But really, how many appliances are truly instant-on besides the fridge and the coffee maker?
Neither one is instant-on. It takes the fridge up to 24 hours to initialize (get cold) before you can store food in it, and coffee takes five to twenty minutes to perk.
The radio is instant on. The light bulb is instant on, unless you get a really cheap CFL.
My generation is weird; befor the transistor nothing was instant-on, after computers were built into everything nothing is instant-on. They shouldn't call us the "boomer generation" (even if some of us did blow stuff up REAL GOOD), they should call us the "instant-on generation".
But an under five second computer boot? That's PDQ!
On my first EeePC, I tried to get to like Xandros, I really did, but in the end I wiped it and installed Kubuntu. My Dark Side Brother played with Xandros until he broke it, and then installed XP.
Noether the FA nor the actual press release they plagarized said if there was a whole distro or just a kernal, but when you have a computer with Linux (say, Xandros) preinstalled and want to change OSes, you can download any other distro of Linux free and legal, buy Windows for (imo) a stupidly high price, or download an illegal copy.
There is absolutely no way of knowing. I know that last year I installed Mandriva on 5 computer newbie machines from the CD I downloaded. So if you're counting distro downloads, that metric is not reliable; one download can and probabally usually is more than one installation.
Many people have their user-agent say they're using IE on Windows even if they're using Linux, bacsue dimwits still code their pages to not display if you're not using IE ("please upgrade to a modern browser? It's Opera's latest!") So web site metrics can't be reliable either.
IINM it was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) who said "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and ststistics."
My PC just died; it looks like a power supply failure but I haven't disemboweled it yet to see, most likely the thing's full of cat hair and its fan stopped. If it's the power supply I'll just get a new bare-bones box.
Now I have to research prices. Tha bad news is since I'm not really into PC gaming any more, the lowest of low end boards will do, and iinm asus is pretty high end, isn't it?
Linux on the motherboard will free up disk space as well as booting faster.
According to an anti-drug propaganda siteThe percentage of youth aged 12-17 indicating a great risk of smoking marijuana once a month remained unchanged between 1999 and 2000 (37.2% in 1999 and 37.7% in 2000).2
So, more American youth "are at risk of smoking marijuana" (and presumably think it should be legal) than Chinese believe in freedom of speech.
Methinks China's propaganda machine works a whole lot better than ours does.
Sorry for being offtopic, but I had to think a minute to parse "*ssh*l*". I saw the "SSH" and thought "SSL?" If you can't bring yourself to use the word "asshole" then find a substitute that doesn't offend you so much. You can say "jerk" in front of the FBI agents that pretend to be children, you know.
This is slashdot. To quote the poster on the wall at Farley's, "If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport!"
I know I'm in the minority when I say I'm against the CAN-SPAM Act.
I sincerely doubt that, at least, I doubt you're in the minority here. The CAN-SPAM act basically says that your corporate overlords CAN-SPAM you with impunity.
Five years after CAN-SPAM and spam is at an all-time high.
That's because it's a bad law. Had they actually outlawed unsolicited commercial email with jail time for spammers and financial remedies to Joe Public and his Windows box, it may have alleviated spam somewhat, or at least moved its operators overseas (not that you'd get any less spam).
If you don't have strong government there they will descend into anarchy and civil war.
When you have a government that is not representative of the will of the populace you have to have strong government there or they will descend into anarchy and civil war. You do realise that the US had its own Civil War once?
Look what alcohol prohibition did to our nation. Look what the "war on [some] drugs" is doing to our inner cities today. When the will of the governed clashes with the will of the government, violence is always the outcome.
Find a freedom that is PRESENTLY being violated in the US to bitch about. It's not hard to do.
Indeed. I've done it here and I did it back when I posted at K5*. But the fact remains that even though the politicians and cops and rich people would dearly love to get rid of that pesky Constitution (and at times have succeeded), we are no match for Syria when it comes to abusing human rights.
Pathetic. I joke thet "everybody knows wikipedia is unreliable" and then link to uncyclopedia, "the content-free encyclopedia", but those links you present parody themselves! From the link:
Africa From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search "Africa is"... "piss"... "You'll get your balls cut off." ~ Totally accurate quote from a native African (source)
"The only thing positive about Africa is HIV." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Africa is the scariest part of the Epcot." ~ George W. Bush
"Only in the board game risk does Africa truly shine" ~ Risk Champion Rob Schneider on Africa
"How did we get internet access to write this?" ~ Africans
Africa is widely agreed to be Earth's shittiest continent, in more ways than one. For one thing, most of the land is wracked with hunger, poverty, disease, genocide, and hopelessness. Also, it is caked in feces. Not a pleasant place to be, all things considered. It's got exotic animals though. Suh-weet!
Second, it has been mathematically proven (and sorry, I'm too lazy to google) that every person alive now is descended from every person alive 1000 years ago who have descendants alive today. That means that all of us share DNA with everyone of all races.
Third, likening DNA to a computer program is anthropomorphising computer programs.
Intellectual capacity isn't coded for in DNA, MAXIMUM intellictual capacity is. Your ability to learn can only diminish after birth. Ingest the wrong substance, suffer an injury, or high fevers, and you will suffer brain damage which will decrease said capacity.
If you're born with down's syndrome you're not going to be a rocket scientest. But if you're born of two genius parents and suffer a high enough fever, just once, and you're going to be in the same institution as the down's syndrom kid.
I didn't say ignorance was a tool of the rich, I said racism is a tool of the rich. It's a political tool. Racism hurts the poor, whatever the poor person's race. It helps nobody except the rich.
I must not have been clear. You are correct, the key differentiator is indeed in opportunity. Have one of Bill gates' kids, as a newborn, raised by a crack whore in the Detroit ghetto, and he'll most likely wind up in prison.
They didn't even have to construct the tool. And not only did you not have to conspire, you didn't even have to think about it, let alone talk about it.
Picking up a stick to beat someone with requires no conspiracy, requires little toolmaking ability, and absolutely no thought at all.
Look at any poor redneck's politics: almost all of them are Jimmy Swaggart-watching neocons who blame the blacks and the Mexicans for their poor standards of living. Then look at a black person in the ghetto with his hatred of white people for "discriminating against him" despite the fact that such discrimination is a Federal crime. If he speaks of rich people, he speaks of rich WHITE people. Boith these buffoons are racists, and are both blaming other of their oppressors' victims for their oppression.
Meanwhlle Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates laugh all the way to the bank, secure in the knowledge that the people they are keeping down will blame each other.
It's obvious that you still haven't given it any thought.
Touche' - but I see one misspelling (altar) and one obvious typo (knowledgs). I assume you're perfect and never make any mistakes at all when you employ your ad hominem attacks, mister anonymous?
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Any time. If you ever peruse any of my journals you'll see even worse words, as I usually write about whores and drinking.
Exactly. There is no way to count Linux users.
No, Groening was ripping off Samual Clemons (Mark Twain). "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
But really, how many appliances are truly instant-on besides the fridge and the coffee maker?
Neither one is instant-on. It takes the fridge up to 24 hours to initialize (get cold) before you can store food in it, and coffee takes five to twenty minutes to perk.
The radio is instant on. The light bulb is instant on, unless you get a really cheap CFL.
My generation is weird; befor the transistor nothing was instant-on, after computers were built into everything nothing is instant-on. They shouldn't call us the "boomer generation" (even if some of us did blow stuff up REAL GOOD), they should call us the "instant-on generation".
But an under five second computer boot? That's PDQ!
IF there is no correlation between A and B THEN A does not cause B and B does not cause A.
The rich see life as a game where the guy who dies with the most stuff wins, while the wise know the opposite is true.
"It seems such a waste of time, if that's what it's all about, if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out." -Billy Joel
On my first EeePC, I tried to get to like Xandros, I really did, but in the end I wiped it and installed Kubuntu. My Dark Side Brother played with Xandros until he broke it, and then installed XP.
Noether the FA nor the actual press release they plagarized said if there was a whole distro or just a kernal, but when you have a computer with Linux (say, Xandros) preinstalled and want to change OSes, you can download any other distro of Linux free and legal, buy Windows for (imo) a stupidly high price, or download an illegal copy.
This can only help Linux adoption rates.
There is absolutely no way of knowing. I know that last year I installed Mandriva on 5 computer newbie machines from the CD I downloaded. So if you're counting distro downloads, that metric is not reliable; one download can and probabally usually is more than one installation.
Many people have their user-agent say they're using IE on Windows even if they're using Linux, bacsue dimwits still code their pages to not display if you're not using IE ("please upgrade to a modern browser? It's Opera's latest!") So web site metrics can't be reliable either.
IINM it was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) who said "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and ststistics."
It's that damned juvenile geek.com, and TFA's not much longer than the summary.
And it ends with "Read the press release" that the submitter should have linked in the first place rather than that incredibly BAD geek.com) "here".
My PC just died; it looks like a power supply failure but I haven't disemboweled it yet to see, most likely the thing's full of cat hair and its fan stopped. If it's the power supply I'll just get a new bare-bones box.
Now I have to research prices. Tha bad news is since I'm not really into PC gaming any more, the lowest of low end boards will do, and iinm asus is pretty high end, isn't it?
Linux on the motherboard will free up disk space as well as booting faster.
I'm intrigued. I guess I better rtfa now!
Is that you, Dilbert?
According to an anti-drug propaganda site The percentage of youth aged 12-17 indicating a great risk of smoking marijuana once a month remained unchanged between 1999 and 2000 (37.2% in 1999 and 37.7% in 2000).2
So, more American youth "are at risk of smoking marijuana" (and presumably think it should be legal) than Chinese believe in freedom of speech.
Methinks China's propaganda machine works a whole lot better than ours does.
Here, drink this arsenic. It isn't nearly as bad as drinking sulphuric acid!
Sorry for being offtopic, but I had to think a minute to parse "*ssh*l*". I saw the "SSH" and thought "SSL?" If you can't bring yourself to use the word "asshole" then find a substitute that doesn't offend you so much. You can say "jerk" in front of the FBI agents that pretend to be children, you know.
This is slashdot. To quote the poster on the wall at Farley's, "If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport!"
(modding myself down, "no karma bonus")
I know I'm in the minority when I say I'm against the CAN-SPAM Act.
I sincerely doubt that, at least, I doubt you're in the minority here. The CAN-SPAM act basically says that your corporate overlords CAN-SPAM you with impunity.
Five years after CAN-SPAM and spam is at an all-time high.
That's because it's a bad law. Had they actually outlawed unsolicited commercial email with jail time for spammers and financial remedies to Joe Public and his Windows box, it may have alleviated spam somewhat, or at least moved its operators overseas (not that you'd get any less spam).
Sounds like time isn't all he had on his hands!
If you don't have strong government there they will descend into anarchy and civil war.
When you have a government that is not representative of the will of the populace you have to have strong government there or they will descend into anarchy and civil war. You do realise that the US had its own Civil War once?
Look what alcohol prohibition did to our nation. Look what the "war on [some] drugs" is doing to our inner cities today. When the will of the governed clashes with the will of the government, violence is always the outcome.
Find a freedom that is PRESENTLY being violated in the US to bitch about. It's not hard to do.
Indeed. I've done it here and I did it back when I posted at K5*. But the fact remains that even though the politicians and cops and rich people would dearly love to get rid of that pesky Constitution (and at times have succeeded), we are no match for Syria when it comes to abusing human rights.
First, human DNA is 99% the same as a chimp's.
Second, it has been mathematically proven (and sorry, I'm too lazy to google) that every person alive now is descended from every person alive 1000 years ago who have descendants alive today. That means that all of us share DNA with everyone of all races.
Third, likening DNA to a computer program is anthropomorphising computer programs.
Intellectual capacity isn't coded for in DNA, MAXIMUM intellictual capacity is. Your ability to learn can only diminish after birth. Ingest the wrong substance, suffer an injury, or high fevers, and you will suffer brain damage which will decrease said capacity.
If you're born with down's syndrome you're not going to be a rocket scientest. But if you're born of two genius parents and suffer a high enough fever, just once, and you're going to be in the same institution as the down's syndrom kid.
The super wealthy need people to be educated
I didn't say ignorance was a tool of the rich, I said racism is a tool of the rich. It's a political tool. Racism hurts the poor, whatever the poor person's race. It helps nobody except the rich.
I must not have been clear. You are correct, the key differentiator is indeed in opportunity. Have one of Bill gates' kids, as a newborn, raised by a crack whore in the Detroit ghetto, and he'll most likely wind up in prison.
Environment counts for far more than genetics.
They didn't even have to construct the tool. And not only did you not have to conspire, you didn't even have to think about it, let alone talk about it.
Picking up a stick to beat someone with requires no conspiracy, requires little toolmaking ability, and absolutely no thought at all.
Look at any poor redneck's politics: almost all of them are Jimmy Swaggart-watching neocons who blame the blacks and the Mexicans for their poor standards of living. Then look at a black person in the ghetto with his hatred of white people for "discriminating against him" despite the fact that such discrimination is a Federal crime. If he speaks of rich people, he speaks of rich WHITE people. Boith these buffoons are racists, and are both blaming other of their oppressors' victims for their oppression.
Meanwhlle Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates laugh all the way to the bank, secure in the knowledge that the people they are keeping down will blame each other.
It's obvious that you still haven't given it any thought.
Um, more like a whole lot of screenshots, printed out and taped to a very big wall.
Touche' - but I see one misspelling (altar) and one obvious typo (knowledgs). I assume you're perfect and never make any mistakes at all when you employ your ad hominem attacks, mister anonymous?
Considering we both saw the link at slashdot, that's not surprising. What's surpising is that anything loaded at all.