no wonder america is the target of terrorism - they attack countries without evidence or justifiable reason (just make up the reasons afterwards - no problem! our people will swallow it!!), they overthrow democratically elected leaders, and now, they develop weapons in space.
and america wonders why it is so hated... the current american administration is like a petulant boys club with no accountability.
Installing Windows is extremely easy, and no major administration or configuration is necessary for a typical user.
grab a mandrake install CD or 2, a brand new pc, and insert disc. turn computer on. choose all the defaults. reboot. use computer. you'll need to know your ISP's ADSL number and DNS, and be able to enter an administrator (root) password at the appropriate time.
it's just the same, and as easy, as installing windows.
i've been using KDE3.2 built from source since the early alphas. even then it was rock-solid stable with just a few rough edges. once i knew all of the workarounds, i migrated my production/work environment up to 3.2 as well, for the cool/useful features. highly recommended upgrade.
Multiple desktops are gimmicky. I installed a program to allow me to use them on WinXP, but turned it off within a couple days.
don't know if you've ever actually tried linux, but multiple desktops on KDE/linux are the bomb -- i could not live without them. i recommend mandrake 8.1, give it a try.
MMB means middle-mouse button pasting - the deault behaviour in linux is to copy all selected text (by mouse dragging, cursor keys) into the clipboard, which can then be pasted anywhere by middle mouse clicking. very convenient and faster than Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V (although that works as well).
as for linux vulnerability, you should realise that linux, like all unices, was built with security being a top priority (since unix/linux servers still effectively run the majority of the net). window's top priority has always been ease of use, not security, hence its ongoing susceptability to viruses exploiting latent (and sometimes very stupid!) security holes (Blaster being a case in point).
BTW, a 1.5Mbit WiFi connection is a joke. 802.11b is 11Mbit and an 802.11g connection is 54Mbit. What are you using as an antenna? Aluminum foil shaped into the letters "Fool"?
my internet connection (ADSL) is 1.5Mbps, the wifi WAP is capable of 54Mbits/s. i thought that was obvious. my "joke" WiFi connection allows me to download from the internet at a typical rate of around 150Kbytes/sec, which i assure you, is no joke.
as for the relative virtues of sharing my link - i am not so paranoid as to think that everyone is a paedophile or l33t hax0r. maybe you're the sort of person who doesn't buy drinks for friends in case they drive under the influence and kill someone or lend people your cds for fear they'll copyright infringe and blame you as the source.
there is already case law that ISPs are not responsible for the content they transfer. i find it difficult to believe that one could be held accountable for supplying internet access that others might use for nefarous purposes. is the mail system indictable for mail fraud/crime? are the makers of the tcp/ip and http protocols indictable for internet fraud? am i indictable for fraud conducted over my home telephone by my flatmate? i don't think so.
Unfortunately, that line of thinking is flawed...or is it? Do the movies we see, the games we play, or the news we watch cause up to be more violent?
i don't think it's popular culture that leads to violence, per se, although i'm sure it desensitises people *to* violence (which, while obviously not as bad as doing it, is still kindof disturbing... take for instance the blanket coverage of the iraq war -- they may as well have had a scoreboard: us vs them).
as an aussie visiting the US, it struck me how paranoid and sensationalist the popular news/media were there compared to here... here, you get a news item as a fact, whereas in the US you'll have a panel of "experts" who basically provide the interpretation of the story for you (no thought required!) and more or less focus on the future catastrophic potential. it was really quite noticeable at the time, and after seeing Bowling for Columbine, i found myself nodding in agreement with his theory of the US being in the grip of fear as an explanation for the extraordinary number of gun-related deaths/injuries there. i found the US news way too sensationalist, and too zealous in pointing out the potential for future harm (and curiously uncritical of the government, but that is another story).
from what i know of the US political system and the NRA, it seems unlikely that the US will be curtailing its need for the population to have guns anytime soon, regardless of the statistics.
in the US of 1998, 100,000 people were shot, a third of these (>30,000) died from their wounds. a youth of 15-24 is 3 times more likely to be shot than the population at large. a household gun is 22 times more likely to shoot someone other than a burglar.
here in australia, where only the police (more or less) may have guns, we have on average, 4 gun-related deaths per year. the US has around 13 times our population, but has more than 30,000 gun-related deaths per year. some US schools have metal detectors for christ's sake...
yes i believe the US has a huge problem with its love of guns. why every person needs a gun in a modern, largely risk-free society is beyond me. statistics prove that guns only lead to more people getting shot, without decreasing violent crime.
no, i don't think the movies are indicative of modern-day america (i've been there!), although the typical hollywood depiction of US foreign policy is pretty much spot on.... can't wait to see Iraq, the movie... although i'm sure they'll actually have WMDs and have proven links to al quaeda in the movie version.
i think you have to have some faith in the basic goodness of your fellow man/women... otherwise society is on a downward spiral, where before you know it, it's as bad as the US, where everyone carries guns and assumes everyone is a clandestine terrorist and invades homes and countries on the preposition that they *might* be dangerous.
There is an old saying I'm gonna' paraphrase horribly: The US system is probably the worst system ever put into service...but it's still better than anything else out there.
actually, i think most people who aren't from the US would say it's just about the worst system there is -- on par with baghdad. oh wait...
seriously though, a society that can freely carry guns is always going to engender a police force that is 2 steps more violent and ready to kill - they don't want to get shot either.
here in australia you will never even see police with automatic weapons unless you have a guy on his front porch waving a knife around threatening people. i have never seen a cop here even draw their gun.
no offense, but mike moore was right -- the US is a society in the grip of a permanent fear/paranoia. it's rife throughout the US media.
i am already sharing my pr0n collection with all the other pervs in my apartment block. would be great to be able to pull out the lappie for a quick pr0n fix whilst held up in traffic.
i am already sharing my 1.5Mbps WiFi link to my apartment block for all to use... i have a 16Gb/month cap, and i never get anywhere near that, so as long as people using my connection don't whore like crazy, i don't mind. live and let live i say.
you know, i think you're spot on the money with this comment. i can program in several languages (though no functional languages i'll admit), in my 5 odd years of professional programming, i don't think there's a single language that one could say is uniformly good for all tasks. which is kindof surprising, since it is easy enough to envision that a language could be more-or-less extended/tweaked without limit by extension modules.
java could and *should* have been it, but as you say, some idiotic design decisions, the completely arbitrary limitation of java's expressiveness and featureset that makes it ever so dull and tedious to code in, and question marks over performance find it wanting as the real "nextgen" language.
c++ is fine, but its list of hacks and ugly/inconsistent syntax make it look dated. not surprising its still the no1 programming language though.
my ideal langiage would borrow the syntactic sugar and excellent core-language threading of java, the speed of c/c++, and the sheer expressiveness and mutability of perl and build it into something that looked at the end like python with braces and static typing;-)
we were schooled to believe that australia was, in addition to the largest island on earth, the least densely population nation on earth, which, according to this reference, would be about right, since the others aren't really ccountries by themselves.
by comparison, the US is about in the middle, world-wise.
the kde file selector does this, albeit sans the actual file name, but even that is but one tab away for existing files and not applicable for files one is about to save.
ever since KDE1, any kde app can read/write files in any app in a network-transparent manner, using not just ftp://, but also sftp://, smb://, http://, and several others -- just prefix the filename with the correct URL prefix and it just works.
try doing that in notepad, or even window explorer for that matter.
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actually it is far worse than that: the US speands more on weapons per year than the next top 20 countries combined. that is seriously fucked up.
...is more weapons right?
no wonder america is the target of terrorism - they attack countries without evidence or justifiable reason (just make up the reasons afterwards - no problem! our people will swallow it!!), they overthrow democratically elected leaders, and now, they develop weapons in space.
and america wonders why it is so hated... the current american administration is like a petulant boys club with no accountability.
The article is looking for suggestions and you offered nothing but arrogance.
well, if you're not clever enough to discern that the post was self-ironic (and therefore humourous), then you don't deserve a reply either.
anyone who regards starbucks/gloria jeans' coffee as decent doesn't deserve getting a reply.
QED.
Installing Windows is extremely easy, and no major administration or configuration is necessary for a typical user.
grab a mandrake install CD or 2, a brand new pc, and insert disc. turn computer on. choose all the defaults. reboot. use computer. you'll need to know your ISP's ADSL number and DNS, and be able to enter an administrator (root) password at the appropriate time.
it's just the same, and as easy, as installing windows.
oh come on... this is a blatent XXX is dying troll.
to those who modded this up, you deserve to be shot.
man, you are smoking serious crack. the european market is bigger than the whole of the US in terms of total $$$ to spend and population.
i've been using KDE3.2 built from source since the early alphas. even then it was rock-solid stable with just a few rough edges. once i knew all of the workarounds, i migrated my production/work environment up to 3.2 as well, for the cool/useful features. highly recommended upgrade.
Multiple desktops are gimmicky. I installed a program to allow me to use them on WinXP, but turned it off within a couple days.
don't know if you've ever actually tried linux, but multiple desktops on KDE/linux are the bomb -- i could not live without them. i recommend mandrake 8.1, give it a try.
MMB means middle-mouse button pasting - the deault behaviour in linux is to copy all selected text (by mouse dragging, cursor keys) into the clipboard, which can then be pasted anywhere by middle mouse clicking. very convenient and faster than Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V (although that works as well).
as for linux vulnerability, you should realise that linux, like all unices, was built with security being a top priority (since unix/linux servers still effectively run the majority of the net). window's top priority has always been ease of use, not security, hence its ongoing susceptability to viruses exploiting latent (and sometimes very stupid!) security holes (Blaster being a case in point).
what's the difference?
you are a majorly fucked up society.
when you have to have metal detectors at schools you are in a majorly fucked up society. something to think about.
Australia's mascot, the little teddy bear guy, seems to be clinging to that tree for all he's worth!
that's because he's completely stoned on eucalyptus leaves.
BTW, a 1.5Mbit WiFi connection is a joke. 802.11b is 11Mbit and an 802.11g connection is 54Mbit. What are you using as an antenna? Aluminum foil shaped into the letters "Fool"?
my internet connection (ADSL) is 1.5Mbps, the wifi WAP is capable of 54Mbits/s. i thought that was obvious. my "joke" WiFi connection allows me to download from the internet at a typical rate of around 150Kbytes/sec, which i assure you, is no joke.
as for the relative virtues of sharing my link - i am not so paranoid as to think that everyone is a paedophile or l33t hax0r. maybe you're the sort of person who doesn't buy drinks for friends in case they drive under the influence and kill someone or lend people your cds for fear they'll copyright infringe and blame you as the source.
there is already case law that ISPs are not responsible for the content they transfer. i find it difficult to believe that one could be held accountable for supplying internet access that others might use for nefarous purposes. is the mail system indictable for mail fraud/crime? are the makers of the tcp/ip and http protocols indictable for internet fraud? am i indictable for fraud conducted over my home telephone by my flatmate? i don't think so.
Unfortunately, that line of thinking is flawed...or is it? Do the movies we see, the games we play, or the news we watch cause up to be more violent?
i don't think it's popular culture that leads to violence, per se, although i'm sure it desensitises people *to* violence (which, while obviously not as bad as doing it, is still kindof disturbing... take for instance the blanket coverage of the iraq war -- they may as well have had a scoreboard: us vs them).
as an aussie visiting the US, it struck me how paranoid and sensationalist the popular news/media were there compared to here... here, you get a news item as a fact, whereas in the US you'll have a panel of "experts" who basically provide the interpretation of the story for you (no thought required!) and more or less focus on the future catastrophic potential. it was really quite noticeable at the time, and after seeing Bowling for Columbine, i found myself nodding in agreement with his theory of the US being in the grip of fear as an explanation for the extraordinary number of gun-related deaths/injuries there. i found the US news way too sensationalist, and too zealous in pointing out the potential for future harm (and curiously uncritical of the government, but that is another story).
from what i know of the US political system and the NRA, it seems unlikely that the US will be curtailing its need for the population to have guns anytime soon, regardless of the statistics.
btw, i nearly wet myself from reading one of your recent posts. classic...
au contraire... maybe you're not familiar with the statistics...
in the US of 1998, 100,000 people were shot, a third of these (>30,000) died from their wounds. a youth of 15-24 is 3 times more likely to be shot than the population at large. a household gun is 22 times more likely to shoot someone other than a burglar.
here in australia, where only the police (more or less) may have guns, we have on average, 4 gun-related deaths per year. the US has around 13 times our population, but has more than 30,000 gun-related deaths per year. some US schools have metal detectors for christ's sake...
yes i believe the US has a huge problem with its love of guns. why every person needs a gun in a modern, largely risk-free society is beyond me. statistics prove that guns only lead to more people getting shot, without decreasing violent crime.
no, i don't think the movies are indicative of modern-day america (i've been there!), although the typical hollywood depiction of US foreign policy is pretty much spot on.... can't wait to see Iraq, the movie... although i'm sure they'll actually have WMDs and have proven links to al quaeda in the movie version.
cheers.
i think you have to have some faith in the basic goodness of your fellow man/women... otherwise society is on a downward spiral, where before you know it, it's as bad as the US, where everyone carries guns and assumes everyone is a clandestine terrorist and invades homes and countries on the preposition that they *might* be dangerous.
There is an old saying I'm gonna' paraphrase horribly: The US system is probably the worst system ever put into service...but it's still better than anything else out there.
actually, i think most people who aren't from the US would say it's just about the worst system there is -- on par with baghdad. oh wait...
seriously though, a society that can freely carry guns is always going to engender a police force that is 2 steps more violent and ready to kill - they don't want to get shot either.
here in australia you will never even see police with automatic weapons unless you have a guy on his front porch waving a knife around threatening people. i have never seen a cop here even draw their gun.
no offense, but mike moore was right -- the US is a society in the grip of a permanent fear/paranoia. it's rife throughout the US media.
i am already sharing my pr0n collection with all the other pervs in my apartment block. would be great to be able to pull out the lappie for a quick pr0n fix whilst held up in traffic.
i am already sharing my 1.5Mbps WiFi link to my apartment block for all to use... i have a 16Gb/month cap, and i never get anywhere near that, so as long as people using my connection don't whore like crazy, i don't mind. live and let live i say.
you know, i think you're spot on the money with this comment. i can program in several languages (though no functional languages i'll admit), in my 5 odd years of professional programming, i don't think there's a single language that one could say is uniformly good for all tasks. which is kindof surprising, since it is easy enough to envision that a language could be more-or-less extended/tweaked without limit by extension modules.
;-)
java could and *should* have been it, but as you say, some idiotic design decisions, the completely arbitrary limitation of java's expressiveness and featureset that makes it ever so dull and tedious to code in, and question marks over performance find it wanting as the real "nextgen" language.
c++ is fine, but its list of hacks and ugly/inconsistent syntax make it look dated. not surprising its still the no1 programming language though.
my ideal langiage would borrow the syntactic sugar and excellent core-language threading of java, the speed of c/c++, and the sheer expressiveness and mutability of perl and build it into something that looked at the end like python with braces and static typing
i think your grammar sucks.
you're -- abbreviation of "you are".
your -- 2nd person possessive adjective
we were schooled to believe that australia was, in addition to the largest island on earth, the least densely population nation on earth, which, according to this reference, would be about right, since the others aren't really ccountries by themselves.
by comparison, the US is about in the middle, world-wise.
you can already do this somewhat with KDE -- try this:
/home/my_home/pictures/*.png
...to get all png files. or surf to that directory, hit ctrl-t to bring up a terminal there and enter your 'find . -name ...'.
i'd say that's 50% of your request fulfilled, don't you reckon?
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use KDE; # it's awesome!
the kde file selector does this, albeit sans the actual file name, but even that is but one tab away for existing files and not applicable for files one is about to save.
KDE1 did true network transparency first.
ever since KDE1, any kde app can read/write files in any app in a network-transparent manner, using not just ftp://, but also sftp://, smb://, http://, and several others -- just prefix the filename with the correct URL prefix and it just works.
try doing that in notepad, or even window explorer for that matter.