The computers work fine (yes this was done across 3 different systems), I don't see how any of my problems were due to the hardware. The Gentoo problems were noted by other people as well or are simply part of the nature of the beast. The Ubuntu one is also well known and I can even tell you exactly which kernel option needs to be changed. The debian death was an odd ball and not something I blame on the OS itself but the suspend mode problems seems purely software (getting it to even run was a downright pain, 10 page complex guides are not a good thing).
My point wasn't that a given OS is bad but that in my experience no OS is truly user friendly.
Huh? They failed to work on a new Via Epia which is used quite extensively by people or the problems were not hardware related. Before that I used an Athlon XP system with linux on once again hardware that was quite popular at the time, linux mostly worked fine on that minus some occasional problems (suse had network and mouse cursor bugs, it only 7 hours of my time to fix that).
Also anytime windows does not have the same problems it doesn't much matter how unique the hardware is, linux does worse for that hardware.
Maybe you have a different definition of "user friendly." Lets see what my experiences are:
-Gentoo: Only took me a combined (installed it maybe 3 times) 3 days, 7 tries and 2 forum searches (for getting around a bug in the install process) to get running. Worked fine but one I wanted to try wouldn't install period.
-Debian: Worked fine mostly, a lot of manual stuff and the docs downright suck (compared to Gentoo with its forums). That is till I tried getting suspend mode working only to have it keep locking up. Then it fried itself for some yet unknown reason and would no longer start up.
-Ubuntu: I had a lot of hope for this one. That is till it failed to start up after installing because the kernel was not compatible with my system (via epia). Of course this has been known for 6 months, no solutions were given anywhere and no notices were given during the install itself. I do not have time to recompile a kernel so I said F it.
-Windows: Works well unless it doesn't then you just scratch your head. The dock on my laptop causes endless problems, mouse won't get recognized for example. Hibernate keeps locking my laptop up more often than it should. Odd freezing when coming out of hibernate that causes the process to take almost 10 minutes sometimes. Every once in a while something stops working and I need to futz around with restarting/disabling.enabling various crap.
Bad comparison really - if I buy a lvl 70 character in WoW I'm making a false statement that "I did this", I know this character better than anyone and I can use this character to the best of my abilities - when its not true. Yet all they have is a character it's YOU who's making the assumption about how they acquired it. If someone has a maid then should they fire her because YOU assume they clean their ultra-clean house themselves?
You don't hire a maid to clean your house, and then claim you know everything about cleaning your house? Or do you have a mechanic fix your car and claim to your friends that your an expert in cars?
If you hire a lawyer and he/she wins your case you're not going to claim your a legal expert are you?
Because you are doing all those things when you buy a character. Not anymore than with a maid, all they have is a character. Also the buying of characters, gold and so on is a well known practice. As a result there is no reason that one should assume that just because someone has a lvl 70 character they gotten it themselves.
Many people, despite "complaining", don't mind the "grind" just look at all the Final Fantasy games (or RPGs period) that do so well.
It's also not that the game is boring but that say the first x hours (or some activity) is boring to that person so they pay to essentially skip those x hours. It may be that for example all his friends are at a higher level and he wishes to play with them. It may be that he enjoys playing in the manner that one does at a higher level but not in the manner one does at a lower level. Maybe he needs to do some specific activity to get some item which he doesn't like (say fishing). In single player games you'd simply use a cheap code although as I hear it some companies are trying to charge for that sort of thing as well.
It's only different from people who pay for expensive golf clubs, bikes, cars (that they actually race) and so on because those items can't be truly gotten by simply spending time. However in case of say a pre-made computer, racing bike or car the person is trading off spending time on an activity they do not like (buying parts, tuning, assembling) so that they can do one they do like (video games, racing, etc.).
Do not confuse specialists with servants. Your doctor or mechanic might get pissed. They are fundamentally imho simply different sections of the same spectrum. They are differentiated by what percentage of the clients could theoretically do said activity, by how much training is required, etc. The costs of the services reflect all of this.
A good/high-end maid (or butler) could earn more than a bad doctor for example. Of course such a maid requires more training, experience and does more complex tasks. Likewise not everyone can be such a maid either as some inherent talent/personality/some such is required that can't be trained.
Except thats NOT what is happening. The proper analogy is your friend spending $50 on a really nice bowling ball while you use the one from the bowling alley.
At least you learn how to sew If its an assembly line system then they don't really learn how to sue. They learn how to repeat a single task for 12 hours a day.
and PRODUCE SOMETHING REAL. *looks at google* God dammit, someone better tell them to close up shop since only making "REAL" items can ever make you successful.
What good can come of learning how to kill virtual deer? You learn how to use a computer which is more useful in modern urban society. You likely learn about as much about sewing in a nike factory as you do about computers as a gold farmer. Possibly you also learn some things about social behavior and business.
i think, frankly, that you're just a loser and an asshole. you have no human conscience, you have no sense of morality, you don't believe in social progress, which does actually exist in this world Or he believes in capitalism. A person is good at X, say banking. He works 12 hours a day doing X and make a good amount of money as a result. This person enjoys video games but like many finds the grind annoying. Now his time is worth a lot to society and he has money so he pays someone else to do the grind for him.
What is exactly wrong with him paying someone else to do this for him? To gain gold for him? To level a character for him?
I mean are maids immoral to have now as well? House cleaners that come in once a weak? Gas station attendants? Car mechanics? Computer repairman? Lawyers? Accountans? Cooks? All of them are paid to do a task which someone else could do but for various reasons chooses to "outsource".
You seem to be confusing which country is the restrictive one and what Apple is actually doing. The iPhone can be used on ONE network with a long term plan.
In Europe you can buy almost any phone you want, stick a sim card in it and be on your way.
* You mean where any act he legislates, no matter the method, can be rescinded by the popular vote?
* You mean where normal laws take 10% of the population to rescind, decree laws take only 5%? IF I remember it takes 10 or 5 percent SIGNATURES to start a vote to remove said law. Now that means valid signatures and oddly enough guess who gets to decide what valid signatures are (of course enough are invalid to fall below the threshold? There has already been one case recently where it took a lawsuit to have signatures put back on. Now the government in the interest of public safety and to stop abuse has made all the signers (their names, etc.) public.
Also, note that if the goal is to get somebody *down* from orbit, it isn't too hard. A heat-shield, a space-suit, a nitrogen-gas thruster, and a parachute. Maybe a cheezy visual alignment aid to get the thruster in the right point and a map to make sure you land on land. A few hundered pounds of hardware, per person. The problem has always been feature-creep more than anything else. http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/moose_00092 3.html
no, they will be hurt and as the other poster said there is a reason they advertise on google. Sure you know what ebay is but lets say you are interested in a doohicky. Now you google this device for some reason likely. suddenly you see an ad for ebay, you hadn't even thought of buying it on ebay for whatever reason but right there is an ad. So you click it to see the prices on ebay for the device and possibly buy it on ebay.
because they can easily spend the advertising budget elsewhere Except that the reason they spend it at google is because the return on their investment was deemed to be the highest possible. Otherwise they'd be spending the money elsewhere which they aren't so I doubt there is much of a good "elsewhere" left (that they don't already advertise with).
And you know what? You're lucky. That could change at any minute (management decides that that shit is unnecessary and money can be saved), and you'd be fucked. And a terrorist could blow up your company or an earthquake could level it or the horrid costs of unions may drive it out of business. If you work for a crappy company run by idiots then thats your fault. If they want to change it then thats great, I now know that the management is going to hell and that I have no reason to stay there. Why the hell would you want to work in a company with shitty management anyway?
Even if you did want to quit and find a better job, you'd be in a rough spot for a little while (even if you do have money squirreled away for such a reason). Changing jobs is a hassle, and it can take away a good commute that you'd planned for at the previous jobs. Some money squirreled away? Christ, lots of crap can happen in life so if you expect someone else to foot the bill then one day you'll learn that you're screwed. I think I can survive at my current comfort level for roughly 10 months if I lost my job today. Granted I am living somewhat frugally right now as I'm building up my savings but I'll slowly be changing that (want to keep at least a 6 month buffer in savings).
If I need to move a new job then I'll move, I live in a company heavy area so I probably wouldn't need to but movings only slightly annoying (granted I don't own a house).
Why have to worry about that shit -- why not have it written down and be safe from fast-ones like that? Because I'm above average and have no desire to be tied to system that rewards mediocrity, idiocy and laziness? I have no desire to work in the same job or field much less place for 40 years. Anything based on seniority is worthless to me, that just rewards the sheep and mindless zombies.
I loathe pointless rules, restrictions and bookkeeping as it's all an utter waste of time to me. Any job where I can't say "hey I had this brilliant idea and spent the last 24 hours straight working on it, here it is so I won't be in today because of sleep deprivation" is simply not a place I want to work at. Sometimes I come in at 7 am, other times at 1pm. Sometimes I leave at 4pm, other times after midnight. I get paid to get things done, flexibility allows me to do that not pointless bullshit.
No reason to bitch? As you work more years of service and continue to receive good reviews, you're normally compensated more -- not less. Just because my benefits are better than yours (just an example, I have no idea) doesn't mean I have no right to defend what I have. Someone is taking something away from you, and essentially giving you a pay cut -- that's not a reason to bitch? What planet are you on? No it's not, I have no right to receive the same compensation I have in the past. If the company is going down, if the economy is going down, if my type of job is going down for whatever reason then it is only expected (supply+demand) that I be paid less. If I don't like it I can find a different job.
There are of course limits and of course if you want to bitch then go right ahead. You have every right to bitch, we all do after all, for any or no reason at all but that doesn't mean we have to care. The rest of us will simply say as we had before, you're already doing well so why should we listen to you bitching? Everyone wants more after all, doesn't mean the rest of us have to care or even want to listen to you.
Believe it or not, when someone's lowering my salary, I don't say "hey, well, there's probably someone out there making $2.50 an hour, so... who gives a shit?" If you're making above average for your field, your experience, your competence then yes you have no reason to bitch that the whole point. Consider yourself lucky and hope no one notices.
Salaries are too high for union workers? Before you heap any scorn on them, why don't you worry about the idiot boards of directors who pay CEOs insane amounts, especially those with a track record of failure. Ah yes the lovely "misdirection of blame" answer for when you absolutely positively can't rebuttal a point except by hoping to distract the reader.
That is a true corruption of American-style meritocracy. So its only corruption if it doesn't happen due to a union?
And yes, unions make it harder to fire people in general (not just incompetents). That means that the supervisor must work with HR and carefully document every screw-up, thus guaranteeing no one will get fired without good reason. Or as example show they make it impossible to fire any union worker no matter what sorts of documentation there. Then again its mostly the incompetent and lazy people who fear getting fired, personally I have no job protection and I don't care.
I don't know where all the anti-union rhetoric comes from, but I suspect it comes from unions having better contracts with better benefits, and then the general public getting pissed when unions fight to keep what they have. Welcome to real life, if you bitch too much despite having to reason to bitch people will no longer listen to your bitching.
There are 6 billion people, we cannot move onto greener pastures. Heck we can't even fling all our bodies into low earth orbit faster than we breed new ones with any sane method. Thats not even talking about trying to send any sizable percentage of the population to another solar system. Humans will remain on Earth for a long time to come and for a long time to come Earth will be the only sustainable place for humans so we better keep it habitable.
I'm sure some lovely genetically engineered cybernetic ally enhanced descendants of ours will colonize the solar system but plain old homo sapiens sapiens are pretty much planet locked.
I guess if we really get tired of the solar system we can stuff a big rocket up Neptune's backside and gravity fling Earth towards some other solar system but thats about all we can do. Granted the centuries+ of utter darkness during the trip would utterly suck.
But there is a line between right and wrong. Yes, there is a line but everyone's line is in a different location. Whose right and wrong do we enforce? I mean just look at the US? We have a massive war on drugs (o god, save me from the evil weed), more people in jail than any developed nation (by rate), the death penalty, don't ban hate speech, allow abortions and don't ban contraceptives. To many people those would fall quite heavily on the "wrong" side of the line, some would consider death preferably to letting someone commit some of these actions (see Africa, Roman Catholic Church, contraceptives and AIDS).
I often find that China crosses that line. I have less problem with Yahoo than I do Google. Google has this ideal of not being evil yet they do business in China. Maybe we all should look at some of our own choices. Every IPod pumps more money into China as do most trips to Harbor Freight , Walmart, and many other stores. Yet if we didn't send money to China their economy would start to collapse, the government would have problems keeping control, a much more strong handed approach would be put into place and all their progress so far would be removed. China is despite everything slowly moving towards a more democratic or at least capitalistic and free system. We can't expect them to move with lightning speed as that'd have too high a chance of blowing up in their faces for any sane politician to undertake (see soviet union).
The key would be stored on multiple backup tapes and systems so they'd still need to go back to all of them to delete the key. Being smaller and more important there'd likely be a lot more copies of the key floating about. So your point being?
Also so google stores the user's key, which is likely their password? Christ, only really bad web services store the actual password instead of a hashed copy of some kind.
Then there is the likely performance hit of this encryption system on accessing data. Then if the user ever changes his password aka key then google has to recopy his data to every single backups system as the old one no longer functions. Furthermore since this wouldn't be per file/email basis the gains would be minimal as users rarely delete their whole accounts but often delete individual emails.
Well they simply did an incredibly crappy job of it. No fault of Linux to be sure, and highly secure options like kerberos have been around... longer than Linux has. Welcome to the world of "no budget" IT where even good admins don't have the time to update the 10 years old barely working systems. I've used linux enough to know that half the time the "proper" solution requires 5 times as long to implement if you're not perfectly familiar with it. This is the type of environment where the official line for what happens to email that comes in during a server switch is "you don't receive it or it doesn't transfer over, tough luck." I think that server switch took over two weeks from time of email transfer to new server to time new server finally took over.
If you allow that to happen, all bets are off, no matter the OS. However, there is no way a non-root user can clear the BIOS with a program. Password the BIOS and lock the PC's case shut. That will be plenty secure against school kids. They'll either clip the lock, steal the key for the lock, pick the lock, pry the lock off or go in through the PCI slots (to take out the battery, theoretically doable I think with a long bent stick). My HS lost 4 computers thanks to one particular idiot who tried the later (to bypass something else actually) then got angry (and thus ripped out random things).
With Window's historic lack of security, all bets are off. *shrug* Windows is easier for people to administer and setup from my experience which probably would make it more secure in these cases (as the person setting it up has more time to think about security rather than just getting it working).
Additionally, it will be extremely tricky to set things up so you can insert a CD locally and run the (educational) program on the central server. That is, if the school wants users to be able to do so (I would). Well my HS wouldn't have had to worry about that, after all the first thing students with anger issued did was rip out all the cd-rom trays. It's beyond annoying to get a cd into a cd-rom drive without a tray especially if it slides back into the thing by accident (people give you odd looks when you shake a desktop computer). Of course the only thing the two remaining working cd-rom drives ever saw inside them was music cds so its not like the students lost much.
Of course since its a central server the logical answer is that the program is stored on the central server and run with a single mouse click.
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The computers work fine (yes this was done across 3 different systems), I don't see how any of my problems were due to the hardware. The Gentoo problems were noted by other people as well or are simply part of the nature of the beast. The Ubuntu one is also well known and I can even tell you exactly which kernel option needs to be changed. The debian death was an odd ball and not something I blame on the OS itself but the suspend mode problems seems purely software (getting it to even run was a downright pain, 10 page complex guides are not a good thing).
My point wasn't that a given OS is bad but that in my experience no OS is truly user friendly.
Huh?
They failed to work on a new Via Epia which is used quite extensively by people or the problems were not hardware related. Before that I used an Athlon XP system with linux on once again hardware that was quite popular at the time, linux mostly worked fine on that minus some occasional problems (suse had network and mouse cursor bugs, it only 7 hours of my time to fix that).
Also anytime windows does not have the same problems it doesn't much matter how unique the hardware is, linux does worse for that hardware.
Maybe you have a different definition of "user friendly." Lets see what my experiences are:
-Gentoo: Only took me a combined (installed it maybe 3 times) 3 days, 7 tries and 2 forum searches (for getting around a bug in the install process) to get running. Worked fine but one I wanted to try wouldn't install period.
-Debian: Worked fine mostly, a lot of manual stuff and the docs downright suck (compared to Gentoo with its forums). That is till I tried getting suspend mode working only to have it keep locking up. Then it fried itself for some yet unknown reason and would no longer start up.
-Ubuntu: I had a lot of hope for this one. That is till it failed to start up after installing because the kernel was not compatible with my system (via epia). Of course this has been known for 6 months, no solutions were given anywhere and no notices were given during the install itself. I do not have time to recompile a kernel so I said F it.
-Windows: Works well unless it doesn't then you just scratch your head. The dock on my laptop causes endless problems, mouse won't get recognized for example. Hibernate keeps locking my laptop up more often than it should. Odd freezing when coming out of hibernate that causes the process to take almost 10 minutes sometimes. Every once in a while something stops working and I need to futz around with restarting/disabling.enabling various crap.
If you hire a lawyer and he/she wins your case you're not going to claim your a legal expert are you?
Because you are doing all those things when you buy a character. Not anymore than with a maid, all they have is a character. Also the buying of characters, gold and so on is a well known practice. As a result there is no reason that one should assume that just because someone has a lvl 70 character they gotten it themselves.
Or more likely an eternity of enslavement and oppression under the heel of the winning side.
Many people, despite "complaining", don't mind the "grind" just look at all the Final Fantasy games (or RPGs period) that do so well.
It's also not that the game is boring but that say the first x hours (or some activity) is boring to that person so they pay to essentially skip those x hours. It may be that for example all his friends are at a higher level and he wishes to play with them. It may be that he enjoys playing in the manner that one does at a higher level but not in the manner one does at a lower level. Maybe he needs to do some specific activity to get some item which he doesn't like (say fishing). In single player games you'd simply use a cheap code although as I hear it some companies are trying to charge for that sort of thing as well.
It's only different from people who pay for expensive golf clubs, bikes, cars (that they actually race) and so on because those items can't be truly gotten by simply spending time. However in case of say a pre-made computer, racing bike or car the person is trading off spending time on an activity they do not like (buying parts, tuning, assembling) so that they can do one they do like (video games, racing, etc.).
A good/high-end maid (or butler) could earn more than a bad doctor for example. Of course such a maid requires more training, experience and does more complex tasks. Likewise not everyone can be such a maid either as some inherent talent/personality/some such is required that can't be trained.
Except thats NOT what is happening. The proper analogy is your friend spending $50 on a really nice bowling ball while you use the one from the bowling alley.
What is exactly wrong with him paying someone else to do this for him? To gain gold for him? To level a character for him?
I mean are maids immoral to have now as well? House cleaners that come in once a weak? Gas station attendants? Car mechanics? Computer repairman? Lawyers? Accountans? Cooks? All of them are paid to do a task which someone else could do but for various reasons chooses to "outsource".
Yes, working in a sweatshop making nike shoes is so much better.
You seem to be confusing which country is the restrictive one and what Apple is actually doing. The iPhone can be used on ONE network with a long term plan.
In Europe you can buy almost any phone you want, stick a sim card in it and be on your way.
* You mean where normal laws take 10% of the population to rescind, decree laws take only 5%? IF I remember it takes 10 or 5 percent SIGNATURES to start a vote to remove said law. Now that means valid signatures and oddly enough guess who gets to decide what valid signatures are (of course enough are invalid to fall below the threshold? There has already been one case recently where it took a lawsuit to have signatures put back on. Now the government in the interest of public safety and to stop abuse has made all the signers (their names, etc.) public.
Uhm, welcome to science and life. We never, ever know anything for certain.
no, they will be hurt and as the other poster said there is a reason they advertise on google. Sure you know what ebay is but lets say you are interested in a doohicky. Now you google this device for some reason likely. suddenly you see an ad for ebay, you hadn't even thought of buying it on ebay for whatever reason but right there is an ad. So you click it to see the prices on ebay for the device and possibly buy it on ebay.
If I need to move a new job then I'll move, I live in a company heavy area so I probably wouldn't need to but movings only slightly annoying (granted I don't own a house). Why have to worry about that shit -- why not have it written down and be safe from fast-ones like that? Because I'm above average and have no desire to be tied to system that rewards mediocrity, idiocy and laziness? I have no desire to work in the same job or field much less place for 40 years. Anything based on seniority is worthless to me, that just rewards the sheep and mindless zombies.
I loathe pointless rules, restrictions and bookkeeping as it's all an utter waste of time to me. Any job where I can't say "hey I had this brilliant idea and spent the last 24 hours straight working on it, here it is so I won't be in today because of sleep deprivation" is simply not a place I want to work at. Sometimes I come in at 7 am, other times at 1pm. Sometimes I leave at 4pm, other times after midnight. I get paid to get things done, flexibility allows me to do that not pointless bullshit.
There are of course limits and of course if you want to bitch then go right ahead. You have every right to bitch, we all do after all, for any or no reason at all but that doesn't mean we have to care. The rest of us will simply say as we had before, you're already doing well so why should we listen to you bitching? Everyone wants more after all, doesn't mean the rest of us have to care or even want to listen to you. Believe it or not, when someone's lowering my salary, I don't say "hey, well, there's probably someone out there making $2.50 an hour, so... who gives a shit?" If you're making above average for your field, your experience, your competence then yes you have no reason to bitch that the whole point. Consider yourself lucky and hope no one notices.
There are 6 billion people, we cannot move onto greener pastures. Heck we can't even fling all our bodies into low earth orbit faster than we breed new ones with any sane method. Thats not even talking about trying to send any sizable percentage of the population to another solar system. Humans will remain on Earth for a long time to come and for a long time to come Earth will be the only sustainable place for humans so we better keep it habitable.
I'm sure some lovely genetically engineered cybernetic ally enhanced descendants of ours will colonize the solar system but plain old homo sapiens sapiens are pretty much planet locked.
I guess if we really get tired of the solar system we can stuff a big rocket up Neptune's backside and gravity fling Earth towards some other solar system but thats about all we can do. Granted the centuries+ of utter darkness during the trip would utterly suck.
The key would be stored on multiple backup tapes and systems so they'd still need to go back to all of them to delete the key. Being smaller and more important there'd likely be a lot more copies of the key floating about. So your point being?
Also so google stores the user's key, which is likely their password? Christ, only really bad web services store the actual password instead of a hashed copy of some kind.
Then there is the likely performance hit of this encryption system on accessing data. Then if the user ever changes his password aka key then google has to recopy his data to every single backups system as the old one no longer functions. Furthermore since this wouldn't be per file/email basis the gains would be minimal as users rarely delete their whole accounts but often delete individual emails.
Of course since its a central server the logical answer is that the program is stored on the central server and run with a single mouse click.