Since you're not being facetious, my arm span is almost 2m, so I spread my arms out and fingertip to fingertip. If I can do it twice, that's 4m (you get the drift). It's a lot easier to do than the foot shuffle.
When I spread my hand from thumb to tip of my little finger is about 20cm (near enough, I'm over on that, and under on the arm span, but we're estimating here and I know how much extra, so I just put my thumb a little inside where my pinky was the previous time)
For height, it's really just a matter of training. You're accustomed to thinking about it in feet, so you can judge more accurately in feet. You're probably just as inaccurate in the inches as I am in the cm (or maybe I'm off by 1 more... who knows) when estimating. That's why they're estimates, not measurements. I bet I'm pretty good at estimating heigh in meters though! (That person over there is about 2m... and person unless they're a child, in which case they're about 1m!)
For games, it's kind of arbitrary anyhow, but so far as I can tell, even USA track meets are done in m.
American football is the only game I can think of that uses Yards, but I admit I have no idea how big a basketball court is, nor how far between baseball plates. Fortunately google knows.
Court is 15m wide by 28m long, in the USA it's 50ft x 94ft.
Baseball plates are 90', but bizarrely there's apparently no standard for where the home run fence is (I guess that's some Imperial uncertainty)
For the record, I agree poetmatt is being antagonistic and I feel he's being pretty arrogant here. I just imagine he doesn't know that he's being such a jackass. Probably he's simply got very very very poor communication skills and doesn't know what he's doing.
Remember when Consumer Reports could be trusted to complete fair and unbiased research on behalf of the consumer? I sure do. Unfortunately they've simply become another corporate shill, and invariable make recommendations essentially straight out of press releases from one of the top two manufacturers of whatever they're reviewing.
Now the only thing I would trust them for is their automotive reports, simply because I expect the car manufacturers have all provided the same amount of 'support'.
If you go to CR for anything electronics related, you might as well just trust the sales-clerk at Best Buy.
Yes, yes you can. I've had a lot of success with MPEG video conversion to MP4 (mpeg 4, simple profile) using Videora. It's a free tool, it's very quick, and it's got preset options for exporting to video Ipod format.
He answered your question before you asked it: WinMacLiUNIX XIV 2009 Liger 256-bit Closed Beta 8 on a G12Pentathlon256, 1PB DDR17, GeRadeon900000, it's sweet.
This actually wasn't the defendant. It was a "coconspirator" or close to that. It also turns out to be someone who has a bone to pick with the defendants and someone who is trying to cover thier own ass.
So it seems that from your statements alone that it's cleary why this shouldn't be published until after a Jury is sequestered and the facts can be presented in context (as was the intention of the temporary publication ban)
Thank you for writing the one response to my post that took a brain.
I think most the problem is that developers cannot distribute binaries to multiple flavours of Linux with any assurance that it will run. The reason they want to is in a "simplicity" of development. (yah yah, you have to do a lot of checking if you're on an MS platform too, but not the same degree, and mostly you can ignore it if you stick to the last 2 or 3 versions). The cause of not being able to distribute binaries is in the breadth of things you would have to check for, and the likelihood of dependancy errors. Which, as you keenly pointed out, is due to the fact that Linux (as a desktop OS) is not a singular thing. There are many flavours of Linux which result in there being (to the user) many different OS's being called "Linux"
So ME choosing gnome or KDE is going to standardize that choice across the other platforms? Nope. The problem is that companies don't want to deal with that kind of thing. They want it to work. They want to make sure that it works with what other people are doing as well. So if *I* choose gnome, and someone else chooses KDE, then we have a problem. So what, you expect application developers to write their apps for KDE? Or Gnome? Which one? There's no standard. I don't want to develop all the applications I use, and neither do 99% of the corporations out there. Until one of them emerges as a "better" solution, and large application developing shops start developing for THAT WM, there will always be the same debate.
I guess one of the problems with the "linux desktop" isn't so much that it's not good enough, or that it's not stable enough. It's that there is no such thing... rather there are 500 such things. Until there is only 1, then Linux won't be ready for widespread use in corporations who work with others.
Until there is just one, there won't be application developers writing applications for Linux. (Of course there is SOME work going on now, but not nearly as much as for Windows, or even Macintosh)
2 things
1) you're right
2) you're wasting your time posting it here
All of the responses here are "it's good for me" but that doesn't count for a whole lot when someone is writing a report on whether or not it's useable for a corporation.
Particularly in the space of something like Gnome vs. KDE it's absolutely mind boggling that there is no re-merging or picking of the "best" one. The big vendors need to get together and just choose one (a la XOrg/XF86)
That is definitely one example of where incompatibilities generated by choice become detremental to widespread adoption. Another example is the lack of standardization for the directory structure. While this is better (in general) there's still no telling where some stuff goes. Like what does/opt serve for? Installation procedures should be at LEAST similar. In short, too many things change from distribution to distribution, and too many incompatibilities for "Linux" to be widely adopted. What MAY happen is for a single distribution to be adopted specifically. Like a company going with "GTK on Redhat" or "KDE on Suse".
Until there is some standardization between them though, there's no reason to switch. I use it at home, but I'd never recommend it for anything where I work (except for servers and controllers)
I use Linux maybe 80% of the time, but the reason I can't use it 100% of the time. Thus, while it's ready for some use (and some of the ignorant posts here would have you believe that means it's "ready") it's definitely not a full fledged solution.
Problems that I've encountered (and still encounter)
1) CD/DVD burning (I don't think I've ever successfully gotten a CD to burn under Linux, why should I be root to do this?)
2) Sound
3) Changing graphics parameters.
I have fiddled and gotten Sound and Graphics to work as I want them, however it was MUCH more effort than it should have been.
Until CD/DVD burning works, then forget it. That's MY test for when Linux is ready for the desktop. I don't care if it's ready for you, I care if it's ready for me.
Less refined searches should return less refined results, so everything in your search should have come up in his, plus about 1000 more.
The pat that cracks me up is that their example is Coffee Shop in Vancouver, BC (although this might be localized on my IP) and that only returns about 10.... for anyone that hasn't been to Vancouver, we have about 2000 "coffee shop"s, (including bubble tea shops etc.) Most malls have at least 2 starbucks, there's a few corners in Vancouver with 3 coffee shops on the same intersection.
Anything that has been ported to GBA will also work on NDS, so my cartridge with 90 nintendo games on it will still work when I upgrade to the NDS.
There's a great package called PocketNES that you can put onto a flash card in a cartridge format that'll allow you to play any NES game that you have a ROM for. I'm just hoping that it's powerful enough to emulate N64 as well (or at least SNES)
It really won't matter much, most users who are savvy enough to pirate their OS are going to be able to find updates in their favourite P2P program. I can already get SP2 and any other updates off of bitorrent.
So once again the ones that Microsoft leaves in the cold are the unwitting consumers who had their grandson install it for them.
Just out of curiosity, what do you believe Moore alleges that's not based in Facts? I haven't seen this movie, but he's repeatedly shown his research in Bowling to be accurate.
I realize that there is a difference in opinion about how those are portrayed, but that doesn't change the facts themselves.
I know whenever I have to do calculations on that scale I do them by hand! After all, I wouldn't want to have to look through 64k rows to find a transcription error!
But seriously, Wow. I think the market for number of people needing > 64K rows must be pretty slim. Particularly those not using a scientific program like Mathematica, Maple or R-something.
Son, I can only assume you didn't read that link you've posted. I however did, and it does nothing to support your failed argument.
Too bad you're too small minded to admit you're wrong. Just because you feel free to make up "facts" and post them for whatever Karma you're whoring for, or if you feel you get respect from the crowd or what-have-you doesn't make your posts right.
Maybe you can ask your mom for a tissue? Or maybe she can call the whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-mbulance?
smarter than anyone else? Not here, go back to the sandbox son.
As much as you'd like to say this, the links you later provide make ABSOLUTELY no reference to NASA taking out insurance. NASA's probably "self insured" as in they handle such a large portion of space launches etc, that it makes no sense to get third party insurance.
Furthermore, your oh so cunning plan argument falls even FURTHER apart when you take into account that these sorts of policies are for launches, which are the points at which they are most likely to fail. If the launch goes off well then the insurance policy is over, regardless of whether or not they advertise their mission as being 1 month, or 1 year.
Also, they could always just insure it for 1 month, IF you were right anyways, which you're not.
Finally, the insurance policies are for businesses who want to make a profit and must exhibit some measure of prudence.
If you really want to be such an ass to that other person who responded to you, you should at least be able to back up some of the mindless, pointy-haired boss bullshit that you want to spout out. Saying things like I'm smart don't go very far anywhere, particularly when followed by idiotic statements that you can't back up.
I thought they'd straighten this out when it came out in February, at least I thought so enough to download the ISO's, but now that I see they haven't there's NO WAY I'm going to install Fedora on any of my systems.
This is a REAL problem, and many people are going to end up losing a lot of data because they won't know how to fix their MBR's or their partition tables or whatever it takes. There's more info in the bugzilla report, but it only affects drives larger than ~120GB (or so) and SOMETIMES can be fixed with fixmbr in the windows recovery startup.
I liked fedora, it was easy to use, and did what I needed it to do, but now they've shown that their "new process" for development doesn't work. I'll go back to trying out some of the other distro's to see who else can get my support.
Yah, maybe they'll call it the "Mini Disc". Sounds kind of catchy?
Sony is a HUGE corporation, and there's not that much collusion between the media division and the consumer appliances division. Here's a test. Go to the Sony store and buy a CD.
Not quite true. Maybe in that country, but in my country (Canada) my school voted to turn town "Gates' blood money" to build a new building, and I don't think he even had suggested to name it after himself.
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Since you're not being facetious, my arm span is almost 2m, so I spread my arms out and fingertip to fingertip. If I can do it twice, that's 4m (you get the drift). It's a lot easier to do than the foot shuffle.
When I spread my hand from thumb to tip of my little finger is about 20cm (near enough, I'm over on that, and under on the arm span, but we're estimating here and I know how much extra, so I just put my thumb a little inside where my pinky was the previous time)
For height, it's really just a matter of training. You're accustomed to thinking about it in feet, so you can judge more accurately in feet. You're probably just as inaccurate in the inches as I am in the cm (or maybe I'm off by 1 more... who knows) when estimating. That's why they're estimates, not measurements. I bet I'm pretty good at estimating heigh in meters though! (That person over there is about 2m... and person unless they're a child, in which case they're about 1m!)
For games, it's kind of arbitrary anyhow, but so far as I can tell, even USA track meets are done in m.
American football is the only game I can think of that uses Yards, but I admit I have no idea how big a basketball court is, nor how far between baseball plates. Fortunately google knows.
Court is 15m wide by 28m long, in the USA it's 50ft x 94ft.
Baseball plates are 90', but bizarrely there's apparently no standard for where the home run fence is (I guess that's some Imperial uncertainty)
For the record, I agree poetmatt is being antagonistic and I feel he's being pretty arrogant here. I just imagine he doesn't know that he's being such a jackass. Probably he's simply got very very very poor communication skills and doesn't know what he's doing.
Remember when Consumer Reports could be trusted to complete fair and unbiased research on behalf of the consumer? I sure do. Unfortunately they've simply become another corporate shill, and invariable make recommendations essentially straight out of press releases from one of the top two manufacturers of whatever they're reviewing.
Now the only thing I would trust them for is their automotive reports, simply because I expect the car manufacturers have all provided the same amount of 'support'.
If you go to CR for anything electronics related, you might as well just trust the sales-clerk at Best Buy.
Yes, yes you can. I've had a lot of success with MPEG video conversion to MP4 (mpeg 4, simple profile) using Videora. It's a free tool, it's very quick, and it's got preset options for exporting to video Ipod format.
Free Nanos too!
http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=22151347
Not that I ever got one, and I signed up dammit.
He answered your question before you asked it: WinMacLiUNIX XIV 2009 Liger 256-bit Closed Beta 8 on a G12Pentathlon256, 1PB DDR17, GeRadeon900000, it's sweet.
Unless it's IPv8 I don't wanna touch it.
Didn't they argue up and down that they couldn't get rid of explorer from Win2K? Maybe some regulator should take note!
Then again, maybe nobody believed them then either.
I certainly agree that 'artificial intelligence' has, so far, been an oxymoron
So is 'natural intelligence'
This actually wasn't the defendant. It was a "coconspirator" or close to that. It also turns out to be someone who has a bone to pick with the defendants and someone who is trying to cover thier own ass.
So it seems that from your statements alone that it's cleary why this shouldn't be published until after a Jury is sequestered and the facts can be presented in context (as was the intention of the temporary publication ban)
Thank you for writing the one response to my post that took a brain.
I think most the problem is that developers cannot distribute binaries to multiple flavours of Linux with any assurance that it will run. The reason they want to is in a "simplicity" of development. (yah yah, you have to do a lot of checking if you're on an MS platform too, but not the same degree, and mostly you can ignore it if you stick to the last 2 or 3 versions).
The cause of not being able to distribute binaries is in the breadth of things you would have to check for, and the likelihood of dependancy errors. Which, as you keenly pointed out, is due to the fact that Linux (as a desktop OS) is not a singular thing. There are many flavours of Linux which result in there being (to the user) many different OS's being called "Linux"
Nope.
The problem is that companies don't want to deal with that kind of thing. They want it to work.
They want to make sure that it works with what other people are doing as well. So if *I* choose gnome, and someone else chooses KDE, then we have a problem.
So what, you expect application developers to write their apps for KDE? Or Gnome? Which one? There's no standard. I don't want to develop all the applications I use, and neither do 99% of the corporations out there. Until one of them emerges as a "better" solution, and large application developing shops start developing for THAT WM, there will always be the same debate.
I guess one of the problems with the "linux desktop" isn't so much that it's not good enough, or that it's not stable enough. It's that there is no such thing... rather there are 500 such things. Until there is only 1, then Linux won't be ready for widespread use in corporations who work with others.
Until there is just one, there won't be application developers writing applications for Linux. (Of course there is SOME work going on now, but not nearly as much as for Windows, or even Macintosh)
1) you're right
2) you're wasting your time posting it here
All of the responses here are "it's good for me" but that doesn't count for a whole lot when someone is writing a report on whether or not it's useable for a corporation.
Particularly in the space of something like Gnome vs. KDE it's absolutely mind boggling that there is no re-merging or picking of the "best" one. The big vendors need to get together and just choose one (a la XOrg/XF86)
That is definitely one example of where incompatibilities generated by choice become detremental to widespread adoption. /opt serve for?
Another example is the lack of standardization for the directory structure. While this is better (in general) there's still no telling where some stuff goes. Like what does
Installation procedures should be at LEAST similar.
In short, too many things change from distribution to distribution, and too many incompatibilities for "Linux" to be widely adopted. What MAY happen is for a single distribution to be adopted specifically. Like a company going with "GTK on Redhat" or "KDE on Suse".
Until there is some standardization between them though, there's no reason to switch. I use it at home, but I'd never recommend it for anything where I work (except for servers and controllers)
I use Linux maybe 80% of the time, but the reason I can't use it 100% of the time. Thus, while it's ready for some use (and some of the ignorant posts here would have you believe that means it's "ready") it's definitely not a full fledged solution. Problems that I've encountered (and still encounter) 1) CD/DVD burning (I don't think I've ever successfully gotten a CD to burn under Linux, why should I be root to do this?) 2) Sound 3) Changing graphics parameters. I have fiddled and gotten Sound and Graphics to work as I want them, however it was MUCH more effort than it should have been. Until CD/DVD burning works, then forget it. That's MY test for when Linux is ready for the desktop. I don't care if it's ready for you, I care if it's ready for me.
I won't buy one unless they put in a HD.
The pat that cracks me up is that their example is Coffee Shop in Vancouver, BC (although this might be localized on my IP) and that only returns about 10.... for anyone that hasn't been to Vancouver, we have about 2000 "coffee shop"s, (including bubble tea shops etc.) Most malls have at least 2 starbucks, there's a few corners in Vancouver with 3 coffee shops on the same intersection.
Anything that has been ported to GBA will also work on NDS, so my cartridge with 90 nintendo games on it will still work when I upgrade to the NDS. There's a great package called PocketNES that you can put onto a flash card in a cartridge format that'll allow you to play any NES game that you have a ROM for. I'm just hoping that it's powerful enough to emulate N64 as well (or at least SNES)
So once again the ones that Microsoft leaves in the cold are the unwitting consumers who had their grandson install it for them.
Just out of curiosity, what do you believe Moore alleges that's not based in Facts? I haven't seen this movie, but he's repeatedly shown his research in Bowling to be accurate.
I realize that there is a difference in opinion about how those are portrayed, but that doesn't change the facts themselves.
I know whenever I have to do calculations on that scale I do them by hand! After all, I wouldn't want to have to look through 64k rows to find a transcription error! But seriously, Wow. I think the market for number of people needing > 64K rows must be pretty slim. Particularly those not using a scientific program like Mathematica, Maple or R-something.
Son, I can only assume you didn't read that link you've posted. I however did, and it does nothing to support your failed argument.
Too bad you're too small minded to admit you're wrong. Just because you feel free to make up "facts" and post them for whatever Karma you're whoring for, or if you feel you get respect from the crowd or what-have-you doesn't make your posts right.
Maybe you can ask your mom for a tissue? Or maybe she can call the whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-mbulance?
smarter than anyone else? Not here, go back to the sandbox son.
As much as you'd like to say this, the links you later provide make ABSOLUTELY no reference to NASA taking out insurance. NASA's probably "self insured" as in they handle such a large portion of space launches etc, that it makes no sense to get third party insurance.
Furthermore, your oh so cunning plan argument falls even FURTHER apart when you take into account that these sorts of policies are for launches, which are the points at which they are most likely to fail. If the launch goes off well then the insurance policy is over, regardless of whether or not they advertise their mission as being 1 month, or 1 year.
Also, they could always just insure it for 1 month, IF you were right anyways, which you're not.
Finally, the insurance policies are for businesses who want to make a profit and must exhibit some measure of prudence.
If you really want to be such an ass to that other person who responded to you, you should at least be able to back up some of the mindless, pointy-haired boss bullshit that you want to spout out. Saying things like I'm smart don't go very far anywhere, particularly when followed by idiotic statements that you can't back up.
I thought they'd straighten this out when it came out in February, at least I thought so enough to download the ISO's, but now that I see they haven't there's NO WAY I'm going to install Fedora on any of my systems.
This is a REAL problem, and many people are going to end up losing a lot of data because they won't know how to fix their MBR's or their partition tables or whatever it takes. There's more info in the bugzilla report, but it only affects drives larger than ~120GB (or so) and SOMETIMES can be fixed with fixmbr in the windows recovery startup.
I liked fedora, it was easy to use, and did what I needed it to do, but now they've shown that their "new process" for development doesn't work. I'll go back to trying out some of the other distro's to see who else can get my support.
Yah, maybe they'll call it the "Mini Disc". Sounds kind of catchy? Sony is a HUGE corporation, and there's not that much collusion between the media division and the consumer appliances division. Here's a test. Go to the Sony store and buy a CD.
I hear he gets the chicks for about $50
Not quite true. Maybe in that country, but in my country (Canada) my school voted to turn town "Gates' blood money" to build a new building, and I don't think he even had suggested to name it after himself.