reporters should be made accountable for their actions, so often, when disscussing a particular scientific subject, reporters discuss the mainstream view and for good measure bring in this bearded nutcase to discuss his highly controversial but completely improbable take on the situation. To the layman (or woman), this would appear the such a view point is equally as valid as the mainstream view. Take for example global warming, a touchy subject at the best of times. For many years, the vast majority of the scientific community have agreed with the observations and conclusions with respect to the increasing temperatures and our CO2 pollution. However, news reporters always, and I mean always, included a reference to the lone few individuals who thought otherwise. This might be down to journalistic traditions which seek to examine all view points but when it comes to accurately portraying the true state of the science, it is grossly distorted.
"Linux is starting to get device drivers down better than Windows, if you're willing to look.", yes, and lets hope it keeps getting better. Printer drivers can be pretty poor tho, I know from painful experience with my parents lexmark z605. Consistency is another issue, my ubuntu installation kept picking up our ide hard drive as a scsi. This destroyed the systems performance, making it equal to windows xp (no lie). After installing debian, things went just fine. Unfortunately, there is at least 4 different kinds of propietary software interfaces required for interacting with mp3 players and the like needed at home, which only run on windows. This and the fact that there were frequent bug crashes with the window manager (xfce) and the occaisional glitch which only a well versed linux user could get around, meant that the linux system is for all intents and purposes useless to my family as a viable replacement to windows xp. I look forward to the day when it is;-)
Get your priorities straightened out, there should be law against people who manipulate vulnerable individuals to the point of suicide. If these people were in my community, I'd want to know about it. If they suffer consequences as a result of their actions, they have only themselves to blame.
I really don't get his comment about developers not getting out of bed unless they're showered with money. Linux has the boadest developer base in the world. Thousands of people contributing their bit and for free!!!. Not that I'm ruling out any potential showers of cash for the future, bring them on I say, I can take it. As for his insinuation that linux has parallels with the common cold, he would be prudent to take note of the legions of naysayers littering the wake that linux has made in this world. Besides, we all know microsoft is the real virus. LINUX RULEZ!!!
I have this image of a lurking robotic device, towering over a cowering office worker, shining a light onto his/her head, saying in a suitably intimidating voice, "I sense you are experiencing stress"
"If for example I had a "taste box" that made everything taste like chocolate...it doesn't prove that nothing exists that tastes of chocolate."
Yes, but when you have had chocolate, you have experienced other dimensions to the sensation other than the taste. Very often [citation needed], religious folk refer to an overwhelming sensation of gods presence, almost as proof of its validity. Talk to any morman, any you'll soon see what I mean. In any case, states of meditation and other mind altering states are associated with the "sensing" of god.
I agree with you in that, the vast majority of theists are decent (one might say, god fearing) people, and we gain nothing by reducing something dear and near to their hearts to an errant neural signalling pattern but, for me, a confirmed atheist, this comes as no surprise.
choice is a way of life for programmers. Every thing I do as a programmer has at least a dozen different alternative approaches to the same problem. What makes a good programmer is the ability to select wisely from this array of possibilities, sometimes catering to convenience, other times optimising for speed & memory. Programmers aren't about the emit shrill shrieks when the spectre of choice rears its hydra-like visage. Then again, nothing like a good scream.
I agree, but I feel strongly that journalists are guilty of inaccurately portraying a situation to suit their own beliefs. If they were true journalists, in the sense that they reported on the news, they would just report on the facts. The truth is that they don't. This is a rare case of a journalist having the integrity to admit when he was wrong, but there are countless cases of journalists who willingly take a strong angle of interpretation when reporting on a story. The noise created by reports on the supposed brittleness of the new composite materials used in boeing planes (and airbus, as well as any other advanced aviation companies) is a typical example of journalists overstepping the line.
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fact, the kernel is the core, everything else sits on top, no matter what, server, desktop, etc. Linux is doing well in server, desktop, mobile devices because its consistently provided a powerful and (read this, microsoft bastards) functional operating system. I have friends with reasonably powerful laptops which choke on windows bile, become soperific and lethargic, unresponsive and surly (like the dwarf). I run X windows with fluxbox on some of our old servers fine. Splitting linux is pointless and counter productive. Viva la linux!
some old guy who can't configure a touchpad, thats who. Older people have degraded neural functions, its little suprise he struggled with basic functionality. Time to put the old boy down, damn shame too.
but surely you realise that traversing the passage slowly and delicately due to the presence of ice flots is different from commercial shipping viably using the route. Or perhaps you dont, but clearly by making untrue statements, you're giving fuel to those who are skeptical. Are you a conservative?, this difficulty adapting to new information has a neural cause
I'm not a physicist but I find such oscillatory behavior fascinating. The first person (as far as I'm aware) to really push geometric relationships of a space as a means to explain its dynamics was Clifford. Einstein went a step further and provided a brillant and comprehensive explanation of the gravity/time/mass/energy relationships as the geometric nature of the space time continuum (correct spelling).
Since there are still some really strange anomolies in physics (wave/particle duality for one), its interesting to see strange spatial characteristics manifested by the behavior of a particle/wave (neutrino) moving in a straight line.
this is so completely wrong. The ISPs are selling people bandwidth that actually isn't there. You might have dozens of people running off a pipe a few 10s of megs wide but each person is being charged for the bandwidth of a 5-10 megs. this is referred to as the contention ratio of the channel. However, when people go to actually use the bandwidth they were sold, the ISPs recoil in horror and demand that they be paid to upgrade their networks to a capacity that they are already charging people for. Mutherfuckers
release the survey weasels now, they're known for their impartiality and ethicality in these matters, possibly backed up by some ombudsman badgers, what could go wrong?, at the very least they'll stop the squirrels from spying
I've seen posts of people saying that this is an old argument, what was the conclusion from that time?, or, as is more likely, did the/. debate end up spending hours on how to get feathered wings on a mouse?. I loathe abbreviations but IMHO, I think its a good thing that there are so many distros. Ok, the average user won't be able to get access to linux functionality until ubuntu(or whatever) becomes more popular, but lets take a step back and interpret this conceptually. A few billion years ago the planet was covered in algae, lets call it Redmond algae. Now this algae was instrumental in developing the life sustaining environment in which we now live (oxygen in particular), however, algae can only do so much, so one day, an amazing thing happened called the cambrian explosion in which an explosion of new fantastic forms of life appeared. No prizes for guessing what these lifeforms are called. And it was precisely this fecundity, this frenzied copulation, which furnished our world with the cornucopia of life we now live in. Therefore the vast numbers of distros can only be a good thing. Conclusion : Linux Good, Microsoft Bad.
ok, at the risk of sounding terminally optimistic, lets wait until these claims have been completely debunked before we toss the idea to the dogs. At the very least, they didn't have to do a public demonstration of this phenomenon (lets call it that for the moment), yet they did and furthermore, the results of 22 independent international scientists will do more than even our most scathing sarcasm to invalidate these claims. I am course Irish and biased (:-}
its well known that linux users can power their laptops from the sheer sense of anti-establishment smugness, vista, on the other hand, requires several batteries to be sacrificed on an altar before it even considers booting.
this should have been done a long time ago, America stands out as being an extremely wealthy country but with a dire health service, having the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, not that many countries have a truly satisfactory health service, better then nothing though.
Of course, there I was, ranting on, whilst feeling smugly superior, and all the time failing to understand the plight of misunderstood American military personnel. Now, if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
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reporters should be made accountable for their actions, so often, when disscussing a particular scientific subject, reporters discuss the mainstream view and for good measure bring in this bearded nutcase to discuss his highly controversial but completely improbable take on the situation. To the layman (or woman), this would appear the such a view point is equally as valid as the mainstream view. Take for example global warming, a touchy subject at the best of times. For many years, the vast majority of the scientific community have agreed with the observations and conclusions with respect to the increasing temperatures and our CO2 pollution. However, news reporters always, and I mean always, included a reference to the lone few individuals who thought otherwise. This might be down to journalistic traditions which seek to examine all view points but when it comes to accurately portraying the true state of the science, it is grossly distorted.
"Linux is starting to get device drivers down better than Windows, if you're willing to look.", yes, and lets hope it keeps getting better. Printer drivers can be pretty poor tho, I know from painful experience with my parents lexmark z605. Consistency is another issue, my ubuntu installation kept picking up our ide hard drive as a scsi. This destroyed the systems performance, making it equal to windows xp (no lie). After installing debian, things went just fine. Unfortunately, there is at least 4 different kinds of propietary software interfaces required for interacting with mp3 players and the like needed at home, which only run on windows. This and the fact that there were frequent bug crashes with the window manager (xfce) and the occaisional glitch which only a well versed linux user could get around, meant that the linux system is for all intents and purposes useless to my family as a viable replacement to windows xp. I look forward to the day when it is ;-)
w00t is your name? w00t is your favourite color? w00t is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow!!!!!
just seem like a couple o' bitches duking it out, shame about the integrity of wikipedia tho, that site rocks.
Get your priorities straightened out, there should be law against people who manipulate vulnerable individuals to the point of suicide. If these people were in my community, I'd want to know about it. If they suffer consequences as a result of their actions, they have only themselves to blame.
If I could, I'd mod you "god like in elightenment"
I really don't get his comment about developers not getting out of bed unless they're showered with money. Linux has the boadest developer base in the world. Thousands of people contributing their bit and for free!!!. Not that I'm ruling out any potential showers of cash for the future, bring them on I say, I can take it. As for his insinuation that linux has parallels with the common cold, he would be prudent to take note of the legions of naysayers littering the wake that linux has made in this world. Besides, we all know microsoft is the real virus. LINUX RULEZ!!!
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I have this image of a lurking robotic device, towering over a cowering office worker, shining a light onto his/her head, saying in a suitably intimidating voice, "I sense you are experiencing stress"
"If for example I had a "taste box" that made everything taste like chocolate...it doesn't prove that nothing exists that tastes of chocolate." Yes, but when you have had chocolate, you have experienced other dimensions to the sensation other than the taste. Very often [citation needed], religious folk refer to an overwhelming sensation of gods presence, almost as proof of its validity. Talk to any morman, any you'll soon see what I mean. In any case, states of meditation and other mind altering states are associated with the "sensing" of god. I agree with you in that, the vast majority of theists are decent (one might say, god fearing) people, and we gain nothing by reducing something dear and near to their hearts to an errant neural signalling pattern but, for me, a confirmed atheist, this comes as no surprise.
choice is a way of life for programmers. Every thing I do as a programmer has at least a dozen different alternative approaches to the same problem. What makes a good programmer is the ability to select wisely from this array of possibilities, sometimes catering to convenience, other times optimising for speed & memory. Programmers aren't about the emit shrill shrieks when the spectre of choice rears its hydra-like visage. Then again, nothing like a good scream.
I agree, but I feel strongly that journalists are guilty of inaccurately portraying a situation to suit their own beliefs. If they were true journalists, in the sense that they reported on the news, they would just report on the facts. The truth is that they don't. This is a rare case of a journalist having the integrity to admit when he was wrong, but there are countless cases of journalists who willingly take a strong angle of interpretation when reporting on a story. The noise created by reports on the supposed brittleness of the new composite materials used in boeing planes (and airbus, as well as any other advanced aviation companies) is a typical example of journalists overstepping the line.
fact, the kernel is the core, everything else sits on top, no matter what, server, desktop, etc. Linux is doing well in server, desktop, mobile devices because its consistently provided a powerful and (read this, microsoft bastards) functional operating system. I have friends with reasonably powerful laptops which choke on windows bile, become soperific and lethargic, unresponsive and surly (like the dwarf). I run X windows with fluxbox on some of our old servers fine. Splitting linux is pointless and counter productive. Viva la linux!
some old guy who can't configure a touchpad, thats who. Older people have degraded neural functions, its little suprise he struggled with basic functionality. Time to put the old boy down, damn shame too.
but surely you realise that traversing the passage slowly and delicately due to the presence of ice flots is different from commercial shipping viably using the route. Or perhaps you dont, but clearly by making untrue statements, you're giving fuel to those who are skeptical. Are you a conservative?, this difficulty adapting to new information has a neural cause
I'm not a physicist but I find such oscillatory behavior fascinating. The first person (as far as I'm aware) to really push geometric relationships of a space as a means to explain its dynamics was Clifford. Einstein went a step further and provided a brillant and comprehensive explanation of the gravity/time/mass/energy relationships as the geometric nature of the space time continuum (correct spelling). Since there are still some really strange anomolies in physics (wave/particle duality for one), its interesting to see strange spatial characteristics manifested by the behavior of a particle/wave (neutrino) moving in a straight line.
this is so completely wrong. The ISPs are selling people bandwidth that actually isn't there. You might have dozens of people running off a pipe a few 10s of megs wide but each person is being charged for the bandwidth of a 5-10 megs. this is referred to as the contention ratio of the channel. However, when people go to actually use the bandwidth they were sold, the ISPs recoil in horror and demand that they be paid to upgrade their networks to a capacity that they are already charging people for. Mutherfuckers
I heard that, this one time, this guy, got like cooties from a cell tower, true story.
release the survey weasels now, they're known for their impartiality and ethicality in these matters, possibly backed up by some ombudsman badgers, what could go wrong?, at the very least they'll stop the squirrels from spying
I've seen posts of people saying that this is an old argument, what was the conclusion from that time?, or, as is more likely, did the /. debate end up spending hours on how to get feathered wings on a mouse?. I loathe abbreviations but IMHO, I think its a good thing that there are so many distros. Ok, the average user won't be able to get access to linux functionality until ubuntu(or whatever) becomes more popular, but lets take a step back and interpret this conceptually. A few billion years ago the planet was covered in algae, lets call it Redmond algae. Now this algae was instrumental in developing the life sustaining environment in which we now live (oxygen in particular), however, algae can only do so much, so one day, an amazing thing happened called the cambrian explosion in which an explosion of new fantastic forms of life appeared. No prizes for guessing what these lifeforms are called. And it was precisely this fecundity, this frenzied copulation, which furnished our world with the cornucopia of life we now live in. Therefore the vast numbers of distros can only be a good thing. Conclusion : Linux Good, Microsoft Bad.
I, for one, welcome our new Cusan overlords
ok, at the risk of sounding terminally optimistic, lets wait until these claims have been completely debunked before we toss the idea to the dogs. At the very least, they didn't have to do a public demonstration of this phenomenon (lets call it that for the moment), yet they did and furthermore, the results of 22 independent international scientists will do more than even our most scathing sarcasm to invalidate these claims. I am course Irish and biased (:-}
its well known that linux users can power their laptops from the sheer sense of anti-establishment smugness, vista, on the other hand, requires several batteries to be sacrificed on an altar before it even considers booting.
this should have been done a long time ago, America stands out as being an extremely wealthy country but with a dire health service, having the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, not that many countries have a truly satisfactory health service, better then nothing though.
Of course, there I was, ranting on, whilst feeling smugly superior, and all the time failing to understand the plight of misunderstood American military personnel. Now, if you believe that, you'll believe anything.