The assertion was that being uninformed implies buying Windows, which seems perfectly reasonable.
You twisted this into 'buying Windows implies being uninformed', which does not follow from the original statement.
The correct re-phrasing would be Not buying Windows implies being informed, again pretty hard to argue with in the current consumer marketplace.
Your final statement also implies that, as Linux lacks nothing that I require, I am not an everyday person. In this you are quite correct, as I find myself unable to manage it more than two or three times a week these days.
Strictly speaking, you can't make beer without hops; a brew with water, malt and yeast is an ale.
(I know current usage has removed this distinction, but I haven't been anally nit-picking for hours and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.)
At various times, English ALE brewers were specifically forbidden from using hops in their brews, although there were no such restrictions for BEER brewers. This is often misrepresented as a total ban on hops in English brewing, usually attributed to Henry VI or Henry VIII.
((btw, I think you meant 'wahrgeld', weregild sounds like something that becomes gold-plated during the full moon which, admittedly, is a cool concept))
Weregild is the money paid in reparation to the family of someone unlawfully killed. Common in many North European cultures up to the early middle ages, the etymology is indeed similar to werewolf, as 'were' means 'man', so weregild = man-gold, the price for a man's life.
... and why can't you just say "two weeks" for the love of...
The guy's an Aussie. 'Fortnight' is in general use in Oz and the UK, and has no pretentious nor archaic overtones. I get the feeling that it's use has been deprecated in the US fork of the language, but this isn't a valid point to beat someone up over.
'thickness' may have been ambiguous - I was using it to mean cross-sectional area, which is the generally accepted usage among electricians in the UK. ( 10mm^2 cable is four times as thick as 2.5mm^2 cable). I understand that you may have taken it to mean diameter, but that was not my intent.
Someone should really mod this up - all the lectures from 1973 on are available as webcasts, which include stuff from Attenborough, Dawkins and Sagan specifically aimed at children. I remember seeing a lot of the 70's ones at the time and being blown away by most of them, even though I had no idea who the lecturers were.
If your wire is ten times the thickness, it will have 1/10 the resistance, and be able to carry 10 times the current BUT, because the current is ten times as high the voltage drop will be the same in volts (I * R) which is proportionately ten times higher.
Also the power loss in the cable will be ten times as great (I^2 * R). If you want comparable performance from your cable it would need to be 100 times as thick, so 100 - 150 mm^2 for a lighting circuit.
(Perhaps that's why most of the civilized world runs on 400/230 V / 50 Hz )
Using wire 10x the size would work fine because its resistance would be one 1/10 that of the original line. The resulting drop in power would still be 5%. Power loss in the cable is I^2 * R, so even though your resistance is 1/10 the fact that your current increases tenfold means that your power loss does too. This, more than conductor costs, is why transmission lines run at hundreds of thousands of volts.
Make sure you tell people to turn off the anti-virus in Windows before running Wubi - I didn't mention that to my brother, and he ended up trashing his MBR. Fortunately he knew enough to sort it out, but a lot of the target audience won't. Maybe there should be a warning when Wubi starts?
(This was AVG running on W2K, installed on the second partition of a SATA drive, any or all of which could be factors in the problem, but still it's probably wise to disable any AV before running Wubi)
I've been trying to 'turn' him for ages, and thought the 'Install inside Windows' thing would be the clincher, but I think the experience probably put him off for another couple of years. Shame really, as this does seem a very intuitive distro (speaking as a Slackware user - in fact if you do an 'apt-get install emacs latex links build-essential' it even starts to look like linux )
Fermat's Last Theorem is objectively true, and all that Wells did was find a way to show everyone that. Andrew Wiles is the name of that bloke you couldn't quite remember.
Agree with the point you make, though.
e=mc^2 works with SI units, but not with BTUs, troy ounces and furlongs per fortnight.
The point is that the Joule is defined in terms of kilograms, metres and seconds, BUT is based on the newtonian concept of kinetic energy. The fact that the exponent is exactly 2 (for a mass at rest) is still a gobsmackingly non-trivial idea, since c^2 is not 'just a constant', but has dimensions (m^2*s^-2). Since joules have dimensions kg*m^2*s^-2 you might well expect a constant of proportionality to be expressed in these units, but the fact that this would be equal to the square of the velocity of light expressed in these same units is not just something that automatically follows from the original definition of those units.
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That's not what (s)he said.
The assertion was that being uninformed implies buying Windows, which seems perfectly reasonable.
You twisted this into 'buying Windows implies being uninformed', which does not follow from the original statement.
The correct re-phrasing would be Not buying Windows implies being informed, again pretty hard to argue with in the current consumer marketplace.
Your final statement also implies that, as Linux lacks nothing that I require, I am not an everyday person. In this you are quite correct, as I find myself unable to manage it more than two or three times a week these days.
(I know current usage has removed this distinction, but I haven't been anally nit-picking for hours and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.)
At various times, English ALE brewers were specifically forbidden from using hops in their brews, although there were no such restrictions for BEER brewers. This is often misrepresented as a total ban on hops in English brewing, usually attributed to Henry VI or Henry VIII.
Weregild is the money paid in reparation to the family of someone unlawfully killed. Common in many North European cultures up to the early middle ages, the etymology is indeed similar to werewolf, as 'were' means 'man', so weregild = man-gold, the price for a man's life.
Of course you don't need privacy if you're doing nothing wrong - that's why all MI5 records are made public...
(Just for information; I don't really care what you call him, he probably doesn't either.)
... and why can't you just say "two weeks" for the love ofThe guy's an Aussie. 'Fortnight' is in general use in Oz and the UK, and has no pretentious nor archaic overtones. I get the feeling that it's use has been deprecated in the US fork of the language, but this isn't a valid point to beat someone up over.
'thickness' may have been ambiguous - I was using it to mean cross-sectional area, which is the generally accepted usage among electricians in the UK. ( 10mm^2 cable is four times as thick as 2.5mm^2 cable). I understand that you may have taken it to mean diameter, but that was not my intent.
Someone should really mod this up - all the lectures from 1973 on are available as webcasts, which include stuff from Attenborough, Dawkins and Sagan specifically aimed at children. I remember seeing a lot of the 70's ones at the time and being blown away by most of them, even though I had no idea who the lecturers were.
Also the power loss in the cable will be ten times as great (I^2 * R). If you want comparable performance from your cable it would need to be 100 times as thick, so 100 - 150 mm^2 for a lighting circuit.
(Perhaps that's why most of the civilized world runs on 400/230 V / 50 Hz )
er... the F/OSS community?
(This was AVG running on W2K, installed on the second partition of a SATA drive, any or all of which could be factors in the problem, but still it's probably wise to disable any AV before running Wubi)
I've been trying to 'turn' him for ages, and thought the 'Install inside Windows' thing would be the clincher, but I think the experience probably put him off for another couple of years. Shame really, as this does seem a very intuitive distro (speaking as a Slackware user - in fact if you do an 'apt-get install emacs latex links build-essential' it even starts to look like linux )
aw c'mon - everybody knows ubuntu is zulu for 'can't install debian'
e=mc^2 works with SI units, but not with BTUs, troy ounces and furlongs per fortnight. The point is that the Joule is defined in terms of kilograms, metres and seconds, BUT is based on the newtonian concept of kinetic energy. The fact that the exponent is exactly 2 (for a mass at rest) is still a gobsmackingly non-trivial idea, since c^2 is not 'just a constant', but has dimensions (m^2*s^-2). Since joules have dimensions kg*m^2*s^-2 you might well expect a constant of proportionality to be expressed in these units, but the fact that this would be equal to the square of the velocity of light expressed in these same units is not just something that automatically follows from the original definition of those units.