In Debian based distros, sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts. Rather simple. Other distros have packages of their own.
*devil's advocate*So I have to know the name of the package first, which could be different across the various distros. Then I have to know the command to run to install the package which again, is different across the various distros. Then I have to figure out the proper switch to use with the command (shouldn't be too hard once I know the command). Then I have to know what sudo does in order to get the package to actually install unless I can install it in my own home directory. By the way, how did you ever figure out that obvious name 'msttcorefonts'? Simple? Maybe if you were born with the knowledge (as all experts think they were) but to a newbie they are screwed; it could take a few hours to figure out all the parts to that command. To top it off it states that nice looking fonts aren't even installed by default like they are on Windows.*end devil's advocate*
Linux will preallocate the RAM but not actually use it until it needs it. Running 'top' will report all your RAM is used but that doesn't mean it is full. I don't consider my PC to be out of RAM until swap gets hit. Windows on the other hand (at least XP) will swap applications to the HDD when I have plenty of RAM free but the RAM it is using is really what it is using unlike Linux. There is no reason to cache 700 MB of OS data. A person can't possibly need all that (when it's all from the OS installation) to warrant it being cached. Although they are using RAM for what it is supposed to be used for, the sheer amount of cache required should raise a warning flag.
He can turn on a cell phone, IM, use all the features but if you ask him how many volts his cell phone battery supplies, he's quite lost.
Did you ever stop to wonder that type of information just isn't important to him and thus he filters out that knowledge and/or never seeks it out? I actually don't know the voltage for my cell phone battery but I just got done making some code changes to a Java application that I wrote to act as a GUI client to a LDAP directory server. I build my own computers and read Linux Journal ( and understand most of it). The standard pulse dial phone has turned into a utility that very few people care to know the ins and outs of. The same teenager who doesn't know about how the PSTN works could very well tell you their cell phone uses Bluetooth and has a 2.1 megapixel camera. It's just a sign of the times. Bottom line, just because I don't know a particular fact about my cell phone doesn't mean I don't know technology in general; it means I choose to know the things that I believe are relevant in my life and/or interest me, I then filter out the rest. Your nephew is probably the same way.
I'm a Windows developer. Last time I got a new machine, I counted the number of applications that I needed to install to completely set up my development environment. That number was over forty. You're telling me that I need to track changes to every one of those applications? Not easy on an OS that doesn't have anything like apt...one reason that while I write Windows code by day I run Linux at home.
There have also been a number of times in my career where I have had to use development software written by companies that either went out of business, or stopped supporting that software. What then?
What Apple understands and Microsoft does not is that it is not my job to make the OS work better. It is the OS's job to make my life easier.
That explains everything. So if not a Windows developer, whose job is it? I jest of course since the parent was speaking in terms of a user, not a developer, I think.:)
b) they're trying to catch up with HD DVD which had a significant lead in available titles prior to the holiday season.
For those who use a calendar with more than 1 holiday on it, exactly which holiday season are you referring to? Halloween? Thanksgiving? Christmas? New Year's? Martin Luther King Jr?
I'm not sure what the problem is. I've heard people say Dell only offers Vista now but for their Optiplex and Precision workstations they allow you to configure them with Vista *or* Windows XP SP2. Configured properly, those would make great gaming stations as well.
Well. No. Killing implies the subject was previously alive before the act that killed it and afterwards it is dead. Taken more generally, you can kill a flower because it was alive prior to the act of killing it. It had no sentience but was still able to be killed (sentience is consciousness but unconscious people can also be killed). Ergo, a person is alive at some point and when murdered they are dead. Just because the person isn't born yet doesn't change the fact that they are alive. If they aren't alive before they are born then the existence of the term stillborn is useless as all babies would be stillborn. If the heart is beating in the baby it is alive; when that heart is stopped the baby is dead (oddly enough the same thing applies to a human post-birth). Lots of different descriptions on this fact can be described that all state the same thing: a baby doesn't become alive during the birthing process but months before that when the heart begins beating. Anything to the contrary is a way for adult humans to trivialize life for those who can't fight back and for the adult's own convenience by adding grey area (for their own conscience) where things are black and white.
The teenage pregnancy problem is because of lack of sex education.
Or because of too much sex education. Someone being taught how to do something is now going to go out and do it are they not? Why else do we educate people for 12 years in the US and an additional 4 years (give or take) for college? Not to mention that we give them an endorsement, a condom, to go out and do it while being protected. Why *shouldn't* they have sex if we condone the behavior and even provide a safe way to do it? What do they have to lose especially when we say that the condoms will even minimize the chance of pregnancy?
Pregnancies usually doesn't kill people, it just requires you to deal with a child or an abortion. AIDS isn't so forgiving.
Abortion kills. If kids weren't so plastered with the point of view that sex is a form of entertainment in the US instead of the method for procreation they wouldn't go out and have sex for the fun of it because that is why STDs exist and how they are spread. It's just a different mindset that we (directly or indirectly) have put kids in for the last few decades and we wonder why STDs are rampant. You will never be able to stop kids from talking to each other to spread how great sex is but we can at least change our point of view of it so we don't sensationalize it as a form of entertainment and as a money-making scheme that never fails. We all know that Step 4 is PROFIT! but Step 3 is "sell porn" because there will always be buyers.
Jesus fucking Christ. People here speak of health care like it's just another commodity to be bought and sold. Will we never advance as a species above this exploitive outlook on life?
fucking miskatonic alumnus bastard.....just thought i'd defile someone you like since you defiled someone I like. Oh, and I have a feeling if the species advanced that you would hold us back given your propensity for colorful swearing without being provoked.
That leaves Windows. Apple has the solution but refuses to bend over and pick it up. Linux might have it someday, but right now most people lack the technical knowledge to use it...
Most people lack the technical knowledge to use Windows too.
People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
You are confusing those who are trying to protect their religion and don't want the gov't to remove aspects of their religion from the public eye with a gov't that is trying to enforce that religion. The religion is already there; it doesn't need enforced and no one is suggesting to do so. It's not about spreading religion but trying to keep what they have that others are trying to take away by using the gov't. People just simply don't want it to be removed when it isn't hurting anyone by being there since the 1700s.
I guess he availed himself of being a good speller when he said he wasn't a journalist.
From the end of the article:
Please note that 1. I am not a journalist. 2. I do not work for ZDnet. 3. I am an independant blogger. 4. This is a blog entry not a news article.
Computer science does have a lot to do with math but is it reasonable to expect 24 hours of math when 36 hours gets you a degree in math?
That makes it easy to choose Math as your minor. But Math is required in many aspects of CS which is why universities require so many math credits. If you like Math then it makes sense to make it your minor which not only fulfills your minor requirement but you would only be a few classes away and could finish up sooner. I hate math and chose psychology as my minor despite many choosing math (major was CS). I did have to take discrete math, 1 calculus class, and logic for my CS degree.
A fear or pornography is rooted in the religious belief that on some level, sex itself is harmful and/or immoral. Consider the term: innocent. Someone who is a virgin is often described as innocent. The opposite of innocent is guilty. Guilty of what?
Wow, you need a clue. Fear (more like disgust or dislike in the real world) of pornography is rooted in the religious belief that sex should not be used for profit and not for entertainment but as a expression of love and for procreation. No one ever said sex is harmful or immoral; as I just said we NEED it for procreation. It would be an obvious problem if Christians said it is immoral knowing that it is required to carry on the species. It is immoral when performed for money or entertainment or where the intent is anything but what it was intended for. I don't think the term innocent as it can apply to children is a religious one. It is used by anyone to describe a child who is naive of what is in the world or what sex can be used for in addition to what it should be used for. If you want to say that religion allowed the term 'innocent' to have other connotations so it helps your malformed argument then so be it but many people use it (even in the media and we all know they are liberal).
We are a heavily Christian-influenced society and many of our collective morals are derived from this. It's still so pervasive that we don't recognize it. But we are changing, slowly, to a more neutral "live and let live" mentality.
We have always had a live and let live mentality. There have been no laws respecting an establishment of religion that say you have to be a certain religion. There are public displays of religion but they are displays, not rights for persecution for those who don't agree. They do not have magical powers to punish you if you don't agree with the religion that teaches them. The gov't doesn't punish you either. You can have whatever religion you want and so can Christians. There is nothing wrong with you living without an absolute set of morals or your own set but that doesn't mean everyone has to follow your path and I'm sure you agree. Christians don't care what you do (again, there are displays of religious teachings but not commandments or laws) but there is a difference between them not caring what you do and still being able to do what they do without you complaining about how it infringes on your rights when they aren't making you do *anything* with their *displays*.
However no morals means we no longer have a sense of having to suffer the consequences of our actions. We are then left to live a life of just another animal on this planet. We already have free will to choose; what is the point of having that if we don't have to suffer for bad choices? If you want to argue that free will doesn't exist then that will have to wait since it's an entirely different argument. Porn on cell phones would increase the lack of morals in the U.S. and remove any sense of responsiblity we have to live up to a certain standard of living. I'm sure you agree with the law that says murder is a crime and you would probably agree with that even if it wasn't one of the 10 Commandments but when you start making your own moral law you still have to answer for your actions.
Corporations and society also have to answer for their actions even though corporations seem to be immune from that for some reason. Porn is dangerous and can form addictions in people if they are not helped to counteract its effects through preventative measures. It has no advantages. It can kill relationships. It is like the child rape scene of Dakota Fanning in Hounddog which had no reason for being in the movie as it was never referenced in the remaining parts. It had no purpose other than to grab attention and maybe eventually make more money. Porn in general is the same way. There isn't any reason other than money for this to be on cell phones and companies don't care anymore what it takes to make money. If you consider it okay for people to
It's nice to know up front that you are such a bigotted asshole towards those who have faith. I'm sorry you are jealous but if you are looking for a wacko then look in the mirror. I don't see anyone calling you names unprovoked but it seems you enjoy treating others that way so you must be the wacko.
If your idea of disaster recovery is to install the OS from scratch, I hope to hell you don't work in my company's IT department.
Your definition of DR doesn't have to be (and won't be) the same as the definition of DR for users who use Vista at home. At work DR is "We just lost the datacenter due to a fire." and at home it is "Oh no, I just lost all my porn.". In some rare cases those 2 could be combined in a corporate scenario. So in summary, just because a corporation doesn't view DR as reinstalling an OS from scratch doesn't mean a home user won't.
Based on a comment on a very similar story posted a couple days ago about Vista's SP1 release, the fact that SP1 is coming out later this year isn't too much earlier than normal. The comment I read said that XP's SP1 was released 11 months after XP so let's assume 7 months for Vista's SP1 and it really isn't that bad. I have to wonder whether this story is a dupe of the one a couple days ago; at the least it's the same exact topic.
I have a er..."friend" who is a member of the Academy and gets to vote on the Oscars. One really cool thing about going to her house is that she gets tons of movies from various studios that are vying for nominations for every category... why cool? because she has movies that are still in the theaters, or ones that we never get to see, such as foreign released films, shorts, documentaries, and stuff that is not yet on DVD (yes, usually there is a weekend marathon of movies).
Anyway, the Academy used to send them on regular DVD but one of the restrictions was that members are forbidden from sharing the movies, i.e., letting others borrow them, else they lose their membership and probably get tossed in a cell with a drunk Mel Gibson and Gary Busey... now, they have the movies on a special DVD that only works on special players that are distributed to most members (I think some members still get regular DVDs, although I cannot vouch for this)...
Sounds like a screener. Screeners are supposed to be watermarked for the reasons specified above but I know of 1 recent screener on usenet that was on there despite the fact that the normal FBI warning-type screen mentions the content is watermarked and can be tracked.
So, like the author said, you don't attack it you go around it.
Actually, you end up using the encryption algorithm with the key just like the application does so it isn't being cracked or being circumvented but used the way design calls for it to be used.
Do they have to change the way CD burning works with every new version? Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
How else do you expect Ahead to sell yet another version of Nero that includes features that have nothing to do with burning CDs/DVDs?
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In Debian based distros, sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts. Rather simple. Other distros have packages of their own.
*devil's advocate*So I have to know the name of the package first, which could be different across the various distros. Then I have to know the command to run to install the package which again, is different across the various distros. Then I have to figure out the proper switch to use with the command (shouldn't be too hard once I know the command). Then I have to know what sudo does in order to get the package to actually install unless I can install it in my own home directory. By the way, how did you ever figure out that obvious name 'msttcorefonts'? Simple? Maybe if you were born with the knowledge (as all experts think they were) but to a newbie they are screwed; it could take a few hours to figure out all the parts to that command. To top it off it states that nice looking fonts aren't even installed by default like they are on Windows.*end devil's advocate*
Linux will preallocate the RAM but not actually use it until it needs it. Running 'top' will report all your RAM is used but that doesn't mean it is full. I don't consider my PC to be out of RAM until swap gets hit. Windows on the other hand (at least XP) will swap applications to the HDD when I have plenty of RAM free but the RAM it is using is really what it is using unlike Linux. There is no reason to cache 700 MB of OS data. A person can't possibly need all that (when it's all from the OS installation) to warrant it being cached. Although they are using RAM for what it is supposed to be used for, the sheer amount of cache required should raise a warning flag.
He can turn on a cell phone, IM, use all the features but if you ask him how many volts his cell phone battery supplies, he's quite lost.
Did you ever stop to wonder that type of information just isn't important to him and thus he filters out that knowledge and/or never seeks it out? I actually don't know the voltage for my cell phone battery but I just got done making some code changes to a Java application that I wrote to act as a GUI client to a LDAP directory server. I build my own computers and read Linux Journal ( and understand most of it). The standard pulse dial phone has turned into a utility that very few people care to know the ins and outs of. The same teenager who doesn't know about how the PSTN works could very well tell you their cell phone uses Bluetooth and has a 2.1 megapixel camera. It's just a sign of the times. Bottom line, just because I don't know a particular fact about my cell phone doesn't mean I don't know technology in general; it means I choose to know the things that I believe are relevant in my life and/or interest me, I then filter out the rest. Your nephew is probably the same way.
There is no such thing as "modern" humans. There are humans, with no adjective, and then all other species.
I'm a Windows developer. Last time I got a new machine, I counted the number of applications that I needed to install to completely set up my development environment. That number was over forty. You're telling me that I need to track changes to every one of those applications? Not easy on an OS that doesn't have anything like apt...one reason that while I write Windows code by day I run Linux at home.
There have also been a number of times in my career where I have had to use development software written by companies that either went out of business, or stopped supporting that software. What then?
What Apple understands and Microsoft does not is that it is not my job to make the OS work better. It is the OS's job to make my life easier.
That explains everything. So if not a Windows developer, whose job is it? I jest of course since the parent was speaking in terms of a user, not a developer, I think. :)
b) they're trying to catch up with HD DVD which had a significant lead in available titles prior to the holiday season.
For those who use a calendar with more than 1 holiday on it, exactly which holiday season are you referring to? Halloween? Thanksgiving? Christmas? New Year's? Martin Luther King Jr?
I'm not sure what the problem is. I've heard people say Dell only offers Vista now but for their Optiplex and Precision workstations they allow you to configure them with Vista *or* Windows XP SP2. Configured properly, those would make great gaming stations as well.
Well. No. Killing implies sentience.
Well. No. Killing implies the subject was previously alive before the act that killed it and afterwards it is dead. Taken more generally, you can kill a flower because it was alive prior to the act of killing it. It had no sentience but was still able to be killed (sentience is consciousness but unconscious people can also be killed). Ergo, a person is alive at some point and when murdered they are dead. Just because the person isn't born yet doesn't change the fact that they are alive. If they aren't alive before they are born then the existence of the term stillborn is useless as all babies would be stillborn. If the heart is beating in the baby it is alive; when that heart is stopped the baby is dead (oddly enough the same thing applies to a human post-birth). Lots of different descriptions on this fact can be described that all state the same thing: a baby doesn't become alive during the birthing process but months before that when the heart begins beating. Anything to the contrary is a way for adult humans to trivialize life for those who can't fight back and for the adult's own convenience by adding grey area (for their own conscience) where things are black and white.
The teenage pregnancy problem is because of lack of sex education.
Or because of too much sex education. Someone being taught how to do something is now going to go out and do it are they not? Why else do we educate people for 12 years in the US and an additional 4 years (give or take) for college? Not to mention that we give them an endorsement, a condom, to go out and do it while being protected. Why *shouldn't* they have sex if we condone the behavior and even provide a safe way to do it? What do they have to lose especially when we say that the condoms will even minimize the chance of pregnancy?
Pregnancies usually doesn't kill people, it just requires you to deal with a child or an abortion. AIDS isn't so forgiving.
Abortion kills. If kids weren't so plastered with the point of view that sex is a form of entertainment in the US instead of the method for procreation they wouldn't go out and have sex for the fun of it because that is why STDs exist and how they are spread. It's just a different mindset that we (directly or indirectly) have put kids in for the last few decades and we wonder why STDs are rampant. You will never be able to stop kids from talking to each other to spread how great sex is but we can at least change our point of view of it so we don't sensationalize it as a form of entertainment and as a money-making scheme that never fails. We all know that Step 4 is PROFIT! but Step 3 is "sell porn" because there will always be buyers.
Jesus fucking Christ. People here speak of health care like it's just another commodity to be bought and sold. Will we never advance as a species above this exploitive outlook on life?
fucking miskatonic alumnus bastard.....just thought i'd defile someone you like since you defiled someone I like. Oh, and I have a feeling if the species advanced that you would hold us back given your propensity for colorful swearing without being provoked.
That leaves Windows. Apple has the solution but refuses to bend over and pick it up. Linux might have it someday, but right now most people lack the technical knowledge to use it...
Most people lack the technical knowledge to use Windows too.
People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
You are confusing those who are trying to protect their religion and don't want the gov't to remove aspects of their religion from the public eye with a gov't that is trying to enforce that religion. The religion is already there; it doesn't need enforced and no one is suggesting to do so. It's not about spreading religion but trying to keep what they have that others are trying to take away by using the gov't. People just simply don't want it to be removed when it isn't hurting anyone by being there since the 1700s.
Don't forget EMC. I think their stock went up 10% after people heard about this.
I guess he availed himself of being a good speller when he said he wasn't a journalist.
From the end of the article: Please note that 1. I am not a journalist. 2. I do not work for ZDnet. 3. I am an independant blogger. 4. This is a blog entry not a news article.
Don't forget to thank him for letting you know just how stupid he is so you have a better idea of what your target audience is.
Computer science does have a lot to do with math but is it reasonable to expect 24 hours of math when 36 hours gets you a degree in math?
That makes it easy to choose Math as your minor. But Math is required in many aspects of CS which is why universities require so many math credits. If you like Math then it makes sense to make it your minor which not only fulfills your minor requirement but you would only be a few classes away and could finish up sooner. I hate math and chose psychology as my minor despite many choosing math (major was CS). I did have to take discrete math, 1 calculus class, and logic for my CS degree.
An approach like this would probably have been helpful in FBI's failed $100 million debacle the Virtual Case File system.
FYI, the FBI now has a project called Sentinel that is supposed to be the reincarnated VCF project. Hopefully Sentinel will turn out better.
A fear or pornography is rooted in the religious belief that on some level, sex itself is harmful and/or immoral. Consider the term: innocent. Someone who is a virgin is often described as innocent. The opposite of innocent is guilty. Guilty of what?
Wow, you need a clue. Fear (more like disgust or dislike in the real world) of pornography is rooted in the religious belief that sex should not be used for profit and not for entertainment but as a expression of love and for procreation. No one ever said sex is harmful or immoral; as I just said we NEED it for procreation. It would be an obvious problem if Christians said it is immoral knowing that it is required to carry on the species. It is immoral when performed for money or entertainment or where the intent is anything but what it was intended for. I don't think the term innocent as it can apply to children is a religious one. It is used by anyone to describe a child who is naive of what is in the world or what sex can be used for in addition to what it should be used for. If you want to say that religion allowed the term 'innocent' to have other connotations so it helps your malformed argument then so be it but many people use it (even in the media and we all know they are liberal).
We are a heavily Christian-influenced society and many of our collective morals are derived from this. It's still so pervasive that we don't recognize it. But we are changing, slowly, to a more neutral "live and let live" mentality.
We have always had a live and let live mentality. There have been no laws respecting an establishment of religion that say you have to be a certain religion. There are public displays of religion but they are displays, not rights for persecution for those who don't agree. They do not have magical powers to punish you if you don't agree with the religion that teaches them. The gov't doesn't punish you either. You can have whatever religion you want and so can Christians. There is nothing wrong with you living without an absolute set of morals or your own set but that doesn't mean everyone has to follow your path and I'm sure you agree. Christians don't care what you do (again, there are displays of religious teachings but not commandments or laws) but there is a difference between them not caring what you do and still being able to do what they do without you complaining about how it infringes on your rights when they aren't making you do *anything* with their *displays*.
However no morals means we no longer have a sense of having to suffer the consequences of our actions. We are then left to live a life of just another animal on this planet. We already have free will to choose; what is the point of having that if we don't have to suffer for bad choices? If you want to argue that free will doesn't exist then that will have to wait since it's an entirely different argument. Porn on cell phones would increase the lack of morals in the U.S. and remove any sense of responsiblity we have to live up to a certain standard of living. I'm sure you agree with the law that says murder is a crime and you would probably agree with that even if it wasn't one of the 10 Commandments but when you start making your own moral law you still have to answer for your actions.
Corporations and society also have to answer for their actions even though corporations seem to be immune from that for some reason. Porn is dangerous and can form addictions in people if they are not helped to counteract its effects through preventative measures. It has no advantages. It can kill relationships. It is like the child rape scene of Dakota Fanning in Hounddog which had no reason for being in the movie as it was never referenced in the remaining parts. It had no purpose other than to grab attention and maybe eventually make more money. Porn in general is the same way. There isn't any reason other than money for this to be on cell phones and companies don't care anymore what it takes to make money. If you consider it okay for people to
It's nice to know up front that you are such a bigotted asshole towards those who have faith. I'm sorry you are jealous but if you are looking for a wacko then look in the mirror. I don't see anyone calling you names unprovoked but it seems you enjoy treating others that way so you must be the wacko.
If your idea of disaster recovery is to install the OS from scratch, I hope to hell you don't work in my company's IT department.
Your definition of DR doesn't have to be (and won't be) the same as the definition of DR for users who use Vista at home. At work DR is "We just lost the datacenter due to a fire." and at home it is "Oh no, I just lost all my porn.". In some rare cases those 2 could be combined in a corporate scenario. So in summary, just because a corporation doesn't view DR as reinstalling an OS from scratch doesn't mean a home user won't.
Based on a comment on a very similar story posted a couple days ago about Vista's SP1 release, the fact that SP1 is coming out later this year isn't too much earlier than normal. The comment I read said that XP's SP1 was released 11 months after XP so let's assume 7 months for Vista's SP1 and it really isn't that bad. I have to wonder whether this story is a dupe of the one a couple days ago; at the least it's the same exact topic.
I have a er..."friend" who is a member of the Academy and gets to vote on the Oscars. One really cool thing about going to her house is that she gets tons of movies from various studios that are vying for nominations for every category... why cool? because she has movies that are still in the theaters, or ones that we never get to see, such as foreign released films, shorts, documentaries, and stuff that is not yet on DVD (yes, usually there is a weekend marathon of movies).
Anyway, the Academy used to send them on regular DVD but one of the restrictions was that members are forbidden from sharing the movies, i.e., letting others borrow them, else they lose their membership and probably get tossed in a cell with a drunk Mel Gibson and Gary Busey... now, they have the movies on a special DVD that only works on special players that are distributed to most members (I think some members still get regular DVDs, although I cannot vouch for this)...
Sounds like a screener. Screeners are supposed to be watermarked for the reasons specified above but I know of 1 recent screener on usenet that was on there despite the fact that the normal FBI warning-type screen mentions the content is watermarked and can be tracked.
So, like the author said, you don't attack it you go around it.
Actually, you end up using the encryption algorithm with the key just like the application does so it isn't being cracked or being circumvented but used the way design calls for it to be used.
Do they have to change the way CD burning works with every new version? Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
How else do you expect Ahead to sell yet another version of Nero that includes features that have nothing to do with burning CDs/DVDs?
if Apple and M$ had teemed up, wouldn't that just loose the lawyers en mass?
Try learning English before using foreign phrases.