Two children per two people is the same as one child per person. And even if they don't die off "to a neat little schedule", on the average the population will stay constant -- but the number of human beings, will, eventually, fluctuate.
Obviously incorrect. Two children per couple would only stabilize the population if you also add that everyone is forced to be part of one couple (including avoiding dying prior to coupling of course), at present this is clearly not the case. Depending on how you count the couples, two children per couple would either increase or decrease the population.
"Two children per couple" means two children born for every two human beings in the world, on a space-time average. It's an average figure, I'm not saying that every "couple" should have two kids.
By the reasoning here, you should have an absolute right to go to government (read PUBLIC) buildings and use any resources or facilities you may find there *however you want*
Or go to a public bank, and draw all the money you can put in your pockets...:)
Install Slackware. It's easy to install, and you get to choose exactly which packages you want. It's the best distro, IMAOPO (in mine and other people's opinion) to learn Linux, because you get to do almost all configuration by hand.
The answer is simple, and only one step away from what we already have: keep all the packages (because choice is always a Good Thing), but create default installations -- SOHO, internet, grandma, etc. -- which put less software in your box. This way be have the best of both worlds, you have a clean default installation, or you can install everything you want/need.
As technology becomes a familiar tool - rather than an exciting new thing to play with as well as use, it gets more and more boring. As it should - fading into the background to just do its job, rather than existing up front, to be looked at and impressed by.
Just like when my friends make their first presentation using MS Powerpoint. They put so many effects that you simply can't concentrate on the subject they are talking about. With time they learn to focus on the subject.
I suspect, that, just as people turn off all the anoying sounds associated with a window manager, until there's just a beep for errors (usually), people using a filemanager such as Nautilus, or KFM, will shrink the icons and make them less 'attractive' until they have a minimal, functional tool that doesn't take up more real estate or perceptual space than it needs to.
Perhaps it's just to make a good "first impression". People will, indeed, turn off all the bells and whistles with time, but if you just gave them a simple file manager to start with, they would never use it. The bad thing is, advanced users will consider these optional features as "bloat" -- and stay away from Nautilus.
I'm downloading Nautilus right now... I want to see if my parents and my sister will start using Linux after I install Helix GNOME + Nautilus. I believe it will be a good start for them.
This reminds me that when I was at Apple someone remarked in a meeting that people from other companies often asked Apple employees why Apple never produced a PC clone that ran windows.
If their aim was to sell hardware, they could beat the hell out of any PC vendor selling windows boxes. Imagine something with the industrial design of an iMac or G4 cube running Microsoft software. It would be tremendously popular in the more image-conscious business environments.
Steve Jobs once said that his goal was to design a computer that he would sell to his brother. That's why they don't make it run Windows.
I just wanted to congratulate Conectiva for all the great work they are doing.
I'm not sure if everyone knows that Conectiva is a Linux distribution from Brazil. I started using Linux after buying one of their first versions -- I went to a small house in the city of Curitiba, in 1998. My fisrt thought was that I was in the wrong address, but a nice guy opened the door and sold me a box with their distro for something like US$ 25.00 (R$ 50,00).
At that time I could never imagine that they would have such a (major?) role in the Linux community, such as trying to unificate all the packaging systems. I couldn't imagine this first because I knew nothing about Linux, but specially because they are from Brazil, and they were a really small distribution.
In spite of that, I now use Slackware as my favorite Linux distro, and I'm not very fond of RPMs. I think that the standard packaging system should use the source code -- because it's much more portable. Of course there some programs that take too much time to compile, I believe. I have never compiled X, or GNOME, or KDE, but I think it should take a little more time than the average user would want to waste.
Anyway, I just wanted to say "congrats" for all their effort. Keep up with the great work!
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Obviously incorrect. Two children per couple would only stabilize the population if you also add that everyone is forced to be part of one couple (including avoiding dying prior to coupling of course), at present this is clearly not the case. Depending on how you count the couples, two children per couple would either increase or decrease the population.
"Two children per couple" means two children born for every two human beings in the world, on a space-time average. It's an average figure, I'm not saying that every "couple" should have two kids.
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Unless people suddenly stop reproducing (...) we will run out of resources here on Earth.
No need for that. Two children per couple and the population will stabilize, less than that and our number will lower.
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All the phones are prolly going to have the same phone number...
Wow! Dial a single number, and talk to 300 million people!
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By the reasoning here, you should have an absolute right to go to government (read PUBLIC) buildings and use any resources or facilities you may find there *however you want*
Or go to a public bank, and draw all the money you can put in your pockets... :)
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Side mirrors? on a keyboard?!
What's next? An airbag?
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Man... I just woke up, and for a moment I thought that was 50 bucks per hit! Easy way to get rich, posting this in Slashdot. :)
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(...) I'll use Windows or a Mac (...) Because every time I print, (...) the text is where it should be.
Have you ever heard of TeX? Postscript?
I find that using Linux, while more fun, slows my productivity by at least 50%.
Strange... cat, head, sort and other GNU tools increase my productivity for at least 100%.
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The answer is simple, and only one step away from what we already have: keep all the packages (because choice is always a Good Thing), but create default installations -- SOHO, internet, grandma, etc. -- which put less software in your box. This way be have the best of both worlds, you have a clean default installation, or you can install everything you want/need.
And remember... less is more! :)
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Our archaic time/date system should switch over to metric. 10 months. 10 hours per day. 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.
And soon we'll evolve to have 12 fingers in our hands, and we'll have to change the system again...
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As technology becomes a familiar tool - rather than an exciting new thing to play with as well as use, it gets more and more boring. As it should - fading into the background to just do its job, rather than existing up front, to be looked at and impressed by.
Just like when my friends make their first presentation using MS Powerpoint. They put so many effects that you simply can't concentrate on the subject they are talking about. With time they learn to focus on the subject.
I suspect, that, just as people turn off all the anoying sounds associated with a window manager, until there's just a beep for errors (usually), people using a filemanager such as Nautilus, or KFM, will shrink the icons and make them less 'attractive' until they have a minimal, functional tool that doesn't take up more real estate or perceptual space than it needs to.
Perhaps it's just to make a good "first impression". People will, indeed, turn off all the bells and whistles with time, but if you just gave them a simple file manager to start with, they would never use it. The bad thing is, advanced users will consider these optional features as "bloat" -- and stay away from Nautilus.
I'm downloading Nautilus right now... I want to see if my parents and my sister will start using Linux after I install Helix GNOME + Nautilus. I believe it will be a good start for them.
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This reminds me that when I was at Apple someone remarked in a meeting that people from other companies often asked Apple employees why Apple never produced a PC clone that ran windows.
If their aim was to sell hardware, they could beat the hell out of any PC vendor selling windows boxes. Imagine something with the industrial design of an iMac or G4 cube running Microsoft software. It would be tremendously popular in the more image-conscious business environments.
Steve Jobs once said that his goal was to design a computer that he would sell to his brother. That's why they don't make it run Windows.
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...damn.
Actually it's:
Oh, so the name of that guy at <slashdot-most-infamous-link> is "Ozone"?
I... will... use... preview...
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I just wanted to congratulate Conectiva for all the great work they are doing.
I'm not sure if everyone knows that Conectiva is a Linux distribution from Brazil. I started using Linux after buying one of their first versions -- I went to a small house in the city of Curitiba, in 1998. My fisrt thought was that I was in the wrong address, but a nice guy opened the door and sold me a box with their distro for something like US$ 25.00 (R$ 50,00).
At that time I could never imagine that they would have such a (major?) role in the Linux community, such as trying to unificate all the packaging systems. I couldn't imagine this first because I knew nothing about Linux, but specially because they are from Brazil, and they were a really small distribution.
In spite of that, I now use Slackware as my favorite Linux distro, and I'm not very fond of RPMs. I think that the standard packaging system should use the source code -- because it's much more portable. Of course there some programs that take too much time to compile, I believe. I have never compiled X, or GNOME, or KDE, but I think it should take a little more time than the average user would want to waste.
Anyway, I just wanted to say "congrats" for all their effort. Keep up with the great work!
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Hmmm, I think what he really meant was to substitute "foo" for something else. Like:
man ifled
No man page for ifled.
Meaning that you have a small number of man pages in Linux. But maybe I'm wrong.
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There's a nice palindrome in portuguese that goes:
"Socorram-me! Subi no ônibus em Marrocos!"
That translates to "Help me! I got up in the bus in Marrocos!".
The only one I know in english is "Madam, I'm Adam". Does anyone know other palindromes?
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