I'm being a bit of a pedant, but I'd like to remind people that serpent != Satan. The connection between the serpent and Satan (and then later Satan as the evil, devil-type being we know and love) took place hundreds of years later and was never mentioned in the pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible).
It's a bit off, because it was only released in 2004, but I have Windows vs Ubuntu here. It's the same data as above, but I got info from Ubuntu release notes also.
I used only Ubuntu because a) I am lazy (just kidding) b) IMO, it's the distro most oriented towards your mom {i.e. the average user} and therefore a good alternative. Please, don't get into any flamewars.
Actually, speaking of which, I heard a story on the CBC about a StatsCan study which showed that ethanol in gasoline made little or no difference in terms of harmful emissions. The link is here. On a [slightly] unrelated note, it really bugs me that our [my] government is building a subway to Vaughn at a cost of CAN$6bn. Really....WTF! Who is going to be using a subway to Vaughn?? Oh right, that would be the Minister of Finance of the government of Ontario. WTF! Why can't we use money for useful things, like a light rail network across the city of Toronto.
What I think would be very useful is if you could put the desktop as a cube all the time, instead of having to do Ctrl+Alt+Mouse1 on it, and then have it snap back down to one desktop. Then the wraparound feature would actually be useful. And if there is a way to do that now, please enlighten me.
Last names aren't exactly the most revealing piece of info evar. Besides which, there is more than one case here: Someone could post their first & last names on a social networking site, such as Facebook, with a "friends-only" profile setting (the default) so that only people they authorize can see it (as I do), or they could just put it out there. There's a big difference, and I would have to wonder if the study took that into account. Also, people might have varying levels of personal info available on different sites (eg. have more info on a Facebook page than a/. or digg page, for the above reason).
I used the word stealing because it conveys my personal views. Whether or not my opinion on that {in a moral / ethical sense} is correct is not the issue.
Purchases are down, but that does not mean there are less kids out playing M-rated games. When I go to futureshop, and they refuse to sell me the game, I download it. Do I feel guilty for stealing* it? No, because they wouldn't sell it to me.
* Yes, I know it isn't actually stealing, it's infringing copyright, but that's not the topic today.
It would be cool if thinkgeek or someone made cds that were 120mm wide, but they only used the 1st 80mm, like mini cds, and they had 20mm ninja star spikes or something. That may you could store your top secret ninja plans and kill pirates at the SAME TIME!
If you want to waste your money on a Mac, GTFO.
If you think that Steve Jobs is the greatest man in the universe, GTFO.
If you want to be an emo loser who cuts themselves in the shape of the Apple Logo, GTFO.
If you want to be instantly identified as someone with no computer proficiency, GTFO.
Stupid Mac users are not welcome among people who have a real life. Remember, cut down the road, not across the street.
The other thing is this: a Private Member's Bill is not allowed to spend money. You can't have a PMB to increase funding for so-and-so, but you can declare April 4th "Slashdot Day". See the difference? PMBs are rarely significant, but they can occasionally be important, such as this one, or the one which forced the government to live up to its legally binding Kyoto targets.
I listen to the CBC, and I hate Macs*. I know lots of people who listen / watch the CBC because its news coverage is less biased, due to government funding [ i.e. they do not need to totally rely on advertisers who might pull ads over a controversial story ]. News is what the CBC is good at. Other shows, not so much, but you're pulling this "pinko commie hippies" horseshit out of your ass. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut up. And even if your argument had a shred of plausibility, which it doesn't, the CBC is a lot more mainstream than Slashdot.
*Fanboys: whether or not Macs are better is not the issue here.
Symantec et al. have absolutely no motive to promote an actually secure operating system. If there was some hypothetical future version of Windows written by the magical code fairies that was actually secure, they would go out of business.
But hey, Windows Vista is way more secure for your bank account.
A billion dollars still goes a long way. Imagine how much good you could do with a billion dollars: fight poverty in an impoverished nation by providing them with the means to build an economy; help those whose homes have been devastated by natural disaster; pay for the medical treatment of those who cannot afford it; fight hunger and famine... the list goes on. A billion dollars could solve a lot of problems, if people like you weren't so dismissive of huge wastes of money.
Right, but you're forgetting that the U.S. had way more production capacity, so once they [finally] went to war, they were producing more tanks, more ships, more planes, &c , as well as having a large population with which to man them.
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I'm being a bit of a pedant, but I'd like to remind people that serpent != Satan. The connection between the serpent and Satan (and then later Satan as the evil, devil-type being we know and love) took place hundreds of years later and was never mentioned in the pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible).
It's a bit off, because it was only released in 2004, but I have Windows vs Ubuntu here. It's the same data as above, but I got info from Ubuntu release notes also.
I used only Ubuntu because a) I am lazy (just kidding) b) IMO, it's the distro most oriented towards your mom {i.e. the average user} and therefore a good alternative. Please, don't get into any flamewars.
Windows vs. Ubuntu
If not, just download it p2p!
...as well as any property used to commit the crimes.So are the Feds going to confiscate Little Timmy's computer?
But that's a Windows app. What about people who are running LAMP instead of WIMP?
It was durable, for a coin. Also, there were 25 000 that were messed up; the red appeared on the Queen's face.
What about ext3 or ReiserFS?
Actually, speaking of which, I heard a story on the CBC about a StatsCan study which showed that ethanol in gasoline made little or no difference in terms of harmful emissions. The link is here. On a [slightly] unrelated note, it really bugs me that our [my] government is building a subway to Vaughn at a cost of CAN$6bn. Really....WTF! Who is going to be using a subway to Vaughn?? Oh right, that would be the Minister of Finance of the government of Ontario. WTF! Why can't we use money for useful things, like a light rail network across the city of Toronto.
What I think would be very useful is if you could put the desktop as a cube all the time, instead of having to do Ctrl+Alt+Mouse1 on it, and then have it snap back down to one desktop. Then the wraparound feature would actually be useful. And if there is a way to do that now, please enlighten me.
Last names aren't exactly the most revealing piece of info evar. Besides which, there is more than one case here: Someone could post their first & last names on a social networking site, such as Facebook, with a "friends-only" profile setting (the default) so that only people they authorize can see it (as I do), or they could just put it out there. There's a big difference, and I would have to wonder if the study took that into account. Also, people might have varying levels of personal info available on different sites (eg. have more info on a Facebook page than a /. or digg page, for the above reason).
Even if it isn't a true Dvorak layout, it's still far more efficient than QWERTY to have a mostly-Dvorak layout.
I for one welcome our new Dvorak overlords.
I used the word stealing because it conveys my personal views. Whether or not my opinion on that {in a moral / ethical sense} is correct is not the issue.
Purchases are down, but that does not mean there are less kids out playing M-rated games. When I go to futureshop, and they refuse to sell me the game, I download it. Do I feel guilty for stealing* it? No, because they wouldn't sell it to me.
* Yes, I know it isn't actually stealing, it's infringing copyright, but that's not the topic today.
It would be cool if thinkgeek or someone made cds that were 120mm wide, but they only used the 1st 80mm, like mini cds, and they had 20mm ninja star spikes or something. That may you could store your top secret ninja plans and kill pirates at the SAME TIME!
If you want to waste your money on a Mac, GTFO.
If you think that Steve Jobs is the greatest man in the universe, GTFO.
If you want to be an emo loser who cuts themselves in the shape of the Apple Logo, GTFO.
If you want to be instantly identified as someone with no computer proficiency, GTFO.
Stupid Mac users are not welcome among people who have a real life. Remember, cut down the road, not across the street.
[pedantry]Softwood Lumber [/pedantry].
The other thing is this: a Private Member's Bill is not allowed to spend money. You can't have a PMB to increase funding for so-and-so, but you can declare April 4th "Slashdot Day". See the difference? PMBs are rarely significant, but they can occasionally be important, such as this one, or the one which forced the government to live up to its legally binding Kyoto targets.
I listen to the CBC, and I hate Macs*. I know lots of people who listen / watch the CBC because its news coverage is less biased, due to government funding [ i.e. they do not need to totally rely on advertisers who might pull ads over a controversial story ]. News is what the CBC is good at. Other shows, not so much, but you're pulling this "pinko commie hippies" horseshit out of your ass. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut up. And even if your argument had a shred of plausibility, which it doesn't, the CBC is a lot more mainstream than Slashdot. *Fanboys: whether or not Macs are better is not the issue here.
Well with the Wii, you can actually fold the proteins yourself using the innovative new motion-sensing controller!
Symantec et al. have absolutely no motive to promote an actually secure operating system. If there was some hypothetical future version of Windows written by the magical code fairies that was actually secure, they would go out of business.
But hey, Windows Vista is way more secure for your bank account.
Helping those in need > Buying a new TV.
Right, but you're forgetting that the U.S. had way more production capacity, so once they [finally] went to war, they were producing more tanks, more ships, more planes, &c , as well as having a large population with which to man them.
Or he could use Ubuntu, avoiding the overpriced hardware, and have a spellchecker. Macs don't have a monopoly on useful features, you know.
You made a typo. When you said "bang-for-the-buck" you must have meant superior buck-for-the-bang.