1) Commercials make good intermission points to let the dogs in or out of the house, take a bathroom break, or whatever. No need to do the FF thing when you need to walk away from the boob tube a second (or 30) anyway.
2) Some commercials are:
a) Related to something you may like to buy soon (ie. Thats a nice looking car, etc.)
b) Clever or interesting enough for you to want to view it.
c) Taking advantage of me falling asleep in front of the TV again, so the commercials played without interruptions.
One problem I experienced with my T-Mobile myTouch when T-Mobile pushed the 1.6 update to it was what I now call the green screen of death while using the updated camera. I would consistently get reboots when leaving the camera and going to the home screen. I did a "factory reset" which removed all the applications (but not the pictures or movies - at least for me) and I haven't had the problem reoccur.
However I'm still having problems with the WiFi giving me network errors while using WPA2. If I turn off WiFi and turn it back on, the WiFi *may* work again until the phone goes back to sleep.
Now if only I could sync my data wireless with my Mac (like I used to do on all of my other bluetooth phones) then I would be satisfied with my Android phone.
Since civilian planes are pretty slow in comparison (remember that golfer's
Chessna incident a few years ago where they escorted him across half the
country)...
That was golfer Payne Stewart and it was a Learjet not a Cessna.
1. Using Mapquest's estimate, the closest Apple store is 2:56 away.
Is there a Best Buy nearby? They have most of the apple product line on display...
As for #2 and #3, sounds like a weak argument for not shelling out the cash. If you don't think it's worth the $600 then don't buy it. You don't need a KVM if it's only for occasional use. Just unplug your mouse and keyboard from your PC and use it on the mini, and do the reverse when you're finished.
Actually, I think the 20,000 routers may be a low number. I travel in places out in the "sticks", and am surprised by the number of free WiFi hotspots that are available.
This is a case of having easy to install wireless routers that owners of mom-n-pop restaurants and hotels can purchase. They see it as adding a perk for their customers by sharing their DSL line that they don't have enough free time to take advantage of anyway...
I have to agree. I don't see wood screws. What I do see is wide head machine screws holding the backplate to the assembly. Maybe it's because I work in a shop that only manufacture electronics for a specific mission, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Much less anything worthy of the hyperbole and sensationalism coming from this article...
I do think that some assembly parts may not fit well or are meant for a different product which could explain the bad fit and finish. Anyway seems like a non-story to me..
We already have laws to imprison those persons. Just because marijuana is decriminalized, doesn't mean it's okay to DUI or physically assault your neighbors.
Unfortunately I know to well how wrong you are. I lost a brother-in-law who was only 16 to a violent criminal under the influence of crystal meth. Despite the overwhelming evidence the defense was able to argue that the murder's judgment was impaired and was only sentenced to 4 years in prison not counting time off for good behavior and the option to serve a portion of the sentence with probation.
In fact if marijuana ever is decriminalized (like in California) it will be strictly regulated as a prescription drug, along with other dangerous drugs like vicodin, prozac, and morphine.
Ha! I've heard many news reports (NPR being one) on how easy it is to get a prescription for marijuana. The medical examination is questionable at best. I would not use California's "regulation" of marijuana as a valid reason to legalize it.
Precisely. If I don't want health insurance, and prefer to die young and pretty, that's MY business not yours.
That's easy to say when you can always "chicken out" of the dying young part and get expensive medical care in the emergency room of your local hospital. It's OK for someone else to pick up the tab as long as you don't.
I'm for the public option. I figured we can spend billions and billions of tax dollars killing other people and fattening the wallets of corporations and banks. Why can't we spend tax money taking care of ourselves? Why because the powerful and rich insurance companies don't want you to have access to free healthcare coverage.
Why do you think the "friendly" insurance companies were all for reform and mandated health insurance, and pursuing a large scale media campaign to kill the "public option"? Because the "reform" will amount to corporate welfare for them, because we would be required to send our money directly to them.
If we can't have federally provided free health insurance, I rather have no change at all.
That's how files are traded anonymously, everything is encrypted, and you never know really what is coming in or going out of your node you run. I'm guessing that is the aspect the GP is referring to if this bill is passed.
I believe the law is requiring the user to be notified of what personal files may be shared rather than what is being forwarded.
Yeah but it will also stop us from using FreeNet and other censorship-resistant, anonymous sharing networks. Read more here:
Please explain your position.
How would informing the P2P user about what is being shared on that user's computer prevent the user from using FreeNet and other anonymous sharing networks?
I had a NEC SilentWriter 95 and it was not junk. It rendered postscript perfectly, and it was built like a tank. The only problem I had with it was the need to purchase toner cartridges by mail order. This was a very long time ago, and before the "world wide web" was in the mainstream vocabulary, and 6 pages per minute was fast.
The lack of toner cartridges really irritated me at the time, because I purchased it from a fairly new office supply chain called "Office Depot" and they stopped selling the toner cartridges for that model to make room for all the various sizes of Brother and HP supplies that was generating them revenue.
I printed way more than 30,000 pages with that printer. I used it in an office, and that printer alone would use 2 cases a month. As far as I know, my cousin still has that printer and it still works today... It's been a long time, but I remember that the toner cartridges were expensive but yielded an insane number of printed pages. I'm thinking we averaged a cartridge per case and a couple of reams of paper (let's say 6000 pages), which was great since back then the cartridge was around $250 which is around $0.04 per page (Laser printing was new tech).
Take a look back at the beginning of this thread. Hell, just look at the subject line: "Ubuntu *is* Linux for a lot of people." I'm not at all arguing that everyone should use what I'm using. I'm arguing against the idea that everyone should automatically use Ubuntu. Specifically, I'm arguing against Ubuntu being the one and only user-friendly distro.
While the person creating the thread may have been a little over zealous about his feelings for Ubuntu in the title. I didn't take it as an insult to the other distributions. I took it more as something he is more familiar with and more comfortable in recommending. He did say:
I usually steer them toward Ubuntu first, as it's the most user friendly and well-supported distro out there.
That means that he may have recommended other linux distributions...
It was Canonical that decided early on into making user friendliness as its top priority for Ubuntu while keeping the distribution free to download and distribute. It was this attitude early on that gave Ubuntu the perceived lead in the desktop area.
I can hardly remember the last time I had to vi XF86Config.
I have a dual monitor set up running proprietary Nvidia drivers and the latest incarnation of Ubuntu works without forcing the user to manually edit the XF86Config.
When 8.04 came out, I did have to edit the XF86Config because the nvidia driver was looking for an option. But truth be told, I had to edit the XF86Config with the other distros too.
I'm not saying people shouldn't use Ubuntu if they are happy with it, I just don't see why Ubuntu gets so much credit for being user-friendly while the other distros get so little,
Mostly because Canonical invests in spreading the word about Ubuntu, and Ubuntu doesn't have a version that requires a paid subscription. Some people feel (possibly wrongly) that a particular distribution sold out to Microsoft at the expense of the Linux community. Some distributions exists solely to offer a free version of RedHat enterprise. While other distros requires the user to perform a distro-upgrade every six months. There are a multiple reasons.
As with all things, if there are multiple choices being offered each person is free to chose and there will be a perceived winner and losers. Fortunately for the distros, each distro was built to satisfy a need for a particular subset of the Linux community and profit wasn't the driving force behind most of them.
However given enough time, the number of distributions will fall and the market will decide which will be the mainstream choices.
your post didn't add a single thing to that discussion.
Right...
Every distribution has its edge case, and you found a workable solution in something besides Ubuntu. I was chastising you for trashing someone else's choice. You will also need to tolerate the fact that your particular distribution isn't the popular flavor of the month.
Wow, so I'm not the only one that doesn't understand the Ubuntu love-fest?
This should be interesting... Someone who doesn't understand why everyone doesn't think alike.
I only tried it once (8.04 64-bit), but I got frustrated with it very quickly.
So we all know how qualified you are when it comes to unbuntu. I use 8.04 since it's the latest LTS version and I haven't had any problems with it. Your mileage may vary.
For example, I logged in as a normal user (not root), selected the network configuration app from the menu, and was not prompted for the root password. Everything just came up ghosted and unusable.
Well maybe it would have helped to press that button label "Unlock" and then type your password.
I tried to log in as root, but you can't do that ("admin not allowed to log in from this screen" -- is there some other screen that admin can log in from?). I ended up having to pull up a shell, guess the name of the network admin app (/usr/bin/network-admin), then su and run it. This is supposed to be user-friendly? How does something that brain-damaged get released?
Again it would have gone a whole lot easier if you just clicked the unlock button. Quit being a drama queen.
I ran into several other problems (it's been too long for me to remember details), and just gave up on it after a few hours. I haven't had problems like that with other distros (OpenSUSE has worked quite well for me lately).
Whew... I was on pins and needles wondering if you would find a Linux distribution that you liked. *sarcasm*
I just don't see why people think Ubuntu is so much better than everything else.
Maybe because people have different tastes? A much better question you should have asked is "If everyone else thinks Ubuntu satisfies their needs, what am I doing wrong?" or the best question to ask is "I wonder if I should ask for help since I seem to be in the minority of people who think Ubuntu is too difficult to use?"
I heard some valid criticisms about Ubuntu, but not being user friendly isn't one of them.
I thought people who get caught up in the Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X vs. BSD were pretty small minded. How small a mind do you have to have to fight over which distribution of a single OS is the best? Heaven forbid someone else uses something different then you.
My apologies for making these snide remarks, I'll be in a much better mood once my coffee kicks in. Anyway, what kind of response did you expect?
Maybe you should have reworded your comment into:
I wonder if they will post a benchmark comparing FreeBSD 8.0 to my favorite linux distro?
if walls had the same protection
they would generate revenue forever too (cause walls are damn useful)
Technically speaking, you can by prefabricated walls and whole houses for that matter. They make it in a factory and deliver it to your lot. I'm sure these walls make revenue for the manufacture. Buy the way, the designs of these prefabricated homes are copyrighted too.
So yeah, I'd side with the movies studios on this one. I'll side with actual creators (directors, actors, creators of the source material) over the studios almost every time, but this is a dispute with people who want to profit without adding anything of value. Boo hoo...get a job and work like the rest of us.
But they do have a job. They have to manage the property they inherited. They need to market it, protect it from imitators, and monitor its use in licensed products. They have to work very hard to insure the longevity of their parent's brand. It is very hard work and not without it's pitfalls.
Besides, the directors, actors, creators of the source material that was inspired by the original works, and the studios still make their money.
The difference being that the studios have to purchase a license to use a character with an established history and market appeal. Otherwise, they could risk developing a character of their own from scratch. Studios aren't stupid, they will license a story to attract an established audience.
Boo hoo... you're parents don't have any IP to leave you. Seriously, why the surely attitude? The estate didn't take your job, shoot your dog, or steal your girl friend...
When I think how copyright has consistently delivered fresh innovation and content in the form of superheroes like Superman(1938), Batman(1939), and Spiderman(1962), I realise that the joy they ring to millions should mean financial benefit for the children, grandchildren, and great grand children of the authors. Who knows? Maybe with all the money they earn and such solid intellectual property rights, they'll go on to produce other famous superheroes who careers will last longer than most nation states. After all, copyright is the great motivator of new creative content!
I know you're being sarcastic, but you are absolutely right - Copyright is the great motivator of new creative content!
So Superman is still popular, well nothing prevents you from making a superhero of your own. Hell just look at the many new and interesting comic characters that are out there. Just imagine how dull it would be if everyone could just take superman and make their own story line. So many people would be slapping superman on anything that can be printed on and make an unoriginal story and soon superman degenerates into a dull character similar to the generic stick figure.
Just look at literary works, how many different detective novels there are. Look at television, how many damn teenage vampire shows do we need?
It could be worse, what if imaginative works fell under patents? Then someone would have a patent on superhuman beings that could fly unassisted from point-to-point. Then we would only have one superhero that could fly...
By the way, yes I think business methods and software are imaginative works and should only have copyright protections and not patents. Save the patents for the nuts-n-bolts stuff. I also believe that copyrights should protect an individual's work after they die to insure the estate value for the author's heirs.
Because he can and he should. What's the point of licensing a character if the licensee could wait for you to die and say "ha ha" and continue using that character?
What is Mr Kirby Jr's stance on all this? Does he want money?
Probably, but hey what's wrong with that? You don't seem to mind the movie studios making money from the characters. He most likely would like to protect the legacy of the comic book characters, and as a consequence the continued value of the character in the comic book marketplace.
He didn't do any of the work, he just inherited copyrights.
So? What's the point of building an estate if you can't pass it to your children?
Worse than a patent troll.
How so? His father actually created the comic book characters, not patented them and wait for something to come up with a similar idea.
I see nothing wrong here. The movie studios are having to follow the rules that THEY created...
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1) Commercials make good intermission points to let the dogs in or out of the house, take a bathroom break, or whatever. No need to do the FF thing when you need to walk away from the boob tube a second (or 30) anyway.
2) Some commercials are:
a) Related to something you may like to buy soon (ie. Thats a nice looking car, etc.)
b) Clever or interesting enough for you to want to view it.
c) Taking advantage of me falling asleep in front of the TV again, so the commercials played without interruptions.
One problem I experienced with my T-Mobile myTouch when T-Mobile pushed the 1.6 update to it was what I now call the green screen of death while using the updated camera. I would consistently get reboots when leaving the camera and going to the home screen. I did a "factory reset" which removed all the applications (but not the pictures or movies - at least for me) and I haven't had the problem reoccur.
However I'm still having problems with the WiFi giving me network errors while using WPA2. If I turn off WiFi and turn it back on, the WiFi *may* work again until the phone goes back to sleep.
Now if only I could sync my data wireless with my Mac (like I used to do on all of my other bluetooth phones) then I would be satisfied with my Android phone.
That was golfer Payne Stewart and it was a Learjet not a Cessna.
It happened on October 25, 1999, prior to 9/11.
Is there a Best Buy nearby? They have most of the apple product line on display...
As for #2 and #3, sounds like a weak argument for not shelling out the cash. If you don't think it's worth the $600 then don't buy it. You don't need a KVM if it's only for occasional use. Just unplug your mouse and keyboard from your PC and use it on the mini, and do the reverse when you're finished.
Try going to your local music festival. Recently Bonaroo, City Stages, and Bayfest happened within driving distance from me. Too bad I had to work...
I have the same suspicions
So a few bad apples spoiled the whole cart?
Nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism to keep the hyperbole in check.
As the old song goes "I don't like spiders and snakes..." but I do what it takes to not die of colon cancer...
Actually, I think the 20,000 routers may be a low number. I travel in places out in the "sticks", and am surprised by the number of free WiFi hotspots that are available.
This is a case of having easy to install wireless routers that owners of mom-n-pop restaurants and hotels can purchase. They see it as adding a perk for their customers by sharing their DSL line that they don't have enough free time to take advantage of anyway...
I have to agree. I don't see wood screws. What I do see is wide head machine screws holding the backplate to the assembly. Maybe it's because I work in a shop that only manufacture electronics for a specific mission, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Much less anything worthy of the hyperbole and sensationalism coming from this article...
I do think that some assembly parts may not fit well or are meant for a different product which could explain the bad fit and finish. Anyway seems like a non-story to me..
Unfortunately I know to well how wrong you are. I lost a brother-in-law who was only 16 to a violent criminal under the influence of crystal meth. Despite the overwhelming evidence the defense was able to argue that the murder's judgment was impaired and was only sentenced to 4 years in prison not counting time off for good behavior and the option to serve a portion of the sentence with probation.
Ha! I've heard many news reports (NPR being one) on how easy it is to get a prescription for marijuana. The medical examination is questionable at best. I would not use California's "regulation" of marijuana as a valid reason to legalize it.
That's easy to say when you can always "chicken out" of the dying young part and get expensive medical care in the emergency room of your local hospital. It's OK for someone else to pick up the tab as long as you don't.
I'm for the public option. I figured we can spend billions and billions of tax dollars killing other people and fattening the wallets of corporations and banks. Why can't we spend tax money taking care of ourselves? Why because the powerful and rich insurance companies don't want you to have access to free healthcare coverage.
Why do you think the "friendly" insurance companies were all for reform and mandated health insurance, and pursuing a large scale media campaign to kill the "public option"? Because the "reform" will amount to corporate welfare for them, because we would be required to send our money directly to them.
If we can't have federally provided free health insurance, I rather have no change at all.
I believe the law is requiring the user to be notified of what personal files may be shared rather than what is being forwarded.
Please explain your position.
How would informing the P2P user about what is being shared on that user's computer prevent the user from using FreeNet and other anonymous sharing networks?
I had a NEC SilentWriter 95 and it was not junk. It rendered postscript perfectly, and it was built like a tank. The only problem I had with it was the need to purchase toner cartridges by mail order. This was a very long time ago, and before the "world wide web" was in the mainstream vocabulary, and 6 pages per minute was fast.
The lack of toner cartridges really irritated me at the time, because I purchased it from a fairly new office supply chain called "Office Depot" and they stopped selling the toner cartridges for that model to make room for all the various sizes of Brother and HP supplies that was generating them revenue.
I printed way more than 30,000 pages with that printer. I used it in an office, and that printer alone would use 2 cases a month. As far as I know, my cousin still has that printer and it still works today... It's been a long time, but I remember that the toner cartridges were expensive but yielded an insane number of printed pages. I'm thinking we averaged a cartridge per case and a couple of reams of paper (let's say 6000 pages), which was great since back then the cartridge was around $250 which is around $0.04 per page (Laser printing was new tech).
Of course, it came from BMW Design Group...
Actually, I'd like to think of it as "Just as much money as brains"...
While the person creating the thread may have been a little over zealous about his feelings for Ubuntu in the title. I didn't take it as an insult to the other distributions. I took it more as something he is more familiar with and more comfortable in recommending. He did say:
That means that he may have recommended other linux distributions...
It was Canonical that decided early on into making user friendliness as its top priority for Ubuntu while keeping the distribution free to download and distribute. It was this attitude early on that gave Ubuntu the perceived lead in the desktop area.
I have a dual monitor set up running proprietary Nvidia drivers and the latest incarnation of Ubuntu works without forcing the user to manually edit the XF86Config.
When 8.04 came out, I did have to edit the XF86Config because the nvidia driver was looking for an option. But truth be told, I had to edit the XF86Config with the other distros too.
Mostly because Canonical invests in spreading the word about Ubuntu, and Ubuntu doesn't have a version that requires a paid subscription. Some people feel (possibly wrongly) that a particular distribution sold out to Microsoft at the expense of the Linux community. Some distributions exists solely to offer a free version of RedHat enterprise. While other distros requires the user to perform a distro-upgrade every six months. There are a multiple reasons.
As with all things, if there are multiple choices being offered each person is free to chose and there will be a perceived winner and losers. Fortunately for the distros, each distro was built to satisfy a need for a particular subset of the Linux community and profit wasn't the driving force behind most of them.
However given enough time, the number of distributions will fall and the market will decide which will be the mainstream choices.
Right...
Every distribution has its edge case, and you found a workable solution in something besides Ubuntu. I was chastising you for trashing someone else's choice. You will also need to tolerate the fact that your particular distribution isn't the popular flavor of the month.
This should be interesting... Someone who doesn't understand why everyone doesn't think alike.
So we all know how qualified you are when it comes to unbuntu. I use 8.04 since it's the latest LTS version and I haven't had any problems with it. Your mileage may vary.
Well maybe it would have helped to press that button label "Unlock" and then type your password.
Again it would have gone a whole lot easier if you just clicked the unlock button. Quit being a drama queen.
Whew... I was on pins and needles wondering if you would find a Linux distribution that you liked. *sarcasm*
Maybe because people have different tastes? A much better question you should have asked is "If everyone else thinks Ubuntu satisfies their needs, what am I doing wrong?" or the best question to ask is "I wonder if I should ask for help since I seem to be in the minority of people who think Ubuntu is too difficult to use?"
I heard some valid criticisms about Ubuntu, but not being user friendly isn't one of them.
I thought people who get caught up in the Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X vs. BSD were pretty small minded. How small a mind do you have to have to fight over which distribution of a single OS is the best? Heaven forbid someone else uses something different then you.
My apologies for making these snide remarks, I'll be in a much better mood once my coffee kicks in. Anyway, what kind of response did you expect?
Maybe you should have reworded your comment into:
I wonder if they will post a benchmark comparing FreeBSD 8.0 to my favorite linux distro?
You mean like CosmoCam http://www.cosmocam.com/
Technically speaking, you can by prefabricated walls and whole houses for that matter. They make it in a factory and deliver it to your lot. I'm sure these walls make revenue for the manufacture. Buy the way, the designs of these prefabricated homes are copyrighted too.
But they do have a job. They have to manage the property they inherited. They need to market it, protect it from imitators, and monitor its use in licensed products. They have to work very hard to insure the longevity of their parent's brand. It is very hard work and not without it's pitfalls.
Besides, the directors, actors, creators of the source material that was inspired by the original works, and the studios still make their money.
The difference being that the studios have to purchase a license to use a character with an established history and market appeal. Otherwise, they could risk developing a character of their own from scratch. Studios aren't stupid, they will license a story to attract an established audience.
Boo hoo... you're parents don't have any IP to leave you. Seriously, why the surely attitude? The estate didn't take your job, shoot your dog, or steal your girl friend...
I know you're being sarcastic, but you are absolutely right - Copyright is the great motivator of new creative content!
So Superman is still popular, well nothing prevents you from making a superhero of your own. Hell just look at the many new and interesting comic characters that are out there. Just imagine how dull it would be if everyone could just take superman and make their own story line. So many people would be slapping superman on anything that can be printed on and make an unoriginal story and soon superman degenerates into a dull character similar to the generic stick figure.
Just look at literary works, how many different detective novels there are. Look at television, how many damn teenage vampire shows do we need?
It could be worse, what if imaginative works fell under patents? Then someone would have a patent on superhuman beings that could fly unassisted from point-to-point. Then we would only have one superhero that could fly...
By the way, yes I think business methods and software are imaginative works and should only have copyright protections and not patents. Save the patents for the nuts-n-bolts stuff. I also believe that copyrights should protect an individual's work after they die to insure the estate value for the author's heirs.
Because he can and he should. What's the point of licensing a character if the licensee could wait for you to die and say "ha ha" and continue using that character?
Probably, but hey what's wrong with that? You don't seem to mind the movie studios making money from the characters. He most likely would like to protect the legacy of the comic book characters, and as a consequence the continued value of the character in the comic book marketplace.
So? What's the point of building an estate if you can't pass it to your children?
How so? His father actually created the comic book characters, not patented them and wait for something to come up with a similar idea.
I see nothing wrong here. The movie studios are having to follow the rules that THEY created...
Funny! I have to say it wasn't immediately apparent until after your reply. You left out the operation keys:
With operation keys it may look like:
I [enter] believe [can] [not] they [enter] shortsighted [would be] [that]
Sorry if I kill a good joke...
It's not my job as a driver to keep idiots safe.
Ah! But tell that to the DA, your insurance company, and the pedestrian's lawyer during the civil trial.
You do have a responsibility. Pedestrians include children, blind people, the elderly who can't cross the street fast enough for you, etc.
Quit being a dick, and be careful with your 2,000 pound weapon. The life you save just might be your own.