NO. It admits that I have hard drives, but as to actually letting me even access them not a hope in hell..... next start searching various forums for some ideas only to run across an annoying atitude of "you're a *nic noobie.. and this OS can do wonderful things but we are going to make it really hard for you to find out how to do it..... tough we only deal with experianced users". Eventually managed to get it to admit that there was info on my drives and actually what it was... but not allowed to access it... more searching and managed to access it.. then "Sorry but you have ntfs and not writing to it so tough"
You're comparing installing Vista alone with installing Ubuntu as dual boot. Of course dual boot is more difficult. What people are saying is that it's easy to install Ubuntu as the only operating system.
You could try comparing installing Vista onto a machine running Ubuntu with getting Ubuntu running on a machine with Vista. I think you'll quickly find which is easier...
As for the bad attitude from the Ubuntu forums, I've found them to be always extremely friendly to beginners. But I'm willing to be proven wrong: link to the threads where you received this attitude please.
Because the salaries would still be considerably less what we are being paid. We will always have "holier than thou" folks in the west, who will make it their life's mission to complain about "injustices of the world".
No, I've already explained this. No one is arguing that they should be paid the same as us. You're just setting up that tired old strawman again.
Fact remains that thanks to those factories, poverty has been going down.
No, thanks to well run factories, outside investment and, of course, local efforts, poverty has been going down. No one has a problem with those. Stop grouping them in with the sweatshops!
I don't care much for Nike, and you can't use them alone as proof that things are bad. Look at the overall situation.
I'm using Nike as proof that sweatshops exists. I specifically said that there are also well run factories. Things are bad while sweatshops exist. Or at the very least, they could be better.
It seems to me that usually it's the people in the WEST that are complaining, and not the workers themselves.
For the most part, you're right. Not many of the workers complain, because if they do they're fired. And their wife is fired, and their children. But some do.
To my knowledge, western companies pay on average three times better salary than local companies do.
Ahh...statistics can be very misleading. These sweatshops don't pay three times better salary. They pay terrible salaries. But since there are other Western companies that actually give decent pay and conditions that pushes up the average for "Western companies". And of course, some Westerners are actually employed out there, getting 100 times local salary, so that pushes the average up too. Not all Western companies are bad, but that doesn't mean there aren't any bad ones. It's the bad ones that are being complained about.
They are already doing that. The salaries are still very low when compared to ours, but they are still better than what local companies are paying.
No, they're not. They claim they are and they're lying (or at best, giving extremely misleading statistics like the above that makes it seem they're paying well).
If they paid decent wages and gave decent working conditions, then why on earth would anyone spend any time complaining about them? There is an article here about how Nike has undertaken to improve working conditions in its production facilities. An interesting criticism of why these improvements fail to go far enough is:
3rd Demand: Decent Wages
Nike has rejected demands that it ensures that Nike workers are paid a living wage--that is, a full time wage that would provide a small family with an adequate diet and housing and other basic necessities. Instead, the company has used statistics selectively and in a misleading fashion to give the false impression that wages currently paid to Nike workers are fair and adequate. Meanwhile those workers struggle to survive on wages that are barely enough to cover their individual needs, let alone those of their children.
Does that sound like "three times better salary" to you? There are genuine complaints about these places and companies will lie to protect their image. They should rightly be criticised for this behaviour.
IIRC, poverty in the world has been going down, mainly due to those western factories in developing countries. Of course their salaries are crap when compared to ours. But to them, the salaries are pretty darn good. And what would you like to do about those salaries? triple them? Increase them tenfold? You do realize that if you did that, you would be ruining them?
Of course everyone realises that! Instead of assuming that everyone who complains about these places is an idiot, you might consider that you've only heard the strawman statement of their argument.
The problem is that to them (the workers), the wages still aren't "pretty darn good". If they were, no-one would be complaining! (well, there are always a few nutters, but you know what I mean)
And before you ask why they choose to work there then, it's because they often have the following choices:
i) Work all the hours of the day for Nike (or whoever), for pretty crap wages, in terrible conditions, to get barely enough money to get you and your family enough to eat.
ii) Work all the hours of the day for someone else, for pretty crap wages, in terrible conditions to not get enough money to get you and your family enough to eat.
iii) Starve to death.
So, of course they choose option i), but these companies could easily pay them a good wage for the area and it would still be way less than what your average Westerner would require.
Hope this makes at least my position as a "complainer" a bit clearer. Note that I'm not talking about those who complain about losing their jobs (I really have no position on that), just why you'll still hear complaints about "sweat shops".
Although, obviously this password is saved somewhere, right? Any known security issues with having Windows remember the password in this manner?
Yes, if you use it to save the password to an admin account, any command can afterwards be run with those credentials without a password (see here for details).
Obviously, if you just using it to run as a more limited user, then it's not a big deal.
Well, I know you were just being funny but, lest anyone be mistaken, the physical size of a quantum leap is not the aspect that is being utilized in the metaphor. It is the direct change from one state to another without any intervening steps. You might consider it as opposed to an "evolutionary" technology which would be an improvement on previous work.
No, the time cube nonsense is quite on par with your anti-GM FUD. Both are a joke.
Really? What "anti-GM FUD" is that then? Care to give me an example? I've never said anything either positive or negative about GM foods.
You might consider taking a basic logic course, where you would learn that you cannot prove a negation. If you thing GM food will cause harm, it's up to you to prove it.
You might consider learning to read. As for your "logic"...yeah, after you've learned to read, take a more advanced course and then maybe you'll stop spouting childish oversimplifications.
It would, except that that is just a test, and not a food product.
Oh and they're testing it for fun are they? Obviously it's being tested because they're considering it "for use as an agricultural product".
Also, please provide peer reviewed studies showing that this would be of any concievable danger, even if it were.
Fuck off and provide them yourself you lazy wanker. You wanted a link showing fish genes in agricultural products. I provided it. You want any more, do it yourself.
Of course, you won't do this, because you're a loon, as evidenced by your sig.
No, I won't do that because anyone who can't spot that my.sig is there for amusement clearly has a single digit IQ. What use would a peer-reviewed paper be to a moron like you? You wouldn't be able to understand the "big words".
No one's complaining about anything, moron. I'm not making any judgement here at all about what is or is not proper behaviour.
"Moron"? Oooh, are we not a happy bunny my (previously) capsid-coated friend?
I'm simply saying that referring to the GPL as "viral" is not a bad analogy.
And I've pointed out that it is. You've yet to explain how it's a decent analogy you see. The fact that you must deliberately introduce the GPL code into your project seems to put a bit of a spanner in the works (this was the "your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to seek out and have intimate contact with people with colds" part of my analogy, in case you missed it).
Go pick a fight with someone who actually might disagree with you.
A fight? Were we fighting? I thought we were discussing analogies. Is this like a slow motion fight where there are hours between blows?
And quit being a prick.
Thank you for the advice. Here's some of mine. Stop taking everything so seriously, relax a little, see the lighter side of life. It's good for you! And you'll have more fun! And people will like you!
Thanks for the snarky reply. I am well aware that a non-GPL license for FFTW can be purchased from MIT. I was referring to people using the GPL version.
What? Why on earth would you choose the GPL licensed version if you didn't want to follow the GPL? That makes no sense.
Let me explain the analogy. If someone has a cold (if some code is licensed under that GPL), and they come into close contact with another person (the code is linked with some other code), then that other person also gets a cold (the other code is also now licensed under the GPL).
Ahh...I see. So you're referring to your practise of seeking out people with colds, deliberately coming into close contact with them, and then complaining when you have a cold too? That does make a little more sense than the transmogrification, to be honest, but I'm not sure that's the typical behaviour people exhibit around viruses.
Not a perfect analogy, but not bad. Feel free to propose a better one.
Hmm...tough one. Let's see: it's a bit like if you write a 10 million line application (you write a 10 million line application), you want to use FFTW in it (you want to use FFTW in it), so you acquire a copy of the software (you acquire a copy of the software), and you follow the terms of their license by giving them money (you follow the terms of the GPL by releasing your source).
How's that one?
Perhaps you should ease up on the crusading.
No way! I've got a big, shiny, high horse and I'm going to use it to plunder the East!
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If you decide to stick with Firefox, looks like you could really use the Session Manager extension (with the bonus you don't have to have a seperate undoclosetab as it keeps a list for you).
I cannot offer that program to outside organizations without also offering to make all 10 million lines of source available to them. "Viral" is not a bad description of this effect.
Really? Oh, is it like the time you caught a cold and your whole body turned into a giant rhinovirus for a week? Or is there some other similarity you're referring to?
Anyway, FFTW was a bad example. From their FAQ:
Question 1.4. What is this about non-free licenses? The non-free licenses are for companies that wish to use FFTW in their products but are unwilling to release their software under the GPL (which would require them to release source code and allow free redistribution). Such users can purchase an unlimited-use license from MIT. Contact us for more details.
really brings up a question that the linux world has been avoiding for at least 10 years, and that is the question of why so many ideosyncratic distributions exist
And the answer is: because they can. If I decide to put together my own distribution tomorrow, with all the startup scripts in/bin/registry and users' areas in/wherestuffis/username, then I can. And if you object...well, tough! I didn't ask your permission.
Sorry you had to wait 10 years to find this out. Seriously though, couldn't you work this out for yourself? Why did you think it was?
"there is no way to make a profit producing content" (if there were no IP at all)
I disagree. People are still going to buy books, cds and dvds...the difference would be that you'd have a choice of which company to buy it from, so they would be a lot cheaper.
And second, how is enforcement of regular property rights not equally "draconian"?
The difference I see is that if I have a car, and you take it from me, then I have lost a car. This is true whether there is a law against it or not. If, however, I buy some information from you and then give a copy to a friend, then it's only meaningful to say you've lost something if a law exists against my copying. If there's no law there, then you never had anything to lose in the first place. Does that make sense?
...indeed not. The first flash USB in North America was released by IBM in 2001, and was just 8MB. 64MB wasn't released until 2003. Never believe the "correction" of an AC;-)
Oddly enough, I saw a Segway in use on TV the other day. At the British Open (Golf) the steadicam operator was on a hands-free model. The players seemed quite impressed!
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This is pretty much confined to the South-East of England (perhaps into the Midlands? Not sure). It's certainly not in "most British dialects".
You could try comparing installing Vista onto a machine running Ubuntu with getting Ubuntu running on a machine with Vista. I think you'll quickly find which is easier...
As for the bad attitude from the Ubuntu forums, I've found them to be always extremely friendly to beginners. But I'm willing to be proven wrong: link to the threads where you received this attitude please.
No, thanks to well run factories, outside investment and, of course, local efforts, poverty has been going down. No one has a problem with those. Stop grouping them in with the sweatshops!
I'm using Nike as proof that sweatshops exists. I specifically said that there are also well run factories. Things are bad while sweatshops exist. Or at the very least, they could be better.
Ahh...statistics can be very misleading. These sweatshops don't pay three times better salary. They pay terrible salaries. But since there are other Western companies that actually give decent pay and conditions that pushes up the average for "Western companies". And of course, some Westerners are actually employed out there, getting 100 times local salary, so that pushes the average up too. Not all Western companies are bad, but that doesn't mean there aren't any bad ones. It's the bad ones that are being complained about.
No, they're not. They claim they are and they're lying (or at best, giving extremely misleading statistics like the above that makes it seem they're paying well).
If they paid decent wages and gave decent working conditions, then why on earth would anyone spend any time complaining about them? There is an article here about how Nike has undertaken to improve working conditions in its production facilities. An interesting criticism of why these improvements fail to go far enough is:
Does that sound like "three times better salary" to you? There are genuine complaints about these places and companies will lie to protect their image. They should rightly be criticised for this behaviour.
The problem is that to them (the workers), the wages still aren't "pretty darn good". If they were, no-one would be complaining! (well, there are always a few nutters, but you know what I mean)
And before you ask why they choose to work there then, it's because they often have the following choices:
i) Work all the hours of the day for Nike (or whoever), for pretty crap wages, in terrible conditions, to get barely enough money to get you and your family enough to eat.
ii) Work all the hours of the day for someone else, for pretty crap wages, in terrible conditions to not get enough money to get you and your family enough to eat.
iii) Starve to death.
So, of course they choose option i), but these companies could easily pay them a good wage for the area and it would still be way less than what your average Westerner would require.
Hope this makes at least my position as a "complainer" a bit clearer. Note that I'm not talking about those who complain about losing their jobs (I really have no position on that), just why you'll still hear complaints about "sweat shops".
Obviously, if you just using it to run as a more limited user, then it's not a big deal.
Well, I know you were just being funny but, lest anyone be mistaken, the physical size of a quantum leap is not the aspect that is being utilized in the metaphor. It is the direct change from one state to another without any intervening steps. You might consider it as opposed to an "evolutionary" technology which would be an improvement on previous work.
However, anyone using the phrase "evolutionary quantum leap" should, of course, be shot.
Did you try following the guide here?
Fair enough, but his point still remains: they're the English champions, not the British champions. There's isn't a British football league.
You might consider learning to read. As for your "logic"...yeah, after you've learned to read, take a more advanced course and then maybe you'll stop spouting childish oversimplifications.
I suspect you'll run out of disk space first! :-) Out of curiosity, what filesize and prime are you at now?
Fuck off and provide them yourself you lazy wanker. You wanted a link showing fish genes in agricultural products. I provided it. You want any more, do it yourself.
No, I won't do that because anyone who can't spot that my
Will tomatoes do?
And I've pointed out that it is. You've yet to explain how it's a decent analogy you see. The fact that you must deliberately introduce the GPL code into your project seems to put a bit of a spanner in the works (this was the "your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to seek out and have intimate contact with people with colds" part of my analogy, in case you missed it).
A fight? Were we fighting? I thought we were discussing analogies. Is this like a slow motion fight where there are hours between blows?
Thank you for the advice. Here's some of mine. Stop taking everything so seriously, relax a little, see the lighter side of life. It's good for you! And you'll have more fun! And people will like you!
Ahh...I see. So you're referring to your practise of seeking out people with colds, deliberately coming into close contact with them, and then complaining when you have a cold too? That does make a little more sense than the transmogrification, to be honest, but I'm not sure that's the typical behaviour people exhibit around viruses.
Hmm...tough one. Let's see: it's a bit like if you write a 10 million line application (you write a 10 million line application), you want to use FFTW in it (you want to use FFTW in it), so you acquire a copy of the software (you acquire a copy of the software), and you follow the terms of their license by giving them money (you follow the terms of the GPL by releasing your source).
How's that one?
No way! I've got a big, shiny, high horse and I'm going to use it to plunder the East!
If you decide to stick with Firefox, looks like you could really use the Session Manager extension (with the bonus you don't have to have a seperate undoclosetab as it keeps a list for you).
Anyway, FFTW was a bad example. From their FAQ:
Pay for the thing if you want to use it.
Sorry you had to wait 10 years to find this out. Seriously though, couldn't you work this out for yourself? Why did you think it was?
The difference I see is that if I have a car, and you take it from me, then I have lost a car. This is true whether there is a law against it or not. If, however, I buy some information from you and then give a copy to a friend, then it's only meaningful to say you've lost something if a law exists against my copying. If there's no law there, then you never had anything to lose in the first place. Does that make sense?
Oddly enough, I saw a Segway in use on TV the other day. At the British Open (Golf) the steadicam operator was on a hands-free model. The players seemed quite impressed!
First reference google has is Khasim, 22 June 2006