I have watched it, and sensed it was bad, and went online afterwards, and found that none of the "new theories" the program used to explain global warming were new at all. In fact, they have all been considered by modern theories that blame humans, e.g. the IPCC's Fourth Assessment.
They also mention the guy from MIT I mentioned in my above post. I know the Wikepedia article says that its neutrality is dusputed, but I've read about his reputation on many other sites.
Apparently the guy from MIT in this documentary is suing Channel 4 (the English station who broadcast this program) because he says he was misrepresented and quoted completely out of context:
Yes, I can't understand why humans always have to hurt everything. From the sound of the article, it doesn't seem like they learned anything much more than "it is big" and "it moves fast" and "its suckers aren't as strong as expected when you cut its leg off". What was the point? Did they have to hook it?
It was all a publicity stunt if you ask me. They didn't learn squat. They just wanted to make headlines. And in the process they ripped off one of its legs. I hope they burn in hell. Motherfuckers.
"running an X11 application is like being thrown back to 1990. Menu's are attached to the window, keybindings are messed up, and you're lucky if copy/paste works."
FWIW: KDE offers OSX-style application menu bars.
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I know what you're talking about. It's not your distro.
The difference is obvious when you compare something like Fluxbox (or Windows!) to Gnome or KDE. In Flux the redraw is basically instantaneous, whereas KDE and Gnome and others there is definitely a noticible redraw.
P.S. I use KDE. I've just learned to accept it.
"The reason why a majority of Americans or Europeans pay for their software isn't that we're more stupid than the Chinese and just can't find a crack. It's because we're not the kind of cheapskate whose only options are free beer or stolen beer. Because it's the morally right thing to do."
NO, it's because things are so much cheaper over there.
For example, the DVD for The Passion Of The Christ is 13.99 UK Pounds at Amazon.co.uk. Minimum wage in the UK is 4.50 last time I checked. That's just over 3 hours of minimum wage work for a Brit to be able to buy this DVD.
Here in South Africa, a civil engineer gets around 100 Rand an hour. This same DVD is 150 Rand here (and that's a marked-down price). That's 1.5 hours of work for a civil engineer to afford this DVD. I don't know what our minimum wage is, but in 1997 I worked in a (very popular) bar and was paid 8 Rand an hour. I would guess that the same job probably pays around R 10 per hour now. Even if it was 15/hr., that's 10 hours of minimum wage work to buy a DVD.
CD's are around 100-120 Rand.
And South Africa is one of the better-off 3rd world countries out there.
P.S. I realise that this discussion was about software, but the situation is the same for software (actually probably worse).
True dat! The very reason why ESC is where it is is to prevent the user from accidentally hitting it. An accidental hit of ESC is much more damaging than that of CAPS LOCK (merely irritating). I would hate to accidentally hit ESC halfway(or more) through a lengthy dialog/form.
Recently I had to change the user agent string of my mom's copy of Konqueror to IE6 because she couldn't access her (now unused) yahoo mail account. Needless to say the site rendered perfectly after that in both Konq and Firefox.
Also, random mails from my sister's Yahoo account from overseas seem to be getting lost before they get to us (on an ISP mail account). Same thing happened a while back to some mails from my mom's friend's hotmail account. And I've never had any problems with my ISP's mail account.
Mmmm. Things will be getting more and more interesting as Linux becomes more popular. Soon there will be many, many "clueless" users using Linux, just like there are right now using Windows, and it will be interesting to see whether the Linux world can do a better job than Microsoft at providing security out of the box in order to protect these non-techie users from their own ignorance.
Will Linux distros be able to stand up to countless virii targeted at Linux? Or will it become the new Windows?
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They're already working on modules (see 'SG2'):
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I have not eaten meat since early 2005 and I am very healthy.
You get tonnes of protein from vegetables, nuts, beans, grains.
Protein is a non-issue. Much more tricky are things like B12, calcium, iron, etc.
I have watched it, and sensed it was bad, and went online afterwards, and found that none of the "new theories" the program used to explain global warming were new at all. In fact, they have all been considered by modern theories that blame humans, e.g. the IPCC's Fourth Assessment.
Any I should also mention that the guy who created this program doesn't have a very good reputation:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Durkin_(telev
They also mention the guy from MIT I mentioned in my above post. I know the Wikepedia article says that its neutrality is dusputed, but I've read about his reputation on many other sites.
Apparently the guy from MIT in this documentary is suing Channel 4 (the English station who broadcast this program) because he says he was misrepresented and quoted completely out of context:
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2
P.S. I only use FreeBSD at home.
It was all a publicity stunt if you ask me. They didn't learn squat. They just wanted to make headlines. And in the process they ripped off one of its legs. I hope they burn in hell. Motherfuckers.
"...his business was transiently worth a fortune at the moment when he unloaded it on some sucker..."
From what I've seen over the last few years, Thawte is still a major player, years after he sold it.
FWIW: KDE offers OSX-style application menu bars.
I know what you're talking about. It's not your distro. The difference is obvious when you compare something like Fluxbox (or Windows!) to Gnome or KDE. In Flux the redraw is basically instantaneous, whereas KDE and Gnome and others there is definitely a noticible redraw. P.S. I use KDE. I've just learned to accept it.
NO, it's because things are so much cheaper over there.
For example, the DVD for The Passion Of The Christ is 13.99 UK Pounds at Amazon.co.uk. Minimum wage in the UK is 4.50 last time I checked. That's just over 3 hours of minimum wage work for a Brit to be able to buy this DVD.
Here in South Africa, a civil engineer gets around 100 Rand an hour. This same DVD is 150 Rand here (and that's a marked-down price). That's 1.5 hours of work for a civil engineer to afford this DVD. I don't know what our minimum wage is, but in 1997 I worked in a (very popular) bar and was paid 8 Rand an hour. I would guess that the same job probably pays around R 10 per hour now. Even if it was 15/hr., that's 10 hours of minimum wage work to buy a DVD.
CD's are around 100-120 Rand.
And South Africa is one of the better-off 3rd world countries out there.
P.S. I realise that this discussion was about software, but the situation is the same for software (actually probably worse).
True dat! The very reason why ESC is where it is is to prevent the user from accidentally hitting it. An accidental hit of ESC is much more damaging than that of CAPS LOCK (merely irritating). I would hate to accidentally hit ESC halfway(or more) through a lengthy dialog/form.
Also, random mails from my sister's Yahoo account from overseas seem to be getting lost before they get to us (on an ISP mail account). Same thing happened a while back to some mails from my mom's friend's hotmail account. And I've never had any problems with my ISP's mail account.
Mmmm. Things will be getting more and more interesting as Linux becomes more popular. Soon there will be many, many "clueless" users using Linux, just like there are right now using Windows, and it will be interesting to see whether the Linux world can do a better job than Microsoft at providing security out of the box in order to protect these non-techie users from their own ignorance. Will Linux distros be able to stand up to countless virii targeted at Linux? Or will it become the new Windows?