That's great but; and be completely honest here, how much time did you put into getting your linux distro working with all your hardware? Did you buy hardware specifically because it had known compatibility with linux? It's not like I'm a linux noob (only OS I used 1999 - 2004) or haven't tried recently (little over a year ago tried ubuntu and a few others) but every time I tried, I found everything just worked, and then I would install something from a package manager and it would need a completely different audio or bluetooth stack than the one that I had working and then nothing worked until I'm rooting around in config files to get everything sequenced right and it just wasn't worth my time.
As for people saying I'm buying hardware for windows; be honest here, pretty much all consumer PC hardware has solid windows compatibility. There's the occasional mac-only hardware but most mac hardware has windows drivers out there as well, and software in windows doesn't have to be configured to support particular driver interfaces because windows presents only one.
So really, how much time did you spend getting your *nix just right so that you don't have issues with graphics/audio/bluetooth for any apps/games? I have a wife and kid, if I want to play a game windows gives it to me without hesitation or struggle so I can enjoy the 20 minute free times I have between life. And if I want to nerd out and apply my mind I pull up emacs and write some haskell rather than digging through config files in *nix.
In conclusion, religion is a non-issue for the non-religious.
See, the thing is religious people are constantly trying to legislate religion into government so that they can be coercive, this is why we who are not religious fear those who are; they may claim their gods are going to be the enforcers, but then they actively try to be the enforcers themselves as well.
Planned parenthood saved my wife's life, so as far as I'm concerned eff religion and especially eff any religious folks who try to legislate their god upon the rest of us.
As soon as there is a single fully working audio stack for linux that doesn't require fidgetting with configuration like crazy to get it to work, and it's compatible with *all* games, then you're a step closer to being viable.
Except the fact that getting bluetooth mouse/keyboard to work is a huge pain unless you buy one of the specifically linux supported bluetooth sets, but I pick my hardware based on quality/price, not OS support because I shouldn't have to (and don't with windows).
Yes, open is great, but until every hardware company is ensuring a simple fully functional driver for their devices on it and there is a common interface for software to all of those drivers ala directX/directSound, windows will be a better gaming platform even for linux enthusiasts. Unfortunate, as all the software stacks that do exist for linux tend to outperform windows by a fair margin, because of significantly better OS architecture.
Simply put, it's a problem of robustness and consistency. When I want to shoot zombies I don't want to have to restart my sound system or HID system and re-enter pin codes and set defaults again, nor do I want to spend weeks configuring and scripting auto-configuration setup for such a thing. So it's a waste of game developers time to try and target linux when they live a crunch-mode life as it is with huge risk of flop resulting in practically no money-back for the effort even when they're focussed on only one OS.
That's great and all, but honestly; who gives 2 craps about OpenStack? Linus as you said started and guided the construction of a serious system, OpenStack has started and guided the gathering of other people's serious systems. OpenStack is an irrelevant waste.
Absolutely true. If the Win8 on desktops gains acceptance (yes, big IF) then it opens the door for people to go looking for a tablet, see one that acts and behaves exactly like the computer they use at work and home and say "I already know how to use this, the other's not so much; so I'll buy this one" and same goes for phone though to a lesser extent. If win8 really hits like they say it will (doubtful) it does create possibilities for lots of bleed over of users.
So have a super-fast readonly ram module which contains 1gb(or however little would be necessary to get a valid set of permutations) of Pi, the starting position is simply a pointer address to that module.
Retirement over here is called getting rich, short of that; the money the government takes for "retirement" here is a tax because you will never see that money. It's a form of insurance, but the things it insures you for it doesn't actually pay out enough to cover, and that's after doing everything it can not to pay out at all like a good insurance company (i.e. my wife actually can't work for medical reasons but she's been denied SS benefits even though she paid in for years, truth.), so it's moot and effectively a tax.
You have to understand how billing works in the US, we're bundlers, we like to say something only costs X and then give you a bill for that thing plus 4 other things we didn't even tell you about, true of bills for phone, internet, healthcare, car purchases, taxes, and every other american industry that thinks they can get away with it. It's not uncommon to have to pay a city and or county tax on top of the state tax, but yet we have such low taxes here in the US right?? Ironic everyone says we'd be taxed stupid to get real services when our taxes aren't far off from civilized countries to begin with.
And here most engineers are paying 35-40% on their taxes, so it's not that huge a difference except that when we split our healthcare with employers it means we're paying $300-$600/month just to have 80% of our medical costs covered (we're still on the hook for the other 20%, and that 80% help is only if the insurance company doesn't claim they don't cover that type of expense).
This is true of certain types of malware yes, but there is still a whole industry of companies out there who create spyware and software that does all kinds of 'malware' tasks which are doing it right out in the open due to the current legality of these practices. There is no industry segment of companies openly generating virii due to the legality. I'm just saying, I think we need some legislation for this stuff. Virii still exist regardless of the legislation but much less than it would without the legislation.
Unless I'm mistaken, it is illegal to create and distribute a computer virus, but "malware" somehow does not fall into this category because it's not deliberately destructive I guess. It *is* however, destructive in so much as the security holes it usually creates along with the system resources it takes.
Shouldn't we just be able to follow a piece of malware to it's source company and have the DOJ take care of them?? I recall legislation against spam having been written and people even being convicted for violating such laws, yet somehow we haven't decided malware is equally bad??
I didn't say they rented, I said they didn't own, ownership means you have the deed. The bank own the vast majority of those 2/3rd you're referring to.
All of Blake's works are amazing and frankly transformative in my life; I don't know why but for some reason hearing points made that I had to unravel to understand just made them stick more and all of it is written with a beauty in language that really drives his values in passion and joy across as being significant for more reasons than just the words but because there is meaning in those words that can cause affect.
Just my strange and abnormal two cents, his stuff is *really* short to read (like 20 pages or so) so worth looking at just to see if it resonates anything in you.
Whether or not your post had a point, I like reading it as though it didn't and you were just interjecting a non-sequitor, for which it is a magnificent one.
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That's great but; and be completely honest here, how much time did you put into getting your linux distro working with all your hardware? Did you buy hardware specifically because it had known compatibility with linux? It's not like I'm a linux noob (only OS I used 1999 - 2004) or haven't tried recently (little over a year ago tried ubuntu and a few others) but every time I tried, I found everything just worked, and then I would install something from a package manager and it would need a completely different audio or bluetooth stack than the one that I had working and then nothing worked until I'm rooting around in config files to get everything sequenced right and it just wasn't worth my time.
As for people saying I'm buying hardware for windows; be honest here, pretty much all consumer PC hardware has solid windows compatibility. There's the occasional mac-only hardware but most mac hardware has windows drivers out there as well, and software in windows doesn't have to be configured to support particular driver interfaces because windows presents only one.
So really, how much time did you spend getting your *nix just right so that you don't have issues with graphics/audio/bluetooth for any apps/games? I have a wife and kid, if I want to play a game windows gives it to me without hesitation or struggle so I can enjoy the 20 minute free times I have between life. And if I want to nerd out and apply my mind I pull up emacs and write some haskell rather than digging through config files in *nix.
I really don't think these things are very aerodynamic
In conclusion, religion is a non-issue for the non-religious.
See, the thing is religious people are constantly trying to legislate religion into government so that they can be coercive, this is why we who are not religious fear those who are; they may claim their gods are going to be the enforcers, but then they actively try to be the enforcers themselves as well.
Planned parenthood saved my wife's life, so as far as I'm concerned eff religion and especially eff any religious folks who try to legislate their god upon the rest of us.
As soon as there is a single fully working audio stack for linux that doesn't require fidgetting with configuration like crazy to get it to work, and it's compatible with *all* games, then you're a step closer to being viable.
Except the fact that getting bluetooth mouse/keyboard to work is a huge pain unless you buy one of the specifically linux supported bluetooth sets, but I pick my hardware based on quality/price, not OS support because I shouldn't have to (and don't with windows).
Yes, open is great, but until every hardware company is ensuring a simple fully functional driver for their devices on it and there is a common interface for software to all of those drivers ala directX/directSound, windows will be a better gaming platform even for linux enthusiasts. Unfortunate, as all the software stacks that do exist for linux tend to outperform windows by a fair margin, because of significantly better OS architecture.
Simply put, it's a problem of robustness and consistency. When I want to shoot zombies I don't want to have to restart my sound system or HID system and re-enter pin codes and set defaults again, nor do I want to spend weeks configuring and scripting auto-configuration setup for such a thing. So it's a waste of game developers time to try and target linux when they live a crunch-mode life as it is with huge risk of flop resulting in practically no money-back for the effort even when they're focussed on only one OS.
compare to 13 + 8 + 12 = 33 millimeters, yes, .7 meters is pretty significant.
Show's what you know.
After tearing the head off, how much salt did the tyrannosaurus use to make it edible?
I disagree, moving a mountain sounds bloody hard. Seriously, I live in colorado; have you seen those things? Eff that noise.
By being better than everyone else. Duh.
That's great and all, but honestly; who gives 2 craps about OpenStack? Linus as you said started and guided the construction of a serious system, OpenStack has started and guided the gathering of other people's serious systems. OpenStack is an irrelevant waste.
Absolutely true. If the Win8 on desktops gains acceptance (yes, big IF) then it opens the door for people to go looking for a tablet, see one that acts and behaves exactly like the computer they use at work and home and say "I already know how to use this, the other's not so much; so I'll buy this one" and same goes for phone though to a lesser extent. If win8 really hits like they say it will (doubtful) it does create possibilities for lots of bleed over of users.
So have a super-fast readonly ram module which contains 1gb(or however little would be necessary to get a valid set of permutations) of Pi, the starting position is simply a pointer address to that module.
You got it all wrong, he was breaking up his post with an arbitrary car noise to meet the slashdot car analogy quota, Rimmrimmrimmmmm!
You have a genius following you??
Retirement over here is called getting rich, short of that; the money the government takes for "retirement" here is a tax because you will never see that money. It's a form of insurance, but the things it insures you for it doesn't actually pay out enough to cover, and that's after doing everything it can not to pay out at all like a good insurance company (i.e. my wife actually can't work for medical reasons but she's been denied SS benefits even though she paid in for years, truth.), so it's moot and effectively a tax.
Where did you get that 40K number? You illucidated right there a common 28% (or 25% to go down one bracket) federal taxes, then SSA taxes are ~5.5% ( http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/240/~/2012-social-security-tax-rate-and-maximum-taxable-earnings ), plus state taxes commonly around 6% you're looking at 35%-40% of your income being taxed.
You have to understand how billing works in the US, we're bundlers, we like to say something only costs X and then give you a bill for that thing plus 4 other things we didn't even tell you about, true of bills for phone, internet, healthcare, car purchases, taxes, and every other american industry that thinks they can get away with it. It's not uncommon to have to pay a city and or county tax on top of the state tax, but yet we have such low taxes here in the US right?? Ironic everyone says we'd be taxed stupid to get real services when our taxes aren't far off from civilized countries to begin with.
And here most engineers are paying 35-40% on their taxes, so it's not that huge a difference except that when we split our healthcare with employers it means we're paying $300-$600/month just to have 80% of our medical costs covered (we're still on the hook for the other 20%, and that 80% help is only if the insurance company doesn't claim they don't cover that type of expense).
This is true of certain types of malware yes, but there is still a whole industry of companies out there who create spyware and software that does all kinds of 'malware' tasks which are doing it right out in the open due to the current legality of these practices. There is no industry segment of companies openly generating virii due to the legality. I'm just saying, I think we need some legislation for this stuff. Virii still exist regardless of the legislation but much less than it would without the legislation.
So basically you're saying spammer's should have bought a lobby about 10 years ago, god knows they were raking in the dough.
Unless I'm mistaken, it is illegal to create and distribute a computer virus, but "malware" somehow does not fall into this category because it's not deliberately destructive I guess. It *is* however, destructive in so much as the security holes it usually creates along with the system resources it takes.
Shouldn't we just be able to follow a piece of malware to it's source company and have the DOJ take care of them?? I recall legislation against spam having been written and people even being convicted for violating such laws, yet somehow we haven't decided malware is equally bad??
Screaming in agony, hissing bits and bleeding jumperless in the night
I didn't say they rented, I said they didn't own, ownership means you have the deed. The bank own the vast majority of those 2/3rd you're referring to.
I'm not disagreeing about that, I'm just disagreeing with the concept that 50k is pocket lint. That's just obtuse.
A marriage of heaven and hell - William Blake.
All of Blake's works are amazing and frankly transformative in my life; I don't know why but for some reason hearing points made that I had to unravel to understand just made them stick more and all of it is written with a beauty in language that really drives his values in passion and joy across as being significant for more reasons than just the words but because there is meaning in those words that can cause affect.
Just my strange and abnormal two cents, his stuff is *really* short to read (like 20 pages or so) so worth looking at just to see if it resonates anything in you.
Whether or not your post had a point, I like reading it as though it didn't and you were just interjecting a non-sequitor, for which it is a magnificent one.