The problem with Linux, is that each app has its own widgets, its own theme, its own file selector etc. And when some programs install they don't even get into the menus so you can't open them. And some apps don't have packages for your distribution. And some apps only come as source. Etc.
When was the last time you saw a (desktop) Linux system in operation? 1998? Try installing a recent version of Ubuntu, for example. You will have a hard time to find a single application in the default install that doesn't fit the basic GNOME look-and-feel; and that includes using the same theme and file selector. Some applications, such as Firefox and OpenOffice, have their own widget sets (also under Windows, by the way), but they have been carefully adapted to the GNOME style and integrate quite well.
I'm a programmer and use Ubuntu as my only desktop system. Since years ago, the only interactive program I run regularly that doesn't fit the look-and-feel is emacs, and that's because I'm already addicted to emacs beyond recovery. But notice that if a wanted to have a 100% consistent environment, all I'd have to do would be switching to Eclipse, which adapts to the GNOME look-and-feel pretty well.
Don't worry. By the time this becomes a reality, simulators will be quite good. Indeed, you'll probably be able to drive in your simulator during commuting, while the computerized driving system in your car protects the rest of us from your mistakes.
What are you talking about? Sexual abuse of children can always be expected to be harmful; in many cases, deeply harmful. In this sense, I agree with what the GP says: pedophiles obviously take pleasure in what they do, and, in so doing, they cause great harm to indefense people. What additional statistics do you need to support this statement?
Parents need to give their kids some freedom, but these parents should have seen that something was wrong and taken action. Why do you think they should? If the deception is done properly (and these people seem to have gone to great lengths to be convincing) even well meaning, responsible parents who pay attention to their children's Intenet activities may have failed to see something fishy here.
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2) May I ask why you are using Alsa and not Pulseaudio which has been made standard in Ubuntu? Pulse is a userland sound server. It just routes sound to the actual kernel-level sound system, which, for most purposes, remains to be alsa. So, if alsa doesn't work, you're screwed anyway.
They've been working on it for a long time now, but it seems to be a very difficult task. OpenOffice seems to have serious design problems in this area, and fixing them apparently requires changes all over the place. We can only hope that they manage to put this in for 3.0, which, as far as I know, is the current target for this work.
There are too many unpredictable things on the road. I guess the technology is already able to detect and handle most of them, but even a small thing not included in the calculation can have disastrous results.
Yeah, even the best technology won't be able to predict and handle all possible risks, but neither will your brain. I'm not sure GM's 10 years time frame is realistic, but I'm sure we will reach a point where automatic cars will be safer and more reliable than even the most capable drivers. This will be the turning point.
However, even then, what about deer/jogs/small children jumping out in the middle of the road? Can the computer respond to a non-computer fast enough?
And can people generally respond better in such situations? Provided the right sensors are in place (you mention radar, but there are many other options) a computer can always respond faster.
This will not only raise the price of vehicles significantly, but will also lead to a number of false positives, causing people's cars to randomly stop, sometimes at high speeds, causing a large number of crashes. Computers can't control physics.
And neither can human beings, for the sake of it. But that's not the point. A computer can be built to have a response time that's orders of magnitude higher than that of any human being. It can also be programmed to deal with physics much better than we can (many aspects of driving are highly unintuitive, think ABS.) The false positives you're speaking about don't have to happen. They will happen only if we rely on inadequate technology, but there's no reason we should do that.
OK, I'll pay that one. All over the damn place seems to be the answer afaict. Likewise setup files, which for some reason are often hidden files starting with . (took my a while to figure that out). Mind you, it mostly works flawlessly anyhow, and the only time I needed to mess with a settings file was (a) to install a new hdd and (b) to install an unsupported tv tuner card.
See, you're just confirming the point of this thread's parent post. Windows power users are obsessed with such stuff like where single application files are installed. Does it matter? Not at all, if you happen to have a good package manager that takes care of it for you. And the Debian package manager (used by [k]ubuntu) is a really damn good one, and has been for more than 10 years.
Modern Linux is frustrating to Windows power users not because it is inconsistent or difficult to use. It just doesn't look like Windows. That's all.
Seriously, I'm sure the processor in that router is strong enough to handle Skype. Just put a radio transmitter on it and bundle two wireless handsets , and you get what lots of people wish for: Skype without a running computer! (Maybe it should also plug into a regular phone socket so you can use your old phones.)
You don't need a fancy radio transmiter. The device has three USB 2.0 ports on it, so you could just plug in a Bluetooth dongle and a use a normal Bluetooth headset for your phone calls. It is already possible to do this with Linux so it would be rather a matter of doing the necessary changes/additions to the firmware.
For one thing, everyone's router is always on, so there is nothing extra in the house sucking power. Maybe more relevant: The router, when Skype is being used, can be set to automatically throttle back the up/down bandwith that it's passing to connected computers (or using for its own bittorrent). This helps prevent degradation of Skype quality. And third, this would be totally simple - just plug in the router, tell it your Skype login/pass, and all your contacts are imported (Skype itself stores those things).
Actually, many companies are already offering routers with support for at least SIP calls (no Skype as far as I know.) This product, for example, supports most of the features you're mentioning. Maybe it is even possible to hack it for Skype.
But for Christmas she'll probably get a digital camera and a new struggle will begin. Notice, I'm not optimisitc anymore.
My mother got a digital camera for Christmas six months ago. We attached it to her newly installed Ubuntu computer, and it not only mounted it automatically, but offered to start the photo editing application.
Yeah, some printers are a real PITA, but USB cameras work like a charm.
I'm a Colombian living in Germany. I just returned to Germany last week, after a one month stay in Colombia for the holidays, and made the bad mistake of flying with Continental through Newark. Bogota and Frankfurt were no problem at all, but Newark was a nightmare. Both when going to Colombia and when coming back to Germany, they checked my whole luggage and thoroughly questioned me. The first time, the inspector called me repeatedly a lier, because I forgot telling him in advance I had a German Christmas bread in my bag (I had already told him I had many chocolate bars, but I forgot the bread).
Yes, Delta, Continental and American all flight to Bogota, and you can find connections from almost anywhere in Europe, but don't do that. After this trip, I promised I won't give my money to an American company only to be treated this way. I read today that Air France is increasing the flight frequency in the Paris-Bogota route, and there is also Iberia, which flights from Madrid. Consider them before thinking of going through the US.
That The Gimp is free is no excuse to have a crappy interface that is completely unintuitive.
That The Gimp is free is certainly not an excuse. It's actually the reason why Gimp's developers don't need an excuse for anything they do with their program. As far as I know, they aren't working for you, are they? What they do, they do in their own time and with their own resources. The are not obliged to develop a good user interface for you. They don't have to write a program that fits your particular needs. In fact, they don't need to write the program at all!
If you don't like The Gimp's user interface, go ahead and fix it. Or pay someone to do it. Complaining is just pointless.
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LinuxHater, is that you?
The problem with Linux, is that each app has its own widgets, its own theme, its own file selector etc. And when some programs install they don't even get into the menus so you can't open them. And some apps don't have packages for your distribution. And some apps only come as source. Etc.
When was the last time you saw a (desktop) Linux system in operation? 1998? Try installing a recent version of Ubuntu, for example. You will have a hard time to find a single application in the default install that doesn't fit the basic GNOME look-and-feel; and that includes using the same theme and file selector. Some applications, such as Firefox and OpenOffice, have their own widget sets (also under Windows, by the way), but they have been carefully adapted to the GNOME style and integrate quite well.
I'm a programmer and use Ubuntu as my only desktop system. Since years ago, the only interactive program I run regularly that doesn't fit the look-and-feel is emacs, and that's because I'm already addicted to emacs beyond recovery. But notice that if a wanted to have a 100% consistent environment, all I'd have to do would be switching to Eclipse, which adapts to the GNOME look-and-feel pretty well.
The 90s are long gone. Welcome to the future!
Don't worry. By the time this becomes a reality, simulators will be quite good. Indeed, you'll probably be able to drive in your simulator during commuting, while the computerized driving system in your car protects the rest of us from your mistakes.
What are you talking about? Sexual abuse of children can always be expected to be harmful; in many cases, deeply harmful. In this sense, I agree with what the GP says: pedophiles obviously take pleasure in what they do, and, in so doing, they cause great harm to indefense people. What additional statistics do you need to support this statement?
They've been working on it for a long time now, but it seems to be a very difficult task. OpenOffice seems to have serious design problems in this area, and fixing them apparently requires changes all over the place. We can only hope that they manage to put this in for 3.0, which, as far as I know, is the current target for this work.
I am going to write a letter!
Time to let go and accept that Gentoo is not for you. Move to Ubuntu!
Dissociative identity disorder?
Did you already make a bug report about this?
Probably the difference is that we want to survive as individuals, not just as a species.
There are too many unpredictable things on the road. I guess the technology is already able to detect and handle most of them, but even a small thing not included in the calculation can have disastrous results.
Yeah, even the best technology won't be able to predict and handle all possible risks, but neither will your brain. I'm not sure GM's 10 years time frame is realistic, but I'm sure we will reach a point where automatic cars will be safer and more reliable than even the most capable drivers. This will be the turning point.
And can people generally respond better in such situations? Provided the right sensors are in place (you mention radar, but there are many other options) a computer can always respond faster.
This will not only raise the price of vehicles significantly, but will also lead to a number of false positives, causing people's cars to randomly stop, sometimes at high speeds, causing a large number of crashes. Computers can't control physics.And neither can human beings, for the sake of it. But that's not the point. A computer can be built to have a response time that's orders of magnitude higher than that of any human being. It can also be programmed to deal with physics much better than we can (many aspects of driving are highly unintuitive, think ABS.) The false positives you're speaking about don't have to happen. They will happen only if we rely on inadequate technology, but there's no reason we should do that.
Do you ever fly? Planes are almost completely computer controlled these days, you know...
When I install programs, where do they go ?
OK, I'll pay that one. All over the damn place seems to be the answer afaict. Likewise setup files, which for some reason are often hidden files starting with . (took my a while to figure that out). Mind you, it mostly works flawlessly anyhow, and the only time I needed to mess with a settings file was (a) to install a new hdd and (b) to install an unsupported tv tuner card.
See, you're just confirming the point of this thread's parent post. Windows power users are obsessed with such stuff like where single application files are installed. Does it matter? Not at all, if you happen to have a good package manager that takes care of it for you. And the Debian package manager (used by [k]ubuntu) is a really damn good one, and has been for more than 10 years.
Modern Linux is frustrating to Windows power users not because it is inconsistent or difficult to use. It just doesn't look like Windows. That's all.
Seriously, I'm sure the processor in that router is strong enough to handle Skype. Just put a radio transmitter on it and bundle two wireless handsets , and you get what lots of people wish for: Skype without a running computer! (Maybe it should also plug into a regular phone socket so you can use your old phones.)
You don't need a fancy radio transmiter. The device has three USB 2.0 ports on it, so you could just plug in a Bluetooth dongle and a use a normal Bluetooth headset for your phone calls. It is already possible to do this with Linux so it would be rather a matter of doing the necessary changes/additions to the firmware.
For one thing, everyone's router is always on, so there is nothing extra in the house sucking power. Maybe more relevant: The router, when Skype is being used, can be set to automatically throttle back the up/down bandwith that it's passing to connected computers (or using for its own bittorrent). This helps prevent degradation of Skype quality. And third, this would be totally simple - just plug in the router, tell it your Skype login/pass, and all your contacts are imported (Skype itself stores those things).
Actually, many companies are already offering routers with support for at least SIP calls (no Skype as far as I know.) This product, for example, supports most of the features you're mentioning. Maybe it is even possible to hack it for Skype.
But for Christmas she'll probably get a digital camera and a new struggle will begin. Notice, I'm not optimisitc anymore.
My mother got a digital camera for Christmas six months ago. We attached it to her newly installed Ubuntu computer, and it not only mounted it automatically, but offered to start the photo editing application.
Yeah, some printers are a real PITA, but USB cameras work like a charm.
I'm a Colombian living in Germany. I just returned to Germany last week, after a one month stay in Colombia for the holidays, and made the bad mistake of flying with Continental through Newark. Bogota and Frankfurt were no problem at all, but Newark was a nightmare. Both when going to Colombia and when coming back to Germany, they checked my whole luggage and thoroughly questioned me. The first time, the inspector called me repeatedly a lier, because I forgot telling him in advance I had a German Christmas bread in my bag (I had already told him I had many chocolate bars, but I forgot the bread).
Yes, Delta, Continental and American all flight to Bogota, and you can find connections from almost anywhere in Europe, but don't do that. After this trip, I promised I won't give my money to an American company only to be treated this way. I read today that Air France is increasing the flight frequency in the Paris-Bogota route, and there is also Iberia, which flights from Madrid. Consider them before thinking of going through the US.
M. S.
That The Gimp is free is certainly not an excuse. It's actually the reason why Gimp's developers don't need an excuse for anything they do with their program. As far as I know, they aren't working for you, are they? What they do, they do in their own time and with their own resources. The are not obliged to develop a good user interface for you. They don't have to write a program that fits your particular needs. In fact, they don't need to write the program at all!
If you don't like The Gimp's user interface, go ahead and fix it. Or pay someone to do it. Complaining is just pointless.