My dad doesn't "get" computers either, and he has a harder time conducting business with people who do.
Being proud of your inabilities is something that's quite strange...
They're not assigning blame per-se. What they're doing is starting to understand the cycle better. You cannot repair that which you don't truly understand... that's why you have so many twits thinking they're "computer techs" out there that are really good at... reformatting.
GENIUS! The grandparent even spelled it right! There's no excuse.
And it is clever. It's an asshole thing to do, but that doesn't mean that it can't be clever as well.
Where do the kids get the money to buy these things? Where is their morality BEFORE they decide to buy those games and such? I know my mom kept my brother and I from owning Mortal Kombat when we were young. She just watched, and paid attention. Watched us playing it, decided she didn't like it, so took it away from us.
They're the PARENTS. It's their job to make sure moral choices are made and so on. Then they need to trust their kids to make the right decisions as they get older.
This "tool" is only so lazy parents have someone to blame other than themselves.
And this is exactly why I said bullshit to the previous comment about Linux needing work. Linux AND Windows both just need a little work to get running on any kind of specialty hardware. That's just how the game is.
My beef is that people seem to think that this should be expected with Windows, but Linux should work perfectly with every scenario right out of the box.
Why would they have to support it? I don't see anyone but kernel developers supporting the drivers in the kernel. That's why this is a COMPROMISE. They let the kernel developers deal with it. If they really want some good will, they contribute some code themselves.
The hesitant company is just trying to keep others out of a game the others don't even know they're playing.
How about you try installing a copy of WindowsXP from the store on your bleeding-edge laptop. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that you still have to go hunt for drivers and _try_ to make it work. I'll bet you even more that it'd take less time to get Linux to work on it than it would a version of Windows.
Wait, we're lambasting slashdot "groupthink" here, though. My bad. I should say "You only like Linux because you hate Microsoft. You hatey hater man. Stop hating because you're jealous"
I think you have that backwards. Qt IS C++, whereas GTK is still C, which last time I checked, wasn't an object-oriented language. Didn't even pretend to be. Qt has GTK beat on that alone.
Must be. Same kind of "obvious" statements that have no grounding in reality.
Because of course, all sodas are flat. And non-caffeinated. Or is he talking about bottled coffee drinks? Then, I could agree.
Either way, I'm gonna give this stuff a go. A bit fizzy, fermented to get some nice taste to it. Should be interesting.
didn't he already say that drinking too much had effects? Just drinking though isn't bad. Many people I know will have a beer or two at night, with dinner or something. I'm guessing the GP is upset about your "no substances which affect your body" stance, which seems to be limited to alcohol and caffeine. Do you also swear off all processed sugars? No medicines?
Hell, the military allows its pilots to drink caffeine. It was one of the early performance-enhancing substances they used. It actually does work. If you drink 5 Mountain Dews, no, you'll be jittery. But a single can will sharpen your thought processes, keep you from being as tired.
Mostly, you need to get off your high horse about substances though. Maybe do a little research, and learn what's really happening.
Processor design is a hugely different beast than DRAM design. R&D as well as QC need to be higher with processors. DRAM is more limited by production, rather than requiring a huge design cost recouperation.
Wonder if the electricity and phone bill cost as much as the gas and the sticker price of Office...
Oh, wait. Why would you want to mention that it was free? Why didn't she like it? Did it not work? Or was she just used to Office and afraid of change?
Give ya 10 to 1 odds that it's that she didn't like change.
I dub thee "troll"
KOffice also requires the KDE base to be installed last time I checked. They leverage a lot of KDE's capabilities into it, whereas OO.o is completely self contained. Do you count what's necessary in KDE as well?
Because of the stigma attached to them. There's no way anyone could afford to fully insure or be fully liable for any accident given the way that it is seen by the public. Real, actual damages would not enter anywhere into the lawsuits. Juries would hear "radiation", and then they award asinine damages. No one was even hurt at 3 Mile Island, and look how much damage that did to nuclear power generation.
I've got a laptop with a 4200RPM hard drive, and don't run the quick loader, and I can type in under 20 seconds from a non-cached start, and less than 5 seconds if it's been loaded once already. I don't see it as being that sluggish... I may have 1.2GB of memory, but I've got firefox with tons of tabs open, gaim, thunderbird and a couple instances of Visual Studio open at the same time, so take from that what you will.
Yes, throw random bodies, rather than someone who has specific experience. I know many things my co-workers don't, and they likewise. When we get a tech support question, it goes to the main list and then whoever is most qualified answers it. Or digs for more info.
I wouldn't put it past RedHat to have some kind of filtering like that for their muckity-muck engineers so that they make sure they send the right guy for the job.
But if you ask for help, someone asks for clarification or a bit more info THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE ON SITE FOR, it's your fault if you refuse their assistance.
type "google stuff to search for" and it searches Google by default. Full results. If it's not a resolvable URL, then yes, Firefox does the I Feel Lucky search.
Just in case you cared.
How about a large projector, and it only lights up the pixels that are related to your camera? That'd cover a large swath of area if it needed to
Oh, wait, that's what they did. Seriously, the idiots are out in force in this article.
Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. Or better yet, do. It'd keep you from typing while stupid (TWS).
I should really describe that as a condition... wonder if a medical journal would give me recognition.
Ok, I'm gonna give you a minute to think about what you just said.
Still thinking? Ok, here's the offending phrase: Or even maybe something that bounces incoming light in another direction
That's not much use in a camera, now is it? Cameras use the incoming light to take a picture. There are auto-leveling things, but this just washes it out. Simple, near impossible to circumvent.
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My dad doesn't "get" computers either, and he has a harder time conducting business with people who do.
Being proud of your inabilities is something that's quite strange...
They're not assigning blame per-se. What they're doing is starting to understand the cycle better. You cannot repair that which you don't truly understand... that's why you have so many twits thinking they're "computer techs" out there that are really good at... reformatting.
GENIUS! The grandparent even spelled it right! There's no excuse.
And it is clever. It's an asshole thing to do, but that doesn't mean that it can't be clever as well.
It didn't? I seem to remember it hitting the main page...
You realize that lynx is the one that does colors and all, and links is the plainer one?
Wow, you type slowly... I think most slashdotters can type upwards of 60WPM, which is much more than a couple letters a second ;)
Where do the kids get the money to buy these things? Where is their morality BEFORE they decide to buy those games and such? I know my mom kept my brother and I from owning Mortal Kombat when we were young. She just watched, and paid attention. Watched us playing it, decided she didn't like it, so took it away from us.
They're the PARENTS. It's their job to make sure moral choices are made and so on. Then they need to trust their kids to make the right decisions as they get older.
This "tool" is only so lazy parents have someone to blame other than themselves.
And this is exactly why I said bullshit to the previous comment about Linux needing work. Linux AND Windows both just need a little work to get running on any kind of specialty hardware. That's just how the game is.
My beef is that people seem to think that this should be expected with Windows, but Linux should work perfectly with every scenario right out of the box.
Why would they have to support it? I don't see anyone but kernel developers supporting the drivers in the kernel. That's why this is a COMPROMISE. They let the kernel developers deal with it. If they really want some good will, they contribute some code themselves.
The hesitant company is just trying to keep others out of a game the others don't even know they're playing.
How about you try installing a copy of WindowsXP from the store on your bleeding-edge laptop. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that you still have to go hunt for drivers and _try_ to make it work. I'll bet you even more that it'd take less time to get Linux to work on it than it would a version of Windows.
Wait, we're lambasting slashdot "groupthink" here, though. My bad. I should say "You only like Linux because you hate Microsoft. You hatey hater man. Stop hating because you're jealous"
Must be. Same kind of "obvious" statements that have no grounding in reality.
Because of course, all sodas are flat. And non-caffeinated. Or is he talking about bottled coffee drinks? Then, I could agree.
Either way, I'm gonna give this stuff a go. A bit fizzy, fermented to get some nice taste to it. Should be interesting.
didn't he already say that drinking too much had effects? Just drinking though isn't bad. Many people I know will have a beer or two at night, with dinner or something. I'm guessing the GP is upset about your "no substances which affect your body" stance, which seems to be limited to alcohol and caffeine. Do you also swear off all processed sugars? No medicines?
Hell, the military allows its pilots to drink caffeine. It was one of the early performance-enhancing substances they used. It actually does work. If you drink 5 Mountain Dews, no, you'll be jittery. But a single can will sharpen your thought processes, keep you from being as tired.
Mostly, you need to get off your high horse about substances though. Maybe do a little research, and learn what's really happening.
Processor design is a hugely different beast than DRAM design. R&D as well as QC need to be higher with processors. DRAM is more limited by production, rather than requiring a huge design cost recouperation.
Nope. You can upgrade to 1GB for less than $100 USD :)
It's the best investment you can make in performance for a machine with that little RAM
Wonder if the electricity and phone bill cost as much as the gas and the sticker price of Office...
Oh, wait. Why would you want to mention that it was free? Why didn't she like it? Did it not work? Or was she just used to Office and afraid of change?
Give ya 10 to 1 odds that it's that she didn't like change.
I dub thee "troll"
KOffice also requires the KDE base to be installed last time I checked. They leverage a lot of KDE's capabilities into it, whereas OO.o is completely self contained. Do you count what's necessary in KDE as well?
Because of the stigma attached to them. There's no way anyone could afford to fully insure or be fully liable for any accident given the way that it is seen by the public. Real, actual damages would not enter anywhere into the lawsuits. Juries would hear "radiation", and then they award asinine damages. No one was even hurt at 3 Mile Island, and look how much damage that did to nuclear power generation.
I've got a laptop with a 4200RPM hard drive, and don't run the quick loader, and I can type in under 20 seconds from a non-cached start, and less than 5 seconds if it's been loaded once already. I don't see it as being that sluggish... I may have 1.2GB of memory, but I've got firefox with tons of tabs open, gaim, thunderbird and a couple instances of Visual Studio open at the same time, so take from that what you will.
Yes, throw random bodies, rather than someone who has specific experience. I know many things my co-workers don't, and they likewise. When we get a tech support question, it goes to the main list and then whoever is most qualified answers it. Or digs for more info.
I wouldn't put it past RedHat to have some kind of filtering like that for their muckity-muck engineers so that they make sure they send the right guy for the job.
But if you ask for help, someone asks for clarification or a bit more info THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE ON SITE FOR, it's your fault if you refuse their assistance.
I think they define this kind of behavior as "addiction" or "obsessive"... try looking out the window instead.
type "google stuff to search for" and it searches Google by default. Full results. If it's not a resolvable URL, then yes, Firefox does the I Feel Lucky search.
Just in case you cared.
How about a large projector, and it only lights up the pixels that are related to your camera? That'd cover a large swath of area if it needed to
Oh, wait, that's what they did. Seriously, the idiots are out in force in this article.
Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. Or better yet, do. It'd keep you from typing while stupid (TWS).
I should really describe that as a condition... wonder if a medical journal would give me recognition.
1173? llte? Is this some new bastardization of 1337, aka leet, that I'm unaware of?
Ok, I'm gonna give you a minute to think about what you just said.
Still thinking? Ok, here's the offending phrase: Or even maybe something that bounces incoming light in another direction
That's not much use in a camera, now is it? Cameras use the incoming light to take a picture. There are auto-leveling things, but this just washes it out. Simple, near impossible to circumvent.