Whoa! Think about what you're saying: "However, isn't SATA150 itself faster then most modern HDs can handle?"
Don't you want room for improvement? Don't you want to engineer with the future in mind? Granted, you'll always have a bottleneck, but do you really want the next one to be the standard you just now created? Make something to last; don't let the present exclusively occupy your focus.
Right. It's a problem of cost analysis. Unfortunately, the comparison of worth cannot easily take place. You're comparing kilowatt-, man- and machine-hours---which measure work per unit time = energy---with life[1]. This is apples to oranges, money to emotion. So people will always have different opinions.
To our little running tally on the Valdez, add the millions of land- and water-bound creatures that died... I agree that this person is going overboard. He's just trying to convey the fact that this does occur, and that we ought to look into ways of reducing this number.
The solution to advertising is education. Educate the consumer about how ads work, about sources of info not from a biased ad or salesman. I don't know about you, but I've had, in the past, three different (English) teachers devote time and resources to projects based on the former of my suggestions.
Also, I think that word of mouth is more complex than you suggest. But I'm too lazy right now to think of a good example. Meh...
If you're going to put ads on the air, make them good and funny. And I don't mean ha-ha-shut-up funny, I mean really funny, maybe even piss-my-pants funny (but only the first ten times). I still won't buy your product, but you could at least entertain me.
Um, I don't think that Linux is germane to this discussion. OOo is cross-platform. I would think that retraining users is trivial for all but a few headcases.
Wiki isn't a pet project anymore. So many people have found it useful that it has expanded beyond the resources the backers can resonably provide. Therefore it is asking for voluntary donations to continue expanding.
This was much easier to install software for and configure than any of the Linux distros I have used in the past, including the vaunted RedHat. Stable and fast.
Did you try Slackware? It runs on the lowest end of the hardware spectrum; has everything you need for a base system and then some, pre-packaged in tgz format; is easy to customize; and stable as hell.
But really: what happened to love and peace? Y'know, BSD and Linux (or GPL, depending on point of disagreement considered) can coexist: BSD is Good, Linux is Good, and yay 4 us.
You never learn anything by being just an end user. Being an admin -- even if it's for your own personal box -- means you'll run into problems; if you don't chicken out and call tech support, you're forced to learn something. I've learned more from a year of Linux experience than from ten-or-so years of being an end user.
Making things mindlessly routine for the Administrator is dangerous; and the Windows user needs to be taught this. So installation shouldn't be this ass-easy process that it has become. LET THEM RETURN TO THE DARKNESS THAT WAS DOS!!!
Slackware gives you the compile scripts it uses to build its base packages. How hard can it be to bootstrap a two-pass, "Pure LFS"-Slackware hybrid distro? You'll need some time, 'cause it won't be automated...
Personally, I'm currently lusting over a dual Opteron box for my next comp. <drool/>
I checked out the 2nd edition from my school's library (I'm surprised they have it). I currently don't have time to read it, so I'm aiming for racking up the most geeky and largest fine I can @ $0.10 per day, and there's a whole semester to go!
However, I would suggest to you that in some cases, one must take cases which disagree with one's morals; it's just like the starving artist: he may wish to do art to please himself, but in order to eat, he must take commissions and do pieces which violently disagree with his aesthetic.
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Supposedly, this also works with Wish You Were Here and Blade Runner.
You should be thankful that I didn't also do the "In Soviet Russia" thing.
welcome our new topological overlord.
Whoa! Think about what you're saying: "However, isn't SATA150 itself faster then most modern HDs can handle?"
Don't you want room for improvement? Don't you want to engineer with the future in mind? Granted, you'll always have a bottleneck, but do you really want the next one to be the standard you just now created? Make something to last; don't let the present exclusively occupy your focus.
#38, 42: What is the obsession with P2P? It's not a panacea.
#52-72: Replace these with "Go away, Bill."
#70: Why the hell is this where it is?
#101: How do you possibly use "Madonna" and "EFF" in the same sentence?
Finally, I am absolutely opposed to #18; after all, what would we do with goatse.cx?
Its a computer we get it, when will it stop?
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Right. It's a problem of cost analysis. Unfortunately, the comparison of worth cannot easily take place. You're comparing kilowatt-, man- and machine-hours---which measure work per unit time = energy---with life[1]. This is apples to oranges, money to emotion. So people will always have different opinions.
[1]: This shit is so Zen (and so pseudo-science).
"Apple is dying."
"BSD is dying."
now
"Computer gaming is dying."
Lets see: exxon valdez killed 250,000 birds, whole wind farm kills 20,000 *over twenty years*.
To our little running tally on the Valdez, add the millions of land- and water-bound creatures that died... I agree that this person is going overboard. He's just trying to convey the fact that this does occur, and that we ought to look into ways of reducing this number.
The solution to advertising is education. Educate the consumer about how ads work, about sources of info not from a biased ad or salesman. I don't know about you, but I've had, in the past, three different (English) teachers devote time and resources to projects based on the former of my suggestions.
Also, I think that word of mouth is more complex than you suggest. But I'm too lazy right now to think of a good example. Meh...
Eh. Called my bluff, didja? I didn't RTFA. So let me modify.
I think it should be made clear that OpenOffice is very cross-platform; it can be run on Linux BUT it does not have to be.
[runs off to check openoffice.org]
Oh, let's just face it: I'm trying not to look like a complete idiot here...
1. Take this and shove it.
2. I'm Jewish. Come back when your vocabulary and/or your sense of humor grow some testicles.
Dear advertising execs:
If you're going to put ads on the air, make them good and funny. And I don't mean ha-ha-shut-up funny, I mean really funny, maybe even piss-my-pants funny (but only the first ten times). I still won't buy your product, but you could at least entertain me.
With much contempt,
bersl2
Um, I don't think that Linux is germane to this discussion. OOo is cross-platform. I would think that retraining users is trivial for all but a few headcases.
Wiki isn't a pet project anymore. So many people have found it useful that it has expanded beyond the resources the backers can resonably provide. Therefore it is asking for voluntary donations to continue expanding.
oh, yeah---and statistics. Statistics are the most manipulatable facts. When given with no context, they might as well be lies.
They might as well try to write a a pseudo-code compiler and take this thing to its logical conclusion.
This was much easier to install software for and configure than any of the Linux distros I have used in the past, including the vaunted RedHat. Stable and fast.
Did you try Slackware? It runs on the lowest end of the hardware spectrum; has everything you need for a base system and then some, pre-packaged in tgz format; is easy to customize; and stable as hell.
But really: what happened to love and peace? Y'know, BSD and Linux (or GPL, depending on point of disagreement considered) can coexist: BSD is Good, Linux is Good, and yay 4 us.
You never learn anything by being just an end user. Being an admin -- even if it's for your own personal box -- means you'll run into problems; if you don't chicken out and call tech support, you're forced to learn something. I've learned more from a year of Linux experience than from ten-or-so years of being an end user.
Making things mindlessly routine for the Administrator is dangerous; and the Windows user needs to be taught this. So installation shouldn't be this ass-easy process that it has become. LET THEM RETURN TO THE DARKNESS THAT WAS DOS!!!
I'm sorry: what were you talking about?
P.S., _Pants_ likes my sig...
Resistance is futile. You will be assim---oh, wait...
Slackware gives you the compile scripts it uses to build its base packages. How hard can it be to bootstrap a two-pass, "Pure LFS"-Slackware hybrid distro? You'll need some time, 'cause it won't be automated...
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Personally, I'm currently lusting over a dual Opteron box for my next comp. <drool
Yeah... I was, uh, being sarcastic. Oh, well...
How many sex offenders could possibly have been on the grounds of that school? Apparently, that occurs frequenly enough to warrant this...
I checked out the 2nd edition from my school's library (I'm surprised they have it). I currently don't have time to read it, so I'm aiming for racking up the most geeky and largest fine I can @ $0.10 per day, and there's a whole semester to go!
Good point; I stand corrected.
However, I would suggest to you that in some cases, one must take cases which disagree with one's morals; it's just like the starving artist: he may wish to do art to please himself, but in order to eat, he must take commissions and do pieces which violently disagree with his aesthetic.