Except your analogy is dumb. This isn't buying a new car, this is more like getting invited down to the factory to try out a prototype of a new model they're still in the process of designing.
I mean gee, you'd almost think that this was an unfinished OS running on a Tablet that wasn't specifically designed to run it or something...
I've been using Linux and Windows varients professionally for over twenty years. I'm sorry to have to say it but Linux distros never really get past that functional prototype feeling. The mix of bleeding edge, inconsistent design, playing catch-up with commercial apps and "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" never fails to slightly disappoint.
Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion! All of that would be fine but then to charge your members fees to read from books is kind of messed up, that would be like the library charging you based on every book you took out. I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.
And Islam is the "revealed truth" that its prophet made up. And Christianity reveals the "word of God" through the medium of a mystic who thought he was the messiah. And the Buddha came up with his own ideas for a religion. I guess a non-cult religion is one derived millenia ago from various polytheistic myths (Hinduism, Shinto, Paganism) but somebody, somewhere made that stuff up too.
The union whores with an ever spiraling "living wage" are why Detroit is a third world shithole. Economics, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Before you argue--60 years of unions and democrats. Detroit CANNOT blame its failure on Bush.
So let me try to picture your de-regulated, un-unionised, robot-automated future. Not much room for the little people, is there? What are they supposed to do, go back to subsistence agriculture?
And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?
Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are not on the same side.
And this is exactly the reason the USA should stay out. The whole thing is a mess and there are no good guys. If Obama wants to topple Assad, does he have a clear idea of who he wants to win?
The Syrian Shia population is fighting an existential battle against Sunni jihadists. If they lose, they will be ethnically cleansed and the refugee crisis will double. If anything, the US should be supporting the Syrian government against these foreign-backed Islamist rebels.
How difficult it is to port to, and support the different major distros, such as RHEL, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? How about FreeBSD and NetBSD? Are there differences that would cause something developed for and ported to RHEL not to run on, say, Mint?
It's probably not difficult at all but it's just that our products are tested, delivered and supported on a small set of platforms. Can we run full system test on every distro?
Our company sells software products for *nix platforms. Five years ago we only supported HP and Sun but started looking at Redhat. Now the majority of our customers are on Redhat. Costs are lower and performance is so cheap these days that you don't need fancy hardware. And the "you really ought to port ot AIX" lobby has totally died out.
Magna Carta, did she die in vain?
But, seriously, this is totally fscking outragous. I have been moved to write to my MP, which doesn't happen very often. Harassing the press through their partners is just not the sort of thing you'd expect in Britain.
I can't find the quote but it's something like there are only two stories - a man sets out on a journey or a stranger rides into town. Anyone know where that comes from? Bit too vague for a search engine.
Touchscreens have absolutely no place in cars with relatively untrained people driving. I'd love to see the studies and training for airline/fighter pilots on using the touchscreens vs having tactile controls you can just feel and learn to use without sight. As a counter argument perhaps you don't want a fighter pilot firing a missile without actually looking at the control to do so;-)~ So touchscreens in cars are ok for the roof mounted missile launcher!
Can I play Angry Birds on my touch screen? It would idle away a long journey. Maybe I could just tape my tablet to the steering wheel.
The IRA put bombs in pubs and Burger Kings, with nothing resembling a "warning" issued and with there being little point in planting them unless the aim was to kill civilians, primarily or secondarily.
Frankly I'm tried of hearing people on this side of the Atlantic give them a pass simply because they were made up predominantly of Christians and because their cause is sympathetic. They were (and the remaining pockets who've continued to fight since the peace agreements of the 1990s still are) murderous thugs. At best, you can argue they weren't as lethal, with fewer people killed and with no attempt to drag in unrelated countries into their bitter dispute. But yes, as a Brit living in Britain for the first 25 years of my life, there was a target on my back - not as big as it was for soldiers, police, and everyone from construction workers to bankers considered by some arbitrary definition to be helping the British in Northern Ireland, but it was there.
The IRA did not appear out of a vacuum. They were a response to the systematic abuse of the native Irish by the British. They may have been nasty but they were in no sense religiously motivated. As usual, one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist.
I wasn't trying to distort anything. My point is that if you send in robots into an area with a mix of combatants and bystanders, you are removing morality from the equation. So why bother with the robots when aerial bombing is cheaper and equally immoral.
if someone is going to fight you, and you can afford to put out a robot to fight them instead of your own flesh and blood, are you saying we shouldn't do this?
So why not forget about all this morality bull and just nuke the hell out of the damn foreigners? Or at least just carpet bomb them back to the stone age. That would seem the logical, inhuman, robotic conclusion.
wars settled in a clash of machinery without any humans for miles around
Most conflicts in the last 50 years have been asymmetric - big tech military vs AK47s and RPGs. And such conflicts usually involve insurgents (or whatever) hiding among non-combatants. So it's not robot vs robot - it's about deciding before every strike how much risk you are prepared to inflict on by-standers. Robots can't do that (and humans make a bad enough job of it too).
With mine I can transfer money. However, it's protected way beyond a simple password. I need a "random reader": a simple device that accepts my debet card, requires my PIN and gives me back the one-time key to even see my details. When signing a transaction I need to give the PIN, a one-time key from the webpage and the amount of money before the comma (probably to prevent hijacking).
I feel quite safe with that.
When setting up a new payee, my UK bank sends a one-time code to my mobile phone that I need to enter via the web. I sort of feel safe with that.
I mean, seriously, why do you care if Earth becomes another Venus?
My twin nieces, Ruby and Winnie. My nephews Leo and Max.
Sorry to appeal to emotion, but I find your attitude a little cold, a little remote, a little shitty.
You know, every person on our overcrowded, polluted world was a sweet little child once and now there's over 250 born every minute. And more and more of us are moving up to the resource-intensive middle class economic orbit. Back in the 80s I used to say that we're all stuffed when the Chinese all aspire to motor cars. What's their car ownership rate now?
It might appear cold hearted but we're heading for either a population correction or a major resource crunch. BTW, I have great neices and nephews that I worry about but it doesn't change the broad course we're on.
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Except looking at history, they will probable lead to fewer soldier deaths, fewer bystander deaths, more accurate targeting.
I don't know why people think they are bad.
I assume you mean fewer deaths of your country's soldiers and to hell with the civilians of funny foreign countries?
Except your analogy is dumb. This isn't buying a new car, this is more like getting invited down to the factory to try out a prototype of a new model they're still in the process of designing.
I mean gee, you'd almost think that this was an unfinished OS running on a Tablet that wasn't specifically designed to run it or something...
I've been using Linux and Windows varients professionally for over twenty years. I'm sorry to have to say it but Linux distros never really get past that functional prototype feeling. The mix of bleeding edge, inconsistent design, playing catch-up with commercial apps and "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" never fails to slightly disappoint.
Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion! All of that would be fine but then to charge your members fees to read from books is kind of messed up, that would be like the library charging you based on every book you took out. I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.
And Islam is the "revealed truth" that its prophet made up. And Christianity reveals the "word of God" through the medium of a mystic who thought he was the messiah. And the Buddha came up with his own ideas for a religion. I guess a non-cult religion is one derived millenia ago from various polytheistic myths (Hinduism, Shinto, Paganism) but somebody, somewhere made that stuff up too.
The union whores with an ever spiraling "living wage" are why Detroit is a third world shithole. Economics, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Before you argue--60 years of unions and democrats. Detroit CANNOT blame its failure on Bush.
So let me try to picture your de-regulated, un-unionised, robot-automated future. Not much room for the little people, is there? What are they supposed to do, go back to subsistence agriculture?
And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?
Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are not on the same side.
And this is exactly the reason the USA should stay out. The whole thing is a mess and there are no good guys. If Obama wants to topple Assad, does he have a clear idea of who he wants to win?
The Syrian Shia population is fighting an existential battle against Sunni jihadists. If they lose, they will be ethnically cleansed and the refugee crisis will double. If anything, the US should be supporting the Syrian government against these foreign-backed Islamist rebels.
I had a nickle for every time they told me they didnt know how their own software works I'd be richer than Bill Gates
If it takes them 10 secs to say that, and Bill Gates has 50 billion dollars, it would take you 16000 years to get that rich.
How difficult it is to port to, and support the different major distros, such as RHEL, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? How about FreeBSD and NetBSD? Are there differences that would cause something developed for and ported to RHEL not to run on, say, Mint?
It's probably not difficult at all but it's just that our products are tested, delivered and supported on a small set of platforms. Can we run full system test on every distro?
Our company sells software products for *nix platforms. Five years ago we only supported HP and Sun but started looking at Redhat. Now the majority of our customers are on Redhat. Costs are lower and performance is so cheap these days that you don't need fancy hardware. And the "you really ought to port ot AIX" lobby has totally died out.
Magna Carta, did she die in vain? But, seriously, this is totally fscking outragous. I have been moved to write to my MP, which doesn't happen very often. Harassing the press through their partners is just not the sort of thing you'd expect in Britain.
Did Red Flag Linux never catch on? I wonder if Ubuntu Kylin will? http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/ubuntu-china/
Am I the only one here who likes porn? I would hate to have to make the call of shame.... "uh...isp...can you....uhh.....un block my pr0n?"
How many men share an internet connection with a woman who would wonder why the filter was turned off?
I can't find the quote but it's something like there are only two stories - a man sets out on a journey or a stranger rides into town. Anyone know where that comes from? Bit too vague for a search engine.
Brought to mind the fictional The Book of Dave in which a delusional text set in metal is recovered and misinterpreted by a post-apocalyptic society.
Touchscreens have absolutely no place in cars with relatively untrained people driving. I'd love to see the studies and training for airline/fighter pilots on using the touchscreens vs having tactile controls you can just feel and learn to use without sight. ;-)~ So touchscreens in cars are ok for the roof mounted missile launcher!
As a counter argument perhaps you don't want a fighter pilot firing a missile without actually looking at the control to do so
Can I play Angry Birds on my touch screen? It would idle away a long journey. Maybe I could just tape my tablet to the steering wheel.
There's a very old joke.
Hijacker: take this plane to a free country.
Pilot: this is a airliner, not a fucking spaceship.
The IRA put bombs in pubs and Burger Kings, with nothing resembling a "warning" issued and with there being little point in planting them unless the aim was to kill civilians, primarily or secondarily.
Frankly I'm tried of hearing people on this side of the Atlantic give them a pass simply because they were made up predominantly of Christians and because their cause is sympathetic. They were (and the remaining pockets who've continued to fight since the peace agreements of the 1990s still are) murderous thugs. At best, you can argue they weren't as lethal, with fewer people killed and with no attempt to drag in unrelated countries into their bitter dispute. But yes, as a Brit living in Britain for the first 25 years of my life, there was a target on my back - not as big as it was for soldiers, police, and everyone from construction workers to bankers considered by some arbitrary definition to be helping the British in Northern Ireland, but it was there.
The IRA did not appear out of a vacuum. They were a response to the systematic abuse of the native Irish by the British. They may have been nasty but they were in no sense religiously motivated. As usual, one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist.
As per ISO 3166, the correct two-character code for that country is GB, not UK. The TLD ought to match.
Unfortunately, changing *.uk to *.gb would be about as easy as the IPv6 switchover...
Oh, Christ. Don't get me started. It should never have been GB in the first place since GB is only a subset of UK. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles .
This led to clever people developing submachine guns.
Give it a couple decades and you'll be able to download plans for your own battlebot and then create it on your printer
Not true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_shotgun
I wasn't trying to distort anything. My point is that if you send in robots into an area with a mix of combatants and bystanders, you are removing morality from the equation. So why bother with the robots when aerial bombing is cheaper and equally immoral.
so, what's your point?
if someone is going to fight you, and you can afford to put out a robot to fight them instead of your own flesh and blood, are you saying we shouldn't do this?
So why not forget about all this morality bull and just nuke the hell out of the damn foreigners? Or at least just carpet bomb them back to the stone age. That would seem the logical, inhuman, robotic conclusion.
robots killing robots
wars settled in a clash of machinery without any humans for miles around
Most conflicts in the last 50 years have been asymmetric - big tech military vs AK47s and RPGs. And such conflicts usually involve insurgents (or whatever) hiding among non-combatants. So it's not robot vs robot - it's about deciding before every strike how much risk you are prepared to inflict on by-standers. Robots can't do that (and humans make a bad enough job of it too).
With mine I can transfer money. However, it's protected way beyond a simple password. I need a "random reader": a simple device that accepts my debet card, requires my PIN and gives me back the one-time key to even see my details. When signing a transaction I need to give the PIN, a one-time key from the webpage and the amount of money before the comma (probably to prevent hijacking).
I feel quite safe with that.
When setting up a new payee, my UK bank sends a one-time code to my mobile phone that I need to enter via the web. I sort of feel safe with that.
Unfortunately, the Mars Landing will never take off under the combined weight of tea baggers, so no reason to party yet.
I'm guessing you're taking a different meaning of teabagger than the one that comes to my mind.
Why do all soldiers have to have the same haircut? It's about reducing individuality and being assimilated into the squad.
Sticking to coding standards reduces the sin of code ownership.
I mean, seriously, why do you care if Earth becomes another Venus?
My twin nieces, Ruby and Winnie. My nephews Leo and Max.
Sorry to appeal to emotion, but I find your attitude a little cold, a little remote, a little shitty.
You know, every person on our overcrowded, polluted world was a sweet little child once and now there's over 250 born every minute. And more and more of us are moving up to the resource-intensive middle class economic orbit. Back in the 80s I used to say that we're all stuffed when the Chinese all aspire to motor cars. What's their car ownership rate now?
It might appear cold hearted but we're heading for either a population correction or a major resource crunch. BTW, I have great neices and nephews that I worry about but it doesn't change the broad course we're on.