And don't even get me started about trying to make xine play a dvd...
1) Yeah, insert the DVD and click the "DVD" button on the control panel; that's real freaking hard.
2) Who says we should all be using OS's designed for imbeciles? I suppose it'd be nice for my parents if the computer would just start running the movie, but why should I have to be subjected to that kind of babysitting? I don't want my computer to make assumptions for me, and I'll bet that most of the people using Linux don't either. I'm glad OSX is out there for people like your parents, but that doesn't mean it's what everyone wants/needs.
I have a MAudio Dio 2496 that I have a problem with: the digital outs (both coax and optical) cut off the first half-second or so of any sounds, including songs. The analog outputs, however, work beautifully. I've had this card in 2 or 3 different Linux installations and everytime it's the same thing. I don't think it's my receiver because my dvd/cd player is also hooked up to a digital input on the receiver and it doesn't show the same behavior.
Well, I should say that I wanted to build a living room "jukebox" and DVR for parties, so my requirements might be a bit different from yours. I've used Mserv because I wanted a kiosk-type jukebox that would act like a real jukebox. That is, if no songs were selected, it would start picking songs based on ratings and how long it had been since they had last been played. I don't know of any other jukeboxes, Windows or Mac (perhaps someone can enlighten me) that will weight it's random selections like that. I wrote my own kiosk-style frontend using Python, but it appears that someone else has done the same thing with Shrill, complete with album art. I have a friend who's doing something similar with MPD, but I haven't used it myself. I've also played around with MythTV, which was nice because of the DVR features, but it didn't have the random feature that I wanted.
Really? I've had exactly the opposite experience. I like using a web frontend to mserv because I like the random "jukebox" features, but I've seen tons and tons of other jukeboxes out there for Linux. There's jukeboxes out there whether you want a commandline, gui or web frontend, whether you want your collection indexed on the fly or stored in a database, whether you want to play the music locally or stream it, whether you want to play wav, mp3, ogg, whatever.
What are the Linux jukeboxes missing that the Windows ones have?
Sorry to nitpick, but SCO sold a x86 port of Xenix which was created by Microsoft. That is, Microsoft wrote Xenix, and then licensed SCO to port it to the x86.
So what you're saying is if you commit two crimes, only the lesser one (downloading) should count? If someone has to commit murder in order to sucessfully rob another, they should only be charged with robbery because the murder was in service of the robbery?
As for going for the "average Joe P2P user", just because the RIAA are a bunch of scumbags doesn't mean copyright law doesn't apply. I've downloaded songs. Basically everyone I know has downloaded songs at one time or another; but I don't fool myself into thinking that it's not wrong, both legally and ethically.
If people are going to take a principled stand against the RIAA and share music because they believe that the RIAA is abusing it's monopoly power, fine. But if you're going to take a stand, you have the responsibility to accept the consequences. Otherwise you're just a whiny jerk who tried to get away with something and got caught.
What O'Gara did is without a doubt unethical, and I for one don't mourn her firing. However, notwithstanding PJ's fears of becoming a suicide victim, I don't see where this rises to the level of stalking. According to New York, in order for it to be stalking, the perpetrator has to have been "previously clearly informed to cease that conduct." Taking a phone number from a published press release, using it to get an address and then knocking on the door is not stalking. Even getting a forwarding address from a property manager and then knocking on that door is not stalking. If O'Gara made threats and repeatedly showed up at PJ's door after being told not to come back, it'd be a different story. This is unethical, but I don't see where it's illegal.
Actually, she published her mother's address, not her phone number. The phone number was PJ's (assuming it's the right PJ) and came from a press release. Admittedly, this is splitting hairs.
I second the motion, along with an "Apple Fanboy", "Gentoo Fanboy" and "Debian Fanboy" choice. Really, why NOT a generic "Fanboy" entry?
I'd also like to see any posts that use the phrases "just works", "just don't get it" or "the debian way" automatically modded -5; -10 if they are capitalized a la "The Debian Way". Posts that preface Linux with "GNU/" should be modded "Tiresome, Even to Friends".
The other problem with following "perfection" is that in reality it's such a subjective term. I've found the Debian developers so convinced that "The Debian Way" (always caps) is a synonym for "the right way", that it ends up being quite inflexible and difficult to work with if you try to step even a little bit out of the box. Check out the hoops you have to jump through to install Debian on a software raid compared to Fedora, Gentoo or any other common distribution.
You're dead on about the ball of updates vs. a trickle as well. Debian stable is fine if you can afford to develop against a frozen software set for up to four or five years. But what if your users want functionality that has been introduced in the last couple years AND you need timely security updates? With Debian you're pretty much SOL. One of the strengths of open source is the rapid pace of advancement in features and capabilities. You give that up with Debian Stable.
I remember a TV commercial from a few years ago that said something like "Have you ever attended a meeting while on the beach? You will." with an image of a laptop on a table on a beautiful caribbean beach. I was horrified. Who the heck wants to be expected to attend a meeting on vacation? I don't want to be connected to work 24 hours a day. I want to be on vacation when I'm on vacation.
I totally agree with you wrt the accessibility thing.
However, the real problem with not having a cell phone is that (in the US, anyway) everyone assumes you have a cell phone, and so fewer and fewer pay phones are available anymore. Your six odd years sans-breakdown aside (don't know the driving age in Canada), there *will* be times when you need to get in touch with someone.
"In fact, the only movie that he directed that was a huge success on it's own merit* was A New Hope."
American Graffiti was a huge commercial success.
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Oh, I totally agree, but what's the difference? The parent asked if there was any chance that MS could beat Google when Google is so far ahead in tech. I think the answer is clearly "yes", even if it is by marketing/monopolistic power.
Which is fine, except no one in any of the first two prequels seems to be having any fun, so why should the audience. Ep 4-6 (ok, I was 7-11 years old at the time) had the feel of a great adventure. No one in these last two movies seems to be on a great adventure. There's no Han Solo to lighten things up, there's not even a naive farmboy for the audience to relate to; there's just a whiny jerk. It doesn't matter how many spaceships and lightsabers Lucas throws in there. There's no spirit of adventure and it just isn't any fun.
Seriously, the best thing any of these reviews have had to say is that Ep 3 ties in beautifully to Ep 4. What does that say? That'll remind you of a much better movie? Whoopie!
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It pains me to say it, but I think they do have a chance. Many of the things you're saying about the gap between MS and their competitors could have been said about the gap between IE and Netscape, or Word and WordPerfect or DOS and the MacOS, and the truth is that MS won those wars.
Anyway, we'll see, but there's lots of dead companies out there that underestimated MS.
I disagree. Gnome had a disorganized, patchwork approach to GUI design YEARS before Apple came along with their "let's make some stuff brushed metal and leave the rest as aqua" theme.
Roughly how fast do you normally go? GPS speed becomes less reliable the slower you go because of positional error. 15-20 foot error can be fairly substantial at low speeds.
Those are good points - thanks. I guess I can see the advantage if you were making a limited set of commands available to select users in a multiuser environment. But I still think that exposing all root commands on a single-user box like Apple and Ubuntu is a cracker's dream. Well, OK, that'd be win98, but still. Personally, I'd like to see the user have to enter the root password, or a third 'sudo' password to have access to 5 minutes of root access, but cie la vie.
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1) Yeah, insert the DVD and click the "DVD" button on the control panel; that's real freaking hard.
2) Who says we should all be using OS's designed for imbeciles? I suppose it'd be nice for my parents if the computer would just start running the movie, but why should I have to be subjected to that kind of babysitting? I don't want my computer to make assumptions for me, and I'll bet that most of the people using Linux don't either. I'm glad OSX is out there for people like your parents, but that doesn't mean it's what everyone wants/needs.
Web developers aren't creative professionals?
Better performance? What are you, some kind of sadist? Did you see the server comparison? I was starting to feel sorry for OSX near the end.
Still, it's a step up over a real cat.
I have a MAudio Dio 2496 that I have a problem with: the digital outs (both coax and optical) cut off the first half-second or so of any sounds, including songs. The analog outputs, however, work beautifully. I've had this card in 2 or 3 different Linux installations and everytime it's the same thing. I don't think it's my receiver because my dvd/cd player is also hooked up to a digital input on the receiver and it doesn't show the same behavior.
I can't even understand what you've written, so I'll bow to your expertise!
Well, I should say that I wanted to build a living room "jukebox" and DVR for parties, so my requirements might be a bit different from yours. I've used Mserv because I wanted a kiosk-type jukebox that would act like a real jukebox. That is, if no songs were selected, it would start picking songs based on ratings and how long it had been since they had last been played. I don't know of any other jukeboxes, Windows or Mac (perhaps someone can enlighten me) that will weight it's random selections like that. I wrote my own kiosk-style frontend using Python, but it appears that someone else has done the same thing with Shrill, complete with album art. I have a friend who's doing something similar with MPD, but I haven't used it myself. I've also played around with MythTV, which was nice because of the DVR features, but it didn't have the random feature that I wanted.
What are the Linux jukeboxes missing that the Windows ones have?
Sorry to nitpick, but SCO sold a x86 port of Xenix which was created by Microsoft. That is, Microsoft wrote Xenix, and then licensed SCO to port it to the x86.
As for going for the "average Joe P2P user", just because the RIAA are a bunch of scumbags doesn't mean copyright law doesn't apply. I've downloaded songs. Basically everyone I know has downloaded songs at one time or another; but I don't fool myself into thinking that it's not wrong, both legally and ethically.
If people are going to take a principled stand against the RIAA and share music because they believe that the RIAA is abusing it's monopoly power, fine. But if you're going to take a stand, you have the responsibility to accept the consequences. Otherwise you're just a whiny jerk who tried to get away with something and got caught.
What O'Gara did is without a doubt unethical, and I for one don't mourn her firing. However, notwithstanding PJ's fears of becoming a suicide victim, I don't see where this rises to the level of stalking. According to New York, in order for it to be stalking, the perpetrator has to have been "previously clearly informed to cease that conduct." Taking a phone number from a published press release, using it to get an address and then knocking on the door is not stalking. Even getting a forwarding address from a property manager and then knocking on that door is not stalking. If O'Gara made threats and repeatedly showed up at PJ's door after being told not to come back, it'd be a different story. This is unethical, but I don't see where it's illegal.
Actually, she published her mother's address, not her phone number. The phone number was PJ's (assuming it's the right PJ) and came from a press release. Admittedly, this is splitting hairs.
I'd also like to see any posts that use the phrases "just works", "just don't get it" or "the debian way" automatically modded -5; -10 if they are capitalized a la "The Debian Way". Posts that preface Linux with "GNU/" should be modded "Tiresome, Even to Friends".
You're dead on about the ball of updates vs. a trickle as well. Debian stable is fine if you can afford to develop against a frozen software set for up to four or five years. But what if your users want functionality that has been introduced in the last couple years AND you need timely security updates? With Debian you're pretty much SOL. One of the strengths of open source is the rapid pace of advancement in features and capabilities. You give that up with Debian Stable.
Shhhh! Someone mod this down. We don't want this to get out.
I remember a TV commercial from a few years ago that said something like "Have you ever attended a meeting while on the beach? You will." with an image of a laptop on a table on a beautiful caribbean beach. I was horrified. Who the heck wants to be expected to attend a meeting on vacation? I don't want to be connected to work 24 hours a day. I want to be on vacation when I'm on vacation.
However, the real problem with not having a cell phone is that (in the US, anyway) everyone assumes you have a cell phone, and so fewer and fewer pay phones are available anymore. Your six odd years sans-breakdown aside (don't know the driving age in Canada), there *will* be times when you need to get in touch with someone.
For example, what if you find yourself trapped upside down in your car?
"In fact, the only movie that he directed that was a huge success on it's own merit* was A New Hope." American Graffiti was a huge commercial success.
Oh, I totally agree, but what's the difference? The parent asked if there was any chance that MS could beat Google when Google is so far ahead in tech. I think the answer is clearly "yes", even if it is by marketing/monopolistic power.
Which is fine, except no one in any of the first two prequels seems to be having any fun, so why should the audience. Ep 4-6 (ok, I was 7-11 years old at the time) had the feel of a great adventure. No one in these last two movies seems to be on a great adventure. There's no Han Solo to lighten things up, there's not even a naive farmboy for the audience to relate to; there's just a whiny jerk. It doesn't matter how many spaceships and lightsabers Lucas throws in there. There's no spirit of adventure and it just isn't any fun. Seriously, the best thing any of these reviews have had to say is that Ep 3 ties in beautifully to Ep 4. What does that say? That'll remind you of a much better movie? Whoopie!
It pains me to say it, but I think they do have a chance. Many of the things you're saying about the gap between MS and their competitors could have been said about the gap between IE and Netscape, or Word and WordPerfect or DOS and the MacOS, and the truth is that MS won those wars. Anyway, we'll see, but there's lots of dead companies out there that underestimated MS.
"This is the same problem the Linux desktop has."
I disagree. Gnome had a disorganized, patchwork approach to GUI design YEARS before Apple came along with their "let's make some stuff brushed metal and leave the rest as aqua" theme.
Roughly how fast do you normally go? GPS speed becomes less reliable the slower you go because of positional error. 15-20 foot error can be fairly substantial at low speeds.
Excellent post - thanks. As someone else pointed out, there is the 'rootpw' flag in the sudoers file, which demolishes my original argument as well.
Those are good points - thanks. I guess I can see the advantage if you were making a limited set of commands available to select users in a multiuser environment. But I still think that exposing all root commands on a single-user box like Apple and Ubuntu is a cracker's dream. Well, OK, that'd be win98, but still. Personally, I'd like to see the user have to enter the root password, or a third 'sudo' password to have access to 5 minutes of root access, but cie la vie.