I think what's killing native Linux app development is that most of what needs to exist already does.
Seriously - while some programs could use some tweaking (IE, GIMP isn't quite as robust and capable as Photoshop, but it does similar things and is good enough for most casual users), just about anything that you'd want to do for day-to-day stuff there's already a native "app" for that.
The only time I find Linux lacking is for video games, which as an entertainment medium follow a different model than utility/productivity software. Aside from those, I sit down to my Linux box every evening and never does the thought cross my mind that I need something that isn't there.
That's not specific to Linux either - I choose to use Linux at home but the same is mostly true for Windows and Mac too. The desktop computer platform has matured to the point where there's simply not a lot that needs to be done anymore. Eventually you stop trying to make a better hammer or wrench and just start using them without care to their improvement.
Different views of prisons. You seem to take the view that prisons should serve as rehabilitation centers. Make the incoming people "better" so that they behave after they get out.
Others tend to view prisons as punishment centers. Make the prospect of going to prison so bleak that people think long and hard before committing a crime and going there in the first place.
Neither approach is wrong, and neither is perfect either (in reality it doesn't matter which approach you take - people are still going to commit some crime - it's about reduction, not elimination), but you do have to recognize that there are two opposing stances.
So now its not enough that loans are provided to help pay for education - now we shouldn't have the gaul to ask for the loans to be paid back?
Seriously, educational loans are some of the lowest interest rate loans you'll ever find. Not only that, but the interest is tax deductible without having to itemize. As much as I hate to break it to you, the world isn't just some pot of "stuff" that we're figuring out how to hand out. People have to WORK to make all this stuff go 'round. The food you eat everyday has to be grown by someone. The power going into that iPod has to be generated at a plant ran by workers. Even that prized degree in 16th Century French History requires teachers and other support staff.
Realistically, navel gazing is something that we as a society simply cannot embrace en masse. A few get away with it only because of the rest of us. Anything that one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
This isn't a matter of being pro- or anti-welfare. I actually support the student loan programs, and I support government sponsored educational initiatives (it helps get people who otherwise couldn't afford it into a position where they can better themselves), but you EVENTUALLY do have to get off your ass and start contributing to society.
BTW, I say this as someone who came from a poor family and gladly took those student loans. I'm now 18 months from having them completely paid for and have never been late on a payment. Those loans weren't part of "the man" holding me down - they were a good option for me to get an education that I otherwise couldn't have afforded, and I have no issue paying them back.
We're in the middle of a GMail implementation ourselves right now and ran into this limitation.
Important notes to be considered - at least from the GMail side: 1. Google Apps for Business (which is what anybody contemplating Office 365 would be looking at) has the limit at 3000. The same 500 limit is only really applicable to personal accounts. 2. The limitation is for unique recipients. If you have 20 people you send thousands of emails per day to then that's still only 20 slots out of your possible total. and finally 3. This limitation only applies to external recipients. While I converse with a fair number of external recipients per day, the bulk of my message volume is within the domain. While this won't hold true for everyone, it will hold try for many within an organization.
Also, if you need to do a true mass mailing, you just do it through Groups. Doesn't matter if there's 50,000 people in a group that are to get a message - sending just to the group doesn't count against that.
When you consider that mass-mailings are taken care of by groups, the likelihood that you'll email 3000 different unique addresses outside of your own domain in a 24 hour period is simply a limitation that most people need not worry about.
But if she has an IMDB page, then she has to have been in at least a few things...
Yes, but people have IMDB pages from a 15-second non-speaking part in an indie film. Grace Park - while certainly not really an A-list superstar - has already had a regular recurring role in at least 2 different TV series. That's beyond up and coming and is basically a successful career in acting.
The issues might not be as dire or important, but that doesn't mean that the situation doesn't scale - otherwise good ideas and morals only become a matter of severity.
Punching a someone in the face isn't nearly on the same scale as beating an entire village to death - the events aren't even on the same scale. That doesn't mean that the same principles don't make both wrong though.
Realistically, freedom is about the a balanced view that everyone be as free as possible. Freedom - as weird as it sounds - REQUIRES that limits be placed on people. Freedom for one man to live means that another must have his "freedom" to murder removed. Freedom for people to go where they wish requires that you remove the "freedom" of others to stop them.
Too many tend to confuse Freedom with Anarchy. Freedom needs laws to maintain it, and those laws are by definition limitations. That fact holds true whether you're discussing genocide or software.
I'm in the same boat, but sometimes I wonder if it's more of just an age thing. Back when I was in high school/college (ironically, when I had the least amount of disposable income), I had to have faster and faster stuff. It didn't matter if I was only getting another 100Mhz on a CPU upgrade - I had to have it. I also overclocked virtually everything in the box to get as much as I could out of it. I researched thermal pastes and heatsinks and spent weeks picking out a motherboard that had just the right flavor of features I wanted.
Now, I'm on the verge of turning 30. I still play games on the computer, but not as much as I used to, and I've come to a point in my life where there are a lot of other things taking my attention rather than keeping my computer spiffy. I still build from parts, but I typically buy midrange stuff. I typically don't upgrade things for a few years or until I run across a game that won't work on my current system. I pick out whatever cheapo thermal grease is on sale, typically use a "budget" Biostar motherboard, and run pretty much stock everything - I no longer have the patience to troubleshoot overclocking issues.
To put it into perspective - my gaming PC is still sporting a Core 2 Duo CPU 3.2 Ghz, a Geforce GTX 460, only 2GB of ram, and Windows Vista (yep, Vista). Also telling is that since I'm not sitting at that PC, I had to check my order history to be able to specify the video card and CPU I was using. Once upon a time I could have told you the specific stepping of my CPU without checking anything.
That said, there still seems to be a vibrant community of younger guys still doing all that stuff and having fun, and they will provide plenty of revenue for shops like Newegg.
This is promising, but wake me up when they actually cure/prevent the disease in a person with this.
My thoughts exactly. I don't demean their research, but realistically I'm not that interested in a play-by-play for the development. I'll consider all this a breakthrough when I can go down to Walgreens and get an AIDS vaccine.
This whole idea is pretty stupid - I think it falls into the same trap as "educational video games". Namely, that if you assume that people like something merely because of what it is (video games and/or porn) and that you can merely attach extra crap onto that to feed it to them. Both video games and porn, contrary to popular belief, have quality levels that people do pay attention to, and attaching extra crap harms that quality.
That aside, it's a silly prudish notion to think that pornography is any more or less humiliating than any other performance art.
To be fair what the ReactOS guys want to accomplish, to have a Linux that can actually run Windows drivers AND programs without hoop jumping, is ambitious to say the least. Personally I don't see how they'll do it without the Windows source code to look at but I wish them luck.
ReactOS shares code with WINE, but it is not related to Linux in any way (aside from being another open source OS).
I imagine the 1 in 21 trillion is for "you" (an individual) getting hit, not for any individual getting hit.
Yes, but, the GP is right - if each person on the Earth has a 1 in 21 trillion chance of getting hit, then the chance that one of the roughly 7 billion people on this planet will get hit is right at 1 in 3000.
Governments are a different situation. Working for a county government that is in the same situation, it's actually not legal for us to take a credit card payment directly for payment of taxes. What we do instead is essentially forward a bill to a 3rd party entity which allows you to pay them with a credit card, and in turn they pay us the taxes owed. Naturally, such a service entails a surcharge. We don't actually charge it - the 3rd party charges and keeps that charge, but it still gets blamed on us a lot.
So yes becoming too big is a problem since that leads to a communist system aka the opposite of capitalist,
Communism has a very distinct meaning and it has absolutely nothing to do with a company becoming too big.
A monopolistic company is basically the most extreme result of pure capitalism - it's just that over time we've discovered that pure capitalism kinda sucks - hence why we have laws against monopolies and other such things that capitalism tends to promote. On both extremes of the scale, both capitalism and communism are terrible economic models - you have to strike a balance (the optimal balance leaning more towards capitalism, but not all the way over).
Some banks charge a "convenience fee" for automatic deductions like that. On my car loan when it was through CitiFinancial it cost me roughly an extra $15/month for doing a direct debit payment online. If I mailed a check in I could avoid that. Not a huge savings, but still worth it over time.
I have since paid that particular loan off, but I'm sure there are still companies doing it.
Most computers these days don't come with installation discs - they come with restore disks (or more commonly now - a software program on the system to generate them). Unless you plan on buying an OS separately, there is no clean install available.
Ironically, your reason for shopping at Best Buy is the same reason I occasionally eat at Applebees. Every time they give out some award at work they throw in a $25 Applebees gift certificate.
Oh well - their burgers are better than fast food, even if the rest of the menu is pretty blah.
Your first paragraph described why insurance policies must be a bad deal because they'e good for businesess.
Your second paragraph then described that they can still be a good deal if you happen to need an insurance policy?
Isn't that the business model of every frickin thing in the world? Somebody sells something at a profit because other people need it enough to satisfy that profit for the product they need?
Uh, I think most people take "flying car" to mean something you can use as a car, but also flies.
You're missing my point. It doesn't matter what most people "take it to mean". Inventions work within the limits of the real world - not fantasy. A flying personal transportation device has already been invented. It merely isn't as easy to "drive" as most people would like, but that's REALITY. Flying isn't a simple matter. If you want to do it, then by all means - do it. Private pilots licenses aren't all that expensive to attain (I think I spent around $5000 from start to finish on mine, but that was spread out here and there on lessons for just over a year). Just because it's hard doesn't mean that the solution hasn't been delivered.
Flying cars were invented over 100 years ago. They called them airplanes. People just keep foolishly ignoring them because they have wings and need some takeoff room. It would be about as senseless as if the people who once called cars themselves "horseless carriages" insisted that these contraptions weren't horseless carriages because you needed to keep filling them with gasoline.
Work within the limitations of the solution. Flying cars exist - most people just aren't capable of piloting them.
Possible - but realistically you're putting the cart before the horse there. There's no evidence as of yet that there even is any life on Europa - or ever has been. It's a possibility sure, but until we at least have evidence to support life in the past there then any speculation on it seeding a planet with abundant known life isn't very useful.
Or, put more simply: you should always look for evidence that something DID happen than to come up with some scenario that has no current evidence against it and assume it likely.
Without some basis for seeing it arrive elsewhere, it's pretty hard to proclaim any timeframe as "implausible". Until we get good date from other examples there's just no way to get an estimate on the normal time it would take for life to evolve from scratch to know whether it was accelerated or not in our case.
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I think what's killing native Linux app development is that most of what needs to exist already does.
Seriously - while some programs could use some tweaking (IE, GIMP isn't quite as robust and capable as Photoshop, but it does similar things and is good enough for most casual users), just about anything that you'd want to do for day-to-day stuff there's already a native "app" for that.
The only time I find Linux lacking is for video games, which as an entertainment medium follow a different model than utility/productivity software. Aside from those, I sit down to my Linux box every evening and never does the thought cross my mind that I need something that isn't there.
That's not specific to Linux either - I choose to use Linux at home but the same is mostly true for Windows and Mac too. The desktop computer platform has matured to the point where there's simply not a lot that needs to be done anymore. Eventually you stop trying to make a better hammer or wrench and just start using them without care to their improvement.
Because prison is all about cutting off access to things. It's not supposed to be like going to summer camp.
Different views of prisons. You seem to take the view that prisons should serve as rehabilitation centers. Make the incoming people "better" so that they behave after they get out.
Others tend to view prisons as punishment centers. Make the prospect of going to prison so bleak that people think long and hard before committing a crime and going there in the first place.
Neither approach is wrong, and neither is perfect either (in reality it doesn't matter which approach you take - people are still going to commit some crime - it's about reduction, not elimination), but you do have to recognize that there are two opposing stances.
So now its not enough that loans are provided to help pay for education - now we shouldn't have the gaul to ask for the loans to be paid back?
Seriously, educational loans are some of the lowest interest rate loans you'll ever find. Not only that, but the interest is tax deductible without having to itemize. As much as I hate to break it to you, the world isn't just some pot of "stuff" that we're figuring out how to hand out. People have to WORK to make all this stuff go 'round. The food you eat everyday has to be grown by someone. The power going into that iPod has to be generated at a plant ran by workers. Even that prized degree in 16th Century French History requires teachers and other support staff.
Realistically, navel gazing is something that we as a society simply cannot embrace en masse. A few get away with it only because of the rest of us. Anything that one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
This isn't a matter of being pro- or anti-welfare. I actually support the student loan programs, and I support government sponsored educational initiatives (it helps get people who otherwise couldn't afford it into a position where they can better themselves), but you EVENTUALLY do have to get off your ass and start contributing to society.
BTW, I say this as someone who came from a poor family and gladly took those student loans. I'm now 18 months from having them completely paid for and have never been late on a payment. Those loans weren't part of "the man" holding me down - they were a good option for me to get an education that I otherwise couldn't have afforded, and I have no issue paying them back.
We're in the middle of a GMail implementation ourselves right now and ran into this limitation.
Important notes to be considered - at least from the GMail side: 1. Google Apps for Business (which is what anybody contemplating Office 365 would be looking at) has the limit at 3000. The same 500 limit is only really applicable to personal accounts. 2. The limitation is for unique recipients. If you have 20 people you send thousands of emails per day to then that's still only 20 slots out of your possible total. and finally 3. This limitation only applies to external recipients. While I converse with a fair number of external recipients per day, the bulk of my message volume is within the domain. While this won't hold true for everyone, it will hold try for many within an organization.
Also, if you need to do a true mass mailing, you just do it through Groups. Doesn't matter if there's 50,000 people in a group that are to get a message - sending just to the group doesn't count against that.
When you consider that mass-mailings are taken care of by groups, the likelihood that you'll email 3000 different unique addresses outside of your own domain in a 24 hour period is simply a limitation that most people need not worry about.
But if she has an IMDB page, then she has to have been in at least a few things...
Yes, but people have IMDB pages from a 15-second non-speaking part in an indie film. Grace Park - while certainly not really an A-list superstar - has already had a regular recurring role in at least 2 different TV series. That's beyond up and coming and is basically a successful career in acting.
So the solution to global warming is to cut down all the trees of the world and let them grow back? :)
The issues might not be as dire or important, but that doesn't mean that the situation doesn't scale - otherwise good ideas and morals only become a matter of severity.
Punching a someone in the face isn't nearly on the same scale as beating an entire village to death - the events aren't even on the same scale. That doesn't mean that the same principles don't make both wrong though.
Realistically, freedom is about the a balanced view that everyone be as free as possible. Freedom - as weird as it sounds - REQUIRES that limits be placed on people. Freedom for one man to live means that another must have his "freedom" to murder removed. Freedom for people to go where they wish requires that you remove the "freedom" of others to stop them.
Too many tend to confuse Freedom with Anarchy. Freedom needs laws to maintain it, and those laws are by definition limitations. That fact holds true whether you're discussing genocide or software.
I'm in the same boat, but sometimes I wonder if it's more of just an age thing. Back when I was in high school/college (ironically, when I had the least amount of disposable income), I had to have faster and faster stuff. It didn't matter if I was only getting another 100Mhz on a CPU upgrade - I had to have it. I also overclocked virtually everything in the box to get as much as I could out of it. I researched thermal pastes and heatsinks and spent weeks picking out a motherboard that had just the right flavor of features I wanted.
Now, I'm on the verge of turning 30. I still play games on the computer, but not as much as I used to, and I've come to a point in my life where there are a lot of other things taking my attention rather than keeping my computer spiffy. I still build from parts, but I typically buy midrange stuff. I typically don't upgrade things for a few years or until I run across a game that won't work on my current system. I pick out whatever cheapo thermal grease is on sale, typically use a "budget" Biostar motherboard, and run pretty much stock everything - I no longer have the patience to troubleshoot overclocking issues.
To put it into perspective - my gaming PC is still sporting a Core 2 Duo CPU 3.2 Ghz, a Geforce GTX 460, only 2GB of ram, and Windows Vista (yep, Vista). Also telling is that since I'm not sitting at that PC, I had to check my order history to be able to specify the video card and CPU I was using. Once upon a time I could have told you the specific stepping of my CPU without checking anything.
That said, there still seems to be a vibrant community of younger guys still doing all that stuff and having fun, and they will provide plenty of revenue for shops like Newegg.
This is promising, but wake me up when they actually cure/prevent the disease in a person with this.
My thoughts exactly. I don't demean their research, but realistically I'm not that interested in a play-by-play for the development. I'll consider all this a breakthrough when I can go down to Walgreens and get an AIDS vaccine.
This whole idea is pretty stupid - I think it falls into the same trap as "educational video games". Namely, that if you assume that people like something merely because of what it is (video games and/or porn) and that you can merely attach extra crap onto that to feed it to them. Both video games and porn, contrary to popular belief, have quality levels that people do pay attention to, and attaching extra crap harms that quality.
That aside, it's a silly prudish notion to think that pornography is any more or less humiliating than any other performance art.
This post is so meta-hypocritical it pains me.
To be fair what the ReactOS guys want to accomplish, to have a Linux that can actually run Windows drivers AND programs without hoop jumping, is ambitious to say the least. Personally I don't see how they'll do it without the Windows source code to look at but I wish them luck.
ReactOS shares code with WINE, but it is not related to Linux in any way (aside from being another open source OS).
I imagine the 1 in 21 trillion is for "you" (an individual) getting hit, not for any individual getting hit.
Yes, but, the GP is right - if each person on the Earth has a 1 in 21 trillion chance of getting hit, then the chance that one of the roughly 7 billion people on this planet will get hit is right at 1 in 3000.
Actually, that may be legitimate.
Governments are a different situation. Working for a county government that is in the same situation, it's actually not legal for us to take a credit card payment directly for payment of taxes. What we do instead is essentially forward a bill to a 3rd party entity which allows you to pay them with a credit card, and in turn they pay us the taxes owed. Naturally, such a service entails a surcharge. We don't actually charge it - the 3rd party charges and keeps that charge, but it still gets blamed on us a lot.
So yes becoming too big is a problem since that leads to a communist system aka the opposite of capitalist,
Communism has a very distinct meaning and it has absolutely nothing to do with a company becoming too big.
A monopolistic company is basically the most extreme result of pure capitalism - it's just that over time we've discovered that pure capitalism kinda sucks - hence why we have laws against monopolies and other such things that capitalism tends to promote. On both extremes of the scale, both capitalism and communism are terrible economic models - you have to strike a balance (the optimal balance leaning more towards capitalism, but not all the way over).
Some banks charge a "convenience fee" for automatic deductions like that. On my car loan when it was through CitiFinancial it cost me roughly an extra $15/month for doing a direct debit payment online. If I mailed a check in I could avoid that. Not a huge savings, but still worth it over time.
I have since paid that particular loan off, but I'm sure there are still companies doing it.
Most computers these days don't come with installation discs - they come with restore disks (or more commonly now - a software program on the system to generate them). Unless you plan on buying an OS separately, there is no clean install available.
Ironically, your reason for shopping at Best Buy is the same reason I occasionally eat at Applebees. Every time they give out some award at work they throw in a $25 Applebees gift certificate.
Oh well - their burgers are better than fast food, even if the rest of the menu is pretty blah.
Your first paragraph described why insurance policies must be a bad deal because they'e good for businesess.
Your second paragraph then described that they can still be a good deal if you happen to need an insurance policy?
Isn't that the business model of every frickin thing in the world? Somebody sells something at a profit because other people need it enough to satisfy that profit for the product they need?
Uh, I think most people take "flying car" to mean something you can use as a car, but also flies.
You're missing my point. It doesn't matter what most people "take it to mean". Inventions work within the limits of the real world - not fantasy. A flying personal transportation device has already been invented. It merely isn't as easy to "drive" as most people would like, but that's REALITY. Flying isn't a simple matter. If you want to do it, then by all means - do it. Private pilots licenses aren't all that expensive to attain (I think I spent around $5000 from start to finish on mine, but that was spread out here and there on lessons for just over a year). Just because it's hard doesn't mean that the solution hasn't been delivered.
Dr Pepper is a distinctly different shade of red, as is Cheerwine (another red soda). It's likely the specific shade that is trademarked.
Flying cars were invented over 100 years ago. They called them airplanes. People just keep foolishly ignoring them because they have wings and need some takeoff room. It would be about as senseless as if the people who once called cars themselves "horseless carriages" insisted that these contraptions weren't horseless carriages because you needed to keep filling them with gasoline.
Work within the limitations of the solution. Flying cars exist - most people just aren't capable of piloting them.
Possible - but realistically you're putting the cart before the horse there. There's no evidence as of yet that there even is any life on Europa - or ever has been. It's a possibility sure, but until we at least have evidence to support life in the past there then any speculation on it seeding a planet with abundant known life isn't very useful.
Or, put more simply: you should always look for evidence that something DID happen than to come up with some scenario that has no current evidence against it and assume it likely.
Without some basis for seeing it arrive elsewhere, it's pretty hard to proclaim any timeframe as "implausible". Until we get good date from other examples there's just no way to get an estimate on the normal time it would take for life to evolve from scratch to know whether it was accelerated or not in our case.