You're not right. If you don't like to compile, download the binaries. As for being "content with a default binary"(as if default binaries are somehow shoddy), that is your ONLY option on other well known, but charge-you-up-the-arse-for-your-ignorance platforms.
The only times I've been unable to obtain binaries is for software that is still in the development stage. If you can't understand why software in the development stage isn't packaged yet, then most definetly, Linux, or anything else that requires logical thought, will be useless to you.
If you do understand, then you'll also take note that virtually every major desktop application that the "average"(your apparent defintion, not mine) user would want, is most definetly available in a binary format.
... and choose KDE as your default desktop during the install. I had a 10 year old install it on one of my notebooks with no problems. He was doing his homework on it about half an hour after booting it for the first time. If you can't figure it out, maybe you should seek help from a local 3rd grader.
I agree. Microsoft can't kill tcp/ip. I don't think Bill Gates is that arrogant(he's certainly not that stupid) as to try to implement a plan like that. I think HailStorm is going to be thier attempt at a coup, and hailstorm could do just fine over IP6.
As for those losers who say "linux will never succeed", they are blind to the fact that it has succeeded. Brilliantly. This, in spite of all their naysaying, it's bigger than ever and growing faster than ever. Let them keep talking, they're only demonstrating their inability to see things as they are.
But you know, we all could just delete Linux tomorrow and install Windows, or perhaps every Linux user in the world will simultaneously be hit by bowling ball sized meteors while outdoors, that could happen too.
While most of what you said I tend to agree with, I do take issue with one thing(other than what appears to be a mistype "Linux is going to go away..." which I assume you meant "isn't", because it isn't). Here's the offending line:
"It just happens to be IPv6. Let's face it, it's about time, and unless M$ makes that push, it isn't going to happen."
You obviously have been smoking some of that hydro dank yourself if you think that the world needs Microsoft to push innovation. The internet happened in spite of Microsoft, not because of it and it will advance, in spite of it, not because of it.
I agree. I'd also like to add, that where people with old economy thought processes try to enter into a business that involves the GPL, the greed of their thought process will inevitably cause these fights to ensue.
Greed and a need for control and dominance is
not compatible with a license designed for sharing and cooperation. It's pretty obvious that's what's going on here. As a community, we should not empower these type of companies with our business.
I remember when I finished Harvest of Stars, and then a few years later picked up The Stars Are Also Fire. Magnificent, both of them were absolutely awesome. It's a shame that he died before the ability to download himself became reality.
He dealt with issues of liberty and self reliance, and also the morality of questioning authority when authority is Corrupt, yet is considered by most to be good(sounds like a country I live in). It opened my eyes to my own blind faith in Government(I was raised to have it). I've read many sci-fi novels, but no other books impacted my view of authority and reality. His books did and I will always remember those 2 works, especially the sequel. Good Bye Poul!(I'd say Mr. Anderson, but there's something too sinister about that ever since the Matrix).
"But Katz seems way too interested in trying to play up the "he was acting as a journalist" thing. I don't know if he thinks that only journalists should have such protections, or that anything that informs anyone of anything is journalism, or if he's just trying to get "journalist" defined broadly enough that he can actually be one. I'm not a journalist, and I expect to be treated with dignity, even if I do break a law, and I find it yet again insulting that Katz thinks that I would need to be redefined as a journalist to merit news coverage of my questionable arrest and denial of due process. And I'm more than willing to call Katz a butt-head for implying it."
Now I know why you don't like Katz, you don't even understand what he's saying.
His point had nothing to do with him holding an opinion that only journalists deserve the same coverage, nor did his point imply that he thinks it should be this way. His point is this is the way it is and has come to be in his country. If you are offended by these concepts, as you seem to be in your post, then this insult should become outrage then, as these things which were merely an offensive opinion for you are in actuality, an ongoing reality. Katz is clearly sounding an alarm about these things, not condoning or promoting them.
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...if you don't keep your service packs up to date for your bionic suit, you could find yourself doing the robot... be careful out there...
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1(get all of em if you can), is an excellent reference for virtually every network technical job. Whether it be coding, systems administration, database administration, webmastering, or just supporting any software which operates over tcp/ip networks, it will be a big boon and you will grow strong in the force. Also, it's very nicely bound and has stood up far better than my O'reilly books(which are excellent, they just don't last very long if many people are sharing them in my experience).
As for The Objected-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weifeld(SAMS publishing), this book facilitated my final trancendance from mere precedural programming, to the heedy heights of Object Oriented programming(although that sounds alot better than it feels). If you've struggled with REALLY understanding OOP, get this book and read it. I read it in 2 days, it was addictive and eye opening. It is not a book about code in any one language, but about thinking in terms of objects, and it does this extremely well. When I was finished, I found I could read C++ code(this is coming from a strong C background, your mileage may vary). Before reading this book, I just never got it. I'd wager money this book will still be useful 20 years from now. Although it is a paperback.
I hope they just pretend those horrible horrible Battlestar Galactica shows from the 80's where they made it to earth are just forgotten. Gawd those motorcycles, how embarassing. Unfortunately, that was the only Galactica show my fiance has ever seen so now it's a hard sell. Ugh.
I think Admins who jump at this type of traffic need to read TCP/IP illustrated guide, because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of what their logs are saying. If you don't understand that book, you should not even bother monitoring the logs or being an Admin in a tcp/ip networked environment for that matter, anymore than an iliterate man should be a proof reader. My 2 cents.
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There's also the small fact that Star Trek itself is derivative of the sci-fi influences in Gene Roddenberrys life. I mean, was Star Trek really the first sci-fi concept with space ships that "warped"? Or energy beam weapons? Or dematerializtion devices? Or computers that talked? Or alien races? Or "federations" of space faring creatures?
People who think so, clearly don't read much classic sci-fi.
And I'm not saying this to knock Roddenberry, to this day I rewatch the original and the next generation(I can't stomach Voyager, although Deep Space 9 had it's shining moments). Star Trek was/is a cool and innovative concept, both in it's original form, and in the next generation incarnation, but the technologies and elements that each one was built on were far from ground breaking or unique, from a sci-fi perspective. From a tv perspective, of course it looks like the father of all sci-fi.
I totally agree. As long as the perception exists among a signifigant number of people that cell phones cause brain tumors, it makes perfect sense why they would develop such technology while still believing that there is no danger. I just hope they really believe that and aren't pulling a big tobacco maneuver.
Government rights. Great... One day, we're going to have to take up arms and defend ourselves from fruitloops(no offense to that delicious cereal) like this, as a "liberation" army moves in to destroy the way of life that we have come to choose for ourselves, because our way of life is not the way Alex Chiu was taught that it should be.
Note the staunch hipocrisy. First, Taiwan is part of China, just cause he was taught that. Next, Tibet is part of China, because they made things better(in his view, nevermind he doesn't nor hasn't lived in either place himself). Yet, it seems to me, that Taiwanese people have a better life than Chinese people, but I guess what really counts is his subjective viewpoint, not any logical reasoning, heaven forbid.
This is exactly why I don't believe in governments anymore, because people with defective thought processes like this always end up in power. Then, the thinkers are either thrown in jail, or forced to lock and load and shoot to kill in order to preserve their freedom.
Personally, I don't think the analysts think AMD is much of a threat. A few years ago, shortly after AMD released the K6-2, I remember talking to one of my cousins who works for a "tech oriented investment group"(whatever that means), and he told me I was "on crack" for thinking that AMD had any chance against Intel.
Last time I saw him, I ribbed him quite a bit and suggested that maybe crack might be a good thing for someone in his line of work. He, being the decent guy he is, admitted he had been wrong, but then went on to say how corporate America won't give up Intel.
Personally, I think if AMD can deliver similiar performance for substantially less money, only a corporate american moron would pay more for Intel. I mean, these aren't cars without moving parts, these are solid state processors, with almost identical failure rates(from what I've read anyway). What business sense would it make to pay more for virutally the same performance?
But then, AMD might not be able to deliver that in an SMP system. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Domesticated rats live an average of 2.5 years. Why not make a device to sustain a rat indefinetly and then show the public an 8 year old rat 8 years from now? That way, he can demonstrate that his device works well within the lifetime of all his detractors.
... a website defacement will one day "cost" 10 million dollars to the "victim" company. And, the insurance industry(disease?) will financially back draconian anti-hacking anti-personal rights laws, citing the latest website defacements "cost" as the need for such harsh measures, and after they've passed, they'll still up their rates. All the while, realizing huge profit increases every quarter, while publicly whining about any claims they do have to pay. Everyone will reason that they need insurance, and then you'll have this huge piece of garbage industry backing even more laws that walk all over our rights, when all anyone really had to do in the first place was stay on top of updates and exploits.
And in response to all this, what will our government do? Why, you fight beuracracy with more beauracracy, duh! We'll have the national hacker insurance oversight board, which will "fix" prices for companies, er, consumers, yeah, that's what they'll do, protect consumers, just like Californias benevolent insurance commision. Eventually, it will be mandatory to have such insurance to have a website for a as yet to be devised reason.
Poor predictable humanity, if you'd just look in the mirror occasionaly, you'd be able to realize why you're such easy pickings for the wolves.
I'm sure it required a good deal of research to come up with the concept that to monitor us is cheaper than not monitoring us. Yes, it makes perfect sense that it is cheaper to gather and retain data than not to gather and retain data. Uh-huh. These guys are comedians that aren't funny at all. It's actually because of things like this, that I push Linux to everyone I know(I use it because it's superior, I evangelize it because the alternatives lead to a dark future where shoddy standards and half assed software is crammed down our throats, like Microsofts laughable and highly insecure VPN implementation to mention one of many many things).
Bunch of bad clowns.
Anyone surprised by the ruling is a fool. This is America, land of the fee and home of the depraved, of course pinciples of freedom are not going to be applied. When a group of people can not even organize their own religion on a piece of land they legally habitate out in the boonies, without having federal agents show up to burn everyone to death, what makes you think you have a right to peer to peer networking? Those in power have so divided us, the people, that we are truly conquered. Like the boneheads we Americans have come to be, we embrace the labels which our applied to ourselves and others. We see people who those in power attach a label to, and then we look the other way(many actually cheer and watch) as those in power violate numerous laws(not to mention the constitutional right of due process) and burn people alive, with no trial. Just a condemnation at the whim of a jack-booted thug and boom, the death sentence is applied. And we expect that while we look away from such inhuman barbaric acts, that these same people in power are going to respect your rights as a consumer? Bah, quit playing the part of a fool. You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. It is saddening, very sad and depressing, that people can look the other way and not have moral outcry when their fellow man is burned alive in the so-called 'land of the free' because their fellow man(whom they do not know personally) is labeled "fanatic" by the government. Then, when a court rules that a popular service, which is used extensively to break the laws of said government, be shut down, then the "moral"(SIC) outcry begins. The shock and the outrage come pouring out in torrents. Stupid is as stupid does.
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You're not right. If you don't like to compile, download the binaries. As for being "content with a default binary"(as if default binaries are somehow shoddy), that is your ONLY option on other well known, but charge-you-up-the-arse-for-your-ignorance platforms.
The only times I've been unable to obtain binaries is for software that is still in the development stage. If you can't understand why software in the development stage isn't packaged yet, then most definetly, Linux, or anything else that requires logical thought, will be useless to you.
If you do understand, then you'll also take note that virtually every major desktop application that the "average"(your apparent defintion, not mine) user would want, is most definetly available in a binary format.
... and choose KDE as your default desktop during the install. I had a 10 year old install it on one of my notebooks with no problems. He was doing his homework on it about half an hour after booting it for the first time. If you can't figure it out, maybe you should seek help from a local 3rd grader.
I agree. Microsoft can't kill tcp/ip. I don't think Bill Gates is that arrogant(he's certainly not that stupid) as to try to implement a plan like that. I think HailStorm is going to be thier attempt at a coup, and hailstorm could do just fine over IP6.
As for those losers who say "linux will never succeed", they are blind to the fact that it has succeeded. Brilliantly. This, in spite of all their naysaying, it's bigger than ever and growing faster than ever. Let them keep talking, they're only demonstrating their inability to see things as they are.
But you know, we all could just delete Linux tomorrow and install Windows, or perhaps every Linux user in the world will simultaneously be hit by bowling ball sized meteors while outdoors, that could happen too.
While most of what you said I tend to agree with, I do take issue with one thing(other than what appears to be a mistype "Linux is going to go away..." which I assume you meant "isn't", because it isn't). Here's the offending line:
"It just happens to be IPv6. Let's face it, it's about time, and unless M$ makes that push, it isn't going to happen."
You obviously have been smoking some of that hydro dank yourself if you think that the world needs Microsoft to push innovation. The internet happened in spite of Microsoft, not because of it and it will advance, in spite of it, not because of it.
I agree. I'd also like to add, that where people with old economy thought processes try to enter into a business that involves the GPL, the greed of their thought process will inevitably cause these fights to ensue.
Greed and a need for control and dominance is
not compatible with a license designed for sharing and cooperation. It's pretty obvious that's what's going on here. As a community, we should not empower these type of companies with our business.
I remember when I finished Harvest of Stars, and then a few years later picked up The Stars Are Also Fire. Magnificent, both of them were absolutely awesome. It's a shame that he died before the ability to download himself became reality. He dealt with issues of liberty and self reliance, and also the morality of questioning authority when authority is Corrupt, yet is considered by most to be good(sounds like a country I live in). It opened my eyes to my own blind faith in Government(I was raised to have it). I've read many sci-fi novels, but no other books impacted my view of authority and reality. His books did and I will always remember those 2 works, especially the sequel. Good Bye Poul!(I'd say Mr. Anderson, but there's something too sinister about that ever since the Matrix).
"But Katz seems way too interested in trying to play up the "he was acting as a journalist" thing. I don't know if he thinks that only journalists should have such protections, or that anything that informs anyone of anything is journalism, or if he's just trying to get "journalist" defined broadly enough that he can actually be one. I'm not a journalist, and I expect to be treated with dignity, even if I do break a law, and I find it yet again insulting that Katz thinks that I would need to be redefined as a journalist to merit news coverage of my questionable arrest and denial of due process. And I'm more than willing to call Katz a butt-head for implying it." Now I know why you don't like Katz, you don't even understand what he's saying. His point had nothing to do with him holding an opinion that only journalists deserve the same coverage, nor did his point imply that he thinks it should be this way. His point is this is the way it is and has come to be in his country. If you are offended by these concepts, as you seem to be in your post, then this insult should become outrage then, as these things which were merely an offensive opinion for you are in actuality, an ongoing reality. Katz is clearly sounding an alarm about these things, not condoning or promoting them.
...if you don't keep your service packs up to date for your bionic suit, you could find yourself doing the robot... be careful out there...
...Oriented Thought Process, by Matt Weisfeld.
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1(get all of em if you can), is an excellent reference for virtually every network technical job. Whether it be coding, systems administration, database administration, webmastering, or just supporting any software which operates over tcp/ip networks, it will be a big boon and you will grow strong in the force. Also, it's very nicely bound and has stood up far better than my O'reilly books(which are excellent, they just don't last very long if many people are sharing them in my experience).
As for The Objected-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weifeld(SAMS publishing), this book facilitated my final trancendance from mere precedural programming, to the heedy heights of Object Oriented programming(although that sounds alot better than it feels). If you've struggled with REALLY understanding OOP, get this book and read it. I read it in 2 days, it was addictive and eye opening. It is not a book about code in any one language, but about thinking in terms of objects, and it does this extremely well. When I was finished, I found I could read C++ code(this is coming from a strong C background, your mileage may vary). Before reading this book, I just never got it. I'd wager money this book will still be useful 20 years from now. Although it is a paperback.
I hope they just pretend those horrible horrible Battlestar Galactica shows from the 80's where they made it to earth are just forgotten. Gawd those motorcycles, how embarassing. Unfortunately, that was the only Galactica show my fiance has ever seen so now it's a hard sell. Ugh.
I think Admins who jump at this type of traffic need to read TCP/IP illustrated guide, because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of what their logs are saying. If you don't understand that book, you should not even bother monitoring the logs or being an Admin in a tcp/ip networked environment for that matter, anymore than an iliterate man should be a proof reader. My 2 cents.
There's also the small fact that Star Trek itself is derivative of the sci-fi influences in Gene Roddenberrys life. I mean, was Star Trek really the first sci-fi concept with space ships that "warped"? Or energy beam weapons? Or dematerializtion devices? Or computers that talked? Or alien races? Or "federations" of space faring creatures?
People who think so, clearly don't read much classic sci-fi.
And I'm not saying this to knock Roddenberry, to this day I rewatch the original and the next generation(I can't stomach Voyager, although Deep Space 9 had it's shining moments). Star Trek was/is a cool and innovative concept, both in it's original form, and in the next generation incarnation, but the technologies and elements that each one was built on were far from ground breaking or unique, from a sci-fi perspective. From a tv perspective, of course it looks like the father of all sci-fi.
I totally agree. As long as the perception exists among a signifigant number of people that cell phones cause brain tumors, it makes perfect sense why they would develop such technology while still believing that there is no danger. I just hope they really believe that and aren't pulling a big tobacco maneuver.
Government rights. Great... One day, we're going to have to take up arms and defend ourselves from fruitloops(no offense to that delicious cereal) like this, as a "liberation" army moves in to destroy the way of life that we have come to choose for ourselves, because our way of life is not the way Alex Chiu was taught that it should be.
Note the staunch hipocrisy. First, Taiwan is part of China, just cause he was taught that. Next, Tibet is part of China, because they made things better(in his view, nevermind he doesn't nor hasn't lived in either place himself). Yet, it seems to me, that Taiwanese people have a better life than Chinese people, but I guess what really counts is his subjective viewpoint, not any logical reasoning, heaven forbid.
This is exactly why I don't believe in governments anymore, because people with defective thought processes like this always end up in power. Then, the thinkers are either thrown in jail, or forced to lock and load and shoot to kill in order to preserve their freedom.
Personally, I don't think the analysts think AMD is much of a threat. A few years ago, shortly after AMD released the K6-2, I remember talking to one of my cousins who works for a "tech oriented investment group"(whatever that means), and he told me I was "on crack" for thinking that AMD had any chance against Intel.
Last time I saw him, I ribbed him quite a bit and suggested that maybe crack might be a good thing for someone in his line of work. He, being the decent guy he is, admitted he had been wrong, but then went on to say how corporate America won't give up Intel.
Personally, I think if AMD can deliver similiar performance for substantially less money, only a corporate american moron would pay more for Intel. I mean, these aren't cars without moving parts, these are solid state processors, with almost identical failure rates(from what I've read anyway). What business sense would it make to pay more for virutally the same performance?
But then, AMD might not be able to deliver that in an SMP system. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Who would clean the phones?
Domesticated rats live an average of 2.5 years. Why not make a device to sustain a rat indefinetly and then show the public an 8 year old rat 8 years from now? That way, he can demonstrate that his device works well within the lifetime of all his detractors.
... a website defacement will one day "cost" 10 million dollars to the "victim" company. And, the insurance industry(disease?) will financially back draconian anti-hacking anti-personal rights laws, citing the latest website defacements "cost" as the need for such harsh measures, and after they've passed, they'll still up their rates. All the while, realizing huge profit increases every quarter, while publicly whining about any claims they do have to pay. Everyone will reason that they need insurance, and then you'll have this huge piece of garbage industry backing even more laws that walk all over our rights, when all anyone really had to do in the first place was stay on top of updates and exploits.
And in response to all this, what will our government do? Why, you fight beuracracy with more beauracracy, duh! We'll have the national hacker insurance oversight board, which will "fix" prices for companies, er, consumers, yeah, that's what they'll do, protect consumers, just like Californias benevolent insurance commision. Eventually, it will be mandatory to have such insurance to have a website for a as yet to be devised reason.
Poor predictable humanity, if you'd just look in the mirror occasionaly, you'd be able to realize why you're such easy pickings for the wolves.
"Dream on, you crazy, idealistic nerds"
You forgot paranoid.
"The only thing dumber than the republicans, are the democrats, and the people who believe in either."
One aspect of your privacy is protected by this.
I'm sure it required a good deal of research to come up with the concept that to monitor us is cheaper than not monitoring us. Yes, it makes perfect sense that it is cheaper to gather and retain data than not to gather and retain data. Uh-huh. These guys are comedians that aren't funny at all. It's actually because of things like this, that I push Linux to everyone I know(I use it because it's superior, I evangelize it because the alternatives lead to a dark future where shoddy standards and half assed software is crammed down our throats, like Microsofts laughable and highly insecure VPN implementation to mention one of many many things).
Bunch of bad clowns.
Anyone surprised by the ruling is a fool. This is America, land of the fee and home of the depraved, of course pinciples of freedom are not going to be applied. When a group of people can not even organize their own religion on a piece of land they legally habitate out in the boonies, without having federal agents show up to burn everyone to death, what makes you think you have a right to peer to peer networking? Those in power have so divided us, the people, that we are truly conquered. Like the boneheads we Americans have come to be, we embrace the labels which our applied to ourselves and others. We see people who those in power attach a label to, and then we look the other way(many actually cheer and watch) as those in power violate numerous laws(not to mention the constitutional right of due process) and burn people alive, with no trial. Just a condemnation at the whim of a jack-booted thug and boom, the death sentence is applied. And we expect that while we look away from such inhuman barbaric acts, that these same people in power are going to respect your rights as a consumer? Bah, quit playing the part of a fool. You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. It is saddening, very sad and depressing, that people can look the other way and not have moral outcry when their fellow man is burned alive in the so-called 'land of the free' because their fellow man(whom they do not know personally) is labeled "fanatic" by the government. Then, when a court rules that a popular service, which is used extensively to break the laws of said government, be shut down, then the "moral"(SIC) outcry begins. The shock and the outrage come pouring out in torrents. Stupid is as stupid does.