"Trash music is everywhere. It is hard to listen to good music nowadays, be it in the radio, the clubs, or the stupid loud car sound systems around the city."
"Why is that? Maybe it has to do with the music industry being overwhelmed by these favela freeloader fuckers with no music talent but with a beat box and the street commerce that is driving artists to a difficult situation..."
Or, maybe, it is because our music "industry" stopped searching for talents when radios and television started to want to be paid for transimiting a music (jabá, did you heard anything about that?), instead of paying for it.
Of course, the guilty from this situation is exactly the music "industry", that started to make offers to spread their music trought the media. That lead every radio station that didn't take the offer out of business (who can compete when some of them don't need comercials?).
By the time Axé was starting to dominate the media, people still used to buy CDs. After a trash band started to appear every odd week, and vanish every even one, people sudenly stopped to care about bands. And that was not technology related, because software piracy is much older than music around here, people simply used to buy CDs, even when technology perrmited then to copy it.
I had to check what UnitedLinux is... But who the hell wrote that page? It should be in brazilian portuguese (all the PR is in it), but look at the title...
Linux is not stable. Linux implements changes and gives you the option to use them. Alternatively, you can keep doing everything the way you are used to.
That is important, because a system that doesn't change stagnates, and software that doesn't change stagnates very fast. Linux gets bleeding edge of UI design (directly from researches' ongoing works) and stable environments (that don't have visible changes for decadees) at the same time. But most people seem to like a middle grond more.
Of course, that is only an argument if one assumes that Macs work better than the other two, what depends on the kind of use and user the computer will have.
Inserting a hidden assumption into the argument is a quite used logical falacy... It makes dishonest argumentation looks like it is reliable.
1 pico watt is still 1.6e8 eV/s. See, a huge number. A hypotetical nano-assembly powered by that could ionize near 6.5e7 hydrogen atoms per second, and, while 250nm is a bit big for such application, you could still put 4e6 such machines in a centimeter, leading to 26e13 atoms/(s cm).
Of course, everything depends on how long is the cell. You got 10cm from nowhere, it would even be hard to make it that long. If you are right about the length, it is useless. But if its length is 4 times bigger than the width, you'd get 1e6 such things on a centimeter, getting 26e19 atoms/(s cm^2), what is 26 mols every 10.000 seconds on a square centimeter, or 26 mols every second on a square meter.
As I said, everything depends on the length. But if I had to speculate its length, I'd say that is quite an impressive cell. Not useless.
So am I. Public servants here can retire receiving 100% of their salary (that is normaly less than 50% of their income, mind you, but still often bigger than R$ 2400), but they contribute proportionaly to the salary, not to the R$ 2400 limit that private workers contribute.
Also, for the same retiring income, public servants contribute 37% more than private workers.
Public servants are priviledged. They receive good salaries, have stability and the alternative of retiring on their full salary (not their full income). But their are not priviledged on the amount of time and money they contribute, except for political ones.
Not to disapoint you, but soft-link recursion is a solved problem. You simply manage them differently from hard links and it becomes easy to detect cycles at the directory graph.
But for copying files, you simply copy the soft links. Why did you even consider parsing them?
"Windows wastes time scanning the source directory for no apparent reason since it won't tell you you have insufficient disk space to complete the operation until the target drive runs out of disk space..."
No. When removing a file, Windows will always tell you beforehand if you lack disk space for the operation. It is a feature, stop complaining.
Well, except for isolated islands, no dot has ever gone away. Never.
When disiase striked entire populations, they fast growed back or were replaced by other populations. When wars killed most people was when population growed faster.
Prision is the punishment for willfuly evadind taxes around here. Why should Cisco be different?
And they are free to take their investiment home any time they want, but those foreign companies don't seem very wiling to do that... Maybe they are stupid, or there is some other reason.
"If only we would shoot all public servants in the street, Brazil could be the richest country in the world,"
Or idiots that vote and spread uninformed campaigns around. Based on the fact that the "public servants" that can retire after 8 years of work are all elected*, why aren't you pressing them to change that fact?
* Non-elected public servants can olny retire after 30-35 years of work, like private initiative workers. And they contribute 37.5% more than private workers for that benefit.
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Or, maybe, it is because our music "industry" stopped searching for talents when radios and television started to want to be paid for transimiting a music (jabá, did you heard anything about that?), instead of paying for it.
Of course, the guilty from this situation is exactly the music "industry", that started to make offers to spread their music trought the media. That lead every radio station that didn't take the offer out of business (who can compete when some of them don't need comercials?).
By the time Axé was starting to dominate the media, people still used to buy CDs. After a trash band started to appear every odd week, and vanish every even one, people sudenly stopped to care about bands. And that was not technology related, because software piracy is much older than music around here, people simply used to buy CDs, even when technology perrmited then to copy it.
Hey, I have a distro!!!
Of course, nobody (not even me) uses it nowadays, but that doesn't seem to stop Microsoft, so how do I get a paychek?
I had to check what UnitedLinux is... But who the hell wrote that page? It should be in brazilian portuguese (all the PR is in it), but look at the title...
It is easy to agree on not suing nobody...
Linux is not stable. Linux implements changes and gives you the option to use them. Alternatively, you can keep doing everything the way you are used to.
That is important, because a system that doesn't change stagnates, and software that doesn't change stagnates very fast. Linux gets bleeding edge of UI design (directly from researches' ongoing works) and stable environments (that don't have visible changes for decadees) at the same time. But most people seem to like a middle grond more.
No, but they do emit a lot of phonons.
Please, don't stop there. We should lobby to the abolishment of paper and pencils.
Now, that is something I have to agree with.
Of course, that is only an argument if one assumes that Macs work better than the other two, what depends on the kind of use and user the computer will have.
Inserting a hidden assumption into the argument is a quite used logical falacy... It makes dishonest argumentation looks like it is reliable.
Windows boxes are getting more secure all the time.
But we can only guess when they will be ready for widespread use...
1 pico watt is still 1.6e8 eV/s. See, a huge number. A hypotetical nano-assembly powered by that could ionize near 6.5e7 hydrogen atoms per second, and, while 250nm is a bit big for such application, you could still put 4e6 such machines in a centimeter, leading to 26e13 atoms/(s cm).
Of course, everything depends on how long is the cell. You got 10cm from nowhere, it would even be hard to make it that long. If you are right about the length, it is useless. But if its length is 4 times bigger than the width, you'd get 1e6 such things on a centimeter, getting 26e19 atoms/(s cm^2), what is 26 mols every 10.000 seconds on a square centimeter, or 26 mols every second on a square meter.
As I said, everything depends on the length. But if I had to speculate its length, I'd say that is quite an impressive cell. Not useless.
But for copying it is trivial.
So am I. Public servants here can retire receiving 100% of their salary (that is normaly less than 50% of their income, mind you, but still often bigger than R$ 2400), but they contribute proportionaly to the salary, not to the R$ 2400 limit that private workers contribute.
Also, for the same retiring income, public servants contribute 37% more than private workers.
Public servants are priviledged. They receive good salaries, have stability and the alternative of retiring on their full salary (not their full income). But their are not priviledged on the amount of time and money they contribute, except for political ones.
Not to disapoint you, but soft-link recursion is a solved problem. You simply manage them differently from hard links and it becomes easy to detect cycles at the directory graph.
But for copying files, you simply copy the soft links. Why did you even consider parsing them?
No. When removing a file, Windows will always tell you beforehand if you lack disk space for the operation. It is a feature, stop complaining.
It is funny, just for another king of geeks.
Write <. And > will get you a ">"
Well, except for isolated islands, no dot has ever gone away. Never.
When disiase striked entire populations, they fast growed back or were replaced by other populations. When wars killed most people was when population growed faster.
The fact that TCP/IP had no patents on it and was implemented on free (BSD) code contributed a little...
Brazil is an observer, not a permanent member. I don't know the status of the other countries, but they were listed recently at /. and Grocklaw.
Well, the FSF itself is an Extend, Embrace, Extinguish act against copyrights... And that before Microsoft started using it.
But FOSS is doing it for a better world, destroying what makes it bad. Microsoft is doing it for the money, destroying the competition.
4. Call the police. But that is only an option if you are honest (and have some money to spend at the justice process)...
Prision is the punishment for willfuly evadind taxes around here. Why should Cisco be different?
And they are free to take their investiment home any time they want, but those foreign companies don't seem very wiling to do that... Maybe they are stupid, or there is some other reason.
Of course you aren't... A brazilian would start laughing after they read the troll, not answer it.
At least, I am :)
Or idiots that vote and spread uninformed campaigns around. Based on the fact that the "public servants" that can retire after 8 years of work are all elected*, why aren't you pressing them to change that fact?
* Non-elected public servants can olny retire after 30-35 years of work, like private initiative workers. And they contribute 37.5% more than private workers for that benefit.