I don't think everyone saying this is a "hole" is quite right. I think it might just be a large area that isn't filled with anything, not necessarily a "hole" that is more (or less) than just an unusually large empty space.
Agreed. I used the gym at my university at least twice a week Well I don't use the gym, so why should I chip in for other people's gym fees? I'll grudgingly concede that the art students need paint, but not things that have nothing to do with anyone's education. It's a university not a resort.
Why do you need to use a university gym as opposed to a private gym anyway?
This whole story seems to be about making other people pay for stuff that you personally use. It just makes sense that I pay for my own education, and then I don't have to pay for anyone else's.
It's not like a park or road that everyone uses, it's a private education. Either people are interested in getting a certain education, or there's money in a certain education. In either case they have all the incentive to pay for themselves.
"What about the people who can't pay at all?" Well here in Australia the government loans you the money, if you don't want to work for it while getting your education. Then it's taken out of your taxes afterwards, relative to the amount of money you make.
As a taxpayer I don't see anything wrong with loaning someone money to get an education, as long as they pay it back when they're employed as a result of that education.
I hate sitting around waiting for webpages to render. While Firefox works away rendering I usually solve sudoku puzzles or go make a coffee, to ease the boredom.
If you don't think advertising works you must not have an adsense account that earns money. Advertisers pay on a per click or per view basis and can calculate their profit based on advertisement clicks.
I'm sure you're not saying that the reason billions are spent on advertising is that advertisement media producers are just really good salespeople, but that's how it sounds.
I think they should re-invent the three little piggies and the wolf tale, so that the third little piggy lives in one of these monolithic concrete domes.
If I decided to buy one of these I'd have to cover it with soil and grass and make circular windows in it and pretend to be Bilbo Baggins. Did the hobbits of the shire use reinforced concrete domes, I wonder?
Don't believe it? Ever wonder exactly why Britain, Poland, France, Italy and Germany have given us all sorts of interesting info about possible attacks? Where exactly do you think that they got it from? Hmm, that's pretty weak reasoning imho. There are definitely more targeted ways of infiltrating terrorist groups than listening in on everyone's phone calls.
The CRT is like one big capacitor in itself. Those "Danger, high voltage, etc" signs aren't there to make it look cool.
I've taken apart an old computer monitor (I was ~16), and stupidly took the CRT out and cut the flyback's wires from the CRT (without discharging it, luckily it had been off for a long timeand I was using an insulating knife) and plugged it back in. If you put the flyback's main wire anywhere near its other wires you'd get a continuous arc over a few centimeters, and in the dark you could see a corona coming off the wires.
I remember when I was bending over the thing to take a look at something and I felt my hair stand up because I was getting charge in my hair. I wasn't touching anything so it must have been because of a strong electric field.
I don't want to know how close I was from getting a fatal shock right through my face. (My eye fluid probably would have been the best point of entry..)
"Conscious things like ourselves are the only way the universe can be concerned about anything."
Easily disproved. Conscious things NOT like ourselves also work. Mechanical intelligences, hive minds, and stuff that is so alien to us that we can't even begin to conceive it also work.
When I said "like ourselves" I meant things that are conscious like ourselves, which is why it's a tautology; it only depends on how you define conscious and not on whether other consciousness exists or will exist.
If I had said "Conscious apes like ourselves" I would agree with everything you posted.
Others have pointed your mistake out but you don't seem to acknowledge it and just go off on a tangent and argue on.
Most people use userland libraries and don't interface directly with the kernel. glibc, GTK+, lib*, etc. GNU isn't "just" tar, grep, sed, etc (i.e. coreutils), it really does provide a large chunk of the system and I think anyone in a GNU dev's shoes would be a bit annoyed about the credit Linus gets. Also don't forget that Linux, and just about every FOSS app, is built using GCC.
To be honest I think it's just down to the naming, and not any misconceptions about importance or quibbles about the mission of free software. I've never heard anyone say GNU correctly in person (it's always G.N.U.), because it's such a terrible name and doesn't roll off the tongue like Linux. "Debian Sarge Guh-noo slash Linux", "Fedora Core Guh-noo slash Linux", "Damn Small Guh-noo slash Linux".
If they had put a few moments thought into the name, perhaps an acronym that describes what it is instead of what it isn't, and perhaps an acronym that can be pronounced. Off the top of my head perhaps Onix for open unix, or instead of the arbitrary 'G' in GNU they could have chosen a vowel; ANUs Not Unix, ENUs Not Unix, INUs Not Unix, ONUs Not Unix, UNUs Not Unix. "Freeax" was only marginally worse than "Guh-noo".
My freedom to use Linux the way I want is indeed at stake. At the moment I can do what I want as long as I distribute the code (if I choose to distribute it at all). If the GPLv3 takes there'll be some ifs and buts added to that, which I don't want and which won't stop software being improved and passed on.
While I'm posting: Who owns UNIX?? Does anyone still actually have a legitimate claim to owning UNIX? I thought this was a late 1980s problem, why is it cropping up now?
We need more people to stand up against the global warming onslaught. That's right! I vote that global warming isn't true, I'm a heretic, a rebel. We need more people to do the same.
If enough people are heretics and say that it isn't true, then it isn't true.
Well stepping back into the real world where truth isn't "relative"; there aren't any sexy pictures on CNN, there's some trashy news about washing your dog at the moment but no "omg lol come ova now sxcy", and talking about lies and manipulating the truth just gives me the yawn inducing conspiracy nut vibe.
Holy bejeesus, I can't believe you got modded up for that completely misleading comment. It's not $99 just for storage, it's also email storage, one-click storage of web pages and photo pages. Groups. Automatic calander storage, bookmark storage, address book storage, email storage(didn't you already mention this?) and some third party data storage. Easy Mac and PC (and Web) access to upload and download from anywhere (Eee.. storage?), video tutorials(Google's web apps also come with these), backup application(a storage interface?), etc... the list (of file types you can store) is very long.
I use it every day and love it. I have found no better coupling than iLife and.Mac. It just works. The stuff you mentioned is basically just.. storage. You also mention calendars, web hosting, and e-mail. Google does all that too, of course. Except it does that part for free.
Last I checked Google just works, and I expect this will just work too, and it looks like it'll just work for less money.
RTFA. There is a link to NASA posting the new numbers. Need more corroboration? If I believe in global warming I need to see the bug, presented and explained by the NASA official that made the mistake, and I need to see the data that the algorithms operated on, presented and explained by someone with a doctorate in climatology.
I need to know if anyone that had anything to do with collecting the data, writing the software, writing the article, or writing the summary, was ever on an oil company's payroll, ever owned stock in an oil company, or ever owned a car that wasn't a hybrid.
If I don't believe in global warming the article summary was more than enough corroboration, and is the final proof that global warming is a conspiracy run by Al Gore, the IPCC, the media, and anyone else who uses the words "Global Warming" without saying it in a mocking tone.
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I don't think everyone saying this is a "hole" is quite right. I think it might just be a large area that isn't filled with anything, not necessarily a "hole" that is more (or less) than just an unusually large empty space.
Feel free to correct me, IANAA
Why do you need to use a university gym as opposed to a private gym anyway?
This whole story seems to be about making other people pay for stuff that you personally use. It just makes sense that I pay for my own education, and then I don't have to pay for anyone else's.
It's not like a park or road that everyone uses, it's a private education. Either people are interested in getting a certain education, or there's money in a certain education. In either case they have all the incentive to pay for themselves.
"What about the people who can't pay at all?" Well here in Australia the government loans you the money, if you don't want to work for it while getting your education. Then it's taken out of your taxes afterwards, relative to the amount of money you make.
As a taxpayer I don't see anything wrong with loaning someone money to get an education, as long as they pay it back when they're employed as a result of that education.
I hate sitting around waiting for webpages to render. While Firefox works away rendering I usually solve sudoku puzzles or go make a coffee, to ease the boredom.
If you don't think advertising works you must not have an adsense account that earns money. Advertisers pay on a per click or per view basis and can calculate their profit based on advertisement clicks.
I'm sure you're not saying that the reason billions are spent on advertising is that advertisement media producers are just really good salespeople, but that's how it sounds.
pff, aren't holographs supposed to move when you move your head around? Doesn't look like a very good holograph to me.
Reminds me of the saying "Of course I believe in luck. How else do I explain the success of my enemies?"
Oh snap!
This is on the BBC as well, so it actually may not be total "carbon nanotubes water to oil device" nonsense.
We now trust Wikipedia to tell us that rat poison is actually suitable for human consumption. In your face Encyclopedia Britannica!
I think they should re-invent the three little piggies and the wolf tale, so that the third little piggy lives in one of these monolithic concrete domes.
If I decided to buy one of these I'd have to cover it with soil and grass and make circular windows in it and pretend to be Bilbo Baggins. Did the hobbits of the shire use reinforced concrete domes, I wonder?
The CRT is like one big capacitor in itself. Those "Danger, high voltage, etc" signs aren't there to make it look cool.
I've taken apart an old computer monitor (I was ~16), and stupidly took the CRT out and cut the flyback's wires from the CRT (without discharging it, luckily it had been off for a long timeand I was using an insulating knife) and plugged it back in. If you put the flyback's main wire anywhere near its other wires you'd get a continuous arc over a few centimeters, and in the dark you could see a corona coming off the wires.
I remember when I was bending over the thing to take a look at something and I felt my hair stand up because I was getting charge in my hair. I wasn't touching anything so it must have been because of a strong electric field.
I don't want to know how close I was from getting a fatal shock right through my face. (My eye fluid probably would have been the best point of entry..)
It's dead slow at the moment, even to get the torrent. Here it is
"Conscious things like ourselves are the only way the universe can be concerned about anything."
Easily disproved. Conscious things NOT like ourselves also work. Mechanical intelligences, hive minds, and stuff that is so alien to us that we can't even begin to conceive it also work.
When I said "like ourselves" I meant things that are conscious like ourselves, which is why it's a tautology; it only depends on how you define conscious and not on whether other consciousness exists or will exist.If I had said "Conscious apes like ourselves" I would agree with everything you posted.
Others have pointed your mistake out but you don't seem to acknowledge it and just go off on a tangent and argue on.
1. Round up some cute looking children.
2. Smudge some dirt onto the children and rip their clothes a bit.
3. Take them to a place where computers are dumped, or in this case a place where paper is dumped.
4. Show the kids rubbing themselves into the pile of trash, and holding the trash with a sad look on their face.
5. Create a website.
6. Get more misled members who think the kids are actually affected by the waste in their daily lives, and get media attention.
7. Profit! (Literally)
Prove it.
It's a tautology, I don't have to prove it.
Conscious things like ourselves are the only way the universe can be concerned about anything.
Most people use userland libraries and don't interface directly with the kernel. glibc, GTK+, lib*, etc. GNU isn't "just" tar, grep, sed, etc (i.e. coreutils), it really does provide a large chunk of the system and I think anyone in a GNU dev's shoes would be a bit annoyed about the credit Linus gets. Also don't forget that Linux, and just about every FOSS app, is built using GCC.
To be honest I think it's just down to the naming, and not any misconceptions about importance or quibbles about the mission of free software. I've never heard anyone say GNU correctly in person (it's always G.N.U.), because it's such a terrible name and doesn't roll off the tongue like Linux. "Debian Sarge Guh-noo slash Linux", "Fedora Core Guh-noo slash Linux", "Damn Small Guh-noo slash Linux".
If they had put a few moments thought into the name, perhaps an acronym that describes what it is instead of what it isn't, and perhaps an acronym that can be pronounced. Off the top of my head perhaps Onix for open unix, or instead of the arbitrary 'G' in GNU they could have chosen a vowel; ANUs Not Unix, ENUs Not Unix, INUs Not Unix, ONUs Not Unix, UNUs Not Unix. "Freeax" was only marginally worse than "Guh-noo".
My freedom to use Linux the way I want is indeed at stake. At the moment I can do what I want as long as I distribute the code (if I choose to distribute it at all). If the GPLv3 takes there'll be some ifs and buts added to that, which I don't want and which won't stop software being improved and passed on.
He uses GNU+Linux now (says it GNU plus Linux).
While I'm posting: Who owns UNIX?? Does anyone still actually have a legitimate claim to owning UNIX? I thought this was a late 1980s problem, why is it cropping up now?
If enough people are heretics and say that it isn't true, then it isn't true.
That's how science works, right?
Well stepping back into the real world where truth isn't "relative"; there aren't any sexy pictures on CNN, there's some trashy news about washing your dog at the moment but no "omg lol come ova now sxcy", and talking about lies and manipulating the truth just gives me the yawn inducing conspiracy nut vibe.
Check it out.
I use it every day and love it. I have found no better coupling than iLife and
Last I checked Google just works, and I expect this will just work too, and it looks like it'll just work for less money.
I need to know if anyone that had anything to do with collecting the data, writing the software, writing the article, or writing the summary, was ever on an oil company's payroll, ever owned stock in an oil company, or ever owned a car that wasn't a hybrid.
If I don't believe in global warming the article summary was more than enough corroboration, and is the final proof that global warming is a conspiracy run by Al Gore, the IPCC, the media, and anyone else who uses the words "Global Warming" without saying it in a mocking tone.
Argh! Do I side with Linux and anti-patenting, or with Apple and anti-outsourcing? It's a slashdotter's nightmare choice.