Us athiests often find that stuff just plain NASTY. (or sometimes funny... I mean really, you do WHAT???)
Since recent research strongly suggests that this is all about a birth defect caused by womb conditions, the government's interest in public health should lead lead to funding a search for early detection and prevention methods. Are you talking about: 1. Homosexuality 2. Lefthandedness 3. Birthmarks
Amputation is the only way to decrease the size of a government -- and these days, considering the weaponry a government can procure, even a relatively poor one, that's becoming quite unlikely.
But the executive summary doesn't mention GNOME, either. GNOME isn't mentioned until Section 3. KDE would have been mentioned had it had recent developments regarding Portland, ODF, accessibility, or Samba. Whether this means that KDE already has the functionality and GNOME is catching up, or that GNOME has these features and KDE does not, I do not speculate -- I don't think about those features; the only one I use is ODF.
Both KDE and GNOME are mentioned in Section 5. Neither are mentioned in sections 1, 2, 4, or 6.
This is clearly a vast conspiracy, and everyone from Tierra del Fuego to Baffin Island is involved. You have it exactly right, Skewray.
You don't need to go to the command line to install any drivers in Linux (unless you have particular issues).
- Any drivers necessary that are in the Linux kernel will be automatically detected in most distributions.
- The major proprietary drivers for Linux are nVidia / ATi binary drivers. The ATi driver, at least, has a graphical interface that does everything the command line tools do (at least their default settings).
- ndisgtk means you don't have to use the command line even to set up an ndiswrapper.
In their research departments. Other than that, they've just produced polished, integrated, cheap, or less obscure forms of existing software that was unpolished, unintegrated, expensive, or obscure. And that's a fine, if parasitic, business model, as long as innovative software has those flaws.
With open source software, we'll keep those flaws because we allow people to access our software before it's in a release stage. Microsoft will continue its time-shifting arbitrage until it dies, and I'm not sure how long that will be. They have twenty billion dollars to burn through, after all.
Right...Congress can regulate anything that "substantially affects interstate commerce", and they get to define the extent to which something must affect interstate commerce in order to regulate it. Since someone from another state may have moved to California because of their laws on marijuana, that's interstate and commerce.
Though Raich et al. were not selling anything, so it wasn't about commerce at all.
For quite a while, the federal government charged each state a per capita tax. Now it's a direct income tax, due to the sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
On the other hand, if Maine determines it's cheaper to maintain its own roads than to go with RealID, there's a few thousand other regulations it can ignore.
If the executable is in your PATH, you can run it from a run dialog. You can edit your path, of course, in My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> PATH. (Don't delete anything there.) Pretty much like UNIX, really, except PATH is system-wide.
LaTeX has few unusual requirements, so you can use it for mostly plain text with minor formatting or images. If the format isn't important, then you don't mind adding LaTeX formatting. Also, HTML is not a bad choice unless consistent formatting is an issue.
Now, if consistent formatting is an issue, you'll use a publishing tool such as Quark Express. Even so, you can get scaling and color issues with different printers and OSes. The same is true when you use vector graphics, as the grandparent does.
But see that is the whole point - with statutory licensing the RIAA doesn't have a choice - the license is required by the law, hence the word statutory. They cannot block radio stations from playing their music as long as the stations are paying the appropriate fees, and following other applicable laws. Such as the DMCA? If you get around the encryption and redistribute on a statutory license, you're still in trouble.
AV with virtualization doesn't have much benefit, I think. You find rootkits more easily, perhaps, but other than that, I see no benefit -- and having antivirus in the bootloader could do that. It's probably possible, maybe easy, for the AV to detect whether it's a guest or not, in which case it would be effective against this; but again, that can be done briefly at boot time.
Viruses with virtualization are much better than those without -- even with AVVT, there's some chance that the virus ends up being the host, and then it's undetectable. Plus the virus doesn't care about the guest OS -- it only cares about its network services (replication, commands, payload). So it can basically ignore everything else.
Only if the pornography on her home computer was unusual and specific (for instance, midget fetish, or a particular site) and matched the pornography at the school.
BSD came to the scene about three years later than Linux. That was enough of a head start.
But the reason GNOME developers don't target most of these other operating systems is because the latter, by and large, offer a full package, including their own GUI. The question should be, where are the innovative interfaces for Linux? Qtopia? Enlightenment for Embedded?
It has plenty of documentation. Of all the Linux distributions I've used or viewed, it has the best.
And the unfriendliness comes mainly in forcing you to edit config files. When I was using Gentoo, I let the system go for a few months (didn't have an Internet connection) and tried updating (just the security updates, mind)...over two hundred config files needed updating, some of which were required to continue the upgrade process. X was broken, and I didn't have the time to spend fixing everything.
Gentoo has a high cost for maintenance, but it's manageable if you keep up to date--you only have to look at five or ten config files a week. And if you use one of the tools developed for this (I don't recall the names), you can eliminate most of the work (for instance, a config file you haven't touched is replaced automatically).
Most of the important work for the kernel is open source or research code. There's no incentive to provide a stable ABI, since either someone will compile the whole kernel along with the module in question, or they will rely on someone else to do that for them. And closed source modules have workarounds, so it's even less of an issue.
Then you need a copy of VMWare to test your websites with both IE7 and IE6. Also IE5.5, probably need another image...either cut your performance down even more by having two VMs open at once, or wait five minutes for each one to load each time you need to test your site.
Or just use Linux, and you can have reasonable confidence that your site will be functional for every IE you care to try.
$100 buys what, ten textbooks that are falling apart, two in decent condition, or one new.
A laptop with Internet access has thousands of textbooks available for free. Even without using BitTorrent. And there are decent libre textbooks available online.
So even if you take a quality hit (despite the available peer review) by using online textbooks, the greater availability will lead to a better, more thorough education for the students.
That assumes, of course, that each child has sufficient access to the laptop, and that each child accesses at least ten textbooks.
The utility of a programming language does not lie in any individual feature, but in a combination of all its features and its syntax. Still, Python is a great language, and D seems to be its C-styled equivalent.
Let's take a look at the article's complaints.
- Authentication for systems tasks: Vista sucks horribly; just about everything else I've seen does decently. That aspect of OSX hasn't much changed.
- Consistent user interface: Vista sucks, but it's mainly an annoyance. OSX has had some interface annoyances, but the article makes a point about its interface being consistent for the past six years.
- Sane and consistent hierarchy, naming convention, and interface for settings: the article makes a point about these not having changed significantly since 10.3, and that change was merging keyboard and mouse settings. Windows XP settings are bad enough, and Vista applied a confusing naming convention to them.
OSX 10.0, then, probably beats Vista. At any rate, if Apple decides it's better to release incremental versions every year or two, and the evidence supports that, are we to say it's unfair to Microsoft? Or do we tell them to get a better business model?
And Windows XP is only stable if the drivers are. That goes for any OS with a monolithic kernel, but given how many bad drivers there are for Windows and how little quality control Microsoft has over them, you'd think they'd have done something to change that. Running unverified drivers in their own address space, for instance. Apple doesn't have that problem, also due to their business model. Linux doesn't have this problem, due more to their design model than any business model.
Still, since releasing often seems to work for Apple and Linux, why doesn't Microsoft do the same?
Now, last I checked I breathe air, produce sperm which contain human genetic codes, and am also in an intimate relationship with a human so I'm pretty sure I'm a person. I can test that. It'll only take a minute; I have the gom jabbar right here.
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Us athiests often find that stuff just plain NASTY. (or sometimes funny... I mean really, you do WHAT???)
Since recent research strongly suggests that this is all about a birth defect caused by womb conditions, the government's interest in public health should lead lead to funding a search for early detection and prevention methods. Are you talking about:
1. Homosexuality
2. Lefthandedness
3. Birthmarks
Amputation is the only way to decrease the size of a government -- and these days, considering the weaponry a government can procure, even a relatively poor one, that's becoming quite unlikely.
But the executive summary doesn't mention GNOME, either. GNOME isn't mentioned until Section 3. KDE would have been mentioned had it had recent developments regarding Portland, ODF, accessibility, or Samba. Whether this means that KDE already has the functionality and GNOME is catching up, or that GNOME has these features and KDE does not, I do not speculate -- I don't think about those features; the only one I use is ODF.
Both KDE and GNOME are mentioned in Section 5. Neither are mentioned in sections 1, 2, 4, or 6.
This is clearly a vast conspiracy, and everyone from Tierra del Fuego to Baffin Island is involved. You have it exactly right, Skewray.
You don't need to go to the command line to install any drivers in Linux (unless you have particular issues).
- Any drivers necessary that are in the Linux kernel will be automatically detected in most distributions.
- The major proprietary drivers for Linux are nVidia / ATi binary drivers. The ATi driver, at least, has a graphical interface that does everything the command line tools do (at least their default settings).
- ndisgtk means you don't have to use the command line even to set up an ndiswrapper.
In their research departments. Other than that, they've just produced polished, integrated, cheap, or less obscure forms of existing software that was unpolished, unintegrated, expensive, or obscure. And that's a fine, if parasitic, business model, as long as innovative software has those flaws.
With open source software, we'll keep those flaws because we allow people to access our software before it's in a release stage. Microsoft will continue its time-shifting arbitrage until it dies, and I'm not sure how long that will be. They have twenty billion dollars to burn through, after all.
Right...Congress can regulate anything that "substantially affects interstate commerce", and they get to define the extent to which something must affect interstate commerce in order to regulate it. Since someone from another state may have moved to California because of their laws on marijuana, that's interstate and commerce.
Though Raich et al. were not selling anything, so it wasn't about commerce at all.
For quite a while, the federal government charged each state a per capita tax. Now it's a direct income tax, due to the sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
On the other hand, if Maine determines it's cheaper to maintain its own roads than to go with RealID, there's a few thousand other regulations it can ignore.
If the executable is in your PATH, you can run it from a run dialog. You can edit your path, of course, in My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> PATH. (Don't delete anything there.) Pretty much like UNIX, really, except PATH is system-wide.
LaTeX has few unusual requirements, so you can use it for mostly plain text with minor formatting or images. If the format isn't important, then you don't mind adding LaTeX formatting. Also, HTML is not a bad choice unless consistent formatting is an issue.
Now, if consistent formatting is an issue, you'll use a publishing tool such as Quark Express. Even so, you can get scaling and color issues with different printers and OSes. The same is true when you use vector graphics, as the grandparent does.
What about XOR-0?
AV with virtualization doesn't have much benefit, I think. You find rootkits more easily, perhaps, but other than that, I see no benefit -- and having antivirus in the bootloader could do that. It's probably possible, maybe easy, for the AV to detect whether it's a guest or not, in which case it would be effective against this; but again, that can be done briefly at boot time.
Viruses with virtualization are much better than those without -- even with AVVT, there's some chance that the virus ends up being the host, and then it's undetectable. Plus the virus doesn't care about the guest OS -- it only cares about its network services (replication, commands, payload). So it can basically ignore everything else.
So I can't agree to a contract that signs over my copyrights to someone else?
Only if the pornography on her home computer was unusual and specific (for instance, midget fetish, or a particular site) and matched the pornography at the school.
Your god gives you something and you view it as a test. I view it otherwise. Why do you involve a government in this religious dispute?
1. Have each doctor log in.
2. Automount an SMB share.
3. Have the application save all data to that share.
That way, the doctor doesn't have to use an MRI control computer to send email. However, unless you have gigabit ethernet, this will be slow.
Or just allow access to on-site resources, such as the mail server. Then you don't have to save the entirety of the results over the network.
This is available for any clinic large enough to afford an IT department.
BSD came to the scene about three years later than Linux. That was enough of a head start.
But the reason GNOME developers don't target most of these other operating systems is because the latter, by and large, offer a full package, including their own GUI. The question should be, where are the innovative interfaces for Linux? Qtopia? Enlightenment for Embedded?
It has plenty of documentation. Of all the Linux distributions I've used or viewed, it has the best.
And the unfriendliness comes mainly in forcing you to edit config files. When I was using Gentoo, I let the system go for a few months (didn't have an Internet connection) and tried updating (just the security updates, mind)...over two hundred config files needed updating, some of which were required to continue the upgrade process. X was broken, and I didn't have the time to spend fixing everything.
Gentoo has a high cost for maintenance, but it's manageable if you keep up to date--you only have to look at five or ten config files a week. And if you use one of the tools developed for this (I don't recall the names), you can eliminate most of the work (for instance, a config file you haven't touched is replaced automatically).
Most of the important work for the kernel is open source or research code. There's no incentive to provide a stable ABI, since either someone will compile the whole kernel along with the module in question, or they will rely on someone else to do that for them. And closed source modules have workarounds, so it's even less of an issue.
You can remove Internet Explorer from Windows in less than an hour. See, you could have saved a bit of work.
Then you need a copy of VMWare to test your websites with both IE7 and IE6. Also IE5.5, probably need another image...either cut your performance down even more by having two VMs open at once, or wait five minutes for each one to load each time you need to test your site.
Or just use Linux, and you can have reasonable confidence that your site will be functional for every IE you care to try.
$100 buys what, ten textbooks that are falling apart, two in decent condition, or one new.
A laptop with Internet access has thousands of textbooks available for free. Even without using BitTorrent. And there are decent libre textbooks available online.
So even if you take a quality hit (despite the available peer review) by using online textbooks, the greater availability will lead to a better, more thorough education for the students.
That assumes, of course, that each child has sufficient access to the laptop, and that each child accesses at least ten textbooks.
The utility of a programming language does not lie in any individual feature, but in a combination of all its features and its syntax. Still, Python is a great language, and D seems to be its C-styled equivalent.
Well, how does OSX from 2001 compare to Vista?
Let's take a look at the article's complaints.
- Authentication for systems tasks: Vista sucks horribly; just about everything else I've seen does decently. That aspect of OSX hasn't much changed.
- Consistent user interface: Vista sucks, but it's mainly an annoyance. OSX has had some interface annoyances, but the article makes a point about its interface being consistent for the past six years.
- Sane and consistent hierarchy, naming convention, and interface for settings: the article makes a point about these not having changed significantly since 10.3, and that change was merging keyboard and mouse settings. Windows XP settings are bad enough, and Vista applied a confusing naming convention to them.
OSX 10.0, then, probably beats Vista. At any rate, if Apple decides it's better to release incremental versions every year or two, and the evidence supports that, are we to say it's unfair to Microsoft? Or do we tell them to get a better business model?
And Windows XP is only stable if the drivers are. That goes for any OS with a monolithic kernel, but given how many bad drivers there are for Windows and how little quality control Microsoft has over them, you'd think they'd have done something to change that. Running unverified drivers in their own address space, for instance. Apple doesn't have that problem, also due to their business model. Linux doesn't have this problem, due more to their design model than any business model.
Still, since releasing often seems to work for Apple and Linux, why doesn't Microsoft do the same?