I am sure what will come of this is every copy of software will have licensing that will print out and the user must sign it and give it to the cashier before they are alowed to take it home.
If that happened, I wonder if the consumers would:
a) start looking for software that doesn't have a binding license attached, or
b) just complain constantly about having to sign for their software
Unfortunately, a look at the average consumer makes me think that b) is the more likely outcome.
Every comment ive ganked has been a +5 but at the most i grab a +2 for my efforts. Apparantly good posts have a half life.
Perhaps that's the problem... the +5 comments stand out so much, that your repost gets noticed more easily. I bet if you snag +3 comments you won't get noticed as easily, and in fact if you can cleverly find places to post them, you might out-do the original.
I'd love to post original and insightful comments but that takes too much time and effort, and isnt as much fun as manipulating the people in the discussion.
But funny comments don't take much time and effort. I've probably gotten more karma from funny than insightful or interesting.
If I'm going to watch a movie, I'll do it on the 50" TV with the Pioneer Elite receiver and Klipsch Reference speakers in the next room.
Yes, it's more expensive than the setup you're talking about plus a 19" monitor plus a PC. But the difference in sound quality, video quality, and impact is staggering. Besides, my whole home theater setup didn't cost much more than a new 17" PowerBook.;)
There's nothing stopping Joe Married Couple on $90,000 from investing in stocks that pay dividends. I know plenty of people who stick hundreds or thousands of dollars in savings accounts that earn less interest than the dividend rate on some stocks.
I think the dividend tax cut is a good idea. It should encourage investment in stocks and bring money into the market, thus improving the economy. Yes, it will benefit the wealthy more than the not so wealthy in terms of actual dollars on the 1040 forms. But as I said before, there's nothing stopping the middle class from investing in stocks, and those too poor to invest aren't paying (much) tax anyway so we can't cut their taxes.
For the record, I'm *not* suggesting we entrust future shuttle missions to Microsoft.
Judging from my experience with Windows, that would mean that when a disaster does happen, there'd be no way to investigate and find out the cause - you'd just have to build another shuttle and start over ("reinstall").
Right, my point was that in the Challenger explosion, the parts that were affected by the cold were not parts that go into space. At least, I think that was my point. It was awfully late and I had had a few too many beers to be talking about spacecraft.
Cremating at the optimum temperature (1400 - 1800 degrees), the average weighted remains takes 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Several more hours may be required before the cremated remains are available to the family.
I don't know what kind of temperatures would have been found within the crew cabin once the shuttle broke up, but I do know they didn't last for 2 hours. Also, there's a lot more oxygen available for combustion in a crematorium (I think extra oxygen is pumped in, actually) than there is at 200,000 feet. I'm not surprised some remains survived.
Morbid stuff, but it's a bit fascinating how difficult it is to completely burn a human body.
Yeah but that misconception has been hammered into people's heads almost as hard as the one about the Bernoulli principle creating lift on an airplane's wing.;)
Perhaps I'm not. Then again, neither are 90% of the desktop users out there. The absence of Photoshop is not an indication that Linux isn't usable on the desktop. Now, if you said it's not usable for graphic artists, I might agree with you.
Bluecurve IS a desktop since the theme is what the user interfaces with and not the underlying Window Manager.
By that logic, I could say that my mother runs the Dangerous Creatures desktop on her computer.
The theme just changes the look and feel a bit. The user interfaces with the desktop. Whatever features and limitations are in KDE or Gnome will remain regardless of what theme is selected.
Apparently you don't have any hardware that is unable to work on your "real distro", however in the "real world" I don't have time to fuck with tweaking the system for several hours when on another system it just works.
No, I don't have any hardware that doesn't work. That situation can usually be avoided by spending five minutes checking your distribution's hardware compatibility list.
Try running a Highpoint Rocket RAID 100/133 card on a SMP Intel based system.
Again, not exactly a common piece of kit for a desktop user, and thus not something that proves Linux isn't a decent desktop. Also, since this thread started off as a comparison of Linux and OS/X, does that card just plug-n-play in a PowerMac? Obviously you couldn't put it in an iMac!
Also I have a new mobo using "Chipset: VIA KT400 / VIA VT8235" and it will not install 7.2, 7.3 or 8.0. How's that for "stable".
I know for a fact that OS/X won't install on that, so obviously it isn't ready for the desktop either.
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On my Cooker (Mandrake dev. version) box, I typed
urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select
this morning... and within 15 minutes, I had KDE 3.1 AND OpenOffice 1.0.2 installed. Oh, and also some updated printer filters and assorted other stuff.
If it isn't that easy to install KDE for you, complain to the folks that package your distribution. If you're using LFS, well, you ought to enjoy hunting down dependencies by now!
Until Linux has a decent desktop (where installing an application actually integrates with the menu)...
Hmm, every app I install on my Mandrake Linux system gets integrated with the menu.
and has some decent apps (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Premiere,...)
There are competitive GPL'd apps for all of those (saving you even more $$$), or you could run Wine and get the Windows versions of any of them to run.
Blue curve is a great try at a good desktop, maybe it will take off.
No, Bluecurve is a desktop theme. Gnome and KDE are still the desktops underneath it.
I have no problems with linux b/c I've been using it since around '95 (ah slackware). However, trying to find all the workarounds to keep things playing friendly isn't fun on higher end or newer hardware.
I don't have to 'find workarounds' for my hardware, and it's all pretty new stuff. Then again, I'm using a real distro that actually goes to the trouble of making things work, not one that just slaps all the software on the hard drive and says, "here ya go!"
Then again, he also said the kids are alright, and we only now figured out what he meant. zing!
I was about to chime in with a comment about his current legal trouble, but then saw the last line of your post and realized you did it far better than I could have.
I think what you're calling 'muscle memory' is really a function of the cerebellum. The intricacies of the motion are not something you're consciously aware of anymore, but the muscles are still being controlled by the brain.
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If that happened, I wonder if the consumers would:
Unfortunately, a look at the average consumer makes me think that b) is the more likely outcome.
In Soviet* Russia
The OpenOffice haiku
Writes Anon Coward!
Natalie Portman,
Beowulf cluster of grits;
Phase three is profit.
Let us not forget
In A. D. Two-one-oh-one
War was beginning.
* To make this work, pronounce it "sov-yet".
Every comment ive ganked has been a +5 but at the most i grab a +2 for my efforts. Apparantly good posts have a half life.
Perhaps that's the problem... the +5 comments stand out so much, that your repost gets noticed more easily. I bet if you snag +3 comments you won't get noticed as easily, and in fact if you can cleverly find places to post them, you might out-do the original.
I'd love to post original and insightful comments but that takes too much time and effort, and isnt as much fun as manipulating the people in the discussion.
But funny comments don't take much time and effort. I've probably gotten more karma from funny than insightful or interesting.
Wow, what a great job you did of cutting and pasting this post. I'm impressed.
Well, that's the first bad review of the Klipsch speakers that I have ever read.
But it came from such a reliable source! Don't you know how highly regarded Anonymous Coward is in the audiophile community?
If I'm going to watch a movie, I'll do it on the 50" TV with the Pioneer Elite receiver and Klipsch Reference speakers in the next room.
;)
Yes, it's more expensive than the setup you're talking about plus a 19" monitor plus a PC. But the difference in sound quality, video quality, and impact is staggering. Besides, my whole home theater setup didn't cost much more than a new 17" PowerBook.
Didn't you see the sign?
"NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!"
Denied!
There's nothing stopping Joe Married Couple on $90,000 from investing in stocks that pay dividends. I know plenty of people who stick hundreds or thousands of dollars in savings accounts that earn less interest than the dividend rate on some stocks.
I think the dividend tax cut is a good idea. It should encourage investment in stocks and bring money into the market, thus improving the economy. Yes, it will benefit the wealthy more than the not so wealthy in terms of actual dollars on the 1040 forms. But as I said before, there's nothing stopping the middle class from investing in stocks, and those too poor to invest aren't paying (much) tax anyway so we can't cut their taxes.
And you need someone to say, "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
For the record, I'm *not* suggesting we entrust future shuttle missions to Microsoft.
Judging from my experience with Windows, that would mean that when a disaster does happen, there'd be no way to investigate and find out the cause - you'd just have to build another shuttle and start over ("reinstall").
A BSoD at 200,000 feet would suck, too.
Right, my point was that in the Challenger explosion, the parts that were affected by the cold were not parts that go into space. At least, I think that was my point. It was awfully late and I had had a few too many beers to be talking about spacecraft.
I don't know what kind of temperatures would have been found within the crew cabin once the shuttle broke up, but I do know they didn't last for 2 hours. Also, there's a lot more oxygen available for combustion in a crematorium (I think extra oxygen is pumped in, actually) than there is at 200,000 feet. I'm not surprised some remains survived.
Morbid stuff, but it's a bit fascinating how difficult it is to completely burn a human body.
Yeah but that misconception has been hammered into people's heads almost as hard as the one about the Bernoulli principle creating lift on an airplane's wing. ;)
Yes, but the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters don't go into space.
I've always had problems with the gas grill spark-maker not generating a strong enough spark.
That doesn't surprise me; I have trouble getting them to generate enough spark to light the %!#@! grill!
intended user of Photoshop.
Perhaps I'm not. Then again, neither are 90% of the desktop users out there. The absence of Photoshop is not an indication that Linux isn't usable on the desktop. Now, if you said it's not usable for graphic artists, I might agree with you.
Bluecurve IS a desktop since the theme is what the user interfaces with and not the underlying Window Manager.
By that logic, I could say that my mother runs the Dangerous Creatures desktop on her computer.
The theme just changes the look and feel a bit. The user interfaces with the desktop. Whatever features and limitations are in KDE or Gnome will remain regardless of what theme is selected.
Apparently you don't have any hardware that is unable to work on your "real distro", however in the "real world" I don't have time to fuck with tweaking the system for several hours when on another system it just works.
No, I don't have any hardware that doesn't work. That situation can usually be avoided by spending five minutes checking your distribution's hardware compatibility list.
Try running a Highpoint Rocket RAID 100/133 card on a SMP Intel based system.
Again, not exactly a common piece of kit for a desktop user, and thus not something that proves Linux isn't a decent desktop. Also, since this thread started off as a comparison of Linux and OS/X, does that card just plug-n-play in a PowerMac? Obviously you couldn't put it in an iMac!
Also I have a new mobo using "Chipset: VIA KT400 / VIA VT8235" and it will not install 7.2, 7.3 or 8.0. How's that for "stable".
I know for a fact that OS/X won't install on that, so obviously it isn't ready for the desktop either.
On my Cooker (Mandrake dev. version) box, I typed
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select
this morning... and within 15 minutes, I had KDE 3.1 AND OpenOffice 1.0.2 installed. Oh, and also some updated printer filters and assorted other stuff.
If it isn't that easy to install KDE for you, complain to the folks that package your distribution. If you're using LFS, well, you ought to enjoy hunting down dependencies by now!
Until Linux has a decent desktop (where installing an application actually integrates with the menu)...
...)
Hmm, every app I install on my Mandrake Linux system gets integrated with the menu.
and has some decent apps (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Premiere,
There are competitive GPL'd apps for all of those (saving you even more $$$), or you could run Wine and get the Windows versions of any of them to run.
Blue curve is a great try at a good desktop, maybe it will take off.
No, Bluecurve is a desktop theme. Gnome and KDE are still the desktops underneath it.
I have no problems with linux b/c I've been using it since around '95 (ah slackware). However, trying to find all the workarounds to keep things playing friendly isn't fun on higher end or newer hardware.
I don't have to 'find workarounds' for my hardware, and it's all pretty new stuff. Then again, I'm using a real distro that actually goes to the trouble of making things work, not one that just slaps all the software on the hard drive and says, "here ya go!"
I guess for live performance, this guitar system would violate the idea of KISS.
But I didn't think KISS performed live anymore!
Clapton playing a $99 guitar would sound like... Clapton.
Except that he'd be saying things like, "Damn, this neck sucks!" and "What retard adjusted this bridge?" the whole time.
Actually, Fender does make violins. Still, I think you're right that the parent poster meant Stradivarius.
Then again, he also said the kids are alright, and we only now figured out what he meant. zing!
I was about to chime in with a comment about his current legal trouble, but then saw the last line of your post and realized you did it far better than I could have.
Don't forget the classic:
Q: Why is NASA buying Pepsi products now?
A: Because they can't get 7 up!
Q: What color were Christa McAuliffe's eyes?
A: Blue. One blue to the left, one blue to the right!
I think what you're calling 'muscle memory' is really a function of the cerebellum. The intricacies of the motion are not something you're consciously aware of anymore, but the muscles are still being controlled by the brain.
Once again, Trek provides the answer. Remember when Spock's brain was stolen?