OK, before we start, let's be clear that you're completely wrong about that, on both counts.
Are you certain? Do you have a link to back that up?
This PC World Article contradicts your assertion.
In addition, the SonicBlue Replay TV had a "send show" option that allowed the owner to send a recorded TV program to one other user (presumably a family member or friend). While this feature is being challenged in court, current law appears to allow this as "fair use". (There's an article here.)
There is a Wired news article
here that indicates the lawsuit is still undecided.
You may disagree with the copyright laws, and you may disagree with the RIAA's tactics, but if you're going to do so, please do it on merit, and not by pretending that a 15-year-old is all sweet and innocent. Any kid smart enough to set up Kazaa or Morpheus is smart enough to know that file swapping in breach of copyright is illegal.
Bullshit. Poll your friends and family. Ask them if it's legal to use a VCR to record a movie that is on TV for a friend. Ask if it is legal to record a radio program for someone on their cassette recorder. They will (correctly) answer that both are legal. Now ask them about file sharing. Now, try to explain why it's different from the first two examples. I'll bet you that 90% of the people you ask will be tripped up by this. I think that most file sharers don't see it being any different than a different way to listen to the radio.
Mac 'servers', and I use the term very loosely in this case, come with, at best, RAID-0. Since you probably dont understand what Im talking about, thats mirroring.
You're wrong dumbass. Mirroring is RAID-1. RAID-0 is striping.
You can use the Red Hat Beta (Fedora Core 0.95) with SATA. It includes a version of the 2.4.22 kernel with SATA support backported in. I successfully installed the 0.94 version on a Dell Optiplex GX-270 with a single SATA hard drive. As always, YMMV.
I agree with many of your points, but I think you're a bit off the mark with some of your assumptions.
Frankly, I wish Linux were a commercial product. I would love to see another company compete with Microsoft. Then there would be lots of jobs both at Microsoft, and at the competing company. Instead we have free software. Free software doesn't create as many jobs, or as much capital as commercial software. Capital means money for jobs and money for R&D, and R&D means great new technology.
Another company? Like, say, IBM? Or Red Hat?
I don't know of any credible source of information that proves that open source creates fewer jobs or less commercial development. There are many companies paying people to write and support open software.
I'm not saying absolutely that you are wrong about this, but I don't think that you support your assumption that open source spawns lesser capital investment and less R&D.
Yes, they are both theories. There is nothing scientifically factual about evolution whatsoever.
Your post demonstrates your complete lack of knowledge about evolution and about science. While I don't have time to get into specifics (late for work), I will post some links:
ALT text is an accesibility feature, intended for the visually impaired.
The title="popup text" feature is implemented as popup text in Mozilla.
The usability feature is already in place as a web standard. Webmasters have only to implement this feature (and other browsers support it).
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I would like to also point out that the human eye can only see 12 frames per second. Motion pictures are shot at 24 frames per second. The picture on your CRT refreshes 60 times per second. Any difference you percieve in frame rates above 24 are in your head, above 60 are REALLY in your head because you aren't seeing them.
While I like the power that X provides and agree (at least in part) with your earlier posts, I have to call you on this one. I can see a difference between a monitor running at 60Hz refresh and one at 85Hz. It is especially apparent when viewing large white areas (like a blank word processing document) and on larger monitors. I can also see the jerkiness that accompanies 24 frame motion pictures as compared to 60 field (30 Frame) television when there is a great deal of motion. I can tell the difference when I see a 50 field (25 frame) tennis match televised via satellite from Europe compared to the NTSC standard. I can tell if a video game is running at 30 frames versus 60 frames, but above 60 I don't notice a difference.
That having been said, I have walked past monitors with a noticable flicker and the person using it doesn't complain. Even when I call attention to it and up the refresh rate, they can't tell the difference between the two. I suspect that sensitivity to refresh rate is highly variable among individuals.
Perhaps you ought to think about how lucky you are to even HAVE a job right now
It's precisely that attitude that perpetuates the perception a lot of bosses (and governments, for that matter) have that it's OK to treat staff as consumables.
You're absolutely right. My previous employer often stated that an employee should be grateful to be employed and should be willing to do him personal favors and work overtime. What a load of crap!
The employer pays for services rendered; the employee supplies those services. No sane business expects to get services from other businesses for free, so why do they expect that from their employees?
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At least, if I make a mistake editing one of those Linux text files I am unlikely to completely hose up the machine. Whose bright idea was it to make an OS (Windows) dependent on a single (easily corrupted) binary database to boot up? A database that is modified practically every time a setting is changed or a program is installed. A file that keeps growing the longer you own your computer and as a consequence slows your machine more and more.
It`s also disabled by default since win2k, the system will instantly reboot instead of displaying the blue screen.
And what a brilliant idea that was. I had to work on a Win2k machine that would spontaneously reboot on bootup instead of displaying a nice (ok ugly) error message. It took forever to figure out what went wrong with that thing!
Why would they do that anyway? To hide the infamous blue screen they got so much grief over?
Lastly, I find it amusing that some people praise Win 2K/XP for its stability over previous versions of windows. Give me a break! Compared to Windows ME, Lizzie Borden would seem a paragon of stability.
I have a couple of favorite features in KDE (3.1) that (AFAIK) have no windows counterpart. Open the KDE file browser and type fish:// plus the location of a machine running sshd and you can then graphically browse/copy/delete/etc files on the remote machine as if it were local. This feature even shows thumbnail previews of remote files (if you have that feature enabled). Browsing is very fast over my DSL connection to the machine at work.
Another great feature is the KIO CD slave. Typing audiocd:/ in the Konqueror address bar gives you a directory listing with.wav files in [by name] or [by track] folders, an [Ogg Vorbis] folder with tracks in that format and a MP3 folder. Copying files from these folders automagically extracts and encodes the tracks in the appropriate format. Slick!
OpenOffice.org can't transfer clipboard selections to Mozilla and vice versa.
Not to be too nitpicky, but I just did this without the slightest difficulty. I also think the poster is being too easy on Windows and Windows apps. No one blames Microsoft when windows applications (that they didn't write) don't work well together, but everyone wants to blame some vague concept of "open source" or "linux" when apps written to different APIs don't interoperate.
Solaris still rules on the high end. Ever tried to take the memory out of a Linux box while it's still running? How about swapping out an ethernet card? Or a processor?
I saw a debate on hot-swapability recently on another thread recently.
Anyway, the point is that it's more a function of the hardware than the OS. The OS just has to support hot-swappable (device X). IIRC Linux does have some hot-swap support and more is planned for the 2.6 kernel.
Well, your reviewers weren't very critical then. I find WinXP to be the most unintuitive of all the Windows. Most of the people that I know that have used WinXP and Win95/98/2K agree. KDE is way more intuitive to me. Of course, as always, YMMV. If I were forced to use a Windows full time, I would have to pick Win2K.
When I started using Linux full-time (a few months ago) I tried to get used to Gnome (the RedHat default). It kept getting in the way of how I liked to work. So I switched to KDE and after playing around with it a bit I got my computer to work the way I want it to work. More so now than when I was using Win2k.
There is no correspondence between intelligence and social ineptitude. I've known as many popular smart people as I've known unpopular smart people. Infact, most of the unpopular smart people I knew scored lower on their SAT than the popular. I realize that this is a rough estimate and that SAT scores do not directly relate to intelligence; perhaps it was just coincidence, but still an interesting statistic, none the less.
It's not a statistic. It's "anecdotal evidence" and as any scientist (or true nerd) can tell you, it holds little statistical significance. It could be that you are "counting the hits" and not the misses-- in other words, noting the data points that conform to your preconceived notions and ignoring the others. I'm not trying to flame you, but I do think that the "you're in denial" quote wasn't justified by your "evidence".
Its a plugin that uses mplayer for quicktime on the web. It works pretty well for most of the trailers that I have tried it for. (Worked for this trailer, for instance)
If you have another plugin that handles quicktime (I was using plugger, which seldom worked) you will have to locate the plugin, rename it (xxx.so.OLD or some such) edit pluggerrc (if you use that) and start Mozilla. This removes Mozilla's "dependence" on the old plugin. Then, you close Moz, add the new plugin, rename the old plugin (if you were using plugger) back to its original name and start Moz. It should work, then. I would advise patience when you first try it out as the plugin gives no indication that it's downloading the movie. Pick a small, low res version to start out with.
I'd suggest you do your research on it, maybe even read the links, before you post. It's one think to have a healthy sceptisism, another is to have only faith in your doubts. New discoveries requires faith. If everybody thought like you, we'd be stuck in the iron age.
New discoveries are hampered by faith. Faith prevented Galileo's discoveries from being accepted by the world. New discoveries are made by intelligent, rational beings investigating the world around them with a reliance only on discreet data. Not by "believing in" something unproven-- that is what you are asking for. I followed several of the links, and I did not see any credible reports of phenomena that can't be easily explained as part of a hoax. I salute the slashdotters that listen to the sweet voice of reason instead of wistful wishing.
Slashdot Mirror
I think grandparent was referring to this:
0 03/12/16/cx_dl_1216linux.html
http://www.forbes.com/technology/enterprisetech/2
It was rather inflammatory.
OK, before we start, let's be clear that you're completely wrong about that, on both counts.
Are you certain? Do you have a link to back that up?
This PC World Article contradicts your assertion. In addition, the SonicBlue Replay TV had a "send show" option that allowed the owner to send a recorded TV program to one other user (presumably a family member or friend). While this feature is being challenged in court, current law appears to allow this as "fair use". (There's an article here.)
There is a Wired news article here that indicates the lawsuit is still undecided.
You may disagree with the copyright laws, and you may disagree with the RIAA's tactics, but if you're going to do so, please do it on merit, and not by pretending that a 15-year-old is all sweet and innocent. Any kid smart enough to set up Kazaa or Morpheus is smart enough to know that file swapping in breach of copyright is illegal.
Bullshit. Poll your friends and family. Ask them if it's legal to use a VCR to record a movie that is on TV for a friend. Ask if it is legal to record a radio program for someone on their cassette recorder. They will (correctly) answer that both are legal. Now ask them about file sharing. Now, try to explain why it's different from the first two examples. I'll bet you that 90% of the people you ask will be tripped up by this. I think that most file sharers don't see it being any different than a different way to listen to the radio.
Mac 'servers', and I use the term very loosely in this case, come with, at best, RAID-0. Since you probably dont understand what Im talking about, thats mirroring.
You're wrong dumbass. Mirroring is RAID-1. RAID-0 is striping.
You can use the Red Hat Beta (Fedora Core 0.95) with SATA. It includes a version of the 2.4.22 kernel with SATA support backported in. I successfully installed the 0.94 version on a Dell Optiplex GX-270 with a single SATA hard drive. As always, YMMV.
I agree with many of your points, but I think you're a bit off the mark with some of your assumptions.
Frankly, I wish Linux were a commercial product. I would love to see another company compete with Microsoft. Then there would be lots of jobs both at Microsoft, and at the competing company. Instead we have free software. Free software doesn't create as many jobs, or as much capital as commercial software. Capital means money for jobs and money for R&D, and R&D means great new technology.
Another company? Like, say, IBM? Or Red Hat?
I don't know of any credible source of information that proves that open source creates fewer jobs or less commercial development. There are many companies paying people to write and support open software.
I'm not saying absolutely that you are wrong about this, but I don't think that you support your assumption that open source spawns lesser capital investment and less R&D.
Yes, they are both theories. There is nothing scientifically factual about evolution whatsoever.
Your post demonstrates your complete lack of knowledge about evolution and about science. While I don't have time to get into specifics (late for work), I will post some links:
A nice set of links at syacuse university
Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education
National Center for Science Education
ALT text is an accesibility feature, intended for the visually impaired.
The title="popup text" feature is implemented as popup text in Mozilla.
The usability feature is already in place as a web standard. Webmasters have only to implement this feature (and other browsers support it).
I would like to also point out that the human eye can only see 12 frames per second. Motion pictures are shot at 24 frames per second. The picture on your CRT refreshes 60 times per second. Any difference you percieve in frame rates above 24 are in your head, above 60 are REALLY in your head because you aren't seeing them.
While I like the power that X provides and agree (at least in part) with your earlier posts, I have to call you on this one. I can see a difference between a monitor running at 60Hz refresh and one at 85Hz. It is especially apparent when viewing large white areas (like a blank word processing document) and on larger monitors. I can also see the jerkiness that accompanies 24 frame motion pictures as compared to 60 field (30 Frame) television when there is a great deal of motion. I can tell the difference when I see a 50 field (25 frame) tennis match televised via satellite from Europe compared to the NTSC standard. I can tell if a video game is running at 30 frames versus 60 frames, but above 60 I don't notice a difference.
That having been said, I have walked past monitors with a noticable flicker and the person using it doesn't complain. Even when I call attention to it and up the refresh rate, they can't tell the difference between the two. I suspect that sensitivity to refresh rate is highly variable among individuals.
Perhaps you ought to think about how lucky you are to even HAVE a job right now
It's precisely that attitude that perpetuates the perception a lot of bosses (and governments, for that matter) have that it's OK to treat staff as consumables.
You're absolutely right. My previous employer often stated that an employee should be grateful to be employed and should be willing to do him personal favors and work overtime. What a load of crap!
The employer pays for services rendered; the employee supplies those services. No sane business expects to get services from other businesses for free, so why do they expect that from their employees?
At least, if I make a mistake editing one of those Linux text files I am unlikely to completely hose up the machine. Whose bright idea was it to make an OS (Windows) dependent on a single (easily corrupted) binary database to boot up? A database that is modified practically every time a setting is changed or a program is installed. A file that keeps growing the longer you own your computer and as a consequence slows your machine more and more.
Idiots! Everyone knows that eunuchs can't have children!
It`s also disabled by default since win2k, the system will instantly reboot instead of displaying the blue screen.
And what a brilliant idea that was. I had to work on a Win2k machine that would spontaneously reboot on bootup instead of displaying a nice (ok ugly) error message. It took forever to figure out what went wrong with that thing!
Why would they do that anyway? To hide the infamous blue screen they got so much grief over?
Lastly, I find it amusing that some people praise Win 2K/XP for its stability over previous versions of windows. Give me a break! Compared to Windows ME, Lizzie Borden would seem a paragon of stability.
I have a couple of favorite features in KDE (3.1) that (AFAIK) have no windows counterpart.
Open the KDE file browser and type fish:// plus the location of a machine running sshd and you can then graphically browse/copy/delete/etc files on the remote machine as if it were local. This feature even shows thumbnail previews of remote files (if you have that feature enabled). Browsing is very fast over my DSL connection to the machine at work.
Another great feature is the KIO CD slave. Typing audiocd:/ in the Konqueror address bar gives you a directory listing with
Some flaws in the analysis are pointed out here.
OpenOffice.org can't transfer clipboard selections to Mozilla and vice versa.
Not to be too nitpicky, but I just did this without the slightest difficulty. I also think the poster is being too easy on Windows and Windows apps. No one blames Microsoft when windows applications (that they didn't write) don't work well together, but everyone wants to blame some vague concept of "open source" or "linux" when apps written to different APIs don't interoperate.
Solaris still rules on the high end. Ever tried to take the memory out of a Linux box while it's still running? How about swapping out an ethernet card? Or a processor?
I saw a debate on hot-swapability recently on another thread recently.
Main Thread Comment Thread
Anyway, the point is that it's more a function of the hardware than the OS. The OS just has to support hot-swappable (device X). IIRC Linux does have some hot-swap support and more is planned for the 2.6 kernel.
Well, your reviewers weren't very critical then. I find WinXP to be the most unintuitive of all the Windows. Most of the people that I know that have used WinXP and Win95/98/2K agree. KDE is way more intuitive to me. Of course, as always, YMMV. If I were forced to use a Windows full time, I would have to pick Win2K.
Without touching off a flame war, I will have to disagree with:
Redhat has nothing that can touch urpmi.
There is a version of apt for RedHat-- Here's how to install and use it in RH 8:
Download and install these:
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt
Make sure you're online, then, as root (or sudo)issue the following commands:
apt-get update
(You will see apt download package listings)
apt-get -f install
(This is to fix dependencies that will prevent apt from working.)
Your output should look something like this:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
If your output is different, make sure that you know what you are doing before you let apt make changes to your system.
Now, do:
apt-get install synaptic
and run synaptic as root or sudo root. You now have a gui tool to resolve dependencies and install packages.
This was shamelessly stolen from an excellent article by Robert C. Dowdy on OSNews:
http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=1890
Found an even better plugin:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerplug-in/
Same rules as above apply: Remove or rename old plugin and install new plugin. Choose Help -> About Plugins to verify that it is installed.
CV, you've hit the nail right on the head.
When I started using Linux full-time (a few months ago) I tried to get used to Gnome (the RedHat default). It kept getting in the way of how I liked to work. So I switched to KDE and after playing around with it a bit I got my computer to work the way I want it to work. More so now than when I was using Win2k.
There is no correspondence between intelligence and social ineptitude. I've known as many popular smart people as I've known unpopular smart people. Infact, most of the unpopular smart people I knew scored lower on their SAT than the popular. I realize that this is a rough estimate and that SAT scores do not directly relate to intelligence; perhaps it was just coincidence, but still an interesting statistic, none the less.
It's not a statistic. It's "anecdotal evidence" and as any scientist (or true nerd) can tell you, it holds little statistical significance. It could be that you are "counting the hits" and not the misses-- in other words, noting the data points that conform to your preconceived notions and ignoring the others. I'm not trying to flame you, but I do think that the "you're in denial" quote wasn't justified by your "evidence".
If you have quicktime working in mplayer under linux and you use Mozilla for browsing, you might want to check this out:
http://www.webfreetv.com/linux/
Its a plugin that uses mplayer for quicktime on the web. It works pretty well for most of the trailers that I have tried it for. (Worked for this trailer, for instance)
If you have another plugin that handles quicktime (I was using plugger, which seldom worked) you will have to locate the plugin, rename it (xxx.so.OLD or some such) edit pluggerrc (if you use that) and start Mozilla. This removes Mozilla's "dependence" on the old plugin. Then, you close Moz, add the new plugin, rename the old plugin (if you were using plugger) back to its original name and start Moz. It should work, then. I would advise patience when you first try it out as the plugin gives no indication that it's downloading the movie. Pick a small, low res version to start out with.
I'm using Mozilla 1.2.1 XFT under RH 8.0 and the page rendered fine for me. Maybe it's the voodoo doll I keep on top of the monitor
I'd suggest you do your research on it, maybe even read the links, before you post. It's one think to have a healthy sceptisism, another is to have only faith in your doubts. New discoveries requires faith. If everybody thought like you, we'd be stuck in the iron age.
New discoveries are hampered by faith. Faith prevented Galileo's discoveries from being accepted by the world. New discoveries are made by intelligent, rational beings investigating the world around them with a reliance only on discreet data. Not by "believing in" something unproven-- that is what you are asking for. I followed several of the links, and I did not see any credible reports of phenomena that can't be easily explained as part of a hoax. I salute the slashdotters that listen to the sweet voice of reason instead of wistful wishing.