However, and I know this has been brought up before, is the open source community sporeading itself too thin? I'm not saying that there shouldn't be several flavors of operating systems, but I think some of these folks should try focusing their energies on one project. One secure, stable, fully-featured product is more desirable than 20 that do different things fine and other things horribly.
You're missing the point. The coolest thing you can possibly do in geekworld is to write your own OS. This guy is just having FUN! He doesn't want to concentrate on the OS you want him to concentrate on. He wants to be creative and come up with his own thing.
I want something like Scot Hacker described in this article (Be's BeIA-based Aura device, aka HARP, aka Home Audio Reference Platform). Aside from doing everything else that's cool, it will either hook up to it's own LCD panel, or to your TV set, to have full visual GUI for navigation.
Plus you gotta have wireless ethernet, so you and your entire family can stream all their MP3's -- AT THE SAME TIME -- to their Wi-Fi "net speakers," located throughout the house and underwater in the swimming pool. Each net speaker set can be controlled by any Wi-Fi webpad or computer system on your network, of course.
And some people think there's no market for IA's... what visionless morons!
Wireless networking would fall a few points above that, particularly if you were a customer representative/salesperson. For the rest of us? Another expensive toy.
Let me just blow your entire, ignorant theory out of the water with one simple idea:
Imagine what all the telecommuters in the world would do if their broadband internet connection was wireless and worked ANYWHERE on Earth.
I realize that my concern may be unnecessary (I haven't tried these out, of course) but I do find it rather distressing to think that this sort of 3D display might be the wave of the future. My concern about this comes from the fact that I am blind in one eye, and do not perceive 3D the way that other people do - things like the red and blue glasses or other visual tricks of that sort do not work for me, they only give me a massive headache. Inversely, there have been other 3D techniques which did work for me, and so I am not without hope - but I do hold a small bit of fear for the day that I find I cannot use a normal computer monitor because they have evolved beyond my ability to perceive them correctly. Does anyone have greater knowledge about this sort of perception, who might have some advice or ideas concerning my predicament? I'd appreciate it.
So basically you're worried because you're the only computer user with one good eye?
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first, would the word 'mean' make you feel better?
No, 'mean' doesn't apply here. He's talking about a set consisting of ALL employees. It is not true that HALF are above average and HALF are below average. The largest portion of employees are just AVERAGE.
don't tell people to study math if you don't know it thoroughly yourself...
Excuse me, I told him to study a BELL CURVE, which I have thoroughly studied. (BTW, no one knows "math" thoroughly, just parts of it.)
if you take average as the mean of a sample set, then the post you're replying to is dead on.
We're not talking about a group of numbers, we're talking about the REAL WORLD and PEOPLE!
its whole raison d'etre is to investigate how things should be done, instead of how they are usually done
diametrically opposed to this statement:
it keeps fundamentals of UNIX
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Well, guess what pal - the odds are somewhere around, say, 50-50 that you're below average. It reminds me of the stats that 80% or whatever of drivers say they are an "above average" driver...
So sure, unions are designed around the average, but given that half of all employers are below average in how they treat their employees, maybe the protections a union can offer are useful.
This is the lamest argument I've read yet, sorry.
Your entire thinking process hinges on classifying people as "above average" and "below average."
We don't need unions, we just need to let market forces dictate. If you're below average at your job, then work harder or get fired. If your employer is "below average," then above average people will stop working for them and they will go down the drain. Or they'll improve their practices and more good people will work for them.
BTW, please study a bell curve. The laws of averages say most people are AVERAGE. Then you've got a smaller number that are above average, and a similar number that are below average.
So, no, half of all employers are not below average, unless you consider NO employers to be just "average."
Arthur C Clarke's Space Odyssey 3001 - printed in 1997 - have space elevators and in the end of the book he explains that they could very well be possible to manufacture using tubular buckminsterfullerene.
Fool! It may have been printed in 1997, but it was WRITTEN in 3001!
I'm talking to YOU. You know who you are. You're the guy with the ability (money) to run for political office, and could probably win, but you don't want to get into politics. You're leaving the governing of your nation to the more corrupt or power-hungry or lawyer-type or self-centred bastards who don't give a damn about society as a whole.
Run for office, for Christ's sake, because the way it's going, it will only get worse! Get off your ass and make a small sacrafice for the rest of us. You can do it! We're only asking for two terms.
Damn, at first I thought you were familiar with the US government. Then I got near the end, where you actually think a regular person could make public office, like the found fathers intended, and not just schmuck millionaires.
Actually, from my quick read of this spec, they appear to have designed a variant of public key cryptography. I'll leave the cryptanalysis of the algorithm to someone actually good at it.
Even a perfectly copied DVD video would contain watermarks that would prevent a DVD recorder with a watermark detection chip from playing the bootleg copy.
He's right! (If you copy it onto, say, a record.)
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That would be kind of hard - since he *owns it outright*. Grand Theft Auto doesn't tend to look good on a resume.
Sorry, it was a joke. I guess my humor didn't translate well into that post.
Bull. How are people going to see this great content that has been generated if 99% of the people are too stingy to spend a few bucks a month on a site
This is the best rebuttal you can come up with?
It's called MARKETING! The first, most basic idea is to offer a 30-day free trial.
Ahhh... they didn't pay for it because the need wasn't there. They could fulfill the same needs at other (free) websites.
The sites that will be successful at pay-per-view will be the ones that generate great content. I consider CNET News.com one such source. I've even emailed them, begging them to let those of us who read them all the time to pay a monthly fee, and get an ad-free view of their site. Jai Singh (editor) seemed interested, asked me what I'd be willing to pay, and said they'd look into it.
Just like Eudora, CuteFTP, et. al. offer versions of their software for free with banner ads, I think you'll start seeing content sites offering the reverse -- an ad-free subscription to their site.
There are only a few sites I'd pay for if they didn't offer their content for free. News.com. ESPN. Maybe CNN.
The best-of-breed content sites will survive and flourish as their crappier competitors go down the tubes.
Why would a customer need say this in the first place? If they want to order 1000 naked computers, why do they need to explain to their reasons to the vendor?
Where did it say the customer NEEDS to explain this? It just says, IF a customer buys 500+ naked PC's, and SAYS they did so because of a site license, Microsoft would like to know about it so they can explain to them what is and is not covered.
I don't see the problem in this. If you don't like Windows, don't use it. If you're going to use it, license it correctly.
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So are supposed to boycott the gameboy advance or this emulator.
I await my marching orders, sirs.
even more, the idea of bad companies wearing electronic tracking bracelets amuses me
Yeah, but how do you fit them around those huge company ankles?
However, and I know this has been brought up before, is the open source community sporeading itself too thin? I'm not saying that there shouldn't be several flavors of operating systems, but I think some of these folks should try focusing their energies on one project. One secure, stable, fully-featured product is more desirable than 20 that do different things fine and other things horribly.
You're missing the point. The coolest thing you can possibly do in geekworld is to write your own OS. This guy is just having FUN! He doesn't want to concentrate on the OS you want him to concentrate on. He wants to be creative and come up with his own thing.
I want something like Scot Hacker described in this article (Be's BeIA-based Aura device, aka HARP, aka Home Audio Reference Platform). Aside from doing everything else that's cool, it will either hook up to it's own LCD panel, or to your TV set, to have full visual GUI for navigation.
Plus you gotta have wireless ethernet, so you and your entire family can stream all their MP3's -- AT THE SAME TIME -- to their Wi-Fi "net speakers," located throughout the house and underwater in the swimming pool. Each net speaker set can be controlled by any Wi-Fi webpad or computer system on your network, of course.
And some people think there's no market for IA's... what visionless morons!
Wireless networking would fall a few points above that, particularly if you were a customer representative/salesperson. For the rest of us? Another expensive toy.
Let me just blow your entire, ignorant theory out of the water with one simple idea:
Imagine what all the telecommuters in the world would do if their broadband internet connection was wireless and worked ANYWHERE on Earth.
I realize that my concern may be unnecessary (I haven't tried these out, of course) but I do find it rather distressing to think that this sort of 3D display might be the wave of the future. My concern about this comes from the fact that I am blind in one eye, and do not perceive 3D the way that other people do - things like the red and blue glasses or other visual tricks of that sort do not work for me, they only give me a massive headache. Inversely, there have been other 3D techniques which did work for me, and so I am not without hope - but I do hold a small bit of fear for the day that I find I cannot use a normal computer monitor because they have evolved beyond my ability to perceive them correctly. Does anyone have greater knowledge about this sort of perception, who might have some advice or ideas concerning my predicament? I'd appreciate it.
So basically you're worried because you're the only computer user with one good eye?
first, would the word 'mean' make you feel better?
No, 'mean' doesn't apply here. He's talking about a set consisting of ALL employees. It is not true that HALF are above average and HALF are below average. The largest portion of employees are just AVERAGE.
don't tell people to study math if you don't know it thoroughly yourself...
Excuse me, I told him to study a BELL CURVE, which I have thoroughly studied. (BTW, no one knows "math" thoroughly, just parts of it.)
if you take average as the mean of a sample set, then the post you're replying to is dead on.
We're not talking about a group of numbers, we're talking about the REAL WORLD and PEOPLE!
Or their new article on how to walk, titled, "Putting one foot in front of the other."
I'm sorry, I stole that from George Carlin!
Let's see how well you do in your second language, if you even have one that is.
C'mon dude... you left out a comma!
I find this statement:
its whole raison d'etre is to investigate how things should be done, instead of how they are usually done
diametrically opposed to this statement:
it keeps fundamentals of UNIX
Well, guess what pal - the odds are somewhere around, say, 50-50 that you're below average. It reminds me of the stats that 80% or whatever of drivers say they are an "above average" driver...
So sure, unions are designed around the average, but given that half of all employers are below average in how they treat their employees, maybe the protections a union can offer are useful.
This is the lamest argument I've read yet, sorry.
Your entire thinking process hinges on classifying people as "above average" and "below average."
We don't need unions, we just need to let market forces dictate. If you're below average at your job, then work harder or get fired. If your employer is "below average," then above average people will stop working for them and they will go down the drain. Or they'll improve their practices and more good people will work for them.
BTW, please study a bell curve. The laws of averages say most people are AVERAGE. Then you've got a smaller number that are above average, and a similar number that are below average.
So, no, half of all employers are not below average, unless you consider NO employers to be just "average."
So will spray-paint stick to that fancy carbon shit? Cuz we ain't gonna let Whitey forget they roots, nowahmsayn?
nocanyoutranslatetoenglish?
Arthur C Clarke's Space Odyssey 3001 - printed in 1997 - have space elevators and in the end of the book he explains that they could very well be possible to manufacture using tubular buckminsterfullerene.
Fool! It may have been printed in 1997, but it was WRITTEN in 3001!
gnutella would be nice without all the pr0n, but hey.
You're joking, right?
Surely they're interchangeable?
I'm talking to YOU. You know who you are. You're the guy with the ability (money) to run for political office, and could probably win, but you don't want to get into politics. You're leaving the governing of your nation to the more corrupt or power-hungry or lawyer-type or self-centred bastards who don't give a damn about society as a whole.
Run for office, for Christ's sake, because the way it's going, it will only get worse! Get off your ass and make a small sacrafice for the rest of us. You can do it! We're only asking for two terms.
Damn, at first I thought you were familiar with the US government. Then I got near the end, where you actually think a regular person could make public office, like the found fathers intended, and not just schmuck millionaires.
Boy are you stupid!
Actually, from my quick read of this spec, they appear to have designed a variant of public key cryptography. I'll leave the cryptanalysis of the algorithm to someone actually good at it.
You know who you are, Bruce...
Even a perfectly copied DVD video would contain watermarks that would prevent a DVD recorder with a watermark detection chip from playing the bootleg copy.
He's right! (If you copy it onto, say, a record.)
That would be kind of hard - since he *owns it outright*. Grand Theft Auto doesn't tend to look good on a resume.
Sorry, it was a joke. I guess my humor didn't translate well into that post.
I'd like to give him a taste of his own medicine!
Off the job, he drives a rare 1971 AMC Javelin that he restored himself; like most other repo men, he owns his car outright.
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Bull. How are people going to see this great content that has been generated if 99% of the people are too stingy to spend a few bucks a month on a site
This is the best rebuttal you can come up with?
It's called MARKETING! The first, most basic idea is to offer a 30-day free trial.
But honestly, use your imagination. Sheesh.
You didn't pay for it. Now cram it.
Ahhh... they didn't pay for it because the need wasn't there. They could fulfill the same needs at other (free) websites.
The sites that will be successful at pay-per-view will be the ones that generate great content. I consider CNET News.com one such source. I've even emailed them, begging them to let those of us who read them all the time to pay a monthly fee, and get an ad-free view of their site. Jai Singh (editor) seemed interested, asked me what I'd be willing to pay, and said they'd look into it.
Just like Eudora, CuteFTP, et. al. offer versions of their software for free with banner ads, I think you'll start seeing content sites offering the reverse -- an ad-free subscription to their site.
There are only a few sites I'd pay for if they didn't offer their content for free. News.com. ESPN. Maybe CNN.
The best-of-breed content sites will survive and flourish as their crappier competitors go down the tubes.
I mean, is the gene sequence of pidgeons freely available for download?
Of course.
If I find a design flaw in the pidgeon, who do I submit patches to?
god@heaven
He answers all prayers, you know.
Doing something like hypersonic kinetic kill missile guidance still sounds, uh, non-trivial.
That means "fucking hard" to all you non-geniuses out there.
Why would a customer need say this in the first place? If they want to order 1000 naked computers, why do they need to explain to their reasons to the vendor?
Where did it say the customer NEEDS to explain this? It just says, IF a customer buys 500+ naked PC's, and SAYS they did so because of a site license, Microsoft would like to know about it so they can explain to them what is and is not covered.
I don't see the problem in this. If you don't like Windows, don't use it. If you're going to use it, license it correctly.