Comment Re:We need 1-file installs (Score 1) 487
Which ancient OS are you using?
In Ubuntu at least the first command works fine (Haven't bothered to try the others)
Which ancient OS are you using?
In Ubuntu at least the first command works fine (Haven't bothered to try the others)
You are ignorant about evolution. Anyone who says evolution is "random" doesn't know the first thing about evolution.
Ideas are a dime a dozen.
Implement something.
There is no sense in rewarding people for thinking up ideas. We simply don't need to, as good ideas will be thought out even if we don't.
The problem is finding people who would implement those ideas.
Rupert Murdoch is the scum of the Earth.
I don't think any significant part of the boot process is CPU bound.
When every program on the system, from Solitaire.exe to the MP3 player has complete access to read, write or delete all of the user's files, connect to any computer on the internet, etc, its no wonder malware thrives.
The death of Microsoft as a prominent software company will be good for the world at large.
We've recently migrated from Perforce to Git.
Git is much much better.
I recommend everyone to use modern DVCS tools, and not older centralized ones.
Mind boggling:
The voting remains anonymous (I personally don't think this is that important, but lots of people seem to believe it is).
Of course its important, otherwise voter intimidation, as well as buying votes become much more serious problems.
Its far easier for a 3rd party overwatching election committee to verify that the box is empty before the election, than to verify that the electronic election is actually reset, and the machines aren't tampered, and have no back doors, and so forth.
Share car --> I don't have the car to use, it gets worn and torn over time, you might have an accident and destroy it.
Share software --> You gain software, I still have software, no damage done.
POOR ANALOGY: YOU FAIL.
It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task.
Once the task grows, it becomes pretty hard to write it in C, at which point people take shortcut that often harm performance.
So you get an absurd situation that people choose C for performance but end up sacrificing performance because of the extra complexity of using C.
Yay for surveillance society in order to enforce copyrights!
I know!
The only way we can enforce those evil pirates to stop pirating content, would be to put surveillance on all of their digital communications!
Lets have the government listen on to their p2p, email and other Internet communications.
And if they're encrypted, lets arrest them, and confiscate their computing equipment so that we can decrypt the communication and know if they're pirating with their buddies!
After all, copyright infringement is more important than privacy, or protecting people from unreasonable search&seizures.
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