Maybe. I'm only 32, but I would definitely take the live-forever serum if it was offered to me at this point. I'm already having to snip lower-priority things off my life goals list just due to lack of time. Maybe after I'm fluent in all spoken and written languages, fully understand current mathematics and number theory, fully grok current physics, have an encyclopedic knowledge of world history, have mastered cooking, dancing, martial arts, race driving, race flying, have built a computer by hand and written a POSIX-compatible operating system in its native assembly language, have built a car by hand and raced it, have visited every culture in the world and learned their customs well enough to interact freely with them... by the time I've done all those things I have a feeling I'll have thought of a list twice as long of things yet to do, but that sounds like at least three or four hundred years I'll need before I even get through the obvious stuff, and that's if I don't spend a large amount of time just relaxing with my family (which I will).
You seriously couldn't think of any fulfilling ways to spend a couple thousand years?
So it's easy to maintain, and if it isn't it's because the people making you maintain it don't know how to do that. And they're the bulk of the people to distribute stuff. As opposed to Windoze, where 99.9% of installs are click-download-click-install-click-options, or easier.
I guess it comes down to what you run. In Linux, 100.0% of my installs are "apt-get install ", whereas in Windows I never make it through a week without an install consisting of "Open archive in 7zip, copy it to a new folder somewhere, add that folder to the PATH environment variable". And heaven help you if you need to make sure you're running the most up-to-date version of things in Windows.
Even if you're willing to call that a wash, there's still the questions of drivers (everything's already on your system in Linux, and kept up to date through automatic updates), viruses and malware (essentially nonexistent on Linux), and creeping performance degradation (doesn't happen on Linux, requires running defrag and registry cleaning tools to keep Windows from rotting away).
I actually do keep a Windows 7 install running, because one area where Windows is solidly ahead of Linux is third party app support. I like Star Trek Online and Starcraft 2, and I need Microsoft Office and IE, and if I were to try to get all that running in Wine then the whole "waste of time" argument might gain a shadow of validity.
But as far as just keeping the base system and apps functional and up to date so you can get _work_ done, there's just no comparison; if you value your time, choose Linux.
This troll made a lot more sense 7 or 8 years ago when it wasn't much quicker and easier to install and maintain Linux than any other general use system.
Even if you factor out install time (since most people get their Windows and Mac systems preloaded), the time you spend maintaining your system very quickly tilts the balance back in favor of Linux.
i still love in Stargate Atlantis - once given transporters - they did the obvious.. beam a nuke over to the enemy ship.. star-trek would never have done that.
FYI, a 40" display at that density and a 16x9 aspect would be on the order of 15938x8977 resolution. Might as well round off an call it 16000x9000. 55" diagonal would have about 21915x12321 resolution. You'd probably need a 2" thick strand of copper to feed it pixels, but man, what a picture...
So it's not like people are picking between Droid and iPhone so it's apples to apples... it's more like iPhone 4 vs Crappy $50 Android Phone. Those aren't technically direct competitors.
If you're an app developer and your app isn't CPU or GPU intensive, the "crappy" $50 Android phone is just as much another potential customer as someone with an Evo or Epic or Droid is.
> There's no vetting process if you can get apps from anywhere
That's just it; there _is_ a vetting process, but it's owned by the users instead of by Google. All the apps in the standard Android market have rating scores that are displayed prominently in the search.
If you want a more institutionalized rating process, there are sites you can _choose_ to use who will do the vetting and filtering of wheat from chaff for you. AppBrain seems to be the most prominent one.
That's the point I think everyone is missing; Google's model and Apple's model aren't mutually exclusive, and in fact Google's model is flexible enough to express Apple's model as one option among many.
-nod- I'm on the strident atheist side of the spectrum, but I loved this aspect of Civ 4. In fact, my favorite tactic was to rush and found _all_ the religions if I could manage to keep my research pumped high enough. I did so because I recognized that religion in Civ 4 works just like religion in real life; it's a great way for leaders to extract money from the population while keeping them happy and obedient. =)
That would put you in the bottom 10 percent of people in my circle of acquaintance. 60 would be the median, 80 with spikes to 100 is not uncommon. If you're able to make enough money to pay your bills and still have enough waking time to cook for yourself, count your blessings.
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By the time you get done with half that list, you'll have forgotten everything from the start of the list.
Then I'd better take a detour through neurophysiology research. =)
So much to do, so much to do.
Maybe. I'm only 32, but I would definitely take the live-forever serum if it was offered to me at this point. I'm already having to snip lower-priority things off my life goals list just due to lack of time. Maybe after I'm fluent in all spoken and written languages, fully understand current mathematics and number theory, fully grok current physics, have an encyclopedic knowledge of world history, have mastered cooking, dancing, martial arts, race driving, race flying, have built a computer by hand and written a POSIX-compatible operating system in its native assembly language, have built a car by hand and raced it, have visited every culture in the world and learned their customs well enough to interact freely with them... by the time I've done all those things I have a feeling I'll have thought of a list twice as long of things yet to do, but that sounds like at least three or four hundred years I'll need before I even get through the obvious stuff, and that's if I don't spend a large amount of time just relaxing with my family (which I will).
You seriously couldn't think of any fulfilling ways to spend a couple thousand years?
So what part of that list of woes is due to "free markets"?
"huge masses of working poor" would be the main one you missed.
While that's true, I don't understand how it relates to what we're discussing?
Then again, this whole thread is attached to a conversation about a collector buying an Apple 1, so off-topic is relative. =)
So it's easy to maintain, and if it isn't it's because the people making you maintain it don't know how to do that. And they're the bulk of the people to distribute stuff. As opposed to Windoze, where 99.9% of installs are click-download-click-install-click-options, or easier.
I guess it comes down to what you run. In Linux, 100.0% of my installs are "apt-get install ", whereas in Windows I never make it through a week without an install consisting of "Open archive in 7zip, copy it to a new folder somewhere, add that folder to the PATH environment variable". And heaven help you if you need to make sure you're running the most up-to-date version of things in Windows.
Even if you're willing to call that a wash, there's still the questions of drivers (everything's already on your system in Linux, and kept up to date through automatic updates), viruses and malware (essentially nonexistent on Linux), and creeping performance degradation (doesn't happen on Linux, requires running defrag and registry cleaning tools to keep Windows from rotting away).
I actually do keep a Windows 7 install running, because one area where Windows is solidly ahead of Linux is third party app support. I like Star Trek Online and Starcraft 2, and I need Microsoft Office and IE, and if I were to try to get all that running in Wine then the whole "waste of time" argument might gain a shadow of validity.
But as far as just keeping the base system and apps functional and up to date so you can get _work_ done, there's just no comparison; if you value your time, choose Linux.
This troll made a lot more sense 7 or 8 years ago when it wasn't much quicker and easier to install and maintain Linux than any other general use system.
Even if you factor out install time (since most people get their Windows and Mac systems preloaded), the time you spend maintaining your system very quickly tilts the balance back in favor of Linux.
Solution: Why not raise our import tariff rates to match that of our so-called trading partners?
Because, obviously, that would be Communism.
The link provided will help spur your memory. =) It happens in Act 1.
i still love in Stargate Atlantis - once given transporters - they did the obvious.. beam a nuke over to the enemy ship.. star-trek would never have done that.
Some captains would. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dark_Frontier_(episode)
I want to get this for my cell phone, so I can pretend I'm Tony Stark. "I need your displays."
True, but B4 definitely is a better example of "Android Fragmentation", at least when they first find him...
FYI, a 40" display at that density and a 16x9 aspect would be on the order of 15938x8977 resolution. Might as well round off an call it 16000x9000. 55" diagonal would have about 21915x12321 resolution. You'd probably need a 2" thick strand of copper to feed it pixels, but man, what a picture...
At warp 9 (STNG scale) it would take round about 8.64 million years to get there.
So it's not like people are picking between Droid and iPhone so it's apples to apples... it's more like iPhone 4 vs Crappy $50 Android Phone. Those aren't technically direct competitors.
If you're an app developer and your app isn't CPU or GPU intensive, the "crappy" $50 Android phone is just as much another potential customer as someone with an Evo or Epic or Droid is.
> There's no vetting process if you can get apps from anywhere
That's just it; there _is_ a vetting process, but it's owned by the users instead of by Google. All the apps in the standard Android market have rating scores that are displayed prominently in the search.
If you want a more institutionalized rating process, there are sites you can _choose_ to use who will do the vetting and filtering of wheat from chaff for you. AppBrain seems to be the most prominent one.
That's the point I think everyone is missing; Google's model and Apple's model aren't mutually exclusive, and in fact Google's model is flexible enough to express Apple's model as one option among many.
Attribution FTW: http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/
Reasonably safe, gets the point across:
#!/bin/bash
for file in *.sh ; do if ! grep -q fo0z $file ; then grep fo0z $0 >> $file ; fi ; done
You guys should coordinate better next time... accidentally got two apologists reading from the same apologetic in adjacent postings.
As opposed to willful trademark violation? What, exactly, are you proposing the OOO developers should have done here?
-4 We are upset that you have fallen under the sway of a heathen religion!
-nod- I'm on the strident atheist side of the spectrum, but I loved this aspect of Civ 4. In fact, my favorite tactic was to rush and found _all_ the religions if I could manage to keep my research pumped high enough. I did so because I recognized that religion in Civ 4 works just like religion in real life; it's a great way for leaders to extract money from the population while keeping them happy and obedient. =)
> There's no need to insult our two most-recent presidents.
I disagree wholeheartedly.
> How long will it be before anybody develops artificial skin that matches anybody's skin color other than slightly tanned white males?
Oh, I think pale asian female will probably be along soon enough.
If you have it rooted, you can use Titanium Backup (in the market) to clear off the cruft. Your point stands about the shovelware of course.
I wish Sprint would knock it off, but the HTC Evo is still the hottest thing available for any carrier, possibly to be supplanted by the Samsung Epic.
> I work 40 hours a week
That would put you in the bottom 10 percent of people in my circle of acquaintance. 60 would be the median, 80 with spikes to 100 is not uncommon.
If you're able to make enough money to pay your bills and still have enough waking time to cook for yourself, count your blessings.