Why is it that many private schools cost far less per student
Easy, they pay their teachers less and have less sports equipment and things like that. I went to private schools growing up.
yet the students get higher scores and better chances at good jobs.
Face it, these students have parents that care. If nothing else, they paid extra money for thier education and have at least a financial return on investment interest here. The parents make more money and have better learning toys like computers and books. Most all of the parents were college graduates. Etc, etc.
Who knows, but the point is it DOESNT have to cost more.
gravity -- noone knows what it is. A wave, a distortion of the space-time continuum, just that stuff that seems to make matter want to stick together.
light -- what is that? A particle, a wave, energy, mass? Dunno.
life -- what is that? some kind of self perpetuating thing that makes some matter more important than other matter? What is really the difference between a dead organism and a live one? Seriously, I don't know.
time -- love that stuff. Is it linear, relative, or does it even exist? AFAIK, we talk about "now" in terms of both the past and the future. Clearly the past does not exist. Clearly the future does not exist. So now is what now?
Remember that the scientific method basically states that an unproven hypothesis is only that - an unproven hypothesis; and to become true you must provide proofs. That is to say: you must prove the existence of god, not provide a you-cannot-prove-it-doesn't-exist-so-it-certainly- exists stuff.
I always thought the scientific method was only good a refuting current theories. To my knowledge nothing has been proven in science. A bunch of agreed upon theories by a bunch of people with people finding exceptions and holes in theries all the time. In my experience, science has only provided a continual stream of new and different theories. Nothing more, nothing less.
The US School system needs a f'en major overhaul. The money is there (we're #2 in the world in public funding per student behind Sweden).
That sounds good, but who is going to do all of the blue collar work once nobody is blue collar or what about those low paying service jobs like food servers and whatnot?
Is there some lack of qualified educated people in this country? I havn't noticed any. There appears to be more jobs open for jobs that require little to no education vs ones that do.
Although the government pays lipservice to education, do they really want to be ruling over people that actually think? It would severly make thier job much more difficult, or even out of a job.
The system is just horseshit. No responsibility, teachers can't teach, kids are a bunch of bastards, and the parents are taking absolutely no responsibility for the kids.
Unfortunately, that is simply how it is in the USA, and we are damn proud of it, thankyouverymuch. I ask myself, is this really the best country in the world as advertised? Way, off topic, but anyway...
I have a very different view of education than many people. I personally consider education at least though high school just to be babysitters. Bright kids with interest seem to find thier way into top notch colleges every year. Again, like the jobs, I have not heard of colleges that are lacking in qualified students.
Plus, what has math gotten anybody that people respect in this country? Wanna do some derivatives with Paris Hilton? How about George W? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Any actors or football players or basketball players? Jerry Garcia? (Miss you buddy)
Although I value education very highly. I'm in the minority, and probably for a reason. My other values don't appear to be very universal either. Things like honesty, integrity, manors, and basically trying to be nice to people. But I'm obviously wrong since I'm in the minority.
Most Americans for some unknown reason just want to be rich. They don't want to work. Every summer my area and the beaches are flooded with Europeans because college kids don't want to work anymore. Outsourcing and importing workers is common.
I guess what I am getting at is that there is no desire or need for math skills in this country. I liked math. Took many more hours in college than was required for my degree, but I don't see any problems in this country due to a lack of math skills.
None of these things can be clearly defined or explained, but we play with them all the time, and most people believe they exist without question.
The existence of anything besides entropy is an extreemly outrageous claim unless you believe that imaginary magical pink unicorns created all of this order that entropy is constantly trying to disseminate into.
Listen, you're trying to argue against the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent being. This being supposedly CREATED THE UNIVERSE. He is ALL-POWERFUL. To accept that a being like that could possibly exist is to accept that a being like that created any 'evidence' you have against his existence.
I mean, i don't believe in God either, but you can't pretend to be more enlightened than someone else when you have no evidence that an all-powerful God doesn't exist.
There is no evidence supporting anything does not exist.
Many adverts aren't rendering correctly on firefox, including some flash/dhtml combos and some dhtml ads.
I don't expect this is the main reason, but it doesn't help.
I realize that working for an ad company can be fun (for you). Lots of new and different projects where you are pretty much limited by your imigination.
However, for the rest of the world, ads suck. Doubly so for flash ads (I browse w/o flash because of them).
I'm running the beta of Safari, and pithhelmet (ad blocker for safari) does not work yet for this release, and the ads are driving me crazy. Its been something like 5 or so years since I've seen ads on webpages. They are not missed.
Tell me about it. Its almost like MTV. I can bet that I'll have a conversation with someone in the future like I do now with people about MTV -- "I used to remember when MTV had music, music videos, and concerts", you get the drift with a similer conversation with people about weather.com.
If your a Mac user, this is what I use for weather forcasts, etc http://www.bainsware.com/sonofgrok/. No frills, just the weather. Same info that everyone else has, but without anything that is not weather.
weather.com does have a good domainname though. I'm guessing thats 99% of their business model. Easy to remember domainname with ads displaying publicly available information. Heh, even this url, http://wheather.com/, will get you there:)
You're assuming the point of advertising is to make you click. Strangely, many "new economy" ad execs sold their wares the same way. "Yeah, the users will CLICK and GO to your WEBSITE and BUY THINGS!!!11 ON THE SPOT!!!!111"
In summary, yes, brand recognition should be the point of advertising. In fact, last night a friend was over and asked about a website for hotel reservations for the new year. I've never done or really looked for hotel reservations, but I blurted out "expedia". Mostly because of the cute jingle they have on their TV ads. Expediaaaaaa dot COMMMM! Very catchy, and they might get a sale out of it.
Also, my post talks about ads that are directly targeted towards you buying something now like infomercials and comercials with 1-800 numbers and operators standing by 24 hours a day kinda stuff. For these products, advertising is actually part of the product and business model.
For me, the amount of advertising something does is inversly proportional for my true desire or need for said product. The good stuff doesn't need advertising (or even legal to sell:) for it to be desired at a premium price.
I liked fedora core 1, it works pretty well for me and runs my apps, but I was keeping my eye on the market and looking at alternatives as usual. This week I switched my work desktop from redhat/fedora core 1 to Suse 9.1 - I'm impressed by the fact that everything "just works" with suse, and that it comes with absolutely everything but the kitchen sink. I installed the nvidia drivers with one click in the yast menu, and will be installing ut2004 after finals...
OK, a couple of things, I was into Linux when I was in college and when I first got out. Today, I'm not impressed when "everything" "just works", up from "it works pretty well for me and runs my apps". Pretty well is not good enough, and "everything just works" is an expectation for me. I expect it of my car, my diswasher, and my computer. Trust me, getting excited about nvidia drivers when your in your 30s is kinda immature.
From this review of Suse 9.2, this review seems about as good as my experience with Linux ever got.
This reviewer was happy that this version of Linux came with a working battery level app. I ditched linux before such luxuries came around. I have 36 minutes before my PowerBook battery is at full charge. It also shows me the time to empty too when running on battery.
The reviewer says, "Using SuSE's powerful profile manager SCPM (System configuration profile management), I can swap almost effortlessly between network configurations".
Again, this is new to me for Linux. I like the "almost effortlessly" part. For me, when I go to a different network, I pick the location from the "Location" menu, and within 5 seconds or so I'm on the network. When I used Linux, I had symlinks to files for things like/etc/sysconfig/networks-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.locatio n1... locationN, and the same for/etc/resolv.conf, etc. My script relinked the proper links for the proper network, and away I went. I had to waste my time putting this together, whereas someone at Apple just did this for me.
This review seems candid and summarizes my experiences as well.
Not good enough. Sorry. Got better things to do with my time. I'm happy with Linux in my server rooms. No complaints once it is up and running, but for my day to day use, I prefer something a little more mature and polished.
Personally speaking, I use Linux 100% of the time, and don't find any need to resort to windows as you sugest, to make up for some supposed "deficiencies"
Then...
I sometimes work with windows 2k and xp. I simply don't see anything to get excited about in either case.
Sad to say, but your linux knowledge seems either very dated or severely limited.
How so?
I havn't seen anything new in Linux since at least 98 or 99. Is there something I missed? Last I noticed there was 2 major widget sets for Linux that behaved, looked, and acted differently (qt/kde and gnome). Both are ugly, Windows knockoffs. Neither are near as good as handling simple tasks like printing as Windows or OS X. Thats not to say that there are still tons of other widgets out there like Motif and tk that both look different and worse than qt or gnome.
(shrug) Sleep as long as you like - meanwhile I'm using linux happily, with a "real GUI" (yes, I've seen and used OSX, and I prefer Linux). I've no idea what you mean about the packaging system - apt works a treat, as do the package formats it manages.
Just out of curiosity, what real Linux only GUI do you run? Most people are split between KDE and Gnome, which seem pretty much the same to me. I last ran WIndowmaker because it was not a Windows knockoff and I just liked it better than the others. I've run KDE, Gnome, and Windowmaker on other OSes besides Linux. Oh, btw, seeing OS X and using it are very different.
apt works with rpms? I'm a Debian fan. Best distro out there for Linux in my opinion, however much 3rd party hardware and software requires Redhat and/or RPMs. When I mean a working package manager, I mean somthing where I get a CD or download something for Linux I can double click on it or use one commandline command to install it. Alien is nice, but its a hack for a fundamentally broken problem. Don't get me wrong, all unix like things are just as broken, and Debian is the mostly not-broken, but being that it does not handle RPM natively (yeah, I know about the apt-rpm stuff). Even if there is sufficent stuff for apt to handle an RPM, good luck on it actually running correctly.
Gee that's funny, I'm not suffering, and neither are any of the linux users I know. We all CHOSE our OS, and use it because we prefer it. But I suspect that you are suffering. Does it drive you crazy that some many prefer Linux or other OSes over your beloved OS X?
I really only know 1 person that is left running Linux. He also uses Windows ME (yeah!) to make up for Linux' deficiencies from time to time. I know a physicist who runs Linux, but he is a masochist, and he is one of my most annoying users. Actually, he is the most annoying, I don't care if he suffers, he probably prefers it.
No, it doesn't drive me crazy, except when I see posts like this on slashdot. Noone (now there is one post), including yourself, has anything good to tell this "Professional Photographer using Linux". Except the Gimp color manager, but then again if Gimp is good enough for you, I don't consider yourself a professional. Maybe if you have reimplemented all of Photoshop's plugins in your spare time. Then your a genius wierdo, and you can do what you want.
I don't have an ax to grind. I love Linux. Its cool.
Linux for GUI stuff is still at least 10 years below par.
Maybe instead of suggesting OS X, I should just say wait 10 years. But I'm sure that will get as much grief.
Hint, this was not a serious post. The guy is asking about "Professional Photographers using Linux". His scanner that he cant do without, Epson Perfection 2400, costs under $100, for which he was apparently trying to scan slides.
I'm not a photographer, but I know that you use a slide scanner for slides. Photoshop for professionally editing photographs.
Ghesh, I even know that there are slide scanners that can automatically take out dust now!
PS, tell the guy to buy a Mac, some decent sofware, and a couple of books. If he is any good, he will be looking like a professional in no time.
it's sort of irritating that you answer every single computer related question with the stock answer, "why not switch to mac?"
Its even more irritating as a Linux user for over 10 years to see people still "trying to get it to work, but not trying enough to use something like google".
Would there be an ask.slashdot.org article saying "Professional Photographers Using OS X"?
No.
Why not?
As I have said, I've used Linux for over 10 years now. I get paid to admin it, I know enough about it to leave it in the server room.
Maybe for an embedded app like a mythbox or on my Linksys router, but wake me up when there is a real GUI and real working applications and a packaging system that works.
The reason that people say "why not switch to a mac?" is becuase its the best advice that people are asking for. A mac is UNIX now. It has (IMHO) the best terminal application in the business. It comes with ssh. Every day I do:
ssh linuxbox
and it works just like it did when I had linux on my desktop, but now I can do things like run Office if I want (*shutter*) run photoshop, have good looking fonts, have an installer that works, have hardware that works, have an OS that works, have a GUI that works, printers that work, network configurations across multiple LANs that work, more than one browser that works, etc, etc. Then there is stuff that other OSes can't touch, like Expose. And things that just "think different" like Quicksilver. I really, really like my Mac more and more every day. I was the same way about Linux, but a better mouse trap has come along. Trust me, its really that good.
I laugh all the time when people suffer with Linux on their desktop. Its very late '90s and pictures of it are starting to show its age.
Metallica became who they are because of "the word on the street". Once they hit it big, they steadily declined in quality, IMO. The Black Album was their big commercial success, and they haven't been the same since.
I disagree. IM(H)O, they became sucessful because they were good.
Yes, I will agree that that "Black Album" was ther best, but that was released in 1991. Their first album came out almost 10 years before in 1983. Most bands' best work is in most people's opinions was their 1st or 2nd album.
Keep in mind that Metallica promptly rested on their laurels after the black album and waited 5 years to release their next (weak) album Load.
Why do musicians go for recording contracts anymore? It is obvious that the vast majority of them recieve no significant ongoing income from record sales.
Shhhh. Most artists make better material when they have little money to spend and the only comfort in their lives are good drugs.
Those that are already famous want to wring every cent out of the fame they've worked hard to get and therefore loathe the Internet's ease of file sharing.
Nah, most of them care about maintaining status quo. Being that most music artists do nothing significant after their 30th birthday as far a new material goes, any rational artist over 30 that has a nice place to stay and can eat and do regular stuff should be pretty content for being able to retire at such a young age.
Even though most of the "news" is not properly fact checked, and is blindly accepted as true, I have issue with the article that says:
Indeed, big-ticket acts like Metallica and Don Henley have famously denounced illegal file sharing. And the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed thousands of lawsuits against individual file-sharers, often invokes musicians as prime movers in its crusade.
Metallica, yes, Don Henley, dunno.
Metallica can continue to charge $75+ for half full concert venues (vs $35 and sold out, no pun intended).
Don Henley on the other hand is no sympathizer for the RIAA.
The Eagles have their own recording company and they are not RIAA members.
Lets hope and pray that morals have nothing to do with heaven after Rapture, a random/. post I thought was interesting:
"Moral men admit mistakes. Immoral men will go to any length to justify their actions and will never admit wrong doing. Moral men think long and hard about starting actions that result in the deaths of 15,000 people. Moral men start wars as a last resort. Moral men start wars as a last resort when they say that is what they intend to do - i.e moral men keep their word. Moral men do not prey upon the fears of Americans to facilitate acts of foreign agression. Moral men are not certain in the face of all doubt but always doubt their information and actions when either of those result in harm to others. Moral men do not accuse others of "flip-flopping" if they themselves have "flip-flopped" repeatedly - i.e. moral men are not hypocrites. Moral men do not misconstrue the words and ideas of their opponents in order to attack an easier target - i.e. moral me do not construct straw men. Moral men step down from positions of authority when it is clear they don't have the intellect, judgement, or leadership to justly execute that authority."
Gambling and prize awarding in government is deemed to be immoral and unethical unless its geared against its most uneducated and impoverished citizens.
Personally I think the money they spent on the iraq war would have been better used at NASA. But your right, the US may find itself in deep financial trouble in the future....
Personally, I'm against war. Personally, I know Bush W is an idiot and a liar.
However, after 3 years of looking, I found out why we went to war in Iraq, and as much as I am against war and Bush, I believe that killing about 16,000 to 20,000 people in preservation of the US economic status is completely worthwhile.
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Why is it that many private schools cost far less per student
Easy, they pay their teachers less and have less sports equipment and things like that. I went to private schools growing up.
yet the students get higher scores and better chances at good jobs.
Face it, these students have parents that care. If nothing else, they paid extra money for thier education and have at least a financial return on investment interest here. The parents make more money and have better learning toys like computers and books. Most all of the parents were college graduates. Etc, etc.
Who knows, but the point is it DOESNT have to cost more.
I don't believe anybody will refute this.
Why actually LEARN anything when you can just grow up to be Britney Spears and make millions!? It's all about "stuff".
Learning requires effort. Effort requires motivation. Motivation requires ideology.
American ideology is basically "we expect stuff because we deserve it." I despise that self-righteous attitude, but its very common.
Now, lets give Britnet Spears credit where credit is due. She worked to get where she is today. She died her hair, got a boobjob, and works out.
I've done none of those things, and I don't make millions. I went to college and was good at math.
gravity -- noone knows what it is. A wave, a distortion of the space-time continuum, just that stuff that seems to make matter want to stick together.
- exists stuff.
light -- what is that? A particle, a wave, energy, mass? Dunno.
life -- what is that? some kind of self perpetuating thing that makes some matter more important than other matter? What is really the difference between a dead organism and a live one? Seriously, I don't know.
time -- love that stuff. Is it linear, relative, or does it even exist? AFAIK, we talk about "now" in terms of both the past and the future. Clearly the past does not exist. Clearly the future does not exist. So now is what now?
Remember that the scientific method basically states that an unproven hypothesis is only that - an unproven hypothesis; and to become true you must provide proofs. That is to say: you must prove the existence of god, not provide a you-cannot-prove-it-doesn't-exist-so-it-certainly
I always thought the scientific method was only good a refuting current theories. To my knowledge nothing has been proven in science. A bunch of agreed upon theories by a bunch of people with people finding exceptions and holes in theries all the time. In my experience, science has only provided a continual stream of new and different theories. Nothing more, nothing less.
The US School system needs a f'en major overhaul. The money is there (we're #2 in the world in public funding per student behind Sweden).
That sounds good, but who is going to do all of the blue collar work once nobody is blue collar or what about those low paying service jobs like food servers and whatnot?
Is there some lack of qualified educated people in this country? I havn't noticed any. There appears to be more jobs open for jobs that require little to no education vs ones that do.
Although the government pays lipservice to education, do they really want to be ruling over people that actually think? It would severly make thier job much more difficult, or even out of a job.
The system is just horseshit. No responsibility, teachers can't teach, kids are a bunch of bastards, and the parents are taking absolutely no responsibility for the kids.
Unfortunately, that is simply how it is in the USA, and we are damn proud of it, thankyouverymuch. I ask myself, is this really the best country in the world as advertised? Way, off topic, but anyway...
I have a very different view of education than many people. I personally consider education at least though high school just to be babysitters. Bright kids with interest seem to find thier way into top notch colleges every year. Again, like the jobs, I have not heard of colleges that are lacking in qualified students.
Plus, what has math gotten anybody that people respect in this country? Wanna do some derivatives with Paris Hilton? How about George W? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Any actors or football players or basketball players? Jerry Garcia? (Miss you buddy)
Although I value education very highly. I'm in the minority, and probably for a reason. My other values don't appear to be very universal either. Things like honesty, integrity, manors, and basically trying to be nice to people. But I'm obviously wrong since I'm in the minority.
Most Americans for some unknown reason just want to be rich. They don't want to work. Every summer my area and the beaches are flooded with Europeans because college kids don't want to work anymore. Outsourcing and importing workers is common.
I guess what I am getting at is that there is no desire or need for math skills in this country. I liked math. Took many more hours in college than was required for my degree, but I don't see any problems in this country due to a lack of math skills.
The existence of gravity is an outrageous claim.
The existence of light is an outrageous claim.
The existence of life is an outrageous claim.
The existence of time is an outrageous claim.
None of these things can be clearly defined or explained, but we play with them all the time, and most people believe they exist without question.
The existence of anything besides entropy is an extreemly outrageous claim unless you believe that imaginary magical pink unicorns created all of this order that entropy is constantly trying to disseminate into.
Who is the fool?
Listen, you're trying to argue against the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent being. This being supposedly CREATED THE UNIVERSE. He is ALL-POWERFUL. To accept that a being like that could possibly exist is to accept that a being like that created any 'evidence' you have against his existence.
I mean, i don't believe in God either, but you can't pretend to be more enlightened than someone else when you have no evidence that an all-powerful God doesn't exist.
There is no evidence supporting anything does not exist.
Try to not think about that.
Create an incredibly simple system in which a combination of seemingly random events give rise to the evolution of consciousness.
Sounds a bunch like slashdot, now doesn't it?
Stewie, is that you?
I work for an internet advertising company.
Many adverts aren't rendering correctly on firefox, including some flash/dhtml combos and some dhtml ads.
I don't expect this is the main reason, but it doesn't help.
I realize that working for an ad company can be fun (for you). Lots of new and different projects where you are pretty much limited by your imigination.
However, for the rest of the world, ads suck. Doubly so for flash ads (I browse w/o flash because of them).
I'm running the beta of Safari, and pithhelmet (ad blocker for safari) does not work yet for this release, and the ads are driving me crazy. Its been something like 5 or so years since I've seen ads on webpages. They are not missed.
Weather.com is soo last millenium.
:)
Tell me about it. Its almost like MTV. I can bet that I'll have a conversation with someone in the future like I do now with people about MTV -- "I used to remember when MTV had music, music videos, and concerts", you get the drift with a similer conversation with people about weather.com.
If your a Mac user, this is what I use for weather forcasts, etc http://www.bainsware.com/sonofgrok/. No frills, just the weather. Same info that everyone else has, but without anything that is not weather.
weather.com does have a good domainname though. I'm guessing thats 99% of their business model. Easy to remember domainname with ads displaying publicly available information. Heh, even this url, http://wheather.com/, will get you there
You're assuming the point of advertising is to make you click. Strangely, many "new economy" ad execs sold their wares the same way. "Yeah, the users will CLICK and GO to your WEBSITE and BUY THINGS!!!11 ON THE SPOT!!!!111"
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Bzzzt! Wrong, Slick.
See my previous post about ads here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131594&cid=10
In summary, yes, brand recognition should be the point of advertising. In fact, last night a friend was over and asked about a website for hotel reservations for the new year. I've never done or really looked for hotel reservations, but I blurted out "expedia". Mostly because of the cute jingle they have on their TV ads. Expediaaaaaa dot COMMMM! Very catchy, and they might get a sale out of it.
Also, my post talks about ads that are directly targeted towards you buying something now like infomercials and comercials with 1-800 numbers and operators standing by 24 hours a day kinda stuff. For these products, advertising is actually part of the product and business model.
For me, the amount of advertising something does is inversly proportional for my true desire or need for said product. The good stuff doesn't need advertising (or even legal to sell
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/etc/sysconfig/networks-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.locatio n1 ... locationN, and the same for /etc/resolv.conf, etc. My script relinked the proper links for the proper network, and away I went. I had to waste my time putting this together, whereas someone at Apple just did this for me.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=107617&cid=91
I liked fedora core 1, it works pretty well for me and runs my apps, but I was keeping my eye on the market and looking at alternatives as usual. This week I switched my work desktop from redhat/fedora core 1 to Suse 9.1 - I'm impressed by the fact that everything "just works" with suse, and that it comes with absolutely everything but the kitchen sink. I installed the nvidia drivers with one click in the yast menu, and will be installing ut2004 after finals...
OK, a couple of things, I was into Linux when I was in college and when I first got out. Today, I'm not impressed when "everything" "just works", up from "it works pretty well for me and runs my apps". Pretty well is not good enough, and "everything just works" is an expectation for me. I expect it of my car, my diswasher, and my computer. Trust me, getting excited about nvidia drivers when your in your 30s is kinda immature.
From this review of Suse 9.2, this review seems about as good as my experience with Linux ever got.
This reviewer was happy that this version of Linux came with a working battery level app. I ditched linux before such luxuries came around. I have 36 minutes before my PowerBook battery is at full charge. It also shows me the time to empty too when running on battery.
The reviewer says, "Using SuSE's powerful profile manager SCPM (System configuration profile management), I can swap almost effortlessly between network configurations".
Again, this is new to me for Linux. I like the "almost effortlessly" part. For me, when I go to a different network, I pick the location from the "Location" menu, and within 5 seconds or so I'm on the network. When I used Linux, I had symlinks to files for things like
This review seems candid and summarizes my experiences as well.
Not good enough. Sorry. Got better things to do with my time. I'm happy with Linux in my server rooms. No complaints once it is up and running, but for my day to day use, I prefer something a little more mature and polished.
Personally speaking, I use Linux 100% of the time, and don't find any need to resort to windows as you sugest, to make up for some supposed "deficiencies"
Then...
I sometimes work with windows 2k and xp. I simply don't see anything to get excited about in either case.
This has gone far enough. Thanks for trolling.
Sad to say, but your linux knowledge seems either very dated or severely limited.
How so?
I havn't seen anything new in Linux since at least 98 or 99. Is there something I missed? Last I noticed there was 2 major widget sets for Linux that behaved, looked, and acted differently (qt/kde and gnome). Both are ugly, Windows knockoffs. Neither are near as good as handling simple tasks like printing as Windows or OS X. Thats not to say that there are still tons of other widgets out there like Motif and tk that both look different and worse than qt or gnome.
(shrug) Sleep as long as you like - meanwhile I'm using linux happily, with a "real GUI" (yes, I've seen and used OSX, and I prefer Linux). I've no idea what you mean about the packaging system - apt works a treat, as do the package formats it manages.
Just out of curiosity, what real Linux only GUI do you run? Most people are split between KDE and Gnome, which seem pretty much the same to me. I last ran WIndowmaker because it was not a Windows knockoff and I just liked it better than the others. I've run KDE, Gnome, and Windowmaker on other OSes besides Linux. Oh, btw, seeing OS X and using it are very different.
apt works with rpms? I'm a Debian fan. Best distro out there for Linux in my opinion, however much 3rd party hardware and software requires Redhat and/or RPMs. When I mean a working package manager, I mean somthing where I get a CD or download something for Linux I can double click on it or use one commandline command to install it. Alien is nice, but its a hack for a fundamentally broken problem. Don't get me wrong, all unix like things are just as broken, and Debian is the mostly not-broken, but being that it does not handle RPM natively (yeah, I know about the apt-rpm stuff). Even if there is sufficent stuff for apt to handle an RPM, good luck on it actually running correctly.
Gee that's funny, I'm not suffering, and neither are any of the linux users I know. We all CHOSE our OS, and use it because we prefer it. But I suspect that you are suffering. Does it drive you crazy that some many prefer Linux or other OSes over your beloved OS X?
I really only know 1 person that is left running Linux. He also uses Windows ME (yeah!) to make up for Linux' deficiencies from time to time. I know a physicist who runs Linux, but he is a masochist, and he is one of my most annoying users. Actually, he is the most annoying, I don't care if he suffers, he probably prefers it.
No, it doesn't drive me crazy, except when I see posts like this on slashdot. Noone (now there is one post), including yourself, has anything good to tell this "Professional Photographer using Linux". Except the Gimp color manager, but then again if Gimp is good enough for you, I don't consider yourself a professional. Maybe if you have reimplemented all of Photoshop's plugins in your spare time. Then your a genius wierdo, and you can do what you want.
I don't have an ax to grind. I love Linux. Its cool.
Linux for GUI stuff is still at least 10 years below par.
Maybe instead of suggesting OS X, I should just say wait 10 years. But I'm sure that will get as much grief.
Currently the gimp is only 8 bit color.
I'm not sure what you mean by 8 bit here. 8x3 (RGB) maybe and an alpha channel. But gimp is far beyond 64 colors.
Hint, this was not a serious post. The guy is asking about "Professional Photographers using Linux". His scanner that he cant do without, Epson Perfection 2400, costs under $100, for which he was apparently trying to scan slides.
I'm not a photographer, but I know that you use a slide scanner for slides. Photoshop for professionally editing photographs.
Ghesh, I even know that there are slide scanners that can automatically take out dust now!
PS, tell the guy to buy a Mac, some decent sofware, and a couple of books. If he is any good, he will be looking like a professional in no time.
it's sort of irritating that you answer every single computer related question with the stock answer, "why not switch to mac?"
Its even more irritating as a Linux user for over 10 years to see people still "trying to get it to work, but not trying enough to use something like google".
Would there be an ask.slashdot.org article saying "Professional Photographers Using OS X"?
No.
Why not?
As I have said, I've used Linux for over 10 years now. I get paid to admin it, I know enough about it to leave it in the server room.
Maybe for an embedded app like a mythbox or on my Linksys router, but wake me up when there is a real GUI and real working applications and a packaging system that works.
The reason that people say "why not switch to a mac?" is becuase its the best advice that people are asking for. A mac is UNIX now. It has (IMHO) the best terminal application in the business. It comes with ssh. Every day I do:
ssh linuxbox
and it works just like it did when I had linux on my desktop, but now I can do things like run Office if I want (*shutter*) run photoshop, have good looking fonts, have an installer that works, have hardware that works, have an OS that works, have a GUI that works, printers that work, network configurations across multiple LANs that work, more than one browser that works, etc, etc. Then there is stuff that other OSes can't touch, like Expose. And things that just "think different" like Quicksilver. I really, really like my Mac more and more every day. I was the same way about Linux, but a better mouse trap has come along. Trust me, its really that good.
I laugh all the time when people suffer with Linux on their desktop. Its very late '90s and pictures of it are starting to show its age.
Metallica became who they are because of "the word on the street". Once they hit it big, they steadily declined in quality, IMO. The Black Album was their big commercial success, and they haven't been the same since.
I disagree. IM(H)O, they became sucessful because they were good.
Yes, I will agree that that "Black Album" was ther best, but that was released in 1991. Their first album came out almost 10 years before in 1983. Most bands' best work is in most people's opinions was their 1st or 2nd album.
Keep in mind that Metallica promptly rested on their laurels after the black album and waited 5 years to release their next (weak) album Load.
Why do musicians go for recording contracts anymore? It is obvious that the vast majority of them recieve no significant ongoing income from record sales.
Shhhh. Most artists make better material when they have little money to spend and the only comfort in their lives are good drugs.
Most small bands seem to make more money touring.
I told you to be quiet!
I can name 778 exceptions easily.
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.
Those that are already famous want to wring every cent out of the fame they've worked hard to get and therefore loathe the Internet's ease of file sharing.
Nah, most of them care about maintaining status quo. Being that most music artists do nothing significant after their 30th birthday as far a new material goes, any rational artist over 30 that has a nice place to stay and can eat and do regular stuff should be pretty content for being able to retire at such a young age.
Even though most of the "news" is not properly fact checked, and is blindly accepted as true, I have issue with the article that says:
Indeed, big-ticket acts like Metallica and Don Henley have famously denounced illegal file sharing. And the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed thousands of lawsuits against individual file-sharers, often invokes musicians as prime movers in its crusade.
Metallica, yes, Don Henley, dunno.
Metallica can continue to charge $75+ for half full concert venues (vs $35 and sold out, no pun intended).
Don Henley on the other hand is no sympathizer for the RIAA.
The Eagles have their own recording company and they are not RIAA members.
Also, this url, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0217-01.htm, has more info straigh from Don Henley's mouth (pen, keyboard, whatever).
Lets hope and pray that morals have nothing to do with heaven after Rapture, a random /. post I thought was interesting:
:)
"Moral men admit mistakes. Immoral men will go to any length to justify their actions and will never admit wrong doing. Moral men think long and hard about starting actions that result in the deaths of 15,000 people. Moral men start wars as a last resort. Moral men start wars as a last resort when they say that is what they intend to do - i.e moral men keep their word. Moral men do not prey upon the fears of Americans to facilitate acts of foreign agression. Moral men are not certain in the face of all doubt but always doubt their information and actions when either of those result in harm to others. Moral men do not accuse others of "flip-flopping" if they themselves have "flip-flopped" repeatedly - i.e. moral men are not hypocrites. Moral men do not misconstrue the words and ideas of their opponents in order to attack an easier target - i.e. moral me do not construct straw men. Moral men step down from positions of authority when it is clear they don't have the intellect, judgement, or leadership to justly execute that authority."
Oh, "W" you make it sooooo easy
"I'm the master of low expectations."
-- George W. Bush, June 4 2003
Gambling and prize awarding in government is deemed to be immoral and unethical unless its geared against its most uneducated and impoverished citizens.
Personally I think the money they spent on the iraq war would have been better used at NASA. But your right, the US may find itself in deep financial trouble in the future....
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Personally, I'm against war. Personally, I know Bush W is an idiot and a liar.
However, after 3 years of looking, I found out why we went to war in Iraq, and as much as I am against war and Bush, I believe that killing about 16,000 to 20,000 people in preservation of the US economic status is completely worthwhile.
Sources:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/iraq.ht
http://www.feasta.org/documents/papers/oil1.htm
Some of these documents have been passed on and translated from dead language to dead language for tens of thousands of years.
The first examples of structured linear writing have been found in the lower Danube Valley and date from around 5000 BC.
5000 + 2004 ~ 7004 which is << one 10,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing