You argued that "discrimination is way down from the 1960s
That was someone else but I can see how you would make the mistake. Your bit about gratitude and being pissed off I think is somewhat irrelevant on the issue of whether a government acted or not. It appears that it did act.
In what way is changing homosexuality from being a criminal offence with a sentence of imprisonment to not being one a lack of government action? Did you think at all before typing your comment above?
Facts are just facts? Here's what you wrote above:
What I am saying is that it is morally and politically wrong for governments to enquire about, or keep track of, the race, religion, or sexual orientation of citizens. Fascist and racist countries do that, free countries should not.
It appears that the fact is that you do not live in a "free country" then, indeed it's a "racist" one. Perhaps you should consider that fact and you will understand why people encourage governments with their votes to pay attention to race issues. Yes, in a perfect world they would not have to and your "philosophy" of "I've got mine, you can just go hang" would be perfectly acceptable. In this imperfect world such views are seen as damage to route around. Shit happens and needs to be dealt with instead of just shouting at people who are paying attention to the shit that happens.
Logic now? If you had applied logic at the start this thread wouldn't exist.
Also opinions are not facts. A third thing, if you cannot get the irony of you suggesting that all opinions other than yours should not be heard, then making noise about dictatorship, then you really should sober up or come down from whatever is clouding your mind.
Back to the initial point - is the reason you think the contract should not be adhered to is because the contract is with a government? Or is it something else? How about getting back onto the topic.
I once ran 4 24" monitors laid out end to end and I hated it both for what you mention and also what I need always seemed to be on the farthest monitor which took "forever" to get to.
I set up six bolted to the wall in the back of a truck (3x2 config). I think the operator works on a swivel chair on wheels for a reason. The hardware side was actually very easy to deal with, even with a KVM switch. Two Nvidia cards of the same model is a cheap and reliable way to do up to eight screens in both MW Windows and linux. HDMI or Displayport cables are less hassle to thread through things than DVI or VGA, plus it's easier to find a long HDMI cable in a small town than any of the others.
One size doesn't fit all. I've got some people here that still like three old 19 inch 4:3 monitors due to their workflow with three separate windows (3D stuff represented in 2D so mouse is on every screen at once!) so they don't care about the bezels. I've got others with two widescreen monitors set vertically due to what they are doing. Another with one vertical 28 inch, two horizontal 24 inch. A lot of others that seen to think two 24 inch 1920x1200 screens set horizontally are the way to go. One big screen to make all those people happy would probably have to be well over 40 inches. Also with MS Windows, since multiple desktops are not very practical (yes, I've used a Matrox implementation with Win2K, a "powertoy" that was unstable as shit and an Nvidia implementation that is still available) additional monitors become a reasonable substitute even if your screen is huge.
If it's not for gaming but for a portable workstation that only needs 2D performance then the current Nvidia mobile stuff can keep three 4k screens fed at better than 60Hz. Even scientific/engineering workstations that view 3D volumes don't need anywhere near as much processing power as gaming stuff since detail is typically a lot lower and animation is normally not an issue. Think in terms of the Google Earth 3D mode instead of this years's AAA gaming titles - a massive difference in calculation requirements for the GPU.
That is an opinion. Enough people have a different opinion to provide a political motivation for it no matter what your reservations are. Not a perfect world with perfect people in it is it?
Sadly it's not politically wrong due to historical factors. If a government is going to have a policy about racist hiring practices it's going to be entirely useless without keeping track of information about employees races. It's not a perfect world full of perfect people, and if you want to be able to get a job without having to belong to the correct Church (a problem with an employment agency near me a while back who were rejecting Catholics, Mormons and non-Christians despite taking government money) then some heavy handedness on the behalf of citizens like yourself is needed from time to time.
I thought "libertarians" were suppose to be keen on running things by sticking to terms of contracts.
Google could have chosen to have the conditions of the contract changed before they signed it. They didn't.
So what exactly is your problem here? Is your problem that the government was party to the contract? Does that somehow make the contract void in the name of your personal view of "liberty"?
You are the one who jumped in with an insult on my comments about not needing "elite skillz" to set up a home MS windows box, and then kept trying to change the subject into platform evangelism, so there is a very simple solution.
Stop doing it.
Seriously - you jump into a thread and tell people to leave it? WTF is your problem? You behave like that and tell others to grow up? Seriously?
People are seriously still using Forbes as something to cite? Why not use the National Enquirer or MAD Magazine, they have a similar level of credibility.
I really hate it when I'm treating someone like a professional
Your fanboy shit of "clearly has no clue what the hell they are talking about" is the way you treat people like a professional? As I see it, I am not treating you as a professional because you are not acting like one, so that makes two of us with mutual contempt, but I most certainly have not made this personal. Suggesting that you are completely and utterly incorrect is not personal - your "clearly has no clue what the hell they are talking about" came in many posts before my much milder "if you are under such a delusion".
is because its easier and better to manage all your disk assets from a central location than many different locations
Only if your remote management tools are shit two decades out of date. Also guess what runs on those SANs - it's not MS Windows is it?
It's not the year 2001 with the mythical "longhorn just around the corner" that was going to be better than everything else so what are you still pushing that very stale old line?
Windows 7 and 10 are just as capable of doing anything a Linux workstation can do
You most definitely have forgotten a vast amount about unix if you are under such a delusion.
I don't just run linux clusters for licencing reasons, I run them because there is far too much overhead in MS operating systems to make them viable for anything other than the narrow range of tasks MS are selling them for. Also - have you noticed how there are so many SAN or similar boxes around instead of trusting MS Windows with the actual disks? It's shit at the task compared with freebsd, solaris and even linux.
With respect, consider where *nix, VMS and a pile of other things were before MS Windows NT ever existed. Sure, it's got fiddly annoying bits like fucking with that braindead registry idea that scales very badly, but in terms of capability it is very definitely a fischer price OS and there really is not a lot that needs to be understood about it to use almost everything it has got.
There area number of hidden features that only power users can find and use
That's the flaw of poor documentation and not a virtue. Just be happy it's good enough to run an arcade game or glass typewriter - for simple workloads with a single user it gets the job done but there's no point making claims about it that it was never designed to do.
I do think you are very incorrect and are going by marketing labels and not actual capability. In nearly every single case the differences between the MS server OS and the general purpose OS from Win2k on has been items enabled with a licence and some server management tools.
What you say makes sense if the mode of failure does not involve galloping inflation. You could be perfectly right with the US dollar (after all it didn't inflate under Reagan or other times with massive government debt - so I think I agree with you now to a point), but with other currencies at the moment a stash of cash could lose a huge amount of it's value in a very short period of time. Another downside in a few places (definitely including the US at this very moment) of having the proverbial mattress full of cash, is the assumption by many government bodies that if they notice you have a lot of cash it's drug money to be seized and it's up to you to prove otherwise with expensive legal actions. There have been people who could account for every cent at the time of seizure who still had to wait months until it came up in court - so hide it very well.
Why can't updates in Windows be as smooth and easy as in Linux?
Because it's not designed that way. It's a feature that was not considered important. Maybe MS Win11 or whatever number they choose next will have better ways to deal with file locking and library versioning to bring it up to date with what *nix and VMS had before WinNT ever existed, but for now it doesn't have that.
Maybe if you're going to do things that belong on a server you should run a server operating system rather than desktop? Like Windows Server or, better yet, Linux?
Win2k and Windows XP were Microsoft's answer to that, giving people a server operating system based on NT instead of a relative toy like Win98/ME. MS Windows 10 has gone back to the approach of a toy that just happens to be built on what used to be a server operating system.
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Describing a problem is not defending it.
Two different posters not a "casual switch".
That was someone else but I can see how you would make the mistake.
Your bit about gratitude and being pissed off I think is somewhat irrelevant on the issue of whether a government acted or not. It appears that it did act.
In what way is changing homosexuality from being a criminal offence with a sentence of imprisonment to not being one a lack of government action?
Did you think at all before typing your comment above?
It appears that the fact is that you do not live in a "free country" then, indeed it's a "racist" one. Perhaps you should consider that fact and you will understand why people encourage governments with their votes to pay attention to race issues.
Yes, in a perfect world they would not have to and your "philosophy" of "I've got mine, you can just go hang" would be perfectly acceptable. In this imperfect world such views are seen as damage to route around. Shit happens and needs to be dealt with instead of just shouting at people who are paying attention to the shit that happens.
Logic now? If you had applied logic at the start this thread wouldn't exist.
Also opinions are not facts.
A third thing, if you cannot get the irony of you suggesting that all opinions other than yours should not be heard, then making noise about dictatorship, then you really should sober up or come down from whatever is clouding your mind.
Back to the initial point - is the reason you think the contract should not be adhered to is because the contract is with a government? Or is it something else? How about getting back onto the topic.
It's funny that you should mention dictatorship at the same time as declaring the views of other people invalid.
I set up six bolted to the wall in the back of a truck (3x2 config). I think the operator works on a swivel chair on wheels for a reason.
The hardware side was actually very easy to deal with, even with a KVM switch. Two Nvidia cards of the same model is a cheap and reliable way to do up to eight screens in both MW Windows and linux. HDMI or Displayport cables are less hassle to thread through things than DVI or VGA, plus it's easier to find a long HDMI cable in a small town than any of the others.
One size doesn't fit all. I've got some people here that still like three old 19 inch 4:3 monitors due to their workflow with three separate windows (3D stuff represented in 2D so mouse is on every screen at once!) so they don't care about the bezels. I've got others with two widescreen monitors set vertically due to what they are doing. Another with one vertical 28 inch, two horizontal 24 inch. A lot of others that seen to think two 24 inch 1920x1200 screens set horizontally are the way to go. One big screen to make all those people happy would probably have to be well over 40 inches.
Also with MS Windows, since multiple desktops are not very practical (yes, I've used a Matrox implementation with Win2K, a "powertoy" that was unstable as shit and an Nvidia implementation that is still available) additional monitors become a reasonable substitute even if your screen is huge.
If it's not for gaming but for a portable workstation that only needs 2D performance then the current Nvidia mobile stuff can keep three 4k screens fed at better than 60Hz.
Even scientific/engineering workstations that view 3D volumes don't need anywhere near as much processing power as gaming stuff since detail is typically a lot lower and animation is normally not an issue. Think in terms of the Google Earth 3D mode instead of this years's AAA gaming titles - a massive difference in calculation requirements for the GPU.
Indeed.
Something happened in 2008.
If there's not a lot of manufacturing or other economic activity then there's not a lot of emissions.
That is an opinion. Enough people have a different opinion to provide a political motivation for it no matter what your reservations are.
Not a perfect world with perfect people in it is it?
Sadly it's not politically wrong due to historical factors. If a government is going to have a policy about racist hiring practices it's going to be entirely useless without keeping track of information about employees races.
It's not a perfect world full of perfect people, and if you want to be able to get a job without having to belong to the correct Church (a problem with an employment agency near me a while back who were rejecting Catholics, Mormons and non-Christians despite taking government money) then some heavy handedness on the behalf of citizens like yourself is needed from time to time.
I thought "libertarians" were suppose to be keen on running things by sticking to terms of contracts.
Google could have chosen to have the conditions of the contract changed before they signed it.
They didn't.
So what exactly is your problem here? Is your problem that the government was party to the contract? Does that somehow make the contract void in the name of your personal view of "liberty"?
Since "overnight" in battery technology at the moment seems to be twenty years from lab to production, then why not?
Wrote the person that dished it out but couldn't take something far milder in response.
Seriously?
You are the one who jumped in with an insult on my comments about not needing "elite skillz" to set up a home MS windows box, and then kept trying to change the subject into platform evangelism, so there is a very simple solution.
Stop doing it.
Seriously - you jump into a thread and tell people to leave it?
WTF is your problem?
You behave like that and tell others to grow up? Seriously?
People are seriously still using Forbes as something to cite? Why not use the National Enquirer or MAD Magazine, they have a similar level of credibility.
Your fanboy shit of "clearly has no clue what the hell they are talking about" is the way you treat people like a professional? As I see it, I am not treating you as a professional because you are not acting like one, so that makes two of us with mutual contempt, but I most certainly have not made this personal. Suggesting that you are completely and utterly incorrect is not personal - your "clearly has no clue what the hell they are talking about" came in many posts before my much milder "if you are under such a delusion" .
Only if your remote management tools are shit two decades out of date. Also guess what runs on those SANs - it's not MS Windows is it?
It's not the year 2001 with the mythical "longhorn just around the corner" that was going to be better than everything else so what are you still pushing that very stale old line?
You most definitely have forgotten a vast amount about unix if you are under such a delusion.
I don't just run linux clusters for licencing reasons, I run them because there is far too much overhead in MS operating systems to make them viable for anything other than the narrow range of tasks MS are selling them for.
Also - have you noticed how there are so many SAN or similar boxes around instead of trusting MS Windows with the actual disks? It's shit at the task compared with freebsd, solaris and even linux.
That's the flaw of poor documentation and not a virtue.
Just be happy it's good enough to run an arcade game or glass typewriter - for simple workloads with a single user it gets the job done but there's no point making claims about it that it was never designed to do.
I do think you are very incorrect and are going by marketing labels and not actual capability. In nearly every single case the differences between the MS server OS and the general purpose OS from Win2k on has been items enabled with a licence and some server management tools.
What you say makes sense if the mode of failure does not involve galloping inflation. You could be perfectly right with the US dollar (after all it didn't inflate under Reagan or other times with massive government debt - so I think I agree with you now to a point), but with other currencies at the moment a stash of cash could lose a huge amount of it's value in a very short period of time.
Another downside in a few places (definitely including the US at this very moment) of having the proverbial mattress full of cash, is the assumption by many government bodies that if they notice you have a lot of cash it's drug money to be seized and it's up to you to prove otherwise with expensive legal actions. There have been people who could account for every cent at the time of seizure who still had to wait months until it came up in court - so hide it very well.
Because it's not designed that way. It's a feature that was not considered important.
Maybe MS Win11 or whatever number they choose next will have better ways to deal with file locking and library versioning to bring it up to date with what *nix and VMS had before WinNT ever existed, but for now it doesn't have that.
Maybe if you're going to do things that belong on a server you should run a server operating system rather than desktop? Like Windows Server or, better yet, Linux?
Win2k and Windows XP were Microsoft's answer to that, giving people a server operating system based on NT instead of a relative toy like Win98/ME. MS Windows 10 has gone back to the approach of a toy that just happens to be built on what used to be a server operating system.