If the statement that 26 vaccines are required in the US didn't set off your bullshit detector, it must be broken. If the article opens with such an obvious lie, the likelihood that any of the rest of it contains anything factual is probably near zero.
This is the internet. You don't have to believe everything you read. You can actually look stuff up.
Purely anecdotal, but I purchased a netbook for my 13 year old daughter about a year ago. It came with Windows 7 starter edition. I believe the very first thing we did was install an antivirus program, most likely AVG or Avast. After owning it for two days, it was infected with a virus, so I installed Ubuntu netbook edition. There were a few minor glitches (wireless drivers required a patch, adding new fonts is so convoluted that I had to create a script for that) but otherwise she has used it without complaint or incident ever since.
So on that one machine, for that one user, Windows averages an infection every 2 days, Linux never.
Suppose someone creates a website that includes libelous/spam/shock site/racist comments regarding a commercial website, and that website instructs its users to open that website up in a second browser and tile it next to a browser window with the commercial site in it. Then what?
The history textbook my daughter was given in elementary school contained a statistic for the ethnic breakdown of New York state circa 1650. It listed the percentage of African-Americans. How there were African Americans before there was an America is still a mystery to me.
To test this, I went to dell.com, clicked the link for computers for Home, then clicked the link for the mini and netbook page. I next selected the min 10. There was a list of four model. Each one had a list of features under it, with a big green "Customize" button. One of the models had an additional shiny green "Customize with Ubuntu" button. Right there in plain sight on the very first page listing the models to choose from. The mini 10v has the same choices. The mini 9 has Ubuntu as the default OS, and therefore requires additional mouse clicks to change to XP.
It takes, at most, three mouse clicks from the Dell front page to see a choice for a linux model. It isn't even possible to see a list of available models without seeing a linux choice.
This answer makes no sense to me. Lets say I take 100 marbles, 50 red, 50 blue. They are all heading straight toward me at the same time. The blue ones, at some point, get bounced around. The red ones keep going straight. When I look at the oncoming marbles, wouldn't I see more red?
Your understanding is - sorry - entirely wrong. The wikipedia article actually does a more or less decent job at explaining it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
The basic thing: Light scatters off the molecules of the air (no density variations needed). The higher the lights frequency (i.e. the bluer it is), the more it scatters.
So we see lots of scattered blue from all directions, but a lot less of scattered red, yellow, green, etc.
And because the atmosphere isn't thick enough to scatter a large amount of the colours on the red end of the spectrum, those come through more or less unscattered.
At dusk or at dawn, the light you see travels much longer distance in the atmosphere, and other colours scatter too. That's the main reason why sunrises and
sunsets are red - that's the only colour making it through.
I know what it means when light is reflected. I know what it means when light is refracted. I have no idea what it means when light is "scattered". Explain this term or you have explained nothing.
Your explanation of Rayleigh scattering includes the word scattering. Now I know who the specific type of scattering was named after. If only I knew what scattering was.
I agree in principle that any book/movie/play whatever is worth experiencing again, and therefore is not ruined by knowing the ending, though I think most people prefer their first experience of the ending to be firsthand.
However, I disagree with the case of Usual Suspects. The ending basically undoes the entire movie. What you just watched was completely made up by Spacey's character. A slightly more sophisticated version of "and then I woke up." At the end, if the interrogating officer is left looking like a fool for falling for it, what does that make the audience?
I would agree that it is not the most modest statement, but the meaning is clear enough, and seems to be typical campaign rhetoric.
The statement begins with the phrase "During my service in the United States Congress", which should make it clear to anyone who understands what words mean that anything that follows is related to that service. To draw the inference that "creating the internet" refers to legislation requires only the knowledge that the primary service of a US Congressman is legislation. It seems an obvious conclusion that those who misinterpret Gore's statement must lack this knowledge.
Unfortunately, it is no longer legal to require any sort of exam to be eligible to vote.
Of course, almost everything is much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
In all seriousness, resetting the root password is trivial on most desktop type linux distros, but it really isn't all that hard to find ones where this isn't the case. Or at least is harder than resetting the administrator password in XP. I haven't had to look into how to do so in Vista yet.
(Also, in all seriousness, I do find most every task I use a computer for easier with linux than windows. YMMV.)
If a human had some type of brain injury which caused them to have no short term memory, and no ability to store new memories long term, there'd be nothing ethically wrong with inducing pain by whatever means you could think of? I doubt you'd find too many people (or any court of law) that would agree with you.
My daughter had an email address with bluebottle.com, which worked perfectly for the 2 or 3 years she was using it. They use a whitelist-only type system which requires new incoming email addresses to reply to an authorization email before their messages will be delivered. When they discontinued the free service, we did not sign up again, but it's probably worth the 10 bucks a year. Now that she is in middle school, she is more interested in using IM services and rarely uses email anyway.
As for the internet not being safe for kids, I've never really found it to be an issue. The kids learn by example and osmosis to behave responsibly. Up to a certain age, we always made sure a parent was around when they were on the net. In the dozen or so years of having internet in the house, the worst incident I can recall was one of my sons searching for she-hulk images and finding a naked drawing in the results. Big deal. He's in college now, and if he wants to find naked she-hulk pictures, at least he knows how to find them.
Domestic oil supply is a nice sounding name, but it doesn't really mean a damn thing. There is no guarantee (nor even a greater than average likelihood) that oil drilled in the USA will be sold in the USA. So how exactly would it increase national security?
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If there is a line between idly passing time and wasting it, it has been crossed.
So is declaring war. The seperation of powers parts of the Constitution have been pretty much just for show for awhile now, it would seem.
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While what you say is true, how this works in practice varies by distro. The last several times I've installed slackware, I didn't need to run any config script or edit any files to get a working xorg setup.
However, I have an old P3 running xubuntu that I use on a daily basis which has taught me that detecting a monitor is one thing...redetecting a monitor is something else. Windows is often not much better in this regard, but at least the interface for changing the monitor settings is easier to navigate and more importantly, works.
When I first installed xubuntu on this machine, it had an old 15" monitor hooked up to it. When I decided it would be a useful machine, I dug up an old 17" monitor and swapped that one in. I could not get the default screen resolution to change from 800x600 to 1024x768. I ran through all the video setup instruction I could find on the ubuntu website and forums, including editing the xorg.conf by hand and resetting the grub splash screen. None of this really solved the problem. Eventually I got it to the point where restarting xwindows with a ctrl-alt-backspace brings it up at the desired resolution. The system still starts up with an 800x600 resolution almost every time. If it goes to sleep, when it wakes up it will sometimes revert back to 800x600. Since I have the ctrl-alt-back kludge, I stopped looking for a solution. I'm thinking of just doing a fresh install rather than an upgrade when xubuntu 8 becomes available, but really, should reinstalling the OS be the best solution to reset xorg when replacing a monitor?
Yeah, this is probably something solvable by the distro maintainers. It seems that if this was something easy to do with xorg, then a distro as large as ubuntu should have had it solved awhile ago.
It's not really clear what your point is, but the walmart machine has a slower CPU (check benchmarks at tomshardware or any other hardware review site) and a slightly worse graphics card. On the plus side, you get a DVD burner (which dell frequently offers as a free upgrade) with lightscribe and a 40GB larger hard drive. For me, the last two items just don't matter on a laptop.
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The fact that someone who promotes voting Libertarian in their sig, but does not have a problem with corporations placing limits on personal liberty, explains exactly why I don't vote Libertarian.
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If the statement that 26 vaccines are required in the US didn't set off your bullshit detector, it must be broken. If the article opens with such an obvious lie, the likelihood that any of the rest of it contains anything factual is probably near zero.
This is the internet. You don't have to believe everything you read. You can actually look stuff up.
Try this: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/child-schedule.htm#parents
Purely anecdotal, but I purchased a netbook for my 13 year old daughter about a year ago. It came with Windows 7 starter edition. I believe the very first thing we did was install an antivirus program, most likely AVG or Avast. After owning it for two days, it was infected with a virus, so I installed Ubuntu netbook edition. There were a few minor glitches (wireless drivers required a patch, adding new fonts is so convoluted that I had to create a script for that) but otherwise she has used it without complaint or incident ever since.
So on that one machine, for that one user, Windows averages an infection every 2 days, Linux never.
Well, in fairness, most people are quite youthful at the time of their nativity.
Suppose someone creates a website that includes libelous/spam/shock site/racist comments regarding a commercial website, and that website instructs its users to open that website up in a second browser and tile it next to a browser window with the commercial site in it. Then what?
oh, that's easy. Uninstall Sidewiki.
There, all gone.
Maybe so. That doesn't solve the mystery of why other groups are referred to as Dutch or English rather than Dutch-Americans or English-Americans.
The history textbook my daughter was given in elementary school contained a statistic for the ethnic breakdown of New York state circa 1650. It listed the percentage of African-Americans. How there were African Americans before there was an America is still a mystery to me.
To test this, I went to dell.com, clicked the link for computers for Home, then clicked the link for the mini and netbook page. I next selected the min 10. There was a list of four model. Each one had a list of features under it, with a big green "Customize" button. One of the models had an additional shiny green "Customize with Ubuntu" button. Right there in plain sight on the very first page listing the models to choose from. The mini 10v has the same choices. The mini 9 has Ubuntu as the default OS, and therefore requires additional mouse clicks to change to XP. It takes, at most, three mouse clicks from the Dell front page to see a choice for a linux model. It isn't even possible to see a list of available models without seeing a linux choice.
This answer makes no sense to me. Lets say I take 100 marbles, 50 red, 50 blue. They are all heading straight toward me at the same time. The blue ones, at some point, get bounced around. The red ones keep going straight. When I look at the oncoming marbles, wouldn't I see more red?
Your understanding is - sorry - entirely wrong. The wikipedia article actually does a more or less decent job at explaining it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering The basic thing: Light scatters off the molecules of the air (no density variations needed). The higher the lights frequency (i.e. the bluer it is), the more it scatters. So we see lots of scattered blue from all directions, but a lot less of scattered red, yellow, green, etc. And because the atmosphere isn't thick enough to scatter a large amount of the colours on the red end of the spectrum, those come through more or less unscattered. At dusk or at dawn, the light you see travels much longer distance in the atmosphere, and other colours scatter too. That's the main reason why sunrises and sunsets are red - that's the only colour making it through.
I know what it means when light is reflected. I know what it means when light is refracted. I have no idea what it means when light is "scattered". Explain this term or you have explained nothing.
Your explanation of Rayleigh scattering includes the word scattering. Now I know who the specific type of scattering was named after. If only I knew what scattering was.
I agree in principle that any book/movie/play whatever is worth experiencing again, and therefore is not ruined by knowing the ending, though I think most people prefer their first experience of the ending to be firsthand.
However, I disagree with the case of Usual Suspects. The ending basically undoes the entire movie. What you just watched was completely made up by Spacey's character. A slightly more sophisticated version of "and then I woke up." At the end, if the interrogating officer is left looking like a fool for falling for it, what does that make the audience?
The statement begins with the phrase "During my service in the United States Congress", which should make it clear to anyone who understands what words mean that anything that follows is related to that service. To draw the inference that "creating the internet" refers to legislation requires only the knowledge that the primary service of a US Congressman is legislation. It seems an obvious conclusion that those who misinterpret Gore's statement must lack this knowledge.
Unfortunately, it is no longer legal to require any sort of exam to be eligible to vote.
In all seriousness, resetting the root password is trivial on most desktop type linux distros, but it really isn't all that hard to find ones where this isn't the case. Or at least is harder than resetting the administrator password in XP. I haven't had to look into how to do so in Vista yet.
(Also, in all seriousness, I do find most every task I use a computer for easier with linux than windows. YMMV.)
If a human had some type of brain injury which caused them to have no short term memory, and no ability to store new memories long term, there'd be nothing ethically wrong with inducing pain by whatever means you could think of? I doubt you'd find too many people (or any court of law) that would agree with you.
So how many years do you think I could get for those coloring books I colored in when I was a kid?
My daughter had an email address with bluebottle.com, which worked perfectly for the 2 or 3 years she was using it. They use a whitelist-only type system which requires new incoming email addresses to reply to an authorization email before their messages will be delivered. When they discontinued the free service, we did not sign up again, but it's probably worth the 10 bucks a year. Now that she is in middle school, she is more interested in using IM services and rarely uses email anyway.
As for the internet not being safe for kids, I've never really found it to be an issue. The kids learn by example and osmosis to behave responsibly. Up to a certain age, we always made sure a parent was around when they were on the net. In the dozen or so years of having internet in the house, the worst incident I can recall was one of my sons searching for she-hulk images and finding a naked drawing in the results. Big deal. He's in college now, and if he wants to find naked she-hulk pictures, at least he knows how to find them.
Domestic oil supply is a nice sounding name, but it doesn't really mean a damn thing. There is no guarantee (nor even a greater than average likelihood) that oil drilled in the USA will be sold in the USA. So how exactly would it increase national security?
If there is a line between idly passing time and wasting it, it has been crossed.
So is declaring war. The seperation of powers parts of the Constitution have been pretty much just for show for awhile now, it would seem.
However, I have an old P3 running xubuntu that I use on a daily basis which has taught me that detecting a monitor is one thing...redetecting a monitor is something else. Windows is often not much better in this regard, but at least the interface for changing the monitor settings is easier to navigate and more importantly, works.
When I first installed xubuntu on this machine, it had an old 15" monitor hooked up to it. When I decided it would be a useful machine, I dug up an old 17" monitor and swapped that one in. I could not get the default screen resolution to change from 800x600 to 1024x768. I ran through all the video setup instruction I could find on the ubuntu website and forums, including editing the xorg.conf by hand and resetting the grub splash screen. None of this really solved the problem. Eventually I got it to the point where restarting xwindows with a ctrl-alt-backspace brings it up at the desired resolution. The system still starts up with an 800x600 resolution almost every time. If it goes to sleep, when it wakes up it will sometimes revert back to 800x600. Since I have the ctrl-alt-back kludge, I stopped looking for a solution. I'm thinking of just doing a fresh install rather than an upgrade when xubuntu 8 becomes available, but really, should reinstalling the OS be the best solution to reset xorg when replacing a monitor?
Yeah, this is probably something solvable by the distro maintainers. It seems that if this was something easy to do with xorg, then a distro as large as ubuntu should have had it solved awhile ago.
Assuming you're both right... Isn't it great when a system just works?
It's not really clear what your point is, but the walmart machine has a slower CPU (check benchmarks at tomshardware or any other hardware review site) and a slightly worse graphics card. On the plus side, you get a DVD burner (which dell frequently offers as a free upgrade) with lightscribe and a 40GB larger hard drive. For me, the last two items just don't matter on a laptop.
Right, because only wealthy westerners have ever put any effort into a cure for baldness or "male enhancement" products.
The fact that someone who promotes voting Libertarian in their sig, but does not have a problem with corporations placing limits on personal liberty, explains exactly why I don't vote Libertarian.