However, most people would be really pissed off if you told them that if they bought a DVD player they would no longer be able to watch their VHS tapes.
What strange world would this have been? Not ours, for sure. Were manufacturers going to create DVD players that generated some sort of magnetic field that rendered all VHS tapes within the home unreadable?
What's your point?
Itanium sales reflect that fact. Regardless of technical merit, lack of backwards compatability will kill Itanium.
Why should I bother believing this statement when the last one was so nonsensical?
If it's so obviously incorrect, perhaps the person meant something else by the statement.
This is typical geek humor.
Just like:
Jesus FUCK aren't YOU a fucking MORON?!?!
We don't really think you're a moron or else you wouldn't be here. But you sure are acting like one if you look at it from a certain perspective, and that's the whole point of Zippy-like comments.
Thank god for open source. Could you imagine trying to figure that out in hex?
I mean, wouldn't it be funny if companies did stuff like that, like they sold software that might be "server" software or "client" software depending on one bit. Like NT?
Wow, you're really steeped in your beliefs there, man.
A critical difference between the "fire" in a theater business is that the hypothesis that yelling "fire" in an enclosed, public space can lead to danger to those persons in that space is testable and repeatable.
The spiritual damage that you propose is nonquantifiable and therefore difficult to test and/or repeat. This makes the banning of such "spiritually harmful" speech unfounded. It's no better than me saying that talking smack about Kermit the Frog is bad for the environment therefore we should ban such speech.
And, with respect to your crack about 2 billion people possibly being right... if you were on "the outside" of those 2 billion people why wouldn't you go along with the other 4 billion people's dissenting opinion?
What a fucking bullshit site. I've never been so pissed at someone before. This is like flat-out lying to everyone you walk up to in full sight of every one else.
Jesus Christ did you just take that fucking class or something?
It's not a simpler example. An asymptote is not even fucking related to a paradox.
The funny thing about an arrow not reaching a target is that you know it's going to reach it no matter how you describe the situation "mathematically". It's a 'paradox' because when you think about it in a certain way it appears that the arrow might not reach it.
With an asymptote you know for goddamn certain that it's not going to reach the limit fucking ever.
This has to be a bad description of what Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are up to. Those are real companies that do real innovation; they have to have a clearer vision of where they're going.
This made me giggle. I imagined these two old Japanese guys and an old generic white guy in a conference room saying things like:
"And then Playstation 3 will check the milk!"
"And make great games!"
"And then we will take over teleconferencing!"
"And defeat hackers!"
"Awesome. WE are awesome. Let's go for a yacht ride!"
I read that as, "I'm a journalist that doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about."
I couldn't keep reading at that point.
Considering that I have a Playstation 2, and it works, and is cool, I doubt Sony is so retarded that they'll try and make what was reported in that article happen.
But the stable distribution attempts to eliminate even the 0.01% of cases you have allotted due to bugs in all packages across all platforms.
I once asked a question in #Debian.
I asked, "Why do bugs in packages which are obviously due to the program itself [menu options crashing the program, false advertising within the documentation, totally broken config parsing, etc], get reported to the Debian package maintainers? Don't package maintainers just package stuff up and put it in the tree?"
The response was, "A bug in a Debian package is a bug in the distribution."
Debian stable attempts to have _all_ bugs ironed out or documented. I'm serious. This is different than RedHat [latest version] which contains an attempt to iron out a lot of bugs, but is spurred mostly by neat developments in the software they distribute. It's not good or bad either way, just different.
You've heard it a million times, but maybe it will register one day.:) Debian has a slow release cycle. This is because they want to document and/or fix all bugs before they release things. This takes a long time. They have a slow release cycle.
Debian unstable plus "unofficial" sources is newer than RedHat [latest version]. apt-get resolves a FUCKING SHITLOAD of dependency problems that develop using rpm.
It's simple, really. It's nice. It makes you happy. People like Debian because it makes them feel good to just type in "apt-get install ", twiddle their thumbs for the download period, and then use it. And it almost always just works. The times that it doesn't work, it usually means that there is no such package or you spelled it wrong, and more often than not you got the name wrong.
When this is the worst thing your distribution does, you're doing well.:)
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It's flamebait for the same reasons that everything else which is not packaged correctly is modded down.
Most moderators are trigger happy idiots.
This will be offtopic. Which is interesting because there is no goddamn place to answer these questions without being offtopic. Fuckheads.
YHBT, HAND.
However, most people would be really pissed off if you told them that if they bought a DVD player they would no longer be able to watch their VHS tapes.
What strange world would this have been? Not ours, for sure. Were manufacturers going to create DVD players that generated some sort of magnetic field that rendered all VHS tapes within the home unreadable?
What's your point?
Itanium sales reflect that fact. Regardless of technical merit, lack of backwards compatability will kill Itanium.
Why should I bother believing this statement when the last one was so nonsensical?
Was I in seventh heaven?
I don't know. Were you?
I didn't read the whole story, I just kind of skimmed it. Sorry.
If it's so obviously incorrect, perhaps the person meant something else by the statement.
This is typical geek humor.
Just like:
Jesus FUCK aren't YOU a fucking MORON?!?!
We don't really think you're a moron or else you wouldn't be here. But you sure are acting like one if you look at it from a certain perspective, and that's the whole point of Zippy-like comments.
Thank god for open source. Could you imagine trying to figure that out in hex?
I mean, wouldn't it be funny if companies did stuff like that, like they sold software that might be "server" software or "client" software depending on one bit. Like NT?
That'd be funny.
You're so cute when you do that.
Wow, you're really steeped in your beliefs there, man.
... if you were on "the outside" of those 2 billion people why wouldn't you go along with the other 4 billion people's dissenting opinion?
A critical difference between the "fire" in a theater business is that the hypothesis that yelling "fire" in an enclosed, public space can lead to danger to those persons in that space is testable and repeatable.
The spiritual damage that you propose is nonquantifiable and therefore difficult to test and/or repeat. This makes the banning of such "spiritually harmful" speech unfounded. It's no better than me saying that talking smack about Kermit the Frog is bad for the environment therefore we should ban such speech.
And, with respect to your crack about 2 billion people possibly being right
That was funny. You roX0r.
U R 2 Smrat!
Stop now b4 you hurt us!
I just thought it would be funny to freak out abou that (asymptote v Zeno).
:)
Don't take it personally, you just happened to be there.
What a fucking bullshit site. I've never been so pissed at someone before. This is like flat-out lying to everyone you walk up to in full sight of every one else.
Do these people have no morals?
Wow, you know a lot about that guy.
... has he eaten corn recently?
What's his shit look like
I'd love to know because I just had some corn and I shit it out. I was wondering if you knew.
Pimply-faced-boy shit is kewl, even if they use VB and especially if it has corn in it.
ubruptley
Excuse YOU.
Jesus Christ did you just take that fucking class or something?
It's not a simpler example. An asymptote is not even fucking related to a paradox.
The funny thing about an arrow not reaching a target is that you know it's going to reach it no matter how you describe the situation "mathematically". It's a 'paradox' because when you think about it in a certain way it appears that the arrow might not reach it.
With an asymptote you know for goddamn certain that it's not going to reach the limit fucking ever.
Fuck. And *I* get modded down. What the FUCK?
Huh, huh, you said "anal".
Soykaf is the new coffee made from... you guessed it: soybeans.
:o~~~
Sounds disgusting.
That was a very concise summary of most of the attacks made on the Libertarian Party.
Was that what you intended to do? I'm a little confused because I don't know why you bothered parroting so much of what's already been said.
I despise COWARDS. I'll say why some other time.
How about now?
This has to be a bad description of what Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are up to. Those are real companies that do real innovation; they have to have a clearer vision of where they're going.
This made me giggle. I imagined these two old Japanese guys and an old generic white guy in a conference room saying things like:
"And then Playstation 3 will check the milk!"
"And make great games!"
"And then we will take over teleconferencing!"
"And defeat hackers!"
"Awesome. WE are awesome. Let's go for a yacht ride!"
When will you learn that the inherent assumption when describing a console is non-upgradeable/fixed platform/known hardware?
Making it significantly upgradeable makes it not a console.
I read that as, "I'm a journalist that doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about."
I couldn't keep reading at that point.
Considering that I have a Playstation 2, and it works, and is cool, I doubt Sony is so retarded that they'll try and make what was reported in that article happen.
I used dearth in a sentence today.
Wannamakesomethingofit?
But the stable distribution attempts to eliminate even the 0.01% of cases you have allotted due to bugs in all packages across all platforms.
:) Debian has a slow release cycle. This is because they want to document and/or fix all bugs before they release things. This takes a long time. They have a slow release cycle.
:)
I once asked a question in #Debian.
I asked, "Why do bugs in packages which are obviously due to the program itself [menu options crashing the program, false advertising within the documentation, totally broken config parsing, etc], get reported to the Debian package maintainers? Don't package maintainers just package stuff up and put it in the tree?"
The response was, "A bug in a Debian package is a bug in the distribution."
Debian stable attempts to have _all_ bugs ironed out or documented. I'm serious. This is different than RedHat [latest version] which contains an attempt to iron out a lot of bugs, but is spurred mostly by neat developments in the software they distribute. It's not good or bad either way, just different.
You've heard it a million times, but maybe it will register one day.
Debian unstable plus "unofficial" sources is newer than RedHat [latest version]. apt-get resolves a FUCKING SHITLOAD of dependency problems that develop using rpm.
It's simple, really. It's nice. It makes you happy. People like Debian because it makes them feel good to just type in "apt-get install ", twiddle their thumbs for the download period, and then use it. And it almost always just works. The times that it doesn't work, it usually means that there is no such package or you spelled it wrong, and more often than not you got the name wrong.
When this is the worst thing your distribution does, you're doing well.
Ok.