And all of this talk forgets that the web is a way to network documents together, and the web browser is a document viewer. If you want a remote application platform with a URL bar at the top, try writing a Python script to stick together a URL bar that accesses a remote filesystem (maybe by 9P?) and combines it with a Xephyr-like remote X session.
"Hippy" (also spelled "Hippie") is a word describing a subculture that you resemble an extreme, straw-man example of. Hippies believe that mainstream society is somehow trapped in an inadequate state of existence, one that can be alleviated by ad-hoc spirituality (because hippies almost universally perceive the mainstream religions of their homeland as part of the "problem"), general love for all people and things, and often the use of recreational drugs. Hippies tend to say things like:
Humanity is focused on external objects, believing them to be outside, and separate.
As though any statement could be valid when applied to humanity as a whole, and (and this is what people don't like about hippies) as though all non-hippies live and believe in the same inadequate, possibly downright evil, way.
Hippies also tend to make statements (deeply influenced by the experiences they have taking LSD) like this one:
In the same way, when we are in a stance, post "scientific revolution" where we poke and prod "matter," we are separated from it in our perceptions, and imprisoned in this "otherness" - we are severed from our source and origin. Humanity is severed from itself in the same way because we talk of this class, and that class, we do statistical analysis and yet we do not actually participate in the lives of these "individuals." Yes, we are each our self, but self itself is not disidentified from itself, which is in all of us.
In which the hippy identifies itself and its perceptions with the universe at large (often there is an attitude that "all is one") rather than admitting that hallucinogenic drug trips cause hallucinations, viz: detachment of the mental and sensory experiences from reality.
In fact, your statement exemplifies hippy attitudes by disdaining mainstream or "square" things, like science, for the bizarre philosophy that you can't even explain (when asked to do so) in language a layman can understand, most likely because you either learned it from someone who used LSD or gained the philosophy from using LSD.
Note that LSD is not the only "hippy" drug: cannabis, magic mushrooms, and most other forms of non-addictive hallucinogen are in use among hippies, though LSD remains the best known to outsiders.
Naw, my brother and I (both Gen Y) do that too. I honestly haven't watched network television since the Fox Kids lineup went off the air, thus resulting in all my favorite children's cartoons getting eliminated or sold to some Disney Channel spin-off that you get only with an expensive cable package.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if, somewhere out there on the network, someone had organized RSS feeds telling people how to download/torrent successive episodes (even whole seasons/series) of specific shows. When a new episode gets released they'll just add another entry to the feed, pointing to the latest link on The Pirate Bay.
Actually, I quite agree with you. I'm a relatively good student (though I've had my bad semesters at times...), and when homework is removed from the grading policy I suddenly look like a *great* student.
I was complaining about submitting homework via the web because mechanical grading software has a horrible tendency to grade right answers as wrong if you write them the wrong way, ie: for a problem that asks for the idefinite integral of f(x) = nx for some constant x, the grader will count 1/2*n*x^2 as correct but x^2*n/2 as wrong.
I remember back in high school my basic chemistry teacher didn't grade homework. Instead she gave us twice-weekly quizzes on the material we should have studied either on our own or by doing her *suggested* homework problems. Why college instructors can't do the same by having quizzes given weekly in discussion/lab sections and not counting homeworks, I have no idea.
The only reason to have a specific version of a text is if the professor assigns specific questions from the text and checks them for credit. But then you have a bad professor anyway, and the proper solution is to switch out of the class.
So how should the professor assign homework? Have the TAs sit up at night inventing homework problems?
I just consider it a blessing when I can submit homework on paper instead of by internet.
OH DEAR GOD HELL NO. Why in God's name should my browser include a file-system, networking stack, window system, sound drivers, keyboard; mouse; and other input-device drivers, or process scheduler?
I'm not missing your point. I'm contending that the human view of time is written in our biology, not inculcated by environment. Even extending our lifespans as far as 80 years has caused social issues (verging nearly on serious problems) for young and old alike.
Read this, for example. Now imagine it multiplied by four, say: anyone under the age of 150 can hardly find a job and anyone over the age of 575 spends 100 years as a dying old codger. Or if we have some kind of regeneration/rejuvenation process, just imagine a world in which nobody ever retires without getting massively rich (rich enough to live off investments) first, because with an indefinite lifespan nobody ever stops working.
0-100: CHILDHOOD and ADOLESCENCE. Work odd jobs, retail, burger shops, internships. 100-200: FIRST CAREER. I'll assume that 100 years is long enough for entire professional fields to rise and fall in prominence. 200-300: SECOND CAREER. Same as the first career. With the savings from the first career, start a family.
And so on and so forth. Indefinitely. Forever. Just loads of people doing the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over. That's the world without mortality.
Hell, if they really get this embryo-selection stuff working well, I'd like to see it become a normal, covered part of universal health-care systems. If everyone can afford to get selection done, then nobody need be born with "inferior" genes (quotes because everyone defines that differently) unless their parents are assholes.
And some parents will always be assholes who want to ruin their kids lives, and even then the kids won't have any "worse" genetic codes than we normal, unenhanced humans deal with nowadays.
Well here's the thing. Whichever embryo you select to implant, the genetic material comes from the parents, yes? So it can't be all that bad if it comes from someone who managed to grow up, marry, and conceive children.
You're thinking like an old person too much, like someone whose memories of earlier times have faded and compressed into a highlights reel. To experience 50 years still takes 50 years, no matter how insignificant you think of it as being afterwards.
Think, for example, about your teenage years. They seemed much longer when you were a teenager, yes? That's because you don't remember most of the little day-to-day things (having breakfast, doing homework, shopping) that you did now, but you still had to spend all the requisite time then.
Now imagine being told that you had to wait 50 years to vote, drink, or drive. Or 50 years for a promotion at work. No matter how much or little value you place on that time afterwards, it still feels like 50 years as it happens. Time doesn't fly as we experience it; it crawls.
I figure by the time we can figure out how to stop ageing we should have genetic engineering down-pat. We can just figure out what works "better" and then let anyone who likes "upgrade their hardware".
Playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but so what? Does it matter that change is slow if we live forever? Why does a fast timescale for change matter?
Slashdot Mirror
And all of this talk forgets that the web is a way to network documents together, and the web browser is a document viewer. If you want a remote application platform with a URL bar at the top, try writing a Python script to stick together a URL bar that accesses a remote filesystem (maybe by 9P?) and combines it with a Xephyr-like remote X session.
So you're saying that Slashdot is fluff?
So basically our brain is a network connected to a hub. I wonder if I can get an upgrade to a GigE switch?
Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex, and class, and color, and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us.
Begin upgrading.
"Hippy" (also spelled "Hippie") is a word describing a subculture that you resemble an extreme, straw-man example of. Hippies believe that mainstream society is somehow trapped in an inadequate state of existence, one that can be alleviated by ad-hoc spirituality (because hippies almost universally perceive the mainstream religions of their homeland as part of the "problem"), general love for all people and things, and often the use of recreational drugs. Hippies tend to say things like:
Humanity is focused on external objects, believing them to be outside, and separate.
As though any statement could be valid when applied to humanity as a whole, and (and this is what people don't like about hippies) as though all non-hippies live and believe in the same inadequate, possibly downright evil, way.
Hippies also tend to make statements (deeply influenced by the experiences they have taking LSD) like this one:
In the same way, when we are in a stance, post "scientific revolution" where we poke and prod "matter," we are separated from it in our perceptions, and imprisoned in this "otherness" - we are severed from our source and origin. Humanity is severed from itself in the same way because we talk of this class, and that class, we do statistical analysis and yet we do not actually participate in the lives of these "individuals." Yes, we are each our self, but self itself is not disidentified from itself, which is in all of us.
In which the hippy identifies itself and its perceptions with the universe at large (often there is an attitude that "all is one") rather than admitting that hallucinogenic drug trips cause hallucinations, viz: detachment of the mental and sensory experiences from reality.
In fact, your statement exemplifies hippy attitudes by disdaining mainstream or "square" things, like science, for the bizarre philosophy that you can't even explain (when asked to do so) in language a layman can understand, most likely because you either learned it from someone who used LSD or gained the philosophy from using LSD.
Note that LSD is not the only "hippy" drug: cannabis, magic mushrooms, and most other forms of non-addictive hallucinogen are in use among hippies, though LSD remains the best known to outsiders.
Naw, my brother and I (both Gen Y) do that too. I honestly haven't watched network television since the Fox Kids lineup went off the air, thus resulting in all my favorite children's cartoons getting eliminated or sold to some Disney Channel spin-off that you get only with an expensive cable package.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if, somewhere out there on the network, someone had organized RSS feeds telling people how to download/torrent successive episodes (even whole seasons/series) of specific shows. When a new episode gets released they'll just add another entry to the feed, pointing to the latest link on The Pirate Bay.
Would you mind explaining that in English instead of Hippy?
Sorry, that's "for some constant n".
Actually, I quite agree with you. I'm a relatively good student (though I've had my bad semesters at times...), and when homework is removed from the grading policy I suddenly look like a *great* student.
I was complaining about submitting homework via the web because mechanical grading software has a horrible tendency to grade right answers as wrong if you write them the wrong way, ie: for a problem that asks for the idefinite integral of f(x) = nx for some constant x, the grader will count 1/2*n*x^2 as correct but x^2*n/2 as wrong.
I remember back in high school my basic chemistry teacher didn't grade homework. Instead she gave us twice-weekly quizzes on the material we should have studied either on our own or by doing her *suggested* homework problems. Why college instructors can't do the same by having quizzes given weekly in discussion/lab sections and not counting homeworks, I have no idea.
The only reason to have a specific version of a text is if the professor assigns specific questions from the text and checks them for credit. But then you have a bad professor anyway, and the proper solution is to switch out of the class.
So how should the professor assign homework? Have the TAs sit up at night inventing homework problems?
I just consider it a blessing when I can submit homework on paper instead of by internet.
BAH. The proper way to choose a ruler is to find whoever has the Triforce of Wisdom!
OH DEAR GOD HELL NO. Why in God's name should my browser include a file-system, networking stack, window system, sound drivers, keyboard; mouse; and other input-device drivers, or process scheduler?
Well yeah, but now we have scientific confirmation that they're both basically the same!
I'm not missing your point. I'm contending that the human view of time is written in our biology, not inculcated by environment. Even extending our lifespans as far as 80 years has caused social issues (verging nearly on serious problems) for young and old alike.
Read this, for example. Now imagine it multiplied by four, say: anyone under the age of 150 can hardly find a job and anyone over the age of 575 spends 100 years as a dying old codger. Or if we have some kind of regeneration/rejuvenation process, just imagine a world in which nobody ever retires without getting massively rich (rich enough to live off investments) first, because with an indefinite lifespan nobody ever stops working.
0-100: CHILDHOOD and ADOLESCENCE. Work odd jobs, retail, burger shops, internships.
100-200: FIRST CAREER. I'll assume that 100 years is long enough for entire professional fields to rise and fall in prominence.
200-300: SECOND CAREER. Same as the first career. With the savings from the first career, start a family.
And so on and so forth. Indefinitely. Forever. Just loads of people doing the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over. That's the world without mortality.
Bitch please. You must have a mental disease.
Hell, if they really get this embryo-selection stuff working well, I'd like to see it become a normal, covered part of universal health-care systems. If everyone can afford to get selection done, then nobody need be born with "inferior" genes (quotes because everyone defines that differently) unless their parents are assholes.
And some parents will always be assholes who want to ruin their kids lives, and even then the kids won't have any "worse" genetic codes than we normal, unenhanced humans deal with nowadays.
Well here's the thing. Whichever embryo you select to implant, the genetic material comes from the parents, yes? So it can't be all that bad if it comes from someone who managed to grow up, marry, and conceive children.
The human race will survive just fine. There are always some people who won't use in-vitro fertilization... religious folks, for example.
"Ubuntu" is an African word meaning "I'm too lazy to install Gentoo again just for a programming system."
You're thinking like an old person too much, like someone whose memories of earlier times have faded and compressed into a highlights reel. To experience 50 years still takes 50 years, no matter how insignificant you think of it as being afterwards.
Think, for example, about your teenage years. They seemed much longer when you were a teenager, yes? That's because you don't remember most of the little day-to-day things (having breakfast, doing homework, shopping) that you did now, but you still had to spend all the requisite time then.
Now imagine being told that you had to wait 50 years to vote, drink, or drive. Or 50 years for a promotion at work. No matter how much or little value you place on that time afterwards, it still feels like 50 years as it happens. Time doesn't fly as we experience it; it crawls.
I figure by the time we can figure out how to stop ageing we should have genetic engineering down-pat. We can just figure out what works "better" and then let anyone who likes "upgrade their hardware".
Ahhh... good old-fashioned Cybermen.
Playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but so what? Does it matter that change is slow if we live forever? Why does a fast timescale for change matter?
50 years of a 500 year life is still 50 years.
And I'd be the first one to stick a stake in your sick, undead heart.
Not if you regenerate! But you only get 12 regenerations...
"While you're dying I'l be STILL ALIVE. And when you're dead I will be STILL ALIVE. STILL ALIVE. STILL ALIVE."