An imaginary number divided by a real number doesn't make it any less imaginary. "Tens of thousands" is a literary concept booty a scientific explanation.
Not having to pay for an ambulance doesn't elevate you from 3rd world to 1st world. It just puts you at the top of the 3rd world. First world countries have along with covered ambulances for emergencies, house doctors, or emergency doctors who can go treat people who don't need an ambulance but who are otherwise unable to get themselves to care.
Why is everything so black and white with Americans?
Would you want someone with a communicable disease in your back seat?
The vast majority of Ambulance patients do not have communicable diseases. They have things like severe sprains, fractures, maybe blood sugar problems, or any of the most of the other things that people can have affect their health which they are unable to pass on to others.
Enough idiots to make this a platform issue of a political rally in a country of $350+ million people. Just let that sad state of affairs sink in for a moment.
Also, do you go around saying "Happy Columbus day" to people?
Are you not happy about days? I greet people with "Happy ${DAYOFNOTE}" all the time. Quite often where there's no day of note I still greet them that way.
Happy Tuesday all!
*This post is a bit lost today but since I'm not going to wait till tomorrow to post: Happy Boxing Day.
For example, if you had described GNOME 3 and systemd to me in 2005, I would have laughed in your face.
launchd from which systemd is philosophically based launched (pun intended) in 2005. No one was laughing at how great OSX stormed onto the desktop scene. It was actually quite funny given the history of everyone trying to replace sysv-init even back then.
if your that sick that you could die at any minute, I suggest you get yourself to a hospital and stay there.
You do know a large portion of people who end up in hospital do so in the emergency ward and have neither something warning them of their impending problem nor a reason to stay after they have been treated right?
That is buying a common accessory for two different purposes. The former is for doing stuff on, The latter is jewelry.
Time is free. You can get time anywhere. In my room I think my wristwatch (next to my bed) is currently the furthest of 6 ways of telling the time from me right now. Smartphones are for doing stuff, there's nothing I can do on my wrist that I can't already do on my smartphone.
The only thing left to put on my wrist is jewelry. (Personally I like Breitling for that).
Don't confuse where you live and the word "most". Pretty much every decent sized city was equipped to handle the hobbit in HFR 3D, my own city (500000 people has IMAX cinemas, Dolby cinemas in 2 different locations and 4DX cinemas.
Maybe people in your city aren't that interested in going to the cinema and thus don't get nice ones as a result.
People in general will complain about the occasional bad experience discarding all the good ones. As someone who goes to the cinema 3-5 times a month I can count on one hand the number of times the experience was unpleasant. They do occasionally exist but often they don't last long. Last time I saw a guy as much as use his mobile phone silently, he was kicked out within 5min. The one time we had an out of focus projection they fixed, it restarted the film and gave us a 50% discount card for our troubles.
Then home cinema technology advanced. What does a cinema offer now that you cannot get just by having a big screen TV (or, as we call them now, a TV) and some half-decent speakers?
Let me answer this for you with a quote:
A gigantic screen, supremely clear images, and an audio system that'd give you powerful volume from the chair-rumbling explosions to the chirping giggles of children.
If you think even the best of home entertainment systems can match a cinema for this, you have an incredibly shit selection of cinemas. My local cinema has 4 different of cinema on offer, the second from the bottom being IMAX.
* Zinc, B12, and about a dozen other micro-nutrients that are NOT optional are hard to get for a vegetarian and impossible for a vegan. Popping a bunch of dietary supplements is a poor substitute and no way to live.
* There has never been a sustained human population that was fully vegetarian.
It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.
But hey since you hold India in such high regards maybe there's other ways we could save the environment, e.g. I could pipe up my toilet to your bath tub and you could could wash yourself in my excrement. Maybe we'll throw a dead body or two in there too. After all if it's okay for millions of Indians, why not! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
then the bandwidth requirements and latency are lower and the quality is higher than if you are using VNC that has to render the window completely on the server end
That is now true for a small subset of programs written with a subset of tools in Linux. You'll find a lot of what you do in X is now not identical to the way VNC does it, only due to the fact VNC uses compression to speed it up.
The heavy hands of the state in relation to spying an invasion of privacy barely registers on most people's radar, both now and 50 years ago. The only thing the common person cares about is if they get actively persecuted.
I'm not sure about that. You see this goes long before the Chinese were trying to be technological leaders. It kind of underpins the economics of the country, the busy work to keep employment at zero percent. The Chinese throw incredible funds at projects that seem to do nothing other than keep the wheel turning.
Funny story, on the way to work one day I saw a semi-trailer (lorry, truck, b-double, whatever they call them where you are) which had jackknifed, slid across the side of the highway and knock out 4 trees clear out of the ground before coming to a halt. Surprisingly apparently no one died. Anyway that afternoon on the way home the area was cleaned up and the trees were already cut down to the stumps and logs were piled up on the side of the highway. Not bad. Got the truck towed AND the gardening done. In most of the west that would have taken the better part of the week. Except... The day after the stumps were gone.... And the day after that there were 4 fully grown trees planted in their place being held up by scaffolding poles while their roots develop.
I honestly have never seen anything quite like it. A 30min cycle out of the city people are living in poverty in run down crumbling buildings, but at least the trees were replaced within 3 days.
You were very quick to reply without understanding a single thing I said. Let me help you.
was one claiming a "physics" problem with it.
Physics is a problem, that doesn't make it unpossible, just not viable.
When you start thinking you know so much more than the engineers that it means the engineers didn't understand "high school physics?"
Highschool physics will get you where you need to go. Incident light, reflection, shadows, damage.
That should be your hint to self that you're full of shit.;)
Fortunately I don't need to rely on highschool physics since I am an engineer who does exactly this sort of thing. But hey even if I weren't and even if I didn't we could always see how the concept has worked before, like that multi-million dollar solar roadway in France that can barely generate enough to power the streetlights.
Chinese engineers seems to be able to build bridges
Of course they can. You see if you actually paid attention you'd realise the fundamental point of my post was not that the Chinese need to take a physics course, it's that they need to take an economics one, and you sir, need to take an english comprehension one.
True, but one of them is fact easily verified with a simple google search, and the other alt-facts.
Heck there's people who come up with the best ways of studying which cities are empty (looking at light pollution compared to surface area, internet connectivity, speed of advertising, etc)
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An imaginary number divided by a real number doesn't make it any less imaginary. "Tens of thousands" is a literary concept booty a scientific explanation.
The former.
Except that hasn't been how most Linux apps draw on X for a good 20 years now.
Apologies to the Canadians, I mean to say: People who live in the United States.
Not having to pay for an ambulance doesn't elevate you from 3rd world to 1st world. It just puts you at the top of the 3rd world. First world countries have along with covered ambulances for emergencies, house doctors, or emergency doctors who can go treat people who don't need an ambulance but who are otherwise unable to get themselves to care.
Why is everything so black and white with Americans?
Would you want someone with a communicable disease in your back seat?
The vast majority of Ambulance patients do not have communicable diseases. They have things like severe sprains, fractures, maybe blood sugar problems, or any of the most of the other things that people can have affect their health which they are unable to pass on to others.
Really? An ambulance doesn't cost a cent in most first world countries.
By the way, what's Ambulance insurance? Is that like the volcano insurance the salesman tried to sell Homer Simpson?
Who honestly gives a fuck?
Enough idiots to make this a platform issue of a political rally in a country of $350+ million people. Just let that sad state of affairs sink in for a moment.
Also, do you go around saying "Happy Columbus day" to people?
Are you not happy about days? I greet people with "Happy ${DAYOFNOTE}" all the time. Quite often where there's no day of note I still greet them that way.
Happy Tuesday all!
*This post is a bit lost today but since I'm not going to wait till tomorrow to post: Happy Boxing Day.
For example, if you had described GNOME 3 and systemd to me in 2005, I would have laughed in your face.
launchd from which systemd is philosophically based launched (pun intended) in 2005. No one was laughing at how great OSX stormed onto the desktop scene. It was actually quite funny given the history of everyone trying to replace sysv-init even back then.
Yet here we are, only about a decade later, and GNOME 3 and systemd have managed to destroy even Debian GNU/Linux.
Huh? Debian runs here just fine. Or are you talking about the destroying the community? I.e. that mass exodus that never happened?
if your that sick that you could die at any minute, I suggest you get yourself to a hospital and stay there.
You do know a large portion of people who end up in hospital do so in the emergency ward and have neither something warning them of their impending problem nor a reason to stay after they have been treated right?
That is buying a common accessory for two different purposes. The former is for doing stuff on, The latter is jewelry.
Time is free. You can get time anywhere. In my room I think my wristwatch (next to my bed) is currently the furthest of 6 ways of telling the time from me right now. Smartphones are for doing stuff, there's nothing I can do on my wrist that I can't already do on my smartphone.
The only thing left to put on my wrist is jewelry. (Personally I like Breitling for that).
Don't confuse where you live and the word "most". Pretty much every decent sized city was equipped to handle the hobbit in HFR 3D, my own city (500000 people has IMAX cinemas, Dolby cinemas in 2 different locations and 4DX cinemas.
Maybe people in your city aren't that interested in going to the cinema and thus don't get nice ones as a result.
People in general will complain about the occasional bad experience discarding all the good ones. As someone who goes to the cinema 3-5 times a month I can count on one hand the number of times the experience was unpleasant. They do occasionally exist but often they don't last long. Last time I saw a guy as much as use his mobile phone silently, he was kicked out within 5min. The one time we had an out of focus projection they fixed, it restarted the film and gave us a 50% discount card for our troubles.
Then home cinema technology advanced. What does a cinema offer now that you cannot get just by having a big screen TV (or, as we call them now, a TV) and some half-decent speakers?
Let me answer this for you with a quote:
A gigantic screen, supremely clear images, and an audio system that'd give you powerful volume from the chair-rumbling explosions to the chirping giggles of children.
If you think even the best of home entertainment systems can match a cinema for this, you have an incredibly shit selection of cinemas. My local cinema has 4 different of cinema on offer, the second from the bottom being IMAX.
It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.
Are you talking about these millions of Indians: https://food.ndtv.com/opinions...
But hey since you hold India in such high regards maybe there's other ways we could save the environment, e.g. I could pipe up my toilet to your bath tub and you could could wash yourself in my excrement. Maybe we'll throw a dead body or two in there too. After all if it's okay for millions of Indians, why not! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
then the bandwidth requirements and latency are lower and the quality is higher than if you are using VNC that has to render the window completely on the server end
That is now true for a small subset of programs written with a subset of tools in Linux. You'll find a lot of what you do in X is now not identical to the way VNC does it, only due to the fact VNC uses compression to speed it up.
The heavy hands of the state in relation to spying an invasion of privacy barely registers on most people's radar, both now and 50 years ago. The only thing the common person cares about is if they get actively persecuted.
The only real use for a desktop now is for business use.
You say this as if this is some tiny remnant of the PC market rather than the largest portion of it.
Nothing more to add.
I'm not sure about that. You see this goes long before the Chinese were trying to be technological leaders. It kind of underpins the economics of the country, the busy work to keep employment at zero percent. The Chinese throw incredible funds at projects that seem to do nothing other than keep the wheel turning.
Funny story, on the way to work one day I saw a semi-trailer (lorry, truck, b-double, whatever they call them where you are) which had jackknifed, slid across the side of the highway and knock out 4 trees clear out of the ground before coming to a halt. Surprisingly apparently no one died. ... The day after the stumps were gone. ... And the day after that there were 4 fully grown trees planted in their place being held up by scaffolding poles while their roots develop.
Anyway that afternoon on the way home the area was cleaned up and the trees were already cut down to the stumps and logs were piled up on the side of the highway. Not bad. Got the truck towed AND the gardening done. In most of the west that would have taken the better part of the week. Except
I honestly have never seen anything quite like it. A 30min cycle out of the city people are living in poverty in run down crumbling buildings, but at least the trees were replaced within 3 days.
Yeah I have noticed that as of late. Though ... Solar roadways I think is one concept which is well deserving of it.
You were very quick to reply without understanding a single thing I said. Let me help you.
was one claiming a "physics" problem with it.
Physics is a problem, that doesn't make it unpossible, just not viable.
When you start thinking you know so much more than the engineers that it means the engineers didn't understand "high school physics?"
Highschool physics will get you where you need to go. Incident light, reflection, shadows, damage.
That should be your hint to self that you're full of shit. ;)
Fortunately I don't need to rely on highschool physics since I am an engineer who does exactly this sort of thing. But hey even if I weren't and even if I didn't we could always see how the concept has worked before, like that multi-million dollar solar roadway in France that can barely generate enough to power the streetlights.
Chinese engineers seems to be able to build bridges
Of course they can. You see if you actually paid attention you'd realise the fundamental point of my post was not that the Chinese need to take a physics course, it's that they need to take an economics one, and you sir, need to take an english comprehension one.
making sure that no garbage ever gets thrown away
You do realise in your analogy the "garbage" here would be the door of the bus right?
True, but one of them is fact easily verified with a simple google search, and the other alt-facts.
Heck there's people who come up with the best ways of studying which cities are empty (looking at light pollution compared to surface area, internet connectivity, speed of advertising, etc)