i know what you mean i pretty much only use it for its chat server other wise i would either have to get a dozen different accounts at different sites just to chat with friends i talk to regularly or build my own irc or xmpp chat server and hope my technology illiterate friends can figure out how to log on. i can't remember the last time i even posted something to my own wall.
no that would simply lead instant inflation because they would then raise the minimum wage which would cost employers more that would in turn rise their price for goods and services or fire people. So congress would raise it again rinse repeat. What they should do is make their pay=(M+m)/2 where "M" and "m" is the mean a median income for the district they represent.
actually you can sell libre office you just have to offer/link to the source code. this is exactly what Redhat Oracle and Suse do yo buy a contact for use of their linux distro. you could always go with CentOS, Fedora, or OpenSuse or download the source code from them yourself and compile the whole thing from scratch but you would not get the technical support that comes with a support contract. the gpl specifically allows you to sell gpl software.
what if the brakes fail and the car needs to make choice??
*Off the bridge
*in to the bus
* head on into traffic coming the other way?
what do you do hot shot?
shift into neutral and turn on you hazard lights and use horn if necessary to warn others? shift to a lower gear if you still need forward thrust but at lower speed? use the emergency break?
replace with pedestrians with 5 year old girl chasing after her beloved dog that got out of the back yard, you have now killed a innocent to young child to understand the law
Sounds like fun... Lets play devils advocate for a second:
Would those federal tables of "human worth" include economic impact (i.e. wealth), R&D impact (i.e. intelligence), or humanity impact (i.e. doctor vs lawyer vs congressman) of the person in the car vs the kids in the school bus? Who is the one to make these "death panel" decisions?
Let's say that the person in the car just had a breakthrough that would cure all cancer? Wouldn't his life, which could save millions of people, be more valuable than the life of a bus full of kids?
The point is that while we can write laws that are based on morals. There is no way to program judgement, which is used to decide between two different competing moral outcomes.
so if it is a lawyer or congrassmen the would moral thing be for car would speed up and aim for them?
Then we should put advertising agencies in charge of teaching basic reading comprehension, logic, and arithmetic.
we are easily influenced but not easily programed, (that is without negative reinforcement, get a mild electric shock every time you answer wrong i bet you would learn whole lot faster.)
in android it is the fault of the phone manufacturers not wanting to patch their products in hopes that you will cave in and buy another one, also their haven't been any viruses for android that I am aware of, for android though their have been numerous Trojans though but those require the user to install them and the user is the biggest security whole in all systems and one they can not be patched. besides I wasn't talking about phone system but desktops (though with windows 8 i can see the source of your confusion). GNU/Linux/Xorg is to android as FreeBSD is to iOS.
computing myths? windows does hardware checks to make sure that it god forbid, has been moved between computers?, still contains drm for media, and requires install keys a form of drm for the os? still has a habit of only patching security wholes that they absolutely have to? or say that the whole will be patched in the next version instead of fixing the problems? have they been getting better about security yes but they are far from the security level of you average linux desktop. myth? i think not.
yes but the linux users have a useful system that does what they want when they are done, the windows users are still stuck with a drm infected crippled unsecure operating system afterward.
less people write crippled trialware for linux and linux users would probably format their new system and install their distro of choice after their first boot to see if the computer runs
they may give you a performance hit but they also give you portability so say your windows server has a major hardware failure you can move it to another with completely different hardware without windows killing itself because it thinks you have pirated it. it also makes backups and if necessary regression to easier state easier because you can just take a snapshot of the vm. oh and if one copy crashes its os it won't take the other one down with it. lots of advantages to vm's really.
on a related note will steam for ubuntu be put in the software center or will it be treated as a competitor to your commercial offerings in the software center now that they sell more than just games?
you can buy a cheap dell pc put mythbuntu on it and zsnes emulator for your nes/snes games, dolphine emulator for you gamecube and wii games, any terminal emulator you want for nethack, pick up a couple wii controllers on amazon or you local pawnshop. if you want more emulators just go look through the repository. through a couple 2 terabyte drives in it for storing movies and music you now have a awesome media center/game console.
Which businesses were drafted to serve in the trenches in World War 1? Which served honorably in World War 2?
you mean like the factories pressed into manufacturing military vehicles weapons and uniforms. Of course they weren't in the trenches but they were in military service.
if you want one famous example is AC Gilbert and Company a manufacturer of children's toys including the famous Erectors Set and American Flyer who during WW2 manufactured equipment for military aircraft. another example would be ibm manufacturing browning automatic and m1 carbine for the war effort.
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i know what you mean i pretty much only use it for its chat server other wise i would either have to get a dozen different accounts at different sites just to chat with friends i talk to regularly or build my own irc or xmpp chat server and hope my technology illiterate friends can figure out how to log on.
i can't remember the last time i even posted something to my own wall.
no that would simply lead instant inflation because they would then raise the minimum wage which would cost employers more that would in turn rise their price for goods and services or fire people. So congress would raise it again rinse repeat. What they should do is make their pay=(M+m)/2 where "M" and "m" is the mean a median income for the district they represent.
i agree more like opportunist or entrepreneur depending on you view of his actions
if they were not guilty of breaking the law then by definition their activities were legal and therefor not a crime.
actually you can sell libre office you just have to offer/link to the source code. this is exactly what Redhat Oracle and Suse do yo buy a contact for use of their linux distro. you could always go with CentOS, Fedora, or OpenSuse or download the source code from them yourself and compile the whole thing from scratch but you would not get the technical support that comes with a support contract. the gpl specifically allows you to sell gpl software.
what if the brakes fail and the car needs to make choice??
*Off the bridge
*in to the bus
* head on into traffic coming the other way?
what do you do hot shot?
shift into neutral and turn on you hazard lights and use horn if necessary to warn others? shift to a lower gear if you still need forward thrust but at lower speed? use the emergency break?
replace with pedestrians with 5 year old girl chasing after her beloved dog that got out of the back yard, you have now killed a innocent to young child to understand the law
Sounds like fun... Lets play devils advocate for a second:
Would those federal tables of "human worth" include economic impact (i.e. wealth), R&D impact (i.e. intelligence), or humanity impact (i.e. doctor vs lawyer vs congressman) of the person in the car vs the kids in the school bus? Who is the one to make these "death panel" decisions?
Let's say that the person in the car just had a breakthrough that would cure all cancer? Wouldn't his life, which could save millions of people, be more valuable than the life of a bus full of kids?
The point is that while we can write laws that are based on morals. There is no way to program judgement, which is used to decide between two different competing moral outcomes.
so if it is a lawyer or congrassmen the would moral thing be for car would speed up and aim for them?
never underestimate the level of stupid people a capable of
yeah r sammy fried his brain when someone told him to hold an electron gun to his head
no there were more but they were sided with Daneel Olivaw and looked like humans subtly influencing humanity or in hidding
in the robot series this was answered by making the favor the owner slightly over others.
Then we should put advertising agencies in charge of teaching basic reading comprehension, logic, and arithmetic.
we are easily influenced but not easily programed, (that is without negative reinforcement, get a mild electric shock every time you answer wrong i bet you would learn whole lot faster.)
in android it is the fault of the phone manufacturers not wanting to patch their products in hopes that you will cave in and buy another one, also their haven't been any viruses for android that I am aware of, for android though their have been numerous Trojans though but those require the user to install them and the user is the biggest security whole in all systems and one they can not be patched. besides I wasn't talking about phone system but desktops (though with windows 8 i can see the source of your confusion). GNU/Linux/Xorg is to android as FreeBSD is to iOS.
computing myths? windows does hardware checks to make sure that it god forbid, has been moved between computers?, still contains drm for media, and requires install keys a form of drm for the os? still has a habit of only patching security wholes that they absolutely have to? or say that the whole will be patched in the next version instead of fixing the problems? have they been getting better about security yes but they are far from the security level of you average linux desktop.
myth? i think not.
yes but the linux users have a useful system that does what they want when they are done, the windows users are still stuck with a drm infected crippled unsecure operating system afterward.
less people write crippled trialware for linux and linux users would probably format their new system and install their distro of choice after their first boot to see if the computer runs
are you saying that all North Korea has to do to invade South Korea is attack with an army comprised entirely of pantomime horses?
they may give you a performance hit but they also give you portability so say your windows server has a major hardware failure you can move it to another with completely different hardware without windows killing itself because it thinks you have pirated it. it also makes backups and if necessary regression to easier state easier because you can just take a snapshot of the vm. oh and if one copy crashes its os it won't take the other one down with it. lots of advantages to vm's really.
on a related note will steam for ubuntu be put in the software center or will it be treated as a competitor to your commercial offerings in the software center now that they sell more than just games?
or we will say f you to them and use a text mod browser like elink which is simply encapable of veiwing many of the adds
but you cant put a bluray drive in your wii latter.
please say your joking
you can buy a cheap dell pc put mythbuntu on it and zsnes emulator for your nes/snes games, dolphine emulator for you gamecube and wii games, any terminal emulator you want for nethack, pick up a couple wii controllers on amazon or you local pawnshop. if you want more emulators just go look through the repository. through a couple 2 terabyte drives in it for storing movies and music you now have a awesome media center/game console.
Which businesses were drafted to serve in the trenches in World War 1? Which served honorably in World War 2?
you mean like the factories pressed into manufacturing military vehicles weapons and uniforms. Of course they weren't in the trenches but they were in military service.
if you want one famous example is AC Gilbert and Company a manufacturer of children's toys including the famous Erectors Set and American Flyer who during WW2 manufactured equipment for military aircraft. another example would be ibm manufacturing browning automatic and m1 carbine for the war effort.