"Is their any practical difference between atheism and deism?"
Atheism is the negation of deism.
A deist believes that there is a god. An atheist doesn't. Atheists don't believe in imaginary super heroes and take responsibility for their own actions.
It is not the ship's fault. The cable installer should have buried them properly. Movement of silt on the sea floor could have exposed the cable and caused it to be strung 'in the water', in which case it can be snagged very easily.
This will be useful for solid state disk drives. Unfortunately USB is stuck at an effective throughput of about 28MB/s so it won't help for cheap external drives.
More likely 99.999%. There are so many Linux devices out there, I think it is impossible for anyone in the first world to avoid using free software for something. If you go to linuxdevices.com, you'll see that the embedded market is responsible for about 300 million Linux devices per year. That is 100 times more than Linux server sales.
Well, Asus alone plans to sell about 50% more Eee PCs (5 million) than Apple sells Macs (3 million) in 2008. So this is the year when Linux desktop sales may equal or exceed Linux server sales.
If you count all Linux devices, then Linux is actually the most popular OS ever, with about 300 million Linux devices sold each year. If we assume a typical life of 5 years for embedded devices routers and cell phones, then there should be at least 1.5 billion Linux devices out there, compared to about 600 million Windows devices.
My solution is even easier - a 10 second delay on every login attempt. It doesn't bother human beings, but bots give up and move on before the timer expires.
Humans are very close to the bottom of the food chain: Grass, Cows, Humans.
That is only two up, while crocodiles, sharks, dogs, lions, vermin, snakes, rats, mosquitos, bacteria, viruses and many others are all above us.
"There is little need for behemoth middle-men like music labels."
No, the behemoth middle men are still there. The difference is that they are now the Telcos who provide the internet service. The people who distribute plastic discs are doomed, since the media changed.
Well, it is simply a typical American fsckup. People get issued this one simple guessable number, for life, and everything uses it. Without this number, a USAsian almost doesn't exist. Since illegal immigrants don't have a SSN, the police have a hard time identifying tens of millions of them, since they just don't know how.
It is almost trivial to hijack someone else's identity and obtain credit cards using that number. More enterprising thieves will sell someone else's house after a few minutes of research at the local land titles offices.
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"Is their any practical difference between atheism and deism?"
Atheism is the negation of deism.
A deist believes that there is a god. An atheist doesn't. Atheists don't believe in imaginary super heroes and take responsibility for their own actions.
It is not the ship's fault. The cable installer should have buried them properly. Movement of silt on the sea floor could have exposed the cable and caused it to be strung 'in the water', in which case it can be snagged very easily.
This will be useful for solid state disk drives. Unfortunately USB is stuck at an effective throughput of about 28MB/s so it won't help for cheap external drives.
More likely 99.999%. There are so many Linux devices out there, I think it is impossible for anyone in the first world to avoid using free software for something. If you go to linuxdevices.com, you'll see that the embedded market is responsible for about 300 million Linux devices per year. That is 100 times more than Linux server sales.
The Persian Gulf is actually very shallow at about 35m at its deepest. So anchor damage by large ships is very likely there.
Well, Asus alone plans to sell about 50% more Eee PCs (5 million) than Apple sells Macs (3 million) in 2008. So this is the year when Linux desktop sales may equal or exceed Linux server sales. If you count all Linux devices, then Linux is actually the most popular OS ever, with about 300 million Linux devices sold each year. If we assume a typical life of 5 years for embedded devices routers and cell phones, then there should be at least 1.5 billion Linux devices out there, compared to about 600 million Windows devices.
Well, there is at least one point where I agree with the writer.
Stay sentient. Don't drink bat milk.
The war-heads are in the Pentagon - easy to find.
It is the language support. MS language support is a lacking, unless you happen to speak some flavour of English...
Yah want a server wiz dat?
My solution is even easier - a 10 second delay on every login attempt. It doesn't bother human beings, but bots give up and move on before the timer expires.
Mandriva is in the trenches already. See the Penguin Liberation Front: http://plf.zarb.org/
Humans are very close to the bottom of the food chain: Grass, Cows, Humans. That is only two up, while crocodiles, sharks, dogs, lions, vermin, snakes, rats, mosquitos, bacteria, viruses and many others are all above us.
Transplants from animals are already possible (apart from using human animals of course). Eg. pig heart valves, pig skin...
"There is little need for behemoth middle-men like music labels." No, the behemoth middle men are still there. The difference is that they are now the Telcos who provide the internet service. The people who distribute plastic discs are doomed, since the media changed.
Together with careful use of the Evil Bit by malicious coders, we will have complete security in Apple system software.
Huh? What do you need documentation for Vmware for? I've been using it for years and never used the docs.
The ultimate user for DRM would be DoD. They don't use it. Maybe that should tell you something.
Just run your old OS/2 schtuff on VMware. Abstracting it will keep the old crap going as long as needed till you can phase it out.
I can feel a new wave of Firefox users coming!
You are confusing bad apples with stones...
Hmm, if I was the pilot, I would have pulled the wheels UP, to reduce drag, though it probably makes buggerall difference on a craft that big.
Well, it is simply a typical American fsckup. People get issued this one simple guessable number, for life, and everything uses it. Without this number, a USAsian almost doesn't exist. Since illegal immigrants don't have a SSN, the police have a hard time identifying tens of millions of them, since they just don't know how.
It is almost trivial to hijack someone else's identity and obtain credit cards using that number. More enterprising thieves will sell someone else's house after a few minutes of research at the local land titles offices.