They only clutter the workspace, I live happily without them, and w/o taskbar as well (I have only one Gnome panel on top). It's simpler to type than search and click for me.
And Opera is really fast. Though, for some reason I have all 512Mb of RAM filled up:-\ (no, not much in buffers).
I agree, Windows install is a nightmare. You basically have to roll out your own distro. I have a 1.5Gb folder with program distributives for Windows I might need (cygwin included).
When my w2k work machine install became feeble-minded after IE update I just cloned my home Linux machine, and, voila, it booted and I had a working machine. Had to configure NIC and compile an LKM for vortex soundcard.
Though, I really had to work to make Debian work in the first place. No anti-aliasing in X, ugly fonts in Mozilla, troubles (dependencies) when installing mplayer and a lot of other things.
The uninitiated often confuse Java and Javascript and both IRC channels usually have in topic "This is not ". I believe this is the case with the author of the letter.
What don't you like in recent Gnome? I run it with Sawfish, and it's not bad IMHO. I never ran Gnome before though, only KDE some time ago and Windows all the time.
I also have found that windows is easier to configure. There is a GUI for changing windows resolutions, adjusting monitor settings. Windows related configuration options are available in one centralized control panel.
I have found the configuration is easier in Windows. I bought a new Wireless card a few days ago. I just plugged it in, and Windows went to windowsupdate.microsoft.com, downloaded the driver and installed it. Then it found the correct channel, and automatically configured my internet connection, and notified me with a little balloon. Can you please explain the simliar steps to use the internet with a wireless card via the distribution you use?
How about SMB Sharing? I just click on "My Network Places" and a list of all the available computers pops up.
How about just using a floppy. If I put in an unformatted floppy and click on its icon in Windows, Windows will ask me if I want to format it. In Linux, you have to mount devices. And yes I have used automount, and it did not work properly.
And please feel free to respond with "you aren't smart enough for linux", which really means "i refuse to admit windows can do something better."
You say familliar things. I have experienced them myself. But I think now that Debian is overall better than w2k (dual-boot). Things are done differently with Debian, you have to know what you're doing. If you don't, you RTFM, ask people around. After the "training", you become more proficient, you've learned something useful.
Point in case:
I've learned to use apt-get, now installing (and searching for needed things) is really easy, not as it is considered easy on Windows. Apt-get really makes difference for me. Yesterday, I have configured Sawfish, mapped certain keys to increase/decrease volume (aumix) and next/play/pause/prev (xmms). That makes listening to music easier.
I don't use windows explorer equivalents (they're buggy I agree) on Linux, I use bash, and I recently migrated from jEdit to VIM.
If you don't want to know how things work, don't want to go "native", you're better off with a system that doesn't require you to know how things work. If you don't work much with computers that should be fine for you. If you do, however, spend much time with something, it is more pleasure to have deep understanding of it. Sometimes you'll have to do something you don't know much about. If you click your way through or find and execute some obscure steps to resolve the problem, you're exacly where you were before, no knowledge gained. Next time this problem arises, you do similar steps...
OTOH, my bash & vim configs don't need to be re-clicked through on a new machine, I have copied them from my work machine to home one. You get the picture.
I would love to follow your advice no. 4, but had no luck finding a free account that would let me get mail by pop3 instead of web-interface. Any suggestions?
There is fido7.* hierarchy of USENET, it is in its core a set of FIDO conferencies gated to USENET. People that want to post either register on a gate (no accounts like hotmail accepted) or get a FidoNet address. Most groups are moderated, though if moderation isn't necessary at the time people won't bother electing a moderator.
I believe this site has some relevant info on FidoNet.
I personally find slashdot's moderation system interesting and useful especially in the aspect of assigning points and tags (e.g. Funny). Also, I didn't know trolls existed before entering slashdot ^_^; Might it be because people eventually can get moderated to read only mode for posting bullshit statements?
So what does this ruling mean for the little guy? Plenty. The RIAA can go after the real thieves, those who burn CDs by the hundreds and put them in cases with copied cover art and sell in many parts of the world - usually right in the open.
Doesn't change anything for mass-pirates. Having someone buy a CD and put ISO on FTP shouldn't be that expensive. Also, real pirates don't need RIPs, they need originals (iso, vob). Why they need originals? Because there are people that want best quality there is, so, if you RIP you have 2 versions to sell, and that does matter because $9 DVDs are way too expensive here
There is a lot of information on the Net. What kind of information you think should be on the Net and isn't?
Also, not all kinds of information eat as much bandwith as media types do, i.e. distributed multi-source system isn't always the best solution for data distribution. Sometimes it's easier just to put data on a site.
Yahoo!'s mailing lists web interface is horrible. They show a special "ad page" every 3 clicks or so.
Yahoo's reputation is terrible with me, I will always go to a Yahoo!'s competitor first if I'm looking for kind of service they offer. For example, when I was searching where to host a mailing list I chose the second result that google returned (and it turned out to have clean and lean interface).
One clearly should know about customers and their needs (and how those needs fulfilled with the company's product), but how would knowledge of selling trade help a developer?
Not that it wouldn't be useful, it just doesn't seem to be *that* necessary.
...I'm looking for local (as of country) things, because this engine understands Russian word conjugations.
While in English we just have "japanese" I have counted 4 conjugation forms for this adjective in Russian. These forms differ by suffixes, so, google isn't the easiest choice for such searches.
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Your definition of anime must be filtered through some kind of goggles. Prehaps you've focused on what you've seen as most significant or interesting, and ignored the majority of japanese animation. (Or maybe you rely on importing companies to do the filtering for you)
Majority of what I've seen is very different from Pokemon, in fact, Pokemon is the only anime that I digust. Since I don't speak Japanese I depend on Englihs subtitles, so, my input is filtered by people who do them.
The content of Pokemon is exactly in line with the majority of anime. 80% of anime series (and a higher proportion of total episodes) are basically childish trifles and/or longrunning toy commercials. The only major distinction between those anime and American cartoon shows is the language, the attitude towards musical lyrics, and the much higher degree of continuity (something Pokemon shares).
Don't you find that Pokemon caters to US (as *not* in Simpsons) cultural stereotypes, as opposed to, say, Sailor Moon?
Look at the current Anime broadcast schedule [sakura.ne.jp] to see what I mean. Only 2 or 3 titles approach your lofty definition.
Miyazaki is an unrepresentative abberation.
I only recognize one title, "Wolf's Rain", which I haven't seen, but heard it was good. So, it will be safe to say then "Pokemon is the worst anime I've ever seen". Among the good titles I've recently seen (FMP, Ayashi no Ceres, Witch Hunter Robin, Sen to Chihiro) only one is by Miyazaki. Though Robin is somewhat americanized IMO.
1. I consider such approach a part of fun 2. Even if you watched the whole series, there's no guarantee you understand it (that's part of the fun too). 3. There is a book called "Red Cross Book" AFAIR, that contains information that may help you to grok EVA.
Honesty and ideas (YMMV). Anime depicts social interaction and discusses questions that you encounter in life, and shows a solution sometimes(?). Note, I consider Pokemon anime only by form, but not by content (it's an US-adapted form of anime, IMO)
You absolutely must watch anime with original Japanese sound, people do speak different in different countries, not only language is different but voice intonations as well. Most important, adaptation is by definition a process of tailoring a thing to some other culture, so that target auditory could understand what is happening without much effort on their part. And so, they lose the chance to understand the culture that created the thing...
To have a possibility to understand anime fascination you should watch it, uncut and subtitled.
Differ between responsibility and blame. Being responsible helps you to think of what you can do to change the things around you, i.e. puts power to your hands.
It is true that java apps take large amount of RAM. However, I run jEdit most of the time and my machine doesn't get bogged down. If you set JVM max RAM size to a small value it will constantly garbage collect and experience will be awful.
Of course if it isn't swapping that is the problem. I have ~128 out of 512 physical RAM free now.
It's not the ads that I dislike, it's the way they're made. Flashy, blinking ads are annoying, they enticed me to turn Flash off. OTOH I don't mind text ads and won't mind clicking on it, if I'm interested.
I've seen some sites start using text ads, lwn.net for example. And google has been doing it for a long time now, though it gets more annoying with more ads per page. Well, I guess they're successful *grin*
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At least make sure you've read smart questions FAQ
It's like, um, recurring post.
And Opera is really fast. Though, for some reason I have all 512Mb of RAM filled up :-\ (no, not much in buffers).
When my w2k work machine install became feeble-minded after IE update I just cloned my home Linux machine, and, voila, it booted and I had a working machine. Had to configure NIC and compile an LKM for vortex soundcard.
Though, I really had to work to make Debian work in the first place. No anti-aliasing in X, ugly fonts in Mozilla, troubles (dependencies) when installing mplayer and a lot of other things.
The uninitiated often confuse Java and Javascript and both IRC channels usually have in topic "This is not ". I believe this is the case with the author of the letter.
Because that involves money (for upgrade)? Most people care about money :)
What don't you like in recent Gnome? I run it with Sawfish, and it's not bad IMHO. I never ran Gnome before though, only KDE some time ago and Windows all the time.
You say familliar things. I have experienced them myself. But I think now that Debian is overall better than w2k (dual-boot). Things are done differently with Debian, you have to know what you're doing. If you don't, you RTFM, ask people around. After the "training", you become more proficient, you've learned something useful.
Point in case:
I've learned to use apt-get, now installing (and searching for needed things) is really easy, not as it is considered easy on Windows. Apt-get really makes difference for me. Yesterday, I have configured Sawfish, mapped certain keys to increase/decrease volume (aumix) and next/play/pause/prev (xmms). That makes listening to music easier.
I don't use windows explorer equivalents (they're buggy I agree) on Linux, I use bash, and I recently migrated from jEdit to VIM.
If you don't want to know how things work, don't want to go "native", you're better off with a system that doesn't require you to know how things work. If you don't work much with computers that should be fine for you. If you do, however, spend much time with something, it is more pleasure to have deep understanding of it. Sometimes you'll have to do something you don't know much about. If you click your way through or find and execute some obscure steps to resolve the problem, you're exacly where you were before, no knowledge gained. Next time this problem arises, you do similar steps...
OTOH, my bash & vim configs don't need to be re-clicked through on a new machine, I have copied them from my work machine to home one. You get the picture.
I would love to follow your advice no. 4, but had no luck finding a free account that would let me get mail by pop3 instead of web-interface. Any suggestions?
I believe this site has some relevant info on FidoNet.
I personally find slashdot's moderation system interesting and useful especially in the aspect of assigning points and tags (e.g. Funny). Also, I didn't know trolls existed before entering slashdot ^_^; Might it be because people eventually can get moderated to read only mode for posting bullshit statements?
Doesn't change anything for mass-pirates. Having someone buy a CD and put ISO on FTP shouldn't be that expensive. Also, real pirates don't need RIPs, they need originals (iso, vob). Why they need originals? Because there are people that want best quality there is, so, if you RIP you have 2 versions to sell, and that does matter because $9 DVDs are way too expensive here
Also, not all kinds of information eat as much bandwith as media types do, i.e. distributed multi-source system isn't always the best solution for data distribution. Sometimes it's easier just to put data on a site.
Yahoo's reputation is terrible with me, I will always go to a Yahoo!'s competitor first if I'm looking for kind of service they offer. For example, when I was searching where to host a mailing list I chose the second result that google returned (and it turned out to have clean and lean interface).
Not that it wouldn't be useful, it just doesn't seem to be *that* necessary.
Ahem. Two wrongs don't make a right, or so they say.
While in English we just have "japanese" I have counted 4 conjugation forms for this adjective in Russian. These forms differ by suffixes, so, google isn't the easiest choice for such searches.
Well, but do *you* like them?
Your definition of anime must be filtered through some kind of goggles. Prehaps you've focused on what you've seen as most significant or interesting, and ignored the majority of japanese animation. (Or maybe you rely on importing companies to do the filtering for you)
Majority of what I've seen is very different from Pokemon, in fact, Pokemon is the only anime that I digust. Since I don't speak Japanese I depend on Englihs subtitles, so, my input is filtered by people who do them.
The content of Pokemon is exactly in line with the majority of anime. 80% of anime series (and a higher proportion of total episodes) are basically childish trifles and/or longrunning toy commercials. The only major distinction between those anime and American cartoon shows is the language, the attitude towards musical lyrics, and the much higher degree of continuity (something Pokemon shares).
Don't you find that Pokemon caters to US (as *not* in Simpsons) cultural stereotypes, as opposed to, say, Sailor Moon?
Look at the current Anime broadcast schedule [sakura.ne.jp] to see what I mean. Only 2 or 3 titles approach your lofty definition.
Miyazaki is an unrepresentative abberation.
I only recognize one title, "Wolf's Rain", which I haven't seen, but heard it was good. So, it will be safe to say then "Pokemon is the worst anime I've ever seen". Among the good titles I've recently seen (FMP, Ayashi no Ceres, Witch Hunter Robin, Sen to Chihiro) only one is by Miyazaki. Though Robin is somewhat americanized IMO.
1. I consider such approach a part of fun
2. Even if you watched the whole series, there's no guarantee you understand it (that's part of the fun too).
3. There is a book called "Red Cross Book" AFAIR, that contains information that may help you to grok EVA.
You absolutely must watch anime with original Japanese sound, people do speak different in different countries, not only language is different but voice intonations as well. Most important, adaptation is by definition a process of tailoring a thing to some other culture, so that target auditory could understand what is happening without much effort on their part. And so, they lose the chance to understand the culture that created the thing...
To have a possibility to understand anime fascination you should watch it, uncut and subtitled.
Differ between responsibility and blame. Being responsible helps you to think of what you can do to change the things around you, i.e. puts power to your hands.
Sadly, I have no idea how to change it.
...why do you need to stream something to another PC? If you have a LAN, you can play any file from wherever you want, no?
It is true that java apps take large amount of RAM. However, I run jEdit most of the time and my machine doesn't get bogged down. If you set JVM max RAM size to a small value it will constantly garbage collect and experience will be awful.
Of course if it isn't swapping that is the problem.
I have ~128 out of 512 physical RAM free now.
It's not the ads that I dislike, it's the way they're made. Flashy, blinking ads are annoying, they enticed me to turn Flash off. OTOH I don't mind text ads and won't mind clicking on it, if I'm interested.
I've seen some sites start using text ads, lwn.net for example. And google has been doing it for a long time now, though it gets more annoying with more ads per page. Well, I guess they're successful *grin*