The real question that is not being answered here is why does a 32 GB SD card cost $25 but a 64 GB SATA hard drive cost $800? Why can't the technology that makes SD cards so cheap make cheap SATA hard drives as well?
If I'm missing something obvious and this sounds like a troll, then please RTFM me with a link, because I'd really like to know.
engineers give me this often. A lot of the high-powered CAD stuff is shockingly platform restricted and doesn't run in Wine at all
Exactly. I have to run Solidworks in a VM because I refuse to run a full Windows for my everyday work. I hate it, but it is the industry standard and I cannot use anything else and remain interoperative with other engineers.
The problem with that system is that it protects the banks and not the customers. Before you could contest the signature: now all they have is a PIN, and there's no way of proving who typed it in. It would be better to use chip, PIN and signature, but people will usually choose convenience over security.
I had to contest a cash withdrawl recently, and because the PIN was entered correctly the bank concluded that it was an authorized purchase and would not be covered. They treat the 4-digit PIN just as they treat a signature.
I would feel much better about Flash if Adobe would just get over itself and open source the client- they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Time is ticking... open sourcing it NOW might be their own weapon against Silverlight.
After the beating that Sun got for open sourcing it's code? How much Sun hatred have we seen now that OOo is GPL, but Sun retains control over the code development. The open source community is a bunch of ingrates. I use Ubuntu because I _like_ it, not because of some ideal. I use proprietary video drivers, proprietary Flash, and I'd pay for MS Office happily if it ran on Ubuntu. Opening the code only gives _users_ the ability to bitch _more_ about the product, not less. Show some respect for Sun and set an example, first.
I'm not going to learn a whole new markup language just for "x-bar". That's ridiculous.
As much as people are flaming you, I see your point. Tell me, how does one make X-bar in MS Office? I will file a feature request to OOo for such an implementation.
An additional hassle is that you cannot ever really trust pirated software. Maybe there is a trojan, virus or worm, which will be activated in the future on a specific date, or after a specific event or series of events. Maybe when you have typed enough credit card numbers worth sending. There's just no way to know (practically).
Right, because the original Microsoft version doesn't have these features, right? I supposed that you've gone over the source yourself (or someone you trust, such as the Debian team) and made sure of that, right? No backdoors, no data-compromising security bugs, right?
OO.o is NOT Microsoft Office. If you want Microsoft Office, go bite the bullet, pay the price, or deal with the hassles of your bootleg copy.
If MSO 2007 were available for Linux, I would pay for it today. For all I hate about Microsoft, MSO really is the least worse of the office suites, when it is configured to save in odf format (available since SP1, available as an addon in earlier versions). If anyone knows of another good office suite for Linux, please let me know. I'm a KDE user, and Koffice (even the 2.0 betas) just aren't there yet.
We've done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.
Try timing yourself on some web browsing/text editing/file managing tasks. Keyboarding may be faster occasionally, but you'll be surprised how often mousing wins.
I am familiar with this, but it seems to apply only to GUI apps that were designed for a mouse, and have keyboard shortcuts as an afterthought. That is why the Vimperator Firefox extension is so amazing: it performs as if it were designed for the keyboard. It is not perfect, and I still need the mouse for a few things, but Vimperator is both faster and less tiring than a mouse. Of course, there is a learning curve.
Yes, because spherical bodies of uniform density (note that planets do NOT have uniform density, but each layer is generally a uniform shell) can be considered for purposes of gravity to havea ll their mass at a point in the center of the sphere. The radius of the planet is the distance from the point to the point where the gravity is being measured (surface gravity).
I do not know which extension is conflicting with the mono extension, but Firefox now takes over 4 minutes to start up, and the same amount of time to load google. I thought that it was locked up, but I decided to sit it out to see if it would work. It did, after four minutes! Kubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.0.5.
I have a few extensions, so with 4+ minute startup times it is slow going finding out where the conflict is. I use the all in one sidebar, autoauth cookieculler, flashblock, link alert, locationbar limit, locationbar2, menu editor, no squint, openbook, repagination, scrapbook, searchwith, stylish, tagsifter, text link, tiny menu, tree style tab, vimperator, and web developer. If you use any of these, then be forewarned!
Does Ubuntu only have one web browser, one text editor, one desktop environment, one office replacement, one media player, all produced by Ubuntu ?
That's what it comes with. I can _add_ others, but that's what it comes with, and it is all packaged by Ubuntu. Or do you feel that Windows would be alright if MS included two web browsers of their own creation? Tell me, are you against KDE because KDE developed their own web browser, their own office suite, their own text editor, etc and ship it all together.
Oh, it doesn't. You get to choose which one you use. Unlike Windows, which ships with one web browser, one crappy text editor, one crappy graphics editor, no office suite, one media player, one desktop environment, all produced by microsoft.
Just like KDE gives me an all in one package. And just like in KDE, if I decide that I don't like any component, I can go find a replacement to install instead.
Can you spot the difference ?
Yes, Ubuntu with Gnome gives me a hodge-podge of unrelated applications, and KDE, Mac, and Microsoft give me a unified package.
In a world where most computers sold to the public come pre-loaded with microsoft software, every other software maker is immediately at a disadvantage.
So bitch to the computer retailers who don't include Chrome or Firefox or Open Office on their systems. I do.
Unless they deal with MS, they struggle to get market share. MS IS a convicted monopolist, they have a duty to ease access to their competitors, not block them at every turn. Ensuring that the first experience a person gets of the internet is through IE (for example) goes a long way to ensuring that that person sticks to their software. Fortunately MS don't own the internet, so why should they be allowed to restrict a persons first experience of it to MS brand software ? If they allowed OEMs to bundle other browsers and remove IE from the default position as THE software, then maybe we wouldn't be here now.
But you have no problem with IE being at a disadvantage to those first exposed to the interwebs with Firefox?
For the record, I am posting from my Kubuntu 8.04 machine. I have not had a MS OS in my house since late 2005. But that is because I _like_ Ubuntu, not because I hate MS. I don't _like_ MS either, they are just a company looking out for their own good, just like any company should.
Remember what we see is a 3000 year old image of the planet. It may not even exist today.
It's not clear to me what "today" should mean in this context.
It's what people who think that the universal constant is time (as opposed to the speed of light) call "now". It is rather in line with Newtonian mechanics, and is rather intuitive, even if it does not accurately describe the universe that we live in.
If the spin-off technologies are so valuable, why not fund the research, skip making the actual trip, and wind up with better technology without going anywhere? Do everything except build the final vehicle and we save lots money and get cool technology.
Because engineers like to work on real problems, not artificial problems. That's why they are engineers and not lawyers or politicians. And to attract the really good engineers, you need a really good problem to solve. Like spaceflight.
Are they really arguing that new computers should ship with no internet browser what so ever?
Lets take that a step further. If there should be no media player, and no web browser, then why is there a text editor? Why a 'dir' command? Why even a TCP stack? Lets make them ship just a kernel!
Of course at that point, somebody will then take that kernel and ship it with 'dir' (or 'ls') and a few other commands. Then they will add an installer, text editor, and a desktop environment. Add an office suite and a web browser and they could call it a 'distribution'.
What OS _doesn't_ come with this stuff? Should Ubuntu remove their media player and web browser as well?
Now you want something with the same g, but 10 times the mass? G*10*Me/R^2 = g = G*Me/(Re)^2
It works out that:
R = sqrt(10)*Re or a little over three times the radius. So a planet with ten times the mass of Earth, and three times the radius, would have about the same gravitational pull at the surface.
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Yes, I was backing your point.
This brings up an interesting idea.
The real question that is not being answered here is why does a 32 GB SD card cost $25 but a 64 GB SATA hard drive cost $800? Why can't the technology that makes SD cards so cheap make cheap SATA hard drives as well?
If I'm missing something obvious and this sounds like a troll, then please RTFM me with a link, because I'd really like to know.
A cow could die upstream and wipe out a village.
Seriously, people drank beer and wine for a very good reason. It was sanitary and wouldn't kill you like the water would.
Just as today, drinking water in some places (Mexico) is unsafe and everyone drinks cola or juice.
Ever tried removing KHTML from a KDE installation? ;)
hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove khtml
[sudo] password for hardy2:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package khtml
hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$
engineers give me this often. A lot of the high-powered CAD stuff is shockingly platform restricted and doesn't run in Wine at all
Exactly. I have to run Solidworks in a VM because I refuse to run a full Windows for my everyday work. I hate it, but it is the industry standard and I cannot use anything else and remain interoperative with other engineers.
The problem with that system is that it protects the banks and not the customers. Before you could contest the signature: now all they have is a PIN, and there's no way of proving who typed it in. It would be better to use chip, PIN and signature, but people will usually choose convenience over security.
I had to contest a cash withdrawl recently, and because the PIN was entered correctly the bank concluded that it was an authorized purchase and would not be covered. They treat the 4-digit PIN just as they treat a signature.
I would feel much better about Flash if Adobe would just get over itself and open source the client- they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Time is ticking... open sourcing it NOW might be their own weapon against Silverlight.
After the beating that Sun got for open sourcing it's code? How much Sun hatred have we seen now that OOo is GPL, but Sun retains control over the code development. The open source community is a bunch of ingrates. I use Ubuntu because I _like_ it, not because of some ideal. I use proprietary video drivers, proprietary Flash, and I'd pay for MS Office happily if it ran on Ubuntu. Opening the code only gives _users_ the ability to bitch _more_ about the product, not less. Show some respect for Sun and set an example, first.
Thanks!
What if THAT?
Also, it's lower-case "c," and how DARE you call me pedantic! ;-)
You win!
I'm not going to learn a whole new markup language just for "x-bar". That's ridiculous.
As much as people are flaming you, I see your point. Tell me, how does one make X-bar in MS Office? I will file a feature request to OOo for such an implementation.
An additional hassle is that you cannot ever really trust pirated software. Maybe there is a trojan, virus or worm, which will be activated in the future on a specific date, or after a specific event or series of events. Maybe when you have typed enough credit card numbers worth sending. There's just no way to know (practically).
Right, because the original Microsoft version doesn't have these features, right? I supposed that you've gone over the source yourself (or someone you trust, such as the Debian team) and made sure of that, right? No backdoors, no data-compromising security bugs, right?
OO.o is NOT Microsoft Office. If you want Microsoft Office, go bite the bullet, pay the price, or deal with the hassles of your bootleg copy.
If MSO 2007 were available for Linux, I would pay for it today. For all I hate about Microsoft, MSO really is the least worse of the office suites, when it is configured to save in odf format (available since SP1, available as an addon in earlier versions). If anyone knows of another good office suite for Linux, please let me know. I'm a KDE user, and Koffice (even the 2.0 betas) just aren't there yet.
Yes, I hope Windows 7 or 8 comes with a package manager like Ubuntu does.
Where can I email Microsoft to implement this?
I know that you were going for Funny, but MS does have an Idea Submit service. Request it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/outreach/ideas/ideaSubmit.mspx
If you really wanted to do things fast you'd use the mouse (preferably with gestures or pie menus). :
http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
Try timing yourself on some web browsing/text editing/file managing tasks. Keyboarding may be faster occasionally, but you'll be surprised how often mousing wins.
I am familiar with this, but it seems to apply only to GUI apps that were designed for a mouse, and have keyboard shortcuts as an afterthought. That is why the Vimperator Firefox extension is so amazing: it performs as if it were designed for the keyboard. It is not perfect, and I still need the mouse for a few things, but Vimperator is both faster and less tiring than a mouse. Of course, there is a learning curve.
Yes, because spherical bodies of uniform density (note that planets do NOT have uniform density, but each layer is generally a uniform shell) can be considered for purposes of gravity to havea ll their mass at a point in the center of the sphere. The radius of the planet is the distance from the point to the point where the gravity is being measured (surface gravity).
Do you donate to the Free Software Foundation?
Yes, twice.
Are you an Astronomer?
Just an amateur.
I do not know which extension is conflicting with the mono extension, but Firefox now takes over 4 minutes to start up, and the same amount of time to load google. I thought that it was locked up, but I decided to sit it out to see if it would work. It did, after four minutes! Kubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.0.5.
I have a few extensions, so with 4+ minute startup times it is slow going finding out where the conflict is. I use the all in one sidebar, autoauth cookieculler, flashblock, link alert, locationbar limit, locationbar2, menu editor, no squint, openbook, repagination, scrapbook, searchwith, stylish, tagsifter, text link, tiny menu, tree style tab, vimperator, and web developer. If you use any of these, then be forewarned!
That would be rather boring, it would be little more than the star wobbling a pixel or two in high resolution.
You've obviously never heard of rule #34.
Does Ubuntu only have one web browser, one text editor, one desktop environment, one office replacement, one media player, all produced by Ubuntu ?
That's what it comes with. I can _add_ others, but that's what it comes with, and it is all packaged by Ubuntu. Or do you feel that Windows would be alright if MS included two web browsers of their own creation? Tell me, are you against KDE because KDE developed their own web browser, their own office suite, their own text editor, etc and ship it all together.
Oh, it doesn't. You get to choose which one you use. Unlike Windows, which ships with one web browser, one crappy text editor, one crappy graphics editor, no office suite, one media player, one desktop environment, all produced by microsoft.
Just like KDE gives me an all in one package. And just like in KDE, if I decide that I don't like any component, I can go find a replacement to install instead.
Can you spot the difference ?
Yes, Ubuntu with Gnome gives me a hodge-podge of unrelated applications, and KDE, Mac, and Microsoft give me a unified package.
In a world where most computers sold to the public come pre-loaded with microsoft software, every other software maker is immediately at a disadvantage.
So bitch to the computer retailers who don't include Chrome or Firefox or Open Office on their systems. I do.
Unless they deal with MS, they struggle to get market share. MS IS a convicted monopolist, they have a duty to ease access to their competitors, not block them at every turn. Ensuring that the first experience a person gets of the internet is through IE (for example) goes a long way to ensuring that that person sticks to their software. Fortunately MS don't own the internet, so why should they be allowed to restrict a persons first experience of it to MS brand software ? If they allowed OEMs to bundle other browsers and remove IE from the default position as THE software, then maybe we wouldn't be here now.
But you have no problem with IE being at a disadvantage to those first exposed to the interwebs with Firefox?
For the record, I am posting from my Kubuntu 8.04 machine. I have not had a MS OS in my house since late 2005. But that is because I _like_ Ubuntu, not because I hate MS. I don't _like_ MS either, they are just a company looking out for their own good, just like any company should.
I'm used to size meaning volume...
Otherwise you might say a bullet is the size of 100 feathers...
You have obviously never seen a bullet vs. feathered object collision.
Remember what we see is a 3000 year old image of the planet. It may not even exist today.
It's not clear to me what "today" should mean in this context.
It's what people who think that the universal constant is time (as opposed to the speed of light) call "now". It is rather in line with Newtonian mechanics, and is rather intuitive, even if it does not accurately describe the universe that we live in.
If the spin-off technologies are so valuable, why not fund the research, skip making the actual trip, and wind up with better technology without going anywhere? Do everything except build the final vehicle and we save lots money and get cool technology.
Because engineers like to work on real problems, not artificial problems. That's why they are engineers and not lawyers or politicians. And to attract the really good engineers, you need a really good problem to solve. Like spaceflight.
Are they really arguing that new computers should ship with no internet browser what so ever?
Lets take that a step further. If there should be no media player, and no web browser, then why is there a text editor? Why a 'dir' command? Why even a TCP stack? Lets make them ship just a kernel!
Of course at that point, somebody will then take that kernel and ship it with 'dir' (or 'ls') and a few other commands. Then they will add an installer, text editor, and a desktop environment. Add an office suite and a web browser and they could call it a 'distribution'.
What OS _doesn't_ come with this stuff? Should Ubuntu remove their media player and web browser as well?
g = G*Me/(Re)^2
Now you want something with the same g, but 10 times the mass?
G*10*Me/R^2 = g = G*Me/(Re)^2
It works out that:
R = sqrt(10)*Re or a little over three times the radius. So a planet with ten times the mass of Earth, and three times the radius, would have about the same gravitational pull at the surface.
It's like that movie where the thing came out of his stomach and killed all the people on the fuckin' spaceship, God rest their souls.
With a username of Picard I would expect a slightly different form of comment on the subject!