I thought that these days Azureus had a nice wizard that asked you a few questions and set things up appropriately the first time it was run.
I first switched to Azureus when it picked up UPnP support which made it work 'magically' with my router. Setting up the firewall was the biggest bittorrent pain with other clients I tried at that time (though no doubt many of them have picked up support for UPnP now).
The gap between VHS and DVD was huge, and DVD offered many features that VHS did not
All the DVD's I have bought sit never to be watched again just like the videos do. The only marginal advantage DVD's have is that they take up less space!
A week or so ago I was speccing a replacement OS for some clients who have been using a variety of old RedHat distributions and some Whitebox Linux distributions. In my discussions with them we were talking about "Centos 4.3" and "Ubuntu 5.10".
Earlier this week I was talking with some colleagues about a difference between our dev server here and an installation one of them set up in vmware and we used the terms 5.10 and 5.04.
I agree that educating people outside the community (and thus bringing them into the community to one degree or another) is clearly a long term goal. However while there are clearly some 'corporate' aims for Ubuntu I think it's fair to say that to date there hasn't been a hard push to penetrate the business mind set. The focus has (rightly) been on getting a solid community behind it so a decent product actually gets developed. Now that the project is bearing solid fruit I'll expect we'll see more in the corporate area. The recent announcements of certification (both of professionals and IBM certification for DB2) are probably steps in that direction.
However Ubuntu gaining a heightened corporate image doesn't have to come at the expense of it's sense of community.
Yes, Ubuntu, we get it. I mean, I know version numbers in press releases are so corporate and everything, but but some day (say, when they're releasing Zoroastrian Zebra or whatever) they'll look back on this little phase and feel a little silly.
Ubuntu routinely uses version numbers in press releases.
The email was not a press release, it was an announcement to the Ubuntu community.
The thing that bothers me about your post is you do not attempt to answer his questions
He quite clearly does explain things. Sure, it's no dissertation but it's just a Slashdot post. He gives a quick overview and suggests where one might find more.
It is not an admission of anything or changing any tune from the FSF (The FSF itself is a non-profit after all).
The FSF have never said that commercial Free Software is the only way to go, merely the Free Software is not counter to commercial development. Free software has been developed commercially. Free software has been developed non commercially. This conservancy doesn't change that, it merely aims to help service one part of a very broad Free Software church.
Oh for fucks sake.
It lives in water so webbed feet and a tail is hardly a surprising feature, certainly not one that defies explanation by evolution, indeed it's features are highly adapted to it's environment. It's bill isn't like a bird beak so despite it's appearance to an ignorant eye there's no reason to think it evolved from "something like a duck" because of it's bill.
I'm not sure exactly what pissing match you are trying to stop. The one where scientists try and get a better knowledge of the world we live in? The one where people try and educate you on your misconceptions?
He was arrested for suspected participation in a bomb plot. He himself adopted the terrorist moniker with "Irhabi -- Terrorist -- 007".
Nor is the 007 part of the moniker all that surprising given the fact that he is British (or at least based in England) and could also be taken as a name chosen so as to be understandable and resonate with westerners and thus instill fear in them (though I grant you it is likely pure childishness). Of course it could also appeal to potential terrorists familiar with western culture (ie those in western countries).
The lack of an 18 rating was tangential to the issue at hand. (And GTA is not banned here, we have a modified version, though I got mine from New Zealand:)
This game was not banned because it featured graffiti in a fashion similar to how GTA features violence. It was because it (apparantly) contains material that is instructional rather than a shallow representation like the violence in GTA (or graffiti in Jet Set Radio Future). It wasn't considered to "promote" illegal behaviour simply because it represented that behaviour, but because it gave realistic instruction. The issue of promoting illegal behaviour is independant of the age rating so to suggest the game wouldn't be banned if there were an 18 rating is not really true.
All that according to the woman who cast the deciding vote who was on Hack today.
Which isn't to say I agree with the decision. I think it stinks!
Though it is probable Opera is more efficient than Mozilla on a per page basis with it's quick back functionality it clearly still uses memory to do it so there is a 'memory penalty'. On the other hand memory is there to be used, having loads of free memory on your system is just a waste, it may as well be used to cache something if there is no other demand on it.
Opera have been doing this for as long as I can remember though so it should be no surprise that it is better at it than Mozilla which has had the idea retrofitted to it relatively recently.
All the same _someone_ must be paying for the expenses relating to processing etc the blood. Presumably it's the hospital which in turn charges the patient (or the taxpayer).
We change our environment to better suit ourselves. This comfy chair I'm sitting on, the lights I'm under, the food I had for lunch, the air in my office, none of it would exist in that state without human touch. Almost everything I interact with on a daily basis is the result of us changing our environment to better suit us. We make small changes and we make large ones.
We will keep doing it because we have an innate desire to make things better for ourselves. And guess what! That is "nature" taking it's course because we are part of nature, not separate from it.
And the worst part, by far, is the opening of the article- "A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges they used the Internet to pirate more than $6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies." To the untrained eye, this seems just like every day Bob who downloaded a film or two...
It'd take more than an 'untrained eye' to conclude "$6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies" was "a film or two".
I'd also call you a liar, right to your face, without a smile on mine. I've been a tech for 13 years (this year would be my 14'th). I know for a fact that with places like driverguide (or the plethora of copy-cats) that it is *almost* impossible to *not* find a driver on the very small chance that the OEM hadn't archived it somewhere on their web page.
You'd be a cock then.
I have a USB webcam which is reasonably old but is functional. There isn't a Windows XP driver for it. IIRC correctly there is a Win2k driver that you can try and shoehorn in (if you ignore several warnings) but it doesn't work properly. The manufacturer doesn't make that model any more so doesn't care about XP compatability.
Support for any old bit of hardware (I guess the term would be "legacy") isn't great in Windows world either. The main difference is that Windows normally comes on a new computer with supported hardware without having to worry about too many legacy peripherals.
Linux often doesn't have that luxury but still does a pretty good job of "just working" in an ever increasing subset (I'd expect a clear majority) of cases. Both my USB scanner (canon) and USB printer (HP) worked straight after plugging them in on my Ubuntu box at home. On my laptop I had to install drivers (and before I plugged in the hardware IIRC otherwise it would futz things up).
I think you have to look at it pragmatically. If Google don't do what the Chinese Government asks then the whole of Google will be blocked/filtered so what Google is doing doesn't have an "evil" effect that wouldn't be happening anyway.
Liberalisation of China is probably going to be something that happens in a creeping fashion. A position based entirely on principal (ie Google refusing outright) might actually be worse in practice because it would actually mean more isolation for the Chinese people, not less. Whatever blocks are placed it isn't going to be 100% effective.
If Google put's up a "Some results have been omited due to local legal requirements" message like they do with some other blocks all the better, at least the people will know they are being filtered and why.
I remember back when full price games for my Commodore 64 cost 10 pounds but you could get budget games for 1.99 which were often just as much fun (if not more) than full price ones.
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I thought that these days Azureus had a nice wizard that asked you a few questions and set things up appropriately the first time it was run.
I first switched to Azureus when it picked up UPnP support which made it work 'magically' with my router. Setting up the firewall was the biggest bittorrent pain with other clients I tried at that time (though no doubt many of them have picked up support for UPnP now).
A week or so ago I was speccing a replacement OS for some clients who have been using a variety of old RedHat distributions and some Whitebox Linux distributions. In my discussions with them we were talking about "Centos 4.3" and "Ubuntu 5.10".
Earlier this week I was talking with some colleagues about a difference between our dev server here and an installation one of them set up in vmware and we used the terms 5.10 and 5.04.
I agree that educating people outside the community (and thus bringing them into the community to one degree or another) is clearly a long term goal. However while there are clearly some 'corporate' aims for Ubuntu I think it's fair to say that to date there hasn't been a hard push to penetrate the business mind set. The focus has (rightly) been on getting a solid community behind it so a decent product actually gets developed. Now that the project is bearing solid fruit I'll expect we'll see more in the corporate area. The recent announcements of certification (both of professionals and IBM certification for DB2) are probably steps in that direction.
However Ubuntu gaining a heightened corporate image doesn't have to come at the expense of it's sense of community.
Seems feasible, it clearly isn't intelligent design.
Witches won't drown even if there is water.
It is not an admission of anything or changing any tune from the FSF (The FSF itself is a non-profit after all).
The FSF have never said that commercial Free Software is the only way to go, merely the Free Software is not counter to commercial development. Free software has been developed commercially. Free software has been developed non commercially. This conservancy doesn't change that, it merely aims to help service one part of a very broad Free Software church.
Oh for fucks sake. It lives in water so webbed feet and a tail is hardly a surprising feature, certainly not one that defies explanation by evolution, indeed it's features are highly adapted to it's environment. It's bill isn't like a bird beak so despite it's appearance to an ignorant eye there's no reason to think it evolved from "something like a duck" because of it's bill. I'm not sure exactly what pissing match you are trying to stop. The one where scientists try and get a better knowledge of the world we live in? The one where people try and educate you on your misconceptions?
I was tempted to buy an XBox 360 but it doesnt seem to be compatible with the (few) games I have so don't think I'll bother at this time.
The quote only really makes sense if it means that 1% of all email sent in Australia is spam, not that 1% of spam is Australian.
It's so badly worded it could mean anything though...
He was arrested for suspected participation in a bomb plot. He himself adopted the terrorist moniker with "Irhabi -- Terrorist -- 007".
Nor is the 007 part of the moniker all that surprising given the fact that he is British (or at least based in England) and could also be taken as a name chosen so as to be understandable and resonate with westerners and thus instill fear in them (though I grant you it is likely pure childishness). Of course it could also appeal to potential terrorists familiar with western culture (ie those in western countries).
Egg him!
The lack of an 18 rating was tangential to the issue at hand. (And GTA is not banned here, we have a modified version, though I got mine from New Zealand :)
This game was not banned because it featured graffiti in a fashion similar to how GTA features violence. It was because it (apparantly) contains material that is instructional rather than a shallow representation like the violence in GTA (or graffiti in Jet Set Radio Future). It wasn't considered to "promote" illegal behaviour simply because it represented that behaviour, but because it gave realistic instruction. The issue of promoting illegal behaviour is independant of the age rating so to suggest the game wouldn't be banned if there were an 18 rating is not really true.
All that according to the woman who cast the deciding vote who was on Hack today.
Which isn't to say I agree with the decision. I think it stinks!
Sorry, the form heading said "Reply to: Philip Ruddock" and I got carried away by the moment....
Though it is probable Opera is more efficient than Mozilla on a per page basis with it's quick back functionality it clearly still uses memory to do it so there is a 'memory penalty'. On the other hand memory is there to be used, having loads of free memory on your system is just a waste, it may as well be used to cache something if there is no other demand on it.
Opera have been doing this for as long as I can remember though so it should be no surprise that it is better at it than Mozilla which has had the idea retrofitted to it relatively recently.
A french letter, surely.
All the same _someone_ must be paying for the expenses relating to processing etc the blood. Presumably it's the hospital which in turn charges the patient (or the taxpayer).
We change our environment to better suit ourselves. This comfy chair I'm sitting on, the lights I'm under, the food I had for lunch, the air in my office, none of it would exist in that state without human touch. Almost everything I interact with on a daily basis is the result of us changing our environment to better suit us. We make small changes and we make large ones.
We will keep doing it because we have an innate desire to make things better for ourselves. And guess what! That is "nature" taking it's course because we are part of nature, not separate from it.
It would take a moron. Or an MPAA lawyer....
I have a USB webcam which is reasonably old but is functional. There isn't a Windows XP driver for it. IIRC correctly there is a Win2k driver that you can try and shoehorn in (if you ignore several warnings) but it doesn't work properly. The manufacturer doesn't make that model any more so doesn't care about XP compatability.
Support for any old bit of hardware (I guess the term would be "legacy") isn't great in Windows world either. The main difference is that Windows normally comes on a new computer with supported hardware without having to worry about too many legacy peripherals.
Linux often doesn't have that luxury but still does a pretty good job of "just working" in an ever increasing subset (I'd expect a clear majority) of cases. Both my USB scanner (canon) and USB printer (HP) worked straight after plugging them in on my Ubuntu box at home. On my laptop I had to install drivers (and before I plugged in the hardware IIRC otherwise it would futz things up).
I think you have to look at it pragmatically. If Google don't do what the Chinese Government asks then the whole of Google will be blocked/filtered so what Google is doing doesn't have an "evil" effect that wouldn't be happening anyway.
Liberalisation of China is probably going to be something that happens in a creeping fashion. A position based entirely on principal (ie Google refusing outright) might actually be worse in practice because it would actually mean more isolation for the Chinese people, not less. Whatever blocks are placed it isn't going to be 100% effective.
If Google put's up a "Some results have been omited due to local legal requirements" message like they do with some other blocks all the better, at least the people will know they are being filtered and why.
I remember back when full price games for my Commodore 64 cost 10 pounds but you could get budget games for 1.99 which were often just as much fun (if not more) than full price ones.