I wish more parents were like you... good parenting takes work. Too many of our generations parents have forgotten that, and their kids are repeating it.
You allow your child to disrespect you like that? If s/he doesn't respect you, who WILL they respect? Fear of it is fine, but why doesn't your child trust you enough to put on the nitrous mask and sit quietly?
So... you've chosen to be locked into the biggest current software vendor, and hope that they don't drop something from.NET in the future. Not like Microsoft would ever do something like that.
I know quite a few people who know a LOT about Windows internals, but have a hard time translating that to Linux commands and such. They may know it conceptually, but that's significantly different than actually doing it. They may know what a mount point is, but mounting a drive can still be daunting the first time you try it.
See, you're looking to compare things and say "X is better". That's the wrong way to think. Is a truck better than a Prius? It depends entirely on what you set your metrics at. Gas mileage? The Prius wins, hands-down. Hauling capability? Better have a truck.
For my laptop, my multimedia, software installing and updating everything on the system, scripting commands to manage files, Linux just works better. If I played lots of cutting-edge computer games or needed a vertical-market app like Photoshop or AutoCAD? I'd go Windows. It really depends on what you want your computer to do, and how you interact with it.
Umm... that's pretty much what Ubuntu does right now. It recognizes.exe files as "Windows Executables" and I believe will automatically ask and install Wine if you need it.
There's not a lack of good apps in Linux. There is a lack of A-list software in certain categories. That's a big difference... there are a bunch of good apps on Linux. There are a lot of BETTER apps on Linux than on Windows, for many things. The main place that Linux is "losing" for software are in A-list games and a vertical market apps, where you have very few users to pay a ton of money for a specific app.
For certain definitions of "working". Sometimes people just don't know what they're missing. Updating applications manually "works" (or having 15 different application updater widgets running all the time), but it's on par with using a crank to start your engine.
Just because you don't intend to doesn't mean it's not your fault. Talking on your cell phone and rear-ending someone isn't what you intend, but it happens and it sure as shit is your fault. I side with the police, because someone is almost always to blame, even if they didn't intend to cause what happened.
That's why I hate calling them "accidents". 99% are not an accident. I prefer the term "collision" or "crash".
Don't forget that the safe speed is highly dependent on traffic, too. I can drive down a road perfectly safely at 90mph in good conditions, but if people are merging while going 30mph, my 90 is all of a sudden very unsafe.
Before getting their driving licenses people should be forced to take and pass a physics course in which they do various calculations on car-sized objects being dropped and hitting brick walls or other car-sized objects.
Here here. How about we just figure out how to get them to properly put speed limits on roads? There are way too many places where the "natural" limit is significantly higher than the legal one. If it's around a school or neighborhood, people actually follow speed limits pretty well. But on highways where it's perfectly safe to go faster, a lower limit makes it more dangerous for the few percent that will adhere strictly to the law no matter how stupid it is.
You can override it, but... what is reported back? THAT is the sticker. If it were a self-contained unit that never broadcast anything and simply helped me keep to the speed limit, I'd consider getting one for myself. But if it was in ANY way accessible by or connected to the government (or even just kept logs), FUCK that.
They still open connections slightly differently, IIRC. Hell, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to have IE send an unmodifiable identifier somewhere in the TCP stream. If they were watching things at the socket level instead of the HTTP level, I'll bet they could figure out which browser was which no matter what the user agent.
It'll take time, but those facts are becoming easier and easier for people to find out. They're starting to realize the bullshit that's going on in the mainstream press. When everyone agrees with each other on a story, there's something fishy going on. I give it another 20 years or so before everything starts being turned on it's head. We either go full-on authoritarian dictatorship here in the US, or things make a change for the better. I've seen signs of both.
Because that will work. Have robberies stopped since they started arresting robbers? Why would the amazingly profitable drug trade stop just because a few shipments get caught? All that will happen is that drugs will get more expensive, violence will increase, and people will still be jonesing for their next fix. The problem is that you're trying to fight against human nature with drug prohibition. You can just as easily stop the earth from turning. Treat it as a public health issue, tax and regulate drugs. Make it so it's easier to get a clean, legal fix than it is to do so illegally, and you'd see the drug violence die out almost overnight.
He's probably from New England or something. One of my favorite aphorisms about England (and by extension, New England because everything is so close together): "In England, 200 miles is a long way. In the US, 200 years is a long time". It depends entirely on your perceptions. I had a friend from England out on vacation who wanted to see Four Corners, Mesa Verde and the Grand Canyon. In a 3 day weekend. Go have fun with a map with that one;)
Lots of stores in the news about US guns in Mexico... the problem is, those are very tortured statistics. Sure, most of the guns that can be traced do get traced back to the US. But for the overall total of guns sourced from the US, nobody knows for sure.
Ask yourself why the drug cartels and immigration coyotes exist and are so profitable. If you answered "because of prohibitionist, Protestant knee-jerk drug and anti-immigration policy", you win. Change the policy, and the violence stops. This proposal is like trying to treat a broken arm with vicodin. Sure, some of the pain stops, but it ain't gonna fix the REAL problem, which is that demand for drugs exists, and you CANNOT fix that. It's impossible. As long as substances exist that make people feel better, they will be abused. As long as it's easier to get into the US and work illegally than it is to do it legally, the problem will exist.
I agree. Keep people from hurting others. There should continue to be very low tolerance for any intoxicated driving of any kind. But let people do what they will as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else directly.
Imagine, if you will, that drugs were treated as a public health problem and regulated and taxed. What would happen to all the associated drug crime, where people can't go to police when they've been wronged?
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I wish more parents were like you... good parenting takes work. Too many of our generations parents have forgotten that, and their kids are repeating it.
You allow your child to disrespect you like that? If s/he doesn't respect you, who WILL they respect? Fear of it is fine, but why doesn't your child trust you enough to put on the nitrous mask and sit quietly?
So... you've chosen to be locked into the biggest current software vendor, and hope that they don't drop something from .NET in the future. Not like Microsoft would ever do something like that.
I know quite a few people who know a LOT about Windows internals, but have a hard time translating that to Linux commands and such. They may know it conceptually, but that's significantly different than actually doing it. They may know what a mount point is, but mounting a drive can still be daunting the first time you try it.
See, you're looking to compare things and say "X is better". That's the wrong way to think. Is a truck better than a Prius? It depends entirely on what you set your metrics at. Gas mileage? The Prius wins, hands-down. Hauling capability? Better have a truck.
For my laptop, my multimedia, software installing and updating everything on the system, scripting commands to manage files, Linux just works better. If I played lots of cutting-edge computer games or needed a vertical-market app like Photoshop or AutoCAD? I'd go Windows. It really depends on what you want your computer to do, and how you interact with it.
Umm... that's pretty much what Ubuntu does right now. It recognizes .exe files as "Windows Executables" and I believe will automatically ask and install Wine if you need it.
There's not a lack of good apps in Linux. There is a lack of A-list software in certain categories. That's a big difference... there are a bunch of good apps on Linux. There are a lot of BETTER apps on Linux than on Windows, for many things. The main place that Linux is "losing" for software are in A-list games and a vertical market apps, where you have very few users to pay a ton of money for a specific app.
For certain definitions of "working". Sometimes people just don't know what they're missing. Updating applications manually "works" (or having 15 different application updater widgets running all the time), but it's on par with using a crank to start your engine.
Just because you don't intend to doesn't mean it's not your fault. Talking on your cell phone and rear-ending someone isn't what you intend, but it happens and it sure as shit is your fault. I side with the police, because someone is almost always to blame, even if they didn't intend to cause what happened.
That's why I hate calling them "accidents". 99% are not an accident. I prefer the term "collision" or "crash".
Don't forget that the safe speed is highly dependent on traffic, too. I can drive down a road perfectly safely at 90mph in good conditions, but if people are merging while going 30mph, my 90 is all of a sudden very unsafe.
Before getting their driving licenses people should be forced to take and pass a physics course in which they do various calculations on car-sized objects being dropped and hitting brick walls or other car-sized objects.
Here here. How about we just figure out how to get them to properly put speed limits on roads? There are way too many places where the "natural" limit is significantly higher than the legal one. If it's around a school or neighborhood, people actually follow speed limits pretty well. But on highways where it's perfectly safe to go faster, a lower limit makes it more dangerous for the few percent that will adhere strictly to the law no matter how stupid it is.
You can override it, but... what is reported back? THAT is the sticker. If it were a self-contained unit that never broadcast anything and simply helped me keep to the speed limit, I'd consider getting one for myself. But if it was in ANY way accessible by or connected to the government (or even just kept logs), FUCK that.
They still open connections slightly differently, IIRC. Hell, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to have IE send an unmodifiable identifier somewhere in the TCP stream. If they were watching things at the socket level instead of the HTTP level, I'll bet they could figure out which browser was which no matter what the user agent.
While we're at it, can we assume that I have ten million bucks?
That was my point ;) And Denver was the base of operations.
Just googled around, looks like most of them are Glide->OpenGL, which removes one of the layers.
It'll take time, but those facts are becoming easier and easier for people to find out. They're starting to realize the bullshit that's going on in the mainstream press. When everyone agrees with each other on a story, there's something fishy going on. I give it another 20 years or so before everything starts being turned on it's head. We either go full-on authoritarian dictatorship here in the US, or things make a change for the better. I've seen signs of both.
Because that will work. Have robberies stopped since they started arresting robbers? Why would the amazingly profitable drug trade stop just because a few shipments get caught? All that will happen is that drugs will get more expensive, violence will increase, and people will still be jonesing for their next fix. The problem is that you're trying to fight against human nature with drug prohibition. You can just as easily stop the earth from turning. Treat it as a public health issue, tax and regulate drugs. Make it so it's easier to get a clean, legal fix than it is to do so illegally, and you'd see the drug violence die out almost overnight.
He's probably from New England or something. One of my favorite aphorisms about England (and by extension, New England because everything is so close together): "In England, 200 miles is a long way. In the US, 200 years is a long time". It depends entirely on your perceptions. I had a friend from England out on vacation who wanted to see Four Corners, Mesa Verde and the Grand Canyon. In a 3 day weekend. Go have fun with a map with that one ;)
Lots of stores in the news about US guns in Mexico... the problem is, those are very tortured statistics. Sure, most of the guns that can be traced do get traced back to the US. But for the overall total of guns sourced from the US, nobody knows for sure.
Ask yourself why the drug cartels and immigration coyotes exist and are so profitable. If you answered "because of prohibitionist, Protestant knee-jerk drug and anti-immigration policy", you win. Change the policy, and the violence stops. This proposal is like trying to treat a broken arm with vicodin. Sure, some of the pain stops, but it ain't gonna fix the REAL problem, which is that demand for drugs exists, and you CANNOT fix that. It's impossible. As long as substances exist that make people feel better, they will be abused. As long as it's easier to get into the US and work illegally than it is to do it legally, the problem will exist.
I agree. Keep people from hurting others. There should continue to be very low tolerance for any intoxicated driving of any kind. But let people do what they will as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else directly.
Imagine, if you will, that drugs were treated as a public health problem and regulated and taxed. What would happen to all the associated drug crime, where people can't go to police when they've been wronged?
Googling for "geo windows shell clone" and the first result eventually got me to GeoShell. Is that what you were thinking of?