> same again with Windows VS BeOS, which chose first a lame AT&T CPU that bombed, then the Motorola chip that was already fading before finally getting the sense too late to make an X86 version.
You mean the x86 version that Microsoft prevented the PC makers to install (otherwise the PC makers would have to pay more for Microsoft software)?
> Free Software as a mechanism to protect user freedom certainly did not exist before RMS created it.
As a license only, but people already cared about licensing and did work to ensure that code could be freely redistributable for example the "Networking Release 1" of the BSD software distribution.
As the Anonymous said your post is wrong about HDCP. Plus what many would want is the access to the video decoding unit of the GPU, I don't think that this is related to HDMI..
Sure, but there *are* accidents, rare yes, but they do happen: what to think of parents who subjects their children to a totally gratuitous risk (even a small one) for religious reason?
> AND its entirely voluntary on the parents.
Most of the time the removal of the clitoris of a girl is accepted by the parents..
As far as I can see religions have two main advantage: 1) reduce the fear of death, because they promise some kind of paradise/life after death 2) provide social connections, so some goes to religious events even though they don't believe in God..
Atheist movements cannot do much about (1) but what about (2)? The common belief in the non-existence of Gods isn't a motivator to create social events..
> So the really interesting part of this story - that superconductivity can be induced in high-temperature materials that haven't been grown in proximity - is completely overshadowed by the tape that held the experiment together?
If this result held, yes this is big news, but I remember of the "high temperature superconductivity fashion": quite a few of these experiment reported success but could not be reproduced: measuring supercondictivity is *hard*. So I'll wait until it is properly reproduced and measured before believing that this is real.
> With two (admittedly major) things, this could be the Linux distro to take over the desktop.
I disagree: the more flexibility you have in a distribution, the more difficult it becomes to debug something because you have now a "unique" setup. So this distribution is very nice for "power" users but not for the desktop's casual users.
"Adequate laptop cost 300$" replace adequate by "low end"! I just bought a middle end laptop (only core i5 but 17"): 650â + the price of the SSD, so 850â.
> There is definitely a huge race problem in France, largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves
The 'largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves' is an oversimplification which is nearly racist..
>They should all do jail time and McDonalds should be forced to pay him a large settlement.
Agree for the jail time, but how is the company McDonalds responsible for their employee illegal behaviour? They're only responsible if they fail to react to the problem which is much too early to say..
Turning off something to have a normally functioning desktop shouldn't be required: most users use the regular desktop without changing settings, even if they're annoyed by something..
In my opinion, KDE developers make a big mistake here, enabling by default non-ready features..
The thing is: the proportion of overweight & obese people in France is constantly growing, that is the "big problem", and even if other countries are worse this doesn't mean that ~40% is good: this is mostly caused by lifestyle..
> Most bread in the store has a metric buttload of sugars added simply because they can.
This is not true in all the countries: in France most breads don't contain sugar AFAIK, the main exception being pain de mie, yet there is also a big proportion of people with weight issues, not as big as in the USA, but still quite big..
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> same again with Windows VS BeOS, which chose first a lame AT&T CPU that bombed, then the Motorola chip that was already fading before finally getting the sense too late to make an X86 version.
You mean the x86 version that Microsoft prevented the PC makers to install (otherwise the PC makers would have to pay more for Microsoft software)?
Only if you consider that you need to be smart to see that the Internet bubble would burst, I don't.
> Free Software as a mechanism to protect user freedom certainly did not exist before RMS created it.
As a license only, but people already cared about licensing and did work to ensure that code could be freely redistributable for example the "Networking Release 1" of the BSD software distribution.
As the Anonymous said your post is wrong about HDCP.
Plus what many would want is the access to the video decoding unit of the GPU, I don't think that this is related to HDMI..
Bleah, why was this moderated "Insightful"????
1) Itanium is a VLIW which is a very different beast than "normal" RISCs.
2) the new competition for x86 is ARM which is a RISC, so what about the bullshit with "good code" or "bad code"?
3) there are in-order and out-of-order implementation of both RISCs and x86..
Uh? Where do you live in Europe?
In France, I've never heard issues about public breastfeeding.
> Just ask France. France has entire districts run by Muslims that even the police are afraid to enter.
Bullshit, the reason why the police is afraid to enter is that they are run by gangs (selling drugs usually).
The religion has nothing to do with it.
> and it causes the vast majority no harm
Sure, but there *are* accidents, rare yes, but they do happen: what to think of parents who subjects their children to a totally gratuitous risk (even a small one) for religious reason?
> AND its entirely voluntary on the parents.
Most of the time the removal of the clitoris of a girl is accepted by the parents..
> I don't think that anything in their resolution suggests that "the yanks" have or should have any special role in internet regulation.
Well, that's the current situation, so that's implicitly the result..
> You tend to see neither of those two in states where religeon has zero political power.
Which are these states you're referring to?
> 3) balance power against a state so that a state does not have total power and the poor are not completely ground under the heel of the state.
I disagree: that's what political parties and charities are for.. Some charities are religious but some other are not.
As far as I can see religions have two main advantage:
1) reduce the fear of death, because they promise some kind of paradise/life after death
2) provide social connections, so some goes to religious events even though they don't believe in God..
Atheist movements cannot do much about (1) but what about (2)? The common belief in the non-existence of Gods isn't a motivator to create social events..
> Linux always finds a way to work.
"Linux" is not magic as the difficulty of producing video drivers has shown.
> So the really interesting part of this story - that superconductivity can be induced in high-temperature materials that haven't been grown in proximity - is completely overshadowed by the tape that held the experiment together?
If this result held, yes this is big news, but I remember of the "high temperature superconductivity fashion": quite a few of these experiment reported success but could not be reproduced: measuring supercondictivity is *hard*.
So I'll wait until it is properly reproduced and measured before believing that this is real.
Studies of dating website's have shown that taller men or richer men receive more messages from women than the other men..
> With two (admittedly major) things, this could be the Linux distro to take over the desktop.
I disagree: the more flexibility you have in a distribution, the more difficult it becomes to debug something because you have now a "unique" setup.
So this distribution is very nice for "power" users but not for the desktop's casual users.
"Adequate laptop cost 300$" replace adequate by "low end"!
I just bought a middle end laptop (only core i5 but 17"): 650â + the price of the SSD, so 850â.
> There is definitely a huge race problem in France, largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves
The 'largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves' is an oversimplification which is nearly racist..
>They should all do jail time and McDonalds should be forced to pay him a large settlement.
Agree for the jail time, but how is the company McDonalds responsible for their employee illegal behaviour?
They're only responsible if they fail to react to the problem which is much too early to say..
Turning off something to have a normally functioning desktop shouldn't be required: most users use the regular desktop without changing settings, even if they're annoyed by something..
In my opinion, KDE developers make a big mistake here, enabling by default non-ready features..
> nothing to do with curbing eating habits
False: at work now they have apples on the vending machine and it helps a lot to avoid eating chocolate bars.
The thing is: the proportion of overweight & obese people in France is constantly growing, that is the "big problem", and even if other countries are worse this doesn't mean that ~40% is good: this is mostly caused by lifestyle..
> Most bread in the store has a metric buttload of sugars added simply because they can.
This is not true in all the countries: in France most breads don't contain sugar AFAIK, the main exception being pain de mie, yet there is also a big proportion of people with weight issues, not as big as in the USA, but still quite big..
>Not that it doesn't take hours of makeup and lighting and staging to photograph the beautiful person and the product
You forgot: "and photoshopping the result", nowadays computers are used even when the base material is photography.
> Tell that to the guy who invented intermittent wiper blades.
If the cost to have a sane industry is to reduce the number of such 'small' (for lack of a better word) inventions, maybe the cost is not so high?
> They're overstating precision.
Replace "they" by "nearly everybody": who is using interval computation instead of floating point numbers?
In first approximation, nobody!