Look, you irritating AC, you've posted this reply to twitter over a dozen times. We get it, you're on some personal crusade against twitter. Now fuck off and stop spamming every thread you see a twitter post in with this reply, or better yet- stop posting it AC and have the balls to back your nonsense up. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Religious belief is untouchable because it can't stand up to scrutiny.
"Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through
hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned
in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. [Dr. George A. Dorsey]
"We preach peace, forgiveness, tolerance and love. We practice vengeance,
persecution, hatred and domination. My personal beliefs are supported and
validated by my convictions.
Oh, and never forget.... my religion is truth, yours is a lie."
[Religion, paraphrased (unknown)]
"One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so
venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point
of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn
heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of
the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers."
[C. W. Dalton, "The Right Brain and Religion"]
Windows *is* easier to use. Learn one interface (Next->Typical Install->Next->Next->Finish->Start Menu->All Programs->Click the program name), and you've learned 90% of what is involved in installing and configuring new software. For someone who's never used a computer before, maybe that is a half-day process as well.
A lot has changed in the past two years. All I do to install a program is either load up a command line, go apt-cache search whatever, sudo apt-get install whatever or load up the add/remove programs dialog, search in that, and check whatever boxes I want and hit "apply". I assume most of the other top-notch distros have add/remove program dialogs (adept, synaptic, whatever).
Solaris wasn't Free Software until recently. OS X is absolutely not Free, and probably never will be, considering Apple's ties to DRM-loving "content providers."
Yes, you're correct, but you have to account for that in your design phase, and as someone else pointed out, there's also the whole "nighttime" situation to worry about as well.
This is a great way to have knowledge at your fingertips, but unfortunately even if you learned everything on the page, you would have exactly zero credibility, as you wouldn't have gone through the 4-5 years of actual schooling. It'd be great if there were a way to actually get credit for reading and studying this without paying MIT approximately $40,000 a year.
You'll need some sort of long-term energy storage if you want to use solar power, as solar power doesn't function in a cloudy situation. The OP mentioned Katrina- if you're in a hurricane and need disaster recovery stuff, there's usually still a general rainy period (though not hurricane-strength) after the brunt of the hurricane hits, as well as the fact that it may just plain be cloudy. To be quite frank, I'm not sure why you think "solar power" in conjunction with disaster recovery- you want something that will function under almost any condition, not function under "good" conditions and have to rely on a backup power source when the conditions are bad.
No, we shouldn't have to "deal with it". Just because the majority votes for something (which is dubious at best- even if you think Bush won Florida he still didn't have the popular vote) doesn't make it correct. Look up "tyranny of the majority" sometime. The safeguards against that have been thrown away.
It was lost in about 100 AD when the Church started killing those who didn't agree with the viewpoints of those in power. They've been doing that for the past 1900 years, give or take a few (Crusades, Inquisition, Reconquista, killing/threatening scientists in the renaissance period, etc). Why expect that to change now?
Religion is a barrier to progress and an excuse for evil.
The supply of "good" pundits is rising at a far lower rate than the supply of pundits in total. Probably at a rate of O(n*log(n)) as opposed to O(n^4), or similar. This is a huge problem, as the noise is going to overwhelm the signal.
As far as blogs in general replacing syndication- it'll never happen. As long as there is still a print media, there will be syndication. It'll take upwards of 40 years for the newspaper to fade into obscurity, and by then something else will have replaced the blog on the internet.
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Which class was this? I'm a GT student as well and I'd like to know what I'm getting myself into in the CS coursework.
Excel is seriously the only reason I would even consider MS Office.
Look, you irritating AC, you've posted this reply to twitter over a dozen times. We get it, you're on some personal crusade against twitter. Now fuck off and stop spamming every thread you see a twitter post in with this reply, or better yet- stop posting it AC and have the balls to back your nonsense up. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Religious belief is untouchable because it can't stand up to scrutiny. .... my religion is truth, yours is a lie."
[Religion, paraphrased (unknown)]
"Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. [Dr. George A. Dorsey]
"We preach peace, forgiveness, tolerance and love. We practice vengeance, persecution, hatred and domination. My personal beliefs are supported and validated by my convictions. Oh, and never forget
"One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers." [C. W. Dalton, "The Right Brain and Religion"]
I'll help cancel out the people foe'ing you for your sig. ;)
And I wish I could take a 2x4 and whack common sense into the entire flipping planet.
Damn, they should have bought it in 1960. Or maybe that movie didn't quite get the inflation rate correct...
Just to comment, the apple release is calling it "OS X" instead of "Mac OS X"- many have speculated that the two things are different.
If you look at google trends, one would almost think that ubuntu is taking market share from all the other linux systems too.C +fedora%2C+gentoo%2C+mandriva&ctab=0&geo=all&date= all
c rosoft+windows&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+debian%2
Furthermore, this is a particularly interesting stat:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu+linux%2C+mi
Searching for "windows" gets false hits, so using 2 words for each makes sure there's no bias in just searching for ubuntu vs "microsoft windows".
Note the cities and regions that score top hits- none of them are in the USA.
Windows *is* easier to use. Learn one interface (Next->Typical Install->Next->Next->Finish->Start Menu->All Programs->Click the program name), and you've learned 90% of what is involved in installing and configuring new software. For someone who's never used a computer before, maybe that is a half-day process as well. A lot has changed in the past two years. All I do to install a program is either load up a command line, go apt-cache search whatever, sudo apt-get install whatever or load up the add/remove programs dialog, search in that, and check whatever boxes I want and hit "apply". I assume most of the other top-notch distros have add/remove program dialogs (adept, synaptic, whatever).
Solaris wasn't Free Software until recently. OS X is absolutely not Free, and probably never will be, considering Apple's ties to DRM-loving "content providers."
I was not actually aware quantum mechanics were involved in transistors. Doesn't that technically make every computer a quantum computer?
What it needs is accreditation and for colleges to accept its courses as transfer credit.
I believe if you own a company you (company owner) still pay yourself (individual) a salary, but IANAL.
A Creative Commons license, but I'm fairly sure the noncommercial clause alone will make it noncompatible with GNU's FDL.
Yes, you're correct, but you have to account for that in your design phase, and as someone else pointed out, there's also the whole "nighttime" situation to worry about as well.
This is a great way to have knowledge at your fingertips, but unfortunately even if you learned everything on the page, you would have exactly zero credibility, as you wouldn't have gone through the 4-5 years of actual schooling. It'd be great if there were a way to actually get credit for reading and studying this without paying MIT approximately $40,000 a year.
You'll need some sort of long-term energy storage if you want to use solar power, as solar power doesn't function in a cloudy situation. The OP mentioned Katrina- if you're in a hurricane and need disaster recovery stuff, there's usually still a general rainy period (though not hurricane-strength) after the brunt of the hurricane hits, as well as the fact that it may just plain be cloudy. To be quite frank, I'm not sure why you think "solar power" in conjunction with disaster recovery- you want something that will function under almost any condition, not function under "good" conditions and have to rely on a backup power source when the conditions are bad.
They're too incompetent to fix them.
I'm fairly sure that most of the people that "don't take Linux seriously" are people who don't even know what it is.
As far as I'm concerned, use of public domain material in a program puts that program into the public domain also.
The lawyers would disagree. This is why we have copyleft in the form of the GNU GPL.
No, we shouldn't have to "deal with it". Just because the majority votes for something (which is dubious at best- even if you think Bush won Florida he still didn't have the popular vote) doesn't make it correct. Look up "tyranny of the majority" sometime. The safeguards against that have been thrown away.
It was lost in about 100 AD when the Church started killing those who didn't agree with the viewpoints of those in power. They've been doing that for the past 1900 years, give or take a few (Crusades, Inquisition, Reconquista, killing/threatening scientists in the renaissance period, etc). Why expect that to change now?
Religion is a barrier to progress and an excuse for evil.
Would you like some cheese with that whine? It's rather bitter, it's probably a good idea.
The supply of "good" pundits is rising at a far lower rate than the supply of pundits in total. Probably at a rate of O(n*log(n)) as opposed to O(n^4), or similar. This is a huge problem, as the noise is going to overwhelm the signal.
As far as blogs in general replacing syndication- it'll never happen. As long as there is still a print media, there will be syndication. It'll take upwards of 40 years for the newspaper to fade into obscurity, and by then something else will have replaced the blog on the internet.
Javascript vulnerabilities will stop people from using AJAX just like Word vulnerabilities will stop people from using Microsoft Office.