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And if he is installing to a low CPU power machine with no DVD drive and no/slow net access?
This is the only reason people are even interested in the CD installer in the first place.
Just because Linux installers can't handle partitioning in the way you'd like automagically (what the hell does this have to do with the OP's problem?), doesn't mean BSD shouldn't have to fix their CD installer.
Am I the only one who takes it as a personal affront when people use obscure or ambiguous acronyms.
These people just can't wait for someone to ask what the acronym means so they can go through the motions to utterly shame you.
For instance, if someone were to come up to me at the water cooler with this headline, it would go something like this:
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Iam Beterthanyoo: "Hey, did you hear that the FCC was dealt a setback in the BPL push, it seems that BPL rollout is not going to be pushed anytime soon because there were problems with BPL research and BPL other things, and the BPL..."
Actual Message: PLEASE ASK ME WHAT BPL IS, I AM SMART AND KNOW THIS INFORMATION.
Me (interrupting): BPL?
Actual Message: Clarify please you pretentious fuck.
Iam:..and the BPL statistics board.. huh? Yeah BPL. So anyway, the board was..
Actual message: I'll pretend I'm assuming you didn't hear me correctly so I can drive the knife deeper when you are forced to follow up.
Me (interrupting): No, no, what is BPL?
Actual message: Yes I must not have heard you the first ten times you said BPL.
Iam: Ohhhhhhh...
Actual message: Well gosh I just assumed that you must not have heard me correctly because you can't possibly be asking for clarification of something so obvious. I am shocked at your complete and utter ignorance.
Iam: BPL stands for Broadband over Power Lines.
At this point Iam likely will not be able to resume his story because it was all a ruse anyway and all he was doing was trying to fit the BPL acronym into some fragments of the story until he could put you in your BPL ignorant place, he really knows nothing beyond the headline and what BPL means.
This is usually where I will counterattack and ask a (seemingly) informed question about the story.
Me: Oh, Broadband over Power Lines, was the problem the recent state initiative on property rights of the existing fiber infrastructure?
Actual message: Fuck you.
Iam: Yes, yes, something like that I think.
Actual message: Uh oh I'm caught. Bail out, bail out!
Iam: Anyway I have to get back to work.
Actual message: I'm off to find another victim.
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The mentality is the same as the groups of girls in school who would make up their own language to talk to each other, then turn to the person next to them in class and say something to them in the language, sparking giggles all around from those 'in the know', as though the person is a complete moron for not being able to decipher that he was just called a cootie face in a made up language, the moron.
That's why Linux has seen widespread adoption on the business desktop where nobody cares about games DOT DOT DOT
Also, recent polls have shown that the majority of the Linux home users are people who don't like to play games or don't have the time, like the elderly and businessmen.
You mean like used bookstores, which is an example of a for-profit business that makes money reselling books that the store owner didn't write, and which doesn't pay a cent to the copyright holder? Used bookstores deal in the reselling of physical property where the rights to that physical copy have already been transferred legally from the copyright holder to the purchaser. How this is analogous to the topic at hand eludes me.
Or how Disney profits when they make a movie based on public domain fairy tales that they didn't write and don't pay to use? You're against them too, I take it? Key word is public domain, you may do whatever you please with public domain ideas. The Disney film(s) are not simply a verbatim copy of the fairy tale with "Disney's" put in front of the title. Instead they were adapted for a younger audience, animated, voiced, etc. In other words, they took public domain and created something new from it with added value. This is exactly what SHOULD be done with works in the public domain.
How is Pirate Bay different? Shesh, well lets see..
1. The works in question are not physical property with proper transfer of property rights. (Invalidates first example) 2. The works in question are not public domain. (Invalidates second example)
Merely profiting off of a work someone else created and not paying that person is not necessarily shameful, disgusting, or illegal. I'm not a big fan of TPB either, but I caution you against tarring with too broad a brush. You should not only be more precise as to who you are against and who you aren't, but you should also give a reason and an explanation as to why that's a good reason. I am against basing a business on copyright infringement, is that clearer? The 'who' is not important, if this condition is satisfied, I am against it. Why it is a good reason?
I'll give the economic reasons first. Pirate Bay is essentially harming the market in two ways. First, by making the work of others available for free when the contributors to that work demand a specific sum for that work, they diminish the incentive of the creators themselves to create. Since creating something costs "something", and TPB offers it for near zero, the creator cannot compete in price.
Faced with this dilemma, he must either shut his business down, or create some added value to his product; however, anything he adds to the product will simply be absorbed by TPB upon release. So there is little incentive to create added value either (this is the problem DRM attempts to solve, making the real product more valuable i.e. less hassle than the pirated version, though usually failing miserably in the process since computers were not designed for DRM).
Second, TPB basically shuts out any possible competition from the creators themselves in the form of launching their own site similar to TPB, since by virtue of their position as creators, their cost of production will always be higher than TPB's because they must face the cost of creating in addition to providing the services TPB does, and will have difficulty competing in terms of value because of the what I mentioned earlier. Because the cost of creating is so much higher than the cost of providing services similar to TPBs, this closes the only other avenue the creator has available to him to market his good.
I'm getting tired of writing so I'll just say the moral reasons are obvious.
This is the heart of the issue, TPB is profiting off of works they did not help make possible. Not only that, but they give ZERO to the people that DO make them possible. This is shameful and disgusting. I hope they and every site like it is shut down and their founders imprisoned.
No, this is not a troll, but will be modded as such by this hypocritical community that is enraged by a company taking GPL code and using it in their proprietary products to profit from it, yet cheers Pirate Bay on in committing nearly the same crime hundreds of thousands of times per day.
What is wrong with the keyboard? You have quick access to about 26 keys with one hand alone, and they are in a position you are used to. You have meta keys for alternate functions (shift, alt, etc) which expand the number of unique functions to more than 60. Any controller that complex that isn't modeled after a keyboard will be a tremendous failure.
Suppose my robot begins to get on my nerves, constantly spending my money on newer chestplates and bigger antennas, or complaining about lack of adequate verbal input while withholding output when I need it.
So I go over to it and attempt to shove it over to vent my anger at its incompetence, and it instantly regains its balance! This will likely make me even more angry and I may eventually be forced to perform a Mortal Kombat-esque fatality on it and rip its CPU from its chest.
If you would just allow it to fall over, then I'll at least feel sorry for it. I can then help it upright when I've cooled off, which will make me feel better.
Something is wrong, I think. 4 minutes is ludicrous.. I can go from cold to functional in about a minute on this ancient computer (1 GHz Pentium 3, 512MB RAM, XP SP2).
Look at the resolutions used in those benchmarks, 2560x1600 - come on, who owns a monitor that goes up that high?
At a normal resolution you should see much better numbers.
I think the point of the article is to really focus on the performance of those video cards, thus they use insane spec hardware to give the video card as much headroom as possible so you know how well each card performs and not to give people a realistic expectation of their system performance.
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And if he is installing to a low CPU power machine with no DVD drive and no/slow net access?
This is the only reason people are even interested in the CD installer in the first place.
Just because Linux installers can't handle partitioning in the way you'd like automagically (what the hell does this have to do with the OP's problem?), doesn't mean BSD shouldn't have to fix their CD installer.
Actually, that's normal for Star Trek now.
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I didn't mean to criticize the submitter of this story in particular, just used it for a launchpad to my rant on obscure acronym dropping.
Am I the only one who takes it as a personal affront when people use obscure or ambiguous acronyms.
..and the BPL statistics board.. huh? Yeah BPL. So anyway, the board was..
These people just can't wait for someone to ask what the acronym means so they can go through the motions to utterly shame you.
For instance, if someone were to come up to me at the water cooler with this headline, it would go something like this:
===
Iam Beterthanyoo: "Hey, did you hear that the FCC was dealt a setback in the BPL push, it seems that BPL rollout is not going to be pushed anytime soon because there were problems with BPL research and BPL other things, and the BPL..."
Actual Message: PLEASE ASK ME WHAT BPL IS, I AM SMART AND KNOW THIS INFORMATION.
Me (interrupting): BPL?
Actual Message: Clarify please you pretentious fuck.
Iam:
Actual message: I'll pretend I'm assuming you didn't hear me correctly so I can drive the knife deeper when you are forced to follow up.
Me (interrupting): No, no, what is BPL?
Actual message: Yes I must not have heard you the first ten times you said BPL.
Iam: Ohhhhhhh...
Actual message: Well gosh I just assumed that you must not have heard me correctly because you can't possibly be asking for clarification of something so obvious. I am shocked at your complete and utter ignorance.
Iam: BPL stands for Broadband over Power Lines.
At this point Iam likely will not be able to resume his story because it was all a ruse anyway and all he was doing was trying to fit the BPL acronym into some fragments of the story until he could put you in your BPL ignorant place, he really knows nothing beyond the headline and what BPL means.
This is usually where I will counterattack and ask a (seemingly) informed question about the story.
Me: Oh, Broadband over Power Lines, was the problem the recent state initiative on property rights of the existing fiber infrastructure?
Actual message: Fuck you.
Iam: Yes, yes, something like that I think.
Actual message: Uh oh I'm caught. Bail out, bail out!
Iam: Anyway I have to get back to work.
Actual message: I'm off to find another victim.
===
The mentality is the same as the groups of girls in school who would make up their own language to talk to each other, then turn to the person next to them in class and say something to them in the language, sparking giggles all around from those 'in the know', as though the person is a complete moron for not being able to decipher that he was just called a cootie face in a made up language, the moron.
My MD said it's nothing to worry about because I'll usually make the saving throw for death from vitamin deficiency due to my high stamina as an ogre.
Err, wait that was my DM...
Still, he does play a Cleric.
That's why Linux has seen widespread adoption on the business desktop where nobody cares about games DOT DOT DOT
Also, recent polls have shown that the majority of the Linux home users are people who don't like to play games or don't have the time, like the elderly and businessmen.
Yes, I think you're really on to something there.
It must be nice being able to predict the future.
Not to mention they'd get a spot in the history books as the first person(s) on Mars.
Coolness is nice until you try to pay your bills with it.
nobody minds the body cavity search.
I'd like to test it but don't want to screw up my 2.0 config before I know it is worth upgrading.
Yeah, being rational excludes you from the target market.
Just throw some Chlorine on it to turn it into nice harmless salt, right?
How is Pirate Bay different? Shesh, well lets see..
1. The works in question are not physical property with proper transfer of property rights. (Invalidates first example)
2. The works in question are not public domain. (Invalidates second example) Merely profiting off of a work someone else created and not paying that person is not necessarily shameful, disgusting, or illegal. I'm not a big fan of TPB either, but I caution you against tarring with too broad a brush. You should not only be more precise as to who you are against and who you aren't, but you should also give a reason and an explanation as to why that's a good reason. I am against basing a business on copyright infringement, is that clearer? The 'who' is not important, if this condition is satisfied, I am against it. Why it is a good reason?
I'll give the economic reasons first. Pirate Bay is essentially harming the market in two ways. First, by making the work of others available for free when the contributors to that work demand a specific sum for that work, they diminish the incentive of the creators themselves to create. Since creating something costs "something", and TPB offers it for near zero, the creator cannot compete in price.
Faced with this dilemma, he must either shut his business down, or create some added value to his product; however, anything he adds to the product will simply be absorbed by TPB upon release. So there is little incentive to create added value either (this is the problem DRM attempts to solve, making the real product more valuable i.e. less hassle than the pirated version, though usually failing miserably in the process since computers were not designed for DRM).
Second, TPB basically shuts out any possible competition from the creators themselves in the form of launching their own site similar to TPB, since by virtue of their position as creators, their cost of production will always be higher than TPB's because they must face the cost of creating in addition to providing the services TPB does, and will have difficulty competing in terms of value because of the what I mentioned earlier. Because the cost of creating is so much higher than the cost of providing services similar to TPBs, this closes the only other avenue the creator has available to him to market his good.
I'm getting tired of writing so I'll just say the moral reasons are obvious.
This is the heart of the issue, TPB is profiting off of works they did not help make possible. Not only that, but they give ZERO to the people that DO make them possible. This is shameful and disgusting. I hope they and every site like it is shut down and their founders imprisoned.
No, this is not a troll, but will be modded as such by this hypocritical community that is enraged by a company taking GPL code and using it in their proprietary products to profit from it, yet cheers Pirate Bay on in committing nearly the same crime hundreds of thousands of times per day.
Sigh.
One man's -1 Paranoid Conspiracy Theory is another man's +1 Insightful.
I guess this is why AMD can't even give its chips away for free right now, Intel is one step ahead yet again!
What is wrong with the keyboard? You have quick access to about 26 keys with one hand alone, and they are in a position you are used to. You have meta keys for alternate functions (shift, alt, etc) which expand the number of unique functions to more than 60. Any controller that complex that isn't modeled after a keyboard will be a tremendous failure.
They want you to use AAC, a format which they have heavy stock in - so they don't add support. Simple, really.
Suppose my robot begins to get on my nerves, constantly spending my money on newer chestplates and bigger antennas, or complaining about lack of adequate verbal input while withholding output when I need it.
So I go over to it and attempt to shove it over to vent my anger at its incompetence, and it instantly regains its balance! This will likely make me even more angry and I may eventually be forced to perform a Mortal Kombat-esque fatality on it and rip its CPU from its chest.
If you would just allow it to fall over, then I'll at least feel sorry for it. I can then help it upright when I've cooled off, which will make me feel better.
Something is wrong, I think. 4 minutes is ludicrous.. I can go from cold to functional in about a minute on this ancient computer (1 GHz Pentium 3, 512MB RAM, XP SP2).
ASUS CUSL2-C, still kicking.
Too late, I've already sniffed out your top secret cheat codes.
UUDDLRLRBAS is now mine, miiiiiiine.
Muahahaha.... *flys away on giant bat*
Look at the resolutions used in those benchmarks, 2560x1600 - come on, who owns a monitor that goes up that high?
At a normal resolution you should see much better numbers.
I think the point of the article is to really focus on the performance of those video cards, thus they use insane spec hardware to give the video card as much headroom as possible so you know how well each card performs and not to give people a realistic expectation of their system performance.
Wow, did you just express disgust at Microsoft's monopoly and use an Atlas Shrugged reference in the same post? I fear my head may explode.