I understood the original poster. Though I didn't think he'd said anything worth a response. However some spelling errors are just too "rediculuous" to ignore. So for example, I wouldn't normally comment on your own grammatical error ("the" instead of "that") because it is trivial. Everybody makes mistakes and tolerance is a virtue; but nobody should be expected to have infinite tolerance. I literally cringed when I saw "rediculuous". Nobody should have to read English written that poorly.
Or du I need tu start speeking in foniks tu pruv de point?
It seems to me that $150,000 per song is rediculous, but this number came out of Washington, not out of the RIAA. In our increasingly litigatious society, the amount of money for punitive and compensatory damages is rediculuous
It's ridiculous. You're not trying to complain about the rosy colour of the litigation. For god's sake people, if you failed English in high school then at least use a spell checker. We haven't yet devolved to the point where we need Hooked On Phonics for written language. Or have we?
Yeah, now you're just being condescending. I think you'd be "wise to heed" my own suggestion when I tell you to button it.
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Sigh.
You don't get it.
You're right. I don't get why you whiners think you can boss the programmers around. Apparently you think the coders are just stupid idiots who need to be told what to write.
And, if that's not enough of a contribution for you, then I don't know what to say.
Contributions don't give you the right to boss people around, either. I don't see Linus telling David what to write. He isn't that arrogant. Seems only the non-coders can be that arrogant.
Microsoft will mount a combined legal/technical attack on Linux
Some people think that the "success of Linux" pales into insignificance compared to the "fun of Linux". You bossy backseat drivers seem intent on making Linux un-fun to win your "war". Go away.
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Linux needs:
"Linux needs... Linux needs... Linux needs". Every man and his dog seems to know what "Linux needs". Talk is cheap. Put up or shut up. Code matters. Opinions don't.
What "Linux needs" is to keep doing what it's doing and ignore all the backseat drivers telling everybody what "Linux needs".
... even tho its a tiny percentage, its fairly common.
I've no gripe with what you said when you admit it's only a tiny percentage. I only had a problem when you claimed it was "lots of people". I think, and you agree, that it's a small number of people who are unfortunately very vocal.
Would you use BSD over something better like Linux? Is it just to be different or something?
For some people, unfortunately, yes. There are some rare individuals who say "I use FreeBSD instead of Linux therefore I am better than you". These same people would have at one point said "I use Linux instead of Windows therefore I am better than you". These people can be safely ignored.
I don't buy that argument. Motors convert electrical energy to kinetic energy. Where does the electrical energy come from? Typically a heat engine and generator.
Several things to think about here:
(1) the efficiency of an EV charged by an oil burning power plant - even considering the transmission and storage losses - is still better than the efficiency of a car engine.
(2) non-typical energy sources do exist and are more predominant - even in the USA - than you might think. But the only way your car will ever use those sources is if you drive an EV instead of ICE.
(3) the efficiency of a chain is no better than the efficiency of the weakest link. The engine needs to be replaced if the overall efficiency is ever to be improved.
(4) the ICE has been tweaked and tuned for 150 years. It has reached "perfection". The EV is a relatively immature technology. It has more growth potential. Sometimes you need to realise that your current technology has no further potential and then - painfully - you have to replace it.
60% * x% * 90% is less than 60%.
Studies into end-to-end efficiencies of EV vs ICE are available. The EV gets 28%. The ICE gets 14%. That's with today's technology; even with the gross inefficiencies of electricity distribution and storage. Tomorrow's technology - including alternate energy sources - will aid the EV more than the ICE. The energy efficiency of the EV is proven and will get better. The ICE is a dead-end in all senses of the word.
True, heat engines will never get better than 60%. However motors already get the high 90 percent efficiencies. This is yet another reason why cars should move away from engines.
Hmm... yes, the font rendering in X might be good. But what the Linux world really is missing is a centralized, standard font system for all applications. I can certainly enjoy nice on-screen fonts. But try writing a document using the app of your choice, and then printing it. OpenOffice is on the right way (at least it manages to use TrueType fonts to print correct PostScript documents).
It's a mistake to think that there's a centralised standard font system on the other platforms. Windows and MacOS both offer at least two competely unrelated font systems: bitmap fonts and TrueType fonts. It gets worse once you delve into applications. Macintosh print shops use Type 1 fonts (Postscript) and you need to load the Adobe PS extension to use those fonts onscreen. CorelDRAW used to ship with their own vector fonts (Type 1 again?) and at the time they only worked inside CorelDRAW. AutoCAD still ships with its own font renderer on Windows (.FNT format?). And several applications I'm exposed to on Windows will only use.FON fonts; the font dialogs don't even offer the TrueType fonts.
The reality is that the other platforms are just as complicated as Linux/XFree86 w.r.t fonts. You've just been lucky because the application vendors have a lot of money and they've put a lot
of effort into making everything "just work".
The other platforms and appications have also had a good 10 year headstart on Linux. You're complaining about the state of Linux Right Now. But I remember MS-DOS. I remember Windows 3.0. I remember that it wasn't all peaches and cream back then. I remember 4 competing widget sets with Windows 95 (Borland OWL, Win16, Win32, MFC) and none of them cooperated properly. Even cut and paste was a disaster back then.
So I guess my point is that Linux is better now than Windows was back then. Ok, sure, that's 8 years ago and it's not fair to compare Windows 8 years ago with Linux now. My point is not to denigrate Windows from 8 years ago; my point is that Linux is moving forwards. You don't go from zero to finished overnight. Linux started from way behind and is catching up nicely. Fonts right now are better than they were yesterday. Tomorrow they will be better again. In a short while I'm sure fonts on Linux will be on par with or better than the rest; because everything in Linux seems to work like that. Linux doesn't need to please you or me or "Joe Average". Linux gets better despite us. It doesn't need marketshare. It doesn't need to win a popularity contest. It will get better because people like to improve it. And Linux will win the "OS battle" precisely for that reason.
Yes! That's the ending I understood as well. My additional take on the matter is that the mother they brought back was not human. She was a robot specificially built to make David happy. Possibly a biological robot, but a robot nonetheless. Her personality was completely different; instead of being uncomfortable and frightened around David she was loving and caring. Even when the real mother showed some affection towards David - for instance, she cried when she abandoned him - there were clear signs that she wasn't comfortable. The super-robots invented a false environment and a false mother to let David "die" happily. A truly wonderful (and tragic) ending.
But the thing that really made me want to get out of my seat and yell "WTF!" to the screen was the "HEY, DON'T FORGET IT'S A SPEILBERG MOVIE" ending. What the hell was that? Talk about a strap-on. If the movie had just ended with HJO transfixed on the blue fairy until his Energizers ran out I would have been perfectly content.
Noooo, that's the obvious ending. I think the actual ending was much better. The boy robot becomes human by showing greed; his own happiness is valued over the welfare of his foster mother. On top of that, the real mother was scared of him and uncomfortable around him. The fake mother he brought back was completely unlike her real-life persona. The irony of the fake boy falling in love with a fake mother was a great ending.
That claim is silly and bogus. "Up to five times faster".
I tell them what. I have a text file with 1,048,576 bytes of rather random ASCII data in it. Compressed with zip it is actually larger than that size, indicating it is rather random.
Okay, that file on represents 8,388,608 bits. On a perfect 56k connection - thats 56 kilobits, maning 57,344 bits per second, that should download in about 146 seconds, or just over two minutes.
That's the baseline. In actual real world circumstances that 1MB text file takes between 4-5 minutes to transfer with a 56k connection to Earthlink. In most cases people do not even connect at true 56k, but rather, something between 33.6k and 56k.
Regardless, to support these claims they'd have to show me that same file transferred in ~30 seconds.
What absolute illogical nonsense on your part. They claim up to 5x faster. You provide a single example where it won't go any faster. That is like my car - which claims to go up to 180kph - so I drive it around town at 60kph and deduce that the 180kph claim is false. Illogical. Nonsense.
Getting up to 5x faster is possible, doable, and pretty much every Linux geek already does it. Install a proxy. Use heavy caching. Use persistent connections. Use mod_gzip. On HTML I can and do get 5x faster transfers. On MP3s there won't be any speedup (probably a latency increase if anything) but their website already says that.
They never claimed 5x speedup on everything. Only up to 5x speedup. They are right. You are wrong.
Try putting "global warming myth" into Google - and then revise your opinion on whether the "ENTIRE" scientific community thinks it's caused by humans or not.
Duh, what a stupid experiment. But I'll play along.
I put "global warming myth" into Google and got 30,700 hits.
I put "global warming fact" into Google and got 351,000 hits.
So by using the experiment you suggested, I conclude that the majority of the scientific community does believe that global warming is a fact.
Regarding "majority" and scientific research grants. Read up on the subject.
Ha ha, it's another creationist tactic. Don't provide references; just casually wave at a library and say "the proof is in there if you would care to find it". This is amusing.
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Pfft, obviously you're new to this whole Internet thing. Spelling flames are older than you are.
I understood the original poster. Though I didn't think he'd said anything worth a response. However some spelling errors are just too "rediculuous" to ignore. So for example, I wouldn't normally comment on your own grammatical error ("the" instead of "that") because it is trivial. Everybody makes mistakes and tolerance is a virtue; but nobody should be expected to have infinite tolerance. I literally cringed when I saw "rediculuous". Nobody should have to read English written that poorly.
Or du I need tu start speeking in foniks tu pruv de point?
It's ridiculous. You're not trying to complain about the rosy colour of the litigation. For god's sake people, if you failed English in high school then at least use a spell checker. We haven't yet devolved to the point where we need Hooked On Phonics for written language. Or have we?
Yeah, now you're just being condescending. I think you'd be "wise to heed" my own suggestion when I tell you to button it.
You're right. I don't get why you whiners think you can boss the programmers around. Apparently you think the coders are just stupid idiots who need to be told what to write.
Contributions don't give you the right to boss people around, either. I don't see Linus telling David what to write. He isn't that arrogant. Seems only the non-coders can be that arrogant.
Some people think that the "success of Linux" pales into insignificance compared to the "fun of Linux". You bossy backseat drivers seem intent on making Linux un-fun to win your "war". Go away.
"Linux needs... Linux needs... Linux needs". Every man and his dog seems to know what "Linux needs". Talk is cheap. Put up or shut up. Code matters. Opinions don't.
What "Linux needs" is to keep doing what it's doing and ignore all the backseat drivers telling everybody what "Linux needs".
Groan...
Pfft, everybody knows the first message was...
WASSSUUPPPPPPP!!!
The secretary doesn't setup the Windows clusters or the IBM mainframe either, you fucking idiot.
There's a difference between a single employee of a large company and the official position from Sun.
JWZ rants about everything. About all you can prove with a link to JWZ.org is that you've found someone with an opinion on everything.
Maybe Microsoft shouldn't have signed a contract that they had no intention of honouring.
Hahahaha... that one freaked me out. My hat's off to the CPAN mob :-)
I've no gripe with what you said when you admit it's only a tiny percentage. I only had a problem when you claimed it was "lots of people". I think, and you agree, that it's a small number of people who are unfortunately very vocal.
Actually I said;
I don't know how you managed to jump from "rare" to "main".
And I never said that. Perhaps you hit the reply button to the wrong person?
Where are these "lots of people" because I sure as heck can't find them. Even RMS advocates making money from GPLd software. No knee jerks in sight.
For some people, unfortunately, yes. There are some rare individuals who say "I use FreeBSD instead of Linux therefore I am better than you". These same people would have at one point said "I use Linux instead of Windows therefore I am better than you". These people can be safely ignored.
Short answer? No.
Long answer? No.
Several things to think about here:
(1) the efficiency of an EV charged by an oil burning power plant - even considering the transmission and storage losses - is still better than the efficiency of a car engine.
(2) non-typical energy sources do exist and are more predominant - even in the USA - than you might think. But the only way your car will ever use those sources is if you drive an EV instead of ICE.
(3) the efficiency of a chain is no better than the efficiency of the weakest link. The engine needs to be replaced if the overall efficiency is ever to be improved.
(4) the ICE has been tweaked and tuned for 150 years. It has reached "perfection". The EV is a relatively immature technology. It has more growth potential. Sometimes you need to realise that your current technology has no further potential and then - painfully - you have to replace it.
Studies into end-to-end efficiencies of EV vs ICE are available. The EV gets 28%. The ICE gets 14%. That's with today's technology; even with the gross inefficiencies of electricity distribution and storage. Tomorrow's technology - including alternate energy sources - will aid the EV more than the ICE. The energy efficiency of the EV is proven and will get better. The ICE is a dead-end in all senses of the word.
True, heat engines will never get better than 60%. However motors already get the high 90 percent efficiencies. This is yet another reason why cars should move away from engines.
It's a mistake to think that there's a centralised standard font system on the other platforms. Windows and MacOS both offer at least two competely unrelated font systems: bitmap fonts and TrueType fonts. It gets worse once you delve into applications. Macintosh print shops use Type 1 fonts (Postscript) and you need to load the Adobe PS extension to use those fonts onscreen. CorelDRAW used to ship with their own vector fonts (Type 1 again?) and at the time they only worked inside CorelDRAW. AutoCAD still ships with its own font renderer on Windows (.FNT format?). And several applications I'm exposed to on Windows will only use .FON fonts; the font dialogs don't even offer the TrueType fonts.
The reality is that the other platforms are just as complicated as Linux/XFree86 w.r.t fonts. You've just been lucky because the application vendors have a lot of money and they've put a lot of effort into making everything "just work".
The other platforms and appications have also had a good 10 year headstart on Linux. You're complaining about the state of Linux Right Now. But I remember MS-DOS. I remember Windows 3.0. I remember that it wasn't all peaches and cream back then. I remember 4 competing widget sets with Windows 95 (Borland OWL, Win16, Win32, MFC) and none of them cooperated properly. Even cut and paste was a disaster back then.
So I guess my point is that Linux is better now than Windows was back then. Ok, sure, that's 8 years ago and it's not fair to compare Windows 8 years ago with Linux now. My point is not to denigrate Windows from 8 years ago; my point is that Linux is moving forwards. You don't go from zero to finished overnight. Linux started from way behind and is catching up nicely. Fonts right now are better than they were yesterday. Tomorrow they will be better again. In a short while I'm sure fonts on Linux will be on par with or better than the rest; because everything in Linux seems to work like that. Linux doesn't need to please you or me or "Joe Average". Linux gets better despite us. It doesn't need marketshare. It doesn't need to win a popularity contest. It will get better because people like to improve it. And Linux will win the "OS battle" precisely for that reason.
Yes! That's the ending I understood as well. My additional take on the matter is that the mother they brought back was not human. She was a robot specificially built to make David happy. Possibly a biological robot, but a robot nonetheless. Her personality was completely different; instead of being uncomfortable and frightened around David she was loving and caring. Even when the real mother showed some affection towards David - for instance, she cried when she abandoned him - there were clear signs that she wasn't comfortable. The super-robots invented a false environment and a false mother to let David "die" happily. A truly wonderful (and tragic) ending.
Noooo, that's the obvious ending. I think the actual ending was much better. The boy robot becomes human by showing greed; his own happiness is valued over the welfare of his foster mother. On top of that, the real mother was scared of him and uncomfortable around him. The fake mother he brought back was completely unlike her real-life persona. The irony of the fake boy falling in love with a fake mother was a great ending.
What absolute illogical nonsense on your part. They claim up to 5x faster. You provide a single example where it won't go any faster. That is like my car - which claims to go up to 180kph - so I drive it around town at 60kph and deduce that the 180kph claim is false. Illogical. Nonsense.
Getting up to 5x faster is possible, doable, and pretty much every Linux geek already does it. Install a proxy. Use heavy caching. Use persistent connections. Use mod_gzip. On HTML I can and do get 5x faster transfers. On MP3s there won't be any speedup (probably a latency increase if anything) but their website already says that.
They never claimed 5x speedup on everything. Only up to 5x speedup. They are right. You are wrong.
Bugs Bunny is the most popular cartoon in the world, watched by all ages. "Growed ups" have no problem with watching cartoons.
Duh, what a stupid experiment. But I'll play along.
I put "global warming myth" into Google and got 30,700 hits.
I put "global warming fact" into Google and got 351,000 hits.
So by using the experiment you suggested, I conclude that the majority of the scientific community does believe that global warming is a fact.
Ha ha, it's another creationist tactic. Don't provide references; just casually wave at a library and say "the proof is in there if you would care to find it". This is amusing.