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Yeah, well, it was completely by accident. I found the book at a flea market and thought "Hey, this looks interesting".

Sorry, Bertrand Russel, yes. It was something on the order of 35 years ago when I read it; memory's a little fuzzy. Hey, I just turned 50, whaddaya want?! :)

Russell Berrtrand's "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy" was an interesting read, as I recall; what exactly IS a number?

You know the whole "40 is the new 30" thing? That's a load of sh*t. That's just something people tell themselves so that they can ignore the reality that they are getting older. That being said, I really don't feel like I imagined 50 would feel when I was a 20-something. Sure, things don't...

We'll be here when you get back. ;)

It's a vulnerability in the protocol, but WPAD is only enabled by default on Windows boxen, meaning that users of other OSen are safe to the extent that they don't have it enabled by default, and therefore aren't vulnerable 'out of the box'. However, if they have enabled the protocol for some...

Dunno the context of that statement, but it's a very dangerous generalization. It's quite frequently the case that OEMs will source components from distributors who have surplus, so the components won't necessarily be the latest production run. But really, what difference does it make if a PWM...

Or use a source distro like Gentoo, and compile the apps to ARM. 'Course, I guess you can do that anyway if you have the source, regardless of distro.

Ah, I think I know what's going on here. Dan, in your Fonts settings, there should be an option titled 'antialiasing'. Make sure that is set to 'Rbga'

I'm not worried about SkyNet, honestly. I defy any software system to match the deviousness of the human mind.

The Monkey King is disrespectful of authority, but isn't vicious, to my understanding? Loki just flat doesn't care what happens as a result of his machinations, as long as it is good for him.

I doubt it. The Teamster's Union is still quite powerful. Were it not, we would be moving much more freight across country using trains and our rail system would be much more developed than it is. Trains are something on the order of 10x more efficient for long hauls. There will ALWAYS be a...

Could be the i5 vs. AMD though. AMD's cores just aren't as performant, especially in single threaded stuff like encoding. Although the rumors seem to be indicating that AMD should have a solid performer with the Zen core when they finally get it out later this year.

Dunno if this will help, but here: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer That should install some of the MS true-type fonts, which a lot of applications seem to want.

Ultimately, it will come down to the Chinese government and the Chinese people to sort that matter out. Which is not to absolve ourselves of our own parts in all of this. First, they wouldn't be risking their lives if there were a better way to make a living. Second, they wouldn't be risking...

As so often happens with us, I feel like we are both saying the same thing, but in different ways. LOL

Err.......I thought it was based on the celebration of the Feast of Saturnalia, (honoring Saturn, the Roman God of Time and Agriculture, among other things), itself based around the celebration of the Winter Solstice? Regardless of the exact origin, we can both agree that it's not the ACTUAL...

This is a Zen thing, right? :) That pattern shapes us, but we also shape the pattern. How could it be otherwise? I think that we exist in tension with the pattern. It's not that the pattern has any great plan, or that we do either, but the laws that allow our universe to exist, and that...

And this matters why? Not to be flippant, but that is rather the point of Faith; to help us find the Truth when the purely Rational no longer suffices. Yes, that is indeed a challenge. Christians have managed to take and twist his teachings in ways that I'm sure would horrify him were he to...

Well, kindof? I mean, I knew enough to know that I didn't want to work on the thing with the power on, and I knew that caps would store a charge. What I DIDN'T know was that the CRT would store enough of a charge to get your attention for a VERY long time. But, looking back on my youth, there...