...anywhere useful? You mean, anywhere FedEx or UPS deliver? Seems as if those are thriving businesses... they must deliver to most people that need it. WTF are you talking about? That link just tells about how to contact UPS and FedEx for further tracking info.
"Gears of War now but guess what, they didn't even release that in this country"
If you were a painter, and made a painting (no matter how good or bad) of a nude figure, would you go to extra work to paint over the "naughty bits" simply because some people didn't like it? Or would you tell them to screw off, and if they didn't like it, don't buy it? I get the feeling that the creators of Gears of War just diplomatically told your country to screw off when they asked for it to be censored. The problem is with your censors, not with the content.
I have like 15 NIC's sitting in my closet that are all 10/100... do you want one? Hit up any local computer repair shop, I'll bet they'll sell you a faster one for $10 or less.
If you weren't using Windows you could. Windows is horrible at multitasking. Without a multicore CPU, even now you can start a CPU-intensive load like a major code compile and you just have to walk away. Can't do anything with the machine. You can still use a Linux/OSX machine for surfing or whatever, on the exact same hardware.
No sane reason to use Java? I completely agree! I mean, why would you want to ship one build that runs on Windows, OSX AND Linux? That's just crazy talk!
Don't forget, the resident size includes the shared memory. Firefox, Gnome and Nautilus all use many of the Gnome/GTK libraries, so that memory isn't duplicated. Remember to subtract the "SHR" column from the "RES" column to get the true usage of just that application.
A touchscreen is significantly different than a Wacom tablet. The Wacom tablets should pretty much work out of the box with Ubuntu. You don't have the orientation and calibration issues nearly as bad with the Wacom tablets as you do with the tablet touchscreens.
If you do system-level stuff, you need a system-level user. The problem is that changing those applications directly affects the security of the root user, so you either run it as root, or you don't. Most (all?) applications in Linux will allow you to install them as a normal user. Just run them from your home directory or somewhere you have normal user access. I personally allow all users to have full access to/opt and install any non-distro software there.
That's EXACTLY what happened with cars. We have the technology to build Bugati Veyrons. Most people still buy Toyota Corollas, though. They're good enough. They don't have all the bells and whistles, they don't have all the performance, but they're the right price and they do everything people really need them to do. Sure, it'd be nice to have a lot of the extras, but people don't find them worth it. Same thing with newer computers... the old P4 is fast enough to watch the videos of the grandkids and send emails and type up some recipes and such. It'd be nice if they could edit video faster, but hey, that'd cost a lot for a minimal benefit.
How's that HD video working out for you? Transcode any good movies lately? Edit any movies?
Things people want to do aren't really an option on your hardware. No matter how efficient you write the code, working with video streams will take more than a P3-900.
Cheaper, sure. But Phenom X4 9600 is no "cheaper" than a Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, but there's a $100 price difference, and if they 9600 is "good enough" for what you want to do, then why would you pay more? Don't confuse "cheaper" with "less expensive".
The point is that the jumps between "good enough" are further and further in between. A P4 is "good enough" for most people right now, and that's what, 6, 7 years old? How long was it between the 486 and the Pentium? Pentium and PII? PII and P3?
"I honestly hope the blindly ignorant who are unwilling to learn do not receive the world after World War III"
They're the ones most likely to cause WWIII, and most likely to take control afterward because ignorance breeds violence (my assertion) and unwarranted self-assuredness.
And when people have reduced budgets because the economy tanks, "design over function" companies like BMW, Dyson and Apple will go by the wayside.
And yes, it is design over function. Consumer Reports puts Dyson as worse performing than many other vacuums, and it gets near the bottom of the price/performance ratio. Same with BMW. The premium of the price is not nearly worth the miniscule actual improvement of the product.
mp3 has been around for how long? There's a peak to the curve of diminishing returns. I have a 61" TV, and anything higher than 1920x1080 would be almost useless from far enough away to see the whole screen. Why would video have to get any higher res? There are human physical limits to vision and hearing. We got to the audio limits quite a while ago with mp3. Video is just now getting there. The only thing left is 3D or some other killer app, but for right now, all the media most people care to consume is handled by almost every current machine. And even HD is overkill if you ask many older people... they can barely tell the difference.
I'd think that root can access EVERYTHING incredibly easily. Isn't that kind of the whole point of root? That's why every desktop centric Linux distro I know of has you set up a normal user by default, and many times completely disallow direct root logins.
"Measuring a child's behaviour with adult criteria is inappropriate."
Only to a certain extent. You treat your children like kids, and they never learn to be adults. You're not raising a child... you're raising an adult. If they're constantly "protected", they'll learn that nothing is their fault or problem, their parents will take care of things for them, and that's why we have things like more grandparents than ever taking care of grandchildren as primary caregivers.
Being as it's a plugin, it won't play nicely with a 64bit native browser. Gotta use something like nspluginwrapper or likewise to get it to work. If it were a native part of the browser, you'd have a point. But lack of native 64bit support is a pretty big thing... switching to another browser to use a single plugin is as bad as having a standalone application, which is the whole thing they're trying to get away from.
Have you ever driven down a road? Oh, wait... that's government maintained, too. And much closer to what government-owned comms cables would be like than medicare or social security programs. Are you sure you aren't just an alternate login for BadAnalogyGuy?
That's a $6.85 ONE-TIME fee. They're making money hand over fist... it's simply the fact that broadband ISP's are completely unregulated and unabashed monopolies that is preventing us from getting better value for our dollar.
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...anywhere useful? You mean, anywhere FedEx or UPS deliver? Seems as if those are thriving businesses... they must deliver to most people that need it. WTF are you talking about? That link just tells about how to contact UPS and FedEx for further tracking info.
Yeah... I've lost at least one remote to that damned game :(
If you were a painter, and made a painting (no matter how good or bad) of a nude figure, would you go to extra work to paint over the "naughty bits" simply because some people didn't like it? Or would you tell them to screw off, and if they didn't like it, don't buy it? I get the feeling that the creators of Gears of War just diplomatically told your country to screw off when they asked for it to be censored. The problem is with your censors, not with the content.
You can upgrade from a CD. Download an ISO from bittorrent.
I have like 15 NIC's sitting in my closet that are all 10/100... do you want one? Hit up any local computer repair shop, I'll bet they'll sell you a faster one for $10 or less.
Aye. I'm using KDE 3.5 on my work machine until the next LTS release of Ubuntu at least.
If you weren't using Windows you could. Windows is horrible at multitasking. Without a multicore CPU, even now you can start a CPU-intensive load like a major code compile and you just have to walk away. Can't do anything with the machine. You can still use a Linux/OSX machine for surfing or whatever, on the exact same hardware.
No sane reason to use Java? I completely agree! I mean, why would you want to ship one build that runs on Windows, OSX AND Linux? That's just crazy talk!
Don't forget, the resident size includes the shared memory. Firefox, Gnome and Nautilus all use many of the Gnome/GTK libraries, so that memory isn't duplicated. Remember to subtract the "SHR" column from the "RES" column to get the true usage of just that application.
A touchscreen is significantly different than a Wacom tablet. The Wacom tablets should pretty much work out of the box with Ubuntu. You don't have the orientation and calibration issues nearly as bad with the Wacom tablets as you do with the tablet touchscreens.
I thought that was MNG?
If you do system-level stuff, you need a system-level user. The problem is that changing those applications directly affects the security of the root user, so you either run it as root, or you don't. Most (all?) applications in Linux will allow you to install them as a normal user. Just run them from your home directory or somewhere you have normal user access. I personally allow all users to have full access to /opt and install any non-distro software there.
What about the Film Actors Guild? They seem like the kind of people who can get shit done.
I'm just going off what I read in Consumer Reports. I have an ancient bag vac that works good enough for now ;)
That's EXACTLY what happened with cars. We have the technology to build Bugati Veyrons. Most people still buy Toyota Corollas, though. They're good enough. They don't have all the bells and whistles, they don't have all the performance, but they're the right price and they do everything people really need them to do. Sure, it'd be nice to have a lot of the extras, but people don't find them worth it. Same thing with newer computers... the old P4 is fast enough to watch the videos of the grandkids and send emails and type up some recipes and such. It'd be nice if they could edit video faster, but hey, that'd cost a lot for a minimal benefit.
How's that HD video working out for you? Transcode any good movies lately? Edit any movies?
Things people want to do aren't really an option on your hardware. No matter how efficient you write the code, working with video streams will take more than a P3-900.
Cheaper, sure. But Phenom X4 9600 is no "cheaper" than a Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, but there's a $100 price difference, and if they 9600 is "good enough" for what you want to do, then why would you pay more? Don't confuse "cheaper" with "less expensive".
The point is that the jumps between "good enough" are further and further in between. A P4 is "good enough" for most people right now, and that's what, 6, 7 years old? How long was it between the 486 and the Pentium? Pentium and PII? PII and P3?
"I honestly hope the blindly ignorant who are unwilling to learn do not receive the world after World War III"
They're the ones most likely to cause WWIII, and most likely to take control afterward because ignorance breeds violence (my assertion) and unwarranted self-assuredness.
And when people have reduced budgets because the economy tanks, "design over function" companies like BMW, Dyson and Apple will go by the wayside.
And yes, it is design over function. Consumer Reports puts Dyson as worse performing than many other vacuums, and it gets near the bottom of the price/performance ratio. Same with BMW. The premium of the price is not nearly worth the miniscule actual improvement of the product.
mp3 has been around for how long? There's a peak to the curve of diminishing returns. I have a 61" TV, and anything higher than 1920x1080 would be almost useless from far enough away to see the whole screen. Why would video have to get any higher res? There are human physical limits to vision and hearing. We got to the audio limits quite a while ago with mp3. Video is just now getting there. The only thing left is 3D or some other killer app, but for right now, all the media most people care to consume is handled by almost every current machine. And even HD is overkill if you ask many older people... they can barely tell the difference.
I'd think that root can access EVERYTHING incredibly easily. Isn't that kind of the whole point of root? That's why every desktop centric Linux distro I know of has you set up a normal user by default, and many times completely disallow direct root logins.
"Measuring a child's behaviour with adult criteria is inappropriate."
Only to a certain extent. You treat your children like kids, and they never learn to be adults. You're not raising a child... you're raising an adult. If they're constantly "protected", they'll learn that nothing is their fault or problem, their parents will take care of things for them, and that's why we have things like more grandparents than ever taking care of grandchildren as primary caregivers.
Being as it's a plugin, it won't play nicely with a 64bit native browser. Gotta use something like nspluginwrapper or likewise to get it to work. If it were a native part of the browser, you'd have a point. But lack of native 64bit support is a pretty big thing... switching to another browser to use a single plugin is as bad as having a standalone application, which is the whole thing they're trying to get away from.
Have you ever driven down a road? Oh, wait... that's government maintained, too. And much closer to what government-owned comms cables would be like than medicare or social security programs. Are you sure you aren't just an alternate login for BadAnalogyGuy?
That's a $6.85 ONE-TIME fee. They're making money hand over fist... it's simply the fact that broadband ISP's are completely unregulated and unabashed monopolies that is preventing us from getting better value for our dollar.