"With or without air travel, if the 1918 flu killed everyone that even had contact with a person who had the flu, entire societies would have been wiped off the earth. I am pretty sure that didn't happen then, and dont think it happen now."
Actually I think that I heard the idea that some viruses are too strong for their own good, for example Ebola. If they have 100% death rate (Ebola is close) they kill themselves -- viruses need to leave people alive to get spread or need to have very long incubation period. A virus that kills 100% of the people it infects in 1 day is less dangerous than a virus that kills 60% in 2 weeks.
Not only that, but it's really difficult to find the machine on Dell site (if not impossible, I know that yesterday when I read the article I looked for the machine and could not find)
"You honestly believe ONE COMPANY is that important?"
No I don't. Why do you twist my words? I just said that her choices are relevant --that's one of her choices, once I know more I will form a better opinion.
You seem to claim that all the choices a lawyer makes are at the same moral level -- that might be, depending how you define morality, however I speak here in personal name and my preferences might not have any connection to your definition of morality. I'm not sure though if you have more people that share your "moral equality" view about lawyers or I have more that share my opinion (to some point that's irrelevant).
I think that they discovered that this kind of article provoke outrage in Linux community and they publish them for the money from the ads they serve to the outraged (and curious) public.
OK, then we probably could change the subject to something like "Supreme Court nominee defended Microsoft against bulling -- Microsoft was bullied by its users but was defended successful by Harriet Miers" Correct?
Just a side remark: If big corporations would be "people" they would fit the profile of a maniac. Don't remember who said that, but to me that's common sense.
It's good that she did pro bono work that doesn't come against my idea that people should be judged for their actions. That's a positive thing for her.
"Poor people" "misfortuned people" what eufemism do you prefer? People without means? Bleah...
"Well, since she was an EMPLOYEE at a firm that represented MS, I think it doesn't matter one iota. YMMV." Of course you have a choice to work for a company that represents Microsoft or for a company that represents people/companies that.. *insert just and moral cause here* it's again a choice that one make. I will not go into why Microsoft is not a moral company here (that's a personal opinion and beyond the point here).
As someone pointed out she didn't work as a judge so we cannot evaluate her by a history of judgements. However, we can evaluate her by the choices she made: Did she defend poor people, did she defend somebody who was attacked by a corporate bully? I mean there are cases and cases, I think it matters for example if you choose to defend Microsoft or you choose to represent the people that use Microsoft products.(Of course that's only a personal opinion and preference and it doesn't have any legal weight)
I guess my sig is very appropriate for this situation. Life is about choices, you show who you are by the choices you make.
Unfortunatelly is not available in Linux:( But I think although it's a really good thing, in some situations, hand injury for example, in most of the cases I'd still prefer to use the keyboard or mouse. I would like my coworkers to hear "Opera command: go to slashdot";)
I agree. I think Firefox is more compatible with the crap out there. That's why I keep it close (the quick start icon for Firefox is on my Kicker next to the Opera one) I don't hate Firefox I like it, but in my opinion Opera does things better, as you said it's faster, not a browsing necessarily, but the GUI feels snappier, also back and forward works much better than in Firefox (although I think that has improved now in Firefox 1.5 beta)
It is the best browser for me and for the guy you replied to.
I guess we are those guys that people at slashdot talk about when they refer to "the two guys that use Opera". Nevertheless I trust myself a little bit more that PC World, I don't need a list of best products to know what's better.
Did people who like Firefox better really tried Opera? Or it's an ideology thing (open source vs. closed source). I tried Firefox for about 2 months and when I returned to Opera I said to myself "yep this is how a browser should work".
Yes. But it's not the only one. Many people can say "I know how to configure Windows, I didn't get any virus or worm yet"
I just say: wait till you get hit (it's "when" not "if") and then that will shatter any confidence you have in Windows and in your ability to secure it.
"What if Jobs says 39 cents or 29 cents per download - what then?
Someone is threatening their monopoly."
I don't know almost anything about the industry (except that I listen music from time to time) but I would guess that could say "No". Since it's a monopoly what can Steve do about it? If they raise the prices Steve can say "No" and it would hurt them, but there are plenty of other MP3 players and music sellers.
"If everyone sells off these laptops in order to buy food, the conclusion to draw is that they need food more than they need laptops."
That's correct at the first look, but think about this: poor people might also sell their free textbooks for food but that make probable that in the future the will still be poor. If laptops are at least as useful as books then it's probably not desirable to have them exchanged for money since money go -- knowledge remains.
That's like: rather then give fish to hungry -- give them fishing rods or nets and teach them how to catch fish. I think that's wise enough.
How about if it's not Linux's fault but it's the SAP program.
A program can eat all the memory and then all the swap and than it's rather easy to crash even a very stable kernel -- or the computer would just freeze (that would be technically different than crashing I guess, but you cannot blame an OS that it doesn't run properly when you have only 1 byte of free memory)
"All you have to do is say 'put me on your do-not-call list'. That's it. THEY'LL NEVER BOTHER YOU AGAIN. If they do, you can call the FCC and get them fined $11'000 or whatever (and you get up to $500 out of it)."
Please give me your phone number, I promise you'll receive only one call from each Yellow Book company. Let me know if that works for you.
Slashdot Mirror
"With or without air travel, if the 1918 flu killed everyone that even had contact with a person who had the flu, entire societies would have been wiped off the earth. I am pretty sure that didn't happen then, and dont think it happen now."
Actually I think that I heard the idea that some viruses are too strong for their own good, for example Ebola. If they have 100% death rate (Ebola is close) they kill themselves -- viruses need to leave people alive to get spread or need to have very long incubation period. A virus that kills 100% of the people it infects in 1 day is less dangerous than a virus that kills 60% in 2 weeks.
What the fuck is wrong with you that you can't use civilized language?
Not only that, but it's really difficult to find the machine on Dell site (if not impossible, I know that yesterday when I read the article I looked for the machine and could not find)
"You honestly believe ONE COMPANY is that important?"
No I don't. Why do you twist my words? I just said that her choices are relevant --that's one of her choices, once I know more I will form a better opinion.
You seem to claim that all the choices a lawyer makes are at the same moral level -- that might be, depending how you define morality, however I speak here in personal name and my preferences might not have any connection to your definition of morality. I'm not sure though if you have more people that share your "moral equality" view about lawyers or I have more that share my opinion (to some point that's irrelevant).
"This is typical ZDNet FUD. "
I think that they discovered that this kind of article provoke outrage in Linux community and they publish them for the money from the ads they serve to the outraged (and curious) public.
Yes, and it's legal and moral to defend rapists and corrupt politicians, because they have legal rights too, but we talk here about priorities.
OK, then we probably could change the subject to something like "Supreme Court nominee defended Microsoft against bulling -- Microsoft was bullied by its users but was defended successful by Harriet Miers" Correct?
Just a side remark: If big corporations would be "people" they would fit the profile of a maniac. Don't remember who said that, but to me that's common sense.
It's good that she did pro bono work that doesn't come against my idea that people should be judged for their actions. That's a positive thing for her.
"Poor people" "misfortuned people" what eufemism do you prefer? People without means? Bleah...
"Well, since she was an EMPLOYEE at a firm that represented MS, I think it doesn't matter one iota. YMMV."
Of course you have a choice to work for a company that represents Microsoft or for a company that represents people/companies that.. *insert just and moral cause here* it's again a choice that one make. I will not go into why Microsoft is not a moral company here (that's a personal opinion and beyond the point here).
Good for him. You are part of slashdot too right?
As someone pointed out she didn't work as a judge so we cannot evaluate her by a history of judgements. However, we can evaluate her by the choices she made: Did she defend poor people, did she defend somebody who was attacked by a corporate bully? I mean there are cases and cases, I think it matters for example if you choose to defend Microsoft or you choose to represent the people that use Microsoft products.(Of course that's only a personal opinion and preference and it doesn't have any legal weight)
I guess my sig is very appropriate for this situation. Life is about choices, you show who you are by the choices you make.
You should have exercised and taken vitamines ;-)
I have the solution for unhappiness: ask yourself as often as you can if you are happy.
(ok someone smarter than me said that, don't remember the name and maybe is not even relevant)
I think that the computer filters the sound that comes from speakers (or it should). But interesting idea anyway.
I disabled sound in web pages, I hate to have any sound played when I open a page.
"How damn cool is the voice control :)"
:( ;)
Unfortunatelly is not available in Linux
But I think although it's a really good thing, in some situations, hand injury for example, in most of the cases I'd still prefer to use the keyboard or mouse. I would like my coworkers to hear "Opera command: go to slashdot"
I agree. I think Firefox is more compatible with the crap out there. That's why I keep it close (the quick start icon for Firefox is on my Kicker next to the Opera one) I don't hate Firefox I like it, but in my opinion Opera does things better, as you said it's faster, not a browsing necessarily, but the GUI feels snappier, also back and forward works much better than in Firefox (although I think that has improved now in Firefox 1.5 beta)
It is the best browser for me and for the guy you replied to.
I guess we are those guys that people at slashdot talk about when they refer to "the two guys that use Opera". Nevertheless I trust myself a little bit more that PC World, I don't need a list of best products to know what's better.
Did people who like Firefox better really tried Opera? Or it's an ideology thing (open source vs. closed source). I tried Firefox for about 2 months and when I returned to Opera I said to myself "yep this is how a browser should work".
"Isn't this the same flaw Windows has?"
Yes. But it's not the only one. Many people can say "I know how to configure Windows, I didn't get any virus or worm yet"
I just say: wait till you get hit (it's "when" not "if") and then that will shatter any confidence you have in Windows and in your ability to secure it.
Hacking (or any programming) is neither art or science. It's applied engineering. And applied engineering is what it is.
I think you are wrong, anything can be art, even washing the floor, if you do it right, is an art.
"What if Jobs says 39 cents or 29 cents per download - what then?
Someone is threatening their monopoly."
I don't know almost anything about the industry (except that I listen music from time to time) but I would guess that could say "No". Since it's a monopoly what can Steve do about it? If they raise the prices Steve can say "No" and it would hurt them, but there are plenty of other MP3 players and music sellers.
"If everyone sells off these laptops in order to buy food, the conclusion to draw is that they need food more than they need laptops."
That's correct at the first look, but think about this: poor people might also sell their free textbooks for food but that make probable that in the future the will still be poor. If laptops are at least as useful as books then it's probably not desirable to have them exchanged for money since money go -- knowledge remains.
That's like: rather then give fish to hungry -- give them fishing rods or nets and teach them how to catch fish. I think that's wise enough.
How about if it's not Linux's fault but it's the SAP program.
A program can eat all the memory and then all the swap and than it's rather easy to crash even a very stable kernel -- or the computer would just freeze (that would be technically different than crashing I guess, but you cannot blame an OS that it doesn't run properly when you have only 1 byte of free memory)
Do you observe that lately if someone puts Windows instead of Linux is news.
Just like: a dog bites a man is not news, but a man bites a dog is. That's telling.
"All you have to do is say 'put me on your do-not-call list'. That's it. THEY'LL NEVER BOTHER YOU AGAIN. If they do, you can call the FCC and get them fined $11'000 or whatever (and you get up to $500 out of it)."
Please give me your phone number, I promise you'll receive only one call from each Yellow Book company. Let me know if that works for you.
Ideal for what? why 56 and not 52Mb/sec?
"Maybe they just have a different opinion than you?"
I admit that's possible, people have different tastes and different habits online. That was only a guess... based on what I heared around me.