No. Really he doesn't - The C64 was used in business environments as well, and frankly kicked arse, and even in that environment had more power than the machines of the day.
And yes actually, yes a C64 could host a Z80. Heck, my Dads C64 to this day runs ham packet setups.
That's not to denigrate some of the slot architecture advantages of the apple (Though IIRC, actually they were conforming to emerging standards that, y'know, didn't exist when the C-64 came out), but the C-64 architecture survived for such a very long time despite that because it was in fact superior in almost every other way.
Remember. Just because it was good at games doesn't imply inferiority in other contexts. Games are typically the bleeding edge of functionality - the fact that it *could* do graphics like Neuromancer isn't to imply it was the weak sister in otherways.
If you're getting that kind of latency between your ears and the speakers, you may want to fill the entire area with water or some other medium where the speed of sound is higher. Although actually you can get almost the same increase simply by pressurizing the entire room under several atmospheres and raising the temperature appropriately.
Point of order: 7-zip has decoded RAR for years. I have no recollection of it ever *not* supporting RAR, and that goes back to at least playing Morrowind and the Sims (Though I tends to buy later, goty editions of games.
Actually, what the hell - looked it up 2.10 2000-05-16
- First level 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager. - GUI version with integration to Windows Shell. - Compression and decompressing GZip and TAR formats. - Decompression RAR. - Install & Uninstall support. - Some bugs were fixed.
This system is only going to detect malware that does something stupid to avoid being detected by this system. It doesn't *Detect* anything, it doesn't track some behavior that only malware does, it just slows down your pc by randomly swapping out memory.
Or, to put it differently, if the malware in question were completely unaware that this uber process was running and did nothing, what *exactly* would it do to stop the malware in question?
This theory of the FDA's scope smells way too much like the theory of anti-tax nuts that claim Ohio is not a state (Or my favorite version, an anti-tax nut that claimed a paragraph noting the IRS jurisdiction "including U.S. Territories" limited the IRS to those territories.)
I want stem cell research, but this is a bad idea.
Yes, but fundamentally the right Kevin is asserting here is that you have no ownership right even to the finished product.
This is rather like saying that if you knock out a wall, you've infringed the architects ownership of the plans, or you have no right to repair your car yourself, you *have* to go to the dealership.
Sorry, if this is his view of his rights as creator, frankly, he has entitlement issues. Get into the real world with the rest of us, or even try to assert that everyone should have these rights, but trying to pretend you're in some special category where the company doesn't own the work they paid you while ignoring the fact that this is the relationship of everyone else to their employer is just trying to carve out a privileged position for your work.
Honestly, I'm not sure that's feasible with the Windows culture.
For it to work, you kinda need a cultural tendency to write code that handles things like dependency versioning, programs *not* requiring admin rights, plus all the other things that created dependency hell in Linux for such a long time - and these problems only got solved on Linux (it seems to me) because people weren't willing to sacrifice a lot of long terms pains in the arse in favor of short term convenience.
And Windows *is* short term convenient - the registry, the deeply bound IE, the every user an admin mentality, a lot of other 'features' of windows are designed with that short term mindset in mind.
But the thought of something like Apt-Get in *that* environment makes me want to curl up in a little ball and cry like a little girl, because it's only adds so much value in Linux because it can depend on all *other* long term decisions that have made Linux secure and stable relative to Windows. In the Windows Environment it would end up being a horrid evil thing that violated security and destroyed privacy.
I just don't see it happening. Or at least, not in a way that *doesn't* involve me, a fetal position, copious amounts of alcohol and a single bullet.
Umm - Sure you have to restart the app under linux to take advantage of the update. But the point is - you have your own option of when to do so - it does the update, you finish what your doing, and if you save in five minutes or five hours when you restart it will be updated
Windows updates something - well, first of all if you're trying to get work done, forget about it because you can't run the program while it or any dependency is getting updated. It will harass you if you're trying to do something, it's just an all around pain in the ass. I was playing Baldur's Gate II on my XP box last night, and Windows kindly mentioned I needed to reboot - I clicked restart later. And then again in five minutes, and five minutes after that.
That's a problem that just . . . does not exist . . . on my Ubuntu box.
Actually, I've seen all three of those things. Pretty much consistently.
So since I could personally testify to all three under oath, I'd have to say all three are in fact 'particularly accurate'.
Indeed, there is at least one standard XP update that just broke my sisters PC when I tried to reload Windows (And believe me, it took awhile eliminating other things before I came to the final realization that it wasn't hardware but Windows itself, and I had to either try and keep it secure while updating from Windows XP Base, find out *exactly* which update was killing it, or say the heck with it - I bought her an inexpensive (albeit actually pretty nifty) Windows 7 machine and this machine will go into honorable retirement as a network server.)
So I really see see your post as an argument for a "-1, verifiably counter-factual" tag.
It's all one definitive interface under Synaptic/Apt Get. Sure there have been weeks when something was patched everyday, but it's all together, I can click it and go.
With Windows, A) I'm far more likely to have to reboot. B) if I do have to reboot it's like, to steal a phrase "a Jack Russel fucking Terrier".
I will fucking shut down
when I'm at a fucking spot
to save my fucking game dammit Bill! C) Outside of Windows itself, it's a dozen different interfaces, because adobe and ccleaner and java and pidgin have all had to fix this mess themselves.
It's no wonder people click and suddenly realize they just screwed themselves - it's not like there's a unified interface where you can recognize if "X" looks right.
None of which is to say synaptic is perfect - I have my own concerns with it because frankly god help me if canonical ever gets something on it's servers, plus I think you should be able to download and install a program with your own, non-admin privileges (Is there *really* a reason I need to have sudo access to install nethack? Seriously - just make a programs area for user and group level access. If a program *requires* admin level access, either hide it from non admin users, or let the user see what is needed that the admin would have to approve.)
But, compared to windows? I won't go back, you can't make me.
Ouch - I was familiar with the numbers, but not the curve. So, fundamentally the effect is frontloaded, so the direct effect is to warm up faster and the indirect effect is to release more methane as it does so. And, if I'm reading the formulae in the wiki article right, those numbers are direct effect numbers, not taking into account feedback loop effects. Understandable - much easier to calculate, less assumptions, but as methane leaks out of permafrost, it's going to cascade a lot.
Why does *anyone* invest in stocks that don't return dividends?
I can understand it with companies that are startups, but unless I missed the change, MS (and a lot of other companies) don't do the dividend thing. Which means that the only way to make money is to buy and sell the stock, assuming that I am in fact going to find someone even dumber than I am to sell the stock to.
I will grant - many times you *can* find someone dumber than you to sell the stock to, but why the hell would you do that when there are stocks that actually pay you, the owner of the stock, dividends?
Fascism as the overlap of political ideology and business?
Given that businesses doing business in the Iraq War were being grilled on their political leanings, rather than their skills in doing the job.
Well, actually that's exactly why we victims of the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" label called Bush a fascist.
Well, that and the part where he okayed having people tortured.
and had phone calls illegally intercepted
and had US citizens held without trial
and used a major U.S. Network as an arm of the administration
Of course it's easier now to be a Fascist than it used to be even two years ago. Two years ago none of that mattered. Today? Trying to get people health insurance is sufficient.
What annoys me is that Microsoft only has two modes - Secure - and utterly unusable for anything except for people that think inside the exact box you have designed it for, or
Usable for someone that has some problem solving ability, and entirely insecure, because if you can do anything outside your precisely designed box you can access a pwned website that has a file that can leverage your access into complete control of your computer.
I've watched dozens of companies, with smart admins, and no one has any way to both give their people both some room to do actual problem solving *and* stay secure.
All of which is trivially easy in every version of Linux I've seen. Since you can feasibly lock someone down from admin rights without making the system unusable, people can do whatever they need to do, without putting your entire pc and network at risk.
That being the case - why anyone uses windows in a business environment is just beyond me.
Thought, ask legal to investigate if the implementation of a Microsoft Only policy on the public dime, given the known security risks of Microsoft software, opens the hospital up to litigation issues if there is a security breach.
After all - they worded the policy so very strongly, one assumes they can back up the policy with the deliberations should they go to court and prove this was duly considered in light of their hippa responsibilities.
That is based on the assumption that no money spent by the government results in a net gain for the economy.
Why exactly a certain segment of the populace operates on this long disproven assumption I honestly don't know, it seems to have the same relationship to economics as intelligent design has to biology (And however much a logical fallacy it is to make decisions on this basis, a consider overlap among the subscribers to each view).
Defense spending on the other hand, while entirely justifiable up to a point, is a net loss. When our military budget is on a scale in which the question is whether the entire rest of the world, all together, matches our budget, one suspects the point of diminishing returns is well over the horizon behind us.
Admittedly it would help if at least three items weren't things *I* can do easily. I mean really, (s)he's complaining about how to look up memory or kill a process?
Right-click on a task bar. Add the task manager. *DONE*.
Can't connect to an ISP? Seriously? Either they're using a proprietary DUN driver, or you should be able to do this in 15 seconds (AT&T Worldnet used to actually use a proprietary driver. You did in fact have to dig the relevant info out of their tech support, but even that didn't take that long)
I *am* an idiot in Linux terms, and I can do these. When these are the *complaints*?
There are applications that Windows has that Linux does not natively support. No ideological commitment to opensource is going to make these apps magically appear on Linux in an explosion of Rainbows. That being the case, utilizing wine to give near native support for otherwise missing applications strengthens Linux by expanding it's capabilities.
Moreover, competition for users among programs naturally drives the improvement of programs. The mere fact that a 'good enough' program on Linux has to contend with competition for mindspace with an interloper from Windows drives for improvement in both programs. Given that running under wine is an inherent disadvantage, possibly even driving the interloper to go native to linux.
Removing Wine would do nothing except cripple the evolution of native Linux application development by removing competition for mindshare. It would also almost exactly duplicate Microsoft's attempt to destroy Java as a multi-OS platform in a misguided attempt to lock people into Windows.
If you intend to posit that it was a mistake for them to do it, but smart for Linux competition to be suppressed in an almost identical way, you need to present strong evidence beyond mere ideology.
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I downloaded music to my stolen iPod, then sold my vote to a party determined to make that legal.
Whatchu gonna do about it? Huh!
Ya, dat's wut' I thought!
Pug, da rebel.
(Hey, all my tunes wuz wiped by a large magnetic field!)
This is a game I keep wanting to play (Like one of those classic books you keep meaning to read), but it's never held my attention somehow.
Pug
No. Really he doesn't - The C64 was used in business environments as well, and frankly kicked arse, and even in that environment had more power than the machines of the day.
And yes actually, yes a C64 could host a Z80. Heck, my Dads C64 to this day runs ham packet setups.
That's not to denigrate some of the slot architecture advantages of the apple (Though IIRC, actually they were conforming to emerging standards that, y'know, didn't exist when the C-64 came out), but the C-64 architecture survived for such a very long time despite that because it was in fact superior in almost every other way.
Remember. Just because it was good at games doesn't imply inferiority in other contexts. Games are typically the bleeding edge of functionality - the fact that it *could* do graphics like Neuromancer isn't to imply it was the weak sister in otherways.
Pug
If you're getting that kind of latency between your ears and the speakers, you may want to fill the entire area with water or some other medium where the speed of sound is higher. Although actually you can get almost the same increase simply by pressurizing the entire room under several atmospheres and raising the temperature appropriately.
Pug
The average actor's skill versus the average performance, is hardly an independent variable.
That's like trying to say the average IQ test is independent of the actual answers given on one.
Logic: You're doin' it wrong.
Pug
Point of order: 7-zip has decoded RAR for years. I have no recollection of it ever *not* supporting RAR, and that goes back to at least playing Morrowind and the Sims (Though I tends to buy later, goty editions of games.
Actually, what the hell - looked it up
2.10 2000-05-16
- First level 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager.
- GUI version with integration to Windows Shell.
- Compression and decompressing GZip and TAR formats.
- Decompression RAR.
- Install & Uninstall support.
- Some bugs were fixed.
And the solution seems, to me to be - do nothing.
This system is only going to detect malware that does something stupid to avoid being detected by this system. It doesn't *Detect* anything, it doesn't track some behavior that only malware does, it just slows down your pc by randomly swapping out memory.
Or, to put it differently, if the malware in question were completely unaware that this uber process was running and did nothing, what *exactly* would it do to stop the malware in question?
Pug
... Stupid Git.
This theory of the FDA's scope smells way too much like the theory of anti-tax nuts that claim Ohio is not a state (Or my favorite version, an anti-tax nut that claimed a paragraph noting the IRS jurisdiction "including U.S. Territories" limited the IRS to those territories.)
I want stem cell research, but this is a bad idea.
Pug
Yes, but fundamentally the right Kevin is asserting here is that you have no ownership right even to the finished product.
This is rather like saying that if you knock out a wall, you've infringed the architects ownership of the plans, or you have no right to repair your car yourself, you *have* to go to the dealership.
Sorry, if this is his view of his rights as creator, frankly, he has entitlement issues. Get into the real world with the rest of us, or even try to assert that everyone should have these rights, but trying to pretend you're in some special category where the company doesn't own the work they paid you while ignoring the fact that this is the relationship of everyone else to their employer is just trying to carve out a privileged position for your work.
Pug.
Honestly, I'm not sure that's feasible with the Windows culture.
For it to work, you kinda need a cultural tendency to write code that handles things like dependency versioning, programs *not* requiring admin rights, plus all the other things that created dependency hell in Linux for such a long time - and these problems only got solved on Linux (it seems to me) because people weren't willing to sacrifice a lot of long terms pains in the arse in favor of short term convenience.
And Windows *is* short term convenient - the registry, the deeply bound IE, the every user an admin mentality, a lot of other 'features' of windows are designed with that short term mindset in mind.
But the thought of something like Apt-Get in *that* environment makes me want to curl up in a little ball and cry like a little girl, because it's only adds so much value in Linux because it can depend on all *other* long term decisions that have made Linux secure and stable relative to Windows. In the Windows Environment it would end up being a horrid evil thing that violated security and destroyed privacy.
I just don't see it happening. Or at least, not in a way that *doesn't* involve me, a fetal position, copious amounts of alcohol and a single bullet.
Pug
Actually, no I would not believe that.
Pug
Umm - Sure you have to restart the app under linux to take advantage of the update. But the point is - you have your own option of when to do so - it does the update, you finish what your doing, and if you save in five minutes or five hours when you restart it will be updated
Windows updates something - well, first of all if you're trying to get work done, forget about it because you can't run the program while it or any dependency is getting updated. It will harass you if you're trying to do something, it's just an all around pain in the ass. I was playing Baldur's Gate II on my XP box last night, and Windows kindly mentioned I needed to reboot - I clicked restart later. And then again in five minutes, and five minutes after that.
That's a problem that just . . . does not exist . . . on my Ubuntu box.
Pug
Actually, I've seen all three of those things. Pretty much consistently.
So since I could personally testify to all three under oath, I'd have to say all three are in fact 'particularly accurate'.
Indeed, there is at least one standard XP update that just broke my sisters PC when I tried to reload Windows (And believe me, it took awhile eliminating other things before I came to the final realization that it wasn't hardware but Windows itself, and I had to either try and keep it secure while updating from Windows XP Base, find out *exactly* which update was killing it, or say the heck with it - I bought her an inexpensive (albeit actually pretty nifty) Windows 7 machine and this machine will go into honorable retirement as a network server.)
So I really see see your post as an argument for a "-1, verifiably counter-factual" tag.
Pug
It's all one definitive interface under Synaptic/Apt Get. Sure there have been weeks when something was patched everyday, but it's all together, I can click it and go.
With Windows,
A) I'm far more likely to have to reboot.
B) if I do have to reboot it's like, to steal a phrase "a Jack Russel fucking Terrier".
I will fucking shut down
when I'm at a fucking spot
to save my fucking game dammit Bill!
C) Outside of Windows itself, it's a dozen different interfaces, because adobe and ccleaner and java and pidgin have all had to fix this mess themselves.
It's no wonder people click and suddenly realize they just screwed themselves - it's not like there's a unified interface where you can recognize if "X" looks right.
None of which is to say synaptic is perfect - I have my own concerns with it because frankly god help me if canonical ever gets something on it's servers, plus I think you should be able to download and install a program with your own, non-admin privileges (Is there *really* a reason I need to have sudo access to install nethack? Seriously - just make a programs area for user and group level access. If a program *requires* admin level access, either hide it from non admin users, or let the user see what is needed that the admin would have to approve.)
But, compared to windows? I won't go back, you can't make me.
Pug
To (probably mis)quote Scott Adams "Well, that didn't take long, even for here"
Pug
Ouch - I was familiar with the numbers, but not the curve.
So, fundamentally the effect is frontloaded, so the direct effect is to warm up faster and the indirect effect is to release more methane as it does so.
And, if I'm reading the formulae in the wiki article right, those numbers are direct effect numbers, not taking into account feedback loop effects. Understandable - much easier to calculate, less assumptions, but as methane leaks out of permafrost, it's going to cascade a lot.
We may have hit tipping point.
Pug
Feed them Bubblegum?
Why does *anyone* invest in stocks that don't return dividends?
I can understand it with companies that are startups, but unless I missed the change, MS (and a lot of other companies) don't do the dividend thing. Which means that the only way to make money is to buy and sell the stock, assuming that I am in fact going to find someone even dumber than I am to sell the stock to.
I will grant - many times you *can* find someone dumber than you to sell the stock to, but why the hell would you do that when there are stocks that actually pay you, the owner of the stock, dividends?
(And yes, incredibly off topic)
Pug
Fascism as the overlap of political ideology and business?
Given that businesses doing business in the Iraq War were being grilled on their political leanings, rather than their skills in doing the job.
Well, actually that's exactly why we victims of the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" label called Bush a fascist.
Well, that and the part where he okayed having people tortured.
and had phone calls illegally intercepted
and had US citizens held without trial
and used a major U.S. Network as an arm of the administration
Of course it's easier now to be a Fascist than it used to be even two years ago. Two years ago none of that mattered. Today? Trying to get people health insurance is sufficient.
Pug
What annoys me is that Microsoft only has two modes -
Secure - and utterly unusable for anything except for people that think inside the exact box you have designed it for, or
Usable for someone that has some problem solving ability, and entirely insecure, because if you can do anything outside your precisely designed box you can access a pwned website that has a file that can leverage your access into complete control of your computer.
I've watched dozens of companies, with smart admins, and no one has any way to both give their people both some room to do actual problem solving *and* stay secure.
All of which is trivially easy in every version of Linux I've seen. Since you can feasibly lock someone down from admin rights without making the system unusable, people can do whatever they need to do, without putting your entire pc and network at risk.
That being the case - why anyone uses windows in a business environment is just beyond me.
Pug
Thought, ask legal to investigate if the implementation of a Microsoft Only policy on the public dime, given the known security risks of Microsoft software, opens the hospital up to litigation issues if there is a security breach.
After all - they worded the policy so very strongly, one assumes they can back up the policy with the deliberations should they go to court and prove this was duly considered in light of their hippa responsibilities.
Right?
{G} - Pug
That is based on the assumption that no money spent by the government results in a net gain for the economy.
Why exactly a certain segment of the populace operates on this long disproven assumption I honestly don't know, it seems to have the same relationship to economics as intelligent design has to biology (And however much a logical fallacy it is to make decisions on this basis, a consider overlap among the subscribers to each view).
Defense spending on the other hand, while entirely justifiable up to a point, is a net loss. When our military budget is on a scale in which the question is whether the entire rest of the world, all together, matches our budget, one suspects the point of diminishing returns is well over the horizon behind us.
Pug
Admittedly it would help if at least three items weren't things *I* can do easily. I mean really, (s)he's complaining about how to look up memory or kill a process?
Right-click on a task bar. Add the task manager. *DONE*.
Can't connect to an ISP? Seriously? Either they're using a proprietary DUN driver, or you should be able to do this in 15 seconds (AT&T Worldnet used to actually use a proprietary driver. You did in fact have to dig the relevant info out of their tech support, but even that didn't take that long)
I *am* an idiot in Linux terms, and I can do these. When these are the *complaints*?
Pug
Sorry, no.
There are applications that Windows has that Linux does not natively support.
No ideological commitment to opensource is going to make these apps magically appear on Linux in an explosion of Rainbows.
That being the case, utilizing wine to give near native support for otherwise missing applications strengthens Linux by expanding it's capabilities.
Moreover, competition for users among programs naturally drives the improvement of programs. The mere fact that a 'good enough' program on Linux has to contend with competition for mindspace with an interloper from Windows drives for improvement in both programs. Given that running under wine is an inherent disadvantage, possibly even driving the interloper to go native to linux.
Removing Wine would do nothing except cripple the evolution of native Linux application development by removing competition for mindshare. It would also almost exactly duplicate Microsoft's attempt to destroy Java as a multi-OS platform in a misguided attempt to lock people into Windows.
If you intend to posit that it was a mistake for them to do it, but smart for Linux competition to be suppressed in an almost identical way, you need to present strong evidence beyond mere ideology.
Pug