I do things much the same way. My root filesystem is on a 30GB SSD,/home is on a RAID. The SSD is basically never more than a quarter full, and that's with a full Kubuntu install (hardly the most "lightweight" distro).
i havent used/tried KDE in over a decade, mostly because all its apps are tied to kde base packages; which is/was hundreds of extra Mb more than should be needed.
In an age where the smallest hard drives you can get new are hundreds of gigabytes and even the smallest SSDs you can get new are dozens of gigabytes, what's a few hundred megabytes?
Of course, they are still 4:3 matted widescreen, with everything that entails. But they do look better than any other release of the unaltered trilogy, and in some cases, they actually look better than the SE (blue tint, anyone?).
Though even it being letterboxed is fixable; when I ripped them for viewing on my HTPC, I cropped the black bars out. Problem solved, and still certainly looks better than the VHS tapes I had previously.
Oh, yes there are. Or were, at least. They were "bonus discs" with one of the Special Edition DVD releases, but they were officially sanctioned DVDs of the original theatrical cuts. Episode IV was even just plain Star Wars in the opening text.
It's not nearly that simple. Not all situations (bloody few, in fact) boil down to a single "wrong" option and a single "right" option, nor is either end an absolute. And nor am I advocating eliminating all "wrong" choices, merely some that are damaging enough. Everything's a shade of grey, a point somewhere on a spectrum.
And arguing that if you don't have the freedom to smoke you don't have freedom is like arguing that if you're not allowed to shoot your neighbour dead because his dog pisses on your lawn you don't have freedom. It's possible for some things to be banned but still have freedom in the really important ways.
It's dangerous in some cases to designate a group as having the power to state that one thing or another should be stopped. Stopped according to what criteria? Who gets to choose? What happens if they abuse that power?
So you believe that governments shouldn't exist, then?
Free speech that drives most people out of their freaking minds is another example...the 'reverend' Jim Phelps is an unmitigated asshole. But his loudly being such in public is a small price to pay for everyone's ability to say things that need to be said, and should be said.
If you mean Fred Phelps... I disagree. It's not a small price by any means; hate speech such as that incites violence against innocent people.
I'm not convinced that such a freedom is constructive. And I'm certainly not advocating attempting to remove all bad decisions from society (as that's clearly unrealistic), but I think there is merit in getting rid of some of the more glaring and dangerous ones.
Having a short break every so often to give your brain a chance to recuperate is certainly a good thing, but sucking on a cancer stick while doing so is not mandatory.
So far, every time there's been any attempt to make things that are dangerous to people illegal in the US, half the country has a hissy fit and insists that they should have the right to do anything and everything they please, no matter how sensible it is to just stop doing the dangerous thing.
Basically that. I haven't experienced it personally, but a couple of the people I work with (at a small company; roughly a dozen people all up) used to work in call centres where they had this kind of toilet break timekeeping. They utterly fucking detested it, which is why it's somewhere they used to work.
So you say that having two groups of users, one of which has constant IP connectivity, and one that does not, that's not fragmentation?
You are saying that the mobile apps that rely on constant connectivity, will work fine in devices that don't have this feature?
No, that's not fragmentation. That's some people having network access all the time and some only some of the time. All that means is that apps which truly rely on a network connection won't work all the time for the latter people.
Fragmentation is when you need to produce several subtly different versions of the same app that does the same thing because there's several different devices that all run what is allegedly the same operating system but each manufacturer has made little modifications that make them incompatible with everything else.
buying him a shitbox x86 and loading it with linux would work much better for all the things the rasp could teach him. with raspberry he'd be stuck with the apps there's on it
Er... you are aware that the Raspberry Pi runs Linux by default and you aren't just "stuck with" whatever comes loaded on it, right? That whatever you want is an apt-get install away, same as on that shitbox x86 with Linux on it?
It's more important to get him used to the operating system, software and programming concepts first, and the Raspberry Pi is a great tool for that and more reliable than some junk PC someone else has thrown away. Teaching him how to swap out PCI cards and the like can come later.
In fact... closer reading of your post suggests you're mistaking the Raspberry Pi for some Android tablet or something. A "real OS", modern monitor, real keyboard? Those are all things the Raspberry Pi works with.
Ah yes, Raspberry Pi. Today's catch all solution from Slashdot.
The Raspberry Pi is a really nice piece of hardware for the cost and it's intended purpose but it's third rate when it comes to general computing.
Here's the thing: this is exactly its intended purpose. A cheap computer to introduce children to computing, with some of the guts exposed so they can learn about how they actually work. So what if it's third rate when it comes to general computing? That shouldn't matter in a computer you give to a kid whose age is still in the single digits.
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I do things much the same way. My root filesystem is on a 30GB SSD, /home is on a RAID. The SSD is basically never more than a quarter full, and that's with a full Kubuntu install (hardly the most "lightweight" distro).
i havent used/tried KDE in over a decade, mostly because all its apps are tied to kde base packages; which is/was hundreds of extra Mb more than should be needed.
In an age where the smallest hard drives you can get new are hundreds of gigabytes and even the smallest SSDs you can get new are dozens of gigabytes, what's a few hundred megabytes?
2. Hook up the hard drive to it and mount it (Can Linux read Unixware formatted volumes?)
It doesn't matter, if all you're doing is using dd to dump the raw contents of the hard drive to a file.
Of course, they are still 4:3 matted widescreen, with everything that entails. But they do look better than any other release of the unaltered trilogy, and in some cases, they actually look better than the SE (blue tint, anyone?).
Though even it being letterboxed is fixable; when I ripped them for viewing on my HTPC, I cropped the black bars out. Problem solved, and still certainly looks better than the VHS tapes I had previously.
Oh, yes there are. Or were, at least. They were "bonus discs" with one of the Special Edition DVD releases, but they were officially sanctioned DVDs of the original theatrical cuts. Episode IV was even just plain Star Wars in the opening text.
That sounds like a straw man.
A gross exaggeration, if anything. There certainly have been people who have made very vocal objections to things such as seat belt laws.
It's not nearly that simple. Not all situations (bloody few, in fact) boil down to a single "wrong" option and a single "right" option, nor is either end an absolute. And nor am I advocating eliminating all "wrong" choices, merely some that are damaging enough. Everything's a shade of grey, a point somewhere on a spectrum.
And arguing that if you don't have the freedom to smoke you don't have freedom is like arguing that if you're not allowed to shoot your neighbour dead because his dog pisses on your lawn you don't have freedom. It's possible for some things to be banned but still have freedom in the really important ways.
You know, it is possible to have an omnivorous diet and not overeat with fat-laden crap.
It's dangerous in some cases to designate a group as having the power to state that one thing or another should be stopped. Stopped according to what criteria? Who gets to choose? What happens if they abuse that power?
So you believe that governments shouldn't exist, then?
Free speech that drives most people out of their freaking minds is another example...the 'reverend' Jim Phelps is an unmitigated asshole. But his loudly being such in public is a small price to pay for everyone's ability to say things that need to be said, and should be said.
If you mean Fred Phelps... I disagree. It's not a small price by any means; hate speech such as that incites violence against innocent people.
There is that too. The most realistic option is to go to great lengths to discourage it.
And what about the secondhand smoke from hardwood fires and BBQs? Shall we outlaw that too?
Given that people don't use carcinogens as fuels in fireplaces and barbeques, that would be daft.
I'm not convinced that such a freedom is constructive. And I'm certainly not advocating attempting to remove all bad decisions from society (as that's clearly unrealistic), but I think there is merit in getting rid of some of the more glaring and dangerous ones.
I'm not anti-religious, I'm anti-idiot. I'm fine with people believing in God, but not people who think that said belief means science is wrong.
I'm having trouble seeing the distinction, in practical terms.
Having a short break every so often to give your brain a chance to recuperate is certainly a good thing, but sucking on a cancer stick while doing so is not mandatory.
There is a massive difference between health effects associated with smoking, and having an omnivorous diet.
Why not just make smoking illegal?
So far, every time there's been any attempt to make things that are dangerous to people illegal in the US, half the country has a hissy fit and insists that they should have the right to do anything and everything they please, no matter how sensible it is to just stop doing the dangerous thing.
If it's only in Unity and not KDE, then I'm a bit disappointed in Canonical, but not especially upset.
If it is in KDE too, that might just be what makes me abandon ship.
Basically that. I haven't experienced it personally, but a couple of the people I work with (at a small company; roughly a dozen people all up) used to work in call centres where they had this kind of toilet break timekeeping. They utterly fucking detested it, which is why it's somewhere they used to work.
You're right, nobody has to. Nonetheless, I don't think any reasonable case could be made for why hardware drivers must be proprietary.
So you say that having two groups of users, one of which has constant IP connectivity, and one that does not, that's not fragmentation?
You are saying that the mobile apps that rely on constant connectivity, will work fine in devices that don't have this feature?
No, that's not fragmentation. That's some people having network access all the time and some only some of the time. All that means is that apps which truly rely on a network connection won't work all the time for the latter people.
Fragmentation is when you need to produce several subtly different versions of the same app that does the same thing because there's several different devices that all run what is allegedly the same operating system but each manufacturer has made little modifications that make them incompatible with everything else.
The last two items on your chart (iPods) are not iOS devices.
The last two items are the iPod Touch, which is an iOS device.
what fragmentation? there are three phones supported by ios6: iphone 4, iphone 4s and iphone 5. then you have ipads. that's it.
And the iPod Touch.
buying him a shitbox x86 and loading it with linux would work much better for all the things the rasp could teach him. with raspberry he'd be stuck with the apps there's on it
Er... you are aware that the Raspberry Pi runs Linux by default and you aren't just "stuck with" whatever comes loaded on it, right? That whatever you want is an apt-get install away, same as on that shitbox x86 with Linux on it?
It's more important to get him used to the operating system, software and programming concepts first, and the Raspberry Pi is a great tool for that and more reliable than some junk PC someone else has thrown away. Teaching him how to swap out PCI cards and the like can come later.
In fact... closer reading of your post suggests you're mistaking the Raspberry Pi for some Android tablet or something. A "real OS", modern monitor, real keyboard? Those are all things the Raspberry Pi works with.
Ah yes, Raspberry Pi. Today's catch all solution from Slashdot.
The Raspberry Pi is a really nice piece of hardware for the cost and it's intended purpose but it's third rate when it comes to general computing.
Here's the thing: this is exactly its intended purpose. A cheap computer to introduce children to computing, with some of the guts exposed so they can learn about how they actually work. So what if it's third rate when it comes to general computing? That shouldn't matter in a computer you give to a kid whose age is still in the single digits.