Dude... I grew up in the 80s. While a lot of the 80s music had a good beat that you can dance to, it definitely was not the best music era. In fact, even the 90s when I was a teenager didn't have all that great music (it seems like that was mostly a reaction to all that overproduced synth stuff that came out in the 80s). My vote: the 60s, simply for the originality, but I'm getting OT.:)
In any case, you and the parent are right in that lot of stuff just repeats itself, but some doen't. Look at the generation that experienced the great depression (my grandparents). Those people were much more fiscally responsible than my parents generation (the baby boomers). You see a similar thing in Japan or Germany, on account of major portions of those countries being nearly completely leveled after WWII and nearly an entire generation of young men never came home again. After WWI, the people who went through that were referred to as "The Lost Generation,", you can guess why. People that live through that sort of stuff tend to me much more careful, whereas the younger generations are much more carefree. So it could be that Gen X, Y, Z etc. are getting to progressively more self-centered and showing increasingly less fiscal responsibility (it would explain the housing crisis).
And what OS are you running? I bet it's not linux or os x since there aren't very many games out for those because they're different platforms. Yet they're still PCs.
No, Rachael's going to be dubbed over with an incredibly annoying CG alien with a faux jamaican accent:
"Issa dis testin' whether Mesa'm a weplicant or a lesbian, Meester Deckard?
Nations like Germany can't seem to follow the Kyoto requirements. So, they are failing in their part of the Treaty.
Germany is reducing it's carbon emissions.
This must be the new conservative talking point or something because this is like the third time I've heard this view espoused. The fact is that on the whole the EU may not be meeting it's obligations, but for the most part that can be blamed on Spain and Italy whose industrial capacities are expanding. Germany, Scandinavia, France I are all doing okay.
Climate change, even that not created by man, has the potential to cause more strife than oil ever could. It would be hard, but people can live without oil. People can't live without water or food. Small changes in climate can cause dramatic and rapid changes in local climates.
Arguably, it already has. There's an idea out there that climate change during the medieval warm period drove the Scandanavian population explosion during the middle ages, hence the abundance of Viking raids and colonization of Iceland, Britain, Greenland and the attempted colonization of North America. Once the climate started to cool during the little ice age the population size was reduced and put an end to their expansion.
Well I'm going to reply to you since you put the most effort into your response...
So, the number of Linux developers increased by 34% in the last year.
That's true, but that's not what TFA said. Here's the quote again in case you missed it the first time I posted it, "The targeting of Linux by developers increased by 34 percent..." It did not say that the number of Linux developers increased by 34%, it said the number of developers. So either the reporter is intentionally misleading the public or can't do basic math. I suspect it's the former, since 34% is much more impressive than 3%.
P.S. Incidentally, what I have said really is true, regardless of what the slashdot mods seem to think of the situation (if their modding me into oblivion is any indication). And btw, this is not a slight to linux, I run a completely linux and mac shop, it's just a plea for truth in reporting.
The targeting of Linux by developers increased by 34 percent to 11.8 percent. It had been 8.8 a year ago, according to the survey. Linux targeting is expected to reach 16 percent over the next year.
Actually going from 11.8% from 8.8% is only a 3% increase, not 34%. I always find it odd when people calculate a percent increase in a percent, because it doesn't make any sense, wouldn't that be a perdecamil? (1 part in 100 times 1 part in 100 = one part in 10,000)
I'm sorry. Sometimes they are not as much stooges as folks think. But the single biggest story of the day is Libby being commuted and all they are talking about is Benoit's roid rage.
How is Fox not being a stooge??? As you say, it's the biggest story of they day and they don't show it. My guess is that they're not presenting it because they know that the vast majority of people will disapprove of the decision to commute Libby, so if they don't cover it, all the pin-heads who watch fox won't then disapprove of the president. There ya go, things become much clearer when you realize that Fox is one of the propaganda wings of the republican party.
No seriously. According to this, his approval rating trend is at 28.9%. Typically, you've got a +/- 5 point margin on these polls, if he pulls an especially low poll, it puts him damn close to Truman's record for the all time lowest approval rating ever achieved by a U.S. president of 22%. It'll become more likely for this to happen if he sinks any lower.
Yeah I noticed that in the WWDC keynote also. My precise thought was "WTF?!" Here's a link to the talk. The pie chart is at 01:07 or so. I'm a huge Apple fanboy, but man, they can have my OSS when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. If Steve Jobs thinks he's going to get me to start using Apple products when there's a perfectly great OSS alternative, he's sadly mistaken. I think Apple makes great products, but making a great products simply doesn't compare to having freedom and great products at the same time in my eyes.
Why don't you give us some facts instead of assertions with no evidence. Here are some facts: last year was an El Nino year, so disrupted weather patterns are to be expected. Secondly, last winter was unseasonably warm. In fact you might say, record highest temperatures warm. Who modded this insightful?!?
Yeah those pesky scientists with their "rules" and "laws" and "theories". I agree, I find that my own personal threat to democracy is the law of gravity. My innate right to remain upright is threatened by this so-called consensus about gravity. In fact, I find the whole thing completely politicized because who dissents against the idea that gravity exists is immediately labeled a wacko and there's no room for debate on the subject.
What I am interested in is this. According to this:
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep airing May 31, 2007 on NPR News' Morning Edition, Griffin said the following: "I have no doubt that global -- that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change.
"First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown, and second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings - where and when - are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take." [17]
James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, stated that Griffin's comments showed "arrogance and ignorance", as millions will likely be harmed by global warming.[18] Jerry Mahlman, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that Griffin was either "totally clueless" or "a deep antiglobal warming ideologue."
This James Hansen fellow is the same one who had his work censored by the 24 year old Bush appointee with no college degree. Sorry but I can't trust a god-damn thing any Bush appointee says any more, and that includes Griffin. Earth's climate may not be optimal but trying to keep the one we got sure is cheaper than going out to look for the "optimal" one. What a loony! Shuttle missions? That's just fiddling while Rome burns. Space Research at NASA has been cut 25% under this guy.
Well, for one thing, the Zune doesn't have 10% of the market. That was one million zunes shipped, not sold. For another thing, he's probably artificially limiting the category the Zune is in, like only > 20Gb media players or something. If you want an alternate take from M$' perspective, try this one:
...one million units in seven months of sales is simply nothing in consumer electronics. In reality, Apple will sell roughly another twenty million iPods by June 2007... if Microsoft can meet its goal by stuffing the channel with unsold Zunes, just as it did with the Xbox.
Admittedly, this guy is just as biased as the M$ guy.
Dont forget that he's on the board of Apple. He's also an unofficial advisor to google and cofounded something called Current TV which I'd never heard of before, but looks like youtube. Are there even any other politicians as tech saavy as he is, much less one that is hoped to be running for president?
Meh.... You photoshop fanboi's just as bad as any other type of fanboi. I've been using GIMP exclusively at home for some time and it does everything that I need. I even managed to get GIMP to do something I could never figure out how to get Photoshop to do, which is allow zero margins while printing. It was easy to do this in GIMP, but I could never get Photoshop to allow it when you actually went to print. I'm even starting to do print work with it at work. Face it, photoshop may do a lot of neat tricks, but GIMP has the basics of image manipulation down just fine and there's no real reason to cut your arm and give it to Adobe in the form of a Photoshop license unless there's something specific that Photoshop does that you need.
I'll believe this deal has a chance when you can get an option from installing ubuntu as the OS by just going in through Dell's front page. Right now, this is all I see, no mention of Ubuntu for the E520. If this changes by 4 PM CST then I'll think that Dell's serious about giving linux a chance, but if you have to know about it before you can find it as an option, or go to a special page, I imagine it will only be as successful as their redhat offering.
Global warming is a hysteria similar to the Y2K hysteria, it is propaganda that is created for the same reason: money. How much money was made on the believe of the world that the civilization will be destroyed because in the 2000 due to the computer bugs?
The only people I can think of that made money on it were some fortran programmers who suddenly found themselves in demand again. Oh wait, I suppose it filled the need for some so-called "news agencies" to keep their ratings up for a while too. All I can think of is how much money was spent so that nothing untowards happened, and surprise, surprise, nothing bad happened! Amazing what problems you can take care of when you put your mind to it.
How much money is made today by various interested groups, how much money is doled out to the research on these dubious claims, how much political influence does a scary issue like this provide? Ho ho ho, it's Christmass.
Unlike Exxon and the Republicans, the scientists actually doing research on the subject don't have an advertising budget, aren't making a profit and also don't have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
So... I suppose you're going to deny that NASA landed on the moon too, huh? I'm sure you believe that fluorine in the drinking water is mind-control by the US government?
Funny. I see this in TFA
Myth: Many leading scientists question climate change.Then I find this article.
That article was written by Marc Morano. I'm not seriously going to consider anything written by the producer for Rush Limbaugh.
Also, in TFA, I see this:
Myth: Polar bear numbers are increasing
Then I see this.
Did you even read the article you linked to? Almost every scientist they interviewed about the subject said something along the lines of,
"The critical problem is, the sea ice is changing. We're looking ahead three generations, 30 to 50 years. To say that bear populations are growing in one area now is irrelevant," says Derocher." [f the World Conservation Union and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.] "The increase in the population is not a climate-change related issue," Derocher claims. It's the result of "conservation and an increase in the harp seal population," he says."I don't think there is any question polar bears are threatened by global warming," responds Andrew Derocher of the World Conservation Union and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
So, yes a single population of polar bears is increasing, but too bad there's 19 populations world-wide, at least two of which are decreasing.
The author has also chosen to make its license (GPL) incompatible with OO.o's (LGPL) so that his porting efforts cannot be contributed back to the main project. That makes NeoOffice a very hostile fork. What's more, he is trying (against the terms of the GPL/LGPL) to limit free distribution by using the trademark loophole.
Yes and no, I would consier the GPL to be the preferable license to use over the LGPL, regardless of what OOo does. Also, he "limits" free distribution by charging for free binararies of NEW releases. He still provides the source for free and he still provides the binaries for free download after they've been tested. My personally, I've already donated once to NeoOffice so I'm happy to wait for new releases now.
Those guys (Ed and Patrick) are way ahead of the OOo port, so it's most likely going to be around for some time, Sun or not. Its a sad story, but its really too bad the Neo guys and OOo couldn't work together, but there's something political going on.
Yeah, that's true, my impression was that a lot of the stuff in TFA reads like Jobs didn't know about what the environmental impacts of his manufacturing processes were before the Greenpeace thing came out. If he is serious about what he says and not just giving PR lip service, it will have been useful what Greenpeace did, but I can't help but feel that if they were a little less careless in their methods that it would have better. Specifically I mean that an environmental evaluation based entirely on what the company says it's going to rather than what it is doing smells terrible. On the other hand, There havebeenconcerns about if Apple really does think different or not. I think what is necessary here is an unbiased source to evaluate how environmentally responsible these companies really are... hmmm, perhaps some government agency that is responsible for monitoring the environmental impact of various activities in society? An agency for environmental protection maybe?... One can only dream that we'd have one of those.:)
Honestly, until the other explanations started coming out I lost a LOT of faith in scientists and researchers. I mean, come on.
Sorry to get on your case here, but this shit pisses me off. Some guy went and said something and some twit of a reporter who couldn't tell his ass from a hole in the ground reported it as being fact and now all scientists and researchers have lost your faith? Look man, it seems to me that you need to grow some common sense and the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. Science is not the borg where once one scientist says something, all must agree and that this is now fact and written up in some book in an ivory tower somewhere. Science is done by real humans, some of whom are better than others but all of whom make mistakes from time to time. The reason why you can sometimes trust scientists over, say corporations, priests, or politicians is that 1) scientists have less motivations to lie (notice I didn't say no motivation), and 2) if they're good scientists, their assertions are testable hypotheses. That means that other scientists,who are real humans and have independent thoughts so may or may not agree with the 1st scientist, can do the same work and see if they come to the same conclusion. So stop believing everything you hear about some dimwit reporter reporting that one loony made an unfounded assertion and now "science" or "scientists" now all agreee on something.
P.S. Incidentally, this is why Exxon and the republicans can manipulate the debate on global climate change so easily, they prop up one loony with demonstratably false data or assertions and now global climate change is "in debate" when the reality is that the population, nor the reporters disseminating the falsity can be bothered to distinguish between good scientific work and bad.
In their defence, you'd be rudderless too if you were a buggy-whip manufacturer after the Model T was introduced. The multi-mexapixel camera made them pretty obselete, but it is good to see them move this direction, especially since HP have turned into such a bunch of wankers. It's a pity about HP too, they used to make such great calculators, I still have my two 32SIIs that I wouldn't trade for any other calculator that I know of. (Yes, I've seen the 33S, it looks like some dorks from the marketing department got a hold of it and mangled it.)
Back on topic though, this seems like a pretty natural choice for Kodak, I wonder how long they've been planning this, because it's the first I've heard of them in the news since they got out of the analog camera business. It seems like the couple of years that's passed since then would be enough time to come up with a working printer and ink business model and implement it.
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Dude... I grew up in the 80s. While a lot of the 80s music had a good beat that you can dance to, it definitely was not the best music era. In fact, even the 90s when I was a teenager didn't have all that great music (it seems like that was mostly a reaction to all that overproduced synth stuff that came out in the 80s). My vote: the 60s, simply for the originality, but I'm getting OT. :)
In any case, you and the parent are right in that lot of stuff just repeats itself, but some doen't. Look at the generation that experienced the great depression (my grandparents). Those people were much more fiscally responsible than my parents generation (the baby boomers). You see a similar thing in Japan or Germany, on account of major portions of those countries being nearly completely leveled after WWII and nearly an entire generation of young men never came home again. After WWI, the people who went through that were referred to as "The Lost Generation,", you can guess why. People that live through that sort of stuff tend to me much more careful, whereas the younger generations are much more carefree. So it could be that Gen X, Y, Z etc. are getting to progressively more self-centered and showing increasingly less fiscal responsibility (it would explain the housing crisis).
And what OS are you running? I bet it's not linux or os x since there aren't very many games out for those because they're different platforms. Yet they're still PCs.
No, Rachael's going to be dubbed over with an incredibly annoying CG alien with a faux jamaican accent: "Issa dis testin' whether Mesa'm a weplicant or a lesbian, Meester Deckard?
That's true, but that's not what TFA said. Here's the quote again in case you missed it the first time I posted it, "The targeting of Linux by developers increased by 34 percent..." It did not say that the number of Linux developers increased by 34%, it said the number of developers. So either the reporter is intentionally misleading the public or can't do basic math. I suspect it's the former, since 34% is much more impressive than 3%.
P.S. Incidentally, what I have said really is true, regardless of what the slashdot mods seem to think of the situation (if their modding me into oblivion is any indication). And btw, this is not a slight to linux, I run a completely linux and mac shop, it's just a plea for truth in reporting.
Actually going from 11.8% from 8.8% is only a 3% increase, not 34%. I always find it odd when people calculate a percent increase in a percent, because it doesn't make any sense, wouldn't that be a perdecamil? (1 part in 100 times 1 part in 100 = one part in 10,000)
Oops, sorry I just realized I got Comic-book man the emote wrong, here's a better:
Worst. President. Ever.
Actually, Bush is in the running for the...
(wait for the meme!)
Worst President Ever!
No seriously. According to this, his approval rating trend is at 28.9%. Typically, you've got a +/- 5 point margin on these polls, if he pulls an especially low poll, it puts him damn close to Truman's record for the all time lowest approval rating ever achieved by a U.S. president of 22%. It'll become more likely for this to happen if he sinks any lower.
Yeah I noticed that in the WWDC keynote also. My precise thought was "WTF?!" Here's a link to the talk. The pie chart is at 01:07 or so. I'm a huge Apple fanboy, but man, they can have my OSS when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. If Steve Jobs thinks he's going to get me to start using Apple products when there's a perfectly great OSS alternative, he's sadly mistaken. I think Apple makes great products, but making a great products simply doesn't compare to having freedom and great products at the same time in my eyes.
Why don't you give us some facts instead of assertions with no evidence. Here are some facts: last year was an El Nino year, so disrupted weather patterns are to be expected. Secondly, last winter was unseasonably warm. In fact you might say, record highest temperatures warm. Who modded this insightful?!?
Yeah those pesky scientists with their "rules" and "laws" and "theories". I agree, I find that my own personal threat to democracy is the law of gravity. My innate right to remain upright is threatened by this so-called consensus about gravity. In fact, I find the whole thing completely politicized because who dissents against the idea that gravity exists is immediately labeled a wacko and there's no room for debate on the subject.
This James Hansen fellow is the same one who had his work censored by the 24 year old Bush appointee with no college degree. Sorry but I can't trust a god-damn thing any Bush appointee says any more, and that includes Griffin. Earth's climate may not be optimal but trying to keep the one we got sure is cheaper than going out to look for the "optimal" one. What a loony! Shuttle missions? That's just fiddling while Rome burns. Space Research at NASA has been cut 25% under this guy.
Admittedly, this guy is just as biased as the M$ guy.
Dont forget that he's on the board of Apple. He's also an unofficial advisor to google and cofounded something called Current TV which I'd never heard of before, but looks like youtube. Are there even any other politicians as tech saavy as he is, much less one that is hoped to be running for president?
Meh.... You photoshop fanboi's just as bad as any other type of fanboi. I've been using GIMP exclusively at home for some time and it does everything that I need. I even managed to get GIMP to do something I could never figure out how to get Photoshop to do, which is allow zero margins while printing. It was easy to do this in GIMP, but I could never get Photoshop to allow it when you actually went to print. I'm even starting to do print work with it at work. Face it, photoshop may do a lot of neat tricks, but GIMP has the basics of image manipulation down just fine and there's no real reason to cut your arm and give it to Adobe in the form of a Photoshop license unless there's something specific that Photoshop does that you need.
I'll believe this deal has a chance when you can get an option from installing ubuntu as the OS by just going in through Dell's front page. Right now, this is all I see, no mention of Ubuntu for the E520. If this changes by 4 PM CST then I'll think that Dell's serious about giving linux a chance, but if you have to know about it before you can find it as an option, or go to a special page, I imagine it will only be as successful as their redhat offering.
So... I suppose you're going to deny that NASA landed on the moon too, huh? I'm sure you believe that fluorine in the drinking water is mind-control by the US government?
Those guys (Ed and Patrick) are way ahead of the OOo port, so it's most likely going to be around for some time, Sun or not. Its a sad story, but its really too bad the Neo guys and OOo couldn't work together, but there's something political going on.
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Here's some oblig. links:
NeoOffice: http://trinity.neooffice.org/
OOo: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.
Yeah, that's true, my impression was that a lot of the stuff in TFA reads like Jobs didn't know about what the environmental impacts of his manufacturing processes were before the Greenpeace thing came out. If he is serious about what he says and not just giving PR lip service, it will have been useful what Greenpeace did, but I can't help but feel that if they were a little less careless in their methods that it would have better. Specifically I mean that an environmental evaluation based entirely on what the company says it's going to rather than what it is doing smells terrible. On the other hand, There have been concerns about if Apple really does think different or not. I think what is necessary here is an unbiased source to evaluate how environmentally responsible these companies really are... hmmm, perhaps some government agency that is responsible for monitoring the environmental impact of various activities in society? An agency for environmental protection maybe? ... One can only dream that we'd have one of those. :)
P.S. Incidentally, this is why Exxon and the republicans can manipulate the debate on global climate change so easily, they prop up one loony with demonstratably false data or assertions and now global climate change is "in debate" when the reality is that the population, nor the reporters disseminating the falsity can be bothered to distinguish between good scientific work and bad.
Hear hear!
In their defence, you'd be rudderless too if you were a buggy-whip manufacturer after the Model T was introduced. The multi-mexapixel camera made them pretty obselete, but it is good to see them move this direction, especially since HP have turned into such a bunch of wankers. It's a pity about HP too, they used to make such great calculators, I still have my two 32SIIs that I wouldn't trade for any other calculator that I know of. (Yes, I've seen the 33S, it looks like some dorks from the marketing department got a hold of it and mangled it.)
Back on topic though, this seems like a pretty natural choice for Kodak, I wonder how long they've been planning this, because it's the first I've heard of them in the news since they got out of the analog camera business. It seems like the couple of years that's passed since then would be enough time to come up with a working printer and ink business model and implement it.