men do what they need to do to become successful so they can marry a good woman, there is no current incentive to do anything different.
Except to, y'know, eat, and become socially justified in their existence. The traditional patriarch's view of the world has "a good husband" being a man who is socially and financially independent plus surplus to provide for a family. The "purpose" of the woman is perceived to be the perfect childbearer and accessory for the man- A woman who is attractive to a man is provided for because she becomes his accessory and benefits from his social and financial capitol. The problem with "independent" women is that independence isn't enough. An "independent" woman is just independent, and there's no implication that she can actually be in the place of the traditional patriarch. Homemaking men could change this perception.
evolution certainly considers one superior to the other.
Discussion over. Social Darwinism is a pseudoscience.
Wrong. You're forgetting about the possibility about male homemakers, which is really the uncovered area in feminism. The problem with feminists' position on homemaking is that a lot of the bigger, more radically outspoken feminists are more supremacists than gender egalitarians. They ignore the stigma placed on the male if the male isn't a patriarch, or an alpha, or a "provider". If I didn't have a college degree or a job that paid well enough to support a wife and kids, I'd have zero social capitol, and *that* is a key problem in approaching a society that treats genders equally. A man who makes home is almost unheard of and certainly not respected among a great deal of the people I know, and I think that's a shame- a god damn shame. I would even go so far as to call male homemaking a litmus test for the amount of progress we've made on gender equality. Putting women in positions of power is one thing (implying that women can "stray" from their "place under men"), but allowing a man to "lower" himself to homemaking or even the perception that a homemaker is "under" a worker/provider is the true determinant of equality of sex.
I really hate this (incredibly stupid) idea that gets thrown around all the time that immigrants do the jobs no one else wants to do. It's like everyone has forgotten to use their brain. Where exactly do you live, and in what world do the immigrants in your area NOT do the jobs that nobody else wants to do? I don't know about you, but it's certainly true in Texas. Immigrants here will work a lot longer and for a lot more money than nationals who were raised and went to college here.
"it's good that they've eradicated teenage pregnancy" yeah and while they're at it, they'll eradicate homosexuality and masturbation too. And how about young people being horny? Have they fixed that yet? Well, the states hasn't exactly "eradicated teenage pregnancy". I know of a few people that I encounter in my daily life who quite recently became pregnant at 16, and I went to a rather upper-middle-class suburbanite high school. Secondly, I don't see what "eradicating teenage pregnancy" has to do with making people sexually repressed. The kind of thought that you need to be makin' babies without any form of contraception or you're a sexually repressed tool is kind of ridiculous.
Man, what's with the mods today? Suddenly everyone's afraid to hit the "funny" button. It's like someone hooked up some mousey nerd with a bunch of mod po- oh sweet lord...
Why should a window be the arbitrary size of the screen, which has nothing to do with the content in the window?
Because I want to see the window and only the window- no other distractions, plenty of room for the application to show me what it wants to show me. This is especially useful for things which can be expanded to infinitely large size, like certaintextandpicture-basedapplications.
For fucksake you fearmonger, hookahs have been around since thousands of years before tobacco was discovered. consuming luxuries doesn't make me a consumerist- consuming luxuries in place of human emotion and interaction, and constantly assigning monetary values to pleasures makes you a consumerist. It's not impossible to make a profit without exploiting people, but you polarizers like to make everyone believe it does.
You completely miss the point of my post. The title of the article (ffs) is "No Demand for Linux in the UK". The article is about one supplier who is not supporting Linux in the UK. Rather than engage in an argument about the FSF's place around Linux or Linux's chance for mainstream, I'm simply illustrating the ironic dichotomy between the title of the OP and what the article is actually about. No, you're right, just because someone expresses an opinion doesn't make them a troll- a person who writes an untruth about something that, if you're not too retarded to RTFA, comes across as fact is most certainly a troll. Not just a troll, but an abuser of power or, the good faith assumption: really really ignorant. For fucksake not everything is about your poor Windows platform falling out of common use and you *gasp* having to support other platforms again. Give me a fucking break, I'm a dev like everyone else and I deal with writing for open platforms as well as closed- whether or not I use emacs or vim or xcode or VS2007 is moot; I'm interested in people giving *accurate information* so that I, as a developer, can exploit the most viable market.
What the fuck does Elton John know about "good music"? He's just another singer-songwriter whose idea of "originality" is changing up the lyrics and playing a slightly different tune- no, the reason music is dead is BECAUSE of the example Elton John gives; that if your lyrics are interesting, you have "artistic talent" and "musical vision". Music was dying long before the internet, long before MP3s and writable CDs- this death is a natural consequence of the nature of rock and pop music; that eventually the attractive essence of the music will be harnessed and xeroxed 500 times in facsimile while people out of touch with music aren't paying enough attention to tell the difference- people stop caring about music because there's nothing to care about anymore! Any asshole can press a CD- hell, any asshole can press an LP, although most except dance, rap, and indie rock artists forego the vinyl format, but it's still of no consequence at the point where no single artist is concerned enough with the quality of their record to produce groundbreaking rock music as was seen in the 60s and 70s. The advent of Pro Tools has destroyed pop forever- when you can give a swine with laryngitis a voice like Judy Garland, the legitimacy of good music goes out the window. Read Squarepusher's Musical Philosophy
"No Demand for Linux in the UK" is far fucking removed from "Second-rate Manufacturer Refuses To Support Linux On One Of Their Shitty Prefab Boxes". Dell does that in the US, who gives a shit?
Well, you can start by realizing that setting "Smart" at an IQ of "110" is a stupid idea in the first place. However, the article itself, once you stop soundbiting it, is pretty interesting. I got a kick out of this graph
Agreed. I can't stand cigarettes at all, but I own a hookah and my roommates and I will prepare a bowl of tobacco shisha once a week or so- iirc and correct me if I'm wrong (acmiir?) the amount of tobacco in a hookah bowl is about the same as a single cigarette and the fact that it's run through water removes a good bit of the tar and toxins from the smoke. Then again, such is the justification behind the invention of the bong...
It's not going to get shut down because of copyright infringement.:/ That's like saying we should bomb Hong Kong because they sell copyrighted works there- just because something has an illegitimate use doesn't make it illegitimate on face ffs. Note, this can also be applied to "kitchen knives can kill so we should ban kitchen knives." and "people can die in cars so we should ban motor vehicles" and uh... "People who have killed a lot of people have played video games, so we should ban video games." The states needs to get over the damn prohibitionist culture that's removing any sense of personal responsibility from our great nation.
Regardless (and this most certainly is information you should take to heart), the report states that, for LCDs, it doesn't matter. The wattage thoroughput as shown in the report they reference gives that LCDs use about a quarter of the power of a black CRT screen regardless what color it's showing- save a std. dev. of something like 2-3W. So rather than reset your goddamn desktop to look like the rest of your mother's basement, you could just... buy an LCD.
Actually, the reason why Microsoft is showing such an inflated number of installs is people are buying OEM Vista machines, getting fed the fuck up with the OS, and going out and buying a copy of XP, so MS can double-dip their figures. 1 billion installs isn't that much, especially considering that they're probably including numbers from Windows 386 or DOS forward. It just means that some random guy reinstalled so many times that they're counting 1 billion installs. Is my food tasty, troll?
I have serious issues with MythTV- especially the fact that I have to drop an arm, leg, and half a genital on a machine fast enough to record 480i... Although I suppose it's even worse now that I have to compile it to parallel-process on a couple of Opterons just to be able to do 1080p. Once my setup upgrades start costing less than $2000, I'll upgrade to HDTV:/
How about the touchscreen? The Casio doesn't have one, let alone a multi-touch. Its exterior is instead covered with buttons of varying types, which most of us have grown to dislike. Why the hell would you want an MTI on a phone? What happens 5 months from now when it starts to wear out? Or when your fingers are too hot/cold/wet/dry and you start to misdial? Sorry, but this is a major complaint I've had about the iPhone all along.
Your phone runs Opera Mini. iPhone runs full blown Safari. It has a shell. This is just wrong. iPhone does not run "full blown" safari, it runs a stripped version of Safari. And furthermore, it doesn't have a "shell": it's missing the goddamn 'ls' utility for fucksake. and the finisher in my combo:
Third party apps will soon be hitting the web in droves. Except the iPhone is a closed platform; given, it's for security reasons, but they don't even have a J2ME implementation that you get on, say, the motorola v551 that was released four years ago. So you miss out on Google Maps (won't run on mini-safari), Gmail (might run on safari), and x, y, z J2ME app, which google is actually tending to pursue pretty seriously.
And lets not talk about the UI. Apple did this one, show me anyone who can do them better. Two words: maximizing windows
And iTunes support, you do not have that. I carry my iPod in my pocket and my phone on my belt. It's not that hard.
It has built in WiFi. And it can't call over Skype... can you say crippled platforms?
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men do what they need to do to become successful so they can marry a good woman, there is no current incentive to do anything different.
Except to, y'know, eat, and become socially justified in their existence. The traditional patriarch's view of the world has "a good husband" being a man who is socially and financially independent plus surplus to provide for a family. The "purpose" of the woman is perceived to be the perfect childbearer and accessory for the man- A woman who is attractive to a man is provided for because she becomes his accessory and benefits from his social and financial capitol.
The problem with "independent" women is that independence isn't enough. An "independent" woman is just independent, and there's no implication that she can actually be in the place of the traditional patriarch. Homemaking men could change this perception.
evolution certainly considers one superior to the other.
Discussion over. Social Darwinism is a pseudoscience.
Heh. I'm sure those online predators are certain of how many "holes" there are in social networking sites.
Wrong. You're forgetting about the possibility about male homemakers, which is really the uncovered area in feminism.
The problem with feminists' position on homemaking is that a lot of the bigger, more radically outspoken feminists are more supremacists than gender egalitarians. They ignore the stigma placed on the male if the male isn't a patriarch, or an alpha, or a "provider". If I didn't have a college degree or a job that paid well enough to support a wife and kids, I'd have zero social capitol, and *that* is a key problem in approaching a society that treats genders equally.
A man who makes home is almost unheard of and certainly not respected among a great deal of the people I know, and I think that's a shame- a god damn shame. I would even go so far as to call male homemaking a litmus test for the amount of progress we've made on gender equality. Putting women in positions of power is one thing (implying that women can "stray" from their "place under men"), but allowing a man to "lower" himself to homemaking or even the perception that a homemaker is "under" a worker/provider is the true determinant of equality of sex.
I really hate this (incredibly stupid) idea that gets thrown around all the time that immigrants do the jobs no one else wants to do. It's like everyone has forgotten to use their brain.
Where exactly do you live, and in what world do the immigrants in your area NOT do the jobs that nobody else wants to do? I don't know about you, but it's certainly true in Texas. Immigrants here will work a lot longer and for a lot more money than nationals who were raised and went to college here.
"it's good that they've eradicated teenage pregnancy"
yeah and while they're at it, they'll eradicate homosexuality and masturbation too. And how about young people being horny? Have they fixed that yet?
Well, the states hasn't exactly "eradicated teenage pregnancy". I know of a few people that I encounter in my daily life who quite recently became pregnant at 16, and I went to a rather upper-middle-class suburbanite high school.
Secondly, I don't see what "eradicating teenage pregnancy" has to do with making people sexually repressed. The kind of thought that you need to be makin' babies without any form of contraception or you're a sexually repressed tool is kind of ridiculous.
Man, what's with the mods today? Suddenly everyone's afraid to hit the "funny" button.
It's like someone hooked up some mousey nerd with a bunch of mod po- oh sweet lord...
Have you ever even looked at an iPhone?
No, because, news flash, $500 for a PHONE? Right.
Why should a window be the arbitrary size of the screen, which has nothing to do with the content in the window?
Because I want to see the window and only the window- no other distractions, plenty of room for the application to show me what it wants to show me. This is especially useful for things which can be expanded to infinitely large size, like certain text and picture-based applications.
For fucksake you fearmonger, hookahs have been around since thousands of years before tobacco was discovered. consuming luxuries doesn't make me a consumerist- consuming luxuries in place of human emotion and interaction, and constantly assigning monetary values to pleasures makes you a consumerist. It's not impossible to make a profit without exploiting people, but you polarizers like to make everyone believe it does.
You completely miss the point of my post. The title of the article (ffs) is "No Demand for Linux in the UK". The article is about one supplier who is not supporting Linux in the UK. Rather than engage in an argument about the FSF's place around Linux or Linux's chance for mainstream, I'm simply illustrating the ironic dichotomy between the title of the OP and what the article is actually about.
No, you're right, just because someone expresses an opinion doesn't make them a troll- a person who writes an untruth about something that, if you're not too retarded to RTFA, comes across as fact is most certainly a troll. Not just a troll, but an abuser of power or, the good faith assumption: really really ignorant.
For fucksake not everything is about your poor Windows platform falling out of common use and you *gasp* having to support other platforms again. Give me a fucking break, I'm a dev like everyone else and I deal with writing for open platforms as well as closed- whether or not I use emacs or vim or xcode or VS2007 is moot; I'm interested in people giving *accurate information* so that I, as a developer, can exploit the most viable market.
What the fuck does Elton John know about "good music"? He's just another singer-songwriter whose idea of "originality" is changing up the lyrics and playing a slightly different tune- no, the reason music is dead is BECAUSE of the example Elton John gives; that if your lyrics are interesting, you have "artistic talent" and "musical vision".
Music was dying long before the internet, long before MP3s and writable CDs- this death is a natural consequence of the nature of rock and pop music; that eventually the attractive essence of the music will be harnessed and xeroxed 500 times in facsimile while people out of touch with music aren't paying enough attention to tell the difference- people stop caring about music because there's nothing to care about anymore! Any asshole can press a CD- hell, any asshole can press an LP, although most except dance, rap, and indie rock artists forego the vinyl format, but it's still of no consequence at the point where no single artist is concerned enough with the quality of their record to produce groundbreaking rock music as was seen in the 60s and 70s. The advent of Pro Tools has destroyed pop forever- when you can give a swine with laryngitis a voice like Judy Garland, the legitimacy of good music goes out the window.
Read Squarepusher's Musical Philosophy
This is utter codswallop.
"No Demand for Linux in the UK" is far fucking removed from "Second-rate Manufacturer Refuses To Support Linux On One Of Their Shitty Prefab Boxes". Dell does that in the US, who gives a shit?
This is a 2-part comment:
Part 1: Aww, sounds like someone married an MC raider!
Part 2: FOR FUCK SAKE Not everything unpalatable in the world is "terrorism"!
It's time to find somebody to lead
All of Azeroth's Nagas
And by that I mean...
Well, you can start by realizing that setting "Smart" at an IQ of "110" is a stupid idea in the first place.
However, the article itself, once you stop soundbiting it, is pretty interesting.
I got a kick out of this graph
Agreed. I can't stand cigarettes at all, but I own a hookah and my roommates and I will prepare a bowl of tobacco shisha once a week or so- iirc and correct me if I'm wrong (acmiir?) the amount of tobacco in a hookah bowl is about the same as a single cigarette and the fact that it's run through water removes a good bit of the tar and toxins from the smoke.
Then again, such is the justification behind the invention of the bong...
It's not going to get shut down because of copyright infringement. :/ That's like saying we should bomb Hong Kong because they sell copyrighted works there- just because something has an illegitimate use doesn't make it illegitimate on face ffs.
Note, this can also be applied to "kitchen knives can kill so we should ban kitchen knives." and "people can die in cars so we should ban motor vehicles"
and uh... "People who have killed a lot of people have played video games, so we should ban video games." The states needs to get over the damn prohibitionist culture that's removing any sense of personal responsibility from our great nation.
Regardless (and this most certainly is information you should take to heart), the report states that, for LCDs, it doesn't matter. The wattage thoroughput as shown in the report they reference gives that LCDs use about a quarter of the power of a black CRT screen regardless what color it's showing- save a std. dev. of something like 2-3W.
So rather than reset your goddamn desktop to look like the rest of your mother's basement, you could just... buy an LCD.
Actually, the reason why Microsoft is showing such an inflated number of installs is people are buying OEM Vista machines, getting fed the fuck up with the OS, and going out and buying a copy of XP, so MS can double-dip their figures.
1 billion installs isn't that much, especially considering that they're probably including numbers from Windows 386 or DOS forward. It just means that some random guy reinstalled so many times that they're counting 1 billion installs.
Is my food tasty, troll?
I have serious issues with MythTV- especially the fact that I have to drop an arm, leg, and half a genital on a machine fast enough to record 480i... :/
Although I suppose it's even worse now that I have to compile it to parallel-process on a couple of Opterons just to be able to do 1080p. Once my setup upgrades start costing less than $2000, I'll upgrade to HDTV
Is that your final solution?
I'll bite:
How about the touchscreen? The Casio doesn't have one, let alone a multi-touch. Its exterior is instead covered with buttons of varying types, which most of us have grown to dislike.
Why the hell would you want an MTI on a phone? What happens 5 months from now when it starts to wear out? Or when your fingers are too hot/cold/wet/dry and you start to misdial? Sorry, but this is a major complaint I've had about the iPhone all along.
Your phone runs Opera Mini. iPhone runs full blown Safari. It has a shell.
This is just wrong. iPhone does not run "full blown" safari, it runs a stripped version of Safari. And furthermore, it doesn't have a "shell": it's missing the goddamn 'ls' utility for fucksake. and the finisher in my combo:
Third party apps will soon be hitting the web in droves.
Except the iPhone is a closed platform; given, it's for security reasons, but they don't even have a J2ME implementation that you get on, say, the motorola v551 that was released four years ago. So you miss out on Google Maps (won't run on mini-safari), Gmail (might run on safari), and x, y, z J2ME app, which google is actually tending to pursue pretty seriously.
And lets not talk about the UI. Apple did this one, show me anyone who can do them better.
Two words: maximizing windows
And iTunes support, you do not have that.
I carry my iPod in my pocket and my phone on my belt. It's not that hard.
It has built in WiFi.
And it can't call over Skype... can you say crippled platforms?
FLAME ON