Mars!
John and Destiny left the houseboat parked on a space port pad they had rented at the spaceport at the Meridian Bay dome and got in a cab. Destiny said "I don't want to shop on an empty stomach. Taxi, take us to a restaurant that serves eggs and pork sausage this time of day."
"Wow," John said. "That's going to be an expensive place."
"Well, I'm buying. You said you never tried pork sa
Are you aware that changing to a model where some computers have Windows and some others not may _increase_ costs of computers? Think not only on the installation but also increasing costs for support and education of workers. Bulk costs for Windows are pretty low.
As has been mentioned elsewhere (by me and others), Microsoft's OEM licensing terms charges vendors a per unit sold fee for Windows, even if/when the customer doesn't want it. That's like making onboard GPS in a car mandatory, rather than optional. If you have your own GPS, you can use it, but you still have to pay for the built-in one.
This raises prices and reduces free market choices for the consumer. Why should I pay $50 or $75 more for my Linux PC so you can have Windows at a discount?
MS has done nothing to prevent a PC from being sold without an OS.
Actually, that's not really the case. Microsoft's Windows OEM licensing to PC vendors is (and has been for many, many years) based on the total number of units sold by the vendor -- whether Windows is being used or not. This creates a *huge* incentive for vendors to *only* support Windows, since they have to pay the licensing fee per unit, regardless of the installed OS.
What Microsoft has done is made it much more expensive to offer OS alternatives, as additional deployment and support resources are required to support other OS platforms. Since the vendor has to pay for the Windows license even if they pre-install another OS, there's a big disincentive to offer alternative OS' They certainly make it cheaper for Dell to pre-install Windows on a machine than for the end user to buy their own copy. They may have even said that they will raise the price if they don't make all their machines come with Windows. But manufacturers do that kind of stuff all the time in other areas. It costs almost as much for a whole new bike for the price you'd pay just for the drive train on a bicycle if you were to buy it apart from the bike. Companies pay big money to get exclusive rights to products (think games and products that are only sold in specific stores) because they know they'll make make money off the customer in the end.
There. FTFY.
There is "free as in beer" (usually both GPL and BSD). There is "free as in freedom" (BSD). And then there is "free as in free-range chickens" (GPL).
It amazes me that Milton was already involved in this conversation in 1649:
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
--John Milton
I guess the question is, to which license was he referring?
Is anyone linking to stories on an anti-public health, pseudoscience site?
It must be Jenny McCarthy or a chiropractor, I guess. Sigh.
Almost had me there article! Until you said the most evil words known to man... "statistical technique". AKA "bullshit"
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
--RAH
or they will taste like chicken.
Too esoteric?
There. FTFY.
You're right but isn't all this just extremely banal? To say that entropy is a statistical measure of disorder and that between certain bounds, life is more or less likely is simply to say that a body at equilibrium (like Mars) is much less likely to harbour life than one that isn't (like the Earth). It's a "no-shit Sherlock" moment.
What I took from TFA is not that there's anything groundbreaking in terms of prediction in the paper, rather it provides some minor mathematical grounding for our theories of abiogenesis. No, it's not a huge breakthrough, and no it doesn't provide any definitive answers. What it does is lend credence to the idea that abiogenesis is fairly common, given appropriate conditions.
Does this change the world? No. Does this add (in a minor way) to our theories of how life could begin? Yes.
". We can quantify that harm, and it's not civilization ending. it most certainly can be if we don't stop emitting greenhouse gasses. The trapped energy will increase with more greenhouse gasses. If we don't stop and work on lowering it, then it won't stop.
Now, we can do it using science, and brains, and engineering and planning. Or we can stop because the earth no longer supports humans.
Cost is irrelevant when dealing with complete collapse. The longer we wait, the more aggressive we must be.
To be clear, I'm not talking about tomorrow or next decade, but it can get too warm for human civilization as we know it in 100 years. When the heat sink are no longer available, the temp will rise even more dramatically.
Yes, I am raising the alarm. The change we must make will take decades. There isn't a silver bullet, there isn't 1 solution. We must be aggressive in out planning.
I'm not sure why you bother. Or why anyone does. The scientific models are incomplete. It will take many decades or even centuries to refine those models until they can reliably represent climate changes. We should wait until we know exactly what's going to happen before doing anything at all. Besides, I need my latest new shiny toy, I don't have time for speculative bullshit. You show me the Empire State building ten floors deep in rising sea levels and I might care. If not, take your science and shove it up your well-reamed asses!
I mean, so what if the AGW folks are right? It's not like any of us will be alive to see one way or another,
Who cares what will happen to our grandchildren anyway? They're just a bunch of useless rugrats taking up space and not contributing to the economy (i.e., making me more money).
If they were worth a damn, they'd be job creators and hard workers, In which case, they'd have the resources to buy their own politicians.
As it is, they just sit around eating and pooping in their diapers and whining about every little thing that annoys them. Or worse, they're sperm and ova eating up the planet's resources without providing anything useful.
It's their responsibility, not ours.
The politicians I own are going to make sure I have what I want. Those lazy fucking babies and their unconceived brethren can bloody well do it themselves. It's no concern of mine. Oh, and fuck you, Jack! I got mine.
The mini-embedded version for phones can be called Linux, phablets get LinuX, and tablets get LiNuX.
It took Microsoft a couple decades to realize that servers an desktops should use common, strong code bases, with differences mainly in appearance and installed user-layer software.
There are ten of us, of family linux, all named "linux". Slight differences in how you pronounce. "linux"..."linux"..."linux" you are seeing now?
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
