I thought the Europeans were the extremists, or at the very least extremeist lovers since they can't seem to get enough of all the Middle Eastern peoples of the world.
Your comment is a particularly stupid one that not only shows a lack of knowledge on the field of science, but of the personalities of human beings. There is no overlord scientific authority that directs what each and every scientist in the world should be working on. Science is very much an individual pursuit. You learn about what you are interested in or what you accidentally discover. A good scientist is a highly motivated scientist, not one forced to work on a project he/she has very little interest in.
We have plenty of scientists working on both AIDS and Cancer. If we were to stop all other pursuits until all disease were eradicated our overall standard of living would be much lower due to a lack of innovation in every other field. I suppose just because there's still rabies in the world you think that no scientist should be working on fuel cells, or just because a cure for lupus has been found no one should care a rats ass about developing more efficent supply chain methods...etc.
India is a huge poor nation of a billion people. 100 million of those people may be rich, but that leaves 90% in abject poverty. MANY villages and towns in India are in fact full of people living in mud huts. In your attempt to expose the ignorance of the parent poster, you actually displayed your own. There is MASSIVE starvation in India. I don't know why you think things are so rosy over there. Jesus. China has a few hundred million rich folks as well. They also have some excellent mathameticians and programmers. Are you going to try to tell us that China is a great place to live as well?
Keep in mind that domestic food production is a strategic necessity. No major power should ever place itself in the position of relying on another nation for its food supply. Thats just too huge of a vulnerability to ever permit.
Thats absolutely asinine. Does he consider you to be children or what? Or have your coworkers proven themselves to be children? Does he himself use a PDA? Try getting him hooked on one.
There is no false advertising. Even under these new terms its still unlimited. You see, the unlimited could be used for the amount of connection time. Since you are connected 24/7 to your cable connection, it can be said to have an "unlimited" amount of connection time.
Your're funny. You think a city is going to allow a cable company's charter to be revoked for a simple change in billing plans? Throwing how many hundreds or thousands of people out of work just to placate a minority of geeks who don't want to pay what they should for broadband usage? Right.
Where do you work? Lots of folks in my office use PDAs. Ever go to the PDA websites and portals such as PDABuzz.com? Tell them that their just useless executive toys. Remembering one appointment is one thing. Having your entire week scheduled along with daily, weekly, and monthly events pre-programmed for the next 6 months, along with 100's of phone numbers and contacts, a detailed to-do list and memo pad is another. And it doesn't have to beep, you can set it to vibrate.
You could provide them with a plate of acceptable choices. I never said preach satanism to your kids. However providing them with a choice between say, Christianity, Judiasm and Islam which are pretty much more or less the same would be fine. Or if you didn't want to leave Christianity, you could show them Catholicism, Baptism, Episcopalianism, Mormanism....etc. Again pretty much more or less the same. And yeah amongst those listed above it doesn't really make a difference which one you choose. They all have the major basics covered. Just tell him to pick and choose the religion that best suits him. Its in looking for differences that causes unnecessary conflicts such as ahem "Holy Wars".
Instructing them in their heritage is one thing, slanting their viewpoints is another. I sincerely hope you present both sides of every issue to your children regardless of what side of the issue you yourself are on.
I think that kids of such young ages shouldn't be exposed to the politcal bickering that is involved in an OS choice. Just give them Windows for now like all the other kids, if they're using computers already, and then when they're, say 12 or 13 introduce them to Linux and any other alternative operating systems so that they will be old enough and mature enough to make such a decision on their own.
Its like with religion or politics, really young kids shouldn't just be indoctrinated in one side or the other just because thats what the parents prefer. Let them make their own un-pressured choices. Not to mention starting them off with Linux would probably set them back they'd have to use Wintel PC's at school or over at a friends house.
You seem like a friendly guy. Help me out with the moderation. My karma just went up to excellent recently and I noticed that all my new posts start out at +2. Is that because of my karma?
Its not false. I don't doubt serious Unix admins and coders make more than their Windows counterparts. The only thing is there are less of them. So its only a factor when the Unix folks actually have jobs. Otherwise its the Windows weenies who are the ones who have the money to buy these things.
I'm just going to cut and paste a reply to a similar post.
"I don't doubt serious Unix admins and coders make more than their Windows counterparts. The only thing is there are less of them. So its only a factor when the Unix folks actually have jobs. Otherwise its the Windows weenies who are the ones who have the money to buy these things."
Seeing how this entire website is full of people who seem to thrive on being non-conformist then yes that reply of being counter-culture applies for a lot of the posts that are made here.
The problem is they aren't going against the grain for any noble purpose but simply to be annoyingly cool.
Why is "NEED" a requirement for obtaining something? Also who are you to define how important everyone else is? Are you some appointed Importance Authority? College kids and soccer moms have just as much need for a cellphone as anyone else. It makes them happy. Provides them with comfort. I'm sure you don't begrudge those same people for having computers, TV's , radios, MP3 Players, cordless phones, answering machines, alarm clocks...etc that they don't NEED. So why pick on cell phones? Whats the reason for the hate?
Well your plan would work great if you just wanted to be a counter-cultural slacker. But there are some folks that actually want to achieve things in life and in order to do that you need those things you want us to dump. Its one of the prices you pay in order to be a Young Urban Professional Person. (Yuppie).
And dammit. You don't need a book to read. Just load an e-book onto your PDA and there ya go! Thats what I do anyways.
You have to remember that Dell is a pragmatic and logical company. They don't offer things for sale that won't sell. This will sell. Dell's OS choice WON'T hurt their sales amongst the tech community, or at least the tech community that matters. There's plenty of Windows using techies out that you know. The ones who use Linux tend to lack the jobs and income to be able to buy nice things like this to begin with. Besides moron, you could wipe the thing and install Linux on it. That should be enough to get you frothing at the bits.
Last time I checked, PocketPC devices were faster than Palms, had plenty of applications and are gaining in marketshare. I'm a Palm user myself but I see no sense in denying the truth. Fault Palm for dropping the ball for taking so long to come out with a new OS (Palm OS 6 with Be technology). You can't slack when MS is on your tail.
Its been what 8 years since the Palm was introduced? There's no excuse for it remaining so primitive and close to the original OS. Palm has been slacking and there's no defending for that.
It hasn't been tried yet because we already know the outcome. Massive suffering for most of the population. Keep some things in perspective. Microsoft is a software company. They aren't jacking up the price of food for crying out loud. Just because you can't get everyone in the world to run Linux is no reason to throw out the overwhelmingly successful economic and political system we've had for the past 225 years.
There's a way to deal with monopolies you know. Its called "trust busting". It was done to Standard Oil, it was done to AT&T and if necessary it will be done to Microsoft. You think there wasn't bribery back then? Oh and the anti-trust cases took years for those companies and did not always succeed on the first try. Yet we didn't resort to foolish anarchy then, why should we now?
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Denial is one of the main tenents of Libertarianism. Just deny there's any thing that needs to be regulated and your arguments start to make sense.
Everything works fine, nothing is broken, its working as designed. You sound like a battered wife talking to the cops with two black eyes and a fat lip trying to defend her husband. I'm not saying the internet is completely broken, but its not working perfectly either. And its a hell of a lot more than just some machines connected together. Its becoming the center of our very economy.
Jobs, lives, lifestyles, entertainment, information, education....etc all involve the internet. Thats a bit more than just some machines connected together.
With the prevelance of Windows servers going unpatched, each one is a risk to everyone else on the internet. If Microsoft can't clean up its act, and the system administrators who run these trouble prone servers can't "find the time" to keep them patched and up to date then I see the government cracking down very hard at some point in the future.
When a simple script kiddie can take control of a few hundred or thousand home machines or office machines, turn them into zombies and use them in brutual Denial of Service attacks on any innocent target, DNS root servers, ecommerce sites, a residential IP with very little chance of being caught and brought to justice I don't see how you can claim that "everything works fine".
Wipe the "government can't do anything right so it shouldn't do anything at all" sentiment out of your eyes so you can see the reality of the situation.
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I thought the Europeans were the extremists, or at the very least extremeist lovers since they can't seem to get enough of all the Middle Eastern peoples of the world.
I can understand you wanting to get rid of politicians and lawyers. But whats wrong with businessmen, actors and musicians?
Your comment is a particularly stupid one that not only shows a lack of knowledge on the field of science, but of the personalities of human beings. There is no overlord scientific authority that directs what each and every scientist in the world should be working on. Science is very much an individual pursuit. You learn about what you are interested in or what you accidentally discover. A good scientist is a highly motivated scientist, not one forced to work on a project he/she has very little interest in.
We have plenty of scientists working on both AIDS and Cancer. If we were to stop all other pursuits until all disease were eradicated our overall standard of living would be much lower due to a lack of innovation in every other field. I suppose just because there's still rabies in the world you think that no scientist should be working on fuel cells, or just because a cure for lupus has been found no one should care a rats ass about developing more efficent supply chain methods...etc.
India is a huge poor nation of a billion people. 100 million of those people may be rich, but that leaves 90% in abject poverty. MANY villages and towns in India are in fact full of people living in mud huts. In your attempt to expose the ignorance of the parent poster, you actually displayed your own. There is MASSIVE starvation in India. I don't know why you think things are so rosy over there. Jesus. China has a few hundred million rich folks as well. They also have some excellent mathameticians and programmers. Are you going to try to tell us that China is a great place to live as well?
Keep in mind that domestic food production is a strategic necessity. No major power should ever place itself in the position of relying on another nation for its food supply. Thats just too huge of a vulnerability to ever permit.
Thats absolutely asinine. Does he consider you to be children or what? Or have your coworkers proven themselves to be children? Does he himself use a PDA? Try getting him hooked on one.
There is no false advertising. Even under these new terms its still unlimited. You see, the unlimited could be used for the amount of connection time. Since you are connected 24/7 to your cable connection, it can be said to have an "unlimited" amount of connection time.
Your're funny. You think a city is going to allow a cable company's charter to be revoked for a simple change in billing plans? Throwing how many hundreds or thousands of people out of work just to placate a minority of geeks who don't want to pay what they should for broadband usage? Right.
The ISP isn't deciding what you can do with your internet connection. You want to do more, you pay more. Simple as that.
Your overreacting a bit. You can download the latest ISO's. Just not of each distro everynight. Is once or twice a month too infrequent for you?
Where do you work? Lots of folks in my office use PDAs. Ever go to the PDA websites and portals such as PDABuzz.com? Tell them that their just useless executive toys. Remembering one appointment is one thing. Having your entire week scheduled along with daily, weekly, and monthly events pre-programmed for the next 6 months, along with 100's of phone numbers and contacts, a detailed to-do list and memo pad is another. And it doesn't have to beep, you can set it to vibrate.
You could provide them with a plate of acceptable choices. I never said preach satanism to your kids. However providing them with a choice between say, Christianity, Judiasm and Islam which are pretty much more or less the same would be fine. Or if you didn't want to leave Christianity, you could show them Catholicism, Baptism, Episcopalianism, Mormanism....etc. Again pretty much more or less the same. And yeah amongst those listed above it doesn't really make a difference which one you choose. They all have the major basics covered. Just tell him to pick and choose the religion that best suits him. Its in looking for differences that causes unnecessary conflicts such as ahem "Holy Wars".
Instructing them in their heritage is one thing, slanting their viewpoints is another. I sincerely hope you present both sides of every issue to your children regardless of what side of the issue you yourself are on.
I think that kids of such young ages shouldn't be exposed to the politcal bickering that is involved in an OS choice. Just give them Windows for now like all the other kids, if they're using computers already, and then when they're, say 12 or 13 introduce them to Linux and any other alternative operating systems so that they will be old enough and mature enough to make such a decision on their own.
Its like with religion or politics, really young kids shouldn't just be indoctrinated in one side or the other just because thats what the parents prefer. Let them make their own un-pressured choices. Not to mention starting them off with Linux would probably set them back they'd have to use Wintel PC's at school or over at a friends house.
You seem like a friendly guy. Help me out with the moderation. My karma just went up to excellent recently and I noticed that all my new posts start out at +2. Is that because of my karma?
Its not false. I don't doubt serious Unix admins and coders make more than their Windows counterparts. The only thing is there are less of them. So its only a factor when the Unix folks actually have jobs. Otherwise its the Windows weenies who are the ones who have the money to buy these things.
I'm just going to cut and paste a reply to a similar post.
"I don't doubt serious Unix admins and coders make more than their Windows counterparts. The only thing is there are less of them. So its only a factor when the Unix folks actually have jobs. Otherwise its the Windows weenies who are the ones who have the money to buy these things."
Seeing how this entire website is full of people who seem to thrive on being non-conformist then yes that reply of being counter-culture applies for a lot of the posts that are made here.
The problem is they aren't going against the grain for any noble purpose but simply to be annoyingly cool.
Why is "NEED" a requirement for obtaining something? Also who are you to define how important everyone else is? Are you some appointed Importance Authority? College kids and soccer moms have just as much need for a cellphone as anyone else. It makes them happy. Provides them with comfort. I'm sure you don't begrudge those same people for having computers, TV's , radios, MP3 Players, cordless phones, answering machines, alarm clocks...etc that they don't NEED. So why pick on cell phones? Whats the reason for the hate?
Well your plan would work great if you just wanted to be a counter-cultural slacker. But there are some folks that actually want to achieve things in life and in order to do that you need those things you want us to dump. Its one of the prices you pay in order to be a Young Urban Professional Person. (Yuppie).
And dammit. You don't need a book to read. Just load an e-book onto your PDA and there ya go! Thats what I do anyways.
Naw. Thats way too counter-culture for me. I want to be a normal person. I'll keep my cell.
You have to remember that Dell is a pragmatic and logical company. They don't offer things for sale that won't sell. This will sell. Dell's OS choice WON'T hurt their sales amongst the tech community, or at least the tech community that matters. There's plenty of Windows using techies out that you know. The ones who use Linux tend to lack the jobs and income to be able to buy nice things like this to begin with. Besides moron, you could wipe the thing and install Linux on it. That should be enough to get you frothing at the bits.
Last time I checked, PocketPC devices were faster than Palms, had plenty of applications and are gaining in marketshare. I'm a Palm user myself but I see no sense in denying the truth. Fault Palm for dropping the ball for taking so long to come out with a new OS (Palm OS 6 with Be technology). You can't slack when MS is on your tail.
Its been what 8 years since the Palm was introduced? There's no excuse for it remaining so primitive and close to the original OS. Palm has been slacking and there's no defending for that.
It hasn't been tried yet because we already know the outcome. Massive suffering for most of the population. Keep some things in perspective. Microsoft is a software company. They aren't jacking up the price of food for crying out loud. Just because you can't get everyone in the world to run Linux is no reason to throw out the overwhelmingly successful economic and political system we've had for the past 225 years.
There's a way to deal with monopolies you know. Its called "trust busting". It was done to Standard Oil, it was done to AT&T and if necessary it will be done to Microsoft. You think there wasn't bribery back then? Oh and the anti-trust cases took years for those companies and did not always succeed on the first try. Yet we didn't resort to foolish anarchy then, why should we now?
Denial is one of the main tenents of Libertarianism. Just deny there's any thing that needs to be regulated and your arguments start to make sense.
Everything works fine, nothing is broken, its working as designed. You sound like a battered wife talking to the cops with two black eyes and a fat lip trying to defend her husband.
I'm not saying the internet is completely broken, but its not working perfectly either. And its a hell of a lot more than just some machines connected together. Its becoming the center of our very economy.
Jobs, lives, lifestyles, entertainment, information, education....etc all involve the internet. Thats a bit more than just some machines connected together.
With the prevelance of Windows servers going unpatched, each one is a risk to everyone else on the internet. If Microsoft can't clean up its act, and the system administrators who run these trouble prone servers can't "find the time" to keep them patched and up to date then I see the government cracking down very hard at some point in the future.
When a simple script kiddie can take control of a few hundred or thousand home machines or office machines, turn them into zombies and use them in brutual Denial of Service attacks on any innocent target, DNS root servers, ecommerce sites, a residential IP with very little chance of being caught and brought to justice I don't see how you can claim that "everything works fine".
Wipe the "government can't do anything right so it shouldn't do anything at all" sentiment out of your eyes so you can see the reality of the situation.