For Linux? The system-level stuff can't be changed by a normal user anyway, and it's easy enough to script a delete and stock restore of the desktop-level config stuff every logon cycle. Instant terminal restore, with no fuss, muss, or slowdown.
Yes. What better way to drive more traffic to those information providers that are in bed with the CIA? Bump all of the paranoids (who do have something to hide, even if they don't know it) away from the only provider that isn't pocketed already.
OSS oozes natural selection. If your project doesn't scratch an itch, it dies. If it becomes deadlocked, it evolves (different focus) or reproduces (forks).
Contrast this to the commercial product that has already 'won' genetically...Windows. When genetic 'perfection' (foodchain or market dominance) is achieved, there's really no reason to evolve any further; there are diminishing returns with increasing variations. Genes remain stale. Genuine progress in not made.
With OSS, there are projects devoted to every itch under the sun. Where one doesn't succeed, another does because it is genetically superior (technically superior) or has a greater drive for evolution (driven developer). Throw a bunch of these projects together into a framework like a Linux distribution and you can build a platform with incredible flexibility and incredible potential for genetic variation to serve the next big itch.
Consider this (admittedly bad) example. There are many different type of fish in the sea, physically adapted to thrive in their own environmental situation. Big fish, small fish, fish-eating fish, plant-eating fish, etc. There is only one type of human (relatively speaking). This type is 'good enough' to ensure survival, and we have no need for drastic variations because we're already on top. But if (when) the environment changes, we'll likely face extinction long before the fishies do.
Well, unless your current prototype doesn't, you know, really provide free power. It will only do _that_ after you've built the $10M version, of course.
I'm surprised the information wasn't classified as relevant to National Security. Weaknesses in computer security are just as bad as weaknesses in physical security.
You're absolutely right. Some poor sob is gonna fry for that oversight.
Come on, people. Let's not kid ourselves (or each other). While Funny, the above comment is actually a lot more Insightful. +4 Insightful I would say. We should mark it as such for the folks on here with no sense of humour, or worse, a dry sense of humour.
Less people sitting means invariably more people walking. More people walking means more people need more shoes, more often. Demand goes up, supply goes up. Q&A on the shoes drops as volume increases. Minimum wage stays the same, as poor schmucks trod the streets of metropolitan American cities looking for work to feed their families.
Shoes become the only business model that makes sense, what with all of the layoffs and such. It remains the only self-sustaining business in America, while everything else dies a slow and outsourced death.
Yes, you can describe why they appear to be going backwards. But they actually aren't...it's an optical illusion.
These scientists are trying to prove that the hubcap is actually spinning opposite to the wheel. =) In a different frame of reference, this may not appear to be happening. In fact, the atoms may be spinning clockwise and counterclockwise vs counterclockwise and clockwise. Or from another frame, not at all. They could be spinning equally and oppositely in different directions, thereby giving an appearance of non-velocity.
It all depends on where your frame of reference is. And as soon as you define a frame of reference, you can't tell if they are moving at all.
I agree wholeheartedly, and was about to mod you Insightful.
Then I thought of something.
Have you ever seen those car rims that seem to be spinning in the opposite direction than that of the wheel itself?
Now, if we were to be up close enough to one of these suckers we may focus on it and come to the conclusion that the wheel it is connected to is spinning the same way. However if we take a step back we get to see the wheel itself as well as the rim and the forward movement of the car and we would probably sit down in a huff and light a cigarette.
The point is that it's all a matter of perspective...Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and all that. If you focus in too close, you can't see the entire picture. I can see how humans, especially physicists, can be so wrapped up in creating frameworks to hold reality that they block out some of the more common sense explanations in favour of having other high thinkers 'catch up' with their level of intellect.
The last thing that we want of the Linus that gets shit done, and gets it done well, is for him to turn political.
If you don't want to use his recommended WM, don't. Just because he has some clout in some circles doesn't mean that he has any power over YOU, or anybody else for that matter. You people need to get over yourselves and get back to enjoying your GNOME.
Part of the issue is that the United States doesn't quite know who the 'bad guys' really are.
You people have a colored history of violence for the sake of national or ideological interests. What you don't give proper conisderation to is that your interests are not always in the best interests of everyone else. And that you couldn't care less, because you need another crusade.
We all have been shown time and time again that you do not act in everyone's best interests no matter how much bleating we hear from your country to the contrary.
Intellectual masterbation is all the sex some geeks get.
Stroking an introvert just may have a similar effect in terms of that 'comfort feeling' that you get after sex. Dopamine regulation keeps us focused on the task at hand. It's a great feeling to be on the same page without having to beat it mindlessly into someone else.
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Non-prosecute taxes are a wonderful idea.
Does Netcraft confirm?
Points for the contribution, but... =)
For Linux? The system-level stuff can't be changed by a normal user anyway, and it's easy enough to script a delete and stock restore of the desktop-level config stuff every logon cycle. Instant terminal restore, with no fuss, muss, or slowdown.
Yes. What better way to drive more traffic to those information providers that are in bed with the CIA? Bump all of the paranoids (who do have something to hide, even if they don't know it) away from the only provider that isn't pocketed already.
Genius.
Exactly.
OSS oozes natural selection. If your project doesn't scratch an itch, it dies. If it becomes deadlocked, it evolves (different focus) or reproduces (forks).
Contrast this to the commercial product that has already 'won' genetically...Windows. When genetic 'perfection' (foodchain or market dominance) is achieved, there's really no reason to evolve any further; there are diminishing returns with increasing variations. Genes remain stale. Genuine progress in not made.
With OSS, there are projects devoted to every itch under the sun. Where one doesn't succeed, another does because it is genetically superior (technically superior) or has a greater drive for evolution (driven developer). Throw a bunch of these projects together into a framework like a Linux distribution and you can build a platform with incredible flexibility and incredible potential for genetic variation to serve the next big itch.
Consider this (admittedly bad) example. There are many different type of fish in the sea, physically adapted to thrive in their own environmental situation. Big fish, small fish, fish-eating fish, plant-eating fish, etc. There is only one type of human (relatively speaking). This type is 'good enough' to ensure survival, and we have no need for drastic variations because we're already on top. But if (when) the environment changes, we'll likely face extinction long before the fishies do.
Well, unless your current prototype doesn't, you know, really provide free power. It will only do _that_ after you've built the $10M version, of course.
You mean, like fusion power?
You completely killed the joke. Are you happy?
Yes.
You're absolutely right. Some poor sob is gonna fry for that oversight.
Repeat after me.
20. Years.
How long is history again?
Come on, people. Let's not kid ourselves (or each other). While Funny, the above comment is actually a lot more Insightful. +4 Insightful I would say. We should mark it as such for the folks on here with no sense of humour, or worse, a dry sense of humour.
Less people sitting means invariably more people walking. More people walking means more people need more shoes, more often. Demand goes up, supply goes up. Q&A on the shoes drops as volume increases. Minimum wage stays the same, as poor schmucks trod the streets of metropolitan American cities looking for work to feed their families.
Shoes become the only business model that makes sense, what with all of the layoffs and such. It remains the only self-sustaining business in America, while everything else dies a slow and outsourced death.
Choice is seldom not progress.
Thanks for the interesting comment though.
Yes, you can describe why they appear to be going backwards. But they actually aren't...it's an optical illusion.
These scientists are trying to prove that the hubcap is actually spinning opposite to the wheel. =) In a different frame of reference, this may not appear to be happening. In fact, the atoms may be spinning clockwise and counterclockwise vs counterclockwise and clockwise. Or from another frame, not at all. They could be spinning equally and oppositely in different directions, thereby giving an appearance of non-velocity.
It all depends on where your frame of reference is. And as soon as you define a frame of reference, you can't tell if they are moving at all.
I agree wholeheartedly, and was about to mod you Insightful.
Then I thought of something.
Have you ever seen those car rims that seem to be spinning in the opposite direction than that of the wheel itself?
Now, if we were to be up close enough to one of these suckers we may focus on it and come to the conclusion that the wheel it is connected to is spinning the same way. However if we take a step back we get to see the wheel itself as well as the rim and the forward movement of the car and we would probably sit down in a huff and light a cigarette.
The point is that it's all a matter of perspective...Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and all that. If you focus in too close, you can't see the entire picture. I can see how humans, especially physicists, can be so wrapped up in creating frameworks to hold reality that they block out some of the more common sense explanations in favour of having other high thinkers 'catch up' with their level of intellect.
Rick, is that you?
With the people I tend to hang out with, I kinda would say that is about right.
Dude...Pirates of Silicon Valley was a documentary =)
The last thing that we want of the Linus that gets shit done, and gets it done well, is for him to turn political.
If you don't want to use his recommended WM, don't. Just because he has some clout in some circles doesn't mean that he has any power over YOU, or anybody else for that matter. You people need to get over yourselves and get back to enjoying your GNOME.
Part of the issue is that the United States doesn't quite know who the 'bad guys' really are.
You people have a colored history of violence for the sake of national or ideological interests. What you don't give proper conisderation to is that your interests are not always in the best interests of everyone else. And that you couldn't care less, because you need another crusade.
We all have been shown time and time again that you do not act in everyone's best interests no matter how much bleating we hear from your country to the contrary.
In line with parent, hone your skills. There will be some openings at Sony Music fairly soon I wager.
After all, it is a time-honored Slashdot tradition to pundit the pundits.
Intellectual masterbation is all the sex some geeks get.
Stroking an introvert just may have a similar effect in terms of that 'comfort feeling' that you get after sex. Dopamine regulation keeps us focused on the task at hand. It's a great feeling to be on the same page without having to beat it mindlessly into someone else.
Disclaimer: Introverted.
This would be a GREAT solution for a laptop.
No big companies pay needlessly to retain lawyers on extended coffeebreaks..