Or, she could have just opened up add/remove programs and installed it with one click. But, she was used to the Microsoft way. The problem isn't that Ubuntu is hard to use, it's just different from Windows. I think that complete computer newbies are better off with Ubuntu than Windows "power users" for that very reason.
"Pirates" was probably a 2.39:1 aspect ratio movie. The other movies that you watched that filled the whole screen were probably 1.85:1 which is very close to the 16:9 aspect ratio that widescreen TVs use.
No, it's called using the computer the way most people do in their daily lives (i.e., not as a developer). Wider screens allow for proper full-screen video playback and side by side document viewing (or a couple web pages, etc.).
I have to disagree with you here. In my experience MOST computer users have one application open and maximize it. That negates any "side by side" advantage that a widescreen monitor might have. I think the big reason for people going for them is the marketing glitz of "widescreen". It's been appearing on the more expensive TVs for a while and so it must be "better".
...Finder file manager are lightyears ahead of anything X Window can come up with.
I can well imagine this since the X Window system doesn't do file management. But, I use the finder and KDE's file manager (Konqueror) and I would say that for my uses, Konqueror is leaps and bounds ahead of the OS X finder. Just because you're used to one method doesn't mean it's better.
There are mistakes and there are "mistakes". Did you read the post on Fripp's blog? He says:
A general comment on large record companies: inefficiency in departments can rarely be remedied by outside parties who lose because of it. This is a full-time job, is very expensive, a major distraction from the creative life, and almost wholly a negative experience. This is the good news.
The bad news: this is known by the company, and allowed for within its operating structure. That is, efficiency is not seen as being in the direct interest of the record company - because it profits from its carelessness.
If this is true then at the very least EMI is deliberately not carefully accounting for the music they sell-- because they profit from sloppy accounting. In any other industry, this would be considered fraud. Somehow, the record labels can get away with it.
On different hardware, or identical hardware? I've tried swapping drives with Windows before and gotten the same problems the earlier posters complained of.
I don't know about a gui method for disabling the power button, but you can edit/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and make it do anything you want. I would suggest making a backup of powerbtn.sh (sudo cp powerbtn.sh powerbtn.sh.bak) and then editing the original. (You might get away with just deleting it.)
There are solutions to some of your problems. For the quicktime problem, go to Medibuntu's help page and set up the medibuntu repository. Then, install mplayer, the firefox plugin, and the w32 codecs. (In a terminal, type: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer w32codecs) Mplayer usually has no problem with quicktime files. If you install the mozilla/firefox plugin, you should be able to view quicktime trailers on the web.
I don't use IM clients very often, so I don't have any advice there. As for WOW, I would suggest checking out Cedega. It's very user friendly and well worth the money. I run several older Windows games with it.
I can tell you why DirecTV dropped tivo for its DVR. In a word, synergy. That's what Rupert Murdoch calls having one of his companies use another of his companies for a product or service. See, Murdoch bought the company that makes the current DirecTV DVR so that he wouldn't have to pay the license fee to Tivo. It was on the order of $2-$3 per unit per month. Now, they can charge their customers the same fee and that money goes into Murdoch's other company.
I'm a directv customer and I'm going to bite the bullet and dump my directivo for one of their HD units. I was considering buying an HD Tivo, but the cable company where I'm moving has a pathetic HD lineup.
You make a number of assertions, but you don't even attempt to back any of them up. The current tax structure is regressive, that is, the percentage of income you pay in taxes increases as your income increases. A flat tax would simply "flatten" that structure. This will absolutely force the lower income taxpayers to pay more in taxes if it is to remain revenue neutral.
A not-very-well advertised part of all of the flat tax schemes that I have seen is that they are NOT revenue neutral. They are all accompanied by spending cuts. This, of course, hurts those who rely more on public services as well as increasing their taxes. (Can you afford to send kids to private school?)
http://www.ctj.org/html/armchr.htmhttp://www.wordwiz72.com/flattax.html
That "founded as a christian country" line keeps getting trotted out by the christians, but it has no basis in fact. I submit below a rebuttal that I cribbed from a forum (perhaps this very one) but, unfortunately cannot credit the author since I didn't copy down his name.
Some people today assert that the United States government came from Christian foundations. They argue that our political system represents a Christian ideal form of government and that Jefferson, Madison, et al, had simply expressed Christian values while framing the Constitution. If this proved true, then we should have a wealth of evidence to support it, yet just the opposite proves the case.
Although, indeed, many of America's colonial statesmen practiced Christianity, our most influential Founding Fathers broke away from traditional religious thinking. The ideas of the Great Enlightenment that began in Europe had begun to sever the chains of monarchical theocracy. These heretical European ideas spread throughout early America. Instead of relying on faith, people began to use reason and science as their guide. The humanistic philosophical writers of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire, had greatly influenced our Founding Fathers and Isaac Newton's mechanical and mathematical foundations served as a grounding post for their scientific reasoning.
A few Christian fundamentalists attempt to convince us to return to the Christianity of early America, yet according to the historian, Robert T. Handy, "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of congregations."
The Founding Fathers, also, rarely practiced Christian orthodoxy. Although they supported the free exercise of any religion, they understood the dangers of religion. Most of them believed in deism and attended Freemasonry lodges. According to John J. Robinson, "Freemasonry had been a powerful force for religious freedom." Freemasons took seriously the principle that men should worship according to their own conscious. Masonry welcomed anyone from any religion or non-religion, as long as they believed in a Supreme Being. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Lafayette, and many others accepted Freemasonry.
The Constitution reflects our founders views of a secular government, protecting the freedom of any belief or unbelief. The historian, Robert Middlekauff, observed, "the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety."
George Washington
Much of the myth of Washington's alleged Christianity came from Mason Weems influential book, "Life of Washington." The story of the cherry tree comes from this book and it has no historical basis. Weems, a Christian minister portrayed Washington as a devout Christian, yet Washington's own diaries show that he rarely attended Church.
Washington revealed almost nothing to indicate his spiritual frame of mind, hardly a mark of a devout Christian. In his thousands of letters, the name of Jesus Christ never appears. He rarely spoke about his religion, but his Freemasonry experience points to a belief in deism. Washington's initiation occurred at the Fredericksburg Lodge on 4 November 1752, later becoming a Master mason in 1799, and remained a freemason until he died.
To the United Baptist Churches in Virginia in May, 1789, Washington said that every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
After Washington's death, Dr. Abercrombie, a friend of his, replied to a Dr. Wilson, who had interrogated him about Washington's religion replied, "Sir, Washington was a Deist."
Thomas Jefferson
Even most Christians do not consider Jefferson a Christian. In many of his letters, he denounced the superstitions of Christianity. He did not believe in spiritual souls, angels or godly miracles. Although Jefferson did admire the
I tried the store out yesterday (bought 1 track) and was very impressed. No special software needed (making it Linux friendly). This might just get me back into buying music again instead of listening to all my old stuff.
In the application that I was discussing, it would be best if there weren't any drives hanging off the body of the laptop. (They could be easily dislodged). The flash cards shouldn't stick out (or at least not much).
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Or, she could have just opened up add/remove programs and installed it with one click. But, she was used to the Microsoft way. The problem isn't that Ubuntu is hard to use, it's just different from Windows. I think that complete computer newbies are better off with Ubuntu than Windows "power users" for that very reason.
"Pirates" was probably a 2.39:1 aspect ratio movie. The other movies that you watched that filled the whole screen were probably 1.85:1 which is very close to the 16:9 aspect ratio that widescreen TVs use.
Phil, the prince of insufficient light.
You should copy-paste this response several other places in the thread-- just in case someone misses the first two instances.
What's so hard about clicking an icon in the system tray? That's what the user interfaces with, not the "5 different" update engines.
...Finder file manager are lightyears ahead of anything X Window can come up with.I can well imagine this since the X Window system doesn't do file management. But, I use the finder and KDE's file manager (Konqueror) and I would say that for my uses, Konqueror is leaps and bounds ahead of the OS X finder. Just because you're used to one method doesn't mean it's better.
I've no mod points to spend on your post, so here's a "well done" for one of the most succinct descriptions of the problems with the "Fair" tax.
I never noticed that before. Thanks!
I never seem to have mod points when I need them, so I have awarded you a +1 insightful wish-I-had-modpoints award.
I always liked season 5 with the mysterious addition of Dawn and the death of Buffy season ender. Lots of goodness in that season.
In what ways are these programs "better" than the GIMP?
On different hardware, or identical hardware? I've tried swapping drives with Windows before and gotten the same problems the earlier posters complained of.
I don't know about a gui method for disabling the power button, but you can edit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and make it do anything you want. I would suggest making a backup of powerbtn.sh (sudo cp powerbtn.sh powerbtn.sh.bak) and then editing the original. (You might get away with just deleting it.)
There are solutions to some of your problems. For the quicktime problem, go to Medibuntu's help page and set up the medibuntu repository. Then, install mplayer, the firefox plugin, and the w32 codecs. (In a terminal, type: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer w32codecs) Mplayer usually has no problem with quicktime files. If you install the mozilla/firefox plugin, you should be able to view quicktime trailers on the web.
I don't use IM clients very often, so I don't have any advice there. As for WOW, I would suggest checking out Cedega. It's very user friendly and well worth the money. I run several older Windows games with it.
I can tell you why DirecTV dropped tivo for its DVR. In a word, synergy. That's what Rupert Murdoch calls having one of his companies use another of his companies for a product or service. See, Murdoch bought the company that makes the current DirecTV DVR so that he wouldn't have to pay the license fee to Tivo. It was on the order of $2-$3 per unit per month. Now, they can charge their customers the same fee and that money goes into Murdoch's other company.
I'm a directv customer and I'm going to bite the bullet and dump my directivo for one of their HD units. I was considering buying an HD Tivo, but the cable company where I'm moving has a pathetic HD lineup.
He was talking about reading the firehose, not just the front page.
You make a number of assertions, but you don't even attempt to back any of them up. The current tax structure is regressive, that is, the percentage of income you pay in taxes increases as your income increases. A flat tax would simply "flatten" that structure. This will absolutely force the lower income taxpayers to pay more in taxes if it is to remain revenue neutral.
A not-very-well advertised part of all of the flat tax schemes that I have seen is that they are NOT revenue neutral. They are all accompanied by spending cuts. This, of course, hurts those who rely more on public services as well as increasing their taxes. (Can you afford to send kids to private school?) http://www.ctj.org/html/armchr.htm http://www.wordwiz72.com/flattax.html
What makes you think that the wealthy would be hit hardest by a flat tax? That is NOT true, at least not in the US.
You might convince her to run XP in a virtual machine. That way you can just reload a disc image if it gets fubar.
I like virtualbox, myself. It's fast and very user friendly.
Silly me, if I had just had the foresight to use google before posting this, I would have found this page:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html
My apologies for clogging up the forum and thanks to Jim Walker for his essay!
That "founded as a christian country" line keeps getting trotted out by the christians, but it has no basis in fact. I submit below a rebuttal that I cribbed from a forum (perhaps this very one) but, unfortunately cannot credit the author since I didn't copy down his name.
Some people today assert that the United States government came from Christian foundations. They argue that our political system represents a Christian ideal form of government and that Jefferson, Madison, et al, had simply expressed Christian values while framing the Constitution. If this proved true, then we should have a wealth of evidence to support it, yet just the opposite proves the case.
Although, indeed, many of America's colonial statesmen practiced Christianity, our most influential Founding Fathers broke away from traditional religious thinking. The ideas of the Great Enlightenment that began in Europe had begun to sever the chains of monarchical theocracy. These heretical European ideas spread throughout early America. Instead of relying on faith, people began to use reason and science as their guide. The humanistic philosophical writers of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire, had greatly influenced our Founding Fathers and Isaac Newton's mechanical and mathematical foundations served as a grounding post for their scientific reasoning.
A few Christian fundamentalists attempt to convince us to return to the Christianity of early America, yet according to the historian, Robert T. Handy, "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of congregations."
The Founding Fathers, also, rarely practiced Christian orthodoxy. Although they supported the free exercise of any religion, they understood the dangers of religion. Most of them believed in deism and attended Freemasonry lodges. According to John J. Robinson, "Freemasonry had been a powerful force for religious freedom." Freemasons took seriously the principle that men should worship according to their own conscious. Masonry welcomed anyone from any religion or non-religion, as long as they believed in a Supreme Being. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Lafayette, and many others accepted Freemasonry.
The Constitution reflects our founders views of a secular government, protecting the freedom of any belief or unbelief. The historian, Robert Middlekauff, observed, "the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety."
George Washington
Much of the myth of Washington's alleged Christianity came from Mason Weems influential book, "Life of Washington." The story of the cherry tree comes from this book and it has no historical basis. Weems, a Christian minister portrayed Washington as a devout Christian, yet Washington's own diaries show that he rarely attended Church.
Washington revealed almost nothing to indicate his spiritual frame of mind, hardly a mark of a devout Christian. In his thousands of letters, the name of Jesus Christ never appears. He rarely spoke about his religion, but his Freemasonry experience points to a belief in deism. Washington's initiation occurred at the Fredericksburg Lodge on 4 November 1752, later becoming a Master mason in 1799, and remained a freemason until he died.
To the United Baptist Churches in Virginia in May, 1789, Washington said that every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
After Washington's death, Dr. Abercrombie, a friend of his, replied to a Dr. Wilson, who had interrogated him about Washington's religion replied, "Sir, Washington was a Deist."
Thomas Jefferson
Even most Christians do not consider Jefferson a Christian. In many of his letters, he denounced the superstitions of Christianity. He did not believe in spiritual souls, angels or godly miracles. Although Jefferson did admire the
I tried the store out yesterday (bought 1 track) and was very impressed. No special software needed (making it Linux friendly). This might just get me back into buying music again instead of listening to all my old stuff.
In the application that I was discussing, it would be best if there weren't any drives hanging off the body of the laptop. (They could be easily dislodged). The flash cards shouldn't stick out (or at least not much).