Thankfully, due to timezones, yesterday can be today, today can be tomorrow. Possibly (although I'm not sure) tomorrow can also be yesterday. This is also the case when abusing drugs, which is not surprising, considering that the guy who invented timezones was probably doing said abuse.
Considering that apple sold ibooks with 1024x768 resolution in the early OS X days, when that was about enough real estate to get a console window and a few icons on, I can believe it easily. The question for me is, which of these happened:
a) Google told them that they needed higher res, and they ignored it. Then they finally realised Google were right.
b) Google didn't specify android's resolution requirements highly enough, and devs went ahead and created an ad-hoc standard with the res they needed to make decent apps.
The first would be a bad sign for the phone maker. The second would be a bad sign for the whole platform.
Yeah, I could look up the android specs and see which it is, but frankly I don't care that much about android. Not yet, anyway.
22 Mbs? Are you sure? Officially ADSL2+ (not ADSL2) maxes out on 24 Mb/s.
Exactly. Yeah, I'm aware that it doesn't actually happen much. Then again, I've no reason to think the guy quoting 22mpbs actually ment 22mbps of sustained, layer-7 throughput.
Wasn't aware of the ATM overhead charges; thanks for that.
It's not. Laws are used to set precedents. They're important enough to society and the individuals being tried, and the community desiring proper execution of local justice, that public records and peer review should always be possible.
Quite a few people actually. You can also get that over ADSL2. Live in a country with decent infrastructure and modernisation programs, and you'll get MUCH faster.
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That's a horribly stupid thing to say. You might want to read about information sometime. Maybe start with wikipedia's entry. I hope to God you're not in the IT field. It does stand for Information Technology, after all.
This has nothing to do with Ubuntu OR windows. It has to do with the educational institution, discriminating against particular users. She should be complaining about the course, not her computer, which she was seemingly happy with otherwise.
Correction: fully usable and fully secured desktop. All of that after-login antivirus loading on windows needs to be measured too, if you're judging fairly, since a) other benchmarks (performance and security etc.) of the desktops are done when services/daemons aren't actively loading. b) The desktop isn't truly usable until it's necessary services are loaded.
Once you start censoring internet things it tends to snowball until it gets in the way of agtually getting information.
Anything that can be censored is ALREADY information. Censorship is just splitting information into that which is deemed acceptable for grown civilised adults to view/read without losing their minds, vs. that which only the extra-grown, extra-civilised censors can view/read without losing their minds.
The economy is "fixed" just fine on a regular basis, but people don't seem to like that.
Ask yourself this: people have been spending money on worldwide flights, exotic holidays, fancy houses, big cars, cinema outings, fast computers... Now. let's say you work 40 hours a week, and get $40 for that. So that's essentially 40 tokens for work done. If your wage is average, then other people get similar tokens for a similar week of work. Now, how long did that flight take to build/arrange/fly/repair, in man-hours (or tokens)? What about the hotels, and excursions, and beauty treatments? And the big car? And that movie you saw? And the fast computer?
Ignoring what's the norm... do you REALLY think your 40 tokens per week can buy all this? That, if their were no tokens, and you simply had to contribute work on the plane to get a free flight, had to help build the car to get a free car... do you REALLY think you'd have time? Because, essentially, anything those tokens get you that you couldn't have gotten with man hours is borrowed time.
Unfortunately many humans preferred to be greedy and irresponsible with their resource use, gradually spending more than they have to get more than they need over decades as they slowly forget reality. That throws off the economy, and soon everyone's up the creek. Eventually, they realise it, and the whole thing crashes like a rollercoaster, down to much less than its worth and less than is needed. Finally people start to get a sense of normalcy, buying what they need, and everything is good. Until they start to forget where the line is, and then become irresponsible and greedy again.
It's a vicious cycle, that'll never change, until people start to be more responsible and share a little rather than grabbing a lot. BUT, none of this should matter much, to a frugal person who buys what he needs, and saves when he can. Not everyone will be affected by these boom/bust times -- only those who ride the rollercoaster.
Why would anyone find a family name more respectful than a personal name? If your name is Joe Brown, and people start referring to your work as done by "one of the browns", it's hardly a personal boost.
Anyway, when people mispronounce your surname, it's definitely going to be unflattering. I can see that happening a lot, with Galilei.
a) they probably want to ensure the content will be there in future, when they go to sell the Wikipedia 2009/10/so-on DVD Snapshots.
b) Their future split-your-video-into-one-thousand-segments and demand-more-formal-acting-and-citations-for-all-segments tools won't work with youtube.
p.s.: Mods: Yes, this is harsh. No, it's not serious. Yes, it's semi-serious.
Indeed. Linux is a kernel, not a product. The free distros cannot really be argued to compete for government contracts. Moreover, Linux's FOSS development methodology is simply based on the scientific and academic sharing in the academic world it came from. It may not even be right to argue that Linux itself CAN be a competitor, given that. It would be like claiming physics professors who give away their ideas and laser technology demo software are competing with a laser pointer manufacturer.
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No, no. Believing that alzheimer's has been averted is simply one of the hallucinations.
Sorry, I don't subscribe to that philosophy.
Thankfully, due to timezones, yesterday can be today, today can be tomorrow. Possibly (although I'm not sure) tomorrow can also be yesterday. This is also the case when abusing drugs, which is not surprising, considering that the guy who invented timezones was probably doing said abuse.
Considering that apple sold ibooks with 1024x768 resolution in the early OS X days, when that was about enough real estate to get a console window and a few icons on, I can believe it easily. The question for me is, which of these happened:
a) Google told them that they needed higher res, and they ignored it. Then they finally realised Google were right.
b) Google didn't specify android's resolution requirements highly enough, and devs went ahead and created an ad-hoc standard with the res they needed to make decent apps.
The first would be a bad sign for the phone maker. The second would be a bad sign for the whole platform.
Yeah, I could look up the android specs and see which it is, but frankly I don't care that much about android. Not yet, anyway.
No, just a bunch of colored pens.
Yeah, you can tell someone's a real lawyer when they prefix IANAL with IMO ;)
Exactly. Yeah, I'm aware that it doesn't actually happen much. Then again, I've no reason to think the guy quoting 22mpbs actually ment 22mbps of sustained, layer-7 throughput.
Wasn't aware of the ATM overhead charges; thanks for that.
It's not. Laws are used to set precedents. They're important enough to society and the individuals being tried, and the community desiring proper execution of local justice, that public records and peer review should always be possible.
Quite a few people actually. You can also get that over ADSL2. Live in a country with decent infrastructure and modernisation programs, and you'll get MUCH faster.
What? You never suspected that the Martian canals were in fact open sewers?
That's a horribly stupid thing to say. You might want to read about information sometime. Maybe start with wikipedia's entry. I hope to God you're not in the IT field. It does stand for Information Technology, after all.
This has nothing to do with Ubuntu OR windows. It has to do with the educational institution, discriminating against particular users. She should be complaining about the course, not her computer, which she was seemingly happy with otherwise.
Correction: fully usable and fully secured desktop. All of that after-login antivirus loading on windows needs to be measured too, if you're judging fairly, since a) other benchmarks (performance and security etc.) of the desktops are done when services/daemons aren't actively loading. b) The desktop isn't truly usable until it's necessary services are loaded.
Anything that can be censored is ALREADY information. Censorship is just splitting information into that which is deemed acceptable for grown civilised adults to view/read without losing their minds, vs. that which only the extra-grown, extra-civilised censors can view/read without losing their minds.
The economy is "fixed" just fine on a regular basis, but people don't seem to like that.
Ask yourself this: people have been spending money on worldwide flights, exotic holidays, fancy houses, big cars, cinema outings, fast computers... Now. let's say you work 40 hours a week, and get $40 for that. So that's essentially 40 tokens for work done. If your wage is average, then other people get similar tokens for a similar week of work. Now, how long did that flight take to build/arrange/fly/repair, in man-hours (or tokens)? What about the hotels, and excursions, and beauty treatments? And the big car? And that movie you saw? And the fast computer?
Ignoring what's the norm... do you REALLY think your 40 tokens per week can buy all this? That, if their were no tokens, and you simply had to contribute work on the plane to get a free flight, had to help build the car to get a free car... do you REALLY think you'd have time? Because, essentially, anything those tokens get you that you couldn't have gotten with man hours is borrowed time.
Unfortunately many humans preferred to be greedy and irresponsible with their resource use, gradually spending more than they have to get more than they need over decades as they slowly forget reality. That throws off the economy, and soon everyone's up the creek. Eventually, they realise it, and the whole thing crashes like a rollercoaster, down to much less than its worth and less than is needed. Finally people start to get a sense of normalcy, buying what they need, and everything is good. Until they start to forget where the line is, and then become irresponsible and greedy again.
It's a vicious cycle, that'll never change, until people start to be more responsible and share a little rather than grabbing a lot. BUT, none of this should matter much, to a frugal person who buys what he needs, and saves when he can. Not everyone will be affected by these boom/bust times -- only those who ride the rollercoaster.
Why would anyone find a family name more respectful than a personal name? If your name is Joe Brown, and people start referring to your work as done by "one of the browns", it's hardly a personal boost.
Anyway, when people mispronounce your surname, it's definitely going to be unflattering. I can see that happening a lot, with Galilei.
Because:
a) they probably want to ensure the content will be there in future, when they go to sell the Wikipedia 2009/10/so-on DVD Snapshots.
b) Their future split-your-video-into-one-thousand-segments and demand-more-formal-acting-and-citations-for-all-segments tools won't work with youtube.
p.s.: Mods: Yes, this is harsh. No, it's not serious. Yes, it's semi-serious.
You mean... The Judean People's Front?
Let me fix that for you: Persecutory ideation = pretentiousness.
Someone really needs to consult a bestiary. If that's a troll, I'm an elf.
Oh, really? Cool, I'll check that out. Thanks :)
Let's just dump the thing, and switch to python... well, OK, ruby too, since perl types seem to dig that more.
No, not more nerds!! Surely we can send the flying monkeys by now.
Indeed. Linux is a kernel, not a product. The free distros cannot really be argued to compete for government contracts. Moreover, Linux's FOSS development methodology is simply based on the scientific and academic sharing in the academic world it came from. It may not even be right to argue that Linux itself CAN be a competitor, given that. It would be like claiming physics professors who give away their ideas and laser technology demo software are competing with a laser pointer manufacturer.