Nuclear weapons, as illogical as it may sound, save lives.
Of course they may, there's nothing illogical about it. Your statistical sample, however, is too small to make the argument they do. If you had a hundred planet Earths and none had experienced a thermonuclear winter, then you'd have a point... Now we just can't tell if we have been very lucky or if "nuclear weapons save lives" in a general case.
Case in point. Japan started the fight and they would not surrender. Very conservative estimates of an invasion of Japan's homeland put American deaths at a million and Japanese deaths as a multiple of that. As horrific the destruction caused by the 2 atomic bombs, those bombs saved American and Japanese lives.
I'm not really qualified to comment on your estimates (and I believe you), but I just wanted to point out that history is always written by winners. If the Axis states had won, our history books and research papers would look at the bombs very differently. At the very least American military command would have been tried for war crimes.
Deploying updates is even easier; it happens whenever they run the application.
Again, easier for you... For the user this approach means tens or hundreds of applications that have their own update methods (some need to be started, some want you to click 'update' somewhere, etc.) with different UIs for the updating. It also means security implications as the user now has X additional programs that are connected to the internet.
Stand-alone installers have some good properties compared to package management. update deployment is not one of them.
every tutorial I've seen just uses the command line anyway. I know you see it as easier, but I personally don't.
I think you've misunderstood. It's actually not that people want to force CLI on you or even that they think it's easier... Giving clear, unambiguous and succinct instructions for a GUI is often impossible and almost always significantly more laborous than giving the same advice for CLI. Try it and you'll see.
Installing in Windows just as easy as installing something on Linux. Frequently it's a heck of a lot easier to set up due to gui set up, rather than having to use config files.
I guess these are matters of opinion... Personally I'm never going to administer a machine without proper package management again -- my memories of installing Windows and installing software on Windows are definitely not as rosy as yours. Of course it is possible that I just wasn't knowledgeable enough about administering Windows, and thus made unnecessary mistakes.
1) About the kernel mode drivers. Isn't this the case on, well, pretty much every desktop OS? Unless I greatly misunderstand the may the monolithic Linux kernel works drivers on Linux are in kernel space too, even complied as a part of the kernel. It seems that it is just how things are done to provide the speed people want on a modern OS. One can argue that it's fine, drivers ought to be well written. After all what would you rather have: A well written kernel mode video driver that is fast and essentially never locks up your system, though it could, or a poorly written user mode video driver that is slower and crashes all the time (causing your display to restart) because the developers can be sloppy?
You just had to ruin a perfectly good argument with a stupid straw man in the end, huh?
Your allotment of vowels and capital letters seems to have run out, please refrain from posting for a couple of weeks while the inventory is restocked.
Sorry for slashing your coments like this, but I just don't get your point:
As Kutaragi said, they didn't want people to feel like they were paying for something they'd never use. ...
Your Toshiba HDTV doesn't have HDMI inputs? That's too bad, you should've bought a Sony set
...Umm?? Those statements just don't belong in the same argument. I do not have a HDMI-TV, and when I buy a next generation console I will feel like Sony is trying to make me pay for something I will not use.
In effect, they've managed to convince consumers to go out and pick up HDMI-equipped HDTVs, etc., without having to do any 'sway' marketting.
No they haven't. They might be trying to, but success is far from guaranteed. I've been a Playstation guy so far, but the current pricing of PS3 disqualifies it this time -- I'm just not interested. So, they still have to convince me on HDMI and they lost a customer.
In short, this is a huge win for Sony.
So you say. I am an example of a long-time customer that just isn't interested in this offering -- we'll see if there are more people like me.
And speaking of guerilla marketing, this article was disturbing:
Confessions of a guerilla marketer
By the way, that website is further proof (as if it was needed) that graphic designers shouldn't do web design... They just won't understand that web isn't WYSIWYG: "but it looks fine on my computer".
When I was a kid [and damn I was a kid of the 80s/90s] I sure as hell didn't have half of that. My computer was a XT up until I was 11 or so then it was a 386/25 we scraped together from spare parts. We didn't have net access only local BBS stuff so for the most part we had to INVENT our own fun.
Luxury! I only had a 4004 which I had to code by feel, since we had no monitor. A BBS! I would have been happy if I had had any net access -- I had to do with three 5.25 DD floppies, and two of those were for the OS.
It's interesting that FDR won WWII in not much more time than we've been in Iraq.
Your point stands in some respects, but that sentence is the American Version of The Truth... Personally I would have said that the Red Army won WWII with some help from the rest of the allied.
In an ideal society, crimes committed by very powerful people should result in very severe penalties. Crimes committed by less powerful people should result in less severe penalties. Here, one form of power is money.
This is in effect in context of traffic violations in Finland: Getting a 100000 euro ticket for speeding is possible if you happen to have sky high income...
It's absurd, but on the other hand the way foreign diplomats park and drive all around the world proves that people just don't respect the 'petty' laws if there's no real punishment.
Let's hope this makes people think twice about the truth value of news...
No need to be any more specific. History is written by winners and every story has a POV. Some reporters/newspapers may strive to be objective, but that doesn't make their story "the truth".
Thanks, the car analogy really made my day. Every time when I think I've seen them all, nothing will be more inappropriate than that, someone comes along with a spectacularly flawed analogy and easily takes the top spot.
If you can find any references to that filling-up-and-overwriting-itself story, that would be great. I'm guessing your program used dd or something similar to write the data. I'm also guessing that your "nix flag wavers" told you that:
That kind of tools are meant for disk formatting and other such tools, not user programs.
That kind of tools definitely always need root access
So (while I'm still guessing), I'd say that the programmers made a quite bad choice when using something like that and communicated the dangers very poorly to the user. The user must have been pretty slow also, if he thought a video editing software really needs his root password.
It's like buying a in-car-gps that includes automatic steering from a street vendor and letting it drive you home in downtown traffic, or something.
Whoops. Now that I checked my dictionary, I see that the word I keep using (secrecy of correspondence) doesn't mean what I thought it means... I meant to refer to the concept of implied confidentiality in private correspondance (I have no idea if there is a word for it in english).
Where did you get this? Is there some law I don't know about? If this were true, the paparazzi would be out of business.
In most civilized countries there are two different concepts that are relevant here:
* Right to privacy (people who are famous because of their own choosing, like rock stars, often have less right to privacy -- this keeps the paparazzi in business) * Right to secrecy of correspondence (this covers everyone, and usually covers e-mail without any special laws)
In short: Yes, I do believe there are laws you don't know about.
They refer to MPL in the message and I wondered if that's that Mozilla license and if that is really incompatible with the FSF.
I guess you mean incompatible with GPL? Yes, as far as I can tell MPL and GPL are incompatible. There's no need to worry though, as almost all Mozilla code is tri-licensed MPL/GPL/LGPL -- the 3rd party developer can choose whichever he likes.
There are some software that say or 'gpl v2 or any later version' but if even 1 package (ie: the kernel) doesn't say that, then the whole distro can forget it.
How is this still modded informative? This is not even close to the truth... There's no need for the whole distro to be under one license.
Don't get me wrong - I think it's a very scary prospect and very much against "don't be evil" (by the way, where the FUCK on any of Google's pages does it actually say that? I've looked fairly hard and not found it, nor 'do no evil')
Situation now: every NYT customer on linux whines.
Situation if they didn't block linux: only people with bad or esoteric configurations whine.
Please advice how the first option is better? Remember that NYT is not obligated to "support" anyone any more than they do now (do you think they don't get calls from windows users with fucked computers all the time?)
I'd like a reference for that. As far as I know the Debian netinst image is 100-200 MB -- the business card installer is probably smaller, but I don't think it counts as it doesn't really include a working system...
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Of course they may, there's nothing illogical about it. Your statistical sample, however, is too small to make the argument they do. If you had a hundred planet Earths and none had experienced a thermonuclear winter, then you'd have a point... Now we just can't tell if we have been very lucky or if "nuclear weapons save lives" in a general case.
I'm not really qualified to comment on your estimates (and I believe you), but I just wanted to point out that history is always written by winners. If the Axis states had won, our history books and research papers would look at the bombs very differently. At the very least American military command would have been tried for war crimes.
Stand-alone installers have some good properties compared to package management. update deployment is not one of them.
You just had to ruin a perfectly good argument with a stupid straw man in the end, huh?
Speaking of wikipedia, check out the edit history of the article the nerd vandalises in the video: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic _Records
How am I not surprised.
Your allotment of vowels and capital letters seems to have run out, please refrain from posting for a couple of weeks while the inventory is restocked.
No they haven't. They might be trying to, but success is far from guaranteed. I've been a Playstation guy so far, but the current pricing of PS3 disqualifies it this time -- I'm just not interested. So, they still have to convince me on HDMI and they lost a customer.
So you say. I am an example of a long-time customer that just isn't interested in this offering -- we'll see if there are more people like me.
-1, mod wanking
Why can't people just state their case (without the insults, if possible) and be done with it...
Car analogies. They need to go, ok? We definitely need a car-analogy equivalent of Godwin's law.
By the way, that website is further proof (as if it was needed) that graphic designers shouldn't do web design... They just won't understand that web isn't WYSIWYG: "but it looks fine on my computer".
Your point stands in some respects, but that sentence is the American Version of The Truth... Personally I would have said that the Red Army won WWII with some help from the rest of the allied.
No need to be any more specific. History is written by winners and every story has a POV. Some reporters/newspapers may strive to be objective, but that doesn't make their story "the truth".
If you can find any references to that filling-up-and-overwriting-itself story, that would be great. I'm guessing your program used dd or something similar to write the data. I'm also guessing that your "nix flag wavers" told you that:
- That kind of tools are meant for disk formatting and other such tools, not user programs.
- That kind of tools definitely always need root access
So (while I'm still guessing), I'd say that the programmers made a quite bad choice when using something like that and communicated the dangers very poorly to the user. The user must have been pretty slow also, if he thought a video editing software really needs his root password.It's like buying a in-car-gps that includes automatic steering from a street vendor and letting it drive you home in downtown traffic, or something.
Whoops. Now that I checked my dictionary, I see that the word I keep using (secrecy of correspondence) doesn't mean what I thought it means... I meant to refer to the concept of implied confidentiality in private correspondance (I have no idea if there is a word for it in english).
In most civilized countries there are two different concepts that are relevant here:
* Right to privacy (people who are famous because of their own choosing, like rock stars, often have less right to privacy -- this keeps the paparazzi in business)
* Right to secrecy of correspondence (this covers everyone, and usually covers e-mail without any special laws)
In short: Yes, I do believe there are laws you don't know about.
Stop the coughing and explain how your link is relevant?
How is this still modded informative? This is not even close to the truth... There's no need for the whole distro to be under one license.
There are things called 'search engines' that are really good for things like this. http://www.google.com/ is a good one, here is an example of their syntax:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22don%27t+be+evil
That is seriously cool -- my VDR-machine will boot a couple of seconds before I press the power button.
Why would remote uploading be enabled by default or even possible?
Situation if they didn't block linux: only people with bad or esoteric configurations whine.
Please advice how the first option is better? Remember that NYT is not obligated to "support" anyone any more than they do now (do you think they don't get calls from windows users with fucked computers all the time?)
I'd like a reference for that. As far as I know the Debian netinst image is 100-200 MB -- the business card installer is probably smaller, but I don't think it counts as it doesn't really include a working system...