Depends. For a lot of non-gaming backward compatibility purposes Wine is darn spiffy and works great out of the box.
Even in Gaming a lot depends on what you're running; again older retrogaming is good.
All that said, it's a nice tool that drastically expands the software available in Linux, a particularly useful tool when there's a nice utility from Windows that you're used to and want to stick with till you see something better, not an all around solution. If bleeding edge gaming is your priority, assuming Wine will solve the problem is foolish. Dual Boot.
That my take. This could be interesting, or this could be 'Time Cube' BS.
Of course, given that I've never really gotten my ass through Asimov's History of Physics, and I *know* I like his writing, it may be livable for me to do without.
If you ask me it's time we brought back the death penalty for unruly corporations.
No, because the psychopaths responsible for the decisions, will find a way out, leaving their customary trail of destruction and misery after them: they will manipulate their way out of the to-be-killed corporation that they corrupted and abused, and into a leading position in another company. Which is, btw. what they do today already, even without your proposed "death penalty for unruly corporations".
Instead, we should introduce death penalties for unruly executives, and start recognizing corporate psychopathy for the that it is.
Frankly - Fine. Keep killing companies and costing stockholders money until people wise up that companies that do horrid things illegal things will be destroyed. Some people won't wise up till it hit's their bank statement.
There seems to me to be an intuitively obvious difference between "Apple's knowledge of the situation at Foxconn" vs "Microsoft and their russian branch's legal department"
Simply put - When 'Foxconn' turns a profit, that money does not go to Apple's Stockholders. When 'Microsoft's Russian Branch' turns a profit, that does go to Microsoft's Stockholders. Therefore, Microsoft has a moral and ethical responsibility to know what the fuck is going on there - the combination of facts that: they have stated that they don't have any direct knowledge, their lawyers are in fact directly involved with these cases, and Microsoft has not fired those lawyers . . . indicates that they are lying and in fact directly aiding and abetting these corrupt practices by the Putin regime.
Interestingly enough, when I ask 'Excel Jockies' about it, they can't actually tell me what exactly it is that Excel does that Calc doesn't.
It's interesting because, I mean if I talk to a Photoshop jockey what it does that GIMP doesn't, they can tell me; Indeed, they generally admit GIMP is a good program. Same with various email programs, it goes the other direction in Apache vs IIS, but in general people know what the competition looks like.
It's pretty much limited to MS-Office junkies that insist on it's being 'so much better' but can't actually say they know what other programs do.
Ah, in the same way you take your car to the same certified master mechanic you would have work on your transmission every time it needs an oil change.
Without the ability to determine definitively whether they have 'cleared the neighbourhood of its orbit' can we really prove that we've discovered *any* extrasolar planets?
And yes, I know that the IAU says that is the definition of a planet in our Solar system, but as even the most basic student of science philosophy knows science assumes that definitions are not variable across time and space. So really we just don't know.
FU Tyson - {G}. If Pluto can't be a planet I'm not recognizing any of these others till you have definitive quatification of the ephemerides for all of them.
I'm not actually (100%) sure from the article what the actual complaint is, that there was a running equals sign, or that they totaled the equal sign into the parentheses instead of creating the proper equivalency.
Sound mostly like the latter, but if they can't talk about it without concatenating two errors in one sentence, maybe they need to work on their own issues first?
Ah - Prop 8 is proof that, having voted to extend certain rights equally among all citizens and legal residents of the United States, we don't get to vote that we only meant that for people we liked.
That being, y'know, the whole reason for the 14th amendment and all. Which our duly appointed representatives made part of the supreme law of the land.
That's not entirely uninteresting, and I'd like to see the full article at some point, but after checking some of the main articles, the site itself is what you would get if the time cube and the free republic had a child.
Except that's the right's objection to *any* fact-checking organization; regardless of 'mission statements'.
Wikipedia, factcheck.org, NPR/PBS (I always love how networks that include strongly conservative shows like the McLaughlin group et al are always proforma 'liberal btw. Nothing in the media is ever conservative enough to be conservative so long as it includes any liberals whatsoever), you name it, it's 'liberal', and if it's 'liberal' there's no thought given to actually countering the argument, they just move forward and ignore it.
And so there's no fact-checking on the right; Rush Limbaugh says something blatantly out of touch with any reality, and since there's no way to both fact-check and be considered a real conservative, everyone believes it sans proof.
"The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
It's the plot from "1984" inside that echo-chamber. Except they like it there.
I concede, that maintenance issue is the other big reason I'd like to go all electric; If I could get an electric car with some kind of more efficient solid-state peltier circuit air conditioning, it should, barring batteries, last forever.
And for all the complaint about "Well, your batteries are going to lose value", I *hope* these vehicles will be setup so you can upgrade the batteries as they improve and it becomes necessary.
Even so - if I do get a hybrid, I still have vague hopes of getting a diesel-electric hybrid, which ought to be an awfully nice place to rest while the full electrics come up to speed.
Sadly all our current models go only to supermodels of indeterminate ethnicity wearing fetish regalia.
Nude supermodels of specific ethnicity is being considered for the 3.0 release however, assuming we can get the "5% random chance of cannibalistic predator supermodels" bug taken care of, which we've felt necessary to prioritize despite the longer than expected complaint level.
I suppose I really don't understand the concept that any service that does fact checking is left wing.
That's literally the complaint I hear against *anyone* with a good reputation for fact checking. But everyone on the right comes out with this bs stuff that when you fact check it it's either
B) An unverifiable statement tracks back to some right-wing echo chamber and the actual statement is not verifiable either way. B) verifiably not true or C) True . ..sorta. IE, taken out of context it implies something that seems unlikely on the face of it, but it's only when you figure how they're putting apples in the orange crate you know that it's . . . technically . . . true, but still deliberately deceitful.
Once in awhile you see an actually verifiable fact come out without some twisted context being used, but not all that often.
But they keep people from doing fact-checking by making any actual fact-checking left-wing propaganda. These are people so divorced from the principles of being able to support their arguments with links to actual neutral references they had to leave Wikipedia en-masse and create a Conservapedia where statements from 2,000 year old hebrew mythology are considered valid references for modern biology.
And then they don't understand why no one outside their echo chamber takes them seriously.
Actually, "Finds that the evil conservatives are verifiably gaming the system and deliberately trying to avoid anyone noticing that they are silencing their voice". The part where they brag about how their doing it amongst themselves is particularly damning.
You know, what conservatives keep complaining that the great liberal media conspiracy is doing to them, yet despite having an entire network to themselves can't actually prove in any way except to scream "But we lose these arguments when both sides are covered equally, which *must* be evidence that the media is biased! I mean, anything else would imply that our assumptions are at fault and we know we're right so that can't be it!"
Whenever someone screams "But everyone does it" without any actual facts to that effect, there's a good chance it's just them.
Thanks - I was mulling through *why* it seemed intuitively wrong to me to make those equivalent, and yeah, I think you nailed it. I'm not sure his plan isn't an improvement, but but burying a story that can't recover on it's own merit is a lot worse than hyping a story that falls apart based on it's own shortcomings.
Which is of course why we have a free press no matter how badly it sucks at time - I'd rather risk the hype of people adulating bs like the Paul Ryan budget, or even the most recent bs entertainment story, than risk an important story being buried.
Which of course highlights the fundamental cowardice of what the right-wingers were doing. To bury the opposing viewpoint in this way is to declare "Given equal time, I don't think we'll win this argument. Better make sure they don't have equal time"; Whether they don't think they'll win based on the facts, or because they think they're intellectually/morally superior to their fellow citizenry is kinda irrelevant to me - that merely helps narrow down whether it's the cowardice of the con-artist lying to others or the cowardice of the elitist lying to themselves.
Feh - The nature of quantum physics and it's non-deterministic aspects seem to me to be *why* there is no arrow of time at that level.
This assumes of course the third law is incomplete and that reversing entropy is possible, but is in fact an NP process; If that is the case (And I may well be in 'time cube' territory here) then only the fact that P != NP gives rise to our happy A then B causal universe.
I was always vaguely afraid some asshole would prove that the actual problem of proving either P != NP or P = NP was in fact an NP problem.
"The good news is that, if we prove P = NP, it will have turned out to itself be a problem that can simplify to the form that proves P = NP. But if P != NP, we're probably never going to prove it . .."
I looked at the wiki article, and was flabbergasted by the amount of detail in it I looked at the history just to see if this was all created as a joke in the last 24 hours.
Nope - this has entries going back to 2006.
And to think they deleted my article on the various types of toejam as crossreferenced by nationality, region, and sock fibers as 'irrelevant' - Sheesh.
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Depends. For a lot of non-gaming backward compatibility purposes Wine is darn spiffy and works great out of the box.
Even in Gaming a lot depends on what you're running; again older retrogaming is good.
All that said, it's a nice tool that drastically expands the software available in Linux, a particularly useful tool when there's a nice utility from Windows that you're used to and want to stick with till you see something better, not an all around solution. If bleeding edge gaming is your priority, assuming Wine will solve the problem is foolish. Dual Boot.
Pug
That my take. This could be interesting, or this could be 'Time Cube' BS.
Of course, given that I've never really gotten my ass through Asimov's History of Physics, and I *know* I like his writing, it may be livable for me to do without.
Pug
If you ask me it's time we brought back the death penalty for unruly corporations.
No, because the psychopaths responsible for the decisions, will find a way out, leaving their customary trail of destruction and misery after them: they will manipulate their way out of the to-be-killed corporation that they corrupted and abused, and into a leading position in another company. Which is, btw. what they do today already, even without your proposed "death penalty for unruly corporations".
Instead, we should introduce death penalties for unruly executives, and start recognizing corporate psychopathy for the that it is.
Frankly - Fine. Keep killing companies and costing stockholders money until people wise up that companies that do horrid things illegal things will be destroyed. Some people won't wise up till it hit's their bank statement.
Pug
There seems to me to be an intuitively obvious difference between "Apple's knowledge of the situation at Foxconn" vs "Microsoft and their russian branch's legal department"
Simply put - When 'Foxconn' turns a profit, that money does not go to Apple's Stockholders. When 'Microsoft's Russian Branch' turns a profit, that does go to Microsoft's Stockholders. Therefore, Microsoft has a moral and ethical responsibility to know what the fuck is going on there - the combination of facts that: they have stated that they don't have any direct knowledge, their lawyers are in fact directly involved with these cases, and Microsoft has not fired those lawyers . . . indicates that they are lying and in fact directly aiding and abetting these corrupt practices by the Putin regime.
So, yeah - Different.
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Interestingly enough, when I ask 'Excel Jockies' about it, they can't actually tell me what exactly it is that Excel does that Calc doesn't.
It's interesting because, I mean if I talk to a Photoshop jockey what it does that GIMP doesn't, they can tell me; Indeed, they generally admit GIMP is a good program. Same with various email programs, it goes the other direction in Apache vs IIS, but in general people know what the competition looks like.
It's pretty much limited to MS-Office junkies that insist on it's being 'so much better' but can't actually say they know what other programs do.
Just Sayin' - ug
Your definition of 'Pragmatic' seems surprisingly close to my definition of 'Unethical'.
Pug
Ah, in the same way you take your car to the same certified master mechanic you would have work on your transmission every time it needs an oil change.
Pug
Stop
Hammertime.
Without the ability to determine definitively whether they have 'cleared the neighbourhood of its orbit' can we really prove that we've discovered *any* extrasolar planets?
And yes, I know that the IAU says that is the definition of a planet in our Solar system, but as even the most basic student of science philosophy knows science assumes that definitions are not variable across time and space. So really we just don't know.
FU Tyson - {G}. If Pluto can't be a planet I'm not recognizing any of these others till you have definitive quatification of the ephemerides for all of them.
Pug
I wouldn't mind *having* it (mostly because of NPR) but mandating it seems silly.
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Obviously to you perhaps, but not valid in any formal notation I'm familiar with.
Parent is correct.
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I'm not actually (100%) sure from the article what the actual complaint is, that there was a running equals sign, or that they totaled the equal sign into the parentheses instead of creating the proper equivalency.
Sound mostly like the latter, but if they can't talk about it without concatenating two errors in one sentence, maybe they need to work on their own issues first?
Pug
Ah - Prop 8 is proof that, having voted to extend certain rights equally among all citizens and legal residents of the United States, we don't get to vote that we only meant that for people we liked.
That being, y'know, the whole reason for the 14th amendment and all. Which our duly appointed representatives made part of the supreme law of the land.
And Glenn Beck now wants to repeal.
Pug
That's not entirely uninteresting, and I'd like to see the full article at some point, but after checking some of the main articles, the site itself is what you would get if the time cube and the free republic had a child.
Pug
That sounds suspiciously like it validates to "If it's worth my having it's worth him making a sacrifice for.".
Pug
Except that's the right's objection to *any* fact-checking organization; regardless of 'mission statements'.
Wikipedia, factcheck.org, NPR/PBS (I always love how networks that include strongly conservative shows like the McLaughlin group et al are always proforma 'liberal btw. Nothing in the media is ever conservative enough to be conservative so long as it includes any liberals whatsoever), you name it, it's 'liberal', and if it's 'liberal' there's no thought given to actually countering the argument, they just move forward and ignore it.
And so there's no fact-checking on the right; Rush Limbaugh says something blatantly out of touch with any reality, and since there's no way to both fact-check and be considered a real conservative, everyone believes it sans proof.
"The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
It's the plot from "1984" inside that echo-chamber. Except they like it there.
Pug
Be fair - their psychiatrist explained to them that it's never going to be bigger and no woman will ever love them, so buy an SUV to compensate.
Technically, that counts as 'treatment'.
Pug
I concede, that maintenance issue is the other big reason I'd like to go all electric; If I could get an electric car with some kind of more efficient solid-state peltier circuit air conditioning, it should, barring batteries, last forever.
And for all the complaint about "Well, your batteries are going to lose value", I *hope* these vehicles will be setup so you can upgrade the batteries as they improve and it becomes necessary.
Even so - if I do get a hybrid, I still have vague hopes of getting a diesel-electric hybrid, which ought to be an awfully nice place to rest while the full electrics come up to speed.
Pug
Sadly all our current models go only to supermodels of indeterminate ethnicity wearing fetish regalia.
Nude supermodels of specific ethnicity is being considered for the 3.0 release however, assuming we can get the "5% random chance of cannibalistic predator supermodels" bug taken care of, which we've felt necessary to prioritize despite the longer than expected complaint level.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Pug
I suppose I really don't understand the concept that any service that does fact checking is left wing.
That's literally the complaint I hear against *anyone* with a good reputation for fact checking. But everyone on the right comes out with this bs stuff that when you fact check it it's either
B) An unverifiable statement tracks back to some right-wing echo chamber and the actual statement is not verifiable either way. .sorta. IE, taken out of context it implies something that seems unlikely on the face of it, but it's only when you figure how they're putting apples in the orange crate you know that it's . . . technically . . . true, but still deliberately deceitful.
B) verifiably not true or
C) True . .
Once in awhile you see an actually verifiable fact come out without some twisted context being used, but not all that often.
But they keep people from doing fact-checking by making any actual fact-checking left-wing propaganda. These are people so divorced from the principles of being able to support their arguments with links to actual neutral references they had to leave Wikipedia en-masse and create a Conservapedia where statements from 2,000 year old hebrew mythology are considered valid references for modern biology.
And then they don't understand why no one outside their echo chamber takes them seriously.
Pug
Actually, "Finds that the evil conservatives are verifiably gaming the system and deliberately trying to avoid anyone noticing that they are silencing their voice". The part where they brag about how their doing it amongst themselves is particularly damning.
You know, what conservatives keep complaining that the great liberal media conspiracy is doing to them, yet despite having an entire network to themselves can't actually prove in any way except to scream "But we lose these arguments when both sides are covered equally, which *must* be evidence that the media is biased! I mean, anything else would imply that our assumptions are at fault and we know we're right so that can't be it!"
Whenever someone screams "But everyone does it" without any actual facts to that effect, there's a good chance it's just them.
Pug
Thanks - I was mulling through *why* it seemed intuitively wrong to me to make those equivalent, and yeah, I think you nailed it. I'm not sure his plan isn't an improvement, but but burying a story that can't recover on it's own merit is a lot worse than hyping a story that falls apart based on it's own shortcomings.
Which is of course why we have a free press no matter how badly it sucks at time - I'd rather risk the hype of people adulating bs like the Paul Ryan budget, or even the most recent bs entertainment story, than risk an important story being buried.
Which of course highlights the fundamental cowardice of what the right-wingers were doing. To bury the opposing viewpoint in this way is to declare "Given equal time, I don't think we'll win this argument. Better make sure they don't have equal time"; Whether they don't think they'll win based on the facts, or because they think they're intellectually/morally superior to their fellow citizenry is kinda irrelevant to me - that merely helps narrow down whether it's the cowardice of the con-artist lying to others or the cowardice of the elitist lying to themselves.
Pug
Feh - The nature of quantum physics and it's non-deterministic aspects seem to me to be *why* there is no arrow of time at that level.
This assumes of course the third law is incomplete and that reversing entropy is possible, but is in fact an NP process; If that is the case (And I may well be in 'time cube' territory here) then only the fact that P != NP gives rise to our happy A then B causal universe.
Seems worth considering at least.
Pug
I was always vaguely afraid some asshole would prove that the actual problem of proving either P != NP or P = NP was in fact an NP problem.
"The good news is that, if we prove P = NP, it will have turned out to itself be a problem that can simplify to the form that proves P = NP. But if P != NP, we're probably never going to prove it . . ."
Pug
I looked at the wiki article, and was flabbergasted by the amount of detail in it I looked at the history just to see if this was all created as a joke in the last 24 hours.
Nope - this has entries going back to 2006.
And to think they deleted my article on the various types of toejam as crossreferenced by nationality, region, and sock fibers as 'irrelevant' - Sheesh.
{G} - Pug