Seriously, in the first 18 posts I at least 5 times read the above expression with some profound comment like "..and you suck".
Yea, correlation != causation. I know that, but that does not bring me more insight.
The story was not that bad either. They had a set of similar people and they showed differences in death rates depending on their boredom. + We know how boring boredom can be, and considering the complex interaction of mood with health (and don't say there is none), it is very likely that there is a correlation.
The study fails to convince us, so instead of moaning about it, how about trying to get some other resources, other clues? Or just leaving it as open question?
I have to agree. I'm open for 4-5 years of long term support for server OS's and very stable versions, but 9 years is just ridiculous.. well, would be normally, but there was not much option after XP for a long while and then came Vista.. go figure.
They are a bit confusing. The manual ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/downloads/Manual/storage/Multi-HDDBOOST-Manual.pdf ) though says, that the HDD has to be de-fragmented before usage. They don't mention other software, though they mention Windows here and there. The manual states though, that any OS supporting SATA will do.
(It's a Windows pussy thing again, you can freely ignore it).
That's one thing. The other is, it's a lot easier to sell a simple console then a phone or extension of it. To sell a phone, you need a lot of domain knowledge that can only be accumulated through many years of R&D and market expertise. People are very pushy in that market, so you also need a bunch of patents to push them back.
Nokia would have a reasonable chance as they did a lot of development recently and could easily put together a gaming platform (hard and software). They have another problem though: they don't have much reputation in the gaming community (as they would be pretty much newcomers) and they don't have the games.
It's very likely that many of these functions merge into one device, but a lot of development and market cock-fighting has to be done before that happens.
I hope I don't have to mention that it also costs a metric shitload of money.
Distillation only removes sediments (mostly). You don't get rid of evaporating chemicals that easy, you'd actually have to use refining distillation combined with reverse osmosis filtering to get clean water. And that gets slow and expensive fast.
I really pity the first person who gets fusion to work for energy:
"Hey Bob, fusion energy here." "Yea Benny, I know, in ten years. I know that one.." "No, here, just made it work. See: fusion here in my ignition facility. Energy output meter shows lot's of power. I made it!!" "You actually realize that you effectively destroyed a years old meme in the Internet? FUCK YOU!" "..."
*The demonstration was performed at product-level tape speeds (2 meters per second) and achieved error rates that are correctable using standard error-correction techniques to meet IBM's performance specification for its LTO Generation 4 products.
**Note that this calculation assumes a roughly 12% increase in tape length due to the reduced medium thickness.
***Note that this has been rounded up from 43.75 times
Another Dvorak typist here. Use it since a few years. Was touch typing QUERTY before, but long forget that one. Never regretted my decision, definitely an improvement. Besides it's obvious advantages, it's also useful to keep other people off your systems and keep an aura of mystery.:) And all modern platforms support it, so it's not really a limiting factor, at least not for application developers.
Ps: I don't care what others think, everyone has to make their own decisions. Don't want to convince anyone, just stating what worked out for me.
Something like that for me too. I was dual booting Windows/Linux since around 97, but never got around to completely switch. Then came Windows XP, I read the license and swore never to use that on my home machine. I still stayed with Windows 2000 up until around 3 years ago, but then ditched the products of that whole company. Definitely an improvement. I have to thank for the final blow to switch me. Never been happier.:)
Congratulation, you managed to write a multi level wrong post, but let me elaborate a bit on your claims..
Let's start with '..Linux fanbois..': obviously you did not realize, but most folks here are not really 'fanbois'. They just like to work with Linux and are very agitated that they are force to use Windows at one or the other place. That leads to statements that might sound a bit exaggerated, but the environment is forcing many to do this, it's a natural defence mechanism, not fanboism, which has more characteristics of a cult.
'..Linus.. grip.. saves Linux": Linux is a great guy and he moved a lot of things in the OS world, but if he would be miraculously gone, Linux would not loose much of it's traction. It would restructure, but it would not go away, or even slow down for that matter - maybe even gain traction - no one knows for sure. A lot of folks have major interest in that project already (Among them the companies that build every high end computer cluster on this planet. Also some that build the most complex electronics on this planet or do the most known web technologies on the planet.. and many more including a lot of hardware vendors).
'..too many sub-specialized distributions.': Linux is about freedom. Freedom to do whatever the developers want, and they want many different things. There are good mainstream distros, good live and forensic distros, good learning and do-it-yourself distros, music and movie editing distros and the heck knows what else. But most of them are very useful to *someone*, and that's why they are developed, and done the way they are. Why should a music enthusiast work on a forensic distro? That's not what freedom is about.
'.. focused..all 3 areas.. more BS..': I assure you, there are much more 'areas', as described in the paragraph above, but leaving that aside, why on earth would it be good to completely unify the whole platform and make it a crufty beast that can do a lot of things bad and nothing really good?? Why would it be good if Linux/OSS would merge into a monoculture?? It would increase attack surface in both, political and technical sense, rob a lot of freedom, , and make a lot of people very sad pandas. Competition and diversity is good. Open interfaces are the things that matter. To be able to put together the puzzle of components the way you'd like them is power. I personally don't really want to 'Imagine' your proposal. It's a good description of a nightmare.
'..MS would ditch their kernel and slap their OS on top of.. Linux..': Now, which planet are you from again? I mean, most of us are no lawyers, but there is a little difference between BSD license and GNU license. Neither of the mentioned companies would touch GNU licensed software even with a nine meter (long) stick, because they can't claim the result for themselves, and only themselves. It's written that they have to give back to what they have taken from, which fundamentally collides with their philosophy. Anyway, Microsoft is not in the business of making compatible, good software. They are in the business of screwing over everyone by locking them into their platform (preferably without noticing). Most of that is done by marketing and market subverting.
'..would have a better chance to finally shut Apple up..': You really think MSFT is concerned much about Apple? Well, sorry to disappoint you, but they are not. They can categorize Apple and fight with them on similar principles. Sure, Apple is inconvenient some times, but they are not aiming to shut them down. And Apple is probably useful in anti-trust suits '..but we are not the only ones here'. They can't get a grip on Linux though, and they are scared like shit about that. Linux is not something they can stop. It's not going away. It's already much superior for a very large set of tasks.. The only thing they managed is to keep it at some distance from technically low potential folks. They are loosing ground though, which is why they are getting so desperate.
Anyway, you get the most naive Slashdot post of the day award! Gratz!
I thought space exploration was about overcoming new challenges. Maybe it would not be cheep or trivial, but it would yield very valuable space automation engineering / research experience. It would also keep one of the big space land marks in place for some more time.
Isn't de-orbiting the ISS culturally somewhat equivalent to tearing down the statue of freedom because it's too much hassle to paint it?
2500 AD on education space voyage: Here you can see the 3rd ever build space station, a landmark of great importance. The first two would obviously much more interesting, but they were trashed..
You are right, this is the future. Right now we are still struggling with this old concept of sending the data trough the network. It would be much more awesome to stay in front of a screen all the time and occasionally walk to the other computer bringing some data with you. This will absolutely solve the obesity problem. Genius!
Seriously, there is not that much good SciFi coming from the studios, so every time there comes _something_ resembling a very good movie, it gets excellent ROI. Who would have guessed? Seriously, the interval for stuff you ought to watch in the genre is stretching to half a year by now (last was star trek - spring, now avatar, next is Iron Man 2 - spring again).. if competition would be like 10-7 years ago, this numbers would not be achievable.
It's actually a sign of very smart marketing, though I don't like that little detail about it: WE ARE ALL SCREWED!
(sorry, I get a little emotional at times when someone approaches me from behind)..
I just double clicked a *.csv file in my file manager (Ubuntu/Nautilus) and it opened up with OO instantly. Never configured that. Ok, it did not do that with Firefox, but seriously, who downloads csv's from the web regularly (not many people do, which is why it is ok to have that thing set up manually).
OO fired up in like 5 secs for me (without pre-loading), which I consider acceptable. It probably won't break any records, but it works and for a software with it's capabilities that's pretty acceptable. If you try to run it on a very low end device, it'll take some time, but what not?
Resizing all the fields worked for me too. Selected everything, double clicked on the sizer thingy in the top row, everything resized to optimal fit. Dragging that thing made everything uniform with.
No idea what your problem is, but it sure as hell isn't the software.
They probably just confused the currency with the dollar from 10 years ago..
Mocking aside, $300m is really improbable and probably wrongly quoted by someone that had a stressed day and therefore hit one unimportant zero too much.
As for resemblance, it's more like a hybrid of "Sky captain and the world of tomorrow" and the game "Supreme commander".
Your third paragraph is a gem though. Yea, he probably spent months if not years on the CG as hobby project. Also contributions and the basic ability to create such things are not really that easily put on a tab. If you'd try to create that short clip (exactly as it is) in a western society, than you'd be at several thousand (if not tens of thousands).
Guess that's the 'small' margin between inspiration and profit.
p.s. @ Hollywood: I know you screwed over all your writers and they are mad at you, but please try to find someone that creates a decent story for the next SciFi thing.. I get the feeling it's already decades ago..
So, who do you think helps when family / friends / whoever has computer problems?
Yea, it's those geeks. What do you think they will install first when they try to find a solution in the Internet to some technical problem? AdBlocking. Mandatory 10 seconds.
And people like it. They talk about it and others follow.
General demographic is catching up to ad-blocking very fast.
There is some degree of truth in what you say: the monoculture that Microsoft represents is indeed a big problem in respect to attack surface. This is not even a software specific problem, same with crops for example. If you only plant one sort, then the mayhem of a parasite is pretty much absolute. For that reason it is logically very foolish to use such a system. Using a variety of crops/OS's is much saner.
On the other part, you are just plain wrong: the Linux and open source development model is more secure than the binary blob one because a lot more people see the code. Though it is hard to make comparisons with desktop systems, this is evident from comparisons in the server area. For instance, Linux/Apache has a somewhat bigger market-share than Windows/IIS, still, Apache is generally less vulnerable and the havoc is much less severe in case of bugs (compared to some IIS bugs that did a lot of damage).
Also third party blobs pose a big problem, because they basically represent the same monoculture that Microsoft does *cough*adobe flash*cough*. Common protocols and individual, competing implementations make much more technical sense. Sadly, reality is little about logical or technical sense, which is why we are in our current mess.
Though I currently use Ubuntu, I spent a lot of time with Gentoo and some time with LFS and a few other distros. With some additional reading about POSIX and SUSv3, the Linux file system and the most common tools I tend to intuitively solve most problems and generally enjoy working with Linux.
If I'd had started with such a user friendly distribution, then I probably wouldn't have developed this kind of mindset, and wound have an entirely different view on the OS.
None the less, if you have someone to set up your system, then Ubuntu is quite a good choice for non CS/IT people, as it works quite well (without much hassle) once it is set up.
~ my 2 ct.
P.s.: And there are good books about the usage of Linux in book-stores/Amazon, but nobody really wants to read them actually. Google is indeed more comfortable and tends to find more relevant solutions to specific problems.
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Seriously, in the first 18 posts I at least 5 times read the above expression with some profound comment like "..and you suck".
Yea, correlation != causation. I know that, but that does not bring me more insight.
The story was not that bad either. They had a set of similar people and they showed differences in death rates depending on their boredom. + We know how boring boredom can be, and considering the complex interaction of mood with health (and don't say there is none), it is very likely that there is a correlation.
The study fails to convince us, so instead of moaning about it, how about trying to get some other resources, other clues? Or just leaving it as open question?
I have to agree. I'm open for 4-5 years of long term support for server OS's and very stable versions, but 9 years is just ridiculous.. well, would be normally, but there was not much option after XP for a long while and then came Vista.. go figure.
Having a patent on doing evil does not mean you have to use it. That's what market lock-in monopoly is for. Oh, wait.
They are a bit confusing. The manual ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/downloads/Manual/storage/Multi-HDDBOOST-Manual.pdf ) though says, that the HDD has to be de-fragmented before usage. They don't mention other software, though they mention Windows here and there. The manual states though, that any OS supporting SATA will do.
(It's a Windows pussy thing again, you can freely ignore it).
That's one thing. The other is, it's a lot easier to sell a simple console then a phone or extension of it. To sell a phone, you need a lot of domain knowledge that can only be accumulated through many years of R&D and market expertise. People are very pushy in that market, so you also need a bunch of patents to push them back.
Nokia would have a reasonable chance as they did a lot of development recently and could easily put together a gaming platform (hard and software). They have another problem though: they don't have much reputation in the gaming community (as they would be pretty much newcomers) and they don't have the games.
It's very likely that many of these functions merge into one device, but a lot of development and market cock-fighting has to be done before that happens.
I hope I don't have to mention that it also costs a metric shitload of money.
Distillation only removes sediments (mostly). You don't get rid of evaporating chemicals that easy, you'd actually have to use refining distillation combined with reverse osmosis filtering to get clean water. And that gets slow and expensive fast.
I really pity the first person who gets fusion to work for energy:
"Hey Bob, fusion energy here."
"Yea Benny, I know, in ten years. I know that one.."
"No, here, just made it work. See: fusion here in my ignition facility. Energy output meter shows lot's of power. I made it!!"
"You actually realize that you effectively destroyed a years old meme in the Internet? FUCK YOU!"
"..."
2 meters per second * (around 29.5 billion bits per square inch * meter modifier). go, figure..
*The demonstration was performed at product-level tape speeds (2 meters per second) and achieved error rates that are correctable using standard error-correction techniques to meet IBM's performance specification for its LTO Generation 4 products.
**Note that this calculation assumes a roughly 12% increase in tape length due to the reduced medium thickness.
***Note that this has been rounded up from 43.75 times
Another Dvorak typist here. Use it since a few years. Was touch typing QUERTY before, but long forget that one. Never regretted my decision, definitely an improvement. Besides it's obvious advantages, it's also useful to keep other people off your systems and keep an aura of mystery. :) And all modern platforms support it, so it's not really a limiting factor, at least not for application developers.
Ps: I don't care what others think, everyone has to make their own decisions. Don't want to convince anyone, just stating what worked out for me.
Something like that for me too. I was dual booting Windows/Linux since around 97, but never got around to completely switch. Then came Windows XP, I read the license and swore never to use that on my home machine. I still stayed with Windows 2000 up until around 3 years ago, but then ditched the products of that whole company. Definitely an improvement. I have to thank for the final blow to switch me. Never been happier. :)
And don't forget WLAN cables!
Congratulation, you managed to write a multi level wrong post, but let me elaborate a bit on your claims..
Let's start with '..Linux fanbois..': obviously you did not realize, but most folks here are not really 'fanbois'. They just like to work with Linux and are very agitated that they are force to use Windows at one or the other place. That leads to statements that might sound a bit exaggerated, but the environment is forcing many to do this, it's a natural defence mechanism, not fanboism, which has more characteristics of a cult.
'..Linus .. grip .. saves Linux": Linux is a great guy and he moved a lot of things in the OS world, but if he would be miraculously gone, Linux would not loose much of it's traction. It would restructure, but it would not go away, or even slow down for that matter - maybe even gain traction - no one knows for sure. A lot of folks have major interest in that project already (Among them the companies that build every high end computer cluster on this planet. Also some that build the most complex electronics on this planet or do the most known web technologies on the planet.. and many more including a lot of hardware vendors).
'..too many sub-specialized distributions.': Linux is about freedom. Freedom to do whatever the developers want, and they want many different things. There are good mainstream distros, good live and forensic distros, good learning and do-it-yourself distros, music and movie editing distros and the heck knows what else. But most of them are very useful to *someone*, and that's why they are developed, and done the way they are. Why should a music enthusiast work on a forensic distro? That's not what freedom is about.
'.. focused ..all 3 areas.. more BS ..': I assure you, there are much more 'areas', as described in the paragraph above, but leaving that aside, why on earth would it be good to completely unify the whole platform and make it a crufty beast that can do a lot of things bad and nothing really good?? Why would it be good if Linux/OSS would merge into a monoculture?? It would increase attack surface in both, political and technical sense, rob a lot of freedom, , and make a lot of people very sad pandas. Competition and diversity is good. Open interfaces are the things that matter. To be able to put together the puzzle of components the way you'd like them is power. I personally don't really want to 'Imagine' your proposal. It's a good description of a nightmare.
'..MS would ditch their kernel and slap their OS on top of .. Linux..': Now, which planet are you from again? I mean, most of us are no lawyers, but there is a little difference between BSD license and GNU license. Neither of the mentioned companies would touch GNU licensed software even with a nine meter (long) stick, because they can't claim the result for themselves, and only themselves. It's written that they have to give back to what they have taken from, which fundamentally collides with their philosophy. Anyway, Microsoft is not in the business of making compatible, good software. They are in the business of screwing over everyone by locking them into their platform (preferably without noticing). Most of that is done by marketing and market subverting.
'..would have a better chance to finally shut Apple up..': You really think MSFT is concerned much about Apple? Well, sorry to disappoint you, but they are not. They can categorize Apple and fight with them on similar principles. Sure, Apple is inconvenient some times, but they are not aiming to shut them down. And Apple is probably useful in anti-trust suits '..but we are not the only ones here'. They can't get a grip on Linux though, and they are scared like shit about that. Linux is not something they can stop. It's not going away. It's already much superior for a very large set of tasks.. The only thing they managed is to keep it at some distance from technically low potential folks. They are loosing ground though, which is why they are getting so desperate.
Anyway, you get the most naive Slashdot post of the day award! Gratz!
(And my sincere condolences for being you.)
I thought space exploration was about overcoming new challenges. Maybe it would not be cheep or trivial, but it would yield very valuable space automation engineering / research experience. It would also keep one of the big space land marks in place for some more time.
Isn't de-orbiting the ISS culturally somewhat equivalent to tearing down the statue of freedom because it's too much hassle to paint it?
2500 AD on education space voyage: Here you can see the 3rd ever build space station, a landmark of great importance. The first two would obviously much more interesting, but they were trashed..
You are right, this is the future. Right now we are still struggling with this old concept of sending the data trough the network. It would be much more awesome to stay in front of a screen all the time and occasionally walk to the other computer bringing some data with you. This will absolutely solve the obesity problem. Genius!
Seriously, there is not that much good SciFi coming from the studios, so every time there comes _something_ resembling a very good movie, it gets excellent ROI. Who would have guessed? Seriously, the interval for stuff you ought to watch in the genre is stretching to half a year by now (last was star trek - spring, now avatar, next is Iron Man 2 - spring again).. if competition would be like 10-7 years ago, this numbers would not be achievable.
It's actually a sign of very smart marketing, though I don't like that little detail about it: WE ARE ALL SCREWED!
(sorry, I get a little emotional at times when someone approaches me from behind)..
I have an N800 with an external (Bluetooth) keyboard. Not nearly as practical as you'd guess. That setup won't be convincing over netbooks.
And my friggin' keyboard ate that missing 'n'.
I probably need an IBM patented dictionary adjustment program for posting this carp.
No, it means: I my humble opinion.
Get an IBM patented thesaurus, you douche!
Reminds me of the documentary: The Corporation (2003)
They did a psychological profiling with on corporation activities and came to the conclusion that corporations act like psychopaths. Worth watching.
You are weird.
I just double clicked a *.csv file in my file manager (Ubuntu/Nautilus) and it opened up with OO instantly. Never configured that. Ok, it did not do that with Firefox, but seriously, who downloads csv's from the web regularly (not many people do, which is why it is ok to have that thing set up manually).
OO fired up in like 5 secs for me (without pre-loading), which I consider acceptable. It probably won't break any records, but it works and for a software with it's capabilities that's pretty acceptable. If you try to run it on a very low end device, it'll take some time, but what not?
Resizing all the fields worked for me too. Selected everything, double clicked on the sizer thingy in the top row, everything resized to optimal fit. Dragging that thing made everything uniform with.
No idea what your problem is, but it sure as hell isn't the software.
They probably just confused the currency with the dollar from 10 years ago..
Mocking aside, $300m is really improbable and probably wrongly quoted by someone that had a stressed day and therefore hit one unimportant zero too much.
As for resemblance, it's more like a hybrid of "Sky captain and the world of tomorrow" and the game "Supreme commander".
Your third paragraph is a gem though. Yea, he probably spent months if not years on the CG as hobby project. Also contributions and the basic ability to create such things are not really that easily put on a tab. If you'd try to create that short clip (exactly as it is) in a western society, than you'd be at several thousand (if not tens of thousands).
Guess that's the 'small' margin between inspiration and profit.
p.s. @ Hollywood: I know you screwed over all your writers and they are mad at you, but please try to find someone that creates a decent story for the next SciFi thing.. I get the feeling it's already decades ago..
So, who do you think helps when family / friends / whoever has computer problems?
Yea, it's those geeks. What do you think they will install first when they try to find a solution in the Internet to some technical problem? AdBlocking. Mandatory 10 seconds.
And people like it. They talk about it and others follow.
General demographic is catching up to ad-blocking very fast.
There is some degree of truth in what you say: the monoculture that Microsoft represents is indeed a big problem in respect to attack surface. This is not even a software specific problem, same with crops for example. If you only plant one sort, then the mayhem of a parasite is pretty much absolute. For that reason it is logically very foolish to use such a system. Using a variety of crops/OS's is much saner.
On the other part, you are just plain wrong: the Linux and open source development model is more secure than the binary blob one because a lot more people see the code. Though it is hard to make comparisons with desktop systems, this is evident from comparisons in the server area. For instance, Linux/Apache has a somewhat bigger market-share than Windows/IIS, still, Apache is generally less vulnerable and the havoc is much less severe in case of bugs (compared to some IIS bugs that did a lot of damage).
Also third party blobs pose a big problem, because they basically represent the same monoculture that Microsoft does *cough*adobe flash*cough*. Common protocols and individual, competing implementations make much more technical sense. Sadly, reality is little about logical or technical sense, which is why we are in our current mess.
Mod parent up!
Though I currently use Ubuntu, I spent a lot of time with Gentoo and some time with LFS and a few other distros. With some additional reading about POSIX and SUSv3, the Linux file system and the most common tools I tend to intuitively solve most problems and generally enjoy working with Linux.
If I'd had started with such a user friendly distribution, then I probably wouldn't have developed this kind of mindset, and wound have an entirely different view on the OS.
None the less, if you have someone to set up your system, then Ubuntu is quite a good choice for non CS/IT people, as it works quite well (without much hassle) once it is set up.
~ my 2 ct.
P.s.: And there are good books about the usage of Linux in book-stores/Amazon, but nobody really wants to read them actually. Google is indeed more comfortable and tends to find more relevant solutions to specific problems.