What, the windows that comes with every laptop whether you want it or not?
Yes. And that is a really serious problem, since it means that the price of your laptop includes windows, so they are making you pay for that OS whether you like it or not.
It's a serious issue, though. If to play games in Linux you have to purchase the game, and then pay extra to try and get someone to tweak their emulator to run it, you're paying extra for the inconvenience of running it through an emulator. This is a big problem.
How is that a big problem? If you don't want to pay extra in order to play your windows-game in Linux, go ahead and purchase a Windows license which, by the way, will cost you more. Case resolved.
Groups is mostly still a search product (You can post also, so it's also about creating information). The service has been around for years (I think it's their second big project after web search).
Actually, Google Groups used to be DejaNews, and they bought the technology.
I try to be realistic with people when I recommend they see a doctor and start a serious treatment plan.
I guess you are right. I should have pointed that it was not like all my problems and the pain dissapeared in 24 hours... it happened, in fact, several days later. But one thing is for sure, and that is, in just one day I felt better... better than any other day in my life (put aside childhood), and many compulsive thoughts went away.
That brought hope to my life. And that's what I meant. If a person is considering commiting suicide, they should at least go to a doctor if they haven't already... come on... once you're dead, you won't come back. It's forever. So it's worth giving it a shot and trying to get treated medically.
Ps: I do not agree that suicide would help people getting rid of their problems. Killing yourself is only the start of the real hurricane.
Well, by the time you're dead, you won't care about anything else, so it's, in a way, effective to get rid of problems. But... since you won't feel or think about anything, it's pointless.
I've never been so depressed to consider to kill myself, but I've thought that my depression would never go away. It's horrible. And I thought it was all my fault! Then, it ocurred to me that the cause was not me, but a chemical imbalance on my brain. So, as a last resource, I went to a psychiatrist (nobody suggested it to me), he got me some treatment, and holy molly, the result showed in 24 hours!!!
Want to suicide? Don't know how to deal with the way you feel? You have nothing to lose... go to a psychiatrist, my friend, and follow his/her treatment for a week at least (This is not advertising!!!!).
I encounter it every time I have a question, whether or not I've "RTFM" as I'm usually greeted with.
I see you point. But that's not the OS's fault, nor exclusive of the *nix world.
It's also the matter of being associated with a group of people who have shown themselves to be arrogant, condescending, rude, inconsiderate, and otherwise boorish in their conduct. It's not all of them but it sure is the loudest.
They don't need to be considerate. You are not paying them. However, if you are like me, you'll search for your answers in other sites until you find a place you feel comfortable with, or pay for support.
I understand what you mean, man, but my point is, you use the OS because it fits your technical needs, not your social needs. Anyways, it's a free world.
I'll give Gnome 2.6 a try. I find it more appealing as its team releases more versions. Its GTK library is one of my favorites to develop with. But I always got a "something is missing" impression with it (the desktop).
Besides, I know KDE is free software, but I think Gnome is "more free" for all platforms to use (ducks).
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We'll soon be able to fly to Japan in less than two hours. It's going to be a truly small world for everyone.
Putting aside ticket prices and the uncertainty of how this will affect global economy (for good or for bad), there are more interesting times to come.
Interesting you say that your hard drive is louder in Linux and silent with Win98. Could that mean that Windows is doing a better job of eliminating noisy seeks (head movement)?
Windows could be doing a better job not because it is better designed, but because it has more cache assigned. You could decrement Windows cache and thus making the hard disk noisier, and viceversa. This applies to Linux as well (and I guess to every OS with a hard disk cache).
I have two partitions... one with Windows, and the other with Linux. The hard disk is quieter when it is accessing the Windows partition... but this happens no matter what OS is running. For instance, if I access the Windows partition from Linux, the sound is as quiet as when I'm accessing the same partition from Windows.
I guess it has more to do with the distribution of the partition data inside the hard disk. Maybe the disk heads have to move more in one partition than in the other.
Rather than fixing IE, how about using the same method to make Mozilla render pages designed for IE correctly?
Mozilla is my favorite browser in both Windows and Linux platforms, and it works so well that whenever I stumble with a broken page, I blame it to site designers, not Mozilla, and move along.
However, sometimes I need to browse the broken page. Wouldn't it be cool if you could fire up some DHTML code to parse the broken page and make it standards compliant, so Mozilla (and others) can read it flawlessly?
This wouldn't encourage correct site design, but while in that fight, it would be a nice temporary solution.... do you think this could be done?
If can simply not be lazy and put the damned thing in standby and bring it with you when it needs to be out of eyesight, it will never have the chance of being stolen. Cool, huh?
Yeah, I rememeber that when I was in college, I had an HP48G calculator (not exactly a laptop, but the point is still valid), and I had this policy that went: "If I doubt whether I put the calculator inside my bag, even if I'm 99% sure it is, I'll check anyways". It was annoying to check several times a day, but I never lost it.
Last I checked, regulating internet infrastructure with regards to assigned names and numbers is ICANN's job.
Yeah. I don't know what's going on in these verisign people's minds.
I remembered them stopping the service because of ICANN issuing warnings and threatening to sue. It's not like ICANN literally forced them to shut that nasty service down (they should have that power, by the way).
The majority believes in religion, the majority likes pop music, the majority uses windows,... so the majority is wrong it's quite often.
But I see your point. The most sites that offer support, binaries or articles for a distribution, are about Mandrake, Suse, Red Hat and Debian, so you'll "feel" you're better supported with those distros.
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What, the windows that comes with every laptop whether you want it or not?
Yes. And that is a really serious problem, since it means that the price of your laptop includes windows, so they are making you pay for that OS whether you like it or not.
It's a serious issue, though. If to play games in Linux you have to purchase the game, and then pay extra to try and get someone to tweak their emulator to run it, you're paying extra for the inconvenience of running it through an emulator. This is a big problem.
How is that a big problem? If you don't want to pay extra in order to play your windows-game in Linux, go ahead and purchase a Windows license which, by the way, will cost you more. Case resolved.
Groups is mostly still a search product (You can post also, so it's also about creating information). The service has been around for years (I think it's their second big project after web search).
Actually, Google Groups used to be DejaNews, and they bought the technology.
I try to be realistic with people when I recommend they see a doctor and start a serious treatment plan.
I guess you are right. I should have pointed that it was not like all my problems and the pain dissapeared in 24 hours... it happened, in fact, several days later. But one thing is for sure, and that is, in just one day I felt better... better than any other day in my life (put aside childhood), and many compulsive thoughts went away.
That brought hope to my life. And that's what I meant. If a person is considering commiting suicide, they should at least go to a doctor if they haven't already... come on... once you're dead, you won't come back. It's forever. So it's worth giving it a shot and trying to get treated medically.
Ps: I do not agree that suicide would help people getting rid of their problems. Killing yourself is only the start of the real hurricane.
Well, by the time you're dead, you won't care about anything else, so it's, in a way, effective to get rid of problems. But... since you won't feel or think about anything, it's pointless.
I've never been so depressed to consider to kill myself, but I've thought that my depression would never go away. It's horrible. And I thought it was all my fault! Then, it ocurred to me that the cause was not me, but a chemical imbalance on my brain. So, as a last resource, I went to a psychiatrist (nobody suggested it to me), he got me some treatment, and holy molly, the result showed in 24 hours!!!
Want to suicide? Don't know how to deal with the way you feel? You have nothing to lose... go to a psychiatrist, my friend, and follow his/her treatment for a week at least (This is not advertising!!!!).
I encounter it every time I have a question, whether or not I've "RTFM" as I'm usually greeted with.
I see you point. But that's not the OS's fault, nor exclusive of the *nix world.
It's also the matter of being associated with a group of people who have shown themselves to be arrogant, condescending, rude, inconsiderate, and otherwise boorish in their conduct. It's not all of them but it sure is the loudest.
They don't need to be considerate. You are not paying them. However, if you are like me, you'll search for your answers in other sites until you find a place you feel comfortable with, or pay for support.
I understand what you mean, man, but my point is, you use the OS because it fits your technical needs, not your social needs. Anyways, it's a free world.
Arrogance like this is one major reason I stay away from *nix based OSes.
That'a a very poor reason.
Am I the only one who read "The DVD player scans for doggy content"?
C'mon, man! Doggy style is a beautiful act!
Spanish in the house: "Nos vemos el 17 de abril de 2004".
I'll give Gnome 2.6 a try. I find it more appealing as its team releases more versions. Its GTK library is one of my favorites to develop with. But I always got a "something is missing" impression with it (the desktop).
Besides, I know KDE is free software, but I think Gnome is "more free" for all platforms to use (ducks).
We'll soon be able to fly to Japan in less than two hours. It's going to be a truly small world for everyone.
Putting aside ticket prices and the uncertainty of how this will affect global economy (for good or for bad), there are more interesting times to come.
I hope I am alive and lucid by then.
Wouldn't that unofficial merchandise help to spread the word about Mozilla?
I mean, the foundation could use the publicity among non-tech people wearing the logo.
Interesting you say that your hard drive is louder in Linux and silent with Win98. Could that mean that Windows is doing a better job of eliminating noisy seeks (head movement)?
Windows could be doing a better job not because it is better designed, but because it has more cache assigned. You could decrement Windows cache and thus making the hard disk noisier, and viceversa. This applies to Linux as well (and I guess to every OS with a hard disk cache).
I have two partitions... one with Windows, and the other with Linux. The hard disk is quieter when it is accessing the Windows partition... but this happens no matter what OS is running. For instance, if I access the Windows partition from Linux, the sound is as quiet as when I'm accessing the same partition from Windows.
I guess it has more to do with the distribution of the partition data inside the hard disk. Maybe the disk heads have to move more in one partition than in the other.
Rather than fixing IE, how about using the same method to make Mozilla render pages designed for IE correctly?
Mozilla is my favorite browser in both Windows and Linux platforms, and it works so well that whenever I stumble with a broken page, I blame it to site designers, not Mozilla, and move along.
However, sometimes I need to browse the broken page. Wouldn't it be cool if you could fire up some DHTML code to parse the broken page and make it standards compliant, so Mozilla (and others) can read it flawlessly?
This wouldn't encourage correct site design, but while in that fight, it would be a nice temporary solution.... do you think this could be done?
Maybe we'll soon get smart napkins or smart toilet paper with the ability of literally "saying" tips like:
"Oops...seems like somebody ate too many beans! Why don't you give a try to those Gassex pills in your medicine pack?"
Assuming they'll have wireless networking capabilities.
Better having those guys there, rude and all, than having a real terrorist making his way into the plane and putting and end to your life.
Yeah, I rememeber that when I was in college, I had an HP48G calculator (not exactly a laptop, but the point is still valid), and I had this policy that went: "If I doubt whether I put the calculator inside my bag, even if I'm 99% sure it is, I'll check anyways". It was annoying to check several times a day, but I never lost it.
Last I checked, regulating internet infrastructure with regards to assigned names and numbers is ICANN's job.
Yeah. I don't know what's going on in these verisign people's minds.
I remembered them stopping the service because of ICANN issuing warnings and threatening to sue. It's not like ICANN literally forced them to shut that nasty service down (they should have that power, by the way).
Yeah, it's like that old pool analogy:
Putting something in the Internet is like peeing in a swimming pool. You just can't take it back.
What if you are in the industry of alcohol selling?
Don't want to arrive to a place by walking with those huge bottles of alcohol on my shoulders, just because my car "doesn't want to" take me there.
Caudium, eh?
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.
Well, Roxen has its GPL'ed webserver, and it's a very good one.
I like Apache and everything, but it's good to know there are alternatives.
how often is the majority wront?
The majority believes in religion, the majority likes pop music, the majority uses windows,
But I see your point. The most sites that offer support, binaries or articles for a distribution, are about Mandrake, Suse, Red Hat and Debian, so you'll "feel" you're better supported with those distros.
Come one, man... go out there! Czech girls are pretty and very nice. I met one once, and she was amazing... no need to pose or pretend.
Go ahead, break the paradigms, do something! You can do it, man!
The last thing the world needs right now is more programmers.
That's the longest typo I've ever read. I'm pretty sure you meant "lawyers".