A problem with Linux in general is there is simply too much choice and no apparent standardization.
The problem with cars is too many choices and no apparent standardization; look, all different wheel sized, places to put the battery, seating differences, where the various controls are, etc.
You're a moron.
As to standardization, put the crack pipe down. Microsoft and Apple are the ones who won't follow standards (MS in the OS and Apple in the hardware).
Linux has crap adoption outside of open source circles
The fastest 10 supercomputers in the world run Linux. 2/3 of all smartphones run Linux (Android). My problem right now is too LITTLE choice -- the power connector on my notebook is going out and I need a new one. My only choices are "phone home to mommy" Chrome, and Windows eight, the very WORST notebook UI ever conceived. And if I buy one and install Linux, the last place I shopped informed me that installing Linux would void the warrantee.
You can shove your "OMFG too many choices I'm so CONFUSEDDDD!!" up your anonymous, trolling ass.
Does anybody know where I can buy a notebook that installing kubuntu won't void the warrantee?
Well, with phones mine usually get stolen, lost, or broken and most folks don't keep phones but a year or two. But I'm having that issue with my 4 year old notebook; it's getting so plugging it in you have to fiddle with it to get the light to come on.
I wish it would have come with a wireless charger.
OTOH it's nice to be able to take a USB cord with me and charge my phone from the desktop's USB port while I listen to music on it. But wireless would reduce the pluggings and unpluggings.
It's sad that AIDS was originally started with "gay cancer" because it really isn't a gay thing and HIV isn't a sexually transmitted disease, it's a blood-bourne disease -- you get it from infected blood getting into your bloodstream. Asimov died of AIDS he got from a transfusion in a hospital. You can get it from anal sex because the anal tissues often tear, allowing the infected semen into the bloodstream.
Most infections these days are from the same thing as Hep C -- junkies sharing needles.
According to Wikipedia, a standard coffee can, also known as a #10 can, has a volume of 13 cups and holds 3 lb of coffee.
Wikipedia is wrong. A "standard" coffee can is between 13 oz and 1 lb (convert it yourself). However, there hasn't really been a "standard" coffee can in years. They used to be made of steel and were all the same shapes and sizes and held a pound of grounds. These days they're cardboard (and look like the old kind) or weirdly shaped plastic cans.
A coffee can holds between 2 and 3 litres of liquid (eyeballed, not measured).
You know, Mister Ed, that if "ice cube" on slashdot makes you think about a rapper, maybe you're at the wrong site?
I'm REALLY disappointed. A bunch of offtopic, unfunny rapper jokes in a threat about an important scientific discovery and the fucking normals have to drown out any intelligent conversation I came here to read.
Come on, normals, STFU and let the smart folks educate you. That's what I come here for, not rapper jokes I could hear at a ghetto tavern.
For a technology site there's a massive luddite community on here.
It's not a "technology" site, it's a nerd site. Meaning there are a few here who actually use our brains for something other than to rest a hat on. We're pro- GOOD technology, but the intelligent are never against stupid, useless, or worse, harmful technology.
A device that tempts a bicyclist into doing something stupid like taking his eyes off the road while cycling is a stupid, dangerous, utterly retarded technology that nobody with a three digit IQ would ever use.
Protip: liking to buy shiny new tech doesn't make you a nerd. Liking to design, build, repurpose tech does.
Another protip: everyone in antarctica and on the ISS are nerds. Hell, a couple of astronauts are so nerdy they appeared on the Big Bang Theory (one of whom repaired the Hubble while in orbit, the other of whom walked on the moon in 1969).
but the thing about biking (at least for some) is cadence - stopping breaks cadence.
So you actually admit being one of those assholes who ignore stop signs and red lights? You belong in an intensive care ward, that might cure your obsessive assholishness.
100 years ago we had poor nutrition and poor sanitation and poor hygiene. Most of the reason those scrapes and bruises and for that matter surgeries resulted in such appallingly high mortality is that people didn't clean wounds or their hands, including surgeons.
Um, deficient at arithmetic, or at history? It was 1913 a hundred years ago. There were automobiles and airplanes (although they weren't yet common) and they had bathtubs, sinks, toilets, and knew what germs were. And according to my grandparents, one of whom was born in 1894 and one in 1903, what Grandma cooked in 1960 was no different than in 1913 when she was ten, and what's more it was a hell of a lot healthier than our food today -- no trans-fats, no high fructose corn syrup, no corn-fed, antibiotic-dosed cattle, and a lot more fruits and vegetables; back then almost everyone grew a large garden.
Was it primitive? Of course, hell it was primitive when I was a kid in the 1950s. But it wasn't unsanitary and they didn't suffer from poor nutrition.
How dare you lump Sheldon in with lowly mathematicians.
Steven hawking: "There's an arithmetic error on page three" of Sheldon's report. George Smoot: "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?"
The thing that blew me away is they had a much more advanced set of issues to deal with than a typical bureaucratic office would.
The Ernie Ball company, the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings that does $40m/year business, transitioned completely away from Microsoft and has almost no proprietary software after being attacked by the BSA. "I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses, We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly" its CEO Sterling Ball said, and added that the transition was a breeze. He says
It's the funniest thing--we're using it for e-mail client/server, spreadsheets and word processing. It's like working in Windows. One of the analysts said it costs $1,250 per person to change over to open source. It wasn't anywhere near that for us. I'm reluctant to give actual numbers. I can give any number I want to support my position, and so can the other guy. But I'll tell you, I'm not paying any per-seat license. I'm not buying any new computers. When we need something, we have white box systems we put together ourselves. It doesn't need to be much of a system for most of what we do.
But there's a real argument now about total cost of ownership, once you start adding up service, support, etc.
What support? I'm not making calls to Red Hat; I don't need to. I think that's propaganda...What about the cost of dealing with a virus? We don't have 'em. How about when we do have a problem, you don't have to send some guy to a corner of the building to find out what's going on--he never leaves his desk, because everything's server-based. There's no doubt that what I'm doing is cheaper to operate. The analyst guys can say whatever they want.
The myth has been built so big that you can't survive without Microsoft.
I think it's great for me to be a technology influence. It shows how ridiculous it is that I can get press because I switched to OpenOffice. And the reason why is because the myth has been built so big that you can't survive without Microsoft, so that somebody who does get by without Microsoft is a story.
It's just software. You have to figure out what you need to do within your organization and then get the right stuff for that. And we're not a backwards organization. We're progressive; we've won communications and design awards...The fact that I'm not sending my e-mail through Outlook doesn't hinder us. It's just kind of funny. I'm speaking to a standing-room-only audience at a major technology show because I use a different piece of software--that's hysterical.
if something is like gutenbergs printing press for these and other guys it is the internet and computers. 3d printing is more like having sculptors really cheap.
3D printing is to sculptors what the Gutenberg press was to scribes, and what computers were to computers (before electronic computers, a "computer" was a person hired to perform math).
You can already make cheap sculptures out of ceramics, this is no different -- an actual sculptor has to sculpt the original your printer is copying, just as Gutenberg needed scribes and typesetters.
Don't ever expect Slashdot to link to a proper article instead of a crappy news aggregator site.
Don't blame slashdot, first blame the submitters -- they're the ones supplying the links. Next, blame yourself for not voting down stories with shitty links and then submitting your own with a good one.
And since you got me to post this offtopic answer, Buy my book! Or at least read it. Just to make up for the downmod!
Wow, you must have a lot of free time if money is the only reason you're running Linux.
The reason I'm running Linux on the tower is partly because of free time. Windows is slower and takes more clicks and/or typing to get the same job done as Linux. I don't have Patch Tuesday with Linux, where the machine is out of service for half an hour, when it has patches one click and you keep doing what you were while it patches itself. No crapware to remove after installation.
After 4 years, Windows 7 crashed on my notebook. I had to take the battery out to get it started again. That's not happened once on my 10 year old kubuntu tower. Lot better than previous Windows, but still not as stable as Linux.
Oh, get off your high horse. If Wozniak looked like some movie star and a woman said "Wow, looks and brains AND money!" would you excoriate her like that?
How visible will it be to the unaided eye? And where will it be the most visible? I was in southern Thailand when this comet came by, and was puzzled when the newspapers said it was "disappointing". It was the brightest thing in the night sky except the moon where I was.
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Well, hello, Mr Ballmer!
A problem with Linux in general is there is simply too much choice and no apparent standardization.
The problem with cars is too many choices and no apparent standardization; look, all different wheel sized, places to put the battery, seating differences, where the various controls are, etc.
You're a moron.
As to standardization, put the crack pipe down. Microsoft and Apple are the ones who won't follow standards (MS in the OS and Apple in the hardware).
Linux has crap adoption outside of open source circles
The fastest 10 supercomputers in the world run Linux. 2/3 of all smartphones run Linux (Android). My problem right now is too LITTLE choice -- the power connector on my notebook is going out and I need a new one. My only choices are "phone home to mommy" Chrome, and Windows eight, the very WORST notebook UI ever conceived. And if I buy one and install Linux, the last place I shopped informed me that installing Linux would void the warrantee.
You can shove your "OMFG too many choices I'm so CONFUSEDDDD!!" up your anonymous, trolling ass.
Does anybody know where I can buy a notebook that installing kubuntu won't void the warrantee?
Well, with phones mine usually get stolen, lost, or broken and most folks don't keep phones but a year or two. But I'm having that issue with my 4 year old notebook; it's getting so plugging it in you have to fiddle with it to get the light to come on.
I wish it would have come with a wireless charger.
OTOH it's nice to be able to take a USB cord with me and charge my phone from the desktop's USB port while I listen to music on it. But wireless would reduce the pluggings and unpluggings.
It's sad that AIDS was originally started with "gay cancer" because it really isn't a gay thing and HIV isn't a sexually transmitted disease, it's a blood-bourne disease -- you get it from infected blood getting into your bloodstream. Asimov died of AIDS he got from a transfusion in a hospital. You can get it from anal sex because the anal tissues often tear, allowing the infected semen into the bloodstream.
Most infections these days are from the same thing as Hep C -- junkies sharing needles.
BTW, mentally ill != psychopath.
According to Wikipedia, a standard coffee can, also known as a #10 can, has a volume of 13 cups and holds 3 lb of coffee.
Wikipedia is wrong. A "standard" coffee can is between 13 oz and 1 lb (convert it yourself). However, there hasn't really been a "standard" coffee can in years. They used to be made of steel and were all the same shapes and sizes and held a pound of grounds. These days they're cardboard (and look like the old kind) or weirdly shaped plastic cans.
A coffee can holds between 2 and 3 litres of liquid (eyeballed, not measured).
-1, Elon Musk reference /his 15 min of fame are over
LOL, yeah, right.
Fool. Oh, user name... Goths and Ecstasy? Yep, a fool. A young fool.
You know, Mister Ed, that if "ice cube" on slashdot makes you think about a rapper, maybe you're at the wrong site?
I'm REALLY disappointed. A bunch of offtopic, unfunny rapper jokes in a threat about an important scientific discovery and the fucking normals have to drown out any intelligent conversation I came here to read.
Come on, normals, STFU and let the smart folks educate you. That's what I come here for, not rapper jokes I could hear at a ghetto tavern.
As it would be unChristian of me to call you the fucking liar that you are, I'll just say [citation needed], chapter and verse from the New Testament.
Hint: it says exactly the opposite of what you claim it says.
For a technology site there's a massive luddite community on here.
It's not a "technology" site, it's a nerd site. Meaning there are a few here who actually use our brains for something other than to rest a hat on. We're pro- GOOD technology, but the intelligent are never against stupid, useless, or worse, harmful technology.
A device that tempts a bicyclist into doing something stupid like taking his eyes off the road while cycling is a stupid, dangerous, utterly retarded technology that nobody with a three digit IQ would ever use.
Protip: liking to buy shiny new tech doesn't make you a nerd. Liking to design, build, repurpose tech does.
Another protip: everyone in antarctica and on the ISS are nerds. Hell, a couple of astronauts are so nerdy they appeared on the Big Bang Theory (one of whom repaired the Hubble while in orbit, the other of whom walked on the moon in 1969).
Yet another protip: I don't think you're a nerd.
but the thing about biking (at least for some) is cadence - stopping breaks cadence.
So you actually admit being one of those assholes who ignore stop signs and red lights? You belong in an intensive care ward, that might cure your obsessive assholishness.
Stupid kid.
Ah, yes, an edit button... so you can say something funny, get it modded +5, then edit your comment to be a GNAA troll linking to goatse.
Use the goddamned preview button, that's for, you know, EDITING.
100 years ago we had poor nutrition and poor sanitation and poor hygiene. Most of the reason those scrapes and bruises and for that matter surgeries resulted in such appallingly high mortality is that people didn't clean wounds or their hands, including surgeons.
Um, deficient at arithmetic, or at history? It was 1913 a hundred years ago. There were automobiles and airplanes (although they weren't yet common) and they had bathtubs, sinks, toilets, and knew what germs were. And according to my grandparents, one of whom was born in 1894 and one in 1903, what Grandma cooked in 1960 was no different than in 1913 when she was ten, and what's more it was a hell of a lot healthier than our food today -- no trans-fats, no high fructose corn syrup, no corn-fed, antibiotic-dosed cattle, and a lot more fruits and vegetables; back then almost everyone grew a large garden.
Was it primitive? Of course, hell it was primitive when I was a kid in the 1950s. But it wasn't unsanitary and they didn't suffer from poor nutrition.
How dare you lump Sheldon in with lowly mathematicians.
Steven hawking: "There's an arithmetic error on page three" of Sheldon's report.
George Smoot: "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?"
The thing that blew me away is they had a much more advanced set of issues to deal with than a typical bureaucratic office would.
The Ernie Ball company, the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings that does $40m/year business, transitioned completely away from Microsoft and has almost no proprietary software after being attacked by the BSA. "I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses, We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly" its CEO Sterling Ball said, and added that the transition was a breeze. He says
Of course the Venusians might object to that global cooling.
Screw 'em, those damned nasty Venusians want to kill us all anyway.
if something is like gutenbergs printing press for these and other guys it is the internet and computers. 3d printing is more like having sculptors really cheap.
3D printing is to sculptors what the Gutenberg press was to scribes, and what computers were to computers (before electronic computers, a "computer" was a person hired to perform math).
You can already make cheap sculptures out of ceramics, this is no different -- an actual sculptor has to sculpt the original your printer is copying, just as Gutenberg needed scribes and typesetters.
Don't ever expect Slashdot to link to a proper article instead of a crappy news aggregator site.
Don't blame slashdot, first blame the submitters -- they're the ones supplying the links. Next, blame yourself for not voting down stories with shitty links and then submitting your own with a good one.
And since you got me to post this offtopic answer, Buy my book! Or at least read it. Just to make up for the downmod!
Wow, you must have a lot of free time if money is the only reason you're running Linux.
The reason I'm running Linux on the tower is partly because of free time. Windows is slower and takes more clicks and/or typing to get the same job done as Linux. I don't have Patch Tuesday with Linux, where the machine is out of service for half an hour, when it has patches one click and you keep doing what you were while it patches itself. No crapware to remove after installation.
After 4 years, Windows 7 crashed on my notebook. I had to take the battery out to get it started again. That's not happened once on my 10 year old kubuntu tower. Lot better than previous Windows, but still not as stable as Linux.
And there are Windows' missing features as well.
I see an estrogen overdose. Are you susceptible?
Oh, get off your high horse. If Wozniak looked like some movie star and a woman said "Wow, looks and brains AND money!" would you excoriate her like that?
Somehow I doubt it.
You look really young, maybe my daughter's age, but wikipedia has little info except MIT. Middle twenties?
How visible will it be to the unaided eye? And where will it be the most visible? I was in southern Thailand when this comet came by, and was puzzled when the newspapers said it was "disappointing". It was the brightest thing in the night sky except the moon where I was.
Bob? Are you OK?
It sounds more like no-bid cronyism. Obama's from Illinois, after all, where three of our last five Governors served prison sentences.
Indeed, we in Illinois are so patriotic that even being dead doesn't keep us from the polls!
Oh, and one of our last two Governors is out of prison I hear (The other one is still there).
It's almost impossible to turn $1 into 10$, almost inevitable to turn $1 million into $10 million.