No doubt, so I think the focus needs to be around the electoral system that rewards populism as a viable strategy. There were more than two options available this election than Clinton or Trump: you could vote for a third party, or you could stay home. This is the worst thing about first past the post voting, which rewards strategies like Trump's. He can win with only a quarter of voter support, by fostering apathy so those who don't want Trump to win, but don't feel strongly pro-Clinton, won't be motivated to stand in line and vote.
We saw this happen on a smaller scale with Ford in Toronto. 30% of the voters supported him, and 70% would absolutely never in their lives cast a vote his way. He could still compete, since populists can rally a broad base, while the remaining 70% could fracture in to groups where no one is > 30%, as they debate policy and ideas. It's awful that there's a voting system in place where reasonable discourse and dissent are actually losing strategies.
The worst problem with controlling the genetics of _any_ population is that there's always going to be some trait which we don't fully comprehend the importance of. Obvious examples:
- Sickle cell anemia: considered a health problem to someone living in an American city, but elsewhere can provide life-saving resistance to malaria
- slow metabolism: while this makes you more likely to become fat/obese in a food-rich country spending your time indoors, you wouldn't want to be skinny if you had to hunt for every meal, and lived in the Canadian arctic (even with a Gortex coat you'd be at a disadvantage
- low IQ : there are plenty of jobs out there that normal/below average people are comfortable with, but the very intelligent would find unbearable.
And then, there's skin pigmentation: too little and you burn in the sun and need to wear sunscreen/stay inside, and too much and you produce less vitamin D and need to adjust your diet/stay outside.
I think PS3s already get shipping with a built-in hypervisor to manage installing guest OSs in VMs on the console. Ostensibly it's a feature, but doing so has given them enough control to prevent access to accelerated graphics so people don't use the console to play games they downloaded and are instead forced to buy.
There's certainly precedent for this, and we're sure to see a lot more of this in the future. Hopefully the PC market is competitive enough that Dell won't be restricting their own hypervisor to restrict certain hardware access, or only allow the use of VMs from "trusted" sources. If this is true, then this is excellent news.
After reading the description of the SoftGrid technology, I can see why people who have no exposure to basic Linux architecture might think this is new and exciting. Because of how Windows is fundamentally designed, apps need to be run on a desktop.
Linux as been able to do this elegantly since VMs started running images of Linux w/ X11. With the client/server model of X, you start a VM, then just run applications in your VM on your local X display.
The best trackball ever was in a set of two on the 1984 Marble Madness cabinet. They were always well-lubricated with grease drippings from slices of pizza.
It would be interesting to see what sort of effect (if any) would be evident if this same analysis were applied only to very high IQ families (eg where the parents both have IQs > 125), or very low IQ families. Would one see a greater difference between the first boy and his younger brothers due to the extra effort put into nurturing his gifts? Or would the children's natural intelligence overshadow this small effect from birth order, with the more intelligent children being better capable of independent learning?
That said, less than 3 points is not much, especially with children. For all we know, the first kids may be spanked more than the others, or feel like they have more to prove, so would simply put more effort into responding to questions which an adult is asking them for the test.
"You get what you pay for"? I cannot imagine a bromide that's been refuted more often by people on Slashdot than that one.
People do productive work because they're given incentives. Money is a common one. In the case of a desktop environment, there is an incentive to get these systems to work well: the people who are running them are the same people who are programming them.
If there's any one force that would counter this incentive, it's that the people who are attracted to Linux are interested in it for other reasons than having a user-friendly desktop; development for the desktop becomes a secondary goal. Therefore, it's a matter of the demands of people who run Linux and not a matter of lack of money. You see the exact same thing on commercial platforms which are geared towards a similar demographic -- notice how little interest there is in 'desktop-Solaris' or 'desktop-AIX'.
On the surface, one may look at GNOMEs development model and believe it to be nothing but random additions by random people. To me, I can see some method in it. When you have such a level of openness taking place, you will end up with a system that's completely reactive to additions in commercial products. GNOME is not stagnant, but simply reactive to changes in the major desktop systems (Windows, OSX). Yes Microsoft has "already" released Vista -- it is a matter of time before those in the GNOME community see things they like in Vista, and incorporate their favorite ideas into GNOME.
I run FireFox on linux, solaris, and windows 2000 regularily. I'd rather see FireFox efforts put into features which are easily cross-platform, rather than a Longhorn branch.
..as it is an achilles heel for desktop linux as competition with windows on the x86. Yes there are a lot of problems getting vendors to add linux support for their hardware. My old Voodoo5 still has problems displaying some alpha-layer transition textures (bullets in halflife are just black squares), mainly because the company went out of business soon after releasing the card. The same is true for many sound cards.
I have found that Linux is actually quite excellent at supporting old hardware interfaces. Many old sound, video, webcams, etc. used chipsets which were so similar that a linux user could easily just load the driver module based on the chipset and not the model of the hardware. Windows users tend to have a hell of a time trying to adopt old chipset drivers to match old hardware when a driver isn't available. Granted,that the driver is usually much more available to windows users, but a windows user can be just plain stuck where a linux user could at least have their soundard 'sorta' working.
For most people out there, running Athlon's with 2Ghz+ clocks and 1Gb DDRAM you're not going to see such a big change that you can really 'feel' the difference right away. Then again, on most modern systems starting Mozilla is not such a huge deal (mostly a function of how fast the heads on your drive move.)
Running a Celeron 600 w/ 256mb SDRAM I can really tell that things have improved. Mozilla 1.6 is loading as fast under 2.6.2-rc3 as Firebird 0.7 did on 2.4.22.
The performance of everything GUI is also much, much, much smoother under heavy loads. I take advantage of this new kernel power by being able to recompile my kernel while running OpenOffice.org and listening to mp3's on XMMS. Pretty impressive for a piece of hardware that could barely run a Flash movie and a Java game at the same time under Windows 2000.
I think that initially, Gnome did lag behind KDE in many areas. Qt had a lot of advantages over the old GTK. The big advantage that Gnome has is a much more open development model. Gnome is not only friendly to its users, but also its developers. This has encouraged Gnome to grow faster than KDE (and GTK faster than Qt).
Right now, I'd place Gnome and KDE as being about equal to eachother. I switched completely to Gnome because I believe that Gnome will continue to surpass KDE.
There attempt to regain the market share they lost to linux is suicide. Linux gained dominance not just because the software is cheaper, but also because it is better and most of all can run on almost anything.
All they can hope to do is weaken both Linux and Unix enough so that MS can gobble them both up.
The latest akira DVD release is great. English, japanese, or subtitles. The translation is quite good and accurate, plus the dialogue is well synced. If they try and go any further they will only end up either making it more pc, or losing the plot and making it a movie about things being smashed and zooming along really fast.
They'll probably take out that scene where the dog gets shot, since there are plenty in the West who will take up arms to stop movies from displaying violence against animals.
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No doubt, so I think the focus needs to be around the electoral system that rewards populism as a viable strategy. There were more than two options available this election than Clinton or Trump: you could vote for a third party, or you could stay home. This is the worst thing about first past the post voting, which rewards strategies like Trump's. He can win with only a quarter of voter support, by fostering apathy so those who don't want Trump to win, but don't feel strongly pro-Clinton, won't be motivated to stand in line and vote. We saw this happen on a smaller scale with Ford in Toronto. 30% of the voters supported him, and 70% would absolutely never in their lives cast a vote his way. He could still compete, since populists can rally a broad base, while the remaining 70% could fracture in to groups where no one is > 30%, as they debate policy and ideas. It's awful that there's a voting system in place where reasonable discourse and dissent are actually losing strategies.
The worst problem with controlling the genetics of _any_ population is that there's always going to be some trait which we don't fully comprehend the importance of. Obvious examples: - Sickle cell anemia: considered a health problem to someone living in an American city, but elsewhere can provide life-saving resistance to malaria - slow metabolism: while this makes you more likely to become fat/obese in a food-rich country spending your time indoors, you wouldn't want to be skinny if you had to hunt for every meal, and lived in the Canadian arctic (even with a Gortex coat you'd be at a disadvantage - low IQ : there are plenty of jobs out there that normal/below average people are comfortable with, but the very intelligent would find unbearable. And then, there's skin pigmentation: too little and you burn in the sun and need to wear sunscreen/stay inside, and too much and you produce less vitamin D and need to adjust your diet/stay outside.
I think PS3s already get shipping with a built-in hypervisor to manage installing guest OSs in VMs on the console. Ostensibly it's a feature, but doing so has given them enough control to prevent access to accelerated graphics so people don't use the console to play games they downloaded and are instead forced to buy. There's certainly precedent for this, and we're sure to see a lot more of this in the future. Hopefully the PC market is competitive enough that Dell won't be restricting their own hypervisor to restrict certain hardware access, or only allow the use of VMs from "trusted" sources. If this is true, then this is excellent news.
After reading the description of the SoftGrid technology, I can see why people who have no exposure to basic Linux architecture might think this is new and exciting. Because of how Windows is fundamentally designed, apps need to be run on a desktop. Linux as been able to do this elegantly since VMs started running images of Linux w/ X11. With the client/server model of X, you start a VM, then just run applications in your VM on your local X display.
The best trackball ever was in a set of two on the 1984 Marble Madness cabinet. They were always well-lubricated with grease drippings from slices of pizza.
It would be interesting to see what sort of effect (if any) would be evident if this same analysis were applied only to very high IQ families (eg where the parents both have IQs > 125), or very low IQ families. Would one see a greater difference between the first boy and his younger brothers due to the extra effort put into nurturing his gifts? Or would the children's natural intelligence overshadow this small effect from birth order, with the more intelligent children being better capable of independent learning? That said, less than 3 points is not much, especially with children. For all we know, the first kids may be spanked more than the others, or feel like they have more to prove, so would simply put more effort into responding to questions which an adult is asking them for the test.
"You get what you pay for"? I cannot imagine a bromide that's been refuted more often by people on Slashdot than that one. People do productive work because they're given incentives. Money is a common one. In the case of a desktop environment, there is an incentive to get these systems to work well: the people who are running them are the same people who are programming them. If there's any one force that would counter this incentive, it's that the people who are attracted to Linux are interested in it for other reasons than having a user-friendly desktop; development for the desktop becomes a secondary goal. Therefore, it's a matter of the demands of people who run Linux and not a matter of lack of money. You see the exact same thing on commercial platforms which are geared towards a similar demographic -- notice how little interest there is in 'desktop-Solaris' or 'desktop-AIX'.
On the surface, one may look at GNOMEs development model and believe it to be nothing but random additions by random people. To me, I can see some method in it. When you have such a level of openness taking place, you will end up with a system that's completely reactive to additions in commercial products. GNOME is not stagnant, but simply reactive to changes in the major desktop systems (Windows, OSX). Yes Microsoft has "already" released Vista -- it is a matter of time before those in the GNOME community see things they like in Vista, and incorporate their favorite ideas into GNOME.
I run FireFox on linux, solaris, and windows 2000 regularily. I'd rather see FireFox efforts put into features which are easily cross-platform, rather than a Longhorn branch.
..as it is an achilles heel for desktop linux as competition with windows on the x86. Yes there are a lot of problems getting vendors to add linux support for their hardware. My old Voodoo5 still has problems displaying some alpha-layer transition textures (bullets in halflife are just black squares), mainly because the company went out of business soon after releasing the card. The same is true for many sound cards. I have found that Linux is actually quite excellent at supporting old hardware interfaces. Many old sound, video, webcams, etc. used chipsets which were so similar that a linux user could easily just load the driver module based on the chipset and not the model of the hardware. Windows users tend to have a hell of a time trying to adopt old chipset drivers to match old hardware when a driver isn't available. Granted,that the driver is usually much more available to windows users, but a windows user can be just plain stuck where a linux user could at least have their soundard 'sorta' working.
I think Java GUI's will make a huge resurgence now that SWT is gaining popularity.
Developing on the windows platform is easy. Java, with Eclipse as an IDE.
For most people out there, running Athlon's with 2Ghz+ clocks and 1Gb DDRAM you're not going to see such a big change that you can really 'feel' the difference right away. Then again, on most modern systems starting Mozilla is not such a huge deal (mostly a function of how fast the heads on your drive move.) Running a Celeron 600 w/ 256mb SDRAM I can really tell that things have improved. Mozilla 1.6 is loading as fast under 2.6.2-rc3 as Firebird 0.7 did on 2.4.22. The performance of everything GUI is also much, much, much smoother under heavy loads. I take advantage of this new kernel power by being able to recompile my kernel while running OpenOffice.org and listening to mp3's on XMMS. Pretty impressive for a piece of hardware that could barely run a Flash movie and a Java game at the same time under Windows 2000.
I think that initially, Gnome did lag behind KDE in many areas. Qt had a lot of advantages over the old GTK. The big advantage that Gnome has is a much more open development model. Gnome is not only friendly to its users, but also its developers. This has encouraged Gnome to grow faster than KDE (and GTK faster than Qt). Right now, I'd place Gnome and KDE as being about equal to eachother. I switched completely to Gnome because I believe that Gnome will continue to surpass KDE.
There attempt to regain the market share they lost to linux is suicide. Linux gained dominance not just because the software is cheaper, but also because it is better and most of all can run on almost anything. All they can hope to do is weaken both Linux and Unix enough so that MS can gobble them both up.
because that would break things.
Since NASA brought the rock back it's theirs. If you want one you're free to go to the moon and get one for yourself.
They make me feel wanted. Never before have I had so many people send me files in order to have my advice.
without water on the moon there really won't be much to build a city with..
The latest akira DVD release is great. English, japanese, or subtitles. The translation is quite good and accurate, plus the dialogue is well synced. If they try and go any further they will only end up either making it more pc, or losing the plot and making it a movie about things being smashed and zooming along really fast. They'll probably take out that scene where the dog gets shot, since there are plenty in the West who will take up arms to stop movies from displaying violence against animals.
These flies are a threat to human life. You'd probably want to preserve rats in northwest Europe during the plague.