Sure I can sit around and change everything from the icons' sizes to the taskbar size, but who wants to spend days configuring their computer like that?
You only have to configure it once and besides, are you required to configure it? No? I didn't think so. If you don't want to then don't do it but some people might like to have that flexibility so remember there are other users of KDE than just you.
Personally, I dislike Microsoft's monopolist tactics. But, I have to admit, Windows is a better office OS than Linux (Gnome or KDE), and it's not even close. It's just that simple.
Why then does MS feel compelled to make public announcements concerning Linux if they don't feel it is close enough to be a threat?
Then they will be de-facto mandatory and those who don't get them are society's rejects or should be investigated for being possible terror suspects.
Those who don't get them could also be followers of Christ and those who do are followers of the anti-Christ. It's another possiblity whether you believe in any of that or not. It means that the prophecies become more real.
Whether I agree with them on issues of piracy or not (I don't approve of pirating software myself) I refuse to allow my computer to participate in extending or enforcing their policies, and I refuse to install DRM based media players. I'm going to keep XP on that machine for as long as it runs, or until I replace it with an open OS.
Come on, give it up. You know the copy of XP on your system now is pirated. Just admit it. You will feel better or so I'm told.
I'm not saying Intel and AMD are doing this on purpose or accident but when they increase the CPU clock rates by 50mhz or 100mhz for every new chip the # of mhz is constant but compared to the ever increasing total clock rate the percentage is always dropping which for the most part correlates with the performance you mention. With the same incremental increases back in the 486 days it easily was a lot more than 5% increase because the total clock speed back then was only around 50mhz (100mhz for those lucky enough to have a DX4).
Actually the tech lead on the project I'm on as a Bachelor's in Geology and he is a System Engineering Manager. He may be an exception though. But as long your resume' says Bachelor's+ and not Associate's then you are at least able to get $40k (I'm guessing since I havent yet made the jump but I'm told I should get at least $50k when i graduate).
This is off topic but it would be nice if people realized this same statement is true concerning TV networks and what they put on TV for people to watch. Responsibility does *not* lie entirely on the parents.
You must be the type that jumps for joy at the comment that was at the end of the original post where scientists are using this to *speculate* on something else. Speculation (and lots of it) is the basis for evolution. This is more like another nail in the coffin for the idea that scientists know what they are doing. Scientists keep guessing (speculating) because they have no clue as to what really happened because they have no idea how to interpret the evidence they have found so far.
Something tells me, this candy business is made up to keep the kids off adult's back while they prey. Only if we can integrate candy and the Martin Luther King Jr. day.. somehow....
Out of curiousity, what do adults in your part of the world hunt? Do you live in the Amazon or the Australian bush by chance?
Where ever the bunny came from it seems it is still too religious for the public eye for a city named after a saint http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/23/12552 1.shtml?s=ic. I guess non-Christians are more important than Christians when it comes to being offended despite the majority/minority ratio being in favor of Christians.
Lets put it this way, if there was a Wiki on solving complex DNA evolution problems, 50%+ of the posts would be from wackos talking about ID and Creationism.
The other 50%+ would be wackos talking about evolution. Just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean *they* are the wackos.
Thats the biggest issue I have with Windows. I can run tools to get a pretty good idea if an issue is hardware related (memtest, burn-in tools, power monitoring, hard disk diagnostic, etc..) but if it is *not* and it *is* a Windows problem, where do you honestly start?
This rings even more true when you have to fix someone else's computer. You know how you treat your computer, you know when you last installed s/w or upgraded hardware but you are flying blind when you have to fix another's computer b/c you don't know their habits and you have to rely on what they say. You: "Did you install something?" Them:"No." You:"What is this.." Them:"Oh that, well I installed that last night." You:"I thought you said you didn't install anything." *dead silence*
Data mining worked well in the case of an obvious trigger event, but data mining by itself didn't reveal the trigger. You can't predict hurricanes based on the sales of pop tarts and beer, for example.
And there lies the difference between a causal and co-relational relationship. Walmart used data mining to figure out when hurricanes hit then poptarts are sold but not vice versa. We have to get the cause and effect right before data mining can help. A pure co-relationship doesn't help in that case.
Not sure where you got "thrown" from because the text is the following: Like many of you, its hard for me to remember a time when the word "Playstation" was not synonymous with gaming. Sony has held the all mighty hardware throne for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
I applaud your success but just so you know, if you are on a US gov't contract then your lack of a Bachelor's degree would mean less than 50k. Actually, since you don't even have a 2 year degree you probably wouldn't ever make it on a contract. I went to a 2 year school and got an associate's in systems engineering. That, along with my hands-on personal experience (and some work experience) got my foot in the door with a gov't contractor in WV. The problem is that despite doing everything I can to get my salary increased to be equal to that of my peers in my company the government just won't budge until I get a BS degree. I get almost perfect scores on my evaluations, and both my company and the prime contractor (i'm a subcontractor) are always fighting the gov't to pay me more but they just won't do it. So for now the gov't is having great work done by me and at a cut rate price. Thankfully my company pays for my education so I went back to school and I'll be graduating in December of this year so I'll be a big step closer to a better salary.
Who says you have to pronounce it in such a way to be distasteful? Based on dictionary.com there are 2 pronunciations for it and only one of them is distasteful. I know your comment was a joke but I thought I'd respond anyway.
Such as it is today, the problem is we have the answers, but a large number of people choose to remain ignorant because to them...
It would help your argument if the answers gave irrefutable proof that evolution is at work. Humans are going to see the evidence(or lack thereof) for what it is to help their argument. I forget the name of this concept/theorem/whatever but there is a saying that goes (paraphrasing of course) "if the explanation is complex then it must be wrong" so based on what you have said evolution is a more complex explanation for what we see than just saying that God exists and created everything that we see. Does that mean it is wrong?
You fail to realize that you and your argument could very well be wrong. You are so high and mighty that you think your answer must be right and that everyone else is ignoring the truth. You expect people with opposing views to open their minds but you don't dare follow your own advice. If you did then you would be "one of those people", right? *sarcasm* We wouldn't want that now would we? *sarcasm*
Maybe the father of Java can get the people in charge of Java at SUN to learn to count and get consistent with the version numbers on Java and stick to it without skipping numbers as well.
For girls you are interacting with: You squeeze her hand and she squeezes back, you ask her a question and she asks you the question back, you touch her arm and she doesn't flinch or move away, she compliments you on anything, you look like you are going to go somewhere and she asks if she can come, she laughs at your jokes, you walk away and she is waiting for you when you return, she is the one to initiate conversation with you, etc.
Well, it's official. I don't get any of that so I'm truly a geek. What's worse is that it took a guy to tell me.:(
double-sided dual layer DVDs and double-sided single layer DVDs? DVDs are capable of storing close to 20GB of information and although some movies utilize 2 sides of a disc (but 1 layer) or 2 layers (on same side) I don't know of anyone who is producing double-sided double-layered (4 layers) or 3 layer discs not to mention blank discs that are capable of doing that and burners to match so that consumers can take advantage of them. Why aren't we seeing that before blu-ray and hd-dvd come out? maybe the MPAA realizes it needs to redo the copyright protection on dvds so they are redoing the whole thing w/o even taking advantage of existing technology's capabilities.
Both sides rest on circumstantial evidence, and have been mounting a lot of it for a long, long time.
WTF? What does that sentence even mean?
Well in case your brain hasn't "evolved" to match that of everyone else's here is a little help in understanding: www.dictionary.com
By the way, there is no empirical evidence for evolution, and only a bunch of people who only look at it for what they want it to be, not what it actually is. It's kind of hard to view the discoveries as evidence for evolution when there has only been a handful of skeletons found- hardly enough to mount any sort of depiction of a continuum of changes or even a depiction of a discrete set of changes that is missing a lot of links. There are lots of variations in the human skeleton that can be seen across the 6 billion examples on earth today. The extremes of that continuum are not evidence of a changing species just as the skeletons that have been found are not evidence of a changing species.
Also, it sounds like you have trouble with the english language because this: " There is empirical evidence for evolution, and a bunch of people who refuse to believe it." basically contradicts your previous statement about there not being 2 sides to the debate. The statement isn't quite correct to begin with but it still shows there are 2 sides to the debate.
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What's worse is that you have to pay them to do it on top of paying for your own accommodations and travel.
Sure I can sit around and change everything from the icons' sizes to the taskbar size, but who wants to spend days configuring their computer like that?
You only have to configure it once and besides, are you required to configure it? No? I didn't think so. If you don't want to then don't do it but some people might like to have that flexibility so remember there are other users of KDE than just you.
Personally, I dislike Microsoft's monopolist tactics. But, I have to admit, Windows is a better office OS than Linux (Gnome or KDE), and it's not even close. It's just that simple.
Why then does MS feel compelled to make public announcements concerning Linux if they don't feel it is close enough to be a threat?
Then they will be de-facto mandatory and those who don't get them are society's rejects or should be investigated for being possible terror suspects.
Those who don't get them could also be followers of Christ and those who do are followers of the anti-Christ. It's another possiblity whether you believe in any of that or not. It means that the prophecies become more real.
Whether I agree with them on issues of piracy or not (I don't approve of pirating software myself) I refuse to allow my computer to participate in extending or enforcing their policies, and I refuse to install DRM based media players. I'm going to keep XP on that machine for as long as it runs, or until I replace it with an open OS.
Come on, give it up. You know the copy of XP on your system now is pirated. Just admit it. You will feel better or so I'm told.
I'm not saying Intel and AMD are doing this on purpose or accident but when they increase the CPU clock rates by 50mhz or 100mhz for every new chip the # of mhz is constant but compared to the ever increasing total clock rate the percentage is always dropping which for the most part correlates with the performance you mention. With the same incremental increases back in the 486 days it easily was a lot more than 5% increase because the total clock speed back then was only around 50mhz (100mhz for those lucky enough to have a DX4).
Actually the tech lead on the project I'm on as a Bachelor's in Geology and he is a System Engineering Manager. He may be an exception though. But as long your resume' says Bachelor's+ and not Associate's then you are at least able to get $40k (I'm guessing since I havent yet made the jump but I'm told I should get at least $50k when i graduate).
They are, they're called SUVs: same weight, same mileage, same damage to other cars in an accident, it just doesn't have the big gun and the tracks.
The hip hop rappers have guns on (and in) their pimped out SUVs.
Every right has responsibilities attached.
This is off topic but it would be nice if people realized this same statement is true concerning TV networks and what they put on TV for people to watch. Responsibility does *not* lie entirely on the parents.
You must be the type that jumps for joy at the comment that was at the end of the original post where scientists are using this to *speculate* on something else. Speculation (and lots of it) is the basis for evolution. This is more like another nail in the coffin for the idea that scientists know what they are doing. Scientists keep guessing (speculating) because they have no clue as to what really happened because they have no idea how to interpret the evidence they have found so far.
Something tells me, this candy business is made up to keep the kids off adult's back while they prey. Only if we can integrate candy and the Martin Luther King Jr. day.. somehow....
Out of curiousity, what do adults in your part of the world hunt? Do you live in the Amazon or the Australian bush by chance?
Where ever the bunny came from it seems it is still too religious for the public eye for a city named after a saint http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/23/12552 1.shtml?s=ic. I guess non-Christians are more important than Christians when it comes to being offended despite the majority/minority ratio being in favor of Christians.
Lets put it this way, if there was a Wiki on solving complex DNA evolution problems, 50%+ of the posts would be from wackos talking about ID and Creationism.
The other 50%+ would be wackos talking about evolution. Just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean *they* are the wackos.
Thats the biggest issue I have with Windows. I can run tools to get a pretty good idea if an issue is hardware related (memtest, burn-in tools, power monitoring, hard disk diagnostic, etc..) but if it is *not* and it *is* a Windows problem, where do you honestly start?
This rings even more true when you have to fix someone else's computer. You know how you treat your computer, you know when you last installed s/w or upgraded hardware but you are flying blind when you have to fix another's computer b/c you don't know their habits and you have to rely on what they say. You: "Did you install something?" Them:"No." You:"What is this.." Them:"Oh that, well I installed that last night." You:"I thought you said you didn't install anything." *dead silence*
The popular vote never guaranteed anything.
Data mining worked well in the case of an obvious trigger event, but data mining by itself didn't reveal the trigger. You can't predict hurricanes based on the sales of pop tarts and beer, for example.
And there lies the difference between a causal and co-relational relationship. Walmart used data mining to figure out when hurricanes hit then poptarts are sold but not vice versa. We have to get the cause and effect right before data mining can help. A pure co-relationship doesn't help in that case.
therefore Qix == World of Warcraft!! *taken out of context*
No way, Qix wins hands down. WoW can't compete.
Not sure where you got "thrown" from because the text is the following: Like many of you, its hard for me to remember a time when the word "Playstation" was not synonymous with gaming. Sony has held the all mighty hardware throne for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
I applaud your success but just so you know, if you are on a US gov't contract then your lack of a Bachelor's degree would mean less than 50k. Actually, since you don't even have a 2 year degree you probably wouldn't ever make it on a contract. I went to a 2 year school and got an associate's in systems engineering. That, along with my hands-on personal experience (and some work experience) got my foot in the door with a gov't contractor in WV. The problem is that despite doing everything I can to get my salary increased to be equal to that of my peers in my company the government just won't budge until I get a BS degree. I get almost perfect scores on my evaluations, and both my company and the prime contractor (i'm a subcontractor) are always fighting the gov't to pay me more but they just won't do it. So for now the gov't is having great work done by me and at a cut rate price. Thankfully my company pays for my education so I went back to school and I'll be graduating in December of this year so I'll be a big step closer to a better salary.
Who says you have to pronounce it in such a way to be distasteful? Based on dictionary.com there are 2 pronunciations for it and only one of them is distasteful. I know your comment was a joke but I thought I'd respond anyway.
Such as it is today, the problem is we have the answers, but a large number of people choose to remain ignorant because to them...
It would help your argument if the answers gave irrefutable proof that evolution is at work. Humans are going to see the evidence(or lack thereof) for what it is to help their argument. I forget the name of this concept/theorem/whatever but there is a saying that goes (paraphrasing of course) "if the explanation is complex then it must be wrong" so based on what you have said evolution is a more complex explanation for what we see than just saying that God exists and created everything that we see. Does that mean it is wrong?
You fail to realize that you and your argument could very well be wrong. You are so high and mighty that you think your answer must be right and that everyone else is ignoring the truth. You expect people with opposing views to open their minds but you don't dare follow your own advice. If you did then you would be "one of those people", right? *sarcasm* We wouldn't want that now would we? *sarcasm*
Yeah like a link to wickedweasel.....com...would ...be....so bad....um..I gotta go to the bathroom.
Maybe the father of Java can get the people in charge of Java at SUN to learn to count and get consistent with the version numbers on Java and stick to it without skipping numbers as well.
For girls you are interacting with: You squeeze her hand and she squeezes back, you ask her a question and she asks you the question back, you touch her arm and she doesn't flinch or move away, she compliments you on anything, you look like you are going to go somewhere and she asks if she can come, she laughs at your jokes, you walk away and she is waiting for you when you return, she is the one to initiate conversation with you, etc.
Well, it's official. I don't get any of that so I'm truly a geek. What's worse is that it took a guy to tell me. :(
double-sided dual layer DVDs and double-sided single layer DVDs? DVDs are capable of storing close to 20GB of information and although some movies utilize 2 sides of a disc (but 1 layer) or 2 layers (on same side) I don't know of anyone who is producing double-sided double-layered (4 layers) or 3 layer discs not to mention blank discs that are capable of doing that and burners to match so that consumers can take advantage of them. Why aren't we seeing that before blu-ray and hd-dvd come out? maybe the MPAA realizes it needs to redo the copyright protection on dvds so they are redoing the whole thing w/o even taking advantage of existing technology's capabilities.
Both sides rest on circumstantial evidence, and have been mounting a lot of it for a long, long time. WTF? What does that sentence even mean?
Well in case your brain hasn't "evolved" to match that of everyone else's here is a little help in understanding: www.dictionary.com
By the way, there is no empirical evidence for evolution, and only a bunch of people who only look at it for what they want it to be, not what it actually is. It's kind of hard to view the discoveries as evidence for evolution when there has only been a handful of skeletons found- hardly enough to mount any sort of depiction of a continuum of changes or even a depiction of a discrete set of changes that is missing a lot of links. There are lots of variations in the human skeleton that can be seen across the 6 billion examples on earth today. The extremes of that continuum are not evidence of a changing species just as the skeletons that have been found are not evidence of a changing species.
Also, it sounds like you have trouble with the english language because this: " There is empirical evidence for evolution, and a bunch of people who refuse to believe it." basically contradicts your previous statement about there not being 2 sides to the debate. The statement isn't quite correct to begin with but it still shows there are 2 sides to the debate.