Both. The reckless cowboy with guns is his way of talking to the American public, to show that he's a man of action, and takes fighting terrorism seriously. The war against Iraq is just that. OTOH, it's a war that has little to do with the attacks 9/11 2001, so as a part of the actual war against terror, it's a soft stick (a slapstick, a theatrical device). Elements that seem mutually exclusive aren't necessarily that when both of them are the same expression, but with different metaphorical meaning depending on viewpoint.
But of course, Bush is also a very different 'real' cowboy, fucking up the middle east in a very real way, with real (and unpredictable) results. But of course, you can trust Bush's gut feeling: It will all be fine, and Iraq will be America's second best friend.
That's a pretty big share. I found another one for a newspaper, and took the liberty of copying the stats in my journal. Of course, this one is skewed differently from w3schools.com, but it should be about as mainstream as it gets.
For the lazy: Mozilla Firefox has about 1.5%, Linux has about 0.60%. And no, as with all other web statistics, it's not scientific.
A bunch of SCO-hating nerds are probably not enough to take that phrase away from South Park: Bigger, Longer Uncut. It's more appropriate that a search for SCO in Google brings up Groklaw.net as the second hit. Unfortunately, 'SCO Group' does not take one to Groklaw.
I'd rather invest the money myself thank you. I'm responsibly enough that I understand risk and proper investment allocation. Social security (for retirement, and for people who make a certain $$ a year) is nothing but a safety net for people who are financially irresponsible.
It might not be preferable if 70% of the American population lost all their retirement savings in the next stock market crash. But of course, now with the new economy, we'll never see another crash, so it's safe now...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess Parker & Stone are gay, because they sure do seem obsessed by cock.
And two of their films (Cannibal! and SP:BLU) are musicals. So the signs are all there, even the denial: In an interview, I believe it is on the Cannibal DVD, or maybe on the commentary track on the DVD, they state that they're not gay, and that Matthew Stone changed his name to Matt to get more chicks (it didn't work, though -- chicks want gay men to be their friends, not their lovers). So, yes, definately gay.
every kde or gnome application can still be run with windowmaker without the overhead of having to run the full DE without the whole bunch of stuff that gets loaded by default with kde
This is just half right. Yes, you can run Konqueror in IceWM if you want, but you don't want to. Why? Because Konq is so dependent on the KDE libs that you actually start a huge part of KDE when you start Konq as a stand alone app. But if you start Konq in KDE, it starts up almost immediately, since most of the libs are already in memory. And that's what a DE is about. KOffice, Konq, K3B use KDE's shared resources.
The point I was trying to get across with my comparison was just what you said: You can't run spellcheckers in notepad, just like IceWM doesn't provide you with a framework for spellchecking in the same way that KDE does. If you want to spellcheck a text written in notepad, you have to use an external app. Just like, if you want to run a text editor in IceWM, you have to load apps external to IceWM. In KDE, the tools are already there, as libraries. KDE apps string them together behind user interfaces. Yes, the comparison was bad, but I tried to score a bonus point by not invoking the eternal parable of a car.
That's a very old article, and all those are just window managers. Saying that these can compete against KDE and Gnome is like saying notepad.exe can compete against Word.
There is a fundamental difference here, though. Climate and weather research would go on even if there was no possibility of global warming due to burning of fossil fuels. Because it is important. "Independent" think tanks and research centers that need corporate funding, needs to do research that can be used by the corporations funding them, though.
Governments also fund research in comparative literature, philosophy, theatre history and other studies that do just fine without any looming threat of global destruction.
there are still many excellent desktops out there, if they get some attention from the developers they could prove more than a match for KDE.
Just curious. Many? Which ones? I've heard of (and use) XFCE4 and WindowMaker/GNUstep. None of them seem to be real DEs like KDE and Gnome (alright, GNUstep is, but WindowMaker isn't really GNUstep, so it's not really a desktop environment yet).
Well, now I had to try Gnome on 128 MB and no swap. Yes, it's almost useless after opening Firefox, the Gimp and Gnome Terminal (that is: you have to be really patient). Ah, it's barely useful after closing the Gimp again. This is actually worse than the 64 MB Powerbook. I have no problem admitting that this is useless even for web browsing.
But this isn't on a box that is properly set up at all. It runs without swap, and from a CD (it's the Ubuntu Live-CD, based on Debian with Gnome 2.8). *activates swap And after having activated a 50 MB swapfile, the system seems a lot more responsive. It's at least possible to write this comment while having another page load in the background (at full speed), and switching between the two tabs with no waiting at all, and between varous virtual desktops. So I guess you can say that your mileage will vary, depending on setup. I can only recommend that you check that you actually have activated a swap partition or swap file on your laptop (and also look into other issues, like DMA on your HDD). I'm often downloading stuff at >200 kbytes/sec while browsing in Firefox with half the RAM you have.
Yes, I too prefer lighter environments on that computer. But that's why I use Linux in the first place. One of my SO-DIMMs broke, and down from 192 MB to 64 MB, OS X wouldn't go past the login-screen. Gnome and KDE certainly aren't the least resource hungry desktop environments out there, but for their features, they're pretty light.
Hello there. I'm posting this from a Powerbook G3 at 266 MHz with 64 MB RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux and Gnome 2.6 and Firefox just to disprove you. I also have Emacs open at the same time, and switching between the apps works fine. Thunderbird and Firefox are too heavy to run at the same time without getting sluggish though, as they would in any environment on a computer with 64 MB. And I wouldn't run OpenOffice.org in Gnome, although it does run quite well in WindowMaker (it takes about a month to start up, though).
I've got 256 MB of swap, of which 79 MB is currently in use.
I also run Knoppix on a 450 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB RAM once in a while. No swap, but it still works, and is good enough to browse the web and chat in Kopete. That's with KDE 3.x.
I called it beer. It's not only for drinking. You can also rest the glass against a vein in your arm to cool down the bloodstream quite effectively. One downside to this is that your beer gets warm faster, so you have to drink faster, but that in turn leads to drinking more, which cools down your body as well. This also has the positive side effect of getting you sloshed.
I don't recommend this cooler device for long distance driving.
Including my FY 2005 budget request, total federal R&D investment during the first term will have increased 44% to a record $132 billion in 2005. My FY 2005 budget request commits 13.5% of total discretionary outlays to R&D, the highest level in 37 years. [...] The federal government has no control over local curricula, and it is not my job to tell states and local boards of education what they should teach in the classroom.
Kerry:
The administration has proposed cuts for scientific research and grossly distorted and politicized science on issues from mercury pollution to stem-cell research.
Seems like the most important difference is in their interpretations of reality itself.
10 MB? Yes, but don't expect a GUI. If you want a desktop Linux on CD, you can try Morphix in the LightGUI variant, but that's still 20x as big as you want it.
Or, with the help of Google, you could have found this page, which is a list of live CDs. But don't expect a complete desktop OS in under 10 MB. Even the basic font files take about half of that.
All Clusty, A9 and the other more recent search engines seem to do is add more gimmicks to search results from yahoo and Google respectively.
But Clusty's clusters seem like a nice gimmick. Do a search for 'Debian', and it returns the usual, but with options to look at the clusters 'Debian GNU', 'Install', 'Package', 'Reviews', and so on.
Of course, these clusters don't work very well for every search. It's anglo-centric, and searches for things that are unknown to the English speaking world get some really weird options. For instance, a search for a Norwegian author returned 'Med' as the second largest cluster. 'Med' means 'with'. Another search returned something meaning 'I have' as one of the smaller clusters.
We can't predict the future, but we can still guess. The most likely scenario is that we try to fix some of the problems with personal computing today, and evolve some of the newer technologies. One problem is that while we have access to the internet everywhere we go, we still don't have access to our personal data unless we drag them around on laptops, CDs, iPods, or run sshd or ftp on our personal computers (too 1337 for most lusers).
So we can imagine that networks are still going to be important, and portability of some sort. Mobile phones and PDAs can't be used for many of the most common computer tasks (word processing, photoshop). How about pseudo-dumb terminals? Plug you smartcard into a computer in New New York and read the email stored on your computer in New Los Angeles. About the same as Sun Ray terminals, but on a global scale. Windows would probably not play a major part in this future.
Or maybe you can use the phone as a "storage device" (either directly or using the phone company's server, or your own), and get your $HOME from that via Bluetooth v.12 when you use the terminal at the library.
Or we can continue using what we use these days. It's "good enough", so why upgrade?
What is interesting is that the percentage of Linux PCs sold in 'emerging markets' that will get a pirated copy of XP on them is exactly the same as the percentage of statistic that is just made up in the emerging market of IT industry analysis. Coincidence? It's too early to tell.
Gartner is currently making up a study of the correlation of percentages in different emerging markets, and the numbers so far point in the direction of 80% correlation between 80% of different stuff.
In other words: Unless they release the sources (hah!) for their analysis, we have no reason to believe them.
But I still see in your answer a willingness to accept a politics of gesture. 'Standing up to evil' and 'fighting back' are acts of drama, not of politics. And that's what I find annoying with the US presidential election. You just don't seem to care too much about the results of your actions -- it seems to be more important to be perceived as strong and willing to fight. That's a bit ironic.
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Care to provide a link? I can't find anything about Apple on opengroup.org's list of Registered Products by Company.
Both. The reckless cowboy with guns is his way of talking to the American public, to show that he's a man of action, and takes fighting terrorism seriously. The war against Iraq is just that. OTOH, it's a war that has little to do with the attacks 9/11 2001, so as a part of the actual war against terror, it's a soft stick (a slapstick, a theatrical device). Elements that seem mutually exclusive aren't necessarily that when both of them are the same expression, but with different metaphorical meaning depending on viewpoint.
But of course, Bush is also a very different 'real' cowboy, fucking up the middle east in a very real way, with real (and unpredictable) results. But of course, you can trust Bush's gut feeling: It will all be fine, and Iraq will be America's second best friend.
That's a pretty big share. I found another one for a newspaper, and took the liberty of copying the stats in my journal. Of course, this one is skewed differently from w3schools.com, but it should be about as mainstream as it gets.
For the lazy: Mozilla Firefox has about 1.5%, Linux has about 0.60%. And no, as with all other web statistics, it's not scientific.
A bunch of SCO-hating nerds are probably not enough to take that phrase away from South Park: Bigger, Longer Uncut. It's more appropriate that a search for SCO in Google brings up Groklaw.net as the second hit. Unfortunately, 'SCO Group' does not take one to Groklaw.
It might not be preferable if 70% of the American population lost all their retirement savings in the next stock market crash. But of course, now with the new economy, we'll never see another crash, so it's safe now...
The point I was trying to get across with my comparison was just what you said: You can't run spellcheckers in notepad, just like IceWM doesn't provide you with a framework for spellchecking in the same way that KDE does. If you want to spellcheck a text written in notepad, you have to use an external app. Just like, if you want to run a text editor in IceWM, you have to load apps external to IceWM. In KDE, the tools are already there, as libraries. KDE apps string them together behind user interfaces. Yes, the comparison was bad, but I tried to score a bonus point by not invoking the eternal parable of a car.
That's a very old article, and all those are just window managers. Saying that these can compete against KDE and Gnome is like saying notepad.exe can compete against Word.
Can someone please explain why my comment was modded flamebait after just a few minutes?
There is a fundamental difference here, though. Climate and weather research would go on even if there was no possibility of global warming due to burning of fossil fuels. Because it is important. "Independent" think tanks and research centers that need corporate funding, needs to do research that can be used by the corporations funding them, though.
Governments also fund research in comparative literature, philosophy, theatre history and other studies that do just fine without any looming threat of global destruction.
Well, now I had to try Gnome on 128 MB and no swap. Yes, it's almost useless after opening Firefox, the Gimp and Gnome Terminal (that is: you have to be really patient). Ah, it's barely useful after closing the Gimp again. This is actually worse than the 64 MB Powerbook. I have no problem admitting that this is useless even for web browsing.
But this isn't on a box that is properly set up at all. It runs without swap, and from a CD (it's the Ubuntu Live-CD, based on Debian with Gnome 2.8). *activates swap And after having activated a 50 MB swapfile, the system seems a lot more responsive. It's at least possible to write this comment while having another page load in the background (at full speed), and switching between the two tabs with no waiting at all, and between varous virtual desktops. So I guess you can say that your mileage will vary, depending on setup. I can only recommend that you check that you actually have activated a swap partition or swap file on your laptop (and also look into other issues, like DMA on your HDD). I'm often downloading stuff at >200 kbytes/sec while browsing in Firefox with half the RAM you have.
Yes, I too prefer lighter environments on that computer. But that's why I use Linux in the first place. One of my SO-DIMMs broke, and down from 192 MB to 64 MB, OS X wouldn't go past the login-screen. Gnome and KDE certainly aren't the least resource hungry desktop environments out there, but for their features, they're pretty light.
Hello there. I'm posting this from a Powerbook G3 at 266 MHz with 64 MB RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux and Gnome 2.6 and Firefox just to disprove you. I also have Emacs open at the same time, and switching between the apps works fine. Thunderbird and Firefox are too heavy to run at the same time without getting sluggish though, as they would in any environment on a computer with 64 MB. And I wouldn't run OpenOffice.org in Gnome, although it does run quite well in WindowMaker (it takes about a month to start up, though).
I've got 256 MB of swap, of which 79 MB is currently in use.
I also run Knoppix on a 450 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB RAM once in a while. No swap, but it still works, and is good enough to browse the web and chat in Kopete. That's with KDE 3.x.
I called it beer. It's not only for drinking. You can also rest the glass against a vein in your arm to cool down the bloodstream quite effectively. One downside to this is that your beer gets warm faster, so you have to drink faster, but that in turn leads to drinking more, which cools down your body as well. This also has the positive side effect of getting you sloshed.
I don't recommend this cooler device for long distance driving.
Kerry:
Seems like the most important difference is in their interpretations of reality itself.
So what? It's not like you have to drink Buckfast. On the other hand, beer is a necessity, and lousy beer is an abomination to God.
10 MB? Yes, but don't expect a GUI. If you want a desktop Linux on CD, you can try Morphix in the LightGUI variant, but that's still 20x as big as you want it.
Or, with the help of Google, you could have found this page, which is a list of live CDs. But don't expect a complete desktop OS in under 10 MB. Even the basic font files take about half of that.
Yes, Slashdot has always followed strict standards when it comes to spelling and grammar.
Of course, these clusters don't work very well for every search. It's anglo-centric, and searches for things that are unknown to the English speaking world get some really weird options. For instance, a search for a Norwegian author returned 'Med' as the second largest cluster. 'Med' means 'with'. Another search returned something meaning 'I have' as one of the smaller clusters.
We can't predict the future, but we can still guess. The most likely scenario is that we try to fix some of the problems with personal computing today, and evolve some of the newer technologies. One problem is that while we have access to the internet everywhere we go, we still don't have access to our personal data unless we drag them around on laptops, CDs, iPods, or run sshd or ftp on our personal computers (too 1337 for most lusers).
So we can imagine that networks are still going to be important, and portability of some sort. Mobile phones and PDAs can't be used for many of the most common computer tasks (word processing, photoshop). How about pseudo-dumb terminals? Plug you smartcard into a computer in New New York and read the email stored on your computer in New Los Angeles. About the same as Sun Ray terminals, but on a global scale. Windows would probably not play a major part in this future.
Or maybe you can use the phone as a "storage device" (either directly or using the phone company's server, or your own), and get your $HOME from that via Bluetooth v.12 when you use the terminal at the library.
Or we can continue using what we use these days. It's "good enough", so why upgrade?
What is interesting is that the percentage of Linux PCs sold in 'emerging markets' that will get a pirated copy of XP on them is exactly the same as the percentage of statistic that is just made up in the emerging market of IT industry analysis. Coincidence? It's too early to tell.
Gartner is currently making up a study of the correlation of percentages in different emerging markets, and the numbers so far point in the direction of 80% correlation between 80% of different stuff.
In other words: Unless they release the sources (hah!) for their analysis, we have no reason to believe them.
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
Well, four year olds can be extremely annoying and noisy. And as you know, God has a certain habit of resting on the seventh day of the week.
So why not get yourself a reality distortion field? They're cheap and reliable, and make 250 MB four times as much as 1 GB. That's 14 GB!
Same here. But when I click refresh, the mail usually loads.
Other than that: Gmail doesn't support Konqueror, but that might be a Konq problem.
Yes, I did want an answer. Thank you very much.
But I still see in your answer a willingness to accept a politics of gesture. 'Standing up to evil' and 'fighting back' are acts of drama, not of politics. And that's what I find annoying with the US presidential election. You just don't seem to care too much about the results of your actions -- it seems to be more important to be perceived as strong and willing to fight. That's a bit ironic.
Oh well. Good luck with the election anyway.