if you: 1) Use a sane repository. Check with apt-cache for the big blunders(unresolved dependencies) you need to stay away from. 2) Behave according to the rules of any package management: do not install software that other packages depend on outside of the package manager. Then you will be fine wrt to dependency hell and security updates. now please quit wining about mom and pop, windows breaks down with them too: the computer can not improve their stupidity anyway. There are storms of email virusses out there to prove that.
it is much easier to buy her a vibrator if you want to score. Or if she prefers to act innocent: a electric toothbrush will do the job equally well. Or what about a washing machine (hey think of all the non-emancipatory connotations from such a gift, you'll be uber-macho)
saying that with a Mac you'll have no driver problems ever is silly: or do all the usb gadgets come with mac drivers too? It maybe true for video (or other onboard stuff), but you would see much less (if not none) driver troubles in linux or windows if you had a very limited set of hardware to program to.
On a related note: the crappiness of windows has made cheap hardware possible: The device manufacturers can point to windows when making flakey hardware. Windows in turn can point to flakey hardware when things go blue. In the meantime both had ample opportunity to produce in the cheapest way possible.
"I'm an engineer and did tech support for my department."
[...]and become a command line wizard just to get anything done.
So what kind of commandline wizadry would you perform to support some dumb windoze users? Thinking that you can do tech support while using an other OS than your dependents is silly and negates the rest of th SCREAMING arguments you felt you had to give.
You cannot get around the fact that linux or open source is a gift. No not as in skill, but as in present. Every piece of software that you use in linux is GIVEN to you by the people that wrote it. Where do you get the audacity to whine about your petty problems that you are too impatient to solve yourself. Somehow you think it is normal that the device manufacturer does not make any drivers for it, because it just works in windows? Please convice some of those imps that wrote the windows drivers, to write some for linux too.
But alas, you are too impatient to learn and assume the right to complain. In other words, you are a typical windows user, you are helpdesk fodder. Please stop complaining and do something constructive. Instead of complaining, you could have invested that time to learn to solve your petty problems, write a howto about it and give something back.
I am glad you mention fascism, because you might know what it means. As mussolini said: fascism is merging the state and the corporation. Now who is calling who fascist?
oh look: a whining windows user. Why do you assume you can make all these demands? Nobody is demanding from you to leave windows. Maybe you should just stick to windos. Pay your yearly taxes to king bill, and take many steps to overcome the designed in security flaws of windows. Say "Thank you for poinitng out this security breach" when some script-kiddy hoses your computer with a not so recently discovered bug that was not disclosed because billy boy dont want to make windos look bad. I am sure you will be happy because your out-of-date programming knowledge is still usable after all these years. You are unable to learn something new, so i suggest you learn to dig your own grave now before lose that ability too. Oh wait, you already know that...
If your pointy haired boss does not want to take risks because he is running a business, he is not a good businessman I'd say. A business is about taking risk, not about cowering in your bedroom because you might get hurt if you go out in the street.
You don't need forms to do curved surfaces. Lay out wiremesh in the form you want. Then hire a shotcrete contractor to spray the thing with concrete. Have it troweled smooth et voila: your new curved pool. The downside is that both the shotcrete and the troweling is skilled labour, and will cost more in developed countries. I suppose this invention tries to negate that point by making the shotcreting and troweling automated.
Not unlike Wifi, cordless phones to jam former, microwave ovens to donate parts to make a cordless phone jammer etc.,? These and a lot of other devices all operate in this band, so expect some interference.
no I did not bother to read the article, so I could be 50-100 MHz off.
Maybe the servers gouverning the webserch blocking thingie were rooted bij some kid disgrunted with the new licence? Or Maybe MSFT does not like the new licence because thay will have to add more credits in their docs?
kde-redhat is a load of crap if you ask me. I tried to upgrade to kde-3.2 with their repository, but it failed on dozens of unmet dependencies. (just do a apt-cache on it, you'll see) I had to do some serious remove-reinstall moves with apt-get to get back to my previous install. Building the fedora-src.rpm's that would not install and installing those that would was a lot easier. If I knew how, I would not mind sharing these rpms.
If you pretend to maintain packages for some distro, you should not update the buildhost with all sorts of alpha quality software that has not been packaged correctly. KDE-redhat just stinks!
You have never been to Europe have you? You could also stop driving your gas guzzling SUV and use a more fuel efficient car. If you cannot use all that engine power anyway, why lug it around in your car that is too big anyway?
Ride a (push!) bike.
Stop whinghing that you want to pollute more cheaply.
I tried to read the article (it's not slashdotted you karma whores!) but i quit after the first few paragrapghs. Some dipshit telling "when I was your age..." stories to someone he didn't care about to ask his email. This rambling is not fit for public consumption. Some people really get off on telling other people how the world works. They might even think that everybody that listens is their deciple. Now goth hither and... well whatever.
instead of a swashplate, it uses one piezo contoller that adjusts the angle of the rotor blades (tilt is longitudonally (sp?)) The peizo element is driven by the current running between two contact pairs. 1 for forward/reverse 1 for sideways.
(now for some -i know it better than this guy- ramblings: It could be done even simpler with a little more logic in the controller: eliminate the divided pickup ring and replace it with two continous contacts on the rotorshaft. determine the rotor speed from a optocoupler or the motor, and have your controller output the right pulses at the right time. More electronics, less moving pairs. better control over the rotor angle at all parts of the cycle)
Unless you are on an exotic platform where it is hard to find software for, point 2 is moot. It is very easy to install new software on a rooted server, esp. if it is a webserver with a big fat pipe to the internet.
Or are you trying to say that the potential damage is smal because there is little of value on the server?
Please go read the artcile yourself. The 3 billion is overstated through, as it does not include lost sales via other sales channels like cd's etc., nor does it include the investments that the record companies need to make to produce the music.
The other reason I think it will not work is because it is very disruptive for the established industry. It directly states that it aims to cut out the middle men like record companies and retailers. These people will not like to be pushed out of the way/job, and will defend the status quo with hand and tooth.
On the other hand: it would be cool, as plain cd's will fall out of the market, they will have to offer something tangible that can not be shared over p2p networks instead. Record stores will transform into clothesshops?
You must be illiterate if you think that is a big achievement, or do you have dislexia or other reading disorders? 8 books in 2 months is less then a book per week. If I take more than 1 week to finish a book it is just not interesting. But if you use as a backgroundnoise with added bonus to be able to claim literacy: Sure, go right ahead.
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Isn't that is one of the lowest lifeforms on earth, right next to marketdroids?
I hope that they pay this guy al very big lot, all money that MS has to spend is a good cause.
BTW I remain convinced we should on bomb redmont.
if you:
1) Use a sane repository. Check with apt-cache for the big blunders(unresolved dependencies) you need to stay away from.
2) Behave according to the rules of any package management: do not install software that other packages depend on outside of the package manager.
Then you will be fine wrt to dependency hell and security updates.
now please quit wining about mom and pop, windows breaks down with them too: the computer can not improve their stupidity anyway. There are storms of email virusses out there to prove that.
it is much easier to buy her a vibrator if you want to score. Or if she prefers to act innocent: a electric toothbrush will do the job equally well. Or what about a washing machine (hey think of all the non-emancipatory connotations from such a gift, you'll be uber-macho)
you live and learn:
saying that with a Mac you'll have no driver problems ever is silly: or do all the usb gadgets come with mac drivers too? It maybe true for video (or other onboard stuff), but you would see much less (if not none) driver troubles in linux or windows if you had a very limited set of hardware to program to.
On a related note: the crappiness of windows has made cheap hardware possible: The device manufacturers can point to windows when making flakey hardware. Windows in turn can point to flakey hardware when things go blue. In the meantime both had ample opportunity to produce in the cheapest way possible.
So what kind of commandline wizadry would you perform to support some dumb windoze users? Thinking that you can do tech support while using an other OS than your dependents is silly and negates the rest of th SCREAMING arguments you felt you had to give.
You cannot get around the fact that linux or open source is a gift. No not as in skill, but as in present. Every piece of software that you use in linux is GIVEN to you by the people that wrote it. Where do you get the audacity to whine about your petty problems that you are too impatient to solve yourself. Somehow you think it is normal that the device manufacturer does not make any drivers for it, because it just works in windows? Please convice some of those imps that wrote the windows drivers, to write some for linux too.
But alas, you are too impatient to learn and assume the right to complain. In other words, you are a typical windows user, you are helpdesk fodder. Please stop complaining and do something constructive.
Instead of complaining, you could have invested that time to learn to solve your petty problems, write a howto about it and give something back.
I am glad you mention fascism, because you might know what it means. As mussolini said: fascism is merging the state and the corporation.
Now who is calling who fascist?
oh look: a whining windows user. Why do you assume you can make all these demands? Nobody is demanding from you to leave windows. Maybe you should just stick to windos. Pay your yearly taxes to king bill, and take many steps to overcome the designed in security flaws of windows. Say "Thank you for poinitng out this security breach" when some script-kiddy hoses your computer with a not so recently discovered bug that was not disclosed because billy boy dont want to make windos look bad.
I am sure you will be happy because your out-of-date programming knowledge is still usable after all these years. You are unable to learn something new, so i suggest you learn to dig your own grave now before lose that ability too. Oh wait, you already know that...
(You rant? I can rant too. QED)
If your pointy haired boss does not want to take risks because he is running a business, he is not a good businessman I'd say. A business is about taking risk, not about cowering in your bedroom because you might get hurt if you go out in the street.
read the article dude. The are incorporated since... (forgot date, please read it on their site yourself)
I would be more interested in the licence, and how they came to choose that licence. Is GPL good or bad in this respect?
nt
you mean the fifth continent? I cannot remember such a qoute, but maybe I should reread it then.
You don't need forms to do curved surfaces. Lay out wiremesh in the form you want. Then hire a shotcrete contractor to spray the thing with concrete. Have it troweled smooth et voila: your new curved pool. The downside is that both the shotcrete and the troweling is skilled labour, and will cost more in developed countries.
I suppose this invention tries to negate that point by making the shotcreting and troweling automated.
Not unlike Wifi, cordless phones to jam former, microwave ovens to donate parts to make a cordless phone jammer etc.,?
These and a lot of other devices all operate in this band, so expect some interference.
no I did not bother to read the article, so I could be 50-100 MHz off.
"If he could have found research money, Dr Gensberg would have explored his interest in electro-magnetic fields and their effects on human cells."
That sounds to like one of those nuts that believe you get cancer from you GSM oor looking at the telly. Glad they dont get paid much.
Maybe the servers gouverning the webserch blocking thingie were rooted bij some kid disgrunted with the new licence?
Or Maybe MSFT does not like the new licence because thay will have to add more credits in their docs?
usually 40 feet in length or over with three cabins and two toilets, or heads in nautical terms...
ai, i am talking ships captain!
windoze links on slashdot? For shame!
kde-redhat is a load of crap if you ask me.
I tried to upgrade to kde-3.2 with their repository, but it failed on dozens of unmet dependencies. (just do a apt-cache on it, you'll see) I had to do some serious remove-reinstall moves with apt-get to get back to my previous install.
Building the fedora-src.rpm's that would not install and installing those that would was a lot easier. If I knew how, I would not mind sharing these rpms.
If you pretend to maintain packages for some distro, you should not update the buildhost with all sorts of alpha quality software that has not been packaged correctly. KDE-redhat just stinks!
You have never been to Europe have you?
You could also stop driving your gas guzzling SUV and use a more fuel efficient car. If you cannot use all that engine power anyway, why lug it around in your car that is too big anyway?
Ride a (push!) bike.
Stop whinghing that you want to pollute more cheaply.
I tried to read the article (it's not slashdotted you karma whores!) but i quit after the first few paragrapghs. Some dipshit telling "when I was your age..." stories to someone he didn't care about to ask his email. This rambling is not fit for public consumption. ... well whatever.
Some people really get off on telling other people how the world works. They might even think that everybody that listens is their deciple. Now goth hither and
nt
instead of a swashplate, it uses one piezo contoller that adjusts the angle of the rotor blades (tilt is longitudonally (sp?)) The peizo element is driven by the current running between two contact pairs.
1 for forward/reverse 1 for sideways.
(now for some -i know it better than this guy- ramblings:
It could be done even simpler with a little more logic in the controller: eliminate the divided pickup ring and replace it with two continous contacts on the rotorshaft. determine the rotor speed from a optocoupler or the motor, and have your controller output the right pulses at the right time. More electronics, less moving pairs. better control over the rotor angle at all parts of the cycle)
Unless you are on an exotic platform where it is hard to find software for, point 2 is moot. It is very easy to install new software on a rooted server, esp. if it is a webserver with a big fat pipe to the internet.
Or are you trying to say that the potential damage is smal because there is little of value on the server?
Please go read the artcile yourself.
The 3 billion is overstated through, as it does not include lost sales via other sales channels like cd's etc., nor does it include the investments that the record companies need to make to produce the music.
The other reason I think it will not work is because it is very disruptive for the established industry. It directly states that it aims to cut out the middle men like record companies and retailers. These people will not like to be pushed out of the way/job, and will defend the status quo with hand and tooth.
On the other hand: it would be cool, as plain cd's will fall out of the market, they will have to offer something tangible that can not be shared over p2p networks instead. Record stores will transform into clothesshops?
You must be illiterate if you think that is a big achievement, or do you have dislexia or other reading disorders? 8 books in 2 months is less then a book per week. If I take more than 1 week to finish a book it is just not interesting.
But if you use as a backgroundnoise with added bonus to be able to claim literacy: Sure, go right ahead.