Theres a direct relationship between social skills and tips
What's odd, is that I've often heard that it's not the relationship one might expect. Rather, people who are really upity with the customers actually wind up getting better tips by the end of the day than those who were nice to everyone. I think the logic behind it was that the big tippers, and people who don't have much of a choice such as guys on early dates, are going to cough up about the same amount no matter what. The people who actually have to be coaxed into giving a tip usually give so little that the difference is more than made up for in the amount of extra tables covered by cold to mean wait staff. That said, I find it pretty sad if that actually is the situation. Of course learning that might be an important social lesson for the kid as well, even if not the one we might wish he'd learn.
I too have to label this as being more insightful than funny. I think the main problem here is motivation rather than inability. Social relationships betwean kids of that age are somewhat complex, but nothing that someone of above average intelligence shouldn't be able to out-think most of the time. But only if they had good reasons to devote such a huge chunk of their time and energy into it. Not to mention being willing to pretty much live a lie. A few years ago This American Life had a story of a girl who did pretty much that in high school, going through teen magazines and indexing social trends on her computer, making deliberate spelling mistakes, not doing 'quite' as well in class. She did a pretty good job of it, but the main point is that she had motivation and a reson to do it - after that the actual implementation wasn't very hard.
They should have recognised the chip was defective right at the start. As someone who's lived here a couple years, I can verify that the strongest profanity he says there is, in fact, the word Montana.
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Or worse, someone who bought a Linux machine at WalMart and wants to run Freeamp, er, Zinf. Will they succeed building this on Thiz Linux? What do you think?
Well, yes. Because they won't be building it, they'll just be clicking on the click n' run thing in lindows.
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Who cares if Real developed for Linux if it's bad software in the first place?
Because having the codecs as well as the player ported means that one dosn't need to depend on the player anymore - using something like xine or mplayer over them then becomes an option. But even aside from that, I always thought the linux version of real player was pretty nice in comparison to the windows version.
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I hadn't tried real's helix player for months, and decided to give it a try a couple days back when I found a link mplayer didn't seem to like. If anyone's looking for an official player from real that actually seems well designed, they might want to give it a chance. The Linux client at least seemed really nice. Clean gtk2 based gui, uncluttered interface, and it dosn't seem to want to do much aside from playing audio and video. The only downside is that it's nearly as much of a pain to find on the helix site as the free version of realplayer is on real's site. Otherwise I think pointing to it might be a viable option for companies providing real streams.
We live in a time where people will vote for American Idol contestants (25+ million a week watch that shit) but we can't get anyone to vote for who runs our country.
The difference is that there's a broad enough base in American Idle that the viewer has a high chance of finding someone who represents their own artistic taste. I've never found my beliefs represented by either of the two main political parties in the US. And while I will occasionally vote for the green or libertarian party, whose canidates at least sometimes come close, I can understand why someone else in my position wouldn't even bother. Even if every other person in the country who felt disinfranchised by the system did the same, there's enough people who root for political parties like football fans with blind unquestioning alligence, that there's no chance of a third party breaking through to presidency. So, I really don't think it's at all a fair comparison.
In my opinion, yes. Especially with the combination of KDE 3.2. I primarily use Debian Unstable, but like to give the more priminant desktop focused distros a run every now and again - both out of curiosity and to know what to recomend to people itnerested in making a transition from Windows to something like it in Linux. Mandrake's always been a little faster than Debian on my installs, but not enough to convince me to patch and recompile the kernel in Debian to make it a bit more like Mandrake's layout. But when I tried out an early relase of Mandrake 10, it impressed me to the point that the first thing I did upon booting back into Debian was to install 2.6 and upgrade to kde 3.2. While I wouldn't call the combined improvement mindblowing, it was significant enough to convince me to undertake a somewhat lengthy upgrade process - and I'm more than happy with the end result.
I've been using Dosbox for quite a while now in Linux. While there's still a lot of games it won't play, amazingly, it actually handles every dos game I own. Which, while not a huge amount, has been enough to really impress me. Especially nice is the anti-aliasing, which does a nice job of depixilating a lot of them to some extent. None of the dos games I own have any networking aspects, but I can at least say the sound seems perfect in them to me.
The only people that Like Linux either hate MS or think it is a fun hobby.
Look, do me a favor. Don't tell me what I think, and I won't tell you what you think. I actually like some aspects of windows, don't have any opinion of microsoft one way or the other, but find Linux to be more user friendly and oriented to my needs than Windows. But here's the kicker - I'm not about to take such a haughty position as to say that anyone who dosn't share the same prefrences in use as me is either deluded or an idiot, which is what you seem to be saying.
you (read: all of us) say Linux is secure.... how much of that is "security by obscurity?"
How much does it matter? Do you really think it's likley that Linux is going to have 30% or higher of the desktop market share at any point, or at least any point in a period of time worth speculating about? But in any case Linux has two things going for it besides that, users aren't running as root and there's no single "linux" to target. The different distros do a pretty good job creating enough incompatibility that it's hard to get something from one running on another when the user is even activly trying to do so.
They already do stomp Linux into the ground with better products and services
Yah, I hope one day GCC can match the amazing amount of platforms VS can compile to. That Konqueror can match the security, speedy bugfixes, standards compliance, and wonderful png support of IE. I also envy the ability to manually update programs by manually installing updates for every program on ones system rather than just hitting an update button to upgrade all installed programs. I only hope that one day I might save up enough money to buy WindowsXP and be let in on this wonderful world.
Basically a free, open-source version of the.Net framework and C# compiler distributed by Microsoft. It is supported on Windows, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.
I also read an interesting article about trying to get rotor to compile in Linux.
Honestly, what did you expect? That episode's a day to over a week old depending on where one lives. If I hadn't seen it, there's no way I'd read a slashdot discussion on the franchise because it's obvious details of the most recent couple episodes would turn up.
Weird that they'd compare it, they seem about as different in setting and style as any two games could be. That said, I really loved both of them. Oddly, just a few weeks ago I was thinking about some older games (specifically torg and paranoia) and wondering what ever became of them.
Randy the wonder lizard! When I saw this article, he was the fist thing that leaped to my mind. While it deviated a bit from the norm, or what norm there was in the game, that module was easily my favorite. But whether that one gets a rerelease as well, I'm just glad to be seeing Paranoia introduced to a new generation, which I think will be able to appreciate it even more than the one around when the game first came out.
I don't see any reason why Boa wouldn't work in osx. Last I heard its wxpython port was working fine.
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That really bugs me too. I don't have much money at the moment, but I'd be more than happy to spend it on a movie with quality writing and ideas. I've had to think that way too many times with movies like these. I want to buy it, I'm sure they'd love to get my money, but there's no way to do it. Even more annoying, the second choice to just get the thing off p2p has never worked for me either. You can find comercial stinkers like house of the dead represented over and over again, but anything indi or indi'ish is usually pretty scarce to nonexistant. Which would be cool in a way, I think they need the money more than a big studio. But my ideals shrink a bit when it becomes the only way I'd be able to see something like this at all.
A digital distribution system seems exactly what they need. They'd win because they'd get a way to earn any money from the public at large and have a way to get their story out there, while the public would win from hopefully lower prices without actual printing needed, and from just having a way to see the thing at all.
Linux has ZERO capabilies to deliver any media that is not OPEN.
Seems like it's been doing fine with real's closed format and codecs for quite a while. Even aside from their closed source player for linux, real's helix player is a nice compramise. It keeps real's codecs closed, but allows for development or modification of things like the gui or which sound api to use.
While in a large sense I do agree, I nonetheless think it's going to be a help to desktop adoption. Just getting name recognition from TV in a lot of ways might act as a validator. Putting a whole new system on one's most expensive applience is a pretty daunting experience for a lot of people, and I think many of them would be reassured that their TV has told them that this Linux thing isn't just a toy used by geeks, but rather a real professional IBM thing. They might not yet know to ask for it, but if someone suggests it as a solution and explains what it is, it might give them the extra bit of confidence to try.
Though in any case, even word of mouth seems to be doing pretty well. I'm finding it more common for people to mention thinking about using Linux - OK, not huge common, but the fact that it's turning up at all in conversation with non computer geeks is amazing to me.
Four or five hours ago. I havn't used it for music in ages, but the majority of the talk radio shows I listen to are only broadcast on the internet via real's stuff.
I think you're missing where the venom is coming from. A lot, if not most of the nastier comments are from people complaining about ads and hidden free versions - which dosn't apply to the Linux/BSD users. The few people mentioning the Linux player seemed quite happy with the level of support, I know I am. It's rare to have the good version of a popular program running on Linux while Windows is stuck with the lessor! I'm even happier with the Linux builds of Helix, nice to be able to pick the sound api to be used.
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Theres a direct relationship between social skills and tips
What's odd, is that I've often heard that it's not the relationship one might expect. Rather, people who are really upity with the customers actually wind up getting better tips by the end of the day than those who were nice to everyone. I think the logic behind it was that the big tippers, and people who don't have much of a choice such as guys on early dates, are going to cough up about the same amount no matter what. The people who actually have to be coaxed into giving a tip usually give so little that the difference is more than made up for in the amount of extra tables covered by cold to mean wait staff. That said, I find it pretty sad if that actually is the situation. Of course learning that might be an important social lesson for the kid as well, even if not the one we might wish he'd learn.
I too have to label this as being more insightful than funny. I think the main problem here is motivation rather than inability. Social relationships betwean kids of that age are somewhat complex, but nothing that someone of above average intelligence shouldn't be able to out-think most of the time. But only if they had good reasons to devote such a huge chunk of their time and energy into it. Not to mention being willing to pretty much live a lie. A few years ago This American Life had a story of a girl who did pretty much that in high school, going through teen magazines and indexing social trends on her computer, making deliberate spelling mistakes, not doing 'quite' as well in class. She did a pretty good job of it, but the main point is that she had motivation and a reson to do it - after that the actual implementation wasn't very hard.
They should have recognised the chip was defective right at the start. As someone who's lived here a couple years, I can verify that the strongest profanity he says there is, in fact, the word Montana.
Or worse, someone who bought a Linux machine at WalMart and wants to run Freeamp, er, Zinf. Will they succeed building this on Thiz Linux? What do you think?
Well, yes. Because they won't be building it, they'll just be clicking on the click n' run thing in lindows.
Who cares if Real developed for Linux if it's bad software in the first place?
Because having the codecs as well as the player ported means that one dosn't need to depend on the player anymore - using something like xine or mplayer over them then becomes an option. But even aside from that, I always thought the linux version of real player was pretty nice in comparison to the windows version.
I hadn't tried real's helix player for months, and decided to give it a try a couple days back when I found a link mplayer didn't seem to like. If anyone's looking for an official player from real that actually seems well designed, they might want to give it a chance. The Linux client at least seemed really nice. Clean gtk2 based gui, uncluttered interface, and it dosn't seem to want to do much aside from playing audio and video. The only downside is that it's nearly as much of a pain to find on the helix site as the free version of realplayer is on real's site. Otherwise I think pointing to it might be a viable option for companies providing real streams.
Check the helix site. I havn't tried it in ages, but at least some point they had a partially open source encoder.
Think of it as the newer VB runtimes
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I thought you were trying to make him less scared
We live in a time where people will vote for American Idol contestants (25+ million a week watch that shit) but we can't get anyone to vote for who runs our country.
The difference is that there's a broad enough base in American Idle that the viewer has a high chance of finding someone who represents their own artistic taste. I've never found my beliefs represented by either of the two main political parties in the US. And while I will occasionally vote for the green or libertarian party, whose canidates at least sometimes come close, I can understand why someone else in my position wouldn't even bother. Even if every other person in the country who felt disinfranchised by the system did the same, there's enough people who root for political parties like football fans with blind unquestioning alligence, that there's no chance of a third party breaking through to presidency. So, I really don't think it's at all a fair comparison.
In my opinion, yes. Especially with the combination of KDE 3.2. I primarily use Debian Unstable, but like to give the more priminant desktop focused distros a run every now and again - both out of curiosity and to know what to recomend to people itnerested in making a transition from Windows to something like it in Linux. Mandrake's always been a little faster than Debian on my installs, but not enough to convince me to patch and recompile the kernel in Debian to make it a bit more like Mandrake's layout. But when I tried out an early relase of Mandrake 10, it impressed me to the point that the first thing I did upon booting back into Debian was to install 2.6 and upgrade to kde 3.2. While I wouldn't call the combined improvement mindblowing, it was significant enough to convince me to undertake a somewhat lengthy upgrade process - and I'm more than happy with the end result.
I've been using Dosbox for quite a while now in Linux. While there's still a lot of games it won't play, amazingly, it actually handles every dos game I own. Which, while not a huge amount, has been enough to really impress me. Especially nice is the anti-aliasing, which does a nice job of depixilating a lot of them to some extent. None of the dos games I own have any networking aspects, but I can at least say the sound seems perfect in them to me.
The only people that Like Linux either hate MS or think it is a fun hobby.
Look, do me a favor. Don't tell me what I think, and I won't tell you what you think. I actually like some aspects of windows, don't have any opinion of microsoft one way or the other, but find Linux to be more user friendly and oriented to my needs than Windows. But here's the kicker - I'm not about to take such a haughty position as to say that anyone who dosn't share the same prefrences in use as me is either deluded or an idiot, which is what you seem to be saying.
you (read: all of us) say Linux is secure.... how much of that is "security by obscurity?"
How much does it matter? Do you really think it's likley that Linux is going to have 30% or higher of the desktop market share at any point, or at least any point in a period of time worth speculating about? But in any case Linux has two things going for it besides that, users aren't running as root and there's no single "linux" to target. The different distros do a pretty good job creating enough incompatibility that it's hard to get something from one running on another when the user is even activly trying to do so.
They already do stomp Linux into the ground with better products and services
Yah, I hope one day GCC can match the amazing amount of platforms VS can compile to. That Konqueror can match the security, speedy bugfixes, standards compliance, and wonderful png support of IE. I also envy the ability to manually update programs by manually installing updates for every program on ones system rather than just hitting an update button to upgrade all installed programs. I only hope that one day I might save up enough money to buy WindowsXP and be let in on this wonderful world.
Basically a free, open-source version of the .Net framework and C# compiler distributed by Microsoft. It is supported on Windows, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.
I also read an interesting article about trying to get rotor to compile in Linux.
Honestly, what did you expect? That episode's a day to over a week old depending on where one lives. If I hadn't seen it, there's no way I'd read a slashdot discussion on the franchise because it's obvious details of the most recent couple episodes would turn up.
Weird that they'd compare it, they seem about as different in setting and style as any two games could be. That said, I really loved both of them. Oddly, just a few weeks ago I was thinking about some older games (specifically torg and paranoia) and wondering what ever became of them.
Randy the wonder lizard! When I saw this article, he was the fist thing that leaped to my mind. While it deviated a bit from the norm, or what norm there was in the game, that module was easily my favorite. But whether that one gets a rerelease as well, I'm just glad to be seeing Paranoia introduced to a new generation, which I think will be able to appreciate it even more than the one around when the game first came out.
I don't see any reason why Boa wouldn't work in osx. Last I heard its wxpython port was working fine.
That really bugs me too. I don't have much money at the moment, but I'd be more than happy to spend it on a movie with quality writing and ideas. I've had to think that way too many times with movies like these. I want to buy it, I'm sure they'd love to get my money, but there's no way to do it. Even more annoying, the second choice to just get the thing off p2p has never worked for me either. You can find comercial stinkers like house of the dead represented over and over again, but anything indi or indi'ish is usually pretty scarce to nonexistant. Which would be cool in a way, I think they need the money more than a big studio. But my ideals shrink a bit when it becomes the only way I'd be able to see something like this at all.
A digital distribution system seems exactly what they need. They'd win because they'd get a way to earn any money from the public at large and have a way to get their story out there, while the public would win from hopefully lower prices without actual printing needed, and from just having a way to see the thing at all.
Linux has ZERO capabilies to deliver any media that is not OPEN.
Seems like it's been doing fine with real's closed format and codecs for quite a while. Even aside from their closed source player for linux, real's helix player is a nice compramise. It keeps real's codecs closed, but allows for development or modification of things like the gui or which sound api to use.
While in a large sense I do agree, I nonetheless think it's going to be a help to desktop adoption. Just getting name recognition from TV in a lot of ways might act as a validator. Putting a whole new system on one's most expensive applience is a pretty daunting experience for a lot of people, and I think many of them would be reassured that their TV has told them that this Linux thing isn't just a toy used by geeks, but rather a real professional IBM thing. They might not yet know to ask for it, but if someone suggests it as a solution and explains what it is, it might give them the extra bit of confidence to try.
Though in any case, even word of mouth seems to be doing pretty well. I'm finding it more common for people to mention thinking about using Linux - OK, not huge common, but the fact that it's turning up at all in conversation with non computer geeks is amazing to me.
Not to mention, there is a Linux port for some PocketPCs, and you know what? It sucks compared to Windows Mobile 2003
What 'it' are you talking about? There's quite a few different distros that can run on a pocketpc.
Four or five hours ago. I havn't used it for music in ages, but the majority of the talk radio shows I listen to are only broadcast on the internet via real's stuff.
Would spend time on Mac/Win32 instead...
I think you're missing where the venom is coming from. A lot, if not most of the nastier comments are from people complaining about ads and hidden free versions - which dosn't apply to the Linux/BSD users. The few people mentioning the Linux player seemed quite happy with the level of support, I know I am. It's rare to have the good version of a popular program running on Linux while Windows is stuck with the lessor! I'm even happier with the Linux builds of Helix, nice to be able to pick the sound api to be used.