the Command Line Interface is very powerful if you take the time to learn it.
GUIs have their place, but I'd propose that file manipulation, finding specific things, and email are not it.
If you need a GUI, then fire up python and perl and write a quick one to do what you'd like. I do much better looking at raw data and websites with graphs and charts produced by automated scripts.
Honestly, if you don't have a lot of time to sink into learning linux (i.e. make time) then don't bother. There are a lot of things to wrap your mind around and it takes a great deal of time to become as familiar as you are in Windows.
That's one opinion. Another that MP3 and OGG serve a purpose by making virtually similar music available in smaller sizes.
And, like Debian, support for OGG is support for Open Standards and the GNU way of doing things. Not everything has to be a philosophical debate, but when you have the choice between doing "right" and doing "normal", I hope that you choose "right" when all other things are equal to "normal".
BTW, if you're ever in a bookstore you should thumb through a historical atlas and see what kind of cool stuff was happening on our planet 4200 years ago.
Um...he won't be able to find one...Christian bookstores don't contain fact books.
Just wait and see, some day computing power will be supplied and consumed the way electric power is today.
No it won't. Computing power is still going to increase exponentially and reduce in price as per Moore's statement. With the advent of new material science, such as diamond microprocessors, the power of each individual processor will continue to improve.
The added flexibility of x86ish based clustering will allow for small businesses to increase their ability to get work done and outcompete the large corporations.
What we will see is an increase in ownership of high powered processors and localized grids for small companies with large automated systems. Each of these small companies will reap massive profits as the corporations lose their stranglehold on the world and true capitalism and competition will ensue.
I seriously doubt I will ever "rent" computing power from IBM. I understand that this was a failed model in the past. Human nature won't allow IBM to control all of the data.
Now, I've lived and travelled all over the US and Europe in the last 20 years. There is a lot of nature left out there. If it's not forests in western Mass. or state parks around DC then it is Yosemite.
Everyone, including the republicans, want to live in a nice place surrounded by trees. There is no enemy here, there is just a caution to not believe everything you hear.
In the time I've been alive, a lot of America has gotten a lot more beautiful. Which means that the Environmentalists have won their arguements here. And for 30 years, Environmental Programs have done what is necessary to give us a better place to live.
Now, I'd like to see those programs reduced, and have the money go to fiscal responsibility. Many Government projects need to be shrunk to find a balance in the way things work. Becuase overtime
they will all grow again and need to be shrunk again.
Over time, these things can happen. But if you have an Environmentalist who's never enjoyed the state parks that exist, or climbed the various wonders that we already have protected then it's like telling a republican that he is supposed to help other people with his money.
My point, is that if you look around where you live, the environment is pretty good and it's time to tighten our belts and deal with other matters such as the huge deficit that I don't want to be paying interest on.
When I go shopping, I just go shopping. I would not bother making a list,
It's been shown that people who don't make lists pay about 30% more for the same items as people who do.
If thats acceptable to you compared to spending 10 minutes keeping a list....then power to you.
It also means that you are the Ideal walmart shopper. Someone who wanders in with an item in mind and sees low prices on the front stuff but doesn't see the jacked up prices on the other stuff. In the end most people spend more at walmart than they would otherwise because of not sticking to a list.
there aren't a million geeks in the world...let alone on slashdot. You'd have to get everyone and their mother to buy the game to break even. Otherwise you'd need 5$ from each of us.
this constitutes prior art and the kids can't be sued as they aren't legal persons in our system. Their parents can be sued but that wouldn't fly anyway.
Because the children couldn't afford to/didn't want to patent the technology ANYone can now build a hydrogen powered car with this system and profit from it.
22% efficient of free resource is +product. Just because a technology doesn't maximize a free resource doesn't mean that that technology is worthless, just that a lot more research can be done to improve it.
Hydrogen is useful as a battery device that produces no waste. Electric vehicles are nice but our current batteries are way too heavy to provide decent life for laptops or cars. That can be debated.
is it right to use that land for fuel instead of feeding people?
In US America, we pay farmers NOT to produce food. We have too much land that can be used by farmers. Our federal government also buys a lot of it and puts it in warehouses to rot. We do this to artificially increase prices and avoid things like the Great Depression. Thats why the rest of the world won't buy our food and starve instead; the transportation cost plus the artificial price Americans pay for the food America produces is too high.
The cost of sugar in the US is 3x that of the cost of sugar in Brazil.
There is no moral issue. Just Republican Farmers fighting Republican Oil Companies in Congress over what gets subsidized.
5. Infrastructure. When is the last time you say a hydrogen station?
did it occur to you that society wouldn't need a billion ugly gas stations on every corner if everyone owned a water-electrolysis hydrogen machine in their car/home for 50$?
Slashdot Mirror
the Command Line Interface is very powerful if you take the time to learn it.
GUIs have their place, but I'd propose that file manipulation, finding specific things, and email are not it.
If you need a GUI, then fire up python and perl and write a quick one to do what you'd like. I do much better looking at raw data and websites with graphs and charts produced by automated scripts.
Honestly, if you don't have a lot of time to sink into learning linux (i.e. make time) then don't bother. There are a lot of things to wrap your mind around and it takes a great deal of time to become as familiar as you are in Windows.
check your cd burner and burner software.
Mount the iso loopback in *nix to test to see if it is good or bad.
"How Come" is not proper English/American please use the word "Why" if you wish to be respected when you ask a question.
In the first round of funding government contractors focus on getting more work with the most common parts available.
They'll get the contract for building these robots and then get a follow on contract to integrate weapons systems.
It's a long and tedious process.
worthless
That's one opinion. Another that MP3 and OGG serve a purpose by making virtually similar music available in smaller sizes.
And, like Debian, support for OGG is support for Open Standards and the GNU way of doing things. Not everything has to be a philosophical debate, but when you have the choice between doing "right" and doing "normal", I hope that you choose "right" when all other things are equal to "normal".
BTW, if you're ever in a bookstore you should thumb through a historical atlas and see what kind of cool stuff was happening on our planet 4200 years ago.
Um...he won't be able to find one...Christian bookstores don't contain fact books.
Just wait and see, some day computing power will be supplied and consumed the way electric power is today.
No it won't. Computing power is still going to increase exponentially and reduce in price as per Moore's statement. With the advent of new material science, such as diamond microprocessors, the power of each individual processor will continue to improve.
The added flexibility of x86ish based clustering will allow for small businesses to increase their ability to get work done and outcompete the large corporations.
What we will see is an increase in ownership of high powered processors and localized grids for small companies with large automated systems. Each of these small companies will reap massive profits as the corporations lose their stranglehold on the world and true capitalism and competition will ensue.
I seriously doubt I will ever "rent" computing power from IBM. I understand that this was a failed model in the past. Human nature won't allow IBM to control all of the data.
Alright, step back and take a breath.
Now, I've lived and travelled all over the US and Europe in the last 20 years. There is a lot of nature left out there. If it's not forests in western Mass. or state parks around DC then it is Yosemite.
Everyone, including the republicans, want to live in a nice place surrounded by trees. There is no enemy here, there is just a caution to not believe everything you hear.
In the time I've been alive, a lot of America has gotten a lot more beautiful. Which means that the Environmentalists have won their arguements here. And for 30 years, Environmental Programs have done what is necessary to give us a better place to live.
Now, I'd like to see those programs reduced, and have the money go to fiscal responsibility. Many Government projects need to be shrunk to find a balance in the way things work. Becuase overtime they will all grow again and need to be shrunk again.
Over time, these things can happen. But if you have an Environmentalist who's never enjoyed the state parks that exist, or climbed the various wonders that we already have protected then it's like telling a republican that he is supposed to help other people with his money.
My point, is that if you look around where you live, the environment is pretty good and it's time to tighten our belts and deal with other matters such as the huge deficit that I don't want to be paying interest on.
...and then I would post it to the site in as close to real-time as possible
someone needs to study up on automation techniques, procmail, and $programming_language
This is a one line program if you know what you're doing.
It's easy to take the moral high road when you earn more in two-three weeks than the average Russian person earns in a year, isn't it?
Perhaps the parents of the average Russian child should have made better decisions.
There are reasons for these situations. It's ok to blame someone who did something to inhibit their child's competitiveness.
1. Increase overhead astronomically.
2. Pass Cost onto Consumer with Higher Prices.
3. Profit!
they're wasting their money...
actually they'll be passing the cost onto you the consumer...how does that feel?
isn't this a little absurd.
yes.
When I go shopping, I just go shopping. I would not bother making a list,
It's been shown that people who don't make lists pay about 30% more for the same items as people who do.
If thats acceptable to you compared to spending 10 minutes keeping a list....then power to you.
It also means that you are the Ideal walmart shopper. Someone who wanders in with an item in mind and sees low prices on the front stuff but doesn't see the jacked up prices on the other stuff. In the end most people spend more at walmart than they would otherwise because of not sticking to a list.
food for thought.
Alerting the homeless person who just stole the cart when they are coming upon an empty cardboard box.
Modded funny...I see it more as insightful. I mean why do we need computers on a shopping cart when people are suffering?
besides which, the cost of these things will be passed on to the consumer...which means more expensive food...and to me thats not worth it.
ok so build a kernel module that does this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
output =~ s/super//g;
or a mozilla module.
there aren't a million geeks in the world...let alone on slashdot. You'd have to get everyone and their mother to buy the game to break even. Otherwise you'd need 5$ from each of us.
this constitutes prior art and the kids can't be sued as they aren't legal persons in our system. Their parents can be sued but that wouldn't fly anyway.
Because the children couldn't afford to/didn't want to patent the technology ANYone can now build a hydrogen powered car with this system and profit from it.
It means their parents are wealthy, and they have a very good teacher. Too bad the salary doesn't go up for teachers like this.
22% efficient of free resource is +product. Just because a technology doesn't maximize a free resource doesn't mean that that technology is worthless, just that a lot more research can be done to improve it.
Hydrogen is useful as a battery device that produces no waste. Electric vehicles are nice but our current batteries are way too heavy to provide decent life for laptops or cars. That can be debated.
is it right to use that land for fuel instead of feeding people?
In US America, we pay farmers NOT to produce food. We have too much land that can be used by farmers. Our federal government also buys a lot of it and puts it in warehouses to rot. We do this to artificially increase prices and avoid things like the Great Depression. Thats why the rest of the world won't buy our food and starve instead; the transportation cost plus the artificial price Americans pay for the food America produces is too high.
The cost of sugar in the US is 3x that of the cost of sugar in Brazil.
There is no moral issue. Just Republican Farmers fighting Republican Oil Companies in Congress over what gets subsidized.
5. Infrastructure. When is the last time you say a hydrogen station?
did it occur to you that society wouldn't need a billion ugly gas stations on every corner if everyone owned a water-electrolysis hydrogen machine in their car/home for 50$?
So I watched a lot of TV as a kid. So sue me. (Not that I'm worth anything.)
Doesn't the fact that "you watched a lot of TV as a kid" imply that you are "Not that I'm worth anything."
To me it follows logically.
That just means it worked as it was SUPPOSED to. They intended for it to do that.