Is it Apple's problem that MacOS does not work at all on your hardware?
It may be best to delay switching till you buy a new PC, and make sure you buy one that has Linux friendly hardware.
It may be worth the cost of the extra hardware. If Linux is better for you, why not spend a bit extra. Given how much time a lot of us spend in front of your computers, spending a bit extra to make them better is well worth it.
If you have enough Linux using friends to be constantly told that Linux is superior, it does sound as though desktop Linux is making progress wherever you are!
I have also found Linux forums to be consistently helpful. You may be told its better to buy different hardware, but you will also be helped as far as possible to use the hardware you have if that is what you want to do.
Google seem to be being perfectly reasonable. They They are doing enough to keep the carriers happy, but only that. In addition, AFAIK, the platform is more open then Apple's so you can obtain the application from elsewhere and install it without jail breaking.
Actually, European human rights law has some similar exemptions - that is why Britain was able to propose a law restricting offensive speech about religions.
The British law was fortunately stopped by a public campaign. Incidentally I am a Christian and I am offended by some things that are published (especially ignorant crap as you often see of Slashdot), but free speech too important to be impeded by giving people a right not to be offended.
MySQL users see the database as a program persistance layer. I am not sure WHY they are using something that pretends to be a relational database, but they are.
Because you can search it much more flexibly than a file system. Suppose Slashdot stored all the users data in a file system, how would you search for my recent posts? How would you would your track friends and foes? You could do it, but the easiest thing is to use and existing DB (either an RDBS or a document DB).
MySQL works OK for one-app databases and many people think that is all that is needed. It breaks down outside that area, however.
MySQL owes much of its popularity its use in CMSs.
That's like saying "Washington, USA", what's the OP thinking? It's a bit easier with the UK in that people were a bit more imaginative with place names, so there aren't so many duplicates.
Lot of good it does us being imaginative if the Americans copy all the place names anyway (Boston, Cambridge, Plymouth, (New) York..... ).
It is rather presumptuous of Americans to assume we all know what their fifty odd state abbreviations
Agreed, but the same should apply to county abbreviations. It also raises the question of whether you should write England or UK. I was taught to write England as a child, but UK seems to be common these days. Of course, at some point we could argue that we should reflect changing realities by writing EU instead.
Posted from Galle, I will leave you to Google for the country. The British should know anyway, given the number of them/us living here (note to Daily Mail readers, immigration goes two ways).
Playing a radio in these circumstances is a public performance under British law and she does need a license.
However, given that it is being played for the benefit of the horses, I do wonder whether we will need to pay more for licenses to play music if our pets listen.
Yes, I know the article is on development methods, but it still suffers from this. There is no reason why both are not fitted to survive: both approaches have produced good software so far.
Incidentally, the fact that Windows is the most widely used OS, suggests that backward compatibility matters.
It is not an either/or choice - you can use any desktop environment with any apps (which means you have components of other environments runnins).
I use XFCE, with Gnome several applets in the panels as well as XFCE ones. I use some Gnome apps (Gedit, Epiphany), some plain Gtk ones (Firefox, Deluge, various configuration GUIs, Thunar) and some KDE ones (Akregator, Amarok, Konqueror, Kwrite, Kmail).
I am thinking of switching from Kmail to Claws, and I am not altogether happy with any file manager and would like a clipboard panel applet for XFCE that is anything like as good as Klipper. Other than that it all works very well for me. YMMV.
With "intelligent design", you have theologians trying to make scientific decisions.
Very few actual theologians are biblical literalists. In fact, I have never heard of any worth the name who are. St Augustine clearly rejected biblical literalism a very long time ago, and other theologians suggested evolution like theories (of course it was mere speculation back then).
The correct term for biblical literalist creationists is "loony idiots incapable of understanding either science of theology".
Also, I think the people who came up with the idea of intelligent design were somewhat more sophisticated. This is a case of idiots trying to use a reasonable (though generally regarded as untenable as an argument for "creationism" by real theologians) argument to try and make themselves look reasonable
There are essentially two ideas behind this, that are accepted in despotic regimes and are gaining traction globally.
1) Religion is primarily a source of identity.
2) You do not have a right to say things that are upsetting to other people.
The first is dangerous because it justifies curtailing freedom of worship. You have an identity, one identity is a good as another therefore you should not question it. This means you do not need the freedom to change your religion.
It is also profoundly dishonest. It implies that the truth does not really matter. You should accept what you are told.
The second comes from the desire for security. Just as people are willing to give up their rights to privacy and a fair trial for security, they are also easily persuaded to give up their right to free speech for the sake of social stability.
It is not Linux only. The Getting started page currently has build instructions for MacOS, so I imagine it will, at the very least run on anything Unix like.
Also, their motive is to speed up Google's Python apps, which run on Linux. CPython is fast enough on desktops for most users. I would guess that the majority of Python on servers is on Unix like OSes (is there any evidence to the contrary).
I have used Linux as my sole desktop for nearly five years, and as my home desktop for seven years.
I am not a gamer or graphic designer so I have had no problems. The only app I have every run under WINE is IE to test me websites - and that can be replaced by browsercam and similar services.
Linux has shortcoming (mostly lack or drivers, or drivers that need post installation tweaks). As far as I am concerned this is more than balanced by the flexibility and productivity of the desktops, not having viruses or having to run anti-virus software and the easy installation and availability of software (i.e. available in the repo is preferable to available in the shops).
The patent on the original format is close to running out, so a new one keeps revenues coming in - a bit like pharmaceutical companies do new formulations of old drugs just as the patent is about to run out.
It is a drug, and drugs are evil. If she used Ibuprofen in school, it would act as a gateway drug and everyone in the school would have become heroine addicts.
All children (and adults) should be strip searched on the hour, every hour by the police to make sure they are not carrying evil drugs.
If you disagree you are clearly a drug smuggling, terrorist paedophile who has something to hide.
I'm bound to get modded a troll or flamebait or off-topic or something for this, but how is this different from pirating music?/. group-think says it's not theft and trots out a whole bunch of other self-justification about the evil RIAA and so forth, because you're "not depriving anyone
It is not theft.
That does not mean it is a good idea. RTFA: his objections to pirated software are not moral, they are practical.
Some posters have moral objections. I assume that they are the same people who have moral objections to pirating music.
I would say that it is mainstream Christianity: CS Lewis (who is as mainstream as you can get) wrote a nice essay on just this - I cannot remember which book it was in, but I do remember he kept quoting Norse mythology in it (because they believed in dying for the right side, simply because it was the right thing to do).
The descriptions of God as not good in the Bible are almost entirely Old Testament, and that reflects the tribal loyalties and cultural biases of many old testament authors. Only an idiot reads reads the Bible without taking the contexts it was written in into account.
Another note on morality: Jesus summarised the law as "love God" and "love your neighbour" (i.e. everyone).
Good idea. It will make it very easy to investigate paedophiles. On the other hand, if you are innocent you have nothing to fear, and the police will promise nicely not to use it for amusement.
Therefore, if you object to CCTV in your home, you must be a paedophile and should be sent to jail straight away.
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Is it Apple's problem that MacOS does not work at all on your hardware?
It may be best to delay switching till you buy a new PC, and make sure you buy one that has Linux friendly hardware.
It may be worth the cost of the extra hardware. If Linux is better for you, why not spend a bit extra. Given how much time a lot of us spend in front of your computers, spending a bit extra to make them better is well worth it.
If you have enough Linux using friends to be constantly told that Linux is superior, it does sound as though desktop Linux is making progress wherever you are!
I have also found Linux forums to be consistently helpful. You may be told its better to buy different hardware, but you will also be helped as far as possible to use the hardware you have if that is what you want to do.
Google seem to be being perfectly reasonable. They They are doing enough to keep the carriers happy, but only that. In addition, AFAIK, the platform is more open then Apple's so you can obtain the application from elsewhere and install it without jail breaking.
Actually, European human rights law has some similar exemptions - that is why Britain was able to propose a law restricting offensive speech about religions.
The British law was fortunately stopped by a public campaign. Incidentally I am a Christian and I am offended by some things that are published (especially ignorant crap as you often see of Slashdot), but free speech too important to be impeded by giving people a right not to be offended.
a. the tech is solid (typically mention Wikipedia for that one)
So do you edit the Wikipedia page just before you tell your boss look at it?
MySQL users see the database as a program persistance layer. I am not sure WHY they are using something that pretends to be a relational database, but they are.
Because you can search it much more flexibly than a file system. Suppose Slashdot stored all the users data in a file system, how would you search for my recent posts? How would you would your track friends and foes? You could do it, but the easiest thing is to use and existing DB (either an RDBS or a document DB).
MySQL works OK for one-app databases and many people think that is all that is needed. It breaks down outside that area, however.
MySQL owes much of its popularity its use in CMSs.
The page linked to does cite a number of sources of information.
Some wikis are actually pretty good - it depends on the community. A lot of IT related wikis are excellent.
I think Wikipedia's variable quality is giving wikis per se a bad name. I have found even Wikipedia to be an excellent source for certain subjects:
1) Anything IT related.
2) Film and TV plots and background info - especially sci-fi.
3) Obscure little towns, especially American.
I wonder why that should be.
That's like saying "Washington, USA", what's the OP thinking? It's a bit easier with the UK in that people were a bit more imaginative with place names, so there aren't so many duplicates.
Lot of good it does us being imaginative if the Americans copy all the place names anyway (Boston, Cambridge, Plymouth, (New) York..... ).
It is rather presumptuous of Americans to assume we all know what their fifty odd state abbreviations
Agreed, but the same should apply to county abbreviations. It also raises the question of whether you should write England or UK. I was taught to write England as a child, but UK seems to be common these days. Of course, at some point we could argue that we should reflect changing realities by writing EU instead.
Posted from Galle, I will leave you to Google for the country. The British should know anyway, given the number of them/us living here (note to Daily Mail readers, immigration goes two ways).
Playing a radio in these circumstances is a public performance under British law and she does need a license.
However, given that it is being played for the benefit of the horses, I do wonder whether we will need to pay more for licenses to play music if our pets listen.
Yes, I know the article is on development methods, but it still suffers from this. There is no reason why both are not fitted to survive: both approaches have produced good software so far.
Incidentally, the fact that Windows is the most widely used OS, suggests that backward compatibility matters.
It is not an either/or choice - you can use any desktop environment with any apps (which means you have components of other environments runnins).
I use XFCE, with Gnome several applets in the panels as well as XFCE ones. I use some Gnome apps (Gedit, Epiphany), some plain Gtk ones (Firefox, Deluge, various configuration GUIs, Thunar) and some KDE ones (Akregator, Amarok, Konqueror, Kwrite, Kmail).
I am thinking of switching from Kmail to Claws, and I am not altogether happy with any file manager and would like a clipboard panel applet for XFCE that is anything like as good as Klipper. Other than that it all works very well for me. YMMV.
With "intelligent design", you have theologians trying to make scientific decisions.
Very few actual theologians are biblical literalists. In fact, I have never heard of any worth the name who are. St Augustine clearly rejected biblical literalism a very long time ago, and other theologians suggested evolution like theories (of course it was mere speculation back then).
The correct term for biblical literalist creationists is "loony idiots incapable of understanding either science of theology".
Also, I think the people who came up with the idea of intelligent design were somewhat more sophisticated. This is a case of idiots trying to use a reasonable (though generally regarded as untenable as an argument for "creationism" by real theologians) argument to try and make themselves look reasonable
http://www.browsercam.com/ offers VNC access to a huge range of OS/browser/plugin combinations.
More expensive than running a few VM, but it does more.
It also strikes me that multiple installed browsers + transparent windows = onion skins, albeit with a clumsy UI.
There are essentially two ideas behind this, that are accepted in despotic regimes and are gaining traction globally.
1) Religion is primarily a source of identity.
2) You do not have a right to say things that are upsetting to other people.
The first is dangerous because it justifies curtailing freedom of worship. You have an identity, one identity is a good as another therefore you should not question it. This means you do not need the freedom to change your religion.
It is also profoundly dishonest. It implies that the truth does not really matter. You should accept what you are told.
The second comes from the desire for security. Just as people are willing to give up their rights to privacy and a fair trial for security, they are also easily persuaded to give up their right to free speech for the sake of social stability.
Where can I find one of these real news outlets you speak of?
There are very few examples of proper journalism left - its mostly rewrite what you got off the wire or the press release or the spin doctor.
It is not Linux only. The Getting started page currently has build instructions for MacOS, so I imagine it will, at the very least run on anything Unix like.
Also, their motive is to speed up Google's Python apps, which run on Linux. CPython is fast enough on desktops for most users. I would guess that the majority of Python on servers is on Unix like OSes (is there any evidence to the contrary).
Anybody who took District Attorney School 101 knows this....
(pinky to corner of mouth) ...EVIL District Attorney School?
Is there another kind?
Lots of startups take years to be profitable - especially ones as ambitious as Canonical.
I have used Linux as my sole desktop for nearly five years, and as my home desktop for seven years.
I am not a gamer or graphic designer so I have had no problems. The only app I have every run under WINE is IE to test me websites - and that can be replaced by browsercam and similar services.
Linux has shortcoming (mostly lack or drivers, or drivers that need post installation tweaks). As far as I am concerned this is more than balanced by the flexibility and productivity of the desktops, not having viruses or having to run anti-virus software and the easy installation and availability of software (i.e. available in the repo is preferable to available in the shops).
And the use case for this is?
The patent on the original format is close to running out, so a new one keeps revenues coming in - a bit like pharmaceutical companies do new formulations of old drugs just as the patent is about to run out.
Oh, you mean from the users point of view.
It is a drug, and drugs are evil. If she used Ibuprofen in school, it would act as a gateway drug and everyone in the school would have become heroine addicts.
All children (and adults) should be strip searched on the hour, every hour by the police to make sure they are not carrying evil drugs.
If you disagree you are clearly a drug smuggling, terrorist paedophile who has something to hide.
and no executive is going to wantonly commit federal fraud.
Wow. Thats a naive, and highly innacurate opinion.
I would say it is accurate. However, many executives carefully and deliberately commit fraud.
I'm bound to get modded a troll or flamebait or off-topic or something for this, but how is this different from pirating music? /. group-think says it's not theft and trots out a whole bunch of other self-justification about the evil RIAA and so forth, because you're "not depriving anyone
It is not theft.
That does not mean it is a good idea. RTFA: his objections to pirated software are not moral, they are practical.
Some posters have moral objections. I assume that they are the same people who have moral objections to pirating music.
I would say that it is mainstream Christianity: CS Lewis (who is as mainstream as you can get) wrote a nice essay on just this - I cannot remember which book it was in, but I do remember he kept quoting Norse mythology in it (because they believed in dying for the right side, simply because it was the right thing to do).
The descriptions of God as not good in the Bible are almost entirely Old Testament, and that reflects the tribal loyalties and cultural biases of many old testament authors. Only an idiot reads reads the Bible without taking the contexts it was written in into account.
Another note on morality: Jesus summarised the law as "love God" and "love your neighbour" (i.e. everyone).
Good idea. It will make it very easy to investigate paedophiles. On the other hand, if you are innocent you have nothing to fear, and the police will promise nicely not to use it for amusement.
Therefore, if you object to CCTV in your home, you must be a paedophile and should be sent to jail straight away.
Incidentally, CCTV in some private homes has been seriously proposed.
If P2P is illegal - and frankly any internet traffic seems to be illegal according to the Orwellian UK government at the moment, what
Don't worry, the government will tell your what you may use it for.