What I said was that if a professional builder (of just about anything) was to ask the average man if he'd like to have a go at building (whatever it is the guy is a professional at) then the average man will say "yeah sure" whereas the average woman will say "no thanks".
I don't think I'm too far off base here.
And I don't think it is anything to get upset about.
4GB of ram as a "sweet spot".. just to run the OS.. is beyond crazy. Personally, I hope Microsoft drop support for XP early in an attempt to force people to upgrade to Vista, sending droves of people off to run Linux (or at least a Mac) and completely kill themselves in the market place. It's just insane.
Hate to tell you this, but if a professional house builder offered to supervise an average man while he built his own house, the average man would say "sign me up!" If you don't feel that is the case either, I strongly suggest you widen your social circle.
Having seen this screen shot I had to ask, what is a Windows Experience Index? It seems this machine has a score of 5.6. Great, what's that out of Microsoft? 10? That's pretty crappy. Maybe it's out of six?
So I googled for a bit and eventually found this page. Which says "The base scores currently range from 1 to 5.9." WTF? So it's out of 4.9 and you just add 1 for fun, is that it? I wonder if it's a linear scale or what.. maybe it's logarithmic.
If this is how broken the business rules of their software are, I can only imagine how broken the implementation must be.
Not to be politically incorrect, but the fact is that the vast majority of women will not even attempt what this woman has, where-as the vast majority of men will.
I'm sure every time someone puts up a blog about how they raised a barn on the weekend (complete with happy snaps) the people in the developing world think "yeah, so what?"
Apophis is a perfect example of how flawed the current system for identifying potentially hazardous near-earth asteroids is. A two body analysis showed that it was on a collision course, but a more intensive three body analysis showed it would miss by a lot. Thing is, the opposite could potentially also be true - a two body analysis might show that an object is not a threat when, in fact, it is and a more heavy analysis would show that. We need more resources dedicated to this very real threat to our planet. Only with early detection do we have any chance of deflecting a planet killer.
Performance isn't really the most important thing.
Stability and security are the big wins. With the Linux kernel both these things are less of a problem than with other systems because it is expected that everything you run is open for inspection and improvement (and if you run stuff that isn't, well, you're on your own). But now we have this other option. If you don't trust a driver, you should be able to run it in user space. If it crashes, well, restart it, no harm done (hopefully).. and you don't have to trust it with kernel access.
That said, you're still giving this unknown code a lot of control over your system.. so don't get a false sense of security.
that's an understatement:)
In other words, I'm right. I'm always right, but sometimes I'm more right than other times. And dammit, when I say "files don't matter", I'm really really Right(tm). Which is actually more funny than arrogant, so long as you know Linus' style.
Point taken. Realism != fun. Thing is, it's cries like yours that take any sort of PvP gameplay off the table. It's thanks to players like you that we have "consensual" duels. It's thanks to players like you that all these games are so boring and have so little challenge and anyone who just grinds through can make it to a high level.
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meh, I never said it was news.
What I said was that if a professional builder (of just about anything) was to ask the average man if he'd like to have a go at building (whatever it is the guy is a professional at) then the average man will say "yeah sure" whereas the average woman will say "no thanks".
I don't think I'm too far off base here.
And I don't think it is anything to get upset about.
4GB of ram as a "sweet spot".. just to run the OS.. is beyond crazy. Personally, I hope Microsoft drop support for XP early in an attempt to force people to upgrade to Vista, sending droves of people off to run Linux (or at least a Mac) and completely kill themselves in the market place. It's just insane.
Hate to tell you this, but if a professional house builder offered to supervise an average man while he built his own house, the average man would say "sign me up!" If you don't feel that is the case either, I strongly suggest you widen your social circle.
Having seen this screen shot I had to ask, what is a Windows Experience Index? It seems this machine has a score of 5.6. Great, what's that out of Microsoft? 10? That's pretty crappy. Maybe it's out of six?
So I googled for a bit and eventually found this page. Which says "The base scores currently range from 1 to 5.9." WTF? So it's out of 4.9 and you just add 1 for fun, is that it? I wonder if it's a linear scale or what.. maybe it's logarithmic.
If this is how broken the business rules of their software are, I can only imagine how broken the implementation must be.
Microsoft, you're a disgrace.
I love that score.. 5.6. Great. 5.6 out of what Microsoft? Six? Ten? A hundred?
Fuckin' genius.
Not to be politically incorrect, but the fact is that the vast majority of women will not even attempt what this woman has, where-as the vast majority of men will.
I'm sure every time someone puts up a blog about how they raised a barn on the weekend (complete with happy snaps) the people in the developing world think "yeah, so what?"
It's not a question of capability..
Thank the Firehose. In case you're curious what Slashdot is turning into, here's the future. Get out before they open the fiction section.
maybe it's better in Italian but if that's what you consider an accurate definition then I hope you don't work in the sciences.
About the only thing you can take away from it is that Fascism values authority..
"Fascist" is such a poorly defined word as to be useless to any form of argument short of these meant to invoke an emotional response.
Yes, and an optimizing C compiler is an example of the halting problem.
In general.
And we're trying to predict things on short time scales (eg, 100 years) so numerical approximations are more than adequate.
All of it is done using numerical simulation.
No, it doesn't become a chaotic system at all.
Orbital mechanics and climate simulations are, no pun intended, worlds apart.
Apophis is a perfect example of how flawed the current system for identifying potentially hazardous near-earth asteroids is. A two body analysis showed that it was on a collision course, but a more intensive three body analysis showed it would miss by a lot. Thing is, the opposite could potentially also be true - a two body analysis might show that an object is not a threat when, in fact, it is and a more heavy analysis would show that. We need more resources dedicated to this very real threat to our planet. Only with early detection do we have any chance of deflecting a planet killer.
And I guess on yours they will write "he loved taunting people anonymously".. you filthy little coward.
Exactly, and now a whole lot of (fictitious) people are happily enjoy this guy's (fictitious) brother's music.
A lot of (fictitious) people benefited and the (fictitious) brother is no worse off.
It's such a shame that we live in a world where people have been trained to think in zero-sum terms about (fictitious) enjoyment itself.
Yeah, that's your problem.
That's great. The Pirate Bay operate in a locale where this material *is* legal to distribute.
So your entire argument is pointless.
Yes, yes. Thank you for the history lesson.
In the case of the Linux kernel, what I said is what it is good for.
Performance isn't really the most important thing.
Stability and security are the big wins. With the Linux kernel both these things are less of a problem than with other systems because it is expected that everything you run is open for inspection and improvement (and if you run stuff that isn't, well, you're on your own). But now we have this other option. If you don't trust a driver, you should be able to run it in user space. If it crashes, well, restart it, no harm done (hopefully).. and you don't have to trust it with kernel access.
That said, you're still giving this unknown code a lot of control over your system.. so don't get a false sense of security.
than other times. And dammit, when I say "files don't matter", I'm really
really Right(tm). Which is actually more funny than arrogant, so long as you know Linus' style.
More ironic: the Linux kernel is slowly becoming a hybrid monolithic/micro-kernel.
How about you take a screenshot (or get someone to take a screenshot) and post it here.
Here's a little page I whipped up with the different fonts from five different combinations of browser and OS.
:)
Personally, I've never really been able to tell the difference between one font or another
Makes more sense than the justification used to go to Iraq in the first place.
Point taken. Realism != fun. Thing is, it's cries like yours that take any sort of PvP gameplay off the table. It's thanks to players like you that we have "consensual" duels. It's thanks to players like you that all these games are so boring and have so little challenge and anyone who just grinds through can make it to a high level.