Let the rich folks pay for their ticket to the moon and mars. When hell hounds earth, I bet I won't be invited on the vessel out; why should I as a taxpayer have to fund this ludicrous idea of transplanting 'humanity' to another planet? They don't care about the poor of the Earth right now let alone when a catastrophy is about to hit.
A week ago I started learning 'Unix' and all related stuff. I'm surprised at how fast I'm progressing. I'm also impressed by what I'm learning. I can use LaTeX and ConTeXt instead of MSWord, and they really kick MSWord's ass big time. I can use gnumeric and R project for statistics, and they really, really kick MSExcel's ass (I can cite studies where gnumeric proved far much superior and accurate, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). I can use grep, sed, awk and perl for parsing text. I can use vim for editing. I can use the superior cdraw, imagemagick for images (I can cite studies where cdraw and imagemagick proved much better in quality of results than photoshop, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). Soon I'll be able to use avisynth on linux. Here's my point, people don't need to be beginners all their friggin' life. They should learn a little computing if they're going to use the computer for hours everyday. I wish I had done this much earlier, but had I not considered a switch to linux I wouldn't have; I have been using MS platform and related applications for 20 yeras and now I feel I have been encouraged to remain dumb for 20 years. In my experience, linux is the clear winner platform. I wish they'd teach linux skills in school - had kids learnt to use Bash, LaTex, Python, and R, this would be a much, much better world.
3D shiny glossy bubbles are on the way out. I look at them and I squirm already. I cringe. Soon will look back on them and everyone will disown this fad.
I never do. In my many, many years on the net I've only ever clicked once or twice on ads - and this is just to be sure, otherwise I'd say I never clicked on any. If I want to buy something I know where to find it, I don't need an ad to tell me about it. I have adblock on firefox because I *know* that I wouldn't miss a thing, I wouldn't buy a thing, I wouldn't click on an ad.
It was plain obvious even two thousand years ago that this is a basic flaw in democracy, those jacks of all trades, corrupt and up for hire, and voicing their opinion and judgment on all things they don't understand.
I think there's something more important to scientific literacy than just the basic concepts of the chemistry, physics, medicine or astronomy, and that is the scientific method. It still pains me that it took me until graduate school to actually learn the scientific method. All I had learn before then was moot. I wish what I learned in graduate school was taught much, much earlier. You know what I mean, null hypotheses and so on.
I never cease to be impressed when I read something that Bill Gates had said that he's a walking, talking PR machine. The guy is a natural salesman, always on-message, never off it, whatever question you throw at him, even if personal, he'll pitch a microsoft product.
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Hi. You're absolutely right! Mod parent up, I just tried this.
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It's a computerized portrait by the Police, what do you expect; they turned the father of the enlightenment into a bum.
I'm a linux newbie, I'm still learning bash and gnu/posix; what's the advantage of netBSD/BSDs over linux?
What PR guy came up with that 'developers' stunt.
Let the rich folks pay for their ticket to the moon and mars. When hell hounds earth, I bet I won't be invited on the vessel out; why should I as a taxpayer have to fund this ludicrous idea of transplanting 'humanity' to another planet? They don't care about the poor of the Earth right now let alone when a catastrophy is about to hit.
Why live on the moon and mars? And who can afford to? Let's fix the oceans and live in them, that's more feasible than the moon and mars.
They could learn python instead.
A week ago I started learning 'Unix' and all related stuff. I'm surprised at how fast I'm progressing. I'm also impressed by what I'm learning. I can use LaTeX and ConTeXt instead of MSWord, and they really kick MSWord's ass big time. I can use gnumeric and R project for statistics, and they really, really kick MSExcel's ass (I can cite studies where gnumeric proved far much superior and accurate, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). I can use grep, sed, awk and perl for parsing text. I can use vim for editing. I can use the superior cdraw, imagemagick for images (I can cite studies where cdraw and imagemagick proved much better in quality of results than photoshop, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). Soon I'll be able to use avisynth on linux.
Here's my point, people don't need to be beginners all their friggin' life. They should learn a little computing if they're going to use the computer for hours everyday. I wish I had done this much earlier, but had I not considered a switch to linux I wouldn't have; I have been using MS platform and related applications for 20 yeras and now I feel I have been encouraged to remain dumb for 20 years. In my experience, linux is the clear winner platform. I wish they'd teach linux skills in school - had kids learnt to use Bash, LaTex, Python, and R, this would be a much, much better world.
What then is the highest court in the land? I think Microsoft would like to know right now.
3D shiny glossy bubbles are on the way out. I look at them and I squirm already. I cringe. Soon will look back on them and everyone will disown this fad.
I certainly prefer this guy http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png
Women are a more appealing target for media-minded politicians to be seen 'consulting' - it's the women' vote that matters to them; a PR stunt.
Well, Microsoft started the bad blood. Not only that they can't ignore Microsoft from a business standpoint, but it also got personal.
Well then just download abiword. Openoffice doesn't need to become yet another abiword.
Why don't they just sting him?
The "worker-hating right" are former slave-owning whip crackers.
I never do. In my many, many years on the net I've only ever clicked once or twice on ads - and this is just to be sure, otherwise I'd say I never clicked on any. If I want to buy something I know where to find it, I don't need an ad to tell me about it. I have adblock on firefox because I *know* that I wouldn't miss a thing, I wouldn't buy a thing, I wouldn't click on an ad.
It was plain obvious even two thousand years ago that this is a basic flaw in democracy, those jacks of all trades, corrupt and up for hire, and voicing their opinion and judgment on all things they don't understand.
Goddammit don't mod him interesting; I'm sick of this 'terrorist' thing coming up on every friggin' topic already.
The VLC plugin for mozilla/firefox is fantastic. Look into it as an alternative.
I think there's something more important to scientific literacy than just the basic concepts of the chemistry, physics, medicine or astronomy, and that is the scientific method. It still pains me that it took me until graduate school to actually learn the scientific method. All I had learn before then was moot. I wish what I learned in graduate school was taught much, much earlier. You know what I mean, null hypotheses and so on.
I never cease to be impressed when I read something that Bill Gates had said that he's a walking, talking PR machine. The guy is a natural salesman, always on-message, never off it, whatever question you throw at him, even if personal, he'll pitch a microsoft product.
Hi. You're absolutely right! Mod parent up, I just tried this.
It seems to work for Bush.
Haha. Hilarious.
Oh, and you give a damn about them so much that you want to see them work below living wage! Shut the fuck up, you don't give a fuck about the poor.