You're talking about downtown areas and major freeways. I can assure you that the vast majority of roads in southern California are not jammed with roads during all hours of the day. I live in a residential neighborhood a few miles from downtown and the roads here would be perfect for solar power.
Isn't trying to change someone's mind pretty much a futile gesture to a determinist?
Where do you get that idea? Saying that the mind is deterministic doesn't mean it is static and unchangeable. It means that choices you make are determined by the physical structure of your brain combined with your memories and sensory input.
The words someone uses to convince you of something are sensory input and so they are obviously capable of changing the state of your thoughts.
If it works both ways then it seems like the companies are just as likely to be losing customers as they are to be gaining them.
OTOH, if the games were all compatible customer frustration over not being able to play with their friends will go down which could translate into more sales and a win for both customers and vendors alike.
And maybe the banks can even set up some standalone, hardened, and locked-down computers in convenient locations around the city for their customers to use. Maybe they could even get money out of these computers. They could be like bank tellers, but automated.
Making parking difficult only makes sense if there are adequate alternatives to driving for getting downtown. In Chicago there probably are, but not all cities are like that. In those cities discouraging driving would have to go together with improving mass transit.
What is wrong with you people complaining about logitech improving their product? I don't get it. My logitech mouse works on most of the surfaces I've tried it on, but not everything. Would I like it to work everywhere? It would be nice. I can't imagine why anyone would be opposed to that.
Also, no I don't use a mouse pad and I don't want to need one. Talk about pointless.
The renaming of Firefox by Debian had nothing to do with patches they added. I'm pretty sure it was all about a license incompatibility for the Firefox artwork.
It can also play media from any computer on the home network, except from Linux boxes (windows only).
Except for Linux and except for Macs? By what strange definition does that qualify as any computer on your home network? Pretty weak if they can't actually stream from any computer, it's not that hard to do.
How would this make a difference? The blocks would have to be wiped out next time they are written to anyway, the only difference here is that the blocks are cleared during idle time so you don't have to wait for it.
The fundamental difference here is that with a GUI you see what all your options are
That all depends on documentation. Most of the time when I need to use a command it has a decent man page with a full list of all the options and a description of what they do. Not always of course, but it's pretty rare that I find myself having trouble figuring out how to use a command.
On the other hand, I've seen GUI apps with a bunch of check boxes with obscure labels and no help page. Sure you can see all the options without doing any digging (assuming the dialog isn't hidden behind a horrible interface) but that doesn't mean you have any idea what the options do.
So basically, I don't think it's necessarily any easier to find what you need to do in a GUI vs a CLI.
Right, I choose to do most of my file management from the command line just because it's usually the quickest way to go about it.
There's only one situation I can think of where the GUI is better, when I need to select a number of arbitrary files from a directory. Since globbing or find can't be used to quickly match the files you want I find control-clicking a bunch of icons is quicker than typing out a bunch of file names. That's the exception though, the rest of the time the CLI is better.
Look in the forums of any distro (even Ubuntu) and I bet you'll find the vast majority of the fixes don't start with "goto System->Preferences/Administration..." but "open a terminal, and paste this into the shell".
Well obviously. A forum is a text based system. Text commands are the easiest way to provide help. If you were getting help from someone in person maybe they'd show you how to solve your problem using a GUI. Describing GUI actions in a forum is much more difficult and error prone for both parties, that would never be my first choice when helping someone on a forum.
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That is nothing like the typical US desert.
You're talking about downtown areas and major freeways. I can assure you that the vast majority of roads in southern California are not jammed with roads during all hours of the day. I live in a residential neighborhood a few miles from downtown and the roads here would be perfect for solar power.
Where do you get that idea? Saying that the mind is deterministic doesn't mean it is static and unchangeable. It means that choices you make are determined by the physical structure of your brain combined with your memories and sensory input.
The words someone uses to convince you of something are sensory input and so they are obviously capable of changing the state of your thoughts.
The better question is why not include KDE 4.3? That's the current release and it's another huge improvement over the previous release.
If it works both ways then it seems like the companies are just as likely to be losing customers as they are to be gaining them.
OTOH, if the games were all compatible customer frustration over not being able to play with their friends will go down which could translate into more sales and a win for both customers and vendors alike.
Don't worry that would never happen. The meteor would be traveling at supersonic speeds so you wouldn't hear anything until after the impact.
Perfect. Does that come on a keychain?
Sure, samba would be great for a universal file system if USB drives had Ethernet ports.
Sure, but clearing a frozen logjam has nothing to do with sculpting ice with a chainsaw.
And maybe the banks can even set up some standalone, hardened, and locked-down computers in convenient locations around the city for their customers to use. Maybe they could even get money out of these computers. They could be like bank tellers, but automated.
Making parking difficult only makes sense if there are adequate alternatives to driving for getting downtown. In Chicago there probably are, but not all cities are like that. In those cities discouraging driving would have to go together with improving mass transit.
What is wrong with you people complaining about logitech improving their product? I don't get it. My logitech mouse works on most of the surfaces I've tried it on, but not everything. Would I like it to work everywhere? It would be nice. I can't imagine why anyone would be opposed to that.
Also, no I don't use a mouse pad and I don't want to need one. Talk about pointless.
You lost me on that last one? How do you figure EM waves are six-dimensional?
The hot blue part of a flame is at the bottom, whereas the corona is on the topside of the sun. That is not the same.
FOIA requests go to the goverment. I have no idea what FAIO requests are or who they go to.
Newsflash, webkit isn't a brower.
The renaming of Firefox by Debian had nothing to do with patches they added. I'm pretty sure it was all about a license incompatibility for the Firefox artwork.
All of my volumes have at least 10GB of free space on them. Explain again how that suggests I have a hidden partition?
Why no remote? I bought a $20 dollar MS Media Center remote and USB receiver for my computer and it works great with LIRC. Well worth it to get one.
It can also play media from any computer on the home network, except from Linux boxes (windows only).
Except for Linux and except for Macs? By what strange definition does that qualify as any computer on your home network? Pretty weak if they can't actually stream from any computer, it's not that hard to do.
How would this make a difference? The blocks would have to be wiped out next time they are written to anyway, the only difference here is that the blocks are cleared during idle time so you don't have to wait for it.
The fundamental difference here is that with a GUI you see what all your options are
That all depends on documentation. Most of the time when I need to use a command it has a decent man page with a full list of all the options and a description of what they do. Not always of course, but it's pretty rare that I find myself having trouble figuring out how to use a command.
On the other hand, I've seen GUI apps with a bunch of check boxes with obscure labels and no help page. Sure you can see all the options without doing any digging (assuming the dialog isn't hidden behind a horrible interface) but that doesn't mean you have any idea what the options do.
So basically, I don't think it's necessarily any easier to find what you need to do in a GUI vs a CLI.
But seriously.. windows 7 looks and feels like the "I'm a PC" guy from apple advertisements... even the name sounds boring...
Maybe that's what they were going for. IIRC, Vista didn't do so well in the corporate world.
Right, I choose to do most of my file management from the command line just because it's usually the quickest way to go about it.
There's only one situation I can think of where the GUI is better, when I need to select a number of arbitrary files from a directory. Since globbing or find can't be used to quickly match the files you want I find control-clicking a bunch of icons is quicker than typing out a bunch of file names. That's the exception though, the rest of the time the CLI is better.
Look in the forums of any distro (even Ubuntu) and I bet you'll find the vast majority of the fixes don't start with "goto System->Preferences/Administration ..." but "open a terminal, and paste this into the shell".
Well obviously. A forum is a text based system. Text commands are the easiest way to provide help. If you were getting help from someone in person maybe they'd show you how to solve your problem using a GUI. Describing GUI actions in a forum is much more difficult and error prone for both parties, that would never be my first choice when helping someone on a forum.