Well, I have the admit the Chinese do not have the right to die because they cannot afford medical insurance. That right is reserved to the democratic society of USA.
How does the foreign aid compare to the money made (stolen?) after invading sovereign countries and imposing humiliating trade "agreements"? 1:100? Less?
When there are money to be made from denying the reality, somebody will be there claiming the egg is a perfect cube.
It's doesn't really matter if the climate is warming or not, it matters that somebody makes money from burning fossil fuels and they will advocate against the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and somebody makes money from creating "green" technologies and they will advocate pro the reduction of greenhouse gas emission.
Lenovo will, certainly, build a more affordable and compatible/open device than Apple. Their advantage will be the price, but Apple has the advantage of their OS and well known applications.
If american "christians" are right to fight to put into law (public education is governed law, right?) their religious beliefs, then this makes muslim's fight to impose the sharia law equally legitimate.
Christians have no moral authority to impose their faith on others and, by doing so, they incite the other religions to do the same.
And, oh, these texans aren't even christians; Jesus told his followers to spread the word, not to force the people into worshiping. Also, christians are supposed to turn the other cheek and die for their belief, not to bully others into joining their churchly organisation..
Don't be so sure. Apple's iWork suite has pretty good compatibility with with MS Office.
Pretty good compatibility is not good enough. I've seen accountants with tens of very complex macros in Excel written over 10 years, macros that save them a ton of work and would only work in Excel; I've seen people doing in Excel things that Microsoft wouldn't even dream - e.g. technical drawing of a ship's pipe system.
So, pretty good compatibility is for amateurs or home users, heavy users tend to request all or nothing.
AFAIK, Microsoft makes the bulk of its money by selling to the big corporations. By entering the enterprise market, Apple would attack Microsoft biggest and safest money source. If they do that, Microsoft will stop selling MSOffice for Mac and will prevent Macs from interacting with the AD. This way, Apple will lose more trying to enter the enterprise market than ignoring it altogether.
Well, believe me or not, the above freeze was caused by the video card, which was not completely and securely inserted into the slot. And the random factor determining the freeze was the optical disk.
I noticed that, if the disk in the DVD drive was generating strong vibrations, the system would soon crash. This led me to check the hardware and I discovered I forgot to put back the screw that was supposed to hold the video card in place.
You're also leaving out the part where the mouse pointer freezes and the hard-drive led is on and NumLock doesn't work and Ctr+Alt+Del doesn't work. And this happens every n-th time you start one of the following: web browser, office suite, IDE, IM, favorite game. Ah, also n varies between 1 and 25. Let's not forget that, due to the frequency of this phenomenon, Windows is set not to save dumps and not to automatically reboot. And, also, due to the sudden nature of the crash, Windows is unable to log any error in any event log.
Do you have a better diagnostic method for this, other that "go for the most probable causes: recent driver update, virus, malware, hardware fault"? If you do, please share with us, because I don't.
There is a flaw in that logic, but that is not what I wanted to say.
What I'm saying is: if Linux crashes, you can go directly to hardware test; if Windows crashes, you cannot go and check the hardware, because there are other more likely causes.
Actually, I wanted to say that, if Linux crashed all of a sudden, most certainly there is a hardware error.
Windows crashes because of bad hardware too, but the software issues are more frequent and one (me) doesn't think of hardware until most possible software issues are ruled out.
I had two SCSI disks with the same SCSI id attached to the same SCSI controller. Windows NT 4.0 was able to use them both at the same time, but Debian would randomly pick one to use at each reboot and not a line about it in any log file.
The more accurate we measure the time, the more accurate we measure the speed. According to Heisenberg, this leads to less accurate info on position. So a perfect clock would create a meltdown around it, wouldn't it?
Let me guess... you're american!
You're kidding, right? They designed it, they would have to sue themselves. And if they sue somebody, would that make the Higgs boson reveal itself?
[...]an increasing number of us nerds (where 'nerd' == cerebral) are dissatisfied with the dull slow lowest-common-denominator
Even the slowest kid can be a nerd and a cerebral (did you mean intellectual?) if he is only compared to the house pet. Homeschooling certainly gives some parents braggins rights about their kids' accomplishments in education. Way to go!
America cannot afford space flight and Obama's decision is a sad but sane one. And the president that ended America as a space-faring nation is not Obama, but the one who had 8 years to destroy the US economy.
What's preventing the private sector from achieving commercial space flight? Is it the fact that they wanted to develop the technology with the government's (tax payers') money, then use commercially?
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Well, I have the admit the Chinese do not have the right to die because they cannot afford medical insurance. That right is reserved to the democratic society of USA.
How does the foreign aid compare to the money made (stolen?) after invading sovereign countries and imposing humiliating trade "agreements"? 1:100? Less?
Does the federal government have the proper percentage of races among its employees? Or the IRS, DOD, NSA?
There's a word for that: hypocrisy.
When there are money to be made from denying the reality, somebody will be there claiming the egg is a perfect cube.
It's doesn't really matter if the climate is warming or not, it matters that somebody makes money from burning fossil fuels and they will advocate against the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and somebody makes money from creating "green" technologies and they will advocate pro the reduction of greenhouse gas emission.
Up here it still is a lillte bit better. But, not for long, if Harper stays in power.
Isn't that a conflict of interest? Isn't some institution (DA, IRS, FSF) supposed to point a finger and do something about it?
You mean the implications of receiving an inimaginable amount of money and neverending supply and support contracts from the US government?
Comparing features (avalable software) side by side, Lenovo's device will have a better features/price ratio.
Lenovo will, certainly, build a more affordable and compatible/open device than Apple. Their advantage will be the price, but Apple has the advantage of their OS and well known applications.
If american "christians" are right to fight to put into law (public education is governed law, right?) their religious beliefs, then this makes muslim's fight to impose the sharia law equally legitimate. Christians have no moral authority to impose their faith on others and, by doing so, they incite the other religions to do the same. And, oh, these texans aren't even christians; Jesus told his followers to spread the word, not to force the people into worshiping. Also, christians are supposed to turn the other cheek and die for their belief, not to bully others into joining their churchly organisation..
Don't be so sure. Apple's iWork suite has pretty good compatibility with with MS Office.
Pretty good compatibility is not good enough. I've seen accountants with tens of very complex macros in Excel written over 10 years, macros that save them a ton of work and would only work in Excel; I've seen people doing in Excel things that Microsoft wouldn't even dream - e.g. technical drawing of a ship's pipe system. So, pretty good compatibility is for amateurs or home users, heavy users tend to request all or nothing.
AFAIK, Microsoft makes the bulk of its money by selling to the big corporations. By entering the enterprise market, Apple would attack Microsoft biggest and safest money source. If they do that, Microsoft will stop selling MSOffice for Mac and will prevent Macs from interacting with the AD. This way, Apple will lose more trying to enter the enterprise market than ignoring it altogether.
Well, believe me or not, the above freeze was caused by the video card, which was not completely and securely inserted into the slot. And the random factor determining the freeze was the optical disk. I noticed that, if the disk in the DVD drive was generating strong vibrations, the system would soon crash. This led me to check the hardware and I discovered I forgot to put back the screw that was supposed to hold the video card in place.
You're also leaving out the part where the mouse pointer freezes and the hard-drive led is on and NumLock doesn't work and Ctr+Alt+Del doesn't work. And this happens every n-th time you start one of the following: web browser, office suite, IDE, IM, favorite game. Ah, also n varies between 1 and 25. Let's not forget that, due to the frequency of this phenomenon, Windows is set not to save dumps and not to automatically reboot. And, also, due to the sudden nature of the crash, Windows is unable to log any error in any event log. Do you have a better diagnostic method for this, other that "go for the most probable causes: recent driver update, virus, malware, hardware fault"? If you do, please share with us, because I don't.
There is a flaw in that logic, but that is not what I wanted to say. What I'm saying is: if Linux crashes, you can go directly to hardware test; if Windows crashes, you cannot go and check the hardware, because there are other more likely causes.
Actually, I wanted to say that, if Linux crashed all of a sudden, most certainly there is a hardware error. Windows crashes because of bad hardware too, but the software issues are more frequent and one (me) doesn't think of hardware until most possible software issues are ruled out.
I had two SCSI disks with the same SCSI id attached to the same SCSI controller. Windows NT 4.0 was able to use them both at the same time, but Debian would randomly pick one to use at each reboot and not a line about it in any log file.
In my experience, every time Linux (any unix, actually) doesn't work, it is a hardware error. Windows is just more forgiving with the hardware.
The more accurate we measure the time, the more accurate we measure the speed. According to Heisenberg, this leads to less accurate info on position. So a perfect clock would create a meltdown around it, wouldn't it?
Maybe they're rejected because they're blank?
Let me guess... you're american! You're kidding, right? They designed it, they would have to sue themselves. And if they sue somebody, would that make the Higgs boson reveal itself?
"Today, we are introducing an experimental new incentive for external researchers to participate."
D. J. Bernstein did the same thing in 1997, offering a reward for finding bugs in qmail: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
[...]an increasing number of us nerds (where 'nerd' == cerebral) are dissatisfied with the dull slow lowest-common-denominator
Even the slowest kid can be a nerd and a cerebral (did you mean intellectual?) if he is only compared to the house pet. Homeschooling certainly gives some parents braggins rights about their kids' accomplishments in education. Way to go!
America cannot afford space flight and Obama's decision is a sad but sane one. And the president that ended America as a space-faring nation is not Obama, but the one who had 8 years to destroy the US economy.
What's preventing the private sector from achieving commercial space flight? Is it the fact that they wanted to develop the technology with the government's (tax payers') money, then use commercially?