If you give them a couple million years to mutate, yes. Provided my step-mother isn't the one who cooks the animals meals of course, in which case they'd devolve faster than you can say "that steak is raw!".
The GNU project is very nice and very idealistic, but has so far failed to displace close source software. So I'd say pragmatic people, who are mostly okay with some close-source software thrown in the open source bag as long as they get the job done, have largely disavowed Stallman's radical point of views on the question.
What other "myths" could be somewhat verified in this manner?
What's more interesting is the "facts" that can be disproved by proper analysis. For example, one event that millions take for granted and consider true, the birth of Jesus on a Dec 25th, is easily disproved since shepherds wouldn't have been out in their fields in December. Many other religious "facts", regardless of the religion, are similarly easy to dismiss, yet a sizeable portion of humanity still considers them to be true and base their belief system on them.
The current photo is a happy snap without a story. It begs the question "Why?"
The only question that comes to mind when looking at this before-after photo exercise is : is it better to be bright, young and wearing atrocious 70s clothes, or be a fat middle-aged ex-computer wizz-kid ?
Nobody doubts Bill Gates' vision helped bring computers to the masses a great deal, nor that OS and PC uniformising, sad as it is, is what brought down the cost of computing. The beef most people have with Microsoft is (1) how they got there, and (2) software quality : they copied, bought, monopolized, bribed and ransomed their way to the top, and they couldn't come up with one truly good software product if they lives depended on it.
obviously, solar energy is the ultimate renewable energy source
Actually, there's already a way to turn solar energy into crude oil : grow plants, bury dead plants deep underground, wait several millions years, extract oil.
Now all the US needs to do is apply the Geneva conventions to the Gitmo prisoners, give them a speedy trials (not that it would make a difference after that many years without indictment in the pokey) and generally treat them more like human beings than animals, then it would start to look more like a country driven by the rule of law.
I love the beta it gives you an idea about what it should look like and I cant wait till the full version comes out and sure some of my add-ons don't work but they should soon.
I think tools of any kind are just there, and it is our choices that determine what happens to us. They can be good or bad - depending on what we choose to do with them.
Spoons make you fat if you use them to shovel tons food in your mouth. Likewise, if you use a calculator without at least a cursory check of the result, you'll likely end up with stupid results somewhere. And for google, nobody is stupid enough to trust them to give unbiased search results, so there's always an element of distrust that makes this tool, like all tools, something useful. It's only when you blindly trust google, or your calculator, or your spoon that you end up stupid (and fat).
1 - Capitalize on the buzz created by Wikipedia, falsely open Britannica to contributions 2 - Keep hand on content, unlike Wikipedia, edit contributed content and sell as own 3 - Profit
I know there's truth in their beef against the wiki process, but really what I mostly see is a great way for Britannica to get raw material faster without having to pay anybody.
Why would I download your free album legit from your site when I can get a pirated copy on Baidu? Don't you know the whole point of downloading stuff on the internet is to stick it to the man?
How much do you bet the feds will come down hard on the kids and charge then with felony, cyber-"terrorism" or some other preposterous computer crime? I used to do harmless hacks for fun in years past, but these days it's not really wise.
Psychiatrists have known for a long time that paedophiles are "born that way", that their perversion isn't really a product of their upbringing or past life experiences, just like homosexuality. It's not something they can control or repress, or avoid becoming by not looking at certain images.
So, while outlawing real kiddie porn is understandable to avoid children being used to produce the material, outlawing computer-generated images makes no sense at all: it won't lessen paedophiles' drives and it won't prevent "would be" paedophiles from becoming real ones. What this is is some politicians passing a think-of-the-children law to look good, probably before elections or something.
I fail to see how this is redundant. I too choose video cards based on how well they are supported under Linux. Or rather, I choose the ones with the less shitty support. Any Linux users who's ever tried to use any OpenGL app more complex than glxgears knows the pain, so I reckon Linux (or any OS other than Windows I suppose) support isn't a trivial, or a fanboy issue.
So no, the post isn't redundant, because this issue isn't yet solved (not to mention, how can a first post be redundant?).
VIA showing off their board, offering a VIA-equipped toy to someone, disguising the entire thing as a geek event and plastering it on geeky sites. Gee, that sure is great news for nerds, stuff that (doesn't) matter...
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If you give them a couple million years to mutate, yes. Provided my step-mother isn't the one who cooks the animals meals of course, in which case they'd devolve faster than you can say "that steak is raw!".
They call a phone number to request a temporary address whenever they want to send or receive mail. I hear they call it the DHCP service
Japan needs to realize the 21st century.
Big job for a small country.
The GNU project is very nice and very idealistic, but has so far failed to displace close source software. So I'd say pragmatic people, who are mostly okay with some close-source software thrown in the open source bag as long as they get the job done, have largely disavowed Stallman's radical point of views on the question.
No to what? embrace some closed source fixes, or remain pure?
I'm so confused...
How about the other years? or is 2001-2002 the period they screwed up the worst ?
What other "myths" could be somewhat verified in this manner?
What's more interesting is the "facts" that can be disproved by proper analysis. For example, one event that millions take for granted and consider true, the birth of Jesus on a Dec 25th, is easily disproved since shepherds wouldn't have been out in their fields in December. Many other religious "facts", regardless of the religion, are similarly easy to dismiss, yet a sizeable portion of humanity still considers them to be true and base their belief system on them.
The current photo is a happy snap without a story. It begs the question "Why?"
The only question that comes to mind when looking at this before-after photo exercise is : is it better to be bright, young and wearing atrocious 70s clothes, or be a fat middle-aged ex-computer wizz-kid ?
Nobody doubts Bill Gates' vision helped bring computers to the masses a great deal, nor that OS and PC uniformising, sad as it is, is what brought down the cost of computing. The beef most people have with Microsoft is (1) how they got there, and (2) software quality : they copied, bought, monopolized, bribed and ransomed their way to the top, and they couldn't come up with one truly good software product if they lives depended on it.
Other than that, they're great guys.
obviously, solar energy is the ultimate renewable energy source
Actually, there's already a way to turn solar energy into crude oil : grow plants, bury dead plants deep underground, wait several millions years, extract oil.
You do realize oil *is* solar energy right?
Oh yeah, time for Stephen King to right a new book.
He's wronged so many of his last books that it would be a good idea regardless.
Now all the US needs to do is apply the Geneva conventions to the Gitmo prisoners, give them a speedy trials (not that it would make a difference after that many years without indictment in the pokey) and generally treat them more like human beings than animals, then it would start to look more like a country driven by the rule of law.
I love the beta it gives you an idea about what it should look like and I cant wait till the full version comes out and sure some of my add-ons don't work but they should soon.
There, fixed that for you.
Firefox is the best browser out there and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house
I don't, it sheds hair all over the couch and chases my pet firehen.
they're called relays.
I think tools of any kind are just there, and it is our choices that determine what happens to us. They can be good or bad - depending on what we choose to do with them.
Spoons make you fat if you use them to shovel tons food in your mouth. Likewise, if you use a calculator without at least a cursory check of the result, you'll likely end up with stupid results somewhere. And for google, nobody is stupid enough to trust them to give unbiased search results, so there's always an element of distrust that makes this tool, like all tools, something useful. It's only when you blindly trust google, or your calculator, or your spoon that you end up stupid (and fat).
1 - Capitalize on the buzz created by Wikipedia, falsely open Britannica to contributions
2 - Keep hand on content, unlike Wikipedia, edit contributed content and sell as own
3 - Profit
I know there's truth in their beef against the wiki process, but really what I mostly see is a great way for Britannica to get raw material faster without having to pay anybody.
The cops want sound with the video from CCTV cameras. They were tired of having to hire silent movie pianists while they watched the citizenry.
Why would I download your free album legit from your site when I can get a pirated copy on Baidu? Don't you know the whole point of downloading stuff on the internet is to stick it to the man?
The RIAA should tell songwriters to name all their songs with "Tiananmen" somewhere in the title. Problem solved!
the two kids who perpetrated the hack
How much do you bet the feds will come down hard on the kids and charge then with felony, cyber-"terrorism" or some other preposterous computer crime? I used to do harmless hacks for fun in years past, but these days it's not really wise.
Psychiatrists have known for a long time that paedophiles are "born that way", that their perversion isn't really a product of their upbringing or past life experiences, just like homosexuality. It's not something they can control or repress, or avoid becoming by not looking at certain images.
So, while outlawing real kiddie porn is understandable to avoid children being used to produce the material, outlawing computer-generated images makes no sense at all: it won't lessen paedophiles' drives and it won't prevent "would be" paedophiles from becoming real ones. What this is is some politicians passing a think-of-the-children law to look good, probably before elections or something.
I fail to see how this is redundant. I too choose video cards based on how well they are supported under Linux. Or rather, I choose the ones with the less shitty support. Any Linux users who's ever tried to use any OpenGL app more complex than glxgears knows the pain, so I reckon Linux (or any OS other than Windows I suppose) support isn't a trivial, or a fanboy issue.
So no, the post isn't redundant, because this issue isn't yet solved (not to mention, how can a first post be redundant?).
slashvertisement. There I said it.
VIA showing off their board, offering a VIA-equipped toy to someone, disguising the entire thing as a geek event and plastering it on geeky sites. Gee, that sure is great news for nerds, stuff that (doesn't) matter...
$100k? How can you expect anyone to live on that?
Exactly. In euros, $100k it buys you a bus ticket these days...