I expect so. But if that fails, you can probably run a bit of cable from the headphones out of the CD player (or from the speakers) into the mic in, and then do cat/dev/mic (or whatever) > file.wav
You do have a point, but if it goes unnoticed for long enough, then when people finally realise that they can't rip their choons then they'll either not have the know-how to realise they've been screwed, or not really care.
Sure, for/.ers such as we, DRM is A Bad Thing (tm) and I for one will try not to buy anything that impedes my free (and fair) use of products that I buy. However, if some joe off the street buys something and can't put it on his iPod, will he think, "I've but some copy-protected crap from a shitty corporation" or will he think "I've bought something that won't go on my iPod... perhaps I need to get Windows XP"
I expect that for the most part, it will be the latter.
Getting people to boycott anything is a pretty difficult thing - although it did work in bringing down apartheid. However, with apartheid, there was an alternative to African apples. There is no alternative to your favourite band, and most will not have the conviction to neglect their band and fight against DRM.
However, surely one could download another spam filter for TB, rather than use the builtin one?
Myself, I have never used Outlook, due to security risks, instead using Pegasus Mail, then Evolution upon switching. I found that Evolution bugged horribly when I tried to update, and wouldn't start. So I installed TB and got fun spam filters, etc.
For me, though, there are other advantages of TB, such as extensions, skinning, sleekness, etc.
The point of the Spam filter, though, is that nothing extra needs to be downloaded. I'm quite sure that better filters can be downloaded, just like with Outlook.
I thought "hmm, new version - let's backup" so when it overwrote the bookmarks folder, etc, I did a swift cp -rf and everything was fun again.
Hopefully this one wont decide to freeze every so often, as the last one did (something to do with java/flash, and possibly the kernel)
I think I preferred the old skin, but hey, I can get a better one.
No I haven't - I installed it to see what the fuss was about after I got Fedora Core 2.
I started with XFCE4.0.5, then updated to cvs since there were some new, juicy features.
As a consequence it does go a little slower than before, but this is because I elected to load aMSN, gnome-terminal, XMMS, gkrellm, firefox and thunderbird on startup. It's still pretty chirpy, and takes less time to start the GUI than it does to log in on XP.
At the time of writing (Just after logging in) free shows that I have 147 megabytes used, including all apps but discluding buffers/caches.
There are several different factors that will influence the success of a simplistic style.
For example, games that I dub "classy" - Splinter Cell, Hitman, etc, benefit from their crisp graphics. They have an inherent cool factor that simplicity would take away from.
On the other hand, games which you play purely for the fun, not for the "experience" are often better off simple. For example cube, and as the sibling stated, tetris.
As an example, I once saw a Hitman game of "Anathema." 47 opened a door, someone was behind it and, without pausing, shot him three times in the gut, stepped over the body and continued.
This purely cinematic moment was like something straight out of a thriller movie, and the realistic(ish) graphics added immensely.
Which means that hopefully they'll end up being excellent in their field they're not designed to be as lightweight as windowmaker, etc. However, because there is competition they will try and make themselves as good as possible - if GNOME is more bloated and slow than KDE people will move to KDE, and vice-versa.
We then have the other competing DEs to fill in other roles, rather than having Microsoft decide what style of Desktop you want.
However, that it is quite a roundabout, hidden method. If you tell konqueror to go away it will, and random applications won't decide to ignore default browser settings. (Or if they do, it's fixable)
It is an "all purpose computer utility" or a system tool.
It's a tool. For use on the system - hence, "System Tool"
Sorry for sounding Trollish, but where else would it be? Preferences? Office? Multimedia? Games?
In XFCE at least, it's not buried at all - there's a menu item on the panel. I believe GNOME has it at level 1 in the main menu, also.
Of course KDE/GNOME are competing with Windows - that's what they're designed to do. With Windows prettiness comes (at least near) Windows bloat - prettiness is bloat
On the other hand, desktop software still often uses less resources than Windows, and if it doesn't we have lesser pretty alternatives - old GNOMEs, fluxbox, etc etc.
Me, I prefer the midpoint of XFCE, as it is minimally bloated, but still quite pretty.
"XFCE is great if you want the look and features of a 20-year old UNIX interface"
I beg to differ.
It doesn't have as good window manager themes as GNOME, perhaps, but it has Keramik, which is widely advocated as "The best" KDE theme. It uses GTK, so all of the GTK themes for GNOME are availabe to XFCE.
The idea of XFCE is that it is relatively lightweight yet still fast - and I believe they have realised this goal. It is not as lightweight as, perhaps WindowMaker or BlackBox, but after trying those I thought "UGLY!" and left.
It's true - I like my computer to look good, although this doesn't serve much of a purpose, it's nice to see smooth curves and gentle highlights.
After a default install of both GNOME and XFCE, the terminal is easily reachable via R/C menus or panels.
Perhaps KDE is not the correct desktop for you?
Heh?! I convinced some randomer from archery to install firefox, and not only did he not get lost and isn't a geek, but he also said he found it much better than IE.
I can't remember Mozilla, but Firefox is incredibly easy and intuitive.
I believe (although have no first hand experience) that SuSE covers up a lot of the underneathy stuff. It's all there, beneath the hood (and the hood can be lifted) but it's not as accessible as in some distros.
I expect it's quite easy to do it with a command prompt, although perhaps there's a gui tool. I use GUI + CLI interchangeably, and the latter is probably pretty consistent throughout distros.
Newer windowses do have methods to prevent some (not all) of this, but older windowses, and if you need your account to be able to install things (No su in windows) then it has to be an admin.
It's one thing when your friend takes your car out for a spin and smashes it into a tree, another when it falls apart as soon as he takes the wheel.
That seems rather ignorant. At least according to Michael Moore, 98% of the time a gun is used during a break-in, it ends up shooting the wrong person - either through accident or by the criminal taking the gun and using it against the owner.
Now, we have plenty of knives in our house - which are dangerous, as you say. However, it is much easier to shoot someone than stab them - you have to be near them, and it takes more skill to incapacitate someone with a blade than a bullet.
Also, these knives have considerable practical value - for example, preparing food. Although Homer Simpson opens his beer with a gun, I don't think it's a particularly sensible idea.
So actually, a gun is quite different - it's incredibly easy to use the wrong way, and criminals get their hands on regular citizens' guns anyway, so outlawing them for them should provide a decrease in deaths by civilian guns.
Sure, prohibition didn't go well, but I'm sure you're not silly enough to make the same mistakes twice. I'm not someone with the skill to do it, but since guns are not available to the general populace in the UK, it would seem that it's possible.
Plus, "they're too difficult to outlaw" does not provide a reasonable argument against "guns are dangerous and promote crime."
"Because I want to" is not a good enough reason to own something so potentially dangerous. It requires a good reason such as self defense and whatnot. Except that the argument still falls apart in those areas.
Rather offtopic, but it's actually still possible to change the text and colours of that screensaver.
An acquaintance changed it to "Touch my hard drive"
Yes, that is a point
University life is one of those "Life Experiences" that can provide important life skills (research, persevearance, tolerance to boredom) and one helluva good time, if you work it right.
You should hear about some of the cuh-razy things that happened in Keble College, things like the abduction of Victor the Vampire, people whose furniture got moved downstairs, etc.
Course, it's not for everyone, but those two can provide a good argument for doing a PhD/D.Phil.
(My Dad is Phil, and with the D.Phil he's Dr Phil, btw.)
A PhD is not necessarily so you learn about the subject. My dad did a PhD in Chemistry, and wrote a thesis on "The Hydration of Tri-Calcium Silicate" (Making cement, to you and me.)
He now works as a computer programmer.
This may seem a little weird, but if you think about it, a PhD [hopefully] shows that you're willing to apply yourself to something and do hard work. People with PhDs should be the most intelligent of the bunch, as they managed to get the thing.
So Dad's PhD is a prestige degree - from Oxford, no less. It shows that he has skills beyond merely chemistry.
"My friends with guns don't have them, because they're worried they might get attacked/mugged/robbed"
Well... what's the need? It's widely known that guns are... well, dangerous. And if there is no need such as self protection, then why run the risk?
The fact that guns are eas[y|ier] to get hold of obviously increases the risk of gun crime, and looking at the statistics, gun crime is far more common in the US than in places without legalised gun ownership for the general populace, taking population into account.
Naturally, it's very difficult to outlaw something which has been inlaw for so long, with such a large culture thing. However, even so, surely it would be a "Good Thing TM."
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I expect so. But if that fails, you can probably run a bit of cable from the headphones out of the CD player (or from the speakers) into the mic in, and then do cat /dev/mic (or whatever) > file.wav
Sure, for
I expect that for the most part, it will be the latter.
Getting people to boycott anything is a pretty difficult thing - although it did work in bringing down apartheid. However, with apartheid, there was an alternative to African apples. There is no alternative to your favourite band, and most will not have the conviction to neglect their band and fight against DRM.
Myself, I have never used Outlook, due to security risks, instead using Pegasus Mail, then Evolution upon switching. I found that Evolution bugged horribly when I tried to update, and wouldn't start. So I installed TB and got fun spam filters, etc.
For me, though, there are other advantages of TB, such as extensions, skinning, sleekness, etc.
The point of the Spam filter, though, is that nothing extra needs to be downloaded. I'm quite sure that better filters can be downloaded, just like with Outlook.
They're a bit pixellated, but not bad.
Perhaps they need a new kernel.
Hopefully this one wont decide to freeze every so often, as the last one did (something to do with java/flash, and possibly the kernel)
I think I preferred the old skin, but hey, I can get a better one.
I started with XFCE4.0.5, then updated to cvs since there were some new, juicy features.
As a consequence it does go a little slower than before, but this is because I elected to load aMSN, gnome-terminal, XMMS, gkrellm, firefox and thunderbird on startup. It's still pretty chirpy, and takes less time to start the GUI than it does to log in on XP.
At the time of writing (Just after logging in) free shows that I have 147 megabytes used, including all apps but discluding buffers/caches.
For example, games that I dub "classy" - Splinter Cell, Hitman, etc, benefit from their crisp graphics. They have an inherent cool factor that simplicity would take away from.
On the other hand, games which you play purely for the fun, not for the "experience" are often better off simple. For example cube, and as the sibling stated, tetris.
As an example, I once saw a Hitman game of "Anathema." 47 opened a door, someone was behind it and, without pausing, shot him three times in the gut, stepped over the body and continued.
This purely cinematic moment was like something straight out of a thriller movie, and the realistic(ish) graphics added immensely.
Which means that hopefully they'll end up being excellent in their field they're not designed to be as lightweight as windowmaker, etc. However, because there is competition they will try and make themselves as good as possible - if GNOME is more bloated and slow than KDE people will move to KDE, and vice-versa.
We then have the other competing DEs to fill in other roles, rather than having Microsoft decide what style of Desktop you want.
However, that it is quite a roundabout, hidden method. If you tell konqueror to go away it will, and random applications won't decide to ignore default browser settings. (Or if they do, it's fixable)
I realised, but I was pointing out that the looks are quite up-to-date.
It is an "all purpose computer utility" or a system tool.
It's a tool. For use on the system - hence, "System Tool"
Sorry for sounding Trollish, but where else would it be? Preferences? Office? Multimedia? Games?
In XFCE at least, it's not buried at all - there's a menu item on the panel. I believe GNOME has it at level 1 in the main menu, also.
Like he said - you have the choice between Konqueror and Mozilla, and can uninstall the former. IE is nonuninstallable.
On the other hand, desktop software still often uses less resources than Windows, and if it doesn't we have lesser pretty alternatives - old GNOMEs, fluxbox, etc etc.
Me, I prefer the midpoint of XFCE, as it is minimally bloated, but still quite pretty.
I beg to differ.
It doesn't have as good window manager themes as GNOME, perhaps, but it has Keramik, which is widely advocated as "The best" KDE theme. It uses GTK, so all of the GTK themes for GNOME are availabe to XFCE.
The idea of XFCE is that it is relatively lightweight yet still fast - and I believe they have realised this goal. It is not as lightweight as, perhaps WindowMaker or BlackBox, but after trying those I thought "UGLY!" and left.
It's true - I like my computer to look good, although this doesn't serve much of a purpose, it's nice to see smooth curves and gentle highlights.
After a default install of both GNOME and XFCE, the terminal is easily reachable via R/C menus or panels.
Perhaps KDE is not the correct desktop for you?
Heh?! I convinced some randomer from archery to install firefox, and not only did he not get lost and isn't a geek, but he also said he found it much better than IE.
I can't remember Mozilla, but Firefox is incredibly easy and intuitive.
I expect it's quite easy to do it with a command prompt, although perhaps there's a gui tool. I use GUI + CLI interchangeably, and the latter is probably pretty consistent throughout distros.
Don't be afraid to get the keyboard dirty!
This is windows!
Newer windowses do have methods to prevent some (not all) of this, but older windowses, and if you need your account to be able to install things (No su in windows) then it has to be an admin.
It's one thing when your friend takes your car out for a spin and smashes it into a tree, another when it falls apart as soon as he takes the wheel.
Now, we have plenty of knives in our house - which are dangerous, as you say. However, it is much easier to shoot someone than stab them - you have to be near them, and it takes more skill to incapacitate someone with a blade than a bullet.
Also, these knives have considerable practical value - for example, preparing food. Although Homer Simpson opens his beer with a gun, I don't think it's a particularly sensible idea.
So actually, a gun is quite different - it's incredibly easy to use the wrong way, and criminals get their hands on regular citizens' guns anyway, so outlawing them for them should provide a decrease in deaths by civilian guns. Sure, prohibition didn't go well, but I'm sure you're not silly enough to make the same mistakes twice. I'm not someone with the skill to do it, but since guns are not available to the general populace in the UK, it would seem that it's possible.
Plus, "they're too difficult to outlaw" does not provide a reasonable argument against "guns are dangerous and promote crime."
"Because I want to" is not a good enough reason to own something so potentially dangerous. It requires a good reason such as self defense and whatnot. Except that the argument still falls apart in those areas.
Rather offtopic, but it's actually still possible to change the text and colours of that screensaver.
An acquaintance changed it to "Touch my hard drive"
University life is one of those "Life Experiences" that can provide important life skills (research, persevearance, tolerance to boredom) and one helluva good time, if you work it right.
You should hear about some of the cuh-razy things that happened in Keble College, things like the abduction of Victor the Vampire, people whose furniture got moved downstairs, etc.
Course, it's not for everyone, but those two can provide a good argument for doing a PhD/D.Phil.
(My Dad is Phil, and with the D.Phil he's Dr Phil, btw.)
He now works as a computer programmer.
This may seem a little weird, but if you think about it, a PhD [hopefully] shows that you're willing to apply yourself to something and do hard work. People with PhDs should be the most intelligent of the bunch, as they managed to get the thing.
So Dad's PhD is a prestige degree - from Oxford, no less. It shows that he has skills beyond merely chemistry.
My father is living testimony to this.
Well... what's the need? It's widely known that guns are... well, dangerous. And if there is no need such as self protection, then why run the risk?
The fact that guns are eas[y|ier] to get hold of obviously increases the risk of gun crime, and looking at the statistics, gun crime is far more common in the US than in places without legalised gun ownership for the general populace, taking population into account.
Naturally, it's very difficult to outlaw something which has been inlaw for so long, with such a large culture thing. However, even so, surely it would be a "Good Thing TM."