Except those two taxes don't affect the same groups of people. Everyone pays sales tax, but it is proportionately more burdensome on the poor because most of their income is used to buy things that are taxed. Property taxes (by definition) affect property owners, so they are more burdensome for the upper and middle classes. So, decreasing property taxes and increasing sales taxes effectively pushes the tax burden downward, class wise.
AMD was already producing the "OLPC" processor before they were contacted by OLPC. It's a "computer on a chip" called the Geode. We have one here at work in a low-power PC running Debian. Bought it in 2005. Works quite well for a low power consumption but fairly powerful single board computer. Our system was used in the field as a data collecting computer for a research project.
The Atheism entry in Wikipedia has this assertion:
Strong atheism is the explicit affirmation that gods do not exist. Weak atheism includes all other forms of non-theism. According to this categorization, anyone who is not a theist is either a weak or a strong atheist.
Found here
By that criterion, my assertion is absolutely correct. However, that is not the source of my original comment. I based my opinion on some of the ideas presented by Richard Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion" which crystallized my understanding of atheism. There's an interesting Q and A session linked to this Digg page.
That minor mistake aside, it sounds like your argument is simple quantum mechanical straw grasping. To say that since our knowledge of consciousness is incomplete, we can't make any pronouncements about the world we inhabit is nonsensical. We have exactly zero evidence that consciousness continues after death (and plenty of evidence that it doesn't) and yet you cling to the barest thread of possibility that everyone is wrong and that more research will prove you're immortal. I wouldn't bet on it.
So you would be an "insufficient data" sort of agnostic if I were to propose that an invisible 1000ft intelligent purple dinosaur visited people after they died and transported them to a world of sappy children's songs? In general, scientists view any extraordinary claim that has absolutely no supporting evidence with a great deal of skepticism. Most people who claim agnosticism in the same manner as yourself are really "weak atheists".
And (as pointed out repeatedly earlier in this thread) HardOCP was doing this review from the perspective of a novice user. I guess it's too much to expect people to read the articles and comprehend them before they comment.
What political party was Mayor Bloomberg a member of again? Didn't the article mention him as a driving force for the spying?
From TFA:
In February 2003, the Police Department, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's support, was given broad new authority by Judge Haight to conduct such monitoring. However, a senior police official must still determine that there is some indication of illegal activity before an inquiry is begun.
I'm completely with you on the file dialogs. I use KDE and I cringe every time I have to use a GTK app's file dialog. Awful doesn't even begin to describe it. It would be great if there were a way to force GTK apps to use the current desktop environment's (KDE in my case) default file dialog.
Your post is pure speculation. YOU think that a long copyright term encourages "great" works but you have no evidence to support it. Well, we have a long copyright term now and the works produced seem to me to be a mixture of crap and decent art.
In our nation's past, our copyright term was shorter (as low as 14 years if I recall correctly) and I know of no research that says the creative works of that time were all crap.
This might come as a shock to you, but some of us LIKE the way that Linux desktops work now and don't particularly want to copy your precious OS X. I was exclusively Windows until about 4 years ago. I switched to Linux and haven't looked back. I have an OS X desktop at work, and it's nice, but I am much more comfortable with my KDE desktop. KIO slaves are one of the most useful innovations in desktop design and they make my work so much simpler.
You can install Internet Explorer 6 on Linux. Now, if there is other software that is also necessary, (like an active x control) that might prevent it from working. Here's a howto install IE on Ubuntu:
-You say GNOME isn't 'dumbed down'? Two words. File dialogs.
I couldn't agree with you more. I use KDE but I like Firefox for web browsing. The only thing I don't like about FF is that it uses the god-awful GTK file dialogs. I wish there was a way to replace them with the KDE file dialogs, but I'm not that much of a coder.
You should try FreeNX. I can access my home desktop from work over my home's dsl link with excellent responsiveness. It can't control a session that's already open, however. You can also set it to run apps remotely (like X does) instead of the whole desktop.
While this topic may not be "News for nerds", I'm certain that most slashdotters would classify it as "stuff that matters". Based on the number of posts this topic has gotten so far, I'd say a fair number of us think it's deserving of discussion.
Automatix can install various hardware drivers as well as de-CSS (for DVD playback) and proprietary windows video codecs. It also installs a number of other software programs. It is possible to manually install everything that Automatix does just by selecting the correct repositories and using apt or synaptic. Automatix just automates the process with a nice GUI. You check boxes to select software to install.
Cedega is based on Wine and is developed specifically to run games. Every so often, much of Cedega's software is folded back into Wine. You can safely install both Wine and Cedega without them interfering with one another.
Google Earth has a native Linux version (it might be in beta still) that works very well indeed.
I would recommend going back to Ubuntu Edgy (or try the KDE version, Kubuntu, my favorite) and run automatix (http://www.getautomatix.com/) to get the esoteric stuff. I would also recommend buying (yes actually pay for software!) a subscription to Cedega (http://www.transgaming.com/) for your windows gaming needs. It's not expensive and it has worked great on several of the windows games that I had lying around from before.
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That's a great idea! Now, can I get the government to give me a handout like they did to the telecoms so that I can build out my network?
Except those two taxes don't affect the same groups of people. Everyone pays sales tax, but it is proportionately more burdensome on the poor because most of their income is used to buy things that are taxed. Property taxes (by definition) affect property owners, so they are more burdensome for the upper and middle classes. So, decreasing property taxes and increasing sales taxes effectively pushes the tax burden downward, class wise.
AMD was already producing the "OLPC" processor before they were contacted by OLPC. It's a "computer on a chip" called the Geode. We have one here at work in a low-power PC running Debian. Bought it in 2005. Works quite well for a low power consumption but fairly powerful single board computer. Our system was used in the field as a data collecting computer for a research project.
The Atheism entry in Wikipedia has this assertion:
Strong atheism is the explicit affirmation that gods do not exist. Weak atheism includes all other forms of non-theism. According to this categorization, anyone who is not a theist is either a weak or a strong atheist.
Found here
By that criterion, my assertion is absolutely correct. However, that is not the source of my original comment. I based my opinion on some of the ideas presented by Richard Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion" which crystallized my understanding of atheism. There's an interesting Q and A session linked to this Digg page.
It's a purple dinosaur! :-)
That minor mistake aside, it sounds like your argument is simple quantum mechanical straw grasping. To say that since our knowledge of consciousness is incomplete, we can't make any pronouncements about the world we inhabit is nonsensical. We have exactly zero evidence that consciousness continues after death (and plenty of evidence that it doesn't) and yet you cling to the barest thread of possibility that everyone is wrong and that more research will prove you're immortal. I wouldn't bet on it.
So you would be an "insufficient data" sort of agnostic if I were to propose that an invisible 1000ft intelligent purple dinosaur visited people after they died and transported them to a world of sappy children's songs? In general, scientists view any extraordinary claim that has absolutely no supporting evidence with a great deal of skepticism. Most people who claim agnosticism in the same manner as yourself are really "weak atheists".
And (as pointed out repeatedly earlier in this thread) HardOCP was doing this review from the perspective of a novice user. I guess it's too much to expect people to read the articles and comprehend them before they comment.
What political party was Mayor Bloomberg a member of again? Didn't the article mention him as a driving force for the spying?
From TFA: In February 2003, the Police Department, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's support, was given broad new authority by Judge Haight to conduct such monitoring. However, a senior police official must still determine that there is some indication of illegal activity before an inquiry is begun.
That's funny, I could have sworn that Linspire was an OEM Linux distribution. It comes on this Wal-Mart desktop:
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http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product
I have been playing around with the virtualbox virtualization software. It works well on Windows and Linux and it's free for the full version.
Look genius, it's "for all intents and purposes" NOT "for all intensive purposes". If English is not your primary language, I withdraw this critique.
Ha! Looks like Captain Pedantic up there learnded his English real good. I wonder how bad it would be if it weren't his "native language".
I'm completely with you on the file dialogs. I use KDE and I cringe every time I have to use a GTK app's file dialog. Awful doesn't even begin to describe it. It would be great if there were a way to force GTK apps to use the current desktop environment's (KDE in my case) default file dialog.
This is probably not the best example of Gnome's superiority since alt-click moves windows on my KDE (Kubuntu) system too.
I think you mean that a 480x320 screen has 153,600 pixels.
As a Linux user, I would say that using iTunes to distribute content is just vendor lock-in of a different nature.
Your post is pure speculation. YOU think that a long copyright term encourages "great" works but you have no evidence to support it. Well, we have a long copyright term now and the works produced seem to me to be a mixture of crap and decent art.
In our nation's past, our copyright term was shorter (as low as 14 years if I recall correctly) and I know of no research that says the creative works of that time were all crap.
This might come as a shock to you, but some of us LIKE the way that Linux desktops work now and don't particularly want to copy your precious OS X. I was exclusively Windows until about 4 years ago. I switched to Linux and haven't looked back. I have an OS X desktop at work, and it's nice, but I am much more comfortable with my KDE desktop. KIO slaves are one of the most useful innovations in desktop design and they make my work so much simpler.
You can install Internet Explorer 6 on Linux. Now, if there is other software that is also necessary, (like an active x control) that might prevent it from working. Here's a howto install IE on Ubuntu:
e r-in-ubuntu-linux.html
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/running-internet-explor
Hear, Hear! Personal responsibility-- If you take a job that does evil then you are doing evil. "Just following orders" is never an excuse.
You should try FreeNX. I can access my home desktop from work over my home's dsl link with excellent responsiveness. It can't control a session that's already open, however. You can also set it to run apps remotely (like X does) instead of the whole desktop.
While this topic may not be "News for nerds", I'm certain that most slashdotters would classify it as "stuff that matters". Based on the number of posts this topic has gotten so far, I'd say a fair number of us think it's deserving of discussion.
Automatix can install various hardware drivers as well as de-CSS (for DVD playback) and proprietary windows video codecs. It also installs a number of other software programs. It is possible to manually install everything that Automatix does just by selecting the correct repositories and using apt or synaptic. Automatix just automates the process with a nice GUI. You check boxes to select software to install.
Cedega is based on Wine and is developed specifically to run games. Every so often, much of Cedega's software is folded back into Wine. You can safely install both Wine and Cedega without them interfering with one another.
Google Earth has a native Linux version (it might be in beta still) that works very well indeed.
I would recommend going back to Ubuntu Edgy (or try the KDE version, Kubuntu, my favorite) and run automatix (http://www.getautomatix.com/) to get the esoteric stuff. I would also recommend buying (yes actually pay for software!) a subscription to Cedega (http://www.transgaming.com/) for your windows gaming needs. It's not expensive and it has worked great on several of the windows games that I had lying around from before.