What next, will Linus get one? Will he decide that getting stuff done on his mac is more important than trying to get the next kernel out the door?
That's exactly the point - getting stuff done (instead of jacking with the computer). I am so sick and tired of messing around with either Windows or Linux just to get them to do something useful with a minimum of hassle.
Mind you, I'm a Unix admin at work, and use Linux as my desktop OS there, but at home it's just increasingly frustrating to try & get useful work accomplished. Yes, sometimes it's fun to just hack around at things, but why do so many home computing tasks need to be so obtuse and overly complicated to implement with these Intel-based OSes ? My next Unix box for the home will run Mac OSX...
I'd only recommend Napier's book with several, rather severe, caveats. She often writes in a dense, verbose academic style that takes pages to say basically nothing. She's also obsessed with "gender issues" (in a shallow, Western, "politically correct" sense) and tends to judge anime, and Japanese pop culture in general, from a very Americo-centric standpoint.
If you want a work on anime that will really give you an appreciation of the form along with a more in depth (and unslanted) look at the Japanese culture which created it, then I'd much sooner suggest Samurai from Outer Space : Understanding Japanese Animation by Antonia Levi.
eMachine PCs aren't all that bad, just not what I'd choose for certain applications (e.g. heavy-duty 3D gaming). Their greatest weakness is apparently poor quality/capacity power supplies. Check out Dave Farquhar's article Upgrading an eMachine for more tips.
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I would love to have a T-shirt with a few Kanji characters on it.
Then check out the shirts at JList. Warning, this is some, errr... "nakedness" on their site as well;)
"He" is a she - Eugenia Loli-Queru. Eugenia is Editor-in-Chief of OSNews.com. Before moving to the U.S. she was a web-designer in the U.K., ported more than 80 Linux/Posix/DOS applications to BeOS and founded the BeUnited BeOS Development Movement in April 2000.
As for a background in embedded systems, I'm not sure - but she is certainly more qualified than you suggest, having experience with many OSes incl. BeOS, AtheOS and FreeBSD among others...
but it is not the least bit "elitist" to point out that interaction beats passivity in the relationsip department
Ah, but watching TV can can be an "interactive" experience. Depends on how you do it (i.e. don't just dump the kids in front of it as a babysitter - tho' that certainly keeps 'em out of your hair while you're making dinner).
Personally, I dislike the whole idea of "quality time" because...
No arguements here.
Next time you get paid would you prefer a large quantity of wrinkled and possibly soiled $100 bills or just a couple of bills that are crisp and clean
Depends on what denomination those clean bills are;)
I second the Klipsch ProMedias. For computer speakers, they sound awesome. Do they sound as nice as good 5.1 surround sound satellites in a home theater setup ? No, but I don't even think the small satellites Klipsch sells for that purpose are as good as others (I've got Mirage speakers on my home stereo, much nicer midrange than the Klipsch).
The Klipsch 2.1 setup for your PC is a bit pricey, but worth it. Spend anything more and, IMHO, you're in the realm of less & less bang for your buck. Great for gaming and more than good enough for music (if you're a serious music fan, you don't need to be listening to music on a PC anyway;)
Think back to your own childhood and see if you recall with fondness the TV shows your family watched together...
Matter of fact, I can remember such times. Old B&W TV, me in my PJs and us all watching the "Ed Sullivan Show", "Jackie Gleason" or "Red Skelton" together. Laughing together at the jokes and generally commenting on what was going on. Great memories!
Just had to comment on this, because the tired, old "watching TV together isn't quality time" thing is such a bunch of elitist crap! Like anything else, it depends on how you do it. Sheesh...
Luckily, there's more than one axis in the political spectrum. Besides Left vs. Right there's More Govt vs. Less Govt. Have a look at the Libertarian Party for more details, esp. the World's Smallest Political Quiz. On this, I'm a bit left of center and quite a ways up the "Less Gov't" axis;)
Forced infectious freedom isn't freedom...I really wish more people saw the GPL as having the hampering effect that it does; let it truly be free; let the market forces and the open source cloners and innovators determine how the code evolves and branches.
Well put. GPL = the socialist, we'll tell you what freedom means license. BSD = the libertarian, truly free license. All the BSD folks want is "credit where credit is due" and "don't sue us":)
Now for major publications we have GameSpot. And, uh... GameSpot.
There's more than just Gamespot out there. Check out Stomped.com. I know one of the news guys, Sean "redwood" Martin, and he's quite dedicated. And yes, it's more than just "Quake";)
we all know..
yes.
and love...
not hardly. I love freedom, not the GPL. The GPL's idea of "freedom" is right up there with Ralph Nader and the Green party: "freedom is what we tell you it is" The BSD license is more like the Libertarian party's ideals. Freedom means do what you like with it:)
This should be modded up:) I'm a Unix admin at work and BeOS user at home, and BeOS on the desktop + free *nix in your server room (I use FreeBSD myself, as I understand Be, Inc. does) is an ideal combination. Everything StandardDeviant says above is spot-on.
And yes, Gobe Productive is a great "office" appl. The developers were involved with Apple's ClarisWorks and have come up with the ideal, lighter weight "works" package. It's all 90% of "office" users will ever need in an efficient, easy to use package.
You can go to your bios and tell it "NO" for plug and play OS, and "NO" for ACPI support, and win2k will go into legacy mode and let you set irq's yourself.
Ahhh...but then you have to reinstall Win2K as it installs a different Hardware Abstraction Layer (hal.dll) depending upon whether ACPI support in your BIOS is on or off. All this fsck-ing effort, just because Win2K won't leave my IRQs alone and let me tell it what they are:-P If I didn't want to play the occasional game, I'd wipe my Winblows partition and just boot Debian all the time.
theKompany is just a software company. Don't use their software if you don't want to (and I think many KDE users don't use their software).
(sarcasm) But if I do, how can I justify my continued wailing & gnashing of teeth about what "free" means / open vs. closed source / FSF vs. everyone ? (/sarcasm)
Chunking asteroids (well, big Moon rocks, but you get the point) at the Earth was mentioned by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Uh, no - they're in Roundrock, TX. Just north of Austin on IH-35. It's a separate town. And yes, I am a Native Texan, thank you very much:) Born in Austin, too.
Best damn form of internet censorship I ever heard of. Can't supervise them my ass. That's a parent's job.
Somebody please mod this up - waaaaay up. This post contains the sum total of all that needs to be said about supervising childrens' use of the Internet.
Now mind you, as a parent myself, I might at some point obtain a semi-safe ISP like AOL for my child. But not for one split-second would I think this abdicated my personal responsibility to supervise my child in any way. BTW, this parent was born in 1960;)
The Salt Lake Tribune article incls a quote stating that: The state's liquor laws also make recruiting creative high-tech workers that much more difficult by sending a signal that Utah isn't open to intellectual and social diversity.
Well, duh!;) Having once resided in the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado, I'm quite familiar with living around Mormons. The LDS members in that area don't speak very well of "Utah Mormons" - seems they have a holier-than-thou reputation even amongst their own members. And it was in Colorado that I saw my first Eat, Drink and Be Merry, for Tomorrow You May Be in Utah bumperstickers:)
Thankfully, in some states, such as here in Arizona, the government is getting involved and funding network rollouts in the rural areas...Until its more profitable, or subsidized by the government, we're just not going to see widespread broadband deployment.
I'm sorry !? Since when should my tax money go to subsidize services for people who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere, then whine because they can't get the same services as someone in the suburbs ? TANSTAAFL dammit! Make your best choice, then live with it or move somewhere else...but keep your hands out of my wallet.
Do vendors have to recompile there applications for every kernel, every library and every distro? How can I use Linux when the core libraries don't seem to be forwards or backwards compatible across different distributions?
What you need is an open-source Unix that treats the kernel, libs and "user-land" stuff as a whole, not as a mishmash that varies for each "distribution." In other words, you need Free/Net/OpenBSD:) There is no such thing as a "version of Linux" per se. Linux is just a kernel which, as you've discovered, can be distributed with an annoying variety of core libs and user-land applications.
Sorry if this sounds like trolling, but I consider this issue one of the biggest thorns in the side of Linux, and one of BSD's greatest advantages...
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What next, will Linus get one? Will he decide that getting stuff done on his mac is more important than trying to get the next kernel out the door?
That's exactly the point - getting stuff done (instead of jacking with the computer). I am so sick and tired of messing around with either Windows or Linux just to get them to do something useful with a minimum of hassle.
Mind you, I'm a Unix admin at work, and use Linux as my desktop OS there, but at home it's just increasingly frustrating to try & get useful work accomplished. Yes, sometimes it's fun to just hack around at things, but why do so many home computing tasks need to be so obtuse and overly complicated to implement with these Intel-based OSes ? My next Unix box for the home will run Mac OSX...
I'd only recommend Napier's book with several, rather severe, caveats. She often writes in a dense, verbose academic style that takes pages to say basically nothing. She's also obsessed with "gender issues" (in a shallow, Western, "politically correct" sense) and tends to judge anime, and Japanese pop culture in general, from a very Americo-centric standpoint.
If you want a work on anime that will really give you an appreciation of the form along with a more in depth (and unslanted) look at the Japanese culture which created it, then I'd much sooner suggest Samurai from Outer Space : Understanding Japanese Animation by Antonia Levi.
eMachine PCs aren't all that bad, just not what I'd choose for certain applications (e.g. heavy-duty 3D gaming). Their greatest weakness is apparently poor quality/capacity power supplies. Check out Dave Farquhar's article Upgrading an eMachine for more tips.
I would love to have a T-shirt with a few Kanji characters on it.
;)
Then check out the shirts at JList. Warning, this is some, errr... "nakedness" on their site as well
"He" is a she - Eugenia Loli-Queru. Eugenia is Editor-in-Chief of OSNews.com. Before moving to the U.S. she was a web-designer in the U.K., ported more than 80 Linux/Posix/DOS applications to BeOS and founded the BeUnited BeOS Development Movement in April 2000.
As for a background in embedded systems, I'm not sure - but she is certainly more qualified than you suggest, having experience with many OSes incl. BeOS, AtheOS and FreeBSD among others...
but it is not the least bit "elitist" to point out that interaction beats passivity in the relationsip department
;)
Ah, but watching TV can can be an "interactive" experience. Depends on how you do it (i.e. don't just dump the kids in front of it as a babysitter - tho' that certainly keeps 'em out of your hair while you're making dinner).
Personally, I dislike the whole idea of "quality time" because...
No arguements here.
Next time you get paid would you prefer a large quantity of wrinkled and possibly soiled $100 bills or just a couple of bills that are crisp and clean
Depends on what denomination those clean bills are
I second the Klipsch ProMedias. For computer speakers, they sound awesome. Do they sound as nice as good 5.1 surround sound satellites in a home theater setup ? No, but I don't even think the small satellites Klipsch sells for that purpose are as good as others (I've got Mirage speakers on my home stereo, much nicer midrange than the Klipsch). The Klipsch 2.1 setup for your PC is a bit pricey, but worth it. Spend anything more and, IMHO, you're in the realm of less & less bang for your buck. Great for gaming and more than good enough for music (if you're a serious music fan, you don't need to be listening to music on a PC anyway ;)
Think back to your own childhood and see if you recall with fondness the TV shows your family watched together...
Matter of fact, I can remember such times. Old B&W TV, me in my PJs and us all watching the "Ed Sullivan Show", "Jackie Gleason" or "Red Skelton" together. Laughing together at the jokes and generally commenting on what was going on. Great memories!
Just had to comment on this, because the tired, old "watching TV together isn't quality time" thing is such a bunch of elitist crap! Like anything else, it depends on how you do it. Sheesh...
...though I suspect if a lima bean had a CPU Linux would get ported to it)
;)
No, first there'd be a NetBSD port
Luckily, there's more than one axis in the political spectrum. Besides Left vs. Right there's More Govt vs. Less Govt. Have a look at the Libertarian Party for more details, esp. the World's Smallest Political Quiz. On this, I'm a bit left of center and quite a ways up the "Less Gov't" axis ;)
Forced infectious freedom isn't freedom...I really wish more people saw the GPL as having the hampering effect that it does; let it truly be free; let the market forces and the open source cloners and innovators determine how the code evolves and branches.
:)
Well put. GPL = the socialist, we'll tell you what freedom means license. BSD = the libertarian, truly free license. All the BSD folks want is "credit where credit is due" and "don't sue us"
There's more than just Gamespot out there. Check out Stomped.com. I know one of the news guys, Sean "redwood" Martin, and he's quite dedicated. And yes, it's more than just "Quake" ;)
we all know.. yes. and love... not hardly. I love freedom, not the GPL. The GPL's idea of "freedom" is right up there with Ralph Nader and the Green party: "freedom is what we tell you it is" The BSD license is more like the Libertarian party's ideals. Freedom means do what you like with it :)
And yes, Gobe Productive is a great "office" appl. The developers were involved with Apple's ClarisWorks and have come up with the ideal, lighter weight "works" package. It's all 90% of "office" users will ever need in an efficient, easy to use package.
Ahhh...but then you have to reinstall Win2K as it installs a different Hardware Abstraction Layer (hal.dll) depending upon whether ACPI support in your BIOS is on or off. All this fsck-ing effort, just because Win2K won't leave my IRQs alone and let me tell it what they are :-P If I didn't want to play the occasional game, I'd wipe my Winblows partition and just boot Debian all the time.
(sarcasm) But if I do, how can I justify my continued wailing & gnashing of teeth about what "free" means / open vs. closed source / FSF vs. everyone ? (/sarcasm)
Thanks for interjecting a bit of common sense :)
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Chunking asteroids (well, big Moon rocks, but you get the point) at the Earth was mentioned by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
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Of course it is. After all, "If I want it, it wants to be free," right ?
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Stop whining and go read the philosophy pages on the GNU website with respect to selling software...
Uh, no - they're in Roundrock, TX. Just north of Austin on IH-35. It's a separate town. And yes, I am a Native Texan, thank you very much :) Born in Austin, too.
Somebody please mod this up - waaaaay up. This post contains the sum total of all that needs to be said about supervising childrens' use of the Internet.
Now mind you, as a parent myself, I might at some point obtain a semi-safe ISP like AOL for my child. But not for one split-second would I think this abdicated my personal responsibility to supervise my child in any way. BTW, this parent was born in 1960 ;)
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Well, duh! ;) Having once resided in the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado, I'm quite familiar with living around Mormons. The LDS members in that area don't speak very well of "Utah Mormons" - seems they have a holier-than-thou reputation even amongst their own members. And it was in Colorado that I saw my first Eat, Drink and Be Merry, for Tomorrow You May Be in Utah bumperstickers :)
I'm sorry !? Since when should my tax money go to subsidize services for people who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere, then whine because they can't get the same services as someone in the suburbs ? TANSTAAFL dammit! Make your best choice, then live with it or move somewhere else...but keep your hands out of my wallet.
What you need is an open-source Unix that treats the kernel, libs and "user-land" stuff as a whole, not as a mishmash that varies for each "distribution." In other words, you need Free/Net/OpenBSD :) There is no such thing as a "version of Linux" per se. Linux is just a kernel which, as you've discovered, can be distributed with an annoying variety of core libs and user-land applications.
Sorry if this sounds like trolling, but I consider this issue one of the biggest thorns in the side of Linux, and one of BSD's greatest advantages...