I wonder where he used to shop as in civilized countries there should be no rotting flesh at all? Sounds like one of the fanatically uninformed vegans, those that claim that meat rots in the intestines...
Soy have been used as human food for a long time (before written history) without problems - so you are wrong. Many kinds of food that really are toxic can be safe to eat when cooked (some mushrooms, some meats) - so you are wrong again. The third claim depends on how you define safe, but is in general false as e.g. acrylamide is created when heating starch above a certain temperature - yet another wrong claim.
No it is not named after the license. But "At all" seems a bit strong as GPL = GNU Public License and the GPL is the base of FSF activities including the GNU userland which is where the GNU/Linux name comes from.
GNU/NTOSKRNL is only logical if installing any GNU-licensed software on a Windows system suddenly turns the system to a GNU/Windows system. GNU/Linux is at least somewhat logical as everything vital in the system _is_ GNU licensed and the GNU project software is an important part of the user experience.
While a popular meme by some people it isn't generally true. Proving negatives is done all the time, the simplest way to do it is to enumerate all possibilities and check them all.
Oh I do use Linux. My main computer runs Windows though as that is required at least until ReactOS can replace it (which is probably never - *sigh*). Still have a Mint installation via a VM so Unix is never far away. Am trying out the Ubuntu for Windows thingy too...
Let's see, of the other computers I have Linux is installed on all of them (had a FreeBSD installation once - but I'm more used* to Linux). One computer uses Linux Mint (Old Dell Precision machine), one uses Elementary OS (testing if it's appropriate for my mother), one uses #! (very slow hardware - haven't touched it in a while) and the last also uses Mint (test machine w.t. an AMD Bobcat APU).
(* observe that I don't claim I'm near hacker level in either Linux or Windows, but I do have clues and can look up most things)
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What I stated _is_ a fact and not "a random statement". Since Windows 7 I have had no need to reinstall Windows - upgrade sure but I don't count that as reinstallation (for any operating system). It is stable (one bluescreen IIRC due to a crappy Intel driver) and IME it doesn't "degrade" as is often claimed. I do make sure to keep the systems clean though, never allow crap to accumulate. While Linux distributions work most of the time sometimes strange tings happen (e.g. hardware misidentified) and then a reinstall can help sometimes. Maybe I'm extremely unlucky, have a bad influence on my machines or live close to a source of ionizing radiation _but_ I'm not a liar!
Actually detecting an old CRT TV is pretty easy (the receiver generates a characteristic signal), never CRT TVs are much harder (more modern electronics). Lie detectors does work too, the problem is they aren't reliable - some never triggers them, some always triggers them, some have essentially random outcome. Lie detector operators are trained with pseduo-science and intimidation techniques.
Both are mostly used for scaring people, doesn't mean they don't work in some situations.
Why shoot for immortality? My grandmother's birthday is tomorrow - she turns 99. Mentally she's okay but sight and hearing are essentially gone.
How about we could expect that if we turn 99 we would be able to hear and see as a 40 year old? Watching TV, reading books, looking at porn, programming, listening to music, being social etc. What if we could keep joints functional and muscle mass high so that we at 99 could take long walks unhindered? Wouldn't THAT be a good thing even if we'd not reach a 100?
If the research for reaching those goals would help us to live longer too sure - it'd be great. But immortality is a dream (a nightmare for many).
Science IS done with people with money, both directly and indirectly. Science* IS done in order to earn money - just look at the development of integrated circuits. Scientists ARE motivated by money.
(* Science is a method for modelling the world through iterative refining, not something one can do - it's already there. One can follow the scientific method though, guess that's what you mean)
Or just realize how often shitty drivers fuck up Windows installations. The reason Windows have bettered its reputation of being unstable isn't so much that MS code quality have improved, it is because MS have tightened up the driver situation. The vast majority of bugs causing crashes are in 3rd party device drivers.
So instead of making things up in your mind how about following logic and accept that too many lusers install unsigned* crappy as shit drivers and then blame MS when their system becomes as stable as a M1 tank balanced on the Eiffel tower?
(* unsigned isn't of course necessarily crap but often is)
HID? Easy to use user-mode APIs available for Windows and Linux, probably other systems too. CDC? Your user-mode program can simply open a virtual serial port and do its thing. Mass storage class? Requires buffering and more code on the device but provides a superb interface for the user - simply drag a file containing the data to be programmed into the virtual storage device.
Win+X -> select control panel -> user accounts -> user accounts -> change your account name (if it is the logged in account you want to change, else: -> manage another account -> select account -> change the account name)
Why MS doesn't have the alternative in the settings app I don't know. Probably afraid to confuse users?
Hey some of those "savages" are actually decent people! Besides nuking them will lead to contamination of Europe!... we are talking about the UK, right?
I realize you are joking but people do "die while taking a shit" - and it have nothing to do with food intake. Here's a basic layman's description: http://www.menshealth.com/heal...
One can die of a broken leg, in fact it's not that unusual. One can die of a tiny cut but it is still very unusual - antibiotics still works in most cases.
Thanks for informing us you don't understand the word "notorious". As we all was wondering if there was something AC didn't know, didn't have an opinion about and didn't use as an excuse to post irrelevant crap. Now we know the answer to all three: 1) yes 2) no 3) no.
I can say that MS would kill themselves if they tried to create a walled garden - and they probably know it (unless they are idiots). But sure, they could try [speculation!], after all they control the software. A semi-walled system where one can connect to a number of stores or (optionally) enable a developer option that keeps the status quo could possible be one way MS are moving, the reason is that Windows (like other "modern" systems) doesn't protect against malware good enough. Limiting a standard installation to get their software from a select pool of services could help (if one service/store fails in blocking malware it could be blacklisted easily). Ideal? Not in my perspective though the alternatives are probably worse.
You are wrong and extremely so. What have been simulated in supercomputers are tiny slices of simple animal brains, taking orders of magnitude longer than your 40:1 ratio. Simulating a human brain? Never been done. There aren't enough data to even begin simulating smaller parts of the human brain, one actually have to know about the system one want to simulate to do it!
Even so we don't even know what level of abstraction is necessary when simulating a brain to get something working like in nature.
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I wonder where he used to shop as in civilized countries there should be no rotting flesh at all? Sounds like one of the fanatically uninformed vegans, those that claim that meat rots in the intestines...
Soy have been used as human food for a long time (before written history) without problems - so you are wrong.
Many kinds of food that really are toxic can be safe to eat when cooked (some mushrooms, some meats) - so you are wrong again.
The third claim depends on how you define safe, but is in general false as e.g. acrylamide is created when heating starch above a certain temperature - yet another wrong claim.
0/3 - care to play again?
No it is not named after the license. But "At all" seems a bit strong as GPL = GNU Public License and the GPL is the base of FSF activities including the GNU userland which is where the GNU/Linux name comes from.
GNU/NTOSKRNL is only logical if installing any GNU-licensed software on a Windows system suddenly turns the system to a GNU/Windows system. GNU/Linux is at least somewhat logical as everything vital in the system _is_ GNU licensed and the GNU project software is an important part of the user experience.
While a popular meme by some people it isn't generally true. Proving negatives is done all the time, the simplest way to do it is to enumerate all possibilities and check them all.
I read that as 5 millibauds, with something like a 2^32 QAM encoding one could get pretty good transfer rates! ;)
Oh I do use Linux. My main computer runs Windows though as that is required at least until ReactOS can replace it (which is probably never - *sigh*). Still have a Mint installation via a VM so Unix is never far away. Am trying out the Ubuntu for Windows thingy too...
Let's see, of the other computers I have Linux is installed on all of them (had a FreeBSD installation once - but I'm more used* to Linux). One computer uses Linux Mint (Old Dell Precision machine), one uses Elementary OS (testing if it's appropriate for my mother), one uses #! (very slow hardware - haven't touched it in a while) and the last also uses Mint (test machine w.t. an AMD Bobcat APU).
(* observe that I don't claim I'm near hacker level in either Linux or Windows, but I do have clues and can look up most things)
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What I stated _is_ a fact and not "a random statement". Since Windows 7 I have had no need to reinstall Windows - upgrade sure but I don't count that as reinstallation (for any operating system). It is stable (one bluescreen IIRC due to a crappy Intel driver) and IME it doesn't "degrade" as is often claimed. I do make sure to keep the systems clean though, never allow crap to accumulate. While Linux distributions work most of the time sometimes strange tings happen (e.g. hardware misidentified) and then a reinstall can help sometimes. Maybe I'm extremely unlucky, have a bad influence on my machines or live close to a source of ionizing radiation _but_ I'm not a liar!
Actually detecting an old CRT TV is pretty easy (the receiver generates a characteristic signal), never CRT TVs are much harder (more modern electronics). Lie detectors does work too, the problem is they aren't reliable - some never triggers them, some always triggers them, some have essentially random outcome. Lie detector operators are trained with pseduo-science and intimidation techniques.
Both are mostly used for scaring people, doesn't mean they don't work in some situations.
A:Unlike your example it actually keeps the flow!
Why shoot for immortality? My grandmother's birthday is tomorrow - she turns 99. Mentally she's okay but sight and hearing are essentially gone.
How about we could expect that if we turn 99 we would be able to hear and see as a 40 year old? Watching TV, reading books, looking at porn, programming, listening to music, being social etc. What if we could keep joints functional and muscle mass high so that we at 99 could take long walks unhindered? Wouldn't THAT be a good thing even if we'd not reach a 100?
If the research for reaching those goals would help us to live longer too sure - it'd be great. But immortality is a dream (a nightmare for many).
The No True Scientist fallacy? Yup.
Science IS done with people with money, both directly and indirectly. Science* IS done in order to earn money - just look at the development of integrated circuits. Scientists ARE motivated by money.
(* Science is a method for modelling the world through iterative refining, not something one can do - it's already there. One can follow the scientific method though, guess that's what you mean)
Or just realize how often shitty drivers fuck up Windows installations. The reason Windows have bettered its reputation of being unstable isn't so much that MS code quality have improved, it is because MS have tightened up the driver situation. The vast majority of bugs causing crashes are in 3rd party device drivers.
So instead of making things up in your mind how about following logic and accept that too many lusers install unsigned* crappy as shit drivers and then blame MS when their system becomes as stable as a M1 tank balanced on the Eiffel tower?
(* unsigned isn't of course necessarily crap but often is)
I reinstall Windows as often as I do Linux. No, thinking about it in fact I reinstall Linux more often.
In your case I think the pitchfork entered your brain...
HID? Easy to use user-mode APIs available for Windows and Linux, probably other systems too.
CDC? Your user-mode program can simply open a virtual serial port and do its thing.
Mass storage class? Requires buffering and more code on the device but provides a superb interface for the user - simply drag a file containing the data to be programmed into the virtual storage device.
Win+X -> select control panel -> user accounts -> user accounts -> change your account name (if it is the logged in account you want to change, else: -> manage another account -> select account -> change the account name)
Why MS doesn't have the alternative in the settings app I don't know. Probably afraid to confuse users?
Too little space in the attic?
No conspiracies needed - as PEOPLE want to have easy digital votes.
An AC calling someone an idiot. What are the odds?
Hey some of those "savages" are actually decent people! Besides nuking them will lead to contamination of Europe! ... we are talking about the UK, right?
I realize you are joking but people do "die while taking a shit" - and it have nothing to do with food intake. Here's a basic layman's description: http://www.menshealth.com/heal...
One can die of a broken leg, in fact it's not that unusual. One can die of a tiny cut but it is still very unusual - antibiotics still works in most cases.
Thanks for informing us you don't understand the word "notorious". As we all was wondering if there was something AC didn't know, didn't have an opinion about and didn't use as an excuse to post irrelevant crap. Now we know the answer to all three: 1) yes 2) no 3) no.
Don't bring logic to a troll thread...
I can say that MS would kill themselves if they tried to create a walled garden - and they probably know it (unless they are idiots). But sure, they could try [speculation!], after all they control the software.
A semi-walled system where one can connect to a number of stores or (optionally) enable a developer option that keeps the status quo could possible be one way
MS are moving, the reason is that Windows (like other "modern" systems) doesn't protect against malware good enough. Limiting a standard installation to get their software from a select pool of services could help (if one service/store fails in blocking malware it could be blacklisted easily). Ideal? Not in my perspective though the alternatives are probably worse.
You are wrong and extremely so. What have been simulated in supercomputers are tiny slices of simple animal brains, taking orders of magnitude longer than your 40:1 ratio. Simulating a human brain? Never been done. There aren't enough data to even begin simulating smaller parts of the human brain, one actually have to know about the system one want to simulate to do it!
Even so we don't even know what level of abstraction is necessary when simulating a brain to get something working like in nature.
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