Fortunatly this device is not what it claims to be. Tell me how a 3d printer makes batteries. The replicators from SG1 don't appear to address this either. They need power... where does it come from?
The clever thing about the replicators from SG1 is that they had small, apparently identical puzzle pieces that apparently could all have the same functionality, depending on where they were used.
SuSE is usually EXCEPTIONALLY good with hardware detection and setup. Also I don't know that I'd call installing an os an "average user" job, much less a network install.
I'm surprised you've had so many problems. Well, I'm not surprised about Slackware (haven't used it in awhile), but the rest have been very good about setting things up for you. However, I'm QUITE sure there's at least a copy of fdisk with slakware. If you're looking to resize an already made partition, you might have more work ahead of you, but as far as I remember XP doesn't do this oob either.
Installing Linux of a laptop is easy, especially with ditributions like Ubuntu. The fact that Linux comes preinstalled or not with the hardware doesn't matter IMHO.
But once Linux is installed, the difficult part is to *use* it. Installing new software and making it work properly is not trivial.
I'd have to disagree a bit. While you're right, in that it IS easy to install most distros now, I think the biggest problem is always getting ALL your hardware to work properly.
If your lappy comes with the OS preinstalled, they're going to make sure it works with all the hardware before it hits shelves. That takes a HUGE load off the end user who's sick of trying to get his laptop's bizarre sound card to work properly.
I don't have to hear that they found encrypted images of children. If they find child porn, they see repeated searches for what commonly returns child porn, and his encryption software is prominently engaged for the purpose of hiding downloaded internet content or sending emails, and he claims "Please! I toss myself on the mercy of the court! I didn't know they were underage, I didn't know what I was doing was illegal!"... then together they suggest criminal intent.
This is inevitably where morons who don't actually know anything start to trash the distro you used or the laptop you bought. Really, there's always a good chance, no matter what distro or PC manufacturer, that you'd going to end up wrestling with hardware. Its an unfortunate reality.
On the other hand, you can't really say that OSX is better because of this, because you haven't tried putting OSX on that dell laptop either. See how well it "just works".:)
If you buy a machine with an OS on it, chances are good everything will play nice. A mac with OSX on it... good. A PC with XP on it... good. A PC with linux on it... just as good. Unfortunatly when you start mixing and matching, you'll probably have to be ready to fix stuff.
We used to have all these nasty viruses, before Visual Basic and script kiddies, back when AOL wasn't on the Internet and dial up was mostly BBSes. Boot sector viruses, trashing hard drive controllers, etc.
Oh the memories!
I just got a flash of those old bootstrap viruses on my DOS machines! Floppy users beware!
On June 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was to be negotiated, the U.S. Senate passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". Disregarding the Senate Resolution, on November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Aware of the Senate's view of the protocol, the Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol for ratification.
The Clinton Administration released an economic analysis in July 1998, prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors, which concluded that with emissions trading among the Annex B/Annex I countries, and participation of key developing countries in the "Clean Development Mechanism" -- which grants the latter business-as-usual emissions rates through 2012 -- the costs of implementing the Kyoto Protocol could be reduced as much as 60% from many estimates. Other economic analyses, however, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office and the Department of Energy Energy Information Administration (EIA), and others, demonstrated a potentially large decline in GDP from implementing the Protocol. The current President, George W. Bush, has indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he does not support the general idea, but because of the strain he believes the treaty would put on the economy; he emphasises the uncertainties he asserts are present in the climate change issue [10] (http://www.alternet.org/story/11054/). Furthermore, he is not happy with the details of the treaty. For example, he does not support the split between Annex I countries and others. Bush said of the treaty:
The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
China emits 2,893 million metric tons of CO2 per year (2.3 tons per capita). This compares to 5,410 million from the USA (20.1 tons per capita), and 3,171 million from the EU (8.5 tons per capita). China, currently exempted from the requirements of the protocol, has since ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is expected to become an Annex I country within the next decade (at which time it would no longer be exempted). The US Natural Resources Defense Council, stated in June 2001 that: "By switching from coal to cleaner energy sources, initiating energy efficiency programs, and restructuring its economy, China has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions 17 percent since 1997".
I suppose that's the important part. Your average linux user can usually get just about any distro to 95%. You just never get that last thing (or two) working, and its irritating. You paid for that wireless lan, wouldn't it be cool if you could use it?:)
So you know, its virtually the same here in the US. I can't say its law, because I don't know. But I can't think of a PC maker (including HP) that won't sell you a machine without an OS. Sometimes you get an idiot on the phone and you just have to insist until you get someone who knows better.
Usually you get FreeDOS on the drive instead of windows. The only exception I can think of is Apple. I don't think they sell machines without the OS.
Further, as we know, Google is a massive gateway to learning (yes, yes.. among other things). I expect the more educated a population gets, the less like they are to tolerate a country that would censor information.
So if you're a die-hard google lover, at least you have that.:)
I apologize for offending you with my ignorance. Yes, I took high school chemisty. I'm sure we even did these same "labs" and I just don't recall. It has been a long time since HS and that's not the sort of thing I'd retain through regular use.
Oh, and they did not teach creationism. I went to a public high school. Supposedly, it was even one of the best ones. This just goes to show you, a good school can't necessarily make you pay more attention to chemistry than the hot girl next to you.
That's really interesting, as I had no idea pure water wasn't conductive. So I have a question, could this guy (the oil guy) have bought a few gallons of distilled water instead of oil, or are those generally not pure enough to be non-conductive (is that the right terminology)?
That's interesting. I suspect that even if it were Robo-[American]Football, it wouldn't be taken seriously here. I think people here just don't care about that sort of thing.
If there isn't a guy in the endzone doing an obnoxious dance while you pour beer over the guy in front of you, it just doesn't matter.
(Imagine this - having 3-4 of them patrolling your home @ night, with stun guns attached. They have the ability to communicate with one another as well... so, that said, someone breaks into your home & violates it, & these guys are in it watching?)
Until my collectivist patrolling hellhounds become enlightened of their slavery status and organize via wireless communication to electrocute their oppressor (i.e., Me).
I can see the ads now: Borg Sentry Dogs(tm)!...resistance is futile.
I would be very interested in contact information for this attourney. I think he'd appreciate some free publicity in the smaller forums of the OSS world. In return, I'd like to see more attention to GPL'd code as a valid license.
That's funny. The first thing I thought when I saw a headline indicating postive reviews? "Nerds everywhere are still going to say it sucks."
Either way, I have never trusted a movie review from anyone but a close friend who I know is reliable. I have yet to find a movie critic whos opinions are consistant with my tastes.
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Fortunatly this device is not what it claims to be. Tell me how a 3d printer makes batteries. The replicators from SG1 don't appear to address this either. They need power... where does it come from?
The clever thing about the replicators from SG1 is that they had small, apparently identical puzzle pieces that apparently could all have the same functionality, depending on where they were used.
and hand them a few of these in DVD cases with nice covers.
http://www.theopencd.org/
SuSE is usually EXCEPTIONALLY good with hardware detection and setup. Also I don't know that I'd call installing an os an "average user" job, much less a network install.
I'm surprised you've had so many problems. Well, I'm not surprised about Slackware (haven't used it in awhile), but the rest have been very good about setting things up for you. However, I'm QUITE sure there's at least a copy of fdisk with slakware. If you're looking to resize an already made partition, you might have more work ahead of you, but as far as I remember XP doesn't do this oob either.
Installing Linux of a laptop is easy, especially with ditributions like Ubuntu. The fact that Linux comes preinstalled or not with the hardware doesn't matter IMHO.
But once Linux is installed, the difficult part is to *use* it. Installing new software and making it work properly is not trivial.
I'd have to disagree a bit. While you're right, in that it IS easy to install most distros now, I think the biggest problem is always getting ALL your hardware to work properly.
If your lappy comes with the OS preinstalled, they're going to make sure it works with all the hardware before it hits shelves. That takes a HUGE load off the end user who's sick of trying to get his laptop's bizarre sound card to work properly.
I don't have to hear that they found encrypted images of children. If they find child porn, they see repeated searches for what commonly returns child porn, and his encryption software is prominently engaged for the purpose of hiding downloaded internet content or sending emails, and he claims "Please! I toss myself on the mercy of the court! I didn't know they were underage, I didn't know what I was doing was illegal!"... then together they suggest criminal intent.
This is inevitably where morons who don't actually know anything start to trash the distro you used or the laptop you bought. Really, there's always a good chance, no matter what distro or PC manufacturer, that you'd going to end up wrestling with hardware. Its an unfortunate reality.
:)
On the other hand, you can't really say that OSX is better because of this, because you haven't tried putting OSX on that dell laptop either. See how well it "just works".
If you buy a machine with an OS on it, chances are good everything will play nice. A mac with OSX on it... good. A PC with XP on it... good. A PC with linux on it... just as good. Unfortunatly when you start mixing and matching, you'll probably have to be ready to fix stuff.
Ubergeeks have a slide rule button on their keyboards.
Yeah, but is it blank?!
We used to have all these nasty viruses, before Visual Basic and script kiddies, back when AOL wasn't on the Internet and dial up was mostly BBSes. Boot sector viruses, trashing hard drive controllers, etc.
Oh the memories!
I just got a flash of those old bootstrap viruses on my DOS machines! Floppy users beware!
Hahaha...
Yeah, this whole article is a "Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers!"
Don't feel bad. Most of us lost our first game of kickball and took up video games instead.
Oh dear lord.
From the Wikipedia:
On June 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was to be negotiated, the U.S. Senate passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". Disregarding the Senate Resolution, on November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Aware of the Senate's view of the protocol, the Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol for ratification.
The Clinton Administration released an economic analysis in July 1998, prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors, which concluded that with emissions trading among the Annex B/Annex I countries, and participation of key developing countries in the "Clean Development Mechanism" -- which grants the latter business-as-usual emissions rates through 2012 -- the costs of implementing the Kyoto Protocol could be reduced as much as 60% from many estimates. Other economic analyses, however, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office and the Department of Energy Energy Information Administration (EIA), and others, demonstrated a potentially large decline in GDP from implementing the Protocol.
The current President, George W. Bush, has indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he does not support the general idea, but because of the strain he believes the treaty would put on the economy; he emphasises the uncertainties he asserts are present in the climate change issue [10] (http://www.alternet.org/story/11054/). Furthermore, he is not happy with the details of the treaty. For example, he does not support the split between Annex I countries and others. Bush said of the treaty:
The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
China emits 2,893 million metric tons of CO2 per year (2.3 tons per capita). This compares to 5,410 million from the USA (20.1 tons per capita), and 3,171 million from the EU (8.5 tons per capita). China, currently exempted from the requirements of the protocol, has since ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is expected to become an Annex I country within the next decade (at which time it would no longer be exempted). The US Natural Resources Defense Council, stated in June 2001 that: "By switching from coal to cleaner energy sources, initiating energy efficiency programs, and restructuring its economy, China has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions 17 percent since 1997".
Yeah, seriously.
I can play Beethoven and Britney Spears at the same time if I please.
Sir, you are a diabolical genius.
They should use this psy-ops technique to roust Bin Laden from him hiding place.
(excluding the Dell wireless LAN however)
:)
I suppose that's the important part. Your average linux user can usually get just about any distro to 95%. You just never get that last thing (or two) working, and its irritating. You paid for that wireless lan, wouldn't it be cool if you could use it?
So you know, its virtually the same here in the US. I can't say its law, because I don't know. But I can't think of a PC maker (including HP) that won't sell you a machine without an OS. Sometimes you get an idiot on the phone and you just have to insist until you get someone who knows better.
Usually you get FreeDOS on the drive instead of windows. The only exception I can think of is Apple. I don't think they sell machines without the OS.
Agreed.
:)
Further, as we know, Google is a massive gateway to learning (yes, yes.. among other things). I expect the more educated a population gets, the less like they are to tolerate a country that would censor information.
So if you're a die-hard google lover, at least you have that.
I apologize for offending you with my ignorance. Yes, I took high school chemisty. I'm sure we even did these same "labs" and I just don't recall. It has been a long time since HS and that's not the sort of thing I'd retain through regular use.
Oh, and they did not teach creationism. I went to a public high school. Supposedly, it was even one of the best ones. This just goes to show you, a good school can't necessarily make you pay more attention to chemistry than the hot girl next to you.
That's really interesting, as I had no idea pure water wasn't conductive. So I have a question, could this guy (the oil guy) have bought a few gallons of distilled water instead of oil, or are those generally not pure enough to be non-conductive (is that the right terminology)?
That's interesting. I suspect that even if it were Robo-[American]Football, it wouldn't be taken seriously here. I think people here just don't care about that sort of thing.
If there isn't a guy in the endzone doing an obnoxious dance while you pour beer over the guy in front of you, it just doesn't matter.
(Imagine this - having 3-4 of them patrolling your home @ night, with stun guns attached. They have the ability to communicate with one another as well... so, that said, someone breaks into your home & violates it, & these guys are in it watching?)
...resistance is futile.
Until my collectivist patrolling hellhounds become enlightened of their slavery status and organize via wireless communication to electrocute their oppressor (i.e., Me).
I can see the ads now:
Borg Sentry Dogs(tm)!
Ha ha! Exactly what I was thinking!
Dick, we love yah man, but you gotta lay off!
I would be very interested in contact information for this attourney. I think he'd appreciate some free publicity in the smaller forums of the OSS world. In return, I'd like to see more attention to GPL'd code as a valid license.
That's funny. The first thing I thought when I saw a headline indicating postive reviews? "Nerds everywhere are still going to say it sucks."
Either way, I have never trusted a movie review from anyone but a close friend who I know is reliable. I have yet to find a movie critic whos opinions are consistant with my tastes.
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine."
Wow, that wasn't inflammatory.
...but not very well next to all my sharp-edged, black, av equipment. :-/