Mandrake is a good distro for new users. It is cake to partition, install and use. You don't have to know any command line applications to configure your system. While this may be true for other distros as well, Mandrake does this very well.
Alot of people, including myself, think that mandrake is the closest thing to a desktop linux for the masses currently available.
crazy that anyone takes offense at the Confederate flag
I do too. That doesn't mean that people that do are idiots. If they are generally offended, I have to respect that. If they are offended just for the sake of being offended, then I have a problem. I think too many people these days are looking for a cause.
However, the nature of a print totally changes. It's a big deal to have an original print of a photo, one that's done from the negative.
That made me think about ownership as well. The legal owner of traditional photos can prove it with the negatives. How can you prove ownership of a digital image? There are watermarks but that detracts from the image.
Why? A multi-party democracy can still produce strong governments. In my eyes, a two-party system is only one party away from being a single-party dictatorship, especially when the minority party is very weak; the current situation in the USA is a good example of this problem with two-party systems.
Read my post. I said why. I don't really understand your reasonings. I don't see how you can refer to either the democrat or republican party as a minority WRT elections which was what I was talking about. As the last election showed, the country is fairly evenly split among the two. If you are refering to the democrats as the minority party because the republicans control the presidency and congress, it's not like it's a huge majority or anything. Isn't it less the 5 seats? This is the first time in decades that the presidency and congress were not controled by opposing parties.
Either way, I fail to see your point. And what is this "current situation" that you feel is "a good example of this problem with two-party systems?"
It wasn't the remark that turned me off but the fact that he defended the remark over and over and wouldn't admit that it wasn't the best thign to say. I believe he finally did.
That's something that has turned me off with bush as well as almost all politicians. They won't admit that they might be wrong. If they do admit that they are wrong or flip sides on an issue they will be attacked in the next election as wishy-washy or inconsistant.
But just because it allowed Dean to expand his base of support much more rapidly and widely than was ever possible before, that does not automatically mean the death of organized politics and our two-party system.
I sure hope it doesn't mean the death of the two party system. With all the outrage about Bush getting the electorial majority and not the popular majority in the last election, imagine what would happen if there were 10 parties and the winner received only 20% of the electoral or popular vote.
Your argument seems to be based on the fact that no one can confuse the two. So if windows was a entriely different, smaller, lesser known, but well established company and it was feasible that windows and lindows could be confused would it still be OK? The same rules need to apply to all companies no matter how large they are or how much you personally like them.
Thank you. After scrolling down halfway though the threads, I finally find a series of posts by people who can actually think for theirself instead of spewing out the usual microsoft propeganda found on slashdot.
Lindows is a similar product that is made to sound and act like windows. The backlash would be huge if Microsoft's new UI for Longhorn was called Nome and looked exactly like Gnome. The slashdot/linux community accuses microsoft all the time of not being inovative and ripping off other operating system's features, but it's ok for a linux distro to do so.
I am no microsoft fan but I try to be objective. Your post deserves some mod points.
Schools should focus on the principles of functional and object oriented languages instead of teaching specific languages.
If you are solid in the principles of programming, the choice of language shouldn't matter. They will never be able to teach you every language out there. I think it would be much better to have an intro to different languages instead. Perhaps they do; don't really know. I don't think that this is a wasted course or anything. Any additional experience is great. Is this meant as a introduction to GUIs? If that is the case, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I think there would be more benefitial courses in the long run.
not a fan of the CDE... It was on the UNIX machines at the university I attended. The interface was poor and just seemed archaic compared to the modern linux environments.
I didn't say you don't run in the Administrator group. I said you do not run as the Administrator account. There is an account named "Administrator" in XP Pro that has additional privileges. I am not sure if it is in home or not.
OK. I am wrong here. You are set up in the Administrators group. However, there is a seperate "Administrator" account that has more access and would be the equivilant to Root.
Actually to be fair, you don't run as the administrator account in XP by default. You are a Power User by default. There is an "Administrator" account that has more access. There's not a whole lot of difference in the two from what I can tell.
But having a XP Pro machine and a OSX 10.3 machine as well, I don't see where there is a whole lot of difference between the two default users. Both windows and mac defaults can install applications, neither can view the files of others by default and both can make system settings changes. I seem to remember that the OSX machine prompts for a password before making the changes though. That's a definite advantage.
I am probably in the minority here but I think they are both good OSs. No OS is perfectly secure. XP is reasonably stable on good hardware and OSX is more so because it is guaranteed to have good hardware. Both are good but both have their flaws.
I saw a review on Frevo. It seemed pretty shadey. It worked, in a kinda-sorta-maybe kind of way. It appeared that it had very strict hardware requirements and was less then reliable. Colors weren't very accurate and the actual quality of the playback was less than steller.
I would suggest doing a LOT of research so you have the right hardware and know what to expect if you do go this route.
Did you actually expect anything different? Most anytime a report comes out about a government agencey, it is bad. The whole point of having a report is to show that it is bad. I sure the points that are raised are valid but I hardly think that the report was supposed to be balanced.
I thought they were going to stop developement on the current all-in-one form of mozilla and focus on the individual replacements (firebird, thunderbird.) What ever happened to this? This is at least the second update since I heard that was the case.
A New York Times article explores the possible effects of prolonged radiation exposure in deep space. Surprisingly, very little is known about the subject.
Why is this surprising? How much experience do we have with "deep space"? Doesn't deep space mean outside of our solar system? If so, that means there is one space craft tht has even made it that far. No space craft has made it there and back to allow us to do a thorough analysis here on earth.
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I'm going to say "Where the ogg version?" :)
That's the beauty of open source. You have the perl script, look at the OGG documentation and write it yourself.
That, or the fact that all the slashes go the wrong way in DOS/Windows because MS decided to use "/" as a switch rather than a directory separator.
Just because it's not the *nix way doesn't mean it's the wrong way. It's a different OS. They don't have to do everything the *nix way.
I can't get to the site... What are the specs on this little thing? How much of a hard drive and RAM are we talking?
Mandrake is a good distro for new users. It is cake to partition, install and use. You don't have to know any command line applications to configure your system. While this may be true for other distros as well, Mandrake does this very well.
Alot of people, including myself, think that mandrake is the closest thing to a desktop linux for the masses currently available.
crazy that anyone takes offense at the Confederate flag
I do too. That doesn't mean that people that do are idiots. If they are generally offended, I have to respect that. If they are offended just for the sake of being offended, then I have a problem. I think too many people these days are looking for a cause.
However, the nature of a print totally changes. It's a big deal to have an original print of a photo, one that's done from the negative.
That made me think about ownership as well. The legal owner of traditional photos can prove it with the negatives. How can you prove ownership of a digital image? There are watermarks but that detracts from the image.
Why? A multi-party democracy can still produce strong governments. In my eyes, a two-party system is only one party away from being a single-party dictatorship, especially when the minority party is very weak; the current situation in the USA is a good example of this problem with two-party systems.
Read my post. I said why. I don't really understand your reasonings. I don't see how you can refer to either the democrat or republican party as a minority WRT elections which was what I was talking about. As the last election showed, the country is fairly evenly split among the two. If you are refering to the democrats as the minority party because the republicans control the presidency and congress, it's not like it's a huge majority or anything. Isn't it less the 5 seats? This is the first time in decades that the presidency and congress were not controled by opposing parties.
Either way, I fail to see your point. And what is this "current situation" that you feel is "a good example of this problem with two-party systems?"
I haven't looked to closely at it before. Now that I have, it looks like the top has been cropped off as you can still see a little red.
It wasn't the remark that turned me off but the fact that he defended the remark over and over and wouldn't admit that it wasn't the best thign to say. I believe he finally did.
That's something that has turned me off with bush as well as almost all politicians. They won't admit that they might be wrong. If they do admit that they are wrong or flip sides on an issue they will be attacked in the next election as wishy-washy or inconsistant.
But just because it allowed Dean to expand his base of support much more rapidly and widely than was ever possible before, that does not automatically mean the death of organized politics and our two-party system.
I sure hope it doesn't mean the death of the two party system. With all the outrage about Bush getting the electorial majority and not the popular majority in the last election, imagine what would happen if there were 10 parties and the winner received only 20% of the electoral or popular vote.
Musicmatch will do that if you can force yourself to use windows. That's one of musicmatch's few decent features.
No, I've had problems too. For a while, none of the posts on the front page were showing any comments when I lcicked.
Your argument seems to be based on the fact that no one can confuse the two. So if windows was a entriely different, smaller, lesser known, but well established company and it was feasible that windows and lindows could be confused would it still be OK? The same rules need to apply to all companies no matter how large they are or how much you personally like them.
Thank you. After scrolling down halfway though the threads, I finally find a series of posts by people who can actually think for theirself instead of spewing out the usual microsoft propeganda found on slashdot.
Lindows is a similar product that is made to sound and act like windows. The backlash would be huge if Microsoft's new UI for Longhorn was called Nome and looked exactly like Gnome. The slashdot/linux community accuses microsoft all the time of not being inovative and ripping off other operating system's features, but it's ok for a linux distro to do so.
I am no microsoft fan but I try to be objective. Your post deserves some mod points.
Schools should focus on the principles of functional and object oriented languages instead of teaching specific languages.
If you are solid in the principles of programming, the choice of language shouldn't matter. They will never be able to teach you every language out there. I think it would be much better to have an intro to different languages instead. Perhaps they do; don't really know. I don't think that this is a wasted course or anything. Any additional experience is great. Is this meant as a introduction to GUIs? If that is the case, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I think there would be more benefitial courses in the long run.
not a fan of the CDE... It was on the UNIX machines at the university I attended. The interface was poor and just seemed archaic compared to the modern linux environments.
I didn't say you don't run in the Administrator group. I said you do not run as the Administrator account. There is an account named "Administrator" in XP Pro that has additional privileges. I am not sure if it is in home or not.
OK. I am wrong here. You are set up in the Administrators group. However, there is a seperate "Administrator" account that has more access and would be the equivilant to Root.
Actually to be fair, you don't run as the administrator account in XP by default. You are a Power User by default. There is an "Administrator" account that has more access. There's not a whole lot of difference in the two from what I can tell.
But having a XP Pro machine and a OSX 10.3 machine as well, I don't see where there is a whole lot of difference between the two default users. Both windows and mac defaults can install applications, neither can view the files of others by default and both can make system settings changes. I seem to remember that the OSX machine prompts for a password before making the changes though. That's a definite advantage.
I am probably in the minority here but I think they are both good OSs. No OS is perfectly secure. XP is reasonably stable on good hardware and OSX is more so because it is guaranteed to have good hardware. Both are good but both have their flaws.
I saw a review on Frevo. It seemed pretty shadey. It worked, in a kinda-sorta-maybe kind of way. It appeared that it had very strict hardware requirements and was less then reliable. Colors weren't very accurate and the actual quality of the playback was less than steller.
I would suggest doing a LOT of research so you have the right hardware and know what to expect if you do go this route.
"The linux infadels have stolen SCO's code."
"God will roast their stumachs in hell at the hands of Darl McBride."
"Lying is forbidden at SCO. Darl McBride will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honor and integrity. "
""We are winning!""
Quotes for the SCO Information Minister
Opteron is a server chip. Athlon64 is a desktop chip. Beyond that, I don't know.
Did you actually expect anything different? Most anytime a report comes out about a government agencey, it is bad. The whole point of having a report is to show that it is bad. I sure the points that are raised are valid but I hardly think that the report was supposed to be balanced.
I thought they were going to stop developement on the current all-in-one form of mozilla and focus on the individual replacements (firebird, thunderbird.) What ever happened to this? This is at least the second update since I heard that was the case.
A New York Times article explores the possible effects of prolonged radiation exposure in deep space. Surprisingly, very little is known about the subject.
Why is this surprising? How much experience do we have with "deep space"? Doesn't deep space mean outside of our solar system? If so, that means there is one space craft tht has even made it that far. No space craft has made it there and back to allow us to do a thorough analysis here on earth.