There is no more expecting software to do exactly what you need right out of the box (although Ubuntu has gotten pretty good about this).
Neither is Windows very good at doing this. Mac OS, well, it comes closer than just about anything to that goal--in my opinion--but nothing is perfect.
It comes down to the fact that everyone is trained to put up with Windows idiosyncrasies, and one has to train himself to become accustomed to another set of idiosyncrasies in an effective transition. It's not hard. Heck, stuff in both KDE and Gnome is more logically organized than windows ever hoped for. For this reason, it's probably easier for beginning computer users to get along with a Linux graphics shell, than it is for a beginner to learn windows.
Yup, and that's why we have democrats in office. By the time you hit 30, you realize that the sky isn't pink, that everyone isn't nice, and that bad people really do exist, and if you use logic rather than emotion, you give up the "everything is wonderful" viewpoint.
Hah, to some people, the only reason we have democrats in office is because the republicans would run wild, cutting social security, the poor excuse for medical assistance in this country, and you know, they'd piss on lawns and all sorts of shit.
I guess it's true: where you stand depends upon where you sit. My guess is that you're sitting upon a medium sized, pineapple shaped hemorrhoid, often whilst in the seat of a late model German made sedan.
here is a practically infinite amount of data on each of those plates, limited by our precision in measuring them.
And limited by the lenses/mirrors, and limited by atmospheric effects, and inconsistencies in the glass, and the silver, and, and....
I can't testify to the quality of the glass negatives, but I can testify to the fact that as much as people like to believe, even the best modern analog capture sources aren't anywhere near practically infinite, even in the best laboratory conditions.
That quote right there is basically the politically correct way of saying:
"I desperately want to go medieval on these retards' asses, right now... Because of them, I'm not back in Moscow, snorting lines of South America's finest off of the rump of Panama's first lady with Pooty-Poot. In fact, I think I'll have the secret service wrangle me up a chainsaw and a couple of the fatter and stupider looking ones for later on tonight... Heh heh heh."
If you've ever had to deal with a phone company, you'd of course realize that even 25 calls a month will be completely ineffectual, from a problems solving standpoint. The process is, however, very effective therapy for hypotension.
First of all, they're not kids. They're at least young adults: junior and senior high school students who are interested in enrolling at the university. These are kids who are interested in going to a school that concentrates on engineering, which happens to be one of those schools that has a focus on, or at least a general slant towards, (golly gee) stuff related to mining. Secondly, they do not walk away with a license to work with explosives, nor any of the hundred or so papers and certificates which one must have to acquire or brew said materials. Thirdly, it's not like they plop a stick of dynamite, or a brick of c-4 into a ten year old's hands and say "have fun". Most of the high powered events are demonstrations, and the "kids" get to figure stuff like "how much ANFO do have to put into this hole to do the job", and see if they were right or wrong.
Finally, teaching these kids about the stuff that class presents has to be statistically about one-hundred-thousandth the danger level of not sufficiently teaching them about more mundane stuff, like driving, for instance.
Its the little old lady who got a subpoena Go granny, go granny, go granny go She got a mean nasty letter after fleeing hurricane Rita Go granny, go granny, go granny go It said "Hey, we caught you downloading our garbage, so we've hired a bunch of lawyers to sue you to Dodge!"
And everybody's saying theres nobody meaner Than the mean nasty lawyers from the RIAAaaahhhh They sue real fast and with no good reason They're like "Grandmas should be in open season!"
Its the little old lady who got a subpoena...
You can see her on the stand telling the truth now Go granny, go granny, go granny go With her four lawyers and her bi-focal glasses now Go granny, go granny, go granny go "Them lousy RIAA jerks hired an investigator who would be better occupied as my personal masturbator!"
You can see her on the stand her kickin' RIAA ass now Go granny, go granny, go granny go With her four salivating lawyers and her beehive hair now Go granny, go granny, go granny go She's gonna have an RIAA executive as her waiter cause they cant help being evil vindicators
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner Than the little old lady who got a subpoena She counter sues real fast and packs a punch They say She's out to eat some asshole's lunch...
You know, that's a great idea, however, burnt bodies are a pain to scrape off of the pavement... What we need to do is invent a solution that effectively removes any desire ability to procreate, on contact.
So, basically, we need to figure out how to turn slashdot into a mildly concentrated aerosol. We could patent it and make a fortune!
The highlights of DX10 aren't the shaders. The same shaders are avasilable in 9L. It's about the rebuilt lighter API, multithreading and graphics memory swap file.
OpenGL doesn't have the latter two AFAIK.
OpenGL apps can certainly be multi-threaded. There's probably a performance hit when you have to switch contexts between different threads. I bet DX10 abstracts this, if anything. I really can't see why this be attractive, outside of having multiple rendering windows spread across multiple monitors (or multiple buffers who's output could be further processed inside or outside the GPU?). This has probably changed substantially since the last time I messed with OpenGL (OGL v. 1.1 on an old SGI)
As far as a memory swap file... Basically, the last time I screwed around with OpenGL , you could prioritize which textures were to remain in memory, which would have priority over others, and other than this, OpenGL handled keeping the required textures in memory. With modern hard drives, I have a hard time believing that a "memory swap file" on a hard disk would be of that much benefit, unless texture sizes were plain gigantic, and the file system was terribly fragmented.
Just about 5 percent efficiency (compared to well over 25 for gasoline/Diesel/LPG internal combustion cars) show quite well why steam engines are obsolete.
Yeah, that's why some of the real production steam engine cars of the early 20th century managed to have thermal-power-to-the-road efficiencies in excess of 50%, whilst the gasoline engine in your car tops out at around 30%, with actual power to the pavement figures significantly lower than that number, because of the transmission and the rest of the drivetrain. The only things that killed steam cars were the high maintenance requirements, high cost due to tiny production volumes, great engineering but very poor business sense, and as it turns out, pretty poor winter performance. I guess it's hard to pump frozen water, or something like that.
This is a special purpose car. It has to turn water into steam as fast as it can, plus it has to be somewhat light. That rules out having thousands of feet of boiler coils, and fuel is lighter than iron. Go figure.
In any case, even if you don't think that moving the energy production out of the cars is a net win for the environment then there's still the important point of oil independence.
Actually, I don't disagree with the idea, however, I'm just not in favor of fossil fuel plants doing the generating, because it is a net loss for the environment. A coal plant can be 30-38% efficient, on the whole, but that doesn't count losses during distribution, which are significant. Furthermore, all the batteries required to store the power for automotive use would be a disaster in the making, but great for lead mines, I'm sure. A small automotive diesel can do that kind of efficiency, and it just blows out a few particles of carbon and a smidgen of sulfur, whereas coal plants belch out all kinds of unfriendly heavy metals. Then we have natural gas. It's great that some of the newer combined cycle plants can be ~ 60% efficient, but I'm not sure I like my electricity bill competing with my home heating, especially given the crazy price increases over the last couple years.
If the industry could move to a combination of renewable power generating technologies, nuclear, hydro, hell, even tidal, and skip the fossil fuels, except for automotive use, I'd be happy. When better batteries or capacitors or something come out, then I'd be in favor of using those in cars.
Fusion: The jury's still out on when we will have a viable, net energy producing reactor. Just because the technology is promising doesn't mean that we will have a commercially viable product in our lifetimes. If we count on fusion to be the savior, we're doing no better than the industrialists who figured it would be easy to clean up our rivers and fifty odd years down the road, you know, because we'd all have flying cars and robot maids and shit.
Fission: there hasn't been a new fission plant built in the last ten years, and there were only a handful built in the late 80's and early 90's. Furthermore, outside of military applications, nuclear research in the US has been all but abandoned since about that time. Hey, it became unprofitable, because it became unsaleable. Beyond that, we just love sending viable fuel to be buried in vaults. Hey, I'm all for it, but apparently fuel costs haven't risen enough to get people to take their heads out of their asses.
Hydro: we can only put so many up, plus they're potentially very devastating to both the local and regional environment, and to endangered species, and they tend to fuck up rivers and stuff.
Here's the thing, many of the Native Americans who live in the US enjoy all of the rights of being a US citizen, yet there are some laws that do not apply to aboriginal groups for one reason or another. If a group of people were known to harvest and consume Peyote, for instance, they are permitted to do so now, even if its usage is not part of a religious exercise, while that freedom is not granted to everyone else. Heck, I was reading a while ago that some tribes have rights to operate their reservations as little sovereign countries. I don't know the history of the Intuits' whaling rights, but I suspect that they are de-facto protected by federal law, and are outside the scope of the of any regulation, completely... And I would be extremely surprised to learn that the situation were opposite.
Also, I think the reason that you rarely find "American Eskimos" is because Inuit is generally the preferred term, especially amongst the people to which the word applies to, in part because it's describing more or less the class of language that the groups use, but also because "American" is usually assumed, when speaking of Eskimos.
Huh... Tell that to the paparazzi, and to the magazines which buy their photos. I'm sure they haven't encountered such a well thought out argument, and will gladly capitulate once they see the light.
Yeah, that is sorta' silly, especially since the GPL states early on that usage is out of the scope of the document. On the other hand, however, people do need to understand what their rights are if they decide they need to start distributing GPL programs, so I guess it's not that terrible.
It would make more sense to have a synopsis of the rights that the GPL gives you, the ones it doesn't, and then the full text of the license. But who reads that crap anyway?
You just have to remember to correctly initialize your quantum-entangled photon pairs. Universal segfaults are generally regarded as bad things, Mmmkay?
Great for you. Here in the US, a T1 (1.5 Mbps, symmetrical) drop to a lowly small business costs about $350-500/month, depending on where you are, and what your service contract entails. It's a bunch of BS.
From what I understand, the lack of Ogg support on many players stems less from commercial or legal concerns (patent issues vis a vis Fraunhofer notwithstanding) than from technical issues. Ogg needs more juice to decode, which means needing stronger processors, better means of heat dissipation, and a necessary hit on battery performance. Not that it can't be done, but it requires more expensive components and shorter battery lives.
That might have been true, back when Apple first released the iPod. Now they play full color video, compressed with codecs that are a hundred times more demanding than Ogg... So, that's hardly to blame. Hell, my iRiver played oggs, and the battery lasted 2-3 times that of early iPods whilst doing so.
It's just another example of a political circle-jerk.
Well, no, not exactly, but with propane (or pretty much any other fuel, for that matter), I can make food that almost makes women line up to take their cloths off.
Grant you permission to/your/ money, which the machine holds in escrow as an (automated) agent of the bank, following your successful authentication to said bank, and other verification procedures.
How is that dissimilar to how a broadcast gateway acts? If you were to draw a flow chart of the process, it would be almost identical, excepting the part where the money stuff is involved.
I dunno, it's no more entrapment than the car the cops have now... The shiny Lexus that they take out and leave on skid row, with the keys in the ignition... You know, the car that also has the ability to be remotely turned off, and doors locked, and also has cameras all around it?
There's a difference between a cop baiting random, normally unwilling, but nonetheless horny shit-heads with a nubile 13 year old, and utter exuberance at the prospect of screwing around with a 13 year old exhibited by most all of the jerkoffs on that site, methinks.
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There is no more expecting software to do exactly what you need right out of the box (although Ubuntu has gotten pretty good about this).
Neither is Windows very good at doing this. Mac OS, well, it comes closer than just about anything to that goal--in my opinion--but nothing is perfect.
It comes down to the fact that everyone is trained to put up with Windows idiosyncrasies, and one has to train himself to become accustomed to another set of idiosyncrasies in an effective transition. It's not hard. Heck, stuff in both KDE and Gnome is more logically organized than windows ever hoped for. For this reason, it's probably easier for beginning computer users to get along with a Linux graphics shell, than it is for a beginner to learn windows.
Yup, and that's why we have democrats in office. By the time you hit 30, you realize that the sky isn't pink, that everyone isn't nice, and that bad people really do exist, and if you use logic rather than emotion, you give up the "everything is wonderful" viewpoint.
Hah, to some people, the only reason we have democrats in office is because the republicans would run wild, cutting social security, the poor excuse for medical assistance in this country, and you know, they'd piss on lawns and all sorts of shit.
I guess it's true: where you stand depends upon where you sit.
My guess is that you're sitting upon a medium sized, pineapple shaped hemorrhoid, often whilst in the seat of a late model German made sedan.
here is a practically infinite amount of data on each of those plates, limited by our precision in measuring them.
And limited by the lenses/mirrors, and limited by atmospheric effects, and inconsistencies in the glass, and the silver, and, and....
I can't testify to the quality of the glass negatives, but I can testify to the fact that as much as people like to believe, even the best modern analog capture sources aren't anywhere near practically infinite, even in the best laboratory conditions.
Don't you understand politico?
That quote right there is basically the politically correct way of saying:
"I desperately want to go medieval on these retards' asses, right now... Because of them, I'm not back in Moscow, snorting lines of South America's finest off of the rump of Panama's first lady with Pooty-Poot. In fact, I think I'll have the secret service wrangle me up a chainsaw and a couple of the fatter and stupider looking ones for later on tonight... Heh heh heh."
I bet if heard underwater, that comment would sound something like "Zing!"
If you've ever had to deal with a phone company, you'd of course realize that even 25 calls a month will be completely ineffectual, from a problems solving standpoint. The process is, however, very effective therapy for hypotension.
First of all, they're not kids. They're at least young adults: junior and senior high school students who are interested in enrolling at the university. These are kids who are interested in going to a school that concentrates on engineering, which happens to be one of those schools that has a focus on, or at least a general slant towards, (golly gee) stuff related to mining. Secondly, they do not walk away with a license to work with explosives, nor any of the hundred or so papers and certificates which one must have to acquire or brew said materials. Thirdly, it's not like they plop a stick of dynamite, or a brick of c-4 into a ten year old's hands and say "have fun". Most of the high powered events are demonstrations, and the "kids" get to figure stuff like "how much ANFO do have to put into this hole to do the job", and see if they were right or wrong.
Finally, teaching these kids about the stuff that class presents has to be statistically about one-hundred-thousandth the danger level of not sufficiently teaching them about more mundane stuff, like driving, for instance.
Its the little old lady who got a subpoena
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
She got a mean nasty letter after fleeing hurricane Rita
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
It said "Hey, we caught you downloading our garbage,
so we've hired a bunch of lawyers to sue you to Dodge!"
And everybody's saying theres nobody meaner
Than the mean nasty lawyers from the RIAAaaahhhh
They sue real fast and with no good reason
They're like "Grandmas should be in open season!"
Its the little old lady who got a subpoena...
You can see her on the stand telling the truth now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
With her four lawyers and her bi-focal glasses now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
"Them lousy RIAA jerks hired an investigator
who would be better occupied as my personal masturbator!"
You can see her on the stand her kickin' RIAA ass now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
With her four salivating lawyers and her beehive hair now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
She's gonna have an RIAA executive as her waiter
cause they cant help being evil vindicators
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner
Than the little old lady who got a subpoena
She counter sues real fast and packs a punch
They say She's out to eat some asshole's lunch...
Its the little old lady who got a subpoena
You know, that's a great idea, however, burnt bodies are a pain to scrape off of the pavement... What we need to do is invent a solution that effectively removes any desire ability to procreate, on contact.
So, basically, we need to figure out how to turn slashdot into a mildly concentrated aerosol. We could patent it and make a fortune!
The highlights of DX10 aren't the shaders. The same shaders are avasilable in 9L. It's about the rebuilt lighter API, multithreading and graphics memory swap file.
OpenGL doesn't have the latter two AFAIK.
OpenGL apps can certainly be multi-threaded. There's probably a performance hit when you have to switch contexts between different threads. I bet DX10 abstracts this, if anything. I really can't see why this be attractive, outside of having multiple rendering windows spread across multiple monitors (or multiple buffers who's output could be further processed inside or outside the GPU?). This has probably changed substantially since the last time I messed with OpenGL (OGL v. 1.1 on an old SGI)
As far as a memory swap file... Basically, the last time I screwed around with OpenGL , you could prioritize which textures were to remain in memory, which would have priority over others, and other than this, OpenGL handled keeping the required textures in memory. With modern hard drives, I have a hard time believing that a "memory swap file" on a hard disk would be of that much benefit, unless texture sizes were plain gigantic, and the file system was terribly fragmented.
Just about 5 percent efficiency (compared to well over 25 for gasoline/Diesel/LPG internal combustion cars) show quite well why steam engines are obsolete.
Yeah, that's why some of the real production steam engine cars of the early 20th century managed to have thermal-power-to-the-road efficiencies in excess of 50%, whilst the gasoline engine in your car tops out at around 30%, with actual power to the pavement figures significantly lower than that number, because of the transmission and the rest of the drivetrain. The only things that killed steam cars were the high maintenance requirements, high cost due to tiny production volumes, great engineering but very poor business sense, and as it turns out, pretty poor winter performance. I guess it's hard to pump frozen water, or something like that.
This is a special purpose car. It has to turn water into steam as fast as it can, plus it has to be somewhat light. That rules out having thousands of feet of boiler coils, and fuel is lighter than iron. Go figure.
In any case, even if you don't think that moving the energy production out of the cars is a net win for the environment then there's still the important point of oil independence.
Actually, I don't disagree with the idea, however, I'm just not in favor of fossil fuel plants doing the generating, because it is a net loss for the environment. A coal plant can be 30-38% efficient, on the whole, but that doesn't count losses during distribution, which are significant. Furthermore, all the batteries required to store the power for automotive use would be a disaster in the making, but great for lead mines, I'm sure. A small automotive diesel can do that kind of efficiency, and it just blows out a few particles of carbon and a smidgen of sulfur, whereas coal plants belch out all kinds of unfriendly heavy metals. Then we have natural gas. It's great that some of the newer combined cycle plants can be ~ 60% efficient, but I'm not sure I like my electricity bill competing with my home heating, especially given the crazy price increases over the last couple years.
If the industry could move to a combination of renewable power generating technologies, nuclear, hydro, hell, even tidal, and skip the fossil fuels, except for automotive use, I'd be happy. When better batteries or capacitors or something come out, then I'd be in favor of using those in cars.
Fusion: The jury's still out on when we will have a viable, net energy producing reactor. Just because the technology is promising doesn't mean that we will have a commercially viable product in our lifetimes. If we count on fusion to be the savior, we're doing no better than the industrialists who figured it would be easy to clean up our rivers and fifty odd years down the road, you know, because we'd all have flying cars and robot maids and shit.
Fission: there hasn't been a new fission plant built in the last ten years, and there were only a handful built in the late 80's and early 90's. Furthermore, outside of military applications, nuclear research in the US has been all but abandoned since about that time. Hey, it became unprofitable, because it became unsaleable. Beyond that, we just love sending viable fuel to be buried in vaults. Hey, I'm all for it, but apparently fuel costs haven't risen enough to get people to take their heads out of their asses.
Hydro: we can only put so many up, plus they're potentially very devastating to both the local and regional environment, and to endangered species, and they tend to fuck up rivers and stuff.
Here's the thing, many of the Native Americans who live in the US enjoy all of the rights of being a US citizen, yet there are some laws that do not apply to aboriginal groups for one reason or another. If a group of people were known to harvest and consume Peyote, for instance, they are permitted to do so now, even if its usage is not part of a religious exercise, while that freedom is not granted to everyone else. Heck, I was reading a while ago that some tribes have rights to operate their reservations as little sovereign countries. I don't know the history of the Intuits' whaling rights, but I suspect that they are de-facto protected by federal law, and are outside the scope of the of any regulation, completely... And I would be extremely surprised to learn that the situation were opposite.
Also, I think the reason that you rarely find "American Eskimos" is because Inuit is generally the preferred term, especially amongst the people to which the word applies to, in part because it's describing more or less the class of language that the groups use, but also because "American" is usually assumed, when speaking of Eskimos.
Huh... Tell that to the paparazzi, and to the magazines which buy their photos. I'm sure they haven't encountered such a well thought out argument, and will gladly capitulate once they see the light.
Dammit all to hell, I was looking forward to a thoughtfully written analysis on belly-button lint... And this is what you come up with? Pfeh...
Yeah, that is sorta' silly, especially since the GPL states early on that usage is out of the scope of the document. On the other hand, however, people do need to understand what their rights are if they decide they need to start distributing GPL programs, so I guess it's not that terrible.
It would make more sense to have a synopsis of the rights that the GPL gives you, the ones it doesn't, and then the full text of the license. But who reads that crap anyway?
You just have to remember to correctly initialize your quantum-entangled photon pairs. Universal segfaults are generally regarded as bad things, Mmmkay?
You have to go all the way back to the 486 to see that kind of count from Intel.
It could be more or less exactly what they did.
Great for you. Here in the US, a T1 (1.5 Mbps, symmetrical) drop to a lowly small business costs about $350-500/month, depending on where you are, and what your service contract entails. It's a bunch of BS.
From what I understand, the lack of Ogg support on many players stems less from commercial or legal concerns (patent issues vis a vis Fraunhofer notwithstanding) than from technical issues. Ogg needs more juice to decode, which means needing stronger processors, better means of heat dissipation, and a necessary hit on battery performance. Not that it can't be done, but it requires more expensive components and shorter battery lives.
That might have been true, back when Apple first released the iPod. Now they play full color video, compressed with codecs that are a hundred times more demanding than Ogg... So, that's hardly to blame. Hell, my iRiver played oggs, and the battery lasted 2-3 times that of early iPods whilst doing so.
It's just another example of a political circle-jerk.
Can propane show you naked women?
Well, no, not exactly, but with propane (or pretty much any other fuel, for that matter), I can make food that almost makes women line up to take their cloths off.
Grant you permission to /your/ money, which the machine holds in escrow as an (automated) agent of the bank, following your successful authentication to said bank, and other verification procedures.
How is that dissimilar to how a broadcast gateway acts? If you were to draw a flow chart of the process, it would be almost identical, excepting the part where the money stuff is involved.
I dunno, it's no more entrapment than the car the cops have now... The shiny Lexus that they take out and leave on skid row, with the keys in the ignition... You know, the car that also has the ability to be remotely turned off, and doors locked, and also has cameras all around it?
There's a difference between a cop baiting random, normally unwilling, but nonetheless horny shit-heads with a nubile 13 year old, and utter exuberance at the prospect of screwing around with a 13 year old exhibited by most all of the jerkoffs on that site, methinks.
So... They make you nervous, huh?
Most of the jerks in the stories on that site deserve to be busted, for being completely fucking retarded, if nothing else.