Honestly, it's not like you didn't have plenty of options besides "nuke it from orbit". The Kubuntu and Xubuntu communities in particular are pretty large and friendly.
Not that I'm saying you shouldn't vote with your feet if you feel strongly, and there's certainly nothing wrong with Fedora. But seriously, with the work involved in switching "your whole family" to a new OS, I might have considered something less extreme for the sake of a desktop environment.
Screw that. My government (that is to say- the taxpayer, i.e., me) owns a £1 billion asset they probably didn't know they had. And you want them to give them away to companies, corporations, private citizens and whatnot for free?
Forgive me for being ignorant (networking has never been my strong point); what exactly does setting up a DNS for home use entail?
As an aside, I don't think DNS will solve all of the GP's complaints. Calculating masks in your head will still be a more difficult task, and typing them into systems will still be necessary (even if only when setting up the DNS) and will still be that much more awkward. In some ways, DNS will be like the NAT of the IPv6 world- a completely necessary, and really useful, but nonetheless pain-in-the-ass fix for something that really does need fixing.
Considering the iPhone 4 can be had for free now plus the iPhone has been available on prepaid for years, you could buy an older does-not-support the latest iOS iPhone pretty cheap now unlocked on Craigslist and avoid even the required Data Plan stupidity. If you can't afford one now you probably have things you should be focusing your money on instead (like food).
The iPhone 4 is not, and never will be, available for free. Paying for something in monthly instalments ("zero up-front!") does not make something free. Otherwise the world would be full of "free sofas" and "free cars", and a credit card would be a passport to a world of "free everything".
The iPhone 4 is an expensive piece of kit to manufacture. The manufacturer is one of the most profitable companies on Earth. The carriers are all wildly profitable too. You are paying them for that expensive kit somehow, whether it's pay now or pay later.
Or to put it more straight-forwardly- compare the monthly cost of a "free" iPhone 4 and a "free" feature phone. Notice a difference in the monthly cost between those two "free" phones?
You're pretty well paid. If you applied that logic to everything in your life, you'd struggle to get much done. "Making a coffee takes 10 minutes, which is $20 of my time. Coffee from a shop costs less than $20, so I better not make myself a coffee- it'd be a waste of my time!".
No wonder really rich people need to pay servants to do things for them; their own self-worth must be crippling.
I use it regularly on my netbook, and I like it well enough for that. I still resort to XFCE on my desktop (via Xubuntu), but in the small screen environment Unity is perfectly usable. I've even grown to like one or two of its features.
It was pretty damned unusable in its first release, but that's not the case any more. If you find the current version "unusable" then you're far too sensitive.
What's your alternative "solution"...just throw your hands up in the air and die? Good luck with that evolutionary "strategy."
The alternative solution would be to try to keep everyone (including your neighbours) well fed. The attitude "I'm OK, so who cares about anyone else?" is the one that will lead you to be on the wrong side of a siege situation. Working with your community to ensure all of you are prepared would be a better alternative. Dealing with the actual problem to prevent mass starvation in your country would be tippity top.
"I don't care if America is struck by serious famine- I have a decade's worth of freeze dried food in my basement. Sucks to be anyone who doesn't!". That is not going to turn out well for anyone.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. Do people really think like this? Terrifying.
Starvation is an illness, malnutrition caused by lack of the basics humans need to survive. Calling it a "lust for profit" is as ridiculous as calling cancer a "natural lust for profit" (in the form of chemotherapy). Or calling suffocation the "lust for profit" (in the form of air).
Honestly, and people wonder why right-wingers have a reputation for being soulless and evil.
Uh, there's no "South" in the official name "Republic of Korea" either.
This is not a unique case. Recall the Republic of Vietnam ("South Vietnam"), the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany"), and the Arab Republic of Yemen ("Yemen") which existed as U.S ally/clients in opposition to the Soviet ally/clients, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ("North Vietnam"), the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany") and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ("South Yemen"). In each of the above cases, one absorbed the other.
An interesting recent example is the case of South Sudan and Sudan (which is in the North)- one with a location modifier, one without. Another asymmetric classic is Ireland and Northern Ireland (the latter being a part of the UK). The Ireland example is another case of ownership claims- the UK doesn't claim any part of Ireland outside of Northern Ireland (hence the "northern" qualifier), while Ireland considers itself the republic for the whole of Ireland, not just the southern two thirds.
... and the Democratic Republic of North Korea, spring to mind.
To be precise, the country is called the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. That's a bonus second "aren't we nice" adjective (for extra craziness multiplier), and no North (because they maintain that the South is rightfully theirs too).
Hahaha. It's the Daily Mail- they don't need a motive to make shit up, it's second nature!
But if you want a motive, try- the pictures weren't dramatic enough, the real world colouration being not that drastic, and they really want their article to be linked all over the internet so that they get more page views?
Probably a depressingly large number. There are plenty of right wing extremist groups in the UK (BNP, NF, EDL, etc.), and I'm sure in the rest of the world, who might not have been entirely comfortable with a massacre of children at a summer camp, but sympathise with his motives. They invariably use their "Christian" identity as one of their defining features.
They'll still be only a tiny fraction of Christians as a whole, but on a simple count are a significant number people.
Fair enough. But- I can buy a USB connecting gamepad from Amazon from £10, an arcade stick from £30, a flight-sim style joystick from £15, and a racing wheel and pedals set up for £35.
These are all available now. They're not going to replace the keyboard and mouse on any computer, but they're there for anyu gamer that wants to buy them. Will Valve's new "innovative" controller beat any of these at their niche?
It's obviously true that each game has it's own preferred controller style. A new controller is never going to be able to cater to all of them, and it's not clear whether any of those niche's is lacking in "controller innovation".
No argument from me. My wife is a teacher, and she has a 1st class degree from a top university- her uni colleagues are on 2 or 3 times what she's on, most of them with lower class degrees.
I chose £22k as it's around (from memory) the UK average wage across the board. Coincidentally, it's also the starting salary for a teacher on the main pay scale (which most schools are no-longer bound to, incidentally- thanks Tories!).
I'm not saying teachers are paid too much; the opposite really. What I was really saying was that if you want teachers to work more hours, you'll need to pay them proportionally more money; and that that sum is significant when weighing up whether to go into this scheme.
If you want teachers to work an extra month a year, it's reasonable to assume that you'll be paying them more. Teachers aren't cheap- assuming they're paid an average wage of about £22,000, and assuming you need to pay them 10% more, that's an extra £2k per teacher. If a school employs 15 teachers, that's an extra £30k a year- the equivalent of employing a whole extra teacher with money to spare.
Maintenance costs? My wife is a teacher. At her school, during the summer holidays, the school has it's doors locked for 4 out of the 6 weeks. The sole maintenance staffer (the caretaker/janitor) is employed full time all year round, including throughout the summer. How would you save money by having kids in for extra time? How would you save £30k a year, to counteract the extra pay for teachers?
If you use half a dozen programmes at once, the way the OS handles the following things will matter to you- finding the application, launching the application, switching between the applications, displaying content from multiple applications on screen at once.
Ironically, it is precisely that cluster of functions that Win8 has decided to screw with. Up until now, MS (excluding Bob) has kept that relatively sacred.
If the band hasn't released it as a single, then you don't buy the song. I mean honestly, it's like saying "what if I only want to buy one chapter of a book" or "one scene of a film". You can't- you buy it as sold, or you don't buy it.
The license says that your music is "non-transferable". Amazon is the same, and so are all the other big names. Although you can copy-paste the files to wherever and whoever you wish, you will be doing so "illegally"; you can give the files to your daughter, but if the RIAA ever get a peek at her hard-drive she'll be hauled in front of a court for copyright "piracy".
The license says that your music is "non-transferable". Amazon is the same, and so are all the other big names. Although you can copy-paste the files to wherever and whoever you wish, you will be doing so "illegally"; you can give the files to your daughter, but if the RIAA ever get a peek at her hard-drive she'll be hauled in front of a court for copyright "piracy".
I'd call that "DRM". Not technical DRM, but legal DRM.
If the music were DRM free, Bruce Willis would just be able to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V it onto his daughters' hard drives. I don't use iTunes so I couldn't tell you, but I'm presuming that, due to Bruce Willis intending to sue Apple as per TFA, this is not the case. Presumably it is either technically not possible, or legally forbidden. Both of which would qualify as DRM.
...which also gets rid of any methanol if it happened to be present (it wouldn't be when your fermentation was any good).
Speaking from experience- there's always methanol (or something similar) in my home-brew wines. It's unavoidable unless you've got climate controlled environments, etc. It doesn't matter if you drink it sensibly (my last batch was about 15% vol, so you wouldn't normally drink too much of it). If you drink it non-sensibly, you'll be in a world of hurt though.
Hopefully (I've not checked) they're patenting a method of doing so, not just the woolly concept of "do it". That's the actual idea of patents, and why the Apple design patents are so daft. Anyone can say "I'm patenting thin rectangular devices" without having any designs that actually do so. But if I try to patent "a device for heating water to boiling point", I'd be expected to actually include the specific design for my kettle.
If Google have genuinely come up with a new, reliable way of doing something that "experts in the field" have been trying to do for years without success, that's a genuinely important invention. The sort the patent system is actually designed to reward.
... than a company with a reparation to not share any collected information about anything to anyone, no matter what the price?
Apple? You know they operate (as a minority income) exactly the same business model as Google right? They're just not as successful at it, and far more successful with their other revenue streams.
By the same token, Google also have the Apple business model (sell devices and services for cash to customers), but they're just not as good as that bit as Apple.
I could already be in the background of a video with a million views and I wouldn't know it. If there were a way of identifying myself in YouTube videos, I'd be able to check them and get myself blurred/video removed if necessary.
Let's face it, the cat is already out of the bag in terms of the problem you state. There are already hundreds and hundreds of pictures of me on Facebook (not one of which I've uploaded) which I can do nothing about, and god knows how many more elsewhere on the net. The best I can do is refuse to let myself be tagged on Facebook (wither using the account option, or by not having a Facebook account) and hope for the best.
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sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
Or if you fancy something different:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main"
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Or...
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Honestly, it's not like you didn't have plenty of options besides "nuke it from orbit". The Kubuntu and Xubuntu communities in particular are pretty large and friendly.
Not that I'm saying you shouldn't vote with your feet if you feel strongly, and there's certainly nothing wrong with Fedora. But seriously, with the work involved in switching "your whole family" to a new OS, I might have considered something less extreme for the sake of a desktop environment.
Screw that. My government (that is to say- the taxpayer, i.e., me) owns a £1 billion asset they probably didn't know they had. And you want them to give them away to companies, corporations, private citizens and whatnot for free?
Forgive me for being ignorant (networking has never been my strong point); what exactly does setting up a DNS for home use entail?
As an aside, I don't think DNS will solve all of the GP's complaints. Calculating masks in your head will still be a more difficult task, and typing them into systems will still be necessary (even if only when setting up the DNS) and will still be that much more awkward. In some ways, DNS will be like the NAT of the IPv6 world- a completely necessary, and really useful, but nonetheless pain-in-the-ass fix for something that really does need fixing.
Considering the iPhone 4 can be had for free now plus the iPhone has been available on prepaid for years, you could buy an older does-not-support the latest iOS iPhone pretty cheap now unlocked on Craigslist and avoid even the required Data Plan stupidity. If you can't afford one now you probably have things you should be focusing your money on instead (like food).
The iPhone 4 is not, and never will be, available for free. Paying for something in monthly instalments ("zero up-front!") does not make something free. Otherwise the world would be full of "free sofas" and "free cars", and a credit card would be a passport to a world of "free everything".
The iPhone 4 is an expensive piece of kit to manufacture. The manufacturer is one of the most profitable companies on Earth. The carriers are all wildly profitable too. You are paying them for that expensive kit somehow, whether it's pay now or pay later.
Or to put it more straight-forwardly- compare the monthly cost of a "free" iPhone 4 and a "free" feature phone. Notice a difference in the monthly cost between those two "free" phones?
You're pretty well paid. If you applied that logic to everything in your life, you'd struggle to get much done. "Making a coffee takes 10 minutes, which is $20 of my time. Coffee from a shop costs less than $20, so I better not make myself a coffee- it'd be a waste of my time!".
No wonder really rich people need to pay servants to do things for them; their own self-worth must be crippling.
I use it regularly on my netbook, and I like it well enough for that. I still resort to XFCE on my desktop (via Xubuntu), but in the small screen environment Unity is perfectly usable. I've even grown to like one or two of its features.
It was pretty damned unusable in its first release, but that's not the case any more. If you find the current version "unusable" then you're far too sensitive.
A football pitch is roughly one acre. Which is still not SI, but is one furlong by one chain if that helps.
What's your alternative "solution"...just throw your hands up in the air and die? Good luck with that evolutionary "strategy."
The alternative solution would be to try to keep everyone (including your neighbours) well fed. The attitude "I'm OK, so who cares about anyone else?" is the one that will lead you to be on the wrong side of a siege situation. Working with your community to ensure all of you are prepared would be a better alternative. Dealing with the actual problem to prevent mass starvation in your country would be tippity top.
"I don't care if America is struck by serious famine- I have a decade's worth of freeze dried food in my basement. Sucks to be anyone who doesn't!". That is not going to turn out well for anyone.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. Do people really think like this? Terrifying.
Starvation is an illness, malnutrition caused by lack of the basics humans need to survive. Calling it a "lust for profit" is as ridiculous as calling cancer a "natural lust for profit" (in the form of chemotherapy). Or calling suffocation the "lust for profit" (in the form of air).
Honestly, and people wonder why right-wingers have a reputation for being soulless and evil.
Uh, there's no "South" in the official name "Republic of Korea" either.
This is not a unique case. Recall the Republic of Vietnam ("South Vietnam"), the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany"), and the Arab Republic of Yemen ("Yemen") which existed as U.S ally/clients in opposition to the Soviet ally/clients, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ("North Vietnam"), the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany") and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ("South Yemen"). In each of the above cases, one absorbed the other.
An interesting recent example is the case of South Sudan and Sudan (which is in the North)- one with a location modifier, one without. Another asymmetric classic is Ireland and Northern Ireland (the latter being a part of the UK). The Ireland example is another case of ownership claims- the UK doesn't claim any part of Ireland outside of Northern Ireland (hence the "northern" qualifier), while Ireland considers itself the republic for the whole of Ireland, not just the southern two thirds.
... and the Democratic Republic of North Korea, spring to mind.
To be precise, the country is called the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. That's a bonus second "aren't we nice" adjective (for extra craziness multiplier), and no North (because they maintain that the South is rightfully theirs too).
Hahaha. It's the Daily Mail- they don't need a motive to make shit up, it's second nature!
But if you want a motive, try- the pictures weren't dramatic enough, the real world colouration being not that drastic, and they really want their article to be linked all over the internet so that they get more page views?
Probably a depressingly large number. There are plenty of right wing extremist groups in the UK (BNP, NF, EDL, etc.), and I'm sure in the rest of the world, who might not have been entirely comfortable with a massacre of children at a summer camp, but sympathise with his motives. They invariably use their "Christian" identity as one of their defining features.
They'll still be only a tiny fraction of Christians as a whole, but on a simple count are a significant number people.
Fair enough. But- I can buy a USB connecting gamepad from Amazon from £10, an arcade stick from £30, a flight-sim style joystick from £15, and a racing wheel and pedals set up for £35.
These are all available now. They're not going to replace the keyboard and mouse on any computer, but they're there for anyu gamer that wants to buy them. Will Valve's new "innovative" controller beat any of these at their niche?
It's obviously true that each game has it's own preferred controller style. A new controller is never going to be able to cater to all of them, and it's not clear whether any of those niche's is lacking in "controller innovation".
No argument from me. My wife is a teacher, and she has a 1st class degree from a top university- her uni colleagues are on 2 or 3 times what she's on, most of them with lower class degrees.
I chose £22k as it's around (from memory) the UK average wage across the board. Coincidentally, it's also the starting salary for a teacher on the main pay scale (which most schools are no-longer bound to, incidentally- thanks Tories!).
I'm not saying teachers are paid too much; the opposite really. What I was really saying was that if you want teachers to work more hours, you'll need to pay them proportionally more money; and that that sum is significant when weighing up whether to go into this scheme.
Link please- I'm sceptical.
If you want teachers to work an extra month a year, it's reasonable to assume that you'll be paying them more. Teachers aren't cheap- assuming they're paid an average wage of about £22,000, and assuming you need to pay them 10% more, that's an extra £2k per teacher. If a school employs 15 teachers, that's an extra £30k a year- the equivalent of employing a whole extra teacher with money to spare.
Maintenance costs? My wife is a teacher. At her school, during the summer holidays, the school has it's doors locked for 4 out of the 6 weeks. The sole maintenance staffer (the caretaker/janitor) is employed full time all year round, including throughout the summer. How would you save money by having kids in for extra time? How would you save £30k a year, to counteract the extra pay for teachers?
If you use half a dozen programmes at once, the way the OS handles the following things will matter to you- finding the application, launching the application, switching between the applications, displaying content from multiple applications on screen at once.
Ironically, it is precisely that cluster of functions that Win8 has decided to screw with. Up until now, MS (excluding Bob) has kept that relatively sacred.
Then you buy the single.
If the band hasn't released it as a single, then you don't buy the song. I mean honestly, it's like saying "what if I only want to buy one chapter of a book" or "one scene of a film". You can't- you buy it as sold, or you don't buy it.
The license says that your music is "non-transferable". Amazon is the same, and so are all the other big names. Although you can copy-paste the files to wherever and whoever you wish, you will be doing so "illegally"; you can give the files to your daughter, but if the RIAA ever get a peek at her hard-drive she'll be hauled in front of a court for copyright "piracy".
The license says that your music is "non-transferable". Amazon is the same, and so are all the other big names. Although you can copy-paste the files to wherever and whoever you wish, you will be doing so "illegally"; you can give the files to your daughter, but if the RIAA ever get a peek at her hard-drive she'll be hauled in front of a court for copyright "piracy".
I'd call that "DRM". Not technical DRM, but legal DRM.
If the music were DRM free, Bruce Willis would just be able to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V it onto his daughters' hard drives. I don't use iTunes so I couldn't tell you, but I'm presuming that, due to Bruce Willis intending to sue Apple as per TFA, this is not the case. Presumably it is either technically not possible, or legally forbidden. Both of which would qualify as DRM.
...which also gets rid of any methanol if it happened to be present (it wouldn't be when your fermentation was any good).
Speaking from experience- there's always methanol (or something similar) in my home-brew wines. It's unavoidable unless you've got climate controlled environments, etc. It doesn't matter if you drink it sensibly (my last batch was about 15% vol, so you wouldn't normally drink too much of it). If you drink it non-sensibly, you'll be in a world of hurt though.
Hopefully (I've not checked) they're patenting a method of doing so, not just the woolly concept of "do it". That's the actual idea of patents, and why the Apple design patents are so daft. Anyone can say "I'm patenting thin rectangular devices" without having any designs that actually do so. But if I try to patent "a device for heating water to boiling point", I'd be expected to actually include the specific design for my kettle.
If Google have genuinely come up with a new, reliable way of doing something that "experts in the field" have been trying to do for years without success, that's a genuinely important invention. The sort the patent system is actually designed to reward.
... than a company with a reparation to not share any collected information about anything to anyone, no matter what the price?
Apple? You know they operate (as a minority income) exactly the same business model as Google right? They're just not as successful at it, and far more successful with their other revenue streams.
http://advertising.apple.com/
By the same token, Google also have the Apple business model (sell devices and services for cash to customers), but they're just not as good as that bit as Apple.
All companies are basically the same...
I could already be in the background of a video with a million views and I wouldn't know it. If there were a way of identifying myself in YouTube videos, I'd be able to check them and get myself blurred/video removed if necessary.
Let's face it, the cat is already out of the bag in terms of the problem you state. There are already hundreds and hundreds of pictures of me on Facebook (not one of which I've uploaded) which I can do nothing about, and god knows how many more elsewhere on the net. The best I can do is refuse to let myself be tagged on Facebook (wither using the account option, or by not having a Facebook account) and hope for the best.