This is a common problem with open source software. The latest "bleeding-edge" version is often actually more stable. Especially for home users (not for servers), the unstable version often work much better than the stable one.
I thik you may be wrong. Many Windows users do not trust Microsoft very much. They use Windows largely because swtching seems too difficult (correct or not).
C) Not that many people in the US are actually interested in watching movies where the women are portrayed as children with blue hair, guys are always "cool" (in a Japanese-thinking sort of way)
May I present you with some examples of animes where women/girls are not portrayed as weak and mindless.
Female heroes
Noir - Main charachters are two female assassins
Last Exile - Battleship commander and plane mechanic
Sekai no Monshou/Senki
Cowboy Bebop
.hack//SIGN
Appleseed
Read or Die
Close to all Ghibli movies
Ordinary girls, who are important and not there just to be cute.
Kare Kano
Azumanga Daioh
Guys who are not that "cool"
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Video Girl Ai
Love Hina - Has the cutish girls too though
Chobits
These are not some obscure animes, they constitute the majority of what I have seen so far.
While I agree that building the ITER is a good idea, you are missreading Greenpeace a bit here. What they are saying is that it will take too long to get commercial fusion reactors (~50 y), so it might be too late to stop the greenhouse effect.
I never understood why home users should not run as admin. All files of any value will be in the user's document folder anyway.
I use a non-root accout on my Linux box because everyone else do so. But I really don't care if my root account get compromised or just my user account. Both are eqally bad.
Technology isn't just one thing. I'm all with you on not letting you kids play the same mindless game forever, but technology can be a lot of things.
Explain how things work to your kids. When you rewire the connections on you TV, show them how it works. Show them more of the computer than just "Click here and play your game". This of course depends on age. For a very young kid, just clicking the mouse is challenging enough.
The article is from a home assignment I had in school were I should summarize the article and comment on it. I thought it was on just the topic you described.
The fundametal laws of physics (quantum physics of elementary particles, general relativity) are CPT symmetric. Thermodynamics, and most macroscopic processes are clearly not. Eggs do not unbreak and such. Still, the macroscopic laws such as the second law of thermodynamics are statistical results of the fundamental laws. That is an interesting difference. Here is an article on the subject:
Basically, the direction of time can be explained by boundary conditions. The fact the universe started with in a specific state (big bang) means entropy has to increase from there.
Yes, free software is inherently better than non-free software, because of the freedom. But good free software i a lot better than bad free software.
And if free software doesn't get the job done, I will do with non-free software. I don't fell I am lossing any freedom by using proprietary software instead of no software at all.
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This is a common problem with open source software. The latest "bleeding-edge" version is often actually more stable. Especially for home users (not for servers), the unstable version often work much better than the stable one.
I thik you may be wrong. Many Windows users do not trust Microsoft very much. They use Windows largely because swtching seems too difficult (correct or not).
I disagree with you. I claim that geeks spell quite well. Not compared to professional witers, but compared to the average non-geek.
Have you ever visited a non-technology forum, or read something written by non-geeks who are not professional writers?
Occational misspellings are nothing compared to texts with completely fucked up grammar and no punctuation.
May I present you with some examples of animes where women/girls are not portrayed as weak and mindless.
These are not some obscure animes, they constitute the majority of what I have seen so far.
Well, not everyone likes anime. Just like everything else. Name any genre or art form, and I can argue that it is simple and stupid.
What is it with slashdot and Apple? Apple's marketshare might rise a little but there is no way Microsoft will "lose their desktop dominance to Apple"
I tried to find more about this, but all I find is a lot of trolling on all kinds of web pages.
I will have to side with the people at Wikipedia. I'd like more proof than a Geocites page by an internet troll.
While I agree that building the ITER is a good idea, you are missreading Greenpeace a bit here. What they are saying is that it will take too long to get commercial fusion reactors (~50 y), so it might be too late to stop the greenhouse effect.
Great that this is finally happening, and not even the U.S.A. backed out.
Yahoo probably have spare rackspace there. I suppose S. Korea has fast lines to Japan anyway.
I never understood why home users should not run as admin. All files of any value will be in the user's document folder anyway.
I use a non-root accout on my Linux box because everyone else do so. But I really don't care if my root account get compromised or just my user account. Both are eqally bad.
Judging from the reaction of the mods, I think I should explain myself.
I have nothing against mathematicians. I just don't think they are the right ones to predict when we will have _working_ quantum computers.
Technology isn't just one thing. I'm all with you on not letting you kids play the same mindless game forever, but technology can be a lot of things.
Explain how things work to your kids. When you rewire the connections on you TV, show them how it works. Show them more of the computer than just "Click here and play your game". This of course depends on age. For a very young kid, just clicking the mouse is challenging enough.
I guess my original post wasn't very clear =)
The article is from a home assignment I had in school were I should summarize the article and comment on it. I thought it was on just the topic you described.
Still better than "We won't tell you what this 20 MB binary patch does, but install it anyway. Trust us."
The fundametal laws of physics (quantum physics of elementary particles, general relativity) are CPT symmetric. Thermodynamics, and most macroscopic processes are clearly not. Eggs do not unbreak and such. Still, the macroscopic laws such as the second law of thermodynamics are statistical results of the fundamental laws. That is an interesting difference. Here is an article on the subject:
http://fy.chalmers.se/tp/TimesArrow.pdf
Basically, the direction of time can be explained by boundary conditions. The fact the universe started with in a specific state (big bang) means entropy has to increase from there.
Is there any kind of definition of "observation"?
Nah, saving energy is unamerican.
And as much as I would prefer living in the south to the north any day, information about North Korea coming from the south is not very reliable.
... when they have proper input devices such as a mouse, and a high resolution screen.
Oh wait, thats the only differences left between a PC and a console.
Yes, a quick search for 'morse' finds it immediately./ 06/2145200
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05
Yes, free software is inherently better than non-free software, because of the freedom. But good free software i a lot better than bad free software.
And if free software doesn't get the job done, I will do with non-free software. I don't fell I am lossing any freedom by using proprietary software instead of no software at all.
BitTorrent still needs to contact the tracker to find out which peers have the file.