It's because people are taught to not think for themselves and blindly follow the rules from a very early age. They are not taught to not cross the road when there could be cars running over them. They are taught to not cross them because the light is red. They are not taught to not do something because it is wrong. They are taught to not do it because the law forbids it.
So they never develop a own system of values, never learn that rules are just made-up and relative to the enforceable area, and end up thinking like that. It's sad, pathetic, and I hope I can protect my children from it.
Well. If there was a sentence before that, that included that same, it makes sense. But maybe it is some German thing, because in spoken German sentences like this are not that rare.
I got it too. I had to watch the whole TNG series last month, after seeing that they were available as a torrent. To be sure I did not miss a single episode back in the days. And this was one of those that I missed on TV.
I could imagine it becoming something like with GTA:SA on release.
If you can't remember it: That version of GTA for the PC was so buggy, that there were 4 places between starting it, and being inside the game, where it could crash. With nearly everyone being caught at one of those places. And from those that came trough, all nVidia users got horribly looking randomly positioned triangle vertices. And no patch from Rockstar in sight. But on gamecopyworld.com, there were already patches for every one of those bugs on official release date.
So if you bought the game, you were practically guaranteed to not be able to play it, until you went to some game cracker site and installed that stuff.
So I could imagine that somehow, patches for those XP bugs could pop up on some site. Probably coming from the same people that exploit them in the first place. (So they could protect themselves.)
That was exactly what I thought. Same stupid logic as the media industry.
How about I put some hot dog stand at the city center, and sue everyone who passes by to pay me for smelling them? Oh wait... the GEZ* in Germany already does that!
___ * Imagine a pay-TV program that you can't cancel, as long as you, or anyone that you live with, has a TV. No matter if you can watch or even receive it! (Seriously!)
To me certain research paths shouldn't be done _yet_, and left till later till humans and human societies are more ready to cope with the long term consequences and potential effects
No reason to wish for what is impossible to enforce.
That big red button thing already is cheap enough. Remember how they engineered a virus against the bunny plague in Australia? Do you think that is impossible for humans? Or even that hard nowadays? ^^
The second way would be, to hack the US nuke control system. But this is a bit harder I guess...
I think it is a good thing. But I would never link my ingame currency to any of those debt-based currencies (like the dollar) or (totally fake) nothing-based currencies (like the euro). I would link my ingame currency directly to gold. Thereby stopping it from going down with the rest of the "real" world (debt-based) economy. I would even print warehouse bonds (= paper money, same as the old, gold-based dollars) so they could be used in the real world.
Oh, and to avoid people gaming the software, the whole ingame economy would be controlled by a server-side-only interface/api, developed with the same methods that high-security banks develop their systems with, and with as little api complexity as possible (to avoid accidental bugs.)
And then I'd watch, how it takes over the dollar, as a more reliable normal every-day currency. ^^
You must be very, very retarded, or totally delusional to seriously wish there were no countries. It would result in there being one government. Which would result in there being no escape from the fucked-up rules they create. Which would result in a total loss of freedom in the long run.
Where would you go for asylum, if the world government happens to become a theater in the spotlight, and totalitarian behind the scenes? To the moon? There would be the same two-"party" play. The same fucked-up lobbies, only much much stronger, and no freedom for any differing points of view. It would become like Wikipedia. But without the language sub-domains.
I can't imagine anyone wanting that, except for 1. the totally uninformed and delusional, and 2. those that would then have the power in their hands.
Well, hmm... how about me being the one with the power then? ^^
The beginning flood was the BT program searching for sources and announcing itself to the network.
If you would have kept it running, it would have gone up again. Or there were not as much high-bandwidth users, so compete with the direct download server.
At least, that is my experience with P2P programs.
Hell must have frozen over, MS must have built a good OS, and we must have gotten a trillion in bailout money from the banks, because Africa kept us down. Or am I missing something here? ^^
No, because then it would not be that game anymore, but something completely different. You still can't possibly balance such a game. Only a different one, where the interface does not matter, as I said above.:)
They did already. From what I heard from internal sources, as much as possible of that stimulus package, goes into parties, sex, drugs, and hookers of the big bosses of all banking companies. Then into big houses and other material wealth. And so on. Unfortunately, with that much money, you can party a loooong time. So I guess it goes like the board game Go For Broke.;)
Yes, it does. It's called Windows Installer and has come with Windows since Windows 2000. Even the so called "Installer software" is just a pretty front-end to Windows Installer and a script generator.
You obviously do not understand, what a package manager is. Where is the functionality in Windows Installer, to search for Adobe Photoshop, and install it, only trough that interface? (Of course including billing). Or just to install Firefox with one command? Without downloading anything manually.
Except of course for the hundreds of drivers out there that do not come with the kernel and aren't part of the package repository.
Which ones? I have yes to come across a piece of hardware that i bought, and that did not have a driver either in the kernel, or installable with something like "emerge -atv nvidia-drivers". Show me those hundreds of drivers (amongst the thousands that are inside the kernel). Because I think you are full of crap or did not use any modern Linux distribution in the last 5-10 years. Sorry.
That's really beside the point. The original author was talking about driver development. There is no common driver binary interface, which makes it very difficult to create a single binary that can be used on all versions of the kernel (or even all versions of a major version).
No. We were talking about, how Linux is not ready for end-users, compared to Windows. RTFS.
This is patently untrue. It's called slipstreaming, and corporate IT departments do it all the time. Home users, not so much, but your "there is no way" comment shows ignorance on your part.
I said "a freshly installed OS". What part of "freshly" (without anything else) and "OS" (not supplemental 3rd-party apps, not supplemental 3rd-party drivers) don't you understand? Slipsteaming is what I mention in my next paragraph. But you conveniently did not quote that one, did you?
Install Ubuntu with the most basic settings you can select. You still will be able to use your hardware. Do the same to Windows. See how much works there. If you have real-world results to show, that prove me wrong, please come back. I would be very interested.
If the interfaces are the same, this is indeed an artificial problem. But playing a shooter on a PC against a console, or even a handheld game device, is a big no-no. Because you can't possibly balance such a game, and still make it fair. Final Fantasy XI could be played on a console and on a PC, because the differences in the interface did not matter for that game. But Quake on a Nintendo DSi against a full PC user... There would always someone complaining on the autotargeting and how the weaker interface has some assistance that makes them win just as often. (Because if those would not have the same chance, there would be no reason to play it.)
I hate those documents, where someone rambles on for 10 pages, about things like "to move your mouse, put your hand on the mouse... you know, that thing on the side of your keyboard. you have to push it. then look at the flat surface in front of you. do you see that little arrow on it. no not that on the right border. that is the scroll bar..." and so on.
The point that apparently not a single writer of documentation (or software for that matter) gets, is that you can't write in one level of detail, for all users. So you have to have a method to allow the user to increase and decrease the detail on the fly. Eg by allowing you to press "+" and "-" on a paragraph, and by internally using some kind of markup. Same thing with software. Let beginners use the mouse, show context help to everything, without being asked for it, and so on. In that context help, also show a more advanced method (like keyboard shortcuts). Then allow the user to slowly grow into an advanced mode, and then into pro mode. But only if he uses the software so much that he will remember this stuff. Because usually, the user will only learn and remember, what he has to, to be able to get what he want like he wants it.
How about we define a new help system for Linux. With a standardized file format, and multiple front-ends (which should also grow with the user). That format would be a composite document, of HTML, and another set of tags to define the level of detail. The front-end (eg a browser plug-in) would then allow users to zoom in on things they have problems to understand, and quickly skip unimportant parts, while still knowing that there is more. Also, already seen content should be marked as such, so that somebody who wants to know every detail, can use it to check things off.
Man pages are the reference. Every Software has (or should have) a reference documentation, and a guide. The short are called "HOWTO"s in linux. And the guides are located at tldp.org. When they mean RTFM, they usually mean that you should read the guide at this site, or something similar (like the KDE help for KDE), and if that isn't enough, read the reference.
If this does not solve it, you still can write a mail to the developers, or if this is not possible, ask in a forum or irc chat.
Just by being someone that the politicians have to compete with each other for your vote, you are taking part in Democracy.
You must be new here... (in a "democratic" country).
Since when do politicians care for you? They care for the lobby with the most power/money. And more often than not, they are also inside that lobby themselves. The whole "votes" and "parliament" game, is just that: A game, to have an excuse and scapegoat for you, to explain why things happen the way they happen. In reality: When was the last time, politicians did something for you? And who profited all the other times? Did those people even profit in the cases where you thought they did it for you?
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It's because people are taught to not think for themselves and blindly follow the rules from a very early age.
They are not taught to not cross the road when there could be cars running over them. They are taught to not cross them because the light is red.
They are not taught to not do something because it is wrong. They are taught to not do it because the law forbids it.
So they never develop a own system of values, never learn that rules are just made-up and relative to the enforceable area, and end up thinking like that.
It's sad, pathetic, and I hope I can protect my children from it.
Well. If there was a sentence before that, that included that same, it makes sense. But maybe it is some German thing, because in spoken German sentences like this are not that rare.
I got it too. I had to watch the whole TNG series last month, after seeing that they were available as a torrent. To be sure I did not miss a single episode back in the days. And this was one of those that I missed on TV.
I could imagine it becoming something like with GTA:SA on release.
If you can't remember it: That version of GTA for the PC was so buggy, that there were 4 places between starting it, and being inside the game, where it could crash. With nearly everyone being caught at one of those places. And from those that came trough, all nVidia users got horribly looking randomly positioned triangle vertices.
And no patch from Rockstar in sight.
But on gamecopyworld.com, there were already patches for every one of those bugs on official release date.
So if you bought the game, you were practically guaranteed to not be able to play it, until you went to some game cracker site and installed that stuff.
So I could imagine that somehow, patches for those XP bugs could pop up on some site. Probably coming from the same people that exploit them in the first place. (So they could protect themselves.)
That was exactly what I thought. Same stupid logic as the media industry.
How about I put some hot dog stand at the city center, and sue everyone who passes by to pay me for smelling them?
Oh wait... the GEZ* in Germany already does that!
___
* Imagine a pay-TV program that you can't cancel, as long as you, or anyone that you live with, has a TV. No matter if you can watch or even receive it! (Seriously!)
To me certain research paths shouldn't be done _yet_, and left till later till humans and human societies are more ready to cope with the long term consequences and potential effects
No reason to wish for what is impossible to enforce.
That big red button thing already is cheap enough. Remember how they engineered a virus against the bunny plague in Australia? Do you think that is impossible for humans? Or even that hard nowadays? ^^
The second way would be, to hack the US nuke control system. But this is a bit harder I guess...
...are you thinking the same thing that I'm thinking, Pinky? ^^
...embracing the unavoidable?
I think it is a good thing. But I would never link my ingame currency to any of those debt-based currencies (like the dollar) or (totally fake) nothing-based currencies (like the euro).
I would link my ingame currency directly to gold. Thereby stopping it from going down with the rest of the "real" world (debt-based) economy.
I would even print warehouse bonds (= paper money, same as the old, gold-based dollars) so they could be used in the real world.
Oh, and to avoid people gaming the software, the whole ingame economy would be controlled by a server-side-only interface/api, developed with the same methods that high-security banks develop their systems with, and with as little api complexity as possible (to avoid accidental bugs.)
And then I'd watch, how it takes over the dollar, as a more reliable normal every-day currency. ^^
Hey moderators! I got bags of humor on sale. Only $9.99 a pound. How about some?
You know, It makes the world a nicer place.
Wanna know why it's funny?
Because it's true.
Wisdom of the /crowds/. Bwahahahaha...
No countries = 1984 = death of freedom.
You must be very, very retarded, or totally delusional to seriously wish there were no countries.
It would result in there being one government.
Which would result in there being no escape from the fucked-up rules they create.
Which would result in a total loss of freedom in the long run.
Where would you go for asylum, if the world government happens to become a theater in the spotlight, and totalitarian behind the scenes? To the moon?
There would be the same two-"party" play. The same fucked-up lobbies, only much much stronger, and no freedom for any differing points of view.
It would become like Wikipedia. But without the language sub-domains.
I can't imagine anyone wanting that, except for
1. the totally uninformed and delusional, and
2. those that would then have the power in their hands.
Well, hmm... how about me being the one with the power then? ^^
It's NOT a DRM, it's just another way to squeeze more money from their customers.
I thought that was the very point of DRM.
And I still think this.
Why can't all trollings and first posts be that way? I -- for one -- lol'd.
The beginning flood was the BT program searching for sources and announcing itself to the network.
If you would have kept it running, it would have gone up again. Or there were not as much high-bandwidth users, so compete with the direct download server.
At least, that is my experience with P2P programs.
...based on the wisdom of crowds.
The what???
Hell must have frozen over, MS must have built a good OS, and we must have gotten a trillion in bailout money from the banks, because Africa kept us down.
Or am I missing something here? ^^
No, because then it would not be that game anymore, but something completely different. You still can't possibly balance such a game. Only a different one, where the interface does not matter, as I said above. :)
They did already. From what I heard from internal sources, as much as possible of that stimulus package, goes into parties, sex, drugs, and hookers of the big bosses of all banking companies. Then into big houses and other material wealth. And so on. Unfortunately, with that much money, you can party a loooong time. So I guess it goes like the board game Go For Broke. ;)
I could arrarange for that. But it's a bit costly. How about 100 million as a starting price?
I don't know about that. The Bush Family and Dick Cheney have made many billions of dollars off of fearmongering.
There, fixed that for you.
Yes, it does. It's called Windows Installer and has come with Windows since Windows 2000. Even the so called "Installer software" is just a pretty front-end to Windows Installer and a script generator.
You obviously do not understand, what a package manager is. Where is the functionality in Windows Installer, to search for Adobe Photoshop, and install it, only trough that interface? (Of course including billing). Or just to install Firefox with one command? Without downloading anything manually.
Except of course for the hundreds of drivers out there that do not come with the kernel and aren't part of the package repository.
Which ones? I have yes to come across a piece of hardware that i bought, and that did not have a driver either in the kernel, or installable with something like "emerge -atv nvidia-drivers". Show me those hundreds of drivers (amongst the thousands that are inside the kernel). Because I think you are full of crap or did not use any modern Linux distribution in the last 5-10 years. Sorry.
That's really beside the point. The original author was talking about driver development. There is no common driver binary interface, which makes it very difficult to create a single binary that can be used on all versions of the kernel (or even all versions of a major version).
No. We were talking about, how Linux is not ready for end-users, compared to Windows. RTFS.
This is patently untrue. It's called slipstreaming, and corporate IT departments do it all the time. Home users, not so much, but your "there is no way" comment shows ignorance on your part.
I said "a freshly installed OS". What part of "freshly" (without anything else) and "OS" (not supplemental 3rd-party apps, not supplemental 3rd-party drivers) don't you understand?
Slipsteaming is what I mention in my next paragraph. But you conveniently did not quote that one, did you?
Install Ubuntu with the most basic settings you can select. You still will be able to use your hardware. Do the same to Windows. See how much works there.
If you have real-world results to show, that prove me wrong, please come back. I would be very interested.
By the way: This is not different here in Germany.
Oh, and I love the Daily Show. Does this mean I am out of the axis of evil? *hopes*
Will the net ultimately spread American democracy, or just American entertainment?
What is this thing you are speaking of?
I always thought they were the same.
A theater to distract from what's really going on.
If the interfaces are the same, this is indeed an artificial problem.
But playing a shooter on a PC against a console, or even a handheld game device, is a big no-no.
Because you can't possibly balance such a game, and still make it fair.
Final Fantasy XI could be played on a console and on a PC, because the differences in the interface did not matter for that game.
But Quake on a Nintendo DSi against a full PC user... There would always someone complaining on the autotargeting and how the weaker interface has some assistance that makes them win just as often. (Because if those would not have the same chance, there would be no reason to play it.)
I hate those documents, where someone rambles on for 10 pages, about things like "to move your mouse, put your hand on the mouse... you know, that thing on the side of your keyboard. you have to push it. then look at the flat surface in front of you. do you see that little arrow on it. no not that on the right border. that is the scroll bar..." and so on.
The point that apparently not a single writer of documentation (or software for that matter) gets, is that you can't write in one level of detail, for all users.
So you have to have a method to allow the user to increase and decrease the detail on the fly. Eg by allowing you to press "+" and "-" on a paragraph, and by internally using some kind of markup.
Same thing with software. Let beginners use the mouse, show context help to everything, without being asked for it, and so on. In that context help, also show a more advanced method (like keyboard shortcuts). Then allow the user to slowly grow into an advanced mode, and then into pro mode. But only if he uses the software so much that he will remember this stuff. Because usually, the user will only learn and remember, what he has to, to be able to get what he want like he wants it.
How about we define a new help system for Linux. With a standardized file format, and multiple front-ends (which should also grow with the user).
That format would be a composite document, of HTML, and another set of tags to define the level of detail.
The front-end (eg a browser plug-in) would then allow users to zoom in on things they have problems to understand, and quickly skip unimportant parts, while still knowing that there is more.
Also, already seen content should be marked as such, so that somebody who wants to know every detail, can use it to check things off.
Man pages are the reference.
Every Software has (or should have) a reference documentation, and a guide.
The short are called "HOWTO"s in linux. And the guides are located at tldp.org.
When they mean RTFM, they usually mean that you should read the guide at this site, or something similar (like the KDE help for KDE), and if that isn't enough, read the reference.
If this does not solve it, you still can write a mail to the developers, or if this is not possible, ask in a forum or irc chat.
Just by being someone that the politicians have to compete with each other for your vote, you are taking part in Democracy.
You must be new here... (in a "democratic" country).
Since when do politicians care for you? They care for the lobby with the most power/money. And more often than not, they are also inside that lobby themselves.
The whole "votes" and "parliament" game, is just that: A game, to have an excuse and scapegoat for you, to explain why things happen the way they happen.
In reality: When was the last time, politicians did something for you?
And who profited all the other times? Did those people even profit in the cases where you thought they did it for you?
See...