No no no no no. You're missing something. There needs to be more card games. And minesweeper. Yeah, I know there are thousands available, but until they becomes a core part of KDE / Gnome / Whatever Linux will never truely succeed on the desktop.
I was thinking, once people start using Linux more for games, more companies will probably start developing for Linux as well as Windoze right from the start. Then we won't need all this stuff.
Personally I'm pretty surprised they managed this at all. I know a bit about how all this works and I know just how much it requires to get all this together...
Not really. In the UK at least it used to be a fairly common way of sending illegal things (often firearms) around -- put them in something resembling a brick.
1) It's not that bad at all. I'm fairly proficient at qwerty and I switched to Dvorak in no time, matching speeds in an hour. It's far easier the more layouts you learn, but even for a second layout there's no real problem.
2) No-one dares touch my keyboard:) I still have qwerty keys on it, just a little applet to switch between the two. I can still type just as fast as before with qwerty.
It's no big performance hit, and you gain a lot from it. Give it a try, you might be surprised.
I find it's typing speeds that slow the user down, not the CPU. Surely Dvorak keyboards (once we're past the learning curve) will make the real difference. My typing speed tripled over a week...
Not that faster CPUs are bad, mind, just they don't solve the real issue.
There's a huge manual. Really helpful. I thought I could do things quickly in Photoshop until I learned how to use GIMP moderately effectively. Now, rather than wondering how to do something in GIMP, I spend hours cursing Photoshop for not being able to do it.
The same way you know you can trust Debian in the first place. I mean, the entire distribution _could_ just be a trojan horse. Unless you've read and understood every single bit of the source (which I haven't) you don't know whether it's real. But it's fairly easy to make a guess.
Besides, freenet isn't trying to replace the entire internet, is it?
I think that if languages don't change then they will die completely. I mean, no new words, no new ideas. Keeping a language static isn't a good thing. Don't the French have some government thing to keep the language 'uncorrupted'?
I don't see the logic behind staying still. By adding more words, even from other languages, the range of thought improves. Take any flavour of English, it will be a mixture of dozens of languages. A large part of it is 'stolen' from the older languages, but there's a lot of words that have come from modern languages as well.
How do you define intelligence? What's the difference between a modern toaster and a small microorganism? What's the difference between a worm and a modern AI script?
Will kindness be needed even?:) If everyone has everything they want... Hang on, let's not go there. It won't work.
Ah, speculating about society. Why don't we ask the super-intelligent bots which way would be best? They could create simulations. But then would the people inside the simulations be alive, or just programs?
Not enough coffee in the world for all this moral issue stuff. I think I'll convert to some religion -- ignorance, maybe. I can't believe I even joked about that.
How about respect as a currency? There's a book with that kind of thing -- IIRC, "Voyage from Yesteryear" by James Hogan. It's old but the idea is still the same. Sort of like open source programming, where people compete for the biggest share of current knowledge. Those that work most out get most credit.
Hmmm, robots monitoring each other maybe? Some people will probably want to do it, anyway. Robotologists -- was that Asimov? I would prefer robots to most human beings...
That brings up another question -- what is learning? Aaaargh, this is making my head hurt. What if a pre-programmed set of instructions includes the ability to generate new ones? I suppose that's the basis of thought. Whether the 'learning' is figuring out a more efficient way of sticking a circuit board together (non-geeks would have said car there, I guess) or advancing the boundaries of science is a different matter.
So what is actually required to learn? Input, obviously, but what about communication? Is something still knowledge if it exists in only one brain (bad choice of words again, but you know what I mean), or does it have to be shareable?
If we get smart robots none of us will ever have to work again. Let them run everything, check up on them until we're sure they're getting it right, then everyone can do research instead. Currency will finally become unnecessary. An end of world poverty, no starvation, no homelessness...
Or maybe some company will stick a patent on something critical and we'll all die horribly.
Hmmm, whether 'human' rights would apply to them. IMHO anyone or anything sufficiently advanced to be able to understand liberty, freedom, free speech, free software (erm oops not that last one) and so on should be allowed it. After all, define thought... If animals have rights, why not robots? Us creating them doesn't make a difference.
There are already robots more intelligent than many household pets.
I realise I'm probably being wound up or trolled, but anyway... If metal-based robots become as intelligent as us then there wouldn't be much competition between us and them anyway -- very small overlap in resource requirements, I reckon. Them killing us would be a waste (for them, anyway) in both materials and potential knowledge.
If you look at it this way, we don't have our own will. We are, after all, just following a set of conditions in our brains that are based upon past experience, which also came from past experience... Maybe there's random things in there, maybe not. But could robots be worse than us anyway? It's possible, but unlikely as most AI research is developing logic-based 'thought'.
If robot means something that 'thinks' for itself, as opposed to remote control, where do preprogrammed devices such as the aibo fit it? They don't learn as such (except for recognising things), they just follow a set of preprogrammed behaviour that is slowly enabled as they 'grow'...
Money. It may be necessary but the way it is being used upsets me. Commercialisation of people especially. And charging people to use their own hardware in ways they aren't told (cough WinME cough). Censorship. Mainly, though, waste of ability. There are thousands of people that are being wasted because governments, large companies (not all of which are bad), journalists don't approve. Language is just a way of using concepts in a constructive manner. Get rid of one word, why not get rid of them all?
Also, not everyone speaks English. There are plenty of innocent words that are offensive in other languages. Add product names and the list is almost endless -- remember the MR2 (merde) anyone?
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It's a way of running Windows apps under Linux. The other option is VMWare, but you need a lot higher spec machine for that...
No no no no no. You're missing something. There needs to be more card games. And minesweeper. Yeah, I know there are thousands available, but until they becomes a core part of KDE / Gnome / Whatever Linux will never truely succeed on the desktop.
I was thinking, once people start using Linux more for games, more companies will probably start developing for Linux as well as Windoze right from the start. Then we won't need all this stuff.
Personally I'm pretty surprised they managed this at all. I know a bit about how all this works and I know just how much it requires to get all this together...
So now you know how to kill of postal workers... I wouldn't have risked drinking it myself, even if it did appear to be unopened.
Not really. In the UK at least it used to be a fairly common way of sending illegal things (often firearms) around -- put them in something resembling a brick.
Nice to know your mail is being monitored though.
1) It's not that bad at all. I'm fairly proficient at qwerty and I switched to Dvorak in no time, matching speeds in an hour. It's far easier the more layouts you learn, but even for a second layout there's no real problem.
:) I still have qwerty keys on it, just a little applet to switch between the two. I can still type just as fast as before with qwerty.
2) No-one dares touch my keyboard
It's no big performance hit, and you gain a lot from it. Give it a try, you might be surprised.
I find it's typing speeds that slow the user down, not the CPU. Surely Dvorak keyboards (once we're past the learning curve) will make the real difference. My typing speed tripled over a week...
Not that faster CPUs are bad, mind, just they don't solve the real issue.
There's a huge manual. Really helpful. I thought I could do things quickly in Photoshop until I learned how to use GIMP moderately effectively. Now, rather than wondering how to do something in GIMP, I spend hours cursing Photoshop for not being able to do it.
The same way you know you can trust Debian in the first place. I mean, the entire distribution _could_ just be a trojan horse. Unless you've read and understood every single bit of the source (which I haven't) you don't know whether it's real. But it's fairly easy to make a guess.
Besides, freenet isn't trying to replace the entire internet, is it?
I think that if languages don't change then they will die completely. I mean, no new words, no new ideas. Keeping a language static isn't a good thing. Don't the French have some government thing to keep the language 'uncorrupted'?
I don't see the logic behind staying still. By adding more words, even from other languages, the range of thought improves. Take any flavour of English, it will be a mixture of dozens of languages. A large part of it is 'stolen' from the older languages, but there's a lot of words that have come from modern languages as well.
Is it about winning and losing? Besides, I don't thing creativity will come too quickly...
How do you define intelligence? What's the difference between a modern toaster and a small microorganism? What's the difference between a worm and a modern AI script?
Will kindness be needed even? :) If everyone has everything they want... Hang on, let's not go there. It won't work.
Ah, speculating about society. Why don't we ask the super-intelligent bots which way would be best? They could create simulations. But then would the people inside the simulations be alive, or just programs?
Not enough coffee in the world for all this moral issue stuff. I think I'll convert to some religion -- ignorance, maybe. I can't believe I even joked about that.
How about respect as a currency? There's a book with that kind of thing -- IIRC, "Voyage from Yesteryear" by James Hogan. It's old but the idea is still the same. Sort of like open source programming, where people compete for the biggest share of current knowledge. Those that work most out get most credit.
It might even work.
Hmmm, robots monitoring each other maybe? Some people will probably want to do it, anyway. Robotologists -- was that Asimov? I would prefer robots to most human beings...
That brings up another question -- what is learning? Aaaargh, this is making my head hurt. What if a pre-programmed set of instructions includes the ability to generate new ones? I suppose that's the basis of thought. Whether the 'learning' is figuring out a more efficient way of sticking a circuit board together (non-geeks would have said car there, I guess) or advancing the boundaries of science is a different matter.
So what is actually required to learn? Input, obviously, but what about communication? Is something still knowledge if it exists in only one brain (bad choice of words again, but you know what I mean), or does it have to be shareable?
If we get smart robots none of us will ever have to work again. Let them run everything, check up on them until we're sure they're getting it right, then everyone can do research instead. Currency will finally become unnecessary. An end of world poverty, no starvation, no homelessness...
Or maybe some company will stick a patent on something critical and we'll all die horribly.
Hmmm, whether 'human' rights would apply to them. IMHO anyone or anything sufficiently advanced to be able to understand liberty, freedom, free speech, free software (erm oops not that last one) and so on should be allowed it. After all, define thought... If animals have rights, why not robots? Us creating them doesn't make a difference.
There are already robots more intelligent than many household pets.
I realise I'm probably being wound up or trolled, but anyway... If metal-based robots become as intelligent as us then there wouldn't be much competition between us and them anyway -- very small overlap in resource requirements, I reckon. Them killing us would be a waste (for them, anyway) in both materials and potential knowledge.
Here endeth the debate.
If you look at it this way, we don't have our own will. We are, after all, just following a set of conditions in our brains that are based upon past experience, which also came from past experience... Maybe there's random things in there, maybe not. But could robots be worse than us anyway? It's possible, but unlikely as most AI research is developing logic-based 'thought'.
If robot means something that 'thinks' for itself, as opposed to remote control, where do preprogrammed devices such as the aibo fit it? They don't learn as such (except for recognising things), they just follow a set of preprogrammed behaviour that is slowly enabled as they 'grow'...
Money. It may be necessary but the way it is being used upsets me. Commercialisation of people especially. And charging people to use their own hardware in ways they aren't told (cough WinME cough). Censorship. Mainly, though, waste of ability. There are thousands of people that are being wasted because governments, large companies (not all of which are bad), journalists don't approve. Language is just a way of using concepts in a constructive manner. Get rid of one word, why not get rid of them all?
Also, not everyone speaks English. There are plenty of innocent words that are offensive in other languages. Add product names and the list is almost endless -- remember the MR2 (merde) anyone?
fucked.co.uk, IIRC they give email addresses (whatever@fucked.co.uk).
We have an unwritten constitution :) Because it's unwritten, Phony Tony got away with the RIP bill. I doubt an actual constitution would help.