I don't think Linux is useless as a desktop OS, though it depends on what you want or need to do with it. There are many of us who use it exclusively as a desktop OS. I do at home.
And I really prefer doing it this way - at work I need to use Windows, and I must say I really feel I have the power on my fingertips only when using Linux (or some other unixish system). The feeling, it's like only being able to do what M$ (and other companies) thought you would like to.
Sure, it doesn't have all those new fancy games. I don't really care, because I have better and more relaxing use for my time.
Wow. Nice to know we have a war veteran from those times here. I thought you wouldn't get eternal or semi-eternal life even in the US.
Well, I can't know everything, I'm just one of those ancient Europeans who still live in tribes or something;)
Or, said more straight: Stop that nazi-like flag waving. It makes a) you look stupid and b) less stupid people wonder if you really are as stupid as you seem.
Personally I don't have a problem with people owning copyrights. The image of a strugging artist expecting to get paid for their efforts seems just to me.
You mean there were no artists before copyright, or that they didn't get paid?
I live in Finland, and I have two cell phones - one of my own, and one supplied by my employer. If I didn't have to carry one for work, I would only carry one.:)
It's probably not a necessity, you can do without. Neither is your Athlon/P3 a necessity, you can always play Doom instead of Quake III.
About the standard of living and eating conditions I'm not going to say much because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. (Hint: visit some US slum, then try to find one from the EU).
And yes - you are in the stone age as far as cell phones are concerned. Nyah nyah:)
How can Americans FORCE Serbians out of Kosovo?
How can Americans FORCE Libya to extradite plane bombers?
How can Americans do whatever they wish and forget about other countries?
Because they're always right? I guess most of us Europeans were delighted to hear Mr. Bush state that pollution has no proven impact on nature. But I still fail to understand why a country shouldn't be allowed to decide what crosses their borders.
Don't take me wrong. I'm a strong advocate of free speech. I think Nazi information, even outright propaganda is on the list of things which MUST be allowed. I just find it amusing to hear a people that tries to impose its views on everybody else rant about someone else presenting their views and ruling illegal actions of some company which actually operates in, among other countries, France.
Without a hitch? No way. While the XFree non-3D drivers work well, using the NVidia binary crap with my TNT2 card reduced maximum uptime to something like 2 days (well, maybe 3 if I didn't touch the computer at all). Until I decided I didn't need to stand that.
Now I've had an ATI Radeon for a month or so, and have yet to experience a single crash. And the Radeon DRI drivers are still alpha code... Go ATI, I say!
This is the minimum spaning tree problem. This is not an NP hard problem.
Isn't it rather the Steiner tree problem? The difference to the minimum spanning tree problem is that we're allowed to select intermediate points to reduce the cost of the tree. And the Steiner tree problem actually is NP hard.
So what if a US court declares Napster and similar centralized P2P services illegal?
There are still some free countries in the world. The fact that Napster might be illegal in the US doesn't make it illegal in other countries.
Think about this. It's (AFAIK) illegal for a woman to go to school in Taleban-ruled Afghanistan. If she moved to a country like US, France or Germany, would you call it "avoiding responsibility"?
It all depends on how you define "lossy" and "lossless". Not even CD quality is as good as the original, and that's because it limits samples to 16 bits and frequencies to 22kHz (i.e. half the sampling rate). It just comes close enough for us not to be able to notice.
If CD gives us the quality we need and a bit more (since practically nobody can distinguish it from the original), what's wrong with saving a few more bytes from the file size and use lossy compression with a high enough bitrate? I'm sure neither you nor anybody else here can hear the 1Hz tone anyway.
I'm no expert in medicine, so I don't really know if I've got something wrong. But, isn't it that blocking viruses in a GENERAL way means that our immune systems never get the chance to develop real immunity to them? Imagine a 30-year old cured against common cold from his childhood, having not developed immunity. Exactly what is going to happen when he simply doesn't get the drug anymore and all the common cold viruses strike him simultaneously?
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And I really prefer doing it this way - at work I need to use Windows, and I must say I really feel I have the power on my fingertips only when using Linux (or some other unixish system). The feeling, it's like only being able to do what M$ (and other companies) thought you would like to.
Sure, it doesn't have all those new fancy games. I don't really care, because I have better and more relaxing use for my time.
Well, I can't know everything, I'm just one of those ancient Europeans who still live in tribes or something ;)
Or, said more straight: Stop that nazi-like flag waving. It makes a) you look stupid and b) less stupid people wonder if you really are as stupid as you seem.
You mean there were no artists before copyright, or that they didn't get paid?
Cool. Where's the source?
mov ax,4c00 you mean, I'm sure? :)
Or if that's 32 bit code, it's mov eax,21cd4c00.
Or then my skills at disassembling in head have rusted
I live in Finland, and I have two cell phones - one of my own, and one supplied by my employer. If I didn't have to carry one for work, I would only carry one. :)
It's probably not a necessity, you can do without. Neither is your Athlon/P3 a necessity, you can always play Doom instead of Quake III.
About the standard of living and eating conditions I'm not going to say much because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. (Hint: visit some US slum, then try to find one from the EU).
And yes - you are in the stone age as far as cell phones are concerned. Nyah nyah :)
In the US, you have many states; here in the EU, we have member states. Many of them have several providers. What's the big difference?
How can Americans FORCE Libya to extradite plane bombers?
How can Americans do whatever they wish and forget about other countries?
Because they're always right? I guess most of us Europeans were delighted to hear Mr. Bush state that pollution has no proven impact on nature. But I still fail to understand why a country shouldn't be allowed to decide what crosses their borders.
Don't take me wrong. I'm a strong advocate of free speech. I think Nazi information, even outright propaganda is on the list of things which MUST be allowed. I just find it amusing to hear a people that tries to impose its views on everybody else rant about someone else presenting their views and ruling illegal actions of some company which actually operates in, among other countries, France.
And no, I'm not Serbian, Libyan nor French.
Neither do I.
Now I've had an ATI Radeon for a month or so, and have yet to experience a single crash. And the Radeon DRI drivers are still alpha code... Go ATI, I say!
You might want to take a look at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.
I think the Debian project has adopted the GNU philosophy nearly as is, and it considers the freedom to sell an essential freedom.
Isn't it rather the Steiner tree problem? The difference to the minimum spanning tree problem is that we're allowed to select intermediate points to reduce the cost of the tree. And the Steiner tree problem actually is NP hard.
Think about this. It's (AFAIK) illegal for a woman to go to school in Taleban-ruled Afghanistan. If she moved to a country like US, France or Germany, would you call it "avoiding responsibility"?
It all depends on how you define "lossy" and "lossless". Not even CD quality is as good as the original, and that's because it limits samples to 16 bits and frequencies to 22kHz (i.e. half the sampling rate). It just comes close enough for us not to be able to notice. If CD gives us the quality we need and a bit more (since practically nobody can distinguish it from the original), what's wrong with saving a few more bytes from the file size and use lossy compression with a high enough bitrate? I'm sure neither you nor anybody else here can hear the 1Hz tone anyway.
I'm no expert in medicine, so I don't really know if I've got something wrong. But, isn't it that blocking viruses in a GENERAL way means that our immune systems never get the chance to develop real immunity to them?
Imagine a 30-year old cured against common cold from his childhood, having not developed immunity. Exactly what is going to happen when he simply doesn't get the drug anymore and all the common cold viruses strike him simultaneously?