Upgrading to the latest version of Fedora is as hard as copying and pasting from the Red Hat website into the yum.conf file, then typing "yum upgrade". Most people will be able, after 1 1/2 to 2 years of using a system, to copy and paste into a text file.
As far as I'm concerned Fedora is the best newbie distro available. SUSE and Mandrake are both weirder and more obtuse, in my experience, than Debian; they both have glaring obnoxiousness that is completely inexcusable for distros aiming at the markets they're targeting.
A very realistic option for someone new, but willing to experiment a bit, is a Knoppix or Gnoppix -> Debian install. In fact, I would say it's the next best option for newbies after Fedora.
The only catch with Fedora, however, is its initial install: none of the partitioning strangeness has been fixed. On certain machines, Fedora simply cannot coexist with Windows on the same hard drive. But, if someone is willing to ditch Windows altogether, or is trying it out on a new, exclusively linux box, the installation is nearly flawless.
This is highly characteristic of the new, economy-driven order of things.
Sovereign multinational corporations and their alliances are the new, intricate governmental system.
Intangible intellectual and even visual properties are the new Land or Gold. Strikingly, it is the countries running under the newest, most 'democratic' systems that are most overtaken by this new order. In a way, it is the inevitable conclusion of a tyranny-of-the-majority system: ownership of the public mindspace makes democracy, in the end, impossible. Consent is, as Chomsky realized several decades ago, a manufacturable product; it is, in fact, power itself.
Spam and virus detection, which can accomplished much more accurately with a larger sample taken into account. (especially if Google's writing the algorithms.)
For most of us who have some idea of what's going on, e-mail virii themselves have never been a problem (unless your job is to try to convince other people not open them; idiots.) The problem is the massive ammount of e-mails delivering the things, coupled with all the returned e-mails from other servers that have gotten virii from spoofed addresses in your domain. And the spam. Oh, the spam. I trained Thunderbird's filters for months before I got a Gmail account, and still saw 20-30 junk e-mails a day, and still had to sift through my spam box every day for false positives. Pain in the ass.
Since I started using Gmail two months ago and set up ALL of my other accounts to forward to it, I've gotten exactly 4 spam messages delivered to my inbox, and one returned virus message forwarded from another domain. What's more, I've had only TWO false-positives, each from mailing lists. I practically forget I even have a spam box, anymore.
I've been enjoying both of those key functionalities on every platform I use, by way of two excellent firefox extensions: Gmail Notifier and Gmail Compose.
Caffeine being a diuretic, it will (like alcohol) increase the speed at which urine is excreted, thus tending to dehydrate you (and put an eye out if you're not careful.)
Technically speaking, 'junk' food is less expensive than nutritious food for a couple of key reasons:
* More people eat junk food. This trend began primarily as an issue of convenience or perceived value, and only much later attained its economic component. For example, while white bread (and pastry) is far less nutritious than its whole grain equivalent and actually requires an extra step to process, it was at one time considered a luxury, to be indulged in by the common man only on special occasions, and typically to impress important guests. The wealthy demonstrated their affluency by eating white bread every day. Because of the increased desirability of white bread due to the elevated percieved value, the demand for bleached flour increased so radically that facilities for processing it actually replaced those for processing whole flour. This is how it became less expensive to buy a product that required greater resources to produce.
* However, as the prominence of overprocessed 'junk' food has increased to the point of living standard (thereby pushing down its price,) so has the perceived value of whole, healthy foods increased. This increase in perceived value has pushed the price-point on these food items beyond the (already elevated) real market value.
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Why should they have to copy and paste into a text file in order to upgrade their operating system?! Are you fucking nuts?
Are you working on a thought-to-speech device or what?
Actually, now that Wal-Mart is selling Linux systems, a newbie running linux (albeit a shitty distro) is not unthinkable.
Been using Firefox for two years, eh?
It's true mp2 playback doesn't work out of the box, but the instructions on the Fedora FAQ make it really easy.
Upgrading to the latest version of Fedora is as hard as copying and pasting from the Red Hat website into the yum.conf file, then typing "yum upgrade". Most people will be able, after 1 1/2 to 2 years of using a system, to copy and paste into a text file.
As far as I'm concerned Fedora is the best newbie distro available. SUSE and Mandrake are both weirder and more obtuse, in my experience, than Debian; they both have glaring obnoxiousness that is completely inexcusable for distros aiming at the markets they're targeting.
A very realistic option for someone new, but willing to experiment a bit, is a Knoppix or Gnoppix -> Debian install. In fact, I would say it's the next best option for newbies after Fedora.
The only catch with Fedora, however, is its initial install: none of the partitioning strangeness has been fixed. On certain machines, Fedora simply cannot coexist with Windows on the same hard drive. But, if someone is willing to ditch Windows altogether, or is trying it out on a new, exclusively linux box, the installation is nearly flawless.
yum upgrade, dude.
Terrifying, I know.
This is highly characteristic of the new, economy-driven order of things.
Sovereign multinational corporations and their alliances are the new, intricate governmental system.
Intangible intellectual and even visual properties are the new Land or Gold. Strikingly, it is the countries running under the newest, most 'democratic' systems that are most overtaken by this new order. In a way, it is the inevitable conclusion of a tyranny-of-the-majority system: ownership of the public mindspace makes democracy, in the end, impossible. Consent is, as Chomsky realized several decades ago, a manufacturable product; it is, in fact, power itself.
A good reason to sign my life away to the military!
Brookstones, maybe? Sharper Image?
Oh, it's much prettier than radar.
Hack your way to lower premiums!
Spam and virus detection, which can accomplished much more accurately with a larger sample taken into account. (especially if Google's writing the algorithms.)
For most of us who have some idea of what's going on, e-mail virii themselves have never been a problem (unless your job is to try to convince other people not open them; idiots.) The problem is the massive ammount of e-mails delivering the things, coupled with all the returned e-mails from other servers that have gotten virii from spoofed addresses in your domain. And the spam. Oh, the spam. I trained Thunderbird's filters for months before I got a Gmail account, and still saw 20-30 junk e-mails a day, and still had to sift through my spam box every day for false positives. Pain in the ass.
Since I started using Gmail two months ago and set up ALL of my other accounts to forward to it, I've gotten exactly 4 spam messages delivered to my inbox, and one returned virus message forwarded from another domain. What's more, I've had only TWO false-positives, each from mailing lists. I practically forget I even have a spam box, anymore.
I've been enjoying both of those key functionalities on every platform I use, by way of two excellent firefox extensions: Gmail Notifier and Gmail Compose.
Almost a month ago, I set all my existing accounts to forward to my shiny new Gmail account.
The result: TWO spams messages have gotten through in a a month. ONE false positive. I don't even sift through my spam box anymore.
That's the most insightful comment anyone's made in this whole discussion.
Posting here ought to provide an automatic karmic regeneration.
Caffeine being a diuretic, it will (like alcohol) increase the speed at which urine is excreted, thus tending to dehydrate you (and put an eye out if you're not careful.)
Technically speaking, 'junk' food is less expensive than nutritious food for a couple of key reasons:
* More people eat junk food. This trend began primarily as an issue of convenience or perceived value, and only much later attained its economic component. For example, while white bread (and pastry) is far less nutritious than its whole grain equivalent and actually requires an extra step to process, it was at one time considered a luxury, to be indulged in by the common man only on special occasions, and typically to impress important guests. The wealthy demonstrated their affluency by eating white bread every day. Because of the increased desirability of white bread due to the elevated percieved value, the demand for bleached flour increased so radically that facilities for processing it actually replaced those for processing whole flour. This is how it became less expensive to buy a product that required greater resources to produce.
* However, as the prominence of overprocessed 'junk' food has increased to the point of living standard (thereby pushing down its price,) so has the perceived value of whole, healthy foods increased. This increase in perceived value has pushed the price-point on these food items beyond the (already elevated) real market value.
lol... did anybody else happen to notice the license plate at the very end of the demo clip on the XNA site? It's "PS WHO"
I'm pretty sure I care about the yo-yo a good deal more than I care about AmigaOS.
(did anyone look at those ridiculous screenshots? they were supposed to be impressive?)
What a piece of shit. My yo-yo cost $600 and when I'm done walking the dog it will suck my dick.
Don't by it, it's a scam.
I'd say that's undeniable.
Those Real clowns are nothing but a bunch of biznitches anyway.
Winamp just followed the Pixies' "Stormy Weather" with Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35".
Winamp is a Brilliant Genius!