Windows programs are a lot more unified than Linux programs.
The model is "do as many things as possible, and hope they work," not "do one thing and do it well."
This means there are less dependencies. It also means a fully functional Windows distro is 10 times as large as a similar Linux distro because of redundancy. Further, it's harder to customize and adapt Windows software because of this lack of modularity.
To be fair, though, Microsoft maintains modularity for their APIs, but it's a lot easier to avoid dependency hell when you only have to worry about libraries from one place (if, for example, everyone only used Gnome, and Gnome had no dependencies, then there'd be a lot less problems). Added to that is that there is only really a handful of said libraries with big differences (one for every version of windows), so dependencies are easily tracked by companies.
Last, in Linux, programs are often optimized for architectures and dependencies rather than sticking to a slower, but more stable API. The result is a speed increase, but necessitates simultaneous upgrades.
What's my point? Windows doesn't have this figured out. They're not better. Most companies chose to do every program monolithically, and are getting the advantages and disadvantages that you get from this approach. Linux programs do the opposite, and get the advantages and disadvantages that you get from that approach.
Overdeveloping happens when you adjust to the conditions around you so that you can continue to function.
If this doesn't actually provide better real sensory input, they'd still develop other abilities to compensate. If it does, then they don't need them.
I suppose you could say, "but then what would they do without the machine?" Well, a lot of people can't see without glasses. Should they be forced to not wear them so that their other senses can develop more fully? It seems always better to give people more opportunity.
Also, the ability to interpret sensory input is based upon practice. Because I worked at it, I can hear a lot better than most people - even than most blind people, I think. There's no reason that anyone can't have overdeveloped senses, but it takes work, and it's not worth it for most people.
The knee-jerk reaction to a statement proposing a tax shouldn't be to assume that the poster's comment is a knee-jerk reaction. I thought this one through rather carefully.
Its possible but highly unlikely that auto manufacturers will standardize if not forced. Auto manufacturers make their money on having to supply parts for the vehicles they make, and they'd make more without the standards.
They haven't even standardized on simple widgets that have almost nothing to do with the actual design of the car, like the various caps that hold in fluids.
The only reason there's even an oil standard is that car companies don't control the oil market.
You've got to have some private property to keep it, or you'll get ticketed for having a vehicle on the road without a tag, even if you're just parking it in front of your house.
This has to do with the actual value, not the intrinsic value, and this value is in its recognizability as currency. The point beyond which a dollar bill is unusable as currency is the point at which it is no longer recognizable.
If you bleached all the color out of a dollar bill, for example, you'd have a hard time convincing people it was a dollar bill. There would be a similar problem if you cut it up into tiny pieces, or if you scribbled until you couldn't see ol' George's face, or any other green part of the dollar.
The system works well enough that you are capable of making this mistake; very few, if any, unrecognizable dollar bills are in circulation.
I don't know about down there, but in the states, any vehicle with a less than 50cc engine needn't be insured - mostly because they can't really do damage themselves, and cost so little to repair. Similarly sized electric vehicles often meet the same requirements, though most can only go 20 miles or so.
I personally own a scooter to save on gas milage. I get roughly 80mpg with a top speed of 45MPH and a 1 gallon tank. Since I'm in city traffic on my way to work, it's the same as if I drove, but I save gas. Turning it off at the stoplights has almost no effect on fuel consumption, so I save gas there, too.
Most batteries used today can go in almost any vehicle. There are a few exceptions to this, but considering that there isn't a standard at all, I think it's pretty good.
I don't think it'd be hard to make standards here in much the same manner as bills.
1) Pick an atomic battery unit with a specific RMS voltage, max current, and total capacity. There might be some other requirements...this would require expertise in battery design that I don't have. 2) Create different sizes that are multiples of this atomic unit - 2,4,10, whatever, based upon SAE's recommendations (I'm assuming that whenver something like this is actually about to happen, SAE will have some idea of how it'll work). 3) Require the usage of only these units from anyone who sells a vehicle in your country.
Imbalance problems are trivial compared to control problems that have already been dealt with in modern automobiles. I don't think that'll really be an issue.
Yeah. Sad, like how Christmas morning is sad for five year olds. Sad like when Microsoft decides to stop selling operating systems. Sad like a porcupine in a nudist colony (okay...not so sure about that one).
Why will this be sad? Because mechanics won't be able to charge as much for service and the layman will be more capable of fixing his own vehicle? Because you won't hear that nice hum you get from today's vehicles?
I wish my car didn't need a transmission. It would save me a bundle of money fixing it. (It was, by the way, a sad day when my standard transmission died).
The same problem applies to money: dollar bills become less and less usable as time wears one - becoming frayed, ripped, and generally uglier.
So unless banks take out old bills and replace them with brand new ones (which, by the way, isn't completely free), we'd have to stick with substandard bills.
The system we have seems to work with bills, doesn't it? The government can put the cost of battery maintenence as a tax in the replacement service and contract out this creation and maintenence to qualified companies, or do it themselves. Considering the simplicity of the design, they could just come up with a standard set of batteries and uphold the spec.
Stations that gave out bad batteries rather than returning them "for free" to the replacement agencies would get a bad rap and go out of business or stop doing it.
I'm going to encorporate it into my time machine to lessen temporal drift.
Right now I have to make stopovers every twenty or so million years for temporal correction, which is a real pain (of course, this really depends on how accurate a time I'm looking for - am I looking to meet Greblok just a few years after I left him, or do I just want to watch dinosaurs?)
I figure I can maybe ramp it up to a billion with this. We'll see, though. Those atomic clocks weren't as good as I'd hoped.
Let's put it this way: it is, in fact, possible to make things less cheesy than Army of Darkness for the same amount of money that they spent on it.
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What are you the bishop of the church of good grammar? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks he his message is just a pawn in your sick spelling game.
Anyone else disturbed that the bishop takes the pawn for a check?
I tend to disagree. Evil Dead is not some artistic work from a pretentious director who spends three years researching before making movies that I don't want to see *cough*Kubrick*cough*, or the brainchild of someone who believes that special effects are one of the most important parts of a movie and has an inflated vision of his own abilities *cough*Lucas*cough*. It's just a cheap, fun 80s horror flick.
Raimi and Campbell said they had a blast doing it the first time, and that's probably why they want to do it again. Raimi is not the kind of person to get caught up in the hype. When he runs the show, making a fun movie seems to be the bottom line.
My guess is that they want to bring it more in line with Army of Darkness (by the way, they did have enough budget to make that one look a little better than it did. They made it that way on purpose). I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of those Jason-and-the-Argonauts skeletons, and bad stop-motion animation. If we see any CGI effects, I bet they'll be cheesy - on purpose.
Of course, whoever put it there buried it themselves, or there was a massive upheaval followed by a quick settling...I've heard there are a number of possible causes for error using this method, though I can't remember any of the others at the moment (high school was a long time ago).
They've found trees that span enough strata to be considered to have different segments actually living during different time periods if they dated it this way (which is actually impossible). Dating using this method is mostly guesswork.
1) This case will provide evidence of why Microsoft is evil. 2) This evidence will show us the face of evil, so that we know what we're looking for when other companies, such as SCO, are evil. 3) When they do more evil, the victims can bring up this evidence in court.
In this case, by the way, "evil" mostly means "anti-competitive and monopolistic."
I would assume they're trying to taxing you based upon how much they have to maintain the roads/pay for other miscellaneous public transit expenses on your account.
So...what if you've got a ranch, and you drive 10 miles a day without leaving it? Obviously California's not maintaining that. Why should you pay for it? And what about the roads that they just plain don't bother to manage because there aren't enough people on it? Or are they going to replace all the pot-hole infested dirt roads in the state with asphalt?
They already have a system that lets them tax based upon road usage: tolls.
If they really want to tax people for road usage without having to set up and man booths, they should implement something like e-pass, and make it manditory.
Just to be on the safe side, I'm using the "DogFS."
It keeps track of actual file names in case you need to revert and renames every single audio file to "Cat_being_stepped_on.ext," (where ext is the file extension) every single video file to "Cat_being_thrown_into_a_brick_wall.ext" (ext is once again the extension), and all executables are converted into "cat_entrails_#," where # is a number to indicate which command.
Oh, the one exception to this is the cat command, which is changed to "dog."
I liked Farscape, but I'm afraid I couldn't get over all the puppets. Oh, and it always felt like there were four states a character could be in on that show: 1) Insane and about to do something/doing something absolutely fiendish 2) Insane, angry and doing something reckless 3) Sad 4) Puppet
I just put the fourth one in there 'cause I couldn't really tell that well with all the puppets. Farscape was a bit too much of a space opera for me.
And on that note, How do you wang your wang when you wang a comic? Oh...wait, I mean, how do you come up with your ideas for comics in general? Besides, you know, playing wangs. Err...video games.
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Windows programs are a lot more unified than Linux programs.
The model is "do as many things as possible, and hope they work," not "do one thing and do it well."
This means there are less dependencies. It also means a fully functional Windows distro is 10 times as large as a similar Linux distro because of redundancy. Further, it's harder to customize and adapt Windows software because of this lack of modularity.
To be fair, though, Microsoft maintains modularity for their APIs, but it's a lot easier to avoid dependency hell when you only have to worry about libraries from one place (if, for example, everyone only used Gnome, and Gnome had no dependencies, then there'd be a lot less problems). Added to that is that there is only really a handful of said libraries with big differences (one for every version of windows), so dependencies are easily tracked by companies.
Last, in Linux, programs are often optimized for architectures and dependencies rather than sticking to a slower, but more stable API. The result is a speed increase, but necessitates simultaneous upgrades.
What's my point? Windows doesn't have this figured out. They're not better. Most companies chose to do every program monolithically, and are getting the advantages and disadvantages that you get from this approach. Linux programs do the opposite, and get the advantages and disadvantages that you get from that approach.
Rogue. 20 year old game. So ha!
By the way, Wolfenstein 3d is not the original - it's the sequel.
There was a 2d version that came out on Apple II, Commodore 64, and Tandy. Its big gimmick was that it had speech (albiet with 4-bit resolution).
Inhibit...no.
Overdeveloping happens when you adjust to the conditions around you so that you can continue to function.
If this doesn't actually provide better real sensory input, they'd still develop other abilities to compensate. If it does, then they don't need them.
I suppose you could say, "but then what would they do without the machine?" Well, a lot of people can't see without glasses. Should they be forced to not wear them so that their other senses can develop more fully? It seems always better to give people more opportunity.
Also, the ability to interpret sensory input is based upon practice. Because I worked at it, I can hear a lot better than most people - even than most blind people, I think. There's no reason that anyone can't have overdeveloped senses, but it takes work, and it's not worth it for most people.
I think the poster is talking about sending it along with cards.
So this isn't something you give out to your close friends and family. This is a gift you give out to people you just know well enough for a card.
It does have a message with it. It subtley indicates that the sender knows something about Linux and wants other people to as well.
If you want to make a living in Linux, think of it as a form of networking (the human kind, not the computer kind).
It's listed right there in the article:
It keeps setting stuff ablaze.
I tried it a few weeks ago, but had to stop almost immediately when my harddrive caught on fire, and melted right through the case.
Then the CPU exploded and the ram started smoking.
To its credit, though, Firefox is a pretty good browser. It worked for nearly an hour after that before my monitor melted.
The knee-jerk reaction to a statement proposing a tax shouldn't be to assume that the poster's comment is a knee-jerk reaction. I thought this one through rather carefully.
Its possible but highly unlikely that auto manufacturers will standardize if not forced. Auto manufacturers make their money on having to supply parts for the vehicles they make, and they'd make more without the standards.
They haven't even standardized on simple widgets that have almost nothing to do with the actual design of the car, like the various caps that hold in fluids.
The only reason there's even an oil standard is that car companies don't control the oil market.
You've got to have some private property to keep it, or you'll get ticketed for having a vehicle on the road without a tag, even if you're just parking it in front of your house.
This has to do with the actual value, not the intrinsic value, and this value is in its recognizability as currency. The point beyond which a dollar bill is unusable as currency is the point at which it is no longer recognizable.
If you bleached all the color out of a dollar bill, for example, you'd have a hard time convincing people it was a dollar bill. There would be a similar problem if you cut it up into tiny pieces, or if you scribbled until you couldn't see ol' George's face, or any other green part of the dollar.
The system works well enough that you are capable of making this mistake; very few, if any, unrecognizable dollar bills are in circulation.
I don't know about down there, but in the states, any vehicle with a less than 50cc engine needn't be insured - mostly because they can't really do damage themselves, and cost so little to repair. Similarly sized electric vehicles often meet the same requirements, though most can only go 20 miles or so.
I personally own a scooter to save on gas milage. I get roughly 80mpg with a top speed of 45MPH and a 1 gallon tank. Since I'm in city traffic on my way to work, it's the same as if I drove, but I save gas. Turning it off at the stoplights has almost no effect on fuel consumption, so I save gas there, too.
Most batteries used today can go in almost any vehicle. There are a few exceptions to this, but considering that there isn't a standard at all, I think it's pretty good.
I don't think it'd be hard to make standards here in much the same manner as bills.
1) Pick an atomic battery unit with a specific RMS voltage, max current, and total capacity. There might be some other requirements...this would require expertise in battery design that I don't have.
2) Create different sizes that are multiples of this atomic unit - 2,4,10, whatever, based upon SAE's recommendations (I'm assuming that whenver something like this is actually about to happen, SAE will have some idea of how it'll work).
3) Require the usage of only these units from anyone who sells a vehicle in your country.
Imbalance problems are trivial compared to control problems that have already been dealt with in modern automobiles. I don't think that'll really be an issue.
Yeah. Sad, like how Christmas morning is sad for five year olds. Sad like when Microsoft decides to stop selling operating systems. Sad like a porcupine in a nudist colony (okay...not so sure about that one).
Why will this be sad? Because mechanics won't be able to charge as much for service and the layman will be more capable of fixing his own vehicle? Because you won't hear that nice hum you get from today's vehicles?
I wish my car didn't need a transmission. It would save me a bundle of money fixing it. (It was, by the way, a sad day when my standard transmission died).
The same problem applies to money: dollar bills become less and less usable as time wears one - becoming frayed, ripped, and generally uglier.
So unless banks take out old bills and replace them with brand new ones (which, by the way, isn't completely free), we'd have to stick with substandard bills.
The system we have seems to work with bills, doesn't it? The government can put the cost of battery maintenence as a tax in the replacement service and contract out this creation and maintenence to qualified companies, or do it themselves. Considering the simplicity of the design, they could just come up with a standard set of batteries and uphold the spec.
Stations that gave out bad batteries rather than returning them "for free" to the replacement agencies would get a bad rap and go out of business or stop doing it.
Forget that.
I'm going to encorporate it into my time machine to lessen temporal drift.
Right now I have to make stopovers every twenty or so million years for temporal correction, which is a real pain (of course, this really depends on how accurate a time I'm looking for - am I looking to meet Greblok just a few years after I left him, or do I just want to watch dinosaurs?)
I figure I can maybe ramp it up to a billion with this. We'll see, though. Those atomic clocks weren't as good as I'd hoped.
Let's put it this way: it is, in fact, possible to make things less cheesy than Army of Darkness for the same amount of money that they spent on it.
What are you the bishop of the church of good grammar?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks he his message is just a pawn in your sick spelling game.
Anyone else disturbed that the bishop takes the pawn for a check?
Maybe they can get the producer's wife in there. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Campbell and Lawless both managed to get bit parts in Spiderman, after all.
I tend to disagree. Evil Dead is not some artistic work from a pretentious director who spends three years researching before making movies that I don't want to see *cough*Kubrick*cough*, or the brainchild of someone who believes that special effects are one of the most important parts of a movie and has an inflated vision of his own abilities *cough*Lucas*cough*. It's just a cheap, fun 80s horror flick.
Raimi and Campbell said they had a blast doing it the first time, and that's probably why they want to do it again. Raimi is not the kind of person to get caught up in the hype. When he runs the show, making a fun movie seems to be the bottom line.
My guess is that they want to bring it more in line with Army of Darkness (by the way, they did have enough budget to make that one look a little better than it did. They made it that way on purpose). I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of those Jason-and-the-Argonauts skeletons, and bad stop-motion animation. If we see any CGI effects, I bet they'll be cheesy - on purpose.
Don't you know your state abbreviations?
He's the senator of Intliana.
Of course, whoever put it there buried it themselves, or there was a massive upheaval followed by a quick settling...I've heard there are a number of possible causes for error using this method, though I can't remember any of the others at the moment (high school was a long time ago).
They've found trees that span enough strata to be considered to have different segments actually living during different time periods if they dated it this way (which is actually impossible).
Dating using this method is mostly guesswork.
to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us gay.
That is a nice little bit of homophobia from their press release. Real professional guys. Sheesh.
Tell me about it. You think they could just come right out and say "The Gay Winamp User's Group" instead of calling them "everyone."
I mean, how bad can you get?
1) This case will provide evidence of why Microsoft is evil.
2) This evidence will show us the face of evil, so that we know what we're looking for when other companies, such as SCO, are evil.
3) When they do more evil, the victims can bring up this evidence in court.
In this case, by the way, "evil" mostly means "anti-competitive and monopolistic."
I would assume they're trying to taxing you based upon how much they have to maintain the roads/pay for other miscellaneous public transit expenses on your account.
So...what if you've got a ranch, and you drive 10 miles a day without leaving it? Obviously California's not maintaining that. Why should you pay for it? And what about the roads that they just plain don't bother to manage because there aren't enough people on it? Or are they going to replace all the pot-hole infested dirt roads in the state with asphalt?
They already have a system that lets them tax based upon road usage: tolls.
If they really want to tax people for road usage without having to set up and man booths, they should implement something like e-pass, and make it manditory.
Just to be on the safe side, I'm using the "DogFS."
It keeps track of actual file names in case you need to revert and renames every single audio file to "Cat_being_stepped_on.ext," (where ext is the file extension) every single video file to "Cat_being_thrown_into_a_brick_wall.ext" (ext is once again the extension), and all executables are converted into "cat_entrails_#," where # is a number to indicate which command.
Oh, the one exception to this is the cat command, which is changed to "dog."
I liked Farscape, but I'm afraid I couldn't get over all the puppets. Oh, and it always felt like there were four states a character could be in on that show:
1) Insane and about to do something/doing something absolutely fiendish
2) Insane, angry and doing something reckless
3) Sad
4) Puppet
I just put the fourth one in there 'cause I couldn't really tell that well with all the puppets. Farscape was a bit too much of a space opera for me.
I liked Harvey, though. Excellent character.
And on that note, How do you wang your wang when you wang a comic? Oh...wait, I mean, how do you come up with your ideas for comics in general? Besides, you know, playing wangs. Err...video games.