Sounds like a nice group, I want animals to be happy too.
Except you don't belong to PETA and you clearly don't belong to any animal care group otherwise you would have brought that up. Because you don't belong to any group you probably don't think a lot about the ethical treatment of other living beings that aren't humans. You cited PETA because of something radical they did. This made you think about animals being happy too. How much thought did you put into animals being happy before you heard about PETA?
PETA is radical so that more conservative people will suport ASPCA and the like. They make you think about those sorts of things which you clearly didn't before.
Welcome to what it's like to be a protester in Tiananmen Square. Sometimes you have to be radical to get people to even think about the conservative stuff.
The reputation of GNU/Linux advocates suffers because the concept of all software being free is too hard for many of today's computer users to grasp.
Um, have you ever heard of Kazaa? I think today's computer users FULLY grasp the free software concept.
The problem comes between being able to get Photoshop for free or The Gimp for free, which should I choose? Office or OO.o? Open source software should pretend that commercial software is free (because most businesses budget for it) and ignore any benefit of cost.
Is Hippy Linux somehow inferior to CorpDrone Linux, supposing all the underlying code is the same?
Hippy Linux will probably have the better fork that you will want to use. Nautilus astounds me and I am an Apple fanboy. There is no comparison between Nautilus and the Finder (and it was created by the same person) if you want a comparison between Hippy and CorpDrone, although admittedly that doesn't really fit Apple. I wish there was a port for Aqua (I use the X11 version).
Well, no. Your statement "IDEs...exist on Linux which...are far better than Visual Studio" is a subjective statement, backed up with nothing. That is a biased statement, or a partisan one if you prefer, and you would need facts and figures to back it up.
Well, exactly since unless you can develop for the other with each it doesn't really matter anyway. Xcode is extraordinary (and it's included with every $129 purchase of Mac OS X) but you can only develop for Mac and Java, so it ain't that useful for Linux and Windows developers (unless you want to develop Java).
You cannot buy a computer without Windows on it. We simply will not do it. The way the ordering system is set up we cannot get it to go through no matter how sympathetic we are. Likewise if you purchase the system Gateway has determined that you agreed to the license the moment you power on the system. If you decide not to accept the license they will only accept the return of the software if you return the entire system (this being true of any pre-installed software that you want to return).
In most states it is not legal to hinge the sale of a product upon the sale of another, independent product. Just because companies do it does not make it legal (that's why we have a judicial branch).
They are often telling the truth. Just because you consider something to be a bad thing doesn't mean I will. Linux has a very complete list of CLI apps and a rather incomplete list of GUI ones. For what I want to do this is far better than the Windows situation where it's the inverse of that. Therefore the feature "too much stuff done through the CLI" is not a flaw. Not to me. Obviously it's better to have both a GUI and a CLI, but if I can only have one because the developer is strapped for time, I'd rather have the CLI.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm a Mac user (switched in early 97) I love Macs. I have a G5.
Recently I went through the iTools spoofing procedure (only sorta worked, I have iCal publishing and iDisk but no Backup). After tearing my hair out at how technical people write instructions (that's a whole other post) I finally figured everything out. I got addicted to Apache (I even compiled and installed 2.x). You have to do everything by editing flat files. I learned a ton and was amazed at what it can do. There is NO way to create a program that will let you configure Apache through the GUI.
Now I understand why IIS is maybe 10% of the market (other than Apache is free).
Which is good, because if Dell (or whoever) starts losing money by only shipping Windows on their machines, they will want to offer Windows-less notebooks.
Dell is probably the worst example to use, twice companies have tried to get other OSes installed on Dell machines (Apple in the early 90's with Mac OS for x86, Be in the late 90's with BeOS). I am sure going forth since the DOJ trial new Windows licenses are different but Michael Dell has gone on record stating that they have to pay for Windows whether it goes on the machine or not.
Well, ok, maybe for that Linux user it did, I don't know, but for me it doesn't. It basically never crashes, even app crashes are pretty rare.
This is the #1 myth I have seen Windows users propogate. Everytime Explorer mysteriously disappears then reappears it has crashed, Explorer is designed to hide that it has crashed.
Frankly, I'm glad that Microsoft is more concerned with getting a quality product out than with its image
Oh man, that should have garnered you enough -1 Trolls to be modded out of my threshold. When has MS EVER been concerned with getting a quality product out???
This is definitely a response to Encarta becoming obsolete in the face of Wikipedia and in typical MS style they don't really get why the competition is better and are implementing the wrong part.
I'd like to have multiple "hats" per user. Each user would have a personal equivalent of/etc/passwd describing their different hats (web, graphics, work, music, etc)
Not that I don't agree with the general sentiment that Windows-style drive letters should be eliminated
The sad fact that the PATH hardcodes drive letters is the issue. If I move a hard disk from C: to D: a LOT of things break (well, that's the MS style, though). My drive is "/dev/rdisk0" but I don't see that everywhere, I see "Titan".
I have a game, that no matter what I do to the permissions, will not run under any account other than the owner/administrator.
I'd return the game to the manufacturer and tell them that was not one of the requirements on the outside of the box and you do not have access to play the game under an admin account. There's no reason a game should have free reign of a system.
Incidentally none of my games on OS X require superuser or even an admin account. Although they require it for installation if you install anywhere else but ~/
Subjective grading on objective courses are easily rectified by a trip to the Dean. College is not free and I should be getting what I pay for. I did not pay for a math class for the professor or TA to give me their opinions on my handwriting.
That's the first thing that came to mind as I was reading the summary: well, gee, so he can now grade purely on form, rather than content.
If it's an English class, that's the whole point. English teachers are supposed to teach you how to write papers. The form is all that needs to be correct, anything else is interpretation and subjectivity which is not an English teacher's job unless you are in creative writing.
I've argued several grades before a Dean and won a higher grade because I was graded on content instead of form. It is not an English teacher's role to play critic or pundit to my paper, just to assess my ability to correctly express the content.
Of course, those Insightful moderations might get a bit unreliable... but then, they are already now!
From what I've read about how the moderation system works, you are more likely to get moderation points based on meta-moderation and if your moderations are meta-moderated with a high percentage of fair, you are likely to get more mod points and if your moderations are meta-moderated unfair you are less likely to get mod points.
That said I think redundant and flame/troll need to go. We have offtopic already and the concept that on a discussion board a flaming comment is a negative thing is a little ridiculous.
99% of the time I rate redundant and flame unfair.
They'll teach you exactly what your ratio of compound sentences, to complex sentences, to clauses, to action verbs, etc. should be.
That sounds like a good course for anyone to take. How to write a paper effectively. There's definitely a science to creating great works. Not necessarily the creative content but there are archetypes for a reason.
This will be a great language study to see if culture has a deciding factor in natural responses to how information is presented. For example I developed a great fascination for space and physics reading wikipedia articles where the way the content is presented and the information delivered has made it easier to understand and build upon. I was not surprised to find that most of the articles I read were created and maintained by just a few individuals.
So I find it odd that this is considered different.
It's different because there's no clear path of liability as far as the company is concerned and there is no clear path of prosecution. Of course the money is insured against things like this but when it becomes enough money defrauded it can become a serious problem.
If you steal money in the US (unless you're an exec) you're going to be tried, fined and jailed. What happens if you do it from another country? It's possible that some of the things done to defraud the customers are not illegal. The actual theft is but what gets most people into jail is the crimes committed around the theft.
I enjoyed watching a rip of my "Todd McFarlane's Spawn" DVD
The biggest downside to movies on the PSP memory stick is
That it's mostly illegal? I've never seen an unencrypted Hollywood studio movie.
So far all the "PSP is better than the DS" statements have all been centered around "You can watch movies on a tiny screen after you circumvent DRM and re-encode it to a crappy format and buy expensive Memory Sticks!"
Can you imagine if HMV, Virgin or (insert record store here) suddenly switched to only selling a proprietary compact disc format which only played on their player and had built-in restrictions?
Hmm, except that Audible, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless and MP3 formats as well as unprotected AAC all play on the iPod. I don't understand the uproar.
Apple only has one format, out of 7, that has DRM in it.
And seeing as how chummy they've got with the music companies (not the artists the companies)
Yeah, let's ignore all the celebrity playlists and iTunes exclusives. As far as the artists are concerned, they think Apple saved music. It was a warzone of piracy and Apple came and changed all that. To the musicians, Apple is a hero, now people actually pay for the songs when they are downloading them.
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Except you don't belong to PETA and you clearly don't belong to any animal care group otherwise you would have brought that up. Because you don't belong to any group you probably don't think a lot about the ethical treatment of other living beings that aren't humans. You cited PETA because of something radical they did. This made you think about animals being happy too. How much thought did you put into animals being happy before you heard about PETA?
PETA is radical so that more conservative people will suport ASPCA and the like. They make you think about those sorts of things which you clearly didn't before.
Welcome to what it's like to be a protester in Tiananmen Square. Sometimes you have to be radical to get people to even think about the conservative stuff.
The problem comes between being able to get Photoshop for free or The Gimp for free, which should I choose? Office or OO.o? Open source software should pretend that commercial software is free (because most businesses budget for it) and ignore any benefit of cost.
Hippy Linux will probably have the better fork that you will want to use. Nautilus astounds me and I am an Apple fanboy. There is no comparison between Nautilus and the Finder (and it was created by the same person) if you want a comparison between Hippy and CorpDrone, although admittedly that doesn't really fit Apple. I wish there was a port for Aqua (I use the X11 version).
Well, exactly since unless you can develop for the other with each it doesn't really matter anyway. Xcode is extraordinary (and it's included with every $129 purchase of Mac OS X) but you can only develop for Mac and Java, so it ain't that useful for Linux and Windows developers (unless you want to develop Java).
In most states it is not legal to hinge the sale of a product upon the sale of another, independent product. Just because companies do it does not make it legal (that's why we have a judicial branch).
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm a Mac user (switched in early 97) I love Macs. I have a G5.
Recently I went through the iTools spoofing procedure (only sorta worked, I have iCal publishing and iDisk but no Backup). After tearing my hair out at how technical people write instructions (that's a whole other post) I finally figured everything out. I got addicted to Apache (I even compiled and installed 2.x). You have to do everything by editing flat files. I learned a ton and was amazed at what it can do. There is NO way to create a program that will let you configure Apache through the GUI.
Now I understand why IIS is maybe 10% of the market (other than Apache is free).
Dell is probably the worst example to use, twice companies have tried to get other OSes installed on Dell machines (Apple in the early 90's with Mac OS for x86, Be in the late 90's with BeOS). I am sure going forth since the DOJ trial new Windows licenses are different but Michael Dell has gone on record stating that they have to pay for Windows whether it goes on the machine or not.
This is the #1 myth I have seen Windows users propogate. Everytime Explorer mysteriously disappears then reappears it has crashed, Explorer is designed to hide that it has crashed.
Compared to the non-existence of controversial topics in any other encyclopaedia. I think I'll take the one that actually exists.
Oh man, that should have garnered you enough -1 Trolls to be modded out of my threshold. When has MS EVER been concerned with getting a quality product out???
This is definitely a response to Encarta becoming obsolete in the face of Wikipedia and in typical MS style they don't really get why the competition is better and are implementing the wrong part.
Why can't computer games just run from a disc?
I can't tell you how hard I laughed with that BBQ!!!!! on the end.
On UNIX we call this "groups" it's fabulous.
The sad fact that the PATH hardcodes drive letters is the issue. If I move a hard disk from C: to D: a LOT of things break (well, that's the MS style, though). My drive is "/dev/rdisk0" but I don't see that everywhere, I see "Titan".
I'd return the game to the manufacturer and tell them that was not one of the requirements on the outside of the box and you do not have access to play the game under an admin account. There's no reason a game should have free reign of a system.
Incidentally none of my games on OS X require superuser or even an admin account. Although they require it for installation if you install anywhere else but ~/
Subjective grading on objective courses are easily rectified by a trip to the Dean. College is not free and I should be getting what I pay for. I did not pay for a math class for the professor or TA to give me their opinions on my handwriting.
If it's an English class, that's the whole point. English teachers are supposed to teach you how to write papers. The form is all that needs to be correct, anything else is interpretation and subjectivity which is not an English teacher's job unless you are in creative writing.
I've argued several grades before a Dean and won a higher grade because I was graded on content instead of form. It is not an English teacher's role to play critic or pundit to my paper, just to assess my ability to correctly express the content.
From what I've read about how the moderation system works, you are more likely to get moderation points based on meta-moderation and if your moderations are meta-moderated with a high percentage of fair, you are likely to get more mod points and if your moderations are meta-moderated unfair you are less likely to get mod points.
That said I think redundant and flame/troll need to go. We have offtopic already and the concept that on a discussion board a flaming comment is a negative thing is a little ridiculous.
99% of the time I rate redundant and flame unfair.
That sounds like a good course for anyone to take. How to write a paper effectively. There's definitely a science to creating great works. Not necessarily the creative content but there are archetypes for a reason.
This will be a great language study to see if culture has a deciding factor in natural responses to how information is presented. For example I developed a great fascination for space and physics reading wikipedia articles where the way the content is presented and the information delivered has made it easier to understand and build upon. I was not surprised to find that most of the articles I read were created and maintained by just a few individuals.
It's different because there's no clear path of liability as far as the company is concerned and there is no clear path of prosecution. Of course the money is insured against things like this but when it becomes enough money defrauded it can become a serious problem.
If you steal money in the US (unless you're an exec) you're going to be tried, fined and jailed. What happens if you do it from another country? It's possible that some of the things done to defraud the customers are not illegal. The actual theft is but what gets most people into jail is the crimes committed around the theft.
Your statement is a supposition based on US culture. Different countries and cultures have entirely different work ethics.
In Soviet Russia, Linux runs you!
That it's mostly illegal? I've never seen an unencrypted Hollywood studio movie.
So far all the "PSP is better than the DS" statements have all been centered around "You can watch movies on a tiny screen after you circumvent DRM and re-encode it to a crappy format and buy expensive Memory Sticks!"
Yay
Hmm, except that Audible, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless and MP3 formats as well as unprotected AAC all play on the iPod. I don't understand the uproar.
Apple only has one format, out of 7, that has DRM in it.
Yeah, let's ignore all the celebrity playlists and iTunes exclusives. As far as the artists are concerned, they think Apple saved music. It was a warzone of piracy and Apple came and changed all that. To the musicians, Apple is a hero, now people actually pay for the songs when they are downloading them.