First, there very few muscles around your waist other than the lower ab muscles. It's unlikely that you built your ab muscles enough to affect your pant size.
I can tell it is a problem you've never had... I have.
He specifically said: waist and thighs
Typical/Average/Normal clothes expect a specific ratio between waist and thigh size.
If you are a bodybuilder/weightlifter in good shape then your waist will typically be smaller, and your thighs bigger.
Finding a pair of pants that fits the thighs means getting a waist size that is about 8 inches too big.
You have to get the pants over the thighs before you get anywhere close to the waist...
That is why the very first thing you should do is... stick it in a computer and rip it.
That way you can:
1) Verify it "works" before it could possibly degrade... and get a refund by going back immediately and showing them that, yes, it was bad right out of the package... long before it should have degraded.
2) Watch it when you want
3) Watch it as many times as you want
4) Give it to your friends
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None of this is to advocate doing something illegal. This just seems to me to be the logical conclusion as to how the average consumer would handle such a fragile, silly product.
I think you've gotten a bit off track, I'm pretty sure we are not trying to assert the same thing.
In comment #9377824 I asserted that there are things that are easier to do with Linux than Windows. And... in that post I re-iterated that this was my point, which I initially tried to make with comment #9371093 in response to comment #9370148.
No where did I talk about a "Desktop OS" which you seem to be focused on.
Reiterating, once again, my point is that there are things that are easier in Linux than Windows.
Plain and simple. It is a statement about existence... those things do exist. It is not a statement about desireability or utilitarianism. Simply existence.
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Like I said, I stopped using Linux as anything other than a server a few years ago because its a royal pain in the ass with respect to usability.
That sounds like the right decision... for everyone. Good for you.
I don't have time to deal with library dependencies or compiling the kernel or building an install diskette because the kernel panics on boot because its missing a drive.
Me either. That is why I use Linux... because I only have to fix it once. And it stays fixed.
Linux is only good for server apps... its very powerful there. As a Desktop OS its got a lot of cool bells and whistles, but when it comes down to it, you still need to fuck around with it for hours just to set up your printer properly and other ridiculous features that it should support long before people can claim its a viable Desktop OS.
You are right, of course.
But, that doesn't explain why I have been using it for five years straight... on my desktop.
And, in those five years, I've lost zero data.
And, in those five years, I've spent less time "fixing" my desktop than I did the previous ONE YEAR installing and updating virus software on my Windows machine. (And don't even get me started on the time needed to actually keep the damn thing running.)
Of course, I have a postscript printer... so, that probably helped me a bit.
Sounds like you aren't cut out for Linux, and I'm not cut out for Windows. Simple. I'll get over it.
Until that point, its only painful to the end-user.
Good.
That way I don't have to answer questions about the virus that just killed thier machine.
Or that saving stuff to "the server" doesn't mean you actually know where your data is.
Or that your data isn't really in the "Program Files" folder.
Or that "the internet" really isn't down.
And on... and on...
Believe me... I like running an OS that is not mainstream. And, I don't want it to be mainstream.
That way I can continue to make a good living off of an OS that is extremely stable, and what businesses want... and can't find "just anyone" to do it.
That doesn't convince me to use Linux over Windows.
and later...
There is a specific reason why Linux doesn't dominate the Desktop OS market. That reason is simply because its not usable for the average end-user.
Dude... I don't want you to use Linux.
I don't want the unwashed masses screwing things up for me. I'm selfish.
Linux has an incredibly high barrier to entry, and I like it that way. It is a very nice filter... keeps people out of my life that I don't want to waste my time with.
The entire point is that there are things Windows is not a good choice for.
That is all.
Whether you want to do those things, isn't the issue.
Whether someone else wants to do those things, isn't the issue.
The issue is that, for those things, Windows is the wrong choice... if it is a contender at all.
Yep. And I get seriously tired of the mentally weak people that just think "it just happened" for no reason at all.
Of course there was a reason.
No conflict has ever been resolved without understanding the other sides point of view.
Even god couldn't make all the people he hated go away... he tried with that whole flood thing... but did it work? Fsck no. Still plenty of people to hate afterwards...
7) All configs are kept in real live TEXT config files IN ONE DIRECTORY (/etc) that are easily stored in CVS... and diffed... and backed up... and restored.
I'm much more experienced now with Linux than Windows. (And I'm pretty damn experienced in Windows... right up until W2K came out. Then, I switched. What is that... 15 years?)
But... my Linux experience cost me one fourth the time and one twentieth the $$ in documentation compared to the cost of my Windows experience.
(OK... I didn't pay that much for Linux reference material. But, what the heck... I have to give Windows a bit of a chance.)
That, IMHO... is huge.
The incremental cost for being "experienced" in Windows was just to damn big to justify for me.
I know that when I learn some *nixy way of doing something... it will be valid (and work!) years down the road.
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I'm not seeing this...
Are you assuming that the insertion point of the muscle is the same distance from the joint no matter what the length of the arm is?
I'm seeing a lever whose proportions remain somewhat constant (at least for the same person)... with growth happening on both sides of the lever.
You haven't had a physics class at your high school yet, have you?
First, there very few muscles around your waist other than the lower ab muscles. It's unlikely that you built your ab muscles enough to affect your pant size.
I can tell it is a problem you've never had... I have.
He specifically said: waist and thighs
Typical/Average/Normal clothes expect a specific ratio between waist and thigh size.
If you are a bodybuilder/weightlifter in good shape then your waist will typically be smaller, and your thighs bigger.
Finding a pair of pants that fits the thighs means getting a waist size that is about 8 inches too big.
You have to get the pants over the thighs before you get anywhere close to the waist...
The first step towards fixing Comdex is to get a good keynote speaker.
Ideally, someone with a clue.
The previous guy was almost always wrong.
Please forgive my ignorance, I don't use Windows that much any more.
Does the automatic software install work if you are not running with administrative rights?
TIA
That is why the very first thing you should do is... stick it in a computer and rip it.
That way you can:
1) Verify it "works" before it could possibly degrade... and get a refund by going back immediately and showing them that, yes, it was bad right out of the package... long before it should have degraded.
2) Watch it when you want
3) Watch it as many times as you want
4) Give it to your friends
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None of this is to advocate doing something illegal. This just seems to me to be the logical conclusion as to how the average consumer would handle such a fragile, silly product.
Talk about your law of unintended consequences!
a 4 bit processor can handle the number '10' in one whack because it is smaller than 16
How does the this router know that the number is smaller than 16 without looking at the other bits and making sure they aren't all zero?
What about:
0000 0000 0001 1010
and the other 2^12 combinations that just so happen to have the last 4 binary bits in common with the number
0000 0000 0000 1010
?
Please, please, please...
Do not assume that you users only have one network connection.
Please!
So... yeah... you really should be nice and use a private numbering scheme so that you don't mess up their *other* connections.
What they should have done was make a survey...
Well, If they had done that, you'd have a bunch of dumbasses that don't actually understand the problem space all answering:
VisualBasic
Enough idiots can wreck even the best designed survey.
Why can't christian broadcasting be considered obscene?
I would think that there are just as many people in the community that would want to listed to Stern as Fallwell...
I think most of it should be banned because of fraud myself. Seriously... isn't that one of the jobs of the FCC? Or, is it the FTC?
Believe me... you are not the only Windows user with a reading comprehension problem.
I think you've gotten a bit off track, I'm pretty sure we are not trying to assert the same thing.
In comment #9377824 I asserted that there are things that are easier to do with Linux than Windows. And... in that post I re-iterated that this was my point, which I initially tried to make with comment #9371093 in response to comment #9370148.
No where did I talk about a "Desktop OS" which you seem to be focused on.
Reiterating, once again, my point is that there are things that are easier in Linux than Windows.
Plain and simple. It is a statement about existence... those things do exist. It is not a statement about desireability or utilitarianism. Simply existence.
---
Like I said, I stopped using Linux as anything other than a server a few years ago because its a royal pain in the ass with respect to usability.
That sounds like the right decision... for everyone. Good for you.
I don't have time to deal with library dependencies or compiling the kernel or building an install diskette because the kernel panics on boot because its missing a drive.
Me either. That is why I use Linux... because I only have to fix it once. And it stays fixed.
Linux is only good for server apps... its very powerful there. As a Desktop OS its got a lot of cool bells and whistles, but when it comes down to it, you still need to fuck around with it for hours just to set up your printer properly and other ridiculous features that it should support long before people can claim its a viable Desktop OS.
You are right, of course.
But, that doesn't explain why I have been using it for five years straight... on my desktop.
And, in those five years, I've lost zero data.
And, in those five years, I've spent less time "fixing" my desktop than I did the previous ONE YEAR installing and updating virus software on my Windows machine. (And don't even get me started on the time needed to actually keep the damn thing running.)
Of course, I have a postscript printer... so, that probably helped me a bit.
Sounds like you aren't cut out for Linux, and I'm not cut out for Windows. Simple. I'll get over it.
Until that point, its only painful to the end-user.
Good.
That way I don't have to answer questions about the virus that just killed thier machine.
Or that saving stuff to "the server" doesn't mean you actually know where your data is.
Or that your data isn't really in the "Program Files" folder.
Or that "the internet" really isn't down.
And on... and on...
Believe me... I like running an OS that is not mainstream. And, I don't want it to be mainstream.
That way I can continue to make a good living off of an OS that is extremely stable, and what businesses want... and can't find "just anyone" to do it.
That suits me to a T.
That doesn't convince me to use Linux over Windows.
and later...
There is a specific reason why Linux doesn't dominate the Desktop OS market. That reason is simply because its not usable for the average end-user.
Dude... I don't want you to use Linux.
I don't want the unwashed masses screwing things up for me. I'm selfish.
Linux has an incredibly high barrier to entry, and I like it that way. It is a very nice filter... keeps people out of my life that I don't want to waste my time with.
The entire point is that there are things Windows is not a good choice for.
That is all.
Whether you want to do those things, isn't the issue.
Whether someone else wants to do those things, isn't the issue.
The issue is that, for those things, Windows is the wrong choice... if it is a contender at all.
Tell me what those things are...
Install and run the OS on a computer that has no graphics card.
(That is what the serial port is for... running a console until you get the ethernet port working)
OK... I'll start simple...
Run on a computer with no hard drive.
And, before you tell me that most people aren't interested in doing that... go back and slowly read the second sentence you quoted.
And... who may want to do this? Someone trying to introduce an instrumentation system into a high vibration environment.
(We won't even talk about using Windows for instrumentation... that is another topic itself)
I don't know about you, but my consulting rate is high enough that the Mac is already cheaper when assembly time is factored in.
Thank you.
Some people know the value of time, and can get someone to actually pay it.
Sometimes, buying the very first product you find that will solve your problem is the most economical solution.
(Not to be confused with the optimal or best solution.)
And, if you are doing it to make money... that is the "right" solution.
I do.
;-)
But, that wasn't the point.
The original poster said that nothing was easier on Linux than Windows.
I believe this is.
And... I also believe that there are entire classes of people out there that don't just play games and do some word processing on thier systems.
If you do that, then use Windows. Please.
But... there are a LOT of things that Windows is not good at. Most people aren't inclined to do those things. Hell... most couldn't if they wanted to.
But... those people still exist... and they want to do those things, whatever that may be.
I don't think it is reasonable to believe that one system is going to meet everyone's needs... so, why be surprised that it doesn't?
Thank you.
I don't run a screen saver, so X is "rock solid" for me (I start it Monday morning and stop it Sunday for system wide backup in run level one)...
But, I can probably think of a few other chores that this might come in handy for... like doing a "shutdown -h now" on my headless box in the closet.
Even the bigots I know think that the people doing the torturing should be taken outside and shot.
:-(
Come to Idaho... the bigots here are world class.
It is absolutely amazing.
9.11 happened for a reason
Yep. And I get seriously tired of the mentally weak people that just think "it just happened" for no reason at all.
Of course there was a reason.
No conflict has ever been resolved without understanding the other sides point of view.
Even god couldn't make all the people he hated go away... he tried with that whole flood thing... but did it work? Fsck no. Still plenty of people to hate afterwards...
Are you saying that installing Cygwin, just to get Perl to run correctly... is easier than using Perl on Linux?
Because, that is my point... Perl is easier on Linux than Windows.
Why does a difference between morality and legality needs to be distinguished in such a case?
I'll recap:
Poster #1) I don't want to use it because it is immoral.
Poster #2) Immoral? What they did was legal.
Me) legal != moral
So... my point is that response by #2 did not address the point brought up by #1
No, I did not miss it.
It seems to me that the poster of comment #9370151 is trying to justify immoral activity by saying it is legal.
As in: The goal of any business is to profit.
My point is that, while the actions of a company may be legal... that does not mean those actions are moral.
Just want to expand on one item.
7) All configs are kept in real live TEXT config files IN ONE DIRECTORY (/etc) that are easily stored in CVS... and diffed... and backed up... and restored.
It's all a matetr of experience.
You are right about that.
I'm much more experienced now with Linux than Windows. (And I'm pretty damn experienced in Windows... right up until W2K came out. Then, I switched. What is that... 15 years?)
But... my Linux experience cost me one fourth the time and one twentieth the $$ in documentation compared to the cost of my Windows experience.
(OK... I didn't pay that much for Linux reference material. But, what the heck... I have to give Windows a bit of a chance.)
That, IMHO... is huge.
The incremental cost for being "experienced" in Windows was just to damn big to justify for me.
I know that when I learn some *nixy way of doing something... it will be valid (and work!) years down the road.
Can't say that for *do(w)s any more...