People often base their perceptions about computing based on what they understand. What they understand is overwhelmingly MS Windows. In this world virtually anything that isn't Microsoft is incompatible. They extend this reasoning and assume that multiple distributions means multiple incompatibilities.
It is part of the *nix advocates job to point out that all Unices are functionally compatible with each other. Exchange of information between the different platforms is easy because of the very simple text file standard. Legacy binary compatibility is a non-issue due to source code distribution. When a new architecture arrives the *nix world just recompiles.
The number of distros doesn't matter. Underlying architecture doesn't matter. Users matter.
I agree 100%. It is my contention that the command line is more intuitive than any GUI. As a program launcher and a file manager it is tough to beat a little xterm window.
Even though I have access to several GUI file managers I don't bother with them. They suck, they are barely functional in my opinion. File management under *nix is infinitely superior to Windows anyway. Users have much less to do as the files are managed right from the start. As opposed to the helter skelter Windows arrangement. Everytime I've had to help users find their lost 'document' reminds me of how poorly arranged Windows is. They can never find the file because it is not very intuitive to start finding in the Windows directory and the whole user paradigm presented by Windows means that many don't even know what a file is let alone having to change the path on the find program. People with this level of knowledge should not have access to a file manager at all. In *nix they will find their 'lost' document right there in their home directory.
The keyboard is the primary input device why not use it?
Copy the file onto a CDROM and then try to hack it? How will it destroy it then?
Anything like this that ignores the fact that Windows is not the only OS is dead before it started.
Where was this woman when her young son was being used to make kiddie porn? If the pedophiles phoned each other and mailed the porn to each other, would the phone company and the postal service be responsible? No, in fact is likely illegal to mail kiddie porn, a law that came about to deal with pedophiles who existed long before the Internet. The Internet didn't increase the number of pedophiles, it increased the number who get caught.
You come to an interesting conclusions based on a scant amount of evidence. Re: my beliefs.
My beliefs center more around instinctive behavior and accelerated entropy. Survival of the fittest explains why certain species survive but the real purpose of evolution is to create sentient entropy machines to change matter from one form to another. My beliefs have nothing to do with any religion. But you knew that right?
Compared to most pagan belief systems monotheism does not provide even a reasonable analogy of nature and reality.
I'm comfortable with my role as a fool. How about you?
Should be required by law to display this disclaimer:
For entertainment purposes only.
Here in Canada it is a law that fortune tellers and others who profess some ability with the paranormal to display that disclaimer in advertising. Churches deal with the paranormal and promises of the future that they have no way of proving let alone guaranteeing. They need to be lumped in and treated the same as all paranormalists ( a euphemism for con man ).
Aren't you tired of being lied to.
All gods are myths.
Bring back Mother Earth, fight monotheism.
Moses is the biggest piece of scum to ever walk the planet. Give Palestine back to its rightful owners.
In a less enlightened time statements like this could have been fatal.
Scientology accuses Panoussis of copyright infringement of religious trade secrets.
If Panoussis is infringing on the copyright of published documents, how can these be trade secrets. Shouldn't the Church of Scientology keep better track of their secrets?
It is nice to see a religous group finally admit that religion is a trade. Which begs another question: When will we start taxing religions the same way we do any other business?
Kudos to AOL for taking this on. It should be a no-brainer but in the U.S. who knows what can happen.
First of all, how defamatory is an anonymous comment? Only by identifying himself can Anonymous lend credibility to his statement. It is also Anonymous who is responsible, how can a third party ever be held responsible?
Where is free speech left if organisations are unable to provide a public forum?
If those stinking CRT cops come for my monitor I'll fight them to the death. If I throw my old monitors at them then I can say that they are actually weapons and therefore protected under the second ammendment.
I don't get it either.
Increases in usage should suggest to ISPs that an investment in new infrastructure is a prudent move. After all the market just keeps getting stronger. More use should bring a reduction in prices.
Shouldn't they be more worried about a decline in usage?
People might move files around? I thought that was what the Internet was for. Hard to browse the WWW without some files moving around.
If you want to impress me come up with a way for access to be provided via your household wiring.
In fact if all communication could be done this way then all you would need to do is plug the machine in. Don't hook the monitor to the box, just plug it in. Need access for an Internet Appliance, just plug it into an outlet.
Whenever an idea comes up that obviously requires new infrastructure it bothers me. We should find ways to function within existing infrastructure. With most homes wired for electricity it would seem that this infrastructure has the greatest promise.
I took an eye test for a driver's license years ago and they actually wrote down 340/20 I read everything they threw at me. This should mean that I can read at 340 feet something that normally sighted people can read from 20.
I commonly get this type of situation.
Me "There is a blue Ford Truck at the side of the road."
Passenger "You can see a truck?"
This is only a near sighted rating. Any one with glasses knows that their prescription is written in Diopters required to correct your vision. (My prescription: right 0, left -.25 I don't wear glasses.) Optometrists usually do not use the 20/20 scale.
Linking is the same as distributing banned content.
Extend this reasoning to a hypothetical situation.
You are standing at a bus stop. A scruffy lookin' dude asks where he can buy some crack. You don't sell crack but suggest the thugs on the corner at the end of the block.
He (actually a cop) arrests you for linking to illegal contraband.
You knew where it was and that is good enough.
You know, it is kind of funny to watch the United States of America slowly erode the rights of its citizens.
I have a business connection through my ISP. I get close to 2Mbs down and 600kbs upload. It has two fixed IPs and services up to 5 machines in my house. (Two dual boot Win/Lin the other three run Linux only.) The only thing my ISP forbids is subdomain hosting. They have always said that using more than one machine through the connection is fine (even on the basic package) but they cannot offer support. Supposedly they only support Win and Mac but when I was being upgraded I got cut off prematurely. I called tech support and when the nice lady found out I ran Linux, the whole conversation changed. "Can you ping the gateway" She said. Me "no." Her "I'll get someone on that right away." Other than this incident I have only been down a total of about six hours in two and a half years of service.
First, the thespian's conclusion that all movies are special effects and little else, is wrong. For every one big Hollywood blockbuster there are many small films. Some of the most popular movies in the 90's have not been all about flash.
Then this rediculous game developer's vow. He claims to force people to think out of the box. How: by stuffing it in a box.
StarCraft comes as close as anything to meeting the criteria, yet he takes a stab at Blizzard.
The first video game I ever tried was pong. Since then, every year I look forward to what's new. The last five years have blown me away.
If you aren't paying for it then it can't be any good. Microsoft's latest mantra.
What happens as more and more free *nix users start showing up. When the Windows users start to notice how easy our experience is and how much more productive we are then they will want to switch too.
Wait till they hear the price.
The OEMs can just start offering *nix boxes loaded up with whatever you need. For a discounted price from the pay as you play OS.
A neophyte friend was using my computer the other day and all he could say was "Your computer works the way I think most people expect a computer to work."
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People often base their perceptions about computing based on what they understand. What they understand is overwhelmingly MS Windows. In this world virtually anything that isn't Microsoft is incompatible. They extend this reasoning and assume that multiple distributions means multiple incompatibilities.
It is part of the *nix advocates job to point out that all Unices are functionally compatible with each other. Exchange of information between the different platforms is easy because of the very simple text file standard. Legacy binary compatibility is a non-issue due to source code distribution. When a new architecture arrives the *nix world just recompiles.
The number of distros doesn't matter. Underlying architecture doesn't matter. Users matter.
Then I should be able to click this 'Windows Update' thingy and it will be fixed. Right.
In my opinion (for what it's worth) not knowing what a file and a directory is, is analogous to not knowing what the steering wheel in a car is for.
No wonder the users I deal with advance so quickly. I insist that they learn what a file is, then we get to the mouse.
A general lack of security is far from annoying, don't you think?
I agree 100%. It is my contention that the command line is more intuitive than any GUI. As a program launcher and a file manager it is tough to beat a little xterm window.
Even though I have access to several GUI file managers I don't bother with them. They suck, they are barely functional in my opinion. File management under *nix is infinitely superior to Windows anyway. Users have much less to do as the files are managed right from the start. As opposed to the helter skelter Windows arrangement. Everytime I've had to help users find their lost 'document' reminds me of how poorly arranged Windows is. They can never find the file because it is not very intuitive to start finding in the Windows directory and the whole user paradigm presented by Windows means that many don't even know what a file is let alone having to change the path on the find program. People with this level of knowledge should not have access to a file manager at all. In *nix they will find their 'lost' document right there in their home directory.
The keyboard is the primary input device why not use it?
Imagine an OS without grep. Sad isn't it.
If you want to try some truly powerful software try LyX.
The only real word processor I've ever used.
I'll bet that you wish /. had a grammar checker. It might have stopped you from using that last sentence.
Copy the file onto a CDROM and then try to hack it? How will it destroy it then?
Anything like this that ignores the fact that Windows is not the only OS is dead before it started.
Where was this woman when her young son was being used to make kiddie porn?
If the pedophiles phoned each other and mailed the porn to each other, would
the phone company and the postal service be responsible?
No, in fact is likely illegal to mail kiddie porn, a law that came about to deal with pedophiles who existed long before the Internet.
The Internet didn't increase the number of pedophiles, it increased the number who get caught.
I don't believe that all gods are myths.
I know it for a fact.
You come to an interesting conclusions based on a scant amount of evidence. Re: my beliefs.
My beliefs center more around instinctive behavior and accelerated entropy. Survival of the fittest explains why certain species survive but the real purpose of evolution is to create sentient entropy machines to change matter from one form to another. My beliefs have nothing to do with any religion. But you knew that right?
Compared to most pagan belief systems monotheism does not provide even a reasonable analogy of nature and reality.
I'm comfortable with my role as a fool. How about you?
Should be required by law to display this disclaimer:
For entertainment purposes only.
Here in Canada it is a law that fortune tellers and others who profess some ability with the paranormal to display that disclaimer in advertising. Churches deal with the paranormal and promises of the future that they have no way of proving let alone guaranteeing. They need to be lumped in and treated the same as all paranormalists ( a euphemism for con man ).
Aren't you tired of being lied to.
All gods are myths.
Bring back Mother Earth, fight monotheism.
Moses is the biggest piece of scum to ever walk the planet. Give Palestine back to its rightful owners.
In a less enlightened time statements like this could have been fatal.
There, that should ruffle some feathers, eh.
Scientology accuses Panoussis of copyright infringement of religious trade secrets.
If Panoussis is infringing on the copyright of published documents, how can these be trade secrets. Shouldn't the Church of Scientology keep better track of their secrets?
It is nice to see a religous group finally admit that religion is a trade. Which begs another question: When will we start taxing religions the same way we do any other business?
Kudos to AOL for taking this on. It should be a no-brainer but in the U.S. who knows what can happen.
First of all, how defamatory is an anonymous comment? Only by identifying himself can Anonymous lend credibility to his statement. It is also Anonymous who is responsible, how can a third party ever be held responsible?
Where is free speech left if organisations are unable to provide a public forum?
I'm browsing with Lynx this morning.
What banners?
Won't be awake until I down another half litre of coffee.
If those stinking CRT cops come for my monitor I'll fight them to the death. If I throw my old monitors at them then I can say that they are actually weapons and therefore protected under the second ammendment.
Apparently it is even easier to become a TROLL.
My recommendation would be to take Carpentry as opposed to Liberal Arts as then you would at least have worthwhile skill.
To answer the original question. Which is more fun to you? Hardware (CE) or Software (CS).
Or you could be another mindless Liberal Arts Zombie and get a good job being a bartender.
What does a Liberal Arts Grad say to an Engineering Grad?
Would you like fries with that sir?
I know many Liberal Arts Grads who now can't afford to hire a carpenter.
Why not learn something that will help you make sense of the world, like history?
The World Makes Sense?
Nothing I've seen in my forty years here can substantiate that claim.
I don't get it either.
Increases in usage should suggest to ISPs that an investment in new infrastructure is a prudent move. After all the market just keeps getting stronger. More use should bring a reduction in prices.
Shouldn't they be more worried about a decline in usage?
People might move files around? I thought that was what the Internet was for. Hard to browse the WWW without some files moving around.
If you want to impress me come up with a way for access to be provided via your household wiring.
In fact if all communication could be done this way then all you would need to do is plug the machine in. Don't hook the monitor to the box, just plug it in. Need access for an Internet Appliance, just plug it into an outlet.
Whenever an idea comes up that obviously requires new infrastructure it bothers me. We should find ways to function within existing infrastructure. With most homes wired for electricity it would seem that this infrastructure has the greatest promise.
I took an eye test for a driver's license years ago and they actually wrote down 340/20 I read everything they threw at me. This should mean that I can read at 340 feet something that normally sighted people can read from 20.
I commonly get this type of situation.
Me "There is a blue Ford Truck at the side of the road."
Passenger "You can see a truck?"
This is only a near sighted rating. Any one with glasses knows that their prescription is written in Diopters required to correct your vision. (My prescription: right 0, left -.25 I don't wear glasses.) Optometrists usually do not use the 20/20 scale.
Extend this reasoning to a hypothetical situation.
You are standing at a bus stop. A scruffy lookin' dude asks where he can buy some crack. You don't sell crack but suggest the thugs on the corner at the end of the block.
He (actually a cop) arrests you for linking to illegal contraband.
You knew where it was and that is good enough.
You know, it is kind of funny to watch the United States of America slowly erode the rights of its citizens.
I have a business connection through my ISP. I get close to 2Mbs down and 600kbs upload. It has two fixed IPs and services up to 5 machines in my house. (Two dual boot Win/Lin the other three run Linux only.)
The only thing my ISP forbids is subdomain hosting. They have always said that using more than one machine through the connection is fine (even on the basic package) but they cannot offer support.
Supposedly they only support Win and Mac but when I was being upgraded I got cut off prematurely. I called tech support and when the nice lady found out I ran Linux, the whole conversation changed.
"Can you ping the gateway" She said.
Me "no."
Her "I'll get someone on that right away."
Other than this incident I have only been down a total of about six hours in two and a half years of service.
First, the thespian's conclusion that all movies are special effects and little else, is wrong. For every one big Hollywood blockbuster there are many small films. Some of the most popular movies in the 90's have not been all about flash.
Then this rediculous game developer's vow. He claims to force people to think out of the box. How: by stuffing it in a box.
StarCraft comes as close as anything to meeting the criteria, yet he takes a stab at Blizzard.
The first video game I ever tried was pong. Since then, every year I look forward to what's new. The last five years have blown me away.
Don't stop surprising me.
If you aren't paying for it then it can't be any good. Microsoft's latest mantra. What happens as more and more free *nix users start showing up. When the Windows users start to notice how easy our experience is and how much more productive we are then they will want to switch too. Wait till they hear the price. The OEMs can just start offering *nix boxes loaded up with whatever you need. For a discounted price from the pay as you play OS. A neophyte friend was using my computer the other day and all he could say was "Your computer works the way I think most people expect a computer to work."