For each Debian package, there is at least one author, and many more in some cases. I don't know the number, but Debian sid contains at least 15000 packages. Say those packages average three contributors (most might have only one, but the kernel, X, and many major apps have hundreds). That's 45000 developers, in addition to the 1500 Debian maintainers.
I know you're joking, but the author was asking how many people, total, were involved in the creation of your Linux distro. So if you forked a distro that included the work of n people, your new distro would be n+1, not just 1.
Dude, 96 percentile on the SAT is only a 1400 or so. Not too shabby, but I don't think it's justification for calling other people idiots and bragging about how you didn't study.
You're right, though, that studying for the SAT is pretty much useless (or at least it was; I don't know how much the new SAT is changing things). Either you can think logically the way you need to or you can't; there's not much you can do about it (except cram on vocabulary). Now, there's not really any evidence that the type of thinking required by the SAT has any correlation to achievements later in life, but there's still plenty of reason to worry about taking it. Bad standardized test scores will keep you out of most upper-level colleges, so your SAT score does have at least some significance.
The w2k source wasn't littered with explitives. There were a few, but much less than I'd expected (fewer than in the Linux kernel, which contains fewer LOC).
True, but an unmodified modern PC game running on any XBox-spec machine (including an XBox) is going to choke. The solution is to heavily optimize for the specific specs of the XBox. The parent was saying that a generic PC version of Splinter Cell would choke on an Xbox-level PC.
GTA1 and 2 were PC-only. GTA3 and GTA:VC were first developed for PS2 and then later ported to PC and XBox (which is what they're doing with San Andreas too).
Smart CPU cycles? Cracking a meaningless piece of RSA-encrypted data in order to accomplish what, exactly? Not that I have a problem with what other people choose to do with their CPUs, but d.net is not the "smart" choice.
Had that article been about Islam (and I could basically convert the article to a believable one about Islam by running a few global substiutions), it would've been modded down and called hateful.
No it wouldn't. Everyone knows that radical factions of Islam have some beliefs that most sane people would find quite objectionable. Pointing that out isn't hate speech, as long as you don't generalize to include all Muslims. However, delusional Muslims don't make up a significant portion of the US electorate, whereas delusional Christians do.
You can't seriously say that Google could have funded its web search from the beginning selling search appliances; the SA only sells because of google.com's great web search. Many other sites run schemes similar to Google Answers, and few even break even, let alone generate enough profit to fund a 100000-server search company on the side.
Ads are currently 95% of Google's income. No other income source comes anywhere near. If Google management could make more money from other sources, they would do so; it's their job as a publicly held company. Since they don't seem to have any other ideas for magic revenue generation, and I haven't heard any from you either, it's safe to assume that ads are necessary for Google's existance.
Unless you're suggesting that they should have just borrowed a bunch of venture capital, created a great search service with no business plan, and waited for it to go bankrupt in a couple of years.
Any end users of Linux have to face the security flaws whether or not they're part of the OS.
No, they don't. 99% of Linux end users don't run postgresql, zhcon, vdr, libdbi-perl, or most of the other packages the grandparent listed. It's fair to compare flaws in GNOME/KDE, Firefox, X, and the kernel to flaws in Windows. If you want, you can compare OO.o to Office and perl/python/Mono to.NET. But you can't compare the entire Debian archive (which takes 7 CDs to hold just the stable version) to the base release of MS Windows.
No, it wouldn't - a trifecta is composed of three different stories containing a similar element - for example, if three noted musicians died, or if there were three stories about high-school boys having sex with their teachers. A/.-style threepeat (aka "tripe") is simply the same story posted three times.
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To nitpick, you can't say MSN's markup "contains less errors". You can, however, say that it contains fewer errors.
Pretty much. The point is to compare the number of people working on Windows to the number working on Linux.
The version of IE tested (IE6 on XP SP2) includes popup blocking, so that's no longer a valid argument.
Though that's probably not what "kritical" was thinking...
For each Debian package, there is at least one author, and many more in some cases. I don't know the number, but Debian sid contains at least 15000 packages. Say those packages average three contributors (most might have only one, but the kernel, X, and many major apps have hundreds). That's 45000 developers, in addition to the 1500 Debian maintainers.
I know you're joking, but the author was asking how many people, total, were involved in the creation of your Linux distro. So if you forked a distro that included the work of n people, your new distro would be n+1, not just 1.
It's a third-party extension, from googlebar.mozdev.org/.
You're right, though, that studying for the SAT is pretty much useless (or at least it was; I don't know how much the new SAT is changing things). Either you can think logically the way you need to or you can't; there's not much you can do about it (except cram on vocabulary). Now, there's not really any evidence that the type of thinking required by the SAT has any correlation to achievements later in life, but there's still plenty of reason to worry about taking it. Bad standardized test scores will keep you out of most upper-level colleges, so your SAT score does have at least some significance.
The w2k source wasn't littered with explitives. There were a few, but much less than I'd expected (fewer than in the Linux kernel, which contains fewer LOC).
If you wanted to hire John Carmack to spend a few months personally optimizing Doom 3 for your machine, I'm sure it would work just as well.
True, but an unmodified modern PC game running on any XBox-spec machine (including an XBox) is going to choke. The solution is to heavily optimize for the specific specs of the XBox. The parent was saying that a generic PC version of Splinter Cell would choke on an Xbox-level PC.
GTA1 and 2 were PC-only. GTA3 and GTA:VC were first developed for PS2 and then later ported to PC and XBox (which is what they're doing with San Andreas too).
For a close enough price and much, much less work, you can buy an external HD.
Smart CPU cycles? Cracking a meaningless piece of RSA-encrypted data in order to accomplish what, exactly? Not that I have a problem with what other people choose to do with their CPUs, but d.net is not the "smart" choice.
No it wouldn't. Everyone knows that radical factions of Islam have some beliefs that most sane people would find quite objectionable. Pointing that out isn't hate speech, as long as you don't generalize to include all Muslims. However, delusional Muslims don't make up a significant portion of the US electorate, whereas delusional Christians do.
Ads are currently 95% of Google's income. No other income source comes anywhere near. If Google management could make more money from other sources, they would do so; it's their job as a publicly held company. Since they don't seem to have any other ideas for magic revenue generation, and I haven't heard any from you either, it's safe to assume that ads are necessary for Google's existance.
Unless you're suggesting that they should have just borrowed a bunch of venture capital, created a great search service with no business plan, and waited for it to go bankrupt in a couple of years.
No, it's fucking common sense.
Such as? If Google had any other magic revenue-generating ideas up its sleeve, it'd be using them.
And lose the support contract that's the whole reason they bought it in the first place.
No OS does all those things, so you should be complaining about the inefficiencies of all software development, not just open source.
See this comment.
So link farmers won't buy domain names with Google. What good does that do?
No, they don't. 99% of Linux end users don't run postgresql, zhcon, vdr, libdbi-perl, or most of the other packages the grandparent listed. It's fair to compare flaws in GNOME/KDE, Firefox, X, and the kernel to flaws in Windows. If you want, you can compare OO.o to Office and perl/python/Mono to .NET. But you can't compare the entire Debian archive (which takes 7 CDs to hold just the stable version) to the base release of MS Windows.
No, it wouldn't - a trifecta is composed of three different stories containing a similar element - for example, if three noted musicians died, or if there were three stories about high-school boys having sex with their teachers. A /.-style threepeat (aka "tripe") is simply the same story posted three times.
I believe you meant "voila". A viola is a musical instrument. Well, it's an instrument, anyway.
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