I'd like to dispute that. Court proceedings can be very interesting. I've spent hours reviewing supreme court cases, and often even though the issues aren't ones I care about, the cases are interesting, because they give insights into the legal system.
That was pretty interesting to read. It also made me realise why Ron Paul got kicked down so hard. He doesn't want the federal government controlling things, he wants to throw it to the states and communities. That basically fucks over all the lobbyists.
Maybe things are different in the US (Those guys are a bit of a socialist banana republic right now, who knows what crazy stuff they'll accept?), but in my country, when I buy a program, I have to pay for it before they give me a download link.
What do you mean by "seeing sound"? Is it like a fourier transform on one axis and time on the other axis? If I paint a long horizontal line, what will I hear; a tone? How can I figure out where each frequency is? Are there tools to make that easy?
Now let's continue, but keeping it simple. I'm a DIY artist. I'm doing this for fun. I don't know what a double feedback bypass demilog filter is, and I don't care.
If I wanted to make a guitar-like sound, would it look like a fuzzy line that fades out? If I imagine what a guitar-like sound "looks" like, that's what I think of. If it shows what I'm "thinking" of, then it's very intuitive, unlike waves, or the strange words people use to describe filters and wave patterns.
Finally, a glimpse of something more advanced. If I wanted to make an echo, would I just have to copy/paste a transparent block of something? If I wanted to make something sound fuzzy, could I use a blur? If I wanted to sharpen the sound of something, could I erase some blur?
Putting it like that, I could see myself trying it out, and that's the first step to buying it.
This isn't surprising, since you also appear to fail at statistics. lithium batteries DO NOT typically burst into flame. A very small number of them fail due to defects in manufacturing. This is not typical.
Thankfully, I actually just buy renewable power from the hydro company. This means I don't need to stay awake at night worrying about whether I've left enough power in my energy budget to heat my home overnight.
That actually gives me an idea. Have a login screen that shows up the moment the framebuffer device is available. Allow the user to enter his or her username and password, then begin pulling information off the network (after the network comes up), while the rest of the OS loads. Considering the pathetic rate at which most people type, I think it'd be an excellent illusion that could work pretty well to make people think the OS is booting faster than it really is, while removing the user bottleneck from the boot process later down the line.
flash drives are painfully slow to run from. Ask an EEE PC or Acer Aspire One user after they convert from the super optimized version of their OS to something generic like Windows XP.
Seek times become negligible, but throughput is substantially less than a good HDD.
I can see the problem. I'm the sort of person who would happily buy a piece of innovative software over the internet, but I have no reason to want your software.
"You can draw sound!", you say. So?
You mention it's unexpectedly useful on the website, but you say anything to make me want to even try the demo. It looks like something abstract and strange, that I won't be able to wrap my head around.
Your problem isn't marketing as such, it's a communications problem. You say you're excited about the product, and you say others are excited about the product, but you don't bother telling anyone why. This is a brand new paradigm, you're going to have to tell prospective customers why they should be remotely interested.
Maybe I'm naive, but why is everyone so intent on the boot time of their PC?
Personally, I only have to boot up my computer every few weeks. In the meantime, either it runs, or I'll send it to suspend. Booting isn't something I spend a lot of time doing.
MS-Dos beats all these fancy pants operating systems. On modern hardware, it will boot so fast you won't have a chance to hit the stopwatch.
If you wanted, you could put a copy of MS-DOS 7 and arachne on a (PATA) SSD, load it up on the fastest single core processor available with cache maxed out, and your boot time would be the bios start time, nothing else. You'd have some basic computer functions, and great boot time, but good luck getting anything done.
My GPS runs Windows CE 5, and it boots in the time it takes the start-up sound and animation to play. Guess what it does? Exactly ONE thing.
Why the hell should I be using on-the-fly whole disk encryption?
My machine's physical security is high, so it's unlikely I'll have it stolen. In the unlikely event that it is stolen, I've got bigger problems.
So it seems to me that whole-disk encryption is a waste of processor power, killing partition access CPU utilization for a security element that will go entirely unused and will ensure if my machine has a hardware failure I won't be able to access my own files from another PC.
It's terrible. It feels like I'm back in 1996 trying to figure out how to enter the particular voodoo curse I need to find the site I want.
Google has absolutely nothing to fear, and probably doesn't fear. They rose to greatness in a world where live search is default, and they dominate in a world where it's default. It becomes the de facto default because it doesn't suck.:)
First, you can't kill someone with a hammer unless your heart is in it. To land a killing blow requires focus and strong intent to kill.
Second, remember that violent crime has dropped in half in the past 10 years. Any discussion about how to end violent crime must keep this in mind. Incidentally, any discussion about how violent video games are harbingers of our society's doom must explain why video games have increased in popularity a thousandfold, an entire generation has grown up playing doom, quake, mortal kombat, and all those other violent video games, yet violent crime over this time period has decreased rather than increased, since the whole harbinger arguement predicts massive increases in the violent crime rate.
Back up your facts with data or you're just another idiot.
In particular, my country is right next to America, but we have hardly any murders compared to the US, and we've got way tighter restrictions on firearms.
This sick boy did not kill his mother by using a joystick to move crosshairs superimposed over his vision onto his mother in order to aim an alien relic he got from the corpse of an invader.
Not only that, but when his father lived, he didn't get right back up and start shooting, after which the kid didn't have to hide under a table for a few seconds waiting for his shield to regenerate.
Odds are, he was taught to shoot a gun and kill living things by his dad, not by a video game.
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I'd like to dispute that. Court proceedings can be very interesting. I've spent hours reviewing supreme court cases, and often even though the issues aren't ones I care about, the cases are interesting, because they give insights into the legal system.
That was pretty interesting to read. It also made me realise why Ron Paul got kicked down so hard. He doesn't want the federal government controlling things, he wants to throw it to the states and communities. That basically fucks over all the lobbyists.
yeah, but the GP obviously isn't from Germany.
Context is part of reading comprehension too, my anonymous friend.
That is a great segue into something I just realised.
The name of the product is openoffice.org. Why the hell did you need to use google to find the site?
So you lived in Germany for 10 years and you're a deadbeat who has frequent run-ins with angry creditors?
I'm not sure you're a reliable source...
Most people have WHAT?!
Seriously?
Maybe things are different in the US (Those guys are a bit of a socialist banana republic right now, who knows what crazy stuff they'll accept?), but in my country, when I buy a program, I have to pay for it before they give me a download link.
Pretty arbitrary choice of region.
Oh well. I'm in the second largest country in the world, I'll enjoy my cheap long distance. ^ ^
Well, let's start at the beginning.
What do you mean by "seeing sound"? Is it like a fourier transform on one axis and time on the other axis? If I paint a long horizontal line, what will I hear; a tone? How can I figure out where each frequency is? Are there tools to make that easy?
Now let's continue, but keeping it simple. I'm a DIY artist. I'm doing this for fun. I don't know what a double feedback bypass demilog filter is, and I don't care.
If I wanted to make a guitar-like sound, would it look like a fuzzy line that fades out? If I imagine what a guitar-like sound "looks" like, that's what I think of. If it shows what I'm "thinking" of, then it's very intuitive, unlike waves, or the strange words people use to describe filters and wave patterns.
Finally, a glimpse of something more advanced. If I wanted to make an echo, would I just have to copy/paste a transparent block of something? If I wanted to make something sound fuzzy, could I use a blur? If I wanted to sharpen the sound of something, could I erase some blur?
Putting it like that, I could see myself trying it out, and that's the first step to buying it.
Ah, the environerd. You know, a nerd is the perfect person for that lifestyle.
Only a nerd would take pride in a life of complete social isolation, where the only connection with the outside world is a glowing terminal screen.
Of course, you're not a very good nerd, because you fail at science. A laptop in sleep mode and a laptop turned off completely will burn negligible amounts of energy. If one watt is going to cause you to lose sleep, your power system is badly designed.
This isn't surprising, since you also appear to fail at statistics. lithium batteries DO NOT typically burst into flame. A very small number of them fail due to defects in manufacturing. This is not typical.
Thankfully, I actually just buy renewable power from the hydro company. This means I don't need to stay awake at night worrying about whether I've left enough power in my energy budget to heat my home overnight.
Define "most reigons". I live in the middle of nowhere. It's a 6 hour drive through nothing but forest to reach the nearest city. I use Skype happily.
I'm sorry, you didn't answer my question.
"Why the hell should I be using on-the-fly whole disk encryption?"
Your phobias and neuroses aren't my problem.
That actually gives me an idea. Have a login screen that shows up the moment the framebuffer device is available. Allow the user to enter his or her username and password, then begin pulling information off the network (after the network comes up), while the rest of the OS loads. Considering the pathetic rate at which most people type, I think it'd be an excellent illusion that could work pretty well to make people think the OS is booting faster than it really is, while removing the user bottleneck from the boot process later down the line.
flash drives are painfully slow to run from. Ask an EEE PC or Acer Aspire One user after they convert from the super optimized version of their OS to something generic like Windows XP.
Seek times become negligible, but throughput is substantially less than a good HDD.
I can see the problem. I'm the sort of person who would happily buy a piece of innovative software over the internet, but I have no reason to want your software.
"You can draw sound!", you say. So?
You mention it's unexpectedly useful on the website, but you say anything to make me want to even try the demo. It looks like something abstract and strange, that I won't be able to wrap my head around.
Your problem isn't marketing as such, it's a communications problem. You say you're excited about the product, and you say others are excited about the product, but you don't bother telling anyone why. This is a brand new paradigm, you're going to have to tell prospective customers why they should be remotely interested.
Maybe I'm naive, but why is everyone so intent on the boot time of their PC?
Personally, I only have to boot up my computer every few weeks. In the meantime, either it runs, or I'll send it to suspend. Booting isn't something I spend a lot of time doing.
You're comparing apples and oranges, that's why.
MS-Dos beats all these fancy pants operating systems. On modern hardware, it will boot so fast you won't have a chance to hit the stopwatch.
If you wanted, you could put a copy of MS-DOS 7 and arachne on a (PATA) SSD, load it up on the fastest single core processor available with cache maxed out, and your boot time would be the bios start time, nothing else. You'd have some basic computer functions, and great boot time, but good luck getting anything done.
My GPS runs Windows CE 5, and it boots in the time it takes the start-up sound and animation to play. Guess what it does? Exactly ONE thing.
Why the hell should I be using on-the-fly whole disk encryption?
My machine's physical security is high, so it's unlikely I'll have it stolen. In the unlikely event that it is stolen, I've got bigger problems.
So it seems to me that whole-disk encryption is a waste of processor power, killing partition access CPU utilization for a security element that will go entirely unused and will ensure if my machine has a hardware failure I won't be able to access my own files from another PC.
Have you actually tried to use Live Search?
It's terrible. It feels like I'm back in 1996 trying to figure out how to enter the particular voodoo curse I need to find the site I want.
Google has absolutely nothing to fear, and probably doesn't fear. They rose to greatness in a world where live search is default, and they dominate in a world where it's default. It becomes the de facto default because it doesn't suck. :)
If I want to call someone who isn't computer literate in skype, all I have to do is dial their phone number. Where's the problem?
Obviously, his dad is hacking. I'm going to report his ass to Microsoft.
Two points.
First, you can't kill someone with a hammer unless your heart is in it. To land a killing blow requires focus and strong intent to kill.
Second, remember that violent crime has dropped in half in the past 10 years. Any discussion about how to end violent crime must keep this in mind. Incidentally, any discussion about how violent video games are harbingers of our society's doom must explain why video games have increased in popularity a thousandfold, an entire generation has grown up playing doom, quake, mortal kombat, and all those other violent video games, yet violent crime over this time period has decreased rather than increased, since the whole harbinger arguement predicts massive increases in the violent crime rate.
Back up your facts with data or you're just another idiot.
In particular, my country is right next to America, but we have hardly any murders compared to the US, and we've got way tighter restrictions on firearms.
It's easy to say "all you have to do is".
All you have to do to reach the speed of light is add enough kinetic energy to an object to reach c.
Straw man.
Halo is not a combat simulator.
This sick boy did not kill his mother by using a joystick to move crosshairs superimposed over his vision onto his mother in order to aim an alien relic he got from the corpse of an invader.
Not only that, but when his father lived, he didn't get right back up and start shooting, after which the kid didn't have to hide under a table for a few seconds waiting for his shield to regenerate.
Odds are, he was taught to shoot a gun and kill living things by his dad, not by a video game.