it won't cost any less than one with Windows pre-loaded.
lol, only if you're getting it from curry's or dell. Besides, the markup on those machines is so high that it really doesn't matter what you want, what you're getting is ripped off. Buy your parts, it'll be half the cost and the savings from not installing windows on it are pretty evident. If you don't want to build it yourself, look online for one of those shops that assemble them for you for a small markup. It's the same fucking parts you'd get at dell, except for the shitty ass case. Do try to avoid paying £800 for a £500 desktop, even if it does mean going a little out of your way.
Yeah, but it's not up to the average user to get the network going. It is the technically proficient that should install diaspora, if enough of us have a server signing up won't be difficult. And as time passes and the network grows, diaspora will become easier to install. Walk throughs get written, makeuseof and lifehacker write articles, then some of the steps get automated as more people post the subtleties of their particular configuration, and finally you get something that's as easy as installing mint.
I dislike it when technical people complain about average users finding things difficult that average users shouldn't be doing anyway. It's not their job, dummy, if we want a better network it's up to us to build it. What do we run servers for anyway?
Men shave their beards as well, do they look like little boys? These things come and go with fashion, but a hairless or trimmed pubis has been a recurring theme in society ever since antiquity. Reasons may include hygiene, aesthetics, or religion, and shaving may focus on some areas more than others (beards, heads, armpits, pubis), but hair removal is an intrinsic part of many human societies.
Your PINs are protected by "security through obscurity," by the way. Your health records, school records, and tax records...
Yeah, but I also supervise my PIN very closely, to the point where I keep the card within centimetres of myself every waking moment, and am physically there every single time the PIN is typed into a POS device. Tax records, school records, health records, lol. Were those even supposed to be private? I'm beginning to forget now.
What do you do about googleapis.com, google.com, gstatic.com, etc? Many parts of the web are practically unusable without allowing them to load scripts from these. I wish it wasn't so, but it's gotten to the point where I'm allowing them. In theory those shouldn't be mining the shit out of you like google-analytics, but obviously you can't see what they do, and even if you did, it's not running in your machine so they could be showing you the source code for notepad for all that's worth.
Ah yes, their entire experiment was a farce and you have just caught them! No doubt your highly analytical mind was able to see past what these researchers' colleagues and reviewers thought to be science, but what you have now uncovered to be naught but a pile of nonsense. I can't wait until tomorrow when all the world's newspapers print headlines of your great acumen.
Presumably what you want to know is whether people motivated by religion or by atheism have killed the most people. It is a difficult question to answer for several reasons. Some believe being motivated by communism implies being motivated by atheism, while others do not. We do not really know how many people died during the colonisation of the americas, nor how many of those deaths to attribute to religiously inspired action. As for what there is to count, we should really focus on wars and 20th century atrocities. It turns out we weren't really killing each other on a mass scale before the age of empire; every once in a while somebody would destroy a city and kill tens of thousands, but aside from Genghis Khan, who may have caused the world's population to drop by about 15%, that is nothing compared to modern tyrants. Similarly, the historic murder rate in Europe is thought to be around 20 per 100000, which would total no more than 10000 people per year, paling in comparison to the death caused by wars. The Inquisition, witch trials, even pogroms (violence in pogroms was usually turned against property, rather than people) did not kill enough people to register in this scale. So here are a few options:
* Stalin and Mao, etc. do not play for atheism - Religious have killed more by a large margin, like tens of millions of dead against dozens.
* Stalin and Mao are atheists, we take their total death estimates in the low end, and we take the pre-colombian population of the americas at ~100m, and we attribute all those deaths to religion (which is quite dubious) - Religious have killed more by a moderate margin.
* Stalin and Mao are atheists, we use a reasonable estimate for the number of religious dead in the colonisation of America - Atheists have killed more, depending on how we toll up deaths, by up to an order of magnitude.
Conclusion: you're not going to convince anyone one way or the other. I stand by my previous point - neither religion nor atheism has killed that many people, really. It's been war and the desire for power that has been killing us.
Mao : 47m-78m (communism) - These include the huge famine during the great leap forward.
Genghis Khan: 50m-70m (despotism) - the mongol hoard's motivation is debated. By percentage of world population, this wins by far.
Stalin: 8m-61m (communism) - Most recent estimates around 15m, very strong still.
Hitler: 4m-17m (fascism) - Estimates vary on how many WW2 casualties are blamed on him.
Leopold II: 5m-22m (imperialism) - In 2005, a statue of him was re-erected in Kinshasa, the culture minister of the DRC pointing out the positive aspects of his reign. source
American Genocide: 2m-100m (Imperialism, Christianity) - This one is particularly difficult, as it was not committed by a single individual, and estimates of the pre-colombian population of America (the continent) variy widely. The genocide is also very debated, but I think we can at least agree on geno-manslaughter.
Religious wars? Up to 10 million. The inquisition? tens of thousands. Aztec human sacrifices? Up to 3 million.
Atheists, Christians and Muslims have nothing on social reformers and empire builders. Checkmate, economists
The implementation is different. Don't you think there is a lot you can learn about plataformer games by implementing one? Don't you see all the new discoveries that this game enables? When the Trinity Clock was first unveiled in 1910, people similarly questioned its value. 'What value is this? We have seen clocks before, how is making a new one in any way innovative?' they asked, incredulously. But they did not see that the clock was tremendously innovative: its escapement mechanism was novel and revolutionary, allowing it to be one of the most accurate pendulum clocks in the world. There is much more to SMB than its external appearance, which in fact may be called superfluous - what really matters here is the invisible mechanism inside of it that allows it to run. This mechanism, which before was hidden and kept secret, we can now look at, and directly change. Just imagine what you will learn about a protocol based approach to objects as your Yoshi swallows different coloured shells. After playing the -1 world, no-one should ever again make an off-by-one error. Just think of the insights into modularity you will achieve when finishing the special zone. Imagine how evident the shortcomings of a floating point representation will be when you jump on a flag at the end of a level. Visualise how important duck typing will become to you as you grab a fire flower or a star, or when you find your ?block simply contains a coin. All these things are much more ipmortant than a side-scrolling game, and they are innovations we were not delivered 30 years ago when we got the original.
The UK does have a constitution, it is just an unwritten one, in the sense that its constitution is not self-contained inside a single document. You need further proof? The UK Constitution has its own wiki page.
I don't know of any distros that completely eschew GNU. The two are very tightly integrated, originally the kernel was written to run gnu, and even now, it cannot be built but with gcc. While I believe that they have done much to contribute to the free software we care about, loads of people here on/. have some disdain for gnu, and with that in mind might want to ban it from their systems. You can do this by replacing the individual components. BSD userland has been successfully ported to linux, and with Plan 9 from User Space you can take advantage of some great ideas that came with Plan 9 (though if you care enough for the benefits of Plan 9 plumbing, filesystem namespaces, and networking, I might recommend you go with the whole thing - Plan 9 is much, much better designed than unix, we just need to port our software).
The main GNU components in all distros are usually glibc, gcc, and coreutils. If you don't compile anything, you don't need gcc, and if you're really into compiling, you probably use the llvm. Soon, it is said, LLVM will be able to build the linux kernel. As for the others, there are several packages available in most distributions that will replace them. Most likely, you will replace glibc with uClib and coreutils with BusyBox. You will lose some functionality doing this, but it is definitely possible to run a free system without GNU. I might point out that I don't think this is a great idea, and should go for it only if for some inexplicable reason, you dislike GNU.
So the GP is not too far off in saying that Microsoft's R&D department operates much like other R&D departments, as long as you consider only its immediate environment: Microsoft Research is very similar to other research departments operated by technology giants. The only difference I can find (aside from the 20 years of difference) is that its wiki page does not have a list of technologies developed there.
Further. Why stop there? Windows 95 is the earliest you can go whilst keeping your start button. I don't personally have a start button, but I hear it is extremely important to an operating system.
Belgium! That evil empire will soon take over the world with their waffles and their beer! Cower in your beds, America, the Belgians know what you're up to!
Obviously. Primary sources suck balls. Most people writing into their diary have no idea about shit, and people writing this kind of business management crap are making most of it up anyway and have a dearth of actual data. Secondary and tertiary sources have to at the very least judge the relative worth of primary sources, and will usually tell you how well they match up to each other.
Actually, they are not. No one thinks mass depends on gravity. What the article actually says is:
That means a 100kg person weighs 700g more near the North Pole
Weighs 700g more. Weighs. They are merely saying that weight is a function of gravity, which is of course, true.
You are confused by the units they are using. This is actually the kilogram-force, a non-SI unit of weight, which converts to about 9.8N or 2.2lb. Cool, no?
Which are hilarious. The first one, from Alexis Parrish is gold:
My name is Alexis Parrish And I need to get my own patent please have someone. Contact me at
alexisparrish28@gmail.com... US should come up with its own distinct logo that must be present
somewhere on every item traded;)
He has a solid point there. Someone get him his own patent please have someone. And the distinct logo idea is innovative. Much better than this stupid comment by the EFF:
Do you mean the Netherlands or Newfoundland and Labrador? I'm not sure bald eagles are patriotic in either of those places, though quite certain there are bribes in the construction industry in both.
Slashdot Mirror
Cause we all hate the TSA.
I'm pretty sure the gp was being coy.
it won't cost any less than one with Windows pre-loaded.
lol, only if you're getting it from curry's or dell. Besides, the markup on those machines is so high that it really doesn't matter what you want, what you're getting is ripped off. Buy your parts, it'll be half the cost and the savings from not installing windows on it are pretty evident. If you don't want to build it yourself, look online for one of those shops that assemble them for you for a small markup. It's the same fucking parts you'd get at dell, except for the shitty ass case. Do try to avoid paying £800 for a £500 desktop, even if it does mean going a little out of your way.
Yeah, but it's not up to the average user to get the network going. It is the technically proficient that should install diaspora, if enough of us have a server signing up won't be difficult. And as time passes and the network grows, diaspora will become easier to install. Walk throughs get written, makeuseof and lifehacker write articles, then some of the steps get automated as more people post the subtleties of their particular configuration, and finally you get something that's as easy as installing mint.
I dislike it when technical people complain about average users finding things difficult that average users shouldn't be doing anyway. It's not their job, dummy, if we want a better network it's up to us to build it. What do we run servers for anyway?
http://www.acronymfinder.com/DPC.html
Men shave their beards as well, do they look like little boys? These things come and go with fashion, but a hairless or trimmed pubis has been a recurring theme in society ever since antiquity. Reasons may include hygiene, aesthetics, or religion, and shaving may focus on some areas more than others (beards, heads, armpits, pubis), but hair removal is an intrinsic part of many human societies.
Your PINs are protected by "security through obscurity," by the way. Your health records, school records, and tax records...
Yeah, but I also supervise my PIN very closely, to the point where I keep the card within centimetres of myself every waking moment, and am physically there every single time the PIN is typed into a POS device. Tax records, school records, health records, lol. Were those even supposed to be private? I'm beginning to forget now.
What do you do about googleapis.com, google.com, gstatic.com, etc? Many parts of the web are practically unusable without allowing them to load scripts from these. I wish it wasn't so, but it's gotten to the point where I'm allowing them. In theory those shouldn't be mining the shit out of you like google-analytics, but obviously you can't see what they do, and even if you did, it's not running in your machine so they could be showing you the source code for notepad for all that's worth.
Ah yes, their entire experiment was a farce and you have just caught them! No doubt your highly analytical mind was able to see past what these researchers' colleagues and reviewers thought to be science, but what you have now uncovered to be naught but a pile of nonsense. I can't wait until tomorrow when all the world's newspapers print headlines of your great acumen.
Presumably what you want to know is whether people motivated by religion or by atheism have killed the most people. It is a difficult question to answer for several reasons. Some believe being motivated by communism implies being motivated by atheism, while others do not. We do not really know how many people died during the colonisation of the americas, nor how many of those deaths to attribute to religiously inspired action. As for what there is to count, we should really focus on wars and 20th century atrocities. It turns out we weren't really killing each other on a mass scale before the age of empire; every once in a while somebody would destroy a city and kill tens of thousands, but aside from Genghis Khan, who may have caused the world's population to drop by about 15%, that is nothing compared to modern tyrants. Similarly, the historic murder rate in Europe is thought to be around 20 per 100000, which would total no more than 10000 people per year, paling in comparison to the death caused by wars. The Inquisition, witch trials, even pogroms (violence in pogroms was usually turned against property, rather than people) did not kill enough people to register in this scale. So here are a few options:
* Stalin and Mao, etc. do not play for atheism - Religious have killed more by a large margin, like tens of millions of dead against dozens.
* Stalin and Mao are atheists, we take their total death estimates in the low end, and we take the pre-colombian population of the americas at ~100m, and we attribute all those deaths to religion (which is quite dubious) - Religious have killed more by a moderate margin.
* Stalin and Mao are atheists, we use a reasonable estimate for the number of religious dead in the colonisation of America - Atheists have killed more, depending on how we toll up deaths, by up to an order of magnitude.
Conclusion: you're not going to convince anyone one way or the other. I stand by my previous point - neither religion nor atheism has killed that many people, really. It's been war and the desire for power that has been killing us.
Religious wars? Up to 10 million. The inquisition? tens of thousands. Aztec human sacrifices? Up to 3 million.
Atheists, Christians and Muslims have nothing on social reformers and empire builders. Checkmate, economists
The implementation is different. Don't you think there is a lot you can learn about plataformer games by implementing one? Don't you see all the new discoveries that this game enables? When the Trinity Clock was first unveiled in 1910, people similarly questioned its value. 'What value is this? We have seen clocks before, how is making a new one in any way innovative?' they asked, incredulously. But they did not see that the clock was tremendously innovative: its escapement mechanism was novel and revolutionary, allowing it to be one of the most accurate pendulum clocks in the world. There is much more to SMB than its external appearance, which in fact may be called superfluous - what really matters here is the invisible mechanism inside of it that allows it to run. This mechanism, which before was hidden and kept secret, we can now look at, and directly change. Just imagine what you will learn about a protocol based approach to objects as your Yoshi swallows different coloured shells. After playing the -1 world, no-one should ever again make an off-by-one error. Just think of the insights into modularity you will achieve when finishing the special zone. Imagine how evident the shortcomings of a floating point representation will be when you jump on a flag at the end of a level. Visualise how important duck typing will become to you as you grab a fire flower or a star, or when you find your ?block simply contains a coin. All these things are much more ipmortant than a side-scrolling game, and they are innovations we were not delivered 30 years ago when we got the original.
The UK does have a constitution, it is just an unwritten one, in the sense that its constitution is not self-contained inside a single document. You need further proof? The UK Constitution has its own wiki page.
'Skynet' for me.
I don't know of any distros that completely eschew GNU. The two are very tightly integrated, originally the kernel was written to run gnu, and even now, it cannot be built but with gcc. While I believe that they have done much to contribute to the free software we care about, loads of people here on /. have some disdain for gnu, and with that in mind might want to ban it from their systems. You can do this by replacing the individual components. BSD userland has been successfully ported to linux, and with Plan 9 from User Space you can take advantage of some great ideas that came with Plan 9 (though if you care enough for the benefits of Plan 9 plumbing, filesystem namespaces, and networking, I might recommend you go with the whole thing - Plan 9 is much, much better designed than unix, we just need to port our software).
The main GNU components in all distros are usually glibc, gcc, and coreutils. If you don't compile anything, you don't need gcc, and if you're really into compiling, you probably use the llvm. Soon, it is said, LLVM will be able to build the linux kernel. As for the others, there are several packages available in most distributions that will replace them. Most likely, you will replace glibc with uClib and coreutils with BusyBox. You will lose some functionality doing this, but it is definitely possible to run a free system without GNU. I might point out that I don't think this is a great idea, and should go for it only if for some inexplicable reason, you dislike GNU.
Check out this answer for more info.
Only ten more years, it'll also be in the public domain
So the GP is not too far off in saying that Microsoft's R&D department operates much like other R&D departments, as long as you consider only its immediate environment: Microsoft Research is very similar to other research departments operated by technology giants. The only difference I can find (aside from the 20 years of difference) is that its wiki page does not have a list of technologies developed there.
This article made me discover the wonderful word 'invagination'.
Further. Why stop there? Windows 95 is the earliest you can go whilst keeping your start button. I don't personally have a start button, but I hear it is extremely important to an operating system.
Belgium! That evil empire will soon take over the world with their waffles and their beer! Cower in your beds, America, the Belgians know what you're up to!
Obviously. Primary sources suck balls. Most people writing into their diary have no idea about shit, and people writing this kind of business management crap are making most of it up anyway and have a dearth of actual data. Secondary and tertiary sources have to at the very least judge the relative worth of primary sources, and will usually tell you how well they match up to each other.
Actually, they are not. No one thinks mass depends on gravity. What the article actually says is:
That means a 100kg person weighs 700g more near the North Pole
Weighs 700g more. Weighs. They are merely saying that weight is a function of gravity, which is of course, true.
You are confused by the units they are using. This is actually the kilogram-force, a non-SI unit of weight, which converts to about 9.8N or 2.2lb. Cool, no?
Yeah, come on. Look at some real stats. The US is solidly mid-table of the OECD in education rankings.
Which are hilarious. The first one, from Alexis Parrish is gold:
My name is Alexis Parrish And I need to get my own patent please have someone. Contact me at alexisparrish28@gmail.com... US should come up with its own distinct logo that must be present somewhere on every item traded ;)
He has a solid point there. Someone get him his own patent please have someone. And the distinct logo idea is innovative. Much better than this stupid comment by the EFF:
See attached file(s)
Most people here (NL)
Do you mean the Netherlands or Newfoundland and Labrador? I'm not sure bald eagles are patriotic in either of those places, though quite certain there are bribes in the construction industry in both.