On a largely Linux-focues tech news site you just defined 'root'. Why not also define '32-bit compatibility mode', 'Linux', 'kernel', '64-bit', 'privileges', 'web server', 'call', 'emulation layer', 'Syscall table'.
Protip: We're nerds. Write for your audience. If I don't understand a term, I can look it up. I'd prefer to have to do that than have random definitions stuck in the summary.
Demand stays the same. Quantity demanded goes down.
This sounds like nit-picky semantics, but it's an important distinction. When we say 'demand is lower' it comes across as saying lower equivalent supply hasn't hurt people--there's X less supply and people want X less, so it's okay. It does hurt, though--they want the oil just as much as before, they just can't have it.
It's not about to run out. It's about to--wait for it--PEAK. Production has been increasing since its discovery and soon it will begin to decrease--but 'decrease' (or even 'decrease fast enough to be big trouble) does not equate 'decrease quickly enough to solve global warming', especially considering the time lag.
Yeah, only dumbasses like Tyler Cowen and Aza Raskin.
There may not be much expert discussion on Twitter, but when you dogmatically insist that everyone on Twitter is an idiot you're actually identifying only one person as an idiot.
Remember how we were all mad at Germany early in the Iraq war? Do you remember how we punished them? We started some of our troops out of Germany and shutting down American military bases in the country. Why did we have military bases in Germany in 2005? Because we put them there during the Cold War, some immediately following World War II.
So, yeah, we're keeping a military presence in Iraq, just a we've kept a presence in Germany for over fifty years. It's strategic to have bases spread around the globe.
You just listed a bunch of products who essentially stalled their own development for years and were overtaken by competition. If Microsoft's success depends on Apple not releasing any new products or updates to their current products, I have some bad news for them.
No one's complaining about people simply not buying games. Free market capitalism for not preclude IP. Perhaps you should consider not being a smug asshole and make your point honestly next time.
What this world needs is competent programmers. C++ too hard for you? You shouldn't be programming. It's that simple.
How about 'if you think the complex system is either not good enough or absolutely perfect, you shouldn't be programming'. I can write in assembly, but I'd have to be an idiot to reject improvements on the grounds that 'if you can't program in assembly, don't program.' Better tools increase productivity and reduce bug-count. (Anyone who claims to have written a complex, bug-free program, is either a liar or just oblivious, and if they add in that there's no way it could have been done faster/more easily they're either nuts or a knee-jerk Slashdot commenter.)
Go ahead and write your code in C++ because you can, but don't be surprised when all those idiots using other using tools produce better software faster.
No, I can't get it because we used the smallpox vaccines to fully eradicate it. You've confused cowpox (A member of the Poxviridae family and which which provides a no-longer-needed immunity to smallpox) with chickenpox (which a member of the Herpesviridae and I'm pretty sure doesn't help with smallpox). We don't give out the smallpox vaccine anymore not because chickenpox or cowpox is common, but because the worldwide infenction rate for smallpox since 1978 has been 0. (And the single case in 1978 was a lab accident. The last natural case was 1977.)
The eradication of smallpox is one of science's biggest victories. Spread the good word.
Basically, they get all of the disadvantages of open source security, but none of the advantages.
?
People can find security holes and exploit them, but they can't find security holes and fix them. (They can, however, find security holes and report them, so...)
Does the decimal number 90 represent 100 states? Your absurd usage of numbers is self-defeating: if 10bin doesn't represent 'four states' rather than the cardinal number two, surely 11 does as well, in which case 10=11 and there are only three distinct states: 00, 01, and 10. I suspect under your system the other states would collapse as well.
there is not a single thing that REQUIRES paper in todays age.
In my personal life, I do well without a printer. In my job, not so much. I work at a charter high school and a lot of things need to be printed. I suspect it's a legal requirement. Maybe we can file stuff electronically and get digital signatures(???), but I'd want to discuss this with a lawyer before abandoning physical documentation.
It's not just a few universities. It's the entire public school system, every accounting department in the country, and probably most other institutions.
How long does it take to pull out the hard drive and hook it up to another machine for easy perusal? Don't use this as your GPG password or for remote login, but most security--login passwords and the lock on your front door--work because it would take more than five minutes to circumvent. (Actually, I've discovered that the knife method of opening door locks takes thirty seconds before you've had any practice. Five minutes is great.)
I wouldn't trust it as much as even a weak password, though. I suspect it's either way too easy to fool or will lock me out if I shave.
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Oh, you're right. Silly me.
But you can't expect me to read the entire summary before commenting. :-)
On a largely Linux-focues tech news site you just defined 'root'. Why not also define '32-bit compatibility mode', 'Linux', 'kernel', '64-bit', 'privileges', 'web server', 'call', 'emulation layer', 'Syscall table'.
Protip: We're nerds. Write for your audience. If I don't understand a term, I can look it up. I'd prefer to have to do that than have random definitions stuck in the summary.
Demand stays the same. Quantity demanded goes down.
This sounds like nit-picky semantics, but it's an important distinction. When we say 'demand is lower' it comes across as saying lower equivalent supply hasn't hurt people--there's X less supply and people want X less, so it's okay. It does hurt, though--they want the oil just as much as before, they just can't have it.
3. Technology to the rescue!
It's not about to run out. It's about to--wait for it--PEAK. Production has been increasing since its discovery and soon it will begin to decrease--but 'decrease' (or even 'decrease fast enough to be big trouble) does not equate 'decrease quickly enough to solve global warming', especially considering the time lag.
Does it horrify anyone else that we talk this way now?
clive and mplayer to the rescue.
http://abstrusegoose.com/92
'Fuck you, Rick Berman! You ruined this too?'
Yeah, only dumbasses like Tyler Cowen and Aza Raskin.
There may not be much expert discussion on Twitter, but when you dogmatically insist that everyone on Twitter is an idiot you're actually identifying only one person as an idiot.
People who abuse their right to guns are the reason some think we shouldn't have said right.
Remember how we were all mad at Germany early in the Iraq war? Do you remember how we punished them? We started some of our troops out of Germany and shutting down American military bases in the country. Why did we have military bases in Germany in 2005? Because we put them there during the Cold War, some immediately following World War II.
So, yeah, we're keeping a military presence in Iraq, just a we've kept a presence in Germany for over fifty years. It's strategic to have bases spread around the globe.
You just listed a bunch of products who essentially stalled their own development for years and were overtaken by competition. If Microsoft's success depends on Apple not releasing any new products or updates to their current products, I have some bad news for them.
No one's complaining about people simply not buying games. Free market capitalism for not preclude IP. Perhaps you should consider not being a smug asshole and make your point honestly next time.
Um...Flattr is a way of paying for the cool stuff. You just pay a flat rate each month.
How about 'if you think the complex system is either not good enough or absolutely perfect, you shouldn't be programming'. I can write in assembly, but I'd have to be an idiot to reject improvements on the grounds that 'if you can't program in assembly, don't program.' Better tools increase productivity and reduce bug-count. (Anyone who claims to have written a complex, bug-free program, is either a liar or just oblivious, and if they add in that there's no way it could have been done faster/more easily they're either nuts or a knee-jerk Slashdot commenter.)
Go ahead and write your code in C++ because you can, but don't be surprised when all those idiots using other using tools produce better software faster.
The Cost of Social Norms.
No, I can't get it because we used the smallpox vaccines to fully eradicate it. You've confused cowpox (A member of the Poxviridae family and which which provides a no-longer-needed immunity to smallpox) with chickenpox (which a member of the Herpesviridae and I'm pretty sure doesn't help with smallpox). We don't give out the smallpox vaccine anymore not because chickenpox or cowpox is common, but because the worldwide infenction rate for smallpox since 1978 has been 0. (And the single case in 1978 was a lab accident. The last natural case was 1977.)
The eradication of smallpox is one of science's biggest victories. Spread the good word.
Basically, they get all of the disadvantages of open source security, but none of the advantages.
?
People can find security holes and exploit them, but they can't find security holes and fix them. (They can, however, find security holes and report them, so...)
What's this 'money' you speak of? Where'd this stuff come from?
Does the decimal number 90 represent 100 states? Your absurd usage of numbers is self-defeating: if 10bin doesn't represent 'four states' rather than the cardinal number two, surely 11 does as well, in which case 10=11 and there are only three distinct states: 00, 01, and 10. I suspect under your system the other states would collapse as well.
It's only 'military time' in the US and Canada. It's the standard nearly everywhere else.
In my personal life, I do well without a printer. In my job, not so much. I work at a charter high school and a lot of things need to be printed. I suspect it's a legal requirement. Maybe we can file stuff electronically and get digital signatures(???), but I'd want to discuss this with a lawyer before abandoning physical documentation.
It's not just a few universities. It's the entire public school system, every accounting department in the country, and probably most other institutions.
s/majority/plurality/. Majority means over 50%.
How long does it take to pull out the hard drive and hook it up to another machine for easy perusal? Don't use this as your GPG password or for remote login, but most security--login passwords and the lock on your front door--work because it would take more than five minutes to circumvent. (Actually, I've discovered that the knife method of opening door locks takes thirty seconds before you've had any practice. Five minutes is great.)
I wouldn't trust it as much as even a weak password, though. I suspect it's either way too easy to fool or will lock me out if I shave.