How can any competent network admin possibly think Firefox and Winamp are causing a computer to not boot?
You are dealing with a Windows admin. For many of them, the common reason for everything is that the problem is someone else's fault. That someone else being a combination of Microsoft, Firefox, Winamp, the computer's mood that day, some virus, "an act of God," or hackers that don't really exist. Don't take it personally.
I'm more concerned with the removal of murderous leaders than the embarrassment of American ones.
The thing is that the news media can:
-embarrass local and national leader to force them to reform.
The news media cannot:
-invade other nations to remove murderous leaders
(otherwise most of Africa would have been invaded by now)
Are you expecting too much out of the news media then? I prefer the news organizations effectively use what influence they have, then try to gain powers they don't.
To me, the murder of children -- wherever it occurs -- secures a higher priority of national concern than some dog yapping at the feet a naked terrorist.
So are you planning your trip to Sudan soon to save all the children there? No? Oh, so you only care to KNOW about children being murdered. Well that doesn't help much, does it? Especially not as much as KNOWING when government officials screw up, because unlike Saddam or the murders in Dafar our government changes its behavior when public ridicule embarrasses it internationally. Oh well, the great part about 2004 is that you can log on to Foxnews.com and find out every bad thing Saddam did wrong, and I can count on liberal national papers to embarrass our leaders (who deserve it by way of their actions) internationally and force them to change their wrong behavior.
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As for a GNOME fan, there is little that has met my tastes. I always am compelled to the very elegant KDE based ones. Oh well, perhaps I should just make my own
If you want a good Gnome distro (live CD and hard drive install), you have to try Ubuntu. It comes with plenty of software to do most activities, and any other software you need is easy to apt-get. There is a reason Gnoppix decided to adopt Ubuntu as its live CD.
I don't get it. This doesn't sound like big news. right now I can buy an HP for $379. I could probably get a cheap enough monitor to make it under the $483 price. So why is this news? Because its China? Why does that matter?
But apparently the distro does not have GCC and it was difficult to get. That's a Bad Thing.
Don't look here. From link:
"When I tried to install the NVidia video drivers, I found that their install script failed. First, they couldn't find a driver for my kernel in the package or on their website. Second, they attempted to compile the drivers, but GCC wasn't installed."
A month ago I installed 10.1 Official on my computer by installing the Community version and using URMPI to get the official version. I was looking forward to 10.1, as I need a good laptop OS. Yet I was very disappointed. My Linksys Wireless card (which worked fine in 10 official) wouldn't work. I tried in vain to fix it, but eventually gave up for Fedora Core 3. I would prefer to use Mandrake, as it probably has the most unofficial binary packages of any RPM distro and I hate compiling from source, but the non working drivers stopped the show for me.
Of course, this is my own experiance and other may differ.
But does it matter is Abiword is part of a suite? I use it on Linux because I need a good Word Processor, and Abiword takes less overhead and looks better than the OO writer. But each to his own...
Linux distributions should be judged on their technical and aesthetic merits, not on the pseudo-philosophical image they project for PR purposes.
And Ubuntu has many good technical merits to stand on. Its a wonderful mix of Fedora (easy to install, gnome based) and Debian (many packages that work, fast). If its not your thing, fine, but don't bite off someone's head for it.
You do understand that Progeny's site is designed to appeal to the market they want to sell to, and that Ubuntu's site is designed to appeal to people like you? You're being manipulated in either case.
Being manipulated? Into what? Ubuntu is as free as your time using it is. If anything the new age marketing tells you it has a healthy budget which is needed for its survival. Many things in this world wrap themselves in a coat of candy; it what we now call "a finished product" in marketingland.
Ok, I don't get it. What does this mean? Does it mean that OO no longer sucks in gnome? That would be great. I RTFA but it did not tell me in laymen's terms what will actually be better, just a promise that it would be.
I use Abiword because I hate it when OO's writer turns my fairly fast computer into a stuttering idoit everytime I use the spellcheck (except for in Mandrake for some reason). Will this make that stop? I hope so, because I am getting tired of the bug in Abiword that keeps things you deleted on the screen. It confuses me, but it is still not worse than my system locking up everytime I need spell checking.
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so imagine all the companies move overseas and everbody loses their jobs
Um...no. Not everyone. Just the people whose jobs are currently in industries that can be semi-easily be replicated overseas.
so who the companies are going to charge all the premium prices?
Other companies, the people who profitted on sending the jobs overseas, people in jobs that can't be replicated overseas,ect.
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So, do you think the srug companies make a loss selling drugs in Canada?
Nope. They make a small profit. But that is only because the U.S. market is overcharged enough to cover their research and testing costs.
Therefore the true question is: If the U.S. market didn't exist in its current form, do drug makers get enough revenue from Canada to cover their expenses? The answer to that question is no. If we Americans didn't get fleeced, that small profit made in Canada would in no way be enough to cover what it costs to create such drugs. Which means that either:
A. Candaians would stop getting drugs
B. (more likely) drug companies would tell Canada "stop controlling our prices or Canada will stop getting drugs."
Rememeber, we suffer for your gain.
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So why the US don't follow Canada's steps with specific rules for high-tech industry so ppl don't get to be fscked over by large companies?
Simple question, simple answer. The reason is that in America we don't pretend that we are actually running the show instead of companies. If we followed your lead and made it harder for large companies to screw over the IT crowd in the U.S.A., then those companies would say "damn, North America now costs us more, lets just move all our operations over to India or China where we can rape their local IT people any way we want."
You might say "well if our laws haven't driven the companies away, why would the U.S.'s?" Again a simple answer: there is not enough money lost by the Canadian IT regulations to make up for how much it would cost for North American companies to move overseas. (much smaller labor market than the U.S.'s) Now if you locked up the largest labor market in North America with the same regulation, suddenly it WILL be cheaper for them to pick up shop and leave. Some are already doing it just because of the few labor laws we do have (compared to nearly none in India)
The same thing happens in the drug industry. You know why you Canadians are allowed to control the price of drugs? Its because the companies make enough profit in America to make up for the fact that they make much less profit in Canada. I promise that if the U.S. drug market did not fill their coffers as they please, they would tell Canada "You know what, we don't want to give you the drugs so cheaply. Either pay up or we'll bail." Thats why they used their bought and paid for presidential administration to fix the loophole of U.S. people buying Canadian drugs. Its a lot better PR to just keep us Americans away from your cheap drug prices than tell your country "Well, we are going to stop selling drugs over here because the imports to America is killing our gravy train over there."
We get screwed for you. If we don't get screwed, these companies will just go to a continent where the screwing can be much more intense.
I spent days on end finding every repository I possibly could in order to find all the programs I needed for Fedora Core 2. At best I was able to find 4000 packages. You might say "hey, thats enough," but for me it's not. Not when the programs I need aren't in that 4000. Thats why I'm using Debian right now; because I can find 18000 packages for it and all the software I need.
I would love to use Fedora on my desktop. It installs live a dream and looks very clean. But sometimes you just need more...
What exactly, is wrong with RPM then? I only partly ask fo you to justify your comment, but also to educate me to its shortcomings, and the alternative's improvements.
Let me start off by saying that I love the new Fedora Core 3. It is much better than the last, and it is the only distro that works on my Toshiba laptop without a hitch. Bluecurve is the prettiest theme Ive ever seen.
But I wont use it on my home desktop because of the biggest problem with RPMs: The fact that they are hard to find. With Debian (maybe Gentoo), you can access easily over 12000 packages out the box. Hunting for days on end I would max out around 4000 packages found for Fedora Core 2 in its prime. On my laptop, where I mostly type and surf, this is enough. But on my desktop I need more (prime example: I could never find a RPM of the wonderful BitTorrent-GUI program for Fedora Core). Sure I could just install it the hard way. But that takes up much more time than learning to install Debian where I can get the needed software easily. If all the RPMs were in one FREE (sorry expensive silver package of Mandrake) repository, then RPMs would be perfect.
Well, if you were Google, wouldn't you also help out everything that might decrease IE's userbase? I mean, MSN is the default search engine for IE, but Google is the default search engine for Firefox. For all those people out there that think that the URL bar is a search bar, then helping them migrate to Firefox wll surely help them protect their corner of the market.
I downloaded Fedora Core 3, and installed it on a toshiba laptop that never quite worked how I wanted in Mandrake. The wireless card (Linksys WPC11 v3) worked without a hitch (wish I could say that about the new Mandrake) and the power controls worked how I wanted (compuer never sleeps!).
Try it dude. If it doesn't work, your going to have to shell out the money for SUSE anyway.
When it comes to Nintendo, you have to wonder- is this shortage on purpose?
Some might blow off this question. Why would a company create a shortage when the other option is to sell more product? Simple answer- it creates consumer excitement. The N64 definatly benefited over its lifespan from having an initial shortage, the free advertisement from news outlets interested in parents fighting over a video game machine probably boosted the longterm sales of N64 by a few million systems (and they needed it- that was their weakest console system to date). Nintento knows that it has to survive not only this Christmas, but the next two or three as well with the same hardware. Next year when there isn't a shortage all that free advertising from the shortage will pay off.
I think that Nintendo is trying to do it in the U.S. at this point (will Japan have a shortage too?). The only reason to avoid the shortage was if they were newcomers in the biz and they needed the numbers from Christmas to pick up developers. But since Nintendo is assumed to always win in that market, they already have developers lined out the door.
Its a win win situation for them. The only losers are gamers who didn't preorder in time (shame on you!).
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You are dealing with a Windows admin. For many of them, the common reason for everything is that the problem is someone else's fault. That someone else being a combination of Microsoft, Firefox, Winamp, the computer's mood that day, some virus, "an act of God," or hackers that don't really exist. Don't take it personally.
The thing is that the news media can:
-embarrass local and national leader to force them to reform.
The news media cannot:
-invade other nations to remove murderous leaders (otherwise most of Africa would have been invaded by now)
Are you expecting too much out of the news media then? I prefer the news organizations effectively use what influence they have, then try to gain powers they don't.
More like a Fedora with over 10,000 availible programs. Remember, Mepis is KDE based.
So are you planning your trip to Sudan soon to save all the children there? No? Oh, so you only care to KNOW about children being murdered. Well that doesn't help much, does it? Especially not as much as KNOWING when government officials screw up, because unlike Saddam or the murders in Dafar our government changes its behavior when public ridicule embarrasses it internationally. Oh well, the great part about 2004 is that you can log on to Foxnews.com and find out every bad thing Saddam did wrong, and I can count on liberal national papers to embarrass our leaders (who deserve it by way of their actions) internationally and force them to change their wrong behavior.
If you want a good Gnome distro (live CD and hard drive install), you have to try Ubuntu. It comes with plenty of software to do most activities, and any other software you need is easy to apt-get. There is a reason Gnoppix decided to adopt Ubuntu as its live CD.
Don't look here. From link:
"When I tried to install the NVidia video drivers, I found that their install script failed. First, they couldn't find a driver for my kernel in the package or on their website. Second, they attempted to compile the drivers, but GCC wasn't installed."
Of course, this is my own experiance and other may differ.
Or maybe... Ubuntu?
Are we going to see "AbiExcel?"
How about Gnumeric?.
But does it matter is Abiword is part of a suite? I use it on Linux because I need a good Word Processor, and Abiword takes less overhead and looks better than the OO writer. But each to his own...
1. Trying to make movies.
2. Using cartridges in the N64. (lead to them losing Squaresoft for a crucial time)
3. Virtual Boy
4. Messing up Mortal Combat
5. 64DD
And Ubuntu has many good technical merits to stand on. Its a wonderful mix of Fedora (easy to install, gnome based) and Debian (many packages that work, fast). If its not your thing, fine, but don't bite off someone's head for it.
You do understand that Progeny's site is designed to appeal to the market they want to sell to, and that Ubuntu's site is designed to appeal to people like you? You're being manipulated in either case.
Being manipulated? Into what? Ubuntu is as free as your time using it is. If anything the new age marketing tells you it has a healthy budget which is needed for its survival. Many things in this world wrap themselves in a coat of candy; it what we now call "a finished product" in marketingland.
I use Abiword because I hate it when OO's writer turns my fairly fast computer into a stuttering idoit everytime I use the spellcheck (except for in Mandrake for some reason). Will this make that stop? I hope so, because I am getting tired of the bug in Abiword that keeps things you deleted on the screen. It confuses me, but it is still not worse than my system locking up everytime I need spell checking.
Um...no. Not everyone. Just the people whose jobs are currently in industries that can be semi-easily be replicated overseas.
so who the companies are going to charge all the premium prices?
Other companies, the people who profitted on sending the jobs overseas, people in jobs that can't be replicated overseas,ect.
Nope. They make a small profit. But that is only because the U.S. market is overcharged enough to cover their research and testing costs.
Therefore the true question is: If the U.S. market didn't exist in its current form, do drug makers get enough revenue from Canada to cover their expenses? The answer to that question is no. If we Americans didn't get fleeced, that small profit made in Canada would in no way be enough to cover what it costs to create such drugs. Which means that either:
A. Candaians would stop getting drugs
B. (more likely) drug companies would tell Canada "stop controlling our prices or Canada will stop getting drugs."
Rememeber, we suffer for your gain.
Simple question, simple answer. The reason is that in America we don't pretend that we are actually running the show instead of companies. If we followed your lead and made it harder for large companies to screw over the IT crowd in the U.S.A., then those companies would say "damn, North America now costs us more, lets just move all our operations over to India or China where we can rape their local IT people any way we want."
You might say "well if our laws haven't driven the companies away, why would the U.S.'s?" Again a simple answer: there is not enough money lost by the Canadian IT regulations to make up for how much it would cost for North American companies to move overseas. (much smaller labor market than the U.S.'s) Now if you locked up the largest labor market in North America with the same regulation, suddenly it WILL be cheaper for them to pick up shop and leave. Some are already doing it just because of the few labor laws we do have (compared to nearly none in India)
The same thing happens in the drug industry. You know why you Canadians are allowed to control the price of drugs? Its because the companies make enough profit in America to make up for the fact that they make much less profit in Canada. I promise that if the U.S. drug market did not fill their coffers as they please, they would tell Canada "You know what, we don't want to give you the drugs so cheaply. Either pay up or we'll bail." Thats why they used their bought and paid for presidential administration to fix the loophole of U.S. people buying Canadian drugs. Its a lot better PR to just keep us Americans away from your cheap drug prices than tell your country "Well, we are going to stop selling drugs over here because the imports to America is killing our gravy train over there."
We get screwed for you. If we don't get screwed, these companies will just go to a continent where the screwing can be much more intense.
I was happy I live in Texas instead of California. At least here, we only obsessively track our children.
I would love to use Fedora on my desktop. It installs live a dream and looks very clean. But sometimes you just need more...
Let me start off by saying that I love the new Fedora Core 3. It is much better than the last, and it is the only distro that works on my Toshiba laptop without a hitch. Bluecurve is the prettiest theme Ive ever seen.
But I wont use it on my home desktop because of the biggest problem with RPMs: The fact that they are hard to find. With Debian (maybe Gentoo), you can access easily over 12000 packages out the box. Hunting for days on end I would max out around 4000 packages found for Fedora Core 2 in its prime. On my laptop, where I mostly type and surf, this is enough. But on my desktop I need more (prime example: I could never find a RPM of the wonderful BitTorrent-GUI program for Fedora Core). Sure I could just install it the hard way. But that takes up much more time than learning to install Debian where I can get the needed software easily. If all the RPMs were in one FREE (sorry expensive silver package of Mandrake) repository, then RPMs would be perfect.
Well, if you were Google, wouldn't you also help out everything that might decrease IE's userbase? I mean, MSN is the default search engine for IE, but Google is the default search engine for Firefox. For all those people out there that think that the URL bar is a search bar, then helping them migrate to Firefox wll surely help them protect their corner of the market.
I didn't try to set up the WEP, but here is a how-to!
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthre ad.php?t=25891
Try it dude. If it doesn't work, your going to have to shell out the money for SUSE anyway.
My two cents...
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. He's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
Some might blow off this question. Why would a company create a shortage when the other option is to sell more product? Simple answer- it creates consumer excitement. The N64 definatly benefited over its lifespan from having an initial shortage, the free advertisement from news outlets interested in parents fighting over a video game machine probably boosted the longterm sales of N64 by a few million systems (and they needed it- that was their weakest console system to date). Nintento knows that it has to survive not only this Christmas, but the next two or three as well with the same hardware. Next year when there isn't a shortage all that free advertising from the shortage will pay off.
I think that Nintendo is trying to do it in the U.S. at this point (will Japan have a shortage too?). The only reason to avoid the shortage was if they were newcomers in the biz and they needed the numbers from Christmas to pick up developers. But since Nintendo is assumed to always win in that market, they already have developers lined out the door.
Its a win win situation for them. The only losers are gamers who didn't preorder in time (shame on you!).