Yes, I know that these kind of things are available now. But come on, is the average Joe Sixpack user really going to be able to figure them out? Remember we're talking about the kind of people who just expect things to work without any effort. That means doubling clicking the file and have it put everything where it needs to go and have everything work. Until it's that seamless and easy, Linux is still going to look very daunting to the average person, if not to techincally knowledgeable users of other operating systems.
One of the major things that deters a lot of people from using Linux is the difficulty of installing an application. One Windows it's just a matter of downloading one file and double clicking it.
On Linux, you've gotta download that one file and then find all of it's dependencies that aren't installed on your system and install them. Then install the dependencies of the dependency. It gets to be a pain in the ass.
RPM files were a step in the right direction but they still have their flaws. Until the application installation issue is solved, I have a feeling adoption will continue to be slow. And I'm talking about a universal solution, not something limited to one distro.
With the way the Chinese government keeps making their own versions of everything, maybe they'll have their own version of the Internet. That shoud alleviate a good deal of the spam right there, given that their Internet will probably be incompatible with ours.
You forget it's not just Comedy Central and MTV. It's Nickelodeon as well. You think parents are really going to put up with their screaming children when they tell them that the Rugrats are no more? No, probably not. They will find a different provider that stills carries their children's favorite shows. And don't give me any of that "kids should watch less TV as it's evil and is directly driven by and endorsed by the devil" crap. Kids love TV, most of the time it does them no harm and in fact a lot of kids learn valuable information from TV.
Actually, BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System. This motherboard clearly does more than just basic input/output. So techincally, if it's in the BIOS, it's not an operating system, even though it really is a lot like an operating system. Confused? Good.
So apparently nobody's business model revolves around selling anything anymore, just suing the shit out of everything that makes them pissed off?
First SCO, now Infinium. They should merge and specialize in lawsuits.
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Would there be anything wrong with using your shower water as toilet water? I honestly can't see anything wrong with that and it'd certainly cut down on somebody's water bill from month to month.
Fiat made some crappy cars over it's life (and still makes a few "different" looking cars in Europe) but they made some great cars too.
The Fiat 124 Spider Convertible was, and still is, a great car! I have one and not only does it look cool but it's reliable too. I've seen Fiats last well over 200,000 miles and they don't usually die of mechanical problems, but of rust. Apparently Italy is completely void of any moisture what so ever.
I saw the name Voodoo and about shit myself thinking that 3DFX had come back from the dead. Thankfully, it's just another company using the Voodoo name for their product. However seeing 3DFX come back only to enter into the laptop market, or computer market for that matter, would be humorous. One CPU for adding, one CPU for subtracting.
Nope, Minot AFB, Minot, ND. It's the same base that has control over half of the country's nukes. Up here they do have special civilian days every few months where they'll have an air show and they'll have some local bands play on open stages. They give tours of the aircraft, how certain things work, general Air Force knowledge. It's actually kind of neat to check out. I'm sure other bases have a lot of the same kind of things. They usually aren't announced to loudly public but they always have an ad in the newspaper or a radio spot.
Living in Minot, ND, home to half of the country's B-52 Stratofortress Bombers, I can tell you that there are very few things louder than those things. Before the latest war in Iraq, they would do quite a bit of their training runs at night, which oddly enough involved them using not only the Air Force Base runways, but the ones at our International Airport(small town, only 4 major flights a day). I live about half a mile from the airport and I can tell you there's nothing like waking up at 2am to the sound of B-52 slowly crawling over your house. It's really quite refreshing.
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I think he meant that the burn rate is about the same as a CD that could be burned in one minute.
Remember 1x in regular CD's equals something around 150KB/s while in DVD's it's around 1.35MB/s. Those speeds are for typical CD and DVD readers/writers while DVD+R/RW has an even different definition of the speed of 1x.
Yeah but I'm sure a lot of bands exist just because mp3.com existed. It gave bands that would only exist in a garage a chance to be heard all over the world. If you take that away, you do in a sense kill art. Yes these bands will continue to exist, but very few people will get the opportunity to hear something that they may enjoy without a major website like mp3.com
So even if one was to get legally emancipated from his parents (basically declared independent of), would somebody over 18 still have to be in charge of the child's assets until they turned 18, even though in a sense the child would be his own guardian? I'm not really all that familiar with all the laws regarding minors and property ownership.
I can say that on my car registration, it has my name only (I'm 16) and my parent's names are nowhere on the registration anywhere. In fact, I registered the vehicle myself, without any assistance needed from my parents. This is rather common in the area that I'm from (North Dakota), but does that mean that even though my name is on the registration and the title for the car, my parents legally own it?
I have the iPaq 5450 and that model comes with a biometric fingerprint scanner. I've noticed that this distro doesn't explicitly say it has support for the scanner. Does anybody know if it does indeed support it?
I use a fingerprint as one of my passwords and I'd like to try this distro out but if it means losing the scanner capability,then I'm hesitant.
Here's the crazy thing, I was 15 when I bought it. It broke right around the time of my 16th birthday. It was kind of one of those "well let's see how good these things really are" purchases. Turns out they aren't that good at all. Live and learn;-)
Take it from somebody who shelled out the $30 for one of those things, they suck. Not just a little bit, but a lot. The thing rarely worked on the surfaces I'd put it on and on the surfaces it did work on, it still sounded like a dying cat. Not to mention that it is about the flimsiest thing I've ever used. It broke after only 2 weeks, though I can honestly say I wasn't heart broken.
Sure the SoundBug is a cool gadget but I strongly doubt it's even close to the product quality of the $300 this company is selling.
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Bad to reply to your own posts, but by the long wait for me I mean that I preordered it online sometime ago and it just shipped out Friday so it's going to be sometime next week before I get it.
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Yes, I know that these kind of things are available now. But come on, is the average Joe Sixpack user really going to be able to figure them out? Remember we're talking about the kind of people who just expect things to work without any effort. That means doubling clicking the file and have it put everything where it needs to go and have everything work. Until it's that seamless and easy, Linux is still going to look very daunting to the average person, if not to techincally knowledgeable users of other operating systems.
One of the major things that deters a lot of people from using Linux is the difficulty of installing an application. One Windows it's just a matter of downloading one file and double clicking it.
On Linux, you've gotta download that one file and then find all of it's dependencies that aren't installed on your system and install them. Then install the dependencies of the dependency. It gets to be a pain in the ass.
RPM files were a step in the right direction but they still have their flaws. Until the application installation issue is solved, I have a feeling adoption will continue to be slow. And I'm talking about a universal solution, not something limited to one distro.
I'm sorry but I'm not sure you can call that anything but controlled noise, albeit poorly controlled. It's pretty bad.
If that's all it takes to be called music, then I'm going to record all the noises my car makes and sell a CD of it.
Ahh indeed it is. LOL, I can't even get the damned Kenya tourism advert right today.
Well it's the obligatory SCO Linux license of course!
With the way the Chinese government keeps making their own versions of everything, maybe they'll have their own version of the Internet. That shoud alleviate a good deal of the spam right there, given that their Internet will probably be incompatible with ours.
You forget it's not just Comedy Central and MTV. It's Nickelodeon as well. You think parents are really going to put up with their screaming children when they tell them that the Rugrats are no more? No, probably not. They will find a different provider that stills carries their children's favorite shows. And don't give me any of that "kids should watch less TV as it's evil and is directly driven by and endorsed by the devil" crap. Kids love TV, most of the time it does them no harm and in fact a lot of kids learn valuable information from TV.
Actually, BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System. This motherboard clearly does more than just basic input/output. So techincally, if it's in the BIOS, it's not an operating system, even though it really is a lot like an operating system. Confused? Good.
So apparently nobody's business model revolves around selling anything anymore, just suing the shit out of everything that makes them pissed off?
First SCO, now Infinium. They should merge and specialize in lawsuits.
Would there be anything wrong with using your shower water as toilet water? I honestly can't see anything wrong with that and it'd certainly cut down on somebody's water bill from month to month.
Nausicaa? Is that like the hip name for vomit now-a-days?
Anyhow, it's jet powered so I think I'm naturally supposed to get excited about it! Woohoo! Jet-powered Nausicaa!
Fiat made some crappy cars over it's life (and still makes a few "different" looking cars in Europe) but they made some great cars too.
The Fiat 124 Spider Convertible was, and still is, a great car! I have one and not only does it look cool but it's reliable too. I've seen Fiats last well over 200,000 miles and they don't usually die of mechanical problems, but of rust. Apparently Italy is completely void of any moisture what so ever.
In case anyone is wondering, the song is called "I Wanna Fuck You in The Ass" by the Outhere Brothers. Real American classic, it is.
Just to clarify things, those speeds should be in Kilobits per second, not Kilobytes.
I saw the name Voodoo and about shit myself thinking that 3DFX had come back from the dead. Thankfully, it's just another company using the Voodoo name for their product. However seeing 3DFX come back only to enter into the laptop market, or computer market for that matter, would be humorous. One CPU for adding, one CPU for subtracting.
Nope, Minot AFB, Minot, ND. It's the same base that has control over half of the country's nukes. Up here they do have special civilian days every few months where they'll have an air show and they'll have some local bands play on open stages. They give tours of the aircraft, how certain things work, general Air Force knowledge. It's actually kind of neat to check out. I'm sure other bases have a lot of the same kind of things. They usually aren't announced to loudly public but they always have an ad in the newspaper or a radio spot.
Living in Minot, ND, home to half of the country's B-52 Stratofortress Bombers, I can tell you that there are very few things louder than those things. Before the latest war in Iraq, they would do quite a bit of their training runs at night, which oddly enough involved them using not only the Air Force Base runways, but the ones at our International Airport(small town, only 4 major flights a day). I live about half a mile from the airport and I can tell you there's nothing like waking up at 2am to the sound of B-52 slowly crawling over your house. It's really quite refreshing.
I think he meant that the burn rate is about the same as a CD that could be burned in one minute.
Remember 1x in regular CD's equals something around 150KB/s while in DVD's it's around 1.35MB/s. Those speeds are for typical CD and DVD readers/writers while DVD+R/RW has an even different definition of the speed of 1x.
Yeah but I'm sure a lot of bands exist just because mp3.com existed. It gave bands that would only exist in a garage a chance to be heard all over the world. If you take that away, you do in a sense kill art. Yes these bands will continue to exist, but very few people will get the opportunity to hear something that they may enjoy without a major website like mp3.com
So even if one was to get legally emancipated from his parents (basically declared independent of), would somebody over 18 still have to be in charge of the child's assets until they turned 18, even though in a sense the child would be his own guardian? I'm not really all that familiar with all the laws regarding minors and property ownership.
I can say that on my car registration, it has my name only (I'm 16) and my parent's names are nowhere on the registration anywhere. In fact, I registered the vehicle myself, without any assistance needed from my parents. This is rather common in the area that I'm from (North Dakota), but does that mean that even though my name is on the registration and the title for the car, my parents legally own it?
So what would happen if she actually owned the computer and paid for it with her own, hard-earned money?
I have the iPaq 5450 and that model comes with a biometric fingerprint scanner. I've noticed that this distro doesn't explicitly say it has support for the scanner. Does anybody know if it does indeed support it?
I use a fingerprint as one of my passwords and I'd like to try this distro out but if it means losing the scanner capability,then I'm hesitant.
Here's the crazy thing, I was 15 when I bought it. It broke right around the time of my 16th birthday. It was kind of one of those "well let's see how good these things really are" purchases. Turns out they aren't that good at all. Live and learn;-)
Take it from somebody who shelled out the $30 for one of those things, they suck. Not just a little bit, but a lot. The thing rarely worked on the surfaces I'd put it on and on the surfaces it did work on, it still sounded like a dying cat. Not to mention that it is about the flimsiest thing I've ever used. It broke after only 2 weeks, though I can honestly say I wasn't heart broken.
Sure the SoundBug is a cool gadget but I strongly doubt it's even close to the product quality of the $300 this company is selling.
Bad to reply to your own posts, but by the long wait for me I mean that I preordered it online sometime ago and it just shipped out Friday so it's going to be sometime next week before I get it.