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In my experience, most Americans under 30 can't even convert from miles to yards. Why would you ever want to do that?
You don't need a calculator to find out how many centimeters are there in 174.56 m. That makes it particularly well suited for every day use. You don't carry a calculator everywhere? Who let you into/. ?
Would $10,000 help nVidia to do so? Well, it's about.00004% of their annual revenue, and they could get it by taking a few dollars off of every employees salary.
In my experience, most Americans under 30 can't even convert from miles to yards.Why would you ever want to do that? You don't need a calculator to find out how many centimeters are there in 174.56 m. That makes it particularly well suited for every day use.You don't carry a calculator everywhere? Who let you into/. ?
Gah. cat is for fools who can't manage their own character encoding. od is for losers with no luck A true unix expert uses dd and/dev/random, and it always gets it it exactly write the first time. In fact, for a true unix expert, it will fix bugs/typos/spelling errors he hadn't thought of.
This actually neatly summarizes the problems with Libertarians in a nutshell. They simplistically assume what's a good idea in one case is applicable to every case (e.g., self-defense is good, therefore, personal nukes must also be good. Low taxes is good, therefore, no taxes must also be good. Etc.) The problem is, you're wrong. Libertarians, in general, and as per party platform, support national defense and support minimal taxation. Most probably support local, community roads. They do not support personal nukes.
As in, you need to pay a toll to go from your house to the grocery store. A toll back. You already have to do that. The difference is now, if you don't pay, rather than being unable to use the roads, your home is taken from you and possibly your car too. And even if you don't use the roads, you have to pay.
I have no problem with public roads, but neighborhood roads could probably benefit in many cases by being cooperatively owned by those who live on them. Cities with tens of thousands of people simply aren't going to pay much attention to 30 people who live on some little poorly maintained road, even when their taxes pay for their road and many more.
Wikipedia's worth the toilet paper it's printed on, and not a penny more. Interesting. Wikipedia has about 12 times as many words as the printed Encyclopedia Britannica. Since Britannica has about 30,000 pages, we can assume Wikipedia would have 450,000 pages.
Now, a roll of toilet paper is about 100 pages, and costs about $1. Wikipedia should then be 4500 rolls of toilet paper.
Therefore, Wikipedia is worth $4500, in your estimation.
You must like it quite a lot, especially considering the conflicts on interest you claim is present.
Consider that Britannica only costs $700, printed, and far less in a digital format.
If it would be okay to sell in it's condition, but you don't want any possibility of recovering the information on the memory card, why not take it out and destroy it?
You've got a point, but there are some interesting observations to be made.
Pigs will eat most things. They can also carry some diseases (Trichinosis), not as prevalent in other meats.
Chickens will eat bugs, but they do not make up much of a domestic chicken's diet.
Fish are generally carnivores, but those that eat other fish (rather than just bugs) have been known to contain mercury, and be dangerous if eaten too much.
You're right on both counts about beef, but they are not related. Beef is unhealthy because it has more intramuscular fat (which is sadly much of what makes it so good). Bison, which are herbivores but whose fat and meat is more separated, are healthy.
Personally, I don't find it easy to use at all. When it first boots up, you get a screen with a little symbol in the front. Clicking it does nothing. Eventually, if you happen to leave your cursor on the side of the screen, a little thing will pop up. You then have a few strange, ambiguous, unlabeled icons. Only one of them really indicates what it does (the chat one), and it probably wouldn't to people who had never seen a computer.
Even if you figure out what those buttons do, the interface is very tedious. The only way to switch "activities" is to move your cursor to the side, wait, click a little, unlabeled button, and click another unlabeled, ambiguous button. In other systems you just click the (I'll admit, likely unlabeled) button on the taskbar/dock. It might seem like I'm complaining over nothing, but trying to, say, take notes off a web page in abiword would take much longer than with with a book, paper, and pencil, even assuming the person using it could type (unlikely).
How is this easier than GNOME, KDE, Aqua, XFCE, or even Windows?
It should also be a great cost saver if it can replace old fasioned school books. I am sure a kid wears out more than $100 worth of books during school. Not if they're public domain, which applies just as much to digital versions.
Beyond that, computers require a lot of maintenance. I believe the current estimate for the TCO of an OLPC laptop is $1000. And you have to get one for every person, unlike books, where you only need to get enough to share around. And they don't last as long as normal books when given the same degree of care.
If you don't want to eat trans fats, don't eat them. If most of the people in New York cared enough to choose not to eat them, most restaurants would not use them.
That's a very good reason to not have state health care, not to restrict freedoms. At the very least, they should make smokers and the obese pay more for their state health care.
A huge problem with socialized medicine is that you either have responsible people paying for people who make stupid choices, repeatedly, or the government makes incursions into people's lives and freedom.
Victimless crimes are no longer victimless when everyone is forced to pay for the.
Now, let's say all video equipment starts to play only content that is encoded with special keys. But, it doesn't. You can "let's say" anything, but that doesn't make it a valid point if it isn't true.
Very few people are aware that they have moved to open source systems, such as the Internet and its services, all of which are, philosophically if not literally, part of the Free world that Richard Stallman envisioned lo, these many years ago. That is utter nonsense. Yes, their may be some vague philosophical similarity between "Free" software and the internet, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing. Most people are not using "Free" software, certainly not personally.
the de facto choice these days for developers is between Microsoft and GNU GPL systems and applications. Rarely is such a choice put forth. If said developer wants to, you know, eat, have a residence, make a living, etc, he is likely stuck using proprietary Microsoft or Sun systems. With Java being GPLed, that might change somewhat, but as far as I am aware one will need to release GPL compliant software to use Java under the GPL. Richard Stallman might be able to living in an office that MIT gives him as part of a sort of honorary professor job, where he does no work, but most people cannot and probably do not want to live like that. Yes, GPL development software is used a lot for open source development, but that can only be expected.
You're being ridiculous. The mafia kills people. The RIAA sues you for some money. If you don't want to be sued don't pirate music. If you don't want to deal with the RIAA at all, buy indie music, or none at all.
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Internet. The original iMac (the first iThing) was touted as being easy to connect to the internet.
In my experience, most Americans under 30 can't even convert from miles to yards.Why would you ever want to do that? /. ?
You don't need a calculator to find out how many centimeters are there in 174.56 m. That makes it particularly well suited for every day use.You don't carry a calculator everywhere? Who let you into
You can have 95% of a basic unix machine BSD licensed, but the other 5% (compiler,debugger) are rather essential, and missing.
Replacing the G in GNU with a hammer and sickle or peace sign would seem fair as a rebuttal to "M$", but /. doesn't support the character.
Gah. cat is for fools who can't manage their own character encoding. /dev/random, and it always gets it it exactly write the first time. In fact, for a true unix expert, it will fix bugs/typos/spelling errors he hadn't thought of.
od is for losers with no luck
A true unix expert uses dd and
I have no problem with modal editors like vim, although in Linux I mainly use emacs because I know the keystrokes better.
That said, overtype mode is absolutely the worst and most destructive feature I have ever encountered in a program. It's also almost useless.
Effectively, it does. You can still sell one copy of your software, but after that, the person who you sold it to can distribute it freely.
No. The answer is "whomever Nintendo wants".
They are wanted by Nintendo.
They do not Nintendo wants.
You can't actually do anything with the information in the books on witchcraft and demonology.
I have no problem with public roads, but neighborhood roads could probably benefit in many cases by being cooperatively owned by those who live on them. Cities with tens of thousands of people simply aren't going to pay much attention to 30 people who live on some little poorly maintained road, even when their taxes pay for their road and many more.
Wikipedia has about 12 times as many words as the printed Encyclopedia Britannica. Since Britannica has about 30,000 pages, we can assume Wikipedia would have 450,000 pages.
Now, a roll of toilet paper is about 100 pages, and costs about $1. Wikipedia should then be 4500 rolls of toilet paper.
Therefore, Wikipedia is worth $4500, in your estimation.
You must like it quite a lot, especially considering the conflicts on interest you claim is present.
Consider that Britannica only costs $700, printed, and far less in a digital format.
If it would be okay to sell in it's condition, but you don't want any possibility of recovering the information on the memory card, why not take it out and destroy it?
You've got a point, but there are some interesting observations to be made.
Pigs will eat most things. They can also carry some diseases (Trichinosis), not as prevalent in other meats.
Chickens will eat bugs, but they do not make up much of a domestic chicken's diet.
Fish are generally carnivores, but those that eat other fish (rather than just bugs) have been known to contain mercury, and be dangerous if eaten too much.
You're right on both counts about beef, but they are not related. Beef is unhealthy because it has more intramuscular fat (which is sadly much of what makes it so good). Bison, which are herbivores but whose fat and meat is more separated, are healthy.
Personally, I don't find it easy to use at all. When it first boots up, you get a screen with a little symbol in the front. Clicking it does nothing. Eventually, if you happen to leave your cursor on the side of the screen, a little thing will pop up. You then have a few strange, ambiguous, unlabeled icons. Only one of them really indicates what it does (the chat one), and it probably wouldn't to people who had never seen a computer.
Even if you figure out what those buttons do, the interface is very tedious. The only way to switch "activities" is to move your cursor to the side, wait, click a little, unlabeled button, and click another unlabeled, ambiguous button. In other systems you just click the (I'll admit, likely unlabeled) button on the taskbar/dock. It might seem like I'm complaining over nothing, but trying to, say, take notes off a web page in abiword would take much longer than with with a book, paper, and pencil, even assuming the person using it could type (unlikely).
How is this easier than GNOME, KDE, Aqua, XFCE, or even Windows?
Beyond that, computers require a lot of maintenance. I believe the current estimate for the TCO of an OLPC laptop is $1000. And you have to get one for every person, unlike books, where you only need to get enough to share around. And they don't last as long as normal books when given the same degree of care.
Not if the image refreshed when you got it wrong, which is what most captchas do now.
You have 9 semi-random pictures. One is a dog. The rest are not. "Pick the dog".
If you don't want to eat trans fats, don't eat them. If most of the people in New York cared enough to choose not to eat them, most restaurants would not use them.
That's a very good reason to not have state health care, not to restrict freedoms. At the very least, they should make smokers and the obese pay more for their state health care.
A huge problem with socialized medicine is that you either have responsible people paying for people who make stupid choices, repeatedly, or the government makes incursions into people's lives and freedom.
Victimless crimes are no longer victimless when everyone is forced to pay for the.
You're being ridiculous. The mafia kills people. The RIAA sues you for some money. If you don't want to be sued don't pirate music. If you don't want to deal with the RIAA at all, buy indie music, or none at all.