Mint. Mint is brilliant. It will change your life because you will stop noticing that the OS is even there. Everything just works. Cinnamon fits me like a glove, does everything the way that I would want it to. And every time I update to a new release I get the feeling of "wow, nice touch. You have really polished that" not "Oh fuck me, what have you done?!?! WHY? WHERE IS THAT TOOL I USED DAILY?!?!?!?!"
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3. I generally agree with your assessment. I would like to toss out some negatives:
I can not put the taskbar on the side. I have a widescreen monitor. I value my vertical space. To add insult to injury, moving the taskbar to the top shows occasional glitches too. That shows shoddy programming, or at a minimum, short-sighted programming.
I miss xsetroot. Why KDE and GNOME decided to make the background unwritable is beyond me. This has nothing to do with Mint itself but it is mentionable. I used to enjoy running xscreensaver as my wallpaper.
Back on topic, I am running Mint on my Dell XPS 13 laptop with no proprietary drivers. Is Mint based on older technology? I don't care. It works and is stable. I am running Mint on my custom built desktop with an NVIDIA GTX980 with only the NVidia drivers being proprietary... and they were installed through Synaptic. No futzing about.
In short, while Mint is NOT the distribution that I would build, it is the most usable distribution out there for me; furthermore, the installation process offers full disk encryption (which I use for my laptop) and home directory encryption (which I use on all of my computers). Very cool.
Name even ONE instance where Apple has reached-out and intentionally and permanently disabled an already-purchased piece of Apple hardware.
They do it to every fucking Superdrive I have ever put in my MacBook Pro (2010, 5.1). Once I stopped accepting updates from them (stopped at Snow Leopard) I bought my 8th Superdrive and lo and behold, no more firmware updates that prevented it from reading discs burned from other disc burners! Amazing! Mother fuckers.
There is your ONE instance; although to be fair, the Superdrives were not technically "bricked", they could read factory made CDs/DVDs and CDs/DVDs they had burned themselves...
I would suggest that one reason that intelligent people would have fewer friends is the difficulty they would experience in finding like-minded individuals to be friends with. It wouldn't be very fulfilling for someone with a brain the size of a planet to spend all their time with people who only talked about soaps and sport.
True. What happens is that a person has a particular interest or passion or finds others who share that same interest or passion and then proceed to interact on that basis.
I have zero friends who are fully capable of understanding all of me or even dealing/accepting all of me. I have a few friends that I share interests with and can discuss various topics with. Honestly, I suspect that is all many of us can hope for. We are all so radically different that fully understanding someone else, even a dullard, may be impossible.
Hmmm. I covered about 3 chapters worth of discussion there and it may be inscrutable to you or anyone else. My apologies.
TL;DR deep friends are harder to find as you get smarter.
Myka9 (can improvise lyrics on the spot. This is what most people think of as "freestyle," 99.9% of which is actually memorized beforehand. This guy creates new rhymes that he has never said before almost every time he opens his mouth. If you think of yourself as quick-witted, just try and do this and you will realize how slow and bland your own brain is. Not you personally, but hypothetically...)
This used to be a game called The Dozens (google it) and I played it quite well as a child of 10 or 11 (don't quite recall). The only difference being that it was not merely rhyming but insulting as well. What I find weird is that so few people have heard of this game. I guess being white trash has some advantages... meh
There will always be people who will be saying negative things. Some of them are normally people who say good things.
I have noticed the efforts you have personally put into getting things in order and many others have as well. Than you for your time. I believe you are sincere.
My belief is humans, were conceived in "God's image". That is my belief, you can believe it, not believe something else.
And you can believe it, there's nothing wrong with that. Where it becomes dangerous is when you try to force that belief on others...
Hm. If humans were to be made in God's (which God? Zeus?) image, does that mean God has a penis or vagina? The only compatible interpretation is that our consciousness, spirit, soul, or whatever was made in God's image. Even then... people who profess to actually know things about God are probably eligible for psychiatric treatment.
What result should we expect when surveying a large population of non-STEM individuals who, received their science education (if any) 40 years ago under different standards and haven't looked back since, may not ever have achieved high school diploma...
Other than the Tech (self taught) portion of STEM, I fit your description exactly. Why shouldn't we expect basic science knowledge? Aren't YOU curious about the world around you? Don't stars and galaxies and the possibilities of black holes fascinate you? Don't you want to know what a leaf is made of? Don't you want to know why living things eat each other? Don't you want to know why the earth beneath you shakes sometimes?
I don't know about you but I expect a whole lot more from other humans regardless of where they live or what educational opportunities they have.
The most reliable Linux based system I has was based on Linux 2.2.30(?) anyways, 2.2, and Blackbox as a Window Manager. I played Counter Strike on my laptop and had great framerates, I ran prime number generators, cracked passwords, watched fun opengl screensavers, and everything was always smooth as silk and nothing ever crashed no matter how high the load became.
I would go back to it if I could and could have sub-pixel font hinting. My god the fonts were ugly... but perhaps they would look nicer on a 4k screen now... hm.
There is no necessity for you to drive fast around residential areas, you want to go fast, hit a highway or a racetrack or quit whinging, FML.
On straight residential streets with no cars parked on the side of the road and nobody outside, I will occasionally hit up to 35mph. If there are vehicles parked on the side of the road and there are kids of any age playing anywhere near those cars, I will probably be going 15mph or maybe even 10mph. I have gone even slower at times.
Honestly, numbers (speed limits) being posted are so we can legally tag/ticket morons. I am 48 years old. I have never ran over or hit a person. I have only ever received 1 speeding ticket in my life (despite driving over 150mph quite a bit) and have never been in accident that was my fault (yet!). I have been rear ended twice at a stoplight.:(
Wanting to get somewhere without delay and being impatient are two totally different things.
I just waded through this whole mess of comments. 99.9% of them are stupid ideas.
Not true. Only 87.6% are stupid.
Offering HTTPS and IPV6 are super excellent ideas. That already drops below the 99.9% threshold that you set. Putting Metamoderation back to the way it used to be drops it even further.
Unicode seems like it could be nice and/or useful but I am an American and the world revolves around me so ASCII is just fine as far as I am concerned. (tongue in cheek)
About once, maybe twice, a year, I see a post that hits so hard or is just so insightful that it should be +6. Perhaps if a +5 post gets 10 more mod points added to it, it could go to +6? I definitely agree with your main point, I am merely offering a slightly different view on the mod cap idea;
I used to run some very popular Counter Strike servers on the US West Coast from about 1.3 to 1.6 and even Source for a short while. I have a SteamID smaller than my original Slashdot ID.
I found the best way to discover cheaters was to spectate with cheats on, especially wall hacks. People would inevitably move their attention around based on what they could see. Sometimes, it was as obvious as a watching a guns crosshairs follow someone through a wall around a corner and then instant headshot. Other times, it was more subtle, like in de_aztec, where a terrorist would be behind the double doors entering the wide open space while clearly looking at the counter terrorists approaching the room on the other side of the bridge, somewhere that person would normally have no business looking/tracking unless they could see through walls.
I also had a neat little plugin that would tell you how long a person's crosshairs would remain on another person and I hacked it to tell me how long it would stay trained on any particular hitbox (mainly head). I then "trained" it by using it on some of my best league players and tuning it down further and further until they stopped triggering it. I then turned it on for everyone and if the plugin triggered, that person was placed under intense scrutiny. Found a few amazing players that way but 98% (number pulled from ass) were cheats.
Cheating sucks. When you do it, there is no feeling of achievement and when it happens against you, it feels depressing because there is almost no way to win. I am glad that someone created a "cheat" that outed the person trying to cheat. Serves them right. The only problem is that a lot of these games are free to play so they just create a new Steam account and cheat some more. *sigh*
(I honestly don't remember when I 1st made this login but it was a long time ago now. Rob still had links to his favorite sites as part of the content.)
Your userid is about the same as my first userid (lost passwd) so I would guess late 98 early 99.
Being anti GMO is every bit as nonsensical as being an anti-vaxer. There's all of about zero credible scientific data against it.
Hm. If you are talking about being anti-GMO because you are afraid it will kill you or cause cancer if you eat it, sure.
What if you are worried about whether or not a particular gene combination that would not "normally" exist in nature spreads far and wide across a single type of crap, say potato(e)s and that some bacteria or fungus somewhere develops some sort of appetite for it and wholesale destroys all potato crops for a year?
This has happened naturally but that is not an argument for creating such a thing.
The big lie is that you can have any technical means to do this without throwing it wide open. Then it's just a matter of who is abusing it... because the act of creating this backdoor means it's only a matter of time before there's no security at all.
The thought process is that YOU will not have access to it. The thought of other governmental entities accessing the backdoor without the permission of the United States is beyond them. Of course, they probably thought my records at the OPM were perfectly safe too.:(
I'll never forget getting pushback from a lawyer regarding a desire to use AES with a claim that I'd need an export certificate. I pointed out that AES wasn't developed in the United States and that when I went to the Bureau of Standards website at the time that it linked to a foreign website for sources. Now how exactly was that an EXPORT or cryptography?
Unfortunately, your lawyer was correct. I am not an expert on ITAR restrictions but I do get yearly training (and I slept at a Holiday Inn Express!).
Even if you imported something, exporting it back to where you originally received it from can be an ITAR violation. Stupid? Yes. Senseless? Of course. A perfect example of a normal government regulation? Perfect indeed.
Amazing. You wrote exactly what I could have/should have wrote, from Amiga onwards. There is only one minor difference, my computer takes about 3 seconds longer to boot up. There is a mildly annoying pause for the WM to start up. It did not exist previously... but anyways. Spot on sir. Spot on... but I would like to note that I tried this on a desktop (entirely custom and "arbitrary") and a laptop (obviously not custom). The desktop had a proprietary driver for the video card and the laptop had a proprietary driver for the Broadcom bluetooth/wifi.
I should add that I am a gamer. I miss GTA V but only because I like to wander about the environment. I don't do the missions. There are still plenty of games for me to play so it is not a problem.
I want to be the one in control of my car. I like to drive.
That's nice but not really particularly important to society.
You making more money than you need to live is not particularly important to society either... and actually, it would be more beneficial for society if society took all of the money you did not need to live and spend it on society.
We are discussing the United States of America here. Take your ideas of society and go somewhere else where they fit.
I like to be in control. I like to have a car that stops as well as it accelerates and handles. I don't want a computer intervening in my driving.
Really? The plain fact of the matter is that without computer assistance your ability to control the vehicle is limited, particularly in difficult corner cases. In the right conditions you WILL stop faster with ABS brakes than without.
Actually, no. Many people can stop a car faster than relying on ABS alone will. Most of the American cars that I have driven start the ABS fluctuation early to prevent skids as once traction is lost, it takes a bit to regain it. Anyone who can keep the tires at the limit of traction can easily stop faster than this.
A high quality ABS will only take over once you have made a mistake. This will allow you to ride the limit of traction to a complete stop. This is a great feature.
In the right conditions you WILL accelerate better with traction control than without.
It is hard to argue when you put "in the right conditions" as a preface to your remark... Anywhere that traction is not close to perfect is the wrong condition for traction control. Again, Mercedes does pretty good with traction control that will allow you to accelerate despite patchy traction conditions, but most traction control will just leave you at a dead stop in conditions like sand or deep gravel.
In summary, the guy you are responding to loves his high quality, well tuned, and very sharp tools.
In summary to the summary, you are not an artisan and could care less about the tool that you have to use and want lots of safeguards built in... and wanting to require such things of people who are masters at using the tool. Because society.
I am unsure why this situation is so cloudy for you. There are places/times where lines can be crossed, but why is this an issue anyways?
To answer some of your questions: Assuming a Wild West situation where there are numerous active shooters, most Bad Guys, some Good Guys, the good guys are either smart enough to lower their weapons when the police arrive or they get shot as being indistinguishable from the bad guys... and too bad for them. Stupid is as stupid does.
To address your other question, I would like to pose a question to you: What happens when the police shoot an innocent? If the situation was volatile enough, it is likely the police officer would be exonerated. While a normal citizen would never be granted as much leeway as a police officer, the situation is the same.
It sounds like you may not be able to deal with the responsibility of owning and carrying a firearm. That is fine. Nobody is requiring you to do so.
In other words, you have provided arguments about why YOU should not carry guns but you have not provided any arguments about why others should be prohibited from carrying guns.
He seems to be clueless. Guns are ubiquitous in Somalia, which has no functional government at all, much less a democratic one. While England seems to get by just fine with handguns banned.
Guns are ubiquitous to WHO in Somalia? The general population? I think not.
While England seems to be descending into an Orwellian hell with handguns banned. Go Go Gadget GCHQ!
Give me the frequencies. I'll have jammers made in China within a month.
What do you need the frequencies for? Just cut an electric cord and scrape the ends against each other rapidly while plugged in. White noise across the entire spectrum.
Now you can get you(sic) desperately ignorant words written down to a piece of paper and shove it up your ass.
Yeah, Brazilian here.
I am not who you are replying to but perhaps you should address this issue and the wording in the article if you wish to change people's perception of Brazil.
You don't need to know how to repair a car to drive one. The guy who repairs your car doesn't need to know how to build a motor or a transmission, only how to install them. The guy who assembles the motor doesn't need to know the finer points of metallurgy. The guy who refines the metals doesn't need to know the finer points of mining. Each of these stages of production can have their own issues that need to be resolved, but the guy driving the car needs to worry only about staying safe on the road and reaching his destination.
I agree and disagree. Let me explain:
You are correct that the average driver does not need to know these things; however, the average driver only drives on paths that have been specifically laid out for them. That is why your analogy fails. Programmers are always going somewhere that nobody has made a path before. Similar paths? Most certainly. Same path? No.
I have built a very nice "race" car. Do I know everything about putting such a car together? No. I had a friend do it. Do I know everything about programming the ECU (engine control unit)? No, I had another friend do it.
Despite all of this, I did research to learn about metal allows, air/fuel mixtures, rod lengths, rotational velocities, etc. How else am I going to specify what I need/want without knowing all of these things?
I learned enough to actually put the car together. I learned enough to program the ECU. It would take me 20 times longer than the friends I paid to do it for me, but if I did not learn those things, all I could say is, "build me an awesome car", and then be disappointed that it was not quite what I wanted... even if it is still a badass car.
Programmers are in the same position. They need to understand sorting algorithms, data structures, and such in order to know which library to actually use. Should they be rewriting algorithms? Sometimes, but not normally... but then meh. Fuck it. Let them buy their certified professional programmers for half price. When they ask what went wrong, I will just be shrugging my shoulders.
There is no fix for stupidity. Cronyism and nepotism keeps the best from rising to the top and this is a world that is rife with such corruptions. Sorry, I am too depressed to finish my original point.
I don't recall the exact numbers, but IIRC it's $10 per 50 gigs over the cap. Which is why we vastly increased our speeds recently -- because Netflix, Hulu, etc will use more bandwidth if it's available, which will cause you to hit the cap faster, which with this new plan with make us more money.
That was the most interesting sentence to me. Greater bandwidth has been easy to provide but was only made available when it became possible to screw your customers with it. I am guessing charging higher fees for greater bandwidth is not as profitable as penalties and forcing customers into tv channels.
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Mint. Mint is brilliant. It will change your life because you will stop noticing that the OS is even there. Everything just works. Cinnamon fits me like a glove, does everything the way that I would want it to. And every time I update to a new release I get the feeling of "wow, nice touch. You have really polished that" not "Oh fuck me, what have you done?!?! WHY? WHERE IS THAT TOOL I USED DAILY?!?!?!?!"
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3. I generally agree with your assessment. I would like to toss out some negatives:
I can not put the taskbar on the side. I have a widescreen monitor. I value my vertical space. To add insult to injury, moving the taskbar to the top shows occasional glitches too. That shows shoddy programming, or at a minimum, short-sighted programming.
I miss xsetroot. Why KDE and GNOME decided to make the background unwritable is beyond me. This has nothing to do with Mint itself but it is mentionable. I used to enjoy running xscreensaver as my wallpaper.
Back on topic, I am running Mint on my Dell XPS 13 laptop with no proprietary drivers. Is Mint based on older technology? I don't care. It works and is stable. I am running Mint on my custom built desktop with an NVIDIA GTX980 with only the NVidia drivers being proprietary... and they were installed through Synaptic. No futzing about.
In short, while Mint is NOT the distribution that I would build, it is the most usable distribution out there for me; furthermore, the installation process offers full disk encryption (which I use for my laptop) and home directory encryption (which I use on all of my computers). Very cool.
Name even ONE instance where Apple has reached-out and intentionally and permanently disabled an already-purchased piece of Apple hardware.
They do it to every fucking Superdrive I have ever put in my MacBook Pro (2010, 5.1). Once I stopped accepting updates from them (stopped at Snow Leopard) I bought my 8th Superdrive and lo and behold, no more firmware updates that prevented it from reading discs burned from other disc burners! Amazing! Mother fuckers.
There is your ONE instance; although to be fair, the Superdrives were not technically "bricked", they could read factory made CDs/DVDs and CDs/DVDs they had burned themselves...
I would suggest that one reason that intelligent people would have fewer friends is the difficulty they would experience in finding like-minded individuals to be friends with. It wouldn't be very fulfilling for someone with a brain the size of a planet to spend all their time with people who only talked about soaps and sport.
True. What happens is that a person has a particular interest or passion or finds others who share that same interest or passion and then proceed to interact on that basis.
I have zero friends who are fully capable of understanding all of me or even dealing/accepting all of me. I have a few friends that I share interests with and can discuss various topics with. Honestly, I suspect that is all many of us can hope for. We are all so radically different that fully understanding someone else, even a dullard, may be impossible.
Hmmm. I covered about 3 chapters worth of discussion there and it may be inscrutable to you or anyone else. My apologies.
TL;DR deep friends are harder to find as you get smarter.
Myka9 (can improvise lyrics on the spot. This is what most people think of as "freestyle," 99.9% of which is actually memorized beforehand. This guy creates new rhymes that he has never said before almost every time he opens his mouth. If you think of yourself as quick-witted, just try and do this and you will realize how slow and bland your own brain is. Not you personally, but hypothetically...)
This used to be a game called The Dozens (google it) and I played it quite well as a child of 10 or 11 (don't quite recall). The only difference being that it was not merely rhyming but insulting as well. What I find weird is that so few people have heard of this game. I guess being white trash has some advantages... meh
There will always be people who will be saying negative things. Some of them are normally people who say good things.
I have noticed the efforts you have personally put into getting things in order and many others have as well. Than you for your time. I believe you are sincere.
My belief is humans, were conceived in "God's image". That is my belief, you can believe it, not believe something else.
And you can believe it, there's nothing wrong with that. Where it becomes dangerous is when you try to force that belief on others...
Hm. If humans were to be made in God's (which God? Zeus?) image, does that mean God has a penis or vagina? The only compatible interpretation is that our consciousness, spirit, soul, or whatever was made in God's image. Even then... people who profess to actually know things about God are probably eligible for psychiatric treatment.
What result should we expect when surveying a large population of non-STEM individuals who, received their science education (if any) 40 years ago under different standards and haven't looked back since, may not ever have achieved high school diploma...
Other than the Tech (self taught) portion of STEM, I fit your description exactly. Why shouldn't we expect basic science knowledge? Aren't YOU curious about the world around you? Don't stars and galaxies and the possibilities of black holes fascinate you? Don't you want to know what a leaf is made of? Don't you want to know why living things eat each other? Don't you want to know why the earth beneath you shakes sometimes?
I don't know about you but I expect a whole lot more from other humans regardless of where they live or what educational opportunities they have.
The most reliable Linux based system I has was based on Linux 2.2.30(?) anyways, 2.2, and Blackbox as a Window Manager. I played Counter Strike on my laptop and had great framerates, I ran prime number generators, cracked passwords, watched fun opengl screensavers, and everything was always smooth as silk and nothing ever crashed no matter how high the load became.
I would go back to it if I could and could have sub-pixel font hinting. My god the fonts were ugly... but perhaps they would look nicer on a 4k screen now... hm.
There is no necessity for you to drive fast around residential areas, you want to go fast, hit a highway or a racetrack or quit whinging, FML.
On straight residential streets with no cars parked on the side of the road and nobody outside, I will occasionally hit up to 35mph. If there are vehicles parked on the side of the road and there are kids of any age playing anywhere near those cars, I will probably be going 15mph or maybe even 10mph. I have gone even slower at times.
Honestly, numbers (speed limits) being posted are so we can legally tag/ticket morons. I am 48 years old. I have never ran over or hit a person. I have only ever received 1 speeding ticket in my life (despite driving over 150mph quite a bit) and have never been in accident that was my fault (yet!). I have been rear ended twice at a stoplight. :(
Wanting to get somewhere without delay and being impatient are two totally different things.
At 100 mph, accidents are almost always fatal for the same reason (energy that goes into tearing up your internal organs is 4x more than at 50 mph).
This is why I prefer to drive over 100 mph. I want to be 100% certain that I will die in a wreck, not 68%.
I just waded through this whole mess of comments. 99.9% of them are stupid ideas.
Not true. Only 87.6% are stupid.
Offering HTTPS and IPV6 are super excellent ideas. That already drops below the 99.9% threshold that you set. Putting Metamoderation back to the way it used to be drops it even further.
Unicode seems like it could be nice and/or useful but I am an American and the world revolves around me so ASCII is just fine as far as I am concerned. (tongue in cheek)
About once, maybe twice, a year, I see a post that hits so hard or is just so insightful that it should be +6. Perhaps if a +5 post gets 10 more mod points added to it, it could go to +6? I definitely agree with your main point, I am merely offering a slightly different view on the mod cap idea;
I used to run some very popular Counter Strike servers on the US West Coast from about 1.3 to 1.6 and even Source for a short while. I have a SteamID smaller than my original Slashdot ID.
I found the best way to discover cheaters was to spectate with cheats on, especially wall hacks. People would inevitably move their attention around based on what they could see. Sometimes, it was as obvious as a watching a guns crosshairs follow someone through a wall around a corner and then instant headshot. Other times, it was more subtle, like in de_aztec, where a terrorist would be behind the double doors entering the wide open space while clearly looking at the counter terrorists approaching the room on the other side of the bridge, somewhere that person would normally have no business looking/tracking unless they could see through walls.
I also had a neat little plugin that would tell you how long a person's crosshairs would remain on another person and I hacked it to tell me how long it would stay trained on any particular hitbox (mainly head). I then "trained" it by using it on some of my best league players and tuning it down further and further until they stopped triggering it. I then turned it on for everyone and if the plugin triggered, that person was placed under intense scrutiny. Found a few amazing players that way but 98% (number pulled from ass) were cheats.
Cheating sucks. When you do it, there is no feeling of achievement and when it happens against you, it feels depressing because there is almost no way to win. I am glad that someone created a "cheat" that outed the person trying to cheat. Serves them right. The only problem is that a lot of these games are free to play so they just create a new Steam account and cheat some more. *sigh*
(I honestly don't remember when I 1st made this login but it was a long time ago now. Rob still had links to his favorite sites as part of the content.)
Your userid is about the same as my first userid (lost passwd) so I would guess late 98 early 99.
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megaton
Being anti GMO is every bit as nonsensical as being an anti-vaxer. There's all of about zero credible scientific data against it.
Hm. If you are talking about being anti-GMO because you are afraid it will kill you or cause cancer if you eat it, sure.
What if you are worried about whether or not a particular gene combination that would not "normally" exist in nature spreads far and wide across a single type of crap, say potato(e)s and that some bacteria or fungus somewhere develops some sort of appetite for it and wholesale destroys all potato crops for a year?
This has happened naturally but that is not an argument for creating such a thing.
The big lie is that you can have any technical means to do this without throwing it wide open. Then it's just a matter of who is abusing it ... because the act of creating this backdoor means it's only a matter of time before there's no security at all.
The thought process is that YOU will not have access to it. The thought of other governmental entities accessing the backdoor without the permission of the United States is beyond them. Of course, they probably thought my records at the OPM were perfectly safe too. :(
I'll never forget getting pushback from a lawyer regarding a desire to use AES with a claim that I'd need an export certificate. I pointed out that AES wasn't developed in the United States and that when I went to the Bureau of Standards website at the time that it linked to a foreign website for sources. Now how exactly was that an EXPORT or cryptography?
Unfortunately, your lawyer was correct. I am not an expert on ITAR restrictions but I do get yearly training (and I slept at a Holiday Inn Express!).
Even if you imported something, exporting it back to where you originally received it from can be an ITAR violation. Stupid? Yes. Senseless? Of course. A perfect example of a normal government regulation? Perfect indeed.
*sigh*
Amazing. You wrote exactly what I could have/should have wrote, from Amiga onwards. There is only one minor difference, my computer takes about 3 seconds longer to boot up. There is a mildly annoying pause for the WM to start up. It did not exist previously... but anyways. Spot on sir. Spot on... but I would like to note that I tried this on a desktop (entirely custom and "arbitrary") and a laptop (obviously not custom). The desktop had a proprietary driver for the video card and the laptop had a proprietary driver for the Broadcom bluetooth/wifi.
I should add that I am a gamer. I miss GTA V but only because I like to wander about the environment. I don't do the missions. There are still plenty of games for me to play so it is not a problem.
I want to be the one in control of my car. I like to drive.
That's nice but not really particularly important to society.
You making more money than you need to live is not particularly important to society either... and actually, it would be more beneficial for society if society took all of the money you did not need to live and spend it on society.
We are discussing the United States of America here. Take your ideas of society and go somewhere else where they fit.
I like to be in control. I like to have a car that stops as well as it accelerates and handles. I don't want a computer intervening in my driving.
Really? The plain fact of the matter is that without computer assistance your ability to control the vehicle is limited, particularly in difficult corner cases. In the right conditions you WILL stop faster with ABS brakes than without.
Actually, no. Many people can stop a car faster than relying on ABS alone will. Most of the American cars that I have driven start the ABS fluctuation early to prevent skids as once traction is lost, it takes a bit to regain it. Anyone who can keep the tires at the limit of traction can easily stop faster than this.
A high quality ABS will only take over once you have made a mistake. This will allow you to ride the limit of traction to a complete stop. This is a great feature.
In the right conditions you WILL accelerate better with traction control than without.
It is hard to argue when you put "in the right conditions" as a preface to your remark... Anywhere that traction is not close to perfect is the wrong condition for traction control. Again, Mercedes does pretty good with traction control that will allow you to accelerate despite patchy traction conditions, but most traction control will just leave you at a dead stop in conditions like sand or deep gravel.
In summary, the guy you are responding to loves his high quality, well tuned, and very sharp tools.
In summary to the summary, you are not an artisan and could care less about the tool that you have to use and want lots of safeguards built in... and wanting to require such things of people who are masters at using the tool. Because society.
meh.
I am unsure why this situation is so cloudy for you. There are places/times where lines can be crossed, but why is this an issue anyways?
To answer some of your questions: Assuming a Wild West situation where there are numerous active shooters, most Bad Guys, some Good Guys, the good guys are either smart enough to lower their weapons when the police arrive or they get shot as being indistinguishable from the bad guys... and too bad for them. Stupid is as stupid does.
To address your other question, I would like to pose a question to you: What happens when the police shoot an innocent? If the situation was volatile enough, it is likely the police officer would be exonerated. While a normal citizen would never be granted as much leeway as a police officer, the situation is the same.
It sounds like you may not be able to deal with the responsibility of owning and carrying a firearm. That is fine. Nobody is requiring you to do so.
In other words, you have provided arguments about why YOU should not carry guns but you have not provided any arguments about why others should be prohibited from carrying guns.
He seems to be clueless. Guns are ubiquitous in Somalia, which has no functional government at all, much less a democratic one. While England seems to get by just fine with handguns banned.
Guns are ubiquitous to WHO in Somalia? The general population? I think not.
While England seems to be descending into an Orwellian hell with handguns banned. Go Go Gadget GCHQ!
Give me the frequencies. I'll have jammers made in China within a month.
What do you need the frequencies for? Just cut an electric cord and scrape the ends against each other rapidly while plugged in. White noise across the entire spectrum.
Now you can get you(sic) desperately ignorant words written down to a piece of paper and shove it up your ass.
Yeah, Brazilian here.
I am not who you are replying to but perhaps you should address this issue and the wording in the article if you wish to change people's perception of Brazil.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
Kind regards,
Dave
You don't need to know how to repair a car to drive one. The guy who repairs your car doesn't need to know how to build a motor or a transmission, only how to install them. The guy who assembles the motor doesn't need to know the finer points of metallurgy. The guy who refines the metals doesn't need to know the finer points of mining. Each of these stages of production can have their own issues that need to be resolved, but the guy driving the car needs to worry only about staying safe on the road and reaching his destination.
I agree and disagree. Let me explain:
You are correct that the average driver does not need to know these things; however, the average driver only drives on paths that have been specifically laid out for them. That is why your analogy fails. Programmers are always going somewhere that nobody has made a path before. Similar paths? Most certainly. Same path? No.
I have built a very nice "race" car. Do I know everything about putting such a car together? No. I had a friend do it. Do I know everything about programming the ECU (engine control unit)? No, I had another friend do it.
Despite all of this, I did research to learn about metal allows, air/fuel mixtures, rod lengths, rotational velocities, etc. How else am I going to specify what I need/want without knowing all of these things?
I learned enough to actually put the car together. I learned enough to program the ECU. It would take me 20 times longer than the friends I paid to do it for me, but if I did not learn those things, all I could say is, "build me an awesome car", and then be disappointed that it was not quite what I wanted... even if it is still a badass car.
Programmers are in the same position. They need to understand sorting algorithms, data structures, and such in order to know which library to actually use. Should they be rewriting algorithms? Sometimes, but not normally... but then meh. Fuck it. Let them buy their certified professional programmers for half price. When they ask what went wrong, I will just be shrugging my shoulders.
There is no fix for stupidity. Cronyism and nepotism keeps the best from rising to the top and this is a world that is rife with such corruptions. Sorry, I am too depressed to finish my original point.
I don't recall the exact numbers, but IIRC it's $10 per 50 gigs over the cap. Which is why we vastly increased our speeds recently -- because Netflix, Hulu, etc will use more bandwidth if it's available, which will cause you to hit the cap faster, which with this new plan with make us more money.
That was the most interesting sentence to me. Greater bandwidth has been easy to provide but was only made available when it became possible to screw your customers with it. I am guessing charging higher fees for greater bandwidth is not as profitable as penalties and forcing customers into tv channels.