And I can easily fill over 2GB in default operation, without even anything unusual running. That’s because my motto is, that if I have it, then I’ll also use it!:)
No, it gets worse. Because SSDs are known to massively lose performance over time. Down to 1/8. Yes, even the newest ones. And then they fail. Badly.
I won’t be touching an SSD, until it can *guarantee* me equal or better reliability than hard discs before those also started to get worse (some years ago). My data is too valuable for experiments. Sorry.
I thought the magic word was “impossible”. Because every time someone says that, someone else will prove it possible only seconds later. Or at least die trying. ^^
Also: Someone, ages ago, said that something is impossible, and now we can do it... News at 11.:)
Bullshit. You definitely never went trough the country, actually asking that statistically significant amount of people, did you? No. Of course not. Because you just pulled that one out of your ass.
What you describe is called “crab mentality” by the way. People who think that when they can’t have it, so can’t you. Those are usually the worst of the cattle people. But they definitely are not the majority.
A good example for the US is: Those who love the US Army & co are those who like people that actually stand up and do shit. (Even when soldiers are blind followers by definition. They still at least are supposed follow the one who stands up.) From my experience, most people in the US love the Army. (Here in Germany, that’s very different for example. People in uniforms are hated. Guess why... [which still is a problem in the German army]. And Germans are often said to just walk by and stare when someone is beaten up. Because of that.)
That’s a problem with the teachers being fucked up penpushers themselves.
But there is a solution: Do it outside of the school area. E.g. when going home. And if possible, when he’s alone. Because your typical wannabe-evil bully will be surprisingly friendly when he’s alone. And when you *then*, all alone, punish him, he will shit his pants for real. You don’t have to do much. Usually real fights are very short. But if you go away, and he ever dares to attack you from behind (be prepared!), I recommend stealing his clothes and throwing them in the trash. (IF you manage. But do not destroy them. Or his and your parents will make you pay them.)
Ok, maybe I am a bit evil right now. ^^ (But don’t worry: My motto is: I don’t hurt those who don’t hurt me. And if they do, I give back the same amount. I don’t escalate.)
While we’re at it: I also was always the target of all school bullies, since the first class. But my moment of change was the following: One boy used to take the mine out of a pen, and use it to shoot small spit-covered paper balls at me. This time, in class, he did it again. I turned around and loudly said: TRY THAT AGAIN! I turned back. Then another one hit me in the back.
I stood up, my chair fell backwards, I walked over, gave him the hardest punch I could manage right in the face, so that he, including his chair, fell backwards to the ground, and he stared at me like I’m from another planet. I turned around, went back, put my chair upright and sat down. Class continued as if absolutely nothing happened. My teacher had no reaction. Zero. Because she knew. She knew very well. And I bet she smiled inside.:)
After that, that guy only once tried again, to fuck with me. I told him this time there will be a real fight. Well, of course it was childish. But my plan was to appear batshit insane. (Saw the Prince of Bel Air the evening before, doing that strategy. Oh well...;) It worked. After I tried to put his head in a door and bite his fucking neck off, I let go shortly, and he ran away in terror. (I wouldn’t have actually done it, I’m not crazy. But it sure felt like it to him.:) But beware with that strategy: When other see you, they might also think you are insane and report you. If you trust them, tell them in advance. If not, who cares? (Maybe it’s even good.:)
Exactly. It’s only natural. Look at puppies. Most of their playing is fighting with each other. And it’s even more part of being male than female.
What all the penpushers (not saying I’m much better.:/) don’t realize, is that your body naturally produces cocaine-like hormones to counter the pain, and after a time, you are used to it. But with time, you also grow out of it and learn more efficient ways to solve confrontation. Or have resolved most of it anyway.
I will definitely not wrap my children in bubble wrap and 10 miles of super-padding. Sure, I will still protect them when they have no good chance of resolving it themselves (like with things that I have to teach them, or with much stronger enemies like kiddiefiddler priests). But in general I give them a chance to get that smile of pride of being able to do it themselves. Because nothing feels better than that success! And nothing motivates (mental) growth more.
Oh boy. You are not only wrong. Your opinion is literally dangerous.
There is no such thing as a mental and emotional health that you are born with. You decide it! BY deciding what you let others do to you. From as early on as possible.
This is a fundamental principle of human society: See “realities/mindsets/ideas” (how people think things are) as life-forms, fighting for growth and survival. And the question becomes: Do you let others dominate your sense of reality, or do you know better for yourself, what is right and wrong, and so and so? Option one means you are gonna get bullied. Because you let them. Despite them being no different than you. Option two means you that you don’t. (It also means that you can bully others, but of course you don’t have to. Instead if you do good, you will quickly gain power.)
But so many people fear confrontation. Because they aren’t trained in it. But how are you ever gonna win any confrontation (and there will be confrontations), if you always run away or give in? Also, simple math should show you the right answer anyway: beingBullied = days * (standardPain * (bullyingFactor + days * growthFactor)) standingUpToIt = standardPain * confrontationFactor Let’s say bullyingFactor (how bad the bullying feels, relative to average pain) is 0.1, and let’s say confrontationFactor (ditto, but for the fight) is 2.0, then even with 0.0 growthFactor, it becomes pretty clear that you hurt yourself much more in the long run, by not standing up to it. Also the longer you wait, the worse it gets.
Muhahahaaa! That’s the beautiful thing with my system: There is no need for a bill. There is no “allowing”. There is no choice. And there is no going back. It spreads (the goodness) like a virus. A virus that can not be stopped.
It would effectively cut off all GPLv2 and 3 distributions of Windows and Mac OS X binaries since regardless of how you look at it, there are portions of the build process which will never be open source.
Not true. For Windows there is Wine. And MacOS binaries can be compiled from Linux too. (Ever heard of cross-compiling.)
Of course if the binary includes non-open libraries, then that’s illegal in the first place.
And there is nothing apart from a compiler and the libraries, that you need to build that binary.
Which is not, in fact, a bad thing. If anything, we need to unify Linux even more, so it can start killing some commercial systems.
Hell no! Who is this “we”? Your multiple personalities?
Linux is not supposed to be unified. That is a strength! A good thing. And you know what it’s called?
It’s called freedom!
Linux does not need to win over every last retard. Linux does not need to become a drop-in imitation for Windows. Because that is like telling a spacecraft to imitate a car because people are used to cars. If you run behind something that moves freely, you can never catch up. Because it will have moved on to an unknown spot by the time you have reached its last known position. And even if you catch up, you still are not better and hence there still is no point in switching. This intentional limiting-itself and dumbing down is just plain horribly retarded.
Oh, and Linux already has won in terms of commercial operating systems (Unixes). It already is dominant on servers.
Zeroth we had FTP: Not hard to shut down. First we had one central server: Napster & co: Easy to shut down Then we had multiple servers: eDonkey & co: Still not hard to shut down. After that we went with a decentralized system: Gnutella & co: Pretty hard to impossible to shut down. And finally we started to anonymize and encrypt everything too: Darknets: Nearly impossible to shut down or sue.
But then came BitTorrent, and went back to eDonkey. (Yes, the eDonkey servers also were just indexing, and not containing or transferring any files.) But with a pointlessly complicated system to share something, and not even an integrated search. Which required to go back to the stone age of web sites to find something, and felt very much like FTP. (I know that this was intentional. But that does only make it even dumber.)
And all the idiots jumped on the bandwagon because it was “fast”. Yeah, well, every growing or big network is fast. Especially when you throw out all the protection.
Now we have the same old problems again, that we had in 2002. Way to go... good job!
Also nowadays you can always see your computer as a simulation lab, to make more complex thought experiments that you can’t fit into your brain in full detail.
Slashdot Mirror
You just don’t really use your PC. That’s all. ^^
Real men always go over the limit. Yeah!
And I can easily fill over 2GB in default operation, without even anything unusual running. :)
That’s because my motto is, that if I have it, then I’ll also use it!
No, it gets worse. Because SSDs are known to massively lose performance over time. Down to 1/8. Yes, even the newest ones.
And then they fail. Badly.
I won’t be touching an SSD, until it can *guarantee* me equal or better reliability than hard discs before those also started to get worse (some years ago). My data is too valuable for experiments. Sorry.
WTF. Wasn’t giving money or gifts to a government person once not only a crime but treason? (A crime that is[/was?] punished like murder.)
What happened, that someone who does it doesn’t instantly get shot? I mean isn’t it still law?
left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910
Does that mean someone is going to distill it down to 300 pages, inevitably introducing his own bias and priorities?
Let’s hope it’s not the Texas school board...
Ok, actually let’s hope it’s nobody. (There is no such thing as a physical object without “bias”.)
Unfortunately the Salk Institute failed to patent the technology, so a company named StemCells happily had it approved.
It’s not a valid patent! Since there is prior art!
Man... it always takes two idiots to fuck things up. One to do it, and one to accept it.
Well, since it is pretty much impossible, it might be too powerful for this universe. ;)
Then again, we might have a brand-new trans-universe vehicle. Tadaaaa!
Then the eyes caught fire.
And the fire caught your hair.
Until the firefighters caught your smoldering remains in a urn.
Now it’s your turn. ;)
I thought the magic word was “impossible”. Because every time someone says that, someone else will prove it possible only seconds later. Or at least die trying. ^^
Also: Someone, ages ago, said that something is impossible, and now we can do it... News at 11. :)
Bullshit. You definitely never went trough the country, actually asking that statistically significant amount of people, did you?
No. Of course not.
Because you just pulled that one out of your ass.
What you describe is called “crab mentality” by the way. People who think that when they can’t have it, so can’t you. Those are usually the worst of the cattle people. But they definitely are not the majority.
A good example for the US is: Those who love the US Army & co are those who like people that actually stand up and do shit. (Even when soldiers are blind followers by definition. They still at least are supposed follow the one who stands up.) From my experience, most people in the US love the Army.
(Here in Germany, that’s very different for example. People in uniforms are hated. Guess why... [which still is a problem in the German army].
And Germans are often said to just walk by and stare when someone is beaten up. Because of that.)
That’s a problem with the teachers being fucked up penpushers themselves.
But there is a solution: Do it outside of the school area. E.g. when going home. And if possible, when he’s alone.
Because your typical wannabe-evil bully will be surprisingly friendly when he’s alone.
And when you *then*, all alone, punish him, he will shit his pants for real.
You don’t have to do much. Usually real fights are very short.
But if you go away, and he ever dares to attack you from behind (be prepared!), I recommend stealing his clothes and throwing them in the trash. (IF you manage. But do not destroy them. Or his and your parents will make you pay them.)
Ok, maybe I am a bit evil right now. ^^
(But don’t worry: My motto is: I don’t hurt those who don’t hurt me. And if they do, I give back the same amount. I don’t escalate.)
While we’re at it: I also was always the target of all school bullies, since the first class.
But my moment of change was the following:
One boy used to take the mine out of a pen, and use it to shoot small spit-covered paper balls at me.
This time, in class, he did it again. I turned around and loudly said: TRY THAT AGAIN!
I turned back.
Then another one hit me in the back.
I stood up, my chair fell backwards, I walked over, gave him the hardest punch I could manage right in the face, so that he, including his chair, fell backwards to the ground, and he stared at me like I’m from another planet. I turned around, went back, put my chair upright and sat down. :)
Class continued as if absolutely nothing happened. My teacher had no reaction. Zero.
Because she knew. She knew very well. And I bet she smiled inside.
After that, that guy only once tried again, to fuck with me. I told him this time there will be a real fight. Well, of course it was childish. But my plan was to appear batshit insane. (Saw the Prince of Bel Air the evening before, doing that strategy. Oh well... ;) :) :)
It worked. After I tried to put his head in a door and bite his fucking neck off, I let go shortly, and he ran away in terror. (I wouldn’t have actually done it, I’m not crazy. But it sure felt like it to him.
But beware with that strategy: When other see you, they might also think you are insane and report you. If you trust them, tell them in advance. If not, who cares? (Maybe it’s even good.
Exactly. It’s only natural. Look at puppies. Most of their playing is fighting with each other. And it’s even more part of being male than female.
What all the penpushers (not saying I’m much better. :/) don’t realize, is that your body naturally produces cocaine-like hormones to counter the pain, and after a time, you are used to it.
But with time, you also grow out of it and learn more efficient ways to solve confrontation. Or have resolved most of it anyway.
I will definitely not wrap my children in bubble wrap and 10 miles of super-padding. Sure, I will still protect them when they have no good chance of resolving it themselves (like with things that I have to teach them, or with much stronger enemies like kiddiefiddler priests). But in general I give them a chance to get that smile of pride of being able to do it themselves. Because nothing feels better than that success! And nothing motivates (mental) growth more.
Oh boy. You are not only wrong. Your opinion is literally dangerous.
There is no such thing as a mental and emotional health that you are born with. You decide it! BY deciding what you let others do to you. From as early on as possible.
This is a fundamental principle of human society: See “realities/mindsets/ideas” (how people think things are) as life-forms, fighting for growth and survival.
And the question becomes: Do you let others dominate your sense of reality, or do you know better for yourself, what is right and wrong, and so and so?
Option one means you are gonna get bullied. Because you let them. Despite them being no different than you.
Option two means you that you don’t. (It also means that you can bully others, but of course you don’t have to. Instead if you do good, you will quickly gain power.)
But so many people fear confrontation. Because they aren’t trained in it. But how are you ever gonna win any confrontation (and there will be confrontations), if you always run away or give in?
Also, simple math should show you the right answer anyway:
beingBullied = days * (standardPain * (bullyingFactor + days * growthFactor))
standingUpToIt = standardPain * confrontationFactor
Let’s say bullyingFactor (how bad the bullying feels, relative to average pain) is 0.1, and let’s say confrontationFactor (ditto, but for the fight) is 2.0, then even with 0.0 growthFactor, it becomes pretty clear that you hurt yourself much more in the long run, by not standing up to it. Also the longer you wait, the worse it gets.
Muhahahaaa! That’s the beautiful thing with my system: There is no need for a bill. There is no “allowing”. There is no choice. And there is no going back.
It spreads (the goodness) like a virus. A virus that can not be stopped.
And a singer too: http://youtube.com/watch?v=57zsMfuTk1U
That’s what the FSF is for.
And they already got a long track record of “suing the bastards” for cases that are exactly like this one.
It would effectively cut off all GPLv2 and 3 distributions of Windows and Mac OS X binaries since regardless of how you look at it, there are portions of the build process which will never be open source.
Not true. For Windows there is Wine. And MacOS binaries can be compiled from Linux too. (Ever heard of cross-compiling.)
Of course if the binary includes non-open libraries, then that’s illegal in the first place.
And there is nothing apart from a compiler and the libraries, that you need to build that binary.
One of the companies still openly admitted that they violate the GPL:
one of them acknowledges that they are not fully GPL compliant, due to other license restrictions
I’d tell the FSF to sue them to hell and back! What is GPL? A second class license that can be just ignored due to some other stuff??
What the hell does sound mixing have to do with your browser? That’s what your mixer app is there for!
Hey, around here you MUST play video games for at least one hour every work day. Or get fired.
That’s the advantage of being in a game company. :)
But no other walls or roof.
That’s exactly what this is.
It’s like Facebook encrypting the http connection.
When it reaches the server, it is still sold off to everyone who pays money.
Which is not, in fact, a bad thing. If anything, we need to unify Linux even more, so it can start killing some commercial systems.
Hell no! Who is this “we”? Your multiple personalities?
Linux is not supposed to be unified. That is a strength! A good thing. And you know what it’s called?
It’s called freedom!
Linux does not need to win over every last retard. Linux does not need to become a drop-in imitation for Windows. Because that is like telling a spacecraft to imitate a car because people are used to cars. If you run behind something that moves freely, you can never catch up. Because it will have moved on to an unknown spot by the time you have reached its last known position. And even if you catch up, you still are not better and hence there still is no point in switching.
This intentional limiting-itself and dumbing down is just plain horribly retarded.
Oh, and Linux already has won in terms of commercial operating systems (Unixes). It already is dominant on servers.
but you didn’t listen.
Zeroth we had FTP: Not hard to shut down.
First we had one central server: Napster & co: Easy to shut down
Then we had multiple servers: eDonkey & co: Still not hard to shut down.
After that we went with a decentralized system: Gnutella & co: Pretty hard to impossible to shut down.
And finally we started to anonymize and encrypt everything too: Darknets: Nearly impossible to shut down or sue.
But then came BitTorrent, and went back to eDonkey. (Yes, the eDonkey servers also were just indexing, and not containing or transferring any files.) But with a pointlessly complicated system to share something, and not even an integrated search. Which required to go back to the stone age of web sites to find something, and felt very much like FTP. (I know that this was intentional. But that does only make it even dumber.)
And all the idiots jumped on the bandwagon because it was “fast”.
Yeah, well, every growing or big network is fast. Especially when you throw out all the protection.
Now we have the same old problems again, that we had in 2002. Way to go... good job!
so maybe chewing gum is the next option?
Actually, it is. Just that it’s itself made from oil. (= rubber parts)
Also nowadays you can always see your computer as a simulation lab, to make more complex thought experiments that you can’t fit into your brain in full detail.