Water is toxic too, if you drink too much you die. I've never heard of people dying or having problems from ingesting a moderate amount of sugar, that's why I don't find this very credible.
I'm sorry, KDE 4.0 was a joke, now KDE 4 is pretty decent, it still misses stuff (for example I'm not aware of anything replacing kprint, but otherwise is very usable)
It's like the TSA choice, do you want to be radiated and be seen naked or do you want to be groped?
Here is like: do you want ads or do you want to be constantly bombarded for donation pleas. I don't see a big difference between ads and donation pleas, oh and if you donate you'll still see the pleas in about one year...
PIN number for debit cards are only 4 digits and they work pretty well. The problem doesn't seem to be the password but the system that allows too many automatic tries. There's a problem with denial of service, but there are solutions for that....
No, I'm not going to complain for using Wikipedia as a source, I'm going to complain that you don't understand facts. Where in that data you have the proof that most of the Linux users are admins. Hey for what is worth if I have to follow your logic the most Linux users operate super computers. Do I have to show why is that dumb?
"The majority of Linux users are... *tada* admins running heavy shit on Linux, not desktop users. "
[citation needed]
I doubt there are millions of admins running heavy shit. Linux is used by all accounts by at least 1% of Internet users, that's millions, and no, they are not all admins.
"American corporations typically thought they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee to build an effective office"
I call shenanigans on this one, many one bedroom apartments are that big, maybe they compare apple with oranges, offices for senior executives with cubicles for lower employees.
Let me tell you, 700 sq feet is huge for an office.
Yes, but the arsenic-based lifeform doesn't seem very intelligent. I mean, assuming that's what it is, we haven't even noticed it till now... no ships to Moon and the like. Maybe some lifeform cannot simple evolve past some point, they might be irrelevant for Drake's Equation I mean this part: "fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life"
naming your phone OS after an OS that people use only because they have to (yeah, I know Win 7 is better than Vista, but what isn't).
Observe that even though Mac OS X has a better image than Windows nobody calls iPhone OS X or even iPhone iOS in marketing. Sure, Microsoft makes only the OS, but they should have come up with a different name, Google uses "Android" for example, if they used "Linux" their success would probably be different.
From what I understand (didn't RTFA) the article is not about about life expectancy at birth, it's about life expectancy for people who are 50+ years old, those are two different things.
The article doesn't speak about life expectancy at birth, it talks about life expectancy for people who are 50+ years old, those are two different things.
Don't know Yuengling and even Samual Adams are pretty good. And those are mass market beers, you can find different beers in any city you go, some very good. Don't think that Budweiser is the only choice Americans have.
I know that, but do you trust Facebook and Facebook apps? I think just recently there was news that Facebook apps didn't follow the privacy rules that they agreed to, or something like that.
Facebook is a nudist colony. Fine if you want to air your tonker but then don't complain people can see it. You can't share all your personal details withour your personal details ending up shared.
To use your analogy, the problem is that if you go to a nudist colony you have an expectation that nobody will take your pictures and post them on the first page of the newspapers or send them to your coworkers. Sure, you are naked and you are fine with that, but maybe your boss is not fine with it. I am not troubled by this change since I don't have any secret, what's worrying me is that my friends might have intrusive apps that ask for "friend info" and then my info that was supposed to be in a relatively private circle (the nudist colony) suddenly become much more public than they were supposed to be. Again, I don't post anything on Internet that I wouldn't post in a newspaper, but that still doesn't make me fan of these information sucking applications.
Yes, I'm not afraid about this, what I'm afraid that one of my friends uses a silly app like FarmVille or whatever that demands access to "friend info" and then FarmVille will know all my discussions with my friend and by FarmVille I mean the entire world.
I am no so sure about that, the brain is a complex organ, it might be possible that if you store more info (knowledge) you also get more intelligent. The brain is not like a memory chip where you store and remove data without actually changing the hardware, the simple fact of memorizing stuff for example changes your brain. Also, memorizing is not a passive activity, usually you (and your brain) are actively involved in the process.
Also, talking from the other side of the equation about intelligence, it's pretty obvious to me that human intelligence is based on knowledge, since you can't have intelligence in the absence of knowledge, then I would guess the amount of knowledge is important too (if nothing else, think GIGO)
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Water is toxic too, if you drink too much you die. I've never heard of people dying or having problems from ingesting a moderate amount of sugar, that's why I don't find this very credible.
I'm sorry, KDE 4.0 was a joke, now KDE 4 is pretty decent, it still misses stuff (for example I'm not aware of anything replacing kprint, but otherwise is very usable)
oh man, it wasn't about processing power, it was about the transistor density on the chip.
Sometimes I feel like I prefer the ads than the constantly begging for money...
Does placebo do anything measurable, like lowering fever?
It's like the TSA choice, do you want to be radiated and be seen naked or do you want to be groped?
Here is like: do you want ads or do you want to be constantly bombarded for donation pleas. I don't see a big difference between ads and donation pleas, oh and if you donate you'll still see the pleas in about one year...
PIN number for debit cards are only 4 digits and they work pretty well. The problem doesn't seem to be the password but the system that allows too many automatic tries. There's a problem with denial of service, but there are solutions for that....
No, I'm not going to complain for using Wikipedia as a source, I'm going to complain that you don't understand facts. Where in that data you have the proof that most of the Linux users are admins. Hey for what is worth if I have to follow your logic the most Linux users operate super computers. Do I have to show why is that dumb?
"The majority of Linux users are ... *tada* admins running heavy shit on Linux, not desktop users. "
[citation needed]
I doubt there are millions of admins running heavy shit. Linux is used by all accounts by at least 1% of Internet users, that's millions, and no, they are not all admins.
Damn, what a misleading title. Thanks for explanation.
"American corporations typically thought they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee to build an effective office"
I call shenanigans on this one, many one bedroom apartments are that big, maybe they compare apple with oranges, offices for senior executives with cubicles for lower employees.
Let me tell you, 700 sq feet is huge for an office.
and a lot of "bugmenot"...
2.7 km/s vs. 8 km/s... not that far, can it shoot a rocket?
Yes, but the arsenic-based lifeform doesn't seem very intelligent. I mean, assuming that's what it is, we haven't even noticed it till now... no ships to Moon and the like.
Maybe some lifeform cannot simple evolve past some point, they might be irrelevant for Drake's Equation I mean this part: "fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life"
Let's assume the airplanes are safe, what about the trains, metro, buses, schools, theaters, government building, public places.
I propose we walk naked.
Or, how about "Live free or die"? I prefer to take my chances than to be submitted to such idiocy and be treated like a criminal.
naming your phone OS after an OS that people use only because they have to (yeah, I know Win 7 is better than Vista, but what isn't).
Observe that even though Mac OS X has a better image than Windows nobody calls iPhone OS X or even iPhone iOS in marketing. Sure, Microsoft makes only the OS, but they should have come up with a different name, Google uses "Android" for example, if they used "Linux" their success would probably be different.
FreeWiFi (8 characters, combines lower and upper case to make it more secure ;)
From what I understand (didn't RTFA) the article is not about about life expectancy at birth, it's about life expectancy for people who are 50+ years old, those are two different things.
The article doesn't speak about life expectancy at birth, it talks about life expectancy for people who are 50+ years old, those are two different things.
Don't know Yuengling and even Samual Adams are pretty good. And those are mass market beers, you can find different beers in any city you go, some very good. Don't think that Budweiser is the only choice Americans have.
I doubt that's the entire explanation, Americans like all their drinks cold, they serve water with ice even in the middle of winter.
I know that, but do you trust Facebook and Facebook apps? I think just recently there was news that Facebook apps didn't follow the privacy rules that they agreed to, or something like that.
Facebook is a nudist colony. Fine if you want to air your tonker but then don't complain people can see it. You can't share all your personal details withour your personal details ending up shared.
To use your analogy, the problem is that if you go to a nudist colony you have an expectation that nobody will take your pictures and post them on the first page of the newspapers or send them to your coworkers. Sure, you are naked and you are fine with that, but maybe your boss is not fine with it. I am not troubled by this change since I don't have any secret, what's worrying me is that my friends might have intrusive apps that ask for "friend info" and then my info that was supposed to be in a relatively private circle (the nudist colony) suddenly become much more public than they were supposed to be. Again, I don't post anything on Internet that I wouldn't post in a newspaper, but that still doesn't make me fan of these information sucking applications.
Yes, I'm not afraid about this, what I'm afraid that one of my friends uses a silly app like FarmVille or whatever that demands access to "friend info" and then FarmVille will know all my discussions with my friend and by FarmVille I mean the entire world.
I am no so sure about that, the brain is a complex organ, it might be possible that if you store more info (knowledge) you also get more intelligent. The brain is not like a memory chip where you store and remove data without actually changing the hardware, the simple fact of memorizing stuff for example changes your brain. Also, memorizing is not a passive activity, usually you (and your brain) are actively involved in the process.
Also, talking from the other side of the equation about intelligence, it's pretty obvious to me that human intelligence is based on knowledge, since you can't have intelligence in the absence of knowledge, then I would guess the amount of knowledge is important too (if nothing else, think GIGO)