Comment Re:Conversion for the casual reader (Score 2) 85
That'll show him!
That'll show him!
Are you serious?
One place produced about half of Europe's steel, but that's not what comes to mindl. Instead a rather large company (the joys of bailouts and too big to fail was all the rage back then too) that is really famous for making weapons for the Nazis using slave labor sourced from concentration camps is your go to name?
Kids these days eh?
For shits and giggle google "Sheffield made in China"
The Sheffield brand-name is/was so strong that there's rumors of a small town in China called Sheffield with a steel mill.
huh? anywhere outside of 100km radius around sheffield it's just taught that england made lots of products industrially and among them steel.
For fine steel products just prior to WWII.. no, sheffield is not the place that comes to mind, not for the century prior to it either. Krupp comes to mind. Of course I suppose that inside UK they wouldn't want to mention that industrial revolution didn't happen just inside UK.
But.. more importantly, why would I read a newspaper that would publish stupid stuff like this? they're trying to say that since they supposedly found pieces of algae in 25km they must have come from space...
Go find your grandparents kitchen knives. Even in north america there's a better than 50% chance that any good quality knife that's over 50 years gold was made in Sheffield.
"By now you have likely read about the 'alien life forms' discovered in the upper atmosphere over Yorkshire, via the mass media reprinting a press release from the University of Sheffield.
The what from the who now? Shitty writing. "Oh, by now I'm sure you've heard about the $TRIVIAL_EVENT that occurred 4,000 miles from where I reside 99.999% of my life.
Kind of sad given the key role that Sheffield played in the industrial revolution. For the century prior to WWII Sheffield was producing the finest steel in the world.
Have they stopped teaching history?
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer
But it's "in the cloud"!
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
The problem with the US medical system is that it's profit based.
There is little motivation for a unethical doctor to actually cure you, but there's lots of motivation to proscribe you meds out the ying-yang if your insurance covers it.
Caveats:
- Not every doctor plays into this
- Even in countries where there are well run socialized medical systems there are still bad doctors.
The Sealand Conjecture: anytime "move to Sealand" seems like a wise and/or appropriate response, you're already completely fucked.
That's what I was hinting at.
You know you're in trouble when Sealand is the answer to a question.
feel free to show me a version of Android that does not require Linux though.
I know right?
Android is a thin layer on top of Linux that requires kernel driver support for phone hardware. This is one of the most bullshit conversations I've ever had.
"You know what we call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine" -- Tim Minchin
Linux is the kernel. Other stuff is other stuff.
The point is that in desktop/server/embedded Linux environment the developers sees the kernel API. Under Android they do not. Android is a Java environment not a *nix environment.
Bollocks, if I write a desktop app in Java (Eclipse for example...) all I see is Java API, but that doesn't mean Eclipse is not running on Linux.
The Java app is not running on Linux, it is running on a Java virtual machine. That is one of the benefits of Java, it isolates you from the host operating system so that your app is portable. What that Java virtual machine is running on is irrelevant to your app. Would you claim that a Windows app is Linux based because MS Windows is running on a virtual machine hosted on a Linux box?
I give up, you really are quite mad.
Linux is the kernel. Other stuff is other stuff.
The point is that in desktop/server/embedded Linux environment the developers sees the kernel API. Under Android they do not. Android is a Java environment not a *nix environment.
Bollocks, if I write a desktop app in Java (Eclipse for example...) all I see is Java API, but that doesn't mean Eclipse is not running on Linux.
Please explain to me in short simple terms why a WINDOW MANAGER needs a "built in" mail tool.
Do NONE of the dozens of existing mail tools work with icewm?
"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!" -- Alan Perlis
