What they're saying is actually more like "We know this may lose us some AMD fans, but we think that the Intel cross-marketing might be worth it" because so many people just buy Intel the same way they just buy Microsoft, because it's "safe".
Except for the fact that precision on GPU's is highly limited. That's why most of these grand ideas are non-starters for scientific applications. GPU's have their place, but high precision mathematics isn't it right now.
Ok, gotta reply to this.
I just opened up OOo2.0 on Ubuntu, hit F1 and started typing "land", hit enter and it told me EXACTLY how to do it. Even less typing than required with word, and it gave me feedback while searching the help.
He's a troll, and he was bitching that it wasn't exactly like windows. Or becuase he's retarded. Something. Either way, it's a completely invalid complaint.
But it's easier to tell you don't belong in that car if the window is broken;) That also sets off alarms, and anyone that's played GTA knows, driving around in a car with the alarm going off is a surefire way to attract the cops.
1) The most typical Office user has no clue what Access does. They might use it because someone else created some forms for them, but they don't do any work in it themselves besides data entry.
2) See #1
3) I will agree with that. But even technical companies don't leverage it hardly. Really cool if you use it, but that's a really big if.
4) Well, they need something to type letters to Grandma on, and notepad's printing looks like shit:)
So... you're bitching because it's not exactly like Windows? Why would you want to switch when you already have Windows, then? That's what I've found most people's problem comes down to. They expect to be able to do things in Linux exactly like they do in Windows. The way that Linux does things almost always makes sense. It's just not Windows, and people need to know that before they try using it.
BTW, every Linux distro I've tried lately has a big help icon on the taskbar. I've always resorted to Google first, though, and it's answered everything I've needed.
Because big words are intimidating, right? Never mind that sometimes they say exactly what you want to say. Get over yourself. Just because you can't comprehend words with more than 3 syllables doesn't mean that no one can.
Have you ever tried installing Windows on a machine, from scratch? Not the OEM version with all the drivers for that specific machine, just a standard retail disk? You run into the same, if not more, problems. Linux is much easier to install than Windows any more. If a linux distro was tuned for the hardware you have like the windows OEM install is, then you'd have an easy time with it, too.
Sometimes you can't make up for talent with numbers. That's why Google hires who they do. They don't just hire more people... they make the people they hire count.
Mmm, trolls. I love when people bring up the second law of thermodynamics, because it only proves that they're idiots who've never taken a science class or thought critically about anything in their lives.
Umm... what? Are you blind or just stupid, or what? Because every search I make on google has some unintrusive text ads on it that I actually click on, especially when I'm looking to buy something. They're targeted to what I'm looking for, relevant and not annoying. I'll deal with ads like that any day.
As a note, I work in software myself. I understand where you're coming from, but it's an old worldview from back to when information was hard to transmit. Now that we've got this global Internet, the whole information market has to be turned on it's head.
The question is really whether software should be a product or a service. You don't have any inherent right to your thoughts... as soon as you say them, they're free to hear and for other people to replicate and think all by themselves. It's the same way with software, or any other information. If you want to try to keep people from using it, that's fine. But don't get pissy and try to say it's illegal when people break that, because one you decide to let the information out, you've let it out. Sell them the value of your support, of your continued development. You shouldn't be selling your idea, you should be selling your work. Anything else is artifically created value.
"some" musicians would have a harder time? That's because they're no-talent hacks.
He's not entitled to make music from a CD. It's a recording. Just information, and information is very easy to transfer. If he wants to make money, he should be out playing on the stage, and actually working. I also know a number of bands and musicians who make a pretty decent living just playing local gigs. And they give their CD's away.
The music/video market is artifically inflated, and kept that way through stupid, industry-serving laws that actually fuck over the public rather than help them. Much of the software market is the same. It's time for an industry overhaul, as you said. No one's entitled to make millions/billions from their music. If they can command that kind of audience, great. If not, well... fuck 'em. Dave Matthews is still making a ton of money on his live shows, and it's some of the most common music I've seen for download.
Meanwhile, you could have used those two years earning a decent living playing your music live. People do pay for that, you know, and if you're any good, you can get a good following.
The problem is that you have NO INHERENT ENTITLEMENT TO MAKE MONEY. Zip. Nada. Zilch. The industry has been so controlled for so long that people don't realize that that's not how it should be. Only in the 50's did music stars start making assloads of money. Music was just another performance art before then, and that's how it should be. The current media market is entirely based on artificial limits, which only make the *AA richer, fuck over the actual content creators as a whole, and create a few superstars who're entitled little asswipes who never really did any significant work for the amount of "value" they command.
In conclusion, fuck you for thinking that just because you want to waste 2 years of your life creating something in an impermanent, infinitely replicable medium, you are entitled to some kind of compensation. A musician/artist/whatever isn't anything special or better than anyone else. Let the people creating the media work for a living as well as the rest of us.
Look at how DVD has replaced VCR's in the media player sense.
I don't remember having chapter selection, menus, extra features, extra languages, surround sound choices, any of that on my VHS tapes. Much more complicated than VHS. Seems to fly straight in the face of your previous claim: Devices that eliminate the horrible computing UI that just perform simple tasks are what the masses need.
Many people use computers like they use their DVD players. They just click on the blue E to get to the "internet", and the little letter to e-mail grandma. Just like they don't know they can select chapters, change language, any of that. They just stick it in and hit play.
There's nothing wrong with computers having depth that's just not used by everyone, and I get tired of everyone who took a UI or has some form of idiocy bitching about how it has too many functions. If you don't need them, just don't use them. You know what you want done. Stop telling the rest of us who LIKE having a functional machine how we should think.
I did. Hint: if you click the link "Parent" at the bottom of my post, it takes you to the one I replied to.
But yes. Chernobyl was basically just a clusterfuck on top of a nuclear landmine.
Did you encrypt the list of addresses on your laptop? Make the file password-protected? Guess you didn't lock the file cabinet, or even close the drawer.
Because the first prototypes of nuclear power plants were in the mid 30's. And now, after the turn of the century, we're FINALLY starting to get some pretty worked-out, safe designs. Fusion, there hasn't ever been any evidence that they can make any energy production fusion anyway. They have cold fusion working, but it uses more energy than it produces.
I'm not saying don't keep researching it... but right now, fission is completely viable. Fusion... not even close.
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What they're saying is actually more like "We know this may lose us some AMD fans, but we think that the Intel cross-marketing might be worth it" because so many people just buy Intel the same way they just buy Microsoft, because it's "safe".
it sounds like zapping a few lasers at someone's face would provide even more accurate measurements.
WARNING: Do not look directly into LASER with remaining eye.
Except for the fact that precision on GPU's is highly limited. That's why most of these grand ideas are non-starters for scientific applications. GPU's have their place, but high precision mathematics isn't it right now.
Ok, gotta reply to this.
I just opened up OOo2.0 on Ubuntu, hit F1 and started typing "land", hit enter and it told me EXACTLY how to do it. Even less typing than required with word, and it gave me feedback while searching the help.
He's a troll, and he was bitching that it wasn't exactly like windows. Or becuase he's retarded. Something. Either way, it's a completely invalid complaint.
But it's easier to tell you don't belong in that car if the window is broken ;) That also sets off alarms, and anyone that's played GTA knows, driving around in a car with the alarm going off is a surefire way to attract the cops.
1) The most typical Office user has no clue what Access does. They might use it because someone else created some forms for them, but they don't do any work in it themselves besides data entry. :)
2) See #1
3) I will agree with that. But even technical companies don't leverage it hardly. Really cool if you use it, but that's a really big if.
4) Well, they need something to type letters to Grandma on, and notepad's printing looks like shit
So... you're bitching because it's not exactly like Windows? Why would you want to switch when you already have Windows, then? That's what I've found most people's problem comes down to. They expect to be able to do things in Linux exactly like they do in Windows. The way that Linux does things almost always makes sense. It's just not Windows, and people need to know that before they try using it.
BTW, every Linux distro I've tried lately has a big help icon on the taskbar. I've always resorted to Google first, though, and it's answered everything I've needed.
Well, if that's your metric, Linux is much closer to being usable than Windows is. Try installing a retail copy of Windows somtime.
Because big words are intimidating, right? Never mind that sometimes they say exactly what you want to say. Get over yourself. Just because you can't comprehend words with more than 3 syllables doesn't mean that no one can.
***** Just because you say it, doesn't make it true.
Because you never read for enjoyment, or play silly games like chess or scrabble or whatever, right? All you do ever is work and masturbate?
Have you ever tried installing Windows on a machine, from scratch? Not the OEM version with all the drivers for that specific machine, just a standard retail disk? You run into the same, if not more, problems. Linux is much easier to install than Windows any more. If a linux distro was tuned for the hardware you have like the windows OEM install is, then you'd have an easy time with it, too.
Drivers, man. Graphics especially. It'll kill a decent machine if hardware access isn't speedy.
Sometimes you can't make up for talent with numbers. That's why Google hires who they do. They don't just hire more people... they make the people they hire count.
Mmm, trolls. I love when people bring up the second law of thermodynamics, because it only proves that they're idiots who've never taken a science class or thought critically about anything in their lives.
Umm... what? Are you blind or just stupid, or what? Because every search I make on google has some unintrusive text ads on it that I actually click on, especially when I'm looking to buy something. They're targeted to what I'm looking for, relevant and not annoying. I'll deal with ads like that any day.
As a note, I work in software myself. I understand where you're coming from, but it's an old worldview from back to when information was hard to transmit. Now that we've got this global Internet, the whole information market has to be turned on it's head.
The question is really whether software should be a product or a service. You don't have any inherent right to your thoughts... as soon as you say them, they're free to hear and for other people to replicate and think all by themselves. It's the same way with software, or any other information. If you want to try to keep people from using it, that's fine. But don't get pissy and try to say it's illegal when people break that, because one you decide to let the information out, you've let it out. Sell them the value of your support, of your continued development. You shouldn't be selling your idea, you should be selling your work. Anything else is artifically created value.
"some" musicians would have a harder time? That's because they're no-talent hacks.
He's not entitled to make music from a CD. It's a recording. Just information, and information is very easy to transfer. If he wants to make money, he should be out playing on the stage, and actually working. I also know a number of bands and musicians who make a pretty decent living just playing local gigs. And they give their CD's away.
The music/video market is artifically inflated, and kept that way through stupid, industry-serving laws that actually fuck over the public rather than help them. Much of the software market is the same. It's time for an industry overhaul, as you said. No one's entitled to make millions/billions from their music. If they can command that kind of audience, great. If not, well... fuck 'em. Dave Matthews is still making a ton of money on his live shows, and it's some of the most common music I've seen for download.
Meanwhile, you could have used those two years earning a decent living playing your music live. People do pay for that, you know, and if you're any good, you can get a good following.
The problem is that you have NO INHERENT ENTITLEMENT TO MAKE MONEY. Zip. Nada. Zilch. The industry has been so controlled for so long that people don't realize that that's not how it should be. Only in the 50's did music stars start making assloads of money. Music was just another performance art before then, and that's how it should be. The current media market is entirely based on artificial limits, which only make the *AA richer, fuck over the actual content creators as a whole, and create a few superstars who're entitled little asswipes who never really did any significant work for the amount of "value" they command.
In conclusion, fuck you for thinking that just because you want to waste 2 years of your life creating something in an impermanent, infinitely replicable medium, you are entitled to some kind of compensation. A musician/artist/whatever isn't anything special or better than anyone else. Let the people creating the media work for a living as well as the rest of us.
3) They also apparently don't teach how to spell "catches", "availability", "tendency", "divide", "its", "solution", "guarantee" or "benefit"
Look at how DVD has replaced VCR's in the media player sense.
I don't remember having chapter selection, menus, extra features, extra languages, surround sound choices, any of that on my VHS tapes. Much more complicated than VHS. Seems to fly straight in the face of your previous claim:
Devices that eliminate the horrible computing UI that just perform simple tasks are what the masses need.
Many people use computers like they use their DVD players. They just click on the blue E to get to the "internet", and the little letter to e-mail grandma. Just like they don't know they can select chapters, change language, any of that. They just stick it in and hit play.
There's nothing wrong with computers having depth that's just not used by everyone, and I get tired of everyone who took a UI or has some form of idiocy bitching about how it has too many functions. If you don't need them, just don't use them. You know what you want done. Stop telling the rest of us who LIKE having a functional machine how we should think.
I did. Hint: if you click the link "Parent" at the bottom of my post, it takes you to the one I replied to.
But yes. Chernobyl was basically just a clusterfuck on top of a nuclear landmine.
Did you encrypt the list of addresses on your laptop? Make the file password-protected? Guess you didn't lock the file cabinet, or even close the drawer.
Because the first prototypes of nuclear power plants were in the mid 30's. And now, after the turn of the century, we're FINALLY starting to get some pretty worked-out, safe designs. Fusion, there hasn't ever been any evidence that they can make any energy production fusion anyway. They have cold fusion working, but it uses more energy than it produces.
I'm not saying don't keep researching it... but right now, fission is completely viable. Fusion... not even close.