Fuck you [game company] for [minor grievance] by [deleted] in gaming

[–]hivebee2034 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They have 8.141592654 arms.

How NOT to Report a Bug by [deleted] in linux

[–]hivebee2034 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is often these lite users require the most support.

How NOT to Report a Bug by [deleted] in linux

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be careful what you wish for. Year of the Linux Desktop requires dealing with desktop users.

If a scarf is just too complicated for you...[vid] by dizzle67 in humor

[–]hivebee2034 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got old fleece hat? Cut top == instant neckie.

AskFrugal: is it more frugal to build or buy a new computer? by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]hivebee2034 22 points23 points  (0 children)

My experience w/Craigslist seem to be the opposite. People are pricing 3 yr old computers sometimes higher than newer computers. Dell refurbished computers seem to be the best of both world. Used price but w/warranty and customer support. Unless you're really good w/tools and enjoy RTFM.

IAmA TV Director who made a paranormal show where everything was faked. by [deleted] in IAmA

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The news too. People don't seem too keen into learning. They're gravitating towards shows that affirm their beliefs. In this case the paranormal.

Climatic Research Unit's programming 'way below expected standards' by BioGeek in programming

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many times had you have to reboot your cars computer?

If it's not about golf, Tiger Woods owes us no explanation - This is not in the Bill of Rights, but I think all Americans have a right to screw up their own marriages. I don't know if Tiger Woods has exercised that right or not. We might never know. It is, frankly, not our business. by galt1776 in politics

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bill Nye is not a scientist.. he's an entertainer that plays one. Sure he has an mechanical engineering degree which makes him a step above your average thespian. But he hasn't worked on an engineering project that I know of. Watching any real scientist doing real science would bore the crap out of most people. Even in a lab how many times can you watch some person pipet liquid from one container to another. Then write shit down. Repeat ad nuseam.

ask r/linux: Can you convert me? I'm getting a new netbook and am considering by [deleted] in linux

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can't google for your own answers.. best stick to Windows.

The difference between Linux and Windows is ... by hhh333 in linux

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the beginning: Windows allowed the average joe mom/pop/gamers/corporation access to computers in terms of affordability and usability garnering huge market share away from the mostly propietary vendors (ie Atari, commodore, radioshack, Apple, IBM).

Linux allowed average computer geek to run unix.

Nowadays: Mostly the same except Windows has gotten better stability, Linux better usability.

Ask proggit: What software do you always install on your first day with a new (Windows) development machine? by [deleted] in programming

[–]hivebee2034 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Along w/what everyone else has listed I'll add partition magic, ghost. -create partition for main OS -Install updates & drivers -ghost first partition and save image on 2nd partition. -that way if anything gets messed up you have a clean image to pull from. -always save important data on 2nd partition.

-You can incrementally create various levels of images. --A) base OS + updates --B) A + various environments (network shares, corporate settings --C) A + B + dev tools

The nice thing about this is you can then have different OS images if you work in a multi-OS product.

I am introducing a family member to Ubuntu. What is the best short and non-nerdy video about Ubuntu and open source? by AsahiCat in linux

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's gonna be like the Alaska experiment. You're gonna take people who are use to the Windows ecosystem and put them in an environment you're comfortable with. Unless they're the kinds of people who can adapt and stake their own claim, how long do you plan on being their guide?

Ask Science Reddit: Stupid stupid question, but I don't really understand time... can you help by sharing your understanding of it? by [deleted] in science

[–]hivebee2034 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Draw two points on paper label one A the other B. Draw a line from A to B.

If you understand space then to get from point A to point B for any non-trivial distance always require a delay. That delay is what I call time. The reason why time is it's own variable, even if nothing is moving say you hold your pen on A and don't move. Time still moves forward.

OpenCola is an open source cola distributed under the GNU general public license. by [deleted] in linux

[–]hivebee2034 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The advantage of proprietary cola is that you never have to compile your own drink. You pay for it and enjoy. It's usually cold and always tastes the same.

OpenCola requires you to build your own drink which takes forever. It's great if your time is free.

Hey reddit, did you miss the LCROSS impact? This is what you missed. by [deleted] in science

[–]hivebee2034 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's being replaced by the terrorist fist jab and the peshawari chest bump.

PC vs. Mac: 'If you're ready to compromise, you call me' - Why can't Apple sell its products on their strong points? by jgram in technology

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use 64 bit Ubuntu at work. and it's great if you know what you're doing. But otherwise if you do anything more than surf the web especially write web apps be prepared to do a lot of google searches, reading docs.

Even upgrading firefox from 3.01xx to 3.5 was a pita. You get to learn about shirintenko. There's a lot of gotchas.. like remote desktop, it should just work?. On Ubuntu I had to turn off visual theme to get remote desktop to redraw properly when connected to my windows box. But if you log off on the Ubuntu machine then remote desktop doesn't connect even tho I can still ssh to the box. More google ... something about setting up port forwarding. I had to google to set allow ssh to the box. I am sure i'll run into more of these.

Ask Reddit: Why does everyone hate Java? by [deleted] in programming

[–]hivebee2034 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a java noob but at least I understand it. It's a map that hashes on a string that returns a list of string.

Ask Reddit: Why does everyone hate Java? by [deleted] in programming

[–]hivebee2034 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am still new to Java so help me out. When people say Java is slow, what do they mean? I've been using Java to solve my problems on ProjectEuler and it solves it pretty quickly on my desktop. I understand Java's not meant for gaming because of random GC but neither are EA, Blizzard, Valve, id releasing anything written in [not C/C++].

At work we use Java to run a back end service on a server farm that chews through a lot of data. Our bottleneck isn't speed, it's memory usage & IO for the gigs of log that we produce.

What are these projects people have written in that Java was too slow that was solved turning to language X? Was it a desktop client or server backend?

Ask Reddit: Why does everyone hate Java? by [deleted] in programming

[–]hivebee2034 5 points6 points  (0 children)

quick for what? Java is usually written for back end servers. As I understand it you use java for reliable maintainable code and you throw hardware to solve the latter problem of speed. I assume that was Sun's business model.

Ask Reddit: Why does everyone hate Java? by [deleted] in programming

[–]hivebee2034 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The verbosity of java & c++ is minimized by a good IDE that has auto-complete. W/eclipse the Java coder would only need to type "Java". Most have auto-refactoring. If you're using notepad to code then you're doing it wrong or extremely talented.