Every generation has found new ways to push the limits of sex and relationships - the 60/70s had "free love", swinger parties etc. The 80/90s were somewhat of a slow period (maybe AIDS had something to do with it). And now it seems experimenting with homosexuality, at least for girls, is very mainstream and acceptible. Porn and strip clubs is mainstream now, at least in the part of the US in which I live.
Not really. Studies of actual behavior tend to find so-called "Generation Y" has become more conservative than anyone before them was at their age since the '60s, but they create an image of near-total sexual liberalism.
Reading between the lines, Gen Y kids want to push the limits and have gigantic orgies with anonymous everybodies, but know too well what's good for them and what's not to actually do it (no pun intended).
I think we're going to see that Plasma/Plasmoids are the genius invention that will propel innovation. They will do for the desktop what Compiz/Beryl/Compiz-Fusion plugins have done for the window manager: let loads of programmers make up innovative or simply good-looking things they can do.
This, of course, will lead to a boom that will result in a few really good Plasmoids that will draw in additional effort and lots of crappy ones. But I think by 2012 everyone will look back and wonder how they once got along back when XYZ had to be a whole custom application written in C instead of a Plasmoid or Plasmoid containment written in C/C++, Python, Ruby, or any other language with KDE4 bindings.
GNOME will have at least started moving in such a direction, but will have more restrictions to make sure the system stays easy to use.
It doesn't have to be huge. Take it from a guy a year older than you: learn Linux programming, learn it well. Get an internship with it in college. This makes your resume better than that of the college-educated code monkeys CS departments turn out nowadays who've never used anything but Java on Windows.
OK, I'll stop the sarcasm and just state the facts. D-Bus is now used by both GNOME and KDE. It can also be installed for any customized DE a user creates. The future for Linux looks like the past, but more so: some distros will go for ease-of-use without customization and others will go for customization over ease-of-use, while the whole system gets more and more modular and scripted.
Well let them come. Fuck them. I got a right to post what I want on Slashdot within the limits set by Slashdot itself, since their servers are private property.
And somehow I think the federal government is utterly concerned with "terrorist threats" to the Sonic Team employees anyway.
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They even managed to screw up the Nights sequel.
Do you know where I can send the anthrax spores to punish the bastards for that?
Well it's more that Sonic's positions have moved into the mainstream. He started off as a radical environmentalist who wanted to Free The Animals from their Evil Robotic Prisons, but now everyone's a freaking animal-freeing hippy;-).
I keep seeing you denote currency in "sek". Gonna explain to the world which currency that refers to?
Anyway, if currency conversion makes the MBP ridiculously overpriced for what you got in it, you honestly shouldn't have bought the thing ADC membership or no ADC membership.
You dumbass. Everyone knows that Stargate is fiction. The documentary show is entitled "Doctor Who", hence why it has an academic credential at the beginning of its name.
Why can't people just have particular types of character, it is has served use well for millennia.
Because our society mandates that for economic and reproductive success all individuals mimic the behavioral patterns of the people running things, whether or not this actually leads to success?
For example, plenty of us Slashdotters have something labeled "ADD": our minds gravitate to novel, interesting, or challenging things and work inefficiently on repetitious, pointless or already-solved problems. This brain pattern is a creativity engine: it results in brilliant writers, artists, engineers and scientists. However, as the societal structures surrounding the creative professions have gotten larger, the amount of boring, stupid, "necessary" legwork necessary to reach a creator's level of competence in these fields has conspicuously increased, mostly because the people running the social structures prefer consistency, reliability, and the absence of risk over the aforementioned qualities that actually lead to greatness, albeit at a relatively high risk to anyone investing in an individual.
"Discards"? Has it ever occurred to you that evolution creates genetic diversity for a very, very good reason? When the environment shifts quickly (for genetic evolution, "quickly" can mean a single million years, for memetic/cultural/human evolution, as little as a day) a set of genetic tendencies previously disadvantageous can often become the key to survival or successful reproduction.
Take, for example, thinness and fast metabolism as genetic traits. In societies with scarce food, they will be weeded out by starvation. In societies with plentiful food, they become valued as healthier breeding partners.
Never underestimate evolution, or it will pwn you very hard.
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An abundance of frameworks is a sure sign of either a bad language or a horrible platform.
And you only realized that now!?
No, it just ex-TER-minated him.
Not every story can be "Dune", my friend.
Every generation has found new ways to push the limits of sex and relationships - the 60/70s had "free love", swinger parties etc. The 80/90s were somewhat of a slow period (maybe AIDS had something to do with it). And now it seems experimenting with homosexuality, at least for girls, is very mainstream and acceptible. Porn and strip clubs is mainstream now, at least in the part of the US in which I live.
Not really. Studies of actual behavior tend to find so-called "Generation Y" has become more conservative than anyone before them was at their age since the '60s, but they create an image of near-total sexual liberalism.
Reading between the lines, Gen Y kids want to push the limits and have gigantic orgies with anonymous everybodies, but know too well what's good for them and what's not to actually do it (no pun intended).
So two wrongs will make a right?
Well yes, but how does that work inside the software?
As for skinning people alive, I'm waiting until someone makes a video game with these for levels.
I'm not very well-versed in OS X development. Could you tell me how those "system services" work?
I think we're going to see that Plasma/Plasmoids are the genius invention that will propel innovation. They will do for the desktop what Compiz/Beryl/Compiz-Fusion plugins have done for the window manager: let loads of programmers make up innovative or simply good-looking things they can do.
This, of course, will lead to a boom that will result in a few really good Plasmoids that will draw in additional effort and lots of crappy ones. But I think by 2012 everyone will look back and wonder how they once got along back when XYZ had to be a whole custom application written in C instead of a Plasmoid or Plasmoid containment written in C/C++, Python, Ruby, or any other language with KDE4 bindings.
GNOME will have at least started moving in such a direction, but will have more restrictions to make sure the system stays easy to use.
It doesn't have to be huge. Take it from a guy a year older than you: learn Linux programming, learn it well. Get an internship with it in college. This makes your resume better than that of the college-educated code monkeys CS departments turn out nowadays who've never used anything but Java on Windows.
D-BUS: have you heard of it?
OK, I'll stop the sarcasm and just state the facts. D-Bus is now used by both GNOME and KDE. It can also be installed for any customized DE a user creates. The future for Linux looks like the past, but more so: some distros will go for ease-of-use without customization and others will go for customization over ease-of-use, while the whole system gets more and more modular and scripted.
Well let them come. Fuck them. I got a right to post what I want on Slashdot within the limits set by Slashdot itself, since their servers are private property.
And somehow I think the federal government is utterly concerned with "terrorist threats" to the Sonic Team employees anyway.
They even managed to screw up the Nights sequel.
Do you know where I can send the anthrax spores to punish the bastards for that?
Well it's more that Sonic's positions have moved into the mainstream. He started off as a radical environmentalist who wanted to Free The Animals from their Evil Robotic Prisons, but now everyone's a freaking animal-freeing hippy ;-).
So it was bigger on the inside? DAMNIT, and I'd been expecting police boxes to be the TARDIS, when it was actually my very own MBP all along!
I keep seeing you denote currency in "sek". Gonna explain to the world which currency that refers to?
Anyway, if currency conversion makes the MBP ridiculously overpriced for what you got in it, you honestly shouldn't have bought the thing ADC membership or no ADC membership.
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Personally I made a one-liner because I'm genuinely worried about the potential for something like Cybermen with rats' minds here.
Personally I was expecting their creator's name to be something like "John Lumic", but hey.
You dumbass. Everyone knows that Stargate is fiction. The documentary show is entitled "Doctor Who", hence why it has an academic credential at the beginning of its name.
Sorry I didn't notice it, but next time could you perhaps use some sarcasm or irony tags? You really got quite dry there.
Why can't people just have particular types of character, it is has served use well for millennia.
Because our society mandates that for economic and reproductive success all individuals mimic the behavioral patterns of the people running things, whether or not this actually leads to success?
For example, plenty of us Slashdotters have something labeled "ADD": our minds gravitate to novel, interesting, or challenging things and work inefficiently on repetitious, pointless or already-solved problems. This brain pattern is a creativity engine: it results in brilliant writers, artists, engineers and scientists. However, as the societal structures surrounding the creative professions have gotten larger, the amount of boring, stupid, "necessary" legwork necessary to reach a creator's level of competence in these fields has conspicuously increased, mostly because the people running the social structures prefer consistency, reliability, and the absence of risk over the aforementioned qualities that actually lead to greatness, albeit at a relatively high risk to anyone investing in an individual.
"Discards"? Has it ever occurred to you that evolution creates genetic diversity for a very, very good reason? When the environment shifts quickly (for genetic evolution, "quickly" can mean a single million years, for memetic/cultural/human evolution, as little as a day) a set of genetic tendencies previously disadvantageous can often become the key to survival or successful reproduction.
Take, for example, thinness and fast metabolism as genetic traits. In societies with scarce food, they will be weeded out by starvation. In societies with plentiful food, they become valued as healthier breeding partners.
Never underestimate evolution, or it will pwn you very hard.
Are you my mummy? Mummy!