I forgot to mention: there's an election campaign going on here right now. None of the parties have "make our healthcare system more like Americas" or anything like that as part of their campaign platform. If any Canadians wanted it, there would be some politician promising it.
Even those furthest to the right only go so far as to say we should think about having a two tiered system. But no one is talking about getting rid of universal health care.
Yes there are people in Canada who lament the healthcare system here. But that's different from wanting a helthcare system like America's. That's what I say no one here wants. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
What a silly argument. Somebody here has no clue, and it's not the Canadian. There may be some isolated problems with the system, but they are being worked out. It's a process. The vast majority of Canadians are very happy with their health care system. Can Americans say the same of theirs? Of course not.
For all of your anecdotes, I've heard just as many stories of people going into serious debt, or just not getting treatment because they have no insurance.
I've lived in America for 23 years. Lived here for 7. America's health system is a joke compared to Canada's and no here, absolutely no one, wants it to be like it is in America. We may want some changes but we don't want it like how you have it.
In addition it's a huge project with it's own paid set of developers.
So, like other FOSS apps, there may be many eyes on it, but they probably never even look at the source, let alone work on it. It's too big and complicated. And people are already being paid to work on it. Why should someone spend their free, spare time doing someone else's job?
It may be open source but I suspect that it's development hasn't been a very open process. This is just about the worst example in the FOSS world to use as a representative of how open source development works IMO.
The main problem is that that 20 points is an average. As TF summary said people with or without the gene show a wide range of IQs with significant overlap. So even though the average of the two groups may be significantly different, the distribution is probably so wide that trying to predict whether an individual with the gene is smarter than average is just a guess.
I don't think this is just a problem with this study. Every study I've ever seen comparing the IQs of two different groups and claiming a difference only showed a difference of a small fraction of the standard deviation. Making predictions of an individual's intelligence based on their group impossible. I think some of that broadness of the distributions has it's root in some of the parent post's complaints about IQ tests. Too unreliable, and not standardized.
Reading the rules I was thinking how I'd like to work in a place like that. Then I thought 'wait a minute, I do work in a place like that'. But I'm in a research group at a university. One of the things that scares me from finding a so-called 'real job' in industry or business is the lack of these rules which we kind of take for granted in the ivory tower.
Except of course for that "cater to their every need" rule. (Insert ramen joke here)
I mean since most of what people complain about (rightly or wrongly) with autopackage is security (binaries being installed system wide by a third party) and integration (files in filesystem that weren't put there by the package manager) it seems like a default way to do it would be to always install in ~/.local. It's not a problem for me to always have it do this. I just though it might be better to have this be the default behaviour.
Also, maybe autopackage has been updated since I last used it, but I was only prompted once for a root password. Subsequent package installations went straight to/.local without asking.
when I play air guitar the traditional way it sounds good.
This new way might sound somewhat like how my actual guitar playing sounds: like crap.
More seriously, now that technology is this good, and we have things like this and the new Nintendo controller, maybe it's time for Nintendo (or someone else) to bring back the Power Glove for games and other computer stuff.
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Competition and choice is great. It's also a barrier to entry for children growing up. And given that it's unrealistic to have all languages be understandable, let's make it easier for language adoption to take place. Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth. One that everyone on earth follows, so people have something in common.
All the whining about how choice is good and it makes life better distracts from a more important factor. All the competing viewpoints make incompatability and confusion unavoidable.
TFA is only 3 paragraphs, yet there are already ~5 comments from people complaining about the price who can't be bothered to RTFA and see that for the $30 you get 29 songs, videos and album art. Oh yeah, and a USB key.
Their method of heating the plasma to temperatures hot enough for fusion seems to be by using particles accelerated by magnetic reconnection. (hmm.. that wiki needs love)
Magnetic reconnection in traditional fusion reactors is seen as a bad thing because it shoots particles in unpredictable directions that often can't be contained by the confining magnetic fields. So it results in a loss of plasma density and also eventually puts small holes in the sides of the reactor.
If these particles are that energetic it seems to make sense that they could be used to heat the plasma if they could be controlled. No idea if they are energetic enough to be used alone though.
That magnetic reconnection thingy is also what causes the northern lights.
Checking the box for always take this action (where the action was do nothing) did nothing. It always tried to autoplay. As for the reason why it bothered me: it kept crashing my computer. No one likes that.
Your whole post is another example of how people do better in the environments they are used to. I've had to upgrade Firefox because of a security issue. I've had to install drivers for my ATI card. And if I had just come from the Windows world I probably would have done the exact same things you did, with the same problems.
Knowing better, I just fired up Synaptic package manager (the GUI many Linux users use to get new software) double-clicked on firefox (which tells it to upgrade) and clicked apply. For the ATI driver, the same thing: double click on the ATI drivers in Synaptic. No going to websites and downloading stuff. No compiling. Done in two minutes at the most.
Does that sound like something the average person would have a problem with?
Convinient how you ignore the crashing part mentioned in my post.
And the point about the drivers was that in Linux I don't have to install drivers anymore. And even if I did, it's extremely easy. But seeing as how you seem to be so proud of your inability to install drivers I'll let you stay in the dark. But here's a hint to how easy it is: it takes a fewer number of steps than your double clicking and next, next, next, reboot.
Uh... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't autoplay *only* supported on CD-ROMs anyway? No, dumm ass, obviously not, since I'm complaining about it. Autoplay was starting when I connected a usb drive. It then proceeded to freeze the whole system. And no, holding down shift didn't work. Learn to read posts. And you have to download the Microsoft program that I did to disable it. That's why I downloaded it.
So despite your bad comprehension of my post, I can use Windows just fine, this was just an example of a non-intuitive hassle that I came across in Windows which is actually easier to deal with in Linux.
To reiterate the points: 1. Windows is not always easier. 2. Familiarity makes things easier.
And yeesh, how did I, the one saying Linux is easy to use, become the computer illiterate one in your mangled post? Yeesh
2nd paragraph: I have a hard time in Windows. Explain that if it's so intuitive. And GNOME has a graphical way of doing your startup program example as well.
3rd paragraph: Wow, that just.. everything you said was wrong.
In Windows, I can just right click on something and choose 'open with' and I'm presented with all of the possible programs that can open that file. In Linux...??? Yes I can do that in GNOME
The other big, big problem is the lack of standardised menus and behaviour for ALL PROGRAMS AND OS COMPONENTS. Actually, there is a standard. The vast majority of programs follow them especially if you use one desktop envirionment like KDE OR GNOME. And to say that all Windows programs behave the same is garbage. Most programs have their own look and feel and do things their way. Or did you think Winamp and itunes have similar interfaces?
what does a right mouse click do in Windows? It always, always brings up a context menu of available actions. In Linux.. something, nothing, who knows. Actually it... brings up a context menu of available actions.
Fourth paragraph: My girlfriend uses my computer without my help with no problem. She had never heard of Linux before she met me.
Maybe you and parent post aren't as smart as you think.
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I saw a BSOD today.
At this very moment I am typing with my monitor on it's side. Why? Because my mp3 player crashed windows hard. Never does that in Linux. When trying to perform the 3-key salute to do a hard reset I accidentally pressed some combination that put the whole screen on it's side. Upon reboot (which included a lengthy disk check) the screen is still sideways. So now, my mp3 player doesn't work (with Windows) and my screen is sideways. Great. I sure am glad Windows is easy to use.
One more thing: I had to search for and download the drivers for my sound and video card for the Windows installation. Not for Ubuntu.
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I forgot to mention: there's an election campaign going on here right now. None of the parties have "make our healthcare system more like Americas" or anything like that as part of their campaign platform. If any Canadians wanted it, there would be some politician promising it.
Even those furthest to the right only go so far as to say we should think about having a two tiered system. But no one is talking about getting rid of universal health care.
Yes there are people in Canada who lament the healthcare system here. But that's different from wanting a helthcare system like America's. That's what I say no one here wants. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
What a silly argument. Somebody here has no clue, and it's not the Canadian. There may be some isolated problems with the system, but they are being worked out. It's a process. The vast majority of Canadians are very happy with their health care system. Can Americans say the same of theirs? Of course not.
For all of your anecdotes, I've heard just as many stories of people going into serious debt, or just not getting treatment because they have no insurance.
I've lived in America for 23 years. Lived here for 7. America's health system is a joke compared to Canada's and no here, absolutely no one, wants it to be like it is in America. We may want some changes but we don't want it like how you have it.
In addition it's a huge project with it's own paid set of developers.
So, like other FOSS apps, there may be many eyes on it, but they probably never even look at the source, let alone work on it. It's too big and complicated. And people are already being paid to work on it. Why should someone spend their free, spare time doing someone else's job?
It may be open source but I suspect that it's development hasn't been a very open process. This is just about the worst example in the FOSS world to use as a representative of how open source development works IMO.
No. When the Nomad was only 6GB the ipod didn't exist. When the ipod did exist, at only 5GB, there were already 20GB players from several companies.
Also, there's a new type of DRM coming out where after you have remembered a song 3 times it erases itself from your memory.
Wait a minute. I could use that sometimes.
The main problem is that that 20 points is an average. As TF summary said people with or without the gene show a wide range of IQs with significant overlap. So even though the average of the two groups may be significantly different, the distribution is probably so wide that trying to predict whether an individual with the gene is smarter than average is just a guess.
I don't think this is just a problem with this study. Every study I've ever seen comparing the IQs of two different groups and claiming a difference only showed a difference of a small fraction of the standard deviation. Making predictions of an individual's intelligence based on their group impossible. I think some of that broadness of the distributions has it's root in some of the parent post's complaints about IQ tests. Too unreliable, and not standardized.
Reading the rules I was thinking how I'd like to work in a place like that. Then I thought 'wait a minute, I do work in a place like that'. But I'm in a research group at a university. One of the things that scares me from finding a so-called 'real job' in industry or business is the lack of these rules which we kind of take for granted in the ivory tower.
Except of course for that "cater to their every need" rule. (Insert ramen joke here)
and as with all the other *buntus, if you already have Ubuntu installed you can just 'apt-get edubuntu-desktop' to get this one.
Really just a meta-package if you already have Ubuntu.
Are you using Ubuntu?
Yep
I mean since most of what people complain about (rightly or wrongly) with autopackage is security (binaries being installed system wide by a third party) and integration (files in filesystem that weren't put there by the package manager) it seems like a default way to do it would be to always install in ~/.local. It's not a problem for me to always have it do this. I just though it might be better to have this be the default behaviour.
/.local without asking.
Also, maybe autopackage has been updated since I last used it, but I was only prompted once for a root password. Subsequent package installations went straight to
My (possible) solution was to not give autopackage my root password, which forces it to install everything to /home/me/.local
It may result in multiple libraries and wasted space but at least it can't confuse apt. Also the security concerns are addressed this way.
I really don't see why this isn't the default way to do autopackage.
when I play air guitar the traditional way it sounds good.
This new way might sound somewhat like how my actual guitar playing sounds: like crap.
More seriously, now that technology is this good, and we have things like this and the new Nintendo controller, maybe it's time for Nintendo (or someone else) to bring back the Power Glove for games and other computer stuff.
It's a joke. See the comment I was responding to.
Competition and choice is great. It's also a barrier to entry for children growing up. And given that it's unrealistic to have all languages be understandable, let's make it easier for language adoption to take place. Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth. One that everyone on earth follows, so people have something in common.
All the whining about how choice is good and it makes life better distracts from a more important factor. All the competing viewpoints make incompatability and confusion unavoidable.
Don't give the mpaa any more ideas. I get all my warez from his site
TFA is only 3 paragraphs, yet there are already ~5 comments from people complaining about the price who can't be bothered to RTFA and see that for the $30 you get 29 songs, videos and album art. Oh yeah, and a USB key.
Here's the link.
I would have written sooner but after my first flaimbait mod I felt I needed to slow down around here and didn't log back in till now.
Their method of heating the plasma to temperatures hot enough for fusion seems to be by using particles accelerated by magnetic reconnection. (hmm.. that wiki needs love)
Magnetic reconnection in traditional fusion reactors is seen as a bad thing because it shoots particles in unpredictable directions that often can't be contained by the confining magnetic fields. So it results in a loss of plasma density and also eventually puts small holes in the sides of the reactor.
If these particles are that energetic it seems to make sense that they could be used to heat the plasma if they could be controlled. No idea if they are energetic enough to be used alone though.
That magnetic reconnection thingy is also what causes the northern lights.
Haha, my first flame war! Hooray for me! :-D
I'm glad we're having fun here:)
Checking the box for always take this action (where the action was do nothing) did nothing. It always tried to autoplay. As for the reason why it bothered me: it kept crashing my computer. No one likes that.
Your whole post is another example of how people do better in the environments they are used to. I've had to upgrade Firefox because of a security issue. I've had to install drivers for my ATI card. And if I had just come from the Windows world I probably would have done the exact same things you did, with the same problems.
Knowing better, I just fired up Synaptic package manager (the GUI many Linux users use to get new software) double-clicked on firefox (which tells it to upgrade) and clicked apply. For the ATI driver, the same thing: double click on the ATI drivers in Synaptic. No going to websites and downloading stuff. No compiling. Done in two minutes at the most.
Does that sound like something the average person would have a problem with?
Convinient how you ignore the crashing part mentioned in my post.
And the point about the drivers was that in Linux I don't have to install drivers anymore. And even if I did, it's extremely easy. But seeing as how you seem to be so proud of your inability to install drivers I'll let you stay in the dark. But here's a hint to how easy it is: it takes a fewer number of steps than your double clicking and next, next, next, reboot.
Uh... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't autoplay *only* supported on CD-ROMs anyway?
No, dumm ass, obviously not, since I'm complaining about it. Autoplay was starting when I connected a usb drive. It then proceeded to freeze the whole system. And no, holding down shift didn't work. Learn to read posts. And you have to download the Microsoft program that I did to disable it. That's why I downloaded it.
So despite your bad comprehension of my post, I can use Windows just fine, this was just an example of a non-intuitive hassle that I came across in Windows which is actually easier to deal with in Linux.
To reiterate the points:
1. Windows is not always easier.
2. Familiarity makes things easier.
And yeesh, how did I, the one saying Linux is easy to use, become the computer illiterate one in your mangled post? Yeesh
1st paragraph: Maybe that's just you
2nd paragraph: I have a hard time in Windows. Explain that if it's so intuitive. And GNOME has a graphical way of doing your startup program example as well.
3rd paragraph: Wow, that just.. everything you said was wrong.
In Windows, I can just right click on something and choose 'open with' and I'm presented with all of the possible programs that can open that file. In Linux...???
Yes I can do that in GNOME
The other big, big problem is the lack of standardised menus and behaviour for ALL PROGRAMS AND OS COMPONENTS.
Actually, there is a standard. The vast majority of programs follow them especially if you use one desktop envirionment like KDE OR GNOME. And to say that all Windows programs behave the same is garbage. Most programs have their own look and feel and do things their way. Or did you think Winamp and itunes have similar interfaces?
what does a right mouse click do in Windows? It always, always brings up a context menu of available actions. In Linux.. something, nothing, who knows.
Actually it... brings up a context menu of available actions.
Fourth paragraph: My girlfriend uses my computer without my help with no problem. She had never heard of Linux before she met me.
Maybe you and parent post aren't as smart as you think.
I saw a BSOD today.
At this very moment I am typing with my monitor on it's side. Why? Because my mp3 player crashed windows hard. Never does that in Linux. When trying to perform the 3-key salute to do a hard reset I accidentally pressed some combination that put the whole screen on it's side. Upon reboot (which included a lengthy disk check) the screen is still sideways. So now, my mp3 player doesn't work (with Windows) and my screen is sideways. Great. I sure am glad Windows is easy to use.
One more thing: I had to search for and download the drivers for my sound and video card for the Windows installation. Not for Ubuntu.