Actually, this is one of my major complaints about a lot of popular sci-fi.
The plot can usually be summarized as:
mainstream science does something stupid, endangers the [city|nation|world|universe] only to be saved by the maverick genius scientist who no one believed
or
Scientist(s) create a [virus|bacteria|nanomachine|etc] which [escapes|is released] and now threatens everything. The day is saved by some competent and very smart guy with no training.
It seems to me that a lot of science fiction has an anti-science bent.
You have never been on a submarine have you? Space ships have a lot in common with submarines.
Use that space for something! Put labs there!
Yes, because no one would mind people walking through their work space. Who cares if one get's jostled by someone passing through while one is performing a delicate and/or dangerous step in a procedure or experiment?
Crew quarters!
Yes, because no one would mind people walking through their living and sleeping space at all hours of the day and night. I am sure those people on night watch won't mind have their sleep disturbed ever few minutes.
Those corridors connect rooms together. They are hallways. No corridors, and you end up with one huge room which will result in no privacy, a huge waste of air, and is wonderful vulnerability because it takes just a hole or two to kill everyone on the ship.
You can't really fault Trek for having so many corridors when most of the shots occur on the ship. If the space ships of Star Trek are anything like U.S. naval vessels, then they are mostly corridors connecting rooms. The rooms will be cargo, berthing, galleys, a few work shops, engineering, and the bridge. If the ship supports fly ops, it will have a hanger and flight deck.
The important thing is that there will be no "open" decks. Everything will be enclosed, much like a modern submarine. Space will be at a premium due to life support considerations, so rooms will be small and packed together. Plus, depending on how long it takes to get around, there is the matter of food and water storage, recycling systems.
In ST:TOS, the Enterprise would often be "three weeks out" from the starbase of the week. It had a crew of about 1,000. So, the ship had to have enough food, water, and air for 1,000 people for three weeks. Even with the "replicators", there would need to be source matter to create the food from. Let us not forget waste handling. Ejecting it from the ship means loss of material, water, and air. Storing requires voids. Recycling it requires space for the recycling equipment.
Also, a ship moves through space so it must have engines and fuel. The bigger the rooms, the bigger the ship, the more mass the ship has, the bigger the engines and the more fuel it needs.
Most people forget many of the details required for life because those details are taken for granted on a planet.
Corridors are the natural result of building large space ships with large crew compliments. Even a large cargo vessel will be some huge empty spaces for the cargo and a large space for engineering both connected to a small crew section which will be mostly small rooms off of corridors.
In order for the difference in power management to be "any necessary configuration to optimize battery life was done when the laptop was imaged", then said configuration would have been wiped out when he removed Vista and installed XP. And, even if the laptop was optimized to work with Vista, there is no reason to assume that it work well with XP.
I run Linux on my laptop exclusively, but getting the pm stuff optimized is a big pain. The amount of fighting to get broken drivers and BIOSes working is not for the faint of heart.
The OP's question is about what your line above. Why is it a big pain to get the PM stuff working right?
I asked him to tie anonymous political speech to the subject at hand, which is anonymous slander, in a meaningful way. Neither of you have done so.
In other words, you have both engaged in the disingenuous use of a red herring. It is obvious you are both either intellectually dishonest or just fucking idiots. Either way, you are not worth wasting time on.
For each developer, corporate affiliation was obtained through one or more of: (1) the use of company email addresses, (2) sponsorship information included in the code they submit, or (3) simply asking the developers directly.
This is a piss-poor way to determine corporate sponsorship, especially the first one. Because someone works on the kernel and uses his work email address, it does not follow that the employer sponsored his work.
The third one is also dependent on the question asked. The question is not listed and the answer to "Are you employed at a company for the specific purpose of developing for the Linux Kernel" is almost guaranteed to be different than the question combination of "Where are you employed?" and "Have you ever done any Linux kernel development at work?"
The proper people to ask about corporation sponsorship of Linux kernel development is HR and PA, not the employees.
My point from the beginning has been that the people who didn't read the EULA and/or TOS didn't do the right thing. Your ignoring that invalidates your point.
Oh, I am sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to a dumbass. "The Right Thing to do" is to read the fucking TOS and EULA and not whine about it when you don't. Now STFU.
No one except the very rich or the very poor has the time to read through all the legalese presented to them at least ten times daily (every purchase signed receipt, signs on entryways and exits, software installations [multiplied by five if you're a sysadmin], etc).
I call bullshit. I do it all the time and I am neither very rich nor very poor. You can read through most of the items you have listed in less than one minute. All but the most complicated can be read through in less than 10 minutes.
At the end of the day you just end up being a hypocrite. There is no way that any person can fully read every contract, warning, recall, EULA, instruction manual, etc.. There simply isn't enough time in the day to accomplish this and still function in society.
That is bullshit and you know it. How often do you have to agree to a TOS or EULA? Most people can read through the average TOS or EULA in about 10 minutes. Somehow I doubt you can't spend 10 minutes doing that rather than watching some stupid TV show or playing WoW.
The number of people that didn't know EXACTLY what they were getting is so small as to be irrelevant. People getting sub-prime ARMs just let greed get in their way and made the stupid prediction that housing prices would always increase dramatically faster than inflation.
No one got conned. They agreed to do what happened. They should have read what they were agreeing to. You can whine all you want about where you think it should go, but until people are willing to take personal responsibility, practice due diligence, and read what they are agreeing to you have no argument.
The Digsby developers did nothing wrong and are neither incompetent or malicious. The only incompetent people in this instance are the ones that agreed to something without knowing what they are agreeing to.
The terms of service that no one ever reads does describe the CPU- and bandwidth-robbing moneymaker
In other words, they told you about it in documentation you agreed to and said your read but didn't. This sounds kind of familiar. I think it is because of all the people I have heard say "I didn't know that was in the contract. I signed it but didn't read it. You know, just like all those people with the "sub-prime" adjustable rate mortgages that ballooned after 2 years.
It is called due diligence and everyone should practice it, not just lawyers and businesses.
Seems to me, you need a lesson in the History of Modern Digital Computing.
Who invented the first home computer?
That would be Apple, a couple of guys working out of a garage who promptly sold them as kits (those entrepreneurial bastards!), followed by RadioShack (those corporate bastards!). But, would the "home" computer exist without the personal computer, which was invented by DEC (those corporate bastards!) in the early 1970s?
Who invented the spreadsheet?
Software Arts Inc.(those corporate bastards!), started by two MBA students Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (those entrepreneurial bastards!) to develop and sell Visicalc.
Who invented Unix?
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie while working at Bell Laboratories in an attempt to play a game on a PDP7. They got a boost in 1971 when Thompson and Ritchie won a bid to produce an office automation system for internal use there. (those corporate bastards!)
Who invented the GUI?
Xerox at the PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)(those corporate bastards!)
Who invented the Web Browser?
Tim Berners-Lee
Edison had an "invention" factory where people were employed to invent new things, and did. Most of Edison's inventions came out of there.
This presumes that the crass entrepeneur is the driver of innovation in software. Usually it's the exact opposite sort of person that drives software or scientific innovation.
Please prove that statement.
Please bear in mind that most people who make something are looking to make money from it. Even those that do so for altruistic reasons need to support themselves and thus the ability to earn money via patents and copyrights allow those same people to go on to develop more and better items while supporting themselves on money earned from said patents and copyrights.
EVE uses a subscription model. This model uses either the standard credit card, or a Game Time Card (GTC) like one can get for WoW. The difference is that one can take a GTC and convert it into Pilot License Extensions (PLEX). A GTC can be purchased in several time lengths: 30, 60, 90 days. A PLEX is a basically a 30 day GTC.
If one buys a 60 day GTC, one can convert that into two PLEXs.
If one has a lot of ISK (the in-game currency), but little or no real currency to buy a GTC, one can use the in-game currency to buy a PLEX and continue to play. This allows a person to pay for playing the game BY playing the game.
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Actually, this is one of my major complaints about a lot of popular sci-fi.
The plot can usually be summarized as:
or
It seems to me that a lot of science fiction has an anti-science bent.
You have never been on a submarine have you? Space ships have a lot in common with submarines.
Yes, because no one would mind people walking through their work space. Who cares if one get's jostled by someone passing through while one is performing a delicate and/or dangerous step in a procedure or experiment?
Yes, because no one would mind people walking through their living and sleeping space at all hours of the day and night. I am sure those people on night watch won't mind have their sleep disturbed ever few minutes.
Those corridors connect rooms together. They are hallways. No corridors, and you end up with one huge room which will result in no privacy, a huge waste of air, and is wonderful vulnerability because it takes just a hole or two to kill everyone on the ship.
You can't really fault Trek for having so many corridors when most of the shots occur on the ship. If the space ships of Star Trek are anything like U.S. naval vessels, then they are mostly corridors connecting rooms. The rooms will be cargo, berthing, galleys, a few work shops, engineering, and the bridge. If the ship supports fly ops, it will have a hanger and flight deck.
The important thing is that there will be no "open" decks. Everything will be enclosed, much like a modern submarine. Space will be at a premium due to life support considerations, so rooms will be small and packed together. Plus, depending on how long it takes to get around, there is the matter of food and water storage, recycling systems.
In ST:TOS, the Enterprise would often be "three weeks out" from the starbase of the week. It had a crew of about 1,000. So, the ship had to have enough food, water, and air for 1,000 people for three weeks. Even with the "replicators", there would need to be source matter to create the food from. Let us not forget waste handling. Ejecting it from the ship means loss of material, water, and air. Storing requires voids. Recycling it requires space for the recycling equipment.
Also, a ship moves through space so it must have engines and fuel. The bigger the rooms, the bigger the ship, the more mass the ship has, the bigger the engines and the more fuel it needs.
Most people forget many of the details required for life because those details are taken for granted on a planet.
Corridors are the natural result of building large space ships with large crew compliments. Even a large cargo vessel will be some huge empty spaces for the cargo and a large space for engineering both connected to a small crew section which will be mostly small rooms off of corridors.
You left out an important step:
In order for the difference in power management to be "any necessary configuration to optimize battery life was done when the laptop was imaged", then said configuration would have been wiped out when he removed Vista and installed XP.
And, even if the laptop was optimized to work with Vista, there is no reason to assume that it work well with XP.
The OP's question is about what your line above. Why is it a big pain to get the PM stuff working right?
I asked him to tie anonymous political speech to the subject at hand, which is anonymous slander, in a meaningful way. Neither of you have done so.
In other words, you have both engaged in the disingenuous use of a red herring. It is obvious you are both either intellectually dishonest or just fucking idiots. Either way, you are not worth wasting time on.
Those ads are not anonymous. Try again.
Please explain how personal insults and lies constitute "political speech".
CCP specifically developed the PLEX system to cripple RMT and goldfarming.
According to my copy of the CorpSpeak to English dictionary "challenge" and "opportunity" both say "See 'problem'."
This is a piss-poor way to determine corporate sponsorship, especially the first one. Because someone works on the kernel and uses his work email address, it does not follow that the employer sponsored his work.
The third one is also dependent on the question asked. The question is not listed and the answer to "Are you employed at a company for the specific purpose of developing for the Linux Kernel" is almost guaranteed to be different than the question combination of "Where are you employed?" and "Have you ever done any Linux kernel development at work?"
The proper people to ask about corporation sponsorship of Linux kernel development is HR and PA, not the employees.
Speeding is an illegal act that is a civil, not criminal, offense.
My point from the beginning has been that the people who didn't read the EULA and/or TOS didn't do the right thing.
Your ignoring that invalidates your point.
Oh, I am sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to a dumbass. "The Right Thing to do" is to read the fucking TOS and EULA and not whine about it when you don't. Now STFU.
Was there a clause saying they could change the TOS and EULA without notice?
Nice red herring, too bad it does not apply. It isn't even close.
Then that is a different story. But, then again, they probably agreed to that in the original TOS or EULA.
I call bullshit. I do it all the time and I am neither very rich nor very poor. You can read through most of the items you have listed in less than one minute. All but the most complicated can be read through in less than 10 minutes.
Ignorance and laziness are no excuse.
That is bullshit and you know it. How often do you have to agree to a TOS or EULA? Most people can read through the average TOS or EULA in about 10 minutes. Somehow I doubt you can't spend 10 minutes doing that rather than watching some stupid TV show or playing WoW.
You are proving my point. Thanks for playing.
No one got conned. They agreed to do what happened. They should have read what they were agreeing to. You can whine all you want about where you think it should go, but until people are willing to take personal responsibility, practice due diligence, and read what they are agreeing to you have no argument.
The Digsby developers did nothing wrong and are neither incompetent or malicious. The only incompetent people in this instance are the ones that agreed to something without knowing what they are agreeing to.
I hope you have some asbestos underwear, and outerwear, and overwear.
And, some marshmallows.
Here's your problem:
In other words, they told you about it in documentation you agreed to and said your read but didn't. This sounds kind of familiar. I think it is because of all the people I have heard say "I didn't know that was in the contract. I signed it but didn't read it. You know, just like all those people with the "sub-prime" adjustable rate mortgages that ballooned after 2 years.
It is called due diligence and everyone should practice it, not just lawyers and businesses.
Seems to me, you need a lesson in the History of Modern Digital Computing.
That would be Apple, a couple of guys working out of a garage who promptly sold them as kits (those entrepreneurial bastards!), followed by RadioShack (those corporate bastards!). But, would the "home" computer exist without the personal computer, which was invented by DEC (those corporate bastards!) in the early 1970s?
Software Arts Inc.(those corporate bastards!), started by two MBA students Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (those entrepreneurial bastards!) to develop and sell Visicalc.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie while working at Bell Laboratories in an attempt to play a game on a PDP7. They got a boost in 1971 when Thompson and Ritchie won a bid to produce an office automation system for internal use there. (those corporate bastards!)
Xerox at the PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)(those corporate bastards!)
Tim Berners-Lee
Edison had an "invention" factory where people were employed to invent new things, and did. Most of Edison's inventions came out of there.
Thanks for playing.
Please prove that statement.
Please bear in mind that most people who make something are looking to make money from it. Even those that do so for altruistic reasons need to support themselves and thus the ability to earn money via patents and copyrights allow those same people to go on to develop more and better items while supporting themselves on money earned from said patents and copyrights.
EVE uses a subscription model. This model uses either the standard credit card, or a Game Time Card (GTC) like one can get for WoW. The difference is that one can take a GTC and convert it into Pilot License Extensions (PLEX). A GTC can be purchased in several time lengths: 30, 60, 90 days. A PLEX is a basically a 30 day GTC.
If one buys a 60 day GTC, one can convert that into two PLEXs.
If one has a lot of ISK (the in-game currency), but little or no real currency to buy a GTC, one can use the in-game currency to buy a PLEX and continue to play. This allows a person to pay for playing the game BY playing the game.
If you want 50, ask for 100 and let yourself be argued down a bit.