When I read "Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil" for some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of kids with the names of major ISPs written on their T-shirts running around with rings containing the power of broadband, low latency etc.
Whenever the evil Doctor Congestion and Señor Spam try to take over the 'Net they come together to summon Captain Internet who saves the day and educates us about how to use up less bandwidth.
But you have to admit that it's a pretty convenient way for NY to balance the budget. And who cares about all those hard working programmers living off welfare - they're not living off NY's welfare.
I think it's more the fact that Apple still has an image of luxury - Apple is for computers what Bentley is for cars. Everyone knows that OS X is beautiful like no other OS. And suddenly it has become easy to become a Mac user as Apple has released some pretty cheap products (like the 12" iBook or the Mac mini).
Together with a luxury PC you get a very polished OS (that's compatible to lots of OSS apps as well), for a price that can afford to compete with IA-32 PCs.
So it's good hardware + good OS + decent price + OMG, it's an Apple!
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OSX is the OS Messiah, and that there has never in history been a single support call on an OSX machine. Because it's based on UNIX, which many of us also don't have years of experience supporting.
I see lack of choice (i.e, Windows, MacOS) as lack of progress.
You do know that OS X is source-compatible with Linux, allowing you to run Linux apps as well as OS X apps, right? You don't have any less choice... I'm not sure whether it's possible to use OS X nstallation media to just install Darwin. But application-wise you have choice.
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Germany got a shiny new constitution after the second world war.
Germany doesn't have a constitution. When the FRG (West Germany) was founded in 1948 everyone was thinking that it'd be a matter of months or maybe a few years until the GDR (East Germany) and the FRG would unite, so we only got a temporary thing that acted like a constitutuion, but wasn't one. It's called the Basic Law.
Even after Germany reunited we still have the Basic Law. There have been discussions about a constitution, but we still don't have one. That doesn't make Germany any worse, the main difference between the Basic Law and a constiution is the name. But still...
Some countries in Europe found out the hard way that completely free speech -- like spreading FUD against democracy and tolerance -- can be dangerous for a society.
We found out about that the hard way, indeed.
Oh, and... We have not "always been here". We were created (by you) in 1948. And you have pretty much dictated the rules under which we were allowed to become a country.
If there's anything missing it's certainly not our fault; we didn't have much to say back then.
Freedom means being allowed to diseminate Nazi stuff along side the commie stuff.
Do you know what would happen if Germany lifted the ban on Nazi propaganda? Every nation of the world would diplomatically ass-rape us, the USA being first in line.
Freedom of speech? Not if it's about the dissemination of an ideology that cost 30 million perople's lives last time we allowed it - at least not in Germany.
Even though I do think that we should come to terms with ouu history already, I'm quite happy that national socuialism is illegal over here. We've had our fair share of imperialistic over-exaggerated patriotism along with a tendency to take semi-random people and declare them guilty for everything bad.
Most aspects of the Windows GUI are blatently obvious[...]
Have you ever tried to change a setting like the size of the pagefile or similar nontrivial things? I've been using Windows since 3.11 and whenever I have to actually have to change a Win box's configuration I'm surprised at how un-obvious, convoluted and generally messy it is.
The Windows look-and-feel is not much different from that of pretty much every other window manager, but the UI of Windows itself is simply horrible.
[...]with the main exception being the Window-Key shortcuts, which one of the most useful items about the GUI in general that allow for it to be easily used soley with a keyboard. (Yes without using the window-key shortcuts, Windows is useable without a keyboard, but they make things so much easier!)
Could've been done without adding two keys to the keyboard, though. I also prefer user-adjustale shortcuts, but you can't have everything...
I'm still looking for a player that does MOD, IT, XT, S3M, NSF, SPC and SID.
Yes, I do know that the Game Park 32 exists, I'm just too poor to get one.
Note that while the USA did not host any genocides for quite a while it committed at least two during WWII (Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the firebombing of German refugee camps in Dresden).
In the end it's useless to point at someone and say: "You're evil because blah blah blah." We all have committed horrible crimes against humanity at some point.
This is extremely useful on dualboot systems. Make a FAT32 partition and create the Windows pagefile there. Then modify your Linux start scripts so that with every boot the pagefile is turned into a Linux swapfile and used as such. Don't worry about Windows, it will reinitialize the pagefile while booting.
That way you can have a shared swapfile, which saves disk space.
Well we all have that (those of us that share the alphabet).
In Germany we have more or less the same alphabet, but our W has just one syllable.
However, we do have a three-syllable Y (the "Ypsilon", pronounced like ip-SEE-lon (the first sound actually is an ü, but that sound doesn't exist in most English dialects)).
Do you have an idea on how much space Emacs takes away? I run ed on my alarm clock. It's small and - above all - it's the standard text editor. When I set my alarm clock, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code.
Go ed.
In related news, the Vatican has just announced that they have found a reason as to why God has been suspiciously silent in the last centuries. "You see," explains J. Random Cardinal, leader of the Vatican's R&D team, "when God created the universe there was this expansion thing going on, during which the universe expanded by a factor af about 1000 in less than a minute. Additionally, ripples in spacetime were created, which have grown in size and now are giant waves travelling at the speed of light. We have just received a postcard from God saying that He's gone surfing but will be back in a millennium or two."
When asked if it wasn't a bit uncaring for God to ignore Earth for so long, Cardinal answered: "Hey, sometimes everyone needs a vacation. Speaking of which, I'm off to Hawaii."
No, I'll stick with Fedora for now; there are some other things I don't like about Ubuntu (like the weird places they like to put things like the $PATH definition). However, it's good to know that Hoary will have proper KDE support - it will keep me from telling people that Ubuntu is not a choice for KDE users like i did up to this point.
Last I looked, I use Mozilla for web browsing, not chatting with friends. I looked at their email client, but found myself saying "ho hum, another email client" and then going back to Outlook. Yes, sue me, I'm a windows user for my desktop.
I found myself looking at it, saying "zomg, spam filter" and staying. IMO the spam filter is Thunderbird's main selling point and it's a good one.
If, however, you already have a spam filter and are happy with it, then yes, it pretty much is just another mail client.
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When I read "Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil" for some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of kids with the names of major ISPs written on their T-shirts running around with rings containing the power of broadband, low latency etc.
Whenever the evil Doctor Congestion and Señor Spam try to take over the 'Net they come together to summon Captain Internet who saves the day and educates us about how to use up less bandwidth.
But you have to admit that it's a pretty convenient way for NY to balance the budget. And who cares about all those hard working programmers living off welfare - they're not living off NY's welfare.
I think it's more the fact that Apple still has an image of luxury - Apple is for computers what Bentley is for cars. Everyone knows that OS X is beautiful like no other OS. And suddenly it has become easy to become a Mac user as Apple has released some pretty cheap products (like the 12" iBook or the Mac mini).
Together with a luxury PC you get a very polished OS (that's compatible to lots of OSS apps as well), for a price that can afford to compete with IA-32 PCs.
So it's good hardware + good OS + decent price + OMG, it's an Apple!
OSX is the OS Messiah, and that there has never in history been a single support call on an OSX machine. Because it's based on UNIX, which many of us also don't have years of experience supporting.
64 Kilobytes ought to be enough for anyone.
Great. The KFC WM - It's screen-lickin' good!
I see lack of choice (i.e, Windows, MacOS) as lack of progress.
You do know that OS X is source-compatible with Linux, allowing you to run Linux apps as well as OS X apps, right? You don't have any less choice... I'm not sure whether it's possible to use OS X nstallation media to just install Darwin. But application-wise you have choice.
We'll use NAT.
Mmmm, galactic toast.
Germany got a shiny new constitution after the second world war.
Germany doesn't have a constitution. When the FRG (West Germany) was founded in 1948 everyone was thinking that it'd be a matter of months or maybe a few years until the GDR (East Germany) and the FRG would unite, so we only got a temporary thing that acted like a constitutuion, but wasn't one. It's called the Basic Law.
Even after Germany reunited we still have the Basic Law. There have been discussions about a constitution, but we still don't have one. That doesn't make Germany any worse, the main difference between the Basic Law and a constiution is the name. But still...
Some countries in Europe found out the hard way that completely free speech -- like spreading FUD against democracy and tolerance -- can be dangerous for a society.
We found out about that the hard way, indeed.
Oh, and... We have not "always been here". We were created (by you) in 1948. And you have pretty much dictated the rules under which we were allowed to become a country.
If there's anything missing it's certainly not our fault; we didn't have much to say back then.
Freedom means being allowed to diseminate Nazi stuff along side the commie stuff.
Do you know what would happen if Germany lifted the ban on Nazi propaganda? Every nation of the world would diplomatically ass-rape us, the USA being first in line.
Freedom of speech? Not if it's about the dissemination of an ideology that cost 30 million perople's lives last time we allowed it - at least not in Germany.
Even though I do think that we should come to terms with ouu history already, I'm quite happy that national socuialism is illegal over here. We've had our fair share of imperialistic over-exaggerated patriotism along with a tendency to take semi-random people and declare them guilty for everything bad.
Most aspects of the Windows GUI are blatently obvious[...]
Have you ever tried to change a setting like the size of the pagefile or similar nontrivial things? I've been using Windows since 3.11 and whenever I have to actually have to change a Win box's configuration I'm surprised at how un-obvious, convoluted and generally messy it is.
The Windows look-and-feel is not much different from that of pretty much every other window manager, but the UI of Windows itself is simply horrible.
[...]with the main exception being the Window-Key shortcuts, which one of the most useful items about the GUI in general that allow for it to be easily used soley with a keyboard. (Yes without using the window-key shortcuts, Windows is useable without a keyboard, but they make things so much easier!)
Could've been done without adding two keys to the keyboard, though. I also prefer user-adjustale shortcuts, but you can't have everything...
True. It's not a good idea to put the words "Wily" and "robot" into the same story - even less when talking about walking octopi.
But I still won't deactivate my colorshifting combat robot. He has just obtained Police Man's "Police Baton" weapon.
I'm still looking for a player that does MOD, IT, XT, S3M, NSF, SPC and SID.
Yes, I do know that the Game Park 32 exists, I'm just too poor to get one.
Alter Schwede!
I just had to say it, Karma be damned.
Note that while the USA did not host any genocides for quite a while it committed at least two during WWII (Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the firebombing of German refugee camps in Dresden).
In the end it's useless to point at someone and say: "You're evil because blah blah blah." We all have committed horrible crimes against humanity at some point.
This is extremely useful on dualboot systems. Make a FAT32 partition and create the Windows pagefile there. Then modify your Linux start scripts so that with every boot the pagefile is turned into a Linux swapfile and used as such. Don't worry about Windows, it will reinitialize the pagefile while booting.
That way you can have a shared swapfile, which saves disk space.
Well we all have that (those of us that share the alphabet).
In Germany we have more or less the same alphabet, but our W has just one syllable.
However, we do have a three-syllable Y (the "Ypsilon", pronounced like ip-SEE-lon (the first sound actually is an ü, but that sound doesn't exist in most English dialects)).
Or a truck horn. One honk should be enough to make sure that you are awake.
Do you have an idea on how much space Emacs takes away? I run ed on my alarm clock. It's small and - above all - it's the standard text editor. When I set my alarm clock, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code.
Go ed.
In related news, the Vatican has just announced that they have found a reason as to why God has been suspiciously silent in the last centuries. "You see," explains J. Random Cardinal, leader of the Vatican's R&D team, "when God created the universe there was this expansion thing going on, during which the universe expanded by a factor af about 1000 in less than a minute. Additionally, ripples in spacetime were created, which have grown in size and now are giant waves travelling at the speed of light. We have just received a postcard from God saying that He's gone surfing but will be back in a millennium or two."
When asked if it wasn't a bit uncaring for God to ignore Earth for so long, Cardinal answered: "Hey, sometimes everyone needs a vacation. Speaking of which, I'm off to Hawaii."
No, I'll stick with Fedora for now; there are some other things I don't like about Ubuntu (like the weird places they like to put things like the $PATH definition). However, it's good to know that Hoary will have proper KDE support - it will keep me from telling people that Ubuntu is not a choice for KDE users like i did up to this point.
In Germany there's similar stuff. We call it "Tagessätze", the translation and concept are the same.
Unfortunately, this stuff does not seem to apply to big businesses and rich people correctly. At least not for big stuff like paralegal IP warfare.
Last I looked, I use Mozilla for web browsing, not chatting with friends. I looked at their email client, but found myself saying "ho hum, another email client" and then going back to Outlook. Yes, sue me, I'm a windows user for my desktop.
I found myself looking at it, saying "zomg, spam filter" and staying. IMO the spam filter is Thunderbird's main selling point and it's a good one.
If, however, you already have a spam filter and are happy with it, then yes, it pretty much is just another mail client.