Can you get Live to run under Linux in the first place ?
That's why he was talking about Windows (AFAICT), whose touch support also happens to suck. Remember, Windows is a gaming OS, always has been, always will be.
One of the following is true, or else MS seems to have lied in US v. MS.: 1)WinLite didn't completely obliterate IE (try Start->Run...->iexplore). 2)Your system is now unstable. 3)Bill Gates had "no knowledge" of WinLite's existence and neither he nor MS's programmers independently invented the solution (i.e. WinLite is doing some sort of undocumented black art, which != "easy to remove").
3) Even if this is anti-competative, what does it have to do with IE? Thats a totally different subject. I could see the anti-competative argument of MS "forcing" companies to only sell MS products (though "force" is subjective), but the IE bundled totally loses the argument with me.
IANAL, but AFAIK it doesn't need to be forced. MS is paying the OEMs to make life difficult for its competitors. That's anticompetitive.
There's nothing that peeves me more than a failed file copy. And when I can't copy from my desktop(where I unzipped something) to another folder on my computer, that really annoys me!
I didn't realize the desktop has such strict security. So strict, in fact, that it can't prompt for a password when you try to copy something off it. Instead, it just fails with an error message. Keep in mind the desktop is the default download location. I can't even copy the tar.gz file elsewhere, so it's simpler to re-download it.
Or... I can open the terminal and type sudo cp/home/bikehelmet/Desktop/filename OtherLongDestGoesHere.
That's what happens when you try to stuff random user level files into, say, the root of the filesystem (/) (in other words, you wouldn't stuff random files into C:\WINDOWS or something, so why do you want to do that on Linux?). It fails since you are not root. Try copying to your home directory instead. If you want to go mucking about with root-owned files/directories, you should know basic CLI, so that if you DO break, say,/etc/sudoers (difficult but possible) or something else in/etc/, you will (usually) be able to fix it in recovery mode (which is a CLI as root). If you don't know CLI, you won't be able to fix your computer, so Ubuntu/GNOME doesn't let you break it to begin with. If you're compiling something from source, command line is definitely faster, no matter what the GUI looks like: configure && make && sudo make install such compilation is a power user tool (use APT instead), and necessitates the use of the command line. The idea is "If you know what you're doing, this is faster than the GUI and you should like it. If you don't, stop trying."
It's not that they are just dumb, they are also lazy. Those that actually want to learn the software and technology will thrive in this adaptable environment, but those that are more obsessed with sports or their own popularity will flounder and fail under the amount of choices available to them.
Good. That's their problem. Don't want to learn? Fine, don't learn... but don't expect an easy "A" on your report card either.
On a related note, if the difference between Google and TPB is their "intent", then wouldn't Google be guilty anyway because they link to TPB? Or does the whole guilt thing only work when it's a one-hop-link?!
IANAL, this is not intended to reflect actual facts, just my opinion: IMAO linking should never be illegal, but unfortunately it seems to be anyway. The only reason linking is (apparently) illegal is because legislators/politicians are idiots and don't understand the tech they're legislating about (and they don't read the laws they sign either).
Google will "anonymize" (read:cut least significant couple of octets out of) the info it has stored on you (read:IP address etc.) after ~a few years whereas MS will trash the same info in ~same time.
Your Kindle will still read the books you already bought, even if your account is cancelled.
What are you on? TFA complains that the victim of this isn't/wasn't able to manage existing books on his Kindle. In other words, even if he had a.txt or.html file sitting on his hard drive, he couldn't put it onto his Kindle (AFAICT). THAT's the problem.
(Later I'll be kicking myself for feeding the trolls...)
In 18 months Moore's Law will kick in anyway. If you're going to argue 18 months vs. 2 years, read this quote from the above link:
[snip]. Despite popular misconception, he [Moore] is adamant that he did not predict a doubling "every 18 months". However, an Intel colleague had factored in the increasing performance of transistors to conclude that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months. [boldfacing added, italics in original]
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Can you get Live to run under Linux in the first place ?
That's why he was talking about Windows (AFAICT), whose touch support also happens to suck. Remember, Windows is a gaming OS, always has been, always will be.
What are the moderators smoking (see parent score)?
IANAL. Commercial speech != free speech. That's why false advertising laws are constitutional.
One of the following is true, or else MS seems to have lied in US v. MS.:
1)WinLite didn't completely obliterate IE (try Start->Run...->iexplore).
2)Your system is now unstable.
3)Bill Gates had "no knowledge" of WinLite's existence and neither he nor MS's programmers independently invented the solution (i.e. WinLite is doing some sort of undocumented black art, which != "easy to remove").
3) Even if this is anti-competative, what does it have to do with IE? Thats a totally different subject. I could see the anti-competative argument of MS "forcing" companies to only sell MS products (though "force" is subjective), but the IE bundled totally loses the argument with me.
IANAL, but AFAIK it doesn't need to be forced. MS is paying the OEMs to make life difficult for its competitors. That's anticompetitive.
IF you want an app THEN gnome-app-install ELSE synaptic
2) Switch to Admin button.
There's nothing that peeves me more than a failed file copy. And when I can't copy from my desktop(where I unzipped something) to another folder on my computer, that really annoys me!
I didn't realize the desktop has such strict security. So strict, in fact, that it can't prompt for a password when you try to copy something off it. Instead, it just fails with an error message. Keep in mind the desktop is the default download location. I can't even copy the tar.gz file elsewhere, so it's simpler to re-download it.
Or... I can open the terminal and type sudo cp /home/bikehelmet/Desktop/filename OtherLongDestGoesHere.
That's what happens when you try to stuff random user level files into, say, the root of the filesystem (/) (in other words, you wouldn't stuff random files into C:\WINDOWS or something, so why do you want to do that on Linux?). It fails since you are not root. Try copying to your home directory instead. If you want to go mucking about with root-owned files/directories, you should know basic CLI, so that if you DO break, say, /etc/sudoers (difficult but possible) or something else in /etc/, you will (usually) be able to fix it in recovery mode (which is a CLI as root). If you don't know CLI, you won't be able to fix your computer, so Ubuntu/GNOME doesn't let you break it to begin with. If you're compiling something from source, command line is definitely faster, no matter what the GUI looks like:
configure && make && sudo make install
such compilation is a power user tool (use APT instead), and necessitates the use of the command line. The idea is "If you know what you're doing, this is faster than the GUI and you should like it. If you don't, stop trying."
zero ' th? WTF is the apostrophe doing?
Maybe he just got bored and bothered to read the student handbook?
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wha'? where am i?
*Laughs at parent's sig*
You can't run dasher on nictations.
all the schools around me use eMacs and iMacs. Use your brain.
I didn't realize how strapped for cash the government was. How the fuck do you get OS X on that/those (or do you?)?
Excel databases, Screenshots in Word, GUIs on a server, IE for anything, Windows-based ATMs, emacs as a text editor...
*sigh*... Holy wars begin here...
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It's not that they are just dumb, they are also lazy. Those that actually want to learn the software and technology will thrive in this adaptable environment, but those that are more obsessed with sports or their own popularity will flounder and fail under the amount of choices available to them.
Good. That's their problem. Don't want to learn? Fine, don't learn... but don't expect an easy "A" on your report card either.
On a related note, if the difference between Google and TPB is their "intent", then wouldn't Google be guilty anyway because they link to TPB? Or does the whole guilt thing only work when it's a one-hop-link?!
IANAL, this is not intended to reflect actual facts, just my opinion: IMAO linking should never be illegal, but unfortunately it seems to be anyway. The only reason linking is (apparently) illegal is because legislators/politicians are idiots and don't understand the tech they're legislating about (and they don't read the laws they sign either).
IANAL. Slashdot shouldn't be in trouble unless/until someone sends a takedown notice.
So shut up and stop pirating!
Mods: please read great-grandparent; this is in fact humor.
~99% of the time a seemingly-offtopic wall of text is either a troll or actually is, in fact, offtopic. Either way you should M[12] it down.
Google will "anonymize" (read:cut least significant couple of octets out of) the info it has stored on you (read:IP address etc.) after ~a few years whereas MS will trash the same info in ~same time.
Copying files is not at all about free speech. [snip]
I beg to differ.
You can't load things onto the Kindle on your own AFAIK; you have to go through Amazon, even for .txt and .html files.
Your Kindle will still read the books you already bought, even if your account is cancelled.
What are you on? TFA complains that the victim of this isn't/wasn't able to manage existing books on his Kindle. In other words, even if he had a .txt or .html file sitting on his hard drive, he couldn't put it onto his Kindle (AFAICT). THAT's the problem.
(Later I'll be kicking myself for feeding the trolls...)
I call your pedantry, and raise you a grammar nazi.
Does that comma belong?
Not a particularly low UID, but I think you just upset the Mac Fanbois. Nothing to panic over.
In 18 months Moore's Law will kick in anyway. If you're going to argue 18 months vs. 2 years, read this quote from the above link:
[snip]. Despite popular misconception, he [Moore] is adamant that he did not predict a doubling "every 18 months". However, an Intel colleague had factored in the increasing performance of transistors to conclude that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months. [boldfacing added, italics in original]