God has everything to do with the right wing, at least here in the US. The Christian Right controls the Republican Party (at least at this point in time). They have so much control in fact that I cannot fathom how any non-religious right-wingers are still Republicans.
I wouldn't say it sucks as much as this tranistional period is making things more difficult than they normally would be. ALSA is supported by most applications now and it has a lot of features, now it's time to make these features work with most cards.
Most linux beginners are not compiling their own software. I don't recall having many.so problems with precompiled linux distributions. I do remember having RPM hell though but like I said I haven't used an RPM distro in a while.
ALSA is the current driver infrastructure in the Linux kernel. OSS was the previous driver structure. ALSA has an OSS emulation layer.
ESD (The enlightenment sound daemon) is a software mixer that was also used in Gnome but isn't anymore. ARTS is the basically the KDE version of ESD but it also being deprecated in favor of ALSA's built in abilities like dmix.
I can definately say that what is refered to as 'DLL Hell' on Windows, happens 24 hours a day with.so.* files on Linux.
Maybe on your machine. I have run into a couple of missing.so files but it's usually because of some poor compilation options, which is easily remedied. I would compare DLL hell more closely with RPM hell, although I haven't used RPM's in a while so I'm not sure if that problem still exists.
HURD is very different from a traditional UNIX. Just because it has a UNIX interface does not mean it is just another UNIX clone. In fact it will probably be very easy to use another interface if someone decides to implement one considering how seperated the code is, it shouldn't be hard.
Besides if the HURD is made to be completely incompatible with UNIX and Linux then it will be another 20 years just to get some programs written for it. I don't think RMS is going to throw out all the GNU software that is already working to build a different kernel...not after 25 years, especially when 15 years were spent on the kernel itself.
Be prepared to have a radio that doesn't transmit. The only supportd a/b/g chipset that I know of is atheros and their driver is not free (because it cannot be). I doubt Intel will release drivers, and I know they will not release the specs, so in the end we'll end up with a useless radio.
As your post's parent pointed out, though, regardless of look, many previous releases of Linux managers (and GNOME is by far not the only one) have just not been thought through before they were implemented. Consistency, and consequently usability, suffer as a result
Please give an example because I find the opposite to be true. GNOME is very well thought through and happens to be ten times more consistent than XP. What exactly is so consistent with XP anyway?
Another thing that both Windows and OSX have over existing Linux systems (and OSX significantly moreso) is "Bells and Whistles". The all-singing, all-dancing, all-animated taskbars in Windows or OSX reassure people that their computer is doing something, and above that, modern. This is something that Linux can't currently compete with, although it is catching up at a good rate.
What does the taskbar do in Windows that can't be done in GNOME? In fact GNOME taskbars are more capable and versatile than XP taskbars.
First of all you can use a pda screen fine with the command line. In fact it's a little easier than a gui which would cramp the screen. Secondly, there is no need to poke anything with a stylus considering the previous poster specifically suggested a portable PDA keyboard. The only problem I see with that is if you have to do anything serious, typing on that thing is going to get very annoying.
Unfortunately it doesn't matter at all if privatey funded schools are better (which they are not in my opinion), because if you can't afford it you're screwed. If you follow this model then you just turned the entire country into an aristocracy.
In the 228 years the U.S. has existed, our largely-capitalist system is still mostly intact
Are you fucking kidding me? lawsuits, patents, mergers, monopolies, regulations, ads for drugs on TV, the ever widening gap between the rich and poor, homelessness, and a shitload of other things are totally fucked up in our capitalist society.
the ravages of the FDR administration and various other Presidencies since then (including, and perhaps in particular, the GW Bush admin) notwithstanding.
"Ravages" of the FDR administration?? That New Deal just screwed everyone didn't it?? FDR is the antichrist in the world of the right.
Oh and BTW, 228 years is nothing. If you think that 228 is a big number in the grand scheme of things then your mind is very small.
I'm moving up in the world. Now I'm only a troll instead of a communist.
How can you possibly equate internet access to something as basic as Free Speech, the right to worship, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure (oh, right - scratch that), the right to representative government, etc., etc.?
You missed the entire point because you were too busy frothing at the mouth to actually READ. It's not about the internet itself as much as it is about communication. You can't do some things without an email address. Society has made it a requirement and the governement is there to take care of society as a whole.
Do I have a right to a car? A television set? A Brittany Spears CD? If a driver's license is a priviledge, internet acess is certainly a luxury.
There is no correlation to what I am talking about.
Ask an Afghani woman or an Abu Grahaib detainee about DSL.
That's a total fallacy of logic.
Damn! I've been trolled. Back under my rock.
No, it's "communist" remember? As long as you're throwing labels around why don't you follow the general slashdot name-calling guidelines.
Didn't our very right-wing Republican adminstration just crow about their drug benefit? A subsidy? A socialist program?
There is a difference. That's called cronyism. Actually getting broadband out to people is something they will never do, although they may throw money at some of the corporations that provide broadband.
I think you're very naive about politics. Republicans aren't all that against socialism, as long as there's enough money in it for them.
I think you are naive. It's not called socialism, like I said before, it's called cronyism. There is a huge difference.
You're insane if you think Montana even has a total of 5% of the zip codes. Why in the hell would there even be a post office in a town where no one lives??? You have to have a post office to have a zip code.
The government decided a few years ago that Internet access was important and that appropriate funding should be provided to remote municipalities with low population densities. Since private companies did not find it attractive to build high-speed connections to remote places, the government and municipalities agreed to cover part of the cost.
That will never happen in the US as long as a republican is in office. You can't offer up that kind of idea in the US without being called a socialist. The odd thing about this is that the very people that this kind of thing would help (the red staters) support bush and the republicans.
Access to communications _should_ be a human right, just like the right to education (article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Private enterprise cannot be trusted or expected to cover human rights -- infrastructure in particular should be provided by public organisations.
I totally agree. In fact I once expressed the idea that people should have a right to the internet and that the government should support initiatives to broaden access, and I was shouted down and called a communist. I still don't understand why people in this country fight against themselves.
There's no "debate" about Alger Hiss among people in the intelligence community. You've obviously never had access to those sorts of materials.
You're right, I have never had access to those sorts of materials but I don't believe you have either.
Unfortunately for you, documents released from the KGB archives and those of their client regimes, such as the Stasi, absolutely did show a numebr of the people Joseph McCarthy fingered as Communist agents were such agents.
Again I say, don't be offended that I don't believe you, after all why should I?
It matters not a whit if you don't believe it. You're more than welcome to show up at my door and look at my orders, awards and photos from my time at Fort Meade but I'll most certainly not post such items for public consumption. There's the little factor of a 70-year gag order which affects anyone who's worked there.
Well I suppose I could claim I was God on the internet and someone would believe me, but I'm not one to be that foolish.
Actually the difference is population density. The 20th century saw much denser populations and made travel between areas of dense population much easier and quicker.
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God has everything to do with the right wing, at least here in the US. The Christian Right controls the Republican Party (at least at this point in time). They have so much control in fact that I cannot fathom how any non-religious right-wingers are still Republicans.
Debian is a much more proven server than OSX is. Who do you think you are kidding?
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I wouldn't say it sucks as much as this tranistional period is making things more difficult than they normally would be. ALSA is supported by most applications now and it has a lot of features, now it's time to make these features work with most cards.
Most linux beginners are not compiling their own software. I don't recall having many .so problems with precompiled linux distributions. I do remember having RPM hell though but like I said I haven't used an RPM distro in a while.
ALSA is the current driver infrastructure in the Linux kernel. OSS was the previous driver structure. ALSA has an OSS emulation layer.
ESD (The enlightenment sound daemon) is a software mixer that was also used in Gnome but isn't anymore. ARTS is the basically the KDE version of ESD but it also being deprecated in favor of ALSA's built in abilities like dmix.
I don't see your point.
Maybe on your machine. I have run into a couple of missing .so files but it's usually because of some poor compilation options, which is easily remedied. I would compare DLL hell more closely with RPM hell, although I haven't used RPM's in a while so I'm not sure if that problem still exists.
Besides if the HURD is made to be completely incompatible with UNIX and Linux then it will be another 20 years just to get some programs written for it. I don't think RMS is going to throw out all the GNU software that is already working to build a different kernel...not after 25 years, especially when 15 years were spent on the kernel itself.
True. When I ran track as long as you didn't finish DFL, (Dead Fucking Last, for those of you who don't know) you were good. "Just don't run DFL!"
No offense, but some of us know what we are doing and are not just blindly cutting and pasting commands from the forums.
Be prepared to have a radio that doesn't transmit. The only supportd a/b/g chipset that I know of is atheros and their driver is not free (because it cannot be). I doubt Intel will release drivers, and I know they will not release the specs, so in the end we'll end up with a useless radio.
Please give an example because I find the opposite to be true. GNOME is very well thought through and happens to be ten times more consistent than XP. What exactly is so consistent with XP anyway?
Another thing that both Windows and OSX have over existing Linux systems (and OSX significantly moreso) is "Bells and Whistles". The all-singing, all-dancing, all-animated taskbars in Windows or OSX reassure people that their computer is doing something, and above that, modern. This is something that Linux can't currently compete with, although it is catching up at a good rate.
What does the taskbar do in Windows that can't be done in GNOME? In fact GNOME taskbars are more capable and versatile than XP taskbars.
There may be a differnce to you but is there any discrimination in the law? That's all that really matters in this situation.
First of all you can use a pda screen fine with the command line. In fact it's a little easier than a gui which would cramp the screen. Secondly, there is no need to poke anything with a stylus considering the previous poster specifically suggested a portable PDA keyboard. The only problem I see with that is if you have to do anything serious, typing on that thing is going to get very annoying.
Sure, so it has nothing to do with things like ActiveX.
Unfortunately it doesn't matter at all if privatey funded schools are better (which they are not in my opinion), because if you can't afford it you're screwed. If you follow this model then you just turned the entire country into an aristocracy.
Thanks for the bandaid MS. Can you work on the root of the problem now or would that interfere too much with your business plan?
Are you fucking kidding me? lawsuits, patents, mergers, monopolies, regulations, ads for drugs on TV, the ever widening gap between the rich and poor, homelessness, and a shitload of other things are totally fucked up in our capitalist society.
the ravages of the FDR administration and various other Presidencies since then (including, and perhaps in particular, the GW Bush admin) notwithstanding.
"Ravages" of the FDR administration?? That New Deal just screwed everyone didn't it?? FDR is the antichrist in the world of the right.
Oh and BTW, 228 years is nothing. If you think that 228 is a big number in the grand scheme of things then your mind is very small.
I'm moving up in the world. Now I'm only a troll instead of a communist.
How can you possibly equate internet access to something as basic as Free Speech, the right to worship, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure (oh, right - scratch that), the right to representative government, etc., etc.?
You missed the entire point because you were too busy frothing at the mouth to actually READ. It's not about the internet itself as much as it is about communication. You can't do some things without an email address. Society has made it a requirement and the governement is there to take care of society as a whole.
Do I have a right to a car? A television set? A Brittany Spears CD? If a driver's license is a priviledge, internet acess is certainly a luxury.
There is no correlation to what I am talking about.
Ask an Afghani woman or an Abu Grahaib detainee about DSL.
That's a total fallacy of logic.
Damn! I've been trolled. Back under my rock.
No, it's "communist" remember? As long as you're throwing labels around why don't you follow the general slashdot name-calling guidelines.
There is a difference. That's called cronyism. Actually getting broadband out to people is something they will never do, although they may throw money at some of the corporations that provide broadband.
I think you're very naive about politics. Republicans aren't all that against socialism, as long as there's enough money in it for them.
I think you are naive. It's not called socialism, like I said before, it's called cronyism. There is a huge difference.
You're insane if you think Montana even has a total of 5% of the zip codes. Why in the hell would there even be a post office in a town where no one lives??? You have to have a post office to have a zip code.
That will never happen in the US as long as a republican is in office. You can't offer up that kind of idea in the US without being called a socialist. The odd thing about this is that the very people that this kind of thing would help (the red staters) support bush and the republicans.
Access to communications _should_ be a human right, just like the right to education (article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Private enterprise cannot be trusted or expected to cover human rights -- infrastructure in particular should be provided by public organisations.
I totally agree. In fact I once expressed the idea that people should have a right to the internet and that the government should support initiatives to broaden access, and I was shouted down and called a communist. I still don't understand why people in this country fight against themselves.
Yeah it is sickening, isn't it.
You're right, I have never had access to those sorts of materials but I don't believe you have either.
Unfortunately for you, documents released from the KGB archives and those of their client regimes, such as the Stasi, absolutely did show a numebr of the people Joseph McCarthy fingered as Communist agents were such agents.
Again I say, don't be offended that I don't believe you, after all why should I?
It matters not a whit if you don't believe it. You're more than welcome to show up at my door and look at my orders, awards and photos from my time at Fort Meade but I'll most certainly not post such items for public consumption. There's the little factor of a 70-year gag order which affects anyone who's worked there.
Well I suppose I could claim I was God on the internet and someone would believe me, but I'm not one to be that foolish.
Actually the difference is population density. The 20th century saw much denser populations and made travel between areas of dense population much easier and quicker.