It's a problem when it comes to web standards though. It will still be a good while before you'll be able to use CSS3 and even CSS2 on public webpages without resorting to adding IE-specific hacks, let alone things like SVG and Canvas...
They are very common, at least among blind computer users. One of my best friends is blind since birth and he uses braille displays and has been doing so for at least 17 years (we met on FidoNet). He insists on using Windows because its braille support is supposed to be superior.
Even most fullscreen textmode applications are quite hard to use compared to most GUI apps as they update text all over the screen all the time without giving the display any indication about what text is important and what is just status information or similar.
It's amazing to watch him use Windows. He is the fastest GUI user I know! The windows just flash back and forth, I have no chance to read what's on the screen, he is just too fast. He know every shortcut by muscle memory and know things like that to get from A to B he should press alt+tab-tab-tab+ctrl+x-pgdn-down-down-right-enter and type that almost faster than the screen has time to draw the widgets.
The difference is not so much in the OS itself but in the OS culture, the legacy applications.
A LOT of Windows programs are programmed with the assumption that the user is running with full or almost full privileges because that makes life easier for newbie programmers, and that's how things were designed back in the 9x days.
Most MacOS X programs are designed to run with low privileges and only prompt for privilege escalation when it's really really needed.
Because of this, my guess is that it will be a much more pleasant experience on the Mac.
Why not do what valve does and encrypt it? You wouldn't need much encryption at all, just enough to stall the decrypt for a few hours. Because it would require custom client software.
allow every consumer to carry data equivalent to a college library on small portable devices Now, I'm confused. How many College Libraries are there in a Library of Congress?
I'm glad to hear that you have found a way to "deal with life" that works for you. Fortunately I have also (finally) found ways that work for me most of the time for most situations. However, everybody is different, have different needs and different thresholds. Simply put we all have different connection paths in our neuron networks. You may call me a self-absorbed angsty shit but you don't know me and you don't know what happens in my brain in different situations, how I feel. You're a selfish prick for assuming that just because you are able to deal with situation X everybody else must be also.
But hopefully you are slightly more open and honest to your doctor and tell them about all the stuff you don't want to tell or show the people you don't share your life with...
First, you are wrong. Try to google for adhd hyperfocus. I don't know how many hits you need to read to get the point but there are about 42000 of them. Some of them may be from persons with IBD (Ignorant/insensitive Bully Disorder) though, they sometimes have an agenda to make other people smaller and their problems less important or questioning them altogether.
Second, you are wrong again. I don't take any medication at the moment. Concerta and Ritalin DO help me control my focus, meaning I can let go of the things my brain desperately tries to (hyper-)focus on and I get more mental energy to focus on the uninteresting things I'm supposed to do. However, they both make me temporarily more or less impotent, which is worse (for me) than having ADHD symptoms, so I don't eat them. I'm supposed to try some other medication though, I've been on my way to see my doctor to do just that like forever and I've had several appointments that I didn't show up to (because I forgot, or because I thought some other thing was more important at the time, like playing Zelda: Twilight Princess for a week with almost no sleep or food).
It's a shame you got modded as flamebait there but it is worth mentioning that those with actual ADD cannot play games for hours. Bullshit! If it wasn't for the fact that I have to occasionally go to the toilet I'd be able to play a game for a week straight, or until I passed out because of hunger or sleep deprivation.
People with ADD/ADHD can't control their (our) focus. It's called hyperfocusing and it's very common for ADDers to hyperfocus on things that they are interested in while being completly unable to focus on uninteresting things, except for short periods of will-power bursts when it's something very important, resulting in mental exhaustion or depression.
The problems people with ADD/ADHD experience are very real. What's next? Will you claim that depressions don't exist? Let me tell you, as a 30 year old with ADD I'm VERY good at hiding the symptoms to others.
When it's really really important I can collect enough mental energy to be able to deal with boring and/or bureaucratic things (like paying my bills or doing stuff at work) for a short while, but then I can get exhausted to the point that I can barely remember my name until I get some mental rest. That's the hypofocus/hypoactive part.
When I get an idea that will revolutionize the world (and I get those a lot) or find some new and upcoming piece of exiting technology that I just HAVE to learn I get so sucked up in it that I don't hear the phone ringing, I don't feel that I'm hungry or tired until I literally pass out and fall off the chair (it really has happened). I even get pissed off when I have to pee because it's interrupting me. When in this mood (hyperfocus) I get depressed if I'm not allowed to focus on this. Multitasking is not an option.
Do you call these fake or nonexisting problems?
People who meet me occasionally never notice these things, not even most people I work with and meet almost every day. I have (and still am) developed strategies for coping with the problems, thanks to being diagnosed. Your anecdotes as an observer mean jack shit as things are rarely what they seem to be.
I have ADD and have similar experiences, and I know many others who do also. All these "ADD is fake and they are just lazy bastards" posts are making me sad.
Now let's hope that ISO fixes their flaws with the voting process so that Microsoft have to actually fix all the flaws with the OOXML specification before it can be voted on again. Then make every attempt to game the system an automatic no-vote.
You actually pay the recordable media levee? I always figured people who steal music should use stolen media on which to store it. Only seems right. Stop it, please! Comparing physical stuff with virtual stuff is stupid. It doesn't work. At all. Also, mv is not cp. Even you know the difference.
There are some valid arguments against file sharing but equaling stealing physical things with copying virtual things only make you look unintelligent.
I like making strong statements, because I find the discussion interesting. Isn't that another way of saying "I am a troll?" Well, he actually does sound like the Moomin troll, at least when he speaks Swedish.
Yes, they are all very different but at the same time quite similar from a user's perspective. All of them (unless I've missed something) more or less emulate a whole machine. This means you have to mess with disk images or dedicated drives/partitions/LVs, allocate a fixed amount of RAM to the guest, among other things.
Personally I like the approach of OpenVZ and VServer better. The main OS and the guests all share the same kernel, share the RAM and their root filesystems can be just subdirectories of the host's filesystem. When inside the virtual server you don't realize that though. You only see your own processes and everything works as if it was a dedicated server. You can run iptables, reboot and just about everything you could normally do in XEN/KVM/VMWare. Including live migration of virtual servers to other physical hosts. chroot on steroids.
I really hope OpenVZ and/or VServer will be merged at some point. VServer seem to keep up with current kernel releases so that wouldn't be too hard to merge I guess. OpenVZ usually have a lag of something like half a year.
Consider this... A woman walks down the street in a bad part of town carrying a clear bag full of money. Someone robs her. Did she deserve to lose her money? Probably. "Probably"?! Of course she didn't deserve it! Yes, it would be a pretty stupid thing of her to do but that doesn't make her deserve being robbed.
Does the person who robbed her deserve to be charged with with a crime? Yes! She deserve to rot in jail.
I believe the playstation game Parasite Eve explored this concept as well. ...which is based on the movie with the same name which is based on the book with the same name.
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It's a problem when it comes to web standards though. It will still be a good while before you'll be able to use CSS3 and even CSS2 on public webpages without resorting to adding IE-specific hacks, let alone things like SVG and Canvas...
They are very common, at least among blind computer users.
One of my best friends is blind since birth and he uses braille displays and has been doing so for at least 17 years (we met on FidoNet). He insists on using Windows because its braille support is supposed to be superior.
Even most fullscreen textmode applications are quite hard to use compared to most GUI apps as they update text all over the screen all the time without giving the display any indication about what text is important and what is just status information or similar.
It's amazing to watch him use Windows. He is the fastest GUI user I know! The windows just flash back and forth, I have no chance to read what's on the screen, he is just too fast. He know every shortcut by muscle memory and know things like that to get from A to B he should press alt+tab-tab-tab+ctrl+x-pgdn-down-down-right-enter and type that almost faster than the screen has time to draw the widgets.
The difference is not so much in the OS itself but in the OS culture, the legacy applications.
A LOT of Windows programs are programmed with the assumption that the user is running with full or almost full privileges because that makes life easier for newbie programmers, and that's how things were designed back in the 9x days.
Most MacOS X programs are designed to run with low privileges and only prompt for privilege escalation when it's really really needed.
Because of this, my guess is that it will be a much more pleasant experience on the Mac.
Except that he wasn't irrational. You, Sir, need to read some modern history.
I'm glad to hear that you have found a way to "deal with life" that works for you.
Fortunately I have also (finally) found ways that work for me most of the time for most situations.
However, everybody is different, have different needs and different thresholds. Simply put we all have different connection paths in our neuron networks. You may call me a self-absorbed angsty shit but you don't know me and you don't know what happens in my brain in different situations, how I feel. You're a selfish prick for assuming that just because you are able to deal with situation X everybody else must be also.
But hopefully you are slightly more open and honest to your doctor and tell them about all the stuff you don't want to tell or show the people you don't share your life with...
First, you are wrong. Try to google for adhd hyperfocus. I don't know how many hits you need to read to get the point but there are about 42000 of them. Some of them may be from persons with IBD (Ignorant/insensitive Bully Disorder) though, they sometimes have an agenda to make other people smaller and their problems less important or questioning them altogether.
Second, you are wrong again. I don't take any medication at the moment. Concerta and Ritalin DO help me control my focus, meaning I can let go of the things my brain desperately tries to (hyper-)focus on and I get more mental energy to focus on the uninteresting things I'm supposed to do. However, they both make me temporarily more or less impotent, which is worse (for me) than having ADHD symptoms, so I don't eat them. I'm supposed to try some other medication though, I've been on my way to see my doctor to do just that like forever and I've had several appointments that I didn't show up to (because I forgot, or because I thought some other thing was more important at the time, like playing Zelda: Twilight Princess for a week with almost no sleep or food).
If it wasn't for the fact that I have to occasionally go to the toilet I'd be able to play a game for a week straight, or until I passed out because of hunger or sleep deprivation.
People with ADD/ADHD can't control their (our) focus. It's called hyperfocusing and it's very common for ADDers to hyperfocus on things that they are interested in while being completly unable to focus on uninteresting things, except for short periods of will-power bursts when it's something very important, resulting in mental exhaustion or depression.
The problems people with ADD/ADHD experience are very real. What's next? Will you claim that depressions don't exist?
Let me tell you, as a 30 year old with ADD I'm VERY good at hiding the symptoms to others.
When it's really really important I can collect enough mental energy to be able to deal with boring and/or bureaucratic things (like paying my bills or doing stuff at work) for a short while, but then I can get exhausted to the point that I can barely remember my name until I get some mental rest. That's the hypofocus/hypoactive part.
When I get an idea that will revolutionize the world (and I get those a lot) or find some new and upcoming piece of exiting technology that I just HAVE to learn I get so sucked up in it that I don't hear the phone ringing, I don't feel that I'm hungry or tired until I literally pass out and fall off the chair (it really has happened). I even get pissed off when I have to pee because it's interrupting me. When in this mood (hyperfocus) I get depressed if I'm not allowed to focus on this. Multitasking is not an option.
Do you call these fake or nonexisting problems?
People who meet me occasionally never notice these things, not even most people I work with and meet almost every day. I have (and still am) developed strategies for coping with the problems, thanks to being diagnosed. Your anecdotes as an observer mean jack shit as things are rarely what they seem to be.
I have ADD and have similar experiences, and I know many others who do also. All these "ADD is fake and they are just lazy bastards" posts are making me sad.
Now let's hope that ISO fixes their flaws with the voting process so that Microsoft have to actually fix all the flaws with the OOXML specification before it can be voted on again. Then make every attempt to game the system an automatic no-vote.
I always figured people who steal music should use stolen media on which to store it. Only seems right. Stop it, please!
Comparing physical stuff with virtual stuff is stupid. It doesn't work. At all.
Also, mv is not cp. Even you know the difference.
There are some valid arguments against file sharing but equaling stealing physical things with copying virtual things only make you look unintelligent.
I think you need to find a therapist.
That's where the snakes are!
Yes, they are all very different but at the same time quite similar from a user's perspective. All of them (unless I've missed something) more or less emulate a whole machine. This means you have to mess with disk images or dedicated drives/partitions/LVs, allocate a fixed amount of RAM to the guest, among other things.
Personally I like the approach of OpenVZ and VServer better. The main OS and the guests all share the same kernel, share the RAM and their root filesystems can be just subdirectories of the host's filesystem. When inside the virtual server you don't realize that though. You only see your own processes and everything works as if it was a dedicated server. You can run iptables, reboot and just about everything you could normally do in XEN/KVM/VMWare. Including live migration of virtual servers to other physical hosts. chroot on steroids.
I really hope OpenVZ and/or VServer will be merged at some point. VServer seem to keep up with current kernel releases so that wouldn't be too hard to merge I guess. OpenVZ usually have a lag of something like half a year.
Hmm... This story sounds familiar. Although the mitochondria is pretty hot I don't think I want to meet her.
(It's a good movie, btw. I especially love the ending scene!)
Oh, Mammoth smoke. Don't breathe this!