Yes, FF was feature complete in version 2.0 and everything worthwhile inventing has been invented. There is nothing new under the Sun and no one will ever, ever, ever need more than 640kB of RAM.
I hate Chrome, but it has it's uses. It's fast too. But totally sucks for configuring stuff, navigating my hundreds of bookmarks, importing said bookmarks in a sane way, and very anti-intuitive. Give me back a fucking menu, or keyboard shortcuts. God what an awful interface.
Here's three simple reasons: 1) New LTS version. It's going to be around for a while. 2) 10.0 is the fastest version, since maybe forever with Mozilla/Firefox. 3) No more default incompatibilities with add-ons. By default all plug-ins/add-on are compatible. Only those marked incompatible by the authors are incompatible.
The smart user will be doing testing on 3.6 now, before official support ends. So when it ends any known issues can be dealt with. Nothing worse than having to scramble to upgrade because of some newly discover security flaw. Scrambling leads to hurriedness which leads carelessness which leads to mistakes which leads to the darkside... taking over your servers.
3.6 did use more memory than 2. Every later version used more and more memory up until version 8. Version 8 still used more memory than 3.6. Version 10 may or may not use more memory, but from version 8 forward the browser is way faster. Version 3.6 was rock solid stability wise for a long time. It's old now. I moved off it sometime last year. Version 10.0 is the new long term support version. It's the only logical choice to run now. I found 4, 5, 6, 7, and even 8 to be less stable. Which ought to be expected. 3.6 was after all a.6 version and not a.0 version, with many more bugfixes along the way. 10.0 is twice the disk size as 3.6, but again it's going to be WAY faster, but perhaps not much different on the memory landscape. The poster should begin migrating now, before support ends.
That is if you're one of those people who believes in keeping your system up to date, security patch wise. Kind of pointless to change the locks once everything is cracked open and stolen. So I guess I'm saying UPGRADE NOW to 10.0, while you have a choice.
The parent is more correct. Japanese is a syllabic language. "Tsu" and "mi" are valid Japanese syllables, "tsumi" isn't a feasible syllable in any natural occurring Earth language. I don't speak Japanese, so can't state one way or the other about the stress, except to say that changing the stress could change the word and meaning, as in Chinese.
Incorrect, the Heartland PR machine was hired by Philip Morris to counteract the news in an AMA sponsored article indicating the damage second-hand smoke does. So, they "KNEW" beforehand there was scientific evidence of the bad effects of second-hand smoke, and went on anyway. That one fact alone proves they are like most advertisers, professional liars.
Not to mention you'd have to be a complete villiage-idiot in 1994 to NOT know that cigarette smoke in any form was bad for you.
So whom do you believe, the environmental scientist, who has a dog in the fight? Or the professional liars?
Also, official medical opinion in the 1790s was that bleeding people helped cure them. Which, BTW, was the cause of George Washington's death (he was bled twice in a few days, only by different doctors, I believe). So official medical opinions, haven't always jived with common sense. Right up to today.
a) this is obviously a small company, that is selling a custom built app, either on speculation or for a paying client, and trying to recover development costs by charging $10K, for a professional video-editing app, b) is trying to figure out if people downloading an obviously niche-tool would be customers for a $10k app, c) not having the common sense to know that the likelihood of potential customers downloading from TPB is infinitessimal.
I routinely sell my software for $5k to $100k, but my code is by contract, and written for 1 or a few customers. The profit is made on the first sale. Granted, I lost money on an app I sold for $250K (cost to build was $300K). But in general I make a profit on the first sale.
Not sure $10K is realistic, given what is out there. If, they've done a realistic cost analysis and potential customer base, and what they would normally spend on such software, they may be able to make a profit. But you have to have a decent sales team. You're not going to find potential buyers on TPB. While it sucks that they have a copy on TPB, there's little recourse now. But given they are wasting money on adding DRM, speaks volumes into the sales/legal dept wisdom area. If you have potential customers where you feel the need to DRM, then your price is much to high. Those willing to pay $10K for an application aren't going to try to hack it or make multiple copies, except the rare idiot.
It shows the lack of respect you have for your customers, and you'd be better off focusing on learning how to treat customers with respect, to boost sales, rather than worry needlessly about TPB. I keep my customers happy and as a result make as much money as I care to work for. Sure it's be great to be the next Bill Gates, but what would I do with a billion dollars? I guess I'm not greedy enough to think it through.
Thank goodness the Feds got the printer and scanner makers to put those tiny yellow dots on printouts! Now we can use that information to find the serial number of the Epson scanner and find the hacker... oops... Heartland employee...oops...?... who created that document.
Or vice versa. In any case, whoever did the scannin' is the one who will get blamed for doin' the deed of releasin'...err stealin'... err...?
Well anyway we know, something. But we're not quite sure what and we can't really talk about it \'cause Heartland seyz it's illegal maybe, and we'll all go to jail for 50 years, or somethin'. And doooon't yoooou forget it! Babaloooie!
Of course if it makes it to the Internet, it MUST be TRUE!
The thing is, companies really don't own any copyrights or patents, unless some person or group of persons enters into a contract with the company giving them the rights to it. This is usually called an employment contract.
There are three options when approaching this:
1) (re)negotiate the contract, 2) find another employer, 3) go it on your own.
Option 1 is best applied before signing an employment contract. Once employed you have far less negotiating leverage. Also, the mere fact of renegotiation alerts the company to warning signs that you may be unhappy at the company or have an idea you think is worth a lot of money which you don't want to share with them, even if it is in a different field. In either event, they are going to be watching you, going forward. Or they will say sure go for it! If they are more enlightened. But given the existing contract, I'm betting on the former.
Option 2 is probably the best choice, because you obviously aren't the right fit for the existing company.
Option 3 is your greatest opportunity, but also your greatest risk. You seem to be risk averse. Wanting to use the existing job to finance your new company, rather than just leave now before you've started developing your idea into product. Remember, as an idea, it belongs to you, and even a contract can't take that away. Mere thoughts and ideas aren't patentable or copyright-able. Only once you've transformed the idea into a concrete process of some sort, does it become something you can lose a lawsuit over. That won't stop them from suing you though, if they are so inclined. Not really much can be done about that, except to be prepared and keep excellent records. There may also be limits in your contract on how long after you leave you have to wait before developing things. I don't sign these vile types of contracts, and also insist on changes to these boilerplate things. I have accumulated significant copyright on my own, and several patentable ideas in various stages of development.
Option 4, is to proceed and hide what you are doing, and risk infecting all sorts of projects with encumbered, infringing code or whatever. This is not really an option. It's a pseudo-option, an illusion, a glamour pool. It's a lose, lose situation. It may look attractive from some perspectives, but once discovered, either before or after you come to market you risk losing it all, and more, and discover it was a cesspool idea.
If you go with option 2, and your idea is not in a competing field, make sure you negotiate for changing the language so you can develop on your own time non-competing ideas.
I don't have a Hebrew copy laying around, so let me ask you. When you say Psalm 19:7-9 says "LORD", is that an English translation of "Yahweh" (the name of God), "Elohim" (Lord) or is it "Yahweh" with the vowels for "Elohim" above it (a non-word erroneously translated as "Iehovah" which isn't a possible Hebrew word, sorry Aunt Sally) ?
That word in Psalms has only one of those three possible words. But you'd need to see a Hebrew text to know for sure what the real word is. I could of course look up all these New Testament verses, with my Greek Interlinear Bible and give you all the Greek and English forms. Of course some of the Greek words have multiple possible translations into English. Of course, there really aren't any Hebrew New Testament Bibles, as Greek was the Lingua Franca of the day.
Of course add to this fact that the Dead Sea Scrolls have shown there wasn't a standard "Old Testament" even as late in the day as the time of Jesus. There were multiple "equally" authoritative versions of many of the stories in the Old Testament.
So, any attempt to deduce and find the "One True Divinely Inspired Bible" is doomed to Epic Fail. Sorry to disappoint. Not to mention there is undoubtedly many colloquial expressions written in those days that just didn't get translated right. Then there are the Gnostics and Thomasine and other equally ancient and authoritative Christian Branches suppressed by later times. Who knows if the true inspired word of God has even survived to this day? I hear rumour that someone named Dudley found the ancient and true word spoken by God to a man 2000 years ago, but the scroll of the Gospel Of Brian turned to dust when they tried to remove it from it's cave.
I will not pray for you either. Really sad though that this reporter will likely be executed for his foolishness. I'd have waited until I was in England before... oh wait no, that wouldn't work England Extradites too, Hmm let's see, the US? No, they'd just stick him in some hidden unlisted US hellhole prison outside the US. Ah, Belize! Yeah that's the ticket. And the weather's decent, too.
Tip for really stupid reporters. Wait until you are safely away before dropping your Twitter Bombs.
How the... did this get modded insightful? Did MS take over/.? Or just the trolls? This whole article is a troll. The article this points to is the worst piece of trolldom, I've seen in a good many years. It's also been a good many years since I've seen any Linux distro that has a GUI desktop that requires mounting via "commandline trickery". I use the command line frequently to mount things in Linux... on my desktopless, console only servers. Nowhere else. There wasn't a single fact about Linux in TFA that was true. Total FUD.
Ah, but one could agree to climate change and not necessarily agree it is anthropomorphic related.
I'm not entirely sold on the idea that all this warming is a result of anthropomorphic changes. However, I'm not sold on the idea that it isn't either. As a result I prefer to err on the side of caution, and say it's possible it is anthropomorphic, and probable that at least some of the warming definitely is, and thus we should attempt to remedy it. but the Earth does have a habit, and documented history, of heating up and cooling down considerably all on it's own. Even during the short span of human kind.
Taking into consideration: 1) I am not an atmospheric physicist who makes study of the phenomena, and that a good number of such scientists say it is anthropomorphic, I'm inclined to agree with them, 2) Scientists have been known to be terribly firm in their beliefs in things only to be proven wrong, (human flight is impossible, evolution is impossible, plate tectonics is a lunatic theory, etc), 3) I haven't done the research or math to really agree one way or the other.
So other than the fact that it's really stupid to continue to pollute the planet because "it's too expensive to clean it up", I tend to to agree with the anthropomorphic theory, even if it may be ultimately wrong or exaggerated. However, I would agree that our current understanding of the science overwhelmingly points towards a quantifiable and observable degree of warming. I have yet to see conclusive proof it is largely or solely a result of anthropomorphic greenhouse emission. But since we don't have another Earth to experiment with, it might be a bit hard to produce that proof. And no, doing small or even large experiments in a lab cannot reproduce all the variables to get a proof. And again, no, a computer model run on the biggest, meanest super computer doesn't qualify either.
I'm not entirely sure you fully understand the mass-energy thing. It's not quite as simple as just that equation, getting thrown around here. If it were as simple as that equation it would be easy to accelerate, say, a spaceship to the speed of light. But of course that's not possible. There's more to the equation than just E=mc2. That's the high school version of it.
You cannot create mass. You can increase or decrease the mass of an existing mass, but you cannot create it. Even a photon has mass, hence trapping incoming photons in the atmosphere with things like, oh CO2, adds mass to the Earth.
If you mean it can't permanantly damge the physical structure of your home electronics, then yes. However, the Earth's protective shield will not stop highly energetic charged particles from entering the atmosphere. It will not stop the above average X-Rays incumbent with SMEs. While An old AT 8086 computer was not likely to be impacted by highly energetic particles smashing through them, the newer much, much more densely packed chips of today have much higher probabilities of have bits randomly flip by these kind of events. Still very highly improbable.
It's very plausible that a large Solar storm could cause you to lose that last half hour's worth of work because you didn't save it regularly. But as this storm is going to pass "above" the Earth, I'd say we have very little chance of any effect. Unless of course you happen to be in orbit above the pole in a Tardis or Goa'uld ship, or are a spy satellite.
How many of those books are up-to-date after that decade or more?
How often does 1+1 = 2 change?
Changing history much? Well then you must live in Texas.
Coming up with new ways to spell common English words like "cat", "dog", "run","play" ?
Designing new and wonderful plants and animals?
Most of the books for grades K-6, don't change very much in a decade. There are exceptions. And some of the classes in 7-12, will of course become obsolete. Although, I can't recall ever having a decade old book in any class, until I hit Physics 340 in college. Which the professor had reprinted from an out of print book. Worst teacher I ever had. Optics. I don't think I learned anything in that class.
And do you really think schools are going to be giving away $500 iPads to students every year? Hunh! Dream on. We have to buy the school supplies every year that used to be paid for by the schools. So, now schools will have to replace a number of iPads every year, as students steal, lose, break them and the welfare parents are on the hook for replacing? Unh huh.
No doubt there are lots of advantages. To having $80 ereaders. But you're not allowed to bring in cameras to public schools. Phones have to be turned off. Apparently some kids like to take, well, adventurous pictures with them. You're not going to see iPads in Schools. Maybe Nook Tablets or the like.
Unfortunately, you are just giving your limited experience to back it up. "Everything you see" might not be the right things to look at. For example, I homeschooled my daughter in 2nd grade Math over the summer. That included money handling, time telling (analog not digital) addition and subtraction to the thousands with carry, and introductory multiplication and division. This is what I learned in 2nd grade. It's what my mother learned in 2nd grade. It's not what is being covered in my daughter's public school in 2nd grade. They will not get to introductory multiplication and division. No addition or subtraction tables, are taught. While I didn't stress the tables, I showed her how to build them. It is just another tool. Her PS is all based on repetition of number families.
I'm all for new ways to learn. I've incorporated some of those techniques, but I believe in giving more choices, rather than less. I'm not impressed with today's education system. I clearly think it is not superior to 50 years ago. Or 100 years ago. There are some things better. Some things worse. If educators were given a free hand to teach, WOW! The things we might see. But as long as bureaucrats and Politicians decide? Well, need I say more than SOPA and PIPA? DMCA? Post 9/11? DHS? Been to an airport lately?
Lastly, I've recently discovered they don't teach script handwriting anymore in the local Elementary schools? Good thing, I've taught her how already. Otherwise she might never be able to sign her name on those EULAs. Oh Doh! That's right, there's no place to sign an EULA. You agree by using, or landing on the page from a Google search.
Oh, and BTW, even here in America, Johnny still can't read. It's amazing how many kids today make it out of elementary school and can't read in a proficient manner. Spelling? Forget it! YMMV, depending on the school district. Rich people sending kids to expensive private schools expect results, and guess what? They get them. Same as it was 1000 years ago. Same as it ever was.
According to the EULA, you are not allowed to publish them to any other platform. I think the way it is worded you couldn't even publish it to print format. It's a real nifty lock-in device. Resistance is futile.
Where'd you get your Constitutional Law Degree? A Cap'n Crunch Box?
Do the words Ex Post Facto mean nothing to you?
It's bad enough that Congress has found a loophole around it, by some tricky tabling of proposed laws they can't force through this term, only to bring it back again and again until they get the right numbers to pass it. Then they back date it to when the thing was first proposed. That's how Mickey Mouse got to keep his copyright protection.
God Damn how do we fire these Goddamn idiots in the SCOTUS? Damn 6-3 (and one of the three had to abstains because she worked it as a lawyer! I wonder how much Disney and Sony and Murdoch paid them? Maybe Murdoch had tapes on their cell phones?
Criminal Hackers all over the world are working hard to come up with lots of zero day exploits for IPv6. When it finally goes live, they'll have plenty of hacks to bring it down in the first hour.
You are leaving out some important details. Our founding fathers also controlled the local militias, and many of them were also well armed and trained. Not the actual average civilian fighters mind you.
When you get enough of the US military to side with you let us know.
I'm descended from Revolutionary War Patriots. But remember, many of those Patriots had brothers and/or sisters and/or fathers and/or mothers who sided with the British and were either killed or fled to England and Canada. It was so in my family too.
It's one thing to be willing to fight for your beliefs, it's another to be foolhardy and throw your life away.
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Yes, FF was feature complete in version 2.0 and everything worthwhile inventing has been invented. There is nothing new under the Sun and no one will ever, ever, ever need more than 640kB of RAM.
I hate Chrome, but it has it's uses. It's fast too. But totally sucks for configuring stuff, navigating my hundreds of bookmarks, importing said bookmarks in a sane way, and very anti-intuitive. Give me back a fucking menu, or keyboard shortcuts. God what an awful interface.
Other than that it's a wonderful browser.
Give me back my clutter.
No, you should upgrade to 10.0.
Here's three simple reasons:
1) New LTS version. It's going to be around for a while.
2) 10.0 is the fastest version, since maybe forever with Mozilla/Firefox.
3) No more default incompatibilities with add-ons. By default all plug-ins/add-on are compatible. Only those marked incompatible by the authors are incompatible.
The smart user will be doing testing on 3.6 now, before official support ends. So when it ends any known issues can be dealt with. Nothing worse than having to scramble to upgrade because of some newly discover security flaw. Scrambling leads to hurriedness which leads carelessness which leads to mistakes which leads to the darkside ... taking over your servers.
Like ummm ... 3x the speed.
Yeah, nothing good there. Who wants more speed?
3.6 did use more memory than 2. Every later version used more and more memory up until version 8. Version 8 still used more memory than 3.6. Version 10 may or may not use more memory, but from version 8 forward the browser is way faster. Version 3.6 was rock solid stability wise for a long time. It's old now. I moved off it sometime last year. Version 10.0 is the new long term support version. It's the only logical choice to run now. I found 4, 5, 6, 7, and even 8 to be less stable. Which ought to be expected. 3.6 was after all a .6 version and not a .0 version, with many more bugfixes along the way. 10.0 is twice the disk size as 3.6, but again it's going to be WAY faster, but perhaps not much different on the memory landscape. The poster should begin migrating now, before support ends.
That is if you're one of those people who believes in keeping your system up to date, security patch wise. Kind of pointless to change the locks once everything is cracked open and stolen. So I guess I'm saying UPGRADE NOW to 10.0, while you have a choice.
The parent is more correct. Japanese is a syllabic language. "Tsu" and "mi" are valid Japanese syllables, "tsumi" isn't a feasible syllable in any natural occurring Earth language. I don't speak Japanese, so can't state one way or the other about the stress, except to say that changing the stress could change the word and meaning, as in Chinese.
Incorrect, the Heartland PR machine was hired by Philip Morris to counteract the news in an AMA sponsored article indicating the damage second-hand smoke does. So, they "KNEW" beforehand there was scientific evidence of the bad effects of second-hand smoke, and went on anyway. That one fact alone proves they are like most advertisers, professional liars.
Not to mention you'd have to be a complete villiage-idiot in 1994 to NOT know that cigarette smoke in any form was bad for you.
So whom do you believe, the environmental scientist, who has a dog in the fight? Or the professional liars?
Also, official medical opinion in the 1790s was that bleeding people helped cure them. Which, BTW, was the cause of George Washington's death (he was bled twice in a few days, only by different doctors, I believe). So official medical opinions, haven't always jived with common sense. Right up to today.
The real kicker here, should be:
a) this is obviously a small company, that is selling a custom built app, either on speculation or for a paying client, and trying to recover development costs by charging $10K, for a professional video-editing app,
b) is trying to figure out if people downloading an obviously niche-tool would be customers for a $10k app,
c) not having the common sense to know that the likelihood of potential customers downloading from TPB is infinitessimal.
I routinely sell my software for $5k to $100k, but my code is by contract, and written for 1 or a few customers. The profit is made on the first sale. Granted, I lost money on an app I sold for $250K (cost to build was $300K). But in general I make a profit on the first sale.
Not sure $10K is realistic, given what is out there. If, they've done a realistic cost analysis and potential customer base, and what they would normally spend on such software, they may be able to make a profit. But you have to have a decent sales team. You're not going to find potential buyers on TPB. While it sucks that they have a copy on TPB, there's little recourse now. But given they are wasting money on adding DRM, speaks volumes into the sales/legal dept wisdom area. If you have potential customers where you feel the need to DRM, then your price is much to high. Those willing to pay $10K for an application aren't going to try to hack it or make multiple copies, except the rare idiot.
It shows the lack of respect you have for your customers, and you'd be better off focusing on learning how to treat customers with respect, to boost sales, rather than worry needlessly about TPB. I keep my customers happy and as a result make as much money as I care to work for. Sure it's be great to be the next Bill Gates, but what would I do with a billion dollars? I guess I'm not greedy enough to think it through.
Thank goodness the Feds got the printer and scanner makers to put those tiny yellow dots on printouts! Now we can use that information to find the serial number of the Epson scanner and find the hacker... oops... Heartland employee...oops...?... who created that document.
Or vice versa. In any case, whoever did the scannin' is the one who will get blamed for doin' the deed of releasin'...err stealin'... err ...?
Well anyway we know, something. But we're not quite sure what and we can't really talk about it \'cause Heartland seyz it's illegal maybe, and we'll all go to jail for 50 years, or somethin'. And doooon't yoooou forget it! Babaloooie!
Of course if it makes it to the Internet, it MUST be TRUE!
The thing is, companies really don't own any copyrights or patents, unless some person or group of persons enters into a contract with the company giving them the rights to it. This is usually called an employment contract.
There are three options when approaching this:
1) (re)negotiate the contract,
2) find another employer,
3) go it on your own.
Option 1 is best applied before signing an employment contract. Once employed you have far less negotiating leverage. Also, the mere fact of renegotiation alerts the company to warning signs that you may be unhappy at the company or have an idea you think is worth a lot of money which you don't want to share with them, even if it is in a different field. In either event, they are going to be watching you, going forward. Or they will say sure go for it! If they are more enlightened. But given the existing contract, I'm betting on the former.
Option 2 is probably the best choice, because you obviously aren't the right fit for the existing company.
Option 3 is your greatest opportunity, but also your greatest risk. You seem to be risk averse. Wanting to use the existing job to finance your new company, rather than just leave now before you've started developing your idea into product. Remember, as an idea, it belongs to you, and even a contract can't take that away. Mere thoughts and ideas aren't patentable or copyright-able. Only once you've transformed the idea into a concrete process of some sort, does it become something you can lose a lawsuit over. That won't stop them from suing you though, if they are so inclined. Not really much can be done about that, except to be prepared and keep excellent records.
There may also be limits in your contract on how long after you leave you have to wait before developing things. I don't sign these vile types of contracts, and also insist on changes to these boilerplate things. I have accumulated significant copyright on my own, and several patentable ideas in various stages of development.
Option 4, is to proceed and hide what you are doing, and risk infecting all sorts of projects with encumbered, infringing code or whatever. This is not really an option. It's a pseudo-option, an illusion, a glamour pool. It's a lose, lose situation. It may look attractive from some perspectives, but once discovered, either before or after you come to market you risk losing it all, and more, and discover it was a cesspool idea.
If you go with option 2, and your idea is not in a competing field, make sure you negotiate for changing the language so you can develop on your own time non-competing ideas.
I don't have a Hebrew copy laying around, so let me ask you.
When you say Psalm 19:7-9 says "LORD", is that an English translation of "Yahweh" (the name of God), "Elohim" (Lord) or is it "Yahweh" with the vowels for "Elohim" above it (a non-word erroneously translated as "Iehovah" which isn't a possible Hebrew word, sorry Aunt Sally) ?
That word in Psalms has only one of those three possible words. But you'd need to see a Hebrew text to know for sure what the real word is. I could of course look up all these New Testament verses, with my Greek Interlinear Bible and give you all the Greek and English forms. Of course some of the Greek words have multiple possible translations into English. Of course, there really aren't any Hebrew New Testament Bibles, as Greek was the Lingua Franca of the day.
Of course add to this fact that the Dead Sea Scrolls have shown there wasn't a standard "Old Testament" even as late in the day as the time of Jesus. There were multiple "equally" authoritative versions of many of the stories in the Old Testament.
So, any attempt to deduce and find the "One True Divinely Inspired Bible" is doomed to Epic Fail. Sorry to disappoint. Not to mention there is undoubtedly many colloquial expressions written in those days that just didn't get translated right. Then there are the Gnostics and Thomasine and other equally ancient and authoritative Christian Branches suppressed by later times. Who knows if the true inspired word of God has even survived to this day? I hear rumour that someone named Dudley found the ancient and true word spoken by God to a man 2000 years ago, but the scroll of the Gospel Of Brian turned to dust when they tried to remove it from it's cave.
I will not pray for you either. Really sad though that this reporter will likely be executed for his foolishness. I'd have waited until I was in England before... oh wait no, that wouldn't work England Extradites too, Hmm let's see, the US? No, they'd just stick him in some hidden unlisted US hellhole prison outside the US. Ah, Belize! Yeah that's the ticket. And the weather's decent, too.
Tip for really stupid reporters. Wait until you are safely away before dropping your Twitter Bombs.
How the ... did this get modded insightful? Did MS take over /.? ... on my desktopless, console only servers. Nowhere else.
Or just the trolls?
This whole article is a troll.
The article this points to is the worst piece of trolldom, I've seen in a good many years. It's also been a good many years since I've seen any Linux distro that has a GUI desktop that requires mounting via "commandline trickery". I use the command line frequently to mount things in Linux
There wasn't a single fact about Linux in TFA that was true. Total FUD.
Ah, but one could agree to climate change and not necessarily agree it is anthropomorphic related.
I'm not entirely sold on the idea that all this warming is a result of anthropomorphic changes. However, I'm not sold on the idea that it isn't either. As a result I prefer to err on the side of caution, and say it's possible it is anthropomorphic, and probable that at least some of the warming definitely is, and thus we should attempt to remedy it. but the Earth does have a habit, and documented history, of heating up and cooling down considerably all on it's own. Even during the short span of human kind.
Taking into consideration:
1) I am not an atmospheric physicist who makes study of the phenomena, and that a good number of such scientists say it is anthropomorphic, I'm inclined to agree with them,
2) Scientists have been known to be terribly firm in their beliefs in things only to be proven wrong, (human flight is impossible, evolution is impossible, plate tectonics is a lunatic theory, etc),
3) I haven't done the research or math to really agree one way or the other.
So other than the fact that it's really stupid to continue to pollute the planet because "it's too expensive to clean it up", I tend to to agree with the anthropomorphic theory, even if it may be ultimately wrong or exaggerated. However, I would agree that our current understanding of the science overwhelmingly points towards a quantifiable and observable degree of warming. I have yet to see conclusive proof it is largely or solely a result of anthropomorphic greenhouse emission. But since we don't have another Earth to experiment with, it might be a bit hard to produce that proof. And no, doing small or even large experiments in a lab cannot reproduce all the variables to get a proof. And again, no, a computer model run on the biggest, meanest super computer doesn't qualify either.
I'm not entirely sure you fully understand the mass-energy thing. It's not quite as simple as just that equation, getting thrown around here. If it were as simple as that equation it would be easy to accelerate, say, a spaceship to the speed of light. But of course that's not possible. There's more to the equation than just E=mc2. That's the high school version of it.
You cannot create mass. You can increase or decrease the mass of an existing mass, but you cannot create it. Even a photon has mass, hence trapping incoming photons in the atmosphere with things like, oh CO2, adds mass to the Earth.
But everyone knows mad scientists make the coolest technology devices.
Admit it, you'd love to have some of those evil scientist toys.
Well that depends on your definition of damage.
If you mean it can't permanantly damge the physical structure of your home electronics, then yes.
However, the Earth's protective shield will not stop highly energetic charged particles from entering the atmosphere. It will not stop the above average X-Rays incumbent with SMEs. While An old AT 8086 computer was not likely to be impacted by highly energetic particles smashing through them, the newer much, much more densely packed chips of today have much higher probabilities of have bits randomly flip by these kind of events. Still very highly improbable.
It's very plausible that a large Solar storm could cause you to lose that last half hour's worth of work because you didn't save it regularly.
But as this storm is going to pass "above" the Earth, I'd say we have very little chance of any effect. Unless of course you happen to be in orbit above the pole in a Tardis or Goa'uld ship, or are a spy satellite.
The Sky is falling!
The Sky is FALLING!
Oh, wait ... no that's just a Russian probe. My bad.
How many of those books are up-to-date after that decade or more?
How often does 1+1 = 2 change?
Changing history much? Well then you must live in Texas.
Coming up with new ways to spell common English words like "cat", "dog", "run","play" ?
Designing new and wonderful plants and animals?
Most of the books for grades K-6, don't change very much in a decade. There are exceptions. And some of the classes in 7-12, will of course become obsolete. Although, I can't recall ever having a decade old book in any class, until I hit Physics 340 in college. Which the professor had reprinted from an out of print book. Worst teacher I ever had. Optics. I don't think I learned anything in that class.
And do you really think schools are going to be giving away $500 iPads to students every year? Hunh! Dream on. We have to buy the school supplies every year that used to be paid for by the schools. So, now schools will have to replace a number of iPads every year, as students steal, lose, break them and the welfare parents are on the hook for replacing? Unh huh.
No doubt there are lots of advantages. To having $80 ereaders. But you're not allowed to bring in cameras to public schools. Phones have to be turned off. Apparently some kids like to take, well, adventurous pictures with them. You're not going to see iPads in Schools. Maybe Nook Tablets or the like.
Unfortunately, you are just giving your limited experience to back it up. "Everything you see" might not be the right things to look at. For example, I homeschooled my daughter in 2nd grade Math over the summer. That included money handling, time telling (analog not digital) addition and subtraction to the thousands with carry, and introductory multiplication and division. This is what I learned in 2nd grade. It's what my mother learned in 2nd grade. It's not what is being covered in my daughter's public school in 2nd grade. They will not get to introductory multiplication and division. No addition or subtraction tables, are taught. While I didn't stress the tables, I showed her how to build them. It is just another tool. Her PS is all based on repetition of number families.
I'm all for new ways to learn. I've incorporated some of those techniques, but I believe in giving more choices, rather than less. I'm not impressed with today's education system. I clearly think it is not superior to 50 years ago. Or 100 years ago. There are some things better. Some things worse. If educators were given a free hand to teach, WOW! The things we might see. But as long as bureaucrats and Politicians decide? Well, need I say more than SOPA and PIPA? DMCA? Post 9/11? DHS? Been to an airport lately?
Lastly, I've recently discovered they don't teach script handwriting anymore in the local Elementary schools? Good thing, I've taught her how already. Otherwise she might never be able to sign her name on those EULAs. Oh Doh! That's right, there's no place to sign an EULA.
You agree by using, or landing on the page from a Google search.
Oh, and BTW, even here in America, Johnny still can't read. It's amazing how many kids today make it out of elementary school and can't read in a proficient manner. Spelling? Forget it! YMMV, depending on the school district. Rich people sending kids to expensive private schools expect results, and guess what? They get them. Same as it was 1000 years ago. Same as it ever was.
According to the EULA, you are not allowed to publish them to any other platform. I think the way it is worded you couldn't even publish it to print format. It's a real nifty lock-in device. Resistance is futile.
1) Any book you create in Apple's wonderful new book maker can only be sold in Apple's digital storefront. Don't forget to read the EULA.
2) Of course they want you to write textbooks. They could then take over the entire College and University Book Store market.
3) Profit!
for Apple.
Where'd you get your Constitutional Law Degree? A Cap'n Crunch Box?
Do the words Ex Post Facto mean nothing to you?
It's bad enough that Congress has found a loophole around it, by some tricky tabling of proposed laws they can't force through this term, only to bring it back again and again until they get the right numbers to pass it. Then they back date it to when the thing was first proposed. That's how Mickey Mouse got to keep his copyright protection.
God Damn how do we fire these Goddamn idiots in the SCOTUS?
Damn 6-3 (and one of the three had to abstains because she worked it as a lawyer!
I wonder how much Disney and Sony and Murdoch paid them?
Maybe Murdoch had tapes on their cell phones?
Criminal Hackers all over the world are working hard to come up with lots of zero day exploits for IPv6. When it finally goes live, they'll have plenty of hacks to bring it down in the first hour.
You are leaving out some important details. Our founding fathers also controlled the local militias, and many of them were also well armed and trained. Not the actual average civilian fighters mind you.
When you get enough of the US military to side with you let us know.
I'm descended from Revolutionary War Patriots. But remember, many of those Patriots had brothers and/or sisters and/or fathers and/or mothers who sided with the British and were either killed or fled to England and Canada. It was so in my family too.
It's one thing to be willing to fight for your beliefs, it's another to be foolhardy and throw your life away.
But, No one really expects The Spanish Inquisition, now do they?