Man, as a libertarian I'm all for legalizing all drugs, but you should get your facts straight.
Marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
Nope, it makes you *stupid* while you're high (try driving and see what happens: if you don't fall asleep, you'll still have the reaction time of a zombie) and gives addiction if used long-term. So, it's pretty much like alcohol. Which is the reason why both of them are used with *moderation* by smart people.
people get addicted to getting high on water.
Wow, that came as a surprise. I can't believe it, yet it seems true! Oh well. Whatever floats their boats.
Many other illegal drugs are similarly harmless
This is where you are utterly and completely wrong. Cocaine, heroin, crack, LSD, ecstasy, speed, meth... You call them harmless? Have you seen what they do to people? Have you informed yourself on what some of them do to your brain? How about burning your frigging brain cells?!
I agree. However: if I'm going to pay for your hospitalization because you abused of drugs, then I get to regulate *something*, I don't know what but if I pay for you I must get something in return. Otherwise, you're very very free to use what drug you want but I shouldn't be asked to subsidize* both your habit and the cure you will need. It's a bit like the law we have in my country, that forces motorbike riders to use a helmet: I am against it, you should be very free to do without a helmet. I also should be very free NOT to pay for your operation when you eventually crack your head open.
Most problems simply disappear in a truly free society.
*Oh yeah, I said "subsidize": how do you think the real junkies (you know, the ones without a job or a life) are going to pay for their fix? Right, they will NOT. Guess who'll end up paying.
Actually, in this respect Windows is as flexible as Linux: you can put your home wherever you want (docs & settings seems to be a sensible default so everybody leaves it there) and you can mount non-root partitions under C:\ just like you do in Linux. In fact, I have a 100 GB partition at C:\Stuff.
Anyway I was talking about filesystem performance. It's true that in some cases you can get worse performance if your head has to travel a longer distance from, say, your home to your progs. But I believe such loss of performance is not significant, compared to the one you incur by having one single filesystem handle all of your files on a huge partition. It fragments a lot, the MFT becomes huge and possibly fragmented too, which is *very* bad for performance, the chance for filesystem errors rises.
Performace - try comparing a 60 GB vs a 200 GB NTFS partition. Read and write performance, as well as tendence to fragmentation or file system errors, are so much different between the two scenarios.
Besides, do you just slap / on your only partition on your disk? Don't use at least keep/home separate? That would be very good practice.
WTF is wrong with these guys?! Seriously... a chat app where people actually have BUBBLES over them? Freaking bubbles? Why not throw in a Pokemon too? And please... a time machine whose interface comes straight out of Star Wars? With nice big user-friendly arrows for going back and forth in time? What's next, a puppy asking if it can do anything for me? A nice wizard for searching my files?
I guess limiting themselves to something serious like a box asking me for a time window wherein to look for my changed files would not have been thinking different(tm) enough. How come you people like OS X so much? Wizards everywhere, don't touch this - you wouldn't understand it anyway, look! SHINY!</disgusted>
The majority of Linux users plain doesn't care about converting the world over. They mostly want to Get Things Done(tm) and the tool they like best happens to be a *nix. Please do not mistake the small vocal minority for the reasonable majority.
Also throw in Deus Ex: Conspiracy. A masterpiece of interactive art, as you put it. AND arguably one the best games ever made.
Let us never speak again of the sequel, though.
I know where you're coming from. I've been looking into dual booting, virtual machines, cooperative Linux, KDE via Cygwin, *nix tools for Windows... There's no single "hybrid" system that will satisfy me. Oh how I suffer:(
The troll was both wrong and, uhm, a troll. The thing is that, as with any emulation out there, you can never emulate 100% of the original functionality, especially when the original keeps evolving. But if cut some smart corners, your disadvantage (feature-wise) will be offset by your advantage (performance-wise). So yeah, if you're an average player Cedega on Linux will look like DirectX on Windows and magically perform better. If you're a 1337 64M3r, some of the best things your 7800GT might show you will be lost.
Well, the law of unintended consequences certainly does come into play, however if we were to make a cost/benefit analysis we'd probably find out that it's better to have one MORE way to communicate, wouldn't we. This is more about providing choice than forcing a certain way over another. The "residents of a typical urban flat or condo" live in the way they WANT - nobody forced them (or me) to not communicate with their neighbours, etc. It's all about choice, really, just like with Negroponte's OLPC project.
But really, screw the third world - I want that solar-powered mesh-like system here and now! Why's it always the poor who get the gadgets? (OK, really poor taste here, now I'll be in my corner, thanks)
Friars tend to live a secluded life and have close to no relationship with the world out of their monastery. May I ask why you dislike them? Their home-made honey and liquor are usually delicious:)
To this I can answer that criticism only becomes unacceptable if you reach the same level of PC stupidity as your accusers. In other words, YOU set what's acceptable and what's not. Case in point: the place where I work was asked to go a bit out of its way and do a small favour to a blind girl. Everybody was almost pretending she was not blind, somebody asked me to do this particular thing and kept referring to the "sight challenged" girl. It was as if they were ashamed of her blindness. Well, while they were wasting their time beating around the bush and searching for euphemisms, I always called her "the blind gal" and actually provided her with the service she needed. Everybody was shocked by my lack of PCness. I was satisfied I actually helped her and, you know, TO HELL with what our (micro)society finds acceptable.
Why would we have become so much more sensitive, you ask. I suppose it's got to do with the perceived necessity to act as an artificially harmonious society, where everybody has the same mediocre value and there must be no way to differentiate people, and thus to praise/criticize. You're right, criticism IS becoming unacceptable but I'm not going to change this. All I can do is NOT CARE about what society finds acceptable and set my way more sensible rules.
But hey I'm an individualist and I like personal responsibility, what can I do:)
We're not legislating, we're simply stating our opinion. A mod holds no legal value in World Of Slashdot, because your post is not censored or anything if it's modded down; it's simply given a tag, which users can use to filter messages if they want.
I'd like to know what the 10-years-ahead OSS counterparts to the following software are: Oracle, Opera, Photoshop, AutoCAD.
This was meant to show that yelling "OSS is always teh b3s7es7" is as dumb as assuming that free stuff must be worthless. That's why I use a varied collection of tools at home and at work, and I don't particularly care whether they're OSS or not. When I wanted a graphics package I chose Photoshop. When I wanted a good entry level server I built a box and put Linux on it (I know Linux works well on high level servers too, but my needs were modest). Why can't we judge the merits of software on the basis of its usefulness, effeciency, manageability, security, and support level offered with it rather than by looking at its skin color?
pretty much every possible setting has been twiddled and is now at some completely random value
LOL, reminds me of myself. At least I try to keep a mental list of what I've touched so I that can rollback edits. It's easy when you're "troubleshooting" something like a macro or a game crash. Less so when it's an Apache config...
Anyway, tinkering was supposed to be an ancient and honorable tradition. Is it not anymore?
Wowzer, way to accuse me of things I never said. In that sentence I was simply pointing out that an engineering faculty is not an unpleasant environment for girls because of the favorable ratio of men to girls. You wouldn't argue that no competition against you and lots of choice for you make for an unpleasant experience, would you? And in case you're simply "not interested" (=despise college sweethearts, gay, etc) then said ratio simply has NO effect on your happiness. So what's your problem?
What makes you think women want to be smothered?
The fact that they COMPLAIN that we're not kind enough to them and that THIS is the reason they don't like traditionally male-oriented courses of study? Which was, you know, the main subject of this thread...
WTF! You and I must be living in different worlds.
they think guy geeks are jerks. And i don't blame them... sit through 4 years of people who make you uncomfortable on a daily basis
Where the heck did you see that happening? My experience is that most geeks are shy guys who would do almost anything to get the attention of a normal girl. My geek friends and I always behave nicely to girls and when we are in a relationship we sometimes tend to smother them, even. I have NEVER seen a nerd behave rudely to a girl. Unless you consider being too anxious to be sociable a rude thing (certainyl it's not pleasant but it's not done out of rudeness). Even nerds who are not geeks, say, LotR nerds, follow this pattern. WRT to the years in college... Girls who study stuff like engineering here are *swamped* with men and they get to pick which ones they want.
I think you're vastly exaggerating in your analysis. What you say might apply to girls who enter the military, or something, but definitely not IT.
Yes, however you shouldn't think it's such a cut and dried scenario. E.g. I know people from Eastern Europe who study until they are 29 and married and have two degrees in separate subjects... However they end up with worse jobs/a lower standard of life than I. Their government invests a LOT in their education, however their success also depends on pre-existing infrastructure, work ethics and a gazillion other factors.
Of course education is better than ignorance, but your analysis was a bit simplistic. You can't throw money at a problem until it's solved; at least, not always.
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Looks to me like you misunderstood everything I said. Either that, or you're a troll. Have a good day!
Man, as a libertarian I'm all for legalizing all drugs, but you should get your facts straight.
Marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
Nope, it makes you *stupid* while you're high (try driving and see what happens: if you don't fall asleep, you'll still have the reaction time of a zombie) and gives addiction if used long-term. So, it's pretty much like alcohol. Which is the reason why both of them are used with *moderation* by smart people.
people get addicted to getting high on water.
Wow, that came as a surprise. I can't believe it, yet it seems true! Oh well. Whatever floats their boats.
Many other illegal drugs are similarly harmless
This is where you are utterly and completely wrong. Cocaine, heroin, crack, LSD, ecstasy, speed, meth... You call them harmless? Have you seen what they do to people? Have you informed yourself on what some of them do to your brain? How about burning your frigging brain cells?!
I agree. However: if I'm going to pay for your hospitalization because you abused of drugs, then I get to regulate *something*, I don't know what but if I pay for you I must get something in return. Otherwise, you're very very free to use what drug you want but I shouldn't be asked to subsidize* both your habit and the cure you will need. It's a bit like the law we have in my country, that forces motorbike riders to use a helmet: I am against it, you should be very free to do without a helmet. I also should be very free NOT to pay for your operation when you eventually crack your head open.
Most problems simply disappear in a truly free society.
*Oh yeah, I said "subsidize": how do you think the real junkies (you know, the ones without a job or a life) are going to pay for their fix? Right, they will NOT. Guess who'll end up paying.
Actually, in this respect Windows is as flexible as Linux: you can put your home wherever you want (docs & settings seems to be a sensible default so everybody leaves it there) and you can mount non-root partitions under C:\ just like you do in Linux. In fact, I have a 100 GB partition at C:\Stuff.
Anyway I was talking about filesystem performance. It's true that in some cases you can get worse performance if your head has to travel a longer distance from, say, your home to your progs. But I believe such loss of performance is not significant, compared to the one you incur by having one single filesystem handle all of your files on a huge partition. It fragments a lot, the MFT becomes huge and possibly fragmented too, which is *very* bad for performance, the chance for filesystem errors rises.
Performace - try comparing a 60 GB vs a 200 GB NTFS partition. Read and write performance, as well as tendence to fragmentation or file system errors, are so much different between the two scenarios. /home separate? That would be very good practice.
Besides, do you just slap / on your only partition on your disk? Don't use at least keep
WTF is wrong with these guys?! Seriously... a chat app where people actually have BUBBLES over them? Freaking bubbles? Why not throw in a Pokemon too? And please... a time machine whose interface comes straight out of Star Wars? With nice big user-friendly arrows for going back and forth in time? What's next, a puppy asking if it can do anything for me? A nice wizard for searching my files?
I guess limiting themselves to something serious like a box asking me for a time window wherein to look for my changed files would not have been thinking different(tm) enough. How come you people like OS X so much? Wizards everywhere, don't touch this - you wouldn't understand it anyway, look! SHINY!</disgusted>
The majority of Linux users plain doesn't care about converting the world over. They mostly want to Get Things Done(tm) and the tool they like best happens to be a *nix. Please do not mistake the small vocal minority for the reasonable majority.
Also throw in Deus Ex: Conspiracy. A masterpiece of interactive art, as you put it. AND arguably one the best games ever made.
Let us never speak again of the sequel, though.
Because we are not affected by it. We are too savvy!
O.O
the mind... it boggles...
I know where you're coming from. I've been looking into dual booting, virtual machines, cooperative Linux, KDE via Cygwin, *nix tools for Windows... There's no single "hybrid" system that will satisfy me. Oh how I suffer :(
The troll was both wrong and, uhm, a troll. The thing is that, as with any emulation out there, you can never emulate 100% of the original functionality, especially when the original keeps evolving. But if cut some smart corners, your disadvantage (feature-wise) will be offset by your advantage (performance-wise). So yeah, if you're an average player Cedega on Linux will look like DirectX on Windows and magically perform better. If you're a 1337 64M3r, some of the best things your 7800GT might show you will be lost.
Well, the law of unintended consequences certainly does come into play, however if we were to make a cost/benefit analysis we'd probably find out that it's better to have one MORE way to communicate, wouldn't we. This is more about providing choice than forcing a certain way over another. The "residents of a typical urban flat or condo" live in the way they WANT - nobody forced them (or me) to not communicate with their neighbours, etc. It's all about choice, really, just like with Negroponte's OLPC project.
But really, screw the third world - I want that solar-powered mesh-like system here and now! Why's it always the poor who get the gadgets? (OK, really poor taste here, now I'll be in my corner, thanks)
Friars tend to live a secluded life and have close to no relationship with the world out of their monastery. May I ask why you dislike them? Their home-made honey and liquor are usually delicious :)
To this I can answer that criticism only becomes unacceptable if you reach the same level of PC stupidity as your accusers. In other words, YOU set what's acceptable and what's not. Case in point: the place where I work was asked to go a bit out of its way and do a small favour to a blind girl. Everybody was almost pretending she was not blind, somebody asked me to do this particular thing and kept referring to the "sight challenged" girl. It was as if they were ashamed of her blindness. Well, while they were wasting their time beating around the bush and searching for euphemisms, I always called her "the blind gal" and actually provided her with the service she needed. Everybody was shocked by my lack of PCness. I was satisfied I actually helped her and, you know, TO HELL with what our (micro)society finds acceptable. :)
Why would we have become so much more sensitive, you ask. I suppose it's got to do with the perceived necessity to act as an artificially harmonious society, where everybody has the same mediocre value and there must be no way to differentiate people, and thus to praise/criticize. You're right, criticism IS becoming unacceptable but I'm not going to change this. All I can do is NOT CARE about what society finds acceptable and set my way more sensible rules.
But hey I'm an individualist and I like personal responsibility, what can I do
We're not legislating, we're simply stating our opinion. A mod holds no legal value in World Of Slashdot, because your post is not censored or anything if it's modded down; it's simply given a tag, which users can use to filter messages if they want.
I'd like to know what the 10-years-ahead OSS counterparts to the following software are: Oracle, Opera, Photoshop, AutoCAD.
This was meant to show that yelling "OSS is always teh b3s7es7" is as dumb as assuming that free stuff must be worthless. That's why I use a varied collection of tools at home and at work, and I don't particularly care whether they're OSS or not. When I wanted a graphics package I chose Photoshop. When I wanted a good entry level server I built a box and put Linux on it (I know Linux works well on high level servers too, but my needs were modest). Why can't we judge the merits of software on the basis of its usefulness, effeciency, manageability, security, and support level offered with it rather than by looking at its skin color?
pretty much every possible setting has been twiddled and is now at some completely random value
LOL, reminds me of myself. At least I try to keep a mental list of what I've touched so I that can rollback edits. It's easy when you're "troubleshooting" something like a macro or a game crash. Less so when it's an Apache config...
Anyway, tinkering was supposed to be an ancient and honorable tradition. Is it not anymore?
Wowzer, way to accuse me of things I never said. In that sentence I was simply pointing out that an engineering faculty is not an unpleasant environment for girls because of the favorable ratio of men to girls. You wouldn't argue that no competition against you and lots of choice for you make for an unpleasant experience, would you? And in case you're simply "not interested" (=despise college sweethearts, gay, etc) then said ratio simply has NO effect on your happiness. So what's your problem?
What makes you think women want to be smothered?
The fact that they COMPLAIN that we're not kind enough to them and that THIS is the reason they don't like traditionally male-oriented courses of study? Which was, you know, the main subject of this thread...
WTF! You and I must be living in different worlds.
they think guy geeks are jerks. And i don't blame them... sit through 4 years of people who make you uncomfortable on a daily basis
Where the heck did you see that happening? My experience is that most geeks are shy guys who would do almost anything to get the attention of a normal girl. My geek friends and I always behave nicely to girls and when we are in a relationship we sometimes tend to smother them, even. I have NEVER seen a nerd behave rudely to a girl. Unless you consider being too anxious to be sociable a rude thing (certainyl it's not pleasant but it's not done out of rudeness). Even nerds who are not geeks, say, LotR nerds, follow this pattern. WRT to the years in college... Girls who study stuff like engineering here are *swamped* with men and they get to pick which ones they want.
I think you're vastly exaggerating in your analysis. What you say might apply to girls who enter the military, or something, but definitely not IT.
Looks to me like most terrorist attacks do not target the decision makers... rather, lots of Joe Burgers.
That message is as fake as they get... I would guess somebody hijacked his mailbox and had a bit of fun :D
Yes, however you shouldn't think it's such a cut and dried scenario. E.g. I know people from Eastern Europe who study until they are 29 and married and have two degrees in separate subjects... However they end up with worse jobs/a lower standard of life than I. Their government invests a LOT in their education, however their success also depends on pre-existing infrastructure, work ethics and a gazillion other factors.
Of course education is better than ignorance, but your analysis was a bit simplistic. You can't throw money at a problem until it's solved; at least, not always.
If you're working with projects such as libAardvark and gLlamaBoy, you have bigger issues than GPL compliance...
"Lies" as in "resides", I would guess. Kinda like the shadow does in Mordor.