Why not display the duplicate comment only once, but have as many sections sections displaying the "Moderation: -1, Unfunny" and "Fair o o o Unfair" items as there are moderations to metamod? That would be a lot clearer, wouldn't it?
Okay, I'll compare The Netherlands and France, pre-Euro:
Say, a litre of milk would cost about one Guilder. It would cost about three Francs in France.
Maybe the US compared to Canada happens to be different, I don't know. I haven't been to the US. In Canada, however, the converted price level was comparable to The Netherlands (i.e. something costing $1 CAN would cost about DFL 1,65 here).
Maybe things in the USA are 1.5 times as expensive compared to Canada. That would mean lots of people with lower incomes would have a lower standard of living. This could explain the "rednecks in trailer parks" phenomenon.
I'm not entirely sure whether I agree or disagree with you:-)
No, not really. That is just an incomplete measure of the number of programs installed (incomplete as not every program makes a dotfile, and not every user uses every program).
Maybe a good indicator would be the number of files outside/home which weren't installed via the system's package manager (usually rpm or apt)?
For some reason, I received a "ZDNet AnchorDesk Daily Newsletter" via email today. I never subscribed to it, and after what I've read in the comments here, I know I certainly will not ever. Still, they appear to have become desperate enough to risk losing any neutral audience they might have had.
But contrary to what you may beleive, we Canadians don't have money worth the same, or more than American money, in fact, it currently takes ~$1.50 for us to buy a single American dollar.
I am aware of that. I'm just saying that's not necessarily bad. The Canadian dollar is a different currency, not necessarily a worse one.
Similarly, there are countries which have this situation with software, and just because the Americans can afford $400US for a program, doesn't mean that other countries' citizens could even earn that amount in a month.
I didn't learn that at university, I learned it by living in Europe before the Euro came.
We had the Dutch Guilder, which was worth almost one German Mark (DFL 1,10 =~ 1,00 DM). The Belgian Franc was only worth DFL 0,06.
This of course means that in Belgium you paid almost 20 times as many Francs for Widget A than you paid Guilders in The Netherlands.
The problem in Malaysia is that the prices of the import software products are approximately equal to their prices in e.g. the US. Since people in Malaysia (on average) make much less money than people in the US, these software products become very expensive.
The exchange rate doesn't matter here: the problem is that money is worth a lot more in countries like Malaysia.
The exchange rate doesn't matter as long as it's stable.
E.g. compare two countries of comparable wealth, but with a different currency. Say, currencies A and B.
Say, one unit of currency A is worth two units of currency B. Does that matter?
No. People in the country with currency B will earn about twice as many currency units and spend about twice as many units, so ultimately, there is no big difference.
Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.
You can say with certainty that if a certain email address gets spammed, that the company you gave it to sold it, but if it doesn't get spammed, that doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't been sold.
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Very funny.
This would be true if appropriately as many suckers died in a year as there are born. Actually, that doesn't sound very far-fetched at all.
Another possibile explanation for the static crocodile species is that they're already perfectly adapted to their environment.
They can swim well, bite well, and digest well, and they can survive long periods without food. In their natural habitats, they're excellent survivors. There's no need to evolve new features -- in fact, it seems like those crocodiles that have those, don't propagate them.
They're even bulletproof!
Of course, this doesn't exclude that there might be some other factor that determines the mutation rate of different kinds of species.
Why would we live on the equator? Won't it be warmest there?
We would move toward the equator because of the melting of the Polar Ice Caps. Hence the extreme latitudes of the earth would force all life (land-dwelling) to migrate to the equator.
If the ice caps were to melt, the sea level would rise globally. Thus, keeping your feet dry doesn't necessarily involve being near the equator, it involves being on sufficiently high ground. Thus, living just a few minutes from the North Sea coast isn't such a good idea from that perspective... <ulp>
While the AC's post may not be scientifically accurate, it is true that humans are some of the few species on earth that have evolved into flight. We are in a smaller group of vertebrates, and one of only two (bats and humans) that have true flight capabilities among mammals.
You think the invention of the airline ticket is evolution? Then you would also think the invention of mass media (starting with the printing press and ending (so far) with the internet) is evolution.
It is not impossible that we could evolve further to overcome this overpopulation obstacle, although I am not sure what it would take for humans to "devolve" back into sea dwellers.
Well, we could become a lot smaller than we are now, although it looks like we're getting taller and bigger instead. To live on the water, we'd need sturdy boats, capable of surviving all kinds of storms and high waves. To live underwater, we'd need technology to extract oxygen from seawater, and strong domes or other structures to stay dry in. I don't think that is impossible.
It would be interesting. With global warming, less food, less water, and less oxygen, humans might evolve to a darker skinned, narrow chested, extremely tall equator dwelling species.
Why would we live on the equator? Won't it be warmest there?
Or we just might force ourselves into the stars. We have the resources and the know how to do it. A less dense, taller, paler, broad chested (thin atmosphere) creature might be our ultimate nature.
At the moment, it's prohibitively expensive, and the technology isn't yet totally ready for a long intra-solarsystem flight. To leave our solarsystem and go to e.g. Alpha Centauri, we'd need at least Sid Meier's team of writers to design the spaceship, and it'd have to be exceptionally (dare I say impossibly?) tough (you ARE going to bump into rocks of different sizes at high speeds) and durable (the trip will take thousands of years) to survive the trip, and we'd need one or more of these:
Faster Than Light travel (do you expect this to happen in the next 50 years?)
Reliable cryogenics + tough spaceship ("If I want to go back to the year 2000, I'll just freeze myself again")
Extremely efficient and reliable life support + people to live on the ship and not go insane (they'd need lots of books and DVDs (without CSS and region coding, of course;-) ) and other entertainment, as well as education).
These options all present as yet insurmountable technological barriers. We don't have FTL travel, reliable cryogenics, or the life support (although this seems to be the most realistic option right now). It is possible, but I wouldn't count on it just yet.
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No, he just wants to play Missile Command ;-)
Why not display the duplicate comment only once, but have as many sections sections displaying the "Moderation: -1, Unfunny" and "Fair o o o Unfair" items as there are moderations to metamod? That would be a lot clearer, wouldn't it?
Anyone remember that ASCII version of the first Star Wars movie? :-) (Okay, so it later became "Episode 4" or something.)
:-)
That idea might make it obsolete
But that will only stop trojans that are active only during compilation, and not trojans inside binaries.
Okay, I'll compare The Netherlands and France, pre-Euro:
:-)
Say, a litre of milk would cost about one Guilder. It would cost about three Francs in France.
Maybe the US compared to Canada happens to be different, I don't know. I haven't been to the US. In Canada, however, the converted price level was comparable to The Netherlands (i.e. something costing $1 CAN would cost about DFL 1,65 here).
Maybe things in the USA are 1.5 times as expensive compared to Canada. That would mean lots of people with lower incomes would have a lower standard of living. This could explain the "rednecks in trailer parks" phenomenon.
I'm not entirely sure whether I agree or disagree with you
No, not really. That is just an incomplete measure of the number of programs installed (incomplete as not every program makes a dotfile, and not every user uses every program).
/home which weren't installed via the system's package manager (usually rpm or apt)?
Maybe a good indicator would be the number of files outside
For some reason, I received a "ZDNet AnchorDesk Daily Newsletter" via email today. I never subscribed to it, and after what I've read in the comments here, I know I certainly will not ever. Still, they appear to have become desperate enough to risk losing any neutral audience they might have had.
I am aware of that. I'm just saying that's not necessarily bad. The Canadian dollar is a different currency, not necessarily a worse one.
That's exactly what I was saying, yes.
I didn't learn that at university, I learned it by living in Europe before the Euro came.
We had the Dutch Guilder, which was worth almost one German Mark (DFL 1,10 =~ 1,00 DM). The Belgian Franc was only worth DFL 0,06.
This of course means that in Belgium you paid almost 20 times as many Francs for Widget A than you paid Guilders in The Netherlands.
The problem in Malaysia is that the prices of the import software products are approximately equal to their prices in e.g. the US. Since people in Malaysia (on average) make much less money than people in the US, these software products become very expensive.
The exchange rate doesn't matter here: the problem is that money is worth a lot more in countries like Malaysia.
The exchange rate doesn't matter as long as it's stable.
E.g. compare two countries of comparable wealth, but with a different currency. Say, currencies A and B.
Say, one unit of currency A is worth two units of currency B. Does that matter?
No. People in the country with currency B will earn about twice as many currency units and spend about twice as many units, so ultimately, there is no big difference.
Ask the -1 Trolls. They seem experienced :-P
Well, it's called NT 7, so you have a point.
Of course I knew you meant it as a joke :-)
Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.
You can say with certainty that if a certain email address gets spammed, that the company you gave it to sold it, but if it doesn't get spammed, that doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't been sold.
Very funny.
This would be true if appropriately as many suckers died in a year as there are born. Actually, that doesn't sound very far-fetched at all.
So, who is selling you up the river?
Whatever.
Maybe you want to attract conspiracy nuts that distrust Windows with its "NSA_KEY" ;-)
Another possibile explanation for the static crocodile species is that they're already perfectly adapted to their environment.
They can swim well, bite well, and digest well, and they can survive long periods without food. In their natural habitats, they're excellent survivors. There's no need to evolve new features -- in fact, it seems like those crocodiles that have those, don't propagate them.
They're even bulletproof!
Of course, this doesn't exclude that there might be some other factor that determines the mutation rate of different kinds of species.
Thank you, Captain Obvious :-P
I rest my case.
If the ice caps were to melt, the sea level would rise globally. Thus, keeping your feet dry doesn't necessarily involve being near the equator, it involves being on sufficiently high ground. Thus, living just a few minutes from the North Sea coast isn't such a good idea from that perspective... <ulp>
Hey, this is Slashdot. We know this already ;-)
You think the invention of the airline ticket is evolution? Then you would also think the invention of mass media (starting with the printing press and ending (so far) with the internet) is evolution.
Well, we could become a lot smaller than we are now, although it looks like we're getting taller and bigger instead. To live on the water, we'd need sturdy boats, capable of surviving all kinds of storms and high waves. To live underwater, we'd need technology to extract oxygen from seawater, and strong domes or other structures to stay dry in. I don't think that is impossible.
Why would we live on the equator? Won't it be warmest there?
At the moment, it's prohibitively expensive, and the technology isn't yet totally ready for a long intra-solarsystem flight. To leave our solarsystem and go to e.g. Alpha Centauri, we'd need at least Sid Meier's team of writers to design the spaceship, and it'd have to be exceptionally (dare I say impossibly?) tough (you ARE going to bump into rocks of different sizes at high speeds) and durable (the trip will take thousands of years) to survive the trip, and we'd need one or more of these:
- Faster Than Light travel (do you expect this to happen in the next 50 years?)
- Reliable cryogenics + tough spaceship ("If I want to go back to the year 2000, I'll just freeze myself again")
- Extremely efficient and reliable life support + people to live on the ship and not go insane (they'd need lots of books and DVDs (without CSS and region coding, of course
;-) ) and other entertainment, as well as education).
These options all present as yet insurmountable technological barriers. We don't have FTL travel, reliable cryogenics, or the life support (although this seems to be the most realistic option right now). It is possible, but I wouldn't count on it just yet.As the grantparent poster said: "Spreading ignorance under the guise of wisdom is the worst of all sins."
Amen.