People are animals and as such, are competitive. Just like wolves and dogs and monkeys and every other thing that walks or crawls tests and fights to get the right to lead and breed, so do people.
People want to be leaders because leaders get all the resources. It works out, in that, people compete to lead, and therefor, those who can beat their way to the top are tested by society to be the fittest.
If you are not a leader of some sort, you really are a loser, and you just need to suck it up and accept it.
Not only does remotely using X offer far more flexibility then RDP
Where then, in SUSE Linux 10, can I just click on an icon, enter a computer name, and remote desktop in?
Ah, but the glory is we are not limited to those two interfaces.... Not to mention X has allowed you for ages to have multiple desktops, something that was only possible with third party apps for a long time in Windows
Architecturally, Windows has allowed for multiple Window stations and multiple OS personalities since Windows NT. Microsoft never implemented them. Third party developers have. And I wouldn't hold it against MS for buying Citrix technology any more than I would hold it against KDE guys for working with Apple on some things.
This is just a poor argument. Tell me how many issues you've had in 2007?
Actually, in 2007, as I said, Linux has closed the gap. Neither Suse Linux 10 or Windows Server 2003 automatically installed the appropriate driver for my nVidia 6200 AGP on my dual Opteron. On the other hand, Linux utterly fails with my DVD drive, but Windows just plays them. Please don't lecture me about codecs and licensing...at the end of the day, Microsoft pays for it, and Linux writers don't, and I can watch movies on Windows and not on Linux. However, I don't really like to watch movies on my computer, so, for 90% of what I do, Linux is good for me.
And don't even get me started on sound. What sound API should a developer write for these days on Linux, and, does any Linux sound API support hardware accelerated MIDI playback on sound cards, support for sound fonts, and all that other stuff? With Windows, I know there is a layered solution, starting with PlaySound for quick and dirty stuff, then the MCI API for some studio type of stuff, then, there's the lower level mm API for MIDI, and finally DirectX for all sorts of audio playback. With Linux sound, it seems like I fly right into the teeth of KDE vs GNOME and I just lose all hope.
Okay. Visual Studio is great if you are building for Windows. How well can you build on other platforms? Not at all. Go figure. KDevelop is actually fairly good and offers most the items that the average developer will probably ever use
Portability is a religion that not all customers care about. If you are delivering a solution, you are delivering the total package of hardware, OS and language choice. Changing one out would be like asking Ford and GM to make interchangable V8s - a nifty techno trick, but really not all that useful in the real world. To that end, I think Linux does have a lot to offer that Windows doesn't. Off the top of my head, I prefer how Linux mmap works over Windows VirtualAlloc, Linux sockets to Windows sockets, and certainly how the Linux file system works - Windows locking files because they are open is just absurd. But on the other hand I think Windows threading offers more power than Linux threading does. There's a kernel native threadpool, support for the concept of a collection of jobs, and, yeah, I really do like MsgWaitForMultipleObjects.
KDevelop is, I think, better for C++ development than Visual Studio. There are some exceptions - looking at registers in KDevelop is utterly annoying. However, if you haven't done anything serious with Windows Forms in C# in Visual Studio 2005, then you have no idea what you are missing. The intellisense is absolutely godlike compared to KDE or Eclipse. Debugging works really well - the whole "Quickwatch" thing is nice. And finally the refactoring tools are simply rock solid.
As for Office, I must laugh. First, word processing of 2000 compared to either Abiword or OOo is equivalent in all regards Word feels better. It just does. That matters. Featurewise, OOo is pretty close, as I said, but Word feels better. And besides, 2000 is 7 years ago. Word XP/2003 or whatever the version is before the current release blows OOo out of the water. Still, none feel as good as my old favorite, Lotus WordPro (formerly Samna Ami
Alright, that's it. Money's been tight and my wife's after me to unload our house and get some place smaller and more affordable. I imagine that trading in my dual opteron for one of these new super AMD chips is just the ticket.
What I was talking about though, was that a DC in Windows is device independent. So, in Windows you can have the same set of code for printing as you do for display rendering. I think that's pretty nifty. And, Windows Metafiles too, were interesting. Had Microsoft been smart, they could have built a browser around a WMF hacked up to have hyperlinks. They had all the pieces in place as early as 1992, but, they just didn't see the application.
There's plenty of dangerous industries in the USA. Consider, for example, all the natural gas pipelines. There's investigations when accidents take place, but it doesn't stop a company from delivering energy. Or, look at electricity. I'll say that any lineman has cahoneys as big any guy working on a spaceship. The lineman has a thousand people bitching at him to get the lights on when he's working thousands of volts in the rain. I think that often times we get so caught up in the glamor of the new that we forget the lives people lay on the line every day to bring us the electricity, gas, and food that we take for granted.
There's a lot of good stuff in Windows, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. Sure, we know that Linux has a better networking stack now, but, there have been things that Windows does better than Linux and will be so in the future.
a) Windows XP remote desktop is easier to deal with than X remoting. b) Both KDE and Gnome borrow u/i design heavily from the Windows 95 Start Bar. The concept of COM based shell extensions was looted by KParts. c) Cairo is essentially a GDI+ me too. d) There's still nothing in Unix that has the same handy role as a Graphics Device Context. e) Although I prefer OpenGL for its ease of entry, a lot of big gaming houses seem to prefer DirectX. f) For a long time, Windows lead in hardware discovery. Linux has closed that gap, I think, but in 1995, I was editing config files to get my X to work with my monitor, and Windows would discover both for me automatically. g) It's -STILL- easier to install a new piece of software on Windows. Too easy, the security people will refrain...:-)
And, in the applications department, there's really no open source offering that comes remotely close to Visual Studio 2005 and C#, SQL Server 2005, and certainly not even Office 2000, let alone newer versions of Office. Sure, OpenOffice word processing is ok, but the spreadsheet is crap, and the "Access" clone is terrible. On the other hand, C++ for Linux has I think pulled ahead of what MS offers, but only really because MS is standing still in C++. If they got pissed off enough, they'd throw a billion dollars into the language and crush us.
The bottom line is, while you and I and many other people like Linux better than Windows, Windows IS a good product, and pretending that its not won't change it. What will change it,is more software for Linux.
That's why we need to let people with homes on the US border put in landmines and machine guns. Sometimes you just have to have old trusty to stop those wiley mexicans!
If this is were NASA, they would ground the shuttle for two years as Congress and a bunch of jackass administrators poured over every detail in the name of safety. But, this is the private sector, and they will say that playing with explosives sometimes get you killed, and order the people back to work within the next day or so. By the time even NASA were to appoint a committee to form committees, the company will have cleaned the place and started building again.
Look, this sort of thing happens every day in the private sector. Fisherman drown, taxi drivers get shot, construction workers die in falls, and life goes on, with hardly missing a beat. If you want space to be really privatized, the right way to look at this whole accident is to say, yeah, it sucks that they died, but, back to work people.
I have to say that this reminds me of all the ridiculous stuff the Soviet Union cranked out during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s. The Berlin Wall is for defense against Western Attack, we would have elections but the people are perfectly happy with the Communist Party, and now, Microsoft says that Open Source works best on Windows. It all just goes hand in hand.
Ok, basically, you are overthinking everything in an attempt to rationalize getting pussy. First off, pussy is not that important. You need to be a bit of a sexist and realize that while women are great, they are still objects, and that, you can always put them in their proper place along with a fast car, a giant house, a boat, a good TV, computer, fine cigarettes and whiskey.
With that out of the way, I can agree that age is a guideline of sorts. I'm not in favor of federal sentencing guidelines or even minimum terms. Rather, I'd leave more up to local judges, so that they can use their minds in sorting these things out.
In your hypothetical case, pressuring the 19 year old girl to have sex with you is kind of a rape. So, while the law might not see it that way, her father certainly would, and should. In an islamic country, he would have the right to kill you for it, and honestly, I'm not so sure that's not a bad idea! [really, why are we fighting a culture that only wants to make us male dominated]?
Look at the tone of your writing, throwing out all sorts of random points because you have a visceral reaction against the death penalty. But let's go point for point.
A jay walker can end up killing a two year old by walking into traffic and cause a major wreck so kill the jay-walker as they can't be rehabilitated.
Presently, there are very cases of where jay-walkers actually cause major car accidents. Never-the-less, if it could be proved that a jay-walker did so deliberately to cause a car accident, then yes, the crime would be capital murder. However, the next question is, could a murdering jay walker be rehabilitated. For now, we would assume yes, given no statistical evidence to the contrary.
Someone stealing a loaf of bread can't be rehabilitated either and could end up killing a two year old at a bank so kill him as well.
Actually, there's a great deal of evidence to support exactly that contention.
Someone who smokes may kill a two year old through second hand smoke, so kill the smokers as well
Actually no, because, second hand smoke is an invention of trial lawyers and the doctors they paid off.
Where do you get off thinking there is some icon of "evil" and some glowing halo of "not evil" and you can automatically decide one gets death and the other gets a medal?
Easily. I am right, and the others are wrong, and yeah, the mother is a sex criminal. Had your friend been 2, as I said, then execute her.
I think that it is time that the USA puts together some Federal investment into national infrastructure. The Internet is a highway, and just as much as the federal highways repay themselves many times over from the increased economic activity they generate, so to will pervasive broadband.
We should have broadband wireless in the entire northeast corridor, and along all the major highways and railways. All the trains, commuter and Amtrak, should also offer free public wireless service. How much could it cost? A few billion dollars? A hundred billion dollars? So what? WE've blown that much on stupider stuff, and wireless would be a national shot in the arm.
1) I want a car with a big V8 engine, and lo GM first brought the GTO and then the G8. 2) I like most McDonald's food. I think the Big and Tasty is, well Big and Tasty 3) I like Windows, for the most part. And, I like Visual Studio and C# for business development. Hell, I wrote in my blog a big blast at Visual Studio 2005, and I wound up getting an email from the head of the Visual Studio Team, and the guy was cool. 4) I like Linux for C++ development. 5) I like faster processors, faster graphics cards, more CPUs, higher resolution monitors at cheaper prices and faster internet, and, for the most part, I can get any of the above.
The bottom line is, companies DO give people what they want, otherwise, they wouldn't exist. Your problem is that not only do you want McDonalds to give you what you want, but you want McDonalds to give me what you want them to give me. Suck it up. If you don't like McDonalds, don't eat there, but don't judge the rest of us that do.
Oh wiat, you are going to say that is different? How is it so different? You were the one that stated "Just shoot them all. Go after criminals, not the rest of us." and criminals are the ones who commit a crime so I was simply going by your logic
The big hole in your argument is that stealing a loaf of bread is not the same as raping a 2 year old. We can argue about the socioeconomic causes of someone stealing a loaf of bread and thus the penalty, but, the facts are in when it comes to child rapists. Generally speaking, sex offenders have a very high recidivism rate, so, rehabilitation doesn't work. Therefor, because they represent a continuing and ongoing danger to society, it is safer for everyone involved to just kill them.
Please, explain why a child rapist has a right to life.
Really, if you just executed like a 1000 people a year that are caught making kiddy porn, that would put a pretty big damper on the whole thing. Just shoot them all. Go after criminals, not the rest of us.
You know, I just got my karma back up to excellent, and along comes an article that just demands that I piss it all away.
Every time you get a scientist that rolls out with crap like this, people are less likely to trust any scientist. "Scientist" is a brand, of sorts, just as surely as Nike or Apple, and things like this just undermine the brand.
It makes me wonder if, the Earth is warming up simply because it is next to Mars, which is also warming up. If it can work for people, then why not planets? Whose going to argue against that "logic"? A scientist? What? The same one that says someone is fat because his friend is fat?
That's it. All of this political stuff, from the weird Halliburton conspiracies or Gonzales crap invented by the left, isn't even on the public radar. The only thing that matters to the American people is the price of gas, so therefor, they hate Congress and Bush. If Iraq pans out ultimately, and oil craters back down to $20 a barrel as Exxon drills everywhere in Kurdistan and the Shia south, then Bush will wind up on his own coin.
I had a Rana disk drive that offered a whopping 180k. Problem is, the motor was inadequately shielded, so I had to wrap the thing in aluminum foil for it to be able to work.
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I think he's been framed by the same Democrats that just tried to murder the chief justice of the supreme court.
Jeez, what do you want in Prison, Club Med? I'm still wondering why convicts get more than 1000 calories a day.
People are animals and as such, are competitive. Just like wolves and dogs and monkeys and every other thing that walks or crawls tests and fights to get the right to lead and breed, so do people.
People want to be leaders because leaders get all the resources. It works out, in that, people compete to lead, and therefor, those who can beat their way to the top are tested by society to be the fittest.
If you are not a leader of some sort, you really are a loser, and you just need to suck it up and accept it.
Becuase SUSE really is a mess compared to that!
Not only does remotely using X offer far more flexibility then RDP
Where then, in SUSE Linux 10, can I just click on an icon, enter a computer name, and remote desktop in?
Ah, but the glory is we are not limited to those two interfaces.... Not to mention X has allowed you for ages to have multiple desktops, something that was only possible with third party apps for a long time in Windows
Architecturally, Windows has allowed for multiple Window stations and multiple OS personalities since Windows NT. Microsoft never implemented them. Third party developers have. And I wouldn't hold it against MS for buying Citrix technology any more than I would hold it against KDE guys for working with Apple on some things.
This is just a poor argument. Tell me how many issues you've had in 2007?
Actually, in 2007, as I said, Linux has closed the gap. Neither Suse Linux 10 or Windows Server 2003 automatically installed the appropriate driver for my nVidia 6200 AGP on my dual Opteron. On the other hand, Linux utterly fails with my DVD drive, but Windows just plays them. Please don't lecture me about codecs and licensing...at the end of the day, Microsoft pays for it, and Linux writers don't, and I can watch movies on Windows and not on Linux. However, I don't really like to watch movies on my computer, so, for 90% of what I do, Linux is good for me.
And don't even get me started on sound. What sound API should a developer write for these days on Linux, and, does any Linux sound API support hardware accelerated MIDI playback on sound cards, support for sound fonts, and all that other stuff? With Windows, I know there is a layered solution, starting with PlaySound for quick and dirty stuff, then the MCI API for some studio type of stuff, then, there's the lower level mm API for MIDI, and finally DirectX for all sorts of audio playback. With Linux sound, it seems like I fly right into the teeth of KDE vs GNOME and I just lose all hope.
Okay. Visual Studio is great if you are building for Windows. How well can you build on other platforms? Not at all. Go figure. KDevelop is actually fairly good and offers most the items that the average developer will probably ever use
Portability is a religion that not all customers care about. If you are delivering a solution, you are delivering the total package of hardware, OS and language choice. Changing one out would be like asking Ford and GM to make interchangable V8s - a nifty techno trick, but really not all that useful in the real world. To that end, I think Linux does have a lot to offer that Windows doesn't. Off the top of my head, I prefer how Linux mmap works over Windows VirtualAlloc, Linux sockets to Windows sockets, and certainly how the Linux file system works - Windows locking files because they are open is just absurd. But on the other hand I think Windows threading offers more power than Linux threading does. There's a kernel native threadpool, support for the concept of a collection of jobs, and, yeah, I really do like MsgWaitForMultipleObjects.
KDevelop is, I think, better for C++ development than Visual Studio. There are some exceptions - looking at registers in KDevelop is utterly annoying. However, if you haven't done anything serious with Windows Forms in C# in Visual Studio 2005, then you have no idea what you are missing. The intellisense is absolutely godlike compared to KDE or Eclipse. Debugging works really well - the whole "Quickwatch" thing is nice. And finally the refactoring tools are simply rock solid.
As for Office, I must laugh. First, word processing of 2000 compared to either Abiword or OOo is equivalent in all regards
Word feels better. It just does. That matters. Featurewise, OOo is pretty close, as I said, but Word feels better. And besides, 2000 is 7 years ago. Word XP/2003 or whatever the version is before the current release blows OOo out of the water. Still, none feel as good as my old favorite, Lotus WordPro (formerly Samna Ami
Alright, that's it. Money's been tight and my wife's after me to unload our house and get some place smaller and more affordable. I imagine that trading in my dual opteron for one of these new super AMD chips is just the ticket.
I just have to have it.
What I was talking about though, was that a DC in Windows is device independent. So, in Windows you can have the same set of code for printing as you do for display rendering. I think that's pretty nifty. And, Windows Metafiles too, were interesting. Had Microsoft been smart, they could have built a browser around a WMF hacked up to have hyperlinks. They had all the pieces in place as early as 1992, but, they just didn't see the application.
There's plenty of dangerous industries in the USA. Consider, for example, all the natural gas pipelines. There's investigations when accidents take place, but it doesn't stop a company from delivering energy. Or, look at electricity. I'll say that any lineman has cahoneys as big any guy working on a spaceship. The lineman has a thousand people bitching at him to get the lights on when he's working thousands of volts in the rain. I think that often times we get so caught up in the glamor of the new that we forget the lives people lay on the line every day to bring us the electricity, gas, and food that we take for granted.
There's a lot of good stuff in Windows, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. Sure, we know that Linux has a better networking stack now, but, there have been things that Windows does better than Linux and will be so in the future.
:-)
a) Windows XP remote desktop is easier to deal with than X remoting.
b) Both KDE and Gnome borrow u/i design heavily from the Windows 95 Start Bar. The concept of COM based shell extensions was looted by KParts.
c) Cairo is essentially a GDI+ me too.
d) There's still nothing in Unix that has the same handy role as a Graphics Device Context.
e) Although I prefer OpenGL for its ease of entry, a lot of big gaming houses seem to prefer DirectX.
f) For a long time, Windows lead in hardware discovery. Linux has closed that gap, I think, but in 1995, I was editing config files to get my X to work with my monitor, and Windows would discover both for me automatically.
g) It's -STILL- easier to install a new piece of software on Windows. Too easy, the security people will refrain...
And, in the applications department, there's really no open source offering that comes remotely close to Visual Studio 2005 and C#, SQL Server 2005, and certainly not even Office 2000, let alone newer versions of Office. Sure, OpenOffice word processing is ok, but the spreadsheet is crap, and the "Access" clone is terrible. On the other hand, C++ for Linux has I think pulled ahead of what MS offers, but only really because MS is standing still in C++. If they got pissed off enough, they'd throw a billion dollars into the language and crush us.
The bottom line is, while you and I and many other people like Linux better than Windows, Windows IS a good product, and pretending that its not won't change it. What will change it,is more software for Linux.
Get typing.
That's why we need to let people with homes on the US border put in landmines and machine guns. Sometimes you just have to have old trusty to stop those wiley mexicans!
If this is were NASA, they would ground the shuttle for two years as Congress and a bunch of jackass administrators poured over every detail in the name of safety. But, this is the private sector, and they will say that playing with explosives sometimes get you killed, and order the people back to work within the next day or so. By the time even NASA were to appoint a committee to form committees, the company will have cleaned the place and started building again.
Look, this sort of thing happens every day in the private sector. Fisherman drown, taxi drivers get shot, construction workers die in falls, and life goes on, with hardly missing a beat. If you want space to be really privatized, the right way to look at this whole accident is to say, yeah, it sucks that they died, but, back to work people.
I have to say that this reminds me of all the ridiculous stuff the Soviet Union cranked out during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s. The Berlin Wall is for defense against Western Attack, we would have elections but the people are perfectly happy with the Communist Party, and now, Microsoft says that Open Source works best on Windows. It all just goes hand in hand.
In the above note, as I was enumerating things for a man to have, I forgot to include GUNS!
Ok, basically, you are overthinking everything in an attempt to rationalize getting pussy. First off, pussy is not that important. You need to be a bit of a sexist and realize that while women are great, they are still objects, and that, you can always put them in their proper place along with a fast car, a giant house, a boat, a good TV, computer, fine cigarettes and whiskey.
With that out of the way, I can agree that age is a guideline of sorts. I'm not in favor of federal sentencing guidelines or even minimum terms. Rather, I'd leave more up to local judges, so that they can use their minds in sorting these things out.
In your hypothetical case, pressuring the 19 year old girl to have sex with you is kind of a rape. So, while the law might not see it that way, her father certainly would, and should. In an islamic country, he would have the right to kill you for it, and honestly, I'm not so sure that's not a bad idea! [really, why are we fighting a culture that only wants to make us male dominated]?
Look at the tone of your writing, throwing out all sorts of random points because you have a visceral reaction against the death penalty. But let's go point for point.
A jay walker can end up killing a two year old by walking into traffic and cause a major wreck so kill the jay-walker as they can't be rehabilitated.
Presently, there are very cases of where jay-walkers actually cause major car accidents. Never-the-less, if it could be proved that a jay-walker did so deliberately to cause a car accident, then yes, the crime would be capital murder. However, the next question is, could a murdering jay walker be rehabilitated. For now, we would assume yes, given no statistical evidence to the contrary.
Someone stealing a loaf of bread can't be rehabilitated either and could end up killing a two year old at a bank so kill him as well.
Actually, there's a great deal of evidence to support exactly that contention.
Someone who smokes may kill a two year old through second hand smoke, so kill the smokers as well
Actually no, because, second hand smoke is an invention of trial lawyers and the doctors they paid off.
Where do you get off thinking there is some icon of "evil" and some glowing halo of "not evil" and you can automatically decide one gets death and the other gets a medal?
Easily. I am right, and the others are wrong, and yeah, the mother is a sex criminal. Had your friend been 2, as I said, then execute her.
I think that it is time that the USA puts together some Federal investment into national infrastructure. The Internet is a highway, and just as much as the federal highways repay themselves many times over from the increased economic activity they generate, so to will pervasive broadband.
We should have broadband wireless in the entire northeast corridor, and along all the major highways and railways. All the trains, commuter and Amtrak, should also offer free public wireless service. How much could it cost? A few billion dollars? A hundred billion dollars? So what? WE've blown that much on stupider stuff, and wireless would be a national shot in the arm.
1) I want a car with a big V8 engine, and lo GM first brought the GTO and then the G8.
2) I like most McDonald's food. I think the Big and Tasty is, well Big and Tasty
3) I like Windows, for the most part. And, I like Visual Studio and C# for business development. Hell, I wrote in my blog a big blast at Visual Studio 2005, and I wound up getting an email from the head of the Visual Studio Team, and the guy was cool.
4) I like Linux for C++ development.
5) I like faster processors, faster graphics cards, more CPUs, higher resolution monitors at cheaper prices and faster internet, and, for the most part, I can get any of the above.
The bottom line is, companies DO give people what they want, otherwise, they wouldn't exist. Your problem is that not only do you want McDonalds to give you what you want, but you want McDonalds to give me what you want them to give me. Suck it up. If you don't like McDonalds, don't eat there, but don't judge the rest of us that do.
Oh wiat, you are going to say that is different? How is it so different? You were the one that stated "Just shoot them all. Go after criminals, not the rest of us." and criminals are the ones who commit a crime so I was simply going by your logic
The big hole in your argument is that stealing a loaf of bread is not the same as raping a 2 year old. We can argue about the socioeconomic causes of someone stealing a loaf of bread and thus the penalty, but, the facts are in when it comes to child rapists. Generally speaking, sex offenders have a very high recidivism rate, so, rehabilitation doesn't work. Therefor, because they represent a continuing and ongoing danger to society, it is safer for everyone involved to just kill them.
Please, explain why a child rapist has a right to life.
So I guess, according to your logic, China currently has a booming economy because of their use of acupuncture?
Negative, they have a booming economy because of their education.
Really, if you just executed like a 1000 people a year that are caught making kiddy porn, that would put a pretty big damper on the whole thing. Just shoot them all. Go after criminals, not the rest of us.
You know, I just got my karma back up to excellent, and along comes an article that just demands that I piss it all away.
Every time you get a scientist that rolls out with crap like this, people are less likely to trust any scientist. "Scientist" is a brand, of sorts, just as surely as Nike or Apple, and things like this just undermine the brand.
It makes me wonder if, the Earth is warming up simply because it is next to Mars, which is also warming up. If it can work for people, then why not planets? Whose going to argue against that "logic"? A scientist? What? The same one that says someone is fat because his friend is fat?
You must be a product of the American educational system. Don't worry, I can sympathize, having spent some time there myself.
Yeah, that same lousy system that has the USA with the world's largest GDP. What a colossal failure!
That's it. All of this political stuff, from the weird Halliburton conspiracies or Gonzales crap invented by the left, isn't even on the public radar. The only thing that matters to the American people is the price of gas, so therefor, they hate Congress and Bush. If Iraq pans out ultimately, and oil craters back down to $20 a barrel as Exxon drills everywhere in Kurdistan and the Shia south, then Bush will wind up on his own coin.
I had a Rana disk drive that offered a whopping 180k. Problem is, the motor was inadequately shielded, so I had to wrap the thing in aluminum foil for it to be able to work.