A space heater will do the job far more than even an order of magnitude more efficiently than a light bulb, and in conjunction with a thermostat to monitor current temperatures will actually end up drawing less power in the long run than leaving a 40w bulb on all the time.
None of those platforms can lay claim to actually being a general purpose computing platform that could actually be suitable for software development..
So unless you are saying that Linux is only good for end-user blackbox-like consumer devices, and not viable as a general computing platform or in particular as a platform for software development, I'm not sure that comparing the lack of native editors for devices that are never intended to be development platforms in the first place to the lack of a native editor for Linux is particularly apt.
Right now Unity3d can target Linux, which is leaps and bounds in the right direction, but it really needs a native Linux development environment to be really useful.
The forum feedback page for a native Linux Unity3d editor has been around for over 3 years, received almost double the number of votes of the next highest issue in the feedback pages, and we're still waiting on it.
The impression I'm left with is that even those who produce a sophisticated enough gaming engine or system that can be genuinely competitive in that industry, and who might actually have some support for Linux aren't generally taking Linux seriously as a game development platform. Until that happens, I don't see Linux gaming going anywhere...even with what Valve is doing with it these days.
In most nations, celebration of Christmas is fairly ubiquitous and a person's recognition of that has nothing to do with that particular person's religious or materialistic views.
Of course there's a difference, but most waiting times are just part of the fact that other people are busy doing their jobs and won't drop everything to attend to you the instant that you walk in the door. It's true that reporting a crime takes a fair amount of time, and can arguably even be moderately inconvenient, but I have absolutely no idea what kind of lifestyle you are accustomed to if you think having to sit and wait in one place for that long just to get something done at that location is being treated like a criminal.
It's not exactly plush in a police station, but the waiting time is nothing more than red tape. It's got no more to do with treating you like a criminal than waiting in line at a grocery store.
As for unemployment benefits, If a person qualifies for them, do you seriously think that many people find it so inconvenient to apply for the benefits that they would risk having *NO* income at all until they find another job? Point being that people sit down after taking a number and wait for their name to be called.
It's a lot like a doctor's office in my experience, actually... even with an appointment, you can end up waiting 15 or 20 minutes past your scheduled appointment time if it's late in the day because the doctor has gotten behind because some appointments went over their expected times.
You suggest that they somehow try to make it as unpleasant as possible, but really, the things you offer for it is stuff that you have to do that basically amounts to "red tape", and isn't about deliberately trying to make things difficult for anyone. Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, but then what you've described can happen just as much when you go and renew your driver's license, or get a new passport photo, adjust your automobile insurance, open a new bank account, apply for unemployment insurance benefits, and many, many more. If you don't have the patience to deal with such minor inconveniences in our civilization, that's your own problem... not any kind of inherent problem with the system, except perhaps in your own mind.
What I mean to imply is that since secession is illegal, then there will be consequences... and a jail term for the instigators is among the least of them. If such an endeavor is to be successful, the cost will be measured in human lives.
If a state *could* legally secede from the union, then no such consequences would apply... which is why the fact that it's illegal does have some real impact on whether it is a notion worth pursuing.
If $1000 was $5t when the bubble pops, $5 would be 2.5 cents. Although $5 might not seem like a lot to lose, multiply that times the total number of transactions issued before the bubble bursts, and you could be talking about thousands of dollars instead of just five bucks.
You can't generally set a value for something of worth in bitcoin, because its value changes too much... sometimes even from one day to the next. The only way to manage it at all is to always deal in x dollars worth of bitcoin, in which case the dollar is still the currency being used.
Although I realize this is anecdotal, neither I, nor anyone else that I personally know has ever been treated like a criminal for going into a police station to report an incident. Nonetheless, it does mean that your generalization is not universal. If this is happening to you, it means you live in a city with a crappy police force.
So how to you reconcile not having a single button push on a mobile device with a phone that has a lock screen. The point being that it should not require you a password on the lock screen to be entered in order to call emergency, but you do not want anyone who is not calling emergency to otherwise use the phone.
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A space heater will do the job far more than even an order of magnitude more efficiently than a light bulb, and in conjunction with a thermostat to monitor current temperatures will actually end up drawing less power in the long run than leaving a 40w bulb on all the time.
It might work... but my point is that it is not officially supported... and probably won't ever be.
If that's a serious enough detriment to using slackware to make it nonviable, then why is it still kicking, exactly?
So unless you are saying that Linux is only good for end-user blackbox-like consumer devices, and not viable as a general computing platform or in particular as a platform for software development, I'm not sure that comparing the lack of native editors for devices that are never intended to be development platforms in the first place to the lack of a native editor for Linux is particularly apt.
It's not supported in Slackware
LED bulbs would work just fine....
Could you just use a space heater?
Last time I checked, it was still the case that wine was explicitly not officially supported on 64 bit only platforms.
Also, most applications which require .NET, which is quite a few, actually, won't work under wine.
Right now Unity3d can target Linux, which is leaps and bounds in the right direction, but it really needs a native Linux development environment to be really useful.
The forum feedback page for a native Linux Unity3d editor has been around for over 3 years, received almost double the number of votes of the next highest issue in the feedback pages, and we're still waiting on it.
The impression I'm left with is that even those who produce a sophisticated enough gaming engine or system that can be genuinely competitive in that industry, and who might actually have some support for Linux aren't generally taking Linux seriously as a game development platform. Until that happens, I don't see Linux gaming going anywhere...even with what Valve is doing with it these days.
In most nations, celebration of Christmas is fairly ubiquitous and a person's recognition of that has nothing to do with that particular person's religious or materialistic views.
I wasn't aware that I was somehow obligated to tell you my area.... you had not previously asked where I was from.
I live in the greater Vancouver metropolitan area, in BC Canada.
Of course there's a difference, but most waiting times are just part of the fact that other people are busy doing their jobs and won't drop everything to attend to you the instant that you walk in the door. It's true that reporting a crime takes a fair amount of time, and can arguably even be moderately inconvenient, but I have absolutely no idea what kind of lifestyle you are accustomed to if you think having to sit and wait in one place for that long just to get something done at that location is being treated like a criminal.
It's not exactly plush in a police station, but the waiting time is nothing more than red tape. It's got no more to do with treating you like a criminal than waiting in line at a grocery store.
It's a lot like a doctor's office in my experience, actually... even with an appointment, you can end up waiting 15 or 20 minutes past your scheduled appointment time if it's late in the day because the doctor has gotten behind because some appointments went over their expected times.
I was referring to walk-in's, not prescheduled appointments.
You suggest that they somehow try to make it as unpleasant as possible, but really, the things you offer for it is stuff that you have to do that basically amounts to "red tape", and isn't about deliberately trying to make things difficult for anyone. Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, but then what you've described can happen just as much when you go and renew your driver's license, or get a new passport photo, adjust your automobile insurance, open a new bank account, apply for unemployment insurance benefits, and many, many more. If you don't have the patience to deal with such minor inconveniences in our civilization, that's your own problem... not any kind of inherent problem with the system, except perhaps in your own mind.
What I mean to imply is that since secession is illegal, then there will be consequences... and a jail term for the instigators is among the least of them. If such an endeavor is to be successful, the cost will be measured in human lives.
If a state *could* legally secede from the union, then no such consequences would apply... which is why the fact that it's illegal does have some real impact on whether it is a notion worth pursuing.
Are you saying that California is ready to go to war for it?
Bear in mind that in the US revolutionary war, there were 3 times as many deaths, per unit of population, as there were during world war 2.
The ends might seem to be worthwhile, but that just makes the means forgivable, not necessarily actually good.
If $1000 was $5t when the bubble pops, $5 would be 2.5 cents. Although $5 might not seem like a lot to lose, multiply that times the total number of transactions issued before the bubble bursts, and you could be talking about thousands of dollars instead of just five bucks.
Fair enough... I apologize profusely for my lack of global inclusion.
You can't generally set a value for something of worth in bitcoin, because its value changes too much... sometimes even from one day to the next. The only way to manage it at all is to always deal in x dollars worth of bitcoin, in which case the dollar is still the currency being used.
One has to also generally wait in line to do things like buy groceries.
Wouldn't secession be illegal?
More generally, wouldn't any movement to secede be considered sedition, and thus subject those involved in it to several years in prison?
Although I realize this is anecdotal, neither I, nor anyone else that I personally know has ever been treated like a criminal for going into a police station to report an incident. Nonetheless, it does mean that your generalization is not universal. If this is happening to you, it means you live in a city with a crappy police force.
So how to you reconcile not having a single button push on a mobile device with a phone that has a lock screen. The point being that it should not require you a password on the lock screen to be entered in order to call emergency, but you do not want anyone who is not calling emergency to otherwise use the phone.
How are you treated like a criminal when reporting a non-emergency crime at the station?