"What is the primary function of any government? Why do societies, even primitive ones, form governments? Is it not to protect the members of that society from each other (police) and from outsiders (military)? These two functions are the essence of and are completely necessary for every government."
That's *your* definition. Your threshold of non-socialism. Your view. Others may hold that it's enough to allow anyone to have a gun - let protection take its own course, yet even others may hold that it must also provide education lest 'a society' be lost. As I said, what I quoted above is subjective - it's *your* defintion of some sort of societal minimum.
What won me over for Linux, because I dabbled both in Linux and FreeBSD at the time, was the fact that, ultimately, Linux had an 'easy' GUI (startx) and.. *drumroll* Netscape! BSD only had Linux compatibility mode (after a few more years) and 'make world'. It is with Linux as it is with Microsoft: you should never underestimate the power of the half-geek. Especially in great numbers.
This article comes from the same universe as the one where drugs (no matter which) cost 1 million per gram, and downloaded music deprives the stakeholders of roughly 200 billion per song.
Certain questions are just too long of a shot. But to answer the first one: freaking everybody out on a religious holiday is what is forefront in the minds of those who are very religious themselves. Am I religious ? No. Am I surrounded by people who are predominantly christian ? Yes. Do 'they' hate us for our christianity ? Hell yes.
What do they want ? American newscaster style where they go on and on back to that same old recording with completely mindless commentary ? Some things take time, and if you can't accept that, go back to living inside your game/movie world. Or grow up.
Seconded; I wrote many websites over and over in perl and C. I found that perl is generally ten times slower than C, while PHP was about three times slower than perl. And that includes everything: data access, I/O, and number crunching.
Yeah, but that's not really going to be reliable, is it ? For them, I mean. Do they have their intelligence into IP address space allocation so far advanced that they'll be able to tell the difference between an individually held IP address and one that's doin' a whole lot a nattin' ?
Cells can be 'lonely' when they're in a place without food. Without food, the cell dies. I agree that it's doing the switcheroo on cause and effect, but hey...
Add to that that, even if Oracle's pricing model is ridiculous, they never lie about what you're going to get (and you can always get a rebate here and there), and that documentation (even down to their data formats) is ubiquitous and omni-present. Open source newbs tend to yak on Oracle (as they do on postgres) because they won't accept that managing data in large quantities is not something you can learn in an afternoon. Which, in turn, is actually an argument for managing data using btrees and hashes, but that's quite another discussion.
I have to concur; spaces (at least in leopard) is quite poor: not only are they limited in number and anonymous; system-dialogs pop up 'somewhere', apps (like X windows apps) can only be had in one space unless you jump through hoops to get them onto others, key-toggling between apps isn't done on a space-by-space basis, if you command-squiggly between X-windows windows, then your space doesn't know that (so when you key toggle between spaces you end up on the one you just left, for example), the focused window of a space (for example of the finder window) is unpredictable when toggling, some apps jump to space when you toggle between them, some don't, etc, etc, etc.
As were on the subject (slightly off topic here, bear with me): I've been trying to get my 5,1 simple aluminium macbook (with ubuntu and nvidia drivers) to recognize that my second screen is actually 1600x1200 and it won't - no matter what I do - give me any more than 1280x1024. It's either that, or black, or vertical resonating stripes. Mac OS, installed on the same machine, using the same dual-monitor set-up, has no problems whatsoever to do this properly, and it is driving me insane. Am I perchance in the presence of some Nvidia people who could help me out with this ?
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Combine with desalination plant. Paste in Sahara desert. Use water for drinking and irrigation. Profit.
Unless you come up with some concrete examples of your difficulties, you're FUDding. Call me distrustful, but I think you're just FUDding.
Use boot camp only as a repartioner. Use rEFIt for your bootstrapping needs.
"What is the primary function of any government? Why do societies, even primitive ones, form governments? Is it not to protect the members of that society from each other (police) and from outsiders (military)? These two functions are the essence of and are completely necessary for every government."
That's *your* definition. Your threshold of non-socialism. Your view. Others may hold that it's enough to allow anyone to have a gun - let protection take its own course, yet even others may hold that it must also provide education lest 'a society' be lost. As I said, what I quoted above is subjective - it's *your* defintion of some sort of societal minimum.
Get a company tie with a little bit of print, saying 'IT Support' or some such. Yes go on, make your guys wear shirt and ties.
O man, I have so many screws, I can easily afford to lose one.
Ah - didn't read the second part of your post. Sorry. Feel free to mod parent into oblivion.
You can streamcipher with AES. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation
What won me over for Linux, because I dabbled both in Linux and FreeBSD at the time, was the fact that, ultimately, Linux had an 'easy' GUI (startx) and.. *drumroll* Netscape! BSD only had Linux compatibility mode (after a few more years) and 'make world'. It is with Linux as it is with Microsoft: you should never underestimate the power of the half-geek. Especially in great numbers.
This article comes from the same universe as the one where drugs (no matter which) cost 1 million per gram, and downloaded music deprives the stakeholders of roughly 200 billion per song.
Certain questions are just too long of a shot. But to answer the first one: freaking everybody out on a religious holiday is what is forefront in the minds of those who are very religious themselves. Am I religious ? No. Am I surrounded by people who are predominantly christian ? Yes. Do 'they' hate us for our christianity ? Hell yes.
What do they want ? American newscaster style where they go on and on back to that same old recording with completely mindless commentary ? Some things take time, and if you can't accept that, go back to living inside your game/movie world. Or grow up.
There you go.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2005/11/22/exclusive-bush-plot-to-bomb-his-arab-ally-115875-16397937/
Second hit on Google. Now that wasn't so hard, was it ?
Seconded; I wrote many websites over and over in perl and C. I found that perl is generally ten times slower than C, while PHP was about three times slower than perl. And that includes everything: data access, I/O, and number crunching.
Yeah, but that's not really going to be reliable, is it ? For them, I mean. Do they have their intelligence into IP address space allocation so far advanced that they'll be able to tell the difference between an individually held IP address and one that's doin' a whole lot a nattin' ?
Just like last time. Or just like next year is finally going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not trolling, just cynical. Sorry.
Cells can be 'lonely' when they're in a place without food. Without food, the cell dies. I agree that it's doing the switcheroo on cause and effect, but hey...
Add to that that, even if Oracle's pricing model is ridiculous, they never lie about what you're going to get (and you can always get a rebate here and there), and that documentation (even down to their data formats) is ubiquitous and omni-present. Open source newbs tend to yak on Oracle (as they do on postgres) because they won't accept that managing data in large quantities is not something you can learn in an afternoon. Which, in turn, is actually an argument for managing data using btrees and hashes, but that's quite another discussion.
I spend a lot of time reading slashdot, and a lot of that time, the comments are awful. But I've got to say: we've got nothing on these guys, guys.
No, it's only an *expensive* way to govern a country.
I have to concur; spaces (at least in leopard) is quite poor: not only are they limited in number and anonymous; system-dialogs pop up 'somewhere', apps (like X windows apps) can only be had in one space unless you jump through hoops to get them onto others, key-toggling between apps isn't done on a space-by-space basis, if you command-squiggly between X-windows windows, then your space doesn't know that (so when you key toggle between spaces you end up on the one you just left, for example), the focused window of a space (for example of the finder window) is unpredictable when toggling, some apps jump to space when you toggle between them, some don't, etc, etc, etc.
As were on the subject (slightly off topic here, bear with me): I've been trying to get my 5,1 simple aluminium macbook (with ubuntu and nvidia drivers) to recognize that my second screen is actually 1600x1200 and it won't - no matter what I do - give me any more than 1280x1024. It's either that, or black, or vertical resonating stripes. Mac OS, installed on the same machine, using the same dual-monitor set-up, has no problems whatsoever to do this properly, and it is driving me insane. Am I perchance in the presence of some Nvidia people who could help me out with this ?
So how was this a technical challenge, and not just a boyscout fox hunt ?
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Terrible business model. Blame your con-consumers.