AFAIK the aging of LCD screen has nothing to do with the image, it is only related to the brightness setting of the backlight.
A plasma screen (more of an issue for console games) on the other hand will age in the same way that a CRT does since every pixel has a coloured phosphor. Plasma can get that "burned image" effect as well.
Brightness values should have NEVER been bounded above in the first place
Ah, I see you have never designed any graphics related software or hardware whatsoever. While it is not possible to make truly unbounded colour brightness levels in graphics, it can be approximated with floating point arithmatic, clever gamma curves or just really big integers (32 bits per channel or so). All of which take a lot of processing power, a lot of memory or both. It has only been a recent thing that graphics card manufacturers have had the powerful technology at their disposal to even think about this, let alone implement these techniques. If we had not had the hack known as 24 bit colour for the last twenty years we would have had nothing.
Now I come to think about it, the author of that artical doesn't know much better: Radiosity is a way of rendering a scene using only visible light sources WTF? Radiosity is a way of rendering a scene by taking into account light bouncing between surfaces, being absorbed by surfaces and emitted at different wavelengths etc. Pretty much the oposite of what it describes since real radiosity will create an effect similar to ambient lighting. The artical is written by idiots for idiots.
I don't get that star trek short skirt stereotype. Granted, I've only really watched TNG and not that much of it either, but I was under the impression that Dr Crusher wears a lab coat over trousers and Counselor Troi wears the ugliest frilly lycra jumpsuit I have ever encountered. I also sure as hell wouldn't want to picture Captain/Admiral Janeway or that even older Admiral I can't remember the name of in tiny miniskirts.
But as far as I can tell, women seem to like miniskirts at least as much as I do. Especially those tiny denim ones that have been popular for the last two years and I used to love until I saw my sister in one. Think about the popularity of Alley McBeal with female audiences even when the popularity of miniskirts was at an all time low. It seems to be the consensus of most women I know that they would wear miniskirts regularly if they could know that they were safe from their bodies being criticized by other women. Of cause men know not to tease, since if he were to encourage an overweight woman to not wear miniskirts all her friends might be lead by peer pressure and of cause he has to think about the welfare of guys who have a thing for fat chicks.
However, there is one thing to consider about short skirts. In all societies that men and women both did/do wear skirts, including the Greeks up until a century ago, the ancient Egyptians and the Roman empire, it is/was always the women who wear the long garments and the men who wear the very, very short ones. This is of cause because of practicality since it was expected that a man be active in his day and a woman (at least a wealthy women) should be largely sedentary. Thus, it is obvious in todays times of neo-feminism where women neither aspire to masculinity (faded cargo pants with curry stains) nor conform to the oppressive mold of ancient times that a women wears something that is notably feminine in form but with a four millennium documented track record of practicality.
That's only if your school or CS department pays for a subscription to MSDNAA, it is not free.
Every single computer in the department runs debian linux. Except for the human computer interaction lab which runs OSX, the Cryptography and Security isolated hacking lab that runs Red Hat and the lecturers laptops which usually run Fedora. I have not seen a windows machine in the entire department. For some reason I really doubt that they are forking out dough to MS especially since they tell us that MS sucks so regually.
Microsoft has a program that allows computer science students to simply download or borrow a burnt copy of all of their products but office. My flatmate runs Microsoft Windows 2003 advanced server (very expensive) for free on his home computer for games, without breaking the law. Of cause most of the students at my uni who have real potential as professionals use Linux more, but Microsoft is trying very hard to turn M$ into MS as far as students are concerned. Interestingly enough, none of the potential MS drones I know of in the class even know about this program, it's only known about and used by dudes like me who have Windows only for games.
This is a Clinton era achievent. Everyone likes Clinton because he's smart, funny and good with the ladies. Frankly if Slick Willy wanted to come down here to Australia and be our PM I'd vote for him. Clinton might be just as right wing as the dude who we have now, but he'd be awesome at making sure all the ugly women get laid and that is of cause a national priority (hell, I don't want to do it). You guys aught to bring him back just like you did with FDR (also a good guy and also had a taste for ugly women) or you could vote for Hillary (who is too attractive for Clinton's taste but good for his career). Hillary might be a little further to the right than Bill, but she's earned herself the right to have and lie about at least ten extramarital affairs which will guarentee a barrel of laughs for your whole country.
Now it strikes me as appropriate that under Clinton, America was making great leaps to stop this STD. This is obviously so Clinton will eventually not have to dispose of his cigars after use. Clinton has a big interest in genetics because he comes from Arkansas so his parents are probably brother and sister. His interest in genetics has been explored with his distribution of genetic material all around the world, in fact, I have heard it told that the reason it is so hard to impress Chelsea is that she has no intention of having a relationship with her half brother (which statistically, most guys probably are).
So in conclusion, Clinton: smart, witty, a great leader, but also very easy to make fun of. In short, perfect head of state. It was so sad he never became chancellor of Oxford, that would be the coolest thing ever.
If you cannot disinguish them, maybe you should decline your mod points. Why someone would bother modding a post down when there are many other good posts to mod up defies logic at the best of time, but the parent was deliberately funny damnit.
You show a total lack of understanding regarding the motivation of free software developers. People might rant and rave about destroying windows on slashdot, but the people out there actually doing the work don't care about Windows. The goal of most developers has nothing to do with stealing windows user base by making their system appeal to them. The goal of most developers is to create the best software possible. Software must be reliable, efficient and easy to use enough for people to want to use it; whether people use it or not is wholly symptomatic. If free software developers are doing their job, the problem is not theirs, the problem is in the hands of the users for not using this software for their own gain. As the quality improves, the insentive to use it grows and not using this software becomes more of a problem.
So if you are some one dimention charactor sitting at home plotting to distroy Windows, migration becomes the top priority. But if you are a developer who takes pride it making top class software, thinking about windows is simply a waste of time, it is condemning oneself to always playing catchup. We would always have to think about compatibility before something potentially groundbreaking is done, and that conflicts with our aims. If I wanted people to use something who's greatest merit is its similiarity with Windows, I'd just promote Windows, it's as simple as that. If someone spends all their time making sure that everyone likes them they will amount to nothing. If software is good, it will be used, if not, it shouln't be used. Windows doesn't matter to Linux, Linux can keep going without another defection from Windows for decades. Linux gains fairly little from the computer apathetic and it can live without them for as long as it takes to become something attractive to them in its own right.
So if this means some people don't like Evolution or whatever, so be it. A successful person has a huge share of both friends and enemies, they make every desision based on what they should do, rather than what people like and if people get angry that is something that must be accepted. Linux will get nowhere thinking about those who "are fluent in another operating system" because people can become fluent in many things; people learn, that's what makes our species so good.
I've seen the grandparent five times before. It is a troll that is posted every time there is a story about linux on slashdot.
Interestingly enough, I've seen a fair number of "me too" posts after it. I've seen it modded to +4 insightful itself. There are many that consider it to be insightful and true. For many people that post, every time it comes up, represents their understanding of the topic and many wish that they could have summed it up like the grandparent does.
But what intrigues me is that every time it is posted, there is always at least one rebuttal that is well written, clear and insightful, and each time it has taken a completely different angle at the issue and has discredited its parent wholly and absolutely, dispite its parent echoing the sentiment of so many people who are overly critical of linux.
The grandparent has been posted many times and every time it is replied to. But though the responders have been trolled, they have not lost. For they continue to refute this same argument that will come up many times later, in many different wordings. The grandparent, though it is seen over and over is still the embodyment of adversary for linux advocasy, it is the misconception that must be set right. It will always be the white whale, the ticking crocodile and any other book or movie reference you can think of.
not only in a free country, but in the only country founded on individual rights.
I think this kind of self promotion is what pisses off other countries. This world has many stuck up self rightious arrogent countries and France only holds the lead by a tiny margin. Talking up one's own country's merits is possibly the worst thing that can be done in the UN. If I was an American diplomat I would rephrase that as:
America seems to be an allright place for the Internet doesn't it, so why don't we all go out for a beer?
Maybe then everyone could go home and get some work done tomorrow. Your argument would have the UN bickering for a year.
Imagine if cars were like that. $40k BMW today or wait until it's last year's model and it'd be only $20k
Yes, but you cannot buy a brand new BMW for $400. In fact I think you'd be VERY lucky if you could get one for $40k. You can get a very nice Athlon64 processor for that much though. Cars are very expensive, but you can pay $200 to have a cutting edge chip for another year. If one loves having a very nice computer, that sounds like a very nice deal to me.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 was far less than a gig (about half of one) and managed to have some pretty cutting edge content. Oh, and one must remember that the gamecube disks don't fit much more than 1 GB.
I'd suggest you stop looking. If you were to find a big pile of shells, your house would be considered both an archaeological site and a sacred place that would be regulated as such.
They are called middens and they are basically dumping grounds for used shellfish eaten by a community. In areas were there was no rock painting, they are the only perminent evidence of settlement.
You do not want to find one of those things where you live.
You just proved my point that BSD is just as heated with politics as Linux through your post. Thank you. Though it needs no reply to prove my point since that has been done for me, I may as well answer the questions asked of me.
And that's worse than having 300+ Linux distros?
Well it does cause a lot of code duplication. Repackaging can be done by people with fairly minimal skillsets, whereas rewriting the core of an OS takes quite a bit of skill. All linux distros use the same Kernel written by Linus and co. and the same basic C library and system tools written by GNU and simply add other things on top of it. Sure, they write their own initscripts, but basically all that is required for packaging is monkey work. The BSDs need tallented coders to maintain their fragmentation since they have to implement whole new features and there just isn't enough of them in the developer pool to do that. Thats why not all BSDs have good SMP support yet.
Yes, you do need to say more. He leads the development of one of the most secure OSes around. The man has a reputation for expressing his opinion, so what? How is he any different from RMS or ESR?
No different, no different at all, they are all excelent programmers who are all dripping with politics. That is my point.
After reading your your last 2 posts, I wonder a) how much have you actually used any of the "major BSDs" and b) how many conversations have you had with the Linux and BSD devs?
a) Quite a bit actually, I use a home webserver that runs FreeBSD. As I said before, I quite like BSD.
b) 2 and 1 respectively (if you only count kernel devs for both).
I've heard that BSD authors are completely apolitical many times. However I've read far too many rants about how this makes BSD far better than Linux to believe this to be anything other than blatant hypocrisy. BSD users take so much time to denounce the GPL as being not free enough and denounce other BSDs for not doing things the "right way" and denounce Linux as being a operating system for petty political children that any assertion that BSD people do not have politics is completely laughable.
You are forgetting:
* BSD does not have a standard widget set either, GTK+ and QT battle it out on that front as fiercely as any other.
* There arn't many distributions of BSD, no there are multiple completely rewritten operating systems from the core up. Free, Net and Open BSDs don't just rely on different package managers, they have completely different kernels and core libraries.
* Theo de Raadt is a BSD developer, not a Linux developer. Need I say more?
Linux has never had a major divergent fork. Can you name a BSD that has gone 10 years without one? That NetBSD/OpenBSD split was hardly amiable. FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD wasn't any more cooperative, it just had a little less Ad Hominem mailing list posts involved.
Don't get me wrong. I think that most of the major BSDs are great operating systems that work very nicely. It's just that the developers are not just arrogant, stubborn and counterproductive (like the Linux devs), they are smug about pretending they are not.
I havn't used Solaris much and I havn't used Unixware at all, but I've seen FreeBSD make mistakes with similar regularity as Linux. It's a good OS for sure, but there is nothing huge between it and Linux.
Part of the difference I think is that BSD currently has the same overwhelmingly competent userbase that it always had*. this makes it seem hugely more stable in the same way that Linux seemed more stable than it really is back in the '90s. Now, increasingly people are trying Linux where they may not have the same incredible computing skills as those who used it in the past and now users are making mistakes like they would on anything. BSD on the other hand is only known about by the top few echelons of mega geekdom and thus almost all of its users are extracted from there. Linux had a huge drop in apparent stability without any wrongdoings on its own part and there is no reason to believe that BSD would not have the same sort of things. A Linux setup resembling the default install of even Free BSD is as close to completely bulletproof as any BSDs I have encountered. When you slap on X, plug and play configuration daemons, Gnome/KDE and IM client, a bunch of games and whatever else that comes on something like Lindows, Mandriva or Fedora it starts to get a little saggy and gets a couple of bugs whether there is Linux or BSD at the core.
* Before some smartypants mentions OSX I would point out that if one believes it to be BSD in the same sense as Open, Free, Net, Dragonfly, etc. BSD they seriously need to actually sit down and use both of them on the same day. Something that uses a thin layer of BSD sandwiched between Mach and Aqua is completely different for all practical purposes.
It is tiny, one can cross it north to south in 6 hours or so, even dispite its frankly disgraceful road system.
It is a very nice place though. I'd advise anyone reading this to check it out if they ever feel like seeing Australia. Most tourists like to see stuff like wallabies, koalas, tassie devels and wambats and Tasmania is a great place to see them. Cradle mountain is an especially beautiful place to visit, though it's a little cold.
Yes, there are quite a few Maori in Australia, but they come from New Zealand and you'd find a hell of a lot more there (though less snakes and spiders).
Secondly, if saying Maoris are a reason not to move to a country isn't racist, I'm not sure what is.
He's clearly got an immense ego on him, probably big enough to warrant being divided up into 12 separate egos for tax purposes, but he did seem genuinely cooperative in that discussion.
The guy seemed reluctant to back down over doing things his way and reluctant to go to the trouble of explaining things as well as he should. This isn't perfect, but it isn't any worse than I have seen from any other open source developer I've met. There are FAR bigger jerks than him on the loose.
It should have been obvious to me that this is the case since you spelled it right later on. Anyway, this is irrelevant since it is a good excuse for slashdotters to read wikipedia articles for the hell of it.
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A plasma screen (more of an issue for console games) on the other hand will age in the same way that a CRT does since every pixel has a coloured phosphor. Plasma can get that "burned image" effect as well.
Ah, I see you have never designed any graphics related software or hardware whatsoever. While it is not possible to make truly unbounded colour brightness levels in graphics, it can be approximated with floating point arithmatic, clever gamma curves or just really big integers (32 bits per channel or so). All of which take a lot of processing power, a lot of memory or both. It has only been a recent thing that graphics card manufacturers have had the powerful technology at their disposal to even think about this, let alone implement these techniques. If we had not had the hack known as 24 bit colour for the last twenty years we would have had nothing.
Now I come to think about it, the author of that artical doesn't know much better: Radiosity is a way of rendering a scene using only visible light sources WTF? Radiosity is a way of rendering a scene by taking into account light bouncing between surfaces, being absorbed by surfaces and emitted at different wavelengths etc. Pretty much the oposite of what it describes since real radiosity will create an effect similar to ambient lighting. The artical is written by idiots for idiots.
Wasn't that made when every women wore a miniskirt?
But as far as I can tell, women seem to like miniskirts at least as much as I do. Especially those tiny denim ones that have been popular for the last two years and I used to love until I saw my sister in one. Think about the popularity of Alley McBeal with female audiences even when the popularity of miniskirts was at an all time low. It seems to be the consensus of most women I know that they would wear miniskirts regularly if they could know that they were safe from their bodies being criticized by other women. Of cause men know not to tease, since if he were to encourage an overweight woman to not wear miniskirts all her friends might be lead by peer pressure and of cause he has to think about the welfare of guys who have a thing for fat chicks.
However, there is one thing to consider about short skirts. In all societies that men and women both did/do wear skirts, including the Greeks up until a century ago, the ancient Egyptians and the Roman empire, it is/was always the women who wear the long garments and the men who wear the very, very short ones. This is of cause because of practicality since it was expected that a man be active in his day and a woman (at least a wealthy women) should be largely sedentary. Thus, it is obvious in todays times of neo-feminism where women neither aspire to masculinity (faded cargo pants with curry stains) nor conform to the oppressive mold of ancient times that a women wears something that is notably feminine in form but with a four millennium documented track record of practicality.
Every single computer in the department runs debian linux. Except for the human computer interaction lab which runs OSX, the Cryptography and Security isolated hacking lab that runs Red Hat and the lecturers laptops which usually run Fedora. I have not seen a windows machine in the entire department. For some reason I really doubt that they are forking out dough to MS especially since they tell us that MS sucks so regually.
By Nintendo standard, having to give them 1000% of your profits for software on their console actually qualifies as a discount.
Microsoft has a program that allows computer science students to simply download or borrow a burnt copy of all of their products but office. My flatmate runs Microsoft Windows 2003 advanced server (very expensive) for free on his home computer for games, without breaking the law. Of cause most of the students at my uni who have real potential as professionals use Linux more, but Microsoft is trying very hard to turn M$ into MS as far as students are concerned. Interestingly enough, none of the potential MS drones I know of in the class even know about this program, it's only known about and used by dudes like me who have Windows only for games.
Now it strikes me as appropriate that under Clinton, America was making great leaps to stop this STD. This is obviously so Clinton will eventually not have to dispose of his cigars after use. Clinton has a big interest in genetics because he comes from Arkansas so his parents are probably brother and sister. His interest in genetics has been explored with his distribution of genetic material all around the world, in fact, I have heard it told that the reason it is so hard to impress Chelsea is that she has no intention of having a relationship with her half brother (which statistically, most guys probably are).
So in conclusion, Clinton: smart, witty, a great leader, but also very easy to make fun of. In short, perfect head of state. It was so sad he never became chancellor of Oxford, that would be the coolest thing ever.
If you cannot disinguish them, maybe you should decline your mod points. Why someone would bother modding a post down when there are many other good posts to mod up defies logic at the best of time, but the parent was deliberately funny damnit.
Isn't being pedantic about language one of the sympoms of Asperger's syndome?
You show a total lack of understanding regarding the motivation of free software developers. People might rant and rave about destroying windows on slashdot, but the people out there actually doing the work don't care about Windows. The goal of most developers has nothing to do with stealing windows user base by making their system appeal to them. The goal of most developers is to create the best software possible. Software must be reliable, efficient and easy to use enough for people to want to use it; whether people use it or not is wholly symptomatic. If free software developers are doing their job, the problem is not theirs, the problem is in the hands of the users for not using this software for their own gain. As the quality improves, the insentive to use it grows and not using this software becomes more of a problem.
So if you are some one dimention charactor sitting at home plotting to distroy Windows, migration becomes the top priority. But if you are a developer who takes pride it making top class software, thinking about windows is simply a waste of time, it is condemning oneself to always playing catchup. We would always have to think about compatibility before something potentially groundbreaking is done, and that conflicts with our aims. If I wanted people to use something who's greatest merit is its similiarity with Windows, I'd just promote Windows, it's as simple as that. If someone spends all their time making sure that everyone likes them they will amount to nothing. If software is good, it will be used, if not, it shouln't be used. Windows doesn't matter to Linux, Linux can keep going without another defection from Windows for decades. Linux gains fairly little from the computer apathetic and it can live without them for as long as it takes to become something attractive to them in its own right.
So if this means some people don't like Evolution or whatever, so be it. A successful person has a huge share of both friends and enemies, they make every desision based on what they should do, rather than what people like and if people get angry that is something that must be accepted. Linux will get nowhere thinking about those who "are fluent in another operating system" because people can become fluent in many things; people learn, that's what makes our species so good.
Interestingly enough, I've seen a fair number of "me too" posts after it. I've seen it modded to +4 insightful itself. There are many that consider it to be insightful and true. For many people that post, every time it comes up, represents their understanding of the topic and many wish that they could have summed it up like the grandparent does.
But what intrigues me is that every time it is posted, there is always at least one rebuttal that is well written, clear and insightful, and each time it has taken a completely different angle at the issue and has discredited its parent wholly and absolutely, dispite its parent echoing the sentiment of so many people who are overly critical of linux.
The grandparent has been posted many times and every time it is replied to. But though the responders have been trolled, they have not lost. For they continue to refute this same argument that will come up many times later, in many different wordings. The grandparent, though it is seen over and over is still the embodyment of adversary for linux advocasy, it is the misconception that must be set right. It will always be the white whale, the ticking crocodile and any other book or movie reference you can think of.
I think this kind of self promotion is what pisses off other countries. This world has many stuck up self rightious arrogent countries and France only holds the lead by a tiny margin. Talking up one's own country's merits is possibly the worst thing that can be done in the UN. If I was an American diplomat I would rephrase that as:
Maybe then everyone could go home and get some work done tomorrow. Your argument would have the UN bickering for a year.
Yes, but you cannot buy a brand new BMW for $400. In fact I think you'd be VERY lucky if you could get one for $40k. You can get a very nice Athlon64 processor for that much though. Cars are very expensive, but you can pay $200 to have a cutting edge chip for another year. If one loves having a very nice computer, that sounds like a very nice deal to me.
Clothing designers have similar stereotypes applied to them as apple users. I wonder if they use the same naming schemes.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 was far less than a gig (about half of one) and managed to have some pretty cutting edge content. Oh, and one must remember that the gamecube disks don't fit much more than 1 GB.
They are called middens and they are basically dumping grounds for used shellfish eaten by a community. In areas were there was no rock painting, they are the only perminent evidence of settlement.
You do not want to find one of those things where you live.
Well it does cause a lot of code duplication. Repackaging can be done by people with fairly minimal skillsets, whereas rewriting the core of an OS takes quite a bit of skill. All linux distros use the same Kernel written by Linus and co. and the same basic C library and system tools written by GNU and simply add other things on top of it. Sure, they write their own initscripts, but basically all that is required for packaging is monkey work. The BSDs need tallented coders to maintain their fragmentation since they have to implement whole new features and there just isn't enough of them in the developer pool to do that. Thats why not all BSDs have good SMP support yet.
No different, no different at all, they are all excelent programmers who are all dripping with politics. That is my point.
a) Quite a bit actually, I use a home webserver that runs FreeBSD. As I said before, I quite like BSD.
b) 2 and 1 respectively (if you only count kernel devs for both).
You are forgetting:
* BSD does not have a standard widget set either, GTK+ and QT battle it out on that front as fiercely as any other.
* There arn't many distributions of BSD, no there are multiple completely rewritten operating systems from the core up. Free, Net and Open BSDs don't just rely on different package managers, they have completely different kernels and core libraries.
* Theo de Raadt is a BSD developer, not a Linux developer. Need I say more?
Linux has never had a major divergent fork. Can you name a BSD that has gone 10 years without one? That NetBSD/OpenBSD split was hardly amiable. FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD wasn't any more cooperative, it just had a little less Ad Hominem mailing list posts involved.
Don't get me wrong. I think that most of the major BSDs are great operating systems that work very nicely. It's just that the developers are not just arrogant, stubborn and counterproductive (like the Linux devs), they are smug about pretending they are not.
Part of the difference I think is that BSD currently has the same overwhelmingly competent userbase that it always had*. this makes it seem hugely more stable in the same way that Linux seemed more stable than it really is back in the '90s. Now, increasingly people are trying Linux where they may not have the same incredible computing skills as those who used it in the past and now users are making mistakes like they would on anything. BSD on the other hand is only known about by the top few echelons of mega geekdom and thus almost all of its users are extracted from there. Linux had a huge drop in apparent stability without any wrongdoings on its own part and there is no reason to believe that BSD would not have the same sort of things. A Linux setup resembling the default install of even Free BSD is as close to completely bulletproof as any BSDs I have encountered. When you slap on X, plug and play configuration daemons, Gnome/KDE and IM client, a bunch of games and whatever else that comes on something like Lindows, Mandriva or Fedora it starts to get a little saggy and gets a couple of bugs whether there is Linux or BSD at the core.
* Before some smartypants mentions OSX I would point out that if one believes it to be BSD in the same sense as Open, Free, Net, Dragonfly, etc. BSD they seriously need to actually sit down and use both of them on the same day. Something that uses a thin layer of BSD sandwiched between Mach and Aqua is completely different for all practical purposes.
Are you referring to the Treaty of Waitangi?
It is a very nice place though. I'd advise anyone reading this to check it out if they ever feel like seeing Australia. Most tourists like to see stuff like wallabies, koalas, tassie devels and wambats and Tasmania is a great place to see them. Cradle mountain is an especially beautiful place to visit, though it's a little cold.
Secondly, if saying Maoris are a reason not to move to a country isn't racist, I'm not sure what is.
The guy seemed reluctant to back down over doing things his way and reluctant to go to the trouble of explaining things as well as he should. This isn't perfect, but it isn't any worse than I have seen from any other open source developer I've met. There are FAR bigger jerks than him on the loose.
It should have been obvious to me that this is the case since you spelled it right later on. Anyway, this is irrelevant since it is a good excuse for slashdotters to read wikipedia articles for the hell of it.