You're right, theres nothing inherently inaccurate. The problem comes when you try to change units. They like to test us with this sort of thing in british maths exam. Scale is 1:50... blah blah blah. Essentially, its just easier doing conversions. A millimeter to kilometer conversion just involves shifting the decimal point along a certain amount of places. Concerting inches into miles? Stone into Tons? The names give nothing away, whereas you can usually assume kilo = 1000, etc, in the metric system.
I mean personally I think in miles. I have absolutely no idea how big a mile is in real life. I think a mile is roughly 5/8ths of a kilometer, but it could be the other way around. I wish we did use kilometers in britain though, would make things simpler.
Also, this could just be a false memory, but I remember reading in a very old dictionary of my grandparents' that a 12th of an inch (I don't know the technical term) is defined by the width of a grain of wheat, or something? Could be wrong. I think most of the metric measurements are defined by forces of nature... etc.
The problem I have with JT... well firstly he can't engage in any kind of discussion or be at all diplomatic... but in a broader sense its the belief that keeping the public in the dark with as many issues people may make judgements on is the "safest" thing to do. Personally I think a lot of things "promoting" badness are just showing it, and letting the user decide whether its sensible, or far fetched, or whatever.
And I think thats totally wrong. Although I view the Colombine killers as assholes, putting them in a game isn't going to swap peoples minds if they know all the facts. If the media didn't preach bullshit maybe people would see reality as it is, and there wouldn't be as many cop killings, like JT says their are.
Is it definately going to be called iTV? Cause here in the UK there is already a television company called ITV - And its the biggest privately owned TV broadcaster in the country... I could see apple suing for the use of "i" at the start of the name...
Either way, without a re-branding, iTV won't get far here, it will just be mass confusion!
Actually, the ies4linux WINE setup is pretty good. I use ies4linux for testing designs, and it's never caused me a blink of trouble. I'm familiar enough with IE6's downsides to know when its an IE6 bug, and when its a WINE bug. 99% of the time, its IE
I apologize for the typo. Its currently 1am and I have school tomorrow, so please excuse any typos in this post too.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for free software. I'm typing this using Firefox on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. However, I think your argument of "It's so simple a 5 year old can do it" is flawed for one big reason: The five year old isn't used to using IE. Its the same sort of vendor lockin thing... Once you use something for a long time, you get dependent on it. I'm 15 currently, and its pretty apparent in my age group of beginner/casual computer uses up to myspace freaks. Just because you've been using a computer for a long time doesn't mean you look into new things. Personally, I do, but people I know will keep using MSN Messenger and Bebo. Myspace too, unfortunately.
If you think about it, if you asked a person who'd never tried noodles or spaghetti, and said "noodles are super yummy, go with anything, cost less and fill you up more" they're bound to go with noodles. If someone has been brought up eating spaghetti, there's an increased chance they won't eat noodles, because their fear em, and will stick with the familiar and, in their perception, safe.
I know thats a bit of a poor example, but I think in this case it's the intermediate computer user who's least likely to use FOSS, not the absolute beginner or the wiz kid.
You say that, but I'd say the majority of computer users use them for one thing. Doing the same thing in an entirely different way (my friend just could not understand tabbed browsing) is a steep learning curve, and a lot of people think why bothered. The more clued up users, or companies, will often take alternatives into consideration, but will simply not know enough.
Our computers have thousands times more memory...
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Well thank god we have Vista to fill up that uptapped goldmine!
Wow. The boot sector of your disk was probably already borked, else you had a bad burn. Did you check the CD for defects (its in the menu on boot) before you installed? Did you run an integrity test on your disk before thinking about installing?
Lunacy! I've made apps which can do this sort of thing before, and this one is totally unoptimized! Take a look at this:
With the limited amount of colours used, it would make much more sense to a) give the table an id, then: table.tabid td { width:1px; height:1px; ) b) give some classes for each colour used td.colid { background-color: blah; }
I'm sure that would half the source code size... How can you trust a HTML solution that hasn't even been properly thought through?
I absolutely agree. The EU goes to great lengths to satisfy the needs of those who make up a tiny percentage of the population - I'm talking laws which may only affect one or two people with disabilities or complaints of human rights abuse. While I support this, why can't this kind of attention to minorities be universal? Surely the EU - who make the laws - know that it would be entirely legal to support linux with a free format. Ogg Theora highly recommended!
I totally agree with you about the police shooting stuff. I hate to compare countries, but round here (I live in a smallish market town in England) no one has guns, so the chance of a deadly shootout is zero.
That aside, I don't think the illegal detention of innocent (until proven guilty) people gets too much attention. Until it is stopped, it cannot get enough attention. Police screwups is localized. Totally unacceptable of course, but when people are getting kidnapped and tortured from far flung places, its not a case of it getting a lot of coverage
DefectiveByDesign and other pressure groups are quite good, but I don't think the FSF has quite got into the swing of things. They seem to toot their horns about the latest organised action, and it seems to gain support, and yet people actually returning to the causes seems a little low... Maybe they just need to work on their PR, perhaps take a tip from M$? ^.^
I'm an ubuntu linux user, perhaps 80% of the time. I boot into Windows XP for certain things (graphic design, gaming, webcam). It took me some time to switch from Windows 2000 to XP. I've seen some speed increases, but not many. The main reason was application support... things like Windows Live Messenger seemed neat.
Now, I run on a mediocre system. I have a pre-geforce nvidia card, 768mb of RAM, and a 1.4ghz Athlon 1600+. I tend to run a lot of apps at once, and this slows down windows XP enough as it is. Are there any real benefits for me switching to Vista?
It almost seems to me that every new Windows version to come out is just a hidden charge, a snake in the grass of what appears to be free (as in beer) software brought out by Microsoft. Talking specifically about IE7 and Windows Live Messenger here.
This could just continue to fiji and what not... And I'm more than satasfied with my current computer.
It bothers me... Why would ford strike a deal with MS? I mean, MS would just flog the old windows kernel... If you're designing cars, you know exactly what hardware is in it. A team of programmers could knock up a working operating system in a couple of weeks because they don't have to account for changes in hardware. MS will take months piecing together scraps of old source code from Windows ME into some kind of incoherent hybrid... And it will be more expensive! Who here thinks bill gates is threatening Ford with a patent infringement case?
Hold on. Why sell a product with something the consumer will never use? Unless this is a rallying cry, why make consumers pay hundreds of dollars for something they aren't going to use?!
Yeah they bitch but they don't go around sueing single mothers for thousands of pounds... The thing is that small bands on small labels get about what they should be getting. The proportion of royalties they receive is about right. Sure a lot of people pirate their music but its good publicity. I'm a big fan of try before you buy... Some of the record I've bought you would never have heard mentioned on the radio or on MTV2. On bigger labels... well thats just it. Big labels are big labels because
a) They've probably worked their way up through aggressive business practices (and you'd expect them too)
b) They give the artists very little money, unless their whole style and look is that of someone who's wealthy
c) They absolutely ruin any talent through overproduction
And whats more they can't get enough of doing it. The RIAA was set up by these companies. Its not out to protect the rights of the consumer or the musicians, its out there to increase the profits that the record companies rake in.
I'm sitting here in the UK reading about all these RIAA stories and thinking "Man, you guys in the USA have it bad". They're taking away the rights of music lovers AND artists. Its a war on consumers and musicians. I don't know what else to say, except I hope it is stopped before it spreads to other parts of the world.
You could call windows a DOS clone. Linux isn't a unix clone, they are seperate systems. Operating systems work differently but come up with an end product, which is a platform desktop and web apps can run on. Thats where the real diversity starts, but perhaps not in this case. I'm quite sick of MS calling itself inovative and leeching off other peoples good work.
Woh, hold on there. Your making some very stupid assumptions here. You can't say that this represents all of homeless people
Firstly, its quite common for otherwise sucessful people to become homeless. Someone could have died in their family, and they could have been reliant on them. A job loss during high unemployment in an area. Unable to work for some reason... There are loads. These people most likely WOULDN'T blow all their money straight away.
One of my friends regularly talks to homeless/poor people. I found it kind of odd at first that whenever she goes to a nearby city on the train, she'll buy a coke and some food for the guy. I'm used to it now, and you'll find that a lot of them are decent people who have, truly and honestly, had some bad luck.
You can't judge a group of people from one example that has been publicised. Homelessness is a downward spiral which is difficult to get out of. You can't unlearn the desperate need to get and spend all your (small amounts of) money after 20 years very easily.
When I say don't run as root on windows, I mean run as a restricted user, not an administrator. That defeats the point as you said.
And for example apps that you could use sudo with... Well, any, but some like apt-get may need it (package management), as well as running your favourite text editor has root to edit system files... etc
Ah yeah. Well when most of the jobs you do need root it makes complete sense to run as root. But I think the comment I replied to directed it towards the ubuntu desktop... chances are you aren't using that entirely as a server. Theres a server edition for that;-)
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You're right, theres nothing inherently inaccurate. The problem comes when you try to change units. They like to test us with this sort of thing in british maths exam. Scale is 1:50... blah blah blah. Essentially, its just easier doing conversions. A millimeter to kilometer conversion just involves shifting the decimal point along a certain amount of places. Concerting inches into miles? Stone into Tons? The names give nothing away, whereas you can usually assume kilo = 1000, etc, in the metric system.
I mean personally I think in miles. I have absolutely no idea how big a mile is in real life. I think a mile is roughly 5/8ths of a kilometer, but it could be the other way around. I wish we did use kilometers in britain though, would make things simpler.
Also, this could just be a false memory, but I remember reading in a very old dictionary of my grandparents' that a 12th of an inch (I don't know the technical term) is defined by the width of a grain of wheat, or something? Could be wrong. I think most of the metric measurements are defined by forces of nature... etc.
The problem I have with JT... well firstly he can't engage in any kind of discussion or be at all diplomatic... but in a broader sense its the belief that keeping the public in the dark with as many issues people may make judgements on is the "safest" thing to do. Personally I think a lot of things "promoting" badness are just showing it, and letting the user decide whether its sensible, or far fetched, or whatever.
And I think thats totally wrong. Although I view the Colombine killers as assholes, putting them in a game isn't going to swap peoples minds if they know all the facts. If the media didn't preach bullshit maybe people would see reality as it is, and there wouldn't be as many cop killings, like JT says their are.
NSA? I know "S" and "R" are kinda near eachother... but really!
Is it definately going to be called iTV? Cause here in the UK there is already a television company called ITV - And its the biggest privately owned TV broadcaster in the country... I could see apple suing for the use of "i" at the start of the name...
Either way, without a re-branding, iTV won't get far here, it will just be mass confusion!
Actually you can run IE6 standalone under windows after installing IE7.
Bottommost link
Very handy really
Actually, the ies4linux WINE setup is pretty good. I use ies4linux for testing designs, and it's never caused me a blink of trouble. I'm familiar enough with IE6's downsides to know when its an IE6 bug, and when its a WINE bug. 99% of the time, its IE
With all the money they apparently make, AllOfMp3 should move to Sealand! It would stop all the copyright disputes!!
I apologize for the typo. Its currently 1am and I have school tomorrow, so please excuse any typos in this post too.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for free software. I'm typing this using Firefox on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. However, I think your argument of "It's so simple a 5 year old can do it" is flawed for one big reason: The five year old isn't used to using IE. Its the same sort of vendor lockin thing... Once you use something for a long time, you get dependent on it. I'm 15 currently, and its pretty apparent in my age group of beginner/casual computer uses up to myspace freaks. Just because you've been using a computer for a long time doesn't mean you look into new things. Personally, I do, but people I know will keep using MSN Messenger and Bebo. Myspace too, unfortunately.
If you think about it, if you asked a person who'd never tried noodles or spaghetti, and said "noodles are super yummy, go with anything, cost less and fill you up more" they're bound to go with noodles. If someone has been brought up eating spaghetti, there's an increased chance they won't eat noodles, because their fear em, and will stick with the familiar and, in their perception, safe.
I know thats a bit of a poor example, but I think in this case it's the intermediate computer user who's least likely to use FOSS, not the absolute beginner or the wiz kid.
You say that, but I'd say the majority of computer users use them for one thing. Doing the same thing in an entirely different way (my friend just could not understand tabbed browsing) is a steep learning curve, and a lot of people think why bothered. The more clued up users, or companies, will often take alternatives into consideration, but will simply not know enough.
Well thank god we have Vista to fill up that uptapped goldmine!
Wow. The boot sector of your disk was probably already borked, else you had a bad burn. Did you check the CD for defects (its in the menu on boot) before you installed? Did you run an integrity test on your disk before thinking about installing?
Lunacy! I've made apps which can do this sort of thing before, and this one is totally unoptimized! Take a look at this:
With the limited amount of colours used, it would make much more sense to
a) give the table an id, then:
table.tabid td { width:1px; height:1px; )
b) give some classes for each colour used
td.colid { background-color: blah; }
I'm sure that would half the source code size... How can you trust a HTML solution that hasn't even been properly thought through?
I absolutely agree. The EU goes to great lengths to satisfy the needs of those who make up a tiny percentage of the population - I'm talking laws which may only affect one or two people with disabilities or complaints of human rights abuse. While I support this, why can't this kind of attention to minorities be universal? Surely the EU - who make the laws - know that it would be entirely legal to support linux with a free format. Ogg Theora highly recommended!
I totally agree with you about the police shooting stuff. I hate to compare countries, but round here (I live in a smallish market town in England) no one has guns, so the chance of a deadly shootout is zero.
That aside, I don't think the illegal detention of innocent (until proven guilty) people gets too much attention. Until it is stopped, it cannot get enough attention. Police screwups is localized. Totally unacceptable of course, but when people are getting kidnapped and tortured from far flung places, its not a case of it getting a lot of coverage
DefectiveByDesign and other pressure groups are quite good, but I don't think the FSF has quite got into the swing of things. They seem to toot their horns about the latest organised action, and it seems to gain support, and yet people actually returning to the causes seems a little low... Maybe they just need to work on their PR, perhaps take a tip from M$? ^.^
I'm an ubuntu linux user, perhaps 80% of the time. I boot into Windows XP for certain things (graphic design, gaming, webcam). It took me some time to switch from Windows 2000 to XP. I've seen some speed increases, but not many. The main reason was application support... things like Windows Live Messenger seemed neat.
Now, I run on a mediocre system. I have a pre-geforce nvidia card, 768mb of RAM, and a 1.4ghz Athlon 1600+. I tend to run a lot of apps at once, and this slows down windows XP enough as it is. Are there any real benefits for me switching to Vista?
It almost seems to me that every new Windows version to come out is just a hidden charge, a snake in the grass of what appears to be free (as in beer) software brought out by Microsoft. Talking specifically about IE7 and Windows Live Messenger here.
This could just continue to fiji and what not... And I'm more than satasfied with my current computer.
It bothers me... Why would ford strike a deal with MS? I mean, MS would just flog the old windows kernel... If you're designing cars, you know exactly what hardware is in it. A team of programmers could knock up a working operating system in a couple of weeks because they don't have to account for changes in hardware. MS will take months piecing together scraps of old source code from Windows ME into some kind of incoherent hybrid... And it will be more expensive! Who here thinks bill gates is threatening Ford with a patent infringement case?
In the age of watches that have more computational power than Apollo 11's computer
What? o.o Apollo 11 had almost 0 computational power! The cup I'm drinking out of is probably more intelligent than Apollo 11's computers ever were
Hold on. Why sell a product with something the consumer will never use? Unless this is a rallying cry, why make consumers pay hundreds of dollars for something they aren't going to use?!
Yeah they bitch but they don't go around sueing single mothers for thousands of pounds... The thing is that small bands on small labels get about what they should be getting. The proportion of royalties they receive is about right. Sure a lot of people pirate their music but its good publicity. I'm a big fan of try before you buy... Some of the record I've bought you would never have heard mentioned on the radio or on MTV2. On bigger labels... well thats just it. Big labels are big labels because a) They've probably worked their way up through aggressive business practices (and you'd expect them too) b) They give the artists very little money, unless their whole style and look is that of someone who's wealthy c) They absolutely ruin any talent through overproduction And whats more they can't get enough of doing it. The RIAA was set up by these companies. Its not out to protect the rights of the consumer or the musicians, its out there to increase the profits that the record companies rake in.
I'm sitting here in the UK reading about all these RIAA stories and thinking "Man, you guys in the USA have it bad". They're taking away the rights of music lovers AND artists. Its a war on consumers and musicians. I don't know what else to say, except I hope it is stopped before it spreads to other parts of the world.
You could call windows a DOS clone. Linux isn't a unix clone, they are seperate systems. Operating systems work differently but come up with an end product, which is a platform desktop and web apps can run on. Thats where the real diversity starts, but perhaps not in this case. I'm quite sick of MS calling itself inovative and leeching off other peoples good work.
Woh, hold on there. Your making some very stupid assumptions here. You can't say that this represents all of homeless people
Firstly, its quite common for otherwise sucessful people to become homeless. Someone could have died in their family, and they could have been reliant on them. A job loss during high unemployment in an area. Unable to work for some reason... There are loads. These people most likely WOULDN'T blow all their money straight away.
One of my friends regularly talks to homeless/poor people. I found it kind of odd at first that whenever she goes to a nearby city on the train, she'll buy a coke and some food for the guy. I'm used to it now, and you'll find that a lot of them are decent people who have, truly and honestly, had some bad luck.
You can't judge a group of people from one example that has been publicised. Homelessness is a downward spiral which is difficult to get out of. You can't unlearn the desperate need to get and spend all your (small amounts of) money after 20 years very easily.
When I say don't run as root on windows, I mean run as a restricted user, not an administrator. That defeats the point as you said. And for example apps that you could use sudo with... Well, any, but some like apt-get may need it (package management), as well as running your favourite text editor has root to edit system files... etc
Ah yeah. Well when most of the jobs you do need root it makes complete sense to run as root. But I think the comment I replied to directed it towards the ubuntu desktop... chances are you aren't using that entirely as a server. Theres a server edition for that ;-)