Linux From Scratch and Gentoo users > Ubuntu and Fedora users. When something breaks on your Linux system and you don't know how to fix it, guess which one you'd rather hear from? A LFS user, or someone who uses Ubuntu because he's scared of the command line? Yeah, that's what I thought. Pwnd.
I disagree. A LFS user or other advanced user may not fix things "the proper way". Just because you know a lot about Linux, doesn't mean that you've read what the distributions way is for doing something like setting up wireless. Sure, you may get it setup by tinkering directly iwconfig and some config files, but if you're not doing it the way the distribution expects, your changes may get clobbered pretty quickly.
I myself have been caught by this trap, where I moved to a different distribution and tried to do things the way I knew how, but then somebody told me on some forum later that I wasn't doing it the right way.
People who call themselves "I don't believe in intellectual property" and make that text link to the EFF obviously misunderstand the purpose of the EFF.
That's where you are wrong. i'm not sure how long you've been reading slashdot, but it used to be that many of the people that "made open source happen" would frequent it and get into discussions. Annoyingly enough those comments are somehow lost, but they were better discussions than what you have now. But I do agree with you, usually the discussions here are 100x better than say youtube comments.
I think what happens is that people get interested in the latest thing and we don't fill in all the gaps of knowledge in between. Its kinda like that whole thing with water being spun really fast. It seems like its something simple, but its just one of the gaps in knowledge that occur when people jump ahead to the latest thing. Its also probably why the U.S. has such large areas of nothing in between Illinois and California. Sure there are cities and such, but its not nearly as developed as say PA or OH are. Once gold was discovered in California, people stopped settling the middle states and jumped ahead to the end.
Everybody likes to think that its all been done, its all been said, but they haven't even tried.
Did you realize what you just said? You'll Google for a solution. Was that a joke, because honestly that's starting to be scary. Obviously Google has way too much power on the Internet.
This is starting to sound like that sports drink that is used for everything in the movie Idiocracy.
I'm sorry but your comment is not insightful, its ignorant of reality. There are many countries that control the ISPs in their country. Not every place is a democracy. And not all democracies are as free as things are here. Internet access is slower in many other countries and people there probably wouldn't notice if their access was a bit slower because of some kind of DNS filter.
Remember, there are over 200 countries and not all of them have as fast of access as the handful that do.
Over the past week I've seen people who probably don't even know what DNS is an acronym for talk about it on blogs, twitter, and other less techie places and a few have even mentioned it to me in conversations. This is what googlehype does.
And in general people have less options because they settle for crap instead complaining, organizing boycotts on monopolies or taking their money someplace else. I am sorry that you have no other choice for good internet access, that sucks.
I did say I sympathize with him. My wife is from Uzbekistan and I have some friends from other countries and who visit other countries, I know its hard. I'm not calling him specifically a fool, but I'm using strong wording because I'm hoping that people will read my warning so that they will understand that Google DNS is not a solution for security and privacy.
Then you are a fool. This is exactly what I mean by trusting your ISP. I sympathize with you and your situation (and I understand that it happens), but all your country has to do is implement some system that will change the UDP packets coming from Google DNS to change the answers, thus accomplishing the same censorship. The more people who use Google DNS, the more likely a country or ISP is to do this.
Its funny how the Google hype is driving so much talk about something like DNS, a service which probably 95% of non-tech people don't know exists. Most people wouldn't care about DNS normally, but since its Google it must be something to get excited about. I doubt really that any significant number of people will switch to using 8.8.8.8, but I worry that if they do, one of the the original goals for DNS will be lost. That its distributed.
Just ask yourself one question, if you don't trust your internet provider enough to do DNS correctly, should you trust them at all?
The biggest problem I have with multiple displays is when full screen games don't support it and end up half way off one of the screens. But that's getting better.
At least I don't have to deal with 3d and video only working on one of the screens. I just use nvidia twinview.
This is a per state thing. I can't remember what it is called exactly, but I remember reading in the driver's ed text when I was 16 that in several states (maybe half of them), it is at the officers discretion whether you are breaking the law when violating the posted speed limit (also based on road conditions) and in the other states, it is more strict. So this could be one explanation why you won't get a ticket in some states until you are going 5-10 over.
I remember when I was younger, my mom was given a ticket in Arizona for going 56 in a 55, which seemed ridiculous, but maybe Arizona is one of those states without the officer's discretion. I live in Indiana and I think its at the officer's discretion here. Officers can give you a ticket for going too fast based on road conditions too, but that might be everywhere.
Why was the parent comment marked down as troll when it is absolutely right? Copyright isn't the same as a patent. What he goes on to say is debatable, but it certainly isn't far from reality.
Are all college professors doing this? I think there are always in every generation going to be professors who don't want to put much effort into teaching classes. They are either there for doing research and thus don't care about learning or they aren't sure what they are doing there and just needed a job. There are a few annoying classes I took (in computer science even) where the professor would simply read from the book.
No it does not. People continue to misuse what it means in everything from daily speech to presentations, manager proposals and articles. The solution to everything nowadays is "Put it in the cloud", but few people really understand what they are saying when they say that.
Its just like most other buzzwords of the past 10 years. People here them and then think they are smart for repeating them to get what they want.
Google is starting to sound more and more like one of those advanced societies where everything is automated, but everybody forgets how everything works.
For reference, see: Logan's Run, STTNG: When the Bough Breaks, etc.
It's newer and less awful than vista. But it's still really NT with an updated interface and some new bits glued to the side.
So pretty much the same as any other OS upgrade. Nothing special.
Honestly, I'm expecting Windows 7 to fall on its face the same way Vista did. I think over the past 15 years people have become tired of buying new computers and the upgrade cycle has slowed down.
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Linux From Scratch and Gentoo users > Ubuntu and Fedora users. When something breaks on your Linux system and you don't know how to fix it, guess which one you'd rather hear from? A LFS user, or someone who uses Ubuntu because he's scared of the command line? Yeah, that's what I thought. Pwnd.
I disagree. A LFS user or other advanced user may not fix things "the proper way". Just because you know a lot about Linux, doesn't mean that you've read what the distributions way is for doing something like setting up wireless. Sure, you may get it setup by tinkering directly iwconfig and some config files, but if you're not doing it the way the distribution expects, your changes may get clobbered pretty quickly.
I myself have been caught by this trap, where I moved to a different distribution and tried to do things the way I knew how, but then somebody told me on some forum later that I wasn't doing it the right way.
People who call themselves "I don't believe in intellectual property" and make that text link to the EFF obviously misunderstand the purpose of the EFF.
That's where you are wrong. i'm not sure how long you've been reading slashdot, but it used to be that many of the people that "made open source happen" would frequent it and get into discussions. Annoyingly enough those comments are somehow lost, but they were better discussions than what you have now. But I do agree with you, usually the discussions here are 100x better than say youtube comments.
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I think what happens is that people get interested in the latest thing and we don't fill in all the gaps of knowledge in between. Its kinda like that whole
thing with water being spun really fast. It seems like its something simple, but its just one of the gaps in knowledge that occur when people jump ahead to the
latest thing. Its also probably why the U.S. has such large areas of nothing in between Illinois and California. Sure there are cities and such, but its not nearly as developed as say PA or OH are. Once gold was discovered in California, people stopped settling the middle states and jumped ahead to the end.
Everybody likes to think that its all been done, its all been said, but they haven't even tried.
Did you realize what you just said? You'll Google for a solution. Was that a joke, because honestly that's starting to be scary. Obviously Google has way too much power on the Internet.
This is starting to sound like that sports drink that is used for everything in the movie Idiocracy.
I'm sorry but your comment is not insightful, its ignorant of reality. There are many countries that control the ISPs in their country. Not every place is a democracy. And not all democracies are as free as things are here. Internet access is slower in many other countries and people there probably wouldn't notice if their access was a bit slower because of some kind of DNS filter.
Remember, there are over 200 countries and not all of them have as fast of access as the handful that do.
Over the past week I've seen people who probably don't even know what DNS is an acronym for talk about it on blogs, twitter, and other less techie places and a few have even mentioned it to me in conversations. This is what googlehype does.
And in general people have less options because they settle for crap instead complaining, organizing boycotts on monopolies or taking their money someplace else. I am sorry that you have no other choice for good internet access, that sucks.
I did say I sympathize with him. My wife is from Uzbekistan and I have some friends from other countries and who visit other countries, I know its hard. I'm not calling him specifically a fool, but I'm using strong wording because I'm hoping that people will read my warning so that they will understand that Google DNS is not a solution for security and privacy.
Then you are a fool. This is exactly what I mean by trusting your ISP. I sympathize with you and your situation (and I understand that it happens), but all your country has to do is implement some system that will change the UDP packets coming from Google DNS to change the answers, thus accomplishing the same censorship. The more people who use Google DNS, the more likely a country or ISP is to do this.
Its funny how the Google hype is driving so much talk about something like DNS, a service which probably 95% of non-tech people don't know exists. Most people
wouldn't care about DNS normally, but since its Google it must be something to get excited about. I doubt really that any significant number of people will
switch to using 8.8.8.8, but I worry that if they do, one of the the original goals for DNS will be lost. That its distributed.
Just ask yourself one question, if you don't trust your internet provider enough to do DNS correctly, should you trust them at all?
Yes and clearly Facebook isn't about "who do you know now", its about "who have you known through your whole life who can come back to haunt you".
The biggest problem I have with multiple displays is when full screen games don't support it and end up half way off one of the screens.
But that's getting better.
At least I don't have to deal with 3d and video only working on one of the screens. I just use nvidia twinview.
For once its a good thing that most folk don't know anything about DNS.
This is a per state thing. I can't remember what it is called exactly, but I remember reading in the driver's ed text when I was 16 that in several states (maybe half of them), it is at the officers discretion whether you are breaking the law when violating the posted speed limit (also based on road conditions) and in the other states, it is more strict. So this could be one explanation why you won't get a ticket in some states until you are going 5-10 over.
I remember when I was younger, my mom was given a ticket in Arizona for going 56 in a 55, which seemed ridiculous, but maybe Arizona is one of those states without the officer's discretion. I live in Indiana and I think its at the officer's discretion here. Officers can give you a ticket for going too fast based on road conditions too, but that might be everywhere.
Why was the parent comment marked down as troll when it is absolutely right? Copyright isn't the same as a patent. What he goes on to say is debatable, but it certainly isn't far from reality.
Are all college professors doing this? I think there are always in every generation going to be professors who don't want to put much effort into teaching classes. They are either there for doing research and thus don't care about learning or they aren't sure what they are doing there and just needed a job. There are a few annoying classes I took (in computer science even) where the professor would simply read from the book.
I would say that this doesn't really fall under the category of "stuff that matters".
The notion that China is NOT doing the things they are accused of in this story is utter and complete bullshit .
I'll second, third and fourth that. Either Wang Baodong is a complete idiot or he's just trying to cover things up.
Because Claudville sounds like Baudville. *shrugs*
It's got a very well-defined meaning:
No it does not. People continue to misuse what it means in everything from daily speech to presentations, manager proposals and articles. The solution to everything nowadays is "Put it in the cloud", but few people really understand what they are saying when they say that.
Its just like most other buzzwords of the past 10 years. People here them and then think they are smart for repeating them to get what they want.
The gaming industry has been trying to jump start the flight simulator market again.
Google is starting to sound more and more like one of those advanced societies where everything is automated, but everybody forgets how everything works.
For reference, see: Logan's Run, STTNG: When the Bough Breaks, etc.
It's newer and less awful than vista. But it's still really NT with an updated interface and some new bits glued to the side.
So pretty much the same as any other OS upgrade. Nothing special.
Honestly, I'm expecting Windows 7 to fall on its face the same way Vista did. I think over the past 15 years people have become tired of buying new computers and the upgrade cycle has slowed down.
Ok, but can we just drop protocol: then and not have the / between host and path? I don't want to type in slashes at all.
See what my point is now?