Are you serious? There were roughly 2.5 billion people in 1950 and under a billion in 1900. Now 80 billion is definitely a bit out there, but 12-15 billion by 2150 is definitely possible.
Here are a few links: http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ PRB/Educ ators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Populatio n_Growth.htm http://www.cmu.org.uk/demography/05p op/pop_index.h tm http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec16 /b65 lec16.htm#HUMAN%20POPULATION%20GROWTH
Do you think that Ritual got their copy of the engine source the day that Q3:A went gold? The minute the engine reached a usable and somewhat stable level, they start licensing it.
Right off the bat though, the average user couldn't install WINDOWS. I think about 30-40% of the average users, which account for 90% of the tech calls, don't really understand the disk/folder/byte paradigms. They call the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer. That type of person could NEVER install an OS without massive handholding. How would they partition the disk? On a brand new PC it wouldn't be so bad, just use the default which isn't a great idea if you are dual-booting into Windows though.
Well, I would say that Howard's playing of the audio portion of an Oprah Winfrey show getting massively "bleeped" when she wasn't censored originally in any way would qualify as politically motivated censorship.
Yes, but how many of those Linux companies created their own browser? That is the other company part, obviously a company that has no vested interest in a market whatsoever will include choices, one that very much DOES have a vested interest though will NOT unless forced.
No, I'm not forgetting OEMs. You do mean those people who can install whatever they want NOW, right? Dell could easily put Firefox on its boxes. They don't because they don't have to, there is already a browser there..they make the assumption that the average human should be smart enough to install their own software and if they aren't then they won't be able to understand why 1% of sites don't work with anything but IE.
In what way is that different from any other industry though? I don't remember buying a Nissan that included an ad for a Mazda in the glovebox. If people have heard of other browsers (which most have, even if it is just Netscape 4.7), then they KNOW of the alternatives...if they aren't able to download and install them that is there fault.
Think about these scenarios for a second:
Microsoft doesn't include ANY sort of browser in the default Windows install. Only the technically literate will be able to get a browser using commandline FTP tools. This limits people's access to other browsers more than the current situation.
Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do. See the Nissan/Mazda example above. Also, what about people that don't like EITHER, should they also include Opera and Konqueror ports?
Windows installs only Mozilla by default. Same song, different pitch. Not only will M$ never do this they have no reason to be expected to do it, nor would this change the situation. Eventually everyone would use Mozilla and people would bitch about it and complain that M$ was forcing them to use Mozilla.
Personally, I hate M$ and IE. I use Gentoo/XFCE4/Firefox at home (have to use IE at work...), but this is an area where we really can't FIX the problem in any way other than doing our best to make people aware of the alternatives and helping them install the software if they can. Also we should do our best to stop new sites from using IE-centric features or just blindly assuming they are being viewed on a Win 9x/NT system using IE.
If he bought a Ford and by DEFAULT the radio only played the Ford station, but could easily be changed if one wanted to. I'm not even sure about the gas analogy, how does that fit into the discussion?
I wouldn't call it old...six days ago isn't that bad:) I think it is pretty telling that this is happening again, if they don't clear it up by November then there will be a very large sub-population in Florida (and elsewhere to a lesser extent) that will be very angry...much more so than in 2000...
Maybe not today you don't, but what is to prevent this from happening in the future. Ever hear of a slippery slope? Given the opportunity ALL forms of government eventually form totalitarian regimes. I agree with your solutions though, more people SHOULD vote and more people qualified to vote but aren't registered should register.
Cholera itself isn't really all that dangerous though, the diarrhea/dehydration is what is dangerous in a developing country (or the now industrialized world during the revolution...).
Well, effective from your standpoint (killing the host) or the viruses standpoint (reproducing). No virus "wants" (no intelligence, but you get my point) to kill it's host...but from a human perspective it seems like the "best" viruses are the ones that kill the most people. Rhinoviruses (common cold) are EXTREMELY successful BECAUSE they don't kill the host, not in spite of it. Most viruses that kill the host though are never really transmitted to all that many people though unless a lot of very lucky (or from our perspective, unlucky) things happen. This is why something like Ebola hasn't gotten out of hand, it kills the infected people before they infect anyone outside of a small area.
Numerous studies have shown that when a virus first infects a human it is generally pretty deadly, but over time they adapt to NOT be so deadly. Afterall, the less deadly/less severe the symptoms the more likely the virus will be passed on...simple evolution. Of course, somethings work like HIV which is naturally nearly 100% fatal, but doesn't kill or cause any symptoms to appear for a long time. These would have to be considered very successful viruses as they allow the propagation of both the host species and the virus.
At one point in my life I was one of those "collectors"... Of course, my primary motivation was to screw with friends and to entertain small groups of people while somewhat inebriated.
Agreed. I've never actually been smashed while assembling a PC, but I've done it before when I was so incredibly mad about something that I probably SHOULD have been. I can't remember any component that I single-handedly destroyed from incompetence or stupidity... I once put a screwdriver THROUGH a mobo after a stupid heatsink retention clip completely gave way (someone else's PC with very much bottom basement components) and it still worked fine. I can't imagine how hard someone would have to TRY to screwup before knocking a cap off a board....
My wife's PC is pretty much used ONLY for games, so it still has XP on it. Of course, she plays good games not web games =)
Yea, I think my mobo was only like $60-70 at Newegg. It even acurately IDs my mobile Athlon (completely open multipliers and it overclocks like a dream;) and on my NF2 board it was just recognised as a generic Athlon and didn't properly set the multipliers by default.
Yea, I remember reading about that... My previous board was an NF2 (now in my wife's PC...funny how we all do the same thing, isn't it;) and now I have a KT600 which I picked up mainly for the flawless Linux support (and a pretty decent feature set as well).
I play games in XP a LOT, so have a decent bit of up-to-date XP experience.
I won't argue the stability aspect, XP itself is quite stable. Some of the apps aren't so, but the majority of those problems are probably driver issues more than anything else.
I've never had Linux hard lock on me though (I've used Gentoo as my day-to-day desktop for about eight months now and various other distos before that). I've had issues, but no true hard locks.
Yea, sort of at least... I've got a TV permanently attached as well as a 19 in monitor. The TV is setup as the second head (:0.1) for movies and the like.
Sorry about the Frozen Bubble confusion, I read your comment in a hurry:)
I have a 9800 pro and definitely don't see the slowness you are experiencing. Are you sure you had everything setup correctly? My desktop is roughly the same speed in X as in XP...
Frozen Bubble is written in Perl, I doubt your graphics board was the slow part;)
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Are you serious? There were roughly 2.5 billion people in 1950 and under a billion in 1900. Now 80 billion is definitely a bit out there, but 12-15 billion by 2150 is definitely possible.
/ PRB/Educ ators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Populatio n_Growth.htmp op/pop_index.h tm6 /b65 lec16.htm#HUMAN%20POPULATION%20GROWTH
Here are a few links:
http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu
http://www.cmu.org.uk/demography/05
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec1
So when companies plan on producing a Windows product they shouldn't consider the number of people who pirate Windows as potential customers?
I would consider users who download Linux legally to be much more likely to be customers than those who have shown they pirate at least some software.
Yea, but that is only national weather events...everyone knows that local weather happens "on the eights"
Do you think that Ritual got their copy of the engine source the day that Q3:A went gold? The minute the engine reached a usable and somewhat stable level, they start licensing it.
Right off the bat though, the average user couldn't install WINDOWS. I think about 30-40% of the average users, which account for 90% of the tech calls, don't really understand the disk/folder/byte paradigms. They call the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer. That type of person could NEVER install an OS without massive handholding. How would they partition the disk? On a brand new PC it wouldn't be so bad, just use the default which isn't a great idea if you are dual-booting into Windows though.
Well, I would say that Howard's playing of the audio portion of an Oprah Winfrey show getting massively "bleeped" when she wasn't censored originally in any way would qualify as politically motivated censorship.
http://www.howardstern.com/oprah.html
Yes, but how many of those Linux companies created their own browser? That is the other company part, obviously a company that has no vested interest in a market whatsoever will include choices, one that very much DOES have a vested interest though will NOT unless forced.
No, I'm not forgetting OEMs. You do mean those people who can install whatever they want NOW, right? Dell could easily put Firefox on its boxes. They don't because they don't have to, there is already a browser there..they make the assumption that the average human should be smart enough to install their own software and if they aren't then they won't be able to understand why 1% of sites don't work with anything but IE.
Yea, that's my point. They SHOULD be doing that now, they easily CAN.
I was just pointing out some alternative scenarios.
In what way is that different from any other industry though? I don't remember buying a Nissan that included an ad for a Mazda in the glovebox. If people have heard of other browsers (which most have, even if it is just Netscape 4.7), then they KNOW of the alternatives...if they aren't able to download and install them that is there fault.
Think about these scenarios for a second:
Microsoft doesn't include ANY sort of browser in the default Windows install. Only the technically literate will be able to get a browser using commandline FTP tools. This limits people's access to other browsers more than the current situation.
Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do. See the Nissan/Mazda example above. Also, what about people that don't like EITHER, should they also include Opera and Konqueror ports?
Windows installs only Mozilla by default. Same song, different pitch. Not only will M$ never do this they have no reason to be expected to do it, nor would this change the situation. Eventually everyone would use Mozilla and people would bitch about it and complain that M$ was forcing them to use Mozilla.
Personally, I hate M$ and IE. I use Gentoo/XFCE4/Firefox at home (have to use IE at work...), but this is an area where we really can't FIX the problem in any way other than doing our best to make people aware of the alternatives and helping them install the software if they can. Also we should do our best to stop new sites from using IE-centric features or just blindly assuming they are being viewed on a Win 9x/NT system using IE.
That's a different situation though...
If he bought a Ford and by DEFAULT the radio only played the Ford station, but could easily be changed if one wanted to. I'm not even sure about the gas analogy, how does that fit into the discussion?
I wouldn't call it old...six days ago isn't that bad :) I think it is pretty telling that this is happening again, if they don't clear it up by November then there will be a very large sub-population in Florida (and elsewhere to a lesser extent) that will be very angry...much more so than in 2000...
Maybe not today you don't, but what is to prevent this from happening in the future. Ever hear of a slippery slope? Given the opportunity ALL forms of government eventually form totalitarian regimes. I agree with your solutions though, more people SHOULD vote and more people qualified to vote but aren't registered should register.
Cholera itself isn't really all that dangerous though, the diarrhea/dehydration is what is dangerous in a developing country (or the now industrialized world during the revolution...).
Well, effective from your standpoint (killing the host) or the viruses standpoint (reproducing). No virus "wants" (no intelligence, but you get my point) to kill it's host...but from a human perspective it seems like the "best" viruses are the ones that kill the most people. Rhinoviruses (common cold) are EXTREMELY successful BECAUSE they don't kill the host, not in spite of it. Most viruses that kill the host though are never really transmitted to all that many people though unless a lot of very lucky (or from our perspective, unlucky) things happen. This is why something like Ebola hasn't gotten out of hand, it kills the infected people before they infect anyone outside of a small area.
Numerous studies have shown that when a virus first infects a human it is generally pretty deadly, but over time they adapt to NOT be so deadly. Afterall, the less deadly/less severe the symptoms the more likely the virus will be passed on...simple evolution. Of course, somethings work like HIV which is naturally nearly 100% fatal, but doesn't kill or cause any symptoms to appear for a long time. These would have to be considered very successful viruses as they allow the propagation of both the host species and the virus.
Once is a typo but twice is definitely a misspelling.
Undetected...
At one point in my life I was one of those "collectors"... Of course, my primary motivation was to screw with friends and to entertain small groups of people while somewhat inebriated.
Agreed. I've never actually been smashed while assembling a PC, but I've done it before when I was so incredibly mad about something that I probably SHOULD have been. I can't remember any component that I single-handedly destroyed from incompetence or stupidity... I once put a screwdriver THROUGH a mobo after a stupid heatsink retention clip completely gave way (someone else's PC with very much bottom basement components) and it still worked fine. I can't imagine how hard someone would have to TRY to screwup before knocking a cap off a board....
You do mean Eurasia, right???
My wife's PC is pretty much used ONLY for games, so it still has XP on it. Of course, she plays good games not web games =)
;) and on my NF2 board it was just recognised as a generic Athlon and didn't properly set the multipliers by default.
Yea, I think my mobo was only like $60-70 at Newegg. It even acurately IDs my mobile Athlon (completely open multipliers and it overclocks like a dream
Yea, I remember reading about that... My previous board was an NF2 (now in my wife's PC...funny how we all do the same thing, isn't it ;) and now I have a KT600 which I picked up mainly for the flawless Linux support (and a pretty decent feature set as well).
I play games in XP a LOT, so have a decent bit of up-to-date XP experience.
I won't argue the stability aspect, XP itself is quite stable. Some of the apps aren't so, but the majority of those problems are probably driver issues more than anything else.
I've never had Linux hard lock on me though (I've used Gentoo as my day-to-day desktop for about eight months now and various other distos before that). I've had issues, but no true hard locks.
Are you running a dual head configuration?
:)
Yea, sort of at least... I've got a TV permanently attached as well as a 19 in monitor. The TV is setup as the second head (:0.1) for movies and the like.
Sorry about the Frozen Bubble confusion, I read your comment in a hurry
I have a 9800 pro and definitely don't see the slowness you are experiencing. Are you sure you had everything setup correctly? My desktop is roughly the same speed in X as in XP...
;)
Frozen Bubble is written in Perl, I doubt your graphics board was the slow part
That's true...I would imagine the market potential of the shit might actually be better than Unixware....