Which is a fundamental weakness of OSS. Can it be overcome? Certainly. Does that mean CS is better? No. But let's open our eyes and look at the elephant and get on with things, shall we?
Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!
Can and will are two different things. Given the common OSS attitude of "you haven't read the docs, fuck you", I can't see ease of use being a priority very soon, except in certain niches.
bad enough that I don't use it any longer. Not particularly legible. It's my emergency never-use-it backup in case both other monitors in the house go completely black. Which is stupid, since one is brand new and the other is work supplied and easily replaced in a few minutes trip to the office. Maybe I was fooling myself that it would be more portable since it's smaller, but the bottom line is, it's going to Office Depot soon unless you live in Chicago and still want it.
the reason is surprising: Overloaded tubes behave better.
Where has the poster been? This argument has been used to defend the superiority of analog equipment from tape to tubes for ages. Hardcore high-end analog folks out there use this argument repeatedly. The main thrust of the argument is that overloading is inevitable, and the relatively graceful rolloff of analog devices/media is always going to sound better than a hard transistor clip.
Personally, I couldn't care less; I prefer the clarity of my recordings not buried in high-end tape hiss or distorted in novel but proprietary ways to try to work around it. And while you can have quality tubes that don't hum, I just can't hear enough difference to justify that much difference in price....
You're going to experience what most people accept as "reality" for all of the period of your life that you spend not under the influence of psychedelic drugs. It's the default state of the organism.
The thing is drugs like LSD make you realize that this EXACT point is false.
Exactly. Not only that, but the argument that the grandparent poster is making has another dimension of incorrectness as well: drugs are not the only means to alter your consciousness or your experience of what "reality" is. Throughout human history there are ample examples of people putting themselves into extreme situations, sometimes with drugs, sometimes through "aceticism" aka deprivation, sometimes through meditation (a la India's yogis), and using the insights gained from stepping outside their "normal" realities to inform them when they returned to normal reality.
Default state doesn't mean that other states are worthless.
You don't. They're shorthand for Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved and Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved, being much shorter to type than the amine names.
I support customers of my company who are going to run versions of linux that the CUSTOMER chooses. If we say "only SuSE", we lose the US. If we say "only Red Hat" we lose Europe. This is not for OUR use so there is no way to "set a standard" without cutting of substantial marketshare. If I were an internal support person, I'd agree with you, but that's not the situation.
Ah. Yeah. One flavor called "windows". 'Cos "stick to one flavor" kinda negates all that bs about Linux variations being a strength.
For the record, I do computer support, and my company is starting to get into Linux, so one flavor of Linux isn't really an option--I need to know RedHat and SuSE at a minimum, and I use KnoppMyth at home, so that makes three and not much "choise" about the matter of sticking to one.
Are you saying an admin user doesn't have full access to the windows registry? Of course they do! And it's so easy to just... wait.
Of course, winding my way through half a dozen different Ways To Do It [tm] trying to find the one that works on THIS flavor of Linux as opposed to the last one I used isn't much better.
I want to see the numbers that prove the "high performance". This is a hard problem, and many others have tried to solve it, with pretty mixed results. I'm very skeptical that a newcomer to the project has solved it, but I'm willing to be convinced. But marketing speak claiming high performance is not convincing.
That's why I'm one of those 429,000. Yes, I got their number from caller ID, reverse lookup got me their name (they called from the business itself, not a third party telemarketer), which triggered my memory of the name they said at the start of the call, and I submitted a complaint. After wandering through a bunch of badly linked Federal websites to finally find the complaint form. I believe they fixed that problem a couple weeks later from what I'd heard.
Yep. Pretty good numbers. I'm one of those 429,000; I had one idiotic company try to call me and claim that the courts and stopped enforcement. Of course that was a few days after congress turned it back on, and as soon as I pointed that out and asked again for their company name they hung up. I love caller ID...
But that's the only one who's called me so far in violation. I've gotten a couple of charity calls, and I generally give them hell too, but they aren't bound to follow the list so there ya go.
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Which is a fundamental weakness of OSS. Can it be overcome? Certainly. Does that mean CS is better? No. But let's open our eyes and look at the elephant and get on with things, shall we?
Can and will are two different things. Given the common OSS attitude of "you haven't read the docs, fuck you", I can't see ease of use being a priority very soon, except in certain niches.
Absolutely addicting. No thanks to Nez.
bad enough that I don't use it any longer. Not particularly legible. It's my emergency never-use-it backup in case both other monitors in the house go completely black. Which is stupid, since one is brand new and the other is work supplied and easily replaced in a few minutes trip to the office. Maybe I was fooling myself that it would be more portable since it's smaller, but the bottom line is, it's going to Office Depot soon unless you live in Chicago and still want it.
Nobody on eBay is going to buy my antique 15" monitor with almost no focus.
You really ahve to wonder what he thinks of Japanese manga culture in his heart of hearts. I'd hardly call the Japanese "dumbed-down culture".
Where has the poster been? This argument has been used to defend the superiority of analog equipment from tape to tubes for ages. Hardcore high-end analog folks out there use this argument repeatedly. The main thrust of the argument is that overloading is inevitable, and the relatively graceful rolloff of analog devices/media is always going to sound better than a hard transistor clip.
Personally, I couldn't care less; I prefer the clarity of my recordings not buried in high-end tape hiss or distorted in novel but proprietary ways to try to work around it. And while you can have quality tubes that don't hum, I just can't hear enough difference to justify that much difference in price....
And it's implemented.
The thing is drugs like LSD make you realize that this EXACT point is false.
Exactly. Not only that, but the argument that the grandparent poster is making has another dimension of incorrectness as well: drugs are not the only means to alter your consciousness or your experience of what "reality" is. Throughout human history there are ample examples of people putting themselves into extreme situations, sometimes with drugs, sometimes through "aceticism" aka deprivation, sometimes through meditation (a la India's yogis), and using the insights gained from stepping outside their "normal" realities to inform them when they returned to normal reality.
Default state doesn't mean that other states are worthless.
You don't. They're shorthand for Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved and Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved, being much shorter to type than the amine names.
I support customers of my company who are going to run versions of linux that the CUSTOMER chooses. If we say "only SuSE", we lose the US. If we say "only Red Hat" we lose Europe. This is not for OUR use so there is no way to "set a standard" without cutting of substantial marketshare. If I were an internal support person, I'd agree with you, but that's not the situation.
For the record, I do computer support, and my company is starting to get into Linux, so one flavor of Linux isn't really an option--I need to know RedHat and SuSE at a minimum, and I use KnoppMyth at home, so that makes three and not much "choise" about the matter of sticking to one.
Of course, winding my way through half a dozen different Ways To Do It [tm] trying to find the one that works on THIS flavor of Linux as opposed to the last one I used isn't much better.
Fair enough. Still: show me the numbers.
I want to see the numbers that prove the "high performance". This is a hard problem, and many others have tried to solve it, with pretty mixed results. I'm very skeptical that a newcomer to the project has solved it, but I'm willing to be convinced. But marketing speak claiming high performance is not convincing.
That's why I'm one of those 429,000. Yes, I got their number from caller ID, reverse lookup got me their name (they called from the business itself, not a third party telemarketer), which triggered my memory of the name they said at the start of the call, and I submitted a complaint. After wandering through a bunch of badly linked Federal websites to finally find the complaint form. I believe they fixed that problem a couple weeks later from what I'd heard.
But that's the only one who's called me so far in violation. I've gotten a couple of charity calls, and I generally give them hell too, but they aren't bound to follow the list so there ya go.
At least I'm not missing my "y" and "o" keys.
You forgot eBasic--free form, line numbers only needed for GOTO targets, I believe it was a Navy variant.
Big Wanking Machine?
It should be obvious that it's not worth it.
Good point. A buddy of mine I sent the story too also noted that in an accident, an E450 would be a real liability bouncing around inside your SUV....
Not that they'd likely work on any rough surfaces, but maybe he doesn't offroad much?
See, that wasn't hard.
You should look into telco equipment then, I understand they do a lot of stuff with 48VDC.