What is it exactly that makes deb packages better than RPMs? Do they contain all the dependancies in the package? or are the Repositories just better maintained? Things have changed a lot since 5 years ago, and installing and managing RPMs with a distro like Mandrake is a cinch.
Is that the one with the broken package manager? or was that 10.1? I gave up on Suse very fast after realizing this problem. A non-beta release should at least have working package manager and update application working after an install with the default options? What I want to know is, does this one finally have a 3D desktop?
According to Joel on software people don't sue you because you admit the mistake, people sue you because they are mad at you. If you admit the mistake and try to fix the problem, they aren't going to sue you. If you try to pretend there is no problem, then they will sue you. The article linked above is a very good read for anybody doing any kind of customer support, or working in the tech industry in general.
Also, what's hot today is not tomorrow (or 2 years from now). Just do something you enjoy, instead of what it seems everybody wants, or you will be in the situation of changing fields every 2 years, and having lots of breadth, but no depth.
You could remove the traffic lights in a lot of situations. If the cars knew where the other cars were, you wouldn't have to wait at a red light. You could still have crosswalks which would stop the cars so cyclists and pedestrians could cross, but you would get rid of a lot of useless traffic lights.
I've always thought the whole driverless car idea was crazy due to the liability issues. Right now when somebody gets in a car crash, most of the time it's blamed on human error, and the car company is not at fault. When the car company is found at fault (Firestone tires?) they end up paying through the nose and lose a lot of money. Once you start making driverless cars, every accident becomes the fault of the car company. Not just fatal crashes, but all the other little bumps and bangs that happen. What about black ice? What about kids darting in front of the car? All of a sudden you'll be able to sue the company for anything that happens, because you aren't in control, the car is.
If they would actually just put up the episodes, without requiring you to watch advertisements, with just advertisements on the sides, then I think they could catch some of the audience. If they make it easier than going to Youtube, then why shouldn't the people go to their site. If they provide a couple links to buy the DVDs and T-shirts, then i'm sure they'd make a few bucks.
That depends on your connection. I have high-speed light, and most of the time on bittorrent I get pretty slow downloads, usually around 20 KB/s because my upload is capped at 15 KB/s. However when I download from HTTP, FTP, and others, I get about 120 KB/s. Please notice that I'm using Kilobytes per second because that is the units used when these program report their speeds.
We got half price food whenever we wanted it. Whether we were working or not. We also got a paid break after 4 hours. However they often scheduled people for 3 or 3.5 hour shifts.
It's a good deal comparatively, but you're still getting ripped off. You'd be completely happy if you went to the grocery store and saw a loaf of bread for $50, just because everyone else is selling them for $100? You're still getting ripped off. I'd rather just not eat bread if that were the case. Just like I'd rather not use inkjet printers because of the high cost.
Won't this mean the ink is even wetter, and more likely to smudge than with regular slow inkjet printers. At least with slow printers the ink has some time to dry before it gets outside the printer.
That's still extremely expensive for such a small amount of in. You're looking at 40 cents per millilitre. Gas is only $1.00 per liter, and that's way more complex a substance than ink. They act like they are doing you a favour, but in reality are still ripping you off.
I completely agree. For the number of time I actually need color, I can just go down to the local print shop and have them print it out in better quality for less cost then I could do it for. If I want photos, i'll go to walmart or shoppers, or loblaws or blacks, or one of the 8 million other places that does digital prints. And for all my black and white needs, a laser printer does well. I can't think of a time that I've actually needed color prints at home. I mean, it's nice to have around, but it's totally not worth my time or money to upkeep an inkjet. And I still find color laser a little on the expensive side.
If you don't know what SAN stands for, then you probably aren't qualified to give advice on the subject. If I ask a question about something I'd rather only have people give answers they are qualified to give, rather than a bunch of people pulling ideas out of thin air.
In the same way, I have found myself downloading MP3's of music that I already own on CD because it is faster for me to download the music that I already have, than to go through my CD collection and rip all the music
I don't believe this one for a second. It takes about 10 minutes (maximum) and about 10 mouse clicks (maximum) to rip a CD with a program like GRIP or CDex. I seriously doubt that you could download the music with less effort than that. First you have to go to some website, or start up some p2p program. Then you have to search. Then you have to click on what you have found. Then you have to wait for it to download. Then you have to check if the download was actually the right thing, and that the quality doesn't suck. If it does you have to repeat the whole process. Where are you downloading your music from where it's easier to get than ripping.
I had some friends who had a professor who insisted on hand written papers. The logic behind it was that that they were less likely to copy of they had handwritten the paper. Most students just ended up writing the paper on the computer and then handwriting the final copy. The other consequence is that students were more likely to copy if they had to spend all this extra time writing out the paper by hand.
Lack of standards isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's easier to write your own protocol, then to write a standard protocol that could encompass all possible future uses. Working with things like EDI which attempt to standardize everything can make things more difficult than just working out at method that works for exactly what you need it to do.
The same option is available in the Mandriva install. Although you have to select the advanced option for it to show up. Encrypt your swap partition, along with your home partition, and you probably don't have to worry much about leaking your personal data. There's other stuff in the/tmp and/var folders that you may want to worry about, but not too much that I would worry about.
It has a better selection than most brick and mortar music stores. Oh wait, you want to listen to Britney Spears and other top 40 bands. Sorry they don't have that, but they do have a very good selection never the less.
This is my view exactly. If people really cared about the environment they would look for ways to drive less, not just drive a more efficient car. If you're driving hundreds of kilometers on your commute, then you aren't really doing much for the environment, regardless of which car you're driving. I ride the bus in the winter, and take my bike in the summer. It's a lot better for the environment. I wish more people would take a more active approach to saving the environment.
I don't think it would really cost that much to make an album. Most people wouldn't care about the quality if the music is good. Studio time is expensive, but if you priced your music cheaper according to the quality, you should be able to make pretty good money at it. Let's say you sell an albums worth of songs for $5. And lets say you sell them on the internet. Let's say you sell them online in MP3 format. Assuming you sell 10,000 copies, that's $50,000 in your pocket. Minus expenses, which if you record the music in your garage, and pay your monthly hosting fee of $7.95, then you've made quite a bit of money. And that's not even counting money made from performances.
Why are people so obsessed with Ubuntu? I've tried it out many times, and every time I'm disappointed. I like Mandriva much better. Using EasyURPMI you can install just about any application available for Linux at the click of a mouse. It's also dead easy to install and works with a wide variety of software. I really don't get what people see in Ubuntu. Please tell me what it is.
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What is it exactly that makes deb packages better than RPMs? Do they contain all the dependancies in the package? or are the Repositories just better maintained? Things have changed a lot since 5 years ago, and installing and managing RPMs with a distro like Mandrake is a cinch.
Is that the one with the broken package manager? or was that 10.1? I gave up on Suse very fast after realizing this problem. A non-beta release should at least have working package manager and update application working after an install with the default options? What I want to know is, does this one finally have a 3D desktop?
According to Joel on software people don't sue you because you admit the mistake, people sue you because they are mad at you. If you admit the mistake and try to fix the problem, they aren't going to sue you. If you try to pretend there is no problem, then they will sue you. The article linked above is a very good read for anybody doing any kind of customer support, or working in the tech industry in general.
Also, what's hot today is not tomorrow (or 2 years from now). Just do something you enjoy, instead of what it seems everybody wants, or you will be in the situation of changing fields every 2 years, and having lots of breadth, but no depth.
You could remove the traffic lights in a lot of situations. If the cars knew where the other cars were, you wouldn't have to wait at a red light. You could still have crosswalks which would stop the cars so cyclists and pedestrians could cross, but you would get rid of a lot of useless traffic lights.
I've always thought the whole driverless car idea was crazy due to the liability issues. Right now when somebody gets in a car crash, most of the time it's blamed on human error, and the car company is not at fault. When the car company is found at fault (Firestone tires?) they end up paying through the nose and lose a lot of money. Once you start making driverless cars, every accident becomes the fault of the car company. Not just fatal crashes, but all the other little bumps and bangs that happen. What about black ice? What about kids darting in front of the car? All of a sudden you'll be able to sue the company for anything that happens, because you aren't in control, the car is.
If they would actually just put up the episodes, without requiring you to watch advertisements, with just advertisements on the sides, then I think they could catch some of the audience. If they make it easier than going to Youtube, then why shouldn't the people go to their site. If they provide a couple links to buy the DVDs and T-shirts, then i'm sure they'd make a few bucks.
CD's aren't good enough, but Rhapsody is? Please explain.
That depends on your connection. I have high-speed light, and most of the time on bittorrent I get pretty slow downloads, usually around 20 KB/s because my upload is capped at 15 KB/s. However when I download from HTTP, FTP, and others, I get about 120 KB/s. Please notice that I'm using Kilobytes per second because that is the units used when these program report their speeds.
We got half price food whenever we wanted it. Whether we were working or not. We also got a paid break after 4 hours. However they often scheduled people for 3 or 3.5 hour shifts.
But that's impossible, because Wal-Mart is the most evil corporation ever, they could never do anything good. :P
It's a good deal comparatively, but you're still getting ripped off. You'd be completely happy if you went to the grocery store and saw a loaf of bread for $50, just because everyone else is selling them for $100? You're still getting ripped off. I'd rather just not eat bread if that were the case. Just like I'd rather not use inkjet printers because of the high cost.
Won't this mean the ink is even wetter, and more likely to smudge than with regular slow inkjet printers. At least with slow printers the ink has some time to dry before it gets outside the printer.
That's still extremely expensive for such a small amount of in. You're looking at 40 cents per millilitre. Gas is only $1.00 per liter, and that's way more complex a substance than ink. They act like they are doing you a favour, but in reality are still ripping you off.
I completely agree. For the number of time I actually need color, I can just go down to the local print shop and have them print it out in better quality for less cost then I could do it for. If I want photos, i'll go to walmart or shoppers, or loblaws or blacks, or one of the 8 million other places that does digital prints. And for all my black and white needs, a laser printer does well. I can't think of a time that I've actually needed color prints at home. I mean, it's nice to have around, but it's totally not worth my time or money to upkeep an inkjet. And I still find color laser a little on the expensive side.
If you don't know what SAN stands for, then you probably aren't qualified to give advice on the subject. If I ask a question about something I'd rather only have people give answers they are qualified to give, rather than a bunch of people pulling ideas out of thin air.
I had some friends who had a professor who insisted on hand written papers. The logic behind it was that that they were less likely to copy of they had handwritten the paper. Most students just ended up writing the paper on the computer and then handwriting the final copy. The other consequence is that students were more likely to copy if they had to spend all this extra time writing out the paper by hand.
Lack of standards isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's easier to write your own protocol, then to write a standard protocol that could encompass all possible future uses. Working with things like EDI which attempt to standardize everything can make things more difficult than just working out at method that works for exactly what you need it to do.
Easy, Just ensure that you're home partition is encrypted.
The same option is available in the Mandriva install. Although you have to select the advanced option for it to show up. Encrypt your swap partition, along with your home partition, and you probably don't have to worry much about leaking your personal data. There's other stuff in the /tmp and /var folders that you may want to worry about, but not too much that I would worry about.
It has a better selection than most brick and mortar music stores. Oh wait, you want to listen to Britney Spears and other top 40 bands. Sorry they don't have that, but they do have a very good selection never the less.
This is my view exactly. If people really cared about the environment they would look for ways to drive less, not just drive a more efficient car. If you're driving hundreds of kilometers on your commute, then you aren't really doing much for the environment, regardless of which car you're driving. I ride the bus in the winter, and take my bike in the summer. It's a lot better for the environment. I wish more people would take a more active approach to saving the environment.
I don't think it would really cost that much to make an album. Most people wouldn't care about the quality if the music is good. Studio time is expensive, but if you priced your music cheaper according to the quality, you should be able to make pretty good money at it. Let's say you sell an albums worth of songs for $5. And lets say you sell them on the internet. Let's say you sell them online in MP3 format. Assuming you sell 10,000 copies, that's $50,000 in your pocket. Minus expenses, which if you record the music in your garage, and pay your monthly hosting fee of $7.95, then you've made quite a bit of money. And that's not even counting money made from performances.
Why are people so obsessed with Ubuntu? I've tried it out many times, and every time I'm disappointed. I like Mandriva much better. Using EasyURPMI you can install just about any application available for Linux at the click of a mouse. It's also dead easy to install and works with a wide variety of software. I really don't get what people see in Ubuntu. Please tell me what it is.