1. Closer to 40 to 45 minutes without carpooling, depending on traffic. But the point here was to save gas and money...
2. Agree, it's more comfortable in the car. Again, point was to save gas and money... and not spend $40k on a commute car.
3. Also agree, but carpooling also limits freedom. Anyways, usually one can plan one day ahead.
Plus, it's an easy way to keep the weight down. I'm "losing" an hour and twenty minutes each day (if on lightrail, I can do something else while on it, though), but I don't have to go to a gym or work out to stay healthy. Plus, when I decided to bike, I was saving ~$7 per day in gas (back at $4.50/gal). That's $35 per work week, or about $140 per month...
I have no problem if someone wants to drive... but the idea here was saving on gas money, not being comfortable, free, and speedy.
My one way bike commute is between 17 and 20 miles. I can do it in an hour and 10 minutes, including carrying my computer bag (the weight of which varies dependent on what I took my lunch in and how much water I am carrying). It takes ~30 minutes to drive (carpool) and ~1 hour using transit (lightrail). Both biking and lightrail (company provided pass) are free...
From what I understand, the northern regions of Finland aren't exactly the most inhabitable of regions. It would be interesting to know how much coverage all of Finland gets. Sure, the plan is great when you're in a city... but how good is it when you go to a random part of the country? What's the cell coverage like? What happens when you go to Sweden?
Not necessarily arguing that it's better or worse than the US, but price vs. population density for both countries is still not a sufficient comparison...
Also, one would have to factor in various other costs... any tax money used for the infrastructure, average wage, etc.
I think that depends on the tool, it's function, the level of understanding of the user, and the definition of "smart" and "dumb."
Using a calculator to do division very easily and quickly, but not knowing how to do it by hand and having to use a calculator yourself does not make you "smarter."
It can allow you to do smarter things, but making it easier does not necessarily make you smarter. It allows for progression, but does not necessitate it. Sliderules didn't make anyone smarter, either.
I think the real issue is how we define "smarter." If "smart" means "able to do it but not necessarily understand what is happening," then yeah. If smart means "understand what is happening," then someone who uses a sliderule and has no clue how to use a graphing calculator can be just as smart. I think that's more what people mean with "smart" and "dumb." Using google to find answers is efficient and is "smart" in a way, but doesn't make you knowledgeable in a field... IMO, "able to find the answer" and "knowledgeable" have the same fundamental difference as "able to do something" and "smart."
What would be the purpose of a cell phone in a learning environment where you are supposed to be listening to the teacher and interacting that way? Voices serve a purpose in the classroom. What purpose do cell phones serve?
Hmm. So if I have ads on my blog and I post "misleading and deceptive" blog posts that are "fun to read" or "sensational" (sounds like the mass media), is that fraud? Or how about advertising that implies "If you drink this, you'll get a girl like the one in this ad!"?...
Summary: I don't see this as being particularly any worse than most publicity. Heh, for that matter, all of Hollywood is misleading and deceptive for the sake of financial gain
I used Vista x64. No problems with Oblivion, one of th few games I do play. Maybe it was a hrdware or driver issue, I don't know. Hooray for two conflicting anecdotal evidences!... hehe.
Windows 7 seems much smoother, so far, than Vista - even though I just said I didn't have too many issues with Vista, hehe. I've run some pretty old programs on it with no problems. If you do use Windows, I'd actually recommend it. Oblivion "has issues," according to MS - which I think is an alt-tab issue - but it handles it fine otherwise. It switches the desktop to 'classic' mode before running and switches it back afterwards. NWN2, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Sibelius (music notation software), Age of Empires III... all working fine so far.
Does it Freeze, lock up, blue screen, crash & reboot like a full windows OS too?
Where is this freezing, locking, BSODing, crashing, and rebooting Windows OS that you speak of? Aside from a few driver conflict issues, I haven't had many problems since Win2k (and XP). I have yet to have a Windows issue on Vista x64 and Windows 7, actually... although I still really didn't like Vista at all.
Disclaimer: No, I am not a Windows fanboy. Yes, I run Linux. I work with AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Windows, and Linux as my day job. I don't like Macs out of principle.
police should always arrest people that they don't like
I'm glad you have such insight into the officer's mind and intentions. Some people would pay a lot of money for that kind of "knowledge of the heart." [/sarcasm]
On a non-sarcastic (and off topic) note, if Obama wanted to "fix" a "nationwide" police situation/racism/whatever, it probably was not the best time to do it. Let's see. Personal friend of the "racially profiled" black man? Yup. Former student of the school? I think so. Same race? Yup. Multi-ethnic police force on the scene? Yup.
I'm not denying racism, but trying to force racism on someone to prove a point is ridiculous. Unfortunately, it seems many that are more liberal in their political views (which is fine, I respect the honest liberal's opinion just as I respect the honest conservative's opinion... and generally don't respect either one's dishonest opinion) think racial discrimination is something only white's practice... in other words, that it is a fundamental issue with a certain race, instead of a fundamental issue with the human race. Blacks, hispanics, latinos, whites, Asians... all of the above can and do evidence "racism." It's not like the minorities are somehow immune to racist thinking.
The cure for racism is not racism. The cure for racism in college enrollment is not to force colleges to enroll students based on race.
that netbook hardware is most certainly anything but current.
True. The specs, at any rate. But netbook hardware is probably better than typical hardware from 7 years ago, isn't it? If I remember correctly, 7 years ago was back in awful celeron days...
Shocking, I know...;) Google Canada returns the same princeton result. I couldn't find many Candian sources on Google. Maybe they don't have dictionaries up there, I dunno;)
I'm "fairly" certain Verizon is primarily a United States based thing, right? And, in fact, I'm fairly certain that the billboards and ads are run in the US.
Most Canadians will correct you if you call them "American."
Linux doesn't default to granting root privileges, I know. And you don't need root privileges to delete files out of your own home directory. Hence the tilde before the slash: ~/* not/*
Linux does have executable files.
Now, I am not entirely certain it could have the +x flag set on the file after being an e-mailed attachment, though, actually. I could be mistaken there.
On the other hand, you could just bundle it up into an RPM, make it look "real" and people will "install" the "video." If you switch the average Windows user to Linux, they'll know even less about Linux than they do about Windows. They'll install RPMs (or whatever) as quickly as they will install Smilie Packs on Windows. If that means typing in their password - which they'd be used to, by now, if they've been installing updates - then they will type it in.
And public mistakes or temper-losses make public embarassments and broken relationships instead of apologies.
Some things are good to do in private. Heated arguments and insults are probably one of them. If they did it in private and still were mad at each other, it'd become public. It's easier to work out when you're not publically criticized and publically humiliated and then publically responded to and publically state "I'm leaving."
It seems like unfair comparisons get made. There are tons of versions of Linux, and tons of versions of specific distros of Linux. There's more or less one version of XP.
Saying your P4 will run "Linux" great is like saying my P4 will run "Windows" great.
If you're talking bout... Ubuntu 9.04 then I doubt the P4 will run it "great." If you're talking DSL or PuppyLinux or something, then yeah, it probably does.
Compatibility is still an issue. Graphics drivers can be a major pain. Is it the fault of the Linux drivers? No, probably not... more the fault of ATI/nVidia... but I don't think most users really care whose fault it is. They base their decision on how well it works as a whole, not who is at fault.
A lot of the people that don't like Vista for the superficial reasons are the same people that won't like Linux for the superficial reasons.
Yes, that's good, isn't it? A 7 year old OS vs. a not-yet-released OS running on current hardware... and the not-yet-released OS performs almost just as well as the 7 year old OS?
I'd say that's pretty good. Typical idea is that older OS's will run faster since they were smaller and HAD to run on.. less hardware. Hardware is better, so OS's can plan on using more of it. An OS that is able to run almost as well as a 7 year old OS on CURRENT hardware is doing pretty well.
But it is a valid reason to say that Ubuntu didn't run as well during normal operations.
I have the Flash issue even on a dual core laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. It's annoying. Every time I mention it, though, the same answer comes up: it's a problem with flash, not Ubuntu. That may be true, but it's still making it much more annoying and difficult to watch Flash videos, no matter whose fault it is. Average User (tm) is not going to say "Oh well. I can live without being able to watch youtube videos easily. After all, I'm supporting Free Software." They're going to say, "This stinks. Windows worked, Linux just isn't as good. I'm going back."
Many analogies come to mind but I'll spare everyone from reading them;) hehe.
In other words, if they switched to Linux, they'd likely have the same problem? I'm guessing you can probably mess up your Linux box by running attachments, too.
I'm not guessing, I know that.;) Or at least, mess up your user environment, if not the Linux box. But let's face it, if you're a single user with a single computer, you probably don't want rm -rf ~/* being run anymore than you'd want a virus installed on a Windows box...
That said, I do like Windows 7 so far. Pretty cool. So far, even Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 have played nicely with the network/samba/etc, which was a plus, since I'm using a Linux box as a NAS (in addition to using it in other ways... media player in the other room, etc)
XP x64 was awful, unstable, etc. Vista x64 wasn't too bad. I'm using Win 7 RC x64 and it is working very well, actually, and I haven't run into anything (casual gamer, programmer, use Sibelius and East West sound libraries extensively) that I haven't been able to do... except for one piece of hardware that lacked 64 bit drivers (a rather old 1x1 midiman box).
I initially upgraded to Vista x64 for the RAM issue. I love using Linux, but it wasn't an option since I mostly use my desktop for music (Sibelius is Mac/PC only, does not run well in Wine or virtualized due to midi support, I think... plus there's the sound samples/library issue...) and games (obviously not going to work best on Linux... under wine or virtualized), so it only made sense to install a 64 bit version of Windows. Vista x64 was ok and I didn't have many problems. Windows 7 RC x64 has impressed me so far.
Is it better or worse than Windows? It's stable so far. I'm not stupid, so it's plenty secure for me. Antivirus doesn't slow it down much, etc. I haven't had any software or hardware issues, I haven't had any crashes. In fact, I've had more trouble with Ubuntu running on my older Dell E1505 laptop than I have had with Win7.
I've used VMWare, Xen, and VirtualBox. I like VirtualBox from the "ease" perspective. VMWare was a little more clunky. But I guess the real question is why do you want to virtualize Win 7 instead of just running it? Win 7 x64 is fine... unless there's something you want from a Linux distro that is lacking in Windows, I don't see why - if Windows is more convenient for whatever reason - you don't just run it.
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1. Closer to 40 to 45 minutes without carpooling, depending on traffic. But the point here was to save gas and money...
2. Agree, it's more comfortable in the car. Again, point was to save gas and money... and not spend $40k on a commute car.
3. Also agree, but carpooling also limits freedom. Anyways, usually one can plan one day ahead.
Plus, it's an easy way to keep the weight down. I'm "losing" an hour and twenty minutes each day (if on lightrail, I can do something else while on it, though), but I don't have to go to a gym or work out to stay healthy. Plus, when I decided to bike, I was saving ~$7 per day in gas (back at $4.50/gal). That's $35 per work week, or about $140 per month...
I have no problem if someone wants to drive... but the idea here was saving on gas money, not being comfortable, free, and speedy.
most humans operate.
Fixed. :)
24 miles? Why not just bike? :)
My one way bike commute is between 17 and 20 miles. I can do it in an hour and 10 minutes, including carrying my computer bag (the weight of which varies dependent on what I took my lunch in and how much water I am carrying). It takes ~30 minutes to drive (carpool) and ~1 hour using transit (lightrail). Both biking and lightrail (company provided pass) are free...
From what I understand, the northern regions of Finland aren't exactly the most inhabitable of regions. It would be interesting to know how much coverage all of Finland gets. Sure, the plan is great when you're in a city... but how good is it when you go to a random part of the country? What's the cell coverage like? What happens when you go to Sweden?
Not necessarily arguing that it's better or worse than the US, but price vs. population density for both countries is still not a sufficient comparison...
Also, one would have to factor in various other costs... any tax money used for the infrastructure, average wage, etc.
I think that depends on the tool, it's function, the level of understanding of the user, and the definition of "smart" and "dumb."
Using a calculator to do division very easily and quickly, but not knowing how to do it by hand and having to use a calculator yourself does not make you "smarter."
It can allow you to do smarter things, but making it easier does not necessarily make you smarter. It allows for progression, but does not necessitate it. Sliderules didn't make anyone smarter, either.
I think the real issue is how we define "smarter." If "smart" means "able to do it but not necessarily understand what is happening," then yeah. If smart means "understand what is happening," then someone who uses a sliderule and has no clue how to use a graphing calculator can be just as smart. I think that's more what people mean with "smart" and "dumb." Using google to find answers is efficient and is "smart" in a way, but doesn't make you knowledgeable in a field... IMO, "able to find the answer" and "knowledgeable" have the same fundamental difference as "able to do something" and "smart."
What would be the purpose of a cell phone in a learning environment where you are supposed to be listening to the teacher and interacting that way? Voices serve a purpose in the classroom. What purpose do cell phones serve?
Hmm. So if I have ads on my blog and I post "misleading and deceptive" blog posts that are "fun to read" or "sensational" (sounds like the mass media), is that fraud? Or how about advertising that implies "If you drink this, you'll get a girl like the one in this ad!"? ...
Summary: I don't see this as being particularly any worse than most publicity. Heh, for that matter, all of Hollywood is misleading and deceptive for the sake of financial gain
I used Vista x64. No problems with Oblivion, one of th few games I do play. Maybe it was a hrdware or driver issue, I don't know. Hooray for two conflicting anecdotal evidences! ... hehe.
Windows 7 seems much smoother, so far, than Vista - even though I just said I didn't have too many issues with Vista, hehe. I've run some pretty old programs on it with no problems. If you do use Windows, I'd actually recommend it. Oblivion "has issues," according to MS - which I think is an alt-tab issue - but it handles it fine otherwise. It switches the desktop to 'classic' mode before running and switches it back afterwards. NWN2, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Sibelius (music notation software), Age of Empires III ... all working fine so far.
Does it Freeze, lock up, blue screen, crash & reboot like a full windows OS too?
Where is this freezing, locking, BSODing, crashing, and rebooting Windows OS that you speak of? Aside from a few driver conflict issues, I haven't had many problems since Win2k (and XP). I have yet to have a Windows issue on Vista x64 and Windows 7, actually... although I still really didn't like Vista at all.
Disclaimer: No, I am not a Windows fanboy. Yes, I run Linux. I work with AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Windows, and Linux as my day job. I don't like Macs out of principle.
Apple should take over dev of it. We could all be using iHurd
That's not because the bots have such great intelligence though. ;)
... is a big deal in most courts, as far as I know.
Even for something like a traffic ticket, if the cop doesn't show up in court, you're let off... (in the US anyways)
It'd be be like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but really nerdy.
Mr. and Mrs. Torvalds? Mr. and Mrs. Einstein? Mr. and Mrs. Gates? (he's pretty nerdy) ...
They weren't just single quotes. It was a secretly embedded message from Woodstock.
police should always arrest people that they don't like
I'm glad you have such insight into the officer's mind and intentions. Some people would pay a lot of money for that kind of "knowledge of the heart." [/sarcasm]
On a non-sarcastic (and off topic) note, if Obama wanted to "fix" a "nationwide" police situation/racism/whatever, it probably was not the best time to do it. Let's see. Personal friend of the "racially profiled" black man? Yup. Former student of the school? I think so. Same race? Yup. Multi-ethnic police force on the scene? Yup.
I'm not denying racism, but trying to force racism on someone to prove a point is ridiculous. Unfortunately, it seems many that are more liberal in their political views (which is fine, I respect the honest liberal's opinion just as I respect the honest conservative's opinion ... and generally don't respect either one's dishonest opinion) think racial discrimination is something only white's practice... in other words, that it is a fundamental issue with a certain race, instead of a fundamental issue with the human race. Blacks, hispanics, latinos, whites, Asians... all of the above can and do evidence "racism." It's not like the minorities are somehow immune to racist thinking.
The cure for racism is not racism. The cure for racism in college enrollment is not to force colleges to enroll students based on race.
that netbook hardware is most certainly anything but current.
True. The specs, at any rate. But netbook hardware is probably better than typical hardware from 7 years ago, isn't it? If I remember correctly, 7 years ago was back in awful celeron days...
Shocking, I know... ;) Google Canada returns the same princeton result. I couldn't find many Candian sources on Google. Maybe they don't have dictionaries up there, I dunno ;)
I'm "fairly" certain Verizon is primarily a United States based thing, right? And, in fact, I'm fairly certain that the billboards and ads are run in the US.
Most Canadians will correct you if you call them "American."
How can the court decide when it's clear there are no objective measureable standards for "best" and "most reliable"?
I agree.
Linux doesn't default to granting root privileges, I know. And you don't need root privileges to delete files out of your own home directory. Hence the tilde before the slash: ~/* not /*
Linux does have executable files.
Now, I am not entirely certain it could have the +x flag set on the file after being an e-mailed attachment, though, actually. I could be mistaken there.
On the other hand, you could just bundle it up into an RPM, make it look "real" and people will "install" the "video." If you switch the average Windows user to Linux, they'll know even less about Linux than they do about Windows. They'll install RPMs (or whatever) as quickly as they will install Smilie Packs on Windows. If that means typing in their password - which they'd be used to, by now, if they've been installing updates - then they will type it in.
No room for misunderstandings.
And public mistakes or temper-losses make public embarassments and broken relationships instead of apologies.
Some things are good to do in private. Heated arguments and insults are probably one of them. If they did it in private and still were mad at each other, it'd become public. It's easier to work out when you're not publically criticized and publically humiliated and then publically responded to and publically state "I'm leaving."
Hmm. P4 running WHAT version of Linux?
It seems like unfair comparisons get made. There are tons of versions of Linux, and tons of versions of specific distros of Linux. There's more or less one version of XP.
Saying your P4 will run "Linux" great is like saying my P4 will run "Windows" great.
If you're talking bout... Ubuntu 9.04 then I doubt the P4 will run it "great." If you're talking DSL or PuppyLinux or something, then yeah, it probably does.
Compatibility is still an issue. Graphics drivers can be a major pain. Is it the fault of the Linux drivers? No, probably not... more the fault of ATI/nVidia ... but I don't think most users really care whose fault it is. They base their decision on how well it works as a whole, not who is at fault.
A lot of the people that don't like Vista for the superficial reasons are the same people that won't like Linux for the superficial reasons.
Yes, that's good, isn't it? A 7 year old OS vs. a not-yet-released OS running on current hardware... and the not-yet-released OS performs almost just as well as the 7 year old OS?
I'd say that's pretty good. Typical idea is that older OS's will run faster since they were smaller and HAD to run on .. less hardware. Hardware is better, so OS's can plan on using more of it. An OS that is able to run almost as well as a 7 year old OS on CURRENT hardware is doing pretty well.
But it is a valid reason to say that Ubuntu didn't run as well during normal operations.
I have the Flash issue even on a dual core laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. It's annoying. Every time I mention it, though, the same answer comes up: it's a problem with flash, not Ubuntu. That may be true, but it's still making it much more annoying and difficult to watch Flash videos, no matter whose fault it is. Average User (tm) is not going to say "Oh well. I can live without being able to watch youtube videos easily. After all, I'm supporting Free Software." They're going to say, "This stinks. Windows worked, Linux just isn't as good. I'm going back."
Many analogies come to mind but I'll spare everyone from reading them ;) hehe.
In other words, if they switched to Linux, they'd likely have the same problem? I'm guessing you can probably mess up your Linux box by running attachments, too.
I'm not guessing, I know that. ;) Or at least, mess up your user environment, if not the Linux box. But let's face it, if you're a single user with a single computer, you probably don't want rm -rf ~/* being run anymore than you'd want a virus installed on a Windows box...
That said, I do like Windows 7 so far. Pretty cool. So far, even Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 have played nicely with the network/samba/etc, which was a plus, since I'm using a Linux box as a NAS (in addition to using it in other ways... media player in the other room, etc)
XP x64 was awful, unstable, etc. Vista x64 wasn't too bad. I'm using Win 7 RC x64 and it is working very well, actually, and I haven't run into anything (casual gamer, programmer, use Sibelius and East West sound libraries extensively) that I haven't been able to do... except for one piece of hardware that lacked 64 bit drivers (a rather old 1x1 midiman box).
I initially upgraded to Vista x64 for the RAM issue. I love using Linux, but it wasn't an option since I mostly use my desktop for music (Sibelius is Mac/PC only, does not run well in Wine or virtualized due to midi support, I think... plus there's the sound samples/library issue...) and games (obviously not going to work best on Linux... under wine or virtualized), so it only made sense to install a 64 bit version of Windows. Vista x64 was ok and I didn't have many problems. Windows 7 RC x64 has impressed me so far.
Is it better or worse than Windows? It's stable so far. I'm not stupid, so it's plenty secure for me. Antivirus doesn't slow it down much, etc. I haven't had any software or hardware issues, I haven't had any crashes. In fact, I've had more trouble with Ubuntu running on my older Dell E1505 laptop than I have had with Win7.
I've used VMWare, Xen, and VirtualBox. I like VirtualBox from the "ease" perspective. VMWare was a little more clunky. But I guess the real question is why do you want to virtualize Win 7 instead of just running it? Win 7 x64 is fine... unless there's something you want from a Linux distro that is lacking in Windows, I don't see why - if Windows is more convenient for whatever reason - you don't just run it.