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2611.
by cabalamat 18y ago
> Apple will NEVER ship a third-party Linux. I agree. I don't think that they will either. My argument was not that they will, but that it would be in their interests if they did. Apple often behaves like this, e.g. the original Mac did
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by cabalamat 18y ago
There's certainly an element of truth in what you say. I think most of the customers for the $200 computer would be new customers, not existing Apple customers. And over time, after having used a Mac they might buy another more expensive on
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by cabalamat 18y ago
In the short term, the financial crisis won't affect America's position at the top (after all, it currently spends as much on its armed forces as the rest of the world combined). In the long term? According to the IMF in 2007 The USA's GDP
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by cabalamat 18y ago
I don't think so. One large factor in the decline of empires is when they get too big for the communications technology of the time to handle, i.e. if it takes too long for a message or an army to travel from one end o the empire to another
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by cabalamat 18y ago
Of course, the problem with this strategy is that Apple may be cannabalising their existing market to some extent. I think they could minimise this effect, firstly because the cheaper computers would be a lower spec, and secondly (don't lau
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by cabalamat 18y ago
I wonder how high this could go? I think Microsoft are vulnerable here, since they are widely disliked, even hated. Apple's market share in the US is higher than in the rest of the world, because the US market is less price sensitive. But w
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by cabalamat 18y ago
Yeah, like there's thousands of people holding off using Python because print is a keyword and not a function.
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by cabalamat 18y ago
You're right, lenders on Kiva aren't paid interest. Kiva's founders have said this is so they don't have to comply with burdensome investment legislation.
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by cabalamat 18y ago
Indeed it will break every existing non-trivial Python program. I hope someone big and important like Ubuntu or Red Hat does a fork for compatibility (they could call the fork "Real Python", and start version numbers at 4.0). Oh well, at le
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by cabalamat 18y ago
Weihenstephan, the world's oldest brewery, was founded in 1040. Their beer's nice too.
2621.
by cabalamat 18y ago
Me too :-)
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by cabalamat 18y ago
If there is some functional reason why a group might be all one sex, then few people would argue against it. For example, the way men act, think, are expected to behave, etc, in a dating/relationship setting is different from how women do;
2623.
by cabalamat 18y ago
Both parties get donations from the content cartels, and do what their paymasters tell them. Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.
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by cabalamat 18y ago
It's irrelevant. Copyright is dead (by which I mean that business models based on selling copies of a piece of information are becoming non-viable); the worst this bill will do is harm a few thousand individual file sharers. This will slow
2625.
by cabalamat 18y ago
The house I live in was built 120 years ago. Wanna bet that Cat-5 will still be around several decades from now?
2626.
by cabalamat 18y ago
Cat-5 jacks are a silly idea for proprty, since they will become obsolete when the next network technology comes along.
2627.
by cabalamat 18y ago
Nimbys.
2628.
by cabalamat 18y ago
It's not true -- my local Linux user group distinguishes itself from the majority by doing things that are rational (running Linux), and believing what's true (Linux is, for many tasks, better than proprietary OSes).
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by cabalamat 19y ago
ix: <i>"Most internet posters are unable to state things clearly [...] because they're embarassed to put their points in view so nakedly."</i> This is even more true of politicians. From Orwell's <i>Politics and the
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by cabalamat 19y ago
kerrynitz: but the problem lies when they are dropped from the sentence - eg cabalamat's example becomes "Everyone likes cats" Or even better a statement like "all decent people like cats". This has the form of a type [1] statement but the
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by cabalamat 19y ago
You say "The original meaning of ad hominem was not attaching the author but rather appealing to the readers emotions rather than logic." I don't think you're right here; "Ad hominem" in Latin means "to the man", implying attacking the orig
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by cabalamat 19y ago
As well as having a hierarchy of disagreement it seems to me useful to have a categorisation of statements (both in original essays, and disagreements with those essays). Such a categorisation might include: * [1] statements of how the worl