downloads. The point is that most users are not terribly smart when it comes to identifying shady vs legit, and that's where the issues with the Android Market came in. I'm not sure how good Google has been at keeping Play clean, but I always run across crap that looks like it's going to open up my internal memory and haul ass to a remote server. Apple, on the other hand, does a simultaneous service and dis-service with it's strict App Store policies. Malicious apps rarely (if ever) get through, at the cost of a slower app approval time and tighter guidelines that may (and have) thwart legitimate apps from being in the store.