Of course. A person with "religious axe to grind" will claim that these are orders from God (Allah or whatever name you choose to assign to your flying spaghetti monster).
That doesn't remove the facts that most of religious commandments were actually "improve society" laws in the day and age they were given. Islam makes a great example of this: five commandments and sharia were ground breaking in many ways when they were issued. Let me give you a concrete example: human rights. Back then, women had none. They were property of their men (fathers, brothers, husbands, even sons when they came of age). If a ten women went to court against one man in Europe during Dark Ages, they would lose.
Not so under sharia. It values women as less then men, but assigns a strict value, meaning that when the threshold of "x women for every man" is overcome, judge will be forced BY LAW to take women's testimony over man's.
The reason we view these laws as massively conservative now is because society has long moved on, and now they are indeed on the conservative end of the political and legal spectrum. But this doesn't remove the merit of them once being a major progressive driver of society.
Halal meat isn't higher quality - it's usually lower quality in the West. The myth of it being "higher quality" comes from dark ages, when slaughtering animal without letting the blood drain out of it would cause blood remaining in the body to spoil extremely quickly (as blood is a very fertile soil for bacteria growth). Halal meat, while considered religious was actually started as a tradition for more healthy way of draining blood from the animal to get meat that was healthier to eat due to lower bacterial content.
Thing is, modern slaughtering techniques extract blood much more efficiently then slitting animal's throat and letting it drain while its heart still beats. As a result, just like halal meat being better quality then dark ages western meat, it's worse quality then modern industrially slaughtered meat. If you hear otherwise, know that you're talking to uninformed person or a liar with a (religious) axe to grind.
You're splitting hairs here. Unless you want to start parsing every post for "is this a real world in any of world's languages, or potential typo, or misspelling of any world in any of the world's languages or is it a binary encoded as text", as far as any system is concerned there is no difference.
No, my dear successfully brainwashed denizen. I'm not equating it to cruelty, nor am I even touching the subject of it. Cruelty has nothing to do with issue at hand.
I am talking about rehabilitation. The capability of prison to make sure that prisoner will be as capable of never becoming a criminal again, and rejoin the society as a fully functioning citizen. The fact that you are unable to draw distinction shows the extreme depth of lack of understanding of the underlying issues. I'm sure that your local private prison industry has invested significant amount of money to ensure that you are this ignorant and in fact to equate these issues, and that you will remain this way.
There is a major problem with people having been brainwashed into this line of thinking. If you ever took any courses on psychology talking about prisoner rehabilitation, you would know that the more normal the prison conditions in comparison to real life, the higher the chance of rehabilitation (and reduction of recidivism).
Of course, private industry behind prisons in US doesn't want that. It wants its "hotels" to have as high of an occupancy as possible. As a result you have massive amount of PR for "vengeance punishment of prisoners" instead of "rehabilitation of prisoners" practised in saner countries.
Nope. I tried it, and imho most of the iterations of Worms are much better for games of that genre.
But that's just me, I played Worms since the original, and I played many of their predecessors. Other then graphics, the whole "physics based catapulting game" is nothing new to me.
Most likely yes. It's a standard inflationary marketing approach which counts any and all add-ons and such as a "separate download". Notice how they do not talk about customers.
Per day. Not everyone plays daily, and these are downloads across all games. It doesn't mean there are half a billion users, just that all games and various add-ons have been downloaded this many times in total.
Well, as far as we know, Tank Man is likely dead as he's unlikely to have survived captivity after causing Chinese leadership to lose face, while the government that killed him is considered a superpower. It has grown quite a bit more powerful.
A lesson some naive people clearly haven't learned.
I think you really should watch the video in the first link. It's fairly informative on what kinds of uses MS predicts. None of them are what you are listing.
The reason why you SHOULD care about corporate world even if you don't care about corporations themselves, is because most people want to use same OS at home and at work. We've seen this problem with browsers and firefox (which worked both ways, including pushing FF to corporate world when it was adopted widely at homes). And obviously because the entire topic is about organizations/corporations moving to linux, which makes you posting here look very trollish.
And what you do with windows "if it breaks" is call MS. That said, cases where windows fails are far rarer in the corporate world then linux, which makes windows make more sense when much of your costs is in personnel efficiency, which means that if IT/user has to fuck around with the system, money is wasted.
Finally, it's not that linux itself needs to be "monolithic" as you put it. What we do need is a single functional version of linux which is widely accepted as standard, and that works for pretty much everything. You can have all the forks you want, but people who need the monolithic single software ecosystem will be able to use that one distro.
Red hat et al are trying very hard to get there. So far, their success has been largely marginal, as most of the corporate world remains entrenched in windows even when most if not all of the software used is available on linux.
Then would you care to share linux experiences on client side (i.e. are you generally just doing various windows installs for corps on wide scale or are those just individual cases, how is linux fairing in your experience when compared with other OSs, etc)? It would be interesting to see if there is indeed a single value added reseller that can deliver a working linux setup for entire municipality or similar organization for a sum comparable to that of delivery of comparable windows setup with similar costs and user satisfaction levels.
The whole "my personal old PC works fine, also I do these installs for a living" makes for a rather bad argument, and I think you would agree since you're a pro in the field.
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Of course. A person with "religious axe to grind" will claim that these are orders from God (Allah or whatever name you choose to assign to your flying spaghetti monster).
That doesn't remove the facts that most of religious commandments were actually "improve society" laws in the day and age they were given. Islam makes a great example of this: five commandments and sharia were ground breaking in many ways when they were issued. Let me give you a concrete example: human rights. Back then, women had none. They were property of their men (fathers, brothers, husbands, even sons when they came of age). If a ten women went to court against one man in Europe during Dark Ages, they would lose.
Not so under sharia. It values women as less then men, but assigns a strict value, meaning that when the threshold of "x women for every man" is overcome, judge will be forced BY LAW to take women's testimony over man's.
The reason we view these laws as massively conservative now is because society has long moved on, and now they are indeed on the conservative end of the political and legal spectrum. But this doesn't remove the merit of them once being a major progressive driver of society.
+2 is what you get to all your posts by default when you're have excellent carma and not posting as AC. Like me for example.
Halal meat isn't higher quality - it's usually lower quality in the West. The myth of it being "higher quality" comes from dark ages, when slaughtering animal without letting the blood drain out of it would cause blood remaining in the body to spoil extremely quickly (as blood is a very fertile soil for bacteria growth). Halal meat, while considered religious was actually started as a tradition for more healthy way of draining blood from the animal to get meat that was healthier to eat due to lower bacterial content.
Thing is, modern slaughtering techniques extract blood much more efficiently then slitting animal's throat and letting it drain while its heart still beats. As a result, just like halal meat being better quality then dark ages western meat, it's worse quality then modern industrially slaughtered meat. If you hear otherwise, know that you're talking to uninformed person or a liar with a (religious) axe to grind.
You're splitting hairs here. Unless you want to start parsing every post for "is this a real world in any of world's languages, or potential typo, or misspelling of any world in any of the world's languages or is it a binary encoded as text", as far as any system is concerned there is no difference.
Afaik they both find it hard, because they use the same alphabet, and it has same character for "L" and "R" sound in latin alphabet.
No, my dear successfully brainwashed denizen. I'm not equating it to cruelty, nor am I even touching the subject of it. Cruelty has nothing to do with issue at hand.
I am talking about rehabilitation. The capability of prison to make sure that prisoner will be as capable of never becoming a criminal again, and rejoin the society as a fully functioning citizen. The fact that you are unable to draw distinction shows the extreme depth of lack of understanding of the underlying issues. I'm sure that your local private prison industry has invested significant amount of money to ensure that you are this ignorant and in fact to equate these issues, and that you will remain this way.
There is a major problem with people having been brainwashed into this line of thinking. If you ever took any courses on psychology talking about prisoner rehabilitation, you would know that the more normal the prison conditions in comparison to real life, the higher the chance of rehabilitation (and reduction of recidivism).
Of course, private industry behind prisons in US doesn't want that. It wants its "hotels" to have as high of an occupancy as possible. As a result you have massive amount of PR for "vengeance punishment of prisoners" instead of "rehabilitation of prisoners" practised in saner countries.
It's already dead. The division responsible for N9 has been for all bits and purposes disbanded.
Math is hard when you haven't slept for two days. I stand redfaced and corrected.
The issue would be someone who wants to communicate with prisoner simply parking a car with Wi-Fi base station nearby.
This gives me ideas. A game where you shoot poop into toilets. While sitting on a toilet pooping.
Nope. I tried it, and imho most of the iterations of Worms are much better for games of that genre.
But that's just me, I played Worms since the original, and I played many of their predecessors. Other then graphics, the whole "physics based catapulting game" is nothing new to me.
Unfortunately CPU usage is too cheap to really care. Electricity used to play AB on the other hand would indeed be an interesting measurement.
Most likely yes. It's a standard inflationary marketing approach which counts any and all add-ons and such as a "separate download". Notice how they do not talk about customers.
That said, the game is still huge.
Per day. Not everyone plays daily, and these are downloads across all games. It doesn't mean there are half a billion users, just that all games and various add-ons have been downloaded this many times in total.
Rovio is european, so metric billion which is a thousand millions, or thousand thousand thousands (1.000.000.000).
Journalist who is probably american, assumed imperial billion which is thousand thousands (1.000.000).
Not the first nor the last time these two get confused.
Well, there is a stark difference between imperial and metric billion, in that one is 1000 times less then other. So confusion happens quite often.
Banana joke wins. "Did you know that all that evil potassium in your body is constantly irradiating you?"
Well, have you seen the US law? In total, it's so big that it's pretty certain that EVERYONE is breaking some law.
Does that mean it's undemocratic? If so, why is it supported and not fixed by democratically elected legislative body?
Well, as far as we know, Tank Man is likely dead as he's unlikely to have survived captivity after causing Chinese leadership to lose face, while the government that killed him is considered a superpower. It has grown quite a bit more powerful.
A lesson some naive people clearly haven't learned.
If this wasn't difficult, someone smarter then both of us would have done it and made good money out of it.
I think you really should watch the video in the first link. It's fairly informative on what kinds of uses MS predicts. None of them are what you are listing.
I think you're talking about nokia?
The reason why you SHOULD care about corporate world even if you don't care about corporations themselves, is because most people want to use same OS at home and at work. We've seen this problem with browsers and firefox (which worked both ways, including pushing FF to corporate world when it was adopted widely at homes). And obviously because the entire topic is about organizations/corporations moving to linux, which makes you posting here look very trollish.
And what you do with windows "if it breaks" is call MS. That said, cases where windows fails are far rarer in the corporate world then linux, which makes windows make more sense when much of your costs is in personnel efficiency, which means that if IT/user has to fuck around with the system, money is wasted.
Finally, it's not that linux itself needs to be "monolithic" as you put it. What we do need is a single functional version of linux which is widely accepted as standard, and that works for pretty much everything. You can have all the forks you want, but people who need the monolithic single software ecosystem will be able to use that one distro.
Red hat et al are trying very hard to get there. So far, their success has been largely marginal, as most of the corporate world remains entrenched in windows even when most if not all of the software used is available on linux.
Then would you care to share linux experiences on client side (i.e. are you generally just doing various windows installs for corps on wide scale or are those just individual cases, how is linux fairing in your experience when compared with other OSs, etc)? It would be interesting to see if there is indeed a single value added reseller that can deliver a working linux setup for entire municipality or similar organization for a sum comparable to that of delivery of comparable windows setup with similar costs and user satisfaction levels.
The whole "my personal old PC works fine, also I do these installs for a living" makes for a rather bad argument, and I think you would agree since you're a pro in the field.