It is about people now making cold electronic music in their bedrooms
One of the greatest stylistical breakthroughs of the 20th century, was the invention of cold electronic music. An industrialised, techological world needs cold electronic music. And when it comes to dancing, i sometimes wonder how people were able to dance before the invention of the synthesizer & drum machine. And by the way, it was there before the internet. Just because many people love this music. Kraftwerk anyone?
I can think of a few reasons. One is the possibility to run a different desktop like KDE (Yes, mac-zealots, there are people who do not like the mac-GUI.) Another is package management: as far as i know OSX does not have a feature which enables you to install or update your software in large batches. Another would be a need or wish to develop for the Linux-platform.
The file manager function has been replaced by Dolphin. No, it has not and it will never. In KDE4 Konqueror will still do file management. Don't expect any current KDE-users to switch to Dolphin. Konq is the most powerful filemanager ever, the good folks at KDE are not going to persuade anyone to give it up. I'm not so sure Dolphin will make it into KDE4.2.
Still only some numbers and vague weaselspeak. There is really no reason to strike a deal with 'em, they will never speak out on details, so they'll never sue. Let's move on.
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon, Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon. Tralalalala... Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon, Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon. Traaaaahlalalalaa... Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't... oh, wait...
However, to compare the Bible with Dianetics is a bit of a joke. Is there any historical evidence of ancient, interplanetary 747's around?
Exactly the same amount of evidence as there is for a gigantic wooden ship floating around an earth completely covered with water. Or Nefilim roaming the earth, or people rising from their graves, or Herodes killing every young boy.
Feeling bored is what drives people to do anything else in spare time than conserving energy. It drives creativity and out-of-the-box thinking better than anything else. An extremely useful feature, brought to you by Natural Selection.
Note how often doing creative work is accused of being driven by boredom, and how seldom watching TV.
Humans ARE animals. We are apes, to be exactly. And if you want every single human have easy access to food and water, the single best thing you can do is stop eating meat. It's a very, very inefficient way to produce food, and wastes enormous amounts of water. We would have 2-5 times more food available if we stopped producing meat.
Send robots. There is no reason to send humans when machines can do the work just fine without complex life support systems and ethics. Man should not go into space.
Now it's time to start a religion, since we all know by heart and by revelation, the entire universe was created by holy hex numbers, with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 being the loving mother of all holy numbers. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 loves you, open your heart for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, or be damned forever.
When i read the subject, i thougt it was about high-tech travelling gear, but it turns out to cover only electronics. That said, here's my list of very fine high-tech equipment:
- Most important are your backpack and your shoes. Choose a light but strong backpack that fits perfect. 'Good' is not enough. It should be made in a way that makes it easy to repair, buckets should be replacable with only a needle and a thread. Don't expect to spend less than 350 euros. Bach, Macpac, Arcteryx are fine; my personal favorite is Radical Design. - Get shoes class B or BC if you go off-road. Take light ones. - A real tent: a tent should cost at least 400 euro. Get a Hilleberg if you can afford it; weighs next to nothing and it's almost impossible to tear the cloth. - Sleeping bag depends on where you go. If it never gets colder than 10 C at night, or when you're sure to sleep indoors, you can have a light and cheap one. If you expect freezing nights in your tent, you enter the high-tech sleeping bag zone. Some manufactures have managed to build water resistant sleeping bags under 1400 grams, comfortable at -15 C. - Tool: Leatherman no, Gerber yes. - Cooking equipment: always get a stove which can handle multiple liquid fuels. Don't expect to find gas canisters on the shelve in any place on earth. MSR whisperlight is fine. Lightweight, fails never. - Clothing: In moderate climate, take Fjallraven G1000 trousers (don't waste time trying something else).
This is about the government feeling only responsible for the well-being of cars and their drivers. Reducing speed in crowded area's is far more effective, as is forbidding music in cars. But they want to give free way to cars, and see pedestrians only as potential roadblocks.
You apparently do not know what you are talking about. Check wikipedia: the heat is generated by the rotation of watermolecules who are aligned by the waves. FYI: watermolecules are smaller than 120 mm, and smaller than bacteria, and they only *rotate*. They have nothing to do with something in the range of 120mm. The bacteria contain more than enough water themselves to get cooked. Wetting the sponge is a waste of energy.
Actually, i put my cycling clothes once every 1 - 2 weeks into a microwave. I have a recumbent, so the back part of my shirts and trousers get a distinguishable smell after a while. Since they can't be washed hot or ironed, i want to kill off the bacteria in a cool way. So first i make sure they are completely dry, the only water in it is in the bacteria. I do this to prevent high temperatures. Then i put them into the microwave (an old one, not sure how powerful it is) for five minutes at full power. After that, they are warm, but not hot and defenitly not burnt. Then i wash them at 30 Celsius and all the smell is gone.
FTFMS: The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally.
It's surely possible make that many lines of code for 12 billion euro's. But could it provide the same functionality? One of the strengths of FLOSS is the recycling of code. A closed system would need many more lines of code to get the same functionality.
On the other hand, would a closed system build 287 different end-user apps for playing mp3's?
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It is about people now making cold electronic music in their bedrooms
One of the greatest stylistical breakthroughs of the 20th century, was the invention of cold electronic music. An industrialised, techological world needs cold electronic music. And when it comes to dancing, i sometimes wonder how people were able to dance before the invention of the synthesizer & drum machine. And by the way, it was there before the internet. Just because many people love this music. Kraftwerk anyone?
I can think of a few reasons. One is the possibility to run a different desktop like KDE (Yes, mac-zealots, there are people who do not like the mac-GUI.) Another is package management: as far as i know OSX does not have a feature which enables you to install or update your software in large batches. Another would be a need or wish to develop for the Linux-platform.
I live outside the USA, thank you very much.
The file manager function has been replaced by Dolphin.
No, it has not and it will never. In KDE4 Konqueror will still do file management. Don't expect any current KDE-users to switch to Dolphin. Konq is the most powerful filemanager ever, the good folks at KDE are not going to persuade anyone to give it up. I'm not so sure Dolphin will make it into KDE4.2.
Still only some numbers and vague weaselspeak. There is really no reason to strike a deal with 'em, they will never speak out on details, so they'll never sue. Let's move on.
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon, ... oh, wait...
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon.
Tralalalala...
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon,
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't be anytime soon.
Traaaaahlalalalaa...
Vista is NOT ready to compete with other desktop OSs and won't
However, to compare the Bible with Dianetics is a bit of a joke. Is there any historical evidence of ancient, interplanetary 747's around?
Exactly the same amount of evidence as there is for a gigantic wooden ship floating around an earth completely covered with water. Or Nefilim roaming the earth, or people rising from their graves, or Herodes killing every young boy.
Feeling bored is what drives people to do anything else in spare time than conserving energy. It drives creativity and out-of-the-box thinking better than anything else. An extremely useful feature, brought to you by Natural Selection.
Note how often doing creative work is accused of being driven by boredom, and how seldom watching TV.
Woohoot! This morning it was five comments from the top before the first goatse-joke, but now we're down to three!
Humans ARE animals. We are apes, to be exactly. And if you want every single human have easy access to food and water, the single best thing you can do is stop eating meat. It's a very, very inefficient way to produce food, and wastes enormous amounts of water. We would have 2-5 times more food available if we stopped producing meat.
Wow, that's five comments from the top of the page, and the first goatse-joke is already there. Nothing ever changes on /.
Send robots. There is no reason to send humans when machines can do the work just fine without complex life support systems and ethics. Man should not go into space.
Now it's time to start a religion, since we all know by heart and by revelation, the entire universe was created by holy hex numbers, with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 being the loving mother of all holy numbers. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 loves you, open your heart for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, or be damned forever.
Why wouldn't it be useful? People are even working on making Wikipedia offline available on your digital audioplayer.
It's more like 'a job someone had to do'.
Therefore, if sex were necessary for speciation we would only have one species of bacteria.
There would not even be bacteria.
When i read the subject, i thougt it was about high-tech travelling gear, but it turns out to cover only electronics. That said, here's my list of very fine high-tech equipment:
- Most important are your backpack and your shoes. Choose a light but strong backpack that fits perfect. 'Good' is not enough. It should be made in a way that makes it easy to repair, buckets should be replacable with only a needle and a thread. Don't expect to spend less than 350 euros. Bach, Macpac, Arcteryx are fine; my personal favorite is Radical Design.
- Get shoes class B or BC if you go off-road. Take light ones.
- A real tent: a tent should cost at least 400 euro. Get a Hilleberg if you can afford it; weighs next to nothing and it's almost impossible to tear the cloth.
- Sleeping bag depends on where you go. If it never gets colder than 10 C at night, or when you're sure to sleep indoors, you can have a light and cheap one. If you expect freezing nights in your tent, you enter the high-tech sleeping bag zone. Some manufactures have managed to build water resistant sleeping bags under 1400 grams, comfortable at -15 C.
- Tool: Leatherman no, Gerber yes.
- Cooking equipment: always get a stove which can handle multiple liquid fuels. Don't expect to find gas canisters on the shelve in any place on earth. MSR whisperlight is fine. Lightweight, fails never.
- Clothing: In moderate climate, take Fjallraven G1000 trousers (don't waste time trying something else).
No need for mood lightning or vino. A sledgehammer to destroy the hifi set wich produces the r&b will do very fine, thank you.
You might not be able to convince the hardcore creationist leaders, but you can convince many of their followers.
Just look for the dusted Linux installation disks in your drawer, and you've copied most of Vista's novelties.
This is about the government feeling only responsible for the well-being of cars and their drivers. Reducing speed in crowded area's is far more effective, as is forbidding music in cars. But they want to give free way to cars, and see pedestrians only as potential roadblocks.
You apparently do not know what you are talking about. Check wikipedia: the heat is generated by the rotation of watermolecules who are aligned by the waves. FYI: watermolecules are smaller than 120 mm, and smaller than bacteria, and they only *rotate*. They have nothing to do with something in the range of 120mm. The bacteria contain more than enough water themselves to get cooked. Wetting the sponge is a waste of energy.
Actually, i put my cycling clothes once every 1 - 2 weeks into a microwave. I have a recumbent, so the back part of my shirts and trousers get a distinguishable smell after a while. Since they can't be washed hot or ironed, i want to kill off the bacteria in a cool way. So first i make sure they are completely dry, the only water in it is in the bacteria. I do this to prevent high temperatures. Then i put them into the microwave (an old one, not sure how powerful it is) for five minutes at full power. After that, they are warm, but not hot and defenitly not burnt. Then i wash them at 30 Celsius and all the smell is gone.
Seems like parent actually checked some facts, something the writer of TFA can't be blamed for.
FTFMS: The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and
distribution would cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally.
It's surely possible make that many lines of code for 12 billion euro's. But could it provide the same functionality? One of the strengths of FLOSS is the recycling of code. A closed system would need many more lines of code to get the same functionality.
On the other hand, would a closed system build 287 different end-user apps for playing mp3's?
If you RTFWA, you'd prabably noticed Erik the Red called it 'Greenland' for the same reason Vista is called "The most secure OS in existance'.