Bill Gates was born a millionaire. I don't know about the rest.
That gave Bill Gates an important advantage: he could be entrepreneurial, fail, and it's just "oh well, I've lost a tiny fraction of my fortune, let's try again", and could keep trying for some considerable time without any risk to the basics of life (housing, food etc).
A more normal middle class person has to typically risk the roof over their head and everything else they may have to do anything entrepreneurial. The cost of failure is comparatively far higher for them.
Bill Gates had got lucky too -- if the owner of DR-DOS hadn't been out flying (so the story goes) and had met up with IBM instead of Gates, Microsoft may today be a distant memory, or just another company making application software, and while Bill Gates wouldn't have been poor he may have not even been a top 100 earning CEO.
The trouble is that they don't get exported. Outside of the US, by and large all we get is the output of the mega-brewers (Coors, Anheiser Busch etc.) and they are all like horse piss.
Microsoft can afford to flush cash away as long as it takes so long as the Windows/Office monopoly is still going. One advantage Microsoft has is that they can keep trying, and keep making what for other firms would be disastrous mistakes, and keep on doing it until by luck they get it right.
They also made a bunch of improvements to Terminal.app (some that were sorely wanting, such as when you open a new tab, the shell starting in the same directory as the existing tab).
It is overblown hyperbole. Personally, I didn't even realise that scroll bars disappear, the feature melts into the background. This is one of the reasons I use OSX, it's not trying to give me a "user experience", by and large it gets out of the way instead of shouting "I'm here! I'm here! Look the pretty!" like what happens with Windows (with the notable exception of Windows 7).
Even when you enable the copy bit in a command window, you still can't paste with a keyboard shortcut - you have to take your hands off the keyboard and move the mouse and select "Paste" from the menu.
No, RDP has become the defacto standard under Windows simply because it's really the only way to do it.
Given that I would imagine Linux desktops are disporportionately used by developers and sysadmins rather than end users (Linux isn't used so much as a desktop for normal users), there's quite a lot of people who do use X forwarding. It *is* easy and has been for a long time, a matter of three additional keypresses when you SSH to the machine you need to work on.
Unlike things like RDP, with the windows being part of *your* desktop, the screen lock doesn't come on on the "remote" session and get in your way while you're working in other windows on another machine.
I'll agree that remote X sucks over a laggy WAN, but it's extremely valuable over a LAN or fast WAN, and this is where sysadmins tend to spend most of their time. You can always fall back to VNC if you do have to work over a laggy link. I don't use X11 forwarding to "stroke my own ego" as you put it, but because it's actually more usable than VNC or RDP when you're having to do sysadmin tasks on multiple systems. Getting rid of network transparency altogether instead of coming up with something better than what X11 has is a backwards step.
Of course you can. You just don't have these 'radical' features in the multiplayer part, and indeed this is how it is in SC2: there are units and abilities in the campaign that just don't exist in multiplayer.
The 100MT monster (Tsar Bomba) was not a practical weapon, it fits in no standard Soviet bomber and must be carried by a specially adapted one which is now so unmanueverable it'd get shot down long before it got near its target.
Well, there were enough nukes to render the entire northern hemisphere functionally uninhabitable for long enough nearly everyone dies. The problem is is the nuclear winter effect, which is a bit of a misnomer: more like the nuclear 6 month long night. A recent simulation (using much better modelling techniques that were used in the 1980s when the Soviets and West independently modelled the situation and discovered how devastating it would be) showed that a 1980s-style exchange would result in the aftermath - for a significant time period - (months rather than days) the daylight conditions at *mid day* being that of a moonlit night. The climate is disrupted for decades afterwards.
Even a regional dispute - a hypothetical war between India and Pakistan with an exchange of 50 Nagasaki-sized warheads - would result in a "nuclear autumn" that while would not kill us all, would reduce the growing season in the breadbasket of the United States by about 60 days the year following the war. Not enough to cause famine in the developed world, but enough that rationing would be back. The disruption to the climate would be obvious for about a decade.
Actually a pick and place machine is precisely addressing the bottleneck if you need to make small runs. Sure, for a 1-off board it doesn't matter much. But if you want to make a run of 50 boards, you can get the bare PCBs made very cheaply, but assembling the boards is another matter altogether. (I have actually found a company that will assemble 50 boards for a reasonable price, but it would still be a lot better - even if it wasn't any cheaper - to have the assembly done genuinely "in house", not to mention a much faster turnaround time).
The amount of time spent "fucking about and maintaining the operating system" is such a small amount of time, it's not even big enough to be considered a rounding error.
Now if my day job were editing video then perhaps Linux would be the wrong tool for the job. But for writing server-side software it's perfect.
I've not found Linux to make a bad desktop at all (I'm extremely satisfied with my Debian desktop which I use for development, it has a multi monitor display, runs VIrtualBox very nicely, and basically Just Works). What I've found Linux to not be terribly good at is being a *laptop* OS.
Certificates need an expiry for the same reason that passwords ought to have them. The probability that a certificate has fallen into unauthorized hands increases with the passage of time, so having certificates expire means you can limit the usefulness of a stolen certificate.
Well, no. If you can blow the 10km asteroid into a sufficiently large amount of chunks, you'll have imparted some velocity into these chunks. Do it early enough and the vast majority of chunks end up missing the Earth altogether.
Road wear isn't a factor of tire PSI, but axle load. Road wear increases at an exponetional proportional to axle load.
See p.23 of this: http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf - showing that a 5 axle tractor/trailer does 9600 times the road damage than a car, despite only weighing 20 times as much. (A bicycle's wear to the road is likely immeasurably small compared to a car).
The secondary costs are small. I can't not eat by simply not cycling, I have to eat anyway.
If I bike to work (12.5 hilly miles in each direction) the amount of extra food I have to eat compared to just sitting on my backside all day is approximately 1 banana or equivalent thereof, which is a pretty small fraction of daily food intake. While a competition cyclist might need a lot more than that, a utility cyclist generally isn't training for competition and rides at a lower, less energy intensive pace.
It's not that some drivers are idiots and some cyclists are idiots, it's that in the grand set of people there are idiots, and those in the subset "idiots" will be idiots whether they are in a car or on a bike.
By and large, I'd prefer they be on a bike. Idiots on a bike do much less damage to third parties when they crash, and also because they tend to hurt themselves when they crash, they very quickly discover a serious disincentive to being an idiot (pain), which is less likely for an idiot in a car (who may damage people and property but be left unhurt, and not suffer much of a disincentive to being an idiot). So idiot cyclists over time will either become non-idiots or remove themselves from the gene pool.
So, now in New Hampshire, if the bill is passed, and you go for a pleasure flight in a hot air balloon and take photos of your experience, you're now guilty of a misdemeanour? Or if you take a photo out of an airliner's window that happens to be over NH at the time?
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Bill Gates was born a millionaire. I don't know about the rest.
That gave Bill Gates an important advantage: he could be entrepreneurial, fail, and it's just "oh well, I've lost a tiny fraction of my fortune, let's try again", and could keep trying for some considerable time without any risk to the basics of life (housing, food etc).
A more normal middle class person has to typically risk the roof over their head and everything else they may have to do anything entrepreneurial. The cost of failure is comparatively far higher for them.
Bill Gates had got lucky too -- if the owner of DR-DOS hadn't been out flying (so the story goes) and had met up with IBM instead of Gates, Microsoft may today be a distant memory, or just another company making application software, and while Bill Gates wouldn't have been poor he may have not even been a top 100 earning CEO.
The trouble is that they don't get exported. Outside of the US, by and large all we get is the output of the mega-brewers (Coors, Anheiser Busch etc.) and they are all like horse piss.
Microsoft can afford to flush cash away as long as it takes so long as the Windows/Office monopoly is still going. One advantage Microsoft has is that they can keep trying, and keep making what for other firms would be disastrous mistakes, and keep on doing it until by luck they get it right.
That sounds like something from the BOFH Excuse Calendar.
They also made a bunch of improvements to Terminal.app (some that were sorely wanting, such as when you open a new tab, the shell starting in the same directory as the existing tab).
It is overblown hyperbole. Personally, I didn't even realise that scroll bars disappear, the feature melts into the background. This is one of the reasons I use OSX, it's not trying to give me a "user experience", by and large it gets out of the way instead of shouting "I'm here! I'm here! Look the pretty!" like what happens with Windows (with the notable exception of Windows 7).
Even when you enable the copy bit in a command window, you still can't paste with a keyboard shortcut - you have to take your hands off the keyboard and move the mouse and select "Paste" from the menu.
Out of curiosity, why is he Pope Francis, not Pope Bergoglio? And why was Pope Benedict called that, not Pope Ratzinger?
Is "Francis" basically his IRC nick?
No, RDP has become the defacto standard under Windows simply because it's really the only way to do it.
Given that I would imagine Linux desktops are disporportionately used by developers and sysadmins rather than end users (Linux isn't used so much as a desktop for normal users), there's quite a lot of people who do use X forwarding. It *is* easy and has been for a long time, a matter of three additional keypresses when you SSH to the machine you need to work on.
Unlike things like RDP, with the windows being part of *your* desktop, the screen lock doesn't come on on the "remote" session and get in your way while you're working in other windows on another machine.
I'll agree that remote X sucks over a laggy WAN, but it's extremely valuable over a LAN or fast WAN, and this is where sysadmins tend to spend most of their time. You can always fall back to VNC if you do have to work over a laggy link. I don't use X11 forwarding to "stroke my own ego" as you put it, but because it's actually more usable than VNC or RDP when you're having to do sysadmin tasks on multiple systems. Getting rid of network transparency altogether instead of coming up with something better than what X11 has is a backwards step.
It's not suspect at all while the fucking Oracle installer is GUI only.
Of course you can. You just don't have these 'radical' features in the multiplayer part, and indeed this is how it is in SC2: there are units and abilities in the campaign that just don't exist in multiplayer.
Wonton is soup. Did you mean wanton?
Also, "pariah".
Signed, the grammar/spelling taliban.
Why would an ion drive have a theoretical top speed of "200,000 mph"?
The 100MT monster (Tsar Bomba) was not a practical weapon, it fits in no standard Soviet bomber and must be carried by a specially adapted one which is now so unmanueverable it'd get shot down long before it got near its target.
Well, there were enough nukes to render the entire northern hemisphere functionally uninhabitable for long enough nearly everyone dies. The problem is is the nuclear winter effect, which is a bit of a misnomer: more like the nuclear 6 month long night. A recent simulation (using much better modelling techniques that were used in the 1980s when the Soviets and West independently modelled the situation and discovered how devastating it would be) showed that a 1980s-style exchange would result in the aftermath - for a significant time period - (months rather than days) the daylight conditions at *mid day* being that of a moonlit night. The climate is disrupted for decades afterwards.
Even a regional dispute - a hypothetical war between India and Pakistan with an exchange of 50 Nagasaki-sized warheads - would result in a "nuclear autumn" that while would not kill us all, would reduce the growing season in the breadbasket of the United States by about 60 days the year following the war. Not enough to cause famine in the developed world, but enough that rationing would be back. The disruption to the climate would be obvious for about a decade.
This is not shocking, it's kind of obvious. And in other news, bears shit in woods.
Those machines are also eyewateringly expensive. This machine is actually pretty damn cheap even if all it does is pick and place.
Actually a pick and place machine is precisely addressing the bottleneck if you need to make small runs. Sure, for a 1-off board it doesn't matter much. But if you want to make a run of 50 boards, you can get the bare PCBs made very cheaply, but assembling the boards is another matter altogether. (I have actually found a company that will assemble 50 boards for a reasonable price, but it would still be a lot better - even if it wasn't any cheaper - to have the assembly done genuinely "in house", not to mention a much faster turnaround time).
Everything I need to do at work.
The amount of time spent "fucking about and maintaining the operating system" is such a small amount of time, it's not even big enough to be considered a rounding error.
Now if my day job were editing video then perhaps Linux would be the wrong tool for the job. But for writing server-side software it's perfect.
I've not found Linux to make a bad desktop at all (I'm extremely satisfied with my Debian desktop which I use for development, it has a multi monitor display, runs VIrtualBox very nicely, and basically Just Works). What I've found Linux to not be terribly good at is being a *laptop* OS.
Certificates need an expiry for the same reason that passwords ought to have them. The probability that a certificate has fallen into unauthorized hands increases with the passage of time, so having certificates expire means you can limit the usefulness of a stolen certificate.
Well, no. If you can blow the 10km asteroid into a sufficiently large amount of chunks, you'll have imparted some velocity into these chunks. Do it early enough and the vast majority of chunks end up missing the Earth altogether.
Road wear isn't a factor of tire PSI, but axle load. Road wear increases at an exponetional proportional to axle load.
See p.23 of this: http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf - showing that a 5 axle tractor/trailer does 9600 times the road damage than a car, despite only weighing 20 times as much. (A bicycle's wear to the road is likely immeasurably small compared to a car).
The secondary costs are small. I can't not eat by simply not cycling, I have to eat anyway.
If I bike to work (12.5 hilly miles in each direction) the amount of extra food I have to eat compared to just sitting on my backside all day is approximately 1 banana or equivalent thereof, which is a pretty small fraction of daily food intake. While a competition cyclist might need a lot more than that, a utility cyclist generally isn't training for competition and rides at a lower, less energy intensive pace.
It's not that some drivers are idiots and some cyclists are idiots, it's that in the grand set of people there are idiots, and those in the subset "idiots" will be idiots whether they are in a car or on a bike.
By and large, I'd prefer they be on a bike. Idiots on a bike do much less damage to third parties when they crash, and also because they tend to hurt themselves when they crash, they very quickly discover a serious disincentive to being an idiot (pain), which is less likely for an idiot in a car (who may damage people and property but be left unhurt, and not suffer much of a disincentive to being an idiot). So idiot cyclists over time will either become non-idiots or remove themselves from the gene pool.
So, now in New Hampshire, if the bill is passed, and you go for a pleasure flight in a hot air balloon and take photos of your experience, you're now guilty of a misdemeanour? Or if you take a photo out of an airliner's window that happens to be over NH at the time?