According to Michelin, there are more three star restaurants in New York than Rome. In any case it is pathetic that you think you can judge and an entire continent-spanning nation of hundreds of millions based on whatever handful of random restaurants you happened upon. Grow up.
Yes, don't you dare make a casual observation here without doing a scientific survey, crunching the numbers, quoting learned sources and including citations. This is slashdot, you know.
Well, here in the states you pretty much have to bite the bullet and pay Microsoft's ransom and get your netbook pre-loaded. Some manufacturers used to install a little application that asked you to agree to Microsoft's EULA before the starting the desktop, which you could then deny and have a chance at getting your license money back, but I've purchased three netbooks from various manufacturers in the last few years and none of them had the app. I just grit my teeth and blow Microsoft away. Anyone who says Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly is blind.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a web site that sold ultra-light laptops that specialized in linux on their machines but were still much more expensive than I could afford, I think they were in the realm of $800-1000 so I never purchased and I've forgotten their url, some kind of letter-number combination, like pc2049.com or something. I wish I still had that url so I could see what they are charging for those machine today.
Here in India I bought two Athlon dual-core laptops in the past three years, both from the Acer Aspire series. Both came with Linpus linux preinstalled, which was really only good for checking the hdd capacity and amount of memory and doing an lspci, so I promptly replaced it with OpenSuSE, of course.
Really good performance for the price (sub-US$500). But maybe you're looking for something more powerful.
The way it works in a western post-scarcity economy, [...] may not be the same for a country which still has a scarcity economy.
Post-scarcity economy: A contradiction in terms. Where there is no scarcity, no economic system is necessary. It's a utopian concept that hasn't been reached by any existing nation. There are degrees of scarcity, but no country has yet achieved zero scarcity. When Anthony Giddens used the term, he had something different in mind from what you're implying. Do not make artificial distinctions to bolster your ill-founded sense of western superiority.
Jobs also criticized life outside iJail, pointing out that there are innumerable choices to make, causing confusion for those who escaped and those who must support them. 'This is gonna be a mess for both the fugitives and their family,' Jobs said. 'Contrast this with life in iJail, which offers the easiest existence, in that you are relieved of the burdens of choice and decision-making.'"
Because, really, what would Grandma gain from switching?
Why should Grandma use Linux?
Grandma would gain nothing. But I certainly would, because then I wouldn't have to reformat/reinstall her OS every few months, and wouldn't have to bother about malware infestations.
I can't hope to educate grandma about best security practices, so I'll do the next best thing.
I'll install a solid distro with all the bells and whistles she needs (it may be ubuntu or it may be slackware, won't matter, she'll only be using some programs), customise the GUI to be as simple as possible to meet her simple needs, disable all unnecessary ports and services, configure ssh and port 22 (just in case she asks me to do something later), turn on monthly updates, and be done with it for some years.
To be fair, OpenOffice does this as well. Two weeks ago I was creating a spreadsheet of contact information. Every time I entered an email address, Calc would turn the email address into a link, change the background color to grey, and then would not let me edit the address in the formula field. Don't believe me? Open Calc and enter "address@example.com" in a field, then hit return. The "lightbulb" helper (OO's Clippy) appears in the bottom right to tell me that "An URL has been detected and a hyperlink attribute has been set".
I don't know what you're talking about, but if these are inventions that can stop me and my girlfriend from sliding towards the edge of the bed during sex, then I definitely need some!
Congrats to the hardworking people on the project, however I will be applauding their work with less skepticism when I hear that MIT, Cornell, CMU, etc confirm the results.
Hmmm... I wonder whether, if the announcement had come from MIT, you'd have said 'I shall applaud this only after Cornell confirms', or 'I shall applaud this only when a Chinese university confirms'.
The problem is that you cannot use this mechanism to actually transmit information faster than light because you need some other kind of means to know when to observe your entangled photon. If Bob and Alice have entangled photons, Alice has no way of knowing if Bob has sent her a message using her photon because if she checks it to see if the superposition has collapsed then she will herself cause it to collapse if it hasn't already done so (thereby preventing Bob from sending a message at all).
This means that you're left using some alternative means of communication (radio, etc) which itself is limited by the speed of light.
I am only an English teacher, so if this is silly, please excuse.
Why can't Alice and Bob have a prior understanding about when to observe? Alice tells Bob, "I will take my measurement tomorrow at 4 pm, thereby collapsing the entanglement. You can make your measurement after that."
In this way, they can have FTL communication the next day, can they not?
When I'm quoting a post about the total perspective vortex, I figured I was pretty safe. I was working under the assumption that anybody who didn't know what we were talking about would have vacated this part of the comments already.
But you got modded 'informative', So now you know!
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
When you're quoting someone, does it hurt to acknowledge? Those who haven't read that book will think you came up with that on your own, and you don't want to be unduly credited, do you?
Or MAYBE, just maybe, those things don't exist except as concepts in the human mind.
It exists where?? To pursue your line of thinking, we have nothing but neurons and electricity. The human mind doesn't exist, except as a concept in the... hmmm, methinks we've fallen victim to circularity.
If i was a coder i would prefer the money to be in escrow (unless your a dodgy indian coder, which i have had my fair share of and refuse to hire anyone indian).
you mean you have never seen an indian coder who wasn't dodgy? and you have never seen a dodgy non-indian coder? jeez, you're so frankly racist that you make it sound like it's nothing to be ashamed of.
So when Page and Brin cash in on their stocks, they either
1. Want to buy something
or
2. Think that their money will grow better elsewhere.
Given Google's position in the market, 1 is more likely than 2, However, it is possible that they know something that we don't, which makes them think Google stock is about to lose some value.
For example, if men tend to do more dangerous jobs (soldering, firefighting, etc...) this means the selective process among males is different, possibly harsher.
Do you mean to say that historically, child-bearing has caused fewer deaths than the traditional 'male' occupations? Any study done on this? Do you have links?
If the ultimate goal of eugenics is a good life for everyone (the genetic strengthening of the race being just an intermediate step), then we're already doing that by helping the disabled lead better lives.
Or did you mean better lives only for those who have no perceptible genetic flaw, after eliminating those who do?
If we can use technology to improve the lives of everyone, and not only the fortunate, why is that not an acceptable solution to you?
By your logic, cancer research should stop, because all it does is improve the lives of those who will then pass on a dangerous gene to the next generation.
What about myopia? Hearing problems? Allergies?
In fact, isn't the whole of medical science a sheer waste, because in the absence of modern medicine, eugenics shall be vastly accelerated, and within a few generations we shall have the cream of the crop.
You see where your argument is going, and do you want to go there?
Life is vast and mysterious. Do not presume to know what should be. No one knows that.
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
That's a weird one. Visit any river bank or pond in India between 5 am and 2 pm, and you'll find dozens of locals swimming effortlessly. It's a hot country, and predominantly rural. Children learn to swim when they're 5 or 6. Banana trunks traditionally play the same role as rubber tubes do in the West. That is how I learned to swim, along with most people of my age.
I don't know who makes up these stories, or to what purpose.
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According to Michelin, there are more three star restaurants in New York than Rome. In any case it is pathetic that you think you can judge and an entire continent-spanning nation of hundreds of millions based on whatever handful of random restaurants you happened upon. Grow up.
Yes, don't you dare make a casual observation here without doing a scientific survey, crunching the numbers, quoting learned sources and including citations. This is slashdot, you know.
1. Piss off some powerful people
2. Publicize their malicious defamation, establish victim status
3. Rape girl
4. Profit !!!!
Well, here in the states you pretty much have to bite the bullet and pay Microsoft's ransom and get your netbook pre-loaded. Some manufacturers used to install a little application that asked you to agree to Microsoft's EULA before the starting the desktop, which you could then deny and have a chance at getting your license money back, but I've purchased three netbooks from various manufacturers in the last few years and none of them had the app. I just grit my teeth and blow Microsoft away. Anyone who says Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly is blind. A few years ago I stumbled upon a web site that sold ultra-light laptops that specialized in linux on their machines but were still much more expensive than I could afford, I think they were in the realm of $800-1000 so I never purchased and I've forgotten their url, some kind of letter-number combination, like pc2049.com or something. I wish I still had that url so I could see what they are charging for those machine today.
Here in India I bought two Athlon dual-core laptops in the past three years, both from the Acer Aspire series. Both came with Linpus linux preinstalled, which was really only good for checking the hdd capacity and amount of memory and doing an lspci, so I promptly replaced it with OpenSuSE, of course.
Really good performance for the price (sub-US$500). But maybe you're looking for something more powerful.
I'm not connected to Acer in any way.
The way it works in a western post-scarcity economy, [...] may not be the same for a country which still has a scarcity economy.
Post-scarcity economy: A contradiction in terms. Where there is no scarcity, no economic system is necessary. It's a utopian concept that hasn't been reached by any existing nation. There are degrees of scarcity, but no country has yet achieved zero scarcity. When Anthony Giddens used the term, he had something different in mind from what you're implying. Do not make artificial distinctions to bolster your ill-founded sense of western superiority.
Jobs also criticized life outside iJail, pointing out that there are innumerable choices to make, causing confusion for those who escaped and those who must support them. 'This is gonna be a mess for both the fugitives and their family,' Jobs said. 'Contrast this with life in iJail, which offers the easiest existence, in that you are relieved of the burdens of choice and decision-making.'"
Because, really, what would Grandma gain from switching?
Why should Grandma use Linux?
Grandma would gain nothing. But I certainly would, because then I wouldn't have to reformat/reinstall her OS every few months, and wouldn't have to bother about malware infestations.
I can't hope to educate grandma about best security practices, so I'll do the next best thing.
I'll install a solid distro with all the bells and whistles she needs (it may be ubuntu or it may be slackware, won't matter, she'll only be using some programs), customise the GUI to be as simple as possible to meet her simple needs, disable all unnecessary ports and services, configure ssh and port 22 (just in case she asks me to do something later), turn on monthly updates, and be done with it for some years.
Go to
Tools -> Autocorrect Options -> Options -> URL Recognition.
Turn off.
Before he had a significant amount of followers, Ghandi was a very easy target.
But that's actually not a point against Ghandi's methods,
Now, knowing this, yes, the Nazis would've shot Ghandi
(afterall, it happened even with Ghandi present),
what Ghandi was getting at.
Ghandi might've died, but I for one am almost certain that he, or someone like him...
USE F*CKING PLACEHOLDERS.
I don't know what you're talking about, but if these are inventions that can stop me and my girlfriend from sliding towards the edge of the bed during sex, then I definitely need some!
Opera and Webkit just added little tricks to pass the ACID 3 tests. They don NOT really correctly support all the stuff that ACID 3 is testing.
What is the source of your information? Did you work at either of those places? You seen the code?
Congrats to the hardworking people on the project, however I will be applauding their work with less skepticism when I hear that MIT, Cornell, CMU, etc confirm the results.
Hmmm... I wonder whether, if the announcement had come from MIT, you'd have said 'I shall applaud this only after Cornell confirms', or 'I shall applaud this only when a Chinese university confirms'.
The problem is that you cannot use this mechanism to actually transmit information faster than light because you need some other kind of means to know when to observe your entangled photon. If Bob and Alice have entangled photons, Alice has no way of knowing if Bob has sent her a message using her photon because if she checks it to see if the superposition has collapsed then she will herself cause it to collapse if it hasn't already done so (thereby preventing Bob from sending a message at all).
This means that you're left using some alternative means of communication (radio, etc) which itself is limited by the speed of light.
I am only an English teacher, so if this is silly, please excuse.
Why can't Alice and Bob have a prior understanding about when to observe? Alice tells Bob, "I will take my measurement tomorrow at 4 pm, thereby collapsing the entanglement. You can make your measurement after that."
In this way, they can have FTL communication the next day, can they not?
It’s sad that KDE and Gnome raped the Unix philosophy... with a 30 inch pipe... sideways... ...instead of doing it the proper way...
Ok then, go ahead and tell us -- what is the proper way raping the Unix philosophy??
The environment protects you!
When I'm quoting a post about the total perspective vortex, I figured I was pretty safe. I was working under the assumption that anybody who didn't know what we were talking about would have vacated this part of the comments already.
But you got modded 'informative', So now you know!
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
When you're quoting someone, does it hurt to acknowledge? Those who haven't read that book will think you came up with that on your own, and you don't want to be unduly credited, do you?
It exists where?? To pursue your line of thinking, we have nothing but neurons and electricity. The human mind doesn't exist, except as a concept in the... hmmm, methinks we've fallen victim to circularity.
- t.
are you trying to parody horridly unfunny sigs or something?
Your armpit smells like my nose.
Sounds like they belong together.
If i was a coder i would prefer the money to be in escrow (unless your a dodgy indian coder, which i have had my fair share of and refuse to hire anyone indian).
you mean you have never seen an indian coder who wasn't dodgy? and you have never seen a dodgy non-indian coder? jeez, you're so frankly racist that you make it sound like it's nothing to be ashamed of.
1. to grow
or
2. to buy them something.
So when Page and Brin cash in on their stocks, they either
1. Want to buy something
or
2. Think that their money will grow better elsewhere.
Given Google's position in the market, 1 is more likely than 2, However, it is possible that they know something that we don't, which makes them think Google stock is about to lose some value.
For example, if men tend to do more dangerous jobs (soldering, firefighting, etc...) this means the selective process among males is different, possibly harsher.
Do you mean to say that historically, child-bearing has caused fewer deaths than the traditional 'male' occupations? Any study done on this? Do you have links?
If the ultimate goal of eugenics is a good life for everyone (the genetic strengthening of the race being just an intermediate step), then we're already doing that by helping the disabled lead better lives.
Or did you mean better lives only for those who have no perceptible genetic flaw, after eliminating those who do?
If we can use technology to improve the lives of everyone, and not only the fortunate, why is that not an acceptable solution to you?
By your logic, cancer research should stop, because all it does is improve the lives of those who will then pass on a dangerous gene to the next generation.
What about myopia? Hearing problems? Allergies?
In fact, isn't the whole of medical science a sheer waste, because in the absence of modern medicine, eugenics shall be vastly accelerated, and within a few generations we shall have the cream of the crop.
You see where your argument is going, and do you want to go there?
Life is vast and mysterious. Do not presume to know what should be. No one knows that.
Google's got nothing (and bing has less).
Wow, negative information? Doesn't that somehow violate the second law of thermodynamics, or Shannon's theorems, or Hawking's postulates, or whatever?
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
That's a weird one. Visit any river bank or pond in India between 5 am and 2 pm, and you'll find dozens of locals swimming effortlessly. It's a hot country, and predominantly rural. Children learn to swim when they're 5 or 6. Banana trunks traditionally play the same role as rubber tubes do in the West. That is how I learned to swim, along with most people of my age.
I don't know who makes up these stories, or to what purpose.