...are OVER-biased distro-haters or pro-FSF and anti-FSF preachers and hypocrites (all four possibilities). They strongly bias newcomers to Linux against or for certain distributions without letting them know that distros are not human beings and typically Linux distros are not like the Windows OS. Any advice of NOT going to so-and-so distro prevents the n00b from seeing a distro that might actually be good for him.
B0rking the install is possible/common in *ALL* distros - depends on the user, but these fucking trolls or perverts effectively waste people's valuable time by preventing them from using a certain distro - what do they _gain_?
NOTHING.
YET, they stop you from using a particular distro. Fuckers. Trolls. Lord Linus take note of this. St Ignucius, take note of this. Like you take note of everything else needed or not. Fuckers. Crooks. Rogues.
seen HBD Venture capital? Why does not Bill ask Steve to copy HBD? All of them can be controlled directly, indirectly or otherwise at will by bribing enough of the important people at the right places, as usual. Teach people fishing instead of giving them fish. Start a nice new licensing scheme for M$ products where you get them on a loan for 10 years if you plan to start a tech company. Why no BMGF Venture Capital for Third World? Why no use of Bill's business acumen to expand the M$ enterprise into a huge network of Venture Capital firms? Why is Bill not copying the VC route HBD takes? I'm not well-informed in the ways money moves in the world, but I can see enough good being dine by VCs in California and Tech in general and specifically HBD in SA, another place where Billg's heart would yearn to help out the poor and the needy. In short, why give bad infected fish for free when you can teach them how to fish for better fish and for lesser, at higher profits? It's complete mismanagement of the process of empowerment of the poor. A man of Billg's business acumen and global vision cannot be technically incomepetent to fail to recognize this simple fact. Some big questions remian unanswered. As for RMS, well, he has his ways.
Well done, sir! Millions sell their vote to false promises and thousands to hard cash, all over the world, and in the US, a select few, for billions, sell not only their vote, but even their veto!
Punish him hard. And then the rest of them harder. And the worst of them, hardest!
I missed out Virtual Bait, Vague and Blurred, and many others which I'm now missing out... The concept and practice of war itself is perfectly overdue for retirement. Alas! Many do not agree to that. They also dont agree with the possibility of intelligent life outside our solar system or for that matter, in an outside dimension we cannot perceive at all. We're just one or two evolutionary steps above monkeys. We also show behaviors far lower, far too often as well. The universe itself is far ahead of us - that you simply cannot dispute, at least in terms of the number of years it's been around and systematically and steadfastly organizing billions upon billions of spectacles for an audience that is a bunch of chimps++ (6 billion is "a bunch" in cosmic terms, and if you cant figure that out, dont come to this site) and unable to perceive most of it even with "such tremendous technological advancement". War ought to have been history in 1945. Sadly, we're chimps++.
but I found Col. Bircher's responses to be, well, Vacuous, and loaded with Bureaucrateze I definitely can't imagine wanting to join an institution with the kind of internal culture that makes someone waffle with such content-free, acronym-laden earnestness.
the article's about solar and we're talking peta and ethics. So please pardon my digression too - helping people is far more difficult for a common man than helping stray dogs or in general stray animals. SPCAs aim to introduce compassion into ignorant minds, of course for the sake of animals alone. But that ends up making people compassionate to the poor, the homeless, the hungry, probably because compassion is the same to our brains. Typically, a large majority of people hardly ever think of others, let alone act for. Most pet owners use the pet for personal comfort or satisfaction (no goats please, thanks) Very few think of dignity for animals. That's damn true statistics. PETA does some thing in that respect - maybe at 10% efficiency - that's the way the freedom-of-speech and democratic world works - you say what is important to you.
A network-map like interface to show history and to load linked pages based on a rule list.
This is probably the eye-candy that you need to tempt users (while you secretly and benevolently bundle security features) to switch to the secure, opensource, standards-compliant browser which can render 2D and maybe VRML well from markup.
And the data is stored "on multiple redundant servers across geographies for the safety of your data" - where laws can vary and so privacy policies are plainly redundant.
One of the things that we really need is some system that implements a legal essential requirement for all databases to store data in encrypted format of at least so-and-so strength. If not a legal requirement, at least a "competitive offering" by tools of economics. This does not mean anything more than awareness actually, because there's no law against "unforeseen circumstances or acts of God or blah blah..." - far too many thing need to go right. But a password and https isn't enough.
There are many things that Google does really well, and I plan to advocate that some of these things be adopted at Microsoft.
Microsoft is copying, again.
XEROX PARC - GUI Lotus, WordStar, dBASE - Office, FoxPro Java - WORA -.Net RDBMS - Sybase UNIX - ACL Google Search, Yahoo Web - Live Adobe Flash, Java Games - Silverlight Google Processes - management - ?? ?? === cutting flab - expect some layoffs or transfers to "promote software in thrid world to enrich the lives of poor" - that neatly explains billg's "move to philanthrophy" - he's a slimy bastard from day one - he'll go in the name of studying living conditions and study the market personally and very, very carefully. Then sit with some scum at various 3-letter fuckups in the US Govt, get some priority treatment for getting in bed with them and "bail out" MS from their huge technical fuckup called Vista. These are guys who decided to leave after studying the way Google works for one year. No suprise here, recconnaisance in the open.
When is human life HUMAN is where religion steps in.
Given that every day we kill millions of pain-perceiving innocent animals when awake and feeling the pain for our "healthy food", killing embryos is, from an _alien_ point of view, killing a much much lesser life-form. It is nature's defective design that you need to perform a strange act to reproduce which involves starting from one single cell into more than a few trillion (AFAIK). An embryo hardly knows of its own existence, maybe even lesser than a virus (earlier said to be on the line between living an non-living) or a bacterium. When awareness of the organism before murder is brought in, the topic becomes very different and highly scientific, not *religious*. One extreme would be to say that use of reproductive fluids by either sex is a crime unless intended for actual reproduction. The other extreme is to screw merrily and abort ruthlessly.
Look, women menstruate, without choice. So, nature itself allows "ready eggs" to go waste. If Nature is fine with that and women have learnt, maybe individually very painfully, to live with menstruation, and everyone is OK with it, then abortion should probably make a lot of sense if the woman so decides. I know this article is about in vitro fertilization and not about (un)invited fertilization, yet this point is related and this is slashdot.
Normally, the thing separating a ready egg and a fertilized egg is a funny 2-minute act where you actually do the opposite of what you do the rest of your life - expose all your private parts ever so boldly and even use them without much *thought*. How many human males and females have all the self-control or scientific wisdom to refrain from the oh-just-two-minutes act?
If you choose the scientific way, look up google and old slashdot articles - more sex means less intelligent work and poorer quality of intellect. It's probably something to do with the amount of electricity passing through the wrong nerves in far higher amounts than usual... Have you observed your own reactions to tickling? So, while it may be "fun to have sex", if you're interested in a good career, better intellect, or a higher IQ, stay away from this fucking business. It fucks up other things than your ding-a-ling. For those who can prevent conversion of "ready eggs" (ova and sperm both) into "embryos" a few hours later (or whatever) this much should suffice as the intelligent choice. But what do you do of the others? Religion tried and failed, apparently. Science can succeed, but for vociferous protests from enjoying practitioners who care less about their intellectual improvement and more about their nervous pleasure.
Returning to the topic, I think selecting of embryos makes sense because you're killing a totally "unaware of its existence" organism to give a much better life to another similar organism.
There's only this much place on this planet - we're six billion and we've already butchered the hell out of this planet in just the last 500 years.
So, if all embryos were selected well, all humans in such a society would all be reasonable people with lesser affection for violence and more for other peoples.
It's a simple cost/benefit analysis: If you're murdering the bad embryos, you're ensuring that the ones passing the test are the good ones - they'll have a good life. A bit like euthanasia, maybe. Of course, that's a lot of things that must go right - you should be able to isolate the "goodness" gene - the "giving" gene and the "no-violence" gene and so on. But if we have the tech, for want of knowledge and/or advice from "God", we have to take the next best step. Lastly, let the women decide. Of course, if that's the idea, slashdot is the wrong place to discuss this.
PS: Mods, in a way, this means that Slashdot is off-topic;-)
ummm.. by the way, you/could/ use mediawiki as a quick-and-dirty source code versioning system as long as there's only a few members in the team and/or the code is small - maybe a few ten thousand lines of code totally.
Wonderful history and diff built-in, web-access fit in documents wherever you want. Effective in certain situations.
X + (0.0000001)X is also a recognized patent unless it's disproved by a case wherein the lawyers try to get probably the reciprocal of the incremental fraction mentioned above in USD. That's the problem. The sytem is run by lawyers, not even by greedy techies.
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...are OVER-biased distro-haters or pro-FSF and anti-FSF preachers and hypocrites (all four possibilities).
They strongly bias newcomers to Linux against or for certain distributions without letting them know that distros are not human beings and typically Linux distros are not like the Windows OS.
Any advice of NOT going to so-and-so distro prevents the n00b from seeing a distro that might actually be good for him.
B0rking the install is possible/common in *ALL* distros - depends on the user, but these fucking trolls or perverts effectively waste people's valuable time by preventing them from using a certain distro - what do they _gain_?
NOTHING.
YET, they stop you from using a particular distro.
Fuckers. Trolls.
Lord Linus take note of this.
St Ignucius, take note of this.
Like you take note of everything else needed or not.
Fuckers. Crooks. Rogues.
Ignore them!
seen HBD Venture capital?
Why does not Bill ask Steve to copy HBD?
All of them can be controlled directly, indirectly or otherwise at will by bribing enough of the important people at the right places, as usual.
Teach people fishing instead of giving them fish.
Start a nice new licensing scheme for M$ products where you get them on a loan for 10 years if you plan to start a tech company.
Why no BMGF Venture Capital for Third World?
Why no use of Bill's business acumen to expand the M$ enterprise into a huge network of Venture Capital firms?
Why is Bill not copying the VC route HBD takes?
I'm not well-informed in the ways money moves in the world, but I can see enough good being dine by VCs in California and Tech in general and specifically HBD in SA, another place where Billg's heart would yearn to help out the poor and the needy.
In short, why give bad infected fish for free when you can teach them how to fish for better fish and for lesser, at higher profits?
It's complete mismanagement of the process of empowerment of the poor.
A man of Billg's business acumen and global vision cannot be technically incomepetent to fail to recognize this simple fact.
Some big questions remian unanswered.
As for RMS, well, he has his ways.
Well done, sir!
Millions sell their vote to false promises and thousands to hard cash, all over the world, and in the US, a select few, for billions, sell not only their vote, but even their veto!
Punish him hard.
And then the rest of them harder.
And the worst of them, hardest!
'open' will be a very important condition.
History books are waiting for you.
I missed out Virtual Bait, Vague and Blurred, and many others which I'm now missing out...
The concept and practice of war itself is perfectly overdue for retirement.
Alas! Many do not agree to that.
They also dont agree with the possibility of intelligent life outside our solar system or for that matter, in an outside dimension we cannot perceive at all.
We're just one or two evolutionary steps above monkeys. We also show behaviors far lower, far too often as well.
The universe itself is far ahead of us - that you simply cannot dispute, at least in terms of the number of years it's been around and systematically and steadfastly organizing billions upon billions of spectacles for an audience that is a bunch of chimps++ (6 billion is "a bunch" in cosmic terms, and if you cant figure that out, dont come to this site) and unable to perceive most of it even with "such tremendous technological advancement".
War ought to have been history in 1945.
Sadly, we're chimps++.
but I found Col. Bircher's responses to be, well, Vacuous, and loaded with Bureaucrateze
I definitely can't imagine wanting to join an institution with the kind of internal culture that makes someone waffle with such content-free, acronym-laden earnestness.
Any patterns you find interesting?
the article's about solar and we're talking peta and ethics. So please pardon my digression too - helping people is far more difficult for a common man than helping stray dogs or in general stray animals. SPCAs aim to introduce compassion into ignorant minds, of course for the sake of animals alone. But that ends up making people compassionate to the poor, the homeless, the hungry, probably because compassion is the same to our brains. Typically, a large majority of people hardly ever think of others, let alone act for. Most pet owners use the pet for personal comfort or satisfaction (no goats please, thanks) Very few think of dignity for animals. That's damn true statistics.
PETA does some thing in that respect - maybe at 10% efficiency - that's the way the freedom-of-speech and democratic world works - you say what is important to you.
everything in a name
There's lies, damn lies, then there's statistics.
yeah, the Broadband doesn't want Dial-up users.
The Broadband now wants Pay-up users.
and only then did we win.
someone is summarizing for me according to his algorithm which i have no clue about as an end user.
Of course so does a pirated copy of MS Office.
That's half the truth. The other half is that Genuine does not work equally well.
(Been there, bought that)
+1, fungle!
Revenge of the mighty jurrassic mice in the year of the rat?
beowulf clusters of weather cocks ;-)
would be a boom for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries ?
intentions, motivations yet unknown, but observation correct.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher
A network-map like interface to show history and to load linked pages based on a rule list.
This is probably the eye-candy that you need to tempt users (while you secretly and benevolently bundle security features) to switch to the secure, opensource, standards-compliant browser which can render 2D and maybe VRML well from markup.
using an illustration
there
And the data is stored "on multiple redundant servers across geographies for the safety of your data"
- where laws can vary and so privacy policies are plainly redundant.
One of the things that we really need is some system that implements a legal essential requirement for all databases to store data in encrypted format of at least so-and-so strength.
If not a legal requirement, at least a "competitive offering" by tools of economics.
This does not mean anything more than awareness actually, because there's no law against "unforeseen circumstances or acts of God or blah blah..." - far too many thing need to go right.
But a password and https isn't enough.
For example, see http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
There are many things that Google does really well, and I plan to advocate that some of these things be adopted at Microsoft.
Microsoft is copying, again.
XEROX PARC - GUI .Net
Lotus, WordStar, dBASE - Office, FoxPro
Java - WORA -
RDBMS - Sybase
UNIX - ACL
Google Search, Yahoo Web - Live
Adobe Flash, Java Games - Silverlight
Google Processes - management - ??
?? === cutting flab - expect some layoffs or transfers to "promote software in thrid world to enrich the lives of poor" - that neatly explains billg's "move to philanthrophy" - he's a slimy bastard from day one - he'll go in the name of studying living conditions and study the market personally and very, very carefully.
Then sit with some scum at various 3-letter fuckups in the US Govt, get some priority treatment for getting in bed with them and "bail out" MS from their huge technical fuckup called Vista.
These are guys who decided to leave after studying the way Google works for one year.
No suprise here, recconnaisance in the open.
'Real men' program in assembly....
When is human life HUMAN is where religion steps in.
Given that every day we kill millions of pain-perceiving innocent animals when awake and feeling the pain for our "healthy food", killing embryos is, from an _alien_ point of view, killing a much much lesser life-form. It is nature's defective design that you need to perform a strange act to reproduce which involves starting from one single cell into more than a few trillion (AFAIK).
An embryo hardly knows of its own existence, maybe even lesser than a virus (earlier said to be on the line between living an non-living) or a bacterium.
When awareness of the organism before murder is brought in, the topic becomes very different and highly scientific, not *religious*.
One extreme would be to say that use of reproductive fluids by either sex is a crime unless intended for actual reproduction.
The other extreme is to screw merrily and abort ruthlessly.
Look, women menstruate, without choice.
So, nature itself allows "ready eggs" to go waste. If Nature is fine with that and women have learnt, maybe individually very painfully, to live with menstruation, and everyone is OK with it, then abortion should probably make a lot of sense if the woman so decides.
I know this article is about in vitro fertilization and not about (un)invited fertilization, yet this point is related and this is slashdot.
Normally, the thing separating a ready egg and a fertilized egg is a funny 2-minute act where you actually do the opposite of what you do the rest of your life - expose all your private parts ever so boldly and even use them without much *thought*. How many human males and females have all the self-control or scientific wisdom to refrain from the oh-just-two-minutes act?
If you choose the scientific way, look up google and old slashdot articles - more sex means less intelligent work and poorer quality of intellect. It's probably something to do with the amount of electricity passing through the wrong nerves in far higher amounts than usual...
Have you observed your own reactions to tickling?
So, while it may be "fun to have sex", if you're interested in a good career, better intellect, or a higher IQ, stay away from this fucking business. It fucks up other things than your ding-a-ling.
For those who can prevent conversion of "ready eggs" (ova and sperm both) into "embryos" a few hours later (or whatever) this much should suffice as the intelligent choice.
But what do you do of the others?
Religion tried and failed, apparently.
Science can succeed, but for vociferous protests from enjoying practitioners who care less about their intellectual improvement and more about their nervous pleasure.
Returning to the topic, I think selecting of embryos makes sense because you're killing a totally "unaware of its existence" organism to give a much better life to another similar organism.
There's only this much place on this planet - we're six billion and we've already butchered the hell out of this planet in just the last 500 years.
So, if all embryos were selected well, all humans in such a society would all be reasonable people with lesser affection for violence and more for other peoples.
It's a simple cost/benefit analysis:
If you're murdering the bad embryos, you're ensuring that the ones passing the test are the good ones - they'll have a good life. A bit like euthanasia, maybe.
Of course, that's a lot of things that must go right - you should be able to isolate the "goodness" gene - the "giving" gene and the "no-violence" gene and so on.
But if we have the tech, for want of knowledge and/or advice from "God", we have to take the next best step.
Lastly, let the women decide.
Of course, if that's the idea, slashdot is the wrong place to discuss this.
PS: Mods, in a way, this means that Slashdot is off-topic ;-)
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ummm.. by the way, you /could/ use mediawiki as a quick-and-dirty source code versioning system as long as there's only a few members in the team and/or the code is small - maybe a few ten thousand lines of code totally.
Wonderful history and diff built-in, web-access fit in documents wherever you want. Effective in certain situations.
X + (0.0000001)X is also a recognized patent unless it's disproved by a case wherein the lawyers try to get probably the reciprocal of the incremental fraction mentioned above in USD.
That's the problem.
The sytem is run by lawyers, not even by greedy techies.