Re:Binary computers? How long before base4 compute
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DNA Goes Binary
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This would have no noticable impact as any value can already be represented in binary. If you have 12 values, you also have to have the sensitivity to distinguish between those 12 values and transmit them across any given medium. This is too tedious, and leaves a lot of chance for error. By computing in binary you simplify it. You have +5v and -5V, on or off, +5 or +0, etc.
Are You Daft?
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802.11 RF Amp
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It is just a repeater. It doesn't broadcast at any greater strength than your typical 802.11b access point, all it does is repeat whatever it picks up, thus increasing the range.
This may seem heavy-handed, but most of the stuff they're uploading is probably copyrighted, and hence illegal to share. So, really all the ISP is doing is banning people from breakng the law. Just because you don't agree with a law doesn't make it ok to break it with impunity - if that was the case, nobody would drive the speed limit.
They are also stifling legal uses such as freely distributable bootlegs, indy music from bands that want everyone to download a copy etc. Sure, most of it may be trouble, but this hampers legitimate use as well.
You will never see six weeks paid vacation in the U.S. Probably even if you are some kind of C.E.O. (you may be able to get away with it, but it wouldn't be in writing). America is very investor driven. Investors don't like to see the words paid and vacation in the same sentence.
You are talking about an economic structure that has been in a recession for the past 10 years.
First off, ten years is an exaggeration. The Japanese economy has ups and downs just like any other. Also, just like any other modern economy, they are much better off now, than they were 50 years ago. Short ups and downs, but over a lengthened period of times, even the great depression looks harmless.
Secondly, you are evaluating this based only on dollars, not on people. I think there is a lot to be said for loyalty, both to, and from, a company. Trading in high pay for job security can be a wise decision, and it is much better to work for someone that wants you, not just tolerates you because you are needed (temporarily, more than likely).
I really believe this is true. The focus is too much on management, and not on employees. I have friend whose father works in the oil business. One day I was eating with him and his father and the man was complaining about practices in a company he was doing some work for. Apparently the company was laying people off. However, they were only firing workers. The past year they had spent hiring managers. His point was that the company was becoming so top heavy it was hardly functional. They didn't have enough people to get the work done one time or correctly any more, just a whole lot of managers with nobody to manage.
In contrast I look at Japanese companies and the way they operate. These companies will operate at a loss and refuse to fire workers simply to keep them happy! A professor once told me of a Japanese company that many extra workers and not enough projects to keep them busy. So, they just had the workers build an amusement park, for no other reason than to keep them employed! The company actually moved into a new market, and made a large, gambling investment, just to keep their workers happy! I would kill to work for someone who wanted me to work for them that much!
Bioware is making a Linux client because they promised it. They originally said it would ship at launch! Linux installer and all, right there when you bought the disc. I am glad they are standing by their promise to make a linux client, but you must understand why people would be upset. There are people who bought the game on the good faith that a linux client would be released shortly. It wasn't.
Re:I will evaluate this from a lover's perspective
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Google vs. Evil
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Because masturbation is usually a hurry-up job, a woman learns to bring herself to ejaculation very quickly.
Now if only porn could teach me to bring a woman to ejaculation very quickly, I'd be some sort geek superhero. Until then though, I'll have to stick to having my face in the forest for 15-30 minutes.
The key problem with linux (for a new user) is how difficult it is to add and remove software. I am a new user, and so is my younger brother. For both of us, that is what we have trouble with, so I would say that this is 2/2. Both of us quite computer competent.
Now the question, does a standard model directory setup help in the installation and removal of programs? Well, yes and no. Putting all important files under the same prefixes across all distributions helps a lot. However, the fact that each distribution ends up using whatever is the newest version of gcc when it is released, etc, still leaves it difficult to install across all platforms, especially when compiling from source. The way I see it, UnitedLinux is good, but does not go far enough (yet) to address all of the really important issues.
With cloning, I can make the argument that if I create an embryo that uses entirely my dna, that embryo is an extension of me. Those cells are not only mine, they are in fact me. I think what needs to be done is a determination of when that embryo (if allowed to grow) stops being me, and starts being himself.
I would argue that until the point of sentience, the embryo is me. If stem cells from me #2 are used to heal a disease in me #1, it is all good. I may not always like myself, but I do love myself, and want myself to live.
Re:Cops with terminals instead of PCs
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Right... because you have to have a pc with you to give a ticket? Now I am sure officers have been writing traffic tickets in this country for a long, long time. Long before the personal computer was ever even considered. Hell, Gates got one before Windows was even gleam in his eye.
Re:Local and state governments
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it would be really hard to justify spending money on migrating systems for future preceived savings.
That is why migration should not be sudden, but rather a process. Slowly integrate OSS machines into the network (chances are the webservers are already running linux or a bsd) and then eventually kill off commercial machines you don't want anymore. That kind of migration is, in my opinion, the best. Sudden change scares people. But a slow, methodical shift keeps everyone happy.
It's not a physical [sic]"addition" and it's insulting to people with real [sic]additions.
I believe this statement is too harsh. There are two types of addiction: physical and emotional. Nearly anything can form an emotional addiction, and so someone CAN be addicted to something without it having physical sway. Just look at marijuana? It is impossible to form a physical dependancy on it, but I've known people with emotional ones before... plenty. Look at gambling, it is clearly a very real addiction.
Secondly, just because someone spends a lot of time playing online does not make them lazy. Someone who plays a lot of games can still go to school and make better grades than a non-gamer, go to work and do better work than someone who doesn't gamble. These are completely separate issues and should not be lumped together. Overall you are showing your ignorance to the subject. In fact, I would bet you have addictions of your own (from what I can tell everyone does). You just don't care to understand yourself, and therefore others.
An open network is not "insecure." It is designed to allow anyone access. Security is about keeping people out of what you don't want them getting into. If you are sharing your bandwidth freely then there is no need for security, because by definition there is nothing restricted.
This reasoning behind this is ridiculous. If you outlaw anything a "terrorist" could use, well, that is anything a normal person could use as well. It may be helpful for terrorists to find an open 802.11b network. Why? Because it is usefull for ANYONE with a properly equipped computer to find one.
In short, I don't understand why the existing installer gets so much flak. I'll admit dselect stinks for too many reasons to list here, and I find tasksel to be over-generalized. Therefore, I recommend that people search for packages [debian.org] they want, and install them with apt-get after the installation procedure.
The reason the installer gets so much flak is that MOST people like hardware detection. MOST people enjoy a graphical interface where they click on the packages they want to install and click go, or even just click a default system button, and go on with their life. I do not know why you would knock such handy features because they only add value. Most distros still offer the choice of doing a command line install. If you like to install piece by piece that is your choice. Just install the base kernel, shell, and apt, and get everything else. As for me, I'll stick with my GUI installer, thank you very much.
Mozilla development is ongoing. Phoenix is a separate project. A project that actually optimizes Mozilla (just like you are talking about). I like Phoenix better than Mozilla.
I understand your disagreement with some of the things that happen with Mozilla. But either educate yourself or shut your damn mouth about things you have no knowledge.
When all of the competitors in a market are OSS*, more product choice does not equal more freedom. That's kinda what the GPL is all about -- one person (or company) can't run off with the source and deprive the OSS community of the best piece of ______ software it ever had. On the contrary -- with the need normally satisfied by inter-product competition is taken resolved in another way, more product choice equals more confusion. Users like to get comfortable with a method for accomplishing a task and stick to it. "How do I create a new spreadsheet, again?" is not a question users want to have to ask more than once every five years; if they're forced to, they'll go back to what they were already comfortable with.
This is not a good argument. You act as if just because the software were released everyone would use it. That isn't true. People who like and prefer open office would continue to use it. In fact, the secretary who only uses the computer to take dictation from her boss would never even know it had been released unless she was forced to switch. The simple truth is, either it would be better, and a lot of people would sitch. Or it would blow, and nobody would start using. It certainly can't hurt anything.
Open office is the worst office suite I have ever used, and I am not even kidding. Any time spent working on open office is wasted unless it is spent chopping out useless code, and optimizing various slow processes. Also the default look of pages needs to be more beautiful, and the font's need a lot of work. I would always rather use KOffice than open office. The only thing open office is useful for is busting open that random.doc document that shows up in your inbox. Otherwise it is a slow, bloated, disgusting piece of shit, that makes linux feel and behave as if broken when trying to accomplish any useful word processing.
I totally agree that MS Office is a good product. It is the best office suite there is, bar none. But I disagree about the total reason poeple use it. I think they use it because schools and universities get pulled in by Microsoft, and it becomes the default office product on school and campus. Since that is what everyone learns there, they continue to use it in the business world, and on, and on. It is the same as with.net. It may be easier to program with.net than any other programming environment, but that isn't the reason it's popular.
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This would have no noticable impact as any value can already be represented in binary. If you have 12 values, you also have to have the sensitivity to distinguish between those 12 values and transmit them across any given medium. This is too tedious, and leaves a lot of chance for error. By computing in binary you simplify it. You have +5v and -5V, on or off, +5 or +0, etc.
It is just a repeater. It doesn't broadcast at any greater strength than your typical 802.11b access point, all it does is repeat whatever it picks up, thus increasing the range.
This may seem heavy-handed, but most of the stuff they're uploading is probably copyrighted, and hence illegal to share. So, really all the ISP is doing is banning people from breakng the law. Just because you don't agree with a law doesn't make it ok to break it with impunity - if that was the case, nobody would drive the speed limit.
They are also stifling legal uses such as freely distributable bootlegs, indy music from bands that want everyone to download a copy etc. Sure, most of it may be trouble, but this hampers legitimate use as well.
For me, if CDs cost $5-$10 I would never mess around with Kazaa,
But where would you find your porn?
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TWO WEEKS paid vacations, a year.
You will never see six weeks paid vacation in the U.S. Probably even if you are some kind of C.E.O. (you may be able to get away with it, but it wouldn't be in writing). America is very investor driven. Investors don't like to see the words paid and vacation in the same sentence.
You are talking about an economic structure that has been in a recession for the past 10 years.
First off, ten years is an exaggeration. The Japanese economy has ups and downs just like any other. Also, just like any other modern economy, they are much better off now, than they were 50 years ago. Short ups and downs, but over a lengthened period of times, even the great depression looks harmless.
Secondly, you are evaluating this based only on dollars, not on people. I think there is a lot to be said for loyalty, both to, and from, a company. Trading in high pay for job security can be a wise decision, and it is much better to work for someone that wants you, not just tolerates you because you are needed (temporarily, more than likely).
I really believe this is true. The focus is too much on management, and not on employees. I have friend whose father works in the oil business. One day I was eating with him and his father and the man was complaining about practices in a company he was doing some work for. Apparently the company was laying people off. However, they were only firing workers. The past year they had spent hiring managers. His point was that the company was becoming so top heavy it was hardly functional. They didn't have enough people to get the work done one time or correctly any more, just a whole lot of managers with nobody to manage.
In contrast I look at Japanese companies and the way they operate. These companies will operate at a loss and refuse to fire workers simply to keep them happy! A professor once told me of a Japanese company that many extra workers and not enough projects to keep them busy. So, they just had the workers build an amusement park, for no other reason than to keep them employed! The company actually moved into a new market, and made a large, gambling investment, just to keep their workers happy! I would kill to work for someone who wanted me to work for them that much!
Bioware is making a Linux client because they promised it. They originally said it would ship at launch! Linux installer and all, right there when you bought the disc. I am glad they are standing by their promise to make a linux client, but you must understand why people would be upset. There are people who bought the game on the good faith that a linux client would be released shortly. It wasn't.
Because masturbation is usually a hurry-up job, a woman learns to bring herself to ejaculation very quickly.
Now if only porn could teach me to bring a woman to ejaculation very quickly, I'd be some sort geek superhero. Until then though, I'll have to stick to having my face in the forest for 15-30 minutes.
The key problem with linux (for a new user) is how difficult it is to add and remove software. I am a new user, and so is my younger brother. For both of us, that is what we have trouble with, so I would say that this is 2/2. Both of us quite computer competent.
Now the question, does a standard model directory setup help in the installation and removal of programs? Well, yes and no. Putting all important files under the same prefixes across all distributions helps a lot. However, the fact that each distribution ends up using whatever is the newest version of gcc when it is released, etc, still leaves it difficult to install across all platforms, especially when compiling from source. The way I see it, UnitedLinux is good, but does not go far enough (yet) to address all of the really important issues.
I would make an embryonic clone of myself and allow it to be used for research. After all, it is me.
With cloning, I can make the argument that if I create an embryo that uses entirely my dna, that embryo is an extension of me. Those cells are not only mine, they are in fact me. I think what needs to be done is a determination of when that embryo (if allowed to grow) stops being me, and starts being himself.
I would argue that until the point of sentience, the embryo is me. If stem cells from me #2 are used to heal a disease in me #1, it is all good. I may not always like myself, but I do love myself, and want myself to live.
Right... because you have to have a pc with you to give a ticket? Now I am sure officers have been writing traffic tickets in this country for a long, long time. Long before the personal computer was ever even considered. Hell, Gates got one before Windows was even gleam in his eye.
it would be really hard to justify spending money on migrating systems for future preceived savings.
That is why migration should not be sudden, but rather a process. Slowly integrate OSS machines into the network (chances are the webservers are already running linux or a bsd) and then eventually kill off commercial machines you don't want anymore. That kind of migration is, in my opinion, the best. Sudden change scares people. But a slow, methodical shift keeps everyone happy.
It's not a physical [sic]"addition" and it's insulting to people with real [sic]additions.
I believe this statement is too harsh. There are two types of addiction: physical and emotional. Nearly anything can form an emotional addiction, and so someone CAN be addicted to something without it having physical sway. Just look at marijuana? It is impossible to form a physical dependancy on it, but I've known people with emotional ones before... plenty. Look at gambling, it is clearly a very real addiction.
Secondly, just because someone spends a lot of time playing online does not make them lazy. Someone who plays a lot of games can still go to school and make better grades than a non-gamer, go to work and do better work than someone who doesn't gamble. These are completely separate issues and should not be lumped together. Overall you are showing your ignorance to the subject. In fact, I would bet you have addictions of your own (from what I can tell everyone does). You just don't care to understand yourself, and therefore others.
I don't know of anyone who failed out of school or became an antisocial shut-in because of Quake or Counterstrike.
Tell this to the 24 year old South Korean man who died in his chair after playing CounterStrike for 72 hours straight.
An open network is not "insecure." It is designed to allow anyone access. Security is about keeping people out of what you don't want them getting into. If you are sharing your bandwidth freely then there is no need for security, because by definition there is nothing restricted.
This reasoning behind this is ridiculous. If you outlaw anything a "terrorist" could use, well, that is anything a normal person could use as well. It may be helpful for terrorists to find an open 802.11b network. Why? Because it is usefull for ANYONE with a properly equipped computer to find one.
In short, I don't understand why the existing installer gets so much flak. I'll admit dselect stinks for too many reasons to list here, and I find tasksel to be over-generalized. Therefore, I recommend that people search for packages [debian.org] they want, and install them with apt-get after the installation procedure.
The reason the installer gets so much flak is that MOST people like hardware detection. MOST people enjoy a graphical interface where they click on the packages they want to install and click go, or even just click a default system button, and go on with their life. I do not know why you would knock such handy features because they only add value. Most distros still offer the choice of doing a command line install. If you like to install piece by piece that is your choice. Just install the base kernel, shell, and apt, and get everything else. As for me, I'll stick with my GUI installer, thank you very much.
Mozilla development is ongoing. Phoenix is a separate project. A project that actually optimizes Mozilla (just like you are talking about). I like Phoenix better than Mozilla.
I understand your disagreement with some of the things that happen with Mozilla. But either educate yourself or shut your damn mouth about things you have no knowledge.
When all of the competitors in a market are OSS*, more product choice does not equal more freedom. That's kinda what the GPL is all about -- one person (or company) can't run off with the source and deprive the OSS community of the best piece of ______ software it ever had. On the contrary -- with the need normally satisfied by inter-product competition is taken resolved in another way, more product choice equals more confusion. Users like to get comfortable with a method for accomplishing a task and stick to it. "How do I create a new spreadsheet, again?" is not a question users want to have to ask more than once every five years; if they're forced to, they'll go back to what they were already comfortable with. This is not a good argument. You act as if just because the software were released everyone would use it. That isn't true. People who like and prefer open office would continue to use it. In fact, the secretary who only uses the computer to take dictation from her boss would never even know it had been released unless she was forced to switch. The simple truth is, either it would be better, and a lot of people would sitch. Or it would blow, and nobody would start using. It certainly can't hurt anything.
Open office is the worst office suite I have ever used, and I am not even kidding. Any time spent working on open office is wasted unless it is spent chopping out useless code, and optimizing various slow processes. Also the default look of pages needs to be more beautiful, and the font's need a lot of work. I would always rather use KOffice than open office. The only thing open office is useful for is busting open that random .doc document that shows up in your inbox. Otherwise it is a slow, bloated, disgusting piece of shit, that makes linux feel and behave as if broken when trying to accomplish any useful word processing.
I totally agree that MS Office is a good product. It is the best office suite there is, bar none. But I disagree about the total reason poeple use it. I think they use it because schools and universities get pulled in by Microsoft, and it becomes the default office product on school and campus. Since that is what everyone learns there, they continue to use it in the business world, and on, and on. It is the same as with .net. It may be easier to program with .net than any other programming environment, but that isn't the reason it's popular.
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