I'm of mixed race (Eurasian). In the late 80s/early 90s we used to visit family in Europe every summer, and part of the ritual was to head of to a big record shop in Munich to check out metal albums (I lived in a developing country, in those days there wasn't much being imported).
In the shop there was a listening post. You'd go up, give the dude your LPs/CDs, he'd stick them on and you'd check em out. Eventually I stopped bothering because unless I was alone, the dude would always motion to the guy behind me in the queue. At the time I didn't really understand what the deal was - I was a shy teenager, my German wasn't the best, maybe I didn't understand the etiquette etc.
I bet things have changed though, that was like 15-20 years ago and since then there's been massively more immigration into Germany.
Not sure what the big deal is. The Linuxscape has always been a fragmented land-of-a-thousand-distros, and contrary to received wisdom, they're not all compatible.
Having just wasted a few days trying to get one bit of "Linux-compatible" software to work on another subtly different flavour Linux (thankyou RedHat for your borked gcc 2.96), I have some sympathy for saying "we only support flavour X".
Is there such a thing as one Linux distro to suit all users? Probably not. Could there maybe be 2 or 3 that would suit virtually all users? I think so. This move from MySQL seems like a step towards that.
you may debate the merits of inheritance tax (which I'm personally against)
Personally, I'm against inheritance. Or to put it another way, I believe inheritance tax should be 100%.
A world where everyone lived on the wealth they earned through their own efforts would, I think, be a more equitable one, since wealth would not tend to pool along certain DNA lines, and I wouldn't have to pay ground rent to the Duke of Westminster just because centuries ago his ancestor was mates with the monarch.
I'm making my own way through life. I expect nothing more from my parents, and I hope my kids will make their own way too.
For people who like to dig into their OS, the kernel is usually at a lower level than is useful. What is useful is being able to tweak [userland stuff]
Fair enough. I took "OS" in the parent too literally to mean Operating System (rather than window managers and applications).
But to be honest, and not to be troll, I found Mac OS X to be relatively stupified in comparison to other OS's that I've used. OS X is pretty and all, but I prefer 'functional' over 'shiny' and I like to really dig into the inner workings of the OS that I use.
I've not the foggiest what you're on about. It's a freakin UNIX box with an open source kernel, that ships with a DVD full of developer tools! How much more functional do you want?
I don't think this is specifically about the elderly. It is about anyone who isn't internet-savvy. The elderly, because of their lack of exposure to computers, may form a substantial group of such users, but the same would be true of new users in the developing world etc.
Vote anyway, for a candidate who doesn't have a hope of winning. That way you'll be voting not for them per se (because they'll never get in), but you'll be voting for a broader political spectrum on the ballot.
Or give a foreigner like me your vote, and vote Green!
Second Life, or some successor, may be the thing to kickstart it. Already we're hearing about the likes of Sun and Reuters setting up camp there.
To really gain traction though it would need to be as free (speech and beer) as the web is, and so long as it's run by a single company, it probably won't be.
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell
Of course the question is whether, while spending 14 hours a day to get the next PVP rank so you get shoulders with spikes on them, you are really enjoying yourself.
Great. So now even the exploration of space has been redefined as a national security issue. Cue fat budgets for space lasers, Son of Star Wars and other such nonsense, in case Al-Qaeda acquire a space shuttle from North Korea. (Or something.)
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Seems a bizarre way to bribe them.
Why not just have an agreement, and then heavily discount the price of CPUs?
I don't know whether having such an agreement would be illegal, but I doubt selling CPUs cheap is.
Suffixes (and host prefixes) were a mistake. We ought to get rid of them altogether.
Maybe Linus is one of those people for whom it will only matter very much when it bites him in the ass and it's too late to do anything about it.
Wikipedia page on Patent Trolls, with a list that doesn't appear to include the trolls in question guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
Multiple formats = fewer economies of scale = higher prices
Higher prices + confusion = potential buyers deferring purchase
Deferred purchase = slow market growth + deferred profit
They must believe that being on the winning side will mean future profits that offset the losses they're making now by not having a single format.
I'm of mixed race (Eurasian). In the late 80s/early 90s we used to visit family in Europe every summer, and part of the ritual was to head of to a big record shop in Munich to check out metal albums (I lived in a developing country, in those days there wasn't much being imported).
In the shop there was a listening post. You'd go up, give the dude your LPs/CDs, he'd stick them on and you'd check em out. Eventually I stopped bothering because unless I was alone, the dude would always motion to the guy behind me in the queue. At the time I didn't really understand what the deal was - I was a shy teenager, my German wasn't the best, maybe I didn't understand the etiquette etc.
I bet things have changed though, that was like 15-20 years ago and since then there's been massively more immigration into Germany.
Not sure what the big deal is. The Linuxscape has always been a fragmented land-of-a-thousand-distros, and contrary to received wisdom, they're not all compatible.
Having just wasted a few days trying to get one bit of "Linux-compatible" software to work on another subtly different flavour Linux (thankyou RedHat for your borked gcc 2.96), I have some sympathy for saying "we only support flavour X".
Is there such a thing as one Linux distro to suit all users? Probably not. Could there maybe be 2 or 3 that would suit virtually all users? I think so. This move from MySQL seems like a step towards that.
you may debate the merits of inheritance tax (which I'm personally against)
Personally, I'm against inheritance. Or to put it another way, I believe inheritance tax should be 100%.
A world where everyone lived on the wealth they earned through their own efforts would, I think, be a more equitable one, since wealth would not tend to pool along certain DNA lines, and I wouldn't have to pay ground rent to the Duke of Westminster just because centuries ago his ancestor was mates with the monarch.
I'm making my own way through life. I expect nothing more from my parents, and I hope my kids will make their own way too.
For people who like to dig into their OS, the kernel is usually at a lower level than is useful. What is useful is being able to tweak [userland stuff]
Fair enough. I took "OS" in the parent too literally to mean Operating System (rather than window managers and applications).
But to be honest, and not to be troll, I found Mac OS X to be relatively stupified in comparison to other OS's that I've used. OS X is pretty and all, but I prefer 'functional' over 'shiny' and I like to really dig into the inner workings of the OS that I use.
I've not the foggiest what you're on about. It's a freakin UNIX box with an open source kernel, that ships with a DVD full of developer tools! How much more functional do you want?
Hmm... What could the Mexicans need the world's biggest mirror for...
I don't think this is specifically about the elderly. It is about anyone who isn't internet-savvy. The elderly, because of their lack of exposure to computers, may form a substantial group of such users, but the same would be true of new users in the developing world etc.
Vote anyway, for a candidate who doesn't have a hope of winning. That way you'll be voting not for them per se (because they'll never get in), but you'll be voting for a broader political spectrum on the ballot.
Or give a foreigner like me your vote, and vote Green!
Second Life, or some successor, may be the thing to kickstart it. Already we're hearing about the likes of Sun and Reuters setting up camp there.
To really gain traction though it would need to be as free (speech and beer) as the web is, and so long as it's run by a single company, it probably won't be.
You ban "unsupervised contact sports". By definition, no one is supervising. So how do you enforce the ban?
Of course, the article has to span nine pages because they have to show their ads over...and over...and over.
No, they just had to make space for Albert Wang's contributions. Geez, can't that guy shut up?!
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Bertrand Russell
Of course the question is whether, while spending 14 hours a day to get the next PVP rank so you get shoulders with spikes on them, you are really enjoying yourself.
OFC I neglected to RTFM. Natural intensity would be interesting. Not so much for TV perhaps, but for those things like fake fires and fishtanks.
How freaky would it be to have one of these on the wall displaying an outside scene, i.e. a fake window?
Yep, that's what I've always felt was lacking in TVs.
Not higher frame rates, so it doesn't turn into a blur whenever something moves.
Not more pixels, so it doesn't look like a blur whenever something doesn't move.
Not better content, so I'd actually watch it.
No, what I've always wanted, is more bits per pixel.
Great. So now even the exploration of space has been redefined as a national security issue. Cue fat budgets for space lasers, Son of Star Wars and other such nonsense, in case Al-Qaeda acquire a space shuttle from North Korea. (Or something.)
The launch titles are overwhelmingly sequels. So you really are paying to play stuff you've played before all over again, just with more polys.
Sweet! I guess this means that software will become much cheaper because the corporations won't be losing money in lost sales due to piracy!
Right?
$299/£225
Even allowing for VAT:
(299/1.8) * 1.175 = £195
So, once again, we Brits get to pay the random 15% "stiff upper lip" tax.
Rather than an iPod rival, they should have released an iPod killer. Doomed to failure.
I'll leave the "no wifi, meh" quotes to others!
Pricing seems to have been not unreasonable
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