It would be interesting if you could also tell us the "Official" Allied rationale for the Dresden bombing, so readers can compare. You might also be aware that for many readers the official version will carry a lot more weight than your argument - so could you give a couple of pointers as to why we should trust an amateur looking website over the people who defeated Hitler?
I'm not trying to wind you up btw - I'm just lazy and don't want to have to work hard to figure out my own opinion.
I install it for my family - mum, dad, sister, father in law. The more technically challenged users love it - it's safe as houses, no stupid pop ups to renew virus scanner subscriptions, and it's easy to use for surfing the web. I don't understand why it's only 12 million users.
10 watts per square metre is ridiculous. Can you see an exposed lightbulb from 10 metres away in daylight? According to your estimate that means that the bulb is emitting 10 watts per square metre, over an area of 1,256 square metres. This would imply the bulb is a 12 kilowatt bulb (i.e. no waaaaay dude).
I give up on trying to figure out how many watts per square metre are necessary. However it looks like a mirror might do the job.
It always amazes me that people who would smile at you and shake your hand are the same people that will happily threaten you with violence, when they are hidden by the anonymity of a website comment. What's even more amazing is that I've done the same. It's like a real life version of milligrams experiment. Calm down you muppet.
I get your point, but I don't think "You're not him" works as a magic-bullet argument. It seems a shame that such a great mind is now completely broken (from the point of view of creating new math). I wonder though if the real problem is his distaste at the mathematical establishment, or the success fear that people get when they make a real breakthrough - your greatest work is behind you, perhaps it's hard to risk producing inferior work.
He's weird, he's not insane. People have different lifestyles - like, girls. They wash, iron their clothes, like pink, talk a lot and worry about things that are not theoretically possible. We might call them insane but really we know they are just weird.
That's why I love this site. Sometimes you get people who really know what they are talking about and they can blow this hand-wringing cancer scare stuff out of the water. Doesn't any hot body emit microwaves (e.g. humans or a hot cup of tea) anyway?
My other 2 pence - we all know that many scientists and doctors can't do statistics. Also it seems like a lot of frequentist statisticians can't do statistics either - according to the advocates of Bayesian inference I've read. Significance levels of 95% are not exactly overwhelming anyway.
In 1944 George Orwell wrote: "It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."
Recently on Slashdot the term has become significantly less specific.
Ok - so Alienware don't know he's not going to use their parts in a stolen computer. So they refuse to sell additional parts, if they cannot verify the buyer owns an alienware pc. The major problem with their approach is that I didn't ask Alienware to try to fight crime. I just expect them to stick to what they are good at - making hardware. I think the real reason they do this is to control their sales channels to protect their oversize margins.
The answer to this is don't buy a new Alienware computer - if nothing else, for the reason that the second hand value will be zero.
I don't think it "1.02% is a far cry from 5 or 6 percent" - if linux usage is doubling every year, you're 2 and a bit years from 6%. And as the mac gets bigger and bigger, I think that fosters linux - it means that people don't need windows, they can get a "cheap mac" by installing linux.
The big driving force is web 2.0 though - who cares what OS you use when you have all of your games and apps online?
Who was on the other side of those massively leveraged positions that the banks lost on?
It was sub-prime homeowners, you meathead. Don't you read the press?
I've seen your other posts, you said you think it's "the other" Paulson. He made $19 billion - that's less than 1% of what's been lost, and by betting against the fools, he helped reduce the impact of the crash - if everyone else had done the same, it would never have happened. It's easy to ignore the financial markets and complain when things go wrong. Things get better when people get involved and work to fix them.
How much of the world's GDP has microsoft skimmed off the top? Money that would have been re-invested into the domestic economies all around the world, resulting in improved economic and living conditions without having to go through all the fat-cat middlemen, each taking their cut of that money before it eventually comes back around in the form of a "charity?"
The actual cash that gates has comes from people who want to buy his shares - they are quite happy to buy them. The increase in the share price is caused by the ability Microsoft has got to make $25 billion a year (0.03% of world GDP) selling windows and office - open source alternatives exist for both of these, so what I'm wondering is, if people need this investment for valuable investment, why don't they choose a free alternative?
The fat cat middlemen that you speak of are the people that buy microsoft products - and most of them give far less to charity than Gates does - so why do you prefer that they keep the money (and what right do you have to comment on how they spend it anyway?)
Interesting stats - Gates Foundation's spending accounts for 2.6% of global development aid ($2.6bn / $100bn) , compared to Microsoft total revenues which are 0.06% of global GDP ($60bn / $100trn). Don't you think it seems like you get a lot of charity bang for your windows buck?
Yeah, if only we could go back to the good old days of overground nuclear testing in nevada, cross-dressing psycopaths running the FBI, secret invasions of cuba, segregation, KKK, carpet bagging, going to defcon 2 over the cuban missile crisis, watergate, the My Lai massacre. Setting up a fund to buy risky securities at a value far lower than their fair value is truly america's lowest ebb.
The Russians alledgedly allow/have allowed a lot of unpleasant activities to go on, which would be illegal in most other democratic countries. A few examples are: allofmp3.com, the litvinenko poisoning, the closing down of media organisations, Yushenko's poisoning, the BP-Tenko rip off, and RBN which is effectively an incubator for phishers. Most botnets are run out of russia - the info's all on the web if you want to look for it. So no-one is surprised when the Russian authorities let virus writers run riot.
Russians resent the west for winning the cold war, and the botched transition to capitalism that left their nation in default, and if their citizens are fucking up westerners' lives, the Russian authorities aren't going to run in to stop them. It's a bit like expecting the Bush administration to pass human rights legislation to protect the 9/11 conspirators - it ain't gonna happen.
Some people want to boot into windows (useful for gaming - vmware doesn't work too well for that). I shut down my laptop to save battery - the hibernate function doesn't always work.
It seems like a crazed dictator can use a special trick to retain his reputation - blame America/the west for his problems. This worked for Mugabe for 5 years, and finally seems to be running out of steam. Putin is going strong - for now.
It's the 100 ft of earth above it. The microwave background is only detectable above ground - microwaves are stopped by water molecules, steel and other things (which is why it's safe to stand in the same room as your microwave oven).
STFW before posting your ideas on very well known scientific phenomena on a tech website. It will save you trouble in the long run. And why the furgle would 1.9K be the best known when scientists can create temperatures much closer to 0K??
So no, communism hasn't been the unmitigated disaster people often think it was for the states which tried it. The problems associated with it come from the social conditions and traditions prior to the revolution, and the process of revolution itself
I can't say for certain that you are wrong, but for 70 years Russians were denied freedom in arts, religion, expression. Demographic models show a missing 30 million people in Russia - this is a strong suggestion something was going wrong. I don't have any figures - but I don't believe Russia was far behind England in 1910. By 1990 the standard of living, life expectancy, alcoholism and malnutrition rates in Russia were far in excess of England. Supply and demand are so mismanaged by communist systems that there were demonstrations by women demanding underwear - apparently during certain times the state was unable to manufacture knickers. The idea of centrally planned economies has been totally rejected by all economists and most politicians.
If you want to call open source a freer kind of communism, I'll support that - but open source is rooted in capitalism (the requirement for boxen ensures that), so I don't really think the idea works. I think of open source as superior to both capitalism and communism. A capitalism where ideas spread more quickly and there really is a level playing field, and a communism where people can do what they want to and individuals can contribute.
No it's not. It's a rhetorical question. Read the article you linked to. If it were a straw man, he would criticise fascism, claiming that that was what the article espoused - he's not doing that, he's criticising the article by saying it's fascism.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be interesting if you could also tell us the "Official" Allied rationale for the Dresden bombing, so readers can compare. You might also be aware that for many readers the official version will carry a lot more weight than your argument - so could you give a couple of pointers as to why we should trust an amateur looking website over the people who defeated Hitler?
I'm not trying to wind you up btw - I'm just lazy and don't want to have to work hard to figure out my own opinion.
I install it for my family - mum, dad, sister, father in law. The more technically challenged users love it - it's safe as houses, no stupid pop ups to renew virus scanner subscriptions, and it's easy to use for surfing the web. I don't understand why it's only 12 million users.
10 watts per square metre is ridiculous. Can you see an exposed lightbulb from 10 metres away in daylight? According to your estimate that means that the bulb is emitting 10 watts per square metre, over an area of 1,256 square metres. This would imply the bulb is a 12 kilowatt bulb (i.e. no waaaaay dude).
I give up on trying to figure out how many watts per square metre are necessary. However it looks like a mirror might do the job.
Of course, all bets are off if the sky is cloudy.
It always amazes me that people who would smile at you and shake your hand are the same people that will happily threaten you with violence, when they are hidden by the anonymity of a website comment. What's even more amazing is that I've done the same. It's like a real life version of milligrams experiment. Calm down you muppet.
I get your point, but I don't think "You're not him" works as a magic-bullet argument. It seems a shame that such a great mind is now completely broken (from the point of view of creating new math). I wonder though if the real problem is his distaste at the mathematical establishment, or the success fear that people get when they make a real breakthrough - your greatest work is behind you, perhaps it's hard to risk producing inferior work.
He's weird, he's not insane. People have different lifestyles - like, girls. They wash, iron their clothes, like pink, talk a lot and worry about things that are not theoretically possible. We might call them insane but really we know they are just weird.
"Photons are light" - yeah right. In that case how can you make torpedoes out of them?
That's why I love this site. Sometimes you get people who really know what they are talking about and they can blow this hand-wringing cancer scare stuff out of the water. Doesn't any hot body emit microwaves (e.g. humans or a hot cup of tea) anyway?
My other 2 pence - we all know that many scientists and doctors can't do statistics. Also it seems like a lot of frequentist statisticians can't do statistics either - according to the advocates of Bayesian inference I've read. Significance levels of 95% are not exactly overwhelming anyway.
hehe where are the mod points when I need them?
Treating this material differently is merely a way to punish people modern society considers "creepy." That's all.
Hehey - Let's jail republicans!
In 1944 George Orwell wrote: "It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."
Recently on Slashdot the term has become significantly less specific.
Ok - so Alienware don't know he's not going to use their parts in a stolen computer. So they refuse to sell additional parts, if they cannot verify the buyer owns an alienware pc. The major problem with their approach is that I didn't ask Alienware to try to fight crime. I just expect them to stick to what they are good at - making hardware. I think the real reason they do this is to control their sales channels to protect their oversize margins.
The answer to this is don't buy a new Alienware computer - if nothing else, for the reason that the second hand value will be zero.
The big driving force is web 2.0 though - who cares what OS you use when you have all of your games and apps online?
Who was on the other side of those massively leveraged positions that the banks lost on?
It was sub-prime homeowners, you meathead. Don't you read the press?
I've seen your other posts, you said you think it's "the other" Paulson. He made $19 billion - that's less than 1% of what's been lost, and by betting against the fools, he helped reduce the impact of the crash - if everyone else had done the same, it would never have happened. It's easy to ignore the financial markets and complain when things go wrong. Things get better when people get involved and work to fix them.
Godwin!
How much of the world's GDP has microsoft skimmed off the top? Money that would have been re-invested into the domestic economies all around the world, resulting in improved economic and living conditions without having to go through all the fat-cat middlemen, each taking their cut of that money before it eventually comes back around in the form of a "charity?"
The actual cash that gates has comes from people who want to buy his shares - they are quite happy to buy them. The increase in the share price is caused by the ability Microsoft has got to make $25 billion a year (0.03% of world GDP) selling windows and office - open source alternatives exist for both of these, so what I'm wondering is, if people need this investment for valuable investment, why don't they choose a free alternative?
The fat cat middlemen that you speak of are the people that buy microsoft products - and most of them give far less to charity than Gates does - so why do you prefer that they keep the money (and what right do you have to comment on how they spend it anyway?)
Interesting stats - Gates Foundation's spending accounts for 2.6% of global development aid ($2.6bn / $100bn) , compared to Microsoft total revenues which are 0.06% of global GDP ($60bn / $100trn). Don't you think it seems like you get a lot of charity bang for your windows buck?
Right now the ONLY logical reasons to move to a Linux based PC is 1) cost and 2) boot time when run in minimalist mode.
and 3) the library of *free* software available
and 4) safety from viruses and malware
Yeah, if only we could go back to the good old days of overground nuclear testing in nevada, cross-dressing psycopaths running the FBI, secret invasions of cuba, segregation, KKK, carpet bagging, going to defcon 2 over the cuban missile crisis, watergate, the My Lai massacre. Setting up a fund to buy risky securities at a value far lower than their fair value is truly america's lowest ebb.
Russians resent the west for winning the cold war, and the botched transition to capitalism that left their nation in default, and if their citizens are fucking up westerners' lives, the Russian authorities aren't going to run in to stop them. It's a bit like expecting the Bush administration to pass human rights legislation to protect the 9/11 conspirators - it ain't gonna happen.
Some people want to boot into windows (useful for gaming - vmware doesn't work too well for that). I shut down my laptop to save battery - the hibernate function doesn't always work.
It seems like a crazed dictator can use a special trick to retain his reputation - blame America/the west for his problems. This worked for Mugabe for 5 years, and finally seems to be running out of steam. Putin is going strong - for now.
It's the 100 ft of earth above it. The microwave background is only detectable above ground - microwaves are stopped by water molecules, steel and other things (which is why it's safe to stand in the same room as your microwave oven).
STFW before posting your ideas on very well known scientific phenomena on a tech website. It will save you trouble in the long run. And why the furgle would 1.9K be the best known when scientists can create temperatures much closer to 0K??
So no, communism hasn't been the unmitigated disaster people often think it was for the states which tried it. The problems associated with it come from the social conditions and traditions prior to the revolution, and the process of revolution itself
I can't say for certain that you are wrong, but for 70 years Russians were denied freedom in arts, religion, expression. Demographic models show a missing 30 million people in Russia - this is a strong suggestion something was going wrong. I don't have any figures - but I don't believe Russia was far behind England in 1910. By 1990 the standard of living, life expectancy, alcoholism and malnutrition rates in Russia were far in excess of England. Supply and demand are so mismanaged by communist systems that there were demonstrations by women demanding underwear - apparently during certain times the state was unable to manufacture knickers. The idea of centrally planned economies has been totally rejected by all economists and most politicians.
If you want to call open source a freer kind of communism, I'll support that - but open source is rooted in capitalism (the requirement for boxen ensures that), so I don't really think the idea works. I think of open source as superior to both capitalism and communism. A capitalism where ideas spread more quickly and there really is a level playing field, and a communism where people can do what they want to and individuals can contribute.
No it's not. It's a rhetorical question. Read the article you linked to. If it were a straw man, he would criticise fascism, claiming that that was what the article espoused - he's not doing that, he's criticising the article by saying it's fascism.