One question is: why is OS X so much more successful than "Desktop Linux"?
Companies and people have been trying to get Linux on the desktop for ages. Over a shorter period of time OS X has gained so much more desktop marketshare than Linux has.
Well basically Australia digs out stuff from the ground, or grows stuff on their land, sells it to China (and the world) who makes "real stuff" out of it.
Then USA sells to the world: software, music, movies, Team Fortress 2 hats, digital swords, smurf berries, virtual clothes. And uses the money to buy "real stuff".
If enough people want that stuff and buy it, the USA still can have high _average_ income. Whether some of the money goes to the poor in the USA is a different matter.
Speaking of the game industry. Some people get better quality sound/music from games (e.g. Guitar Hero) than from the CDs the labels try to sell them .
FWIW I think nowadays people have more different things to spend their money on. So unless incomes increase, there should be no surprise if they spend less on CDs or music.
Especially if CDs are expensive for what you get compared to the other options.
Yeah who the heck has time to murder people - we have to grind consumables to prepare for the raid tonight ( or something like that - I've never actually played WoW). Or tend all those facebook farms/aquariums/hotels.
Is that so? Do voters only vote for politicians that have money? If voters don't do their jobs properly they are partly responsible when their representatives don't do their jobs properly. It's just like CEOs are partly/mostly responsible for what the people they appointed do. The buck stops at the voters.
With democracy you just have to accept that often the people's representatives are indeed representative of the people. For good or for bad.
I may not like the results but that's how democracy works, it's still better than some Dictator or unelected Supreme Council having all the power.
If you don't like the way things are going then you have to educate and convince the other voters to stop voting for politicians merely because the politicians get lots of money.
The problem in this case Bay's "original idea" is changing the turtles to aliens. I'm not a fan but I don't see why it's necessary or beneficial to do so. Especially when the title itself has the word "Mutant" and "Turtles".
The whole point of milking a franchise is to actually milk it. How does changing the foundation of the brand name help milk it more?
That said if it actually does well then the fans and people are saying keep screwing me. I won't be surprised if that happens since G W Bush was re-elected.
If I loved using the keyboard so much I'd use GNU screen or similar.
If a GUI developer can't create a GUI that helps people manage tasks better than "screen" (or similar) then that GUI developer should find something else to do and stop wasting time and resources.
It's so bad that conspiracy theorists could suspect Microsoft/Apple are paying these "GUI developers" to sabotage Desktop Linux.
Only if the drive manufacturer helps you and _transparently_ does the redundancy for you at the level of reliability you want.
Because for single drive systems if you hit many bad sectors even though you have redundant copies on other sectors your throughput is going to drop to impractical rates (assuming you actually care about storing and retrieving TBs of data). The error recovery timeouts are usually in the order of _seconds_.
And if you're going to have multiple redundant drives, capacity might no longer be as important, performance and reliability might be more important. Because if your drives are too unreliable for their size you're going to need cleverer RAID controller software that won't "offline" a drive just because one sector is faulty especially on reads (it tries to read the data from all the array drives and as soon as it has enough data to build an answer, it sends it to the computer - even if a drive is not responding). Is such RAID software available?
But if you have spent a week on the phone with the vendor, involved several teams to trouble shoot, spent countless hours trying to identify the problem, and gotten nowhere..
Yeah we had to reboot cisco core switches before. Initially we thought it was a firewall problem (was an active-active firewall cluster - which usually means it's more likely to be the culprit;) ). But after spending a few nights in a freezing datacenter trying to figure out why it wasn't working, the decision was to reboot both the clustered switches (which took _everything_ down) and stuff started working again.
We were the support vendor for the firewall but not the switches. So we had to make sure it was not our problem and wait for the relevant parties to do it.
Linux, Solaris, Windows, Cisco. Sometimes you just have to reboot. Just make sure your cisco configs (running and saved) are backed up first though;).
I think you miss the point. Most people know shit happens. The difference is in some countries Apple is supposed to deal with the shit, not the customer.
Cooperatives seem to generally behave better than corporations. The disadvantage of cooperatives is it generally requires some altruistic person to invest his own money and time into starting one up, and not get the "lion's share" of the rewards.
So I was thinking couldn't Governments or someone encourage the creation of more cooperatives? Some sort of incentive scheme that reduces the risk to the bunch starting one up? Might be tricky to prevent abuse, but perhaps someone smart can figure it out.
At one point of time the stupid thing was often on the same Google search page there was the option to hide some sites (which I found valid from search results), but not the link spam sites!
BTW the block sites stuff doesn't appear to work well for me any more. I did this: go to google trends, pick two unrelated trending keywords/phrases, search for them. Click on spam site, click back, block the spam site. Repeat. Go to manage blocked sites, no sites show up- this is even when I'm signed in to Google.
FWIW Google could use a similar method to automatically block such spam sites (there would need to be some checks but some of these sites are so obviously spam that even a simple program should be able to figure it out.
He took a very long time to get down and had ribs broken due to the buffeting he received. A REALLY long time to get down due to the updrafts the thunderstorm!
It would really suck to be turned into a large "hailstone"...
I don't think people should even lose their voting rights unless one of their crimes was to screw with the election system or results.
Doesn't matter even if they're a convicted murderer. They should still be allowed to vote. Maybe even from prison (unless we don't trust the prisons to not tamper with or influence the votes).
Taking it out of someone's hands involves a lot more force (and less skill) than pick pocketing someone.
That said, intention is important too. To me (not the courts) it is whether he intended to permanently deprive the person of the item. Since he threw it through a window my guess is yes, but it was more a "destruction of private property" act.
But if someone was trying to take pictures of you and you knocked the phone/camera away and out of their hands, to me that's not robbery or theft. But still an offense (that could be mitigated depending on how much an asshole the photographer was being at the time[1]).
[1] Which does not seem to apply in this particular case.
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I'd hate to have a choking/sneezing fit while stuck in there.
I'm wondering whether my old nokia dumb phone will last longer than Nokia the company ;).
I'm talking about this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/17/metallica.guitar.hero.loudness.war
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/09/does-metallicas/
One question is: why is OS X so much more successful than "Desktop Linux"?
Companies and people have been trying to get Linux on the desktop for ages. Over a shorter period of time OS X has gained so much more desktop marketshare than Linux has.
OK:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1&fp=367a43a0f858fe9
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1
Well basically Australia digs out stuff from the ground, or grows stuff on their land, sells it to China (and the world) who makes "real stuff" out of it.
Then USA sells to the world: software, music, movies, Team Fortress 2 hats, digital swords, smurf berries, virtual clothes. And uses the money to buy "real stuff".
If enough people want that stuff and buy it, the USA still can have high _average_ income. Whether some of the money goes to the poor in the USA is a different matter.
Speaking of the game industry. Some people get better quality sound/music from games (e.g. Guitar Hero) than from the CDs the labels try to sell them .
FWIW I think nowadays people have more different things to spend their money on. So unless incomes increase, there should be no surprise if they spend less on CDs or music.
Especially if CDs are expensive for what you get compared to the other options.
Yeah who the heck has time to murder people - we have to grind consumables to prepare for the raid tonight ( or something like that - I've never actually played WoW). Or tend all those facebook farms/aquariums/hotels.
NOTHING makes me so violently angry as listening to politicians and their machinations. Can't we outlaw them?
Sure, Dictators would be happy to outlaw politicians. So just install one.
Warning: Dictator uninstallation might be much harder than installation.
If he wins with that campaign then that's what the voters want and by definition he is doing a great job as a politician.
The voters may not be doing great jobs as voters, but that's mainly their fault not the politician's.
The masses still actually have a say, just because you disagree with what they are saying doesn't mean they're not saying it.
The fact that you're telling people that voting is a waste of time shows that you're part of the problem too.
The last I checked there were more than two puppets, and not all the puppets are controlled by the same puppet masters.
Don't go for President though. That job sucks and is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Everybody blames you for everything even though you don't have to power to change even half of the stuff.
Is that so? Do voters only vote for politicians that have money? If voters don't do their jobs properly they are partly responsible when their representatives don't do their jobs properly. It's just like CEOs are partly/mostly responsible for what the people they appointed do. The buck stops at the voters.
With democracy you just have to accept that often the people's representatives are indeed representative of the people. For good or for bad.
I may not like the results but that's how democracy works, it's still better than some Dictator or unelected Supreme Council having all the power.
If you don't like the way things are going then you have to educate and convince the other voters to stop voting for politicians merely because the politicians get lots of money.
Doesn't matter if there are no original ideas.
The problem in this case Bay's "original idea" is changing the turtles to aliens. I'm not a fan but I don't see why it's necessary or beneficial to do so. Especially when the title itself has the word "Mutant" and "Turtles".
The whole point of milking a franchise is to actually milk it. How does changing the foundation of the brand name help milk it more?
That said if it actually does well then the fans and people are saying keep screwing me. I won't be surprised if that happens since G W Bush was re-elected.
If I loved using the keyboard so much I'd use GNU screen or similar.
If a GUI developer can't create a GUI that helps people manage tasks better than "screen" (or similar) then that GUI developer should find something else to do and stop wasting time and resources.
It's so bad that conspiracy theorists could suspect Microsoft/Apple are paying these "GUI developers" to sabotage Desktop Linux.
Only if the drive manufacturer helps you and _transparently_ does the redundancy for you at the level of reliability you want.
Because for single drive systems if you hit many bad sectors even though you have redundant copies on other sectors your throughput is going to drop to impractical rates (assuming you actually care about storing and retrieving TBs of data). The error recovery timeouts are usually in the order of _seconds_.
And if you're going to have multiple redundant drives, capacity might no longer be as important, performance and reliability might be more important. Because if your drives are too unreliable for their size you're going to need cleverer RAID controller software that won't "offline" a drive just because one sector is faulty especially on reads (it tries to read the data from all the array drives and as soon as it has enough data to build an answer, it sends it to the computer - even if a drive is not responding). Is such RAID software available?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control
But if you have spent a week on the phone with the vendor, involved several teams to trouble shoot, spent countless hours trying to identify the problem, and gotten nowhere ..
Yeah we had to reboot cisco core switches before. Initially we thought it was a firewall problem (was an active-active firewall cluster - which usually means it's more likely to be the culprit ;) ). But after spending a few nights in a freezing datacenter trying to figure out why it wasn't working, the decision was to reboot both the clustered switches (which took _everything_ down) and stuff started working again.
We were the support vendor for the firewall but not the switches. So we had to make sure it was not our problem and wait for the relevant parties to do it.
Linux, Solaris, Windows, Cisco. Sometimes you just have to reboot. Just make sure your cisco configs (running and saved) are backed up first though ;).
If you can't manufacturer a product to last 3 years, or at least within a certain failure rate, you are cutting corners and fucking the consumer.
Not environmentally friendly too.
I think you miss the point. Most people know shit happens. The difference is in some countries Apple is supposed to deal with the shit, not the customer.
Write to the authors and tell them why? They might think a boycott is a good idea too and publish elsewhere.
Cooperatives seem to generally behave better than corporations. The disadvantage of cooperatives is it generally requires some altruistic person to invest his own money and time into starting one up, and not get the "lion's share" of the rewards.
So I was thinking couldn't Governments or someone encourage the creation of more cooperatives? Some sort of incentive scheme that reduces the risk to the bunch starting one up? Might be tricky to prevent abuse, but perhaps someone smart can figure it out.
At one point of time the stupid thing was often on the same Google search page there was the option to hide some sites (which I found valid from search results), but not the link spam sites!
BTW the block sites stuff doesn't appear to work well for me any more. I did this: go to google trends, pick two unrelated trending keywords/phrases, search for them. Click on spam site, click back, block the spam site. Repeat. Go to manage blocked sites, no sites show up- this is even when I'm signed in to Google.
FWIW Google could use a similar method to automatically block such spam sites (there would need to be some checks but some of these sites are so obviously spam that even a simple program should be able to figure it out.
He took a very long time to get down and had ribs broken due to the buffeting he received. A REALLY long time to get down due to the updrafts the thunderstorm!
It would really suck to be turned into a large "hailstone"...
Calm down dude.. when we have terabytes of RAM we won't need to programmers at all...
Yeah but then we may need AI psychologists. The submitter might be a better fit for that job.
I don't think people should even lose their voting rights unless one of their crimes was to screw with the election system or results.
Doesn't matter even if they're a convicted murderer. They should still be allowed to vote. Maybe even from prison (unless we don't trust the prisons to not tamper with or influence the votes).
Taking it out of someone's hands involves a lot more force (and less skill) than pick pocketing someone.
That said, intention is important too. To me (not the courts) it is whether he intended to permanently deprive the person of the item. Since he threw it through a window my guess is yes, but it was more a "destruction of private property" act.
But if someone was trying to take pictures of you and you knocked the phone/camera away and out of their hands, to me that's not robbery or theft. But still an offense (that could be mitigated depending on how much an asshole the photographer was being at the time[1]).
[1] Which does not seem to apply in this particular case.