Are you sure it's not just delight rather than incredulousness? Tone is rather hard to pick out with just text so you're assuming a lot in your conclusion...
"It was wrong for us to sell keyboards with no ''. We're sorry. We're morons. We're dumber than suirrels. We hear voices and do what they command. I have broccoli in my socks."
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I feel like I should respond to this since most of what you're saying is wrong. Firstly, I am a software developer, so I will only respond to the programming side of what you're saying and not the economic side. Whether it is economically feasable for a company to support Linux probably depends on the company.
Anyway, we're talking about marketing a piece of software here. On Linux there are two choices for distribution. You can do the Windows way and package your software with your own installer, which is what all proprietry games I've installed on Linux do, or you can go through the package distribution of the distro. Lets focus on packaging with an installer.
The only reason why a game wouldn't work with Linux is due to dependencies. If you're concerned about libraries being missing or the wrong version you should package the libraries with the game. This is the Windows way, and the way that all proprietry Linux games I've installed do. When libraries are linked, the directory of the binary file is the first place that is checked, so it is simply a matter of dropping the required library into the directory.
If you do this then the game will run on all distros that have the ability to run those libraries. In other words for most games all distros with a reasonably recent X server and Linux kernel. There is no distro specific code that needs to be run. You do not need to recompile code for a specific distribution.
Linux in this case is actually better than Windows. Windows is strongly dependant on the version of Windows, so a piece of software that runs on Windows XP might not run on Windows Vista. In the case of Linux it is the major version number, so a piece of software that runs on one 2.x.x kernel should run on all 2.x.x kernels. The last major release (2.0.0) was in 1996 according to Wikipedia. Practically however 2.4 and up is a good bet for what will run all latest programs. 2.4 was released in 2001.
You could have read the first couple of paragraphs of the article for clarification. I don't think that you're going to get very far reading pedantic meaning in the words of the summary.
A spacecraft taking off from a private West Texas spaceport being bankrolled and developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos would take off vertically, but unlike NASA's space shuttle would also land vertically, according to an environmental study that offers a glimpse into the secretive plans.
The craft would hit an altitude of about 325,000 feet -- or almost 62 miles -- before descending and restarting its engine for a "precision vertical powered landing on the landing pad" in sparsely populated Culberson County, about 125 miles east of El Paso.
It seems pretty clear it doesn't take off horisontally.
Really? Shuttles aren't VTOL? Exactly how it explains in the first paragraph of the article?
To answer your question, *obviously* it wouldn't be a space plane since it has vertical landing, exactly what this article is about. It is contrasting it to the space shuttle saying that it's *not* like the space shuttle.
I think it's because they regard the high quality of both hardware and support as more important than external documentation.
what's so hard about typing http://?
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I do searches a whole lot more than I browse to single word domains without any periods in them. Is it that much harder typing in the http://porn/ on the off chance that you need to browse to a single word domain rather than clog up the top of the screen with yet another bar?
Though some of the stuff you said is simply wrong, it's mostly correct. The only problem I see is that while history is a great learning lesson you have to realise that the world isn't static, and not only can entities change but the situations around them can change. If this weren't the case then the great empires of the past would still be around.
Looking at recent history, Microsoft hasn't had all that much luck when facing Google. Google's throttled them in search, even when they had MSN search as the default in Internet Explorer. Google Desktop leads and while Google Maps isn't as strong as Map Quest, it still beats MSN maps.
I don't think that simply relying on Microsoft to wipe the floor with all competitors like they used to is a very good idea. You should always look at the current situation and the current entities before becoming prescient and simply saying what has happened will happen.
Ha ha! OK, I admit it, most of my teachings of the schools in America comes from Hollywood films and news reports. Doesn't every American school student carry a knife to school?
(Just as a sidenote: funnily enough, I knew someone who actually did actually carry a knife to my school but he was one of the nicest guys you could meet. Someone tried to rob him once though, and ran away *very* quickly once he knew what he was up against)
Well if we're going to argue metascience, then so be it.
A scientific theory makes specific predictions about natural occurences and so is inherintly falsifiable: if those predictions are wrong then the scientific theory is false. If a scientific theory tells us that if I let go of an apple from two metres in the air it will go up, then that scientific theory is false. Note that there is no "almost right" or "sometimes right", it's either right or wrong. There are some approximate models that we use that are actually false, such as newtonian physics, but that is not "scientifically correct".
So yes, science must always make specific observations on the natural world that, if wrong or inaccurate, can disprove the scientific theory. All science does this. Astrology doesn't, therefore it is not a science.
The entire point of science being falsifiable means that much of what we hold at the moment to be true simply isn't. Probably nearly all of our current scientific theories are inaccurate therefore false. This is why people looked at DDT as good when it wasn't, though I think it's funny that you trash science for this when it was science itself (if the science was questionable - try seriously looking up DDT sometime) that went for the ban of DDT. Of course if I were to take that argument I'd point out how you're using a computer created using pure science to post that message. On the dieticians front, I'm still not sure what you're on about since serious dieticians have been pretty constant for a while. You may be thinking of statistical studies, which is an entirely different game and most definitely not science.
You're probably right that I don't know in detail of the schools. I live in Australia, and though I lived near, but did not go to, quite possibly the worst school in Sydney it's my understanding that even that's nothing like the schools in America. I probably shouldn't have taunted you in my comment when you have highlighted a special case where those facilities would be worth-while, and when I was really arguing against a different point to what you were arguing about.
Though if I can move the conversation on slightly, I don't think it's the case for pretty much all the kids that would use these facilities. I don't think we're talking about poor families who have reason to be afraid for their kid's life or wellbeing, we're talking about families that are rich enough to afford a computer with broadband internet. Even though I personally have this, it's still not a light thing, and I'd think that most families who have this would either not live near the schools you are talking about or have the opportunity to move away to a better school.
And if they have the opportunity to commute to "downtown Chicago" once a week (I'm relying a bit on my bad knowledge of American vernacular here, I think downtown means the centre of the city?) then why can't they travel to another school in Chicago? Surely there'd be some school in Chicago that won't get a child beaten up.
I think chances are the kids going to this place would be much better going to a public school, since it doesn't really give a complete education. Interacting once a week with the kids going to this place isn't enough - you need to be able to interact with the community socially. I believe that is vitally important.
Don't waste too much time on the poor little arts student. Remember he does sociology, not English, so he probably doesn't know the meaning of the word "science" (hint to grandparent, it contains the word "falsifiable").
Bah, some people just don't have a sense of humour and concentrate too much on people teasing them to realise that the same people will tease themselves readily enough. I think that if someone thinks that everyone who makes jokes about them is an elitist arsehole, and that someone can't laugh at himself, then that someone leads a very sad life.
So make sure you keep him snuggled up in bed and don't let him outside in case those bad kids get to him!
I think that you're too worried about the mere possibility of them becoming a bad criminal or getting beat up by them, when if they don't interact with kids of their own age then they're *definitely* going to become pretty fucked up.
I think a much better solution to your problem is to instead try and clean up the schools and get rid of the little arseholes in there.
After all, there's absolutely *no* reason for someone to be at school other than to learn is there? Who cares about forming relationships with other people, learning how to socially interact and getting exercise.
I think that we should just lock our children up until they're twenty one and by then they'll have learnt everything they need!
No it won't. According to the FAQ that's been seen in a few comments here, the EU budget won't change, but the member states will need to contribute less than they would have. In other words, the average tax of Europeans should go down by approx 0.6 euros.
I'd think the numbers would be pretty much hack-proof if one of the factors that you needed to put in the token or hardware device was the target bank account. This would obviously make banking slightly less convenient as you'd have to enter a new number in every time you transfer but it would save a lot of touble and be impervious to this type of attack mentioned in TFA.
This is only for clarification, skip this comment if you're not interested in the termonology of the word "Football":
You have gotten rugby union and league mixed up.
Rugby union is played mostly in commonwealth countries with the most powerful countries being New Zealand, England, South Africa, Australia and pacific islands, and some in the rest of britain, with a bit played in other European countries. It is usually referred to unambiguously as Rugby.
Rugby League is an offshoot of Rugby Union and is mostly played in Australasia with a bit played in Europe, though the Australian team *usually* (unfortunately not always) thrashes any country it comes up against.
As there are four main codes of football in Australia (if you count soccer, which is high in participation with young kids since it's seen by parents as low-contact, but not many people watch professional soccer) we only use the word "Football" or "Footie" with clear context, though in Sydney and Brisbane it usually refers to League, in Canberra it usually refers to Rugby, and in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth it usually refers to AFL/Aussie Rules. So no when people say "Football" or "Footie" in Australia they don't necessarily mean Aussie Rules.
You could also count Gailic football and there's the two slightly different American and Canadian types of Gridiron.
Is that funny? I thought the answer was that we want Microsoft to backport it so that there's no real reason to get Vista... After all, we don't *want* to spend several hundred dollars on an upgrade...
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Are you sure it's not just delight rather than incredulousness? Tone is rather hard to pick out with just text so you're assuming a lot in your conclusion...
That should really be:
"It was wrong for us to sell keyboards with no ''. We're sorry. We're morons. We're dumber than suirrels. We hear voices and do what they command. I have broccoli in my socks."
I feel like I should respond to this since most of what you're saying is wrong. Firstly, I am a software developer, so I will only respond to the programming side of what you're saying and not the economic side. Whether it is economically feasable for a company to support Linux probably depends on the company.
Anyway, we're talking about marketing a piece of software here. On Linux there are two choices for distribution. You can do the Windows way and package your software with your own installer, which is what all proprietry games I've installed on Linux do, or you can go through the package distribution of the distro. Lets focus on packaging with an installer.
The only reason why a game wouldn't work with Linux is due to dependencies. If you're concerned about libraries being missing or the wrong version you should package the libraries with the game. This is the Windows way, and the way that all proprietry Linux games I've installed do. When libraries are linked, the directory of the binary file is the first place that is checked, so it is simply a matter of dropping the required library into the directory.
If you do this then the game will run on all distros that have the ability to run those libraries. In other words for most games all distros with a reasonably recent X server and Linux kernel. There is no distro specific code that needs to be run. You do not need to recompile code for a specific distribution.
Linux in this case is actually better than Windows. Windows is strongly dependant on the version of Windows, so a piece of software that runs on Windows XP might not run on Windows Vista. In the case of Linux it is the major version number, so a piece of software that runs on one 2.x.x kernel should run on all 2.x.x kernels. The last major release (2.0.0) was in 1996 according to Wikipedia. Practically however 2.4 and up is a good bet for what will run all latest programs. 2.4 was released in 2001.
You could have read the first couple of paragraphs of the article for clarification. I don't think that you're going to get very far reading pedantic meaning in the words of the summary.
A spacecraft taking off from a private West Texas spaceport being bankrolled and developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos would take off vertically, but unlike NASA's space shuttle would also land vertically, according to an environmental study that offers a glimpse into the secretive plans.
The craft would hit an altitude of about 325,000 feet -- or almost 62 miles -- before descending and restarting its engine for a "precision vertical powered landing on the landing pad" in sparsely populated Culberson County, about 125 miles east of El Paso.
It seems pretty clear it doesn't take off horisontally.
Really? Shuttles aren't VTOL? Exactly how it explains in the first paragraph of the article?
To answer your question, *obviously* it wouldn't be a space plane since it has vertical landing, exactly what this article is about. It is contrasting it to the space shuttle saying that it's *not* like the space shuttle.
I think it's because they regard the high quality of both hardware and support as more important than external documentation.
I do searches a whole lot more than I browse to single word domains without any periods in them. Is it that much harder typing in the http://porn/ on the off chance that you need to browse to a single word domain rather than clog up the top of the screen with yet another bar?
Though some of the stuff you said is simply wrong, it's mostly correct. The only problem I see is that while history is a great learning lesson you have to realise that the world isn't static, and not only can entities change but the situations around them can change. If this weren't the case then the great empires of the past would still be around.
Looking at recent history, Microsoft hasn't had all that much luck when facing Google. Google's throttled them in search, even when they had MSN search as the default in Internet Explorer. Google Desktop leads and while Google Maps isn't as strong as Map Quest, it still beats MSN maps.
I don't think that simply relying on Microsoft to wipe the floor with all competitors like they used to is a very good idea. You should always look at the current situation and the current entities before becoming prescient and simply saying what has happened will happen.
Ha ha! OK, I admit it, most of my teachings of the schools in America comes from Hollywood films and news reports. Doesn't every American school student carry a knife to school?
(Just as a sidenote: funnily enough, I knew someone who actually did actually carry a knife to my school but he was one of the nicest guys you could meet. Someone tried to rob him once though, and ran away *very* quickly once he knew what he was up against)
Well if we're going to argue metascience, then so be it.
A scientific theory makes specific predictions about natural occurences and so is inherintly falsifiable: if those predictions are wrong then the scientific theory is false. If a scientific theory tells us that if I let go of an apple from two metres in the air it will go up, then that scientific theory is false. Note that there is no "almost right" or "sometimes right", it's either right or wrong. There are some approximate models that we use that are actually false, such as newtonian physics, but that is not "scientifically correct".
So yes, science must always make specific observations on the natural world that, if wrong or inaccurate, can disprove the scientific theory. All science does this. Astrology doesn't, therefore it is not a science.
The entire point of science being falsifiable means that much of what we hold at the moment to be true simply isn't. Probably nearly all of our current scientific theories are inaccurate therefore false. This is why people looked at DDT as good when it wasn't, though I think it's funny that you trash science for this when it was science itself (if the science was questionable - try seriously looking up DDT sometime) that went for the ban of DDT. Of course if I were to take that argument I'd point out how you're using a computer created using pure science to post that message. On the dieticians front, I'm still not sure what you're on about since serious dieticians have been pretty constant for a while. You may be thinking of statistical studies, which is an entirely different game and most definitely not science.
You're probably right that I don't know in detail of the schools. I live in Australia, and though I lived near, but did not go to, quite possibly the worst school in Sydney it's my understanding that even that's nothing like the schools in America. I probably shouldn't have taunted you in my comment when you have highlighted a special case where those facilities would be worth-while, and when I was really arguing against a different point to what you were arguing about.
Though if I can move the conversation on slightly, I don't think it's the case for pretty much all the kids that would use these facilities. I don't think we're talking about poor families who have reason to be afraid for their kid's life or wellbeing, we're talking about families that are rich enough to afford a computer with broadband internet. Even though I personally have this, it's still not a light thing, and I'd think that most families who have this would either not live near the schools you are talking about or have the opportunity to move away to a better school.
And if they have the opportunity to commute to "downtown Chicago" once a week (I'm relying a bit on my bad knowledge of American vernacular here, I think downtown means the centre of the city?) then why can't they travel to another school in Chicago? Surely there'd be some school in Chicago that won't get a child beaten up.
I think chances are the kids going to this place would be much better going to a public school, since it doesn't really give a complete education. Interacting once a week with the kids going to this place isn't enough - you need to be able to interact with the community socially. I believe that is vitally important.
Don't waste too much time on the poor little arts student. Remember he does sociology, not English, so he probably doesn't know the meaning of the word "science" (hint to grandparent, it contains the word "falsifiable").
Bah, some people just don't have a sense of humour and concentrate too much on people teasing them to realise that the same people will tease themselves readily enough. I think that if someone thinks that everyone who makes jokes about them is an elitist arsehole, and that someone can't laugh at himself, then that someone leads a very sad life.
So make sure you keep him snuggled up in bed and don't let him outside in case those bad kids get to him!
I think that you're too worried about the mere possibility of them becoming a bad criminal or getting beat up by them, when if they don't interact with kids of their own age then they're *definitely* going to become pretty fucked up.
I think a much better solution to your problem is to instead try and clean up the schools and get rid of the little arseholes in there.
After all, there's absolutely *no* reason for someone to be at school other than to learn is there? Who cares about forming relationships with other people, learning how to socially interact and getting exercise.
I think that we should just lock our children up until they're twenty one and by then they'll have learnt everything they need!
No it won't. According to the FAQ that's been seen in a few comments here, the EU budget won't change, but the member states will need to contribute less than they would have. In other words, the average tax of Europeans should go down by approx 0.6 euros.
I'd think the numbers would be pretty much hack-proof if one of the factors that you needed to put in the token or hardware device was the target bank account. This would obviously make banking slightly less convenient as you'd have to enter a new number in every time you transfer but it would save a lot of touble and be impervious to this type of attack mentioned in TFA.
Poor guy, you have to be using Windows with Windows Media Player to get the popup. You should convert your computer to Windows immediately.
This is only for clarification, skip this comment if you're not interested in the termonology of the word "Football":
You have gotten rugby union and league mixed up.
Rugby union is played mostly in commonwealth countries with the most powerful countries being New Zealand, England, South Africa, Australia and pacific islands, and some in the rest of britain, with a bit played in other European countries. It is usually referred to unambiguously as Rugby.
Rugby League is an offshoot of Rugby Union and is mostly played in Australasia with a bit played in Europe, though the Australian team *usually* (unfortunately not always) thrashes any country it comes up against.
As there are four main codes of football in Australia (if you count soccer, which is high in participation with young kids since it's seen by parents as low-contact, but not many people watch professional soccer) we only use the word "Football" or "Footie" with clear context, though in Sydney and Brisbane it usually refers to League, in Canberra it usually refers to Rugby, and in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth it usually refers to AFL/Aussie Rules. So no when people say "Football" or "Footie" in Australia they don't necessarily mean Aussie Rules.
You could also count Gailic football and there's the two slightly different American and Canadian types of Gridiron.
Apart from that there's also indoor soccer.
Wait a second, does that mean that the wild speculation that was on Slashdot a month or so ago was actually right?
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I'm just stunned, flabberghasted.
You wouldn't happen to have had a car crash lately? Just thought I might ask. Not with a minivan or something?
Personally, I think protein folding is lame because I know that the IP generated is going to be locked up for the next 70 years.
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Do you? I think that perhaps linking to another comment about the same topic that sounds like the guy knows more than me would be better here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189760&cid=15
Is that funny? I thought the answer was that we want Microsoft to backport it so that there's no real reason to get Vista... After all, we don't *want* to spend several hundred dollars on an upgrade...
Bah maybe I just can't read. I saw the euro symbol and read that as pounds - incidentely I need to raise the font size on my computer.
Pounds.
You know you *could* have clicked on the article to find out... I know that's way more effort than the average reader is capable of.