If a system is inadequately evolved it would probably have to suffer through more pain to walk, jog, hunt, gather, etc.. By reducing the brain it could have a bigger impact on reproduction and survival. Perhaps we evolved a trait that helped one another evolve faster.
if it isn't it won't take people away from Linux. There also seems to be a bigger community around Linux than around Solaris so the Linux momentum might just leave Solaris in the dust.
That is why if a company sees their product loosing to something open sourse they may as well open source right away in order to keep their mindshare, if it has any value to them.
My speculation is that OSS will be majority in 100 years.
I had meningitis. Checked online for my symptoms and asked the doctor to rule it out. He didn't and just told me to get some rest. Turns out I was right and he was wrong. Doctors can be very arrogant.
People idea of usability is usually that programs work the way they are meant without asking for too much help to do their job. For example a usability feature of Internet Explorer was to automatically execute.doc file viewers when you downloaded them. The action of executing automatically is wonderful and for many is seen as a great usability enhancement. But what happens when the.doc file can be programmed to do all kinds of problems on your computer? What if that automatically executed script within causes havoc with other seemingly non-related things? Then what is the overall usability benefit there? Negative if you ask many people.
The hassle of viruses, worms and other crap which appear on people's machine causes many usability problems in my book. The more maintenance you need to do on a machine the less usable it is. A windows machine needs plenty of work to keep up with updates, spyware, adwares and viruses. On the other hand the OS which doesn't execute things automatically when you visit a web site doesn't require as much maintenance.
I always use the analogy of cars. Cars have locks on their doors, then you have to use your key to turn the motor on. Now imagine cars without locks on their doors. One less hassle in the way of doing what you want right? How about no keys to turn on the car. It automatically turns on when you put your seat belt on. Wow! What an amazing car!! Guess what though? That type of car wouldn't stay in the driveway for very long. Well a Windows computer is that type of usable car that doesn't stay in your driveway for very long. Linux might ask you to put a key in the door and turn the engine on with that same key but at least it's still in the driveway when you need it.
Yes hydrogen has to be produced, yes it isn't the most efficient. However it does pack more energy than a conventional battery. I think this fact alone should be mentionned as to why hydrogen is of interest.
Sure right now the hydrogen is most likely produced by some polluting ways. Eventually though we'll have a complete framework that doesn't depend on burning anything to get hydrogen/electricity.
don't call it problems with electronic voting but problems with the Diebold systems. Point the finger at the problem. The fact that it is electronic should not be an issue. One day we might like the fact that it is electronic. The issues here are with the current form of voting systems.
it's a risk many should be willing to take. If EA and others don't mind squeezing humans as if they were lemons I'm thinking that they could get serious backlash if these humans actually had free time to revolt.
In a country where a healthy dose of socialism exist you'll have boycotts if companies don't treat their employees fairly or outsource them because they want to squeeze them as much as possible. In the US people are so busy with work that they can't even find the time to unionize let alone get implicated with politics.
I regret but outsourcing is easy to bring up. I think when it all comes down to it a gaming company better have their employees closer to their market.
I think I'd like to challenge the corporate America and say "All our bases are belong to us" not the rich guys.
I try to stay away from really fast machines around me so I don't feel the urge to upgrade my computer all of a sudden.
I'm running a 1.2Ghz Athlon with 768Megs of Ram though. I forget what kind of graphics card I have but it's decent. I used to upgrade to play games but now I don't play games anymore (although I'm thinking of getting a PS2 for Christmas).
Kerry conceded so who cares who voted for who! And anyways what does it matter that people get all their votes counted? Shouldn't we unite as a nation instead of embarrassing ourselves like this?
Let's just learn to love one another ok! It's more important for us to support the president whatever he does than to listen to idiots who want to seperate our country in the name of stupid worries such as democracy!
both have their cons. I have tried, Fedora core 1 and 2 and went back to using slackware (9.1 at the moment and later 10). Now I'm using Ubuntu because of it's one CD install and extremely easy updates. It is also way better integrated and simpler to use than RPM based distros in my opinion.
Ubuntu is really slick! The only thing I dislike about it is that I'm not used to it as I am with slackware.
I always hated redhat/fedora because and found it buggy and unstable. It never felt as polished and capable as slack or Ubuntu. Seriously if you just want to use a linux desktop Ubuntu is great!
You shouldn't call a party racist because they are interested in preserving their language, culture and borders. That does not make them racists.
Sure the FN must be some kind of righteous protector of the pure French. Sorry but I can't resist laughing. Anyone who knows anything about the FN knows they are racist.
when I feel it is totally legitimate to ask. Has anyone ever looked at intelligence/education as a factor for party affiliation? Are the more educated people in the Bush or Kerry camp? I'm just wondering here.
In France there was a very racist party (Front National) and the people who would vote for them were on average less educated than people who voted for other parties. The FN leader, Le Pen, said it had to do with the propaganda we have in schools against the FN. Which of course wasn't believed by anyone but the people without an education.
You could simply use replaceable rechargeable batteries. You go to a station, some robot takes out your batteries and replaces them with freshly charged ones.
Yhe batteries wouldn't need to be owned by you but could be the property of the refil station. Either way you could drive your car almost the same as a car using gazoline except it wouldn't pollute and make less noise.
yes. Roll out your own, use one that isn't crap or don't use any at all. Some on DD are good but most suck. It's just that some are kid's first attempt at scripting and it shows. They're badly made, some aren't even Javascript but CSS (:hover) but just because it does some rollover effect they believe it is Javascript!
from experience most of those scripts suck. They put up any kid's script that works in such an ugly way that you can say goodbye to standards. The scripts in turn are unreadable, and they aren't GPLed anyway.
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If a system is inadequately evolved it would probably have to suffer through more pain to walk, jog, hunt, gather, etc.. By reducing the brain it could have a bigger impact on reproduction and survival. Perhaps we evolved a trait that helped one another evolve faster.
That is why if a company sees their product loosing to something open sourse they may as well open source right away in order to keep their mindshare, if it has any value to them.
My speculation is that OSS will be majority in 100 years.
where's the manual for that game? I've searched Wiki and can't seemt to find a manual.
1) MySQL sucks as database. Sure it is fast but Postgresql will provide way more flexibility and power.
2) PHP is horrible for anything large scale. It is hard to maintain code almost all the time. Java tends to be easier for that.
funny I recognize a good worker by his tools.
I had meningitis. Checked online for my symptoms and asked the doctor to rule it out. He didn't and just told me to get some rest. Turns out I was right and he was wrong. Doctors can be very arrogant.
The hassle of viruses, worms and other crap which appear on people's machine causes many usability problems in my book. The more maintenance you need to do on a machine the less usable it is. A windows machine needs plenty of work to keep up with updates, spyware, adwares and viruses. On the other hand the OS which doesn't execute things automatically when you visit a web site doesn't require as much maintenance.
I always use the analogy of cars. Cars have locks on their doors, then you have to use your key to turn the motor on. Now imagine cars without locks on their doors. One less hassle in the way of doing what you want right? How about no keys to turn on the car. It automatically turns on when you put your seat belt on. Wow! What an amazing car!! Guess what though? That type of car wouldn't stay in the driveway for very long. Well a Windows computer is that type of usable car that doesn't stay in your driveway for very long. Linux might ask you to put a key in the door and turn the engine on with that same key but at least it's still in the driveway when you need it.
Better than god ;)
Sure right now the hydrogen is most likely produced by some polluting ways. Eventually though we'll have a complete framework that doesn't depend on burning anything to get hydrogen/electricity.
don't call it problems with electronic voting but problems with the Diebold systems. Point the finger at the problem. The fact that it is electronic should not be an issue. One day we might like the fact that it is electronic. The issues here are with the current form of voting systems.
In a country where a healthy dose of socialism exist you'll have boycotts if companies don't treat their employees fairly or outsource them because they want to squeeze them as much as possible. In the US people are so busy with work that they can't even find the time to unionize let alone get implicated with politics.
I regret but outsourcing is easy to bring up. I think when it all comes down to it a gaming company better have their employees closer to their market.
I think I'd like to challenge the corporate America and say "All our bases are belong to us" not the rich guys.
People should unionize. Get something moving. Go on strike or something! Why do people keep up with such crap? Are we all just a bunch of sheep?
I try to stay away from really fast machines around me so I don't feel the urge to upgrade my computer all of a sudden.
I'm running a 1.2Ghz Athlon with 768Megs of Ram though. I forget what kind of graphics card I have but it's decent. I used to upgrade to play games but now I don't play games anymore (although I'm thinking of getting a PS2 for Christmas).
I'm wondering how it does compared to other possibilities out there.
telling us to stop clicking on hyperlinks?
Let's just learn to love one another ok! It's more important for us to support the president whatever he does than to listen to idiots who want to seperate our country in the name of stupid worries such as democracy!
Ubuntu is really slick! The only thing I dislike about it is that I'm not used to it as I am with slackware.
I always hated redhat/fedora because and found it buggy and unstable. It never felt as polished and capable as slack or Ubuntu. Seriously if you just want to use a linux desktop Ubuntu is great!
tell her and others to complain about the situation. It changed CBC.ca in favor of Open source just by enough of us asking for it to change.
It's the same argument that priests used to protect other priests when there was sexual abuse.
Sure the FN must be some kind of righteous protector of the pure French. Sorry but I can't resist laughing. Anyone who knows anything about the FN knows they are racist.
In France there was a very racist party (Front National) and the people who would vote for them were on average less educated than people who voted for other parties. The FN leader, Le Pen, said it had to do with the propaganda we have in schools against the FN. Which of course wasn't believed by anyone but the people without an education.
it is superior use of existing technology and better organization. Sadly we're far behind in many aspects. Hopefully we can catch up.
Yhe batteries wouldn't need to be owned by you but could be the property of the refil station. Either way you could drive your car almost the same as a car using gazoline except it wouldn't pollute and make less noise.
yes. Roll out your own, use one that isn't crap or don't use any at all. Some on DD are good but most suck. It's just that some are kid's first attempt at scripting and it shows. They're badly made, some aren't even Javascript but CSS (:hover) but just because it does some rollover effect they believe it is Javascript!
from experience most of those scripts suck. They put up any kid's script that works in such an ugly way that you can say goodbye to standards. The scripts in turn are unreadable, and they aren't GPLed anyway.