It hardly seems fair to say it has NTFS support when what it really means is it can use NTFS read-only. Like Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandrake, and God only knows how many other distros.
I intentionally implied Republicans aren't the type to be librarians... The fact that they're stupid I didn't allude to earlier, but am saying right out now.:)
"VIS-A-VIS!!! CONCORDANTLY!!!" -Will Ferrell as the Architect
Especially considering three of the four letters stand for the same words, and as such what you're really saying is "America starts with the same letter as Australia", I'll agree that it's not much of a coincidence.:)
Are you honestly advocating jail for these people based on statistical analysis?
"Sir, your employees voted for the Democrats at a level one standard deviation higher than those businesses around you. You have the right to remain silent..."
"But this is a library..."
Seriously, though... Where do you draw the line? One standard deviation? Two? What do you use as your reference? Locale? Job? The whole country? Bah! Useless!
P.S. I'm jealous of the fact that you seem to keep getting instantly modded up.:P
First of all, just in case you didn't notice, I still said I'm in favour of it.:)
Second, it wouldn't be at all easy to show that someone was messing with it. Say in your hypothetical that the boss doesn't ever say anything about it, but only ever lays off people who vote the other way. Then when questioned, all the voters could honestly say that they voted with the boss and that he didn't intimidate them.
Lastly, you're probably right that the present system is worse, hence my original statement in favour of publishing votes.
The only real issue with that is that you run the risk of people getting "punished" for their vote.
My personal opinion, however, is that those who aren't prepared to stand for their vote might as well not get one anyway though. "I'm for freedom, as long as I don't have to do anything."
Hey, as long we're rearranging the voting system, can anyone explain to me why preferential voting (http://www.ctl.ua.edu/math103/Voting/4popular.htm ) hasn't happened yet? The method of pairwise comparisons, in particular seems to completely eliminate the problem of splitting the vote.
However, as it stands, being a left-winger, the best thing I can do for my political party is to create a new right wing party. So let's cut tax to corporations, hang all abortion doctors and customers, pray in schools and congress, and vote gid13 in '04!
Maybe this is the result of growing up in Canada, but when I first read the article title, I thought THAT was the group they were worried about offending. The racial implications didn't even enter my mind. I wonder if that's good or bad.
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that the tech industry jobs in India pay more than sweatshop jobs.
In any case, it seems to me that an interesting solution would be for "wealthy" countries to impose minimum wages on companies that do business in their country but employ people in other countries. E.g., if Nike had to pay its African workers, say, half of the U.S. minimum wage, or else be forbidden from doing any business at all in the States.
That way, Americans would be less freaked out about losing their jobs to foreigners because it wouldn't happen so much, and the sweatshop employees that remained would actually be getting a significant level of monetary help.
Of course, I have a suspicion that Indian tech workers make more than U.S. minimum wage, and as far as I can see, there isn't too much that can be done about that given American ideals. In particular, capitalism is supposed to promote efficiency by rewarding people who do things cheaper. And if Indians provide better tech value, it seems to me that it's the American way to farm out those jobs.
I have to agree... As a relative newbie to Linux, and after having tried RH8, Mandrake 9, Vectorlinux, (Knoppix and a couple other live cds if they count) and Gentoo, Gentoo is the only one that makes software installation anything other than a nightmare.
Admittedly, it has its problems (takes forever to compile some things, is fairly difficult to install the OS in the first place), but as far as I'm concerned, Gentoo has the best shot at taking on something like Windows. All it needs is a good GUI front-end for portage (I know they exist, but it needs one by default), and an easy installer. And it would really help if they made that framebuffer thing part of the default install. Gorgeous!
Actually, it's really hard to get Firebird to work with torrents, because their mime type handling is awful currently. But still, it'd be nice to have, I think.
Although this was silly of me in a certain sense, I originally interpreted "download options include bittorrent and..." to mean that the web browser in this release would include a bittorrent client. And then the obvious occurred to me that they just meant you could use torrents to download the iso. But really... It would be VERY nice to have an integrated torrent client. Mozilla Firebird people, are you listening? Just because you're the best browser around doesn't mean you shouldn't implement this.:)
Mozilla Firebird has an extremely simple but extremely useful plugin (oh, "extension", whatever) called "flash click to view"... It is exactly what it says; every time you load a web page with flash content, it doesn't play until you click it... The ads are gone, and on those rare occasions when I find flash I want to see, it's easy.
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From the article: "about $47,000 was taken from Nevada slot machines. Harris kept about $15,000 of that total for himself"
From the article: "The only reason, truly, that we were able to catch Mr. Harris was because he was greedy."
I'm trying to be healthier, so I'm experimenting with a new diet: I'm eating nothing but vegans.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
It hardly seems fair to say it has NTFS support when what it really means is it can use NTFS read-only. Like Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandrake, and God only knows how many other distros.
I intentionally implied Republicans aren't the type to be librarians... The fact that they're stupid I didn't allude to earlier, but am saying right out now. :)
"VIS-A-VIS!!! CONCORDANTLY!!!"
-Will Ferrell as the Architect
Especially considering three of the four letters stand for the same words, and as such what you're really saying is "America starts with the same letter as Australia", I'll agree that it's not much of a coincidence. :)
Preach on, brother. I couldn't agree more. :)
I'd mod you but I have no points (am pointless?) and as such have to go with this crappy post instead.
Are you honestly advocating jail for these people based on statistical analysis?
:P
"Sir, your employees voted for the Democrats at a level one standard deviation higher than those businesses around you. You have the right to remain silent..."
"But this is a library..."
Seriously, though... Where do you draw the line? One standard deviation? Two? What do you use as your reference? Locale? Job? The whole country? Bah! Useless!
P.S. I'm jealous of the fact that you seem to keep getting instantly modded up.
First of all, just in case you didn't notice, I still said I'm in favour of it. :)
Second, it wouldn't be at all easy to show that someone was messing with it. Say in your hypothetical that the boss doesn't ever say anything about it, but only ever lays off people who vote the other way. Then when questioned, all the voters could honestly say that they voted with the boss and that he didn't intimidate them.
Lastly, you're probably right that the present system is worse, hence my original statement in favour of publishing votes.
The only real issue with that is that you run the risk of people getting "punished" for their vote.
m ) hasn't happened yet? The method of pairwise comparisons, in particular seems to completely eliminate the problem of splitting the vote.
My personal opinion, however, is that those who aren't prepared to stand for their vote might as well not get one anyway though. "I'm for freedom, as long as I don't have to do anything."
Hey, as long we're rearranging the voting system, can anyone explain to me why preferential voting (http://www.ctl.ua.edu/math103/Voting/4popular.ht
However, as it stands, being a left-winger, the best thing I can do for my political party is to create a new right wing party. So let's cut tax to corporations, hang all abortion doctors and customers, pray in schools and congress, and vote gid13 in '04!
Maybe this is the result of growing up in Canada, but when I first read the article title, I thought THAT was the group they were worried about offending. The racial implications didn't even enter my mind. I wonder if that's good or bad.
"Funny how outside a certain country in North America"
Damn those Canadians!!!
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that the tech industry jobs in India pay more than sweatshop jobs.
In any case, it seems to me that an interesting solution would be for "wealthy" countries to impose minimum wages on companies that do business in their country but employ people in other countries. E.g., if Nike had to pay its African workers, say, half of the U.S. minimum wage, or else be forbidden from doing any business at all in the States.
That way, Americans would be less freaked out about losing their jobs to foreigners because it wouldn't happen so much, and the sweatshop employees that remained would actually be getting a significant level of monetary help.
Of course, I have a suspicion that Indian tech workers make more than U.S. minimum wage, and as far as I can see, there isn't too much that can be done about that given American ideals. In particular, capitalism is supposed to promote efficiency by rewarding people who do things cheaper. And if Indians provide better tech value, it seems to me that it's the American way to farm out those jobs.
try here :)
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or here
http://www.suprnova.org/
I have to agree... As a relative newbie to Linux, and after having tried RH8, Mandrake 9, Vectorlinux, (Knoppix and a couple other live cds if they count) and Gentoo, Gentoo is the only one that makes software installation anything other than a nightmare.
Admittedly, it has its problems (takes forever to compile some things, is fairly difficult to install the OS in the first place), but as far as I'm concerned, Gentoo has the best shot at taking on something like Windows. All it needs is a good GUI front-end for portage (I know they exist, but it needs one by default), and an easy installer. And it would really help if they made that framebuffer thing part of the default install. Gorgeous!
Well, yeah... 100 Libraries of Congress is an AWFUL lot of code. ;)
DRMbot??? Sounds to me like they're working FOR the RIAA. ;)
On the off chance that anyone doesn't know about this yet...
http://mchawking.com/
You might try giving them their joke back too. :P
Actually, it's really hard to get Firebird to work with torrents, because their mime type handling is awful currently. But still, it'd be nice to have, I think.
Although this was silly of me in a certain sense, I originally interpreted "download options include bittorrent and..." to mean that the web browser in this release would include a bittorrent client. And then the obvious occurred to me that they just meant you could use torrents to download the iso. But really... It would be VERY nice to have an integrated torrent client. Mozilla Firebird people, are you listening? Just because you're the best browser around doesn't mean you shouldn't implement this. :)
Could this be used to wean people off of cigarette addictions?
If I buy stock, do you think they'd take my suggestion to offer a torrent search (similar to Google Images, maybe) more seriously?
Mozilla Firebird has an extremely simple but extremely useful plugin (oh, "extension", whatever) called "flash click to view"... It is exactly what it says; every time you load a web page with flash content, it doesn't play until you click it... The ads are gone, and on those rare occasions when I find flash I want to see, it's easy.
As opposed to the US, which got both all on its own!
Okay fine, it's nowhere near as bad as China. Yet.