I downloaded Safari for Windows and have no intention of using it either. I can't use Safari on my Mac because of little issues like lack of support for the Note Pad on my personalized Google home page, and I was curious if this would work on their Windows version. Instead, Safari for Windows crashed on my Google home page. I un-installed it.
Between home and work, I have four computers: two Linux, one Mac and one Windows. I use Firefox on all of them, and Apple won't change that until they work with Google to achieve some compatibility.
The reason that this was modded down may be due to those who followed the link. I think that the link aside, the commenter has a very good point. I also think the link makes the good point that 9/11 was most likely an inside job. What I don't understand is how Google's privacy policy could have prevented 9/11. I believe the link is non-sequitur to the argument, influencing the discerning mod to disapprove.
I agree. I actually met a father who was feeding his baby son with money he made selling crack. I have yet to meet a music or software "pirate" who could claim that much profit.
This information will not stop the Canadian provinces from taxing smokers into submission. $10 a pack. Almost 100% tax.
Last I checked, the cost of a pack of cigarettes in NYC was about $6. That was about a 400% tax, so $10 per pack has to be more than a 100% tax. Although some of that is likely to be in the form of tariffs, so it doesn't go into your health system and you may not notice it.
That being said, I quit smoking over 2 years ago when I had trouble breathing. If the tax can get you to quit before you have health problems, it is worth every penny.
Seriously. I just did an install of Debian testing using the minimal CD. I de-selected the desktop, leaving only the basic OS selected. I then built a system with "apt-get install kde" and a few others. I had a few problems, but fives minutes or less with Google did the trick every time.
Greedy fucks with government guns can do quite a bit of damage, and libertarianism tries to minimize that threat.
While that may be true in some sense, it's really a lie if you consider the consequences. Libertarianism does nothing to minimize the threat of guns, it just moves the threat from the government to private industry. The people who threaten with those guns doesn't change, they simply have no-one to hold them accountable.
For example, take Dick Cheney. In the current political paradigm, he influences the government administration to "do quite a bit of damage" so he can make large profits.
Fortunately, there is a chance that other members of the government and term limits will eventually lead to some restrictions on the current administration's power.
Now if we consider the libertarian paradigm, Cheney would never have run for office. He would have stayed at Halliburton, raised an army, and invaded whatever country he felt would have made him money.
Think about Gates. Think about the RIAA. Under Libertarianism, there would be no-one running an OS that wasn't Windows because the Microsoft militia would throw you in the Microsoft jail. The RIAA would throw you in the RIAA jail for file sharing. You would not have the government there to protect you like we have today.
Libertarianism is not a solution to the problems we have in the United States, rather the problems we have in the United States are due to the fact that this is the most libertarian country in the world.
If you take hardware and the command line out of the equation, I would prefer either KDE, or Windows to a lesser degree. The reason is that Konqueror and Explorer both put Finder to shame.
Spotlight is nice, but I tend to use find and grep anyway, so let's add the command line.
Termial.app and Konsole are about equal to me - while they are very different, I think they are the two best pieces of software for what they do. I can't quite bring myself to call either better than the other.
So I think that OS X and KDE are about the same - until you look at hardware integration. Take iTunes vs Amarok. While Amarok may have more and better features, you can do just about everything in iTunes via a remote control! Take that level of hardware/software integration and distribute it throughout the operating system and you get something very productive.
So if Microsoft were to lose the registry, integrate cygwin running through Konsole and sell it on some nice hardware, I might be interested.
I was single when I moved to DC, but this month I'm moving in with my beautiful girlfriend. Not that I've ever even heard of Geek 2 Geek, but I'm a software developer typing this on my Gentoo box.
Washington is not just a nice place for geeky females, but for geeky singles. I have to go to sleep now so we can look at houses tomorrow morning, so good night, but to be successful in DC, you must be able to adapt to an urban environment. I've been robbed twice, once at gun point. I've seen people get shot in a drive by that happend right in front of me.
DC is truly an opportunity for those who can adapt.
I agree with what you say, but the fact is that cell phone companies have not standardized. While it's preferable for industries to standardize on their own terms, what if they don't? Your post does not address this, but the Korean and Chinese have created laws that do.
Although I have no mod points right now, I feel this is one of the more insightful comments I've read so far. You have explained the problem while keeping a human face on each rational agent.
Yeah, you can also do "Run Command" and type in the program name. I don't know how fast this OS X Spotlight is, but starting Windows applications can be quite fast if you know what you're doing. Personally, I tend to throw everthing into my path and use the tab-completion of bash running through Cygwin (when I have to run Windows). Just to throw in my 2 cents, I think the point of the Mac is to do things quickly with no learning curve.
That actually make me think of an interesting point. I always felt that the tone of the Hitch Hiker's Guide was that of some knowledgeable person one might pass on the street and stop to ask for directions to the nearest metro station.
I think that's a good way to think about Wikipedia. Certainly the information you'll find on Wikipedia is going to be more accurate than some random person on the street, but it's conceptually the same thing. Just like someone could be wrong about the nearest metro station doesn't mean it's pointless to ask.
I have to admit that you got me with this one! My point was that the issue we are facing is more important than if he was lying or not. There's no way either one of us can really know how truthful he is.
That's not even true. He said he was contracted to write software that could falsify the vote count. He said he did not know if that software was used, but that if he could write it, then it could be written!
I disagree with you because I think the whole point of these machines is to conceal real fraud, in real elections. I believe the fraud has happend, and will continue to happen until people wake up and accept that it's going on.
I actually spoke with one guy from Ohio who thought that all Diebold machines left a paper trail. My question is how does anyone come to believe something like that? Is that the kind of thing they have on Fox News or what? Are there others like him that simply don't know the truth? If so, then nothing will change until people learn the truth. The fraud is ongoing.
We live in a two-party democracy. Voting is the most powerful way of affecting government only if there is sufficient differentiation between parties. Currently there is not. If the Democrats realize this will lose them elections, they will change.
My post from another thread is actually on-topic now:
I've been involved in non-violent protest my whole life. I've
never hurt anyone. I've tried to express my points not by making other
people's lives shittier, but by drawing attention to myself and my
cause. This approach as not worked. I have done everything from
blocking traffic to writing letters in unison with thousands or
hundreds of thousands of others.
I have protested against the Iraq War and the School Of the
Americas. I have protested for democracy. I think the time of letter
writing and peaceful protesting is over. I think if you want to
encourage anyone to do anything, it should be to at least threaten
violence. I think the threat of a potentially destructive force is all
we have left to accomplish change in this country.
I encourage all Democrats to burn their voter registration cards
and overturn their candidate's car at their state's upcoming convention.
We need something to encourage viable opposition to the Republicans in power. Unfortunately, I think the Democratic Party is the only entity wealthy enough to do it.
Do you all agree, or do you think that those of you outside the Beltway would vote for alternatives like the Green or DC Statehood parties?
I never understood why people in America feel they have to make someone else's life shittier just to express some point. How about you write a letter....
I'm going to get a little off-topic here, but are you kidding me? I've been involved in non-violent protest my whole life. I've never hurt anyone. I've tried to express my points not by making other people's lives shittier, but by drawing attention to myself and my cause. This approach as not worked. I have done everything from blocking traffic to writing letters in unison with thousands or hundreds of thousands of others.
I have protested against the Iraq War and the School Of the Americas. I have protested for democracy. I think the time of letter writing and peaceful protesting is over. I think if you want to encourage anyone to do anything, it should be to at least threaten violence. I think the threat of a potentially destructive force it all we have left to accomplish change in this country.
Personally, I do not think this particular issue is worth it. I do, however, encourage all Democrats to burn their voter registration cards and overturn their candidate's car at their state's upcoming convention.
I have a master's in financial math, and have also taken some MBA classes. While I'm still working on some entry-level experience in software developement because I want to write software for the finance industry, I feel that my master's has done more to prepare me for an interesting career than an MBA could.
I say this because my course work in financial math focused on underlying fundamentals consisting of probability, statistics, and differential equations. These fundamentals have increased my understanding of markets specifically and human interaction in general.
My MBA classes focused on things like balance sheets, resource allocations, and strategic planning. Everything we talked about was nothing more than common sense. Now I'm not going to argue that you don't find management interesting or that an MBA won't help to get you a management position. I will say, however, that an MBA will not give you common sense if you don't already have it -- thus it will not prepare you for a management position. You will get hired because of the benifits perceived by whoever hires you, usually someone with an MBA.
If you want to own a small business, save the money you would spend on getting an MBA and invest it in infrastructure instead.
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I downloaded Safari for Windows and have no intention of using it either. I can't use Safari on my Mac because of little issues like lack of support for the Note Pad on my personalized Google home page, and I was curious if this would work on their Windows version. Instead, Safari for Windows crashed on my Google home page. I un-installed it.
Between home and work, I have four computers: two Linux, one Mac and one Windows. I use Firefox on all of them, and Apple won't change that until they work with Google to achieve some compatibility.
The reason that this was modded down may be due to those who followed the link. I think that the link aside, the commenter has a very good point. I also think the link makes the good point that 9/11 was most likely an inside job. What I don't understand is how Google's privacy policy could have prevented 9/11. I believe the link is non-sequitur to the argument, influencing the discerning mod to disapprove.
I agree. I actually met a father who was feeding his baby son with money he made selling crack. I have yet to meet a music or software "pirate" who could claim that much profit.
Last I checked, the cost of a pack of cigarettes in NYC was about $6. That was about a 400% tax, so $10 per pack has to be more than a 100% tax. Although some of that is likely to be in the form of tariffs, so it doesn't go into your health system and you may not notice it.
That being said, I quit smoking over 2 years ago when I had trouble breathing. If the tax can get you to quit before you have health problems, it is worth every penny.
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Seriously. I just did an install of Debian testing using the minimal CD. I de-selected the desktop, leaving only the basic OS selected. I then built a system with "apt-get install kde" and a few others. I had a few problems, but fives minutes or less with Google did the trick every time.
Greedy fucks with government guns can do quite a bit of damage, and libertarianism tries to minimize that threat.
While that may be true in some sense, it's really a lie if you consider the consequences. Libertarianism does nothing to minimize the threat of guns, it just moves the threat from the government to private industry. The people who threaten with those guns doesn't change, they simply have no-one to hold them accountable.
For example, take Dick Cheney. In the current political paradigm, he influences the government administration to "do quite a bit of damage" so he can make large profits.
Fortunately, there is a chance that other members of the government and term limits will eventually lead to some restrictions on the current administration's power.
Now if we consider the libertarian paradigm, Cheney would never have run for office. He would have stayed at Halliburton, raised an army, and invaded whatever country he felt would have made him money.
Think about Gates. Think about the RIAA. Under Libertarianism, there would be no-one running an OS that wasn't Windows because the Microsoft militia would throw you in the Microsoft jail. The RIAA would throw you in the RIAA jail for file sharing. You would not have the government there to protect you like we have today.
Libertarianism is not a solution to the problems we have in the United States, rather the problems we have in the United States are due to the fact that this is the most libertarian country in the world.
I'm writing this on a Mac and I basically agree.
If you take hardware and the command line out of the equation, I would prefer either KDE, or Windows to a lesser degree. The reason is that Konqueror and Explorer both put Finder to shame.
Spotlight is nice, but I tend to use find and grep anyway, so let's add the command line.
Termial.app and Konsole are about equal to me - while they are very different, I think they are the two best pieces of software for what they do. I can't quite bring myself to call either better than the other.
So I think that OS X and KDE are about the same - until you look at hardware integration. Take iTunes vs Amarok. While Amarok may have more and better features, you can do just about everything in iTunes via a remote control! Take that level of hardware/software integration and distribute it throughout the operating system and you get something very productive.
So if Microsoft were to lose the registry, integrate cygwin running through Konsole and sell it on some nice hardware, I might be interested.
Dude, I went to public school too, and can confidently state that I learned to stack bank.
I was single when I moved to DC, but this month I'm moving in with my beautiful girlfriend. Not that I've ever even heard of Geek 2 Geek, but I'm a software developer typing this on my Gentoo box.
Washington is not just a nice place for geeky females, but for geeky singles. I have to go to sleep now so we can look at houses tomorrow morning, so good night, but to be successful in DC, you must be able to adapt to an urban environment. I've been robbed twice, once at gun point. I've seen people get shot in a drive by that happend right in front of me.
DC is truly an opportunity for those who can adapt.I agree with what you say, but the fact is that cell phone companies have not standardized. While it's preferable for industries to standardize on their own terms, what if they don't? Your post does not address this, but the Korean and Chinese have created laws that do.
Although I have no mod points right now, I feel this is one of the more insightful comments I've read so far. You have explained the problem while keeping a human face on each rational agent.
I use XMMS because it is less buggy than Amarok. In my view this makes is better since all I want to do is listen to my mp3s.
Yeah, you can also do "Run Command" and type in the program name. I don't know how fast this OS X Spotlight is, but starting Windows applications can be quite fast if you know what you're doing. Personally, I tend to throw everthing into my path and use the tab-completion of bash running through Cygwin (when I have to run Windows). Just to throw in my 2 cents, I think the point of the Mac is to do things quickly with no learning curve.
That actually make me think of an interesting point. I always felt that the tone of the Hitch Hiker's Guide was that of some knowledgeable person one might pass on the street and stop to ask for directions to the nearest metro station.
I think that's a good way to think about Wikipedia. Certainly the information you'll find on Wikipedia is going to be more accurate than some random person on the street, but it's conceptually the same thing. Just like someone could be wrong about the nearest metro station doesn't mean it's pointless to ask.
I have to admit that you got me with this one! My point was that the issue we are facing is more important than if he was lying or not. There's no way either one of us can really know how truthful he is.
That's not even true. He said he was contracted to write software that could falsify the vote count. He said he did not know if that software was used, but that if he could write it, then it could be written!
- Make the source code avaliable.
- Have a paper trail to allow the counts to be checked.
That's really the main point that people need to understand and you got modded up for detracting from that main point by calling BS and perjury?I disagree with you because I think the whole point of these machines is to conceal real fraud, in real elections. I believe the fraud has happend, and will continue to happen until people wake up and accept that it's going on.
I actually spoke with one guy from Ohio who thought that all Diebold machines left a paper trail. My question is how does anyone come to believe something like that? Is that the kind of thing they have on Fox News or what? Are there others like him that simply don't know the truth? If so, then nothing will change until people learn the truth. The fraud is ongoing.
We live in a two-party democracy. Voting is the most powerful way of affecting government only if there is sufficient differentiation between parties. Currently there is not. If the Democrats realize this will lose them elections, they will change.
My post from another thread is actually on-topic now:
I've been involved in non-violent protest my whole life. I've never hurt anyone. I've tried to express my points not by making other people's lives shittier, but by drawing attention to myself and my cause. This approach as not worked. I have done everything from blocking traffic to writing letters in unison with thousands or hundreds of thousands of others.
I have protested against the Iraq War and the School Of the Americas. I have protested for democracy. I think the time of letter writing and peaceful protesting is over. I think if you want to encourage anyone to do anything, it should be to at least threaten violence. I think the threat of a potentially destructive force is all we have left to accomplish change in this country.
I encourage all Democrats to burn their voter registration cards and overturn their candidate's car at their state's upcoming convention. We need something to encourage viable opposition to the Republicans in power. Unfortunately, I think the Democratic Party is the only entity wealthy enough to do it.
Do you all agree, or do you think that those of you outside the Beltway would vote for alternatives like the Green or DC Statehood parties?
I never understood why people in America feel they have to make someone else's life shittier just to express some point. How about you write a letter....
I'm going to get a little off-topic here, but are you kidding me? I've been involved in non-violent protest my whole life. I've never hurt anyone. I've tried to express my points not by making other people's lives shittier, but by drawing attention to myself and my cause. This approach as not worked. I have done everything from blocking traffic to writing letters in unison with thousands or hundreds of thousands of others.
I have protested against the Iraq War and the School Of the Americas. I have protested for democracy. I think the time of letter writing and peaceful protesting is over. I think if you want to encourage anyone to do anything, it should be to at least threaten violence. I think the threat of a potentially destructive force it all we have left to accomplish change in this country.
Personally, I do not think this particular issue is worth it. I do, however, encourage all Democrats to burn their voter registration cards and overturn their candidate's car at their state's upcoming convention.
I have a master's in financial math, and have also taken some MBA classes. While I'm still working on some entry-level experience in software developement because I want to write software for the finance industry, I feel that my master's has done more to prepare me for an interesting career than an MBA could.
I say this because my course work in financial math focused on underlying fundamentals consisting of probability, statistics, and differential equations. These fundamentals have increased my understanding of markets specifically and human interaction in general.
My MBA classes focused on things like balance sheets, resource allocations, and strategic planning. Everything we talked about was nothing more than common sense. Now I'm not going to argue that you don't find management interesting or that an MBA won't help to get you a management position. I will say, however, that an MBA will not give you common sense if you don't already have it -- thus it will not prepare you for a management position. You will get hired because of the benifits perceived by whoever hires you, usually someone with an MBA.
If you want to own a small business, save the money you would spend on getting an MBA and invest it in infrastructure instead.Just kidding! I do think that avoiding the need for installing and updating "AV or Malware protection" should be sufficent.