As to your "rights" to do as you choose, if those right are virtuall impossible to exercise on a regular basis - do you really have them?
Which is why women also have the right to defend themselves. Nobody is stopping women from learning any of a number of forms of martial arts, going to the gym and getting in shape;
or just carrying a handgun.
Freedom doesn't mean everybody WILL respect your rights, it just means you have the Right to do what is necessary to ENSURE your rights.
can you give an example of some "public" secret (ie. thing that was documented for use by government) that should NOT be publicized at latest 50 years after being documented?
Attempted assasinations? I'm sure if the current ruler of some nation we want to get along with heard that even 50 years ago we shot his or her mother in the head, that said ruler would get a tad bit irrate.
(yes yes, I know, "we shouldn't have shot so and so", blah blah blah)
Diagrams to making nuculear bombs?
Information on Biological Weapons?
etc.
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BarnesAndNoble.com and Amazon.com already maintain low prices
That, is a relative phrase. Low prices according to whom? Amazon.com's 10% off (look mah, no sales tax!) hardly counts as a big deal.
I perfer to get my books from half.com, I can afford them from there.
(racist) the darn Purto-Ricans / Dominicans / Japanese are pretty much working on engineering the perfect baseball player anyways (/racist)
Bleh. Seriously though, what the hell is wrong with just using Science to take a shortcut to perfection? Hell ain't sports any ways just an outlet and a cheap excuse for mankind's base desire to filter out the more physically fit genes and put them into one big "fuck me now" breeding pool?
Ah, thankfully we have Cocaine and other such wonderful drugs to kill those bastards off.
Ok ok back to being serious now. If science can just leapfrog the entire process, why not do so, play one uber-kick ass game, and no longer preempt REAL tv shows with that monday night football crap?
(yah yah the main thing I have against football is that it preempts Jeopardy, but for a sin that great they can ALL rot in hell)
KDE has hotkeys up the ass. All over the place, I mean. I'm told GNOME does, too, but who cares.
Yes, but Windows makes them blantently obvious, and standards mean that the hotkeys are the same from one application to the next!
As are the menu names and what the various commands are called, not to mention the menu placement!
(and, if the programmer wasn't on crack at time, drag and drop file support is also rather straight forward, though, enough programmers apparently ARE on crack that some applications still refuse to obey. . ..)
but, ummm. . . . the hotkeys for KDE are documented
Wait, Windows has documentation?
Ok ok, it does, but man it sucks. Or at least it used to, I haven't read it since the Windosw 3.11 manual (which actually wasn't half bad from a new user's perspective, but contained very little, if any, technical detail)
and* easily changeable in the system settings.
Now you see that always kind of irritated me, when ever I try to get into Linux, one of the first things I head for is the hotkeys setup. Most enviroments will have a "minimize all windows" hotkey available, and a few will even have a "restore all windows" hotkey listed.
But I have yet to see one that makes the blatently obvious connection of assigning both to the same darn key.
*sigh*
In Windows 2000, when I click the "look-in" bar to display my drives, my system pauses and lags while the I/O works on spinning up my CD-ROM drive.
I do believe that there is a registery tweak to fix that.:)
*comes back after a few minutes of googling* no, really, I swear that there is!
Umm, use x-setup, the option is somewheres in there. Heh. So is almost every other option to make Windows Behave.:) (load everything in a seperate proccess, for real this time? No problem. Change how Windows uses your L2 cache? Yup, got that. Also can move the temporary directory around between partitions and other such good stuff, really handy program)
I use Win2K. It's fairly stable, and I can use it, but the interface isn't really usable unless you're migrating from an identical interface (eg, Windows 9x).
I remember how I absolutly hated going from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, heh. Of course I also hated going from DOS to anything else, so. . . . ^_^ Actually until Windows 2000, I was a strong CLI advocate, but now, sheesh. The Win2K GUI is so damn powerful, it is insane. The customizable right click context menu clinched it, I can now do damn nearly anything within the Windows 2000 GUI.
But MS does not have any obligation to run a network free for open use. Their IM servers are their IM servers, they can open them up to who ever they want to, heck they are in their rights to require a 10 cent payment for every message sent through them!
You are also in your rights to tell them to buzz off and to use any of a number of competing alternatives.
This is one of my major "wow that is a PITA" points about Linux.
WHERE ARE MY HOTKEYS???
Ok Ok I know that they are likely SOMEWHERE in there, but, umm. . ..
Windowkey-r Run
Windowkey-s Search
Windowkey-e Explorer / Web Browser (integration DOES Kick ass thankyousoverymuch)
Windowkey-d Show desktop (EXTREMLY useful!)
Windowkey-Pause/break System Properties
Combinded with the excellent command, directory, and file completation that Windows has built into all of its dialog boxes, help make the GUI as great as it is.
Win2K rocks for a reason folks, it may not be GPL, it may not be Free (beer OR speech), but it sure kicks ass from the usability perspective of an end-user.
You're thinking too hard. The search system would simply refer the library patron to the physical location of the book, regardless of what search terms or categories it was found under.
*Bangs head on wall*
Been to a library lately?
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THEY ARE DOING??
Key is, they have to have SOME method for choosing which books go where on the shelf, so mine as well use a preexisting system that is already mapped out. Does it matter if the mappings are a little strange some times? No, because we have computers to sort it all out for us!
I have to agree that RedHat would make a good solution for Business users.
As a home user, it would drive me nuts, I tried it, and didn't work out at all. Windows is geared towards home users, towards people having a ton of programs being installed and removed constantly, towards things getting all twisted about and made weird as heck.
Linux does not bend well to having 50 or more end user applications installed, with who knows how many applications once installed and then removed, plus possible multiple versions of the same program existing where ever the user decided to thrown them, and so on and so forth.
Large hard drives of MP3s and videos? Screw that, I can fill up a hard drive with software!
And under Windows, all my software can become nicely integrated into my GUI with easy, easily accessible context menus kick ass. Right click a MP3, select encue, right click a JPEG, select either preview or edit, sweet. One goes to Ifran-View, the other goes to Photoshop. Yes yes, that can also be setup under most Linux GUIs, but the hassle, ickies!
For business users though, the environment is rather constant. Type, type, e-mail, browse some, heck not being able to install a gazzilion and one programs is a GOOD thing in those environments.
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Finding a good case for cheap is kind of a mystical thing. Sometimes you get lucky, other times you get bit, literarly.
I got my case for around $30 or $35, full tower, good steel, removable Motherboard Tray, etc. I already had purchased a seperate powersupply for I forget how much (it was a heafty amount as I recall though, all high quality parts, fans guarnteed to last until sometime after I die, that sorta stuff), but I would be more than willing to spent twice that $30 for a case if I couldn't find as good of a deal next time around.
Home user market != important, nobody really gives too much of a care.
The market for programs like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop (which I am more than willing to PAY to use rather than The GIMP), Rhino3D, and, err, well anything else over the $400 price tag, is what is truly important.
Things that companies order thousands, if not tens of thousands, of copies of at once, also help. This is where Microsoft gets most of its money from, just imagine how many copies of Word (whatever version) are installed throughout nearly any one of the Fortune 500 companies.
The home users could go and shoot themselves for all it mattered, the professional and business markets are where the money is at.
I like the microsoft natural series, but I had to buy a few of the older generic Multimedia Elites that had the true inverted T, and a real Insert/Delete, and included the usb ports in back. (Handy to have usb there, and can plug the mouse in there also.) Had to buy online to get the older keyboards with real keys. And the believe it or not, the OSX drivers from microsoft works great for both intellimouse/ms keyboards.
I put it on my X-mas list and let my family hunt it down.
USB ports on back kick ass, great keyboard. Love it, huge hands, hard to find a keyboard that doesn't cramp me up after a few hours.
Then again, I never saw the need for 4:1 or 5:1 surround-sound on a PC either...
or a kick-ass video card (shrugs).
Your kick-ass video card carrying self will get fragged once I hear you around the corner with my 4.1 surround sound.
When I was gaming, 4.1 surround sound was my friend (ok ok so good positional headphones are supposed to give an even better effect), shooting a contact grenade around a corner and netting a kill because I was able to estimate my opponent's position using the sound of their footsteps just kicks way to much ass.
Also;
or any computer case that cost more than $30.
I'll pay whatever is necessary to get rounded edges on my steel, thank you oh-so-very-much-ouch-my-hands-still-hurt-from-thos e-old-ass-compaq-cases.
(and their freaking weird arsed power supplies. . ..)
The back of keyboards being higher up is horrid on your hands any ways, a proper keyboard would tilt the OTHER direction! (/. had an article on this quite a few years ago)
People who put the tilty thingy up on every keyboard that they go to drive me nuts, and now some keyboards have a high degree of tilt built in even without the little legs up! Ickies.
Media keys kick ass, the more common ones are standardized under Windows, yah! I don't know which, if any, of the *Nixs have taken it upon themselves to also adopt support, what keys do what is published and all. Very handy, being able to adjust volume remotely[1] in a standardized way, yah!
To fund off any the Zealots right away, the big Mail button in the center of my MS Natural USB keyboard opens up Thunderbird, heh.
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Which is why women also have the right to defend themselves. Nobody is stopping women from learning any of a number of forms of martial arts, going to the gym and getting in shape;
or just carrying a handgun.
Freedom doesn't mean everybody WILL respect your rights, it just means you have the Right to do what is necessary to ENSURE your rights.
Great, strip mining and loan sharks.
I feel so freaking proud.
*sigh*
Many Vietnamese have an improved quality of life because relatives over in the states regularly send back thousands of dollars to their relatives.
One way or the other, everybody has connections to America.
Attempted assasinations? I'm sure if the current ruler of some nation we want to get along with heard that even 50 years ago we shot his or her mother in the head, that said ruler would get a tad bit irrate.
(yes yes, I know, "we shouldn't have shot so and so", blah blah blah)
Diagrams to making nuculear bombs?
Information on Biological Weapons?
etc.
That, is a relative phrase. Low prices according to whom? Amazon.com's 10% off (look mah, no sales tax!) hardly counts as a big deal.
I perfer to get my books from half.com, I can afford them from there.
You also add:
A secure accessible CC transaction system
Paying somebody to design and upkeep said transaction system.
Databases. User accounts and such.
Database administrators.
More pipelines to the net to run all of this new stuff over.
Network technicians to manage the new pipelines to the net.
Digital editoring(sic) people who take the book and put it into the proper format for an e-book that is convenient to the user.
Maintaining a digital end user accessible catalog of your e-book product.
Hiring somebody to design that end user accessible catalog of your e-books.
Hiring somebody to maintain the design of the end user accessible catalog of your e-books.
and so on and so forth.
Who the hell said doing business on the net was cheap?
Yes yes, granted after things get settled down the price WOULD be cheaper;
assuming comparable sales to the real world edition.
and since THAT ain't gonna happen, prices are going to stay high.
This shouldn't really surprise anyone. . . . catch-22, yada yada yada , price high until demand raises, demand stays low until price is no longer high, killer app needed, *YAWN*.
(racist) the darn Purto-Ricans / Dominicans / Japanese are pretty much working on engineering the perfect baseball player anyways (/racist)
Bleh. Seriously though, what the hell is wrong with just using Science to take a shortcut to perfection? Hell ain't sports any ways just an outlet and a cheap excuse for mankind's base desire to filter out the more physically fit genes and put them into one big "fuck me now" breeding pool?
Ah, thankfully we have Cocaine and other such wonderful drugs to kill those bastards off.
Ok ok back to being serious now. If science can just leapfrog the entire process, why not do so, play one uber-kick ass game, and no longer preempt REAL tv shows with that monday night football crap?
(yah yah the main thing I have against football is that it preempts Jeopardy, but for a sin that great they can ALL rot in hell)
Yes, but Windows makes them blantently obvious, and standards mean that the hotkeys are the same from one application to the next!
As are the menu names and what the various commands are called, not to mention the menu placement!
(and, if the programmer wasn't on crack at time, drag and drop file support is also rather straight forward, though, enough programmers apparently ARE on crack that some applications still refuse to obey. . .
Wait, Windows has documentation?
Ok ok, it does, but man it sucks. Or at least it used to, I haven't read it since the Windosw 3.11 manual (which actually wasn't half bad from a new user's perspective, but contained very little, if any, technical detail)
Now you see that always kind of irritated me, when ever I try to get into Linux, one of the first things I head for is the hotkeys setup. Most enviroments will have a "minimize all windows" hotkey available, and a few will even have a "restore all windows" hotkey listed.
But I have yet to see one that makes the blatently obvious connection of assigning both to the same darn key.
*sigh*
I do believe that there is a registery tweak to fix that.
*comes back after a few minutes of googling* no, really, I swear that there is!
Umm, use x-setup, the option is somewheres in there. Heh. So is almost every other option to make Windows Behave.
I remember how I absolutly hated going from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, heh. Of course I also hated going from DOS to anything else, so. . . . ^_^ Actually until Windows 2000, I was a strong CLI advocate, but now, sheesh. The Win2K GUI is so damn powerful, it is insane. The customizable right click context menu clinched it, I can now do damn nearly anything within the Windows 2000 GUI.
But MS does not have any obligation to run a network free for open use. Their IM servers are their IM servers, they can open them up to who ever they want to, heck they are in their rights to require a 10 cent payment for every message sent through them!
You are also in your rights to tell them to buzz off and to use any of a number of competing alternatives.
WHERE ARE MY HOTKEYS???
Ok Ok I know that they are likely SOMEWHERE in there, but, umm. . .
Combinded with the excellent command, directory, and file completation that Windows has built into all of its dialog boxes, help make the GUI as great as it is.
Win2K rocks for a reason folks, it may not be GPL, it may not be Free (beer OR speech), but it sure kicks ass from the usability perspective of an end-user.
They should be sent to jail!
Development costs.
Hmm,
Hierarchical shelving?
Logical--->Math--->Computer Science--->Computer Languages?
Of course as soon as you run across an "Arts of Mathematics" book you are screwed as to figuring out where to put it. . . .
*Bangs head on wall*
Been to a library lately?
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THEY ARE DOING??
Key is, they have to have SOME method for choosing which books go where on the shelf, so mine as well use a preexisting system that is already mapped out. Does it matter if the mappings are a little strange some times? No, because we have computers to sort it all out for us!
I have to agree that RedHat would make a good solution for Business users.
As a home user, it would drive me nuts, I tried it, and didn't work out at all. Windows is geared towards home users, towards people having a ton of programs being installed and removed constantly, towards things getting all twisted about and made weird as heck.
Linux does not bend well to having 50 or more end user applications installed, with who knows how many applications once installed and then removed, plus possible multiple versions of the same program existing where ever the user decided to thrown them, and so on and so forth.
Large hard drives of MP3s and videos? Screw that, I can fill up a hard drive with software!
And under Windows, all my software can become nicely integrated into my GUI with easy, easily accessible context menus kick ass. Right click a MP3, select encue, right click a JPEG, select either preview or edit, sweet. One goes to Ifran-View, the other goes to Photoshop. Yes yes, that can also be setup under most Linux GUIs, but the hassle, ickies!
For business users though, the environment is rather constant. Type, type, e-mail, browse some, heck not being able to install a gazzilion and one programs is a GOOD thing in those environments.
Proof, Hal Clement.
Kron ownz0rs.
Finding a good case for cheap is kind of a mystical thing. Sometimes you get lucky, other times you get bit, literarly.
I got my case for around $30 or $35, full tower, good steel, removable Motherboard Tray, etc. I already had purchased a seperate powersupply for I forget how much (it was a heafty amount as I recall though, all high quality parts, fans guarnteed to last until sometime after I die, that sorta stuff), but I would be more than willing to spent twice that $30 for a case if I couldn't find as good of a deal next time around.
WinRAR, WinACE, both succesful startups after WinZIP had seemingly dominated the market.
Of course it helped that WinZIP's interface sucked massivly.
*sigh*
This is irritating.
Home user market != important, nobody really gives too much of a care.
The market for programs like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop (which I am more than willing to PAY to use rather than The GIMP), Rhino3D, and, err, well anything else over the $400 price tag, is what is truly important.
Things that companies order thousands, if not tens of thousands, of copies of at once, also help. This is where Microsoft gets most of its money from, just imagine how many copies of Word (whatever version) are installed throughout nearly any one of the Fortune 500 companies.
The home users could go and shoot themselves for all it mattered, the professional and business markets are where the money is at.
Speaking of Karma whoring, is it Karma whoring to make a post thats completely off topic?
I guess the mods like to mod trolls today, including you.
This is
You mean we have topics? Oh, when did they implement those?
LOL! Nice one.
Ok, listen, to anybody out there who doesn't get it;
LEAVE YOUR ROOM AND VISIT A STORE SOME TIME.
As long as my local Target is stocking Hello Kitty computer games, you CANNOT tell me that selling software is not successful.
Note that those of us who play GAMES (remember those?) tend to buy a lot of software.
As to movie studios. Yes yes, The GIMP is being used in some places, but so is Maya, guess which one has a larger professional user base?
Nothing to see here, and the next moderator who selects "informative" or "interesting" in this thread rather than "funny" deserves to get slapped.
Unless of course they select informative just to BE funny.
In which case it is excusable. *G*
Oh come on people, stop modding up obvious karma-whoring / trolls.
(selling software is not dead, saying it is not interesting, kthxbye)
I put it on my X-mas list and let my family hunt it down.
USB ports on back kick ass, great keyboard. Love it, huge hands, hard to find a keyboard that doesn't cramp me up after a few hours.
or a kick-ass video card (shrugs).
Your kick-ass video card carrying self will get fragged once I hear you around the corner with my 4.1 surround sound.
When I was gaming, 4.1 surround sound was my friend (ok ok so good positional headphones are supposed to give an even better effect), shooting a contact grenade around a corner and netting a kill because I was able to estimate my opponent's position using the sound of their footsteps just kicks way to much ass.
Also;
I'll pay whatever is necessary to get rounded edges on my steel, thank you oh-so-very-much-ouch-my-hands-still-hurt-from-tho
(and their freaking weird arsed power supplies. . .
The back of keyboards being higher up is horrid on your hands any ways, a proper keyboard would tilt the OTHER direction! (/. had an article on this quite a few years ago)
People who put the tilty thingy up on every keyboard that they go to drive me nuts, and now some keyboards have a high degree of tilt built in even without the little legs up! Ickies.
Media keys kick ass, the more common ones are standardized under Windows, yah! I don't know which, if any, of the *Nixs have taken it upon themselves to also adopt support, what keys do what is published and all. Very handy, being able to adjust volume remotely[1] in a standardized way, yah!
To fund off any the Zealots right away, the big Mail button in the center of my MS Natural USB keyboard opens up Thunderbird, heh.
[1]Think wireless.