What's wrong with the desktop I have now? Is it interpreted code? No. Is it slow? No (mostly). Is it unresponsive to user input? Sometimes, but that's the fault of the kernel and other processes, not the shell per se. Could the desktop metaphor be improved? Maybe... but what's wrong with just changing the existing code/resources?
WHY do I need my desktop in a Web browser? How will shoehorning my desktop into a browser actually improve any of the few problems my desktop does have? "Integration", you say? Pffft! The browser is ONE CLICK and a few seconds away. WHY do I have to have my entire desktop inside the browser just for 'integration"? Preload the damned browser code instead, for gosh sake. I already do that.
Leave my fucking desktop out of the browser, please, Mozilla. A more intelligent integration MIGHT be to merge Web and file/document browsing; they're both browsers intended to locate stuff, after all, eh? Maybe you could then integrate (Open|Libre|)Office into that integrated browser, so that it could then locate AND open both Web and other documents?
Why don't you tinker with that instead, Mozilla, and leave my freaking desktop out of it?
Does an obese cat in a giant hamster wheel count as a flywheel? No? What if I just hooked up a DC generator to it and dangled some liver on a stick? How many Watts could I get?
There are already store(s) in my area that are filling the small and dwindling niche that Radio Shack once filled. They're farther away and few in number. Us old-timer tinkerers aren't likely to ever go back when we still recall how they so eagerly abandoned us when they thought the big bucks laid elsewhere.
Anyone remember Dow Radio in Pasadena, CA? I wonder if its successor is still there.
'He cut the throat of the goat with a knife,' Zuckerberg pal Jesse Cool told FORTUNE, 'which is the most kind way to do it.'
The kindest way is a grenade strapped to its head. Slitting the critter's throat leaves the brain intact to slowly die. OTOH that means the goat gets to experience some awesome near-death phenomenon and maybe even meet Melinda Gordon before it passes into the Light.
The Wikipedia article references a William J. Beatty:
It has been said that by knowing how traffic waves are created, drivers can sometimes reduce their effects by increasing vehicle headways and reducing the use of brakes, ultimately alleviating traffic congestion for everyone in the area.
I've been doing this as routine behavior for almost 30 years now, after observing these "waves" and theorizing the causes. I've been setting an example how to stop the waves (if not the jams altogether)... not that anyone recognizes the point of what I'm doing. Can't explain it to them! They just think I'm trying to piss them off, being lazy or not paying attention.
That last is really why traffic jams occur, so taking the controls away from humans and giving it to machines that always pay attention, and thus know what to do and when to do it, is a good thing.
It may be possible to genetically engineer them to mimic disease so that previously inaccessible neurological conditions can be studied in the lab.
Hey, they've only been inaccessible because we've been unwilling to do to a few unlucky people what we do to lab animals all the time: put them down and harvest their diseased brains for research. It's for the Common Good of Man!
That site is also utilizing much more efficient GPUs to do the mining, as opposed to relatively inefficient (and power sucking) CPUs. An 8800GT GPU draws 100 Watts less power to do four times the work of a Phenom X4 9850.
Get out of Mom's basement much? He effectively wants to penalize anyone who doesn't positively effect the social aspect of a game (and thus indirectly benefit Valve)... in other words, socially impaired people, not just "trolls" and "hackers". Newell never used those terms, you did. You don't seem to have a very useful definition of "socially impaired". Newell used a brush about as wide as "socially impaired", not as fine as "troll" or "hacker". There are plenty of ways a person can cause people to shun him that can't be described as either trolling or hacking.
I should know: As a volunteer for Designated Drivers, I made what I thought was an interesting constructive comment in a preliminary meeting. I was later asked by the director to please leave and not come back, because of that ONE comment. Other volunteers had complained about it and said they didn't want to partner with me, BECAUSE of that one comment. The comment was my mention of the numerous studies that have demonstrated that what we typically think of as "drunken" behavior is actually voluntary, allowed and enabled by social and cultural tolerance of that behavior when someone is presumed to be drunk. In other words, people behave that way after drinking alcohol because they know they'll be excused from it. It wasn't my judgement or opinion; I was merely stating a clinical fact. And for that people didn't want to be in the same car with me.
People that do or say innocent things like that will be swept up just as quickly in Newell's proposed dragnet.
So lemme get this straight, Mister Newell: you wanna charge socially awkward and inept people, like loners and people with Asperger's Syndrome, a premium simply because they don't benefit your Bottom Line above and beyond what they pay for the game? You want to penalize them for being "unpopular"?
Wow, as if they didn't get enough of that mistreatment in high school, now they have to endure it in the marketplace.
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You might be right. A Mozilla app store... ugh.
Malicious activity like... a Mozilla app store?
Of course I know about Konqueror. So does Mozilla.
What's wrong with the desktop I have now? Is it interpreted code? No. Is it slow? No (mostly). Is it unresponsive to user input? Sometimes, but that's the fault of the kernel and other processes, not the shell per se. Could the desktop metaphor be improved? Maybe... but what's wrong with just changing the existing code/resources?
WHY do I need my desktop in a Web browser? How will shoehorning my desktop into a browser actually improve any of the few problems my desktop does have? "Integration", you say? Pffft! The browser is ONE CLICK and a few seconds away. WHY do I have to have my entire desktop inside the browser just for 'integration"? Preload the damned browser code instead, for gosh sake. I already do that.
Leave my fucking desktop out of the browser, please, Mozilla. A more intelligent integration MIGHT be to merge Web and file/document browsing; they're both browsers intended to locate stuff, after all, eh? Maybe you could then integrate (Open|Libre|)Office into that integrated browser, so that it could then locate AND open both Web and other documents?
Why don't you tinker with that instead, Mozilla, and leave my freaking desktop out of it?
And what if their work doesn't involve base ten numeracy? What if they live on a planet where people only have eight fingers... and digits?
Yo, Mike, you want us to unpimp this thing, lemme hear you say, "Vat?"
No, that's the *other* valley just a bit south.
Once upon a time taxes got us a Revolution. Now they just get us pissy and twittery.
Silicone Valley: home of the original breast implant.
Does an obese cat in a giant hamster wheel count as a flywheel? No? What if I just hooked up a DC generator to it and dangled some liver on a stick? How many Watts could I get?
Last three username digits the same? Fascinating.
Everyone else was focused on the Infamous Selfish Bastard instead of the fate of the animal; somebody had to say it.
WAS in SoCal... which is why I wondered. I had forgotten the name MarVac, but I still lived there after the acquisition.
There are already store(s) in my area that are filling the small and dwindling niche that Radio Shack once filled. They're farther away and few in number. Us old-timer tinkerers aren't likely to ever go back when we still recall how they so eagerly abandoned us when they thought the big bucks laid elsewhere.
Anyone remember Dow Radio in Pasadena, CA? I wonder if its successor is still there.
The kindest way is a grenade strapped to its head. Slitting the critter's throat leaves the brain intact to slowly die. OTOH that means the goat gets to experience some awesome near-death phenomenon and maybe even meet Melinda Gordon before it passes into the Light.
What could go wrong?
The Wikipedia article references a William J. Beatty:
I've been doing this as routine behavior for almost 30 years now, after observing these "waves" and theorizing the causes. I've been setting an example how to stop the waves (if not the jams altogether)... not that anyone recognizes the point of what I'm doing. Can't explain it to them! They just think I'm trying to piss them off, being lazy or not paying attention.
That last is really why traffic jams occur, so taking the controls away from humans and giving it to machines that always pay attention, and thus know what to do and when to do it, is a good thing.
Either I'm a sociopath or you're too literalistic....
Hey, they've only been inaccessible because we've been unwilling to do to a few unlucky people what we do to lab animals all the time: put them down and harvest their diseased brains for research. It's for the Common Good of Man!
^ This. Yes, please do make it harder.
Forget worrying about what to DO... the really important question is whatever do I WEAR for the occasion?
I guess we now know which particular fetish forum you frequent, now don't we? Thanks for sharing your 'skepticism'.
That site is also utilizing much more efficient GPUs to do the mining, as opposed to relatively inefficient (and power sucking) CPUs. An 8800GT GPU draws 100 Watts less power to do four times the work of a Phenom X4 9850.
Only just today? Are you SURE?
This has been happening for days at least, already. (Look at the first post date, and there's another older thread at the same site.)
Get out of Mom's basement much? He effectively wants to penalize anyone who doesn't positively effect the social aspect of a game (and thus indirectly benefit Valve)... in other words, socially impaired people, not just "trolls" and "hackers". Newell never used those terms, you did. You don't seem to have a very useful definition of "socially impaired". Newell used a brush about as wide as "socially impaired", not as fine as "troll" or "hacker". There are plenty of ways a person can cause people to shun him that can't be described as either trolling or hacking.
I should know: As a volunteer for Designated Drivers, I made what I thought was an interesting constructive comment in a preliminary meeting. I was later asked by the director to please leave and not come back, because of that ONE comment. Other volunteers had complained about it and said they didn't want to partner with me, BECAUSE of that one comment. The comment was my mention of the numerous studies that have demonstrated that what we typically think of as "drunken" behavior is actually voluntary, allowed and enabled by social and cultural tolerance of that behavior when someone is presumed to be drunk. In other words, people behave that way after drinking alcohol because they know they'll be excused from it. It wasn't my judgement or opinion; I was merely stating a clinical fact. And for that people didn't want to be in the same car with me.
People that do or say innocent things like that will be swept up just as quickly in Newell's proposed dragnet.
So lemme get this straight, Mister Newell: you wanna charge socially awkward and inept people, like loners and people with Asperger's Syndrome, a premium simply because they don't benefit your Bottom Line above and beyond what they pay for the game? You want to penalize them for being "unpopular"?
Wow, as if they didn't get enough of that mistreatment in high school, now they have to endure it in the marketplace.