Nope, that's was my parents house. I told em they're selling out to the man by BUYING a prebuilt shack but they didn't listen. If you're ever down by misoula come on by and I'll show you my refrigerator box.
Traditionally the films that are rewarded by Oscar voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are those that take thematic and commercial risks.
Oh yeah, the oscars aren't a popularity contest or anything like that.
Well, you're right. I mean how many times DO I reinstall windows? None of course because once you install linux, you never have to reinstall windows ever again.
But, you on the other hand. Are clearly NOT a technical user of windows. When I did run windows...years ago...it needed to be reinstalled frequently. The short time I had XP on a laptop that was a pain to install linux on and ended up being exchanged for a mac, I had to reinstall XP twice.
I change my hardware quite regularly. I have a new motherboard coming today in fact. Granted, it's not all that often that I replace my motherboard, but hard drive replacement is VERY common, more than once a year on average. Video card replacement is also fairly common.
Personally, I can't imagine dealing with that crap. I typically have five or six pcs/macs at home at any one time and I can't be bothered to remember which "certificate of authenticity" goes with which computer. Fortuanately, with OS/X and Linux, I don't have to.
You're missing the point. Linux was started when linux was a student as a hobbiest project. If you go back MUCH further in time there was a far greater criticism of "microcomputers" and the people who played with them. Back then NO software that ran on a "pc" would be deemed professional. Today I'm quite sure that when you think professional you are just as, if not MORE likely, to mean software that runs on a PC.
btw, by PC I mean personal computer, not 80x86 computer.
Because they know that it does take skill and talent to write effectively and well. (Hint: For every book on the shelf at your local bookstore, a hundred were rejected.
Yes, but given the crap on the shelves in any local bookstore it hardly seems that the reason for rejection is quality. More likely, imnsho, is that books are rejected because they won't be profitable.
Librarians don't like the information "revolution", because for better or worse, they know that over the long term it will render their profession moot. Shaking their pointy fingers at bloggers is just another way of venting that anger.
I don't think it's really about blogs displacing books, good books are still a rare treat. However, blogs, and the internet in general, will replace a LOT of the daily recreational reading that many of us do. For example, the internet has almost completely replaced magazines and newspapers for me. Further, while I have never personally been into crap fiction like harlequin romances or those damn westerns, I imagine that for a lot of people the internet has replaced some of that recreational reading as well.
Your analogy regarding model airplanes is flawed. Most "internet writers" probably don't consider themselves professional writers anymore than model pilots consider themselves professional pilots. I believe they DO think they are "amature/hobbiest" publishers discovering a new hobby that wasn't REALLY possible prior to the internet.
Microcomputers allowed hobbiest programmers to do something that was previously "only for professionals", and then, as now, the "professionals" never had much good to say about hobbiests. What ought to be obvious, however, is that some hobbiests *cough* linux *cough* have been able to produce quality software despite the protests of those "professionals" who felt it wasn't possible.
I'm reminded of the emperor and his nonexistent clothes.
Jesus, you mods kill me. Whenever I have points I go looking for good posts to mod up and bad posts to mod down. What I tend to ignore are irrelevent posts like this one, and of course, the one above.
Why don't you let people have their little conversation while you go find some really salient points to mod up or some serious bigotry to mod down.
I hope you aren't suggesting that the religious beliefs of Bill Clinton and John Kerry are somehow equivalent to the nutty beliefs of the bushes and the regans? Please! I don't seem to recall Kerry telling us that god "talks directly to him". I think, in fact, that it's ronald talking to him from the grave, and that nancy had that all set up through her astrologist.
In what way is getting additional profit that they'll never see otherwise reduduced profit?
I would venture that the torrent-savy are a small proportion of the DVD purchasing market. Personally I own very few DVDs. The reason is NOT that I pirate video, frankly, I can't be bothered, but it's because I don't want to own a bunch of shiny plastic discs that take up space. I would GLADLY pay a qarter per half hour, oh hell, let's just make it a penny per minute of show for that once in a blue moon when I want to watch something but don't feel like watching a movie.
Just like when I rent, I might want to watch it a couple of times, I might not. Getting all uptight about "rights management" for broadcast television downloads is just a bit silly in my opinion. It's gonna show up on the torrent networks with or without such a process anyway, and not by me, I can't be bothered, so just let me keep the video on my desktop until I need space for something else.
And NO I do not want to use paypal or some silly micropayment system, just let me pay $5 or $10 on my credit card and download at my leisure. Don't make my account expire EVER (or at least some reasonable time limit, like two years, i.e. NOT 90 days) and you'll have my business pretty regularly. I spend more than that per month on rentals and about half the time I'd just as soon watch one commercial free show. Oh, yeah, put ANY commercials in it and I won't bother.
Don't look at it as lost revenue if you don't do it, but gained revenue if you do. I don't have a TV and right now I watch ZERO television, thus, I see ZERO commercials.
Not that I would wish more lawsuits on the world, but this strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that trademark law was designed to protect against. LPhoto seems as close to iPhoto as say...Lindows seems to Windows.
Perhaps the lawers can splain why this is or is not an issue...
You're nitpicking and the EXACT same limitations hold for windows which takes its commands from dos which took them from CPM.
Further, talk about useless, the DOS command window and batch language are STILL as useless as they were in DOS 3.x.
It is so simple to map a new set of commands like list and manual to ls and man that if there were any real demand for it someone could do it and include it with your favorite distribution. But really, that's just a red herring, because as soon as that were done you'd be bitching about how you don't use the command window. You never have to touch ls if you don't want to, just click on the little house and navigate like you do in windows.
Of course, if ya want to be l33t, you're gonna havve to crack open a man page or two...
I find ubuntu's default desktop install (with gnome) to be very reasonable on a P-II 500 with 256 mb of ram. But it's not going to be super snappy. I haven't timed the boot, but it's sure as hell not eight minutes.
The only person I see talking down is you. You seem to think that ALL linux users fit your STEROTYPE of what a linux user is.
FWIW. I use linux on the desktop and I PREFER the distributions that are the easiest to use, e.g. fedora/ubuntu. That said, I still prefer to use command line toos for many activities because it is simply a more efficient way to accomplish some tasks.
While you are busy trying to defend your predjudice, linux developers have been working to make linux easier and easier for the end user to install and maintain. No, it's not perfect, but it's a far cry from what it was five years ago.
Most people I encounter who use linux fall in between the extremes that you mention. They aren't super geeks who eschew the gui for a command line because it's l33t but they typically aren't afraid of typing a command or two if it is a more efficient way of doing something.
Has it occured to you that what you percieve as archaic and complex is, in fact, neither?
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Nope, that's was my parents house. I told em they're selling out to the man by BUYING a prebuilt shack but they didn't listen. If you're ever down by misoula come on by and I'll show you my refrigerator box.
Oh yeah, the oscars aren't a popularity contest or anything like that.
I just read it for the first time. I didn't see it on the tv...because....
..in addition..
I don't have a TV
I don't buy CDs
I don't buy movies
I don't buy software
and I block ALL internet ads
If you could sue someone for NOT consuming I'd be right up there on the list.
Well, you're right. I mean how many times DO I reinstall windows? None of course because once you install linux, you never have to reinstall windows ever again.
But, you on the other hand. Are clearly NOT a technical user of windows. When I did run windows...years ago...it needed to be reinstalled frequently. The short time I had XP on a laptop that was a pain to install linux on and ended up being exchanged for a mac, I had to reinstall XP twice.
I change my hardware quite regularly. I have a new motherboard coming today in fact. Granted, it's not all that often that I replace my motherboard, but hard drive replacement is VERY common, more than once a year on average. Video card replacement is also fairly common.
Personally, I can't imagine dealing with that crap. I typically have five or six pcs/macs at home at any one time and I can't be bothered to remember which "certificate of authenticity" goes with which computer. Fortuanately, with OS/X and Linux, I don't have to.
You're missing the point. Linux was started when linux was a student as a hobbiest project. If you go back MUCH further in time there was a far greater criticism of "microcomputers" and the people who played with them. Back then NO software that ran on a "pc" would be deemed professional. Today I'm quite sure that when you think professional you are just as, if not MORE likely, to mean software that runs on a PC.
btw, by PC I mean personal computer, not 80x86 computer.
Yes, but given the crap on the shelves in any local bookstore it hardly seems that the reason for rejection is quality. More likely, imnsho, is that books are rejected because they won't be profitable.
Librarians don't like the information "revolution", because for better or worse, they know that over the long term it will render their profession moot. Shaking their pointy fingers at bloggers is just another way of venting that anger.
I don't think it's really about blogs displacing books, good books are still a rare treat. However, blogs, and the internet in general, will replace a LOT of the daily recreational reading that many of us do. For example, the internet has almost completely replaced magazines and newspapers for me. Further, while I have never personally been into crap fiction like harlequin romances or those damn westerns, I imagine that for a lot of people the internet has replaced some of that recreational reading as well.
Your analogy regarding model airplanes is flawed. Most "internet writers" probably don't consider themselves professional writers anymore than model pilots consider themselves professional pilots. I believe they DO think they are "amature/hobbiest" publishers discovering a new hobby that wasn't REALLY possible prior to the internet.
Microcomputers allowed hobbiest programmers to do something that was previously "only for professionals", and then, as now, the "professionals" never had much good to say about hobbiests. What ought to be obvious, however, is that some hobbiests *cough* linux *cough* have been able to produce quality software despite the protests of those "professionals" who felt it wasn't possible.
I'm reminded of the emperor and his nonexistent clothes.
I think the VI refers to "uptimes" measured in hours as opposed to minutes.
ymmv.
Jesus, you mods kill me. Whenever I have points I go looking for good posts to mod up and bad posts to mod down. What I tend to ignore are irrelevent posts like this one, and of course, the one above.
Why don't you let people have their little conversation while you go find some really salient points to mod up or some serious bigotry to mod down.
sheesh!
You need an easier problem, try this.
Go for a walk in the country.
See, it's like this, I'm gonna have to start charging if you think you're going to need any more help with this problem.
I hope you aren't suggesting that the religious beliefs of Bill Clinton and John Kerry are somehow equivalent to the nutty beliefs of the bushes and the regans? Please! I don't seem to recall Kerry telling us that god "talks directly to him". I think, in fact, that it's ronald talking to him from the grave, and that nancy had that all set up through her astrologist.
That's only in indiana where they tried to get a law passed for a more sensible definition of pi. Every other american is WELL aware that man was made by aliens.
Indeed, gentoo is the HEALTHIEST distro, one could say in fact, that it is OPTIMIZED for your health.
In what way is getting additional profit that they'll never see otherwise reduduced profit?
I would venture that the torrent-savy are a small proportion of the DVD purchasing market. Personally I own very few DVDs. The reason is NOT that I pirate video, frankly, I can't be bothered, but it's because I don't want to own a bunch of shiny plastic discs that take up space. I would GLADLY pay a qarter per half hour, oh hell, let's just make it a penny per minute of show for that once in a blue moon when I want to watch something but don't feel like watching a movie.
Just like when I rent, I might want to watch it a couple of times, I might not. Getting all uptight about "rights management" for broadcast television downloads is just a bit silly in my opinion. It's gonna show up on the torrent networks with or without such a process anyway, and not by me, I can't be bothered, so just let me keep the video on my desktop until I need space for something else.
And NO I do not want to use paypal or some silly micropayment system, just let me pay $5 or $10 on my credit card and download at my leisure. Don't make my account expire EVER (or at least some reasonable time limit, like two years, i.e. NOT 90 days) and you'll have my business pretty regularly. I spend more than that per month on rentals and about half the time I'd just as soon watch one commercial free show. Oh, yeah, put ANY commercials in it and I won't bother.
Don't look at it as lost revenue if you don't do it, but gained revenue if you do. I don't have a TV and right now I watch ZERO television, thus, I see ZERO commercials.
..turn it off and go outside...
Not that I would wish more lawsuits on the world, but this strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that trademark law was designed to protect against. LPhoto seems as close to iPhoto as say...Lindows seems to Windows.
Perhaps the lawers can splain why this is or is not an issue...
Ubuntu installs synaptic by default...fwiw.
kind of like dir instead of directory.
You're nitpicking and the EXACT same limitations hold for windows which takes its commands from dos which took them from CPM.
Further, talk about useless, the DOS command window and batch language are STILL as useless as they were in DOS 3.x.
It is so simple to map a new set of commands like list and manual to ls and man that if there were any real demand for it someone could do it and include it with your favorite distribution. But really, that's just a red herring, because as soon as that were done you'd be bitching about how you don't use the command window. You never have to touch ls if you don't want to, just click on the little house and navigate like you do in windows.
Of course, if ya want to be l33t, you're gonna havve to crack open a man page or two...
I find ubuntu's default desktop install (with gnome) to be very reasonable on a P-II 500 with 256 mb of ram. But it's not going to be super snappy. I haven't timed the boot, but it's sure as hell not eight minutes.
Most likely you selected something else that required what you deselected as a dependency.
As a beginner you should use one of the standard base installs and either yum or apt to install software.
Perhaps what you really want is ubuntu. Installs with synaptic by default and is super snappy even on low end systems. Not too much bloat.
ymmv.
The only person I see talking down is you. You seem to think that ALL linux users fit your STEROTYPE of what a linux user is.
FWIW. I use linux on the desktop and I PREFER the distributions that are the easiest to use, e.g. fedora/ubuntu. That said, I still prefer to use command line toos for many activities because it is simply a more efficient way to accomplish some tasks.
While you are busy trying to defend your predjudice, linux developers have been working to make linux easier and easier for the end user to install and maintain. No, it's not perfect, but it's a far cry from what it was five years ago.
Most people I encounter who use linux fall in between the extremes that you mention. They aren't super geeks who eschew the gui for a command line because it's l33t but they typically aren't afraid of typing a command or two if it is a more efficient way of doing something.
Has it occured to you that what you percieve as archaic and complex is, in fact, neither?
(typed on federa core 3...installed from GUI)
You only get to claim your mom is your girlfriend until such time as you attend the first grade. After that, it's just weird.
...about handbags....someone light my virginia slim...
You can download the patch here
...for guidance on the sly like this group did.