You conveniently left out what he said after that:
"If only there were the Unix equivalent of 'sudo' or even 'su' then it would be much easier to run with user level privileges and only use administrator when you really need it."
He runs as admin because it is such a pain to switch user accounts in Windows (the silly "runas" doesn't count).
I've watched some movies (on VHS) in slow-motion, and every fifth frame is an exact copy of the previous frame. I watched both a pre-recorded movie (Star Wars Ep. IV) and one from TV (Saturday Night Fever, which originally was on 24fps film), and both exhibited this behaviour. I think I watched other tapes recorded from TV, and they didn't repeat every fifth frame, because they were made directly for TV (which is 30fps, or more precisely 30 drop frame - 29.97fps).
Repeating frames like that very effectively translates 24fps to 30fps. There was no noticeable jerkiness in the movie at all. Mind you that 24 frames per second is fairly fast for the human mind/eye, so I wouldn't expect to detect that 1/5 of the frames are duplicates.
No. Changing code is unregulated use under copyright and therefore the GPL does not govern it. The GPL only grants rights *in addition to* the rights you have under plain copyright, specifically the right to redistribute the code under some conditions.
What's the point of linux on a desktop computer? I mean, Windows XP does it just fine. Its 100% designed for desktop, and even coming from microsoft, I never find it crashing. I was gonna install linux, but I didn't want to risk everything, and it was pointless I realized.
It's probably the same reason multiplication has a higher precedence than addition. Multiplication and AND are equivalents, and addition and OR are equivalents.
In fact, for most practical purposes, AND *is* multiplication and OR *is* addition. Just compare the truth tables with multiplication and addition tables (one minor technicality, of course, is that addition carries while OR does not; the carry bit is simply the result of A AND B).
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You conveniently left out what he said after that:
"If only there were the Unix equivalent of 'sudo' or even 'su' then it would be much easier to run with user level privileges and only use administrator when you really need it."
He runs as admin because it is such a pain to switch user accounts in Windows (the silly "runas" doesn't count).
Are you sure?
I've watched some movies (on VHS) in slow-motion, and every fifth frame is an exact copy of the previous frame. I watched both a pre-recorded movie (Star Wars Ep. IV) and one from TV (Saturday Night Fever, which originally was on 24fps film), and both exhibited this behaviour. I think I watched other tapes recorded from TV, and they didn't repeat every fifth frame, because they were made directly for TV (which is 30fps, or more precisely 30 drop frame - 29.97fps).
Repeating frames like that very effectively translates 24fps to 30fps. There was no noticeable jerkiness in the movie at all. Mind you that 24 frames per second is fairly fast for the human mind/eye, so I wouldn't expect to detect that 1/5 of the frames are duplicates.
Wine? More like ReactOS. Wine is basically just a from-scratch rewrite of part of the Windows API, not a complete OS.
I, for one, welcome our new glass box overlords. :-)
I predict in the future all predictions of the future will be wrong, including this one.
There's been an "ice cream" van circling my streets for the last few weeks.
:-P
Coincidence? I think not.
I thought the real father was Darth McBride.
:-)
"Linux, I am your father!"
Am I the only one who gets the joke?!
It's pretty funny, man.
No. Changing code is unregulated use under copyright and therefore the GPL does not govern it. The GPL only grants rights *in addition to* the rights you have under plain copyright, specifically the right to redistribute the code under some conditions.
You and the parent poster both are wrong.
Try reading the GPL for a change, and THEN come back here and try to explain it.
What's the point of linux on a desktop computer? I mean, Windows XP does it just fine. Its 100% designed for desktop, and even coming from microsoft, I never find it crashing. I was gonna install linux, but I didn't want to risk everything, and it was pointless I realized.
Yeah.
And you misspelled his misspelled "mispelled", but who cares? :-)
It's probably the same reason multiplication has a higher precedence than addition. Multiplication and AND are equivalents, and addition and OR are equivalents.
In fact, for most practical purposes, AND *is* multiplication and OR *is* addition. Just compare the truth tables with multiplication and addition tables (one minor technicality, of course, is that addition carries while OR does not; the carry bit is simply the result of A AND B).
#define QUESTION ((2B) || !(2B))
"Binary Digit"
Or the more standard English definiton, a small piece of information with two possible values -- basically a binary digit.