So what drives people to do anything then, if they can't win? There has to be some sort of reward for providing excellence other than "existence". You do have a point that pure competition based systems aren't perfect. We (Americans) wouldn't have a usable national road system if it wasn't a government regulated system.
But we wouldn't have reached the moon if it wasn't for competition with the Russians. We never would have poured the resources into NASA, and we wouldn't have gotten the side benefits of all that research if it wasn't for wanting to win. And the Dairy Council, etc., those are false arguments. They're just the individual competitiors agreeing that people need to buy more of their stuff en masse. Those are products that aren't "needs", so they have to convince you to buy them. They're competing for your mind-share, for your fridge space.
You support people who you can't be sure of actually paid you for your product? That seems a little self-defeating... the value is in the service. Not the product. I keep making new software because people will pay for the new version, and the support that goes along with it. It makes piddly applications go the way of the dodo, but... those are the ones everyone uses anyway. Shouldn't they just about be public?
But I'm playing the Devil's Advocate. I do think copyright has a place. Just not the place it currently occupies, which is way too much.
Re:My Linux Annoyances as a Hardended Windows user
on
Linux Annoyances For Geeks
·
· Score: 2, Informative
What? Try installing Ubuntu or something desktop-centric. Every mouse I've tried has worked on that without any mucking with the xorg.conf file. Do you just not get all 3 buttons? Are you expecting it to do something special with mice with more than 3 buttons?
Except that's not what they're saying. There is volume. It's just that the levels are even across the board. You can tell the difference between silence and white noise, can't you?
And if you noticed on the histographs of the sounds, that the white noise was just even distribution with small points of silence.
You almost got an easy "insightful". I certainly hope that the mods know better.
What were you blanking out? "Why the ass is this posted on/."? "Why the fuc is this posted on/.?" I just can't think of any good 3 letter words that you'd need to * out... please, enlighten me. It's driving me crazy!
Adobe isn't a monopoly, and they aren't trying to force their format on other people. They're trying to make it better so people want it. Big difference.
You're also just playing with yourself. A lot of the issue I have is that many games lock the content for the multiplayer locations based on single-player progress. I don't want to waste 50 hours of my time just to be able to race on all the tracks with my buddies, or with all the cars. I have no problem with a "story" or progression mode. It's just that I'm not gonna like the game if that's the only way to get any fun out of it. And even then, once I've invested the 50 hours or whatever to unlock those things, what happens when my saved game dies? Fuck you if you think I want to play those 50 hours again.
Man, you are a geek if you think a game ends at sex. That's just the beginning, really. There's more to life than just playing the "beast-with-two-backs", bucko:)
That's because you have more time to waste playing games than the average person. Games are supposed to be fun. If I have to go through a lot of not-fun stuff to get to the fun stuff, the game sucks. Period. If it's fun getting to the fun stuff, hey, no problem. But that's not how games are designed. They're designed so you start with a Ford Rustbucket that you have to race 50 times before you can move up to the Chevy Not-Quite-So-Rustbuckety, or you have to sink 10's of hours in annoying, repetitive single player mode to get more than the shitty beginner course to play with your friends in multiplayer. The boring repetition to get to the meat is what most people don't like, not the fact that things are there to be unlocked. Again, games are supposed to be fun. You shouldn't have to work to have fun. That's what I do in an office 40 hours a week. I don't want it during my free time as well.
Vacuums are also mostly portable, but only within reach of an extension cord. Does that mean they're useless, or just for a specific type of use? I lean more towards the second answer.
But a hell of a lot harder to lug to your friend's house or wherever for a LAN party. It's not that it's a commuter laptop, it's just that a one-piece, 10lb machine is a hell of a lot lighter and more portable than a 4 piece (minimum), 50lb desktop.
Pardon my incomprehension, but what the FUCK was that segue from installation steps on Gentoo into you being a cheapass on printing hardware? Seriously... that sentence makes someone with ADD look logical.
Ummm... XFCE/Xubuntu is only in the Universe repositories, and that is not really part of the official distribution, even though you can enable them. So I fail to see how it's a problem with ubuntu when explicitly unsupported software doesn't perform perfectly. And you know, energy around the distribution is why it works. It's not all "teenage carry-on". Remember, many computer visionaries started in their teens by being excited about something.
XFCE isn't what Ubuntu is about, though. That's a side project that you have to enable by adding the unofficial universe repository. I fail to see how explicitly unsupported software not working perfectly is a downside of the distribution...
Well, to be fair, MS ain't gonna die out in a decate. However, they will stop supporting "legacy" formats. And when those old formats aren't standard, they're essentially lost when you no longer have a computer that can run the old versions of the software. That's what scares me more... not that MS will fold, but that they'll stop supporting their own format. The format AND implementation is so fucked that there exists a special market for software that'll fix the screw-ups. Give me something standardized any day.
But that's an internal monoculture. IBM isn't going to have the exact same system as Sun, or RedHat, or whoever. You can have a standard base without being exactly like everyone else.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure terrorists would love their head in a vice as much as any of us would...
So what drives people to do anything then, if they can't win? There has to be some sort of reward for providing excellence other than "existence". You do have a point that pure competition based systems aren't perfect. We (Americans) wouldn't have a usable national road system if it wasn't a government regulated system.
But we wouldn't have reached the moon if it wasn't for competition with the Russians. We never would have poured the resources into NASA, and we wouldn't have gotten the side benefits of all that research if it wasn't for wanting to win. And the Dairy Council, etc., those are false arguments. They're just the individual competitiors agreeing that people need to buy more of their stuff en masse. Those are products that aren't "needs", so they have to convince you to buy them. They're competing for your mind-share, for your fridge space.
You support people who you can't be sure of actually paid you for your product? That seems a little self-defeating... the value is in the service. Not the product. I keep making new software because people will pay for the new version, and the support that goes along with it. It makes piddly applications go the way of the dodo, but... those are the ones everyone uses anyway. Shouldn't they just about be public?
But I'm playing the Devil's Advocate. I do think copyright has a place. Just not the place it currently occupies, which is way too much.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xmodmap.1.html
Have fun!
What? Try installing Ubuntu or something desktop-centric. Every mouse I've tried has worked on that without any mucking with the xorg.conf file. Do you just not get all 3 buttons? Are you expecting it to do something special with mice with more than 3 buttons?
I personally prefer an 8 to 10lb, solid steel "shredder" for hard disks. You also get a visceral feedback when it's working.
I hear that crap when the TV is on, too. Annoys me like nothing else.
But on-topic, I'd say yes. It's definitely not silence...
Except that's not what they're saying. There is volume. It's just that the levels are even across the board. You can tell the difference between silence and white noise, can't you?
And if you noticed on the histographs of the sounds, that the white noise was just even distribution with small points of silence.
You almost got an easy "insightful". I certainly hope that the mods know better.
A bare market? Sounds fun... don't think my girlfriend would appreciate me "appreciating" the wares, though...
What were you blanking out? "Why the ass is this posted on /."? "Why the fuc is this posted on /.?" I just can't think of any good 3 letter words that you'd need to * out... please, enlighten me. It's driving me crazy!
Adobe isn't a monopoly, and they aren't trying to force their format on other people. They're trying to make it better so people want it. Big difference.
You're also just playing with yourself. A lot of the issue I have is that many games lock the content for the multiplayer locations based on single-player progress. I don't want to waste 50 hours of my time just to be able to race on all the tracks with my buddies, or with all the cars. I have no problem with a "story" or progression mode. It's just that I'm not gonna like the game if that's the only way to get any fun out of it. And even then, once I've invested the 50 hours or whatever to unlock those things, what happens when my saved game dies? Fuck you if you think I want to play those 50 hours again.
Man, you are a geek if you think a game ends at sex. That's just the beginning, really. There's more to life than just playing the "beast-with-two-backs", bucko :)
That's because you have more time to waste playing games than the average person. Games are supposed to be fun. If I have to go through a lot of not-fun stuff to get to the fun stuff, the game sucks. Period. If it's fun getting to the fun stuff, hey, no problem. But that's not how games are designed. They're designed so you start with a Ford Rustbucket that you have to race 50 times before you can move up to the Chevy Not-Quite-So-Rustbuckety, or you have to sink 10's of hours in annoying, repetitive single player mode to get more than the shitty beginner course to play with your friends in multiplayer. The boring repetition to get to the meat is what most people don't like, not the fact that things are there to be unlocked. Again, games are supposed to be fun. You shouldn't have to work to have fun. That's what I do in an office 40 hours a week. I don't want it during my free time as well.
Vacuums are also mostly portable, but only within reach of an extension cord. Does that mean they're useless, or just for a specific type of use? I lean more towards the second answer.
But a hell of a lot harder to lug to your friend's house or wherever for a LAN party. It's not that it's a commuter laptop, it's just that a one-piece, 10lb machine is a hell of a lot lighter and more portable than a 4 piece (minimum), 50lb desktop.
A fire takes up fuel at an alarming rate, and hurts many things around it. But eventually it runs out of fuel, and everything starts growing again.
Pardon my incomprehension, but what the FUCK was that segue from installation steps on Gentoo into you being a cheapass on printing hardware? Seriously... that sentence makes someone with ADD look logical.
Seconded. Looks like the new design is broken in the latest Firefox. So much for Slashdot being geek friendly...
Ummm... XFCE/Xubuntu is only in the Universe repositories, and that is not really part of the official distribution, even though you can enable them. So I fail to see how it's a problem with ubuntu when explicitly unsupported software doesn't perform perfectly.
And you know, energy around the distribution is why it works. It's not all "teenage carry-on". Remember, many computer visionaries started in their teens by being excited about something.
XFCE isn't what Ubuntu is about, though. That's a side project that you have to enable by adding the unofficial universe repository. I fail to see how explicitly unsupported software not working perfectly is a downside of the distribution...
Well, to be fair, MS ain't gonna die out in a decate. However, they will stop supporting "legacy" formats. And when those old formats aren't standard, they're essentially lost when you no longer have a computer that can run the old versions of the software. That's what scares me more... not that MS will fold, but that they'll stop supporting their own format. The format AND implementation is so fucked that there exists a special market for software that'll fix the screw-ups. Give me something standardized any day.
But that's an internal monoculture. IBM isn't going to have the exact same system as Sun, or RedHat, or whoever. You can have a standard base without being exactly like everyone else.
So then you point them to the proxy and spoof the UserAgent. You'll have to do packet-level analysis to detect the difference.
Learn to spell. People might start taking you seriously, instead of just an idiot with a chip on his shoulder.