It's a pretty self-centered view (albeit a prevalent one here on/., to nobody's surprise) that linux desktop users have no reason to reboot. Here are some perfectly valid reasons to require frequent booting:
Turn off at night, or when not in use.
Dual-boot to access windows-only apps/games.
Physically moving the computer, for example to a LAN party or to a TV to use a TV-out card.
etc.
It's quite dismissive to pretend linux is above the problem of poor boot performance. Even if there were just a pretty graphical screen to keep people distracted during the boot process, it would make a big impression on end-users who don't know or care what any of the boot messages mean, as long as their computer works.
People in rural areas get subsidized almost everything: electricity, mail, roads... any infrastructure that the government has deemed "public" enough to regulate, they probably force equal prices (if they even allow private competition), even though it is actually much more expensive to provide such things to rural areas, per-person.
You say that it would drive up the cost of food if farmers paid the cost of their own roads... yes, it would, and that's a good thing! It would bring food's grocery store cost up to the *actual* cost of providing the food, thus more accurately reflecting the priorities of the populace. The roads would still get paid for by both farmers and cityfolk, since we urbandwellers would consume your food, which would be priced according to the true cost of getting it to us.
Don't get scared off by the prospect of more expensive food, though... because it's money that would have come out of your taxes, before. Except it allows you to actually choose whether that is worth spending your money on or not.
This would be a much fairer way of charging everyone who benefits from such roads, without taking too much money from peole who don't. (such as people who aren't so "foolish to live so far away from it.")
At any rate, it's pretty clear the current tax support for such things is unfair to *someone*, but that's just how central planning is.
Consider the statement "intelligent life [or any sort of life] exists in the universe." I would consider this to be a valid scientific hypothesis, especially combined with the ideas driving Drake's equation. However, it is not falsifiable. You will never be able to tell me that it is definitely false, although I *will* be able to tell you if it is definitely true, if we ever come across an example.
Don't try to parade falsification as the single measuring stick for whether something is valid science... that was a popular idea once, but now it's a bit dated.
Am I the only one who loved GTA2? I still play the multiplayer occasionally with my dorm friends. The balance of power between various weapons and powerups makes it quite strategic, with lots of room for improving your game through intelligence and skill.
Actually, the electoral college system is more susceptible to such vote fraud. In the case of a borderline state, you only have to manipulate a few hundred votes to create a net change of twice the number of electoral votes for the whole state.
How far would changing a few hundred votes get you in a nationwide popular election?
That argument is crazy, if you don't mind my sayin'. An opportunistic hospital that charged emergency patients an exorbitant amount would find that, aside from those very emergency patients, it had no business. If I had been charged like that during a time when I was helpless, I know I'd go well out of my way to avoid ever paying them for anything in the future.
And thus, the "invisible hand" of the market would force them out of business, leaving only the hospitals who don't use such shady practices. See? Nothing beyond free market necessary.
Perhaps you should have looked around a bit for the solution to your problem? Namely, http://www.lvllord.de/.
The program at that site will patch your tcpip.sys to change the rate limit, so using bittorrent (or any similar program) won't instantly block out all other tcp/ip conections.
If it's anything like iRate, it doesn't use absolute rating to decide whether artists are "good" or "bad." It uses your ratings to find people who have SIMILAR interests to you, and gives you songs that THEY rate highly. Problem solved.
The Badnarik-Cobb debate, also called the "third-party" debate although I believe they also sent invitations to the two establishment parties, was aired on C-Span. It is still in their online archives for a limited time here (or just search c-span.org for "badnarik cobb").
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It's a pretty self-centered view (albeit a prevalent one here on /., to nobody's surprise) that linux desktop users have no reason to reboot. Here are some perfectly valid reasons to require frequent booting:
Turn off at night, or when not in use.
Dual-boot to access windows-only apps/games.
Physically moving the computer, for example to a LAN party or to a TV to use a TV-out card.
etc.
It's quite dismissive to pretend linux is above the problem of poor boot performance. Even if there were just a pretty graphical screen to keep people distracted during the boot process, it would make a big impression on end-users who don't know or care what any of the boot messages mean, as long as their computer works.
People in rural areas get subsidized almost everything: electricity, mail, roads... any infrastructure that the government has deemed "public" enough to regulate, they probably force equal prices (if they even allow private competition), even though it is actually much more expensive to provide such things to rural areas, per-person. You say that it would drive up the cost of food if farmers paid the cost of their own roads... yes, it would, and that's a good thing! It would bring food's grocery store cost up to the *actual* cost of providing the food, thus more accurately reflecting the priorities of the populace. The roads would still get paid for by both farmers and cityfolk, since we urbandwellers would consume your food, which would be priced according to the true cost of getting it to us. Don't get scared off by the prospect of more expensive food, though... because it's money that would have come out of your taxes, before. Except it allows you to actually choose whether that is worth spending your money on or not. This would be a much fairer way of charging everyone who benefits from such roads, without taking too much money from peole who don't. (such as people who aren't so "foolish to live so far away from it.") At any rate, it's pretty clear the current tax support for such things is unfair to *someone*, but that's just how central planning is.
Consider the statement "intelligent life [or any sort of life] exists in the universe." I would consider this to be a valid scientific hypothesis, especially combined with the ideas driving Drake's equation. However, it is not falsifiable. You will never be able to tell me that it is definitely false, although I *will* be able to tell you if it is definitely true, if we ever come across an example. Don't try to parade falsification as the single measuring stick for whether something is valid science... that was a popular idea once, but now it's a bit dated.
Am I the only one who loved GTA2? I still play the multiplayer occasionally with my dorm friends. The balance of power between various weapons and powerups makes it quite strategic, with lots of room for improving your game through intelligence and skill.
Actually, the electoral college system is more susceptible to such vote fraud. In the case of a borderline state, you only have to manipulate a few hundred votes to create a net change of twice the number of electoral votes for the whole state. How far would changing a few hundred votes get you in a nationwide popular election?
That argument is crazy, if you don't mind my sayin'. An opportunistic hospital that charged emergency patients an exorbitant amount would find that, aside from those very emergency patients, it had no business. If I had been charged like that during a time when I was helpless, I know I'd go well out of my way to avoid ever paying them for anything in the future. And thus, the "invisible hand" of the market would force them out of business, leaving only the hospitals who don't use such shady practices. See? Nothing beyond free market necessary.
Perhaps you should have looked around a bit for the solution to your problem? Namely, http://www.lvllord.de/. The program at that site will patch your tcpip.sys to change the rate limit, so using bittorrent (or any similar program) won't instantly block out all other tcp/ip conections.
If it's anything like iRate, it doesn't use absolute rating to decide whether artists are "good" or "bad." It uses your ratings to find people who have SIMILAR interests to you, and gives you songs that THEY rate highly. Problem solved.
The Badnarik-Cobb debate, also called the "third-party" debate although I believe they also sent invitations to the two establishment parties, was aired on C-Span. It is still in their online archives for a limited time here (or just search c-span.org for "badnarik cobb").