apt-get remove me and I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
If you phrase this as a shell command:
> apt-get remove me & I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
It's important to note that you could become stronger than the caller can possibly imagine before you are removed - thereby giving you the ability to prevent your own removal. It's very important to handle race conditions like this correctly...
Preach on! My school offered a similar program (mid and late 90s), where you didn't "graduate" early, but were sent to the local community college for classes and credits were applied back to your High School - this gave a lot of the students that participated (that I spoke with at least) a pretty negative opinion of the whole advanced education thing.
<shrug> I did something similar in my senior year, took math classes and computer programming at the local university... Actually the classes were quite good. Some of the calculus was stuff I'd already learned but I learned it better that time...
A 16 year old who can't handle being in college is either retarded or was reared wrongly.
I don't know if my experience is common but it was being in college, not being 18, that taught me how to handle being in college. Starting out in college, I was still very much in the high school mindset, just without all the friends around. After a while I got better.
When they speak about being concerned about 16 year olds going to college, I think they're concerned about these 16 year olds smoking, drinking, taking drugs, whatever. But if people behave irresponsibly in college I don't think being 21 makes it any better, or being 16 makes it any worse.
One of those classic complaints against popular sci-fi is that the ships are always pretty and "aerodynamic" (well, mostly, anyway) and that there's no need for this in a vacuum... Well, there you go, one good reason to have aerodynamic space ships.:)
Making spaceships sleek was a key part of making them fast in the Lensman books for more or less the same reason. (Smith's goofy FTL drive idea negated the mass of the ship, allowing the ship to instantly accelerate to a speed where thrust equaled drag)
Why would you go that fast (presuming you can't go much faster, of course)? It takes exponentially more energy to accelerate as you approach the speed of light, but that doesn't get you to your destination all that much faster. At a mere 99.9% of the speed of light, you spend less than one extra hour of travel (externally measured, of course) per month. For a "realistic" trip to nearby stars, that means an extra day and a half out of the 4.37 years to get to Alpha Centauri.
And dangit, you want it to *stay* that way so you can feel elitist and justified in telling those kids to get off of your lawn!
I don't know - I was just disappointed that a magazine that seemed like such a promising work of applied technology turned out to have such a large incidence of fluff... It's kind of motivated me to check out "Nuts n' Volts" again, though, see if it can do better.
What is it with the animosity towards large people?
Seriously. It's like every post here is just ripping on fat people. The attitudes people are throwing around here make me sick. Are ordinary people really so shitty to one another on a regular basis? What a horrible thought.
I really do not have all the facts at hand, of what went down. But what I'm seeing here is that SW boarded Smith and then made him get off again. That's pretty lame. If you've boarded somebody they should stay on. If you boarded him and there wasn't enough room for someone to sit comfortably in the next seat, you shouldn't have seated anyone there.
Do you put more stock in the "actual medical health standards"? If so, why?
The fact that the clinical definition of "obese" was changed and that this is regularly referred to as an increase in obesity in the population is one issue I have with the current definitions. Honestly I'd put more stock in individuals' assessments rather than medical health standards... Those standards are one-size-fits-all and may not really work for every body type. An individual person's assessment of another person may not be totally accurate either, but I'd expect the assessment to be more complete.
Facebook already was another IM service. They had their instant messenger built into their website. The only difference is now you can access it via XMPP.
This is a very welcome change from my perspective. There are people who mostly contacted me via Facebook and Facebook chat. Being able to participate in chats with these people without using the chat system on the Facebook web page is very nice. (I understand there were other solutions to that problem, too - I didn't explore these, and am very glad to see that I don't have to.) I don't even care if they don't enable federation with other XMPP servers - it's nice just to be able to use the XMPP protocol to access their chat system.
Some apparently stupid things are advertised from time to time. For instance, dairy. "Got Milk?"
Worst. Example. Ever. Milk is advertised because we have too much milk. We have too much milk because we have subsidies for its production. We have subsides for its production as protectionism for Monsanto, and their product rBGH. rBGH has been proven to increase udder infections, which in turn is known to cause production of pus in the udders, which then finds its way into the milk. The FDA was leaned on to force those companies which advertise milk as rBGH-free to include some bullshit, lying verbiage about how the FDA has found nothing wrong with milk from cows treated with rBGH, which is a proven lie. Or in other words, milk advertisements are just part of corporate protectionism in America. It's become necessary to force Americans to want to consume the stuff because international demand for our dairy products has dropped like a stone since we started using rBGH.
Regardless: it is advertised because, as I said, there is a need to make consumers continue to buy milk. It is PR or propaganda depending on your perspective, but nevertheless it is a part of a battle over the mindset of the consumers, and money is on the line.
If people are convinced that Linux is hard to use, badly documented, unreliable, etc. and hear that Android or Tivo use Linux, then maybe they won't want to use Android or Tivo... Or maybe they'd choose not to use Linux for their server, or whatever.
That is all a load of nonsense. The reason to advertise Linux is that it stands for choice while Windows and Macintosh both stand for lock-in and control. There are compelling reasons why a user might want to use MacOS or even Windows; MacOS is easy when it's not crapping all over itself, and Windows has the most software when it's not crapping all over you. The compelling reasons to use Linux are harder to explain.
Nevertheless, the fact that some people have a monetary stake in Linux is also a reason to advertise Linux. Linux has actually had TV advertisements for this very reason. Money is on the line...
I think you mean "... into it's [SIC] own..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic) (Dang slashcode won't allow both "strong" and "em", and yes, it's usually lower case - not yelling.)
Yeah, I try to write "sic" on those things but it usually comes out as some kind of inhuman scream of hellish torment... I'm not sure what that's all aboot.
I'm not sure what kind of video editing features you're thinking people need for this contest, but maybe you could name some so we can all understand?
It's quite possible my information is out of date - and I'd be quite happy to be proven wrong on this point. Actually that's half the reason I'm here... Get a better feel for the current state of things. What I meant to say there was that if there's not a good video editing solution on Linux, then that is very unfortunate.
A while back I looked for video editing solutions on Linux. Most of them just flat out did not work. Some crashed, some ran horrendously slow, some of the projects had simply failed to go anywhere and stagnated to death, some I had no idea how to make them do anything at all. I think Cinelerra was looking like it had potential to be useful back when I tried it.
I mean, seriously? That's like advertising the keys on a keyboard, or the wheels on a car.
Goodyear does not approve of your analogy! Gary Numan, on the other hand, finds it satisfactory.
Some apparently stupid things are advertised from time to time. For instance, dairy. "Got Milk?"... "Behold the power of cheese..." These aren't ads for a specific brand and type of dairy product, these are ads for the whole industry. So what's the point? If the public is convinced that dairy is good for you (even if some bit of current research pops up that makes people wary of it), they'll continue to buy and consume it, and everyone in the business will benefit.
I think this Linux ad thing is more of a just-for-fun type of deal, honestly - but to go back to the question, why advertise Linux - it's because to those who make products which incorporate Linux, the public's perception of Linux is very important. If people are convinced that Linux is hard to use, badly documented, unreliable, etc. and hear that Android or Tivo use Linux, then maybe they won't want to use Android or Tivo... Or maybe they'd choose not to use Linux for their server, or whatever. People, whether they're "educated" or not, "smart" or not, whether or not they're involved in a business decision, are susceptible to advertising.
And I chose Windows because Linux is still too obtuse for the average user."
Wake me up when it's actually the Year of the Linux Desktop. These false alarms are getting old.
It could be that the "Linux Platform" (i.e. what you get from a "Linux Distribution" as opposed to, say, something like Android) will always be too obtuse for you. Honestly, I'm fine with that. I'm more interested in it being a good system for me as opposed to a good system for you. I am interested in the technical aspects of computing for their own sake, and I'm interested in participating in the future direction of the platform. I am interested in making Linux a better computing platform - but the direction I want to see it go is not necessarily the one that would suit you.
It may be that I've missed something but I haven't really seen anybody claiming, "OK, casual users, Linux is finally ready for you!" - Rather, I've just been seeing guys like you dragging out the tired old "Year of the Linux Desktop" line ad nauseum to remind everyone that no one has quite bent Linux entirely to your specifications yet... So where's the "false alarm" here?
You know, I learned some modeling and animation with Blender and I'd heard it could do editing - but I haven't really found out anything about how it's done or what it's capable of...
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apt-get remove me and I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
If you phrase this as a shell command:
> apt-get remove me & I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
It's important to note that you could become stronger than the caller can possibly imagine before you are removed - thereby giving you the ability to prevent your own removal. It's very important to handle race conditions like this correctly...
Preach on! My school offered a similar program (mid and late 90s), where you didn't "graduate" early, but were sent to the local community college for classes and credits were applied back to your High School - this gave a lot of the students that participated (that I spoke with at least) a pretty negative opinion of the whole advanced education thing.
<shrug> I did something similar in my senior year, took math classes and computer programming at the local university... Actually the classes were quite good. Some of the calculus was stuff I'd already learned but I learned it better that time...
A 16 year old who can't handle being in college is either retarded or was reared wrongly.
I don't know if my experience is common but it was being in college, not being 18, that taught me how to handle being in college. Starting out in college, I was still very much in the high school mindset, just without all the friends around. After a while I got better.
When they speak about being concerned about 16 year olds going to college, I think they're concerned about these 16 year olds smoking, drinking, taking drugs, whatever. But if people behave irresponsibly in college I don't think being 21 makes it any better, or being 16 makes it any worse.
I could see your point if the students were going away for college but their not
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One of those classic complaints against popular sci-fi is that the ships are always pretty and "aerodynamic" (well, mostly, anyway) and that there's no need for this in a vacuum... Well, there you go, one good reason to have aerodynamic space ships. :)
Making spaceships sleek was a key part of making them fast in the Lensman books for more or less the same reason. (Smith's goofy FTL drive idea negated the mass of the ship, allowing the ship to instantly accelerate to a speed where thrust equaled drag)
Why would you go that fast (presuming you can't go much faster, of course)? It takes exponentially more energy to
accelerate as you approach the speed of light, but that doesn't get you to your destination all that much faster. At a
mere 99.9% of the speed of light, you spend less than one extra hour of travel (externally measured, of course) per month. For
a "realistic" trip to nearby stars, that means an extra day and a half out of the 4.37 years to get to Alpha Centauri.
Well, no, but it seems faster...
Only one place in Gotham City produces these kinds of chips!
And dangit, you want it to *stay* that way so you can feel elitist and justified in telling those kids to get off of your lawn!
I don't know - I was just disappointed that a magazine that seemed like such a promising work of applied technology turned out to have such a large incidence of fluff... It's kind of motivated me to check out "Nuts n' Volts" again, though, see if it can do better.
Kevin has gotten ridiculously fat in recent years. Funny that the guy really has turned into a "Lunchbox" or "Fat F*ck".
Suck it up Kevin and get on a diet.
Don't try it: he'll jack yo' ass like a looter in a riot.
What is it with the animosity towards large people?
Seriously. It's like every post here is just ripping on fat people. The attitudes people are throwing around here make me sick. Are ordinary people really so shitty to one another on a regular basis? What a horrible thought.
I really do not have all the facts at hand, of what went down. But what I'm seeing here is that SW boarded Smith and then made him get off again. That's pretty lame. If you've boarded somebody they should stay on. If you boarded him and there wasn't enough room for someone to sit comfortably in the next seat, you shouldn't have seated anyone there.
Interesting. Do you go on many flights that aren't full?
What's public transportation got to do with it?
Do you put more stock in the "actual medical health standards"? If so, why?
The fact that the clinical definition of "obese" was changed and that this is regularly referred to as an increase in obesity in the population is one issue I have with the current definitions. Honestly I'd put more stock in individuals' assessments rather than medical health standards... Those standards are one-size-fits-all and may not really work for every body type. An individual person's assessment of another person may not be totally accurate either, but I'd expect the assessment to be more complete.
Yeah, they offer Jabber support. But if you want to use it, you have to have a user name.
But to have that, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM YOUR PHONE NUMBER!
Bah, what's the big deal? I give out my phone number all the time. Here it is:
(234)567-8910
Apparently I've got an Ohio number...
Just what the world needs. *Another* IM service.
Facebook already was another IM service. They had their instant messenger built into their website. The only difference is now you can access it via XMPP.
This is a very welcome change from my perspective. There are people who mostly contacted me via Facebook and Facebook chat. Being able to participate in chats with these people without using the chat system on the Facebook web page is very nice. (I understand there were other solutions to that problem, too - I didn't explore these, and am very glad to see that I don't have to.) I don't even care if they don't enable federation with other XMPP servers - it's nice just to be able to use the XMPP protocol to access their chat system.
As if we need a reminder that we'll be mocked if we opt out of the all-seeing-eye brainwashing box by snow cone heads.
"all-seeing-eye brainwashing box" isn't by snow cone heads, it's by Magnavox...
Anyway, the mockery isn't directed at people who don't watch TV, it's directed at people who act superior because they don't watch TV...
Well, to be fair, you haven't yet heard my final solution to the grammar problem...
Windows costs less, is more secure, and superior to opensource OS's.
And hope your boss hears you before your fired.
Before my fired what?
Some apparently stupid things are advertised from time to time. For instance, dairy. "Got Milk?"
Worst. Example. Ever. Milk is advertised because we have too much milk. We have too much milk because we have subsidies for its production. We have subsides for its production as protectionism for Monsanto, and their product rBGH. rBGH has been proven to increase udder infections, which in turn is known to cause production of pus in the udders, which then finds its way into the milk. The FDA was leaned on to force those companies which advertise milk as rBGH-free to include some bullshit, lying verbiage about how the FDA has found nothing wrong with milk from cows treated with rBGH, which is a proven lie. Or in other words, milk advertisements are just part of corporate protectionism in America. It's become necessary to force Americans to want to consume the stuff because international demand for our dairy products has dropped like a stone since we started using rBGH.
Regardless: it is advertised because, as I said, there is a need to make consumers continue to buy milk. It is PR or propaganda depending on your perspective, but nevertheless it is a part of a battle over the mindset of the consumers, and money is on the line.
If people are convinced that Linux is hard to use, badly documented, unreliable, etc. and hear that Android or Tivo use Linux, then maybe they won't want to use Android or Tivo... Or maybe they'd choose not to use Linux for their server, or whatever.
That is all a load of nonsense. The reason to advertise Linux is that it stands for choice while Windows and Macintosh both stand for lock-in and control. There are compelling reasons why a user might want to use MacOS or even Windows; MacOS is easy when it's not crapping all over itself, and Windows has the most software when it's not crapping all over you. The compelling reasons to use Linux are harder to explain.
Nevertheless, the fact that some people have a monetary stake in Linux is also a reason to advertise Linux. Linux has actually had TV advertisements for this very reason. Money is on the line...
I think you mean "... into it's [SIC] own..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic) (Dang slashcode won't allow both "strong" and "em", and yes, it's usually lower case - not yelling.)
Yeah, I try to write "sic" on those things but it usually comes out as some kind of inhuman scream of hellish torment... I'm not sure what that's all aboot.
FUCK~! we do have a decent video editing tool. kino.
Are you trolling, or joking, or serious?
I tried kino and it flat-out didn't work... Could be I just got a bad version or something, I don't know.
From what I've heard so far it seems like Cinelerra and Openshot are the ones to use...
I'm not sure what kind of video editing features you're thinking people need for this contest, but maybe you could name some so we can all understand?
It's quite possible my information is out of date - and I'd be quite happy to be proven wrong on this point. Actually that's half the reason I'm here... Get a better feel for the current state of things. What I meant to say there was that if there's not a good video editing solution on Linux, then that is very unfortunate.
A while back I looked for video editing solutions on Linux. Most of them just flat out did not work. Some crashed, some ran horrendously slow, some of the projects had simply failed to go anywhere and stagnated to death, some I had no idea how to make them do anything at all. I think Cinelerra was looking like it had potential to be useful back when I tried it.
I mean, seriously? That's like advertising the keys on a keyboard, or the wheels on a car.
Goodyear does not approve of your analogy! Gary Numan, on the other hand, finds it satisfactory.
Some apparently stupid things are advertised from time to time. For instance, dairy. "Got Milk?"... "Behold the power of cheese..." These aren't ads for a specific brand and type of dairy product, these are ads for the whole industry. So what's the point? If the public is convinced that dairy is good for you (even if some bit of current research pops up that makes people wary of it), they'll continue to buy and consume it, and everyone in the business will benefit.
I think this Linux ad thing is more of a just-for-fun type of deal, honestly - but to go back to the question, why advertise Linux - it's because to those who make products which incorporate Linux, the public's perception of Linux is very important. If people are convinced that Linux is hard to use, badly documented, unreliable, etc. and hear that Android or Tivo use Linux, then maybe they won't want to use Android or Tivo... Or maybe they'd choose not to use Linux for their server, or whatever. People, whether they're "educated" or not, "smart" or not, whether or not they're involved in a business decision, are susceptible to advertising.
And I chose Windows because Linux is still too obtuse for the average user."
Wake me up when it's actually the Year of the Linux Desktop. These false alarms are getting old.
It could be that the "Linux Platform" (i.e. what you get from a "Linux Distribution" as opposed to, say, something like Android) will always be too obtuse for you. Honestly, I'm fine with that. I'm more interested in it being a good system for me as opposed to a good system for you. I am interested in the technical aspects of computing for their own sake, and I'm interested in participating in the future direction of the platform. I am interested in making Linux a better computing platform - but the direction I want to see it go is not necessarily the one that would suit you.
It may be that I've missed something but I haven't really seen anybody claiming, "OK, casual users, Linux is finally ready for you!" - Rather, I've just been seeing guys like you dragging out the tired old "Year of the Linux Desktop" line ad nauseum to remind everyone that no one has quite bent Linux entirely to your specifications yet... So where's the "false alarm" here?
You know, I learned some modeling and animation with Blender and I'd heard it could do editing - but I haven't really found out anything about how it's done or what it's capable of...