Pulseaudio worked fine for me on multiple PCs with several distros and versions. Some people have problems, so do not: is there any software (other than Tex) for which that is not true.
Linux Mint works, except for extremely buggy. I tried Mint XFCE (note XFCE is now supposed to be supported, not a community variant), filed bugs, asked questions in the forums, got sick of missing functionality and switched to Mandriva XFCE (which is a community edition and not officially supported) and went back to using my computers instead of configuring them.
Being able to use thin clients has a great deal of potential. In my experience it works brilliantly in a small office set up: you only need to admin one machine.
It is not used because most people are still so used to the Windows way of doing things that they do not try doing stuff on Linux that is radically different (yes, I know you can use Windows with thin clients, but my experience has been that it does not work well).
My interpretation of this is Ubuntu giving up on the desktop market to focus on netbooks and tablets where Wayland has noticeable advantages.
That is why most countries that have "loser pays" do it at the discretion of the judge. You might be awarded damages or damages plus costs. In the UK the court can be asked to "tax" the costs, which means the judge reviews the costs, and if they are too high decides what reasonable costs should be and that it all the loser pays.
In Britain at least people are more "risk-averse" - i.e. cowards. People tolerate less risk in every aspect of life: transport, bringing up children, crime, workplace safety, whatever.
Can you imagine Britain entering a war that would cost hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties again, however pressing the need or however good the cause?
Many of these tech companies (MS and Google at least, probably others) do not actually have significant operations in Ireland.
All they do is bill transactions through Ireland so that they pay tax at the low Irish tax rate. The way it works is that for example, they will license software developed in the US to the Irish subsidiary at a low rate. The Irish subsidiary re-licences it to the rest of the world at a high rate, and the profit is made in Ireland.
Note that the software development can be done in the US, or India, or where ever, so it does not create jobs, only tax revenues. The exports and the higher GDP are phantoms. The tax revenue is essentially a charge for providing a tax haven that is in the EU, and therefore less vulnerable to counter-measures than various Caribbean Islands and semi-detached bits of Britain are.
I have a eight year old and a two and a half year old, and partly agree (although I would tend to somewhat higher limits), but you should also consider that a lot of "soft" porn distorts people views of sex and the opposite sex.
As for the original question, my two and a half year old uses Gcompris by herself, including navigating between different games, The (about to be) eight year old Google's when she is doing her homework, watches videos on Youtube (she learned to sing Panis Angelicus by repeatedly watching a Youtube video), I have just started teaching her Logo (using Kturtle), she plays some games (I largely restrict her to strategy and puzzle game so its mostly chess, Batle for Wesnoth, and the like) and a lot more
The four year old can certainly manage Gcompris, and might manage some of the stuff I mentioned my older daughter uses - I must add Celestia, and Stellarium. On Linux there is KDE Edu and some other education meta packages, but it would be tedious to list everything in them, and I do not know how much of it is available for Windows.
As for the "kids should be outdoors crowd":
1) They can do both, and should not be forced outdoors if they prefer to be in 2) Slashdot is probably full of people who spent their childhoods with books, gadgets, etc. rather than outdoors 3) Its better to do something interactive with a computer than to passively watch TV which is the activity it is most likely to displace.
TCL does compile to byte code so interpreter is not entirely true - but that true of everything these days.
The language itself is very easy to learn, with a clean and consistent syntax. It does unicode right, it has a fast regular expression engine, it has a reliable sub-interpreter system for sandboxing untrusted code, its entirely cross-platform and it is very easy to create executables for multiple platforms, it has a helpful community and very very useful wiki, its easy to embed, and a lot more.
The disadvantages are a lack of libraries and things like web frameworks compared to, for example, Python.
They could work for almost any newspaper or broadcaster. Fact checking is something journalists used to do, these days its regarded as a waste of money that might spoil a good story.
This is very similar to a Tobin tax. It will not work for two reasons:
1) Financial transactions can easily move to another country 2) The large volume of transactions is partly because of lots of very low margin arbitrage trades that even a very small tax would render unprofitable.
The tax is not a bad idea, but it will never replace taxes on profit and income.
There are more serious examples of the ending of the right to trial by jury:
1) The home secretary has the power, at her sole discretion, to cancel the British citizenship of anyone with dual nationality, effectively sending them into exile, quite possibly permanently separating them from their family etc. 2) Police powers to detain people for questioning for far longer than was allowed in the past - effectively imprisonment without trial 3) Extensive powers to seize property for investigation, which can mean significant financial losses
Arch caters for a somewhat different user base. Most users do not need libraries and the like updated to the latest versions. Why not just have a good backports repo and enable it by default? I use Mandriva with backports enabled btw.
Firefox and its various add ons have taken most of their advances directly from Opera.
Opera does not offer the functionality of most of the add ons I use (unless the new version or its add ons have copied them). What are the OPera equivalents to No Script (no, the built in functionality is a lot less flexible, and does not deal with plugins well), Its All Text, Long URl Please, Taboo, Certificate Patrol or Tree Style Tabs?
Those are just some of of what I use. Are you seriously saying Opera can also match the hundreds of extensions I do not use (but other people do).
Yes, he probably is smarter than them. Most terrorists are pretty stupid: my favourite examples are the ones who tried to make bombs in Britain by filling cars with gas cylinders (what do Americans call cylinders of pressurised gaseous stuff?), soaking the cars in petrol (gas to Americans) and setting a timer to ignite the petrol.
The did try to drive one car into an airport building and it got stuck in the door because it was wider than the door.
OK, you cannot get a good bomb by exploding gas cylinders, because they fail by opening at one end and whizzing off. It takes minimal research to find that out, failure to do it is stupid. As for not realising that the doors were too narrow, how did they not realise that: "hey guys, a door meant for people is sure to be wide enough to drive through!".
That is true, but I would rather not use something that has contained vulnerabilities caused by a failure to follow basic good practice (I.e. incompetent developers).
Thanks for the tip about Certificate Patrol. I knew about the problem, but I did not know there was a solution.
In fact, watching for changes is probably more secure by itself then the current approach. I never worry about whether I an connecting to the right server over ssh.
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If your PC gets stolen or destroyed and you have a backup on an external hard drive that is stored safely off-site, how are you not protected?
"get by" does not equal "a good solution". I thought RDP was even slower than X over WANs?
Just so long as I do not have to resort to VNC again....
Pulseaudio worked fine for me on multiple PCs with several distros and versions. Some people have problems, so do not: is there any software (other than Tex) for which that is not true.
Linux Mint works, except for extremely buggy. I tried Mint XFCE (note XFCE is now supposed to be supported, not a community variant), filed bugs, asked questions in the forums, got sick of missing functionality and switched to Mandriva XFCE (which is a community edition and not officially supported) and went back to using my computers instead of configuring them.
Being able to use thin clients has a great deal of potential. In my experience it works brilliantly in a small office set up: you only need to admin one machine.
It is not used because most people are still so used to the Windows way of doing things that they do not try doing stuff on Linux that is radically different (yes, I know you can use Windows with thin clients, but my experience has been that it does not work well).
My interpretation of this is Ubuntu giving up on the desktop market to focus on netbooks and tablets where Wayland has noticeable advantages.
There is also Unity Linux
That is why most countries that have "loser pays" do it at the discretion of the judge. You might be awarded damages or damages plus costs. In the UK the court can be asked to "tax" the costs, which means the judge reviews the costs, and if they are too high decides what reasonable costs should be and that it all the loser pays.
In Britain at least people are more "risk-averse" - i.e. cowards. People tolerate less risk in every aspect of life: transport, bringing up children, crime, workplace safety, whatever.
Can you imagine Britain entering a war that would cost hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties again, however pressing the need or however good the cause?
Google pays a lower rate by funnelling profits though an Irish subsidiary.
You are not going to build a solid economy by continuing to be the world's biggest tax haven.
What's really interesting about that is that the lie has been told so well that people in Ireland still believe it.
Many of these tech companies (MS and Google at least, probably others) do not actually have significant operations in Ireland.
All they do is bill transactions through Ireland so that they pay tax at the low Irish tax rate. The way it works is that for example, they will license software developed in the US to the Irish subsidiary at a low rate. The Irish subsidiary re-licences it to the rest of the world at a high rate, and the profit is made in Ireland.
Note that the software development can be done in the US, or India, or where ever, so it does not create jobs, only tax revenues. The exports and the higher GDP are phantoms. The tax revenue is essentially a charge for providing a tax haven that is in the EU, and therefore less vulnerable to counter-measures than various Caribbean Islands and semi-detached bits of Britain are.
I have a eight year old and a two and a half year old, and partly agree (although I would tend to somewhat higher limits), but you should also consider that a lot of "soft" porn distorts people views of sex and the opposite sex.
As for the original question, my two and a half year old uses Gcompris by herself, including navigating between different games, The (about to be) eight year old Google's when she is doing her homework, watches videos on Youtube (she learned to sing Panis Angelicus by repeatedly watching a Youtube video), I have just started teaching her Logo (using Kturtle), she plays some games (I largely restrict her to strategy and puzzle game so its mostly chess, Batle for Wesnoth, and the like) and a lot more
The four year old can certainly manage Gcompris, and might manage some of the stuff I mentioned my older daughter uses - I must add Celestia, and Stellarium. On Linux there is KDE Edu and some other education meta packages, but it would be tedious to list everything in them, and I do not know how much of it is available for Windows.
As for the "kids should be outdoors crowd":
1) They can do both, and should not be forced outdoors if they prefer to be in
2) Slashdot is probably full of people who spent their childhoods with books, gadgets, etc. rather than outdoors
3) Its better to do something interactive with a computer than to passively watch TV which is the activity it is most likely to displace.
As for the
TCL does compile to byte code so interpreter is not entirely true - but that true of everything these days.
The language itself is very easy to learn, with a clean and consistent syntax. It does unicode right, it has a fast regular expression engine, it has a reliable sub-interpreter system for sandboxing untrusted code, its entirely cross-platform and it is very easy to create executables for multiple platforms, it has a helpful community and very very useful wiki, its easy to embed, and a lot more.
The disadvantages are a lack of libraries and things like web frameworks compared to, for example, Python.
They could work for almost any newspaper or broadcaster. Fact checking is something journalists used to do, these days its regarded as a waste of money that might spoil a good story.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with net neturality.
Net neutrality is about changing the regulation of consumer ISPs which are already regulated.
This is very similar to a Tobin tax. It will not work for two reasons:
1) Financial transactions can easily move to another country
2) The large volume of transactions is partly because of lots of very low margin arbitrage trades that even a very small tax would render unprofitable.
The tax is not a bad idea, but it will never replace taxes on profit and income.
I tend to be instinctively law abiding, but I think its very clear that if the law is sufficiently widely disregarded it will become unenforceable.
Listing counter examples is trolling? Opera fan boys have mod points today.
There are more serious examples of the ending of the right to trial by jury:
1) The home secretary has the power, at her sole discretion, to cancel the British citizenship of anyone with dual nationality, effectively sending them into exile, quite possibly permanently separating them from their family etc.
2) Police powers to detain people for questioning for far longer than was allowed in the past - effectively imprisonment without trial
3) Extensive powers to seize property for investigation, which can mean significant financial losses
Arch caters for a somewhat different user base. Most users do not need libraries and the like updated to the latest versions. Why not just have a good backports repo and enable it by default? I use Mandriva with backports enabled btw.
Firefox and its various add ons have taken most of their advances directly from Opera.
Opera does not offer the functionality of most of the add ons I use (unless the new version or its add ons have copied them). What are the OPera equivalents to No Script (no, the built in functionality is a lot less flexible, and does not deal with plugins well), Its All Text, Long URl Please, Taboo, Certificate Patrol or Tree Style Tabs?
Those are just some of of what I use. Are you seriously saying Opera can also match the hundreds of extensions I do not use (but other people do).
Yes, he probably is smarter than them. Most terrorists are pretty stupid: my favourite examples are the ones who tried to make bombs in Britain by filling cars with gas cylinders (what do Americans call cylinders of pressurised gaseous stuff?), soaking the cars in petrol (gas to Americans) and setting a timer to ignite the petrol.
The did try to drive one car into an airport building and it got stuck in the door because it was wider than the door.
OK, you cannot get a good bomb by exploding gas cylinders, because they fail by opening at one end and whizzing off. It takes minimal research to find that out, failure to do it is stupid. As for not realising that the doors were too narrow, how did they not realise that: "hey guys, a door meant for people is sure to be wide enough to drive through!".
That is true, but I would rather not use something that has contained vulnerabilities caused by a failure to follow basic good practice (I.e. incompetent developers).
Thanks for the tip about Certificate Patrol. I knew about the problem, but I did not know there was a solution.
In fact, watching for changes is probably more secure by itself then the current approach. I never worry about whether I an connecting to the right server over ssh.
If you fancy explaining the difference between a digital and analog to a Kuwaiti cop, go right ahead.