is that apparently Daddy goes to by Daughter an iPod at the Apple store, is wowed by eye candy, buys a laptop. Daddy is a lawyer or something, and eventually goes to start their own firm. All computers are then Apple.
I did not believe this, but a friend of mine who is a full-time consultant for this type... Well, he swears it actually works that way. I guess he could be right.
XP's strengths are in games, video playback and pirating. To a geek like myself that's why I've stayed with XP. Everything works with near perfect stability and I have a blend of opensource and closed-source / pirated tools to fit my needs.
Wow.
The strength of XP is in pirating... You know, if I hadn't just read several comments on this post saying about that thing, I wouldn't have believed it. Now where's the link to that article about software companies not caring about personal piracy because it presumably helps corporate sales? Honestly, you'd think they'd go ahead and make that legit by tossing different software licenses out there. (ok, some have: reduced price student editions, and most notably intel compilers are free for personal use)
Do people really *want* to go and "tweak"? Why can't someone use Linux just because it works?
Having said/that/... As for why do geeks prefer XP? I can speak for myself and say that I thoroughly know the beast, it is a pleasure to google for the most wild assed software/driver you can think of and find that due to the widespread presence of the thing, pretty sure SOMEONE has gone through the same ordeal as you, and has posted a workaround. It works, and given current hardware configurations and provided that you configure it properly, it is FAST. ...this doesn't apply to Linux?
If you can code: go to bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org) find a bug, write a patch, send it to the appropriate mailing list.
If you can't code: watch http://dot.kde.org/ for the next BugSquad BugDay (oh look, Kopete is having one *right now*!) (they are usually Sundays, every two weeks or so) and come learn bug triage. It's pretty easy, and can save developers hours upon hours of work.
4 is almost a complete rewrite. It seems people have the impression that the reason all of the 3.5 desktop features weren't completed in 4.1 is because of a conscious choice. When actually, it is was just limited time. Feature freeze tends to stop the adding of magic ponys.
Frostbyte (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3476) was added for 4.1 so depending on what version is in experimental atm, you may already have it. If you have the 4.1beta, it's there. I don't there is much relation between frostbyte and squirrelfish, the codebases are different.
I guess at the time that blog entry was written, Apple hadn't released theirs yet, so you don't see any comparisons to WebKit proper. QtWebKit is what Plasma is using. Its a port, so it ends up being an older version of WebKit.
I suspect you can read the IPCC report as well as I.
Chapter 16 of the 2nd part of the report (the "effects" part) is "Small Islands".
p. 696 has a nice picture with a box around various areas of the world which has endangered islands, it turns out I lied in saying they were all in the Pacific.
Here's a list of some of them:
In the Indian Ocean, reconstructed sea levels based on tide
gauge data and TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter records for the 1950
to 2001 period give rates of relative sea-level rise of 1.5, 1.3 and
1.5 mm/yr (with error estimates of about 0.5 mm/yr) at Port
Louis, Rodrigues, and Cocos Islands, respectively (Church et
al., 2006). In the equatorial band, both the Male and Gan sea-
level sites in the Maldives show trends of about 4 mm/yr (Khan
et al., 2002), with the range from three tidal stations over the
1990s being from 3.2 to 6.5 mm/yr (Woodworth et al., 2002).
Church et al. (2006) note that the Maldives has short records and
that there is high variability between sites, and their 52-year
reconstruction suggests a common rate of rise of 1.0 to 1.2 mm/yr.
But it sounds like sea level is actually the least of the problem here, the main problem is the associated effects:
increased natural hazards, ("very high confidence")
compromised water resources, ("very high confidence")
negative impact on fisheries ("high confidence")
invasive species ("high confidence")
negative impact on commercial agriculture ("high confidence")
negative direct and indirect impacts on tourism ("high confidence")
negative impact on human health ("medium confidence")
"very high confidence" and the like actually cooresponds to numerical numbers
so nobody cares. I'm not sure if they've actually gone under yet, or if it's just about to happen, or most likely both. But if you're too poor to build dikes, and your entire country is at 0 $height sea level, you're kind of SOL.
After spending around 8 years trying to convince friends and family that privacy is important, I gave up about 3 years ago trying. In that time, I've graduated high school, picked up a CS degree, and work now as a developer.
Nobody cares. As I said about 1.5 years ago on a related topic, the realization that privacy is important requires strong knowledge of multiple fields of study. But most people are lucky to have strong knowledge of more than 1 or 2. People are largely too stupid to understand the subject of privacy, especially where it intersects with the world of computing. just saying
Yeah, obviously the poster doesn't know how expensive the cost of housing is in California. Especially if you want to actually live in a city.
It isn't a "stunt". Nobody thought it up yesterday, it's been snaking through the courts for a long time. It's also for California's own economic self-interest. Apparently if you considered us as our own country, we'd be number 11 or something in terms of top greenhouse gas producers in the world. Which means we're poised to actually make a difference.
What hasn't been turned into dot.com wasteland, is still fertile farmland. We have a very strong agriculture industry here. We also have lots of wineries. These all stand to be devastated by changes in temperature and precipitation, not to mention pests.
Rumor also has it that LA air isn't very good.
(The USA has a ridiculous low fuel economy requirement, compared to the rest of the world, so it should be cheap for auto-manufacturers to increase it. Plus then they could legally export their cars to foreign markets! This isn't one where "the free market" can help you, as I can't do a very good job of telling auto companies that I won't buy their cars unless they have a decent milage. I can try, but they'll just decide to ignore me, figuring that I must not really need a car anyway. (They have, and I don't.))
none of the critics faulted Dr. Jaworowski's science
Presumably they did, or they wouldn't have gotten rid of him.
Wikipedia has him listed as a active "skeptic", and apparently he is the head of a lab. So much for not getting any research money. If he's right, then it would be revolutionary, and trust me, oil companies would be very happy to fund him.
If I had 16 million, I could do some very effective PR. I wouldn't have to do anything BUT PR here, putting me at a fiscal advantage to the real organizations.
I too would want to fire anyone who made me a laughingstock. Remember the state that wanted to make pi equal to 3? Would you appoint the author of that proposal to State Math Board?
False claims of shrinking glaciers? You mean all those images of then and now are forgeries? I suggest a goggle image search.
And didn't you start out saying that Republicans don't rule the world? But then you bring up Gore? Because Bush has certainly had a very strong gag order on his scientific staff. He even had people change scientific reports.
If you're going to go world-wide, I would bring up the OPEC countries who contributed to the UN's IPCC report.
I don't think you tried very hard. You could have used wikipedia's list of questioners and skeptics (it is very short!), which actually gives names, quotations, and credentials, but I suspect it is also out of date. I know that at least one past skeptic publicly recanted. The evidence has gotten much, much stronger over the past 5 years.
For one, junkscience.com is run by a non-scientist who used to do it-isn't-so-bad-for-you PR for tobacco companies. Many of the basic facts and theories used are accurate, but the conclusions drawn are misleading unless you've just had an actual class in the stuff and can see just what he's scientifically leaving out.
As to the prize? Carnivals offer "prizes" too. I'm sure you win them all the time.
Let's see what else you point to:
A "petition" which turns out to be a list of names, without and indication of where these people got their degrees, where they are currently working, and if they have any actual peer-reviewed (ie other scientists) papers published.
There isn't any indication of how to get on this list, or if you get paid money to allow your name to be used, but there is an interesting disclaimer at the bottom:
Note: The Petition Project has no funding from energy industries or other parties with special financial interests in the "global warming" debate. Funding for the project comes entirely from private non-tax deductible donations by interested individuals.
But nowhere on the site do I see any indication of where they actually receive their money from. Perhaps they are self-funding, since the top-level portion of the site is a link farm, with searches on "females" and "nuclear bomb shelters". If I don't just go to the top domain page, I find out this is sponsored by "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine". Maybe someone can tell me if they are reputable.
But oh, even better!
Qualification to be a signatory requires that the individual have a university degree in physical science, either BS, MS, or PhD. Those with MS or PhD degrees are so designated. Those with BS degrees are undesignated or sometimes designated as MD if appropriate.
It seems like 1/3 are MD. I like how they don't explicitly note BS degreed people. So apparently, if I could figure out how, I could join this esteemed list. Even though in my 4 years of undergrad physics, I never once took a class that had anything to do with climate or weather. And I'm sorry, but having a physics degree doesn't give me instant knowledge of even "the summary for policymakers" section of the UN's climate report, the IPCC, or even guarantee I've read it.
Read the Stern report done by a UK economist who figures out the amount of GNP it would take to prevent/reduce climate change vs. cleaning up after the fact.
I'm sorry, but this and about half the comments above you should all be +1 funny. Disclaimer: comments at the time I posted this. My humor not transferable to others. Some are funnier than others.
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is that apparently Daddy goes to by Daughter an iPod at the Apple store, is wowed by eye candy, buys a laptop. Daddy is a lawyer or something, and eventually goes to start their own firm. All computers are then Apple.
I did not believe this, but a friend of mine who is a full-time consultant for this type... Well, he swears it actually works that way. I guess he could be right.
XP's strengths are in games, video playback and pirating. To a geek like myself that's why I've stayed with XP. Everything works with near perfect stability and I have a blend of opensource and closed-source / pirated tools to fit my needs.
Wow.
The strength of XP is in pirating... You know, if I hadn't just read several comments on this post saying about that thing, I wouldn't have believed it. Now where's the link to that article about software companies not caring about personal piracy because it presumably helps corporate sales? Honestly, you'd think they'd go ahead and make that legit by tossing different software licenses out there. (ok, some have: reduced price student editions, and most notably intel compilers are free for personal use)
Do people really *want* to go and "tweak"? Why can't someone use Linux just because it works?
Having said /that/...
...this doesn't apply to Linux?
As for why do geeks prefer XP? I can speak for myself and say that I thoroughly know the beast, it is a pleasure to google for the most wild assed software/driver you can think of and find that due to the widespread presence of the thing, pretty sure SOMEONE has gone through the same ordeal as you, and has posted a workaround.
It works, and given current hardware configurations and provided that you configure it properly, it is FAST.
Wow. That's really.... Pointless.
But wait! Keep doing it! You'll increase the perceived Linux marketshare! And you'll be happy! Win-win!
Windows.... A bad dream.
We're in feature freeze, so that means bugfixing.
If you can code: go to bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org) find a bug, write a patch, send it to the appropriate mailing list.
If you can't code: watch http://dot.kde.org/ for the next BugSquad BugDay (oh look, Kopete is having one *right now*!) (they are usually Sundays, every two weeks or so) and come learn bug triage. It's pretty easy, and can save developers hours upon hours of work.
Or: write documentation #kde-docs ;)
join the artists, join usability, etc etc
There's a lot out there. If nothing else, you can at least file a bug report for your next crash:
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports
4 is almost a complete rewrite. It seems people have the impression that the reason all of the 3.5 desktop features weren't completed in 4.1 is because of a conscious choice. When actually, it is was just limited time. Feature freeze tends to stop the adding of magic ponys.
Frostbyte (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3476) was added for 4.1 so depending on what version is in experimental atm, you may already have it. If you have the 4.1beta, it's there. I don't there is much relation between frostbyte and squirrelfish, the codebases are different.
I guess at the time that blog entry was written, Apple hadn't released theirs yet, so you don't see any comparisons to WebKit proper. QtWebKit is what Plasma is using. Its a port, so it ends up being an older version of WebKit.
QtWebKit gets used in plasma.
KHTML gets used in Konqueror.
There isn't any plan to change.
KHTML devs talk with the Apple people a lot, but partly because the KJS stuff has diverged a lot less than the rest of the codebase.
You would be very much wrong.
I suspect you can read the IPCC report as well as I.
Chapter 16 of the 2nd part of the report (the "effects" part) is "Small Islands".
p. 696 has a nice picture with a box around various areas of the world which has endangered islands, it turns out I lied in saying they were all in the Pacific.
Here's a list of some of them:
But it sounds like sea level is actually the least of the problem here, the main problem is the associated effects:
"very high confidence" and the like actually cooresponds to numerical numbers
Yeah, yeah, we couldn't possibly know anything or have learned anything. Everything is equally likely and there is no truth.
The respondant is correct. It isn't a linear response, it's exponential. That's why a small change is such a big deal.
so nobody cares. I'm not sure if they've actually gone under yet, or if it's just about to happen, or most likely both. But if you're too poor to build dikes, and your entire country is at 0 $height sea level, you're kind of SOL.
The poles heat up quicker than elsewhere.
And the conspiracy theory is a little out there...
Nobody cares. As I said about 1.5 years ago on a related topic, the realization that privacy is important requires strong knowledge of multiple fields of study. But most people are lucky to have strong knowledge of more than 1 or 2. People are largely too stupid to understand the subject of privacy, especially where it intersects with the world of computing. just saying
Yeah, obviously the poster doesn't know how expensive the cost of housing is in California. Especially if you want to actually live in a city.
It isn't a "stunt". Nobody thought it up yesterday, it's been snaking through the courts for a long time. It's also for California's own economic self-interest. Apparently if you considered us as our own country, we'd be number 11 or something in terms of top greenhouse gas producers in the world. Which means we're poised to actually make a difference.
What hasn't been turned into dot.com wasteland, is still fertile farmland. We have a very strong agriculture industry here. We also have lots of wineries. These all stand to be devastated by changes in temperature and precipitation, not to mention pests.
Rumor also has it that LA air isn't very good.
(The USA has a ridiculous low fuel economy requirement, compared to the rest of the world, so it should be cheap for auto-manufacturers to increase it. Plus then they could legally export their cars to foreign markets!
This isn't one where "the free market" can help you, as I can't do a very good job of telling auto companies that I won't buy their cars unless they have a decent milage. I can try, but they'll just decide to ignore me, figuring that I must not really need a car anyway. (They have, and I don't.))
none of the critics faulted Dr. Jaworowski's science Presumably they did, or they wouldn't have gotten rid of him. Wikipedia has him listed as a active "skeptic", and apparently he is the head of a lab. So much for not getting any research money. If he's right, then it would be revolutionary, and trust me, oil companies would be very happy to fund him.
If I had 16 million, I could do some very effective PR. I wouldn't have to do anything BUT PR here, putting me at a fiscal advantage to the real organizations.
I too would want to fire anyone who made me a laughingstock. Remember the state that wanted to make pi equal to 3? Would you appoint the author of that proposal to State Math Board?
False claims of shrinking glaciers? You mean all those images of then and now are forgeries? I suggest a goggle image search.
And didn't you start out saying that Republicans don't rule the world? But then you bring up Gore? Because Bush has certainly had a very strong gag order on his scientific staff. He even had people change scientific reports.
If you're going to go world-wide, I would bring up the OPEC countries who contributed to the UN's IPCC report.
I don't think you tried very hard. You could have used wikipedia's list of questioners and skeptics (it is very short!), which actually gives names, quotations, and credentials, but I suspect it is also out of date. I know that at least one past skeptic publicly recanted. The evidence has gotten much, much stronger over the past 5 years.
For one, junkscience.com is run by a non-scientist who used to do it-isn't-so-bad-for-you PR for tobacco companies. Many of the basic facts and theories used are accurate, but the conclusions drawn are misleading unless you've just had an actual class in the stuff and can see just what he's scientifically leaving out.
As to the prize? Carnivals offer "prizes" too. I'm sure you win them all the time.
Let's see what else you point to:
A "petition" which turns out to be a list of names, without and indication of where these people got their degrees, where they are currently working, and if they have any actual peer-reviewed (ie other scientists) papers published.
There isn't any indication of how to get on this list, or if you get paid money to allow your name to be used, but there is an interesting disclaimer at the bottom:
But nowhere on the site do I see any indication of where they actually receive their money from. Perhaps they are self-funding, since the top-level portion of the site is a link farm, with searches on "females" and "nuclear bomb shelters". If I don't just go to the top domain page, I find out this is sponsored by "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine". Maybe someone can tell me if they are reputable.But oh, even better!
It seems like 1/3 are MD. I like how they don't explicitly note BS degreed people. So apparently, if I could figure out how, I could join this esteemed list. Even though in my 4 years of undergrad physics, I never once took a class that had anything to do with climate or weather. And I'm sorry, but having a physics degree doesn't give me instant knowledge of even "the summary for policymakers" section of the UN's climate report, the IPCC, or even guarantee I've read it.It won't be free, but nothing in life is.
Made in China is the best every time!
I read it elsewhere: it was armed robbery, and it sounds like they took the originals too.
It was sign-up only. And no. I only get SMS from people I signed up for.
Sound.
I'm sorry, but this and about half the comments above you should all be +1 funny. Disclaimer: comments at the time I posted this. My humor not transferable to others. Some are funnier than others.