Sadly, there won't be much ways to download stuff, since every little legal thing that can be used to download illegal things is being outlawed (or will soon by SOPA clones).
I thought Fedora was implementing some kind of tool for computers without connection receive updates from media disks without so much issue. Like, generate package list in the offline computer, download in an online computer, burn in DVD/USB/whatever, update the offline, done.
It would be far, far more useful than this reboot thing...
...mixed with one or two spoons of trend. Often common, but a bit unavoidable when you're in the "gap" between the the "hard" and the "soft" sciences - following the scientific method of either often makes you to discard the other.
Yes, how food tastes is molecular. Is biological - that's why no culture will like foods that smell i.e. like shit. But if you try to analyze it as just Bio, and just throw out the social part, your research won't go well. Using just as an example as how much culture affects your tastes, read De Re Coquinaria (Roman recipe book, from Apicius) and check how many of that food pairings you would do: honey in hard-boiled eggs? Fermented fish stock and wine in lamb? Vinegar and egg yolk in shrimps? Even for most Romance peoples now, this would be considered "yuck", yet it was high cuisine in another culture.
At least for me, depends on which sense you give to the word. I usually sum up this with a "I have a dog called Dog". While I commonly use this when discussing about gods, (Christian god Yahweh aka God included), this applies too to heaven/Heaven and hell/Hell.
Even a little discovery amazes and shocks, is funny and beautiful, gives you hopes and delusions, at least for scientists. For them, science is the artist's wet dreams coming true.
Yes, they should be awarded. Not for the whole "made in computer to beat computers" thing, but they actually helped in an unintended way - speech recognition. I see this kind of stuff easily joining Praat and software like that, helping linguists to mess with experimental data.
Viva el GIMP, sure. While I agree people like me did with GIMP lots and lots of image manipulation, yet, it should be better.
GIMP's problem is pretty much like this: it's bad enough to make programmers like it enough to join the dev team, but it's good enough to nobody try starting some alternative or even fork.
Thanks to the scientists studying drinking behaviour of flies, nanobottles had to be developed, improving our nanotechnology knowledge. Scientifical researching pays off in some strange ways...
I may be some kind of optimistic idiot, but I think it's not the internet who's fall, but the media businesses who doesn't adapt to it. Like the MAFIAA.
The thing is, people aren't willing to give up free internet, even if it's to download a few pirated movies. Try to take it from them and they'll rage and go against you. The internet is going to stay very much as it's now IMO: always threatened, but even more threatening.
You forgot to comment about GNOME and Unity doing the exactly same thing. But yes, I agree with you.
Speaking about interfaces, the last "usable yet customizable" popular ones are KDE and Xfce... and I'm afraid KDE apes GNOME's [bad] example.
Humans are nice, yes; kin selection has made us opt for things clearly disavantageous as individuals (like honesty and non-violence to the weaker) but advantageous to our groups - being the group whatever you feel like (co-citizens, brothers of faith, nation, teenagers, team supporters, vegans/vegetarians/omnivorous...).
But ironically, when groups collide, the same kin selection with the same "group over individual" genetically embued mentality make us insane, violent and savage - war, team supporters fights, raids...
It's almost like genetics proving Anonymous is right - none of us are as cruel as all of us .
Honestly? The sick joke is another one: "We know what it's better for you and you don't need options. There's no such thing as different people with different needs and tastes."
It's not "fat"... but you could lose some genes...
[Sexist but inevitable joke] The genes present at women but not at men are instructions about how to make a sandwich.
Seriously speaking now, even if Y chrom' ceases to exist, male gender goes on. But instead of gender being defined as XX/XY, it would be XX/XØ. Lots of species in the nature work like that: grasshoppers and cockroaches and whatever.
Comparing Chrome and Firefox to use in an older machine is very much like comparing two whales to see which one fits in your goldenfish aquarium. Midori does wonders for these.
You'll just need to wait Firefox 20, aka FirefoxXX. It'll be coming next month. So, finally, your browser will comply with all perversion it saw since you installed it.
I think I have the solution for 'why water can pass through but helium [smaller] not': the water is not passing through at all. It's graphene hydroxide/oxide, after all... the hydroxyl radical from the membrane steals a H 'cation' from a water molecule, an electron from graphene proper and deattaches itself, forming a new molecule. The 'old' water molecule, now a OH radical, attaches itself at the graphene yielding an electron in the way.
The thing is, the 'new' molecule has 50% odds of being at any side of the graphene layer. If you have lots of water in one side but none in the other, it'll looks like the water is passing through.
This would explain why helium cannot pass - it's smaller than a water molecule, but far, FAR BIGGER than a H (H = a proton alone). The OH radical attached to the membrane can rearrange itself to either side of the membrane easily, since it's bonded to the layer, allowing the process to continue.
TL; DR: The water isn't passing through, it's being broken and recombined at the other side.
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Sadly, there won't be much ways to download stuff, since every little legal thing that can be used to download illegal things is being outlawed (or will soon by SOPA clones).
I thought Fedora was implementing some kind of tool for computers without connection receive updates from media disks without so much issue. Like, generate package list in the offline computer, download in an online computer, burn in DVD/USB/whatever, update the offline, done.
It would be far, far more useful than this reboot thing...
...mixed with one or two spoons of trend. Often common, but a bit unavoidable when you're in the "gap" between the the "hard" and the "soft" sciences - following the scientific method of either often makes you to discard the other.
Yes, how food tastes is molecular. Is biological - that's why no culture will like foods that smell i.e. like shit. But if you try to analyze it as just Bio, and just throw out the social part, your research won't go well.
Using just as an example as how much culture affects your tastes, read De Re Coquinaria (Roman recipe book, from Apicius) and check how many of that food pairings you would do: honey in hard-boiled eggs? Fermented fish stock and wine in lamb? Vinegar and egg yolk in shrimps? Even for most Romance peoples now, this would be considered "yuck", yet it was high cuisine in another culture.
At least for me, depends on which sense you give to the word. I usually sum up this with a "I have a dog called Dog". While I commonly use this when discussing about gods, (Christian god Yahweh aka God included), this applies too to heaven/Heaven and hell/Hell.
Even a little discovery amazes and shocks, is funny and beautiful, gives you hopes and delusions, at least for scientists. For them, science is the artist's wet dreams coming true.
Yes, they should be awarded. Not for the whole "made in computer to beat computers" thing, but they actually helped in an unintended way - speech recognition. I see this kind of stuff easily joining Praat and software like that, helping linguists to mess with experimental data.
Well done, sirs.
Does this "MS Decrap" removes their crap OS too? I bet it doesn't.
(Sorry guys, not flamebait. But this was inevitable to say...)
Viva el GIMP, sure. While I agree people like me did with GIMP lots and lots of image manipulation, yet, it should be better.
GIMP's problem is pretty much like this: it's bad enough to make programmers like it enough to join the dev team, but it's good enough to nobody try starting some alternative or even fork.
Want a NOT gate? Show the crabs your cookware.
And a Linux crab machine would have a nice shell.
Thanks to the scientists studying drinking behaviour of flies, nanobottles had to be developed, improving our nanotechnology knowledge. Scientifical researching pays off in some strange ways...
I may be some kind of optimistic idiot, but I think it's not the internet who's fall, but the media businesses who doesn't adapt to it. Like the MAFIAA.
The thing is, people aren't willing to give up free internet, even if it's to download a few pirated movies. Try to take it from them and they'll rage and go against you. The internet is going to stay very much as it's now IMO: always threatened, but even more threatening.
You forgot to comment about GNOME and Unity doing the exactly same thing. But yes, I agree with you.
Speaking about interfaces, the last "usable yet customizable" popular ones are KDE and Xfce... and I'm afraid KDE apes GNOME's [bad] example.
Humans are nice, yes; kin selection has made us opt for things clearly disavantageous as individuals (like honesty and non-violence to the weaker) but advantageous to our groups - being the group whatever you feel like (co-citizens, brothers of faith, nation, teenagers, team supporters, vegans/vegetarians/omnivorous...).
But ironically, when groups collide, the same kin selection with the same "group over individual" genetically embued mentality make us insane, violent and savage - war, team supporters fights, raids...
It's almost like genetics proving Anonymous is right - none of us are as cruel as all of us .
Honestly? The sick joke is another one: "We know what it's better for you and you don't need options. There's no such thing as different people with different needs and tastes."
This is only needed if you're programming games like Dwarf Fortress and Angry, Drunken Dwarves. In this aspect, more beard == better.
It's not "fat"... but you could lose some genes...
[Sexist but inevitable joke]
The genes present at women but not at men are instructions about how to make a sandwich.
Seriously speaking now, even if Y chrom' ceases to exist, male gender goes on. But instead of gender being defined as XX/XY, it would be XX/XØ. Lots of species in the nature work like that: grasshoppers and cockroaches and whatever.
Squirting is something different, but don't worry, we nerds probably will never stumble into that situation...
Why? You know, porn is shareable too!
Protip: if 'make love' returns no target, you need to do the job by hand.
Why would you replace a zero-ed string with another? At least use /dev/random, bro.
Ow, 'great'. Now I'm hungry. It's your all fault.
There's already an invasive species in Australia that can hunt down elephants: humans.
Comparing Chrome and Firefox to use in an older machine is very much like comparing two whales to see which one fits in your goldenfish aquarium. Midori does wonders for these.
You'll just need to wait Firefox 20, aka FirefoxXX. It'll be coming next month. So, finally, your browser will comply with all perversion it saw since you installed it.
I think I have the solution for 'why water can pass through but helium [smaller] not': the water is not passing through at all. It's graphene hydroxide/oxide, after all... the hydroxyl radical from the membrane steals a H 'cation' from a water molecule, an electron from graphene proper and deattaches itself, forming a new molecule. The 'old' water molecule, now a OH radical, attaches itself at the graphene yielding an electron in the way.
The thing is, the 'new' molecule has 50% odds of being at any side of the graphene layer. If you have lots of water in one side but none in the other, it'll looks like the water is passing through.
This would explain why helium cannot pass - it's smaller than a water molecule, but far, FAR BIGGER than a H (H = a proton alone). The OH radical attached to the membrane can rearrange itself to either side of the membrane easily, since it's bonded to the layer, allowing the process to continue.
TL; DR: The water isn't passing through, it's being broken and recombined at the other side.
The new trend is blaming China, not Russia/CCCP.