Moved my Mom to Ubuntu (about 18 months ago now) with Virtual Box running her XP for Quicken. At first she didn't like the interface and I showed her how to change it and she started to like it more. Then when it came time for her to install a new printer she bought, it installed in Linux in no time flat but it confused her because Windows needed the CD and she couldn't figure out why Linux didn't. (She was worried that it wouldn't work because she didn't "program it to read her printer".)
There's a learning curve, but usually it's a curve because people are used to having to do more work to get Windows to do what they want. She wasn't ready for the "app store" method of installing software either. She kept trying to search Yahoo for Ubuntu versions of her software.
I think it's a matter of how many people have access to that information. While it's not "private", now people are shocked that that information can be stored and kept literally forever and searched by many.
Walking down the street talking on a cell phone is fairly private even though you are in a public place because people will tone you out, forget about what you said, or only catch parts of your conversation. However, if someone followed you around with a microphone you might get pissed off.
Seriously, "popular" opinion cannot be obtained by polling 2100 of 300 million people. I'm sorry, but that's about 0.0007% of the populous. I can gather up 2100 people who would give different numbers.
It's gotta be one of your extensions. I run Firefox non-stop for a week at work and rarely close it during that week. I have noticed no leaks.
This is testing, debugging and running various web pages at work developed by some less than stellar programmers (and some very competent ones too.) I frequent Slashdot and a few other places around the web for reference material as well. I couldn't tell you how many tabs I open and close on a weekly basis.
Firebug makes it damn convenient. You set a breakpoint and refresh your page. It stores the breakpoints between refreshes and stops the code. It allows you to set watches on variables and step through or into function calls... just like any other language.
I bemoan developers I work with that don't use Firebug/Chrome to debug and use alert boxes to debug.
What's odd (to me) is that Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta (I'm still running a beta of 5? Odd) on Ubuntu on a Core2Duo in my T61 Thinkpad just ran the benchmark in 21486.1ms +/- 0.6%
Why wouldn't the Corei7 processor in his OSX with newer Chrome perform better?
I didn't get into the TI as much as I should have. I started off with an early model Casio Sci-Calc and eventually moved to a TI-85 but I never really got into it as much as I just used it for school.
I can still tell you exact directions on how to get from Freeport to Qeynos... but I don't know if I can give you directions to a town just 15 miles from my parent's house. I'm sure with enough driving I could find it though.
They did for me. Well, getting them to run on those PCs by tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys files, conserving hard drive space and learning all about zip, then eventually running out of compatible games and having to write my own in good old QuickBasic (which I couldn't even imagine working in now...)
Of course, that was post TRS-80 days of cassette loading, 5.25 (if you were lucky) drives that were the size of a PC today and typing in BASIC programs from the back of a magazine.
Mental payoffs come in many forms though. I think the original story was talking about boosting your brains processes of quick recognition skills, reaction, and dexterity... I think I am (we are?) talking about knowledge and critical thinking skills where speed wasn't so much an option.
There isn't, however, enough evidence to tell me that there is a being that created everything, could control everything but chooses not to, could see the future but chooses not to, etc.
Is it possible that things exist that you don't know about?
Yes, but what's the point in worrying about something you can not possibly know the right answer to?
It goes back to the typical scenarios people come up with. One that I just came up with now:
There's a note on a box in the middle of the room. It says: There is a bomb under this box. If you lift the box, it will go off...so no peaking! Also, this box will explode if you "do the wrong thing."
Now, you turn to your friends in the room and say: "What's the right thing?" You all come up with ideas on what is the right or wrong thing to do, but then you realize that nobody can tell what a cardboard box wants you to do. That's impossible. Maybe the box wants us to think for ourselves and come up with an ideal rule set. So you come up with your own rules that haven't made the box blow up yet. Since we haven't found anything that blows this thing up, here's our list of safe things to do.
Eventually you all get to leave the room, but you keep avoiding all those things you weren't supposed to do, written up by someone who felt threatened by the box and you have a religion... based on a cardboard box's will. Now you tell your kids that this box wants you to do this list of things or someone, somewhere, might be in a room with this box and if you do these wrong things, they could be hurt. Now your kids say... we can X-ray this box and see if the bomb is in there. But wait... do X-Rays set off the bomb? No, don't do that. It's not on the list!
Do you like living in fear? Did the bomb really exist? Maybe if I do what I want it won't really matter because the bomb was a lie? What if it does go off? Would the box really want to hurt us?
If I actually saw the bomb, I might stay in the room and try to "make it happy"... maybe we did the right thing and it's already disarmed. All I have to go by is a note written on the box and someone screaming in my ear that the box wants me to go somewhere and praise the box every Sunday/prayer hour/sunset/etc.
If you get down to it, there's no sense changing your life because you are afraid of something you don't know exists. If there's no way to know the will of God, what God wants, what God says or converse with this being yourself and you have to rely on an organization of people to report to you what that message is... why are you doing what you are doing? Is it God's will or the people giving you the message?
Or do you still read that copy of the note, along with all the stories of things people did to please the box and change your life based on those stories?
Also, as far as I'm aware, every book has prophecies of the future if you read between the lines enough. Last time I checked, the Bible doesn't say: "This will happen." (except for a few socially engineered fables that are pretty generic anyway, but that's not prophecy.) I suppose you also believe Nostradamus' writings and all that? Have you sat down and read those? It's like reading a horoscope... maybe you live your life by reading those to?
This place is a test to determine whether we'll give that free will back to God or use it for our own wants. If God were to intervene and control everything, we wouldn't have free will.
If God can take it or it can be given away, it's not free will. It's fear.
So by your admission, you grant that it doesn't matter what way you imagine God? So why imagine it at all? Obviously, there's a reason to want a god to exist and you are likely going to want to please this god (you obviously don't want to displease it) so how do you know that your actions are not deemed incorrect by this being?
I'd argue that you simply cannot say that this god exists, then go about living your life any way to feel is important because each individual is unique in the sense that they desire different things and will imagine their god's desires in different ways. For you (or any religious person) to preach to someone/yourself what your god wants of you would be blasphemous to someone else god or gods.
It's a no win situation to believe that it's acceptable to imagine what this God wants.
If you set an orange on the table, it will eventually flatten at the poles and get fatter at the equator. However, we know that you can stand on the south pole without getting squashed by Earth... so that pretty much rules out the Earth sitting on a table.
But to answer the rotational problem with no point of reference, you should be able to drop things from a consistent height/location over a period of time (to eliminate wind variance/etc.) and average the points of contact. If the Earth rotates, the objects should land just off of the parallel line to your tower. This should give you a method to measure how fast the Earth spins (by timing the fall vs. the distance from the parallel drop point.)
Theoretically, it makes sense but without that disc and the lovely anti-copy measures they put in it would mean that any download service would have to have a peerless copy protection... and we know that doesn't happen or last long.
It will, however, appear in the eastern sky due to the rotation of the Earth. There's enough evidence available for me to draw that conclusion. There isn't, however, enough evidence to tell me that there is a being that created everything, could control everything but chooses not to, could see the future but chooses not to, etc.
I don't know what you are talking about, but the Earth rotates when I walk and at no other time for I am the center of the Universe and you will walk around me.
That's the part of the Big Bang theory that bugs me actually. I'd love to be out on the edge so it would actually make more sense to me but since we are surrounded by stars in all directions and it seems as though they are just as dense in every part of the sky (save the galactic horizon)... it makes me feel on a subconscious level that the big bang theory has a major hole. I should say it's lacking a major hole where all the stuff was shot out of the center and somehow we are still close to that "ground zero" point so all the stars around us seem to end as a specific similar distance.
I don't know if that makes sense at all. Clearly, it's crazy to think that the Earth is the center. We have satellites and other objects to tell us that we orbit the sun. I also think it's crazy to think that we are centralized in the universe. Somewhere deep down inside I feel as though we can only see as far as we do because some effect is blocking or deflecting the light from much further stars and systems. Maybe there's a certain wavelength to light that makes it "die off" after traveling so far. I don't know. I wish I had more time to study all the tests and theories, but that's one of those things that I have little time to worry about in the aspects of my normal day.
and as far as I'm aware, downloading is you connecting to the seeds on whatever port they have open, and accepting data... and they do the same to get data from you. These connections are on on different ports. People who use torrents but don't upload are usually called leachers.
Downloading creates a copy. If done in the USA without the permission of the copyright owner it infringes the copyright in the downloaded work.
If you want to get technical, viewing a streamed video via netflix also creates a copy (in memory.) DVRing a TV Show creates a copy. Heck, one could argue that playing a BluRay disc anymore creates a bunch of tiny copies as it pulls the content off the disc into RAM.
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Hand rolled cigars. They are still bad for you.
Moved my Mom to Ubuntu (about 18 months ago now) with Virtual Box running her XP for Quicken. At first she didn't like the interface and I showed her how to change it and she started to like it more. Then when it came time for her to install a new printer she bought, it installed in Linux in no time flat but it confused her because Windows needed the CD and she couldn't figure out why Linux didn't. (She was worried that it wouldn't work because she didn't "program it to read her printer".)
There's a learning curve, but usually it's a curve because people are used to having to do more work to get Windows to do what they want. She wasn't ready for the "app store" method of installing software either. She kept trying to search Yahoo for Ubuntu versions of her software.
I think it's a matter of how many people have access to that information. While it's not "private", now people are shocked that that information can be stored and kept literally forever and searched by many.
Walking down the street talking on a cell phone is fairly private even though you are in a public place because people will tone you out, forget about what you said, or only catch parts of your conversation. However, if someone followed you around with a microphone you might get pissed off.
What's so hard about hooking a speaker up to the phone line? ;)
So new that Slashdot hasn't had time to assign them a user ID.
Seriously, "popular" opinion cannot be obtained by polling 2100 of 300 million people. I'm sorry, but that's about 0.0007% of the populous. I can gather up 2100 people who would give different numbers.
Oh, hah. Guess I need to get my breakfast and quite screwing around on Slashdot.
It's gotta be one of your extensions. I run Firefox non-stop for a week at work and rarely close it during that week. I have noticed no leaks.
This is testing, debugging and running various web pages at work developed by some less than stellar programmers (and some very competent ones too.) I frequent Slashdot and a few other places around the web for reference material as well. I couldn't tell you how many tabs I open and close on a weekly basis.
Firebug makes it damn convenient. You set a breakpoint and refresh your page. It stores the breakpoints between refreshes and stops the code. It allows you to set watches on variables and step through or into function calls... just like any other language.
I bemoan developers I work with that don't use Firebug/Chrome to debug and use alert boxes to debug.
What's odd (to me) is that Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta (I'm still running a beta of 5? Odd) on Ubuntu on a Core2Duo in my T61 Thinkpad just ran the benchmark in 21486.1ms +/- 0.6%
Why wouldn't the Corei7 processor in his OSX with newer Chrome perform better?
I didn't get into the TI as much as I should have. I started off with an early model Casio Sci-Calc and eventually moved to a TI-85 but I never really got into it as much as I just used it for school.
Kids get a lot of hit points these days thanks to the sugars and fatty foods. They'll be fine. ;)
I can still tell you exact directions on how to get from Freeport to Qeynos... but I don't know if I can give you directions to a town just 15 miles from my parent's house. I'm sure with enough driving I could find it though.
They did for me. Well, getting them to run on those PCs by tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys files, conserving hard drive space and learning all about zip, then eventually running out of compatible games and having to write my own in good old QuickBasic (which I couldn't even imagine working in now...)
Of course, that was post TRS-80 days of cassette loading, 5.25 (if you were lucky) drives that were the size of a PC today and typing in BASIC programs from the back of a magazine.
Mental payoffs come in many forms though. I think the original story was talking about boosting your brains processes of quick recognition skills, reaction, and dexterity... I think I am (we are?) talking about knowledge and critical thinking skills where speed wasn't so much an option.
There isn't, however, enough evidence to tell me that there is a being that created everything, could control everything but chooses not to, could see the future but chooses not to, etc.
Is it possible that things exist that you don't know about?
Yes, but what's the point in worrying about something you can not possibly know the right answer to?
It goes back to the typical scenarios people come up with. One that I just came up with now:
There's a note on a box in the middle of the room. It says: There is a bomb under this box. If you lift the box, it will go off...so no peaking! Also, this box will explode if you "do the wrong thing."
Now, you turn to your friends in the room and say: "What's the right thing?" You all come up with ideas on what is the right or wrong thing to do, but then you realize that nobody can tell what a cardboard box wants you to do. That's impossible. Maybe the box wants us to think for ourselves and come up with an ideal rule set. So you come up with your own rules that haven't made the box blow up yet. Since we haven't found anything that blows this thing up, here's our list of safe things to do.
Eventually you all get to leave the room, but you keep avoiding all those things you weren't supposed to do, written up by someone who felt threatened by the box and you have a religion... based on a cardboard box's will. Now you tell your kids that this box wants you to do this list of things or someone, somewhere, might be in a room with this box and if you do these wrong things, they could be hurt. Now your kids say... we can X-ray this box and see if the bomb is in there. But wait... do X-Rays set off the bomb? No, don't do that. It's not on the list!
Do you like living in fear? Did the bomb really exist? Maybe if I do what I want it won't really matter because the bomb was a lie? What if it does go off? Would the box really want to hurt us?
If I actually saw the bomb, I might stay in the room and try to "make it happy"... maybe we did the right thing and it's already disarmed. All I have to go by is a note written on the box and someone screaming in my ear that the box wants me to go somewhere and praise the box every Sunday/prayer hour/sunset/etc.
If you get down to it, there's no sense changing your life because you are afraid of something you don't know exists. If there's no way to know the will of God, what God wants, what God says or converse with this being yourself and you have to rely on an organization of people to report to you what that message is... why are you doing what you are doing? Is it God's will or the people giving you the message?
Or do you still read that copy of the note, along with all the stories of things people did to please the box and change your life based on those stories?
Also, as far as I'm aware, every book has prophecies of the future if you read between the lines enough. Last time I checked, the Bible doesn't say: "This will happen." (except for a few socially engineered fables that are pretty generic anyway, but that's not prophecy.) I suppose you also believe Nostradamus' writings and all that? Have you sat down and read those? It's like reading a horoscope... maybe you live your life by reading those to?
This place is a test to determine whether we'll give that free will back to God or use it for our own wants. If God were to intervene and control everything, we wouldn't have free will.
If God can take it or it can be given away, it's not free will. It's fear.
So by your admission, you grant that it doesn't matter what way you imagine God? So why imagine it at all? Obviously, there's a reason to want a god to exist and you are likely going to want to please this god (you obviously don't want to displease it) so how do you know that your actions are not deemed incorrect by this being?
I'd argue that you simply cannot say that this god exists, then go about living your life any way to feel is important because each individual is unique in the sense that they desire different things and will imagine their god's desires in different ways. For you (or any religious person) to preach to someone/yourself what your god wants of you would be blasphemous to someone else god or gods.
It's a no win situation to believe that it's acceptable to imagine what this God wants.
If you set an orange on the table, it will eventually flatten at the poles and get fatter at the equator. However, we know that you can stand on the south pole without getting squashed by Earth... so that pretty much rules out the Earth sitting on a table.
But to answer the rotational problem with no point of reference, you should be able to drop things from a consistent height/location over a period of time (to eliminate wind variance/etc.) and average the points of contact. If the Earth rotates, the objects should land just off of the parallel line to your tower. This should give you a method to measure how fast the Earth spins (by timing the fall vs. the distance from the parallel drop point.)
So like Gamefly, but digital download version?
Theoretically, it makes sense but without that disc and the lovely anti-copy measures they put in it would mean that any download service would have to have a peerless copy protection... and we know that doesn't happen or last long.
The sun doesn't "come up" ;)
It will, however, appear in the eastern sky due to the rotation of the Earth. There's enough evidence available for me to draw that conclusion. There isn't, however, enough evidence to tell me that there is a being that created everything, could control everything but chooses not to, could see the future but chooses not to, etc.
I don't know what you are talking about, but the Earth rotates when I walk and at no other time for I am the center of the Universe and you will walk around me.
Well, at least we don't just place blind faith in what someone tells us and consider it the truth without further investigation. ;)
Must be a conspiracy because I can't load that site... (Can't find the server, etc.)
That's the part of the Big Bang theory that bugs me actually. I'd love to be out on the edge so it would actually make more sense to me but since we are surrounded by stars in all directions and it seems as though they are just as dense in every part of the sky (save the galactic horizon)... it makes me feel on a subconscious level that the big bang theory has a major hole. I should say it's lacking a major hole where all the stuff was shot out of the center and somehow we are still close to that "ground zero" point so all the stars around us seem to end as a specific similar distance.
I don't know if that makes sense at all. Clearly, it's crazy to think that the Earth is the center. We have satellites and other objects to tell us that we orbit the sun. I also think it's crazy to think that we are centralized in the universe. Somewhere deep down inside I feel as though we can only see as far as we do because some effect is blocking or deflecting the light from much further stars and systems. Maybe there's a certain wavelength to light that makes it "die off" after traveling so far. I don't know. I wish I had more time to study all the tests and theories, but that's one of those things that I have little time to worry about in the aspects of my normal day.
I would just not open the port on my router...
and as far as I'm aware, downloading is you connecting to the seeds on whatever port they have open, and accepting data... and they do the same to get data from you. These connections are on on different ports. People who use torrents but don't upload are usually called leachers.
Downloading creates a copy. If done in the USA without the permission of the copyright owner it infringes the copyright in the downloaded work.
If you want to get technical, viewing a streamed video via netflix also creates a copy (in memory.) DVRing a TV Show creates a copy. Heck, one could argue that playing a BluRay disc anymore creates a bunch of tiny copies as it pulls the content off the disc into RAM.