Anonymous Coward rears his retarded head. Honestly, why would a Jew use JDate to find Gentiles when there are, let's see... chemistry.com, eHarmony, match.com, OKCupid and others for dating without regard to religion (though I believe most of those can search based on religions or ethnicities)? Seriously. JDate really seems like a site with only one use-case to me.
Then again, what do I know? I don't have a JDate account.
Of course, I also don't see what's wrong with not wanting to assimilate, but that's a choice I don't make for other people.
I second the "Young Wizards" series. It features protagonists that young readers can identify with, and I would go so far as to describe the "Young Wizards" universe as non-fantasy: it just runs on word-based science (aka: PROGRAMMING) instead of number-based science.
Actually, I plan on giving my kids the Potter books exactly as I got them: one to each birthday, starting at age 11.
OK, my birthdays and the book release dates didn't synch up that exactly, but as a child I was never more than 2 years younger or older than little Harry Potter. I'd like my children to experience that.
Ummm.... why? Yeah, it's a bit over the head of your average 9 or 10 year old, but it gives them something to reach for. If you give kids something they're not old enough for, they tend to either get bored and come back to it at an older age (me with "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") or get totally absorbed in it -- as long as you don't tell them it's too advanced for them.
A little kid will read Dune and, yes, just see a hero-story set on a desert planet. But it's a book they'll get more and more from every year.
Except that the Israelis respond in a completely different way. Rather than throwing (mostly useless) rules and bureaucracy at the problem of suicide bombings, they built a security fence and relied on the human intelligence (including ethnic, religious, and psychological profiling skills) of professionally-trained security officers (not sure what the ratio of private firms to IDF soldiers is) to distinguish a threat from an innocent but unusual person.
They also rely on a populous that all did their own time in IDF -- a populous trained to treat threats of violence as very real and react by fighting rather than cooing to the government for protection.
I'm not completely sure why the fear level is so high in American culture, but I'd hazard to guess that it's the result of a combination of being too used to being too comfortable and too safe too much of the time - similar to tyrant's paranoia - and the fact that the media and the current administration both cultivate fear (for different reasons).
Nailed it on the first one. Americans today take so few real physical risks and get into so few physical conflicts that they've forgotten how to risk and how to get hurt. People become afraid of silly things because, having never faced real fear, they cannot develop real courage.
What if you use Xephyr? Then, I would think, even if something takes over your screen it can only capture input to one window and only draw on one window.
To impress Jewish girls, use Latin, Greek, or French. A bit of Hebrew never hurt as a thing to learn for itself, but using it around Jewish girls makes you seem too "in".
Also, get the hell off JDate. I mean it. That's a site for Jews to find Jews. Jews who don't want to date Jewish use normal dating sites (or REAL LIFE) instead of JDate.
Well that's not exactly something I can neatly package into my software, is it? It's a good way to make this work on a single Linux machine, but I can't rely on it to work as a part of a piece of software I intend to distribute.
AHHhh, you can talk technical. OK, well I'm actually engaged in a minor effort to create a client application that will connect to another machine and somehow "import" a native application from that machine for local use. Currently I'm using X forwarding over SSH to do that, but only because I ran into a problem with my initial design.
My initial thoughts ran exactly along the lines you detailed when I went through them: X forwarding uses too much bandwidth and server processing time. So I thought, rather than use X forwarding, I could take advantage of Linux now incorporating 9P2000 drivers in the mainstream kernel. The server of this little application service would provide a filesystem containing the native applications it can serve over 9P. The client program, to run an application, would fork a new process to do the following:
1) If the appropriate server's file-system has not been imported, mount it over 9P to a temporary directory used as a mount-point. 2) chroot into the mount-point of the appropriate server's file-system, both protecting the client system from malicious server code and providing the server's code with a layout it recognizes. 3) Exec the desired application.
While this would result in a permanent connection, data would only be transferred over the network when the client needed a part of a file that it didn't have cached. Both processing and drawing would take place on the client machine.
Of course, the problem I ran into is that without root privileges no process can change its own view of the file hierarchy (a la Plan 9) nor chroot. I understand that this prevents obvious security attacks based on malicious programs run with setuid privileges, but is there any way to simply disable setuid, run everything as user, and perform the chroot any-damn-way?
WAY less than half the United States speaks Spanish natively. However, in most of Texas, the Southwest, and California there are tons of Spanish-speakers (sometimes they're half of a county), so if you work in that area it really is that valuable.
No, really. There's a ton of R&D done in Israel or with Israelis in the US, and knowing Hebrew will give you a massive leg up during discussions with them.
Ken! Harbeh chokrim beYisrael vemeYisrael, az tov lilmod Ivrit.
Ivrit: hatzafah shehaya, hatzafah sheyiyeh!
OK, seriously, I'm really proud that someone recommended learning Hebrew for professional rather than ethnic reasons. Means we've come a long way.
What the hell are you talking about? Web applications have some really good uses in the real-world (read business world). Instead of updating every computer in the office with a new version of some data management app, it is deployed once.
The great thing about Gentoo is that upgrading is as easy as 'emerge --sync && emerge -auvND world'.
Except that that doesn't necessarily work unless you've been doing it roughly once per week.
I came back from college and tried to update my home Gentoo desktop system. As a result, after syncing my Portage tree I had an already-installed package blocking a prerequisite for its own update. In fact, I had roughly 5 cases of this, including Python and Portage themselves. The only solution was to reinstall the OS from scratch!
Sod being a shoddy Windows clone. If Linux has to shoddily clone some other user interface, let it shoddily clone the Mac!
And I *know* can be done. Today. With a bit of configuration (almost all by GUI utilities) I managed to turn an Ubuntu Hardy's normal, default GNOME configuration into something that resembles OS X (complete with Dock, multiple desktops, hot corners, and Expose), but with more and nicer eye candy. I see no reason that configuration shouldn't come standard, since all I did was remap the hot-keys to Mac OS X ones and add Avant Window Navigator in place of the bottom panel.
Goddamn it, this whole thing is retarded. We should be *friendly* with the Iranians. Persian civilization is highly developed and extremely honorable. Yet we had to depose the elected, democratic government.
Honestly, fuck it. If we want to back Israel, just let the Iranians know that a strike on Israel is a strike on the United States. That statement may not carry much respect or force any longer, but it's all we can do. We have no moral or pragmatic grounds for getting ourselves more deeply involved in Middle-Eastern countries that the average American government official can barely find on a map.
Except that in those countries people pay taxes that go to fund religious institutions and schools for government-approved religions, while non-approved religions (which could just be a church or sect of well-known faith that haven't done their paperwork) have to get by on donations from people who've already seen their incomes reduced by religion taxes.
Simple: the areas with high population density and the money to pay for cable/broadband get it. The problem is that Americans have this annoying thing for trying to live as rurally as possible while still demanding the amenities (like broadband!) of urban life.
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Anonymous Coward rears his retarded head. Honestly, why would a Jew use JDate to find Gentiles when there are, let's see... chemistry.com, eHarmony, match.com, OKCupid and others for dating without regard to religion (though I believe most of those can search based on religions or ethnicities)? Seriously. JDate really seems like a site with only one use-case to me.
Then again, what do I know? I don't have a JDate account.
Of course, I also don't see what's wrong with not wanting to assimilate, but that's a choice I don't make for other people.
OK, I actually liked the Foundation series, but you're entitled to your opinion.
Still, I honestly don't see how anyone can possibly insult "Dune".
I second the "Young Wizards" series. It features protagonists that young readers can identify with, and I would go so far as to describe the "Young Wizards" universe as non-fantasy: it just runs on word-based science (aka: PROGRAMMING) instead of number-based science.
Actually, I plan on giving my kids the Potter books exactly as I got them: one to each birthday, starting at age 11.
OK, my birthdays and the book release dates didn't synch up that exactly, but as a child I was never more than 2 years younger or older than little Harry Potter. I'd like my children to experience that.
That's funny. I was running through Foundation novels at ages 10-12.
Kids can get through pretty much any book as long as you give them a reason to do so. Use some psychology.
Ummm.... why? Yeah, it's a bit over the head of your average 9 or 10 year old, but it gives them something to reach for. If you give kids something they're not old enough for, they tend to either get bored and come back to it at an older age (me with "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") or get totally absorbed in it -- as long as you don't tell them it's too advanced for them.
A little kid will read Dune and, yes, just see a hero-story set on a desert planet. But it's a book they'll get more and more from every year.
Except that the Israelis respond in a completely different way. Rather than throwing (mostly useless) rules and bureaucracy at the problem of suicide bombings, they built a security fence and relied on the human intelligence (including ethnic, religious, and psychological profiling skills) of professionally-trained security officers (not sure what the ratio of private firms to IDF soldiers is) to distinguish a threat from an innocent but unusual person.
They also rely on a populous that all did their own time in IDF -- a populous trained to treat threats of violence as very real and react by fighting rather than cooing to the government for protection.
And by and large, it works for them.
I'm not completely sure why the fear level is so high in American culture, but I'd hazard to guess that it's the result of a combination of being too used to being too comfortable and too safe too much of the time - similar to tyrant's paranoia - and the fact that the media and the current administration both cultivate fear (for different reasons).
Nailed it on the first one. Americans today take so few real physical risks and get into so few physical conflicts that they've forgotten how to risk and how to get hurt. People become afraid of silly things because, having never faced real fear, they cannot develop real courage.
What if you use Xephyr? Then, I would think, even if something takes over your screen it can only capture input to one window and only draw on one window.
To impress Jewish girls, use Latin, Greek, or French. A bit of Hebrew never hurt as a thing to learn for itself, but using it around Jewish girls makes you seem too "in".
Also, get the hell off JDate. I mean it. That's a site for Jews to find Jews. Jews who don't want to date Jewish use normal dating sites (or REAL LIFE) instead of JDate.
Well that's not exactly something I can neatly package into my software, is it? It's a good way to make this work on a single Linux machine, but I can't rely on it to work as a part of a piece of software I intend to distribute.
AHHhh, you can talk technical. OK, well I'm actually engaged in a minor effort to create a client application that will connect to another machine and somehow "import" a native application from that machine for local use. Currently I'm using X forwarding over SSH to do that, but only because I ran into a problem with my initial design.
My initial thoughts ran exactly along the lines you detailed when I went through them: X forwarding uses too much bandwidth and server processing time. So I thought, rather than use X forwarding, I could take advantage of Linux now incorporating 9P2000 drivers in the mainstream kernel. The server of this little application service would provide a filesystem containing the native applications it can serve over 9P. The client program, to run an application, would fork a new process to do the following:
1) If the appropriate server's file-system has not been imported, mount it over 9P to a temporary directory used as a mount-point.
2) chroot into the mount-point of the appropriate server's file-system, both protecting the client system from malicious server code and providing the server's code with a layout it recognizes.
3) Exec the desired application.
While this would result in a permanent connection, data would only be transferred over the network when the client needed a part of a file that it didn't have cached. Both processing and drawing would take place on the client machine.
Of course, the problem I ran into is that without root privileges no process can change its own view of the file hierarchy (a la Plan 9) nor chroot. I understand that this prevents obvious security attacks based on malicious programs run with setuid privileges, but is there any way to simply disable setuid, run everything as user, and perform the chroot any-damn-way?
WAY less than half the United States speaks Spanish natively. However, in most of Texas, the Southwest, and California there are tons of Spanish-speakers (sometimes they're half of a county), so if you work in that area it really is that valuable.
No, really. There's a ton of R&D done in Israel or with Israelis in the US, and knowing Hebrew will give you a massive leg up during discussions with them.
Ken! Harbeh chokrim beYisrael vemeYisrael, az tov lilmod Ivrit.
Ivrit: hatzafah shehaya, hatzafah sheyiyeh!
OK, seriously, I'm really proud that someone recommended learning Hebrew for professional rather than ethnic reasons. Means we've come a long way.
What the hell are you talking about? Web applications have some really good uses in the real-world (read business world). Instead of updating every computer in the office with a new version of some data management app, it is deployed once.
Why has nobody ever heard of remote X forwarding?
The great thing about Gentoo is that upgrading is as easy as 'emerge --sync && emerge -auvND world'.
Except that that doesn't necessarily work unless you've been doing it roughly once per week.
I came back from college and tried to update my home Gentoo desktop system. As a result, after syncing my Portage tree I had an already-installed package blocking a prerequisite for its own update. In fact, I had roughly 5 cases of this, including Python and Portage themselves. The only solution was to reinstall the OS from scratch!
Sod being a shoddy Windows clone. If Linux has to shoddily clone some other user interface, let it shoddily clone the Mac!
And I *know* can be done. Today. With a bit of configuration (almost all by GUI utilities) I managed to turn an Ubuntu Hardy's normal, default GNOME configuration into something that resembles OS X (complete with Dock, multiple desktops, hot corners, and Expose), but with more and nicer eye candy. I see no reason that configuration shouldn't come standard, since all I did was remap the hot-keys to Mac OS X ones and add Avant Window Navigator in place of the bottom panel.
Goddamn it, this whole thing is retarded. We should be *friendly* with the Iranians. Persian civilization is highly developed and extremely honorable. Yet we had to depose the elected, democratic government.
Honestly, fuck it. If we want to back Israel, just let the Iranians know that a strike on Israel is a strike on the United States. That statement may not carry much respect or force any longer, but it's all we can do. We have no moral or pragmatic grounds for getting ourselves more deeply involved in Middle-Eastern countries that the average American government official can barely find on a map.
You're right. I've managed to get an Ubuntu GNOME desktop running like a Mac one, though, so it can be done.
Wait a minute. What's the actual problem necessitating even talking to Iran in the first place? Why can't we just leave them the hell alone?
Except that in those countries people pay taxes that go to fund religious institutions and schools for government-approved religions, while non-approved religions (which could just be a church or sect of well-known faith that haven't done their paperwork) have to get by on donations from people who've already seen their incomes reduced by religion taxes.
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HI. I have a Steam account and only one (cellular) phone line.
Simple: the areas with high population density and the money to pay for cable/broadband get it. The problem is that Americans have this annoying thing for trying to live as rurally as possible while still demanding the amenities (like broadband!) of urban life.