When I sau "generally regarded" I mean by everyone else in the wolrd, so self-criticism means nothing here. Also, how does having a Nobel prize winner in medicine equate to good medicine? If that prize winners discoveries are only available to the higest bidder, how is that good policy? Explain that?
If drug research were publically funded, who would determine which drugs are researched? How would we know which are the best drugs to research, and which not? The free market is a wonderful mechanism to determine this
Umm, this is ridiculously false. First off, the free market is only good for determining how much money something is worth, not for determining how much society will benefit from something. And to answer the firts point, the same way everything else in public policy is done, the people* decide what drugs are to be researched.
History bears me out on this. Any student of economics knows that free markets invariably produce better outcomes overall than do centralised economies
Not when it comes to things of public welfare. Why do you think the US has what is generally regarded to be one of the worst health care systems in the first world, and the most expensive drugs? Why do you think senior citizens have to smuggle drugs across the border because they cannot afford them themselves? Answer: because health care in most all EU nations and Canada and Australia are publicly funded, and have massive publically funded drug research programs, because they try to look after the people, whereas the US is just interested in making a quick buck.
You shoudlnt be able to patent an algorithm. Its friggin mathematics, it is the laws of the Universe. What if someone patented 1*2? What, no more math textbooks? WTF are you talking about? Why in god's name should algorithms be patentable. They fall into the exact same case as software patents. (And don't go off on how if algorithms aren't paentable who will research them. Hint: people don't become methematicians for the "huge" profit margins. They do it because they love acedemia, and these people will continue doing mathematical research in the acedemic community regardless).
As for the drugs, no they should not be patentable either. So you have the cure for AIDS, but you have a patent on it, so what now *I* have to die because you are a greedy bastard? This lack of mraility in American dug policy is incomprehensible, instead of putting human lives first, they put profits first. All research into medicine and drug research should be publicly funded. End of story. No corperation should be able to profit off of someones terminal condition just because they happen to have a piece of paper saying they own the equation to make the drug that cures them. Such a thing is morally disgusting.
Not only do they create drivers for their chips (SBLive! and Audigy series, OpenAL), they release the code as Open Source. The driver sin the Linux kernel came from Creative, not some 3rd party. Another reason to support Creative (as if having the best stuff wasn't enough of a reason)
Actually outlawing or placing serious restrictions on owning handguns would be a good idea, it would finally bring the US up to speed with the rest of the world in the area.
You see this today in how many countries shy away from investment in China due to lax copyright enforcement. People go where money is, and until something better than money comes along, you've no right to condemn them for it.
ROTFL. China is the friggin hottest most booming market in the world right now for almost anything, people from everywhere are pouring money into it left and right. It is viewed as the next world superpower, and will probably dwarf the US in economic power within the next 25 yrs. Where do you get this crackpot intormation?
Ok. My Mom is the type of person who would never steal anything from anyone. Totally good soul . But even she sees no problem with getting CDs copied or songs downloaded form the Internet, in fact she gets me to do it all the time. Why? Because for decades the radio stations have convinced the general populace that music is free (after all, if you can listen to it wherever you want for no charge, isn't that free?). Most people do not mind listning to a few ads on the radio, in fact, many people enjoy advertisements. So with this general mindset that music doens't really cost anything, why would they be expected to pay for it? Ever since the 8 track tape was invented people have copying music. These people don't get (or care) that it is digital and therefore it is an exact copy, they just by default expect to be allowed to do it.
Actually, I'd really like to see that.:-) However, that's really not related. Look at what glib does. It's quite simple, not at all like tossing GTK in. And you certainly don't strip KDE of Qt. I've written C++ code that uses glib before. It's just really helpful code, particularly if you call any code that uses C strings (which, even if you happen to be using Qt, you may well have to do).
Qt Already has QCString which is superior to anything GLib has to offer, plus, it is already there.
Look, I'm a developer. I've written software for everything from a pocket pc to an as/400 adn that's included some work in linux. It's a nice unix. But it doesn't bridge the essential gap into the home market: it doesn't let me do what I want to do (like, say, play GTA) without forcing me to learn a whole bunch of things I shouldn't need to learn. A home user shouldn't have to learn how to "compile" everything. My toaster doesn't expect me to heat the coils myself!
Any "developer" who is scared to learn a few new things about a computer / OS is in the wrong line of work.
Environmeent has been scientificly proven to be the most important factor in one's personality development for a long time. I could point you a any number of twin studies that confirm thst, but you all know how to use google, so I won't waste my time.
You say "The Context Menu" offers this functionality, like you should in the first place. You probably picked the worst ever example of something that shoulnd't be configured.. left / right button swapping should *ALWAYS* be allowed, not everyone is right handed.
I'm with michael on this one. There are a lot of free compilers out there now, including Microsoft VC++ [microsoft.com]
Last I checked,the MS VC++ compiler ran you over 1000 dollars for the basic version or 549 for an upgrade. The.Net development kit you point at only has a C# compiler for.Net, it can't make native executables.
You do realize that in KDE youc an hit F12 to seperate directories, you don't even have to hit tab for auto completion as it is built into every single KDE text entry widget, and everything in kde always has keyboard shortcuts, and ones you can set yourself? Not to mention the customizable right panel hotlinks, the file preview inline in the dialog, like six views to choose from, and all these settings are saved for every file open/save dialog.
Oh and this has been around since kde 2.2 ( like 2 years).
Oh and it doesn't look like ass.
I notice that not a single screenshot shows a file open dialog. Most likely it is because they are still using the piece of crap dialog they havd in 2.0, which was basiclly the piece of crap dialog they had in 1.2 ported to GTK2. I mean seriously guys, Gnome has been around for how many years? And how many times per day to you open or save a file? Let's put some freaking effort into this thing.
Ever stop to think how few people would have two LCDs that use DVI and wnated to waste them on a dual head configuration instead of use them on two seperate machines? It is highliy likely that they wouldn't even be able to recoup the costs of a single run of such cards.
You quantum pair two molecules, then ship them X far apart. Any modifications to speed or velocity made to molecule 1 instantly take effect in molecule 2, you can use this aattribue to perform a kind of quantum "morse code" by hitting molecule 1 to change its attributes in specific ways. This method of FTL communication is very plausable and has of active reaearch going on in it right now.
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When I sau "generally regarded" I mean by everyone else in the wolrd, so self-criticism means nothing here. Also, how does having a Nobel prize winner in medicine equate to good medicine? If that prize winners discoveries are only available to the higest bidder, how is that good policy? Explain that?
If drug research were publically funded, who would determine which drugs are researched? How would we know which are the best drugs to research, and which not? The free market is a wonderful mechanism to determine this
Umm, this is ridiculously false. First off, the free market is only good for determining how much money something is worth, not for determining how much society will benefit from something. And to answer the firts point, the same way everything else in public policy is done, the people* decide what drugs are to be researched.
History bears me out on this. Any student of economics knows that free markets invariably produce better outcomes overall than do centralised economies
Not when it comes to things of public welfare. Why do you think the US has what is generally regarded to be one of the worst health care systems in the first world, and the most expensive drugs? Why do you think senior citizens have to smuggle drugs across the border because they cannot afford them themselves? Answer: because health care in most all EU nations and Canada and Australia are publicly funded, and have massive publically funded drug research programs, because they try to look after the people, whereas the US is just interested in making a quick buck.
Hence why I specifically said "All drug research should be publically funded"
Next time read the comment before posting rash reponses.
You shoudlnt be able to patent an algorithm. Its friggin mathematics, it is the laws of the Universe. What if someone patented 1*2? What, no more math textbooks? WTF are you talking about? Why in god's name should algorithms be patentable. They fall into the exact same case as software patents. (And don't go off on how if algorithms aren't paentable who will research them. Hint: people don't become methematicians for the "huge" profit margins. They do it because they love acedemia, and these people will continue doing mathematical research in the acedemic community regardless).
As for the drugs, no they should not be patentable either. So you have the cure for AIDS, but you have a patent on it, so what now *I* have to die because you are a greedy bastard? This lack of mraility in American dug policy is incomprehensible, instead of putting human lives first, they put profits first. All research into medicine and drug research should be publicly funded. End of story. No corperation should be able to profit off of someones terminal condition just because they happen to have a piece of paper saying they own the equation to make the drug that cures them. Such a thing is morally disgusting.
Not only do they create drivers for their chips (SBLive! and Audigy series, OpenAL), they release the code as Open Source. The driver sin the Linux kernel came from Creative, not some 3rd party. Another reason to support Creative (as if having the best stuff wasn't enough of a reason)
http://opensource.creative.com
Actually outlawing or placing serious restrictions on owning handguns would be a good idea, it would finally bring the US up to speed with the rest of the world in the area.
Qt apps all use QString, which doesn't need such nonsense.
ROTFL. China is the friggin hottest most booming market in the world right now for almost anything, people from everywhere are pouring money into it left and right. It is viewed as the next world superpower, and will probably dwarf the US in economic power within the next 25 yrs. Where do you get this crackpot intormation?
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This comment made my day :)
Ok. My Mom is the type of person who would never steal anything from anyone. Totally good soul . But even she sees no problem with getting CDs copied or songs downloaded form the Internet, in fact she gets me to do it all the time. Why? Because for decades the radio stations have convinced the general populace that music is free (after all, if you can listen to it wherever you want for no charge, isn't that free?). Most people do not mind listning to a few ads on the radio, in fact, many people enjoy advertisements. So with this general mindset that music doens't really cost anything, why would they be expected to pay for it? Ever since the 8 track tape was invented people have copying music. These people don't get (or care) that it is digital and therefore it is an exact copy, they just by default expect to be allowed to do it.
Qt Already has QCString which is superior to anything GLib has to offer, plus, it is already there.
Look, I'm a developer. I've written software for everything from a pocket pc to an as/400 adn that's included some work in linux. It's a nice unix. But it doesn't bridge the essential gap into the home market: it doesn't let me do what I want to do (like, say, play GTA) without forcing me to learn a whole bunch of things I shouldn't need to learn. A home user shouldn't have to learn how to "compile" everything. My toaster doesn't expect me to heat the coils myself!
Any "developer" who is scared to learn a few new things about a computer / OS is in the wrong line of work.
A future law grad posting on Slashdot? Somehow, IAAL doesn't have the same ring to it.
Triple X "entanglement" witnessed through pr0n surfing lends hope to geeks everywhere.
Environmeent has been scientificly proven to be the most important factor in one's personality development for a long time. I could point you a any number of twin studies that confirm thst, but you all know how to use google, so I won't waste my time.
You say "The Context Menu" offers this functionality, like you should in the first place. You probably picked the worst ever example of something that shoulnd't be configured.. left / right button swapping should *ALWAYS* be allowed, not everyone is right handed.
It is a dupe of the story that is going to be posted in about 6 hours.
Last I checked,the MS VC++ compiler ran you over 1000 dollars for the basic version or 549 for an upgrade. The .Net development kit you point at only has a C# compiler for .Net, it can't make native executables.
You only have to hit the key once oin your life. I am sure you can raise your lazy wrists for 1/2 a second.
You do realize that in KDE youc an hit F12 to seperate directories, you don't even have to hit tab for auto completion as it is built into every single KDE text entry widget, and everything in kde always has keyboard shortcuts, and ones you can set yourself? Not to mention the customizable right panel hotlinks, the file preview inline in the dialog, like six views to choose from, and all these settings are saved for every file open/save dialog. Oh and this has been around since kde 2.2 ( like 2 years). Oh and it doesn't look like ass.
I notice that not a single screenshot shows a file open dialog. Most likely it is because they are still using the piece of crap dialog they havd in 2.0, which was basiclly the piece of crap dialog they had in 1.2 ported to GTK2. I mean seriously guys, Gnome has been around for how many years? And how many times per day to you open or save a file? Let's put some freaking effort into this thing.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021118/gefo rcefx-03.html
Ever stop to think how few people would have two LCDs that use DVI and wnated to waste them on a dual head configuration instead of use them on two seperate machines? It is highliy likely that they wouldn't even be able to recoup the costs of a single run of such cards.
You quantum pair two molecules, then ship them X far apart. Any modifications to speed or velocity made to molecule 1 instantly take effect in molecule 2, you can use this aattribue to perform a kind of quantum "morse code" by hitting molecule 1 to change its attributes in specific ways. This method of FTL communication is very plausable and has of active reaearch going on in it right now.