Empty (all zero) sectors compress to practically nothing, consequently a zipped DVD iso would be hardly any bigger than a zipped CD iso, assuming they both contain the same content.
That target demographic (Windows users) have already proven they can deal with difficult and quirky software. I for one firmly believe Windows is more illogical, quirky and generally hard to use than Linux ever was. I doubt that Synaptic really represents much of a challenge to understand.
The excuse given for dropping Synaptic is to make space on the CD, but I remember reading somewhere fairly trustworthy that 11.04 would be the last release as a CD ISO, and the next release (11.10) would be a DVD iso.
Continuing to require Ubuntu to only be released as a CD-sized ISO is a backward step IMHO. At least also provide a DVD image. They've already pushed the size limit of the ISO so much that you can't even use conventional 650mb CDRs or even 80 minute CD/RWs, you specifically need an 80-minute CDR.
These days CDR has been practically obsoleted by DVD+/-R(W) and writeable blu-ray. I wish Ubuntu would make the jump. I personally find it very inconvenient to have to keep a stock of 80 minute blank CDRs around just for ubuntu releases. It feels as bad as having to keep floppy disks around. Everything else I do I use blank DVDs or blu-rays for.
It seems to me a more likely reason for dropping Synaptic is that the marketing minds behind Ubuntu are gradually eliminating support for those pesky power users. If true this is the same massively broken thinking that makes Windows such a pain in the ass to use for anyone trying to do anything remotely technical. I mean what the F*** are they thinking with that horribly inefficient unity interface?
Having the power to efficiently and directly do what I need to with as few keystrokes/clicks as possible, and avoiding being forced to use a series of dumbed-down and limited tools that automatically assume you're ignorant and stupid is why I chose to use Linux over Windows in the first place. Unfortunately the road Ubuntu is on seems to be remarkably similar to Microsoft in assuming users can't possibly know enough to be trusted with a powerful tool.
Any more dumbing down of Ubuntu and I for one will be dropping it.
I wish those friggin advertising calls wouldn't be allowed to spoof their numbers. As far as I am concerned, getting some stupid marketing company cold-calling my cell even though I am already on donotcall.gov IS harmful.
>> Their vote will have absolutely no impact on global warming.
They will need to build more coal/gas/oil burning stations to meet the vacuum left by closure of existing nuclear stations. How can you say that won't impact global wamingf?
>> I don't believe the terminally ill are in the right frame of mind to make important decisions....and I don't believe such a terrible generalization can ever be correct.
I can imagine people think they're being green when voting down nuclear power, but actually their vote is causing much worse environmental impact and global warming by the necessary increase in conventional non-nuclear energy production.
Read your own citation. A later court trial found the police guilty of wrongful arrest, assault and criminal damage.
Even though US cops apparently often use brutal tactics as a first option, you NEVER see the police in the US getting hauled into court and found guilty of assault.
>> hand the system over to a bunch of nations that don't believe in free speech.
As a Brit now living in the US, I was surprised by the large difference between the EU and the US in what is considered "allowable speech". People are MUCH more restricted in the US than in the EU both by police and worse, societal norms as a whole. Also I was surprised by how US police act like thugs and bullies even as a first response. EU cops wouldn't ever do that. For example look what happened at your Lincoln Memorial (more than once apparently): http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/dont_dance_at_the_lincoln_memorial.html
When you Americans say you live in the "The Land of the Free" do you REALLY believe it? If so, you need to get out and see the world and get a reality check for yourselves.
I'm not saying the EU is perfect, we have our own issues, however in this respect its better. At least we can peacefully protest and say what we want without fear that our cops would or could kick our heads in then get away with it.
Actually the US is the worlds largest manufacturer and exporter of weapons but let's save that for another post.
It seems to me that when a government itself corrupts own legal system, especially just to further protect already rich mega corporations, you have already lost your country.
>> Like what? I mean, it really isn't that big of a deal, it's just inserting a few genes.
I can easily imagine that kind of thinking will become: a) scarily common b) the last thing some crazy scientist says before unwittingly unleashing global genocide.
put me in the first group. I just don't understand how anyone with enough intelligence to be able to read could seriously deny the existence of global warming, or fail to identify that nuclear is the only viable solution.
So Merkel is saying: Let's be more "green" by wasting a vast amount of money to replace nuclear energy with a large increase in open-cast strip mining for coal and/or extra drilling for oil and gas mostly in natural wildernesses, which we can then burn and make many tons more CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions every year.
My only question is how is it even possible that she or at least most other Germans have not had the blindingly obvious "Oh Wait..." moment yet?
I will be honest that I don't know enough about how they genetically manipulated specifically these potatoes but I find the whole idea of directly genetically engineering food is bloody scary when you consider _all_ the risks and potential disadvantages. I know that hybridising and cross breeding for selective traits has been going on for millenia and the food crops we have today wouldn't ever have evolved naturally, however direct modification of the core organic mechanisms of our food is a whole other level. Doing it while at the same time admitting we don't know everything is plain crazy.
Apart from the whole safety of our food issues, do we really want our whole food ecosystem to be under tight patent control by megacorps like Monsanto?
History shows us over and over that with any decision made by a megacorp, maximising profit is the ONLY factor. Morality, safety, common sense and whats actually the best for the people/planet NEVER affect corporate decisions.
Mod parent up Wow this works really well! Since briefly connecting my ethernet to the power socket I haven't had any hack attempts at all!! That must have showed them!!
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Empty (all zero) sectors compress to practically nothing, consequently a zipped DVD iso would be hardly any bigger than a zipped CD iso, assuming they both contain the same content.
That target demographic (Windows users) have already proven they can deal with difficult and quirky software. I for one firmly believe Windows is more illogical, quirky and generally hard to use than Linux ever was. I doubt that Synaptic really represents much of a challenge to understand.
The excuse given for dropping Synaptic is to make space on the CD, but I remember reading somewhere fairly trustworthy that 11.04 would be the last release as a CD ISO, and the next release (11.10) would be a DVD iso.
Continuing to require Ubuntu to only be released as a CD-sized ISO is a backward step IMHO. At least also provide a DVD image. They've already pushed the size limit of the ISO so much that you can't even use conventional 650mb CDRs or even 80 minute CD/RWs, you specifically need an 80-minute CDR.
These days CDR has been practically obsoleted by DVD+/-R(W) and writeable blu-ray. I wish Ubuntu would make the jump. I personally find it very inconvenient to have to keep a stock of 80 minute blank CDRs around just for ubuntu releases. It feels as bad as having to keep floppy disks around. Everything else I do I use blank DVDs or blu-rays for.
It seems to me a more likely reason for dropping Synaptic is that the marketing minds behind Ubuntu are gradually eliminating support for those pesky power users. If true this is the same massively broken thinking that makes Windows such a pain in the ass to use for anyone trying to do anything remotely technical. I mean what the F*** are they thinking with that horribly inefficient unity interface?
Having the power to efficiently and directly do what I need to with as few keystrokes/clicks as possible, and avoiding being forced to use a series of dumbed-down and limited tools that automatically assume you're ignorant and stupid is why I chose to use Linux over Windows in the first place. Unfortunately the road Ubuntu is on seems to be remarkably similar to Microsoft in assuming users can't possibly know enough to be trusted with a powerful tool.
Any more dumbing down of Ubuntu and I for one will be dropping it.
>> What the fuck do you think it uses to download and install packages?
I'm guessing it uses apt-get, which != synaptic
I wish those friggin advertising calls wouldn't be allowed to spoof their numbers. As far as I am concerned, getting some stupid marketing company cold-calling my cell even though I am already on donotcall.gov IS harmful.
well I guess my ignorance matches the level of your rudeness then
no but Apple engineered and implemented the mechanism in their OS that allows software 'updates' to be forcibly pushed onto people that don't want it.
Perhaps there needs to be more nuclear stations in Italy, to cut down on the emissions from Italy's conventional power stations.
>> Their vote will have absolutely no impact on global warming.
They will need to build more coal/gas/oil burning stations to meet the vacuum left by closure of existing nuclear stations. How can you say that won't impact global wamingf?
exactly. Its why I only use Linux.
You chose to buy an Apple product, Its no secret that they enforce an oppressive monoculture.
Yet another games rental service that completely ignores PC gamers.
>> I don't believe the terminally ill are in the right frame of mind to make important decisions. ...and I don't believe such a terrible generalization can ever be correct.
actually let me take that back. I've done some research since I wrote the above response.
Its not never, its almost never.
I can imagine people think they're being green when voting down nuclear power, but actually their vote is causing much worse environmental impact and global warming by the necessary increase in conventional non-nuclear energy production.
Read your own citation. A later court trial found the police guilty of wrongful arrest, assault and criminal damage.
Even though US cops apparently often use brutal tactics as a first option, you NEVER see the police in the US getting hauled into court and found guilty of assault.
>> hand the system over to a bunch of nations that don't believe in free speech.
As a Brit now living in the US, I was surprised by the large difference between the EU and the US in what is considered "allowable speech". People are MUCH more restricted in the US than in the EU both by police and worse, societal norms as a whole. Also I was surprised by how US police act like thugs and bullies even as a first response. EU cops wouldn't ever do that.
For example look what happened at your Lincoln Memorial (more than once apparently):
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/dont_dance_at_the_lincoln_memorial.html
When you Americans say you live in the "The Land of the Free" do you REALLY believe it? If so, you need to get out and see the world and get a reality check for yourselves.
I'm not saying the EU is perfect, we have our own issues, however in this respect its better.
At least we can peacefully protest and say what we want without fear that our cops would or could kick our heads in then get away with it.
Actually the US is the worlds largest manufacturer and exporter of weapons but let's save that for another post.
It seems to me that when a government itself corrupts own legal system, especially just to further protect already rich mega corporations, you have already lost your country.
Meh. Strong typing is waaay overrated.
I can't tell you how many broken keyboards it has cost me.
>> Like what? I mean, it really isn't that big of a deal, it's just inserting a few genes.
I can easily imagine that kind of thinking will become:
a) scarily common
b) the last thing some crazy scientist says before unwittingly unleashing global genocide.
put me in the first group.
I just don't understand how anyone with enough intelligence to be able to read could seriously deny the existence of global warming, or fail to identify that nuclear is the only viable solution.
So Merkel is saying: Let's be more "green" by wasting a vast amount of money to replace nuclear energy with a large increase in open-cast strip mining for coal and/or extra drilling for oil and gas mostly in natural wildernesses, which we can then burn and make many tons more CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions every year.
My only question is how is it even possible that she or at least most other Germans have not had the blindingly obvious "Oh Wait..." moment yet?
I think this happens already.
I will be honest that I don't know enough about how they genetically manipulated specifically these potatoes but I find the whole idea of directly genetically engineering food is bloody scary when you consider _all_ the risks and potential disadvantages.
I know that hybridising and cross breeding for selective traits has been going on for millenia and the food crops we have today wouldn't ever have evolved naturally, however direct modification of the core organic mechanisms of our food is a whole other level. Doing it while at the same time admitting we don't know everything is plain crazy.
Apart from the whole safety of our food issues, do we really want our whole food ecosystem to be under tight patent control by megacorps like Monsanto?
History shows us over and over that with any decision made by a megacorp, maximising profit is the ONLY factor. Morality, safety, common sense and whats actually the best for the people/planet NEVER affect corporate decisions.
Mod parent up Wow this works really well!
Since briefly connecting my ethernet to the power socket I haven't had any hack attempts at all!! That must have showed them!!