If it's 249 EUR in Europe that means it will cost around 3200 SEK in Sweden, which is about 350 EUR or 520 USD.:( Guess why I order almost everything I buy (that can practically be shipped) from Germany, UK or China... I even ordered skis from Germany last winter. Half the price for the very exact model, even including the shipping costs. I ordered an extractor/range hood from Poland (half the price including shipping), a plasma TV from Germany (2/3 the price), DVDRs from Luxemburg, various kitchen applicances, utensils and cutlery from the UK... The list goes on.
Personally I think that $/h is more important than $/y. I earn around $75k per year working 40 hours per week. If I could make $112.5k per year working 60 hours per week (same hourly wage) I wouldn't take it. I enjoy work but I value my free time more.
First, you need to define "worker". Is someone struggling as a self-employed in his one-man plumbing company a worker? How about a politician's secretary? A real estate salesman? Coal miners?
Second, without companies there won't be any jobs for "workers" to attend to. Without rich people, poor people will be even poorer.
How about a trying to make life better for everyone instead? In my experience as a former socialist activist in Sweden, most people on the far left think that it's most important to make everyone economically equal, usually by making the rich poorer. In reality though, that only causes everyone to become more miserable, even though the difference between wealthy and pool become smaller. I've since left socialism and indentify myself politically as liberal. I still loathe conservatism (especially value conservatism) as much as ever. I've realised that the right thing to do is focusing on making life better for the poor and the only way to accomplish that in practice is to make things better for everyone, even the already wealthy and especially the middle class.
Socialism is based on jealousy and that is not a very good foundation for anything.
That's nothing. I have a retail box for DiskMaster 1.0 for AmigaOS still wrapped in plastic. I also have Microsoft MultiPlan for CP/M on 8" diskettes.:-)
Why should this break backward compatibility? It surely won't modify existing users' IDs when upgrading, only when creating new users, most commonly (for home users) meaning on new installations only. I can't think of any real reasons this change should break anything.
Hardware has problems. Bitflips on HDDs cause files to get corrupted randomly in Windows as well as MacOS X and Linux if you use EXT4, XFS, etc as your filesystem. The solution is filesystems like BtrFS and ZFS because they can (and WILL on all HDDs, given enough time) detect and repair corruptions. RAID can also solve that problem to some degree but only if it verifies the data upon reading, something neither RAID controllers nor software RAID usually do.
This is epic...in an extremely awkward and creepy way. It's nice to know that I could always have Courtney Love make out with me without catching the herp.
Your carefulness in not spreading herpes around is appreciated.
Yes, but you germans also don't accept international VISA or MasterCard anywhere except on gas stations along autobahn, but only on the exact amount. You also seem to think that all ATMs should close at 18 Uhr. Who the hell needs to withdraw cash outside office hours?
(no offence, I generally like Germany but our campervan vacation in Europe got pretty desperate one evening.:-) )
There are many reasons for a stripped down Ubuntu desktop install. No need to install thousands of extra packages if you only want to run a real minimalist desktop (with a tiling WM or something classic like FVWM2 or WindowMaker) or a full screen graphical program like XBMC or MythTV on a HTPC. If it's a dedicated server there is always the server distribution but the server kernel is optimized for throughput, not latency. Especially if you're installing on a virtual machine, a minimal install can be desired. But yes, "best" is indeed subjective. Sorry for that.
My point was rather that you get to cherry pick the packages you want yourself instead of automatically getting the full blown desktop distribution. Personally I use a very minimal Ubuntu install on my HTPC.
BTW, with the new minimal CD image from 11.04 you can choose "Ubuntu Desktop (Full)", "KUbuntu Desktop (Full)" etc directly from the installer.:)
The best way to install Ubuntu for advanced users: mini.iso.
A 22 MB netinstall CD image that installs nothing but the bare minimum. After install, just run "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" if you want the standard desktop, "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" if you want xubuntu, etc. If you don't want a desktop that's fine too.
That depends. It really should be possible to outsource that to another company, like this "ISP" for example, and then leave it up to them to keep your data safe. After all that's what you pay for. I don't know the details of the service they offered though, maybe it was a cheap "Here is a network drive. Use it however you want but don't expect anything." kind of service. In that case you're correct. However, if it was a premium "Trust us, we take care of your data!" kind of service then it's another thing.
To begin with it's pretty much impossible to measure Linux's market share on the desktop because most computers it's installed on came installed with another OS and all popular desktop Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Mint and Fedore are distributed for free. There are many ways to measure.
If such a huge disaster happens you'll probably just die anyway, and if you don't, what's left of it is probably going to suck. It's such a waste of a good life to live it in fear of what *might* happen. Lighten up and increase the quality of your current life instead.
Though even that is a faulty argument as the prosecution do not actually have anyone who performed the crime which these people have allegedly been assisting to perform.
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(why the f*ck is movie underlined as a typo in Chrome?)
You are probably using a British English dictionary. Movie is an American word. Brits call it "film".
Wii U, Wii U, Wii U :-(
If it's 249 EUR in Europe that means it will cost around 3200 SEK in Sweden, which is about 350 EUR or 520 USD. :( Guess why I order almost everything I buy (that can practically be shipped) from Germany, UK or China... I even ordered skis from Germany last winter. Half the price for the very exact model, even including the shipping costs. I ordered an extractor/range hood from Poland (half the price including shipping), a plasma TV from Germany (2/3 the price), DVDRs from Luxemburg, various kitchen applicances, utensils and cutlery from the UK... The list goes on.
Personally I think that $/h is more important than $/y. I earn around $75k per year working 40 hours per week. If I could make $112.5k per year working 60 hours per week (same hourly wage) I wouldn't take it. I enjoy work but I value my free time more.
First, you need to define "worker". Is someone struggling as a self-employed in his one-man plumbing company a worker? How about a politician's secretary? A real estate salesman? Coal miners?
Second, without companies there won't be any jobs for "workers" to attend to. Without rich people, poor people will be even poorer.
How about a trying to make life better for everyone instead? In my experience as a former socialist activist in Sweden, most people on the far left think that it's most important to make everyone economically equal, usually by making the rich poorer. In reality though, that only causes everyone to become more miserable, even though the difference between wealthy and pool become smaller. I've since left socialism and indentify myself politically as liberal. I still loathe conservatism (especially value conservatism) as much as ever. I've realised that the right thing to do is focusing on making life better for the poor and the only way to accomplish that in practice is to make things better for everyone, even the already wealthy and especially the middle class.
Socialism is based on jealousy and that is not a very good foundation for anything.
That's nothing. I have a retail box for DiskMaster 1.0 for AmigaOS still wrapped in plastic. I also have Microsoft MultiPlan for CP/M on 8" diskettes. :-)
Just set the UID explicitly. If you are relying on which order your users are created in you have bigger problems. You aren't forced to anything.
Why should this break backward compatibility? It surely won't modify existing users' IDs when upgrading, only when creating new users, most commonly (for home users) meaning on new installations only. I can't think of any real reasons this change should break anything.
Yes.
The latest version of Mac OS X' kernel (XNU) is 1504.9.37 so it would still be far behind.
Hardware has problems. Bitflips on HDDs cause files to get corrupted randomly in Windows as well as MacOS X and Linux if you use EXT4, XFS, etc as your filesystem. The solution is filesystems like BtrFS and ZFS because they can (and WILL on all HDDs, given enough time) detect and repair corruptions. RAID can also solve that problem to some degree but only if it verifies the data upon reading, something neither RAID controllers nor software RAID usually do.
Here you are. (a perfectly appropriate domain name for this story)
Yes, RAR (v3) has that functionality but just about nobody uses it. People use separate PAR (v2) files instead.
All scene movie and music releases use rar -m0, aka "store mode", aka "without any compression at all".
This is epic...in an extremely awkward and creepy way. It's nice to know that I could always have Courtney Love make out with me without catching the herp.
Your carefulness in not spreading herpes around is appreciated.
What were Osama bin Laden's last words?
"Darn."
Yes, but you germans also don't accept international VISA or MasterCard anywhere except on gas stations along autobahn, but only on the exact amount. You also seem to think that all ATMs should close at 18 Uhr. Who the hell needs to withdraw cash outside office hours?
:-) )
(no offence, I generally like Germany but our campervan vacation in Europe got pretty desperate one evening.
There are many reasons for a stripped down Ubuntu desktop install. No need to install thousands of extra packages if you only want to run a real minimalist desktop (with a tiling WM or something classic like FVWM2 or WindowMaker) or a full screen graphical program like XBMC or MythTV on a HTPC. If it's a dedicated server there is always the server distribution but the server kernel is optimized for throughput, not latency. Especially if you're installing on a virtual machine, a minimal install can be desired. But yes, "best" is indeed subjective. Sorry for that.
My point was rather that you get to cherry pick the packages you want yourself instead of automatically getting the full blown desktop distribution. Personally I use a very minimal Ubuntu install on my HTPC. BTW, with the new minimal CD image from 11.04 you can choose "Ubuntu Desktop (Full)", "KUbuntu Desktop (Full)" etc directly from the installer. :)
The best way to install Ubuntu for advanced users: mini.iso. A 22 MB netinstall CD image that installs nothing but the bare minimum. After install, just run "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" if you want the standard desktop, "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" if you want xubuntu, etc. If you don't want a desktop that's fine too.
I did.
That depends. It really should be possible to outsource that to another company, like this "ISP" for example, and then leave it up to them to keep your data safe. After all that's what you pay for. I don't know the details of the service they offered though, maybe it was a cheap "Here is a network drive. Use it however you want but don't expect anything." kind of service. In that case you're correct. However, if it was a premium "Trust us, we take care of your data!" kind of service then it's another thing.
To begin with it's pretty much impossible to measure Linux's market share on the desktop because most computers it's installed on came installed with another OS and all popular desktop Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Mint and Fedore are distributed for free. There are many ways to measure.
If such a huge disaster happens you'll probably just die anyway, and if you don't, what's left of it is probably going to suck. It's such a waste of a good life to live it in fear of what *might* happen. Lighten up and increase the quality of your current life instead.
Though even that is a faulty argument as the prosecution do not actually have anyone who performed the crime which these people have allegedly been assisting to perform.
Very true.