Strangely perhaps, I spent years playing a Linux-compatible MMO in a Window. It allowed me to run two or three characters at a time and keep the Wiki/Forums open in another at the same time.
I also know I wasn't the only one who did it.
I quite commonly play a game in a smaller Window while watching something compile remotely too.
The fact that you don't appreciate X's features doesn't mean its tired and useless, it just means you probably don't deal with network computing on the scale that makes X so wonderful.
A frequent upgrade cycle is always a good thing. It fixes bugs. I don't want users deciding when an upgrade is worth the hassle, I want them bug-free so they don't get pwn'd by the latest hack.
Of course, neither the parent nor the above is completely true, but the point is that frequent updates aren't the problem. What the updates do is the problem.
Android: I type in my E-mail address, k-9 mail downloads my settings from my mail server automatically and sets everything up properly. I get proper TLS encrypted SMTP and IMAP to/from my server with push support. Get your facts straight.
I really really wish people would stop running their devices at full power. I'm sick of dealing with the noise when there's no reason for my neighbour's wifi to come all the way across the street and into my home.
Funny, I almost never see an expired cert in my day to day browsing. I pay for a cert every year for my mail server, its not expensive and its well worth it.
I've been fixing computers for over 20 years and without prior knowledge to the contrary, I'd expect two devices that both say Windows to run virtually the same software. I might expect the cheaper one to be slower, but I certainly wouldn't expect them to be completely incompatible with each other.
Nobody said the dollar fluctuates on the scale of a Bitcoin. The only reason it doesn't is because there are more people trading it though and therefore it holds more value to more people.
Economics lesson: if six of us decide to use 100 seashells as a currency, that currency can change values almost immediately if one of us is the only fisherman and decides the cost of fish is 20 seashells today.
But when a billion people trade with the same currency and that billion people have all sorts of other assets tied up in its value, any one person's whims have almost no effect on its value.
If on the other hand a hundred million people tomorrow tried to liquidate their bank accounts due to fear, your dollar would be nearly worthless by the end of the day. If you think your monetary system is special compared to any other traded currency, you're wrong. You're just enjoying the US economy being large enough to keep supporting its value.
You don't know anything about global monetary values and exchanges, so I'll just leave it at that. Your post is bunk.
PS being backed by something would mean the government has the ability to pull some gold out of the federal reserve and say "see, we're good for it." But it can't. There's nothing but the perceived value of the US economy. Be glad its as strong as it is, or that dollar would be worth almost nothing.
US currency isn't backed by government power, although you're free to think that means something if you want.
US currency is only valuable so long as others believe in it. Just like every other traded currency in the world, it can become completely devalued overnight if inflation suddenly skyrockets. Considering how low interest rates are right now (with nowhere to go but up), there's lots of available influence to curb any immediate inflation risks so that's not a problem right now. However, in contrast with the days when there was gold or other real commodities to back the greenback, its now only as valuable as the rest of the world thinks it is. So long as people use them and want them, it remains valuable. That is all.
PS the US owes huge numbers of those little green pieces of paper to a lot of people right now, a lot more than it prints. The value is based on a trust model that those debts will be paid eventually. No trust = lowering value = calling in debts = even lower value. Go ask China (they own a lot of your greenbacks).
In case you missed it, regular US currency has most of the same issues. It is not backed by anything, its value fluctuates dynamically with perception and it is traded and gains and loses value at others' whims.
If you have $100 you put in the bank ten years ago, its worth a lot less now in exchange for goods, services or other currencies than it was then.
You're presuming consumers actually have the choice to choose an alternate OS. If they want iTunes, they *must* use Windows or a Mac. If they want to use [insert random Windows-only consumer fluffy software here], they must use Windows.
I use Linux all the time, but when my friends ask about using it, I honestly tell them it might not do everything they want it to do, because they'll expect it to run some custom Access DB they built to track their CD collection or something.
I don't get this either. Being a genius doesn't preclude being a tyrant of some form. Being a murdered doesn't preclude being an incredible programmer.
I only wish we could give the guy a keyboard to bang away at in prison...
I've been watching Btrfs and it feels like they're merging in most of the features Reiser had in mind without saying so explicitly. I've considered it a spiritual successor for a while now.
You're talking to people who can't find a spouse, they're totally in another world of reality. The shock of waking up next to a living, breathing woman every day would be enough to keep them in newlywed shock for 50 years.
Irrelevant only if you think that somehow the people in his hypothetical example are fundamentally different from the extremists the US actually gave (and gives) weapons to. If, like me, you presume all humanity to be people, then my point has great bearing -- the US does not in fact have any moral superiority as implied by the parent to my original post.
What I find most offensive is the asinine belief that physical violence is morally worse than verbal violence. We have so much information showing us that stress and mental health as a result of verbal abuse, bullying and other non-violence are just as destructive (or more so) than actual violence and yet we defend free speech of all forms as some supreme ideal?
Should people have the right to verbally bully and tease until a child commits suicide? Should I have the right to verbally harass you at work? Should anyone have the right to berate and belittle you in public? Not all speech is worth defending.
Unfortunately people latch onto individual cases. Is shooting a girl for defending her beliefs wrong? Certainly, in my culture, where I live. Can I speak for others? I probably shouldn't. Colonialism hasn't died though, and the west still insists and telling other cultures how to treat people.
Do I think we're right to be offended, to think this girl shouldn't have been shot? Yes. Do I think we have the right to impose our views on others? No.
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I would've recommended nethack myself, but I recognized TREK immediately lol.
Strangely perhaps, I spent years playing a Linux-compatible MMO in a Window. It allowed me to run two or three characters at a time and keep the Wiki/Forums open in another at the same time.
I also know I wasn't the only one who did it.
I quite commonly play a game in a smaller Window while watching something compile remotely too.
What? A story about Linux making things easier is about making it harder?
Do you think before typing or just blurt out random crap on the Internet?
The fact that you don't appreciate X's features doesn't mean its tired and useless, it just means you probably don't deal with network computing on the scale that makes X so wonderful.
Visit a Youtube video and Facebook with chat open and leave those tabs open for a few days.
A frequent upgrade cycle is always a good thing. It fixes bugs. I don't want users deciding when an upgrade is worth the hassle, I want them bug-free so they don't get pwn'd by the latest hack.
Of course, neither the parent nor the above is completely true, but the point is that frequent updates aren't the problem. What the updates do is the problem.
Android: I type in my E-mail address, k-9 mail downloads my settings from my mail server automatically and sets everything up properly. I get proper TLS encrypted SMTP and IMAP to/from my server with push support. Get your facts straight.
I really really wish people would stop running their devices at full power. I'm sick of dealing with the noise when there's no reason for my neighbour's wifi to come all the way across the street and into my home.
Funny, I almost never see an expired cert in my day to day browsing. I pay for a cert every year for my mail server, its not expensive and its well worth it.
I've been fixing computers for over 20 years and without prior knowledge to the contrary, I'd expect two devices that both say Windows to run virtually the same software. I might expect the cheaper one to be slower, but I certainly wouldn't expect them to be completely incompatible with each other.
Nobody said the dollar fluctuates on the scale of a Bitcoin. The only reason it doesn't is because there are more people trading it though and therefore it holds more value to more people.
Economics lesson: if six of us decide to use 100 seashells as a currency, that currency can change values almost immediately if one of us is the only fisherman and decides the cost of fish is 20 seashells today.
But when a billion people trade with the same currency and that billion people have all sorts of other assets tied up in its value, any one person's whims have almost no effect on its value.
If on the other hand a hundred million people tomorrow tried to liquidate their bank accounts due to fear, your dollar would be nearly worthless by the end of the day. If you think your monetary system is special compared to any other traded currency, you're wrong. You're just enjoying the US economy being large enough to keep supporting its value.
You don't know anything about global monetary values and exchanges, so I'll just leave it at that. Your post is bunk.
PS being backed by something would mean the government has the ability to pull some gold out of the federal reserve and say "see, we're good for it." But it can't. There's nothing but the perceived value of the US economy. Be glad its as strong as it is, or that dollar would be worth almost nothing.
US currency isn't backed by government power, although you're free to think that means something if you want.
US currency is only valuable so long as others believe in it. Just like every other traded currency in the world, it can become completely devalued overnight if inflation suddenly skyrockets. Considering how low interest rates are right now (with nowhere to go but up), there's lots of available influence to curb any immediate inflation risks so that's not a problem right now. However, in contrast with the days when there was gold or other real commodities to back the greenback, its now only as valuable as the rest of the world thinks it is. So long as people use them and want them, it remains valuable. That is all.
PS the US owes huge numbers of those little green pieces of paper to a lot of people right now, a lot more than it prints. The value is based on a trust model that those debts will be paid eventually. No trust = lowering value = calling in debts = even lower value. Go ask China (they own a lot of your greenbacks).
In case you missed it, regular US currency has most of the same issues. It is not backed by anything, its value fluctuates dynamically with perception and it is traded and gains and loses value at others' whims.
If you have $100 you put in the bank ten years ago, its worth a lot less now in exchange for goods, services or other currencies than it was then.
Hot spares. I always try to insist on hot spares, but of course, very few bother to pay the extra.
A hot spare drive in the array means that as soon as a failure happens, it can take over, reducing potential downtime substantially.
20 million since when exactly?
You're presuming consumers actually have the choice to choose an alternate OS. If they want iTunes, they *must* use Windows or a Mac. If they want to use [insert random Windows-only consumer fluffy software here], they must use Windows.
I use Linux all the time, but when my friends ask about using it, I honestly tell them it might not do everything they want it to do, because they'll expect it to run some custom Access DB they built to track their CD collection or something.
yes yes, spell check ;-)
I don't get this either. Being a genius doesn't preclude being a tyrant of some form. Being a murdered doesn't preclude being an incredible programmer.
I only wish we could give the guy a keyboard to bang away at in prison ...
I've been watching Btrfs and it feels like they're merging in most of the features Reiser had in mind without saying so explicitly. I've considered it a spiritual successor for a while now.
You're talking to people who can't find a spouse, they're totally in another world of reality. The shock of waking up next to a living, breathing woman every day would be enough to keep them in newlywed shock for 50 years.
Irrelevant only if you think that somehow the people in his hypothetical example are fundamentally different from the extremists the US actually gave (and gives) weapons to. If, like me, you presume all humanity to be people, then my point has great bearing -- the US does not in fact have any moral superiority as implied by the parent to my original post.
What I find most offensive is the asinine belief that physical violence is morally worse than verbal violence. We have so much information showing us that stress and mental health as a result of verbal abuse, bullying and other non-violence are just as destructive (or more so) than actual violence and yet we defend free speech of all forms as some supreme ideal?
Should people have the right to verbally bully and tease until a child commits suicide? Should I have the right to verbally harass you at work? Should anyone have the right to berate and belittle you in public? Not all speech is worth defending.
Unfortunately people latch onto individual cases. Is shooting a girl for defending her beliefs wrong? Certainly, in my culture, where I live. Can I speak for others? I probably shouldn't. Colonialism hasn't died though, and the west still insists and telling other cultures how to treat people.
Do I think we're right to be offended, to think this girl shouldn't have been shot? Yes.
Do I think we have the right to impose our views on others? No.
No but the US provided plenty of weapons to plenty of other extremist groups in the last 50 years in the name of controlling geopolitics.
Actually, considering speech that incites violence is nearly always illegal, regardless of the target, your attempt at wit is a bit lost.