Mysterious coal deposits underneath compost piles, a crazy naked couple running around with the animals, and some doddering old man writing frantically into a journal.
Also, maybe they figure that people who see the VOD channels without being able to control it (pause, skip, etc.) will be more likely to buy the service.
you shouldn't rely on programmers knowing basic language facilities like the pre- and post-increment operators in the C family,
I guess you come from the "if it was hard to learn, it must be hard to use" camp popular in the C++ crowd;) In the above example, I tend to agree with the author. The fact that a line of code or routine is sensitive to the location of the increment operator tells me that the programmer doesn't write robust code. If I have to add some lines or change the algorithm, I'd be more likely to break either that or some other hidden dependency that result from unclear thinking.
Aw, come on, ARM has been around forever and where are the third party components? That's right, they are scarce because all the developers were busy working on the money-making mainstream platforms.
ARM is fine as the platform for my USB WiFi or the Bluetooth headphones but it falls short in the mainstream market which is far less vertical.
It has a Wireless, so you can surf the web when you're near a hotspot! The OLPC can only do that and make mesh networks across a small village so you don't have to be so close
One more thing: the OLPC radio is designed to run while the laptop is sleeping, in order to do mesh routing without drawing too much power.
Just stop giving people uninformed information. If you don't know what is happening you shouldn't be volunteering your point of view based on that lack of knowledge.
I know what is happening, and I can get this stuff to work for myself. However, that doesn't matter, because if I try to sell Ubuntu to my Windows gamer/power user friends and they have a similar experience they will laugh at me. Yes, I know that you can preinstall stuff. I won't speculate how that would work because that would really be "uninformed," instead of first-hand experience I relayed previously.
If you didn't install it then someone installed it for you. That's the same thing that would happen in Linux. If the Linux user didn't install it someone could do it for them.
That's great. I'm looking forward to the day I can have that kind of vendor to point above-mentioned Windows gamer/power users to.
I double clicked a movie in Ubuntu, that Totem thing popped up with some nasty error message. I double clicked an MP3, no play. I tried to run Heroes of Might and Magic 3: it runs, but it's dog slow. With Windows it worked out of the box and I didn't even need to install it.
I know I'm being unfair, and that you could install the patent-restricted stuff to make the first two work (actually mplayer works better than anything on Windows), but that's not "without significant difficulty" for average users. They will see the error messages, either laugh and leave, or spend days making it work and then tell their friends that Linux sucks.
I don't know how to make #3 work. I tried dosbox, VMWare, Wine, and nothing runs it properly. And so it goes...
Even if you realized that in such a low tech setting they can't know _everything_, you didn't know exactly _what_ they know, and exactly _what_ and _when_ they'll use it against you. Maybe they'll do nothing. Maybe they'll send you to Siberia. Maybe you just won't be allowed to travel abroad any more. Maybe your kid won't ever get a high paying job because his dumbass father got drunk once and complained about the party.
I think the problem in this scenario is not the lack of privacy, but that the government *can* send you to Siberia, stop you from traveling abroad, and--egads!--stop your kid from getting a high paying job. This is all easy to do in a centrally controlled economy such as was the Soviet so-called communism; I've been there, you go to a gov't run job office, you tell them your skills, and they assign you to a job. However, I fail to see how this can happen on a large scale in a western democracy. Sure, they could frame your kid for a felony crime, but not on a large scale, and so you would need to do something really extraordinary to deserve it.
How do you think would the American people react if GW lifted the term limit, and got "elected" again? My guess is that the tree of liberty would get watered and then some. It might seem that the government has all this power due to the apparent apathy of the people, but I think the reaction would materialize if the power abuse crossed a certain threshold.
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Better check the bathroom for stuff hidden in the water tank ;)
Heh I wonder if your neighbors have the same experience ;)
Mysterious coal deposits underneath compost piles, a crazy naked couple running around with the animals, and some doddering old man writing frantically into a journal.
There is so much negativity in the air tonight!
But what are they going to do? The autopilot shuts itself off as soon as the ship is near an asteroid field.
Also, maybe they figure that people who see the VOD channels without being able to control it (pause, skip, etc.) will be more likely to buy the service.
(double)(float) house;
OK then: Kerry Condon and Polly Walker never got it on. I keep rewatching the show hoping I'd missed it, but no dice.
Rome, huh? That show was nothing but gratuitous copulation.
...mother... shitter...son of an... ass... I just..
Theo de Rath
:)
That's awfully close to Theo de Wrath, was that a Freudian slip?
you shouldn't rely on programmers knowing basic language facilities like the pre- and post-increment operators in the C family,
;) In the above example, I tend to agree with the author. The fact that a line of code or routine is sensitive to the location of the increment operator tells me that the programmer doesn't write robust code. If I have to add some lines or change the algorithm, I'd be more likely to break either that or some other hidden dependency that result from unclear thinking.
I guess you come from the "if it was hard to learn, it must be hard to use" camp popular in the C++ crowd
The US education system needs a major revamp.
Are you kidding me? The college-level system in the US is the best in the world! If anything the high school system needs some improvement.
Aw, come on, ARM has been around forever and where are the third party components? That's right, they are scarce because all the developers were busy working on the money-making mainstream platforms.
ARM is fine as the platform for my USB WiFi or the Bluetooth headphones but it falls short in the mainstream market which is far less vertical.
Real-time multiplayer Scorch!
Hell yes baby!
this MUD is not a democracy, it's a tyranny.
...pages, of course!
Hey, I appreciate your reply. I love that game :)
I double clicked a movie in Ubuntu, that Totem thing popped up with some nasty error message. I double clicked an MP3, no play. I tried to run Heroes of Might and Magic 3: it runs, but it's dog slow. With Windows it worked out of the box and I didn't even need to install it.
I know I'm being unfair, and that you could install the patent-restricted stuff to make the first two work (actually mplayer works better than anything on Windows), but that's not "without significant difficulty" for average users. They will see the error messages, either laugh and leave, or spend days making it work and then tell their friends that Linux sucks.
I don't know how to make #3 work. I tried dosbox, VMWare, Wine, and nothing runs it properly. And so it goes...
Even if you realized that in such a low tech setting they can't know _everything_, you didn't know exactly _what_ they know, and exactly _what_ and _when_ they'll use it against you. Maybe they'll do nothing. Maybe they'll send you to Siberia. Maybe you just won't be allowed to travel abroad any more. Maybe your kid won't ever get a high paying job because his dumbass father got drunk once and complained about the party.
I think the problem in this scenario is not the lack of privacy, but that the government *can* send you to Siberia, stop you from traveling abroad, and--egads!--stop your kid from getting a high paying job. This is all easy to do in a centrally controlled economy such as was the Soviet so-called communism; I've been there, you go to a gov't run job office, you tell them your skills, and they assign you to a job. However, I fail to see how this can happen on a large scale in a western democracy. Sure, they could frame your kid for a felony crime, but not on a large scale, and so you would need to do something really extraordinary to deserve it.
How do you think would the American people react if GW lifted the term limit, and got "elected" again? My guess is that the tree of liberty would get watered and then some. It might seem that the government has all this power due to the apparent apathy of the people, but I think the reaction would materialize if the power abuse crossed a certain threshold.
Movies, MP3s, and games.
A bathyscaphe has been to 35,810 feet or so.
Thanks for sharing the point of view! I understand your environment better now.