When Linux distros finally sort out the farce that is installing vendor provided graphics card drivers, software and codecs etc, then tools like Automatix won't be needed.
I use Linux, have all of those things, and I've never even heard of Automatix. I'm not using Ubuntu though.
What about incoming calls? Some companies, like Sprint and US Cellular offer free incoming already with select plans. I suppose Google would have to implement something similar, they can't delay an incoming call so you can listen to some ads.
Sure they can. The person calling you would love to listen to an advertisement.
At the end of the ups's battery time, I shut down my fileserver before I left for work-and there went 230 days of uptime. Just before that 230 days, Excel robbed me of 719 days of uptime.
Wow, your ePenis must be huge. I bet you get all the chicks.
It's more about that they're using popular languages that people know (HTML, CSS, Javascript) to do things that traditionally were done by unpopular languages (C, Python, etc.)
Now before you flame me about calling those languages unpopular all I mean is that not as many programmers know them, I don't mean to insult anyones language.
The fact that you called C and "unpopular language", no matter what you meant by it, completely invalidates any opinion you may have on any programming related topic.
Given how badly the pay ratio with slot machines can be, I don't think it inconceivable that a casino wouldn't give you a 10:1 ratio on your money so you'll play longer on the "$1 slot" if it knew your odds of recouping that $1 were low and you couldn't convert the credit back to money.
That doesn't make any sense. First, the whole point of a casino is that you can convert the credits back to money. And second, if you don't want to play $1 at a time, there are half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny machines, and the pay outs are adjusted accordingly. They'd replace the $1 machine with a dime machine long before they started giving out $10 in credit for every $1 received.
No casino would ever do something like this on purpose. If casinos want to offer promotions, they do stuff to the winnings. Like having every jackpot pay double or maybe a special "5x" thing on some of the slot machine wheels.
X-Files stopped being cool after the first few seasons. It was at its best when the series focussed on unrelated weird stuff every episode. In the later seasons it basically became a big soap opera with aliens. I stopped watching when it got to the point where missing an episode or two meant you had no idea what was going on for the rest of the season.
Look at the major OSS projects, such as GCC and the Linux kernel. These are not just developers "scratching an itch". On these two projects alone, there are hundreds of full-time OSS developers employed by companies like Red Hat, Intel, Apple, Google, and IBM, as well as by universities and research labs around the world.
Yeah, but even GCC and Linux started out as developers scratching an itch. With few exceptions, almost all OSS starts out as developers scratching an itch. Sometimes companies step in when they think they can make money off something, but usually they don't.
Anyway, my long winded point is that not all windows users are stupid or just stumbled upon windows by accident. I know it's fun to bash things senselessly, but let's grab a little perspective here. Windows is not the devil, it's just not perfect. Nothing is.
The "problem" is that the vast majority of Windows users are stupid and they are using Windows simply because it came with their box.
Of the hundreds of millions of Windows users, maybe 0.5% are actually computer savvy and chose to use Windows. Of the few million people using Linux, Mac, or something else, it's closer to 99.5%.
So, to answer your question of why Windows users are portrayed as less computer literate, it's because on average, they are less computer literate.
Say what you want about bloatware, but it's nice to buy a piece of hardware and have it just work. It's nice to install a program without having to recompile the kernel. It's nice to have a box I can actually buy decent games for.
This is the other reason people tend to disregard the comments of Windows users: most of them haven't even tried the alternatives, and it shows.
Before you spout off, "But how often do Linux people use Windows?", remember that a lot of them get paid to use Windows every day.
Unfortunately, short of turning off Javascript (which I once advocated but today you really can't use even the most basic of sites without it), AdWords seem nearly unblockable. Sometimes the "printable" form of the page gives some relief, but even then you often get every other paragraph interlaced with a half-printed-page banner.
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I believe you're correct in that the original copyright holder can relicense their software.
But, Linus isn't the sole copyright holder on the Linux kernel. Other people have added files and made significant changes, and they own the copyright on their contributions. In order to change the license on the whole kernel, Linus would have to get permission from everyone who has copyrighted code to the kernel. It'd be relatively easy for 95% of the code, but a lot of people have made one off contributions and moved on, and others have died, and in general it'd be a real pain.
Because source code falls under copyright law, and they want things like the original windows code released to the public domain. If the source is never released it never falls into the public domain: you can copy the program forever, but you'll never really be able to look at it.
It doesn't work that way. Even if an early version of Windows went public domain, Microsoft still doesn't have to release the source code. You'd be able to copy the disks as much as you wanted, but the code would only be available if Microsoft released it.
It was my understanding that we pay the FBI to investigate crimes.
I'm not a criminal, nor have any crimes been committed against me, so it seems odd that the FBI would trample my privacy and waste resources mining through my online activity/phone calls/whatever.
If the FBI wants to investigate criminals, fucking wonderful. But they should leave the rest of us alone.
Give credit where it's due, but Comcast does appear to be amping up the bandwidth hugely.
I got a massive bandwidth increase for about a month right after Comcast took over Adelphia and started blocking bit-torrent. So don't get too excited, they're just using the increased bandwidth to hide the fact they're breaking your service somewhere else.
In a decently run programming shop, programmers shouldn't have "emergencies" like system admins and IT people.
The worst thing I can think of is checking in code that breaks the build. Even then, it's usually easier to rollback the changes in the version control system and slap the developer when they get in.
yeah cuz some ppl like me can have too much and end up in the hospital. I'm super sensitive to it which is made worse from never having it so if I drank a whole monster on an empty stomach, I'd be in big trouble
Too bad you can't have caffeine. But it's good to see you're saving energy by not typing full words or using proper punctuation. Most people probably just assume you're a dumbfuck, but I'm sure they'll understand if you explain your situation.
If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay.
No, going 100% by the law, that isn't okay. Fortunately, it's only illegal if you get caught, and short of 100% surveillance, there's no realistic way to catch people doing it.
I think you miss the point. It is the bank's responsibility to ensure the authorised person and only the authorised person access the account. What this is, is the equivalent of saying that some how that is now the customers responsibility. It is just so wrong, if the bank chooses to offer a service, than it is the banks responsibility to ensure that the service can be offered securely, not the customers.
I've always thought it's partly the user's responsibility to ensure that authorization information is secured.
If that means not installing malware like a blithering idiot, maybe that's something they should stop doing.
For example how many banks were only accessible via IE even when there were warnings about using IE and that everybody should be using Firefox, no whose fault is that. If banks are serious, then what they should simply do is force everyone to dual boot and only access the bank services via Firefox running on top of Linux.
Firefox and Linux won't fix "stupid". Unless you're saying that phishing emails are a Windows only problem. I won't touch Windows unless I'm being paid to, but in this case, I don't think it's the problem.
Or more realistically they can demand the use of a hardware security device, like a usb based device combined with user name and password, but of course the buggers are way to greedy and cheap to do something like that.
That I agree with. RSA keyfobs would be nice, but I doubt it'll happen any time soon.
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I use Linux, have all of those things, and I've never even heard of Automatix. I'm not using Ubuntu though.
Sure they can. The person calling you would love to listen to an advertisement.
Sigh. No.
There is no getopt or getopt_long in the C or C++ standard.
getopt is in Posix.
getopt_long is a GNU extension, though
Wow, your ePenis must be huge. I bet you get all the chicks.
Oh, well, maybe one at least.
That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! ... Look, that badger's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Troll my ass. That was hilarious.
The fact that you called C and "unpopular language", no matter what you meant by it, completely invalidates any opinion you may have on any programming related topic.
That doesn't make any sense. First, the whole point of a casino is that you can convert the credits back to money. And second, if you don't want to play $1 at a time, there are half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny machines, and the pay outs are adjusted accordingly. They'd replace the $1 machine with a dime machine long before they started giving out $10 in credit for every $1 received.
No casino would ever do something like this on purpose. If casinos want to offer promotions, they do stuff to the winnings. Like having every jackpot pay double or maybe a special "5x" thing on some of the slot machine wheels.
Make their way into an actual product people can buy?
It continues to sound like shit ;-)
X-Files stopped being cool after the first few seasons. It was at its best when the series focussed on unrelated weird stuff every episode. In the later seasons it basically became a big soap opera with aliens. I stopped watching when it got to the point where missing an episode or two meant you had no idea what was going on for the rest of the season.
Yeah, but even GCC and Linux started out as developers scratching an itch. With few exceptions, almost all OSS starts out as developers scratching an itch. Sometimes companies step in when they think they can make money off something, but usually they don't.
The "problem" is that the vast majority of Windows users are stupid and they are using Windows simply because it came with their box.
Of the hundreds of millions of Windows users, maybe 0.5% are actually computer savvy and chose to use Windows. Of the few million people using Linux, Mac, or something else, it's closer to 99.5%.
So, to answer your question of why Windows users are portrayed as less computer literate, it's because on average, they are less computer literate.
This is the other reason people tend to disregard the comments of Windows users: most of them haven't even tried the alternatives, and it shows.
Before you spout off, "But how often do Linux people use Windows?", remember that a lot of them get paid to use Windows every day.
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As large and old as it is, OpenSolaris has fairly readable code. Plus, most of it has comments explaining why it's done the way it is.
I believe you're correct in that the original copyright holder can relicense their software.
But, Linus isn't the sole copyright holder on the Linux kernel. Other people have added files and made significant changes, and they own the copyright on their contributions. In order to change the license on the whole kernel, Linus would have to get permission from everyone who has copyrighted code to the kernel. It'd be relatively easy for 95% of the code, but a lot of people have made one off contributions and moved on, and others have died, and in general it'd be a real pain.
It doesn't work that way. Even if an early version of Windows went public domain, Microsoft still doesn't have to release the source code. You'd be able to copy the disks as much as you wanted, but the code would only be available if Microsoft released it.
It was my understanding that we pay the FBI to investigate crimes.
I'm not a criminal, nor have any crimes been committed against me, so it seems odd that the FBI would trample my privacy and waste resources mining through my online activity/phone calls/whatever.
If the FBI wants to investigate criminals, fucking wonderful. But they should leave the rest of us alone.
I got a massive bandwidth increase for about a month right after Comcast took over Adelphia and started blocking bit-torrent. So don't get too excited, they're just using the increased bandwidth to hide the fact they're breaking your service somewhere else.
In a decently run programming shop, programmers shouldn't have "emergencies" like system admins and IT people.
The worst thing I can think of is checking in code that breaks the build. Even then, it's usually easier to rollback the changes in the version control system and slap the developer when they get in.
Too bad you can't have caffeine. But it's good to see you're saving energy by not typing full words or using proper punctuation. Most people probably just assume you're a dumbfuck, but I'm sure they'll understand if you explain your situation.
No, going 100% by the law, that isn't okay. Fortunately, it's only illegal if you get caught, and short of 100% surveillance, there's no realistic way to catch people doing it.
I've always thought it's partly the user's responsibility to ensure that authorization information is secured.
If that means not installing malware like a blithering idiot, maybe that's something they should stop doing.
Firefox and Linux won't fix "stupid". Unless you're saying that phishing emails are a Windows only problem. I won't touch Windows unless I'm being paid to, but in this case, I don't think it's the problem.
That I agree with. RSA keyfobs would be nice, but I doubt it'll happen any time soon.