2) "without much predictive power." without *any* predictive power you mean, so that's a theory which don't add anything over the basic state which is "we don't know". And I would add that a corollary of Occam's razor is that extraordinary claim needs extraordinary proof: the existence of God is a very extraordinary claim and there is *no* proof.
OK, Reagan or Bush are dumb or (just to pull a Godwin) that Hitler is a violent sadist, but you know what? All of them were elected! So what to think of the people who elected them?
1)I said 'normal religious' ie the majority of religious people which is different from *all* religious people. Sure religion doesn't imply necessarily homophobia but unfortunately Christianism and Islam are both homophobic religions currently and they represent the vast majority of religious people so indeed 'normal' (as in those who follow the norm of their religion) religious people are homophobic.
2)About the Occam razor, I suspect that you don't understand it as there is truly a simpler theory: *we just don't know* what/how happened the beginning of the Universe, anyone who is saying 'God did it' is adding an entity (God) without explaining *anything* as this only raise questions without answers 'what is God? and how God was created?' so he's indeed violating the Occam's razor: entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
The Occam's razor is really a central tenet of the scientific method, you're free to ignore it of course, but just don't claim that you believe in science..
There's a huge difference between extremist religious and 'normal' religious okay, but normal religious are still homophobic, just to a lesser degree. Same about science-rejecting, not applying the scientific method to your religious beliefs just 'because you have faith' is *also* a science rejection: otherwise applying the scientific method would tell you that we don't know how the Universe creation happened and that assuming that 'God did it' is a violation of Occam's razor which is a part of the scientific method. Just because normal religious cover their hear when you tell them that they are irrational about this part, doesn't make it less true..
>>I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward. >I disagree. If we have a problem with the units of measurement being disparate, we should reconcile them, not split them into two. Not to mention that the Ki/Mi/etc prefixes sound like baby talk, which makes me want to smack whoever came up with them upside the head.
Uh? Using the same prefix for two different measure is dumb whatever you say about 'reconciliation'.
As an aside the sounding isn't bad for everyone: in French Kibi sounds Kebe which isn't bad.
>Better for the kid to learn now that "free speech" is (and always has been) a crock of shit in the U.S.
Well, that's not the only one: 'Land of the freedom' when in some states: masturbation or sodomy are outlawed, freedom my ass! On a less trivial (but older) topic, there's slavery..
Of course you're not the only country with BS proverbs: France has supposedly 'liberté égalité fraternité' but we have been one of last country in Europe to allow woman's vote and we still don't allow equal rights for gay people even though a majority of the population supports it..
I'm really fed up with the nano hype, from the article "the players [cut] measure from a few tens of micrometers to a few hundred micrometers", so this should be named micro-soccer, not nano-soccer!
1) the word 'Free' is a trap: it has too many significations that you can discuss forever whether something is Free or not.
2) Any fixed definition such as the Free Software guidelines doesn't capture the whole spirit of a set of people, maybe the FSF Free Software definition must be changed?
3) the GPL has some restrictions for the software developers that the MIT license in order to ensure that the software stays accessible, the AGPL has even more restrictions for the software developers to ensure that the software stays accessible even when it's running on a distant server. It seems quite coherent to me, so why are you all pissed off about it? Don't use it if you don't like it! I don't like the LGPL for example because of the static vs dynamic linking distinction, but I don't make such fuss..
I agree with your previous points, but not this one: netbooks have a fan (so are more fragile), consume as much power as regular laptops (which they are with a smaller screen), their screen cannot be read easily in daylight on a sunny day, they don't have mesh networking, etc: there are many reasons why the OLPC XO-1 is better suited for the third world schools than netbooks (even running Linux).
>* While Microsoft was attacking the OLPC, it lost sight of the fact that Linux is the obvious choice for Chinese netbooks.
Not really, hence their push for Windows-XP for netbooks. Chinese users have always pirated Windows, why wouldn't they pirate Windows XP for their netbooks. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft make a Vista-light or keep making an XP version for those netbooks to ensure that Linux's usage stay marginal.
>in ten years time every schoolkid in Latin America, Asia, and Africa will be using netbook-style computers that cost $20 and they will be running Linux, and they will have everything the OLPC wanted to have, and more.
Maybe, have you noticed that the price of netbooks since the first EEE 701 have only gone up? Hardware makers don't like too cheap hardware because they're afraid of loosing sells of higher priced laptops..
How come the parent was moderated as troll and the GP was moderated +1???
I would have done it the other way: there are quite a few innocent bystanders which are killed by these intervention with missiles, so I find the army guys gloating about how easy it is to fire a missile quite disturbing; I can understand why he has this viewpoint, but this doesn't mean I have to agree with it..
I've switched from FF2 to Opera because I was tired of the crashes and slowness (when one website use 100% of CPU, and make the browser slow as a snail, how do you know which one it is?), I couldn't care less of its memory usage (I have 1GB of RAM), FF3's memory reduction is very nice sure, but it doesn't in itself make it less fragile.
Note that the crash and 100% CPU usage happen also with Opera (much less often though), so I'll probably switch to Chrome once it gets a decent page zoom and bookmark manager.
If Firefox switch to a more robust design, then I'll consider it again as a possible choice: I value more stability than the extensions.
That's why a 32GB SLC Flash + a big HDD is more interesting, than an expensive not very 'slow' MLC Flash alone.
For a desktop user with 32GB of Flash, except in exceptional case, all your data are already cached on the Flash, except movies or MP3, but why would you care about having a 0.1ms access time instead of a 10ms access time for a movie?
>If you're willing to go superscalar, the simplicity goes away, and so does the advantage of the MIPS architecture.
And so does *a part* of the advantage of the MIPS architecture: I bet than a superscalar MIPS is still much simpler than a superscalar x86..
As for the second part, there is now a MIPS16 variant, so it's possible to have MIPS with 16/32 bit instructions, of course the decoder becomes more complex, but x86 instructions are still far more complicated (I can't remember what's the maximum size of an x86 instructions, but it's huge!).
>Firefox users are not going to switch to Chrome. It's just inane to suggest that's the case.
Why wouldn't they? Remember that a huge percentage of FF users use it on Windows, so they could if they wanted, I've already switched from FF2 to Opera because I wasn't happy that in FF2: 1) when one website use 100% of CPU it's hard to find the one who does it, so it's often sluggish 2) a crash takes down the whole browser this happen also in Opera but far less often that FF2 did, and now with Chrome both of these concern are (finally) solved!
So I'm trying currently Chrome and I like what I see (too bad it cannot: resize page the way Opera does it, spellcheck in several languages and that its bookmark manager isn't very good), sure it doesn't have FF extensions but I don't care about these.
Given that I've already switched from FF, I don't know if this count but I'm definitely thinking about switching to Chrome and users of browsers other than IE are more likely to switch to another browser as they've already switched from the mainstream so they can do it again more easily..
>However, Perl5 does suck, compared to Ruby or Python. Perl6 looks very, very good -- but is nowhere near ready.
Frankly, I think that Perl6 only looks good to Perl lovers, myself I think that it still looks like noise different noise from Perl5 but still hard to read and to maintain.
For beginners, there's Python, for advanced users who know already know shell or Perl5 and are not satisfied with it there's Ruby..
While the SDHC do not have good enough access time for this usage, I agree with you that 120GB is too much: IMHO, it's much better to have a combination of 'small' (32GB) of fast (SLC) Flash disk + a HDD than having a bigger slower Flash provided that the OS is able to use a part of the Flash disk as a temporary cache for the data used.
Why not a bigger RAM instead? Because the Flash is permanent so you can be sure that once you have copied your data to the Flash disk even if there's a power failure afterwards the OS will keep your data..
So small & fast Flash + HDD gives you: access time of flash (most of the time) + disk bandwidth (provided the bandwidth of the Flash disk is bigger than the HDD one of course) + disk capacity: the best of both world.
>Don't you have to be somehow affected by defendant's actions to sue them?
Probably, but where do you think the money the government spends with Microsoft comes from? It's an association from Quebec after all: every citizen who pay taxes are harmed when governments don't really open the bidding process.
Maybe you should read TFA: it was both found and constructed, found because they didn't expect it, constructed because it's not something which occurs naturally.
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[[That was money we had to refuse, I'm afraid.]]
I don't like this sentence: they chose to refuse this money (afraid of the bad publicity in the US probably), nobody forced them to refuse!
1) Easy: http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2005/06/07/pope_says_gay_unions_are_false/
And you could find dozens of example of high-ranking Christian labeling being gay a sin, saying that gay unions are different from men-wife relationship..
2) "without much predictive power." without *any* predictive power you mean, so that's a theory which don't add anything over the basic state which is "we don't know".
And I would add that a corollary of Occam's razor is that extraordinary claim needs extraordinary proof: the existence of God is a very extraordinary claim and there is *no* proof.
OK, Reagan or Bush are dumb or (just to pull a Godwin) that Hitler is a violent sadist, but you know what?
All of them were elected!
So what to think of the people who elected them?
1)I said 'normal religious' ie the majority of religious people which is different from *all* religious people. Sure religion doesn't imply necessarily homophobia but unfortunately Christianism and Islam are both homophobic religions currently and they represent the vast majority of religious people so indeed 'normal' (as in those who follow the norm of their religion) religious people are homophobic.
2)About the Occam razor, I suspect that you don't understand it as there is truly a simpler theory:
*we just don't know* what/how happened the beginning of the Universe, anyone who is saying 'God did it' is adding an entity (God) without explaining *anything* as this only raise questions without answers 'what is God? and how God was created?' so he's indeed violating the Occam's razor: entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
The Occam's razor is really a central tenet of the scientific method, you're free to ignore it of course, but just don't claim that you believe in science..
There's a huge difference between extremist religious and 'normal' religious okay, but normal religious are still homophobic, just to a lesser degree.
Same about science-rejecting, not applying the scientific method to your religious beliefs just 'because you have faith' is *also* a science rejection: otherwise applying the scientific method would tell you that we don't know how the Universe creation happened and that assuming that 'God did it' is a violation of Occam's razor which is a part of the scientific method.
Just because normal religious cover their hear when you tell them that they are irrational about this part, doesn't make it less true..
>>I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward.
>I disagree. If we have a problem with the units of measurement being disparate, we should reconcile them, not split them into two. Not to mention that the Ki/Mi/etc prefixes sound like baby talk, which makes me want to smack whoever came up with them upside the head.
Uh? Using the same prefix for two different measure is dumb whatever you say about 'reconciliation'.
As an aside the sounding isn't bad for everyone: in French Kibi sounds Kebe which isn't bad.
>Better for the kid to learn now that "free speech" is (and always has been) a crock of shit in the U.S.
Well, that's not the only one: 'Land of the freedom' when in some states: masturbation or sodomy are outlawed, freedom my ass!
On a less trivial (but older) topic, there's slavery..
Of course you're not the only country with BS proverbs: France has supposedly 'liberté égalité fraternité' but we have been one of last country in Europe to allow woman's vote and we still don't allow equal rights for gay people even though a majority of the population supports it..
I'm really fed up with the nano hype, from the article "the players [cut] measure from a few tens of micrometers to a few hundred micrometers", so this should be named micro-soccer, not nano-soccer!
No, it's your references which are wrong: if you could get to C your trip (from your view) would be instantaneous, from Earth it would take 4.3years.
1) the word 'Free' is a trap: it has too many significations that you can discuss forever whether something is Free or not.
2) Any fixed definition such as the Free Software guidelines doesn't capture the whole spirit of a set of people, maybe the FSF Free Software definition must be changed?
3) the GPL has some restrictions for the software developers that the MIT license in order to ensure that the software stays accessible, the AGPL has even more restrictions for the software developers to ensure that the software stays accessible even when it's running on a distant server.
It seems quite coherent to me, so why are you all pissed off about it?
Don't use it if you don't like it!
I don't like the LGPL for example because of the static vs dynamic linking distinction, but I don't make such fuss..
>* Cheap netbooks will make the OLPC redundant.
I agree with your previous points, but not this one: netbooks have a fan (so are more fragile), consume as much power as regular laptops (which they are with a smaller screen), their screen cannot be read easily in daylight on a sunny day, they don't have mesh networking, etc: there are many reasons why the OLPC XO-1 is better suited for the third world schools than netbooks (even running Linux).
>* While Microsoft was attacking the OLPC, it lost sight of the fact that Linux is the obvious choice for Chinese netbooks.
Not really, hence their push for Windows-XP for netbooks. Chinese users have always pirated Windows, why wouldn't they pirate Windows XP for their netbooks. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft make a Vista-light or keep making an XP version for those netbooks to ensure that Linux's usage stay marginal.
>in ten years time every schoolkid in Latin America, Asia, and Africa will be using netbook-style computers that cost $20 and they will be running Linux, and they will have everything the OLPC wanted to have, and more.
Maybe, have you noticed that the price of netbooks since the first EEE 701 have only gone up?
Hardware makers don't like too cheap hardware because they're afraid of loosing sells of higher priced laptops..
How come the parent was moderated as troll and the GP was moderated +1???
I would have done it the other way: there are quite a few innocent bystanders which are killed by these intervention with missiles, so I find the army guys gloating about how easy it is to fire a missile quite disturbing; I can understand why he has this viewpoint, but this doesn't mean I have to agree with it..
I've switched from FF2 to Opera because I was tired of the crashes and slowness (when one website use 100% of CPU, and make the browser slow as a snail, how do you know which one it is?), I couldn't care less of its memory usage (I have 1GB of RAM), FF3's memory reduction is very nice sure, but it doesn't in itself make it less fragile.
Note that the crash and 100% CPU usage happen also with Opera (much less often though), so I'll probably switch to Chrome once it gets a decent page zoom and bookmark manager.
If Firefox switch to a more robust design, then I'll consider it again as a possible choice: I value more stability than the extensions.
That's why a 32GB SLC Flash + a big HDD is more interesting, than an expensive not very 'slow' MLC Flash alone.
For a desktop user with 32GB of Flash, except in exceptional case, all your data are already cached on the Flash, except movies or MP3, but why would you care about having a 0.1ms access time instead of a 10ms access time for a movie?
>If you're willing to go superscalar, the simplicity goes away, and so does the advantage of the MIPS architecture.
And so does *a part* of the advantage of the MIPS architecture: I bet than a superscalar MIPS is still much simpler than a superscalar x86..
As for the second part, there is now a MIPS16 variant, so it's possible to have MIPS with 16/32 bit instructions, of course the decoder becomes more complex, but x86 instructions are still far more complicated (I can't remember what's the maximum size of an x86 instructions, but it's huge!).
>Firefox users are not going to switch to Chrome. It's just inane to suggest that's the case.
Why wouldn't they? Remember that a huge percentage of FF users use it on Windows, so they could if they wanted, I've already switched from FF2 to Opera because I wasn't happy that in FF2:
1) when one website use 100% of CPU it's hard to find the one who does it, so it's often sluggish
2) a crash takes down the whole browser
this happen also in Opera but far less often that FF2 did, and now with Chrome both of these concern are (finally) solved!
So I'm trying currently Chrome and I like what I see (too bad it cannot: resize page the way Opera does it, spellcheck in several languages and that its bookmark manager isn't very good), sure it doesn't have FF extensions but I don't care about these.
Given that I've already switched from FF, I don't know if this count but I'm definitely thinking about switching to Chrome and users of browsers other than IE are more likely to switch to another browser as they've already switched from the mainstream so they can do it again more easily..
Because you need to support existing plugins.
Plus if it's a ressource usage issue, it's not sure that Java will help (especially memory).
It's a good book about the Java language but if memory serves, there's not much the Java's ecosystem: J2EE etc.
Well, if you speak only English then Paris would still be a good idea: there are more people here who know English.
Of course Northen European countries put France to shame for the foreign language skills, but we have better weather :-)
>However, Perl5 does suck, compared to Ruby or Python. Perl6 looks very, very good -- but is nowhere near ready.
Frankly, I think that Perl6 only looks good to Perl lovers, myself I think that it still looks like noise different noise from Perl5 but still hard to read and to maintain.
For beginners, there's Python, for advanced users who know already know shell or Perl5 and are not satisfied with it there's Ruby..
While the SDHC do not have good enough access time for this usage, I agree with you that 120GB is too much: IMHO, it's much better to have a combination of 'small' (32GB) of fast (SLC) Flash disk + a HDD than having a bigger slower Flash provided that the OS is able to use a part of the Flash disk as a temporary cache for the data used.
Why not a bigger RAM instead? Because the Flash is permanent so you can be sure that once you have copied your data to the Flash disk even if there's a power failure afterwards the OS will keep your data..
So small & fast Flash + HDD gives you: access time of flash (most of the time) + disk bandwidth (provided the bandwidth of the Flash disk is bigger than the HDD one of course) + disk capacity: the best of both world.
Why were you annoyed by the explanation?
While I know what 'stoned' mean, I didn't know that 'baked' is the same thing, so apparently this slang isn't that widespread..
Remember that foreigners aren't good at slang: they don't teach much slang at school!
>Don't you have to be somehow affected by defendant's actions to sue them?
Probably, but where do you think the money the government spends with Microsoft comes from?
It's an association from Quebec after all: every citizen who pay taxes are harmed when governments don't really open the bidding process.
Both!
Maybe you should read TFA: it was both found and constructed, found because they didn't expect it, constructed because it's not something which occurs naturally.
Which events are you talking about?
I'm curious.. You're not part of WinForms team ok, but where do they have written what are the "missing events"?