Problem is, their insurance rate would also be higher if they did something innovative, risky or unknown. Innovation would be punished by this, because it would never have time to blossom.,
Jesus H Jeremiah Christ. That is such a dumb idea it is difficult to even begin to contemplate it.
Thats the problem with all the Linux freak fanatics. Every problem is simple to solve on a white box with the command line and the stuff you get from the gnu textutils. It must be so because its free, right??!
While we are on the subject, are there any people who could recommend displays that are tiled in such a way tht the LCD panels are either directly next to each other or at the least have a very thin edge between them?
With all due respect typgraphics is a 600 year old art/science. The controls there did not change for hundred of years because it is probably the most mature thing you get. Why the need to change everything every 10 years, I dunno.
Yeah, and the reason I switched to Indesign was TeX. Chist that is a bad shit program. IF you are not writing papers, that it, because that is ALL Tex is good for.
I wish you Slashdot haters would cut the crap. XP Home sure as shit does not cose 300 Dollars. It costs less than Tiger. In fact, Xp Home is not much more expensive than suse Linux.
ANd because the natives would be way more interested in spending the money on clean drinking water, schools and hospitals to cure other things that kill them sin much greater numbers such as Gastrointestinal Parasites, Cholera, Common Flu and Malaria.
Virus-induced haemmoragic fever (Ebola Marburg, Congo and a few others) are an extremely rare diseases that does really not affect many people. Ebola and Marburg has more schock value than anything else, mostly because if the way they kill and the fact that no-one knew about their existence when they first broke out.
That said, the USSR weaponized Marburg for their Bioweapons program and maybe, just maybe, some easily distributed strain still exists somewhere waiting for an accident to happend.
That healthcare provider part is very important since in the beginning almost half of the people who died from the disease were the missionary doctors and nurses in the villages where it first broke out.
They simply did not know what they were dealing with since the disease had not been seen before, and because in the places where ebola is prevalent the sanitary standard of the West is simply non-existent.
Epidemics are like fires. The ones that burn really fast consume their fuel too quickly and then die out.
Ebola is probably not really a virus well adapted to humans. At any given time the chance that there is nobody in the world sick with it is quite high, youonly hear about sporadic outbreaks once in a while (maybe 8 times or soo in 20 years if I recall). Marburg is even rarer. So the virus lives in other organisms and once in a while it accidentally reaches humans kills of a few hundred and then the infection dies out in a month. This is not good for the long time suvival of the virus itself, which is what the virus wants to achieve.
That said, HIV was for many years a Simian virus and somewhere in the 1960's adapted to Homo Sapiens. But HIV (and influenza's) trick is that you can carry it and be contagious WITHOUT dying for a long time. Ebola is not like that, as far as we know. So from an epidemical point of view the virus is a minor nuisance.
The big thing about Ebola is the gruesome way in which people die, which makes for great headlines in the tabloid press, and the fact that it suddenly appeared from nowhere in 1976 and tht certainly added to the fear factor. HIV also suddenly appeared from nowehre in about 1980, but it does not dissolve the flesh of its victims so nobody cared for along time, and, in fact, nobody knew it existed for quite a while.
Read "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett sometime. Its an amazing book.
Well, an Powerbook would be a great match for Itanic because Power, of the electric sort, is what you will need to get Power of the MIPS sort.
Maybe Apple developed a Plutonium Powerplant too. I swear Steve's reality distortion field would get that through the EPA, DOE and Congress. Now if he could just get the people to deal with the foldable heatsink blades on the back of the Powerbook...
Programmer: I think everything should be done in green monospaced letters on a black background and commands typed in.
HCI: We should use a gui which actually uses the principles of the lovely art of typography established over hundreds of years and and a mouse.
Programmer: What's this mouse thing you talk about? And typo schmypo. Just use Arial or Courier.
HCI: A mouse is something that the users can use to change their presentation by pointing to the part that needs to be changed.
Programmer: No, they should use Latex and a makefile to their presentations with vi on a lovely green-on-black monospaced screen.
HCI: But the users would hate that! And what does that bring??!
Programmer: fuck the users! And besides, then they can ssh from the other side of the world to make their presentation! From a VT100 terminal connected with a serial line to a cellphone!! Yeah! Toys!!!
I can second that. One thing that irks me in OO is the idea that simple things like adding two numbers is also supposed to be a message sent to an object. Link 2 + 3 is the message +3 send to 2. This is complete crap.
OO's problem lies in the deep fundamentals, the basic values from which objects are constructed. Despite all the Python people's whining, Java did it right with the distincion of an Integer and an int. An Integer has both a value AND a location. It has a specific ID. An int represents the universal value. This is something the fanatic-OO languages like Python and Ruby get wrong. There is a difference between a value and the location with a refernce in which the value is stored. A fundamental one.
You don't get it. I paid money for a book which had an example in it which was not tested by the user. It cost me some hours of work to figure out what the problem was. The book I bought specifically to solve that one particular problem. It was a total waste of my time and money.
Your Linux problem an be fixed. The book 8my copy of it) cannot since it is not trustworthy because the friggin author did not check his code examples (the one in question was obviously sucked out of his thumb because it looks like something similar he assumed it is the same).
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Yeah, and I pasted a code example from that goddamn book and guess what, IT DID NOT WORK. It was not tested. Bye bye book. Fortunately I read it on Safari.
Actually they would not be terribly overjoyed if their kids who had been watching people blowing apart on television would do this in real life either.
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Problem is, their insurance rate would also be higher if they did something innovative, risky or unknown. Innovation would be punished by this, because it would never have time to blossom.,
Um, the G5's are quiter because they are liquid cooled. That does jack up the price a bit though.
So what. My Commodore 64 boots instantly
A Lamborghini Countach is like Birgitte Bardot. Best when appreciated from a three quarters rear view.
Jesus H Jeremiah Christ. That is such a dumb idea it is difficult to even begin to contemplate it.
Thats the problem with all the Linux freak fanatics. Every problem is simple to solve on a white box with the command line and the stuff you get from the gnu textutils. It must be so because its free, right??!
While we are on the subject, are there any people who could recommend displays that are tiled in such a way tht the LCD panels are either directly next to each other or at the least have a very thin edge between them?
With all due respect typgraphics is a 600 year old art/science. The controls there did not change for hundred of years because it is probably the most mature thing you get. Why the need to change everything every 10 years, I dunno.
Yeah, and the reason I switched to Indesign was TeX. Chist that is a bad shit program. IF you are not writing papers, that it, because that is ALL Tex is good for.
I wish you Slashdot haters would cut the crap. XP Home sure as shit does not cose 300 Dollars. It costs less than Tiger. In fact, Xp Home is not much more expensive than suse Linux.
I have a better idea. I'll send you my address and you send your worthless G5 to me! I'll even pay postage!
ANd because the natives would be way more interested in spending the money on clean drinking water, schools and hospitals to cure other things that kill them sin much greater numbers such as Gastrointestinal Parasites, Cholera, Common Flu and Malaria.
Virus-induced haemmoragic fever (Ebola Marburg, Congo and a few others) are an extremely rare diseases that does really not affect many people. Ebola and Marburg has more schock value than anything else, mostly because if the way they kill and the fact that no-one knew about their existence when they first broke out.
That said, the USSR weaponized Marburg for their Bioweapons program and maybe, just maybe, some easily distributed strain still exists somewhere waiting for an accident to happend.
That healthcare provider part is very important since in the beginning almost half of the people who died from the disease were the missionary doctors and nurses in the villages where it first broke out.
They simply did not know what they were dealing with since the disease had not been seen before, and because in the places where ebola is prevalent the sanitary standard of the West is simply non-existent.
Epidemics are like fires. The ones that burn really fast consume their fuel too quickly and then die out.
Ebola is probably not really a virus well adapted to humans. At any given time the chance that there is nobody in the world sick with it is quite high, youonly hear about sporadic outbreaks once in a while (maybe 8 times or soo in 20 years if I recall). Marburg is even rarer. So the virus lives in other organisms and once in a while it accidentally reaches humans kills of a few hundred and then the infection dies out in a month. This is not good for the long time suvival of the virus itself, which is what the virus wants to achieve.
That said, HIV was for many years a Simian virus and somewhere in the 1960's adapted to Homo Sapiens. But HIV (and influenza's) trick is that you can carry it and be contagious WITHOUT dying for a long time. Ebola is not like that, as far as we know. So from an epidemical point of view the virus is a minor nuisance.
The big thing about Ebola is the gruesome way in which people die, which makes for great headlines in the tabloid press, and the fact that it suddenly appeared from nowhere in 1976 and tht certainly added to the fear factor. HIV also suddenly appeared from nowehre in about 1980, but it does not dissolve the flesh of its victims so nobody cared for along time, and, in fact, nobody knew it existed for quite a while.
Read "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett sometime. Its an amazing book.
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And I want to see Slasdot turn into a site for people with intelligent opinions!
Well, an Powerbook would be a great match for Itanic because Power, of the electric sort, is what you will need to get Power of the MIPS sort.
Maybe Apple developed a Plutonium Powerplant too. I swear Steve's reality distortion field would get that through the EPA, DOE and Congress. Now if he could just get the people to deal with the foldable heatsink blades on the back of the Powerbook...
John Dvorak also wrote this in a column recently
Programmer: I think everything should be done in green monospaced letters on a black background and commands typed in.
HCI: We should use a gui which actually uses the principles of the lovely art of typography established over hundreds of years and and a mouse.
Programmer: What's this mouse thing you talk about? And typo schmypo. Just use Arial or Courier.
HCI: A mouse is something that the users can use to change their presentation by pointing to the part that needs to be changed.
Programmer: No, they should use Latex and a makefile to their presentations with vi on a lovely green-on-black monospaced screen.
HCI: But the users would hate that! And what does that bring??!
Programmer: fuck the users! And besides, then they can ssh from the other side of the world to make their presentation! From a VT100 terminal connected with a serial line to a cellphone!! Yeah! Toys!!!
Users and HCI: Who the hell cares! We quit!!
Sigh. Slashdot is becoming a site more fanatic than Al Qaeda. If its microsoft is MUST OBVIOUSLY be less reliable than MySQL. Stupid idiots.
I can second that. One thing that irks me in OO is the idea that simple things like adding two numbers is also supposed to be a message sent to an object. Link 2 + 3 is the message +3 send to 2. This is complete crap.
OO's problem lies in the deep fundamentals, the basic values from which objects are constructed. Despite all the Python people's whining, Java did it right with the distincion of an Integer and an int. An Integer has both a value AND a location. It has a specific ID. An int represents the universal value. This is something the fanatic-OO languages like Python and Ruby get wrong. There is a difference between a value and the location with a refernce in which the value is stored. A fundamental one.
And curiously, thos Intel handheld chips are StrongARMS which were not originally developed by Intel.
You don't get it. I paid money for a book which had an example in it which was not tested by the user. It cost me some hours of work to figure out what the problem was. The book I bought specifically to solve that one particular problem. It was a total waste of my time and money.
Your Linux problem an be fixed. The book 8my copy of it) cannot since it is not trustworthy because the friggin author did not check his code examples (the one in question was obviously sucked out of his thumb because it looks like something similar he assumed it is the same).
Yeah, and I pasted a code example from that goddamn book and guess what, IT DID NOT WORK. It was not tested. Bye bye book. Fortunately I read it on Safari.
Actually they would not be terribly overjoyed if their kids who had been watching people blowing apart on television would do this in real life either.