What's so hard about installing a printer in Linux? I havn't used Mandrake in a while, but I recall it was as simple as hitting a button in the controll panel then hitting yes after it autodetected my printer and installed drivers for it. I'd think any of the other desktop based distros would behave in a similar manner.
As long as Linux is more difficult to install and use than Windows
Have you used a Linux installer latley? Ease of use is something that's debatable. Ease of installation really isn't anymore. Mandrake and Suse's installers are just as friendly, if not more, than the windowsXP installer.
Sure you can fool mother nature. A huge amount of our medicine involves tricking the body into behaving in a manner different than what it would normally do.
I should preface this by saying I really don't know much more about this subject than I'd gained from a health class a few years back. But as I understand it, in terms of weight loss, the primary goal should be to increase muscle mass to keep that burning fat for you when you're not excercising. Rather than trying to burn off the fat just by expending energy. Jogging seems like it wouldn't do much since it involves a pretty small energy expenditure combined with not a huge potential for muscle gain since you've likley allready developed that from walking to a point where a half hour jog won't do very much.
I agree about health food though. I think one would be better off just eating fruits and vegtables than bothering with it.
Have you tried synce? I finally gave installing it a shot a few days ago, and have been really happy with the results so far using Debian Unstable to synch with an ipaq. It even integrates with konqueror, so I can just copy and paste files right into the ipaq.
Basically all I'm saying is that the Real World (TM) works by completely other rules than the code-centric "woohoo, look at what cool gimmicks we've coded" view that's rampant on Slashdot.
And perhaps your post would have some merit if it wasn't addressing a message to people on slashdot who want to move to Linux, not Joe Average on realworldTM.com.
I'm always going to have a fondness for the tg16 servering as my introduction to importing. It was insane how great the games in Japan were in comparison to the slow trickle that made it over here.
Do you have any suggestions of where to look for the better persistant worlds? I bought it a few months back, but never made the leap from playing the solo modules.
I'd agree if this was somehow connected with the search for real alien life. But it's not. It's in the same catagory as searching for bigfoot or count dracula.
I suspect a lot of young people watch Mr. Ed and I Love Lucy. Mostly because they're growing up with it even more than people of the generation it originally aired during. I know those old shows were one of the few non news, soap opera, or game show related things that were on quite a bit during the time shortly after school had gotten out. I'd be surprised if many people since its initial airing hadn't grown up with, say, the brady bunch.
Science isn't something that explodes with sensational discoveries each week, at least not the kind that are easily translatable into hours of television programming.
It could be. You'd just have to hire those people at the newspaper who take the smallest indication that there's a chance that a theory has been proved to mean it's fact, and we could get all kinds of programming. We could have the "Cure for cancer found!" channel, the Cloning channel, the "Immortality pill to be created!" channel. It's as limitless as the quack science reporters working at major papers!
I think the Skeptics movement are their own worst enemy.
I often feel the same way. I'm not going to mention the shows name to avoid stepping on any toes, but one show that features a lot of debunking annoys me for this very reason. Instead of intelligent argument and presenting the facts, they'll usually themselves resort to advertising tricks to try and manipulate the viewer to their own view. I understand the reasoning behind it, debunking psychics isn't overly exciting - especially if the methods involved controlled experiments. Effects, hype, and music are more of a ratings grab. But in the end I wind up being as fed up with them for being almost as manipulitive and condecending to their viewers as the people they started out debunking. It's nice that they'll come right out and admit that they're trying to manipulate the audience as well, but it's still annoying.
I have this horrible vision of someone running a wig standing on two stilts as a cannidate, and letting out a soul shrieking "I didn't think they'd actually do it!" after a majority of people actually vote for it.
I don't think it's at all against the spirt of the gpl. You could get the source, or any of the files right from the start. Source code is what I think about when I hear gpl.
Unfortunatly you can't test their internal webpages until AFTER you sign up.
I just asked them before I signed up with mine. They were extreamly helpful, and after I asked about Mozilla even mentioned that their stuff worked fine with Mozilla in Linux.
I think it's time to give up. If someone's still using Netscape 4 at this point, they're not going to change untill windows can't run it anymore. And I have to wonder if they'll even upgrade to an operating system that dosn't support Netscape 4. I have visions of 120 year olds complaining to developers because their telepathic cybernetic p2p setup dosn't render in Netscape 4.
For what it's worth, on any torrent on slashdot I usually get at least 100kbs as well - both on the old and the experimental client. With no special configuration or tweaking on either.
I do in some ways agree. I think Galaxy and Bluecurve are rather drab as well, as are most of the Gnome themes. I just don't like the overabundance of grey that most of them have. But I think Keramik/Geramik do a fine job making a brighter more curved feel, without making it so much like Aqua or Luna that it's ripping either off.
Let INNOVATE rather than copy
That right there's is pretty tough. Apple's managed to actually do something new and different with OS X's look and feel, but they're about the only ones who have managed to do so for quite a long time. I think we've got at least a chance of seeing interesting stuff coming out of karamba though.
As someone who's had to endure attempts to convert me to Windows in the past, personally I appreciate his reply. If the coworker was interested in switching to a different product, I'd be all for giving him a speech about the merits of OpenOffice. But not when he's only curious why some guys supposed Excel install looks weird.
Why should anyone ever have to use the command line in Linux? The only time I've ever brought it up in Mandrake was to run gcc, and I don't think the average person is going to have much need for that. Heck, it's only on rare occasions that I even use it in Debian.
Thank you, I was just about to post about this as well. I go to a very pro-microsoft school, filled with very pro-microsoft people, and I make a strong point to never mention why exactly I'm not using Word or IE or whatever. It's very awkward and embarissing having to justify your software choices to someone who has a rabid belief that they know your tastes better than you yourself do - wether it's Linux being pushed on you or Windows.
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What's so hard about installing a printer in Linux? I havn't used Mandrake in a while, but I recall it was as simple as hitting a button in the controll panel then hitting yes after it autodetected my printer and installed drivers for it. I'd think any of the other desktop based distros would behave in a similar manner.
As long as Linux is more difficult to install and use than Windows
Have you used a Linux installer latley? Ease of use is something that's debatable. Ease of installation really isn't anymore. Mandrake and Suse's installers are just as friendly, if not more, than the windowsXP installer.
Sure you can fool mother nature. A huge amount of our medicine involves tricking the body into behaving in a manner different than what it would normally do.
I should preface this by saying I really don't know much more about this subject than I'd gained from a health class a few years back. But as I understand it, in terms of weight loss, the primary goal should be to increase muscle mass to keep that burning fat for you when you're not excercising. Rather than trying to burn off the fat just by expending energy. Jogging seems like it wouldn't do much since it involves a pretty small energy expenditure combined with not a huge potential for muscle gain since you've likley allready developed that from walking to a point where a half hour jog won't do very much.
I agree about health food though. I think one would be better off just eating fruits and vegtables than bothering with it.
Have you tried synce? I finally gave installing it a shot a few days ago, and have been really happy with the results so far using Debian Unstable to synch with an ipaq. It even integrates with konqueror, so I can just copy and paste files right into the ipaq.
Basically all I'm saying is that the Real World (TM) works by completely other rules than the code-centric "woohoo, look at what cool gimmicks we've coded" view that's rampant on Slashdot.
And perhaps your post would have some merit if it wasn't addressing a message to people on slashdot who want to move to Linux, not Joe Average on realworldTM.com.
I'm always going to have a fondness for the tg16 servering as my introduction to importing. It was insane how great the games in Japan were in comparison to the slow trickle that made it over here.
Do you have any suggestions of where to look for the better persistant worlds? I bought it a few months back, but never made the leap from playing the solo modules.
180MB! Is this something different about the windows version? I get about the same numbers as the parent in Linux.
I like "My computer dosn't have the internet on it".
I'd agree if this was somehow connected with the search for real alien life. But it's not. It's in the same catagory as searching for bigfoot or count dracula.
Slashdot smells like testosterone and frustration.
You should have submitted this as a line for the slashdot t-shirts.
I suspect a lot of young people watch Mr. Ed and I Love Lucy. Mostly because they're growing up with it even more than people of the generation it originally aired during. I know those old shows were one of the few non news, soap opera, or game show related things that were on quite a bit during the time shortly after school had gotten out. I'd be surprised if many people since its initial airing hadn't grown up with, say, the brady bunch.
Science isn't something that explodes with sensational discoveries each week, at least not the kind that are easily translatable into hours of television programming.
It could be. You'd just have to hire those people at the newspaper who take the smallest indication that there's a chance that a theory has been proved to mean it's fact, and we could get all kinds of programming. We could have the "Cure for cancer found!" channel, the Cloning channel, the "Immortality pill to be created!" channel. It's as limitless as the quack science reporters working at major papers!
I think the Skeptics movement are their own worst enemy.
I often feel the same way. I'm not going to mention the shows name to avoid stepping on any toes, but one show that features a lot of debunking annoys me for this very reason. Instead of intelligent argument and presenting the facts, they'll usually themselves resort to advertising tricks to try and manipulate the viewer to their own view. I understand the reasoning behind it, debunking psychics isn't overly exciting - especially if the methods involved controlled experiments. Effects, hype, and music are more of a ratings grab. But in the end I wind up being as fed up with them for being almost as manipulitive and condecending to their viewers as the people they started out debunking. It's nice that they'll come right out and admit that they're trying to manipulate the audience as well, but it's still annoying.
I have this horrible vision of someone running a wig standing on two stilts as a cannidate, and letting out a soul shrieking "I didn't think they'd actually do it!" after a majority of people actually vote for it.
I don't think it's at all against the spirt of the gpl. You could get the source, or any of the files right from the start. Source code is what I think about when I hear gpl.
Unfortunatly you can't test their internal webpages until AFTER you sign up.
I just asked them before I signed up with mine. They were extreamly helpful, and after I asked about Mozilla even mentioned that their stuff worked fine with Mozilla in Linux.
I think it's time to give up. If someone's still using Netscape 4 at this point, they're not going to change untill windows can't run it anymore. And I have to wonder if they'll even upgrade to an operating system that dosn't support Netscape 4. I have visions of 120 year olds complaining to developers because their telepathic cybernetic p2p setup dosn't render in Netscape 4.
For what it's worth, on any torrent on slashdot I usually get at least 100kbs as well - both on the old and the experimental client. With no special configuration or tweaking on either.
I don't use mandrake so could be wrong. But didn't they do their latest release a couple days ago, only through bittorrent?
I do in some ways agree. I think Galaxy and Bluecurve are rather drab as well, as are most of the Gnome themes. I just don't like the overabundance of grey that most of them have. But I think Keramik/Geramik do a fine job making a brighter more curved feel, without making it so much like Aqua or Luna that it's ripping either off.
Let INNOVATE rather than copy
That right there's is pretty tough. Apple's managed to actually do something new and different with OS X's look and feel, but they're about the only ones who have managed to do so for quite a long time. I think we've got at least a chance of seeing interesting stuff coming out of karamba though.
As someone who's had to endure attempts to convert me to Windows in the past, personally I appreciate his reply. If the coworker was interested in switching to a different product, I'd be all for giving him a speech about the merits of OpenOffice. But not when he's only curious why some guys supposed Excel install looks weird.
Why should anyone ever have to use the command line in Linux? The only time I've ever brought it up in Mandrake was to run gcc, and I don't think the average person is going to have much need for that. Heck, it's only on rare occasions that I even use it in Debian.
Windows nerds are just as rude as Linux nerds.
Thank you, I was just about to post about this as well. I go to a very pro-microsoft school, filled with very pro-microsoft people, and I make a strong point to never mention why exactly I'm not using Word or IE or whatever. It's very awkward and embarissing having to justify your software choices to someone who has a rabid belief that they know your tastes better than you yourself do - wether it's Linux being pushed on you or Windows.