Actually, that's what they suck at. They use touch panels and menu systems in place of tactile controls, forcing you to look at the panel instead of keeping your eyes on the road.
I just don't see how this is really news of interest. I mean, good for him if he wanted to figure it out, but the discovery does not warrant coverage just because he's a nobel prize winner.
instead of adding a bunch of features I don't need, didn't ask for, and make the product more complex, expensive, and likely to fail? Everything is headed this way, cars and home appliances being the most obvious offenders, and it's not making lives better.
A pair of phones that sound good, made to last, and are not overpriced, should turn a profit without marketing them as high status items. If not, then marketing has seriously contaminated the mindset of the consumer.
Yeah nice false dilemma there. Just because some good comes of it at times does not mean we should just accept the status quo of rising taxes, rising inflation, and diminishing returns. On the flip side we have:
1. bio warfare 2. nuclear weapons 3. autonomous robot weapons 4. electronic surveillance 5. speeding fines that have nothing to do with safety 6. e-waste
I agree. Legalize the drugs, and the profit model collapses. Wide open borders made sense when we were an agrarian society with large expanses of land and almost no people. Today's debt ridden urban society can't afford to leak like a sieve. Illegal immigration is only one component of the welfare state that should be fixed. There are many more (no I do not support abolishing it altogether). Of course, the democrats don't want it fixed because the illegal->citizen path they keep trying to simplify is merely one tributary feeding a nice stable of reliable voters at taxpayer expense.
Providing welfare to illegal citizens is like leaving the windows open with the AC on. You'll spend a lot of money, stress your equipment, and burn a lot of fuel, yet neither the house nor the world is cooled.
Hey, defending the border is actually one of the things the feds are supposed to do. Someone shows up at the border from abroad and shows a passport? American citizen? ok, let him in. Passport and no citizenship? well does he have alternative legitimate travel docs? if so, let him pass. If not, deny. Anyone else trying to get past the border is arrested and sent home. Mass invasions are dealt with by deadly force. I don't see a problem with this. It's not racist to do this. The borders keep the peace.
Here, the market is simply an indicator that we are allowing mass numbers of non english speaking people into the country who have no interest in assimilating our culture, values or anything else. They just want to assimilate our money. Sorry, not when there are jobless american citizens living in sewers, or on the street.
False dilemma. Most of the people here who can't read the signs aren't supposed to be here in the first place. Those who belong and can't read are either too young or need to take remedial english. Why should we roll out the red carpet for illegal immigrants? Ideally, becoming a citizen should involve at least a 9th grade level understanding of english and a comprehensive driver's ed...at a minimum. That way, among other things, they'll be able to read the signs AND know how to drive. People who want to be american, care about liberty and self-direction etc, are welcome to apply. Those just looking for socialist style welfare handouts on the taxpayers' backs need not.
That stuff will only run on x86 anyway. You're better off with virtualbox or vmware. You might get lucky and get a distro from that era running on modern hardware too. You'll have to set the disk controller to ide compat mode and live with unaccelerated vesa video unless you've got a PCI slot and an nvidia vid card from that era. The drivers that ship with X back then won't validate the PCIIDs from today's cards, nevermind use them properly.
Another option would be to install the software on your modern x86/64 install and see if it runs. If it's missing libraries, copy them as needed from the old distro (or symlink current ones to the older names) to an oldlib directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to it. Just don't dump them in your system's lib dirs or leave the environment variable set globally. Use ldd and grep to examine what libs are missing from the binary you're trying to run. YMMV.
The kernel guys guarantee ABI compatibility back to 2.0, but that's just the kernel. Today's userland has changed a lot from 1998-2001. It could also be that your glibc is not compiled with the compat symbols from previous glibc 2.0-2.2 versions common then, in which case you'll need to bring that over to your oldlibs dir too. That can get messy but it is doable.
Of course not, because the federal government created this complete lack of respect for the border with its pantywaisted policies and misconstrued cries of 'we're a country of immigrants.' Now mexico's problems, culture, and values are becoming our own, and what do we do? Teach our kids spanish, offer spanish cable tv channels, and politicians want bilingual highway signs. Their government is corrupt to the core, run by drug cartels. Maybe it's time we started shooting invaders again. After all, the mexican authorities would shoot us if we ignored their border en masse the way they do ours.
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On the contrary, liberals love a monopoly too, just for the government.
huhuhuh.. manners suck..
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc...
Maybe because touch devices make shitty desktop devices and they shouldn't be integrated for that reason.
He has a point. Car interiors (and exteriors) are eyebleedingly effeminate these days..
Actually, that's what they suck at. They use touch panels and menu systems in place of tactile controls, forcing you to look at the panel instead of keeping your eyes on the road.
Bypass the ignition if necessary. It's my car, not the state's.
This is the same company that wants you to trust the programming that goes into their autonomous cars.
It's hard for the customer to make a good choice when the good choices are removed from the market and replaced with disposable junk.
I just don't see how this is really news of interest. I mean, good for him if he wanted to figure it out, but the discovery does not warrant coverage just because he's a nobel prize winner.
instead of adding a bunch of features I don't need, didn't ask for, and make the product more complex, expensive, and likely to fail? Everything is headed this way, cars and home appliances being the most obvious offenders, and it's not making lives better.
A pair of phones that sound good, made to last, and are not overpriced, should turn a profit without marketing them as high status items. If not, then marketing has seriously contaminated the mindset of the consumer.
Doesn't he have anything better to do?
Decompressing initramfs images? Stuff like that is great for embedded systems. The feature is optional.
yes.. the references to javascript and ruby are dead giveaways. I don't want javascript or ruby anywhere near my command line.
which quickly gets tiresome because of how much text you end up typing.
instead of: /dir/
passwd
cp myfile.txt
chmod 777 myfile.txt
Yeah nice false dilemma there. Just because some good comes of it at times does not mean we should just accept the status quo of rising taxes, rising inflation, and diminishing returns. On the flip side we have:
1. bio warfare
2. nuclear weapons
3. autonomous robot weapons
4. electronic surveillance
5. speeding fines that have nothing to do with safety
6. e-waste
Now shut up and go reread the bill of rights.
more toys at taxpayer expense...
I agree. Legalize the drugs, and the profit model collapses. Wide open borders made sense when we were an agrarian society with large expanses of land and almost no people. Today's debt ridden urban society can't afford to leak like a sieve. Illegal immigration is only one component of the welfare state that should be fixed. There are many more (no I do not support abolishing it altogether). Of course, the democrats don't want it fixed because the illegal->citizen path they keep trying to simplify is merely one tributary feeding a nice stable of reliable voters at taxpayer expense.
Providing welfare to illegal citizens is like leaving the windows open with the AC on. You'll spend a lot of money, stress your equipment, and burn a lot of fuel, yet neither the house nor the world is cooled.
It's gotta be better here than it is there if we've got millions of mexicans living illegally in the states.
Hey, defending the border is actually one of the things the feds are supposed to do. Someone shows up at the border from abroad and shows a passport? American citizen? ok, let him in. Passport and no citizenship? well does he have alternative legitimate travel docs? if so, let him pass. If not, deny. Anyone else trying to get past the border is arrested and sent home. Mass invasions are dealt with by deadly force. I don't see a problem with this. It's not racist to do this. The borders keep the peace.
Here, the market is simply an indicator that we are allowing mass numbers of non english speaking people into the country who have no interest in assimilating our culture, values or anything else. They just want to assimilate our money. Sorry, not when there are jobless american citizens living in sewers, or on the street.
False dilemma. Most of the people here who can't read the signs aren't supposed to be here in the first place. Those who belong and can't read are either too young or need to take remedial english. Why should we roll out the red carpet for illegal immigrants? Ideally, becoming a citizen should involve at least a 9th grade level understanding of english and a comprehensive driver's ed...at a minimum. That way, among other things, they'll be able to read the signs AND know how to drive. People who want to be american, care about liberty and self-direction etc, are welcome to apply. Those just looking for socialist style welfare handouts on the taxpayers' backs need not.
Sometimes forward is better. Not always.
That stuff will only run on x86 anyway. You're better off with virtualbox or vmware. You might get lucky and get a distro from that era running on modern hardware too. You'll have to set the disk controller to ide compat mode and live with unaccelerated vesa video unless you've got a PCI slot and an nvidia vid card from that era. The drivers that ship with X back then won't validate the PCIIDs from today's cards, nevermind use them properly.
Another option would be to install the software on your modern x86/64 install and see if it runs. If it's missing libraries, copy them as needed from the old distro (or symlink current ones to the older names) to an oldlib directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to it. Just don't dump them in your system's lib dirs or leave the environment variable set globally. Use ldd and grep to examine what libs are missing from the binary you're trying to run. YMMV.
The kernel guys guarantee ABI compatibility back to 2.0, but that's just the kernel. Today's userland has changed a lot from 1998-2001. It could also be that your glibc is not compiled with the compat symbols from previous glibc 2.0-2.2 versions common then, in which case you'll need to bring that over to your oldlibs dir too. That can get messy but it is doable.
SPLAT! FATALITY!! BBQ!
Of course not, because the federal government created this complete lack of respect for the border with its pantywaisted policies and misconstrued cries of 'we're a country of immigrants.' Now mexico's problems, culture, and values are becoming our own, and what do we do? Teach our kids spanish, offer spanish cable tv channels, and politicians want bilingual highway signs. Their government is corrupt to the core, run by drug cartels. Maybe it's time we started shooting invaders again. After all, the mexican authorities would shoot us if we ignored their border en masse the way they do ours.
it would take billions more to make me wear it daily.
or just 'crapper'.. or maybe 'crappest'