Google's is an ID that identifies you. As far as I know their claim is that they use it to keep track of your search preferences. They haven't really done anything that might motivate me to disbelieve them.
Hey, maybe you look good in a tin hat.
Having read the article you linked to, it seems to me that it is fairly neutral. I don't see how Forbes has any take. Your question is with the word choice of "robustly", I would say that they are using it in place of a word such as "vigorously." They are stating that SCO is fighting back.
But I haven't experienced the same problem you have with a lack of tools for Windows. I think you're falling into the popular trap of bashing Windows for no reason.
Heck, if nothing else, you can get a port of nearly every unix utility for Windows.
While your post was funny, MS is hardly the only people who have been doing code within web content.
Agreed on zones though.
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Based on my own reaction, they aren't effective at all. I worry when I download music, I make sure it's never shared and I limit how often I do it. Movies on the otherhand.. I download gigs and gigs, and don't worry nearly as much about sharing.
Any and all of the problems he mentioned could be true.. but I still the link was a ploy.
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Tom Clancy writes new novels. He doesn't take a Shakespeare play, put in a few tactical missile strikes, and charge you $8.99 for the privelege if reading it.
This, on the otherhand, is exactly what people who patent genetically modified organisms. If they created their own organism from scratch it would be a different scenario. And we wouldn't worry about suing them, we would be praying to them every Sunday.
Super strong and super lightweight. This isn't like returning to the olden days of everyone driving a boat on the highway. If a car can both stand up to more pressure -and- lessen the force of impact in the event of a crash, I would say it may be a bit safer. Alot of injuries from a wreck are from crushing when the car is breached.
Let's face it, it costs almost no money to make a porn flick.
I'd agree that the costs aren't that of a 2 hour feature film, but you aren't taking into account the recording equipment and heck, even the cost of traditional distribution.
That stuff is pretty different from flesh and blood porn.
It doesn't need to contain tentacle penetration just because it's animated. There's definitely more "normal" erotic animated movies, but people these days are sick and twisted. I think the parent was right. At some point it may evolve into an alternative to traditional, "real" porn. And In the short-term may have a niche audience.
Friendly for me is an installer that let's you know what's going on. When I have to go back and fix mistakes the "user-friendly" installer made, that's not my idea of friendly.
My idea of friendly doesn't necessarily mean that any trained monkey can install it.
What kind of message does this send out... "Yeah, it's ok to log in as root all the time" ?
Well, actually. Yes. Most people run Windows at home as a member of the Administrators group. That's precisely what they'll want to do here too. And even more than that, they'll want their password saved. (Or even, have no password) Convenience trumps security in the eyes of an average user.
... not that there's another Linux distribution, but there's yet another that tries to be Windows. Every day, I care less and less if Linux becomes a mainstream OS.
You want 100% Windows compatability? Run Windows.:)
Installing Gentoo is basically like installing LFS for newbies.
You untar the basic framework onto your root partition. (you may have to compile some of this framework, depending on what stage you start from) You edit some config files in here, fstab, net, etc. Then you sync your portage tree, compile a kernel, setup grub/lilo, set up a logger and cron. Reboot.
To some people, myself included, this is remarkably easy and painless. To others, who don't like touching their fstab file it's archaic and difficult. But either way you look at it, Debian's installer is worse.:)
Err? Compile your kernel with supermounting, set up your/etc/fstab to mount any drives you want supermounted. Then 'emerge hotplug'. Am I missing something?
Second point, having a stripped down system after installing is one of the focuses of Gentoo. You have the ability to customize what you want. This would have been very helpful to me when I was a Linux newbie as half my problem was that there were 3-4 programs installed that all did the same thing. (I was confused)
I agree about the "partitioning with fdisk" thing. I have no problems doing it, in fact I prefer it over the more graphical disk partitioners, but it's not newbie friendly.
I'm not going to say that Gentoo is right for a Linux newbie. Just that it's right for me. Clean, easy to install, and easy to maintain.:)
Mandrake is an attempt to make Linux into an OS that someone from Windows can use. They are failing, you don't have to stress that. I think people have been recommending Suse as a better replacement.
Slackware, Debian, Gentoo are all very nice dists with a somewhat hefty learning curve. They cater to geeks, and aren't right for a mainstream user. They are the dists that are doing it like Apple, as you pointed out should be done.
I completely agree that Windows is -not- the one way, or even the best way to make an easy to use desktop. But tell that to the millions of people who will use nothing but Windows.
You didn't even read his post. He likes and -uses- Gnome. He's saying that there are genuine problems with Gnome, and that he uses it in -spite- of them. I'm sure he'd like to see them fixed.
Quit being blinded by this stupid holy war. And actually read the fucking posts.;)
You say, first, that Linux is hard to use because it's tools are superficial. Then you say that Apple did it right because they chose to carve their own market.
Linux has already done this. It's current market is full of geeks who don't think that Linux is hard to use. I think Windows is hard to maintain, and that's why I use Linux. The Linux community is now trying to expand their market to people like you, who don't see the elegance of how things are handled in a unix-ish OS.
Is my response elitist? A little bit, but it's true. I think you're original post was ignorant. I've been tossing the idea around in my head that maybe it would be better if Linux -wasn't- the most used OS. It'll end up like Windows.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm an OpenOffice user. But OpenOffice is a technically inferior product compared to MS Office. It doesn't bother me, because I just need a basic word processor and spreadsheet. Actually, I've been considering using Abiword and Gnumeric instead for just that reason.
Marketting is great, but word of mouth can work just as well. Tell all your friends, push to have alternative software used in your workplace, train your kids to see Windows as "weird.";)
People say this all the time. It may be true that linux desktop apps are playing catchup in some areas. They have to for people like you who have expectations about what comes with a desktop. But other of "innovations" of windows like remote desktop and multiple workspaces (it's in the powertoys) were available in X first.
Also, Windows at one point was merely a clone of Apple's GUI. (Which in turn stole their ideas from Xerox) I know this has been said before, but when people talk about desktop linux "playing catchup", I feel that it's worth revisiting.
He could have worked as security guard. They make more money than your average Toys R Us employee. Heck, I have a CS degree and I've thought about doing it for a while when I move to NYC.
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Google's is an ID that identifies you. As far as I know their claim is that they use it to keep track of your search preferences. They haven't really done anything that might motivate me to disbelieve them. Hey, maybe you look good in a tin hat.
Having read the article you linked to, it seems to me that it is fairly neutral. I don't see how Forbes has any take. Your question is with the word choice of "robustly", I would say that they are using it in place of a word such as "vigorously." They are stating that SCO is fighting back.
But I haven't experienced the same problem you have with a lack of tools for Windows. I think you're falling into the popular trap of bashing Windows for no reason.
Heck, if nothing else, you can get a port of nearly every unix utility for Windows.
While your post was funny, MS is hardly the only people who have been doing code within web content.
Agreed on zones though.
Based on my own reaction, they aren't effective at all. I worry when I download music, I make sure it's never shared and I limit how often I do it. Movies on the otherhand.. I download gigs and gigs, and don't worry nearly as much about sharing.
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Why? Because the RIAA sues people.
Any and all of the problems he mentioned could be true.. but I still the link was a ploy.
Tom Clancy writes new novels. He doesn't take a Shakespeare play, put in a few tactical missile strikes, and charge you $8.99 for the privelege if reading it.
This, on the otherhand, is exactly what people who patent genetically modified organisms. If they created their own organism from scratch it would be a different scenario. And we wouldn't worry about suing them, we would be praying to them every Sunday.
Hahahahhahaha! Sorry, but those links are just too much.
What if we get drafted? What if oil runs out? What if the stock market crashes? WHAT IF WE'RE INVADED BY GREEN PLUTONIANS?!?!
Please. Buy my book to find out the answers to these and other perfectly reasonable questions. And remember, The World Is Coming to an End.
Super strong and super lightweight. This isn't like returning to the olden days of everyone driving a boat on the highway. If a car can both stand up to more pressure -and- lessen the force of impact in the event of a crash, I would say it may be a bit safer. Alot of injuries from a wreck are from crushing when the car is breached.
rm -r .* did bad things for me. and I typed it in the right directory. ;)
Let's face it, it costs almost no money to make a porn flick.
I'd agree that the costs aren't that of a 2 hour feature film, but you aren't taking into account the recording equipment and heck, even the cost of traditional distribution.
That stuff is pretty different from flesh and blood porn.
It doesn't need to contain tentacle penetration just because it's animated. There's definitely more "normal" erotic animated movies, but people these days are sick and twisted. I think the parent was right. At some point it may evolve into an alternative to traditional, "real" porn. And In the short-term may have a niche audience.
Friendly for me is an installer that let's you know what's going on. When I have to go back and fix mistakes the "user-friendly" installer made, that's not my idea of friendly.
My idea of friendly doesn't necessarily mean that any trained monkey can install it.
... not that there's another Linux distribution, but there's yet another that tries to be Windows. Every day, I care less and less if Linux becomes a mainstream OS.
:)
You want 100% Windows compatability? Run Windows.
Installing Gentoo is basically like installing LFS for newbies.
:)
You untar the basic framework onto your root partition. (you may have to compile some of this framework, depending on what stage you start from) You edit some config files in here, fstab, net, etc. Then you sync your portage tree, compile a kernel, setup grub/lilo, set up a logger and cron. Reboot.
To some people, myself included, this is remarkably easy and painless. To others, who don't like touching their fstab file it's archaic and difficult. But either way you look at it, Debian's installer is worse.
Alot of other OSes supposedly are based on BSD's tcp/ip stack as well. I think Windows is one of them. Yay for free code.
Wow, thanks for the tip. esearch is very cool, makes searching instantaneous.
Err? Compile your kernel with supermounting, set up your /etc/fstab to mount any drives you want supermounted. Then 'emerge hotplug'. Am I missing something?
:)
Second point, having a stripped down system after installing is one of the focuses of Gentoo. You have the ability to customize what you want. This would have been very helpful to me when I was a Linux newbie as half my problem was that there were 3-4 programs installed that all did the same thing. (I was confused)
I agree about the "partitioning with fdisk" thing. I have no problems doing it, in fact I prefer it over the more graphical disk partitioners, but it's not newbie friendly.
I'm not going to say that Gentoo is right for a Linux newbie. Just that it's right for me. Clean, easy to install, and easy to maintain.
Mandrake is an attempt to make Linux into an OS that someone from Windows can use. They are failing, you don't have to stress that. I think people have been recommending Suse as a better replacement.
Slackware, Debian, Gentoo are all very nice dists with a somewhat hefty learning curve. They cater to geeks, and aren't right for a mainstream user. They are the dists that are doing it like Apple, as you pointed out should be done.
I completely agree that Windows is -not- the one way, or even the best way to make an easy to use desktop. But tell that to the millions of people who will use nothing but Windows.
You didn't even read his post. He likes and -uses- Gnome. He's saying that there are genuine problems with Gnome, and that he uses it in -spite- of them. I'm sure he'd like to see them fixed.
;)
Quit being blinded by this stupid holy war. And actually read the fucking posts.
You say, first, that Linux is hard to use because it's tools are superficial. Then you say that Apple did it right because they chose to carve their own market.
Linux has already done this. It's current market is full of geeks who don't think that Linux is hard to use. I think Windows is hard to maintain, and that's why I use Linux. The Linux community is now trying to expand their market to people like you, who don't see the elegance of how things are handled in a unix-ish OS.
Is my response elitist? A little bit, but it's true. I think you're original post was ignorant. I've been tossing the idea around in my head that maybe it would be better if Linux -wasn't- the most used OS. It'll end up like Windows.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm an OpenOffice user. But OpenOffice is a technically inferior product compared to MS Office. It doesn't bother me, because I just need a basic word processor and spreadsheet. Actually, I've been considering using Abiword and Gnumeric instead for just that reason.
;)
Marketting is great, but word of mouth can work just as well. Tell all your friends, push to have alternative software used in your workplace, train your kids to see Windows as "weird."
Cause you see, we're not all about fanfare, but we're still running the show.
I gotta admit, nice line.
People say this all the time. It may be true that linux desktop apps are playing catchup in some areas. They have to for people like you who have expectations about what comes with a desktop. But other of "innovations" of windows like remote desktop and multiple workspaces (it's in the powertoys) were available in X first.
Also, Windows at one point was merely a clone of Apple's GUI. (Which in turn stole their ideas from Xerox) I know this has been said before, but when people talk about desktop linux "playing catchup", I feel that it's worth revisiting.
He could have worked as security guard. They make more money than your average Toys R Us employee. Heck, I have a CS degree and I've thought about doing it for a while when I move to NYC.