The 40% who didn't are probobly with a 40min helicopter flight of the nearest Navy seal outpost so that at any minute the RIAA can bribe a senetor into ordering their immediate incarceration and execution on RIAA obtained records.
I don't know. I think a minimalistic linux distro would be better for newbies.
From my own experience, getting to grips with the enormity of a distrobution is overwhelming. In contrast to the windows universe there are usually two or three(or four or five) ways of doing just about everything on the system. While you never actually need to use anything other than the default, their presence is quite intimidating.
I think giving user a bare minimum is better, as they will 'master' their system eariler, won't feel as intimidated, and will be more confident to try new things. If they hear about a player/window manager/editor they think might be good, then they can have the expierience of getting it themselves. Although considering the state of some of the auto-installers on Linux(up2date anyone), this may not be a good thing.
Remember, most people want their computer to 'just work'. They really don't care about GNOME Vs KDE, vi Vs EMACS or ext2 Vs ext3. I think if you want to attact anyone to linux, techheads or newbies, the path should be the same. Easy installation, quick play of games,media player, internet, wordprocessor, email. Most people won't want much more. But be they techhead or no, this is the way to introduce any new OS.
All that's no good. By the time you were finished the other guy would have tons of light tanks and buggies and his temple of NOD would be ready to fire the nuke.
Considering that most of the stuff on this page is so obscure that most of us have never heard of it (Sega Teradrive? WTF?!) maybe there is a Deramcast!
Spock will mind meld with it after 20+ mins of special effects. After that everyone will change channel in sheer disgust and star fleet will _HAVE_ to change their uniforms....
The difference here of course being, we already had spacial browsing before. We said we hate it when it came out, then we hated it more as directories became more nested (as they should be), and finally we loathed it when MS started using the program files folder.
Everybody hates it. Give a three year old a choice and after 5 minutes they will choose MS explorer over spacial browsing any day of the week.
It's not a Microsoft FUD thing. It's just that, dammit, explorer, is just better! I ALWAYS used file manager back in win 3.11. The alternateive was just too laborious.
Stop trying to justify a bad decision. It's hopeless, nobody likes it and anyone who has files more than two directories deep (i.e. everybody) will switch to KDE.
It didn't work in Win3.11,Win95 what makes you think it will work in linux04.
Grow a brain. Emulate explorer, then improve on it.
Great yet another attempt erode liberties. Someone should set up a site documenting these travesties.
And as usual the guy responsible has a ROCK SOLID excuse.
"People I love were killed!!"
Oh really! How awful! I guess it's OK to lead us all one step closer to a police state then! Here Swab me first!!!!
Of course he'll call us all heartless cranks who want criminals to get off and he'll say that this won't REALLY undermine democracy. Just like the PATRIOT act!
God I hate these people. Why didn't he donate his money to funding more social programmes that reduce the amount of criminals at an early stage! But I guess that just wouldn't be as efftive as having a poorly administered DNA database now would it.
Hmmm. This comment seems to be getting a lot of flack. I still stand by my arguments though.
Less barriers in biotech development would lead to faster production and more competition. Just think what the computer has done for the industry.
I did find this article as I was browsin' around. it describes the argument for and against Alexander fleming's decision not to patent penicillin. Enjoy.
Open sourcing discoveries in bio-tech would lead to reduced research costs, reduced development times and ultimatly reduced prices of drugs.
It will also by extendtion lead to more competition in the bio-tech industry, which can only be a good thing. And it will lead to more consumer scrutiny of what were popping into our bodies.
This is a good idea all round. Except of course for the biotech monopolies who... [censor type="DMCA" excuse="Subversive,complaint"]
Only second hand crappy games would be $50. You'd have to dive deep into the bargin bin to get one for $19.99.
Some games are works of art, some are god awful pieces of software unfit for use. Not only that games are the same price across systems?! Why is the current system of price fixing in effect? Someone call the FCC! The FCC's european counterpart!
At least PC games have a good spread in price. I picked up C&C:Red Alert 2 for 7!!! Hot danm!
Someone WILL find a way to mass spam everyfax they can get their hands on. Expect your phone to ring,and when you pick up for modem noises to whir and then stop, a LOT more than now on.
If these cameras are simply used as evidence in trials and to watch out for trouble at night then sure, go ahead.
However if at some future date they are rigged into an international face recognition system to monitor out every movement along with cell phone emissions, fingerprints, DNA , satelite tracking, phone tapping, voice recognition, RFID and trained molemen in the sewers equipped with microphones and nerve darts so that governments can _KNOW ALL_, then.... I'd have think about it.
IBM, Cisco, Microsoft or any other tech company can steal this patent by filing something akin to the following.
"A Method for reducing the size of radio antennae by a quarter using new design UNDER THE CONTROL OF A SOFTWARE DRIVEN DEVICE."
Remember, even if someone else has patented,invented,used,implemented,sold,issued,tho ugh and/or showed it to you first, if you jack it up to a computer, then you've got a patent pal! Now no one can connect a computer to this device without giving you money! Yippie!!
Welcome to the US patent Office. Where dreams CAN come true!
This will probobly be followed up by calls on unamericanism, anticapitalism and communism against McDonalds. The company will then be accused of supporting terrorism and having al-queda training camps set up in parking lots after hours. Bin Laden wears a purple hat, cell leaders a green hat. Rookies wear red hats and fedoras. HA! I made another funnie!
Seriously though I doubt that the tillers at McD will be logging transactions at a bash prompt anytime soon. From the sound of the article the company is using Linux on backend servers for important tasks, like just about every medium to large company in existence. But I'd still be willing to bet that they're using 2000/3 and ADT.
Are these people stupid. Are they thick. Have they no idea what they're saying?! Don't they read history books.
One of the corner stones of our democracy is anonimity from the government. People will say: "Oh your just a crank. _OUR_ government will _NEVER_ abuse this to repress us!". Say that to someone in China when RFID is introduced over there.
Will all this new survelience technology emerging, the rights we took for granted are being eroded.
I'm sick of morons introducing all this stuff without thinking past their next meal. I for one will be removing/disabling these tags the minute they come out on a _Volutary_(i.e. manatory) basis.
Though they'll be extremly difficult to find and remove i'll bet. I wonder why?
I have a similar installation to the above (3GHz,but with 756MB RAM), but with windows XP.
I find fedora faster when running. Definitly. Though not as fast when booting up, programs definitly load faster in Fedora. And the system performs much better when multiple apps are running. Not a HUGE difference. But It's there.
That said XP is a HOG! Hence the 756MB. Programs take a long time to load and frequently 'chug' when running along side each other and performing heavy tasks. I haven't seen Fedora 'chug' yet.
Still I have red hat 8(I think,Icould be wron) on my old PC(350MHz,128MB RAM) and it ran fine. Since Fedora is approximatly Red Hat 10 why does it need almost 10 times more processing power. I think optimisation is in order.
Maybe someone should come up with a faster GUI lanuage for Linux.(No matter what anyone says, it's the GUIs that are causing the slowdown,and shoddy code)
Thanks to closed source, how do we know that when it,inevitably, bluescreens the ships guns won't suddenly pivot and fire at Helsinki University. Or begin targeting wifi signals eminating from linux boxes.
But wait! Given that a network of NT computers would only constantly bicker over who is the primary domain controller they'd have to have the clients running on.....
...Oh my god....
Millions of euros of high tech weaponry under the control of unpatched 95/98/98Se/Me/2000/XP machines, and you KNOW the operators will be browsing the net while the colonel isn't looking.
It's only a matter of time before some script kiddie hijacks the whole boat and uses a modded C&C interface to blow up his beachside school. Stranger things have happened.
Im having trouble remembering peoples seven digit numbers. What happens when your telephone number is 153.127.879.946.
What happens if it's IPv6!!
P.S.
This isn't meant to be funny. I'm dead serious.
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The 40% who didn't are probobly with a 40min helicopter flight of the nearest Navy seal outpost so that at any minute the RIAA can bribe a senetor into ordering their immediate incarceration and execution on RIAA obtained records.
It could happen!
Is Wi-Fi big in the states? Just how big?
I'm finding all this coverage a little puzzling.
I haven't heard of a single Wi-Fi hotspot in this country(Ireland).
I don't know. I think a minimalistic linux distro would be better for newbies.
From my own experience, getting to grips with the enormity of a distrobution is overwhelming. In contrast to the windows universe there are usually two or three(or four or five) ways of doing just about everything on the system. While you never actually need to use anything other than the default, their presence is quite intimidating.
I think giving user a bare minimum is better, as they will 'master' their system eariler, won't feel as intimidated, and will be more confident to try new things. If they hear about a player/window manager/editor they think might be good, then they can have the expierience of getting it themselves. Although considering the state of some of the auto-installers on Linux(up2date anyone), this may not be a good thing.
Remember, most people want their computer to 'just work'. They really don't care about GNOME Vs KDE, vi Vs EMACS or ext2 Vs ext3. I think if you want to attact anyone to linux, techheads or newbies, the path should be the same. Easy installation, quick play of games,media player, internet, wordprocessor, email. Most people won't want much more. But be they techhead or no, this is the way to introduce any new OS.
All that's no good. By the time you were finished the other guy would have tons of light tanks and buggies and his temple of NOD would be ready to fire the nuke.
Just build mammoth tanks and rush em.
Considering that most of the stuff on this page is so obscure that most of us have never heard of it (Sega Teradrive? WTF?!) maybe there is a Deramcast!
Spock will mind meld with it after 20+ mins of special effects. After that everyone will change channel in sheer disgust and star fleet will _HAVE_ to change their uniforms....
*shudder*
The difference here of course being, we already had spacial browsing before. We said we hate it when it came out, then we hated it more as directories became more nested (as they should be), and finally we loathed it when MS started using the program files folder.
Everybody hates it. Give a three year old a choice and after 5 minutes they will choose MS explorer over spacial browsing any day of the week.
It's not a Microsoft FUD thing. It's just that, dammit, explorer, is just better! I ALWAYS used file manager back in win 3.11. The alternateive was just too laborious.
Stop trying to justify a bad decision. It's hopeless, nobody likes it and anyone who has files more than two directories deep (i.e. everybody) will switch to KDE.
It didn't work in Win3.11,Win95 what makes you think it will work in linux04.
Grow a brain. Emulate explorer, then improve on it.
Great yet another attempt erode liberties. Someone should set up a site documenting these travesties.
And as usual the guy responsible has a ROCK SOLID excuse.
"People I love were killed!!"
Oh really! How awful! I guess it's OK to lead us all one step closer to a police state then! Here Swab me first!!!!
Of course he'll call us all heartless cranks who want criminals to get off and he'll say that this won't REALLY undermine democracy. Just like the PATRIOT act!
God I hate these people. Why didn't he donate his money to funding more social programmes that reduce the amount of criminals at an early stage! But I guess that just wouldn't be as efftive as having a poorly administered DNA database now would it.
It's a troll. It has to be a troll. Either that or its an eight year old who thinks he's all that.
Stop posting comments ASAP.
Hmmm. This comment seems to be getting a lot of flack. I still stand by my arguments though.
Less barriers in biotech development would lead to faster production and more competition. Just think what the computer has done for the industry.
I did find this article as I was browsin' around. it describes the argument for and against Alexander fleming's decision not to patent penicillin. Enjoy.
Open sourcing discoveries in bio-tech would lead to reduced research costs, reduced development times and ultimatly reduced prices of drugs.
..GNU for biotech
It will also by extendtion lead to more competition in the bio-tech industry, which can only be a good thing. And it will lead to more consumer scrutiny of what were popping into our bodies.
This is a good idea all round. Except of course for the biotech monopolies who...
[censor type="DMCA" excuse="Subversive,complaint"]
[/censor]
Will sony open source it?
Will MS support it?
Will they give these pens out for free?
Will anyone actually use it?
Over here (Europe) EVERYTHING is 60(~US$70).
Only second hand crappy games would be $50. You'd have to dive deep into the bargin bin to get one for $19.99.
Some games are works of art, some are god awful pieces of software unfit for use. Not only that games are the same price across systems?! Why is the current system of price fixing in effect? Someone call the FCC! The FCC's european counterpart!
At least PC games have a good spread in price. I picked up C&C:Red Alert 2 for 7!!! Hot danm!
Say goodbye to Fax if this goes through.
,and when you pick up for modem noises to whir and then stop, a LOT more than now on.
Someone WILL find a way to mass spam everyfax they can get their hands on. Expect your phone to ring
If these cameras are simply used as evidence in trials and to watch out for trouble at night then sure, go ahead.
.... I'd have think about it.
However if at some future date they are rigged into an international face recognition system to monitor out every movement along with cell phone emissions, fingerprints, DNA , satelite tracking, phone tapping, voice recognition, RFID and trained molemen in the sewers equipped with microphones and nerve darts so that governments can _KNOW ALL_, then
IBM, Cisco, Microsoft or any other tech company can steal this patent by filing something akin to the following.
o ugh and/or showed it to you first, if you jack it up to a computer, then you've got a patent pal! Now no one can connect a computer to this device without giving you money! Yippie!!
"A Method for reducing the size of radio antennae by a quarter using new design UNDER THE CONTROL OF A SOFTWARE DRIVEN DEVICE."
Remember, even if someone else has patented,invented,used,implemented,sold,issued,th
Welcome to the US patent Office. Where dreams CAN come true!
I can see Balmer having apoplexy as we type.
This will probobly be followed up by calls on unamericanism, anticapitalism and communism against McDonalds. The company will then be accused of supporting terrorism and having al-queda training camps set up in parking lots after hours. Bin Laden wears a purple hat, cell leaders a green hat. Rookies wear red hats and fedoras. HA! I made another funnie!
Seriously though I doubt that the tillers at McD will be logging transactions at a bash prompt anytime soon. From the sound of the article the company is using Linux on backend servers for important tasks, like just about every medium to large company in existence. But I'd still be willing to bet that they're using 2000/3 and ADT.
Read 1984.
:E
You seem to enjoy your own unenlightened anomimity however.
And long may you do so.
See!
You see who I'm talking about!
Are these people stupid. Are they thick. Have they no idea what they're saying?! Don't they read history books.
One of the corner stones of our democracy is anonimity from the government. People will say: "Oh your just a crank. _OUR_ government will _NEVER_ abuse this to repress us!". Say that to someone in China when RFID is introduced over there.
Will all this new survelience technology emerging, the rights we took for granted are being eroded.
I'm sick of morons introducing all this stuff without thinking past their next meal. I for one will be removing/disabling these tags the minute they come out on a _Volutary_(i.e. manatory) basis.
Though they'll be extremly difficult to find and remove i'll bet. I wonder why?
I have a similar installation to the above (3GHz,but with 756MB RAM), but with windows XP.
I find fedora faster when running. Definitly. Though not as fast when booting up, programs definitly load faster in Fedora. And the system performs much better when multiple apps are running. Not a HUGE difference. But It's there.
That said XP is a HOG! Hence the 756MB. Programs take a long time to load and frequently 'chug' when running along side each other and performing heavy tasks. I haven't seen Fedora 'chug' yet.
Still I have red hat 8(I think,Icould be wron) on my old PC(350MHz,128MB RAM) and it ran fine. Since Fedora is approximatly Red Hat 10 why does it need almost 10 times more processing power. I think optimisation is in order.
Maybe someone should come up with a faster GUI lanuage for Linux.(No matter what anyone says, it's the GUIs that are causing the slowdown,and shoddy code)
Thanks to closed source, how do we know that when it ,inevitably, bluescreens the ships guns won't suddenly pivot and fire at Helsinki University. Or begin targeting wifi signals eminating from linux boxes.
...Oh my god....
But wait! Given that a network of NT computers would only constantly bicker over who is the primary domain controller they'd have to have the clients running on.....
Millions of euros of high tech weaponry under the control of unpatched 95/98/98Se/Me/2000/XP machines, and you KNOW the operators will be browsing the net while the colonel isn't looking.
It's only a matter of time before some script kiddie hijacks the whole boat and uses a modded C&C interface to blow up his beachside school. Stranger things have happened.
My concern was less over the form of the number than its size.
I had read that companies in the states gave out 10 digit phone numbers to their VOIP customers.
Im having trouble remembering peoples seven digit numbers. What happens when your telephone number is 153.127.879.946. What happens if it's IPv6!! P.S. This isn't meant to be funny. I'm dead serious.