The IP address of the public facing side of 'your' modem doesn't show up as 'yours'. It belongs to the provider, so it's their business to deal with it. Anyway, this has been in use for years in Europe without issue. Your traffic is prioritized and protected and for a fraction of an extra watt, what does it matter ?
while the project is held up they arent making money. yet they still have to pay their workers. or they can lay them off. and they (the company) has to pay the cost of the research too.
Easy fix: customary insurance in case this happens.
Post-mortem copyrights are supposed to encourage the author's estate to complete the author's unfinished works rather than shredding them. With no post-mortem copyright, Christopher Tolkien might not have allowed The Silmarillion to see publication.
If a contraception method is 99.9% effective in its effect on procreative cells, for a female it means that out of the 500 eggs she may produce in her life, maybe one has a 50% chance to be fertilized (if taken at the right time, etc). Acceptable risk. For a male, it means that out of the 300 millions sperms contained in the average ejaculation, there will still be 300 thousand standing up in lines at Egg's door. That's one of the reasons why it's much more difficult to design a male contraceptive.
I've already posted several replies in other threads, but I've not actually said why I keep an XP around in a virtual machine:
my favorite IDE and UIR editor is there. Fortunately I can then compile for Linux.
RAW processing software for photography. It's slow as molasses running in a VM, but nothing works on Linux: the cameras are not calibrated into the software so some results are impossible to attain (like vignetting)
Panorama merging tools
I have licenses for the above 3 and told the developers repeatedly that's I'd happily pay more for a Linux license. For everything else there's Linux. For those interested the softs in question are LabWindows/CVI, SilkyPix and PTgui.
I'm not the original poster, but some things need being said:
"ugly" is in the eye of the beholder - frankly, I find KDE and Gnome to be ugly (especially the font rendering... shit, it's 2013, can't you figure out how to render fonts yet?)
I would have agreed with you at the time of XP, but since they added fuzzy fonts in Vista, now they are all equally ugly. I want the sharp.fon of XP back !
As far as flexibility, Windows is a lot more flexible that any Linux I've tried when it comes to multi-monitor setups without me having to muck with configs. And my settings don't randomly get lost.
Pretty simple to do with the nVidia AND AMD utilities. And with "disper" it's even far easier. Also you are right that sometimes the config just goes the way of the dodo.
9. Windows lacks containers/jails.
"The esoteric feature that I want is missing. It serves no practical purpose and isn't needed in the product's target market, but I want it. And it's not there. Why is it not there!?!?"
Agreed with your other point, but this one actually hits a nail: it bans entires classes of applications. It's no surprise that the 1st thing that Android implemented was jails for each apps.
You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers, but offers a way of automatically downloading and installing drivers for new devices.
I have never ever seen the automatic driver download work. Always have to fish those things and their updates by hand on some 12th level of hell website.
12. I can't hack on the Windows source code.
Don't take this personally, but your programming skills almost certainly make that a good thing. And let's be realistic - for the overwhelming majority of computer users, the computer is an appliance. They don't need or want to know how it works. They just want it to work. So you can imagine how they feel about "hacking source code."
Well, I HAVE written several device drivers for Linux. On Windows I always got discouraged.
If i hear that question again i'm gonna start swimming head first in concrete.
Particularly since it's been the "year of Linux on everything else" for quite a while now: cell phones (Android), tablets, routers, embedded data acquisition systems (my field), supercomputers, clouds, grids, NAS, NATs, mail servers, web servers, etc, etc... Incidentally it also works quite well on the desktop. At work more and more people either ask for MacOSX or Linux distributions (3 supported officially). In case of need, Windows is provided through an rdesktop server which I've never even seen.
Yeah. Even though there are usually some kind of hardware problems upon Linux installation, I was pleasantly surprised Putting Ubuntu 13.04 last week on a HP SpectreXT ultrabook: not a single problem. Zilch. Nada. Once UEFI was removed and the installed finished, the thing worked out of the box with Linux. I dropped the/home of my wife on it and she kept using it like it was the old one. 15 minutes top between turning it on the first time and her taking over. Beat that Windows, hah!
I'd call that a miracle more than a power user. When I tried to to this kind of thing more than a decade ago in Excel, it kept crashing and that was two orders of magnitude lower than your 10^6. It was one of the reasons I learned Matlab. And then soon after I thought, hey as far as I have to learn a new scripting language, why not do it open-source. Booted Linux and never looked back. And who wants to try and remember the meaning of column AJR anyway ?
I find lsof syntax intimidating. I usually just do "sudo lsof | grep/dev/video", but is there a quicker way to do it as it takes several seconds...?
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Well yes, but at the same time I only use Windows for one thing nowadays: running it in a virtual machine under Linux so I can run 3 programs that have no equivalent under Linux. If those programs work under ReactOS, I'll use that in a heartbeat. They must understand that beacuse the provide an already made VM among the downloads.
if you want to bring your own device, fine, we welcome that but you will be registering it with our MDM (Mobile Device Management) system before you're even so much as able to put mail on there, that means our policies get enforced on your device (and your administrative privileges for that device get taken away). Sorry, but this part isn't negotiable.
That's insane. There's no way I'll give admin priviledges to my hardware to anybody, much less a coworker with an attitude. And that's even counting if I have it in the first place. If I want to use my smartphone on the wifi at work, unless it's rooted I'm not even admin on that, so why should you ?!? Do what sane network admins do: register the systems and put them on separate networks. For starters.
but if you've ever tried to regularly used hand sanitizer then you would know that you cant regularly used hand sanitizer without fucking up the skin on your hands.
I was about to say that. I know several doctors who work in hospitals and the skin of their hands is all dried and peeling off. They are the ones catching basic diseases because the skin of their hands has become too thin from all the washing. I think a future axis of research should be more about maintaining a healthy but innocuous surface bacterial flora. See what is going on right now with fecal transplants !
Those fucks and their micro-marketing tools ('price it according to what people can bear' indeed)... Even if I log out I see the kindle version at 16.71$. Individual stories are 1.02$. If I log in from a computer in the US, it's 11.04$. Like the electrons are more costly here.
I heard that Old Man's War was very similar to The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Any thoughts on this? I've read the later and thoroughly enjoyed it. Old Man's War is on my to-read list.
There are a few parallels but the books and their ideas are very different. A common point is the alienation of the fighters in respect to the rest of the populace. In TFW, the 'original humans' are the soldiers who travel between the stars for a few years while the rest of the world changes a lot due to relativistic time dilatation. In OMW it's due to artificial bodies and a weird selection process (hence the title). Both are very good, and the comic book version of TFW is also excellent.
Why is the kindle version more expensive than the frigging hardcover ?!? 17.56$ vs 16.71. I was all ready to purchase it because I really enjoyed the rest of the series, but I don't like getting screwed, so it's a NO.
This is a typical (if not standard) map projection. What would you suggest? East Up? Centered on?
'East up' use to be the standard on medieval maps. Hence the word 'orientation': to figure out where the orient was (even if that meant waiting for the sun to rise I guess). After the invention of the compass which points north/south, maps began to be drawn with north on top.
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The IP address of the public facing side of 'your' modem doesn't show up as 'yours'. It belongs to the provider, so it's their business to deal with it. Anyway, this has been in use for years in Europe without issue. Your traffic is prioritized and protected and for a fraction of an extra watt, what does it matter ?
Can't wait to be rid of that crap.
And replace it with what ? At my work they are replacing homebrew java apps with SAP next week. I hope I get paid during the upcoming summer mayhem...
If you ever have to deal with their software you'll eventually realize that they don't understand it either.
I knew a freelancer who 'fixed issues with SAP'. She charged more per day than I make per month.
Using Intel Math Kernel Library on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors
while the project is held up they arent making money. yet they still have to pay their workers. or they can lay them off. and they (the company) has to pay the cost of the research too.
Easy fix: customary insurance in case this happens.
Post-mortem copyrights are supposed to encourage the author's estate to complete the author's unfinished works rather than shredding them. With no post-mortem copyright, Christopher Tolkien might not have allowed The Silmarillion to see publication.
So... that'd be a good thing, right ?
If a contraception method is 99.9% effective in its effect on procreative cells, for a female it means that out of the 500 eggs she may produce in her life, maybe one has a 50% chance to be fertilized (if taken at the right time, etc). Acceptable risk. For a male, it means that out of the 300 millions sperms contained in the average ejaculation, there will still be 300 thousand standing up in lines at Egg's door. That's one of the reasons why it's much more difficult to design a male contraceptive.
Try 3000...
I have licenses for the above 3 and told the developers repeatedly that's I'd happily pay more for a Linux license. For everything else there's Linux. For those interested the softs in question are LabWindows/CVI, SilkyPix and PTgui.
"ugly" is in the eye of the beholder - frankly, I find KDE and Gnome to be ugly (especially the font rendering... shit, it's 2013, can't you figure out how to render fonts yet?)
I would have agreed with you at the time of XP, but since they added fuzzy fonts in Vista, now they are all equally ugly. I want the sharp .fon of XP back !
As far as flexibility, Windows is a lot more flexible that any Linux I've tried when it comes to multi-monitor setups without me having to muck with configs. And my settings don't randomly get lost.
Pretty simple to do with the nVidia AND AMD utilities. And with "disper" it's even far easier. Also you are right that sometimes the config just goes the way of the dodo.
9. Windows lacks containers/jails.
"The esoteric feature that I want is missing. It serves no practical purpose and isn't needed in the product's target market, but I want it. And it's not there. Why is it not there!?!?"
Agreed with your other point, but this one actually hits a nail: it bans entires classes of applications. It's no surprise that the 1st thing that Android implemented was jails for each apps.
You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers, but offers a way of automatically downloading and installing drivers for new devices.
I have never ever seen the automatic driver download work. Always have to fish those things and their updates by hand on some 12th level of hell website.
12. I can't hack on the Windows source code.
Don't take this personally, but your programming skills almost certainly make that a good thing. And let's be realistic - for the overwhelming majority of computer users, the computer is an appliance. They don't need or want to know how it works. They just want it to work. So you can imagine how they feel about "hacking source code."
Well, I HAVE written several device drivers for Linux. On Windows I always got discouraged.
If i hear that question again i'm gonna start swimming head first in concrete.
Particularly since it's been the "year of Linux on everything else" for quite a while now: cell phones (Android), tablets, routers, embedded data acquisition systems (my field), supercomputers, clouds, grids, NAS, NATs, mail servers, web servers, etc, etc... Incidentally it also works quite well on the desktop. At work more and more people either ask for MacOSX or Linux distributions (3 supported officially). In case of need, Windows is provided through an rdesktop server which I've never even seen.
Yeah. Even though there are usually some kind of hardware problems upon Linux installation, I was pleasantly surprised Putting Ubuntu 13.04 last week on a HP SpectreXT ultrabook: not a single problem. Zilch. Nada. Once UEFI was removed and the installed finished, the thing worked out of the box with Linux. I dropped the /home of my wife on it and she kept using it like it was the old one. 15 minutes top between turning it on the first time and her taking over. Beat that Windows, hah!
I'd call that a miracle more than a power user. When I tried to to this kind of thing more than a decade ago in Excel, it kept crashing and that was two orders of magnitude lower than your 10^6. It was one of the reasons I learned Matlab. And then soon after I thought, hey as far as I have to learn a new scripting language, why not do it open-source. Booted Linux and never looked back. And who wants to try and remember the meaning of column AJR anyway ?
lsof -n
Thanks, great trick: it went from 12s on average to 2.2s on average.
I find lsof syntax intimidating. I usually just do "sudo lsof | grep /dev/video", but is there a quicker way to do it as it takes several seconds...?
Well yes, but at the same time I only use Windows for one thing nowadays: running it in a virtual machine under Linux so I can run 3 programs that have no equivalent under Linux. If those programs work under ReactOS, I'll use that in a heartbeat. They must understand that beacuse the provide an already made VM among the downloads.
Eventual some group of people will be able to make antibiotic that attack only specific bacteria.
I think they are called bacteriophage viruses...
When a lot of Penguins are all together in one place does it stink? I would think it does but I've never had a chance to find out.
Yes it does. A lot. A mix of industrial chicken coop and rotten fish. Fortunately it's often windy in those places.
if you want to bring your own device, fine, we welcome that but you will be registering it with our MDM (Mobile Device Management) system before you're even so much as able to put mail on there, that means our policies get enforced on your device (and your administrative privileges for that device get taken away). Sorry, but this part isn't negotiable.
That's insane. There's no way I'll give admin priviledges to my hardware to anybody, much less a coworker with an attitude. And that's even counting if I have it in the first place. If I want to use my smartphone on the wifi at work, unless it's rooted I'm not even admin on that, so why should you ?!? Do what sane network admins do: register the systems and put them on separate networks. For starters.
but if you've ever tried to regularly used hand sanitizer then you would know that you cant regularly used hand sanitizer without fucking up the skin on your hands.
I was about to say that. I know several doctors who work in hospitals and the skin of their hands is all dried and peeling off. They are the ones catching basic diseases because the skin of their hands has become too thin from all the washing. I think a future axis of research should be more about maintaining a healthy but innocuous surface bacterial flora. See what is going on right now with fecal transplants !
Those fucks and their micro-marketing tools ('price it according to what people can bear' indeed)... Even if I log out I see the kindle version at 16.71$. Individual stories are 1.02$. If I log in from a computer in the US, it's 11.04$. Like the electrons are more costly here.
I heard that Old Man's War was very similar to The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Any thoughts on this? I've read the later and thoroughly enjoyed it. Old Man's War is on my to-read list.
There are a few parallels but the books and their ideas are very different. A common point is the alienation of the fighters in respect to the rest of the populace. In TFW, the 'original humans' are the soldiers who travel between the stars for a few years while the rest of the world changes a lot due to relativistic time dilatation. In OMW it's due to artificial bodies and a weird selection process (hence the title). Both are very good, and the comic book version of TFW is also excellent.
Why is the kindle version more expensive than the frigging hardcover ?!? 17.56$ vs 16.71. I was all ready to purchase it because I really enjoyed the rest of the series, but I don't like getting screwed, so it's a NO.
This is a typical (if not standard) map projection. What would you suggest? East Up? Centered on?
'East up' use to be the standard on medieval maps. Hence the word 'orientation': to figure out where the orient was (even if that meant waiting for the sun to rise I guess). After the invention of the compass which points north/south, maps began to be drawn with north on top.
The most recent 'battle' is from 1988 and it was only a skirmish. I fail to see your point.