Though it boggles my mind to think of the research he could be proposing...science with facts to back it up is automatically more trustworthy then religion with no testable hypotheses.
Humans have been trying to explain how the universe began since our existence. The problem is, NONE of the ideas can be proven to be true using facts, because we simply don't know enough. Every religion I can think of is based on explaining how the world came to be. Scientists have come up with hundreds of theories on that too. But the simple lack of supporting evidence prevents anyone from being proven right. So the way I see it... religion and science is equally right or wrong. Whether you think that everything in the universe came from a teaspoon of dense material, came from nothing for no reason, was created by a god, came on a giant turtle, or got farted out by a giant dinosaur... you can't prove it. Of course some ideas sound more logical to our brains than others... but right now, whether you follow religion or science... you basically have the choice of having blind faith, or accepting that the world may never know.
Yeah, not to mention Bluefish or Dreamweaver... It's a pretty common concept in web development applications, and I guess MS just decided to be "original" and throw it into an office suite.
Stealing ideas has gotten them this far... why stop now?
First of all... Microsoft is NOT insterested in seeing OSS succeed. They bashed the entire philosophy, license, and practices of OSS ever since they deemed it a threat. What they are interested in is keeping people on their operating system instead of x86 Mac or Linux... even if it means "supporting" open source applications that have been running on Windows for years.
Second, I've never heard a Linux geek "admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications". I'm one of them and I think it's partial arrogance and partial truth that brings the idea that OSS DOES provide a much better platform than Microsoft has been able to provide. MS's expertise and gift is in marketing, not in programming suitable products.
I think Microsoft sees a change coming and they're scared. For their own sake, they better shape up and stop ripping everyone off.
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Not at the moment, but according to GIMP's Summer of Code page, it will hopefully have one by the end of the summer. I actually considered signing up for that project, but other opportunities came about.
"your network isn't the slowest part of your setup"
What a load of crap, my network connection is by far the slowest part of my PC. I've got a 3ghz machine with 1GB ram... but Charter (and most other ISP's) can't pump out better than mediocre network performance. I can transfer 1-3 mb/s on my home network, but I've never gotten better than 300 kb/s over the internet.
Goes back to the old saying, "one person's pain is another person's gain"
Of course piracy has benefits, but usually it only benefits the people pirating.
The idea of giving a corrupt corporation (or anyone for that matter) control over my computer, my data, my work, and all that imporant stuff just makes me want to hurl. I won't tolerate it. I think my windows partition is about to get deleted... oh no... ooh I can't hold back my finger much longer! Oops, good bye, Bill. Good thing there is now another viable alternative on the Intel-based platform, in addition to Linux/Unix of course.
I'm a college student, not a parent, but I think that too many kids these days are being spoiled and becoming inadequte with money. I'm not opposed to helping the kids with getting a computer, but saying "here you go" and handing them a $1500 piece of equipment is excessive. I bought my own computer when I was 14 after saving my allowance and report card money for a year. Since then, I've built my own computers without assistance from my parents, and I bought my own laptop for college as well. Computers have a higher priority for me than most, but still I think that the kids should be responsible for working to get their laptop. Hand-me-down computers are more feasible for middle schoolers and high schoolers. But, if they want a new computer, I think they should be responsible for paying for atleast part of it.
Jeez, do you never give it a short rest to clean the dust out? Believe it or not those fans will die eventually and if you neglect it then so will your processor.
"In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been."
Can you say flame bait?
I personally love FreeBSD and several Linux distributions, but you can't really say that one is better than the other since most of them have quite different purposes in mind. I use Gentoo on my AMD64 desktop because in my experience FreeBSD is lacking in the GUI world and I also wanted a source distribution to make sure everything was optimized for my 64bit processor. I'm planning to learn how to take advantage of it in my own programming as well. I have one server that runs Debian and one that runs FreeBSD and both run great and I believe they are equally secure. Security depends more so on the administrator than the flavor of the OS. Uptime on both of the machines is practically flawless other than general hardware maintainence and kernel upgrades. Just be glad that you have the freedom to choose which OS or OS's you use but don't assume that your choice is the best for everyone.
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Humans have been trying to explain how the universe began since our existence. The problem is, NONE of the ideas can be proven to be true using facts, because we simply don't know enough. Every religion I can think of is based on explaining how the world came to be. Scientists have come up with hundreds of theories on that too. But the simple lack of supporting evidence prevents anyone from being proven right. So the way I see it... religion and science is equally right or wrong. Whether you think that everything in the universe came from a teaspoon of dense material, came from nothing for no reason, was created by a god, came on a giant turtle, or got farted out by a giant dinosaur... you can't prove it. Of course some ideas sound more logical to our brains than others... but right now, whether you follow religion or science... you basically have the choice of having blind faith, or accepting that the world may never know.
I usually pick a black character - they're harder to see in the shadows!
I've got one of those 300 pound machines... it's called my wife. HAHAHAHA!! Oh man I hope she doesn't read this.
I actually JUST finished building a computer in an old Nintendo case. It has front USB ports, Slot loading DVD-ROM, audio/video out, and carefully placed power, network, and vga ports. I know I'm not the first person to do something like this, but it sure has been fun! I even have an ATI remote that I configured to control the Freevo menu. I also bought two SNES controllers with USB connectors from RetroZone that work great with ZSNES. The box is running Ubuntu and actually boots up pretty quick. The board is a VIA Epia 6000 Mini-ITX.
It's like buying a prostitute that won't put out...
Yeah, not to mention Bluefish or Dreamweaver... It's a pretty common concept in web development applications, and I guess MS just decided to be "original" and throw it into an office suite.
Stealing ideas has gotten them this far... why stop now?
Linux has not won. No one has. That's the beauty of the checks and balances known as competition. However, it has definitely improved.
Maybe Oreilly should come out with a "Xbox 360 Cookbook" book to add to their cookbook series.
First of all... Microsoft is NOT insterested in seeing OSS succeed. They bashed the entire philosophy, license, and practices of OSS ever since they deemed it a threat. What they are interested in is keeping people on their operating system instead of x86 Mac or Linux... even if it means "supporting" open source applications that have been running on Windows for years.
Second, I've never heard a Linux geek "admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications". I'm one of them and I think it's partial arrogance and partial truth that brings the idea that OSS DOES provide a much better platform than Microsoft has been able to provide. MS's expertise and gift is in marketing, not in programming suitable products.
I think Microsoft sees a change coming and they're scared. For their own sake, they better shape up and stop ripping everyone off.
It's called Fu-Fme
Not at the moment, but according to GIMP's Summer of Code page, it will hopefully have one by the end of the summer. I actually considered signing up for that project, but other opportunities came about.
Stop repeating yourself!
It's going to be about the size of the original GameBoy and suck up battery power faster than a laptop.
haha, pardon me, to all you crazy letter capitalizer people...
$last_post =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
IS THAT ANY BETTER?
"your network isn't the slowest part of your setup"
What a load of crap, my network connection is by far the slowest part of my PC. I've got a 3ghz machine with 1GB ram... but Charter (and most other ISP's) can't pump out better than mediocre network performance. I can transfer 1-3 mb/s on my home network, but I've never gotten better than 300 kb/s over the internet.
Goes back to the old saying, "one person's pain is another person's gain" Of course piracy has benefits, but usually it only benefits the people pirating.
The idea of giving a corrupt corporation (or anyone for that matter) control over my computer, my data, my work, and all that imporant stuff just makes me want to hurl. I won't tolerate it. I think my windows partition is about to get deleted... oh no... ooh I can't hold back my finger much longer! Oops, good bye, Bill. Good thing there is now another viable alternative on the Intel-based platform, in addition to Linux/Unix of course.
Oh wait, you said useful and functional... guess we need to start from scratch.
I'm a college student, not a parent, but I think that too many kids these days are being spoiled and becoming inadequte with money. I'm not opposed to helping the kids with getting a computer, but saying "here you go" and handing them a $1500 piece of equipment is excessive. I bought my own computer when I was 14 after saving my allowance and report card money for a year. Since then, I've built my own computers without assistance from my parents, and I bought my own laptop for college as well. Computers have a higher priority for me than most, but still I think that the kids should be responsible for working to get their laptop. Hand-me-down computers are more feasible for middle schoolers and high schoolers. But, if they want a new computer, I think they should be responsible for paying for atleast part of it.
Right, it's not like servers ever collect dust or need kernel upgrades
Jeez, do you never give it a short rest to clean the dust out? Believe it or not those fans will die eventually and if you neglect it then so will your processor.
"In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been."
Can you say flame bait?
I personally love FreeBSD and several Linux distributions, but you can't really say that one is better than the other since most of them have quite different purposes in mind. I use Gentoo on my AMD64 desktop because in my experience FreeBSD is lacking in the GUI world and I also wanted a source distribution to make sure everything was optimized for my 64bit processor. I'm planning to learn how to take advantage of it in my own programming as well. I have one server that runs Debian and one that runs FreeBSD and both run great and I believe they are equally secure. Security depends more so on the administrator than the flavor of the OS. Uptime on both of the machines is practically flawless other than general hardware maintainence and kernel upgrades. Just be glad that you have the freedom to choose which OS or OS's you use but don't assume that your choice is the best for everyone.
Thank you. If I posted now, I would get a -1, Redundant, but atleast I know someone else has close to my exact same viewpoint
I used to try the same tactic when I was in middle school too... but it never worked.
I'll be sure to remember that the next time I'm breathing fresh air from the moon.