Probably you do need a Windows license to emulate Windows legally.
But I never needed the actual OS to use Wine for anything. Sometimes some DLLs are required, but those are easy to find.
While you might have a point, you totally fail bringing it across.
It's not like there were blacks in any positions that even begin to compare to those the AC listed above in those days...
Look up Canon AE-1 on eBay. Add in a few cheap lens and he'll be able to dissect the camera and examine all the lenses, mirrors, gears and everything. Easily under $50.
*shudder*
Please don't. Those cameras rock, and are already rare enough. Anyways, they're semi-automatics. If you have to have a child take apart a real camera to teach them optics, use a mechanical one.
Preferably one that's useless for taking real pictures and don't have any collector's value.
Sure it will. But when your computer's broken, your net access will be just fine.
Of course a word processor is something you can do without - I don't remember when I last used one - but this thread is more about network reliablity, not about access to a word processor. Net access is important to a lot of people, and not just for web apps.
99.999% uptime means 0.001% downtime.
0.001*(365 days * 24 hours) = 8.76 hours.
Those almost nine hours of downtime often come at the worst possible time, when you need net access most.
Not necessarily a point for Linux, but Win16 apps usually assume to have low-level control over the hardware. Something they wouldn't have in XP or Vista.
Uhm, I have never tried, but is Wine actually Windows 3.x compatible?
I'd imagine many of those legacy apps are 16 bit, controlling ISA cards that used to cost a lot more than the PC controlling it.
I don't think Wine would be able to execute 16 bit apps, or that rewriting the driver for Linux would be feasible in that case.
There are uses for that device that wouldn't bother anyone, I'm sure.
I recently had to spend some time in a waiting room with a huge TV that did nothing but show a few ads in a loop. And it wasn't just a TV, it was an overengineered system controlled by some PC somewhere. Anyways, the system that controlled the TV really sucked, reducing the framerate when overlaying some ad over the other, causing flickering.
It was obvious that a number of people were annoyed by that screen, and those that weren't somehow managed to ignore that constant flickerfest. In that environment, I'm sure the civil disobedience of turning of this device would not be frowned upon.
A better question would be why Intel bothers designing their own GPUs instead of partnering with nVidia.
Might be because nVidia's chips are heavily based on licensed technology, which would restrict what Intel could do with it.
Wasn't there a problem with Microsoft being pissed off because of nVidia's license for the XBox GPU, making them go to ATI for the 360?
Something like that, don't remember where I read it though.
SysRq? Uh, I don't know, maybe for SysRq?
Besides, it doubles as "Print Screen", a nice handy button for taking screenshots.
What Scroll Lock does, I'm not sure. I suspect it does the same thing as C-s, in which case yes, it would be a useful button to have. Ah, it also stops scolling during POST.
Besides, not much stopping you from remapping all the buttons that are useless to you to whatever you deem useful..
[...]but the search/find from a partial URL definitely (unfortunately) comes after the bullshit search page.
Makes sense it does, after all, it's only supposed to search for things that don't exist as a domain. So it has to ask the nameserver first.
Maybe you can get around that "feature" by using a different nameserver, one that's not owned by your ISP. Unless of course they block DNS traffic, in which case circumventing their search page would get complicated.
Tunneling your DNS traffic to some host outside their network would probably work..
I don't really know what Firefox's bookmark keyword thing does, but it sounds like what Opera does, i.e. typing 'g foo' googles for 'foo'. Seems to be independent from the whole DNS system.
As far as I know,/etc/hosts take precendence over whatever your nameserver says. Also, there's that "search" line in/etc/resolv.conf, in case you have a local nameserver.
I don't think that's going to be much of a problem.
Since the inception of the word democracy, it has been used even when some of the people didn't get a voice.
Yes. But the idea of democracy has always been that everybody gets to vote. Society's understanding of what "everyone" means changed over time, sure.
If idiots elect leaders, we will only have idiots in power. Haven't we had enough history of that?
Have we? The amount of idiots in power has dropped with ongoing democratization.
And what is so important about the voice of someone who doesn't even know what is going on?
Wisdom of the crowd. Everybody absorbs some information, which somehow will influence their vote. Who is to say they're wrong?
You can't do that.
Of course there's already some selection going on, most of which makes sense - hospitalized vegetables obviously can't vote, kids are too likely to be influenced into voting what $AUTHORITY_FIGURE tells them to vote. All those people that show no interest in politics are part of the society that is to be governed by those elected, and therefore logically must have some say in the matter. They usually don't vote anyway, or vote for whatever party they always voted for, both of which can turn out badly, sure. But them being part of society, it's society's fault when it turns out wrong. But that's not too bad, another election comes around soon enough, giving everyone a chance to do better.
Anyway, it's not like it's a new problem, over the centuries a lot of people have been writing on that problem, and pretty much everyone seems to agree that the idea of real democracy remains the best choice. Even Machiavelli, who articulates what I'm trying to say a lot more elaborately.
Must be the best screens ever..
The touchscreen operated ticket machines for Berlin's public transport match the above description of the finnish voting machines exactly.
You often see small crowds of confused people around those. Given that, 2% of lost votes is actually amazingly low.
There's something about that word "democracy" that just doesn't agree with what you're asking for..
Let's see, according to wikipedia, it's derived of a greek word, "dimokratia", which itself is derived from "demos", meaning people, and "kratos", rule.
Now, what you're demanding is to exclude a subset of the people according to some arbitrary rules like level of education and political interest. Those criteria are just as arbitrary as the wealth-based voting system e.g. Germany had before the first World War. I think ancient Rome had something like that too. Used to call it aristocracy iirc.
What you're demanding wouldn't qualify as democracy, a better term would be technocracy. And it would be technocrats that would be saying who gets to vote, making it minority-ruled government.
Haven't we had enough history to show that that usually doesn't go very well?
Happens all the time.
People often are distracted when using an ATM, and why shouldn't they? Not like ATMs are very interesting...
Whatever the reason, it's not uncommon. The ATMs in my town take the money back after a while, assuming the user wandered off forgetting to take it with them. I witnessed people forgetting their money twice, and forgot my card in a point of sale device myself once.
Not to say the USA doesn't give out a lot of foreign aid, or that it's all part of some "evil machination", but as a percentage of the GDP, it's not all that much.
I couldn't find any stats by a quick google, but it seems the US is spending around 0.13 or 0.16% of its GDP on foreign aid, while the UN established a target of 0.7%. Not that many countries meet that target, but the US is further off than most.
Actually, that quick google found a great many sites that show the "evil machination" side of things;)
Most artsy things that take up a lot of space don't need much disk speed, as it's all so computationally expensive the disk usually doesn't have any trouble keeping up with the speed at which the cpu crunches through that data.
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Probably you do need a Windows license to emulate Windows legally.
But I never needed the actual OS to use Wine for anything. Sometimes some DLLs are required, but those are easy to find.
Right you are. Also from the perspective of someone who does no web developing at all.
Still, as you said, better than the US site.
fashionable!=funny, or the other way around.
You, sir, have quite the stick up your ass.
While you might have a point, you totally fail bringing it across.
It's not like there were blacks in any positions that even begin to compare to those the AC listed above in those days...
Look up Canon AE-1 on eBay. Add in a few cheap lens and he'll be able to dissect the camera and examine all the lenses, mirrors, gears and everything. Easily under $50.
*shudder*
Please don't. Those cameras rock, and are already rare enough. Anyways, they're semi-automatics. If you have to have a child take apart a real camera to teach them optics, use a mechanical one.
Preferably one that's useless for taking real pictures and don't have any collector's value.
Wow, this site sucks. Try the english section of the german site.
Well yes, there are those that argue that games have become too complicated nowadays.
Seems they might be on to something there..
Sure it will. But when your computer's broken, your net access will be just fine.
Of course a word processor is something you can do without - I don't remember when I last used one - but this thread is more about network reliablity, not about access to a word processor. Net access is important to a lot of people, and not just for web apps.
99.999% uptime means 0.001% downtime.
0.001*(365 days * 24 hours) = 8.76 hours.
Those almost nine hours of downtime often come at the worst possible time, when you need net access most.
Seems at least the Gentoo project isn't so picky on what qualifies as a "bug", so they use Bugzilla to track pretty much anything.
Their bugtracking system is pretty much their documentation.
Not necessarily a point for Linux, but Win16 apps usually assume to have low-level control over the hardware. Something they wouldn't have in XP or Vista.
Uhm, I have never tried, but is Wine actually Windows 3.x compatible?
I'd imagine many of those legacy apps are 16 bit, controlling ISA cards that used to cost a lot more than the PC controlling it.
I don't think Wine would be able to execute 16 bit apps, or that rewriting the driver for Linux would be feasible in that case.
There are uses for that device that wouldn't bother anyone, I'm sure.
I recently had to spend some time in a waiting room with a huge TV that did nothing but show a few ads in a loop. And it wasn't just a TV, it was an overengineered system controlled by some PC somewhere. Anyways, the system that controlled the TV really sucked, reducing the framerate when overlaying some ad over the other, causing flickering.
It was obvious that a number of people were annoyed by that screen, and those that weren't somehow managed to ignore that constant flickerfest. In that environment, I'm sure the civil disobedience of turning of this device would not be frowned upon.
Hold on, you're saying the site is broken because it made Firefox crash?
A better question would be why Intel bothers designing their own GPUs instead of partnering with nVidia.
Might be because nVidia's chips are heavily based on licensed technology, which would restrict what Intel could do with it.
Wasn't there a problem with Microsoft being pissed off because of nVidia's license for the XBox GPU, making them go to ATI for the 360?
Something like that, don't remember where I read it though.
SysRq? Uh, I don't know, maybe for SysRq?
Besides, it doubles as "Print Screen", a nice handy button for taking screenshots.
What Scroll Lock does, I'm not sure. I suspect it does the same thing as C-s, in which case yes, it would be a useful button to have. Ah, it also stops scolling during POST.
Besides, not much stopping you from remapping all the buttons that are useless to you to whatever you deem useful..
[...]but the search/find from a partial URL definitely (unfortunately) comes after the bullshit search page.
Makes sense it does, after all, it's only supposed to search for things that don't exist as a domain. So it has to ask the nameserver first.
Maybe you can get around that "feature" by using a different nameserver, one that's not owned by your ISP. Unless of course they block DNS traffic, in which case circumventing their search page would get complicated.
Tunneling your DNS traffic to some host outside their network would probably work..
I don't really know what Firefox's bookmark keyword thing does, but it sounds like what Opera does, i.e. typing 'g foo' googles for 'foo'. Seems to be independent from the whole DNS system.
As far as I know, /etc/hosts take precendence over whatever your nameserver says. Also, there's that "search" line in /etc/resolv.conf, in case you have a local nameserver.
I don't think that's going to be much of a problem.
Since the inception of the word democracy, it has been used even when some of the people didn't get a voice.
Yes. But the idea of democracy has always been that everybody gets to vote. Society's understanding of what "everyone" means changed over time, sure.
If idiots elect leaders, we will only have idiots in power. Haven't we had enough history of that?
Have we? The amount of idiots in power has dropped with ongoing democratization.
And what is so important about the voice of someone who doesn't even know what is going on?
Wisdom of the crowd. Everybody absorbs some information, which somehow will influence their vote. Who is to say they're wrong?
You can't do that.
Of course there's already some selection going on, most of which makes sense - hospitalized vegetables obviously can't vote, kids are too likely to be influenced into voting what $AUTHORITY_FIGURE tells them to vote. All those people that show no interest in politics are part of the society that is to be governed by those elected, and therefore logically must have some say in the matter. They usually don't vote anyway, or vote for whatever party they always voted for, both of which can turn out badly, sure. But them being part of society, it's society's fault when it turns out wrong. But that's not too bad, another election comes around soon enough, giving everyone a chance to do better.
Anyway, it's not like it's a new problem, over the centuries a lot of people have been writing on that problem, and pretty much everyone seems to agree that the idea of real democracy remains the best choice. Even Machiavelli, who articulates what I'm trying to say a lot more elaborately.
Must be the best screens ever..
The touchscreen operated ticket machines for Berlin's public transport match the above description of the finnish voting machines exactly.
You often see small crowds of confused people around those. Given that, 2% of lost votes is actually amazingly low.
There's something about that word "democracy" that just doesn't agree with what you're asking for..
Let's see, according to wikipedia, it's derived of a greek word, "dimokratia", which itself is derived from "demos", meaning people, and "kratos", rule.
Now, what you're demanding is to exclude a subset of the people according to some arbitrary rules like level of education and political interest. Those criteria are just as arbitrary as the wealth-based voting system e.g. Germany had before the first World War. I think ancient Rome had something like that too. Used to call it aristocracy iirc.
What you're demanding wouldn't qualify as democracy, a better term would be technocracy. And it would be technocrats that would be saying who gets to vote, making it minority-ruled government.
Haven't we had enough history to show that that usually doesn't go very well?
Happens all the time.
People often are distracted when using an ATM, and why shouldn't they? Not like ATMs are very interesting...
Whatever the reason, it's not uncommon. The ATMs in my town take the money back after a while, assuming the user wandered off forgetting to take it with them. I witnessed people forgetting their money twice, and forgot my card in a point of sale device myself once.
Not to say the USA doesn't give out a lot of foreign aid, or that it's all part of some "evil machination", but as a percentage of the GDP, it's not all that much.
;)
I couldn't find any stats by a quick google, but it seems the US is spending around 0.13 or 0.16% of its GDP on foreign aid, while the UN established a target of 0.7%. Not that many countries meet that target, but the US is further off than most.
Actually, that quick google found a great many sites that show the "evil machination" side of things
And while we're at it, so is Maxtor. Since '06.
Most artsy things that take up a lot of space don't need much disk speed, as it's all so computationally expensive the disk usually doesn't have any trouble keeping up with the speed at which the cpu crunches through that data.