Well to a new computer user, Linux can be just as friendly as MacOS, or Windows. They all have equally steep learning curves.
Considering what people would want out of a $200 machine, I would say that Linux can be even more user friendly. On a bare bones machine, people don't have the expectation of being able to do 'anything' give them their large icons for a preconfigured email/web/word/musicplayer interface and that is what they will stick to.
For a $200 PC, I would prefer a linux distro. And this is coming from someone who prefers using XP for most of my computing needs.
Obligatory car analogy:
I love my pickup truck for its cargo capacity, not its gas mileage.
It sounds suspiciously like the folks who thought they didn't need a cellphone because they never had one before;-)
I also own a pocket PC. I've taken it apart, messed with the OS, installed voip software and use it as a phone/television remote in my house.
No, I am quite aware of the features, and there are people who like those features. But for the cellphone I carry I don't need them.... (mostly because I also carry a laptop almost anywhere I go. I like the larger screen)
Of course, if you actually try to use your phone across Europe then they kill you with the roaming charges, but at least it means if you buy an unlocked phone then you can use it anywhere.
Not having used a cell phone in Europe, I'm a bit curious about this.
The ability to take a phone from one carrier to the next isn't as important to me as the ability to take my phone from one area to the next. Since I have no demand for any of the higher phone features (in fact, I had to search out one w/o a camera) for me at least, the demand to have a phone portable between carriers is much less important.
However, I think the rates charged by most companies in the US are outrageous. I'm locked into an old plan through Verizon, still using my old phone, and they continually try to 'upgrade' my plan to their 700+ minute plans when I'm still only using 40-100/month (and paying a lot less). I love how the 'upgrade' is free, but ties you into another 2 year contract.
No joke, I do the same thing when I travel for pleasure. I bring a 'bit' more, but for the type of vacationing I do I really don't need that much. You may look a bit of the bumpkin (depending on if you try to be frugal) but with a slight bit of smart packing, you really won't deal with a lot of the issues.
However, even that doesn't help with the lines. If I showed up in a spandex suit with a passport and a ticket I'd still be stuck in line with the hundreds of others who are flying. I don't blame them either, in a rational world they often aren't traveling with much, but everyone here knows the pains of trying to juggle your carry-on while separating your ziplok baggie for the goons to scan, taking off your shoes, belt, and pocketchange.
To go through the line fast with even modest travel accessories requires you be a damned contortionist.
The smart religious people are the ones that realize that they aren't always going to be the majority religion and therefore probably shouldn't encourage the government to rule based on the views of the majority religion.
This is like a car manufacturer company saying "Cars are used in X% of bank robberies for the getaway vehicle. We need to make the cars not allow you to rob banks" It's not the ISPs place to do this.
Yet that doesn't stop the idea of a remote engine shutoff system being proposed every few years.
Turning private entities into pseudo-police is not a new concept.
Actually this sounds like some suppliers twisted Sony's arm in a failed attempt to keep the 'brick and mortar' style music store alive. I'm certain that the eventual failure of the 'pirate-friendly' mp3s is a pleasant side effect.
Kind of like how release dates for most games are tied to the physical retail releases.
It still has the 'problem' of limited writes, but the problem has been greatly reduced by load-leveling techniques and general improvements to the technology.
Often it is a combination of factors like having backup space (Sell a 120gig HD as a 100gig HD) and load leveling which makes sure that you aren't always writing to the same memory location.
So while it is still an issue, it has largely been addressed. I wouldn't use it on anything that is write-heavy, but for most situations you won't notice much of a difference.
I doubt it would cut the homicide in the USA by such a significant fraction. Even though we speak the same language, it is not a close comparison.
The US is a country with a population of 300 million. Australia is an island nation with a population of only 21 million, and an area similar in size to the US. For example, Switzerland is also used as an example in gun debates, but it is also a poor comparison.
It isn't firearms that are a problem in the US, but rather our culture.
Reading through the article you linked, I would say that that may be a possibility. There are currently two hypervelocity stars (4x larger than our sun) that are over 100,000 light years outside our galaxy.
It seems that they occur when a binary system is ripped apart by the supermassive blackhole in the center of a galaxy, ejecting one of the two into intergalactic space.
I don't see why this couldn't happen to a star with a mass large enough to become a supernova. For this supernova, I wonder if it was 'close enough' that a hypervelocity star that was just small enough to become a supernova could have travelled the distance w/i its lifetime.
I rewrote that several times. Astronomical... I suppose that is better, just doesn't sound as fun. Fruitfly lives... human lives... historical... geological...astronomical...galactic...intergalactic? Is that the order?
Though, couldn't we argue that the position of the planets would have an effect on the behaviour/path of asteroids?
You also can't 'hide' the signature of a nuclear weapon detonation very well. We were even able to confirm the North Korean nuke from a distance... and that thing was underground.
It appears that most asteroids are conglomerates of shale, so they wouldn't be that dense, as in not that densely packed. That's why the idea of blasting them with nukes is a bad idea, they just seperate and reform later.
By reform I'm guessing that you mean reform via gravity? And since we are dealing with asteroids would it be safe to say that 'later' is later on an astrological time scale?
On that scale, I can live with a 'temporary' fix. (Live, have children, grow old, die, kids grow old...)
I would wander 'how fast' was changing fast enough to raise a flag. Would observing a flaw in a previously accepted law be large enough to act as a flag that the universe changed, or that our original understanding was insufficient?
Though I suppose any change that was observable on such a scale would also be able to be proven if the data were still available and accurate.
Except if you notice that he has often put his money where his mouth is with regard to his beliefs.
Ron Paul is against abortion, he may campaign against it, as is his right, but given his strong stance on freedom and defending the constitution (something that needs more and more defending it seems) he is against it, and fighting against it for the right reasons.
I don't expect, nor do I want politicians that strive to force my morals down the throat of everyone else in the country. Why? Because at some time, the other side is going to be in power, and I don't want the reverse to happen to me. And the best way to ensure that doesn't happen is by electing those that don't believe that the purpose of the Federal Government is to force the nation into your own image.
If you look at Ron Paul as a total person, rather than pulling out a single out of context stance, you will find that he is probably the best thing that could happen to the pro-choice movement.
Unless of course, you want to polarize the political debate around a non-issue such as Roe v. Wade.
Personally, I've always been against the charge of attempted murder. I don't think that a lesser sentence is necessary simply because the perpetrator wasn't competant.
Well your honor, while my client did fire the pistol into the face of Mr. Jones, he was a bad shot, and therefore didn't mean to kill Mr. Jones as much.
I suppose it would depend on how it was carried out. And how it was 'advertised'
A crime committed because you hate someone may not be terrorism.
A crime committed with the intent to show that you commit such crimes because you hate someone/group is terrorism.
Finding a dead body in an alley bludgeoned to death is a vicious horrible murder. A dead body in an alley under a sign "death to all 'insert race here'" is terrorism.
I agree with your statement, but my complaint is against mythbusters approaches that are often then used as examples of what can't be done because it was 'busted'.
If the myth is that something isn't possible, and then they go and do it (like the cannon made from a tree trunk) However watching the show it sometimes occurs that they make mistakes or the setup wasn't right and end up declaring something 'busted'. If it can occur once, then it is unlikely, not busted. (unless of course, they are trying to determine if something is likely or unlikely and not simply impossible).
In the case of the water and the hammer, that was a very difficult experiment to setup correctly. We do know that the surface area impacting the water has a great affect on how much force the water exerts back on the object (if it didn't then there wouldn't be a difference between diving, and bellyflops). In the end, when entering water it is the acceleration that is important, and I think it really boils down to the fact that they didn't hit on the exact placement and timing of the hammer and body.
A hammer wouldn't help with someone doing a bellyflop, but to prove something possible, then we only need one example of a success.
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Well to a new computer user, Linux can be just as friendly as MacOS, or Windows. They all have equally steep learning curves.
Considering what people would want out of a $200 machine, I would say that Linux can be even more user friendly. On a bare bones machine, people don't have the expectation of being able to do 'anything' give them their large icons for a preconfigured email/web/word/musicplayer interface and that is what they will stick to.
For a $200 PC, I would prefer a linux distro. And this is coming from someone who prefers using XP for most of my computing needs.
Obligatory car analogy:
I love my pickup truck for its cargo capacity, not its gas mileage.
It sounds suspiciously like the folks who thought they didn't need a cellphone because they never had one before ;-)
... (mostly because I also carry a laptop almost anywhere I go. I like the larger screen)
I also own a pocket PC. I've taken it apart, messed with the OS, installed voip software and use it as a phone/television remote in my house.
No, I am quite aware of the features, and there are people who like those features. But for the cellphone I carry I don't need them.
Or in the South, consentual oral sex.
So we have gone from 'Highly illegal' to dumb?
Hopefully at some point we can just call it 'kids will be kids'.
Of course, if you actually try to use your phone across Europe then they kill you with the roaming charges, but at least it means if you buy an unlocked phone then you can use it anywhere.
Not having used a cell phone in Europe, I'm a bit curious about this.
The ability to take a phone from one carrier to the next isn't as important to me as the ability to take my phone from one area to the next. Since I have no demand for any of the higher phone features (in fact, I had to search out one w/o a camera) for me at least, the demand to have a phone portable between carriers is much less important.
However, I think the rates charged by most companies in the US are outrageous. I'm locked into an old plan through Verizon, still using my old phone, and they continually try to 'upgrade' my plan to their 700+ minute plans when I'm still only using 40-100/month (and paying a lot less). I love how the 'upgrade' is free, but ties you into another 2 year contract.
No joke, I do the same thing when I travel for pleasure. I bring a 'bit' more, but for the type of vacationing I do I really don't need that much. You may look a bit of the bumpkin (depending on if you try to be frugal) but with a slight bit of smart packing, you really won't deal with a lot of the issues.
However, even that doesn't help with the lines. If I showed up in a spandex suit with a passport and a ticket I'd still be stuck in line with the hundreds of others who are flying. I don't blame them either, in a rational world they often aren't traveling with much, but everyone here knows the pains of trying to juggle your carry-on while separating your ziplok baggie for the goons to scan, taking off your shoes, belt, and pocketchange.
To go through the line fast with even modest travel accessories requires you be a damned contortionist.
The smart religious people are the ones that realize that they aren't always going to be the majority religion and therefore probably shouldn't encourage the government to rule based on the views of the majority religion.
Well hopefully as we get some of the blue hairs to die out and maybe the college republicans' bus will get a flat tire or 3.
Maybe then we can see some fiscal conservatives.
This is like a car manufacturer company saying "Cars are used in X% of bank robberies for the getaway vehicle. We need to make the cars not allow you to rob banks" It's not the ISPs place to do this.
Yet that doesn't stop the idea of a remote engine shutoff system being proposed every few years.
Turning private entities into pseudo-police is not a new concept.
Actually this sounds like some suppliers twisted Sony's arm in a failed attempt to keep the 'brick and mortar' style music store alive. I'm certain that the eventual failure of the 'pirate-friendly' mp3s is a pleasant side effect.
Kind of like how release dates for most games are tied to the physical retail releases.
It still has the 'problem' of limited writes, but the problem has been greatly reduced by load-leveling techniques and general improvements to the technology.
Often it is a combination of factors like having backup space (Sell a 120gig HD as a 100gig HD) and load leveling which makes sure that you aren't always writing to the same memory location.
So while it is still an issue, it has largely been addressed. I wouldn't use it on anything that is write-heavy, but for most situations you won't notice much of a difference.
I doubt it would cut the homicide in the USA by such a significant fraction. Even though we speak the same language, it is not a close comparison.
The US is a country with a population of 300 million. Australia is an island nation with a population of only 21 million, and an area similar in size to the US. For example, Switzerland is also used as an example in gun debates, but it is also a poor comparison.
It isn't firearms that are a problem in the US, but rather our culture.
Reading through the article you linked, I would say that that may be a possibility. There are currently two hypervelocity stars (4x larger than our sun) that are over 100,000 light years outside our galaxy.
It seems that they occur when a binary system is ripped apart by the supermassive blackhole in the center of a galaxy, ejecting one of the two into intergalactic space.
I don't see why this couldn't happen to a star with a mass large enough to become a supernova. For this supernova, I wonder if it was 'close enough' that a hypervelocity star that was just small enough to become a supernova could have travelled the distance w/i its lifetime.
I'm certain that none of the engineers that designed this thing to go into the ground completely ignored... soil movements.
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Good thing that you caught that while sipping your morning coffee and reading
An astrological timescale
I rewrote that several times. Astronomical... I suppose that is better, just doesn't sound as fun. Fruitfly lives... human lives... historical... geological...astronomical...galactic...intergalactic? Is that the order?
Though, couldn't we argue that the position of the planets would have an effect on the behaviour/path of asteroids?
You also can't 'hide' the signature of a nuclear weapon detonation very well. We were even able to confirm the North Korean nuke from a distance... and that thing was underground.
What does God need with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile?
It appears that most asteroids are conglomerates of shale, so they wouldn't be that dense, as in not that densely packed. That's why the idea of blasting them with nukes is a bad idea, they just seperate and reform later.
By reform I'm guessing that you mean reform via gravity? And since we are dealing with asteroids would it be safe to say that 'later' is later on an astrological time scale?
On that scale, I can live with a 'temporary' fix. (Live, have children, grow old, die, kids grow old...)
I would wander 'how fast' was changing fast enough to raise a flag. Would observing a flaw in a previously accepted law be large enough to act as a flag that the universe changed, or that our original understanding was insufficient?
Though I suppose any change that was observable on such a scale would also be able to be proven if the data were still available and accurate.
Except if you notice that he has often put his money where his mouth is with regard to his beliefs.
Ron Paul is against abortion, he may campaign against it, as is his right, but given his strong stance on freedom and defending the constitution (something that needs more and more defending it seems) he is against it, and fighting against it for the right reasons.
I don't expect, nor do I want politicians that strive to force my morals down the throat of everyone else in the country. Why? Because at some time, the other side is going to be in power, and I don't want the reverse to happen to me. And the best way to ensure that doesn't happen is by electing those that don't believe that the purpose of the Federal Government is to force the nation into your own image.
If you look at Ron Paul as a total person, rather than pulling out a single out of context stance, you will find that he is probably the best thing that could happen to the pro-choice movement.
Unless of course, you want to polarize the political debate around a non-issue such as Roe v. Wade.
Personally, I've always been against the charge of attempted murder. I don't think that a lesser sentence is necessary simply because the perpetrator wasn't competant.
Well your honor, while my client did fire the pistol into the face of Mr. Jones, he was a bad shot, and therefore didn't mean to kill Mr. Jones as much.
I suppose it would depend on how it was carried out. And how it was 'advertised'
A crime committed because you hate someone may not be terrorism.
A crime committed with the intent to show that you commit such crimes because you hate someone/group is terrorism.
Finding a dead body in an alley bludgeoned to death is a vicious horrible murder. A dead body in an alley under a sign "death to all 'insert race here'" is terrorism.
I'd have blamed it on Sirius.
I agree with your statement, but my complaint is against mythbusters approaches that are often then used as examples of what can't be done because it was 'busted'.
If the myth is that something isn't possible, and then they go and do it (like the cannon made from a tree trunk) However watching the show it sometimes occurs that they make mistakes or the setup wasn't right and end up declaring something 'busted'. If it can occur once, then it is unlikely, not busted. (unless of course, they are trying to determine if something is likely or unlikely and not simply impossible).
In the case of the water and the hammer, that was a very difficult experiment to setup correctly. We do know that the surface area impacting the water has a great affect on how much force the water exerts back on the object (if it didn't then there wouldn't be a difference between diving, and bellyflops). In the end, when entering water it is the acceleration that is important, and I think it really boils down to the fact that they didn't hit on the exact placement and timing of the hammer and body.
A hammer wouldn't help with someone doing a bellyflop, but to prove something possible, then we only need one example of a success.
Cliff divers. No hammer necessary.
I'd vote for em. After all, I don't want some other lizard to get elected.