$2000? OH WOW. That is simply amazing. Without that, they wouldn't have a chance. It's not as if they've raised tens of millions of dollars, and $2000 is a tiny drop in the bucket. NO! It's not as if there are many individuals who have given more than that. NOT AT ALL! Those $4000 are they key to the RIAA's supreme power. It's not as if it's just a rather unimportant group of record companies. It's not as if the people who obsess about it so strongly are just a small, idiotic group with a firm belief in the fictional right to free music.
Oh no, those evil politicians! That they don't strive every day to fight for your right to free music is proof of their corruption and depravity.
And that brings us to the supreme Ron Paul, champion of goodness. With his 1% of the republican vote, he shall become not only president, but every congressman and every senator and every governor of every state in the USA. From there, he shall eliminate the government! No roads, or schools, or laws! How lucky we shall be.
No. The European public health care system does cost less per person than the American private+public system, but there is no real comparison between the private systems in Europe (which I understand to be minimal) and the U.S.
Regulations and the public health care systems probably do drive U.S. private health care costs up. That said, there is no realistic way to not have many of those regulations/public systems. It is just not feasible to leave it as a completely free market, because while it may be less expensive, it is still not guaranteed.
An open source phone is an interesting idea, but this is a terrible implementation. It is very big, with a relatively small screen. It is ugly. It comes with very limited features (and there is no guarantee that will change). It is missing vital hardware (wifi), which is supposed coming with a second release. And it is still quite expensive.
On the other hand, the iPhone is smaller, with a bigger screen, and looks really nice. It is quite featureful (as in it has a lot of nice features, not it could possibly have a lot of nice features if people decide to volunteer their time to develop for it.
All of them are natural, organic What does that mean? Is the soda found in nature?
there is no corn syrup or other fake crap. Corn syrup is fake? Really? So sugarcane just "naturally" and "organically" becomes sugar?
How much do you pay in taxes for the public insurance?
For goods/services where a high level of consumer choice is not important, public will always outperform private because there is no requirement for a profit margin. But with public, there is no requirement for efficiency. They have as much to spend as they decide to take (or borrow).
I really can't understand this complaint. All they are doing is adding your name to a file on your computer, that no one else has access to, and in such a way that is is easily viewable and removable by you. Do you have no files on your computer with your name?
But have you thought of at least contacting your elected representative, and requesting that it be made law for hardware details to be disclosed; thus enabling the creation of Open Source, third-party drivers?...Please, take the time to knock out a letter, and post it -- second class, even, if you must -- to your MP. Point out the benefits that would result from mandatory disclosure (fairness to users of alternative OSes, prevents software-controlled obsolescence, right to make proper use of what you own, prevents mendacious claims wrt hardware capabilities [e.g. digital cameras' RAW formats, closely guarded by manufacturers, reveal the true pixel count -- which may be less than what is claimed in advertising], ultimately manufacturers sell more product), and why relying on voluntary disclosure is a bad idea (everyone is paranoid of their competitors). Uh, why not just ask the company making the hardware? You know, the ones who should have authority over that? Especially since very few people know or care about this issue, and that will reflect in a representative's actions.
plant efficiency in capturing sunlight : 2% (and that's CAPTURING, right, that's not the amount that gets converted into food, most is used to capture co2 in the leaves, and a lot is used in the roots capturing the "speciality" elements (iron, nitrogen,...), which is not a free operation, in fact most capturing is *very* expensive "active transport" stuff)
A slight solar panel converts about 10% of the energy of the sun. Expensive ones can go up to 40%. So we'd be covered for quite a few levels Uh, no. You can't transfer the electricity into the plants. You have to convert it back to light and then have the 2% efficient plants capture it, where you lose a ton of energy.
obviously, you'd simply shine the exact shade of green the plants assimilate How? Filtering the other colors wouldn't save you any electricity here.
No, it would be like a car company designing a car but outsourcing the manufacturing of it. Several companies have done this, outsourcing production of some sports cars to Lotus, including Tesla with their electric Roadster.
Setting resolution doesn't work well in Parallels, in any linux/bsd OS. I've found you generally have to edit xorg.conf, which is ridiculously hard. Parallels has terrible linux/bsd support overall. VMWare Fusion, on the other hand, has excellent linux/bsd support. It has built in tools that set the resolution for you and update it if you resize the VM screen.
Linux documentation is far superior to that of Windows, because the API's and sourcecode are all available. Learn how to program Oh, that's wonderful. So if I want to, say, mount a network drive, which is generally almost impossible on linux (except for SUSE with yast2), I have to look through tons and tons of code. And of course there is no feasible way to figure out how to do it like that.
Compare that to the Windows/Mac way, where you either use the "help" feature, or are easily able to figure it out.
There are people who do what they want in linux, just because you can't, doesn't mean that there is something wrong with linux. Rather, it probably means you are not that smart. Uh....
These devices and applications do work, and as anyone familiar with a command line interface knows, it is usually far simpler to troubleshoot a problem in an environment that you have complete control over (like the command line) than it is in some hairbrained GUI that is made to pander to people like yourself who consider themselves technical users but think that command line interfaces are bad. Nonsense. I can use a unix CLI easily, but that does not mean it is always easier than doing things from a GUI. Some things are. But I would much rather click "Preferecences->Display and click 1440x900" than "google 'linux setting resolution', and cd/etc, and ls, and cd x11, and emacs xorg.conf, and add Display blah blah blah and change setting b and setting q and setting v and logout and login and fix typo and logout and login and realize I forgot setting t and fix it and logout and login".
What I don't understand is why people pay for other people to play a game for them. First they pay Blizzard $15/month to play the game, then they pay someone even more money to play the game for them. What's the point?
Ubuntu does have much better repositories than than OpenSuse, but it's GUI utilities aren't as good as yast2, at least in my opinion.
yast provides an easy to use way to manage the entire system that I have never seen matched in another Linux distribution. With Ubuntu, you have to deal with separate utilities. Also, Ubuntu's installer is very easy to use, but lacks any choice of what to install. It's great for a normal desktop, but for a development workstation it is less than optimal.
Maybe it would be possible to add yast or a yast like system to Ubuntu, which utilizes the extremely reliable apt-get and Ubuntu repos?
Well - if you consider that French and English offer the same functionality, your analogy does not hold water. Um, Metric and English (units) also offer the same functionality. The English units are just a lot harder to work with.
French is much harder to work with than English, especially considering it is less widely spoken.
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$2000? OH WOW. That is simply amazing. Without that, they wouldn't have a chance. It's not as if they've raised tens of millions of dollars, and $2000 is a tiny drop in the bucket. NO! It's not as if there are many individuals who have given more than that. NOT AT ALL! Those $4000 are they key to the RIAA's supreme power. It's not as if it's just a rather unimportant group of record companies. It's not as if the people who obsess about it so strongly are just a small, idiotic group with a firm belief in the fictional right to free music.
Oh no, those evil politicians! That they don't strive every day to fight for your right to free music is proof of their corruption and depravity.
And that brings us to the supreme Ron Paul, champion of goodness. With his 1% of the republican vote, he shall become not only president, but every congressman and every senator and every governor of every state in the USA. From there, he shall eliminate the government! No roads, or schools, or laws! How lucky we shall be.
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No. The European public health care system does cost less per person than the American private+public system, but there is no real comparison between the private systems in Europe (which I understand to be minimal) and the U.S.
Regulations and the public health care systems probably do drive U.S. private health care costs up. That said, there is no realistic way to not have many of those regulations/public systems. It is just not feasible to leave it as a completely free market, because while it may be less expensive, it is still not guaranteed.
20x faster? Is that assuming a Bugatti Veyron and a tricycle?
$275 is what Dell charges for the upgrade, not what it costs.
That said, it is more likely that Dell is doing this because they make a lot of money off of the demo software they install.
An open source phone is an interesting idea, but this is a terrible implementation. It is very big, with a relatively small screen. It is ugly. It comes with very limited features (and there is no guarantee that will change). It is missing vital hardware (wifi), which is supposed coming with a second release. And it is still quite expensive.
On the other hand, the iPhone is smaller, with a bigger screen, and looks really nice. It is quite featureful (as in it has a lot of nice features, not it could possibly have a lot of nice features if people decide to volunteer their time to develop for it.
Couldn't they have designed a nice, open phone?
Read Slashdot.
And with GPLv3, you can't have the hardware restricted to only running an approved build of the software.
I really can't understand this complaint. All they are doing is adding your name to a file on your computer, that no one else has access to, and in such a way that is is easily viewable and removable by you. Do you have no files on your computer with your name?
Detrimental to the printer. In my experience, dried ink clogging up an inkjet is nearly impossible to fix.
That said, this still isn't a very effective argument.
A slight solar panel converts about 10% of the energy of the sun. Expensive ones can go up to 40%. So we'd be covered for quite a few levels Uh, no. You can't transfer the electricity into the plants. You have to convert it back to light and then have the 2% efficient plants capture it, where you lose a ton of energy. obviously, you'd simply shine the exact shade of green the plants assimilate How? Filtering the other colors wouldn't save you any electricity here.
No, it would be like a car company designing a car but outsourcing the manufacturing of it. Several companies have done this, outsourcing production of some sports cars to Lotus, including Tesla with their electric Roadster.
Setting resolution doesn't work well in Parallels, in any linux/bsd OS. I've found you generally have to edit xorg.conf, which is ridiculously hard. Parallels has terrible linux/bsd support overall. VMWare Fusion, on the other hand, has excellent linux/bsd support. It has built in tools that set the resolution for you and update it if you resize the VM screen.
But the American system isn't even mostly private.
Compare that to the Windows/Mac way, where you either use the "help" feature, or are easily able to figure it out. There are people who do what they want in linux, just because you can't, doesn't mean that there is something wrong with linux. Rather, it probably means you are not that smart. Uh.... These devices and applications do work, and as anyone familiar with a command line interface knows, it is usually far simpler to troubleshoot a problem in an environment that you have complete control over (like the command line) than it is in some hairbrained GUI that is made to pander to people like yourself who consider themselves technical users but think that command line interfaces are bad. Nonsense. I can use a unix CLI easily, but that does not mean it is always easier than doing things from a GUI. Some things are. But I would much rather click "Preferecences->Display and click 1440x900" than "google 'linux setting resolution', and cd
What I don't understand is why people pay for other people to play a game for them. First they pay Blizzard $15/month to play the game, then they pay someone even more money to play the game for them. What's the point?
You're listing some really expensive European cars, and comparing them to far, far cheaper American cars. And you're including English cars.
One thing I have noticed is that within a brand/product line, European cars tend to look the same.
I've read the article, but I saw no mention of what software they used to manipulate the images. Does anyone know?
Why do Google and the Justice Department control what Microsoft does with their product? Isn't it theirs?
Ubuntu does have much better repositories than than OpenSuse, but it's GUI utilities aren't as good as yast2, at least in my opinion.
yast provides an easy to use way to manage the entire system that I have never seen matched in another Linux distribution. With Ubuntu, you have to deal with separate utilities. Also, Ubuntu's installer is very easy to use, but lacks any choice of what to install. It's great for a normal desktop, but for a development workstation it is less than optimal.
Maybe it would be possible to add yast or a yast like system to Ubuntu, which utilizes the extremely reliable apt-get and Ubuntu repos?
Since when do viruses "target and destroy" other viruses?
French is much harder to work with than English, especially considering it is less widely spoken.