I apologize for not using a simple car analogy. Asking if vfat is used for anything other than flash drives is like asking if windows are required for anything other than keeping out the rain while still retaining some vision. Well, yes, of course, but isn't that enough?
Are you honestly that dense? That's like asking if CD drives are used for anything other than CDs.
Flash drives have replaced floppies as the primary small rewritable data storage medium. Not supporting them is as egregious as not supporting DVDs, which incidentally have issues that are on sturdier legal ground.
Well, obviously for the most badass model. But a Komodo with wings capable of lifting a human would be just as much a dragon as a full-fledged Smaug. And a flying Komodo would be just the same engineering challenge as a griffon - putting wings on an existing ferocious animal and taming it.
While some mod is sure to rate this a troll (it isn't)
Though, yes, IE8 isn't that bad. It's roughly on par with Firefox 2, which was a good browser in its day, and I have no problems when I'm forced to use it.
I've never had a charger outlast the thing it charges. Of course, this is still nice, but unless they gave some thought to durability, it doesn't solve the larger problem, which is that cellphones and their chargers are designed to last a year or two.
Mine is an extra control. It helps me separate my CUA hotkeys from my Emacs ones so that when I'm on a keyboard I can't remap easily (which invariably does not have Emacs) I don't go hitting the caps lock key constantly.
He threw the dumbass bit about linking in at the end. The rest was just the breathtakingly obvious observation that print news is dead, and online media do not bring in the same kind of revenue.
To do this, you could in theory open up an individual X instance for each open program, but the result would be a ton of additional overhead, and in order to get the benefits of restarting X after an update, you would have to restart every individual X process.
The benefit is being able to run over the network, not encapsulation on a given machine.
The only honorable way to do this is to plant a garden in your backyard and live on a subsistence income to avoid paying taxes.
Property taxes, obviously, but if you can't handle putting a few thousand a year into public education, then you don't deserve to live in a developed society, so you can do this somewhere outside the US.
A creationist could use exactly the same argument to discredit evolution. And like evolution, I think the fact is that if you sit down and study it, the evidence leans in favor of the experts, which you are not.
There's a lot of people decrying the 'religious fanaticism' surrounding climate change science. However, the fact is that the people trying to discredit climate change are in fact those who ascribe to the church of the almighty invisible hand of the economy which will right all ills if we just leave it alone and let it do its business.
The Amish analogy is not apt. He is not a luddite, he simply has a different view of what direction technology should evolve. He's a lot more like a mechanic that refuses to work on foreign cars. Eccentric? Sure. An asshole? Definitely. But don't for a second suggest he doesn't know his stuff.
It sounds like he doesn't use a web browser in exactly the same way that Knuth does not use an email client. He finds the usual http interface of a web browser cumbersome, and prefers his more old-fashioned tools, much in the way Knuth prefers his old-fashioned paper.
The argument isn't about Windows reliability or completeness. Well, it's slightly about completeness. But let's look at this for a second:
Microsoft's idea of a very small, stable core is 2.3 GB.
Ubuntu fits not only a small, stable core, but also everything the average user needs, into 700 MB. (With the obvious exception of certain codecs it cannot include for legal reasons.)
Ubuntu fits on a single CD. I haven't added more than one or two extra Gigs (in terms of packages I've pulled in over the net), and that's primarily for techie development libraries that they've no reason to put on an end-user install disk.
Hell, the full install comes with Perl and Python, what else do you really need?
We all had that audacity, 'Anything Google does, we can do better.' No one talked about MySpace or the other social networks. We just talked about Google."
They know who their competition is, but they haven't even really matched Google. Google search and Gmail are where they are because no one can possibly come up with a service that offers the same feature set in such a clean, elegant, and efficient package.
Facebook is where they are from sheer momentum. If I thought people would read my RSS, I'd be inclined to move everything to a private site without all that Javascript, Flash, and random ad banners. At the moment, there is a certain class of social interactions that my generation expects to happen on Facebook (mostly date setting.) Email is too impersonal, phone is too difficult to get a hold of someone. Facebook is a happy medium. Unfortunately, it's a mess.
They also apparently haven't heard about this remarkable invention called a floor, that allows me to get up and go get a drink when a commercial comes up on TV.
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I apologize for not using a simple car analogy. Asking if vfat is used for anything other than flash drives is like asking if windows are required for anything other than keeping out the rain while still retaining some vision. Well, yes, of course, but isn't that enough?
Are you honestly that dense? That's like asking if CD drives are used for anything other than CDs.
Flash drives have replaced floppies as the primary small rewritable data storage medium. Not supporting them is as egregious as not supporting DVDs, which incidentally have issues that are on sturdier legal ground.
Well, obviously for the most badass model. But a Komodo with wings capable of lifting a human would be just as much a dragon as a full-fledged Smaug. And a flying Komodo would be just the same engineering challenge as a griffon - putting wings on an existing ferocious animal and taming it.
Well, yes, but anyone capable of engineering the one could likely engineer the other.
Or maybe the GP meant griffon/dragon hybrid, which would be even more badass, you must admit.
Actually, 3.5 solved that for me. Though I'm just going off a half an hour with the most recent beta in the Ubuntu Repos.
He deserves a troll mod for opening with
Though, yes, IE8 isn't that bad. It's roughly on par with Firefox 2, which was a good browser in its day, and I have no problems when I'm forced to use it.
Silverlight on the other hand...
I've never had a charger outlast the thing it charges. Of course, this is still nice, but unless they gave some thought to durability, it doesn't solve the larger problem, which is that cellphones and their chargers are designed to last a year or two.
That was a joke. Not only was I exaggerating, but yes, I use the meta key. Except when I'm forced to use a Mac.
That's nothing. In Emacs, I use the ESC key like 800 times an hour. And don't even ask about ctrl.
Mine is an extra control. It helps me separate my CUA hotkeys from my Emacs ones so that when I'm on a keyboard I can't remap easily (which invariably does not have Emacs) I don't go hitting the caps lock key constantly.
It will run Linux.
You don't need their updates.
He threw the dumbass bit about linking in at the end. The rest was just the breathtakingly obvious observation that print news is dead, and online media do not bring in the same kind of revenue.
To do this, you could in theory open up an individual X instance for each open program, but the result would be a ton of additional overhead, and in order to get the benefits of restarting X after an update, you would have to restart every individual X process.
The benefit is being able to run over the network, not encapsulation on a given machine.
I don't recall any of the other 43 presidents ever being referred to with anything other than an initial for their middle name.
No, redundant would have been a more appropriate mod. Or maybe troll. Anyway, metamod is only up or down.
The only honorable way to do this is to plant a garden in your backyard and live on a subsistence income to avoid paying taxes.
Property taxes, obviously, but if you can't handle putting a few thousand a year into public education, then you don't deserve to live in a developed society, so you can do this somewhere outside the US.
I'm gonna bet trolling. Only trolls bring up fringe racist militants in a discussion on climate change.
A creationist could use exactly the same argument to discredit evolution. And like evolution, I think the fact is that if you sit down and study it, the evidence leans in favor of the experts, which you are not.
There's a lot of people decrying the 'religious fanaticism' surrounding climate change science. However, the fact is that the people trying to discredit climate change are in fact those who ascribe to the church of the almighty invisible hand of the economy which will right all ills if we just leave it alone and let it do its business.
The Amish analogy is not apt. He is not a luddite, he simply has a different view of what direction technology should evolve. He's a lot more like a mechanic that refuses to work on foreign cars. Eccentric? Sure. An asshole? Definitely. But don't for a second suggest he doesn't know his stuff.
http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/
It sounds like he doesn't use a web browser in exactly the same way that Knuth does not use an email client. He finds the usual http interface of a web browser cumbersome, and prefers his more old-fashioned tools, much in the way Knuth prefers his old-fashioned paper.
The argument isn't about Windows reliability or completeness. Well, it's slightly about completeness. But let's look at this for a second:
Microsoft's idea of a very small, stable core is 2.3 GB.
Ubuntu fits not only a small, stable core, but also everything the average user needs, into 700 MB. (With the obvious exception of certain codecs it cannot include for legal reasons.)
Ubuntu fits on a single CD. I haven't added more than one or two extra Gigs (in terms of packages I've pulled in over the net), and that's primarily for techie development libraries that they've no reason to put on an end-user install disk.
Hell, the full install comes with Perl and Python, what else do you really need?
Firefox plugin that hacks the video element to allow distributed streaming?
If TPB was providing all the download bandwidth for its illegal downloads, they wouldn't have made a dime. I don't see why they'd want to start now.
FTA:
They know who their competition is, but they haven't even really matched Google. Google search and Gmail are where they are because no one can possibly come up with a service that offers the same feature set in such a clean, elegant, and efficient package.
Facebook is where they are from sheer momentum. If I thought people would read my RSS, I'd be inclined to move everything to a private site without all that Javascript, Flash, and random ad banners. At the moment, there is a certain class of social interactions that my generation expects to happen on Facebook (mostly date setting.) Email is too impersonal, phone is too difficult to get a hold of someone. Facebook is a happy medium. Unfortunately, it's a mess.
They also apparently haven't heard about this remarkable invention called a floor, that allows me to get up and go get a drink when a commercial comes up on TV.