That's a good plan for someone who wants to learn, but most folks want to get their e-mail and surf the web and be done with it. They also must use Windows at work, so we are now asking them to become competent in two Operating Systems, which is two more than they want to learn.
That's why my folks still run Windows. My Dad is a physicist, so it's not like he's never seen Unix before, but even he isn't at all interested in Linux or OSX, despite the fact that he acknowledges Windows' shortcomings.
I use TiVo myself, as I have yet to find something I'd want to keep past the second viewing, but I agree with you in principle. I always could set up the Tivo2Go stuff if I felt the need, I suppose. If I ever feel the need for a standalone DVD recorder, I'll take a look at the Daewoo.
"full of shit" "store monkey" whatever doesn't work is automatically "a small percentage" I stand by comment that you can at least get competent, non-derisive support for non-Linux OSes. With Linux you get condescension, name calling, and spite.
No, I didn't. You claim that a rocket is inherently safer merely because it does not carry a human payload. An unmanned hypergolic rocket is in fact often as dangerous as a man-rated rocket in that leakage from the corrosive and poisonous fuel and oxidizers can kill as many people as an explosion on the way to orbit. Those people did not die in accidents unrelated to the launch of the rocket (unlike your car accident victims), and due to the minimization of such propellants on manned rockets (only used in the OMS thrusters on the Shuttle and their equivalent on Soyuz) the risk of such an accident is far lower.
For two otherwise identical rockets, it can be argued that the unmanned variant is inherently safer, as there is always a non-zero chance of the loss of the crew. I am not aware of any launchers that currently meet those criteria, as the Energia booster/Buran shuttle is no longer in production.
It appears that you've never done this sort of thing under any OS and are pretty much full of sh*t.
No, you pretty much missed his point, which is actually typical. 90% of the home media devices out there are a pain in the ass to use (if it is even possible) if you use anything other than Windows. Of the ten percent that remain, you are better off getting a Mac than a using a Linux box, because at the very least you can haul the rig into an Apple Store and the folks at the Genius Bar will help you get it up and running.
If I were to set my parents up with Linux, I would end up being their sole source for tech support. I spend enough of my life supporting computers as it stands now. At least if my friends or family choose either Windows or OS X, I can point them to affordable alternative sources of support. Neither Red Hat or Novell handles home user support very well (although I have been pleased with their corporate offerings), much less the groups of holier than though geeks who make up the online Linux community, particularly when the response of said geeks is to call someone full of shit and then present no solution to the problem other than to spout some buzzwords. Incidentally, I know plenty of people burning DVDs and capturing VCR home movie quality video over USB2 just fine using Windows XP -- perhaps the poster wasn't as clueless as you assume?
Um, you do realize that you just reinforced the prejudice that folks who are pro-tattoo are inconsiderate, anti-social, and juvenile, don't you? Rule 1 of Business is never ever insult the customer, unless you are a monopoly (cf. Verizon). I have found that ostentatious body modifications correlate well with the attitude you express, and that that attitude leads to long-term problems in the workplace including absenteeism, insubordination, and poor quality work. I would therefore require exceptional proof that the individual was otherwise inclined if s/he showed up for an interview with such an appearance. When three or four other candidates with similar qualifications walk in without the self-esteem baggage, that makes your appearance even more of a handicap.
As someone pointed out upthread -- in the workplace you are not a beautiful and unique flower, no matter what your kindergarten teach told you. You are pretty much a cog in a machine. Hey, if it were supposed to be all about fun, they'd charge admission instead of paying salary.
Everyone who has ever died in a pad accident would beg to differ with you, Einstein. It most certainly can kill people even if the payload is purely mechanical. Rockets are inherently very dangerous machines. The Zenit only uses one cryogenic propellant, so its fuel handling isn't as dangerous as some unmanned rockets, but it is also very difficult to get records of its early flight tests, so we really have no idea how many people died during the early development of the rocket during the Cold War. The original design dates back to the 1970s and was developed inside the closed rocket factories of the USSR.
Plus the Treos don't work well on the Subway. Verizon is considered to be a weak Treo vendor and they provide the signal on the Metro exclusively until 2017.
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I would hazard a guess that large fraction of the population is not as organized as you are. In fact, since I restore missing files from backup for my coworkers all of the time and see that they use no folders whatsoever, I know a lot of people do not organize.
A hierarchical organization system is not hard to implement optionally on top of a search based one. That way you don't have to remember if you filed your Natalie Portman pictures in the "Petrified" or "Hot Grits" folders. (I keed, I keed.)
And Sarge will probably still be the "stable" release when XP is EOLed. That is my point -- the "better" way ain't better if it takes years longer than its rivals to reach the exact same level of frustration. As the parent poster noted, apt-get is no panacea to package management woes.
Because "something better" never makes it out of "testing"? To call Debian's release cycle glacial is an insult to glaciers everywhere. Apple has managed something like three major releases while Sarge was oozing its way toward release. In fact, wasn't Windows 2000 the supported release when Sarge began its long journey?
Solutions need to be timely in addition to useful. A solution I can use now, with some flaws, is better than the perfect solution, as I must solve my problem now. The current models for package management across all operating systems just about suck equally, so they really aren't a factor in deciding which one to use.
All they need to do is use an Intel DRM chip or make changes in the non-open source Quartz libraries to make sure that it won't run well on non-Apple hardware. In fact, with enough planning they can also make it a DMCA violation to modify the OS to even try. I'm not saying that this is a good thing, I'm merely pointing out that it is within the realm of possibility. Apple has a lot of control over how the hardware is put together, and OpenDarwin without Quartz ain't OSX.
Unless you have an iPod broken for some other reason, I think the recycling is a bum deal.
Or if you were planning to buy a new one anyway and your old one was going to end up in a landfill. It looks like Apple is begining to get ahead of the curve as there are several states that are forcing computer manufacturers to either recycle old equipment at the time of purchase or pay a hefty tax to pay for the state's recycling program. I can easily see these laws spreading to any rechargeable battery powered device, as battery disposal and recycling is a major headache for local governments. With this program in place, Apple is ready if such laws become widespread.
My Dad worked for the EPA for twenty years and I remember I had a conversation with him in the eighties where he predicted that sometime in my lifetime, all purchases would have to include the cost of disposal in addition to the cost of production. There's a finite amount of space to store trash. Perhaps he was right.
Did your mother teach you that telling a false story that gets someone in trouble is not nearly as bad as telling a false story that gets tens of thousands of people killed and maimed?
Let's see how it stacks up:
Media:
False memo about GWB's service: body count zero.
Koran Story (which was at least partially true, as is coming out now): body count: perhaps a dozen.
Bush/Cheney:
Iraq WMDs: Anywhere from 12,000 to 100,000 civilian deaths, plus combatants, plus countless wounded and bereaved who are now ready to strap on explosives and blow up a few 'mericans for revenge. Not to mention the record budget deficits we are running up just to prove that our President has a bigger wang than Saddam, while we remain absolutely impotent in our efforts to catch the author of the 9/11 attacks and stop actual nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.
Furthermore, Newsweek and Rather have actually been punished. I thought my former party was the party of personal responsibility, but it has been turned into the party of theocratic kleptocracy. That's why I became an independent after ten years of being a member of the GOP.
Which might work for slitting the throat of an already subdued helpless captive if no one else could physically intervene, but is absolutely useless against a horde of passengers armed with Block I fists. Deadly knives need heft and the aluminum wall of a can lacks that. It's the reason you can threaten someone with a broken bottle in a bar fight, but they won't be very afraid of your can of Bud Light, no matter how you twist it.
After September 11, the concept of using improvised weapons to take over an aircraft is void. The implicit deal was always that if you cooperated, then they'd land the plane somewhere and make demands. Only a raving idiot would believe that now, which is why we need to worry far more about IEDs than box cutters. The next attacks on airliners will be efforts to blow them out of the sky, as that is really the only tactic left to the terrorists now. In fact, even if a hijacker threatened an aircraft with a bomb, it should still be standard protocol to not allow them into the cockpit, but to ask them where they want the plane landed. Turning over control of the plane is signing your own death warrant, period.
In fact, it would not surprise me that when the hijack alarm is sounded to the ATC that any deviation from the flight plan would result in a Sidewinder up the ass anyway. Nobody is going to chance another controlled flight into a target again.
Ah, but you missed the genius of his statement! Any person who cannot find a job after being laid off is "incapable" and therefore worthy of contempt. If he didn't put that qualifier in, perhaps he'd have trouble sleeping at night.
Myself, I've seen plenty of capable people flounder, even though I've been able to land on my feet after my layoffs. I just don't justify my good fortune with pseudo-Randian bullshit to let me feel superior.
Of course just jumping on the latest thing is no guarantee of success, either spanky. If you're going to bust Microsoft for weak arguments don't make the "correlation implies causation" logical fallacy the root of your argument. The dot com bubble is littered with the wreckage of companies that used Open Source technology and went bankrupt anyway.
I personally believe that journalists and internet discussion boards should be held to vastly different minimum standards of integrity.
Nope. The ethical thing for anyone to do in this situation is as follows: either have enough concrete information to post the company's name and survive the ensuing legal mess, or keep your mouth shut. If you can't stand behind your words, it is utterly unethical to post the comment.
Hmm, an anonymous accusation of an illegal act with no backup and it gets modded up. And we criticize Syscon's ethics? If they're in the sewer of journalistic ethics (and they are), then this post is in the composting heap at the treatment plant.
If you truly feel this way, then I wonder how you get out of bed in the morning. After all, there is no way to prove that the floor will still be there. That is the problem with the Sophist viewpoint, which appears to me to be the one you are advocating.
For me, the key is predictability. Science makes predictions, and backs off from theories when predictions don't match facts. Religion cannot be predictive, as God is fundamentally unknowable and unpredictable. She can do whatever the hell she wants for whatever reason. When Intelligent Design makes a prediction that is not found in Evolution and that prediction is borne out by the facts, then it will be worth listening to, but its advocates have been very careful to try to poke holes in the latter without making any disprovable claims toward the former. That isn't science, its theology masking itself in the trappings of science and has no place in a science classroom.
Please explain to me how the scientific statement "the Earth is not flat" faces an infinite regress from any sane individual?
Meanwhile, the existence of God does face just such a regress, as David Hume (perhaps the ultimate skeptic himself) pointed out in his devastation of Bishop Berkeley's attempts to make the very claims you have put forth. This argument was put to bed a long, long time ago.
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That's why my folks still run Windows. My Dad is a physicist, so it's not like he's never seen Unix before, but even he isn't at all interested in Linux or OSX, despite the fact that he acknowledges Windows' shortcomings.
I use TiVo myself, as I have yet to find something I'd want to keep past the second viewing, but I agree with you in principle. I always could set up the Tivo2Go stuff if I felt the need, I suppose. If I ever feel the need for a standalone DVD recorder, I'll take a look at the Daewoo.
Ahh, the mellow voice of maturity. Thank you for proving my point -- in spades. Never a helpful message, just a lot of I'm more 31337 than you crap.
"full of shit" "store monkey" whatever doesn't work is automatically "a small percentage" I stand by comment that you can at least get competent, non-derisive support for non-Linux OSes. With Linux you get condescension, name calling, and spite.
For two otherwise identical rockets, it can be argued that the unmanned variant is inherently safer, as there is always a non-zero chance of the loss of the crew. I am not aware of any launchers that currently meet those criteria, as the Energia booster/Buran shuttle is no longer in production.
No, you pretty much missed his point, which is actually typical. 90% of the home media devices out there are a pain in the ass to use (if it is even possible) if you use anything other than Windows. Of the ten percent that remain, you are better off getting a Mac than a using a Linux box, because at the very least you can haul the rig into an Apple Store and the folks at the Genius Bar will help you get it up and running.
If I were to set my parents up with Linux, I would end up being their sole source for tech support. I spend enough of my life supporting computers as it stands now. At least if my friends or family choose either Windows or OS X, I can point them to affordable alternative sources of support. Neither Red Hat or Novell handles home user support very well (although I have been pleased with their corporate offerings), much less the groups of holier than though geeks who make up the online Linux community, particularly when the response of said geeks is to call someone full of shit and then present no solution to the problem other than to spout some buzzwords. Incidentally, I know plenty of people burning DVDs and capturing VCR home movie quality video over USB2 just fine using Windows XP -- perhaps the poster wasn't as clueless as you assume?
Um, you do realize that you just reinforced the prejudice that folks who are pro-tattoo are inconsiderate, anti-social, and juvenile, don't you? Rule 1 of Business is never ever insult the customer, unless you are a monopoly (cf. Verizon). I have found that ostentatious body modifications correlate well with the attitude you express, and that that attitude leads to long-term problems in the workplace including absenteeism, insubordination, and poor quality work. I would therefore require exceptional proof that the individual was otherwise inclined if s/he showed up for an interview with such an appearance. When three or four other candidates with similar qualifications walk in without the self-esteem baggage, that makes your appearance even more of a handicap.
As someone pointed out upthread -- in the workplace you are not a beautiful and unique flower, no matter what your kindergarten teach told you. You are pretty much a cog in a machine. Hey, if it were supposed to be all about fun, they'd charge admission instead of paying salary.
Everyone who has ever died in a pad accident would beg to differ with you, Einstein. It most certainly can kill people even if the payload is purely mechanical. Rockets are inherently very dangerous machines. The Zenit only uses one cryogenic propellant, so its fuel handling isn't as dangerous as some unmanned rockets, but it is also very difficult to get records of its early flight tests, so we really have no idea how many people died during the early development of the rocket during the Cold War. The original design dates back to the 1970s and was developed inside the closed rocket factories of the USSR.
Plus the Treos don't work well on the Subway. Verizon is considered to be a weak Treo vendor and they provide the signal on the Metro exclusively until 2017.
A hierarchical organization system is not hard to implement optionally on top of a search based one. That way you don't have to remember if you filed your Natalie Portman pictures in the "Petrified" or "Hot Grits" folders. (I keed, I keed.)
And Sarge will probably still be the "stable" release when XP is EOLed. That is my point -- the "better" way ain't better if it takes years longer than its rivals to reach the exact same level of frustration. As the parent poster noted, apt-get is no panacea to package management woes.
Solutions need to be timely in addition to useful. A solution I can use now, with some flaws, is better than the perfect solution, as I must solve my problem now. The current models for package management across all operating systems just about suck equally, so they really aren't a factor in deciding which one to use.
All they need to do is use an Intel DRM chip or make changes in the non-open source Quartz libraries to make sure that it won't run well on non-Apple hardware. In fact, with enough planning they can also make it a DMCA violation to modify the OS to even try. I'm not saying that this is a good thing, I'm merely pointing out that it is within the realm of possibility. Apple has a lot of control over how the hardware is put together, and OpenDarwin without Quartz ain't OSX.
I plan to outlive GWB's administration. The problem is not yet so dire that governments are forced to act, which is when it will start to happen.
A police officer is not a lawyer, nor is a vengeful spouse who accuses you of battery.
Or if you were planning to buy a new one anyway and your old one was going to end up in a landfill. It looks like Apple is begining to get ahead of the curve as there are several states that are forcing computer manufacturers to either recycle old equipment at the time of purchase or pay a hefty tax to pay for the state's recycling program. I can easily see these laws spreading to any rechargeable battery powered device, as battery disposal and recycling is a major headache for local governments. With this program in place, Apple is ready if such laws become widespread.
My Dad worked for the EPA for twenty years and I remember I had a conversation with him in the eighties where he predicted that sometime in my lifetime, all purchases would have to include the cost of disposal in addition to the cost of production. There's a finite amount of space to store trash. Perhaps he was right.
Let's see how it stacks up:
Media:
- False memo about GWB's service: body count zero.
- Koran Story (which was at least partially true, as is coming out now): body count: perhaps a dozen.
Bush/Cheney:Furthermore, Newsweek and Rather have actually been punished. I thought my former party was the party of personal responsibility, but it has been turned into the party of theocratic kleptocracy. That's why I became an independent after ten years of being a member of the GOP.
I'll have to check Free Republic or listen to Rush to find out why.
After September 11, the concept of using improvised weapons to take over an aircraft is void. The implicit deal was always that if you cooperated, then they'd land the plane somewhere and make demands. Only a raving idiot would believe that now, which is why we need to worry far more about IEDs than box cutters. The next attacks on airliners will be efforts to blow them out of the sky, as that is really the only tactic left to the terrorists now. In fact, even if a hijacker threatened an aircraft with a bomb, it should still be standard protocol to not allow them into the cockpit, but to ask them where they want the plane landed. Turning over control of the plane is signing your own death warrant, period.
In fact, it would not surprise me that when the hijack alarm is sounded to the ATC that any deviation from the flight plan would result in a Sidewinder up the ass anyway. Nobody is going to chance another controlled flight into a target again.
Myself, I've seen plenty of capable people flounder, even though I've been able to land on my feet after my layoffs. I just don't justify my good fortune with pseudo-Randian bullshit to let me feel superior.
Of course just jumping on the latest thing is no guarantee of success, either spanky. If you're going to bust Microsoft for weak arguments don't make the "correlation implies causation" logical fallacy the root of your argument. The dot com bubble is littered with the wreckage of companies that used Open Source technology and went bankrupt anyway.
Nope. The ethical thing for anyone to do in this situation is as follows: either have enough concrete information to post the company's name and survive the ensuing legal mess, or keep your mouth shut. If you can't stand behind your words, it is utterly unethical to post the comment.
Name some names.
For me, the key is predictability. Science makes predictions, and backs off from theories when predictions don't match facts. Religion cannot be predictive, as God is fundamentally unknowable and unpredictable. She can do whatever the hell she wants for whatever reason. When Intelligent Design makes a prediction that is not found in Evolution and that prediction is borne out by the facts, then it will be worth listening to, but its advocates have been very careful to try to poke holes in the latter without making any disprovable claims toward the former. That isn't science, its theology masking itself in the trappings of science and has no place in a science classroom.
Meanwhile, the existence of God does face just such a regress, as David Hume (perhaps the ultimate skeptic himself) pointed out in his devastation of Bishop Berkeley's attempts to make the very claims you have put forth. This argument was put to bed a long, long time ago.