The problem is: you can incite these people and there is no rational response. What kind of civil order can be maintained when the irrational can't be contained?
You can't. That is why it is imperative to curtail he irrational and illogical above all else.
The punchline is: Its called The Wrath of God, but everyone thinks it will be natural disasters that undo our civilization but in reality the natural disasters are only a representation of the long-term negligence that is a side-effect of letting the irrational forces in society guide it as a whole.
We *killed* God and this is his revenge on us for letting it happen.
Its a self-perpetuating social phenomenon amongst middle management, I think. Sort of like how no heroin addict would ever call another junkie an addict; to do so would be too obviously a betrayal of their own nature.
Well, if YOU had more money than NASA and wanted to rub someone's nose in it but didn't want to be caught doing so, who would YOU have paid to take that last seat?
This was already done back in the 90's. It was called BeOS and the limitation of making a flawless operating system is that it'll support exactly 4 motherboard models ever, and if you're lucky 1 scsi card.
I dunno about everyone else posting above but I agree with you on this point. I don't think *anyone* who has succeeded in using both Linux and Windows for gaming and multimedia would disagree that the hardware vendors have been holding out on us. The problem is that the average newcomer to Linux isn't going to have the patience to even sympathize with this plight, even if they can understand it - which most won't. Most people will just see it crash when they try to install or start it the first time on their brand new shiny shit and just go straight back to Windows, resting assured that Microsoft was right all along about open source not being a viable approach to software production.
And the sad truth is, for them it effectively does suck, regardless of whose faul it is. For them, its effectively true. From their point of view there's no distinction between the outcomes regardless of where the blame lies. The question is: How do we fix that?
Yea actually this is the crux of it really. Nothing about *any* of the popular desktop environments in Linux make them completely useless. What *will* definitely turn away 99% of first-time linux users is not being able to succesfully complete the install, or not being able to successfully even RUN the desktop, and this is always ultimately a driver problem.
As far as using mice goes, they need to be very good. The UN does accredition for most humanitarion demining, so the mice will need to find all the mines in a training field before they're allowed to do real work. I really don't see that happening anytime soon.
The rest all sounds quite reasonable and true, so you do deserve to know that it makes a difference the article is talking about rats not mice. While their outright combat effectiveness may be about equal, there is in fact an order of magnitude of intelligence difference between rats and mice. It is not a commonly known fact but rats are actually in the caliber of the intelligence of some of the smarter dog breeds and are very industrious in nature making them natural problem solvers and eager trainees. Since they reach maturity so fast (~3 year max life span) and it takes far less food and space to keep them healthy it is reasonable to expect you could train a whole lot more of them in a shorter amount of time to do just as good of a job as a dog.
Plus they're vermin so less people are gonna cry about it if a few explode.
How much of this affect can be conclusively attributed to the light itself and how much of it is actually the adrenaline rush from the video game? I suspect hours reading boring documentation under the exact same light would NOT have even remotely the same effeccts.
I used to think so but when the punishment doesn't fit the crime anymore I start to have doubts.
When they redefine what he did as *piracy* and then punish him using the laws that govern *theft* when whe he did was in no literal or figurative sense the same scale of damage or malicious intent as either one I start to question whether I'm really standing on the moral high ground anymore.
Are the people who think this type of behavior needs to be punished so badly that any punishment is not too severe so long as it is justified by the fear it might strike into the hearts of other such "villians" really the good guys in this battle after all?
There are murders, thugs and rapists who have served less time than this guy will.
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Compared to Joomla pretty much anything else is a good choice.
Rogue software plagues the internet of Today. You think it really won't plague the highways of Tomorrow?
There are pizza restaurants in large cities that will also deliver beer or wine with your order.
Move your desk away from the wall.
The problem is: you can incite these people and there is no rational response. What kind of civil order can be maintained when the irrational can't be contained?
You can't. That is why it is imperative to curtail he irrational and illogical above all else.
The punchline is: Its called The Wrath of God, but everyone thinks it will be natural disasters that undo our civilization but in reality the natural disasters are only a representation of the long-term negligence that is a side-effect of letting the irrational forces in society guide it as a whole.
We *killed* God and this is his revenge on us for letting it happen.
Its a self-perpetuating social phenomenon amongst middle management, I think. Sort of like how no heroin addict would ever call another junkie an addict; to do so would be too obviously a betrayal of their own nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Nothing more than a line in the sand.
I condemn Pokeman too. They're both on my list of infuriatingly stupid things I never want to hear or think about again.
Aeryn: Insane?
John: Since birth
Aeryn: Suicidal?
John: Test pilot
- Farscape (Self Inflicted Wounds, Part 1: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a)
STFU, Panda coward!
Well, if YOU had more money than NASA and wanted to rub someone's nose in it but didn't want to be caught doing so, who would YOU have paid to take that last seat?
But at least I'm not a coward. :)
Bask in it, motherfuckers.
This was already done back in the 90's. It was called BeOS and the limitation of making a flawless operating system is that it'll support exactly 4 motherboard models ever, and if you're lucky 1 scsi card.
I dunno about everyone else posting above but I agree with you on this point. I don't think *anyone* who has succeeded in using both Linux and Windows for gaming and multimedia would disagree that the hardware vendors have been holding out on us. The problem is that the average newcomer to Linux isn't going to have the patience to even sympathize with this plight, even if they can understand it - which most won't. Most people will just see it crash when they try to install or start it the first time on their brand new shiny shit and just go straight back to Windows, resting assured that Microsoft was right all along about open source not being a viable approach to software production.
And the sad truth is, for them it effectively does suck, regardless of whose faul it is. For them, its effectively true. From their point of view there's no distinction between the outcomes regardless of where the blame lies. The question is: How do we fix that?
Yea actually this is the crux of it really. Nothing about *any* of the popular desktop environments in Linux make them completely useless. What *will* definitely turn away 99% of first-time linux users is not being able to succesfully complete the install, or not being able to successfully even RUN the desktop, and this is always ultimately a driver problem.
As far as using mice goes, they need to be very good. The UN does accredition for most humanitarion demining, so the mice will need to find all the mines in a training field before they're allowed to do real work. I really don't see that happening anytime soon.
The rest all sounds quite reasonable and true, so you do deserve to know that it makes a difference the article is talking about rats not mice. While their outright combat effectiveness may be about equal, there is in fact an order of magnitude of intelligence difference between rats and mice. It is not a commonly known fact but rats are actually in the caliber of the intelligence of some of the smarter dog breeds and are very industrious in nature making them natural problem solvers and eager trainees. Since they reach maturity so fast (~3 year max life span) and it takes far less food and space to keep them healthy it is reasonable to expect you could train a whole lot more of them in a shorter amount of time to do just as good of a job as a dog.
Plus they're vermin so less people are gonna cry about it if a few explode.
Article is weak on expertise.
1) No, you don't need 10, idiot, you just need ONE, and about a dozen or so relatively obedeient and competent non-novice developers.
2) Those weren't senior developers.
I think its a question of how many electrolytes you feedd the battery, er, human.
Think of all the money we've been flushing down the toilet!!!
Now we just need a car design that has a toilet you can hook your butt to directly so you can eat and poop while driving to keep fueling it.
Cueing bad Matrix references in 3... 2... 1...
How much of this affect can be conclusively attributed to the light itself and how much of it is actually the adrenaline rush from the video game? I suspect hours reading boring documentation under the exact same light would NOT have even remotely the same effeccts.
FYI 720p looks just fine to me at least up to 150" (that's as far of a throw I have managed to test) at similar viewing distances.
I dunno... he kinda has a point. You have to change the mindsets of the people before you will ever change their behavior.
Probably there should be.
I used to think so but when the punishment doesn't fit the crime anymore I start to have doubts.
When they redefine what he did as *piracy* and then punish him using the laws that govern *theft* when whe he did was in no literal or figurative sense the same scale of damage or malicious intent as either one I start to question whether I'm really standing on the moral high ground anymore.
Are the people who think this type of behavior needs to be punished so badly that any punishment is not too severe so long as it is justified by the fear it might strike into the hearts of other such "villians" really the good guys in this battle after all?
There are murders, thugs and rapists who have served less time than this guy will.