No, i think it's fair to call this an Ubuntu problem, i mean 80% of the stories about linux these days are simply titled "Ubuntu" when they would apply to any distro at all. It's only a natural progression to start calling your computer and all the parts therein an Ubuntu:)
or you could like, you know, log in from a pda across the mobile/some wifi network and do some damage control without having to move your fat ass out of maccas, but whatever floats your boat
Eventually, humanity will be living out in space, and we will be better and richer for it.
There's no evidence for the former, so the latter is essentially non-sequitur are you saying that it's very unlikely that someone will plant a horribly inefficient biodome on the moon and live in it? seems pretty likely to me. i'd give it 20 years, possibly less.
Not quite, bugger all people would know who radiohead are without the previous marketing by record labels. In the future it may be possible to sell millions just on the back of good works, but now it is very difficult indeed. The music industry is designed this way.
my movie playing pc is running on 196 mb and xubuntu, runs ok. if anything i'd say the processor is a bit slow for movies though, my last attempt at a tv box was a 466 and i couldn't get it to play movies without choppyness, even when i went back to win95 with the fastest codecs i could find (admittedly with this config it was *almost* there).
Yeah, i see what you're saying, it's impossible to use less electricity so why bother trying! there's no point using fluorescent lights, cause that power will be sucked up by my tv anyway! there's no point getting an efficient car cause some fucking soccer mom is driving an suv! and so on.
nah, they just pulled a bait and switch where you can just use your own mp3s or swap across to their stuff for the convenience of the itunes store thing. i don't really think that's anywhere the same level.
No, you absolutely can, as long as you didn't, for example, hide a camera in their house to do it. As long as they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy the photographer has full rights over the photo.
Except the laws for this kind of thing are different in australia, here, you don't need the subject's consent to use an image, you just need the copyright holder's permission, which in this case would be the photographer. I'd say they did indeed fuck up, but it's probably an honest mistake.
Eh, the fishing was the only part of that game i didn't like, it wasn't because i wasn't killing stuff (i really enjoy puzzle games etc) it was because it was just plain pointless.... cast jiggle repeat till some random fish jumped on my lure. All i could do was just keep looking at the clock, disbelieving the amount of time they expected me to keep trying to catch a freaking fish (i think i finished it in about 15 min).
I don't see how morality can be separated from law, since law is basically a list of what's supposedly moral by general society's standards, and the penalty a judgement of just how immoral breaking a particular law is.
A good question is: is it immoral to break the law, i'm guessing you would say yes, in my opinion it is not, as long as what you are doing is not a bad thing. Admittedly bad people use this excuse as to do bad things that fit in to their view of morality, but i don't think that really makes my point of view any worse, me agreeing with you that breaking the law is immoral would not magically stop people doing bad things.
I'm not going to put myself through years of pointless effort just so i could, for example, smoke drugs. There are a lot of bad laws, and i will not obey them if i do not think they are just. The government can apply their enforced morality if they catch me.
Erm, if you're gonna spend 4 years developing a game i don't think, relatively speaking, it's that time consuming to find a couple of alternatives to directX libraries. The only thing holding back more linux support for games is market share, and the only thing holding back market share is lack of support from game devs.
Yeah, and i don't think an extra linux binary is really a good example of bloat.
a few reasons:
On windows, it's a lot easier to keep your drives defragmented if you keep your rapidly changing data away from your more permanent data.
If your drive dies/gets corrupted, it's really helpful if it only happens to one partition rather than the whole drive (I've had 1 partion die on a multi partition drive die like 3 times since i started using PCs)
It's handy to be able to format and reinstall your OS without having to move all your data off of that hd, i have a bunch of semi-important data like movies and stuff that don't matter enough to backup but i don't want to lose for no reason
dual booting
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No, i think it's fair to call this an Ubuntu problem, i mean 80% of the stories about linux these days are simply titled "Ubuntu" when they would apply to any distro at all. It's only a natural progression to start calling your computer and all the parts therein an Ubuntu :)
It's not a tablet.
or you could like, you know, log in from a pda across the mobile/some wifi network and do some damage control without having to move your fat ass out of maccas, but whatever floats your boat
apple have pretty much done this already, it's only available up to 24 inch though
Not quite, bugger all people would know who radiohead are without the previous marketing by record labels. In the future it may be possible to sell millions just on the back of good works, but now it is very difficult indeed. The music industry is designed this way.
i did it and it worked ok. try doing it right next time. (fyi i'm a total linux noob)
Sorry about him, i think we just got internet access in our asylums or something.
my movie playing pc is running on 196 mb and xubuntu, runs ok. if anything i'd say the processor is a bit slow for movies though, my last attempt at a tv box was a 466 and i couldn't get it to play movies without choppyness, even when i went back to win95 with the fastest codecs i could find (admittedly with this config it was *almost* there).
If they wanted people to go online with it they should have put a fucking ethernet jack on it. sorry, just bitter, my wireless router sucks.
Yeah, i see what you're saying, it's impossible to use less electricity so why bother trying! there's no point using fluorescent lights, cause that power will be sucked up by my tv anyway! there's no point getting an efficient car cause some fucking soccer mom is driving an suv! and so on.
You. You are a wild crow tool.
why, how many do you want?
nah, they just pulled a bait and switch where you can just use your own mp3s or swap across to their stuff for the convenience of the itunes store thing. i don't really think that's anywhere the same level.
That's pretty uncommon actually, as there's only like 4 major chipsets for sound. what chipset is it?
No, you absolutely can, as long as you didn't, for example, hide a camera in their house to do it. As long as they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy the photographer has full rights over the photo.
Except the laws for this kind of thing are different in australia, here, you don't need the subject's consent to use an image, you just need the copyright holder's permission, which in this case would be the photographer. I'd say they did indeed fuck up, but it's probably an honest mistake.
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Eh, the fishing was the only part of that game i didn't like, it wasn't because i wasn't killing stuff (i really enjoy puzzle games etc) it was because it was just plain pointless.... cast jiggle repeat till some random fish jumped on my lure. All i could do was just keep looking at the clock, disbelieving the amount of time they expected me to keep trying to catch a freaking fish (i think i finished it in about 15 min).
I hear they actually had a linux version on one of the beta cds, so yeah, i'd say supporting it was the only thing holding them back.
I don't see how morality can be separated from law, since law is basically a list of what's supposedly moral by general society's standards, and the penalty a judgement of just how immoral breaking a particular law is.
A good question is: is it immoral to break the law, i'm guessing you would say yes, in my opinion it is not, as long as what you are doing is not a bad thing. Admittedly bad people use this excuse as to do bad things that fit in to their view of morality, but i don't think that really makes my point of view any worse, me agreeing with you that breaking the law is immoral would not magically stop people doing bad things.
I'm not going to put myself through years of pointless effort just so i could, for example, smoke drugs. There are a lot of bad laws, and i will not obey them if i do not think they are just. The government can apply their enforced morality if they catch me.
Erm, I'm pretty sure people mainly use that phrase to troll grammar Nazis, but whatever.
Erm, if you're gonna spend 4 years developing a game i don't think, relatively speaking, it's that time consuming to find a couple of alternatives to directX libraries. The only thing holding back more linux support for games is market share, and the only thing holding back market share is lack of support from game devs.
Yeah, and i don't think an extra linux binary is really a good example of bloat.
They're onto that one, isps are probably going to be required to offer content filters here in aus shortly.
a few reasons:
On windows, it's a lot easier to keep your drives defragmented if you keep your rapidly changing data away from your more permanent data.
If your drive dies/gets corrupted, it's really helpful if it only happens to one partition rather than the whole drive (I've had 1 partion die on a multi partition drive die like 3 times since i started using PCs)
It's handy to be able to format and reinstall your OS without having to move all your data off of that hd, i have a bunch of semi-important data like movies and stuff that don't matter enough to backup but i don't want to lose for no reason
dual booting