Just because you can, it does not mean you have to.
If someone is good at driking beer and not good at computers, then he should be drinking beer and leave the computers to someone else. If he has to work with computers, he should learn something about them.
Just like a worker has to learn how to work with saw-mill. He may use it also without that - all he needs is to push a big red button, right?
If you are on the back seat of car, who do you want to have driving. Someone that only knows breaks from gas, or a profesional driver?
Can you please enlighten me? Is there a way to stop spam before I download it? So that it is not wasting my bandwidth?
Yes there is: in world with no open relays you can get rid of spam. Unfortunatlly that's not going to happen in this universe anytime soon.
Got a simillar one:
After playing Doom for several hours till 3 a.m. I woke up too late in the morning. Rushing to bus stop where the bus was just about leave and I needed another 100 metres I told myself:
I should save it, in case I don't make it in time!
I want a computer that does what I told it to do. No more, no less.
He claims that a computer that can change its own goals might select weird goals and appear crazy.
For some reason, if the computer does something what I did not want it to do (such as indexing all files on my disk or hiding file extensions it 'thinks' I don't need or resolving some namespaces when I want just to display shares on another machine or...) it is usually an M$ Win machine.
If it does what I want it to do, it is my Slack.
What about un-installing parts that I don't want?
I believe that most people get mozilla with distro. Distro would be dumb to not include everything - so they get everything.
Some people would prefere to un-install parts they do not need.
You got in Informative?
I did some development of NT services, spooler modules and such, and I can tell you that this is not true. 1st it is difficult to kill process owned by SYSTEM account. If it is a service, you can stop it - if it is not hung. If it is a system process and it is hung/consuming much resources or is not a service, or is owned by not your account, it get's pretty resistant to such attempts. Sometimes you can attach by debugger and kill it - but not always. What works for me is Process explorer
Actually I remember this seeing in some shops over here many years ago. They sold credit-card-sizeed piece of transparent plastic made of thin concentric circles with varying refractive index.
Computer is a generic term. You could use dell, HP, or noname. You could use alpha or palm. And you still have a chance to run linux on that.
Somehow having Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/... available does not sound so much of a choice. They are all comming from one vendor. The vendor that forces HW manufacturers to sell for price that includes money for MS license even if you don't want that license. So which one you could call more free now?
For me it is ridiculous, that you want to use a tool zillion of times more complicated than a hammer in the same way as you use a hammer.
You don't need a manual to operate a hammer. However you should read the manual for a tool that can calculate your taxes, play music/video, animate Titanic, serve data in network, connect you to your bank, handle your schedule,...
I don't know how it is in your country, but when I buy a radio here, there is a manual included with big letters: Read the instructions before use! I don't have to read it. Also you don't have to learn everything about your tool. But 'ignoring the instructions may void varanty on this product'...
If a burning SW can write on any place on CD I don't see why another software could not read any place on CD. Sure it wont be as simple as reading a file, but IMO can be done.
>Well there's ODBC implementation #1, ODBC implementation #2, native database-specific API #1, etc. Well at least there's graphics right? OpenGL all the way...except when you need DirectX...or the framebuffer interface... And for GUI libraries, we have GTK+, Qt, FLTK, MFC, XUL, etc.
Right you are, sir. We should design a language with ultimate database access (UDC) and ultimate graphic library (UGL).
The nice things about standards is, that there is so many to choose from.
I think you are missing something like
info2html
utility.(try entering "info:gcc" in konqueror URL field)
AFAIK the searching of info/man pages in KDE was dropped in ago a year - unfortunatelly - and is waiting to be picked up again.
I don't want to sound harsh, but as responsible parent you should not trust that ".kdis.us" == "safe content". That would be just trying to 'script-out some of your responisbilities'.
Note that I did not say that you have to query with every HTTP query or every connect.
You know, I'm sitting behind 64kB ISDN line shared with several other people. I could live with downloading 1MB of server-names once a month. So could 99% of other people here that have ADSL/cable/...
As I said on some other place in this discussion - this throws away all existing, nice, kids-friendly servers (not mentioning the fact, that there is world outside of.us)
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If someone is good at driking beer and not good at computers, then he should be drinking beer and leave the computers to someone else. If he has to work with computers, he should learn something about them.
Just like a worker has to learn how to work with saw-mill. He may use it also without that - all he needs is to push a big red button, right?
If you are on the back seat of car, who do you want to have driving. Someone that only knows breaks from gas, or a profesional driver?
Can you please enlighten me? Is there a way to stop spam before I download it? So that it is not wasting my bandwidth?
Yes there is: in world with no open relays you can get rid of spam. Unfortunatlly that's not going to happen in this universe anytime soon.
Nobody was holding a gun on your head. Right? ;-)
OTOH, I haven't met an employer that is releasing SW only after it is finished
After playing Doom for several hours till 3 a.m. I woke up too late in the morning. Rushing to bus stop where the bus was just about leave and I needed another 100 metres I told myself:
I should save it, in case I don't make it in time!
He claims that a computer that can change its own goals might select weird goals and appear crazy.
For some reason, if the computer does something what I did not want it to do (such as indexing all files on my disk or hiding file extensions it 'thinks' I don't need or resolving some namespaces when I want just to display shares on another machine or ...) it is usually an M$ Win machine .
If it does what I want it to do, it is my Slack.
Food? Shelter?
Who cares!
What about un-installing parts that I don't want?
I believe that most people get mozilla with distro. Distro would be dumb to not include everything - so they get everything.
Some people would prefere to un-install parts they do not need.
Because there is only ~80 comments to this article 20 hours after posting?
On the other hand, US should give up using electricity, since that was not invented in US. That's about it.
You got in Informative?
I did some development of NT services, spooler modules and such, and I can tell you that this is not true. 1st it is difficult to kill process owned by SYSTEM account. If it is a service, you can stop it - if it is not hung. If it is a system process and it is hung/consuming much resources or is not a service, or is owned by not your account, it get's pretty resistant to such attempts. Sometimes you can attach by debugger and kill it - but not always. What works for me is Process explorer
I wonder whether they still exist somewhere.
By registering on Linux counter?
Somehow having Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/... available does not sound so much of a choice. They are all comming from one vendor. The vendor that forces HW manufacturers to sell for price that includes money for MS license even if you don't want that license. So which one you could call more free now?
I live in Central Europa and I don't see anything special happening here. Actually there are other parts of world I'd recomend to stay away from.
For me it is ridiculous, that you want to use a tool zillion of times more complicated than a hammer in the same way as you use a hammer.
You don't need a manual to operate a hammer. However you should read the manual for a tool that can calculate your taxes, play music/video, animate Titanic, serve data in network, connect you to your bank, handle your schedule, ...
I don't know how it is in your country, but when I buy a radio here, there is a manual included with big letters: Read the instructions before use! I don't have to read it. Also you don't have to learn everything about your tool. But 'ignoring the instructions may void varanty on this product' ...
If a burning SW can write on any place on CD I don't see why another software could not read any place on CD. Sure it wont be as simple as reading a file, but IMO can be done.
Could the image serve as copy protection scheme?
Check out SkyMap
Right you are, sir. We should design a language with ultimate database access (UDC) and ultimate graphic library (UGL).
The nice things about standards is, that there is so many to choose from.
You know, with the roundtrip of 75000 years, I don't really care.
AFAIK the searching of info/man pages in KDE was dropped in ago a year - unfortunatelly - and is waiting to be picked up again.
I don't want to sound harsh, but as responsible parent you should not trust that ".kdis.us" == "safe content".
That would be just trying to 'script-out some of your responisbilities'.
You know, I'm sitting behind 64kB ISDN line shared with several other people. I could live with downloading 1MB of server-names once a month. So could 99% of other people here that have ADSL/cable/...
As I said on some other place in this discussion - this throws away all existing, nice, kids-friendly servers (not mentioning the fact, that there is world outside of .us)