You got that wrong. It should have read "properly configured corporate network", and not had the "based on linux".
Fine ; now explain me why the **** on earth a mid-level user would have to attach a drive, create a share or configure a printer in such a wonderland ?
Answer : there are no such wonderlands in windows setups because except for the top 10% of the companies, other more medium sized businesses hire a self-promoted winadmin (as in winmodems and winprinters : does a fourth of the job for half the price, compared to the real thing) without a clue, because it's cheaper than a real admin. So mid-level users have to cope with his shortcomings, by doing tasks they're never intended to do in the first place.
The strength of linux, data processing wise, is that once you get it, you need to have the admin, so the mid-level user is saved from himself.
That's completely wrong ; what mid-level people can't do in a corporate network based on linux is just f*ck things around, upload that cute bug-riddled fish-bowl screensaver from the Internet and use it, and change the background picture to their kids ones because any savy tech won't let them hook their digital camera on the usb.
And even if that pisses those mid-level users, that is *just* fine if you intend to have an actual work done.
Why would anyone want to have binary compatibility ? The main force of linux (as in unix) is source compatibility. It has been proven easier to fix things up in source code than in windows' binaries, and most of the troubles faced by windows users such as virus, worms and much everything else lies in the various binary incompatibilities, mis-interactions, and otherwise obscurities.
Why would linux aim to have just that ?
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I guess, yes. Reminds me of a story I've read a few years ago, which happened in Italia if memory serves.
A man had brought her daughter for nice afternoon boat trip on lake, and had a stroke. The 5 years old girl managed to use his phone via the 1 button call feature to warn her mother of the issue, and the man was rescued in time.
So, yes, definitively, one button emergency is a good thing.
Cultural differences, I guess. Anyway, I know that they'll grab 30% of the lecture at best, so I just make sure to clearly indicates what those 30% are, to have them listen during the 70% I don't really care about - provided they take enough care to see that the importants parts are build out of that chat.
As for the black market part of it, at least in France you're not very far away from reality. Actualy, I know that some professors sell the rights to reproduce paper copies of the lectures to the 'fraternities' [not strictly equivalent down here, but can't find a best match]. They in turn charge a fee for the work of typing from the tape and duplicating to the students. I personaly just hate that.
Not speaking of I ipod, but as a former assistant professor until last year, I've always forbade use of recording devices in my lectures.
Contrary to the stated comment, I noticed that most students would just relax, relying on the tape to be able to take the test later on in the year. They were less concentrated, and *my* job was more difficult into getting everybody's attention.
So after my first year, I've sworn not to let any electronical device interfere with my teaching. I've had very little complaints since.
I have a hard time believing this is due to any smoking induced effect [...]
I speak from limited experience, but you really should consider that many other persons have pointed this as a cause for failure, and my personal experience is also based on the fact that I generaly buy for others than myself, because many of my friends think that I'm better at dealing tech things than they are. So I've already bought 5 pieces of the same drive, and guess what ? Those going to smokers' houses failed about the same time as mine while the 2 which got into a smoke free flat are still going at the moment...
Sometimes it's unpleasant to face it, but cigarette smoking is bad. At least for electronic devices.
I am, and my drives display the same short-life behaviours as yours. I suspect tar glues to the optic and is not removable without a major cleanup (mechnical action like air blow or cleaner discs is inefficient).
"Exactly how would a National ID Card make people safer?"
That's not the point ; an ID card in France is a proof of french nationality. Although it's not mandatory to have one (I lived pretty well for more than 10 years on my driver ID alone), you run one day or another into an administrative hell if you don't have one. Happened to me, spent 2 months waiting for the f*ing card, and will probably be glad to pay for the new one as it's so damned useful.
You completely missed the point ; I don't care about OSX being whateverfriendly, I care about consistency. And as far as I know, OS X on an x86 or a sparc is juste a pile of binary rubbish. So, in a mixed environnement, I know that only Linux and some BSD will behave exactly the same among architectures, making my life easier.
In my humble opinion, it may be a good idea when you have already stacks of other architectures, to have a single OS for maintenance easiness.
For instance, here, I've got 3 Sun, 2 x86, 1 alpha... if I ever buy a mac, there are good chances it ends up with a linux of some sort.
Also, some free OS are better suited to some tasks (like making big clusters) and the cheap price of the mini makes it interesting to build such a cluster.
... but I wonder if sharks with laser beams attached to their heads wouldn't be an ideal device along armed robots to guard the coasts while robots care of the land.
A compulsive behaviour has been identified among comportementalists ; it appears that each time a pleasurable activty goes mainstream, a fair share of those scientists can't help themselves from labelling it "syndrom".
For instance, they tried for years to prove unsucessfully that coffee drinking was bad, they've put thousands of childs under chemicals for behaving like kids, they managed to put a ban for years on alcohol drinking, they suspiciously look under your bed sheets to make sure you don't obsessively engage into sex, etc.
This We Want To Control Your Life Addiction Syndrom can hurt anybody, so be careful. You could be next.
"I certainly wouldn't trust it for more than satiating my curiosity, for instance I'd never cite it in an essay as a source. Articles with heavy disputes in their comments abound and many have no easy answers with how to solve an article's problems."
Because, of course, authors of printed materials are always objectives, have no hidden agenda of any sort, and don't get lost in holy wars. Yeah. Sure.
Having been all the way into university, I can swear to you that absolutely no reference whatsoever ever keeps balance and seek truth. They are all opinions, and wiki (at least in my view) is no more slanted than any other reference text, all the better, it's in fact easier to spot the controversial points because of the revisions of articles. That's what any scholar would dream to find everywhere else.
I don't know for your question, but historicaly, you can find morality treaties of the XIIIth century blaming the - at the time new technology in glass making - mirrors for corrupting the women, and favorizing the sin of pride in the youths.
Thank you for your post. I lack mod points at the moment, but you surely desserve some.
As an afterthought, however, I'm puzzled by one thing, which obviously is the central point of all the debate : how come you were not shown the scientific facts, hard evidences as you put it, when you were at school ? Not being a US citizen, I don't know much about your education system, but in Europe I bet any child over 6 has a collection of fossiles he grabbed in his backyard. Those are the hard evidence that evolution is a fact : animals were living in a sea which disappeared to give place to a portion of land he now occupies. Most of those shells belong to extinct species.
Granted, that doesn't explain the whole thing, ie, why do species evolve, but it shows that they do, just like dropping a stone can show gravity, without explaining it.
So I wonder why it took you so long to find a competent person to explain you that, and it may explain the (bad) reactions of anti-creationists, as it is sometimes irritating to prove something most of the child are taught in school.
As a side remark, I would also be interested to know why you did expose yourself to sarcasms for so long, instead of just trying to read the scientific proofs alone in a library. That maybe a personal question, so please forgive it.
"If I see person A murder person B, then I know person A is guilty"
Sure ; fine ! But if you've seen it, then you can't be on jury duty, so you are not allowed to be judge. If you are in jury, then you haven't seen it with your own eyes, so don't know for absolutely sure that you're not being lied upon -- you have to rely on your weak human senses, and reputation of witnesses as well as scientific evidences. There are always gaps where you may fall, so better be able to correct your mistakes than be sorry.
"Religion does not have a monopoly on morality."
Certainly not, but morality in itself is another type of religion ; especialy when this kind of feeling is the disguise of our primal instincts. Why would you kill a criminal ? Can it undo the harm already done ? Certainly not. Will it prevent further harm inflicted to the society ? No, because that'll seed the same feeling of revenge in the hearts of the family and friends. Are there ways to prevent this person from doing any more harm ? Yes, jail him. Mind you, that will even be a source of profit !
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of "laissez faire", I'm just saying that state-allowed murder is actualy no better than the crime it is supposed to solve, has no rationality nor efficiency beyond the desire of revenge. As such, it's counter-productive.
While I get excited about the prospect of "free" literature, I find that I don't take advantage of it. The main reason is that I don't feel like reading a novel while sitting in front of the computer. This is especially difficult to do while sitting on the toilet, or on a plane or train, or on a toilet on a plane or a train. Sure, I could bring a laptop, but it's a lot more cumbersome than a paperback.
I personnaly use Gutenberg a lot, and found a way to keep the paper book convenience : I download it to my PDA. Small package, always handy, hours of reading on batteries, can take side notes... I don't need more.
"I would submit that you are not angry that the movie is not shown in the theatre, but that a few creationists 'get their way'."
Not exactly ; I'm angry that for whatever reason, somebody with enough power to chose to display or not a scientific movie, decided to conceal it instead of laughing loudly at the idea. Why ? Because that person is certainly educated enough to treat creationism the way it should (filing it somewhere between Santa Claus and Paranoia) ; failing to do it for money's sake is exactly similar to spending that same money on propaganda for this nonsense.
Because, if you were consistent with your beliefs, you'd know that the power to juge guilt or innocence doesn't belong to mankind, but to God only. The only requirement upon you is to love, forgive, and show compassion to those who are too weak to be enlightened. Who do you think you are, to decide in place of the One greater than you ?
On the other hand, if you're a non-believer, anyway there's no such things as innocence or guilt, but behaviours. Some of the behaviours, without being intrinsicaly good or bad, hurt the society as a whole, some do not. Those which does (crimes) can be taken care off by removing the agent from the society, but you wouldn't kill him because truth being relative, you don't want to make a mistake, so you seek reversibility.
The funniest part of it being that the literary evolution of the Bible is easier to "prove" (in the devoided sense fudamentalists accept it) than the Darwinian evolotution they reject, because there are many epigraphic evidences of it.
If there is a God, He has a really weird sense of humor.
Why not ? Your answer implies that it wouldn't sell because those willing to buy don't care the stamp anyway ; but that wasn't the point. The point was, what if a large enough group of books' buyers lobby book stores and raise the threat of a boycot until all bibles are sold stamped ? What if they stop buying all books from editors still daring to print Bibles unstamped ? If the economical threat was real, you soon wouldn't find any version without the stamp. And I bet you'd be infuriated.
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Fine ; now explain me why the **** on earth a mid-level user would have to attach a drive, create a share or configure a printer in such a wonderland ?
Answer : there are no such wonderlands in windows setups because except for the top 10% of the companies, other more medium sized businesses hire a self-promoted winadmin (as in winmodems and winprinters : does a fourth of the job for half the price, compared to the real thing) without a clue, because it's cheaper than a real admin. So mid-level users have to cope with his shortcomings, by doing tasks they're never intended to do in the first place.
The strength of linux, data processing wise, is that once you get it, you need to have the admin, so the mid-level user is saved from himself.
And even if that pisses those mid-level users, that is *just* fine if you intend to have an actual work done.
Why would linux aim to have just that ?
A man had brought her daughter for nice afternoon boat trip on lake, and had a stroke. The 5 years old girl managed to use his phone via the 1 button call feature to warn her mother of the issue, and the man was rescued in time.
So, yes, definitively, one button emergency is a good thing.
As for the black market part of it, at least in France you're not very far away from reality. Actualy, I know that some professors sell the rights to reproduce paper copies of the lectures to the 'fraternities' [not strictly equivalent down here, but can't find a best match]. They in turn charge a fee for the work of typing from the tape and duplicating to the students. I personaly just hate that.
Contrary to the stated comment, I noticed that most students would just relax, relying on the tape to be able to take the test later on in the year. They were less concentrated, and *my* job was more difficult into getting everybody's attention.
So after my first year, I've sworn not to let any electronical device interfere with my teaching. I've had very little complaints since.
I speak from limited experience, but you really should consider that many other persons have pointed this as a cause for failure, and my personal experience is also based on the fact that I generaly buy for others than myself, because many of my friends think that I'm better at dealing tech things than they are. So I've already bought 5 pieces of the same drive, and guess what ? Those going to smokers' houses failed about the same time as mine while the 2 which got into a smoke free flat are still going at the moment...
Sometimes it's unpleasant to face it, but cigarette smoking is bad. At least for electronic devices.
Smokers suck. Wonderful truism. I'm sure you can do better,keep trying.
I am, and my drives display the same short-life behaviours as yours. I suspect tar glues to the optic and is not removable without a major cleanup (mechnical action like air blow or cleaner discs is inefficient).
That's not the point ; an ID card in France is a proof of french nationality. Although it's not mandatory to have one (I lived pretty well for more than 10 years on my driver ID alone), you run one day or another into an administrative hell if you don't have one. Happened to me, spent 2 months waiting for the f*ing card, and will probably be glad to pay for the new one as it's so damned useful.
Got it, now ?
For instance, here, I've got 3 Sun, 2 x86, 1 alpha... if I ever buy a mac, there are good chances it ends up with a linux of some sort.
Also, some free OS are better suited to some tasks (like making big clusters) and the cheap price of the mini makes it interesting to build such a cluster.
... but I wonder if sharks with laser beams attached to their heads wouldn't be an ideal device along armed robots to guard the coasts while robots care of the land.
For instance, they tried for years to prove unsucessfully that coffee drinking was bad, they've put thousands of childs under chemicals for behaving like kids, they managed to put a ban for years on alcohol drinking, they suspiciously look under your bed sheets to make sure you don't obsessively engage into sex, etc.
This We Want To Control Your Life Addiction Syndrom can hurt anybody, so be careful. You could be next.
Because, of course, authors of printed materials are always objectives, have no hidden agenda of any sort, and don't get lost in holy wars. Yeah. Sure.
Having been all the way into university, I can swear to you that absolutely no reference whatsoever ever keeps balance and seek truth. They are all opinions, and wiki (at least in my view) is no more slanted than any other reference text, all the better, it's in fact easier to spot the controversial points because of the revisions of articles. That's what any scholar would dream to find everywhere else.
The word you're looking for is "solepsism".
Sounds pretty modern, save the medium.
Same BS all over again, I guess.
As an afterthought, however, I'm puzzled by one thing, which obviously is the central point of all the debate : how come you were not shown the scientific facts, hard evidences as you put it, when you were at school ? Not being a US citizen, I don't know much about your education system, but in Europe I bet any child over 6 has a collection of fossiles he grabbed in his backyard. Those are the hard evidence that evolution is a fact : animals were living in a sea which disappeared to give place to a portion of land he now occupies. Most of those shells belong to extinct species.
Granted, that doesn't explain the whole thing, ie, why do species evolve, but it shows that they do, just like dropping a stone can show gravity, without explaining it.
So I wonder why it took you so long to find a competent person to explain you that, and it may explain the (bad) reactions of anti-creationists, as it is sometimes irritating to prove something most of the child are taught in school.
As a side remark, I would also be interested to know why you did expose yourself to sarcasms for so long, instead of just trying to read the scientific proofs alone in a library. That maybe a personal question, so please forgive it.
Sure ; fine ! But if you've seen it, then you can't be on jury duty, so you are not allowed to be judge. If you are in jury, then you haven't seen it with your own eyes, so don't know for absolutely sure that you're not being lied upon -- you have to rely on your weak human senses, and reputation of witnesses as well as scientific evidences. There are always gaps where you may fall, so better be able to correct your mistakes than be sorry.
"Religion does not have a monopoly on morality."
Certainly not, but morality in itself is another type of religion ; especialy when this kind of feeling is the disguise of our primal instincts. Why would you kill a criminal ? Can it undo the harm already done ? Certainly not. Will it prevent further harm inflicted to the society ? No, because that'll seed the same feeling of revenge in the hearts of the family and friends. Are there ways to prevent this person from doing any more harm ? Yes, jail him. Mind you, that will even be a source of profit !
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of "laissez faire", I'm just saying that state-allowed murder is actualy no better than the crime it is supposed to solve, has no rationality nor efficiency beyond the desire of revenge. As such, it's counter-productive.
I personnaly use Gutenberg a lot, and found a way to keep the paper book convenience : I download it to my PDA. Small package, always handy, hours of reading on batteries, can take side notes... I don't need more.
Not exactly ; I'm angry that for whatever reason, somebody with enough power to chose to display or not a scientific movie, decided to conceal it instead of laughing loudly at the idea. Why ? Because that person is certainly educated enough to treat creationism the way it should (filing it somewhere between Santa Claus and Paranoia) ; failing to do it for money's sake is exactly similar to spending that same money on propaganda for this nonsense.
Because, if you were consistent with your beliefs, you'd know that the power to juge guilt or innocence doesn't belong to mankind, but to God only. The only requirement upon you is to love, forgive, and show compassion to those who are too weak to be enlightened. Who do you think you are, to decide in place of the One greater than you ?
On the other hand, if you're a non-believer, anyway there's no such things as innocence or guilt, but behaviours. Some of the behaviours, without being intrinsicaly good or bad, hurt the society as a whole, some do not. Those which does (crimes) can be taken care off by removing the agent from the society, but you wouldn't kill him because truth being relative, you don't want to make a mistake, so you seek reversibility.
If there is a God, He has a really weird sense of humor.
Why not ? Your answer implies that it wouldn't sell because those willing to buy don't care the stamp anyway ; but that wasn't the point. The point was, what if a large enough group of books' buyers lobby book stores and raise the threat of a boycot until all bibles are sold stamped ? What if they stop buying all books from editors still daring to print Bibles unstamped ? If the economical threat was real, you soon wouldn't find any version without the stamp. And I bet you'd be infuriated.
The Holy Bible
Warning : contains scenes of extreme violence and nudity. All theories depicted herein are ontological by nature and represent only the writer's (whoever may He be) opinion.
That's Freedom, baby ! Everybody desserves a warning.