I actually just included the Gnu/Linux for the comedic purpose of contrasting it with Windows/Dos (Windows 3.1 running on the DOS "kernel"), and Unix/Unix (Unix running on the Unix kernel).
By that logic, no one should ever start a new software project that isn't already being met (however inadequately) by some other piece of software. Why did Linus start writing Gnu/Linux, when there were already great operating systems like Windows/Dos, and Unix/Unix?
Fankly, I think it's a great thing that BSD and HURD will be putting some pressure on Linux to be the best. Competition makes them strong, and the cross-fertilization of ideas makes them stronger still.
Besides, HURD may end up being superior to Linux in some domains, such as high-reliability systems (think banking servers), driver development, OS research, shared systems, and the like.
You obviously know NOTHING about critical thinking, or about thinking in general.
1.) Any assertion, no matter how incredulous, improbably, true, false, verifiable, unverifiable, supported, or unsupported, is a belief, not an opinion. Opinions are neither true nor false, and there is no such thing as evidence with regards to opinions.
2.) If you disbelieve anyone all assertions that aren't provided along with their evidence, you would be unable to function in the world. If your co-worker tells you that its raining out, you almost certainly believe them. If your boss tells you that your team is about to start a new project, you almost certainly believe them. In neither case did the person show you any evidence. Even scientists respect the validity of assertions without being presented with evidence; the knowledge that someone else asserts the validity of some result is sufficient in most cases. That's the whole point of peer review -- to avoid necessity of having to prove every result to every single concerned scientist individually.
If access to communication and information doesn't make the world a better place, I don't know what the hell does.
Instead of having people in third-world countries sitting around waiting for the red-cross to come and bail them out, maybe they'll be able to learn using online resources and solve their problems themselves. Maybe instead of needing food drops from more affluent nations, they can learn how to duplicate the "green revolution" that turned the American desert into fertile land.
Information is the single most transformative power in all of history. Better access to it, better facilities for sharing it, for collaborating in the generation of it -- these are what build civilizations.
You missed the point. He was trying to demonstrate the value of the iMac Mini, by showing what a comparably sized PC would be like (eg: not good).
So he perfectly achieved his point.
Not to mention the farmer getting access to information about how to improve his yields, what crops are the most nutritious, what will grow best given local conditions, etc. The agricultural revolution, and the green revolution after it, were both based first and foremost on scientific knowledge.
Farmers here in the West are surprisingly technical people, and treat farming as a science. One can't help but wonder how much better third world nations would be doing if they had access to some of that science and knowhow.
He compared it to the morning after pill. The morning after pill doesn't "abort" anything -- it simply causes the egg to fail to implant itself in the uterus. This is EXACTLY what IUDs and "The Pill" do, and what happens in 90% of all fertilizations anyway. The morning after pill is just interventive birth-control. It has absolutely nothing to do with abortions.
Of course I'm "on" about big packages. No one cares about vulnerabilities in Tetris or KMines. Vulnerabilities in the core KDE libraries, the Kernel, the core Gnome libraries, in Mozilla, in OpenOffice -- those are a big deal. And if these, the most important applications on your system, are going to be installed from binary packages ANYWAY, what's the point of using Gentoo at all? Who cares if KMines is optimized to the gills?! I couldn't give a fuck if Gaim is optimized for the Athlon XP rather than the Pentium -- processing power is not the bottleneck in Gaim. MPG123 isn't exactly slowing me down -- increasing it's speed by 0.00001% isn't going to help me live my life.
It's not like I can't compile any program I want in Mandrake. That's what the SRPMs are for, that's what the tarballs are for, that's what CVS is for. None of those take more than three or four commands to get started. With SRPMs, I can get a compilation started in just two commands, and that includes passing in whatever optimisation flags I'm retarded enough to care about.
My CPU is valuable to me -- given the choice between recompiling my kernel every three days and playing GTA: Vice City, guess what I'll pick? Given the choice between spending all of next week tuning OpenOffice, or spending all of next week not caring because OpenOffice is already fast even on 286, I'll normally pick the latter.
Besides, no empirical test has ever shown an improvement in Gentoo over distributions like Mandrake. For that matter, Mandrake (optimised for the 586) doesn't even perform measurably better than Fedora (optimised for the 386). And for the most part, applications running on either of those platforms only marginally outperform comparable Java applications, despite Java not being optimized at all for x86 architectures.
To summarize, source-based distributions are for wanks with too much time. Someone ought to give these people a copy of Netbeans or IDLE and tell them to get busy.
Gentoo? Yeah freakin' right. The source repository might be more uptodate, but an actual Gentoo installation will always be behind, on account of it taking so long to recompile each update.
Frankly, I'd prefer that they NOT spend it on public education (ie: advertising). I give Mandrake money now, because most of their profits go into development. If they start wasting their money on campaigns of annoyance, I'll just switch to Debian. It's bad enough they waste the money I give them on investor relations.
This is great news. Mandrake is one of the best all-around distributions. Close to the cutting-edge, extremely usable, and a library of packages exceeded only by Debian.
The way I see it, if a bunch of retarded homicidal apes can turn into something as fantastical as our modern society, anything is possible. Prokaryots from ooze seems easy to believe by comparison.
Well, strictly speaking, creation matches observable fact perfectly. That's the problem with religious answers to scientific questions -- there's no way to disprove them. A theory that can't be disproven has no merit.
The text of this sticker is clearly equating equating 'theory' with its colloquial use, rather than its scientific or mathematical/logical use.
Why do school boards have to keep embarassing us all with this shit? Evolution is one of the most successfull scientific theories EVER. You might as well say that gravitation is just a theory.
Yes. Boooo! Go back to Russia, hippy. We don't take kindly to your kind 'round here.
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Well you see, that right there is what makes you NOT a Gentoo zealot. It relegates to the much more sensible ranks of fan, advocate, or promoter.
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Ironically, Debian doesn't really use RPM, it uses deb packages.
I don't even want to know what Gentoo zealots things of Fedora and Mandrake users (by which I mean those us with better things to do than compile packages all day).
There's nothing wrong with using plutonium in reactors -- Canada's been doing it for decades. I'm not saying we should be selling reactors full of weapons-grade plutonium to Pakistan or North Korea, but the nuclear powers and the non-proliferation-treaty signatories can probably all be trusted with them.
Frankly, I think most people would much rather see plutonium get used in reactors than in doomsday weapons.
I get what you're saying about hydroelectric, but we DO have to sacrifice at least a few ecosystems. The only way to get around it is to exterminate the entire human race -- we need to build homes SOMEWHERE, we need to build farms SOMEWHERE, we need to mine plutonium SOMEWHERE. Destroying a few ecosystems to get hydroelectric power is a lot better than destroying a lot of ecosystems by drastically changing the earth's temperature.
This is why I hate liberals -- all they can do is bitch. They're tied with conservatives for #2 on my list of "Who's Stupid" (#1 is reserved for anarchists).
Nope, I'm Canadian. And we get most of our power from hydroelectric dams and nuclear reactors. Hydroelectricity and nuclear power are two of the best sources of power, PERIOD. They kick the ass out of coal and oil.
The future is going to demand cheap, renewable sources of power, and it's time America got on board. Hell, America should be leading the way. The US has vast supplies of uranium and plutonium, and there are reactor designs that can use weapons-grade and junk-grade fissile material.
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I actually just included the Gnu/Linux for the comedic purpose of contrasting it with Windows/Dos (Windows 3.1 running on the DOS "kernel"), and Unix/Unix (Unix running on the Unix kernel).
Fankly, I think it's a great thing that BSD and HURD will be putting some pressure on Linux to be the best. Competition makes them strong, and the cross-fertilization of ideas makes them stronger still.
Besides, HURD may end up being superior to Linux in some domains, such as high-reliability systems (think banking servers), driver development, OS research, shared systems, and the like.
1.) Any assertion, no matter how incredulous, improbably, true, false, verifiable, unverifiable, supported, or unsupported, is a belief, not an opinion. Opinions are neither true nor false, and there is no such thing as evidence with regards to opinions.
2.) If you disbelieve anyone all assertions that aren't provided along with their evidence, you would be unable to function in the world. If your co-worker tells you that its raining out, you almost certainly believe them. If your boss tells you that your team is about to start a new project, you almost certainly believe them. In neither case did the person show you any evidence. Even scientists respect the validity of assertions without being presented with evidence; the knowledge that someone else asserts the validity of some result is sufficient in most cases. That's the whole point of peer review -- to avoid necessity of having to prove every result to every single concerned scientist individually.
I've got both the first and second edition of Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest. It's a great text.
Any ideas for how to correct this situation?
Instead of having people in third-world countries sitting around waiting for the red-cross to come and bail them out, maybe they'll be able to learn using online resources and solve their problems themselves. Maybe instead of needing food drops from more affluent nations, they can learn how to duplicate the "green revolution" that turned the American desert into fertile land.
Information is the single most transformative power in all of history. Better access to it, better facilities for sharing it, for collaborating in the generation of it -- these are what build civilizations.
You missed the point. He was trying to demonstrate the value of the iMac Mini, by showing what a comparably sized PC would be like (eg: not good). So he perfectly achieved his point.
Farmers here in the West are surprisingly technical people, and treat farming as a science. One can't help but wonder how much better third world nations would be doing if they had access to some of that science and knowhow.
Hmmm, let me check what is says in my copy of the Windows EULA...
He compared it to the morning after pill. The morning after pill doesn't "abort" anything -- it simply causes the egg to fail to implant itself in the uterus. This is EXACTLY what IUDs and "The Pill" do, and what happens in 90% of all fertilizations anyway. The morning after pill is just interventive birth-control. It has absolutely nothing to do with abortions.
Of course I'm "on" about big packages. No one cares about vulnerabilities in Tetris or KMines. Vulnerabilities in the core KDE libraries, the Kernel, the core Gnome libraries, in Mozilla, in OpenOffice -- those are a big deal. And if these, the most important applications on your system, are going to be installed from binary packages ANYWAY, what's the point of using Gentoo at all? Who cares if KMines is optimized to the gills?! I couldn't give a fuck if Gaim is optimized for the Athlon XP rather than the Pentium -- processing power is not the bottleneck in Gaim. MPG123 isn't exactly slowing me down -- increasing it's speed by 0.00001% isn't going to help me live my life.
It's not like I can't compile any program I want in Mandrake. That's what the SRPMs are for, that's what the tarballs are for, that's what CVS is for. None of those take more than three or four commands to get started. With SRPMs, I can get a compilation started in just two commands, and that includes passing in whatever optimisation flags I'm retarded enough to care about.
My CPU is valuable to me -- given the choice between recompiling my kernel every three days and playing GTA: Vice City, guess what I'll pick? Given the choice between spending all of next week tuning OpenOffice, or spending all of next week not caring because OpenOffice is already fast even on 286, I'll normally pick the latter.
Besides, no empirical test has ever shown an improvement in Gentoo over distributions like Mandrake. For that matter, Mandrake (optimised for the 586) doesn't even perform measurably better than Fedora (optimised for the 386). And for the most part, applications running on either of those platforms only marginally outperform comparable Java applications, despite Java not being optimized at all for x86 architectures.
To summarize, source-based distributions are for wanks with too much time. Someone ought to give these people a copy of Netbeans or IDLE and tell them to get busy.
Gentoo? Yeah freakin' right. The source repository might be more uptodate, but an actual Gentoo installation will always be behind, on account of it taking so long to recompile each update.
And that's why I don't leave the house. :)
Frankly, I'd prefer that they NOT spend it on public education (ie: advertising). I give Mandrake money now, because most of their profits go into development. If they start wasting their money on campaigns of annoyance, I'll just switch to Debian. It's bad enough they waste the money I give them on investor relations.
This is great news. Mandrake is one of the best all-around distributions. Close to the cutting-edge, extremely usable, and a library of packages exceeded only by Debian.
The way I see it, if a bunch of retarded homicidal apes can turn into something as fantastical as our modern society, anything is possible. Prokaryots from ooze seems easy to believe by comparison.
The text of this sticker is clearly equating equating 'theory' with its colloquial use, rather than its scientific or mathematical/logical use.
Why do school boards have to keep embarassing us all with this shit? Evolution is one of the most successfull scientific theories EVER. You might as well say that gravitation is just a theory.
Yes. Boooo! Go back to Russia, hippy. We don't take kindly to your kind 'round here.
Well you see, that right there is what makes you NOT a Gentoo zealot. It relegates to the much more sensible ranks of fan, advocate, or promoter.
I don't even want to know what Gentoo zealots things of Fedora and Mandrake users (by which I mean those us with better things to do than compile packages all day).
Frankly, I think most people would much rather see plutonium get used in reactors than in doomsday weapons.
I get what you're saying about hydroelectric, but we DO have to sacrifice at least a few ecosystems. The only way to get around it is to exterminate the entire human race -- we need to build homes SOMEWHERE, we need to build farms SOMEWHERE, we need to mine plutonium SOMEWHERE. Destroying a few ecosystems to get hydroelectric power is a lot better than destroying a lot of ecosystems by drastically changing the earth's temperature.
This is why I hate liberals -- all they can do is bitch. They're tied with conservatives for #2 on my list of "Who's Stupid" (#1 is reserved for anarchists).
The underpaid grunts wont be able to afford gasoline for much longer anyway. So they'll have to choose a non-gasoline commuting solution anyway.
The future is going to demand cheap, renewable sources of power, and it's time America got on board. Hell, America should be leading the way. The US has vast supplies of uranium and plutonium, and there are reactor designs that can use weapons-grade and junk-grade fissile material.
We can do that with hydrogen power, electricity, and human toil, fo'.