Well, kitchen knife is used to kill somebody more often than any other tool or weapon on earth. Kalashnikov automatic rifle is ranked second. Kitchen knife is just so handy and so accessible -- you'll more likely grab for it if somebody is getting on your nerves. The ban won't prevent a planned murder, but it *could* prevent some fit of passion murders or at least make dangerous stab wounds to less dangerous cut wounds.
Personally, I would like such ban just to see what tool will become next super weapon.
What religion isn't silly? Think about it, all of them are, some are simply more etablished and therefore don't sound that stupid. The idea that the world is created in 6 days is pretty stupid to me, so is the idea that god is father, son and holy spirit at the same time, yet father manages to talk to the son (to himself?) whom he has send to die for the sins of humanity.
I was using AMSN routinely, had a very different experience. I have even used a webcam in kopete some time ago, so it does work. Webcams and sound together work in Skype for Linux too, not to mention ekiga3. So please, inform yourself before you make such claims.
I can imagine my mom using linux and she is sure scared of computer. In fact, she does use Linux. So do my father and my aunt, all in their 60-s. Linux is of course not perfect, and not for anyone, but in this case it does its job much better than XP has done. Sure, none of my family members have installed or configured their systems, but that was the case with XP too.
And if my mom runs into some problem a console needs to be attributed to -- there's always ssh for the rescue. It's "Wait, I'll handle it" vs. "now, I need you to make some clicks, followed by a leghty step-by-step instruction". And yes, I know of Remote Desktop, not really the best option on dialup.
Being a family geek can be a time consuming task. With Linux I have much less problems though. I can be quite sure that all the viruses and worms out there won't affect my family any time soon, no need to worry that they click away something important or critical, that their virus bases are updated etc.
Now I can sleep safer knowing that if the Brits are about to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine and start WWIII, a UAC window will pop up asking if they are sure about it.
Russia has very strict gun laws. It always had. And guess what -- when the Soviet Union was around, a gunshot murder was almost an emergency in Moscow (10 Mil. people) -- an occurance so seldom that you could be sure that the investigation is lead by a police general. Of course, many guns were illegaly sold after USSR has collapsed. Now gunshot murder happen on a daily basis there, a routine...
You may boot Linux from USB CD-ROM or you can make a bootable USB stick. Netbooks should boot from USB drives. Or you may just buy a netbook with Linux preinstalled:-)
Of course, SSD's are too expencive if you need a data storage. But they are much more better suited for laptops (and especially netbooks). I also can imagine desktops with mixed drives -- fast SSD for OS, large conventional HDD for user data.
Technically, Vista was ok. If it would've been released 2 years earlier, it would've been great. Windows 7 is the polishment to Vista that XP was to 2000. History repeats itself.
Win7 is yet another attempt to sell Vista. First MS wanted to sell Vista. When they saw that fewer buy it than expected, they made a Service Pack but didn't get enough sales again because businesses wanted to skip Vista altogether. Solution -- take the same system based on the same kernel, slightly improve it, make a new wallpaper, bribe reviewers with expencive laptops to get positive reviews and call it Windows 7, maybe it'll sell now.
Well, looks like 1 Million people have just found a reason to do it once more. As for Crysis -- if latest PC games have the high priority for you -- you better stuck with Windows although I know some people that dual-boot to network-disabled XP if they want to play some fancy title. I, for one, got tired of keeping up with ever growing system requirements and don't play games on PC anymore except for a casual BfW match.
As for Linux viruses -- I am yet to find any in the wild. Besides, you need to make a file executable in order to lauch it. So brithneynude.jpg.exe is not such a valid option for virus makers. Plus you have much better user/admin separation. As a user you could only screw your home folder, not the whole system. Of course, if you somehow manage to find such virus, download it, make it executable and run it with administrator privileges -- you're fucked up anyway. But you don't really need a virus for that -- rm/* -rm as root will suffice.
My point is that I didn't know that I needed any operating system other than Windows until at least a year after I bought the computer. It came with Windows, and Windows worked for me.
I got much luckier with my initial hardware, but as for peripherials -- had to change bluetooth dongle because of lacking headset support.
How do I research a notebook computer's keyboard, trackpad, and screen before I buy it online? As far as I can tell from asking sales associates, there isn't any Linux laptop bigger than an Eee PC on display in any store in my city.
I'd recommend http://tuxmobile.com/ -- it has a long list of notebooks along with about 8000 reports of what hardware is supported to what extend (note to myself: add my own report). Visiting retail shop with a LiveCD is possible too, provided they have the same model on sale. Not an optimal solution, agree, but there is not much alternatives in current monopolistic situation.
I'm guessing not that much. Toys R Us in Fort Wayne is selling Eee PCs with an 800x480 screen, 8 GB SSD, and Windows XP for $299; the Xandros version right next to it, with the same screen and drive, is $269.
That's OEM License which is much cheaper than retail (and comes at almost no cost for netbook vendors). And only 2 notebooks have had some Windows preinstalled. Even if I didn't diched those installations -- I'd still need 4 copies at retail price.
Why bother each end every time if you can solve the problem once and for all. Provided no other problems i.e. incompatible hardware arise, but you can actually test it at no cost.
I do have illiterate users in my family -- my parents and my aunt, all in their 60s. They got Linux after I got tired of re-doing same things over and over again. After a short tutorial on "where is the Internet here" they have close to no problems with it. They didn't setup it themselves, but then again, they've needed me to setup Windows for them.
>Two words: Broad Com. I don't want to have to replace loads of components just so that Linux can see all the hardware.
Well, I, for one, wouldn't buy unsupported hardware I need another OS for. It requires a bit of research and you can't just grab the cheapest solution, but it sure pays off (I have 6 Linux-only PC-s and notebooks among my family members, guess what all the windows licenses would cost).
And to have a good laugh about such articles -- priceless!
I have just downloaded and installed this extention. Not that I would ever use it -- if I need a torrent, I'd go to thepiratebay.org in the first place. But as amason tries to forbid this thing, I think I'll give it a try. Somehow it feels really good browsing amazon with this add-on knowing that this is exactly the thing they don't want you to be able to do.
The term "piracy" for unathorized copies was in use in book industry since at least 17th century. I recall German writer Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen writing bad thing about pirates that copy his books. BTW, same Grimmelshausen was adding some new stories to each edition of "Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus" to make legit copies more attractive as their pirated counterparts.
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UK government loses a PC or a notebook on an almost daily basis if you look at the numbers.
Well, kitchen knife is used to kill somebody more often than any other tool or weapon on earth. Kalashnikov automatic rifle is ranked second.
Kitchen knife is just so handy and so accessible -- you'll more likely grab for it if somebody is getting on your nerves. The ban won't prevent a planned murder, but it *could* prevent some fit of passion murders or at least make dangerous stab wounds to less dangerous cut wounds.
Personally, I would like such ban just to see what tool will become next super weapon.
I haven't found any good TeX to doc converters yes, can you please tell me what they are? Making my first baby-steps in LaTeX atm :)
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What religion isn't silly? Think about it, all of them are, some are simply more etablished and therefore don't sound that stupid.
The idea that the world is created in 6 days is pretty stupid to me, so is the idea that god is father, son and holy spirit at the same time, yet father manages to talk to the son (to himself?) whom he has send to die for the sins of humanity.
I was using AMSN routinely, had a very different experience. I have even used a webcam in kopete some time ago, so it does work.
Webcams and sound together work in Skype for Linux too, not to mention ekiga3.
So please, inform yourself before you make such claims.
I can imagine my mom using linux and she is sure scared of computer. In fact, she does use Linux. So do my father and my aunt, all in their 60-s. Linux is of course not perfect, and not for anyone, but in this case it does its job much better than XP has done. Sure, none of my family members have installed or configured their systems, but that was the case with XP too.
And if my mom runs into some problem a console needs to be attributed to -- there's always ssh for the rescue. It's "Wait, I'll handle it" vs. "now, I need you to make some clicks, followed by a leghty step-by-step instruction". And yes, I know of Remote Desktop, not really the best option on dialup.
Being a family geek can be a time consuming task. With Linux I have much less problems though. I can be quite sure that all the viruses and worms out there won't affect my family any time soon, no need to worry that they click away something important or critical, that their virus bases are updated etc.
... with cheese.
Now I can sleep safer knowing that if the Brits are about to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine and start WWIII, a UAC window will pop up asking if they are sure about it.
Russia has very strict gun laws. It always had. And guess what -- when the Soviet Union was around, a gunshot murder was almost an emergency in Moscow (10 Mil. people) -- an occurance so seldom that you could be sure that the investigation is lead by a police general. Of course, many guns were illegaly sold after USSR has collapsed. Now gunshot murder happen on a daily basis there, a routine...
You may boot Linux from USB CD-ROM or you can make a bootable USB stick. Netbooks should boot from USB drives. :-)
Or you may just buy a netbook with Linux preinstalled
Of course, SSD's are too expencive if you need a data storage. But they are much more better suited for laptops (and especially netbooks). I also can imagine desktops with mixed drives -- fast SSD for OS, large conventional HDD for user data.
Technically, Vista was ok. If it would've been released 2 years earlier, it would've been great. Windows 7 is the polishment to Vista that XP was to 2000. History repeats itself.
Win7 is yet another attempt to sell Vista. First MS wanted to sell Vista. When they saw that fewer buy it than expected, they made a Service Pack but didn't get enough sales again because businesses wanted to skip Vista altogether. Solution -- take the same system based on the same kernel, slightly improve it, make a new wallpaper, bribe reviewers with expencive laptops to get positive reviews and call it Windows 7, maybe it'll sell now.
How many times did they claim Linux support and backed out of it later?
If you can't do anything, teach. If you can do even less -- teach teaching.
Hmm... Then some code is leaked, recompiled with another compiler and brought to public domain. It works both ways, I think.
Well, looks like 1 Million people have just found a reason to do it once more.
As for Crysis -- if latest PC games have the high priority for you -- you better stuck with Windows although I know some people that dual-boot to network-disabled XP if they want to play some fancy title. I, for one, got tired of keeping up with ever growing system requirements and don't play games on PC anymore except for a casual BfW match.
As for Linux viruses -- I am yet to find any in the wild. Besides, you need to make a file executable in order to lauch it. So brithneynude.jpg.exe is not such a valid option for virus makers. Plus you have much better user/admin separation. As a user you could only screw your home folder, not the whole system. /* -rm as root will suffice.
Of course, if you somehow manage to find such virus, download it, make it executable and run it with administrator privileges -- you're fucked up anyway. But you don't really need a virus for that -- rm
My point is that I didn't know that I needed any operating system other than Windows until at least a year after I bought the computer. It came with Windows, and Windows worked for me.
I got much luckier with my initial hardware, but as for peripherials -- had to change bluetooth dongle because of lacking headset support.
How do I research a notebook computer's keyboard, trackpad, and screen before I buy it online? As far as I can tell from asking sales associates, there isn't any Linux laptop bigger than an Eee PC on display in any store in my city.
I'd recommend http://tuxmobile.com/ -- it has a long list of notebooks along with about 8000 reports of what hardware is supported to what extend (note to myself: add my own report). Visiting retail shop with a LiveCD is possible too, provided they have the same model on sale. Not an optimal solution, agree, but there is not much alternatives in current monopolistic situation.
I'm guessing not that much. Toys R Us in Fort Wayne is selling Eee PCs with an 800x480 screen, 8 GB SSD, and Windows XP for $299; the Xandros version right next to it, with the same screen and drive, is $269.
That's OEM License which is much cheaper than retail (and comes at almost no cost for netbook vendors). And only 2 notebooks have had some Windows preinstalled. Even if I didn't diched those installations -- I'd still need 4 copies at retail price.
Why bother each end every time if you can solve the problem once and for all. Provided no other problems i.e. incompatible hardware arise, but you can actually test it at no cost.
I do have illiterate users in my family -- my parents and my aunt, all in their 60s. They got Linux after I got tired of re-doing same things over and over again. After a short tutorial on "where is the Internet here" they have close to no problems with it. They didn't setup it themselves, but then again, they've needed me to setup Windows for them.
>Two words: Broad Com. I don't want to have to replace loads of components just so that Linux can see all the hardware.
Well, I, for one, wouldn't buy unsupported hardware I need another OS for. It requires a bit of research and you can't just grab the cheapest solution, but it sure pays off (I have 6 Linux-only PC-s and notebooks among my family members, guess what all the windows licenses would cost).
And to have a good laugh about such articles -- priceless!
No problem, my red Mage takes care of them! Bang! Bang! Bang! ... Shit...
*4 misses in a row*
You think that's random? Try playing Wesnoth!
I plead not guilty -- he didn't said what he is using. What about Konqueror? Arora? Epiphany? Galeon? Dillo? HV3? Lynx?
I have just downloaded and installed this extention. Not that I would ever use it -- if I need a torrent, I'd go to thepiratebay.org in the first place.
But as amason tries to forbid this thing, I think I'll give it a try. Somehow it feels really good browsing amazon with this add-on knowing that this is exactly the thing they don't want you to be able to do.
The term "piracy" for unathorized copies was in use in book industry since at least 17th century. I recall German writer Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen writing bad thing about pirates that copy his books.
BTW, same Grimmelshausen was adding some new stories to each edition of "Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus" to make legit copies more attractive as their pirated counterparts.