/* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP * to talk to the University of Mars. * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented * ftp to mars will work nicely. */
"People disagree with me. I just ignore them." - Linus Torvalds
"If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do." - Linus Torvalds
He's lost so much control over the Linux kernel, now hasn't he?
You know, I honestly don't care if this is true or not. So what if Linux can't kill Windows? Windows can't kill Linux, that I'm positive of. And that's really all I care about. Sure it'd be nice if enough people abandoned Windows in favor of Linux to "kill" Windows, but whether that happens or not, I can still use Linux to my hearts content. If other people continue to use & support Microsoft, that's up to them, and while it will have some effect on me, I doubt it will be a significant enough effect for me to really care.
Heh, I have hardware in my boxen that has two drivers - one from the hardware manufacturer, the other from Microsoft. When I install the manufacturer's driver, I have to say yes, I do know what I'm doing & I do want to install this driver, even though it's not M$ certified, and even though M$ has another driver that they say is certified and I should use instead. If I didn't know what I was doing, I would most likely be scared out of installing the manufacturer's driver, and would install Microsoft's instead.
Guess which one causes a blue screen 100% of the time? Not the manufacturer's.
And why do you bring in 2K when the discussion is about XP? No one is arguing about 2K being full of BSOD triggers.
Are you really unaware that Windows XP's core code is based off of Windows 2000? Their code overlaps much more than not.
This is honestly the funniest post I've read on/. in a long, long time. I'm just sad it ended up burning Game Genie's karma.
For all you people who modded him down as a troll, why? Even if BSODs aren't as common as they were formerly (and I can still atest that they do occur), that's completely beside the point. Not all blondes are dumb airheads - in fact most blondes I know (myself included) are often the opposite. But guess what? I still laugh at blonde jokes (well, good ones, anyway). I see Game Genie's post as along the same lines - not necessarily strictly true, but still @#$% funny.
So you're saying my right to free speech is more important than your right to privacy, but depending how I use my free speech I might be an asshole, right? That's just as valid an opinion as the opinion of those surveyed, but it seems that it wasn't the predominant opinion. Not sure what you mean about "fighting words" thought.
I wouldn't necessarily say that the majority of those surveyed were ignorant of why there should be freedom of speech, I think many of them just felt that the right to personal privacy was more important than freedom of speech. Now, some no doubt were as ignorant as you imply of why the Constitution provides protection for freedom of speech, but I think that those that didn't understand would be a minority rather than the majority.
The survey was about whether bloggers should be allowed to share private, personal information about other people (celebrities in particular). I think you're taking their responses & overgeneralizing them. Which is usually what the surveyors do as well, but that doesn't make it any more valid of a practice.
Which is more important to you? Your right to personal privacy, or my right to freedom of speech? Would you be OK with me posting your home address & phone number in my blog, along with an account of what I saw you doing last Saturday?
Oh, and the other half of the chicken/egg scenario... why haven't we seen dual core CPUs previously? Because there was no demand, because most applications (other than servers) were not designed to take advantage of multiple cores.
I see it as a chicken/egg problem. You bet your booty Doom3 & Half-Life 2 could perform significantly better on multiple CPU cores - if they were designed to. So why aren't they designed to? Because there was not a significant market for multiple-CPU-core games. Once Intel & AMD's dual core CPUs hit the market, that will likely change, and we will see games & other applications start taking advantage of multiple cores, even though in their current incarnations they don't.
Actually, Novell has moved out of Utah. They do still maintain facilities in Utah, but their headquarters moved to Waltham, Mass., in January 2004. And there's more than one technology company in Utah; not as many as in Silicon Valley, but if you want to live & work in Utah, you shouldn't have too much trouble doing so.
While I can't argue much against that statement, I really wish it hadn't been disastrous. WordPerfect has always been my favorite word processing suite, and I wish Novell still owned it, and would give better Linux support than the wishy-washy stuff Corel's been doing.
I very much agree with the second part of your post, but not that "it's the conservative mentality that the government needs to tell everyone what to do." A (true) conservative mentality would be opposed to change, whether that be additional governemnt controls, or less government controls.
Conservative mentality: While by no means perfect, the way things are right now is good enough, and we'd likely just F things up more if we try to make any drastic changes.
Liberal mentality: Almost every aspect of the status quo is messed up! We need to change everything!
But of course, too much of either mentality is a bad thing.
So, I'm reading lots of comments here about how people have nice new computers with lots of RAM & fast CPUs, so they don't need to worry about memory footprint etc. I call BS. Just because you have good enough hardware to cope with bloatware is no reason to use bloatware. My desktop at home is an Athlon64 3200+ w/ 2 GiB RAM. It could handle any WM I choose to throw on it. I choose lightweight WMs (fluxbox, currently), and I will try the new blackbox. Not because I'm limited by my hardware, but because I prefer the clean design that is inherant in lightweight WMs. And I don't use or want many of the features and eyecandy in some of the heavier WMs, so there's no reason for me to use one, even though my hardware could handle it easily.
Now, don't get me wrong, if you prefer KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment or whatever over blackbox, then that's fine; but don't use "I have good hardware" as a reason not to use a lightweight WM. Say "I like X, which lightweight WMs don't have" and I will respect you. Disagree, likely, but I will respect your opinion.
Care to back that up? Utah already had strict laws concerning alcohol, true, but AFAIK there was no attempt to add additional laws or regulations during the Olympics.
Random trivia, Utah was the deciding vote that repealed prohibition.
Erm, you didn't read the site very well. 85% of those polled who said that they adhered to a religion said they were Mormon. The 23.5% of the total Utah population that said they were unaffiliated with any religion were not counted. So, Mormons do make up closer to 75% of the total population.
Look at the page title. One is:
Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
The other is:
traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic
Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
Yeah, if you want Windows interoperability, you should just go with Windows. Just make sure you have the exact same versions of everything you want to have interoperate.
A while ago I set up a home network. Linux gateway/fileserver running Samba, other boxes on the network running Linux, Win98, WinME, WinXP Pro & Home. Everything could see & use the Samba shares on the Linux fileserver. All the WinXP Pros could see & use shares on the other WinXP Pros. Trying to access shares between WinXP Pro & WinME - no can do.
"HP representative in Europe claims the company doesn't make any money off regional coding for cartridges, and that consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro."
Translation: Yes, we are screwing you, but hey, in while we'll screw somebody else!
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Just do like Linus does.
"People disagree with me. I just ignore them." - Linus Torvalds
"If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do." - Linus Torvalds
He's lost so much control over the Linux kernel, now hasn't he?
You know, I honestly don't care if this is true or not. So what if Linux can't kill Windows? Windows can't kill Linux, that I'm positive of. And that's really all I care about. Sure it'd be nice if enough people abandoned Windows in favor of Linux to "kill" Windows, but whether that happens or not, I can still use Linux to my hearts content. If other people continue to use & support Microsoft, that's up to them, and while it will have some effect on me, I doubt it will be a significant enough effect for me to really care.
Guess which one causes a blue screen 100% of the time? Not the manufacturer's.
Are you really unaware that Windows XP's core code is based off of Windows 2000? Their code overlaps much more than not.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
/. in a long, long time. I'm just sad it ended up burning Game Genie's karma.
This is honestly the funniest post I've read on
For all you people who modded him down as a troll, why? Even if BSODs aren't as common as they were formerly (and I can still atest that they do occur), that's completely beside the point. Not all blondes are dumb airheads - in fact most blondes I know (myself included) are often the opposite. But guess what? I still laugh at blonde jokes (well, good ones, anyway). I see Game Genie's post as along the same lines - not necessarily strictly true, but still @#$% funny.
So you're saying my right to free speech is more important than your right to privacy, but depending how I use my free speech I might be an asshole, right? That's just as valid an opinion as the opinion of those surveyed, but it seems that it wasn't the predominant opinion. Not sure what you mean about "fighting words" thought.
I wouldn't necessarily say that the majority of those surveyed were ignorant of why there should be freedom of speech, I think many of them just felt that the right to personal privacy was more important than freedom of speech. Now, some no doubt were as ignorant as you imply of why the Constitution provides protection for freedom of speech, but I think that those that didn't understand would be a minority rather than the majority.
The survey was about whether bloggers should be allowed to share private, personal information about other people (celebrities in particular). I think you're taking their responses & overgeneralizing them. Which is usually what the surveyors do as well, but that doesn't make it any more valid of a practice.
Which is more important to you? Your right to personal privacy, or my right to freedom of speech? Would you be OK with me posting your home address & phone number in my blog, along with an account of what I saw you doing last Saturday?
Yup. That's what I think broke the chicken/egg scenario for this.
Oh, and the other half of the chicken/egg scenario... why haven't we seen dual core CPUs previously? Because there was no demand, because most applications (other than servers) were not designed to take advantage of multiple cores.
I see it as a chicken/egg problem. You bet your booty Doom3 & Half-Life 2 could perform significantly better on multiple CPU cores - if they were designed to. So why aren't they designed to? Because there was not a significant market for multiple-CPU-core games. Once Intel & AMD's dual core CPUs hit the market, that will likely change, and we will see games & other applications start taking advantage of multiple cores, even though in their current incarnations they don't.
Personally, I'd say I'm more "resigned to" spam, than "accepting of" spam. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people feel the same way.
Yes.
Actually, Novell has moved out of Utah. They do still maintain facilities in Utah, but their headquarters moved to Waltham, Mass., in January 2004. And there's more than one technology company in Utah; not as many as in Silicon Valley, but if you want to live & work in Utah, you shouldn't have too much trouble doing so.
While I can't argue much against that statement, I really wish it hadn't been disastrous. WordPerfect has always been my favorite word processing suite, and I wish Novell still owned it, and would give better Linux support than the wishy-washy stuff Corel's been doing.
I very much agree with the second part of your post, but not that "it's the conservative mentality that the government needs to tell everyone what to do." A (true) conservative mentality would be opposed to change, whether that be additional governemnt controls, or less government controls.
Conservative mentality: While by no means perfect, the way things are right now is good enough, and we'd likely just F things up more if we try to make any drastic changes.
Liberal mentality: Almost every aspect of the status quo is messed up! We need to change everything!
But of course, too much of either mentality is a bad thing.
So, I'm reading lots of comments here about how people have nice new computers with lots of RAM & fast CPUs, so they don't need to worry about memory footprint etc. I call BS. Just because you have good enough hardware to cope with bloatware is no reason to use bloatware. My desktop at home is an Athlon64 3200+ w/ 2 GiB RAM. It could handle any WM I choose to throw on it. I choose lightweight WMs (fluxbox, currently), and I will try the new blackbox. Not because I'm limited by my hardware, but because I prefer the clean design that is inherant in lightweight WMs. And I don't use or want many of the features and eyecandy in some of the heavier WMs, so there's no reason for me to use one, even though my hardware could handle it easily.
Now, don't get me wrong, if you prefer KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment or whatever over blackbox, then that's fine; but don't use "I have good hardware" as a reason not to use a lightweight WM. Say "I like X, which lightweight WMs don't have" and I will respect you. Disagree, likely, but I will respect your opinion.
Care to back that up? Utah already had strict laws concerning alcohol, true, but AFAIK there was no attempt to add additional laws or regulations during the Olympics. Random trivia, Utah was the deciding vote that repealed prohibition.
Erm, you didn't read the site very well. 85% of those polled who said that they adhered to a religion said they were Mormon. The 23.5% of the total Utah population that said they were unaffiliated with any religion were not counted. So, Mormons do make up closer to 75% of the total population.
Look at the page title. One is:
Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
The other is:
traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic
Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
Yeah, if you want Windows interoperability, you should just go with Windows. Just make sure you have the exact same versions of everything you want to have interoperate.
A while ago I set up a home network. Linux gateway/fileserver running Samba, other boxes on the network running Linux, Win98, WinME, WinXP Pro & Home. Everything could see & use the Samba shares on the Linux fileserver. All the WinXP Pros could see & use shares on the other WinXP Pros. Trying to access shares between WinXP Pro & WinME - no can do.
Umm... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released in 1977...
No no no, it's the video games fault now, you're like 5 or 10 years out of date.
"HP representative in Europe claims the company doesn't make any money off regional coding for cartridges, and that consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro." Translation: Yes, we are screwing you, but hey, in while we'll screw somebody else!
Touché. And I already knew that, bad me. Too sleepy.
2K = 2000. 2Ki = 2048.
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