My experience with ARCH linux has not included what you describe. My monitors are different size/resolution/refresh rate/manufacturer. I figure I should counter your anecdote with one of my own, just in case someone is about to make a decision based on your 1 experience.
While GNOME so far has sucked it up with dual monitors (assuming at startup that both monitors are the same resolution), Linux as such has no problems, and neither does X. I just put my monitor-setting-up xrandr command into a script and assign it run after X starts up and viola. xrandr is so simple, that if you don't like it, just unplug your keyboard you pansy mouse lover. Avoiding the terminal in a *NIX is like going to an amusement park and avoiding all the rides. If you're here to play the quarter toss, we appreciate your patronage but you're not our target demographic.
Also, to correct your last assumption, X was made for just the opposite. It was made for big fat servers to compute the programs, and have your dumb graphical terminal render the GUI.
That's the word of the times. Even though with these policies we still had V-Tech, and other school shootings. It's all security theater to make the ignorant, distracted parents feel like their kids are safe. They'd rather hear terms like "zero-tolerance" than "after investigation that sarcastic remark made to your child was just that, sarcastic and hollow with no intention of following through with the threat."
When your XP was done "booting" did you have all your services started? Or did windows just look like it was done booting?
Loaded from HD is about twice as much, and considering the new technology of a recently released GNU/Linux OS vs a 6-7 yr old OS. Again, was windows done loading its services or just look done?
IIRC Linux's process model creates processes very efficiently while Windows creates threads very efficiently. So that can explain the processes counts.
Ram is about the same.
And the HD Footprint is interesting, but depending on the XP varient you're using, there could be a lot of programs offering functionality you'd have to `apt-get` for.
So in the end I have to agree with you Windows XP vs Ubuntu is a fairly even match for resources. But can you scale down Window XP to have only the functionality you need, thus taking up minimal resources? I can with Linux, and that's the point. Just because you found the most bloated made-for-everyone OS using Linux, doesn't mean all of Linux requires you to.
Just make "visited" only apply within that domain, like a bastardized cookie. I don't care that us.gov knows which other us.gov links I've been to, but I don't want my browser reporting that I've also been to al-quada.org.
Ya know what? Maybe, just maybe, streaming real-time video of for-profit television programs just isn't something that our current incarnation of an Internet should be doing.
You want to watch on the computer? Just download the programs you want to watch while at work at a rate that doesn't over-burden our infrastructure, then when you come home it's there. I guess after all these problems that are apparently happening b/c we're streaming video, transferring TERRABYTES of just temporary data, maybe we should evaluate if this is something worth doing?
All this means that if your art can be reproduced, it will. Be fucking excited that people regard your creative endeavors worth reproducing. This doesn't mean people won't pay for some of it. It just means that people won't go through hoops and gatekeepers for it.
This reproduction opens your exposure to a MUCH MUCH wider audience. You may lose some paying consumers as they never really wanted to pay the price, but buying your CD was just the easiest way to get your art. Now it isn't. However, people may be willing to 'donate' the $9.99 they would have paid in a store to those who produced such art.
This new distribution network for information is probably one of the biggest technological jumps in producing as it gives everyone who has an IP address the ability to distribute w/e it is they create. From tweeting to personal scientific research, everyone has the capacity to be a producer. This leads to tons of new competition against big-media, and as has been shown people will produce for nothing more than a few hits on their web site.
In summary, if you do art for a living, good luck. Everyone is creative, and now you have a bunch of competition lowering the value of what you produce.
Seriously? You sound like a Christian blaming <x> on God's plan, and well "you can't stop God's will". Our economy failing is an actual problem, our governments going bankrupt is an actual problem, feeling helpless and telling everyone else that "that's just how it has to happen" isn't going to solve anything.
Right, people just come out of the womb stabbing and biting everything in sight. Stop blaming shit on genetics just because it frees you of responsibility for your community. Worst case they have some testosterone production issue that makes them more aggressive, but even that doesn't make them rotten.
Putting some teenager into murderer/rapist/assault prison for smoking a particular plant is rotten. Having to leave children at home unsupervised because both parents must work just to get paid minimum wage and can't afford proper child care is rotten. Calling other people rotten to free yourself of any responsibility for what happens on this planet is rotten. Grow up.
Firefox does this with tabs between windows (at least in version 3.0.10), but not tabs to new window, or window added to existing window. Chrome does do it; however, as the article clearly states it's still a windows only browser. No clue about Safari, as I'm a poor college student who can't pay the apple tax.
So throwing everyone in jail for smoking such a substance is somehow better? That's the bigger reason for legalization, reducing the harm that this il-legalization has caused. There is real harm done to society for spending resources on seeking out, arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating users of marijuana rather than spending the equivalent amount to benefit society, like educating millions of its citizens.
Just to throw in a little rant to my argument. Marijuana is no different than alcohol in terms of it's use, "I'm stressed and I need to escape reality for a bit," so you gather some of your friends and alter your mind to not focus on your stress. Either in a bar or in a basement it makes little difference. So assuming the money spent on "The War on Drugs" was spent to fund higher education and/or health care, there would be less stress in people's lives, as they would be better prepared to find a job (healthier and smarter), and so the need to escape reality should decrease.
While I agree, it certainly doesn't mean we don't have issues that should be addressed.
All the benefits we have now allow more of us to be concerned for these other issues.
Even if you start out with an "interested party", they'll turn into an expressionless zombie before you've finished.
If they're interested, why exactly would they turn into an expressionless zombie? I'd argue that you've stopped communicating clearly and are likely just regurgitating what you heard or read on the topic without understanding it.
I would make the argument that a good developer must understand the tool-chain because otherwise the moment something goes wrong, they're shit out of luck. Is it so much to ask that developers understand how their source code turns into something their choice of CPU can execute?
Boohoo. The vein this parasite used to suck blood from has finally clotted. Seriously, cry me a river.
Everyone with an Internet IP address can now publish and distribute their own creative works on a global scale. And now that those people have distributed it in easy to use formats with a $0.00 charge that is how people want to consume their media. Be it movies, music, art, news, etc.
You can tell he's thrashing to convince you his snake oil can cure what ails ya, by the bad car analogy and use of scary words like "chaos". Guard rails? What he wants is more like closing exit ramps to competitor's stores. Chaos? We've never had chaos coupled with abundance.
In fact I'd argue that Open Source Software is what happens when chaos hits abundance. The chaos away from the restrictions of software vendors and an abundance of computing power, programming resources (documentation, compilers), and hobby developer time. The myth that choas means everyone turns into a gun-toting, kill anyone who gets in my way gangster is bullshit, unproven hogwash. If you would kill and steal if you had the chance, I'm guessing you'll find a legal way to do it now, and because it's "legal" no one can stop you. At least in chaos, if you start stealing my shit, or beating me or my friends, no matter how you do it, I can respond to defend myself and community.
If they do it, and it prevents 1 crime. You can expect the idea to get thrown around in any country where databases aren't immediate political suicide. Politicians love to spend money to "prevent crime"
Considering we (USA) want electronic health records, where are we going to store all these nice records? A database perhaps?... Slippery slope and all that.
But if it is valued, then why can't those that value it give something back in return?
Honestly, because they shouldn't need to provide an income stream for their children after they die, let alone grandchildren or further down the family tree. I would hope their children learn to get a job for themselves and provide for themselves.
Sure it's nice to amass as much money as you possibly can for as long as you can (even after death), but it's this selfish attitude that is and will continue to cause our economic system to collapse upon itself.We have a certain amount of money, so the more you have, the less I have, considering how the lower classes are growing, I think they need those couple cents in royalties to feed themselves or families, rather than buy your grandkids a new luxary car.
Oh, give me a break. It has little to do with working better and more to do with people not having to pay for stuff and little chance of getting caught or punished.
In terms of being locked into something like the Kindle, I sure as hell would not pay money for something where the terms of my purchases can be changed after they take my money.
And I find it a bit ironic you trust pirates of all people to deliver you a product free of root kits and trojans.
The people who copy content aren't the ones who add that crap, it's just another attack vector for malware authors to use. i.e. They find out what a popular download is, then create malware to masquerade as that download.
With as much pain as we're supposed to be in this economy, isn't there something better to spend this money on? I understand private individuals may spend their money however they damn well please, but setting up some "Old Man of the Mountain" scholarship just seems more appropriate.
Considering the country was founded by puritan prudes by relocating and/or killing it's previous inhabitants. It's actually a no-brainer.
Sex is a distraction from killing/stealing/cheating your way to the top. While being desensitized to violence can only help prepare you for when you have to kill/cheat/steal to reach your American dream.
Is patching a binary file on your computer in violation of the law? I seriously don't know. I know I'm not allowed to "copy" that binary, but is creating a derivative work for personal use illegal?
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My experience with ARCH linux has not included what you describe. My monitors are different size/resolution/refresh rate/manufacturer. I figure I should counter your anecdote with one of my own, just in case someone is about to make a decision based on your 1 experience.
While GNOME so far has sucked it up with dual monitors (assuming at startup that both monitors are the same resolution), Linux as such has no problems, and neither does X. I just put my monitor-setting-up xrandr command into a script and assign it run after X starts up and viola. xrandr is so simple, that if you don't like it, just unplug your keyboard you pansy mouse lover.
Avoiding the terminal in a *NIX is like going to an amusement park and avoiding all the rides. If you're here to play the quarter toss, we appreciate your patronage but you're not our target demographic.
Also, to correct your last assumption, X was made for just the opposite. It was made for big fat servers to compute the programs, and have your dumb graphical terminal render the GUI.
Zero-Tolerance.
That's the word of the times. Even though with these policies we still had V-Tech, and other school shootings. It's all security theater to make the ignorant, distracted parents feel like their kids are safe. They'd rather hear terms like "zero-tolerance" than "after investigation that sarcastic remark made to your child was just that, sarcastic and hollow with no intention of following through with the threat."
So in the end I have to agree with you Windows XP vs Ubuntu is a fairly even match for resources. But can you scale down Window XP to have only the functionality you need, thus taking up minimal resources? I can with Linux, and that's the point. Just because you found the most bloated made-for-everyone OS using Linux, doesn't mean all of Linux requires you to.
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Ubuntu != Linux
Just make "visited" only apply within that domain, like a bastardized cookie. I don't care that us.gov knows which other us.gov links I've been to, but I don't want my browser reporting that I've also been to al-quada.org.
Ya know what? Maybe, just maybe, streaming real-time video of for-profit television programs just isn't something that our current incarnation of an Internet should be doing.
You want to watch on the computer? Just download the programs you want to watch while at work at a rate that doesn't over-burden our infrastructure, then when you come home it's there. I guess after all these problems that are apparently happening b/c we're streaming video, transferring TERRABYTES of just temporary data, maybe we should evaluate if this is something worth doing?
All this means that if your art can be reproduced, it will. Be fucking excited that people regard your creative endeavors worth reproducing. This doesn't mean people won't pay for some of it. It just means that people won't go through hoops and gatekeepers for it.
This reproduction opens your exposure to a MUCH MUCH wider audience. You may lose some paying consumers as they never really wanted to pay the price, but buying your CD was just the easiest way to get your art. Now it isn't. However, people may be willing to 'donate' the $9.99 they would have paid in a store to those who produced such art.
This new distribution network for information is probably one of the biggest technological jumps in producing as it gives everyone who has an IP address the ability to distribute w/e it is they create. From tweeting to personal scientific research, everyone has the capacity to be a producer. This leads to tons of new competition against big-media, and as has been shown people will produce for nothing more than a few hits on their web site.
In summary, if you do art for a living, good luck. Everyone is creative, and now you have a bunch of competition lowering the value of what you produce.
you can't stop the free market
Seriously? You sound like a Christian blaming <x> on God's plan, and well "you can't stop God's will". Our economy failing is an actual problem, our governments going bankrupt is an actual problem, feeling helpless and telling everyone else that "that's just how it has to happen" isn't going to solve anything.
Right, people just come out of the womb stabbing and biting everything in sight. Stop blaming shit on genetics just because it frees you of responsibility for your community. Worst case they have some testosterone production issue that makes them more aggressive, but even that doesn't make them rotten.
Putting some teenager into murderer/rapist/assault prison for smoking a particular plant is rotten. Having to leave children at home unsupervised because both parents must work just to get paid minimum wage and can't afford proper child care is rotten. Calling other people rotten to free yourself of any responsibility for what happens on this planet is rotten. Grow up.
Firefox does this with tabs between windows (at least in version 3.0.10), but not tabs to new window, or window added to existing window. Chrome does do it; however, as the article clearly states it's still a windows only browser. No clue about Safari, as I'm a poor college student who can't pay the apple tax.
Assuming ISP's start have usage caps, who is going to seriously double pay for Internet content?
So throwing everyone in jail for smoking such a substance is somehow better? That's the bigger reason for legalization, reducing the harm that this il-legalization has caused. There is real harm done to society for spending resources on seeking out, arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating users of marijuana rather than spending the equivalent amount to benefit society, like educating millions of its citizens.
Just to throw in a little rant to my argument. Marijuana is no different than alcohol in terms of it's use, "I'm stressed and I need to escape reality for a bit," so you gather some of your friends and alter your mind to not focus on your stress. Either in a bar or in a basement it makes little difference. So assuming the money spent on "The War on Drugs" was spent to fund higher education and/or health care, there would be less stress in people's lives, as they would be better prepared to find a job (healthier and smarter), and so the need to escape reality should decrease.
While I agree, it certainly doesn't mean we don't have issues that should be addressed.
All the benefits we have now allow more of us to be concerned for these other issues.
"And think of all the unemployed newly released prisoners!"
/puke
Even if you start out with an "interested party", they'll turn into an expressionless zombie before you've finished.
If they're interested, why exactly would they turn into an expressionless zombie? I'd argue that you've stopped communicating clearly and are likely just regurgitating what you heard or read on the topic without understanding it.
I would make the argument that a good developer must understand the tool-chain because otherwise the moment something goes wrong, they're shit out of luck. Is it so much to ask that developers understand how their source code turns into something their choice of CPU can execute?
Boohoo. The vein this parasite used to suck blood from has finally clotted. Seriously, cry me a river.
Everyone with an Internet IP address can now publish and distribute their own creative works on a global scale. And now that those people have distributed it in easy to use formats with a $0.00 charge that is how people want to consume their media. Be it movies, music, art, news, etc.
You can tell he's thrashing to convince you his snake oil can cure what ails ya, by the bad car analogy and use of scary words like "chaos". Guard rails? What he wants is more like closing exit ramps to competitor's stores. Chaos? We've never had chaos coupled with abundance.
In fact I'd argue that Open Source Software is what happens when chaos hits abundance. The chaos away from the restrictions of software vendors and an abundance of computing power, programming resources (documentation, compilers), and hobby developer time. The myth that choas means everyone turns into a gun-toting, kill anyone who gets in my way gangster is bullshit, unproven hogwash. If you would kill and steal if you had the chance, I'm guessing you'll find a legal way to do it now, and because it's "legal" no one can stop you. At least in chaos, if you start stealing my shit, or beating me or my friends, no matter how you do it, I can respond to defend myself and community.
If they do it, and it prevents 1 crime. You can expect the idea to get thrown around in any country where databases aren't immediate political suicide. Politicians love to spend money to "prevent crime"
Considering we (USA) want electronic health records, where are we going to store all these nice records? A database perhaps? ... Slippery slope and all that.
But if it is valued, then why can't those that value it give something back in return?
Honestly, because they shouldn't need to provide an income stream for their children after they die, let alone grandchildren or further down the family tree. I would hope their children learn to get a job for themselves and provide for themselves.
Sure it's nice to amass as much money as you possibly can for as long as you can (even after death), but it's this selfish attitude that is and will continue to cause our economic system to collapse upon itself.We have a certain amount of money, so the more you have, the less I have, considering how the lower classes are growing, I think they need those couple cents in royalties to feed themselves or families, rather than buy your grandkids a new luxary car.
Oh, give me a break. It has little to do with working better and more to do with people not having to pay for stuff and little chance of getting caught or punished.
In terms of being locked into something like the Kindle, I sure as hell would not pay money for something where the terms of my purchases can be changed after they take my money.
And I find it a bit ironic you trust pirates of all people to deliver you a product free of root kits and trojans.
The people who copy content aren't the ones who add that crap, it's just another attack vector for malware authors to use. i.e. They find out what a popular download is, then create malware to masquerade as that download.
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With as much pain as we're supposed to be in this economy, isn't there something better to spend this money on? I understand private individuals may spend their money however they damn well please, but setting up some "Old Man of the Mountain" scholarship just seems more appropriate.
That's right. Of those that completed the study, there were no serious side effects.
Considering the country was founded by puritan prudes by relocating and/or killing it's previous inhabitants. It's actually a no-brainer.
Sex is a distraction from killing/stealing/cheating your way to the top. While being desensitized to violence can only help prepare you for when you have to kill/cheat/steal to reach your American dream.
Is patching a binary file on your computer in violation of the law? I seriously don't know. I know I'm not allowed to "copy" that binary, but is creating a derivative work for personal use illegal?