What Canonical needs to focus on is fixing their upgrade process and broken packages. Buggy packages in LTS releases don’t get bug fixes, so we’re forced to upgrade servers to non-LTS releases just to get things working properly. And basically everyone who upgraded to 15.10 got a broken system until they realized that the upgrade did not install a new kernel, instead leaving you with one that caused all kinds of crashes due to a mismatch between kernel and userspace libraries and services.
It sounds like this article is mixing up “smart people” with “introverts.” What about the really smart extraverts? Richard Feynman was very extraverted, he had lots of friends, hung around with them a lot, and was very successful.
I’ve tried to start codebases from scratch a few times myself. The same thing happened that happened with Gecko. I was not able to find a truly elegant solution that accounted for all of the requirements up front, so although I solved one set of problems better, all the later hacks I had to do to fix all of the oversights made the new codebase almost as crufty as the old one. All I really accomplished was to waste a bunch of time developing a new codebase with a whole new set of bugs to fix.
On the other hand, I have been successful at incrementally *refactoring* code. If I did my job right in the first place, most functionality was already modular. Then I can take some of the stuff on top of my libraries and extract it into more libraries, which I can then improve individually.
if someone wants to believe in the FSM or that the earth is 6000 years old, they should have the right to do it. If someone wants to filter their food selections on the basis of being GMO or not, that should also be their choice.
The GMO concerns, however, have some sense to them. While being GMO is not inherently bad, I have no confidence that GMO producers will test their GMO food products well enough. It’s not profitable. Also, for someone with a corn allergy (like my wife), the “GMO” label is the most reliable way to detect if there are hidden corn products in the food, because essentialy all corn is GMO. The FDA says that corn isn’t an allergen (even though the probability of encountering it times the probability of having a sensitivity is probably higher than the same metric for wheat), so it doesn’t have to be labeled, so this is the last safety net we have. And don’t tell me that we can avoid corn by avoiding processed foods: They sneak corn products into “100% pure chicken breast” for crying out loud.
I was thinking of taking the family down to Orlando during the summer. My kids are in school, so we can’t take them out during the winter. So is the summer going to be record hot down there, or will some other phenomenon make it a relatively mild summer? We may have to dress like desert dwellers, although the humidity in Florida defeats some desert garb.
I'm confused. From the stories, he claimed to able to crack the iPhone without Apple's help. Then he said he lied about that. But then reaffirmed that his people would be able to crack the iPhone.
Look, I like string theory too, but so far, it’s not made any claims we could test. Similarly, these hypotheses about abiogiesis are certainly plausible, but we can’t test them. That makes them fall short of the usual definition of “science.” Technically, these hypotheses are testable in the abstract, if we could go back in time or set up some experiment we haven’t set up yet, but since we have no direct evidence, we cannot elevate them to the status of “theory.” In other words, they are the weakest form of science — explanatory hypotheses with no empirical backing. It’s possible that intelligent design MIGHT have some testable predictions, but none have been tested.
Because of propaganda, one of the biggest stumbling blocks for Creationists is that there is no theory of abiogenesis. Also because of propaganda, scientists dismiss abiogenesis as an important theoretical foundation for evolution. I’ll give you a computer analogy: Evolution ignoring abiogenesis is like learning algorithms and data structures without learning computer architecture. Actually, most software engineers are like this, and they’re quite successful, but ignorance of the underlying hardware is at least a mild handicap.
Unfortunately, (a) the conditions for abiogenesis probably no longer exist on earth, and (b) if life did spontaneously form from chemicals, it would get eaten right away by life on earth, so we’d never notice it happening. This is going to be a tough nut to crack.
Another stubling block is that the evidence for evolution is presented in such a weak manner. If you look in a textbook, you mostly see drawings and theory, but none of the actual evidence is presented. You can find progressions of small fossils that can be photographed at actual size and put them in tables, where there are columns for their size and weight measurements and columns for radiometric dating, and so forth. THAT is the actual evidence. It’s a bit dry, which is probably why nobody presents it that way. People want hollywood discovery channel crap, but it’s not actual evidence, just glitz, and the skeptics reject it. So far, I have been profoundly disappointed with the evidence for evolution presented in an accessible form. It seems beneath the scientists to do this, and it makes them look not credible.
This is why I stick to things like geology. There are numerous radiometric dating methods, where you can take lots of rock samples from the same layers and perform different tests and end up with tight agreement on multi-billion-year ages.
And the most damning argument to anyone who wants to argue that the universe is young is SN1987A. Look it up.
For law-abiding citizens, good encryption is the first line of defense against criminals accessing our personal information and stealing our identities. With our philosophy of “innocent until proven guilty,” we should first protect the good people properly. Then within those constraints, we can find ways to deal with the criminals without violating people’s rights.
People have pointed out that this is hard to make because you can’t make signals move FTL. Basically, you can send a packet, and by the rules of TCP, the ACK is generated at the destination, so while you could artificially lengthen the round-trip ping time, you can’t shorten it. But why not? How about we have the VPN buffer the TCP packets and break the rules. When a packet is received from Netflix, the VPN sends the ACK. When the user’s computer sends its ACK, the VPN consumes it. If there’s a chance of this being unreliable, them’s the breaks.
Even the smartest researchers will have some trouble imagining the end results of their ideas far in the future. You have to experiment. You can try to guess which ideas are the best, but then you have to try them out. Many will fail. The whole point in “fail fast” is to do feasibility experiments up front to eliminate the bad ideas as fast as possible so you can move on to the next one. If you’re any good, you’ll have some success rate — 10% would be good.
Even in academia, there’s a massive amount of rejection in peer-review venues. In fact, when you’re accepted at a venue whose acceptance rate is 20%, you state that with pride. While it’s true that most researchers don’t let many ideas completely die, what happens is that papers evolve with each rejection, getting better. It’s been shown that papers that are rejected at least once are typically of superior quality when they do get accepted. So even though you think that it’s great that your paper was accepted on the third try, it’s really not the same one you submitted the first time. So your real acceptance rate is low. It’s too bad peer review is so slow.
I certainly don’t want to show porn to my kids. Actually, that would be really creepy. I would feel only slightly less awkward if they found it on their own, but before that happens, I want them to not be completely unaware of what some of those seedier things in the world. Anyhow, I have some dumb questions about what it is the authorities are so afraid of.
- Are they worried that adults will show porn to kids? (They can just use the adult credentials.) - Are they worried that kids will find it on their own? - How easy is it to totally accidentally stumble on hard-core porn? (Probably easy.) - How do you check someone’s age when they visit the free parts of a website? (At least half the adult users want to visit anonymously.) - Instead of restricting, why do they not consider educating people? (Although the tone of the materials will surely be of excessively negative bias.)
Some people are too sensitive, so they want to stop other people from saying things that offend them. But instead of dealing with it themselves, they appeal to some authority to fight the “problem” on their behalf. Because not only are they super-sensitive, but they’re also LAZY.
At a university, we certainly cannot condone physical violence. And patterns of sustained harrassment are also not acceptable. However, college is a place where people need to be CHALLENGED, socially, intellectually, and ideologically. You can no longer live in the little shell that your parents and no-cussing high school used to provide for you. If you REALLY need a break from all the noise, you can go to your doom room and put in some ear plugs.
Twitter is a different matter. They run a business, and that business requires people to actively engage in sharing of news and information. Trolling minorities can created a disproportionate amount of noise. If we tell the nice people to “go somewhere else,” they will, and that means they stop using twitter. After a while, Twitter devolves into a community of nothing but trolls trolling each other. The trolling continues to escalate to the point that it becomes undeniably illegal, and the whole system is crushed under its own weight. Twitter cannot allow that, along with those of us who find value in that as a communication medium. Sometimes there’s a fine line between “freedom of speech” and “abuse of speech.” We want to trust individuals to make that choice, but there are too damn many people who cannot be trusted with that responsibility that we end up being forced to insitute rules that sadly do restrict some valid messages. This is why we can’t have nice things. A few assholes ruin things for everyone else. And so forth.
So let’s consider a valid point that would get most people in trouble for saying:
- Gay men have a substantially increased risk of transmitting STI’s. This is a consequence of the way the body works. Unfortunately, condom use is not taken for granted within the gay community, and there’s a great deal of promiscuity. This puts more gay men at excessive risk of disease, along with many people in the rest of the population. The solution is for gay men to adopt condoms and monogamy as standards and to shame those who do not. And the best way the rest of us can facilitate monogamy among gay men is to strongly encourage gay marriage. This requires that everyone grow up and recognize homosexual relationships as being as valid as any other. Being in a gay relationship does not make you a sinful person, opening the door for “worse" behavior. Gay men need to have standards, and other people should stop getting in the way of them adopting standards. Sexual relationships are both a right and a responsibility.
Now, if I were to blog about this, I’d get a lot of shit for what I just said:
- The right would tell me that I’m terrible for encouraging sinful homosexual behavior. - The left would tell me that I’m terrible for singling out gay men and discouraging them from certain irresponsible behaviors.
It seems like if you want to make a point based on math and science (the disease transmission rates among gay men are quite clear), everybody will hate you for saying something counter to their political agenda. What we have is one group handing down rules from ancient literature and another group saying that people should be allowed to act however they want without considering the consequences.
One of the reasons that I really dislike drag-and-drop methods of coding and schematic capture for circuits is that you end up locked in to one tool’s peculiar method of entry. If you decide you don’t like that editor, you’re stuck with it for old designs because you can’t always export and import proprietary formats. When writing code, I’m using a portable language, and I have my choice of compilers on different platforms.
PCB layout is one of those corner cases that’s so physically-oriented that some of the steps really need graphical interaction. However, the tools have to export to standard formats that are understood by the PCB manufacturers. As long as you have those formats, you can switch tools with some degree of success.
If I’d started mining bitcoin back when it first started, I might have made a lot of money by now. But I kept procrastinating, and now it’s too late. It now costs more energy to mine a coin than a coin is worth.
Also, I should have bought Apple stock back in the 90’s.
I have “touch urticaria.” Especially at night when I like in bed, the pressure against my skin causes histamine production. I’ve had this checked out, and while my histamine levels are high, my IgE levels are completely normal, so this is NOT an allergic reaction. Something else is putting excessive histamine into my system. A dietician suggested that it could be intestinal flora generating histamine, and a dietary change may help, so I’ve been working on that. But at this point, I have to take Allegra every night so I can get to sleep without itching and scratching for hours. (Fexodenadine is very weak, but it's the only antihistamine I can stand — all others zombify me the next day, including Claritin and Zyrtec.)
I teach graduate CS courses at a university, and we get the occasional cheater. Sometimes, the cheating is blatant three students just turned in exactly the same work. However, there are occasions where we suspect cheating, but they did a good job of disguising it. Of course, they do poorly on exams. If those students would spend their time and energy on learning the material, they would learn something and get a good grade.
I have a family member who went through a period in their life when they were hypersensitive to perceived slights. Some of the problem was real pressure to conform to other’s expectations that were unreasonable. But the inability to tolerate it and blow it off turned out to be caused by a hormone disorder.
I think that some of these hypersensitive people are just whiny babies who can’t handle an environment with a more diverse set of ideas. But for some people who get so overwhelmed that they need to run off and hide in a “safe place,” they may want to look into getting their endocrine levels checked (thyroid, adrenal, and various pituitary).
However, we live in a culture where we blame everyone else for our own failures, so it’s unlikely that most such people would ever even imagine that the problem originates in their own bodies.
On my way to Canal Winchester on OH-674, I’d pass through a small section of Lithopolis, where the speed limit inexplicably drops to 45mph. It’s a well-known speed trap, for the locals, so the village makes(or made) money mostly from visitors. One time, an Ohio state legislator was caught in that speed trap, and there was a bit of a smack-down that ensued. But that wasn’t the beginning of the end of Lithopolis. That started when they closed the only interesting thing in the whole village, which was the Wagnalls memorial library.
I prevent leakage by using those little plastic bags with the two rows of ziplock. Especially the ones with the yellow and blue making green (even though it’s actually magenta and cyan that make green).
I wouldn’t want to run Windows on it, though, and good luck getting Linux to work well on it. Oh, sure, Ubuntu will install and “just work” (PROBABLY), but Windows graphics drivers kick the crap out of Linux graphics drivers, and Windows handles a wider range of I/O devices better, along with wireless networking, external monitors, etc. So I guess you’re better off sticking with Windows and running Cygwin if you want a proper UNIX environment. I don’t know. I’M SO CONFUSED!
One of the reasons they need all that safety equipment is that the suspension system sucks. In many other cars, if you’re going down the road and start turning the steering wheel like you’re on a slalom, the car stay stable and steer and maybe rock a bit. In a Volvo, it will suffer massive body roll and basically go out of control. So they make up for it with electronics. Electronics are good, but why not fix the underlying problems first?
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What Canonical needs to focus on is fixing their upgrade process and broken packages. Buggy packages in LTS releases don’t get bug fixes, so we’re forced to upgrade servers to non-LTS releases just to get things working properly. And basically everyone who upgraded to 15.10 got a broken system until they realized that the upgrade did not install a new kernel, instead leaving you with one that caused all kinds of crashes due to a mismatch between kernel and userspace libraries and services.
It sounds like this article is mixing up “smart people” with “introverts.” What about the really smart extraverts? Richard Feynman was very extraverted, he had lots of friends, hung around with them a lot, and was very successful.
I’ve tried to start codebases from scratch a few times myself. The same thing happened that happened with Gecko. I was not able to find a truly elegant solution that accounted for all of the requirements up front, so although I solved one set of problems better, all the later hacks I had to do to fix all of the oversights made the new codebase almost as crufty as the old one. All I really accomplished was to waste a bunch of time developing a new codebase with a whole new set of bugs to fix.
On the other hand, I have been successful at incrementally *refactoring* code. If I did my job right in the first place, most functionality was already modular. Then I can take some of the stuff on top of my libraries and extract it into more libraries, which I can then improve individually.
if someone wants to believe in the FSM or that the earth is 6000 years old, they should have the right to do it. If someone wants to filter their food selections on the basis of being GMO or not, that should also be their choice.
The GMO concerns, however, have some sense to them. While being GMO is not inherently bad, I have no confidence that GMO producers will test their GMO food products well enough. It’s not profitable. Also, for someone with a corn allergy (like my wife), the “GMO” label is the most reliable way to detect if there are hidden corn products in the food, because essentialy all corn is GMO. The FDA says that corn isn’t an allergen (even though the probability of encountering it times the probability of having a sensitivity is probably higher than the same metric for wheat), so it doesn’t have to be labeled, so this is the last safety net we have. And don’t tell me that we can avoid corn by avoiding processed foods: They sneak corn products into “100% pure chicken breast” for crying out loud.
I was thinking of taking the family down to Orlando during the summer. My kids are in school, so we can’t take them out during the winter. So is the summer going to be record hot down there, or will some other phenomenon make it a relatively mild summer? We may have to dress like desert dwellers, although the humidity in Florida defeats some desert garb.
I'm confused. From the stories, he claimed to able to crack the iPhone without Apple's help. Then he said he lied about that. But then reaffirmed that his people would be able to crack the iPhone.
What am I missing?
Look, I like string theory too, but so far, it’s not made any claims we could test. Similarly, these hypotheses about abiogiesis are certainly plausible, but we can’t test them. That makes them fall short of the usual definition of “science.” Technically, these hypotheses are testable in the abstract, if we could go back in time or set up some experiment we haven’t set up yet, but since we have no direct evidence, we cannot elevate them to the status of “theory.” In other words, they are the weakest form of science — explanatory hypotheses with no empirical backing. It’s possible that intelligent design MIGHT have some testable predictions, but none have been tested.
Because of propaganda, one of the biggest stumbling blocks for Creationists is that there is no theory of abiogenesis. Also because of propaganda, scientists dismiss abiogenesis as an important theoretical foundation for evolution. I’ll give you a computer analogy: Evolution ignoring abiogenesis is like learning algorithms and data structures without learning computer architecture. Actually, most software engineers are like this, and they’re quite successful, but ignorance of the underlying hardware is at least a mild handicap.
Unfortunately, (a) the conditions for abiogenesis probably no longer exist on earth, and (b) if life did spontaneously form from chemicals, it would get eaten right away by life on earth, so we’d never notice it happening. This is going to be a tough nut to crack.
Another stubling block is that the evidence for evolution is presented in such a weak manner. If you look in a textbook, you mostly see drawings and theory, but none of the actual evidence is presented. You can find progressions of small fossils that can be photographed at actual size and put them in tables, where there are columns for their size and weight measurements and columns for radiometric dating, and so forth. THAT is the actual evidence. It’s a bit dry, which is probably why nobody presents it that way. People want hollywood discovery channel crap, but it’s not actual evidence, just glitz, and the skeptics reject it. So far, I have been profoundly disappointed with the evidence for evolution presented in an accessible form. It seems beneath the scientists to do this, and it makes them look not credible.
This is why I stick to things like geology. There are numerous radiometric dating methods, where you can take lots of rock samples from the same layers and perform different tests and end up with tight agreement on multi-billion-year ages.
And the most damning argument to anyone who wants to argue that the universe is young is SN1987A. Look it up.
For law-abiding citizens, good encryption is the first line of defense against criminals accessing our personal information and stealing our identities. With our philosophy of “innocent until proven guilty,” we should first protect the good people properly. Then within those constraints, we can find ways to deal with the criminals without violating people’s rights.
People have pointed out that this is hard to make because you can’t make signals move FTL. Basically, you can send a packet, and by the rules of TCP, the ACK is generated at the destination, so while you could artificially lengthen the round-trip ping time, you can’t shorten it. But why not? How about we have the VPN buffer the TCP packets and break the rules. When a packet is received from Netflix, the VPN sends the ACK. When the user’s computer sends its ACK, the VPN consumes it. If there’s a chance of this being unreliable, them’s the breaks.
Even the smartest researchers will have some trouble imagining the end results of their ideas far in the future. You have to experiment. You can try to guess which ideas are the best, but then you have to try them out. Many will fail. The whole point in “fail fast” is to do feasibility experiments up front to eliminate the bad ideas as fast as possible so you can move on to the next one. If you’re any good, you’ll have some success rate — 10% would be good.
Even in academia, there’s a massive amount of rejection in peer-review venues. In fact, when you’re accepted at a venue whose acceptance rate is 20%, you state that with pride. While it’s true that most researchers don’t let many ideas completely die, what happens is that papers evolve with each rejection, getting better. It’s been shown that papers that are rejected at least once are typically of superior quality when they do get accepted. So even though you think that it’s great that your paper was accepted on the third try, it’s really not the same one you submitted the first time. So your real acceptance rate is low. It’s too bad peer review is so slow.
I certainly don’t want to show porn to my kids. Actually, that would be really creepy. I would feel only slightly less awkward if they found it on their own, but before that happens, I want them to not be completely unaware of what some of those seedier things in the world. Anyhow, I have some dumb questions about what it is the authorities are so afraid of.
- Are they worried that adults will show porn to kids? (They can just use the adult credentials.)
- Are they worried that kids will find it on their own?
- How easy is it to totally accidentally stumble on hard-core porn? (Probably easy.)
- How do you check someone’s age when they visit the free parts of a website? (At least half the adult users want to visit anonymously.)
- Instead of restricting, why do they not consider educating people? (Although the tone of the materials will surely be of excessively negative bias.)
Power is linear with clock speed and quadratic with respect to voltage: P = \alpha V^2 f
Some people are too sensitive, so they want to stop other people from saying things that offend them. But instead of dealing with it themselves, they appeal to some authority to fight the “problem” on their behalf. Because not only are they super-sensitive, but they’re also LAZY.
At a university, we certainly cannot condone physical violence. And patterns of sustained harrassment are also not acceptable. However, college is a place where people need to be CHALLENGED, socially, intellectually, and ideologically. You can no longer live in the little shell that your parents and no-cussing high school used to provide for you. If you REALLY need a break from all the noise, you can go to your doom room and put in some ear plugs.
Twitter is a different matter. They run a business, and that business requires people to actively engage in sharing of news and information. Trolling minorities can created a disproportionate amount of noise. If we tell the nice people to “go somewhere else,” they will, and that means they stop using twitter. After a while, Twitter devolves into a community of nothing but trolls trolling each other. The trolling continues to escalate to the point that it becomes undeniably illegal, and the whole system is crushed under its own weight. Twitter cannot allow that, along with those of us who find value in that as a communication medium. Sometimes there’s a fine line between “freedom of speech” and “abuse of speech.” We want to trust individuals to make that choice, but there are too damn many people who cannot be trusted with that responsibility that we end up being forced to insitute rules that sadly do restrict some valid messages. This is why we can’t have nice things. A few assholes ruin things for everyone else. And so forth.
So let’s consider a valid point that would get most people in trouble for saying:
- Gay men have a substantially increased risk of transmitting STI’s. This is a consequence of the way the body works. Unfortunately, condom use is not taken for granted within the gay community, and there’s a great deal of promiscuity. This puts more gay men at excessive risk of disease, along with many people in the rest of the population. The solution is for gay men to adopt condoms and monogamy as standards and to shame those who do not. And the best way the rest of us can facilitate monogamy among gay men is to strongly encourage gay marriage. This requires that everyone grow up and recognize homosexual relationships as being as valid as any other. Being in a gay relationship does not make you a sinful person, opening the door for “worse" behavior. Gay men need to have standards, and other people should stop getting in the way of them adopting standards. Sexual relationships are both a right and a responsibility.
Now, if I were to blog about this, I’d get a lot of shit for what I just said:
- The right would tell me that I’m terrible for encouraging sinful homosexual behavior.
- The left would tell me that I’m terrible for singling out gay men and discouraging them from certain irresponsible behaviors.
It seems like if you want to make a point based on math and science (the disease transmission rates among gay men are quite clear), everybody will hate you for saying something counter to their political agenda. What we have is one group handing down rules from ancient literature and another group saying that people should be allowed to act however they want without considering the consequences.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/01/20/171226/open-source-gpu-used-for-research
One of the reasons that I really dislike drag-and-drop methods of coding and schematic capture for circuits is that you end up locked in to one tool’s peculiar method of entry. If you decide you don’t like that editor, you’re stuck with it for old designs because you can’t always export and import proprietary formats. When writing code, I’m using a portable language, and I have my choice of compilers on different platforms.
PCB layout is one of those corner cases that’s so physically-oriented that some of the steps really need graphical interaction. However, the tools have to export to standard formats that are understood by the PCB manufacturers. As long as you have those formats, you can switch tools with some degree of success.
If I’d started mining bitcoin back when it first started, I might have made a lot of money by now. But I kept procrastinating, and now it’s too late. It now costs more energy to mine a coin than a coin is worth.
Also, I should have bought Apple stock back in the 90’s.
I have “touch urticaria.” Especially at night when I like in bed, the pressure against my skin causes histamine production. I’ve had this checked out, and while my histamine levels are high, my IgE levels are completely normal, so this is NOT an allergic reaction. Something else is putting excessive histamine into my system. A dietician suggested that it could be intestinal flora generating histamine, and a dietary change may help, so I’ve been working on that. But at this point, I have to take Allegra every night so I can get to sleep without itching and scratching for hours. (Fexodenadine is very weak, but it's the only antihistamine I can stand — all others zombify me the next day, including Claritin and Zyrtec.)
I teach graduate CS courses at a university, and we get the occasional cheater. Sometimes, the cheating is blatant three students just turned in exactly the same work. However, there are occasions where we suspect cheating, but they did a good job of disguising it. Of course, they do poorly on exams. If those students would spend their time and energy on learning the material, they would learn something and get a good grade.
I have a family member who went through a period in their life when they were hypersensitive to perceived slights. Some of the problem was real pressure to conform to other’s expectations that were unreasonable. But the inability to tolerate it and blow it off turned out to be caused by a hormone disorder.
I think that some of these hypersensitive people are just whiny babies who can’t handle an environment with a more diverse set of ideas. But for some people who get so overwhelmed that they need to run off and hide in a “safe place,” they may want to look into getting their endocrine levels checked (thyroid, adrenal, and various pituitary).
However, we live in a culture where we blame everyone else for our own failures, so it’s unlikely that most such people would ever even imagine that the problem originates in their own bodies.
On my way to Canal Winchester on OH-674, I’d pass through a small section of Lithopolis, where the speed limit inexplicably drops to 45mph. It’s a well-known speed trap, for the locals, so the village makes(or made) money mostly from visitors. One time, an Ohio state legislator was caught in that speed trap, and there was a bit of a smack-down that ensued. But that wasn’t the beginning of the end of Lithopolis. That started when they closed the only interesting thing in the whole village, which was the Wagnalls memorial library.
I prevent leakage by using those little plastic bags with the two rows of ziplock. Especially the ones with the yellow and blue making green (even though it’s actually magenta and cyan that make green).
I wouldn’t want to run Windows on it, though, and good luck getting Linux to work well on it. Oh, sure, Ubuntu will install and “just work” (PROBABLY), but Windows graphics drivers kick the crap out of Linux graphics drivers, and Windows handles a wider range of I/O devices better, along with wireless networking, external monitors, etc. So I guess you’re better off sticking with Windows and running Cygwin if you want a proper UNIX environment. I don’t know. I’M SO CONFUSED!
Are you kidding? We live in a CHRISTIAN society, and forgiveness has no place in Christianity!
One of the reasons they need all that safety equipment is that the suspension system sucks. In many other cars, if you’re going down the road and start turning the steering wheel like you’re on a slalom, the car stay stable and steer and maybe rock a bit. In a Volvo, it will suffer massive body roll and basically go out of control. So they make up for it with electronics. Electronics are good, but why not fix the underlying problems first?