This is completely true. Ubuntu should not be a vanity project and Mark Shuttleworth should not have to pay out of his own pocket to keep it relevant. Ubuntu needs to find ways to make consistent cashflow while remaining free-to-use.
All of this snidery is coming from people who don't understand that not everyone want to hand compile their own OS and don't think Richard Stallman is the Second Coming.
And the mentioning of Slackware just goes to show that Ubuntu is being treated like a pariah. Slackware is out-of-date shit and if Ubuntu and Mint and quite a few other distributions had not taken up the challenge of a FOSS desktop to compete with Windows and OSX we would have never seen Libreoffice or OpenOffice or Steam for Linux or quite a few other things. Slackware is a bastard to virtualize in an age of cloud computing - but perhaps being the perpetual outsider is the whole pose of Slackware purists.
Bring on the Ubuntu tablet just so long as it doesn't suck, Because with a Linux tablet we might just see mainstream FOSS apps being used by people who would never have touched a friggin' command line nor needed to.
Have you actually seen rugby? Its like American football minus all the interruptions, advertising and Tebowing. And when you get tackled you don't bounce off the shoulder pads.
Seriously I know that American TV is paid for by advertising, but its seriously unwatchable. After 30 minutes my brain was so addled by constant interruptions that I watched QTV and actually wanted to buy something, anything.
No wonder America has a drug and violence problem - its caused by constant TV interruptions that eventually cause your brain to.... hey, a squirrel!
On Mars the Cessna wouldn't have enough lift, so you'd make a plane with a much better power-to-weight ratio by using thin carbon fiber delta wings to increase the effective area of the lift surfaces.
That's because the dowsing effect is due to the "Ideomotor Effect". They are genuinely self-deluded, and are not conscious liars or charlatans. Its a damn good trick of the mind that anyone can fall prey to.
I think you'll find that Randi does not dismiss dowsers in the same way as cold readers like John Edward or Sylvia Browne. The supposed psychics are conscious deceivers rather than self-deceived like the dowsers.
It's a terrible idea for a joke. In terms of offensiveness it would be equivalent to referring to an investment in Israel with references to "Hymie" and the Holocaust.
I'm pretty sure you wish you delete that post, but that's the "Internet trap" - you'll never be able to delete it.
For the record, born 2nd Generation English with Irish, Italian and Austrian ancestry.
These bloggers are really denialists who refuse to accept published scientific findings in peer-reviewed journals by credible scientists. An overwhelming scientific consensus is against them.
The question of whether there is a warming begs the question of "over what timescale?". The reality is that no climate skeptic denies climate change any more than any educated person would question weather change.
It is the question of timescales and attribution that is the most broken part of climate science.
Notice how someone labelled berashith as a Troll even though what he/she wrote is entirely correct. A denialist is the modern version of heretic, just as Climate Alarm is the modern version of Apocalypse.
The BEST study failed peer review at JGR Atmospheres but flew peer review at the inaugural issue of "Geoinformatics and Geostatistics" by an Indian publisher. The funding is irrelevant to the study except to people in denial of the massive fossil fuel funding of climate alarmism.
The problem with low gravity is low friction. So in order to drive across a body with low gravity, you need to increase the effective coefficient of friction (or increase the mass, which makes it more expensive to get there).
In answer to your second question, you keep the speed down.
On the other hand if you need to jump across something, then just a little boost will do it...
That's perfect. So while the poor inventor gets slowly bankrupted, the pirate with deep pockets takes all of the money for the invention. Since the patent is not valid, it has no value to investors who might pay the inventor a living wage.
That has already happened. Munich Re got into bed with environmental groups when hurricanes were predicted to rise in number and intensity as a result of global warming/climate change/zombie apocalypse/whatever its called.
Result: Huge rises in insurance rates while hurricane numbers and intensity went down.
Big result: Huge profits for reinsurance companies
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Mine shows htc 3 minutes ahead of Canonical. WTF?
This is completely true. Ubuntu should not be a vanity project and Mark Shuttleworth should not have to pay out of his own pocket to keep it relevant. Ubuntu needs to find ways to make consistent cashflow while remaining free-to-use.
All of this snidery is coming from people who don't understand that not everyone want to hand compile their own OS and don't think Richard Stallman is the Second Coming.
And the mentioning of Slackware just goes to show that Ubuntu is being treated like a pariah. Slackware is out-of-date shit and if Ubuntu and Mint and quite a few other distributions had not taken up the challenge of a FOSS desktop to compete with Windows and OSX we would have never seen Libreoffice or OpenOffice or Steam for Linux or quite a few other things. Slackware is a bastard to virtualize in an age of cloud computing - but perhaps being the perpetual outsider is the whole pose of Slackware purists.
Bring on the Ubuntu tablet just so long as it doesn't suck, Because with a Linux tablet we might just see mainstream FOSS apps being used by people who would never have touched a friggin' command line nor needed to.
Annnnnd that is the reason you don't get any traffic.
You have to realise that this is all about moral purity, which is why Richard Stallman is treated like royalty and entrepreneurs like dirt.
A piece of hardware that boots very fast to a browser and is semi-useful when connected to the Internet.
When the Internet is not available, you have a useless metal brick.
What next? TotalBoox hold the final chapters of thrillers to ransom...it'll end really badly
Tell me the point of a semi-colon; perhaps it's 50% less fattening than full colons
Have you actually seen rugby? Its like American football minus all the interruptions, advertising and Tebowing. And when you get tackled you don't bounce off the shoulder pads.
Seriously I know that American TV is paid for by advertising, but its seriously unwatchable. After 30 minutes my brain was so addled by constant interruptions that I watched QTV and actually wanted to buy something, anything.
No wonder America has a drug and violence problem - its caused by constant TV interruptions that eventually cause your brain to .... hey, a squirrel!
On Mars the Cessna wouldn't have enough lift, so you'd make a plane with a much better power-to-weight ratio by using thin carbon fiber delta wings to increase the effective area of the lift surfaces.
Or use a digirible.
That's because the dowsing effect is due to the "Ideomotor Effect". They are genuinely self-deluded, and are not conscious liars or charlatans. Its a damn good trick of the mind that anyone can fall prey to.
I think you'll find that Randi does not dismiss dowsers in the same way as cold readers like John Edward or Sylvia Browne. The supposed psychics are conscious deceivers rather than self-deceived like the dowsers.
It's a terrible idea for a joke. In terms of offensiveness it would be equivalent to referring to an investment in Israel with references to "Hymie" and the Holocaust.
I'm pretty sure you wish you delete that post, but that's the "Internet trap" - you'll never be able to delete it.
For the record, born 2nd Generation English with Irish, Italian and Austrian ancestry.
These bloggers are really denialists who refuse to accept published scientific findings in peer-reviewed journals by credible scientists. An overwhelming scientific consensus is against them.
The question of whether there is a warming begs the question of "over what timescale?". The reality is that no climate skeptic denies climate change any more than any educated person would question weather change.
It is the question of timescales and attribution that is the most broken part of climate science.
Of course, the answer could not be "the quality of the science is not related to the source of funding"
Notice how someone labelled berashith as a Troll even though what he/she wrote is entirely correct. A denialist is the modern version of heretic, just as Climate Alarm is the modern version of Apocalypse.
The BEST study failed peer review at JGR Atmospheres but flew peer review at the inaugural issue of "Geoinformatics and Geostatistics" by an Indian publisher. The funding is irrelevant to the study except to people in denial of the massive fossil fuel funding of climate alarmism.
It looks like a glacier that's been covered in aeolian dust. Too straight to be a river valley.
If you feel the need to invent intelligent ice cubes after an alcohol-induced black-out, then you've had enough alcohol.
Do you wait until your friend kills someone before you do the right thing?
The problem with low gravity is low friction. So in order to drive across a body with low gravity, you need to increase the effective coefficient of friction (or increase the mass, which makes it more expensive to get there).
In answer to your second question, you keep the speed down.
On the other hand if you need to jump across something, then just a little boost will do it...
I for one welcome our Martian robot hedgehog overlords.
That's perfect. So while the poor inventor gets slowly bankrupted, the pirate with deep pockets takes all of the money for the invention. Since the patent is not valid, it has no value to investors who might pay the inventor a living wage.
You're a complete fucking genius.
That has already happened. Munich Re got into bed with environmental groups when hurricanes were predicted to rise in number and intensity as a result of global warming/climate change/zombie apocalypse/whatever its called.
Result: Huge rises in insurance rates while hurricane numbers and intensity went down.
Big result: Huge profits for reinsurance companies
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