You are right in that normaly this would be a non issue. The reason it is an issue, is because there are so many inconsistancies and lies throughout the Bush reign as dictator, that is has almost become "fun" to collect these bits of information. Then in the off chance you meet a Bush supporter (hasn't happend to me in a looooong time) You have so much ammunition that you can easily make them cry. (If your lucky you might make them think)
This administration is damned lucky that most people in the US are sheep. You look at other countries where there were election irregularities, and lies told to their people, and see hundreds of thoudands protesting until the right thing is done. I think this administration has more to worry about that Al Quada, sooner or later the ultimate juicy bit of TRUTH is going to come out, that will get people off the couch.
You could try running Gimpshop.. http://plasticbugs.com/?p=341 I don't use photoshop, so I don't know how close it is to duplicating the interface, but looks pretty cool. The extent of my graphics artistry before I switched to Linux was MS Paint, and Paintshop Pro. I really missed Paintshop Pro, but as I have said, I adapted and I can do what I need to now with Gimp.
I used to do Cad work, and searched high and low for a good CAD program for Linux. Basicly there is no "free" program that I found acceptable to my standards. If you are a professional graphic artist, you probably won't find Gimp acceptable to your standards. I imagine that the reason that Gimp doesn't change their interface, is that many people who have used it for a long time would complain.. just as I am sure photoshop users would complain if their interface was drasticly redesigned (even if better) Right or wrong, there are many people who have invested their time into learning the gimp interface. It's definately not that way I would design it, but it is what it is, and I have made it do what I need to do.. Luckily, I don't need to use it every day.
No, I think he meant see Gimp, because editing pics and photos can't be done without having a gui. (at least not without going insane)
I agree with you that Gimp is not user freindly. I have adapted, and can use it to do what I want to do.. but I did give up on it many previous times.. but I got further in it than Blender. All I can tell you, is if you don't like Gimp then submit your complaints to the Gimp developers, and if you get no satisfaction then get your money back.
Ok, it's like this. There is a Linux program you want to install.. you download a.deb file, double click it, and the package installer asks if you want to install it (no terminal). How is this more difficult or elite ?.. And again, if it's a good and useful program, someone (the developer or a volunteer) will make it into a package (like.deb) that is why there are thousands of packages already out there.
To get into a repository is not just popularity of your app (although I am sure that helps), it is also getting involved as a contributing developer, promoting your app, and submitting it (where it goes through testing and aceptance). There are many many obscure programs available in the repositories that most "mainstream" people will never use. If I were a developer (which I'm not) I would pick a camp, Debian.. Ubuntu.. Fedora, or whatever.. and concentrate my efforts, rather than worring about supplying the whole Linux community. Worry about one camp, have the source available and the others will either convert my package or build from source and make their own packages.
There are also source programs available for Windows, those also are complicated to build.. and it is up to the user to decide if he wants to invest the time to tackle complications of figuring it out, or waiting for someone to make an.exe for them. Again, to do complicated things (as a user) is more complicated. Doesn't matter if it's Linux, OSX or Windows.
If a developer makes an app and wants to distribute it he can. If it's a good app, then the developer or any number of "geeky linux-heads" will package it up to make it easier for everyone to install.. If it's "really good" then you can pretty much bet it will find it's way into a repository.. It's a better system really, because you can bet that if it makes it into the repository it doesnt have crap like spyware in it. The system works.. It's part of what's great about Linux, not a flaw.
Your conflicting your requirements. You want it to be easy to intall programs, which is very easy to do with a package manager like synaptic. Then you want to introduce installing some "fringe" program that is not available as a package. Use a manager, it's easy. If you want to get more complicated, well then it gets more complicated.
True that no two cases the same, but we are talking about sentencing
crime.. stealing a candy bar..
perp 1 is well off buisnessman
perp 2 is starving homeless man
perp 3 is bug-eyed dope-feind
perp 4 is diabetic
perp 5 says he just forgot to pay
Should any of these people receive a different punishment for their crime than the others got ?
And how should the others feel if their punishment more severe ?
Then throw in the mix different judges..
judge 1 just had his car stolen
judge 2 has a relative who is on drugs, hates drug addicts
judge 3 just received major funds from local buisness for his relection campaign
judge 4 partied last night, has a major hangover
judge 5 just sentenced another person to 15 years for a real crime.. candy theft is nothing.
judge 6 has had his reelection opponent declare him "soft" on crime
I think some "standards" to sentencing would be a good thing.
That's a little simplistic. If someone said that Arnie said it because people with Austrian blood coursing through their veins have a tendency towards racisim, I would think Austrians would be a little sensitive towards a statement like that.
If he had simply stated.. "latinas are hotheaded, or hotblooded, or hot" as a generalization, that would not be such a big deal. What bothers me about it, is to go into detail about "black blood". This seems a little beyond a casual joke. A joke does not require this much explanation.
I also have to wonder why anyone would in their right mind save a file of such a conversation, and put it somewhere with web access. I doubt Arnold himself did it. To hell with investigating how they got it off the web.. I would be investigating who the hell converted it into a sound file in the first place.
Now, I am a voter who chooses "people" not parties. I really didn't approve of the way Arnold got into office.. BUT.. I do like alot of the things he does. I don't think he's some nazi racist, I think he's a pretty good guy.. but I also think it was a stupid thing he said. Should people be upset ? sure they should. Does it mean he doesn't deserve to be supported as a governer.. no of course not. It was just really stupid, but as a governer he has done ok. and apologies are all that's necessary, and he's done that.
I am happy with my current setup, but I am downloading the live CD iso anyway.
I figure blank disks are cheap, and if it is too annoying, I dont have to install
it if I don't like it.. Probably won't install it permently anyway, because I'm an apt man. But I thought it was interesting enough to try it out.
I don't see how pirated copies of Windows reduces the growth of Linux. Perhaps these are Linux users who want to duel boot for Windows games, but not have to pay for an OS that they are only going to use those games. There are tons of scenarios you could come up with.. To assume that Windows is more desired for general use because of piracy is just that an assumption. Where are the numbers on pirated compies of Linux that you would compare it to ? (I know there are not any)
Scenarios...
Windows user pirates copies of Windows
Linux user pirates copies of Windows
Other OS user pirates copies of Windows
User with no OS pirates copies of Windows
Considering the technical aspects of pirating, burning, and installing the pirated copy of Windows, I wonder how these scenarios would break down percentage wise, and how would that affect the assumptions made.
First of all, there are some people who will vote to be a "winner", so they vote for whoever the polls say is going to win.
Then there are those who see their candidate as hopelessly behind.. and they don't go to the trouble to vote
On the flip side, your candidate is supposidly comfortably ahead.. you got things to do.. so you don't vote.
I think there should be a media blackout on polls for at least two weeks prior to an election.. and further that no results should be given for at least 2 days after.. What's the hurry ? the elceted person doesn't start immediately or anything.
You are absolutly right on. Windows should revamp their software installation.. and make it like Debian
with apt... having a central repository of software. This way programs could be monitored.. If it's clean,
it's accepted in the repository, if not, it's not... simple. The downside is that then you would have people complaining if their spyware ridden program wasn't accepted.
I love the whole apt- repository thing. I'm sure it would take some tweaking to make it more usable for
commercial (paid for) software, but I think it's doable. And of course whoever maintained the repository would
have to have scruples, and not allow anything does't meet strict requirements.
Maybe Bush will read this too... I know he knows it's a bad word but I don't think he knows what it means, because his regime is closer to facisim than the "Islamic facisits"
Fascism is associated by many scholars with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, a powerful, dictatorial leader who portrays the nation, state or collective as superior to the individuals or groups composing it.
Not all dictators are fascists, Castro is a dictator, but fascisism is against communisim (and liberalisim), and Castro is a communist.
Your points are not lost on me though. Debian has done pretty damn well, so it must not be a totaly unusable system. As to Ubuntu's system, I have no opinion as to whether they are based upon a commie, fascist, or other dictatorship.. I just wanted to bash that facist Bush.
> integrate it with the main OSes
I have no idea what positive thing you could mean by that.
Sometimes it is frustrating when a web page or online service requires IE for active-x. This is of course a Windows thing, but also affects Linux users like me. For example, I was interested in signing up with Sirius to get their radio brodcasts online (for NFL games) of course they use active-x so it's a no-go. I did send them a nice long letter telling them to check out Shoutcast and Live365 to point out that active-x was not required to run THOSE services , and that perhaps they could do the same (with a username/password). I even suggested that maybe they could work with the Streamtuner guys to create a custom version to do the connection (since they do Windows as well as Linux)... never did hear back from Sirius on any of it.. But the point is, that I can see how it can be frustrating. I prefer to make the web sites and services adapt to me, by pointing out to them that they lost a potential customer. Hopefully they will see the light, with more and more Firefox use.
It all makes sense now. I can never get ahold of anyone in our IT department. They never answer the phone, and you can't find them anywhere.. obviously they're hiding in fear. I've always suspected they just have direct deposit and just telnet to clock in and out.
Our politicians are also influenced by various religous groups, as well as corporations, and seem to have no fear of retaliation, or consequences, in this life or an afterlife.
You seem to suggest that the Iranian leaders (religous and political) all want to die and be rewarded in heaven. I seriously doubt it. Yes there are those who preach their jihad, and there are those followers who will do the suicide bomber thing, but if the preachers really beleived it, wouldn't they (themselves included) all just head for Isreal (or wherever they want to fight) in a mass attack where they would be guarenteed to be killed, and could immediately go to heaven ?
Your reference to the cold war is interesting. Just as we all (if your old enough) were taught about the evil russians in school, I am sure that the Iranian children are taught about the evil Isralies in their school. All this can be overcome, just as comminisim was overcome, but it is much more difficult because it is religous ideologies. To think that all these people want is to die, is to suggest that there is no hope but to kill them. I don't think this is the way it is.
Newest batch of what ?.. Are you saying that all Iranians are suicide bombers, that most are suicide bombers, that alot are suicide bombers or what ?.. Is there no hope to deal with them or should we just bomb them ?
Pakistan HAS nukes, and in my opinion, there is a hell of alot more crazies there.
If there is another terrorist plot foiled, or another successful act, or more "boogymen on tape" before the next elections then it should be LOUDLY pointed out. that the current administration is not doing their job. The number of terrorist acts has dramiticly INCREASED thoughout the world under this administration.. so much so that they stopped reporting the numbers the way they have for decades, because it is an incredibly huge embarassment. I think all candidates running against these guys should bring up these facts and ask their opponents to give a number to the amount of terrorisim that they have reduced. America wants to be safer right ? well, show me how much safer I am with these guys.
I've been on the net a looong time, and I also thought Netscape should be on the list. I remember downloading netscape via FTP with my trusty Trumpet Winsock and Windows 3.11 does that tell you how long ago ?
I think it should be included because although it wasn't "really free" you could just download it for free (other than your connection.. more on that) and well that just wasn't the way things were on the outside world. It's a major part of what made the internet cool.
My vote for a truely world (the US at least) changing web-site... goes to...
earthlink.net
Before earthlink, the net was really expensive !.. We all (in the US) owe alot of thanks to Earthlink and their "all you can eat" unlimited dialup internet. They turned it all around, and all the "big boys" were forced to offer similar "unlimited" pricing. This is what allowed the growth of the Internet to happen in the first place.
Alrighty.. So the WMD's that we after, were really Saddams' big mouth and checkbook.. I see now.
Listen, we have also called Iran evil. We have threatend them numerous times. We talk crap they talk crap.. so what ?.. they talk crap and oil prices skyrocket, and I am sure they are sitting in the back room counting the cash. I personaly think they are doing this on purpose to make more money on oil... Jihad smihad, it's about the $$$$.. It's funny but they sure are bi-polar, they talk all crazy, and then they'll all of a sudden be reasonable. I think it's all to manipulate the price of oil. If they were so truely bent on destroying Isreal, they would be in Lebanon right now with a massive force.
You know what ? the most radical Islamists are in Pakistan.. and they already HAVE nukes. (the latest plot originated there)
Bush said today it's Islamic fascists out to destroy freedom. He's the president of the US, and I don't think he knows what facisim even is.. except a bad word for name calling. If he did know what it was, and disagreed with it, then his administration would be run completely different than is has been... course he would have to disagree with it first.
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hmmmm, I'll have to ponder that one.
This administration is damned lucky that most people in the US are sheep. You look at other countries where there were election irregularities, and lies told to their people, and see hundreds of thoudands protesting until the right thing is done. I think this administration has more to worry about that Al Quada, sooner or later the ultimate juicy bit of TRUTH is going to come out, that will get people off the couch.
What are you, some kind of REPUBLICan ?
I used to do Cad work, and searched high and low for a good CAD program for Linux. Basicly there is no "free" program that I found acceptable to my standards. If you are a professional graphic artist, you probably won't find Gimp acceptable to your standards. I imagine that the reason that Gimp doesn't change their interface, is that many people who have used it for a long time would complain.. just as I am sure photoshop users would complain if their interface was drasticly redesigned (even if better) Right or wrong, there are many people who have invested their time into learning the gimp interface. It's definately not that way I would design it, but it is what it is, and I have made it do what I need to do.. Luckily, I don't need to use it every day.
I agree with you that Gimp is not user freindly. I have adapted, and can use it to do what I want to do.. but I did give up on it many previous times.. but I got further in it than Blender. All I can tell you, is if you don't like Gimp then submit your complaints to the Gimp developers, and if you get no satisfaction then get your money back.
To get into a repository is not just popularity of your app (although I am sure that helps), it is also getting involved as a contributing developer, promoting your app, and submitting it (where it goes through testing and aceptance). There are many many obscure programs available in the repositories that most "mainstream" people will never use. If I were a developer (which I'm not) I would pick a camp, Debian.. Ubuntu.. Fedora, or whatever.. and concentrate my efforts, rather than worring about supplying the whole Linux community. Worry about one camp, have the source available and the others will either convert my package or build from source and make their own packages.
There are also source programs available for Windows, those also are complicated to build.. and it is up to the user to decide if he wants to invest the time to tackle complications of figuring it out, or waiting for someone to make an .exe for them. Again, to do complicated things (as a user) is more complicated. Doesn't matter if it's Linux, OSX or Windows.
If a developer makes an app and wants to distribute it he can. If it's a good app, then the developer or any number of "geeky linux-heads" will package it up to make it easier for everyone to install.. If it's "really good" then you can pretty much bet it will find it's way into a repository.. It's a better system really, because you can bet that if it makes it into the repository it doesnt have crap like spyware in it. The system works.. It's part of what's great about Linux, not a flaw.
Your conflicting your requirements. You want it to be easy to intall programs, which is very easy to do with a package manager like synaptic. Then you want to introduce installing some "fringe" program that is not available as a package. Use a manager, it's easy. If you want to get more complicated, well then it gets more complicated.
Try streamtuner with xmms, and streamripper installed. All available through synaptic I believe.
crime.. stealing a candy bar..
perp 1 is well off buisnessman
perp 2 is starving homeless man
perp 3 is bug-eyed dope-feind
perp 4 is diabetic
perp 5 says he just forgot to pay
Should any of these people receive a different punishment for their crime than the others got ?
And how should the others feel if their punishment more severe ?
Then throw in the mix different judges..
judge 1 just had his car stolen
judge 2 has a relative who is on drugs, hates drug addicts
judge 3 just received major funds from local buisness for his relection campaign
judge 4 partied last night, has a major hangover
judge 5 just sentenced another person to 15 years for a real crime.. candy theft is nothing.
judge 6 has had his reelection opponent declare him "soft" on crime
I think some "standards" to sentencing would be a good thing.
If he had simply stated.. "latinas are hotheaded, or hotblooded, or hot" as a generalization, that would not be such a big deal. What bothers me about it, is to go into detail about "black blood". This seems a little beyond a casual joke. A joke does not require this much explanation.
I also have to wonder why anyone would in their right mind save a file of such a conversation, and put it somewhere with web access. I doubt Arnold himself did it. To hell with investigating how they got it off the web.. I would be investigating who the hell converted it into a sound file in the first place.
Now, I am a voter who chooses "people" not parties. I really didn't approve of the way Arnold got into office.. BUT.. I do like alot of the things he does. I don't think he's some nazi racist, I think he's a pretty good guy.. but I also think it was a stupid thing he said. Should people be upset ? sure they should. Does it mean he doesn't deserve to be supported as a governer .. no of course not. It was just really stupid, but as a governer he has done ok. and apologies are all that's necessary, and he's done that.
I figure blank disks are cheap, and if it is too annoying, I dont have to install it if
I don't like it.. Probably won't install it permently anyway, because I'm an apt man.
But I thought it was interesting enough to try it out.
("I'm an apt man" now there's a t-shirt phrase !)
Scenarios...
Windows user pirates copies of Windows
Linux user pirates copies of Windows
Other OS user pirates copies of Windows
User with no OS pirates copies of Windows
Considering the technical aspects of pirating, burning, and installing the pirated copy of Windows, I wonder how these scenarios would break down percentage wise, and how would that affect the assumptions made.
Then there are those who see their candidate as hopelessly behind.. and they don't go to the trouble to vote
On the flip side, your candidate is supposidly comfortably ahead.. you got things to do.. so you don't vote.
I think there should be a media blackout on polls for at least two weeks prior to an election.. and further that no results should be given for at least 2 days after.. What's the hurry ? the elceted person doesn't start immediately or anything.
You are absolutly right on. Windows should revamp their software installation.. and make it like Debian
with apt... having a central repository of software. This way programs could be monitored.. If it's clean,
it's accepted in the repository, if not, it's not... simple. The downside is that then you would have people
complaining if their spyware ridden program wasn't accepted.
I love the whole apt- repository thing. I'm sure it would take some tweaking to make it more usable for
commercial (paid for) software, but I think it's doable. And of course whoever maintained the repository would
have to have scruples, and not allow anything does't meet strict requirements.
And probably still a good use for it, I would imagine.
I know he knows it's a bad word but I don't think he knows what it means, because his regime is closer to facisim than the "Islamic facisits"
Fascism is associated by many scholars with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, a powerful, dictatorial leader who portrays the nation, state or collective as superior to the individuals or groups composing it.
Not all dictators are fascists, Castro is a dictator, but fascisism is against communisim (and liberalisim), and Castro is a communist.
Your points are not lost on me though. Debian has done pretty damn well, so it must not be a totaly unusable system. As to Ubuntu's system, I have no opinion as to whether they are based upon a commie, fascist, or other dictatorship.. I just wanted to bash that facist Bush.
I have no idea what positive thing you could mean by that.
Sometimes it is frustrating when a web page or online service requires IE for active-x. This is of course a Windows thing, but also affects Linux users like me. For example, I was interested in signing up with Sirius to get their radio brodcasts online (for NFL games) of course they use active-x so it's a no-go. I did send them a nice long letter telling them to check out Shoutcast and Live365 to point out that active-x was not required to run THOSE services , and that perhaps they could do the same (with a username/password). I even suggested that maybe they could work with the Streamtuner guys to create a custom version to do the connection (since they do Windows as well as Linux) ... never did hear back from Sirius on any of it.. But the point is, that I can see how it can be frustrating. I prefer to make the web sites and services adapt to me, by pointing out to them that they lost a potential customer. Hopefully they will see the light, with more and more Firefox use.
It all makes sense now. I can never get ahold of anyone in our IT department. They never answer the phone, and you can't find them anywhere.. obviously they're hiding in fear. I've always suspected they just have direct deposit and just telnet to clock in and out.
You seem to suggest that the Iranian leaders (religous and political) all want to die and be rewarded in heaven. I seriously doubt it. Yes there are those who preach their jihad, and there are those followers who will do the suicide bomber thing, but if the preachers really beleived it, wouldn't they (themselves included) all just head for Isreal (or wherever they want to fight) in a mass attack where they would be guarenteed to be killed, and could immediately go to heaven ?
Your reference to the cold war is interesting. Just as we all (if your old enough) were taught about the evil russians in school, I am sure that the Iranian children are taught about the evil Isralies in their school. All this can be overcome, just as comminisim was overcome, but it is much more difficult because it is religous ideologies. To think that all these people want is to die, is to suggest that there is no hope but to kill them. I don't think this is the way it is.
Pakistan HAS nukes, and in my opinion, there is a hell of alot more crazies there.
If there is another terrorist plot foiled, or another successful act, or more "boogymen on tape" before the next elections then it should be LOUDLY pointed out. that the current administration is not doing their job. The number of terrorist acts has dramiticly INCREASED thoughout the world under this administration.. so much so that they stopped reporting the numbers the way they have for decades, because it is an incredibly huge embarassment. I think all candidates running against these guys should bring up these facts and ask their opponents to give a number to the amount of terrorisim that they have reduced. America wants to be safer right ? well, show me how much safer I am with these guys.
I think it should be included because although it wasn't "really free" you could just download it for free (other than your connection.. more on that) and well that just wasn't the way things were on the outside world. It's a major part of what made the internet cool.
My vote for a truely world (the US at least) changing web-site... goes to...
earthlink.net
Before earthlink, the net was really expensive !.. We all (in the US) owe alot of thanks to Earthlink and their "all you can eat" unlimited dialup internet. They turned it all around, and all the "big boys" were forced to offer similar "unlimited" pricing. This is what allowed the growth of the Internet to happen in the first place.
Listen, we have also called Iran evil. We have threatend them numerous times. We talk crap they talk crap.. so what ? .. they talk crap and oil prices skyrocket, and I am sure they are sitting in the back room counting the cash. I personaly think they are doing this on purpose to make more money on oil... Jihad smihad, it's about the $$$$.. It's funny but they sure are bi-polar, they talk all crazy, and then they'll all of a sudden be reasonable. I think it's all to manipulate the price of oil. If they were so truely bent on destroying Isreal, they would be in Lebanon right now with a massive force.
You know what ? the most radical Islamists are in Pakistan.. and they already HAVE nukes. (the latest plot originated there)
Bush said today it's Islamic fascists out to destroy freedom. He's the president of the US, and I don't think he knows what facisim even is.. except a bad word for name calling. If he did know what it was, and disagreed with it, then his administration would be run completely different than is has been... course he would have to disagree with it first.
Waiting for other boxes of what ? Now your confusing me, I'll need therapy soon.