Doing complex things is complex. That is just common sense. People can say 'linux is crap because it is so complex to install a program or even worse to have to recompile the kernel', well these are complex things to do, and so naturally the way to do them is complex.
I installed linux on my mum's computer, and it is much easier for her to use than windows. She doesnt need to know how to install software on it, all the software she ever needs came with the distro when she clicked 'Next' during the installation. She doesnt need to know how to recompile the kernel, all her software and hardware work properly already.
When my mum was running windows, she would get confused and call me every time a warning message came up, and when I went to her house one day her computer was infected with so many trojans, viruses and spyware programs that she couldnt even use her computer any more. That doesnt happen in linux, and everything is easy for her. She wants to browse the internet, fine, she just clicks the Firefox icon on the toolbar. She wants to check her email, she clicks the Thunderbird icon. She wants to write a letter, she clicks the OpenOffice icon. Simple.
People that use windows seem to be under the impression that it is perfectly ok for an operating system to be unstable and insecure, and to need to reinstall it every 6 months and restart it every few days to keep the system from grinding to a halt. It is not ok. And to have to pay hundreds of dollars to get Windows with some decent programs like Photoshop and Office is unaceptable. I can get Linux with GIMP and OpenOffice for free, and it may not be as good, but it does the job and saves thousands of dollars when decking out a small number of computers.
When i try to convince people to use linux, they say 'Why fix what aint broke' or something to that effect. Well windows IS broke, people are just ignorant to it. I agree linux may not yet suit the needs of many people, but look at how fast linux is developing. The number of GUIs being made for command line programs in linux is skyrocketing, and it wont be long until every common program has a decent GUI, and Windows users can stop complaining about having to use a command line in linux.
Some humans gain weight and lower activity when the days get shorter.
Isnt that just the effects of winter? You get colder, you sleep more and you eat more.
I'm wouldnt trust any motive of Microsoft's that involves linux. Something tells me i'm going to look up one day and see the Sword of Damocles dangling right above my neck.
I had an idea of a traffic management system similar to this, however my idea would _actually_ work in the real world. My idea still relies on traffic lights to control traffic, and cars would not be both travelling in an intersecting path. My idea works on the principal of attempting to keep track of every car on the road (even better if people had an anonymous transmitter in their car that would regularly flash their location, and destination (with the ability to be turned off for privacy)). My idea is that traffic should be moved into nice little "packets", with anyone outside a "packet" eventually being forced into one by means of having to stop. Each "packet" consists of around 50 cars, and each car's approximate location is inserted into a computer system, which uses a "chess-like" algorithm (runs through many possible outcomes to find the best one) to attempt to get each packet arriving at an intersection just after a packet coming from a perpendicular direction, and at the same time as a packet coming from the opposite direction. When those two packets finish passing through, two more packets should be just arriving from the perpendicular direction to see a green light just in time to pass through without stopping. I dont see why my idea couldnt work, and by using some of the ideas from this other idea, it could be improved a lot.
I think that preloading would be the best feature. If i go to a site, it should check to see if there are any links there that werent there before, and it should begin to preload those pages. If 70% of the time i visit a page, i click on a link near the top-left (example), it should begin to preload those pages. It should also use the HEAD method (as opposed to GET, the server will not return any content, but just get the headers) to find if a page has been modified since the last time you saw it, or whether it is a 404, then it can show a 404 symbol next to the link when you roll over it. If it does this it should not send any GET, POST or COOKIE data to it, as this may trigger a server-side event, such as deleting some content. Another thing I would like to see is that when you visit a site you have visited before, it should display what was on it the last time you visited it before it loads, as a washed-out image. Then as the page loads, the content replaces the previous page. These things combined with a bit of machine learning so it knows when and when not to do this would make a fantastic extension, but i would not want it as part of the core. I would like the extension to come bundled with the program and turned on by default.
All Copy Protections and encryptions can be defeated given that if you can read the information in one way or another, by decoding it in someway, then the information can be easily highjacked inbetween the decoding process and the output. As for watermarks, especially in the audio, can be almost impossible to remove. But say you got several of the dvd's, you could make a program that randomly takes each chunk of the picture and audio from a different source, effectively destroying any water/sound marks
If they have a db of all the possible md5 hashes for a-z0-9{8} then why does it take so long? couldnt they split up their database into the first few md5 hex combinations? so they could nest it so that you have 16 folders, with 16 folders in each say up to 3 levels (4096 folders in total), wouldnt it dramatically increase the speed?
Atleast people find out that their privacy is invaded so they can think twice about saying or doing something, but America invades people's privacy just as much but just doesnt tell us.
Some people I have spoken to still feel Mozilla and Firebird lose out against IE for just this reason.... and I am using the most recent release.
If you were using the latest release you wouldnt be calling it Firebird any more. It is now called Firefox. Version 0.9.1 came out a very short time ago and it has some remarkable speed increases.
Google
Search engine returns keyword search results based on relevance of content and the number of links to a particular URL from other sites.
www.google.com
this is no where near as nicely put as the results for 'msn search' (which list special features etc...)?
a search for all my favourite distros also seems to show up not much relevance. If this is microsoft's way of getting rid of competition, it sickens me.
Also another down side to this search engine is that the links are logged through a microsoft site like www.somemicrosoftsite.com/?log=cookies&steal=sessi on&abuse=privacy&redirect=www.google.com
truly sickening. If this is their idea of a "New Algorithm" (logging clicks), then they really have hit rock bottom, and they continue to dig. If microsoft were any more stupid, you'd have to water it twice a week.
I expect to see microsoft patches, service packs, office products, inferior browsers and entire operating systems that use this same approach to minimizing competition in the near future.
12 is a much superior base.
then why dont we use it? sure if the number system had base 12, then it would naturally be logical to use units with base 12, but the fact is, it doesnt! and as long as we continue to use a base of 10, our units should be 10 accordingly.
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every time somebody makes an argument against the metric system, they are essentially also making that same argument agaisnt the arabic (our) number system. to use a number system with a base of 10 and not use units with a base of 10 is illogical, and impractical where units with a base of 10 are much easier to manipulate using a number system with a base of 10.
10 is not used as often as 1000, which is divisible by 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100, 125, 200, 250, 500 which makes 1000 a VERY practical number. i can work out that there are 100,000 cm in a km alot faster than you can work out there are 63,360 inches in a mile. also, an inch is simply too large a mesurement to measure things accurately without using fractions. In metric, we can use millimetres or centimetres to measure things as accuratly as the situation requires, where someone using imperial measurements is forced to use fractions of an inch. Also, working out that 5.67856 kilometres is 5 kilometres, 678 metres and 56 centrimetres is easy as pie... (mmm tasty pie...) where it is rather hard to work out that 5.67856 miles is 5 miles, 1194 yards and just under 10 inches.
Windows/Fedora Core 2 dual booting "feature" - This does not affect only Fedora, and it took about 3 minutes to fix on my pc. My favorite quote - How can you be happy about the review making not only Fedora but linux in general look bad. broken audio drivers - I am yet to see a distro that has 100% working audio drivers. abomination known as Gnome 2.6 - If you dont like it that is what other desktops like KDE are for. I'm interested to hear others views about this review... - This review sucks. It may have some good points, but there is nothing in Fedora Core 2 that cant be avoided or fixed.
WinRAR
AVG Virus Scanner
Drivers
DAMN NFO Viewer
FireFox
Adaware/Spybot
Media Player Classic
XviD/DivX/AC3Filter/Realtime(Drivers Only)/Quicktime(Drivers Only)
Macromedia Studio
Adobe CS
btw, for those who dont know, Media Player Classic is not related to Microsoft Windows. Get it HERE
I dont know if deleting all the crap that Windows comes with is a 'install' as such, but I cant live without doing that aswell.
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Doing complex things is complex. That is just common sense. People can say 'linux is crap because it is so complex to install a program or even worse to have to recompile the kernel', well these are complex things to do, and so naturally the way to do them is complex.
I installed linux on my mum's computer, and it is much easier for her to use than windows. She doesnt need to know how to install software on it, all the software she ever needs came with the distro when she clicked 'Next' during the installation. She doesnt need to know how to recompile the kernel, all her software and hardware work properly already.
When my mum was running windows, she would get confused and call me every time a warning message came up, and when I went to her house one day her computer was infected with so many trojans, viruses and spyware programs that she couldnt even use her computer any more. That doesnt happen in linux, and everything is easy for her. She wants to browse the internet, fine, she just clicks the Firefox icon on the toolbar. She wants to check her email, she clicks the Thunderbird icon. She wants to write a letter, she clicks the OpenOffice icon. Simple.
People that use windows seem to be under the impression that it is perfectly ok for an operating system to be unstable and insecure, and to need to reinstall it every 6 months and restart it every few days to keep the system from grinding to a halt. It is not ok. And to have to pay hundreds of dollars to get Windows with some decent programs like Photoshop and Office is unaceptable. I can get Linux with GIMP and OpenOffice for free, and it may not be as good, but it does the job and saves thousands of dollars when decking out a small number of computers.
When i try to convince people to use linux, they say 'Why fix what aint broke' or something to that effect. Well windows IS broke, people are just ignorant to it. I agree linux may not yet suit the needs of many people, but look at how fast linux is developing. The number of GUIs being made for command line programs in linux is skyrocketing, and it wont be long until every common program has a decent GUI, and Windows users can stop complaining about having to use a command line in linux.
Some humans gain weight and lower activity when the days get shorter.
Isnt that just the effects of winter? You get colder, you sleep more and you eat more.
Seeming as http://windowsfordevices.com/ runs Apache on *nix, they might just be biased. They may be inclined to spoil a good story with the truth.
I'm wouldnt trust any motive of Microsoft's that involves linux.
Something tells me i'm going to look up one day and see the Sword of Damocles dangling right above my neck.
I had an idea of a traffic management system similar to this, however my idea would _actually_ work in the real world. My idea still relies on traffic lights to control traffic, and cars would not be both travelling in an intersecting path. My idea works on the principal of attempting to keep track of every car on the road (even better if people had an anonymous transmitter in their car that would regularly flash their location, and destination (with the ability to be turned off for privacy)).
My idea is that traffic should be moved into nice little "packets", with anyone outside a "packet" eventually being forced into one by means of having to stop. Each "packet" consists of around 50 cars, and each car's approximate location is inserted into a computer system, which uses a "chess-like" algorithm (runs through many possible outcomes to find the best one) to attempt to get each packet arriving at an intersection just after a packet coming from a perpendicular direction, and at the same time as a packet coming from the opposite direction. When those two packets finish passing through, two more packets should be just arriving from the perpendicular direction to see a green light just in time to pass through without stopping.
I dont see why my idea couldnt work, and by using some of the ideas from this other idea, it could be improved a lot.
I think that preloading would be the best feature.
If i go to a site, it should check to see if there are any links there that werent there before, and it should begin to preload those pages. If 70% of the time i visit a page, i click on a link near the top-left (example), it should begin to preload those pages.
It should also use the HEAD method (as opposed to GET, the server will not return any content, but just get the headers) to find if a page has been modified since the last time you saw it, or whether it is a 404, then it can show a 404 symbol next to the link when you roll over it. If it does this it should not send any GET, POST or COOKIE data to it, as this may trigger a server-side event, such as deleting some content.
Another thing I would like to see is that when you visit a site you have visited before, it should display what was on it the last time you visited it before it loads, as a washed-out image. Then as the page loads, the content replaces the previous page.
These things combined with a bit of machine learning so it knows when and when not to do this would make a fantastic extension, but i would not want it as part of the core. I would like the extension to come bundled with the program and turned on by default.
All Copy Protections and encryptions can be defeated given that if you can read the information in one way or another, by decoding it in someway, then the information can be easily highjacked inbetween the decoding process and the output.
As for watermarks, especially in the audio, can be almost impossible to remove. But say you got several of the dvd's, you could make a program that randomly takes each chunk of the picture and audio from a different source, effectively destroying any water/sound marks
If they have a db of all the possible md5 hashes for a-z0-9{8} then why does it take so long? couldnt they split up their database into the first few md5 hex combinations?
so they could nest it so that you have 16 folders, with 16 folders in each say up to 3 levels (4096 folders in total), wouldnt it dramatically increase the speed?
yep i knew that, was just trying to be funny
if Java is is so good why dont they program it in Java?
Atleast people find out that their privacy is invaded so they can think twice about saying or doing something, but America invades people's privacy just as much but just doesnt tell us.
Some people I have spoken to still feel Mozilla and Firebird lose out against IE for just this reason.... and I am using the most recent release.
If you were using the latest release you wouldnt be calling it Firebird any more. It is now called Firefox. Version 0.9.1 came out a very short time ago and it has some remarkable speed increases.
Google
i on&abuse=privacy&redirect=www.google.com
Search engine returns keyword search results based on relevance of content and the number of links to a particular URL from other sites.
www.google.com
this is no where near as nicely put as the results for 'msn search' (which list special features etc...)?
a search for all my favourite distros also seems to show up not much relevance. If this is microsoft's way of getting rid of competition, it sickens me.
Also another down side to this search engine is that the links are logged through a microsoft site like www.somemicrosoftsite.com/?log=cookies&steal=sess
truly sickening. If this is their idea of a "New Algorithm" (logging clicks), then they really have hit rock bottom, and they continue to dig. If microsoft were any more stupid, you'd have to water it twice a week.
I expect to see microsoft patches, service packs, office products, inferior browsers and entire operating systems that use this same approach to minimizing competition in the near future.
i did not know. thankyou
12 is a much superior base.
then why dont we use it? sure if the number system had base 12, then it would naturally be logical to use units with base 12, but the fact is, it doesnt! and as long as we continue to use a base of 10, our units should be 10 accordingly.
every time somebody makes an argument against the metric system, they are essentially also making that same argument agaisnt the arabic (our) number system. to use a number system with a base of 10 and not use units with a base of 10 is illogical, and impractical where units with a base of 10 are much easier to manipulate using a number system with a base of 10.
10 is not used as often as 1000, which is divisible by 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100, 125, 200, 250, 500
which makes 1000 a VERY practical number.
i can work out that there are 100,000 cm in a km alot faster than you can work out there are 63,360 inches in a mile.
also, an inch is simply too large a mesurement to measure things accurately without using fractions. In metric, we can use millimetres or centimetres to measure things as accuratly as the situation requires, where someone using imperial measurements is forced to use fractions of an inch. Also, working out that 5.67856 kilometres is 5 kilometres, 678 metres and 56 centrimetres is easy as pie... (mmm tasty pie...) where it is rather hard to work out that 5.67856 miles is 5 miles, 1194 yards and just under 10 inches.
Deus Ex II: Invisible War all over again? when will they release some decent games?
the ushers are often the ones who record the film off anyway.
Windows/Fedora Core 2 dual booting "feature" - This does not affect only Fedora, and it took about 3 minutes to fix on my pc.
My favorite quote - How can you be happy about the review making not only Fedora but linux in general look bad.
broken audio drivers - I am yet to see a distro that has 100% working audio drivers.
abomination known as Gnome 2.6 - If you dont like it that is what other desktops like KDE are for.
I'm interested to hear others views about this review... - This review sucks. It may have some good points, but there is nothing in Fedora Core 2 that cant be avoided or fixed.
Knot tieing robots!
think of the possibilities
i never have to tie nots in balloons again
WinRAR
AVG Virus Scanner
Drivers
DAMN NFO Viewer
FireFox
Adaware/Spybot
Media Player Classic
XviD/DivX/AC3Filter/Realtime(Drivers Only)/Quicktime(Drivers Only)
Macromedia Studio
Adobe CS
btw, for those who dont know, Media Player Classic is not related to Microsoft Windows. Get it HERE
I dont know if deleting all the crap that Windows comes with is a 'install' as such, but I cant live without doing that aswell.
Australian Money is much more fun. As it is plastic, it melts in the microwave, and as a definate bonus it also releases toxic fumes!
It would be too Ironic if this was a spy sattelite, being launched in 1984 and all...
i hope this hasnt got anything to do with Lucious DeBeers? - Now that would be a conspiracy... It's all coming back to me now