"Depending on the temperature and pressure water can change state from solid to gas or vice versa without going to the liquid phase. There is also at least one point at which the properties that separates the gas form and the liquid form ceases to have a meaning and a fourth state is entered. If I remember it correctly it appears at a temperature of about 340 degrees C. (I may be wrong) "...I'm pretty sure just about every element/compound does that. The only difference is what temperatures and pressures are needed.
I hate when people say Ubuntu is the only good newbie distro...for the simple reason that I have yet to find a computer that it'll install on, when Mandriva installs on everything, picks up even every wifi card I've thrown at it without any manual configuration...I mean, hell, it'll run on my desktops, it runs great on my brother's laptop, it runs great on my gf's laptop...it runs great on anything. And it comes with software to do absolutely everything. Last time I tried Ubuntu the installer wouldn't even boot up, and from what I hear it doesn't come with too many programs.
Basically, I know three people that started with Ubuntu. Two of them decided to give up on Linux after that. I managed to convince them to try Mandriva, and all three of them still use it. It just works.
"I'm waiting for those famous Midwestern militias to get determined and start systematically tracking and disabling these cameras so that the rest of us can continue to go about our business w/o the prying eyes of the government."
Right there's your problem. If you truly care about your personal rights, you shouldn't leave them entirely in the hands of other people. Because that's probably exactly what everyone else is thinking too.
Eh. Thing I've noticed is that even though people are required to take the class and pass it, most of them then immediately forget whatever they were taught. Just because it is taught doesn't mean it is learned. Plus the fact that it is required to graduate means that it tends to be a fairly easy course to just pass without paying much attention. It shouldn't be, but it is.
The sad part is, they _do_ teach simply budgeting in school. The class is called 'on your own', and we're required to take it to graduate. I went through it two years ago, and budgeting is a rather large part of it. It's also worked into math classes on occasion...though that's mostly the lower level algebra classes...which was 7th grade for me.
So because they're not US citizens it's perfectly alright to treat them worse? I suppose it's alright to torture them too, right? I suppose it's fine to take them as slaves?
The fact that they aren't citizens means they don't have the right to vote here. Nothing more. Nobody is above the law, and nobody is below it. Should the US laws against murder not apply because they're not citizens and therefore not under our laws? Should it be perfectly legal for the police to just kill anyone they discover isn't a citizen? How can you say our laws only apply to citizens?
Straight from the US Department of State's website: "Familiarize yourself with local laws and customs of the countries to which you are traveling. Remember, while in a foreign country, you are subject to its laws!" They may not be citizens, but they are on US soil, and therefore bound by US laws. If they break our laws, they are still punished the same as anyone else here, so why should they not then get the same protection as anyone else here? The constitution and all US laws apply to _the USA_. They can't apply to all US citizens, because then we would be claiming jurisdiction over any citizens in other countries. And they can't apply to citizens only in US territory, because then non-citizens could go do whatever they want and be completely free from any punishments. They must therefore apply to anyone on US territory.
Haha. My brother is a math major, and he can't think of anything he can do with the degree other than teach or government work. I'll have to share the news with him;)
See, that was exactly my point. The only place you could have tried it that early is an Apple store. You do realize those aren't exactly walmart, right? I've never even seen one. I don't believe there is one within a couple hundred miles of where I live.
That's an economic theory. The world does not model theories, theories model the world. And I'm gonna say that's not a very good one. The sellers do everything possible to ensure that the buyer doesn't _really_ know what they're actually getting. How many people who have one of the new nanos was able to try it before they bought it? I would bet none. Which means all of them were just _guessing_ at what it's worth. You can't weigh the product vs the money if you don't really know what the product is. Then you're just gambling.
My dad recently got a new iPod classic. I've had a couple iPods, my brother has had a couple iPods, but obviously none of us had ever had a classic before buying him one. We guessed what it would be like. It was a well educated guess, but it was still a guess. He hadn't even had it a single day before I had to do a hard reset on it because I would plug it in and it wouldn't detect it. While that's a very minor thing, the product did not live up to my expectations or past experience, and, had the problem been serious enough, or if this becomes a frequent occurrence, I would/will be rather justified to say it was overpriced.
Hmm. I've never been in a Wal-Mart that did that. Actually, I've only ever been in one store that ever did that, which was Guitar Center. They had good reason too though, because there was no line-of-sight from the register to the door...and you can't exactly bag an amp or guitar. So basically, if they didn't do that, you could walk in, grab an amp, and walk out and nobody would know.
See, the problem with that is you're assuming by 'software as a service' they mean 'software coded as a website'.
Personally, I think of 'software as a service' more as things like some antivirus software. You can easily get those for free, but you have to pay the subscription to keep getting virus definition updates. It's still installed locally, you're still responsible for maintenance, it's still installed locally...well, I'll grant you less startup risk, but it (and your data) is still installed locally.
In other words, only one of your points holds true for subscription model 'software as a service'.
I've seen a lot of Linux apps use this model actually. Things like Cedega.
My connection reads 6mbps down, 768kbps up. Exactly what I'm paying for. Yet I have my connection COMPLETELY saturated 24/7, and have for the last several months. No cutoffs here.
I dunno about drive growth stagnation. First of all, I seem to recall seeing several stories over the past few weeks/months about new records being set for drive size. And have you been looking at drive prices lately? You can get a 500GB drive today for what a 200GB would have cost only a year or two ago.
Well...the sphere is expanding...so...in general everything is getting closer to the edge...meaning on average everything is using technology...soo...they'd blue-shift if they're adopting less technology than average? Maybe the vantage point isn't the center but, say, 20% of the total distance out? Does that make any sense to you? 'cause it doesn't make much to me either......
I dunno about that. I actually have one choice for broadband: Comcast. No slower broadband, no DSL, nothing. I have my connection completely saturated 24/7, and have for a few months. I'm still getting the full speed, and even the occasional PowerBoost. My guess is they only throttle things where they need the bandwidth and have no other option. I can't see that being the case where I live. The only problem I've ever had with Comcast is their phone system perpetually saying they are aware of and working on problems in my area when in fact, when I finally decided after about a week to just stay on and talk to them, their system apparently reported no outage at all.
When companies that are closed open up a bit, they're taking a step in the right direction. They're helping the community. And there is a good chance if things work well that this will continue and they'll be a model for others in the industry. But when companies that are open close up a bit, they're moving in the wrong direction, and creating an example for other companies of a place where open source didn't work and another reason for them to stay away from it.
It's not how open they are overall that matters, it's what direction they're moving in.
Well, the assumption that aliens would be smarter than us is pretty valid. Until we manage to AT LEAST build a spaceship capable of traveling outside of our solar system, I think it's pretty safe to say any aliens we meet would be more intelligent than us. Sure, not every alien race out there is going to be better than us, but I would say it's gonna be thousands of years before we will have any chance of meeting or contacting alien life dumber than ourselves. Even if we just consider 'meeting' to be picking up radio frequencies from them, with how recently humans have discovered radio communication and how long it would have taken to get from there, they would be either nearly equal to us or smarter than us...and I'd say the odds favor them being smarter than us.
Depends what you're running. The software I run on Linux for weeks solid (specifically, freenet) will crash windows in about 10 minutes. Long before it even gets anywhere near fully started up. And if it's a problem in the code, it's a failure of Sun, not of freenet, because it's Java, and it's the EXACT same code, so it could only be in either how the different JVMs interpret it or the OS itself.
Yes, there are things Windows is better for. Mostly, things that don't need extremely good uptimes or large amounts of system resources. Pretty much, it's better for things that need large corporate support (drivers, games, etc). In other words, they're better for the stuff that they get from other companies for being number one, which they got by cheating, lying, and stealing.
So yea, for Joe Average, Windows may be the better desktop system. But for my uses...I've been running Linux for years and never had any desire to switch back permanently. I have occasionally temporarily for games, but that's it.
Oh, and if you can't tell by my writing style, I'm not some system administrator or uber-geek. Hell, I don't even have a real driver's license yet. Still in highschool, and I run Linux full-time, my brother runs Linux full-time, my best friend runs Linux full-time, hell, even my girlfriend (who is a language geek, not a computer geek) uses Linux full-time. So it may not be the easiest, but for anyone with a bit of common sense and logic, it _is_ finally ready for home desktop usage. (though barely - I wouldn't have said that even last year.)
Sorry, thought I hit preview. Disregard my last post please. I remembered that it wasn't command not found that stopped me. I think I did get that at first, but that time it was a user error.
No. I managed to get her to upload things via FTP, I'm just saying on windoze/linux you just fire up the file browser and throw in an FTP link. On OSX I had to download an FTP client. I'm not saying _I_ couldn't, I'm saying _she_ had no way of doing it.
I tried ipconfig. It kept asking me which networking device I wanted to use (of which there was only one running), and I got lost there because I couldn't find any network devices under the filesystem anywhere. It sure as hell wasn't under/dev. I can find it under any Linux distro I've tried (which is somewhere above 10), I can find it in Solaris, so if OSX is so unix-based, why can't I find it there?
No. I managed to get her to upload things via FTP, I'm just saying on windoze/linux you just fire up the file browser and throw in an FTP link. On OSX I had to download an FTP client.
Ok, so I'm replying to this guy twice, but I just noticed he has a +5 informative rating on this post, which is completely ridiculous. I should go post on the 'The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon' saying the title is misleading because it implies that the hacks are taking place on a computer. Except...no, that would actually make some sense, since that's a common usage of hack. People would actually understand where I'm coming from on that one. The above statement is mind-blowing in the sense that it is completely impossible to figure out what the hell they were thinking. I mean really. Holy hell. I've seen more coherent, appropriate, understandable thoughts posted by bots that just throw down random words.
The noun is 'IRS' The verb phrase is 'freely gives out' The direct object is 'Employee User Name/Password Info' 'Employee' is an adjective modifying 'User Name/Password Info' 'User Name/Password' is also an adjective modifying 'Info' I'm not sure how correct any of that is, considering I am HORRIBLE at grammar stuff. But the point is, NOWHERE in the title does it mention taxpayers. Nor are they mentioned in the summary. How the hell you are getting anything at all related to taxpayers completely boggles the mind. You must have SERIOUSLY misread that, and rushed to get first post. I can't see any other explanation.
...the title implies that the IRS is giving away the usernames and passwords of their employees. I don't know how they could have stated it any more clearly.
'IRS' - The Internal Revenue Service 'Freely Gives Out' - Gives random people who call them 'Employee User Name/Password Info' - the usernames and passwords of their employees
The Internal Revenue Service gives random people who call them the usernames and passwords of their employees. How is that misleading???
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...I'm pretty sure just about every element/compound does that. The only difference is what temperatures and pressures are needed.
"Depending on the temperature and pressure water can change state from solid to gas or vice versa without going to the liquid phase. There is also at least one point at which the properties that separates the gas form and the liquid form ceases to have a meaning and a fourth state is entered. If I remember it correctly it appears at a temperature of about 340 degrees C. (I may be wrong) "
I hate when people say Ubuntu is the only good newbie distro...for the simple reason that I have yet to find a computer that it'll install on, when Mandriva installs on everything, picks up even every wifi card I've thrown at it without any manual configuration...I mean, hell, it'll run on my desktops, it runs great on my brother's laptop, it runs great on my gf's laptop...it runs great on anything. And it comes with software to do absolutely everything. Last time I tried Ubuntu the installer wouldn't even boot up, and from what I hear it doesn't come with too many programs.
Basically, I know three people that started with Ubuntu. Two of them decided to give up on Linux after that. I managed to convince them to try Mandriva, and all three of them still use it. It just works.
"I'm waiting for those famous Midwestern militias to get determined and start systematically tracking and disabling these cameras so that the rest of us can continue to go about our business w/o the prying eyes of the government."
Right there's your problem. If you truly care about your personal rights, you shouldn't leave them entirely in the hands of other people. Because that's probably exactly what everyone else is thinking too.
Eh. Thing I've noticed is that even though people are required to take the class and pass it, most of them then immediately forget whatever they were taught. Just because it is taught doesn't mean it is learned. Plus the fact that it is required to graduate means that it tends to be a fairly easy course to just pass without paying much attention. It shouldn't be, but it is.
The sad part is, they _do_ teach simply budgeting in school. The class is called 'on your own', and we're required to take it to graduate. I went through it two years ago, and budgeting is a rather large part of it. It's also worked into math classes on occasion...though that's mostly the lower level algebra classes...which was 7th grade for me.
So because they're not US citizens it's perfectly alright to treat them worse? I suppose it's alright to torture them too, right? I suppose it's fine to take them as slaves?
The fact that they aren't citizens means they don't have the right to vote here. Nothing more. Nobody is above the law, and nobody is below it. Should the US laws against murder not apply because they're not citizens and therefore not under our laws? Should it be perfectly legal for the police to just kill anyone they discover isn't a citizen? How can you say our laws only apply to citizens?
Straight from the US Department of State's website: "Familiarize yourself with local laws and customs of the countries to which you are traveling. Remember, while in a foreign country, you are subject to its laws!"
They may not be citizens, but they are on US soil, and therefore bound by US laws. If they break our laws, they are still punished the same as anyone else here, so why should they not then get the same protection as anyone else here? The constitution and all US laws apply to _the USA_. They can't apply to all US citizens, because then we would be claiming jurisdiction over any citizens in other countries. And they can't apply to citizens only in US territory, because then non-citizens could go do whatever they want and be completely free from any punishments. They must therefore apply to anyone on US territory.
Haha. My brother is a math major, and he can't think of anything he can do with the degree other than teach or government work. I'll have to share the news with him ;)
See, that was exactly my point. The only place you could have tried it that early is an Apple store. You do realize those aren't exactly walmart, right? I've never even seen one. I don't believe there is one within a couple hundred miles of where I live.
That's an economic theory. The world does not model theories, theories model the world. And I'm gonna say that's not a very good one. The sellers do everything possible to ensure that the buyer doesn't _really_ know what they're actually getting. How many people who have one of the new nanos was able to try it before they bought it? I would bet none. Which means all of them were just _guessing_ at what it's worth. You can't weigh the product vs the money if you don't really know what the product is. Then you're just gambling.
My dad recently got a new iPod classic. I've had a couple iPods, my brother has had a couple iPods, but obviously none of us had ever had a classic before buying him one. We guessed what it would be like. It was a well educated guess, but it was still a guess. He hadn't even had it a single day before I had to do a hard reset on it because I would plug it in and it wouldn't detect it. While that's a very minor thing, the product did not live up to my expectations or past experience, and, had the problem been serious enough, or if this becomes a frequent occurrence, I would/will be rather justified to say it was overpriced.
So if we know what the difference is between liberals and conservatives...
Does that mean we can finally fix the conservatives?
Hmm. I've never been in a Wal-Mart that did that. Actually, I've only ever been in one store that ever did that, which was Guitar Center. They had good reason too though, because there was no line-of-sight from the register to the door...and you can't exactly bag an amp or guitar. So basically, if they didn't do that, you could walk in, grab an amp, and walk out and nobody would know.
if you find broken Linux boxes so incredibly easy to fix, I have just one thing to say to you:
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Help me. I've had no sound for about a month and nobody seems to know why.
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=4319
See, the problem with that is you're assuming by 'software as a service' they mean 'software coded as a website'.
Personally, I think of 'software as a service' more as things like some antivirus software. You can easily get those for free, but you have to pay the subscription to keep getting virus definition updates. It's still installed locally, you're still responsible for maintenance, it's still installed locally...well, I'll grant you less startup risk, but it (and your data) is still installed locally.
In other words, only one of your points holds true for subscription model 'software as a service'.
I've seen a lot of Linux apps use this model actually. Things like Cedega.
My connection reads 6mbps down, 768kbps up. Exactly what I'm paying for. Yet I have my connection COMPLETELY saturated 24/7, and have for the last several months. No cutoffs here.
I dunno about drive growth stagnation. First of all, I seem to recall seeing several stories over the past few weeks/months about new records being set for drive size. And have you been looking at drive prices lately? You can get a 500GB drive today for what a 200GB would have cost only a year or two ago.
Well...the sphere is expanding...so...in general everything is getting closer to the edge...meaning on average everything is using technology...soo...they'd blue-shift if they're adopting less technology than average? Maybe the vantage point isn't the center but, say, 20% of the total distance out? Does that make any sense to you? 'cause it doesn't make much to me either......
I dunno about that. I actually have one choice for broadband: Comcast. No slower broadband, no DSL, nothing. I have my connection completely saturated 24/7, and have for a few months. I'm still getting the full speed, and even the occasional PowerBoost. My guess is they only throttle things where they need the bandwidth and have no other option. I can't see that being the case where I live. The only problem I've ever had with Comcast is their phone system perpetually saying they are aware of and working on problems in my area when in fact, when I finally decided after about a week to just stay on and talk to them, their system apparently reported no outage at all.
When companies that are closed open up a bit, they're taking a step in the right direction. They're helping the community. And there is a good chance if things work well that this will continue and they'll be a model for others in the industry. But when companies that are open close up a bit, they're moving in the wrong direction, and creating an example for other companies of a place where open source didn't work and another reason for them to stay away from it.
It's not how open they are overall that matters, it's what direction they're moving in.
Well, the assumption that aliens would be smarter than us is pretty valid. Until we manage to AT LEAST build a spaceship capable of traveling outside of our solar system, I think it's pretty safe to say any aliens we meet would be more intelligent than us. Sure, not every alien race out there is going to be better than us, but I would say it's gonna be thousands of years before we will have any chance of meeting or contacting alien life dumber than ourselves. Even if we just consider 'meeting' to be picking up radio frequencies from them, with how recently humans have discovered radio communication and how long it would have taken to get from there, they would be either nearly equal to us or smarter than us...and I'd say the odds favor them being smarter than us.
Depends what you're running. The software I run on Linux for weeks solid (specifically, freenet) will crash windows in about 10 minutes. Long before it even gets anywhere near fully started up. And if it's a problem in the code, it's a failure of Sun, not of freenet, because it's Java, and it's the EXACT same code, so it could only be in either how the different JVMs interpret it or the OS itself.
Yes, there are things Windows is better for. Mostly, things that don't need extremely good uptimes or large amounts of system resources. Pretty much, it's better for things that need large corporate support (drivers, games, etc). In other words, they're better for the stuff that they get from other companies for being number one, which they got by cheating, lying, and stealing.
So yea, for Joe Average, Windows may be the better desktop system. But for my uses...I've been running Linux for years and never had any desire to switch back permanently. I have occasionally temporarily for games, but that's it.
Oh, and if you can't tell by my writing style, I'm not some system administrator or uber-geek. Hell, I don't even have a real driver's license yet. Still in highschool, and I run Linux full-time, my brother runs Linux full-time, my best friend runs Linux full-time, hell, even my girlfriend (who is a language geek, not a computer geek) uses Linux full-time. So it may not be the easiest, but for anyone with a bit of common sense and logic, it _is_ finally ready for home desktop usage. (though barely - I wouldn't have said that even last year.)
Sorry, thought I hit preview. Disregard my last post please. I remembered that it wasn't command not found that stopped me. I think I did get that at first, but that time it was a user error.
/dev. I can find it under any Linux distro I've tried (which is somewhere above 10), I can find it in Solaris, so if OSX is so unix-based, why can't I find it there?
No. I managed to get her to upload things via FTP, I'm just saying on windoze/linux you just fire up the file browser and throw in an FTP link. On OSX I had to download an FTP client. I'm not saying _I_ couldn't, I'm saying _she_ had no way of doing it.
I tried ipconfig. It kept asking me which networking device I wanted to use (of which there was only one running), and I got lost there because I couldn't find any network devices under the filesystem anywhere. It sure as hell wasn't under
No. I managed to get her to upload things via FTP, I'm just saying on windoze/linux you just fire up the file browser and throw in an FTP link. On OSX I had to download an FTP client.
I tried ipconfig. It said command not found.
reply to 1) Ah, ok. I see. That is extremely misleading
2) Exactly. I never said you can just log in and change tax data. I agree with you completely on this point.
Ok, so I'm replying to this guy twice, but I just noticed he has a +5 informative rating on this post, which is completely ridiculous.
I should go post on the 'The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon' saying the title is misleading because it implies that the hacks are taking place on a computer. Except...no, that would actually make some sense, since that's a common usage of hack. People would actually understand where I'm coming from on that one. The above statement is mind-blowing in the sense that it is completely impossible to figure out what the hell they were thinking. I mean really. Holy hell. I've seen more coherent, appropriate, understandable thoughts posted by bots that just throw down random words.
The noun is 'IRS'
The verb phrase is 'freely gives out'
The direct object is 'Employee User Name/Password Info'
'Employee' is an adjective modifying 'User Name/Password Info'
'User Name/Password' is also an adjective modifying 'Info'
I'm not sure how correct any of that is, considering I am HORRIBLE at grammar stuff. But the point is, NOWHERE in the title does it mention taxpayers. Nor are they mentioned in the summary. How the hell you are getting anything at all related to taxpayers completely boggles the mind. You must have SERIOUSLY misread that, and rushed to get first post. I can't see any other explanation.
...the title implies that the IRS is giving away the usernames and passwords of their employees. I don't know how they could have stated it any more clearly.
'IRS' - The Internal Revenue Service
'Freely Gives Out' - Gives random people who call them
'Employee User Name/Password Info' - the usernames and passwords of their employees
The Internal Revenue Service gives random people who call them the usernames and passwords of their employees.
How is that misleading???