Well written response. I think, though, your comment may have been a little bit stronger if you had, perhaps, dismissed the idea of the garments in question as being 'magic'; I think 'sacred' would be a more appropriate term (I know exactly what you're talking about, though, admittedly, I'm don't use them, for personal reasons). As for weird, I've never found them even remotely peculiar, just different.
I trust argument more than I trust consensus; it's more likely to get us closer to the truth.
Good point. It reminds me of the 'scientific' consensus regarding man-made global warming. My interest in getting rid of the internal combustion engine is based on real contaminants (such as Carbon Monoxide) and efficiency, for which there is solid scientific research supporting, not a consensus (which, for global warming, seems to invite threats against those who refuse to toe the line).
Man, if the RIAA ever decides to frivolously sue me, I want someone like you on my side. You wouldn't happen to be lisenced for Utah, would you? Or know someone in Utah who's like you? (It's the simple admission that you're not a hotshot that draws my interest).
C and C++ are the only game in town for getting the best performance and a small memory footprint and the ability to have the lowest possible latency.
Actually, that's not true. Machine Language has the smallest possible footprint and the smallest possible latency, and also get the absolute best performance. The thing is, C, C++, and any other language has to translate the commands you issue into something the processor can easily understand, which often turns out to be many more machine language instructions than you would have if you wrote the same code in machine language directly. I won't argue that you are wrong regarding high level languages, though.
It's the one where the license permits me to use the software anywhere.
Not to strain at gnats, but does the GPL actually say anything about how many machines you're allowed to install the software on?
I'd actually argue that the GPL simply doesn't restrict you from installing the software, period (which Microsoft's EULA does). Your point is valid; I'm just not sure about your reasoning behind the logic.
From experience, I can say a modem on a VoIP line doesn't work. My good friend and I tried it with his Vonage phone service once. The handshake sounded okay, at first, but lasted much longer than it should have and it ultimately couldn't connect.
I, for one, do not believe our impact on climate change is that significant. I am not, however, in the belief that our impact on the environment is insignificant; with all the crud we're dumping into the atmosphere, we're only poisoning ourselves.
Do you have any idea how much Comcast/the phone company pay you for their land leases? The cable lines run through my parents yard, but last I checked, they do not receive any compensation.
May I once again say that I agree wholeheartedly with your arguments. Five or six lines providing a service to an area would be wonderful, and should be nothing forcing those who don't want a service to have lines for that service attaching to their homes.
As for the absurdity of trusting the government to fix what it's already broken, I also agree. There are very few situations in which individuals have willingly taken steps to correct their mistakes; the majority of those who make restitution for their offenses do so because they are compelled to. The GP's argument that replacing government with anything else would not sound absurd is an invalid comparison, in my opinion.
Well written response. You're very much correct in this.
Too bad there are so many citizens who actually believe politicians who claim that the "general welfare" clause in the U.S. Constitution gives them the authorization to play roulette with our rights.
Not to argue with your point, because it is correct that the Bill of Rights has become a list of the only rights, despite the intentions of our founding fathers (I'm a U.S. citizen), but even those rights are now being carefully and slowly eroded.
Excellent response to a clear incident of astroturfing. I completely agree. Unfortunately, MS shares a great deal of the responsibility that forced other industries to switch to Word. Fortunately, there are a few industries, like law, that have been far more resistant to the pressure MS has placed on them to switch.
I agree completely. My year and a half old MacBook (2GHz) ran perfectly fine for a year and a half with 512 MB, and I never had a reason to complain about its performance, aside from a few shutdown crashes (it almost never crashed at any other time). I wouldn't dare attempt to put Vista on a 512MB machine (and I'm not even going to think about considering it with my 1GHz tower at home, even if I upgrade the RAM; Ubuntu runs perfectly fine).
I completely agree. My computer (which is more than 2 years old) has 1GB of RAM and an AMD Sempron or Optiron (yes I probably horridly misspelled those) processor running at about 1.5 GHz (I think it's closer to 1.67, but I can't quite remember). I can run Ubuntu with Windows XP on a VM, and both systems run perfectly fine; I never have problems opening six or seven applications simultaneously, even if I'm on line. In my opinion, anything that requires 1GB to be "quite usable" at "basic tasks" is way to bloated to be even remotely useful.
Agreed. I've never owned a Virtual Boy, but one of the biggest reasons I stayed away from them was that the one time I tried using one, the red on black display drove me crazy in seconds.
Excellent point. That reminds me of something that happened once while my family and I were on vacation; dusk had fallen and we were heading toward a distant highway (turned out to be about twenty miles away or so). We had no clue how far we needed to travel to the point where the highway and road intersected, and it happened that at that point, there was a traffic signal (one of those single light units that flashed red on one side, the side we headed toward, and yellow the other). We saw the flashing light our entire journey, but remained ignorant the entire time of the exact distance we needed to travel.
Good point, though personally, I've found that on monitors I really like light cyan on dark blue; light blue on dark blue gets to feel a little too monochromatic in my opinion.
Nice definition. I still like mine better. It's "You're screwed no matter what you do."
My sister signed up with AT&T phone service (without asking my brother and I who lived at the apartment with her), Comcast bought out the AT&T phone service, then my sister moved out after she got married. My brother tried to get the name on the account changed, but Comcast demanded a $20 reinstallation fee just to get the name on the account changed. We just left the name unchanged until Comcast ulitmately dumped us (they terminated their analog service, so we just switched to Qwest, whose service is also crappy). Basically, this is the reason I coined that particular definition for Comcast.
By that logic, wouldn't Windows 8 be another case of ME and Vista, or, in your own words:
try too much and completely fail
I gave up forever on Windows because it was never more than "good enough" for most people; I also hated having to reinstall the operating system every few months.
An excellent point. And what about those who accidentally click on the wrong link, or on a link that they think is to a legitimate website, but is actually pointing to something illegal (I'm frequently annoyed by links that pretend to be something they're not)? Should we be looking at those people as pedophiles? I am also against this type of law, simply because they attempt to prosecute a person for thinking, not for actually acting illegally (I do have other reasons, but that is the strongest).
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Well written response. I think, though, your comment may have been a little bit stronger if you had, perhaps, dismissed the idea of the garments in question as being 'magic'; I think 'sacred' would be a more appropriate term (I know exactly what you're talking about, though, admittedly, I'm don't use them, for personal reasons). As for weird, I've never found them even remotely peculiar, just different.
Thank you; the purpose of my post was primarily to issue the compliment at the end, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
Man, if the RIAA ever decides to frivolously sue me, I want someone like you on my side. You wouldn't happen to be lisenced for Utah, would you? Or know someone in Utah who's like you? (It's the simple admission that you're not a hotshot that draws my interest).
Actually, that's not true. Machine Language has the smallest possible footprint and the smallest possible latency, and also get the absolute best performance. The thing is, C, C++, and any other language has to translate the commands you issue into something the processor can easily understand, which often turns out to be many more machine language instructions than you would have if you wrote the same code in machine language directly. I won't argue that you are wrong regarding high level languages, though.
Not to strain at gnats, but does the GPL actually say anything about how many machines you're allowed to install the software on?
I'd actually argue that the GPL simply doesn't restrict you from installing the software, period (which Microsoft's EULA does). Your point is valid; I'm just not sure about your reasoning behind the logic.
From experience, I can say a modem on a VoIP line doesn't work. My good friend and I tried it with his Vonage phone service once. The handshake sounded okay, at first, but lasted much longer than it should have and it ultimately couldn't connect.
I, for one, do not believe our impact on climate change is that significant. I am not, however, in the belief that our impact on the environment is insignificant; with all the crud we're dumping into the atmosphere, we're only poisoning ourselves.
Good point; I missed your stance about government intervention.
Do you have any idea how much Comcast/the phone company pay you for their land leases? The cable lines run through my parents yard, but last I checked, they do not receive any compensation.
As for the absurdity of trusting the government to fix what it's already broken, I also agree. There are very few situations in which individuals have willingly taken steps to correct their mistakes; the majority of those who make restitution for their offenses do so because they are compelled to. The GP's argument that replacing government with anything else would not sound absurd is an invalid comparison, in my opinion.
Too bad there are so many citizens who actually believe politicians who claim that the "general welfare" clause in the U.S. Constitution gives them the authorization to play roulette with our rights.
Not to argue with your point, because it is correct that the Bill of Rights has become a list of the only rights, despite the intentions of our founding fathers (I'm a U.S. citizen), but even those rights are now being carefully and slowly eroded.
Excellent response to a clear incident of astroturfing. I completely agree. Unfortunately, MS shares a great deal of the responsibility that forced other industries to switch to Word. Fortunately, there are a few industries, like law, that have been far more resistant to the pressure MS has placed on them to switch.
Consider me one of the below signed. I agree with everything you said wholeheartedly.
Agreed. I give my XP VM only 256MB, and it runs better than it did when it was the core OS (and had the entire 1GB).
I agree completely. My year and a half old MacBook (2GHz) ran perfectly fine for a year and a half with 512 MB, and I never had a reason to complain about its performance, aside from a few shutdown crashes (it almost never crashed at any other time). I wouldn't dare attempt to put Vista on a 512MB machine (and I'm not even going to think about considering it with my 1GHz tower at home, even if I upgrade the RAM; Ubuntu runs perfectly fine).
That comment is hilarious; true, but hilarious.
I completely agree. My computer (which is more than 2 years old) has 1GB of RAM and an AMD Sempron or Optiron (yes I probably horridly misspelled those) processor running at about 1.5 GHz (I think it's closer to 1.67, but I can't quite remember). I can run Ubuntu with Windows XP on a VM, and both systems run perfectly fine; I never have problems opening six or seven applications simultaneously, even if I'm on line. In my opinion, anything that requires 1GB to be "quite usable" at "basic tasks" is way to bloated to be even remotely useful.
Agreed. I've never owned a Virtual Boy, but one of the biggest reasons I stayed away from them was that the one time I tried using one, the red on black display drove me crazy in seconds.
Excellent point. That reminds me of something that happened once while my family and I were on vacation; dusk had fallen and we were heading toward a distant highway (turned out to be about twenty miles away or so). We had no clue how far we needed to travel to the point where the highway and road intersected, and it happened that at that point, there was a traffic signal (one of those single light units that flashed red on one side, the side we headed toward, and yellow the other). We saw the flashing light our entire journey, but remained ignorant the entire time of the exact distance we needed to travel.
Good point, though personally, I've found that on monitors I really like light cyan on dark blue; light blue on dark blue gets to feel a little too monochromatic in my opinion.
My sister signed up with AT&T phone service (without asking my brother and I who lived at the apartment with her), Comcast bought out the AT&T phone service, then my sister moved out after she got married. My brother tried to get the name on the account changed, but Comcast demanded a $20 reinstallation fee just to get the name on the account changed. We just left the name unchanged until Comcast ulitmately dumped us (they terminated their analog service, so we just switched to Qwest, whose service is also crappy). Basically, this is the reason I coined that particular definition for Comcast.
By that logic, wouldn't Windows 8 be another case of ME and Vista, or, in your own words:
I gave up forever on Windows because it was never more than "good enough" for most people; I also hated having to reinstall the operating system every few months.An excellent point. And what about those who accidentally click on the wrong link, or on a link that they think is to a legitimate website, but is actually pointing to something illegal (I'm frequently annoyed by links that pretend to be something they're not)? Should we be looking at those people as pedophiles? I am also against this type of law, simply because they attempt to prosecute a person for thinking, not for actually acting illegally (I do have other reasons, but that is the strongest).