I do think Apple are worse than MS. Apple is responsible for translating the closed Console ecosystem to phones, tablets, and soon, PCs. Insisting on a 30% cut of whatever they do allow you to sell on their platform is quite bad.
MS are malevolent old-school nerds. Apple is monopoly 2.0.
Is marriage a purely religious, or also a social, legal, romantic... institution ? Is it purely about procreating, or also about sharing a life, commitment, love... ?
Marriage is the union between a man and a woman same as parenthood is about raising the fruit of your loins. ie, not.
I think most parents are not competent to chose/direct their kids' education. The sad thing is, most teachers might not be, either, but I'm sure more parents aren't. Teaching a kid is more complicated than fixing a car, making a good pizza, or admin-ing a PC, and I sure do none of those (except maybe one ^^). Even the good-enough parents are probably better off being hands-off, and *complementing* what teachers do. In middle and high-school I had far-right teachers, communists, gays, obiously frigid, borderline nymphomaniac, family guys and playboys/girls (and surprisingly these last dichotomies don't overlap that much)... Makes for an interesting learning experience. And the old-fashioned non-techie teachers were usually the most efficient and fun ones, too.
It's because of that winner takes all model that opensource and freemium make sense. If you know you're not gonna make it to the billions, why not open source it and make money on related services ? That's much smaller revenue, but better than none. Do you think Red Hat could have gotten to where they're at now with a closed OS ? cf Novell ?
They could preach slavery, rape, murder, hating on gays/women/divorcees. Oh wait, that would probably let them justify having a state on top of a religion ^^
I think there's some confusion between conservative, dogmatic, libertarian, and objectivist. And others... Because conservatism (of the hysterical kind) is so dominant, anything non-conservative is deemed libertarian, even when it is something else.
Not so much ignorance as fear. There's a lot I don't know, and don't care about. But global warming scares me, immigrants scare me, joblessness scares me, the young scare me, old age scares me... religion subsumes all fears into the fear of god, and gives us a way to make good. Americans need to be less afraid.
Seen from abroad, the US are incredibly religious and moralistic. A presidential candidate organizing public prayers would make headlines here, and probably disqualify himself, or at least look like an extremist. A multi-divorcee apostate adulterer wouldn't rate one sentence (I'm fairly sure we've had a bunch of those in France ^^).
Most countries also had a fairly good dose of paganism, slavery, torture, misogyny, neighbourly hate, police state.. that does not make them core values of the nation nor the state. Apart from the fact that if the church wants to do politics, it should register as a political party, i want church and state to be separate, otherwise we're just going for different flavours of talibans.
Most if not all of the founding fathers were very leery of religion ("a lighthouse is more useful than a Church"...).It's fascinating how the original, free-thinking US have been turned into such a bigotted a state that politicians have to fill stadiums with prayer meetings. And all the more so since the bible say that worshipping publicly is the devil's work, so not only bigotted, but in a false (the higher-ups) and idiotic (the lower-downs) way. And the way out of this ess is not even to argue that logic and reason should win over religion, but that the politicized, public, for-pay version of religion that has evolved is evil per se, and denounced as thus in the bible.
Don't try to reason with a bigot. Scripture him into shame.
Instead of tacking function after function onto the same server, I'd encourage you to use several small ones, including the $35 Raspberry Pi. That way one one piece of software starts to go haywire, it doesn't bring the whole shebang down with it. Also, I'd go for fewer, larger disks. As long as you do backups it's not more risky, and it's a lot more practical. HDs reach 4TB these days, so you're talking 2 HD for your existing data, a 3rd one more more capacity, and double that for backups.
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The OS is a free (as in beer) download if you want to use your own SD, or you can buy an SD with the S preinstalled.
no.
Not so. Windows and Palm phones could get apps and content from anywhere.
Very untrue. Windows phone sucked, but they could get content and apps from anywhere. As did Palm stuff.
MS didn't.
I do think Apple are worse than MS. Apple is responsible for translating the closed Console ecosystem to phones, tablets, and soon, PCs. Insisting on a 30% cut of whatever they do allow you to sell on their platform is quite bad.
MS are malevolent old-school nerds. Apple is monopoly 2.0.
If he were a banker he'd get a bonus ?
Crap don't sell because sales rep suck. And raids wipe because healers suck.
Next: but, Your Honor, she was really asking for it !
and double whooosh !
whooosh !
Is marriage a purely religious, or also a social, legal, romantic... institution ?
Is it purely about procreating, or also about sharing a life, commitment, love... ?
Marriage is the union between a man and a woman same as parenthood is about raising the fruit of your loins. ie, not.
Try offering your women something other than money. Maybe culture, personality, ... . You'll attract a different, better type of woman.
I think most parents are not competent to chose/direct their kids' education. The sad thing is, most teachers might not be, either, but I'm sure more parents aren't. Teaching a kid is more complicated than fixing a car, making a good pizza, or admin-ing a PC, and I sure do none of those (except maybe one ^^).
Even the good-enough parents are probably better off being hands-off, and *complementing* what teachers do. In middle and high-school I had far-right teachers, communists, gays, obiously frigid, borderline nymphomaniac, family guys and playboys/girls (and surprisingly these last dichotomies don't overlap that much)... Makes for an interesting learning experience. And the old-fashioned non-techie teachers were usually the most efficient and fun ones, too.
Now I get it !
It's because of that winner takes all model that opensource and freemium make sense. If you know you're not gonna make it to the billions, why not open source it and make money on related services ? That's much smaller revenue, but better than none. Do you think Red Hat could have gotten to where they're at now with a closed OS ? cf Novell ?
Wrong. Any teacher that fails to teach must be fired. I'm fairly sure some teachers can teach very well without computers/calculators/projectors/...
Don't mistake the tools for the end result.
They could preach slavery, rape, murder, hating on gays/women/divorcees.
Oh wait, that would probably let them justify having a state on top of a religion ^^
I think there's some confusion between conservative, dogmatic, libertarian, and objectivist. And others...
Because conservatism (of the hysterical kind) is so dominant, anything non-conservative is deemed libertarian, even when it is something else.
Since always, the fag is not sacred.
Not so much ignorance as fear. There's a lot I don't know, and don't care about. But global warming scares me, immigrants scare me, joblessness scares me, the young scare me, old age scares me... religion subsumes all fears into the fear of god, and gives us a way to make good.
Americans need to be less afraid.
Seen from abroad, the US are incredibly religious and moralistic. A presidential candidate organizing public prayers would make headlines here, and probably disqualify himself, or at least look like an extremist. A multi-divorcee apostate adulterer wouldn't rate one sentence (I'm fairly sure we've had a bunch of those in France ^^).
Most countries also had a fairly good dose of paganism, slavery, torture, misogyny, neighbourly hate, police state.. that does not make them core values of the nation nor the state.
Apart from the fact that if the church wants to do politics, it should register as a political party, i want church and state to be separate, otherwise we're just going for different flavours of talibans.
Actually, the funny thing is no, it wasn't.
Most if not all of the founding fathers were very leery of religion ("a lighthouse is more useful than a Church"...).It's fascinating how the original, free-thinking US have been turned into such a bigotted a state that politicians have to fill stadiums with prayer meetings. And all the more so since the bible say that worshipping publicly is the devil's work, so not only bigotted, but in a false (the higher-ups) and idiotic (the lower-downs) way.
And the way out of this ess is not even to argue that logic and reason should win over religion, but that the politicized, public, for-pay version of religion that has evolved is evil per se, and denounced as thus in the bible.
Don't try to reason with a bigot. Scripture him into shame.
Instead of tacking function after function onto the same server, I'd encourage you to use several small ones, including the $35 Raspberry Pi. That way one one piece of software starts to go haywire, it doesn't bring the whole shebang down with it.
Also, I'd go for fewer, larger disks. As long as you do backups it's not more risky, and it's a lot more practical. HDs reach 4TB these days, so you're talking 2 HD for your existing data, a 3rd one more more capacity, and double that for backups.