It supports their world view? Talk about trash science. "The authors first conducted a random telephone survey of Lincoln residents to find some who held strong political opinions. Then 46 selected respondents were invited to come in to the lab and fill in questionnaires to reveal political beliefs and personality traits. Participants were then given two types of tests to measure physiological responses to threat."
Let's see. A none random sample of 46 people? Yea that is some good hard science.
I think this is a great experiment on Slashdot. Just how many people "Hard core science and self professed skeptics will question this? My guess is very few.
None random sample and a tiny sample size == USLESS!
Well want to take it a step farther? Offer GPL software for sale as well. GPL software doesn't have to be free as in beer. Say you use Gimp a lot. You could buy a copy of Gimp from the store and the money would go to pay for Gimp development. Sort of an easy way to contribute to FOSS development.
So they are ignorant, scared, and have lied to by those that use them a base for their political power. Chernobyl can not happen at any modern western reactor. Chernobyl would have been an expensive mistake at a light water reactor with a containment build. Heck even with their graphite moderated reactor and a containment building it would have been a LOT better than it turned out to be. I remember reading an article about the Russian nuclear power program around the time of Three Mile Island. The Russians where claiming that their reactors where so safe they didn't need containment buildings... Well I am a good driver but I wear a seatbelt.
Actually I have wondered for a long time why Ubuntu did create the software equivalent of an iTunes store for Ubuntu. I keep hearing about Linux versions of games but I can never find a place too buy them I admit that I haven't looked all that hard. I know this will tick off some people but if Ubuntu offered a place where people and companies could sell Linux software I think it would be a great thing. People could have a choice between buying software and free software. They would compete and frankly the gaps in software for Linux might close. I know that the idea of actually paying for software is to some on Slashdot outrageous but it is totally legal. Add to that the ability to by DRM free media as well and you would have a very nice infrastructure that would make Microsoft just nuts.
I don't think Linux matters much to Mozilla to be honest at least when it comes to dollars and cents. Windows users account for most of their money to be honest. I am just glad they are working it out and not stopping development of the Linux version. And NO not Iceweasel! I am not one to complain about names but that one is just a step too far. Why not just Windroach, or Earthcrab?
Because the Ubuntu developers don't like the EULA. Frankly I think that whole mess was one of the biggest waste of times on the planet. Yes the EULA was useless but it was also harmless.
That is the good thing about vitrified storage. It is GLASS. Glass doesn't get into drinking water. Also people forget that seawater already contains Thorium and Uranium. We shouldn't be storing that stuff in Yucca mountain anyway. We should be reprocessing it and make more fuel out of it. What we can not make into fuel we should "burn" in special reactors in to short half life isotopes that decay to ore levels in just around 100 years and use vitrified storage for that. So the real answer to the question of to why people fear nuclear power is. They are ignorant, scared, and they have been lied to by the people that use them as their base of political power.
The problem is that Windows is now what you use if you have no choice. It is the default. Very few people really want to use Windows. They use it because it runs the programs they need and is cheap. Why is Vista doing so bad? Because it doesn't add anything to that the average Windows user cares about. It doesn't run more software than XP and it isn't cheaper.
That is the problem Microsoft has now. Apple is a choice so people look forward to change. Windows is the default. If Windows users wanted change they would buy a Mac or install Linux. What windows users want is XP fixed and secure but running just as fast on their current hardware. Biggest mistake that I think Microsoft made? Not back porting DX10 to XP. Nobody is going to write a DX10 only game as long as a large percentage of users can not play it. Heck just make it run just a little faster under Vista than XP and people would have a reason to move. Second biggest mistake. Not making Vista 64 bit only. Just my opinion but I would bet that vendors would come out with Vista versions of their software just so they could use the 64bit mode.
Yea but only until that wheel can be replaced. Honestly I really doubt that any of the venom from the masses had anything to do with Mozilla renegotiating. The suggestion that Ubuntu would create or use an unlabeled "fork" of FireFox probably did a lot more than any of the screaming. I don't have any problem with a click through EULA. If nothing else in the case of free software it tells people that they do have the right to use and even give it to other people.
Okay but why? Your OS choice is usually driven by what software you need to run. 1. Windows Mobile right now lacks a good standards complaint web browser. Mobile IE is pretty limited. 2. Flash support is limited to version 7 and I think only runs on the ARM cpu. 3. Drivers. Windows mobile drivers are few and far between. A lot more hardware is supported under Linux.
Linux on the X86 has a huge number of advantages over Windows Mobile. Flash support, several full browsers, better hardware support, and larger software base. So why use Windows Mobile?
I should have learned this a long time ago. Don't try and make stuff up to be funny. The truth is silly enough without my help. All I can say is ewwwww..
"Someone came to me on IRC and asked if people should start sending angry faxes to SGI, telling them to please clean up their licenses. And I was like, 'No, that's not the right message right now.' We were trying to avoid that kind of reaction, because among the people in the GNewSense community, there was a visceral reaction initially, and it took some time for people to realize that we needed to give them a chance. And it really paid off. SGI was very willing to work with us throughout the entire process.""
Don't worry. In a few years you will see c++++ which will be c++ with functional programing tacked on. Of course you will also see Functional Object C but only Apple will use that.
Nope. The current version of Vista on new hardware is still causing performance issues. At least with our customer base. And no you can actually put any version current version of Linux on even a P4 with intel graphics and have it work really well. My wife is running an old single core AMD system and Ubuntu runs just fine on it. I would also say that I would bet that if you put Vista and OS/X on an older Mac Mini that OS/X would be more usable then Vista. I don't think Vista sucks as bad as lot of people do but it really seems pointless.
But isn't their federal laws that would apply? In the US if some state police force did this the ACLU and the federal government would be all over them. Again I don't know and it isn't my country or state so I really have no say in it's laws. The only statment I can make on the subject is that if I was a citizen of that nation I wouldn't like it. I suggest that you guys move to Linux ASAP. I bet they haven't coded a Linux version of that Trojan.
Actually legality of it would very from place to place. In the US it is totally legal to take pictures in public spaces but in some states it is illegal to record audio. Those laws are privacy laws.
Fascist is probably not technically true and extremely inflammatory.
However it does make me wonder just how much power the states in Germany have. I agree that it would seem a federal investigation would be in order if any laws where broken. I am not a German and I don't know German law so for all I know this is totally legal in Germany. I don't like it but since I am not a German voter it really isn't up to me.
Does it run under Linux? I am wondering it really could be another reason to run Linux. I am sure that the NSA has forensics tools for Linux but I bet the local police sure don't.
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Actually the president usually hauls well several dozen people on Air Force One. I was thinking of John Travolta, and the Google guys.
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Fuel is heavy. Every pound of fuel you burn is one less you can carry and charge for. Of course it kind of goes south when you talk about people that take an airliner designed for 300 people and use it as a private jet.
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It supports their world view?
Talk about trash science.
"The authors first conducted a random telephone survey of Lincoln residents to find some who held strong political opinions. Then 46 selected respondents were invited to come in to the lab and fill in questionnaires to reveal political beliefs and personality traits. Participants were then given two types of tests to measure physiological responses to threat."
Let's see. A none random sample of 46 people? Yea that is some good hard science.
I think this is a great experiment on Slashdot.
Just how many people "Hard core science and self professed skeptics will question this? My guess is very few.
None random sample and a tiny sample size == USLESS!
Well want to take it a step farther? Offer GPL software for sale as well. GPL software doesn't have to be free as in beer. Say you use Gimp a lot. You could buy a copy of Gimp from the store and the money would go to pay for Gimp development.
Sort of an easy way to contribute to FOSS development.
So they are ignorant, scared, and have lied to by those that use them a base for their political power.
Chernobyl can not happen at any modern western reactor. Chernobyl would have been an expensive mistake at a light water reactor with a containment build. Heck even with their graphite moderated reactor and a containment building it would have been a LOT better than it turned out to be.
I remember reading an article about the Russian nuclear power program around the time of Three Mile Island. The Russians where claiming that their reactors where so safe they didn't need containment buildings... Well I am a good driver but I wear a seatbelt.
Actually I have wondered for a long time why Ubuntu did create the software equivalent of an iTunes store for Ubuntu. I keep hearing about Linux versions of games but I can never find a place too buy them I admit that I haven't looked all that hard. I know this will tick off some people but if Ubuntu offered a place where people and companies could sell Linux software I think it would be a great thing.
People could have a choice between buying software and free software.
They would compete and frankly the gaps in software for Linux might close. I know that the idea of actually paying for software is to some on Slashdot outrageous but it is totally legal.
Add to that the ability to by DRM free media as well and you would have a very nice infrastructure that would make Microsoft just nuts.
I don't think Linux matters much to Mozilla to be honest at least when it comes to dollars and cents. Windows users account for most of their money to be honest. I am just glad they are working it out and not stopping development of the Linux version.
And NO not Iceweasel! I am not one to complain about names but that one is just a step too far. Why not just Windroach, or Earthcrab?
Because the Ubuntu developers don't like the EULA. Frankly I think that whole mess was one of the biggest waste of times on the planet.
Yes the EULA was useless but it was also harmless.
That is the good thing about vitrified storage. It is GLASS. Glass doesn't get into drinking water. Also people forget that seawater already contains Thorium and Uranium.
We shouldn't be storing that stuff in Yucca mountain anyway. We should be reprocessing it and make more fuel out of it. What we can not make into fuel we should "burn" in special reactors in to short half life isotopes that decay to ore levels in just around 100 years and use vitrified storage for that.
So the real answer to the question of to why people fear nuclear power is.
They are ignorant, scared, and they have been lied to by the people that use them as their base of political power.
Well since most of the Hydrogen will hopefully come from splitting water it will end up falling as rain back to Earth.
The problem is that Windows is now what you use if you have no choice. It is the default.
Very few people really want to use Windows. They use it because it runs the programs they need and is cheap. Why is Vista doing so bad? Because it doesn't add anything to that the average Windows user cares about. It doesn't run more software than XP and it isn't cheaper.
That is the problem Microsoft has now. Apple is a choice so people look forward to change. Windows is the default. If Windows users wanted change they would buy a Mac or install Linux.
What windows users want is XP fixed and secure but running just as fast on their current hardware.
Biggest mistake that I think Microsoft made? Not back porting DX10 to XP. Nobody is going to write a DX10 only game as long as a large percentage of users can not play it. Heck just make it run just a little faster under Vista than XP and people would have a reason to move.
Second biggest mistake. Not making Vista 64 bit only. Just my opinion but I would bet that vendors would come out with Vista versions of their software just so they could use the 64bit mode.
My wife saw the ad and made the best comment ever.
"I need to go out and buy a Mac now! I can not dorky enough to use Windows anymore."
Yea but only until that wheel can be replaced. Honestly I really doubt that any of the venom from the masses had anything to do with Mozilla renegotiating. The suggestion that Ubuntu would create or use an unlabeled "fork" of FireFox probably did a lot more than any of the screaming.
I don't have any problem with a click through EULA. If nothing else in the case of free software it tells people that they do have the right to use and even give it to other people.
Okay but why?
Your OS choice is usually driven by what software you need to run.
1. Windows Mobile right now lacks a good standards complaint web browser. Mobile IE is pretty limited.
2. Flash support is limited to version 7 and I think only runs on the ARM cpu.
3. Drivers. Windows mobile drivers are few and far between. A lot more hardware is supported under Linux.
Linux on the X86 has a huge number of advantages over Windows Mobile. Flash support, several full browsers, better hardware support, and larger software base. So why use Windows Mobile?
I should have learned this a long time ago.
Don't try and make stuff up to be funny. The truth is silly enough without my help.
All I can say is ewwwww..
Don't be a jerk about it. From the article.
"Someone came to me on IRC and asked if people should start sending angry faxes to SGI, telling them to please clean up their licenses. And I was like, 'No, that's not the right message right now.' We were trying to avoid that kind of reaction, because among the people in the GNewSense community, there was a visceral reaction initially, and it took some time for people to realize that we needed to give them a chance. And it really paid off. SGI was very willing to work with us throughout the entire process.""
Don't worry.
In a few years you will see c++++ which will be c++ with functional programing tacked on. Of course you will also see Functional Object C but only Apple will use that.
Nope.
The current version of Vista on new hardware is still causing performance issues. At least with our customer base.
And no you can actually put any version current version of Linux on even a P4 with intel graphics and have it work really well. My wife is running an old single core AMD system and Ubuntu runs just fine on it.
I would also say that I would bet that if you put Vista and OS/X on an older Mac Mini that OS/X would be more usable then Vista.
I don't think Vista sucks as bad as lot of people do but it really seems pointless.
Why?
They didn't include every senator that voted for the Patriot Act?
This is just a lovely bit of politics that means nothing.
Would they require the German equivalent of a court order to install these trojans?
Well for C the answer is simple. :)
the K&R whitebook.
But isn't their federal laws that would apply? In the US if some state police force did this the ACLU and the federal government would be all over them. Again I don't know and it isn't my country or state so I really have no say in it's laws. The only statment I can make on the subject is that if I was a citizen of that nation I wouldn't like it. I suggest that you guys move to Linux ASAP. I bet they haven't coded a Linux version of that Trojan.
Actually legality of it would very from place to place. In the US it is totally legal to take pictures in public spaces but in some states it is illegal to record audio. Those laws are privacy laws.
Fascist is probably not technically true and extremely inflammatory.
However it does make me wonder just how much power the states in Germany have. I agree that it would seem a federal investigation would be in order if any laws where broken.
I am not a German and I don't know German law so for all I know this is totally legal in Germany.
I don't like it but since I am not a German voter it really isn't up to me.
Does it run under Linux?
I am wondering it really could be another reason to run Linux.
I am sure that the NSA has forensics tools for Linux but I bet the local police sure don't.
Actually the president usually hauls well several dozen people on Air Force One.
I was thinking of John Travolta, and the Google guys.
Fuel is heavy. Every pound of fuel you burn is one less you can carry and charge for.
Of course it kind of goes south when you talk about people that take an airliner designed for 300 people and use it as a private jet.