Which is the crux of why windows makes it into the hospital. With Linux there is no accountability. At least with Windows if something goes wrong someone can be sued and it's not the hospital (at least that's the idea, if not always the case).
Actually Insightful and well deserved. I own a black EeePC, running a Linux distro, which actually came with XP pre-installed on it. Unfortunately the Linux models all came in white and, to avoid confusion with my boss' laptop, I was forced to go with the windows option.
I don't actually use the windows part of it, I only booted it long enough to write an SD card to boot Linux off of and then wiped it completely.
Work in an office with other people using the same stuff. It happens all the time. I just got back into my own office from being upstairs repairing a designers OS X.5 permissions. It happens everywhere, but because we all detest Microsoft we make more of a note of it.
Continuing off topic for a moment: I actually notice that there are a stack of bugs I come across all the time on my Debian or CentOS boxes that I just fix and move on without ever really registering that they occured - it's a technical skill thing I think.
On Topic: I work with one female coder, she has the most awesome english skills and is always very articulate. And I wouldn't go near her code for the life of me. I tend to write very minimalist code so I'm not unused to cutting corners to be complex and clever, but this woman is phenomenal. She once wrote two classes and about 30 files of code just to do a simple text-to-MACAddress encoder (for the record you can do one in about 8 lines of C). I'm sorry article but I'm not working with one of those women.
How can you go overboard on a rover probe? You can't exactly Macgyver up a new one while you're up there so you need as much on the device as possible. And redundancy (which NASA have yet to learn properly I notice) in case something breaks.
QG I get what your saying man, but think the rest of the people have missed it. Feel free to correct me if I get it wrong but here's my take:
There are no terrorists, there is only the illusion of terrorism. I walk through airport security and get bomb checked all the time to no avail. I've walked through with a substantial amount of dinitrotoluene in my pockets before and never been stopped. Much like the illusion of terrorism, bomb checking is just one more avenue to provide us with the illusion of safety.
I'm not about to dispute the bali bombings or the 9/11 attacks, ignoring something like that is a measure of insanity my mind hasn't yet stepped down to, but what I will dispute is that they could have been stopped with better measures of security.
So they took guns and knives onto the plane, so what? What's to stop me from taking a stake and a slingshot? What's to stop a ninja (hilarity not intended) from breaking someone's arm and threatening to do it again, or even breaking into the cock pit and doing the same? Nothing. The illusion of safety is what people want and that is what they get. I'd be surprised if many people outside the geek community (let's face it we tend to see the larger ramifications of things) will actually complain about more than the inconvenience of this when they're going through the airport. Sheeple were named for a reason - when one of them is afraid they all are.
Yeah I see what you mean. To give a couple (better) examples: a lot of hot-desking environments use wireless. Open plan area's for call centres. I've seen a lot of cube farms using it in rented buildings because they were not permitted to run cabling. Was just that the first thing that came to mind was a warehouse I once worked in.
In all honesty though, neither Linux nor OS X is really that great in a corporate environment (I'm in a design house - a lot of Mac systems). There's too much mucking around trying to get things to work. At least windows has all the stuff prepared and integrated and ready to roll. I haven't found (haven't really looked either) a distro that integrates in a server/client set-up like this yet. If there was one I might well go to it.
And you MUST be European. I'm Australian actually, for about 9 generations if memory serves. Happy to concede that they weren't taken over in WWII, nevertheless Paris was occupied and a country is much like a castle, you take the flag (capital city) and you've taken the castle. Yes I am for real, I would expect any Australian (or American for that matter - but I hate them just as much as any other race) to fight to the last drop of blood for their country.
You are aware that the World War's occurred in the previous century right?
Maybe the joke about them always surrendering comes from the armistice treaty they signed in 1940. Sure the resistance came to the fore after this but the country still bent over as a whole.
Jeez and I bet you will be one of the first to complain that french give you the finger. This one I liked, considering I'm just likely to give the finger back and/or hurl a few sledges of my own.
For the record I say "G'day mate" often enough, it's a habit I picked up working for a national transport company.
The point is that the French being afraid/surrendering is a long running joke. I'd suggest the joke has its origins in the take-over of France in BOTH world wars, as well as the cowardliness shown by the French against the German's.
There was an Australian (I think) commander who said something along the lines of "I'd rather have 3 German Divisions in front of me than 1 French Division behind me". Of course that could just be a joke buried deep in my psyche (German Blood) but there it is.
Most of the designers have a copy of bomberman for when we play out of hours network games while I rebuild servers, and Tetris and online poker and any number of games, yet time and again they play Solitaire (or MineSweeper). Why? Because you can swap out your window and it doesn't really matter - with Tetris generally the game doesn't pause (perception might not reflect reality), and requires a lot more concentration as you get into the higher levels.
And let's face it, users are just DUMB. Something like tetris is pretty intensive on their minds, solitaire is simple, reliable, and hide-able.
My god that is the best response to that statement I've ever heard. You should be scoring the +4 Insightful not me.
Still if you get haemorrhoids you get off your ass and do something about it, which is what I later suggested doing about the FOSS problem most people seem to have.
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Heh. Kinda sounds like Hans Reiser's initial statement.
Porn.
Why else would you want a 3D experience?
fun/dangerous
Are you suggesting that the two can be mutually exclusive? Will the wonders never cease!
Didn't the honey project provide us this exact same information a few years ago?
Does that make WEP like standing there with clear pants on? Technically your ass is covered...
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Now you get your package management AND you get to compile from source. Best of both worlds.
Which is the crux of why windows makes it into the hospital. With Linux there is no accountability. At least with Windows if something goes wrong someone can be sued and it's not the hospital (at least that's the idea, if not always the case).
Actually Insightful and well deserved. I own a black EeePC, running a Linux distro, which actually came with XP pre-installed on it. Unfortunately the Linux models all came in white and, to avoid confusion with my boss' laptop, I was forced to go with the windows option.
I don't actually use the windows part of it, I only booted it long enough to write an SD card to boot Linux off of and then wiped it completely.
Work in an office with other people using the same stuff. It happens all the time. I just got back into my own office from being upstairs repairing a designers OS X.5 permissions. It happens everywhere, but because we all detest Microsoft we make more of a note of it.
Continuing off topic for a moment: I actually notice that there are a stack of bugs I come across all the time on my Debian or CentOS boxes that I just fix and move on without ever really registering that they occured - it's a technical skill thing I think.
Hence the robotic overlord reading the posts to us?
3CPU you dolt
For reference to all you young-un's Unix Wars
God that makes me feel old.
I was born in a test tube you inconsiderate clod!
On Topic: I work with one female coder, she has the most awesome english skills and is always very articulate. And I wouldn't go near her code for the life of me. I tend to write very minimalist code so I'm not unused to cutting corners to be complex and clever, but this woman is phenomenal. She once wrote two classes and about 30 files of code just to do a simple text-to-MACAddress encoder (for the record you can do one in about 8 lines of C). I'm sorry article but I'm not working with one of those women.
How can you go overboard on a rover probe? You can't exactly Macgyver up a new one while you're up there so you need as much on the device as possible. And redundancy (which NASA have yet to learn properly I notice) in case something breaks.
QG I get what your saying man, but think the rest of the people have missed it. Feel free to correct me if I get it wrong but here's my take:
There are no terrorists, there is only the illusion of terrorism. I walk through airport security and get bomb checked all the time to no avail. I've walked through with a substantial amount of dinitrotoluene in my pockets before and never been stopped. Much like the illusion of terrorism, bomb checking is just one more avenue to provide us with the illusion of safety.
I'm not about to dispute the bali bombings or the 9/11 attacks, ignoring something like that is a measure of insanity my mind hasn't yet stepped down to, but what I will dispute is that they could have been stopped with better measures of security.
So they took guns and knives onto the plane, so what? What's to stop me from taking a stake and a slingshot? What's to stop a ninja (hilarity not intended) from breaking someone's arm and threatening to do it again, or even breaking into the cock pit and doing the same? Nothing. The illusion of safety is what people want and that is what they get. I'd be surprised if many people outside the geek community (let's face it we tend to see the larger ramifications of things) will actually complain about more than the inconvenience of this when they're going through the airport. Sheeple were named for a reason - when one of them is afraid they all are.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Yeah I see what you mean. To give a couple (better) examples: a lot of hot-desking environments use wireless. Open plan area's for call centres. I've seen a lot of cube farms using it in rented buildings because they were not permitted to run cabling. Was just that the first thing that came to mind was a warehouse I once worked in.
A lot of warehouse computers use wireless because of cabling issues. It's not that uncommon.
You can do it with OS X server if you so wish.
In all honesty though, neither Linux nor OS X is really that great in a corporate environment (I'm in a design house - a lot of Mac systems). There's too much mucking around trying to get things to work. At least windows has all the stuff prepared and integrated and ready to roll. I haven't found (haven't really looked either) a distro that integrates in a server/client set-up like this yet. If there was one I might well go to it.
iLive therefore iAm steves iBiatch
*ducks*
I don't fear root@irs.gov as much as I fear bofh@irs.gov........
You are aware that the World War's occurred in the previous century right?
Maybe the joke about them always surrendering comes from the armistice treaty they signed in 1940. Sure the resistance came to the fore after this but the country still bent over as a whole. Jeez and I bet you will be one of the first to complain that french give you the finger. This one I liked, considering I'm just likely to give the finger back and/or hurl a few sledges of my own.
For the record I say "G'day mate" often enough, it's a habit I picked up working for a national transport company.
The point is that the French being afraid/surrendering is a long running joke. I'd suggest the joke has its origins in the take-over of France in BOTH world wars, as well as the cowardliness shown by the French against the German's.
There was an Australian (I think) commander who said something along the lines of "I'd rather have 3 German Divisions in front of me than 1 French Division behind me". Of course that could just be a joke buried deep in my psyche (German Blood) but there it is.
Tetris is a much more "in your face" game IMHO.
Most of the designers have a copy of bomberman for when we play out of hours network games while I rebuild servers, and Tetris and online poker and any number of games, yet time and again they play Solitaire (or MineSweeper). Why? Because you can swap out your window and it doesn't really matter - with Tetris generally the game doesn't pause (perception might not reflect reality), and requires a lot more concentration as you get into the higher levels.
And let's face it, users are just DUMB. Something like tetris is pretty intensive on their minds, solitaire is simple, reliable, and hide-able.
Hitler is one of the most famous people in history... His fame doesn't make him "good" ;)
Well as any other Australian will tell you, WA is behind the times anyway. We don't really need to go to Mars to find the ancient Martian life....
My god that is the best response to that statement I've ever heard. You should be scoring the +4 Insightful not me.
Still if you get haemorrhoids you get off your ass and do something about it, which is what I later suggested doing about the FOSS problem most people seem to have.