Modern mainstream Christianity won't say that go to church because it will bring you luck, actually that's what the whole reformation was about. (It also had a financial part.)
"See? If all you are saying is that some being out there exists who affects life on earth in some undetectable way, then yeah, it's pretty pointless. But any preacher who preaches that doesn't know his religion."
So, how do you disprove e.g. Calvinism (or modern Catholicism), as they say exactly that. And they don't make predictions.
"People already showed willingness to give up freedom in the transition from 1980s 8-bit home computers, which were used in part for playing video games on TVs, to locked-down video game consoles."
Well, that's only true to America and maybe Western Europe.
I'm having a hard time imagineing this future. With desktop PCs people got a sense of freedom (i.e. running whatever you want), and they won't give it up easily. Also, people have sometimes hobbies, like graphics or music, and these need beefy computers. I'm from an Eastern European country, and what I see, is even people who had laptops are coming back to desktops when in financial hardship (i.e. broken parts are cheaper to replace; can be quite costly for a student).
But there's a much more mundane reason. People want warez. If the tablets enforce some form of DRM, or are simply inconvenient to use for getting/consuming warez, they won't catch up in Eastern markets.
LingNoi answered it instead of me. My addition would be that we still have "linking" mentioned in GPL. How is that relevant for Java/C#/Python/Ruby projects? 1, expecting all software to be free is being out of touch with reality in my book 2, expecting people to use subpar software just because of licensing (see multimedia; has the FSF had any multimedia project ever?) 3, he said he's fine with paying for services, while Software as a Service was already in full swing
Well, by default Ubuntu server doesn't have GUI, but you can install one if you want to. Also, what is the difference between a server and a desktop kernel (guess mainly scheduling and paging strategies), and how significant is it? (I have not much experience running Linux servers.)
My guess is that the Win 8 you run on desktop won't be the same that you'll run on ARM. So you have to take the lowest common denominator, and that'll be stuff that run on Metro. My guess is that your use-case isn't popular enough to create a distinct Win 8 version.
You assume that porting application just happens magically without any environmental footprint.
Actually it requires quite a bit of developer work, and those developers need stuff like food, gasoline in their cars, natural gas to heat their home, and electricity to power their computers. And it this might exceed the savings by ARM desktops. (Also this means getting rid of your old x86 machine). If this whole thing takes off, the more likely scenario is that some people will have both ARM desktop and x86 one as well, as they run incompatible programs, just like we have with gaming consoles now.
I only know a little C/C++, I'm more a Java developer, so please forgive my cluelessness, so... Is the problem the C language itself, or the programming culture that C has fostered (including books, tutorials etc. )? Is there a language that offer native performance with better portability (like e.g. D) ? As far as I know even in C# you're subject to the whims of the garbage collector.
Well, Ubuntu Server doesn't come with a GUI, so I would suggest normal desktop Ubuntu and then download the servers from the Software Center that you need. Also, go with LTS.
"Africa is both the epicenter for the disease, and is a poverty-stricken continent where people need to have families, and relatively large ones at that, in order to be taken care of in their old age. These features are sufficient to explain the sustained high infection rate without resorting to the racist twaddle you're apparently peddling. "
Oh boy, you're so full of bullshit.
"Medical experts have shown a clear association between HIV exposure and coerced sex. Wives who suffer violence if they request condom use or faithfulness are at higher risk of AIDS than unmarried women and girls. That is why defeating the AIDS pandemic requires a second radical proposition: that African women and girls have the right to protection under their own countries' laws.
Why is this concept radical? Because public justice systems in many AIDS-burdened countries are broken or virtually inaccessible to poor girls and women. Rape and beatings are simply the norm, and deterrence and accountability for these crimes in Africa is as rare as AIDS drugs used to be."
"Rape, including child rape, is increasing at shocking rates in South Africa. Sexual violence against children, including the raping of infants, has increased 400% over the past decade (Dempster, 2002). According to a report by BBC news, a female born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped in her lifetime than learning how to read (Dempster, 2002). When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, there were already 18,801 cases of rape per year, but by 2001 there were 24,892 (Dempster, 2002). Numbers vary by different institutions, but are nevertheless extremely troubling. The Institute of Race Relations found that more than 52,000 rapes were reported in 2000, and 40% of the victims were under age 18 (du Venage, 2002). The University of South Africa reports that 1 million women and children are raped there each year (South Africa: Focus on the Virgin Myth, 2002)."
I never quite got this command line fetish (and I mean here bash). You're supposed to to simple things in the commandline, if you need something more complicated then use a proper scripting language like Python or Perl. And people shared Python/Perl snippets from the beginning of time.
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"Fact is, NOBODY should have been involved in WWI, it was a very stupid war. "
Yeah, 35 million dead and no Jews killed? That's just totally pointless.
By intelligent I meant driverless. That's still in prototype phase.
Say hello to H.264.
There's no post-PC marketplace, it's all just hype. (Just like intelligent homes/cars were around 2000.)
Modern mainstream Christianity won't say that go to church because it will bring you luck, actually that's what the whole reformation was about. (It also had a financial part.)
Hey, Google said they don't do evil!
"See? If all you are saying is that some being out there exists who affects life on earth in some undetectable way, then yeah, it's pretty pointless. But any preacher who preaches that doesn't know his religion."
So, how do you disprove e.g. Calvinism (or modern Catholicism), as they say exactly that. And they don't make predictions.
"People already showed willingness to give up freedom in the transition from 1980s 8-bit home computers, which were used in part for playing video games on TVs, to locked-down video game consoles."
Well, that's only true to America and maybe Western Europe.
I'm having a hard time imagineing this future. With desktop PCs people got a sense of freedom (i.e. running whatever you want), and they won't give it up easily. Also, people have sometimes hobbies, like graphics or music, and these need beefy computers.
I'm from an Eastern European country, and what I see, is even people who had laptops are coming back to desktops when in financial hardship (i.e. broken parts are cheaper to replace; can be quite costly for a student).
But there's a much more mundane reason. People want warez. If the tablets enforce some form of DRM, or are simply inconvenient to use for getting/consuming warez, they won't catch up in Eastern markets.
Agreed. Tablets and smartphones are nice, when you're not near a PC, but otherwise pale in comparison. They'll coexist.
You mean 10 million Americans shift to tablet, and that suddenly destroys the PC market with 3 billion users?
Would you explain what commit cabal is?
LingNoi answered it instead of me. My addition would be that we still have "linking" mentioned in GPL. How is that relevant for Java/C#/Python/Ruby projects?
1, expecting all software to be free is being out of touch with reality in my book
2, expecting people to use subpar software just because of licensing (see multimedia; has the FSF had any multimedia project ever?)
3, he said he's fine with paying for services, while Software as a Service was already in full swing
dd -n 1000 bread
Torvalds was always more pragmatic than Stallman. And Stallman is getting more out of touch with reality, not having programmed the last 20 years.
"Even if you cut down a forest, ..." ... oops ...
Or it will simply become a desert
You don't want to cut down a whole forest.
Well, by default Ubuntu server doesn't have GUI, but you can install one if you want to.
Also, what is the difference between a server and a desktop kernel (guess mainly scheduling and paging strategies), and how significant is it? (I have not much experience running Linux servers.)
My guess is that the Win 8 you run on desktop won't be the same that you'll run on ARM. So you have to take the lowest common denominator, and that'll be stuff that run on Metro. My guess is that your use-case isn't popular enough to create a distinct Win 8 version.
You assume that porting application just happens magically without any environmental footprint.
Actually it requires quite a bit of developer work, and those developers need stuff like food, gasoline in their cars, natural gas to heat their home, and electricity to power their computers. And it this might exceed the savings by ARM desktops. (Also this means getting rid of your old x86 machine). If this whole thing takes off, the more likely scenario is that some people will have both ARM desktop and x86 one as well, as they run incompatible programs, just like we have with gaming consoles now.
I only know a little C/C++, I'm more a Java developer, so please forgive my cluelessness, so ...
Is the problem the C language itself, or the programming culture that C has fostered (including books, tutorials etc. )? Is there a language that offer native performance with better portability (like e.g. D) ? As far as I know even in C# you're subject to the whims of the garbage collector.
Well, Ubuntu Server doesn't come with a GUI, so I would suggest normal desktop Ubuntu and then download the servers from the Software Center that you need. Also, go with LTS.
"Africa is both the epicenter for the disease, and is a poverty-stricken continent where people need to have families, and relatively large ones at that, in order to be taken care of in their old age. These features are sufficient to explain the sustained high infection rate without resorting to the racist twaddle you're apparently peddling. "
Oh boy, you're so full of bullshit.
"Medical experts have shown a clear association between HIV exposure and coerced sex. Wives who suffer violence if they request condom use or faithfulness are at higher risk of AIDS than unmarried women and girls. That is why defeating the AIDS pandemic requires a second radical proposition: that African women and girls have the right to protection under their own countries' laws.
Why is this concept radical? Because public justice systems in many AIDS-burdened countries are broken or virtually inaccessible to poor girls and women. Rape and beatings are simply the norm, and deterrence and accountability for these crimes in Africa is as rare as AIDS drugs used to be."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/13/AR2006081300716.html
"Rape, including child rape, is increasing at shocking rates in South Africa. Sexual violence against children, including the raping of infants, has increased 400% over the past decade (Dempster, 2002). According to a report by BBC news, a female born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped in her lifetime than learning how to read (Dempster, 2002). When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, there were already 18,801 cases of rape per year, but by 2001 there were 24,892 (Dempster, 2002). Numbers vary by different institutions, but are nevertheless extremely troubling. The Institute of Race Relations found that more than 52,000 rapes were reported in 2000, and 40% of the victims were under age 18 (du Venage, 2002). The University of South Africa reports that 1 million women and children are raped there each year (South Africa: Focus on the Virgin Myth, 2002)."
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444213
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2002/april/virgin.htm
Also, big families don't cause rape, you can't catch an infection from a clean partner no matter how many times you have sex.
I also wonder, how they retain cholesterol at normal body cells that need it to their normal function.
I wish I could mod you up.
I never quite got this command line fetish (and I mean here bash). You're supposed to to simple things in the commandline, if you need something more complicated then use a proper scripting language like Python or Perl. And people shared Python/Perl snippets from the beginning of time.