Don't you think that Dell has the cash to buy or adopt a Linux distro, invest the $ necessary to make the o/s ready for prime time, and continue to profit.
In a word: no. How much money (and more importantly, how much time) would it take to get Linux "ready for prime time" (whatever that means)? Moreover, after it's ready, how much time would it take to convince the unwashed masses that it's just as good as Windows? If your answer to these questions (especially the second) isn't in the range of years, then you're fooling yourself. And Dell cannot wait years to get their revenue stream back up to what it is now.
Yes, I noticed the pop-up feature on this picture and it's about time...
What do you mean "it's about time"? It's not even available yet. Longhorn won't be available for another two years (at least), and it's not clear when popup blocking will be available. On the other hand, Mozilla has popup blocking now (and has had it for a while already...).
One thing I would like to see in IE is a possibility to have several proxies and IE automaticly selecting the proxy with the lowest latency.
Nice idea... but why not suggest it to the Mozilla group now instead of waiting and hoping that IE gets it?
Anyone else notice that in the desktop shots, "My Computer" has been replaced by just "Computer"? Is M$ trying to say that with their next OS, your computer won't really be yours? (Not that this is a surprise, of course...)
... that having your/home directory trashed and losing all your settings on a single-user, *nix-based machine is just as bad as having to format/reinstall your MS OS.
True enough... but how many single-user home computers are there? Most of the people I know who have computers have family computers, with 2+ people sharing the same computer. With Windows, if little Janey clicks on a wicked screensaver, she can wipe out Dad's tax returns for the past 5 years. In Linux, all that gets lost is little Janey's teenybopper pictures, and Dad's tentacle rape pr0n is safe.
Funny how we keep importing concepts that first get produced in the UK such as Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, The Weakest Link, Coupling, Trading Spaces (Changing Rooms)...
Yeah, like Coupling isn't a Friends ripoff. I guess it works both ways...
Even a letter to some mailing list, signed by some big names in Linux, means absolutely nothing to them, because there are no consequences to LinkSys for ignoring them. And that's the bottom line.
I'm going to get a second computer soon, and get a router/firewall to share my cable modem. I was going to get a Linksys, but now I think I might go with a D-Link. So yes, there are consequences to Linksys for ignoring this issue.
Really it depends on the class. English classes especially in highschool are all about improving grammar and technical ability, you dont actually do any creative writing until college usually.
Where did you go to high school? When I went to high school 15 years ago, we didn't do any grammar in high school English class, it was all read-and-interpret (i.e. read-and-make-up-some-bullshit). We were supposed to learn the technical stuff in middle school (and we did to some degree).
Actually, not quite right, it's never 1/2. You have a 1/3 chance of picking the right door if you stay with your first choice, and a 2/3 chance if you switch.
Actually, given a certain interpretation of the problem, the probability is 1/2... Let's consider the Canadian version of the TV show, where no one thinks to tell Monty which door the prize is behind, so sometimes (1/3 of the time, actually), he opens a door with the prize behind it, and you lose. Now, let's consider that when you were on the show, you got lucky, and the course of events was as follows: you chose, Monty opened a door and there was nothing behind it, and gave you the choice whether to switch or not. What's the probability that if you switch you'll win? It's exactly 1/2.
To prove this, assume WLOG that you chose door #1. Now, before Monty opens a door, there are six possibilities (designated by the door Monty opened and the door the prize is behind):
2-1
2-2
2-3
3-1
3-2
3-3
All are equally likely (again, because Monty doesn't know which door the prize is behind). So now he opens a door, and the prize isn't there. So this eliminates possibilities 2 and 6 from the above list, leaving only possibilities 1, 3, 4, and 5, all of which are still equally likely. Thus, you win half of the time and you lose half of the time.
Note that if Monty does know which door the prize is behind, the six possibilities are not equally probable, and your chance of winning if you switch is 2/3.
One of the devious things about the Monty Hall problem is that it depends upon an implicit assumption that Monty knows which door the prize is behind. If he doesn't -- but the prize doesn't turn out to be behind the door he opens -- the probabilities change! Looking at the problem from the outside, without knowledge of what Monty knows and when he knows it, you can't tell exactly what the real probabilities are.
It is to redress this second form of rigging that voter id cards were introduced. As of now they have no other uses beyond identification for voting, and the government has no plans to make them so.
The same was true of Social Security #'s in the US back when they were introduced. In fact, AFAIK, your SS# still isn't a legal form of identification, and the government has very strict rules about when government agencies can even ask for it. Private industry isn't bound by these regulations, though, and that's the problem.
Dude, shut up! Don't you realize that the reason for all of those "Dial it down the center with 1-800-CALL-ATT" commercials is that someone asked that very question about Carrot Top a few years ago?
Hopefully this technology will allow me to find that inconsiderate bastard that keeps farting near me on international flights.
What? You mean you can't tell who farted?!? Awesome! I always kept it in because I figured it would be obvious who did it... All I can say is that I pity the foo's on my 7-hour flight next week.
HeavyJay writes:
I'm new to the world of programming...
and the review (also written by HeavyJay) says: I've read countless books and online tutorials on QBASIC, C++, PHP, and other various languages.
So WTF... you've read countless books on QBASIC, yet you claim to be new to the world of programming and therefore need to read "QBASIC for Dummies"? Something doesn't make sense here...
Sorry. The "Central Dogma" is DNA->RNA->protein. Still true.
Not as "true" as it was 5 years ago. Gradually, people are coming to the conclusion that non-coding RNAs are much more common than they had previously thought. See e.g. Okazaki, et. al. in the Dec. 2002 Nature.
Only the ignorant have misinterpreted it that way.
Ten years ago, everyone interpreted it that way. How smart you are with hindsight.
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The low number of genes means humans have as few as 300 more genes than a mouse and only twice the genes of the fruit fly. "A lot of people will find that philosophically disturbing," says theoretical biologist Jean-Michel Claverie
I don't see why they should. More genes == more superiority? Who made up that rule?
The brightest minds of biology did, over 10 years ago... and so the central dogma of biology ("one gene => one protein => one function") was taught to a generation of students.
Of course, this completely misses two of the biggest results in the last few years: the acknowledgment of alternative splicing as a common phenomenon (10 years ago, people thought it happened in 5% of human genes, now we know it's more like 50%) and the identification of miRNAs as regulators of gene function.
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In a word: no. How much money (and more importantly, how much time) would it take to get Linux "ready for prime time" (whatever that means)? Moreover, after it's ready, how much time would it take to convince the unwashed masses that it's just as good as Windows? If your answer to these questions (especially the second) isn't in the range of years, then you're fooling yourself. And Dell cannot wait years to get their revenue stream back up to what it is now.
Dupes are theoretically capped... at (# of "editors") + 2.
(I added 2 because I figured Timothy and Michael could conceivably post a dupe of something they already posted...)
What do you mean "it's about time"? It's not even available yet. Longhorn won't be available for another two years (at least), and it's not clear when popup blocking will be available. On the other hand, Mozilla has popup blocking now (and has had it for a while already...).
One thing I would like to see in IE is a possibility to have several proxies and IE automaticly selecting the proxy with the lowest latency.
Nice idea... but why not suggest it to the Mozilla group now instead of waiting and hoping that IE gets it?
I'm sure the RIAA has known this for years...
The problem clearly is that Michael is an idiot.
True enough... but how many single-user home computers are there? Most of the people I know who have computers have family computers, with 2+ people sharing the same computer. With Windows, if little Janey clicks on a wicked screensaver, she can wipe out Dad's tax returns for the past 5 years. In Linux, all that gets lost is little Janey's teenybopper pictures, and Dad's tentacle rape pr0n is safe.
Yeah, like Coupling isn't a Friends ripoff. I guess it works both ways...
I'm going to get a second computer soon, and get a router/firewall to share my cable modem. I was going to get a Linksys, but now I think I might go with a D-Link. So yes, there are consequences to Linksys for ignoring this issue.
Animation and comics grew up long ago... games are relatively recently catching up.
I couldn't? Who the fuck do you think you are that you can make a statement like that about me?
You are supposed to learn English through highschool as well, if you want to get a 1500+ on your SATs.
Actually, I did get 1500s on my SATs, thank you very much. But if you say that I couldn't have, well then who am I to argue?
Creativity in students? Why would the school system want to promote that? It's easier to make sheep...
Where did you go to high school? When I went to high school 15 years ago, we didn't do any grammar in high school English class, it was all read-and-interpret (i.e. read-and-make-up-some-bullshit). We were supposed to learn the technical stuff in middle school (and we did to some degree).
Actually, given a certain interpretation of the problem, the probability is 1/2... Let's consider the Canadian version of the TV show, where no one thinks to tell Monty which door the prize is behind, so sometimes (1/3 of the time, actually), he opens a door with the prize behind it, and you lose. Now, let's consider that when you were on the show, you got lucky, and the course of events was as follows: you chose, Monty opened a door and there was nothing behind it, and gave you the choice whether to switch or not. What's the probability that if you switch you'll win? It's exactly 1/2.
To prove this, assume WLOG that you chose door #1. Now, before Monty opens a door, there are six possibilities (designated by the door Monty opened and the door the prize is behind):
- 2-1
- 2-2
- 2-3
- 3-1
- 3-2
- 3-3
All are equally likely (again, because Monty doesn't know which door the prize is behind). So now he opens a door, and the prize isn't there. So this eliminates possibilities 2 and 6 from the above list, leaving only possibilities 1, 3, 4, and 5, all of which are still equally likely. Thus, you win half of the time and you lose half of the time.Note that if Monty does know which door the prize is behind, the six possibilities are not equally probable, and your chance of winning if you switch is 2/3.
One of the devious things about the Monty Hall problem is that it depends upon an implicit assumption that Monty knows which door the prize is behind. If he doesn't -- but the prize doesn't turn out to be behind the door he opens -- the probabilities change! Looking at the problem from the outside, without knowledge of what Monty knows and when he knows it, you can't tell exactly what the real probabilities are.
The same was true of Social Security #'s in the US back when they were introduced. In fact, AFAIK, your SS# still isn't a legal form of identification, and the government has very strict rules about when government agencies can even ask for it. Private industry isn't bound by these regulations, though, and that's the problem.
Well, the other option is to post dupes of selected stories from the past week or month... would you prefer that?
(not that I'm saying the dupes won't happen anyway...)
What? You mean you can't tell who farted?!? Awesome! I always kept it in because I figured it would be obvious who did it... All I can say is that I pity the foo's on my 7-hour flight next week.
I'm new to the world of programming...
and the review (also written by HeavyJay) says:
I've read countless books and online tutorials on QBASIC, C++, PHP, and other various languages.
So WTF... you've read countless books on QBASIC, yet you claim to be new to the world of programming and therefore need to read "QBASIC for Dummies"? Something doesn't make sense here...
Which I guess includes you & the other guy who actually RTFA before posting...
Not as "true" as it was 5 years ago. Gradually, people are coming to the conclusion that non-coding RNAs are much more common than they had previously thought. See e.g. Okazaki, et. al. in the Dec. 2002 Nature.
Only the ignorant have misinterpreted it that way.
Ten years ago, everyone interpreted it that way. How smart you are with hindsight.
I don't see why they should. More genes == more superiority? Who made up that rule?
The brightest minds of biology did, over 10 years ago... and so the central dogma of biology ("one gene => one protein => one function") was taught to a generation of students.
Of course, this completely misses two of the biggest results in the last few years: the acknowledgment of alternative splicing as a common phenomenon (10 years ago, people thought it happened in 5% of human genes, now we know it's more like 50%) and the identification of miRNAs as regulators of gene function.
But it's so hard to argue with dogma...
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
Popups? Those things still annoy people? Doesn't everyone use a pop-up blocking browser?