US isn't the country that imprisons people for denying the holocaust.
No, the US is the country that imprisons people without any charges or trial at all. The country that kidnaps people and takes them to countries where they can get away with torturing them to death.
This was featured on UK's Channel4 as part of their Torture season. It was called "Torture: The Dirty Business". You can probably find a torrent of it on uknova or something. It's incredibly disturbing though; don't watch if you have a weak stomach.
Your numbers aren't quite right. "Linux server revenues rose 35.6 percent to $1.3bn and accounted for nearly 10 percent of all server sales worldwide. Linux server shipments grew 29.1 percent, to 326,000 units, year-on-year."
Your figures are more up to date. Mine are from the third quarter 2004, yours from the fourth. It's still growing at more than twice the rate of Windows Server. That's pretty good.;-)
As has been pointed out, you're mistaken. I actually installed 2.11 (I thought it was 2.0, but that site says I'm misremembering) on a 286. I believe it was the last version of Windows that asked if you wanted to install to Hard Disk or Floppy!
After reading tfa I simply have to say this guy really gets it. And I've been saying this for years, I'll promote linux because I'd rather try than give up, but I feel it's a losing battle because of fragmentation.
Well, he makes a good argument, as do you. It just has one minor flaw: it doesn't match the observed reality.
I remember when people were claiming that Linux would never succeed on the server for pretty much the same reasons. Yet now we see Linux server sales topping $1 billion, with growth of 42.6 percent.
Although desktop sales haven't grown quite as swiftly, and the numbers are more difficult to find for obvious reasons, but IDC predicts about 16 percent growth over the next couple of years.
If you look at stats from w3schools.com, Linux hits increased from 2.2 percent to 3.2 percent over the past two years. This doesn't sound like much but it's a 45 percent increase!
Five years ago, there wasn't a single UK Linux magazine, now there are three.
It used to be that large desktop deployments of Linux were greeted with "Wow! That's cool!", and now it's "*Yawn* Another one. Nothing new here!"
Perhaps someone thought that one day we'd wake up to find Linux on every desktop in the world. It was never going to happen like that. Only MS can do that because one week every computer in the shop is running Win2K and the next they're running XP.
So, everywhere I look I see stories about Linux growth with figures over 40 percent, increased awareness in the media, more Linux support from hardware manufacturers and it's been increasing every single year. And yet, you say "I feel it's a losing battle". Man, what exactly do you want to count as success?! If this is failure, I like it...;-)
Ahh..unlucky if you're in an area that can't receive Freeview. That should really be the substance of your complaint! The BBC does churn out some crap on BBC1, but I guess people like that stuff, and they need to compete with the dross on ITV1. The other channels do have some good stuff though. Try Freeview when your area can get it.
t may be the most unhealthy part of our society, but is certianly not as unhealthy as starving because you can't afford food...
I hate that phrase. Yeah, really, whenever I see a group of Americans, the first thing I think is "Oh, there must be a real food shortage over there..."
BBC2: Horizon: Documentary telling the story of one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world, the Moche Newsnight: In depth news The Culture Show: Verity Sharp looks at the best arts and culture stories of the week. Woody Allen talks about his latest film, Melinda and Melinda, and there's a feature on children's author Jacqueline Wilson. Plus the secret world of fonts - why the words we write look the way they do.
BBC3: Ok, fair enough, that's Comic Relief stuff all night
BBC4: Yes, Prime Minister:-P
BBC News 24: News and stuff
You make it sound as though it's all crap soap operas and comedies, when it's nothing of the kind. I suggest you're just not being picky enough in your viewing.
As a further point, if you have kids, it's worth it alone for the two Advert free children's channels.
Wonder if the "buy black and white licence and turn the colour saturation down when the inspectors turn up" trick will still wash;)
Funny, but I can attest it doesn't. A friend got pulled up for it and only got away with it when it was realised that the Landlord had a licence for the house anyway.
No doubt the inspector had cunningly remembered that they don't make 42" plasma screen home entertainment systems in black and white....;)
When you make a copy from a legal copy you are stealing energy, you are forgetting about the energy levels, even a simple act of reading a book removes some of the matter-energy from the book.
No, it doesn't. Reading a book or viewing a picture requires adding energy.
Since you're obviously incapable of reading or reasoning, there seems little point in continuing with this. I have better things to do than trade insults with juvenile halfwits.
Oh, don't be stupid. It explains and proves nothing except that I've presented you with facts and cites and rather than admit that you were mistaken you prefer to try a personal attack. No-one is interested in punishing the US. I'm not even much of an environmentalist (though shouldn't we all care about the planet we live on? I certainly should do more) but I do try and keep up with what's happening in science.
Class envy? I'm from the UK. What makes you so sure you've got a better standard of living than I do?
Are you going to accept the facts presented now, or do you have more excuses?
Firstly, the solar activity page you linked to says: "While the established view remains that the sun cannot be responsible for all the climate changes we have seen in the past 50 years or so, this study is certainly significant"
and
"He added, however, that the study also showed that over the past 20 years the number of sunspots had remained roughly constant, while the Earth's temperature had continued to increase."
That's the second time you've provided me with a page that states the exact opposite of your argument!
Secondly, McIntyre and McKitrick NEVER claimed the data were fabricated. They said that the statistical techniques used to analyse the data were incorrect and that erronous data were used. Also, I did a bit of googling on them and came up with this page which has a long rant supporting them, but adds at the bottom:
"I've been in touch with Kevin Hennessy from CSRO Division of Atmospheric Research in Aspendale, Victoria who's preparing a response for the newspapers. He says, "Bob Carter didn't mention the greater body of evidence for global warming documented by the IPCC, paid little attention to flaws identified in the papers by Soon, Baliunas, McIntyre and McKitrick, and failed to alert us of the latest research by Mann and Jones in 2003, which confirms that the 20th Century warming in the Northern Hemisphere is greater than at any time in the past 1800 years."
So, the very guys that you're using as evidence for lack of global warming went on to confirmed it!
Re climate and chaos: no, this is just wrong...and you're confusing climate and weather...and being able to predict the climate would have no implications whatsoever for predicting the stock market, any more than modelling turbulence would...
It's not my link, it's *your* link. Of course it's a computer model; what the fuck do you think climatologists use?! You asked for what climatologists thought, and I provided it using a link you gave me.
What you don't realise is that the every serious scientist knows that global warming is occuring now. Dismissing it is on a par with Creationism as far as science goes. Bet you believe in that too...
In the link you provided, the climatologist (Wigley) quotes "the IPCC statement that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate""
What that influence is: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/370.htm
This has been happening for several thousand years. What's your point?
Actually, it's been going on for several hundred thousand years. I don't know what his point is, but it should be that for the first time in the history of homo-sapiens we are in a position to eradicate poverty and war entirely. We have both the resources and the political clout to do so and therefore we should. What was your point?
If you've got cash, you want SMS. If not, you want SUS (basically though, you'll have one machine download the updates, and the others get them from that machine).
There's something you're missing in the uninstall (I know; you shouldn't have to do this...) IIRC, when I got stuck on a previous version, I uninstalled, deleted all folders in Program Files that referred to Mozilla, Firefox, Firebird or Phoenix.
Deleted Documents and Settings\Username\Application Settings\[all Moz, Firefox, etc]
Deleted from Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla and mozilla.org
There might have been other stuff from older installs...I just kept searching till it was all gone. It worked fine then...
I guess these are the dangers of using pre-1.0 software:-)
Slashdot Mirror
See here.
This was featured on UK's Channel4 as part of their Torture season. It was called "Torture: The Dirty Business". You can probably find a torrent of it on uknova or something. It's incredibly disturbing though; don't watch if you have a weak stomach.
More on the Channel4 website here
As has been pointed out, you're mistaken. I actually installed 2.11 (I thought it was 2.0, but that site says I'm misremembering) on a 286. I believe it was the last version of Windows that asked if you wanted to install to Hard Disk or Floppy!
I remember when people were claiming that Linux would never succeed on the server for pretty much the same reasons. Yet now we see Linux server sales topping $1 billion, with growth of 42.6 percent.
Although desktop sales haven't grown quite as swiftly, and the numbers are more difficult to find for obvious reasons, but IDC predicts about 16 percent growth over the next couple of years.
If you look at stats from w3schools.com, Linux hits increased from 2.2 percent to 3.2 percent over the past two years. This doesn't sound like much but it's a 45 percent increase!
Five years ago, there wasn't a single UK Linux magazine, now there are three.
It used to be that large desktop deployments of Linux were greeted with "Wow! That's cool!", and now it's "*Yawn* Another one. Nothing new here!"
Perhaps someone thought that one day we'd wake up to find Linux on every desktop in the world. It was never going to happen like that. Only MS can do that because one week every computer in the shop is running Win2K and the next they're running XP.
So, everywhere I look I see stories about Linux growth with figures over 40 percent, increased awareness in the media, more Linux support from hardware manufacturers and it's been increasing every single year. And yet, you say "I feel it's a losing battle". Man, what exactly do you want to count as success?! If this is failure, I like it...
Ahh..unlucky if you're in an area that can't receive Freeview. That should really be the substance of your complaint! The BBC does churn out some crap on BBC1, but I guess people like that stuff, and they need to compete with the dross on ITV1. The other channels do have some good stuff though. Try Freeview when your area can get it.
This is unfair...Consider, tonight:
:-P
BBC1:
Question Time
BBC2:
Horizon: Documentary telling the story of one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world, the Moche
Newsnight: In depth news
The Culture Show: Verity Sharp looks at the best arts and culture stories of the week. Woody Allen talks about his latest film, Melinda and Melinda, and there's a feature on children's author Jacqueline Wilson. Plus the secret world of fonts - why the words we write look the way they do.
BBC3:
Ok, fair enough, that's Comic Relief stuff all night
BBC4:
Yes, Prime Minister
BBC News 24:
News and stuff
You make it sound as though it's all crap soap operas and comedies, when it's nothing of the kind. I suggest you're just not being picky enough in your viewing.
As a further point, if you have kids, it's worth it alone for the two Advert free children's channels.
Since you're obviously incapable of reading or reasoning, there seems little point in continuing with this. I have better things to do than trade insults with juvenile halfwits.
Oh, don't be stupid. It explains and proves nothing except that I've presented you with facts and cites and rather than admit that you were mistaken you prefer to try a personal attack. No-one is interested in punishing the US. I'm not even much of an environmentalist (though shouldn't we all care about the planet we live on? I certainly should do more) but I do try and keep up with what's happening in science.
Class envy? I'm from the UK. What makes you so sure you've got a better standard of living than I do?
Are you going to accept the facts presented now, or do you have more excuses?
Ahh..so now we're ignoring what the climatologists say in favour of what...Michael Crichton says?
His book is addressed here. What he fails to realise in the quote you provided is that local cooling does not indicate global cooling.
I don't know anything about anarchists in Seattle. I'm not American.
It's not arrogance, it's fact.
Firstly, the solar activity page you linked to says: "While the established view remains that the sun cannot be responsible for all the climate changes we have seen in the past 50 years or so, this study is certainly significant"
and
"He added, however, that the study also showed that over the past 20 years the number of sunspots had remained roughly constant, while the Earth's temperature had continued to increase."
That's the second time you've provided me with a page that states the exact opposite of your argument!
Secondly, McIntyre and McKitrick NEVER claimed the data were fabricated. They said that the statistical techniques used to analyse the data were incorrect and that erronous data were used. Also, I did a bit of googling on them and came up with this page which has a long rant supporting them, but adds at the bottom:
"I've been in touch with Kevin Hennessy from CSRO Division of Atmospheric Research in Aspendale, Victoria who's preparing a response for the newspapers. He says, "Bob Carter didn't mention the greater body of evidence for global warming documented by the IPCC, paid little attention to flaws identified in the papers by Soon, Baliunas, McIntyre and McKitrick, and failed to alert us of the latest research by Mann and Jones in 2003, which confirms that the 20th Century warming in the Northern Hemisphere is greater than at any time in the past 1800 years."
So, the very guys that you're using as evidence for lack of global warming went on to confirmed it!
Re climate and chaos: no, this is just wrong...and you're confusing climate and weather...and being able to predict the climate would have no implications whatsoever for predicting the stock market, any more than modelling turbulence would...
It's not my link, it's *your* link. Of course it's a computer model; what the fuck do you think climatologists use?! You asked for what climatologists thought, and I provided it using a link you gave me.
What you don't realise is that the every serious scientist knows that global warming is occuring now. Dismissing it is on a par with Creationism as far as science goes. Bet you believe in that too...
In the link you provided, the climatologist (Wigley) quotes "the IPCC statement that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate""
What that influence is: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/370.htm
1: "Box" isn't used as a slang term in the USA
or
2: Slashdot is even geekier than I thought...or perhaps less geeky...I'm not sure now...
Not a real reply. Bookmarking for use on my own computer. NCP, UWIN.
If you've got cash, you want SMS. If not, you want SUS (basically though, you'll have one machine download the updates, and the others get them from that machine).
SPSS is available for Mac OSX. It used to be available for some Unix, but maybe they've dropped that now...
Interface? What? This isn't Powerpoint! How did they manage when you had to use SPSS syntax for everything?!
2004 - Gulf War2 (Fill in your own)
There's something you're missing in the uninstall (I know; you shouldn't have to do this...) IIRC, when I got stuck on a previous version, I uninstalled, deleted all folders in Program Files that referred to Mozilla, Firefox, Firebird or Phoenix.
:-)
Deleted Documents and Settings\Username\Application Settings\[all Moz, Firefox, etc]
Deleted from Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla and mozilla.org
There might have been other stuff from older installs...I just kept searching till it was all gone. It worked fine then...
I guess these are the dangers of using pre-1.0 software