...that does NOTHING. It just moves money from the Government to another place. It doesn't change the fact that he doesn't have 25.5% of his money at the end of the day.
I personally advocate "don't be a douche" vigilantism. If too many people complain about you being a jackass, you get your picture in the local paper/news website as the Jerk of the Week.
I do know how to change my oil. I still pay the $30 because I just don't want to get dirty.
Problem is, you have to get dirty with Windows or with Linux. Ever tried to uninstall a program on Windows? Hope everything in the uninstall was perfect, didn't leave trash in the registry or all over the disk. How about a Windows update killing something important?
Point is, if I have to get dirty anyway, I'd rather do it with an OS that doesn't hate me. And every time I use it, it gets cleaner and cleaner to use. Can't say the same about Windows.
Check your partitions and see which ones are set bootable and such. Ubuntu boots perfectly fine with a bog-standard grub configuration on my machine with 3 SCSI hard drives and one IDE CD-ROM drive.
People are welcome to write closed drivers. Or closed source software.
The kernel developers just don't want to support it, and rightfully so. There's no reason you can't write a closed-source driver (ask Nvidia), it's just a pain in the ass because Linux is a constantly evolving target. It keeps getting better BECAUSE it has no hard ties to anything but the POSIX layers. We don't have to keep the driver interfaces the same if it's determined that doing so will get in the way of development. If the driver is open source, it keeps working. If you keep it updated, it keeps working. If you just want to hire some cheap offshore labor to write a piece of crap you call a "driver" and then let it rot? You'll get screwed over just like you deserve to be.
BTW, 3rd parties like Redhat already make money with desktop Linux, as well as companies like Autodesk (they sell Maya) and others.
Habit. People don't change unless they have to... lots of people who learned about kazaa have just never bothered to change. They don't know anything else is out there. Remember, for every 1% of people in the top of the intelligence curve, there's an equal 1% in the bottom (assuming a bell curve)
Seconded. It's great having random thoughts of "Oh, hey, I wanted to download that" and start it going while at work, so it'll be done when I get home.
The time has come for mass audiences. The mouth-breathing twits who thought that the Matrix was ground-breaking, rather than just a rehash of Psych 101 with a lot of the plot points and style ideas rather largely by GiTS.
I'm both. At least, that's what my paycheck says. When I'm funding something, I'm a taxpayer. When I'm voting on something, I'm a citizen. Seems about right.
Oh yes, deal with consumers in a fairway indeed. I realize that those are isolated incidents, but they are the results of playing "fast and loose with the system". People DIE.
And they didn't understand, no matter how hard he tried, and they called him an idiot because he brought things up.
Are you saying he wasn't right in quitting? You can lead a horse to water, as the saying goes. Eventually, you have to just let the damn thing die of dehydration.
Learn to use Virtual Desktops. The Gimp is not designed for Windows or OSX, even though it works on them. Use a virtual desktop for it like a proper *nix OS does, and you'll see how powerful it can be.
Why isn't it accurate? It's a "game", but you still need the stuff to interact in an intuitive, "right" way to the observer, which means that you can play with the constants, but they still need to do the correct thing, which means at least observationally accurate physics, even if you couldn't count on it being perfect down to the splinter.
Not really, no. A particle as I understand it is simply a discrete point in space. It has no mass itself. You just render it as if it does. For example, a rain drop has essentially no mass to contribute to physics when you collide with it, but it's rendered to show it as an object, and the physics of it allow it to be directed by wind, etc. Particles just aren't big enough to really worry about collisions, which is what I believe the big difference between particles and "other things" are.
Even if it's not "realistic", you still need the same rules. The only thing that makes something not realistic are the sizes of the coefficients. Plus a little bit of magic impulse;)
I think his test would be a great test... the infinitely destructible environments? Each piece of the destructing thing needs to interact with each other piece in a logical, rules-based fashion, even if it's at 1/5th the gravity of "reality", or no friction, whatever.
But... I'm running Kubuntu on my T61. I can run Windows programs in Wine, and it's still got all the Unix goodness. Apple doesn't do anything "better" than what is possible on the T61. It just does it "Different(tm)". Which isn't always better, especially considering the fact that OSX 3rd party software is still highly shareware-centric. If you need to edit videos or put together a photo album on your business PC, sure, go with a Mac. Other than that? The Mac is a waste of cash.
Many times there is no all-red phase whatsoever. As soon as one direction changes to red the other changes to green. A long all-red phase is not a good idea. But a second or so, long enough to keep people from just going into the intersection when someone from the perpendicular direction made a bad decision to run the red is all it takes. Longer than that, and people start really noticing it and wanting to run it.
Yeah... "slow down so that there's time for both you and the tailgater to react and stop safely in an emergency (or for a changing light.)". Say the road is a 30mph speed limit road. The light is set to an unreasonable 2s length of time. You need to give about 300ms to see the light change and make a decision, and assume that the guy tailgating you needs the same amount of time (because he's paying very close attention), so that's another 300ms. 600ms total. Of your total 2s to react AND stop. Going 30mph, it's going to take at least 50 feet or so to stop if you both decide to slam on the brakes. That's another second. Hope your car, his car, the road conditions and EVERYTHING are perfect. And that's only a 30mph road. Hope your city didn't put a 2s timer on a 35mph road. Or a 40mph road. Roads are there to get people places. If everyone was driving to arbitrary "conditions" like way too short yellow lights, traffic would come to a standstill. The problem is that with the short yellow lights, you either don't get anywhere because you have to drive significantly below the speed limit (about 25mph max, period), or people start getting hurt. Hell of a choice, eh?
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...that does NOTHING. It just moves money from the Government to another place. It doesn't change the fact that he doesn't have 25.5% of his money at the end of the day.
I personally advocate "don't be a douche" vigilantism. If too many people complain about you being a jackass, you get your picture in the local paper/news website as the Jerk of the Week.
I do know how to change my oil. I still pay the $30 because I just don't want to get dirty.
Problem is, you have to get dirty with Windows or with Linux. Ever tried to uninstall a program on Windows? Hope everything in the uninstall was perfect, didn't leave trash in the registry or all over the disk. How about a Windows update killing something important?
Point is, if I have to get dirty anyway, I'd rather do it with an OS that doesn't hate me. And every time I use it, it gets cleaner and cleaner to use. Can't say the same about Windows.
Check your partitions and see which ones are set bootable and such. Ubuntu boots perfectly fine with a bog-standard grub configuration on my machine with 3 SCSI hard drives and one IDE CD-ROM drive.
Not really, no. Read this bit and get back to me.
People are welcome to write closed drivers. Or closed source software.
The kernel developers just don't want to support it, and rightfully so. There's no reason you can't write a closed-source driver (ask Nvidia), it's just a pain in the ass because Linux is a constantly evolving target. It keeps getting better BECAUSE it has no hard ties to anything but the POSIX layers. We don't have to keep the driver interfaces the same if it's determined that doing so will get in the way of development. If the driver is open source, it keeps working. If you keep it updated, it keeps working. If you just want to hire some cheap offshore labor to write a piece of crap you call a "driver" and then let it rot? You'll get screwed over just like you deserve to be.
BTW, 3rd parties like Redhat already make money with desktop Linux, as well as companies like Autodesk (they sell Maya) and others.
Will Windows play DVD's as a fresh install?
If no, then it isn't ready for the masses. Period.
Guess what? mp3 support for Ubuntu is as easily added (if not more so) than DVD support for Windows is.
Go take your strawmen elsewhere, troll.
Habit. People don't change unless they have to... lots of people who learned about kazaa have just never bothered to change. They don't know anything else is out there. Remember, for every 1% of people in the top of the intelligence curve, there's an equal 1% in the bottom (assuming a bell curve)
Seconded. It's great having random thoughts of "Oh, hey, I wanted to download that" and start it going while at work, so it'll be done when I get home.
Naah. You just gotta know where to look. I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you ;)
I'm just going off hearsay, but I believe that OiNK was more like a hydra than a pig...
The time has come for mass audiences. The mouth-breathing twits who thought that the Matrix was ground-breaking, rather than just a rehash of Psych 101 with a lot of the plot points and style ideas rather largely by GiTS.
I thought netcraft had to confirm it? My world is crumbling around me, all assumptions I use to define it are void :(
I'm both. At least, that's what my paycheck says. When I'm funding something, I'm a taxpayer. When I'm voting on something, I'm a citizen. Seems about right.
Oh yes, deal with consumers in a fair way indeed. I realize that those are isolated incidents, but they are the results of playing "fast and loose with the system". People DIE.
And they didn't understand, no matter how hard he tried, and they called him an idiot because he brought things up.
Are you saying he wasn't right in quitting? You can lead a horse to water, as the saying goes. Eventually, you have to just let the damn thing die of dehydration.
Live Action Role Playing? I think you meant LART... Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool ;)
Learn to use Virtual Desktops. The Gimp is not designed for Windows or OSX, even though it works on them. Use a virtual desktop for it like a proper *nix OS does, and you'll see how powerful it can be.
It does just work, though.
Or are you one of those people that say that Linux is a failure because it's not just a free copy of Windows, with everything exactly the same?
Why isn't it accurate? It's a "game", but you still need the stuff to interact in an intuitive, "right" way to the observer, which means that you can play with the constants, but they still need to do the correct thing, which means at least observationally accurate physics, even if you couldn't count on it being perfect down to the splinter.
Not really, no. A particle as I understand it is simply a discrete point in space. It has no mass itself. You just render it as if it does. For example, a rain drop has essentially no mass to contribute to physics when you collide with it, but it's rendered to show it as an object, and the physics of it allow it to be directed by wind, etc. Particles just aren't big enough to really worry about collisions, which is what I believe the big difference between particles and "other things" are.
But I've only dabbled a very little in graphics.
Even if it's not "realistic", you still need the same rules. The only thing that makes something not realistic are the sizes of the coefficients. Plus a little bit of magic impulse ;)
I think his test would be a great test... the infinitely destructible environments? Each piece of the destructing thing needs to interact with each other piece in a logical, rules-based fashion, even if it's at 1/5th the gravity of "reality", or no friction, whatever.
But... I'm running Kubuntu on my T61. I can run Windows programs in Wine, and it's still got all the Unix goodness. Apple doesn't do anything "better" than what is possible on the T61. It just does it "Different(tm)". Which isn't always better, especially considering the fact that OSX 3rd party software is still highly shareware-centric. If you need to edit videos or put together a photo album on your business PC, sure, go with a Mac. Other than that? The Mac is a waste of cash.
Many times there is no all-red phase whatsoever. As soon as one direction changes to red the other changes to green. A long all-red phase is not a good idea. But a second or so, long enough to keep people from just going into the intersection when someone from the perpendicular direction made a bad decision to run the red is all it takes. Longer than that, and people start really noticing it and wanting to run it.
"Do what I say, not what I do"
That always goes over well with teens. Do you even remember being a teenager?
Yeah... "slow down so that there's time for both you and the tailgater to react and stop safely in an emergency (or for a changing light.)". Say the road is a 30mph speed limit road. The light is set to an unreasonable 2s length of time. You need to give about 300ms to see the light change and make a decision, and assume that the guy tailgating you needs the same amount of time (because he's paying very close attention), so that's another 300ms. 600ms total. Of your total 2s to react AND stop. Going 30mph, it's going to take at least 50 feet or so to stop if you both decide to slam on the brakes. That's another second. Hope your car, his car, the road conditions and EVERYTHING are perfect. And that's only a 30mph road. Hope your city didn't put a 2s timer on a 35mph road. Or a 40mph road. Roads are there to get people places. If everyone was driving to arbitrary "conditions" like way too short yellow lights, traffic would come to a standstill. The problem is that with the short yellow lights, you either don't get anywhere because you have to drive significantly below the speed limit (about 25mph max, period), or people start getting hurt. Hell of a choice, eh?