The main problem on GNU/Linux distros is difficulty in app installations. I know Windows isn't the best method and they leave registry crap and all that. But on average, apps are easier to install on Windows.
Sure,./configure, make, make install isn't hard. For those that know. Rpms can be easy some times. But there are tons of problems that can occur. I've never used Debian and apt-get so I can't comment on that. Maybe that solves everything. I've only used Redhat and Mandrake (been using Linux dual boot with Windows for 3 years).
I want to update a windows program, it's usually easy. I want to update KDE, xine or some other software and it usually takes me a lot more work. And please, agree to a place to hold files./usr/share,/usr/local, etc. With this consortium, (though Redhat seems to be not involved) hopefully the guys can come together and set standards and ease the process.
I think the KDE UI is better than XP and the Mac. With so many countries getting involved, hopefully many apps will come. Linux already has most of the stuff home users want (except big games). They just need an easy way to install and update them. That's it.
I'm so damn tired of people that not only criticize the music but insult the people that listen to the music. As though tastes are so objective and the listeners are just sheep being led astray or their music tastes are inferior. Oh please.
I don't listen to opera and barely any classical music but I'm not going to call those people that do elitists. Maybe some are, maybe some aren't. I'm not going to label those that like alternative, grunge, metal, or whatever, sheep that follow the anti-establishment crowd. Sure there's that element for some, but don't belittle the people because you don't like the music.
I listen to music that I like. Be it country, rap, pop or whatever. I don't know what genres there are since there are so many crossovers. Some music I like just for the lyrics. There are many reasons to like a particular song or type of music. And I might like different ones when I'm in different moods. How the hell does that make me or anyone else sheep?
There's nothing wrong with liking some of Britney's song today or ten years from now. I'm sure there were those back then that said similar things about Elvis and Zepplin. They were wrong. You are too. Hopefully you'll continue to grow and realize that.
The quality of stations that only play and repeat the Top 40 is a separate issue. They should play more types of music and get over the whole damn genre thing. Contrary to many on slashdot, I like a lot of stuff out there. Different strokes for different folks.
In many CS departments across the nation, foreigners come here to study. Many look for jobs here while some look for jobs back home. Wouldn't it be interesting that with education improvement around the world that Americans might have to go to India to look for jobs? Like others have said, your wages would still be way above average, so it might not be as bad as people on slashdot seem to be predicting.
There is a bad habit in the world of blaming the victim. Yet, there are steps the victim can take to prevent such occurances. And often, they aren't blameless.
If a person goes around having sex without protection and they get an STD, they're a victim, but it's mostly self-inflicted. If a person married for years gets an STD because their spouse cheated on them and then they transmitted the disease, they're a victim to a different degree.
There are users that forget to save their documents and they lose them. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Sure, if you get hit with a virus or tricked by a trojan, the creator and propagator of such software is to blame. But if you get hit again and again and you're warned and told what to do and you don't, then you can't go blameless.
Microsoft Critical Notification does a good job of what it's supposed to do. People too often turn it off or when they get a notice, such as most Anti-Virus notifies users if the virus definition files are getting old to update, they delay it for another two weeks or a month, again and again.
How many times does a person have to be a victim before we admit that they're being irresponsible and therefore are partly to blame for their misfortunes? The Xupitor thing seems different enough from others in the past, so I'll give most people the benefit of the doubt. But too often, the users and bad sysadmins are partly to blame.
Instead of complaining about the "harsh" sentence for the cracker, complain about the lenient sentence on some criminals. And I don't necessarily care to always differentiate between violent and non-violent criminals. Have we not yet learned that words can hurt people and damage them more than sticks some times? Have we not yet learned the chaos that can be ensued by greedy CEOs that commite white-collar crimes?
Should it be illegal for businesses to have poor security for their buildings?
Breaking and entering (in the physical and electronic world) is already a crime. Only a police state regulates the actions of potential victims of crimes to "protect" them.
If a gun shop left the place unprotected and criminals were able to take the guns easily and use it for a crime, to what degree should they be held accountable?
Most crimes on the internet do no involve death, they can/do cause huge financial, emotional, pyschological problems. They can also help set up communication methods for terrirists.
The government might be going overboard again, but they have some legitimate reasons.
I agree to an extent. I will share information with my children (whenver I get any) and any feelings I have on the topics and my reasons for so. But it's important for the child to have the right context to do thinking. Children do not gain good reasoning skills until around 12. Prior to that, whatever events they view and experience must be put in some context to help them understand and cope with life. Good parents help children learn to think and/or put some context in some issues/subjects/events. There are enough bad parents out there that "safe sites" are beneficial for the children. And parents still have the capability of allowing their kids to view anything at home and not censoring anything.
Exactly! Granted, neurons only fire or don't fire every 1ms, but because of the massive parallelism, the overall computation is better than 1KHz or 1000Khz.
People replied to this parent's post about how they were catching balls before knowing calculus. Yes, and insects fly without knowing physics of flying and bees perform incredible behavior with 10,000 or so ganglion cells.
But the thing is, through neural networks, the brain learns to do mapping (function approximation, pattern recognition, etc) incredibly well. Somehow, through evolution, our brain has a system of learning and approximating so much.
The main thing is, it has never been important for humans (or any species) to learn how the body functions for its survival. So, while our mind doesn't know what or how our internal body parts are functioning, it doesn't mean the they're not doing what is academically difficult for most people.
Retrieving a 3D image from 2D images is an NP problem, as is the traveling salesman problem. But humans see and perceive depth, recognize faces, etc incredibly quick and ants find optimal solutions to network flow optimization problems. Of course the ant doesn't what its doing or how, but that doesn't take away from the fact it's actually doing it.
May be legal. But in my mind, definitely not ethical.
If this was done to teach the people a lesson (which as far as I know, it wasn't), then it could be considered ethical. However, unfortunately, many humans only learn after something bad happens to them or from a mistake. So, it might be to their benefit if they get screwed if it does minimal damage but helps them in the long run. Morality, legality, and good consequences are a funny mix.
US can grant or deny those freedoms to non-US citizens as they wish if they're on US soil. Non-US citizens are guaranteed basic rights, but even that's sketchy. There's no real concrete laws about this (IANAL), and the executive branch does whatever suits them and the public allows.
This isn't these stores taking "responsibility", its them acknowledging that the parents who can't police their children properly will shove their responsibility (that of the parents) onto the store. The fact is, if parents were able to actually take care of their children, it wouldn't matter if hard-core pornography was shelved next to Barney cartoons - the kids wouldn't ever actually get access. My parents made it quite clear whenever I was not to be doing something, and when I went behind their backs I was inevitably punished. More importantly, they explained their reasons for each edict, and as a result I respected their decisions as my parents instead of resenting them blindly. Thats the lesson the stores are teaching parents: if you dont take care of your kids, we'll do it for you. Thats plain fucking lazy.
Walmart and the other stores are doing this for their image, plain and simple. It's a business move and they don't want to lose any conservative customers. The fact they'll carry rated-R movies that contain tons of violence, sexual dialogue or nudity and not this game seems ridiculous.
However, I would applaud any company that did such an action based upon principle (and was consistent with their actions). The fact is, most people don't have good parents. We're fortunate. So what should happen to the many kids out there without good parents? The rest of society (businesses, government, other community members) MUST raise them properly. It's our obligation to society and the kids. We need to try to educate and improve the parents, but the kids (and society) will be the ones to suffer if the rest of society doesn't take up the slack.
Walmart isn't sending any message to the parents because the bad parents don't even know what's going on or care. They're not going to learn any lesson here from this. In this case, I disagree with Walmart, but I agree in the principle of raising others' children and preserving an image of yourself.
Actually China hasn't "assimilated" any country since... a couple of hundred years. Tibet has been part of China for centuries.
yeah, and that's why china had to use an army to convince Tibet and the Dalai Lama is currently in exile. Because Tibet was already a province of China. And even though Tibet was already a province of China, the Dalai Lama wrote letters to Great Britain, the U.S. and others asking for help during that "non-invasion".
The take-over of Tibet, the destruction of the culture and society and trying to position their own as the next Dalai Lama and the lack of interest by the international community is a downright travesty. China's actions on Tibet, in my opinion, is one of the worst actions they've committed in that past century, if not the worst.
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There are plenty of smart asses out there. Don't diss them just cuz you think you're superior :)
The main problem on GNU/Linux distros is difficulty in app installations. I know Windows isn't the best method and they leave registry crap and all that. But on average, apps are easier to install on Windows.
./configure, make, make install isn't hard. For those that know. Rpms can be easy some times. But there are tons of problems that can occur. I've never used Debian and apt-get so I can't comment on that. Maybe that solves everything. I've only used Redhat and Mandrake (been using Linux dual boot with Windows for 3 years).
/usr/share, /usr/local, etc. With this consortium, (though Redhat seems to be not involved) hopefully the guys can come together and set standards and ease the process.
Sure,
I want to update a windows program, it's usually easy. I want to update KDE, xine or some other software and it usually takes me a lot more work. And please, agree to a place to hold files.
I think the KDE UI is better than XP and the Mac. With so many countries getting involved, hopefully many apps will come. Linux already has most of the stuff home users want (except big games). They just need an easy way to install and update them. That's it.
I'm so damn tired of people that not only criticize the music but insult the people that listen to the music. As though tastes are so objective and the listeners are just sheep being led astray or their music tastes are inferior. Oh please.
I don't listen to opera and barely any classical music but I'm not going to call those people that do elitists. Maybe some are, maybe some aren't. I'm not going to label those that like alternative, grunge, metal, or whatever, sheep that follow the anti-establishment crowd. Sure there's that element for some, but don't belittle the people because you don't like the music.
I listen to music that I like. Be it country, rap, pop or whatever. I don't know what genres there are since there are so many crossovers. Some music I like just for the lyrics. There are many reasons to like a particular song or type of music. And I might like different ones when I'm in different moods. How the hell does that make me or anyone else sheep?
There's nothing wrong with liking some of Britney's song today or ten years from now. I'm sure there were those back then that said similar things about Elvis and Zepplin. They were wrong. You are too. Hopefully you'll continue to grow and realize that.
The quality of stations that only play and repeat the Top 40 is a separate issue. They should play more types of music and get over the whole damn genre thing. Contrary to many on slashdot, I like a lot of stuff out there. Different strokes for different folks.
In many CS departments across the nation, foreigners come here to study. Many look for jobs here while some look for jobs back home. Wouldn't it be interesting that with education improvement around the world that Americans might have to go to India to look for jobs? Like others have said, your wages would still be way above average, so it might not be as bad as people on slashdot seem to be predicting.
There is a bad habit in the world of blaming the victim. Yet, there are steps the victim can take to prevent such occurances. And often, they aren't blameless.
If a person goes around having sex without protection and they get an STD, they're a victim, but it's mostly self-inflicted. If a person married for years gets an STD because their spouse cheated on them and then they transmitted the disease, they're a victim to a different degree.
There are users that forget to save their documents and they lose them. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Sure, if you get hit with a virus or tricked by a trojan, the creator and propagator of such software is to blame. But if you get hit again and again and you're warned and told what to do and you don't, then you can't go blameless.
Microsoft Critical Notification does a good job of what it's supposed to do. People too often turn it off or when they get a notice, such as most Anti-Virus notifies users if the virus definition files are getting old to update, they delay it for another two weeks or a month, again and again.
How many times does a person have to be a victim before we admit that they're being irresponsible and therefore are partly to blame for their misfortunes? The Xupitor thing seems different enough from others in the past, so I'll give most people the benefit of the doubt. But too often, the users and bad sysadmins are partly to blame.
That would suck though being in a war.
Do you die of starvation or lacking ammunition to win the battle?
Instead of complaining about the "harsh" sentence for the cracker, complain about the lenient sentence on some criminals. And I don't necessarily care to always differentiate between violent and non-violent criminals. Have we not yet learned that words can hurt people and damage them more than sticks some times? Have we not yet learned the chaos that can be ensued by greedy CEOs that commite white-collar crimes?
Should it be illegal for businesses to have poor security for their buildings? Breaking and entering (in the physical and electronic world) is already a crime. Only a police state regulates the actions of potential victims of crimes to "protect" them.
If a gun shop left the place unprotected and criminals were able to take the guns easily and use it for a crime, to what degree should they be held accountable?
Most crimes on the internet do no involve death, they can/do cause huge financial, emotional, pyschological problems. They can also help set up communication methods for terrirists.
The government might be going overboard again, but they have some legitimate reasons.
Opinion subject to change with new information.
I agree to an extent. I will share information with my children (whenver I get any) and any feelings I have on the topics and my reasons for so. But it's important for the child to have the right context to do thinking. Children do not gain good reasoning skills until around 12. Prior to that, whatever events they view and experience must be put in some context to help them understand and cope with life. Good parents help children learn to think and/or put some context in some issues/subjects/events. There are enough bad parents out there that "safe sites" are beneficial for the children. And parents still have the capability of allowing their kids to view anything at home and not censoring anything.
thumbs up to paranoia, you've come a long way.
next stop....every...
Oh no. it's already everywhere. Everyone's already infected. what do I do?
Exactly! Granted, neurons only fire or don't fire every 1ms, but because of the massive parallelism, the overall computation is better than 1KHz or 1000Khz. People replied to this parent's post about how they were catching balls before knowing calculus. Yes, and insects fly without knowing physics of flying and bees perform incredible behavior with 10,000 or so ganglion cells. But the thing is, through neural networks, the brain learns to do mapping (function approximation, pattern recognition, etc) incredibly well. Somehow, through evolution, our brain has a system of learning and approximating so much. The main thing is, it has never been important for humans (or any species) to learn how the body functions for its survival. So, while our mind doesn't know what or how our internal body parts are functioning, it doesn't mean the they're not doing what is academically difficult for most people. Retrieving a 3D image from 2D images is an NP problem, as is the traveling salesman problem. But humans see and perceive depth, recognize faces, etc incredibly quick and ants find optimal solutions to network flow optimization problems. Of course the ant doesn't what its doing or how, but that doesn't take away from the fact it's actually doing it.
If this was done to teach the people a lesson (which as far as I know, it wasn't), then it could be considered ethical. However, unfortunately, many humans only learn after something bad happens to them or from a mistake. So, it might be to their benefit if they get screwed if it does minimal damage but helps them in the long run. Morality, legality, and good consequences are a funny mix.
Just because you have a collection of porn of a particular girl does not make her your girlfriend.
US can grant or deny those freedoms to non-US citizens as they wish if they're on US soil. Non-US citizens are guaranteed basic rights, but even that's sketchy. There's no real concrete laws about this (IANAL), and the executive branch does whatever suits them and the public allows.
Walmart and the other stores are doing this for their image, plain and simple. It's a business move and they don't want to lose any conservative customers. The fact they'll carry rated-R movies that contain tons of violence, sexual dialogue or nudity and not this game seems ridiculous.
However, I would applaud any company that did such an action based upon principle (and was consistent with their actions). The fact is, most people don't have good parents. We're fortunate. So what should happen to the many kids out there without good parents? The rest of society (businesses, government, other community members) MUST raise them properly. It's our obligation to society and the kids. We need to try to educate and improve the parents, but the kids (and society) will be the ones to suffer if the rest of society doesn't take up the slack.
Walmart isn't sending any message to the parents because the bad parents don't even know what's going on or care. They're not going to learn any lesson here from this. In this case, I disagree with Walmart, but I agree in the principle of raising others' children and preserving an image of yourself.
yeah, and that's why china had to use an army to convince Tibet and the Dalai Lama is currently in exile. Because Tibet was already a province of China. And even though Tibet was already a province of China, the Dalai Lama wrote letters to Great Britain, the U.S. and others asking for help during that "non-invasion".
The take-over of Tibet, the destruction of the culture and society and trying to position their own as the next Dalai Lama and the lack of interest by the international community is a downright travesty. China's actions on Tibet, in my opinion, is one of the worst actions they've committed in that past century, if not the worst.