That was sarcasm, albeit an apparently poor attempt.:-P
The reason that you feel that "...Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete." is because you do not know what you're doing.
It's not just a feeling; it's a fact that you've substantiated. If something is difficult merely because one doesn't know what he's doing, then that thing is, by definition, not intuitive. Therefore, one must invest time to learn it. Therefore, people who need to get things done will use the dominant, intuitive OS, leaving only those with more time that tasks to learn a new OS.
Maybe they're smarter than you, I do not think they are smarter than I because it is not true.
That should be "smarter than me."
I have production servers that are running RedHat 7.2 that are still receiving their updates every night via the Fedora Legacy Project...
If they succumbed to a newly discovered flaw, it would be your fault for running old software, not the designers. Thats my point....This is possible because it is Open Source.
What are you saying is possible because of open source? Using old software, or getting updates? How is either due to the fact that it's open source?
Precisely my point. There is NO patch for Win2K, which still has a large installed base.
Your point is that for once they're putting 100% of all their efforts into keeping their latest release bug-free? Is that a bad thing(tm)? I think 4 or 5 years is fair to say, "You're on your own."
"If Windows is for those with more money than sense, then it's fair to say Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete."
Not if one knows what they're doing.
So what you're saying is, if you know how to use something, then you know how to use it. Otherwise, you don't. Brilliant.
By the way, please note that if people used Linux or OS-X, we would not *need* to block all this shit in the first place.
Do you really believe that in the mythical land of Linux-on-every-desktop, nobody would create viruses or exploits for Linux? If you believe that, sorry, but you've been fooled.
People smarter than you or me have already pointed out that the increasing numbers of viruses and exploits targeting Linux and MacOS are proof that they're becoming more popular; therefore, the more popular Linux gets, the more (not fewer) problems Linux will have.
Can you point me to the patch for Win2k then? Thanks.
If you use an almost-5-year old OS revision, expect problems. What if you used a Linux release from the same era? Are you saying that with minor patches and no major OS revisions, I'd be any safer? But I digress. I'll make a deal. Point me to where they said there was a patch for Win2k, and I'll find it for you. I bet there's not a patch for Win3.1 either. Slackers.
Never heard of apt, yum, urpmi, or up2date?
In my own limited linux experience, up2date is a joke. I once installed 3 different linux flavors, and the first thing I did was try to run up2date and get all updates. Swear to God, none of the 3 completed. I could have figured out why, but then I'd be proving your parent post's statement, spending hours to figure out how to upgrade it. I'll get back to it some day, but not today.
If Windows is for those with more money than sense, then it's fair to say Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete.
Exactly! Sinkholes are cause by water table drops or drainage issues under ground. How far are these guys burying this stuff?
Seeing as most of florida is mere feet above sea level, in many places you don't have to dig too deeply. Many places can't get buried gas pipelines because of the buoyancy of the gas in the pipes. Also explains the lack of basements. If you dig a hole, water will take that as an invitation.
Never heard of Caps Lock? Seriously, I run IT at my office and there's this gorgeous, nubile, complete fucking retard girl who hits caps lock, presses a letter, and hits caps lock again. I've shown her shift, but her pretty head can't handle it.
Must of used The Force(TM) or something.
If you can point out the verb in that sentence, I will give you five dollars.
Fine Print: If you realize that "must've" and "must of" somehow don't mean the same thing even though they sound alike, you will be disqualified. Not valid in Tennessee. Sorry, Tennessee!
No, I think you threw a fit. Yeah. You threw a fit. A great big fit! And your wife cried. And you gloated. And then you went to beat up some minimum wage college student that you continually berated in your post. What a dick.
I don't think you're correct. While high in the atmosphere, sound travels at a different speed, if a plane is going 761.207051 mph, it is going Mach 1, even if that's not the speed of sound at that elevation. To alter the definition of Mach relative to elevation is just nonsensical.
Just like 1 Atmosphere is air pressure at sea level, Mach 1 is the speed of sound at sea level.
Interestingly enough, according to Google Math, Mach 10 is ~127 miles a minute. Assuming it takes them at least 5 or 10 minutes to achieve Mach 10 (I have no frigging idea), they are going to cover some serious distance. Sheesh.
Yawn. I tired of this endless, meaningless drivel. My original point stands. It was so clear that only you continue to be confused. That's about statistically correct.
Thanks for another score:2 post though. When you default post at score:2, give me a ring, noob.
This is a general public forum. I was complaining about the things the general public here believe. So, um, I care, and if you don't, this is the wrong thread in which to be venting...:P
If you'd actually read anything about the history of fraud in archeology, you'd realise that it's overwhelmingly amateurs and dilletantes who perpetrate it, not the professionals.
My point was merely that many believed-by-the-public-on-first-listen 'facts' have been proven false, and it stands.
Wow. Short people. Lets fly off the handle and create some totally cockamamie story. Archaeologists just love doing that, especially when they find human bones that are the least bit different from the norm. New spiecies? My bet is that they're no more a different species than pygmies. Just a race of people who happen to be short due to a combination of short genes becoming dominant and inbreeding in a closed pool. But that's not gonna make the cover of SciAm.
"The application of optical fiber also means that the weight of the cables can be reduced to about one-half the weight of a conventional wiring harness."
They tried conductive fiber, but plastic doesn't conduct very well.
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No. Add "am" to the sentence...
:-P
That was sarcasm, albeit an apparently poor attempt.
The reason that you feel that "...Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete." is because you do not know what you're doing.
It's not just a feeling; it's a fact that you've substantiated. If something is difficult merely because one doesn't know what he's doing, then that thing is, by definition, not intuitive. Therefore, one must invest time to learn it. Therefore, people who need to get things done will use the dominant, intuitive OS, leaving only those with more time that tasks to learn a new OS.
womby (30405) on 02:00 PM 11-21-04 (#10881895)
I cant count, it comes to around 6 years of use which means
a, I am an idiot
b, not going to use these on my space ship.
Diamon (13013) on 07:13 AM 11-22-04 (#10886958)
Check your math
50,0000 hours / 24 hours per day
2,083.33 days / 365 days in a year
5.7078 years
That's almost 6, not 60 years.
I guess there's a first redundant post for everyone.
Maybe they're smarter than you, I do not think they are smarter than I because it is not true.
...This is possible because it is Open Source.
That should be "smarter than me."
I have production servers that are running RedHat 7.2 that are still receiving their updates every night via the Fedora Legacy Project...
If they succumbed to a newly discovered flaw, it would be your fault for running old software, not the designers. Thats my point.
What are you saying is possible because of open source? Using old software, or getting updates? How is either due to the fact that it's open source?
Precisely my point. There is NO patch for Win2K, which still has a large installed base.
Your point is that for once they're putting 100% of all their efforts into keeping their latest release bug-free? Is that a bad thing(tm)? I think 4 or 5 years is fair to say, "You're on your own."
"If Windows is for those with more money than sense, then it's fair to say Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete."
Not if one knows what they're doing.
So what you're saying is, if you know how to use something, then you know how to use it. Otherwise, you don't. Brilliant.
By the way, please note that if people used Linux or OS-X, we would not *need* to block all this shit in the first place.
Do you really believe that in the mythical land of Linux-on-every-desktop, nobody would create viruses or exploits for Linux? If you believe that, sorry, but you've been fooled.
People smarter than you or me have already pointed out that the increasing numbers of viruses and exploits targeting Linux and MacOS are proof that they're becoming more popular; therefore, the more popular Linux gets, the more (not fewer) problems Linux will have.
Can you point me to the patch for Win2k then? Thanks.
If you use an almost-5-year old OS revision, expect problems. What if you used a Linux release from the same era? Are you saying that with minor patches and no major OS revisions, I'd be any safer? But I digress. I'll make a deal. Point me to where they said there was a patch for Win2k, and I'll find it for you. I bet there's not a patch for Win3.1 either. Slackers.
Never heard of apt, yum, urpmi, or up2date?
In my own limited linux experience, up2date is a joke. I once installed 3 different linux flavors, and the first thing I did was try to run up2date and get all updates. Swear to God, none of the 3 completed. I could have figured out why, but then I'd be proving your parent post's statement, spending hours to figure out how to upgrade it. I'll get back to it some day, but not today.
If Windows is for those with more money than sense, then it's fair to say Linux is for those with more free time to figure things out than computer-based tasks to complete.
The likelihood of Acclaim going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Argonaut going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Virgin/Vivendi/Fox being sold to another company is what?
The list of giant companies that ended bankrupt and penniless is too long to list. Jesus, are you a goldfish? Talk about 3 second memory...
Actually, I think that's a Genesis song...
Peter Gabriel Genesis? Or "True Colors" easy listening Phil Collins Genesis?
Exactly! Sinkholes are cause by water table drops or drainage issues under ground. How far are these guys burying this stuff?
Seeing as most of florida is mere feet above sea level, in many places you don't have to dig too deeply. Many places can't get buried gas pipelines because of the buoyancy of the gas in the pipes. Also explains the lack of basements. If you dig a hole, water will take that as an invitation.
Close. The verb should have been "must have used" - while 'used' is the root verb, 'must have used' is the complete, conjugated verb.
:)
But the five bucks is still yours. Just find me and claim it
How did he type "TV"? (*scratches head*)
Never heard of Caps Lock? Seriously, I run IT at my office and there's this gorgeous, nubile, complete fucking retard girl who hits caps lock, presses a letter, and hits caps lock again. I've shown her shift, but her pretty head can't handle it.
Must of used The Force(TM) or something.
If you can point out the verb in that sentence, I will give you five dollars.
Fine Print: If you realize that "must've" and "must of" somehow don't mean the same thing even though they sound alike, you will be disqualified. Not valid in Tennessee. Sorry, Tennessee!
No, I think you threw a fit. Yeah. You threw a fit. A great big fit! And your wife cried. And you gloated. And then you went to beat up some minimum wage college student that you continually berated in your post. What a dick.
Ok, scratch that. Dictionary.com let me down but wikipedia was there. I guess Google's Mach is probably sea level.
:)
Ya learn something new every day
If google math is so good why can it not work out warp factor 1 in mach?
Who said it couldn't?
I don't think you're correct. While high in the atmosphere, sound travels at a different speed, if a plane is going 761.207051 mph, it is going Mach 1, even if that's not the speed of sound at that elevation. To alter the definition of Mach relative to elevation is just nonsensical.
Just like 1 Atmosphere is air pressure at sea level, Mach 1 is the speed of sound at sea level.
Interestingly enough, according to Google Math, Mach 10 is ~127 miles a minute. Assuming it takes them at least 5 or 10 minutes to achieve Mach 10 (I have no frigging idea), they are going to cover some serious distance. Sheesh.
At Mach 10, you will circle the Earth in under 200 minutes.
Damn I love Google math.
When 4GiB of RAM just isn't enough.
/ancient, out-of-touch 26yo...
Why have the kids started putting lower-case I's in KiB and GiB?
Must they use electromagnetic radio frequency energy?
That's the kind of RF energy EVERYONE uses. I think the US should be different...
Yawn. I tired of this endless, meaningless drivel. My original point stands. It was so clear that only you continue to be confused. That's about statistically correct.
Thanks for another score:2 post though. When you default post at score:2, give me a ring, noob.
Who cares what the general public believe?
:P
This is a general public forum. I was complaining about the things the general public here believe. So, um, I care, and if you don't, this is the wrong thread in which to be venting...
If you'd actually read anything about the history of fraud in archeology, you'd realise that it's overwhelmingly amateurs and dilletantes who perpetrate it, not the professionals.
My point was merely that many believed-by-the-public-on-first-listen 'facts' have been proven false, and it stands.
And everyone knows that archeologists love to invent stuff, right?
The history of Archaeology is rife with everything from blind faith to deliberate deception. Lucy? Found to be false. Piltdown man? False. Cromagnon man? False.
Sorry to rock your religion.
Hahaha, another blind follower of science. No critical thinking allowed. And be sure to denegrate anyone who dares to!
Science. The new religion.
Wow. Short people. Lets fly off the handle and create some totally cockamamie story. Archaeologists just love doing that, especially when they find human bones that are the least bit different from the norm. New spiecies? My bet is that they're no more a different species than pygmies. Just a race of people who happen to be short due to a combination of short genes becoming dominant and inbreeding in a closed pool. But that's not gonna make the cover of SciAm.
"The application of optical fiber also means that the weight of the cables can be reduced to about one-half the weight of a conventional wiring harness."
They tried conductive fiber, but plastic doesn't conduct very well.
WTF? Optical fiber? That's like noodle spaghetti.
In Ascii, that's BEEP-2-u
00000111-00110010-01110101 was here.