None of us could explain how for several millenia all educated folk have known the Earth was round based a few obvious things such as the way a ship disappears over the horizon
The reason why it seems that ship disappear over the horizon is that it really does disappear over the horizon. It falls off the edge!
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Actually that is not true. Darkness is there much sooner before the light comes. If you ever watched the country at sunrise you would see that light moves at slow pace of molten gold.
> Why is my Social Security number needed to purchase a cell phone and contract?
Because when the police comes to them and says: Tell us who called school XY with phone number ABC today at 12:34:56 with bomb threat, they want to answer that with unique identifier of person that owns the cell phone.
At least that is my understanding of reasoning. Yes, it is BS.
And of course, last but not least, the USA is pushing many other countries to implement intrusive laws similar to their own. And even in that way the USA legislation is reaching me.
Sounds like your goverment, or whatever countries you are refering too has some issues of their own. They get to make their own decisions you know?
So you think that my country does not have to bend over and mirror US laws, right? It would have no bad consequences other that we could not make business with USA. But who needs that? Right?
I'm throwing my mod points away just to say that, you, sir, are an idiot.
I'm late to this thread but anyway I'd like to recommend several books by Kir Bulychev. Wikipedia is carrying only article about Alice, Girl from the Future but there are several books about "Alice Seleznyova" which is a little girl coming back from future and finding friends in present while trying to hide her abilities that she brought from future from adults... Unfortunately it does not seem to be well known in English speaking world.
I suppose you'd like to only visit sites coded in HTML?
You mean the sites without annoying ads, sites with lots of content, sites that I can bookmark and still get to the same place in a week or month, sites that are fast on low bandwidth, sites written by people that know what they talk about, sites that are safe to browse, sites for which I don't need fancy plugins for multimedia, sites that are easy to navigate, sites that are easy to mirror,...
Let me think about it for a minute... Hell, YES, I want that back!
Just because you can it does not mean that you have to.
Perhaps in your country it is different, but here teachers can't take a few weeks of of in any other season. So they are forced to have holidays at the same time when the touristic season peaks. Would you love that too?
> In other words: That you compiled from source doesn't necessarily mean that advice was wrong,
I said "I provided sample code and error code returned by zlib". How on earth can a zlib error-code returned by zlib function be fixed with adding zlib headers to the system? (perhaps apart from updating buggy zlib with newer version)
Does it apply to "all" Linux distros? I have Debian/ARM on an old Jornada handheld. I can barely run X at all, and I doubt anyone's ever run Compiz on ARM.
That does not make the parent post any less spot on. Recently I asked on a forum about a programming problem with uncompressing gzipped data with zlib. I provided sample code and error code returned by zlib. The 1st answer was "do apt-get install zlib1g-dev". WTF?! I gave no reason to believe that I use a distro that has apt-get. Why would anybody assume that I'm missing development pacakages if I obviously can compile the code? Oh yes. It was an Ubuntu user.
Every now and then I read some HOWTO or tutorial and I'm disappointed seeing how the solution is provided only for one distro. All this "just emerge this", "rpm this" or "apt-get that". The good old days where the hints were given independent from distro seem to be gone. Shame on anybody contributing to that.
Is looking through a window with your eyes any different from using a camera on a pole. from a police helicopter of a blimp?
Yes. If you ask that cop whether he can remember the car that he checked 324 days ago at 4:15pm he will say "No, sorry". The system, to which the camera is attached, will say: "Sure, here you are. Do you also want to know where was this car seen on every other day since then?"
Tell me, oh mighty AC, why it is imperative that I know how to manually configure AD structure by hacking my way through a tool like ADSI Edit, when I can just use the standard Active Directory snap-ins?
Perhaps, because it is scriptable?
Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to know precisely how to edit various INI files and the system registry to change settings, when I can just click something in a GUI?
You don't. However why should I read all all options in the list - described by one incomplete line of text - to find one that I need, instead of doing a search in a text configuration file containing comments?
Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to write an incredibly long and painfully meticulous netsh command to allow something past my firewall when I can just click my way to network settings?
Why should I, as a Linux admin, have to write an incredibly long and painfully meticulous iptables command to allow something past my firewall when I can just click my way to network settings?
Do you understand the inner workings of a fuel injected turbo with dual over head cams - or do you have a general idea and just use it assuming safety from the manufacturer?
If the "fuel injected turbo with dual over head cams" fail, then I'm not dangerous to others. In worst case I won't be able to start up. However I do understand how breaks work. I know that I have to regularly check the level of breaking liquid. I know that I have to have the front and break lights and blinkers working. I know how they work and how to check that they work. And if I find out that they do not work, I know that I can't keep on driving.
Do you understand the inner workings/procedures and protocols that it takes to fly a commercial airliner from LA to NY - or do you have a general idea and just use the transports assuming those that be aren't putting your life at risk for a mere buck?
No I don't. However I do not fly (control) the commercial airliner. The crew does. The ground personel ensures that it is working. Again: by not knowing the internals of airliner I'm not dangerous to others.
Do you understand biology and the inner workings of your OWN BODY - or do you assume and rely on doctors and those in the medical profession to NOT kill you mistakenly for the treatment of a zit?
I don't know about you, but I had biology classes in school. I know that I should seek help if I suspect that something is wrong. Having a raised temperature is wrong; having aches is wrong; having bones sticking out of body is wrong -> seek help. But that is not important. Important is to know, that I should not wander on the bus station if I have infectious disease.
Yes, you should know enough about the system to not to be a threat others.
MS software is just about as bad, but at least they aren't prefixing every application with "K" on the front as a weak form of branding
Exactly. There is no Microsoft Office, Microsoft.Net, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft DirectX,...
My EEE PC is a small offshoot of Xandros 4, an offshoot of Debian. I want to run Ventrilo which has been made to work for Ubuntu
You missed the point of the parent post completely.
You want to run Application X that was built for OperatingSystemA and you wonder why it does not work with OperatingSystemB.
I might wonder why my LinuxApplicationX does not work on MS-Windows. In fact I might wonder why IIS works on Win2003 Server but does not work on WinXP Pro (hint:because the vendor puts roadblocks in it).
Since when do one country's laws apply anywhere outside their borders?
You may want to read some links others provided in this thread - but since we are geeks here, I'll point out another question: do you expect copyright of US software vendors to be respected outside of US borders?
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The reason why it seems that ship disappear over the horizon is that it really does disappear over the horizon. It falls off the edge!
Actually that is not true. Darkness is there much sooner before the light comes. If you ever watched the country at sunrise you would see that light moves at slow pace of molten gold.
Apologies to Terry Pratchett.
Because when the police comes to them and says: Tell us who called school XY with phone number ABC today at 12:34:56 with bomb threat, they want to answer that with unique identifier of person that owns the cell phone.
At least that is my understanding of reasoning. Yes, it is BS.
So you think that my country does not have to bend over and mirror US laws, right? It would have no bad consequences other that we could not make business with USA. But who needs that? Right?
I'm throwing my mod points away just to say that, you, sir, are an idiot.
I'm late to this thread but anyway I'd like to recommend several books by Kir Bulychev. Wikipedia is carrying only article about Alice, Girl from the Future but there are several books about "Alice Seleznyova" which is a little girl coming back from future and finding friends in present while trying to hide her abilities that she brought from future from adults ... Unfortunately it does not seem to be well known in English speaking world.
You mean the sites without annoying ads, sites with lots of content, sites that I can bookmark and still get to the same place in a week or month, sites that are fast on low bandwidth, sites written by people that know what they talk about, sites that are safe to browse, sites for which I don't need fancy plugins for multimedia, sites that are easy to navigate, sites that are easy to mirror, ...
Let me think about it for a minute ... Hell, YES, I want that back!
Just because you can it does not mean that you have to.
if only it were possible for people to filter content themselves.
Every now and then I read some HOWTO or tutorial and I'm disappointed seeing how the solution is provided only for one distro. All this "just emerge this", "rpm this" or "apt-get that". The good old days where the hints were given independent from distro seem to be gone. Shame on anybody contributing to that.
Yes, you should know enough about the system to not to be a threat others.
You mean, that bittorrent now filters the copyright notices out?
You missed the point of the parent post completely.
You want to run Application X that was built for OperatingSystemA and you wonder why it does not work with OperatingSystemB.
I might wonder why my LinuxApplicationX does not work on MS-Windows. In fact I might wonder why IIS works on Win2003 Server but does not work on WinXP Pro (hint:because the vendor puts roadblocks in it).
Fantastic reading. Thanks.
All right. What is the downside?