1) The scientists have the data, so 2) they must know more about the data than we do, so 3) we should trust them implicitly in their interpretations of that data.
You're way off the mark here. First of all EVERYONE trusts authority figures for information. This is basic psychology and human development. It's not possible to know everything about everything. The more important thing is to trust the RIGHT authority figures. Some of us choose to trust the scientists because it is their job to look into these things, have their information peer reviewed, and find problems with other studies and data. We find this is the best way to ascertain information. I cannot possibly believe that any corporation or journalist or economic study group is more of an authority on this subject but maybe you can.
This does not follow, because it totally ignores that the scientists with the data may have intrinsic bias, or even that they could be wrong. This is exactly why when you get a diagnosis from a doctor that says "Operate!", you get a second opinion.
The fact that 95% of scientists agree that global warming is real and is being caused by industrial activity from humans should be good enough. That's like 95% of doctors agreeing with your original diagnosis.
I thought we had an article about this phenomenon a while back. It turns out that people are so used to listening to music in MP3 format that it sounds "better" to them. It's really just familiarity. I have used FLAC for years and I can tell the difference with crappy headphones on my "MP3" player when I copy some MP3's from my girlfriend's computer.
You can't consider Mono a replacement when it leaves out a major reason to use the.NET framework. It will work OK for small, short lived ( as in short runtime ) apps, but when you start talking about services that run for long periods of time or ASP.NET applications, Mono sucks. Yes, it will 'work' when you are playing with it but you can't use it in production.
I never said it was a replacement. Not having a compacting GC isn't really an issue with feature parity as much as it is an issue with implementation parity. The point I made still stands. With careful coding you can write software that will run on both, regardless of the GC implementation. The Mono GC is definitely a bit of a sore spot but at least it is being worked on. Do you actually have issues with feature parity or are your complaints purely about the current implementation?
Nope, Mono's a buggy inferior clone of Microsoft.Net. Not exactly something I'd call an improvement, aside from the fact it's open source. (Well, open source until Microsoft decide it's outlived its welcome, anyway.)
Mono isn't a clone of.NET and it was never meant to be. Mono is C# + Libraries (like GTK-sharp) that are usable on Linux. There are some compatibility libraries to make it easier to port applications from a Windows environment to a Linux one but Mono has no need for things like WPF and other Windows-specific libraries. As for your "buggy and inferior" comments that couldn't be further from the truth. What bugs are talking about? I have had very few issues with Mono in general and Mono has outpaced Microsoft's own implementations in some areas.
Huh? When did I ever make an argument about what the industry is using or anything counter to what you said (not that I'm in agreement)? My comment was about the parity between Mono and.NET and has nothing to do with the relative usefulness of the C# language or.NET libraries.
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I was saying. I'm not claiming all.NET apps work on Mono. I'm saying that developing applications for Mono may limit what libraries you can use but only because they are Windows specific not because Mono is far behind.
Except that Microsoft actually tests their GUI usability on normal humans with focus groups for months. GNOME, OTOH, was using an outdated guideline plagiarized right out of Mac OS 8 and today just makes shit up.
Complete bullshit. SUN funded a usability study for GNOME years ago and the findings were formalized in GNOME's HIG.
Innovation would be okay if we could turn off the "innovations" we dislike. But the general pattern with Gnome (starting from version 2.0) is that such changes, especially the most undesirable ones, are usually mandatory, i.e., it is impossible to configure things back to the way we want them, impossible to get back basic functionality that we had in version 1.4.
What are the major features you are missing compared to 1.4? Most of the options just got shoved into gconf but they are still available. Sure you no longer have an ultra configurable lisp window manager but I don't think many people are still crying about that.
I have nothing against mono, I just can't afford to work in what amounts to a 4 year old version of the framework.
Bogus. Mono is very current with.NET and has even beaten MS to the punch on some features. The major missing features compared to.NET are the MS specific libraries and proper current Silverlight support. So unless you're developing Silverlight apps or Windows specific software (which would obviate the choice to use Mono anyway) I doubt you have even tried Mono.
HaHa! What an excellent way to get people to listen to you.
the reason I like to carry a gun is because a cop is too heavy. Have you heard that one before? How about this one? When seconds count, a cop is only minutes away.
Exactly how many times have you had to shoot someone? My guess is zero. So either you're completely paranoid or trying to rationalize your inferiority complex.
My original sentiment stands. I don't vote becaust things like ACORN happen and I don't matter anymore.
Huh? What ACORN thing? You sound like another conspiracy theorist. Just in case you haven't been paying attention (and you haven't been apparently) there was never any voter fraud associated with ACORN. It was never even in question.
Actually I did vote for the first time in my life this last election. It will be my last (see ACORN). See, what happened in my case was that my vote got disqualified. Why? Government agencies don't talk to each other perhaps? I registered with my license. Why would that happen? Fraud perhaps? If the system didn't work for me the first time, why should I trust it the next?
Your rambling incoherence just proves you are a conspiracy theorist. Why should anyone listen to you?
I win because the country and it's people win out in the long run because of the guns, not despite them. I'm rather glad that I angered you into incoherency. LOL, I win.
Exactly how did people win because of guns? You haven't made a single point, instead you insist on rambling on about your wild eyed conspiracy theories.
Which weapons are you referring to? Add a reference to please.
Do you even know who Henry Gonzalez is? My guess is that you don't.
Hahahahaha.
What's so funny? They were right and the Bush administration was wrong. It seems like you bought Bush's bullshit about the UN's ineptitude hook line and sinker. I guess their propaganda machine was effective on some people.
Iraq definitely had WMD at one time. The US government should know, they sold them to Iraq to fight Iran. It is also true that Saddam either pretended, or really believed that Iraq still possessed WMD but the weapons inspectors knew there were no weapons. What strikes me as odd is that the Bush administration believed Saddam's posing and unreliable informants over more reliable sources like the UN weapons inspectors.
16 sounds like a ridiculously high number for a desktop but is it?
16 is very high for a desktop system. The majority of "desktop" systems are now laptops. I doubt you're going to see 16+ cores in a laptop anytime soon. Very few people are buying desktops these days and the few people who actually need a desktop system with 16+ cores are probably going to have entirely different workloads from the average user.
The lack of proper electronic medical records and smart "clinical decision systems" bothers him, as does the slow-moving, bureaucratic nature of clinical trials.
I'm ok with the slow-moving nature of clinical trials. Even with them drugs like Vioxx are being approved and killing people. Just imagine if it was standard procedure (and not just denial and deception) to ignore long term results.
That is simply not true. 64-bit on Linux isn't half assed like it is on proprietary desktop operating systems. I have been using 64-bit Linux for years now and the only programs that were lacking when I started using 64-bit Linux were Flash and a working java browser plugin. Both work flawlessly now.
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All they do is play video games to escape the real world. They cannot possibly fathom gaming in an environment that mirrors their pathetic lives.
You're way off the mark here. First of all EVERYONE trusts authority figures for information. This is basic psychology and human development. It's not possible to know everything about everything. The more important thing is to trust the RIGHT authority figures. Some of us choose to trust the scientists because it is their job to look into these things, have their information peer reviewed, and find problems with other studies and data. We find this is the best way to ascertain information. I cannot possibly believe that any corporation or journalist or economic study group is more of an authority on this subject but maybe you can.
The fact that 95% of scientists agree that global warming is real and is being caused by industrial activity from humans should be good enough. That's like 95% of doctors agreeing with your original diagnosis.
I thought we had an article about this phenomenon a while back. It turns out that people are so used to listening to music in MP3 format that it sounds "better" to them. It's really just familiarity. I have used FLAC for years and I can tell the difference with crappy headphones on my "MP3" player when I copy some MP3's from my girlfriend's computer.
I never said it was a replacement. Not having a compacting GC isn't really an issue with feature parity as much as it is an issue with implementation parity. The point I made still stands. With careful coding you can write software that will run on both, regardless of the GC implementation. The Mono GC is definitely a bit of a sore spot but at least it is being worked on. Do you actually have issues with feature parity or are your complaints purely about the current implementation?
Mono isn't a clone of .NET and it was never meant to be. Mono is C# + Libraries (like GTK-sharp) that are usable on Linux. There are some compatibility libraries to make it easier to port applications from a Windows environment to a Linux one but Mono has no need for things like WPF and other Windows-specific libraries. As for your "buggy and inferior" comments that couldn't be further from the truth. What bugs are talking about? I have had very few issues with Mono in general and Mono has outpaced Microsoft's own implementations in some areas.
Huh? When did I ever make an argument about what the industry is using or anything counter to what you said (not that I'm in agreement)? My comment was about the parity between Mono and .NET and has nothing to do with the relative usefulness of the C# language or .NET libraries.
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I was saying. I'm not claiming all .NET apps work on Mono. I'm saying that developing applications for Mono may limit what libraries you can use but only because they are Windows specific not because Mono is far behind.
Complete bullshit. SUN funded a usability study for GNOME years ago and the findings were formalized in GNOME's HIG.
What are the major features you are missing compared to 1.4? Most of the options just got shoved into gconf but they are still available. Sure you no longer have an ultra configurable lisp window manager but I don't think many people are still crying about that.
Bogus. Mono is very current with .NET and has even beaten MS to the punch on some features. The major missing features compared to .NET are the MS specific libraries and proper current Silverlight support. So unless you're developing Silverlight apps or Windows specific software (which would obviate the choice to use Mono anyway) I doubt you have even tried Mono.
Good thing Mono isn't .NET then.
And those people are stupid.
HaHa! What an excellent way to get people to listen to you.
Exactly how many times have you had to shoot someone? My guess is zero. So either you're completely paranoid or trying to rationalize your inferiority complex.
Huh? What ACORN thing? You sound like another conspiracy theorist. Just in case you haven't been paying attention (and you haven't been apparently) there was never any voter fraud associated with ACORN. It was never even in question.
Your rambling incoherence just proves you are a conspiracy theorist. Why should anyone listen to you?
Exactly how did people win because of guns? You haven't made a single point, instead you insist on rambling on about your wild eyed conspiracy theories.
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If printing worked with a Mac it should have worked with Linux too. They both use CUPS.
Do you even know who Henry Gonzalez is? My guess is that you don't.
What's so funny? They were right and the Bush administration was wrong. It seems like you bought Bush's bullshit about the UN's ineptitude hook line and sinker. I guess their propaganda machine was effective on some people.
Iraq definitely had WMD at one time. The US government should know, they sold them to Iraq to fight Iran. It is also true that Saddam either pretended, or really believed that Iraq still possessed WMD but the weapons inspectors knew there were no weapons. What strikes me as odd is that the Bush administration believed Saddam's posing and unreliable informants over more reliable sources like the UN weapons inspectors.
It's an Apple store, not a reseller. Apple is the only one taking a hit here.
16 is very high for a desktop system. The majority of "desktop" systems are now laptops. I doubt you're going to see 16+ cores in a laptop anytime soon. Very few people are buying desktops these days and the few people who actually need a desktop system with 16+ cores are probably going to have entirely different workloads from the average user.
I'm ok with the slow-moving nature of clinical trials. Even with them drugs like Vioxx are being approved and killing people. Just imagine if it was standard procedure (and not just denial and deception) to ignore long term results.
64-bit Flash is available and I have been using it for months now.
Regardless, reading Atlas Shrugged in any form is a complete waste of time.
Actually you should be safe for now unless you have a weak passphrase. WPA2 with AES hasn't been broken yet.
That is simply not true. 64-bit on Linux isn't half assed like it is on proprietary desktop operating systems. I have been using 64-bit Linux for years now and the only programs that were lacking when I started using 64-bit Linux were Flash and a working java browser plugin. Both work flawlessly now.
You're a fucking idiot. GCC doesn't magically compile code for any architecture you want. Someone has to port it first.