One missed pitch only looks the same as another missed pitch if you have no idea what's going on. Just like one kick looks the same as another kick if you have no idea what's going on.
The kicks, sure, but you can see the ball going back and forth around the pitch. You might not understand what's going on, but you can at least see that something's happening. It's the same with basketball or hockey; I have no understanding of them at a game level, but they're still exciting to watch. Whereas if you don't know baseball, it mostly looks like standing around.
Then again, I expected that ext3 was syncing files properly.
Then you weren't paying attention. The difference between ext3 and ext2 is that ext3 won't corrupt *metadata*, from which it should be obvious that either can corrupt files.
Yes you can Norton Ghost does this, it is possible you just haven't looked into how to do it.
Norton Ghost isn't windows OS media.
What?? Most people buy their PC's from PC vendors and most vendors include pre-installed apps anyway, why would this matter at all?
What matters is that there's no reliable way to uninstall something on windows. When you run uninstall you just have to hope the original programmer wrote it right; sometimes they forget, or in the case of e.g. game copy protection, deliberately don't bother removing something. With drivers it's pretty much impossible, even if they've broken your system. That's why windows users end up reinstalling every six months.
The registry has problems no doubt about it but all the settings for many things are in one place. Would you rather have 100's of seperate config files?
The smart way to do this is what KDE does: all your settings are in individual, human-editable config files. There's a registry-like database for performance, but this is just a cache, and if it ever gets corrupted you simply regenerate it from the config files.
Arguing over directory separators or line endings is stupid, but windows' lack of package management is real and bothers me when I'm using it.
What are the prominent desktop applications written in Java? I'd say Azureus, Eclipse, and OpenOffice (and personally I'm using JDownloader, but that's a bit obscure) - all of which are dog slow (heck, every one needs a splash screen when starting). So you can't really blame people, for whom these applications are their only experience of Java, for perceiving Java as slow.
I've been to sports bars and geek bars, the geekier bars were decidedly less... exhuberent.
Probably because they were drinking less.
besides, how much damage can a nerd punch really do. the guy watching hockey in a flannel vest can probably punch a hole in the table. the guy in the khakis watching starcraft probably can't even lift the table.
There'll be a proportion of the nerds who've done martial arts, always is.
They've built a line in Kazakhstan, but they got some serious concessions in return - IIRC the line is Chinese-operated, and they've got an agreement requiring Kazakhstan to give preference to Chinese ports when importing goods. I can't see Russia being willing to deal on those kind of terms; it's too proud to let someone else tell it how to run its railways, but also too weak to build one itself. I'd very much like for this project to become a reality, but I don't think it's coming in the near future.
Necessarily, no. But a much greater proportion than the general population, I would suggest. And in my experience many of them are perfectly willing to show up to a bar for the sake of some event. (As my sibling post says, they'll still buy some sort of drink, so it's not a total loss - but I suspect the bar makes far less off them than a more typical customer)
I think you get more extreme tendencies in both directions - nerds tend to focus on one thing at a time and do it very thoroughly. I've met some heavy-drinking nerds, but also a much larger proportion of teetotalers than among non-nerds. Thing is, neither side of that is really what a barkeep wants.
People go to bars and they drink and eat. If they are going to nurse a drink, might as well stay at home since they are a bunch of introverts
There are any number of people who - perfectly reasonably - believe that they can spend a perfectly enjoyable night socializing without needing to get themselves intoxicated. (Indeed, the converse seems quite pathetic - do you have to drug yourself before you can have fun?)
Said demographic is hardly stingy. Kids that grew up on video games are now adults. Not 18, not 19. 30 year olds. Many of them have quite a bit of disposable income.
Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make them any more willing to "waste" it.
Drunk gamers do not tend to be the violent, confrontational types when they get drunk.
Now you're just making stuff up. Having been on nights out, you get all kinds of drunks among gamers, just like you do in any other group.
I've seen plenty of the demographic I'm thinking of turn up to bars to e.g. see a band (and again, drink very little while they're doing so). I can see wanting to see a starcraft game on a big screen, in some level of social setting, without wanting to drink.
Oh, I can drink a fair bit (though mostly due to that other geeky stereotype, being fat). But I wouldn't go to a bar and spend a lot of money on drinks, because from a geeky perspective the cost/benefit on that is all wrong. I didn't mean that geeks can't handle their drink, so much as that they wouldn't want to.
There's action and variety in the kicking the ball back and forth though. You can see an advantage to one side or the other, a push that got further or less far than the last - and bottom line, it's all over inside two hours. Whereas one missed pitch looks the same as any other missed pitch, and a baseball game takes all day.
but said demographic can also be very stingy. I suspect a large proportion of them will be teetotal, and many of those who aren't will buy a single drink and nurse it through the evening. So I'd be interested to hear whether the bars actually make enough money for this to be worthwhile.
If you're competent enough to figure out you need to boot a CD and remove it, you can then fdisk/mbr or equivalent - no need to have backed it up originally.
And you'd probably perform better as a result. It's past time we instituted a 35-hour work week like in France, or better; it'd reduce unemployment, increase productivity and make people happier.
Why would the tunnel be longer than the Chunnel? According to Wiki, the Chunnel is ~53 miles
I find that implausible; Dover-Calais is 22 miles, and Folkstone isn't a long way away from Calais. (Perhaps you're thinking of the tunnel between two islands of Japan, which is currently the longest in the world?) The Bering (sp?) strait is a comparable distance to the English channel, but the shore is less hospitable, so it's entirely plausible that you'd want to build a longer tunnel there.
In WW2 we sent pilots up into combat with fewer hours of training than your typical teenager gets driving lessons. Flying is in many ways easier than driving, there's a lot less to hit up there.
Multiple stages is the only way to do this kind of authentication safely. OAuth is the closest thing to a standard out there. If iOS is bundling a general OAuth authentication library then that's all to the good, but if it's twitter-specific then that's very much evil - they're abusing their position as the phone maker to promote one particular service, and I wonder how much twitter paid them for it.
Nobody shits on the Greek classics for not including footnotes
Nobody treats them as a source of truth or something to live your life by. If you're taking the position that the bible is exactly as valid or useful as the Odyssey that's fine by me, but Christians seem to regard it rather more highly than that.
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One missed pitch only looks the same as another missed pitch if you have no idea what's going on. Just like one kick looks the same as another kick if you have no idea what's going on.
The kicks, sure, but you can see the ball going back and forth around the pitch. You might not understand what's going on, but you can at least see that something's happening. It's the same with basketball or hockey; I have no understanding of them at a game level, but they're still exciting to watch. Whereas if you don't know baseball, it mostly looks like standing around.
Then again, I expected that ext3 was syncing files properly.
Then you weren't paying attention. The difference between ext3 and ext2 is that ext3 won't corrupt *metadata*, from which it should be obvious that either can corrupt files.
Yes you can Norton Ghost does this, it is possible you just haven't looked into how to do it.
Norton Ghost isn't windows OS media.
What?? Most people buy their PC's from PC vendors and most vendors include pre-installed apps anyway, why would this matter at all?
What matters is that there's no reliable way to uninstall something on windows. When you run uninstall you just have to hope the original programmer wrote it right; sometimes they forget, or in the case of e.g. game copy protection, deliberately don't bother removing something. With drivers it's pretty much impossible, even if they've broken your system. That's why windows users end up reinstalling every six months.
The registry has problems no doubt about it but all the settings for many things are in one place. Would you rather have 100's of seperate config files?
The smart way to do this is what KDE does: all your settings are in individual, human-editable config files. There's a registry-like database for performance, but this is just a cache, and if it ever gets corrupted you simply regenerate it from the config files.
Arguing over directory separators or line endings is stupid, but windows' lack of package management is real and bothers me when I'm using it.
What are the prominent desktop applications written in Java? I'd say Azureus, Eclipse, and OpenOffice (and personally I'm using JDownloader, but that's a bit obscure) - all of which are dog slow (heck, every one needs a splash screen when starting). So you can't really blame people, for whom these applications are their only experience of Java, for perceiving Java as slow.
I've been to sports bars and geek bars, the geekier bars were decidedly less... exhuberent.
Probably because they were drinking less.
besides, how much damage can a nerd punch really do. the guy watching hockey in a flannel vest can probably punch a hole in the table. the guy in the khakis watching starcraft probably can't even lift the table.
There'll be a proportion of the nerds who've done martial arts, always is.
Now you're making me wonder, whatever happened to the guy with the thai ladyboys?
I don't think that's implied. Press F12, choose boot from CD is a lot simpler than constant vigilance.
They've built a line in Kazakhstan, but they got some serious concessions in return - IIRC the line is Chinese-operated, and they've got an agreement requiring Kazakhstan to give preference to Chinese ports when importing goods. I can't see Russia being willing to deal on those kind of terms; it's too proud to let someone else tell it how to run its railways, but also too weak to build one itself. I'd very much like for this project to become a reality, but I don't think it's coming in the near future.
Necessarily, no. But a much greater proportion than the general population, I would suggest. And in my experience many of them are perfectly willing to show up to a bar for the sake of some event. (As my sibling post says, they'll still buy some sort of drink, so it's not a total loss - but I suspect the bar makes far less off them than a more typical customer)
I think you get more extreme tendencies in both directions - nerds tend to focus on one thing at a time and do it very thoroughly. I've met some heavy-drinking nerds, but also a much larger proportion of teetotalers than among non-nerds. Thing is, neither side of that is really what a barkeep wants.
People go to bars and they drink and eat. If they are going to nurse a drink, might as well stay at home since they are a bunch of introverts
There are any number of people who - perfectly reasonably - believe that they can spend a perfectly enjoyable night socializing without needing to get themselves intoxicated. (Indeed, the converse seems quite pathetic - do you have to drug yourself before you can have fun?)
Said demographic is hardly stingy. Kids that grew up on video games are now adults. Not 18, not 19. 30 year olds. Many of them have quite a bit of disposable income.
Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make them any more willing to "waste" it.
Drunk gamers do not tend to be the violent, confrontational types when they get drunk.
Now you're just making stuff up. Having been on nights out, you get all kinds of drunks among gamers, just like you do in any other group.
I've seen plenty of the demographic I'm thinking of turn up to bars to e.g. see a band (and again, drink very little while they're doing so). I can see wanting to see a starcraft game on a big screen, in some level of social setting, without wanting to drink.
Oh, I can drink a fair bit (though mostly due to that other geeky stereotype, being fat). But I wouldn't go to a bar and spend a lot of money on drinks, because from a geeky perspective the cost/benefit on that is all wrong. I didn't mean that geeks can't handle their drink, so much as that they wouldn't want to.
There's action and variety in the kicking the ball back and forth though. You can see an advantage to one side or the other, a push that got further or less far than the last - and bottom line, it's all over inside two hours. Whereas one missed pitch looks the same as any other missed pitch, and a baseball game takes all day.
but said demographic can also be very stingy. I suspect a large proportion of them will be teetotal, and many of those who aren't will buy a single drink and nurse it through the evening. So I'd be interested to hear whether the bars actually make enough money for this to be worthwhile.
If you're competent enough to figure out you need to boot a CD and remove it, you can then fdisk /mbr or equivalent - no need to have backed it up originally.
And you'd probably perform better as a result. It's past time we instituted a 35-hour work week like in France, or better; it'd reduce unemployment, increase productivity and make people happier.
Sure, the point is: why would China want to build a line from Vladivostok to the Bering Strait?
/planning on taking the train London-Shanghai in a few months
Why would the tunnel be longer than the Chunnel? According to Wiki, the Chunnel is ~53 miles
I find that implausible; Dover-Calais is 22 miles, and Folkstone isn't a long way away from Calais. (Perhaps you're thinking of the tunnel between two islands of Japan, which is currently the longest in the world?) The Bering (sp?) strait is a comparable distance to the English channel, but the shore is less hospitable, so it's entirely plausible that you'd want to build a longer tunnel there.
Rail 1, russian-width gap, rail 2, US-width gap, rail 3. Takes up a bit more space than your typical dual-gauge system, but perfectly doable.
In WW2 we sent pilots up into combat with fewer hours of training than your typical teenager gets driving lessons. Flying is in many ways easier than driving, there's a lot less to hit up there.
Multiple stages is the only way to do this kind of authentication safely. OAuth is the closest thing to a standard out there. If iOS is bundling a general OAuth authentication library then that's all to the good, but if it's twitter-specific then that's very much evil - they're abusing their position as the phone maker to promote one particular service, and I wonder how much twitter paid them for it.
Nobody shits on the Greek classics for not including footnotes
Nobody treats them as a source of truth or something to live your life by. If you're taking the position that the bible is exactly as valid or useful as the Odyssey that's fine by me, but Christians seem to regard it rather more highly than that.