Neither parent quoted any studies.. So neither side really has any evidence.. if anything, the politicization of science is the real problem here. When this happens, no one believes anyone's stats or their analyses regardless of correctness.
yeah, and since the USG (and other governments) is oh so big on allowing free xfer of data and free press like wikileaks, it'll be sure to be a utopia...and of course with joe biden and his ilk in office, we'll be able to send whatever files we want to whomever without the media companies, who make money selling make believe restrictions on distribution of data, will never get in the way. Seriously, the whole net neutrality thing is a double edged sword.. Either way we're cut. While the shapes of the blades might be different, the net damage is about the same.
1. Windows forces people to the command line all the time, it's just that when that happens, the user in question already has a tech working on his machine. At least linux has a decent command line environment. Windows' is a mess. In 2012, both CLI and GUI have a place, and for common tasks, kde/gnome (not 3), xfce, and possibly others offer what is needed.
2. The security of linux (and other unix derivatives) is the user process separation from root coupled with a sane security model that is relatively easy to understand. Windows comes from an era when security was not a concern. It was bolted on later on NT, but because most user code expected to have full access to resources, the defaults were broken for the sake of compatibility, and the resulting convoluted system requires a well trained pro (or elite hax0r) to batten down. Even that is questionable. Windows is the ultimate example of spaghetti code making security at that level impossible. now, there are some linux distributions heading down this path and it is not a good thing, but at least it is still possible to get a sane environment with lesser known distros.
3. define 'professional.' alarms go off when someone trots out that word because it's a cop out. 'Obviously' whatever the person's doing is 'professional' because he is 'obviously' a 'professional' and so therefore the software must be at fault. While the software may not suit the need, saying that this makes it 'unprofessional' in your 'professional' opinion is a fallacy. There are plenty of instances where ms office falls flat too. Is that software now not 'professional'?
4. Games are an area where I can agree with you, though the platform has great technical potential. During the quake years, gaming on linux often got me much better, more consistent performance than on windows. However, wine is not and will not be a solution until someone writes a d3d backend for it that targets nvidia/ati with reasonable performance.
5. 'good' is a subjective term. For some, windows truly is better, for most it's just a default and what they do can be done on anything. For others, linux is a much better path.
1. What was the last distribution you used? slackware 3.1? 2. define 'real people.' The people who use other operating systems are no less real, except maybe to microsoft's and apple's bottom lines. 3. why not? the average home user uses facebook, youtube, and plays some music/videos and that's about it, right? Virtually any os can handle that. Linux does just as good a job as any.
New jobs come from demand.. how can demand increase when the population buying the goods is supplanted? Right now there are already more available workers than there are jobs.. Bringing in immigrants to train at our universities instead of training out of work americans to take these jobs isn't right.
Hardly. Tell that to the men who've been destroyed by the kangaroo family courts in this country. When she's hurt by him, it's all over the news as a national outrage. When he's hurt by her, he's emasculated on morning talk shows for being, in some cases, quite literally emasculated (penis chopped off). The attitude that men are the first cause for all her troubles is entwined in pretty much all current television and music as well. Our culture equates female empowerment with histrionic, narcissistic little twats like kim kardiashian, and then it arms this adolescent attitude with the force of the law. The net result shakes out as the men still being held responsible for sexual outcomes as in the distant past, but now lack any of the power to make relevant decisions, with the exception to abstain in the hopes it'll mitigate the risk of accusation. These guys are then labeled pussies by their sexually active peers and as 'afraid of real women' by feminists.
She can make the decision to ruin him for any reason and that's that. A glance walking down a hallway, an unbuttoned shirt, or a date request.. it doesn't matter as it's 'assault' if she says it 'made her uncomfortable'. There's no accountability on her part for using 'her right to choose' responsibly, knowing neither of them have the money to raise a child. No need to when all it takes is a belated accusation to ruin his life and have the state bilk money out of his paycheck and give it to her. If she's got a problem with him, the solution is just a single false abuse accusation away.
There cannot be equal distribution of power without equal distribution of responsibility, and one cannot fight for equality while only considering the needs, whims, and interests, of one side without considering the other.
Why not stand for rights for everyone instead of just women or not-white people? You'll never have equality (in any sense of the term) if you only support some sides and not others. Whether a group is treated well or not is immaterial to the hypocrisy their lobbyists commit when they're willing to trample others' rights along the way.
When smart people with the means to immigrate come to this country Its a benefit to us even to American smart people.
No, they're competitors. There aren't enough 'smart people' jobs to go around.
The idea that immigration depresses wages is based on flawed static economic models.
Says who? The crapola I've read suggests there's a lot of disagreement here, most of which correlates with party lines. That doesn't bode well for ANY of the studies.
I want you techies to view it this way. When immigrants from asia come to this country they have little asian girls, who grow up to be asian hotties who like marrying nerds who produce the holy grail the eurasian hottie who likes nerds.
So it's alright if these American 'techies' get their asses canned for cheap asian labor because they'll have access to asian pussy? Wow, that's pathetic.
Why would we want more immigrants flooding our best universities? We need more americans there! That would help the US education problem. I find it hilarious that leftists want more money spent on US public schools, more restrictions on private schools, yet at the university level, they want to bring in more foreigners.
True.. compared with the average population, a greater percentage of slashdotters are used to social stigma which, ironically, made them resilient to peer pressure, including misandry-trained women and society. It makes sense that fewer of them would want to get married, even if they are relatively ungeeky and successful.
in theory, but at those frequencies, the vinyl itself quickly degrades.. Also, the distortion is already quite high up there, and gets higher as the media/stylus degrade each other.
This doesn't address the technical points about reproduction quality nor does it explain why listeners can't be 'social' with other formats. The rest of your statement is raised-pinky rubbish.
176.4 and 88.2 are multiples of 44.1. That's why they exist. theoretically, less is lost on the final mix down to 44.1. Interestingly enough, even my creative labs card supports 88.2 as well as my cheap ass receiver.
Most of that loss comes down to mixing, not the original material (though the latter certainly does matter). This is done at 32bit float, or even 64 bit float in some cases at really high sample rates to minimize loss.. Most of the semi-pro stuff used by amateurs samples 24/96.. This is far far better than anything available to the stdios even in the early 90s.
well if that was true, then why are so many studies (or the articles posted about them anyway) LOADED with broken correlation? The only answer that makes sense is that many of the authors are ideologically/politically obsessed about some action (seems like soda is a current target considering the stupidity in NY), so they sprinkle it with some badly manipulated stats and serve it up as 'research.' Even under the rare instances the actual studies are sound, the articles themselves often are not. The frequency of this rubbish is why people knee jerk with 'correlation is not causation.' Most of the time it's right on target.
software as service is a big mistake.. it's too dependent on reliable internet connectivity and free flow of data.. It's NOT wise to push company data over public networks. It may save money short term, or even long term, but they're one network slowdown away from losing money, and one data breach away from lawsuits.
No matter how high level the logic is designed, if the hardware around it is changed enough, it'll break. The real answer is licensing that allows porting/recompiles so that the company never loses access to its data. It also needs clean, portable software written in languages that produce lean executables. All this needless virtualizing of everything benefits no one but the vendors.
seems like a whole waste of new hardware to virtualize like that. you're better off just running xp. A sane network policy will protect you better than any ms update will. It is still possible to get xp running on most newer hardware, but it does take a custom install disk and possibly some bios tweaking.
most of the win2k/xp checks were easy to bypass, but back then it was easier to get xp trimmed down to win2k levels where it performed identically.. Today, win7 only games typically use dx10/11 so they will not run on xp unless they have a d3d9 fallback.
The killer was the security center service which (I think) intercepted a bunch of IO and possibly other calls, slowing perf. considerably. Disabling that service brought it back to win2k~ and reduced memory footprint.. there were some other tweaks, but I got xp down to about 13 services (for a non domain network) at home, with most of the 'required' ones on 'on-demand' stopped state. with win7, this is much harder to do and the gains are a lot less.. The libraries are turkeys like they were on vista.
The hippie evangelist kind do, and yes, many shops are run by these people. However, they choose mac for ideological reasons because there's no technical reason why the same work cant' be done on windows...at least as far as adobe goes.
Lockdown is the future of apple too.. It's just as locked down, if not more so, than any of microsoft's current platforms. the whole industry is moving this way, gaming the lure of convenience to make the customer give up sovereignty over his data and software tools.
Microsoft isn't the only one who thinks you shouldn't own your electronics.. In computing, the age of empowerment is coming to a close. Next up, the age of enslavement.
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Neither parent quoted any studies.. So neither side really has any evidence.. if anything, the politicization of science is the real problem here. When this happens, no one believes anyone's stats or their analyses regardless of correctness.
yeah, and since the USG (and other governments) is oh so big on allowing free xfer of data and free press like wikileaks, it'll be sure to be a utopia...and of course with joe biden and his ilk in office, we'll be able to send whatever files we want to whomever without the media companies, who make money selling make believe restrictions on distribution of data, will never get in the way. Seriously, the whole net neutrality thing is a double edged sword.. Either way we're cut. While the shapes of the blades might be different, the net damage is about the same.
1. Windows forces people to the command line all the time, it's just that when that happens, the user in question already has a tech working on his machine. At least linux has a decent command line environment. Windows' is a mess. In 2012, both CLI and GUI have a place, and for common tasks, kde/gnome (not 3), xfce, and possibly others offer what is needed.
2. The security of linux (and other unix derivatives) is the user process separation from root coupled with a sane security model that is relatively easy to understand. Windows comes from an era when security was not a concern. It was bolted on later on NT, but because most user code expected to have full access to resources, the defaults were broken for the sake of compatibility, and the resulting convoluted system requires a well trained pro (or elite hax0r) to batten down. Even that is questionable. Windows is the ultimate example of spaghetti code making security at that level impossible. now, there are some linux distributions heading down this path and it is not a good thing, but at least it is still possible to get a sane environment with lesser known distros.
3. define 'professional.' alarms go off when someone trots out that word because it's a cop out. 'Obviously' whatever the person's doing is 'professional' because he is 'obviously' a 'professional' and so therefore the software must be at fault. While the software may not suit the need, saying that this makes it 'unprofessional' in your 'professional' opinion is a fallacy. There are plenty of instances where ms office falls flat too. Is that software now not 'professional'?
4. Games are an area where I can agree with you, though the platform has great technical potential. During the quake years, gaming on linux often got me much better, more consistent performance than on windows. However, wine is not and will not be a solution until someone writes a d3d backend for it that targets nvidia/ati with reasonable performance.
5. 'good' is a subjective term. For some, windows truly is better, for most it's just a default and what they do can be done on anything. For others, linux is a much better path.
1. What was the last distribution you used? slackware 3.1?
2. define 'real people.' The people who use other operating systems are no less real, except maybe to microsoft's and apple's bottom lines.
3. why not? the average home user uses facebook, youtube, and plays some music/videos and that's about it, right? Virtually any os can handle that. Linux does just as good a job as any.
New jobs come from demand.. how can demand increase when the population buying the goods is supplanted? Right now there are already more available workers than there are jobs.. Bringing in immigrants to train at our universities instead of training out of work americans to take these jobs isn't right.
Hardly. Tell that to the men who've been destroyed by the kangaroo family courts in this country. When she's hurt by him, it's all over the news as a national outrage. When he's hurt by her, he's emasculated on morning talk shows for being, in some cases, quite literally emasculated (penis chopped off). The attitude that men are the first cause for all her troubles is entwined in pretty much all current television and music as well. Our culture equates female empowerment with histrionic, narcissistic little twats like kim kardiashian, and then it arms this adolescent attitude with the force of the law. The net result shakes out as the men still being held responsible for sexual outcomes as in the distant past, but now lack any of the power to make relevant decisions, with the exception to abstain in the hopes it'll mitigate the risk of accusation. These guys are then labeled pussies by their sexually active peers and as 'afraid of real women' by feminists.
She can make the decision to ruin him for any reason and that's that. A glance walking down a hallway, an unbuttoned shirt, or a date request.. it doesn't matter as it's 'assault' if she says it 'made her uncomfortable'. There's no accountability on her part for using 'her right to choose' responsibly, knowing neither of them have the money to raise a child. No need to when all it takes is a belated accusation to ruin his life and have the state bilk money out of his paycheck and give it to her. If she's got a problem with him, the solution is just a single false abuse accusation away.
There cannot be equal distribution of power without equal distribution of responsibility, and one cannot fight for equality while only considering the needs, whims, and interests, of one side without considering the other.
Why not stand for rights for everyone instead of just women or not-white people? You'll never have equality (in any sense of the term) if you only support some sides and not others. Whether a group is treated well or not is immaterial to the hypocrisy their lobbyists commit when they're willing to trample others' rights along the way.
When smart people with the means to immigrate come to this country Its a benefit to us even to American smart people.
No, they're competitors. There aren't enough 'smart people' jobs to go around.
The idea that immigration depresses wages is based on flawed static economic models.
Says who? The crapola I've read suggests there's a lot of disagreement here, most of which correlates with party lines. That doesn't bode well for ANY of the studies.
I want you techies to view it this way. When immigrants from asia come to this country they have little asian girls, who grow up to be
asian hotties who like marrying nerds who produce the holy grail the eurasian hottie who likes nerds.
So it's alright if these American 'techies' get their asses canned for cheap asian labor because they'll have access to asian pussy? Wow, that's pathetic.
no they don't.. they'll stay and funnel money back home until the limit expires and they can move back.
Why would we want more immigrants flooding our best universities? We need more americans there! That would help the US education problem. I find it hilarious that leftists want more money spent on US public schools, more restrictions on private schools, yet at the university level, they want to bring in more foreigners.
True.. compared with the average population, a greater percentage of slashdotters are used to social stigma which, ironically, made them resilient to peer pressure, including misandry-trained women and society. It makes sense that fewer of them would want to get married, even if they are relatively ungeeky and successful.
histrionic wives should too... Is it still funny now?
in theory, but at those frequencies, the vinyl itself quickly degrades.. Also, the distortion is already quite high up there, and gets higher as the media/stylus degrade each other.
This doesn't address the technical points about reproduction quality nor does it explain why listeners can't be 'social' with other formats. The rest of your statement is raised-pinky rubbish.
uh no it doesn't, unless it was pressed long ago. Modern vinyl is often produced from the same mixdown as the cd.
176.4 and 88.2 are multiples of 44.1. That's why they exist. theoretically, less is lost on the final mix down to 44.1. Interestingly enough, even my creative labs card supports 88.2 as well as my cheap ass receiver.
Most of that loss comes down to mixing, not the original material (though the latter certainly does matter). This is done at 32bit float, or even 64 bit float in some cases at really high sample rates to minimize loss.. Most of the semi-pro stuff used by amateurs samples 24/96.. This is far far better than anything available to the stdios even in the early 90s.
well if that was true, then why are so many studies (or the articles posted about them anyway) LOADED with broken correlation? The only answer that makes sense is that many of the authors are ideologically/politically obsessed about some action (seems like soda is a current target considering the stupidity in NY), so they sprinkle it with some badly manipulated stats and serve it up as 'research.' Even under the rare instances the actual studies are sound, the articles themselves often are not. The frequency of this rubbish is why people knee jerk with 'correlation is not causation.' Most of the time it's right on target.
software as service is a big mistake.. it's too dependent on reliable internet connectivity and free flow of data.. It's NOT wise to push company data over public networks. It may save money short term, or even long term, but they're one network slowdown away from losing money, and one data breach away from lawsuits.
No matter how high level the logic is designed, if the hardware around it is changed enough, it'll break. The real answer is licensing that allows porting/recompiles so that the company never loses access to its data. It also needs clean, portable software written in languages that produce lean executables. All this needless virtualizing of everything benefits no one but the vendors.
seems like a whole waste of new hardware to virtualize like that. you're better off just running xp. A sane network policy will protect you better than any ms update will. It is still possible to get xp running on most newer hardware, but it does take a custom install disk and possibly some bios tweaking.
most of the win2k/xp checks were easy to bypass, but back then it was easier to get xp trimmed down to win2k levels where it performed identically.. Today, win7 only games typically use dx10/11 so they will not run on xp unless they have a d3d9 fallback.
The killer was the security center service which (I think) intercepted a bunch of IO and possibly other calls, slowing perf. considerably. Disabling that service brought it back to win2k~ and reduced memory footprint.. there were some other tweaks, but I got xp down to about 13 services (for a non domain network) at home, with most of the 'required' ones on 'on-demand' stopped state. with win7, this is much harder to do and the gains are a lot less.. The libraries are turkeys like they were on vista.
The hippie evangelist kind do, and yes, many shops are run by these people. However, they choose mac for ideological reasons because there's no technical reason why the same work cant' be done on windows...at least as far as adobe goes.
Lockdown is the future of apple too.. It's just as locked down, if not more so, than any of microsoft's current platforms. the whole industry is moving this way, gaming the lure of convenience to make the customer give up sovereignty over his data and software tools.
Microsoft isn't the only one who thinks you shouldn't own your electronics.. In computing, the age of empowerment is coming to a close. Next up, the age of enslavement.
that's today.. tomorrow there won't be a disk.. that's when you lose all control over the software..