That's what I use. I set up a cron job every night at 3am to update it. I'm rarely using the computer at that time so essentially I never feel the slowdown while it's updating the index. And it's fast as hell too to search for files. I haven't looked into it, but I believe KDE has an ioslave to use it in replacement of it's own search function.
It's an inanimate object. Why should we spend the money to bring it back to Earth. Sure we obtained some amazing photographs from it, but it's the designers and engineers who should be thanked. Not some telescope in the sky.
What struck me about that line was what obligation do they have to the musician to pay them back? They own the music and the contract requires them to pay the artist a portion of the money obtained from selling the music. So does the money they receive from out of court settlements go towards the amount they are obligated to pay the artist? If so, then I guess that is sort of fair in a weird way. But if not, then this is a huge loophole in the contracts.
I agree with you. Cities can be very wasteful. But the debate here is not if a city should decide whether or not to offer wifi paid by the taxpayers, it's if the government has the right to ban it altogether.
If people in my town wanted this and we voted on it, then that would one thing. But if people in my town wanted it and the council said "I'm sorry, you don't have the right to vote on it" then that's a whole different story.
"Several telecommunications companies, which provide both dial-up Internet access as well as faster broadband connections through cable and DSL lines, say they were not involved in writing the bill."
I think they're lying. Plain and simple.
"That's not to say they disagree with the wireless provision. SBC Communications, which has more DSL customers in the nation than any other provider, said cities should be allowed to offer wireless Internet access in public places, such as parks and libraries. But they should not directly compete with private enterprises by providing services to residents and businesses, said company spokesman Gene Acuña.
"If they do, then we would have some real concerns," he said."
Such as what? If the town/city screws it up then people can purchase their own service. It should be up to the taxpayers to decide if they want this or not. And if you're a tax payer who does not want your money wasted on this, then fight it in your city.
I think the fact that he could take a cat nap shows his involvement in this was just as a backup. The computer did all the work accept for the beginning and ending of the flight. I don't mean to sound cynical, but this is hardly the feat on the same scale as Charles Lindbergh.
The GUI is pretty ugly, I have to give you that. I guess they could have chosen to spend more time and create a nicer interface, or choose gtk of qt. The last two options would have created large dependencies. I'm not sure exactly how it works for binary packages, but does that create a problem with different distros putting those libraries in different places? So would that just create a lot more headaches just for a nicer GUI? I don't know the answer to that one, so anyone please correct my ignorance.
I'd prefer if they just made their own GUI that looked nice. But it'd take time and cost them money for a product that they do not charge anything for in a tiny market. I'm sure a lot of Linux users are waiting for a native version of Photoshop, and this could pave the way for that.
What's wrong with it? It works well with firefox. It's a lot less bloated than version 6 for windows. Loads faster than the bloated one for windows. I prefer that they haven't filled it to the brim with crap. Every once in a while I'll get a warning telling me it might not display the pdf correctly, but it always seems to work fine.
I'm not discounting any problems you've had, I'm just curious as to what they are.
That's an extremely good point. I never thought of it that way before. I'm over 18. All my roommates are over 18. We pay comcast a lot of money for cable each month. We deserve to be treated like adults.
It's not like profanities are being streamed into kids' ears without anyone able to stop it. Parents have the ability to block channels and programs, so why not leave it up to them. Do these people really think indecent programming is what's hurting our culture? Hell, MTV in all it's corporate wholesomeness is more damaging to youth than some guy saying "shit" on television at 10PM.
Yahoo may have more services, but their interface is so cluttered it's difficult to find them. Compare Google's home page to Yahoo's. If you are just interested in a simple search, Google is great. If you are interested in more services, click the "more" link and then you see the services nicely laid out. Yahoo's home page, on the other hand, is so cluttered I get dizzy just looking for the "Weather" link. Alright, well, not dizzy, but it takes a few seconds.
"Google is our friend right now because favouring firefox would benifit their own shareholders by keeping Microsoft from introducing more divergent tandards."
I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Firefox is good for Google because it can take IE users away from Microsoft. Microsoft is a competitor to Google in (at the very least) the search engine area. Google is probably trying to get into other areas Microsoft holds a dominance in. So taking users away from Microsoft is good for Google. And funding a non-profit that creates a really good web browser is good for the community. The only people should worry about is if someday Google topples Microsoft and becomes the king of the internet, will they turn out to be just another evil monopoly?
If that sounds crazy, just remember how IBM was evil once, and now people like them for their love for open source.
I agree with you. I'm a Computer Engineering major. A lot of my time is spent doing labs and writing lab reports. However, a good portion of what I will do today is writing a report and making a powerpoint presentation about a board game we had to make for 5 year old for this gen-ed class. Later today, I'll work on a lab in my computer architecture class about using XILINX and modelsim to program an FPGA. Then I'll start the next lab of implementing a simple cpu on an FPGA.
My point? The gen-ed is an easy A and it's nice to have an easy class, even though today I had to do a little work on it. It's a good break from writing a technical report to something based off Candyland. College should never be a trade school, but learning how to get work done and do it properly. And the only way you get there is by working a lot so you understand the stuff by the time you graduate.
I'd have to agree with you there. Even using IceWM or xfce, the software is still going to take a long time to load. People fear and resist change. Introducing them to an alternative, in this case Linux, is not going to go well if the computers can't handle it. This guy mentioned P3s with 256 mb of ram. That would barely run KDE in my opinion. Now some might claim that opinion is wrong. But I have standards that it shouldn't take a web browser 30 seconds to load.
I have an epson perfection 1650 photo and it works fine. In windows, the drivers we good and in linux it works fine with sane. It was a pretty good scanner when they came out, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I can second that. I have a Canon i850. It has 4 ink tanks, and the black one is double size. I can go months and months before replacing a tank. A set of 4 tanks costs about $40-50 though, 1/3 the original price of the printer.
The heads are fixed in the printer. Recently, I was having trouble with print quality. I took the head out and it was all gunked up. A quick clean with a tissue and Q-tip fixed the problem and now it's working as good as when I bought it.
The only complaint I do have about Canon printers though is the linux drivers. They pretty much don't exist. They have some Japanese drivers in rpms that sort of work. Otherwise you're stuck using proprietary and non-free (~$30) drivers from Turbo Print. So that is something to definitely consider when purchasing a printer. I haven't used a Lexmark or Epson printer with linux, but I've read their drivers are better.
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Well, thank you for restating what I said.
The fact that it's on the Internet is moot; it's false advertising. Simply that.
That's what I use. I set up a cron job every night at 3am to update it. I'm rarely using the computer at that time so essentially I never feel the slowdown while it's updating the index. And it's fast as hell too to search for files. I haven't looked into it, but I believe KDE has an ioslave to use it in replacement of it's own search function.
It?
It's an inanimate object. Why should we spend the money to bring it back to Earth. Sure we obtained some amazing photographs from it, but it's the designers and engineers who should be thanked. Not some telescope in the sky.
On most of the benchmarks, AMD seemed to perform a little better. On a side note,
"Intel's EM64T architecture can implement Windows' x86-64 mode"
I thought this was called amd64.
Too bad there aren't any "I'd hate to be the guy calling up Microsoft to activate all those copies of windows" jokes.
But if there were, "I'd hate to be the guy calling up Microsoft to activate all those copies of windows"
Beautifully said.
What struck me about that line was what obligation do they have to the musician to pay them back? They own the music and the contract requires them to pay the artist a portion of the money obtained from selling the music. So does the money they receive from out of court settlements go towards the amount they are obligated to pay the artist? If so, then I guess that is sort of fair in a weird way. But if not, then this is a huge loophole in the contracts.
I agree with you. Cities can be very wasteful. But the debate here is not if a city should decide whether or not to offer wifi paid by the taxpayers, it's if the government has the right to ban it altogether.
If people in my town wanted this and we voted on it, then that would one thing. But if people in my town wanted it and the council said "I'm sorry, you don't have the right to vote on it" then that's a whole different story.
I believe that's the issue here.
"Several telecommunications companies, which provide both dial-up Internet access as well as faster broadband connections through cable and DSL lines, say they were not involved in writing the bill."
I think they're lying. Plain and simple.
"That's not to say they disagree with the wireless provision. SBC Communications, which has more DSL customers in the nation than any other provider, said cities should be allowed to offer wireless Internet access in public places, such as parks and libraries. But they should not directly compete with private enterprises by providing services to residents and businesses, said company spokesman Gene Acuña.
"If they do, then we would have some real concerns," he said."
Such as what? If the town/city screws it up then people can purchase their own service. It should be up to the taxpayers to decide if they want this or not. And if you're a tax payer who does not want your money wasted on this, then fight it in your city.
I think the fact that he could take a cat nap shows his involvement in this was just as a backup. The computer did all the work accept for the beginning and ending of the flight. I don't mean to sound cynical, but this is hardly the feat on the same scale as Charles Lindbergh.
Are you serious? I'm referring to the linux version.
The GUI is pretty ugly, I have to give you that. I guess they could have chosen to spend more time and create a nicer interface, or choose gtk of qt. The last two options would have created large dependencies. I'm not sure exactly how it works for binary packages, but does that create a problem with different distros putting those libraries in different places? So would that just create a lot more headaches just for a nicer GUI? I don't know the answer to that one, so anyone please correct my ignorance.
I'd prefer if they just made their own GUI that looked nice. But it'd take time and cost them money for a product that they do not charge anything for in a tiny market. I'm sure a lot of Linux users are waiting for a native version of Photoshop, and this could pave the way for that.
What's wrong with it? It works well with firefox. It's a lot less bloated than version 6 for windows. Loads faster than the bloated one for windows. I prefer that they haven't filled it to the brim with crap. Every once in a while I'll get a warning telling me it might not display the pdf correctly, but it always seems to work fine.
I'm not discounting any problems you've had, I'm just curious as to what they are.
That's an extremely good point. I never thought of it that way before. I'm over 18. All my roommates are over 18. We pay comcast a lot of money for cable each month. We deserve to be treated like adults.
It's not like profanities are being streamed into kids' ears without anyone able to stop it. Parents have the ability to block channels and programs, so why not leave it up to them. Do these people really think indecent programming is what's hurting our culture? Hell, MTV in all it's corporate wholesomeness is more damaging to youth than some guy saying "shit" on television at 10PM.
For gentoo users though who are used to compiling both from scratch, OOo takes much longer. Of course, that's why I use openoffice-bin.
Yahoo may have more services, but their interface is so cluttered it's difficult to find them. Compare Google's home page to Yahoo's. If you are just interested in a simple search, Google is great. If you are interested in more services, click the "more" link and then you see the services nicely laid out. Yahoo's home page, on the other hand, is so cluttered I get dizzy just looking for the "Weather" link. Alright, well, not dizzy, but it takes a few seconds.
"Google is our friend right now because favouring firefox would benifit their own shareholders by keeping Microsoft from introducing more divergent tandards."
I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Firefox is good for Google because it can take IE users away from Microsoft. Microsoft is a competitor to Google in (at the very least) the search engine area. Google is probably trying to get into other areas Microsoft holds a dominance in. So taking users away from Microsoft is good for Google. And funding a non-profit that creates a really good web browser is good for the community. The only people should worry about is if someday Google topples Microsoft and becomes the king of the internet, will they turn out to be just another evil monopoly?
If that sounds crazy, just remember how IBM was evil once, and now people like them for their love for open source.
I agree with you. I'm a Computer Engineering major. A lot of my time is spent doing labs and writing lab reports. However, a good portion of what I will do today is writing a report and making a powerpoint presentation about a board game we had to make for 5 year old for this gen-ed class. Later today, I'll work on a lab in my computer architecture class about using XILINX and modelsim to program an FPGA. Then I'll start the next lab of implementing a simple cpu on an FPGA.
My point? The gen-ed is an easy A and it's nice to have an easy class, even though today I had to do a little work on it. It's a good break from writing a technical report to something based off Candyland. College should never be a trade school, but learning how to get work done and do it properly. And the only way you get there is by working a lot so you understand the stuff by the time you graduate.
actually the joke was finding the first comment modded up to 5 and posting it. I guess it wasn't that obvious, and therefore not too funny.
Can't win 'em all
How do they have the money to do this? Weren't they almost bankrupt about a year ago?
(this is a joke)
You should've been here for the November elections.
I'd have to agree with you there. Even using IceWM or xfce, the software is still going to take a long time to load. People fear and resist change. Introducing them to an alternative, in this case Linux, is not going to go well if the computers can't handle it. This guy mentioned P3s with 256 mb of ram. That would barely run KDE in my opinion. Now some might claim that opinion is wrong. But I have standards that it shouldn't take a web browser 30 seconds to load.
um, yeah, let's make a "soviet russia" joke about children being abused. especially since a lot of it seems to come from russia anyway.
I have an epson perfection 1650 photo and it works fine. In windows, the drivers we good and in linux it works fine with sane. It was a pretty good scanner when they came out, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I can second that. I have a Canon i850. It has 4 ink tanks, and the black one is double size. I can go months and months before replacing a tank. A set of 4 tanks costs about $40-50 though, 1/3 the original price of the printer.
The heads are fixed in the printer. Recently, I was having trouble with print quality. I took the head out and it was all gunked up. A quick clean with a tissue and Q-tip fixed the problem and now it's working as good as when I bought it.
The only complaint I do have about Canon printers though is the linux drivers. They pretty much don't exist. They have some Japanese drivers in rpms that sort of work. Otherwise you're stuck using proprietary and non-free (~$30) drivers from Turbo Print. So that is something to definitely consider when purchasing a printer. I haven't used a Lexmark or Epson printer with linux, but I've read their drivers are better.