mod parent up. it is a really big misconception out there that using more memory means slow. guess what morons, superfetch allows you to load firefox instantly on clicking the orange icon. in xp and ubuntu, it takes 10 seconds.
Regardless of whether or not the content is requested by a third party, all communication on the internet is _sent_ by its originator, not pulled by the receiver.
that's faulty logic. you see even if data has to be "pulled by the receiver" the hard drive of the sender has to spin. the receiver won't come up and physically spin it. so, is the sender's drive "broadcasting" or is the receiver "pulling"? what i want to say that in all things computery, a device can only request another device for data, not "pull" it. so how do you differentiate between "pulled" and "broadcast"? you can't. and i can't think of any solution. so just consider the initiator of the data transfer the perpetrator of the transfer.
I haven't reproduced anything...it's been created from the ether.
but you have. you have copied a file stored on a bunch of strangers' computers. how is that any different from copying music from a friend's pc? so if you consider one as an act of reproduction, the other must be too.
Internet is starting to suck a lot less on the Blackberry as well. OS 4.5 makes the Blackberry browser very useable and Opera mini even more so. Heck on T-mobile I can even stream music just fine over EDGE using Slacker or Flycast. I'm not sure if your typical Blackberry user is as data intensive as I am (I doubt it) but you can certainly use as much bandwidth using a Blackberry as you can an iPhone.
that would be 64kbps mono crap i suppose. edge just does not have the data rate to stream bearable audio.
i think that everyone must understand why we consider child porn to be so highly illegal. because it means exploitation of a minor. so the decision of blocking nude pics of children must be based on whether a child was exploited or not. its like i tell a person that lying is wrong, without the person understanding the logic behind my statement. now this setup works well until there is a situation where speaking the truth will result in the death of an innocent person, but lying may save a life.
Do I want Google OS on my phone? No, not. Is it open source? I don't care.
then you seem to be the biggest dumbass there is. open source means google can't wrestle in their own interests at the cost of users. being open source is the biggest incentive for android, you can be sure that no company will undermine the users' or developers' interests.
well, here in india, wall outlets are rated at 15 amp maximum at 240 volts, equal to 3.6 kw. but only things like water/room heaters and air conditioners have ratings of 2kw and above.
I'm sure over time, enterprises are looking to rewrite things, to support blackberries and iphones, and Mac PCs,
whatever the reason may be behind microsoft's recent focus on security, fact remains that they are looking at their os's security while debian and ubuntu are content with their current model.
At a public park it is reasonable to assume that other people can see us and interact with us, but it is also reasonable to assume that the government should not have the rights to do the same.
aren't these just double standards? from your own argument, double standards are never justified, because that amounts to discrimination. so why discriminate between a common person walking in the park and a government official? both are just experiencing what is publicly available. only one is noting it down(or recording it).
you're right, i could have found this by a simple google search. but the point is that once i get to the download page and click download, i should not need to go someplace to understand how to use the installation files i just downloaded.
I need a package manager. I don't want to update all dependencies by hand.
installers are 99% of the time completely self contained. no external dependencies.
How do you search for appropriate software for your system?
google.
Where do you get a list of all installable software for your system?
i don't want to see a huge list of software for my system. i only want a list of software that does what i want a program to do. like email, im, a game, etc. google is very convenient.
package managers were the wrong answer to the installation problem. They make installing and updating the the libraries and components that make up the the OS itself very easy, but you'll never satisfy diverse application preferences with a central repository.
I would never use MS-Windows, because I don't know a decent package manager for it that works with all the SETUP.EXE packages.
this just in: you dont need a package manager to run setup.exe. it's called an executable for a reason. that's just a stupid argument. but i agree that the *nix approach towards the system clock definitely makes much more sense. in linux you only need to know your location to set the clock. in windows you need both your location and the local time.
i've been using ubuntu and kubuntu for 2 years now. i can do everything now like edit conf files and i can easily install programs using apt-get. i prefer apt-get over synaptics. but there are two important questions that i haven't been able to figure out: 1. how do you upgrade openoffice from veersion 2.4 to 3? 2. ho do you remove firefox 3.0.3 and install the 3.1 beta? i have not found any answer to this after extensive googling. and mozill's site just does not say anything. this lack of info on such basic stuff like installing/uninstalling is what keeps mainstream users away from linux.
when i went to the firefox download page and clicked on the penguin i got a tar.gz archive, no deb file. i extracted the archive and to run firefox 3.1 i execute an executable inside the extracted directory. its like portable edition. and there is no way at all to remove the olderr version of firefox.
i think installing programs is the only weakness that remains in linux distros. add/remove is useless, it doesn't have all the apps that exist on planet earth. this is why i consider centralized repositeries to be inherently flawed. the windows approach of installers for each app seems much better.
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mod parent up. it is a really big misconception out there that using more memory means slow. guess what morons, superfetch allows you to load firefox instantly on clicking the orange icon. in xp and ubuntu, it takes 10 seconds.
Regardless of whether or not the content is requested by a third party, all communication on the internet is _sent_ by its originator, not pulled by the receiver.
that's faulty logic. you see even if data has to be "pulled by the receiver" the hard drive of the sender has to spin. the receiver won't come up and physically spin it. so, is the sender's drive "broadcasting" or is the receiver "pulling"?
what i want to say that in all things computery, a device can only request another device for data, not "pull" it. so how do you differentiate between "pulled" and "broadcast"?
you can't. and i can't think of any solution. so just consider the initiator of the data transfer the perpetrator of the transfer.
oddly enough not on CDR/W "data".
Bullshit.
why??
it seems an interesting note, why do you think he is bullshitting you?
I haven't reproduced anything...it's been created from the ether.
but you have. you have copied a file stored on a bunch of strangers' computers. how is that any different from copying music from a friend's pc? so if you consider one as an act of reproduction, the other must be too.
Now why isn't anyone suing about this kind of thing? Why should you have to pay a cancellation fee to get rid of something that doesn't work?
that's exactly what all this suing is about.
Internet is starting to suck a lot less on the Blackberry as well. OS 4.5 makes the Blackberry browser very useable and Opera mini even more so. Heck on T-mobile I can even stream music just fine over EDGE using Slacker or Flycast. I'm not sure if your typical Blackberry user is as data intensive as I am (I doubt it) but you can certainly use as much bandwidth using a Blackberry as you can an iPhone.
that would be 64kbps mono crap i suppose. edge just does not have the data rate to stream bearable audio.
I agree, speaking of "saying things" I still haven't heard Conroy say he is in favor of a blacklist...
Of course not. If it were up to him, we'd have a whitelist.
but how would it be different from a blacklist?
I'm pretty sure that's a sincere point of error, not a joke, and further that the poster is more likely a 'she'.
you said:
Yes, it was a joke, but even if it hadn't been, it isn't an error.
well, he was not saying that you made an error. he was saying that you were sincerely pointing out an error.
pardon me, sir, but that would be truly stupid.
i think that everyone must understand why we consider child porn to be so highly illegal. because it means exploitation of a minor. so the decision of blocking nude pics of children must be based on whether a child was exploited or not. its like i tell a person that lying is wrong, without the person understanding the logic behind my statement. now this setup works well until there is a situation where speaking the truth will result in the death of an innocent person, but lying may save a life.
Do I want Google OS on my phone? No, not. Is it open source? I don't care.
then you seem to be the biggest dumbass there is. open source means google can't wrestle in their own interests at the cost of users. being open source is the biggest incentive for android, you can be sure that no company will undermine the users' or developers' interests.
well, here in india, wall outlets are rated at 15 amp maximum at 240 volts, equal to 3.6 kw. but only things like water/room heaters and air conditioners have ratings of 2kw and above.
i am jack's obligatory cult movie quote.
This is something Ubuntu and Mandriva has done to great success.
i didn't that 1% market share indicated great success.
This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect,
I'm sure over time, enterprises are looking to rewrite things, to support blackberries and iphones, and Mac PCs,
whatever the reason may be behind microsoft's recent focus on security, fact remains that they are looking at their os's security while debian and ubuntu are content with their current model.
I'm sure over time, enterprises are looking to rewrite things, to support blackberries and iphones, and Mac PCs,
the ultimate oxymoron.
Windows Update on XP and earlier yes, but Microsoft finally made it a separate app for Vista. At least I hope it doesn't still use ActiveX...
it doesn't need to. it's an elevated app, it does not need activex to run code.
Double standards are never justified. Not ever.
then you said:
At a public park it is reasonable to assume that other people can see us and interact with us, but it is also reasonable to assume that the government should not have the rights to do the same.
aren't these just double standards? from your own argument, double standards are never justified, because that amounts to discrimination. so why discriminate between a common person walking in the park and a government official? both are just experiencing what is publicly available. only one is noting it down(or recording it).
Petitioning is pointless (and ignored) and demonstrations anywhere near anything governmental is illegal. What do you suggest those in the UK do?
is that for real?
you're right, i could have found this by a simple google search. but the point is that once i get to the download page and click download, i should not need to go someplace to understand how to use the installation files i just downloaded.
I need a package manager. I don't want to update all dependencies by hand.
installers are 99% of the time completely self contained. no external dependencies.
How do you search for appropriate software for your system?
google.
Where do you get a list of all installable software for your system?
i don't want to see a huge list of software for my system. i only want a list of software that does what i want a program to do. like email, im, a game, etc. google is very convenient.
package managers were the wrong answer to the installation problem. They make installing and updating the the libraries and components that make up the the OS itself very easy, but you'll never satisfy diverse application preferences with a central repository.
exactly. well said.
I would never use MS-Windows, because I don't know a decent package manager for it that works with all the SETUP.EXE packages.
this just in:
you dont need a package manager to run setup.exe. it's called an executable for a reason.
that's just a stupid argument.
but i agree that the *nix approach towards the system clock definitely makes much more sense.
in linux you only need to know your location to set the clock.
in windows you need both your location and the local time.
i've been using ubuntu and kubuntu for 2 years now. i can do everything now like edit conf files and i can easily install programs using apt-get. i prefer apt-get over synaptics. but there are two important questions that i haven't been able to figure out:
1. how do you upgrade openoffice from veersion 2.4 to 3?
2. ho do you remove firefox 3.0.3 and install the 3.1 beta?
i have not found any answer to this after extensive googling. and mozill's site just does not say anything. this lack of info on such basic stuff like installing/uninstalling is what keeps mainstream users away from linux.
when i went to the firefox download page and clicked on the penguin i got a tar.gz archive, no deb file. i extracted the archive and to run firefox 3.1 i execute an executable inside the extracted directory. its like portable edition. and there is no way at all to remove the olderr version of firefox.
i think installing programs is the only weakness that remains in linux distros. add/remove is useless, it doesn't have all the apps that exist on planet earth. this is why i consider centralized repositeries to be inherently flawed. the windows approach of installers for each app seems much better.