One was recently quite frustrated that they weren't able to open PDF files with Word, the idea that files required specific applications to be used was a revelation. (Yeah, I might have been able to get it to work, but simple is better.)
I feel the same way when I see people pasting screenshots or saving pictures in Word rather than Paint or a real graphics program. My web design teacher does this.
I know we geeks don't exercise much, but if you've atrophied that badly, you might want to consider doing something about it. Maybe you should buy a heavier mouse.
I have never had any problems with any of those. In KDE or Gnome.
Strangely, a year and a half after switching to Linux for good, I find myself in a base install of Debian running Blackbox because the Ubuntu and Kubuntu were so convenient that I realized I wasn't learning anything. I didn't want to be dependent on the GUI.
...meaning it's cheaper for IBM to sell a Windows machine and be paid by advertisers than it is to sell a machine with nothing on it?.
There is nothing (besides marketshare) stopping those advertisers from making their junk for Linux. If all the OEMs decided to switch, the advertisers would switch, too.
Ok. Honestly, the best source I have found on the subject was this book, (lousy title, I know) but I don't have it available.
Anyways, on the logistics of all the animals fitting on the ark and feeding them, I think I will point you towards this page: The author puts more theism into it than I would (paragraphs 2-5 are the most level-headed and have most of the relevant information), but the basic concept is the same as presented in the book I mentioned. There was also a mention of floating islands in the book as possible refuges for some animals (I don't know how seaworthy they are, though).
One thing he does not elaborate on very well is the hibernating (and the fact that the animals would need less food during that time, which I brought up in my previous post). The hibernating also takes care of most of the waste control problem (less food in means less waste out) and the predator/prey conflicts (you don't need to hunt if you are well-fed and sleeping alot).
As for disease control, I am not sure exactly how much weight to apply to that argument. I'm not a vet. I do know that I rarely get sick (and I am not the most sanitary of people), so maybe they were just lucky.
A story about an ark carrying two of every animal in existence with enough food and supplies to last them forty days and forty nights...
It was 7 for the livestock. And the waters didn't recede immediately after the rains ended. They were in there for a while.
On the flip side of the coin, Noah didn't need a pair of all animal species. Only one pair of wild dogs would have been sufficient to develop all of our wolf and dog breeds, for example. Oxen, buffalo, cows...same story. etc.
Also, I understand that mammals in kept in dim, confined spaces for long periods of time will go into semi-hibernation (and eat less food).
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That said, I do like the lock-on-public-storage-space analogy the GP invokes...
WHAT?!?! But it's not a CAR ANALOGY!!1one!
Any improvements to Debian would propagate down to all of it's decendants. It's much easier than pushing improvements back upstream.
Hp Accessible Linux 9000
Or HAL 9000 for short.
I think most OEMs would license OSX if Apple were willing, but Apple has been burned by that in the past.
One was recently quite frustrated that they weren't able to open PDF files with Word, the idea that files required specific applications to be used was a revelation. (Yeah, I might have been able to get it to work, but simple is better.)
I feel the same way when I see people pasting screenshots or saving pictures in Word rather than Paint or a real graphics program. My web design teacher does this.
I know we geeks don't exercise much, but if you've atrophied that badly, you might want to consider doing something about it. Maybe you should buy a heavier mouse.
And I forgot the obligatory xkcd reference.
"If Vista is so good, why are you being $20/hour to stand around and tell me how good it is?"
Well, that's certainly a new trick.
So... paid beta testers?
I have never had any problems with any of those. In KDE or Gnome.
Strangely, a year and a half after switching to Linux for good, I find myself in a base install of Debian running Blackbox because the Ubuntu and Kubuntu were so convenient that I realized I wasn't learning anything. I didn't want to be dependent on the GUI.
You mean from a different planet, which I would count as "in space". Two nodes on Mars would be an intraplanetary network.
Interplanetary Internet Tested In Space.
Uhh, where else would they test it?
...meaning it's cheaper for IBM to sell a Windows machine and be paid by advertisers than it is to sell a machine with nothing on it?.
There is nothing (besides marketshare) stopping those advertisers from making their junk for Linux. If all the OEMs decided to switch, the advertisers would switch, too.
None of the preinstalled malware. How's that for value?
To me it means the OEM licence price that gets passed on to the consumer.
I doubt it.
If he has made his way to slashdot, he is most likely already spending too much time on the internet.
Ok. Honestly, the best source I have found on the subject was this book, (lousy title, I know) but I don't have it available.
Anyways, on the logistics of all the animals fitting on the ark and feeding them, I think I will point you towards this page:
The author puts more theism into it than I would (paragraphs 2-5 are the most level-headed and have most of the relevant information), but the basic concept is the same as presented in the book I mentioned.
There was also a mention of floating islands in the book as possible refuges for some animals (I don't know how seaworthy they are, though).
One thing he does not elaborate on very well is the hibernating (and the fact that the animals would need less food during that time, which I brought up in my previous post). The hibernating also takes care of most of the waste control problem (less food in means less waste out) and the predator/prey conflicts (you don't need to hunt if you are well-fed and sleeping alot).
As for disease control, I am not sure exactly how much weight to apply to that argument. I'm not a vet. I do know that I rarely get sick (and I am not the most sanitary of people), so maybe they were just lucky.
First Forest?
Sure. Although I would prefer a discussion over mockery.
Replying to get your hopes up when you see that someone has replied to you.
Some people will do anything for karma.
This is what the "Friend" feature is for.
A story about an ark carrying two of every animal in existence with enough food and supplies to last them forty days and forty nights...
It was 7 for the livestock. And the waters didn't recede immediately after the rains ended. They were in there for a while.
On the flip side of the coin, Noah didn't need a pair of all animal species. Only one pair of wild dogs would have been sufficient to develop all of our wolf and dog breeds, for example. Oxen, buffalo, cows...same story. etc.
Also, I understand that mammals in kept in dim, confined spaces for long periods of time will go into semi-hibernation (and eat less food).
Probably. I don't remember.