Great stuff, that free-market non-government GPS, isn't it?
That's a boneheaded comment to make anytime but even more so now that we have private companies going to space for a fraction of government enterprises.
The boneheadedness of the AC's comment becomes a bit more obvious when you recall that the US fought a major war in Europe (to acquire the scientists) and then spent billions to perform all the R&D that private firms are now leveraging.
The same people who scoff at Christians, Jews, and Muslims for believing in a God, are blind to the fact that they are zealots of another sort.
You, like lots of other Abrahamic religionists, are projecting. Lack of belief in the Abrahamic Deity != belief in some deity named "No Deity".
It's like the mediaeval assumption that, if you didn't worship God, you worshipped the Devil--and it's no more true today than it was then. Unfortunately, it's true that some people cannot accept the idea of not worshipping, so they adopt this false dichotomy instead, and try to back it up with circular reasoning.
It also implies that agnostics and atheists are Satanists, which is preposterous, since Satanism is simply changing the name but not the core tenet of the Abrahamic religions, and agnostics and (especially) atheists are not theists.
And just how many network admins do you know who actually keep one of those around?
I'd ask ours where he keeps his (assuming he even has one), but he's on vacation until mid-August, and his stand-in works in a different building in another part of town.
I think even you can see where I'm going with this...:)
According to my Muslim friends here in Stockholm (where daylight currently runs from ~0430 to ~2130), fasting for 12 hours a day is considered sufficient to meet their Ramadan obligation.
I'm sorry, but isn't that what Apple does already?
Um, no. You can't install OS X on non-Mac hardware (without some serious hacking) because it looks for what amounts to an internal dongle saying "I'm Apple hardware". However, there is absolutely nothing preventing you from buying a MacBook and installing Windows or Linux on it easily. (One of my best friends at work dual-boots Windows and Ubuntu on his.) Not the same thing at all.
And Linux distros, what does it take to run just any old sofware on them?
You mean something that's not in your distribution's repo? make && make install works pretty well for me. So do plenty of RPMs that don't come from the maintainers of my distro. And lots of third-party apps come with installers that work on most distros (including the one I use).
So your allegation that a Linux distro is anything like a walled garden is demonstrably false.
So which OS has the lock-out issues? But then let's alway pick on M$FT and let everyone else slide for doing worse stuff. Hypocrites!!! all on/. That is why I come here to read the basura del dia
And you maybe need to lay off that bong just a little, hijito.
I'm a lot more worried about the amount of TV and Disney/Pixar films my daughter's mother lets her watch than I am the occasional extra bit of fat and/or salt.
So now you know that my child's mother and I no longer live together.
Is there anything else you'd like to know about my lazy parenting?
I suppose you'll tell me next that I should kidnap her so that I can exercise 24-hours-a-day control over everything she sees, hears, and eats?
I've some hedgehogs living in the bushes under my balcony and a Chairman Mao 100th Birthday commemorative pocket watch with a working second hand. Not sure if you can grow artichokes round here or not, though.
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Great stuff, that free-market non-government GPS, isn't it?
That's a boneheaded comment to make anytime but even more so now that we have private companies going to space for a fraction of government enterprises.
The boneheadedness of the AC's comment becomes a bit more obvious when you recall that the US fought a major war in Europe (to acquire the scientists) and then spent billions to perform all the R&D that private firms are now leveraging.
I avoid flying in favour of the train unless crossing an ocean other than the Baltic* is involved.
(*Øresundsbron and boats are quite nice for crossing the Baltic.)
FYI, I view all posts containing the string "smooth crisp texts" with a -1 modifier.
I've been on the WHATWG mailing list since 2004. I quit bothering to read the damned thing a couple of years ago, it just started to hurt too much.
Yes (almost).
Except there won't be any "version y.z" thanks to this rolling release bullcrap.
(I would LOVE to see us try that with our users. We'd be out of business in 6 months, tops.)
The same people who scoff at Christians, Jews, and Muslims for believing in a God, are blind to the fact that they are zealots of another sort.
You, like lots of other Abrahamic religionists, are projecting. Lack of belief in the Abrahamic Deity != belief in some deity named "No Deity".
It's like the mediaeval assumption that, if you didn't worship God, you worshipped the Devil--and it's no more true today than it was then. Unfortunately, it's true that some people cannot accept the idea of not worshipping, so they adopt this false dichotomy instead, and try to back it up with circular reasoning.
It also implies that agnostics and atheists are Satanists, which is preposterous, since Satanism is simply changing the name but not the core tenet of the Abrahamic religions, and agnostics and (especially) atheists are not theists.
Grab an RF meter and go to town.
Right.
And just how many network admins do you know who actually keep one of those around?
I'd ask ours where he keeps his (assuming he even has one), but he's on vacation until mid-August, and his stand-in works in a different building in another part of town.
I think even you can see where I'm going with this... :)
Oh, really? Guess you've never seen a surge-suppressing power strip with sockets for phone and Ethernet to protect those lines as well?
Looks to me almost exactly like the one I used when I still lived in the States.
Over the course of your lifetime, Europe and America will have drifted about 20 feet further apart.
(Best estimate seems to be 5-10 cm/yr. Split the difference and multiply by 75 years; that's about 5.6 metres.)
According to my Muslim friends here in Stockholm (where daylight currently runs from ~0430 to ~2130), fasting for 12 hours a day is considered sufficient to meet their Ramadan obligation.
"Troll" != "I disagree".
Even ACs are allowed to express their opinions.
I'm sorry, but isn't that what Apple does already?
Um, no. You can't install OS X on non-Mac hardware (without some serious hacking) because it looks for what amounts to an internal dongle saying "I'm Apple hardware". However, there is absolutely nothing preventing you from buying a MacBook and installing Windows or Linux on it easily. (One of my best friends at work dual-boots Windows and Ubuntu on his.) Not the same thing at all.
And Linux distros, what does it take to run just any old sofware on them?
You mean something that's not in your distribution's repo? make && make install works pretty well for me. So do plenty of RPMs that don't come from the maintainers of my distro. And lots of third-party apps come with installers that work on most distros (including the one I use).
So your allegation that a Linux distro is anything like a walled garden is demonstrably false.
So which OS has the lock-out issues? But then let's alway pick on M$FT and let everyone else slide for doing worse stuff. Hypocrites!!! all on /. That is why I come here to read the basura del dia
And you maybe need to lay off that bong just a little, hijito.
Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option.
*This* version of the standard, maybe. Who knows what the next version will have to say about this?
I recall Robert Heinlein saying something about the guy busy fiddling with knobs getting his head caved in by the guy carrying only an axe...
The Luftwaffe was hardly a Stalinist organisation.
Please Google "No true Scotsman".
Thanks.
I'm a lot more worried about the amount of TV and Disney/Pixar films my daughter's mother lets her watch than I am the occasional extra bit of fat and/or salt.
So now you know that my child's mother and I no longer live together.
Is there anything else you'd like to know about my lazy parenting?
I suppose you'll tell me next that I should kidnap her so that I can exercise 24-hours-a-day control over everything she sees, hears, and eats?
I see the "my way or the highway" moderators are out in full force today...
Honestly, you're in a city full of excellent, and sometimes inexpensive, cuisine.
Why even go to McDonalds in the first place and why not leave when there's an altercation?
You don't have any kids, do you?
Let me add that "many" simply means the greater part of...
It does not mean any such thing, except possibly in your imagination. "Many" means:
1: consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number
2: being one of a large but indefinite number
So I'm inclined to judge the rest of your post as being of equally dubious value.
You either missed this, or have a very short memory.
Butthurt much?
Indeed.
You know what happens when someone forgets to check the bounds of their array and starts writing data to another process's memory?
Yeah. Imagine if that other process was your visual cortex.
One word springs immediately to mind: goatse.
Similar reaction here. I think I might actually have been astounded by the fact that I wasn't astounded, but I'm not sure.
Artichokes per hedgehog second, I guessing.
Sounds reasonable.
I've some hedgehogs living in the bushes under my balcony and a Chairman Mao 100th Birthday commemorative pocket watch with a working second hand. Not sure if you can grow artichokes round here or not, though.