Are you sure your CDs are OK? IF you downloaded and burnt them yourself have youverified the checksum? I have done multiple linux installs (first Mandrake then Kubuntu on all the PCs on a small network) and upgrades and used several live CDs over the last six years and the only reason I have ever had a complete failure to boot was a bad CD.
I once took a Knoppix CD into work at and it worked on LOTS of PCs (lots of people wanted to try it and it got passed around). This was three years ago so hardware support should be much better now.
You may just be incredibly unlucky and hit on three combinations of hardware that Linux will not work on. I think the suggestion that you try some more live CDs (knoppix, slax or puppy) is sound, but please verify the burnt CDs, and perhaps try them in yet another PC if it still fails.
Tsunnami:Many vivid memories of the day 9/11: I remeber watching it on TV and making a phone call to check if a friend in New York was OK. Katrina: No memory at all.
This, of course, reflects how each of them affected, me and people I care about.
The Tsunnami affected lots of peeple I know - if we had not changed our plans I would have been on a road that was washed away by it - there was a fairly dramaitc picture of a hotel we were going to stay at on the BBC web site.
9/11 could have killed some friends and relatives, but the same goes for several other terrorist attacks. For me it was just a larger version of something I have seen many times before (at least this time I and me emmediate familly were not threatened).
Katrina is just another natural disaster in a far off country and while I am aware of it it makes no real emotional impact.
You reduce click fraud but pay more for your ads and narrow their distribution.
It also still leaves you exposed to click fraud from competitors who want to empty your Google ad budget - this is particularly nasty if it happens because it is targetted at the advertiser. It is also a lot harder for Google to do anything about.
1) It requires lots of hard work and organisation 2) You have to convince other people and communicate with them 3) You have to be old enough to vote 4) It does not give you quite the same feeling that being an armchair commando does
Surely these are reasons enough for a large proportion of Slashdot readers?
Do you seriously expect either Slashdotters or the public at large to be rational and engage in hard thinking?
Sadly most people want bread and circuses. Their revolutionary fantasies are just part of the circus.
Most of the existing European telecoms regualtors have done a good job so far - there is nothing that needs fixing, this is just EU land grabbing for the sake of it.
A big European regulator is likely to listen more to industry lobbyists and less to consumers than the national regulators - look at the example of the European Comission, and the corruption in the EU bureaucracy.
If you spend a bit of time reading the site it is obvious that they are racist.
Their presentation may be more subtle than that of most hate groups (i.e. it is not evident on the front page) but read the rest of the site and it is obvious.
It is a hate site.
As for wether it should be blocked: I do not like censorship - I do not think anything should be blocked, but if you are going to censor hate sites, then makes no sense not to block this site.
I could not agree more. There is no end the the variations possible:
The commonest problem is that they insist on a state or a region as well as a city. In most countries this is not usual. I have never lived at any address that required a state or region.
I have also lived in a flat that did not have a street address: I had a flat number, the name of the building, and the name of the complex (which could be entered from several surrounding streets) and the city and post-code.
Finally in Britian it used to be considered correct to put England (or Scotalnd,Wales etc.) as the name of the country: this no longer seems to be the common practice but I prefer it.
I would not ever expect it to happen, but the world would be a better place without TV.
It definitely affects children - it also affects adults. It induces people to stay at home, effectively just killing time, instead of doing something real - even just socialising is a far more helathy way of spending your time. Even alternative non-social ways of using your time are far better - reading a book is a very different actvity from slumping in front of a TV.
As a matter of fact economisists are probably much better than medical researchers.
A British medical researchers who did not understand statistics put hundreds of people in jail by giving (incorrect) evidence as an expert witness. The worst of them was Roy Meadow, a leading medical researcher who also invented Munchausan syndrome by proxy.
No one who has studied econometrics (which is part of any economics for financial economics degreee) would make such basic errors.
People get sent to jail for challenging the accuracy of the Holocaust figures, yet freedom of speech in invoked everytime someone gratuitousely insults the prophet Mohammed and his teachings.
But many of us do beleive in freedom of speech on both cases. I agree that German laws are wrong - but in my case I think they are wrong in banning holocaust denial. It is ludicrus to argue that because free speech is supressed in one case it should be supressed in others: that way we would have no free speech at all.
I do not believe that people have a right not to be offended: I find Piss Christ offensive, but I would never want it banned by law.
Firstly, the point is that end users might switch.
Secondly MS would much rather you use a pirated compy of Windows rather than e another OS. If people switch their monopoly weakens.
That is why MS only sue large scale pirates, and why they only sue in countries where people will not switch.
I live in a country where MS advertsises moderately heavilly, do a fair amount of PR, and have put money into localising Windows. No one here (even corporates) buys legit compies, except with a big brand PC.
MS could easilly get users to pay up. IBM now cracking down on Notes licensces, and there was a recent crackdown on DVD priating (I can not remember which studio though). Why do you think MS do not?
Currently, you're only allowed to vote for a single candidate in each race, which in a two-party system causes people to often vote for the "lesser of two evils." Once computers are responsible for counting all votes, people should be able to start saying "I really want to vote for X third party, but if X loses, I'd like to vote for Y major party instead."
You do not need computers to do this.
This type of voting (there are several types of transferable vote system) is used to elect the European Parliament, the Mayor of London, the Australian senate, the president of Sri Lanka, the Irish Parliament. I have voted in two of these on ballot papers that were obviously intended to be hand counted. Single transferable vote systems were also used Denmark, as well as in Tasmania, long before computers were invented.
He made $430 in a day from Dollar Revenue alone. It is only part of his revenues.
The article says:
"He's earning more than $430 in a single day with DollarRevenue, and that's not the only piece of adware he's installing. He's installing others and also renting his botnet out to spammers"
Because they cannot be bothered. I know people who are still running Windows 98. This is in a country where priated copies of Windows (and a lot else) are openly sold - not in obscure places but on every high street and in every shopping mall.
They have something like 70% profit margins, earn billions of dollars in pure profit every single quarter...yet they are considered a lackluster company and their reflects this perception.
Look at MS as an investor and you will see why.
The founder and chairman is stepping back from the full time for the first time since the company was founded. There seems to be a general lack of confidence in the CEO.
The next version of the flagship produce is several years late and has had several key features dropped from it.
The company is sitting on a large cash pile. Why? What are they planning to do with it? When companies keep cash piles they are usually doing one of preparing for bad times, planning a huge amount of (probably risky) expansion or big (again risky) acquisitions?
Look at the valuation ratios: they are actually fairly high for a company that already dominates its industry(which limits room for growth).
You seem to object to the idea that Wall Street values growth companies more. Would you pay are much for the shares of a high growth company as a similar low growth company?
Of course you may be right that Google's growth is being over-valued, but it does not need to keep up its growth of all that long (a few years will do) to justify the current rating.
Yes they will lsoe you but they will get a lot of other users instead.
If Mozilla are going to get beyong 10%, market share they have to get the bells and whistels. The vast majority of people use the app with the most features - look at how successful MS Office is.
Most non-geek firefox users use it because it has tabs, now IE is getting tabs, Firefox needs something new to stay ahead - and it has to be built in.
Due to the LGPL being used in most libraries, it is possible for a company to develop proprietary software on top of Linux.
yesm and without the LGPL there would be no Oracle, real player etc. fr Linux
For example, if Microsoft had a Linux distribution, they could create MS Office for Linux, which only runs on Microsoft Linux.
How? The MS versions of LGPLed libararies would still be FOSS so a version of MS Office that ran only on their libraries could still run on any distro.
That is partly because Holywood's business model has pushed up the cost of making films, but it is also because films are expensive to make.
What does make a lot of classical music quite instrinsically expensive to make (comapred to most other music) is the need for a full orchestra, so a lot of people's time is needed. The value of a good muscian's time is worth more than any insturment, even a Stradivarius (if you amortise the cost of the Stradivarius over all the performances it can be used for).
A more important point is that the cost is still low enough for business models other than pay per copy to work. I have some legit free downloads of classical music, and there is no reason there cannot be more., funded the same way.
With type of music that do not need large numbers of people alternative revenue models become even easier alternatives.
It may not be what the majority of users use it for, but it is what I use it for.
Given the relative sizes of a typical ISO and a typical MP£3 the liinux distors could still account for a fair chunk of bandwidth even if they are only of interest to a smaller group of people.
My goldfish show learned behaviours.
For example, they swim towards a person standing on the side of the pond on which we throw in food, but not on the other side.
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There is something badly wrong?
Are you sure your CDs are OK? IF you downloaded and burnt them yourself have youverified the checksum? I have done multiple linux installs (first Mandrake then Kubuntu on all the PCs on a small network) and upgrades and used several live CDs over the last six years and the only reason I have ever had a complete failure to boot was a bad CD.
I once took a Knoppix CD into work at and it worked on LOTS of PCs (lots of people wanted to try it and it got passed around). This was three years ago so hardware support should be much better now.
You may just be incredibly unlucky and hit on three combinations of hardware that Linux will not work on. I think the suggestion that you try some more live CDs (knoppix, slax or puppy) is sound, but please verify the burnt CDs, and perhaps try them in yet another PC if it still fails.
In my case:
Tsunnami:Many vivid memories of the day
9/11: I remeber watching it on TV and making a phone call to check if a friend in New York was OK.
Katrina: No memory at all.
This, of course, reflects how each of them affected, me and people I care about.
The Tsunnami affected lots of peeple I know - if we had not changed our plans I would have been on a road that was washed away by it - there was a fairly dramaitc picture of a hotel we were going to stay at on the BBC web site.
9/11 could have killed some friends and relatives, but the same goes for several other terrorist attacks. For me it was just a larger version of something I have seen many times before (at least this time I and me emmediate familly were not threatened).
Katrina is just another natural disaster in a far off country and while I am aware of it it makes no real emotional impact.
You reduce click fraud but pay more for your ads and narrow their distribution.
It also still leaves you exposed to click fraud from competitors who want to empty your Google ad budget - this is particularly nasty if it happens because it is targetted at the advertiser. It is also a lot harder for Google to do anything about.
Because the legal means have several shortcoming:
1) It requires lots of hard work and organisation
2) You have to convince other people and communicate with them
3) You have to be old enough to vote
4) It does not give you quite the same feeling that being an armchair commando does
Surely these are reasons enough for a large proportion of Slashdot readers?
Do you seriously expect either Slashdotters or the public at large to be rational and engage in hard thinking?
Sadly most people want bread and circuses. Their revolutionary fantasies are just part of the circus.
Most of the existing European telecoms regualtors have done a good job so far - there is nothing that needs fixing, this is just EU land grabbing for the sake of it.
A big European regulator is likely to listen more to industry lobbyists and less to consumers than the national regulators - look at the example of the European Comission, and the corruption in the EU bureaucracy.
If you spend a bit of time reading the site it is obvious that they are racist.
Their presentation may be more subtle than that of most hate groups (i.e. it is not evident on the front page) but read the rest of the site and it is obvious.
It is a hate site.
As for wether it should be blocked: I do not like censorship - I do not think anything should be blocked, but if you are going to censor hate sites, then makes no sense not to block this site.
I could not agree more. There is no end the the variations possible:
The commonest problem is that they insist on a state or a region as well as a city. In most countries this is not usual. I have never lived at any address that required a state or region.
I have also lived in a flat that did not have a street address: I had a flat number, the name of the building, and the name of the complex (which could be entered from several surrounding streets) and the city and post-code.
Finally in Britian it used to be considered correct to put England (or Scotalnd,Wales etc.) as the name of the country: this no longer seems to be the common practice but I prefer it.
I would not ever expect it to happen, but the world would be a better place without TV.
It definitely affects children - it also affects adults. It induces people to stay at home, effectively just killing time, instead of doing something real - even just socialising is a far more helathy way of spending your time. Even alternative non-social ways of using your time are far better - reading a book is a very different actvity from slumping in front of a TV.
A British medical researchers who did not understand statistics put hundreds of people in jail by giving (incorrect) evidence as an expert witness. The worst of them was Roy Meadow, a leading medical researcher who also invented Munchausan syndrome by proxy.
No one who has studied econometrics (which is part of any economics for financial economics degreee) would make such basic errors.
I know whose conclusions I would rather trust.
But many of us do beleive in freedom of speech on both cases. I agree that German laws are wrong - but in my case I think they are wrong in banning holocaust denial. It is ludicrus to argue that because free speech is supressed in one case it should be supressed in others: that way we would have no free speech at all.
I do not believe that people have a right not to be offended: I find Piss Christ offensive, but I would never want it banned by law.
If we are talking about helping familly and friends (as opposed to paid tech support) then a lot of us already are.
I end up helping people with computers anyway. I would much rather help them with Linux than with Windows: I find it easier.
I agree with you, particularly as these are people who are conning the buyers into thinking they are getting legit copies.
My point is that MS only cracks down on some pirates. I was also explaining to the AC why they do only crack down selectively.
Firstly, the point is that end users might switch.
Secondly MS would much rather you use a pirated compy of Windows rather than e another OS. If people switch their monopoly weakens.
That is why MS only sue large scale pirates, and why they only sue in countries where people will not switch.
I live in a country where MS advertsises moderately heavilly, do a fair amount of PR, and have put money into localising Windows. No one here (even corporates) buys legit compies, except with a big brand PC.
MS could easilly get users to pay up. IBM now cracking down on Notes licensces, and there was a recent crackdown on DVD priating (I can not remember which studio though). Why do you think MS do not?
You do not need computers to do this.
This type of voting (there are several types of transferable vote system) is used to elect the European Parliament, the Mayor of London, the Australian senate, the president of Sri Lanka, the Irish Parliament. I have voted in two of these on ballot papers that were obviously intended to be hand counted. Single transferable vote systems were also used Denmark, as well as in Tasmania, long before computers were invented.
He made $430 in a day from Dollar Revenue alone. It is only part of his revenues.
The article says:
"He's earning more than $430 in a single day with DollarRevenue, and that's not the only piece of adware he's installing. He's installing others and also renting his botnet out to spammers"
Can you please tell us on what OS you need to recompile the kernel on evey patch? I thought everything (including apps) auto-updated these days.
Because they cannot be bothered. I know people who are still running Windows 98. This is in a country where priated copies of Windows (and a lot else) are openly sold - not in obscure places but on every high street and in every shopping mall.
Look at MS as an investor and you will see why.
The founder and chairman is stepping back from the full time for the first time since the company was founded. There seems to be a general lack of confidence in the CEO.
The next version of the flagship produce is several years late and has had several key features dropped from it.
The company is sitting on a large cash pile. Why? What are they planning to do with it? When companies keep cash piles they are usually doing one of preparing for bad times, planning a huge amount of (probably risky) expansion or big (again risky) acquisitions?
Look at the valuation ratios: they are actually fairly high for a company that already dominates its industry(which limits room for growth).
You seem to object to the idea that Wall Street values growth companies more. Would you pay are much for the shares of a high growth company as a similar low growth company?
Of course you may be right that Google's growth is being over-valued, but it does not need to keep up its growth of all that long (a few years will do) to justify the current rating.
The last thing MS (or anyother proprietary software company) want is for anyone to read (or hear) the EULA.
If people knew what was in them they might object.
Yes they will lsoe you but they will get a lot of other users instead.
If Mozilla are going to get beyong 10%, market share they have to get the bells and whistels. The vast majority of people use the app with the most features - look at how successful MS Office is.
Most non-geek firefox users use it because it has tabs, now IE is getting tabs, Firefox needs something new to stay ahead - and it has to be built in.
yesm and without the LGPL there would be no Oracle, real player etc. fr Linux
For example, if Microsoft had a Linux distribution, they could create MS Office for Linux, which only runs on Microsoft Linux.
How? The MS versions of LGPLed libararies would still be FOSS so a version of MS Office that ran only on their libraries could still run on any distro.
It is still cheap to make compared with films.
That is partly because Holywood's business model has pushed up the cost of making films, but it is also because films are expensive to make.
What does make a lot of classical music quite instrinsically expensive to make (comapred to most other music) is the need for a full orchestra, so a lot of people's time is needed. The value of a good muscian's time is worth more than any insturment, even a Stradivarius (if you amortise the cost of the Stradivarius over all the performances it can be used for).
A more important point is that the cost is still low enough for business models other than pay per copy to work. I have some legit free downloads of classical music, and there is no reason there cannot be more., funded the same way.
With type of music that do not need large numbers of people alternative revenue models become even easier alternatives.
They are not just picking stocks.
They are being used to do things like:
Incidentally the article is pretty useless: it does not actually have very much specific content, does it?
It may not be what the majority of users use it for, but it is what I use it for. Given the relative sizes of a typical ISO and a typical MP£3 the liinux distors could still account for a fair chunk of bandwidth even if they are only of interest to a smaller group of people.
My goldfish show learned behaviours. For example, they swim towards a person standing on the side of the pond on which we throw in food, but not on the other side.