I agree. Flash on Linux has never been a particularly pleasant experience either. If only the browser could tell the Flash engine to shut the fuck up if the tab isn't visible, things would be much better. Not fixed, mind you, but better.
Will you just stop? You are either deliberately misleading or didn't quite get the post. Hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. The ulterior purpose was to justify the shuttle program and, more specifically, the budgetary outlays for it. Had the Hubble been designed to be machine-serviceable, it would have been much cheaper overall. That's the point the parent was making. Nobody is criticizing the Hubble. It was and is certainly a great piece of hardware that, unlike most NASA boondoggles (e.g.ISS), actually produced both an enormous amount of scientifically useful data and a grand collection of beautiful and inspiring images.
The corrupt military-congressional-industrial complex of which NASA is but a part is determined to spend as much money as is humanly possible in order to maximize the amount they manage to skim off.
It often requires a grounding in statistics, albeit fairly basic stuff not much beyond a Student's t test. It does not require, by any remotely reasonable criteria, a grounding in differential equations. That sounds very very discipline-specific.
AFAIK, IPv4 and IPv6 will be able to coexist for a long time. Devices that do not actively support IPv6 will probably fall into disuse or disrepair before it becomes a blocking issue.
Since you calmly at the pizza at the pizzeria you 1) don't have the buildup of expectation as you drive home with the pizza in the passenger seat (you are obviously alone), and 2) do not have the anxiety of eating alone in the basement, both of which cause elevated gastric and colonic distress, which in turn produce more gas.
'various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline.' 'at no time did the president's ability [to launch] decrease.'
Were there any intruders? Were any warheads separated from their launch vehicles? I know, I know. I should RTFA.
No, they live in San Francisco. Most BART cars have an intense bouquet of aged urine, mellowed in sweaty denim with notes of street grime and used motor oil residue.
Too many people mod down instead of replying in disagreement.
As an aside, I generally only mod up, never down. Not just things I agree with, but things that are well thought out, incisive, or just plain funny. I try to deliberately mod up posts I disagree with if they raise good points. "Good" meaning hard for me to refute effectively.
They're all corporatists. The rest is just bread and circus. I am always shocked and saddened every single election season at how grown men and women can so willingly swallow the patent rubbish that passes for political discourse.
Because it would not be even remotely profitable, therefore it wouldn't work. Therein lies the "joke": the "Get Off This Rock" crowd is generally unable to grasp the practical realities of their emotional goals and beliefs, so they would instantly believe that gold mining on the moon would be just as profitable as on earth if not more so. I guess it was too opaque...
Now the "Get Off This Rock" gang will start shouting to the four winds that we can now have cheap, self-sustaining moon bases and then go to Mars right away. The real loonies will start wondering if it can pay its own way through gold mining.
It is a flawed analogy, but not a straw man. All socks and stockings do not work with all shoes. Even as you wrote your post, you either forgot about that or didn't think much about it. What woman would wear thick wool hiking socks with her 4 inch heels? Do they wear nylons with flip-flops?
Regarding cell phones, there has always been huge diversity in their UIs. This is neither new nor particularly interesting. If anything, even a fragmented Android brings a significant amount of order to the scene. Apple has a certain horse that it dutifully flogs, sameness, because it works both for them and for their fans. Yeah, cool, great, whatever. Not everybody is interested. If you like it, great! Buy an iPhone. I don't care. Just don't badger me with the claim that sameness is good and everything else is bad. Diversity and even chaotic variety don't bother me at all. I actually like them. A lot.
Consumer walks into a shoe store and sees 136 types of shoes:
"No! No! I'm so confused! I'm left to figure it out. Why doesn't every shoe look the same? I want my shoes to just work, and I believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. I also think shoe designers can be more innovative if they can target a singular shoe type rather than a hundred variants. Just look the Android Shoe Marketplace, where there are at least three other shoe stores being launched by vendors, causing confusion for consumers and more work for shoe designers!"
I saw it, but at the same time I deny it. I insist on assigning all fault, blame, and liability to you, while claiming the moral high ground and innocence itself for me. I am therefore correct in an absolute sense, while your argument is hopelessly flawed and doomed to be lost in the mire of time. Don't thank me, I'm just that kind of guy.
"...nor do they think it is important to force the adoption of strange new enterprise software with different paradigms and value systems
That misses the mark entirely. Nerds share the software paradigms and value systems, businesspeople typically do not. They want bang for the buck. They don't care whether it's FOSS or not, nor do they even care what FOSS is. What's the ROI? Will it fulfill the minimum requirements? Is it reliable? Can I easily find employees to deal with it? Will I save money? Those questions have nothing whatsoever to do with whether the software is FOSS or not. Nothing. It is you who is beating a long-dead horse.
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I agree. Flash on Linux has never been a particularly pleasant experience either. If only the browser could tell the Flash engine to shut the fuck up if the tab isn't visible, things would be much better. Not fixed, mind you, but better.
You reject the notion that the US Geovernment is all about pork? That it's all just conspiracy theory? Dude!!
[slap slap slap]
Will you just stop? You are either deliberately misleading or didn't quite get the post. Hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. The ulterior purpose was to justify the shuttle program and, more specifically, the budgetary outlays for it. Had the Hubble been designed to be machine-serviceable, it would have been much cheaper overall. That's the point the parent was making. Nobody is criticizing the Hubble. It was and is certainly a great piece of hardware that, unlike most NASA boondoggles (e.g.ISS), actually produced both an enormous amount of scientifically useful data and a grand collection of beautiful and inspiring images.
The corrupt military-congressional-industrial complex of which NASA is but a part is determined to spend as much money as is humanly possible in order to maximize the amount they manage to skim off.
It often requires a grounding in statistics, albeit fairly basic stuff not much beyond a Student's t test. It does not require, by any remotely reasonable criteria, a grounding in differential equations. That sounds very very discipline-specific.
AFAIK, IPv4 and IPv6 will be able to coexist for a long time. Devices that do not actively support IPv6 will probably fall into disuse or disrepair before it becomes a blocking issue.
Here's something you don't hear much anymore: de facto standard
Good riddance, too.
Damn, Dude. Anger. Sheesh.
Since you calmly at the pizza at the pizzeria you 1) don't have the buildup of expectation as you drive home with the pizza in the passenger seat (you are obviously alone), and 2) do not have the anxiety of eating alone in the basement, both of which cause elevated gastric and colonic distress, which in turn produce more gas.
'various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline.'
'at no time did the president's ability [to launch] decrease.'
Were there any intruders? Were any warheads separated from their launch vehicles? I know, I know. I should RTFA.
No, they live in San Francisco. Most BART cars have an intense bouquet of aged urine, mellowed in sweaty denim with notes of street grime and used motor oil residue.
Too many people mod down instead of replying in disagreement.
As an aside, I generally only mod up, never down. Not just things I agree with, but things that are well thought out, incisive, or just plain funny. I try to deliberately mod up posts I disagree with if they raise good points. "Good" meaning hard for me to refute effectively.
They're all corporatists. The rest is just bread and circus. I am always shocked and saddened every single election season at how grown men and women can so willingly swallow the patent rubbish that passes for political discourse.
Jus cuz they done goed ta a fancy schol don't mean shit. Fuckin librels is a stupeder than shit, fuckin latay drinkin fagit commie mother fuckers.
Because it would not be even remotely profitable, therefore it wouldn't work. Therein lies the "joke": the "Get Off This Rock" crowd is generally unable to grasp the practical realities of their emotional goals and beliefs, so they would instantly believe that gold mining on the moon would be just as profitable as on earth if not more so. I guess it was too opaque...
Now the "Get Off This Rock" gang will start shouting to the four winds that we can now have cheap, self-sustaining moon bases and then go to Mars right away. The real loonies will start wondering if it can pay its own way through gold mining.
I guess AMD, Intel, Applied Materials, Cisco, HP and all the rest lack a discipline and patience that you can only find in Detroit.
Oh, wait...
It is a flawed analogy, but not a straw man. All socks and stockings do not work with all shoes. Even as you wrote your post, you either forgot about that or didn't think much about it. What woman would wear thick wool hiking socks with her 4 inch heels? Do they wear nylons with flip-flops?
Regarding cell phones, there has always been huge diversity in their UIs. This is neither new nor particularly interesting. If anything, even a fragmented Android brings a significant amount of order to the scene. Apple has a certain horse that it dutifully flogs, sameness, because it works both for them and for their fans. Yeah, cool, great, whatever. Not everybody is interested. If you like it, great! Buy an iPhone. I don't care. Just don't badger me with the claim that sameness is good and everything else is bad. Diversity and even chaotic variety don't bother me at all. I actually like them. A lot.
Now, now. Go find the little jar of pills and make sure you took this morning's dose. Everything is going to be OK, don't worry.
Consumer walks into a shoe store and sees 136 types of shoes:
"No! No! I'm so confused! I'm left to figure it out. Why doesn't every shoe look the same? I want my shoes to just work, and I believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. I also think shoe designers can be more innovative if they can target a singular shoe type rather than a hundred variants. Just look the Android Shoe Marketplace, where there are at least three other shoe stores being launched by vendors, causing confusion for consumers and more work for shoe designers!"
Let's not even get into Android vs. iPhone sales trends.
Get FLASH-AID. That should fix it.
No probs, Dude. Happy to oblige.
I saw it, but at the same time I deny it. I insist on assigning all fault, blame, and liability to you, while claiming the moral high ground and innocence itself for me. I am therefore correct in an absolute sense, while your argument is hopelessly flawed and doomed to be lost in the mire of time. Don't thank me, I'm just that kind of guy.
"...nor do they think it is important to force the adoption of strange new enterprise software with different paradigms and value systems
That misses the mark entirely. Nerds share the software paradigms and value systems, businesspeople typically do not. They want bang for the buck. They don't care whether it's FOSS or not, nor do they even care what FOSS is. What's the ROI? Will it fulfill the minimum requirements? Is it reliable? Can I easily find employees to deal with it? Will I save money? Those questions have nothing whatsoever to do with whether the software is FOSS or not. Nothing. It is you who is beating a long-dead horse.
It's baffling that the question is posed that way so often. For a rational businessperson, the question is really:
What argument could be made in favor of paying for a software package when one of equal or greater value can be had for free?"