While I agree for most people installing these drivers is easier under Windows, that is not because the install procedure is easier or faster, but simply because they are accostumed to doing things this way.
Actually, this isn't correct. It may be easier for you. Try telling my father "Yeah, to get that network card working, you have drop to a command prompt, go to your kernel source directory, make menuconfig, find the card in the list, go compile, install the kernel, update your bootloader, and then you should be ok"... Whereas in windows, it's "Stick the disc in, answer any questions, reboot when it tells you to".
Honestly, statements like this show where "the linux community" is out of touch with "the windows community". The "linux community" is so hyped into believing, honestly believing, that linux is superior to windows in every way, that they cannot see where it isn't.
I have seen women naked, and had sex with women (Usually after the seeing naked part happened). However, what you have to realize is that sitting in chat rooms is prime monkey-spanking time. It allows me to sit back and relax, to think about life, and reflect on the shenanigans that HotChick9952 says that she would like to engage in with me. As a side note, I'm absolutely, 100% sure that HotChick9952 is, in fact, a female of legal age to engage in said shenanigans.
Please, don't lump all of the monkey-spankers with those that have not seen a naked woman, nor had sex.
The issue with not buying their crap is that they will not see it as a boycott of their policies.. They'll see it as more evidence of "evil hackers" (tm) stealing their content. After all, no one can not watch Hollywood's movies and listen to Hollywood's music, right?! Ticket sales falling at the box office? Nope, it's not because Hollywood's movies are junk, it's "teh hax0rs" releasing movies on the Internet. CD sales falling? Nope, it's not because of the drivel that's being released as today's "mainstream" media, it's "teh hax0rs".
I would be more willing (note, more willing does not mean willing) to believe the line of mp3's hurting music sales, because mp3's sound (to most people) to be pretty good. Screeners, etc, of movies, not so good quality, and why would I watch it on my monitor in my office when I have my TV in the living room?
I agree that the largest part, by far, of Hollywood's slide is Hollywood itself, and they have no one to blame but themselves. They don't see it that way, so the lawmakers don't see it that way (Money talks, after all). They will paint an organized boycott as an organized piracy ring, with the lawless hackers trading music and movies amongst themselves.
The part of the post I was responding to was saying we should all bike/walk and not be a burden on the health care system. I'm pointing out that that's not a viable option for some.
I don't own a gas guzzler. I don't usually drive more than 10 or 15 miles a day. I even go to the gym three times a week. However, biking/walking around here is not a solution. I was pointing out the heat factor, but someone else pointed out that distances are stretched out here, as compared to somewhere like New York City. The Phoenix Metro area is 100 miles or more across, with no public transportation system worty of the name. It's not feasible to bike/walk much of anywhere due to space, nor is it feasible to do it because of weather (granted, it's not the middle of summer all year round).
Read it again... If it doesn't go below 110 or 115 during the daytime, and doesn't go below 90 in the evening...
evening : 90-95 daytime : 110+
Seems that daytimes are highs, nighttimes are lows.
As for adaptation, I'm adapted here just fine. I have air-conditioning, and I know how not to end up in the hospital by not going out and walking 5 miles to work in the middle of summer.
Talk to me when you do this in Phoenix Arizona in the middle of summer.
When the nightly LOWS don't go below 90. When the daily HIGHS don't go below 110 or 115.
Then bike or walk even the mile or two to the grocery store, and see how you feel. I'll visit you in the hospital where you'll be taken when you keel over from heatstroke. Oh wait, you'll be placing a burden on health care. Whoops.
The article says that they're thinking the higher cost of the drives will be offset by maintenance/power savings.
Me, as a laptop buyer, doesn't give a rip about either of those. Power? So what, I fill up on power at the coffee shop, at my office, etc, if I'm concerned about paying for it. It's virtually impossible to do maintenance on a laptop, other than wrap it in a box and send it in, in which case if it's a personal machine, I just use my desktop, and if it's a work machine, I still get my salary.
The only people it seems this would help are self-employed people, who have no other computer, who live in the boonies.. And how any of those are there?
I always have to wonder, when I see comments like this, why? I'm being serious for a minute, not sarcastic.
Why would it be "very nice" to have a Mozilla-based IM client? What would a Mozilla-based IM client offer over any one of the other third-party IM clients (gaim, trillian, etc)?
Last I looked, I use Mozilla for web browsing, not chatting with friends. I looked at their email client, but found myself saying "ho hum, another email client" and then going back to Outlook. Yes, sue me, I'm a windows user for my desktop.
I take my car to the mechanic, but I sure as hell wouldn't take my heart attack to him. As old Rosie put it, a place for everything, and everything in its place. Maybe Mozilla should concentrate on finding and patching more holes... They obviously have a few.
PS - Before I invoke the wrath of Slashdot, I do, in fact, use Firefox for web browsing, not IE.
I'm not sure whether I'm happy or sad at the thought of MS Pr0n... Because that's the only way they'll be able to get a semen sample, unless it's from my cold, dead... ummm....
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I agree that this recycling tax concept is a crock to everyone outside of DC... But come on.
The environmentalist tack with this argument is just plain... distasteful, without an analysis of the actual power used per cycle of computation, and how many average cycles are being done per time period. To say that computers today can get the same work done faster than those a few years ago is undoubtedly true. However, I see no evidence to support that the computations being done by the majority of the population are significantly helped by today's computers (I don't consider a particular task taking 1 second, versus 2 seconds on yester-year's machines, to be significant). Web/Office/Email tends to not take up much cpu time, which is what a lot of people do with their computers (Whether it be work or home).
Without evidence to support the environmental thesis, along the lines of total cycles vs cost of electricity per cycle "then" and "now" over a particular time period, it's just a bunch of claptrap and hand waving.
... The fact that they had a damn countdown timer for most of the day.. At least they did during Star Trek. A really freaking annoying red and blue opaque shield does not make for good Trek watching.
Speaking as a lead developer on just such a team (There's one guy that no one can stand, because he can't cut the mustard, and he smells (literally)), I wholeheartedly agree. Management's lack of action on the documented idiocy of the guy (For instance, 5 hours after he came in the other day, he asked me about a bug.. That I had fixed 3 hours before he got in. He had never bothered to update from our CVS repository for the entire 5 hours he was there) has me looking seriously at new jobs.
Oh yeah, one other tradition.. Trust your team, and try to believe that they might be right. The CEO of my company has a habit of putting us in the position of defending each and every decision when a partner complains, rather than saying "Gee, Mr Partner says/wants X, Y, and Z.. What do you think?" He normally says "Mr Partner says/wants X, Y, and Z. Why hasn't this been done yet?"
The thing is, why would I want seven virgins? I'd much rather have seven porn stars.. I'm thinking that'd be much more fun down the stretch of the eons...
You obviously don't live in Phoenix. When watching an Arizona Cardinals game on TV, you have the option, nay the right, nay the DUTY of flipping the channel away from the game.
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Err.. I'm having trouble.. Are you being sarcastic in your first paragraph?
Actually, this isn't correct. It may be easier for you. Try telling my father "Yeah, to get that network card working, you have drop to a command prompt, go to your kernel source directory, make menuconfig, find the card in the list, go compile, install the kernel, update your bootloader, and then you should be ok"... Whereas in windows, it's "Stick the disc in, answer any questions, reboot when it tells you to".
Honestly, statements like this show where "the linux community" is out of touch with "the windows community". The "linux community" is so hyped into believing, honestly believing, that linux is superior to windows in every way, that they cannot see where it isn't.
I, sir, take offense.
I have seen women naked, and had sex with women (Usually after the seeing naked part happened). However, what you have to realize is that sitting in chat rooms is prime monkey-spanking time. It allows me to sit back and relax, to think about life, and reflect on the shenanigans that HotChick9952 says that she would like to engage in with me. As a side note, I'm absolutely, 100% sure that HotChick9952 is, in fact, a female of legal age to engage in said shenanigans.
Please, don't lump all of the monkey-spankers with those that have not seen a naked woman, nor had sex.
Monkey spankers of the world, unite!
The issue with not buying their crap is that they will not see it as a boycott of their policies.. They'll see it as more evidence of "evil hackers" (tm) stealing their content. After all, no one can not watch Hollywood's movies and listen to Hollywood's music, right?! Ticket sales falling at the box office? Nope, it's not because Hollywood's movies are junk, it's "teh hax0rs" releasing movies on the Internet. CD sales falling? Nope, it's not because of the drivel that's being released as today's "mainstream" media, it's "teh hax0rs".
I would be more willing (note, more willing does not mean willing) to believe the line of mp3's hurting music sales, because mp3's sound (to most people) to be pretty good. Screeners, etc, of movies, not so good quality, and why would I watch it on my monitor in my office when I have my TV in the living room?
I agree that the largest part, by far, of Hollywood's slide is Hollywood itself, and they have no one to blame but themselves. They don't see it that way, so the lawmakers don't see it that way (Money talks, after all). They will paint an organized boycott as an organized piracy ring, with the lawless hackers trading music and movies amongst themselves.
The part of the post I was responding to was saying we should all bike/walk and not be a burden on the health care system. I'm pointing out that that's not a viable option for some.
I don't own a gas guzzler. I don't usually drive more than 10 or 15 miles a day. I even go to the gym three times a week. However, biking/walking around here is not a solution. I was pointing out the heat factor, but someone else pointed out that distances are stretched out here, as compared to somewhere like New York City. The Phoenix Metro area is 100 miles or more across, with no public transportation system worty of the name. It's not feasible to bike/walk much of anywhere due to space, nor is it feasible to do it because of weather (granted, it's not the middle of summer all year round).
Read it again... If it doesn't go below 110 or 115 during the daytime, and doesn't go below 90 in the evening...
evening : 90-95
daytime : 110+
Seems that daytimes are highs, nighttimes are lows.
As for adaptation, I'm adapted here just fine. I have air-conditioning, and I know how not to end up in the hospital by not going out and walking 5 miles to work in the middle of summer.
Talk to me when you do this in Phoenix Arizona in the middle of summer.
When the nightly LOWS don't go below 90.
When the daily HIGHS don't go below 110 or 115.
Then bike or walk even the mile or two to the grocery store, and see how you feel. I'll visit you in the hospital where you'll be taken when you keel over from heatstroke. Oh wait, you'll be placing a burden on health care. Whoops.
The article says that they're thinking the higher cost of the drives will be offset by maintenance/power savings.
Me, as a laptop buyer, doesn't give a rip about either of those. Power? So what, I fill up on power at the coffee shop, at my office, etc, if I'm concerned about paying for it. It's virtually impossible to do maintenance on a laptop, other than wrap it in a box and send it in, in which case if it's a personal machine, I just use my desktop, and if it's a work machine, I still get my salary.
The only people it seems this would help are self-employed people, who have no other computer, who live in the boonies.. And how any of those are there?
I always have to wonder, when I see comments like this, why? I'm being serious for a minute, not sarcastic.
Why would it be "very nice" to have a Mozilla-based IM client? What would a Mozilla-based IM client offer over any one of the other third-party IM clients (gaim, trillian, etc)?
Last I looked, I use Mozilla for web browsing, not chatting with friends. I looked at their email client, but found myself saying "ho hum, another email client" and then going back to Outlook. Yes, sue me, I'm a windows user for my desktop.
I take my car to the mechanic, but I sure as hell wouldn't take my heart attack to him. As old Rosie put it, a place for everything, and everything in its place. Maybe Mozilla should concentrate on finding and patching more holes... They obviously have a few.
PS - Before I invoke the wrath of Slashdot, I do, in fact, use Firefox for web browsing, not IE.
I for one welcome our new rapidly replicating prototyping overlords.
I'm not sure whether I'm happy or sad at the thought of MS Pr0n... Because that's the only way they'll be able to get a semen sample, unless it's from my cold, dead... ummm....
I'm old and all, but I'm pretty sure I remember it as
U U D D L R L R B A Start
Whoa... Turns out I was right
My video game skills did pay for something! Gimme mod points, gimme mod points, gimme mod points!
What you give into can't hurt you..
and, of course, it's corollary
Surrender is bliss.
Possibly, they believe in the Douglas Adams theory of "What I can't see can't see me", hence the sticking of their heads in the sand.
OH MY GOD!!!
You've ruined this game.
I mean come on... A Zelda game... With Trifoce fragments?!?!!
Who'da thunk it.
Now, finally... We've truely learned what the ninja's Real Ultimate Power is!
I agree that this recycling tax concept is a crock to everyone outside of DC... But come on.
... distasteful, without an analysis of the actual power used per cycle of computation, and how many average cycles are being done per time period. To say that computers today can get the same work done faster than those a few years ago is undoubtedly true. However, I see no evidence to support that the computations being done by the majority of the population are significantly helped by today's computers (I don't consider a particular task taking 1 second, versus 2 seconds on yester-year's machines, to be significant). Web/Office/Email tends to not take up much cpu time, which is what a lot of people do with their computers (Whether it be work or home).
The environmentalist tack with this argument is just plain
Without evidence to support the environmental thesis, along the lines of total cycles vs cost of electricity per cycle "then" and "now" over a particular time period, it's just a bunch of claptrap and hand waving.
... The fact that they had a damn countdown timer for most of the day.. At least they did during Star Trek. A really freaking annoying red and blue opaque shield does not make for good Trek watching.
Hukd on fonics werkd for mee!
Hmm... So what happens when you combine the Screw Attack with "... resuming their position behind Samus' computer-enhanced visor."?
:)
Apparently, a good game. Hopefully, a good naughty game.
Metroid Hentai... You know you want to play it..
big, strong, virile company like Micorsoft backing it...
Don't you mean viral?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things... oh wait...
I don't know about you, but I'm plenty excited seeing the pictures.
Speaking as a lead developer on just such a team (There's one guy that no one can stand, because he can't cut the mustard, and he smells (literally)), I wholeheartedly agree. Management's lack of action on the documented idiocy of the guy (For instance, 5 hours after he came in the other day, he asked me about a bug.. That I had fixed 3 hours before he got in. He had never bothered to update from our CVS repository for the entire 5 hours he was there) has me looking seriously at new jobs.
Oh yeah, one other tradition.. Trust your team, and try to believe that they might be right. The CEO of my company has a habit of putting us in the position of defending each and every decision when a partner complains, rather than saying "Gee, Mr Partner says/wants X, Y, and Z.. What do you think?" He normally says "Mr Partner says/wants X, Y, and Z. Why hasn't this been done yet?"
The thing is, why would I want seven virgins?
I'd much rather have seven porn stars.. I'm thinking that'd be much more fun down the stretch of the eons...
Yeah, yeah, it's rude and crude. Sue me.
You obviously don't live in Phoenix. When watching an Arizona Cardinals game on TV, you have the option, nay the right, nay the DUTY of flipping the channel away from the game.