Re:Funny you should mention Laputa.
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Yes, and the translation of the travels of Gulliver to Spanish normally had "Liliput" instead of "Laputa". Bowdlerisation. The Mitsubishi Pajero is called "Montero" in Spanish-speaking countries.
You make it sound like zombie boxes acting as spam servers don't exist. When I checked the server at one of my relatives' firm, I found no less than 300 different pieces of malware (virii, spyware, etc), and the antivirus I installed immediately started detecting spam sent everywhere. No wonder they felt that it was a slow network connection!
Stopping this flow of spam the users don't even know about is best managed by the ISPs, and in their own interest too: the effort to explain to customers this stuff might be balanced by the lessened impact on the ISP's resources: bandwidth, IT personnel, etc. After all, sending automated mail can't have the same impact as waking up your sysadmin at 3 am on a saturday because some idiot is spamming the smtp server down, can it?
The book's name is "The naked sun" and it's not a short story, it's a novel, from the Elijah Baley series. Nice, too. It's not about exactly that, but about the possibility that a completely robotic ship could destroy human-piloted spacecrafts because it wouldn't know humans were in them, and it would assume that all ships were completely robotic in nature. Very interesting.
Sorry, no. The time I read this was in one of the Mandriva Mailing Lists, and it was said by Adam Williamson, who works for Mandriva as PR. You could ask him, if you want. His blog is http://www.happyassassin.net/ .
It is a mindless bashfest. Nevertheless, it is interesting. There is some truth in their madness. But they themselves admit that it's over the top and to be taken with a grain of salt. At least the book, I'm not sure about the mailing list/newsgroup.
That's because Mandriva licenses the mp3 codecs, then offers the distro for free. It's actually something that should be better publicized about the distro.
Normally, what's lacking from the "free" editions are three things: 1) Official support, which you don't get either in debian. 2) Expensive proprietary software, which you don't get either in Debian.
It might be different for Fedora, but I don't think there's any other distinction in SuSE or Mandriva.
> Why pay for a pro edition when I can apt-get anything I want (or compile if you're a Gentoo-user)? > Just because the distro is harder to use?
To support a distro, most of the times. To get official, quick support. Oh, and please get in the 21st century: we do have other usable package managers other than apt-get. Please inform yourself, and spread it. I'm sick of Debian fans comparing apt-get to the bare rpm when Yast, smart, urpmi and yum exist.
>>> Your advice is way too complex for any regular user. >> He said he wanted to be root, not a regular user. > Regular as in average joe, not in as joe$. Most regular users run their own machines so they have to be > root sometimes.
I'd guess his point was that if you want to use ubuntu as an average joe, you can get by perfectly with sudo. Indeed, I did and I could. If you really want to unleash the power of root, well, be prepared to do a bit of work.
You don't seem to know themes and cursor themes exist. Gnome has both support (at least here in Mandriva) for instant change of the pointer to black, translucent, red or white arrows; and also apple-like window themes. art.gnome.org or gnome-look.org are your friends.
Quoting out of context makes you look like an ass when someone calls your bluff. This is the full quote:
3. It should be an excellent game, not just excellent programming - the play itself should be exciting and not serve merely as an excuse to show off the programmer's expertise.
The Ipod doesn't introduce incompatibilities, is simple to use, _and_ looks great. Plus, its ties to iTunes mean even more market: everything is ready, everything is there, everything about it is easy (except swallowing the price tag, yes). It's also cool to have because it's cool to have because it's cool to have, so people who can afford an expensive player at all buy an iPod. Remember that other players in the same market slot cost a lot too. Maybe it's less than the iPod, but it's a lot of money anyway. Hell, for $400 (price of a top-o'-da-line iPod I can almost buy a mac mini.
Though I agree with your point in principle, it's also arguable that most people don't want quality, they want "good enough", where good enough is given by a combination of lies, stupidity, gossip and true advantages. That's what keeps people out of apple: The perception that it is much more expensive (even when it isn't), the idea that it won't be compatible. Sometimes it really isn't: where's autocad? I'd have made my aunt buy several macs for her architecture studio, but autocad has no mac version. Same for many? (perception again) common programs. Games in particular. The gossip of people who don't know better: "apple is more expensive, apple is not compatible, apple has only a 1 button mouse, apple doesn't have software available". The lies other companies put forth: "innovations" in design and software that OS X had years ago already.
Another thing about your price comparison is, many people don't want the value pack Apple offers, they want to spend 500 bucks ("so get a mac mini, why dont you?") and crack the rest of the software. They want compatibility for what they have. They don't care about the computer. Most of my relatives don't know what a computer case is and how it is different from the monitor. They actually don't need a computer, now that I rant about it. They pretend to spend a meager sum and then everything has to be perfect. The non-orthogonality of the concepts is not evident to them.
The argument is that apple makes good profits in areas it knows and works well in. The argument is that Apple already tried licensing the construction of Apple "PCs" to other manufacturers and took big losses because those manufacturers were undercutting Apple's profits. I know the mac mini doesn't cost twice as much as a comparable PC. I wrote "twice" meaning that, in general an Apple computer will have a noticeably higher cost than a more-or-less equivalent computer.
Those are the reasons why it's doubtful Apple will "open" OS X to other computer manufacturers, even if they took in the burden of writing drivers and providing support.
The reason, apart from hardware support, is that they'd be their own competitors. Apple makes huge profits on the bundle of proprietary hardware and software. If they sold OSX to other manufacturers, their whole hardware business would be pointless: who'd buy a real Apple mac if he could get a comparable experience for half the price?
And Sun experienced this the same way. The x86 hardware they sell is undercutting their profits on their own architectures. That's ok only if they make more money this way.
I have three things to point out: . Google _always_ spends money in projects with market potential: ads sale, user stats, etc. Picasa makes it easy to post images to blogger. Which makes it easier for you to blog. Which gives Google a ton of info about you, which goes to adsense and adwords.
. There's no "huge digital photography market" for picasa on linux. There's no "huge market" on linux yet, we are just a 10%, and the cost of porting doesn't seem to justify the end result in a lot of cases.
. I don't think anyone needs a cross platform image editor-viewer. At least, I don't hear people clamoring for it, not at the level of eog-picasa-iphoto.
Have you ever heard a Brazilian or a Canadian defined/described as an Amercian?
Yes. Outside of the USA, I've heard people, songs, and other concepts referred to as "american" meaning "of the american continent". Especially in the 70's and early 80's, but after that too. Take it as "of the american continents", if you wish. As I said, there _are_ people who don't really like the USians refer to themselves as "Americans". It doesn't surprise me that you don't want to accept it, only the violence with which you try to answer.
And of course, insulting people will obviously make your point be true and right, so keep it up.
Oh yes? I come from Argentina. It's in America. You know, the continent. When "USians" refer to themselves as "americans" I think "well, what are all the other americans? chopped liver?" This, compounded with a very aggressive diplomatic policy (past and present, for the last 200 years), makes many people angry. Thought I'd just point it out.
Of course, this might have to do with the fact that being called "USian" sucks ass. Which is not my problem. I didn't usurp the name of the continent.
In my opinion, rewriting GIMP from scratch and making it extensible would be the best choice.
Yes, because it did a whole lot of good to Mozilla. They sure were N1 after the code was written back from scratch. And btw, can't you write and install python plugins in GIMP? Do those need to be compiled too?
I have one question for all the high and mighty people who say that businesses should be "socially responsible" at the expens of shareholders: How would you feel if your 401K (or other investments) lost half of their value because the companies in your portfolio were being "socially resoponsible? Sereiously, not to impune anyone, but businesses exist to make $$$. To think otherwise is Hippy wishful thinking.
Yeah, let's have another Bhopal disaster and lie about it. Let's have another United Fruit Co exploiting people all 'round South and Central America. Let's keep on taking it in the ass from tobacco companies lying to a judge about the poisons in their products. After all, we wouldn't dream of having the poor shareholders lose a penny. Damn hippies.
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According to Wikipedia, you're right. "Laputa" was changed to "Lupata" in Spanish.
Yes, and the translation of the travels of Gulliver to Spanish normally had "Liliput" instead of "Laputa". Bowdlerisation. The Mitsubishi Pajero is called "Montero" in Spanish-speaking countries.
You make it sound like zombie boxes acting as spam servers don't exist. When I checked the server at one of my relatives' firm, I found no less than 300 different pieces of malware (virii, spyware, etc), and the antivirus I installed immediately started detecting spam sent everywhere. No wonder they felt that it was a slow network connection!
Stopping this flow of spam the users don't even know about is best managed by the ISPs, and in their own interest too: the effort to explain to customers this stuff might be balanced by the lessened impact on the ISP's resources: bandwidth, IT personnel, etc. After all, sending automated mail can't have the same impact as waking up your sysadmin at 3 am on a saturday because some idiot is spamming the smtp server down, can it?
Yes, you made a few typos. The command is actually:
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The book's name is "The naked sun" and it's not a short story, it's a novel, from the Elijah Baley series. Nice, too. It's not about exactly that, but about the possibility that a completely robotic ship could destroy human-piloted spacecrafts because it wouldn't know humans were in them, and it would assume that all ships were completely robotic in nature. Very interesting.
Sorry, no. The time I read this was in one of the Mandriva Mailing Lists, and it was said by Adam Williamson, who works for Mandriva as PR. You could ask him, if you want. His blog is http://www.happyassassin.net/ .
It is a mindless bashfest. Nevertheless, it is interesting. There is some truth in their madness. But they themselves admit that it's over the top and to be taken with a grain of salt. At least the book, I'm not sure about the mailing list/newsgroup.
That's because Mandriva licenses the mp3 codecs, then offers the distro for free. It's actually something that should be better publicized about the distro.
Third thing intentionally left blank :)
Normally, what's lacking from the "free" editions are three things:
1) Official support, which you don't get either in debian.
2) Expensive proprietary software, which you don't get either in Debian.
It might be different for Fedora, but I don't think there's any other distinction in SuSE or Mandriva.
> Why pay for a pro edition when I can apt-get anything I want (or compile if you're a Gentoo-user)?
> Just because the distro is harder to use?
To support a distro, most of the times. To get official, quick support. Oh, and please get in the 21st century: we do have other usable package managers other than apt-get. Please inform yourself, and spread it. I'm sick of Debian fans comparing apt-get to the bare rpm when Yast, smart, urpmi and yum exist.
>>> Your advice is way too complex for any regular user.
>> He said he wanted to be root, not a regular user.
> Regular as in average joe, not in as joe$. Most regular users run their own machines so they have to be > root sometimes.
I'd guess his point was that if you want to use ubuntu as an average joe, you can get by perfectly with sudo. Indeed, I did and I could. If you really want to unleash the power of root, well, be prepared to do a bit of work.
The 4 million readers of Penny Arcade? After all, a short while ago they almost "wanged" Slashdot with visits.
You don't seem to know themes and cursor themes exist. Gnome has both support (at least here in Mandriva) for instant change of the pointer to black, translucent, red or white arrows; and also apple-like window themes. art.gnome.org or gnome-look.org are your friends.
Quoting out of context makes you look like an ass when someone calls your bluff. This is the full quote:
3. It should be an excellent game, not just excellent programming - the play itself should be exciting and not serve merely as an excuse to show off the programmer's expertise.
The Ipod doesn't introduce incompatibilities, is simple to use, _and_ looks great. Plus, its ties to iTunes mean even more market: everything is ready, everything is there, everything about it is easy (except swallowing the price tag, yes). It's also cool to have because it's cool to have because it's cool to have, so people who can afford an expensive player at all buy an iPod. Remember that other players in the same market slot cost a lot too. Maybe it's less than the iPod, but it's a lot of money anyway. Hell, for $400 (price of a top-o'-da-line iPod I can almost buy a mac mini.
Though I agree with your point in principle, it's also arguable that most people don't want quality, they want "good enough", where good enough is given by a combination of lies, stupidity, gossip and true advantages. That's what keeps people out of apple:
The perception that it is much more expensive (even when it isn't), the idea that it won't be compatible. Sometimes it really isn't: where's autocad? I'd have made my aunt buy several macs for her architecture studio, but autocad has no mac version. Same for many? (perception again) common programs. Games in particular.
The gossip of people who don't know better: "apple is more expensive, apple is not compatible, apple has only a 1 button mouse, apple doesn't have software available".
The lies other companies put forth: "innovations" in design and software that OS X had years ago already.
Another thing about your price comparison is, many people don't want the value pack Apple offers, they want to spend 500 bucks ("so get a mac mini, why dont you?") and crack the rest of the software. They want compatibility for what they have. They don't care about the computer. Most of my relatives don't know what a computer case is and how it is different from the monitor. They actually don't need a computer, now that I rant about it. They pretend to spend a meager sum and then everything has to be perfect. The non-orthogonality of the concepts is not evident to them.
The argument is that apple makes good profits in areas it knows and works well in. The argument is that Apple already tried licensing the construction of Apple "PCs" to other manufacturers and took big losses because those manufacturers were undercutting Apple's profits. I know the mac mini doesn't cost twice as much as a comparable PC. I wrote "twice" meaning that, in general an Apple computer will have a noticeably higher cost than a more-or-less equivalent computer.
Those are the reasons why it's doubtful Apple will "open" OS X to other computer manufacturers, even if they took in the burden of writing drivers and providing support.
The reason, apart from hardware support, is that they'd be their own competitors. Apple makes huge profits on the bundle of proprietary hardware and software. If they sold OSX to other manufacturers, their whole hardware business would be pointless: who'd buy a real Apple mac if he could get a comparable experience for half the price?
And Sun experienced this the same way. The x86 hardware they sell is undercutting their profits on their own architectures. That's ok only if they make more money this way.
I have three things to point out:
. Google _always_ spends money in projects with market potential: ads sale, user stats, etc. Picasa makes it easy to post images to blogger. Which makes it easier for you to blog. Which gives Google a ton of info about you, which goes to adsense and adwords.
. There's no "huge digital photography market" for picasa on linux. There's no "huge market" on linux yet, we are just a 10%, and the cost of porting doesn't seem to justify the end result in a lot of cases.
. I don't think anyone needs a cross platform image editor-viewer. At least, I don't hear people clamoring for it, not at the level of eog-picasa-iphoto.
Because it costs too much money for the potential marketshare gains.
Have you ever heard a Brazilian or a Canadian defined/described as an Amercian?
Yes. Outside of the USA, I've heard people, songs, and other concepts referred to as "american" meaning "of the american continent". Especially in the 70's and early 80's, but after that too. Take it as "of the american continents", if you wish. As I said, there _are_ people who don't really like the USians refer to themselves as "Americans". It doesn't surprise me that you don't want to accept it, only the violence with which you try to answer.
And of course, insulting people will obviously make your point be true and right, so keep it up.
Oh yes? I come from Argentina. It's in America. You know, the continent. When "USians" refer to themselves as "americans" I think "well, what are all the other americans? chopped liver?" This, compounded with a very aggressive diplomatic policy (past and present, for the last 200 years), makes many people angry. Thought I'd just point it out.
Of course, this might have to do with the fact that being called "USian" sucks ass. Which is not my problem. I didn't usurp the name of the continent.
I think one of the issues that we (Americans) have is that you normally hear of "Africa." It is the only continent that is mentioned as a country
:)
Interesting. Especially the part where you refer to a whole continent (America) as if it was just one country (The USA).
Try again, better luck next time
In my opinion, rewriting GIMP from scratch and making it extensible would be the best choice.
Yes, because it did a whole lot of good to Mozilla. They sure were N1 after the code was written back from scratch.
And btw, can't you write and install python plugins in GIMP? Do those need to be compiled too?
I have one question for all the high and mighty people who say that businesses should be "socially responsible" at the expens of shareholders:
How would you feel if your 401K (or other investments) lost half of their value because the companies in your portfolio were being "socially resoponsible?
Sereiously, not to impune anyone, but businesses exist to make $$$. To think otherwise is Hippy wishful thinking.
Yeah, let's have another Bhopal disaster and lie about it. Let's have another United Fruit Co exploiting people all 'round South and Central America. Let's keep on taking it in the ass from tobacco companies lying to a judge about the poisons in their products. After all, we wouldn't dream of having the poor shareholders lose a penny. Damn hippies.
Sheesh.