Get some bonded T1 lines or a T3 line, setup a server or three and start leasing out hosting space or run your own DSL-based or wireless ISP service. Or both.
Okay, well, these workers are claiming that there exposure to pig brain tissue may be responsible for their disorder. But -- and here's the key point -- it may not. In fact, all we know is that these workers worked in the same slaughterhouse. Perhaps there is some chemical used in the slaughterhouse that is causing their CNS problems. That story doesn't support the either conclusion that eating meat or animal products causes Alzheimer's or dementia or my conclusion that eating meat or animal products has nothing to do with either, and the fact that much is not known also doesn't support those conclusions either, nor does it necessarily deny those conclusions.
My conclusions are based on solid scientific evidence about what is known. You are attempting to say I'm an idiot by saying there's a lot we don't know. It's a straw man argument. Give it up.
The story in your link has nothing to do with consuming meat or animal products. The disease allegedly triggered by pig brain tissue exposure had to do with slaughterhouse workers. And, the disease in question in the article, CIDP, doesn't produce dementia, either. It's a CNS disorder, not a brain disorder.
And, I know it's not the case because my wife is a clinical psychologist and my mother works with Alzheimer's patients. As such, for a layperson, I know quite a bit about disorders of the brain.
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Remove your.vimrc, or make "set compatible" the first line of it. Or use -C to force compatibility mode. One minor point: the last one doesn't seem to work right if you have a.vimrc. For instance, if you set smartidents and syntax highlighting on in your.vimrc and then want to go to compatibility mode, -C won't turn those off.
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You are absolutely correct. We should be promoting 'Ubuntu' or 'Mandriva' or 'Linspire' and not 'Linux'.
The end user doesn't see Linux. Linux is just a kernel. Ubuntu Desktop, for instance, is a complete desktop solution. It has the kernel, sure, but it has X, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, Firefox, Evolution -- in short, the tools that make 'Linux' into a useable desktop OS.
Ubuntu Server, OTOH, isn't useable as a desktop by default. Duh. That's because it's a server OS.
Anyway, my original point is that 'Linux' is a kernel. And that kernel can run at the heart of a number of different solutions. Maybe I should've been a bit more clear, but as you can see, in essence, if not words, we both agree.
Boot times: XP gets to the shell much quicker than 2K. In fact, 2K requires about 8 minutes on the PC it is loaded on. An identical machine running XP is ready to run in 3 minutes. (Debian 4.0 "Web server" profile takes about 4 minutes to get to a login prompt, for comparison) My experience has been that while the shell may appear quicker, for the system to get into a useable state still takes just as long on XP as on Windows 2000. IOW, Win2K waits for the services to before presenting the shell, while XP is still loading services in the background while the shell appears.
Zip: Anyone who chooses WinZip for anything but the most basic of zipping tasks deserves all the hell they get. While the zip support in XP may be lacking compared to "what I'd like", I have yet to find a tool that allows me to treat zip files as part of the filesystem like Explorer does. Also, having the support at the click of the mouse button makes it so simple, even my grandmother can do it. http://www.ghisler.com/">Windows Commander
Wifi: In XP, you click on "Find nearby wifi places" and get a list of routers to choose from. Click on the one you want, enter your credentials and you're up and running. In 2K, you need to do all the configuring from the control panel/network properties dialog. I'm a sucker for just getting things running quickly, so XP "supports" wifi while 2K does not. Most of the driver CDs for WiFi cards these days have some sort of wireless utility on them. Most of them are actually much better than the one that comes with Windows XP.
Software support: Any software that relies on the.Net library is automatically out of the running on 2K. Any development tools that target.Net will be as well. Um, no. Andno. Windows XP and later are only required for Visual Studio 2008. Prior versions are supported on Win2K..Net framework through 2.0 runs on Win2k. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that.Net framework 3.5 and VS2008 actually run on Windows 2000, just not officially supported by Microsoft.
Any software that uses the new APIs in XP will also not run on 2K. Well, find me one.
The long boot times. I've compared boot times on Win2k and WinXP on the same machine and, really, there's not that much difference. XP does have support for suspending to disk where Win2K does not -- that's the only real difference in booting.
The lack of OS-level zip file support. There's support for ZIP files in the XP shell, I wouldn't necessarily call that 'OS-level'. And the ZIP support that's in XP is sorely lacking. Almost every place I've ever worked replaces it with WinZip.
Lack of wifi support. WiFi works just fine on Windows 2000.
Lack of support for certain software (granted, this is a software problem, but XP supports more of the software I need). Aside from games (which may need newer DirectX support), I haven't found anything that works on Windows XP that doesn't also run on Windows 2000.
Alzheimer's and dementia are not necessarily caused by problem diets. I know there's a lot of vegan propoganda circulating around about how supposedly the consumption of meat and animal products is to blame for Alzheimer's and dementia, but this is simply not the case. There are many complex reasons for dementia, which can be caused by an entire host of mental disorders, which includes Alzheimers but also include others. Sometimes it's just due to aging. Alzheimer's is most probably genetic in nature since it seems that there genetic mutations in four genes that have been linked to the disease, one of which is has been clearly established as a definite susceptibility gene.
Anyone telling you these diseases have something to do with diet are talking out their arse.
Well, it was intended to be a joke. Apparently some people thought I was making social commentary or something. "Never attribute to genius something that may just be sarcastic humor." Or something like that.
Also, I'd say the point of the article is that Microsoft even has to upsell Vista over XP. The last time they needed to snowjob corporates into upgrading was around 1995 or so. And not nearly so much so as they're doing today.
Linux may be a great OS, but I'd take a 2.6 kernel over a 2.2 kernel any day for my desktop computing needs. 2.2 is buggy, slow, insecure, and sucks compared to the latest kernel. If you were in charge of upselling users to 2.6, you'd say as much, I hope. Maybe. But I'd take a 2.2 kernel any day over any version of Windows.
In all seriousness, we've all known (or at least most of us have) for quite sometime that Al Gore was instrumental in introducing legislation in 1988 to finance and open up the Internet as we know it today. Where the jokes really originated from was the idea that he 'created the Internet'. We all know that the Internet was created probably well before Al Gore ever got into political life. What some of us may not know is that until two things fell into place, NSFNet and the widespread adoption of the BSD TCP/IP stack, the Internet we know and love today wouldn't exist. Part of what Al Gore did was to be instrumental in sending major funding to NSFNet, which would cause the Internet to grow exponentially, which, in turn, caused the spread of that BSD TCP/IP stack. Politics isn't about any one man, it's a team effort, but Al Gore was certainly a star player.
Linux is a rather high-quality OS used for ultra-high-end applications in HPC. Yet millions of people will now perceive it as the low-end. Strange. It's actually both of those things. The cool thing about Linux is that it's like the Swiss Army knife of operating systems. It can scale down to the tiniest mobile device with a low end ARM processor up to the fastest supercomputing clusters in the world. You can use it as a low-end desktop OS or as a high-end workstation OS. It can run file server appliance or as a compute cluster for scientific research.
That's the power, innovation, and advantage of open source -- you have the code, the right to modify and distribute it, so you can adopt it for whatever application suits your needs.
Linux is shit (Score:1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10, @07:19AM (#21640271) *BSD is way better. Who the fuck modded this stupid troll up?
In addition, I'd have to say that, for me at least, I am my own worst critic. I take a look at code I write sometimes and think "gods, that's awful!" and then show it to another programmer who often thinks it's just fine. On the one hand, I have a tendency to over-comment rather than under-comment, so maybe the comments make my code easier to understand. OTOH, I often code in unorthodox ways. Sometimes it's just to get a little bit of extra performance (like taking advantage of the fact that most languages these days don't always evaluate every expression in a multiple-condition if statement) and sometimes I do it just for the clarity of the code. On the gripping hand, I have to say that sometimes I look at my code and go "wow, that's just lazy and sloppy."
Just because it looks bad to you doesn't mean that it is. It just means you don't feel like it's your best work and maybe it could be better.
College students usually have lots of credit cards. The credit card companies send preapproved applications in the mail by the buttload to college students -- especially since they know they'll wind themselves knee deep in credit and have to work half their careers just to pay it off. The interest they'll make off that alone is worth the few deadbeats they'll have.
Pssst. Before flaming me, why don't you actually try reading what I said. The first paragraph backed up what he said, the second paragraph reinforced the first paragraph and the OP by tying both points to the main point in TFA. Which is to say that unlike what Nokia says, both the OP and I were both saying the same thing -- that Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora are not proprietary formats.
If you can't read what I wrote, I suggest you turn in your geek card and take some remedial English classes.
Right. But given that the formats themselves are fully documented, there's nothing stopping you from developing your own implementation. This implementation can also be licensed anyway you like, even a proprietary license, so long as you don't use any code from the GPL implementation.
Fully documentable nothin'! Theora and Vorbis are fullydocumented. If you can't figure out how to make your own implementation from the docs and/or by studying one of the many existing implementations out there, you need to turn in your geek card and just forget about developing software.
Proprietary would imply that independent implementations cannot be made or cannot be made easily without violating patents or reverse engineering or whatever. Vorbis and Theora are nothing of the sort -- they are fully open and unencumbered.
But, even on/. we knew this empirically, the so called groupthink. There's groupthink on Slashdot?
So you mean, that, like Apple may not be the greatest company on earth, 2008 may not be the year of Linux on the desktop, Vista may actually be an okay operating system, Microsoft isn't necessarily t3h 3v1l, and in Soviet Russia, films may not necessarily enjoy you?!
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Get some bonded T1 lines or a T3 line, setup a server or three and start leasing out hosting space or run your own DSL-based or wireless ISP service. Or both.
Okay, well, these workers are claiming that there exposure to pig brain tissue may be responsible for their disorder. But -- and here's the key point -- it may not. In fact, all we know is that these workers worked in the same slaughterhouse. Perhaps there is some chemical used in the slaughterhouse that is causing their CNS problems. That story doesn't support the either conclusion that eating meat or animal products causes Alzheimer's or dementia or my conclusion that eating meat or animal products has nothing to do with either, and the fact that much is not known also doesn't support those conclusions either, nor does it necessarily deny those conclusions.
My conclusions are based on solid scientific evidence about what is known. You are attempting to say I'm an idiot by saying there's a lot we don't know. It's a straw man argument. Give it up.
The story in your link has nothing to do with consuming meat or animal products. The disease allegedly triggered by pig brain tissue exposure had to do with slaughterhouse workers. And, the disease in question in the article, CIDP, doesn't produce dementia, either. It's a CNS disorder, not a brain disorder.
And, I know it's not the case because my wife is a clinical psychologist and my mother works with Alzheimer's patients. As such, for a layperson, I know quite a bit about disorders of the brain.
Nah. You can become competent with vi in a few days. Save yourself a lot of hassle. Print out one of these handy-dandy vi cheat sheets. This one's not too bad, but is poorly formatted, IMHO.
You are absolutely correct. We should be promoting 'Ubuntu' or 'Mandriva' or 'Linspire' and not 'Linux'.
The end user doesn't see Linux. Linux is just a kernel. Ubuntu Desktop, for instance, is a complete desktop solution. It has the kernel, sure, but it has X, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, Firefox, Evolution -- in short, the tools that make 'Linux' into a useable desktop OS.
Ubuntu Server, OTOH, isn't useable as a desktop by default. Duh. That's because it's a server OS.
Anyway, my original point is that 'Linux' is a kernel. And that kernel can run at the heart of a number of different solutions. Maybe I should've been a bit more clear, but as you can see, in essence, if not words, we both agree.
And no. Windows XP and later are only required for Visual Studio 2008. Prior versions are supported on Win2K.
Alzheimer's and dementia are not necessarily caused by problem diets. I know there's a lot of vegan propoganda circulating around about how supposedly the consumption of meat and animal products is to blame for Alzheimer's and dementia, but this is simply not the case. There are many complex reasons for dementia, which can be caused by an entire host of mental disorders, which includes Alzheimers but also include others. Sometimes it's just due to aging. Alzheimer's is most probably genetic in nature since it seems that there genetic mutations in four genes that have been linked to the disease, one of which is has been clearly established as a definite susceptibility gene.
Anyone telling you these diseases have something to do with diet are talking out their arse.
Well, it was intended to be a joke. Apparently some people thought I was making social commentary or something. "Never attribute to genius something that may just be sarcastic humor." Or something like that.
Also, I'd say the point of the article is that Microsoft even has to upsell Vista over XP. The last time they needed to snowjob corporates into upgrading was around 1995 or so. And not nearly so much so as they're doing today.
I think you missed it. I think that was last year. 2009 will be the Year of the Floptical. Don't ask me why.
In all seriousness, we've all known (or at least most of us have) for quite sometime that Al Gore was instrumental in introducing legislation in 1988 to finance and open up the Internet as we know it today. Where the jokes really originated from was the idea that he 'created the Internet'. We all know that the Internet was created probably well before Al Gore ever got into political life. What some of us may not know is that until two things fell into place, NSFNet and the widespread adoption of the BSD TCP/IP stack, the Internet we know and love today wouldn't exist. Part of what Al Gore did was to be instrumental in sending major funding to NSFNet, which would cause the Internet to grow exponentially, which, in turn, caused the spread of that BSD TCP/IP stack. Politics isn't about any one man, it's a team effort, but Al Gore was certainly a star player.
That's the power, innovation, and advantage of open source -- you have the code, the right to modify and distribute it, so you can adopt it for whatever application suits your needs.
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10, @07:19AM (#21640271)
*BSD is way better. Who the fuck modded this stupid troll up?
In addition, I'd have to say that, for me at least, I am my own worst critic. I take a look at code I write sometimes and think "gods, that's awful!" and then show it to another programmer who often thinks it's just fine. On the one hand, I have a tendency to over-comment rather than under-comment, so maybe the comments make my code easier to understand. OTOH, I often code in unorthodox ways. Sometimes it's just to get a little bit of extra performance (like taking advantage of the fact that most languages these days don't always evaluate every expression in a multiple-condition if statement) and sometimes I do it just for the clarity of the code. On the gripping hand, I have to say that sometimes I look at my code and go "wow, that's just lazy and sloppy."
Just because it looks bad to you doesn't mean that it is. It just means you don't feel like it's your best work and maybe it could be better.
College students usually have lots of credit cards. The credit card companies send preapproved applications in the mail by the buttload to college students -- especially since they know they'll wind themselves knee deep in credit and have to work half their careers just to pay it off. The interest they'll make off that alone is worth the few deadbeats they'll have.
Pssst. Before flaming me, why don't you actually try reading what I said. The first paragraph backed up what he said, the second paragraph reinforced the first paragraph and the OP by tying both points to the main point in TFA. Which is to say that unlike what Nokia says, both the OP and I were both saying the same thing -- that Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora are not proprietary formats.
If you can't read what I wrote, I suggest you turn in your geek card and take some remedial English classes.
Right. But given that the formats themselves are fully documented, there's nothing stopping you from developing your own implementation. This implementation can also be licensed anyway you like, even a proprietary license, so long as you don't use any code from the GPL implementation.
Fully documentable nothin'! Theora and Vorbis are fully documented. If you can't figure out how to make your own implementation from the docs and/or by studying one of the many existing implementations out there, you need to turn in your geek card and just forget about developing software.
Proprietary would imply that independent implementations cannot be made or cannot be made easily without violating patents or reverse engineering or whatever. Vorbis and Theora are nothing of the sort -- they are fully open and unencumbered.
It even works on Slashdot. If a comment is marked +5 funny, I'll think it's funny too and laugh...oh...wait...
So you mean, that, like Apple may not be the greatest company on earth, 2008 may not be the year of Linux on the desktop, Vista may actually be an okay operating system, Microsoft isn't necessarily t3h 3v1l, and in Soviet Russia,
films may not necessarily enjoy you?!
Wow, that's just a lot to think about.
Stand and deliver -- your money or your life! You insensitive clod!
No, you turn in yours. The quote is directly from Star Trek: First Contact.