But diamond is a ridiculously excellent thermal conductor. Are you sure the diamond anvil won't suck the heat away? It also seems to me that the metal gasket in the diamond anvil would probably get pretty wasted at 2200 C. If you heat the whole diamond, what's going to happen to the supporting structure?
Why are you [Americans] pushing us Canadians sooooo hard to buy your latest super-jet blah blah blah blah blah
As an American, I assure you Canadians I couldn't fucking care less whether you buy the F-22 to defend yourselves, or even whether you deign to defend yourselves at all. Actually, I think you have the F-22 confused with the F-35. It might interest you to know that export sale of the F-22 is barred by American federal law.
Seriously. It's just not on my radar. Not on the radar of anybody I know.
Well, if you take for example, Windows 95 as the starting point, the opposite corner is the lower left. Doesn't sound very logical to me.
I understand the reasoning, but how ARE you going to arrange the buttons then? It's just as bad to put Close next to the Window Menu on the left. Would you move the Window Menu to the right where Close it now, and vice versa? I guess that would work.
Disappointing or not to your psyche, you might want to consider that perhaps there is a reason why human factors engineers find a lot to favor in the Windows environment (and I'm thinking of up through XP here; it has been a huge wreck in usability since then). It basically does not get better than IBM CUA, which was the real genius of the Windows 95 environment, and which was itself standing on giants in the form of Xerox PARC shoulders.
Well, thank you Mr. Grumpy. Actually, thank goodness, he has other options than to listen to your ultimatum. There are any number of DE's already available that break new ground and that anyone will agree (pro or con) are not "more of the same old crap."
It is not intutative at all, it is not simple, and barely functional. Blow OSX all the crap you want, my mom can figure it out - it is unsupassed right now under version 10.6.x.
Look to NeXT, BeOS, Amiga, DragonFly, - get something new already. Look beyond the mundane. Linux people are to the point where they are hoping they can make their little linux box look like windoze. OOOOOOO - get windoze then.
I want a better OS and a better GUI - no more of the same old crap.
Parent should not have been modded down. He has some valid points and touches on key issues. Beating parent on the head with a stick is childish and does not improve the discussion.
I happen to disagree that OSX operations are discoverable by the novice. It seems to me by observing novices that Windows UP THROUGH XP was, with the exception of certain operations, extremely easily understood by novices. Reasonable people can disagree on this, but one thing they cannot reasonably disagree on. A huge portion of the population now has a reasonably good understanding of, and facility with, Windows. So it seems to me that sticking within the dominant desktop paradigm does have its advantages.
That does not mean it has to look exactly like Windows, or copy obvious details where Windows just flat blows it!
Suppose someone like me has about 16 TB of data. Where does he find an ISP that will allow more than a tiny trickle of throughput per month? Where I live I've got one realistic choice: Comcast. The limit is 250 GB/month. It would take a long, long time to back up 16 TB of data even if I wasn't already using most of that bandwidth cap for other purposes.
I suspect this is why BackBlaze as a business can survive with no cap. They know statistically close to 0% of users can ever transfer more than 100-200 GB a month, and statistically most are doubtless very far below even that figure.
The other problem is they only support crap operating systems. No linux or BSD support.
Well, "we" didn't get there. "We" haven't gone beyond the far end of a low moon orbit a very few times. And we haven't extended our reach in over 40 years. Spacecraft that we built have gone farther. It seems a distinction worth making to me; maybe it's silly. When man ceases to explore in person, and that day may have arrived permanently, he will be something different, in my mind.
Ah, but the problem is not that the developers "can't decide how something should work." The problem is that they CAN and DO decide, completely in their ivory tower, that everything should be done completely differently to what any sane mind would come up with, and in the bargain they are DEAD SET against leaving any room for configurability.
I am sorry to say, yes, I believe he *IS* perfectly serious.
The poopheads in charge of Gnome, and their apologists, really do not grasp what is crystal clear to any user with the least bit of common sense.
I haven't totally given up on Gnome3's FUTURE yet, because, agonizingly slowly, some of the absurd limitations are being addressed by the developers and by others. The developers are not technically deficient, they are just poopheads when it comes to common sense.
However, Gnome3's PRESENT is garbage, and unless and until it DOES get fixed acceptably, I am sticking with Gnome2 on RHEL6, which should carry me through to 2017.
An excellent point with which I agree, but there is still a problem. If you only warranty a drive for one year, you will see to it that absolutely no engineering or quality control effort is expending to make them LAST for more than one year. This is fully in line with fiduciary responsibility, as well as being common sense.
I have always seen the warranty period as a measure of the confidence the manufacturer has in their quality, which is the ceiling for the confidence *I* have in the manufacturer's quality.
The blacks and velociraptors may or may not be better quality drives (I highly doubt that they are), but you will notice that they are vastly higher PRICED drives - grossly overpriced in fact.. I wouldn't want them even if they were priced the same as the 5400 rpm drives. They run hotter, waste more power, and give a very slight real world benefit to desktops or personal servers.
Er, the "cost of the electricity" from photovoltaic panels *IS* nothing but the amortization of the "up-front capital." Google "present value" some time.
You're exactly right that GPL does not need to "fix" anything, and neither does BSD.
And I believe you're entirely right that BSD does not have a problem with linux and gnu using their code. I actually have never seen anybody on the BSD side "complain" that the "linux/gnu team" "borrows [their] code". In my experience, they are quite happy when ANYONE uses their code (they would never use the word "borrow").
Also because people who are hesitant to use GPL - instead of working with them to address the problems, the GPL'ers call them complainers and moochers. Who needs that? It's not the way to win converts.
I'm not saying GPL proponents are wrong to keep it the way it is. It's a very idealistic movement. I'm just saying they needn't be surprised if its use declines.
Too bad for them also because if they decided for whatever reason that they did have to switch, they could have switched to BSD instead of Windows. That way they would have ended up with a good system comparable to linux rather than a piece of crap that Windows is.
I think you can substitute "BSD license" for "GPL" everywhere in your post and it would still be true, as it is now. The exception is the paragraph "2nd answer," which I completely fail to understand.
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But diamond is a ridiculously excellent thermal conductor. Are you sure the diamond anvil won't suck the heat away? It also seems to me that the metal gasket in the diamond anvil would probably get pretty wasted at 2200 C. If you heat the whole diamond, what's going to happen to the supporting structure?
Why are you [Americans] pushing us Canadians sooooo hard to buy your latest super-jet blah blah blah blah blah
As an American, I assure you Canadians I couldn't fucking care less whether you buy the F-22 to defend yourselves, or even whether you deign to defend yourselves at all. Actually, I think you have the F-22 confused with the F-35. It might interest you to know that export sale of the F-22 is barred by American federal law.
Seriously. It's just not on my radar. Not on the radar of anybody I know.
I hope the fuck it's 100:1 kill ratio, not 1:100.
Do you seriously use xterm in place of Gnome Terminal, or, better yet, konsole? Why?
Well, if you take for example, Windows 95 as the starting point, the opposite corner is the lower left. Doesn't sound very logical to me.
I understand the reasoning, but how ARE you going to arrange the buttons then? It's just as bad to put Close next to the Window Menu on the left. Would you move the Window Menu to the right where Close it now, and vice versa? I guess that would work.
Damn right in every respect.
Disappointing or not to your psyche, you might want to consider that perhaps there is a reason why human factors engineers find a lot to favor in the Windows environment (and I'm thinking of up through XP here; it has been a huge wreck in usability since then). It basically does not get better than IBM CUA, which was the real genius of the Windows 95 environment, and which was itself standing on giants in the form of Xerox PARC shoulders.
Well, thank you Mr. Grumpy. Actually, thank goodness, he has other options than to listen to your ultimatum. There are any number of DE's already available that break new ground and that anyone will agree (pro or con) are not "more of the same old crap."
Windoze sucks!!!!
It is not intutative at all, it is not simple, and barely functional. Blow OSX all the crap you want, my mom can figure it out - it is unsupassed right now under version 10.6.x.
Look to NeXT, BeOS, Amiga, DragonFly, - get something new already. Look beyond the mundane. Linux people are to the point where they are hoping they can make their little linux box look like windoze. OOOOOOO - get windoze then.
I want a better OS and a better GUI - no more of the same old crap.
Parent should not have been modded down. He has some valid points and touches on key issues. Beating parent on the head with a stick is childish and does not improve the discussion.
I happen to disagree that OSX operations are discoverable by the novice. It seems to me by observing novices that Windows UP THROUGH XP was, with the exception of certain operations, extremely easily understood by novices. Reasonable people can disagree on this, but one thing they cannot reasonably disagree on. A huge portion of the population now has a reasonably good understanding of, and facility with, Windows. So it seems to me that sticking within the dominant desktop paradigm does have its advantages.
That does not mean it has to look exactly like Windows, or copy obvious details where Windows just flat blows it!
Suppose someone like me has about 16 TB of data. Where does he find an ISP that will allow more than a tiny trickle of throughput per month? Where I live I've got one realistic choice: Comcast. The limit is 250 GB/month. It would take a long, long time to back up 16 TB of data even if I wasn't already using most of that bandwidth cap for other purposes.
I suspect this is why BackBlaze as a business can survive with no cap. They know statistically close to 0% of users can ever transfer more than 100-200 GB a month, and statistically most are doubtless very far below even that figure.
The other problem is they only support crap operating systems. No linux or BSD support.
Well, "we" didn't get there. "We" haven't gone beyond the far end of a low moon orbit a very few times. And we haven't extended our reach in over 40 years. Spacecraft that we built have gone farther. It seems a distinction worth making to me; maybe it's silly. When man ceases to explore in person, and that day may have arrived permanently, he will be something different, in my mind.
Ah, but the problem is not that the developers "can't decide how something should work." The problem is that they CAN and DO decide, completely in their ivory tower, that everything should be done completely differently to what any sane mind would come up with, and in the bargain they are DEAD SET against leaving any room for configurability.
I am sorry to say, yes, I believe he *IS* perfectly serious.
The poopheads in charge of Gnome, and their apologists, really do not grasp what is crystal clear to any user with the least bit of common sense.
I haven't totally given up on Gnome3's FUTURE yet, because, agonizingly slowly, some of the absurd limitations are being addressed by the developers and by others. The developers are not technically deficient, they are just poopheads when it comes to common sense.
However, Gnome3's PRESENT is garbage, and unless and until it DOES get fixed acceptably, I am sticking with Gnome2 on RHEL6, which should carry me through to 2017.
They forked KDE too. It's called Trinity. The quality is excellent.
Alas, I think he really does not know.
This is the most insightful post on this subject.
An excellent point with which I agree, but there is still a problem. If you only warranty a drive for one year, you will see to it that absolutely no engineering or quality control effort is expending to make them LAST for more than one year. This is fully in line with fiduciary responsibility, as well as being common sense.
I have always seen the warranty period as a measure of the confidence the manufacturer has in their quality, which is the ceiling for the confidence *I* have in the manufacturer's quality.
Bullshit. Spinrite doesn't do shit for present drive technology. In the ancient era of MFM and RLL it actually did contribute a benefit.
The blacks and velociraptors may or may not be better quality drives (I highly doubt that they are), but you will notice that they are vastly higher PRICED drives - grossly overpriced in fact.. I wouldn't want them even if they were priced the same as the 5400 rpm drives. They run hotter, waste more power, and give a very slight real world benefit to desktops or personal servers.
Er, the "cost of the electricity" from photovoltaic panels *IS* nothing but the amortization of the "up-front capital." Google "present value" some time.
You're exactly right that GPL does not need to "fix" anything, and neither does BSD.
And I believe you're entirely right that BSD does not have a problem with linux and gnu using their code. I actually have never seen anybody on the BSD side "complain" that the "linux/gnu team" "borrows [their] code". In my experience, they are quite happy when ANYONE uses their code (they would never use the word "borrow").
Also because people who are hesitant to use GPL - instead of working with them to address the problems, the GPL'ers call them complainers and moochers. Who needs that? It's not the way to win converts.
I'm not saying GPL proponents are wrong to keep it the way it is. It's a very idealistic movement. I'm just saying they needn't be surprised if its use declines.
Too bad for them also because if they decided for whatever reason that they did have to switch, they could have switched to BSD instead of Windows. That way they would have ended up with a good system comparable to linux rather than a piece of crap that Windows is.
I think you can substitute "BSD license" for "GPL" everywhere in your post and it would still be true, as it is now. The exception is the paragraph "2nd answer," which I completely fail to understand.