You wouldn't be complaining if you've ever tried to install Windows XP from a usb drive. It's nearly impossible (I've never succeeded). I think it's better with win7 now.
It's the same on Windows. When the DNS servers at our ISP go down it's not as if my mother just goes "Oh, I'll just pop into the control panel here and use the Google DNS server!"
In my experience, anything beyond running a basic program on any OS is something that a non-computer literate user is not going to be able to do. Windows, Mac, and Linux are all equally difficult to use.
Upmod this guy. A place of higher education such as a University should be dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and information more than any other place. Universities these days are too quick to stifle a very effective means of sharing knowledge.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
I use linux because it's easier than setting up a Solaris install at home. I'd choose Solaris anyday because Solaris here and Solaris there are the same.
Just like I said: "You use linux because it works." It probably wouldn't work better than Solaris if it wasn't open source.
Same here. I can type at about 80-120wpm (On the One True Keyboard, mind you). I see no reason to try Dvorak because I already type much faster than I think (even more so when I am writing succinct code rather than this long, drawn-out English).
All too often open source software neglects usability, i.e. 'designed by programmers, made for programmers'. It may be programmed well but you have to remember who your end user is in the end: The end user, not a programmer.
Perhaps I don't want a mere mortal in the presence of my masterpiece.
You mean a webpage with a used space counter? I could try to set that up; I've got some free time tonight. Apparently Yahoo just made an open API for their mail.
Has someone created something like this, except in support of NN? Something along the lines of this would be great. If enough money (think big-name musicians) was banded together, something like that could possibly make it on mainstream T.V. as a commercial.
Of course their opinions per se do not matter. However, it is still excellent that they spoke up about it.
Everyone here has read the comments/AskSlashdots about how to explain technical issues to people who do not understand and, more importantly, who do not care.
This provides a way to get those indifferent people to care. Now they will think, "What is this issue of Net Neutrality? Why does $MYFAVORITEBAND care so much to join a coalition supporting it?"
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Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/laptop-decryption-unconstitutional/
But in the U.S. the 5th amendment would protect you from having to reveal the encryption keys.
Don't wait for them to pass it.
Do it now, and email them to tell them why you're doing it.
"The bank B then loans this money to C"
Thus B now has 0 units of money. When A deposits the new dollar back at bank B, B now has 1 unit of money, not 2.
Don't click, that link is goatse.
I don't think they got rich off of TPB.
"In an investigation in 2006, the police concluded that The Pirate Bay brings in 1.2 million SEK (US$168,885.60) per year from advertisements."
"In the 2009 trial, the defense estimated the site's yearly expenses to be 800,000 SEK (US$112,590.40)"
Nobody knows where he is. He probably fled the country and will create a new identity for himself.
Here's to hoping, anyway.
Use http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer.exe which ubuntu recommends, or use unetbootin.
You wouldn't be complaining if you've ever tried to install Windows XP from a usb drive. It's nearly impossible (I've never succeeded). I think it's better with win7 now.
It's the same on Windows. When the DNS servers at our ISP go down it's not as if my mother just goes "Oh, I'll just pop into the control panel here and use the Google DNS server!"
In my experience, anything beyond running a basic program on any OS is something that a non-computer literate user is not going to be able to do. Windows, Mac, and Linux are all equally difficult to use.
mp3 is nice, but... (by rampant_mac)
Haha, a mac user complaining about proprietary formats.
Yes.
"How a Classic Man-in-the-Middle Attack Saved Colombian Hostages"
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/07/securitymatters_0710
Have you tried using Firefox? It works great, and they just released version 3 which is supposed to be nice, but I haven't tried it yet.
I have access to the storm botnet. Should I try to DDoS the new data center?
Admit failure and cut losses: drop Vista now.
Re-release Windows 2000 as Windows Classic (like Coca-Cola Classic!) for power/cheap/business users. It worked great and still does.
Slap Beryl on top of Windows 2000 and call it Windows XT. Market this to people_who_like_flashy_stuff/idiots.
For the next four or five years: fix up user security issues (what they tried to do with UAC) and other miscellaneous things. Release Windows 2.
How's it sound?
http://gotapi.com/
A bunch of stuff from C++ to the Flickr API. It has a nifty search as you type thing.
I'd love something like that. It would be like trying to keep a good Kill/Death ratio on my favorite game servers, except with programming.
Why do you use Linux if Solaris is a "better choice?"
Yes you do; you just don't know it. You use linux because it works and because it costs no money. Those two aspects hinge upon freedom.
Same here. I can type at about 80-120wpm (On the One True Keyboard, mind you). I see no reason to try Dvorak because I already type much faster than I think (even more so when I am writing succinct code rather than this long, drawn-out English).
You mean a webpage with a used space counter? I could try to set that up; I've got some free time tonight. Apparently Yahoo just made an open API for their mail.
Has someone created something like this, except in support of NN? Something along the lines of this would be great. If enough money (think big-name musicians) was banded together, something like that could possibly make it on mainstream T.V. as a commercial.
Of course their opinions per se do not matter. However, it is still excellent that they spoke up about it.
Everyone here has read the comments/AskSlashdots about how to explain technical issues to people who do not understand and, more importantly, who do not care.
This provides a way to get those indifferent people to care. Now they will think, "What is this issue of Net Neutrality? Why does $MYFAVORITEBAND care so much to join a coalition supporting it?"