Time is NEVER free. You sorta missed the point. Perhaps the problem was caused by the use of the phrase "Time is Money" in the grandparent post.
Lets fix that. "My time has value".
Extending the analogy - I would consider the extra 12 dollar cost of the 'professional' oil change in comparison to my willingness to spend the time changing my oil, my ability to do so legally in my parking lot without violating the terms of my condo's bylaws and my enjoyment of the task.
I despise working on my engine, I hate getting greasy, and I have no place where I can do the oil change in my townhome anyway. So having someone else do that work for me has value.
The grandparent is correct - for someone like me who could care less about changing his own oil, those becomes factors in the TCO.
Get a clue. You name 10 movies released in the past year, and I will tell you what studios created visual effects for the film, and what software they used.
Which is why I hate the new breed of slashdot users.
This was a home project - he did it because he wanted to, not because he needed to. Would you have preferred he watched survivor? Or that donald trump show? Maybe downloaded, so he could be spoonfed his entertainment.
This is one of the few slashdot stories of the past few days that actually belongs here. In my opinion.
Of course, you could easily have a matching solar cell on the roof.
I also think you have vastly overestimated the percentage of the population that uses a garage or carport. The vast majority of home I know of use driveway parking.
Still solar cell powered cars are impractical for other reasons, already mentioned in this thread.
Given the choice, (and no others) I would take blind over dead any day.
On the other hand, given more choices, I would take a cold beer in a ski chalet in the the alps over either blind or dead.
Seriously, lets remember that over the past 25 years the first world has seen far more riots over sports than they have over freedoms.
Lets also not forget that the british troops responded to the political dissent, rioting, revolt and rebellion with gunfire - a decidedly more deadly form of crowd supression than microwaves.
This argument ignores the social taboo element. Throughout history a single parent has had less capability to support and raise a child than a couple.
As a result children born 'out of wedlock' are much more likely to end up living off the resources of the community as a whole.
I can easily envision a strong social pressure against pregnancy without some form of social attachement because of this. Sex makes babies, and contarceptives have only just recently become an effective tactic, so that means pressure against sex.
This is probably a lesser factor, but marriage to daughters was also one of many tools used by families to cement trade negotiations, and relations between communities. A daughter with children was much less valuable in this respect, so a taboo against sex helps to keep control.
Finally, through most of history marriage was something that happened to children just coming out of marriage. Contrast this to today, when marriage is something many people only begin to consider in their late 20's to early 30's. The taboo against sex was really menat to keep teenagers just discovering raging hormones from sleeping with everything that moved.....
Just talking, too busy tonight to pull up any supporting docummentation for any of this. I just wanted to point out that most of the taboos enforced by religion simply enforce social morals that made sense to communities long before religion codified it.
Consolidating Linux distros doesn't do anything about getting it into the hands of users and onto machines - an effective sales and marketing organization does that.
Best comment in this thread. Absolutely correct, and it sums up the real problem that no one seems to talk about.
I am a windows apologist - look at my history and you will see I entirely willing to point out the failings of Linux to the Zealots as the next guy.
But even I can see that the diversity of Linux is one of its strengths, as well as its weakness right now. Thanks to the sheer variety of work done in exploring slightly different approaches to the same task, we get to experiment with a multitude of approaches and ideas.
While that may not be a truly better product now, it can only lead to an excellent one in the future.
I am in no hurry for Linux to take over - I am not even sure that the operating system that does take over will be called Linux. Windows will have to sink a lot lower before its abandoned by the masses.
I am entirely certain that the work done in Linux over the past 10 years will shape the next generation operating system that finally does defeat windows though.
Yes the whole system is quite confusing. I suggest we adopt the following system.
The assistant to the government boss can be called an Earl. His boss will be a duke. The leader of the nation shall be called King, who will be served by His Grand Viziers, drawn from the Dukes who have been most loyal, or who have helped keep the King in power.
Naturally after some time, his son the Prince can take over when the King mucst step down - though there may be a short term of unpleasentness as the Regent governs for a period.
Take, Strong Bad, for example. I would easily pay like $5/year to watch this creativity a couple times per month. What happens if 30 million others feel the same way? Instant negation of Big Business, that is what.
Wrong. Instant creation of new big business is what happens. Not negation.
What about a family with a two children, one handicapped, and one who plays hockey? Or a coach with a bad back?
Life isn't as simple as you think it is. The point of handicapped accessible legislation is that it makes it possible for handicapped people - and their families to live lives that are as normal as possible.
I agree with everything you say, except the sports thing. Sports is important as a form of physical activity.
Sports at the expense of academics is bad.
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Damn straight. Not everyone is the same. Things that are easy for some people are damn hard for others. I have a twin sister. She cannot read a map. Period. You won't be able to teach her - for some reason the whole idea never worked.
Now my sister isn't dumb by any means, in many respects she is frighteningly bright. You would be lucky to read as fast as she does, or retain even a quarter what she does from what she reads, for example.
You can tell my sister a 30 digit number once, and mention that she should remember it. Don't mention it again for a month. Ask her what the number is and she will have it dead accurate 9/10 times.
But for some reason graphical representations of data leave her completely unable to comprehend the material.
She almost failed statistics entirely because the course was so reliant on graphs. Her professor for that course was completely unable to understand the source of the problem until we discussed it with him in a special meeting, and demonstrated literature showing the problem isn't unique to my sister.
At that point he allowed her to complete her exam without a time limit. That gave her the time to translate the charts into tables she could actually work with.
It took a long time for me to believe my sister was not faking it. I would have said that understanding graphs is intuitive - but here is a case of a very specific learning disability that proves me wrong.
So is it suprising that some students are better at math that others? Not to me.
We do. The company I work for makes a very comprehensive graphics application, designed to deal with images from film and higher (thing 4k images at float point).
There are a lot of companies who take performance very very seriously. We are just one of them.
The problem here has nothing to do with crashing, it has to do with the problem that companies that have chosen the Intel compiler for it's excellent performance suddenly find themselves producing software that is much slower on AMD systems than it needs to be.
The options are to switch to a different compiler and take the performance hit that comes from that (which can be quite significant) or put pressure on Intel to stop trying to 'innovate' using underhanded tactics.
Since we can hack around the problem for now by tricking the compiler into thinking our AMD is a Intel, I choose to try pressuring Intel before we try switching.
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Humbug. My post is merely incoherent. Beat that.
Time is NEVER free. You sorta missed the point. Perhaps the problem was caused by the use of the phrase "Time is Money" in the grandparent post.
Lets fix that. "My time has value".
Extending the analogy - I would consider the extra 12 dollar cost of the 'professional' oil change in comparison to my willingness to spend the time changing my oil, my ability to do so legally in my parking lot without violating the terms of my condo's bylaws and my enjoyment of the task.
I despise working on my engine, I hate getting greasy, and I have no place where I can do the oil change in my townhome anyway. So having someone else do that work for me has value.
The grandparent is correct - for someone like me who could care less about changing his own oil, those becomes factors in the TCO.
My god. That has exactly the format of an "in Soviet Russia" joke, in disguise.
Well done.
Yeah, that seems to be the case. I just VPN'd through our US office, and I got a completely different set of results.
See yourself, I got the punk band as the first hit too, even clicking on your link. You might want to check that again.
Get a clue. You name 10 movies released in the past year, and I will tell you what studios created visual effects for the film, and what software they used.
Go ahead. Take the challenge.
Which is why I hate the new breed of slashdot users.
This was a home project - he did it because he wanted to, not because he needed to. Would you have preferred he watched survivor? Or that donald trump show? Maybe downloaded, so he could be spoonfed his entertainment.
This is one of the few slashdot stories of the past few days that actually belongs here. In my opinion.
Think about it for a minute.
I have been on these here internets for a LOOOOONG time. I am pretty sure this thread wins.
Of course, you could easily have a matching solar cell on the roof.
I also think you have vastly overestimated the percentage of the population that uses a garage or carport. The vast majority of home I know of use driveway parking.
Still solar cell powered cars are impractical for other reasons, already mentioned in this thread.
Schools are as political as any government, and they have accountants too.
I mod the parent post thusly
-1 retarded.
Given the choice, (and no others) I would take blind over dead any day.
On the other hand, given more choices, I would take a cold beer in a ski chalet in the the alps over either blind or dead.
Seriously, lets remember that over the past 25 years the first world has seen far more riots over sports than they have over freedoms.
Lets also not forget that the british troops responded to the political dissent, rioting, revolt and rebellion with gunfire - a decidedly more deadly form of crowd supression than microwaves.
Yeah. Like checkers, watching television, playing hearts or go fish, and so forth. Complete wastes of time.
Crap.
Finally, through most of history marriage was something that happened to children just coming out of marriage.
should have read
Finally, through most of history marriage was something that happened to children just coming out of puberty.
What good is preview if you just end up reading what you thought you wrote.....
This argument ignores the social taboo element. Throughout history a single parent has had less capability to support and raise a child than a couple.
As a result children born 'out of wedlock' are much more likely to end up living off the resources of the community as a whole.
I can easily envision a strong social pressure against pregnancy without some form of social attachement because of this. Sex makes babies, and contarceptives have only just recently become an effective tactic, so that means pressure against sex.
This is probably a lesser factor, but marriage to daughters was also one of many tools used by families to cement trade negotiations, and relations between communities. A daughter with children was much less valuable in this respect, so a taboo against sex helps to keep control.
Finally, through most of history marriage was something that happened to children just coming out of marriage. Contrast this to today, when marriage is something many people only begin to consider in their late 20's to early 30's. The taboo against sex was really menat to keep teenagers just discovering raging hormones from sleeping with everything that moved.....
Just talking, too busy tonight to pull up any supporting docummentation for any of this. I just wanted to point out that most of the taboos enforced by religion simply enforce social morals that made sense to communities long before religion codified it.
Consolidating Linux distros doesn't do anything about getting it into the hands of users and onto machines - an effective sales and marketing organization does that.
Best comment in this thread. Absolutely correct, and it sums up the real problem that no one seems to talk about.
I am a windows apologist - look at my history and you will see I entirely willing to point out the failings of Linux to the Zealots as the next guy.
But even I can see that the diversity of Linux is one of its strengths, as well as its weakness right now. Thanks to the sheer variety of work done in exploring slightly different approaches to the same task, we get to experiment with a multitude of approaches and ideas.
While that may not be a truly better product now, it can only lead to an excellent one in the future.
I am in no hurry for Linux to take over - I am not even sure that the operating system that does take over will be called Linux. Windows will have to sink a lot lower before its abandoned by the masses.
I am entirely certain that the work done in Linux over the past 10 years will shape the next generation operating system that finally does defeat windows though.
Yes the whole system is quite confusing. I suggest we adopt the following system.
The assistant to the government boss can be called an Earl. His boss will be a duke. The leader of the nation shall be called King, who will be served by His Grand Viziers, drawn from the Dukes who have been most loyal, or who have helped keep the King in power.
Naturally after some time, his son the Prince can take over when the King mucst step down - though there may be a short term of unpleasentness as the Regent governs for a period.
Take, Strong Bad, for example. I would easily pay like $5/year to watch this creativity a couple times per month. What happens if 30 million others feel the same way? Instant negation of Big Business, that is what.
Wrong. Instant creation of new big business is what happens. Not negation.
God that is stupid.
What about a family with a two children, one handicapped, and one who plays hockey? Or a coach with a bad back?
Life isn't as simple as you think it is. The point of handicapped accessible legislation is that it makes it possible for handicapped people - and their families to live lives that are as normal as possible.
Dell is in business to make money, so of course they make anything possible optional.
Why thats so insightful. Dell is so unlike all those other companies, who are only in business to make me happy.
Are my sarcasm tags showing?
Absolutely. I mean look what happened to the Romans.
They had no television. Where are they now?
I agree with everything you say, except the sports thing. Sports is important as a form of physical activity.
Sports at the expense of academics is bad.
Damn straight. Not everyone is the same. Things that are easy for some people are damn hard for others. I have a twin sister. She cannot read a map. Period. You won't be able to teach her - for some reason the whole idea never worked.
Now my sister isn't dumb by any means, in many respects she is frighteningly bright. You would be lucky to read as fast as she does, or retain even a quarter what she does from what she reads, for example.
You can tell my sister a 30 digit number once, and mention that she should remember it. Don't mention it again for a month. Ask her what the number is and she will have it dead accurate 9/10 times.
But for some reason graphical representations of data leave her completely unable to comprehend the material.
She almost failed statistics entirely because the course was so reliant on graphs. Her professor for that course was completely unable to understand the source of the problem until we discussed it with him in a special meeting, and demonstrated literature showing the problem isn't unique to my sister.
At that point he allowed her to complete her exam without a time limit. That gave her the time to translate the charts into tables she could actually work with.
It took a long time for me to believe my sister was not faking it. I would have said that understanding graphs is intuitive - but here is a case of a very specific learning disability that proves me wrong.
So is it suprising that some students are better at math that others? Not to me.
We do. The company I work for makes a very comprehensive graphics application, designed to deal with images from film and higher (thing 4k images at float point).
There are a lot of companies who take performance very very seriously. We are just one of them.
The problem here has nothing to do with crashing, it has to do with the problem that companies that have chosen the Intel compiler for it's excellent performance suddenly find themselves producing software that is much slower on AMD systems than it needs to be.
The options are to switch to a different compiler and take the performance hit that comes from that (which can be quite significant) or put pressure on Intel to stop trying to 'innovate' using underhanded tactics.
Since we can hack around the problem for now by tricking the compiler into thinking our AMD is a Intel, I choose to try pressuring Intel before we try switching.