Sorry it's in KDE, seeing how Inkscape is GTK...at the moment Skype isn't working in Gnome, so...:(
I have already contacted the seGregation ans Kapartheid teams. Their thug squads will arrive soon to make an example for why one should never, ever mix KDE and GTK apps of you.
I don't know what model you're talking about but I know that the MN-700 actually is a rebranded Asus WL-500g with a modified bootloader that only accepts MS firmware and WinCE slapped on. It's pretty crappy (mine wouldn't run with any IP setting but 192.168.2.*), but you can overwrite the bootloader using JTAG and then put on the standard Asus firmware (or a free, Linux-based one like OpenWrt).
If you want to put up with the hassle of soldering a JTAG connector to the PCB you can get a MN-700 as a cheap alternative to a better router (thw WL-500g comes in at at least twice the price), but by itself it's not particularly exciting.
As noted by a previous poster, you do not know whether someone is a "criminal" until after the investigation.
Yes, that's how it should be. But one look at the media, especially tabloids, tells us that people do know beforehand - maybe later they are proven wrong, but they know, because the newspaper told them so. (The German BILD (Europe's best-selling "newspaper") gets reprimanded every couple months for declaring people convicts before they have even seen a judge.)
If there's one thing dangerous to a free society it's canned opinions.
I just had his picture in my mind: In the postnuclear wasteland, where everything but electricity is scarce, not gasoline, old dollars or bottlecaps will be the currency of the rich but SCO Linux licenses. If you can get your hand on one of those you'll be a made man.
That should be modded funny. My country of origin can be easily extrapolated from my post, provided that you actually read it, so I'm not quite sure whether you're the one to be talking about laziness.;)
By the way, what camp are you talking about? If the answer involves terms like "America-bashing" please save your breath for an argument that isn't a complete waste of it. Because I'm not. I pointed out that the author could have a reason for this specific generalization, but I didn't point out that he was right to call specifically the Americans lazy.
Oh, I just came up with another point for my half-assed defense: The context of this story lies entirely in the USA, all people involved are Americans, so when we're talking about certain traits of those people it's completely irrelevant whether those traits are shared by anybody else. The fact that laziness is a human thing wouldn't have changed the poster's point at all, since all relevant humans involved are Americans.
I think this is a great idea. When implementing a robot you certainly want to use Windows CE. After all, you didn't know what to do with all those cycles on the 400 MHz processor you wanted to put in anyway, right? And being able to completely configure and/or modify the used software and verify that it indeed does what it's supposed to is completely overrated. After all you can just go to your robot, open the case and perform some maintenance, right?
What, your robot is a blimp that's currently 200 meters above ground? Well, you should've obviously made a robot that solves a Microsoft Certified Problem(TM).
In some cases this stuff might make sense (when you absolutely have too much money on your hands and your team is incapable of understanding anything that isn't Dotnet), but I don't think it will be popular. Except for those cases where Microsoft manages to smooth-talk the management.
The problem with most of these services is that they delay the loading of the main page. For example, I have falkag.net in my blacklist (and in my hosts file as an alias for 0.0.0.0) because whenever I open a page that uses some falkag script I have to wait for ten to twenty seconds until the script is done loading and the rest of the page gets loaded.
I'm okay with statistical monitoring, but some of these services make the internet feel like back when ISDN was considered broadband.
Depends on what they're supposed to do with the computers. Running an application is exactly the same under KDE and Windows: Open start menu, locate application, click menu entry. Browsing the web works the same (browsers are similar enough that you can take experience with IE and use it to work with Fx/Konqueror/etc. and Fx is getting pretty popular for both Linux and Windows). OpenOffice is similar enough to MS Office for students to use both without much of a learning curve in between.
Most things that are radically different between the two OSes are things students aren't supposed to deal with anyway: System configuration and maintenance, the structure of the file system (students shouldn't be able to do anything outside the user's home directory anyway), building applications, things like that. A properly configured Linux box running KDE (which was designed to be similar to Windows) can have a look and feel that is pretty close to that of Windows.
Well, I'm not from the States and most of the time I'd be hard pressed to say whether a certain trait is common in the States. I could point out certain traits of the Germans, though. Maybe the GP talked about Americans because he didn't want to generalize from a sample size of one.
Sure, laziness is inherent to humans (it's what makes us invent things to make our lives easier), but still what the GP said could be less of an attack on the people of the USA and more of an avoidance of overgeneralisation.
They're obviously talking about the processor, duh. You know, the PlayStation 2 was powerful to be used as a cruise missile guiding system. With the Cell being so much more powerful than the PS2's Emotion Engine obviously the PS3 will be powerful enough to replace the entire cruise missile.
As someone from a meteorologically very moderate region of North Germany I find it amazing that North America is inhabited at all. I mean, tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes? We had two quakes in the last two years (a 4.0 and a 4.5, both about 30 km away), but usually we don't have that many that strong quakes. We do get slight flooding in spring, but the areas that might be affected (towns and roads in the marsh) are protected by dikes; the worst crisis I've heard of was a couple years ago when a village was cut from the rest of the car-using world for a week due to all the roads leading to it being flooded. They still had electricity, gas, water and everything. The whole incident had the most impact on the children who didn't have to go to school.
Usually the worst things that happen over here are the spring flood, high ozone levels on hot days and rain for two weeks straight. We don't even get bad hailstorms.
Sentences like "I think it just comes down to the disaster you grew up with" amaze me, seriously. Not so much that people live in areas that are affected by natural disasters but rather that they perceive it as normal that everyone grows up with some kind of disaster. It's really amazing what people can get used to.
So what should we call the new thing we're building while ignoring IBM and Microsoft? "Web 2.0" seems to be out (and wasn't very good anyway), but the new thing will certainly be Net-based. Any good suggestions for a name that will supercede "desktop"?
Of course we the consumers end up winning from this, in theory, with more stable drivers.
Until Microsoft or the hardware vendor decide that all drivers for <EOL'd product> are not "safe" anymore and should be red-flagged. I'm not saying that it wi-- no, of course it will happen. We're talking about corporations here - if they can get away with using this to force you to upgrade your hardware once a year they will do so.
I'll add to this rather pointless discussion: We're talking about colloquial language here, which is highly region-dependant. Don't expect things to have just one meaning. For example this is how words are used in my region (Northern Germany, more specifically the Bremen region):
"North America" is a continent.
"South America" is another continent.
"Central America" is what's between the above.
"The Americas" is not used at all and most people would tell you that "America" is used in the singular.
"America" is an ambiguous descriptor used for either North America, North and South America or the United States of America. South Ameria is usually called by its full name.
"American" or "Ami" (say: "uhmmie") is an ambiguous descriptor used for an inhabitant of North America, an inhabitant of America (where the exact continent is not explicitly mentioned), an inhabitant of the USA or a large sugar cookie made from sweet dough related to the "Black and White" cookies that came to Germany during the occupation (cf. de,wikipedia.org).
There is no unambiguous term used to refer to an inhabitant of the USA, except for the term "US American", which is not used colloquially.
Perhaps some Linux users want software that they install and it just works, without having to figure out crap about hardcoded paths, missing libraries that weren't mentioned in the non-existing dependency tree, etc. Hence, believe it or not, there is a market for Gentoo's "Portage" service, no matter how abhorrent the concept is to some. The Mozilla team for years included the source code for their browser(s) on their download servers. If people want to follow the "binary distributions are better in any case" path, then they are free to just grab a binary download or use an RPM/DEB based distro.
Binary downloads have their advantages, but so do source downloads. When you're offering the source it's trivial to also offer a binary build. So why are you pissed off when people would like to build the thin themselves? It's not like they force you to do the same.
Seriously, if the current trends continue IT people will not burn out with 40 in the future but rather five years after leaving college (and ten years after becoming addicted to stims). Five productive years, which is why everyone will encourage this trend for exactly five years. Then the IT world will bomb.
Behold the Three Laws of Sexbots (copied from the Robot Sex Engineering Taskforce's June 2045 draft for the Cascading Robot Laws specification, version 2.0):
A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, provided the human being said the safeword.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law or are really gross or where the robot is supposed to be the dom, in which case the humans are pretty much screwed. Literally. (The "really gross" clause may be optionally disabled.) Note: Although the specification does not require it (and like hell we're ever going to fix that!) it is recommended that dom robots listen to safewords.
Geeks are the sexiest beings in existence.
Joke aside, though, Asimov's first law would thoroughly interfere with BDSM. Just another case of the Three Laws not living up to the expectations.
This is why you don't let journalists design industrial robots. Even if we had the capabilities to create AI capable of following the three laws, putting it into a robot would dramatically increase the costs involved - making every single welding robot in a car plant self-aware would most likely be an quick way into bankruptcy.
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Sorry it's in KDE, seeing how Inkscape is GTK...at the moment Skype isn't working in Gnome, so... :(
I have already contacted the seGregation ans Kapartheid teams. Their thug squads will arrive soon to make an example for why one should never, ever mix KDE and GTK apps of you.
I don't know what model you're talking about but I know that the MN-700 actually is a rebranded Asus WL-500g with a modified bootloader that only accepts MS firmware and WinCE slapped on. It's pretty crappy (mine wouldn't run with any IP setting but 192.168.2.*), but you can overwrite the bootloader using JTAG and then put on the standard Asus firmware (or a free, Linux-based one like OpenWrt).
If you want to put up with the hassle of soldering a JTAG connector to the PCB you can get a MN-700 as a cheap alternative to a better router (thw WL-500g comes in at at least twice the price), but by itself it's not particularly exciting.
Even though I suspect that IHBT I'll answer.
My point is the exact opposite of what you seem to believe. I was applying the to the "the police should have unlimited searching rights" POV by claiming that it's okay to tolerate 100 $CRIMEs (implied to be committed by overinformed crooked cops) in order to prevent one $CRIME from happening, which is obviously absurd.
It was just a cynical mocking of the "police rights rah" faction.
Of course. If one hundred children have to be raped in order to prevent the raping of one child then so be... it...
Hm. I think there's a flaw somewhere in my argument, but I just can't put my thumb on it...
As noted by a previous poster, you do not know whether someone is a "criminal" until after the investigation.
Yes, that's how it should be. But one look at the media, especially tabloids, tells us that people do know beforehand - maybe later they are proven wrong, but they know, because the newspaper told them so. (The German BILD (Europe's best-selling "newspaper") gets reprimanded every couple months for declaring people convicts before they have even seen a judge.)
If there's one thing dangerous to a free society it's canned opinions.
Don't worry. I'll make a PDF of your post and black out the NSA reference.
I just had his picture in my mind: In the postnuclear wasteland, where everything but electricity is scarce, not gasoline, old dollars or bottlecaps will be the currency of the rich but SCO Linux licenses. If you can get your hand on one of those you'll be a made man.
That should be modded funny. My country of origin can be easily extrapolated from my post, provided that you actually read it, so I'm not quite sure whether you're the one to be talking about laziness. ;)
By the way, what camp are you talking about? If the answer involves terms like "America-bashing" please save your breath for an argument that isn't a complete waste of it. Because I'm not. I pointed out that the author could have a reason for this specific generalization, but I didn't point out that he was right to call specifically the Americans lazy.
Oh, I just came up with another point for my half-assed defense: The context of this story lies entirely in the USA, all people involved are Americans, so when we're talking about certain traits of those people it's completely irrelevant whether those traits are shared by anybody else. The fact that laziness is a human thing wouldn't have changed the poster's point at all, since all relevant humans involved are Americans.
I think this is a great idea. When implementing a robot you certainly want to use Windows CE. After all, you didn't know what to do with all those cycles on the 400 MHz processor you wanted to put in anyway, right? And being able to completely configure and/or modify the used software and verify that it indeed does what it's supposed to is completely overrated. After all you can just go to your robot, open the case and perform some maintenance, right?
What, your robot is a blimp that's currently 200 meters above ground? Well, you should've obviously made a robot that solves a Microsoft Certified Problem(TM).
In some cases this stuff might make sense (when you absolutely have too much money on your hands and your team is incapable of understanding anything that isn't Dotnet), but I don't think it will be popular. Except for those cases where Microsoft manages to smooth-talk the management.
So, it will be popular. Immensely.
The problem with most of these services is that they delay the loading of the main page. For example, I have falkag.net in my blacklist (and in my hosts file as an alias for 0.0.0.0) because whenever I open a page that uses some falkag script I have to wait for ten to twenty seconds until the script is done loading and the rest of the page gets loaded.
I'm okay with statistical monitoring, but some of these services make the internet feel like back when ISDN was considered broadband.
Nein, ich bin nur für einen Slashdotter unterdurchschnittlich tollwütig. ;)
Depends on what they're supposed to do with the computers. Running an application is exactly the same under KDE and Windows: Open start menu, locate application, click menu entry. Browsing the web works the same (browsers are similar enough that you can take experience with IE and use it to work with Fx/Konqueror/etc. and Fx is getting pretty popular for both Linux and Windows). OpenOffice is similar enough to MS Office for students to use both without much of a learning curve in between.
Most things that are radically different between the two OSes are things students aren't supposed to deal with anyway: System configuration and maintenance, the structure of the file system (students shouldn't be able to do anything outside the user's home directory anyway), building applications, things like that. A properly configured Linux box running KDE (which was designed to be similar to Windows) can have a look and feel that is pretty close to that of Windows.
Well, I'm not from the States and most of the time I'd be hard pressed to say whether a certain trait is common in the States. I could point out certain traits of the Germans, though. Maybe the GP talked about Americans because he didn't want to generalize from a sample size of one.
Sure, laziness is inherent to humans (it's what makes us invent things to make our lives easier), but still what the GP said could be less of an attack on the people of the USA and more of an avoidance of overgeneralisation.
They're obviously talking about the processor, duh. You know, the PlayStation 2 was powerful to be used as a cruise missile guiding system. With the Cell being so much more powerful than the PS2's Emotion Engine obviously the PS3 will be powerful enough to replace the entire cruise missile.
As someone from a meteorologically very moderate region of North Germany I find it amazing that North America is inhabited at all. I mean, tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes? We had two quakes in the last two years (a 4.0 and a 4.5, both about 30 km away), but usually we don't have that many that strong quakes. We do get slight flooding in spring, but the areas that might be affected (towns and roads in the marsh) are protected by dikes; the worst crisis I've heard of was a couple years ago when a village was cut from the rest of the car-using world for a week due to all the roads leading to it being flooded. They still had electricity, gas, water and everything. The whole incident had the most impact on the children who didn't have to go to school.
Usually the worst things that happen over here are the spring flood, high ozone levels on hot days and rain for two weeks straight. We don't even get bad hailstorms.
Sentences like "I think it just comes down to the disaster you grew up with" amaze me, seriously. Not so much that people live in areas that are affected by natural disasters but rather that they perceive it as normal that everyone grows up with some kind of disaster. It's really amazing what people can get used to.
Good of all mankind good of our economy. Good of our economy good of that lobbyist that funded our campaign.
So what should we call the new thing we're building while ignoring IBM and Microsoft? "Web 2.0" seems to be out (and wasn't very good anyway), but the new thing will certainly be Net-based. Any good suggestions for a name that will supercede "desktop"?
Fhqwhgads.
Of course we the consumers end up winning from this, in theory, with more stable drivers.
Until Microsoft or the hardware vendor decide that all drivers for <EOL'd product> are not "safe" anymore and should be red-flagged. I'm not saying that it wi-- no, of course it will happen. We're talking about corporations here - if they can get away with using this to force you to upgrade your hardware once a year they will do so.
I'll add to this rather pointless discussion: We're talking about colloquial language here, which is highly region-dependant. Don't expect things to have just one meaning. For example this is how words are used in my region (Northern Germany, more specifically the Bremen region):
"North America" is a continent.
"South America" is another continent.
"Central America" is what's between the above.
"The Americas" is not used at all and most people would tell you that "America" is used in the singular.
"America" is an ambiguous descriptor used for either North America, North and South America or the United States of America. South Ameria is usually called by its full name.
"American" or "Ami" (say: "uhmmie") is an ambiguous descriptor used for an inhabitant of North America, an inhabitant of America (where the exact continent is not explicitly mentioned), an inhabitant of the USA or a large sugar cookie made from sweet dough related to the "Black and White" cookies that came to Germany during the occupation (cf. de,wikipedia.org).
There is no unambiguous term used to refer to an inhabitant of the USA, except for the term "US American", which is not used colloquially.
Perhaps some Linux users want software that they install and it just works, without having to figure out crap about hardcoded paths, missing libraries that weren't mentioned in the non-existing dependency tree, etc. Hence, believe it or not, there is a market for Gentoo's "Portage" service, no matter how abhorrent the concept is to some. The Mozilla team for years included the source code for their browser(s) on their download servers. If people want to follow the "binary distributions are better in any case" path, then they are free to just grab a binary download or use an RPM/DEB based distro.
Binary downloads have their advantages, but so do source downloads. When you're offering the source it's trivial to also offer a binary build. So why are you pissed off when people would like to build the thin themselves? It's not like they force you to do the same.
Live fast, die young. The way of the coder.
Seriously, if the current trends continue IT people will not burn out with 40 in the future but rather five years after leaving college (and ten years after becoming addicted to stims). Five productive years, which is why everyone will encourage this trend for exactly five years. Then the IT world will bomb.
- A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, provided the human being said the safeword.
- A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law or are really gross or where the robot is supposed to be the dom, in which case the humans are pretty much screwed. Literally. (The "really gross" clause may be optionally disabled.)
- Geeks are the sexiest beings in existence.
Joke aside, though, Asimov's first law would thoroughly interfere with BDSM. Just another case of the Three Laws not living up to the expectations.Note: Although the specification does not require it (and like hell we're ever going to fix that!) it is recommended that dom robots listen to safewords.
[...]we just stop having children...
Because we're too busy having hot robot sex.
Unlikely. There always will be people with a human fetish. Never underestimate a human being's capability of perversion.
This is why you don't let journalists design industrial robots. Even if we had the capabilities to create AI capable of following the three laws, putting it into a robot would dramatically increase the costs involved - making every single welding robot in a car plant self-aware would most likely be an quick way into bankruptcy.
Following a trend established with Windows 98, Vista will be even more obnoxious than all Windowses before it, including even XP.