Windows has exactly 2, two things on Linux right now. Device support, and Install support. It's very hard to take an application or package in Linux, and just make it work. Some devices are hopelessly broken (xircom cardbus cards anyone?).
That is Windows advantage, and that is being eroded quickly.
Not that I don't somewhat agree with you, but honestly, how many of your neighbors could roll back a restore point on XP after Windows Update fubar'd their computer? Really?
As someone who's done his fair share of windows admin work (10 years, 3000+ users and PC's), I can tell you that the same is VERY true of Windows. With the exception of device support, which is unparalleled in Windows, there are just as many times when the shit hits the fan, and there's no quick solution in Windows, as there is in Linux.
It's called the bends. Nitrogen narcosis has completely opposite effects to decompression sickness. And I can tell you straight out, any tour operator is already well familiar with the risk that panicing summer-warm-water-only divers are when they suddenly bolt for the surface.
Training prevents decompression sickness. The people operating these things are likely to be people who have less than a dozen or so dives under their belts, and never had a bad thing happen to them.
These things should require the same sort of training that rebreathers do.
mostly because of an observed effect. I know LOTS of file traders who purchased more CD's because they grabbed something interesting and unexpected off of napster or kazaa than I know traders who wholesale download albums without paying for them. I personally have purchased 50+ cd's because of napster and it's ilk, and about 10 I aborted because I found out before I was parted with my money that the CD sucked.
Personal observation leads to correlation in this case. I can't be the only one. I do however, recognize that the inverse may be true as well.
Um, it wasn't impressive. The goatse.cx guy's gaping anus was more attractive than Janet Jackson's nipple. And that's saying alot, cuz I'm a breat man...
While partially correct, such a comparison can never account for externalities that are eroding a market, such as the arrival of better markets, and alternate distribution channels, cheap 10$ DVD's, satellite radio, 10 million reality TV shows, iTunes Music Store, etc.
It's a good place to make general comparisons, but it's by no means an accurate reflection of reality.
I've got better access to P2P now than I did in 1999, even though I don't use it, yet my CD purchases have gone for 30-40 cd's per year, to none so far this year. All my entertainment budget has gone to Family Guy and Simpsons DVD's.
Which is the crux of where I think a lot of the RIAA's money is going.
They only time I used Kazaa in the past 3 years was to find a white label of U2's Where the Streets Have No Name.
Sometimes, I write code with very descriptive names, like a good programmer. Sometimes, my verbiage results in lines of code (if, for structures) that are long, 78-100 characters. In most cases, I use whitespace (hello python) to clue me in where certain structures begin and end, and if a line wraps incorrectly, I might miss something while I'm quickly scanning it, because the flow of whitespace is interrupted. I have to pay closer attention to each line.
Most of the code I publish for consumption by others is formatted for 79 characters. Much of the code I write for prototyping can be 90-100 characters sometimes. As I'm trying to concentrate on function rather than form, some arbitrary line wrapping rules hinder me rather than help. As a programmer, I can take the time later and go do my own line wrapping, in ways better than any software can do it.
As an author of free-form english text, I prefer the lines to wrap. Preferably left and right justified, too!:-)
Yup. When something is inactive for any amount of time, it pages it to disk. The only cure is to remove your page file. Worse than that, however, is when windows, when doing file copy operations, decides to commit 450MB of your 512MB's of your system memory to the filesystem cache, even when you have the machine configured to give applications priority. Mm... nothing like page-thrashing your machine to death.
Sources? AFAIK the supposed "links" between al-queda and Iraq turned out to be falsehoods, and has been known for well over 6 months (and in fact nearly got Tony Blair's head chopped off).
I remember this one nasty function I wrote once for a MAPI message store provider to plug into Outlook. It handled property sets for messages and tables and stuff. Anyhow, all I remember is sitting down one day, and coding until my fingers hurt, and I had this 300 line long stream-of-consciousness function that oddly enough worked perfectly after only 6 debugging sessions. It only took me 3 days to turn that one function into something maintainable.:-/
Someone here on/. in 2001 posted this great maxim:
Nobody ever has time to do the job right the first time, but they always find time to do the job over again when their work breaks. Hence, there's always enough time to do the job right.
I wish I had recorded who said that, but I printed it out and pasted it on my door, and my office wall. It's followed me to many new offices, and a few new buildings since, but it's always there to remind me.
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Um, you can get bent in 10 meters of water, dude. No [SCUBA] dive is safe from decompression sickness if you're stupid.
Windows has exactly 2, two things on Linux right now. Device support, and Install support. It's very hard to take an application or package in Linux, and just make it work. Some devices are hopelessly broken (xircom cardbus cards anyone?).
That is Windows advantage, and that is being eroded quickly.
Not that I don't somewhat agree with you, but honestly, how many of your neighbors could roll back a restore point on XP after Windows Update fubar'd their computer? Really?
-Chris
As someone who's done his fair share of windows admin work (10 years, 3000+ users and PC's), I can tell you that the same is VERY true of Windows. With the exception of device support, which is unparalleled in Windows, there are just as many times when the shit hits the fan, and there's no quick solution in Windows, as there is in Linux.
ROTFLMAO.
Yeah, great. Thanks. Leave my sockets in a TIME-WAIT state, thanks... You do know you're supposed to *ACK* that packet, right?
And an absolutely daunting fear of Mother Ocean and how absolutely insignificant and pathetic we are compared to her ungodly power.
;-)
A healthy dose of fear has gone a long way to keeping my scubaing...
It's called the bends. Nitrogen narcosis has completely opposite effects to decompression sickness. And I can tell you straight out, any tour operator is already well familiar with the risk that panicing summer-warm-water-only divers are when they suddenly bolt for the surface.
Training prevents decompression sickness. The people operating these things are likely to be people who have less than a dozen or so dives under their belts, and never had a bad thing happen to them.
These things should require the same sort of training that rebreathers do.
And what exactly are they going to use to shoot down your rocket travelling at hypersonic speeds?
</pendantry>
mostly because of an observed effect. I know LOTS of file traders who purchased more CD's because they grabbed something interesting and unexpected off of napster or kazaa than I know traders who wholesale download albums without paying for them. I personally have purchased 50+ cd's because of napster and it's ilk, and about 10 I aborted because I found out before I was parted with my money that the CD sucked.
Personal observation leads to correlation in this case. I can't be the only one. I do however, recognize that the inverse may be true as well.
Y'all got your math wrong.
250,000 cd's per week == ~$2.5 million / week in lost cd sales (figure $10 average cd price for new cd's).
X 52 weeks == $130 million, which is less than ~.4% of $32 billion.
Um, it wasn't impressive. The goatse.cx guy's gaping anus was more attractive than Janet Jackson's nipple. And that's saying alot, cuz I'm a breat man...
<sigh>
As if they haven't already? Suing their customers?
-Chris
While partially correct, such a comparison can never account for externalities that are eroding a market, such as the arrival of better markets, and alternate distribution channels, cheap 10$ DVD's, satellite radio, 10 million reality TV shows, iTunes Music Store, etc.
It's a good place to make general comparisons, but it's by no means an accurate reflection of reality.
I've got better access to P2P now than I did in 1999, even though I don't use it, yet my CD purchases have gone for 30-40 cd's per year, to none so far this year. All my entertainment budget has gone to Family Guy and Simpsons DVD's.
Which is the crux of where I think a lot of the RIAA's money is going.
They only time I used Kazaa in the past 3 years was to find a white label of U2's Where the Streets Have No Name.
Hurrah for Freedom.
Quickest answer I can come up with is this:
:-)
Sometimes, I write code with very descriptive names, like a good programmer. Sometimes, my verbiage results in lines of code (if, for structures) that are long, 78-100 characters. In most cases, I use whitespace (hello python) to clue me in where certain structures begin and end, and if a line wraps incorrectly, I might miss something while I'm quickly scanning it, because the flow of whitespace is interrupted. I have to pay closer attention to each line.
Most of the code I publish for consumption by others is formatted for 79 characters. Much of the code I write for prototyping can be 90-100 characters sometimes. As I'm trying to concentrate on function rather than form, some arbitrary line wrapping rules hinder me rather than help. As a programmer, I can take the time later and go do my own line wrapping, in ways better than any software can do it.
As an author of free-form english text, I prefer the lines to wrap. Preferably left and right justified, too!
Yup. When something is inactive for any amount of time, it pages it to disk. The only cure is to remove your page file. Worse than that, however, is when windows, when doing file copy operations, decides to commit 450MB of your 512MB's of your system memory to the filesystem cache, even when you have the machine configured to give applications priority. Mm... nothing like page-thrashing your machine to death.
No, this isn't the same ship. THAT ship was a precursor to the whole DDX effort, but I can't remember the name of it...
Sources? AFAIK the supposed "links" between al-queda and Iraq turned out to be falsehoods, and has been known for well over 6 months (and in fact nearly got Tony Blair's head chopped off).
Mmm, yah. Spain is having a lot of success at that right now, aren't they?
I remember this one nasty function I wrote once for a MAPI message store provider to plug into Outlook. It handled property sets for messages and tables and stuff. Anyhow, all I remember is sitting down one day, and coding until my fingers hurt, and I had this 300 line long stream-of-consciousness function that oddly enough worked perfectly after only 6 debugging sessions. It only took me 3 days to turn that one function into something maintainable. :-/
Progress 4GL has that covered. The '.' is the statement terminator.
Takes a LOT of getting used to...
mmmmmm. Coversheets. Drone...
Someone here on /. in 2001 posted this great maxim:
Nobody ever has time to do the job right the first time, but they always find time to do the job over again when their work breaks. Hence, there's always enough time to do the job right.
I wish I had recorded who said that, but I printed it out and pasted it on my door, and my office wall. It's followed me to many new offices, and a few new buildings since, but it's always there to remind me.
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/friends-hdd/cdrom.iso
:-)
No GUI.