Yes, but the distros don't change that fast. Once you have downloaded Ubuntu, you're good for 6 months. Do you redownload every time you want another copy? Even if you have 10 different distros you use, I couldn't see you needing to download more than 20 distros per year.
But the teams that are good continue to refine their algorithms and do better and better. The top teams continue to be at the top over the life of the competition. Also, you can't compare this to the stock market. If company A is doing well now, there is no guarantee that they will still be doing well in 2 or 3 years. However, if you liked a movie, you will probably always like the movie. Sure tastes change, but a lot less than the stock market.
What if you were transporting wide loads down the toll road at 10 KM/H and ruining the use of the road for everyone else. The road can only be so wide. Only so many cars can fit on that road at any time. If you are downloading at full speed 24/7, then you are using up bandwidth that others can't use, and ruining their experience. Granted, I don't think that any ISP should ever offer unlimited service, as it is impossible for them to provide. But saying that just because they don't specifically say you have a limit, doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with their network. There is no minimum speed on most highways, but if too many people drive too slow, it causes problems for everyone.
I hate when people bring up the Linux distro argument. Even if you were to download a DVD sized Linux distro every month (which would be quite odd) I'm sure they still wouldn't have a problem with it. If that's all people ere doing, there would be no problem. If it was just people downloading MP3s, they probably wouldn't complain either. What they are complaining about is the people who download 2 or 3 movies every day. These people exist, and they put a real strain on the network. If you want 300 GB of transfer every month, you better be prepared to pay for it. Most people have no more need for that much bandwidth, and it's time for those users to stop subsidizing those who do use that much bandwidth.
The angle of the sun is a huge problem specifically for the reason you state. The larger, the more atmosphere, and the less energy you get. Also the larger the angle, the less hours of sunlight you get, and therefore, even less energy. The best place for this would be in the tropics, in the middle of a desert, so as not to be obstructed by clouds. Looks like the middle east will still have lots of energy, even if we move to system like this.
They bundled DoubleSpace/DriveSpace because it was a useful thing that they felt many of their users would benefit from. Same goes for EMM386, IE, MP, and all the other stuff. They've added a lot of features to their OS, without charging much more for it. Do you really want to pay to have support for extended memory? Or for browsing web pages? or for playing video files? Because until MS came along and started including it in the base cost of the OS, a lot of this stuff did cost extra.
Your understanding of Linux is correct. Build everything in little parts, and make every little part do it's own thing well. Even the kernel is modular. If you don't have multiple processors, don't build in support for it, and your kernel image will end up smaller. Same with a lot of other features. Sometimes, certain parts of Linux are revamped. Take for instance KDE4. It was basically a complete rewrite of KDE. But they did it the right way. They made sure it was efficient from the beginning, and it many ways, it actually runs quicker than KDE3.
And they're doing it with Safari too. The other day, when I downloaded an update to iTunes (7.6.2??) it tried to sneak Safari in there. If I would have just kept on clicking next, it would have downloaded and installed Safari. Luckily I noticed, and unchecked the option for Safari. Apple is getting just as bad as MS.
Most software on all operating systems expects that you will have higher than 800x600. Just try running Linux in VMWare using 800x600 resoultion. Many apps go off the screen, and there's no way to even reach the stuff on the right and bottom sides of the window. Even shrinking the window doens't help, because it doesn't allow you to scroll around. This is common on a lot of options screens, that have to be so large, because they present 40,000 different options to the user in a single form.
Exactly. GIMP may never fully replace photoshop, especially in the professional arena. But it does a very good job for most home users and hobbyists. And even for some professionals, depending upon how big of a shop you work in, and how important print work is to you (which is where photoshop excels). I gave my wife the choice of Photoshop Elements for $100, and GIMP for free, and let her try out both, using the fully featured trial of photoshop. She chose GIMP, not only because it was cheaper but because she actually found it easier to user. I'm sure many users would make the same choice. The only reason so many people use Photoshop, is because they can easily obtain it for free.
Measure the total light energy hitting the solar panel. That should make all solar cars lose, because no solar car could collect 100% of the light energy that hits it, but that's just a design flaw.
You obviously don't remember what it was like when 3D cards first came out. There were many games that were Glide only. Meaning that you had to have a 3DFX graphics card to run them. Back when sound cards first came out, this also happened. You had to have a sound blaster, or Adlib, or Gravis ultrasound, and again only certain cards would work with certain games, I imagine that physics cards could probably work in the same way. Require that you use a certain physics card, or you don't get to play the game. Eventually things will get standardized, and you will get to use any physics card for any game, but I don't think that it's necessary right from the start.
Wait, MS has multiple desktops in Vista? How do you enable this feature? Is it as braindead as it is with the Windows XP powertoys? I was sure this feature still wasn't standard on Vista.
And since laptops are portable, it would probably be pretty often when you are in non-optimal conditions. My brother-in-law has a glossy screen for his desktop, and it looks really good. Of course, he has the room set up so that there's no light shining on it, and keeps the room pretty dark. However, on all the laptops I've seen, I've found this to be a major problem, because depending on where you are located, it's often very hard to get favorable lighting conditions. I'd much rather have a matte finish on a laptop, even though glossy looks better under optimal conditions, because optimal almost never happens.
I'm sure at one point, a lot of people said the same thing about Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sendmail, PHP, and all the other open source products that are used by professionals on a daily basis.
My understanding is that the multi window interface is actually very similar to Photoshop on the MAC. Photoshop only has a single window MDI in windows. I could be wrong, but that's the way I understand it.
Yes, it hasn't caught up yet, but I think that eventually, it will. And then what? Do you think that people will continue to pay for Photoshop once GIMP does everything Photoshop does? Sure, some will, but a lot won't. And also, have people been asking for 16 bit per channel color and adjustment layers for 12 years? I highly doubt it.
With the rate of advancement in The GIMP, eventually, Photoshop enthusiasts will have nothing bad to really say about it. It was always about no cmyk, no 32 bit color support, no adjustment layers. It looks like some of these things may be coming in future.
The problem though, is that even with the socio-economic differences that cause people to go into different careers, some people still expect the numbers to be proportional. So, if you are looking for a government job, and a black person applies, they will get the job to fill the quota. Because X% of the population is black, therefore, X% of the employees must be black, regardless of what percentage of people who are black actually even apply. I'm not saying that this happens all the time, but it does happen.
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Yes, but if they keep recommending movies you don't like, you may stop renting movies altogether.
Yes, but the distros don't change that fast. Once you have downloaded Ubuntu, you're good for 6 months. Do you redownload every time you want another copy? Even if you have 10 different distros you use, I couldn't see you needing to download more than 20 distros per year.
But the teams that are good continue to refine their algorithms and do better and better. The top teams continue to be at the top over the life of the competition. Also, you can't compare this to the stock market. If company A is doing well now, there is no guarantee that they will still be doing well in 2 or 3 years. However, if you liked a movie, you will probably always like the movie. Sure tastes change, but a lot less than the stock market.
When is CUPE not on strike?
What if you were transporting wide loads down the toll road at 10 KM/H and ruining the use of the road for everyone else. The road can only be so wide. Only so many cars can fit on that road at any time. If you are downloading at full speed 24/7, then you are using up bandwidth that others can't use, and ruining their experience. Granted, I don't think that any ISP should ever offer unlimited service, as it is impossible for them to provide. But saying that just because they don't specifically say you have a limit, doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with their network. There is no minimum speed on most highways, but if too many people drive too slow, it causes problems for everyone.
I hate when people bring up the Linux distro argument. Even if you were to download a DVD sized Linux distro every month (which would be quite odd) I'm sure they still wouldn't have a problem with it. If that's all people ere doing, there would be no problem. If it was just people downloading MP3s, they probably wouldn't complain either. What they are complaining about is the people who download 2 or 3 movies every day. These people exist, and they put a real strain on the network. If you want 300 GB of transfer every month, you better be prepared to pay for it. Most people have no more need for that much bandwidth, and it's time for those users to stop subsidizing those who do use that much bandwidth.
And therefore they are not being affected by the throttling.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero.
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The angle of the sun is a huge problem specifically for the reason you state. The larger, the more atmosphere, and the less energy you get. Also the larger the angle, the less hours of sunlight you get, and therefore, even less energy. The best place for this would be in the tropics, in the middle of a desert, so as not to be obstructed by clouds. Looks like the middle east will still have lots of energy, even if we move to system like this.
They bundled DoubleSpace/DriveSpace because it was a useful thing that they felt many of their users would benefit from. Same goes for EMM386, IE, MP, and all the other stuff. They've added a lot of features to their OS, without charging much more for it. Do you really want to pay to have support for extended memory? Or for browsing web pages? or for playing video files? Because until MS came along and started including it in the base cost of the OS, a lot of this stuff did cost extra.
Your understanding of Linux is correct. Build everything in little parts, and make every little part do it's own thing well. Even the kernel is modular. If you don't have multiple processors, don't build in support for it, and your kernel image will end up smaller. Same with a lot of other features. Sometimes, certain parts of Linux are revamped. Take for instance KDE4. It was basically a complete rewrite of KDE. But they did it the right way. They made sure it was efficient from the beginning, and it many ways, it actually runs quicker than KDE3.
And they're doing it with Safari too. The other day, when I downloaded an update to iTunes (7.6.2??) it tried to sneak Safari in there. If I would have just kept on clicking next, it would have downloaded and installed Safari. Luckily I noticed, and unchecked the option for Safari. Apple is getting just as bad as MS.
Most software on all operating systems expects that you will have higher than 800x600. Just try running Linux in VMWare using 800x600 resoultion. Many apps go off the screen, and there's no way to even reach the stuff on the right and bottom sides of the window. Even shrinking the window doens't help, because it doesn't allow you to scroll around. This is common on a lot of options screens, that have to be so large, because they present 40,000 different options to the user in a single form.
Exactly. GIMP may never fully replace photoshop, especially in the professional arena. But it does a very good job for most home users and hobbyists. And even for some professionals, depending upon how big of a shop you work in, and how important print work is to you (which is where photoshop excels). I gave my wife the choice of Photoshop Elements for $100, and GIMP for free, and let her try out both, using the fully featured trial of photoshop. She chose GIMP, not only because it was cheaper but because she actually found it easier to user. I'm sure many users would make the same choice. The only reason so many people use Photoshop, is because they can easily obtain it for free.
Measure the total light energy hitting the solar panel. That should make all solar cars lose, because no solar car could collect 100% of the light energy that hits it, but that's just a design flaw.
Well, you could measure how far it could travel before the 1 gallon of gas eventually escaped from the walls of the gas tank.
You obviously don't remember what it was like when 3D cards first came out. There were many games that were Glide only. Meaning that you had to have a 3DFX graphics card to run them. Back when sound cards first came out, this also happened. You had to have a sound blaster, or Adlib, or Gravis ultrasound, and again only certain cards would work with certain games, I imagine that physics cards could probably work in the same way. Require that you use a certain physics card, or you don't get to play the game. Eventually things will get standardized, and you will get to use any physics card for any game, but I don't think that it's necessary right from the start.
Wait, MS has multiple desktops in Vista? How do you enable this feature? Is it as braindead as it is with the Windows XP powertoys? I was sure this feature still wasn't standard on Vista.
And since laptops are portable, it would probably be pretty often when you are in non-optimal conditions. My brother-in-law has a glossy screen for his desktop, and it looks really good. Of course, he has the room set up so that there's no light shining on it, and keeps the room pretty dark. However, on all the laptops I've seen, I've found this to be a major problem, because depending on where you are located, it's often very hard to get favorable lighting conditions. I'd much rather have a matte finish on a laptop, even though glossy looks better under optimal conditions, because optimal almost never happens.
I always disable tapping and scrolling on all my touchpads. I find it to be quite annoying.
I'm sure at one point, a lot of people said the same thing about Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sendmail, PHP, and all the other open source products that are used by professionals on a daily basis.
My understanding is that the multi window interface is actually very similar to Photoshop on the MAC. Photoshop only has a single window MDI in windows. I could be wrong, but that's the way I understand it.
Yes, it hasn't caught up yet, but I think that eventually, it will. And then what? Do you think that people will continue to pay for Photoshop once GIMP does everything Photoshop does? Sure, some will, but a lot won't. And also, have people been asking for 16 bit per channel color and adjustment layers for 12 years? I highly doubt it.
With the rate of advancement in The GIMP, eventually, Photoshop enthusiasts will have nothing bad to really say about it. It was always about no cmyk, no 32 bit color support, no adjustment layers. It looks like some of these things may be coming in future.
The problem though, is that even with the socio-economic differences that cause people to go into different careers, some people still expect the numbers to be proportional. So, if you are looking for a government job, and a black person applies, they will get the job to fill the quota. Because X% of the population is black, therefore, X% of the employees must be black, regardless of what percentage of people who are black actually even apply. I'm not saying that this happens all the time, but it does happen.