From most of the Linux advocates I hear commenting on slashdot, there AREN'T bugs or missing features in Linux. So why the developers?;)
No, I'm serious. You'd think Windows couldn't stand on its own legs for two minutes before crashing due to the amount of bugs in the code, and you'd think Linux had no bugs whatsoever.
I like Linux and have no problem with devs getting paid to work on it. Sound slike a good idea to me; in fact, it sound slike how almost every single product in the world is made, pretty much. That has a user base over like 2.:)
Oh come on. He's just a/.er. Why "evangelicals" and "Christians" and "Republicans" are at the end of every "ignorant" joke is beyond me. I've met quite a few ignorant... idiots at school, and I don't think any of them were any of those three words. In fact, most of them used the most illogical arguments to support very liberal ideology.
Oh nonsense, we all know that conservatives are the ones that want to take away our right to speech ("Fair Speech" thing for radio), our right to own guns, our right to choose... say... health care options?...
It's the liberals who are the ones that want to allow us to make our own choices in all walks of life.
(of course, the small print is that our own choices have to be taken from the choices they give us...)
Yes, sarcasm.:)
I don't agree with the whole corporation-as-person thing and I do'nt like the company-buying-elections thing either, but to say that conservatives are ruining our rights and that liberals are the ones trying to uphold the constitution and the rights therein seems remarkably ignorant of even the way they treat and view the constitution.
What we need are people on the SCOTUS that don't try to use the SCOTUS to make laws by re-interpreting the constitution.
I know this better than probably most on Slashdot. I'm fairly well acquainted, in fact, and could provide verses for most of what you listed.
"All are forgiven" sounded more like a "all go to heaven" type of statement. I don't think that's Biblical, which is ironic since he mentioned some extremely specific Biblical passages in his post:)
Regarding "redfine terms to return to God," not sure that's quite accurate. The terms were always the same. God, through His Son, provided a way so that His Son could fulfill those terms vicariously/substitutionarily (I don't think that's a word... hehe). He didn't redefine them, He fulfilled them.
Points 7 and 8 are the major issue I wanted to raise with my simple little post, though. Just "asking" isn't what gets you forgiven... repentance seemed to be a pretty big deal.
Sorta like how we pay for city water, but we also pay (in taxes) for the water district stuff, too. Not necessarily bad, but it's sort of a "hidden" fee.
Not saying that doesn't necessarily happen with a company like Comcast, since the American government seems to like giving my money to companies, banks, and politicians (everyone but me).
Exactly. It's somehow not fair that Microsoft is able to create a competitive product using money they get from elsewhere. "Leveling" the "playing field" of competiiton for DirectX and OpenGL should not be telling Microsoft that they aren't allowed to spend money on DirectX if they didn't make that money from DirectX; that may allow for more competition, sure, but only because you're forcing Microsoft to produce a worse product. Not exactly "progress," IMO.
(Ignore the fact that Ubuntu was started by a millionaire who made his money from elsewhere.)
which, in many ways would be the greatest thing for the consumer and the industry (as far as innovation and progress goes).
What industry? If you mean the 3D "market," I disagree. Having a large number of very different systems (e.g., let's just take Linux for example, drivers that work in one distro don't always work in another) does not necessarily help innovation and progress. Having a stable/typical setup helps, as you can focus in more on your product than worrying about whether or not it will work on all these different platforms/drivers/whatever. Unless we're talking about different industries, here.
As it is, I would rather have a lot of developers being able to easily produce quality stuff using DirectX than having developers squabbling about different 3D drivers, and then having to make sure my card supported all those kinds of drivers so I could play all those kinds of games, etc...
To me, that sounds bad. Sure, you could have an "open standard," but someone is controlling that, too. Being "open-source" does not mean you are inherently a better individual and less susceptible to the same squabbles that companies that are closed-source/proprietary get into.
I don't like all of what Microsoft does. But Microsoft does appear to do DirectX fairly decently... and they have realized it's to their advantage to let others easily access it and learn it (documentation, etc). I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Being good in an area, even if you're a monopoly, is not a bad way to squash competition. To think that a product should be worse so that competition could be better is... a very strange way of looking at things, IMO.:)
because publicly owned utilities have a history of giving better prices and service than their private counterparts for doing similar jobs.
Aren't "publically owned utilities" basically financed with tax dollars? No wonder they can give "better prices and service." They get my money somehow else.
Not saying it's not an option... just saying that the price you pay for a public utility isn't just the price on the sticker. Or ad. Or whatever.
Young people with their heads on straight. Definitely newsworthy.
I know the whole "you young'un, you can't manage a server to save your life!" feeling and all that, but really... is managing a server, even an important one, really that hard - when you have someone to go to when you have questions? A lot of lab administration seems to be finding problems before they become a real problem, which is time consuming.
You may as well have a story about dental work done by *gasp* dental students and, lo and behold, they are actually doing a good job! Shocking. To think that young people could actually learn something.:)
OTOH, it's interesting to read about the difficulties he brings up. They're pretty... boring, IMO.
It generally takes around six months for a student to feel comfortable with our environment.
Like most jobs?
Another challenge is the short turnaround with students, as we usually only have them for two to three years before they graduate. This creates a constant issue to ensure our documentation and training is honed.
Two to three years, that's not too short, is it? And it's interesting that it's an "issue" to him to keep their documentation good/honed. I hope the graduates are learning that documentation is a BIG ISSUE in real jobs, for exactly that purpose: if something happens to you, the business can't just stop for 3 months while someone else tries to figure out what you did:)
An impulse buy of $20 for a DVD you weren't planning on buying anyways?
Versus FREE?
No wonder national and personal finances are in such a mess.
No moral or ethical qualms about not paying for something that you should pay for? No wonder national and personal ethics are in such a mess. No wonder nobody seems to "care" anymore...
One could argue that ever deciding that the company should make more money is not a "customer first" attitude.
"Customer first" is at best a goal of a company. Most companies want to stay afloat first... which may or may not be directly tied to a "customer first" ideal.
But to think that companies are actively trying to seek ways to lower their profit in order to put the customer first seems a little idealistic. Sorta like thinking that most customers *won't* choose the cheaper of two products, all other things with the product identical. Some to have a brand loyalty, but I'm not sure most do.
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It's true. Most large companies have some sort of requirement for production machines to be supported.
From most of the Linux advocates I hear commenting on slashdot, there AREN'T bugs or missing features in Linux. So why the developers? ;)
No, I'm serious. You'd think Windows couldn't stand on its own legs for two minutes before crashing due to the amount of bugs in the code, and you'd think Linux had no bugs whatsoever.
I like Linux and have no problem with devs getting paid to work on it. Sound slike a good idea to me; in fact, it sound slike how almost every single product in the world is made, pretty much. That has a user base over like 2. :)
Because it's "green." And we all want to be "green," even it's wasteful and actually uses more energy.
Oh come on. He's just a /.er. Why "evangelicals" and "Christians" and "Republicans" are at the end of every "ignorant" joke is beyond me. I've met quite a few ignorant ... idiots at school, and I don't think any of them were any of those three words. In fact, most of them used the most illogical arguments to support very liberal ideology.
[/over reaction rant]
so you want to make money and then get goods and services without paying for them? because paying for them is evil?
What in the world is wrong with paying Safeway for groceries? And why is Safeway at fault for that?
Oh nonsense, we all know that conservatives are the ones that want to take away our right to speech ("Fair Speech" thing for radio), our right to own guns, our right to choose ... say ... health care options? ...
It's the liberals who are the ones that want to allow us to make our own choices in all walks of life.
(of course, the small print is that our own choices have to be taken from the choices they give us...)
Yes, sarcasm. :)
I don't agree with the whole corporation-as-person thing and I do'nt like the company-buying-elections thing either, but to say that conservatives are ruining our rights and that liberals are the ones trying to uphold the constitution and the rights therein seems remarkably ignorant of even the way they treat and view the constitution.
What we need are people on the SCOTUS that don't try to use the SCOTUS to make laws by re-interpreting the constitution.
Too bad they don't fix their country for their people with it.
I know this better than probably most on Slashdot. I'm fairly well acquainted, in fact, and could provide verses for most of what you listed.
"All are forgiven" sounded more like a "all go to heaven" type of statement. I don't think that's Biblical, which is ironic since he mentioned some extremely specific Biblical passages in his post :)
Regarding "redfine terms to return to God," not sure that's quite accurate. The terms were always the same. God, through His Son, provided a way so that His Son could fulfill those terms vicariously/substitutionarily (I don't think that's a word... hehe). He didn't redefine them, He fulfilled them.
Points 7 and 8 are the major issue I wanted to raise with my simple little post, though. Just "asking" isn't what gets you forgiven... repentance seemed to be a pretty big deal.
None of us are perfect, and all are forgiven
All are forgiven? I don't recall reading that all people (I assume that's what you meant) are forgiven in the Bible.
That also hides the taskbar. Which I can't do.
Why repair what is not broken?
And if it's not broken, it obviously cannot ever be improved, either.
I actually like Chrome's UI better. I like the extra page real-estate.
and we'll have a man on Mars in 2035
Alive or dead? ;)
$2/month subscription. How much in taxes, though?
Sorta like how we pay for city water, but we also pay (in taxes) for the water district stuff, too. Not necessarily bad, but it's sort of a "hidden" fee.
Not saying that doesn't necessarily happen with a company like Comcast, since the American government seems to like giving my money to companies, banks, and politicians (everyone but me).
Exactly. It's somehow not fair that Microsoft is able to create a competitive product using money they get from elsewhere. "Leveling" the "playing field" of competiiton for DirectX and OpenGL should not be telling Microsoft that they aren't allowed to spend money on DirectX if they didn't make that money from DirectX; that may allow for more competition, sure, but only because you're forcing Microsoft to produce a worse product. Not exactly "progress," IMO.
(Ignore the fact that Ubuntu was started by a millionaire who made his money from elsewhere.)
which, in many ways would be the greatest thing for the consumer and the industry (as far as innovation and progress goes).
What industry? If you mean the 3D "market," I disagree. Having a large number of very different systems (e.g., let's just take Linux for example, drivers that work in one distro don't always work in another) does not necessarily help innovation and progress. Having a stable/typical setup helps, as you can focus in more on your product than worrying about whether or not it will work on all these different platforms/drivers/whatever. Unless we're talking about different industries, here.
As it is, I would rather have a lot of developers being able to easily produce quality stuff using DirectX than having developers squabbling about different 3D drivers, and then having to make sure my card supported all those kinds of drivers so I could play all those kinds of games, etc...
To me, that sounds bad. Sure, you could have an "open standard," but someone is controlling that, too. Being "open-source" does not mean you are inherently a better individual and less susceptible to the same squabbles that companies that are closed-source/proprietary get into.
I don't like all of what Microsoft does. But Microsoft does appear to do DirectX fairly decently... and they have realized it's to their advantage to let others easily access it and learn it (documentation, etc). I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Being good in an area, even if you're a monopoly, is not a bad way to squash competition. To think that a product should be worse so that competition could be better is ... a very strange way of looking at things, IMO. :)
And knowing how to do something isn't toooo difficult with manuals, Google, and other people to ask.
Knowing what to do appears to come with experience.
because publicly owned utilities have a history of giving better prices and service than their private counterparts for doing similar jobs.
Aren't "publically owned utilities" basically financed with tax dollars? No wonder they can give "better prices and service." They get my money somehow else.
Not saying it's not an option... just saying that the price you pay for a public utility isn't just the price on the sticker. Or ad. Or whatever.
Young people with their heads on straight. Definitely newsworthy.
I know the whole "you young'un, you can't manage a server to save your life!" feeling and all that, but really... is managing a server, even an important one, really that hard - when you have someone to go to when you have questions? A lot of lab administration seems to be finding problems before they become a real problem, which is time consuming.
You may as well have a story about dental work done by *gasp* dental students and, lo and behold, they are actually doing a good job! Shocking. To think that young people could actually learn something. :)
OTOH, it's interesting to read about the difficulties he brings up. They're pretty ... boring, IMO.
It generally takes around six months for a student to feel comfortable with our environment.
Like most jobs?
Another challenge is the short turnaround with students, as we usually only have them for two to three years before they graduate. This creates a constant issue to ensure our documentation and training is honed.
Two to three years, that's not too short, is it? And it's interesting that it's an "issue" to him to keep their documentation good/honed. I hope the graduates are learning that documentation is a BIG ISSUE in real jobs, for exactly that purpose: if something happens to you, the business can't just stop for 3 months while someone else tries to figure out what you did :)
Then don't buy it.
I don't see the benefit in a big screen TV. I don't watch TV and don't watch too many movies. So I don't buy one. It's pretty simple. :)
Sew the fields? You must have some pretty hefty thread for that seam.
An impulse buy of $20 for a DVD you weren't planning on buying anyways?
Versus FREE?
No wonder national and personal finances are in such a mess.
No moral or ethical qualms about not paying for something that you should pay for? No wonder national and personal ethics are in such a mess. No wonder nobody seems to "care" anymore...
One could argue that ever deciding that the company should make more money is not a "customer first" attitude.
"Customer first" is at best a goal of a company. Most companies want to stay afloat first ... which may or may not be directly tied to a "customer first" ideal.
But to think that companies are actively trying to seek ways to lower their profit in order to put the customer first seems a little idealistic. Sorta like thinking that most customers *won't* choose the cheaper of two products, all other things with the product identical. Some to have a brand loyalty, but I'm not sure most do.
1.5" accuracy? Seems like that isn't too bad. Move your hand 1.5" ... that's a pretty small movement.
I was using the 32 bit, as my old laptop, while a dual core, is one of the early dual core chips from Intel and was only 32 bit :)
ou were all saying that GW didn't exist a few years ago. Now it exists but isn't manmade.
That's because "global warming" was typically used to refer to "man-made global warming."
And I don't listen to Beck, he's actually annoying to me.