Well, checking when your directories and files change should be a job for some inotify based tool, not periodically launched ls, sadly, inotify based version of common unix utilities are still very optional and hackish, not found in the base distro.
Some of them are quite funny at their own. Like this one.
3. The default state of processes is “sleep” which is where they are found 95% of the time.
It's obviously meant as a joke, but if you think about it, your real processes in your real OS are (on average) going to spend even more time sleeping, and it's exactly what you want.
I usually consider emails with some kind of read-receipt requests or (even worse) tracking images (which fortunately gets blocked in any decent email client) at least very rude.
I'd say that Prague is actually cheaper than Brno, as you can very easily earn more there, and you can get food for pretty much the same price in the same chain store, public transit fares are almost the same, rents outside the city center are comparable, even better in Prague, as there is much more choice.
Possibly. I'm not sure if I have more trust in Verisign (which was willing to put wildcard records into .com TLD (a long time ago, yes, but…)) or the local cz.NIC, as an association of czech ISPs and registrars with open policies and membership.
I know, but 1GB of RAM isn't that lot if I want at least reasonably fast file sharing (especially if the primary storage would be the harddisks via USB), run some network services and even some desktops apps via networked X11, which is roughly what I want (so I'm asking if this is the 'doing it wrong' case).
Well, I wonder if it would be suitable as some kind of low-power all-in-one home server (file sharing, irc in screen, not much more), network router and jukebox and movie player. In theory, specs are ok for that purpose, but from the remark "if you need more than 1GB, you're probably doing it wrong", it seems that, hm, I'd be doing it wrong, because 1GB isn't exactly a lot of memory and it'd be wise to put there more.
(And of course, USB might not be the ideal bus to connect a lot of disk space.)
That's just a name. It is of course not a natural science, but a formal one, as mathematics (it could even be a branch of maths). There are even other kind of sciences, social ones, like psychology (which many people wouldn't call a science, though for different reasons, after all it does study natural things, doesn't it?). And of course, there should be a distinction from engineering (electrical e., software e.), though boundaries aren't clear and never will be. If you had a better name for those different kind of sciences, call them in that manner. Also remember, that by saying that something is not a science, it might seem that you are implying that the branch is somehow inferior to the "actual science". (This is not the case, but it is going to be perceived as that.)
Well, honestly, if it's the same "works" as AIR for Linux in its current state, then it might be nice demo, nice screen to watch, but that's all. You can try, for example, StatusNet Desktop application (from identi.ca), and it feels like a crap. It's painful to install, not only you need AIR runtime (that's quite understandable), but there's an installator (like with Windows apps) that puts something (actually a lot of something) somewhere to /opt, and then, the application feels very alien, doesn't work well, lock itself all the time, and it isn't even "pretty". After seeing few of them, I can say that at least on Linux, AIR applications are nowhere close to the native applications (or possibly even web ones inside the browser!) in almost any aspect. I wouldn't recommend any of them, neither the environment itself (though better written apps could make some difference).
I don't watch general news on reddit (and I don't subscribe to /r/atheism, which is almost unbelievably bad, though I'm an atheist), but subreddits that I'm interested in seems to present much more diverse opinion. /r/energy isn't that small and while it's generally very pro-nuclear, there are, time to time, anti-nuclear opinions and a lot of "renewables" as well. And there aren't that many places to get opinions and news about such topics (that can match reddit in diversity and even in objectivity).
No. The Schengen treaty affects (maybe not that strictly) visa policies for the member states in the way that all the members are expected to have the same visa requirements (that's quite logical).
There are only some old EU15 members listed, but not a single country from the 2004 extension, nor Bulgaria and Romania. I live in the Czech republic, which has some kind of non-visa agreement with the USA (ESTA?), something much simpler and easier than regular visas, but you still need some kind of stamp. In fact, there was a discussion about this and how should be our EU membership leveraged in order to get a better position, but there weren't much of a agreement. I believe that old EU states (Great Britain first) weren't happy about the fact that there should be some common policy.
(Indeed, Schengen isn't equal to EU, it isn't even a subset of it, there are non-EU countries included, and some EU states aren't members (Great Britain). But there isn't any common policy, both EU and schengen-wide.)
I'd call phone calls limited to just 14 seconds a new technology, and I'd love it. Imagine that you could just answer any call because you know that it's not going to degenerate into 5-minute long series of you just nodding to the endless story of the other side.
It makes all those monumental neoclassical buildings and art look quite funny. Like your idea of beauty was based on a skeleton of some beauty queen of old and you didn't even realize that it's not how she was expected to appear. (Hyperbole, of course. But if you, for example, think about that history shows parodied in Futurama, hey, it seems that we're exactly like that…)
If a false accusation can turn into a PR disaster, what about the killing? That'd be a PR apocalypse. And also, your target shouldn't be Assange as an individual, he should be quite expendable if there were other people motivated to replace him, which seems to be a very likely scenario, if he was assassinated.
Well, 24/7. That's simply too much. I had (well, still have) real-life problems that I not even closely think about 24 hours a day, all the week, for the last half year, and I don't get better in solving it. No. I'm slowly getting mad.
Well, I've turned back to the paper. I can write whenever I like and don't need to have the computer with me. (And I've been keeping a journal since 2006, writing almost every day.)
You can't scroll across the Pacific, you can't even see the lines across the Pacific as whole with both ends. But Bing maps can do that, what's wrong here? It's quite a problem with this type of map.
Well, there's going to be much less space further from the equator, as parallels on both directions from equator are getting shoter and shorter. The equator is 40,000 km long, but the parallel I live on (50th north) is just 25,000 kilometers long (if I'm correct).
So, you mean that the locals can ignore traffic signs because they know the place? Like in "oh, yes, there's a speed limit, but it's useless, see, the street is safe enough, screw that". That could be actual quote, I've heard it so many times. And I guess it's much better to remove such sign and make the street actually look like it's not safe so you have to pay attention.
And of course, routine and automatization are a grave danger for any driver. Especially at the roads where the conditions are constantly changing. Traffic signs would just provide a false sense of security.
Well, it had already happened to me, that someone asked me to look after his stuff and that he will be right back. And then… time went on. And I had my own business and couldn't wait (On a train, you have to get off, for example, that gives you no solution). What then? I've agreed to watch your stuff for a minute, maybe two, maybe even a few more. But not for half an hour. I would just leave, what else can I do (ok, ask someone else to carry on with the duty, silly).
That's exclusive, not inclusive 'us', I believe. This thing isn't serving me well. In fact, it is serving me very badly (gay marriage isn't going to improve that very much, though any remedy is welcome).
I've seen many things described as a marriage. Like special diplomatic relations between countries, business mergers, even product announcements. And I think that people can understand this. Once again, try to describe civil partnerships to somebody. What are you going to do? Say 'It's like a marriage, just don't call it so, because I don't like it'
(In the same way, I'd even describe your reason as 'religious, just there are no gods and churches and other deities involved'. We are also used to call fanboy disputes between the text editors or operating systems as religious wars. And it's a very good description.)
So instead of just using the word marriage for something that IS a marriage, we have to invent another term that doesn't mean anything else than marriage, but of two people who are of the same sex. Just because we have to. And that isn't petty.