Different groups have different social norms. Nerds' norms are that you take responsibility for your own education, meaning that you reasonably attempt to answer your own question before putting it on other people. You got your ID ten years ago. I got my first one in '99. We both know the Slashdot norms about this.
I'm younger than you, but not as much as you think. I had a slide rule. My first computer at home was in 1978. Like you, I studied math with log and trig tables in the back of the book. Since you and I were in class with a teacher, would we have asked him or her to look up and interpolate for us? I, for one, would have been glared at for asking a stupid question.
You see, there are stupid questions, or rather questions which are stupid given the context. In addition to the example above, I can give plenty of others. If you post a long explanation about the details of arthritis, I fail to read the whole thing, and then I ask you a question which you already answered, that is a stupid question given the context.
The limits of his knowledge could have been extended by typing two words into a search engine. Instead, he typed 56 into a forum and made someone else answer his question. Get real.
You're right. I was being unnecessarily snarky and I shouldn't have. Still, Googling "ARM Linux" would have completely answered his question, and... how do you not know that already, anyway?
People keep saying "twice the price of an equivalent netbook" and similar, but I tried to find something similar and couldn't. 12" screen with an SSD and eight-hour battery life? HP, Dell, and several others came up with nothing with that screen size and an SSD for any price. Heck, try to find an 8-second boot + instant on anywhere. The computer looks more like this than some Dell or ASUS netbook, despite the processor. I'm not saying the Chromebook hardware is inexpensive or that the build quality is the same (I don't know), but it's not like you're comparing apples to apples here, either, and I'm not buying your story.
There were about 5000 desktop-Linux users in 1999, and we were all on Slashdot. (Okay, maybe there were five or ten more than 5000.) Right now, you could probably have the same kind of success porting games for Haiku. It was a terrible business model for that time, just like Pets.com.
Thank you for this. There's not nearly enough of this kind of attitude anymore.
Buy supported hardware. Try to install OS X on random laptop and see how great the power management is. Does that mean that OS X sucks at power management? Quite the opposite. If you don't want to buy supported hardware or work through the kinks, then don't install an alternate OS.
The Linux community is has so much repressed guilt over upsetting would-be users that the truth gets lost. "I am a heavy Photoshop user, PC gamer, and have Windows-only software I need to run at work. Can I use Linux?" Sometimes "Continue using Windows" is the right answer.
Wikipedia (I know...) says that dating was never really attempted and that:
Pfann also thinks the inscription read as "Jesus" has been misread and suggests that the name "Hanun" might be a more accurate rendering.[1]
Anyway, whether this is the tomb a Jesus, upon which the Gospels are based, or not isn't really important to me, because it certainly isn't the biblical Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem and crucified by Pontius Pilate. That guy almost certainly didn't exist. I'm not even counting claimed miracles when I dismiss it this way.
After reading about this claim, I'm not buying it. Just about everyone but the film-maker is calling it rubbish, including archaeologists who discovered the site.
These types of games remind me of long essays explaining how the laws of the DC universe of Superman or the Star Wars universe operate to make everything that was written internally consistent. It's humorous in the same way The Big Bang Theory is intended to be.
What Microsoft really needs to do is to stop ignoring vuln reports for six months or a year, only to label the researcher a criminal when he/she finally goes public with it. "Responsible Disclosure" my ass!
Except in Taiwan, where data plans are sold separately and run under NT$800 (USD27) for unlimited "3.5G" (now that's honest, eh?) including tethering and wifi hotspots on Android devices. In fact, the tethering and wifi are advertised and promoted features. They're very clear about it being unlimited.
Back in the U.S., Virgin Mobile is quite honest and sells 300 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data for USD25, prepaid with no contract. Data is throttled to 2G speeds after 5GB. They're very up front about that. They seem like the most ethical telco in the U.S., possibly because they're an import.
Things don't have to be the way they are in the U.S. There's a distinct combination of greed and power (of the telcos), business "friendliness" (by the gov't) and apathy (by the customer) which allows the mess there to happen.
I, too, consider myself to be a libertarian at heart. I think that airwaves and internet lines should be considered "infrastructure." National standards for this infrastructure should be enacted and capacity sold wholesale to whomever. I came to this decision after moving back to the U.S. after years in Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The system you have there is fundamentally wrong in so many ways. No carrier has to worry about you taking your phone and going to another carrier, and their contracts show that lack of concern..
M1 and M2 were leaked everywhere and writers admitted with no shame that they had downloaded "from the usual places" in order to run and test. Reviewers from major mags that would crush bloggers over using part of an article (or even deep linking, in some cases) post stuff about software they've downloaded without permission. Why doesn't anyone seem to care? If I downloaded a leaked game or something, it would be a big deal. As a publisher for a large mag, I certainly wouldn't take the chance of publishing knowingly and obviously infringing material.
I'm fairly libertarian, but this is a silly stance. FEMA and the CDC exist in the US for a reason: planning and quick action at the first sign of trouble are significantly better than "wait and see" in many cases. Cases where the long- or short-term danger is especially high need planning and preparation of some kind. I'm also pro-nuke (still, even now), but that is also one area where you want to make sure you have good, strict regulation.
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Different groups have different social norms. Nerds' norms are that you take responsibility for your own education, meaning that you reasonably attempt to answer your own question before putting it on other people. You got your ID ten years ago. I got my first one in '99. We both know the Slashdot norms about this.
I'm younger than you, but not as much as you think. I had a slide rule. My first computer at home was in 1978. Like you, I studied math with log and trig tables in the back of the book. Since you and I were in class with a teacher, would we have asked him or her to look up and interpolate for us? I, for one, would have been glared at for asking a stupid question.
You see, there are stupid questions, or rather questions which are stupid given the context. In addition to the example above, I can give plenty of others. If you post a long explanation about the details of arthritis, I fail to read the whole thing, and then I ask you a question which you already answered, that is a stupid question given the context.
You didn't have coffee. All is excusable. ;)
The limits of his knowledge could have been extended by typing two words into a search engine. Instead, he typed 56 into a forum and made someone else answer his question. Get real.
Geeks say "Search for the answer first; ask if you need help finding it."
You're right. I was being unnecessarily snarky and I shouldn't have. Still, Googling "ARM Linux" would have completely answered his question, and ... how do you not know that already, anyway?
.Net should run, though, right? I assume that MS is going to port the VM.
Umm, ARM, the processor that Android (Linux) runs on? Seriously, did you buy your ID?
So ... I create a botnet to create BitCoins and the FBI never comes after me? Win! (Cue obligatory 1, 2 ???, 3 meme)
People keep saying "twice the price of an equivalent netbook" and similar, but I tried to find something similar and couldn't. 12" screen with an SSD and eight-hour battery life? HP, Dell, and several others came up with nothing with that screen size and an SSD for any price. Heck, try to find an 8-second boot + instant on anywhere. The computer looks more like this than some Dell or ASUS netbook, despite the processor. I'm not saying the Chromebook hardware is inexpensive or that the build quality is the same (I don't know), but it's not like you're comparing apples to apples here, either, and I'm not buying your story.
OK. I think I will. Thanks for the suggestion.
There were about 5000 desktop-Linux users in 1999, and we were all on Slashdot. (Okay, maybe there were five or ten more than 5000.) Right now, you could probably have the same kind of success porting games for Haiku. It was a terrible business model for that time, just like Pets.com.
Thank you for this. There's not nearly enough of this kind of attitude anymore.
Buy supported hardware. Try to install OS X on random laptop and see how great the power management is. Does that mean that OS X sucks at power management? Quite the opposite. If you don't want to buy supported hardware or work through the kinks, then don't install an alternate OS.
The Linux community is has so much repressed guilt over upsetting would-be users that the truth gets lost. "I am a heavy Photoshop user, PC gamer, and have Windows-only software I need to run at work. Can I use Linux?" Sometimes "Continue using Windows" is the right answer.
Wikipedia (I know ...) says that dating was never really attempted and that:
Pfann also thinks the inscription read as "Jesus" has been misread and suggests that the name "Hanun" might be a more accurate rendering.[1]
Anyway, whether this is the tomb a Jesus, upon which the Gospels are based, or not isn't really important to me, because it certainly isn't the biblical Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem and crucified by Pontius Pilate. That guy almost certainly didn't exist. I'm not even counting claimed miracles when I dismiss it this way.
After reading about this claim, I'm not buying it. Just about everyone but the film-maker is calling it rubbish, including archaeologists who discovered the site.
These types of games remind me of long essays explaining how the laws of the DC universe of Superman or the Star Wars universe operate to make everything that was written internally consistent. It's humorous in the same way The Big Bang Theory is intended to be.
"When Jezus was alive it was a cult"
If. If, my friend. There's a large amount of evidence suggesting that Jesus isn't an historic figure, at least as represented in the gospels.
What Microsoft really needs to do is to stop ignoring vuln reports for six months or a year, only to label the researcher a criminal when he/she finally goes public with it. "Responsible Disclosure" my ass!
That ended up being a simple case of copyright violation, with them using an install server with a modified install image.
It has a micro-SD slot.
Except in Taiwan, where data plans are sold separately and run under NT$800 (USD27) for unlimited "3.5G" (now that's honest, eh?) including tethering and wifi hotspots on Android devices. In fact, the tethering and wifi are advertised and promoted features. They're very clear about it being unlimited.
Back in the U.S., Virgin Mobile is quite honest and sells 300 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data for USD25, prepaid with no contract. Data is throttled to 2G speeds after 5GB. They're very up front about that. They seem like the most ethical telco in the U.S., possibly because they're an import.
Things don't have to be the way they are in the U.S. There's a distinct combination of greed and power (of the telcos), business "friendliness" (by the gov't) and apathy (by the customer) which allows the mess there to happen.
I, too, consider myself to be a libertarian at heart. I think that airwaves and internet lines should be considered "infrastructure." National standards for this infrastructure should be enacted and capacity sold wholesale to whomever. I came to this decision after moving back to the U.S. after years in Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The system you have there is fundamentally wrong in so many ways. No carrier has to worry about you taking your phone and going to another carrier, and their contracts show that lack of concern..
Win-a, "proxy" doesn't fix that problem for you? ;)
M1 and M2 were leaked everywhere and writers admitted with no shame that they had downloaded "from the usual places" in order to run and test. Reviewers from major mags that would crush bloggers over using part of an article (or even deep linking, in some cases) post stuff about software they've downloaded without permission. Why doesn't anyone seem to care? If I downloaded a leaked game or something, it would be a big deal. As a publisher for a large mag, I certainly wouldn't take the chance of publishing knowingly and obviously infringing material.
Throttled over 5GB, but still an awesome deal. I was on that plan when I was in the U.S. No contract. When I left, I just stopped paying.
I'm fairly libertarian, but this is a silly stance. FEMA and the CDC exist in the US for a reason: planning and quick action at the first sign of trouble are significantly better than "wait and see" in many cases. Cases where the long- or short-term danger is especially high need planning and preparation of some kind. I'm also pro-nuke (still, even now), but that is also one area where you want to make sure you have good, strict regulation.
LDAP and an NFS /home