Except for the fact that every bouncer would know not to let underage people in. (insert lame joke about bouncers' brain capacity here.)
I for one also support the car analogy, as do most insurance companies - at least to a degree. If you leave your keys in the car - and some dude drives off in it and "exports" it to another country - you either get nothing from the insurance company, or you get a fraction of the cars' worth. Don't leave your keys in the car! All new cars I know of have a remote control for the locks. The instruction manual explains how to use this.
People do read the instruction manual for a new car, don't they? Sadly, fewer actually read the instructions for a new computer device - such as a WiFi router. They're supposed to be so easy to use it's not necessary (as far as the user is concerned). If they'd care to read the manual, it will explain that the network is open by default, and go through procedures to make your wireless network private.
I don't want a mandatory "driving license" for using a computer, but If a user haven't studied the capabilities and configuration of a device, the user shouldn't... use it. At least until someone with the know-how sets it up.
Or, simpler yet, if manufacturers turn *on* WEP by default, with a default access key, and then forces the user to change the SSID and key the first time the equipment is set up, they could just add a couple of pages to the manual explaining how to connect to it in Windows. No more difficult than using it anonymous. Just a couple of fields to fill in.
Sure AMD is cheaper to buy but nobody ever count the actual cost of running the damn thing...
I'll go check the Intel and AMD sites for specs later (I'm currently on a very expensive GSM dialup) but does the P4 have a speed throttle?
Every P4-based machine I've seen (including new HT) runs at full speed with full fan from startup. They also run very hot. very fast.
My AMD64 3000+ runs at 1 GHz when I'm not doing anything very intensive, the fan runs almost silent, keeping the system at ~30 deg.
This leads me to think I save on my power bill since it runs "slow" 70% of the time. Granted, when I do renders or play games, it is Teh Noise itself with the fan running FAST. Even if this may use even more power than the P4 at full blast, the benefits of silence (and cooler room temp now in the summer) when I'm writing/coding/openofficing outweights the possible power drain when I'm gaming...
Of course, then you could shoot the entire population of Norway. Not large (about 4.5M) but we all have electrical heating and ovens. Sure, we've had to soil nature a little bit with building a few remote dams and taming a few waterfalls, but it's _clean_ energy.
I haven't seen a complaint on the use of this before now. Lots of were/where, seem/seam, a/an etc, but never neither/nor.
In Norway this is-5th grader curriculum... and most all learn a third language later on in school too (8th grade onwards). How many languages are common to learn in US schools? Is French obligatory?
To not make Norwegians look holier than the rest of thou though, it seems most of us can't speak, let alone write our own language very well. Just like you guys. Guess I'm a bit old and anal-retentive, but I don't care. I like languages. Though I accept that they transgress(?) and evolve, and I may spell wrong here and there myself, some errors are true corruptions, can't be parsed with 100% correctness, and as a result won't convey the intended meaning behind the sentence.
Just a tiny defense of the grammar fascists. I am one myself.
Heh... I must be an old fart at heart, then. Sometimes I certainly feel like one (at 26). I was attracted to Linux mostly because it looked difficult. Now please bear with me, I'll get to my points soon. First a tiny bit of background.
I first tried some version (1.x.y) in '94 but it threw a kernel panic almost instantly (I reasoned it was due to my 540MB Conner harddrive using some kind of "EasyBIOS") and didn't know how to fix it (didn't have the 'net to look to for help either). I put it away, and installed Win95 (alpha:). Years passed.
I've now used Slackware since 7.1, currently running 10.0 on my servers; I'll probably never use anything else on them. However, for my desktop I wanted something pretty with windows and graphics, looking to kill Windows completely. I still haven't:)
I've tried the "graphical" Linuxen since the first Corel. Since then I've been through Mandrake [8-10], SuSe [5-9.2], RedHat [5-7] and Fedora Core [2,3].
My experience is that they're all easy to install (even for a non-techie) and by default boots into a pretty-looking graphical system. But if that was everything that was offered, users with the need for little more than a web browser and word processor would be at a loss. A GUI way of configuring a complete Linux system, and all other apps being a GUI, would be so slow to use (click, click, click, type, click, type, click click) you'd develop RSI in a week. With a casual, non-techie user, fine; but the pros would commit suicude in droves. Or code a GUI app with nothing but a large text window to interface the system using self-invented textual command aliases for the GUI apps ("an atrocity, I tell you! You can't even use the mouse!" -Tilly):)
Imagine doing a simple search/replace on text in a bunch of files with nothing but a GUI having radio buttons and checkboxen for all possible options... Of course, there would be no regular expression text input available; that would be a too difficult syntax for the user to understand. And to process those results further, you'd have to save the results and start another app to do it.
Unless an app was created specifically to do that chain of tasks. But then we'd end up with a uncomprehensible number of apps tailored to one weird, specific task. The command line just can't go away.
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What if I weigh 60 Kg?
Seriously, though, there was a guy in another post asking if the low Lunar gravity was enough to fight the problems with muscle and bone structure atrophy that comes with prolonged exposure to micro-G's.
I don't know, but it made me think of another possible issue. Would the low gravity of Luna make people fatter? I mean, if people (Americans) go to live on Luna in nice bases, keeping their regular eating / excersise habits (i.e. much / none) will the low gravity and friction provide enough physical resistance for the body to burn fat effectively? Would people HAVE to eat much more healthy food and in addition excersise much more?
BTW that's the most appropriate use of a Bender quote ever, I think:)
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Except for the fact that every bouncer would know not to let underage people in. (insert lame joke about bouncers' brain capacity here.)
I for one also support the car analogy, as do most insurance companies - at least to a degree. If you leave your keys in the car - and some dude drives off in it and "exports" it to another country - you either get nothing from the insurance company, or you get a fraction of the cars' worth. Don't leave your keys in the car! All new cars I know of have a remote control for the locks. The instruction manual explains how to use this.
People do read the instruction manual for a new car, don't they? Sadly, fewer actually read the instructions for a new computer device - such as a WiFi router. They're supposed to be so easy to use it's not necessary (as far as the user is concerned). If they'd care to read the manual, it will explain that the network is open by default, and go through procedures to make your wireless network private.
I don't want a mandatory "driving license" for using a computer, but If a user haven't studied the capabilities and configuration of a device, the user shouldn't... use it. At least until someone with the know-how sets it up.
Or, simpler yet, if manufacturers turn *on* WEP by default, with a default access key, and then forces the user to change the SSID and key the first time the equipment is set up, they could just add a couple of pages to the manual explaining how to connect to it in Windows. No more difficult than using it anonymous. Just a couple of fields to fill in.
hahahaaa lol *COUGH* *COUGH* *COUGH*
:)
*wipes tears*
don't DO that, please! I was seriously taking a toke just as I read that
Of course, then you could shoot the entire population of Norway. Not large (about 4.5M) but we all have electrical heating and ovens. Sure, we've had to soil nature a little bit with building a few remote dams and taming a few waterfalls, but it's _clean_ energy.
I haven't seen a complaint on the use of this before now. Lots of were/where, seem/seam, a/an etc, but never neither/nor. In Norway this is-5th grader curriculum... and most all learn a third language later on in school too (8th grade onwards). How many languages are common to learn in US schools? Is French obligatory? To not make Norwegians look holier than the rest of thou though, it seems most of us can't speak, let alone write our own language very well. Just like you guys. Guess I'm a bit old and anal-retentive, but I don't care. I like languages. Though I accept that they transgress(?) and evolve, and I may spell wrong here and there myself, some errors are true corruptions, can't be parsed with 100% correctness, and as a result won't convey the intended meaning behind the sentence. Just a tiny defense of the grammar fascists. I am one myself.
Heh... I must be an old fart at heart, then. Sometimes I certainly feel like one (at 26). I was attracted to Linux mostly because it looked difficult. Now please bear with me, I'll get to my points soon. First a tiny bit of background.
I first tried some version (1.x.y) in '94 but it threw a kernel panic almost instantly (I reasoned it was due to my 540MB Conner harddrive using some kind of "EasyBIOS") and didn't know how to fix it (didn't have the 'net to look to for help either). I put it away, and installed Win95 (alpha :). Years passed.
I've now used Slackware since 7.1, currently running 10.0 on my servers; I'll probably never use anything else on them. However, for my desktop I wanted something pretty with windows and graphics, looking to kill Windows completely. I still haven't :)
I've tried the "graphical" Linuxen since the first Corel. Since then I've been through Mandrake [8-10], SuSe [5-9.2], RedHat [5-7] and Fedora Core [2,3].
My experience is that they're all easy to install (even for a non-techie) and by default boots into a pretty-looking graphical system. But if that was everything that was offered, users with the need for little more than a web browser and word processor would be at a loss. A GUI way of configuring a complete Linux system, and all other apps being a GUI, would be so slow to use (click, click, click, type, click, type, click click) you'd develop RSI in a week. With a casual, non-techie user, fine; but the pros would commit suicude in droves. Or code a GUI app with nothing but a large text window to interface the system using self-invented textual command aliases for the GUI apps ("an atrocity, I tell you! You can't even use the mouse!" -Tilly) :)
Imagine doing a simple search/replace on text in a bunch of files with nothing but a GUI having radio buttons and checkboxen for all possible options... Of course, there would be no regular expression text input available; that would be a too difficult syntax for the user to understand. And to process those results further, you'd have to save the results and start another app to do it.
Unless an app was created specifically to do that chain of tasks. But then we'd end up with a uncomprehensible number of apps tailored to one weird, specific task. The command line just can't go away.
What if I weigh 60 Kg?
:)
Seriously, though, there was a guy in another post asking if the low Lunar gravity was enough to fight the problems with muscle and bone structure atrophy that comes with prolonged exposure to micro-G's.
I don't know, but it made me think of another possible issue. Would the low gravity of Luna make people fatter? I mean, if people (Americans) go to live on Luna in nice bases, keeping their regular eating / excersise habits (i.e. much / none) will the low gravity and friction provide enough physical resistance for the body to burn fat effectively? Would people HAVE to eat much more healthy food and in addition excersise much more?
BTW that's the most appropriate use of a Bender quote ever, I think
$Deity forbid!