Especially if you have even the most basic knowledge of German.
The most spoken native language in Europe, language of 4th largest economy (and #2 in exports, half of whole EU, just behind China...but not so much as the US). Studied by 2/3 of Japanese students; *.de is the second domain after *.com; 1 in 10 books is published in German...
Why would anybody want to have even a basic working skill of that, eh?
Latest versions of Seamonkey brought it closer to FF unfortuntelly; though it still seems second only to Opera in overall snappiness, how smooth the whole browsing experience is. Which is especially weird considering that the Seamonkey is supposed to be the heavy one, which caused development of FF...
But most importantly, things like full Flash websites don't belong on mobile phone mostly because of insane requirements for power they brings; and it's not just about "CPU power", which current top smartphones can provide, but wasting battery power.
The point is merely that there are full mobile browsers available for quite some time...and suddenly this FF viral marketing summary comes claiming that Firefox mobile is the first one; well, nothing unexpected really...
"First one" and available pretty much only for most powerful mobile devices. Meanwhile some of other exisitng full mobile browsers work comfortably on devices roughly an order of magnitude slower.
That's such a vague (if not trolling) description that it's useless.
Let me transofrm it a bit; "modern conservatism is based in a sort of divine-based ethic whereas it's ethical to force others to do what you think is ethical", and with many examples.
And you really don't understand that govs would be unable to do even any of those basic things without forcing some people into actions that should be done?
And that's the crux of the matter. The fact that someone SHOULD do something does not mean that anyone (not even the government) has the right to FORCE them to do something.
Uhm, what do you think governments are for then? Forcing individuals into doing things that should not be done?
Also, 20 years ago it was easier to claim to be informed, with who knows how many huge would-be stories not registering anywhere (hence ignorance about them would not be described as "ignorance"...as far as news are concerned, those events didn't exist), claims being harder to verify, distrubution of information reserved to very few people. Perhaps people knew more about local stuff also because there was nothing better to do then gossips.
Now...sure, majority is still uninformed. But it's easier to be informed, if you want to; and without making it into a fulltime job, so there's plenty of time for "silly things", too.
But hey, "old times were better" never gets old, right?
And isn't number crunching on the Cell the most interesting thing to do with Linux PS3 anyway? That might be optimized for small RAM, not needing interactivity, optimally running headless and without GUI anyway...
From what I see it's strangely "underreported"; lots of people don't care to know / don't realize how directly birds come from one group of dinosaurs. Or that the latter had feathers.
The ISS and its direct predecessor, Shuttle-Mir program, has taught you and is still teaching you a great deal about long term habitation of space and methods of space assembly. Once those things are adequetly mastered in LEO, you need "only" radiation shielding and propulsion technology to reliably go much further; those can be relatively easily modelled. You really see no value in that?
Plus being an exercise in cooperation will end up usefull long term. As well as keeping the Russian space programme from total financial collapse and giving JAXA and ESA clear path towards their own manned systems (ESA is quite close, with their ATV and work into ATV Evolution)
Though that can bring us into the territory of "shit! I want and could do so much more", I guess, even if what we already did or will manage to do...means something.
While the messenger to which you're replying is ineed, hm, "overboard passionate", your critique of some of his points isn't as solid as you might think...
Taking it...no, not to the absurd at all, explain to me why we have laws against child labour. How do they harm the family? Or, other way around, why people are so obsessed with dismissing sexuality of their teen children?
"Right" of parents to do things is not an absolute. You ned to find better argument than that.
Religion with which you are likely most familiar with does actually much more rightous thing than not proposing tax cuts for the rich - it promotes, as one of its basic virtues, disregard of material wealth. Which is of course completelly ignored by most of its adherents. There's importatnt lesson here - what religion claims and what it actually does, promotes are two different things. That it accepts generous, relatively speaking, donations from the rich and doesn't condemn them does ring a bell...
And Catholics promote spread of HIV by disregarding scientific evidence that "abstinence sex ed" is not effective. Heck, you even have priests advising against proved effective measures. Yes, that's "only one thing", right now (Vatican seems to be reconsidering its position regarding condoms)...but acceptance of science generally evolves over time to avoid having religion in a position of ridicule and contempt.
I do hope and expect that more and more people will find other means to fill that existencial void (though, ironically, that requires IMHO being actually more convinced in the continuation of your being after you cease to exist, more than in the case of most "faithful")...and hey, we might even help with that.
We'll probably get there, eventually. But don't hold your breath as far as seing it goes, on the scale of humanity (hey, in the meantime you might find some nice countries here and there...)
However irrational religions are, they serve also usefull purposes. If the shift would be to rapid, you'll get chaos and the world reverting quickly to a state worse than before the shift. And no, that's not simply "self-feeding", faiths crating a world that's dependant on themselves. They, the gods are...completelly real. Not in the sense in which "they" claim to be, but as constructs which proved hugely beneficial during our evolution; they wouldn't be so prevalent otherwise.
Sure, mocking them in such discussions might be satisfying:). It won't go very far in on itself though. Best to try to divert them in particular direction; there's nobody at the helm after all. But you must be able to do it in full realization that you won't live to see the true effects of your efforts.
The point is more that Intel drivers can be called "production ready", more or less, right now. AMD ones...not so much. I'm hearing "next year" a bit too long for my taste.
And that says somebody with old R200-based card lying around, which has rather decent OSS drivers (actually, only those are left supporting it)
Well, people usually need a reason to presecute that's outside of strict religious context. There's no way around it, really (and, on grand scale, luckily); people don't tend to supress alien faiths solely (//key word) on religious purposes, there's always some background at work, for the simple unease it would create, susceptibility of everyone involved to see all the BS in religions generally.
So, what is it for Scientology? Fair game or Tom Cruize?
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Especially if you have even the most basic knowledge of German.
The most spoken native language in Europe, language of 4th largest economy (and #2 in exports, half of whole EU, just behind China...but not so much as the US). Studied by 2/3 of Japanese students; *.de is the second domain after *.com; 1 in 10 books is published in German...
Why would anybody want to have even a basic working skill of that, eh?
That might have something to do with the thing that it "removes" some features...compare zooming implementation for example?
Latest versions of Seamonkey brought it closer to FF unfortuntelly; though it still seems second only to Opera in overall snappiness, how smooth the whole browsing experience is. Which is especially weird considering that the Seamonkey is supposed to be the heavy one, which caused development of FF...
Well, those are prices with contract...
But most importantly, things like full Flash websites don't belong on mobile phone mostly because of insane requirements for power they brings; and it's not just about "CPU power", which current top smartphones can provide, but wasting battery power.
The point is merely that there are full mobile browsers available for quite some time...and suddenly this FF viral marketing summary comes claiming that Firefox mobile is the first one; well, nothing unexpected really...
"First one" and available pretty much only for most powerful mobile devices. Meanwhile some of other exisitng full mobile browsers work comfortably on devices roughly an order of magnitude slower.
That's such a vague (if not trolling) description that it's useless.
Let me transofrm it a bit; "modern conservatism is based in a sort of divine-based ethic whereas it's ethical to force others to do what you think is ethical", and with many examples.
And you really don't understand that govs would be unable to do even any of those basic things without forcing some people into actions that should be done?
Being supposedly "progressive" has nothing to do with it.
Ever heard about long standing tradition of blaming rape victims, for example?
And that's the crux of the matter. The fact that someone SHOULD do something does not mean that anyone (not even the government) has the right to FORCE them to do something.
Uhm, what do you think governments are for then? Forcing individuals into doing things that should not be done?
Also, 20 years ago it was easier to claim to be informed, with who knows how many huge would-be stories not registering anywhere (hence ignorance about them would not be described as "ignorance"...as far as news are concerned, those events didn't exist), claims being harder to verify, distrubution of information reserved to very few people. Perhaps people knew more about local stuff also because there was nothing better to do then gossips.
Now...sure, majority is still uninformed. But it's easier to be informed, if you want to; and without making it into a fulltime job, so there's plenty of time for "silly things", too.
But hey, "old times were better" never gets old, right?
And isn't number crunching on the Cell the most interesting thing to do with Linux PS3 anyway? That might be optimized for small RAM, not needing interactivity, optimally running headless and without GUI anyway...
So, waiting for somebody with full access to electron or even scanning force microscope? Still no go even then?
From what I see it's strangely "underreported"; lots of people don't care to know / don't realize how directly birds come from one group of dinosaurs. Or that the latter had feathers.
Though from what I see there's lately some trend of assigning groups of animals to "upstream" taxa...doesn't look so weird though with latin names.
...though TBH it's slightly hard to look at Persians as "not-West" in this historical context.
The ISS and its direct predecessor, Shuttle-Mir program, has taught you and is still teaching you a great deal about long term habitation of space and methods of space assembly. Once those things are adequetly mastered in LEO, you need "only" radiation shielding and propulsion technology to reliably go much further; those can be relatively easily modelled. You really see no value in that?
Plus being an exercise in cooperation will end up usefull long term. As well as keeping the Russian space programme from total financial collapse and giving JAXA and ESA clear path towards their own manned systems (ESA is quite close, with their ATV and work into ATV Evolution)
(plus high taxes aren't bad in itself; definatelly not bad if you see that they are being put to good use)
Do turtles count?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_5
Though that can bring us into the territory of "shit! I want and could do so much more", I guess, even if what we already did or will manage to do...means something.
Last time it happened in XIX century, lasting a bit into the XX.
Nothing good came out of it though, more or less just a fight with the same old methods between one religion/"grand ideology"/whatever and the other.
While the messenger to which you're replying is ineed, hm, "overboard passionate", your critique of some of his points isn't as solid as you might think...
Taking it...no, not to the absurd at all, explain to me why we have laws against child labour. How do they harm the family? Or, other way around, why people are so obsessed with dismissing sexuality of their teen children?
"Right" of parents to do things is not an absolute. You ned to find better argument than that.
Religion with which you are likely most familiar with does actually much more rightous thing than not proposing tax cuts for the rich - it promotes, as one of its basic virtues, disregard of material wealth. Which is of course completelly ignored by most of its adherents. There's importatnt lesson here - what religion claims and what it actually does, promotes are two different things. That it accepts generous, relatively speaking, donations from the rich and doesn't condemn them does ring a bell...
And Catholics promote spread of HIV by disregarding scientific evidence that "abstinence sex ed" is not effective. Heck, you even have priests advising against proved effective measures. Yes, that's "only one thing", right now (Vatican seems to be reconsidering its position regarding condoms)...but acceptance of science generally evolves over time to avoid having religion in a position of ridicule and contempt.
I do hope and expect that more and more people will find other means to fill that existencial void (though, ironically, that requires IMHO being actually more convinced in the continuation of your being after you cease to exist, more than in the case of most "faithful")...and hey, we might even help with that.
We'll probably get there, eventually. But don't hold your breath as far as seing it goes, on the scale of humanity (hey, in the meantime you might find some nice countries here and there...)
However irrational religions are, they serve also usefull purposes. If the shift would be to rapid, you'll get chaos and the world reverting quickly to a state worse than before the shift. And no, that's not simply "self-feeding", faiths crating a world that's dependant on themselves. They, the gods are...completelly real. Not in the sense in which "they" claim to be, but as constructs which proved hugely beneficial during our evolution; they wouldn't be so prevalent otherwise.
Sure, mocking them in such discussions might be satisfying :). It won't go very far in on itself though. Best to try to divert them in particular direction; there's nobody at the helm after all. But you must be able to do it in full realization that you won't live to see the true effects of your efforts.
The point is more that Intel drivers can be called "production ready", more or less, right now. AMD ones...not so much. I'm hearing "next year" a bit too long for my taste.
And that says somebody with old R200-based card lying around, which has rather decent OSS drivers (actually, only those are left supporting it)
Well, people usually need a reason to presecute that's outside of strict religious context. There's no way around it, really (and, on grand scale, luckily); people don't tend to supress alien faiths solely (//key word) on religious purposes, there's always some background at work, for the simple unease it would create, susceptibility of everyone involved to see all the BS in religions generally.
So, what is it for Scientology? Fair game or Tom Cruize?
Two sides of one coin, at worst.