The manned space program is a boondoggle. We've learned much more from unmanned missions, and they cost 10% as much. Since we don't need to compete with the USSR anymore and I don't think Al Qaeda will pull off a manned space flight any time soon, we don't need the prestige associated with it either.
So run Windows. All I meant is that there do exist well-supported video cards in Linux-land, and you can use them to play native games (not in Wine) with great performance. The GGP was talking about Linux gaming, and for the games that are actually supported on Linux platforms, the Radeon X8?0 works well.
I bought a Radeon X800 for my new computer because it was the second-highest-performing video card with Free drivers. (The X850 cost way way more.) With every distro I've tried, I need to make at most one xorg.conf tweak, and all the games based on the Q3 engine work perfectly. I've never even tried the non-free drivers just because everyone complains about them constantly.
OK, so the NSA creates software, and that software is public domain. That means I can take it and incorporate it into a GPL project. The original code is still in the public domain.
No, since Unix is a set of specifications, an OS can either meet them and be called Unix, or fail to meet them and not be Unix. Or it can come close and be Unix-like. If and when GNU meets the single Unix specification, it will BE Unix.
Yeah, and we all know there is never a difference between the plain-language and technical meanings of a word. Just because a hard drive "remembers" data does not mean we call it memory, no matter how many times my dad says otherwise.
We're not talking about a social system, we're talking about funding pharmaceutical research and production. If you want to tell me that your boner is more valuable than flu vaccines for 50 people, go ahead, but I don't see your dick saving any lives.
The issue is that drugs like Viagra are more profitable than treatments for many communicable diseases, so drug companies will try harder to invent the next Viagra. I would never say to eliminate or outlaw the production of lifestyle medications, but the government could incentivize the creation of certain types of drugs, and that would probably be a better system.
I would say that, from a public health perspective, in an ideal world the focus would be on cost-effective treatment and prevention of communicable diseases. If you can inoculate most people against influenza, then very few people will get it, and almost no one will die. Lethal but rare is not as severe from the public health POV as a disease that 10000x as many people will get, but 1% will die from, not to mention the economic loss of a big chunk of your able-bodied workforce.
You're right. I would make folders called doc, tunes, and pix because I access things through the CLI and I hate the shift key. But most people don't do that, especially in a distro made for new users, and it's simple enough to remove the folders automatically created and replace them with your own.
It's hard to judge whether software installation is easier on Ubuntu or Windows. The girlfriend in the article is used to installing software by going to the author's website, downloading the installer, and double-clicking it. A moderately experienced Ubuntu user would go to Add/Remove Programs (or whatever it's called), choose the category, find the program, click the checkbox and hit apply. Which is easier? I think the Ubuntu way is much easier because I un-trained myself a few years ago, but most people are used to the Windows way.
But wouldn't first sale apply here? It's legal to buy a copy of OS X; it might be legal to install OS X on non-Apple hardware; it's legal to sell your computer, including the software installed on it.
If someone cared that much about stuff that needs a dedicated, up-to-date video card, they wouldn't buy a Mac Mini. Its success shows that there are way more people who can make do with integrated Intel graphics than you think.
...which would be the entire point of the broken window fallacy: Looking at the benefits to the party getting paid without realizing the opportunity cost to those who do the paying.
The new release of Ubuntu comes with PulseAudio by default; it's a much better software mixer than ESD, and has ALSA and OSS emulation. Give it a shot.
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The manned space program is a boondoggle. We've learned much more from unmanned missions, and they cost 10% as much. Since we don't need to compete with the USSR anymore and I don't think Al Qaeda will pull off a manned space flight any time soon, we don't need the prestige associated with it either.
So run Windows. All I meant is that there do exist well-supported video cards in Linux-land, and you can use them to play native games (not in Wine) with great performance. The GGP was talking about Linux gaming, and for the games that are actually supported on Linux platforms, the Radeon X8?0 works well.
I bought a Radeon X800 for my new computer because it was the second-highest-performing video card with Free drivers. (The X850 cost way way more.) With every distro I've tried, I need to make at most one xorg.conf tweak, and all the games based on the Q3 engine work perfectly. I've never even tried the non-free drivers just because everyone complains about them constantly.
Except that it's trivial to remove an OS from a computer.
Both allow you to install KDE just by using a different disk image at install time.
Does this theme get rid of the Settings menu?
I don't know what kind of dollars you're talking about, but in the US, Leopard costs $129 for a single license or $199 for 5.
Yeah, too bad Apple only sells one model of computer.
You must have one of those Apple 3000" displays.
OK, so the NSA creates software, and that software is public domain. That means I can take it and incorporate it into a GPL project. The original code is still in the public domain.
No, since Unix is a set of specifications, an OS can either meet them and be called Unix, or fail to meet them and not be Unix. Or it can come close and be Unix-like. If and when GNU meets the single Unix specification, it will BE Unix.
Yeah, and we all know there is never a difference between the plain-language and technical meanings of a word. Just because a hard drive "remembers" data does not mean we call it memory, no matter how many times my dad says otherwise.
We're not talking about a social system, we're talking about funding pharmaceutical research and production. If you want to tell me that your boner is more valuable than flu vaccines for 50 people, go ahead, but I don't see your dick saving any lives.
The issue is that drugs like Viagra are more profitable than treatments for many communicable diseases, so drug companies will try harder to invent the next Viagra. I would never say to eliminate or outlaw the production of lifestyle medications, but the government could incentivize the creation of certain types of drugs, and that would probably be a better system.
I would say that, from a public health perspective, in an ideal world the focus would be on cost-effective treatment and prevention of communicable diseases. If you can inoculate most people against influenza, then very few people will get it, and almost no one will die. Lethal but rare is not as severe from the public health POV as a disease that 10000x as many people will get, but 1% will die from, not to mention the economic loss of a big chunk of your able-bodied workforce.
Why does someone who works at a TV station need three desktop computers?
So could they get sued for misrepresenting the size of their flash-based players?
You're right. I would make folders called doc, tunes, and pix because I access things through the CLI and I hate the shift key. But most people don't do that, especially in a distro made for new users, and it's simple enough to remove the folders automatically created and replace them with your own.
It's hard to judge whether software installation is easier on Ubuntu or Windows. The girlfriend in the article is used to installing software by going to the author's website, downloading the installer, and double-clicking it. A moderately experienced Ubuntu user would go to Add/Remove Programs (or whatever it's called), choose the category, find the program, click the checkbox and hit apply. Which is easier? I think the Ubuntu way is much easier because I un-trained myself a few years ago, but most people are used to the Windows way.
But wouldn't first sale apply here? It's legal to buy a copy of OS X; it might be legal to install OS X on non-Apple hardware; it's legal to sell your computer, including the software installed on it.
If someone cared that much about stuff that needs a dedicated, up-to-date video card, they wouldn't buy a Mac Mini. Its success shows that there are way more people who can make do with integrated Intel graphics than you think.
...which would be the entire point of the broken window fallacy: Looking at the benefits to the party getting paid without realizing the opportunity cost to those who do the paying.
The new release of Ubuntu comes with PulseAudio by default; it's a much better software mixer than ESD, and has ALSA and OSS emulation. Give it a shot.
Maybe people don't really think it's funny anymore.
I like how you're talking about how important security is for electronic voting, then say how convenient it would be to use Wifi.
Sounds to me like the professor should patent a method for summarising a lecture and a method for putting a lecture summary on a transparency.