Does it really matter? I could show you evidence for the moon landings and you'd still argue it was faked.
But if you feel the need to nitpick, here you go: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/u...
this seems like a noble thing to do. So why am I left with this feeling that he is still a crooked, slimy sleazeball?
Really I have no idea why people hate Bill Gates so much other than limited cerebral function. He was immensely successful in business, one of the most successful in history, and has used that success for the greater good of humanity. Yet you choose to overlook all that because he forced you to manually install another browser on your computer to bypass the default?
Churchill, Jefferson, Newton, pretty much every major character in history broke some eggs to make their omelettes. Gates is no different and will be remembered in history for all of his good deeds.
Man has never had enough power to turn the weather "back" to reclaim the inland growing area of Egypt.
Man never used to be able to fly, or communicate across continents or take detailed photos of the surface of other worlds either yet here we are. And none of those feats were achieved by people who gave up trying.
Climate is complicated, but not impossible.
I remember when "everyone" that got online, wanted to start their own website on e.g. Geocities. Easy to set up, pictures (animated 'E-mail' icon) happily copied from wherever you found it, etc.
Now the Dark Side (copyright mafiaa) is taking over and soon it will be illegal to link to "unlicensed" content, and soon thereafter it will be illegal to link to links to "unlicensed" content.
To be fair, those Geocities sites were crap and of little value to anyone. And if the content owners won't let you use their content, make your own, unlicensed. It's pretty hard to cry foul when you have the best tool in the universe for sharing original content and your biggest complaint is that you want to be able to copy someone else's.
This can be fixed. Create content without ads that only links to other content without ads. There's no reason why "www2" can't be just like 1990's www.
All you need is a simple spec for hosting that anyone can follow, ie no ads, content on one page where possible, no multimedia unless absolutely necessary, and start the revolution.
The point of much of social media is not to share links but to replicate content and isolate it from it's original context.
One reason for this is that the original host is useless at hosting data. eg my local news site publishes video in low res that always freezes and buffers, and you can't pause or fast forward and they're loaded with ads. Whenever I see an interesting story, I Google the same thing and find a source elsewhere (usually youtube) which I can actually watch without all the problems.
When I've looked for a home, the realtor and I were busy defining exactly what we were looking for. In short order we had a short list. We checked out that list. If that didn't work out, we re-defined and repeated.
I never understood this approach. With information, the two basic methods are browse and search. If your data set is small, you don't need to search, since you can browse a dozen items quicker than any search, with a zero error rate which is the biggest flaw with search. I've been in the Real Estate market a few times, and in a city of 5 million I know which suburbs are of interest, and out of those there is only a dozen or so new listings every week. So each time I'm in the market I can simply browse all listings and sort them within a minute. The agent really serve no purpose other than to get in the way and take a fee.
And people aren't fixated only on one or two power sources, as opposed to the ones who trot out the line "there is one solution - nuclear".
To put that in context, that is the response to the question of baseload. I've never heard anyone not include renewables in the mix, but you need a base-load, and currently Coal and Nuclear are the only viable candidates.
BUT, if you run the numbers, you will see that we NEED nukes. In particular, we need gen IV nukes since they can not meltdown. In addition, these can make use of the nuke waste/ aboveground thorium, rather than mining for U.
Yet, the far left fights it.
This is the issue in a nutshell. Logically, Gen4 Nuke is the least worst option, but the most people can't get past the emotional response. Chernobyl! Fukushima!
Imagine if we gave up flight after the first couple of plane crashes? You fix bad engineering by better engineering, not giving up.
more socially conservative societies that restrict outlets for harmless sexual release do indeed have higher rates of rape and sexual violence in general. there is much truth to the concept of catharsis as a way to reduce rape and sexual violence. it doesn't prevent everything, just some of it
There is also evidence that a lot of exposure to Porn, especially at a young age is detrimental to brain development, especially respect for women. And that respect for women is one of the key differentiators between an advanced society.
So yes, free porn offers benefits, I personally love the stuff, but am also aware that there needs to be some limitation somewhere to ensure like drugs, alcohol and other good stuff, it doesn't get abused (Note I don't support India's action, but can see understand the frustration some people have around this subject, and the knee jerk reactions to a seemingly unsolvable problem).
Other than what? I know of none so far.
I am aware of some cosmological and geological events that are capable though.
Also when you have a sample size of one it's quite difficult to create a robust theory.
Yes but that's the benefit of being able to think about and discuss things as rational humans, we can work out which concepts have value and which do not.
IMO both advanced medical research and computational power are must haves in any powerful democracy.
If one of your neighbors turns out to not rise to the same level of manners that you do, are feeling the right, then, to take out a shotgun and destroy some of their property? No?
If it occurs entirely on my property, then I reserve that right.
If the guy flying the quad knows he isn't doing anything wrong, then he's really not under any obligation to go door to door telling people that,
Apart from manners you mean? I have neighbours, and sometimes when someone is planning a party or going away they let their neighbours know as courtesy. Not because of any legal requirement, but because not all people are selfish jerks.
The argument is about "most people" not "most home users". The biggest spending on PCs is by business, therefore their needs represent the biggest demand.
When you say "etc" in the majority of cased you can either find a commercial equivalent which you pay for or a free one which is normally just good enough.
No you can't. We hear this all the time from the FOSS crowd, but anyone who thinks Libre Office is functionally equivalent to MS Office is someone who has never relied on an Office app to do their job.
Windows 10 is no longer a general purpose computing platform.
This is it in a nutshell.
Ever since Win3.1, Windows was the General Purpose OS for the masses. Win10 had the opportunity to reclaim this after they lost a lot of ground with Vista and Win8. But it appears they just can't help themselves. All this behaviour from technology companies is turning me off the industry altogether. If I didn't have a mortgage I've give this career away.
The new generation is beyond all hope. You are perfectly content to lose your privacy and your security so long as you get your little apps.
History is littered with old people telling the younger generation how they have lost the plot, yet here we all are.
You might find losing your perceived privacy to be the end of the world, but if you are born in this world then why would you care? ( ie the same way people not born in the age of rock n roll, TV, skateboards etc all thought they were the end of the world when they were thrust upon us).
I have a Windows machine, a Mint machine and an Ipad. Unfortunately all the stuff my kids need to know to get a job is based around Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, so Mint never gets used for anything other than Web browsing when the other machines are in use.
We are not coders nor do we plan to be, for us getting stuff done means using what everyone else is using. This seems to get overlooked by OS ideologues, incumbency carries the most weight.
You think "most people" need CAD, Adobe apps, MS Office, financial software, medical software or supply chain software?
Most people need a web browser.
Most of the people who spend the most on PCs actually do need CAD,Office etc. and they are who drive the market.
And since Businesses spend a shit ton more money on PCs than your average punter, whoever owns that space will control the market.
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Does it really matter? I could show you evidence for the moon landings and you'd still argue it was faked. But if you feel the need to nitpick, here you go: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/u...
is this the evidence you are referring to?
I haven't provided any yet, but you still created an argument based on something not provided?
you're a troll or a moron on this topic. either way, you fail, and you reneed to rethink your position
I suggest you go back and learn how to read.
this seems like a noble thing to do. So why am I left with this feeling that he is still a crooked, slimy sleazeball?
Really I have no idea why people hate Bill Gates so much other than limited cerebral function. He was immensely successful in business, one of the most successful in history, and has used that success for the greater good of humanity. Yet you choose to overlook all that because he forced you to manually install another browser on your computer to bypass the default?
Churchill, Jefferson, Newton, pretty much every major character in history broke some eggs to make their omelettes. Gates is no different and will be remembered in history for all of his good deeds.
Farmers tend to sleep and rise with the sun, so not so much of an issue in this use case.
But, as recent history has shown, government politicians may choose to force the reset of us to follow his lead. And that should not be allowed.
Why not? If it turns out to be a good idea, then should the government ignore it at its own peril just out of principle?
Man has never had enough power to turn the weather "back" to reclaim the inland growing area of Egypt.
Man never used to be able to fly, or communicate across continents or take detailed photos of the surface of other worlds either yet here we are. And none of those feats were achieved by people who gave up trying.
Climate is complicated, but not impossible.
I remember when "everyone" that got online, wanted to start their own website on e.g. Geocities. Easy to set up, pictures (animated 'E-mail' icon) happily copied from wherever you found it, etc. Now the Dark Side (copyright mafiaa) is taking over and soon it will be illegal to link to "unlicensed" content, and soon thereafter it will be illegal to link to links to "unlicensed" content.
To be fair, those Geocities sites were crap and of little value to anyone. And if the content owners won't let you use their content, make your own, unlicensed. It's pretty hard to cry foul when you have the best tool in the universe for sharing original content and your biggest complaint is that you want to be able to copy someone else's.
This can be fixed. Create content without ads that only links to other content without ads. There's no reason why "www2" can't be just like 1990's www.
All you need is a simple spec for hosting that anyone can follow, ie no ads, content on one page where possible, no multimedia unless absolutely necessary, and start the revolution.
The point of much of social media is not to share links but to replicate content and isolate it from it's original context.
One reason for this is that the original host is useless at hosting data. eg my local news site publishes video in low res that always freezes and buffers, and you can't pause or fast forward and they're loaded with ads. Whenever I see an interesting story, I Google the same thing and find a source elsewhere (usually youtube) which I can actually watch without all the problems.
When I've looked for a home, the realtor and I were busy defining exactly what we were looking for. In short order we had a short list. We checked out that list. If that didn't work out, we re-defined and repeated.
I never understood this approach. With information, the two basic methods are browse and search. If your data set is small, you don't need to search, since you can browse a dozen items quicker than any search, with a zero error rate which is the biggest flaw with search. I've been in the Real Estate market a few times, and in a city of 5 million I know which suburbs are of interest, and out of those there is only a dozen or so new listings every week. So each time I'm in the market I can simply browse all listings and sort them within a minute. The agent really serve no purpose other than to get in the way and take a fee.
And people aren't fixated only on one or two power sources, as opposed to the ones who trot out the line "there is one solution - nuclear".
To put that in context, that is the response to the question of baseload. I've never heard anyone not include renewables in the mix, but you need a base-load, and currently Coal and Nuclear are the only viable candidates.
BUT, if you run the numbers, you will see that we NEED nukes. In particular, we need gen IV nukes since they can not meltdown. In addition, these can make use of the nuke waste/ aboveground thorium, rather than mining for U. Yet, the far left fights it.
This is the issue in a nutshell. Logically, Gen4 Nuke is the least worst option, but the most people can't get past the emotional response. Chernobyl! Fukushima! Imagine if we gave up flight after the first couple of plane crashes? You fix bad engineering by better engineering, not giving up.
more socially conservative societies that restrict outlets for harmless sexual release do indeed have higher rates of rape and sexual violence in general. there is much truth to the concept of catharsis as a way to reduce rape and sexual violence. it doesn't prevent everything, just some of it
There is also evidence that a lot of exposure to Porn, especially at a young age is detrimental to brain development, especially respect for women. And that respect for women is one of the key differentiators between an advanced society.
So yes, free porn offers benefits, I personally love the stuff, but am also aware that there needs to be some limitation somewhere to ensure like drugs, alcohol and other good stuff, it doesn't get abused (Note I don't support India's action, but can see understand the frustration some people have around this subject, and the knee jerk reactions to a seemingly unsolvable problem).
Other than what? I know of none so far. I am aware of some cosmological and geological events that are capable though.
Also when you have a sample size of one it's quite difficult to create a robust theory.
Yes but that's the benefit of being able to think about and discuss things as rational humans, we can work out which concepts have value and which do not.
IMO both advanced medical research and computational power are must haves in any powerful democracy.
If one of your neighbors turns out to not rise to the same level of manners that you do, are feeling the right, then, to take out a shotgun and destroy some of their property? No?
If it occurs entirely on my property, then I reserve that right.
If the guy flying the quad knows he isn't doing anything wrong, then he's really not under any obligation to go door to door telling people that,
Apart from manners you mean? I have neighbours, and sometimes when someone is planning a party or going away they let their neighbours know as courtesy. Not because of any legal requirement, but because not all people are selfish jerks.
You don't need to take down the bridge, only the thing on it that is the threat.
Can you rephrase that, this time in English?
Death is a necessary part of life. So if I kill you with my gun, there's no problem, right?
I think the only problem will be you trying to find your way out of your parent's basement.
No they don't. Most home users only need...
The argument is about "most people" not "most home users". The biggest spending on PCs is by business, therefore their needs represent the biggest demand.
When you say "etc" in the majority of cased you can either find a commercial equivalent which you pay for or a free one which is normally just good enough.
No you can't. We hear this all the time from the FOSS crowd, but anyone who thinks Libre Office is functionally equivalent to MS Office is someone who has never relied on an Office app to do their job.
Windows 10 is no longer a general purpose computing platform.
This is it in a nutshell.
Ever since Win3.1, Windows was the General Purpose OS for the masses. Win10 had the opportunity to reclaim this after they lost a lot of ground with Vista and Win8. But it appears they just can't help themselves. All this behaviour from technology companies is turning me off the industry altogether. If I didn't have a mortgage I've give this career away.
Holy fuck you are naive.
The new generation is beyond all hope. You are perfectly content to lose your privacy and your security so long as you get your little apps.
History is littered with old people telling the younger generation how they have lost the plot, yet here we all are.
You might find losing your perceived privacy to be the end of the world, but if you are born in this world then why would you care? ( ie the same way people not born in the age of rock n roll, TV, skateboards etc all thought they were the end of the world when they were thrust upon us).
They were given a choice between Mint and Ubuntu
I have a Windows machine, a Mint machine and an Ipad. Unfortunately all the stuff my kids need to know to get a job is based around Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, so Mint never gets used for anything other than Web browsing when the other machines are in use.
We are not coders nor do we plan to be, for us getting stuff done means using what everyone else is using. This seems to get overlooked by OS ideologues, incumbency carries the most weight.
You think "most people" need CAD, Adobe apps, MS Office, financial software, medical software or supply chain software?
Most people need a web browser.
Most of the people who spend the most on PCs actually do need CAD,Office etc. and they are who drive the market.
And since Businesses spend a shit ton more money on PCs than your average punter, whoever owns that space will control the market.