It's when you want to do those extra things, like OpenGL games, install obscure drivers not included in the kernel, get fonts de-uglified, etc. that you get stuck messing with text configs. Lord knows I've tried to stick to the "user friendly" way, but no matter how many GUI configs, there's always something omitted. Most operating systems solve this by simply not exposing such features, or at least labelling such things as "unsupported" or deny they even exist. Then they get to sell the same OS with just the new stuff turned on by default now that its stable. A lot of these difficulties can be solved by just making default configs more up to date with the features, but the linux world would probably disembowel itself before agreeing to just what the defaults should be.
According to their "why isn't my site being linked?" page, apparently they go light on cgi indexing to avoid overwhelming the servers on the other end, and its likely they don't have much of a choice. Just a guess, but I'd imagine it would be hard to tell the difference between a sanely organized site which could be indexed as easily as a static site and one where every link could lead to a near infinite tree of unique and dynamic pages, such as cgi where it shows the same stuff only sorted differently, etc. Just blocking spidering might be enough to prevent that, but not everyone might set that, so then they'd just end up with an overwhelmed server and countless redundant pages.
Large, slow moving aircraft carrying large loads of cargo? The best defense these things have is an enemy not being aware of their existence in the first place. Otherwise they're sitting ducks.
No, I'll blame microsoft for forcing ALL hardware to no longer function in linux, not because of some harmless incompatibility nobody's figured out yet but because it won't let me run my disk accessing binary without a paid-for certificate from them.
Oh, and when has Microsoft ever got something bug free because their ass was riding on it? I'd say stuff like Windows Product Activation falls into that, and see how effective that was?
It'll be a bit hard when you have both intel and AMD happily following MS over the edge of that bridge. once its in their motherboard chipsets and eventually cpus it will be pretty hard to avoid
From the sound of this the chips will hardly be useful for quite a while, when even hopelessly old machines have it. There needs to be a critical mass of hardware for content providers to release anything, since nobody is going to run out and replace all their PCs which do nothing different except allow you to play stuff in MS' file formats that they charge you for. For the first few years it won't even matter that its there, none of the detrimental effects everyone here predicts will happen since nobody's using it. THEN they'll turn it on full blast when the only place you can find a machine without it is smoldering in a chinese PC recycling center.
the whole "Britney Spears a Demon" is a perennial rumor that has been repeatedly debunked yet keeps getting dug up and reported as truth by entertainment news hacks. Not gonna happen.
Yeah, the whole antiglobalization movement has been tainted with enough irrational wackos to undermine anyone who's actually serious about it. That or the wackos are intentionally the only ones they put on camera so everyone else dismisses it all as paranoid rambling.
Since you likely don't have detailed enough records to prove the contrary, it'll be assumed what you were playing was under their juristiction and rape you accordingly.
I think I know of a way to speed up the process. A (voluntary) selective breeding program supplemented by some genetic engineering where we breed a really race of small humans who can fit inside something the size of a walkman. These nano-people would be given full scholarships to majr in as many languages as possible. We can also train them in Navajo and use them for encryption.
They may act all indignant about a handful using most of their capacity, but they forget that this is the way its always been: a handful of power users are offset by people who are mostly idle. I doubt any dialup ISP ever had enough revenue to support maximum utilization by all their users. Unfortunately, Comcast's service attracts a far higher number of power users than dialup, and the cost gaps between power users and idlers is so much greater. Finding the right mix of hogs and idlers, pricing and cost cutting is something they're just going to have to keep tweaking. I'd hold out hope for some competitor to emerge with a service that gets this balance right to blow them out of the water, but the anticompetitive climate of broadband doesn't leave much room for that to happen.
If they want to avoid the animosity being thrown at them, then they really need to end the doubletalk, promising all this speed for games, music and video and then calling those who actually use it bandwidth hogs.
They need look no further than the huge jump in subscribers that came when AOL switched to flat rate pricing, and it doesn't take too much imagination to see where it will go. The growth of Internet accsess in Europe and many other places also says a lot about how essential flat rate pricing can be.
there's evidence that sept. 11 was planned well before bush was even nominated, and its doubtful they would've called it off if gore was elected. If Clinton's attempt to attack al Qaeda hadn't been dismissed as a distraction from the Lewinski scandal, THEN manybe things would have turned out differently
I don't think that's the case. They consider their hardware to be far more important than their software, as demonstrated by their reluctance to release an x86 version of OSX, despite the theoretical ease and actual demand for it. You get a MacOS bundled with every Mac anyway, so there's no loss to them if you put something else on it.
Actually they have had some decent (albeit fluffy) apple and linux related stuff. They even occasionally make some cracks at Microsoft, athough there's also plenty of MS cheerleading too.
...where aliens disguised as bikers plot to exterminate humans after seeng all the horrible stuff going on there in their media and concluding that they'd be saving the universe from such evil. When one falls in love with a human girl, he soon realizes that for some unfathomable reason all the good things about humanity just aren't considered newsworthy.
Screw up in one of those jobs and someone gets hurt. Screw up in programming and you get a core dump, or at worst annoyed users. Fumble around tryig to learn the former without expert training and you'll likely leave a trail of pain and misery in your path. Learning to program on your own is a lot more harmless
what rock have you been living under? The only reason ISA cards ae cheap is because they're OLD, and there's just as many cheap PCI cards floating around too. Probably even fewer, since there hasn't been a retail pc made with ISA slots in 2 or 3 years. Unless you consider minimum wage wealthy, I don't think you'll go broke on $12 sound cards and 100Mbps nics.
Considering that Microsoft doesn't even know exacty what.Net is supposed to be besides the realization of glossy near-scifi software you see in crappy hollywood movies and will practically write itself, its no wonder everyone else is ignorant.
The intent of the writer goes out the window the instant 15 other hacks do gang bang treatments on it. It's a rare movie script that hasn't been touched my more than one person's hands, and rarer still when the others actually get the point of it.
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It's when you want to do those extra things, like OpenGL games, install obscure drivers not included in the kernel, get fonts de-uglified, etc. that you get stuck messing with text configs. Lord knows I've tried to stick to the "user friendly" way, but no matter how many GUI configs, there's always something omitted. Most operating systems solve this by simply not exposing such features, or at least labelling such things as "unsupported" or deny they even exist. Then they get to sell the same OS with just the new stuff turned on by default now that its stable. A lot of these difficulties can be solved by just making default configs more up to date with the features, but the linux world would probably disembowel itself before agreeing to just what the defaults should be.
Cars vs. Railroads might be a better analogy.
According to their "why isn't my site being linked?" page, apparently they go light on cgi indexing to avoid overwhelming the servers on the other end, and its likely they don't have much of a choice. Just a guess, but I'd imagine it would be hard to tell the difference between a sanely organized site which could be indexed as easily as a static site and one where every link could lead to a near infinite tree of unique and dynamic pages, such as cgi where it shows the same stuff only sorted differently, etc. Just blocking spidering might be enough to prevent that, but not everyone might set that, so then they'd just end up with an overwhelmed server and countless redundant pages.
Large, slow moving aircraft carrying large loads of cargo? The best defense these things have is an enemy not being aware of their existence in the first place. Otherwise they're sitting ducks.
You try coming up with more original stuff in 4 days.
No, I'll blame microsoft for forcing ALL hardware to no longer function in linux, not because of some harmless incompatibility nobody's figured out yet but because it won't let me run my disk accessing binary without a paid-for certificate from them.
Oh, and when has Microsoft ever got something bug free because their ass was riding on it? I'd say stuff like Windows Product Activation falls into that, and see how effective that was?
It'll be a bit hard when you have both intel and AMD happily following MS over the edge of that bridge. once its in their motherboard chipsets and eventually cpus it will be pretty hard to avoid
From the sound of this the chips will hardly be useful for quite a while, when even hopelessly old machines have it. There needs to be a critical mass of hardware for content providers to release anything, since nobody is going to run out and replace all their PCs which do nothing different except allow you to play stuff in MS' file formats that they charge you for. For the first few years it won't even matter that its there, none of the detrimental effects everyone here predicts will happen since nobody's using it. THEN they'll turn it on full blast when the only place you can find a machine without it is smoldering in a chinese PC recycling center.
the whole "Britney Spears a Demon" is a perennial rumor that has been repeatedly debunked yet keeps getting dug up and reported as truth by entertainment news hacks. Not gonna happen.
Yeah, the whole antiglobalization movement has been tainted with enough irrational wackos to undermine anyone who's actually serious about it. That or the wackos are intentionally the only ones they put on camera so everyone else dismisses it all as paranoid rambling.
Sounds like legalized vigilanteeism. Where's the bill to allow hacking against antitrust violators?
Since you likely don't have detailed enough records to prove the contrary, it'll be assumed what you were playing was under their juristiction and rape you accordingly.
I think I know of a way to speed up the process. A (voluntary) selective breeding program supplemented by some genetic engineering where we breed a really race of small humans who can fit inside something the size of a walkman. These nano-people would be given full scholarships to majr in as many languages as possible. We can also train them in Navajo and use them for encryption.
They may act all indignant about a handful using most of their capacity, but they forget that this is the way its always been: a handful of power users are offset by people who are mostly idle. I doubt any dialup ISP ever had enough revenue to support maximum utilization by all their users. Unfortunately, Comcast's service attracts a far higher number of power users than dialup, and the cost gaps between power users and idlers is so much greater. Finding the right mix of hogs and idlers, pricing and cost cutting is something they're just going to have to keep tweaking. I'd hold out hope for some competitor to emerge with a service that gets this balance right to blow them out of the water, but the anticompetitive climate of broadband doesn't leave much room for that to happen.
If they want to avoid the animosity being thrown at them, then they really need to end the doubletalk, promising all this speed for games, music and video and then calling those who actually use it bandwidth hogs.
They need look no further than the huge jump in subscribers that came when AOL switched to flat rate pricing, and it doesn't take too much imagination to see where it will go. The growth of Internet accsess in Europe and many other places also says a lot about how essential flat rate pricing can be.
there's evidence that sept. 11 was planned well before bush was even nominated, and its doubtful they would've called it off if gore was elected. If Clinton's attempt to attack al Qaeda hadn't been dismissed as a distraction from the Lewinski scandal, THEN manybe things would have turned out differently
When they build robots that can be controlled with WASD and mouse look, THEN we'll be in trouble.
I don't think that's the case. They consider their hardware to be far more important than their software, as demonstrated by their reluctance to release an x86 version of OSX, despite the theoretical ease and actual demand for it. You get a MacOS bundled with every Mac anyway, so there's no loss to them if you put something else on it.
Actually they have had some decent (albeit fluffy) apple and linux related stuff. They even occasionally make some cracks at Microsoft, athough there's also plenty of MS cheerleading too.
...where aliens disguised as bikers plot to exterminate humans after seeng all the horrible stuff going on there in their media and concluding that they'd be saving the universe from such evil. When one falls in love with a human girl, he soon realizes that for some unfathomable reason all the good things about humanity just aren't considered newsworthy.
He should go see CRS.
Screw up in one of those jobs and someone gets hurt. Screw up in programming and you get a core dump, or at worst annoyed users. Fumble around tryig to learn the former without expert training and you'll likely leave a trail of pain and misery in your path. Learning to program on your own is a lot more harmless
what rock have you been living under? The only reason ISA cards ae cheap is because they're OLD, and there's just as many cheap PCI cards floating around too. Probably even fewer, since there hasn't been a retail pc made with ISA slots in 2 or 3 years. Unless you consider minimum wage wealthy, I don't think you'll go broke on $12 sound cards and 100Mbps nics.
He was worried about it in the same way someone would be worried about being stuck with IE when they get windows.
Considering that Microsoft doesn't even know exacty what .Net is supposed to be besides the realization of glossy near-scifi software you see in crappy hollywood movies and will practically write itself, its no wonder everyone else is ignorant.
The intent of the writer goes out the window the instant 15 other hacks do gang bang treatments on it. It's a rare movie script that hasn't been touched my more than one person's hands, and rarer still when the others actually get the point of it.