Unless this preacher is able to get his followers to switch to Macs or spend a few months learning to run GNU/Linux, then he has no real clout on this issue.
Gott mit SuSE. (Sorry, I couldn't help but recall some recent celebrations or resist the straight line - double groaner.)
Why not ask your distribution to get LSB-certified instead?
If you're that keen on the LSB, then why not make your opinion known by using a certified distro and not worry about the rest? If enough people agree, the other distros will fall in line or fade away. If not, then life continues on, and the LSB really isn't so important after all.
You either work for MSFT and want linux to fail or you are an elitist geeky snob who wants to keep linux usage to the elite. Perhaps you are afraid that if it goes mainstream, you will not be seen as "cool" by the linux community.
I can't speak for the GP, but not being a proponent of the LSB has nothing to do with being geeky. I figure if the LSB was such a great idea, all the distros would have signed up en masse. I'll leave it up to the true geeks, the people who build the distros, to decide how best to do it. Personally, I think a little diversity between distros might be beneficial - it makes it tougher for Linux to become a breeding ground for malware like that other OS.
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I think the BSD folks would be a little torqued about that.
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It was an old joke, like every exotic animal, snakes, eagles, turtles, etc., is reputed to taste like chicken. As an aside, I can testify that cooked rattlesnake actually does taste a lot like chicken. Catching and cleaning them, however, is more trouble than it's worth.:)
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Penguin would likely taste very fishy.
Geez. Everybody knows that penguin tastes like chicken.
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Not very good. They are mostly fat, and their blood is rich in oxygen which turns their meat an unapetizing dark color when cooked.
What does the color have to do with taste? *Sniff* Harrh, methinks I smell more troll than toasty penguin here. You were the guy clubbing the baby seal last week, weren't you?
GTA is over the top and has always been presented as pure escapism, so I don't consider it to be in the same class.
Really. There are people suing Take2 because the game was so realistic it allegedly made their kids go out and commit crimes. People are suing Take2 because dialog in the games allegedly leads to racist hate crimes. Your distinctions appear to be less than widely accepted.
Miltary-themed games like the stuff that Ubi puts out under the Tom Clancy banner, various combat flight sims, serious war games, etc. put you in a role where you're trying to use realistically-simulated tactics and gear to accomplish a goal that would be a goal of the real-world military. In some senses this constitutes an endorsement of the military's real-world goals. If you're trying to imitate them, then you must want to be like them, and why would you want to be like them if you didn't agree with what they were doing?
I've played every MOH, and Conflict game including Desert Storm, Call to Duty, a couple of Vietnam FPS games, and a number I don't care to remember. I'm still opposed to the war in Iraq, so I guess it just didn't take with me. The point of playing a GAME is to beat the game or an opponent by the GAME's rules. Playing chess doesn't make me want to be Bobby Fischer any more than SC makes me want to be Sam Fisher.
I'm still playing UT2004 every night, and I've got Chaos Theory waiting on me to finally finish the first SC game (Pandora Tomorrow was easy.. SC1 is not), so I don't have any 'bigger problems' - this is just something I think about from time to time.
If you're paranoid about being turned into a death-dealing uber-soldier by playing video games because gaming is a really important part of your life, then yes, you have a "bigger problem." Either get a grip or expand your interests so that gaming is merely a part-time activity.
I feel guilty for enjoying military-themed PC games because of their inherent propaganda qualities. Lately I've been wondering if even just playing the games makes me a bad person considering the current state of the world.
Despite years of playing GTA, I have never been a gang member, robbed anyone, killed anyone AFAIK, stolen an Apache gunship, hijacked a car, or listened to rap music by choice. Games are escapism, not a pledge of fidelity to a character's lifestyle -- unless you have a much bigger problem.
While it's great that we all have different tastes, I can't help but think that if people gave the more cerebral and challenging games, Thief in particular, a chance they could come to enjoy it.
If people don't give the more cerebral (and really good) games, like Ico, a chance, the game companies won't make any more, and none of us will get the chance to play them. The way it's going, it'll be just Devil May Cry 4, 5, and 6 - not that DMC isn't a good game, but it's nice to have something different once in a while.
They say if you only have a PS2 you wont miss the differences, but I sure did with PT. Going to pass on CT - maybe give it a once over on rental, because it really is a massively fun series, but only if you have an Xbox or PC.
I posted something about this further up, but the big problems with the PS2 version of Pandora Tomorrow were the holes in the storyline and the dialog that didn't make sense. They didn't put much effort into making the PS2 version work.
Ubisoft does some good stuff, like Beyond Good and Evil, but I certainly wasn't impressed by the hatchet job they did on Pandora Tomorrow for the PS2. At one point, Sam's female contact tells him to make his way across the rooftops and if she sees him again, she'll quit the operation. You can't get to the rooftops, and in order to continue the game, you have to follow her and talk to her again. The whole storyline was full of holes.
After reading a walkthrough by someone who wrote it for both the Xbox and PS2, the problem was obvious. The PS2 version was about two-thirds of the Xbox version, and they hadn't even bothered to change the dialog to match the chopped up game. I'll wait to pick up this one used - I'm not going to pay full price for part of a game.
Does that apply in a country where you can buy legislation? SCO is Microsoft's paid stooge in this fray, and it's just the opening round to allow MS to range the target. As an entity, MS may be evil, but it's not stupid. Witness the terrible punishment from the DOJ. Hmm . . . MS is the tail that wags the DOJ?
To me, the BSD license is based on; "I shared with you and you made it better, now I'm going back to work and outdo you."
To me, the BSD license says, "The community invested a huge amount of work in this code. Feel free to incorporate into your private product and charge users through the nose for it while pretending it's yours. Don't feel obligated to give back anything in return, and feel free to bash FOSS as insecure, and inferior while you use and profit from it."
Yes, lets post news stories so obfuscated that they need another story posted just to explain what the hell was said in the first story! Why stop at just one level of obfuscation, why dont we have stories that require four or five or even six degrees of obfuscation and reporting just to get the original content of the first article across as coherent thought?
I appears that you are not really eligible for the upward management career track and are not a team player. It will be noted on your performance review.
And in a year or two, there will be paths worn in the grass where people don't walk on the existing pavement that was put down where people walk. (I've seen exactly this happen at two other schools.)
Whenever you change the main path, you also invite new shortcuts, Grasshopper.:)
I guess I didn't get the joke. The BSOD "standard" is not implemented by more that one OS as far as I can tell. The rest of us have to put up with killing and restarting X in the unlikely event of a major disaster. If MS was willing to GPL the code for the BSOD, then maybe it could become the true ultimate standard of failure.
The study in question was specifically measuring the effects of DST compared to the same months without DST: they extended DST into March and April for '73, '74, and found that, compared to '75, DST saved energy, about 1%, due to decreased light and appliance usage.
It's too bad there were no links showing the methodology. Since I lived through that period, I still believe there were too many controls, initiatives, policies and penalties being used to allow any meaningful comparisons. By '75, restrictions were being lifted and voluntary cutbacks were waining. I'd have expected the difference to be far greater than 1% just due to economics. One of the linked pages did have some quotes actually showing that DST is really just a bandaid.
That the intensified production of modern conveniences, chief among which is the electric light, has been a contributory factor in this artificial condition is fairly certain. With a work-day running well toward sunset, man has gradually come to associate his recreational hours with the onset of artificial lighting, and the evening hours have provided for his leisure time. The result is that he needs to sleep longer in the morning, and thus the vicious circle starts.
and my new motto
Why interfere with God and Greenwich?
Seems like a significant saving since it happens for free.
It isn't free when measured in human terms, and I'd still like to see some related productivity figures.
As for people complaining about the switch, and how it affects their internal clock, I sympathize, but I think the solution is to switch to DST all year.
As I said, if you late-risers can swing it, go for it. I'd prefer year-round standard time and avoid all the wasted sunlight after 8 PM. Tonight I'm going to bed early and see if I can't start getting back in sync. Again.
The only problem with the AMD processor using this technology is that you have to get a radiator from a Peterbuilt, a 24-inch (609.6 mm) box fan, 15 gallons of inert coolant (that's a hogshead of liters for you folks over the pond), and keep your computer in an aquarium. The best keyboards are wireless, of course. The units using the new SONAR 2.0 Hi-Speed version are best.
I was reading about Daylight Saving Time two weeks before the time change, and one of the facts I read about was specifically RE: the energy crisis, and how they measured oil use during '74, '75 when they had extended DST. They determined that there was a saving of oil.
Back again, eh?:) As for government studies, you know what Twain said about liars, damned liars, and statisticians. IIRC, it was more like the 73-74 oil crisis, and they couldn't have proved anything because of all the different measures that were put in place. There were surcharges and limitations put on anything energy-related. We waited in long lines for rationed gas, and the national speed limit was lowered to 55 mph. People suddenly wanted lighter, more fuel-efficient cars, and the rising energy prices and general inflation enforced the saving of all sources including lighting, heating, and AC. There were even some efforts to reduce street lighting that didn't last too long. Please note DST does not affect street lighting costs.
But again, statistics back up the argument: There are fewer car accidents during DST: Accidents in the mornings go up, but accidents in the evenings go down more.
That's the great thing about statistics when you don't account for covariates - you can make them support any conclusion. What season does DST occur in? When there is less snow and ice, and driving conditions are better? So it appears the statistics support my view: DST causes groggy people to have accidents more often in the morning, while good driving conditions account for reduced accidents during later hours.
It's not like they've never tried this out. They HAVE tried it, and measured its effects.
Or so they like to claim. Has anyone ever done a study on the effects of artificially inducing jet lag twice a year in millions upon millions of people and how it affects health, productivity, accidents, or workplace safety? Did you see the number of comments attached to this article and the anger and loathing it sparked? I worked from home three days last week, so I could get that extra time sleeping, and I may not be quite as productive from home. I'd like to see some figures on workplace absenteeism during the first four weeks of DST compared to the rest of the year.
If there was real merit to DST/ST, you could get the best of both by changing the time 1/2 hour and then LEAVING IT ALONE. And as I said before, if you late partiers want to make it DST all year long, go ahead and do it. Just QUIT MESSING WITH MY INTERNAL CLOCK twice a year, and don't claim you're doing it for some noble purpose. (I'll be snarly like this for another week - happens every year at this time.)
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Unless this preacher is able to get his followers to switch to Macs or spend a few months learning to run GNU/Linux, then he has no real clout on this issue.
Gott mit SuSE. (Sorry, I couldn't help but recall some recent celebrations or resist the straight line - double groaner.)
Why not ask your distribution to get LSB-certified instead?
If you're that keen on the LSB, then why not make your opinion known by using a certified distro and not worry about the rest? If enough people agree, the other distros will fall in line or fade away. If not, then life continues on, and the LSB really isn't so important after all.
You either work for MSFT and want linux to fail or you are an elitist geeky snob who wants to keep linux usage to the elite. Perhaps you are afraid that if it goes mainstream, you will not be seen as "cool" by the linux community.
I can't speak for the GP, but not being a proponent of the LSB has nothing to do with being geeky. I figure if the LSB was such a great idea, all the distros would have signed up en masse. I'll leave it up to the true geeks, the people who build the distros, to decide how best to do it. Personally, I think a little diversity between distros might be beneficial - it makes it tougher for Linux to become a breeding ground for malware like that other OS.
I think the BSD folks would be a little torqued about that.
It was an old joke, like every exotic animal, snakes, eagles, turtles, etc., is reputed to taste like chicken. As an aside, I can testify that cooked rattlesnake actually does taste a lot like chicken. Catching and cleaning them, however, is more trouble than it's worth. :)
Penguin would likely taste very fishy.
Geez. Everybody knows that penguin tastes like chicken.
Not very good. They are mostly fat, and their blood is rich in oxygen which turns their meat an unapetizing dark color when cooked.
What does the color have to do with taste? *Sniff* Harrh, methinks I smell more troll than toasty penguin here. You were the guy clubbing the baby seal last week, weren't you?
GTA is over the top and has always been presented as pure escapism, so I don't consider it to be in the same class.
Really. There are people suing Take2 because the game was so realistic it allegedly made their kids go out and commit crimes. People are suing Take2 because dialog in the games allegedly leads to racist hate crimes. Your distinctions appear to be less than widely accepted.
Miltary-themed games like the stuff that Ubi puts out under the Tom Clancy banner, various combat flight sims, serious war games, etc. put you in a role where you're trying to use realistically-simulated tactics and gear to accomplish a goal that would be a goal of the real-world military. In some senses this constitutes an endorsement of the military's real-world goals. If you're trying to imitate them, then you must want to be like them, and why would you want to be like them if you didn't agree with what they were doing?
I've played every MOH, and Conflict game including Desert Storm, Call to Duty, a couple of Vietnam FPS games, and a number I don't care to remember. I'm still opposed to the war in Iraq, so I guess it just didn't take with me. The point of playing a GAME is to beat the game or an opponent by the GAME's rules. Playing chess doesn't make me want to be Bobby Fischer any more than SC makes me want to be Sam Fisher.
I'm still playing UT2004 every night, and I've got Chaos Theory waiting on me to finally finish the first SC game (Pandora Tomorrow was easy.. SC1 is not), so I don't have any 'bigger problems' - this is just something I think about from time to time.
If you're paranoid about being turned into a death-dealing uber-soldier by playing video games because gaming is a really important part of your life, then yes, you have a "bigger problem." Either get a grip or expand your interests so that gaming is merely a part-time activity.
I feel guilty for enjoying military-themed PC games because of their inherent propaganda qualities. Lately I've been wondering if even just playing the games makes me a bad person considering the current state of the world.
Despite years of playing GTA, I have never been a gang member, robbed anyone, killed anyone AFAIK, stolen an Apache gunship, hijacked a car, or listened to rap music by choice. Games are escapism, not a pledge of fidelity to a character's lifestyle -- unless you have a much bigger problem.
While it's great that we all have different tastes, I can't help but think that if people gave the more cerebral and challenging games, Thief in particular, a chance they could come to enjoy it.
If people don't give the more cerebral (and really good) games, like Ico, a chance, the game companies won't make any more, and none of us will get the chance to play them. The way it's going, it'll be just Devil May Cry 4, 5, and 6 - not that DMC isn't a good game, but it's nice to have something different once in a while.
They say if you only have a PS2 you wont miss the differences, but I sure did with PT. Going to pass on CT - maybe give it a once over on rental, because it really is a massively fun series, but only if you have an Xbox or PC.
I posted something about this further up, but the big problems with the PS2 version of Pandora Tomorrow were the holes in the storyline and the dialog that didn't make sense. They didn't put much effort into making the PS2 version work.
Needless to say, I'm not impressed with Ubisoft.
Ubisoft does some good stuff, like Beyond Good and Evil, but I certainly wasn't impressed by the hatchet job they did on Pandora Tomorrow for the PS2. At one point, Sam's female contact tells him to make his way across the rooftops and if she sees him again, she'll quit the operation. You can't get to the rooftops, and in order to continue the game, you have to follow her and talk to her again. The whole storyline was full of holes.
After reading a walkthrough by someone who wrote it for both the Xbox and PS2, the problem was obvious. The PS2 version was about two-thirds of the Xbox version, and they hadn't even bothered to change the dialog to match the chopped up game. I'll wait to pick up this one used - I'm not going to pay full price for part of a game.
Works for Roland...
Whoa, it sounds like we need the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
Does that apply in a country where you can buy legislation? SCO is Microsoft's paid stooge in this fray, and it's just the opening round to allow MS to range the target. As an entity, MS may be evil, but it's not stupid. Witness the terrible punishment from the DOJ. Hmm . . . MS is the tail that wags the DOJ?
To me, the BSD license is based on; "I shared with you and you made it better, now I'm going back to work and outdo you."
To me, the BSD license says, "The community invested a huge amount of work in this code. Feel free to incorporate into your private product and charge users through the nose for it while pretending it's yours. Don't feel obligated to give back anything in return, and feel free to bash FOSS as insecure, and inferior while you use and profit from it."
Wow. That was way too much effort to finally get a groaner, but thanks, I think.
Yes, lets post news stories so obfuscated that they need another story posted just to explain what the hell was said in the first story! Why stop at just one level of obfuscation, why dont we have stories that require four or five or even six degrees of obfuscation and reporting just to get the original content of the first article across as coherent thought?
I appears that you are not really eligible for the upward management career track and are not a team player. It will be noted on your performance review.
And in a year or two, there will be paths worn in the grass where people don't walk on the existing pavement that was put down where people walk. (I've seen exactly this happen at two other schools.)
Whenever you change the main path, you also invite new shortcuts, Grasshopper. :)
BSOD -Ultimate standard
I guess I didn't get the joke. The BSOD "standard" is not implemented by more that one OS as far as I can tell. The rest of us have to put up with killing and restarting X in the unlikely event of a major disaster. If MS was willing to GPL the code for the BSOD, then maybe it could become the true ultimate standard of failure.
On the other hand, only software companies and drug dealers call their customers and clients users.
Sounds like there's a joke about pushers, sysadmins, and lusers waiting there, but I'm not going to make it because I know that BOFH is watching me.
You know what's really scary? When you fall asleep and find yourself playing the game in your dreams!
Did that once playing Tomb Raider. It wasn't exactly scary, but suddenly finding yourself with two pairs of, er, 45's was pretty strange.
The study in question was specifically measuring the effects of DST compared to the same months without DST: they extended DST into March and April for '73, '74, and found that, compared to '75, DST saved energy, about 1%, due to decreased light and appliance usage.
It's too bad there were no links showing the methodology. Since I lived through that period, I still believe there were too many controls, initiatives, policies and penalties being used to allow any meaningful comparisons. By '75, restrictions were being lifted and voluntary cutbacks were waining. I'd have expected the difference to be far greater than 1% just due to economics. One of the linked pages did have some quotes actually showing that DST is really just a bandaid.
and my new mottoSeems like a significant saving since it happens for free.
It isn't free when measured in human terms, and I'd still like to see some related productivity figures.
As for people complaining about the switch, and how it affects their internal clock, I sympathize, but I think the solution is to switch to DST all year.
As I said, if you late-risers can swing it, go for it. I'd prefer year-round standard time and avoid all the wasted sunlight after 8 PM. Tonight I'm going to bed early and see if I can't start getting back in sync. Again.
can it be overclocked?
The only problem with the AMD processor using this technology is that you have to get a radiator from a Peterbuilt, a 24-inch (609.6 mm) box fan, 15 gallons of inert coolant (that's a hogshead of liters for you folks over the pond), and keep your computer in an aquarium. The best keyboards are wireless, of course. The units using the new SONAR 2.0 Hi-Speed version are best.
I was reading about Daylight Saving Time two weeks before the time change, and one of the facts I read about was specifically RE: the energy crisis, and how they measured oil use during '74, '75 when they had extended DST. They determined that there was a saving of oil.
Back again, eh? :) As for government studies, you know what Twain said about liars, damned liars, and statisticians. IIRC, it was more like the 73-74 oil crisis, and they couldn't have proved anything because of all the different measures that were put in place. There were surcharges and limitations put on anything energy-related. We waited in long lines for rationed gas, and the national speed limit was lowered to 55 mph. People suddenly wanted lighter, more fuel-efficient cars, and the rising energy prices and general inflation enforced the saving of all sources including lighting, heating, and AC. There were even some efforts to reduce street lighting that didn't last too long. Please note DST does not affect street lighting costs.
But again, statistics back up the argument: There are fewer car accidents during DST: Accidents in the mornings go up, but accidents in the evenings go down more.
That's the great thing about statistics when you don't account for covariates - you can make them support any conclusion. What season does DST occur in? When there is less snow and ice, and driving conditions are better? So it appears the statistics support my view: DST causes groggy people to have accidents more often in the morning, while good driving conditions account for reduced accidents during later hours.
It's not like they've never tried this out. They HAVE tried it, and measured its effects.
Or so they like to claim. Has anyone ever done a study on the effects of artificially inducing jet lag twice a year in millions upon millions of people and how it affects health, productivity, accidents, or workplace safety? Did you see the number of comments attached to this article and the anger and loathing it sparked? I worked from home three days last week, so I could get that extra time sleeping, and I may not be quite as productive from home. I'd like to see some figures on workplace absenteeism during the first four weeks of DST compared to the rest of the year.
If there was real merit to DST/ST, you could get the best of both by changing the time 1/2 hour and then LEAVING IT ALONE. And as I said before, if you late partiers want to make it DST all year long, go ahead and do it. Just QUIT MESSING WITH MY INTERNAL CLOCK twice a year, and don't claim you're doing it for some noble purpose. (I'll be snarly like this for another week - happens every year at this time.)
He must be a taxi driver on the way to the airport.