better does not always equal more popular,windows got to where it was from a combination of pot luck, ruthless business tactics, and being 'good enough' for the job at the time.
Once entrenched, people don't really think about it.
that being said, I don't fancy macs myself, more of a linux man, but I still find it terribly more useful than a windows box.
the features that the average joe wants are available on basically every major os nowadays,
never mind that, I know I'm just feeding a troll, but if you seriously think that microsoft products are superior by default, you should really try some other platforms sometime, the results may surprise you
went from blender to 3d studio from a request from a friend, only spent like ten minutes trying to get something remotely productive happening but got annoyed due to controls and went bah.
I'm sure if I slogged through I'd get used to it, but so would all these other people coming from 3ds to blender,
I'm surprised you don't like wings 3d though, most people rave about it's simplicity.
there's no way to defend any of this? about 1/4 of your points are just a linuxy way of doing things, for instance, kde konqueror, one click opens, or other remnants of the fact it's designed for unix then ported to windows.
as far as using native bits on each system, as a blender user why would I want to be hindered by having to use the program on a windows box as opposed to a nix one for some once-off job off-site. consistency between platforms for a program is good.
blender is unique in the way it does a lot of things, when known it's proven to be fast and efficient albeit with a high initial learning curve.
kind of like offering a CLI, or a GUI with tonnes of menus for every option the cli could do, sure the GUI will be easier for a newb, but the CLI will be more efficient to those who know what they're doing, but getting to that stage takes more time.
difference being the biomass in question from fossil fuels has been locked away for quite some time, from a given starting point a few hundred years ago or so it would increase net carbon emissions.
it's only neutral if you count from when what became the fossil fuels grew, which I don't think is a realistic or smart way of counting emissions, considering we're used to our relative time-frame, not a few million years ago.
Just a note, the apple II was as open as could possibly be, but not free of course, as the software in rom that ran it was not able to be copied freely etc.
But the documentation on it was excellent, the manual even included schematics on how it was built. only with the macintosh and later were things restricted and closed.
One of the many reasons I'm still trying to find an apple II, the monitor program built into it is a prime example of a good way to get people to learn simple assembly programming.
depends on the project, I frequently find some open source app that hasn't been updated in years, but is handy, go to compile from source only to find gcc syntax rules have ever so slightly changed during that time, just enough to break the compile.
Usually the fix is very simple, but it's still breakage.
it's rather difficult to regulate spectrum allocation more than it has been already, and regulating content going over the waves turns it into a 'think of the children' type snooping. so what would you like more regulated?
the electromagnetic spectrum was regulated and closed for good reason, because if not it basically becomes a case of 'my penis is bigger than yours' (I have a more powerful transmitter than you do) taking over everyones signal on a given freq.
I do agree perhaps a no holds barred except signal can't go over a certain strength version of citizen band could be interesting to an extent though, with a small portion of the spectrum.
so since the US isn't following geneva conventions, other nations that go to war with them shouldn't also? it swings both ways, and it's not an 'if they aren't following it we don't have to' deal. Otherwise one single country not following it in a multi-national war would result in no-one doing it, except those that want moral high-ground.
having a conservative opinion is one thing, but basicly saying 'torture people as you like without oversight, for I have nothing to hide' is another.
I for one fully support our troops out there currently (non-USA though), but why should the US muddy the waters of morality by stooping to in some cases worse things than they do, it's already questionable to say the least the motives for invading. Add to that human rights violations and you add more fuel to the fire against the war machine, thats unnecessary.
also, before you assume this is another 'pile of assumptions' try reading up on it sometime, then you won't have to take my word on it and you can see for yourself. The US does things against international treaties all the time without punishment, they just push their weight around.
Besides POW status, the geneva conventions lays out rules in regard to basicly every kind of party you can think of, but essentially, if not a POW, then they SHOULD be considered an enemy combatant, which is afforded a trial etc etc. Problem is the US is just going blah we'll do as we like.
FYI I'm part of a different countries army, and thankfully enough we only do stress positions for limited periods while taking prisoners of war, as part of training they do it to a section of our own people to show them how effective it is and how it's done. Lets just say I'd consider putting someone in that position for more than say, ten minutes, bordering on torture.
I'm not quite silly enough to put that kind of question forth without some experience of it myself. Thought you would have figured that.
Also perhaps I should have worded it differently, you have every right to speak your piece, but it is without merit not knowing the subject matter at hand.
As for how to get information out of people, that is not my forte, it's another persons job, when receiving pow's we get them, hold them, then send them elsewhere. so I'm not going to talk out of my ass on that seeming as I can't give you credible info, apart form, we don't torture.
but what about the majority that turn out to NOT be terrorists and (eventually) get released, so torturing innocent people is fine by you eh?
I'm interested to know though, have you ever been kept in stress positions for a long period of time? or any of the other techniques the U.S armed forces employ to their prisoners? If you haven't been, then please be quiet, you have no right to speak of the subject, if you have I'd like to hear about your experiences with such.
I'm not arguing for them to have full US rights or anything of the sort, only basics offered by the Geneva conventions that the U.S don't follow, according to the US they aren't 'prisoners of war', if they acknowledged they were they would be required by the UN to treat them better (not that what other countries think has effected the US before).
depends, an aboriginal that lives in the city, or one of the ones in the problematic aboriginal settlements where no matter how much money the government gives them, it just gets spent on booze.
the latter is what causes everyone else to kick up a stink sometimes, it's been documented the extreme level of rape and substance abuse. Add to that that aboringinals receive benefits the rest of us can only dream of, Aus-study you say? abs-tudy if your an aboriginal, get paid a lot more for the same thing, free housing, and so on.
From a government help standpoint, they are treated specially and get given more than the general population by a non-trivial amount. When such aid achieves something it's not so bad, but when all the public hears about are the outback towns with alcoholism problems, it annoys people.
Anyone who works for a living or who is studying is respectable, drunks and rapists don't deserve our respect, regardless of race, in my opinion. Let alone a heap of government subsidies.
All I wish for is for everyone to be treated equally, how can everyone be treated equally when one minority gets such great privileges over all others, they should have the same as everyone else.
I agree with the why have the analog signal coming out of the computer, to an extent, but some people still like vinyl, no point going analog -> digital -> analog when you don't need to.
Also, having the dac in the speakers would probably be the wrong place regardless, as quality speakers typically aren't self-driven, and need an amp to be hooked up to it, which will only amp the analog signal, so put the dac before the amp you say? good idea, only thats still a far stretch from having the speakers themselves do it, which was the original point.
In the end it's not worth the hassle, for most people, to have digital to analog conversion outside the pc.
you, my friend, need to play syndicate wars, the sequel to syndicate, released by bullfrog many years ago, city is all 3d, only agents and people are sprites, completely destructible terrain, etc, walk behind buildings they do become transparent, basicly every feature you wish for is in it, but it's not that pretty as it's designed to run on a pentium 133 smoothly, but still a great gfame.
the nokia n73 has a 300mhz arm processor and 64mb ram, I've had opera and the default phone browser (gecko engine, same used in konqueror) the in-built one kicks it's ass, in terms of speed and usabilty. I can't imagine a mobile firefox not running well.
pfft, americans have it easy with $50 a game, same game in australia is $100, (about $90USD). now thats expensive,
can't help but think thats another reason we have plenty of stock of wii's here, the retail price is about $360USD for a wii here, more profits per unit for nintendo
is it just me or does the photo captioned 'Interaction between Venus and the solar wind' look like something you'd see on random japanese anime with large robots and people shooting beams from their hands?
In other words, it's causing too much bad public relations AND not working, require new methods to screw the consumer with having them actually enjoy it this time. after they come up with something new, business as usual.
here vista ultimate costs $751 Australian rrp, more than enough for a perfectly good pc in itself.... well, assuming it wasn't going to run vista of course
you'll find linus rarely comments on anything but the linux kernel in his talks, except when specifically asked for his opinion on something. i.e. somebody asks him whether he uses kde or gnome and he says he prefers the flow of kde but gnome is just fine and dandy, he is very neutral in regards to speaking on anything but the kernel in regards to almost all things.
I understand your point that things are becoming bloated etc etc, but I'm going to go off topic a bit here
the overwhelming majority of that size is due to convenience and lazyness, your example, hello world, assuming just a c single line printf with the stdio include, you get an executable of 4.7kb,
now, I just went and re-wrote that in assembly, using system function calls instead of the c library, got a 725 byte binary with symbol info etc, 320byte when stripped, that still isn't terribly efficient considering it just says hello, however most of that size is due to the elf header which is on the order of a couple hundred bytes anyway.
now c is still pretty lean compared to some other languages, for instance, c# and basic, once you start getting into those realms you even have more waste unless you try to be very efficient with your resources, or need that functionality.
oh and here's the assembly program if any person is interested in seeing what it looks like for some strange reason..equ STDOUT, 1.equ SYS_EXIT, 1.equ SYS_WRITE, 4.equ SYSCALL, 0x80.section.data string:.ascii "hello".section.text.globl _start
mod parent up, parents get upset when another adult has a stern talking to their child for doing something nasty, and police can put 50kvolts through a child instead of taking the piece of glass off him? bullshit.
I have no idea on the regard of costs, would depend on your isp of course, however the cost per byte would vary greatly depending on who you were sending the data to, for instance someone on the same isp as you, in your area for instance, would still be on the isp's network, and besides the initial outlay for them to put the backbones in etc, it would cost them nothing, now compare that to overseas traffic, the cost is significantly higher due to the higher costs of running the cable through oceans etc etc.
basically cost per byte is directly proportional to cost to lay lines to where it's going.
assume in future this becomes relatively cheap and thusly all insurance companies make it mandatory, and you have a guy called joe random. joe random gets his genetic report and finds he has a predisposition for cancer.
upping the insurance costs means he can't afford insurance.
so when poor joe discovers he has cancer, and can't afford the medication, he should be left to die without any treatment? I fail to see how that would be a step 'forward' for society
as opposed to say a public health system whereby he'd still foot the bill, but a significantly subsidized barely affordable one. or just letting sleeping dogs lie not doing dna tests and paying normal insurance to find out he has cancer.
no matter what your argument, leaving sick to die without treatment when they are willing to pay for it... just not obscenely, is not a society I'd like to live in.
on another topic in regards to insurance companies though. 17 year old male driver, comprehensive insurance for a crappy car that you'd only want $500 for if stolen etc, $1.5k per year premium, now at the age of 20, brand new motorbike gotten, $9k worth, to fully insure, $2.5k a year.
in the last five years I've yet to crash a car/ be involved in an accident at all, now, in that time if I'd payed insurance, I would have paid a total of $12,500 of insurance... for no payout. all because I'm in the high risk category even though I'm a safe driver. is it fair your considered high risk because assholes in your age-group are dickheads? while many people think it's stupid to not be insured, I just think of the 12.5k I've currently saved, and know I'll get insurance once the premium becomes *reasonable* for a safe driver.
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better does not always equal more popular,windows got to where it was from a combination of pot luck, ruthless business tactics, and being 'good enough' for the job at the time.
Once entrenched, people don't really think about it.
that being said, I don't fancy macs myself, more of a linux man, but I still find it terribly more useful than a windows box.
the features that the average joe wants are available on basically every major os nowadays,
never mind that, I know I'm just feeding a troll, but if you seriously think that microsoft products are superior by default, you should really try some other platforms sometime, the results may surprise you
went from blender to 3d studio from a request from a friend, only spent like ten minutes trying to get something remotely productive happening but got annoyed due to controls and went bah.
I'm sure if I slogged through I'd get used to it, but so would all these other people coming from 3ds to blender,
I'm surprised you don't like wings 3d though, most people rave about it's simplicity.
there's no way to defend any of this? about 1/4 of your points are just a linuxy way of doing things, for instance, kde konqueror, one click opens, or other remnants of the fact it's designed for unix then ported to windows.
as far as using native bits on each system, as a blender user why would I want to be hindered by having to use the program on a windows box as opposed to a nix one for some once-off job off-site. consistency between platforms for a program is good.
blender is unique in the way it does a lot of things, when known it's proven to be fast and efficient albeit with a high initial learning curve.
kind of like offering a CLI, or a GUI with tonnes of menus for every option the cli could do, sure the GUI will be easier for a newb, but the CLI will be more efficient to those who know what they're doing, but getting to that stage takes more time.
difference being the biomass in question from fossil fuels has been locked away for quite some time, from a given starting point a few hundred years ago or so it would increase net carbon emissions.
it's only neutral if you count from when what became the fossil fuels grew, which I don't think is a realistic or smart way of counting emissions, considering we're used to our relative time-frame, not a few million years ago.
Just a note, the apple II was as open as could possibly be, but not free of course, as the software in rom that ran it was not able to be copied freely etc.
But the documentation on it was excellent, the manual even included schematics on how it was built. only with the macintosh and later were things restricted and closed.
One of the many reasons I'm still trying to find an apple II, the monitor program built into it is a prime example of a good way to get people to learn simple assembly programming.
depends on the project, I frequently find some open source app that hasn't been updated in years, but is handy, go to compile from source only to find gcc syntax rules have ever so slightly changed during that time, just enough to break the compile.
Usually the fix is very simple, but it's still breakage.
it's rather difficult to regulate spectrum allocation more than it has been already, and regulating content going over the waves turns it into a 'think of the children' type snooping. so what would you like more regulated?
the electromagnetic spectrum was regulated and closed for good reason, because if not it basically becomes a case of 'my penis is bigger than yours' (I have a more powerful transmitter than you do) taking over everyones signal on a given freq.
I do agree perhaps a no holds barred except signal can't go over a certain strength version of citizen band could be interesting to an extent though, with a small portion of the spectrum.
so since the US isn't following geneva conventions, other nations that go to war with them shouldn't also? it swings both ways, and it's not an 'if they aren't following it we don't have to' deal. Otherwise one single country not following it in a multi-national war would result in no-one doing it, except those that want moral high-ground.
having a conservative opinion is one thing, but basicly saying 'torture people as you like without oversight, for I have nothing to hide' is another.
I for one fully support our troops out there currently (non-USA though), but why should the US muddy the waters of morality by stooping to in some cases worse things than they do, it's already questionable to say the least the motives for invading. Add to that human rights violations and you add more fuel to the fire against the war machine, thats unnecessary.
also, before you assume this is another 'pile of assumptions' try reading up on it sometime, then you won't have to take my word on it and you can see for yourself. The US does things against international treaties all the time without punishment, they just push their weight around.
Besides POW status, the geneva conventions lays out rules in regard to basicly every kind of party you can think of, but essentially, if not a POW, then they SHOULD be considered an enemy combatant, which is afforded a trial etc etc. Problem is the US is just going blah we'll do as we like.
FYI I'm part of a different countries army, and thankfully enough we only do stress positions for limited periods while taking prisoners of war, as part of training they do it to a section of our own people to show them how effective it is and how it's done. Lets just say I'd consider putting someone in that position for more than say, ten minutes, bordering on torture.
I'm not quite silly enough to put that kind of question forth without some experience of it myself. Thought you would have figured that.
Also perhaps I should have worded it differently, you have every right to speak your piece, but it is without merit not knowing the subject matter at hand.
As for how to get information out of people, that is not my forte, it's another persons job, when receiving pow's we get them, hold them, then send them elsewhere. so I'm not going to talk out of my ass on that seeming as I can't give you credible info, apart form, we don't torture.
but what about the majority that turn out to NOT be terrorists and (eventually) get released, so torturing innocent people is fine by you eh?
I'm interested to know though, have you ever been kept in stress positions for a long period of time? or any of the other techniques the U.S armed forces employ to their prisoners?
If you haven't been, then please be quiet, you have no right to speak of the subject, if you have I'd like to hear about your experiences with such.
I'm not arguing for them to have full US rights or anything of the sort, only basics offered by the Geneva conventions that the U.S don't follow, according to the US they aren't 'prisoners of war', if they acknowledged they were they would be required by the UN to treat them better (not that what other countries think has effected the US before).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention for a basic overview if you hadn't seen it before.
As far as I'm concerend so long as the US tortures, they are no better than the people they are fighting against,
indeed, take wine for example, an implementation of windows libraries, complete with bugs for compatibility
depends, an aboriginal that lives in the city, or one of the ones in the problematic aboriginal settlements where no matter how much money the government gives them, it just gets spent on booze.
the latter is what causes everyone else to kick up a stink sometimes, it's been documented the extreme level of rape and substance abuse. Add to that that aboringinals receive benefits the rest of us can only dream of, Aus-study you say? abs-tudy if your an aboriginal, get paid a lot more for the same thing, free housing, and so on.
From a government help standpoint, they are treated specially and get given more than the general population by a non-trivial amount. When such aid achieves something it's not so bad, but when all the public hears about are the outback towns with alcoholism problems, it annoys people.
Anyone who works for a living or who is studying is respectable, drunks and rapists don't deserve our respect, regardless of race, in my opinion. Let alone a heap of government subsidies.
All I wish for is for everyone to be treated equally, how can everyone be treated equally when one minority gets such great privileges over all others, they should have the same as everyone else.
I agree with the why have the analog signal coming out of the computer, to an extent, but some people still like vinyl, no point going analog -> digital -> analog when you don't need to.
Also, having the dac in the speakers would probably be the wrong place regardless, as quality speakers typically aren't self-driven, and need an amp to be hooked up to it, which will only amp the analog signal, so put the dac before the amp you say? good idea, only thats still a far stretch from having the speakers themselves do it, which was the original point.
In the end it's not worth the hassle, for most people, to have digital to analog conversion outside the pc.
you, my friend, need to play syndicate wars, the sequel to syndicate, released by bullfrog many years ago, city is all 3d, only agents and people are sprites, completely destructible terrain, etc, walk behind buildings they do become transparent, basicly every feature you wish for is in it, but it's not that pretty as it's designed to run on a pentium 133 smoothly, but still a great gfame.
the nokia n73 has a 300mhz arm processor and 64mb ram, I've had opera and the default phone browser (gecko engine, same used in konqueror) the in-built one kicks it's ass, in terms of speed and usabilty. I can't imagine a mobile firefox not running well.
pfft, americans have it easy with $50 a game, same game in australia is $100, (about $90USD). now thats expensive,
can't help but think thats another reason we have plenty of stock of wii's here, the retail price is about $360USD for a wii here, more profits per unit for nintendo
is it just me or does the photo captioned 'Interaction between Venus and the solar wind' look like something you'd see on random japanese anime with large robots and people shooting beams from their hands?
:)
on a more serious note, pretty pictures
In other words, it's causing too much bad public relations AND not working, require new methods to screw the consumer with having them actually enjoy it this time. after they come up with something new, business as usual.
here vista ultimate costs $751 Australian rrp, more than enough for a perfectly good pc in itself.... well, assuming it wasn't going to run vista of course
you'll find linus rarely comments on anything but the linux kernel in his talks, except when specifically asked for his opinion on something. i.e. somebody asks him whether he uses kde or gnome and he says he prefers the flow of kde but gnome is just fine and dandy, he is very neutral in regards to speaking on anything but the kernel in regards to almost all things.
I understand your point that things are becoming bloated etc etc, but I'm going to go off topic a bit here
.equ STDOUT, 1 .equ SYS_EXIT, 1 .equ SYS_WRITE, 4 .equ SYSCALL, 0x80 .section .data .ascii "hello" .section .text .globl _start
the overwhelming majority of that size is due to convenience and lazyness, your example, hello world, assuming just a c single line printf with the stdio include, you get an executable of 4.7kb,
now, I just went and re-wrote that in assembly, using system function calls instead of the c library, got a 725 byte binary with symbol info etc, 320byte when stripped, that still isn't terribly efficient considering it just says hello, however most of that size is due to the elf header which is on the order of a couple hundred bytes anyway.
now c is still pretty lean compared to some other languages, for instance, c# and basic, once you start getting into those realms you even have more waste unless you try to be very efficient with your resources, or need that functionality.
oh and here's the assembly program if any person is interested in seeing what it looks like for some strange reason.
string:
_start:
movl $SYS_WRITE, %eax
movl $STDOUT, %ebx
movl $string, %ecx
movl $5, %edx
int $SYSCALL
movl $SYS_EXIT, %eax
movl $0, %ebx
int $SYSCALL
when compiling use -nostdlib or it will die.
mod parent up, parents get upset when another adult has a stern talking to their child for doing something nasty, and police can put 50kvolts through a child instead of taking the piece of glass off him? bullshit.
I have no idea on the regard of costs, would depend on your isp of course, however the cost per byte would vary greatly depending on who you were sending the data to, for instance someone on the same isp as you, in your area for instance, would still be on the isp's network, and besides the initial outlay for them to put the backbones in etc, it would cost them nothing, now compare that to overseas traffic, the cost is significantly higher due to the higher costs of running the cable through oceans etc etc.
basically cost per byte is directly proportional to cost to lay lines to where it's going.
assume in future this becomes relatively cheap and thusly all insurance companies make it mandatory, and you have a guy called joe random. joe random gets his genetic report and finds he has a predisposition for cancer.
upping the insurance costs means he can't afford insurance.
so when poor joe discovers he has cancer, and can't afford the medication, he should be left to die without any treatment? I fail to see how that would be a step 'forward' for society
as opposed to say a public health system whereby he'd still foot the bill, but a significantly subsidized barely affordable one. or just letting sleeping dogs lie not doing dna tests and paying normal insurance to find out he has cancer.
no matter what your argument, leaving sick to die without treatment when they are willing to pay for it... just not obscenely, is not a society I'd like to live in.
on another topic in regards to insurance companies though.
17 year old male driver, comprehensive insurance for a crappy car that you'd only want $500 for if stolen etc, $1.5k per year premium, now at the age of 20, brand new motorbike gotten, $9k worth, to fully insure, $2.5k a year.
in the last five years I've yet to crash a car/ be involved in an accident at all, now, in that time if I'd payed insurance, I would have paid a total of $12,500 of insurance... for no payout. all because I'm in the high risk category even though I'm a safe driver. is it fair your considered high risk because assholes in your age-group are dickheads? while many people think it's stupid to not be insured, I just think of the 12.5k I've currently saved, and know I'll get insurance once the premium becomes *reasonable* for a safe driver.