Welcome to the Real World, kid. You break the rules, you get caught, your own damn fault.
Plagiarism is an offense in which nobody wins. People who actually do the work are hurt because they won't rank as high (most Universities run off bell curves). The University gets themselves discredited and the value eof everybody's degree goes down if it happens too often. Everbody ends up with paint on their faces.
Only person possibly standing to benefit from it is the Plagiariser. So if you go down, it's your fucking problem.
When Disneyland opened up, nothing worked. All the rides broke down, there was really very little experience going on except a friendly staff and a bunch of Restaurants. It wasn't really the Happiest Place On Earth right off the bat.
FC2 has been out for almost 2 weeks. Considering a major migration to the 2.6 kernel, which still has a host of compatibility issues with a bunch of programs (particularily sound drivers, what with there being a move from OSS to ALSA). I'd say give it a little bit of time. Yeah, the test versions are supposed to iron out these kinks, but in this world, I don't think that the beta test really gets underway until the official release comes out.
The fixes will come. apt and yum repositories will get better. The dual boot problem will get fixed.
Quit your bellyaching and have a little bit of patience. If you really have a problem, I recommend that you either start contributing to the project (It _IS_ open source, you know) or you march right into Red Hat's office and demand your $0 back.
So, Apple is half-hearted about security vulnerabilities because they released a bunch of patches? I fail to see how this is in any way a bad thing. Releasing information about exploits in a closed-source system is kinda stupid. At least Apple is patching these things before they become a problem.
On the most part though, it's a lot easier to administrate a *nix system and keep it secure than it is to do so with a Windows system. It all, for me, comes down to the root/user system. You have a root that you don't use normal stuff for, and so therefore it's a lot more difficult to place undetectable things on a computer on the basis that the only places someone with user access to your comp has is in user-defined places. Namely,/tmp, ~, and anywhere else the user decides to place low restrictions for themselves (say, for me, my/filez partition).
As much as people want to bitch about how "insecure" *nix systems are, frankly, they're just better designed from a coding perspective than Windows. Windows seems to have been spending a lot of its time playing catchup with features, and now they're feeling the brunt of not practicing efficient coding, and the result is going to be Longhorn (supposedly... I don't know how many times I've heard the "The Next Windows is going to be better" argument... pretty much since 3.1), which is, in effect, a major overhaul and an attempt to make Microsoft's Station Wagons a bit more like BeOS' Batmobiles.... but it seems like it's more likely to become a 12-cylander Viper with the amount of resources they're claiming it's going to need to consume.
I'm happy with my fuel efficient tank that'll work on any road, thank you very much.
Why does everybody assume that the people who are actually tinkering with Linux and using it are entirely doing it for the status it presents.
I use linux because it's the best tool for the job. The job being an operating system that meets my needs. "rebel OS" or whatever the fuck your theory is is as watertight as a seive. If you want a kitschy anti-mainstream OS, Apple's always been happy to serve you.
I agree with the assertion that GIMP has got absolutely squat on Photoshop. Honestly. That's why I see no problem in dropping the big bucks on PS. But MOST open source apps being the same? Highly doubtful.
OpenOffice handles legacy Word documents better than the "latest and greatest" from Microsoft. Heck, I've had compatibility problems between the equivalent versions of Word for Windows and Word for Mac that have been resolved just by opening the document up in OO.
Bash rocks cmd's socks off. If geeks do one thing exceptionally well, it's command-line tools.
Ogle vs. Any DVD player for Windows: Killer. Just learn your bloody keyboard mappings already (not that hard to find) and it's exactly the same as any given DVD player except no lock-outs, so you can skip all the bullshit previews the companies decide to force feed you with (also, you've read the FBI Warnings before, and if you haven't, you're not about to start now. Suffice it to say you saw the FBI warning, can you please skip it already?)
Like I said, GIMP definately has serious disadvantages over Photoshop. But a lot of the other tools that are out there are not as lacking. 99% of the stuff I use that's open-source is in most cases as good as and in many cases better than its proprietary counterpart. The one thing people seem to forget is that in the geek world aesthetics take a back seat to functionality. I don't mind learning curves myself so I find myself able to do a lot more with a fully open source system over a system loaded with its proprietary counterparts.
I went to their competition and have been singing the praises of the Karma ever since. I'm coercing a lot of friends that the iPod is overexpensive for the size, with less useful features and a few annoyances due to esthetics (I can feel around my karma blindly without accidentally skipping to the next track). Now I tell all my friends not to waste their money with Apple.
And to think that all that happened simply because I was looking for something with decent linux support.
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Sadly, that doesn't work. All it's going to do is continue to distance the recording industry from the users, and as such the users will have zero qualms with moving to cheaper more effective means. Namely: P2P.
A lot of people are getting Hard Drive errors with their Karmas. I just got mine back from Warranty replacement (after a month-and-a-half wait and plenty of complaining). Mine broke after 2 weeks of use. Apparently, according to the folks at the Riovolution Forum a lot of people have had this problem (in the same time frame) and are currently going through Hell getting a replacement. I'm surprised I got mine so quickly.
Aside from that, I'm liking the Karma a lot. I just hope my replacement doesn't crap out the same as the first one did. If it does I'm aiming for an iPod.
Other than that, RMML (Rio Music Manager Lite) is a Java-based app that syncs up with the Karma over a dock that can be connected via ethernet. The coolness of this being that it's completely platform independent, and will run on any system that can run Java, including my fedora box. Its compatibility to be runnable on Linux is the main reason why I liked this. OGG and FLAC support are just extras. =)
Uh... The English? You mean how British Parliament doesn't pass laws that we are involved with? Or how the representative to the queen who is appointed by our prime minister rubber stamps all our legislation?
Or how Conrad Black controls both the major news media of Britain and The National Post, which is, incidentally enough, _NOT_ The Globe And Mail.
I'm missing your logic at how we're being oppressed by Britain when they have zero control over us except by name.
Turing machines utilized Boolean logic. At the very base of processor design, you have these things called "gates" which take signals ("on" xor "off", 1 xor 0, high voltage xor low voltage) and process them in a boolean test..... Like, say:
1 OR 0 evaluates to a signal that says "1" 1 AND 0 evaluates to a signal that says "0" NOT 0 evaluates to "1" etc. etc.
You can then design these gates to go on to make more complicated items key in processor design: encoders, decoders, multiplexors, latches, flip-flops, counters, adders, registers, arithmetic and logic units (ALUs), data paths, data controls, and ultimately a modern processor.
Boolean logic is at the VERY HEART of all this stuff, so, yeah, this has a LOT to do with computers.
I wouldn't say any. There's a fair number of 15-year-olds out there with a healthy interest in computers and how to make them work. Linux is an excellent way of teaching them that.
So, uh, take your generalisations and go home. Thank you.
If everybody just used vim or emacs to do all their important documents and Word for stuff they wanted to print.
I know I'd be a couple billion times happier. Would make for my Computing Science papers to be a lot easier to write on my linux box. Why are teachers so quick to use formats that cost the students $100? What's so wrong with text files for submissions? They're pretty cross-platform and avoid a lot of compatibility issues. Only thing you have to worry about is the whole carriage-return/new-line thing (WHY DOES MICROSOFT USE TWO?????). But a perl script on the submission server could bloody well solve that problem.
See, now that everybody sees how pointless it was, the same point that got Michael Moore booed off the stage got applause from this year's documentary winner.
WELL 20/20 HINDSIGHT AFTER A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIED NOW, ISN'T IT!
Go America.
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Um. Smoke much crack?
Unless you know of any major distros that have been released in the last week without freezing their packages, I'd imagine the answer to your question would be NONE.
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Welcome to the Real World, kid. You break the rules, you get caught, your own damn fault.
Plagiarism is an offense in which nobody wins. People who actually do the work are hurt because they won't rank as high (most Universities run off bell curves). The University gets themselves discredited and the value eof everybody's degree goes down if it happens too often. Everbody ends up with paint on their faces.
Only person possibly standing to benefit from it is the Plagiariser. So if you go down, it's your fucking problem.
This kid really needs to grow the hell up.
When Disneyland opened up, nothing worked. All the rides broke down, there was really very little experience going on except a friendly staff and a bunch of Restaurants. It wasn't really the Happiest Place On Earth right off the bat.
FC2 has been out for almost 2 weeks. Considering a major migration to the 2.6 kernel, which still has a host of compatibility issues with a bunch of programs (particularily sound drivers, what with there being a move from OSS to ALSA). I'd say give it a little bit of time. Yeah, the test versions are supposed to iron out these kinks, but in this world, I don't think that the beta test really gets underway until the official release comes out.
The fixes will come. apt and yum repositories will get better. The dual boot problem will get fixed.
Quit your bellyaching and have a little bit of patience. If you really have a problem, I recommend that you either start contributing to the project (It _IS_ open source, you know) or you march right into Red Hat's office and demand your $0 back.
Had they not already used the AYB reference in the summary.
You actually type LOL?
I had that long before I hung out in IRC.
Just think tongue-in-cheek.
So, Apple is half-hearted about security vulnerabilities because they released a bunch of patches? I fail to see how this is in any way a bad thing. Releasing information about exploits in a closed-source system is kinda stupid. At least Apple is patching these things before they become a problem.
/tmp, ~, and anywhere else the user decides to place low restrictions for themselves (say, for me, my /filez partition).
On the most part though, it's a lot easier to administrate a *nix system and keep it secure than it is to do so with a Windows system. It all, for me, comes down to the root/user system. You have a root that you don't use normal stuff for, and so therefore it's a lot more difficult to place undetectable things on a computer on the basis that the only places someone with user access to your comp has is in user-defined places. Namely,
As much as people want to bitch about how "insecure" *nix systems are, frankly, they're just better designed from a coding perspective than Windows. Windows seems to have been spending a lot of its time playing catchup with features, and now they're feeling the brunt of not practicing efficient coding, and the result is going to be Longhorn (supposedly... I don't know how many times I've heard the "The Next Windows is going to be better" argument... pretty much since 3.1), which is, in effect, a major overhaul and an attempt to make Microsoft's Station Wagons a bit more like BeOS' Batmobiles.... but it seems like it's more likely to become a 12-cylander Viper with the amount of resources they're claiming it's going to need to consume.
I'm happy with my fuel efficient tank that'll work on any road, thank you very much.
(Apologies to Neal Stephenson for borrowing the metaphor)
Now RMS can go on crusades to let the world know it's not Solaris, it's GNU/Solaris.
Why does everybody assume that the people who are actually tinkering with Linux and using it are entirely doing it for the status it presents.
I use linux because it's the best tool for the job. The job being an operating system that meets my needs. "rebel OS" or whatever the fuck your theory is is as watertight as a seive. If you want a kitschy anti-mainstream OS, Apple's always been happy to serve you.
But I guess I just misread the thing at the top that says "News For Nerds."
My bad.
Come on.
Most open source apps?
I agree with the assertion that GIMP has got absolutely squat on Photoshop. Honestly. That's why I see no problem in dropping the big bucks on PS. But MOST open source apps being the same? Highly doubtful.
OpenOffice handles legacy Word documents better than the "latest and greatest" from Microsoft. Heck, I've had compatibility problems between the equivalent versions of Word for Windows and Word for Mac that have been resolved just by opening the document up in OO.
Bash rocks cmd's socks off. If geeks do one thing exceptionally well, it's command-line tools.
Ogle vs. Any DVD player for Windows: Killer. Just learn your bloody keyboard mappings already (not that hard to find) and it's exactly the same as any given DVD player except no lock-outs, so you can skip all the bullshit previews the companies decide to force feed you with (also, you've read the FBI Warnings before, and if you haven't, you're not about to start now. Suffice it to say you saw the FBI warning, can you please skip it already?)
Like I said, GIMP definately has serious disadvantages over Photoshop. But a lot of the other tools that are out there are not as lacking. 99% of the stuff I use that's open-source is in most cases as good as and in many cases better than its proprietary counterpart. The one thing people seem to forget is that in the geek world aesthetics take a back seat to functionality. I don't mind learning curves myself so I find myself able to do a lot more with a fully open source system over a system loaded with its proprietary counterparts.
It's Qapla'.
I went to their competition and have been singing the praises of the Karma ever since. I'm coercing a lot of friends that the iPod is overexpensive for the size, with less useful features and a few annoyances due to esthetics (I can feel around my karma blindly without accidentally skipping to the next track). Now I tell all my friends not to waste their money with Apple.
And to think that all that happened simply because I was looking for something with decent linux support.
But then again, I saw the fnords. =p
Sadly, that doesn't work. All it's going to do is continue to distance the recording industry from the users, and as such the users will have zero qualms with moving to cheaper more effective means. Namely: P2P.
They're having troubles.
A lot of people are getting Hard Drive errors with their Karmas. I just got mine back from Warranty replacement (after a month-and-a-half wait and plenty of complaining). Mine broke after 2 weeks of use. Apparently, according to the folks at the Riovolution Forum a lot of people have had this problem (in the same time frame) and are currently going through Hell getting a replacement. I'm surprised I got mine so quickly.
Aside from that, I'm liking the Karma a lot. I just hope my replacement doesn't crap out the same as the first one did. If it does I'm aiming for an iPod.
Other than that, RMML (Rio Music Manager Lite) is a Java-based app that syncs up with the Karma over a dock that can be connected via ethernet. The coolness of this being that it's completely platform independent, and will run on any system that can run Java, including my fedora box. Its compatibility to be runnable on Linux is the main reason why I liked this. OGG and FLAC support are just extras. =)
Think about it.
160GB Hard drive is how big?
Uh... The English? You mean how British Parliament doesn't pass laws that we are involved with? Or how the representative to the queen who is appointed by our prime minister rubber stamps all our legislation?
Or how Conrad Black controls both the major news media of Britain and The National Post, which is, incidentally enough, _NOT_ The Globe And Mail.
I'm missing your logic at how we're being oppressed by Britain when they have zero control over us except by name.
Turing machines utilized Boolean logic. At the very base of processor design, you have these things called "gates" which take signals ("on" xor "off", 1 xor 0, high voltage xor low voltage) and process them in a boolean test..... Like, say:
1 OR 0 evaluates to a signal that says "1"
1 AND 0 evaluates to a signal that says "0"
NOT 0 evaluates to "1"
etc. etc.
You can then design these gates to go on to make more complicated items key in processor design: encoders, decoders, multiplexors, latches, flip-flops, counters, adders, registers, arithmetic and logic units (ALUs), data paths, data controls, and ultimately a modern processor.
Boolean logic is at the VERY HEART of all this stuff, so, yeah, this has a LOT to do with computers.
BBC is British. Globe and Mail is Canadian. One has nothing to do with the other.
Any 15-year-old?
I wouldn't say any. There's a fair number of 15-year-olds out there with a healthy interest in computers and how to make them work. Linux is an excellent way of teaching them that.
So, uh, take your generalisations and go home. Thank you.
Authoring != Copying.
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Connection could not be established
THIS STUFF IS GOLD!
If everybody just used vim or emacs to do all their important documents and Word for stuff they wanted to print.
I know I'd be a couple billion times happier. Would make for my Computing Science papers to be a lot easier to write on my linux box. Why are teachers so quick to use formats that cost the students $100? What's so wrong with text files for submissions? They're pretty cross-platform and avoid a lot of compatibility issues. Only thing you have to worry about is the whole carriage-return/new-line thing (WHY DOES MICROSOFT USE TWO?????). But a perl script on the submission server could bloody well solve that problem.
What's more interesting is the fact that they won all the categories they were in yet only netted 11 Oscars, despite their 12 nominations.
Good going, Suhas.
See, now that everybody sees how pointless it was, the same point that got Michael Moore booed off the stage got applause from this year's documentary winner.
WELL 20/20 HINDSIGHT AFTER A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIED NOW, ISN'T IT!
Go America.
Um. Smoke much crack?
Unless you know of any major distros that have been released in the last week without freezing their packages, I'd imagine the answer to your question would be NONE.