I don't have a problem with it because at least cigs has no redeeming value at all and I have have lost two friends to lung cancer so it is personal. Yes they made a bad choice but then again I saw people from the Cig companies sit in front of congress and say that they honestly didn't believe that there was any danger and that they where not marketing to kids. Purely emotional on my part and I am one voter so people are free to disagree with me.
I am not trying to convert anybody to anything. I was explaining concepts and trying to correct some miss information like drinking and smoking are a sin for most Christians. I am not a big the bible is the literal truth and without flaw kind of person. But several of the Abrahamic restrictions or at least the then current interpretations of them where "lifted" by Jesus and even more by his disciples.
"It's also interesting that Christians will point at those ten, but ignore the other 500 or so other commandments in the Old Testament, like they're somehow allowed to pick and choose from it." Actually under Christianity Christ is the new and ever lasting covenant which supersedes the Abrahamic convents of the old testament. Also rape would be covered under many commandments including adultery which is sex outside of marriage. I do agree that some commandments should not are are not codified into law. But so people have such odd ideas about separation of church and state. The constitution just restricts congress from creating a national church. It in no way restricts states or town from doing so. Of course most state constitutions impose those restrictions on the states.
The new systems do use COTS. However as to costs you have to look at the other costs. 1. Testing. That is the big one. 2. Hardening. 3. Porting the software. Until very recently the Military systems used their own CPUs and OSs (when they had one). Some of the code was in Cobol, some in ADA, and a lot in assembly. And of course some tasks just don't need more computational power or the current generation of software couldn't use it. Of course things are very different now and modern military systems are now more "open".
Okay first drinking and smoking last time I checked are not sin according to the Judeao-Christian belief system. Actually most of the Judeao-Christian sins are codified in to law and they are pretty good laws. Don't kill, don't steal, don't give false witness. Some are not put into law like taking the lords name in vain or honor they mother and father.
The no smoking and drinking are relatively modern additions. Only one christian faith has them as sins that I know of.
Okay I am on the opposite side of most people when it comes to video games. I have no problem with mandatory age restrictions on video games. I have no issue with taxing cigs and alcohol. But I have an issue with extra tax on video games. Yes I see how Left4Dead would be unhealthy for an 8 year old to play but for a normal adult it is just fine. Violent video games are no worse than violent movies or books. If you want to tax a game how about golf? Golf Courses do a huge amount of damage to the environment. How about a $5 a round tax on golf and a $1.00 a ball tax on golf balls. Of course who will pay the sin tax on game America's Army?
I mostly agree with you but so many business apps are nothing but form and database apps. Those apps are exactly the kind of apps that migrate to web very well. Accounting is one that I think would really lend it's self to a web interface. For richer apps you have Flash/Flex, Silverlight/Moonlight, and JavaFX as options. Frankly Java applets have gotten much better over the last few years. I know that they where badly abused in the past but they are not the blight on mankind that most people think they are. Yes java hover buttons where evil but for some applications Java applets are not a terrible solution. The big advantage to getting applications off the desktop is that you get off the upgrade cycle and vendor lock in. If you have a real need for a Mac desktop, or a Linux desktop you can accommodate them without forcing the user two have two desktops.
"Speaking of development tools... there is no open source equivalant of Visual Studio and there is no MSDN of open source." I suggest you take a look at "http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/developer-tools/developer-tools?currentflipperobject=821c7594d32e33932297b1e065a976b8 MSDN is nice but so in the internet. Even with MSDN we often end up doing a Google search to solve windows issues. "Gimp is *not* Photoshop." No but it is better than Photoshop elements. "There is no common way to install and remove software." Apt-get or synaptic. On Suse YAST. "There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things." You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means. Too many filesystems? Not at all. EXT3/4 is the primary one. Along with NTFS and FAT for compatibility. If you need some feature that isn't supported in EXT you then have options. "- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)" I half agree. I do think that a stable binary driver interface would help Linux. No hardware support? I can use Intel GPUs and NICs with no problem at all. nVidia and ATI drivers are available as well. The only issue that keeps cropping up are broadcomm Wifi adaptors. I blame them for that and don't buy them. I will also question just how stable Windows drivers are. I seem to remember a lot of issues with nVidia drivers and Vista.
1. You take them apart. 2. You put the material in a reactor. 3. You sell the electricity. 4. You reprocess the waste like they do in Japan. "But without pouring it into a buck through stupidity." 5. Profit.
Funny so far what I have seen is that they torment a kid that is trying to get other kids not to use foul language and some poor grandmother with mixed race grandkids.
You must be very short of ram then. I run it all the time and don't have any issues even on older slow machines. Do not get the version with all the plug ins. Some of those are real pigs.
While may statement is true I really did mean the post to be more of a joke than anything. After all the best jokes are based on true observations. In the movie Oh God there was a great question to God and his answer. "Why is there evil in the world?" "Because I never figured out how to make something with only one side." But yes the internet is a support group for whack attacks. I also fear that it really helps to breed intolerance and polarization. Take a look at the posts here some time. Very few people seem to have the ability to politely disagree anymore. Hey I am on the internet and Slashdot so of course I don't think it is all bad. Oh and BTW there really are people that do dress up as stuffed animals and have sex parties. And yes they do think they are normal. And yes they are as normal as the German Democratic Republic was a Democratic Republic.
You know there is one down side to the internet. On the internet no matter how totally whacked out your idea maybe odds are you will find at least 100 people that will agree with you. Once you find people that agree with you all of a sudden you can believe that your idea has merit.
Some where their is a discussion board about how it is to have orgies dressed up as giant stuffed animals. And the people on it will be convinced that they are perfectly normal people.
It shouldn't. The ray tracing will be handled by the hardware/library. And Java's JIT compiler is getting pretty dang good. Try Eclipse.org sometime. While not a game it will show you just how good a java application can be.
Not really. Yes the engine is FOSS but that doesn't mean that the game data has to be. I remember that RMS even suggested this as model for game development a few years ago. It would have to be DRM free but you could make and sell a game based on this. All you would have to do is provide a link to the source to the game engine.
Well I am a fan of Linux but that doesn't mean that XP isn't the current OS for some netbooks and in that market it's successor which may be 7 still isn't out yet.
The chance of a single disk failing is irrelevant when the array is capable of handling disk failures without failing as a whole. umm no it isn't. If your talking about a raid 5 "Not what you would use for a database server" then once you loose that drive your in big trouble. You are running with no back-up and x time the chance of a drive falure taking out the entire array until the rebuild is done. That is if you have a hot spare in the system. If you are running RAID 10 then which is a far better solution your better off but still not a happy camper. What most people don't understand is that all too often all the drives in a raid are from the same litter. You tend to buy them all at the same time from the same source and they tend to all be from the same batch and usually are the age when one dies. I have seen way too many raids start to have one drive after another die once they start having failures.
I thought they still did for ads. I can only read English so I can only read car sites in Ireland and the UK. They all offer mileage in MPG.... I do find it odd. What drives me crazy is at one motorcycle mag from England will give a bikes mileage in MPG then the tank size in liters! Have to break out a spread sheet just to figure out the range on the bloody thing.
When I was in Chicago the L and walking where good enough. But then it was in the summer. Then again I sure wouldn't want to try driving one of those during a Chicago Winter.
first of thing all cars in the US in the 70 and 80s stank. The US was the first country to have strong emissions testing. Even VWs where pretty bad all through the 70s and into the mid 80s. That is when cars became more drivable thanks to computers.
I for one do not want to be manipulated into doing "the right thing" by government. Also don't compare us to eu mileage. They us imperial gallons which are a lot larger than us gallons. The one place they do have an advantage is that a lot of diesels are available in the EU. Heck my Intrepid would be at around 40 us MPG if I could have gotten it as a TDI. Oh and that Intrepid was designed in large part by Renault. Probably why I like it so much.
For the most part those cad programs are NOT in the same class as SolidWorks or even TurboCad. FOSS CAD is pretty terrible. No real 3d, just terrible when you look at what a really good package can do. I have not looked at Varicad in along time. The only really good CAD system I know that runs on Linux is ProE but I can not afford that. I already have a legal version of Soldworks.
I have only driven in Ireland. All I can say is in Ireland no call is too small for those roads. The Corvette is actually a pretty good car even for shopping. It is one of the more practical sports cars. In the US the Focus is a small car, the Fusion is midsized, and the new Tarus is considered full sized. A full sized us car is about the same as BMW series 7 or and S Class MB.
We wanted them. They all offered small cars and we still kept buying SUVs. I actually never did but. Heck even the big cars get pretty good milage. I have an Intrepid and it is HUGE. I get around 25 mpg out of it. GM and the rest of the car companies offered small cars as well as the SUVs. People bought the SUVs. As far as the taxes on gas? Yea the voters wanted to pay more tax sure we did. Laws on millage? They never repealed the CAFE standards. They never applied to light trucks. The problem is I don't want to tax so poor farmer/plumber/carpenter to death just because too many folks want to play urban cowboy. We bought them because we wanted them and because we didn't want to pass the laws that took away your freedom to choose. I don't own a truck or SUV. I may someday get a small truck for weekend projects but I tend to buy cars. But that is my choice.
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I don't have a problem with it because at least cigs has no redeeming value at all and I have have lost two friends to lung cancer so it is personal. Yes they made a bad choice but then again I saw people from the Cig companies sit in front of congress and say that they honestly didn't believe that there was any danger and that they where not marketing to kids.
Purely emotional on my part and I am one voter so people are free to disagree with me.
I am not trying to convert anybody to anything. I was explaining concepts and trying to correct some miss information like drinking and smoking are a sin for most Christians.
I am not a big the bible is the literal truth and without flaw kind of person. But several of the Abrahamic restrictions or at least the then current interpretations of them where "lifted" by Jesus and even more by his disciples.
"It's also interesting that Christians will point at those ten, but ignore the other 500 or so other commandments in the Old Testament, like they're somehow allowed to pick and choose from it."
Actually under Christianity Christ is the new and ever lasting covenant which supersedes the Abrahamic convents of the old testament.
Also rape would be covered under many commandments including adultery which is sex outside of marriage.
I do agree that some commandments should not are are not codified into law. But so people have such odd ideas about separation of church and state. The constitution just restricts congress from creating a national church. It in no way restricts states or town from doing so. Of course most state constitutions impose those restrictions on the states.
The new systems do use COTS. However as to costs you have to look at the other costs.
1. Testing. That is the big one.
2. Hardening.
3. Porting the software.
Until very recently the Military systems used their own CPUs and OSs (when they had one). Some of the code was in Cobol, some in ADA, and a lot in assembly.
And of course some tasks just don't need more computational power or the current generation of software couldn't use it.
Of course things are very different now and modern military systems are now more "open".
Probably not. The early 688s are being retired.
Lets face it for a lot of systems like that "If it isn't broke don't mess with it" is a good idea.
Okay first drinking and smoking last time I checked are not sin according to the Judeao-Christian belief system.
Actually most of the Judeao-Christian sins are codified in to law and they are pretty good laws. Don't kill, don't steal, don't give false witness. Some are not put into law like taking the lords name in vain or honor they mother and father.
The no smoking and drinking are relatively modern additions. Only one christian faith has them as sins that I know of.
Okay I am on the opposite side of most people when it comes to video games. I have no problem with mandatory age restrictions on video games. I have no issue with taxing cigs and alcohol. But I have an issue with extra tax on video games. Yes I see how Left4Dead would be unhealthy for an 8 year old to play but for a normal adult it is just fine. Violent video games are no worse than violent movies or books.
If you want to tax a game how about golf? Golf Courses do a huge amount of damage to the environment. How about a $5 a round tax on golf and a $1.00 a ball tax on golf balls.
Of course who will pay the sin tax on game America's Army?
I mostly agree with you but so many business apps are nothing but form and database apps. Those apps are exactly the kind of apps that migrate to web very well.
Accounting is one that I think would really lend it's self to a web interface.
For richer apps you have Flash/Flex, Silverlight/Moonlight, and JavaFX as options.
Frankly Java applets have gotten much better over the last few years. I know that they where badly abused in the past but they are not the blight on mankind that most people think they are. Yes java hover buttons where evil but for some applications Java applets are not a terrible solution.
The big advantage to getting applications off the desktop is that you get off the upgrade cycle and vendor lock in. If you have a real need for a Mac desktop, or a Linux desktop you can accommodate them without forcing the user two have two desktops.
"Speaking of development tools... there is no open source equivalant of Visual Studio and there is no MSDN of open source."
I suggest you take a look at "http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/developer-tools/developer-tools?currentflipperobject=821c7594d32e33932297b1e065a976b8
MSDN is nice but so in the internet. Even with MSDN we often end up doing a Google search to solve windows issues.
"Gimp is *not* Photoshop."
No but it is better than Photoshop elements.
"There is no common way to install and remove software."
Apt-get or synaptic. On Suse YAST.
"There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things."
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Too many filesystems? Not at all. EXT3/4 is the primary one. Along with NTFS and FAT for compatibility. If you need some feature that isn't supported in EXT you then have options.
"- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)"
I half agree. I do think that a stable binary driver interface would help Linux. No hardware support? I can use Intel GPUs and NICs with no problem at all. nVidia and ATI drivers are available as well. The only issue that keeps cropping up are broadcomm Wifi adaptors. I blame them for that and don't buy them.
I will also question just how stable Windows drivers are. I seem to remember a lot of issues with nVidia drivers and Vista.
1. You take them apart.
2. You put the material in a reactor.
3. You sell the electricity.
4. You reprocess the waste like they do in Japan. "But without pouring it into a buck through stupidity."
5. Profit.
Funny so far what I have seen is that they torment a kid that is trying to get other kids not to use foul language and some poor grandmother with mixed race grandkids.
You must be very short of ram then. I run it all the time and don't have any issues even on older slow machines.
Do not get the version with all the plug ins. Some of those are real pigs.
While may statement is true I really did mean the post to be more of a joke than anything. After all the best jokes are based on true observations. In the movie Oh God there was a great question to God and his answer.
"Why is there evil in the world?"
"Because I never figured out how to make something with only one side."
But yes the internet is a support group for whack attacks.
I also fear that it really helps to breed intolerance and polarization. Take a look at the posts here some time. Very few people seem to have the ability to politely disagree anymore.
Hey I am on the internet and Slashdot so of course I don't think it is all bad.
Oh and BTW there really are people that do dress up as stuffed animals and have sex parties. And yes they do think they are normal. And yes they are as normal as the German Democratic Republic was a Democratic Republic.
You know there is one down side to the internet.
On the internet no matter how totally whacked out your idea maybe odds are you will find at least 100 people that will agree with you.
Once you find people that agree with you all of a sudden you can believe that your idea has merit.
Some where their is a discussion board about how it is to have orgies dressed up as giant stuffed animals. And the people on it will be convinced that they are perfectly normal people.
It shouldn't. The ray tracing will be handled by the hardware/library. And Java's JIT compiler is getting pretty dang good.
Try Eclipse.org sometime. While not a game it will show you just how good a java application can be.
Not really.
Yes the engine is FOSS but that doesn't mean that the game data has to be.
I remember that RMS even suggested this as model for game development a few years ago.
It would have to be DRM free but you could make and sell a game based on this. All you would have to do is provide a link to the source to the game engine.
Well I am a fan of Linux but that doesn't mean that XP isn't the current OS for some netbooks and in that market it's successor which may be 7 still isn't out yet.
http://owl.anytimecomm.com/
we use this at my office. Works well for us.
The chance of a single disk failing is irrelevant when the array is capable of handling disk failures without failing as a whole.
umm no it isn't.
If your talking about a raid 5 "Not what you would use for a database server" then once you loose that drive your in big trouble. You are running with no back-up and x time the chance of a drive falure taking out the entire array until the rebuild is done. That is if you have a hot spare in the system.
If you are running RAID 10 then which is a far better solution your better off but still not a happy camper.
What most people don't understand is that all too often all the drives in a raid are from the same litter. You tend to buy them all at the same time from the same source and they tend to all be from the same batch and usually are the age when one dies.
I have seen way too many raids start to have one drive after another die once they start having failures.
I thought they still did for ads.
I can only read English so I can only read car sites in Ireland and the UK. They all offer mileage in MPG.... I do find it odd. What drives me crazy is at one motorcycle mag from England will give a bikes mileage in MPG then the tank size in liters!
Have to break out a spread sheet just to figure out the range on the bloody thing.
When I was in Chicago the L and walking where good enough.
But then it was in the summer. Then again I sure wouldn't want to try driving one of those during a Chicago Winter.
first of thing all cars in the US in the 70 and 80s stank.
The US was the first country to have strong emissions testing.
Even VWs where pretty bad all through the 70s and into the mid 80s. That is when cars became more drivable thanks to computers.
I for one do not want to be manipulated into doing "the right thing" by government.
Also don't compare us to eu mileage. They us imperial gallons which are a lot larger than us gallons.
The one place they do have an advantage is that a lot of diesels are available in the EU. Heck my Intrepid would be at around 40 us MPG if I could have gotten it as a TDI. Oh and that Intrepid was designed in large part by Renault. Probably why I like it so much.
For the most part those cad programs are NOT in the same class as SolidWorks or even TurboCad.
FOSS CAD is pretty terrible. No real 3d, just terrible when you look at what a really good package can do.
I have not looked at Varicad in along time. The only really good CAD system I know that runs on Linux is ProE but I can not afford that.
I already have a legal version of Soldworks.
I have only driven in Ireland. All I can say is in Ireland no call is too small for those roads.
The Corvette is actually a pretty good car even for shopping. It is one of the more practical sports cars.
In the US the Focus is a small car, the Fusion is midsized, and the new Tarus is considered full sized.
A full sized us car is about the same as BMW series 7 or and S Class MB.
We wanted them. They all offered small cars and we still kept buying SUVs. I actually never did but.
Heck even the big cars get pretty good milage. I have an Intrepid and it is HUGE. I get around 25 mpg out of it.
GM and the rest of the car companies offered small cars as well as the SUVs. People bought the SUVs.
As far as the taxes on gas? Yea the voters wanted to pay more tax sure we did.
Laws on millage? They never repealed the CAFE standards. They never applied to light trucks.
The problem is I don't want to tax so poor farmer/plumber/carpenter to death just because too many folks want to play urban cowboy.
We bought them because we wanted them and because we didn't want to pass the laws that took away your freedom to choose.
I don't own a truck or SUV. I may someday get a small truck for weekend projects but I tend to buy cars. But that is my choice.