I'm kind of torn here. But it does seem to me that if thugs feel like they might hit the death lottery by mugging random people maybe they'll start thiking twice about mugging random people.
Well, not having used hulu ever I don't know anything about their content, but I can't see it still being around. I see their problem in the media, so... probably not. But still, their backers seem to have deep pockets. Not sure how much their willing to prop it up.
They probably want Hulu to "fail", because then they can say, "We tried but it didn't work," and then push people to their own, private platforms with individual subscription fees--or make deals with ISPs to raise rates and bundle subscriptions that don't count against bandwidth quotas.
But they've been doing that, and every effort appears to have failed. Part of that problem is they olny offer they're own media, or can't come to good enough agreements with each other. Again the lincensors are too greedy I think.
Hulu was a good idea dragged into irrelevancy by licensing. All the big content licensors wanted waay too much for their content to allow hulu to make any kind of decent profit.
Because Social Networking is the pinnicle of human existence. There's really no other reason to exsist, and non-believers must be dragged, kicking and screaming if needed, into the fold.
Yeah, I dunno. Brits sound alien to us (not me so much, spent a lot of time in Europe) I guess, but we can still pick up the jive. Kinda stupid I guess, but; there 'tis.
I think it's silly to impose a British accent when the original characters were speaking Middle English (Shakespeare), Old English (King Arthur, Beowulf), Latin (Rome movies), or Celtic (anything pre-Roman).
Yeah, if you're going to do film about King Arthur, do it in the original Anglo Saxon you know; "Sythan aerest weard feasceaft funden, he thaes frofre gebad, weox under wolcum, weorthmyndum thah, odthaet him aeghwylc thara ymbesettendra, ofer hronrade hyran scholde, gomban gylde. Thaet waes god cyning!" (1) Sure, that will make the film much better.
Wtf are you talking about??? Better a British accent than a mid-western one. Kostner was roundly criticized for his accent in his version of Robin Hood. Seems a film can't win with some people. I suppose you could do like they did with LotR and use subtitles as they did when the characters were speaking Elvish, but producers have studied this and it seems audiences aren't going to put up with subtitles through an entire film, one reason why foreign films have a hard time breaking through. --- (1) "Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate, and gave him gifts: a good king he!" (From the Beowulf prologue)
So? you don't notice Chrome autoupdates and that means you aren't receiving new code with possible new bugs?
That I don't NOTICE them is the takeaway here, although I'm not exactly sure that I don't. I seem to recall being notified when chrome updates as well. That fact that I'm not sure is A GOOD THING, I'm really not interested in being painfully aware of each and every update that chrome gets. And that I can distinctly recall ff updates should say something as well. You say with some kind of pride that you are, or something. Well, bully for you. I couldn't care less. you're preaching to the wrong congregation.
If a web browser breaks a site I use... it'd more likely be the case that the web sitr is broken, the popular browsers render sites according to a standard. Not that it doesn't happen, but I can't remember the last time I had such an issue. You're really just pissing in the wind here. You're objections are really fluff, they arn't show stoppers in my opinion and do not make me want to be aware of the update process on each browser I use. Youu don't offer really compelling reasons as to why i should change my attitude regarding browser updates. I have enough to do on top of my life I have to be aware of browser updates? Come on, I have a life.
Having done embedded development its not just a good idea, its mandatory. There's no justifiable reason to leave a SCSI driver module in a kernel meant to do real-time serial communication. As for the desktop, did you actually measure the performance differences between a stock kernel and stripped away of all the useless (in your hardware config) cruft? The difference might not be noticeable unless you're actually measuring boot up time, in bootstrapping the OS it usually makes a big difference.
One nice thing about Linux that you really can't do on Windows is recompile the kernel. If you do a recompile using only the driver modules you need, you can reduce the size and the load time dramatically. I know its not for most people, but the option IS there.
OMG... that Adobe updater thing... I claw my eyes out and scream to Torvalds when that stupid service rears its stupid head. The zombie process from hell man. Its like an unholy union happened between Bill Gates and Lilith and they had a stupid, evil baby.
To sort of help this point, or belabor it; if speed is your thing, one simple thing Ubuntu (and Mint!) users can do is run Xfce on top of Gnome. You don't have to uninstall Unity (although I question why anyone wouldn't) just install Xfce and its dependencies, and your desktop instantly zips along much faster. You'll be using thunar instead of nautilus, and it is quite a bit faster in my opinion.
most "trendy" modern distros (ubuntu, etc), they actually run slower under Linux than Windows.
First lets get the obvious out of the way, shall we? You don't "run a distro under Linux", a distro IS Linux.
2nd, That's not what most people I have spoken to, read, and seen (like youtube) have to say about the speed scenario, your mileage may vary, of course. But nose to nose, OS to OS, running a desktop, I don't see how you can make that statement. Not if you were to run metrics on a particular app that's been ported to windows and Linux (Run a c# forms app on Mono and.NET say), and you might have a point. But don't expect not to get called out on simple blanket statement.
I also know I could install a lighter window managers, use a better file manager...
Yes. At least you have the option. On windows the only thing you can do is turn off the various useless services (the Web client service runs auto by default, I mean, seriously??) and pray you don't turn off something that breaks something else.
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Well this is actually the USA where I can scream "briton" at the top of my lungs and no one will give a shit. I guess in briton I'd be arrested?
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This one should go to 11.
It doesn't. And you didn't get that from anything I've said either.
Yeah, I'm reading it, and it looks to me that it re-affirms exactly what I said.
They do not.
That a fact? You acted on impulse the last time too, I suppose?
Right. Stalin killed 40 million Russians in the years leading up to WWII, but that was working day and night for 20 years.
I think most people are more than willing to pay to leave New Jersey.
I'm kind of torn here. But it does seem to me that if thugs feel like they might hit the death lottery by mugging random people maybe they'll start thiking twice about mugging random people.
Well, not having used hulu ever I don't know anything about their content, but I can't see it still being around. I see their problem in the media, so... probably not. But still, their backers seem to have deep pockets. Not sure how much their willing to prop it up.
They probably want Hulu to "fail", because then they can say, "We tried but it didn't work," and then push people to their own, private platforms with individual subscription fees--or make deals with ISPs to raise rates and bundle subscriptions that don't count against bandwidth quotas.
But they've been doing that, and every effort appears to have failed. Part of that problem is they olny offer they're own media, or can't come to good enough agreements with each other. Again the lincensors are too greedy I think.
Hulu was a good idea dragged into irrelevancy by licensing. All the big content licensors wanted waay too much for their content to allow hulu to make any kind of decent profit.
Because Social Networking is the pinnicle of human existence. There's really no other reason to exsist, and non-believers must be dragged, kicking and screaming if needed, into the fold.
Yeah, I dunno. Brits sound alien to us (not me so much, spent a lot of time in Europe) I guess, but we can still pick up the jive. Kinda stupid I guess, but; there 'tis.
I think it's silly to impose a British accent when the original characters were speaking Middle English (Shakespeare), Old English (King Arthur, Beowulf), Latin (Rome movies), or Celtic (anything pre-Roman).
Yeah, if you're going to do film about King Arthur, do it in the original Anglo Saxon you know; "Sythan aerest weard feasceaft funden, he thaes frofre gebad, weox under wolcum, weorthmyndum thah, odthaet him aeghwylc thara ymbesettendra, ofer hronrade hyran scholde, gomban gylde. Thaet waes god cyning!" (1)
Sure, that will make the film much better.
Wtf are you talking about??? Better a British accent than a mid-western one. Kostner was roundly criticized for his accent in his version of Robin Hood. Seems a film can't win with some people. I suppose you could do like they did with LotR and use subtitles as they did when the characters were speaking Elvish, but producers have studied this and it seems audiences aren't going to put up with subtitles through an entire film, one reason why foreign films have a hard time breaking through.
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(1) "Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate, and gave him gifts: a good king he!" (From the Beowulf prologue)
So? you don't notice Chrome autoupdates and that means you aren't receiving new code with possible new bugs?
That I don't NOTICE them is the takeaway here, although I'm not exactly sure that I don't. I seem to recall being notified when chrome updates as well. That fact that I'm not sure is A GOOD THING, I'm really not interested in being painfully aware of each and every update that chrome gets. And that I can distinctly recall ff updates should say something as well. You say with some kind of pride that you are, or something. Well, bully for you. I couldn't care less. you're preaching to the wrong congregation.
If a web browser breaks a site I use... it'd more likely be the case that the web sitr is broken, the popular browsers render sites according to a standard. Not that it doesn't happen, but I can't remember the last time I had such an issue. You're really just pissing in the wind here. You're objections are really fluff, they arn't show stoppers in my opinion and do not make me want to be aware of the update process on each browser I use. Youu don't offer really compelling reasons as to why i should change my attitude regarding browser updates. I have enough to do on top of my life I have to be aware of browser updates? Come on, I have a life.
I haven't noticed as rapid an update cycle with chrome at all.
Dealing with new updates every week is very annoying. I went the Chrome route on Windows too. On linux its not so bad so I still use ff there.
I know what he meant. No need to be an ass.
Having done embedded development its not just a good idea, its mandatory. There's no justifiable reason to leave a SCSI driver module in a kernel meant to do real-time serial communication. As for the desktop, did you actually measure the performance differences between a stock kernel and stripped away of all the useless (in your hardware config) cruft? The difference might not be noticeable unless you're actually measuring boot up time, in bootstrapping the OS it usually makes a big difference.
One nice thing about Linux that you really can't do on Windows is recompile the kernel. If you do a recompile using only the driver modules you need, you can reduce the size and the load time dramatically. I know its not for most people, but the option IS there.
OMG... that Adobe updater thing... I claw my eyes out and scream to Torvalds when that stupid service rears its stupid head. The zombie process from hell man. Its like an unholy union happened between Bill Gates and Lilith and they had a stupid, evil baby.
To sort of help this point, or belabor it; if speed is your thing, one simple thing Ubuntu (and Mint!) users can do is run Xfce on top of Gnome. You don't have to uninstall Unity (although I question why anyone wouldn't) just install Xfce and its dependencies, and your desktop instantly zips along much faster. You'll be using thunar instead of nautilus, and it is quite a bit faster in my opinion.
most "trendy" modern distros (ubuntu, etc), they actually run slower under Linux than Windows.
First lets get the obvious out of the way, shall we? You don't "run a distro under Linux", a distro IS Linux.
.NET say), and you might have a point. But don't expect not to get called out on simple blanket statement.
2nd, That's not what most people I have spoken to, read, and seen (like youtube) have to say about the speed scenario, your mileage may vary, of course. But nose to nose, OS to OS, running a desktop, I don't see how you can make that statement. Not if you were to run metrics on a particular app that's been ported to windows and Linux (Run a c# forms app on Mono and
I also know I could install a lighter window managers, use a better file manager...
Yes. At least you have the option. On windows the only thing you can do is turn off the various useless services (the Web client service runs auto by default, I mean, seriously??) and pray you don't turn off something that breaks something else.
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Well this is actually the USA where I can scream "briton" at the top of my lungs and no one will give a shit. I guess in briton I'd be arrested?
Well, then we should ban speech too, like they do in "briton" (again, I don't really care), and that will put an end to any extremist problems, right?
Don't really give a shit. You can call it "land paved with gold and diamonds" for all I care.