it's not a problem if i don't like adelaide. my daughter is moving to adelaide with her mum, stepdad and brothers. i'm emigrating too but i don't have to stick with adelaide if i don't like it.
how is adelaide like the isle of wight? it's a scary comparison.
i've been giving this eaten by dingos thing a lot of thought recently. the baby that was stolen by dingos was called azaria and my eight year old daughter has the same name.
this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that we are planning to emigrate from england to adelaide in australia. (any adelaidians out there?).
will my daughters name make her the butt of loads of dingo jokes? is azaria a taboo name? it's going to be tough for her moving to another country without having to deal with that shit.
"have you ever tried to design any sort of graphic from the command line?"
if you reread the post darthdavid didn't recommend doing all tasks on the command line. i think he was just touting one of the benefits of linux, the ability to switch of the gui when it's not required. obviously you do need it for some jobs, but even then you have the option of some pretty fast stripped down guis.
"but neither increased my typing speed, shortened my compile times, or reduced the number of bugs in my code."
nicely put. i use macs at work, windows and linux at home and i can work just as fast on all three. the only thing that ever impedes my productivity is my own laziness and stupidity.
i understand now. when i came up with the "don't we pay their wages" comment i was referring to consumers in general and their ability to control companies. upon re-reading my original post i must see that i failed to make it clear who i was talking about when i said "we".
if "we" was taken to refer to the linux community then yes it would have been a dumb thing to have said and your response was totally justified. we don't have that power (yet!)
sorry about the "pedantic" comment, it was just a case of crossed wires.
ok, when i buy a graphics card there isn't a guy from the graphic card production line waiting there to take my cash. the money has to go through the employees hands before it becomes wages.
that doesn't change the fact that no customers = no profit = no wages.
But it's not our place to demand that a vendor follow our principles because we think they should.
correct me if i'm wrong, but don't we pay their wages? if the product they are supplying does not meet our requirements we are entitled to ask them to do things differently, if they fail to meet our requirements we find someone who will and give them our money. that's how capitalism works.
i've got a fairly off-topic question about kde vs gnome. i've heard that gnome is big in the states and kde is big in europe. i may be emigrating to australia soon and i was wondering which camp they tend towards down under.
on the opposite end of the scale, i remember groaning to myself when the little girl on jurassic park said "this is unix, i know this" and then proceeded to fly through some 3d interface.
I see a future in which Internet downloads take the place of live performances/movie theaters now in driving CD and DVD sales or eventually replacing those sales with pay-per-download. Our entertainment industries are too self absorbed to think about that as a possibility.
i agree with some of your points. i believe that the internet will replace a lot of recorded media as a source of entertainment, but i think live performances will remain popular. perhaps in future bands will come to rely more on their live performances for revenue.
with the "accidental" side-effect of down-the-toilet quality of software banged-out in those sweatshops abroad.
Just a few questions.
1. You mention down-the-toilet quality. Is this based upon your own personal experience or are you acting under the assumption that foreigners are intellectually inferior to US citizens. If you do believe that americans are automatically better at programming would you accredit this to social or genetic superiority?
2. Your use of quotation marks around accidental could be taken to imply that foreign programmers might be writing bad code deliberately. If that was your implication, what would be their motivation to risk their jobs in that way. Is this just xenophobia on your part or do you have solid proof of an anti-american conspiracy. (Just in case you aren't aware indian != arab)
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it's not a problem if i don't like adelaide. my daughter is moving to adelaide with her mum, stepdad and brothers. i'm emigrating too but i don't have to stick with adelaide if i don't like it.
how is adelaide like the isle of wight? it's a scary comparison.
what's adelaide like?
a persons height and the quality of their hair have nothing to do with their ability to run a country.
this is were america goes wrong. they have a bad habit of voting for the tall candidate with good hair.
i've been giving this eaten by dingos thing a lot of thought recently. the baby that was stolen by dingos was called azaria and my eight year old daughter has the same name.
this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that we are planning to emigrate from england to adelaide in australia. (any adelaidians out there?).
will my daughters name make her the butt of loads of dingo jokes? is azaria a taboo name? it's going to be tough for her moving to another country without having to deal with that shit.
i'm glad to see that your comment got modded up, but it think insightful would have been more appropriate than funny.
what about caffeine and a jorb well done?
team america...fuck yeah!
"have you ever tried to design any sort of graphic from the command line?"
if you reread the post darthdavid didn't recommend doing all tasks on the command line. i think he was just touting one of the benefits of linux, the ability to switch of the gui when it's not required. obviously you do need it for some jobs, but even then you have the option of some pretty fast stripped down guis.
"but neither increased my typing speed, shortened my compile times, or reduced the number of bugs in my code."
nicely put. i use macs at work, windows and linux at home and i can work just as fast on all three. the only thing that ever impedes my productivity is my own laziness and stupidity.
i understand now. when i came up with the "don't we pay their wages" comment i was referring to consumers in general and their ability to control companies. upon re-reading my original post i must see that i failed to make it clear who i was talking about when i said "we".
if "we" was taken to refer to the linux community then yes it would have been a dumb thing to have said and your response was totally justified. we don't have that power (yet!)
sorry about the "pedantic" comment, it was just a case of crossed wires.
best wishes.
stepping razor.
+1 sadistic bastard. :)
80% out of 100% is a bit harsh.
i'd rate planetside at 80% out of 110%
i think you are being a bit pedantic.
ok, when i buy a graphics card there isn't a guy from the graphic card production line waiting there to take my cash. the money has to go through the employees hands before it becomes wages.
that doesn't change the fact that no customers = no profit = no wages.
i see your point. i look forward to the day when we become the majority (which i believe will happen) and we can call the shots.
But it's not our place to demand that a vendor follow our principles because we think they should.
correct me if i'm wrong, but don't we pay their wages? if the product they are supplying does not meet our requirements we are entitled to ask them to do things differently, if they fail to meet our requirements we find someone who will and give them our money. that's how capitalism works.
i've got a fairly off-topic question about kde vs gnome. i've heard that gnome is big in the states and kde is big in europe. i may be emigrating to australia soon and i was wondering which camp they tend towards down under.
on the opposite end of the scale, i remember groaning to myself when the little girl on jurassic park said "this is unix, i know this" and then proceeded to fly through some 3d interface.
"Well, there's only a 90% chance it'll go off...."
... you just got to ask yourself, do i feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk.
I see a future in which Internet downloads take the place of live performances/movie theaters now in driving CD and DVD sales or eventually replacing those sales with pay-per-download. Our entertainment industries are too self absorbed to think about that as a possibility.
i agree with some of your points. i believe that the internet will replace a lot of recorded media as a source of entertainment, but i think live performances will remain popular. perhaps in future bands will come to rely more on their live performances for revenue.
correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the tar command get it's name from tape archive? time to change it?
Being english I find this "irony" concept difficult to understand. Are there any americans out there who could explain it to me?
with the "accidental" side-effect of down-the-toilet quality of software banged-out in those sweatshops abroad.
Just a few questions.
1. You mention down-the-toilet quality. Is this based upon your own personal experience or are you acting under the assumption that foreigners are intellectually inferior to US citizens. If you do believe that americans are automatically better at programming would you accredit this to social or genetic superiority?
2. Your use of quotation marks around accidental could be taken to imply that foreign programmers might be writing bad code deliberately. If that was your implication, what would be their motivation to risk their jobs in that way. Is this just xenophobia on your part or do you have solid proof of an anti-american conspiracy. (Just in case you aren't aware indian != arab)
3. You mention sweatshops. Do you have any proof?
clever technique man. its the same way they make sticks of rock with the name all the way through.
a Macintosh still trumps a PC running WinDOS
How is comparing a mac with winDos relevant to this discussion?
"And every Linux machine I've ever used, mounts external media in /mnt instead of /media."
/media.
A lot do, but there are exeptions, Suse mounts external media in