This is the post-Bush era... maybe we should petition to get "suffrage" removed from the language because it's confusing. Change it to "voterizing" or something like that.
And I have a mobo with a Mythbuntu system running on a Radeon HD3200 that works great. Everyone has anecdotes of something that didn't work they way they thought it should. Perhaps your Aquos is reporting a shitty modeline, and the Nvidia card is assuming it exists, and accidentally getting it right? Almost all problems I've seen with TV-out on any platform are ascribable to the TV not playing nicely with standards.
No, but resolution is not completely independent of screen size any more, especially with LCD screens. The quite obvious point of the summary was that people are not buying higher-resolution displays. We've hit the point where a single pixel is as small as we can realistically perceive, so we don't NEED any higher resolution because of diminishing returns related to the limits of the human eyeball. 1024x768 on a 20" display can be improved... 1920x1080 on a 20"? Very, very few people will be able to tell the difference between that and, say, 2560x1600 on the same screen. So why do we need a more expensive GPU that goes faster when 1920x1080 rendering is more than fast enough?
Ugh. Even in a corporate environment, Sharepoint is a flaming pile of shit. You can only use IE to really get anything done, which means you have to use Windows, every time I connect to our internal one it has 3 or 4 different fucking htaccess-style login boxes I need to ok because it pulls things from multiple places. I'm sure IE has something behind the scenes to make that all invisible, but it sure as hell isn't a web standard.
Redhat and Novell both do a lot of development, true, but don't overlook the "look and feel" improvements that Ubuntu has pushed. The Linux desktop only started really getting cohesive when Ubuntu came on the scene. You can't as easily say "Look how many kernel commits are from @redhat.com!" with Ubuntu, but it really has fostered community and a lot of improvement in the user interface and integration arena. Little things like making screen nicer for most people. The features have always existed, they're just now easier for more people to get at. Don't be so quick to write off Ubuntu... it's like saying John Carmack is the only person at id Software who matters. He sure as hell may do the most important core stuff, but he's not doing all the modeling and texture generation and storyboarding and so on.
Who gives a fuck about what package is better? The point is that the document FORMAT is closed. Open standards are great, and if anything, governments will force Microsoft to support them. People are starting to realize that the closed Office files screw them in the long run. Hell, I've saved files in Excel that I couldn't re-open. The need for open, documented standards is there. And if you legislate it, Microsoft will come.
Depending on where you live, it's not necessarily free. Local water laws, especially in a headwater state like Colorado, can limit your ability to legally do things like that.
It wouldn't have to be. The caissons were and scuba tanks are pressurized to equalize against the water pressure. If there's no water pressure against the air, there's no need to pressurize it.
Really... this is just scary as hell to me that theoretically intelligent people on Slashdot have not even the slightest understanding of their actual physical world.
...really? The bends? Do you just spout random shit and see what sticks? The bends is only underwater, because of the pressure of the WATER. Not from air. You can drive from Denver to Death Valley without worrying about the bends. And that's well over a mile in altitude difference. Hell, go from Estes Park to Denver. The worst you'll get is some ear popping. Jesus... no wonder everyone's scared of planes. Nobody even knows basic science or logic.
And if you saw someone get run over by a car, you'd never cross the street again, right?
Same thing. If one is irrational, the other is. If you think it's perfectly acceptable for people to be afraid of shit that can't happen, well, you just let the terrorists win. Go America!
And if you saw someone get hit by a car, would you stay off all streets forever, and think that everyone should think that you're completely reasonable for doing so? Seriously... with the public consciousness, there is no way the same thing will happen, ever again. The cockpits are sealed, and the passengers will not allow a couple nutjobs to kill them all. The only reason it worked was the novelty. It will not happen again.
Did you know that it's called an "irrational fear" when your fear overrules your rational mind? Amazing, I know.
And since then, there is no way to get into the cockpit during flight. If you're going to be afraid of planes, be afraid of the smaller ones, not the big commercial airlines. After shit like 9/11, there's no way they'll be caught with their pants around their ankles again.
If you get mugged in an alley late at night, it's arguably sane to not go down alleys late at night. It's not sane to avoid all public streets and alleys at all times, though. This incident is one of those "avoid all public streets" reactions, not a reasonable one.
Buying pre-made cable for a single, long run is a pain in the ass. You will never have just the right length of cable, which means it'll be coiled somewhere, which will screw up the transmission. For desktop patch cables, sure, use the pre-made ones. Anything else, and you start causing yourself more problems that are harder to diagnose. Get a cheap continuity tester ($50 or so) and you're good to go.
To be fair, gold doesn't corrode, so it will provide a better connection to other connectors for a longer period of time, especially in a humid environment. The problem is that the gold connectors don't really cost that much... you're paying through the ass for the Monster name, not the materials. You can get gold-connector cables from other companies much cheaper.
Infant mortality is an interesting metric... how much of Canada's population is made up of exceptionally low-income migrant and illegal workers? Their babies still count, too. A raw percentage also doesn't correct for the much more racially mixed US population, which causes a much higher infant mortality than in the US: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm
And the spending... how much of that is cosmetic and elective surgery? Are those even options in Canada? Not to mention... how many Canadians come down to the US to have surgeries their government won't cover? Does that spending count toward the US spending, or Canada's?
Nice informative rating for "statistics" that have been taken well out of context, though.
And I know a guy whose uncle was essentially told to "go home and die" in Canada because they wouldn't do the brain surgery he needed. The plural of anecdote is not data.
It doesn't NOT need it. If you don't want to play it, fine. That's your prerogative. But your country's censors are saying nobody should play it, and that's very dangerously thought-police-ish.
At least Google has a habit of playing fair, and is providing services by simply being better. Microsoft since it's inception has been a deceptive, double-dealing company. Remember how MS-DOS got started? Lots of corporate back-room deals and chicanery. Microsoft has NEVER excelled technically. They've always bought or stolen their tech, and then spun it like it was always that way. Amazingly slimy yet effective businessmen, but not the technical geniuses every layperson thinks they are.
I read your post. But the same python programs run on my 64bit system as on a 32bit one. Who says the architecture is known ahead of time?
And on my system? I have a PC Card slot. And a bluetooth radio. Why should the servers be turned off by default? Really, you're just bitching because you have an ancient machine. If you drove a 1969 Corvette, would you also bitch that there's no leaded gas anywhere, and you have to buy lead additive for your car? Probably.
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This is the post-Bush era... maybe we should petition to get "suffrage" removed from the language because it's confusing. Change it to "voterizing" or something like that.
The consumer? It's the consumer, right? That's why Microsoft wasn't punished worse for it's monopolistic actions, wasn't it?
Doesn't help much when I'm not running Windows.
Hopefully it wasn't a coredump, filling your /home with broken crap before leaving you crying
And I have a mobo with a Mythbuntu system running on a Radeon HD3200 that works great. Everyone has anecdotes of something that didn't work they way they thought it should. Perhaps your Aquos is reporting a shitty modeline, and the Nvidia card is assuming it exists, and accidentally getting it right? Almost all problems I've seen with TV-out on any platform are ascribable to the TV not playing nicely with standards.
No, but resolution is not completely independent of screen size any more, especially with LCD screens. The quite obvious point of the summary was that people are not buying higher-resolution displays. We've hit the point where a single pixel is as small as we can realistically perceive, so we don't NEED any higher resolution because of diminishing returns related to the limits of the human eyeball. 1024x768 on a 20" display can be improved... 1920x1080 on a 20"? Very, very few people will be able to tell the difference between that and, say, 2560x1600 on the same screen. So why do we need a more expensive GPU that goes faster when 1920x1080 rendering is more than fast enough?
Ugh. Even in a corporate environment, Sharepoint is a flaming pile of shit. You can only use IE to really get anything done, which means you have to use Windows, every time I connect to our internal one it has 3 or 4 different fucking htaccess-style login boxes I need to ok because it pulls things from multiple places. I'm sure IE has something behind the scenes to make that all invisible, but it sure as hell isn't a web standard.
Redhat and Novell both do a lot of development, true, but don't overlook the "look and feel" improvements that Ubuntu has pushed. The Linux desktop only started really getting cohesive when Ubuntu came on the scene. You can't as easily say "Look how many kernel commits are from @redhat.com!" with Ubuntu, but it really has fostered community and a lot of improvement in the user interface and integration arena. Little things like making screen nicer for most people. The features have always existed, they're just now easier for more people to get at. Don't be so quick to write off Ubuntu... it's like saying John Carmack is the only person at id Software who matters. He sure as hell may do the most important core stuff, but he's not doing all the modeling and texture generation and storyboarding and so on.
Who gives a fuck about what package is better? The point is that the document FORMAT is closed. Open standards are great, and if anything, governments will force Microsoft to support them. People are starting to realize that the closed Office files screw them in the long run. Hell, I've saved files in Excel that I couldn't re-open. The need for open, documented standards is there. And if you legislate it, Microsoft will come.
Depending on where you live, it's not necessarily free. Local water laws, especially in a headwater state like Colorado, can limit your ability to legally do things like that.
It wouldn't have to be. The caissons were and scuba tanks are pressurized to equalize against the water pressure. If there's no water pressure against the air, there's no need to pressurize it.
Really... this is just scary as hell to me that theoretically intelligent people on Slashdot have not even the slightest understanding of their actual physical world.
I'm saying it will never happen again BECAUSE people remember the past. I'm not saying it only happened once because, you know, shit happens.
...really? The bends? Do you just spout random shit and see what sticks? The bends is only underwater, because of the pressure of the WATER. Not from air. You can drive from Denver to Death Valley without worrying about the bends. And that's well over a mile in altitude difference. Hell, go from Estes Park to Denver. The worst you'll get is some ear popping. Jesus... no wonder everyone's scared of planes. Nobody even knows basic science or logic.
And if you saw someone get run over by a car, you'd never cross the street again, right?
Same thing. If one is irrational, the other is. If you think it's perfectly acceptable for people to be afraid of shit that can't happen, well, you just let the terrorists win. Go America!
And if you saw someone get hit by a car, would you stay off all streets forever, and think that everyone should think that you're completely reasonable for doing so? Seriously... with the public consciousness, there is no way the same thing will happen, ever again. The cockpits are sealed, and the passengers will not allow a couple nutjobs to kill them all. The only reason it worked was the novelty. It will not happen again.
Did you know that it's called an "irrational fear" when your fear overrules your rational mind? Amazing, I know.
And since then, there is no way to get into the cockpit during flight. If you're going to be afraid of planes, be afraid of the smaller ones, not the big commercial airlines. After shit like 9/11, there's no way they'll be caught with their pants around their ankles again.
If you get mugged in an alley late at night, it's arguably sane to not go down alleys late at night. It's not sane to avoid all public streets and alleys at all times, though. This incident is one of those "avoid all public streets" reactions, not a reasonable one.
Buying pre-made cable for a single, long run is a pain in the ass. You will never have just the right length of cable, which means it'll be coiled somewhere, which will screw up the transmission. For desktop patch cables, sure, use the pre-made ones. Anything else, and you start causing yourself more problems that are harder to diagnose. Get a cheap continuity tester ($50 or so) and you're good to go.
To be fair, gold doesn't corrode, so it will provide a better connection to other connectors for a longer period of time, especially in a humid environment. The problem is that the gold connectors don't really cost that much... you're paying through the ass for the Monster name, not the materials. You can get gold-connector cables from other companies much cheaper.
Infant mortality is an interesting metric... how much of Canada's population is made up of exceptionally low-income migrant and illegal workers? Their babies still count, too. A raw percentage also doesn't correct for the much more racially mixed US population, which causes a much higher infant mortality than in the US: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm
And the spending... how much of that is cosmetic and elective surgery? Are those even options in Canada? Not to mention... how many Canadians come down to the US to have surgeries their government won't cover? Does that spending count toward the US spending, or Canada's?
Nice informative rating for "statistics" that have been taken well out of context, though.
And I know a guy whose uncle was essentially told to "go home and die" in Canada because they wouldn't do the brain surgery he needed. The plural of anecdote is not data.
It doesn't NOT need it. If you don't want to play it, fine. That's your prerogative. But your country's censors are saying nobody should play it, and that's very dangerously thought-police-ish.
At least Google has a habit of playing fair, and is providing services by simply being better. Microsoft since it's inception has been a deceptive, double-dealing company. Remember how MS-DOS got started? Lots of corporate back-room deals and chicanery. Microsoft has NEVER excelled technically. They've always bought or stolen their tech, and then spun it like it was always that way. Amazingly slimy yet effective businessmen, but not the technical geniuses every layperson thinks they are.
I read your post. But the same python programs run on my 64bit system as on a 32bit one. Who says the architecture is known ahead of time?
And on my system? I have a PC Card slot. And a bluetooth radio. Why should the servers be turned off by default? Really, you're just bitching because you have an ancient machine. If you drove a 1969 Corvette, would you also bitch that there's no leaded gas anywhere, and you have to buy lead additive for your car? Probably.
The problem is that TigerDirect was passing them off as NEW Dells. Not used, and not out of manufacturer warranty.