GNU/Linux (As oppose to Android which uses the Linux kernel as well, I hate adding the GNU/ crap, but I need to differentiate it from other OS that use the Linux kernel) is designed to be a Server OS. We have distributions that vainly attempt to make it desktop friendly, but at their heart it is still a server OS. Games will never kick off on the GNU/Linux based systems, because GNU/Linux heart is being a server OS. Windows/OS X are desktop OS. Sure their kernel is based on Server OS's NT and Unix, but the structure of the OS's are based on desktop usage, beyond just the kernel.
That is a lot of work just to play a game. For us people with lives outside computers, you are better off rebooting to windows and play the freaking game.
It comes down to money/society placement First We had short stories. Because before the written tradition, they were passed verbally and needed to be short enough to be memorized. So the local story teller who's place in society is limited on his memorization skill, and story telling ability. Then when the printed word came out, the stories became longer, because we are able to pass on more complex issues, and store it. Getting a book was expensive, so you might as well get a big one, as the economy of scale existed. So selling large thick books help make money. Then we went to the printing press. In that case the price to print lowered, so it was worth it to print a lot. of books and sell them for cheap. So the money went to short stories again. Because the stories become so cheap to produce that printing of the story became disposable. So the money was for making magazines and papers.
Radio and TV started broadcasting these short stories, so the printed word for such stories became less marketable, So they then moved to longer novels, as they are too long and complex to cleanly go on Radio or TV, thus securing a niche market.
Now movies with its longer playing time, can adapt better to novels. However the money is based off of a limited playing time, if a movie was popular, you can make money in continuing the movie. Novels are written in hopes for movie adoption. So they follow a similar pattern to allow for sequels.
Now we are entering an era of Netflix where we can watch whatever movie we want and when, so they are moving back to series again, because we now are able to binge watch, so the cliff hanger isn't so painful. So we can get the novel complexity, in shorter easier to digest segments.
Way to oversimplify a very complex geo-political situation. First you have a nation that is in the the area considered a holy land for the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Jewish religion was first there, then Christianity branched off from it. Then Muslim was a way to try to merge the two back together. So they all have claim to say this area is their roots. The facts about the religions isn't as much of an issue, but the differences in cultures that rooted from people with the religions. The Jewish population is largely from Christian europe so culturally the Jewish and Christians are rather similar. The Muslims are more from the middle east and north Africa. So there are two different cultures meeting in the middle as Israel is the center point between Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa.
After WWII the Jewish were given Israel, kinda like a double edge blade, to make reparations for the holocaust, and because most of the populations were still so anti-semitic that they didn't want them in their own back door. So they chose Israel as it wasn't controlled by a major power. So we have a group of people who had suffered a hard time, moving to an area where the existing population really didn't want them there anyways, but being backed by large superpowers meant they had more power. When your group is in power, you will try to expand your cultural values. This causes more conflict on the area.
Because of the conflict both sides are feeling that the other are against them, so they preemptive position themselves to protect against the other, which then creates more conflict.
I know some how America needs to protect itself so the average citizen feels secure enough to live their own lives. However you don't want the government who we put in charge to protect us, to evaluate new risks, and how to deal with them.
Let me write a story for 100 years in the future... Religious intolerance is still there. Some grand experiment in a non-capitalistic economic system failed and became a dictatorship. A clash in gender differences. A food that we think is healthy is found to be harmful. Whites become a minority in america.
If they try to make a fiction believable, they will play with the tensions of the time, and try to magnify it. Slavery - a good amount of debate for a while. Chinese racism - yea the typical european descended person values of superiority to a race with a very different culture. If you just need an excuse to ship more over then you will get the racism. American imperialism - Well there was european Imperialism it was all the rage back then. Economic disparity - that was happening that is still happening... I should have added that to my list of future events. We live in a world of scarcity we wouldn't be able to prosper is everyone got equal... So there is a level of disparity that will always happen... The trick is to try to get the best balance, right now I think we are out of balance with too little in the middle.
I think the biggest issue is just lazy use of job requirements. A company is hiring here are some of the reasons. 1. They are replacing someone who had left the organization. (Chances are he was a valuable employee) So they just blindly rebrand the guys resume as a job requirement. Not this is stupid, because for one, you will probably not find an exact match, but more importantly, the person who left, means with his skills he could find a better job. It is better to bring back your requirements, to core skill sets and figure the rest he can learn on the job.
2. The company is growing and trying to add additional employees. Now you may make requirements that is trying to fit your growth model. However the issue is if your company has any competitive advantage, your growth model is unique. So you will not find anyone with skills in your unique growth model.
3. The company thinks it is cooler then it is. There are a few companies that people will jump to join, such as Google, where people are willing to compete so the best and brightest can make it past its multi-colored gates. Now google isn't taking away all the superstars out there... However... People won't be jumping in to join you because you are you, and in reality you may not need a super star. You just need a good dependable person. The superstar just may not fit into your organization, so you get the guy with 6 PHD in computer science and having then make access forms, just may not be a good fit.
I think the issue is there are too many people in the American Market that takes Science Fiction not as a worst case scenario, meant to allow for conflict in a book to become a prophetic warning about any use of such technology.
There is plastic surgery (reconstructive surgery)and a subset is cosmetic surgery. I had plastic surgery, I had a cyst on my jaw line that was infected. So a plastic surgeon removed it in a way that it didn't scar or damage all the nerves in my face. Then there is cosmetic surgery where people get procedures done for no medical reason other to match what is currently fationable.
But there are other governments/organizations paying other corporations a lot of currency to come up with weapons to kill us. The nice thing about Lasers is that it is a directed weapon so you can hit your target, and not hurt what is around it.
Or it may be due to a general confusion of the GPL/Willing to push its meaning to the limits.
This is why if I do any coding professionally, that is meant to be distributed, I avoid the GPL like a plague, and go with MIT or BSD licenses. Just so I have the freedom to choose how I want to expand the code.
I think it is mainly due to the issue, that enough hardware manufactures support linux officially that it makes it easier for them. I expect if they lose the case, they may switch to BSD, or even work with a deal with Microsoft to use the NT Kernel, instead.
Sometimes if you force someones hand they just might leave the game.
From my understanding, General motion sickness happens when your eyes tell you something that the fluid in your ears doesn't Sure with some VR headsets they do not work well because the images that they show may not be timed or aligned correctly so your 3d perspective is kinda off. But you still have the issue of your ears saying you are not moving, or you are moving in a way that is different from what your eyes are saying.
That and some people have much different levels of tolerance so for some people you can cause motion sickness by just moving an object back and forth across their field of vision. While others it takes a lot more....
A lot of these issues they have brought up as vehicle error was actually human error. "runaway acceleration, unexpected braking" That sounds like the person may have temporarily got their mind twisted and hit the accelerator where they wanted to hit the break, and vice versa. Most of the time when our brains get twisted, we quickly resolve the issue. But I remember resting my hand on a Soda Bottle while driving, a car with automatic transmission, and when I was driving after hearing the engine at a particular RPM with my left foot I tried to reach for a non-existent clutch, my right food off the accelerator. I hadn't drove a car with manual transmission for about 5 years, but a particular set of sentence tactile, audio, visual. Triggered a reaction that I wanted to change gears. The problem is a temporary lapse in judgment, can cause particular effects. And there are enough people who will be too afraid to admit that they made a mistake would blame the technology.
If by for some reason your car is having runaway acceleration, instead of driving a herroing tail at high speeds like in the movie Speed 2 but only with a land base motor vehicle and not a boat, you shift the car in neutral, and break/parking(emergancy) break. You can do this while the car is in motion for Standard, Automatic, even Hybrid Cars.
Microsoft has to prove that they won't mess up the smartphone like they did with the desktop. Consumers who use Windows do so because they have to not because they want to. Microsoft never was able to get a strong foothold in the mobile market, because there was too much bad feeling about having to use Windows on their PC. With the problems that were prevalent during the mid-late 1990's still sticks in people head.
Blackberry biggest mistake was not being more developer friendly. Once apple allowed for custom Apps, and Exchange compatibility, that started to put a nail in blackberry dominance.
My best guess is there are a lot of apps out there with the following pseudo-code. If (OS_Name.contains("9")) {
throw "YOU MUST BE USING Windows XP or better" }
For the most part, because the US is leaving a recession, that means there are more people hiring. Having Linux on your resume has never been a bad thing to have. Even if you are working in a Microsoft Shop, the chances are there will be the odd Linux system for some particular application. And hiring people with more skills then less is normally a good thing.
Without reboots, how am I to know if I setup my rc.d scripts correctly? Or kill that background app a user ran nohup myscript.sh & I mean without having to reboot the system, I am expected to do real systems administration work, not just a blanket refresh everything, once in a while. Patches gave me a good excuse to do such.
I honestly do not know. I never worked for the NSA. I do not know the culture. Me personally I would have quit, when I started to deal with information that was getting into the gray area of my morals, and couldn't communicate my issues up the chain. However I think the line is in the details. Whistleblowing the few big issues as a general problem. Spying on US Citizens communication, having back door keys with big companies consumer products. Wiretapping our friends leaders phones. Should be enough to alert attention, without giving the detail that could disrupt a legit operation in plan, and put others at risk.
For me the real issue isn't what the NSA did, or is doing, but the fact there isn't any bottom up mechanism to alert on potential wrong doing.
The President wants to know what a country is doing. The edict goes to the NSA, The higher ups push it different departments, Each department uses its own specialty to answer the question to the best of its ability. Somewhere down the chain of direction the line was crossed. Or no one actually crossed the line, but the outcome of each legit action became an illegal total action.
Well that group of people who are fit, have altered their workout to have cardio exercise without using their legs. If you have legs that allow you to be mobile, then the best cardio exercise is moderately high intensity, low resistance, that gets your heart rate up for a long time. Humans have evolved to hunt prey not by running faster than them, but tiring them out. While that bison can run 20 mph vs our 10mph, if in decent condition we can maintain that speed for about 5 minutes, while the bison may be able to keep that speed for 1 minute. So we just force them to run until they collapse. If you cut that speed down a bit you can go on exponentially longer. Running for hours at 5 mph.
Genes are a factor but not as great as you like them to be. The I have bad Genes argument is a copout towards working towards a better life. Your environment, has a major effect as well, and you have luck too. Changing your environment helps your odds.
Lets say everytime you smoke a cigarette you have a 1 in 500,000 chance of getting lung cancer. Lets say your genes make you more resistant so you may have 1 in 600,000 chance instead. So if you have good genes and you smoke a packs of cigarettes a day that is 20 chances in that 1 in 600,000 a day. If you have the average genes, and you don't smoke then you may get 1 chance every week from second hand smoke.
The evidence of the person who lived a long life despite having a risk factors may be due to just dumb luck, combined with other positive lifestyle choices not mentioned to get the overall odds up.
Also what you may call a bad Gene isn't necessarily a bad gene, but they are designed for a life style that we are not living. There are people who keep on eating junk food and stay skinny, their body has a high metabolism. With our culture that seems like a good thing, however for these people if they are late for their meal or cannot eat, they merely go into a panic, their body had used up more energy then they took in, and they just used that energy for silly things, such as shaking their leg while sitting, or creating more body heat. Then you have someone with a slower metabolism, that means they will be tend to be heavier, and store extra fat, this extra fat can cause health issues. However if they are unable to eat for a while they are not in such a shock. Now if you have a slow metabolism, and you need to manage the risks of being fat, then you need to exercise, to force your metabolism to go up for while and burn fat, and/or adjust your diet to insure you are just taking in the amount your body needs.
That Gym membership doesn't change your Genes, but if you use that Gym membership, it will help you work with what your genes had evolved you to do.
What is with this -200 - 200 BS At least tell us how to get these numbers. Is it based in heart rate, O2 levels, speed/age, length of time at a given heart rate. Just saying people who score over 100 are a strong indicator is meaningless unless we know how this number is calculated. I am sick of the media hiding science details and math from the public. No wonder why so many people do not trust science, the media covering it treats it like a magic box, that only special people with a PHD can get.
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GNU/Linux (As oppose to Android which uses the Linux kernel as well, I hate adding the GNU/ crap, but I need to differentiate it from other OS that use the Linux kernel) is designed to be a Server OS. We have distributions that vainly attempt to make it desktop friendly, but at their heart it is still a server OS. Games will never kick off on the GNU/Linux based systems, because GNU/Linux heart is being a server OS. Windows/OS X are desktop OS. Sure their kernel is based on Server OS's NT and Unix, but the structure of the OS's are based on desktop usage, beyond just the kernel.
That is a lot of work just to play a game. For us people with lives outside computers, you are better off rebooting to windows and play the freaking game.
It comes down to money/society placement
First We had short stories. Because before the written tradition, they were passed verbally and needed to be short enough to be memorized. So the local story teller who's place in society is limited on his memorization skill, and story telling ability.
Then when the printed word came out, the stories became longer, because we are able to pass on more complex issues, and store it. Getting a book was expensive, so you might as well get a big one, as the economy of scale existed. So selling large thick books help make money.
Then we went to the printing press. In that case the price to print lowered, so it was worth it to print a lot. of books and sell them for cheap. So the money went to short stories again. Because the stories become so cheap to produce that printing of the story became disposable. So the money was for making magazines and papers.
Radio and TV started broadcasting these short stories, so the printed word for such stories became less marketable, So they then moved to longer novels, as they are too long and complex to cleanly go on Radio or TV, thus securing a niche market.
Now movies with its longer playing time, can adapt better to novels. However the money is based off of a limited playing time, if a movie was popular, you can make money in continuing the movie. Novels are written in hopes for movie adoption. So they follow a similar pattern to allow for sequels.
Now we are entering an era of Netflix where we can watch whatever movie we want and when, so they are moving back to series again, because we now are able to binge watch, so the cliff hanger isn't so painful. So we can get the novel complexity, in shorter easier to digest segments.
Way to oversimplify a very complex geo-political situation.
First you have a nation that is in the the area considered a holy land for the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Jewish religion was first there, then Christianity branched off from it. Then Muslim was a way to try to merge the two back together. So they all have claim to say this area is their roots. The facts about the religions isn't as much of an issue, but the differences in cultures that rooted from people with the religions. The Jewish population is largely from Christian europe so culturally the Jewish and Christians are rather similar. The Muslims are more from the middle east and north Africa. So there are two different cultures meeting in the middle as Israel is the center point between Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa.
After WWII the Jewish were given Israel, kinda like a double edge blade, to make reparations for the holocaust, and because most of the populations were still so anti-semitic that they didn't want them in their own back door. So they chose Israel as it wasn't controlled by a major power. So we have a group of people who had suffered a hard time, moving to an area where the existing population really didn't want them there anyways, but being backed by large superpowers meant they had more power. When your group is in power, you will try to expand your cultural values. This causes more conflict on the area.
Because of the conflict both sides are feeling that the other are against them, so they preemptive position themselves to protect against the other, which then creates more conflict.
I know some how America needs to protect itself so the average citizen feels secure enough to live their own lives. However you don't want the government who we put in charge to protect us, to evaluate new risks, and how to deal with them.
Try making the face symmetrical vertically not horizontally.
Let me write a story for 100 years in the future...
Religious intolerance is still there.
Some grand experiment in a non-capitalistic economic system failed and became a dictatorship.
A clash in gender differences.
A food that we think is healthy is found to be harmful.
Whites become a minority in america.
If they try to make a fiction believable, they will play with the tensions of the time, and try to magnify it.
Slavery - a good amount of debate for a while.
Chinese racism - yea the typical european descended person values of superiority to a race with a very different culture. If you just need an excuse to ship more over then you will get the racism.
American imperialism - Well there was european Imperialism it was all the rage back then.
Economic disparity - that was happening that is still happening... I should have added that to my list of future events. We live in a world of scarcity we wouldn't be able to prosper is everyone got equal... So there is a level of disparity that will always happen... The trick is to try to get the best balance, right now I think we are out of balance with too little in the middle.
I think the biggest issue is just lazy use of job requirements.
A company is hiring here are some of the reasons.
1. They are replacing someone who had left the organization. (Chances are he was a valuable employee) So they just blindly rebrand the guys resume as a job requirement. Not this is stupid, because for one, you will probably not find an exact match, but more importantly, the person who left, means with his skills he could find a better job. It is better to bring back your requirements, to core skill sets and figure the rest he can learn on the job.
2. The company is growing and trying to add additional employees. Now you may make requirements that is trying to fit your growth model. However the issue is if your company has any competitive advantage, your growth model is unique. So you will not find anyone with skills in your unique growth model.
3. The company thinks it is cooler then it is. There are a few companies that people will jump to join, such as Google, where people are willing to compete so the best and brightest can make it past its multi-colored gates. Now google isn't taking away all the superstars out there... However... People won't be jumping in to join you because you are you, and in reality you may not need a super star. You just need a good dependable person. The superstar just may not fit into your organization, so you get the guy with 6 PHD in computer science and having then make access forms, just may not be a good fit.
I think the issue is there are too many people in the American Market that takes Science Fiction not as a worst case scenario, meant to allow for conflict in a book to become a prophetic warning about any use of such technology.
There is plastic surgery (reconstructive surgery)and a subset is cosmetic surgery.
I had plastic surgery, I had a cyst on my jaw line that was infected. So a plastic surgeon removed it in a way that it didn't scar or damage all the nerves in my face.
Then there is cosmetic surgery where people get procedures done for no medical reason other to match what is currently fationable.
But there are other governments/organizations paying other corporations a lot of currency to come up with weapons to kill us.
The nice thing about Lasers is that it is a directed weapon so you can hit your target, and not hurt what is around it.
Or it may be due to a general confusion of the GPL/Willing to push its meaning to the limits.
This is why if I do any coding professionally, that is meant to be distributed, I avoid the GPL like a plague, and go with MIT or BSD licenses. Just so I have the freedom to choose how I want to expand the code.
I think it is mainly due to the issue, that enough hardware manufactures support linux officially that it makes it easier for them.
I expect if they lose the case, they may switch to BSD, or even work with a deal with Microsoft to use the NT Kernel, instead.
Sometimes if you force someones hand they just might leave the game.
From my understanding, General motion sickness happens when your eyes tell you something that the fluid in your ears doesn't
Sure with some VR headsets they do not work well because the images that they show may not be timed or aligned correctly so your 3d perspective is kinda off. But you still have the issue of your ears saying you are not moving, or you are moving in a way that is different from what your eyes are saying.
That and some people have much different levels of tolerance so for some people you can cause motion sickness by just moving an object back and forth across their field of vision. While others it takes a lot more....
Still the self driving car, should allow for manual control at least enough to allow you to safely park the car to the side of the street.
A lot of these issues they have brought up as vehicle error was actually human error. "runaway acceleration, unexpected braking" That sounds like the person may have temporarily got their mind twisted and hit the accelerator where they wanted to hit the break, and vice versa. Most of the time when our brains get twisted, we quickly resolve the issue. But I remember resting my hand on a Soda Bottle while driving, a car with automatic transmission, and when I was driving after hearing the engine at a particular RPM with my left foot I tried to reach for a non-existent clutch, my right food off the accelerator. I hadn't drove a car with manual transmission for about 5 years, but a particular set of sentence tactile, audio, visual. Triggered a reaction that I wanted to change gears.
The problem is a temporary lapse in judgment, can cause particular effects. And there are enough people who will be too afraid to admit that they made a mistake would blame the technology.
If by for some reason your car is having runaway acceleration, instead of driving a herroing tail at high speeds like in the movie Speed 2 but only with a land base motor vehicle and not a boat, you shift the car in neutral, and break/parking(emergancy) break. You can do this while the car is in motion for Standard, Automatic, even Hybrid Cars.
You know for women who suffer from breast cancer.
Microsoft has to prove that they won't mess up the smartphone like they did with the desktop. Consumers who use Windows do so because they have to not because they want to. Microsoft never was able to get a strong foothold in the mobile market, because there was too much bad feeling about having to use Windows on their PC. With the problems that were prevalent during the mid-late 1990's still sticks in people head.
Blackberry biggest mistake was not being more developer friendly. Once apple allowed for custom Apps, and Exchange compatibility, that started to put a nail in blackberry dominance.
My best guess is there are a lot of apps out there with the following pseudo-code.
If (OS_Name.contains("9")) {
throw "YOU MUST BE USING Windows XP or better"
}
This is why Plan 9 OS never got popular as well.
For the most part, because the US is leaving a recession, that means there are more people hiring.
Having Linux on your resume has never been a bad thing to have. Even if you are working in a Microsoft Shop, the chances are there will be the odd Linux system for some particular application. And hiring people with more skills then less is normally a good thing.
Without reboots, how am I to know if I setup my rc.d scripts correctly? Or kill that background app a user ran nohup myscript.sh &
I mean without having to reboot the system, I am expected to do real systems administration work, not just a blanket refresh everything, once in a while. Patches gave me a good excuse to do such.
I honestly do not know. I never worked for the NSA. I do not know the culture. Me personally I would have quit, when I started to deal with information that was getting into the gray area of my morals, and couldn't communicate my issues up the chain.
However I think the line is in the details. Whistleblowing the few big issues as a general problem. Spying on US Citizens communication, having back door keys with big companies consumer products. Wiretapping our friends leaders phones. Should be enough to alert attention, without giving the detail that could disrupt a legit operation in plan, and put others at risk.
For me the real issue isn't what the NSA did, or is doing, but the fact there isn't any bottom up mechanism to alert on potential wrong doing.
The President wants to know what a country is doing. The edict goes to the NSA, The higher ups push it different departments, Each department uses its own specialty to answer the question to the best of its ability. Somewhere down the chain of direction the line was crossed. Or no one actually crossed the line, but the outcome of each legit action became an illegal total action.
Well that group of people who are fit, have altered their workout to have cardio exercise without using their legs.
If you have legs that allow you to be mobile, then the best cardio exercise is moderately high intensity, low resistance, that gets your heart rate up for a long time. Humans have evolved to hunt prey not by running faster than them, but tiring them out. While that bison can run 20 mph vs our 10mph, if in decent condition we can maintain that speed for about 5 minutes, while the bison may be able to keep that speed for 1 minute. So we just force them to run until they collapse. If you cut that speed down a bit you can go on exponentially longer. Running for hours at 5 mph.
Genes are a factor but not as great as you like them to be. The I have bad Genes argument is a copout towards working towards a better life. Your environment, has a major effect as well, and you have luck too. Changing your environment helps your odds.
Lets say everytime you smoke a cigarette you have a 1 in 500,000 chance of getting lung cancer. Lets say your genes make you more resistant so you may have 1 in 600,000 chance instead. So if you have good genes and you smoke a packs of cigarettes a day that is 20 chances in that 1 in 600,000 a day. If you have the average genes, and you don't smoke then you may get 1 chance every week from second hand smoke.
The evidence of the person who lived a long life despite having a risk factors may be due to just dumb luck, combined with other positive lifestyle choices not mentioned to get the overall odds up.
Also what you may call a bad Gene isn't necessarily a bad gene, but they are designed for a life style that we are not living.
There are people who keep on eating junk food and stay skinny, their body has a high metabolism. With our culture that seems like a good thing, however for these people if they are late for their meal or cannot eat, they merely go into a panic, their body had used up more energy then they took in, and they just used that energy for silly things, such as shaking their leg while sitting, or creating more body heat. Then you have someone with a slower metabolism, that means they will be tend to be heavier, and store extra fat, this extra fat can cause health issues. However if they are unable to eat for a while they are not in such a shock. Now if you have a slow metabolism, and you need to manage the risks of being fat, then you need to exercise, to force your metabolism to go up for while and burn fat, and/or adjust your diet to insure you are just taking in the amount your body needs.
That Gym membership doesn't change your Genes, but if you use that Gym membership, it will help you work with what your genes had evolved you to do.
What is with this -200 - 200 BS /age, length of time at a given heart rate. Just saying people who score over 100 are a strong indicator is meaningless unless we know how this number is calculated. I am sick of the media hiding science details and math from the public. No wonder why so many people do not trust science, the media covering it treats it like a magic box, that only special people with a PHD can get.
At least tell us how to get these numbers. Is it based in heart rate, O2 levels, speed