if we were to get rid of useless people like you around the planet, then maybe we can save enough money to help africa with food and other basic needs.....
We already have plenty, too much in fact. We're just too busy crying over tens of people who've died in a one-off event and can't be brought back to care for the thousands who die daily and can be saved in the future.
Me sitting in front of my computer being sympathetic does nothing to help anyone. Politics can stop this situation getting worse, and it can stop things like this happening again. Given the choice between being emotional and getting nothing done, or being "cold" and saving future lives, I'd go for the latter.
AFAIK BT can fall back to HTTP in the event of there being no seeds available (at least that's what I understand the "HTTP Seed" option to mean -- I've never tried it myself)
People've had this idea for ages (hell, I had it myself a couple of times, along with the idea of an apache auto-torrent module (which exists, but development has halted)); the problem is that implementation is likely to be long and boring, and most open source coders do so for fun.
BT still basically works behind NAT, it just takes twice as long to get it's first few connections (unless *everyone* in the swarm is NATted, which is improbable)
And all the other platform independent languages (perl, python)... but then when all your apps are from other OSes and the only thing that makes your OS different is the kernel (which you can't see), what's the point?
My little sister begs to differ:-/ She went from peeking over my shoulder and seeing ubuntu to running it in preference to windows in a couple of days, precisely because she finds things easier. My mother also finds it on a par with windows, and she's of the tech level where she has to ask "which button" when I say "click"...
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
No, I'm saying "System menu -> Install programs -> Tick the checbox next to the program you want" is easier than going out and looking for (either buying or downloading) software, going through a several click install, and often (in the case of downloads) having a messed up system because of it (spyware / adware / badly written VB kiddie-ware / etc) -- with ubuntu's repositories you know that everything has been checked for that sort of stuff.
So what (non-niche, ie for use by a typical non-tech user) packages need compiling? I've been running Ubuntu for the past year or so and I've never needed to compile anything...
I downloaded marmalade boy because it had a funny name (I'd never heard of it; I was expecting it to be ass, and was just planning to kill a few spare minutes). Immediately after reading the fansubbed version, I went out and spent £40 on the paperbacks. I'd like to see someone explain how a jump from never hearing of something (£0) to buying the whole series (£40) was bad for the industry:P
That seems to be time between licencing and release, not time between airing in japan and release (which is what's important when most fansubbers release the week after airing, and stop when licenced). Admittedly it's time since licence which shows how fast the dubbing etc is, but it's time since airing that matters to the fans.
Original japanese voices, in 99.9999999% of the cases, are vastly superior to the american dubbed versions.
According to some japanese friends, quite a lot of the time they actually suck nearly as badly as the american versions; it's just not so obvious because you can't understand them:)
But yeah, it seems that 90% of voices are played by about 5 voice actors; having *every* teenage girl sound exactly the same (ie, annoying / whiney) really gets on my nerves...
We already have short GETs -- add a firefox bookmark with a %s in the url, give it a keyword, then see as you can type "keyword arg" into the address bar and have it expanded. Now we just need web services to come up with sensible arg names~
Not if it's done properly -- much like encryption algorythms, so long as there aren't any loopholes then being open about it is neutral at worst and could possibly have some benefits.
Desktop 250, server 150, router 100 -- all my hardware bar a couple of sticks of RAM and a hard drive have been salvaged from things other people were throwing away - the desktop and server are "Designed for windows 95", and the router predates PS/2 mice. The server and router are debian stable (sarge), the desktop is ubuntu unstable. The only things I can't do are recent games and large mpeg4 videos~
I used to have a 500mhz AMD-k6 II, but the 250MHz pentium is actually noticably faster. My current theory is that it's because the K6 had 32k(?) cache and the pentium has 512
I also think I have a 2GHz box, but I don't know as I can't get it to boot (LEDs and fans go on, but no BIOS beeps or other visible activity:( )
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How does clicking on a web page bring infection? Surely the browser shouldn't execute anything directly like a spyware installer?
We already have plenty, too much in fact. We're just too busy crying over tens of people who've died in a one-off event and can't be brought back to care for the thousands who die daily and can be saved in the future.
Me sitting in front of my computer being sympathetic does nothing to help anyone. Politics can stop this situation getting worse, and it can stop things like this happening again. Given the choice between being emotional and getting nothing done, or being "cold" and saving future lives, I'd go for the latter.
AFAIK BT can fall back to HTTP in the event of there being no seeds available (at least that's what I understand the "HTTP Seed" option to mean -- I've never tried it myself)
People've had this idea for ages (hell, I had it myself a couple of times, along with the idea of an apache auto-torrent module (which exists, but development has halted)); the problem is that implementation is likely to be long and boring, and most open source coders do so for fun.
BT still basically works behind NAT, it just takes twice as long to get it's first few connections (unless *everyone* in the swarm is NATted, which is improbable)
And all the other platform independent languages (perl, python)... but then when all your apps are from other OSes and the only thing that makes your OS different is the kernel (which you can't see), what's the point?
My little sister begs to differ :-/ She went from peeking over my shoulder and seeing ubuntu to running it in preference to windows in a couple of days, precisely because she finds things easier. My mother also finds it on a par with windows, and she's of the tech level where she has to ask "which button" when I say "click"...
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
No, I'm saying "System menu -> Install programs -> Tick the checbox next to the program you want" is easier than going out and looking for (either buying or downloading) software, going through a several click install, and often (in the case of downloads) having a messed up system because of it (spyware / adware / badly written VB kiddie-ware / etc) -- with ubuntu's repositories you know that everything has been checked for that sort of stuff.
- Ubuntu -- plug it in, it works
- Windows XP -- plug it in, ~1/20th of the time the drive randomly gets corrupted and locks up any app using it (including scandisk).
After plugging back into ubuntu and running fsck.vfat, it detects a load of errors but corrects them and it works again in both OSes.So what (non-niche, ie for use by a typical non-tech user) packages need compiling? I've been running Ubuntu for the past year or so and I've never needed to compile anything...
I downloaded marmalade boy because it had a funny name (I'd never heard of it; I was expecting it to be ass, and was just planning to kill a few spare minutes). Immediately after reading the fansubbed version, I went out and spent £40 on the paperbacks. I'd like to see someone explain how a jump from never hearing of something (£0) to buying the whole series (£40) was bad for the industry :P
That seems to be time between licencing and release, not time between airing in japan and release (which is what's important when most fansubbers release the week after airing, and stop when licenced). Admittedly it's time since licence which shows how fast the dubbing etc is, but it's time since airing that matters to the fans.
According to some japanese friends, quite a lot of the time they actually suck nearly as badly as the american versions; it's just not so obvious because you can't understand them :)
But yeah, it seems that 90% of voices are played by about 5 voice actors; having *every* teenage girl sound exactly the same (ie, annoying / whiney) really gets on my nerves...
2. Perform some consolidation and express the output in html.
Why not PHP? I've found java works better as a back end, with PHP front
No change there then...</militant atheist flamebait>
A little offtopic, but who gets to decide these things, to prevent clashes? What's their purpose anyway?
Ctrl-alt-[numpad + or -]?
We already have short GETs -- add a firefox bookmark with a %s in the url, give it a keyword, then see as you can type "keyword arg" into the address bar and have it expanded. Now we just need web services to come up with sensible arg names~
But is it still illegal to break the protection without permission?
Not if it's done properly -- much like encryption algorythms, so long as there aren't any loopholes then being open about it is neutral at worst and could possibly have some benefits.
I used to have a 500mhz AMD-k6 II, but the 250MHz pentium is actually noticably faster. My current theory is that it's because the K6 had 32k(?) cache and the pentium has 512
I also think I have a 2GHz box, but I don't know as I can't get it to boot (LEDs and fans go on, but no BIOS beeps or other visible activity :( )
My desktop, server and router are 500MHz put together... I'm going to go to a corner and cry now :(
No, I think he's responsible for xscreensaver :P
Are you the core (sole?) developer of a base app included in every desktop distro?
Xorg cut & pasted xfree, then replaced "xfree" with "xorg". How many more bugs could there be in this "changed" system?