When you say you've never had a problem using Linux it makes you sound like you really haven't tried to do that much. I'm sure that's not the case, but I think you're simplfying things a bit, no?
Of course not everything went as smoothly as I wanted it to, but in the end I always found a way to track those problems down. In one of the more extreme cases, I recently had some printer problems, but after half a day reading on the internet I knew what was going on, and had it fixed in no time. That's quite a long time, I agree, but things like that have been known to pop up elsewhere too, not only in Linux. Anyway there has never been a show-stopper. BTW, I'm using Debian and I wouldn't recommend that distribution for end-users, unless they're fanatic:).
So, how's that Excel spreadsheet going? Your PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow's meeting?
Oh, please! As if you can't make a decent spreadsheet using Linux! BTW, other Office Suites have been ported to Linux (remember what happened to WP?), I just don't see that happening to MS office because it's created by the same people who sell Windows. Basically it's one big lock-in. So maybe it's not that good an idea to use that particular suite you're refering to.
And then you "don't know and don't want to know" about how to d/l a common update to Windows, but the people who feel that way about Linux are ignorant?
It was already the newest version. I was just saying that Joe Average has lots of problems with windows, but Joe Average knows people who will help him out. Joe Average will also have a lot of problems with Linux, but if Joe Average knows people who can help him out, he will be able to use it just the same. Also remember that a Linux distro installs a lot of software you have to install seperately on Windows.
As far as OSS goes I suggest you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Don't worry, I still use lilo too. Well, except on my portable, the new Debian-installer seems to install grub by default. But anyway, the configuration is so different that I prefer the good ol' lilo. I don't need those fancy Grub features anyway.
I don't know what your problem is, I use Linux exclusively for over 5 years now and I get everything done without any problems.
Then today the family got called together for a problem with my sister's WinXP pc. When I arrived my father was already running a virus scanner, and it had detected a trojan. So I wanted to open a browser and check it out. Problem: the scanner window was always on top. Great (it soon became clear the software was full of UI bugs).
Then my sister started complaining that some games didn't work, and mentioned something about DirectX versions. I simply told her I don't know and I don't WANT to know. After all these years, DirectX STILL has those problems??
So tell me again why XP would be superior? I think there are gems and horrible apps on both platforms, and if you don't know what you're doing you're screwed anyway whatever platform you run. I mean, as soon as something goes wrong they become dependant on the nearest computer geek they can find. I'm sure 90% of the/. crowd repairs the Windows computers of their family, friends, and neighbours.
Richard Stallman is right, but if I say I'm running a GNU system, you don't know very much. It could be a *BSD, Linux, Hurd,... kernel. If I say I run Linux, on the other hand, you can just assume it's GNU/Linux, because it's implied the GNU utilities are running on top.
So it's a sort of 'syntactic sugar', that's all. There's nothing wrong with using it in day-to-day speech, although in more formal settings it's probably better to use GNU/Linux. And of course, there's nothing wrong with Mr. Stallman 'ranting' about it, as it is his role to make people aware about the FSF and GNU.
So we all heard his comment about GNU/Linux before, but I think he will repeat it in every interview until the day he dies (for the reason above). In this particular case, it's a bit off-topic I think, since the trademark and the software are two completely different things (again, I think. If you know better, plz reply).
A hacker isn't a mentality, it's a set of actions.
Ok, am I the only one who doesn't get it? What actions? I thought there was indeed a hacker mentality, something like "I will figure out how this thing works, wathever it takes". However, I cannot think of any actions that a hacker would have to do, as it's such a diverse group of people..
No, the statement should just make clear the company was run by managers making bombastic statements nobody understands, and generally creating a lot of hot air. All the developers have probably left the company, leaving them no choice but selling the leftover code and finding a new job (again).
Radio stations are controlled by the record companies, they try to force-feed you with all the crap they're trying to sell. Problem is, I'm not interested in commerce, I want to listen to quality music. So now there are these great specialized internet radio's with music I never heard before. Or you can leech months worth of music on your HD from friends, listen to it and decide for yourself what you like. It's great!
Yes, it can be useful in emergencies (as I made clear in my original post) but that's really insignificant, and yes I DO mean insignificant. Being useful once in a blue moon is a poor reason to protect ham radio.
So maybe we should get rid of rescue teams too.. I for sure have never needed them.
Why does every household applience need to respect interference norms, while the cable companies can jam an entire frequency band (not only used by HAM's) ONLY because they're too cheap to pull a fiberoptic cable?
Scheme is a great progamming language to start with. At least try an interpreted language first, you can explore while interacting directly with the interpreter, it's more fun.
And there are video lectures about scheme available online for free at the MIT. Very interesting, and made by the creators of the language (Abelson and Sussman).
I heard of cases where the drugs are smuggled onto cargo ships with submarines. Those people have money.
If only drugs were legalized, this whole multi-billion industry could be kept out of the hands of criminals. The governments have double losses, all because they have the illusion they can control everything and everyone.
That's the main market, but don't forget there's also a possible niche for suicide bomber recruiters (there is a major labor shortage there, only idiots take a job with such lousy carreer opportunities).
One would say that "God" exists outside of our universe, but I cannot prescribe to that. That cannot be proven.
Another way to go about it is to say "God" is the "Big Bang."
So God blew himself up to give birth to the universe, and we are feeding of His corpse? I never looked at it that way..;)
All jokes aside, nobody knows what "caused" the big bang, so your guess is as good as any. But what we do know is that since then, atoms have formed, stars have burnt and life has evolved on earth. For all this, there is no need for the hypothesis of a God.
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2. people only read the headlines.
When you say you've never had a problem using Linux it makes you sound like you really haven't tried to do that much. I'm sure that's not the case, but I think you're simplfying things a bit, no?
:).
Of course not everything went as smoothly as I wanted it to, but in the end I always found a way to track those problems down. In one of the more extreme cases, I recently had some printer problems, but after half a day reading on the internet I knew what was going on, and had it fixed in no time. That's quite a long time, I agree, but things like that have been known to pop up elsewhere too, not only in Linux. Anyway there has never been a show-stopper. BTW, I'm using Debian and I wouldn't recommend that distribution for end-users, unless they're fanatic
So, how's that Excel spreadsheet going? Your PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow's meeting?
Oh, please! As if you can't make a decent spreadsheet using Linux! BTW, other Office Suites have been ported to Linux (remember what happened to WP?), I just don't see that happening to MS office because it's created by the same people who sell Windows. Basically it's one big lock-in. So maybe it's not that good an idea to use that particular suite you're refering to.
And then you "don't know and don't want to know" about how to d/l a common update to Windows, but the people who feel that way about Linux are ignorant?
It was already the newest version. I was just saying that Joe Average has lots of problems with windows, but Joe Average knows people who will help him out.
Joe Average will also have a lot of problems with Linux, but if Joe Average knows people who can help him out, he will be able to use it just the same. Also remember that a Linux distro installs a lot of software you have to install seperately on Windows.
As far as OSS goes I suggest you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Thanks for expressing your opinion!
Daddy, evil google stole my scientist!
Don't worry, I still use lilo too. Well, except on my portable, the new Debian-installer seems to install grub by default. But anyway, the configuration is so different that I prefer the good ol' lilo. I don't need those fancy Grub features anyway.
I don't know what your problem is, I use Linux exclusively for over 5 years now and I get everything done without any problems.
/. crowd repairs the Windows computers of their family, friends, and neighbours.
Then today the family got called together for a problem with my sister's WinXP pc. When I arrived my father was already running a virus scanner, and it had detected a trojan. So I wanted to open a browser and check it out. Problem: the scanner window was always on top. Great (it soon became clear the software was full of UI bugs).
Then my sister started complaining that some games didn't work, and mentioned something about DirectX versions. I simply told her I don't know and I don't WANT to know. After all these years, DirectX STILL has those problems??
So tell me again why XP would be superior? I think there are gems and horrible apps on both platforms, and if you don't know what you're doing you're screwed anyway whatever platform you run. I mean, as soon as something goes wrong they become dependant on the nearest computer geek they can find. I'm sure 90% of the
Richard Stallman is right, but if I say I'm running a GNU system, you don't know very much. It could be a *BSD, Linux, Hurd, ... kernel. If I say I run Linux, on the other hand, you can just assume it's GNU/Linux, because it's implied the GNU utilities are running on top.
So it's a sort of 'syntactic sugar', that's all. There's nothing wrong with using it in day-to-day speech, although in more formal settings it's probably better to use GNU/Linux. And of course, there's nothing wrong with Mr. Stallman 'ranting' about it, as it is his role to make people aware about the FSF and GNU.
So we all heard his comment about GNU/Linux before, but I think he will repeat it in every interview until the day he dies (for the reason above). In this particular case, it's a bit off-topic I think, since the trademark and the software are two completely different things (again, I think. If you know better, plz reply).
A hacker isn't a mentality, it's a set of actions.
Ok, am I the only one who doesn't get it? What actions? I thought there was indeed a hacker mentality, something like "I will figure out how this thing works, wathever it takes". However, I cannot think of any actions that a hacker would have to do, as it's such a diverse group of people..
No, the statement should just make clear the company was run by managers making bombastic statements nobody understands, and generally creating a lot of hot air. All the developers have probably left the company, leaving them no choice but selling the leftover code and finding a new job (again).
The error messages are different between http://ahjfgdf.google.com/ and http://talk.google.com/ , so there is something going on..
And you can put your distro in a jar of agar, and have it copied at an exponential rate!
Radio stations are controlled by the record companies, they try to force-feed you with all the crap they're trying to sell. Problem is, I'm not interested in commerce, I want to listen to quality music. So now there are these great specialized internet radio's with music I never heard before. Or you can leech months worth of music on your HD from friends, listen to it and decide for yourself what you like. It's great!
Going back to utilize the Moon's resources is a lot harder to do without a good radiation shield.
Just dig yourself in, it's not rocket science...
the government keeps cutting nasa funding, and THAT is what lead to columbia -- too little money, too much to do.
That or the space shuttle is inherrently flawed. Let's scrap the shuttle and make something better, before the next crew dies.
Now look who's crybabying.
Yes, it can be useful in emergencies (as I made clear in my original post) but that's really insignificant, and yes I DO mean insignificant. Being useful once in a blue moon is a poor reason to protect ham radio.
So maybe we should get rid of rescue teams too.. I for sure have never needed them.
Why does every household applience need to respect interference norms, while the cable companies can jam an entire frequency band (not only used by HAM's) ONLY because they're too cheap to pull a fiberoptic cable?
100 years from now, they will laugh at us for our crazy notions about strings,
What's wrong with strings? I love strings! I encourage every woman to wear them!
I would strongly advise against oral sex though. Crocs tend to have a poor sense of humor. Kind of like /. moderators, really... (Score:5, Funny)
QED
Scheme is a great progamming language to start with. At least try an interpreted language first, you can explore while interacting directly with the interpreter, it's more fun.
- sussman-lectures/
And there are video lectures about scheme available online for free at the MIT. Very interesting, and made by the creators of the language (Abelson and Sussman).
(Please don't start downloading them all at once, those are huge files).
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson
I heard of cases where the drugs are smuggled onto cargo ships with submarines. Those people have money.
If only drugs were legalized, this whole multi-billion industry could be kept out of the hands of criminals. The governments have double losses, all because they have the illusion they can control everything and everyone.
You know they're going to get broken, stolen, lost etc.
;)
Once the word gets out you can get a new laptop by beating up some 12 year old kid... Hell, I'm even considering it myself!
That's the main market, but don't forget there's also a possible niche for suicide bomber recruiters (there is a major labor shortage there, only idiots take a job with such lousy carreer opportunities).
One would say that "God" exists outside of our universe, but I cannot prescribe to that. That cannot be proven.
;)
Another way to go about it is to say "God" is the "Big Bang."
So God blew himself up to give birth to the universe, and we are feeding of His corpse? I never looked at it that way..
All jokes aside, nobody knows what "caused" the big bang, so your guess is as good as any. But what we do know is that since then, atoms have formed, stars have burnt and life has evolved on earth. For all this, there is no need for the hypothesis of a God.
but evolution does not explain away all of creation, as something must first be created to eventually evolve.
Then the same goes for God also, he had to be created too you know, so your theory is at least as flawed as evolution.
in this article, it says 'eggs'. Or is sperm another forbidden word in the land of the free?