Actually, rebooting your computer uses up its lifespan. The booting of a machine is far more stressful than leaving it on, so if you shut it off and turn it on every day (or worse, several times a day) it really will last for a shorter period of time than just leaving it on 24/7.
Its not an emotional thing for me -- i have two reasons for liking flatscreens.
First, and most important, is that I have 3 places I live -- College, Home, and my Co-op job. These 3 locations are pretty far apart, and I move between them several times a year. If I had to haul CRTs everywhere, well, I'd probably do without.
Second, for a computer monitor, I really like the LCDs -- the lack of flicker makes a difference to me.
one word -- Slackware
Slackware is about security, stability, and pragmatism
Volkerding didn't even originally plan on switching to X.org from XFree86 4.4, but he is now have second thoughts (with suggests being sent in by slack users)
"So you don't differentiate between the concept of DRM'ed material being subject to a EULA defined by the creator? The DRM is just a way of enforcing the EULA, and nothing more. If you purchase the product and violate the EULA, then the courts could be used to enforce the license just as DRM is."
Armed guards standing over your shoulder, or at least hidden cameras everywhere montitoring your every move would also do a fine job of enforcing the EULA. DRM is simply the digital version of those concepts. Are you fine with the analog? Because if you are then go ahead use DRM -- its about the same.
DRM is frowned upon for many reasons. Personally, I find it distateful because it erodes our property rights (i.e. the ability to control the computer I payed a substantial amount of money for) and that it operates under the basic assumption that we are all criminals, which I find offensive.
I have yet to see copy protection that didnt hinder honest users more than those who steal it. The people who crack software are barely slowed down, and so really its the person who payed for it that gets bitten by the copy protection (and this holds true for all copy protected content.)
actually, this in some ways proves my point -- NASA spends a tremendous amount of money and manhours trying to make software as bug-free as possible, but its still very buggy
and come on -- NASA coders aren't that bad -- a few small mistakes are never forgotten because of how highly publicised they are. NASA really doesnt have that big of a budget compared to some government groups, but is held to a higher standard of quality, and so appears to be vastly inferior
sorry, but i happen to know what i'm talking about
life critical applications do undergo extreme levels of testing and evaluation for bugs, but they dont fix EVERYTHING
you cannot fix EVERYTHING -- i agree that you can prevent most major problems, but there are still bugs
look up sometime the standards to which life critical code is held, and youll notice that it doesnt refer to software being absolutely bug free -- it refers to the software as having a small bug to line ratio
and i resent your attitude -- im not 'some kid' (and that whole insult is flawed, many 'kids' are great programmers) -- i happen to work for NASA
and im telling you your crazy
the highest levels of software quality control are in terms of bugs per so many lines
even important life critical software used by the military and government institutions has bugs -- 1 bug per many thousands of lines, after spending millions of dollars auditing it
you can keep bugs to a minimum, but you cant get rid of them from any project of real size
sorry, but your obviously NOT a programmer no matter what you do, your code will have bugs. you just do everything you can to keep them to a minimum, but if you spent a hundred years working on the same project, when all was said and done there would still be bugs.
Actually, he basically invented the modern RPG. Unless your complaining because everybody played makebelieve, D and Ds only real predecessors are wargames -- a completely different genre.
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I disagree with your assertion that grant money is simply used for corporate R and D. I'm a college student, and most of the research I see being done has little immediate applications, mostly centered around microparticle interactions. Although that will have some very good uses, eventually,it is certainly not being approached that way. Its simply pure science research.
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Actually, rebooting your computer uses up its lifespan. The booting of a machine is far more stressful than leaving it on, so if you shut it off and turn it on every day (or worse, several times a day) it really will last for a shorter period of time than just leaving it on 24/7.
Bad luck on the editors you mean.
I submitted it last night.
Its not an emotional thing for me -- i have two reasons for liking flatscreens.
First, and most important, is that I have 3 places I live -- College, Home, and my Co-op job. These 3 locations are pretty far apart, and I move between them several times a year. If I had to haul CRTs everywhere, well, I'd probably do without.
Second, for a computer monitor, I really like the LCDs -- the lack of flicker makes a difference to me.
its trivial in shell scripting
you dont even need a text editor
just type on any terminal:
echo "echo \"Hello, world.\"" > hello; sh hello
that writes a program to say hello world and runs it, all on one line
Volkerding didn't even originally plan on switching to X.org from XFree86 4.4, but he is now have second thoughts (with suggests being sent in by slack users)
security, stability, pragmatism, Slackware
just install swaret (swaret.org) swaret --update swaret --install python
Armed guards standing over your shoulder, or at least hidden cameras everywhere montitoring your every move would also do a fine job of enforcing the EULA. DRM is simply the digital version of those concepts. Are you fine with the analog? Because if you are then go ahead use DRM -- its about the same.
DRM is frowned upon for many reasons. Personally, I find it distateful because it erodes our property rights (i.e. the ability to control the computer I payed a substantial amount of money for) and that it operates under the basic assumption that we are all criminals, which I find offensive. I have yet to see copy protection that didnt hinder honest users more than those who steal it. The people who crack software are barely slowed down, and so really its the person who payed for it that gets bitten by the copy protection (and this holds true for all copy protected content.)
actually, this in some ways proves my point -- NASA spends a tremendous amount of money and manhours trying to make software as bug-free as possible, but its still very buggy and come on -- NASA coders aren't that bad -- a few small mistakes are never forgotten because of how highly publicised they are. NASA really doesnt have that big of a budget compared to some government groups, but is held to a higher standard of quality, and so appears to be vastly inferior
sorry, but i happen to know what i'm talking about life critical applications do undergo extreme levels of testing and evaluation for bugs, but they dont fix EVERYTHING you cannot fix EVERYTHING -- i agree that you can prevent most major problems, but there are still bugs look up sometime the standards to which life critical code is held, and youll notice that it doesnt refer to software being absolutely bug free -- it refers to the software as having a small bug to line ratio and i resent your attitude -- im not 'some kid' (and that whole insult is flawed, many 'kids' are great programmers) -- i happen to work for NASA
and im telling you your crazy the highest levels of software quality control are in terms of bugs per so many lines even important life critical software used by the military and government institutions has bugs -- 1 bug per many thousands of lines, after spending millions of dollars auditing it you can keep bugs to a minimum, but you cant get rid of them from any project of real size
sorry, but your obviously NOT a programmer
no matter what you do, your code will have bugs.
you just do everything you can to keep them to a minimum, but if you spent a hundred years working on the same project, when all was said and done there would still be bugs.
Actually, he basically invented the modern RPG. Unless your complaining because everybody played makebelieve, D and Ds only real predecessors are wargames -- a completely different genre.
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I disagree with your assertion that grant money is simply used for corporate R and D. I'm a college student, and most of the research I see being done has little immediate applications, mostly centered around microparticle interactions. Although that will have some very good uses, eventually,it is certainly not being approached that way. Its simply pure science research.