The/home versus everything else bit makes a ton of sense. But when it breaks down further to/var,/etc,/xyz it gets more opaque. It all makes sense from a purely practical view, but for people without years of Unix-like experience it seems rather odd and arbitrary.
System files always seem odd and arbitrary at first. Open C:\Windows so you can make a proper comparison to / and you'll see it's pretty much the same, if not worse. Plus, my point is that regular users shouldn't be going through system files, so all you should really see is/home, making it far cleaner and simpler than the mess Windows tends to make. The problem with Linux, from an average user perspective, is not the filesystem layout itself, but that we are often forced to navigate it in search of some obscure config files and plugin folders. This is improving steadily, if not rapidly.
Right now I'm trying KDE shoehorned onto the Xfce version of Mint Debian (quickly, come out with KDE Debian!), so far I'm liking it, though KDE isn't nearly as polished as in the Opensuse, Ubuntu, or vanilla Mint versions (obviously). Why KDE? I'm scared of when I'm forced to use Gnome Shell, and I personally don't like Xfce (its nice and light, but perhaps a bit too sparse. I loved OpenSuse, but also loved the idea of a rolling release, but Tumbleweed choked, and eventually decided to cease letting me update files, also apt is one of the sexiest things in the world. So far I'm happy with the experience, but I'd much prefer a native KDE version, I'm having a hard time remembering what features make it generally pleasant in other versions.
I thought Mint Debian "came with" all the DEs. Isn't it fully compatible with Debian repositories, like Mint is with Ubuntu's? Given how modular Debian is, it's like saying you've "shoehorned" a lego brick into another, so maybe I'm missing something, like Mint's custom menus. Can't really think of anything. As for KDE, I tried it with Fedora 15 (dreadful, but probably not KDE's fault) and again with Arch (same KDE 4.7, much nicer experience overall) and I'm pretty ok with it, even though I'm going to ride Gnome 2 to its grave before switching (and I think we still have a year or two until it dies - at least until Wheezy comes out). Another good option I'm considering - one that I liked better than XFCE - is LXDE. I'm also thinking of trying Enlightenment.
Wait, what did he just say about his product? That's it's a fake iPad and/or a rip-off?
Shouldn't you say more neutral or positive things about your own products?
It's interesting how we are so used to being bullshitted that when someone is honest enough about his product, even if he says nothing that everyone haven't already perceived, we find it strange. It is an iPad rip-off. It is cheaper. We all know it. And, regardless, there's a huge market for that exact kind of product, so why should he restrain his words?
Well said, mostly. Linux is great, very functional but it does require some fiddling around every now and then. Though it tends to support my hardware better than Windows, historically. WiFi out of the box is often a problem, but it's not that much better in Windows unless you happen to have an installation CD for your wireless card. Windows also tends to not recognize VIA audio drivers on every other computer.
Your complaints about the file system, though, were odd. Why would it suck for the average user? It's actually much more streamlined. Everything that's yours is in/home/you. That's it and it's bookmarked. The rest is just white noise. Windows, on the other hand, puts your shit all over the place. Is it in C:\Users\you\program? No. Ok, C:\Program Files\program? Ok, then try C:\Program Files (x86)\program. Is whatever you want there? Oh, it might be in C:\program, try that. Windows 7 annoyed me for a while because it did not bookmark my home folder by default and left me dumbly looking for a C:\Documents and Settings that I couldn't find until I saw Users. Then everything was ok again, but Windows is not in any way, shape or form better than Linux when it comes to the file system.
Regarding your distro hunting, if you liked Ubuntu, try Mint. Preferably the Debian Edition. It simply saves you the hassle of installing media codecs and flash and is the distro I'm now recommending to newcomers.
The man children of Anonymous aren't "civil dissidents". They're vandals and trolls. They delight in causing suffering for others, and then laughing at that suffering. They say so themselves.
Well, you can't really trust what vandals and trolls say, can you? Also, you don't have to identify yourself as a civil dissident to be one and Anonymous is not a homogeneous group. It is barely a group.
My default position is based on the surmise that if any of the cables had actually provided any actionable information the newspapers would have made a bit of a fuss about them.
Whats more the 'b' and 'n' keys are right next to each other making the inadvertent labeling of hackers as monsters that much easier;-)
Instead of thinking about far-fetched scenarios (come on - like simply mistyping N for B could ever result in someone being negatively perceived), why don't you focus on the nigger problem here?
any AM3+ motherboard will be able to support the next generation of CPUs alone is a good enough win in my book. As soon as the box is delivered I have to have have my computer upgraded in under 10 minutes
FTFY
No, but seriously, we went from AM2 to AM2+ to AM3 to AM3+, so compatibility is not that great. I just got my AM3 box last month (because going Intel would cost me about $100 more and perform a tad slower in Premiere) and I don't know if I'll be able to upgrade to Bulldozer since not all AM3 boards will work with AM3+ CPUs. An AM2+ Phenom II X4 920 owner will certainly have to buy a new mobo. Sure, it's a bit better than what Intel does, but you can only go one generation further and, frankly, I don't think it's worth it, since if you build you PC carefully, you won't really need a performance boost in such little time.
Some of us wish we were that quick for a number 2, you insensitive clod. Seriously, it's somewhat rude to rub your well-behaved intestine in other people's faces (not to mention unsanitary).
Great, something that I have to unmount before I can ask it to eject. It'll then mysteriously want it back, despite it being blank, every time I open another program.
Was that a relationship metaphor? It sort of seemed like one at first, but either I didn't get the second sentence or the men you've been dating are extremely creepy.
True, in a sense. But it should say so in the "box". A better worded version of "hey, shit tends to break every once in a while, but it's par for the course" somewhere in the website would be nice. Like Debian, that is pretty straightforward about its "unstable" and "testing" branches (both which tend to be more stable than Fedora, in my experience with them).
It's an alpha release. Expect it to not be stable and still have some kinks that need to be worked out before release. Just report everything you find (if it's not reported already) and hopefully they'll get fixed.
Well, I tried using Fedora 15 KDE Spin and is was no better. Close to utter crap. Slow to boot and buggy as hell. Dolphin would crash every now and then. After a recent update, boot time nearly doubled and nothing got better, so I decided to install Arch. To my surprise, now KDE was fast, responsive and mostly bug-free. My point: Fedora is too "cutting edge", meaning perpetual beta-quality. So maybe Gnome 3 (or an iminent 3.x) will turn out to be a lot better than what Fedora and other premature releasers are dishing out.
A postgraduate civil engineer that genuinely believes one guy rounded up exactly one pair of each species on the planet shouldn't be able to plan the building of a little clay bucket. He only has to figure out "holy shit, the planet is pretty big, there are a lot of animals in it and rounding them all up, building a boat big enough to house them and getting them to behave during the trip would be really hard for a large group of people today, so for single couple thousands of years ago, I think I'm going to call bullshit". That doesn't require even vague familiarity with the scietific method. A doctor that professes belief in such a ludicrous story might just as well, if his reasoning is somewhat consistent, be easily duped into believing that cancer can be treated with rainbow dust, which is deeply disturbing.
only 22% of respondents with postgraduate degrees believed compared with 47% of those with a high school education or less
Really? 22% of postgraduates believe the Earth is 10.000 years old and dinosaur remains are... what? Naturally occurring mountains of weirdly shaped bones? That's one of the scariest statistics I've ever heard about. I have the urge to know more about these people. For instance, what did they postgraduate on?
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The /home versus everything else bit makes a ton of sense. But when it breaks down further to /var, /etc, /xyz it gets more opaque. It all makes sense from a purely practical view, but for people without years of Unix-like experience it seems rather odd and arbitrary.
System files always seem odd and arbitrary at first. Open C:\Windows so you can make a proper comparison to / and you'll see it's pretty much the same, if not worse. Plus, my point is that regular users shouldn't be going through system files, so all you should really see is /home, making it far cleaner and simpler than the mess Windows tends to make. The problem with Linux, from an average user perspective, is not the filesystem layout itself, but that we are often forced to navigate it in search of some obscure config files and plugin folders. This is improving steadily, if not rapidly.
Right now I'm trying KDE shoehorned onto the Xfce version of Mint Debian (quickly, come out with KDE Debian!), so far I'm liking it, though KDE isn't nearly as polished as in the Opensuse, Ubuntu, or vanilla Mint versions (obviously). Why KDE? I'm scared of when I'm forced to use Gnome Shell, and I personally don't like Xfce (its nice and light, but perhaps a bit too sparse. I loved OpenSuse, but also loved the idea of a rolling release, but Tumbleweed choked, and eventually decided to cease letting me update files, also apt is one of the sexiest things in the world. So far I'm happy with the experience, but I'd much prefer a native KDE version, I'm having a hard time remembering what features make it generally pleasant in other versions.
I thought Mint Debian "came with" all the DEs. Isn't it fully compatible with Debian repositories, like Mint is with Ubuntu's? Given how modular Debian is, it's like saying you've "shoehorned" a lego brick into another, so maybe I'm missing something, like Mint's custom menus. Can't really think of anything. As for KDE, I tried it with Fedora 15 (dreadful, but probably not KDE's fault) and again with Arch (same KDE 4.7, much nicer experience overall) and I'm pretty ok with it, even though I'm going to ride Gnome 2 to its grave before switching (and I think we still have a year or two until it dies - at least until Wheezy comes out). Another good option I'm considering - one that I liked better than XFCE - is LXDE. I'm also thinking of trying Enlightenment.
Wait, what did he just say about his product? That's it's a fake iPad and/or a rip-off?
Shouldn't you say more neutral or positive things about your own products?
It's interesting how we are so used to being bullshitted that when someone is honest enough about his product, even if he says nothing that everyone haven't already perceived, we find it strange. It is an iPad rip-off. It is cheaper. We all know it. And, regardless, there's a huge market for that exact kind of product, so why should he restrain his words?
Well said, mostly. Linux is great, very functional but it does require some fiddling around every now and then. Though it tends to support my hardware better than Windows, historically. WiFi out of the box is often a problem, but it's not that much better in Windows unless you happen to have an installation CD for your wireless card. Windows also tends to not recognize VIA audio drivers on every other computer.
Your complaints about the file system, though, were odd. Why would it suck for the average user? It's actually much more streamlined. Everything that's yours is in /home/you. That's it and it's bookmarked. The rest is just white noise. Windows, on the other hand, puts your shit all over the place. Is it in C:\Users\you\program? No. Ok, C:\Program Files\program? Ok, then try C:\Program Files (x86)\program. Is whatever you want there? Oh, it might be in C:\program, try that. Windows 7 annoyed me for a while because it did not bookmark my home folder by default and left me dumbly looking for a C:\Documents and Settings that I couldn't find until I saw Users. Then everything was ok again, but Windows is not in any way, shape or form better than Linux when it comes to the file system.
Regarding your distro hunting, if you liked Ubuntu, try Mint. Preferably the Debian Edition. It simply saves you the hassle of installing media codecs and flash and is the distro I'm now recommending to newcomers.
For 1TB of downloads? Man, I wish I lived wherever it is that you do. Is it Freebroadbandland?
The concept is fine. I'm working on a similar project right now. The stupid part is calling it art.
The man children of Anonymous aren't "civil dissidents". They're vandals and trolls. They delight in causing suffering for others, and then laughing at that suffering. They say so themselves.
Well, you can't really trust what vandals and trolls say, can you? Also, you don't have to identify yourself as a civil dissident to be one and Anonymous is not a homogeneous group. It is barely a group.
My default position is based on the surmise that if any of the cables had actually provided any actionable information the newspapers would have made a bit of a fuss about them.
Well, there it is. Fix it.
Whats more the 'b' and 'n' keys are right next to each other making the inadvertent labeling of hackers as monsters that much easier ;-)
Instead of thinking about far-fetched scenarios (come on - like simply mistyping N for B could ever result in someone being negatively perceived), why don't you focus on the nigger problem here?
any AM3+ motherboard will be able to support the next generation of CPUs alone is a good enough win in my book. As soon as the box is delivered I have to have have my computer upgraded in under 10 minutes
FTFY
No, but seriously, we went from AM2 to AM2+ to AM3 to AM3+, so compatibility is not that great. I just got my AM3 box last month (because going Intel would cost me about $100 more and perform a tad slower in Premiere) and I don't know if I'll be able to upgrade to Bulldozer since not all AM3 boards will work with AM3+ CPUs. An AM2+ Phenom II X4 920 owner will certainly have to buy a new mobo. Sure, it's a bit better than what Intel does, but you can only go one generation further and, frankly, I don't think it's worth it, since if you build you PC carefully, you won't really need a performance boost in such little time.
Some of us wish we were that quick for a number 2, you insensitive clod. Seriously, it's somewhat rude to rub your well-behaved intestine in other people's faces (not to mention unsanitary).
This!
If you had access to a wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/dog yourself.. why would you need access to porn? Same reason.
When it comes to Scrabble and sex^H^H^HThe Bee Gees, size isn't everything.
Great, something that I have to unmount before I can ask it to eject. It'll then mysteriously want it back, despite it being blank, every time I open another program.
Was that a relationship metaphor? It sort of seemed like one at first, but either I didn't get the second sentence or the men you've been dating are extremely creepy.
FUNCTIONALITY - 13 letters
PHILOSOPHY - 10 letters
You're welcome.
...in which I'll have to exercise? Oh, let my sweet death come.
True, in a sense. But it should say so in the "box". A better worded version of "hey, shit tends to break every once in a while, but it's par for the course" somewhere in the website would be nice. Like Debian, that is pretty straightforward about its "unstable" and "testing" branches (both which tend to be more stable than Fedora, in my experience with them).
It's an alpha release. Expect it to not be stable and still have some kinks that need to be worked out before release. Just report everything you find (if it's not reported already) and hopefully they'll get fixed.
A nice way to describe Fedora as a whole.
Fork it. Yoo ront.
Well, I tried using Fedora 15 KDE Spin and is was no better. Close to utter crap. Slow to boot and buggy as hell. Dolphin would crash every now and then. After a recent update, boot time nearly doubled and nothing got better, so I decided to install Arch. To my surprise, now KDE was fast, responsive and mostly bug-free. My point: Fedora is too "cutting edge", meaning perpetual beta-quality. So maybe Gnome 3 (or an iminent 3.x) will turn out to be a lot better than what Fedora and other premature releasers are dishing out.
Allah Gold, is that you?
A postgraduate civil engineer that genuinely believes one guy rounded up exactly one pair of each species on the planet shouldn't be able to plan the building of a little clay bucket. He only has to figure out "holy shit, the planet is pretty big, there are a lot of animals in it and rounding them all up, building a boat big enough to house them and getting them to behave during the trip would be really hard for a large group of people today, so for single couple thousands of years ago, I think I'm going to call bullshit". That doesn't require even vague familiarity with the scietific method. A doctor that professes belief in such a ludicrous story might just as well, if his reasoning is somewhat consistent, be easily duped into believing that cancer can be treated with rainbow dust, which is deeply disturbing.
Hell no! Have you ever heard of Kim Jong-Il? Dude can fly, shoot laser beams from his eyes and bowl 500.
only 22% of respondents with postgraduate degrees believed compared with 47% of those with a high school education or less
Really? 22% of postgraduates believe the Earth is 10.000 years old and dinosaur remains are... what? Naturally occurring mountains of weirdly shaped bones? That's one of the scariest statistics I've ever heard about. I have the urge to know more about these people. For instance, what did they postgraduate on?
Clearly it is at best an allegorical tale and/or cultural myth.
I don't think this kind of thing is ever clear enough, else there would never be a religion.