Beautiful-scary sig. It looks suspiciously like "Cheap Fast Quality - Pick two"... Or is it more pointing to some version of the Godel flaw in Russell?
I may not have been clear enough in my original post.
In Windows I see the environment as something like:
XP-Original (Terrible) Misc updates for XP-Original (neutral effect)
XP-SP1 (Unclear, Never used it) Misc updates for XP-SP1 (neutral effect)
XP-2 (Colossal improvement, basically the StartOver point.) Misc updates for XP-SP2
XP SP3 (Kinda useful, but nothing amazing) Misc updates for XP-SP3.......
All those updates were generally through Microsoft Update. Except maybe a fluke here&there, none of those updates themselves really broke anything in the upgrade process itself. That's because these are all the same "lineage".
Notice Vista is absent. That is a new OS in a different lineage, and I avoided it. So is Win7. Jury's out there.
So I liken Gentoo/Slackware/Redhat/Fedora to those "totally different OS's", which I also avoided. I had hoped that getting new updates in the ubuntu lineage would be comparable to getting service packs and smaller misc updates for XP.
If it's not, that's a problem.
(Quoting you for context) "You should also be prepared to resolve issues whether your installing or updating when your running a bleeding edge linux distribution."
Then I decline. For learning "Linux & the Packages", I want ANY distro that is THE most famous for comparable update stability per my previous computing experience.
I will not tolerate random breakages. For that tradeoff, I am willing to go slower than drunken snails and evolve slower than microbes from the cambrian age.
(Someone else mentioned Debian Stable without the ubuntu branding. Poll, gang?)
Didn't we used to dream of fame and fortune, "which of course were not to quit a DayJob for?"
Now In InfoAmerica, you have fame which makes your DayJob Quit You(TM), and by the miracle of constant expenses vs. fickle revenue, destroys your fortune.
$hit, another item for my project. (Rummages in personal library.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past Adapting from Page260 of The Edge Of Tomorrow anthology: ~"For the newspapers to publish these archives would have meant that everyone's past would be visible. People would be subjected to blackmail and improper pressure, since who on Earth has a past that is absolutely clean?"
------------- Offtopic memo. You're a Dumas fan right? Did you hear abou the recoverd lost Dumas novel, The Last Cavalier?
Given the downloading situation, I'd say we need a lot more rock stars. How they survive at it is a different question - the need for that music is there.
(Fluke Idea this minute) What about Govt. Stipends for musicians? Don't garage bands get good at surviving on Ramen & generic cola? I'd think a $10,000/year stipend would let bands rent a furnished room in those areas with crushed housing markets, plus Ramen&Cola. A 15/hr week job would pay for the gas to get to gigs.
That elusive topic of "Flow" studied by professor Mihaly C. is a factor. The "formative" stuff of life takes a real special brand of effort. Gaming (and I feel Chat Room Addictions are a cousin effect) have a different and perhaps dangerously easier flow cycle.
I have engaged private studies towards cultivating flow by will where it did not come by instinct, to modest success.
Why? I freely admit that I "gain strength in solitude, expended in the world." Reading is indeed what I do. That's why the Global Community is beautiful - through out an edge-case meme, and someone will match it. (Usually, if there's no ridiculous social stigma.)
I need the immersion experience too, but I feel lucky I had just enough intuition to officially retire from major video games (freeware webthingies you play for four days don't count).
I discovered that books(now plus web info blogs as supplements) are up there with the highest contentvalue-per-hour, matched only by music. My personal collection is about 1500 volumes.
Games are "export" activities; except maybe some terrain details, you're applying a stock set of known skills, and aren't exactly learning that whole time. Reading is more demanding, because the inbound material has to be processed. So, given that difference in rest factor, yes - there are weekends I spend reading up to twenty hours for recreation.
However, at least is has paid me back. Y'all have a more focused skillset in raw IT, but I can usually hang in a range of conversations with a decent comment or two.
"Ah, I hate CSS. But I took a hard nose dive into it and sort of got the hang of it. I understood it well enough to be somewhat dangerous with it. Still, I think tables are much easier to design with. Maintaining them? Not so much."
Thank you too. Meanwhile, I lean towards sites that don't need maintaining. Time for the Information Age to regain a touch of durability.
For Tabular Data, I'd rather just HOST a spreadsheet!
You mean it's not my imagination? IAMAWD either. Just another blended-geek who pokes at computers. I have a cute little site I tinker with with a 2-layer table. I mostly understand it if I don't get too fancy.
I took a couple of looks at CSS and went "huh?". CSS may be superior at an advanced level, but tiny tables are easier, apparently for the two of us, to just post up and be done with.
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Beautiful-scary sig.
It looks suspiciously like "Cheap Fast Quality - Pick two"...
Or is it more pointing to some version of the Godel flaw in Russell?
Ever notice there are almost no Buddhist Terrorists?
I may not have been clear enough in my original post.
In Windows I see the environment as something like:
XP-Original (Terrible)
Misc updates for XP-Original (neutral effect)
XP-SP1 (Unclear, Never used it)
Misc updates for XP-SP1 (neutral effect)
XP-2 (Colossal improvement, basically the StartOver point.)
Misc updates for XP-SP2
XP SP3 (Kinda useful, but nothing amazing) .......
Misc updates for XP-SP3
All those updates were generally through Microsoft Update. Except maybe a fluke here&there, none of those updates themselves really broke anything in the upgrade process itself. That's because these are all the same "lineage".
Notice Vista is absent. That is a new OS in a different lineage, and I avoided it. So is Win7. Jury's out there.
So I liken Gentoo/Slackware/Redhat/Fedora to those "totally different OS's", which I also avoided. I had hoped that getting new updates in the ubuntu lineage would be comparable to getting service packs and smaller misc updates for XP.
If it's not, that's a problem.
(Quoting you for context)
"You should also be prepared to resolve issues whether your installing or updating when your running a bleeding edge linux distribution."
Then I decline. For learning "Linux & the Packages", I want ANY distro that is THE most famous for comparable update stability per my previous computing experience.
I will not tolerate random breakages. For that tradeoff, I am willing to go slower than drunken snails and evolve slower than microbes from the cambrian age.
(Someone else mentioned Debian Stable without the ubuntu branding. Poll, gang?)
Not even updating for "existing problems", more updating because that's supposed to be good practice and full of new fun features.
My problem is arising from the current "install, don't upgrade" is making a disincentive to follow the StayCurrent theme.
Someone make a band!
Linux & the Distro Packages.
Can anyone else confirm this? I've heard about the famous .0 release meme from Windows, but this is completely new to me.
Can I submit THIS as the reason there isn't yet a Year of Linux on the desktop?
Funny, I've had people tell me to reinstall the new Linux(here, uBuntu) updated set instead of updating it.
Maybe I'm a bad luck magnet, but last time I tried to update it pulverized X.
With apologies to Staples:
"That Was Fun!"
Absolutely right.
Didn't we used to dream of fame and fortune, "which of course were not to quit a DayJob for?"
Now In InfoAmerica, you have fame which makes your DayJob Quit You(TM), and by the miracle of constant expenses vs. fickle revenue, destroys your fortune.
$hit, another item for my project. (Rummages in personal library.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
Adapting from Page260 of The Edge Of Tomorrow anthology:
~"For the newspapers to publish these archives would have meant that everyone's past would be visible. People would be subjected to blackmail and improper pressure, since who on Earth has a past that is absolutely clean?"
-------------
Offtopic memo. You're a Dumas fan right? Did you hear abou the recoverd lost Dumas novel, The Last Cavalier?
Given the downloading situation, I'd say we need a lot more rock stars. How they survive at it is a different question - the need for that music is there.
(Fluke Idea this minute) What about Govt. Stipends for musicians? Don't garage bands get good at surviving on Ramen & generic cola? I'd think a $10,000/year stipend would let bands rent a furnished room in those areas with crushed housing markets, plus Ramen&Cola. A 15/hr week job would pay for the gas to get to gigs.
Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Roboto
The new post-ChuckNorris meme?
Hi.
Where is this box? I'm fairly active, but I don't have it/can't find it.
Another angle.
That elusive topic of "Flow" studied by professor Mihaly C. is a factor. The "formative" stuff of life takes a real special brand of effort. Gaming (and I feel Chat Room Addictions are a cousin effect) have a different and perhaps dangerously easier flow cycle.
I have engaged private studies towards cultivating flow by will where it did not come by instinct, to modest success.
IAABM. But I hope I have blunted the SkullPoint sufficiently.
Why? I freely admit that I "gain strength in solitude, expended in the world." Reading is indeed what I do. That's why the Global Community is beautiful - through out an edge-case meme, and someone will match it. (Usually, if there's no ridiculous social stigma.)
Hi.
I need the immersion experience too, but I feel lucky I had just enough intuition to officially retire from major video games (freeware webthingies you play for four days don't count).
I discovered that books(now plus web info blogs as supplements) are up there with the highest contentvalue-per-hour, matched only by music. My personal collection is about 1500 volumes.
Games are "export" activities; except maybe some terrain details, you're applying a stock set of known skills, and aren't exactly learning that whole time. Reading is more demanding, because the inbound material has to be processed. So, given that difference in rest factor, yes - there are weekends I spend reading up to twenty hours for recreation.
However, at least is has paid me back. Y'all have a more focused skillset in raw IT, but I can usually hang in a range of conversations with a decent comment or two.
"Ah, I hate CSS. But I took a hard nose dive into it and sort of got the hang of it. I understood it well enough to be somewhat dangerous with it. Still, I think tables are much easier to design with. Maintaining them? Not so much."
Thank you too. Meanwhile, I lean towards sites that don't need maintaining. Time for the Information Age to regain a touch of durability.
For Tabular Data, I'd rather just HOST a spreadsheet!
"I'm ready for my treatment now."
(Dollhouse)
You mean it's not my imagination? IAMAWD either. Just another blended-geek who pokes at computers. I have a cute little site I tinker with with a 2-layer table. I mostly understand it if I don't get too fancy.
I took a couple of looks at CSS and went "huh?". CSS may be superior at an advanced level, but tiny tables are easier, apparently for the two of us, to just post up and be done with.
Thank you. Finally someone with some caution.
"Hey, we'll interrogate Terrorists."
"But we aren't getting any hits sir."
"Okay. Let's hold a contest to find some."
If you're better, make yourself a COO/CEO type, and Fire HR. Then award yourself a bonus.
"Ga Ga Ga Gore ... Gore .. The Gore is a Bore ... Gore .. The Gore is a Bore
Ga Ga Ga Gore
EveryGamer knows it ain't the Gore anymore!"
whua-whao-blua-blao....
About the content value of this story.
Is Seth MacFarlane a gamer?
You get the reply sir, because your quadratic pun better not be modded down.
(Space Station - OVER-lords, got it gang?)
I'll see your meme and raise you this one:
In the ONLY story to be ABOUT Drinking the First Frosty Piss, how come it's the only one without that troll?
IANYAUAFB.