What if the seventy (two) virgins result from merely doing your best to blow up as many infidels as you can? There is no reason to be afraid.
Secondly, God(TM) is with you. Admitting the possibility of failure is lack of faith - a weakness any religion-based suicide bomber has relinquished long ago.
What if the seventy (two) virgins result from merely doing your best to blow up as many infidels as you can? There is no reason to be afraid.
Secondly, God(TM) is with you. Admitting the possibility of failure is lack of faith - a weakness any religion-based suicide bomber has relinquished long ago.
Full of links to studies showing that advertisements work, how and why. They work on everyone, but more on those that think themselves immune to advertisements. As we can easily imagine, advertisements work much better on kids.
Anyway, why do you think companies spend so much on advertisements if they are not convinced advertisements work? Even if sufficient studies were not available in academia, wouldn't they themselves conduct such studies to convince themselves before spending billions of dollars? Of course, results of such studies will not be available for us to study.
You can yourself conduct some (less rigorous) studies. I have found that junk food works well for such studies. Choose a junk food that your wife likes, not immensely but reasonably well, but for some reason she has not eaten it for a while. Casually mention it in conversation. Wait for results.
If you are God, You are doomed to eternal boredom. You have such strong observational powers that you can look at a rolling dice and tell which face it is going to show. This applies to literal dice, as well as metaphorical dice like randomness in biological evolution.
Not only that, if students who pray after the exams are correct in their beliefs: God can also "will" the dice to roll to a particular face after the it has been cast. You will agree that it is never fun to play a game where you have to intentionally subdue some of your abilities.
Or, God would evolve the genes necessary to never get bored.
Even without grandparenting, women who don't die easily have a great advantage.
In any mating season, a woman can conceive only one child (rare doublets, triplets and further aside). A man can impregnate several women. So, the number of women in the tribe matters a lot. The men should be of good quality, but a very high number is not always required.
Now when a crisis comes, men of lower quality can die off without having much effect on the survivability of the tribe. This would itself have an effect on die-hard-ness of women. Die-hard-ness of women can easily translate to long-lived-ness of women.
It also explains why men are more likely to risk their lives to save other humans even if not their immediate family. Men are disposable.
How is the OS supposed to know what you want to actually install/run as root, versus something with similar behaviour but unwanted?
That is the OS's problem, isn't it? An ideal OS would prevent "bad"(TM) usage, while preserving all flexibility of "good"(TM) usage. Maybe we are not there yet, maybe we'll never be there. That doesn't mean we don't want to get there.
Take your examples, and examine in even today's primitive technology.
1. rm -rf: Versioning file system and easily managed backups. Macs are already quite good at the second one. This introduces privacy risks, which can be tackled by encryption. Not all users care about this level of privacy though.
2. Install malware i.e. trojan: Sign the executables. To avoid comparisons with DRM, make it just warn the user about a potential malware-ness of the executable. Macs don't do this at present, which is shameful. Most linux distros already do this.
Counter-argument: The executable was pirated, so the user wouldn't expect warning free installation anyway.
I say, bad argument. It is the OS's problem. In this case, Apple caused this piracy by not making all software free (both as in beer and as in freedom). Maybe it is not economical yet for Apple to supply all software for free, maybe it will never be. But that doesn't mean it is not Apple's problem. Linux distros do this already. There might be other problems with linux distros, but ideally linux distros should tackle them and eliminate those problems. It is no good defending current primitive technology.
Slight problem with your statement. If data is more valuable than a second drive, do periodic backups to a second drive. RAID-1 is for situations when continuous uptime is more valuable than a second drive.
2 phoronix studies combined prove that there is no real world advantage of SSD. Advantage is only in synthetic benchmarks. Note that they used one of the fastest SSDs available (Intel X25-E), and a 7200 rpm laptop hard disk. For a slower SSD, difference might be even lower or hard disk might beat SSD in performance. This SSD was not even available at the time of this MS study.
In general, I don't disagree with you but you are very wrong about Buddhism. In fact, other Indian* religions are also differently different from western religions so that westerners are frequently mistaken.
Buddhism and God: Buddha never said there was any God. In *core* Buddhist philosophy, where the laws of nature as per Buddhist view are described, God doesn't appear at all. You don't have to worship/pacify any God like creature to be "successful" in Buddhist philosophy. The core Buddhist philosophy is quite atheist. The branches of Buddhism that are now popular (Sri Lankan, Thai, Japanese etc) might have introduced God like entities, I am not conversant with the intricacies of these branches of Buddhism.
Other general points about Buddhism that may surprise westerners: 1. Buddha didn't perform miracles. No miracle cures of mystery diseases, natural calamities etc. 2. Historicity of Buddha is not necessary for Buddhism to work. Though there is not much doubt that Buddha was a historical person (as opposed to a mythological/imaginary one). Buddha was not someone special i.e. he himself said that the "path" he found could be found by anyone if he tries. Following his theory is just a short cut as compared to the first principles way of inquiry. For details: http://rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com/blog/post/2004/11/myth-of-hindu-sameness.htm
* less than.1% Indians are Buddhists but I call it an Indian religion because of its Indian origins. Not only because Buddha happened to live geographically in India, but the whole philosophy can be considered a branch of Indian philosophies.
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Have you considered this in light of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html, especially chapter 7: "Users can't control the mouse very well" ?
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What if the seventy (two) virgins result from merely doing your best to blow up as many infidels as you can? There is no reason to be afraid.
Secondly, God(TM) is with you. Admitting the possibility of failure is lack of faith - a weakness any religion-based suicide bomber has relinquished long ago.
What if the seventy (two) virgins result from merely doing your best to blow up as many infidels as you can? There is no reason to be afraid.
Secondly, God(TM) is with you. Admitting the possibility of failure is lack of faith - a weakness any religion-based suicide bomber has relinquished long ago.
The Power of Persuasion - How we are bought and sold. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Persuasion-Were-Bought-Sold/dp/0471763179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255289450&sr=8-1
Full of links to studies showing that advertisements work, how and why. They work on everyone, but more on those that think themselves immune to advertisements. As we can easily imagine, advertisements work much better on kids.
Anyway, why do you think companies spend so much on advertisements if they are not convinced advertisements work? Even if sufficient studies were not available in academia, wouldn't they themselves conduct such studies to convince themselves before spending billions of dollars? Of course, results of such studies will not be available for us to study.
You can yourself conduct some (less rigorous) studies. I have found that junk food works well for such studies. Choose a junk food that your wife likes, not immensely but reasonably well, but for some reason she has not eaten it for a while. Casually mention it in conversation. Wait for results.
I was cremated, you insensitive clod!
If you are God, You are doomed to eternal boredom. You have such strong observational powers that you can look at a rolling dice and tell which face it is going to show. This applies to literal dice, as well as metaphorical dice like randomness in biological evolution.
Not only that, if students who pray after the exams are correct in their beliefs: God can also "will" the dice to roll to a particular face after the it has been cast. You will agree that it is never fun to play a game where you have to intentionally subdue some of your abilities.
Or, God would evolve the genes necessary to never get bored.
Even without grandparenting, women who don't die easily have a great advantage.
In any mating season, a woman can conceive only one child (rare doublets, triplets and further aside). A man can impregnate several women. So, the number of women in the tribe matters a lot. The men should be of good quality, but a very high number is not always required.
Now when a crisis comes, men of lower quality can die off without having much effect on the survivability of the tribe. This would itself have an effect on die-hard-ness of women. Die-hard-ness of women can easily translate to long-lived-ness of women.
It also explains why men are more likely to risk their lives to save other humans even if not their immediate family. Men are disposable.
How is the OS supposed to know what you want to actually install/run as root, versus something with similar behaviour but unwanted?
That is the OS's problem, isn't it? An ideal OS would prevent "bad"(TM) usage, while preserving all flexibility of "good"(TM) usage. Maybe we are not there yet, maybe we'll never be there. That doesn't mean we don't want to get there.
Take your examples, and examine in even today's primitive technology.
1. rm -rf: Versioning file system and easily managed backups. Macs are already quite good at the second one. This introduces privacy risks, which can be tackled by encryption. Not all users care about this level of privacy though.
2. Install malware i.e. trojan: Sign the executables. To avoid comparisons with DRM, make it just warn the user about a potential malware-ness of the executable. Macs don't do this at present, which is shameful. Most linux distros already do this.
Counter-argument: The executable was pirated, so the user wouldn't expect warning free installation anyway.
I say, bad argument. It is the OS's problem. In this case, Apple caused this piracy by not making all software free (both as in beer and as in freedom). Maybe it is not economical yet for Apple to supply all software for free, maybe it will never be. But that doesn't mean it is not Apple's problem. Linux distros do this already. There might be other problems with linux distros, but ideally linux distros should tackle them and eliminate those problems. It is no good defending current primitive technology.
It works for fluids. Moon is not fluid.
Slight problem with your statement. If data is more valuable than a second drive, do periodic backups to a second drive. RAID-1 is for situations when continuous uptime is more valuable than a second drive.
2 phoronix studies combined prove that there is no real world advantage of SSD. Advantage is only in synthetic benchmarks. Note that they used one of the fastest SSDs available (Intel X25-E), and a 7200 rpm laptop hard disk. For a slower SSD, difference might be even lower or hard disk might beat SSD in performance. This SSD was not even available at the time of this MS study.
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_x25e_ssd_linux&num=1 : Uses ext3 filesystem and compares a hard disk and an SSD . Negligible performance difference in real world tests, huge difference in synthetic tests.
2. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_x25e_filesystems&num=1: Using SSD, compared different file systems (JFS, ext4, ext3, XFS). Again, negligible difference in real world tests, but different filesystems did well in different synthetic tests.
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I tested it, seems to be working fine in Fedora's packaging of Open Office 3.0.1.
In general, I don't disagree with you but you are very wrong about Buddhism. In fact, other Indian* religions are also differently different from western religions so that westerners are frequently mistaken.
Buddhism and God: Buddha never said there was any God. In *core* Buddhist philosophy, where the laws of nature as per Buddhist view are described, God doesn't appear at all. You don't have to worship/pacify any God like creature to be "successful" in Buddhist philosophy. The core Buddhist philosophy is quite atheist. The branches of Buddhism that are now popular (Sri Lankan, Thai, Japanese etc) might have introduced God like entities, I am not conversant with the intricacies of these branches of Buddhism.
Other general points about Buddhism that may surprise westerners:
1. Buddha didn't perform miracles. No miracle cures of mystery diseases, natural calamities etc.
2. Historicity of Buddha is not necessary for Buddhism to work. Though there is not much doubt that Buddha was a historical person (as opposed to a mythological/imaginary one). Buddha was not someone special i.e. he himself said that the "path" he found could be found by anyone if he tries. Following his theory is just a short cut as compared to the first principles way of inquiry. For details: http://rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com/blog/post/2004/11/myth-of-hindu-sameness.htm
* less than .1% Indians are Buddhists but I call it an Indian religion because of its Indian origins. Not only because Buddha happened to live geographically in India, but the whole philosophy can be considered a branch of Indian philosophies.
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