My NEARLY COMPUTER ILLITERATE next door neighbour (has trouble remembering how to copy files and use email attachments) who is 75 years old (a retired air force mechanic) who has used MS OS's for over 20 years (I helped him upgrade from DOS and a batch launcher script to Windows), now uses Ubuntu. It took him exactly ONE day with NO ASSISTANCE to learn the UI, and feel at home. Why?! Because he hated Vista, and after he held out for Windows7, and hated it as well, I said: "Before we install an OS that will be unsupported soon (XP), give Linux a try, it's free, so what do we have to lose?" -- Note: He has NEVER had to do anything with the command line, and he was AMAZED at how simple the installer was: "How are we're already running it from just the CD?... How can this be free?... Why doesn't Windows have this?" (well, now they do, sort of, but that's beside the point).
I've had people with ZERO experience with Linux borrow my Laptop (running Linux), and get around just fine, waiving me off when I offer assistance... even write a resume using Libre Office, and check out my music collection... I don't want to disrespect my friends, but these are the kind of people who have 37 windows "I'm an AV" viruses and don't know how to burn CDs or run Defrag -- You are deranged, a shill, or just down right mentally retarded if you can't use the OS.
No, you're wrong. Every single day I get updates. The "bug" I submitted to the patch for in Linux? It was patched in 2 weeks. The "bug" I submitted the whitepaper and proof of concept code under "responsible disclosure" to MS? It's been 2 years, and some of my unsavory friends who worked on the bug with me are now exploiting it. UPDATEs, FASTER. Linux wins.
As a motorcyclist that has to contend with car drivers paying insufficient attention to the road on a daily basis, I have to state that the driver should have been penalised much more severely for his actions.
I ride motorcycles too, out on the open road though, never in traffic... Punishing the absent minded drivers won't mean a damn thing when you finally win the Darwin award.
If GM food is awesome, then why aren't they proud enough to slap a big 'ol label on it and say so? I mean, I buy "Sugar Free" and "Fat Free" stuff, they're proud of that... "New and Improved" has been the promotional battle cry since marketing began... So, what's so bad about informing the consumers? Consumers should have the choice: Some people might prefer it regardless of any real or perceived benefit or harm. Eg: I buy cage free eggs not because of better living conditions for birds, but because of the taste -- Tastes like Freedom! It's not like all the other eggs say: Unborn Chicken Slaves...
The point is: without a label, how can I exercise consumer choice? Put it another way: If the corn has DNA pesticide enough such that I don't have to fight off Texas sized mosquito swarms anymore, then I might just ONLY eat Deep Woods OFF(tm) brand Gene Boosted food.
So my comment earlier today about using a tractor beam to haul in the SpaceX Dragon not so stupid after all!
Not so fast there bub: "Bessel beams are impossible to create, as they would require an infinite amount of energy"
We know the Universe doesn't contain that amount of energy...
Maybe men that don't interact well with women are the result of NOT spending any time learning about women. If they did then they would learn that porn is usually geared towards what men want sexual interaction to look like, NOT what women want it to look like.
We found my neighbor's dad's porn collection when I was a teen... It made me MORE curious about "women".
My first GF was sexually active a few years before I was, yet she commended me on my knowledge of the female anatomy, and ability to utilise my anatomy effectively; Not least of which, she enjoyed my dexterity (improved through video games and masturbation no doubt), as well as stamina due to mastery of my sex. Also, it's pretty sexist and ignorant if you think that women don't like porn, or that there is no female porn industry. I go to a news stand -- They get romance novels at the super market...
We're all grown up enough to understand those are both idolised examples of totally fictional scenarios. There's really only conjecture either way: I was just as awkward around girls before and after the porn and games.
Here's a good one: Women joke about men who don't last as long as they'd like -- Yet many desensitise themselves via masturbation and vibrators... Additionally, NOT masturbating regularly will cause the man to climax MUCH sooner during intercourse -- Unless the female can keep up with the male's sex drive (either are fairly variable). So, you see... the whole argument is just dumb.
"tractor beam", yeah, no. You can push stuff with a beam fairly simply... pulling is just ridiculous. The only switchable macro scale pulling forces that we can create are EM fields... not beams. EM fields can bend light, or tug on objects -- or repel objects if you use eddy currents -- you know, like what the aluminum can recycling systems use. Photon beams can push things too.
You keep on with your "tractor beams", as us Romulans just laugh: "Look at the apes trying to push a rope!"
I will be mourning the death of publicly-funded space travel. Now, we hand it over to the pirates, slave-traders and privateers of our own era.
Uhm... I think you got that wrong. If anything it's the death of "publicly-unfunded" space travel... Because your precious PUBLIC funding is instead funnelling trillions into fighting unwinnable wars on intangible ideas, and trying to spend as little as they can get away with on space travel. It costs more to air-condition our troops than NASA's whole budget. Every time I hear about NASA funding being cut back, or some congress critters mandating purchasing & building around dated rocket tech to keep their lobbyist friends' business afloat I died a little. Now there seems to be a light flickering on at the end of the tunnel.
OPTIONS are good, people. It's not the death of anything in all actuality. NASA's not decommissioned, it's not like they've even stopped rocket research; It's just that we have MORE OPTIONS other than a bureaucracy driven platform held back by the opinions of the ignorant masses...
My democratic friends tell me Romney wants to assassinate poor people
My Tea Party friends tell me the politically correct form would be "double-butt-inate the financially challenged"... Yep, I'm a bit old to be serving imaginary beverages.
Or maybe because even most scientists (actual scientists, not armchair commentators on slashdot) can't find an actual utilitarian reason to build a moon base other than juvenile delight at living out their sci-fi fantasies?
You sound like a dinosaur to me... You know, the kind of ignorant fool who scurries about, oblivious to the Universe at large, worrying over utterly inconsequential crap while there's a huge asteroid headed for Earth about to make them extinct. Make no bones about it, one is headed this way right now. EVERY scientist will tell you that it's just a mater of time. What if we got out to the asteroid belt, captured us a few and had them orbiting the moon for quick dispatch. Meanwhile we mine them, not because it's oh so much cheaper to ferry them back to Earth, but because the raw materials aren't trapped in the bottom of a gravity well and it's cheaper to build shit in space.
The moon is just the first foothold, there's a whole solar system full of resources to utilise and SPACE to EXPAND since we hate the idea of state regulated birth control... Thirsty? Hell, Ceres is about 1/3rd the asteroid belt, and is probably full of water we can use. There's probably other BIG things floating about we have no clue of. You're either really clueless, or just chauvinistic because you're not extinct yet. EG:
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year.
Now look here, you short sighted, ignorant twit: You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Get your damn priorities straight. If getting off this rock isn't priority #1 then you're just burring your head in the sand, and ignoring the fossil records found therein. We've got a CHANCE to dominate our corner of the Universe, and prosper wildly beyond your puny minded dreams, you're saying: Nope, I vote for certain death at an uncertain time. FUCK YOU MAN, that's NOT how any rational being should think. Just off yourself now, you're hindering the herd.
And yet the economy continues and Apple is the wealthiest company in the world. People complain that the patent act stifles innovation or makes it so unprofitable to innovate that no one does it, but they have no evidence for this other than gut feelings, and it's contraindicated by the incredible innovations being made right now. If Google is to be believed, we'll have wearable heads-up displays by the end of the year. I mean, come on - that's freakin' science fiction right there.
Sooo... You admit that the people saying that patents stifle innovation have no evidence for their claims? Then you must also realise WHY we have no evidence, and only gut feelings. How do you like these apples:
And yet the human race and its society prospered, became the wealthiest species on the planet. People say that the having patents spurns innovation or makes it innovation worth investing in, but they have no evidence for this other than gut feelings, and it's contraindicated by the incredible innovations that put the human race at the top of the food chain without said patents!
You talk about science advancement and yet you use the LEAST of scientific arguments. If you're so damned sure that patents are helping us innovate then what would be wrong with ACTUALLY TESTING YOUR DAMN HYPOTHESIS? We don't have evidence either way because we've never actually done the experiment to find out. It's not as if we can't re-institute whatever crap laws we want. Let's GROW UP, and use the scientific method to determine if patents are harmful or helpful. Know what? The only way to collect the data we need is to ABOLISH PATENTS, at least for a while, and see WTF happens. Your arguments are RETARDING.
The 'file' will only be as good as the records management system used to maintain, store and secure such records. Given how poor most large scale record systems are, I would still expect identity theft to be rife, just harder to restore.
Not to mention that the barcode or chip will only be as reliable as the person it's implanted or imprinted on... It's a STUPID idea that lacks ANY credibility from a security standpoint. Eg: Say I kill you. What's to keep my government from duplicating your barcode stealing your chip and, after a bit of plastic surgery, letting me take your identity. Lookit me! I'm the ultimate spy! This is just dumb. It's an invasion of privacy that doesn't even achieve it's goals...
Expect them to mandate this everywhere, regardless.
Now if they could just fix their crap software. All my XP machines at home are stuck in update loops for 3 updates.
lol @ you expecting Microsoft to address software issues in a decade-old operating system. Also, lol @ you for having more than one XP machine (or at this point, more than zero) at home.
To be fair, my relative's brand new Toshiba notebook w/ Win7 has such update error loop problems. User error? Nope, I restored to factory default and did nothing but update, several fail, then it goes into an update loop. I thought it was due to OEM crapware, so after haggling on the phone with support about giving us a clean OS (which they couldn't do), we bought a very expensive version of Win7 (Note: we already have a license w/ the PC purchase). Fresh install, same issue. After a certain update it just gets stuck in a cycle. The PC is usable if we turn off the updates, or ignore that the OS isn't getting patched...
... fortunately, my years of simple explanations of security bugs paid off: coders make errors, malware exploits errors, patches fix errors -- no patches = no security. So, we installed GNU/Linux and they've never had a problem in the past year and a half. The UI learning curve was actually less going from XP to Gnome2 than XP to W7. Now, when my family calls me it's just to talk, there's no hidden "oh, by the way I screwed up my computer again" motives.
Furthermore, after the install, the OS already had the majority of the updates and was fully up to date in about 10min of updates (no reboot), unlike with Windows which took several hours and multiple reboots before it even failed to patch.
lol @ BSA members wondering why people pirate their shite software -- It's not really worth the asking price.
lol @ me replying to AC -- Meh, my code's compiling...
Anybody who isn't on welfare switched to OS X years ago.
Yep, even my blind aunt agrees. She thinks it's sad Apple ran out of cat names, and that Swahili was an odd choice, but "Ubuntu" is her new favourite OS.
For better or worse, Btrfs is largely developed by Oracle employees so they do own part of it. Oracle could simply stop paying people to develop it but they can't take it away from Linux. Both ZFS and and Btrfs are available under Free and Open Source licenses...
You fail to realise, FOSS licensing means nothing to Oracle and lawsuits are expensive. Let's test your logic with this real world example: For better or worse, Java was largely developed by Sun (now owned by Oracle), so they do own part of it. Oracle could simply stop paying people to develop Java but they can't take it away from Anyone. Java is available under Free and Open Source licenses.
Oracle is suing Google over the Java APIs they're using in Android, as well as a few bogus patents (that never should have been granted) on compile and linking optimisations -- Not the implementation. Despite the previous promises that Java would always be free and competing implementations were welcomed (Only stipulation: To call it "Java" you have to pay for a license and pass their test suit).
Harmony, Bouncy Castle, GNU classpath, my own experimental VM w/ optional Java Compiler -- All of those could face the same exact situation that Google is in over Android with Oracle. Many people, myself included, would have NEVER learned and contributed to the Java language if we thought Java's owners would act in such ways. I'll die in a fire before I use Java, BTRFS, or anything Oracle makes for anything mission critical.
Now, if your viewpoint is to remain valid, then burden is on you to prove that Oracle won't do the same crap over any of the other FOSS projects that it owns, like BTRFS.
Sorry, i didn't understand your example. Can you use a car analogy? Thanks.
Let's say you did something the mechanic didn't like, say you had a different mechanic work on your car. The next time he changes your oil, he adds a special oil plug that only he has the tool to remove. Sometime later, you go to change your own oil and you can't, even though you rightfully should be able to so -- That prick is artificially forcing you to come back to him. Now, It COULD have been a mistake, he could have just grabbed the wrong oil plug, but it's highly unlikely attributed to just stupidity -- They had a motive for malice, and had to go out of his way to use a special wrench to install the incorrect plug.
People "jailbreak" their phones, Indeed, we got a DMCA exemption to do so, and it's legal. Apple doesn't like that so they censor the term making it harder to jail break, and the effect is that more people keep using their service instead of going to another app store. Now, it COULD have been a mistake: Apple could have accidentally entered a term in its censor list, but it's highly unlikely attributed to a stupid accident -- They had a motive for malice, the term censored just happens to be the thing that lets you use someone else's service, and they had to go out of their way to make sure censored terms apply to everything, not just apps in their app store which they already screened for offensive terms...
Which would you prefer, being a foot away from a firecracker or a mile away from a nuclear bomb?
What kind of firecracker? I'm going with the nuke since my doctor says I should say away from salt... I should be safe in my bunker a mile underground, where the crackers are unsalted.
What!? That rocket was NO WHERE NEAR ME. Wait, why is everything FROZEN?! Connection Terminated. Desynch error rate exceeded.
Oh sure we'll just snapshot the whole flippin' gamestate to the clients and do reconciliation -- But that's just wrong.
Error propagation, Non-determinism, etc etc. This is OK for GPU stuff that ONLY draws pixels. Anything that affects gameplay could only be done server side with dumb clients, but not for any real detailed worlds (just ask second life devs) -- Without deterministic client side prediction you need MUCH higher bandwidth and latency of less than 30ms to get equivalent experience. The size of game state in game worlds has been increasing geometrically (in PCs it still grows, consoles hit limits due to ridiculously long cycles and outdated HW), determinism and pseudo randomness helps keep the required synch state bandwith low. Oh, I guess I could use less precise computations for SOME particle effects (non damaging stuff), but you know what? I'M ALREADY DOING THAT.
What's that you say? The errors could be deterministic? Oh really... well, then what the hell is the point? Why not just use SMALLER NUMBERS and let the PROGRAMMER decide what the precision should be. It's like no one's heard of short int or 16bit processors. Give a dedicated path for smaller numbers, and keep us from being penalised when we use them (currently, 16 bit instructions are performed in 32bit or 64bit then trimmed back down). Some GPU stuff already has HALF PRECISION floats. Optimise that path and STFU about fuzzy math, you sound moronic...
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My NEARLY COMPUTER ILLITERATE next door neighbour (has trouble remembering how to copy files and use email attachments) who is 75 years old (a retired air force mechanic) who has used MS OS's for over 20 years (I helped him upgrade from DOS and a batch launcher script to Windows), now uses Ubuntu. It took him exactly ONE day with NO ASSISTANCE to learn the UI, and feel at home. Why?! Because he hated Vista, and after he held out for Windows7, and hated it as well, I said: "Before we install an OS that will be unsupported soon (XP), give Linux a try, it's free, so what do we have to lose?" -- Note: He has NEVER had to do anything with the command line, and he was AMAZED at how simple the installer was: "How are we're already running it from just the CD? ... How can this be free? ... Why doesn't Windows have this?" (well, now they do, sort of, but that's beside the point).
I've had people with ZERO experience with Linux borrow my Laptop (running Linux), and get around just fine, waiving me off when I offer assistance... even write a resume using Libre Office, and check out my music collection... I don't want to disrespect my friends, but these are the kind of people who have 37 windows "I'm an AV" viruses and don't know how to burn CDs or run Defrag -- You are deranged, a shill, or just down right mentally retarded if you can't use the OS.
No, you're wrong. Every single day I get updates. The "bug" I submitted to the patch for in Linux? It was patched in 2 weeks. The "bug" I submitted the whitepaper and proof of concept code under "responsible disclosure" to MS? It's been 2 years, and some of my unsavory friends who worked on the bug with me are now exploiting it. UPDATEs, FASTER. Linux wins.
As a motorcyclist that has to contend with car drivers paying insufficient attention to the road on a daily basis, I have to state that the driver should have been penalised much more severely for his actions.
I ride motorcycles too, out on the open road though, never in traffic... Punishing the absent minded drivers won't mean a damn thing when you finally win the Darwin award.
What ads? As a way of thanking me for my existence, I am eligible to enable ad-blocking software.
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
How else are you going to find out what's in your kitchen that could be killing you?!
If GM food is awesome, then why aren't they proud enough to slap a big 'ol label on it and say so? I mean, I buy "Sugar Free" and "Fat Free" stuff, they're proud of that... "New and Improved" has been the promotional battle cry since marketing began... So, what's so bad about informing the consumers? Consumers should have the choice: Some people might prefer it regardless of any real or perceived benefit or harm. Eg: I buy cage free eggs not because of better living conditions for birds, but because of the taste -- Tastes like Freedom! It's not like all the other eggs say: Unborn Chicken Slaves...
The point is: without a label, how can I exercise consumer choice? Put it another way: If the corn has DNA pesticide enough such that I don't have to fight off Texas sized mosquito swarms anymore, then I might just ONLY eat Deep Woods OFF(tm) brand Gene Boosted food.
As, both require an infinite amount of energy.... Just like the damn Bessel Beam.
So my comment earlier today about using a tractor beam to haul in the SpaceX Dragon not so stupid after all!
Not so fast there bub: "Bessel beams are impossible to create, as they would require an infinite amount of energy"
We know the Universe doesn't contain that amount of energy...
Maybe men that don't interact well with women are the result of NOT spending any time learning about women. If they did then they would learn that porn is usually geared towards what men want sexual interaction to look like, NOT what women want it to look like.
We found my neighbor's dad's porn collection when I was a teen... It made me MORE curious about "women".
My first GF was sexually active a few years before I was, yet she commended me on my knowledge of the female anatomy, and ability to utilise my anatomy effectively; Not least of which, she enjoyed my dexterity (improved through video games and masturbation no doubt), as well as stamina due to mastery of my sex. Also, it's pretty sexist and ignorant if you think that women don't like porn, or that there is no female porn industry. I go to a news stand -- They get romance novels at the super market...
We're all grown up enough to understand those are both idolised examples of totally fictional scenarios. There's really only conjecture either way: I was just as awkward around girls before and after the porn and games.
Here's a good one: Women joke about men who don't last as long as they'd like -- Yet many desensitise themselves via masturbation and vibrators... Additionally, NOT masturbating regularly will cause the man to climax MUCH sooner during intercourse -- Unless the female can keep up with the male's sex drive (either are fairly variable). So, you see... the whole argument is just dumb.
"tractor beam", yeah, no. You can push stuff with a beam fairly simply... pulling is just ridiculous. The only switchable macro scale pulling forces that we can create are EM fields... not beams. EM fields can bend light, or tug on objects -- or repel objects if you use eddy currents -- you know, like what the aluminum can recycling systems use. Photon beams can push things too.
You keep on with your "tractor beams", as us Romulans just laugh: "Look at the apes trying to push a rope!"
I will be mourning the death of publicly-funded space travel. Now, we hand it over to the pirates, slave-traders and privateers of our own era.
Uhm... I think you got that wrong. If anything it's the death of "publicly-unfunded" space travel... Because your precious PUBLIC funding is instead funnelling trillions into fighting unwinnable wars on intangible ideas, and trying to spend as little as they can get away with on space travel. It costs more to air-condition our troops than NASA's whole budget. Every time I hear about NASA funding being cut back, or some congress critters mandating purchasing & building around dated rocket tech to keep their lobbyist friends' business afloat I died a little. Now there seems to be a light flickering on at the end of the tunnel.
OPTIONS are good, people. It's not the death of anything in all actuality. NASA's not decommissioned, it's not like they've even stopped rocket research; It's just that we have MORE OPTIONS other than a bureaucracy driven platform held back by the opinions of the ignorant masses...
My democratic friends tell me Romney wants to assassinate poor people
My Tea Party friends tell me the politically correct form would be "double-butt-inate the financially challenged"... Yep, I'm a bit old to be serving imaginary beverages.
Can we get it translated from the original Japanese to English by a person who speaks both languages fluently?
Well, I don't have time to do the whole thing, but here's the gist: </moz-synch-lips> "Oh no Sun-Zilla!"
Or maybe because even most scientists (actual scientists, not armchair commentators on slashdot) can't find an actual utilitarian reason to build a moon base other than juvenile delight at living out their sci-fi fantasies?
You sound like a dinosaur to me... You know, the kind of ignorant fool who scurries about, oblivious to the Universe at large, worrying over utterly inconsequential crap while there's a huge asteroid headed for Earth about to make them extinct. Make no bones about it, one is headed this way right now. EVERY scientist will tell you that it's just a mater of time. What if we got out to the asteroid belt, captured us a few and had them orbiting the moon for quick dispatch. Meanwhile we mine them, not because it's oh so much cheaper to ferry them back to Earth, but because the raw materials aren't trapped in the bottom of a gravity well and it's cheaper to build shit in space.
The moon is just the first foothold, there's a whole solar system full of resources to utilise and SPACE to EXPAND since we hate the idea of state regulated birth control... Thirsty? Hell, Ceres is about 1/3rd the asteroid belt, and is probably full of water we can use. There's probably other BIG things floating about we have no clue of. You're either really clueless, or just chauvinistic because you're not extinct yet.
EG:
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year.
Now look here, you short sighted, ignorant twit: You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Get your damn priorities straight. If getting off this rock isn't priority #1 then you're just burring your head in the sand, and ignoring the fossil records found therein. We've got a CHANCE to dominate our corner of the Universe, and prosper wildly beyond your puny minded dreams, you're saying: Nope, I vote for certain death at an uncertain time. FUCK YOU MAN, that's NOT how any rational being should think. Just off yourself now, you're hindering the herd.
And yet the economy continues and Apple is the wealthiest company in the world. People complain that the patent act stifles innovation or makes it so unprofitable to innovate that no one does it, but they have no evidence for this other than gut feelings, and it's contraindicated by the incredible innovations being made right now. If Google is to be believed, we'll have wearable heads-up displays by the end of the year. I mean, come on - that's freakin' science fiction right there.
Sooo... You admit that the people saying that patents stifle innovation have no evidence for their claims? Then you must also realise WHY we have no evidence, and only gut feelings. How do you like these apples:
And yet the human race and its society prospered, became the wealthiest species on the planet. People say that the having patents spurns innovation or makes it innovation worth investing in, but they have no evidence for this other than gut feelings, and it's contraindicated by the incredible innovations that put the human race at the top of the food chain without said patents!
You talk about science advancement and yet you use the LEAST of scientific arguments. If you're so damned sure that patents are helping us innovate then what would be wrong with ACTUALLY TESTING YOUR DAMN HYPOTHESIS? We don't have evidence either way because we've never actually done the experiment to find out. It's not as if we can't re-institute whatever crap laws we want. Let's GROW UP, and use the scientific method to determine if patents are harmful or helpful. Know what? The only way to collect the data we need is to ABOLISH PATENTS, at least for a while, and see WTF happens. Your arguments are RETARDING.
The 'file' will only be as good as the records management system used to maintain, store and secure such records. Given how poor most large scale record systems are, I would still expect identity theft to be rife, just harder to restore.
Not to mention that the barcode or chip will only be as reliable as the person it's implanted or imprinted on... It's a STUPID idea that lacks ANY credibility from a security standpoint. Eg: Say I kill you. What's to keep my government from duplicating your barcode stealing your chip and, after a bit of plastic surgery, letting me take your identity. Lookit me! I'm the ultimate spy! This is just dumb. It's an invasion of privacy that doesn't even achieve it's goals...
Expect them to mandate this everywhere, regardless.
Now if they could just fix their crap software. All my XP machines at home are stuck in update loops for 3 updates.
lol @ you expecting Microsoft to address software issues in a decade-old operating system. Also, lol @ you for having more than one XP machine (or at this point, more than zero) at home.
To be fair, my relative's brand new Toshiba notebook w/ Win7 has such update error loop problems. User error? Nope, I restored to factory default and did nothing but update, several fail, then it goes into an update loop. I thought it was due to OEM crapware, so after haggling on the phone with support about giving us a clean OS (which they couldn't do), we bought a very expensive version of Win7 (Note: we already have a license w/ the PC purchase). Fresh install, same issue. After a certain update it just gets stuck in a cycle. The PC is usable if we turn off the updates, or ignore that the OS isn't getting patched...
Furthermore, after the install, the OS already had the majority of the updates and was fully up to date in about 10min of updates (no reboot), unlike with Windows which took several hours and multiple reboots before it even failed to patch.
lol @ BSA members wondering why people pirate their shite software -- It's not really worth the asking price.
lol @ me replying to AC -- Meh, my code's compiling...
Anybody who isn't on welfare switched to OS X years ago.
Yep, even my blind aunt agrees. She thinks it's sad Apple ran out of cat names, and that Swahili was an odd choice, but "Ubuntu" is her new favourite OS.
I've seen churchgoers watch porn on tablets in the back row, during the service.
Pah, that's nothing. Try jerking off in the confessional for even faster absolution.
For better or worse, Btrfs is largely developed by Oracle employees so they do own part of it. Oracle could simply stop paying people to develop it but they can't take it away from Linux. Both ZFS and and Btrfs are available under Free and Open Source licenses...
You fail to realise, FOSS licensing means nothing to Oracle and lawsuits are expensive. Let's test your logic with this real world example:
For better or worse, Java was largely developed by Sun (now owned by Oracle), so they do own part of it. Oracle could simply stop paying people to develop Java but they can't take it away from Anyone. Java is available under Free and Open Source licenses.
Oracle is suing Google over the Java APIs they're using in Android, as well as a few bogus patents (that never should have been granted) on compile and linking optimisations -- Not the implementation. Despite the previous promises that Java would always be free and competing implementations were welcomed (Only stipulation: To call it "Java" you have to pay for a license and pass their test suit).
Harmony, Bouncy Castle, GNU classpath, my own experimental VM w/ optional Java Compiler -- All of those could face the same exact situation that Google is in over Android with Oracle. Many people, myself included, would have NEVER learned and contributed to the Java language if we thought Java's owners would act in such ways. I'll die in a fire before I use Java, BTRFS, or anything Oracle makes for anything mission critical.
Now, if your viewpoint is to remain valid, then burden is on you to prove that Oracle won't do the same crap over any of the other FOSS projects that it owns, like BTRFS.
How can they differentiate between them?
Uhm, they just err quite safely on the side of caution and flag everyone male.
Not being sexist, just that I've never seen a female geek out over network hardware: Fancisco
Sorry, i didn't understand your example. Can you use a car analogy? Thanks.
Let's say you did something the mechanic didn't like, say you had a different mechanic work on your car. The next time he changes your oil, he adds a special oil plug that only he has the tool to remove. Sometime later, you go to change your own oil and you can't, even though you rightfully should be able to so -- That prick is artificially forcing you to come back to him. Now, It COULD have been a mistake, he could have just grabbed the wrong oil plug, but it's highly unlikely attributed to just stupidity -- They had a motive for malice, and had to go out of his way to use a special wrench to install the incorrect plug.
People "jailbreak" their phones, Indeed, we got a DMCA exemption to do so, and it's legal. Apple doesn't like that so they censor the term making it harder to jail break, and the effect is that more people keep using their service instead of going to another app store. Now, it COULD have been a mistake: Apple could have accidentally entered a term in its censor list, but it's highly unlikely attributed to a stupid accident -- They had a motive for malice, the term censored just happens to be the thing that lets you use someone else's service, and they had to go out of their way to make sure censored terms apply to everything, not just apps in their app store which they already screened for offensive terms...
Which would you prefer, being a foot away from a firecracker or a mile away from a nuclear bomb?
What kind of firecracker? I'm going with the nuke since my doctor says I should say away from salt... I should be safe in my bunker a mile underground, where the crackers are unsalted.
What!? That rocket was NO WHERE NEAR ME. Wait, why is everything FROZEN?!
Connection Terminated. Desynch error rate exceeded.
Oh sure we'll just snapshot the whole flippin' gamestate to the clients and do reconciliation -- But that's just wrong.
Error propagation, Non-determinism, etc etc. This is OK for GPU stuff that ONLY draws pixels. Anything that affects gameplay could only be done server side with dumb clients, but not for any real detailed worlds (just ask second life devs) -- Without deterministic client side prediction you need MUCH higher bandwidth and latency of less than 30ms to get equivalent experience. The size of game state in game worlds has been increasing geometrically (in PCs it still grows, consoles hit limits due to ridiculously long cycles and outdated HW), determinism and pseudo randomness helps keep the required synch state bandwith low. Oh, I guess I could use less precise computations for SOME particle effects (non damaging stuff), but you know what? I'M ALREADY DOING THAT.
What's that you say? The errors could be deterministic? Oh really... well, then what the hell is the point? Why not just use SMALLER NUMBERS and let the PROGRAMMER decide what the precision should be. It's like no one's heard of short int or 16bit processors. Give a dedicated path for smaller numbers, and keep us from being penalised when we use them (currently, 16 bit instructions are performed in 32bit or 64bit then trimmed back down). Some GPU stuff already has HALF PRECISION floats. Optimise that path and STFU about fuzzy math, you sound moronic...
Okay. I understand logical statements, but what we need is Hypothesis, Tests, CONTROL GROUPS, etc. The scientific method should be applied.
I want to reduce drug use, and sending all users to prison is the most cost-effective way to achieve that.
Who gives a flying fuck what you think. If we did science this way we'd still be fighting against flat-earthers. TEST RESULTS, or STFU.