I would love to be able to play GW2 on Linux, since it constitutes 99+% of the gaming that I do these days.
Warhammer Online (yes, still alive and kicking). 99+% of my gaming recently. I have tried to run it in Wine, same with LotRO, but to no avail. Got tired, rebooted into Win7 and had fun.
Because, of course, it contributes NO greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
When are we going to get serious about NOT actively promoting global warming with every 'solution' we come up with? Sure, incineration reduces methane emissions, but couldn't we either recycle more, (and more efficiently), and/or just consume less?
Our pursuit of 'shiny' is killing us.
First of all Sweden seems to recycle as much as possible to the point they ran out of garbage and have to import it.
Second, this matter would decompose anyway releasing (as you noticed) methane, a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. If in those countries all this garbage would end up on landfills, why not to burn it thus both reducing coal burning and reducing methane emissions?
Third, nothing is lost. Do you think that if Sweden wasn't burning Italian trash, Italians would start recycling?
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" shows that Communism must lead to totalitarian regime. Atrocities of Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Red Khmers were not "errors", they were natural consequence of the essence of Communism.
Greed and laziness will ensure that most people would overestimate their needs and underestimate their abilities. This would require some external judgement, by the state, by the party, by the system. So, basically someone else would judge how much you can work and enforce that you work that much. Similarily someone would have to assess your needs and provide you with goods according to this. So the result is that an individual cannot decide for himself, which would be... slavery?
And in fact, apart from short periods of enthusiasm e.g. right after WW2, all communist states were founded on slavery, both hidden (compulsory employment) and official (e.g. Gulag).
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth."
Einstein was wrong about this one, if it is in fact an authentic Einstein quote. Can someone please verify for me?
The Catholic and Protestant Churches supported both Nazism and Fascism.
On the Catholic:
The Lateran Treaty of 1929 was when the Catholic Church threw its full formal support behind Mussolini. Of course, there had been longstanding informal support long before this, but this is the formal document that the Church cannot deny! It is a impossibility to win power in heavily Christian countries like Italy and Germany were in the 1920's without the active support of the church.
Typical fallacy of equating Nazism and Fascism. Did the Catholic Church supported Fascism? Probaby, I do not know. It did support Franco, if only due to "enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasons, but maybe for other as well. But while both Franco's and Mussolini's regimes were authoritarian and commited crimes, they do not in any scale compare with Nazis. Even today many tyrans oppress opposition and even attack whole cities (see Syria or Libya), but atrocities on the level of Nazis or Red Khmers are something absolutely unique.
So Einstein might have been right that the Church opposed Nazis even though it supported Fascism. In fact Nazis disdained Christianity as a Jewish sect propagating, as they saw it, "weakness". You know, that whole stuff about the other cheek and submitting to torture because of the God and the Truth - completely in opposition to "healthy" Aryan values of strength, victory and the whole "Ubermensch" concept.
When Joe Kittinger jumped for Excelsior in the '50s and '60s, he was testing the feasibilty high-altitude escape systems. He succeeded, and in the process, set some very impressive and rather durable records. Stratos was a not-very-subtle ad-funded stunt show. There's real science being done but I have little doubt that it's ultimately in service to the sponsor (also Austrian).
While it is all true, I am all for such ways to spend ad and marketing funds instead of just paying celebrities. Apple has reportedly spent 1 bn for marketing of iphone and ipad. Have they made anything really cool with all this money? I know that it is a matter of a different targetted group, but most Red Bull campaigns and stunts are awesome and some even borderline useful.
Disclaimer: I have drunk Red Bull twice. Nevermore. Likewise other "energy drinks".
Not to mention that most GIS systems have been doing exactly this for decades. The GRASS system, for example, an open source, open GIS system that existed in the early 80s when Microsoft hadn't started selling MS-DOS yet.
But now it is on a smartphone or a tablet!
Sorry, but this is yet another modern version of Eugenics being pushed in to your face. Just like "using DNA to determine future criminals" and "Detecting psychopaths by Tweets".
The people working on these papers expressing opinions like this are dangerous and should be locked up. Yes, it's that simple and yes, the propaganda they are spreading is extremely dangerous. If you don't understand the danger, go read a fucking history book and see what happens when people are convinced that genocide or racial superiority are good things.
Ummm, then we should also lock up anarchists, communists, nationalists, racist, Christians, Muslims, Jews, well, all religious people, atheists and quite a few others, because all of these ideologies/religions caused genocide at some point in the past.
Hell, we should start from locking up people who suggest locking up scientist and people having different opinions, because locking up people for such reasons is almost always the beginning for any totalitarian and terror regime.
War of conquest is a form of immigration.
Only if it is successfull. However even brief (e.g. several years) presence of a large army (think Napoleon in Prussia, partitioned Poland/Duchy of Warsaw and Russia) may leave significant genetic trace in the local population.
Never forget OMG Ponies!
I wanted to click most of stories in that screenshot, from The Cure for Information Overload, through Here There Be Dragons, to Quasars Used for Encryption.
Compare it with three of five uppermost stories on the current frontpage: Google settles blah blah, Phillipines new legislation, Facebook Privacy Boosted. Ok. there is the MakerFaire and a test engine for 1000 mph car, but still...
Probably more sign of the times than the state of
The invisible hand works, just the results are not optimal for either suppliers or customers. It is the pork cycle mentioned above. Due to production lag and adaptive expectations, supply/demand and prices of livestock (and hogs especially) experience stable oscillations.
"The invisible hand" is nothing more than a complicated feedback loop. Anyone working with industrial control systems can tell you that in some circumstances feedback loops can have not nice equilibra: oscilations, chaotic fluctuations or runaway conditions. This is why governments attempt to influence the invisible hand, e.g. flatten natural cycles.
At first, I thought it was just a silly conspiracy theory that they released an intentionally crappy OS every other cycle, but I'm really starting to think they do it on purpose
On purpose - probably yes. Sinister plan - rather not.
Every other version is pushing boundaries, taking chances, kind of like KDE 4.0 or Gnome 3.0. Then MS learns what did not work and releases a polished version. So you have Win 2000 followed by XP, then an ambitious failure of Vista followed by Win7. Now it is time for another push with Win8 and ideas tested with it will return in usable form with Win9.
So "stable" versions provide income while "experimental" versions provide UAT.
It's called Windows 7. You can expect it to be a lot more popular in the enterprise then 8.
Unless you're unlucky enough that your corporation signed a deal with MS of upgrading to every second Windows release, starting with Win2000.
Yes, that's Win2000, then Vista, then Win8, bypassing both XP and Win7
Chromebooks, at this point, don't seem to be targeted at anyone that reads slashdot. Well, maybe only if it's an IT manager.
Why? I read slashdot for some time now, I am not an IT manager and I would buy a Chromebook gladly - if not for the issue mentioned by the GP: Chromebooks are more expensive now than a comparable netbook/cheap laptop.
I own an Aspire One d522 and the only time when I am not using a browser is when I play Diablo II (on Battle.net) or Warhammer Online. So yes, it is useless for me if the net is down. I use gmail and google docs and use my main pc for serious work. The netbook is for browsing and watching VOD. There's Debian on a second partition too, but it is a barebone xfce install with chromium.
So I could replace it with a chromebook gladly - less hassle with updates and everything - if the price was significantly lower.
What do they care? they already have your money!
Well, they don't and they will not have.
Fortunately, as others pointed out, they announced this beforehand. Whoever buys this knows he's been warned.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
