"First: the notion that there is "only so much money." It is true that there is are only so many nominal dollars/yen/etc. However, you can make money right in your own home! Just get a piece of paper and write "IOU $5" and give it to a friend. Congratulations. You have just increased the total amount of money in the world by $5."
How in the world is this "insightful"? Can I turn off these moronic rating things? This is a just plain dumb example. When you go and repay your friend, you have to get the $5 bill from somewhere. You get a job, ask your mom, whatever... but you have NOT increased the money supply at all --just moved it around a bit. The government inflates the money supply to its liking pretty much how they want.
OTOH, now that there is nothing of any real value backing up the money the government prints (first gold, then silver, now "in God we trust") it IS a total scam.
"If smaller software companies can patch all of their bugs serious or minor, ZDNet's George Ou asks...which predicate the argument on the notion that small software companies patch all their bugs."
"So if I go looking for bugs in say the Opera browser I wont find any, because small companies patch all their bugs?"
It is also true that no company patches all its bugs, but this statement is not a good analogy at all, and the "so" part implies some kind of logic. The article is clearly talking about bugs that have BEEN KNOWN FOR 6 MONTHS. You are talking about finding new ones. Apples and Pears.
"Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude."
This is true, for the "Add/Remove Software" part of administration. I use Ubuntu and Suse and don't want to spend time administering either. Having 1 place to go to administer 90% of the machines functionality is a huge help.
The Ubuntu community is very helpful in giving answers, but it often results in "it's easy, just type 'sudo this_line in/etc/app/app-conf' and you're done". Simple, if you can remember all the "this_lines" and their homes. Until there is a more extensive and human-readable administration section, it still doesn't get first place in the "linux for human beans" category.
Some communication on the Windows version during update. As recently as updating to the 1.0.7 version on windows, if you were not the Admin, the program gives you no information what is going wrong while the circle thing in the corner continues to spin like it's "working". We need a little shout-out to the lesser-user, good moz-people.
I really do prefer the Gnome interface to KDE. I have to "take out" a lot of eye candy from the default KDE behavior to enjoy it. I have also found default setups of gnome distros to run faster than KDE ones on the same hardware (yes, could be the distro).
What makes Gnome frustrating is the lack of that "network" link whenever I use an application on a LAN. I'm not a programmer and I don't want to have to be a sys-admin, either. I have found a way to manually mount remote fileservers so that applications see them. To many people, though, browsing to each document each time they want to use it instead of just being able to open them from a dialog box is not going to happen.
Oh, I don't even mind hearing the "new paradigm" thing once in a while, even though it makes me cringe...but if somebody says "synergy" in the same breath, I am gonna puke!
"A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was recently developed by an Israeli company."
Seems like Mg and Al wouldn't be such inexpensive metals if some country with a lot of drivers tried to pull this off. And what are they refined with again? Some process using fo..., fos..., fossils fuels, most likely.
"I cannot agree with this statement. Have you been to China? I personally lived in China for 3~4 years, and it's definitely different from what you are imagining. Cities like Shanghai, Beijing and almost every big cities in each province have what we have. "
I was in Shanghai and Beijing in 2003 and you are most correct. The original post is absurd. -KB
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"First: the notion that there is "only so much money." It is true that there is are only so many nominal dollars/yen/etc. However, you can make money right in your own home! Just get a piece of paper and write "IOU $5" and give it to a friend. Congratulations. You have just increased the total amount of money in the world by $5."
How in the world is this "insightful"? Can I turn off these moronic rating things? This is a just plain dumb example. When you go and repay your friend, you have to get the $5 bill from somewhere. You get a job, ask your mom, whatever... but you have NOT increased the money supply at all --just moved it around a bit. The government inflates the money supply to its liking pretty much how they want.
OTOH, now that there is nothing of any real value backing up the money the government prints (first gold, then silver, now "in God we trust") it IS a total scam.
"If smaller software companies can patch all of their bugs serious or minor, ZDNet's George Ou asks ...which predicate the argument on the notion that small software companies patch all their bugs."
"So if I go looking for bugs in say the Opera browser I wont find any, because small companies patch all their bugs?"
It is also true that no company patches all its bugs, but this statement is not a good analogy at all, and the "so" part implies some kind of logic. The article is clearly talking about bugs that have BEEN KNOWN FOR 6 MONTHS. You are talking about finding new ones. Apples and Pears.
"Plus, you have hassle free and rapid support from Microsoft..."
OMG, this made me blow coffee through my nose.
"Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude."
/etc/app/app-conf' and you're done". Simple, if you can remember all the "this_lines" and their homes. Until there is a more extensive and human-readable administration section, it still doesn't get first place in the "linux for human beans" category.
This is true, for the "Add/Remove Software" part of administration. I use Ubuntu and Suse and don't want to spend time administering either. Having 1 place to go to administer 90% of the machines functionality is a huge help.
The Ubuntu community is very helpful in giving answers, but it often results in "it's easy, just type 'sudo this_line in
my 0.02USD
Cult-of-personality reference. Jim Jones gets followers to drink poison kool-aid as he kills himself and all his followers...in the 80's(?)
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/12589.htm
Some communication on the Windows version during update. As recently as updating to the 1.0.7 version on windows, if you were not the Admin, the program gives you no information what is going wrong while the circle thing in the corner continues to spin like it's "working". We need a little shout-out to the lesser-user, good moz-people.
thanks.
A lot. Sounds like a joke, but experience has shown that the OS just needs to "freshen up" a bit every once in a while.
Who knows what goes on inside that black box...
They only killed each other when one stole the other's Cheetos.
but I GNU it all along.
I really do prefer the Gnome interface to KDE. I have to "take out" a lot of eye candy from the default KDE behavior to enjoy it. I have also found default setups of gnome distros to run faster than KDE ones on the same hardware (yes, could be the distro).
What makes Gnome frustrating is the lack of that "network" link whenever I use an application on a LAN. I'm not a programmer and I don't want to have to be a sys-admin, either. I have found a way to manually mount remote fileservers so that applications see them. To many people, though, browsing to each document each time they want to use it instead of just being able to open them from a dialog box is not going to happen.
Their's nothing wrong with asking!
All your IP are belong to us.
Hand given. Now how in the world is this "news for nerds"? If it didn't have BG in the headlines would it have made it as a post? Noooo...
The password is "Web Services".
Oh, I don't even mind hearing the "new paradigm" thing once in a while, even though it makes me cringe...but if somebody says "synergy" in the same breath, I am gonna puke!
Do you guys have an "unlikely" tag for these kinds of articles?
"A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was recently developed by an Israeli company."
Seems like Mg and Al wouldn't be such inexpensive metals if some country with a lot of drivers tried to pull this off. And what are they refined with again? Some process using fo..., fos..., fossils fuels, most likely.
"It's perhaps where the US was in the mid 1800s."
"I cannot agree with this statement. Have you been to China? I personally lived in China for 3~4 years, and it's definitely different from what you are imagining. Cities like Shanghai, Beijing and almost every big cities in each province have what we have. "
I was in Shanghai and Beijing in 2003 and you are most correct. The original post is absurd. -KB