I know I'm feeding a troll, but it bears relevance to the discussion at large. Hear me out.
I buy things. This is true. But, I do not look at any ads ( sorry Taco, I'll get a subscription soon, or something. Ever wanted a fruit basket sent to your home? I know I would like one too. If you could send me one that would be great) How do I learn about products I wish to buy? I research them. I need a touthpaste, I'll invesitgate the problem wholisitcaly. Lets think about tooth brushing.
What is the end result desired in tooth brushing?
Clean teath, reduce plauque, tarter and prevent gingeovitus
What is the solution involve?
It typically involves a tooth brush, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash.
Ok, Now you need touthpaste, part of the system what parts are already covered by existing materials?
Mouth wash prevents gingeovitus, reduces plauque.
Ok need a touth past that will fight tartar clean teeth and prevent tooth decay. What ingredients do the bet job?
Soidum Floride of a.1 % concentration will take care of the toot decay problem, Tartar and overall cleanliness are provided by the mild abrasive inside
OK, Which products contain these ingredients?
brands a, b & c
Do they also contain the ada seal of approval and what is the price per ounce
All have ada except for brand c that was made in China and is spelled toutpaste. Price varies by store.
Which store has the B or C at the best price?
Karl's Krazy Korn & ToothBarn has A for 10 cents an ounce!
uhhm Ok, are they having a sale soon?
No, they keep there prices low the year round!
Do they fund any evil orginisations that trample on human rights, or for that matter do the makers of B or A?
oooh Karl's is apparently a front for the Klu Klux Klan, don't know how I missed that. But Mom & pop's Good Store of things, has B for 11 cents an ounce.
Cool, Yo. I'm there.
Yeah, thats how it works for me. Now if I could get ads sent to me that had that information, I might even pay for it. But, they don't. They always want you to BUY BUY BUY PRODUCT X AT STORE Y with no information about the problem space. Utterly utterly useless for me.
Linux is NOT "free-as-in-beer Microsoft Windows" nor was it designed to be.
Correct, but confusing
People want something that works, is easy, and is not expensive. Linux (the kernel) doesn't really care about whats going on in userland. Linux ( the Gnu/Linux Distros) can be windows like and Lindows/Linspire specifically was designed to be. Most aren't, but you cant really say that Debian is somehow more linux than Suse, Ubuntu, or even And thats cool. No moral or ethical violations need occur.
Yeah its a weird history between the two. Initially it was going to be called lindows because they were aiming on making wine good enough to run every windows program available to make the transition to Linux easier for people. Then they discovered it was very difficult and expensive, so they decided to take the opposite path and declare that any thing using drm or proprietary formats was evil. Now this. I think its pretty clear that they will do what every makes them money. Not that its a bad thing for companies to do, but I wish they would stop making grandiose claims that what they are doing is for the principal of it, every time they change their business model.
They are the cooperate equivalent of a US Senator ( party doesn't really matter IMHO).
I made one for my brother when I was in High School. He was complaining about the thermostat temperature. My room was always 10 degrees colder, so I didn't want the AC cranked anymore than it was. So I took an old Pentium heat sink fan combo, attached a headband and 9 volt. He used it for a while. I'll ask my parents if they still have it.
This is why the Dark Night of the Soul that Mother Theresa experienced is the mark of a great saint. Its easy to do things when it feels good. But doing the right thing, with only the knowledge that regardless of the sacrifice it is the right thing to do, is the mark of a Saint.
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Funny, I always thought it was moosesocks.
In fact, I still do. Nice try to divert the blame from yourself Mr. Taco. If that is your real fake name.
I'd prefer doing things in multiples of the base of the natural logarithm, but as a non integer it poses problems. I've always wanted to redefine the integers using e as the base, creating some sort of vector or tensor space with non rheimanian geometry where distances were calculated with some combination of e, Pi, and c. I started on something like that once, but I wasn't sure if I was on to genius or madness, and I needed to study real classes I was taking instead of making strange mathematical symbols that I invented.
*Some* Geeks are assholes. Not all are saints. Redefining their title does not change who they are. We can't just redefine everyone that does something wrong as evil, or an asshole. People do things that are evil or assholish, but are not of themselves evil or assholes.
Good call. Or even better, learn how to play (acoustic) instruments. Then you don't need to spend any money at all. Except for the strat violin. Why would you even listen to music that wasn't made on instruments who's sound quality hasn't been proven though centuries of play?
Perfect! Force overweight Americans to spend all of their time emplained in a DC 9. That would encourage them all to lose weight fast. and if all they have to eat is airplane food, it shouldn't take long.
It is frustrating that GIMP is really nice to use, but it lacks anything over 8 bit. Cinepaint can do higher color ranges, but its missing all of the features that makes GIMP nice in the first place. CinePaint's ground up rewrite (Glasgow) was supposed to fix all of these issues, but its incredibly unstable. Anything I try and do with it crashes it.
In the sense that Microsoft's OS victory was one that was not tied to a specific hardware vendor, yes you should be glad. If Apple had been as successful, we'd be tied to them for hardware as well as software and there would be a higher barrier to market entry for competing OSes.
But in this case we are talking about highly competent people choosing the right technology for there situation. I have confidence.
The other choices are whats wrong with Open MP. The market needs to shake out the pretenders, before more people will make the correct choices. Thats the basic idea of this story.
Having said that, I'm praying for Fortran 95 to take over. Its the only Malt Liquor I drink.
Yes, but what of the gorilla children. Surely as the future generation of gorilla - kind we must start them out at an early age. Some one needs to design a low cost/ low power gorilla proof laptop for third world gorillas. Like the one laptop per child, but for gorilla children as they are cuter, more endangered, and would make a better plot to a movie co-starring Clint Eastwood.
But this is what a truly open market for ideas is all about: bitching about available systems with the hope that you can devise something better, or someone with the authority and ability to change things will. It is a necessary part of tech life and is especially rampant on a a site dedicated to News For Nerds in a story about comparing development with various toolkits.
I hate to say it, but you must be new here. Or someone that has an active hand in perpetuating the current mobile Java soup.
But the Iphone uses a modified OSX kernel. Which has protected memory. I seriously doubt they will ever open up the development for 3rd party apps. I think its exactly because Apple locked down the Iphone that others ( Nokia, Motoroloa, Google) will take the same approach to protect revenue schemes, plus the stability that you mentioned.
Yeah, if you read the rest of the sentence, he goes on to say he prefers BSD. But, on the whole, its pretty lame. I think he spent close to an hour with google, before writing it.
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Or a group of unsavory persons could purchase one and find the security vulnerabilities in it to rig an election or two.
Lets see:
I know I'm feeding a troll, but it bears relevance to the discussion at large. Hear me out.
.1 % concentration will take care of the toot decay problem, Tartar and overall cleanliness are provided by the mild abrasive inside
I buy things. This is true. But, I do not look at any ads ( sorry Taco, I'll get a subscription soon, or something. Ever wanted a fruit basket sent to your home? I know I would like one too. If you could send me one that would be great) How do I learn about products I wish to buy? I research them. I need a touthpaste, I'll invesitgate the problem wholisitcaly. Lets think about tooth brushing.
What is the end result desired in tooth brushing?
Clean teath, reduce plauque, tarter and prevent gingeovitus
What is the solution involve?
It typically involves a tooth brush, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash.
Ok, Now you need touthpaste, part of the system what parts are already covered by existing materials?
Mouth wash prevents gingeovitus, reduces plauque.
Ok need a touth past that will fight tartar clean teeth and prevent tooth decay. What ingredients do the bet job?
Soidum Floride of a
OK, Which products contain these ingredients?
brands a, b & c
Do they also contain the ada seal of approval and what is the price per ounce
All have ada except for brand c that was made in China and is spelled toutpaste. Price varies by store.
Which store has the B or C at the best price?
Karl's Krazy Korn & ToothBarn has A for 10 cents an ounce!
uhhm Ok, are they having a sale soon?
No, they keep there prices low the year round!
Do they fund any evil orginisations that trample on human rights, or for that matter do the makers of B or A?
oooh Karl's is apparently a front for the Klu Klux Klan, don't know how I missed that. But Mom & pop's Good Store of things, has B for 11 cents an ounce.
Cool, Yo. I'm there. Yeah, thats how it works for me. Now if I could get ads sent to me that had that information, I might even pay for it. But, they don't. They always want you to BUY BUY BUY PRODUCT X AT STORE Y with no information about the problem space. Utterly utterly useless for me.
Linux is NOT "free-as-in-beer Microsoft Windows" nor was it designed to be.
Correct, but confusing
People want something that works, is easy, and is not expensive. Linux (the kernel) doesn't really care about whats going on in userland. Linux ( the Gnu/Linux Distros) can be windows like and Lindows/Linspire specifically was designed to be. Most aren't, but you cant really say that Debian is somehow more linux than Suse, Ubuntu, or even And thats cool. No moral or ethical violations need occur.
Yeah its a weird history between the two. Initially it was going to be called lindows because they were aiming on making wine good enough to run every windows program available to make the transition to Linux easier for people. Then they discovered it was very difficult and expensive, so they decided to take the opposite path and declare that any thing using drm or proprietary formats was evil. Now this. I think its pretty clear that they will do what every makes them money. Not that its a bad thing for companies to do, but I wish they would stop making grandiose claims that what they are doing is for the principal of it, every time they change their business model.
They are the cooperate equivalent of a US Senator ( party doesn't really matter IMHO).
Is he the hero that will finally liberate us from HypnoToad? My prayers have been ...~~@@~~
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Plus, when your only tool is a hammer, all problems start looking like nails.
Yeah, something was messed up with the vent control. It wouldn't stay adjusted.
I made one for my brother when I was in High School. He was complaining about the thermostat temperature. My room was always 10 degrees colder, so I didn't want the AC cranked anymore than it was. So I took an old Pentium heat sink fan combo, attached a headband and 9 volt. He used it for a while. I'll ask my parents if they still have it.
This is why the Dark Night of the Soul that Mother Theresa experienced is the mark of a great saint. Its easy to do things when it feels good. But doing the right thing, with only the knowledge that regardless of the sacrifice it is the right thing to do, is the mark of a Saint.
Funny, I always thought it was moosesocks.
In fact, I still do. Nice try to divert the blame from yourself Mr. Taco. If that is your real fake name.
Six should do it.
Things have more power in groups of ten.
I'd prefer doing things in multiples of the base of the natural logarithm, but as a non integer it poses problems. I've always wanted to redefine the integers using e as the base, creating some sort of vector or tensor space with non rheimanian geometry where distances were calculated with some combination of e, Pi, and c. I started on something like that once, but I wasn't sure if I was on to genius or madness, and I needed to study real classes I was taking instead of making strange mathematical symbols that I invented.
*Some* Geeks are assholes. Not all are saints. Redefining their title does not change who they are. We can't just redefine everyone that does something wrong as evil, or an asshole. People do things that are evil or assholish, but are not of themselves evil or assholes.
Good call. Or even better, learn how to play (acoustic) instruments. Then you don't need to spend any money at all. Except for the strat violin. Why would you even listen to music that wasn't made on instruments who's sound quality hasn't been proven though centuries of play?
Perfect! Force overweight Americans to spend all of their time emplained in a DC 9. That would encourage them all to lose weight fast. and if all they have to eat is airplane food, it shouldn't take long.
Well, the northern part is, but the southern part never was.
In comparison to CinePaint it is. I wasn't comparing it to iLife.
It is frustrating that GIMP is really nice to use, but it lacks anything over 8 bit. Cinepaint can do higher color ranges, but its missing all of the features that makes GIMP nice in the first place. CinePaint's ground up rewrite (Glasgow) was supposed to fix all of these issues, but its incredibly unstable. Anything I try and do with it crashes it.
In the sense that Microsoft's OS victory was one that was not tied to a specific hardware vendor, yes you should be glad. If Apple had been as successful, we'd be tied to them for hardware as well as software and there would be a higher barrier to market entry for competing OSes.
But in this case we are talking about highly competent people choosing the right technology for there situation. I have confidence.
The other choices are whats wrong with Open MP. The market needs to shake out the pretenders, before more people will make the correct choices. Thats the basic idea of this story.
Having said that, I'm praying for Fortran 95 to take over. Its the only Malt Liquor I drink.
Yes, but what of the gorilla children. Surely as the future generation of gorilla - kind we must start them out at an early age. Some one needs to design a low cost/ low power gorilla proof laptop for third world gorillas. Like the one laptop per child, but for gorilla children as they are cuter, more endangered, and would make a better plot to a movie co-starring Clint Eastwood.
You are correct about Macs and 6800's, but different user accounts have nothing to do with protected memory.
But this is what a truly open market for ideas is all about: bitching about available systems with the hope that you can devise something better, or someone with the authority and ability to change things will. It is a necessary part of tech life and is especially rampant on a a site dedicated to News For Nerds in a story about comparing development with various toolkits.
I hate to say it, but you must be new here. Or someone that has an active hand in perpetuating the current mobile Java soup.
So I say, Bitch on.
But the Iphone uses a modified OSX kernel. Which has protected memory. I seriously doubt they will ever open up the development for 3rd party apps. I think its exactly because Apple locked down the Iphone that others ( Nokia, Motoroloa, Google) will take the same approach to protect revenue schemes, plus the stability that you mentioned.
Yeah, if you read the rest of the sentence, he goes on to say he prefers BSD. But, on the whole, its pretty lame. I think he spent close to an hour with google, before writing it.