It's kinda hard for us men to grasp, but it goes like this...
They do complain that we men stare at them as if they are "sex object"...
As I say, the entire concept is not easy to grasp, especially by us, the male species...
But on the other hand they parade whatever God have giventh them in front of us, and then complaining when we start to salivating uncontrollably
I think it's acutally pretty simple, dude. The staring is only unwelcome if the woman finds the man unattractive. Everyone wants attention from those they find attractive.
Compiling any >8 bit per character language is painful because of more complex string processing.
It's only truly painful if you've mistaken a group of 8 bits for a character and if you've got a poor string library. If you're struggling still, you're using the wrong language. (Now, supporting multiple languages and locales in a single program is more painful because there's so many ways things differ and so many ways to hard-code assumptions.)
I think the parent meant that it's more complicated for the compiler of the language, rather than the language itself.
CDs have a lot of advantages, but logevity is not one of them.
Being digital, you can regularly copy CDs and keep essentially the original recording for a indefinitely long time. Even if your vinyl lasts forever each playing of it destroys part of the original recording.
It's non-IT people who cooperate easily; IT geeks do so grudgingly, and never for the purpose of cooperation itself, but for either higher or selfish goals.
So you're saying that IT people are the most rational and moral people on earth just now?
You also have to figure the surface area of the pond into that fun little equation. You won't cover the whole thing in algae. It would be the pond VS an array of solar cells the same size as the pond. Plus, you have to figure that converting heat to electrical energy is FAR less than 40% efficient. So you're going from light to heat to electricity whereas the solar cells go from light to electricity with minimal heat. My bets are on the solar cells.
Agreed, plus the costs of taking the algae from the pond and leaving it somewhere else to dry in the sun (which means it's uses a greater surface area than the pond).
And you know what? That would even have a tinge of merit if it weren't for the break-the-GPL-and-you're-going-to-fry-in-hellfire mentality that people exhibit when talking about Linux.
Which is better, free ---> not free, or not free ------> free?
That's called blaming the victim. By that logic, anyone who gets mugged or beaten up is at fault for not being tough enough to deal with their attackers.
No. If you had hired a body guard who failed to defend you and you blamed him. That's what it would be like.
Wait a minute! If somebody steals your software, they are not a customer, they are a pirate. Your ending clause "maybe more of them will feel inclined to start paying for the software" indicates you are specifically refering to those people who did not pay for the software in the first place. So, let's fix your statement so it is more correct:
Microsoft needs to stop treating every pirate like criminals and then maybe more of them will feel inclined to start paying for the software.
Perhaps what he meant was was that Microsoft needs to stop treating every customer like criminals so that they won't feel inclined to pirate the software next time.
KDE is actually quite fast and snappy. I am running in on a Athlon XP 2600+ with 1GB for almost three years now. Maybe it's your PC? (memory, graphics card, processor)
You have to actually restart GNOME, not just logout. I am under the impression, with the "login" screen on, GNOME is running.
Not quite. The X server is what is still running. When logged out you can choose "restart X server" or press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
As for the sudo thing, I am used to being able to authenticate when I save.
Interesting idea, but it would probably involve ugliness
I shouldn't have to do anything but pick a resolution from a list. Things like this should just work. A good OS doesn't require reading a manual for every little thing.
It did for me. Even on this rather esoteric Sun monitor (on a x86 system). I guess it's all down to luck. I found your mix up with Gnome/X enlightening, a lot of us geeks are so used to this stuff it seems perfectly obvious when it clearly isn't.
The materialist peanut gallery claimed victory over the vitalists (advocates of a non-material life force existing separate from matter, which 'animates', making the difference between 'dead' and 'alive') after Newton put together his works, they said it again after Einstien put together General Relativity. Always trying to marginalize non-physical experience, silly materialists.
Silly pseudo-scientists, always trying to marginalise empirical evidence in favour of their own skewed (imagined or not) experiences
Say, Remote Viewing is instantaneous like Gravity too - how does that skill fit into the physical model? Mr. Swann says (with good experience training others to back it up) that these powers are possessed by everyone, and it's only a matter of doing the proper training... (There was a Mythbusters TV segment on Remote Viewing, and the skill passed their test).:)
Gravity is not instantaneous; information travels at speed of light in this universe. Also the CIA found out remote viewing doesn't work for shit.
Having used both K3B and Nero, I am firmly of the opinion that K3B is better.
I must completely agree, having been a big Nero fan in my Windows days I was excited when I heard that Nero was finally available on Linux. I was surprised how much better K3b is myself.
You can always custom compile (or download already compiled) versions of anything you want and install it in/usr/local, it will take precedence over the one from the package repositories without breaking anything. Then, when/if the distro you're using catches up to the version in/usr/local, just remove that one.
The hardest part about doing this on Ubuntu (it may already be there in Debian proper) is this:
echo/usr/local/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf
I'm running the latest beta of gaim and firefox on my Breezy Ubuntu installation without any problems, for example.
If you are going to be installing stuff from source use checkinstall.
$./configure
$ make
$ sudo checkinstall
And boom! You're done, easily removed afterwards too, you've effectively made and installed a.deb. I've been doing that on breezy with Kismet and Aircrack-ng.
That's scarey, not only will Microsoft be able to snoop inside my computer and install stuff, but those who always hack Microsoft programs will be able to do the same.
Simple solution: Don't use Microsoft software.
Plus how will Microsoft know whats good for my computer.
Knowing what is good for your computer is not so much the concern but MS deciding what's good for your computer is. Again: Don't use Microsoft software.
I'm running a certain version of Adobe Premiere on my Win2K machine. It runs fine as long as I keep it on SP2. If I upgrade the service pack, I unleash a whole new set of bugs that cause Premiere to act the fool. What if Microsoft decides it's about time I upgraded to SP4 and they screw up my stuff?
The OS user experience will have to be cleaned up considerably and consistently. Installing is STILL a bugger compared to OS X. Configuring is a mess and a half. The desktops are still half-baked, designed by committee of nerds, beta quality at best.
What's so hard about picking a package in Adept and letting it do all the leg work?
All (ok some) applications will have to conform to standard practices and WORK TOGETHER..
KDE tools have been pretty consistent for me, picking them is easy too, just look for the Ks...
Apple will have to stop dead in its tracks for about ten years.
To say OS X, KDE, Gnome or even XP are ten years apart from each other is... a bit of an exaggeration is it not?
Now, if we could just get more people to donate their brains after they die, we could study what it looks like more easily. It's not like they're using it...
What are you talking about, it's all of them that IS left.
The general theory is hardly at issue. Everyone knows that a small amount of what is called "evolution" happens all the time. Whenever an evolutionist wants to prove his point, this is his response.
Certainly, look at what has been done with chinese wolves -> all different breeds of dogs in a thousand years.
However, no reasonable theory has ever been introduced which explains how major life forms developed, how "natural selection" can account for the variety of organisms we see today, and certainly not how the basic forms of life which evolution claims to have started with came into existence.
Evolution easily accounts for all of this, don't mix up evolution with the issue of abiogenesis.
There are a lot of hypotheses out there, but just because they are the best ones scientists can think of, doesn't mean that they all fit together into a scientifically sound theory.
Without evolution biology doesn't make sense. If you aren't satisfied with that why don't you provide us with something that fits better (say ID and you'll get a slap:-P )
For all the education members of/. claim to have received, nobody seems to be well educated on the genetic studies of Mendel, who proved that there are genetic barriers that cannot be crossed, thus eliminating the possibility of evolution between species and even eliminating some evolution within a species.
Mendel died in 1884, the great thing about science is that it progresses and gets closer to the truth. If you don't think all the biologists out there haven't examined Mendel then it's no wonder you can't get your head round evolution. The creationists god lives in the borders of science so they cling to old work/ignore new findings to keep those borders wide.
Noone seems to be educated on basic physical laws, such as the 2nd law which has been categorically proven to require an intelligent direction of energy in order to produce a more complex mechanism or use of energy.
The thermodynamics ploy is an old one. It's pretty obvious that simple molecules can become more complex without "intelligence".
I happen to be educated enough myself that I can see through many of the arguments used to support evolution, yet I see that those with much higher education may just have that much more brainwashing.
I'm glad you are satisfied with your education/indoctrination but I think many of us here on/. wouldn't be.
Sure... but must the OS community still live on the edge? Why it should be? I feel a substantial difference between (intellectual) Warez and OSS. Nobody should try to blur the edges. It hurts the OS community.
I agree, the more I took up using OSS the less warez I needed/used until the only commercial software I use now is ut2k4/d3 which I payed for because I want more games on linux.
When I watch my less fortunate friends reinstall windows every 6 months and apply endless cracks, keygens and patches to small tools to do basic shit like burn dvds I find it pretty sad/funny. I can't believe I used to do it myself.
Microsoft was the first to integrate a browser into the OS. While this does include some very bad concepts and potentially opens it up to more security problems, it's innovative.
So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well.
Konqueror is at the most integrated into the K Desktop Environment, not the core operating system. Plus the issue with IE was never the fact it's right there potentially in any explorer window but that it's impractical to remove. (Or that was the claim anyhow).
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It's kinda hard for us men to grasp, but it goes like this ...
They do complain that we men stare at them as if they are "sex object" ...
As I say, the entire concept is not easy to grasp, especially by us, the male species ...
But on the other hand they parade whatever God have giventh them in front of us, and then complaining when we start to salivating uncontrollably
I think it's acutally pretty simple, dude. The staring is only unwelcome if the woman finds the man unattractive. Everyone wants attention from those they find attractive.
"We are the CIA, we don't do that kind of thing!"
Compiling any >8 bit per character language is painful because of more complex string processing.
It's only truly painful if you've mistaken a group of 8 bits for a character and if you've got a poor string library. If you're struggling still, you're using the wrong language. (Now, supporting multiple languages and locales in a single program is more painful because there's so many ways things differ and so many ways to hard-code assumptions.)
I think the parent meant that it's more complicated for the compiler of the language, rather than the language itself.
As soon as IE loses majority I imagine it's remaining share will drop at an accelerated pace.
Yeah, I almost miss them :)
CDs have a lot of advantages, but logevity is not one of them.
Being digital, you can regularly copy CDs and keep essentially the original recording for a indefinitely long time. Even if your vinyl lasts forever each playing of it destroys part of the original recording.
It's non-IT people who cooperate easily; IT geeks do so grudgingly, and never for the purpose of cooperation itself, but for either higher or selfish goals.
So you're saying that IT people are the most rational and moral people on earth just now?
You also have to figure the surface area of the pond into that fun little equation. You won't cover the whole thing in algae. It would be the pond VS an array of solar cells the same size as the pond. Plus, you have to figure that converting heat to electrical energy is FAR less than 40% efficient. So you're going from light to heat to electricity whereas the solar cells go from light to electricity with minimal heat. My bets are on the solar cells.
Agreed, plus the costs of taking the algae from the pond and leaving it somewhere else to dry in the sun (which means it's uses a greater surface area than the pond).
And you know what? That would even have a tinge of merit if it weren't for the break-the-GPL-and-you're-going-to-fry-in-hellfire mentality that people exhibit when talking about Linux.
Which is better, free ---> not free, or not free ------> free?
That's called blaming the victim. By that logic, anyone who gets mugged or beaten up is at fault for not being tough enough to deal with their attackers.
No. If you had hired a body guard who failed to defend you and you blamed him. That's what it would be like.
The other alternative is to just reverse engineer the blobs, it really aint that hard.
Thanks for volunteering.
Wait a minute! If somebody steals your software, they are not a customer, they are a pirate. Your ending clause "maybe more of them will feel inclined to start paying for the software" indicates you are specifically refering to those people who did not pay for the software in the first place. So, let's fix your statement so it is more correct:
Microsoft needs to stop treating every pirate like criminals and then maybe more of them will feel inclined to start paying for the software.
Perhaps what he meant was was that Microsoft needs to stop treating every customer like criminals so that they won't feel inclined to pirate the software next time.
KDE is actually quite fast and snappy. I am running in on a Athlon XP 2600+ with 1GB for almost three years now. Maybe it's your PC? (memory, graphics card, processor)
Seconded, it's even usable on an old Sun Ultra 10
You have to actually restart GNOME, not just logout. I am under the impression, with the "login" screen on, GNOME is running.
Not quite. The X server is what is still running. When logged out you can choose "restart X server" or press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
As for the sudo thing, I am used to being able to authenticate when I save.
Interesting idea, but it would probably involve ugliness
I shouldn't have to do anything but pick a resolution from a list. Things like this should just work. A good OS doesn't require reading a manual for every little thing.
It did for me. Even on this rather esoteric Sun monitor (on a x86 system). I guess it's all down to luck. I found your mix up with Gnome/X enlightening, a lot of us geeks are so used to this stuff it seems perfectly obvious when it clearly isn't.
The materialist peanut gallery claimed victory over the vitalists (advocates of a non-material life force existing separate from matter, which 'animates', making the difference between 'dead' and 'alive') after Newton put together his works, they said it again after Einstien put together General Relativity. Always trying to marginalize non-physical experience, silly materialists.
Silly pseudo-scientists, always trying to marginalise empirical evidence in favour of their own skewed (imagined or not) experiences
Say, Remote Viewing is instantaneous like Gravity too - how does that skill fit into the physical model? Mr. Swann says (with good experience training others to back it up) that these powers are possessed by everyone, and it's only a matter of doing the proper training... (There was a Mythbusters TV segment on Remote Viewing, and the skill passed their test). :)
Gravity is not instantaneous; information travels at speed of light in this universe. Also the CIA found out remote viewing doesn't work for shit.
As long as there is a fan base like /. and its Linux fan boys, OSS will still be kicking and breathing...forever.
Yeah.... Fucking brilliant, isn't it?
Having used both K3B and Nero, I am firmly of the opinion that K3B is better.
I must completely agree, having been a big Nero fan in my Windows days I was excited when I heard that Nero was finally available on Linux. I was surprised how much better K3b is myself.
You can always custom compile (or download already compiled) versions of anything you want and install it in /usr/local, it will take precedence over the one from the package repositories without breaking anything. Then, when/if the distro you're using catches up to the version in /usr/local, just remove that one.
The hardest part about doing this on Ubuntu (it may already be there in Debian proper) is this: echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf
I'm running the latest beta of gaim and firefox on my Breezy Ubuntu installation without any problems, for example.
If you are going to be installing stuff from source use checkinstall. ./configure
$
$ make
$ sudo checkinstall
And boom! You're done, easily removed afterwards too, you've effectively made and installed a .deb. I've been doing that on breezy with Kismet and Aircrack-ng.
Far be it from me to be a grammar nazi, but even so I gotta say:
"Worst... Comma... Placement... EVER!"
You mean "Worst, comma placement ever!"
That's scarey, not only will Microsoft be able to snoop inside my computer and install stuff, but those who always hack Microsoft programs will be able to do the same.
Simple solution: Don't use Microsoft software.
Plus how will Microsoft know whats good for my computer.
Knowing what is good for your computer is not so much the concern but MS deciding what's good for your computer is.
Again: Don't use Microsoft software.
I'm running a certain version of Adobe Premiere on my Win2K machine. It runs fine as long as I keep it on SP2. If I upgrade the service pack, I unleash a whole new set of bugs that cause Premiere to act the fool. What if Microsoft decides it's about time I upgraded to SP4 and they screw up my stuff?
Simple solution: Don't use Microsoft software.
The OS user experience will have to be cleaned up considerably and consistently. Installing is STILL a bugger compared to OS X. Configuring is a mess and a half. The desktops are still half-baked, designed by committee of nerds, beta quality at best.
What's so hard about picking a package in Adept and letting it do all the leg work?
All (ok some) applications will have to conform to standard practices and WORK TOGETHER..
KDE tools have been pretty consistent for me, picking them is easy too, just look for the Ks...
Apple will have to stop dead in its tracks for about ten years.
To say OS X, KDE, Gnome or even XP are ten years apart from each other is... a bit of an exaggeration is it not?
Now, if we could just get more people to donate their brains after they die, we could study what it looks like more easily. It's not like they're using it ...
What are you talking about, it's all of them that IS left.
The general theory is hardly at issue. Everyone knows that a small amount of what is called "evolution" happens all the time. Whenever an evolutionist wants to prove his point, this is his response.
Certainly, look at what has been done with chinese wolves -> all different breeds of dogs in a thousand years.
However, no reasonable theory has ever been introduced which explains how major life forms developed, how "natural selection" can account for the variety of organisms we see today, and certainly not how the basic forms of life which evolution claims to have started with came into existence.
Evolution easily accounts for all of this, don't mix up evolution with the issue of abiogenesis.
There are a lot of hypotheses out there, but just because they are the best ones scientists can think of, doesn't mean that they all fit together into a scientifically sound theory.
Without evolution biology doesn't make sense. If you aren't satisfied with that why don't you provide us with something that fits better (say ID and you'll get a slap :-P )
For all the education members of /. claim to have received, nobody seems to be well educated on the genetic studies of Mendel, who proved that there are genetic barriers that cannot be crossed, thus eliminating the possibility of evolution between species and even eliminating some evolution within a species.
Mendel died in 1884, the great thing about science is that it progresses and gets closer to the truth. If you don't think all the biologists out there haven't examined Mendel then it's no wonder you can't get your head round evolution. The creationists god lives in the borders of science so they cling to old work/ignore new findings to keep those borders wide.
Noone seems to be educated on basic physical laws, such as the 2nd law which has been categorically proven to require an intelligent direction of energy in order to produce a more complex mechanism or use of energy.
The thermodynamics ploy is an old one. It's pretty obvious that simple molecules can become more complex without "intelligence".
I happen to be educated enough myself that I can see through many of the arguments used to support evolution, yet I see that those with much higher education may just have that much more brainwashing.
I'm glad you are satisfied with your education/indoctrination but I think many of us here on /. wouldn't be.
Sure... but must the OS community still live on the edge? Why it should be? I feel a substantial difference between (intellectual) Warez and OSS. Nobody should try to blur the edges. It hurts the OS community.
I agree, the more I took up using OSS the less warez I needed/used until the only commercial software I use now is ut2k4/d3 which I payed for because I want more games on linux.
When I watch my less fortunate friends reinstall windows every 6 months and apply endless cracks, keygens and patches to small tools to do basic shit like burn dvds I find it pretty sad/funny. I can't believe I used to do it myself.
Microsoft was the first to integrate a browser into the OS. While this does include some very bad concepts and potentially opens it up to more security problems, it's innovative.
So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well.
Konqueror is at the most integrated into the K Desktop Environment, not the core operating system. Plus the issue with IE was never the fact it's right there potentially in any explorer window but that it's impractical to remove. (Or that was the claim anyhow).