So, what nation do you live in that allows ppl, including criminals, to come and go freely?
When the primary punishment for being an "illegal alien" is deportation, what exactly are you going to do when you catch them trying to leave? Make them leave?
You can see how they take little baby steps. One at a time. In ten years imagine what will be happening.
Border lineups will be days long, and the government will be suing SAP for promising that it would work, based on a fraudulent tech demo that's gone missing?
"An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants"
Why not just let them leave? And bar them when they try to come back. What is the point of catching someone you don't want in the country when they are leaving it??
Blu-ray isn't backwards-compatible in the sense that you can pop one of the discs into an old player, but no mew media format is like that, reprogrammable (PC) stuff aside.
Fair comment.
It is, however, backwards-compatible to a greater extent than, say, DVD, as you can take a bit of media from the last generation (a standard DVD) and pop it into a Blu-Ray player and it'll work fine.
On the other hand, you can't even media shift to go the other way, and while perhaps you never really could before; it didn't matter because most of us only watched movies on our TV anyway when we started adopting DVDs. But the world is different now, today if I buy a CD, I expect to use it in a whole bunch of devices, and to rip it to use in a whole bunch more. Similiarly If I buy a blu-ray disc today, I expect to be able to rip it to my ipod or to DVD for my portable dvd player or laptop or whatever...
Anyhow, I think that people buying new playback hardware are buying blu-ray (because why not? it still plays DVD), there's just no rush to upgrade their existing libraries or their working players.
I'm not even seeing that yet. Why drop $200+ on a bluray player when a DVD player is $50? But yeah, I agree that as the price of players drops inevitably people will switch.
Speed of replacement is slower than speed of "shiny new thing", but it'll take over eventually.
And that's where I'm skeptical. Speed of replacement is slow enough that "shiny new thing" might actually arrive before bluray reaches critical mass.
For the record, vim has syntax highlighting and to get to a line number you type 237gg to go to line 237. How is that slower than scrolling with a mouse?
I'm pressing 'enter' on the warning line in the compiler output and it takes me directly to the problem line number. I don't have to scroll anything.
Your efficiency is directly related to your knowledge of your editor and tools.
That only goes so far. Being an expert with a hammer doesn't put you ahead of a good nail gun.
You can automate repetitive bash operations with a bash script.
You automate and customize enough stuff, and you've built yourself an IDE.
[Not arguing with you in particular, because you never said that Emacs isn't an IDE; just mentioning my experience with it...]
Yeah, quite the contrary. I even said elsewhere in the thread that an IDE approaches the extensibility and flexibility of emacs.
And even vi people; after they've written all these macros and shell scripts and stuff that they brag they've done to optimize the process... they've pretty much assembled an IDE too, and just don't want to admit it. After all whats the difference whether the 20 development tools are glued together by a '3rd party package' or 'something you rolled yourself'. At the end of the day, if your glue does everything the ide does... you've got an ide.
Your comparison is incorrect because that is not how shell people write software. In your example, make would be the last command in the bash history.
You are constructing ridiculously optimal cases for your argument.
make might be the last command, it might not be. You'll have to visually check it before you push enter after pushing the up arrow. Maybe its make, maybe it was some other tool, maybe you deleted an object file, or ran grep on some output. Your single alt-tab is also probably really multiple alt-tabs -- most of us professional programmers have more than a single shell and a single text editor window going.
And if you've got multiple text-editors, you might have multiple ctrl-s's to save them. So sure, it might be ctrl-s, alt-tab, up, enter... or it might be ctrl-s, alt-tab, alt-tab, ctrl-s, up, up, up, enter. And because you need to actually confirm that the correct window and bash command are selected, you can't necessarily do it blind foldeded -- you need that visual feedback loop.
Reaching all the way for F5 is faster. And hey, Visual Studio is happy to let you remap keys. You want compile to be ctrl-; go for it. It even comes with a pile of emacs short cut schemes; you just have to turn them on.
That same code completion will also embed spelling mistakes in the API because programmers are to lazy to type out the method names and so wont notice when they contain spelling errors.
Wow, that's digging awfully deep for an nit to pick at.
Right, you have to double click on the warning. When I see the warning in the shell, I press alt-tab, C-x b, M-g, enter the line number and I'm right at the line that the compiler complained about
No, I don't have to double click.
By default I can press Alt-F6 a couple times to cycle tool windows to the error list, down-arrow to select the warning, and enter to jump to the line in the code. Less than half the keystrokes you need. (assuming 'enter the line number' is at least a 3 to 4 digit number). And if there are 10 text editors going and the one I want is actually closed, its still just 3 or 4 keystrokes, because the IDE selects the correct editor... and even opens the file if its closed.
And again, I setup additional hotkeys. And I can make hotkeys that are more preciese... instead of 'cycle tool window' I can hotkey - 'select compiler output tool window'. I can macro the whole thing too... and we're not talking 'simple recorded keystroke sequences' we're talking full on context and state aware stuff; branching, conditionals, full on programs unto themselves.
Really, modern IDE's approach emacs in terms of flexibility, extendability, programmability, etc.
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
jury is still out on that one. it's done better than laser disc.
but its still hasn't done better than betamax (sure it killed hddvd..but I remember when video stores were almost 50/50 beta/vhs and beta still lost.
And in my opinion blu-ray's real competition is DVD. Sure bluray has the quality advantage... but then so did betamax... dvd's are cheap, well established, and look equally good on most people's tv's at the viewing distances most people watch tv at.
bluray penetration and marketshare is expanding... but it hasn't reached critical mass yet, and it might well die out, replaced by the next big thing, before it does.
blurays biggest issues, in my mind, is that they aren't backwards compatible, and they aren't better than DVD to anywhere near the same degree that DVD was better than VHS.
I know so many people who find bluray more annoying than anything.. great when it works... but because they only have one bluray player they can only watch it in their living room... it doesn't work in their laptop, their portable dvd player, their dvd player at the cabin, the tv in the bedroom, and they can't bring it over and watch it at a friends house (assuming they don't have bluray), etc.
What's the difference between activating "make" thru some keystrokes in the IDE, and Alt-tabbing to another window and typing "make"?
Count the keystrokes.
Its all of 1 keystroke in (for example) Visual Studio to build a project and start debugging it.
Alt-Tab, make is 5x that amount. And I might do this a hundred or more times in a day.
But that won't actually work do it, you have to save the file. So that's a couple more keystrokes per round trip to count (and a 100+ opportunities to forget to save the file(s) added to your day)
And that's on a tiny project with apparently one editor window and one terminal window. Alt-tabbing 7 or 8 times, and saving changes in half a dozen different editor windows before going to the terminal and typing make is a more realistic scenario, and its a lot more keystrokes...
Plus, the IDE indicated I had a syntax error as I was typing it, and the code completion prevented me from making another one; and when the class I was trying to instantiate didn't get colored as a 'type' by the syntax highlighter that I knew was correct I immediately knew I hadn't included it in this file. All that saved me a round trip or two through the build process.
And when the app compiled there was a compiler warning; in the IDE a double click on the warning took me right to the source line in the editor, so I could fix it, and rebuild. With bash I get to read the name of the file and linenumber that had the problem, alt-tab to the right editor window, manually jump to the line number, make the fix, save it, and then switch back to the terminal window and run the build script again.
So... no difference at all between an IDE and bash, except the IDE saves me multiple round trips through make, prevents errors, and saves thousands of keystrokes a day.
I didn't say the IDE was more "powerful", I just said it was more efficient. And it is.
Don't you actually have to sell something to make a profit? Has anyone actual obtained proof that Psystar actually shipped any products?
They shipped. What sort of proof do you want? The relevant forums are full of people who received them talking about them. Then there are the blogs of people who got them. The news coverage. The review sites... pretty much all confirm they were shipping (until the court ordered to stop).
I mean, at this stage, asking for proof psystar actually shipped any products is on par with asking for proof Alienware ever shipped anything before being bought out by dell.
Because money should be made to be used, not to be horded. What's the use in making 50 bucks an hour when I never have the time or inclination to spend 25 cents an hour entertaining myself?
Precisely. Clearly choosing your activities based on least cost/hour is not how normal people function. That was my point.
But you can rarely get refunds for movies, on the other hand if you have a game that you think sucked you can ebay the thing for only about a 10-20 dollar loss if its new enough.
So in your best case (losing $10) you break even with the worst case of going to a movie. And in reality, as you noted that only applies to new games if you are lucky. Most of the time you'll be lucky to get 50% of what you paid for it after all is said and done.
And PC games, what the with the activation codes, or worse, the online accounts where you are just 'subscribing to the game you bought' (e.g. Steam.) its pretty much just money down the drain....Sure, but many people would rather play video games then that.
Precisely! The fact that going for a walk costs you nothing and you can do it indefinitely doesn't make people choose it over all other forms of entertainment. That was my point. The post I responded too argued that people prefer games to movies because games were better $/hr... but that's not enough. Its a tiny piece of the equation. The bigger picture relates to much they'll actually enjoy doing it. If they don't enjoy it, it doesn't matter if its cheap, or even free, or even if it pays them... they'll still go see a movie they want to see.
Holy shit! You're right! Except... if you make money, you are effectively getting a NEGATIVE benefit for the money you spend. So that's actually the worse value...
Its not a "negative benefit". Its a positive benefit with a negative cost.
Dollar for dollar, video gaming is cheaper and more convenient than a trip to the movies.
Not many people really operate like this. Yes, the perceived entertainment 'value' vs cost is a factor, and yes, people often think movies are ripoff. But then $10 for a movie ticket that sucked isn't as much a loss as $60 for a game that sucked.
But honestly, if you try to argue that:
(best value) = min($/hour)
It doesn't work. getting min($/hr) down to zero is trivial.
You'll always just end up going for a walk, flying a kite, shooting hoops, playing cards, reading a book from the libary, contributing to an oss project,
And with a bit of effort you can easily push min($/hr) into the negatives by finding an activity that actually pays you.
Why would you EVER pay even 25 cents an hour to play video games when you could MAKE 50 cents an hour... or even 50 dollars an hour doing something else...
Clearly our method of placing a value on how we spend our time is more complex than a a simple minimization of cost function.
Security, reliability, speed, low system requirements,
security - power users don't get infected all that often on windows. They know about using a firewall, and not opening random attachments. For a savvy user, the only reason linux might be more secure is that its less widely targeted... ie... security through obscurity.
reliability - windows xp/vista are both reliable enough as desktop systems, provided you run them on good hardware, with good drivers. Same is true of Linux. No OS is going to be reliable on junk.
speed - meh... he's a 'windows power user'. The full Ubuntu is not markedly faster. Sure linux scales better on older slower hardware, but office and photoshop still won't.
low requirements - again he's a 'windows power user'. He's already got a pc that can run a modern windows and big behemoth apps like photoshop and office; the fact that linux runs better on a 1GHz celeron with 128MB ram simply isn't relevant to him.
A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.
A significant portion of the book is a sex guide.
It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").
I agree its not 'porn' in the sense that its intent isn't to stimulate or excite the reader, but its not Women are from Venus Men are from Mars.
It's more like 2nd Century Cosmo for guys... "64 sex acts to dazzle your loved one...", "What your courtesan really expects to get paid", "6 ways to attract a mate", and "9 things your 9 wives do when you aren't looking', 'Is your neighbors wife sending you a signal? Find out what to do inside!'... yep, pretty much Cosmo...
He could have gone over what it would have taken to get adobe photoshop or microsoft office to install...
If a user wants to use Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office why shouldn't he just stick with Windows?
When I fire up my computer, I'm not fiddling around with the command prompt or using the calculator.
Precisely. So what is the point of him installing ubuntu, only to have to fiddle around with WINE tutorials to manually install something onto an unsupported platform? He ALREADY has an OS that works, that officially supports and runs his apps.
Installing Ubuntu only makes sense if he actually wants to play with a new OS and try new applications.
Who can have childbirth interfere with vacation or social requirements?
Its actually usually more complicated than that.
The cynic in me notes that natural Childbirth can't be scheduled, and sometimes takes hours. C-sections can be scheduled and are short, and therefore more efficient business. (They cost 'more' but that cost is borne by the patients and their insurance companies. At any rate there is a business incentive to do c-sections.
But probably the biggest factor is simple obesity. The more obese / less in shape you are the more difficult natural childbirth is. So its no surprise that the genuine need for c-sections is rising in lockstep with our declining fitness.
Send the robots further into the past with the blueprints and a mission to build start a multinationational conglomerate with resources to build a few time machines. When they can determine which Sarah Conner is the right Sarah Conner, check the records, and use the time machine to go back and kill her grand parents...
In the real world, it usually takes longer to do regression testing than it does to fix a problem.
When "someone" on the intarwebs "repackages the game" manually and throws it up on a torrent he bypasses the entire QA process that any competent business would undertake.
And so we get it "works on his system" and maybe if we're lucky a few of his friends too... and out the door it goes... if it explodes when it hits the general public, well... hey... what did you expect?
That sort of cavalier process would be suicide for a business.
I figured out that cola was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put old teeth (baby teeth or animal teeth) in cola for a couple of days and let them disintegrate!
I figured out fresh fruit was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put some fruit on a dish, and a couple days later its covered in toxic molds.
Unless you wander around with a mouthful of cola in your mouth for days at a time, your conclusion is about as absurd as mine is.
Now I'm not arguing cola is good for you, but the experiment you are referring to is irrelevant. After all, the body normally contains far stronger acids than mere cola.
The canons of statutory construction would require you to give the term "program" its ordinary meaning in most cases.
Per the copyright act itself:
A "computer program" is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Its not exactly like you have to contort to squeeze MP3's into that definition. You only need to realize that an mp3 LITERALLY is a set of instructions to to be used indirectly (by an mp3 decoder or "interpreter") in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
I think MP3s fall firmly on the "data" side of the line, even if it's sometimes fuzzy.
How is it 'fuzzy'? I see them as as much a program as the following is:
1 ?"Hello World" 2 ?"World" 3 ?"!"
It doesn't mean or do anything on it own. It requires a specific interpreter to mean or do anything. And when fed into that interpreter it produces a certain intended result.
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So, what nation do you live in that allows ppl, including criminals, to come and go freely?
When the primary punishment for being an "illegal alien" is deportation, what exactly are you going to do when you catch them trying to leave? Make them leave?
You can see how they take little baby steps. One at a time. In ten years imagine what will be happening.
Border lineups will be days long, and the government will be suing SAP for promising that it would work, based on a fraudulent tech demo that's gone missing?
"An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants"
Why not just let them leave? And bar them when they try to come back. What is the point of catching someone you don't want in the country when they are leaving it??
Blu-ray isn't backwards-compatible in the sense that you can pop one of the discs into an old player, but no mew media format is like that, reprogrammable (PC) stuff aside.
Fair comment.
It is, however, backwards-compatible to a greater extent than, say, DVD, as you can take a bit of media from the last generation (a standard DVD) and pop it into a Blu-Ray player and it'll work fine.
On the other hand, you can't even media shift to go the other way, and while perhaps you never really could before; it didn't matter because most of us only watched movies on our TV anyway when we started adopting DVDs. But the world is different now, today if I buy a CD, I expect to use it in a whole bunch of devices, and to rip it to use in a whole bunch more. Similiarly If I buy a blu-ray disc today, I expect to be able to rip it to my ipod or to DVD for my portable dvd player or laptop or whatever...
Anyhow, I think that people buying new playback hardware are buying blu-ray (because why not? it still plays DVD), there's just no rush to upgrade their existing libraries or their working players.
I'm not even seeing that yet. Why drop $200+ on a bluray player when a DVD player is $50? But yeah, I agree that as the price of players drops inevitably people will switch.
Speed of replacement is slower than speed of "shiny new thing", but it'll take over eventually.
And that's where I'm skeptical. Speed of replacement is slow enough that "shiny new thing" might actually arrive before bluray reaches critical mass.
For the record, vim has syntax highlighting and to get to a line number you type 237gg to go to line 237. How is that slower than scrolling with a mouse?
I'm pressing 'enter' on the warning line in the compiler output and it takes me directly to the problem line number. I don't have to scroll anything.
Your efficiency is directly related to your knowledge of your editor and tools.
That only goes so far. Being an expert with a hammer doesn't put you ahead of a good nail gun.
You can automate repetitive bash operations with a bash script.
You automate and customize enough stuff, and you've built yourself an IDE.
[Not arguing with you in particular, because you never said that Emacs isn't an IDE; just mentioning my experience with it...]
Yeah, quite the contrary. I even said elsewhere in the thread that an IDE approaches the extensibility and flexibility of emacs.
And even vi people; after they've written all these macros and shell scripts and stuff that they brag they've done to optimize the process... they've pretty much assembled an IDE too, and just don't want to admit it. After all whats the difference whether the 20 development tools are glued together by a '3rd party package' or 'something you rolled yourself'. At the end of the day, if your glue does everything the ide does... you've got an ide.
Your comparison is incorrect because that is not how shell people write software. In your example, make would be the last command in the bash history.
You are constructing ridiculously optimal cases for your argument.
make might be the last command, it might not be. You'll have to visually check it before you push enter after pushing the up arrow. Maybe its make, maybe it was some other tool, maybe you deleted an object file, or ran grep on some output. Your single alt-tab is also probably really multiple alt-tabs -- most of us professional programmers have more than a single shell and a single text editor window going.
And if you've got multiple text-editors, you might have multiple ctrl-s's to save them. So sure, it might be ctrl-s, alt-tab, up, enter... or it might be ctrl-s, alt-tab, alt-tab, ctrl-s, up, up, up, enter. And because you need to actually confirm that the correct window and bash command are selected, you can't necessarily do it blind foldeded -- you need that visual feedback loop.
Reaching all the way for F5 is faster. And hey, Visual Studio is happy to let you remap keys. You want compile to be ctrl-; go for it. It even comes with a pile of emacs short cut schemes; you just have to turn them on.
That same code completion will also embed spelling mistakes in the API because programmers are to lazy to type out the method names and so wont notice when they contain spelling errors.
Wow, that's digging awfully deep for an nit to pick at.
Right, you have to double click on the warning. When I see the warning in the shell, I press alt-tab, C-x b, M-g, enter the line number and I'm right at the line that the compiler complained about
No, I don't have to double click.
By default I can press Alt-F6 a couple times to cycle tool windows to the error list, down-arrow to select the warning, and enter to jump to the line in the code. Less than half the keystrokes you need. (assuming 'enter the line number' is at least a 3 to 4 digit number). And if there are 10 text editors going and the one I want is actually closed, its still just 3 or 4 keystrokes, because the IDE selects the correct editor... and even opens the file if its closed.
And again, I setup additional hotkeys. And I can make hotkeys that are more preciese... instead of 'cycle tool window' I can hotkey - 'select compiler output tool window'. I can macro the whole thing too... and we're not talking 'simple recorded keystroke sequences' we're talking full on context and state aware stuff; branching, conditionals, full on programs unto themselves.
Really, modern IDE's approach emacs in terms of flexibility, extendability, programmability, etc.
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
Spare me.
blu-ray
jury is still out on that one. it's done better than laser disc.
but its still hasn't done better than betamax (sure it killed hddvd..but I remember when video stores were almost 50/50 beta/vhs and beta still lost.
And in my opinion blu-ray's real competition is DVD. Sure bluray has the quality advantage... but then so did betamax... dvd's are cheap, well established, and look equally good on most people's tv's at the viewing distances most people watch tv at.
bluray penetration and marketshare is expanding... but it hasn't reached critical mass yet, and it might well die out, replaced by the next big thing, before it does.
blurays biggest issues, in my mind, is that they aren't backwards compatible, and they aren't better than DVD to anywhere near the same degree that DVD was better than VHS.
I know so many people who find bluray more annoying than anything.. great when it works... but because they only have one bluray player they can only watch it in their living room... it doesn't work in their laptop, their portable dvd player, their dvd player at the cabin, the tv in the bedroom, and they can't bring it over and watch it at a friends house (assuming they don't have bluray), etc.
What's the difference between activating "make" thru some keystrokes in the IDE, and Alt-tabbing to another window and typing "make"?
Count the keystrokes.
Its all of 1 keystroke in (for example) Visual Studio to build a project and start debugging it.
Alt-Tab, make is 5x that amount. And I might do this a hundred or more times in a day.
But that won't actually work do it, you have to save the file. So that's a couple more keystrokes per round trip to count (and a 100+ opportunities to forget to save the file(s) added to your day)
And that's on a tiny project with apparently one editor window and one terminal window. Alt-tabbing 7 or 8 times, and saving changes in half a dozen different editor windows before going to the terminal and typing make is a more realistic scenario, and its a lot more keystrokes...
Plus, the IDE indicated I had a syntax error as I was typing it, and the code completion prevented me from making another one; and when the class I was trying to instantiate didn't get colored as a 'type' by the syntax highlighter that I knew was correct I immediately knew I hadn't included it in this file. All that saved me a round trip or two through the build process.
And when the app compiled there was a compiler warning; in the IDE a double click on the warning took me right to the source line in the editor, so I could fix it, and rebuild. With bash I get to read the name of the file and linenumber that had the problem, alt-tab to the right editor window, manually jump to the line number, make the fix, save it, and then switch back to the terminal window and run the build script again.
So... no difference at all between an IDE and bash, except the IDE saves me multiple round trips through make, prevents errors, and saves thousands of keystrokes a day.
I didn't say the IDE was more "powerful", I just said it was more efficient. And it is.
What more does anyone want?
The efficiency that is gained by not having to move your project through 20 different tools manually?
In other words, the INTEGRATED part of "IDE".
Don't you actually have to sell something to make a profit? Has anyone actual obtained proof that Psystar actually shipped any products?
They shipped. What sort of proof do you want? The relevant forums are full of people who received them talking about them. Then there are the blogs of people who got them. The news coverage. The review sites... pretty much all confirm they were shipping (until the court ordered to stop).
I mean, at this stage, asking for proof psystar actually shipped any products is on par with asking for proof Alienware ever shipped anything before being bought out by dell.
Have her use remote desktop (rdc / rdp ) to gain a second session on your box.
XP Home doesn't support it.
XP Pro will boot off the console user when a remote user logs in.
Vista is the same set of rules, afaik.
You need windows Server to active support multiple simultaneous interactive sessions.
And that STILL won't let you run a 3d accelerate game 'remotely'.
For the application at hand, it would be simpler to just buy a $300 budget gaming PC and be done with it.
Because money should be made to be used, not to be horded. What's the use in making 50 bucks an hour when I never have the time or inclination to spend 25 cents an hour entertaining myself?
Precisely. Clearly choosing your activities based on least cost/hour is not how normal people function. That was my point.
But you can rarely get refunds for movies, on the other hand if you have a game that you think sucked you can ebay the thing for only about a 10-20 dollar loss if its new enough.
So in your best case (losing $10) you break even with the worst case of going to a movie. And in reality, as you noted that only applies to new games if you are lucky. Most of the time you'll be lucky to get 50% of what you paid for it after all is said and done.
And PC games, what the with the activation codes, or worse, the online accounts where you are just 'subscribing to the game you bought' (e.g. Steam.) its pretty much just money down the drain. ...Sure, but many people would rather play video games then that.
Precisely! The fact that going for a walk costs you nothing and you can do it indefinitely doesn't make people choose it over all other forms of entertainment. That was my point. The post I responded too argued that people prefer games to movies because games were better $/hr... but that's not enough. Its a tiny piece of the equation. The bigger picture relates to much they'll actually enjoy doing it. If they don't enjoy it, it doesn't matter if its cheap, or even free, or even if it pays them... they'll still go see a movie they want to see.
Holy shit! You're right! Except... if you make money, you are effectively getting a NEGATIVE benefit for the money you spend. So that's actually the worse value...
Its not a "negative benefit". Its a positive benefit with a negative cost.
Dollar for dollar, video gaming is cheaper and more convenient than a trip to the movies.
Not many people really operate like this. Yes, the perceived entertainment 'value' vs cost is a factor, and yes, people often think movies are ripoff. But then $10 for a movie ticket that sucked isn't as much a loss as $60 for a game that sucked.
But honestly, if you try to argue that:
(best value) = min($/hour)
It doesn't work. getting min($/hr) down to zero is trivial.
You'll always just end up going for a walk, flying a kite, shooting hoops, playing cards, reading a book from the libary, contributing to an oss project,
And with a bit of effort you can easily push min($/hr) into the negatives by finding an activity that actually pays you.
Why would you EVER pay even 25 cents an hour to play video games when you could MAKE 50 cents an hour ... or even 50 dollars an hour doing something else...
Clearly our method of placing a value on how we spend our time is more complex than a a simple minimization of cost function.
Security, reliability, speed, low system requirements,
security - power users don't get infected all that often on windows. They know about using a firewall, and not opening random attachments. For a savvy user, the only reason linux might be more secure is that its less widely targeted... ie ... security through obscurity.
reliability - windows xp/vista are both reliable enough as desktop systems, provided you run them on good hardware, with good drivers. Same is true of Linux. No OS is going to be reliable on junk.
speed - meh... he's a 'windows power user'. The full Ubuntu is not markedly faster. Sure linux scales better on older slower hardware, but office and photoshop still won't.
low requirements - again he's a 'windows power user'. He's already got a pc that can run a modern windows and big behemoth apps like photoshop and office; the fact that linux runs better on a 1GHz celeron with 128MB ram simply isn't relevant to him.
A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.
A significant portion of the book is a sex guide.
It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").
I agree its not 'porn' in the sense that its intent isn't to stimulate or excite the reader, but its not Women are from Venus Men are from Mars.
It's more like 2nd Century Cosmo for guys... "64 sex acts to dazzle your loved one...", "What your courtesan really expects to get paid", "6 ways to attract a mate", and "9 things your 9 wives do when you aren't looking', 'Is your neighbors wife sending you a signal? Find out what to do inside!'... yep, pretty much Cosmo...
minus the ads.
He could have gone over what it would have taken to get adobe photoshop or microsoft office to install...
If a user wants to use Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office why shouldn't he just stick with Windows?
When I fire up my computer, I'm not fiddling around with the command prompt or using the calculator.
Precisely. So what is the point of him installing ubuntu, only to have to fiddle around with WINE tutorials to manually install something onto an unsupported platform? He ALREADY has an OS that works, that officially supports and runs his apps.
Installing Ubuntu only makes sense if he actually wants to play with a new OS and try new applications.
Who can have childbirth interfere with vacation or social requirements?
Its actually usually more complicated than that.
The cynic in me notes that natural Childbirth can't be scheduled, and sometimes takes hours.
C-sections can be scheduled and are short, and therefore more efficient business. (They cost 'more' but that cost is borne by the patients and their insurance companies. At any rate there is a business incentive to do c-sections.
But probably the biggest factor is simple obesity. The more obese / less in shape you are the more difficult natural childbirth is. So its no surprise that the genuine need for c-sections is rising in lockstep with our declining fitness.
Send the robots further into the past with the blueprints and a mission to build start a multinationational conglomerate with resources to build a few time machines. When they can determine which Sarah Conner is the right Sarah Conner, check the records, and use the time machine to go back and kill her grand parents...
Considering they DID release (and shipped out, and sold, without anyone from QA noticing)
To be fair, it sounds like the defect occurred AFTER QA approved and released the gold master to replication.
I don't think a patch that doesn't work on 10% of affected systems would mean suicide to their business.
They've already taken a big public hit. A half-assed response that does even more damage? Who would seriously advocate doing that?
Clearly it doesn't take much time to make.
In the real world, it usually takes longer to do regression testing than it does to fix a problem.
When "someone" on the intarwebs "repackages the game" manually and throws it up on a torrent he bypasses the entire QA process that any competent business would undertake.
And so we get it "works on his system" and maybe if we're lucky a few of his friends too... and out the door it goes... if it explodes when it hits the general public, well... hey... what did you expect?
That sort of cavalier process would be suicide for a business.
I figured out that cola was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put old teeth (baby teeth or animal teeth) in cola for a couple of days and let them disintegrate!
I figured out fresh fruit was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put some fruit on a dish, and a couple days later its covered in toxic molds.
Unless you wander around with a mouthful of cola in your mouth for days at a time, your conclusion is about as absurd as mine is.
Now I'm not arguing cola is good for you, but the experiment you are referring to is irrelevant. After all, the body normally contains far stronger acids than mere cola.
The canons of statutory construction would require you to give the term "program" its ordinary meaning in most cases.
Per the copyright act itself:
A "computer program" is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Its not exactly like you have to contort to squeeze MP3's into that definition. You only need to realize that an mp3 LITERALLY is a set of instructions to to be used indirectly (by an mp3 decoder or "interpreter") in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
I think MP3s fall firmly on the "data" side of the line, even if it's sometimes fuzzy.
How is it 'fuzzy'? I see them as as much a program as the following is:
1 ?"Hello World"
2 ?"World"
3 ?"!"
It doesn't mean or do anything on it own. It requires a specific interpreter to mean or do anything. And when fed into that interpreter it produces a certain intended result.