If you're curious about a new movie but don't care about it enough to pay for a ticket... why not watch a cam rip?
Of course most people want to see Batman in person and not a cam rip, but for less anticipated movies (and less special effects movies) the eye candy is not that important.
Like let's say a new movie like "Sex and the City" is out, and you're half interested for whatever reason, but you would never pay $9 for a ticket to see it. Obviously, nobody sees that movie for the graphics, right? You load up Bittorrent, download the cam rip, and watch it without leaving your house. The bonus is that nobody has to know you wanted to see it. Or maybe there's a girlfriend involved who wanted to see it, and you only watch it with her because it's in the privacy of your home, and save $18 then.
I'm just throwing out scenarios here, but there are plenty of reasons to watch cam rips. Maybe you're poor, or don't have a HD home theater, or whatever.
Not only fragmentation of files, but fragmentation of related files.
Let's say I'm installing Firefox to/usr/lib.
I don't want Firefox's files spread out across my entire physical disk and intersperced with/tmp/var/etc, because then Firefox will load slower as the hard drive must spin more to load related files.
Yes, I know that isn't a concern with SSDs, but it is a concern with standard hard disks.
No file system is smart enough to read your mind and know how your data is going to be used. Only you can optimize for that.
Not to mention, partitioning is a good idea for any disk. It prevents fragmentation and data loss (if one partition gets corrupted). Also, it makes reinstalling an OS easier and booting faster. Well, if you partition correctly...
Partitioning: One reason why I don't use Windows anymore. Linux handles it much better.
Actually, that was a jab at Lycoris, a distro I tried and absolutely enjoyed until I couldn't find up-to-date dev packages I needed.
I tried Ubuntu once. I was not impressed. It definitely didn't seem as simple to install and configure as Mandriva is. Not to mention, it didn't have the choice to run multiple desktop environments if you so choose.
The thing about Mandriva is that it's kinda like Windows - it tries to be everything for everyone, and has the flexibility to do so, and indeed succeeds most of the time. Newbies, power-users, gamers, and server admins all wrapped into one.
My experience with Ubuntu was that it's more of a "install on your grandparents' old machine and forget about it" type of distro. Perhaps a lot has changed since then?
BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME! Name me another distro that:
- installs easily and with lots of options
- has integrated configuration utilities for GUI AND console that don't mind personal hacking of the config files
- has bleeding edge packages, if you choose
- doesn't exclude dev packages in pursuit of user friendliness
- has native packages for nearly every application you'll use
In other words, they provide a professional, up-to-date Linux environment that is simple enough for newbies, flexible enough for advanced users, and hassle-free for those of us who have no time to waste on configuration and compilation. Also, it appears to be a rare example of a major distro that still supports multiple desktop environments out of the box.
I'm stoked for Mandriva 2009 and I'm glad to know it's coming...
That said, there's no way in hell I'm installing an alpha of it, so you may have a point.:) But at least I can start prepping my hard disk partitions! WOOO MANDRIVA FTW!!!
Glad I voted for Ron Paul. I'll be using him as a write in come November.
May I humbly suggest voting for a third party, any third party, with which your protest vote will count?
Ron Paul has said not to write in his name. He isn't even registered as a write-in candidate.
So while it's quite romantic to write in his name, it might be a little more effective to demonstrate our discontent with third party votes which will actually show up on official tallies. I'd recommend Libertarian or Green.
On the other hand, Maxis is now "just" one of EA's brands, and they've always done stuff that interested me.
Maxis used to have a diversified game portfolio (albeit they were just the publishers of some). I think of Klik & Play, Widget Workshop, SimTower, SimAnt, SimFarm, SimIsle... Those were really fun games. I would kill for a modern remake of SimFarm!
Once EA bought them, they were pretty much forced to focus on SimCity and The Sims franchises. The SimCity franchise is dead at this point (another dev shop made SimCity Societies, which isn't even the spiritual heir to SimCity 4).
And, to be honest, I'm just happy enough that it is now considered possible to sell it in best buy - that would of been unthinkable a few years ago.
Honestly, I don't get what the big deal is. It's a big step for Ubuntu, but I think some people here are misinterpretting this as a big step for Linux.
Maybe they haven't been to a software store in a while (lol @ linux and piracy), but I bought Red Hat from Best Buy around 10 years ago.
Privacy is a product of your life, as is your work and other byproducts. In a free market, the products of your life belong to you. This is inherently fair and makes sense.
I trade work hours for money from my employer. I trade my money for items I want to buy. I trade certain measures of privacy for social benefits. I also trade certain measures of privacy for compensation from businesses. If any of these transactions do not turn out to our mutual benefit, the dissatisfied party is free to discontinue the trade at anytime.
Essentially the government is trying to 'tax' our privacy for 'the greater good', just like they tax our economic transactions... for the 'greater good'.
Political ideologues on both sides of the spectrum don't quite understand this concept - they arbitrarily pick what's right and wrong when it benefits them.
But the smart monkey will realize that the reason people get so upset about these things is that it is inherently unfair to take another's personal products without their consent. Do you own you and your byproducts, or does the "greater good" own you? And how can you trust that the "greater good" is so great and good?
Frankly, with all the rancor on both sides, this country needs a little forgiveness if we're going to heal some of the hatred between the Right and Left.
We don't want the Right and Left to get along, because then we'll end up with an even worse "both parties are the same" problem.
The problem right now is that the stuff they disagree over - the stuff that wins elections - is mostly a distraction from the real issues.
The parties hating each other is great - it keeps our broken system somewhat in check. The problem is that the parties aren't really Right/Left. They don't win elections based on philosophy and intelligent debate, but on emotions and reactionary sound clips.
OMG cry me a fucking river for the poor fucking ISPs!
I don't typically like using profanity, but somebody has to say it. Yes, maybe the dial-up ISPs of yesteryear had hard times, and MAYBE just MAYBE some of the random DSL ISPs do nowadays.
But let's be realistic. I have two choices for a high-bandwidth ISP in my area - the cable company and the telephone company. They both have regional monopolies. They are granted regional monopolies (in theory) so that they can deliver optimal service to everyone in the region.
I have no sympathy for those rat bastards who squeeze you for every penny and come up with these half-cocked limited-time bundle deals they spam me with every month. Build more pipes and STFU.
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He was framed by the people who killed JFK!
Or something.
Sometimes I like reading conspiracy theories on the internet.
If you're curious about a new movie but don't care about it enough to pay for a ticket... why not watch a cam rip?
Of course most people want to see Batman in person and not a cam rip, but for less anticipated movies (and less special effects movies) the eye candy is not that important.
Like let's say a new movie like "Sex and the City" is out, and you're half interested for whatever reason, but you would never pay $9 for a ticket to see it. Obviously, nobody sees that movie for the graphics, right? You load up Bittorrent, download the cam rip, and watch it without leaving your house. The bonus is that nobody has to know you wanted to see it. Or maybe there's a girlfriend involved who wanted to see it, and you only watch it with her because it's in the privacy of your home, and save $18 then.
I'm just throwing out scenarios here, but there are plenty of reasons to watch cam rips. Maybe you're poor, or don't have a HD home theater, or whatever.
Not only fragmentation of files, but fragmentation of related files.
Let's say I'm installing Firefox to /usr/lib.
I don't want Firefox's files spread out across my entire physical disk and intersperced with /tmp /var /etc, because then Firefox will load slower as the hard drive must spin more to load related files.
Yes, I know that isn't a concern with SSDs, but it is a concern with standard hard disks.
No file system is smart enough to read your mind and know how your data is going to be used. Only you can optimize for that.
Not to mention, partitioning is a good idea for any disk. It prevents fragmentation and data loss (if one partition gets corrupted). Also, it makes reinstalling an OS easier and booting faster. Well, if you partition correctly...
Partitioning: One reason why I don't use Windows anymore. Linux handles it much better.
OK, you made me look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Now, it says Firefox and Apache have it implemented... what's the problem?
The mother plays such an important role in molding her children's minds and caring for them as they grow.
Not that I disagree, but I think this whole societal sexism thing has a bigger Freudian twist than we would all like to think.
I mean, you escape from prison because you want to keep your life! If you hate your life, you stay in prison.
Perhaps someone took the whole "spammers and their families should be killed" thing too seriously?
How do we know someone else didn't do it and then make it look like a murder/suicide?
That was my first thought when I saw the headline.
Aliens... err... exposure... err... shameless plugging? I am prepared to be modded off-topic and a failure. :(
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At the user level, that idea doesn't really get us anything except a longer path.
`ls` to view user data .*` to view user settings
`ls -d
When I copy settings to a fresh machine, I never want to copy them all together because that could cause problems.
FWIW Gnome does some integrated registry type thing with GConf. It has multiple back-ends, too. But I would hate if all of my applications used it.
Obama admitted to doing drugs, and he's not going to jail.
Yet, once he's president, he'll have the official capacity to pardon all non-violent drug offenders... think he'll do it???
Ever notice that fields women take an interest in generally make less money? And yet they are typically just as important?
The tickets they dole out will pay for the new parking system. It's a win-win situation!
Actually, that was a jab at Lycoris, a distro I tried and absolutely enjoyed until I couldn't find up-to-date dev packages I needed.
I tried Ubuntu once. I was not impressed. It definitely didn't seem as simple to install and configure as Mandriva is. Not to mention, it didn't have the choice to run multiple desktop environments if you so choose.
The thing about Mandriva is that it's kinda like Windows - it tries to be everything for everyone, and has the flexibility to do so, and indeed succeeds most of the time. Newbies, power-users, gamers, and server admins all wrapped into one.
My experience with Ubuntu was that it's more of a "install on your grandparents' old machine and forget about it" type of distro. Perhaps a lot has changed since then?
Not to start a distro flame war, but...
How is an alpha release of Mandriva news?
BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME! Name me another distro that:
- installs easily and with lots of options
- has integrated configuration utilities for GUI AND console that don't mind personal hacking of the config files
- has bleeding edge packages, if you choose
- doesn't exclude dev packages in pursuit of user friendliness
- has native packages for nearly every application you'll use
In other words, they provide a professional, up-to-date Linux environment that is simple enough for newbies, flexible enough for advanced users, and hassle-free for those of us who have no time to waste on configuration and compilation.
Also, it appears to be a rare example of a major distro that still supports multiple desktop environments out of the box.
I'm stoked for Mandriva 2009 and I'm glad to know it's coming...
That said, there's no way in hell I'm installing an alpha of it, so you may have a point. :) But at least I can start prepping my hard disk partitions! WOOO MANDRIVA FTW!!!
A+. I lolled.
Where are all my mod points today?
A true sad day in the US.
Glad I voted for Ron Paul. I'll be using him as a write in come November.
May I humbly suggest voting for a third party, any third party, with which your protest vote will count?
Ron Paul has said not to write in his name. He isn't even registered as a write-in candidate.
So while it's quite romantic to write in his name, it might be a little more effective to demonstrate our discontent with third party votes which will actually show up on official tallies. I'd recommend Libertarian or Green.
On the other hand, Maxis is now "just" one of EA's brands, and they've always done stuff that interested me.
Maxis used to have a diversified game portfolio (albeit they were just the publishers of some). I think of Klik & Play, Widget Workshop, SimTower, SimAnt, SimFarm, SimIsle... Those were really fun games. I would kill for a modern remake of SimFarm!
Once EA bought them, they were pretty much forced to focus on SimCity and The Sims franchises. The SimCity franchise is dead at this point (another dev shop made SimCity Societies, which isn't even the spiritual heir to SimCity 4).
And, to be honest, I'm just happy enough that it is now considered possible to sell it in best buy - that would of been unthinkable a few years ago.
Honestly, I don't get what the big deal is. It's a big step for Ubuntu, but I think some people here are misinterpretting this as a big step for Linux.
Maybe they haven't been to a software store in a while (lol @ linux and piracy), but I bought Red Hat from Best Buy around 10 years ago.
You must be really fun to hang out with.
And, of course, the weight and shape and finish of the instrument change how it affects the musician. Do not underestimate this impact.
That's very true. There's nothing quite like the inspiration you get from jamming the first time with a new guitar.
Privacy is a product of your life, as is your work and other byproducts. In a free market, the products of your life belong to you. This is inherently fair and makes sense.
I trade work hours for money from my employer.
I trade my money for items I want to buy.
I trade certain measures of privacy for social benefits.
I also trade certain measures of privacy for compensation from businesses.
If any of these transactions do not turn out to our mutual benefit, the dissatisfied party is free to discontinue the trade at anytime.
Essentially the government is trying to 'tax' our privacy for 'the greater good', just like they tax our economic transactions... for the 'greater good'.
Political ideologues on both sides of the spectrum don't quite understand this concept - they arbitrarily pick what's right and wrong when it benefits them.
But the smart monkey will realize that the reason people get so upset about these things is that it is inherently unfair to take another's personal products without their consent. Do you own you and your byproducts, or does the "greater good" own you? And how can you trust that the "greater good" is so great and good?
Frankly, with all the rancor on both sides, this country needs a little forgiveness if we're going to heal some of the hatred between the Right and Left.
We don't want the Right and Left to get along, because then we'll end up with an even worse "both parties are the same" problem.
The problem right now is that the stuff they disagree over - the stuff that wins elections - is mostly a distraction from the real issues.
The parties hating each other is great - it keeps our broken system somewhat in check. The problem is that the parties aren't really Right/Left. They don't win elections based on philosophy and intelligent debate, but on emotions and reactionary sound clips.
Ah, but you've overlooked one vital detail. Google does no evil.
OMG cry me a fucking river for the poor fucking ISPs!
I don't typically like using profanity, but somebody has to say it. Yes, maybe the dial-up ISPs of yesteryear had hard times, and MAYBE just MAYBE some of the random DSL ISPs do nowadays.
But let's be realistic. I have two choices for a high-bandwidth ISP in my area - the cable company and the telephone company. They both have regional monopolies. They are granted regional monopolies (in theory) so that they can deliver optimal service to everyone in the region.
I have no sympathy for those rat bastards who squeeze you for every penny and come up with these half-cocked limited-time bundle deals they spam me with every month. Build more pipes and STFU.