Quit telling me how your boot polisher is better than my doorstop. Its irrelevant.
Anymore, I consider ethical arguments to be much more relevant than SPEC numbers and software features. Interestingly, the ethical arguments seem to line up quite nicely with arguments about technical diversity and freedom from proprietary dead-ends.
As any individual ages, they have more time constraints.
Yes, but I think there is a growing attitude that adult responsibilities, such as family and a home, are somehow bad but cell phone contracts and salivating over "Survivor" are somehow good. It seems people are increasingly distracted away from fundamentally important things like raising their own children.
It could be that GCC's architecture really isn't intended for highly platform-specific optimization but for portability. Portability is more valuable to Open Source and Free software, ultimately.
This doublespeak always shows up any time someone points out something good in Windows, and it's always bullshit.
No, because you haven't answered how embedding things other than numbers and formulas into a spreadsheet makes it more "complete". I'd rather they put that effort into making more functions, more stability, and better visualization tools. All embedding HTML objects does is increase the number of bullets in the marketing materials. Simply, there is no bullshit or doublespeak here except in Microsoft's marketing department.
Capitalism has been under fire for years with the reinvention/redefinition of monopolies and my favourite monopolistic behavior by industries (consequence of lobbying???). It has seriously degraded human rights and quality of life in industrialized countries.
Actually, it can be argued that the problems in industrialized countries are not due to capitalism but by the willingness of the governments to be bloated and corrupted by corporate special interests. There should be very high barriers in place between corporate interests and government interests, but, unfortunately, it seems that those barriers get taken down due to those very same conflicts of interest. Corporations are not people, and they should be represented only by the voters working for them and not by special executive visits to the White House.
This isn't a fault of capitalism but a fault of greedy short-sighted people in a highly bureaucratic and unaccountable government. In short, the appropriate word, here, is "corruption."
Only a dramatic down-sizing of government over many years would allow accountability to be restored and the checks and balances in the economy to get re-established.
Wow. based solely on this logic, I am convinced we should stop using search engines and remove plugin capability from our web browsers (no more flash, ra, java, acrobot or others, please). While while we're at it, we should probably stop reusing and refactoring code, remove pipe and redirect capability from our shells, and stop using those damn ATMS and credit cards. Use cash people, cash!
Get a grip. Search engines are singular in purpose, they are transparent (gee a list of websites), and there are enough options returned that one broken link isn't a big deal.
Browser plugins are best used in niche markets like computer-based training. Flash-based websites, for example, are trash and only reflect on the arrogance and ignorance of the companies that employ them (of course it is fair to expect paying customers to also have fast computers with modern browsers and the latest Flash plugin; of course we won't be alienating potential customers driving them to competitors; that would never happen to us because we just spent $100K on this flashy website)
UNIX pipes and redirects are fundamentally simple and use only one or two unidirectional byte streams as the only interface. If you can get that level of understanding about crap embedded in spreadsheet cells, then you must have inside documentation or god-like omnipresence.
ATM machines and credit cards are on their way to being the ultimate tool used against consumers by large corporations and federal governments. Using exclusively cash is inconvenient, but it should be used as much as possible.
People should call a tax a tax. It's like those FCC "fees" on my phone bill. If a fee/royalty/charge/payment/whatever came into existance due to legislation, then it no less than a tax (and no less evil).
So, what will you do when free and happy have both been made illegal through new legislation and your life is destroyed by exploitation of loopholes by lawyers while you were looking the other direction?
Wan't the KHTML part to display a webpage in your gnumeric spreadshit?
Please explain why this is even desirable to begin with? Highly cross-embedded technologies are ripe for breakage (even in cozy Microsoft Land), and have a high overall effort/payoff ratio. Embedding also creates unforeseen data dependencies, which are often technology-independent and volatile (what if a URL is no longer valid due to some person reorganizing a website?).
While flashy and glitzy many of these "tools" are, "useful" they most often are not.
Not everyone has 40 to 80 hours to sink into the latest rpgs...
Many older Nintendo RPGs made it a point to advertise "over 100 hours of game play." Now, however, I am finding it really hard to complete an RPG that takes even 40 or 50 hours. I think this is indicative of the greater and more complex time constraints many of us are facing.
Given that people are now torn by cell phones, PDAs, PCs, gaming consoles, television, cable television, not to mention older avenues, such as magazines, newspapers, and radio, there are less personal resources available for long drawn-out games. Oh shit, I fogot to leave room for family...and politics...well, friends really are optional...nothing gets done at PTA meetings, anyway...it's more important to get a cash loan for a down payment on this crappy wannabe sporty car...gotta be fast with no time left for driving...what do you mean you need to be picked up after practice...don't forget to stop by McDonalds for dinner...fat ass kid expects to be fed... (this isn't my life, I hope, but I think I am seeing this more and more every day in other people)
I have not met one person who looks at an XP desktop after using Windows for years and gets lost. Ever.
Really? Lots and lots of non-cosmetic thing have changed in Windows over the years. Windows is only superficially consistent, and people just poke around until they find where something has been moved. Saying that Windows 95 was the only real change is generalizing a bit too much.
The general public cares as little about computers as "we" do about how our cars operate.
I guess that explains why I constantly see shitty (but not old!) cars blowing oil smoke out their exhaust running on bald tires while the driver tailgates and speeds. I've even seen this on snow-covered roads (sigh).
If people knew just a little more about physics and just a little more about why oil changes are important, a lot of good would be done for the world.
The work station side is severely behind the competition, and the reason is directly linked to the failure of all parties to strategically target the GUI togther, instead of independantly using different GUIs that are never really that much better than another on any given Sunday.
Also, the UNIX market has really changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. A long time ago, Motif was all the rage and was actually targeting exactly the consistency and usability that was lacking before it. On $40,000 workstations, Motif licensing really wasn't an issue.
However, in the Free Software world Motif really was a big problem, thus TK, GTK, Qt, Lesstif, and others I can't remember.
Now, things are beginning to come back together again. We just have to have a little patience.
In the meantime, I'll enjoy opening Xt, OpenLook, Motif, GTK, and Qt apps in my CDE desktop and wondering if it was one click or two...
Do MP3 files have less than important metadata in their headers? Putting a single random integer into the file header and designing MP3 players and recorders to randomize that integer with each use of the file...
I looked into technical writing briefly and got the impression that the field is something of a clique with social barriers to entry. I was also suprised to see that some technical writing positions required degrees in English rather than a technical field. Perhaps my experience wasn't representative of the field, but it put me off a bit.
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Quit telling me how your boot polisher is better than my doorstop. Its irrelevant.
Anymore, I consider ethical arguments to be much more relevant than SPEC numbers and software features. Interestingly, the ethical arguments seem to line up quite nicely with arguments about technical diversity and freedom from proprietary dead-ends.
What's a "real-world" benchmark?
The answer to "is the user satisfied?"
How about "can the user get real work done without meddling with details of the operating system and computer hardware?"
Quite honestly, I've given up on PCs for the time being in favor of Suns, at the moment, and probably Macs in the future.
As any individual ages, they have more time constraints.
Yes, but I think there is a growing attitude that adult responsibilities, such as family and a home, are somehow bad but cell phone contracts and salivating over "Survivor" are somehow good. It seems people are increasingly distracted away from fundamentally important things like raising their own children.
Why didn't they just submit some patches?
It could be that GCC's architecture really isn't intended for highly platform-specific optimization but for portability. Portability is more valuable to Open Source and Free software, ultimately.
...what will the fanboys rally cry be next?
That bandwidth doesn't really matter, only MHz? I don't see PCs beating the interconnects present in the newest Macs for a while.
This doublespeak always shows up any time someone points out something good in Windows, and it's always bullshit.
No, because you haven't answered how embedding things other than numbers and formulas into a spreadsheet makes it more "complete". I'd rather they put that effort into making more functions, more stability, and better visualization tools. All embedding HTML objects does is increase the number of bullets in the marketing materials. Simply, there is no bullshit or doublespeak here except in Microsoft's marketing department.
Capitalism has been under fire for years with the reinvention/redefinition of monopolies and my favourite monopolistic behavior by industries (consequence of lobbying???). It has seriously degraded human rights and quality of life in industrialized countries.
Actually, it can be argued that the problems in industrialized countries are not due to capitalism but by the willingness of the governments to be bloated and corrupted by corporate special interests. There should be very high barriers in place between corporate interests and government interests, but, unfortunately, it seems that those barriers get taken down due to those very same conflicts of interest. Corporations are not people, and they should be represented only by the voters working for them and not by special executive visits to the White House.
This isn't a fault of capitalism but a fault of greedy short-sighted people in a highly bureaucratic and unaccountable government. In short, the appropriate word, here, is "corruption."
Only a dramatic down-sizing of government over many years would allow accountability to be restored and the checks and balances in the economy to get re-established.
Wow. based solely on this logic, I am convinced we should stop using search engines and remove plugin capability from our web browsers (no more flash, ra, java, acrobot or others, please). While while we're at it, we should probably stop reusing and refactoring code, remove pipe and redirect capability from our shells, and stop using those damn ATMS and credit cards. Use cash people, cash!
Get a grip. Search engines are singular in purpose, they are transparent (gee a list of websites), and there are enough options returned that one broken link isn't a big deal.
Browser plugins are best used in niche markets like computer-based training. Flash-based websites, for example, are trash and only reflect on the arrogance and ignorance of the companies that employ them (of course it is fair to expect paying customers to also have fast computers with modern browsers and the latest Flash plugin; of course we won't be alienating potential customers driving them to competitors; that would never happen to us because we just spent $100K on this flashy website)
UNIX pipes and redirects are fundamentally simple and use only one or two unidirectional byte streams as the only interface. If you can get that level of understanding about crap embedded in spreadsheet cells, then you must have inside documentation or god-like omnipresence.
ATM machines and credit cards are on their way to being the ultimate tool used against consumers by large corporations and federal governments. Using exclusively cash is inconvenient, but it should be used as much as possible.
Not much worse than having a few thousand gallons of diesel fuel in storage for the generator...
Agreed, but I'd rather deal with cleanup up diesel fuel then Cadmium that spread over ten acres due to a natural disaster or an accident.
Hmmm...I wonder what a big flywheel that gets loose and spins through town on the way to the ocean would do...(nothing is perfect, I guess).
royalties
People should call a tax a tax. It's like those FCC "fees" on my phone bill. If a fee/royalty/charge/payment/whatever came into existance due to legislation, then it no less than a tax (and no less evil).
The rest of us can be free and happy.
So, what will you do when free and happy have both been made illegal through new legislation and your life is destroyed by exploitation of loopholes by lawyers while you were looking the other direction?
Wan't the KHTML part to display a webpage in your gnumeric spreadshit?
Please explain why this is even desirable to begin with? Highly cross-embedded technologies are ripe for breakage (even in cozy Microsoft Land), and have a high overall effort/payoff ratio. Embedding also creates unforeseen data dependencies, which are often technology-independent and volatile (what if a URL is no longer valid due to some person reorganizing a website?).
While flashy and glitzy many of these "tools" are, "useful" they most often are not.
Not everyone has 40 to 80 hours to sink into the latest rpgs...
Many older Nintendo RPGs made it a point to advertise "over 100 hours of game play." Now, however, I am finding it really hard to complete an RPG that takes even 40 or 50 hours. I think this is indicative of the greater and more complex time constraints many of us are facing.
Given that people are now torn by cell phones, PDAs, PCs, gaming consoles, television, cable television, not to mention older avenues, such as magazines, newspapers, and radio, there are less personal resources available for long drawn-out games. Oh shit, I fogot to leave room for family...and politics...well, friends really are optional...nothing gets done at PTA meetings, anyway...it's more important to get a cash loan for a down payment on this crappy wannabe sporty car...gotta be fast with no time left for driving...what do you mean you need to be picked up after practice...don't forget to stop by McDonalds for dinner...fat ass kid expects to be fed... (this isn't my life, I hope, but I think I am seeing this more and more every day in other people)
But, but, he wears jeans! And he landed on an aircraft carrier!
Now that he's locked in the TNN vote, 2004 will be a landslide.
Long-term financing isn't often a concern for short-term problems, so my guess is that the 2k sq. ft. battery was the cheapest.
I'm also guessing that Fairbanks' residents didn't care about 13,730 containers of Cadmium all in one place right near where they live.
I have not met one person who looks at an XP desktop after using Windows for years and gets lost. Ever.
Really? Lots and lots of non-cosmetic thing have changed in Windows over the years. Windows is only superficially consistent, and people just poke around until they find where something has been moved. Saying that Windows 95 was the only real change is generalizing a bit too much.
The general public cares as little about computers as "we" do about how our cars operate.
I guess that explains why I constantly see shitty (but not old!) cars blowing oil smoke out their exhaust running on bald tires while the driver tailgates and speeds. I've even seen this on snow-covered roads (sigh).
If people knew just a little more about physics and just a little more about why oil changes are important, a lot of good would be done for the world.
Oops, guess I just ran afoul of Godwin.
Nope. Your discussion is perfectly relevant right here and now.
What are the advantages of emacs and vi?
Emacs sucks but can handle longer lines than vi. I'm so conflicted.
The work station side is severely behind the competition, and the reason is directly linked to the failure of all parties to strategically target the GUI togther, instead of independantly using different GUIs that are never really that much better than another on any given Sunday.
Also, the UNIX market has really changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. A long time ago, Motif was all the rage and was actually targeting exactly the consistency and usability that was lacking before it. On $40,000 workstations, Motif licensing really wasn't an issue.
However, in the Free Software world Motif really was a big problem, thus TK, GTK, Qt, Lesstif, and others I can't remember.
Now, things are beginning to come back together again. We just have to have a little patience.
In the meantime, I'll enjoy opening Xt, OpenLook, Motif, GTK, and Qt apps in my CDE desktop and wondering if it was one click or two...
freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications, are not the goals of the average user.
Nor of the average citizen.
Consoles will always have a high barrier to entry (e.g., just having to set up disc/cartridge distribution is pretty big).
PCs and PDAs, however, will always be accessible to anyone who has one and can download and SDK (stir in a bit of creativity, and voila!).
Do MP3 files have less than important metadata in their headers? Putting a single random integer into the file header and designing MP3 players and recorders to randomize that integer with each use of the file...
I don't think even the Death Star could /. this bitch.
Destroying the Earth isn't sufficient?
I looked into technical writing briefly and got the impression that the field is something of a clique with social barriers to entry. I was also suprised to see that some technical writing positions required degrees in English rather than a technical field. Perhaps my experience wasn't representative of the field, but it put me off a bit.