Seriously, Linux may have friendier installs in comparison to older Linux.. but compared to Windows which one is harder to install?
Linux may be easier to use now than older Linux.. but easier to use than windows? Nope, sorry.
Is it better? Security wise, stability wise, and over all quality wise, I'd say yes. But the ease of use hasn't reached Windows, and possibly never will if only because the Linux folk seem to hate the idea of 'dumbing it down'.
Thats all fine and good, but don't refuse to dumb it down on one hand.. then claim perfect ease of use on the other.
The argument goes basically, "I tried to install Linux and . Therefore Linux is hard and not ready."
* My modem was not detected
* Wi-Fi networking was not configured
* There was no hardware acceleration with the generic onboard $9 video chipset
* I could not understand how to partition a drive
All of these are valid concerns, and often frustrating, but they fail to make the case against desktop Linux, because they fail to compare apples to apples. When you buy a new PC, Windows comes pre-installed on it. You don't have to go through the process that Linux requires. The hardware manufacturer already rejected modem X, figured out that Wi-Fi adapter Y is the one to include with the computer, etc. The OEM did all the hard work for you. Even when you give a user the Windows XP CD to install, he is already ahead of the game in that he knows the OEM already configured the hardware to work with XP.
I build computers as a hobby. I'm not very good at it. However, when installing windows XP, I have NO problems. None. With Linux, I do. Ease of use problem.
The next part compares instaling Mandrake with installing Windows 2000 Pro. He even said he should have used XP, but didn't have a copy. By his own admission, it's invalad for the purpose of "is Linux harder than Windows".
I'm not saying you cant run a Linux instal without a hitch. But between Windows and Linux, Linux is far more likely to not detect your hardware.
I DO agree that its a myth that theres any kind of lack of software for Linux. I find that after the instal, I typically have just about everything I'll ever need.
The nature of information is that someone already knows it. 3rd parties like the CIA, the FBI, IRS, and even you and I , all have methods of extracting that information from other people that have it. This has nothing to do with that.
This is rather, a method of tracking down info that's already freely available online and pulling it out of 'practical obscurity'by making it more easily referenced.
Overkill only exists when the rest of technology hasn't caught up yet. Sure, you wont be able to fully take advantage of the 10 gigabits. There will ALWAYS be a bottleneck. This is good though because, for a while atleast, the connection speed wont be it.
Us Americans have the right to be concerned however, sence our courts seem to have started using rulings in other countries to help determine precident in our own.
I keep hearing that because 99% of the people who are using these chips are abusing their rights in this case (a number I GREATLY dispute, but I'll allow it), its acceptable to infringe on the right of the 1% that are legit. It serves teh greater good.
So, lets look at in in a new light. I have a tendency to use extremisms to illistrate the same trend, so here's one for you. If 99% of the people in your city were abusing their right to live, is it alright to kill off the 1% that did nothing wrong?
If the majority is more valued than the minority where rights are concerned, we're reopening the door for gross racism.
The truth is, the 99% argument can be better stated like this: "It doesn't affect me, so you can all hang."
Or as Benjamin Franklin said, "Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for dinner. Freedom is an armed lamn, contesting the vote."
Even if it only afected.001 perfect, its still a very bad precident.
It's EXACTLY a cut and dry case of trampling rights. It doesnt matter if some people use it for wrong, to protect against those people, however numerous, it's trampling on the rights of others.
When mod chips are outlawed, only outlaws will use mod chips.
In other words, will the legeslation prevent those who are already doing illegal things from continuing to do so? No. Will it prevent those who have legitimate purposes from doing so legally? Yes. Therefore, the only people it tramples on are the ones with legitimate reasons.
I don't care if the intent is good. The means suck.
In Asmovs robot stories, it was illegal to perform maintenence/certain modifications a robot because US Robotics never sold their robots, they leased them and retained the rights to those actions themselves.
Microsoft and other software companies retain the rights for copying and modifying their code for the similar reasons. They don't sell you the product, they give you a license to use their product.
This is worse than either of those instances because in those cases, a contract/license agreement is icluded and uderstood at the time of the purchase.
Have we already entered the age when posession of property is no longer assumed by law to belong to the purchaser?
Or, to put it differently, are we seeing the end of our right to own property?
Kazza doesn't steal music, people do..
Actually, that would make a perfect counter ad-campaign. The best way to get your side out is to make other people feel you're on the same side they are. An Add campaign like that would get every pro-gun, pro freedom type activist on your side. It wouldn't even what their other politics are.
It'll be a real shame if this goes through. Right now, P2P programs are ow I find anything I can't discover on google. They're my second tier search support.. and I'm not even talking about illegal stuff.
The other day I found old recordings of a school concert I performed in when I was 12 on WinMX. Indi music, flash vids, sound clips, whatever. If a site is giving me a slow download, I pop open Winmx.
I was taking a coding class one year, and I noticed something interesting. Not only does everyone make mistakes, but everyone makes their own kind of mistake. For instance, when I screw up, its typically things like missing semi-colons or broken loops, things that are pretty obvious when double checking. However,when Greg screwed up, it was almost always a typo.
I also noticed that different people have different styles of coding that they're comfortable with. To stick with the same example, I'd use loops far to often, while Greg would burry himself in arrays for just about everything.
So, what I'm asking here is simply, if this man was hired to do something similar to what he did at his previous company, isn't it likely that he'd produce similar code and similar bugs, even if he didn't copy it?
Again, I'm hardly proficciant, so I really wouldn't know.
Wow, that's creative. I've personally never heard of people refer to a human as "departed" except in death
Hence the problem with applying modern day euphimisms with a 6,000 year old lawbook.
"If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life."
The verse literally says 'seed depart from her'. This doesnt bring to mind visions of a miscarrage to me. Rather, its refuring to a premature birth.
So men fight and hit a pregnant woman. If this forces her into labor early, but the child is fine, the man pays whatever fine the judges determine. However, if mischief follows, (the child dies) he's to pay life for life.
The punishment for killing someone, intentionally or on accident is already layed out. If this is just the same thing, and the child doesnt matter, why state it again? Rather, it's put there to emphasize the point of the child's life being important as well.
It is not surprising at ALL how quietly this has been moving through he legeslation process. Think about it.
The RIAA raises quite a large stink with its inflated numbers and its skewed version of theft and piracy. Practically everyone in the US knows about their fight to stop file sharing.
How many congressmen do you suppose have heard of the RIAA? Great, now how many of those congressmen do you suppose read slashdot?
The problem here is the same problem Linux faces against Microsoft - marketing. We're all pleased that IBM is now marketing linux when the truth is, Linux needs to be marketing itself. We have the same problem here with the RIAA.
We have RIAA lobyists, but who's out there publically lobying against them? So far, all the mainstream voting population has heard is that file trading is evil. They don't know that there IS an alternative to RIAA action. For all they know, thats our justice system at work.
As many readers as slashdot has, or tech-zines or webblogs, what we really need to do is get Average Joe to know what the heck's going on.
Microsoft's already shown us that the quality of a product doesnt matter if you only hear about it form the competetors viewpoint. The same is true of competing ideas.
A law was just passed forbidding the placement of cassette recorders in cars that contain FM radios because of possible copyright concerns.
Other proposed regulations includes the duct-taping of singers mouths at karioki bars. When pressed to comment, RIAA representative Steve Greenback simply stated,"You'd be surprised the kind of high quality reproducion these people are capable of."
Free market is great, but not necessarily on a multi contry scale.
One of the things America's been learning as of late is that Free Market can suck in an open system. Other countries will always be a sorce of cheaper laber and less painful business taxes for companies than home is. You could call that competition, but what it really does is cause our businesses to leave us.
That is a baad thing.
The only way for it to become a good thing is if our own country (by which I mean America - I don't really know the economic situation of other countries) stops shuddering at the thought of tax cuts for wealthy businesses and actually starts giving our companies a reason to stay.
Like with all competition, its only good for the guys taht are priced competitively. America just isn't right now.
You know, this is reminding me a bit of the cigarette tax, who's stated purpose is to discourage people from smoking. In truth, if we wanted to legally discourage smoking, we'd raise the age, or make it illegal all together. The purpose of the cigarette tax is to make money.
The stated purpose of these lawsuites is to discourage illigal MP3 trading. Aren't there better, more efficient ways of doing this? Certainly, if they were only sueing one person, you could be trying to discourage them and simply recover your losses.
The RIAA has turned it into another source of income. They're not going to stop suing people now - that'd be shooting their new cash cow. The purpose of THESE lawsuites is cash.
Not with a little bit of magic we like to call 'lasy script writers'
In this episode we have post-Undescovered Country era Kirk, warped into the past via the TEMPERAL COLD WAR to tell Archer that, due to his interference, Kirk never commanded the Enterprise and is now the elderly butler of Chancelor Kelrongolumpha. We get to see touching moments like when Archer tells him to go to hell, thus condeming our former hero to a life serving in HomeEc- just one more change Archer's made in the future timeline.
Through out this topic I see people asking how the heck you can patent an idea this generic.
The answer's simple. You take this to the pattent office, you show it to the guys there and, seeing as how they know NOTHING about computers, they think it looks unique and they give you a patent.
The patent is useless though because, I'm certain Intel will be able to prove prior art.
What I want to know is, is there any rule about how soon you need to act to preserve your patent before it becomes void? I mean, anything to make their 11 year wait to file suit legally inexcusable?
Alright, so they didn't really up the limit, it's just a bug.
But still, does it really matter? The point of Gmail is that you never have to delete an email.
So my question is- if they say the limit is 1,000 megs, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, does it really matter? The intent is that you never notice the cap.
Besides, by the time 1,000 becomes feasable, I bet they'll raise the limit.
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Seriously, Linux may have friendier installs in comparison to older Linux.. but compared to Windows which one is harder to install? Linux may be easier to use now than older Linux.. but easier to use than windows? Nope, sorry. Is it better? Security wise, stability wise, and over all quality wise, I'd say yes. But the ease of use hasn't reached Windows, and possibly never will if only because the Linux folk seem to hate the idea of 'dumbing it down'. Thats all fine and good, but don't refuse to dumb it down on one hand.. then claim perfect ease of use on the other. The argument goes basically, "I tried to install Linux and . Therefore Linux is hard and not ready." * My modem was not detected * Wi-Fi networking was not configured * There was no hardware acceleration with the generic onboard $9 video chipset * I could not understand how to partition a drive All of these are valid concerns, and often frustrating, but they fail to make the case against desktop Linux, because they fail to compare apples to apples. When you buy a new PC, Windows comes pre-installed on it. You don't have to go through the process that Linux requires. The hardware manufacturer already rejected modem X, figured out that Wi-Fi adapter Y is the one to include with the computer, etc. The OEM did all the hard work for you. Even when you give a user the Windows XP CD to install, he is already ahead of the game in that he knows the OEM already configured the hardware to work with XP. I build computers as a hobby. I'm not very good at it. However, when installing windows XP, I have NO problems. None. With Linux, I do. Ease of use problem. The next part compares instaling Mandrake with installing Windows 2000 Pro. He even said he should have used XP, but didn't have a copy. By his own admission, it's invalad for the purpose of "is Linux harder than Windows". I'm not saying you cant run a Linux instal without a hitch. But between Windows and Linux, Linux is far more likely to not detect your hardware. I DO agree that its a myth that theres any kind of lack of software for Linux. I find that after the instal, I typically have just about everything I'll ever need.
Sooo.. They write a book about getting exploited online, then use that book to exploit someone else online. Sorry, no.
The nature of information is that someone already knows it. 3rd parties like the CIA, the FBI, IRS, and even you and I , all have methods of extracting that information from other people that have it. This has nothing to do with that. This is rather, a method of tracking down info that's already freely available online and pulling it out of 'practical obscurity'by making it more easily referenced.
Overkill only exists when the rest of technology hasn't caught up yet. Sure, you wont be able to fully take advantage of the 10 gigabits. There will ALWAYS be a bottleneck. This is good though because, for a while atleast, the connection speed wont be it.
Us Americans have the right to be concerned however, sence our courts seem to have started using rulings in other countries to help determine precident in our own.
I keep hearing that because 99% of the people who are using these chips are abusing their rights in this case (a number I GREATLY dispute, but I'll allow it), its acceptable to infringe on the right of the 1% that are legit. It serves teh greater good.
.001 perfect, its still a very bad precident.
So, lets look at in in a new light. I have a tendency to use extremisms to illistrate the same trend, so here's one for you. If 99% of the people in your city were abusing their right to live, is it alright to kill off the 1% that did nothing wrong?
If the majority is more valued than the minority where rights are concerned, we're reopening the door for gross racism.
The truth is, the 99% argument can be better stated like this: "It doesn't affect me, so you can all hang."
Or as Benjamin Franklin said, "Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for dinner. Freedom is an armed lamn, contesting the vote."
Even if it only afected
However, youre missing teh point. They may not scan it and open the PS2.. but you are still commiting an illegal act.
In such an instance you have to ask yourself if you're doing anything wrong. If not, doesn't that make the law unjust?
It's EXACTLY a cut and dry case of trampling rights. It doesnt matter if some people use it for wrong, to protect against those people, however numerous, it's trampling on the rights of others.
When mod chips are outlawed, only outlaws will use mod chips.
In other words, will the legeslation prevent those who are already doing illegal things from continuing to do so? No. Will it prevent those who have legitimate purposes from doing so legally? Yes. Therefore, the only people it tramples on are the ones with legitimate reasons.
I don't care if the intent is good. The means suck.
In Asmovs robot stories, it was illegal to perform maintenence/certain modifications a robot because US Robotics never sold their robots, they leased them and retained the rights to those actions themselves.
Microsoft and other software companies retain the rights for copying and modifying their code for the similar reasons. They don't sell you the product, they give you a license to use their product.
This is worse than either of those instances because in those cases, a contract/license agreement is icluded and uderstood at the time of the purchase.
Have we already entered the age when posession of property is no longer assumed by law to belong to the purchaser?
Or, to put it differently, are we seeing the end of our right to own property?
Kazza doesn't steal music, people do.. Actually, that would make a perfect counter ad-campaign. The best way to get your side out is to make other people feel you're on the same side they are. An Add campaign like that would get every pro-gun, pro freedom type activist on your side. It wouldn't even what their other politics are.
It'll be a real shame if this goes through. Right now, P2P programs are ow I find anything I can't discover on google. They're my second tier search support.. and I'm not even talking about illegal stuff.
The other day I found old recordings of a school concert I performed in when I was 12 on WinMX. Indi music, flash vids, sound clips, whatever. If a site is giving me a slow download, I pop open Winmx.
Or rather, we'll need to keep a close eye on how the government uses it.
I was taking a coding class one year, and I noticed something interesting. Not only does everyone make mistakes, but everyone makes their own kind of mistake. For instance, when I screw up, its typically things like missing semi-colons or broken loops, things that are pretty obvious when double checking. However,when Greg screwed up, it was almost always a typo. I also noticed that different people have different styles of coding that they're comfortable with. To stick with the same example, I'd use loops far to often, while Greg would burry himself in arrays for just about everything. So, what I'm asking here is simply, if this man was hired to do something similar to what he did at his previous company, isn't it likely that he'd produce similar code and similar bugs, even if he didn't copy it? Again, I'm hardly proficciant, so I really wouldn't know.
Wow, that's creative. I've personally never heard of people refer to a human as "departed" except in death Hence the problem with applying modern day euphimisms with a 6,000 year old lawbook.
"If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life."
The verse literally says 'seed depart from her'. This doesnt bring to mind visions of a miscarrage to me. Rather, its refuring to a premature birth.
So men fight and hit a pregnant woman. If this forces her into labor early, but the child is fine, the man pays whatever fine the judges determine. However, if mischief follows, (the child dies) he's to pay life for life.
The punishment for killing someone, intentionally or on accident is already layed out. If this is just the same thing, and the child doesnt matter, why state it again? Rather, it's put there to emphasize the point of the child's life being important as well.
It is not surprising at ALL how quietly this has been moving through he legeslation process. Think about it.
The RIAA raises quite a large stink with its inflated numbers and its skewed version of theft and piracy. Practically everyone in the US knows about their fight to stop file sharing.
How many congressmen do you suppose have heard of the RIAA? Great, now how many of those congressmen do you suppose read slashdot?
The problem here is the same problem Linux faces against Microsoft - marketing. We're all pleased that IBM is now marketing linux when the truth is, Linux needs to be marketing itself. We have the same problem here with the RIAA.
We have RIAA lobyists, but who's out there publically lobying against them? So far, all the mainstream voting population has heard is that file trading is evil. They don't know that there IS an alternative to RIAA action. For all they know, thats our justice system at work.
As many readers as slashdot has, or tech-zines or webblogs, what we really need to do is get Average Joe to know what the heck's going on.
Microsoft's already shown us that the quality of a product doesnt matter if you only hear about it form the competetors viewpoint. The same is true of competing ideas.
A law was just passed forbidding the placement of cassette recorders in cars that contain FM radios because of possible copyright concerns.
Other proposed regulations includes the duct-taping of singers mouths at karioki bars. When pressed to comment, RIAA representative Steve Greenback simply stated,"You'd be surprised the kind of high quality reproducion these people are capable of."
Free market is great, but not necessarily on a multi contry scale. One of the things America's been learning as of late is that Free Market can suck in an open system. Other countries will always be a sorce of cheaper laber and less painful business taxes for companies than home is. You could call that competition, but what it really does is cause our businesses to leave us. That is a baad thing. The only way for it to become a good thing is if our own country (by which I mean America - I don't really know the economic situation of other countries) stops shuddering at the thought of tax cuts for wealthy businesses and actually starts giving our companies a reason to stay. Like with all competition, its only good for the guys taht are priced competitively. America just isn't right now.
You know, this is reminding me a bit of the cigarette tax, who's stated purpose is to discourage people from smoking. In truth, if we wanted to legally discourage smoking, we'd raise the age, or make it illegal all together. The purpose of the cigarette tax is to make money.
The stated purpose of these lawsuites is to discourage illigal MP3 trading. Aren't there better, more efficient ways of doing this? Certainly, if they were only sueing one person, you could be trying to discourage them and simply recover your losses.
The RIAA has turned it into another source of income. They're not going to stop suing people now - that'd be shooting their new cash cow. The purpose of THESE lawsuites is cash.
Not with a little bit of magic we like to call 'lasy script writers'
In this episode we have post-Undescovered Country era Kirk, warped into the past via the TEMPERAL COLD WAR to tell Archer that, due to his interference, Kirk never commanded the Enterprise and is now the elderly butler of Chancelor Kelrongolumpha. We get to see touching moments like when Archer tells him to go to hell, thus condeming our former hero to a life serving in HomeEc- just one more change Archer's made in the future timeline.
Through out this topic I see people asking how the heck you can patent an idea this generic.
The answer's simple. You take this to the pattent office, you show it to the guys there and, seeing as how they know NOTHING about computers, they think it looks unique and they give you a patent.
The patent is useless though because, I'm certain Intel will be able to prove prior art.
What I want to know is, is there any rule about how soon you need to act to preserve your patent before it becomes void? I mean, anything to make their 11 year wait to file suit legally inexcusable?
...Nintendo just announced their 2005 line up, featuring Starfox 3, Metroid 5, and Zelda 11 for gamecube.
Alright, so they didn't really up the limit, it's just a bug. But still, does it really matter? The point of Gmail is that you never have to delete an email. So my question is- if they say the limit is 1,000 megs, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, does it really matter? The intent is that you never notice the cap. Besides, by the time 1,000 becomes feasable, I bet they'll raise the limit.
Now a bunch of long dead Arabs are trying to sue me. Well, shoot.
Just out of curiosity, could it have been April 1st?