The whole idea seems quite ridiculous. The OS's focus is isolating applications because they may have security issues. That's just a nasty workaround, applications with issues need to be fixed, and that's the end of it. You can try a millon different thing, but coding secure applications will always work. It will always have less overhead as well, since it's not an aditional VM (how much memory does this use up in order to run, say, leafpad? Have we really reached a point were bad software is so commonly accepted that we tailor OSs so it's no longer a problem?
Have you seen "Repo Men"? The movie is based on a future where companies rent artificial hearts, and if someone has too many payments overdue, it's no more heart for him/her.
Sadly, I can see us moving toward a future as horrible and ultracapitalistic as that; where collecting rent for a heart weighs more than a human life.
Social skills and programming skills are way too different. What a portion of code does is clearly defined, what a function returns is predictable (generally), but when it comes to socializing, you need to know when to lie and when not to, you don't need to say the truth every time, but rather, know what other people want to hear, etc. You can only learn this from experience, there's no man page, or readable code example of how all this works.
On top of that, I general don't care about what people have to say ni many scenarios, which I why I ignore them. I don't expect code to tell me about their lunch last week, or how it's ride to work was. Why would I bother doing something I dislike? And how does that reflect how I program (which I do like)?
And I don't care if the HR girl is young and hot. I'm not looking for socialization/coitus/relationships/etc.
I greatly respect Valve's invovlment in the whole open source driver issue, but I still won't buy anything from them because their products are very DRM-infested. Respecting a single action from a company, and willingness to buy their products are very different things.
I like using NC for images, and I think people are a lot more likely to release their images under this (without this clause they may be less likely release them as CC at all, and just keep them closed).
Care to elaborate on that? Why do you think people are more likely to use that CC variant?
Mind you; I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm actually curious, since you stated that without elaborating at all.
Most people don't care about "customising" their distro. They want to get work done.
And that's why arch isn't for most people.:)
If you want to spend all your time glueing fake plastic spoilers and splitters to your car and adding fancy glowy neons, then fine. Once I've got the seat adjusted and the radio tuned, I'm quite happy to leave the rest alone and get on with the fun bit.
Actually, arch isn't about customizing the look and feel of your OS, it's more lower level than that. Think more in the lines of "changing the engine", "replacing the steering wheel with a joystick", or stuff like that. It's not just about the paint.
Is the responsiveness as perfect? Firmware can be better tested for responsiveness/crashes/etc. The truth is, Android can slow down, etc. What improvements do I get when it comes to, you know, taking pictures?
I don't live in USA, so I don't have one. But our equivalent (DNI), is printed on every invoice I produce, I use it to identify myself at the university (even on exams), receptions at buildings, etc. No-one expects that to be secret.
As someone who's always prefered right-handed mice, I must say, I find ambidextrous mice unconformtable, unnatural, and plainly painfull. I much prefer have an extra left-hand mouse in case I want to switch hands (which I actually do), than ever use ambidextrous mice.
Would you care to explain how this a good thing? ASDW are surrounded by plenty of keys (which are generally used), while the arrow keys are slightly more isolated. Also, as a lefty, you can just move your keyboard further to the right.
In most cases, they're refered to as "mouse1, mouse2 and mouse3". On less technical scenarios, they're called "primary mouse button" and "secondary mouse button".
Indeed, I do very much what your friends does; I open the book with my right hand. Holding the book on my right hand just feels unnatural to me. Odd, because, now that you mention it, the lefty method makes more sense.
I tend to only close firefox when mayor updates come out on my desktop. It does eat up memory when I've lots of tabs+windows open, but I've never seen it become unstable.
Why is giving out his SS number such an awfuly bad thing? From what I've read, it's no secret, but rather the contrary. It's just misassumed that the SS number should be secret.
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The whole idea seems quite ridiculous.
The OS's focus is isolating applications because they may have security issues. That's just a nasty workaround, applications with issues need to be fixed, and that's the end of it. You can try a millon different thing, but coding secure applications will always work.
It will always have less overhead as well, since it's not an aditional VM (how much memory does this use up in order to run, say, leafpad?
Have we really reached a point were bad software is so commonly accepted that we tailor OSs so it's no longer a problem?
Oh, right, we'll have cyborg bodies, but will still rely on our own sperm as the only means for reproduciton, right?
Have you seen "Repo Men"? The movie is based on a future where companies rent artificial hearts, and if someone has too many payments overdue, it's no more heart for him/her.
Sadly, I can see us moving toward a future as horrible and ultracapitalistic as that; where collecting rent for a heart weighs more than a human life.
Germany has NEGATIVE interest rates on short-term bonds
How does that work? Why would anybody buy a bond at all if you then had to pay for the privilege of owning them?
It's probably non-negative in the long-term.
Care to elaborate on the even number of women thing?
Social skills and programming skills are way too different. What a portion of code does is clearly defined, what a function returns is predictable (generally), but when it comes to socializing, you need to know when to lie and when not to, you don't need to say the truth every time, but rather, know what other people want to hear, etc. You can only learn this from experience, there's no man page, or readable code example of how all this works.
On top of that, I general don't care about what people have to say ni many scenarios, which I why I ignore them. I don't expect code to tell me about their lunch last week, or how it's ride to work was.
Why would I bother doing something I dislike? And how does that reflect how I program (which I do like)?
And I don't care if the HR girl is young and hot. I'm not looking for socialization/coitus/relationships/etc.
I greatly respect Valve's invovlment in the whole open source driver issue, but I still won't buy anything from them because their products are very DRM-infested. Respecting a single action from a company, and willingness to buy their products are very different things.
Actually, it is, and the legal term is "intelectual property".
I like using NC for images, and I think people are a lot more likely to release their images under this (without this clause they may be less likely release them as CC at all, and just keep them closed).
Care to elaborate on that? Why do you think people are more likely to use that CC variant?
Mind you; I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm actually curious, since you stated that without elaborating at all.
Most people don't care about "customising" their distro. They want to get work done.
And that's why arch isn't for most people. :)
If you want to spend all your time glueing fake plastic spoilers and splitters to your car and adding fancy glowy neons, then fine. Once I've got the seat adjusted and the radio tuned, I'm quite happy to leave the rest alone and get on with the fun bit.
Actually, arch isn't about customizing the look and feel of your OS, it's more lower level than that. Think more in the lines of "changing the engine", "replacing the steering wheel with a joystick", or stuff like that. It's not just about the paint.
Step 4 is a nitch thing. The average use doesn't even understand all those fancy words like crop and modify-color.
How is this better than firmware-based cameras?
Is the responsiveness as perfect? Firmware can be better tested for responsiveness/crashes/etc. The truth is, Android can slow down, etc. What improvements do I get when it comes to, you know, taking pictures?
FYI, Linux uses git, which uses a SHA-1 as a commit number, not incremental revision numbers.
Also, it's just as easy to remember that 3.26 -> 4.0.
Why isn't here a "+1 Funny Troll" mod?
I don't live in USA, so I don't have one. But our equivalent (DNI), is printed on every invoice I produce, I use it to identify myself at the university (even on exams), receptions at buildings, etc. No-one expects that to be secret.
Damn, it's sad to know that my desktops are dead. Better give all my coworkers and friends all the bad news too.
As someone who's always prefered right-handed mice, I must say, I find ambidextrous mice unconformtable, unnatural, and plainly painfull. I much prefer have an extra left-hand mouse in case I want to switch hands (which I actually do), than ever use ambidextrous mice.
Would you care to explain how this a good thing? ASDW are surrounded by plenty of keys (which are generally used), while the arrow keys are slightly more isolated.
Also, as a lefty, you can just move your keyboard further to the right.
In most cases, they're refered to as "mouse1, mouse2 and mouse3". On less technical scenarios, they're called "primary mouse button" and "secondary mouse button".
Indeed, I do very much what your friends does; I open the book with my right hand. Holding the book on my right hand just feels unnatural to me. Odd, because, now that you mention it, the lefty method makes more sense.
The auto-updating is windows-only, and even there, you could just disable it (by unchecking a checkbox).
I tend to only close firefox when mayor updates come out on my desktop. It does eat up memory when I've lots of tabs+windows open, but I've never seen it become unstable.
Why is giving out his SS number such an awfuly bad thing? From what I've read, it's no secret, but rather the contrary. It's just misassumed that the SS number should be secret.
Or use the oportunity to put Ubuntu/Mint/something-alike on his PC.
Sorry, but somebody had to say it.
Also, I sincerely don't think scammers will have the same "verification instructions" ready at hand for non-windows OS. :)
So I shouldn't trust a package now, because older versions were not signed? I guess I shouldn't trust any distro in that case.