Its not just me though (as this thread shows), if you look through the gentoo forums for this problem you will see that some people have the problem and others don't. People who have the same nvidia drivers will have differing results. Its a very strange and hard to track down problem.
Exactly. I would hope that they would find that the majority of their employees would find 70% of what they do interesting. Otherwise, what are they doing there? Just a paycheck? That would be sad.
But from looking through their website and doing a strict count of what products and services they have, I would say that 70% of them are experimental, and 10% or 20% count for the search engine part. But that's based on count.
is that if that experiment would have been turned on like it was supposed to, probably nobody here would have ever known that it existed in the first place.;-)
There is another option, which would fit with Microsoft's history. They might just not agree with the transparent png standard and implementation of CSS and be silently protesting their adoption. It wouldn't be the first time they've done this. They've done it with J++, Outlook, etc. Choosing to ignore protocol or industry standards simply because they didn't agree with them and they are an 900 lb gorilla.
Wow, was that a loaded question or what. The two potential answers that you gave him are both bad. You're right, there is really no excuse, IE should have supported or renounced these things a long time ago.
I recently charged $40 to reinstall windows for some lady. It wasn't nearly enough. Fortunately, she realized that and paid me $50. It should have been closer to $250 by the time I was done 8 hours later. My going rate for personal stuff is $30/hour.
I mainly charge people simply because I don't have enough time to help them otherwise. Its kinda like how Ken Coar (Rodent of Unusual Size) charges for job references. Because he gets so many requests for it.
because his planets (3 of them, roughly Earth-sized) orbit pulsars and hold no chance for harboring life.
I wish people wouldn't say things like this. Humans barely have a grasp on what life really is and what conditions it can exist under, especially off our own planet. So how could we make a judgement that life couldn't exist around a pulsar, despite its homo-sapien threatening conditions.
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Ok, that's an acceptable explaination I think, but its just weird. Especially considering the timing. I mean, if you look up Steve Jobs in wikipedia.com, it has this paragraph:
"In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club" with Stephen Wozniak. He took a job at Atari Inc., designing computer games with his friend, Wozniak. During this time period, it was discovered that a slightly modified toy whistle included in every box of Cap'n Crunch cereal was able to reproduce the 2600 Hz supervision tone used by the AT&T long distance telephone system. Jobs and Wozniak went into business briefly in 1974 to build "blue boxes" based on the idea which allowed for free long distance calls.
Which almost links the two together. Were did the catalogue number come from? Did Atari make 2,599 items before they made the 2600? Also, seeing as Jobs and Wozniak liked to hide numbers in their products, like the Apple I's price being $666, I would think that they could have done the same with the Atari VCS. Perhaps only they know the answer to this.
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Was the atari 2600 named so because of the captain crunch toy whistles? After all, Steve Jobs worked there in the 70s, and also was one of the ones involved with those blue boxes.
This makes me quite sad cause I remember times when computers where stable and a crash was either caused by hardware failure or because a programmer fucked up something.
That's interesting, windows also crashes because a programmer fucked up something. I know what you are getting at, but I think that increased complexity means increased "fuck ups".
According to urban legend a philosphy professor once asked a single question on an exam "Prove that this chair in front of you doesn't exist." And the person who got an A simply wrote "What chair?" on their paper and handed it in.
So likewise, the question here is "Why does windows still suck?" and the person with the first and most seen comment simply states "Because I'm a gamer", which to me implied that windows would not be needed if people like him didn't need to play games. So windows is still needed and windows still sucks. Otherwise, we wouldn't use it.
I just got paid $50 to reinstall windows for some lady who had a machine totally infected with spyware and viruses. I was thinking of selling her on the idea of using Linux, but the major hold up there is that her son was a major game player. And that was the only holdup for me. So there you go. If gaming was better under Linux (and it is getting better all the time), we wouldn't need windows so much.
Interestingly enough, the topic that I'm presenting on at the next Bloomington Linux Users Group meeting next Tuesday is "Gaming under Linux".
Just today I found a place in Indianapolis called Virtual PC Scavanger or something like that that is doing a hefty job of recycling and reusing old computers. The guy mentioned that they are about to get national sponsorship. Interesting timing.
...there will probably be several research businesses and institutions that will be tricked into thinking that they need to use this pay by the hour grid instead of making their own which would be more cost effective.
Yes, I would say so too. We bought 5 servers in the past 6 months and 3 of them were for our customers, not for us. And we're a small company. So it appears that the demand for servers is up recently.
Well, provided that the world does not destroy itself first, if you give this OS design 10 years or so, I'll bet it will have just as many programs written for it as Linux does now. And it will be worth it.
Its like the saying goes "Saying that trinary computing is not worth it is like saying in 1990 that its just not worth it to build an open source unix like kernel".
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Its not just me though (as this thread shows), if you look through the gentoo forums for this problem you will see that some people have the problem and others don't. People who have the same nvidia drivers will have differing results. Its a very strange and hard to track down problem.
Exactly. I would hope that they would find that the majority of their employees would find 70% of what they do interesting. Otherwise, what are they doing there? Just a paycheck? That would be sad.
But from looking through their website and doing a strict count of what products and services they have, I would say that 70% of them are experimental, and 10% or 20% count for the search engine part. But that's based on count.
is for the nvidia (from nvidia) driver to not lockup under Gentoo. Unfortunately, I guess nobody has found the reason for that happening yet.
is that if that experiment would have been turned on like it was supposed to, probably nobody here would have ever known that it existed in the first place. ;-)
There is another option, which would fit with Microsoft's history. They might just not agree with the transparent png standard and implementation of CSS and be silently protesting their adoption. It wouldn't be the first time they've done this. They've done it with J++, Outlook, etc. Choosing to ignore protocol or industry standards simply because they didn't agree with them and they are an 900 lb gorilla.
Wow, was that a loaded question or what. The two potential answers that you gave him are both bad. You're right, there is really no excuse, IE should have supported or renounced these things a long time ago.
I guess someone finally found a really long plank and a place to stand.
I recently charged $40 to reinstall windows for some lady. It wasn't nearly enough. Fortunately, she realized that and paid me $50. It should have been closer to $250 by the time I was done 8 hours later.
My going rate for personal stuff is $30/hour.
I mainly charge people simply because I don't have enough time to help them otherwise. Its kinda like how Ken Coar (Rodent of Unusual Size) charges for job references. Because he gets so many requests for it.
because his planets (3 of them, roughly Earth-sized) orbit pulsars and hold no chance for harboring life.
I wish people wouldn't say things like this. Humans barely have a grasp on what life really is and what conditions it can exist under, especially off our own planet. So how could we make a judgement that life couldn't exist around a pulsar, despite its homo-sapien threatening conditions.
Ok, that's an acceptable explaination I think, but its just weird. Especially considering the timing. I mean, if you look up Steve Jobs in wikipedia.com, it has this paragraph:
"In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club" with Stephen Wozniak. He took a job at Atari Inc., designing computer games with his friend, Wozniak. During this time period, it was discovered that a slightly modified toy whistle included in every box of Cap'n Crunch cereal was able to reproduce the 2600 Hz supervision tone used by the AT&T long distance telephone system. Jobs and Wozniak went into business briefly in 1974 to build "blue boxes" based on the idea which allowed for free long distance calls.
Which almost links the two together. Were did the catalogue number come from? Did Atari make 2,599 items before they made the 2600? Also, seeing as Jobs and Wozniak liked to hide numbers in their products, like the Apple I's price being $666, I would think that they could have done the same with the Atari VCS. Perhaps only they know the answer to this.
Was the atari 2600 named so because of the captain crunch toy whistles? After all, Steve Jobs worked there in the 70s, and also was one of the ones involved with those blue boxes.
non-documented proprietary standards
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Is that a contridiction or what?
How can standards be non-documented. I know I know, its Microsoft.
This makes me quite sad cause I remember times when computers where stable and a crash was either caused by hardware failure or because a programmer fucked up something.
That's interesting, windows also crashes because a programmer fucked up something. I know what you are getting at, but I think that increased complexity means increased "fuck ups".
According to urban legend a philosphy professor once asked a single question on an exam "Prove that this chair in front of you doesn't exist." And the person who got an A simply wrote "What chair?" on their paper and handed it in.
So likewise, the question here is "Why does windows still suck?" and the person with the first and most seen comment simply states "Because I'm a gamer", which to me implied that windows would not be needed if people like him didn't need to play games. So windows is still needed and windows still sucks. Otherwise, we wouldn't use it.
I just got paid $50 to reinstall windows for some lady who had a machine totally infected with spyware and viruses. I was thinking of selling her on the idea of using Linux, but the major hold up there is that her son was a major game player. And that was the only holdup for me. So there you go. If gaming was better under Linux (and it is getting better all the time), we wouldn't need windows so much.
Interestingly enough, the topic that I'm presenting on at the next Bloomington Linux Users Group meeting next Tuesday is "Gaming under Linux".
So is this answer something like the answer "What chair?" to the problem "Prove that this chair doesn't exist."?
Bah, that wasn't flamebait.
I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.
Just today I found a place in Indianapolis called Virtual PC Scavanger or something like that that is doing a hefty job of recycling and reusing old computers. The guy mentioned that they are about to get national sponsorship. Interesting timing.
So will birthdays become like serials numbers?
Birthdates are the new serial numbers.
...there will probably be several research businesses and institutions that will be tricked into thinking that they need to use this pay by the hour grid instead of making their own which would be more cost effective.
Actually, what this graph shows is the failure of the CAN-SPAM act to do anything.
Yes, I would say so too. We bought 5 servers in the past 6 months and 3 of them were for our customers, not for us. And we're a small company. So it appears that the demand for servers is up recently.
What would be even funnier is if the comments were the same too.
Well, provided that the world does not destroy itself first, if you give this OS design 10 years or so, I'll bet it will have just as many programs written for it as Linux does now. And it will be worth it.
Its like the saying goes "Saying that trinary computing is not worth it is like saying in 1990 that its just not worth it to build an open source unix like kernel".
Actually, we most likely have much more than that.
There are an estimated 18-20 million linux users. That makes it about $37.50 a person.
Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity.
We did, we made an operating system that doesn't result in you taking an angle grinder to your computer.