1. get agents provocateurs to spread false rumours 2. put in place a system of censorship for the SAFETY of THE PEOPLE 3. no ??? 4. 1984!!!
Reichstag fire anyone?
Replying to another guy, yes china is the model to follow, if you bear in mind that evolution of society consists in upper classes, or better, bunches of people (because upper classes are kapos not masters) always trying to exert more control on all the others.
You might still see things in red and blue, but a better model, prediction wise, seems to imply that communism real aim was the same of capitalism real aim: destruction of any competing system than the one that wants people submitted to money. Once the goal has been reached, russia and china peacefully went to post capitalism, just like us.
Come on, they are pushing colored buttons on a touchscreen. Given the amount of real work that people do on iPads, I say it's a pretty harmless activity.
Don't teach 'em the command line, or they will pwn us in half a generation.
Can't be a late april-fools article because I happen to manufacture and sell such late april-fools for nine trillion dollars a word, so spreading them for free would cause me significant economic damage. They better not even think about it.
I dunno about other religions but a FUNDAMENTALIST Christian cannot force anybody to do anything, he has no ground whatsoever to do that in the scriptures and the example of that guy Jesus, and the first Christians.
If centuries later some people decide it's right to prevent faith by forcing (to believe or not to believe it's irrelevant), this is out from the FUNDAMENTAL concept isn't it.
You're being trolled and fell perfectly for the trap. Like the other side did.
OTOH I submit a minor bug in 2003 (something about the powerpc bootloader and firewire boot on mac) and last year I got a mail from the debian BTS saying: try now it should be fixed- I wonder how many commercial enterprises do minor bug fixing to 10 years old systems.
And the b/w mac with its teeny screen was more usable than a first gen amiga OS (which ran gorgeous graphic demos but crashed by looking at it the wrong way)
Having said that, the c64 and amiga were the undisputed kings of home computing.
> --"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
"Religion gave us buildings, Math gave us the financial crisis, with people being evicted from their buildings". Well I think you can make dozens of such inane comparisons.
Nothing prevents people from being atheist and respectful of logic, and yet people persist pitting religion against science. What if somebody advanced enough does things that mechanical/probabilistic models in current science can't explain? You'd find yourself into a worse position than a guy who went to church at age 6 and listened to a priest talking about some "end times" and "false prophets". Why bother putting yourself in a potentially riskier position?
If one of the biggest religions says only faith and not knowledge is possible with god, that same reasoning gives everybody the option not to believe to something unknowable by definition, just as philosophy would conclude. Those scriptures themselves do not talk about forcing or convincing. All the rest of atheist reasoning is logically flawed every time it attributes anything to the unknowable. Why justify with flawed reasoning what is justified by itself from the beginning?
firefox --no-remote will open a new instance. use -ProfileManager if the existing profile gives you probs. Handy for double login on the same webapp.
Back to topic, the trend is the dumbing down of the PC. Not the interface. the PC as a whole. Wayland is handy to further that objective, so it will be a success even if it kinda sucks. Or so my model of the universe predicts.
Offer a 1£ a month internet plan with a firewall that drops every incoming packet, since it is the only theoretical and practical way to prevent the user from getting any porn (breaking encryption and steganography for each possible algorithm for incoming traffic is theoretically impossible and practically next to impossible). So this is what the law says must be done.
just remember to offer users a trial period so they cannot claim they are unsatisfied with the service after subscribing.
Warning IANAL and I don't live in that fascist place (I am in another one)
LOL, but those who believed that the last decade MS declaration were truthfully evaluating linux and FOSS have probably given all their money to a nigerian prince, dunno how many are still here.
As the fig tree does when the wind blows through it: woooooosh.
You're fully entitled to an opinion on whatever god or book. No questions. But, if you gather from my comment that I justify harassing f*gs, I suggest you put MUCH attention into trying to understand or diss any kind of text.
The rumors are false? true? that shouldn't be part of the discussion. Anybody can start a false rumor, even in good faith, and then somebody uses it as justification for censorship, removal of rights, wars, whatever. If you allow that, you might as well forget about constitutions and laws.
Why would governments suddenly care about truthful reporting in the net when other media are biased all the time? Truth says all men are equal no? then compare the coverage of 911 to the one of bhopal to the one of iraq civilian deaths. Just to make an example that is not anti "people's republic" China.
was that a rhetorical question? Easy electronic voting means no need for representatives holding power to make laws. Direct democracy becomes feasible.
Yes I already know the objections: people have no expertise on all the stuff they are going to decide upon. That's not a problem, a party can still exist as a way to orient people, who can vote only for what they care for.
The other objection is that the system would be schizophrenic. Well it is already. Only the decisions which are backed by powerful people are consistent. But they are usually not in the best interest of anybody else.
A variant is, people are too dumb to vote. That's is not a prerequisite for direct democracy, it's a consequence of indirect democracy, with power elites naturally occurring that realize that the dumber electors are, the better. Classic greece was not a paradise, I suggest it was more like mafia wars, but the citizen was pressured to be a responsible one. We are pressured to escape, to cut corners, from both the mainstream and the alternative culture. Guess why.
The AV is preinstalled. From the hardware maker, from the os maker, irrelevant to the user.
VLC is not preinstalled on win. I have it on linux, of course. 500mb to 2gig linux live distros are more functional out of the box than 30gb preinstalled win7 monsters.
If windows users must tweak their configuration, to reach the same level of a live distro, I'd say the live distro is faster.
>Installing a printer driver is not the same as "try printing" To try printing you have to install a printer driver no? Surely once configured, there is no difference between linux and windows.
> How many printers does your distro of linux support?
Thousands more than your win7 installation which is about 29.5 gb more hefty. That's on disconnected machines. If you connect to the web win7 has a pretty good list too and linux supports every printer which at one moment of its history has been made compatible with.
Now, how many old scanners does your win7 support?
> Oh, that's too bad, and how long does it take to install if it isn't supported?
Less than downloading the win7 printer list. Less than downloading the average printer driver from the manufacturer.
> You don't have to pay for nero to burn a DVD, plenty of free alternatives. All of them to be installed. The preinstalled programs are completely dependent on the model of pc you deal with. Ever tried helping coworkers on the phone with one of them? that's why we had bought Nero around here. To be fair that was in xp days, win7 lets you burn data dvd and iso with basic options, which is a step forward. The crappiest linux distro, with its ability to partition and mount arbitrary filesystems on images (losetup) is of course much more powerful.
Blu ray playback? Try googling. The only thing win7 does better is games. Curious nobody mentions that.
In the particular case of hardware, control translates also quite directly to profit. An open piece of hardware (that is, working with Free as in freedom drivers) can be used for all its physical life if the owner so decides. A closed one depends on updates coming from the maker. That's why hardware makers prefer to pay the windows tax, when they could offer consumers very fast and cheap machines for office work with FOSS.
My anecdotal evidence says that win7 is WAY slower than mint. Try unzipping a file. Try printing. I thought cups on linux was sluggish because it takes 30 secs or more when installing a printer, then i waited 10 minutes on win7 for a printer that needed win to connect and download a more complete list. Then try working. Update hell, preinstalled crap different from brand to brand (aka, pay for nero if you want to burn a dvd), inability to read many video formats). The same experience of xp with a shiny new interface.
Of course if you get rid of the preinstalled AV and settle for microsoft security essentials, and tweak win7 to update only when you want, you get some minutes of your life back. But then, a minimal debian distro will beat the crap out your new laptop with last gen one, so why bother?
The late sixties and seventies had already TV. And drugs. Are there stats for the way people interact? I am speaking for experience, we have become more aggressive in stance. Two generations ago kids battled each others with magnolia cones and nobody complained, four generations ago they used rocks, too bad if one hit you in the head. Now we can't manage to behave in a crowded dancefloor or deal with traffic.
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1. get agents provocateurs to spread false rumours
2. put in place a system of censorship for the SAFETY of THE PEOPLE
3. no ???
4. 1984!!!
Reichstag fire anyone?
Replying to another guy, yes china is the model to follow, if you bear in mind that evolution of society consists in upper classes, or better, bunches of people (because upper classes are kapos not masters) always trying to exert more control on all the others.
You might still see things in red and blue, but a better model, prediction wise, seems to imply that communism real aim was the same of capitalism real aim: destruction of any competing system than the one that wants people submitted to money. Once the goal has been reached, russia and china peacefully went to post capitalism, just like us.
Come on, they are pushing colored buttons on a touchscreen. Given the amount of real work that people do on iPads, I say it's a pretty harmless activity.
Don't teach 'em the command line, or they will pwn us in half a generation.
Can't be a late april-fools article because I happen to manufacture and sell such late april-fools for nine trillion dollars a word, so spreading them for free would cause me significant economic damage. They better not even think about it.
Apparently, Gandhi was a peace extremist. Problem, moderates?
I dunno about other religions but a FUNDAMENTALIST Christian cannot force anybody to do anything, he has no ground whatsoever to do that in the scriptures and the example of that guy Jesus, and the first Christians.
If centuries later some people decide it's right to prevent faith by forcing (to believe or not to believe it's irrelevant), this is out from the FUNDAMENTAL concept isn't it.
You're being trolled and fell perfectly for the trap. Like the other side did.
COCS for UNIX.
It figures.
OTOH I submit a minor bug in 2003 (something about the powerpc bootloader and firewire boot on mac) and last year I got a mail from the debian BTS saying: try now it should be fixed- I wonder how many commercial enterprises do minor bug fixing to 10 years old systems.
If you remember the SID don't forget the mockingboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard
and AD/DA converter boards were on sale too.
And the b/w mac with its teeny screen was more usable than a first gen amiga OS (which ran gorgeous graphic demos but crashed by looking at it the wrong way)
Having said that, the c64 and amiga were the undisputed kings of home computing.
> --"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
"Religion gave us buildings, Math gave us the financial crisis, with people being evicted from their buildings".
Well I think you can make dozens of such inane comparisons.
Nothing prevents people from being atheist and respectful of logic, and yet people persist pitting religion against science. What if somebody advanced enough does things that mechanical/probabilistic models in current science can't explain? You'd find yourself into a worse position than a guy who went to church at age 6 and listened to a priest talking about some "end times" and "false prophets". Why bother putting yourself in a potentially riskier position?
If one of the biggest religions says only faith and not knowledge is possible with god, that same reasoning gives everybody the option not to believe to something unknowable by definition, just as philosophy would conclude. Those scriptures themselves do not talk about forcing or convincing. All the rest of atheist reasoning is logically flawed every time it attributes anything to the unknowable. Why justify with flawed reasoning what is justified by itself from the beginning?
firefox --no-remote will open a new instance. use -ProfileManager if the existing profile gives you probs. Handy for double login on the same webapp.
Back to topic, the trend is the dumbing down of the PC. Not the interface. the PC as a whole. Wayland is handy to further that objective, so it will be a success even if it kinda sucks. Or so my model of the universe predicts.
Offer a 1£ a month internet plan with a firewall that drops every incoming packet, since it is the only theoretical and practical way to prevent the user from getting any porn (breaking encryption and steganography for each possible algorithm for incoming traffic is theoretically impossible and practically next to impossible). So this is what the law says must be done.
just remember to offer users a trial period so they cannot claim they are unsatisfied with the service after subscribing.
Warning IANAL and I don't live in that fascist place (I am in another one)
More specific? sure.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/001/072/Trollface.png
LOL, but those who believed that the last decade MS declaration were truthfully evaluating linux and FOSS have probably given all their money to a nigerian prince, dunno how many are still here.
As the fig tree does when the wind blows through it: woooooosh.
You're fully entitled to an opinion on whatever god or book. No questions.
But, if you gather from my comment that I justify harassing f*gs, I suggest you put MUCH attention into trying to understand or diss any kind of text.
I should quote now where a unix manual talks about wildcards, right?
> "God hates F*gs!" signs
Unfortunately that's true. (Matthew 21:18-22, Mark 11:12-14, 19-25)
Another war fought mainly outside US borders is the gulf war. How much stimulus did US get out of it? Maybe the war is a giant broken window fallacy?
Silly you, it's the same parenthesis, upside down.
The rumors are false? true? that shouldn't be part of the discussion. Anybody can start a false rumor, even in good faith, and then somebody uses it as justification for censorship, removal of rights, wars, whatever. If you allow that, you might as well forget about constitutions and laws.
Why would governments suddenly care about truthful reporting in the net when other media are biased all the time? Truth says all men are equal no? then compare the coverage of 911 to the one of bhopal to the one of iraq civilian deaths. Just to make an example that is not anti "people's republic" China.
was that a rhetorical question?
Easy electronic voting means no need for representatives holding power to make laws. Direct democracy becomes feasible.
Yes I already know the objections: people have no expertise on all the stuff they are going to decide upon. That's not a problem, a party can still exist as a way to orient people, who can vote only for what they care for.
The other objection is that the system would be schizophrenic. Well it is already. Only the decisions which are backed by powerful people are consistent. But they are usually not in the best interest of anybody else.
A variant is, people are too dumb to vote. That's is not a prerequisite for direct democracy, it's a consequence of indirect democracy, with power elites naturally occurring that realize that the dumber electors are, the better. Classic greece was not a paradise, I suggest it was more like mafia wars, but the citizen was pressured to be a responsible one. We are pressured to escape, to cut corners, from both the mainstream and the alternative culture. Guess why.
The AV is preinstalled. From the hardware maker, from the os maker, irrelevant to the user.
VLC is not preinstalled on win. I have it on linux, of course. 500mb to 2gig linux live distros are more functional out of the box than 30gb preinstalled win7 monsters.
If windows users must tweak their configuration, to reach the same level of a live distro, I'd say the live distro is faster.
>Installing a printer driver is not the same as "try printing"
To try printing you have to install a printer driver no? Surely once configured, there is no difference between linux and windows.
> How many printers does your distro of linux support?
Thousands more than your win7 installation which is about 29.5 gb more hefty. That's on disconnected machines. If you connect to the web win7 has a pretty good list too and linux supports every printer which at one moment of its history has been made compatible with.
Now, how many old scanners does your win7 support?
> Oh, that's too bad, and how long does it take to install if it isn't supported?
Less than downloading the win7 printer list. Less than downloading the average printer driver from the manufacturer.
> You don't have to pay for nero to burn a DVD, plenty of free alternatives.
All of them to be installed. The preinstalled programs are completely dependent on the model of pc you deal with. Ever tried helping coworkers on the phone with one of them? that's why we had bought Nero around here.
To be fair that was in xp days, win7 lets you burn data dvd and iso with basic options, which is a step forward. The crappiest linux distro, with its ability to partition and mount arbitrary filesystems on images (losetup) is of course much more powerful.
Blu ray playback? Try googling. The only thing win7 does better is games. Curious nobody mentions that.
In the particular case of hardware, control translates also quite directly to profit. An open piece of hardware (that is, working with Free as in freedom drivers) can be used for all its physical life if the owner so decides. A closed one depends on updates coming from the maker. That's why hardware makers prefer to pay the windows tax, when they could offer consumers very fast and cheap machines for office work with FOSS.
My anecdotal evidence says that win7 is WAY slower than mint. Try unzipping a file.
Try printing. I thought cups on linux was sluggish because it takes 30 secs or more when installing a printer, then i waited 10 minutes on win7 for a printer that needed win to connect and download a more complete list.
Then try working. Update hell, preinstalled crap different from brand to brand (aka, pay for nero if you want to burn a dvd), inability to read many video formats). The same experience of xp with a shiny new interface.
Of course if you get rid of the preinstalled AV and settle for microsoft security essentials, and tweak win7 to update only when you want, you get some minutes of your life back. But then, a minimal debian distro will beat the crap out your new laptop with last gen one, so why bother?
> Well...there is such a thing as felony littering.
Are you positive about that? Microsoft sold millions of vista PCs and nobody complained.
The late sixties and seventies had already TV. And drugs.
Are there stats for the way people interact? I am speaking for experience, we have become more aggressive in stance. Two generations ago kids battled each others with magnolia cones and nobody complained, four generations ago they used rocks, too bad if one hit you in the head. Now we can't manage to behave in a crowded dancefloor or deal with traffic.