Can they really force you to join a homeowners association after you've bought a house? I've never heard of this kind of thing, but I imagine that you could fight it in court.
I think the problem stems from the fact that too many people view their now not only as a home, but also as a financial investment. They're worried that if you paint your garage door flourescent green, then you will bring down the value of their house. I can see their point of view, but a house should not be there just to make money. Buy a house that you like, not one that you think will gain the most value in 3 years so you can sell it and upgrade.
Just install SUSE or Mandriva with the new 3D Desktop. Put your windows on separate desktops. This way, you still have to switch between windows, but the 3D desktop makes it more fun.
Ah yes, but you can run VectorLinux, or Mandriva with Fluxbox/XFCE on a P2-266 with 512 MB of RAM. Even KDE wasn't that slow. Sure you can't play the latest games, but I never said I did. That's what I was running on for the last 7 years (RAM was upgraded, I think it was originally 64 MB running windows 98). Windows always ends up raising the processing requirement without any reason. Just look at the hardware requirements for Vista. Sure you can say look at the nice new Aero desktop, but then compare that to the 3D Compiz Window manager in Linux and look at the specs required for it.
Well, when I say same computer, I mean same Motherboard and Chip. I had replaced the video card, added a hard drive or two, some RAM, and a CD Burner and DVD drive onto the original. I don't really consider it the same computer if you replace the CPU an Motherboard. I hope my current CPU and motherboard combination last another 7 years. BTW, it's AMD64 3200.
Well, I recently (In June?) just bought a new computer after having my previous one for 7 years. If my current one lasts as long as my last one, I could very well be upgrading to the 80 core CPUs that Intel said would be ready in 5 years. If you buy something good with lots of room for expansion, and take good care of your computer, you shouldn't have to replace it every 2 years.
I took a parallel processing course in university, and can very much attest that it's a lot more difficult than programming single threaded programs. Because of that, it's also more interest, and therefore a lot more fun. I mean, you could spend your time doing the same tired old thing, but isn't it every geeks dream to experiment with new and different technologies.
I don't know what kind of jagged coins your country has, but I've never had problems with coins cutting holes in my pockets. I put coins in there because they don't fit well in a wallet. I had a change bag (no, it wasn't a purse, it was european) at one point. It worked a lot better than putting the change in my pocket or wallet. I misplaced it and never got another one.
because a user may not give their user account a strong password, because it's just a user account. They may not realize that their user account password is also (effectively) the password for root.
I think they stopped doing PPC releases at version 9. And now with all the Macs being Intel machines, I can't forsee anybody supporting PowerPC. Unless you go to a PPC specific distro like YellowDog, I don't think you're going to find a lot of distros that support PPC.
I found the exact opposite with SUSE. I recently tried SUSE 10.1, and after a new install, it wouldn't even update itself. And I couldn't even get the 3D drivers working with all I tried, and in Mandriva they just work by default. It looked really nice and polished, so much so that I really tried to get everything working, but there was just so many problems with things "Just Not Working" that I switched back to Mandriva. Now Mandriva has the 3D desktop too, and I have no reason to use SUSE.
But if there's room for it, then why not? It still all fits on a single DVD. If I have to download all the packages I want to install then it may take me ages to get the initial install done. Not everybody has a 5 Mbit connection. I'm on a 1Mbit connection, because it's fast enough for most stuff. But I don't want to have to download all the packages that I want to install.
I agree with the sibling. URPMI (and the graphical interface to it) make Mandriva the best newbie distro there is. I don't like messing around with any unnecessary stuff, so even though I'm no a newbie I still use it. Also, search for EasyURPMI and PLF. add those to you list of sources and you can get just about any application without having to worry about dependancies or compiling things. I've tried ubuntu, and I actually find it much harder to use than Mandriva.
But that's the way some of us like it. Why should I have to download and compile some.tar.gz files rather than just opening up the GUI, selecting the packages I want, and install. No need to worry about dependancies or weird compile errors.
Well, You can't get six axes, but you get six degree of freedom. Basically you need 6 axes to controller X,Y,Z translation and X,Y,Z rotation. I remember trying to play the original descent was quite hard becuase you had to control all 6 degrees of freedom, and most controllers only had at max 4 degrees of control.
I'm the same way, except with Mandriva. I've been using Mandriva since Version 7 (which came out in 2000, back when it was Mandrake). I find that all the other distros annoy me too much. With Gentoo it's the installation process. I know you just have to read through the installation docs, but it's 2006, and I don't feel like printing out the docs, and they're too hard to memorize. No other distro I've seen requires you to follow website instructions to install it. With other distros it's other stuff. I find that Mandriva has a straightforward installation process, and usually all the hardware is working right after you install it. Software is also braindead easy to install, either from the command line, or with their nice admin tools.
Yeah, I was looking for a new linux distro a few months back, and quickly turned away when visiting their front page yielded the most recent news as september 2005. I know they're probably spending all their time coding and therefore have no time to update their website, but I seriously thought they had stopped developing slackware because of the lack of news.
It really depends on how much you use the phone. I can go a week without charging if I don't talk at all on my low end cell phone. They've gotten pretty good at making these things take no power when they aren't doing anything. However, I find that if I talk for an hour, or use the "internet" on the bus ride home, then the phone dies in about 1 or 2 days. You can easily kill a phone in a day if you have 2 hours of communication.
Because it's possible to build a different firewall for OSX and use that. It's the same reason why they aren't complaining about Windows XP. Vista has made it impossible (without exploiting a hole that will probably be fixed) to run code at a low enough level such that it can be an effective firewall/viruscanner/anti-malware tool.
No, as someone else pointed out, the analogy only works if Napa is unable to make parts for other cars. The analogy doesn't work if parts are simply unneeded. To use your fast food reference, it's like saying if you eat at McDonald's you can only exercise by playing in their ball pit, and not anywhere else. MS has not made their OS impenetrable, they've made it impossible to tack on third party tools to protect against the bugs/holes/social-engineering-exploits that will inevitably be there.
McAfee and Symantec aren't complaining that MS made their OS really secure, and as such, have nothing left to protect against. What they are complaining about is that MS has made it impossible for any program to run at a low enough level (except MS programs of course) to be able to work effectively as an antivirus/antimalware application. They've made is so that it's impossible for anybody but MS to make a proper virus scanner. Well, they could make a tool that would get down to that level, but it would have to be through some security hole in the code, and MS would most likely patch it to prevent hackers from using it. So i think that Vista will be more insecure than ever, because MS will be the only ones able to provide security tools.
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Which looks nice in a park, but would look terrible in a backyard. Especially if every other house had one.
Can they really force you to join a homeowners association after you've bought a house? I've never heard of this kind of thing, but I imagine that you could fight it in court.
I think the problem stems from the fact that too many people view their now not only as a home, but also as a financial investment. They're worried that if you paint your garage door flourescent green, then you will bring down the value of their house. I can see their point of view, but a house should not be there just to make money. Buy a house that you like, not one that you think will gain the most value in 3 years so you can sell it and upgrade.
Just install SUSE or Mandriva with the new 3D Desktop. Put your windows on separate desktops. This way, you still have to switch between windows, but the 3D desktop makes it more fun.
Ah yes, but you can run VectorLinux, or Mandriva with Fluxbox/XFCE on a P2-266 with 512 MB of RAM. Even KDE wasn't that slow. Sure you can't play the latest games, but I never said I did. That's what I was running on for the last 7 years (RAM was upgraded, I think it was originally 64 MB running windows 98). Windows always ends up raising the processing requirement without any reason. Just look at the hardware requirements for Vista. Sure you can say look at the nice new Aero desktop, but then compare that to the 3D Compiz Window manager in Linux and look at the specs required for it.
Well, when I say same computer, I mean same Motherboard and Chip. I had replaced the video card, added a hard drive or two, some RAM, and a CD Burner and DVD drive onto the original. I don't really consider it the same computer if you replace the CPU an Motherboard. I hope my current CPU and motherboard combination last another 7 years. BTW, it's AMD64 3200.
Well, I recently (In June?) just bought a new computer after having my previous one for 7 years. If my current one lasts as long as my last one, I could very well be upgrading to the 80 core CPUs that Intel said would be ready in 5 years. If you buy something good with lots of room for expansion, and take good care of your computer, you shouldn't have to replace it every 2 years.
I took a parallel processing course in university, and can very much attest that it's a lot more difficult than programming single threaded programs. Because of that, it's also more interest, and therefore a lot more fun. I mean, you could spend your time doing the same tired old thing, but isn't it every geeks dream to experiment with new and different technologies.
I don't know what kind of jagged coins your country has, but I've never had problems with coins cutting holes in my pockets. I put coins in there because they don't fit well in a wallet. I had a change bag (no, it wasn't a purse, it was european) at one point. It worked a lot better than putting the change in my pocket or wallet. I misplaced it and never got another one.
because a user may not give their user account a strong password, because it's just a user account. They may not realize that their user account password is also (effectively) the password for root.
I think they stopped doing PPC releases at version 9. And now with all the Macs being Intel machines, I can't forsee anybody supporting PowerPC. Unless you go to a PPC specific distro like YellowDog, I don't think you're going to find a lot of distros that support PPC.
Mandriva's niche is also supposed to be user friendliness. What? you can't have 2 distros supporting the same niche?
I found the exact opposite with SUSE. I recently tried SUSE 10.1, and after a new install, it wouldn't even update itself. And I couldn't even get the 3D drivers working with all I tried, and in Mandriva they just work by default. It looked really nice and polished, so much so that I really tried to get everything working, but there was just so many problems with things "Just Not Working" that I switched back to Mandriva. Now Mandriva has the 3D desktop too, and I have no reason to use SUSE.
But if there's room for it, then why not? It still all fits on a single DVD. If I have to download all the packages I want to install then it may take me ages to get the initial install done. Not everybody has a 5 Mbit connection. I'm on a 1Mbit connection, because it's fast enough for most stuff. But I don't want to have to download all the packages that I want to install.
I agree with the sibling. URPMI (and the graphical interface to it) make Mandriva the best newbie distro there is. I don't like messing around with any unnecessary stuff, so even though I'm no a newbie I still use it. Also, search for EasyURPMI and PLF. add those to you list of sources and you can get just about any application without having to worry about dependancies or compiling things. I've tried ubuntu, and I actually find it much harder to use than Mandriva.
But that's the way some of us like it. Why should I have to download and compile some .tar.gz files rather than just opening up the GUI, selecting the packages I want, and install. No need to worry about dependancies or weird compile errors.
Well, You can't get six axes, but you get six degree of freedom. Basically you need 6 axes to controller X,Y,Z translation and X,Y,Z rotation. I remember trying to play the original descent was quite hard becuase you had to control all 6 degrees of freedom, and most controllers only had at max 4 degrees of control.
I'm the same way, except with Mandriva. I've been using Mandriva since Version 7 (which came out in 2000, back when it was Mandrake). I find that all the other distros annoy me too much. With Gentoo it's the installation process. I know you just have to read through the installation docs, but it's 2006, and I don't feel like printing out the docs, and they're too hard to memorize. No other distro I've seen requires you to follow website instructions to install it. With other distros it's other stuff. I find that Mandriva has a straightforward installation process, and usually all the hardware is working right after you install it. Software is also braindead easy to install, either from the command line, or with their nice admin tools.
Yeah, I was looking for a new linux distro a few months back, and quickly turned away when visiting their front page yielded the most recent news as september 2005. I know they're probably spending all their time coding and therefore have no time to update their website, but I seriously thought they had stopped developing slackware because of the lack of news.
It really depends on how much you use the phone. I can go a week without charging if I don't talk at all on my low end cell phone. They've gotten pretty good at making these things take no power when they aren't doing anything. However, I find that if I talk for an hour, or use the "internet" on the bus ride home, then the phone dies in about 1 or 2 days. You can easily kill a phone in a day if you have 2 hours of communication.
For anybody who doesn't know who Dmitry Sklyarov is (I know i didn't). Click on his name for a nice Wikipedia article.
Because it's possible to build a different firewall for OSX and use that. It's the same reason why they aren't complaining about Windows XP. Vista has made it impossible (without exploiting a hole that will probably be fixed) to run code at a low enough level such that it can be an effective firewall/viruscanner/anti-malware tool.
No, as someone else pointed out, the analogy only works if Napa is unable to make parts for other cars. The analogy doesn't work if parts are simply unneeded. To use your fast food reference, it's like saying if you eat at McDonald's you can only exercise by playing in their ball pit, and not anywhere else. MS has not made their OS impenetrable, they've made it impossible to tack on third party tools to protect against the bugs/holes/social-engineering-exploits that will inevitably be there.
How exactly does a language turn on you? I don't get the analogy.
McAfee and Symantec aren't complaining that MS made their OS really secure, and as such, have nothing left to protect against. What they are complaining about is that MS has made it impossible for any program to run at a low enough level (except MS programs of course) to be able to work effectively as an antivirus/antimalware application. They've made is so that it's impossible for anybody but MS to make a proper virus scanner. Well, they could make a tool that would get down to that level, but it would have to be through some security hole in the code, and MS would most likely patch it to prevent hackers from using it. So i think that Vista will be more insecure than ever, because MS will be the only ones able to provide security tools.