There was a study some time ago in Austria that let a self-proclaimed healer (basically a quack in my opinion) and an actor "treat" two groups of people suffering from incurable cancer. The patients, being in a "real" study, of course got medical treatment as well.
The results quack vs. actor were really interesting:
In both groups nearly the same amount of people felt significantly better after a treatment. A lot of them even reported that the positive effects were noticeable for a few days.
I recently talked to someone who is involved in brain research (in fact he does pain studies but that's got a lot to do with the brain) and he told me that still no one knows how brains work. He told me that we may know a lot but, when it comes to "higher" creatures, we are using trial and error.
So for me it sounds a bit odd if someone predicts AI will surpass our intelligence in 20/40/80 years without even knowing what makes us intelligent or how to define means of measure to compare both.
I hate focus-follows-pointer and disliked any tiling window-manager I ever tried even more.
Users like me will have the **option** to enable a single-windowed interface as well as docking. If you don't like either you just refrain from docking windows or touching that "screw my GIMP up"-setting.
But why am I telling you this, you read the article and just wanted to troll, didn't you?
Me too.
My new notebook wants an "FN+F10, then release Fn" procedure to get a SysRq event, which was confusing at first, but still better than no SysRq at all.
???
I do rimshots all the time for which I use a stick in my left or right hand or sometimes (for the sake of mere brutality) both together, but orifice? What orifice?
May it possibly be that some women do call a certain area their g-spot and others don't simply because some physically do have that spot and others don't?
I mean, that could magically explain, why scientists are having such a hard time with that boolean topic (or question).
As far as I know, what "they do on almost all other Linux distributions" is to ask for the user's password, because that's what sudo normally does if you don't add "Defaults rootpw" to it's config file.
They must have meant that.
As someone who works with Linux-systems a lot I implicitly know that saving to pdf means you won't be able to edit it later. BUT, I call that process exporting.
If they really wanted to make a difference between "export to bitmap" and "export to some other format" they should call it "render to bitmap" because that's what it does (IMHO you can't "export" an svg to png).
Ahh, and I thought his children were penguins and he was sitting in his room all day and night eating pizza and flaming people on lkml.
Well, I guess I'll have to revise my image of kernel hackers then...
No.
When you upload your C/ASM-code to your ÂC, e.g Atmel, then âoeyou are programming to tell the *hardware* what to doâ.
Downloading to an FPGA is like telling it what to be.
Windows came along with a single environment and suddenly *that* was the attractive place to develop software.
Wrong. Completely wrong.
Windows was cheap. People could afford Windows, so lots of them did. Mass = money and here we've got the reason why lots of software were and are being developed for MS' systems.
It never was about the "single environment", but about a new market. AND you are missing the real point: Most of the software being sold or developed for Windows is either crap or something a decent OS should feature anyway (that's what Mac users always say and they are right).
And the software people need to run for real productivity purposes - Autocad, Photoshop, things like that - are all for Windows.
Ahahahaha. Photoshop. THE Mac's killer application used by nearly 100% of professional designers. You can't be serious.
The only way Linux can hope to succeed is to present a unified environment to developers *and* users.
I'm a web developer. For big projects I have to consider Opera, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer (5.5-8). Those browsers do have something in common: They
a) don't present users a consistent UI (not even that IE crap) and
b) render pages differently.
No consistent, unified experience here. Following your logic: the web is dead.
Unix derivatives are dead on the desktop. Ok, there are a handful of slashdotters using Linux in their basements [...]
Linux is and never was a Unix derivative but OS/X definitely is.
Yes, that means the over-complex KDE will have to die.
Ah, here I finally got the point. You're not a troll - you simply don't have a clue.
I'm so happy you're not the one to decide to kill such a great project as KDE (said by a Gnome user).
Well, the real question is: Why?
Ubuntu users got their Firefox/Iceweasel/Ubufox with GTK-Toolkit. On the other hand, if I had to choose between Konqueror or Chrome I'd rather take choose Chrome (provided it was stable and available).
Lucky me, I prefer Gnome and Firefox.
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There was a study some time ago in Austria that let a self-proclaimed healer (basically a quack in my opinion) and an actor "treat" two groups of people suffering from incurable cancer. The patients, being in a "real" study, of course got medical treatment as well.
The results quack vs. actor were really interesting:
In both groups nearly the same amount of people felt significantly better after a treatment. A lot of them even reported that the positive effects were noticeable for a few days.
Sad but true.
I recently talked to someone who is involved in brain research (in fact he does pain studies but that's got a lot to do with the brain) and he told me that still no one knows how brains work.
He told me that we may know a lot but, when it comes to "higher" creatures, we are using trial and error.
So for me it sounds a bit odd if someone predicts AI will surpass our intelligence in 20/40/80 years without even knowing what makes us intelligent or how to define means of measure to compare both.
Ctrl-C/V? I thought we were supposed to use the second mouse button after highlighting? ;-)
I hate focus-follows-pointer and disliked any tiling window-manager I ever tried even more. Users like me will have the **option** to enable a single-windowed interface as well as docking. If you don't like either you just refrain from docking windows or touching that "screw my GIMP up"-setting. But why am I telling you this, you read the article and just wanted to troll, didn't you?
Actually if clicky-button-people install the package gnome-genius (in Debian) they won't be very pleased.
Me too. My new notebook wants an "FN+F10, then release Fn" procedure to get a SysRq event, which was confusing at first, but still better than no SysRq at all.
"CSS support."
"Huh?"
"CSS support. The first CSS implementation that did not make us web-developers want to kill ourselves."
??? I do rimshots all the time for which I use a stick in my left or right hand or sometimes (for the sake of mere brutality) both together, but orifice? What orifice?
seed plz!!!!1
No, that's the "M-spot" (some people also refer to it as "bling bling").
May it possibly be that some women do call a certain area their g-spot and others don't simply because some physically do have that spot and others don't? I mean, that could magically explain, why scientists are having such a hard time with that boolean topic (or question).
the female orgasm = myth
My girlfriend seemed to have a couple of those myths a few minutes ago. And now there's that question in my mind...
As far as I know, what "they do on almost all other Linux distributions" is to ask for the user's password, because that's what sudo normally does if you don't add "Defaults rootpw" to it's config file. They must have meant that.
You did not really read my response, did you?
As someone who works with Linux-systems a lot I implicitly know that saving to pdf means you won't be able to edit it later. BUT, I call that process exporting. If they really wanted to make a difference between "export to bitmap" and "export to some other format" they should call it "render to bitmap" because that's what it does (IMHO you can't "export" an svg to png).
Even better: You can't disable your on-board chip because a manufacturer crippled the BIOS.
Imagine a fork of Open Office, it isn't very likely...
I imagined that fork and, likely or not, here it is: http://www.go-oo.org/
...he could give up whenever he wants to.
That's always something that can happen. For instance ReiserFS made it's way into the kernel and turned out to be a pain in the ass to maintain.
all of which have nothing to do with linux.
Ahh, and I thought his children were penguins and he was sitting in his room all day and night eating pizza and flaming people on lkml. Well, I guess I'll have to revise my image of kernel hackers then...
No. When you upload your C/ASM-code to your ÂC, e.g Atmel, then âoeyou are programming to tell the *hardware* what to doâ. Downloading to an FPGA is like telling it what to be.
Windows came along with a single environment and suddenly *that* was the attractive place to develop software.
Wrong. Completely wrong.
Windows was cheap. People could afford Windows, so lots of them did. Mass = money and here we've got the reason why lots of software were and are being developed for MS' systems.
It never was about the "single environment", but about a new market. AND you are missing the real point: Most of the software being sold or developed for Windows is either crap or something a decent OS should feature anyway (that's what Mac users always say and they are right).
And the software people need to run for real productivity purposes - Autocad, Photoshop, things like that - are all for Windows.
Ahahahaha. Photoshop. THE Mac's killer application used by nearly 100% of professional designers. You can't be serious.
The only way Linux can hope to succeed is to present a unified environment to developers *and* users.
I'm a web developer. For big projects I have to consider Opera, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer (5.5-8). Those browsers do have something in common: They
a) don't present users a consistent UI (not even that IE crap) and
b) render pages differently.
No consistent, unified experience here. Following your logic: the web is dead.
Unix derivatives are dead on the desktop. Ok, there are a handful of slashdotters using Linux in their basements [...]
Linux is and never was a Unix derivative but OS/X definitely is.
Yes, that means the over-complex KDE will have to die.
Ah, here I finally got the point. You're not a troll - you simply don't have a clue.
I'm so happy you're not the one to decide to kill such a great project as KDE (said by a Gnome user).
Linux is about choice and freedom.
Well, the real question is: Why? Ubuntu users got their Firefox/Iceweasel/Ubufox with GTK-Toolkit. On the other hand, if I had to choose between Konqueror or Chrome I'd rather take choose Chrome (provided it was stable and available). Lucky me, I prefer Gnome and Firefox.