If a hospital refuses lifesaving treatment to a patient because they cannot pay, then they are held liable for the persons death. This much the same situation.
You can also do it with Windows, but that does not make it a good idea. A while back some one did some benchmark comparisons of different x86 Unix OS, and Linux the very clear leader for performance. In some cases it was twice as good as the *BSD's (and FreeBSD was usually the best performing one). In no case did Linux not place first.
PostgreSQL is good, though there are advantages and siadvangtages to choosing another Database. Almost other databses will have a more complicated licences than BSD.
A number of addons to Apache are licenced under the GPL, so you have to restrict the utility of Apache if you want to avoid the GPL.
Ruby appears to try to have a licence like the GPL (ie tries to force you into opening your code by entering it into the Public Domain) but legally would seem unenforcable.
PHP and Rails are essentially MIT with more restrictive clauses.
What action aisle? All the games are listed alphabetically. While I find it convienient, it would be a difficult task for a parent with younglins to find age appropriate games. This is even the case at Toys'R'Us. While I do believe to a degree in caveat empor, things could be madea bit easier for responsible parents.
Just a side rant, WTF is wrong with people taking thier kids to R rated movies? I was at the theater last weekend seeing "Land of the Dead" and the parents trooped in a bunch of kids 8 or less. I can see why stores don't segregate thier content. Why bother when the parents will let thier 10 year old play Vice City.
Phase Diagrams is what I think you are looking for. Triple point is the term for where at a given temperature and pressure a compound is in equilibrium between solid, gas, and liquid. Lower the temperature or pressure and a liquid state becomes impossible. 4.5 torr and 0.0098C is the triple point for water.
Remove pressure from the equation and you still can get solids or gas, but not liquids.
A common molecule, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), does not form a liquid at normal pressure (I think it takes 7 atmospheres, a google search will reveal it but I'm too lazy to bother). It is called Dry Ice when frozen, because when it melts, it directly subliminates to a gas. the point is that Dry Ice illustrates what happens to other compounds at low pressures.
Considering the pricing it probably has greater storage, dual tuners and a dvdrw drive. I have priced out several combinations and they run between $400-$700.
You heard it here first. There is no Pamela Jones, it was Peter Jackson all along. When he heard that SCO wanted money from his rendering farm, PJ started Groklaw to take down SCO.
Encryption? Why bother with encryption if it can LIE for you. I mean really, it be something like this:
Crook detected:
PDS: I must get your social security number, mother's maiden name, and bank acoount before I can release any information. Crook: Err, I just want my credit card number. PDS: Look, I don't care who you are but I need security purposes I need a social security number, mother's maiden name and bank account number to unlock the information stored. Crook: Ok,. Cops: Woo, Woo. Ok, buddy give over the phone. Crook: Hey how do I delete the info on here. PDS: Info deleted.
Or better yet: NSA: Where was cat on the 5th? PDS: I have encryption NSA: Now where was he? PDS: He was, uh, at his mother's house.
See, you don't need encyption, you just need it to lie for you.
Depending on your skill at searching online, you can find Windows OEM for about $75. You could always go with Win2k though that is about to be eoled. The rest of your points are still valid, and the cost of windows is greater than zero regardless.
It actually depends. There is or at least was a 50 fps cap on OpenGL rame rates because of user space design issues of Wine and X. I think those have been resolved but not sure. Many programs run in Wine have an actual speed increase as the translation of win32 calls to compatible glibc calls via Wine has a negligible performance hit and Linux is that much better at resource management. Now somethings do get very porr performance in Wine, so it just depends.
It is not that Wine engenders a preformance penalty, but whether a program is completely compatible with Wine.
For those unaware, Cedega is a fork of the Wine project much like CrossOver Office.
Well they do have Sun Tzu, Murasaki, Buddhist Scripture, and a few others.
It is primarily a collection of English and American authors plus a few other translations that have heavily influenced western Literature such as the Greeks.
I disagree about Linux. I was playing about with a new Mac G5 iMac yesterday. Sure the physical hardware is sleek, but the interface is a bit clunky. Garageband works different from Addressbook, and Safari. It was similar enough to XFCE or Afterstep, but it was different enough to feel uncomfortable. Besides the couple of Apps on the dock, there was no easy way to see what was even installed on the machine.
MS Windows is even worse though. There are no common standards. Open a program and switch to a different one and the one you opened grabs focus some indefinate period of time later.
My point is that just because something is different does not mean it is inferior. This undermines much of the rest of your points.
I regularly buy albumns in a lossy but no-drm format for $1.50. Easy searching, nice recommended titles, and no hassle. A few years back I was searching for Americaned themed songs for a 4th of July party song mix. It was a PITA searching for them on Gnutella.
Actually it would be your responsibility. In the the there is this thing called inticement. If you leave your keys in plain sight in your car, and someone steals your car; you will be held liable. If a cop sees that you left you key in plain sight in your car you can get a ticket.
I actually don't think MS is involved in the FUD on this one. Or at least not as the principle instigators.
Who has the most to gain if people stop using Bittorrent? Who has taken legal action to shutdown bittorrent websites? I see the MPAA behind this. They probably went to MS and said, "Do you have anything that could compete against Bittorrent?"
So a paper is presented, details leaked to the press, some FUD spread about how Bittorrent is unsafe, and you see the result. The whole thing seems to be a PR Blitz. Could have been fairly successful, but with MS and the MPAA involved, it was done too heavy handed.
So you have never heard of frat hazing killing people? People literally dying of fright? I am not condoning either but the prisoners was more understandable.
You have some kids guarding these insurgents. They have no training on how to be guard in a prison. You know either the prisoners or other in thier organization are responsible for injuring or killing your comrades. Some of these prisoners are surely linked to the the beheadings of American citizens. It is understandable that some rage manifests.
It would use nuclear waste, and could even carry up extra to dispose of in say the sun. If you take something based on the size of a Titan rocket, it would have orders of magnitude greater lifting power (some designs would have a 1000 ton) with multiple redunancy.
This doesn't exist yet, but there is no technical reason we couldn't build one today.
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If a hospital refuses lifesaving treatment to a patient because they cannot pay, then they are held liable for the persons death. This much the same situation.
People do not want to be held to those words all the time. There are words for those actions, like 'divorce', 'annulment', and 'adultry'.
You can also do it with Windows, but that does not make it a good idea. A while back some one did some benchmark comparisons of different x86 Unix OS, and Linux the very clear leader for performance. In some cases it was twice as good as the *BSD's (and FreeBSD was usually the best performing one). In no case did Linux not place first.
PostgreSQL is good, though there are advantages and siadvangtages to choosing another Database. Almost other databses will have a more complicated licences than BSD.
A number of addons to Apache are licenced under the GPL, so you have to restrict the utility of Apache if you want to avoid the GPL.
Ruby appears to try to have a licence like the GPL (ie tries to force you into opening your code by entering it into the Public Domain) but legally would seem unenforcable.
PHP and Rails are essentially MIT with more restrictive clauses.
Though given a standard Font and underlining the name, it is not immediately obvious if pe1rxq ends in 'q' or 'g'.
What action aisle? All the games are listed alphabetically. While I find it convienient, it would be a difficult task for a parent with younglins to find age appropriate games. This is even the case at Toys'R'Us. While I do believe to a degree in caveat empor, things could be madea bit easier for responsible parents.
Just a side rant, WTF is wrong with people taking thier kids to R rated movies? I was at the theater last weekend seeing "Land of the Dead" and the parents trooped in a bunch of kids 8 or less. I can see why stores don't segregate thier content. Why bother when the parents will let thier 10 year old play Vice City.
Phase Diagrams is what I think you are looking for. Triple point is the term for where at a given temperature and pressure a compound is in equilibrium between solid, gas, and liquid. Lower the temperature or pressure and a liquid state becomes impossible. 4.5 torr and 0.0098C is the triple point for water.
Remove pressure from the equation and you still can get solids or gas, but not liquids.
A common molecule, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), does not form a liquid at normal pressure (I think it takes 7 atmospheres, a google search will reveal it but I'm too lazy to bother). It is called Dry Ice when frozen, because when it melts, it directly subliminates to a gas. the point is that Dry Ice illustrates what happens to other compounds at low pressures.
Considering the pricing it probably has greater storage, dual tuners and a dvdrw drive.
I have priced out several combinations and they run between $400-$700.
You heard it here first. There is no Pamela Jones, it was Peter Jackson all along. When he heard that SCO wanted money from his rendering farm, PJ started Groklaw to take down SCO.
h.ear by Sony are very comfortable. They sound good, though not the same level as some super hi-fidelity headphones, but for ear buds, they are nice.
Encryption? Why bother with encryption if it can LIE for you. I mean really, it be something like this:
.
Crook detected:
PDS: I must get your social security number, mother's maiden name, and bank acoount before I can release any information.
Crook: Err, I just want my credit card number.
PDS: Look, I don't care who you are but I need security purposes I need a social security number, mother's maiden name and bank account number to unlock the information stored.
Crook: Ok,
Cops: Woo, Woo. Ok, buddy give over the phone.
Crook: Hey how do I delete the info on here.
PDS: Info deleted.
Or better yet:
NSA: Where was cat on the 5th?
PDS: I have encryption
NSA: Now where was he?
PDS: He was, uh, at his mother's house.
See, you don't need encyption, you just need it to lie for you.
One of the Linux Magazines had a copy of Linspire bundled so it could be considered about $10.
Depending on your skill at searching online, you can find Windows OEM for about $75. You could always go with Win2k though that is about to be eoled. The rest of your points are still valid, and the cost of windows is greater than zero regardless.
It actually depends. There is or at least was a 50 fps cap on OpenGL rame rates because of user space design issues of Wine and X. I think those have been resolved but not sure. Many programs run in Wine have an actual speed increase as the translation of win32 calls to compatible glibc calls via Wine has a negligible performance hit and Linux is that much better at resource management. Now somethings do get very porr performance in Wine, so it just depends.
It is not that Wine engenders a preformance penalty, but whether a program is completely compatible with Wine.
For those unaware, Cedega is a fork of the Wine project much like CrossOver Office.
Well they do have Sun Tzu, Murasaki, Buddhist Scripture, and a few others.
It is primarily a collection of English and American authors plus a few other translations that have heavily influenced western Literature such as the Greeks.
Approximately 15%. Though I am counting multiple versions to be the same.
I disagree about Linux. I was playing about with a new Mac G5 iMac yesterday. Sure the physical hardware is sleek, but the interface is a bit clunky. Garageband works different from Addressbook, and Safari. It was similar enough to XFCE or Afterstep, but it was different enough to feel uncomfortable. Besides the couple of Apps on the dock, there was no easy way to see what was even installed on the machine.
MS Windows is even worse though. There are no common standards. Open a program and switch to a different one and the one you opened grabs focus some indefinate period of time later.
My point is that just because something is different does not mean it is inferior. This undermines much of the rest of your points.
I regularly buy albumns in a lossy but no-drm format for $1.50. Easy searching, nice recommended titles, and no hassle. A few years back I was searching for Americaned themed songs for a 4th of July party song mix. It was a PITA searching for them on Gnutella.
Actually it would be your responsibility. In the the there is this thing called inticement. If you leave your keys in plain sight in your car, and someone steals your car; you will be held liable. If a cop sees that you left you key in plain sight in your car you can get a ticket.
I actually don't think MS is involved in the FUD on this one. Or at least not as the principle instigators.
Who has the most to gain if people stop using Bittorrent? Who has taken legal action to shutdown bittorrent websites? I see the MPAA behind this. They probably went to MS and said, "Do you have anything that could compete against Bittorrent?"
So a paper is presented, details leaked to the press, some FUD spread about how Bittorrent is unsafe, and you see the result. The whole thing seems to be a PR Blitz. Could have been fairly successful, but with MS and the MPAA involved, it was done too heavy handed.
I see no point in self hatred. I see no point in wallowing in guilt for protecting one's own.
I have been the victim, and never again.
It wasn't the right choice to make. When dealing in war, atomic or conventional, the only right choice is not to start.
Wrong. Choosing not to fight, and letting an evil group conqueror you, is wrong.
So few people are pointing out the atrocities and genocide the Japanese were waging. The Japanese were as bad as the Nazis. They had to be stopped.
So you have never heard of frat hazing killing people? People literally dying of fright? I am not condoning either but the prisoners was more understandable.
You have some kids guarding these insurgents. They have no training on how to be guard in a prison. You know either the prisoners or other in thier organization are responsible for injuring or killing your comrades. Some of these prisoners are surely linked to the the beheadings of American citizens. It is understandable that some rage manifests.
Nuclear light bulb rocket engines. Also referred to as a Nuclear gas core rocket.
It would use nuclear waste, and could even carry up extra to dispose of in say the sun. If you take something based on the size of a Titan rocket, it would have orders of magnitude greater lifting power (some designs would have a 1000 ton) with multiple redunancy.
This doesn't exist yet, but there is no technical reason we couldn't build one today.