It is really funny reading through these posts, half of the people are being intelectual about it and the other half are defending their chatrooms because they can go there to get cyber-layed because no one talks to them in the "real world". Aside from it being funny, the whole idea of a virtual world is miscontrued. Virtual communities are merely extentions of reality, you're not talking to a video game, you're talking to real people. I can do the same thing with my ham radio. Go outside, get drunk, stumble. Its fun.
There is a huge difference between extremely optimized hardware and fast hardware. You can have the latest googleflop hardware that only performs 5% better than the model thats two years old but people can code to it down to a single clock. Look at the PlayStation, games released when the system was released don't look as good as games just released for it. Shit if you're really in doubt take a look at how well the GeForce performs with its original drivers against the latest ones released. Taking time in development often means you won't need a hardware upgrade every 6 months to perform adequately.
I think your brain got waterlogged in the shower. Do you know how companies like Sony and Sega make money off their consoles? It sure as hell isn't the sale of the hardware (you'll notice prices drop all the time). So that leaves one avenue for revenue. Yes, thats right: LICENSING! Gold star for you. Part of the price of all those games you buy for your PlayStation or Dreamcast goes back to Sony and Sega. This fee is merely for the privilege to produce video games for said console. This practice makes these console companies, yes another star for you: millions of dollars! Wow this isn't too hard now is it. A video game console is not about the hardware it is all about the games that are exclusively available for it. Legend of Zelda has sold oodles of copies, yet it is only available for N64. Its games like that that make console makers cream their jeans. Consoles have a distinct advantage over PCs technologically that you're not recognizing. They have documented and stardard hardware, there's no fucked up drivers running some odd network card. This allows programmers to easily program right onto the hardware with no abstraction of media libraries or kernels. You're also forgetting that TV screens are quite large and their lack of crispness lends to a natrual anti-aliased blur look to things displayed on them. My TV is 25" and I have a several hundred watts of surround sound speakers hooked up to it. Until computer monitors regularly exceed 21" and speakers for them top 100 watts gaming consoles will still hold a place in people's living rooms.
You're pretty ignorant of several points which is something you ought to be ashamed of. First of all Apple has little if anything to do with the ownership of the PPC chipset, it is owned, produced, and developed by Motorola and IBM. Apple had an exclusive rights deal with Motorola on certain product lines (the PPC 7400 specifically). Being 12 you might not remember that there used to be PPC workstations floating around years ago, you could even get Windows NT for them. M$ and PCs suceeded over Macs in general because Apple's management was a bunch of dickwads who decided to throw the company into niche markets that didn't pan out besides the fact that they exclusively produce their hardware and software whereas M$ merely produces software and lets everyone else fight over hardware to run it on (this is collectively known as market economy).
DirectX limits the programmers? Limits them compared to what? OpenGL? Yeah, OpenGL sure does open doors in the programming world. Where the fuck do you get this shit? DirectX is not only a set of graphic libraries like OpenGL is. DirectX does 3D, 2D, sound, and periphrial interface. By programming directly to DirectX X-Box programmers will be able to pump out games without memorizing the console's internal circuitry. You have to realize that programmers aren't limited to using functions contained in the kernel and media libraries, they'll be able to program directly to the hardware bypassing any abstraction which in the case of the PlayStation has really extended the system's lifespan.
I fucking hate when some fucking moron complains about a video game crashing and then harkening back to the good old days of the NES. When you run a game on a Windows PC you've running a software application on top of a bunch of other software applications. When you run a game on a Nintendo you're running software that is basically running directly on the hardware with little or no abstraction. There is an anormous difference in the way you program for a console and a PC. Your "pretty plain PC" is just as indescrepent as any other PC, your hardware and drivers for said hardware conform to generalities and guidelines, not specific criteria.
Back a long time ago during the Gemini days there was a little project called Blue Gemini which was the Air Force giving NASA cash and research and whatnot in return for training Air Force pilots in space operations. At the time the idea was that the US and Russia would be getting into Buck Rogers style space combat. Alot of space based weaponry was thought of, once the first satillite went up it was all anyone could do to design a weapon to stick on one.
Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war.
-Mel Brooks
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The Delta Clipper also fell down and went splat quickly followed by a boom. Vertical landing is NOT a more economical way to land something. An aerodyne style ship can be designed to land on a commercial airport runway if need be and needs little or no fuel to land (watch the current shuttle land sometime) while a VTOL craft needs tremendous amounts of energy (fuel) which requires greater complexity and therefore greater bulk. The more bulk you've got the less cargo you can carry. It's more efficient to leave complexity to external devices rather than internalize them. External components are much easier to change around which means you can have a fleet of relatively simple (cheap) shuttles that carry your payload and then figure out cheaper and more efficient ways of getting them space-born.
God didn't do that you fool, you did it. You're a narcotics agent, I knew it. It saddens me there are so few people here that can read. Microsoft's case has little if anything to do with NTFS support in the Linux kernel, they do however have a problem with someone who signed an NDA and then broke said NDA. Its fucking disgusting how things get so blown out of preportion anymore. If an office manager in Redmond buys toilet paper in bulk it turns into Microsoft trying to monpolize paper production in the Western Hemisphere. Slashdot. Anti-Microsoft whining for nerds. Stuff that's pointless.
I really think those of us who are literate around/. ought to start making our own acronyms. The first I propose is RTFA which stands for Read The Fucking Article. We might want to think about chipping in for site licenses of Hooked on Phonics for the more unfortunate/. visiters.
The original post merely mentioned the number if running processes, not resident memory of said processes. It's called reading comprehension, did they skip over that at your school?
First of all, Mr.P- provided this link, to winsupersite which has much newer screenshots from a later build (2257 as opposed to 2250 IIRC). Please go there and look at the newest Whistler screens and inflo before saying "hey this is Windows 2000 run through Paint". I've been sort of half-heartedly following Whistler through it's development because it will most likely end up on my Windows box next. I think Microsoft's OS guys have finally figured out that a forked development process is wasteful and bothersome. Whistler is based off NT/2000 and will have Personal, Professional, Server and Advanced server versions available. This eliminates the traditional separation between Windows for regular people and Windows for businesses. It also means developers can program for a single environment and API and sell their products to both home and professional users without spending the money for a port to a similar but slightly incompatible system. Whoa hey, I said something good about Windows someone better find a Stallmandroid to promote the GPL one more time.
But if you've ever USED a ramdisk before you'd know that it stores non-active executables in the ramdisk or files you want memory resident without actually being in use. On MacOS you can stick Word and IE into the ramdisk and they will start pretty darned fast as they don't need to access the disk in order to open. The cache is for stuff thats already been used, ramdisk is for things you might use.
Yeah on a board full of 15 year old Linux zealots mentioning Office 2000 is silly but hey, fuck you. Office 2000 has a very very very good installation/management tool, one that I have not seen equaled before (not that one doesn't exist, I just haven't seen it personally). You get to choose which components to install, it checks for all dependancies and will fix things that end up broken, you can have part of the installation on CD part on disk and park on the network and it will all work pretty seemlessly, and you can keep everything updated and good to go from the internet. I really wish the RPM system could do all of that.
Of course Office was designed to work with the installer which is a big help there. I think that goes to show the people putting out a program are responsible for the install and setup of said program. Know the limitations of your distrobution medium, don't write shit that a majority of people can't use because they don't have some exclusive kernel hack or obscure/outdated/stupid library (that is unless your intent is for people not to be able to use it without these things). I remember back in the day of Windows 95 when people wanted to do graphics or animations in their apps they would just use Quicktime because it was well established and meant less work for them. The problem was that everyone used a different version of Quicktime and installing a program fucked everything up. The situation shined some light on the major drawback of the installation wizard for Windows, the lack of context logic which would let you keep your updated version of a dependancy and not fuck things up because of it and that programmers were being lax with their dependancy management. The article points out the same problem with RPM and how things are going now. I hope everyone learns their lesson and package systems manage whole systems well (not just a single program) and programmers make sure their shit works unexclusively.
yeah you. Making things easier to use (adding post-install script running to rpm) is NOT dumbing things down. You haven't done shit hardwork for Unix or anything else. Making the OS a challenge to use DOES NOT PROMOTE THE ASSERTATION THAT IT IS POWERFUL. If the OS or the system-level tools are a crudge then the system is useless to anyone who wants or needs to get real work done. Moving files back and forth and listening to MP3s is not real work. Administrators also do not like difficult to use systems, it makes their job ten times harder. Having a single program keep track of all your apps and files needed by the system is a great boon to someone without an infinite amount of time to write, debug, test and impliment a script to do the same thing. Hey is your mom calling? You better go do the dishes.
I just ordered my OS X beta, I'm really anxious to do some hardcore geek stuff with it. I've been a huge supporter of OS X since it was Rhapsody (which was quite a while ago). I've become pensive as late though, is Apple going to start repeating its past mistakes? I've started shakinmg my head at them for all the product lines and variations of said product lines. Its cheap and easy to produce two different versions of a machine built on the same chassis but it becomes increasingly difficult to built 4, 5 or 6 versions of a machine built on the same chassis (and have it be profitable). Harken back to the days of the obfuscated number days when a 7200 may or may not have been newer than a 6900 and you got really confused when you found out the Powerbook 5400 was only a year different from the 3400. Are they letting their success get to their collective heads? I hope not. This not only goes for strange naming schemes but what about market targets. Apple now has a Unix based OS that can handle some of the more demanding environments thats only a couple years ago Sun, IBM, and SGI dominated in. Are we going to see the iMac become the only box we can afford because the normal G4 line is an exclusive club only for corporations with large budgets (some might argue thats already the case)? It makes me wonder.
IF YOU ARE IN JUNIOR OR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. Yes as tough as that may be to swallow, it is the truth. You may balk at said idea and think to yourself "Hey there buster, I'm an American citizen and I take out the trash when my mum says to!" But lo young friend, this does not make you a citizen. This situation makes you the son or daughter of a citizen(s). That is el correcto, you're not really much of anything when it comes to anything. There's laws governing your life but you cannot affect them in any meaningful way. That said, don't bitch that your high school installed internet mail filters or won't let you look for phrases containing the words pussy, cunt, fuck, tits, XXX or dick. The same goes for PUBLIC libraries, sure adults use libraries but then so do little kids. If you want to download porn then go home and do it. Universities don't install filters (usually) restricting internet access but when they do people here cause a rucus. Yes it IS your right to read and download whatever you want but the same law that says you have that right also says that the University has the same right NOT to let you view or download said material. You're a tenant, not a principle owner. Yes it is a harsh reality. But lo once more, a message to parents: DO YOU FUCKING JOBS! Jesus do you need it spelled out for you? Ought someone send you memos letting you know a plan of action? Teach some fucking moral values and let them make their own choices, if you did a good job they will make the right choices. TV is not a babysitter and neither is the damned internet. Both parents ought not work all the time. You do not need all that shit, tone back the hours and spend time raising your fucking kids. If kids are too much of a hassle you ought to have thought of that before the penetration phase. Damn, you're relying on fucking librarians to keep tabs on what your kids are reading about. You're fucking parental failures!
I've been using SuSE for a couple years now, I'm happy to see that its market share is gaining on RH. Not because I want to see RH die but because I think SuSE is a great distro. The problem I have seen in my years using Linux is no distro really going out of their way to make a Linux system that was original and went out on a limb. The difference between distros is very small, the base Linux system is virtually identical as are the third party apps packaged with the distro, the real difference comes in the config tools as the arrangement of certain things (most of these differences exist in/sbin and/usr). I would like to see a completely original Linux system. How about bash+ with better realtime language support (i.e. move all the files in this directory to that one then delete this one) and some standardization of included packages. Sure it might limit the "choice" of users but if you're so hardcore on what you want on your system build your own fucking distro. What new users want is the consistancy that Windows and MacOS offer by default. You don't have 20 apps that all do pretty much the exact same thing only with different commands and names (for the most part). Distros: stop renaming the same cloned system, venture forth and do good!
Of the millions of drivers in the country few know how exactly the internal mechanisms of their car work. Theres no need for them to provided the operation of the is within their ability, this goes for any appliance or tool, do you need to have an intimate understanding of physics to use a saw or hammer? No you don't. No one ought to be punished because they can't telnet into a "box" and chat using old Unix commands. Computer geeks don't want things easier to understand because then they would not longer feel superior to the masses who lack said knowledge.
It seems like everyone here considers themselves to be experts at computer interfaces, they know all the keyboard shortcuts and can easily whip out all sorts of bash commands if so prompted. They're also fucking assholes who can't begin to fathom that to most people computers are merely tools that get some work done and enable you to do some things. A CD player has a small handful of controls on the front, you put your CD in and it starts to play it and allows you to switch trackes or scan through a song. You don't need to understand how the internals work, you don't even have to be particularly adept at using anything in order to work said CD player. My friend's neice can operate one and she's four. This is a good computer interface, this is what computers need to strive for. Until they are this easy to use they will not be "too easy to use". You're not superior to anyone because you know a heap of bash commands, you might be adept at computer use but you're not any higher on the fucking food chain. The article fails to realize this, in an unfortunately typical way. Computers are beginning to exist in homes with near ubiquity yet are barely easier to use than they were 15 years ago. Thats just sadism.
Why the fuck do people need to be intimately familiar with the internal workings of a computer? The hardware doesn't mean shit, the important aspect is the applications used in order to get work done. Linux doesn't do shit for you, neither does Windows or Mac OS. Office 2k lets you do your business stuff, iMovie lets you edit video and bitchx lets you pretend you're a 3l337 hax0r on an IRC network. You sound about 15 so I doubt you have a car but if you did indeed have one, would you need to know how the fuel injection or coolant system worked in order to drive it? Or would you merely have to know the rules of the road and how to operate the controls in front of your face?
So you think people ought to adapt to a computer-a tool-than the computer-a tool-adapt to them? If you got into college it must be truely easy. Its unfortunate that computers are so difficult to use, they abound with unfamiliarity and unintuitiveness. Why should anyone have to remember a set of commands merely to move a file into another directory? Most people run around using bash or c and expect everyone to just use it because they can't seem to write a better shell. Although it would be pretty easy to write an intuitive shell that let users type fairly plain instructions and have the computer sort out the intricacies. The people you're so fond of criticizing don't lack anything other than the right commands to get done what they want. Most if not all people with a little experience with computers understand the concept of files as objects and directories to catagorize and coallate but not everyone knows bash or c.
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It is really funny reading through these posts, half of the people are being intelectual about it and the other half are defending their chatrooms because they can go there to get cyber-layed because no one talks to them in the "real world". Aside from it being funny, the whole idea of a virtual world is miscontrued. Virtual communities are merely extentions of reality, you're not talking to a video game, you're talking to real people. I can do the same thing with my ham radio. Go outside, get drunk, stumble. Its fun.
There is a huge difference between extremely optimized hardware and fast hardware. You can have the latest googleflop hardware that only performs 5% better than the model thats two years old but people can code to it down to a single clock. Look at the PlayStation, games released when the system was released don't look as good as games just released for it. Shit if you're really in doubt take a look at how well the GeForce performs with its original drivers against the latest ones released. Taking time in development often means you won't need a hardware upgrade every 6 months to perform adequately.
I think your brain got waterlogged in the shower. Do you know how companies like Sony and Sega make money off their consoles? It sure as hell isn't the sale of the hardware (you'll notice prices drop all the time). So that leaves one avenue for revenue. Yes, thats right: LICENSING! Gold star for you. Part of the price of all those games you buy for your PlayStation or Dreamcast goes back to Sony and Sega. This fee is merely for the privilege to produce video games for said console. This practice makes these console companies, yes another star for you: millions of dollars! Wow this isn't too hard now is it. A video game console is not about the hardware it is all about the games that are exclusively available for it. Legend of Zelda has sold oodles of copies, yet it is only available for N64. Its games like that that make console makers cream their jeans. Consoles have a distinct advantage over PCs technologically that you're not recognizing. They have documented and stardard hardware, there's no fucked up drivers running some odd network card. This allows programmers to easily program right onto the hardware with no abstraction of media libraries or kernels. You're also forgetting that TV screens are quite large and their lack of crispness lends to a natrual anti-aliased blur look to things displayed on them. My TV is 25" and I have a several hundred watts of surround sound speakers hooked up to it. Until computer monitors regularly exceed 21" and speakers for them top 100 watts gaming consoles will still hold a place in people's living rooms.
You're pretty ignorant of several points which is something you ought to be ashamed of. First of all Apple has little if anything to do with the ownership of the PPC chipset, it is owned, produced, and developed by Motorola and IBM. Apple had an exclusive rights deal with Motorola on certain product lines (the PPC 7400 specifically). Being 12 you might not remember that there used to be PPC workstations floating around years ago, you could even get Windows NT for them. M$ and PCs suceeded over Macs in general because Apple's management was a bunch of dickwads who decided to throw the company into niche markets that didn't pan out besides the fact that they exclusively produce their hardware and software whereas M$ merely produces software and lets everyone else fight over hardware to run it on (this is collectively known as market economy).
DirectX limits the programmers? Limits them compared to what? OpenGL? Yeah, OpenGL sure does open doors in the programming world. Where the fuck do you get this shit? DirectX is not only a set of graphic libraries like OpenGL is. DirectX does 3D, 2D, sound, and periphrial interface. By programming directly to DirectX X-Box programmers will be able to pump out games without memorizing the console's internal circuitry. You have to realize that programmers aren't limited to using functions contained in the kernel and media libraries, they'll be able to program directly to the hardware bypassing any abstraction which in the case of the PlayStation has really extended the system's lifespan.
I fucking hate when some fucking moron complains about a video game crashing and then harkening back to the good old days of the NES. When you run a game on a Windows PC you've running a software application on top of a bunch of other software applications. When you run a game on a Nintendo you're running software that is basically running directly on the hardware with little or no abstraction. There is an anormous difference in the way you program for a console and a PC. Your "pretty plain PC" is just as indescrepent as any other PC, your hardware and drivers for said hardware conform to generalities and guidelines, not specific criteria.
Back a long time ago during the Gemini days there was a little project called Blue Gemini which was the Air Force giving NASA cash and research and whatnot in return for training Air Force pilots in space operations. At the time the idea was that the US and Russia would be getting into Buck Rogers style space combat. Alot of space based weaponry was thought of, once the first satillite went up it was all anyone could do to design a weapon to stick on one.
Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war.
-Mel Brooks
The Delta Clipper also fell down and went splat quickly followed by a boom. Vertical landing is NOT a more economical way to land something. An aerodyne style ship can be designed to land on a commercial airport runway if need be and needs little or no fuel to land (watch the current shuttle land sometime) while a VTOL craft needs tremendous amounts of energy (fuel) which requires greater complexity and therefore greater bulk. The more bulk you've got the less cargo you can carry. It's more efficient to leave complexity to external devices rather than internalize them. External components are much easier to change around which means you can have a fleet of relatively simple (cheap) shuttles that carry your payload and then figure out cheaper and more efficient ways of getting them space-born.
God didn't do that you fool, you did it. You're a narcotics agent, I knew it. It saddens me there are so few people here that can read. Microsoft's case has little if anything to do with NTFS support in the Linux kernel, they do however have a problem with someone who signed an NDA and then broke said NDA. Its fucking disgusting how things get so blown out of preportion anymore. If an office manager in Redmond buys toilet paper in bulk it turns into Microsoft trying to monpolize paper production in the Western Hemisphere. Slashdot. Anti-Microsoft whining for nerds. Stuff that's pointless.
I really think those of us who are literate around /. ought to start making our own acronyms. The first I propose is RTFA which stands for Read The Fucking Article. We might want to think about chipping in for site licenses of Hooked on Phonics for the more unfortunate /. visiters.
The original post merely mentioned the number if running processes, not resident memory of said processes. It's called reading comprehension, did they skip over that at your school?
First of all, Mr.P- provided this link, to winsupersite which has much newer screenshots from a later build (2257 as opposed to 2250 IIRC). Please go there and look at the newest Whistler screens and inflo before saying "hey this is Windows 2000 run through Paint". I've been sort of half-heartedly following Whistler through it's development because it will most likely end up on my Windows box next. I think Microsoft's OS guys have finally figured out that a forked development process is wasteful and bothersome. Whistler is based off NT/2000 and will have Personal, Professional, Server and Advanced server versions available. This eliminates the traditional separation between Windows for regular people and Windows for businesses. It also means developers can program for a single environment and API and sell their products to both home and professional users without spending the money for a port to a similar but slightly incompatible system. Whoa hey, I said something good about Windows someone better find a Stallmandroid to promote the GPL one more time.
Fire up X and your favourite display manager and desktop and then run top. Insert foot in mouth.
IPO is not a fucking verb.
But if you've ever USED a ramdisk before you'd know that it stores non-active executables in the ramdisk or files you want memory resident without actually being in use. On MacOS you can stick Word and IE into the ramdisk and they will start pretty darned fast as they don't need to access the disk in order to open. The cache is for stuff thats already been used, ramdisk is for things you might use.
Yeah on a board full of 15 year old Linux zealots mentioning Office 2000 is silly but hey, fuck you. Office 2000 has a very very very good installation/management tool, one that I have not seen equaled before (not that one doesn't exist, I just haven't seen it personally). You get to choose which components to install, it checks for all dependancies and will fix things that end up broken, you can have part of the installation on CD part on disk and park on the network and it will all work pretty seemlessly, and you can keep everything updated and good to go from the internet. I really wish the RPM system could do all of that.
Of course Office was designed to work with the installer which is a big help there. I think that goes to show the people putting out a program are responsible for the install and setup of said program. Know the limitations of your distrobution medium, don't write shit that a majority of people can't use because they don't have some exclusive kernel hack or obscure/outdated/stupid library (that is unless your intent is for people not to be able to use it without these things). I remember back in the day of Windows 95 when people wanted to do graphics or animations in their apps they would just use Quicktime because it was well established and meant less work for them. The problem was that everyone used a different version of Quicktime and installing a program fucked everything up. The situation shined some light on the major drawback of the installation wizard for Windows, the lack of context logic which would let you keep your updated version of a dependancy and not fuck things up because of it and that programmers were being lax with their dependancy management. The article points out the same problem with RPM and how things are going now. I hope everyone learns their lesson and package systems manage whole systems well (not just a single program) and programmers make sure their shit works unexclusively.
yeah you. Making things easier to use (adding post-install script running to rpm) is NOT dumbing things down. You haven't done shit hardwork for Unix or anything else. Making the OS a challenge to use DOES NOT PROMOTE THE ASSERTATION THAT IT IS POWERFUL. If the OS or the system-level tools are a crudge then the system is useless to anyone who wants or needs to get real work done. Moving files back and forth and listening to MP3s is not real work. Administrators also do not like difficult to use systems, it makes their job ten times harder. Having a single program keep track of all your apps and files needed by the system is a great boon to someone without an infinite amount of time to write, debug, test and impliment a script to do the same thing. Hey is your mom calling? You better go do the dishes.
No way really?
I just ordered my OS X beta, I'm really anxious to do some hardcore geek stuff with it. I've been a huge supporter of OS X since it was Rhapsody (which was quite a while ago). I've become pensive as late though, is Apple going to start repeating its past mistakes? I've started shakinmg my head at them for all the product lines and variations of said product lines. Its cheap and easy to produce two different versions of a machine built on the same chassis but it becomes increasingly difficult to built 4, 5 or 6 versions of a machine built on the same chassis (and have it be profitable). Harken back to the days of the obfuscated number days when a 7200 may or may not have been newer than a 6900 and you got really confused when you found out the Powerbook 5400 was only a year different from the 3400. Are they letting their success get to their collective heads? I hope not. This not only goes for strange naming schemes but what about market targets. Apple now has a Unix based OS that can handle some of the more demanding environments thats only a couple years ago Sun, IBM, and SGI dominated in. Are we going to see the iMac become the only box we can afford because the normal G4 line is an exclusive club only for corporations with large budgets (some might argue thats already the case)? It makes me wonder.
IF YOU ARE IN JUNIOR OR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. Yes as tough as that may be to swallow, it is the truth. You may balk at said idea and think to yourself "Hey there buster, I'm an American citizen and I take out the trash when my mum says to!" But lo young friend, this does not make you a citizen. This situation makes you the son or daughter of a citizen(s). That is el correcto, you're not really much of anything when it comes to anything. There's laws governing your life but you cannot affect them in any meaningful way. That said, don't bitch that your high school installed internet mail filters or won't let you look for phrases containing the words pussy, cunt, fuck, tits, XXX or dick. The same goes for PUBLIC libraries, sure adults use libraries but then so do little kids. If you want to download porn then go home and do it. Universities don't install filters (usually) restricting internet access but when they do people here cause a rucus. Yes it IS your right to read and download whatever you want but the same law that says you have that right also says that the University has the same right NOT to let you view or download said material. You're a tenant, not a principle owner. Yes it is a harsh reality. But lo once more, a message to parents: DO YOU FUCKING JOBS! Jesus do you need it spelled out for you? Ought someone send you memos letting you know a plan of action? Teach some fucking moral values and let them make their own choices, if you did a good job they will make the right choices. TV is not a babysitter and neither is the damned internet. Both parents ought not work all the time. You do not need all that shit, tone back the hours and spend time raising your fucking kids. If kids are too much of a hassle you ought to have thought of that before the penetration phase. Damn, you're relying on fucking librarians to keep tabs on what your kids are reading about. You're fucking parental failures!
I've been using SuSE for a couple years now, I'm happy to see that its market share is gaining on RH. Not because I want to see RH die but because I think SuSE is a great distro. The problem I have seen in my years using Linux is no distro really going out of their way to make a Linux system that was original and went out on a limb. The difference between distros is very small, the base Linux system is virtually identical as are the third party apps packaged with the distro, the real difference comes in the config tools as the arrangement of certain things (most of these differences exist in /sbin and /usr). I would like to see a completely original Linux system. How about bash+ with better realtime language support (i.e. move all the files in this directory to that one then delete this one) and some standardization of included packages. Sure it might limit the "choice" of users but if you're so hardcore on what you want on your system build your own fucking distro. What new users want is the consistancy that Windows and MacOS offer by default. You don't have 20 apps that all do pretty much the exact same thing only with different commands and names (for the most part). Distros: stop renaming the same cloned system, venture forth and do good!
Of the millions of drivers in the country few know how exactly the internal mechanisms of their car work. Theres no need for them to provided the operation of the is within their ability, this goes for any appliance or tool, do you need to have an intimate understanding of physics to use a saw or hammer? No you don't. No one ought to be punished because they can't telnet into a "box" and chat using old Unix commands. Computer geeks don't want things easier to understand because then they would not longer feel superior to the masses who lack said knowledge.
It seems like everyone here considers themselves to be experts at computer interfaces, they know all the keyboard shortcuts and can easily whip out all sorts of bash commands if so prompted. They're also fucking assholes who can't begin to fathom that to most people computers are merely tools that get some work done and enable you to do some things. A CD player has a small handful of controls on the front, you put your CD in and it starts to play it and allows you to switch trackes or scan through a song. You don't need to understand how the internals work, you don't even have to be particularly adept at using anything in order to work said CD player. My friend's neice can operate one and she's four. This is a good computer interface, this is what computers need to strive for. Until they are this easy to use they will not be "too easy to use". You're not superior to anyone because you know a heap of bash commands, you might be adept at computer use but you're not any higher on the fucking food chain. The article fails to realize this, in an unfortunately typical way. Computers are beginning to exist in homes with near ubiquity yet are barely easier to use than they were 15 years ago. Thats just sadism.
Why the fuck do people need to be intimately familiar with the internal workings of a computer? The hardware doesn't mean shit, the important aspect is the applications used in order to get work done. Linux doesn't do shit for you, neither does Windows or Mac OS. Office 2k lets you do your business stuff, iMovie lets you edit video and bitchx lets you pretend you're a 3l337 hax0r on an IRC network. You sound about 15 so I doubt you have a car but if you did indeed have one, would you need to know how the fuel injection or coolant system worked in order to drive it? Or would you merely have to know the rules of the road and how to operate the controls in front of your face?
So you think people ought to adapt to a computer-a tool-than the computer-a tool-adapt to them? If you got into college it must be truely easy. Its unfortunate that computers are so difficult to use, they abound with unfamiliarity and unintuitiveness. Why should anyone have to remember a set of commands merely to move a file into another directory? Most people run around using bash or c and expect everyone to just use it because they can't seem to write a better shell. Although it would be pretty easy to write an intuitive shell that let users type fairly plain instructions and have the computer sort out the intricacies. The people you're so fond of criticizing don't lack anything other than the right commands to get done what they want. Most if not all people with a little experience with computers understand the concept of files as objects and directories to catagorize and coallate but not everyone knows bash or c.