Windows is a very capable OS [...] [Linux,] does not have built into the kernel all the extra luggage that Windows niceties bring with them.
You're comparing a whole OS to a single kernel?
Your assessment is wrong. Linux (as an OS) has more features than Windows - there are tons of things that Linux can do that on Windows would require purchasing applications, or simply cannot be done at all.
One of the features that Linux has is the ability to remove stuff you don't need. This is what was done here.
Linux triumphs again, not by taking on Windows on the desktop
Wrong, this is precisely what happened - Linux desktops have replaced Windows desktops, because Windows is unsuitable. It's pretty clear.
it would profit the linux community [...] if linux was able to [...] download pictures from my digital camera
Why? Do you have some pictures there that are vitally important to everybody else? Maybe pictures of Bill Gates giving a cheque to SCO to destroy Linux?
If you want to use your digital camera under Linux, you should have bought one from a manufacturer that supports Linux. There are quite a few of them, and they're very well documented. My HP720 (for example) works extremely well under Linux.
All two drive Snaps allow for RAID-1, RAID-0 or individual drives configurations
To the best of my knowledge, no they don't. Raid1 may have been an addition. It wasn't until the customer brought it back that anyone even knew that it had two drives.
If you choose to configure it
I didn't configure it at all. It wasn't mine (as I said.)
My only experience with this is bad - SNAP uses two regular IDE drives, in RAID-0... A customer bought one, and one of the drives died.. I suggest a new slogan:
"When I got here three years ago, there were circa 1,000 processors here, of which four ran Linux," he said. "Now there are circa 2,000 processors, and maybe 64 of them don't run Linux."
Ahh.. so what he's saying is that when he got there, they had abacuses (abaci?), and now they have Pentium-IIs?
the market for those broadcasts and DVDs exists in part due to the restrictions.
Bullshit.
The market would exist if the restrictions weren't there - in fact it would be even larger.
Those DVDs would be more expensive or not available without that market.
Again, bullshit.
A manufacturer has a choice to sell something, or to not sell something. If he doesn't sell it, he doesn't make money. Are you seriously going to argue that a manufacturer of a product would just say "hey, let's not make money today"?
Your argument is provably false, as there are DVDs that have less/no restrictions on them, and they sell pretty damn well, and are no more expensive than DVDs with the restrictions (ever hear of a movie called Harry Potter? How about all those porn DVDs?)
You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
So what he's saying is that it's OK to take away part of a constitutionally-guaranteed right (freedom of expression), because only a small fraction of the population actually uses it.
The official language of the Philippines is Filipino and English. That means that government is required to recognize both for communication.
Most Filipinos speak Tagalog, which is a variant of Filipino. Many (but certainly not all) also speak English. My wife's grandparents don't speak English, and much of her family has trouble with it.
I also find it particularly amusing that you quote an American source to back up your assertion (even when it clearly contradicts you), and then bash American ignorance. (Note that I'm not American.)
At a rise of.024 deg C a year, I seriously doubt the flooding and and mass migration will happen in a short enough span to cause "chaos"
Really? Do you know the difference in global temperature between the last ice age, and now?
Approximately 3 degrees celsius.
How long ago was that?
10,000 years.
If the temperature is now changing.042 degrees per year (re-read the article -.42 per decade is.042 per year), that means that it's progessing a couple of orders of magnitude faster than it did in the past.
What you say is true, but you must also recognize that just as anyone has the right to use the software, this guy has the right to his own protest. (Just as you have the right to criticize him:o)
Now, personally, I think that his protest is pretty stupid - even though I agree with him that Shrubya's invasion of Iraq is both immoral and unethical. But he has every right to make an ass of himself:o)
I gotta wonder what, exactly, he hopes to accomplish by witholding his talents from people who don't invade foreign countries?
had a sticker on the bottom which read, and I shit you not, "To extinguish, blow out."
Well yeah, that's real handy - I got second degree burns from a candle like that. I needed to put one out quickly, but forgot how... so I turned the candle over to read the instructions, and spilled hot wax all over myself.
And to top it off, the instructions were wrong - it went out when I turned it over!
Just because something is more efficient, does not make it 'perpetual motion.'
Or do you also believe that hybrid engines are perpetual motion too? After all, they are more efficient than regular engines, but use the same fuel, so they must be perpetual motion (hey, they even use magnetism, as part of the electric engines - that proves that it's perpetual motion!)
RTFA - nowhere does it say that this engine runs on nothing. Even the/. headline says '80% less power' (80% less power does not mean "no power".)
Any time you are stopped, the police officer will not need any probable cause to search the records in your black box
Oh bullshit.
First of all, the black box only records 5 seconds worth of data. If you're pulled over by a cop, he already knows what you were doing during those 5 seconds, because he was there. He won't *need* the black box, because his eyes can tell him everything he needs to know.
Second of all, do you really think that a cop pulling you over is going to have the tools necessary to remove the box from you car and interpret the data on it? Yeah, that's gonna happen.
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all I had to my name was my PC, and a free internet connection.[...] if I was ever in the same situation again, I would sign up for this in a heartbeat
And you'd deserve everything you got - like having your internet account terminated, and not getting any money.
Remember rule #1: SPAMMERS LIE.
These are people who have no problem with stealing from people. You really think that they'd pay you?
Spammers are con men who prey on stupid people. I'm guessing they're counting on people like you.
For some reason, Open Source projects seem to have a lot of trouble with user interface design. A good example of this is the Mac OS X situation. I've seen people with relatively little computer experience navigate around the OS X desktop for a few minutes, and then turn around and tell me that it "flows very nicely" and "just feels nicer" than what they're used to.
If I'd put the same person on KDE or Gnome, they probably would have spent half of their time fighting their own intuition, and the other half wondering why they were being forced to sit in front of such a clunky desktop when their Windows XP computer worked so much better.
So let me get this straight:
You say that OSX is a great example of interface design, because real live people have told you so... and KDE or Gnome are poor examples of interface design, because of an imaginary scenario?!?!?!
For the record, I've put people (such as my mother) in front of a KDE desktop, and they've had no problems with it (in fact my mother said how much she liked it.)
Note that neither this, nor the author's experience actually has any bearing on whether KDE or Gnome are usable or not.
Using the exact same methodology in this article, I could prove that MS has no money, that the moon is made of green cheese, and that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. (Hmm, come to think of it, maybe this guy works for the White House.)
Remember kids, if you can imagine it, it must be true!
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Me too! They say it's being used in ATM machines!
Windows is a very capable OS [...] [Linux,] does not have built into the kernel all the extra luggage that Windows niceties bring with them.
You're comparing a whole OS to a single kernel?
Your assessment is wrong. Linux (as an OS) has more features than Windows - there are tons of things that Linux can do that on Windows would require purchasing applications, or simply cannot be done at all.
One of the features that Linux has is the ability to remove stuff you don't need. This is what was done here.
Linux triumphs again, not by taking on Windows on the desktop
Wrong, this is precisely what happened - Linux desktops have replaced Windows desktops, because Windows is unsuitable. It's pretty clear.
it would profit the linux community [...] if linux was able to [...] download pictures from my digital camera
Why? Do you have some pictures there that are vitally important to everybody else? Maybe pictures of Bill Gates giving a cheque to SCO to destroy Linux?
If you want to use your digital camera under Linux, you should have bought one from a manufacturer that supports Linux. There are quite a few of them, and they're very well documented. My HP720 (for example) works extremely well under Linux.
All two drive Snaps allow for RAID-1, RAID-0 or individual drives configurations
To the best of my knowledge, no they don't. Raid1 may have been an addition. It wasn't until the customer brought it back that anyone even knew that it had two drives.
If you choose to configure it
I didn't configure it at all. It wasn't mine (as I said.)
My only experience with this is bad - SNAP uses two regular IDE drives, in RAID-0... A customer bought one, and one of the drives died.. I suggest a new slogan:
"Twice the storage, half the reliability!"
"When I got here three years ago, there were circa 1,000 processors here, of which four ran Linux," he said. "Now there are circa 2,000 processors, and maybe 64 of them don't run Linux."
Ahh.. so what he's saying is that when he got there, they had abacuses (abaci?), and now they have Pentium-IIs?
circa: in approximately: born circa 1900
My question (of course), is how the hell did they get an abacus to run Linux?
.. which works great until someone connects their infected laptop to the network.
And then the person who though that a $40 'firewall' wonders how the hell it got through their '1337' security system.
Your solution isn't a fix, it's (at best) a temporary workaround.
IIRC, unlike the NT based versions, the TCP/IP stack in the Win9xs don't support raw sockets, either, so they're harder to turn into attack zombies.
No. It's true that 9x doesn't support raw sockets, but that has no bearing on how hard it is to turn them into zombies.
All it does is make it harder to mask the source IP address (which most zombie writers don't care too much about.)
the market for those broadcasts and DVDs exists in part due to the restrictions.
Bullshit.
The market would exist if the restrictions weren't there - in fact it would be even larger.
Those DVDs would be more expensive or not available without that market.
Again, bullshit.
A manufacturer has a choice to sell something, or to not sell something. If he doesn't sell it, he doesn't make money. Are you seriously going to argue that a manufacturer of a product would just say "hey, let's not make money today"?
Your argument is provably false, as there are DVDs that have less/no restrictions on them, and they sell pretty damn well, and are no more expensive than DVDs with the restrictions (ever hear of a movie called Harry Potter? How about all those porn DVDs?)
Who says it's your god-given right to watch DVDs on Linux?
The guys who wrote the US constitution.
"Freedom of expression" is a guaranteed right - and writing software is expression.
You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
So what he's saying is that it's OK to take away part of a constitutionally-guaranteed right (freedom of expression), because only a small fraction of the population actually uses it.
Un-fucking-believeable
I tried to do something like this once, but I kept running into the problem of differential voltages in the pulse-modulated ion core.
Ahh - that's easy. You should have routed the ion core voltages through a phase discriminator; would have cleared that right up.
I think they must have shunted the positrons through the floating point pathways
No, that would have caused a cascade failure in the deflector array.
ENGLISH IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES!
The Philippine Constitution says otherwise
The official language of the Philippines is Filipino and English. That means that government is required to recognize both for communication.
Most Filipinos speak Tagalog, which is a variant of Filipino. Many (but certainly not all) also speak English. My wife's grandparents don't speak English, and much of her family has trouble with it.
I also find it particularly amusing that you quote an American source to back up your assertion (even when it clearly contradicts you), and then bash American ignorance. (Note that I'm not American.)
80% of all spam topics are US centric.
It's not the topics that causes spam to be relayed.
I should blacklist all US IP numbers for that.
As you have control of your mailserver, you're entirely welcome to do so.
However all you'd be doing is proving that you have absolutely no grasp of any of the issues involved.
At a rise of .024 deg C a year, I seriously doubt the flooding and and mass migration will happen in a short enough span to cause "chaos"
.042 degrees per year (re-read the article - .42 per decade is .042 per year), that means that it's progessing a couple of orders of magnitude faster than it did in the past.
Really? Do you know the difference in global temperature between the last ice age, and now?
Approximately 3 degrees celsius.
How long ago was that?
10,000 years.
If the temperature is now changing
would the Earth still be getting warmer even if we weren't creating manmade polution
It's not just that - even if the earth were still getting warmer without manmade pollution, would it be getting warmer as fast?
This is what the environmentalists are trying to say - but it keeps getting drowned out by people who don't want to hear it.
What you say is true, but you must also recognize that just as anyone has the right to use the software, this guy has the right to his own protest. (Just as you have the right to criticize him :o)
:o)
Now, personally, I think that his protest is pretty stupid - even though I agree with him that Shrubya's invasion of Iraq is both immoral and unethical. But he has every right to make an ass of himself
I gotta wonder what, exactly, he hopes to accomplish by witholding his talents from people who don't invade foreign countries?
Their "insurance" is many times more expensive than SCO's licensing fees.
Well, if you had bothered to read the article, you'd see that the insurance is for developers, not users.
SCO's licenses are for *END USERS*.
So there's really no point in comparing the two now, is there?
had a sticker on the bottom which read, and I shit you not, "To extinguish, blow out."
Well yeah, that's real handy - I got second degree burns from a candle like that. I needed to put one out quickly, but forgot how... so I turned the candle over to read the instructions, and spilled hot wax all over myself.
And to top it off, the instructions were wrong - it went out when I turned it over!
saw a couple of perpetual motion schemes
/. headline says '80% less power' (80% less power does not mean "no power".)
Just because something is more efficient, does not make it 'perpetual motion.'
Or do you also believe that hybrid engines are perpetual motion too? After all, they are more efficient than regular engines, but use the same fuel, so they must be perpetual motion (hey, they even use magnetism, as part of the electric engines - that proves that it's perpetual motion!)
RTFA - nowhere does it say that this engine runs on nothing. Even the
Any time you are stopped, the police officer will not need any probable cause to search the records in your black box
Oh bullshit.
First of all, the black box only records 5 seconds worth of data. If you're pulled over by a cop, he already knows what you were doing during those 5 seconds, because he was there. He won't *need* the black box, because his eyes can tell him everything he needs to know.
Second of all, do you really think that a cop pulling you over is going to have the tools necessary to remove the box from you car and interpret the data on it? Yeah, that's gonna happen.
Please point me in the direction of these large organizations with lots of lawyers and a sense of humor. I would like to learn from them.
:o)
Here ya go. Not only a large company with lots of lawyers, but a large company of lots of lawyers.
I agree.
They should have changed their name to Lin-D'oh!s
all I had to my name was my PC, and a free internet connection.[...] if I was ever in the same situation again, I would sign up for this in a heartbeat
And you'd deserve everything you got - like having your internet account terminated, and not getting any money.
Remember rule #1: SPAMMERS LIE.
These are people who have no problem with stealing from people. You really think that they'd pay you?
Spammers are con men who prey on stupid people. I'm guessing they're counting on people like you.
I value my principles more than material goods
Didn't you just finish saying the exact opposite?
So let me get this straight:
You say that OSX is a great example of interface design, because real live people have told you so... and KDE or Gnome are poor examples of interface design, because of an imaginary scenario?!?!?!
For the record, I've put people (such as my mother) in front of a KDE desktop, and they've had no problems with it (in fact my mother said how much she liked it.)
Note that neither this, nor the author's experience actually has any bearing on whether KDE or Gnome are usable or not.
Using the exact same methodology in this article, I could prove that MS has no money, that the moon is made of green cheese, and that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. (Hmm, come to think of it, maybe this guy works for the White House.)
Remember kids, if you can imagine it, it must be true!
*sigh*