You forget to add that your reply is of course very much limited to people living under US law. Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily), nor do many countries have anti-circumvention-laws like the US has.
The weird thing is that it only does that under Windows - under Linux (or at least using the version in the Ubuntu repositories) it's limited to 200%, as shown by interface.
What about all those John Doe cases - if the RIAA grouped a bunch of them together, would they have dropped all of the cases just to let of the politician's kid? What if the person was a more distant relative, or a friend?
Good and evil are purely subjective. If you're really into the cultural merits of free information and are a FOSS purist, then Apple could easily be as evil as Hitler or Stalin (especially if they were into censorship).
Is there an actual no. that specifies the border? Or do we just have to put up with it until they cross some imaginary line or directly effect someone in the EU Council?
Note that the original scenario proposed a choice between writing a book and raising a child. Arguably, the book is just as useless, since it requires another person to apply its contents to achieve any practical value.
The original scenario was simplified - there is nothing to stop someone from doing both, as the OP describes. The point of my post was simply that people may want to procreate for reasons other than the survival of their genes, such as to help effect something that they themselves would be incapable of.
The answers tell you whether the person sees themselves as a bundle of genes or as a bundle of memes.
You're making an assumption about their reasons for wanting to procreate. Given that the child would be successful, its possible that they could do far more than a single book could. For example, they could write many successful books, or be another Hawking, Einstein or Tesla.
Seriously i hope distros ship dumbed down "us versions" of packages
They already do. To access the full version you need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras or your distro's equivalent and enable the multiverse repository.
Except that the EU basically forced Microsoft to be standards compliant in that antitrust hearing, so whatever W3C says for HTML5 goes. Which means for a change that the standards dictate the web, instead of the MS developer who pulled IE's version of HTML out of his ass.
constantly taking the defeatist attitude that Linux is "not ready for the desktop"
Linux isn't ready for the desktop, but it's not for those reasons. The actual reason is testing and QC. When MS produces a new version of Windows, they test it on a bunch of different hardware to check that it runs properly and under various software configurations. Apple does the same thing, although their hardware is much more limited. However, because it is open source, when a new program for Linux is written it's typically tested only on the computer used to write it. The result is that anything less popular than GNOME doesn't get tested thoroughly enough and tends to have a few odd bugs in certain setups.
A good example of this is Samba - even though it's widely used, there's still a rather aggravating bug in Ubuntu where the system hangs on shutdown if any shares are still mounted because the services aren't stopped in the right order. While it is possible to add a script that unmounts the shares, it's basically a hack. I suspect this bug is still around only because no-one used CIFS until now since there were issues writing to files in the previous implementation.
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until everything is properly tested. Until then, the level of technical competence required to use it is going to significantly higher than that of the average user.
P.S. Before you mod me down, keep in mind that all of my home systems run Ubuntu 9.04, so I do use it regularly.
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More importantly, doing so would actually increase public awareness of Firefox, which would work against them.
You forget to add that your reply is of course very much limited to people living under US law. Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily), nor do many countries have anti-circumvention-laws like the US has.
I wish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention
The weird thing is that it only does that under Windows - under Linux (or at least using the version in the Ubuntu repositories) it's limited to 200%, as shown by interface.
FPS: Knowing where the power weapons are on the map. (Halo 3: Shotgun whore wins)
Oh, I'd love to see a shotgun whore take me on when I'm armed with a sniper and a few grenades.
They could be playing it safe. Once you hit a million, you're in the big leagues and go straight to the top of the Most Wanted list.
Translation: Microsoft does not intend to implement HTML5 until they get hit with another anticompetitive lawsuit by the EU.
So, does anyone have a game that goes against these concepts?
But then how will you know who is attacking you, and where to go? Not to mention how to best shield yourself from radiation...
What about all those John Doe cases - if the RIAA grouped a bunch of them together, would they have dropped all of the cases just to let of the politician's kid? What if the person was a more distant relative, or a friend?
Good and evil are purely subjective. If you're really into the cultural merits of free information and are a FOSS purist, then Apple could easily be as evil as Hitler or Stalin (especially if they were into censorship).
Is there an actual no. that specifies the border? Or do we just have to put up with it until they cross some imaginary line or directly effect someone in the EU Council?
Perhaps that's more indicative of the difference between how society measures success and its true meaning.
Sorry, I was talking about the 2003 film. I guess they changed it since the nuclear waste device is way too overused.
Show me ONE geek that does not care about shiny things that go boom!
Well, that rules out the Sony fanboys. *ducks*
radioactive cylinder
Actually, it was a cylinder of biological waste.
Note that the original scenario proposed a choice between writing a book and raising a child. Arguably, the book is just as useless, since it requires another person to apply its contents to achieve any practical value. The original scenario was simplified - there is nothing to stop someone from doing both, as the OP describes. The point of my post was simply that people may want to procreate for reasons other than the survival of their genes, such as to help effect something that they themselves would be incapable of.
The answers tell you whether the person sees themselves as a bundle of genes or as a bundle of memes.
You're making an assumption about their reasons for wanting to procreate. Given that the child would be successful, its possible that they could do far more than a single book could. For example, they could write many successful books, or be another Hawking, Einstein or Tesla.
Microsoft actually did something right
You mean like the mode Safari had 4 years ago?
Exactly. The 'something right' was copying features from better browsers.
How about UDF (suggested by an earlier comment)? Basically everything can read CDs and DVDs now, so they've already got support for it.
Seriously i hope distros ship dumbed down "us versions" of packages
They already do. To access the full version you need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras or your distro's equivalent and enable the multiverse repository.
http://xkcd.com/350/
Except that the EU basically forced Microsoft to be standards compliant in that antitrust hearing, so whatever W3C says for HTML5 goes. Which means for a change that the standards dictate the web, instead of the MS developer who pulled IE's version of HTML out of his ass.
constantly taking the defeatist attitude that Linux is "not ready for the desktop"
Linux isn't ready for the desktop, but it's not for those reasons. The actual reason is testing and QC. When MS produces a new version of Windows, they test it on a bunch of different hardware to check that it runs properly and under various software configurations. Apple does the same thing, although their hardware is much more limited. However, because it is open source, when a new program for Linux is written it's typically tested only on the computer used to write it. The result is that anything less popular than GNOME doesn't get tested thoroughly enough and tends to have a few odd bugs in certain setups.
A good example of this is Samba - even though it's widely used, there's still a rather aggravating bug in Ubuntu where the system hangs on shutdown if any shares are still mounted because the services aren't stopped in the right order. While it is possible to add a script that unmounts the shares, it's basically a hack. I suspect this bug is still around only because no-one used CIFS until now since there were issues writing to files in the previous implementation.
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until everything is properly tested. Until then, the level of technical competence required to use it is going to significantly higher than that of the average user.
P.S. Before you mod me down, keep in mind that all of my home systems run Ubuntu 9.04, so I do use it regularly.
You've just invented a new form of DRM - security by inconvenience!
"I could DL it, but I can't be bothered..."
Wait, TSA officials actually think? I thought they were just mindless cogs in a system...