How is anything that gets posted here /prog/ related? All we do here is go from thread to thread spewing insider jokes/memes. Note to self, board descriptions on 4chan are a lie.
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Anonymous2010-01-17 7:38
Look at it this way.
On most browsers, you can bring up your browsing history by pressing Control-H. (No, this is not going to become a discussion of werecows.) On Firefox, this brings up a sidebar that shows up on the left side of the window. If you put your mouse over the edge of the sidebar, the cursor will turn into a different kind of arrow. By clicking and dragging it, you can move the edge of the sidebar back and forth. You are, to put it another way, manipulating the border between the normal window and the history window. By moving the mouse, you can increase the portion of the window devoted to either part. In a more extreme view of this situation, you're increasing or decreasing the amount of existence the sidebar has.
Now, let's apply this idea to something more abstract. Look out your window. If you don't live in a highly urbanized area, you should be able to see the horizon. Think of this as the border between the land and the sky. The land and sky are obviously distinguishable thanks to this boundary. Now, if you were to "drag" the sash between the sky and the land, or to manipulate the border between land and sky, you would end up causing the sky to become larger and the land to become smaller, or vice versa. An effect of this might be to cause something that was just on the ground to suddenly be hundreds of feet in the air. Truly a frightening situation to be in. So, look at it this way - manipulating the border between two physical things shifts whatever balance there is in the interaction between those things. Alternatively, by manipulating the border between two things, you can change the manner in which they exist.
Still, this isn't *that* abstract, since it's still dealing with real things in the real world. Many believe that in this world, there are those things that are true, and those that obviously aren't. This divides reality into two extremes: truth and falsehood. But, since we have two extremes, logically one can imagine a boundary between those two extremes - the border between truth and lies. If one were to manipulate this border, suddenly things that were pure fantasy (flying pigs, for the sake of argument) have become reality - or things from reality have ceased to exist. This is how Yukari is said to have invaded the moon - by manipulating the border between truth and lies, as applied to the reflection of the moon on a pond, she was able to make the reflection of the moon into a manifestation of the actual moon, and so send her youkai army onto it. This is what's truly amazing about Yukari's power - the ability to manipulate the border between completely abstract concepts allows her to fundamentally change reality as we know it (at least in terms of two abstract concepts).
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This thread is not directly /prog/-related.
Your post belongs in /a/, and maybe on /jp/. /jp/ was split from /a/, and /prog/ has some shared userbase with /jp/. This does not mean you should post this here!
Just because you could trace anything to be connected to /b/ in some way or the other, does not mean you should post /b/ content here!
>>7 cool enough to hangout with the /jp/ers /jp/ers cool （ ≖‿≖）
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Anonymous2010-01-17 10:08
This thread is now about why linux sucks.
Linux is buggy, and freezes on some ATI video cards. Never mind that OpenOffice has a truckload of compatibility issues when opening Office documents. That there is a hefty number of tv cards and modems out there that simply don't work. And that the UI is a convoluted mess.
Have you ever wondered why Macs sell quite well, even if they are generally more expensive that Windows PCs? Let me tell you. It's because they are of higher quality. It's because all the devices inside the computer work fine, the 3D desktop is flawless, they run real Office, and the everything in the UI is where it's supposed to be. Windows are somewhat less good in terms of quality and linux, well linux is on the freaking bottom of the food chain. Linux is far from perfect, in fact it sucks hard for the vast majority of people..
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OSX would suck equally if it had to support the same range of hardware and software provided in a GNU/Linux system.
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Anonymous2010-01-17 10:40
>>10
I'd just like to interject. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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Anonymous2010-01-17 10:47
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And Usain Bolt would take 20 sec. to run the 100 m. race if he was required to run wearing a knight armor and a pair of crutches. What is your point?
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I'd just like to interject. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, GNU/Communism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Communism. GNU/Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Communist system made useful by the Communist corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.