He won't live without his pacifier. I'll kill him;) If he's screaming and I'm not in a place where it's safe to do so (like stopped at a light waiting for it to change), he'll do without. But if I can do so safely? Why not? If I'm driving down a long road with no intersections or other vehicles or pedestrians that could jump in front of me, where exactly is the danger in not having both hands at 10 and 2 for a few seconds? If I were driving downtown, that'd be one thing, but the suburbs are a significantly different driving experience.
Wall space, and bag space. Ever traveled with one of those fuckers in your bag? Or worse, more than one? American plugs are much easier to pack and manage IMHO
The difference is your reaction... did you suddenly swerve across 5 lanes to try to make that turn, or did you just continue to the next exit? The people that scare me are the ones who don't react properly to the unexpected, even if it's caused by inattentiveness...
"Unskilled and Unaware". It's a great research paper. People who aren't aware of their actual limitations are more likely to overestimate them. Those who are tend to think better of the people around them and underestimate themselves. The only way to solve that is by education, like the GP said... get people in a simulator, and show them the actual difference between what they are doing and what they should be doing.
Then again, I'm an exception;) But I also don't text while driving, or turn around, and the actual task of driving always takes precedence over ANYTHING else that might be happening. Kid screaming? I check the road for intersections, pedestrians, and other vehicles before I take a second or two to reach back and get his pacifier back in. And that's done while still looking forward, watching him in the mirror instead of actually turning around. There's a "safe" way to be distracted while driving... the problem is that people don't prioritize those things very well.
There is something to be said about being an intellectual among a bunch of people who actually care about what happened on "Dancing with the Stars" last night, though. If you don't have anything in common to discuss, you won't make friends with someone very easily. I agree that the comment you're referencing is exceptionally arrogant, but there's always a nugget of truth in most things like that.
That said, I'm an "intellectual" with a fairly high IQ last time I checked, yet I still get along with most people. It's just that I don't have very strong friendships with people who are mostly "normal" and I tend to drift away from them. And I mean "normal" as in, they don't have any strong opinions or knowledge about anything but recent TV shows and celebrity gossip.
...you're holding up Glenn Beck as a reference on "common sense"? Really? Just because someone calls a duck a dog does not make it a dog. Glenn Beck has as much connection to common sense as your thoughts have a connection to controlling the motion of the planets.
Most school tests as they are now in America are designed for testing memorization of facts, and application of memorized formulas. It makes the job much easier on the teacher, because they only have to look to see if the answer matches the key, rather than figure out if it's actually correct. They can farm this off onto assistants and such, which given the large class sizes any more, is the only sane thing to do.
And then we have the parents and kids who demand to know what the answers are before the test, so they just have to regurgitate the right things, rather than actually have to think and analyze. How is a teacher going to fight against that when all the standardized testing is designed to just measure whether or not you've memorized all the facts? Gah. Sorry... </rant>
I've got both of those on Ubuntu 8.04, and my mmap_min_addr is 65536 on my machine. I don't think it's either of those, and it's perfectly safe to set it to 65536 with those installed, and they will still run.
Locally perfect still isn't perfect. And that is my point. It's good enough to match the local needs, but it isn't any better than that, even if it could be. And that is where people get tripped up in my experience.
You wouldn't have even had that option on Windows. Trying to install Win7, I was getting bluescreens left and right until I figured out which SATA controllers to enable and which ones to set which way in the BIOS, and that was before I could even install the damn thing. It works alright now, pretty ok as a gaming machine, but seriously... bluescreening on install? Requiring SATA to be run in IDE mode in 2009? It's obvious that Windows is not ready for the desktop.
You mean that you can just copy a PDF straight over to the Kindle? I call bullshit. The Kindle is very proprietary, and it requires a Windows application to convert files to Amazon's proprietary format. Screw that noise. It also doesn't support EPUB, which is very common in places like Project Gutenberg and so on. Stop pretending the Kindle is "open". It's as open as Windows is, which is to say, not very.
The most popular games in the world to play are Flash games and Solitaire type stuff. There are lots of games you can play without having a dedicated GPU, and they're the types of games that the non-techies flock to (Popcap, etc.)
You don't have to have a license to have a TV. You only have to have a license if you watch TV, either over the air or through cable. If you can prove to them that you don't have either of those hooked up, you're off the hook for the license fee.
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Being stupidly literal? Not that clever or funny.
He won't live without his pacifier. I'll kill him ;) If he's screaming and I'm not in a place where it's safe to do so (like stopped at a light waiting for it to change), he'll do without. But if I can do so safely? Why not? If I'm driving down a long road with no intersections or other vehicles or pedestrians that could jump in front of me, where exactly is the danger in not having both hands at 10 and 2 for a few seconds? If I were driving downtown, that'd be one thing, but the suburbs are a significantly different driving experience.
Your power strip for multiple plugs like that still needs to be ginormous.
He's probably talking about blenders, toasters, food processors, etc. as appliances, not major appliances like fridges and stoves.
Wall space, and bag space. Ever traveled with one of those fuckers in your bag? Or worse, more than one? American plugs are much easier to pack and manage IMHO
The difference is your reaction... did you suddenly swerve across 5 lanes to try to make that turn, or did you just continue to the next exit? The people that scare me are the ones who don't react properly to the unexpected, even if it's caused by inattentiveness...
"Have You Ever Tried Simply Turning off the TV, Sitting down with Your Children, and Hitting Them?" - Bender
"Unskilled and Unaware". It's a great research paper. People who aren't aware of their actual limitations are more likely to overestimate them. Those who are tend to think better of the people around them and underestimate themselves. The only way to solve that is by education, like the GP said... get people in a simulator, and show them the actual difference between what they are doing and what they should be doing.
;) But I also don't text while driving, or turn around, and the actual task of driving always takes precedence over ANYTHING else that might be happening. Kid screaming? I check the road for intersections, pedestrians, and other vehicles before I take a second or two to reach back and get his pacifier back in. And that's done while still looking forward, watching him in the mirror instead of actually turning around. There's a "safe" way to be distracted while driving... the problem is that people don't prioritize those things very well.
Then again, I'm an exception
There is something to be said about being an intellectual among a bunch of people who actually care about what happened on "Dancing with the Stars" last night, though. If you don't have anything in common to discuss, you won't make friends with someone very easily. I agree that the comment you're referencing is exceptionally arrogant, but there's always a nugget of truth in most things like that.
That said, I'm an "intellectual" with a fairly high IQ last time I checked, yet I still get along with most people. It's just that I don't have very strong friendships with people who are mostly "normal" and I tend to drift away from them. And I mean "normal" as in, they don't have any strong opinions or knowledge about anything but recent TV shows and celebrity gossip.
Aha! I don't know ASP at all, therefore I must know which economic system is best! Thanks for the validation ;)
...you're holding up Glenn Beck as a reference on "common sense"? Really? Just because someone calls a duck a dog does not make it a dog. Glenn Beck has as much connection to common sense as your thoughts have a connection to controlling the motion of the planets.
Most school tests as they are now in America are designed for testing memorization of facts, and application of memorized formulas. It makes the job much easier on the teacher, because they only have to look to see if the answer matches the key, rather than figure out if it's actually correct. They can farm this off onto assistants and such, which given the large class sizes any more, is the only sane thing to do.
And then we have the parents and kids who demand to know what the answers are before the test, so they just have to regurgitate the right things, rather than actually have to think and analyze. How is a teacher going to fight against that when all the standardized testing is designed to just measure whether or not you've memorized all the facts? Gah. Sorry... </rant>
Not on 8.04. I'm running it right now, and I just checked that (and verified that Starcraft still starts up fine in wine).
That's new since 8.10 or later then, because 8.04 doesn't have that problem with wine installed.
Not on 8.04 (the last LTS release). Any ideas why it would do that?
I've got both of those on Ubuntu 8.04, and my mmap_min_addr is 65536 on my machine. I don't think it's either of those, and it's perfectly safe to set it to 65536 with those installed, and they will still run.
Nope. I have a socket AM3 with an AMD750 southbridge. Should be bog-standard hardware, came out well before Windows 7 shipped.
Locally perfect still isn't perfect. And that is my point. It's good enough to match the local needs, but it isn't any better than that, even if it could be. And that is where people get tripped up in my experience.
You wouldn't have even had that option on Windows. Trying to install Win7, I was getting bluescreens left and right until I figured out which SATA controllers to enable and which ones to set which way in the BIOS, and that was before I could even install the damn thing. It works alright now, pretty ok as a gaming machine, but seriously... bluescreening on install? Requiring SATA to be run in IDE mode in 2009? It's obvious that Windows is not ready for the desktop.
You mean that you can just copy a PDF straight over to the Kindle? I call bullshit. The Kindle is very proprietary, and it requires a Windows application to convert files to Amazon's proprietary format. Screw that noise. It also doesn't support EPUB, which is very common in places like Project Gutenberg and so on. Stop pretending the Kindle is "open". It's as open as Windows is, which is to say, not very.
Aye. Evolution doesn't produce perfect. It produces good enough.
Not in geek cred. But they can't hold a candle to him in business sense. He's got enough of both to be really successful.
The most popular games in the world to play are Flash games and Solitaire type stuff. There are lots of games you can play without having a dedicated GPU, and they're the types of games that the non-techies flock to (Popcap, etc.)
If that rural area has more connectivity, it's just because a telco exec lives in the area.
You don't have to have a license to have a TV. You only have to have a license if you watch TV, either over the air or through cable. If you can prove to them that you don't have either of those hooked up, you're off the hook for the license fee.