No rocket scientist said that. As they did it in the past, such statement would be redicilous. Have a look at the moon landing. However, the landing approach was considered economically not feasible, as you cannot use alle the fuel for lift and you have to carry the landing fuel up and down again.
Tunnels are mich mire expensive than surface tubes. When they rupture, you get a mud slide and surface structures can be affected. See Rastatt tunnel accident in Germany. They drilled a close to surface tunnel. One of the wall segments collapsed with devastating effects.
This is just not true. A basic set of plugins come with Ubuntu and they work fine on my machine. You say it is unbearable. Can you make that specific?
Your other points are rather an issue with the bundling of the distribution. However, if you want to configure everything personally, there is a solution. Use KDE. There is even for Ubuntu-lovers a Kubuntu available.
Why is this considered insightful? You think some features are missing, incomplete or implemented inconvenient? Fine. Name them and make a constructive proposition to change it. You do not like how GNOME is governed? Fine. Explain and aim for a change. You do not like GNOME? Fine. Don't use it. There are other options available. Unfortunately, you made a micro statement without giving a reason.
The MS headquarter is in Munich. The new mayor of Munich is a great fan of MS who always wanted to end LiMux. While the LiMux made some mistakes by not including employees in their process, the Accountability Office determined that the move back would be a waste of money and time. Anyway, Schleswig-Holstein, the most northern state of Germany, us going for OSS.
Yet another rubbish and unreliable study on Slashdot. I checked the article, but I couldn't find what they actually measured this result, how they tested it and I could not find a replication documentation. Without this is just a marketing claim. I also would like to know who paid for that study and why. If it was part of a research project what is their goal.
There are five Nobel Prizes: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. They are there because Nobel named them in his testament. He did not consider robotics, as there was no robotics at his time, and engineering in general was just craftsmanship. He also did not consider theology, philosophy, mathematics, social sciences, and psychology. This is most likely rooted in his time and his focus on the natural sciences. In his time, new findings in the natural sciences propelled mankind forward. Literature and peace prize are relevant, as Nobel wanted peace and enlightenment in the world.
And there is no Nobel Prize for economics. Economics is often just a believe system not a real science, they are way back compared to sociology and psychology. They are like political sciences which are often not able to predict anything (key component of a science). The economics prize is called Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and is not financed by the Nobel foundation, but the nation bank of Sweden. If you want such prize in engineering or computer science, please found a foundation which hands out prizes in CS in honor to Nobel.
However, the great prizes in CS and mathematics are Touring award and Fields Medal. While the latter awards prizes to young scientists and is therefore not shaped like the Nobel prizes which award long lasting achievements.
First of all, it is a stupid idea to force poor people in the arms of big companies like amazon and google. And even, if they could buy a cheap device for mail and web, they also need Internet access. As this either requires money for a connection at home or the money of a latte at the local coffee place, this is out of scope for them financially. Also the digital divide is not only a monetary issue, but also an education issue. If you want to help, train them in how to use a library and how to read and understand (most people can only read).
However, it might be better to let people do it who did that before elsewhere. Including sub terrain cables, like in the EU, which do not fail when there is a hurricane.
We are also unable to proof whether this is a simulation. The question is also not scientific, as simulation is not the opposite to reality. Assume there is a reality. What is it running on? And if you refer to physical properties and rules: What are processing them? Or how do they do what they do? In the end, you cannot distinguish a simulation from reality from within the simulation. Also it makes no real difference for a being. The question behind that reality vs. simulation is essentially: (a) Is there a god? And (b) what is the sense of life? For (a) it depends on your believe, and for (b) this is up to you or up to your believe, which in turn means that someone else provides you with a sense of life.
Regardless of whether certain aspects of the universe can be seen in discrete terms or represented by continuous functions, "on paper" you can make up any set of rules and you could even build machines which would work in a way that allows to "compute" the stuff in one or the other way. Therefore, you cannot determine if this is a simulation or not a simulation. This is rather a 'is there a god question' than it has something to do with science. To better understand my point, lets ask two questions. (1) What is a simulation? This looks simple, doesn't it. However, we have spatial simulation which step from one point in time to the next, but we also have mathematical models which are not step based or are not based on equidistant steps. In addition, we can create simulations where time progresses continuously, while spatial movements occur in steps. Some simulations are iterative, like climate simulations. Depending on the simulation, on simulated object has a different surrounding. (2) What is the opposite of a simulation? Easy: Reality, you might say. However, what is reality? Reality is that what we perceive. In a simulation, reality also exists for an entity within. Furthermore, lets assume we are in reality. What are the differences between a reality (our existence) and a simulation? Or if you like to assume we are in a simulation: What properties does a reality have, which makes it different from a simulation?
I doubt that you can come up with an proper answer, but I am eager to be proven wrong.
As long as this is not happening, I conclude that this is a nonsensical metaphysical discussion about a deity and therefore belongs in the realm of religion.
In theory yes, but I have not seen one in industry nor academia who actually made the extra effort to learn some basic software engineering concepts. Although I did not encounter biologists in industry programming jobs only physicists , chemists and geologists oh and mathematicians, they ate the least trainable, as CS is just applied math;-)
This a different kind of structure. I have analyzed tonnes of biological chemical models, grid based ocean models, and other software written by scientists. They are very good in handling complex structures in their head, but are unable to modularize, as this is done in normal software development.
No this is not the case. Most people write shitty code, because they are lazy, fall victim to not invented here etc. However, natural scientists are not trained in modularization and abstraction. They usually are taught analysis and less discrete math. In EE things are a little different, but they still have limited knowledge of programming pattern and modularization beyond their duplication of structures.
No the issue is that they do not know what architecture is and they have limited skills in modularization. Yes EE people are better than natural scientists, but still they did not get the complete set of pattern and processes necessary to be good in that particular department.
True, on a national level in the US voting for the president can be pointless if you are not living in a swing state, but it might be the case that a state is not a swing state because large a number of potential voters stay at home.
In addition, beside the actual election , most politicians are opportunists. Therefore, the tendencies of voters play a role when it comes to policy. If voters lean towards certain topics they will pick them up, eventually. At least that is how it works in western Europe. True a multi party systems has its own flaws, but essentially you could form your own party and become an opposition in parliament or even a governing party. But even in the US they cannot neglect you when you vote for something/someone. The next elections for congress are coming.
On a side note, I can understand your frustration with the more or less British voting model. It sucks and suppresses minorities, which results usually in more violence.
When 60 mio people vote, your vote is worth 1/60 mio. True you are not super important, you are as relevant than the next guy. This is called democracy. If votes had different value it would be feudalism.
Using Uber for your convenience and harming others is very capitalistic which is not very nice to your neighbor and in the end egoism will byte you in the back. It is not a good idea to have a society where the premise is: When everyone looks after themselves, then everyone is cared for.
I also provided you with other metrics. However, when the US is spending the most, why is then the German system more expensive (was that not your claim?)
Your argument is false. You do not know how much money Germany spends per student and how it is financed. Also the pure amount does not help, as usually spending more is considered better in education. Another way to eval education quality is to evaluate the abilities of students. Do you have any data on that for the US? No? Thought so.
However, in the department of health I can refer to the values provided by the OCED. while Germany spends $3500 per person per year on healthcare the US spends over $6500 (before ObamaCare). Unfortunately, you do not provide healthcare to all people and many standard procedures have a higher fatality rate. And the German model is not even the best in Europe.
Why force people to do something when you can them just addict them to Facebook and other texting stuff? You do not need to repeat history by the letter, it is enough to get the same results.
Thanks to filter bubble people are mentally isolated. Thanks.to "free market" radio stations you already have homogenized public opinion, like in any good dictatorship. The Nazis did it by law, but that is not a necessity. You could also do that by resource control/money.
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No rocket scientist said that. As they did it in the past, such statement would be redicilous. Have a look at the moon landing. However, the landing approach was considered economically not feasible, as you cannot use alle the fuel for lift and you have to carry the landing fuel up and down again.
Tunnels are mich mire expensive than surface tubes. When they rupture, you get a mud slide and surface structures can be affected. See Rastatt tunnel accident in Germany. They drilled a close to surface tunnel. One of the wall segments collapsed with devastating effects.
This is just not true. A basic set of plugins come with Ubuntu and they work fine on my machine. You say it is unbearable. Can you make that specific?
Your other points are rather an issue with the bundling of the distribution. However, if you want to configure everything personally, there is a solution. Use KDE. There is even for Ubuntu-lovers a Kubuntu available.
Why is this considered insightful? You think some features are missing, incomplete or implemented inconvenient? Fine. Name them and make a constructive proposition to change it. You do not like how GNOME is governed? Fine. Explain and aim for a change. You do not like GNOME? Fine. Don't use it. There are other options available. Unfortunately, you made a micro statement without giving a reason.
The MS headquarter is in Munich. The new mayor of Munich is a great fan of MS who always wanted to end LiMux. While the LiMux made some mistakes by not including employees in their process, the Accountability Office determined that the move back would be a waste of money and time. Anyway, Schleswig-Holstein, the most northern state of Germany, us going for OSS.
Yet another rubbish and unreliable study on Slashdot. I checked the article, but I couldn't find what they actually measured this result, how they tested it and I could not find a replication documentation. Without this is just a marketing claim. I also would like to know who paid for that study and why. If it was part of a research project what is their goal.
They could have said that they found neutrons or protons which would have been much easier to understand for most people here.
There are five Nobel Prizes: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. They are there because Nobel named them in his testament. He did not consider robotics, as there was no robotics at his time, and engineering in general was just craftsmanship. He also did not consider theology, philosophy, mathematics, social sciences, and psychology. This is most likely rooted in his time and his focus on the natural sciences. In his time, new findings in the natural sciences propelled mankind forward. Literature and peace prize are relevant, as Nobel wanted peace and enlightenment in the world.
And there is no Nobel Prize for economics. Economics is often just a believe system not a real science, they are way back compared to sociology and psychology. They are like political sciences which are often not able to predict anything (key component of a science). The economics prize is called Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and is not financed by the Nobel foundation, but the nation bank of Sweden. If you want such prize in engineering or computer science, please found a foundation which hands out prizes in CS in honor to Nobel.
However, the great prizes in CS and mathematics are Touring award and Fields Medal. While the latter awards prizes to young scientists and is therefore not shaped like the Nobel prizes which award long lasting achievements.
If they are any good, you could win the prize for literature.
First of all, it is a stupid idea to force poor people in the arms of big companies like amazon and google. And even, if they could buy a cheap device for mail and web, they also need Internet access. As this either requires money for a connection at home or the money of a latte at the local coffee place, this is out of scope for them financially. Also the digital divide is not only a monetary issue, but also an education issue. If you want to help, train them in how to use a library and how to read and understand (most people can only read).
However, it might be better to let people do it who did that before elsewhere. Including sub terrain cables, like in the EU, which do not fail when there is a hurricane.
We are also unable to proof whether this is a simulation. The question is also not scientific, as simulation is not the opposite to reality. Assume there is a reality. What is it running on? And if you refer to physical properties and rules: What are processing them? Or how do they do what they do? In the end, you cannot distinguish a simulation from reality from within the simulation. Also it makes no real difference for a being. The question behind that reality vs. simulation is essentially: (a) Is there a god? And (b) what is the sense of life? For (a) it depends on your believe, and for (b) this is up to you or up to your believe, which in turn means that someone else provides you with a sense of life.
Regardless of whether certain aspects of the universe can be seen in discrete terms or represented by continuous functions, "on paper" you can make up any set of rules and you could even build machines which would work in a way that allows to "compute" the stuff in one or the other way. Therefore, you cannot determine if this is a simulation or not a simulation. This is rather a 'is there a god question' than it has something to do with science. To better understand my point, lets ask two questions. (1) What is a simulation? This looks simple, doesn't it. However, we have spatial simulation which step from one point in time to the next, but we also have mathematical models which are not step based or are not based on equidistant steps. In addition, we can create simulations where time progresses continuously, while spatial movements occur in steps. Some simulations are iterative, like climate simulations. Depending on the simulation, on simulated object has a different surrounding. (2) What is the opposite of a simulation? Easy: Reality, you might say. However, what is reality? Reality is that what we perceive. In a simulation, reality also exists for an entity within. Furthermore, lets assume we are in reality. What are the differences between a reality (our existence) and a simulation? Or if you like to assume we are in a simulation: What properties does a reality have, which makes it different from a simulation?
I doubt that you can come up with an proper answer, but I am eager to be proven wrong.
As long as this is not happening, I conclude that this is a nonsensical metaphysical discussion about a deity and therefore belongs in the realm of religion.
In theory yes, but I have not seen one in industry nor academia who actually made the extra effort to learn some basic software engineering concepts. Although I did not encounter biologists in industry programming jobs only physicists , chemists and geologists oh and mathematicians, they ate the least trainable, as CS is just applied math ;-)
This a different kind of structure. I have analyzed tonnes of biological chemical models, grid based ocean models, and other software written by scientists. They are very good in handling complex structures in their head, but are unable to modularize, as this is done in normal software development.
No this is not the case. Most people write shitty code, because they are lazy, fall victim to not invented here etc. However, natural scientists are not trained in modularization and abstraction. They usually are taught analysis and less discrete math. In EE things are a little different, but they still have limited knowledge of programming pattern and modularization beyond their duplication of structures.
No the issue is that they do not know what architecture is and they have limited skills in modularization. Yes EE people are better than natural scientists, but still they did not get the complete set of pattern and processes necessary to be good in that particular department.
They all write horrible code which does its job but become incomprehensible after month (including the author).
True, on a national level in the US voting for the president can be pointless if you are not living in a swing state, but it might be the case that a state is not a swing state because large a number of potential voters stay at home.
In addition, beside the actual election , most politicians are opportunists. Therefore, the tendencies of voters play a role when it comes to policy. If voters lean towards certain topics they will pick them up, eventually. At least that is how it works in western Europe. True a multi party systems has its own flaws, but essentially you could form your own party and become an opposition in parliament or even a governing party. But even in the US they cannot neglect you when you vote for something/someone. The next elections for congress are coming.
On a side note, I can understand your frustration with the more or less British voting model. It sucks and suppresses minorities, which results usually in more violence.
So you agree that this behavior is inacceptable.
When 60 mio people vote, your vote is worth 1/60 mio. True you are not super important, you are as relevant than the next guy. This is called democracy. If votes had different value it would be feudalism.
Using Uber for your convenience and harming others is very capitalistic which is not very nice to your neighbor and in the end egoism will byte you in the back. It is not a good idea to have a society where the premise is: When everyone looks after themselves, then everyone is cared for.
Your argument is: WordPress is bad. Therefore, Facebook being bad is not so bad anymore.
This is a bad and stupid excuse. Children try that pattern, like Timmy did also take a cookie. Still cookie stealing is forbidden no matter what.
I also provided you with other metrics. However, when the US is spending the most, why is then the German system more expensive (was that not your claim?)
Your argument is false. You do not know how much money Germany spends per student and how it is financed. Also the pure amount does not help, as usually spending more is considered better in education. Another way to eval education quality is to evaluate the abilities of students. Do you have any data on that for the US? No? Thought so.
However, in the department of health I can refer to the values provided by the OCED. while Germany spends $3500 per person per year on healthcare the US spends over $6500 (before ObamaCare). Unfortunately, you do not provide healthcare to all people and many standard procedures have a higher fatality rate. And the German model is not even the best in Europe.
Why force people to do something when you can them just addict them to Facebook and other texting stuff? You do not need to repeat history by the letter, it is enough to get the same results.
Thanks to filter bubble people are mentally isolated. Thanks.to "free market" radio stations you already have homogenized public opinion, like in any good dictatorship. The Nazis did it by law, but that is not a necessity. You could also do that by resource control/money.