I know my place. I'm a waiter. I'm in the service industry.
I live on tips. Occasionally, I'm going to get stiffed, but that's OK. If I work hard and I'm doing good work, I believe that the people who enjoy it are going to want to come directly to me and get my music because it sounds better, since it's mastered and packaged by me personally. I'm providing an honest, real experience. Period.
Of course, you can say that you don't like her as an artist, or whatever, but the idea of living off tips is not that bad for some artists.
For me it's a sensible way to pay an artist. If what he does influences you, and you feel compelled to compensate him, you do it. If you don't feel that way, it's ok,if the guy doesn't get enough tips, he will get a "real" job like everyone else.
If artists are not tipped enough, they will get other jobs, and start being missed. Then people will tip them more, and that could be an equilibrium. If noone tips artists, maybe they are not that important to us. I wouldn't count on that happening, though.
But I think that in the year 2006, it's just a problem with marketing and distribution.
Of course people don't want to install their own OS, even if Ubuntu is easier and faster than WinXP to install. That distribution problem could be solved by selling pre-installed Ubuntu desktops, with non-free repositories, NVIDIA/ATI 3d drivers, mp3 and wmv video codecs (that takes 10 minutes with Automatix, but we want it as easy as possible).
Of course people want stuff they know, and not stuff they don't know. But that is a marketing problem. There is no easy solution to this.
Aside from initial installation, Ubuntu is point by point easier to use than WinXP. About installing software, a leaflet in the computer box could be great ('Click the "Manage Software" button on your desktop to manage your software', a launcher for Synaptic on the destop).
That would beat easily most other software distribution forms. Buying software is not that easy. Getting MSOffice pro instead of your MSOffice Home to open a file is much harder than just double clicking and using OpenOffice.
Of course, it's difficult to start selling Ubuntu desktops, but the software is there, now the need is for vendors.
I mostly agree with you, with people preferring comfort over freedom, but I don't think it's the case with the Iraqui people.
Aside from that, I can tell you that I would much rather live in a dictatorship (I have) in a somewhat independent country, than having my country "liberated" by anyone. The self determination principle feels more important to me than whether you can call your government a democracy. And that kind of regimes can be overthrown without a foreign invasion.
Aside from that, there is not that much freedom involved in the "liberation" of Iraq. A whole generation will suffer now, and it's not clear if they will be able to get an independent government ever. People are less free right now in their lives, the church has a lot more power, and there are no signs of it getting any better in the sort term or long term future.
If you compare it to a non invaded Iraq, their odds of having a democracy in the future weren't worse than they are now. And they are paying the consequences of the invasion. I fail to see what they won, and why they would approve of it.
I fail to see how I'm nuts. You shouldn't answer disrespectfully by default just because this is Slashdot.
Sorry, I meant delusional. Seeing stuff that is not there. When you said "probably in Firefox as well" you assumed that Firefox would follow the behaviour of IE. Firefox takes care of this kind of stuff, and has a "privacy" funcionality that offers to clear the cache, and selectively other sensitive information. (Control-Shift-Suprimir)
And I am not disrespectuful only because this is/. , this is just who I am.
You are right about IE 6 not having a Clear Cache option. I assumed that was what you were talking about with the OP, and I assumed wrong.
About browsing history, visited sites and stuff, "Borrar Historial" is the button that does it on IE.
Manatees inhabit the shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (T. manatus, West Indian manatee), the Amazon basin (T. inunguis, Amazonian manatee), and West Africa (T. senegalensis, African manatee).
The disk copy is gone, but there's a copy in memory. Not so hard to understand, really...
You are nuts. Of course you can guess what it actually does, but it doesn't do what it is supposed to do. "Clear cache" means exactly that. It clears the cache. Not the cache files. The whole cache.
Uhhh... OK. So while we're at it, let's get rid of copyright law, patent law, and restrictions on identity theft.
Copyright law, ok. Patent law, ok.
Restrictions on identity theft, no. Identity can lose its intrinsec value when copied. That's not cool.
The issue with domain ownership is that regulating domains could be bad for the internet itself, because it would impose more regulation, and we all know tat regulation is bad for the net, even if deregulation has its drawbacks.
It's easy. Big corporations as a group have great power. When they do good, they have the power to do great good. When they do bad stuff, it can be very bad. In the past, some (it can be argued that most) corporations did bad stuff. Now, some people don't trust them. It's easy.
Aside from that, a big corporaton isn't entitled to the same rights a regular person is. Corporations don't need the same kind of protection a person needs, or even a small organization. Fairness is not the same as treating everyone the same way. It's about treating different subjects according totheir differences.
But there are great FPS titles for Linux. That must be the genre with the most support in Linux. If you are lucky enough to have your favorite FPS games ported to Linux, like for example ID games, then the combination of the Linux machine, plus a console, that is more easily played on the living room, and with friends, could be a killer one.
You're right, but I'm amazed at how many people pretend to understand what restrictions are actually imposed. It's complicated. You're not a lawyer. Even lawyers don't fully understand it because it's not black and white.
Ok, I am not a lawer. I don't know, or even care that much about the issue of US/EU laws about monopolies. But the guy was arguing that it's not fair to restrict Microsoft. I was trying to tell him that there are restrictions to monopolies, and some times they are forced to be nicer to competitors than everyone else.
I think more small kids are into eating poop than you think, without watching any picture.
Aside from that, I agree with you that violent porn is low on the list I would want my (hypothetical) children to be exposed to, under rotten.com, scientologists, NRA, Fox News, etc.
What next? Seriously, why is voting any different from these other very important uses of computers? Doesn't it make more sense to fix the problem rather than ban the machines?
First, they are banning one type of machine, not electronic voting.
And it's different because voting fraud can potentially have worse consequences than those, and one of the fraudsters could be the guy that organizes the event, the governing party, with all the power available.
Plus, voting machines are everyday proved insecure. Of course it's possible that someone comes up with a design that isn't soo prone to fraud, and that machine is actually used, but it hasn't happened yet.
The only sensile way to go should be a mixed system, when you use the electronic part to have a preliminary count of the votes, and then count the papers to have a more reliable number.
Te issue is that they are a monopoly right now. Monopolists don't have the same rights than other people. So they can't do what others can. One thing is this: using their OS monopoly to impose their AV solution. That is anti-competitive. You might say that it's not fair, but when you are talking about monopolies, the meaning of fairness changes, because they don't compete under the same conditions.
Milliseconds. Of course you can perceive 200 milliseconds. The issue is that your brain can be tricked into thinking that it happened right away, because moving your attention from the button to the new page takes roughly as long as that. Of course, if you concentrate, like in a game, you can perceive shorter times, but for regular desktop UI stuff, 200ms would be good enough not to notice.
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Struts is good, and is still living, but if you are just starting, JSF is both easier to grasp, and more advanced. I think it is a better choice.
(how hard could it be to solder an earphone jack to a USB keychain?)
I heard those came with a preloaded song: "The Sound of Silence"
It's not a communist country, it's the US.
You are supposed to be self-interested, if you want the system to work.
Phones.
Courtney Love does the math (year 2000)
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/
Of course, you can say that you don't like her as an artist, or whatever, but the idea of living off tips is not that bad for some artists.
For me it's a sensible way to pay an artist. If what he does influences you, and you feel compelled to compensate him, you do it. If you don't feel that way, it's ok,if the guy doesn't get enough tips, he will get a "real" job like everyone else.
If artists are not tipped enough, they will get other jobs, and start being missed. Then people will tip them more, and that could be an equilibrium. If noone tips artists, maybe they are not that important to us. I wouldn't count on that happening, though.
But I think that in the year 2006, it's just a problem with marketing and distribution.
Of course people don't want to install their own OS, even if Ubuntu is easier and faster than WinXP to install.
That distribution problem could be solved by selling pre-installed Ubuntu desktops, with non-free repositories, NVIDIA/ATI 3d drivers, mp3 and wmv video codecs (that takes 10 minutes with Automatix, but we want it as easy as possible).
Of course people want stuff they know, and not stuff they don't know.
But that is a marketing problem. There is no easy solution to this.
Aside from initial installation, Ubuntu is point by point easier to use than WinXP.
About installing software, a leaflet in the computer box could be great ('Click the "Manage Software" button on your desktop to manage your software', a launcher for Synaptic on the destop).
That would beat easily most other software distribution forms. Buying software is not that easy. Getting MSOffice pro instead of your MSOffice Home to open a file is much harder than just double clicking and using OpenOffice.
Of course, it's difficult to start selling Ubuntu desktops, but the software is there, now the need is for vendors.
Australes
I mostly agree with you, with people preferring comfort over freedom, but I don't think it's the case with the Iraqui people.
Aside from that, I can tell you that I would much rather live in a dictatorship (I have) in a somewhat independent country, than having my country "liberated" by anyone. The self determination principle feels more important to me than whether you can call your government a democracy. And that kind of regimes can be overthrown without a foreign invasion.
Aside from that, there is not that much freedom involved in the "liberation" of Iraq. A whole generation will suffer now, and it's not clear if they will be able to get an independent government ever.
People are less free right now in their lives, the church has a lot more power, and there are no signs of it getting any better in the sort term or long term future.
If you compare it to a non invaded Iraq, their odds of having a democracy in the future weren't worse than they are now.
And they are paying the consequences of the invasion. I fail to see what they won, and why they would approve of it.
I fail to see how I'm nuts. You shouldn't answer disrespectfully by default just because this is Slashdot.
Sorry, I meant delusional. Seeing stuff that is not there. When you said "probably in Firefox as well" you assumed that Firefox would follow the behaviour of IE.
Firefox takes care of this kind of stuff, and has a "privacy" funcionality that offers to clear the cache, and selectively other sensitive information. (Control-Shift-Suprimir)
And I am not disrespectuful only because this is
You are right about IE 6 not having a Clear Cache option.
I assumed that was what you were talking about with the OP, and I assumed wrong.
About browsing history, visited sites and stuff, "Borrar Historial" is the button that does it on IE.
The key word here is only. I have seen manatees in Florida.
I don't think so.
Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee
Manatees inhabit the shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (T. manatus, West Indian manatee), the Amazon basin (T. inunguis, Amazonian manatee), and West Africa (T. senegalensis, African manatee).
The disk copy is gone, but there's a copy in memory. Not so hard to understand, really...
You are nuts. Of course you can guess what it actually does, but it doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
"Clear cache" means exactly that. It clears the cache. Not the cache files. The whole cache.
In Firefox it works as expected.
You are looking for _customers_. Consumers are the people who use your product, even if they don't pay for it.
Uhhh ... OK. So while we're at it, let's get rid of copyright law, patent law, and restrictions on identity theft.
Copyright law, ok.
Patent law, ok.
Restrictions on identity theft, no.
Identity can lose its intrinsec value when copied. That's not cool.
The issue with domain ownership is that regulating domains could be bad for the internet itself, because it would impose more regulation, and we all know tat regulation is bad for the net, even if deregulation has its drawbacks.
Microsoft sells software. When they fail at software, they fail.
Google sells ads. When they fail at software, they keep on selling ads.
It's easy.
Big corporations as a group have great power. When they do good, they have the power to do great good. When they do bad stuff, it can be very bad.
In the past, some (it can be argued that most) corporations did bad stuff.
Now, some people don't trust them. It's easy.
Aside from that, a big corporaton isn't entitled to the same rights a regular person is.
Corporations don't need the same kind of protection a person needs, or even a small organization.
Fairness is not the same as treating everyone the same way. It's about treating different subjects according totheir differences.
Loki went under, because he lost his mask.
But there are great FPS titles for Linux. That must be the genre with the most support in Linux.
If you are lucky enough to have your favorite FPS games ported to Linux, like for example ID games, then the combination of the Linux machine, plus a console, that is more easily played on the living room, and with friends, could be a killer one.
Ok, I am not a lawer. I don't know, or even care that much about the issue of US/EU laws about monopolies.
But the guy was arguing that it's not fair to restrict Microsoft.
I was trying to tell him that there are restrictions to monopolies, and some times they are forced to be nicer to competitors than everyone else.
I think more small kids are into eating poop than you think, without watching any picture.
Aside from that, I agree with you that violent porn is low on the list I would want my (hypothetical) children to be exposed to, under rotten.com, scientologists, NRA, Fox News, etc.
We don't have KFC in my country, Uruguay.
In the 1.5 million people city, we have about 10 of McDonalds, and one Burger King.
First, they are banning one type of machine, not electronic voting.
And it's different because voting fraud can potentially have worse consequences than those, and one of the fraudsters could be the guy that organizes the event, the governing party, with all the power available.
Plus, voting machines are everyday proved insecure. Of course it's possible that someone comes up with a design that isn't soo prone to fraud, and that machine is actually used, but it hasn't happened yet.
The only sensile way to go should be a mixed system, when you use the electronic part to have a preliminary count of the votes, and then count the papers to have a more reliable number.
Te issue is that they are a monopoly right now.
Monopolists don't have the same rights than other people.
So they can't do what others can.
One thing is this: using their OS monopoly to impose their AV solution.
That is anti-competitive. You might say that it's not fair, but when you are talking about monopolies, the meaning of fairness changes, because they don't compete under the same conditions.
Ubuntu.
It's just easier.
Download the last version of Ubuntu, and boot the live version, it's just beautiful.
Milliseconds.
Of course you can perceive 200 milliseconds.
The issue is that your brain can be tricked into thinking that it happened right away, because moving your attention from the button to the new page takes roughly as long as that.
Of course, if you concentrate, like in a game, you can perceive shorter times, but for regular desktop UI stuff, 200ms would be good enough not to notice.